Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-08-09
CAPITAL NOTES.

Had it been furnished on contract
according to plans and specifications,
the weather could not have been
better for the campers at Lakeside
than that they have enjoyed the past
week. Occasional showers at night
have prevented Inconvenience from
dust, and the remarkably cool breeze
from the northwest rendered the
mosquito army powerless for aggres-
siye warfare. All accounts agree
that this session Of the Assembly
was by far the most enjoyable and
successful ever held here--insurlng
its permanenee and future prosperity.
1t is said that the summer hotel
Tonyawatha, on the east bank of
Third Lake is quite full Of guests, a
number having arrived and taken up
quarters there the past week. Where
at Madison people are pleased, and
again have hopes that she will be-
come popular ar summer resort
On the whole, there is more life and
yigor here this summer than on any
summer since our coming--in 1878.
Ia addition to the unusual number
of visitors, there is a great deal Of
improvement going on, and increas-
81 business enterprise. In every
part of the city extensive buildings
are erecting; mechanics are fully
employed at increased wages; mer-
chants and manufacturers seem to
enjoy liberal patronage, and prosper
ity is apparent on every hand.
What is true of Madison, seems
to be true of the Nation generally.
The present is beyond question an
era of the most general prosperity
ever known in America. While we
do not claim it is all due to the wise
and bencfcent administration of
public affairs by the Republican
party, it is certainly no argument for
change of rulers or policy. Dem
ocratic papers are wont to enlarge
upon the shortcomings of individ-
ual Republicans, and urge them as
reasons why the Republican party
should be relieved from the manage
ment of public affairs; but they
take no pride in comparison of the
condition Of the country under Dem
ocratic administration, and the pres
ent. In all its glorious history this
Nation has never progressed and
prospered rs it has under Republi
can administration. At no time has
labor been better rewarded, Con
spicuously is this true of the agri
cultural classes. VIII any farmer
in Iowa county or the northwest
deny that his hogs, cattle and grain
| will bring him more of the comforts
and necessaries Of life now thar
they ever would under Democratic
rule? Yet farmers are specially ap
pealed to by the Democratic press tC
aid in cffecting 81 change" They
are told that the Republican tariff il
robbery. That if it were not for
the tariff, nails, lumber, leather, anC
all machinery, tools, etc, mauufac
/ tured from these materials, woul'
3 be ever so much cheaper,-practi
cally given to them. We have NOR
- faith in the Intelligence OF farmer
$ than to believe that they can b
$ coaNed into the Democratic camp b
such chat. Farmers Of the preser
, day generally do their own thinking
/, They need not be told that they bu
t most Of the staple articles used Q
9 a farm today cheaper than the
5 bought the same articles before Il
.- war, when Democrats administers
5 the government and there was pra
l. tically no tariff; and the poore
4 mathmetician among them can II
a ure out that his load Of produce
t. his hogs, cattle, sheep, horses,
# anything else he has to sell-will b
If more of anything he needs, be I
n tariff on it what it may, than Z
s. same produce would buy Of th
g article in the days of free trade a