The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-05

mously stimulated the bounty-fed beet
sugar industry of Europe, and perpetu-
ated that bounty system under which
European beet sugar has even stran-
gled the cane sugar interests of the
British West Indies.
Mckinley Wilson & Co. got into Of
fee by assuring the American farmer
that he would be protected in the home
market from the 1926, goo, 600 worth of
sugar, wool, tobacco, rice fruits, etc,
now imported annually. No one doubts
this statement. 1t was the farmer vote
that decided the last presidential cleo
ton, and the farmer vote will decide
the election of 1900 Now will the
farmers submit to being buncoed?
VIII they tamely consent to tropical
competition with no corresponding ad-
vantage? Will they vote for a party
that uses them simply as a cats paw?
In addition to all their present bur
dens, will the farmers bend their backs
still more to lug the load that should
be borne by the trusts of the tropics?
''These questions answer themselves.
Every politician, whatever his party
collar knows that the farmers will
vote for their own interests, because
$1,000 SNNS
the whole country That's why the
various parties are today at sea, and
the country is drifting into the con-
gressional elections next month While
awaiting the course of events.
Even SecretaryW lson intimates that
congress will give early attention to
statutes regarding sugar, tobacco and
fruits but farmers can no longer trust
interests, which they are abundantly
capable of doing. This is plain talk,
| but nothing less will meet the case.
Wealth beyond the dreams Of avarice
awaits the syndicates that plan to
monopolize the free importation Of
| tropical produce into this country, and
almost every dollar of these profits
means so much less to the American
| farmer. He has no combinations OF
| millionaires at the national capital to
| fight for his interests; even his spokes-
| man, Wilson, has gone back on him.
The only way for the American farmer
to stop the proposed wanton sacrifice
| of his interests to colonial monopoly is
to make protest now sufficiently loud
| to brighten off the cOnspiratOrs against
| agriculture. Even England compels
colonial tobacco wine, etc, to pay the
same duties as like produce from other
countries.
agriculture and all industry were
experiencing a mighty change prior to
| the Spanish war. The world had never
seen such rapid evolution as has trans
formed farming and the arts within
! twenty years. This country was just be-
! ginning to adjust itself to these prob
lens, when the Spanish war brings up
others still more serious. 1t is a time for
sober second thought. Bombast is out
| Of place. Talk about improving the
Asiatics' is nauseating when our brave
soldiers sicken and die at Chickamauga
and Montauk The improving that
needs to be done on this continent will
occupy the utmost resources Of our peo-
pie for centuries. Few realize that
within the present limits of the United
States one billion people can be COM
fortably supported, with Alaska and
Canada for the overflow"
The above, all of it, is splendid! It
is splendid, because it is honest! What
is the general purpose of the Mckinley
administration? Nobody seems to know!
II has been befogged by the advent of
war. It is the duty OF the people to
| look out for ensnarements. Truly the
Orange Judd Farmer has taken hold of
this subject in a manner that is cOur-
ageous. always point to the truth"
should be the motto of honest journal
ism. This duty the newspaper referred
! to has performed. The face of hum
! hing ALWAYS has attractions but it also
has pimples upon it which, when pune
tured, are not pleasing to good taste or
| common sense. The persif1age Of Mr..
Wilson does not go down in the very
community in which he thought alb
sorption would be the largest.