Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-08-31

/ they had been deceived; mat though
they We're earning three, FIVE and eight
dollars where tneY had been earning
one before, they had been all the time
taxed beyond endurance. And 1.-The
World SAID to the laboriDg men: Rise
up and turn this party out and free
yourselves from this dreadful burden
of taxation"
They rose up. They turned the party
out. Great numbers of people said
"Hil hi" Some people gave very
costly dinners. ana addressed to them
selves quite eloquent congratulations,
while the laboring men looked in at the
windows or held the horses outside. 1t
was apparently the beginning of new
epoch. Scholarly persons SAID so. Carl
Schurz took that view of it So did
David A. Wells and Edward Atkinson
and the vivacious young president OF
Brown University. Some of the most
eminent persons in the country, who
had familiarized themselves with the
laboring classes by employing them and
reading about them without ever dilut-
ing their knowledge of the subject by
contact or conversation with them, were
Of the opinion that the defeat of his
dreadful party that lad been taxing the
laborng man for thirty-two years, until
he was getting three dollars day where
be was only getting one before, was
great triumph for the cause Of labor.
The enthusiasm over it lasted long
enough to carry off several large and
successful dinner parties at from Sl5 to
s25 a plate 1t was a great triumph of
the laboring man. Il promised to
relieve him from taxation.
But presently the whole country be-
gan 10 think. And then the whole
country began to say: Its all very
line. but, on tho whole. the new epoch
is 80 tieklish that we will take in sail
The country has been taking in sail
ever since The new epoch began. The
consequence is that the laboring man is
finding himself in largo numbers cut
down in wages, limited in hours, thrown
on, of employment, in short, brought
fsce 10 face with starvation and dis
tress. He turns to the newspaper that
egged him an to the action by which he
was to relieve himself from taXation
and better himself What does he find?
Why, last Saturday he found this news
paper urging in double leads enc of the
great leaders Of the party he has helped
drive out Of power to "lay aside parti-
ssnship' and come to the relief of a
distressed country with sound and dis
interested advice. lie found it on Mon
day ASKING the eminent statesman whom
last fail it was impIoring him to vote
against as a bad and dangerous man to
do the same thing give the country his
counsel and leadership. And on Tues
day, what2 Why, on Tuesday, The
World gave the aboring man who fol-
lowed its advice last fall, TO get rid of
taxation he never felt. and in following
it has fallen out Of work and become
poor, stirring article on Rice as a
Diet" Rice, 1.-The World says. has
fallen from Al to q cents per pound.
1t says: 1.-The rice growers are trying
to increase the consumption, and they
should be encouraged = Then it tells
how nutritious it is, how it sustains the
system without heating the blood, and
how people would be healthier and
possibly Weather if they would adopt
it more generally as a part of their
daily diet"
So this, then, is the end of it. The
laboring man has risen up and relieved
himself of taxation he knew nothing
of until these philanthropists told him
abou. it and worked him up TO white
heat over it, and now, he being out of
work, or reduced III wages 10 point
whore rice at p cents pound seems
luxury. the philanthropist says, cheeIily;
Buy rice, old fellow, it's cheap. It's
good in buildings, and it makes an ex-
celleut dish simply boiled with salt and
butter or milk added Buy rice, old
boy. aud thank God that ley the election
Of Grover Cleveland and a Democratic
Congress you are going 20 be relieved
of the tyranny of taxation. Well it
seems a liule hard, but there appears to
be nothing else to do. Aud The
World" deserves credit Tor finding the
way out Buy rice Nee York Tribune
Washington Letter.