Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-09-06
POLITICAL NOTES.

The Mills bill is not frec-t-ade
measure. 1t is, on the contrary. a
wet-nurse amendment to Our tariff sys-
tenn intended to put our manufactures
Or more solid footing. -PhiiddelFista
Record.
How would it do for Harrison to
resign in favor of Blaine On the eve OF
election, since the Republican party
still advertises itself to exist only for
the glory of the plumed knight boston
Courier.
-'.My personal experience has
taught me-" says Congressman Smith,
labor Representative from Milwaukee,,
THAT cheap raw material never re-
duced wages in a mandatory, but. On
the contrary, has a tendency to raise
them !" It is the conclusion likewise
of reason and common SenSe.-Sprlng-
field Republican.
The Republican movement to
put Blaine on top of Harrison is rapid
~ eliminating. Yet, though parad-
ing Blaine as the great and only
strong man in the party, the leaders
feared to nominate him in Chicago.
and finally took up a man who inspires
no more enthusiasm than 4 wooden
Indian-Arkansas Gazette
-Working-men of Americ:l, will
you vote to continue a system of fraud
and folly which robs YOU TO enrich
capitalists like Jones, and Carnegie,
and AmmidOwn, and the manufacture
ers of Pennsylvania and New York
who are putting up money to eject
Harrison, the friend of the ChineseP-
Louisville Ccurier-Journak
Blaine is the man in the party,
the life and soul of the Republican Or
ganization. and it is only half-witted.
blind partisans who think Harrison the
man. If the Republicans win it will
be by Blaine, through Blaine, and
owing to Blaine. IL Fiat, c'est alloi."
| said Louis XIV Blaine may rightly
say: 1.-The Republican party is-ME.!''
N. Y. Herald.
Mr.. Blaine has come all the way
from Europe to tell American work
| ing-men that ian element that sought
to destroy this Nation" is now seek
| ing to ''reduce them in their emOlu-
ments." Having seen the pauper
labor of Europe from Baron Carnegie's
coach, Mr.. Blaine is madden at the
Southern Confederacy than he ever
was in his life before.-St Louis Re
public.
-' say here" says Mr.. Blaine,
Z" that the wages OF the American
| laborer can not be reduced except with
the consent and votes of the American
laborer himself" Oh, can't they,
though? When the wages of Mr..
Blaine's Hooking valley miners were
reduced was it done with their con-
sent? When any of the war-tarih
barons reduced wages and lock out
their employees do they think any thing
| about the consent Or the votes of the
helpless workmen? Not much.-Boston
| Globe.
| Farmers are cautious and even
slow in moving in political affairs, but
when they are thoroughly awakened
to the necessity of reforms they move
to that end with marked alacrity and
unanimity. Many of them have been
already convinced that the war tariff
Is an instrument of general oppression,
and that the cry of good home
market for their products through It
Is delusion and snare, and they
will no longer support IL Others are
falling into line, and viii soon see its
enormities. Investigation is all that
is needed in the matter for their en-
lightenment High taxes and depression
to farming interests are doing the
work.-BellerilEe (W.) Democrat.