Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-05-10

tinued, so that we will have train
both ways morning and evening. TIL
n new, through train, from st. Louis
Kansas City, is q grand thing for Lex
~ ington, almost equal to q new railroad
and it is q contamination for which tn
Intelligencer has lsbored for a lon
,, time. For its ultimate success our pee
pie are under obligations to Col. Tai
mage, fourth vice-president of tn
r road, and particularly to Mr.. A. N
Hsger, superintendent, and Mr.. c
q Ben Russell, the agent here, both .
: whom have urged it, in and cut o
season, until it was secured.
THE BRIDGE ACROSS THE MISSOURI
One of the very highest officers il
the Gould combination said a few day
e ago that he would Y rest until hi
: had secured the building of a bridge Al
Lexington, for the use of the Wabash
to q v the heavy tolls now paid the H
|. & St. 10. R. r. bridge at Kansas City.
This is a commonsense proposition.
as the Wabash now pays enough tolls
. in six or seven years TO build a bridge.
and a. its track is inundated above
here every time the river rises. By
running up on this side all detentions
would be avoided.
In his speech ia opposition to the
Morrison bill, Tuesday, Mr.. Randall
asked:-sWould it not be wiser to de-
fer consideration of so important a ques-
ton until the country had passed
through the excitement of a president
ial struggle, and until some information
could be secured as to the workings of
the tariff bill of 1883. Then q real re-
form measure could be adopted which
wonld remain undisturbed for years,
and would be safe, steady and univer-
sally accepted. Then business interests
would have time to adapt themselves
to whatever changes might occur"
This is subterfuge. The time will never
come when MI. Randall will favor such
reduction of the tariff as the mass of
the democratic party desires. This is
proven in these further remarks on the
same occasion: -"It (the Morrison
billy was proclaimed to be the firm first
step toward free trade. Let the gen.
tlemen consider what free trade, So
called, meant, 1t meant a change of
our whole scheme of collecting the
revenue" This is, Of course, not true
and the assertion is the refuge of those
who blindly oppose reduction of reve-
nue., but who have no good argument
to support their position. To such men
the time for reduction will never come,
and every attempt at reduction, be it
ever so reasonable, will be magnitied
into free trade. No one proposes to
abrogate the tariff, and Mr.. Randall
knows it. The democrats do not ask
for free trade; only for 1reer trade than
is accorded by q tariff fixed for war
purposes, q d which never could have
been adopted in times of peace. As for
the safety of the business interests,
when such men as Gov. English, Gov.
Seymour, Mr.. Bookwalter, VIM. Il.
Vanderbilt and Mr.. Hewitt advocate
tariff reduction, most people will think
that it would be tolerably safe to grant
it. Mr.. Randall went on to say that
''the southern states alone were made
quate to success, and which of the
northern states was likely to accept the
new dispensation? He would speak
plainly and utter his fears even. in the
presence of political enemies. Take
the four great states Of Connecticut,
New York, New Jersey and Pennsyl-
vania. The census showed more than
LOO, 900 persons were engaged in man
in those four great common
wealths." Well, take those statesl No
expects anything for democracy
Pennsylvania. Connecticut has
for herself, in this canvass, in
favor of tariff reduction and reform.
Her best trusted statesman, the largest
manufacturer in her borders, has en-
phasized her declaration. New York
Is not a protective tariff state, and it is
mere assertion that takes that fact for
The largest manufacturer she ,
las upon the floor of congress is an 4
lrdent advocate of a reduction of tariff :
axes. Finally, and conclusively, New .
York, Connecticut and New Jersey, in 8
1916, voted for a platform containing :
hese words:-"We denounce the pres (,
tariff levied upon 1000 articles as !
masterpiece of injustice, inequality {
md false pretense. We de- =
nand that all custom house taxation :
hall be only for revenue" And ii they =
lid not all give their electoral votes to :
he democratic party in 1880, General {
iancock's letter in which he repudiated
lie democratic platform had quite as 7
much to do with it as anything else. Il
The grand chapter in session at st. I
last Thursday, selected the fol- n
named gentlemen as officers for q
he ensuing year:-Rev. C. G. Woods, u
!rand high priest: Lee A. Hall, deputy c
rand high priest; R. F. Stevenson, '
'rand King; Reuben Barney, grand v
W. N. Given. grand treasurer; e
Vm. II. Mayo, grand secretary. Allan !
Mcdowell was re-appointed grand lee c
urer, and VIM. H. Mayo committee o
IN foreign correspondence. u
The Marine National Bank of New,
FORK failed, last Tuesday, and as a -
Consequence Grant & Ward, stock
house, went down after
Gen. Grant is thought to have f,
ost heavily by the failure of his son, c
n whose business he was a special Il
The liabilities of the firm are fl
'laced At between $500 900 and $780, Il
90. t,
Minnesota at the last presidential II
lection cast 81 ,903 votes for Garfield b
nd but So ,s15 for Hancock, and yet we d
if a vigorous canvass could be o
made of the state in favor of a low a
srif that it would support the party e
which advocates it. b