St. Paul daily globe., 1893-12-30

cies in the account especially made up
and wired to our neighbor. which are
unlmportant except to reveal that the
imagination was being heavily drawn
on for ''facts," instead Of the actual Sc
1uence of events, and showing desire
TO break as gentlya as possible the terrific
fall the promoters of the scheme got at
the hands of the loyal Democrats of Du-i
luth. But this is an upimportant feat
ure.
The resolutions declare it to be the
profound conviction of the little band
OF sturdy beggars who had to go off byi
themselves to get room tO declare it
having been swamped by the Democrats
IN the mass meeting-that 1.-The great
interests of the district. land espe-I
cally of the city of Duluth" demand
that the tax be kept on imports of IRON
ore; and they appeal to Representative
Baldwin 'in behalf Of the mineral, CON-
merclai, transportation aud manufactur-
Ing and agricultural development of the
district" but more especially and above
all "in behalf OF the welfare of both the
laborer and employer upon whose
united prosperity the progress of all de-
pends." to put iron ore back on the
dutiable list. This is putting into Dip
lomatic language their constant aSseyer-
alton that if the tax is removed they
Will have to stop mining and send their
workmen to drift among the scant
charities of a selfish world 1t is mar
Velous how much the mouths of these
phiianthropists and how little their
purses bleed for the poor working
man.
Right on the heels of the Adullamite
wall printed in the Pioneer Press, with
Dut tie intervention of a news dash,
follows this antidote to which we invite
the attention of our readers. II evi-
IDENTITY came over the wire with the ac-
count OF the mass meeting" 1t says:
AT meeting yesterday the Roucheleau
iron company sold six forty-acre tracts
Ill sections s and 8, township 5S, 16, TO
tue Higgins Wildcat company of this
city. The latter concern pays more
than $4,000 bonus for the lease, and
agrees 10 30-cent per ton royalty on
all ore mined"
Here you have the dote and antidote
ii
lot of patriots, pretentlously anxious
for the good of about every interest in
tile district, voWing that the margin of
proht on ore is so small that, il the
CubanS are not made to pay seventy
five cents ton tax on their ore landed
at the Seaboard fifteen hundred miles
away, the mines must stop and the
workmen go to begging, and ruin come
to the mineral. commercial, transpor-
tation. manufacturing and agricultural
interests" of the great Sixth congress
sional district: and with it you have the
statement that shrewd business men
are willing, il the face of the certain
freeing of foreign ore from tax, to pay
S50,00o for the privilege of digging ore
for the market, and III addition, to pay
80 cents Oil each ton of ore they shall
dig. Could anything better show the
utter falSity of the statement that the
freeing of ore from tax will affect in
the slightest degree any of the inter-
estS named or those of either the work
ingman or his employer? 1t shows that
even the ShanghaiS and other mining
stock spectators who have real mines
to sell need fear no diminution in
prices. lt shows, in short. that all this
lamentatiOn is the sheerest kind of a
fake, all sound and fury and bombast,
the mingled outpourings of greed and
ignorance.