The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-01-15

weather, partly cloudy: maximum temDera-
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range, 10; amount of precipitation (rain and
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DINGLEYISM VS.. THE OLD SOLDIER.
While the little fellows in the woods
are still mounting denunciations of
these who dare intimate that the pen
sion system is wrong and must be re-
formed, the larger fellows of their ilk
are seriously discussing what they now
term problem, and are plainly init
mating that the thing had gone too
far and that retreat must be sound
ed. After a little the fellows in the
woods will "catch on" and then there
VIII be general approval of a removal
ton Of system that is infected with
dry rot. 1t is no longer Democratic
paFers that are criticising and calling
LOT reform. 1t is rot a Democratic ad-
nIiristration that is now trying to find
some way out of a position that has be-
come embarrassing. 1t is a Republican
-'----4'-NiO4AOl VI PENSIONS lnaC IS re-
ducing his office force and breaking
the force of his admissions by LAYING
the blame for swollen lists upon the
pension attorneys, as one would blame
cat for drinking the milk set before
it, 1t is the leading and influential pa
pcrs of his party that are declaring
something must be done, while they
still make pretense of the same love
for the old soldier that they did when
their party was patting the veterans
on the back and Offering them brides
for their votes with outrageous pen
sious.
he sober fact is that the time has
come when protection is working out
its logical results. 1t has fostered in
dCstries until they have reached
point where they are sending their sur
plus to foreign market, being able to
more than supply the home demand
In the whole range of the metals, once
the backbone of protection, develop
ment has been such that the tide is
turned and imports have practically
reased and exports are gaining annual
volume. Protection for them remains.
but it is a shell as empty of kernel as
IS protection to wheat or corn or meats
Recently the New York Tribune show
I'd, by comparison with the imports in
1892, how immensely the imports of
were told of exports of our own wool
rms. In other lines domestic produc-
ton has diminished imports This is
The cause of the surprising deficiencies
In the customs revenue that have
brought CONSERVATION to the trainers
of the Dingley act. Protection, always
sntagonistic to revenue, has at last
created domestic conditions where it
Is driving revenue out by lessening i'm
ports. The policy of laying imposts
only on articles Of which we produce
none carried, in the exemption of raw
sugar in 1890, to it's logical end, has
been abandoned under compulsion of
the need of revenue The senate COM
mittee proposed a tax on tea. The day
protection breaks down of it's own
weight; when its own creations turn
and consume it.
1t is conditions thus created that con-
gre SIS is facing. There is no longer es-
cape from the dilemma, one horn of
which is reduction of protection to in
crease imports and their attendant rev.
eEues, or to reduce expenditures. Tnis
is the secret of this sudden and as
tonishing chorus of statement that the
pension system has gone too far and
must be reformed on lines of reduc-
ton. Jettison must be made of either
Dingleyism or the old soldier, and the
interests that are behind protection are
far too powerful to permit sacrifice of
that The old soldier no longer counts
for much at the polls, and even if he
does the money and influence of the
interests that yet imagine there is
something for them in tariffs are more
potent in campaigns than is the old
soldier. He must follow the negro,
whom the party SO long nursed for the
political capital there was in him and
which now finds compensation for his
Acknowledgement in the fancied growth
of protection sentiment in the South
There will be no hating, no dallying
with sentiment, when the emergency