Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-10-03
EDITORIAL DRIFT.

Cincinnati Enquirer: The Canadian ed
itors have just discovered the fact that
President Cleveland is a man of consider
able backbone
Philadelphia Times: The belief that picnic
lemonade is the thinnest thing in existence
hangs its detected head when side by side
with Blaine defense of Blaine on trusts.
Philadelphia Record: Protection has built
up monopoly; but when the wage-earners
and the consumers of the country insist
upon sharing the crumbs that fall from the
table they are told that their greed will
ruin the country.
New York Graphic: We are living, we are
moving, in a grand and awful time; and if
any British or home Democratic gold should
happen to scorch the fingers of the cam
palgn liar he would cool the same by apply
ing them TO his grand and awful cheek.
Toronto Globe: Practically it does not mat
ter rap whether this, that, or the other
Canadian politician thinks Canada could or
could not have been more friendly to the
States in the past. The right course is to
be as friendly as possible in the future.
Louisville COurier-Jolundi: 1t isn't right
to call the Maine man who introduced Mr..
Blaine as "the Shepherd of the People," a
fool. Mr.. Blaine is indeed a shepherd of the
people, and he is assisting the monopo-
lists to shear them down very close to the
hide.
st. LOUIS Post-DispGtch: If the claim of the
cotton-bagging monopolists is true that
protection does not cut any figure in their
combine there can be no objection to remov-
ing the protective duty. The immediate
passage of an act to that effect would test
the question.
Philadelphia Record: A man might as well
try to bat baseball across the Atlantic
Ocean as to make thick-skulled person
think that the word Protection" when
stripped of its breeches, is nothing more or
less than bare-legged taxation. But so it is
just that and nothing more.
st. Louis ReDublic: When we look back
at the New York demonstration in honor
"of the Uncrowned King of the Republic
an party, we can see now that it was a great
affair-a triumphant success-every thing
in the way Of funeral that the Republican
/ party deserved.
Providence Journal: If Mr.. Blaine is wise
! he will not invite a close comparison be-
/ tween the diplomatic record of the present
administration and of that when he was
/ Secretary of State under President Gar
/ field. There are still some memoirs of the
| guano contracts and the disastrous inter
| ference with Peruvian affairs.
Albany argus: 1t was the easiest thing in
| the world for the Republican Senators to
announce that they could frame a tariff
bill that would eclipse that of Mr.. Mills. but
it was quite another thing to do it. They
now despair of being able to get up any bill
at all, and are looking around on all sides
for some way to crawl out of the hole they
| dug for themselves.
Boston Herald: General Harrison mod
estly informed his Put-in-Bay audience that
he did not propose TO speak to them about
any of those questions that were engaging
their minds as citizens of this prosperous
and mighty Nation. He found time to re-
mark before the handshaklng began, how
ever, that the taxes now imposed on the
people we're taken so indirectly and Sc
subtly that they did not know they were
being taxed at all. 1t would have been &
great many votes in General Harrison:
favor had he adhered to his original pur
pose not to discuss the great issue. "Dont
| talkp'