Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-05-30
FRIDAY MAY 90 1890.
HEAR THIS EAGLE" sCKEAM.


The Wichita Bagie, edited by Marsh N.
Murdoch the leading Republican paper in
Southwest Kansas, has this to say in
doubleleaded editorial
The Mckinley bill is an outrageous per-
formance. 1t is but a cheap monkey
show in the face of high heaven and of
the American people.
1t is an attempt to make an angel of the
devil without abbrevialing his tail or saw
ing off his horns. 1t takes dollars from
the farmers and returns them dimes. 1t
does not impose single duty which will
help Kansas farmer.
What do we care about the duty on
eggs and on hay! This suggestion
ought to render the average Kansas roos-
ter impotent and start the heus of every
barnyard west of the Mississippi crow.
ing.
The Lord preserve us! Bat what with
the Mckinley bill, the supineness of the
Reed-Cannon led crowd in the lower
House of Congress, and hypocritical prohi-
bition, If the Republican party in Kansas
docs not hear something drop next No
vember then twenty-seven years in the
editorial service has only fitted us for an
insane asylum.
The additional duty on wool is but
water-gruel of the weakest sort for the
Kansas farmer, upon whose hearts blood
the goldite of Wall street an the comb.
nette of New England and of the East fat.
ten to full-eyed paucity.
AS the stars in their course fought
against Siselia, so the civilization of the
closing hours of the nineteenth century
fights against the hide-bound tariff bur.
dens with which the West is being sad
dled by the incorporated bl0ats of Eastern
manufacturing and Atlantic money CEN
tres. Saddled, too, by the men, by the
political parties which the people them
selves sustain and keep in power.
This is the position which the people
of Kansas will hold and maintain, in spi Q
OF the $4,000 machine majority that was
rolled up by this State few months since
for Beh Harrison and Protection.
TIN PLATE AND GLASS.
The prospects of the passage of the
Mckinley bill unameL ded by the Senate
are not by any means rosy. 1t is saiu that
so far as timed plate is concerned, there
is ground for belief that the increase en-
bodid in the Mckinley bill will be stricken
out. Senator Allison is reported as not
being IN favor of the increase, and Sen
ator Plumb is flat footed in opposition TO
it. On this point they appear to reflect
the views of the Republican Senators from
the West. AS the increase was only car
ricd through tie House by scratch, if
the Senate should disagree to it there
would be no salvation for tin plate IN
conference. The S20,000,000 that were to
Immediately have their prerent employ.
ment TO engage in the manufacture of tin
plate, made profitable by the imposition
OF tax on the people of the United States
may perhaps be allowed to remain as at |
pretent invested
The Increases in the glass sCeedu.es aIe |
Judged not TO be favored ny some Western |
Republicans. In this particular it is not
easy to gauge the actual sentiments of the
majority; but it Is certain the tariff re-
form Democrats will make this a special |
point of attack, even if the Finance Com
nlttee agrees to the increase in the Nc
kinlcy bill.
The general provisions of.the Q, s. Flag
Dill now before Congress are to the effect
hat any person who shall disfigure the
lag either by printing on it or attaching to
t " any advertisement for public display
ihall be guilty Of misdemeanor. For
his offense the punishment is to be a fine
'f $50 or thirty days Imprisonment, or
both at the discretion OF the Court. While
he principle involved in the proposed law
s not weighty one, it is clearly proper
hat this emblem of the Union of forty.two
states should not be put to common uses.
The public will agree in the sentiment of
he New York Tribune that The flag is en-
tiled to the utmost respect under all cir.
and to respectful treatment
It the hands of every citizen. 1t is not
n line with such treatment to make it
Medium for advertising Smiths Celebra-
ed Soap or Jones World-Renowned
iealth-Restorer. If the advertisers are
o far lacking in good sense as to fail to
,eep their hands off, it may not be bad
hing to compel them to do so.
CHICAGO is having her hands full in
roviding the wherewith to hold the
Worlds Fair. She is beginning TO find
he difference between raising wind and
aising cash to the extent of $5,000000 or
100000. New York had ready tor
se S15, 1000, 900. That would have been
ufIlcient to put the thing in operation,
nd work could have beer commenced
efore this time.
"A BRAVE talker and timid voter" is
Ill.