The Saint Paul globe., 1897-05-28
NOT WHOLLY SUSPENDED.

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entire country is in state of suspen-
sion waiting the action of the senate
upon the bill under consideration"
With these portentous words Senator
Aldrich prefaced his speech introducing
the debate and consideration of the
bill over which Mr.. Dingley and his
committee had burned so much mid
night gas and listened to so much
sage counsel from the saviors of our
national industries: and over which he,
with the invaluable aid of Jones, of
Nevada, had spread amendments un-
til it rivals Josephs famous coat in the
profusion oe it's color. Why the senator
from Rhode Island and Providence
plantations should have heralded the
bill with this lugubrious statement Of
business conditions is explicable only as
showing that he shares the senatorial
belief that the welfare of the indus
tries of the nation hangs suspended on
But whatever may have been the
senator's motive it is quite apparent
that the business of the entire country
is not in state of suspension waiting
the action of the senate. Some portion
of the business may be. We can be-
heve that the business Of digging Of
borax out on the alkali plains Of Utah
and Nevada is waiting until it can add
a few more cents 10 the price of it's
product, and the sugar refneries may
be going slowly until an increase of
their profits is assured by Senator AID
rich's schedule. But elsewhere no sus-
pension is perceptible. The temporary
val between spring sowing and plant
ing and the sufficient growth Of the
corn to demand cultivation. The mead
ows are sending up their blades Of
grass with eager haste for the moving,
while the wheat and oats, the barley
and the corn were never so busy as
now. No, word comics from the poultry
yards that the hens have suspended
the business of bringing forth their
fruit, and chanticleer still rouses
the sleeping farmer at daybreak to be-
gin doing the chores. The cows still go
forth in the morning to begin their
days work of. changing green grass
into milk, to return at eventime with
distended udders, lowing for the re-
lieving fingers Of the mixers; while the
creameries were never so busily en-
gagged in extracting the butter fat and
molding it into luscious butter. The
young lambs skip as Yriskily as ever
on their way to the ripeness Of mutton,
and the pigs are laying on stores Of
fat to provide the breakfast tables with
it's bacon and the lunch baskets with
their doughnuts.
One turns from the farms to look for
the business that is suspended and
looks in vain. The railway trains go
and come, the coaches carrying people
bent on business or pleasure, and the
freights loaded with produce outward
and merchandise inward bound. Some
body must be busy making all this
moving traffic. The wheelman who
threads his way along the streets in
the wholesale districts of our cities
finds his nerves taxed to meet the
strain Of lodging the heavily laden
wagons moving merchandise from or
to the great warehouses. Madame
finds it quite as difficult as ever to
make her way through the throng Of
shoppers that crowd the stores Of mer-
chants sagacious enough to send their
invitations to partake Of their bargains
into the homes in the morning G ob e.
The delivery wagons Of the butcher and
baker, grocer and haberdasher fly along
the streets with speed denoting any
thing but suspension Of work in the
establishments to which they belong.
The great clearing houses Of our cities
exchange their checks and drafts and
adjust the balances that show conclu-
siveiy that products whose values run
into the hundred millions are being