The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-05-02

include them in his itinerary Yet we
wish him all enjoyment on his present
trip. coupling the wish with the hope
that it may not be long before he can
make a visit to the Northwest consistent
with his other personal and official OBJ
legations.
THEY WILL BE TRIED FOR HEREsY
The dragon of heresy has entered the
holy Of holes of the Republican tabor
nscle. Men high. in, the. party councils
have declared that the theory of protee-
ticn as exemplifed by the Dingiey bill
is not Of divine origin. Drawing the ter
rCrs of communication, some of the
faithful have -gene4.so far as to declare
from tie housetop that neither the Nc
Kinley nor the Dingley tariff was writ
ten by an angel on tablets Of stone ard
thus delivered to the disciples whose
names they respectively bear.
Trouble is brewing for these bold ICON
ocIasts who have had the temerity to
question the prime tenet of Republican
faith They will be made to feel tie
heavy hand of discipline administered by
the party leaders. who. pretend to still be-
Iieve in the divine inspiration of the
Dingley bill.
These advocates of the higher criticism
Of political philosophy will be treated
| by their party as were the Swings and
Briggs by the orthodox church. Con-
gresham Babcock will be- called upon
| to renounce this perncious heresy which
he has been spreading among the faith
full or be deprived of his position in the
party councils. In the Republican party
as we'll as in the church you must .ac-
commodate your expressed ideas to the
established order of things or oecome a
free lance. In the case of heresy under
discussion, Congressman Babcock is not
alone. True, the party leaders in both
the senate and the house are against
him-the stability of the present COM
binations of capital depends upon the
upholding unquestloned of the present
tenet Of faith enjoined upon the party
by Saint Dingley, but the rank and file
of the Republican hosts are heretics
They believe that this myth has done it's
duty-it has entertained our national and
industrial infancy, but it is not neces-
sary to our eternal salvation George E.
Roberts, one of the party deacons-a man
who on account of his position holds an
hnn Yol-
openly questioned this part of the Re-
publican confession of faith. And to make
his sin the more scarlet in the eyes of
the high priests Of the party, he quotes
scripture TO prove his position From
President McKinley's last sermon on the
mount he quotes:
Our diversified productions are in
creasing in such unprecedented volume
as to admonish us of the necessity OF
still further charging our foreign mar
kets by broader commercial relations.
For this purpose reciprocal trade ar
engagements with other nations should in
a liberal spirit be carefully cultivated and
promoted" Further he quotes from the
confession of faith of 1886 which saws,
that reciprocity and protection are twin
measures of Republican policy and go
hand in hand" and asks the impertinent
question, why is one article of faith
so religiously adhered to while its twin
is ignored and trodden under foot?"
If one part of the Dingley tariff act is
inspired why is it not all inspired? If
part is Of human origin, may one not
suspect it all to be of very human origin?
These questions coming from Deacon
Roberts so soon after the Babcock heresy
illustrate the condition inside of the or
ganizaticn. AS the holy church cannot
serve both God and Mammon, neither can
the holy Republican rarty serve the peo-
pie and the trusts. The choce will have
to be made and that at the next session
of congress. The president is sufficiently
farsighted to see that unless the position
Of the last senate is reversed and the sub
ject of reciprocal trade gwen a prominent
place, there will be such a revuision
against the high tariff as will wipe it from
our statute books. 1t may be too late
now to stem the tide of reformation
If Congressman Babcock stands by his
guns he will cut more than figure in
the Republican presidential convention Of
1894