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

the tariff? We can only wait and see.
but the waiting and anxiety and uncer-
tainty is paralyzation. Certain it is
they will make wool free, and thus
strike down one of Ohio's great agri-
cultural products. Tin plate must also
be made free, and the new and splendid
enterprises for the making black sheets
and thinning them must be crippled
financially, the millions of
Capital Invested ImperiIed.
driven from employment or be forced to
work at reduced wages. Sugar will have
to GO from the list of free articles to the
list of fairfield articles, and cheap sugar
be again made dear to the masses. Coal,
another product of Ohio, must be made
free. A general revision upon British
free trade basis must take place II they
do what they promised in 1892, and
upon which promises they claim their
victory was won-every vestigc OF pro-
lection from the laboring man and in
dustries of the United States must be
withdrawn and free trade era must be
inaugurated.
''Notice has gone forth that not only
is the tariff to be revised. but that the
pension list is to be revised. War is to
be waged upon the pensioners of the
country. No honest man will object to
a purging of this roll Of all who are UNI
wOrthily there. Every case must rest
upon its own facts. do not object to
unworthy men being stricken from the
roll-if there are such-but l do object
to the impression which in some quar-
tiers is being made that this whole pen
sion business is fraud. 1t is published
in the papers that an army of pension
examiners is 10 be let loose to travel
from county to county and from town to
town to hunt down the pensioners and
discover. if possible, if there be men
here and there who draw one or two
dollars month in excess of what they
are entitled under the law. The pub
lisheu ruling of the secretary of the in
terror, announced in the press. will
strike from the pension roll of the cOun-
try hundreds and thousands OF
Worthy and Dependent Soldiers,
who, if not altogether incapacitated, are
practically incapacitated from earning
living for themselves aud families. 1t
is to this universal indictment against
pensioners that l enter solemn and
emphatic protest. No outlay of the
government is mere worthily bestowed
or more widely distributed than the
money which goes to the soldiers of the
country in the form of pensions. 1t
should be remembered, too, that pen
sions are better than standing armies.
are less expensive and more American"
The report of the committee on resO-
lutions was nows received by Chair
man Perkins. The report was adopted
unanimously by rising vote. The re-
nomination of the present state officers
was resumed. They went through with
a rush until the convention came to
food and dairy commissioner. Instantly
there was fight, and the present in
cumbent, Mcneil, was renominated
with a hurrah, during which the dele
gates and spectators crowded up to
shake McKinley's hand. and the con-
vention adjourned sine. die.
The ticket nominated was as follows:
Governor, William Mckinley Jr. lieu
tenant governor, Andrew l.. Harris;
state treasurer, William t. Cope; at
torney general. John K. Richards; SUI
preme judge, Joseph P. Bradbury;
member board public works, Frank j.
food and dairy commission
er, DR.. F. b. McNeill.