St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-18

with benefit learn and apply. Even
children come to know the hollowneSS
of the warning that 1.-The COLLINS will
catch you if you don't watch out" aud
naturally learn to regard all warnings
as mere bugaboos. Our friends might
have learned, were they capable of
learning, from their own experience
with the 'bloody shirt" which came at
last to excite only derisive laughter in.
stead of trembling fear, the futility of
trying to fool all the people all the time.
In spite, however, of the first failure
of our good intentions, we are prompted
by our deep love for our fellow men to
warn them again against the danger.
they are heedlessly running into by.
their rash prophecies of the disasters to.
industry AMI the poor laboring man
If the Wilson bill should become law
These are appalling pictures they
are frightening the people with. Free
iron ore. II paper tells us, will scatter
starving miners over the state. The
mere apprehension of it has put thou
sands OF miners on the pauper list on
the Gogebic, another assures US. Free
lumber will ruin the poor men who have
put their savings into stumpage ard
saw mills. aud the Workmen in To-
woods and mills will have to go TO Tin
ing or some other unSheltered vocation.
1t will knock out the props from all our
industries. shrieks another. Gov. Nc
kinley declares that it 'cannot fail to
have a most disastrous effect OIL the in
duStrial interests of the country" And
n u the fire alarms are rung all along
the line, not to call out the people to put
down a fire now burning, but to make
them believe that some one is about to
set a fire that will sweep everything be-
fore it.
We beg our excited friends to pause
a moment and reflect what will be the
result if o N of these things happen;
ii, instead Of disaster, affairs of bust
ness should run a course of steady i'm
provement; if prosperity should follow
depression; if the wheels of industry
should again turn and idle hands find
steady and remunerative employment;
If no one of the dire predictions they
now make is fulfilled. Does it not
occur to them what a weapon they are
putting in the hands of the Democrats?
Will the latter not say: "See what we
have done? We repealed the Repub-
lican Sherman silver law and restored
confidence in the currency. We
put raw materials on the free list and
released our manufacturers from the
shackles which kept them put of the
foreign markets. We set their mills and
shops at work supplying the worlds
markets, as well as our own, and thus
gave more work and steadier work to
the men and women they employed,
while we have reduced, by enlarging the
field of competition, the cost of the
things men and women need for sus-
tenance and comfort. All these things
followed in the train of our legislation,
and they did not come. could not come
as long as Republican laws remained on
the statutes"
Now all these things are as snre to
happen as that the days will begin to
lengthen out the period of light and
shorten the term of darkness after the
twenty-first day of the present month.
The Wilson bill will become the law of
This country. and In response to it trade
Will spring into rene wed activity; man
ufacturers will contest with the farmers
of the country for a place more honor
able in the returns of our exports than
they have been content to hold for thirty
years; labor III every branch Of industry
Will find employment which will have
no longer its periods of idleness while
consumption overlook production, and,
under the impulse of Increased demand,
wages will rise, rather than fall, and
wage earners will find in the decreased
cost of what they buy an increase in the
purchasing power of the money they
earn. LI