St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-09-06
ADyICE woRTH HEEDING.

Some time since we ventured to
give to our Republican friends who had
turned calamity howlers, and were at
tributing the financial crisis to the mere
incoming of a Democratic administra-
ton, the suggestion that they were TAX
ing some risk in doing this, for, should
the crisis pass and better times come
following the enactment of legislation
by this administration, whether as effect
or coincidence, it would SO depreciate
their casuistry as to render it uncurrent
except among themselves. We offered
this tentatively, feeling that our disin-
tereStedneSs might DE open to question,
and the continual harping Of the organs
on the same old notes shows US that our
expectations were we'll founded.
But if the ''blows of an enemy" are
not considered as faithful" by our
brethren in the opposite camp, they
may be disposed to listen to words from
their own kind, and. III the interests of
the public which is injured by the
constant sounding Of these alarm gongs,
these fog-horns of partisanry, we quote
couple of opinions from men who are
OF the stricteSt of the sects of protec-
tionists. First comes gentleman
whom we have quoted before on other
matters, but who possesses so large a
fund of common sense that we marvel
that he remains a Republican, and
doubt If he would, only that that party
has fostered his especial industry and
increased his stock of worldly goods.
THOMAS DoLAN, the carpet and plush
manufacturer of Philadelphia, said to
the Inquirer:
lit appears to me that it is entirely
wrong for the Republicans to keep
harping away upon the same old
campaign tactics. The Democrats have
fully three years in which TO right mat
ters, and if the Republicans insist that
the present depression is due to fear re-
garding the tariff, when business be-
comes brighter the Democrats will
claim all of the credit, and assert that
better times are due TO whatever
changes in the tariff laws they may
have enacted"
Next we find Massachusetts Repub-
lican telling his political kindred
through the columns of the Boston Ad
vertiSer, that staunch and uDyielding
advocate of that paternalism bearing
the brand Republican" that it is both
wrong and foolish to load the financial
situation onto an unborn tariff. We do
not suppose he is reader of the
GLOBE, but he expresses the opinion
we gave some time since that the ap-
prehenslon which preceded and accom-
panied every change in the tariff that
has ever been made. whether by the
friends or the enemies of protection, was
among the strongest of the arguments
against any system of raising revenues
by taxation of imports. But listen, oh,
croaking Republicans, to the sage ad-
vice of your Bostonian brother:
Il not only venture to predict that
when the silver law has been repealed
the tariff as a factor will not prove very
serious, but may also suggest that the
tendency of these views is to make a
powerful argument for free trade, SIM
ply because the existence of any tariff
whatever is such a constant source of
agitation and uncertainty. LII the coun-
try is indeed to be'Semi-paralyzed sim
ply because another party has come into
power which is opposed to the theory
and practice of protection, by all means
let Us get rid of tariff entirely"
AS disturbance of business to a
greater or less degree is inseparable
from tariff changes by whomsoeyer
made, and as all admit that changes are
inevitably made necessary every few
years by the changing conditions of
trade, we give to the suggestion to "get
rid of tariff entirely hearty and
heartfelt "amen."