Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-12-15

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people. Il. has permitted a hundred
Years 20 pass wi:hou, helping the labor
ins CLASSES 10 ar! savings banks, which
should be ounIprssent as the pos,oEos
and as reliable as the ns.ior- Such
omnip.eeo: banks would b. this urs
have created an economical people. The
humble .ab.o:er should have b-u laugh:
to pu: away some money for 70. morrov.
The saloon follows the laboans man into
the pine woods So the savings bank
should follow the az and the plo~.
Then the divine comes 10 the main
cause OF the presen, industrial s.aSna-
slon. He attributes the depression to the
action OF the government in being "a
naddler instead Of TREND" Having in
an hour OF assumed b~ecevolence reached
the doctrine 0. protection. the govern.
uent has OF late years made It's honey
into q rank poison.
Il; ve admit for the moneo: the ais.
doD 0. a protective tariff We must per.
ceive a: once that it mus. remain uni
form al !eas; for 8 generation. Men q o
not build great factories on q four years
basis American cutlery came a. last TO
displsce and rival Sheffield cutlery De-
cause the tarit on edged tools lay still
for nearly forty years. Men canro. De
laugh. a trade by one tariff and then
turned out Of doors by another. The
patton tina. teaches ter Thousand men to
make axes oush: not to go 20 them in
four years and ask them to quit thai.
work and become the veavers Of velvet
plush or the makers Q: muslin or play.
ing cards. When a million persons have
been indicted oy a tariff into the trades
that fall under the heads OF brass, glass,
zinc. tin. nickel, copper. lead, wood.
leather, paper, cotton and wool. it is
gross Injustice for the government to
come along and ask them all to Quit
their shops and teach school or 20 to
farming. They cannot change their pur-
suits at the request Of a republican or a
democrat. An art is at least as long as
life. Our men have only one life. A
govern % ent that changes its policy every
four years ought to rule only in the shop
OF some French miIliner. As soon rs a
French milliner has cold ou. her spring
styles she sets her artists to work Oh a
new form OF hat or robe. This creative
genius goes into retirement for thirty
days. and by means Of some integral
calculus and =pecia! spectrum analysis
he learns that the plume which lay to-
ward the horizon in May should point
TO the zenith il September, and the hat
that was large in the tall must be small
in the spriDgtime. The artist energies
With this G discovery, and our women
pay q million pounds for the new atti.
tude OF a feather.
'Such is the tariff at Washington. In
1924 Mr. Clay saw the country going to
ruin by this route. In 1874 these tariff
thinkers came back, and ever since every
mandatory has wondered whether it
would live two years, or three or four.
At last in 1872 the era OF tramps set in,
aud ii our nation goes on in it's neglect,
and IL its tiDkes1nR. the tramp army will
equal the sands Of the sea in multitude.
ut is not necessary for one to know or
say which particular tariff is the better
or the worse-that Of Mckinley OK that
OF Wilson. The whole point is that the
100000 Of people must not be knocked
to and fro every winter by the variable
intellects OF Smith and Jones. If a lady
wants a new style Of bonnet each season
let her have it; but our nation cannot
take a French milliner for it's model. It
must feel the value of wise principles as
acting long time. Each working man
must have before him a life in his art.
Men cannot afford to build factories on
q thirty-day plan. A lawyer or a d.ctor
or a preacher follows his path for life.
So must the weaver or a glassblower.
The word permanency plays q great
part in political economy. The panic of
last June came from the nervousness
which the ration has been studiously
creating for a century. AS criminals are
manufactured by the GLORIOUS uncer-
talnty OF the Law" and by the subsequent
facility Of pardon. SO each election is
followed by q nervous p%rostration that
comes from the absence from Washing
ton of all fixed principles.
"All through and through our country
is hungry for some great form Of per
manent good. 1t needs postal banks and
tariff laws that will suffer DO change for
at least q common lifetime. So desti.
tute Of principles are many of our ex.
temporized statesmen that they love a
dollar that will huctuate like q Their
mometer between 100 cents and 81 cents;
aud though national banks were too
monotonous in their excellence, these
impromptu statesmen ask for state
banks and private banks that money
may be brought to our doors by the
spring wagon OF the raoman Thav IN