Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-10-09
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accomplished more than any single
session of Congress ever before did,
we append partial list of the new
laws passed by it, including only
such as are of national importance.
First in Importance is the Mckinley
tariff bill, the most carefully pre-
pared and complete measure of the
kind ever enacted into law; next
contest the silver law, which has
had so much to do with starting the
tide of prosperity now steadily ris-
ing all over the country. The Gus
toms administrative bill cured a
great evil in the classification of i'm
ported goods; the dependent and
disability pension law renders par
tial justice to veteran Union soldiers;
the antitrust bill shows that the re-
publicans have no sympathy with
the robber combinations formed by
monopolists to rob the consumers
of the country; the anti-lottery law
gives practical evidence of the
position of the republican party on
questions of mora reform; the bill
for a grand Worlds Fair at Chicago
to celebrate the four hundredth an
niversary of the discovery of Amer
lea meets the approval of all good
citizens; the admission of Wyoming
and Idaho as states fultils the prom
Use of the republican national plat
form to admit the territories as fast
as they become qualified for state
hood; the meat inspection law will
restore the prestige which American
meats once had in foreign countries;
the railroad land grant forfeiture
law res .ores to the public domain
and opens to homestead settlement
millions of acres of desirable land;
the original package law means
another step forward in moral re.
form; the building of three line Of
battle ships, one protected cruiser,
and two torpedo boats, provided
for, gives the Government addition
al power to protect American inter-
ests, and the liberal appropriations
made for the Portage Lake and
Hennepin Canal in the northwest,
and for the deep water harbor at
Galveston, in the southwest, shows
the republican party to be thorough
ly alive to the commercial needs Of
all sections of the country. This
record is especially commended to
young men about to cast their first
vote; if the republican party had no
other record than the one it has
made in Congress since last Deem
Der that alone should be sufficient
to keep them in control of the Gov
erument for twenty years to come.
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Brains will beat boots every time,
no matter how heavily the latter
NAV be soled. Our democratic
friends seem slow to appreciate this
self-evident truth.
When Congress met last Deem
the price of wheat in Chicago was
sO.79 per bushel. On the first day
of September of this year the price
in the same market was sl.014 per
bushel. Here is a practical illustra-
ton of what ten months of republic
can legislation has done for the ag
ricultural interests of the country.
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Senator Ingalls, hit the nail square
on the head when he said: "Not
only should every citizen be poll
tician, but he should be partisan
politician" Yes, brethren, it is the
partisan politician who has filled
the brightest pages of history in all
ages, and to the partisan politician
the world owes every step of real
progress ever made. Milk-and-
water and Miss-Nancy politicians
are a detriment to any party to which
they may for the time being attach
themselves, and the republican party
cannot afford to adopt their advice
upon questions of national policy.
Aggresslveness made the republican
ulrfy what n = an1 ~ hon - nn,so,,