St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-05-25

the check into many fragments, and at
once took steps to hasten the hearing of
the case. He will make it exceedingly
hot for the monopoly.
ADROIT SENATOR GORMAN. 8.
Senator German came to the defense
or eXculpation or apology for the tariff
bill, whose putative father Senator
Mills said the senator from Maryland is,
in a speech which has the righteousness
of oil and the falsity of the devil. 1t
may be true, as he says, that the Wilson
bill could not have commanded ma
jority of the chamber; but why? Why
should bill which had passed under
the hammer OF debate in the house, and
passed it by all but handful of the
Democratic voteS-a bill Tor which its
author apologized for the concessions it
contained to protection. but which the
party were willing TO accept as the best
attainabie just now-why should such a
bill have no chance OF passage in the
senate?
1t would be more interesting. had the
senator made answer TO this pertinent
question instead of waving it aside with
the remark that he did not care to dis
cuss the merits of that bill. The coun-
try very well understands why he did
not care to discuss it, 1t was because it
did not sufficiently protect the interests
of Mr.. German and his state. 1t released
the great industries of the country from
their bondage to his coal and iron inter-
eStS: it struck the only effective blow at
his friends in the sugar trust. 1t had
no chance of passage in tine senate be-
cause Senator German, his colleague.
Gibson; the two New Jersey and the
two New York senators, aided by the
Ohio senator. served notice on the
finance committee that it should not
pass until it was fixed to suit them and
care for the interests in which they or
their localities we've concerned.
The finance committee were weak.
enough to yield instead of saving to
them: ''Gentlemen. if you are going to
oppose this bill you must do it in the
open, and you cannot find shelter be-
hind the closed doors of this com mittee
room. We propose 20 report our bill,
and you must fight it in the open field"
Then, too, these men traded on the SUI
perstltious fear which weakens the
nerves and saps the courage of the
Mills wing. that it is absolutely essential
that some bill be passed. Had the
Mills wing forced a fight in the open
by serving notice on these so-called and
mlScalled conservatives" that the bill
would not be changed to suit their de-
mandS, and that, in the open senate,
they must take the responsibility of de-
feating it, they would never have dared
to defeat it. Had German and his
squad been Democrats, had they kept
faith with the party that sent them TO
the senate. the Wilson bill could and
would have passed the senate as it
ca,..e-t to it.
The bill is not Democratic. The Will
son bill was not, and no one was so
dishonest as to assert that it was. This
bill, formed urder these maIign influ-
enceS, IS vastly less Democratic bill.
The Chicago convention stated the
principles of Democratic bill; the
voters Endorsed the principle declared.
1t is impudent for the senator to say
that his bill is Democratic measure.
1t is bastard offspring of paternalism,
with its wig of free wool the sole in
sigma of Democracy on it. 1t is not
CONSTRUCTED on the Democratic the
DRY of tariff for revenue with Incl
dental protection" as he brazenly
asserts, but it is constructed on the Re-
publican theory of tariff tor protection
with incidental revenue.
The senator claims as merit of this
bill that it ''discriminates between raw
materials and manufactured articles to
the full extent of the difference between
European wages" This is the doctrine
of the last Republican national conven-
ton. The senator adopts it. Senator
Hill adopteded 1t in his great speech;"
Senator Mcpherson reiterated it in some
remarks be made. This is needless
exposure. either of ignorance or of all
intent to deceive. Any tariff whose
rates were adjusted to merely compen-
safe for the difference in wages would
be more radically free trade measure
than any free trader would dare to think
of proposing. The Republicans who
drew the Minneapolis plank knew this,
and these senators who are so preten-
tlously SolicltouS for labor know it.
They know that after padding the GEN.
sus of 1890 as full as they dared: after
DUN ping into the manufacturers
schedule all the wages paid in vacations
absolutely incapable of beng protected,
like the carpenters and Dlacksmiths'
and painters, they could make no bet
ter showing than that the wages paid in
all this omnium gatherum of trades was
but % per cent of the value of the prod
uct. 1t has long been established that
even in better times. the wages were
but Is per cent of the value of the prod
uct in the protected industries.
Inc lowest average rate in any of the
schedules of this senate bill, as est.
mated by the treasury experts, Is in the
chemical, i'll which the rate is said to be
"a per cent of the value Of the imports.
The others range from that up to As, and
the average of the whole is expected to
be 81 per cent. And in the face of these
lncontestable facts the senator from
Maryland, and his fellows, who have
forced this measure OIL the senate, have
the etfrontery to claim that they would
lay tax OF 81 per cent on imports so as
to compensate for the difference merely
in labor cost of the goods made here,
when the entire labor cost of the goods
is but % per cent. Etfrontery such as
this we have had from Republicans: we
have learned to expect false pretense
from them, but we did not expect ever
to hear their stupid and silly sophisms
and falsehoods come from the mouths
OF Democratic senators in extenuation
of Democratic pro,ectionist bill. We