St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-07

| IL Is Du1lt IS impaired, not torn
down, but impaired.
The Pioneer Press has a large
repertoire Of opinions on which it
draws to suit the emergency. In the
summer of '93, amid the wreck Of the
/ panic, when ruin inspired it to truth
fulness, it demonstrated that the
! panic, from which the people have
suffered more than two years of ap-
palling losses" was solely due to
| that Masterpiece of Republican finan-
! cial legislation, the Sherman silver
purchase act. Now it suits it's con-
yenience to assert that the panic,
beginning in May, '93, was the re-
suit of an election that occurred in
November, '92. In 1890 this paper, with
opinions as variegated as the colors
of Joseph's coat, warned the Repub-
lican congress against the folly of
enacting the Mckinley tariff, and
when the fall elections came, bring
ing disaster, it grimly said: 'I told
you So
In 1888 it severely criticised the
platform Of it's party, and declared
that IAN overwhelming majority of
Republicans in Minnesota are in
favor of thorough reform of the
tariff, with a substantial reduction
Of existing duties,' the tariff then
being that of 'S3, between which and
the German tariff there is little diff
ference. In 1886 it's state conven-
ton adopted a revenue tariff plank,
and the Pioneer Press felicitated
itself and the country that Mime
sofa is not protective tariff state"
In 1885, commenting on the national
convention of free traders in Chi
cago, it commended their demand
for the free listing of raw material
with a proportionate reduction of
duties, and said: Free trade is a.
question of the distant future. But
no appeal to revenue reformers to
be up and doing in the cause of the
public good can be out of place."
When, in 1886, Senator Davis be-
trayed ultra-protective tendencies,
and made that remarkable argument
for protection illustrated by the dan
ger to Minnesota farmers of an ir-
ruption of Saskatchewan wheat if
the tariff was removed, the Pioneer
Press, commenting on the adverse
comments Of the state press. ex-
cuSed 1t as the result of his ex-
uberant imagination, and said that
1t was because the people of the
state loved him so that 'they are
so little tolerant of anything that
looks to them like heresy in his
views and Wehave reached a pass
in Minnesota where high tariff opin-
ions are heresy in the view of the
mass of thoughtful and intelligent
voters
With this record, thus briefly
sketched, the Pioneer Press should
welcome any movement that will be
in accord with the views of thought
full and Intelligent voters" even if
1t did contemplate the formation of
a free trade party. But it can rest
assured that the movement has no
other purpose than to influence the
Democratic party to resume in ear
nest its march toward free trade.
with a frank declara ton of inten- |
ton to reach it as soon as is prac-
t1cable. Meantime it may we'll de-
vote its attention to preventing the
members of it's own party in this
state from going into the Silver
Gfays in order that they may ap-
ply to silver the bounty of that
protective policy the mere appre-
hension of whose abolition caused.
according to this many-viewed pa
per, the appalling losses Of the past
two years.