St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-06-30
provements of the age. but we deem it
within our province to call attention
to the abuses of modern inventions.
RESPONSIBLE FOR SOME
THINGS

| in. stocks and on Change, as well as the
small fry of politicians who see their
hopes of getting back to the crib hang
ing onto the single chance of discredit-
ing the administration, all, with one
accord, curse the administration for the
fruit of their own folly. The last thing
the average man cares to admit is that
the misfortune that overtakes him is
due to himself. He hunts a scapegoat.
and is as ready to charge it on the gov
eminent as on his luck or Providence.
So The ex-president comes out of his
| enforced retirement long enough to re-
mark shat There is nothing in the pres
| ent business situation 10 suggest any
| great gain to the country as result of
| the inauguration of Democratic poll
| cies." Coming from so exalted source,
and representing as it does a whine
| which is general among those classes
| who have been unfortunate in their
speculations, whether in business or in
politics. this remark calls for more than
| photographic comment.M
The eX-president knows. of course,
that until congress meets there can be
no inauguration OF any Democratic pol
icy except that small part relating to
the administration of the executive de-
partmentS. The laws enacted by the
ex-president's party are still in force.
and are being executed by this Demo
cratic administration, aud will continue
to be until congress repeats or mobiles
them. The currency laws, the silver
purchase act, the tariff laws, are just as
the eX-preSident left them. and are re-
sponsble for ''the present business situ-
atioE." as far as legislation can be ac-
countable for it.
But the administration is chargeable
with some things, some policies 1t has
inaugurated. In the absence of any bill
of particulars accompanying the eX-
presidents complaint. it may be we'll to
supply the omission. First in time,
and, perhaps, in importance. was the
policy inaugurated by the secretary Of
the treasury of divorcing his depart
ment from Wall street. Heretofore it
has been the custom for secretaries,
whenever oyer-indulgence in specula-
ton had caused a financial collie in the
bowels of Wall street, to rush over there
and administer palliatiyes. When
there used to be surplus of gold in
the vaults the secretary was wont to
administer it to the street in allopathic
doses to relieve the construction. Treas
ury policies were usually adopted after
consultation with the magnates of the
street. Secretary CARLISLE met these
gentlemen az an incident of his visit to
the naval review, and plainly told them
that the treasury would issue no bonds
this time to help them out, and that he
thought little Dumping of the old ship
on the bar lying in the course laid by
his predecessors would be OF benefit to
the country as practical lesson.
Then Secretary MORTON inaugurated
in his department. an excellent Demo-
cratic policy. He set to work seraping
The barnacles off with relentless hand,
which was not stayed even to save the
undistlnguished brother of distiE-
guished Republican, who had been
drawing a fat stipend for several years
for doing nothing vigorously. He did
not think it consistent with Democratic
policy to have furniture bought by the
government in private use in city resi-
dences. and sent out and ruthlessly took
it back. He quickly dispensed with the
services Of a lot of microscopes and
psychologists who hunted for trichin8
and, tor the most part, found only fat
salaries. In fact, there lis not much left
OF the department of agriculture after
MORTON has pruned off the excres-
cenceS.
Then there was Democratic policy
inaugurated in the pension bureau of
the interior department. This policy
has resulted in changing usual deficit
Of several millions into probable sur
plus of as many. 1t has discovered that
corns, one on each foot, as large as a
marrowfat pea. were considered pen
sionable disability by the TANNERS and
RAUMs. and it stopped that. 1t has even
been so merciless as to revoke pension
granted because man had become
bald-lleaded as result of typhoid fever,
and, therefore, incapacitated from earn-
ing livelihood by manual labor. This
was "the unkindest cut OF aIl,'' but it
was Democratic. Then the soft snap of
lot of rascally pension agents has. been
taken from them, and the hard fare of a
Jail provided for them. which is tough
but Democratic. But space forbids
further enumeration of the only Demo
cratic policies this administration has
been able as yet to inaugurate; and they
I,ar ha hold 81 IL, f.,. I,
present business situation" save, per-
haps, the action OF the secretary Of the
treasury in refusing to administer more
opium in the shape of an issue of treas
ury bonds.