St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-10-29
ON THE LIVE. WIRE.
Uneasy rests the head that wears .



ordinary business line, it should not
lose time in putting down the rumur
that the baker was nominated because
OF his abund ance of dough, and the
undertaken because OF his readiness to
dig up.
Under the glorious beneficence of
protective tariff the farmers wheat has
declined in price from 81 80 per bushel
In the last days of the very low Walker
tariff to approximately 80 cents per
bushel in the last days Of McKinleyism.
and yet there are those who Will tell the
agriculturists that high protective
tariff is their greatest boon. made posi-
bic to them by the Republican party.
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A Republican orator once remarked
that the Democrats had the arguments
and the Republicans the facts. The
above is one of the facts.
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The cOurt-plaster factories have
doubled their forces. The football sea-
son is about to open.
IS
upon TO give thanks-that the Mckinley
law has become part of the irretriey-
able past.
Considering the fuss that protection
lists are making about the glass clause of
the Wilson law. they must be living in
houses at which it is not we'll to throw
stones.
No wonder Mrs. Lease finds fault
With tariff on jeans cloth. She is
lily.
Everybody may be the architect Of
his own fortune. The difficulty is to
get the building material.
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Assailed as most despicable meas
ure, the Wilson law is good enough for
Tom Reed to go about the country
promising not to disturb in the event of
Republican success
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Either that or Tom Reed is willing to
turn his back on the principles" he has
claimed 10 be fighting fer so long. if by
so ueing he can squeeze a few Repub.
licans into office and improve his
chances of getting the Republican presi-
dental nomination. The Republicans
are entirely welcome to either premise
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Cotton cloth tariff reduced by the
Wilson law from Al to 20 per cent;
bleached cotton, Al to %; calico prints.
As to 81; cotton plushes. 60 to ii; oil
cloth. 40 to 25; shawls of tine cheaper
grade, $50 to So; blankets of medium
value, 142 to 40; flannels for underwear.
medium grade, 103 to 30. These are
few of the ''luxuries Of the rich" that
there has been the tariff reductions
mentioned, and consequent cheapening
in cost to the poor. afforded by the Will
son law.
Levi P. Morton's imported, disturb
ance-creating coachman and the sugar
trust handmaiden of Senator McPher.
sons household would pair well.
"a
tectionist friends would reiustate, went
into effect on Oct. 6. 1890. From the 9th
of October to the 3lst of that month
nineteen of the large protected
industries reduced the wages of en-
ployes. During the next month, No
vember. twenty-four protected indus.
tries did the same. During the next.
December, fifty-fonr protected industrial
establishments made wage reductions,
and in January. 1891. eighty-six more of
them followed suit.
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A greater than that ratio of protected
industries made reductions during the
months which followed, and yet the
laboring classes are asked to help bring
back that grand boon to Them" the
Mckinley law. Is there really no da H.
ger in insulting the intelligence of this
class?
Kansas City, st. Louis and st. Joseph
boast of havingshandled 25 percent of
the hogs this year. 1t has been sup
posed that Chicago had few. There
may be some difference in the breed
sans the kinky tail. mayhap.
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s'Party of the Right" elected to the
Swedish parliament. somebody is going
to get left.
Since the pen is mightier than the
sword, how about the typewriter?
AJo,~ o4ho. I,,u,,;o, IL.
wealthy, specially provided for by the
Wilson bill, is coal, the duty on which
has been nearly cut in two. 1t is not
entirely impossible that few Door
people will be glad of this.
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The train-robber belt has been shipped
east from California.
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Joel P. Heatwole, who desires to be
elected to congress from the Third con-
gressional district of Minnesota, says he
is opposed to the proposed income tax
because it is tax upon the producer.
Mr.. Heatwole has not even discovered
that the producers of this country are
not the people who are enjoying ill.,
comes of $1,000 year or more, and yet
he thinks he is wise enough to be con.
gresham.
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The newest Republican appeal is that
we had best perfect the tariff feature of
our governmental system before we
condemn it and cast it aside. When
you discover decayed spot in an apple
which Is rapidly running the entire fruit,
you know that there Is no use in tenn
porizing with it. antisepticizing it. or
covering it up. There is but one thing
to dc, cut it out! COLONEL Bob.
A Deserved Tribute Well Paid.
Irish Standard.
Never have the common people of
this great state wavered in their conf
dence MISUNDERSTANDING honesty and
integrity. His denomination by the
Democrats of Minnesota in September