Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-06-28

senate; and it has been conducted.
from beginning to end, with the ap-
proved intention Of concealing rather
than discovering the truth.
That is all. 1t is quite enough. What
are the honest democrats in the house
of representative going to do about
it:
CORN.
Springfield Journal: The wheat
grower is already face to face wiah
the fact that wheat can he produced
in the East Indies and laid down in
London at less than the cost of pro-
duction in Minnesota or the Dakotas.
. Is the corn OF the Argentine Republic
to be placed in competition with that
of the states south Of the great wheat
belt of the United States: 1t is time
for the farmers to put on their armor
and fight for the preservation of the
home market for both wheat and corn.
The Democratic policy is to deprive
them Of the growth and sale of both
these great staple products.
SWindling the Nation.
Philadelphia Telegraph: It is a
queer state of affairs, a terrible letting
down of great expectations The
country has all along been ready for
tariff revision, which it demanded EN-
phatically several times, but it has
abundantly shown that it does not pro
pose to be swindled out OF genera
tons growth by the work of free
trade SOphiStS and southern theorists,
who have always been so bitterly hos
tile to protection to American indus
try. The nation will survive the pres
ent ordeal and in a little while it will
again be enjoying the prosperity which
always follows an adherence to wise
and just American principles. No mat
ter who leads the hosts of protection
two years hence, the economic princi-
to receive the overwhelming indOrse-
ment of the country.
Right Kind of Protection
Peoria Transcript: 1t is true that
there is protection in this last demo
cratic tariff bill, but it is not the right
kind. Protection that is granted as
the result of trafficking and bribery
rather than with regard 10 the inter
ests of the country and the working
men can hardly produce the best re-
suits. If the tariff is to .be revised
along protective lines, it should be
done by the friends of protection
rather than by it mercenary enemies.
Even Democrats Kick
Pittsburg Commercial Gazette: AL
ready there are loud mutterings in the
house against the senate bill, and
threats of radical changes in it's sched-
ules. Among the items are free coal
and free iron ore, and it will be no
surprise if the house shall insist upon
such changes as will make the bill al
together unsatisfactory to the senate
again, resulting in the ultimate defeat
of the whole measure.
House Must Kill 1t.
Philadelphia Press: If it shall final
ly pass the senate, the hope of the
country and the defense of public hon
or will rest on the house. We take it
fol granted that the house will repudi-
ate the sugar. schedule as it stands.
It can not in common self-respect or
decency do less. But that is not
CROUCH. A rejection in the house as a
preliminary to surrender in the con-
ference committee will be idle and
vain. 1t NUT repudiate to kill
Is the Right to Kick Limited?
San Francisco Call. dem: The house
iS tn II o.
of the senate to 50 change the bill
sent to it in conflict with the platform.
Is the right to kick limited to half a
dozen senator's? May not the house
exercise this right in defense of the
principles so positively enunciated at
Chicago?
Democracy Can Not Settle 1t.
Springfield Union: 1t is now as GER
certain as anything can be that the
democratic party can not settle the
tariff question. That task must be left
to the republicans, and protection will
be an issue in 1896.
To Injure the North.
DanviIle Commercial: If you have
any doubts about the products Of the
two sections of this country you can
easily discover by an examination of
the Wilson tariff schedule that the
democratic states raise cotton and the
republican states wool.
Republican Vacation.
Peoria Transcripts: The republican
party had better get all the rest and
recreation it can out of this vacation.
The people will never let it have an
other.