St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-27
NORTHWESTERN VIEWS.


In the workingman's hour of need the
manufacturer shuts down and goes
away for little rest and recreation.
Burlington do Gazette
1t does not seem to matter how many
times the tariff committee chang es the
rate OF tax on one article. 1T is all tariff
reform" = Superior (Wis.) Inland
Ocean.
Ii Capt. Cook could have looked
into the future. he very likely would
have hesitated before discovering the
Sandwich Islands.-St. Joseph MOI
News.
Benjamin Harrison is doing a
great deal of talking for an ex-presi-
dent. Perhaps, after all, he wants to
be next president. = Superior (Wis.)
Telegram.
Boutelle's violent attacks on the
president have not been due to high
sense OF public duty, but to the low
sense OF personal ambition. - Helena
independent.
with the kindest possible feeling to-
wards the KanakaS we suggest to Presi-
dent Cleveland that they are not worth
i've columns of solid onpareil.-Seattle
(Wash.l Telegram.
The Republican press are very mad
| Just now that the Democrats don't
sweep away every barrier of protection
and give absolute tree trade.-Eau
Claire (Wis.) Leader.
The United States has manufactured
| this year two and one-halt million tons
of iron more than Great Britain. John
Bull no doubt feels the iron in his soul
just now.-Davenport Qo.) Leader.
''The best advice that can be given
Chairman Wilson," says the Boston
Globe. us Push Things" 1t depends
whether it is toward or away from the
precipice.-Sioux City Qo.) Journal.
This Mr.. Boutelle thinks he's think
ing. He doesn't discover anybody ex-
cept BOutelle in sight from Maine, now
that Blaine is dead, who is able to trip
the stratlon.-Anaconda (AIont. J
| Standard.
The majority should rule, not the mi
nority. This government is a democ-
7 racy and not an oligarchy. And the
sooner the senate brings itself into line
| with these principles of American gov
ernment the observation-disclosures Qo. }
| Herald.
There is, indeed, nothing very en-
couraglng for the average tramp to look
forward to. The Populist governor of
Kansas began life as tramp. This
should be warning. Hudson wis
| Star and Times.
Hardly a day goes by but eX-President
Harrison Is quoted as delivering a
speech somewhere on some subject.
Does this mean he is being groomed for
third nomination for the presidency
Eau Claire (Wis.) Leader.
Any ''attack" upon the tariff is fol-
lowed by numerous absurd threats from
manufacturers to the effect that they
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country to some other, any other, in fact.
Oshkosh (Wis.) Times.
The tariff barons are having a rocky
| time of it. When the chief master
workman of the United States repudi-
ates the robbers of the Carnegie Xix, the
| rank and file cab well afford to follow
suit.-Superior (Wis.> Call.
EX-Gov. Larrabee says prohibition
had nothing TO dc with Republican vic
tory in the state. The panic did it, and
1.-THE Republicans could have elected a
wooden cigar sign governor on any plat
form. dubuque Qo.) Herald.
1t is whole hog or nothing with the
Republican members of congress. They
say amputatIon of the neck is what
the Wilson Dill needs and not amend
ments. So they will decline to help
out particular districts. City
journal.
The moral effect of a steady cry that
Democratic rule means the ruin of the
country will necessarily be evil. People
who have money hold ON to it. Those
whose means are limited grow dis
couraged.-SeattIe (Wash.) Telegraph.
Senator Power. of Montana, having
issued circular letter TO sheep men of
that state to stir them up in reference
to the Wilson bill, the Helena Inde-
pendent says: Why, every honest sheep
i'll the State-and all the commOdore's
sheep are honest-sends up Que mighty
bah!
Protectionists claim that foreigners
pay the tariff" and that, therefore, it is
not a tax upon the American people.
Why not wipe out all internal revenue
taxes and throw the whole COS. of our
government upon these benevolent and
guileleSs ''foreiguers?" -Oskosh (Wis.)
Times.
Before the war the infant industries
were perfectly satisfied with 80 or 40
per cent tariff, deeming it sufficiently
protective. But III their greed and
seltishness they are content now with
nothing less tEah McKinley's Is per
cent.-Dubuque (lo.) Herald.
Rather than the Wilson bill, indus
trial prosperity and Democratic sue
cess. these Republican partIsans would
prefer absolute free trade, and with it
all the damnation that they have con-
jured up as free trades boyle. They
know full we'll that the new Democratic
tariff measure is godsend to the coun-
try.-Burlington Qo.) Gazette.
New York is SAID to have within its
corporate limits more money, less char
lty and more starving inhabitants of
tenement houses than any other city in
the world. This is a strange combina-
ton OF circumstances, and is apt TO ex-
cite the student OF social economy to
strong language. Qo.) Ga
Zette.
The North Iowa Times SAYS the be-
niticaries Of the Mckinley law and none
other are opposing the Wilson bill.
They are 10th to give up the additional
benefits they have derived. But the
greatest good to the greatest number"
is the true principal Of good govern
ment. that was not, and never has been
observed by the advocates of a protect
i've tariff.
We need higher patriotism, one
which will refuse TO win party victory
at the expense of the country's best in
terests. The Spirit which inspires a
partisan to strike at the very foundation
| of the nations prosperity, namely, its
self-relance and that belief lii its posi-
bilities, without which no land can
prosper. is unworthy Of a true cltizen.-
Seattle tWash.) Telegraph.
The silver issue is not dead. The
prospect for restoration of the white
metal to its proper place beside gold was
never SO bright as now. An interna.
tional agreement means a permanent
settlement of the question, and such an
agreement will never come without
active and aggressive action on the part
Of tho United States. based upon the
sentiment of the nation as expressed in
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