The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-06-12

FIVE months ago, remarks the Chlca-
go News, every democratic journal in
the land was bowling for mortgage
statistics. To-day almost every one
of them is bowling against the gather
ing of such statistics, denouncing the
inquiry as unconstitutional, impertin-
ent, brutal and almost everything else
that is bad. 1t is thus that journals
earn their reputation for scandalous
insinccrity.
Duluth News: The first monument
erected on the battle field of Gettys-
burg was that placed by the survivors
of the First Minnesota regiment to
mark the resting place of their fallen
comrades on that field. 1t was mon
ument costing about ST 600. The state
has also made an appropriation of $500
to erect a monument to commemorate
the heroism Of the First Regiment at
Gettysburg and it has been awaiting
disposal for several years. 1t is the
intention, however, to have the appro-
priation sufficiently increased to erect
the finest monument on the field.
Some $4,000 has been promised by
outside parties, to be paid in when
called for, including 5000 promised
by Col. W. S. King, of Minneapolis.
Col. Colville, of this city, says that it
is good thing that the matter has
been delayed, for if a $4,000 monu-
ment had been erected years ago, that
would have been the end of it. Other
states have since erected monuments
far more costly, and if Minnesota is
going to have the best one it has the
advantage of coming in last.
The Mortified News has an able St..
Paul correspondent, who shows a
proper appreciation of much of the
humbug talk about tariff and free
trade in the papers and on the stump.
The principles of protection and free
trade may we'll be carefully weighed
by every voter, but their application
should be left to experts. Under eth
er political party there should be and
must be tariff on imports into this
country for years to come. No man
who does not make a study of the
subject can justly regulate this indi-
rect tax, whether for protection or rev.
enue only. For this reason we think
the suggestions of the News cores
pendent are about right.
Please let me say to readers of the
News, that the man who undertakes
to instruct them upon the tariff from
the stump or through the newspapers
is inevitably and invariably dema-
gogue, half-trained and impertinent.
He is simply after your votes for the
one party or the other, and will dis
tort facts and twist statistics to suit
the cause he labors for. There is on
ly one way that the nation will ever
succeed in getting approximate just
ice upon the tariff question; and that
is by the creation by congress of ma
tional commission composed of the best
and wisest and truest men in the ma
ton. This commission should be per-
manent, like that which regulates rail
roads and transportation matters, and
after careful survey of all sides of
this great subject should formulate a
measure for enactment into law. The
tariff should be eliminated from the
political field. 1t has not now and
never had any right as partisan
question. The tariff has been at the
bottom of every difference which has
divided the nation upon sectional lines,
and so long as it is made the shuttle
cock of party leaders it will continue
to disturb the peace of the nation.