Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1891 — Struck by Lightning. [ARTICLE]

Struck by Lightning.

A woman In Helena, Mont, was struck by lightning the other day. It banged her against the wall, jammed her into a cupboard and knocked her senseless, leaving on her skin the exact pattern of a tree that grew in the front yard. She was not seriously hurt, and when askeef what she thought at the time, said she supposed her husband was enforcingJiis usual method of disapproving with her housekeeping. The lightning always hits the wrong fellow. Major McKinley regards it as a smart retort to the citations of lower prices for Ohio wool under his Increased tariff, to-say that this proves that “the tariff is not a tax. ” But the quotations of August prices for the indispensablo foreign carpet wools which American manufacturers must have for admixture show that they are from three to four cents a pound higher than last year. The people who buy the carpets pay the tax.—N. K World.

Free sugar is opening the eyes of the people as to the effects of a tariff tax. A “Republican Workingman” writes to the New York Press thus: “On account of sugar being free, the poor man can today purchase three and a half pounds of granulated sugar for 16 cents. If other imports were free, why could not he buy as cheap and have more luxuries than heretofore. ” Henry Cabot Lodge predicts that the tariff will not be the leading issue in the campaign of 1892, but he anticipates 'that “able Democratic editors” will see in this prediction an illustration of tne old saying that “the wish is father to the thought,” Republican losses on the tariff issue in Massachusetts would lend color to this Democratic view. McKinley doubled the duty on oatmeal, although we export enormous quantities every year, and put this into his “farmers’ tariff.” This was pretended to be a lift for labor, but now the newly organized oatmeal trust has reduced wages at Akron, Ohio, between 40 and 50 per cent Wool has taken a big drop since the McKinley tariff Jaw went into operation; yet the New York Tribune persists in speaking of that measure as “the best wool tariff ever enacted. ” This country uses about nine and onehalf pounds of wool per capita every year, of which only five pounds are grown here, the other four and one-half pounds being imported. All taxes that the people pay, the government should receive.— Edward Atkinson.