Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-01-15
POLITICAL NOTES,

THE Cincinnati ENQUIRER, the most
ably unedited organ of the democratic
party in the west, has taken a great
fancy to Gov. Hill of late.
Gov. Hills visit to Ohio signifies very
clea1l y that he does not share the inn
preston that Grover Cleveland is going
| to be the next democratic candidate for
| president.
MIR. CLEvELAND's observations with
regard to the election were chiefly nota-
BILE for what they did not tell concerning
his attitude on the question of TammanY
rule in New York
The best Endorsement of Sneaker
Reeds quorum-counting policy is to be
found in the fact that he draws larger.
crowds than any other man who is talk
ing politics this year.
THE democratic conspiracy to rafse the
prices OF all the neceSsaries of life i'm Or
der to gain political advantage has
never been surpassed for deliberate and
contemplate CussedneSS.
THE democrats voted against the bill
chttlng the duties On lumber and binding
Irvine and putting sugar on the free list.
inns Is one OF the reasons why they are
asking the farmers to vote the demo-
cratic ticket.
THE cry of high prices is not as loud
as it was few weeks ago, for the sim
pie reason that the.prices are as low as
they were before the new tariff was pass
ed, as anybody can see by reading the
advertisements.
If Ananias were alive now he would.
after reading a COurier-JOu4ndt article
on the effects of the Mckinley bill. walk
up to the editors room and say: s.Mr.
Watterson, take my hat. l find I am
only an amateur"
ACCORDING to Carl Schurz, ''that eco
monte policy is best which works best,
He does not submit this remark as a vim
dication of the protective tariff system.
but it can be very aptly and iorcibly an
piled in that relation.
Gov. HILLS chances for the presidency
have been materially lessened hv his re-
cent stumping tour. He made a grave
mistake, that is to say, in aot concealing
the fact that he is one of the poorest
public speakers in the country.
CUBA has already begun to ask for rec
lprocity with the United States, and
other foreign countries will do the same
IN the near future; and yet the demo-
Gratis proclaim that the new tariff law ia
calculated to diminish our exports.
Mr.. ROOSEVELT contributed $50 Co the
republican campaign fund, thus recog-
nizing the important fact that civil sery-
ice reform has not yet reached the point
where political virtue can get along with
out money to circumvent the powers of
darkness.
A REGULARITY about the Mckinley
ie hot ho "a 3,
and the more it is studied the better it
IS liked. Ii the law had gone into oper-
alton on July /, as originally intended.
instead Of Oct. 6, the republicans would
undoubtedly have carried the next house
by at least forty majority.
SENATOR SHERMAN aff1rms that ssas a
universal rule, wherever we have by pro-
lection established in this country the
manufacture of any article, the result
has been reduction of the price, Such
fact, and it is an indisputable one, re-
tutes the Whole theory of the free trad
ers about the burdens of the tariff.
DEMOCRATIC juggling in the attempt
to explain the sugar duties of the Me-
Ainley tariff doesn't conceal the fact
that that act makes cut of more than
&c pound in the impost on refined
sugar. The price to the consumer will
be reduced to this extent from April /
next, when the change in duties goes
into operation.
IHE republican conspiracy against
silver" which the democrats are howl
Ing about, has advanced the price of
that metal to the extent of 12 cents an
ounce at present rates, and will undoubt-
edly push 1t much higher. The friends
OF silver and the business interests of
the country, which are benefited by the
narrowing OF the gap between silver and
gold, can stand conspiracies of this sort.
ACCORDING tocareful calculation about
thirty seats In the house of representa-
yves have been stolen from the republi-
cans in the Southern states through
democratic .bulldozing and fraud. OF
course the same thing will take place
TINS year. This is one of the drawbacks
which the republicans of the country
have to contend. against always, but they
manage to triumph over it occasionally.
nevertheless.
CANNED fruit, SO far as ii will be af-
iected In price at all by the tariff, will
pc cheapened. The slight extra cost OF
lin which will be caused by the adyanE
IN duty which begins next July will be
much more than counterbalanced by the
drop III prices on sugar to be brought
ABOUT by the cut in duties which takes
place next April And yet, according To
the democrats, the canning Industry was
70 be hit hard by the tariff.