Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-03-23
POINTS AND OPINIONS.

The craze republican SpOllSmen
have for holding on to contemplate
jobs in the federal service is indeed
disgusting to every friend of, REFORM
st. Louis Republic.
Where is the financial depression
the repu blicans predicted? The news
indicates that if we have had any it
died with the republican administra-
tion.-St. Paul Globe.
The country has been under COM
plete democratic control several days.
1t will be observed that the sky has not
fallen nor the fountains OF the great
deep broken up.-N. Y. World.
The republicans who are relying
on Mr.. Cleveland to blunder them back
into office are likely to be badly disap-
pointed Mr.. Cleveland does not pro-
pose to drop the democratic bread on
the buttered side.-St. Louis Republic.
Almost any republican paper is
now willing to admit thai North Da-
leota has as bad lot of republicans as
they claimed the citizens of Utah or
New Mexico were when the admission
bills were under discussion.-St. Paul
Globe.
MFR. Cleveland was in November,
1892, what he had been known to be
for years, and he was made president
because of that knowledge. The peo-
pie got exactly what they wished. and
knew exactly what they were getting.
IN. Y. Times.
--''That part of Cleveland's in
auguraI which pertains to the currency
reads very much as if it had been left
over by Harrison. st. Louis Globe
Democrat.
But there was precious little of the
currency left over by Harrison. Louis
vile Courier Journal.
No public document has appeared
in this country for many year so alb
solutely pervaded with the sanity of
craftsmanship. so free from the faint
of partisan politics, so far above the in
fected atmosphere of demagogy as the
address which Mr.. Cleveland delivered
on taking the oath of Office for the
second time as president of the United
States.-N. Y. Times.
The most suspicious feature of
Mr. Harrisons administration was the
haste with which he sent in his CHILEAN
message and his Hawaiian treaty. The
new administration is evidently not
afraid that Hawaii will be swallowed
winds. 1t has not the republican dread
of tidal waves earthquakes" ''cy-
clones and ''landslides. ''-Louisville
Courier-J ourual.
There was a net increase of the
public de bt for the month OF February
of S615, 699 Our revenues are large,
but our expenditures are larger. 1t is
not at all impro ba BILE that one of the
L, %ho ir;c
tration will have to do will be to Dor
row money to keep the federal pot
boiling until an opportunity shall have
been presented for remedial reform
legislation Record
Secretary Carlisle'S first official
act was the exchange of a million dol
lars of treasury notes for an equal
amount of gold rendered by the bank
ers of Denver. This transaction viii
assist in some degree in relieving the
pressure upon the treasury for gold for
export to Europe, but if the amount
was increased tenfold it would not be
more than sufficient to meet the ex-
igency forced upon him by the transfer
OF an empty treasury by his predeces-
sor.-Chicago Herald.
We consume in round numbers
nearly or quite 700. 600. 900 pounds of
tin a year in this country. We have
now had two years of trial under the
Mckinley tariff that increased the tax
on tin plate 100 per cent In other
words. the people of the country. all OF
whom are consumers of tin, have been
taxed some S25, 600, 900 to establish the
American tin industry; and the official
report of the last quarter shows that
we have not produced 20. coo. 600 pounds
of all kinds, chiefly of foreign plate,
foreign labor. and foreign tin--Phila-
delphia Times.
The private secretary of Pres
ident Cleveland four years ago de-
clined to accept an increase of pay.
voted to the position by congress.
amounting to over seven thousand dol
lars. during the last month OF his term
of service. The private secretary of Pres
ident Harrison in the last month of his
service is appointed a paymaster in the
army over regular army officers who
have been awaiting for years this pro-
motion, and for his first duty is as
signed a vacation trip to Europe al
government expense to pay the salaries
of the Behring sea commissioners-Al-
bauy Argus