The Saint Paul globe., 1899-03-28
AN ANTICIPATED DISCOVERY.

Notable is this protest that Republican
and, since reconstruction, the one lead
ing policy of their party, that of protect
ing everybody from external competition
by means of the federal taxing power. 1t
is none the less noteworthy that they are
doing it under guise of an attack upon
the trusts, for it discredits their intelli-
gence too much to suppose for a moment
that these editors DO not know that the
trust, that merely tries to throttle do
mestic competition, is the natural inev-
liable and logical product of the policy
CT the Republican party of throttling COM
petition from the exterior The fact prob
ably is that these clearer-eyed editors per-
ceive that protection is played out; thar,
like Blaine's bloody shirt there
are no more presidencies wrapped up in
It, If one has to make retreat from
lo4g-held position. one naturally wishes to
cover it with some specious pretense that
will make necessity seem a virtue
If the Democratic national party is
bound to abandon the only issue on which
1t has won a national victory since 1856.
and permit It's opponents to occupy
its ground, we will have to submit TO
the folly, incredible as it may be, and we
shall not, in that case, regret to see the
cause Democracy fought for made law
by its opponent, although we shall feel
keen chagrin that Democratic managers
threw away the opportunity given them.
Our party always charged the irruption
OF the trust upon Republicanism as the
fruit OF the protective policy that shut
out competition, and 1t would seem that
ordinary political sagacity would now
dictate the advocacy by Democrats of
repeating the protective tariff acts and
throwing The markets open to the widest
possible competition, as the most feasible
remedy for trustism, instead of bawline
out against it and Illuminating inpocuous
laws against IT, than which the famous
ouil against the comet was not more in
efficient. But that is a matter for tba
next national convention to determine
and. meantime, for the Democratic nress
to discuss.
just a1 1hiS time, however, we wish to
enter protest against the issue of any
copyright to the Republican papers which
are making much ado over their discovery,
OF the remedy for trustism in the rena,,
of protective duties. There was ti,,a
not SO long ago, when this remedy WIS
proposed by one Of their kind and con-
temptuously rejected by the gentleman
+ who now sits in the presidential chair
! Or May y, 1890, Mr. Mckinley bro;,o,,t
forward his notorious bill for considera-
ton IN committee of the whole house ami
secureds the adoption of rule limiting
general debate upon it to one minute Mr.
Anderson, a Republican representative
from Kansas. moved proviso to tbe first
paragraph OF the bill which read as fol-
lows:
.,FroVlded, however, that the president or
cue me oIilte9 states is hereby authorized to
suspend the rate of duty prescribed fo~
amy article named in this act y1ba,
ms Judgment, the production. rnan,1fani
Cure or sale Of such article is monopoiizel
or controlled by any trust or oi her 60,
plnat'on or agreement between ,1r Of ,,n,.
sonS OF corporations in the United States
the one-minute rule shut off debate and
the amendment was rejected by a party
vote--yeas 9l, nays no. When the Dipglev
Dill was under consideration y s;,oi,,r
proViso, offered by Democrat. was nc
uhceremoniously rejected. Is 1t not .ba
very irony of fate now that protection j.
choking its mother to death. that tbo
editors who scoffed at Anderson p,ra
years ago should be consuming not min
utes but hours and days in urging ths
adoption Of the simple remedy be nr,-
posed and which his party representa-
tives scornfully rejected? We annreberd
that they win consume numberless ba,,r.
In their argument before they vii, co.x
their Old Man Of the Mountain 10 get off
the shoulders of their party.