St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-22
THE HARDEST BLOW YET.

The New York Tribune unwittingly
gives the Fifty fourth congress the
hardest blow It. has yet received. not
excepting the bitterest things any
Democratic paper has said about it.
1t is none the less severe that it is I'M
Intentional; rather, because of that it
is the more cutting. It finds the ''root
of the embarrassment" which it af-
fects to see in the industrial world in
the present tariff, which, has thrown
some unknown and unknowable pro-
portion of the people Of the United
States out of employment, "a great
number Of WOODEN milk = probably half
Of the entire producing Capacity are
idle. Iron works have stopped and
print cloths are selling at 2% cents in
Providence, while most of the glass
works have shut down. A "great
number Of potters are out of employ
ment, and Of glovemakers and work.
ers in other branches, too many to
enumerate, the proportion not at work
is unpleasantly large This is be-
cause of lack Of adequate protec-
ton" Millions in dress goods and
wooden cloths and yarns have been
imported, taking the bread out of the
mouths of these workmen whose tasks
they have taken away" "This loss
of work and the reduction in wages
since 1892 have reduced the consuming
power Of the people, it is believed, fully
one-ifth." And so on.
And while this appalling distress
thus lacerates the benign heart of the
humane editor of the Tribune, who, in
his relations with his printers, has so
abundantly proved his care for the
poor workingman, Republican con-
gress is doing what to relieve it? 1t
twisted the old lions tail for one thing.
1t has begged the powers that signed
the Berlin treaty to bestir themselves
in the enforcement Of the Armenian
provisions. It has pondered over bills
proposing to sink millions more in
battle ships, it has berated the secre-
tary Of agriculture for not buying
seeds and scattering them promiscu-
ously. But, in the line of the only
remedy the Tribune deems at all ade-
quate to meet and remedy the condf-
tons it depIores, the house has only
passed a bill advancing the rates of the
present tariff Is per cent, raising
the average but a beggarly six per
cent. Raising a rate that averages
40 per cent to 46 per cent can
not lift so grieyous a burden as the
Tribune discerns weighing down it's
pet industries. But that is all the re-
Spouse this congress makes, after all
the buster of the campaign Of '94, to
this terrifying condition and these
frantic appeals.
But, says Mr.. DingIey, no more Is
possible with Democratic president
in the way. What, is this deep dis
tress to get no voice from the congress
it chose to express it's demandsa Is this
president not to be told by the repre-
sentatives of the people how distressed
the policy his party's congress adopted
has made the people, how deep and
keen are their sufferings and how
hopeless of relief they are except their
dear old prosperity making tariff be
restored? If the effort be fruitless, is
there no duty Of making it, that the
protest may go on record and the pro-
fessed purpose Of the party be borne
out ir action? Is this condition Of our
own people less narrowing than that Of
the Armenians and shor1Id not as
strong q protest be made against the