St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-03-14
A SENATORIAL PHARIsEE.

and be prepared for it IN advance.
A SENATORIAL PHARISEE.
Henry c. Hansbrough is, by an acct
dental conjuncture Of circumstance, To-
cality and railroad interests, senator
of the United States from North Da-
kota. Out Of an editor of frontier
village paper, a man of barely the
average ability of that branch OF the
fraternity, the rivalries Of railway cor
porations evolved a senator. He began
his career as a statesman at the mo-
ment when Republican victory had |
given that party absolute federal con-
troll and imbued it with the idea that |
it had carte blanche to carry its policy |
Of taxing and spending to the farthest. |
The new senator from the treeless prai- |
ries, where 80 per cent of the people
We're engaged in more essential work
than politics, saw the universal rush
to the hog trough of the Mckinley
bill. He would be recusant to his state
did he not get for it some of the loot
of the public. He ran the schedules
| from taxation that his people pro-
duced. He discovered eggs on the free
list. Into the cause of the hens he
cast his whole weight. The ardor of
his soul was stirred. He grew eloquent
over eggs. He ransacked statistics for
figures of imports, prices and domestic
product. He painted a heart-rending
picture Of our hens struggling against
the invasion Of the output of the pau
per hens of Canada and Scandinavia.
He succeeded in having tax of five
cents dozen laid on imported eggs.
He felt that he had at last achieved
craftsmanship. He has been content to
rest his title to fame on that achieve
ment He has not essayed statesman
ship since
Senator Hansbrough became enam-
ored early of the silver cause. We are
5 quite ready to admit that he is sincere
5 in it. We set aside the imputation as
groundless that it is only a case Of
} politics with him, an adoption of pol
icy thought to be the more popular
t Besides it accords with craftsmanship
as shown in the matter of eggs and
= tariffs. Strangely, and. to the SEN
ator, incomprehensibly, some, most
Y in fact. of the editors of the daily pa
p pers of the country and of his own
: region are not able to see the neces-
q sity or the benefits to flow from free
V coinage that the senator's vision per-
n ceites. Not only that, but they see
>. quite clearly that it would be viola
a ton of an immutable economic law,
: which would be inevitably followed by a
commensurate economic penalty. These
editors are quite as deeply interested
as is the senator or his or their con.
stituents, for the penalty in such cases
:, falls alike on the just and the unjust
They are also fully as much con.
cerned in the prosperity of theii
. communities as is the senator. In theil
:, various ways they have criticised the
senator and those of his way of talk
ing-we will not say thinking.
To them all the senator pays his re
spects as one of a symposium Of
. and It's Critics." in the current NortI
American Review. In the senator!
opinion these are degenerate newspa
pers," which 'do the bidding of mel
bent on the requirement of vast wealth
at any hazard" The editors who d,
49, the work cut out for them by these in
satiate men he eXempts from his cen
o. sure of their papers. They cannot he'll
it. Their bread depends on their abil
ity to hold their places" The banke
notifies the merchant that he must eth
III er cease advertising in the "ffty-cen
'' dollar paper" or take up his notes. TIL
e merchant sees the business manager
OF and he sees the editor, and the "pape
ne of the people" becomes at once tn
n paper of the gold bugs. "That Their
ne are thousands of such cases through
nd out the country there can be. no doubt,
X says this callow senator. That is t
at say, all the papers opposing his pc
he culiar notions of money are venal, an
lr- all their editors are men who will Sc
"a their abilities and their convictions fc
le their meager salaries.
ISIS On the other hand, Senator Han!
nd brough assures the country that ''tt
IN senate of today is the peer of any
til it's predecessors. 'This is concede
as by many of the ablest students, hi
torical and political, who are in pos
to ton to judge impartially." The abb
ich ity requisite for a senatorship is p
Ike culiar. 1t cannot be acquired /
or, study, supplementing natural gNts, bl
are cit comes in consequence of long a.
lch faithful service" 1t is transmitted
at the Buddhist priests transmit the
md esoteric doctrines, by personal conta
BOD and absorption. 1.-The younger sen
the tors, of whom l am one lay no claim
to craftsmanship" he modestly says. g
all is enough if we may absorb it gra
the ually from our senior colleagues" Al
an so we have human character repeatil
ALL it's foibles. The senator today rejoic
ltic that he is not like other men; that