The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-10
A QUEER ARGUMENr.

The Seattle Observation-Disclosures, In
column editorial, takes a fall out of the
sugar trust for reducing the price of SUI
is different in no respect from others
of its kind. 1t has lucid intervals when
| not discussing the subject of protection,
but when the protective fever is on, like
ever one of the pets of the projections
lists is in danger of getting hurt, it
sees things. Horrible COLLINS arise in its
path. 1t sees m:sshapen giants and
bloated ogres stalking about seeking the
tender infant industries that have sprung
W under the brooding wing of benign
protection. Just now the Post-Intelli-
gencer sees the awful sugar trust ogre
FAINT beet-sugar industry as it lies in the
swaddling clothes of the Dingley bill
The ogre has reduced the price of sugar
IL cents per pound. That is the first
FAINT. Another step and the cher
ished occupant of the DingIey in
cubator will have to be fed with a
bounty or-die. The logical Post-Intelli-
gencer admits that the infant will never
be able to walk alone-in fact it can
never be taken from the incubator, but
it is such lovely, sweet child, and SO
helpless. The ogre should be kept away
and the life of the infant preserved, If
the people have to pay twice sixty mil
lions each year to save it.
The Post-Intelligencer bellies the latter
part of its hyphenated name when it
says that the sugar trust, by this re-
duction, is selling sugar for less than
cost. Such a statement evinces no in
telligence at all, but Grass ignorance, or
may be malicious Misrepresentation. The
trust is making money, and will continue
to make it in million lots, until the poll
cy of beet-sugar incubation is abandoned.
AS long as the people are taxed to keep
the incubator warm, so long will the trust
be able to keep up its prices to twice
what they ought to be- The intelligent
Post-Intelligencer got hold of the wrong
end of the poker-the hot end. 1t Is to
De hoped that the sugar trust will be
able to kill the little beet-sugar infant.
SO the protecting incubator will be of no
further use-it is a most expensive ma
chine to run.
The fear which chills the marrow of
the bones of the P.-I.-the fear that the
trust will destroy the beet infant only
to attack the people, is as old as the ex-
ploded protection theory. A few pills of
common sense will do away with this
fear. This trembling of the limbs and
shaking of the nerves, this creepy sensa-
ton at the roots of the hair is all super
induced by lack of mental exercise in
the editorial rooms of the P-L
One characteristic statement of the P
L. is worthy of special attention. 1t is
worthy of attention because it is as old
as economic sophistry and opposed to
every principle of commerce. It is the
oft repeated statement that an Industry
H'AAONANN 10 1OoIOlOO at duy COSC III OrQGr to
Keep the money otherwise paid for the
commodity in the country. The Pr. evil
IDENTIFY did not read the speech of the
late president at Buffalo, or if so. did
not understand what he meant when he
said that in order to sell we must buy.
If we are to have a commerce, if we are
to export, we must buy and import. We
cannot produce everything for ourselves
and trade with our neighbors. If the
beet sugar infant cannot live out of the
protection incubator, let it die We can
save sixty millions a year by importing
our sugar.