St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-03
SERVE ALL ALIKE.

If the legislature is going into the
fostering business, and encourage
the working of some OF the raw
products of the state into finished
product, we hope they will serve all
alike, and make no invidious dis
tinctions. If the tax on ore is to be
reba ted if it is smeited within the
borders Of the state, or if commits
sion is to be appointed to find out,
at the states expense, if it can be
done, then let's so into the fostering
bath all over, and not just wet our
feet in it. If it is good thing,
push it along in all other cases.
The bulk of our meat products now
goes to the great packing houses
in Chicago and Omaha. We have a
few packing establishments in the
state trying to hold their own against
the larger concerns, and sadly need
ing to be fostered. Why not give
them a bounty of say a cent a
pound on all meats packed or cured
in the state? There are great pos
sibilities of glittering and catchy
rhetoric in this that should attract
the ambitious statesman anxious to
rise in the ranks of statecraft.
Then there is our barley that now
for the greater part, goes to Mil
Waukee, there to be matted and con-
verted into beer in the great brew
cries of that city of creamy brick
and amber beer. Why should this
not all be made into beer in our own
state, keeping our money at home,
bringing money from abroad and
furnishing employment for thou
sands of our poor and needy citi-
zens? A bounty of say a dollar a
barrel on the beer produced within
the state from barley grown in it's
limits would be powerful incentive
to the development of this most i'm
portant industry, as well as a stimu-
liant to our farmers to produce more
barley.
Another thing that has given pain
to the gentle heart of Col. Kiefer
is the decadence, under the blight
ing effects of an Indifferent congress,
Of our factories that take potatoes
into the starch that stiffens our linen
and reinforces the pastry cook. AS
that heartless body reduced the pro-
lection of starch $50 per cent, ac-
cordlng to that veracious mathe-
metician, the gallant member from
the Fourth district, and as the fac
tories have banked their fires in
consequence, why not foster them
back into activity by bounty equal
to the protection removed? 1t should
also be provided, in order to catch
the farmer vote and support, that
the bounty be limited to the starch
made from potatoes grown within
the state
These are but hints of the posi-
blllties Of the fostering and encour-
aging policy and it's objects but
they Will serve, to direct the atten-
lon OF the patriotic statesmen I'D
In the capitol to the numerous chan
nels for their activities. and we can
safely trust their sagacity to dis
cover the thousand and one other
avenues into which the funds of
the state can be poured to act like
the water of the canal on the arid,
SANDS OF West, causing bloom where
now Is aridity, industry where now
likeness, prosperity where now is
want, and thus, as was claimed for
Tie MCKINNEY act, scatter blessings
Der smiling land" 1t is a bit late
now, but for such noble and praise
worthy purpose we have no Doubt
'he governor would give the needed
approval to the introduction of the
belated bills.