St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-30
ground in this part of the country the
less liable to injury is the crop.
LUNAR EFFECr sTILL AppARUNT

less liable to injury is the crop.
LUNAR EFFECT STILL APPARENT.
If it were not for the regularity of
the appearance of Stiffness In our con-
temporary of the. Mckinley faith up
the river withth fulling Of the moon
and the well-established fact of the
occult relations of that luminary and
the mental processes of some peculiar
ly constructed minds, we would be
loath to believe that the Tribune is
really as foolish 1as 1t seems willing
If not anxious to appear to be. If it
was foolish to invite a comparison of
imports from its bette noir, England,
under the present tariff and It's late
lamented predecessor, it is absolutely
silly for 1t now, when driven into a
corner, to take refuge behind its fa-
vorite Poor Worxingman, and utter
protests against some imaginary abuse
Of him. Rather expecting some such
further illustration of lunar effects If
the opportunity were given, we did
not make all the comparisons the sta
tfstics of the treasury supply, and
which will not permit the Tribune to
shelter itself behind its Poor Working
man.
1t Is too much to expect that its
mental condition Just now will allow
the Tribune to even quote accurately.
We did not say that England has
oh 10
goods (per annum) than she did in
1892" What we said was that that
was the amount sent us in 1895 in
excess of the imports of 1892. But If
the Tribune's Poor Workingman is
alarmed because there was this excess
Of imports in the first year Of the
senate act over the f1ood-tide year of
'92, what will he say when he learns
that the imports from England in 1891,
the first year Of McKinley's act, ex-
ceeded the imports in 1895 by $35, ,640, ,O19?
If the admission Of an excess Of a
couple Of millions in 80 SIS important"
what is the fact Of an excess Of $685.
100000 in 1891? If our contemporary's
Poor Worktngman was thrown out
Of employmentr by plugging our mar
kets with cheap foreign goods" in 1896
to the extent Of two millions more than
in 1892, what must have been his con-
dition in 1912
But the figures given do not tell the
whole story. The Poor Workingman
is not interested $50 much in the ag-
gregate Of imports as in those on
which a stiff duty is laid to prevent
"plugging our markets with cheap for
eign goods, thus throwing him out Of
employment" 1t is the story Of the
imports in thessdutiable list that he is
concerned with. Of these the treasury
tables tell us that there were imported
from England in 1895 $10S, $50, IA, while
in 1891 there were imported $15S, ,832,
worth Of Cheap foreign goods in the
Mckinley year. Even In 1893 the ex-
cess Of dutiab1e imports was $31, ,000,-
600 more than in 1895. If it had not
been for the providential panic Of 1893,
arranged in conjunction with Repub-
hcan congresses, when the dutiable
imports from England were cut down
to about sS3, 100000, the Poor Working
man would have been in worse fix
than even Fletcher's was.
Then the Tribune stands up the Poor
Farmer as a shelter for It's own fool
ishness, and shows how exports Of his
produce fell off in 1895, as compared
with 1894. This is fresh indication
Of lunar effects on our contemporary.
What inducement has the Republican
party held out to It's Poor Farmer to
vote for protection If 1t was not that
that policy, If adhered to long enough,
would build up a Home Market that
would consume all their produce?
What would be q more convincing
proof of the growth Of the appetite Of
the Home Market than decreasing ex-
ports Of farm produce? How silly 1t is,
then, for the Tribune to allege as a
defect Of the German act that it pro-
duces precisely the effect that Re-
publicans have been promising the
Poor Farmer their tariffs would do, but
never did do. The Globe is not
apologizing for, much less defending
the German act. Democrats expressed
their judgment on 1t in the elections
Of 1894 and wes coincide. But with all
it's defects, it is a better one than was
the one it displaced When the moon
gets to stage that will allow it, the
Tribune will doubtless admit this.