The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1892-08-11
THE CONDITION OF AFFAIRS.

111- NO~NLL WV VI 11AO.
There are few men in the county whose
utterances carry more might than the
veteran editor Murat Halstead, with an
accurate knowledge of events, and rare
powers OF adducing the philosophic re-
suits therefrom, he is wonderfully
equipped for expressing an opinion wor-
thy OF consideration. A forceful writer
with vigorous ideas behind a facile pen
he sizes up the situation as follows:
1.-THE news from the wheat and corn
countries of the west and northwest dis
ccurages the Calamity politicians. The
yield of wheat now being harvested will
be the greatest ever known. Rye, barley
and oats are good also, and the heated
term makes certain an enormous corr.
crop. This is favorable to the admins
tration. When the people are prosper
Gus they are not revolutionary. The
Homestead strike fingers, but is beaten.
The strikers lost sympathy first through
their arbitrary and violent methods,
then their altitude toward the military.
and finally by the intrusion at anarchi.
cal assassination. Prick, recovered
from his wounds, commands the situa-
ton. The knowledge of the true condi-
ton of the Carnegie miIls-character of
plant, wages paid the men and the ex
cellence of their ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ably impressed the country with the
results of the protective system. Mr..
Cleveland's hostile comment on 'the
abiding place Of protection theret~
strikes back and hurts him. Demo o!e
0ranf avnant n tInr1c
night ago, of partisan adve ID ioll.
strikes are disappointe' images IRON
hat IN the req light of the strike
in orr pennsvlr Hills and labor towns
ard nrotect: .ania black country are
f,vo,ahIe ION gets the most effective
The 9. advertisement in its history
nnb1. freak of good fortune for the re.
~ .hcan party is attended by another
-,osely related to it, indeed a part of it
In marked degree. for ten days, the
current of events has compelled the
discussion of the tariff issue almost un.
mixed with other matter. This question
was very unfortunately presented tor
the democrats at Chicago. Strategeti.
cally, they have sought to rush the Force
bill Renaissance forward, but the move
ment has failed. The Alabama election
has just settled the solidity OF the South
for the democracy, and the Force bill is
a race and sectional affair." Without the
race issue four or FIVE southern states
would be republican on the industrial
question. Within the south sentiment
oyer-rules business considerations, and it
is the public opinion outside southern
lines that is sought and is decisive. The
tariff discussion has the serious business
in it and has swept away the shams.
Never before was the question whether
to maintain or reject the protective sys.
tenn so fairly before the people as now;
and it is the overbearing, unavoidable
question. The democrats are at a dis
advantage in tariff debate, because they
assault protection with gencralities
without defining their tariff reform
Whether they would relax sugar and de.
stroy RECIPROCITY treaties is unknown
to themselves. The conduct of congress
and the Chicago platform and the record
of Cleveland make further discussion anG
evasion of the rugged tariff issue, free
trade or protection, impossible. That
the democracy are in position that is a
misfortune is manifest! The Alabama
election, proving the sotth solid for tn.
democrats, will dampen the ardor OF tn,
alliance in the northwest. While tn,
farmer politicians might prefer Omaha
doctrines to those of Minneapolis: the,
will not subscribe to the Chicago prohi
bition of protection or aid the south t.
grasp the government"