Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-06-28

mo, but it will stop its increase. We
will try to keep our factories running to
save our machinery till the administration
is changed, and then hope to extend the
industry again. The citizens of Omaha
had gotten all ready to build a big factory
in the suburbs of their city. Public meet
ings at the Board of Trade have been
held and money subscribed. i am afraid
this will fall through. Capital is timid."
Sugar, / say, is the salvation of the
wheat farmer and the cotton planter.
High prices will come for wheat and cot
ton when we reduce the quantity, and not
till then, and sugar alone will do it. This
$50, 000. 900 which we will annually save
on foreign made sugar will all go to our
laboring men. 1t will eventually make
cheaper sugar and lift both planter II
farmer to prosperity.-Eli Perkins.
Republication In Colleges.
1t probably panied the Democratic free
trade soul of President Eliot when he
learned that Saturday last a Southern
New England League of College Republic
an clups was formed in utilization with
the national body, and that Harvard,
Yale, Williams, Amherst, Brown, TUFTS,
Wesleyan, Boston University and the
Worcester Polytechnic Institute were rep
resented at the meeting.
The meeting Of these clubs is signifi-
cant. as it gives the lie to the statement
so frequently made that the Eastern col
leges, especially Harvard, are hotbeds at
free trade. SO far as Harvard is con
cerned it's Democratic Free Trade Club is
dead, while it's Republican Protection
Club is alive and kicking, as President
Eliot discovered the other day when he re-
fused ii the use of the Sanders Iheater
for its meetings. Of the political COM
plexion of this university, the Boston
Journal says:
OF 1853 Harvard men who have held high Of.
flee In the state or national government, ia
were believers in the principles OF the Repub-
lican party, and only thirty-nine were Demo
Gratis. or the students who graduated from
Harvard between 1885 and 1892, 7l2 were Repub-
licans and 365 were Democrats, and a careful
canvass of the university in 1892 developed the
fact that the Republican majority was greater
than il was in lSSS--that is, that the Republican
strength at Harvard was steadily increasing.
The same is true of Yale College. In
1889 there were So free traders and 40
| protectionists in its senior class, while IN
1893 there were SO free traders and II
protectionists i'm the same class. Fur
thermore, says the Journal:
At Williams a canvass found ia students who
favored Harrison to only forty seven who sup
ported Cleveland. Amherst in 1892 reported
that so per cent. of her students were Repub-
licans, l6 per cent. Democrats, and 4 per cent
Prohibitionists, In the College OF LIBERAL Arts
of Boston University lately the Republicans out
numbered the Democrats five TO one. AT Iufts
College a recent graduating class contained
eighteen Republicans 10 one poor solitary Dem
ocrat. At Wesleyan the Republicans comprise
rs per cent. of the student body. and there are
actually fewer Democrats than Prohibitionists
Though it is a long time before the next
general election comes off the college
undergraduates, as II appears. propose to
put themselves in evidence when the oc-
casion shall require il and to line up by
the side of the Republican alumni in the
fight with the free-trade enemy. 1t is
evident, further, that while they take
science, literature and the classics from
presidents and faculties they do not take
their politics from them. The college
clubs will be heard from in 1896.
Epigrams from McKinley's Minneapolis
Speech.
Is the national distress, the business de-
preston and the universal poverty of the
people, which have relentlessly followed
| the enactment of every revenue tariff
measure in all our history, to be lost upon
80 i'm the calm consideration OF this eco
c subject?
fhe past year has been a long one.
Labor, more than all, and dearer to us
than all, has succumbed to the wasting
blasts of the great change by which in
dustry has been cheated of its just re-
wards.
While the Republican party failed to
CdIEy IhS luSI tlNSlItAg thS thusS ANA
which it contended did not fail. 1t sur
| vived the awful disaster, and shines more
brilliantly and ~gloriously than ever be-
fore.
The Democratic party has Suffered
| calamity we could bear with resignation
if it had not also carried in its train the
vast and sacred interests of the people.
The Wilson bill is a narrow, sectional
and provincial measure, unworthy the
great party which proposes it, and wholly
unsuited to the needs of the people.
A revenue tariff is an enemy to the
American shop, the American working
man, TO American prosperity and Ameri-
can industrial independence.
They democracy look TO the interests
of the importer, ignoring the farmer, and
oblivious to the fact that the agriculturist
is everywhere
1t has relieved the people of employ
ment, of work, of prosperity and of plen-
~, and some of them of their homes.
A revenue tariff encourages no home en-
terprises; il supplies employment to no
American w~orkingman.
A revenue tariff is a sure precursor to
national poverty, national bankruptcy and
individual distress.
The Democratic victory was the out
come of misguided judgment, pique, pas
sion and prejudice.
The Democratic party has signally
ialItu W Ieuteu u sIiSie promise IL maze
to the people.
Changes in tariff schedules must ever
be governed by the protective principle.
The Democratic party won by a cam
paign of profuse and glittering promises.
Who would strike from the Republican
banner a single star or stripe?
The administration and Congress are
without compass or rudder.
What devastation and distress have
been wrought in a single year.
The Wilson bill is for the plantation.
not for the farm and factory.
Everything has been blighted but Re-
publican principles.
h Argument for the Protection of
Lumber.
Bangor Wing and Courier: Democrat
ic Spokesman-Prof. Wilson, we wish TO
call your attention to a grave Injustice.
done the proprietors of the saw mills
along the Penobscot by the lumber sched-
! uie of your tariff bill.
Prof. Wilson-In what does the in
justice of the lumber schedule consist?
Democratic Spokesman-In putting
lumber on the free list, thus exposing us
to the ruinous competition of the poorly
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