St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-28
NOW FOR THE BIG FIGHT

The silver fight was but a skrmiSh,
compared with the struggle that will be
precipitated as soon as the ways and
means committee report their bill to the
house. If one selfish interest such as
silver. with only the backing of silly
and senSeieSS sentiment, can maintain
contest for months i'll congress, what
may we expect when all the selfish in
terestS that have fattened on the earn
ingS of the people of the country for
thirty years; that have back of them
party nearly evenly dividing the voters Of
the nation, who, for the greater portion,
sincerely believe in the need of pro-
tective tariff and in its rightfuIneSs, are
punched i'll an omnibus bill and threat
ened with destruction?
We have seen indications of what we
may expect in the hearing before the
ways and means committee. We have
seen Democrats coming before it to pro-
test against the lowering of taxation on
imports of the articles in whose manu-
facture or production they were inter-
ested. The Democratic governor of
West Virginia came to protest against
the removal OF the duty on coal. Lou
lSana sent delegates to urge the reten-
tion of the bounty on sugar or reimpo-
sitiOn of the protection on imports. A
Democratic member from New York
wants TO have labor protected in the
reductions. South Carolina will want
rice looked after and cared for. In the
senate protected interests have their
~. OF CT apt In lao,
Der. Senator German, in the debates
on the naval bill last session, betrayed
strong protectiOniSt leaningS, and Is re-
ported to have declared that he would
not vote for removal Of the coal duties.
The bundle of selfish interests has
been made larger and larger under the
various changes of the tariff, until there
is hardly an industry in the country
that does not imagine that III some way
or another. not always demonstrable,
but none the less certainly felt for all of
that, it is lecatee Of projections bene-
fits. We will have them all up in arms
and fighting. They have spent their
money lavishly heretofore to prevent
the assembling of a hostile legislature
and administration; the continuance of
McKinleyism means millions of dollars
to them annually, and tits folly to think
that they will accept tameIy and pass
lively the verdict Of the people rendered
last November
The bill prepared by the committee,
which was roughly sketched in our dis
patches yesterday, is what might have
been expected from committee with
William l.. Wilson at its head. 1t is d
redemption i'll word and spirit of the
pledge of the party. 1t is drawn on
revenue lines. Protection, as such, as
an object, is eliminated. There is but
one course to pursue when the bill
comes in. 1t must be supported as a
whole. No local interest must be per
mitted TO make breach in 1t. If one
lmpairs it, it opens the way for all 9TH
erS, and the bill will come out of the
committee of the whole in condition
similar to that of bill which Bob"
Schenk, when chairman of the ways
and means, had reported. After long
debate, i'll which il had been patched
with numberlesS amendments, Schenk
finally rose and said: MIR. Speaker,
move that the bill be recommitted. 1t
has been nibbIed by pismres and
kicked by jackasses until cannot lee
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