St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-18
CATCHING Ar srRAws.

The amiaOle Philadelphia Ledger,
like the unamiable New York Sun,
brought its Whiggish. Republican pro-
tectionism with it into the Democratic
party, and nurses it tenderly to keep it
from whitening in the hostile soil. The
friendiness which the editor of the
Ledger, unlike the editor of the Sun,
has maintained with all the incumbents
of the presidential chair since long
before the war, including President
CLEVELAND, makes our Republican
brethren and the protectionist Demo-
cratic papers like the Sun, the Rich
mond Dispatch and others, who are
trembling for the safety of their pet
policy. watch with anxious eagernesS
the expressions of the Ledger on that
topic, and take what they find there as
being inspired by MIR. CLEVELAND.
just now they are deriving several
grains of comfort out of the opinion of
the Ledger that lit is confidently ex-
pected and believed that his (the presi-
dentS) economic policy is opposed to
any revision of the tariff which will in
jure The peoples industrial interests
or JeopardiZe their prosperity" The
Ledger gravely assures its readers that
MI. CLEVELAND us opposed to anything
that would injure our great manufacture
ing interests. "
There are several other things to
which President CLEVELAND is sturdily
opposed which the Ledger might with
equal relevancy have included in its
list We have no doubt whatever that
he is opposed to reign of anarchy. He
would veto any measure repudlating the
public debt. He would resist the intro
duction of cholera Or any other murder
some epidemic into the country. He
would oppose defalcations by public
officers or bank cashiers. Generally, he
may be said to be unalterably against
anything that brings wrong or mischief
or injury in its train, including the
financiering efforts of the distinguished
senators ALLISON and SHERMAN.
But it is interesting, if bit amusing
to see how much comfort the protec-
tionists are distilling from the assur-
ances OF the Ledger. 1t is the catching
at straws of drowning men. Their trep-
idatiOn now is probably survival of
that old belief of theirs that the Demo-
Gratis of the country would DESTROY the
government If they ever got pOwer-a
fear many yet hug to their breasts, in
sisting that it was only the Republican
senate that stood between the country
and the everlasting bOwwows when
CLEVELAND was president before.
Mr.. CLEVELAND, with the rest OF his
party, believes that the federal govern
ment has no right either in morals or
law to make the people support the in
duStry of any class of citizens. and that
any tax levied should have for its sole
object the providing of needed revenue.
They believe that the tariff taxes can be
reduced to such basis at once without
injury 10 any one or any industry, and.
as proof of this, they point to the treas
ury reports of our export trade, which
show that every line of tariff protected
manufactures in this country is sending
its products abroad to be sold in foreign
markets in open competition with SINH
lar articles made abroad. If, however,
any trembling protectIonist can derive
any comfort from the opinions of the
Ledger, any assurance that protection
will be conserved under this admnistra-
ton, We shall not object to his enjoy
ment of his tieeting and short-lived de-
fusion.