The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-01-06
OPINION OF THE PRESS.

u The democratic party is in the
predieament of man who signed the
temperance pledge in order to get IL
cense to run a saloon. Louis Globe
Democrat.
- The republican party win lay
down the burden of national response
bility on March next. then calmly sit
down and watch the laundering of the
democracy.-Toledo Blade.
- The democratic gerrymander of
Indiana is the latest to be overthrown
by the courts. The Hoosier state is now
with Wisconsin and Michigan. in both
of which the courts have compelled a
new apportionment on a fair basis.
New York. alone, is in the hands of the
gerrymanderers.- Y. Mail and Ex-
press
sS-The democratic steering commit
tee of congress will not steer up
against the rock of the Mckinley law
until they feel that they are compelled
to. They are 4 good deal more skittish
than they were on the stump two or
three months ago. They begin to see
what genuine statesmanlike act the
law is.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
IS Some of the democratic leaders
are making great deal of noise about
the same gentlemen insist that the
house ''pop-gun" tariff bills, now be-
fore the senate, must be at once enacted
into laws, in face of the fact that to do
so would increase the deficit by some
forty million dollars. that being the
amount of revenue derived from the
acts which these bills propose to re-
peaL-Frank Leslie's Weekly.
- Judge Gresham's declaration that
democracy does not mean free trade is
rather impertineat, considering the
fact that the judges democracy doesn't
date back farther than the 10th of
June last. Col. Watterson, who is a
democrat by birth and Inheritance and
a standard authority on things demo-
cratic. holds the contrary opinion and
IS not afraid to express it in cold print
and plain English. The colonel should
read the new convert a gentle lecture
Minneapolis Tribune.
- This is not the first reverse that
protection has suffered at the polls. Ii
went down in 1874 before exactly the
same ubiquitous methods by which free
trade has gained its present triumph.
EXulting democrats will do we'll to re-
member that that experience with their
policy led to the longest and most I'M
disturbed period of protection the
country ever had. 1t is because those
lessons, now remote IN time, have lost
their force for this generation that the
free trade victory in 1892 was made
possible.-N. Y. Press.
= There is great deal of chatter
among democratic papers of an alleged !
republican plot to steal the senate. |
The democrats are dreadfully afraid |
thu: the fruits of victory will be flched |
from them. As a matter of fact, the |
don't want the senate;
they know that it will be better for |
them if the democracy has full swing; |
but they do want all that is rightfully |
theirs. and they intend TO have it, if |
possible. The democratic party has |
fallen into the reprehensible habit of |
the earth, and of crying |
stop thief" if a republican presumes |
to breathe--Albany Journal
S-The trickery of politics is well !
illustrated by the assertion which !
comes from Washington that there will |
be deficiency of some thirty million |
dollars in the pension appropriations
this year. The democratic house, in
its appropriations last winter, was alb
reckless So many sluggish |
creeks, and ports, in the south were
given appropriations that the total was
enormous. To bring the
appropriations within the revenue. the
pension estimates We're cut remorse-
lessly, and now there will be the above
def cheney, which must be met by that
much additional to the regular appro-
Driatlon for that purpose this year, I'M
less the democrats conclude TO re-
pudiate the claims of the old boys in
blue. Toledo Blade.