St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-30
ON THE LIVE WIRE.


Along with the Improvement OF the
times comes the announcement that
even the trolley lines are now doing
smashing business"
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To the croakers who sigh for perpet.
uatiOn Of every statute belonging to
their ancestors, is respectfully referred
the imdisputable fact thar the laws Of
our forefathers can not be made 10 fit
the changed conditions of today. So
many poor .mortals live lifeline with.
out discovering that the world really
moves.
Si6ce wool was placed on the free list
1t has risen in price day by day. and the
granger who had had it pulled over his
| eyes so long by so-called statesmen of
the Republican camp tits his head
back with smiling. satisfied air, and
peeping through his whiskers at the
soaring wool. wonders IL it will continue
to rise skyward now that the Democratic
congress has relieved it of the load that
held 1t down.
"Heeiers" and a public Office wait for
no man.
The glass trust has been reduced to a
thin transparent shred. It is not even
opalescent. and is loaded with pains In
its little inside.
Mr.. Jeems Whitewings Lightner have
TUX unto himself the task OF securing
the Republican legislative nomination
in the silk stocking Seventh agin so
sterling business man as Eli Warner.
1t might be Opportune to remind MIR.
j. Whitewings that the race of Eli did
some time since build a reputation for
getting there.'
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We taxed the sugar of Cuba and Porto
Rico, and Spain in turn taxed our flour
and other products, and yet there are
people who cry out with loud voice,
Protection builds up business; let us
have more of it."
Since protection is such magnificent
scheme for enriching any nation that
employs it, why not an international
congress to adopt a schedule of duties
for each and every people against every
other people SO internal high that each
nation will become rich all by itself in
few minutes-somehow.
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And now the Republicans of Nevada
say that Senator Jones always was
mean. horrid old thing. anyhow. and
never would play fair. There is all
aching void in the foremost Republican
ranks of Nevada since he retired, just
the same.
Since Senator Jones has joined the
Populists there will be great measur-
ing Of whiskers between the gentleman
from Nevada and Senator PETER for
senatorial supremacy.
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s What manner Of fatted calf will the
Republican brethren provide for the
renegade sugar planters of louisiana?
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The ordinary woman is not crack
mathematician. but she can tell Off
hand just how much her husband could
save IN a year if he didn't smoke.
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Since tariff discussions are going to
he in order for some time yet to come,
there ought to be great getting to-
gether of Republican speakers and
writers to determine whether they will
hinsist that protection ultimately raises
iOr lowers prices. Up to the present
writing there has been such painful
discrepancy on: the point among these
rampant folk.
The word ''Salve" OH door mat has
no connection whatever with relief for
sore feet.
It is we'll that the Connecticut law
doesn't require voters to remove any.
thing more than their hats while in the
voting boeths-there would not be room
for it.
The Populists fuse with the Demo-
crats-when they can-in the North,
and with the Republicans iu the South.
Eastern Republicans have no Use for
silver; Western Republicans for gold.
Unfortunately. some Democrats do not
know whether they are ready tor free
trade or not and some know they are,
and the band plays. and congress rests
but to gather fresh wind, and SO it goes.
1t there should be sort of political
resurrection day. how many there would
lie unable to determine, even to their
own satisfaction, just where they had
come to at.
1t is amazing how soon $3.50 chro.
nometer becomes a ''cheap Waterbury"
when the assessor is on the war path.
Even farmer will 'bear" the stock
market.
The attendance at the "grand OPEN
ing" of Mr.. Hamm's new brewery and
the Prohibition party primaries-whic
occurred the same evening was at
about the proportion of ten to one IN
favor of the brewery. though Mr.. Hamm
is no hog.
From one end of America to the other
high protection organs are wasting col
umns of space in joyous acclaim over
the statement that the province OF Vic.
tOria, Australia, had abandoned free
trade"- which statement has been
proven several times over to be ALSO.
lutely and unqualifiedly false aud based
upon all error, originally, in the trans
mission of the Geographic news mes
sage. Many Of them know this now. but
continue to exultingly sing their p8ans
of low To what sad ends are these Our
opponents brought. f..
40 az
bii With the chill regard extended to
proposed biased silver legislation. with
the slap in the face administered to pro-
tective tariff, with the collapse draught
administered to air castle stock ven.
lures, with the casting about for some
1,rs. l,la u nd iIaSt