Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-09-20

not quite, 1,300, 100000, or an amount
equal to at least four months con-
sumption For every pound of this
sugar American consumers will be
compelled to pay an advanced price
for the benefit Of the trust.
CONGRESSMAN BABCOCK.
Congressman Babcock, of Wisconsin,
chairman of the republican congress
SiOnal committee, has received word
that the allied opposition il his dis
trict is determined to defeat him for
congress, if possible. But he intends
to remain at his post for the present
In his district democrats, populistS,
and prOhibitiOnistS have combined on
ernOr Of WicOnSin as a populiSt two
years ago. Butt has been a republican
and a democrat and is now a pOpulist.
He was nominated for congress by the
republicans in Il district largely repub-
lican, but was defeated. He then east
his lot with the democrats. but not re-
ceiying what he conceived to be his
just deserts accepted the pOpulist NOM
inatiOn for governor and was showed
under. Representative BabcOck is one
of the most clear-headed republicans
in congress and has the faculty of in
spring confidence and enthusiasm
among his supporters at home, where
his worth is appreciated.
Speaking of the outlook in WiscOn-
sin, Chairman BabcOck said:
Il can speak more positively Of Wis
ConSin than of any of the western
state, because it is my own state, and
I know pretty thoroughly the feeling
that exists throughout it, The delega-
ton now consists of six democrats
and four republicans. l am making a
very conservative and modest estimate
when [ say that the delegation to the
next house will consist of seven re-
publicanS and three democrats. Some
of our enthusiastic leaders declare that
this estimate is far too small. and that
there will be nine republicans from
Wisconsin in the fifty-fOurth congress-
The declaration that the senate bill is
but the beginning of a movement to-
as great disquiet throughout business
circles as existed when the fifty-third
congress met to repeal the Mckinley
law. In the lumber, iron, and other
Industries iii which the great wealth
of the country is interested there is no
improvement in the outlook. [ have
Just received a letter from my partner
in, c+0 mo not 10 firm no g
closed a contract for about a million
feet of oak lumber, first and second
class, at the rate of see a thousand,
which means 500 a thousand delivered
in Chicago. This price means loss
of about 50 a thousand on the lumber,
but the price of Canadian free lumber
had to be met The democrats are
making a great point out of the fact
that the glass factories all over the
country are resuming. Anyone who
knows anything about the manufacture
of glass is aware that these factories
close down two months in the summer,
and the resumption in September is
the usual thing. I notice there is moth
ing said by them of the reduction of
D
of the glassworkers, which has been
made on account of the cut in the rates
of duty on those articles"
! DEMOCRACY BRANDED.
Every true democrat and every sim
cere tariff refOrmer knows that this
bill in its present form and as it will
! be submitted to the conference falls
far short of the contamination for
which we have long labored, for which
! we have suffered defeat without dis
! gave Us a rallying cry in our day of
| triumph. and which in its promise of
accomplishment is so interviewer with
! democratic pledges and democratic
success that our abandonment of the
cause of the principles upon which il
rests means party pertidy and party
/ Decentralization Letter.
1T is quite apparent that this ques
| ton of free raw materials does moi
admit Of adjustment on any middle
ground, since their subsection to any
rate of tariff taxation, great or small
is alike violative of democratic prin
ciple and democratic good faith.-Wil
son Letter.
4 1t must be admitted that no tariff
measure can accord with democratic
principles and promises or bear 8
genuine democratic badge that does
not provide for free raw material. II
the circumstances it may we'll excite
our wonder that democrats are willins
to depart from this, the most demo
cratic of all tariff principles, and tina
| the inconsistent ahS1,r6ifv of sunb .