St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-09
GOOD OUT OF NAz.nE,c.,

we welcome the assistance of tbo
fioheer Press in. the resistance r,,o
nave made-to what it aptly terms
little imp of BILL having for its
purpose, the fostering, of the iron
business in the state. and II ,,ao,,s
the rebate of the royalty due the
STATE ON all ores Smelted within i+c
borders. We are the moro nJoasa
that our neighbor puts it's opposi-
eion on the same grounds taken
by the GLOBE, that it is NOT the
junction of the state to foster ar
encourage the establishment of in
dustr1es, because such ground is ca
purely Democratic We are not led
ny TINS, OF course. to even hope that
our nelghbor is veering around to
democracy, and we suspect that if
is Itself unconscious how near if ie,
sailing to the Democratic coast
But IL, In the past, we have cher
lShed the hope that our conten,no.
rary was seeing the light at last. as
we nave from time to time-excent
In campaign time-read it's strone
oenuncialtions of state regulation aid
or interference in the affairs of IFS
citlzens, we have had the hone. foo
often nipped in the bud by the haste
with which it lifted it's skirts and
scurr1ed back to the paternal ground
When 1T daWned on it how close TO
the dangerous grounds of Democracy
It's unhobbled sense and Judgment
had carried it, to indulge now in anv
such expectation. Nevertheless we
are glad to have our neighbor give
It's readers such good, orthodox
sound doctrine, because it NAV fall
on fertile soil among it's readers and
bear good fruit.
Ii it were not for this considara-
ton we might ask our conten,no-
rary to square its views on fostered
ore smelling with its express SIM.
port Of the policy of fostering which
so distinguishes the party honored
by It's support. If sit may be tal,en
as an axiom that an industry fha
will not flourish without this arti-
hclal aid will not flourish with it,"
IS true OF ore reduction, why is it not
true OF sugar, of wool, of Woolens
and steel and the hundred other oh
Jects OF paternal governments
fostering care? And if it is as trua
of one as the other-and it is-wbx
does our ne1gnbor continue to sup
port party policy that is as wrong
on ore as on the other things?
We might pursue the inquiry far
Their, and ask why, if there is no
reason why the state should under
take to foster one line of indust,,,
out of its public funds than an
other" should it permit MANY of
them to be fostered out of the pri-
vate funds of its citizens? Where is
the difference between the. funds of
a state and those of its citizens in
such case? Were not the funds of
the state private funds before thew
became public ones? And if the
state should not foster ore smelling
thus, why should the nation, only an
aggregation of states, foster it OR
any other industry?
But we forbear to press these and
the other questions suggested bv
this interesting and convincing ar
gument of our neighbor against this
pernicious bill, really an limp of a
BILL, content to have the help it
gives us without insisting that the
logic of its argument should be fol-
lowed by it into larger fields, and
as strictly applied to the countless
imps that make up the family of
imps known under the general ap-
pellation of MeKinleyism.