The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-02

IN an adequate and proper service for
Merriam Park upon the extension of
the Rondo street line.
CARTS WITHOUT HORSES.
After the little revolt of the Massa-
chusetts members against the woGi
rates, because, as one of them said,
1--WE don't want to be strangled with
free trade nor smothered with protec-
ton, "a rebellion, by the way, quickly
subdued-Mr. Dingley closed the incl
dent in a brief speech i'll which he saiG
that this bill is designed to restore
our industries and opportunities for
labor. If the demand for products is
increased, we will at once rise to the
condition which made us the envy of
the world" We note with some sur
prise the insertion of the hesitant and
uncertain eff" in Mr.. Dingley's re-
marks. The conjectural word has no
place In the lexicon Of orthodox pro-
tectionists There is never any if as
to what their tariff bills will do. The
original act Of 1890 was to reduce reve-
nue., so boldly declared in it's title,
and now it's reincarnation is to pro-
duce revenue. A tariff such as we
make, sir, will both reduce and in
crease revenue and there are no ifs
or butts about it, sir
Mr.. Dingley should have said that
this bill will increase demand for
products" said 1T boldly, fatty, con-
fidently. He might have said 1T is al
ready increasing demand for products
and pointed to the increase Of imports
to prove it, but that is a tender spot
with him and he can hardly be blamed
If he kept his hand over 1T. But, with
or without an ''if," how is this bill GO
when it gets the senatorial and presi-
Dental permission to begin it's Great
ing? That it may increase products
may be admitted it's predecessor did,
and in somewhat superfiuous guam
tty and this one may. But creating
products and demands are two quite
different things. While each is essen
tial to the other, demand is the more
important of the two. Demand will
languish without supply, but supply
will soon smother in its own fat, If
there be no demand.
The country has been abundantly in
formed by the disciples of the school
of what we'must, for short time now,
term Dingleyism, that the present tar
if cut down prosperity, stopped the
mills, pauperized the workers, reduced
wages and, by reflex action, lessened
produce values by checking demand.
When it was said that the effect had
been to cheaper the cost of life's nee
eSsaries, there was a bitterness in the
taunt thrown back: What's the use
of cheap things, if you haven't money
with which to buy them? This is the
condition out Of which Dingleyism
sprang and which 1t is to correct. But
if there is no money with which to
buy how is this demand to be created
or restored? What is the use Of bills
to restore our Industries" if there is
no purchasing capacity to take up the
products Of those Industries? OF what
use to give opportunities to labor" if
that which labor produces cannot be
bought by those who need it? What
is the use of making wagons if there
are no horses to pull them?
What Dingley should do is to frame a
bill and enact 1t that would restore de-
mand, or rather ability to obtain the
things demanded. In other words as
there can be no restoration Of de-
mand until they are supplied with
money. Any Populist in the house
could tell Mr.. Dingley all about that
give it effect. Or, if the leader Of the
majority on the floor of the house
would not care to take counsel of one of
that despised class, he might go over
the senate, or with Mr.. Teller, or, in
fact, he might get a hint from reading
the speech of the present president
on the bill to double the purchases Of
silver in 1890. Anyway, it is as plain
as is Mr.. Dingley's nose on his faca
that he is only inviting trouble in re-
storing industries and opportunities
for labor" unless he restores the sup
ply of money with which to buy the
products of both. That is, If there is
any virtue in Mr.. Dingley's logic, q
thing we cannot possibly admit.
WORSE THAN "HEBETVUDINOUS."
The reform Of the civil service has
had no more strenuous advocate in the
Northwest than is the Pioneer Press,
in which it has been in a more consist
ent touch with its party pretensions,
as exhibited in its state and national
platforms for twenty years, than 1t
has been with its tariff policy. 1t
has given its editorial assistance to
every effort to introduce the reform
into our state and municipal systems.
In our own advocacy of the reform
and it's extension we have felt thai
the hest DrOOf of itS doyooorooxy =,