Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-06-08

fOu. "A ALL.
DURING the last year the growth of ex-
tortionate combines or trusts to tax CON
sumers has literally robbed the people out
of many scores of millions, and without
any compensation to industry, or any
com pensation to any but the capitalist in
the combines. Hardly week, and never
a month, has passed during the last year
without developing ONE new trust to con-
troll the markets and tax consumers.
WE trust that the sudden and covert
! opposition that has made itself felt
against the International Copyright bill
will not prevail. The measure now before
congress was passed by the senate in e
shape that renders it acceptable to all
American interests. We do not think
that the house of representatives. ought
TO stop to consider the interests of the
section of the British public that has up-
exPectedly turned up in opposition to a
proposition that English literary men and
publisher were understood to Join their
American brethren in favorir z.
II prophet wishes to be esteemed iu
his own country, it is well for him to be-
come an exile and acquire honOr5 abroad.
Then the land that cast hi.n out in the
freshness and vigOr of youth will wei
come him back with honor, when iife's
laurels begin to fade into the sere and yet
low leaf So the excellent Carl Schurz is
the toast of Berlin, and high nohiities
and great scientists rival in doing him
homage. Having gone the rounds of the
royalties, Mr.. Schurz's latest appearance
was on Thursday at the table of honor of
the celebration of Professor Hofman's
seventieth birthday anniversary, where
he was hailed as the incarnation of
American science and literature.
APPARENTLY Mr.. Chamberlain expects
some further reward for his adhesion to
the Tory Government. He has just made
a speech lauding the ministerial policy in
Ireland, urging the adoption of his own
plan for carrying it out and challenging
the Gladstonians to enter into cOmpe-
titioR with him if they think they can
produce a better scheme. The country
has paid very little attention to his first
announcement, and Mr.. Chamberlain, like
some American newspapers whose senea-
tions are confined to their own columns,
has commenced to critjcise and praise his
own scheme in the hope of bringing it
into real public prominence. The diff
Guilty of Mr.. Chamborlain's position is
one which commonly attends the sugge5
tions of turnouts. In the first place, it
lacks the force of apparent disinterested-
natural support, for the reason that the
mombers of the party he left will have
mona of him or his, and those of the party
he has joined view his ambitious efforts
to lead them with jealous distrust.
harbor, of nine thousand crates of south
ern vegetables in good condition on Tues
day, because the markets were glutted, is
an unmistakable indication of the ex-
pansion of the business of growing early
vegetables for northern markets in the
southern states. 1t is not probable that
np oh INT uIu Of
this kind in which the goods could not be
marketed at any rate, would have Oc
cured, as the vegetables would have been
distributed over a longer period. The
lateness of the present season has retard
ed the growth of early vegetables even in
the extroma south, and has led to au i'm
and oucumbers, thus placing upon the
northern markets more than could pos
sibly be disposed of until they would be
spoiled. The Increased production of
these early vegetables is a cause for con
graduation, but it Is evident that poop
er adjustment of the matter of distribu-
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not be necessary to feed the fishes of the
Atlantic with nine thousand crates of
good vegetables in day.
THE case of General Sheridan favors
the theory that very few, if any, of the
men who bore the strain and respousi-
6illties of prominent parts in the great
war have failed TO suffer some injury
from it. Sheridan has seemed the pic
ture of health and tireless energy, but
there is little doubt that the supreme
stress of some critical moment, like the
turning of the tide at Winchester, laid
the foundation for the disease that now
lays him low. There are but few of the
men prominent in our field operations
now surviving, and most of the dead have
passed away with comparative sudden
ness from illness that could be distinctly
traced to the hSrd work and great ex-
elements of the war. Tough cid Gener-
al Sherman seems TO he the most nota-
BILE OF tho few exceptions that prove the