River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-05-10

those resolutions to enlighten you upon
the subject. We will endeavor to en-
tighten you and your readers, and
show you side of the question that
you have never published, but side
which we give you credit for having
seen.
You ask in your first conundrum,
"How a liberal pension system can be
made to harmoniZe with Cleveland,
who has gained his chief notoriety by
vetoing pension bills" etc. You say,
cleveland who has gained his chief
nOtoriety 10y vetoing pension bills. -
Mr.. Editor, stop! Do you mean what
you say! Have you the face to stand
up before your intelligent readers of
Pierce and st. CroiX counties and point
to President CteUeLdnd as the man
''who has gained his chief notoriety by
vetoing pension bills'i Are you viii.
ling to set up that howl as the war cry
of the Republican party! Can you see
no good in reclaiming millions of acres
of land of the public domain from cor
porations which had forfeited their
rights to them if they ever had any!
Can you see no good in reclaiming
these lands for homes for actual set
tlersl Did the Republican party
through its "a years of administration
reclaim these lands, or did President
Cleveland do it! Can you not see that
President Cleveland has been every
inch q man in all his undertakings!
Can you not see Republican post
masters holding Office to-day, men who
are worthy of their positions! Has he
not had the courage to act upon his
honest convictions regardless of party
or personal friendship for those urging
claims! Has President Cleveland not
given us the most economical admin
istration since the war! Would we
have ever had surplus in the treasury
IL the Republican party had been
allowed to go on granting subsidies to
individuals and corporations composed
of party pets!
We think President Cleveland is
deserving of great deal of credit be-
cause he is able to see the injustice of
our present tariff laws, and having
seen it he deserves great deal of
credit for having taken bold stand
on the side of right in direct opposi-
ton to the Individual interests and
wishes of many of the leaders of his
party
We do not approve of private pen
sion bills, because in many cases they
are gotten up for the express purpose
of bribing the recipient of the pension
to continue his loyalty to the person
interceding in his behalf, but, DIS may
be inferred from our resolutions, to
which you seem to take exception, we
believe, that if our present pension
laws are not adequate to secure to
every disabled soldier liberal pen
sion, the laws should be so TemOdeled
as to render private pension bill I'M
necessary, thus disarming our senators
and congressman of some of their
cheap campaign thunder.
MI. Editor. please state for our in
formation the private pension bill that
President Cleveland has vetoed that
would not have been vetoed by any
honest president in possession OF all of
the facts in the case!
"How can the tariff be adjusted to
break the hard coal and kerosene oil
trust! As to the hard coal trust the
world supply of that article is limited
to comparatively small tract of coun-
try and although practically inexhaust-
ibIe it is all controlled by twelve men
or companies. The creator put it there
for the use of all men but through a
legalized system of robbery these men
have got the power to levy blackmail
on every user of that specific article of
Gods bounty BY virtue of this beau
tiful legal arrangement these corpor-
atoms have monOpoliZed the entire
hard coal fields of the world and will
not permit any one to dig coal on terms
that will enable him to sell below the
trust, or combine price. In that way
they limit the output of hard coal and
make the price TO suit themselves.
The Coal Barons are holding out of
use tens, aye, hundreds of thousands
of acres of coal land, while millions
of people suffer for fuel. The tariff
that would break this trust is direct
tax levied on the land to it's full rem
tai value for the use of the people who
create its value. How long do you
think the pretendGnt owners would pay
such a tax and keep the land out OF
usel In other words how long would
the combine last! The kerosene oil
trust is the same in principle though
differing somewhat in the methods or
conducting it's business. As to the
sugar trust that is quite another
thing. The production of that COM
modify not being limited to one sec.
tion of this country. or any one coun-
try or continent. The present tariff
has TO do with the sugar trust and
all to do with it. Refined or granulat-
ed sugar can be laid down in any of
our principal seaports for less than
four cents per pound were it not for
the tariff duty of over two cents per
pound. How long could the sugar
trust live if the tariff was knocked off
ard we were permitted TO buy Ont sug-
ar in the cheapest market! We deny
that England is free trade country
or that it is .tthe most notorious cOun-
try for trusts in the world or that
she is the mother of trusts, in the
sense that we use that term in this
discussion and challenge yoG to the
proof of these assertions.
The way to adjust the tariff so as to
make ''trusts impossible is to wipe
out the tariff altogether and get our
revenues from tax levied on the val
ues of natural opportunities which
value is entirely created by the pres
ence and needs OF the people; being SO
created they rightfully belong to the
people. Such a tax would prohibit
the locking up of nature 5 bOuntles, as
no man could afford to pay the tUll
rental value of them and hold them
out of use. That is the exact process
by which trusts can be made !mpos-
sible. -
The Verdict Unanimous.
W.. suit, Druggist. Bippus, Ind,
testifies: Il can recommend Electric
Bitters as the very best remedy.
Every bottle sold has given relief in
every case. One man took six bottles,
and was cured of Rheumatism OF 10
-. .nIir.r . A hraham Hare