Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-02
PRESS COMMENT.

Mount VeSuV1uS and Mount For
aker are both in eruption. These be
seismic and serious times.-N. Y. Sun.
Many Republicans admit that Mr..
Harrison overdid the Cheap John bust
ness when he appointed Wanamaker.-
Atlanta Constitution.
1t is possible that after the Repub-
licans in Congress have thoroughly COM
mitted themselves to something, the
President may pick up the courage to go
and do likewise. Providence journal.
Senator Voorhees,, in introducing
his tariff-for-revenue-on resolution,
shows gratifying advance in his own
political education; but it is like laying
pearls before-Senators who do not care
for pearls. Record.
Mr.. Harrison speaks in pretty
strong language regarding trusts. But
the trusts are not afraid. He speaks ia
just as strong language regarding the
necessity of keeping up the tariff which
makes trusts possible.-Chicago Herald.
in England during the present
year the coal miners have gained an adj
vance of 90 per cent. in wages, and are
pushing for a further 10 per cent. We
commend this to the coal miners of
Spring Valley, Ill. and Clay County,
Ind. 1t is good time for them to cal
culate where they come in under the
''protection to American working-men,' -
and how much of the IS cents ton tariff
duty on coal they get.-Indianapolis
News.
in answer to circular of inquiry
lately sent out by the New York Dry
Goods Reporter to firms engaged in
I, Is
goods, out of seventy-eight replies re-
ceived fifty-nine declared themselves in
favor of free wool and nineteen in favor
of a reconstruction of the wooden duties
on an ad valorem. basis. As a general
proposition it may safely be affirmed
that makers and dealers in wooden goods
''know what is eating them"
phia Record.
Mr.. Harrison's declaration is cor
rect that ''great benefit will accrue from
the adoption of some system by which the
officer would receive the distinction and
benefit that in all private employment
come from exceptional faithfulness and
efficiency in the performance of duty
The theory is unexceptionable; but the
way to reduce it to practice does not seem
to be in the line of appointing subordi-
Id ttS WHO w LII OcCd pltaJc OulCC-uoiQerS
by thousands merely because new adj
ministration has come in.--Pittsbnrgh
Dispatch.
Says Henry George: Look at onr
tariff. Here we see the power Of our
Governments applied directly, purposely,
continuously and unconstitutionaly to
give some citizens an advantage over
other citizens-to make the rich richer
and the poor poorer. Look at Mr.. Car
negie with his income of millions and
his castle in Scotland; look at the men
of whom he is the type, and then at their
workmen, the poor, deluded creatures,
who have been told that it Is they who
are protected; that this precious system
of robbery is all for them.
The Republican Senators in the
Montana Legislature have declined to
investigate the tunnel-precinct election
case in company with a delegation of
Democrats. The proposition was as fair
as could have been made and would have
resulted in disclosing the real facts in
the case. The average man will not be
slow to conclude that if the Democrats
made the proposition and the Republic
ans refused it the former had nothing to
conceal and the latter wished to keep
back the facts. Straws show which way
the wind blows.-Chicago Mail.