St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-08-20
AFTER eoRmANIsa WHAT

Assuming that the president will sign
the German bill, and it will become
law. what are the signs of the future?
Is the tariff consummated issue? Is the
German act to take permanently the
place of the Mckinley act? Is the tart IF
settled? Tom Reed evidently is willing
to accept the bill as a settlement. He
made the point that the speech of Mr..
Wilson meant that the agitation is 20
continue, and that business is still to be
deranged. The cuckOoS are catching up
the Reed note and repeating it. The
Chicago Tribune and the lesser name
sake up the river chirp the Reed song.
But what are the wider signs? What
are the men saying who are the leaders
on either side? A resume of their
opinions may serve to point the coming
status of the tariff as party question.
Every Republican senator who spoke
denounced even the German bill as a
blow at our industries, reducer of
wages. a long stride towards free trade.
On the 18th inst. Gov. Mckinley said
that "the action of the Democrats put
the question of protection before the
country as the great political issue in
more pronounced way than ever before.
The friends of protection must see that
proper protection is restored to every
industry that suffers from this legisla.
tion." The New York Press, the organ of
ultra protectlonism, says: Loyal to pro-
lection as the compass to the polar star,
the Republican party will never rest
until genuine protection is restored to
every American industry and the stand
ard OF American wages is restored to
the American level"
The Milwaukee Sentinel says: "The
Republicans must declare their inten-
ton Of altering the German avemeyer
tariff, though they will not upon their
return to power re-enact the Mckinley
law" The American Protective Tariff
league, of which Cornelius Bliss Is
president. is sending out circulars in
wiling memberships at 500 a member
with which to send out tariff literature
that will Empress the people with the
idea OF protection for protectors sake"
Gov. Nelson opens his campaign this
year in speech in which he sings the
praises of protection as sweetly as if he
had never denounced it.
This is the spirit ON the Republican
side; how is it OH the other? In letter
not printed, after the house made its
surrender, the president wrote Mr.. Will
son not to be cast down by the defeat,
but to nurse his strength so that he
could continue the fight for tariff re-
form. Mr.. Wilson, closing the debate
on the surrender, said: eff the Demo-
cratic party is to live, if it did live. it
would not lay down its weapons until it
had made it impossible for this coun.
try to lay burdens on one class of our
citizens for the enrichment of another"
Speaker Crisp said: ''The moment we
get this we intend to move forward; we
do not intend there shall be any step
backward in tariff REFORM In the
senate Mills, the old hero, baffled and
thrown by the Catiline from Maryland,
said: eve intend to continue this cru
SADIE of tariff reform until the people are
no longer ground down by burdens
which are made to enrich the few"
The conventions of both parties are
speaking. Republican conventions with
out exception deuounce 1.-THE blow at
American industries" aud sthe degra-
dation OF labor" which Will follow the
tariff act. They 'view with alarm
and point with horror" with all