The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-07-23
rAwNEY. rHE p1scovERER.

TAWNEY. THE DISCOVERER.
The Northwest has produced two
notable discoveries. The first is Sen
ator Hansbrough, who, when rep
resentativ@ made the astonishing dis
covery that our hens. were and for
years had been unprotected against
the pauper hens of foreign countries,
and forthwith made the supreme eff
fort of his life to get a tax of five
cents dozen on their eggs enacted in
the Mckinley bill. He later made the
remarkable discovery that the German
act had reduced the number of sheep
in North Dakota 800 per cent; a
statement that makes one wonder
where the 100000 pounds Of wool
stored at Dickinson from this years
clip, said to be the largest the
state ever produced, came from. Now
it is Representative Tawney who
rivals Hansbrough in astonishing finds.
He tells a contemporary that he run
across remarkable fact in the sta
tistical abstract published by the
treasury department. This is nothing
less than that during the three years
OF Cleveland's administration there
were consumed in this country 200, OOO,-
600 bushels of wheat less than during
the last (sie) three years of Harrisons
administration. During 1894 the con-
sumption of wheat fell off more than
two and a half bushels per capita from
the consumption in $780," And he then
goes on to reckon the money loss to the
farmers on the diminished consump-
ton per capita" of wheat and corn.
and finds 1t amounts to $500 900 600 d11r-
Ing the three years. So satisfied is
Mr. Tawney with his find that he
omits to add the losses sustained by
the importation of his mythical Rus
sian barley. which is very considerable
and kind of him.
Assuming the approximate accuracy
OF the table from which Mr.. Tawney
draws bis conclusions-although no
statistician would accept them nor
does Mr.. Ford give them as anything
but approximations-they not only do
not support Mr.. Tawney's deductions
but they refute him after the manner
and with the force. of a boomerang,
he, concludes. that this diminished con-
sumption is directly attributable to
the inability of our own people, through
loss of employment, which can be trac-
ed to the threatened destruction of
our industrial policy and the consum-
nation OF the threat by the enactment
Of the Wilson tariff law, to consume
as much of the production of the coun
try as they did during the prosperity
mat prevailed so universally during
the last Republican administration.
Ergo, re-elect Tawney, restore the Gin
dustrial policy" and people will eat
more wheat and corn
Putting aside the trif1e that Mr.. Taw
ney's diagnosis of the case differs from
that OF the Pioneer Press, whose edit
tor, In the same issue that contained
Tawney's Consumption Discovery. said
that scores of banks and hundreds
OF business houses and manufacturing
firms went down in the financial scare
resulting from the threat of the silver
men in 1893 to force the country to a
silver standard" let US look at
the figures in the abstract. Mr..
Harrison's administration began in 1889
and McKinleyism in 1890. The latter
continued to operate without change
until 1894. Gormanism then took it's
place. The year before Harrison s
farY -horr
ton of wheat was $50 bushels; in 1889
it was 5.S4; in 1890, before Mckinley
ism began, it was 500 bushels. The
next year, 1891, it fell to ASS bushels:
in 1892 1t rose to Sd and fell, in 1893,
to ASS, shrinking, in 1894, the last year
cooperative McKinleyism, to BAL Cor
manism revived it to 454 bushels In
1895 So it appears that the average
consumption under their industrial
policy was At bushels annually.
Gormanism, it is conceded establish
ed a tariff in its average rate about
equal to that adopted in 1883. That
became operative and it's effects ap-
pear in the table in 1884 The per cap
sta consumption of wheat that year
was 5.64 bushels; of 1885, SIT bushels.
of 1886, 4.57 bushels; of 1887, 5.17 BUSH
els; of 1888, 5.62 bushels: of 1889, 5.s4
bushels. and of 1890, preceding Nc
Kinleyism and ''our industrial policy, .
sos bushels. So, if Mr. Tawney's .'re-
markable discovery establishes any
thing, it is that McKinleyism and s.our
industrial rolfcy', Administered thn a hi
fly. of people to buy and consume
wheat about one bushel per capita an
nually: Mr.. Tawneys seems to have
found gold brick
TOO yoLuMINous. s1