River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-05-24

EDITOR JOURNAL: In your article
last week you claim that the assertion
made by you that the chief notOriety
of President Cleveland lies in his We
toes of pension bills, is fixed fact and
presents no argument. Also, that the
real question to which ain answer was
desired has been overlooked. This
question is this: How, as lin your
mind) Mr.. Cleveland's chief notoriety
lies in vetoing pension bills, can a
demand of the Democrats for just
and liberal bill be made consistent!
1t has never occurred to you, that a
just law, under which the pretentions
of bogus soldiers, bounty jumpers,
pension agents, and political bummers
were discouraged, and the righteous
claims of those honestly entitled to
pensions made secure and certain,
might tend to the relief of an execu-
tive not disposed to be dishonesty
liberal with money wIung from an
overtaxed and suffering people.
IL seems to me that in your queS-
tions about trusts you are indisposed to
make proper distinction between mo-
nOpolies bred and fed under Land
Laws, Patent Laws, Tariff Laws, or
No Law.
The Democratic resolutions proposed
to SO adjust the tariff laws that trusts
created under and by them, should be
rendered impossible, or Improbable.
which is the same thing.
1t ought not be presumed, that they
expected to break up the monopoly on
Il Nr,laa
Pierce's favoIite prescription, by an
adjustment of the tariff, more than we
might suspect you of reading your re-
markedly witty arCicle to the denizens
of your poultry yard expecting them
to laugh and grow fat.
You desired to know how the tariff
could be 50 adjusted as to render all
trusts impossi BILE. There is no way;
but 1T Can be SO adjusted that at least
two thirds of the schemes now in full
operation for robbing the producers
can be practically abolished; and while
as "A member of the party l may give
you my idea of the way in which the
balance may be destroyed, must con.
fess l fail to see how the Democratic
party has become converted to Henry
GeOrgeism. 1t would be like asking
a Republican of 1850 how slavery
could be abolished! and upon his an
swering, why, by making the slave
free man, insisting that the party
endorsed the views of the Aboli ZIONIST,
and wanted to destroy the prosperity
of the country for the sake of few
niggers.
The Democratic party under the
land, have started a reform in the in
terests of the farmers and working
men, and they may be driven by the
course of events to see that the remedy
lies in striking at the root and not in
looping off the branches, and thus
following the precedent established
by the Republicans. while they are
under honest leadership, accomplish
| the last and greatest reform of all,
| Freedom to Industry.
In the meantime the issue has been
plainly defined, and if the Republican
protectiOnists desire TO retain the sup.
port of the people they will find it
necessary to use more subtitle weapons
than ridicule and misrepresentation
or appeals to passion, or prejudice.
Now, in regard to your question,
How adjust the tariff TO abolish the
Coal Oil Trust and Standard Oil Mo
nopoly!" can only repeat, as in my
opinion it is the only way, take the
tariff off of all products of labor and
place it on natural opportunities.
The Democratic party do not 90 as
far as this now; perhaps they never
will. If as a commencement they
I fah he
reached through the protective tariff
in and during the next four years, it
will afford great relief to an over
burdened people.
Your attempt to prove that England
/ is the mother of trusts, will be fully
appreciated. when you undertake to
show that the description you have
given of the state of affairs there
would not be applicable to Rome,
/ Egypt or even China, before England
/ had even name.
In future articleI think can show
you. il you desire il, how the tariff
permits the operation of the sugar
| trust. -.
Our correspondent who thinks he is
having so much fun with us over the
resolutions of the Democratic conven-
ton. but had nothing to do with
framing them. comes back at US this
week double barreled, loaded as usual
with Henry George slugs and free trade
powder, and pops away with the evil
dent conceit that with this twin fusi-