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

star hero, with borrowed ammunition.
with guns loaded at the breech, firing
from masked batteries, shooting at
random, failing entirely to aim at the
original mark, and falls back behind
the smoke of his own wet powder,
apparently oblivious TO the fact that
nobody is hurt except by the kicking
of his own gun.
Mr.. Three Stars says it is hard to
discuss with man who talks on both
sides of question. We know by ex-
perience that this is true; but we lind
now that it is far more difficult to de-
bate with a man who talks on no side
of question, but talks at random
through borrowed twins who had
nothing to do with framing the resolu-
tions in question.
AS to Mr.. Cleveland vetoes, we
have not said they were good or bad,
but, as our double-headed correspond
ent insists upon it, we will say that
he gained very undesirable notoriety.
In the 10th congress pension bill for
the relief of veterans of the Mexican
war was passed, and signed by the
President. The same congress passed
bill almost identical in its provisions
applying to the Union veterans of the
late war, and the President vetoed it,
and, in mis- reasons for so doing he
used language scurrilous and insulting
to every old soldier in the land, and
he squirms to-day under the expressed
indignation of nine.tenths of the old
veterans who, regardless of party,
freely roast him with their resent
ment, and will force him to call for
the rocks and the mountains OF free
trade for revenue only to fall on him
and hide him from their Indignation
when, at the polls next November
they come an almost unbroken legion
to help snow him under. Mr.. Cleve.
land has signed twice as many pension
bills as any other one of his predeces.
sors, but the fact remains that he has
vetoed twenty-five times as many as
all of his predecessors for fifty years
past lacking three only, and among
these vetoed bills we find those for
the relief of suffering widows whose
husbands lost a leg in battle, and the
only reason assigned for the veto was
that the veteran died of some other
ailment. 1t cannot be truthfully de-
MED that large majority of his yetoes
are based on no better reason than
the above, and these facts give him
a notoriety that reaches to the nations
limits, and stamps him as out of SYM
pathy with the old soldier and the
families of old soldiers, and the po-
sition of our correspondent Mr.. Three
Stars places him in the same boat, and
here comes the boat.
He askes, Suppose the duty was
taken off sugar, how long would it be
before some enterprising American
would fit out vessel and take out a
cargo of our surplus cereals and bring
back cargo of sugar, and with many
such vessels entering every cove and
port along our sea coast, sailing up
our rivers and through our lakes de-
livering sugar at our doors, &c. !"
How long! well, as near as we can
calculate it would take a real sharp
American free trader about 5000
years to perform that great feat.
Still, if Mr.. Three Stars desires to go
into the enterprise, we will cheerfully
assist to lift the tariff from sugar Ia
thing the Democrats refuse to dol and
go as second M, tie on his Queen of
The Waves, loaded with beans, to any
foreign shore and help do the trading,
provided always, he goes as captain.
We know we would get more fun out of
it than ever fell to our lot as yet in all
our illustrious career. With a large
hearted captain, bent on blessing the
inhabitants of every hamlet along our
creeks and mill races with something
sweet at low figure, together with
our Unborn philanthropy, we are sure
we should find it the fountain of bliss,
and that the Joy would grow sweeter
and sweeter as we sailed gloriously on
our return, freighted with saccarine
blessings to the tax ridden multitude
who cannot now sweeten their coffee
because Louisiana Democrats Cypress
them so sorely, and me thinks that
when we sailed up the Kinnickinnic
regardless of obstacles. and heard the
man with the sounding lead cry out
smark twain" mo BOTTOM" &C., as
we rounded to, and cast anchor on our
friend Putnam's mill pond and COM
menced comforting sweet blessings on
the denizens of the cooper shops at
three cents pound the acme of hui
man delight would be reached. We
hope neither of our twin correspond
ents or the silent man behind them
will say we are trying to be witty, for
we are not: we know better than to
waste wit; we are in earnest; for any
American who would undertake such
wild goose chase as suggested by
Three Stars would not only be sharp
as scratch awl, but he could con-
quer all obstacles, and run boat on
anything wet, even on wet blanket.
Mr.. Three Stars says he will consid-
er the PROPOSE ton of signing his name,
when the man who lodges behind our
back signs his. Now that is generosi-
ty inflated; how could he stoop to such
condensation Every tyro knows that
editorials are never signed, but that
the proprietor is always responsible
for them: and every one who pre-
sumes to write for any paper. as
correspondent should know, that he
has no claim on space in any paper,
however meritorious his articles, I'M
less his name accompanies his contri-
buttons. This old established rule is
for the protection of the managers of