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The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1892-03-26

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The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1892-03-26

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(aul6- low J.P. DUNKLE, Register.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1892-03-26

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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-10-28
The Fount of Every Blessing.

Aho AouhO VI 2fCI DlCoo1HSs
The Chicago Herald of recent date
thus remarks: "Says the Republi-
can platform: I'VE recognize in
the present unexampled industrial
prosperity of the nation the forcible
demonstration of the wisdom of the
policy of protection of the republican
party as expressed in the Mckinley
tariff law, and pledge our unfaltering
support" etc.
That is to say: We recognize that
the Mckinley law produced crop of
over 2,000,0 100000 bushels of corn in
1891, against less than 1,490,000,O00
bushels in 1890, an increase of 5lO,-
100000 bushels, or over "a per cent.
We recognize that the Mckinley law
caused the ground to yield II bushels
of corn to the acre last year, against
20.7 bushels the year before, an in
crease of Go bushels per acre, or over
80 per cent.
We recognize that the Mckinley law
produced about 738, 100000 bushels of
oats last year, against 523,6O0,000
bushels ia 1890, an increase of 214 300
900 bushels, or over Al per cent. We
recognize that the Mckinley fructifier
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-10-28
Mckinley Prosperity.

According to President Harrison every
thing is prosperous under the Mckinley
tariff. Is it evidence of prosperity that
10000 workmen during August were on
strike or locked out? Is it evidence of
prosperity that in the iron and steel bust
ness, the most highly protected on the
list, except the clothing of the people,
there has been reduction of wages Of
from 10 to 20 per cent? Is Home
stead an object lesson that high tariff is
for labor and not for capital? Finally
in The Bulletin of the Iron and Steel
Association we find these admissions:
eve have never known period in
the history of the American iron trade
when prices have been so generally low
and unremunerative as during the past
twelve months, and yet production has
never been SO great. The explanation
of the continued low prices is that our
producing capacity is still beyond our
enormous consumptive wants.
Does not this enforce the necessity of
looking beyond the home market to dis
pose of our surplus? Is it not an admis-
sion, coupled with conceded facts, that
McKinleyism has forced down wages
and brought about low and unremuner-
ative prices, the lowest ''in the history
of the American iron trade?'-Pittsburg
Post.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-10-28

caused the ground to yield 28.9 bus
hels of oats per acre last year. against
1913 bushels the year before, an in
crease of 81 bushels per acre, or nearly
46 per cent.
We recognize that the Mckinley bill
produced about Gil. 100000 bushelI of
wheat last year, against 1896, 100000
BUSHELS in 1890, an increase Of 212,-
100000 BUSHELS or more than So per
cent. We recognize that the Nc
Kinley fertilizer caused the earth to
bring forth an average of 1873 bushels
of wheat per acre last year, against
Ill bushels in 1890, an increase of AZ
bushels per acre, or nearly SO per cent.
We recognize not only that the Nc
Kinley law caused American soil to
yield far more abundantly, but that it
produced unfavorable meteorological
conditions and partial failure of
crops in the regions infested by the
effete monarchies of Europe" in con-
sequence of which we have enjoyed
unexampled industrial prosperity.
In short, we recognize the Mckinley
law as the mature expression of repub-
lican policy and the fount of every
blessing Therefore we pledge ourselves
to give the dear people some more
legislation of the same kind as the
spirit moves US.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-10-28
Republican Calamity Prophets"

Republican editors who have crit
icised the Democrats as "croakers" and
"calamity prophets will be panied to
see that their own leaders have become
so deeply alarmed that they have taken
up their tale of woe and are making the
air blue with prophecies of ruin. Chair
man Tom Carter gives out to his Repub-
ican organs an interview in which he
shows that he is wrestling with fear and
doubt; but he nevertheless hopes that
'the common sense of the people will
prevent turning the country over to
final ruin"
Chairman Carriers doleful forebodings
are fortified with awful political weather
predictions by Senator Aldrich and Secre-
tary Charles Foster. These two prophets
of evil assure the American people that if
Cleveland is elected the United States
senate and house will also be Demo-
cratic, and Foster says that 'such re-
suit would be an undisguised calamity
to the American people"
Another cup of Calamity croakersi"
The Republican outlook for victory on
Nov. 8 has made the prophets unusually
blue. They should brace up. Their
ruin does not mean the country's ruin.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-10-28
A Blindfold Argument for McKinleyisn


Candidate Reds Tribune has been
looking at the recent report of the New
Jersey bureau of statistics of labor and
industries and smiles over the fact that
the building and loan associations of
the state show a gratifying growth I'M
der McKinleyism. 1t announces that
the shareholders Of these associations
il creased in number from 71,726 in
1890 to 1925 in 1891, and that in the
same time the assets increased from
$22, 043, 1899 to $25, COG, 1878, an increase in
the first instance Of almost 10 per cent,
and in the second of little over Is per
cent. This it proceeds to claim as a
specially strong vindication of the Nc
Kinley law.
But the candidates organ ought to
have compared the growth of these as
sociations under McKinleyism with their
growth during the four years of Presi-
dent Cleveland's administration. Apre-
vious report of the same bureau shows
that the shareholders in these associa-
tons increased from $4,000 in 1884 to
52, 600 in 1888, and that the assets in
creased in the same time from 81 900, 900
to $14,739,297. Here is an increase of
over 100 per cent. in the membership and
assets Of these institutions under an adj
ministration which, according to this
protection organ, was going to blight
the industries of the state and turn the
workingmen into the streets.
It Is easy to argue for McKinleyism
when you blindfold your honest eye!
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-10-28
QUOTING BRITISH OPINIONS.

But We Are Intelligent Enough to Decide
for Ourselves What We Want.
Nothing illustrates better the pitiable
plight of the Mckinley organs than
their silly attempt to prejudice Mr..
Cleveland with American voters by
quoting from English and Canadian
papers. Every intelligent voter must
see that this is an utter abandonment Of
reason and argument. It is confession
that Americans dare>not use their own
minds to think out what is the best sys-
tenn of taxation for themselves.
The voters of the United States showed
Enthusiastically in the elections of 1890
that they want no McKinleyism. All
signs indicate that they are of the same
opinion still and are about to reiterate
their opinion with renewed emphasis.
But at this juncture President Harrison
steps in with a quotation from an Eng
lish paper, and his organs one and all
follow his example and vie with each
other in finding the most telling quota
lions for influencing the American voter.
The other day four track air line
railroad to run between New York and
Chicago was chartered. The people of
Chicago want the new road, and SO do
the people of New York. Business men
In Chicago are not alarmed when they
read in the New York papers that the
people of New York want the road built
and expect to profit by it, for they rec
ognize the simple fact that trade is prof
table to both parties engaging in it.
The buyer cannot get terms from the
seller except upon basis which is mu-
tually satisfactory.
The Englishman wants to sell his
goods to us because he thinks he can do
so at profit. Shall we quote his news
papers and decline to trade with him
because we are not able to trust our own
business judgment as to what is good
bargain for us? We are quite ready to
sell him our wheat and cotton, and Re-
publicans themselves delight In showing
as how much Of these commodities John
Bull has to buy from US, and how great
profit this brings to our farmers. But
If Americans are shrewd enough to sell
to John Bull at a profit they can surely
be trusted to buy from him at like
profit.
1t is time to have done with this silli-
ness of quoting British opinions. We
have reached years of discretion, and
can decide for ourselves what we want.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-10-28
Watch Hackett, Mr.. President.

The secret circular sent out by Chair
man Hackett, of the New York Repub-
ican state committee, which looks de-
cidedly like an attempt to work Dudley's
"blocks of five" game in New York,
moves the Springfield (Mass.) Republican
to offer the following warning to Presi-
dent Harrison: "Mr. Harrison perhaps
is not responsible for Hackett's doings,
but he must be aware of the scandalous
direction in which his campaign is being
moved, and he can put a stop to it if he
will. He knows that with the enormous
sums of money fried out of the protected
manufacturers in 1888, more was done
to debauch the franchise and undermine
the foundation of a free government
than can repeatedly be endured with
any safety to. the nation. President
Harrison cannot afford again to be an
accessory, before or after the fact. in
such a crime against government and
society as was openly committed by the
Republican managers and openly boosted
of by them in 1885,"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-10-28
NO PECK STATISTICS.
The Massachusetts Labor Report Affords
Cold Comfort to the McKinIeyifes.

The Massachusetts, Labor Report Affords
Cold Comfort to the McKinleyites.
The report of the Massachusetts bu-
reau of labor for 1891 presents statistics
of manufactures for the years 1885, 1890
and 1891. The presentation is such that
the comparison can be made for each of
these years of total wages paid, and
average yearly earnings of employees in
each of the industries investigated.
The returns of 1917 establishments
for the years 1885 to 1890 show an aver
age yearly percentage of increase in
total wages of 6.19. The returns of
BIAS establishments of the same char
acter as those investigated for 1885 to
1890 show q percentage of increase of
2.65 in total wages paid for 1891 over
1890.
Thus there is falling off in 1891 from
the normal percentage of increase of
3.54. This percentage expressed in dol
lars shows loss of 81, 469, O25 in normal
increase in wages. The actual increase
was So 1886, 945. If the normal increase
had been maintained it would have been
$7,S04, $40.
The number of industries embracing
these establishments is seventy-fve. Of
this number forty-one or 54.66 per cent.
show falling off in the normal increase
of wages paid.
An examination of the tables present
ing the average yearly earnings of en-
ployees in the same establishments for
the same years show much the same re-
suits. The average percentage Of in
crease of yearly earnings for the years
1885 to 1890 was 3.99, and for 1891 it
was 0.91-a falling off of 3.O7 per cent.
This percentage expressed in dollars
represents falling off of the normal
yearly increase of $113.5 so from the year
ly earnings of each of the employees in
the establishments investigated.
Of the seventy-fve industries included
in the report, forty-nine, or 66.65 per
cent, show a falling off in the average
yearly earnings.
The Republican national committee is
not using this Massachusetts, report as a
campaign document. They prefer in
stead to broadcast the country with
Commissioner Peck's worthless cam
paign screed. Nevertheless the highest
Republican authority can be quoted to
prove the trustworthiness of the Massa-
chusetts report-no less an authority
than Candidate Whitelaw Reds own
paper. The New York Tribune says:
mo other statistical board has ever
enjoyed higher reputation for absolute
fidelity and impartiality than the Massa-
chusetts board of labor statistics, and
under Mr.. WadEn the Massachusetts re-
ports have fully maintained the excep-
tionable character established for them
by the Hon. Carroll D. Wright when at
the head Of that bureau"
Why, then, have they deserted Mr..
Wadlin for poor Mr.. Peck?
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-10-28
Who Paws the Tin Plate Tax?

The American Manufacturer, prom
inent protectionist trade paper of Pitts
burg, quotes the prices of tin plate in
New York and London, from which it
clearly appears that the American con-
sumner is paying the Mckinley tin plate
tax in large doses. The price of Bes-
semer plates, l. g. coke fnish-which is
the standard grade-was $500 box in
New York on Sept. %, while the cable
from London reported the price there on
the same grade to be twelve shillings,
or $3.50. The difference is $3.50, and
the Mckinley tax is $2.37 on q box
weighing 100 pounds.
Who is paying for McKinley's tin
plate infant
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-10-28
McKinley's Tin Plate Labor.

Mckinley in opening the great tariff
debate in the house of representatives,
May Z, 1890, extended the following cor
dial invitation to the Welsh manufac-
turers of tin plates:
"Let them bring their factories right
over here. Bring $25, 100000 over here
and sit down among us and employ our
labor and consume the products of our
farmers" This sentiment was ap-
plauded.
How McKinley's invitation has been
accepted is shown in the following ex-
tract from the news columns of the Bal.
timore Sun of Oct. 3:
Richard Bowen, a Welshman, was
arrested yesterday and confined in the
Southern police station. Today he will
be tried on the charge of destroying
property in Coates tin mill, Locust
Point. It is charged that Bowen on
Saturday threw pair of tongs into the
rollers and broke the machinery. There
is said to be some bad feeling existing
among the Welsh employees of the mills
toward the proprietors because the
Messrs. Coates employ some American
workmen.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-10-28
Cleveland and the Young Men.

The New York Tribune enjoys the dis
tinction of being perhaps the most
blindly partisan Republican journal in
the United States. Nevertheless it shows
in the following words, from its leading
editorial Of Oct. /, that it has a correct
understanding of the causes of Grover
Cleveland's popularity among the young
men of this country:
The esteem in which Mr.. Cleveland
has heretofore been held by great num-
Der of his fellow citizens has proceeded
from the belief that he was bold and
uncompromising advocate Of his own
conscientious convictions; that he was
possessed in fact by that courage Of
opinion which, just verging on willful-
ness and rashness, has often availed to
captivate the popular mind and heart.
To this estimate of his moral qualities
Mr.. Cleveland owes in great degree the
admiration which he has inspired In
many young and ingenious persons
and most of the panegyrics to which the
country has listened with conflicting
emotions during the last eight years.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-10-28
The Repeal of the State Bank Tax.

The dishonest attempt of Republican
organs and speakers to distort the plank
in the Chicago platform favoring the
repeal Of the 10 per cent. state bank tax
into an advocacy of wildcat" cur
rency will deceive nobody. The Demo
cratic state convention of conservative
old Massachusetts, has given the correct
Interpretation of that plank in their
own declaration of principles as follows:
We believe that, as the circulating note fea-
lures of the national banking system are be-
coming obsolete in consequence of the contrac-
ton of the basis of circulation, 1t Is necessary
that some expedient should be found for the
issuance and withdrawal, as the needs Of trade
may demand. Of credit notes under such
form of federal supervision as may be thought
desirable. Hence we advocate the removal Of
the national tax upon such circulating notes Of
state banks as are SO secured that their prompt
redemption in lawful money will always be
certain.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-10-28
Punctured by Farmer" Hiscock.

Some of the protectionists of the more
silly sort are parading lists of the prices of
agricultural products during the past year,
and are putting forth the absurd claim
that these are Mckinley prices" caused
by the so called farmers tariff" But
Senator Hiscock, the Republican senator
from New York, in his attempted reply to
Senator Carlisle's great speech, made the
following frank admission that the McKin-
ley law had nothing to do with the mat
ter: This vast sum of $2S5, 00O, 900 of in
creased cost of living to the families in the
United States Is due to the increased value
of the agricultural products of the United
States, and no one claims that they were
affected by the provisions of the Mckinley
Rct.n
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-10-28
porter.s Unnecessary Work.

Robert P. Porter, superintendent of the
census, is writing long letters to the Chi
cago papers to prove to the workingmen Of
Illinois that they have had their wages
raised by the Mckinley tariff. 1t is an I'M
necessary undertaking, for every wage
Garner in the state knows whether his
wages are higher or lower than they were
before the Mckinley bill became law, and
he also knows that if his wages have been
increased it has not been because of an era
of artificial prosperity created by Mckinley
and his bill-Middletown IN. " Argus
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-10-28
What Mckinley Thinks OF Hair.

While common goat hair has been de-
clared dutiable as second class wool at
twelve cents per pound under the McKin-
ley act it is quite noteworthy that COW
hair and calf hair are free Of duty.
That human hair should be free of duty
and goat hair taxed twelve cents per
pound; that calf hair worth seventeen
cents should be on the free list, and the
hair of the pauper goat costing two cents
per pound should be subject to twelve
cents duty, are some of the interesting
features Of the Mckinley bill.-Wool
and Cotton Reporter,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-10-28

It is stated that last year alone the
Carnegie company collected from the
builders of America an extra tax by
selling their products at extra prices,
because of the tariff, of more than
81 600. OOO.-Wade's Fibre and Fabric.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-10-28
PHYSICIANS.

John H. VIVIAN, M D. sTAEsMoRE M. D..
VIVIAN & SON,
Physicians and Surgeons, Mineral Point
Wis. Office in Vlyian's drug store. "a
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-10-28

MARSHALL & HEERMANS,
Attorneys at Law. Darlington, Wis. Only
abstract books of title to lands in La Fayette
county Money TO loan on real estate.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-10-28

JOHN f. GRACE.
Attorney at Law, Mineral Point, Wis. Office
I'm Martin IL Toay's block 4Oy
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-10-28
BUSINESS CARDS.
LAWYERS.

]. MONTGOMERY SMITH,
Attorney MT Law. Mineral Point Wiscon-
sin. Will practice in the State and United States
rours. 16-44ly
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-10-28

CALVERT sPEssLEY. cHAs, W. McILHoN.
SPENSLEY & MCILHON,
Attorneys ard Councillors at Law,
Mineral Point Wis. Office in the First National
Bank building. "
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-10-28
KEPT THEIR PROMISE.
How the District Schools Benefit by
Democratic Reform.

Where Formerly They Had to Borrow
Money, While Their Funds Were Help
ing State Treasurers Pile Up Private For
tunes, Now the School Money Never
Leaves the County-Schools Benefited
in Other Ways-Good Work of the State
superintendent Office.
"Peck and all the schools" That was
the ar-cry of Wisconsin democrats two
years ago. 1t was in answer to the narrow
ness contained in the Republican cry of
Hoard and the little red school house."
And "all the schools" have had their inter-
ests carefully conserved by Governor Peck
and his administration.
The schools, together with the people of
the state, have gained by the honest and
business-like administration given state
affairs since January 1, 1891.
Before that time the schools, like the
taxpayers, suffered from the rapacity of
the state treasurers. To increase the for
tunes they were making out of the state
the treasurers lived on the state school
tax. This was kept in their possession as
long as possible in order that it might earn
interest which went into the state treasur-
er's pocket. Then it was turned over to
lesser lights who chad their pull" out of it
for few months longer. In the meantime
the school districts were in many cases
borrowing money at z per cent. to keep
their schools going.
In the five years of Republican rule,
from 1856 to 1890, by the practice of ques-
tionable methods, the people lost in the
school tax matter alone S91 ,5S3.7O. Of this
sum the state treasurers got SIS, 791. S5 and
various other treasurers and supernumear-
les got the balance. The following items
show the amounts taken each year:
In 1885,. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. .$16 sol go
In 1887. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. II, 49, so
In 1885,. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 9, 146 60
In 1889. ......... .................. Is, 443 80
In 1890. Observation-Disclosures. 10 ,34 80
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-10-28
estate Sunerintapdant


attacks on Superintendent Wells honesty
and integrity could not be made than is
contained in the above letter 1t contrasts
as strongly with Republican sentiments as
his action in promptly returning the allow
ances made him, and which were declared
unconstitutional, does with the actions of
his Republican predecessors who still cling
tightly to their allowances
Democrats promised an honest admins
tration of state affairs. They are keeping
their word.