River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-09-29
CURRENT COMMENT.


sB- Labor Commissioner Peck, by
telling the truth, has given the free
traders a peck of trouble. = Toledo
Blade.
sH The question with the democrats
is not whether they can carry Illinois
or Iowa, but whether they can hold
New Jersey and Connecticut st Louis
Globe Democrat.
President Harrison does not go
out of his way to talk about "conse-
Grafton" and lawful sense of respon-
sibility," but he discharges his duty
honestly, ably and fearlessly none the
less. -Albany Journal.
Republican reciprocity cut down
English exports to the tune of S73,-
900, 900 last year. Spring that hard
cold fact on the free trader when he
asserts that Mckinley reciprocity is all
sham. Cleveland Leader.
sB-"Force bill and negro domina-
ton" sings mighty low since the pres
ident issued his letter. 1t was one Of
those clear level-headed, patriotic pro-
auctions which few men can write bet
ter than President Harrison. Chicago
Inter Ocean.
.B-The Cleveland organs contend
that Grover is not free trader. If
that is so, a good many people would
like TO know what Grover will do with
the free trade plank of the Chicago
platform when he writes his letter.
Minneapolis journal.
sB The democrats are afraid TO dis
-, IL &c
merits. so they are all the time trying
to becloud the issue by crying monop-
oily. They know that 'monopolies"
are as abundant in free trade England
as in protected Amer cs.-Iowa State
Register.
sT-This report (Peck's) is enough of
itself TO overthrow all the theories of
the free traders. If a democrat cannot
twist the Mckinley bill to his own
ideas, there is no possibility OF doing
it. Again we remark that David Il.
Hill was right when he said the demo.
cratic platform had turned every work.
shop in the country into republican
headq uarters. Philadelphia Inquirer.
Ia There can be but one verdict in
regard to President Harrison's letter of
acceptance-it is an able, high-minded.
patriotic letter A better expression OF
republican principles and republican
policies could not have been made. and
it is at the same time so fair and sc
statesmanli<e that even those who do
not agree with the president ar his
party cannot but admire the let tno
honor the man who wrote it. wa
State Register
- Free traders profess to see a con
tradiction in the statement that the
average cost of the necessaries of life
has decreased while the price of farm
products has advanced The cost OF
necessaries has decreased so much that
after deducting the per cent. of advance
in the price of farm produce there still
remains decrease in the average
Only the half-witted can find any
trouble in such simple calculation
Albany Journal.
According to the report of the
bureau of statistics of LABOR of the stat.
of New York on the effect of the tariff
on labor and wages there was a ne
increase in wages of Sc, 3I7, $500 in the
year 1891, compared with the amour
paid in 1890, and net increase of pro
duction of s3l.3i5. 1905 in the yeal
1891 over that of 1890. An analysis o.
the table further shows that of the g.
industries covered therein a. per cent
of them show an increase either of the
wages or product. or both. and tina
there were SO. III instances of individ
ual increases of wages during the sam.
] year.