The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-09-14
M'KINLEY,s FARMERS.

A delegation of hundred Vermont
ers journeyed down to Canton in a
special train to inform the Mortgaged
Man how Vermont went the other day,
and the major welcomed them effu-
sively to his state, his city, his lawn
and his heart. And then, as is his
won't he made speech in which he
congratulated his Vermonters on the
evident purpose of that state not to
risk the hazardous experiment of
free coinage, nor have anything to do
with that fatal experiment" for
which, on several occasions. the major
had cast his vote in congress, an in
cident he thoughtfully omitted to men
ton. But he went hurriedly over
this part Of his speech, for the plates
FASTENED on to his more congenial
topic, the one on which he knows so
much that is not so and so little that
is true
1t was in their character as farmers
that he addressed the delegation and
went into an eloquent exemplification
of the benefit of his policy to them. He
assumed that they were farmers from
the incident that they had brought
with them a glee club from the upper
end of their rocky state who sang to
the major that
''And you see we don't care IL
Twas called robber tariff,
We want yer, Mckinley, yes we do"
And it was only farmers who would
sing that they were from the state
where the sugar maple grows high
and where the butter is pure gold'
and where they believe in protection
Did not Mckinley give the sugar
naples a bounty Of cents pound
and raise the protection on butter to
6 cents a pound, and when these dele
gates said they did not care if'' that
was called robber tariff" he took
them for farmers and talked accord
ingly
And who were these Vermont farm
ers, with hands made horny in the
arduous toll of picking stones and
making maple sugar? There was
Gov. Woodbury., who sued a Vermont
paper for libel for saying that liquor
was sold to the guests Of a hotel he
owned, against the peace and dignity
of the state and the law the governor
was charged with executing, and who
got thoroughly beaten because the
paper proved every word it had
charged. Then there was Redfeld
Proctor, lawyer. politician, legislator
and senator, beside having been secre-
tary of war for Harrison, whose farm
is located in the Rutland marble quar-
ries. whose produce Mckinley protect
ed with a tax of So cents a cubic foot
on all imports Of rough, undressed
marble in the block, and of ST. 10 a Gu
bic foot on all that was sawed into
slabs. Our acquaintance does not ex-
tend to the hundred and odd other
farmers from Vermont who were in the
party, but it is quite safe to assume
that they were all the same kind Of
hardy agriculturists as these two.
who wanted, with all the other
farmers OF the land, "a pro-
tective tariff. and they mean to
have it." We have no doubt that these
men want and that the major will try
to give them-if elected-their bounty
again on their maple sugar and their
extra cents pound on butter and
the other garden sass they raise be-
tween the stones on the patches they
call farms up In "Vairmount.r
AScf N 11f. n h5:4---SJN COLLISION.
National Democrat is a good deal
of a locker on in Venice this year, and
his observations are not cIouded with
that partisanry that overlooks, in it's
intense desire to make a point for it's
cause, the logic of it or its application
and oonxro d;otfor o$to~