Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-12-27

read and write, the republican popular
vote would be cut down at least mill
lion. Which is the illiterate party7"
Some three years ago the Intelligent
Ger printed an editorial article on the
French tariff, explaining that that
country maintained practically two
tariffs, one very high for countries
which have high tariff, and one only
nominal in its rates for countries which
reciprocate with 1t in trade relations.
In that editorial we showed that many
articles were actually prohibited to be
exported from the United States to
France, and we predicted that sooner
or later the stupid policy of the repub-
lican party would shut us out of that
country as to our meats and cereals.
Our opinion was some time ago vindi-
Gated as to meats, aud by reading an
article elsewhere copied from the New
York Herald it will be seen that it is
also to be verified as to our cereals.
We said during the recent canvass that
under the circumstances farmer who
favored high protective tariff ought
to be bored for the simples. In view
of the action of France and Germany
toward us, and the contemplated siml-
lar action of England, we think the
expression was none too strong. Gram
and hogs are pretty low now, and un-
less some promise of tariff reform is
made to our leading customers
abroad they will not soon recover.
The Chicago Times reviews the
figures of the election in an editorial
article which follows the same reason.
ing contained in this paper last week
1t says:-"In current political jargon,
twenty-five states are commonly held
to comprise the north and sixteen states
the south. In the first-named group
of states the complete returns show
that at the recent election the Cleve.
land electors received 3,lS8,OS7 votes
and in the second named group O.
states they received 1,be3,1S7 votes
This Ia to say, almost two-thirds of the
Cleveland vote came from what il
usually called the north. and but LITTLE
more than one-third from what il
known as the south. OF the sixteer
co-called southern states, however, bu
eleven belonged to the southern con.
federacy. In these eleven states the
Cleveland vote aggregates but 1885,
094, or but little more than one-fifth O
the entire Cleveland vote Of the coun
try. The fact that almost 80 per CEN
of the total vote cast for the Cleveland
ticket was poled in the 'loyal states
will doubtless be startling revelation
to those timid souls who have been de-
luded by the bowling of the Blaine
organs into the belief that the southern
Confederacy 'is once more in the sad
dle.' But it is even So"
The New York Herald of last Sun
day, in a leading article upon the sub
ject ofdivorce, among other things said
"Last Sunday the Herald published 6
list of nearly seven hundred divorce
cases pending in the courts Of Chicago.
This morning we print the names o.
the parties to more than seven hundred
suits on the dockets Of the Philadelphia
courts. We also give similar cata.
logue for this city, but its length is in
significant compared with that OF the
others. Fourteen hundred app lea
tions for divorce pending in two citiel
is a startling fact, whose announce
ment is we'll calculated to arrest public
attention." Our republican friends tall
in their platform of their opposition tt
Mormonism, when as matter Of fac
they have during their "a years tenure
of power permitted it to grow into
power in the land. And here is an
other gigantic evil that they have fond
led and caressed-divorce, species O
Mormonism as repellant and as de-
structive to the perpetuity of the famil,
relation as that practiced by Brigham
Young's followers. 1t is true that thi
crime, fo- 1t is crime, is not confine,
to republican states, but it is also tru
that the so-called sliberal' divorce law
are only found in republican states
notably in Illinois and Pennsylvania
and that the states that stand by tn
Biblical requirements for divorce ar
in the south. There should be H.
division, however, upon this question
one which III Importance is second t
zone that presents itself to our legisla
tors, and the hydra headed monster, i
whose track follow sins and evils un
utterable, should be strans led to death
while yet virtue sufficient exists in th
land.
PRAIRIE VALLEY.
Wheat is looking well.
No deaths, birth or marriages.
Health of the community good.