The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-06
What the Editors Say

SonSIeSSnlan NOIStead has succeeded
IN throwing a scare" into a lot Of
Seventh district Republicans and as a
result they have gone into all sorts of
ridiculous contortionS over Canadian
reciprocity, just the same as if they
really believed there was some real
danger to be feared from it. What a
brave lot they are, and no mistake. to
imagine that American progress and
prosperity can be impaired or threat
ened by lowering the tariff wall be-
tween the United States and Canada.
VI course we understand that VolStead
is working this scare to get back to
congress, but we didn't suppose the
Republicans of the Seventh district
would take fright so easily. In fact
we don't believe they are frightened in
the least, but so long as any old thing
will do, they are very ready to take adj
vantage Of it. Shades of Jim Blaine
ana our loud-Voiced statesmen who for
twenty years have rolled RECIPROCITY"
as a sweet morsel under their tongues!
can 1T be that they are all going to
play the Bull Run racket the moment
they begin to smell powder? The.
Leader wants to go on record as
prophesying that these people and their
congressman will abandon their pres
ent position within six months after
the next election. Now watch and see.
-Montevideo Leader.
Party politics is a study. 1t produces
peculiar results. At the Seventh con-
gressional convention last week, Bar
ney VoIstead was unanimously Endorsed
The Endorsement was not because of
any service he had performed for his
country or State-it wasn't because of
any conspicuous service on behalf of
his party, for in his reciprocity speech
ne mlsrepresented his state, his dis
trlct and his party in the state But
the Endorsement was just because he
was congressman and it would have
looked bad to have turned him down.
In congress VOlstead made himself a
burlesque of statesman. He tried to
gain nOtorlety by opposing something
Lind had said and done 1t was the
natural mistake of a pigmy-the con-
duct of bOyiSh man. But because he
IS the golden calf who is in, the dele
gates must need fall down and wor-
ship the veal. And that is politics.
disgusting politics at that. When Vol
stead goes out of congress there will
be none so poor as to do him rever-
ence.-St. Peter Herald.
The supreme court has handed down
the law. Now will the federal gov
eminent see that the law is applied so
as to defend the people against the
[,
an agricultural people as they are,
cannot but be interested in the price
of binders. The International Har-
Vester company has recently been
formed and now it makes no difference
what binder you buy it comes through
this new trust. Thousands of sales
men, all paid good salaries, have been
discharged, thus cheapening the cost Of
the machines laid down to the farmer,
in cd no
the price of harvesters will be 1920.
Years ago, amidst sharp competition,
the best harvesters were sold for $500
and less.
Is this combination in restraint Of
trade? is fair question to ask at this
time and what are the trust busters
going to do about it.-Wabasha Her
aid
Minnesota wants a fair and square
deal. What little protection her farm
ers have she hopes to retain without
paying an unWarranted tribute to the
coal barons, the lumber barons, the
steel barOns and the balance of the
gang of leecheS that has grown fat
sucking the life blood out Of the
Western farmers. Our stand pat"
friends may as well understand at
once and for all time that the West is
in earnest about this matter and that
MinnesOta's Republicans are not going
to be fooled by any such rot as that
which their delegates swallowed at
Minneapolis lately.-Independ Press.
AS the outcome Of the gubernatorial
contest becomes apparent it will be in
teresting to look over the papers of
the defeated faction and note how they
go at it to square themselves so as to
be in a position to support the man
whom they are just now roasting" 1t
doubtless will be one of those cases
where they support him even if they
have said he was rotten to the core,
because he belongs to mi party" Such
a spirit must throw the remainder of a
mans organs into dyspeptic state
Butterfield Advocate.
Some of the Minnesota newspaper
men will be sorry they have said GER
tain things before the gubernatorial
campaign is over. Tote fair, boys. Do
not abuse the other fellow If you
cannot find enough good things to say
about your own candidate, better write
an editorial on the weather. Don't
throw mud and you won't have to wash
your handS.-Redwood Reveille.