Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-08-09

than thrice that given for hlr. Blaine,
but the increase will come from Demo
cratic accessions to a greater extent than
from returning Republicans.
Philadelphia Press: The Greenback-
| Democratic fusion in Michigan is
snaII, six-by-eight affair, the best ele-
ments of the Greenbackers in that State
having followed State Chairman Moses
Field over to the Republican side several
weeks ago. The present fusion is more
confusion than anything else.
/ Ex-senator Thurman is reported as
having said in the Senate, IN 1879, during
a discussion of the Chinese question:
Free immigration would be advantage
Gus as furnishing class Of cheap and
efficient laborers" The Chinese cues
ton has passed out of politics; but if it
is to be brought back let it be made to
stick where it belongs.
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette: The
| objection to giving Mr. Mckinley q
| courteous reception in Georgia displays
| the narrowness of the tyranny that is
carried on in the solid South by the
! Democratic party. The distinction of
Mr.. Mckinley is not that of an agitator,
but he is interesting on questions of po-
! litical economy. He is the champion of
| the protective system. Why should he
not be as acceptable in the South as
anywhere? Because the solid South is
a shape of slavery, and does not want
| its fraudulent supremacy through the
! Democratic party challenged in its own
| territory.
ST. Louis Globe Democrat: The prices
| of sugar are still going upward. The
| profits of the trust in the next twelve
~
amount to nearly $50, 600, 000 That is
to say, the refined product has been adj
vanced to about this extent beyond the
increase in the cost of the raw material
| Every one of the $4,000, 900 people of
the country feels this forced levy. The
average intelligent person is of the opin-
| ion that this powerful and arrogant
combine" deserves no favors from the
country. Mr.. Mills and his Democratic
friends in Congress, however, think diff
ferently,
Chattanooga Times: The ee-trade
papers say they are seeking the introduce
/ ton Of a revenue system that will make
a foreign market for our products
/ possible, by lowering the cost Of produc-
! ton. And whenever the free-trade pa
| pers find that our factories are shipping
/ to Europe, Asia, and South America,
| they point to the fact as proof that pro-
! lection isn't necessary. First, they de-
! clare that protection cuts our Industries
/ out of the foreign markets. Then they
| seek to show that because those indus
tries already have foreign markets for
their surplus they ought not be protected
| from foreign competition in the home
market. Your free trader as Iogician
and truth teller is not success.
Los Angeles Tribune: There is entire
| harmony in the Republican party of
California upon the National ticket; the
! full vote of the party has but to be polled
/ to have it appear how many men in the
! State desire General Harrison for Presi-
| dent. Not minute since the facts were
| stated just as they exist as to General
Harrison votes and views on the Chinese
! question, has any intelligent man, Re-
publican or Democrat, in this State been
aware of a reasonable objection on that
| ground to the ticket We submit that
| the Democrats are wasting valuable time,
| and are wearyIng the public by writing
| and speaking what is mere drivel on this
worn out theme. They might do con-
siderably better, and yet not have
| ghost of chance of winning the battle
in California.
Cincinnati IEmeS-Star: What do the
farmers of Ohio think of this Demo
cratic programme? How do they re-
| gard the project to force them into di-
rect competition in wool growing with
| the flock-masters of South America,
| where there is no other expense attend
| ing sheep-raising? Could they continue
in the business? Wool is brought from
/ South America and from Australia to
| New York and Boston at one-fourth of
a cent pound freightage. Raised by
| the cheapest labor and without cost for
! graZing-sheep being herded upon the
| public land-imported wool, if admitted
to free duty, would almost wholly sup
| plant the domestic article in our markets,
| for competition would be out of the
| question, and we should see the utter
| destruction of an industry which has
| yielded Ohio farmers from S., 600, 900 to
$4,000, 900 a year.
Milwaukee EgeninS Wisconsin: We
! consider it fortunate fact that in the
| BILLS bill wool, salt, and lumber are put
on the free list. 1t enables the issue be-
! tween the two great parties to be made
more clear and distinct and there can
be no evasion of the question. The
farmers of the United States who have
enjoyed more or less duty on wool for
| the past sixty years are now to be de-
priyed of all protection. Many states
men look at the possibilities as being
very serious They think it will not
only largely diminish the wool crop of
the country, but tend to prevent the
| growing of lambs and sheep for food,
and thereby increase the price. Mutton
has become one of the articles of daily
use IN every household, and therefore its
scarcity would be felt. 1t is also to be
considered that if there are less sheep
| DemOcrauc party Duu I.uu Tor the
North. For this is the real significance
of the passage CT the Mills Tariff
bill. In the final speech which Mills
made he explained that his bill was
not a free trade measure. That is true,
for, after all the changes and addi-
| items which have been made during its
consideration in the House, the Mills
bill is simply a heavy protective tariff
for the South and destruction of the
protective tariff for the North In the
last moments of the consideration of the
bill pains were taken to leave no south
ern product unprotected. Every raw
material that was raised in the South or
of duty free articles. But all those ma
terials and goods which the North can
produce in abundance only on condition
that 1t can pay dollar in wages for ev
cry mark, every franc, or every shilling
which the production of the same article
costs in England. South America or Aus
tralia.
A swindling reform measure like the