The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-31
OUR RIP VAN Wrinkles.

OUR RIP VAN Wrinkles.
The ST. Paul G OBJ e claims to have been
the first Twin City newspaper to discover
the significance of the much discussed Sec
ton % in the new tariff law, and congrat-
ulates itself accordingly. In order to keep
the record straight, however, must call
attention to the fact that the first references
to this important matter appeared in spe-
cial dispatch from Washington in the Morn
ing Tribune of the 21st inst.-Minneapolis
Tribune.
| your files of the Times for Aug. 90 and cast
your eyes over the top of the sixth column
OF the second page. You will find something
| there from the Washington correspondent of
| this paper which may interest you. If that
! does not satisfy you, turn back to Aug. Z.
and look at the outside article on the first
| page, being a special and exclusive dispatch
| from Washington, in which the paragraph is
! quoted and its effect pointed out. AS mat
| ter of fact the Associated Press sent out the
| first news regarding the matter Aug is. but
! the enerprising editors of our contempor-
aries do not seem to grasp the idea. Not so
with the Times 1t at once entered upon
| investigation of the matter with the results
! stated.-Minneapolis Times.
! Recently the G o b congratulated
| its contemporaries of the Dual Cities
on having discovered, some week or
ten days after the G o b had called
attention to it, that Northwestern in
terests We're severely injured by the
Incorporation, in a clandestine mae-
ner, of the interlineation in the famous
section % of the Dingley act. 1t meant
no laudation of itself, but only to ten
| der sincere recognition of their I'M
usual alacrity and their having, even
SO laggingly, made the discovery at
all. The above is the unkind reception
Of
| But "'tWas ever thus
| AS both of our esteemed and some
times really estimable contemporaries
| insist that they have done their full
! duty to their readers, and the public
that does not read them, by sounding
the alarm and warning of the insidi-
Gus attack upon their welfare, an ale
| cation that awoke no answering chord
| in our memory, we have gone over
their editorial pages to verify the
statements. We find, as they say,
| that their news columns contained dis
| patches from Washington in which the
| interlineation was mentioned, but it is
| not in the news department that
alarms are sounded. The bugle whose
blast is worth a thousand Associated
and special news dispatches lies on
| the editorial table, and it is the leader
writer and not the telegraph editor
whose function it is to blow it.
We find that between Aug. IA, the
date when the Globe commented
| on the matter of Taxation by Trick
cry and the 18th the Times discourse
ed about the "Decadence of Humor,"
| discussed Cuba and the Carlists, ex-
patiated learnedly on Docking Hors-
es,' and on the latter date did have
something to say about more Tariff
| Hocus Pocus." It was probably due
to the Times having once tried to be
! Democratic paper and contracted,
during that brief novitiate, notion
| about being UP to the times, that it
caught on" to the legerdemain prac-
ticed on section % four days after the
G o b e had fully exposed it. If the
| Times was thus nimble, for Mime
| apolis paper the Tribune sustained the
reputation of its town by editorial
| treatment of Lady Somerset's Wine
| Dinner" the advantage of Chainless
Bicycles" explained how Tilden was
a protectionist and offset ga Surplus
Assured with the assurance that
BREAD Will Be Dearer," until the 18th
! of the present month"; when it turned
| its mind to working on this topic and,
with characteristic confusion, wrote
|
same date chosen for our morning con-
temporary to discuss what it aptly
termed ga Fraudulent Trick" it lie pos
sible that the topic was only taken up
for discussion after a party confer
ence, in which it was decided that
| something must be said. However
| this may be, we feel like congratulate
ing all our morning neighbors on theil
| progress.