The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-01-27
PRESS COM M EMIT.

| New York San: The only education
for which the whole people can properly
be taxed is the simple, elementary edu-
cation which is requisite for every child
and essential To the well being of a State
governed by universal suffrage, and
therefore in danger from the illiteracy
| of its citizens.
Minneapolis Tribune: 1t has been un.
derstood all over the United States that
Minnesota Republicans are at variance
with the views of the party i'm general
upon the tariff question. The resolution
OF the Union League simply places that
organization upon regular, National Re-
publican ground.
It. Louis GiObe Democrat: Speaker
Carlisle retains his seat by virtue of a
technical ruling in his behalf; but the
fact remains that a man believing him
self to have been fairly and honestly
elected wonld scorn to meet charges of
gross fraud in such an undignified and
pettifogglng manner.
Chattanooga Tenn. Times: Iowa Re-
publicans have done well in sending
James r. Wilson back to occupy his seat
In the seat in the Senate six more wears.
| Wilson is naturally conservative and of
generous nature, though circumstances
have conspired to make him a pretty
stiff partisan.
| Cincinnati COmmercai- Gazette: The
great question before the people of the
United States is not whether we are To
have cowboy tariff or grayback sys-
tenn OF finance, but whether the Demo-
cratic party with the solid South for boss
snail have this country in its hands after
the next Presidential election, TO use
without restraint.
Dallas Texas NeTs: The Chicago
Tribune favOrs Blaine and C!eveland's
message. The Atlanta Constitution favors
Cleveland and opposes his message.
The editors of the two papers ought to
meet and consult, and if possible assist
each other in Strengthening themselves
out. They are now politically in an aw-
full snarl.
Kansas City Times: OF the cities COM
petIng for the Democratic convention
Chicago is easily first. Then come New
York, st. LOUIS, Cincinnati, San Francis
| co and Boston in the order named. st.
Lonls, however, is practically ruled out
by the heat and dullness of the summer
season. Cincinnati suffers from the
same objection, and Boston and San
Francisco are impracticably located.
Chicago will probably win.
New York Tribune: If public opinion
were more elevated and pure. more
truth-loving, candid, and decent, is it
not possible that the press would inn
prove considerably? This is a free
country, and the people make their own
government, their own press, and get
their opinions expressed through it,
most of the time. But that part of the
people who need lawyers make the law
yers, on the whole, and then the law
yers make the laws.
Nashville (Tenn) .imerican dem. j:
We want to say emphatically, and to
doubly emphasize il, that we can't elect
Mr.. Cleveland, if our own professed
friends continue-purposely and wllfully
with or without malice-to furnish the
Republicans the evidence from their
own lips that Mr.. Cleveland is a free
trader, and the real friends of Mr..
Cleveland ought everywhere to repudl-
ate these "pure and simple" free traders
as enemies. As enemies we know what
to do with them. As friends they are a
load we can't carry.