Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-07-03


be buried in deafness like that which
has overtaken Poems of Passion or The
Quick or the Dead?
HIGH PRICES FOR WHEAT.
Another week has gone by and the time
during which disaster may befall the crops
has been reduced Just that extent.
Damage mas been wrought in some locali
tie., notably by the recent foods in Iowa,
but the aggregate yield will not be
materially Affected by these circumstances.
The grasshopper scare in the northwest
proved 2roundless, and cond itions gener-
ally are regarded az very hopeful. Wheat
is of course The most important of all
crops and reports to the agricultural de
partment show that the yield of it will be
above the average in most sections of the
country where 1t is the staple product.
Foreign advices indicate that the price
of wheat il steadily advancing in central
Europe, and the tendency is upward in
England. Russia's crop this year will
scarcely bo above, even if it comes up to,
the average; but the demand for wheat
continues as great rs ever And, as usual,
the surplus needed in Europe must be
drawn largely from the United States,
which, as the years advance, come to be
looked upon more ana more as the food
store-house Of Europe.
1t is reported that all available space in
the vessels of the great trans Atlantic
lines was long ago reserved for cargoes of
grain for many months TO come-and yet
the regular lines are said to do only frac-
tion of the grain business, and till far
along into the winter the ocean between
America and Europe will be specked with
tramp steamships carrying TO ports of
the latter continent their precious loads of
br eadstuffs Others will be carrying loads
of cotton, while those oared with petrole
um viii also be numerous.
And WHEN the returns for these vast ship
ments begin 10 come in, as they will III
the course OF few months, the country
will be the richer 10y hundreds of millions
of dollars Tie seventy millions of dol
lars in gold " Inch We have sent to Europe
during the last few weeks to relieve the
terrible financial stress felt there, will not
only come back to us, but it will come
back with heavy interest
Surely all the conditions of nature look
bright for the American farmer today.
VACATION" FOR GLASS WORKERS
''All but one Of the IA flint and window
glass factories of Findlay, OHIO, shut
down at II o'clock Saturday night until
Sept. !, and probably longer. This gives
over two thousan employees a two months
vacation 3D."
This is the hippant manner in which
high tariff organ d,sposes of an item of news
which tells of distress entalicd upon two
thousand poor people for two months to
come. "A two months vacation" Va
cation indeed! Enforced idlenesss when
the day wages in almost every one Of the
two thousand cases were no doubt needed
for the purchase of the daily bread
There is II gigantic glass trust in this
country whose success is greatly encour-
aged by a tariff mCasure which imposes a
duty OF so per cent ad vaorem on flint
glass where the old duty was only 40 per
cent and of 3ls cents per pound on win
dow glass, where the old duty was only
pa cents-an increased rate of S3ls per
cent. in one case, and of one-quarter OF a
cent on every pound in the other case. The
glass schedule is one Of the worst features
of the Mckinley bill, and its effect
has been anything but beneficial
ON the industries of The country. Tue
situation Mt Fin dlav where two thousand
poor people are forced into an Hnsought-
for vacation is typical Of the general con
dition. Wages nowhere are higher than
before the latest economic extravaganza
took form in the new tariff bill while
shut-downs are becoming SO common as to
occasion no comment. They result in va
cations" for the poor, it is true, bat with
starvation staring them in the face the
liberation from labor can bring only
lamentation where JOY should naturally
prevail
Don't you see, says MIR Mckinley in a
burst of elusive oratory. don't You see
how prosperous this country is under the
bene6cent reign of protection?
Yes, the country is prosperous, but it is
You limit our markets and therefore
limit the demands for our products You
m axe everything dear and then boast. as
Mr.. Lodge did, that the more the poor
man Is compelled te pay the better he
likes it. Your limited sales make it
necessary to discharge twenty-five per
cent. or more of your workmen. A gen
eral labor competition follows, even if the
trust were not in existence, veritable
and painful struggle for life, and as a
consequence down go wages.
That is the condition Of affairs which
opens up under the Mckinley bill and dur
ing the next decade, or until the bill is
modified you will sc increasing dIscon-
tent, greater poverty and more misery than
has been known in many a ny year in
this country, 1t is true, we are prosperous
as nation, for nothing c4n check oar
vigor and energy, not even misrule al
Washington. 1t is also true that higher
taxes and lower wages are making a seri.
Gus in-oad on the general contentment, and
affairs like that at Findlay, where va
cation" has been granted twenty hundred
people, who had been eking out a liveh
hood under the paltry wagrs paid by on,
of the most highly protected industries ar,
not calculated to quiet the growing diseon
tent.
A TAILOR rises to remark that if Elain,
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