Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-08-30
How the Parties Differ in Their Way of
Doing Business.

During the past year the country has
had a striking illustration of the differ
ence between the two parties in the way
they frame a tariff bill. The Republican
party goes about the business in a sober,
straightforward way, carefully consider
ing the interests of the entire country.
The Democratic party goes about the
work of reforming the tariff N a par
tisan spirit, never taking into account
what the business interests of the whole
country demands, but rather juggles with
the tariff as a japanese plays tricks with
balls and knives. Tbs following from the
Wheeling ~lntelligencer gives the differ
ence between the Two parties in the fol-
lowing terse paragraphs:
The Republican party frames a tariff
bill on the principle of protection, in
which it practices what it breaches. No
minority holds up a majority and COM
pels an abandonment of principle accom-
panied by breach of faith.
There is no occasion for any inyestiga-
ton TO ascertain whether Republican leg
~islators have dallied with the stock ticker,
playing the market On inside information.
There are no i"rreconcilable differences be-
tween House and Senate.
"The Republican President does not
publish a letter charging Republican SEN
ators with party perfdy and party dis
honor There is no mud-slinging be-
tween the President n the Republican
side of the Senate. The country is not
kept on the anxious seat while a family
row is fought out.
"The Republican party understands
business and is expert in the business of
legislation"
The Bradford Observer, published in
England, is a warm supporter of the
Democratic idea of tariff reform" and
in its issue of June % it prints the fol-
lowing editorial note:
1T would not be surprising If the
American people, after they taste the
joys of cheaper commodities under a
moderate tariff, went in for a still lower
tariff, or even free trade in necessary
articles. especially if the income tax
yields the comparatively small revenue
required by their government"
The Observer doesn't think correctly or
wisely. The American people have al
ready. tasted the Joys of cheaper COM
to destroy protection, and they are hearth
ly sick of it. Cheap commodities import
ed from England and made by cheap
British labor may be a good thing for the
English people. but they mean industrial
death to America and soup houses for the
American working people.
A Connecticut workingman on the Do
ings of Congress,
The New York Times, a Democratic
paper, prints the following from Eli Per-
kins:
To-day Silas Rockwell, who used to work
in the Meriden Britannia works, passed
through Ridgefeld. He was looking for
work.
"I will do anything said Silas-'dig
potatoes. tend children, or milk, and
cheap, too
Why don't you work in the Meriden
shops% / asked.
"a third of us are out he said. They
used to pay out 100000 q month, but
now it's only 100000 a month that,the
boys get hold of. Times are lard in New
England
What do the boys say about the hard
times, ROckwellT l asked.
well, they don't say much. They
sit still and growl. They don't understand
the thing; but | used TO teach school in
Stanford, and l can figure il all out
What is the trouble, as you figure,
Silas? / asked.
Its like this: The darned fool poll
ticians are fussing around to save cents
while the laboring men are losing dol
lars. According to the census reports
there were in good times a year ago IT,
100000 men at work, earning an average
OF 81 per day each, or $30,000.000 q day