The Iola register., 1891-04-24
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.


In campaign discussion in the coun-
try grocery store, with barrel OF cheap
sugar on tap, champions Of McKinley's
cause will have the advantage this year.
Commercial Gazette.
The republican plurality in Michigan
this year is 1000, against democratic
plurality of ii 500 last fall. Those ter
rible Mckinley prices appear to be
rapidly declining in that state.-Globe
| Democat.
The Argentine Republic has three
or four times as much money per cap
ita as the United States, but it is the far
mers' alliance money" and nobody
will take it who can get any other sort.
st. Louis Globe Democrat.
If Mr.. Cleveland would hold himself
rather more to specific performance,
and rather less to indefinite and alb
stract advice to his partisans, he would
cut much finer figure in his party and
| find himself a much more popular lead
er. Mr.. Grover Cleveland might
profitably devote himself to practice
and leave off preaching for time.-
Detroit News.
Mr.. Palmer having been elected to
the United States senate from Illinois,
after pledging himself squarly for free
coinage, the democratic steerers OF Illi-
| nOis lost no time in proclaiming that
| they were Cleveland antl-silver and all.
Messrs. More and COckrell. when they
come to reckon it all up, viii find they
haven't even got thirty pieces of silver.
Of vi Oh &c g II Oh
Our democratic contemporaries have
been like 'B'rer Rabbit, he lay down."
in reference to the supplementary cleo
tiOn for members of the legislature in
Rhode Island. Republicans already
held constitutional majority in both,
branches, but now have only fifty ma
jority on joint ballot. The Rhode
Island victory has been a growing one,
and the protective tariff speeches of
Senator Aldrich and Major Mckinley
were the main cause of it.-New York
Press.
Speaking of cheap sugar, the New
York World makes the threat that the
next congress will reduce and abolish
a number of other taxes on necessaries."
This is not alarming, if it is meant to
be borne out in good faith. No protec-
tiOn republican objects to a wise revi-
sion OF the tariff from time to time, in
consonance with the best interests OF
American industries and the people.
But we should have no tariff laws de-
signed for the special impOverishment
of American labor in order that foreign
shippers and their American importing
agents may be enriched.-Commercial
Gazette.
The earners of wages in this country
owe it to themselves and their families
to study the tariff question closely. For
example, the value OF manufactured
| articles imported into this country from
1881 to 1890 aggregated the enormous
total of $3.50, 6l2, S23. Suppose, uudeI
proper encouragement to home manu-
facturers, reasonable part-say hall
could be produced in this country.
That would mean additional fair wages
to hundreds OF thousands of American
wOrk12en out of employment. and
better condition OF employment for
those who already manage to have some.
thing to do.
The Paint, Drug and Oil Review con.
tains particulars of the purchase by o
German syndicate of ., 100 acres of land
in Bloom, an outlying suburb OF Chica.
go, which illustrates how the new tariff
law is operating to force European
manufacturers to come here, locate
works and manufacture the goods with
which they supply this market. A
huge cork concern from Germany has
practically closed negotiations with
the German syndicate to buy site and
erect works at Bloom. In Germany the
concern employs 5000 men. The new
tariff law puts duty of fifteen cents
per pound on manufactured cork. The
result is shown in this forced removal
OF the cork manufacturing industry tC
the United States. The present duty
OF go per cent. on plate glass has operat-
ed similarly, and Herr Otto of Stutt.
CART. Germany, is an authority for the
statement that large plate glass firm
of his country had made provisions to
establish factory in the same Chicago
suburb, being compelled to take this
step TO retain their American custom.
These are merely signs of the times
under the Mckinley law-two illustra-
tiOns out of hundreds.-New York
Press.