The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-11-11
A DIFFERENCES or OPINION.

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revenue from imports last November than
this, as conclusive evidence that the Dingiey
| bill is and the country on the road
to the ''demnition bow-wows," as Mantelfni
ed by the G o b e is the very best sort of
evidence that the Dingley bill is exactly C;
fulfilling the object of its existence, and that
the country is fourishing, for it shows that
our people buying their own home made
| goods and not importing them from abroad
as last year. That 81, 100000 the government
| collected as duty last year, represented a
good many millions of hard American money
gone out of the country altogether, and it is
| gratifying to know that a stop is being put
to the outfow.-Cloquet Pine Knot
Either there is greater degree of
frankness on the part of the Pine Knot
than on that of the recognized leaders
of it's party, or the latter did not know
how to frame the schedules of the
| Dingley bill to produce the results they
wished. When Mr.. Dingley introduced
his bill, enacted substantially as the
| house passed it, he said: Our prob
lem is to provide adequate revenue
from duties on imports to carry on the
! government" When Senator Aldrich
returned the house bill, with amend
! ments in the direction of revenue pro-
duction, he said: THE adoption Of a
revenue bill which should fail in this
(revenue) purpose, which should create
an additional deficiency in the imme-
date future, which would require an
other issue Of bonds to meet current
expenditures, would be fatal to the
hopes of future success of any politi-
cal party responsible for such legisla-
ton" We trust that our contempor-
airy will observe that both these men,
it's partys financial leaders, declared
the purpose of the act to be to provide
| revenue, enough revenue to prevent
deficits, and that this was the main
object, other results being incidental
Having observed this, the Knot of Pine
will perceive that there is a signifi-
canoe in the deficits to which the
G l o b e has invited it's and other read
ers' attention, indicating very forcibly
] as they do that Mr.. Dingley did not
solve his little problem of providing
IAN adequate revenue from import
! duties" and that the bill has partly ac-
complished 'in the immediate future"
|
! what Senator Aldrich said would
| 'prove fatal to the hopes of the party
| responsible for it, a continuous deficit
| But we are candidly of the opinion
| that it is the Pine Knot that is frank,
and that Dingley and Aldrich were
talking through their hats" when
| they spoke of revenue as being the
main object Of the Dingley act. The
act, being insensate, a mere piece of
machinery, reckless of party interests,
is doing it's work on the lines of it's
construction and the Interior motives
of it's builders, and, we admit, is doing
it well. 1t is, as the Pine Knot so
tersely asserts, exactly fulfilling the
object Of its existence" by shutting out
imports. But just in proportion as it
! excludes them it shuts out revenue; by
| just as much as it prevents our people
from buying things made abroad, by
just so much it deprives the treasury
Of the taxes laid upon imports of those
things. The more exactly it fulfillS
the object Of it's existence" the less
will taxes flow into the treasury and
the more constant and greater will be
the gap between expenditures and in
come. If our contemporary will fur
bish up it's memory, it will recall that
the deficits during the last administra-
ton were alleged by it's party spokes-
men to be the cause of the bond is
ike prn6nnn 10 aff
1t is inevitable that, if the Dingley act
does as our contemporary is so sure
it will do, diminish income and pro-
duce deficits, then the issue of more
bonds to meet expenses will have to
be made, as Senator Aldrich predicted.
| We do not eXult over the deficits only
as they verify our predictions Of the
effect of the bill and prove how an
tagonistic are protection and revenue.
When another story Of an alleged at
| tempt at escape is written up in Still
water there should be either closer
attention to coherency of statement on
the part of the writer, or some dis
corning editor should be given the copy
to edit and blue pencil it's contradic-
lions. For instance, in the latest story
copy of letter written by one con-
Wet and taken from beneath the shirt
Of fellow convict is given, in which
the writer stated that all he needed
for some purpose in his scheme of
escape was some red paint. st have
asked - to throw NE small vial Of
red" he wrote, or with, possibly,
greater exactness, he is said to have
written. Promptly the writer and the
recipient were hustled off to the soli-
tary, and the officers began a hunt for
any tools the conspirators may have
secured. Nothing was found in their
cells, or in their place of work, except,
1t is stated, and this is material, in the
latter place "a box of vermilion paint"
For fellow to be asking for red paint
with a box Of vermilion at hand argues
either singular forgetfulness on his
part or lack of sense Of the unities
in the person who wrote the story. The
discrepancy tends to cast suspicion
over the authenticity of the whole mar
rative.
1t was quite disagreeably cold on Sunday
last until evening, when the moon came up,
cleared off the clouds and left the sky COM
paratively clear, and it then turned much
warmer on Monday.-Sauk Rapids Sentinel.
Here We have a statement Of lunar effects
that has escaped the meteorologists entirely.