Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-08-08

The public must not coniouad the
James gang, of Richand county, with
the Missouri desperadoes Norm. james,
we are dead sure, would not sanction train
robbery unless Ike McCann was aboard.
The great peace conference, in which
Secretary Blaine figured 50 conspicuously
as the great peace-maker of the Amer
icas, seems to be followed by an epidemic
of wars and revolutions among tie Latin
Am erican states.
The republicans will probably adopt
the prohibition plank relating to eompul-
sorry education, but they have agreed not
to endorse the third party nominations.
Hoard still stands chance to head the
ticket
How Ella Wheeler Wilcox would have
reveIled if book of hers had been forbid
den the mails at that piquant period of her
saucy life when she was gaining notoriety
that she "meant to tone down to a reputa-
ton"
WITu Senator Plumb denouncing the
Mex inley bill. with the Topeka Cham
pion, the leading republican paper
of Kansas declaring that protection
has impoverished the west and enriched
the east, with the Omaha Bee, the big re
publican organ Of Nebraska, censurlng
the republican convention because it did
not call for tariff revision that should
give free wool and free clothing. it looks
MS if the soul of tariff reform is marching
on.
THE republicans are at their old tricks.
The navy yards are TO be packed with
hired men from now on till election. An
old yard, up in Reeds district, is to bc
put in repair and some 500 or 500 men are
to be hired The money is wasted, SO far
as any good comes of it to the navy, but
Reed needs votes badly. lie is afraid his
district will desert him at Il very
critical time in his career 1t
was in that way-the employment of men
to repair ships aud uavy-yards that our
navy disappeared under the republican
u|',tnaaII,.,.;,,.',fa,.;l.; | ,f na,.,I
appropriations has been begun in the old
way II all goes for repairs of the
chances for election in doubtful districts.
THE Springfield Republican calls atten-
ton TO the t'ct that no nation outside OF
the United states mas made 4 more deter
mined EFFORT 70 reduce lm 2orts ana increase
exports by means OF taritl than Germany.
And yet the trade returns for 1859 show
that the merchandise imports INTO that
country exceeded the exports by the large
sum OF s2l2,oOo,ooo. There was also an
excess OF imports tor lSSS to the amount
of S2l 100000, and IN none of the past 10
years have the net exports amounted to over
t25,ooO,Ooo. This would seem to show
the utter futillty of attempting to ward otf
10y high tariffs an "untavorable trade bal
ance. which Is the terror of terrors OF the
mercantile school of political economy that
prevails just now in the United States.
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