St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-26

from this country, selected from all
the leading political parties, who
need elementary education as badly
as he does. He advises his council
that the repeal of the reciprocity
country leaves us free to restore
some of the sources of revenue aban-
doned under that agreement"
If he believes that 1.-The foreigner
pays the tax" he need not go to
Chilli, but is deserving Of a severe
reprimand from his superiors for
ever having waived or modified the
right to make people outside his
jurisdiction support his government
by becoming a party to our reciproc-
ity treaty system. But neither he
nor the originators of that system
here really believed that delusion of
McKinley's, or they would never
have proposed a reduction of duties
that would promote reciprocal trade.
It was a legislative acknowledgment
that the domestic consumer pays the
tariff tax. SO that now his commun-
ication to his council is simply
proposition to make the things his
people want that our people make
cost the former more. The United
States having set the example this
initiative monkey proposes to his
people to cut off their noses.
He should go, say, to Chill and sit
at the feet of the ex-president of that
republic and learn the lesson taught
a commission sent out by President
Arthur about the time that the beau
tiful and alluring conception of a
pan-American aggregation of repub-
lies, incloSed in a tariff wall, first
found lodgment in political noodles.
We believe that William Elroy Cur
It's, now of the Chicago Record, was
the only surviving member of this
olive branch, spider-and-the-fly COM
mission that reached Chill and COM
muned with its president, and pro-
posed the raising of a Gordon of the
great American system about the
two continents of the Western hem
isphere.
That benighted and belated func-
tionary, it will be recalled, met Mr..
Curtis and his proposition with a
frankneSS that was very shocking to
William Elroy and the worshipers
of the pan-American extension idea.
He informed the envoy that his peo-
pie were free to sell where they
could get the best prices, and to buy
where they could get the cheapest"
He assured them that trade was
capable of regulating itself, and
there was no advantage in trying to
divert it from one to another chan
mel. With a pride that we can't help
thinking truly American, this South
American president assured his hear
er that 1.-THE ports of Chill were
open to all the vessels of the world
equally" and that none would be
granted special privilege"
Should the governor of Jamaica
act on our suggestion we would like
to add number of names of emf
nent statesmen whom we might ask
to accompany him. While we would
prefer to name some alleged Dem
are constrained by our local pride to
restrict the list to Minnesota states
men. There is Senator Davis, who
is particularly in need of some ele-
mentary drill, especially now that
the presidential bee has found lodg-
ment in his bonnet Senator Mel
son, too, has wandered away from
his earlier and better training, and
needs rebaptism in the fount of
eternal truth. McCleary, too, might
go and, in the bath in the pellucid
waters of common sense, wash off
the crust that political associations
have deposited on his pristine ideas
of the freedom of trade. We regret
that we cannot enlarge the list to
include the remainder of the delega-
ton. 1t would be effort wasted. AS
Carlyle expressed it, you might as
well pour wisdom Into the long
hairy ear of a jackass."