The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-07
MUTTERING IN NORWAY.

It is extremely difficult for even
party discipline, with its lash in one
hand and candy in the other, to keep
in subsection that traditional and in
herent love of freedom in everything
that courses still in the blood of the
descendants Of the old, free rowing
NOTsen1an who have cast in their for
tunes with US. The children of the
men who sailed out Of Norway's
fiords and went down the coasts of
Brittany and Normandy, setting at de-
fance the barriers that even then pro-
tected the home markets of those
countries, and even told the Moors Of
Tarifa that they could levy no tribute
on them and their commerce, do not
take kindly to the doctrine that they
must here give up their hereditary
right to buy where and of whom they
will, and accept in lieu thereof intangt-
BILE benefits that have the glitter and
fragility # soap bubbles.
We had a notable illustration of this
eight years ago when the representa-
tive in congress from the old Fifth dis
trict fairly took the breath away from
his Republican colleagues by his vol
canic eruption of this old Morse senti-
ment; when he retired from politics
because. as he said, he was ''out Of
sympathy with his party" in its policy
of creating wealth and prosperity by
taxation. If he has since subsidized
into condition of acquiescence there
were thousands of his countrymen
who refused to go back, and have aft
ffliated since with the party or par
ties which hold that wealth can only
be created by labor and brains and
that the Republican policy is only an
interference with its distribution after
it is created. We are having fresh
illustrations of it now, not in violent
outbursts, expressions Of a willingness
to put free fuel, clothing and shelter
against free whisky, but mutterings
no disaster whenever again Free
Trade sounds her call for q rally
against her old-time enemy.
Here, for instance, is Sam Anderson
Langum. who was secretary of the
latest state senate and is editor of the
Preston Times and would be secretary
of state, and, if a Republican must be,
may he be, who emits a growl about
the lumber rate. Says Sam, protest.
ingIy:
The lumber barons should be supremacy
happy now that they have SUI ded in restor-
Ing the two dollar tariff On lumber. The
Times IS very much disappointed in this
action by congress, and If the question was
submitted TO vote Of the people our ma
Eonal law makers would find their action
condemned at the ratio OF, not sixteen to
Dne. but nine hundred and ninty-nine to one
We believe in protecting honest people, but
no protection is needed for those who steal
the timber in the first place and then sell the
finished lumber at a hundred per cent profit
The strength Of Sans feelings NAV
be measured when one realizes, as he
does, the power these lunlbermen WELD
in the management of the Republican
party Of this state.
Then there is Elias Knudson Rove
rud, who is a state senator and editor
Of the Caledonia Journal and stands
six feet two in his socks, who refuses
IL let Hanna run mis- editorial columns
because lie has some ideas of his own
that clash with those of Hanna and
his editors. II lumber gals his COL
league over IN Fillmore county, sugar
aggravates Elias. and he proceeds to
give vent to his feelings in the fol-
lowing:
The Dingley tariff bill! with its duty on
sugar has become a law. That 1t is victory
Tor the sugar refiners no one Will deny. That
II VIII benefit the whole country will have
to be taken for granted rather than demon
strated. II IS difficult for a Minnesota man
t. prove TO his own satisfaction that sugar
Eaou-G not be Oh the free list. 1t Is hard
Tar MN &c see why there should be a tariff
Oh sugar when such an infinitely small
amount Of Il is raised IN the state or even
IN the country. II there is nothing else which
IS less Indispensable to the common people
On which this revenue could be raised then
we aequiesca as sufficient revenue to nav
the expenses Of the government must he
provided be It on sugar, lumber or any
ether necessity. II the D.ngley bill does
not prove 20 be n success II Is only a cues
tlon OF tine when another method Of pro-
viding revenue will be adopted direct
TAX ard an income tax made constitutional
ny an amendment to tho constitution may
Ee tried. Tariff tinkerng every two or four
years IS neither profitable nor popular.
i is probable that, as long az tile