The Red Cloud chief., 1892-10-07

plank. Doubtless he would like to re-
pudiate Col. Watterson's Adlai Steven
on, too but II Is forevertoo late to do
that.-Minneapolis Tribune.
eY"A veteran leader Of the Boston
democracy is quoted as frankly con.
Tossing: 1--WE are handicapped by the
general prosperity of the country"
What an awful indictment is. conveyed
In these words! And yet 1t fits the demo
cratic party like II glove M Y. Urib-
une.
.B~If Peck Is to be destroyed by tie
Cleveland gang for telling the truth
about labor, the amc treatment must
be awarded the labor commissioners
of Indiana and Massachusetts. They
| have both testified that business u
steadily improving under tho new
tariff lawn. Y. Advertiser.
eE-We don't hear anything more
| about that 'billion dollar congress-
''the bankrupt United States treasury
"those pauper p~ensioners," 1.-THE poor
mans little dinner pail" What are
democrats going to place on their
banners this year, anyway? Will they
just go in with Cleve and Steve and the
tiger?-Chicago Inter Ocean.
eS-Labor Commiasioner' Peck, vi
New York, whose report o cerniuE
the increase Of wages in New York
under the Mckinley law has thrown
the Cleveland men into spasms. of rage,
was not an appointee of Gov. Hill, as
has been stated, but of Mr.. Clevelan1
himself, in 1888. The reason why he il
detested by the Cleveland idolatcrs n
that he failed either to suppress or X
manipulate the statistics which were
reported in his bureau. -Boston jour
nal.
tT.The democrats and mmgwump
have exhausted vituperations in thei'
dcnunciations Of Tabor COMMISSIONS
Peck. Now they are rcsorting 10 tn
courts to force him to do that which
as n gentleman and an official, he is II
honor bound not to do. There Is n,
likelihood that the courts will compe
, him to violate the confidence of tn
, men from whom he has procured IL
, formation that is not palatable Go th
|, men of his party.-N. u. Tribune
McKinley wages.
The annual statistics Of manufacture
l published by the Massachusetts burea
of statistics OF labor have slway
!, borne the best reputation for %accuracy
: for the<rffort has been to get as full II
t turns as possible. Chief Horace I
Wadlin and his predecessors have dor
their part every year and have succeed
cd each year in getting an increase
n number Of manufacturers to do their
h They heard from 1,027 establishment
r in 1887, l,f40 in 1883, 1854 In 1889, 80
5, in 1900, and S,745 in 1894. We presun
% the report for 1891, just published, W
. be denounced us a republican, campaie
document, for it shows that the averai
industrial wages in Massachusetts ro
from si3T. 93 in 1900 to $44i.SO in 1891
an advance Of OBJ per cent 1t w
facts of this sort, as shown by q
Of United States census, h unanimo
report Of the United States senate co
II mittee. the official reports of the lab
commissioners of New York and
Of diana, and now by the report OF I
le Massachusetts, bureau of statisti
to which Induced Gen. Francis A. Walks
u; Of the Massachusetts institute Of te'
al uology, hiaself n free trader in tkeo
,r- TO admit in his advanced course
Nv Politics, Economy" that nrftcct
It'll duties tend ITO create and. maint
sw high rates OF wages in the factory
Is dlstries."-N. Y. Press