St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-31
THE NEW ENGLAND VIEW.

tension Of our growth and prosperity
THE NEW ENGLAND VIEW.
Josiah Quincy tells the public and
the. Democratic party that New
England does not want the tariff
to be an issue next year or for sew
eral years to come. The manufacture
ers are contented with it as it is, and
therefore it should be let alone This
is opinion Of the orthodox New
England kidney. When the national
convention adopted a plank that de-
manded the entire elimination of pro-
lection, a distinguished summer res
ident Of that region, sitting on the
platform, emphatically declared
THAT beats u.s." New England
Democratic papers, with the Boston
Herald leading the chorus, protested
that the convention did not know
what it was about; that it was swept
off its feet by Watterson's eloquence;
and that no ruthless hand would be
laid on the policy that had drained
the country to enrich a people who
had abandoned to weeds their sterile
farms. When Mr.. Cleveland had
written his letter of acceptance, these
organs of Yankee opinion declared
in swelling chorus that he had kicked
the plank out from under his feet,
refusing to stand on it.
The tariff gave New England free
wool. 1t cut the rates on iron and
coal. New England representative
fought hard to get free coal, but
Maryland, West Virginia and Ala
bama opposed and beat them. Mr..
Wilson apologized for the bill his
committee presented as not being
what the convention demanded, but
as being all that could be passed.
The senate increased the measure of
protection that Mr.. Wilson felt
obliged to leave in his bill. This ac-
ton called forth the two letters of
the president to Mr.. Wilson and
Mr.. Catchings, in which he spoke of
the communism Of pelf" that had
joined forces in all parties to Repub-
licanize the Democratic measure and
blight its fruit with treason. The
protective forces in both parties in
the senate joined hands to choke the
house into submission, with the
threat of this bill or nothing. Sc
cretly they hoped that the house
would refuse to concur and give. the
senate the chance. to kill the bill.
1t was a severe disappointment to
them that the house reluctantly
yielded to conditions against which
resistance was hopeless.
And now comes this representative
of New England Democracy and
proclaims this act a finality for
many years. A protectionist bill,
alphabetically presented in the house
and increased in that quality by the
senate, is to be accepted by the
party as the full fruit of it's efforts
and policy New England has OBJ
tanned what it wanted, and that is
enough for the country. If Josiah
Quincy expresses the views of New
England Democracy, he may be as
sured that he does not represent
that of the rest of the country. If
he thinks that the farmers who had
to take free wool for the benefit of
New England wooden mills that get
a protection of so per cent will rest
content, he is mistaken. If he thinks
that the Western and Southern Dem
ocratS who wrote that plank in the
Chicago platform will rest content
with what pleases his section, he
does not know their temper. If he
thinks that freedoms battle begun
in '92 was ended on Aug. %, 1894, he
is again mistaken. If he thinks that
the Democratic party is to become
avowedly a protectionist one, he does
not know the party or the spirit that
animates it.