The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-07-31
THE REBELLION SPREADS.

Congressman Lowering has joined the insurgents.
He represents Republican district in Massachusetts, has
been elected repeatedly and the last time went IN by a
majority of about nine thousand He proof against
any charge of rreguarty but he has been talking in the
most outrageous way He says "The principle OF pro-
lection is best conserved by meeting the question
promptly and revising of the glazing Inequalities
that shutting from the markets ofsthe world
This must give great pain to Republican leaders, and
to President Roosevelt who has devoted infinite to
closing mouths that too vociferous about the tariff
There Babcock, the almost forgotten chief OF
the insurgents Babcock threatened to do great things
until he persuaded into better counsels by the pro-
tectionist leaders, and paced by the offer of position
with fine show of honor and influence to it Then his
views became indistinguishable from those of Adrich
and Hanna
There was Cummns Cummins great
rior He claimed be the originator of the Iowa idea;
and the Iowa idea to make ducks and brakes of the
tariff. He got of these principles embodied in
state platform which was exceedingly acceptable to the
Iowa But wrath and terror united i'll the breasts
OF the high priests of Dngeysm when they read that it
only contemplated the revision of duties from time to
time but that arraigned high protective duties
shelter of trusts That could not be tolerated. Cum
minis dealt with, he was invited to meet the presi-
dent he influenced in mysterious manner, and
while the Iowa idea is still very prominent in the mind
the Iowa voter has disappeared from the property
of the Iowa Republican politician
And still the fact that lies back of these ~qoradic
of instruction will down. 1t lives because
it fact drawn from the experiences and lives of the
people. Nobody supposes that Babcock or Cummins
Lowering began to shy rocks at the tariff because he
just being initiated into its nfamies. They all
politicians, with to the ground for popular adj
vices. What they said something that they had
heard uttered by the great voice of the people Their
little mutnes but repetitions and revelations of the
great discomfort that fills the of the people They
thought it better to throw doubt upon the divinity of
the chief god in the Republican joss house than ignore
the demand of the people, refuse them just relief and take
the consequences And they wiser than when they
obeyed the peremptory demand of their party superors
for silence
Now it is Lowering, next week or month it will be
somebody else The voice of protest cannot be senced
because it is the voice of reason of right of the people
themselves Whenever representative proves false
his trust they find another. The Establishments of
place interest ucre cannot silence them all For
the power of reward and punishment in the end, with
the people themselves and they will have their way In
sitting the voices of its remonstrants, after another
against the niquity of scheme of taxation that makes
life hard in order to swell great fortunes the Republican
party only creating huge disaster for itself The ut
terances of these show where the crevasses are
opening. Wait little until the levee breaks and the
waters OF popular indignation pour through!