St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-19
THE SPRINGS DRIED UP.

THE SPRINGS DRIED UP.
That is quite a significant revela-
| ton of changed conditions, the APP
peal Of a Republican congressman in
Kentucky to the Populist governor
of Nebraska to raise a fund for the
Republican party in Kentucky SO
that it can carry the state and there
by "break up the solid South"
The ignorance of the congressman
in sending such an appeal to Gov.
Holcombe is not the surprising feat
ure for nominations in that party
in that state went begging for can
didates until the wave last year set
the fellows there to actually hoping
that they might carry the state
But if Republican congressman are
ignorant of party changes in other
states, they are not at ali dull when
1T comes to the question Of getting
campaign funds; and the remarka-
BILE feature of this trifling incident
is that the appeal is made to Ne
braska, instead of Pennsylvania or
Massachusetts.
After Kolb and the Republicans
had fused last year in Alabama, Kolb
knew where to go for funds. He
went to Washington and conferred
With Senator Hoar, and he wrote a
nice letter to the Home Market club
in Boston suggesting that funds be
raised to help Kolb 'break the solid
South" Everybody knows now how
p1ous John Wanamaker went among
the manufacturers of Pennsylvania
and raised 100000 that went into
New York in 1SSS,an bought enough
votes to carry that state for Har-
rison. And the claim of the Manu-
facturers' club, of Philadelphia, that
the election that year was due to it's
| efforts is matter of history. When
Mckinley beat Campbell for govern
or of Ohio there was food of money
poured out of Pennsylvania into the
| Golfers of his treasury. The cry
the-fat" circular made the money
flow from the pockets of the tariff
beneficiaries as water flowed from
| the rock when Moses smote it.
1t never was any secret that there
was an exchange of benefits between
the Republican national and other
committees and the tariff bonused
manufacturers. Especially was this
the case in the campaign of 1888.
When President Cleveland's policy
put their whole system of robbery
at risk. They furnished the funds
that elected Harrison, and enthroned
| Mckinleyism for a brief interval.
and, when the Fifty-frst congress
met, they went down to WASHINGTON
and demanded and got their pound
| OF flesh. 1t has been said that Nc
kinney demurred to the rigor of their
demands, but it was nominated in
the bond" and Wilson and Hall
made it clear how their contribu
tons were repaid by permitting them
to write their demands into the
schedules of the Mckinley act Ev-
identity there has been a great
change, and this letter of the Ken
lucky congressman is the straw that
indicates the reversal of the contrib
utory current.
Carnegie, always before a liberal
contributor, set the pace in '92 by
refusing q contribution, and indi-
Gated the change in '93 by advising
the acceptance of the Wilson bill bv
the Republicans in congress. He
was read out of the party as a.
traitor, but it is evident now that
the steel king was only little ahead
OF his fellows. The protected manu-
facturers have come to the conclu-
sion that "the jig is up" Their in
vestments of 'SS did not return com
pensatory dividends, owing to the
reverses of 80 and '92. But thew
have had a more informing lesson
since. They have learned that pro-
lection is not essential to their pros
perity. They have learned that re-
duction of protection not only does
not ruin, but actually helps. They
have seen their business recovering
from financial panic under dimin-
lshed protection, in less than two
years. They recall that it took the
country six years to recover from
the panic OF rs, produced by similar
causes, although the country was
guarded by protective tariff. They
see tin plate mills expanding under
a tex deemed so purely a revenue
tax that. prior to 1890, it was not
thought possible to establish the in
dustry here. They see their iron
and steel going abroad, and the DEM
onstration made that homemade
woolens and cottons can compete in
foreign fields. They noted the fact
that an Alabama firm competed sue