The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-02-26


inner consciousness for a long time.
But that is another matter. What
Hanna is to dc in and with the senate
for the people, that is the important
matter. beside which the feelings Of the
governor of Ohio become insignificant.
'As far as my policy goes" proceeds
this unf1edged statesman, ''it will be
in particular to assist in franz
ing at once tariff bill that will seek
to restore confidence to the country
and give a stimulus to our industries"
There is a dlsparagement in this Of
the vigils of Mr.. Dingley and his able
aids. including our own Chicory Taw-
ney, that we trust, will lead to no un-
pleasantness; but it is notifying, af-
ter all the preliminary labor, the tedi-
Gus hearings, the patient inscribing Of
the rates demanded by the various
paralytics of industry; after the futile
efforts to bring peace between the men
who grow and those who work wool,
and after the pronunciation of the COM
pleted bill, to have this unbaked states
man assuring the country that he is
going to assist in the framing of a
tariff bill" POUNDS! Is there no limit
to the assurance of these senators? But
with the feelings, the wounded sensi-
bilities of these veterans of the tariff
in the lower house we have sympathy,
but no present concern.
Mr.. Hanna is going to give our indus
tries tariff stimulus" What that is
we all know. They have been dosed
with stimuli for thirty-five years until
most Of them, like confirmed old topers,
| really believe that they cannot get
along without it. When the stimulus
had produced an exhilaration that bid
| fair to end in what might be called
industrial jimjams, the sedative Of the
! trusts and combinations, that put fur
naces out of blast, dismantled fac
tories, shut up mills and sent the work
ers to grass, if they could find no other
sustenance, was applied. The last de-
bauch resulted from the stimulus given
in 1890, and most of the precious in
fants have been aching with katzen-
| TANNER ever since. Now Mr.. Hanna
is going to give them another dose of
it, increasing, probably, the quantity
prescribed by DR.. Dingley. Potztausend-
donnerwetter, what high old time is
in store for the kids.
| But Mr.. Hanna is singularly blind,
| even for so fresh a statesman as he,
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sible that he is not noting the effect
| Of the other kind, the sensible, natural
stimulus, upon our industries? Does he
know nothing of Alabama iron hunting
many? Did he fail to note the large
| increase in tinplate mills and their
output that followed a reduction of
rates on both the black sheets and the
timed product? Is he blind to the
tremendous activity in the rail mills
that followed the rupture Of the tariff
born pool, and the reduction of prices
from $25 to $18 a ton? What stimulus
so beneficial as that which has set the
rolls at work on orders it will take
all the year to fill? Does he know moth
ing Of the activity in the nail trade
now that prices have gone down to
the normal, permitting wholesalers to
again rejoice that they can sell in
car lots? And has not confidence in
large measure been restored by this
healthy and healthful stimulus? Would
not Mr.. Hanna and his kind better
make note of this, and also get knowl-
edge OF the sentiment of the country
that it is better to leave well enough
alone? He may better keep his "stim
illus" corked.