The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-04-30

Owing to the Mckinley bill, the advertising pat
ronage of the st. Cloud Times increased so rapidly
that that paper has been enlarged. We are glad
to note such apparent signs of prosperity, Mac,
Rah for NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Union.
We've all heard of the mistake of
Moses-the above is one of the mistakes
of our genial friend Bob Dunn. Our
prosperity, Bob, is owing to free sugar!
If we can only have the other necessa-
ries of life, and raw materials gener-
ally, put on the free list, we'll print
AZ page paper. Bob, ''me boy" will
you please tell us why, if free sugar is
so beneficial, it would not increase the
benefits correspondingly if hundreds of
other articles were put on the same list.
st. Cloud Times.
If hundreds of other articles
were put on the free list, where
would the revenue to support the
government come from? Sugar is
not produced to any great extent
in this country. We do not know
how it is in St. Cloud, but here in
Princeton there is no preceptible
increase in the price Of living since
the passage of the Mckinley bill.
Of course, our friend Macdonald,
who drinks imported wines, smokes
Havana cigars, wears English
hroadcloth himself and clothes his
better half in French silks is obi ged
to contribute a few extra dollars to
Uncle Sans Golfers. But that is
the penalty he pays for being rich.
In the the language of the Minne-
apolis Tribune:
Tea, coffee, molasses and sugar are
foreign products now admitted into the
market practically free of
duty. The removal of duty from each
of these articles was a Republican
measure carried in the teeth of Demo-
cratic opposition. But Democrats and
alike hold that the tariff
on the above foreign products was di-
rect tax on the American consumer.
Tea, coffee, molasses and sugar are arti-
cles of consumption in every American
cupboard. An import tax upon them
is tax on the family board of thirteen
million families three times daily three
hundred and sixty-fve days in year.
AS a tax upon the American consumer
these duties were by Republicans abol-
ished; but as a tax which embodied the
policy Of tariff for revenue only,''
these same duties are by Democrats
championed and mourned as the tariff
beau ideal.
By the way, Mac, what's the
matter with a home illustration of
the evils of free trade? You and,
host of others in St. Cloud and
Sank Rapids are everlastingly
down on "convict labor in the
Reformatory. Why? Because,
you say, free labor cannot compete
with 'convict labor" That's the
case in a nutshell, isn't it? If free
trade is a panecea for all evils, why
not have free trade in the granite
cutting industry?
Furthermore, Mac, the country
seems to be prospecting fairly we'll
under the Mckinley bill. The
proof of the pudding is in the eat
ing of it, and in our little family
we find that it costs US less for the
necessities of life since the bug-bear
of a Mckinley bill became a law.
Please mention one or a dozen
necessities of life that have adj
vanced in price sufficient to offset
the reduction in the price of sugar?
1t is unjust discrimination by the
railroads and the high rate of in
terest, and not the tariff, that bears
down on the producers of Mime
sofa. And the Democratic sachems
OF Minnesota are in league with
the railroads and money-loaners.