Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-09-13

the talking; that experience is the
most fOrcible speaker. The Sentinel
says the expression has all of the
merit of condensed wisdom" What
pleased the local speaker was the fact
that he has been saying just that
thing at nearly all the meetings at
which he has spoken. The nation has
been full of speakers for the republican
party and against the democratic party
ever since the election of Mr.. Cieve-
land and a democratic congress in
1892. 4 reduction Of values to the
extent of billions. has spoken. and
loudly. for protection and against free
trade. Hundreds Of banks stranded by
that unfortunate election have been
crying out against d change of politics
"a change from protection to free
trade. Closed factOries-tenS of thou
sands of them-are speaking with great
vigOr against democracy and its meth
DDS. Three millions of idle men are
speaking in thunder tones against the
| threatened change of policy Millions
of women and children who are not as
| we'll fed and clothed as they We're
while the republican party held the
reinS of government. talk, pathetically,
against the overthrow Of republican
principles and methods. Thousands of
soup kitchens are flaming advertise
ments pointing to Cleveland and the
democratic party as unworthy of the
power confided to them by the election
Of 1892. There are millions Of farmers
! who have seen wheat tumble forty
seven cents a bushel the past year,
who are constant in their speech
against a party that has brought dis
! aSter upon disaster to the country
Cleveland and Gresham's unpatli0tic
Hawaiian policy is a speech in letters
of fire against trusting the democratic
| party to administer the affairs of 4
! great nation like this. Many thou
sands of mercantile failures have been
| talking in the same strain. Mill ons
| Of men who are working for lower
wages than they received before the
! election of 1892, are a constant and "a
| flaming speech against the democratic
party. The closed mines and over
crowded poor houses proclaim against
! lection, under which the country has
always prOspered, to free trade, under
which it has always suffered. A COM
plete check to factory building talks
against the democratic and for the re-
! publican party. Hundreds of railroad
| companies managed by receivers are
! loud in their condemnation Of the
! hard tiO1pc tho tv baS .
brought the country. These many
earnest speeches, it would seem, should
build up a sentiment against the demo
cratic party so strong that it VIII be
unable to fool the people into trusting
it again for at least half a century,
! Milwaukee Telegraph.
THE STATE TAN QUESTION.
Some weeks ago the Milwaukee or
gan of the democracy published the
official order of the state tax commits
sioners, relating to the state tax, to
be levied this year, with fulsOme eulo-
gies and eXtravagant laudations of the
present administration for economy
etc.
The official document, with its &C
companying screed, is now being cir.
culated over the state as 4 campaign
document in packages of three, foul
or more, stamped in red ink, kindly
hand these to your neighbours
Faith in public Office" Three quar-
ters of Il million dollars for the tax
payers Of Wisconsin this year in re
ductiOn of taxes" III big head lines
opens the wonderful revelation thai
follows.
What are the facts?
The state tax IN 1890, republican
year, was 1891 $50.
For the three following years OF
democratic times the state taxes have
aggregated $3,02G, 326 10, or an average
of $1,0OS,77 per year. or $117.115.,
SO more per year than under the last
year of republican rule.
Estimates made by politicians Just
before election are very unreliable
and little dependence can lie placed
upon them as regards their accuracy
The tax commissioners report that
there is in the state treasury belonging
to the general fund the sum of $T42,-
go OF this amount $464, 013 10 was
! derived from extraordinary sources,
from whence no revenue to the state
/ has heretofore been derived, and but
/ little will be received hereafter, Viz,
| the interest from banks Of deposit.
The taxpayers Of the state will not
, be deceived by the plausible insinua-
| tons or bombastic exaggerations of
/ the Milwaukee organ, nor will they
| soon forget the damning history of the
attempted roster robbery.
| Under the several republican ad-
ministrationS there was no stealing nor
| jobbery. In this regard their records
stand unimpeached and unquestioned.
The people, or a majority, may be
! deceived once.
Deception and false promises allured
| them, two years ago, but they have
come to know what party can best be
| trusted, and in November will register
their emphatic protest against the
bogus democracy as we'll as bossism
, and jobbery.
NOTHING Is SETTLED.
Speaking of the Mckinley law being
dead, and suggesting that the gun
which killed it will do more harm at
the breech than at the muzzle, the
New York Tribune says the effort to
overturn the act of 1890 has already