Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-08-16
POLITICAL OPINION,


coin, Grant, Garfield, Arthur and Harri-
son is still good enough for the colored
voters Of the country.
Philadelphia Bulletin: Why is it that
Secretary Endicott must send to Eng
land in order to make a purchase of
5000 blankets for the army?
Ohio State Journal: The highest type
of American manhood never goes fishing
on Decoration Day, neither does it in
suit the widows and orphans of the pa
triot dead.
Those Democratic party managers who
are trying to manufacture political
sensation of some kind to head off the
rapidly growing popularity of Harrison
and Morton should remember that SEN
sations Of that kind sometimes act as
boomerangs There's the Morey letter
forgery, for instance.
At Joliet, ILL., the Stone City Protec-
tive Tariff club has been organized
among the wage workers of the rolling
mill, with 600 members, mostly demo-
Gratis. Joliet, usually democratic by 400,
will go republican by a substantial ma
jority.
The Mills bill is freighted with dan
gerous promise. The Denver Republican
says: Half the lead bearing silver
mines in Colorado would be closed by
the passage of the Mills bill. Most of
them are badly hurt at present by the
free importation of lead ores from
Mexico"
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette: When
they talk about sectional papers in Gin
cinnati that are red-hot and all that,
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we have no hesitation in putting on the
hat, to show what an abominably bad
fit it is. We ask that the people of
Ohio shall have as much political power
in the United States, man for man, as
the people Of Georgia. and that is all. Is
that awful, radical, sectional?
New York Iri6une: General Harri-
sons addresses to the delegations that
are visiting him from nearly every
county in Indiana are informal and un-
pretentious, but most effective. Sim
plicity and sincerity, which are char
acteristic traits of the man, shine through
these speeches. At the same time he re-
duces public questions to their simplest
terms, and deals with them comprehen-
sively, with lucidity of style and sagacity
of judgment.
New York Tribune: England is now
the only free trade country of the world,
and yet the average rate of duty collect
ed by Great Britain on all dutiable i'm
ports is 69.5 per cent. In 1886 the value
of these imports was G2S, 955. 36S, and
the amount of duties collected, $50, 1885,
562. Nearly the whole duty was levied
on tea, tobacco and wines, which that
country does not produce at all, and on
spirits which it taxes whether produced
st home or imported.
Rochester Democrat: In New York it
is plainly discerned that no more avail
able candidate than is General Harrison
could have been selected. The most
stanch of the old "Stalwarts'' and the
most earnest Of "half-breeds'' are alike
enthusiastic for him. There is no ripple
of dissent anywhere in the state. Re-
publicans vie with each other as to who
can do the most effective service. The
Republicans of the Empire State have
not been as harmonious as they are now
since 1864 This means much.
St. Paul Pioneer Press: The Cleve-
land Plain Dealer, abiding to Union
veterans, calls them stupid and bigoted
old soldiers" Well, yes, they are aging
fast, and almost daily some of them pass
slIeHtly IIOu lue Iduss Ol IhAs Il1e W
answer roll call in the mysterious land
lover yonder. Their eyes are not so
bright nor their steps so firm and springy
as when they marched to the sea with
Sherman and rallied beneath Grants
victorious standard at Appomattox.
Yes, they are stupid now, for age dims
the intellect. And yet they made it pos
sible for the fiippant young man who
penned this pitiful slur to write his
daily journalistic grist in the peace and
freedom guaranteed by perfect Union.
They made it possible for him to exist
north instead of south Of the Ohio.
They made it possible for him to write
untrammeled by governmental dictation
and governmental spies. They made
patriotism a reality and disloyalty .
failure.