St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-07-29


with generous courtesy. Mr.. Will
son pounded the minority party
with his Thor's hammer of economic
logic, but his arguments were cushioned
with kindness, and left no bruised
places to ache and tester in the future.
Even satirical Tom Reed was compare
lively moderate in his denunciation,
and tuned his epic flow of saturnine Bit
terness until his owl-hootings of future
disaster melted gently into the tame
and melodions coOings of the dove. Tom
johnson, that singular Buckeye mixture
of statesman and anarchist, pleaded
strongly, but still mercifully for abso-
Lutte free trade, but finding that he
could not get all that he demanded, took
gladly and graciously that which was
given to him.
And the Wilson bill was passed. The
people of the nation took a long breath
and turned their eyes appealingly TO the
senate end of the capitol.
But the cool and conservative winter
was gone, and combined harmonies of
the whippOorwiil and hooking bird pro-
claimed that the springtide was upon
ter'S Notwithstanding ozone, were grow
ing warm and muggy as the sun crept
upward toward equatorial calefaction.
The senate committee labored during
long and weary hours of the day and
night, while every offer of compromise
and each recurring amendment suggest
Ell only added to the cerebral intlamma-
ton OF those actively engaged In organ
izing economic chaos and industrial de-
Struction.
The thermometer continued to climb
as the season advanced, until the dog
days found a veritabie midsummer mad
ness prevailing at both ends OF the cap
ltol, while great waves of caloric rolled
up the avenue from the legislative Sec
ton of the great republic until it
reached and submerged the executive
mansion. Oar cool president himself
finally got hot.
There Is strong bond of kinship be-
tween solar heat and the calidIty of the
collar. Patience takes leave of the
brain which boils and bubbles under the
weight of 100 degrees IN the shade. Court
eSy gives way to rude and outSpok ell
candor when the dog.star RACES.
Truth and justice and all the equities
of humanity Shrivel and disappear UNI
der the scarifying, incineratng rays
of a midsummer sun. Prudence is
promise stif1ed, discrimination burned
to ashes under the white-hot glow of
intense solar heat.
The senate Of the United States in
its recent tariff action was probably the
victim of meteorological misfortune
producing coup de soleil. Messrs.
German, Brice, ct al.-the little cotere
who were spanked by President Cieye.
land in his private letter publicly eX-
pressed some days ago-may not have
been corrupt. or vicious, or untrust-
worthy. 1t is possible they were
merely suffering from modified attack
of sunstroke. All things should be for-
given to overworked statesmen during
such weather as recently prevailed
throughout the entire country. Even
Debs and his dOings may be explained
by some future scientific examination
into the cosmic secrets of oppressive
heat. We are children of the sun. The
great central luminary Is at once the
cause and the cure of all disease-of
every i'll to which poor, weak humanity
is heir.
Let the public be merciful to the SEN
ate. Bye and bye the breezes from our
billiards coming Northwest will sweep
in refreshing torrents down upon
the parched and sweltering pave
ments of Washington. Let the house
stand firm and postpone adjourn
ment. In few short weeks the crisp
and exhilarating frosts will come; the
Inflammation may leave the senatorial
brain: and then statesmen, weak and
exhausted, will throw up their bands
and plead to be permitted to vote for
free iron and free coal-nay, even free
sugar is not impossible.
Let US be charitable. The rays
of the Indian summer sun are merciful.
and often restore to men the wits stolen
by July sunstroke. A cool brain, both
preachers and philosophers assert, is
essential to right doing. Ii the senate's
unfortunate position had been assumed
in January, or even in April, it would
have been unpardonable; but let all
Democrats remember that it was July
mistake, and therefore is possible of
rectitication in October.