The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-31
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On the Oath day Of this blessed
month, at 4:O7 p. M, the Restoration
was completed by the approving sig
nature Of the president affixed to the
prosperity elixir which was to "open
the mills" which the Great Apostle had
epigrammatically declared was Better
| than to "open the mints." Schedule
u Of that act corrected the destruc
tive features of the same schedule in
the German act and transferred from
the free list flax in it's various stages
or straw, retted and hacked, restoring
the rate of S. ton for the straw. one
| cent a pound for the retted and three
cents pound for the hacked that pre-
vailed from 1890 to 1894, under which
our flax culture so VIGOROUSLY bloomed
and f1ourished. It also nourished the
infant with $40 tax on i'm
ports of flax tow. and, instead of the
80 per cent of the German act on thread
of flax, it gave the pulling infant a
carbohydrate diet of 10 cents a pound
for its five lea thread and three-fourths
of cent a pound additional for finer
tnreads than that. And so on up
through the processes until woven fab
RIGS were fostered with rates ranging
from one and three-fourths to nine
cents a square yard, with 80 per cent
additional for lagniappe.
On the 9th day of the same auspf-
cious month, three days after the fruc-
Trying, revivifying. rejuvenating.
understanding act, with its flax scbed-
ule and all, had become operative upon
all our industries, the Globe had a.
brief special from Mortified, in this
state, making the sad announcement
that the Minnesota Flax company at
| that place had made an assignment
for the reason given that, owing to the
low price Of its product, it had not been
able to operate for some time past
On June IL the flax schedule was reach
| ed IN the senate, and our morning con-
| temporary contained very full &C
count of the debate, in which Senator
Davis took a leading part in support
of the restored and improved taxes on
imports or flax and it's manufactures.
Referring to it We find that the senator.
| in refutation Of the statement that
Minnesota could grow no fiber suita
BILE for yarns and weaving, stated that
| he had for inspection by the doubters
| a specimen of flax produced at North
| field. Several thousand pounds of this
| product of the Mortified mill had been
sent to Belfast "early this year." he
said, and he had seen letter from
the gentleman there who undertook to
| weave 1t, stating that for tensile
strength and length of fiber it exceeded
their own. Further, he produced a
towel woven in Belfast from this same
| fiber and he held in his hands other
| fabrics, from the coarsest to the finest.
also woven from the product Of the
Mortified mill.
Clearly all this mill needed, If 1t need
ed anything, was a good round tax On
foreign flax and weaves in order TO
make it flourish like bay tree or a
Russian thistle or wild mustard or
shares Of sugar stock. True it had
produced this fiber when the raw ma
terial of it was on the free list and
when yarns and fabrics had only So per
cent protection, a protein diet. produc
ing muscle instead of fat and it might
be inferred that, having done so well.
it needed no carbohydrates. But that
aside 1T was very certain last Novem-
Der that the fat-producer would be sup
piled and the supply came three days
before it collapsed and relapsed into
| the hands of a receiver. But how I'M
| timely What was the use of all that
fuss and turmoil if the mills are to shut
| just as the "open sesame" is spokenq
1t is positively unkind to those
who so valiantly fought for the
| fat in the house, to fall down
just as the restorative was applied.
Why all their toiling and moiling and
transpiring If the infant is to surrender