The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-27
NOT SO EASY.

The people of these cities are aWak-
ening slowly to the consequences of
the bunco game played upon them by
the Introduction of section % in the
Dlngley tariff act. 1t is denounced by
business men and by the press in I'M
measured terms; a Republican contem-
porary declares that, should the author
of it become known, he ought to be
retired from public life, and all are
united in the opinion that one of the
first duties of congress at it's coming
session will be to repeal the obnoxious
discriminating duties upon goods
brought into the country from con-
tlguous territory. Recognizing, as it
has from the first, the viciousness of
this section, whose effects we pointed
out some time ago, the Globe has
only to say that it is a consistent ele
ment of one harmonious whole. The
entire Dingley act is a mass of pro-
visions whose purpose is to make one
set of people give up a portion of their
hard-Won earnings for the benefit of
another set, who have no title to it
except that of the strong hand That
the Northwest, as a whole, should suf-
fer, that New England should be stir
red to anger and that the trade of
wholesalers and their customers should
be injured, abominable as it is, is not
a bit worse than that the consumers
of white pine lumber should be COM
PEELED to pay 81 thousand more for
it into the Golfers Of millionaires, or
than any other of the unjust and I'M
democratic imposts and regulations
gathered together and enacted into law
by this congress.
We are told that this thing, having
been done by stealth, against the in
terests of the public, but for the bene-
fit of the Chicago combined railroads
it will have to be undone as quickly
as congress can set about it. We wish
to suggest to friends who have singled
out this particular portion of the new
tariff bill for denunciation, while ap-
proving of all the rest, that this will
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it. For years it has been the hope and
dream of the Eastern railway combine
to secure the abolition of the bond
ing privilege granted to roads travers-
ing Canadian soil. They have attempt
ed at every session Of congress to get
such a measure passed. The New York
Sun has hammered away on this topic
with the same energy with which it
defends every other combination to op-
press the people. 1t was only because
such legislation would raise a tempest
of criticism and because the representa-
tives of New England and Of the
Northwest would have fought it's pass
age to the death, that the attempt was
not successful. Now, however, hav-
ing succeeded in getting this rule upon
the statute books, it's elimination is a
problem of an entirely different nature
1t is generally much easier to get a bad
law passed than to get it repealed.
All the wealthy and powerful inter-
ests that are behind this blow at the
commercial interests of the Northwest
will stand solid against the repeal of
this section. New England and the
Northwest are numerically weak when
their representatives are opposed to the
| balance of the country. Mere inertia
will make an amendment of the Ding
ley act difficult. Congress does not
want to reopen a question so recently
settled. The average member. whose
| interests are not touched one way or
| the other, will naturally find no reason
why he should intervene to relieve a
] particular portion Of our people from