St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-08-08
AN ORGANIZED RIOT.

Thus the Picturesque Pat DOMAIN
Describes the Financial Condi-
ton
We have had from almost all of the
statesmen Of the country views more OF
less sage Oh the situation, it's causes
and its cure. Ii remains for us to fort
unately be able to give the views of one
more whose name is a familiar one in
all this great North west, and whose ut
teranceS we all were wont to wait for
when our own judgments were at fault.
Col. Patrick Donan met reporter of
the New York Times the other day,
and unburdened his Overwei2 hted mind
to him in the following truly DOMAIN
esque manner.
"What is the cause of the present
troubleS? asked the reporter, hurriedly,
as the colonel stopped an instant for
breath.
The truth Is the whole United States
government has, for a generation past,
been little more or less than gigantic
FASTENED to reply lit has layished
thousands of millions of dollars on
brasS-browed frauds and swindles.
With its helliOnistic masterpiece of
Sneak-thievery, a war tariff in time of
peace, 1t has Wrung, and Is still wiring
ing. untold millions on millions of dol
lars annually from the hard earnings of
the people, to be squandered in the
widest political orgies.
ut has, with profligate hand, scat
tered Sl60,O0O,00O year in pensions,
largely 10 ScOundrelS who lost the few
arms and legs they did lose i'll encoun-
tiers with saw mills and threshing ma
chineS-en0ugh to maintain all the
standing armies of the old world, in
paying for wounds never received and
deeds of Valor never done.
Il. has given hundreds of millions of
acres of the public lands to robber rail-
road corporations. 1t has wasted tens
of millions of dollars in bogus diplomacy
that does not diplome; on an orna-
mental army of brigadier generals,
colonels. majors and german-leading
captalns and heutenantS; on a
navy that is useless except for official
IunketIngS; and Oh countless pickpock4 1t
numOugs, Ike the Indian bureau, the
Interstate commerce. commission. the
civil service deadbeat inquest, and the
worse than worthless Porter census.
1t has Strewn to the Snickering winds
the riches of half the world. Billion
Will IlO dlIn save 10
wipe out the treasury SURPLUS have
been its executors; and the highest am
Dition of bogus patriotism and states
manShip has been to spend the most
possible money for the least possible
good. The vulture aud the harpy have
taken the place of the eagle on its
standards.
''Speculation, Population, and Theft
have been its watchwords: and Boss
Tweed, Claude Duval, Jay Gould, Dick
Turpin, Jim Blaine. Barabbas and An
drew Carnegie have been its ideals and
eXemplars. Its patron saints occupied
the two outside crosses Oh Calvary
eighteen centuries ago.
I'VE have had our bacchanals' dance
for thirty years, and now the fiddlers
must be paid" said the colonel, gazing
refiectively at his six-carat diamond.
I'VE have sown the winds, and our har-
vest of whirlwinds is nearly ripe. We
have plunged ear-deep in world-amazing
eXtravagauces and profiigacies = and
pay day is at hand That is what is the
matter with Yankee Doodle 1t was all
easy enough, so long as hope and cheek
and promise were good; SO long as rain
bow possibilities, sDread-eagle pros
pectuses and Fourth of July speeches
were bankable assets"