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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-17
HON. A. SCHAEFER.

(Well-known Democrat of Rushmore, Mimi
Speaking for myself l am decidedly
of the opinion that United States sena-
tors should be elected by the people.
No thoughtful, patriotic citizen who
has observed the action of the present
senate can consistently think otherwise,
Whether through ignorance or malice
they have transposed themselves from
servants into masters. No patriot. be
his politics what they may, can overlook
or tolerate such condition of affairs.
This is government of the people !;
senators are our representatives, our
servants, elected to enact our desires
INTO laws. and failure to do so is treason.
This being the case. it is essential that
such legislators be selected fresh from
the people, fully in touch with their
wishes and honest and brave enough to
fight for their frntion.
However fair the present method of
choice of senators may be. there is 10
denying the fact that too many buy
themselves into the senate. Some have
paid out fortunes 70 get there. and a
man capable Of doing that is fully capa-
BILE of reimbursing himself, and of man
ufacturIng an opportunity to do so.
Thus the people themselves through
taxation are indirectly paying these
purchase prices INTO the senate.
Aside from all this, millionaire aris-
tOcrats, whether shoddy or genuine.
cannot, from the very nature of things.
sympathiZe with, and legiSlate for, the
wants of the people.
What has millionaire and laborer
in common? Absolutely nothing. The
former houses his dumb brutes better
than he does the toiler who creates his
wealth, ana holds himself in world of
his own, far above the common herd.
How, then, can they enact laws for the
common people?
The people in '92 expressed their
views and wishes in unmistakable
language that their servant, the SEN
ate, could not misunderstood, but it
chose to ignore that command and as
sumo the role OF dictator. This is a
menace TO our institutions unforeseen
by the writer's OF the constitution, and it
behoovcs Us, the people, to amend that
instrument at the earliest opportunity.
Put the question to the people. they
will decide, and decide it right.
a. SCHAEFER.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-17
woRK1NGMEN sLANDERED.

Senator Hoar is another Republican
orator now on the stump who should be
muzzled. We don't know how the
worklngmen in Massachusetts will take
his remarks, but we have an idea that
the laboring men of Minnesota will
hardly appreciate his characterizati
of them. After saying that there had
been eighteen months of Democratic
administration and thirteen of legisla-
ton, he went on to say that Democratic
craftsmanship and the dread of it had
had their full effect. 1.-The working
men," he says, "haye left the mill for
the highway; the farmer and the mer-
chant and the manufacturer are alike
out of work; the sturdy demands of Or
ganized labor, proud and defiant, hope
full, demanding better wages, more
leisure and better opportunities, have
been replaced by the whine of the
mendicant and the contempt of the peo-
pie. The furnace fire is gone out, and
the incendiary fire is lighted" In other
words, Senator Hoar says that the work.
ingmen who have been thrown out of
work by the panic of 1898. itself very
largely the result of vicious financial
Republican legislation, have become
tramps and mendicants and incend-
iaries. This kind of argument may do
very we'll in Massachusetts,. but we ap-
prehend that it will not go down among
the workingmen of Minnesota, who will
see in it only slur equal to that of the
Pioneer Press last year when it stat
ed that the increase in burglaries and
crimes in this city was due to the work.
ingmen who were out of employment.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-17
COMING STANDARD DOLLARS.

Secretary Carlisle has been severely
criticised by the Republican papers for
resuming the coinage of standard silver
dollars. He has been char ged with
doing this in order that the silver dol
lars bearing the date OF this year might
be used in the free silver districts by the
candidates for congress to show that the
government is not inimical to silver.
In response TO letter to Mr.. Heard,
of the house of representatives. Carlisle
states that he is simply pursuing the
direction of the unrepealed sections Of
the law of 1890. That act requires the
coinage of 100000 ounces of silver bull
lion per month until the first day of
July. 1891. and thereafter coinage OF
sufficient number of dollars to provide
for the redemption of the treasury
notes issued in payment of the bullion.
During the last eleven MONTHS" he
says, "3.S7O.727 standard dollars, coined
from the bullion purchases under the
act of July IA, 1890, have been paid out
in redemption of treasury notes. and
the notes so redeemed have been re-
tired and Cancelled. This process is
still gong on daily"
30 far from this action being subject
to censure it should receive the praise
OF all persons interested in securing a
solvent currency. No candid person
now but admits that the treasury notes
issued under the Sherman act were
the exciting cause of the panic of 1898,
adding as they did just so much more
to the load carried by the gold reserve
in the treasury. The government could
not imperil the whole paper currency
of the country by refusing gold in re-
demption Of these when offered at the
treasury department. Had redemption
ing old been refused for these notes.
gold would have at once gone to
premium. and we would have been
upon practically silver basis at once.
That the secretary is retiring these
notes and issuing standard dollars in
place of them should be subject of con-
graduation among all Interested in a
sound currency.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-17
WHY SUGAR Is DE.A RER.

To the Editor of the GLOBE.
Can you tell puzzled housekeeper how 1t
is that sugar costs more under the new tariff
than il was costing last winter: lnquiring
the reason of that phenomenon at n leading
grocer's the clerk volunteered an eXplqna-
ton to the effect that as Grover Cleveland
wouldn't sign the bill. YOU know The old
rates (and presumably the old Mckinley
tariff remained i'll full force. But" said
the still more puzzled inquirer, If that were
a fact, as know it isn't, seeing that read
all the tariff debates. how is il that | could
buy twenty pounds of granulated sugar for
dollar last winter and now get only severn
teen pounds Perhaps you eau explain
that fact more satisfactorily than by
smoker. which was the clerks only re-
Spouse. uousEkEEPER.
ST. Paul, Sept 10, 1894.
The reason why Housekeeper is get
ling less sugar for a dollar than she did
is solely because combination of sugar
refners have a monopoly of the
market and of majority of the senators
of the United States. This trust die
tates to wholesalers the price they
shall sell at, and the penalty of disobe-
dience is mo sugar." Every wholesaler
in St. Paul is tied down hands and feet.
The trust reaches beyond and ties up
the retailers in the same way. The re-
cent rise in price Is purely arbitrary and
speculative. and not due to the new
tariff, which lays tax of 40 per cent on
raw sugar, and. in addition. One-e;ghth
of a cent pound on refined sugar.
The trust had bought and imported
under the former act. which let raw sugar
in free, all the raw sugar they could
get. When the new act took effect they
increased the price just as if they had
paid tax on the raw sugar, thus making
40 per cent profit. The price to the trust
of raw sugar year ago this month was
9.5 cents a pound. This year it has cost
them 2.3 to 20 cents pound. They
could pay the tax aud sell sugar us
cheapiy as they did year ago and
make as much profit. but they have the
consumers by the throat and will ex-
tort all they can, and all that House
keeper and the rest OF US can do is to
grin and bear it until we can get sena.
tors who will not be owned by the
trust. or course. the clerk referred to
didn't know what he was talking abO ut
Ed
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-17
DO GET TOGETHEH

There is real necessity of the Re-
publicans getting together during this
campaign and ascertaining where they
"are at" The Tribune says "there are
millions of producers who will be disas-
trously affected by the lower tariff rates
and the limitation of the protective
features of the tariff system" The
Reed branch Of the Republican family
just now Is protesting that there must
be no more of this tariff agitation, and
we hear frequently Of the paralysis of
disquietude" which must follow any
further agitation Of that much-vexed
subject. But il these millions of pro-
ducers are disastrously affected by the
tariff, they certainly will agitate contln-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-17
MILLS ON AILYER

Roger q. Mills IS on the stump in
Texas talking tariff and finance to his
constituents, ana rendering to them an
account OF the stewardship they EN-
trusted him with. He voted for the
repeal of the Sherman act, ana he voted
for free wool, both matters in which
many of his constituents think he an.
tayoniZed their interests. He defends
his action With the same frank courage
with which he met the voters Of his
district after, as chairman of the ways
and means committee, he reported and
the house passed bill putting wool on
the free list, he went home and disap-
pointed his enemies, who hoped that
his course would defeat him, by defend
ing his act so ably rs to secure Il tri-
umphant return. to the house.
Senator Mills has beena consistent ad-
vocate of silver. He has voted for every
measure that has come before the sell
ate or house whose effect was expected
to be favorable to that metal. a few
years ago he contributed all article to
the North American Review, in which
he took the only logical position that
can be taken. if the premise of the silver
ties Is sound. that 1T is gold that has
appreciated, not silver that has depre-
ciated. He insisted that the only correct.
sound and sensible thing to do was to
diminish the weight of the gold coins
proportionately to the decrease in the
value Of silver bullion. 1t is needless
to say that this proposition found no
favor with the real force behind the free
coinage movement, the silver miners,
who do not wish to pull gold down but
to lift silver up.
The senator not only vindicates his
vote to stop the purchase Of silver. but
his opposition to the free coinage of
silver at the current legal ratio in
speech, in the conclusion OF which he
says:
Il have been one of the strongest ad-
vocates of free silver. l have spoken
for it and written tor 1t. l was i'll con-
greSs when a silver dollar was worth
5 cents more than gold dollar. When
Germany was attempting to demonetiZe
silver l was in favor of throwing open
our mines to free coinage; in favor of
leading the way. saw silver decline,
but l stuck to it and wanted 1t free.
But when it had fallen so per cent
knew IL was Impossible. 1t would be
simply foolish when all the other civil
lied countries are against it,"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-17
IT'S A CASE OF POLITICS.

We have all along suspected that
political considerations were at the.
base OF most of these reductions Of
wages which are taking place in some
of the lines of industry whose proteG-
ton by the tariff has been diminished.
We find confirmation of this in the re-
ports from New Bedford, where the em-
ployers are reported as being willing
to restore the old rate Of wages. A
leader among the mill owners is MIR.
Grape, who has been frequently can
ddate for office in the Republican
party. sometimes for governor and
sometimes for congress or the senate.
He was prominent in the meetings
which were held shortly after the strike
began. and was most lnsistent that
wages would have to be reduced in
order to meet the reduction of the tariff.
The stockholders. who are not poiiti-
clans, have been investigating the mat
ter, and find that reduction of wages is
not needed, and the probabilities are
that the strike will have all immediate
settlement.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-17

all of its comforts and privileges, that he
cannot bear to give it up, and az the
Republican party in his state is so UNI
popular, Jones has joined the Populists
IN order to preserve his place in the SEN
ate. The state of Nevada has long been
known as a peterborough belonging
naturally to Senators Jones and Stew
art. and he will be re elected. no matter
what changes might take place, even il
he were not directly in line with the
Populists' policy of the frea coinage of
silver. The fact is. and the Tribune
might as we'll admit it, that Senator
Jones has at last become convinced that
the Republican party has tied itself up
to the gold mOnometallists of the coun-
try as firmly as it is tied to the projected
and other privileged classes Of the
country.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-17

uously for restoration. They will
hardly coincide with Mr.. Reed in his
views of the necessity of a period of
rest, and will join the Mckinley branch
in demanding the restoration of the late
iamented American system. But. Oh
the other hand. the statement is an nd
mission that the tariff does affect do
nestle prices and initiates against the
favorite theory of the Mckinley branch
that the tariff is not tax, but a mere
license paid by the foreigner for per-
mission to trade in our market. Ii this
is the case, it should be i:nmateriai
to those producers whether that license
is high one or low one, anu it Is diff !
ficult to see how they could bs disas- d
trously affected by its being made
lower.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-17
TOO MUCH RECORD.

Editorially the Chicago Tribune points
with pride to the reduction Of wages
being made in some kinds of industry
for political effect on congressional
campaigns, and cOngratulates itself on
having predicted this same thing in
1872 should Mr.. Cleveland be elected.
Unfortunately for the Tribune it forgcts
what it has said heretofore and compelS
the Chicago Herald to turn back to the
files of the Tribune of last year and re-
print from il its statement of the causes
OF the panic which struck the country.
No campaign being then on. the
Tribune felt itself permitted to speak
the truth, and it said at that time "that
the growth of distruSt due TO the con-
tinued purchase of silver. beginning
fourteen months ago. was remarkably
steady" 1t never stopped until 1t cul-
minated in bad panic. While it was
known early in November that the
Democrats had carried the country on
their Chicago platform. and Democratic
papers were insisting that the president
ought to call congress together in March
or April to wipe out the protective
tariff, the Tribune says, "yet there
were no indications of the panic on the
part of the manufacturers during the
months Immediately succeeding the
election of Mr.. Cleveland.
Factories were started in protected
as we'll as unprotected industries. The
current history of tine last year proves"
it says, that the manufacturers were
not panic breeders. but the financial
stringency grew directly out of the sill
yer purchases and the constant addition
to the currency of the silver certificate
money, which the government prom
ised should be kept as good as gold. but
with no additions to the gold with
which to redeem the silver paper"
This is only another of those frequent
cases which arise to bother editors and
politicians of having altogether too
much record.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-17
FIGHTING CAPT. REED,
A Mcleod County journal That
Seems to Have a Curious Idea Of
Local Pride,

"A MCLeOu county JOurnaI That
Seems to Have a Curious Idea of
Local Pride.
The Glencoe Register, published at
Capt. Reeds home, belongs to the
HactwOlt list of newspapers, but does
not seem to know when to stop fighting
Several weeks ago the Republicans of
Mcleod met in convention and elected
delegates to the congressional conven-
ton. iDstructing them 10 vote for the
nomination of Capt. Reed. This set
tied the fight so far as Mcleod is con-
cerned, but since then the Register has
been growing more abusive each week
until the last issue, when nearly a page
was filled with matter like the follow.
ing:
The Winthrop News of the 6th inst.
publishes letter from A. Fl. Reed au-
thOriZing Gov. Nelson to draw on him
for 500 for the fire sufferers. The En-
terprise copies it, by request we pre-
sumo, and makes the following COM
ments: Capt. Reefs generosity is not
only shown in this case, but in nearly
every other calamity where suffering
has occurred his check has been sent
Immediately without any soliciting from
any one. When the cyclone devastated
New Ulm, Rochester and st. Cloud he
sent MS check for 500 to each of them"
We wonder why, then. if Mr.. Reed
is so generous. he did not con.
tribute to the sufferers from the cyclone
near Glencoe last spring. One of the
COMMITTEES went to him and he refused
to give cent; possibly because it would
not be given sufficient publicity, and
yet that was case that should call
forth the deepest sympathy, and OH
small scale was as disastrous as the
Hinckley fire. How was it that the
News got hold of this letter? 1t was
sent from Winthrop Sept. 4 and was not
published in any Of the dailies, and SO
we conclude that Mr.. Reed handed it to
the editor of the News with. probably,a
request to publish, thinking. doubtless,
it would help him in his candidacy for
the congressional nomination. A very
generous man that
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-17
COMPARATIVE sECTIoNAL1sM

SoMf n IVA IL v IL = EOllON n LIE VI
Ever since the enactment of the new
tariff act we have heard from all the
Pecks. Trays and Sweethearts of the Re-
publican party an occasional yelp about
its being sectional bill favoring the
South at the expense of then orth. Gov.
Mckinley, in his speech to the Yankees
down in Bangor, made comprehensive
specification under this Indictment. He
says 1T gives the several Southern states
a duty on coal and iron: Louisiana the
duty on sugar; puts tariff on peanuts
to set cotton ties free; puts tariff on
rice, but sets wool free: taxes mica. but
makes free trade IN lumber. "Ln every
section there is the grossest inclination
to sectionalism and unjust discrimina-
ton.'
In view of this charge. comparison
OF the rate on the articles mentioned in
the bill formulated by Mr.. Mckinley,
and in that formulated by the senate, is
interesting as showing that if the latter
bill was sectional, the former was ultra
in its favor to these sections of the
Union. If the Southern coal and iron
ore are favored by this act, with its 40
cents tax per ton, they were certainly
more favored by the Mckinley act with
its IS cents a ton. If the sugar growers
and refiners are given the protected
duty of one-eighth of cent per pound,
the greater favor was shown that sec
ton by Mr.. Mckinley with his protec-
tive tax of half cent a pound. The
action of the Democratic sugar planters
IN formally deserving the Democratic
party and attaching themselves to the
Republican party. is sufficient evil
dence of the tenderness of the Republi-
cans for the industries of that section of
the country. If that other section of
the country which raises peanuts has
been recognized by the recent act by a
tax of 20 per cent ad valorem, it was
favored in the act which this one
replaced by tax Of cent pound,
which was equivalent to u per cent ad
valorem. If the tax of 10 per cent i'm
posed by the new law OH sumac is Sec
tional, then certainly the four-tenths of
a cent a pound, whose equivalent ad
valorem was nearly 20 per cent, was
doubly sectional. The Democratic wool
growers of Texas are expressing their
opinion of the sectionalism OF free wool
by defeating for denomination the con-
greSsmen who voted for it. They pre-
fer the sectionalism of the Mckinley
bill, which put tax of IL cents pound
on imports of foreign wool. Thus we
see as we examine these items. and as
we would find if we examined the fur
Their Items of the bill, that whatever
there is of sectionallsm IN the present
law is mild il compared with the Sec
tiona!ism of the law which it replaced.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-17

leader in the Seventh district, NELSON
has not learned anything of this district
since the Kindred campaign, and when
he wants anything done he invariably
selects his men from the hacks. broken
down and worn out long since. who did
service for him at that time"
All in all. when the game has been
played to the end. the story will be a
very pretty one. And the man who will
have all the chips. not lost to the Re-
publican party. bears the name of
Kuute Nelson.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-17

In THE course of a reply to a CORE
SpOndent who asked the Pioneer Press
some awkward questions in regard to
the legislation of the Republican party,
that paper expresses its horror of Sc
cret, oath-bound. political associations,
"the very feature" 1t says. (which has
made the A. p. A. so justly detested by
the Americans that all political parties
have rejected and renowned it." We
have paid especial attention to the as
sembiages of Republicans in their con-
ventions, not only in this, but in all
other states. to see what attitude they
took towards the A. p. A. In most of
them no mention whatever was made of
it, but in some. as in Missouri. for in
stance, denunciatory resolutions were.
promptly tabled. Nowhere has there
been any Republican convention Which
has rejected or renowned or denounced
the A. p. A. The only conventions Of
any political party which have expressed
an opinion on this subject have been
Democratic, and they have been uni
form in their denunciatious.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-17
The South ON Jim Root,

AtIiIlU OUISIIlUIIOU.
There is some genuine heroism still
left in the world. and it is not monopo-
LIKED by any one class. The plain, com.
mon man. drudging like slave for his
daily bread is just as likely to prove
himself hero when the occasion comes
as his neighbOr who is his social supe-
rior. Jim Root dared more for his rel
low man than many great general
would do with all the temptations of
fame to lure him on.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-17

IT IS, of course, CALLING to the editors
of Republican papers to read in their
own advertising columns the announce
ments of the merchants Of the reduction
in prices as result of the new tariff.
Most of them grin and bear the afflic-
ton in silence, but the Milwaukee Sem
tiuel permits its chagrin to break out in
reference to the bargain counter BOOM
ers" who advertise reduction in prices
as established by Democratic admins
tration of bankruptcy during the past
year." The counting room and the ad-
vertisers will both make kick against
this Snarl.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-17
HON. JOHN NJ. SPICER.
[Real Estate Man of Willmar

[Real Estate Man of Willmarl
In regard to the question as to wheth-
er or not United States senators should
be elected by the people, must say that
l have not given it much thought. but l
have believed during the last six months
that it would be better than the present
system of electng by the legislatures,
and that those elected strictly by the
people would be better men in most
cases than they are at present. where
often money has a good deal to do with
their elections, if reports he true.
JOHN NJ. SPICER.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-17

IT IS indicative of better sentimen
among the boys of the Grand Army that
Judge Long, who started boom for
himself as COMMUNICATIVE chief on the
strength of his contest with the pension
bureau, found so little support that he
withdrew. When there are so many
deserving soldiers limited to the pit
lance of s!2 month. there is greedi-
ness in the man who will take pension
of s7a month for total disability while
he is getting $1,000 year as justice of
a supreme court, which stamps him as
having little of the true soldier In him.