The Greencastle Democrat, Greencastle, Putnam County, 21 January 1893 — Page 7

THE DEMOCRAT.

GREENCASTLE. I

INDIANA.

** WEEVILY WHEAT. -

|vy, Jo»'. do you renu mber the days we Myed

on Rollin s prairie,

lintcnt with our simple count* y ways and our

swetnhearts Sue and Mar;?

♦nd these ' ktssln’ parties" wo used to have,

and the game about the barley

hud weevlly wheat, with its queer old song

about the cake for Charlie?

•• O, I’ll have none of your weevlly wheat, And I'll have none of your barley, O, I'll have none of your weevlly wheat To bake a cake for Charlie.”

hnd do you remember (I’m sure you do) that glorious summer weather, When you and I with Mary and Sue went pick Ing plums toguther? And how at dusk as we loitered home tbrough fields of ripened barley. We sang the song of “Weevlly Wheat" and baked the cake for Charlie?

•* O, Charlie he's a nice young man, Charlie he's a dandy ; And Charlie loves to kiss the girls Whenever they come handy."

kissing me, and then she went to tue

buck door and shouted: ‘George!’

“Father called from the kitchen:

‘What do you want, Car’llne?*

“Then he came in. He knew me In a moment. He stuck out his hand and

CHANGES IN THE SENATE.

The Legitimate Returns t.lve the Demo-

crats a Substantial Majority.

Of the 88 members of the present Unitea States senate the terras of "9 . expire on the 4th of March, undone

grasped mine, and said, stein >• e > other. Perkins, of Kansas, was appointyoung man, do you propose to behave ] t(j fln a vacaney and his succe ssor youraelf now .* , Is about to be elected for the remainder •He tried to put on a brave front, but of the tttrm endin(f in 189r> . 0 f the he broke down. 1 here we three sat p rest , n t senators 47 are republicans, 39 like whipped school children, all whim- democrats, and 2. PefTcr, of Kansas, poring. At last supper-time came and and Kylc> ol Soulh Dakota< represent mother went out to prepare it 1 went th e people’* party Of the 30 who go

OPPOSITION TESTIMONY.

A tVcNtern llepubllcMn Taper Tell* Why

out of ofliee with the present session 19 are republicans and 11 are democrats. In six states the elections have already been held, and the others are to come during the present month. Republic-

Alas, dear J oe, for you and mo those happy days are over, f’or Mary's now beyond the sea and Sue beneath the clover. But sometimes when the days are dark and the skein of life is snarly, t think once moro of “Weevlly Wheat" and the cake we baked for Charlie.

mother went out to prepare into the kitchen with her.

“’Where do you live, Jimmy?’ she

asked.

“ ‘In New York,’ I replied.

“ ‘What are you working at djw,

Jimmy? i ans wd j succeed republicans in the fol“‘I’m working in a dry-goods store. Iowing Rtate8 ; Connecticut, Maine, “‘Then I suppose you don t live very MassachuspUs Michigan. Minnesota, high, for I hear tell o’them city clerks North i, aUotai Ohio, Pennsylvania, what don’t get enough money to keep Kbode Is]andi Vermont and Washingbody and soul together. So 1 11 just tell ton ohio Senator Shertnan^as alyou, Jimmy, we’ve got nothin’ but roust ready bpen rpp)ectedi in Rho de Island spareribs for supper. We am t got any Henator Aldriphi and in Vermont Senmoney, now, Jimmy. We re poorer nor ator Proctor . Democrats will succeed Jobs turkey. democrats in the following eleven “I told her I would be delighted with states: Delaware, Florida. Indiana, the spareribs, and, to tell the truth, Mary , and Mississippi. Missouri. New John, I haven t eaten a meal in New j PrsPVi Tennessee, Texas, Virginia York that tasted as good as those crisp and W est Virginia Gorman, of Maryroasted spareribs did. 1 spent the j and; George> of Mississippi, and Danevening playing checkers with father , ol of Virginia, are already reelected.

“ Then 1 11 have none of your weevily whest, And I'll have none of your barley: O. I'll have none of your weevlly wheat To bake a cake for Charlie." —Albert II. Paine, In Kansas City Star.

tvf

RICH man who had almost forgotten his old father and

mother tells how he came to make

them a visit:

"How 1 came to visit my home happened in a curious way. Six weeks ago I went down to Fire island, fishing. I had had a lunch put up for me,

the Tarty Wan Swamped

The St. Louis Globe-Democrat is one

while mother sat by telling me all There has been no question at any time

alKiut their misfortunes from old white aince tbe Novelnber election that Mooley getting drowned in the pond to d PmoPru t s would succeed republicans father’s signing a note for a friend and , n Npw Y ork and Wisconsin. This having to mortgage the place to pay it. would leave six states unaccounted for. The mortgage was due inside of a week reduce the num berof republican senaand not a cent to meet it with-just tors to 45 and lucreafie the number of

$800. She supposed they would he demopratic senators to 41. Resides,

turned out of house and home, but in Senator Stewart, who is to be re-

my mind I supposed they wouldn L At e i eP t Pd jn Nevada, can no longer be

last nine o’clock came and father said: counted af> a „publican, his supporters ;Jim, go out to the barn and see if Kit hemg of tlie p eop , P * B party .

is all right bring in an armful of old The live gtate8 which have been re-

shingles, that are j'ust inside the door, (r ar( ied as uncertain are California, and fill up the water pail. Then we’ll Kansas< Montana, Nebraska and go off to bed and get up early and go W y„ m ing. The California senate con-a-fishing. sists of 22 republicans and 18 demo“I didn’t say a word, but I went out crata ln the assembly, or lower to the barn, bedded down the horse, bouse, there are 41 £mocrats, 81 rebroke up an armful of shingles, pumped publicans, and 8 populists. This up a pailful of water, tilled the wood- leaves the democrats short of a ma-

have, perhaps, been Jackson and Lincoln. Their way of ,, asserting themselves, respectively, were as far apart as possible; yet each was sure to attain his end at last, and each had tha

full approbation of the people in so do- ^ le oldest, ablest and most important ing. Jackson was a man headstrong, republican papers in the land a paper violent, willful, but honest, thorough- that has never faltered in its party Iv patriotic, thoroughly American. He "Hegience, and whose political orthofought some of the ablest men in hi* doxy has in no instance been quesown party that any president has ever tioned. 1 hat paper now says, in view

encountered. It is not at all sure that D ,e '“t® election:

he was right in all these controversies, “The republican party was beaten yet the heart of the people was ^cunse it had taken a wrong position with him. They liked his courage, on some of the leading questions of naan d they particularly sympathized tional concern. It was wrong on the with his disposition to resist federal election mutter, it was emphatth 5) attempt of cliques in his party to ically and fatally wrong on the tariff, control. They even overlooked the * passage of the MeKinley law of fact that other cliques were insidious- 18H0 was the greatest blunder ever eomly doing the same thing because they mitted by any party since the demosaw that Jackson was unconscious of cratie crime of secession. It overtile fact and also that he was earnest whelmlngly defeated tin* party in tlie in his resistance to the attempt of the congressional election of that year, and money power of the country to obtain Wius t' 1 ® leading cause in the overspecial privileges in the government, throw this year. Many republicans There is an unmistakable analogy be- who were never in favor of the act l>etween the position of Jackson and Heved after the setback of 1890 that tha that of Cleveland on thislatter point popular hostility to it would subside by Cleveland is more like Jackson than the time the presidential election came like Lincoln in his personal tempera- around, and that the party might then ment He is frank ratker than politic retain its supremacy In the execuln his methods. He has a much better tive branch Of the government and recomprehension of the principles of gov- gain control of the legislative branch, eminent than had Jackson, however, The returns show how completely and and less tendency to personal willful- conspicuously these hopes have been

ness. Roth men have sought to serve blasted.

the country, but Jackson acted more ’ 1 his thing called McKinleyism from impulse, and was apt to forget this advancing of duties on articles everything but self when he encoun- which have been on the dutiable list tered opposition in the government, for from a third of a century to a cenile made everything of this kind a per- tury has been condemned finally and sonal matter. We do not find the same eternally by the people. Ihis verdict disposition in Cleveland, but we do h as been rendered twice, an.l after an recognize in him a strongsense of what interval of two years between judghe owes to the country, and a determi- ments. The first verdict may have nation to discharge his duty in this re- heen hastily given, and without sufspect. Here hia assertion of personality fleient examination of the evidence, is as strong as that of Jackson. He ^ ,u *' Dm second was recorded after will use the whole power of his great reasonable deliberation, and it was office to such an end. In so doing he more pronounced and emphatic than will find tlie country with him.— Bos- D'® first. If the republican party i> to ton Herald. w * n any victories in the future it must

drop McKinleyism immediately and

control them."—American Economist, March 4, 1892. “Whenever this free competition is evaded or avoided by combination of individuals or corporations the duty should be reduced and foreign competition promptly invited."—Senator John Sherman, October 15, 1890. "There is nothing to prevent this defendant (the harrow trust) at any time from raising prices at will. It is hard to conceive how a monopoly could tie more firmly entrenched, or how competition could be more effectively strangled. * * * N’or can this defendant shield itself under its corporate rights. When tlu‘ fact appears that the forms of law are being used t<> accomplish a legal wrong, a court of equity is potent to release a suitor, and if necessary to rend asunder the legal veil which covers the iniquity.”—Judge Walter Lloyd Smith, New York Supreme Court, Feb- a ruary 18, 1891.

CHEAP TIN PLATE.

box and then we all went to bed.

jority on the joint ballot, but they are

Father called meat half-past four no i ont rp r d i v i(] pd as their candidate, in the morning, and while he was get- who j 8 M r. Stephen M. White, and ting breakfast 1 skipped over to tlie three of tlie populists are regarded as depot cross lots and got my best bass favorable to their side in the contest, rod. lather ^ook nothing but a troll- The populists may stand together for ing line and a spoon hook. He rowed n tinlP in s „ pport of a candidate of the boat with tlie trolling lino in his D 1P i r own. but there is every prohamouth, while I stood in tlie stern with bilitv that a democrat will be ultimatea silver shiner rigged on. Now, John, j y chosen to SUPPPPd Mr. Felton in the

and you can imagine my astonishment when I opened the *iamper to find a

package of crackers wrapped up in a piece of the little patent-inside country weekly published at my homo in Wisconsin. I read every word of it, advertisements and all. There was George Kellogg, who was a schoolmate of mine, advertising hams and salt pork, and another boy was postmaster. By George! it made me homesick, and I determined then and there to go home, and go home I did. “In the first place I must tell you how I came to New York, f had a tiff with my father and left home. I finally turned up in New York with a dollar in my pocket. I got n job running a freight elevator in tlie very house in which I am now a partner. Mv haste to get rich drove the thought of my parents from me, and when I did think of them, the hard words that Siy father last spoke to me rankled in my bosom. Well, 1 went home. 1 tell you, John, my train seemed to creep, I w as actually worse than a schoolboy going homo for vacation. At lust we neared the town. Familiar sights met my eyes and, upon my word, they filled with tears. There was Rill Lyman's red barn just the sume; but— great Scottl what were all of the other houses? We rode nearly a mile before coming to the station, passing many houses of which only an occasional one was familiar. Tlie town had grown to ten times its size when I knew it. The train stopped, and I jumped off. Not a face in sight I knew, and 1 started down tlie platform to go home. In the office door stood the station agent, i walked up and said: ’Howdy,

Mr. Collins?’

“He stared at me and replied: ‘You’ve got the best of me, sir.’ “I told him who 1 was and what I had been doing in New York, and he didn't make any bones in talking to me. Said lie; ‘It’s about time you came home. You in New York rich, and your father scratching gravel to get a bare living.’” “I tell you, John, I knocked me all in a heap. I thought my father had enough to live upon comfortably. Then a notion struck me. Hefore going home 1 telegraphed to Chicago to one of our correspondents there to senA me one thousand dollars by first mail. Then I went into Mr. Collins’ back office, got my trunk in there, and put on an old hand-me-down suit that I used fot fishing and hunting. My plug hat I replaced by a soft one, took my valise in my hand and went home. Somehow the place didn’t look right The currant bushes had been dug up from tne front yard, and the fence was gor.e. All the old locust trees had been cut down anil young maple trees were planted. The house looked smaller, somehow, too. But I went up to tlie front door and rang tlie bell. Mother came to the front door and said: ’We don’t wish to buy anything

to-day, sir.’

“It didn't take a minute to survey her from head to foot. Neatly dressed, John, but a patch and u darn here and there, her hair streaked with gray, her face thin, drawn and wrinkled. Yet over her eyeglasses shone those good, honest, benevolent eyes. 1 stood staring' at her and then she began to stare at me. I saw the blood ru£h to her face, and with a great seb slic

I never saw a man catcli lish as ho did. United States senate. This will bring

THE HARRISONIAN SYSTEM. permanently, and send all the men rnrtisan Appointments I'ndrr Ilia Ka- who cling to it U) the rear. 1 lie party publican Arimtnatrstioa nm-t, id OOUrse, adhere to til*' proteoThe attempt of Mr. Harrison’s ad- tive policy, but It must be protection of ministration, after a vigorous spoils Die rational kind the protection, policy of four years, when every office which keeps tlie interests of consumis filled with republicans, to extend ® r8 » well as those of producers, in

the civil service system so as to cover T ' e ".

thousands of his partisans whose ap- "® could not possibly find stronger pointments were made regardless of language in "hicti to portray th fitness, will hardly meet the approval pleteness of the revolution that has of the incoming administration. This Been wrought than is furnished by this attempt to perpetuate men in office wlia republican paper. New Age.

Will Prculdent Httrrlfton Sl|ji» a Kill Fot ('ontanieriT Relief? Among the other “selfish consumers” whose spirits have been raised by tlie election are the directors of the Tin Plate Consumers’ association. They make a report in the last number of the National Provisioner, in which they hold out the hope that there may bo speedy relief from the futile tax on tin plate. They say: “The directors have been in close consultation with the leading statesmen of both parties, and it seems to be generally thought that, as the people of this country have pronounced so emphatically against the McKinley tin plate duty, the senate will undoubtedly take up and pass the Hunting and Shively bill, which was passed by the last session of the house of representative, reducing the duty to the former rate of one cent per pound. It is thought that the president will sign any measure of relief of importance to American industries such as are represented in our association, providing such a measure is passed by both the house and senate.” We confess that this view seems too sanguine, and we prefer to see Mr. Harrison signing such a bill before believing that he will do it—N. Y. Evening Post.

At noon we went ashore and father the republicans to a minority, with 43 went home, while 1 went to the post members, and give the democrats 42 ofliee. I got a letter from Chicago with Bonators . In t i, P Kansas legislaa check for one thousand dollars in it. ture thp populists control the With some trouble 1 got it cashed, get- Sl . nu t e by a majority of ting paid in tive-dollar and ten-dollar 10 but the republicans have a slender bills, making quite a roll. 1 then got P ontiol of the house, which they a roast joint of beef and a lot of deli- threaten to increase by deciding concacies, and had them sent home. After tests in their favor. According to the that I went visiting among my old f aPe 0 f the returns the populists have schoolmates for two hours and went on j oint hnllot 83 votes, tlie republichome. I he joint was in tlie oven, ans 79 and the democrats 8. Tills gives Mother had put on her only silk dress ^be small democratic contingent the and father had donned his Sunday-go- balance of power, and there is likely to-meeting clothes, none toogood.either. be a very warm contest. Tlie Ihis is where I played a joke on tlie chances are wholly against republican old folks. Mother was in the kitchen su CPPSS and in favor of the election of watching the roast. Father was out ano ther people’s party senator from to tlie barn, and I had a clear coast I Kansas. The uncertainty in Montana dumped tlie sugar out of the old klue Pon t (nues, and there is likely to be a bowl, put the thousand dollars in it lively fight. The democrats control ane placed the cover on again. At last Gl e senate, having 10 members to 8 for supper was ready. I* ather asked a ^be republicans. In the house 28 reblessing over it, and he actually trem- publicans, 26 democrats and 3 populists bled when he stuck his knife in tlie i 10 ki certificates of election, but the efroast. ^ _ feet of Hie decision of the supreme We haven t had a piece of meat court of tlie state is that one of the like that in five years, Jim,’ he said, democrats is not entitled to his certifiand mother put in with: ‘And we ca t P and that his republican opponent haven t had any coffee in a year, only was legally elected. The upshot seems when we went a visitin . ! likely to be a serious difficulty in or“1 hen she poured out the coffee and panizing the house, and possibly the lifted the cover of the sugar bowl, ask- setting up of rival houses, neither of ing as she did so: ‘How many spoonfuls, which will have a majority of the Jimmy? j members without the help of the popu“Ihen she struck something that lists. It is not improbable that there wasn t sugar. She picked up the bowl may be two claimants for the seat in — . j the United States senate, with the

will not be in harmony with the policy of the new administration is not in aceoKdance with tlie fitness of things. No one hopes for or expects sudden changes in those offices which might have a tendency toward crippling the service. While the policy of President Cleveland eight years ago, in which he allowed competent officials to serve out

AN OPEN CONFESSION.

Hound Turi.r Reform -entiine »t From an Ante-:- leetion Protertlonist. “When the devil was sick Tin- devil a monk would be. When the devil qot well The devil a monk was he.” Home of the best expressions of tariff reform sentiment we have read of late

the terms for wnich they were appoint- have been uttered by men and journals ed, disgruntled the office seekers sin®® the election who before the elec-

Anxloiifl to 1*113’ IIit'll

The “wage-earner” is now being afforded another object lesson as to the “shelter” which the beneficent manufacturer wishes to provide for him. No further concealment is attempted of the fact that the republicans mean to deprive the opposition of control of tlie senate if they can steal enough seats. Moreover, the motive for this action is openly confessed. A Washington dispatch to a republican organ says that “it is a settled thing that the republicans are not going to let the democrats get a majority in the senate if it can be helped,” and explains that “the influence of some of the manufacturers, who are not willing to trust to re-

and professional politicians, it never- tion were giving ardent support to the | ;lP tion to restore to them what they

'IP

UK STOOD ON TIP-TOE.

and peered into it. ‘Aha, Master Jimmy, playin’ your old tricks on your mammy, eh? Well, boys will be boys.* “Then she gasped for breath. Klie saw i. was money. Fhe looked at me, then at father, then, with trembling fingers drew the great roll of bills out.

chance that the democrat will get it. The republicans have been trying hard to steal the legislatures of both Montana and Wyoming. In the former state one precinct was thrown out by the democrats on account of fraud, and the court decided that its vote should be counted. In Wyoming a republican county clerk threw out the returns of a precinct to reelect himself and send two republicans to the legislature, in spite of the protests of his two associates on the board of canvassers. The supreme court of the state has upset his work, and the result will be the control of the legislature and the election of the senator by the democrats. In Nebraska, as in Kansas, there is a contest between the populists and republicans for the control of the legislature, the outcome of which is not certain, but the populists are plainly enti-

tled to the victory.

The legitimate result of the latest elections of state legislatures would be in the next United States senate 44 democrats, 39 republicans, and 5 populists, placing Stewart, of Nevada, n the latter category. That is likely to be the actual result, and it will give the democrats control through the casting vote of the vice president. The

thelcss met tlie hearty approval most nearly ideal protective Airiff this

of the country at large. Under Country has ever had.

Mr. Cleveland's administration when From a recent interview with tlarehunges were maile in the civil service cure A. Black, comptroller of Detn 1 . everything moved along in the even an 'l chairman of the republican contenor of its way. Those who are look- gressional committee of the first dising for political preferment under the triet. published in the Evening News,

new regime will no doubt receive due Wl ' ®Dp the following:

recognition when tlie time comes. And “1- Reciprocity to the greatest exthe only regret will be the fact that tent, do my mind, everything comes there are not offices enough to go right down to the boy with the jack around. —Cleveland 1’lain Dealer. knife and the one with the marbles.

He with tlie jack knife wants the mar-

POINTS AND OPINIONS. hies; he with the marbles wants the

jack knife. It's a trade, and what

A Joliet wire mill, highly pro- ear D,ly right has anvone to put a tax teeted, has reduced wages again. Ln- on either? Trade with the world. Tax less tlie McKinley law is soon repealed onl wherp t>Jpn . is no fair exchange, this sort of thing will go on indefinitely. Tariff for revenue only. We have Chicago Herald. bad protected material and free labor. - 1 he United States senate has j s ti II | P to protect the man against ceased to be republican by the vote of b j s pa op P r j-ival at home, and let the the people, and the worst thing that lna terial take its chances in the market could happen to the plutocracy would o{ the wor i d . a trust could be formed, be success in their attempt to steal it hilling effectually all home competition, back. St. Louis Republic. and a government would foster it by With all their bellows blowing shutting out the world. Rut once let under the New York senatorial fight, labor form a trust, the militia is called our republican friends cannot dislodge out, laborers are imported, and yet polfrom their craw the essential and pain- iticians claim there is no inequality, ful fact that the next senator from New “There, gentlemen, is my platform. York At ill be a democrat.—Louisville To you it may appear raw, crude and Courier-Journal. fanciful—the result, perhaps, of indiGov. McKinley urges the Ohio gestion, caused by a heavy diet of crow legislature to “heed the demands of for the past few weeks. Rut those are the people’’ for reform in municipal my sentiments, at any rate. I am not government. President Harrison rec- a political seer. I am not coddling the omniends congress not to heed the de- dear people for honors or position. I mands of the people for revenue re- am not flopping into the democratic form. McKinley is the better patriot party. My opinions may be those of a of tlie two.—St. Paul Globe. Waterlooed Napoleon, as one good Mr. Foster, of. the treasury de- friend termed me, but they are honest, partment, is transferring gold from just the same.”—N. Y. Evening Post-

Orleans and Philadelphia to

would lose from democratic legislation unhampered, is being exerted to induce the republicans to extra efforts to hold the senate.” Of course the only motive of these manufacturers is their desire to pay high wages to their employes, and yet we fear that these ungrateful employes will only be the more resolved not to “even walk under the same umbrella” with their would-be benefactors.—N. Y. Evening Post.

Strength of Taritf' Reform* The strength of tariff reform as an issue was well illustrated in two Ohio districts where Tom L. Johnson and Michael I). Harter were elected. These two men are absolute free traders in principle, and they conducted their canvasses on the most radical lines of tariff reform, not fearing to declare their utmost convictions. The republican gerrymander was designed to make the return of either an impossibility, as their aggressive ways in congress did not please the attorneys of special interest occupying seats there. Rut both were re-elected, large republican majorities being wiped out The democratic gains in the two districts were tremendous, hardly equaled elsewhere In the entire country. These results prove that the people are not afraid of “free trade,” and that aggressive courage on the right side in good politics.— Quincy Herald.

‘11a! ha! ha! I can see father now

as he stood there on tiptoe, with his . p opu iists are pretty sure to vote with knife in one hand, fork in the other, I tbe dpmoPrats on questions of tariff and ins eyes fairly bulging out of his roformi and there are believed to be head. Rut it was too much for mother. : Bevera | republicans who will not vote Mho raised her eyes to Heaven and , aga j n8 t them on such questions. Conslowly^said: t u t your trust in the ^ gjti Pn i ng that fact, it seems hardly

worth while to keep up the effort to

Lord, for He will provide.

“Then she fainted away. Well, John, there’s not much more to telL Wo threw water in her face and brought her to, and then we demolished that dinner, mother all tlie time saying: ‘My boy Jimmy! My

boy Jimmy!’

“I stayed home a month. 1 fixed up the place, paid off all the debts, had a good time and came back again to New York. 1 am going to send fifty dollars home every week. 1 tell you, John, it's mighty nice to have a home.” John was looking steadily at the

sb-al senators in the hope of maintainirg a harrier for the protection of the beneficiaries of McKinleyism. The odium and scandal will be incurred without the compensation for which tlie risk is taken.—N. Y. Times.

New

Washington. He is thus increasing his store of gold. On this principle anyone can add to his wealth—simply by piling up ail his possessions

in one heap.—Albany Aigus.

If tlie president continues to stand by Raum he has a trifle over two months more to serve. Rut ii the pres-

TRUSTS.

What

Prominent Republican* Once

Thought of 1 ombtne*.

“Trusts are private affairs with which neither President Cleveland nor any private citizen haft any right to interfere.”—James G. Blaine, November 8,

1888.

.. . T admit that prices for agricultural

ident were anxious to retire in good ) p r(X j UP tions have been abnormally low, odor, as well as good order, he would and ^ hat lhc farmers of the United signalize Hie closing days of his admin- j ^ ta t PS have suffered greatly from this

istration by removing Raum. Noth ing that can now be conceived of would so become the Harrison administration as Raum's leaving it—Detroit

Free Press.

The vote of “no confidence” in the present administration of pension affairs came from the soldier states — Indiana, Illinois. Kansas and Missouri. The ex-soldiers indorsed tariff reform knowing its consequences. That being the case, the mending of the pension system becomes as much the duty of the incoming administration as is the reforming of any other department — Kansas City Star.

A PRESIDENT INDEED.

Wluit Wo May Rupert of (irover Cleve-

land an Chief KxecuUve.

It seems more than ever likely to be

cause. But Hi is depression of prices is easily accounted for by the greatly increased amount of agricultural implements, the opening of vast regions of new and fertile fields in the west, the reduced cost of transportation, the doubling of the miles of railroad and the quadrupling capacity of railroads and steamboats for transportation, and tlie new tangled forms of trusts and combinations which monopolize nearly all the productions of the farms and workshops of our country, reducing the price to tlie producers and in some cases increasing the cost to the consumer.”— Hon. John Sherman, June 5, 1890. “I had an opportunity to take some

The Turning Point. Mr. Charles Macbeth, the greatest manufacturer of glass lamp-chimneys in America, takes the ground that prosperity will follow the dethroning of the republican idea. He says: “Heretofore this government has heen run on the policy that it should help individuals in their business. Now after this the individual will run his business for himself, and the government will have no right to interfere in any man’s private affairs. We shall never go back to the old policy again; November 8 was a turning point in the history of this nation. Since the war we have been going in the one direction, but at the late election tlie people woke up and turned right about, and from this time on will go in the direction indicated by reason and intelligence, and that which will bring the most good to the most people.

Tlie republicans have lost their

cunning and with it tlie hoped-for con- ! stock in the combination [national hurtroi of tlie legislatures in Kansas, Ne- vester trust], and I know what inducebraska. Wyoming and even Montana. | ments were offered. An investigation It was a bold bluff game, but the dein- w iu show that this same combination

demonstrated in tlie second adnnnis- ocrats and populists of the west are a i H now selling, or offering to sell, matration of President Cleveland that he little in that line themselves. The re- chinery in Russia and Australia and menus to be indeed the president of publican senatorial steering committee I other wheat-growing countries at a

t) V l er f ur n n ) n .rvnn ,lettd of his cline - W1,en h<* spoke, he the country while in office. We have has wrecked upon tlie rocks the frail klower figure than they do in this coun i / .1, wit .-i. i I to,,lt Jim liy the hand and Siid: “dim, j had none too many of such men in the craft on which was loaded the last | try.”—Hon. Jercnri-’h W. Rusk, 189a Vlaspea mi .n> HU I ne nil K, 111 sierieal- old friend, what VOU have told me lias I l.„* i* la nn«.it.la ! vannltlienn hnn« of nnntrnllinir th* navt ! till- . ...

—One of the ways in which the McKinley tariff operates against the trade of this country is witnessed in the duty of 1^ cents a pound on the lead contained in silver ores. Formerly these silver-lead ores were exported in large quantities from Mexico to the United States, to be refined in St Louis and Kansas City. Hut now, in consequence of the McKinley duty, the Mexicans, taught by necessity, separate the ore* themselves, and the business lias been lost to this country. As a further consequence, the trade in corn, which was shipped from Kansas and Missouri in exchange for the lead ores, has declined. —Philadelphia Record.

y crying: Tt sJimmyl It’s Jimmy!’ “Then I cried, too, John. I just broke down and cried like a baby. She got me in?o the house, hugging and

old friend, what you have told me has J president's chair, but it is a notable | republican hope of controlling the next affected me greatly. I haven’t heard ; fact that those who have thus asserted United States senate and retarding the from my home way up in Maine for themselves have more than any others j work of tariff reform. The jig is up ten years. I’m going home to-mor- found favor with the people. The two ' and the people will continue to prevail.

most conspicuous instances of this kind ^ —Louisville Courier-JournaL

row. Romance.

The public may regard trusts or combinations with serene confidence.” Andrew Carnegie, November 8, 1888. “Protection offers us inducements to trusts, but if they are formed we can

—Four short years ago the protectionist organs gravely declared the question of protection was settled in America for twenty years to come. Ret nothing is settled unless it is settled right, and the majority against protection at the recent election was about 2,000,OOli —bu Louis Courier.

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