Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-11-13

PLATr's manikin had to be knocked
down as a lesson to the architect.
IT doesn't make much difference how
you put Mckinley bill or Bill McKin-
ley.
New York democrats will, if they are
wise, encourage the mugwumps TO remain
with the republicans. They are rare hoo.
docs.
IT is q significant fact that in the Mas
sachusetts election the republican candl
date was scratched the worst in labor cen
terB.
PERHAPS, after all, il would be best for
the reputation OF our fair state to smear a
coat of whitewash over the La Toilette.
Sawyer scandal.
RUSSIA is said to feel irritated toward
Turkey. The car has always shown
disposition to be quite tonchy in that
quarter.
In his annual report just out Uncle
Jerry says that the present year marks an
increase Of $7O0,0O0,0 900 in this country's
farm products, If the seed secretary is
right the wonder remains Why was the
alliance vote, small AZ il was, 80 arge2
Il. TnoMAa FORTUNE, the distinguished
coIored editor Of New York, recovered
damages in the sum Of 1926 IN suit for
$4,000 brought against New York
saloonkecper for refusing to sell him u
drink. The jury probably "docked" him
n few thousand dollars for parting his
name in The middle.
BEFORE the republican organs shout
any more about the boom in the pearl but
ton business it would be well TO tell them
some hing lest they oyerdo the business.
Newell's factory at Springfield, Mass, has
made pearl buttons in n email way for
some time 1t has made more Of them
under the Mckinley tariff And Thursday
the operatives went out on n strike because
their pay was lowered and they could not
earn enough to live on, Thus il seems
thf republican wages, under the repubIi-
can tariff, are starvation wages. ID is
curious that there should DO the same
trouble with the wages of tin plate work.
ers in Ohio, where they have struck oven
before they ogan to make tin plate. The
Spring. field butlon-malSers strike because
the tariff has reduced their wages. Surely
the ways of this blessed tariff are past
finding out
WANT THEIR MONEY BACK,
The information comes from Phi|ndel-
phia that the manufacturers of carpets in
that city would like to obtain refund of
the large sums of money which the pious
applications of Wannmahcr influenced
them to believe could be expended bene-
licially in securing the election of Mr..
Harrison three years ago and thus fur.
therng the plan of protection now
hanging like u great black pail over the
entire country. Their present feelings are
due to the effect which their business has
felt rs u result of the contamination in all
it's fullness o! that very plan no earnestly
advocated by the sanctimonioua trndoqmnn
of the Quaker city.
In this connection it il interesting to
note what ia said by the Philadelphia cor
respondent OF the Dry Goods Economist.
1.-The carpet trade, " say he, "is in worse
condition than it hu8 been for years, and
there nro more looms standing idle than
there are running,
And yet there is scarcely any part OF the
Mckinley act in which the increase of
duties is greater than in tnot which re.
latcs to carpets. For example, the duty
on two'ply ingram carpets was increased
8 cents per square yard and 30 per cent, ad
yalorem to IA cents per yard and 40 per
cent nd volorem: in the case of thrcc-ply
ingrains the duty was raised from II cents
II yard and 80 per cent. to 10 cents n yard
and 40 per cent; and the new duty ON
Brussels carpets is "A cents u yard and 40
per cent, while the old duty wns 30 cents II
yard and 30 per cent
here is certainly protection with ven
gean,o- protection run riot in fact II
the republican theory us to the effects of
the prohibition of the importation of
foreign manufactures is correct then GER
tainly most namolous condition exists
III the suppression of the business of
domestic manufacturing which should
now, under the supposed stimulus of the
tariff, be booming rs never before.
Personal POINTS,
George Gould hopes to have n herd of
n II