The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-08-18
COMMENTS OF THE PRESS,

-Republican platforms are de-
voted principally to the abuse of demo
cratic principals. Well, the democrats
can stand it SO long as nothing better
observation-disclosures City Times.
1t is by no means a sure thing
that Harrison, Reed and Mckinley will
divide the national repub lican conven-
ton between them. While they are
interfering and jockeying some we'll
managed dark horse is very liable to
gal1op around the whole precious trio
of Observation-Disclosures Free Press.
Unfortunately for those who toll
and for the nation ut large, the system
of protection esta blished in this coun-
try has not extended to labor. The
fruits of the high tariff have gone to
the favored beneficiaries who have
amassed millions at the expense of the
masses. Labor has been imported free
of duty and without let or hindrance.
1t is the undesirable element thus in
troduced that is largely responsible
Tor the outbreaks which disgrace the
country and work harm to the cause
OF those who are struggling towards
the more favored position which is
tnclrs by every consideration of right
and Justice.-Detroit Free Press.
The Ohio republicans in their
platform demand such protection for
sheep husbandry as will secure fair
prices for WOOL" The Ohio repub-
licans should be more specific. What
is ''such protection for sheep hus-
bandry as Will secure fair prices for
wool?' Where is it found and how is
1T got? Under the protection which
the Mckinley act gives sheep hus-
bandry, as under all protection given
by the republicans to sheep hus-
bandry, the prices for wool have been
getting lower and lower, until they
have reached their present beauti-
fully fair figures.-Louisville Con.
The facts about the sugar trust
which are coming to light constitute
the truth about all trusts and CORPORA
tons which ask for "protection.'' EN-
boldened by tho success of SO manv
years, this system of robbery of the
American people boldly haunts its
shame in open day and stalks into the
public places and the high councils Of
the nation with startling effronterv.
So hardened has ''protection'' become
by what it has fed upon that it is en-
Iirely bereft of moral sense and en-
'ers the United States senat, bearing
oribes with hardly any sense or con-
'ciousness of impropriety.-Indi
,lis News.
DRY an experiment more completely
rled, and of which the results are
than our protection experi- |
nent, except that of absolute mon |
'rchy in France, and it has produced |
'lmost as great moral chaos. The |
COUNTRY is full of the anti-social, an-
rchical and crazy ideas of tho power
# government which preceded the
french revolution. and they have
'ro'vn out of the thirty years of pro-
ection as plainly as the French ones
rev out of the fifty years of licen-
ious despotism. Not the least divert
ng part of the prevailing folly Is tho
attempt to fasten the re-
OF it all on the FREQ
raiders. as if it was not the function
a tariff to silence and rout free |
raiders by a display of it's own benen-
ence. The number of theories which |
n practice would make the world
Apply if the wicked would only cease |
rom troubling is immense. But how,
0 muzzle the wicked is a chief part e1 |
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