The Saint Paul globe., 1897-06-07
TEMPERATURES.
FALSE PROPHETS ARE WORRIED.


FALSE PROPHETS ARE WORRIED.
over no one feature of the situation
do our Republican editors show such
plain signs Of tribulation as about the
non-arrival of prosperity; not on any
other feature is there such divergence
of treatment There is heartlessness
in the constant prodding they are get
ting from the opposition press. but this
would not annoy them, for they are
accustomed to that; it is their con-
sciousness that they led a large mass
of thoughtless voters last year to eX-
pect the return of prosperity of the
sort that rained down in 1892 just as
soon as Mckinley was elected, and it
is the punishment these will inflict at
the polls the first chance they get that
worries them.
They are the gullible lot-and there
were some millions Of them-who' be-
lieved what the spokesman of that
delegation of Ohio editors said in his
address to Candidate Mckinley on
this enthusiastic admirer of the Great
Apostle, 1.-The people now await the
night of Nov. 3, when the wires will
give the signal that will send a thrill
through the nation, awakening public
confidence and setting in motion the
millions of men now idle and the mil
lions of capital now dormant through
out this country" The Sd of November
came and went, and the thrill failed
60 respond to the signal; the Apostle
was anointed, and still the thrill dal-
lied; congress met and passed the Ding
ley bill, and yet the nation didn't thrill,
and the senate is now putting through
The tariff bill, and still we are an un-
thrilled people. Clearly there is cause
for mutiny among the gulled. and as
clearly it is the duty of every thought
molder and spellbinder of the clan
Mckinley to explain the matter.
And what they say is as variegated
as Joseph's famous coat Here is the
Winona Republican soberly insisting
that the nation was thrilled and is
still thrilling, not so much because it
believes it as because the Globe-Demo-
crat says so, and what it says goes
with the Republican But there stands
Senator Aldrich, with his injector in
hand charged with protective elixir.
telling his patient, the nation, that
1.-THE business of the entire country is
in state Of suspension waiting the
action of the senate upon this meas
ure" Clearly, a nation whose business
is entirely suspended cannot be thrill
dng with the vibrations of confidence
and the motions of millions of men and
capital. Even the Great Apostle him
self is not of the same mind as are
his two devout disciples, for he told
the banqueters in Philadelphia only
last Tuesday evening that when the
end Ghe passage of the tariff bilD
comes, we will have business conf
dence and prosperity"
Then there is that other and more
numerous class of papers whose edi
tors are now truthfulIy and tardily say
ing that prosperity does not depend
upon legislation; that it hangs on pub
llc confidence, and that this is a plant
OF slow growth. 1t is unreasonable, they
now argue, to expect industry to re-
cover in a day from the shock it re-
ceived in the panic, and that all the
people have to do is to be patient: the
no tiAOf 10 =,
as can be expected under the circum
stances, and will be out and about IN
a few more months. Others agree with
the Great Apostle, who was so very
far in advance, that everything will he
lovely as soon as the Dingley-Aldrich
Jones-and-the-Lord knows who-else
tariff bill is signed by him. But the
9atter are only deferring hope, and Of
that there has been quite enough. The
.pthers are confronted with more diff
gull question by the expectant and
disappointed voters. They pertinently
ask why didn't you talk that way last
year? Were you telling the truth then
pr are you telling it now? If what Won
Ho~ say is true, ~WnaI you then said
is untrue, and when men tell US un-
truths when are we ever to know they
are telling as the truth? And this is
really what is troubling our brethren:
they fear that next time they will not
find so gullible a lot of voters, and
When they once fail in that, their par
ty's name will be Dennis, and it's goose