The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-24


Take a look at the first page of the G o e,
this morning. The business boom is regular
cyclone. Even a Populist would be tickled at
it.-St. Paul G l o b e.
And still the G b is on record, in its
editorial columns, to the effect that the tri-
umph of the Republican policy of protection
to American industry and the provision OF
ample revenue would not restore prosperity.
= The G. | o b e editorial and news columns
should get together. Minneapolis Tribune.
The editorial and the news columns
of the C o e are always together"
The first insist that prosperity cannot
be created by constructive law, such
as protective tariff acts or fostering
bounty, and the second sustains the
contention with it's reports of whence
prosperity is coming. The latter told
how business in the East heaved a
great sigh of relief when the Dingley
aet permitted it, for the first time since
last November, to know just how much
and how far congress was going to
disarrange its dealings; a feeling that
Senator Aldrich gave expression to
when, last May, he said, in presenting
his finance committees alteration of
the Dingley act to the senate, that
the entire business of the country is
IN a state Of suspension awaiting &C
ton on this BILL They told how the
East hailed with delight the crop pros
poets of the West and South and the
advancing prices of farm produce that
were soon to replenish the pockets of
Western farmers. They told how the
mills, encouraged by the prospect of
enlarged purchasing capacity that was
swelling in the cotton, wheat and corn
demand that is to come. All these
things the news columns of the G o e
told. and the editorial columns pointed
to them as the demonstration that it
was not the DingIey interference acI
but the farmers creative acts that,
with setAed trade conditions, were
bringing prosperity
But the same issue of the Tribune
that gave space to this superfluous
counsel to the G l b furnished ample
proof of the necessity of the editors
of the Tribune getting together" to
say nothing of harmonizing with the
news columns and their able editor. We
, find one editorial in this Sunday Trib-
une devoted to comment upon some
English statement of the effect of the
rising price of wheat, in which the
sapient editor, forgetting his DingIey
text, gets together with the editorial
columns of the G o b e, and says:
Returning prosperity in this country has
now got such foothold and the United States
holds such commanding position by reason
OF It's great stores, not only of wheat, but
corn. meats and other food product which
foreigners must have, that no efforts on their
part can produce setback
Turning to another portion of the
paper we find an interview with the
superintendent of the poor of that city.
who has personally investigated the
conditions prevailing in the city and
says that there is little excuse for
ldleness just at present." that ANY
able-bodied man can find employment
If he so elects and become, temporarily
at least, self-supporting." He then
goes on to explain that this is because
''the harvest fields are now Offering
abundant work at good wages for men
who are not afraid of physical exer-
ton" Further, "the great mass of tho
unemployed, however, have left for the
wheat fields, thus relieving the pres
sure on the city greatly" He goes on
to say that the great lack of building
has thrown a large number of artisans
out of work and that many of them
who have waited in hope that condi-
tons would improve"-in other words
that Dingley prosperity would get
along-"have exhausted their funds
and have been given Transportation to
other points,
Then as to the provision of ample
revenue" we find a note of doubt in
another editorial of this same DAVIS
paper that does not get together with
the cocksure assertion in our text The
writer of the editorial on "a Surplus
Assured" could not keep uD the pace
with which he started He proba hIv-
recalled the assurance of Senator Al
drich that the Dingley Dill would not
provide sufficient rvenue, and that all
the revenue getters provided by the