The intelligencer., 1889-04-27

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The farmers and -wage-workers of
this country are beginning at last to
realize that the protection which they
voted upon themselves last November
is like the whistling statue of the
Egyptian desert-all brass and "holler
at the butt"
The Globe-Democrat said election
week ct is not merely a question OF
keeping St.LouIs republican in 1889 but
also of making Missouri republican in
1892" Welllhe Globes man was badly
beaten that day, SO we suppose 1892 is
settled for the democrats.
The three graces who profess to rep
resent st. Louis in the congress of the
United States should get down off
their pcdestals and buy broad fig leaf.
They are altogether too conspicuous.
as the result OF their unveiling by Sec
rotary Noble before they were ready
The steel rail men have made anoth-
er and a closer combine, which will
enable them still further to crush the
producer by enhancing the price OF
rails and transportation. Every one OF
these conspirators is republican and
helped to put that party back in power
to the end that they might the more
effectually rob the people.
Boulanger wants "to deliver The peo.
pie from parliamentarism." Is that so?
How? By substituting imperialism? !?
The former may be bad as the unre-
| strained and uncontrolled rule of a
majority, but even that is better than
the dictatiOn of one man. General
Bouanger is treading on dangerous
ground. There is one comfort in the
situation-the army views him gener-
ally with suspicion. With an army of
sans cmloHeS led by a Rochefort, he
would hardly get far with his coup
d 'etot.
Holden Enterprise Where is that
millennium that .was TO be ushered in
with a republican administration? We
were told ifa republican was elected
times would be good, laborers would
be in demand and the prices of COM
modities would be higher. We're not
votes obtained by false pretenses, when
men cast their ballots believing those
statements? To-day we find the EN-
ployment of labor is being reduced and
prices scaled down, and the prices OF
produce are lower. Take fat cattle as
one item and the price is nearly one
dollar per hundred lower than in any
March for the past twenty three years.
clogs grown in this country are fed
so largely on corn that American pork
has acquired distinctive character as
being harder and containing more lard
than that OF other lands. 1t is not
a bad repute, This pork goes farther
than il otherwise would, and if it is
less digestible than that containing
more lean, it is mainly eaten by those
who work hard aud who like best that
that TODD which stands by them the
longest" This statement of the Bos-
ton Budget is true. Indeed it is not
all of the truth, for as matter of fact,
American pork is the whitest and the
best on earth, yet the moss back, ante
diluvian so-called protective policy OF
the republican party keeps this pork
out of the German and French markets
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Even ordinarily so fair a man as
Senator Allison in his article i'm the
April North American Review directly
and unequlvocally misrepresents the
democratic party on the tariff question.
MIR. Allison never yet heard demo.
crat say, or saw a democratic platform
which asserted, that the taxes provided
by the tariff should not be so adjusted,
within the purpose of revenue, as to
encourage home manufactures. Yet
Mr.. Allison leaves the impression that
with democrats this consideration is
ignored. 1t is not the want of know
ledge of a plain line of principles, but
simply the perversity of the "ornery"
party that he belongs to, that renders
il apparently impossible for republi.
can to tell the truth about the demo.
cratic position on the tariff.
Globe Democrat: The gain made in
Missouri in coal production last year
was marked and important. While it's
output in 1887 was 3 ,209 ,9l6 short tons,
it was expanded to 5000 1867 in 1888. In
1887 Missouri ranked eighth among the
states in coal yield, but it advanced to
sixth place a year afterward. The
states stood in this order in this partic-
uiar 1887 Pennsylvania, Ohio. Illinois,
West Virginia, Iowa, Maryland, Indi-
ana, Missouri. Twelve months later
Missouri stepped ahead of Maryland
and Indiana. This gain, of course, is
somewhat tlattering to this community
but il is trivial compared with the ad-
vance which will be made when the
capitalists of the country obtain an
Intelligent idea of the extent and rich
ness OF the coal deposits underlying the
soil throughout nearly half the area OF
| tliis state.
They say that "Eilley is in the soup"
Well, maybe; and maybe not. Tie
democrat 81 no believes so is, we think
mistaken FiIley will see that Filley is
cared for, and don't you forget it.
Chauncey |. Filley is the best organ
i2er in either party in Missouri. He is
the only one in active service that we
know OF The So called organizations
of others have been as play-things i'm
comparison with his perfect and sys-
tematic arrangements covering every
precinct in the state. We did not be-
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