Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1888-09-21

claiming il is vitality necessary that
all duties be removed from wool as
the wool imported is of a class
or grade not raised in this country
and necessary To mix with our own
wool produced here and saying the
cause of the low price of wool was
because the mills in certain cases
were obliged to close because they
could not obtain woods To mix in
order To manufacture our own pro-
duet, "A statement only to be credited
with belief when uttered by farm
er student of political economy at
the agricultural college at Lansing,
as he informs us.
He holds up his hands in holy
horror because the Republicans de-
clare i'll their platform rather than
surrender any of the necessary feat
ures of the protective system, to
remove the Internal revenue tax on
whiskey and tobacco used for med
ical, scientific or sacramento pur-
pose, calling it free whiskey, when
he well knows that all states having
prohibitory flaws exempt the sale of
liquors for the above named purpOs-
eS. He would doubtless use more
circumspection were he addressing
his allies, the prohibitionists. 1t is
a source of great consolation to HIM
that under Begole's administration
the state taxes are so much lighter
than under the administration of
farmer Luce; as he sarcastically calls
him, neglecting to say as 1t would
spoil his argument that in both cases
the appropriations were alike, made
by a republican senate and house,
with the help of the democratic
members. He very naturally for
gets TO mention the cxorbitant
river and harbor bill which Grover
Cleveland has just allowed to become
law without his sanction, a. his re-
cord for vetoing private pension bills
on the score of economy would not
allow him to sign and the party lash
was SO strong when applied as made
him not dare to veto.
We next find him turning his at
tention to trusts He eulogizes the
utterances of Grover Cleveland
upon this subject, with a truly
wonderful play upon his early, over
drawn i'm agination; he says j. G.
Blaine says "trustS are private mat
tiers and nobody has a right to in
tericre with them Mr.. Blaine
says trusts are private matters, and
that Congress or Cleveland has no
right to interfere, that they are in
corporated under the laws of states
and states alone have the power OF
surprcssing them, that where one cX-
lists in the United States there are
scores in England" Truly some
people are specially favored with
fervd imaginations.
lie did not tell Us that anthracite
coal which is admitted free of duty
is under the control Of a dcSpotic
trust or that sugar, in obedience to
the party lash j, but merely touched
upon i'm the reduction of It's tariff
duty, when il is the subject of a
trust which annually takes more
tribute from the pockets of the
laboring class of people for whom
all at once he feel, the deepest So
licitude), then all other trusts com
bined, or that the democratic senator
from Ohio, senator Payne Is at the
head of the Standard Oil Co, one of
the nose despotic trusts in the world
and that some of the model prcsi-
dents most trusted advisor, are
members of his same trust. \ few
more remu of a similar nature /
were made, and thanking the people
for their kin attendance, under such /.
distressing rcumstanccS,th the speaker
closed. AZ his close, silence for
quite an EN- larrasSing period pre-
vailed All hat was needed to re-
call a funeral, was the absence of
the corpse. When by asking per
mission of the chairman, the speaker
announced the close Of tho drama.
and the meeting c. Vi.a,ut q
single cheer for the lea .s..1 u@' Is.
by the speaker All that
would have been necessary to have ell
livcued the close of the proceedings
would have been cheer, for Harrison
* Morton; these, out of respect for
the speakers feelings, were deferred.