Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-02-22
GATH'S GOSSIP.
The Best Correspondent of All
Takes Trip to Wash
ington,
And Interviews Frank Hurd
and Sundry Influential
Politicians
On the Presidency, the Conven-
ton, and the Tariff Question.
l. 4 4 IN
B0okwalter on the Tariff.
Cath,s Gossip.

Lawn 10 IL " stths
the first time since congress met. He
sends this letter to his paper:
Meeting Congressman Frank Hurd
on the street to o.day | asked him if he
thought the Morrison tariff bill would
pass the house.
Il think it will" said he, and be-
come a law. 1t will reduce taxation
S35, 600, 600, and by its operations the
people will save $500, 600, 600 in petty
taxation which they now pay, not to
benefit the government, but to keep
up the prices of divers articles of con-
sumption which have become manu-
featuring monopollos. That is where
reduction accomplishes its greatest
good. 1t enables our people to buy a
huge variety of articles at the proper
rates
Said 1: rs Mr. Morrison man of
breadth and force2 Does he under
stand revenue matters fully2"
Il know he does" said Mr.. Hsrd
Mr.. Morrison is man of wiedge
and convictions, both mentally and
morally He is the chief author of
the pending bill himself. l am on
the ways and means committee with
him." said Mr.. Hurd, "and sec hlm
daily, and | know that he proceeds on
information and with conviction.
DORSEY AND INGERSOLL.
Colonel Bob Ingersoll went the
other day to Mr.. Dorsey, the ex-sena-
tor, and said to HIM:
Dorsey, are you going to be inter
viewed by every one of these fellows
that comes along2"
"What is the matter now2" said
Dorsey.
"Why, look here at this New York
paper Did you say thats"
Il said something like it, | pre-
sumo, said Dorsey, "but l did not
know that it was going to be pub
lished.n
"Now," said Colonel Bob, 1--WE
shall have to fasten you up some
where"
| asked Dorsey myself if he didn't
think it would be wiser not to talk,
particularly about dead people. He
said that people would think he had
no Indignation, and had done some
thing very vile, unless he talked
back
THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
asked prominent senator yester
dav. who requested me not to write
his name, what he considered to be
the prospects for the democratic nom
mating convention. Said he: Il still
believe that the nomination will come
west, and that it lies between Melon
aid and Morrison. | hope to see the
convention called at Chicago, but |
am afraid st. Louis is ahead
Said l: Don't you think Mr. Payne
stands good chance2"
mo. He is too old, and the party
is not going to take that view of our
taxation and industry. 1t won't dc to
run a man for president who would
come out of the office seventy nine
years old He will be about eighty one
when he leaves the senate, if he lives
out his term, and we hardly ever have
an instance of that description"
SAID /: do you regard Morrison as
a strong manf'
II do If Morrison should get. the
nomination the country would have
an opportunity to understand him bet
ter, and that is all his friends ask.
They know him to be a proud, up
right, strong man."
Said to this gentleman, who was
very well acquainted with all the
presidential timber: What do you
think of Mr.. Tilden as a candidate?"
''Mr. Tilden told me that he would
never be inaugurated if he was elect
ed. He has no idea of wasting the
remnant of his life serving every
body"
BooKwALTERS s VIEWS.
| had a conversation with Mr..
Bookwalter the same morning.
Said L: Have you observed that
tin has been discovered in North
Carolina2 Won't that be very ben
eficisl thing in this country, which
has hitherto been without any mines
of tin2'
II don't know whether it will be
benefit or not" said Mr. Book walter.
.'lf by means of finding some tin
they come here to congress and put
the high tariff on foreign tin, so as TO
move up the cost to every consumer
in the United States, it would be an
injury rather than blessing to US.
We had better bring our tin from
Great Britain or from Bangkok. That
is where the tariff system works its
great injury, making the cost of
living SO great. | was farm
boy working for twenty-five cents
day many years of my life. The
rich man sits in his house in New
York in a fine dressing gown, and
says: Pooh, it does not much matter
if man has to pay s15 more for a
suit of clothes Now suit OF
clothes, said Mr.. Bookwalter, (which
costs SIS more than they should cost,
takes just one months wages from a
farm laborer 1t becomes then, a
very serious thing. In my judgment, y
said Mr.. Bookwalter, ''the farming
population of the United States pay
IS, ,0Oo, 900 more to raise their crop
than the same crop could be raised for
in another country, which has not our
tariff burdens reaching into every
article that the farmer employs-his
lumber, his machinery, his salt, his
utensils, his harness, his repairs. Con-
sequently, it hardly pays the Ameri-
can farmer to raise wheat at ninety
cents bushel. its preseut price.
NAY REMARK
that not long ago Mr.. Hewitt, being
introduced to Mr. Bookwalter, said
to him: IF you were producer in
stead of being consumer of iron, it
| would be much more of a sacrifice for
you to advocate a low tariff" Mr.
Eookwaiter replied: Il am the largest
sheep-grower in Ohio and take the
same view on that subject" He has,
understand, great sheep ranch in
Nebraska.
do you think that the democrats
have the best chance of the next presi-
dencyT :.
Yes, they have sure thing, it
seems to me, The condition Of the
country Is showing the people every
day that these protective laws have
made over production and hugely In
creased the cost of living in this coun-
try, which ough. to be the cheapest
country In the world, but is actually
| the dearest. Our entire condition of
business is artificial, and this unprin-
cipled and speculative style of rich
| man yxf. roSsesa In America has grown