The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-04-03
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.

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Those over-sanguine democrats who
look upon the republican party as being
in its death thrOes are preparing a sur
prise for Washington
Post.
PETER and Simpson fail to attract the
crowds which they did few weeks ago.
The public has grown tired of them,
and is on the look out for new Freaks
Globe Democrat
David B. Hill draws S40,3S each day,
besides his breath. David can afford
10 be the only living specimen of the
seEator-gOvernOr now before the pub
lic.-Toledo Blade.
Italians ought to applaud instead of
condem the summary suppression of the
Malta. for Italians constituted nine out
of every ten of the victims of this gang
of miscreantS.-GlObeD Democrat.
1t is estimated that as a result of the
legislation enacted by the last congress,
5000. 900 have been saved to the old
soldiers. which under fOFE&y regula-
tions would have gone to the pension
sharks.-Albany Journal.
If the fifty-first congress had passed
its tariff bill early enough to make the
sugar duty removal provision take effect
last September or October the result
of the congressional elections in NOvem-
Der would have been widely different.
Globe Democrat.
1t is significant fact that the men
who are doing the most clamOring in
favor of Clevelaud's nomination are the
men who will vote against him if he is
nominated. The republicans who are
shouting for the ex-president know
what they are .-GlObe-DemOcrat.
TheBritish board of trade reports
that the average yearly wages of men,
women and children in the cotton goods
industries of the United Kingdom are
SI75,19. Do you know what the
average annual earnings of cotton
workers in Massachusetts are? Well,
they are 1924, 13.-N.Y.Press
Thanks to the fostering and stimulat-
ing influence of the American protect
i've system the United States now pro-
duces more iron than any other cOun-
try in the world. and has also won the
distinction as well as profit OF making
the best steel in the world and OF sell
ing edge tools in Shefield.-Buffalo
Commercial.
Democrats are bowling about the in
crease of appropriations by the last
congress- and characterize its work as
''jObbery." 1t increased allowances for
agriculture, Notifications, Indians, the
navy. pensions, the pOstOffice, rivers
and harbOrs, and provided for a def
cheney left by a lodging democratic
house. What is there wrong about
that.-COmmercial Gazette.
Foreign nations still like American
clocks and watches, and there is an in
creasing demand for our books and
maps. Our average exports of Ameri-
can clocks and watches for five years
| ,1SS5-1S90) were 81, 1897 1884; we exported
| 1890, 81 .695. 1876, and our average Cx-
ports of books, maps and other printed
matter for five years 1885 to 1892 were
81, 539, 525, and in 1890, ST., 1886, 09i.-N.
| Y. Press.
The New York Legislature is trying
to amend the ballot reform law adopted
two years ago, but the democrats still
insist on retaining the paster ballot
clause, which is the worst in the bill.
1t was forced upon the legislature two
years ago by governor Hill, and it en-
ables the ward boss to continue his rule
at the polls, because he can identify
these paster ballots and know whether
his property has been honestly deliv-
cred. The paster ballot does not bring
reform.-Inter-Ocea
There can be no fair express on of
public opinion on the question of pro-
hibition amendment to the constitution
at general election in this state. The
reason is obvious. The liquor dealers
organizations annually raise large sums
of money to be spent in the election OF
their political favorites. This money
would be placed so as to operate against
the amendment. II is with q full
knowledgesof this situation that the
democrats in the assembly have refused
to make appropriations for a special
election in April to decide the amend
ment question. This action is new evil
dence of the subDiSsiveness with which
the democrats of this state obey their
master, the liquor dealers.-New York
Press.
We desire to give the state of Geor-
gia credit for most remarkable act of
Justice in a case involving the race
question. Awhile man has been SEN
fenced to death for felOnious assault
upon mulato girl. He may never be
executed. Probably his punishment
will stop far short of the gallows, but
his conviction and sentence are none
the less remarkable. 1t is the first case
Of the kind ever known, we believe. in
any of the former slave states. The
laws of the south are much MOI e severe,
as a rule, in the punishment of crime
against women than those OF northern
states. This is the result OF the fear of
attlcl by negroes upon white wOmen5
and even in most cases even the sure
and merciless operation of the law is
deemed too slow when such an Offense is
committed. Mob vengenCe usually fol-
lows swiftly. On the other hand. as
saults by white men upon cOlOred women
have been dealt with as very trifing
offenses. Often the criminal goes I'm
punished In other cases the penalty is
hight, and such justice as will be meted
out in the Georgia case first mentioned
il the sentence of the court is carried
into effect, was never heard Of before.
A good beginning has been made,
at least, in the righting Of a great
Leader.
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