The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-26

men of very small caliber. each dan
the fanatic. whose only claim to con-
sideration is his sincerity, from the
mere demagogue. Iho caters to pop
ular prejudice and plays on popular
ignorance. 1t makes one turn to the
Indianapolis convention with the hope
that 1t will give us a leader. careless
who he be, whether "aristocrat, auto
crat. Democrat" so he be man who
dare not lie.
In his. address to the farmer dele
cation. Mr.. Mckinley quoted the coun-
sci of Jackson to plant the factory
by the farm Jackson took his les
sons in craftsmanship almost wholly
from his experience as president. It is
true that in his earlier years he was
caught by the sophisms Of the Clay
school and made remarks that protec
tionists delight now to quote But
the wisdom that comes from expert
ence is a better guide than the i'm
pressions Of inexperience; and were
Mr.. Mckinley the candid man his
friends wish his opponents to be-
lieve, he would have given the opin-
ion Of that cratic but staunch Demo-
crat when two terms as president had
given him clearer views and ripened
his Judgment. In his farewell address,
issued in 1887 on retiring from the
presidency, Jackson warned his coun-
trymen against a tendency and a pol
icy that Mr.. Mckinley is striving to
restore and perpetuate. He said:
MANY powerful interests are contin-
uaily at work to procure heavy duties
on commerce. and to swell the reve-
nues of the government beyond the
real necessities of the public service.
and the country has already felt the
injurious effects of their combined in
f1uence. They succeeded in obtaining
tariff of duties bearing most OBJ
pressively on the agricultural and la
boring classes of society, and produc-
fully employed within the range of
powers conferred upon congress; and
in order to fasten upon the people this
unjust and unequal system of taxa
tlon, eXtravagant schemes of in
ternal Improvement were got up
in various quarters to squander the
money and purchase support. Thus
one unconstitutional measure was to
hU
the power of taxation was maintained
by usurping the power of expending
the money in internal improvements.
The words Of the retiring president
will stand as an indictment of the Nc
Kinleyism of the Fifty-first congress.
Then again, the "mortgaged man. of
Canton Intentionally misapplies the
words Of President Buchanan, taking
them from their place of comment On
the financial condition of the country
resulting from the period of mad spec
ulatfon that eliminated in the panic,
of 1857, to fit them to his hobby as a
criticism Of the tariff act that had
been in operation since 1916. He thus
makes a Democratic president, in his
first message, criticise the confirmed
and approved policy Of his party and
reject the plank of his platform that
declared that ''the time had come for
the people Of the United States to de-
clare in favor of free seas and pro
gressive free trade throughout the
world, and, by solemn manifestations,
to place their moral influence at the
side of their successful example,"
Inese are the tricks Of the demagogue,
the wiles of the mere politician, and
discredit all claims to the honesty and
sincerity or the intelligence of Mr.. Nc
Kinley.