The Saint Paul globe., 1899-04-17

We have remarked upon the antitrust
Dor down the street has become so sudden
ly and so severely afflicted. 1t is so self
centered on the trusts sin It's midst
that it has not yet found time to answer
our request for list of trusts whose
products are not sheltered by the Ding
ley tariff. Its Intervals are so agonizing
that it is getting more and more inco-
herent. 1t is stirred into fresh delfrium
by the address of Judge Van Wyck, who
merely repeated, with the Increase of
force subsequent developments have
brought, the old. old charge of the Dem
ocrats, that trusts found their birth and
nurture IN protective tariffs.
The plain purpose of Republicans Is to
break the force of the antitrust cam
paign which the Democrats purpose to
make next year, and which is logical
projection on that on which the victories
of 1S9O-92 were won. Those were against
protection; this one is to be against tho
ripe fruit of protection, and the policy
resulting from victory will be the same,
the abolition of protection. There will
be no coterie Of traitors next time to an
null the verdict of the national Democ-
racy, for the lesson taught those of 1894
was too severe to be forgotten by their
successors. The conditions call for pc
culiarly adroit tactics on the part of the
Republicans They must be antitrust:
they must deny that tariffs nurture
trusts, and they must promise to abolish
tariffs that shelter trusts And this Is
the zig-zag line our contemporary is try
ing to walk and maintain the appear-
ance of walking a straight line.
Its comments on Judge Van Wyck's
speech invite counter comment. 1t saws:
He forgot to say that these Worldwide
triumphs of our industries were due in q
large measure to the fostering care of
our protective tariffs.'s The products of
agriculture have formed for years rs to
so per cent Of our exports; manufactures
from 20 to 26 per cent. The products Of
the farm have never had a cent of bene-
fit from the fake protection given them:
they have won their annual triumphs
abroad on a free trade basis. No trusts
in farm products exist; they thrive only
among the 20 odd per cent of industries
that are fostered
Again: THE trusts are in no sense the
offspring of the protective tariff" And
again: But the Republican party can
at least deal effectively with those trusts
that have been organized under the shell
ter of protective duties." And again:
The next congress, we have no doubt.
will witness the abolition or Suspension
of all protective duties used as defenses
Tor these rapacious monopolies" The in
coherency here is delightful. Trusts which
"have been organized under the shelter of
a protective tariff that 'fs in no sense
the parent of trusts" are to he den,o,isb-
ed by the abolition OF all protective du-
ties used as defenses'' by the trusts. IN
q suit for conversion of a kettle the de-
fendant answered that he never had tbe
kettle, that he returned 1t, and that If
was not worth the price charged anyway
SENATOR QUAY PLEADS GUILTY.
Senator Quay doesn't plead guilty. be-
fore the bar before which he is arraigned
for corrupting the custodian of state
funds and obtaining their Illegal use
AT that bar the trial will go on. with
adopts IN legal fencing defending him.
fighting every inch of ground, resortine
to every artifice known to practitioners
in criminal courts and, most probably
ending In a hung jury. But before the
bar of public opinion the Pennsylvania
senator enters plea of guilty as direct