Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-09-27

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Ex-Goy. kellogg of that state, who
understands pretty thoroughly the tenn
per of the people of Louisiana, says the
planters movement means the election OF
two and probably three Republican con-
gressmen, and may be the means of secur-
the nominee in 1896. Il place my judg-
ment," he says, ION the fact that in the
First, Second, Third, and part of the
Sixth congressional districts the sugar
interests hold the balance of power as
between the Republican and Democratic
parties. so that their utilization with the
Republicans means the election of repre-
sentatives pledged to the support of the
states greatest industry"
When the Democrats of Louisiana do
not relish the perfidy of their party, 1T is
a very bad kind of perfdy. Instead of
state will now turn their attention to kill
ing the Democratic party. In this they
will have the best wishes of the North.
What Louisiana much needs is more
sugar and less Democracy.
How a Democratic Paper Interprets the
Vermont Election.
The New York Evening Post tells its
party friends how the great Republican
majority was secured in Vermont. 1t is
a very honest confession for a Democratic
journal. 1.-THE Vermont election affords
the first real test of public sentiment as
between the two great parties since the
issues were made up this year, the con-
tests in Alabama and Arkansas having
been so complicated with the question of
populism, and the Republican party in
each state being so weak, that the Demo-
cratic victories signified nothing as to
the popular feeling throughout tn coun-
try. Vermont, on the other hand, one
sided as it has always been politically,
shows by the rising or falling OF the Re
-.II.zo- ..as~-tNrr thA 1~,fx f The N.l2
throughout the North. Thus, in the Sep
TENDER election of 1854 the ~falling-off in
the usual majority foreshadowed the de-
feat of Blaine; in 1888 a large majority
preceded the election of Harrison; and in
1892 an unprecedentedly small majority
showed the influence of that already ris-
ing tidal wave" which two months later
swept Illinois, Wisconsin and other for
mer Republican states from their moor
ings, and left even Ohio in doubt for
nearly a week. In like manner four
years ago this month, at the correspond
ing election midway OF a presidential
term, the small Republican majority of
$4,000 gave the first indication of that
great revolt against McKinleyism which
buried the party in the congressional
elections of November. 1t therefore
means something that yesterday there
was a Republican majority of $4,000 to
10000 in the state, that some of the
ihb ~ PthNSS SafS AN1NS JIG
~jorities than were ever before known since
the organization of the party, and that
the Democratic representation in the Leg
~islature is cut down to the smallest fg-
ures for many years.
Disgust with the record of the Demo
cratic party-that is what the result in
Vermont means. 1t is a disgust so pro-
found that many Democrats would not
take the trouble to go to the polls, their
vote falling of about a quarter as COM
pared with the corresponding election of
1890. The Democrats of the Green
Mountain state are as 'indomitable as
are to be found anywhere, but ever they
have become wearied with the shutting
performances of their party since il came
into full possession of the federal govern
ment. There is every reason to expect a
similar manifestation of public sentiment
in Maine next week. and throughout the
North in November"
A Protest from the Wool Growers.
The protest of the Ohio wool-growers
against the ruin of that great industry
by the Democratic tariff law will be ech-
oed throughout the West and the South
west. Even the wool-growers of Texas
are repudiating the men who betrayed
the interests of their constituents in SER
vile obedience to Cleveland dictation, and
those of Ohio are voicing the general sem
timent of the North in %denouncing the
Noih VI NiiC INFAMOUS SOuSEtSS. ne
New York Press, speaking of the situa-
ton OF the wool-growers, says: las
pointed out in the address issued by the
Ohio Wool Growers association, the
threat of free wool has reduced the value
of 45,000,000 of American sheep nearly
$70,000,000 and reduced the price of the
wool clip of 1894 more thar $4,000. 900
below the normal price under adequate
protection. As a permanent policy free
wool would drive a million of wOol-grow-
ers from sheep ~husbandry into increased
production of hay, wheat, corn, oats, cot
toI and other products. destroy our sheep
and reduce the demand they would make
for food. and thus add to existing over
production and low prices the ruin of
still further o~verproduction. This would
take from all farmers a large measure
OF their just income and render them un-
able to patronize merchants, grocers, me-
chanics, schools and churches. Free wool
is a blow at civilization and progress.
Immense imports of low-priced wool
would supplant to a large extent the use
of cotton and thus bring disaster to the
planters of the South This picture is
not overdrawn. neither is the statement
exaggerated that with full and adequate
protection the wool industry would soon
increase our 45.000.000 sheep to a re-
quired 110,000,000, furnishing 100000, 900
pounds of wool, or all that American man
ufactures would need. This would save
an annual export of gold of 100000, 900
or more to buy foreign wool from coun-
tries which take substantially nothing
from us in return but gold.
Republicans of the East are just as
earnest and strenuous IN urging protection