The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-07-06
POLITICAL DRIFT.

Vice President Stevenson's bus,
has come from Italy In marble. Hi.
party's bust will come from the ballo
boxes next November in paper.-Cleve
land Leader.
e Mr.. Cleveland's illness has beer
pronounced contagious. 1t is noticed
that whenever he gets sick Secretary
Gresham is laid up for repairs, too
Minneapolis Journal.
I The democracy is carrying out
its contract to help the sugar trust
and the country next November will
carry out its contract to trounce the
democracy. St Louis Globe-DemO
crat.
HWhat monumental hypocrisy II
was on the part of the national demo
cratic committee to food the country
with campaign documents two year,
ago. denouncing trusts and monopo-
lies, when at the very moment they
were cashing the fat checks of many
of these establishments.-N. Y. Re
corder.
WAccording to a recent census
tional, state, county and municipal
governments of the United States IL
1890 were s1,O40, 473,0 Of this sun
less than $3.50, O00, 900 came from tariff
duties. This fact shows how senselea
Is the clatter about ''untaxipg" ths
people by reducing tariff duties--N.
Y. Press.
European capital Is being with
drawn now because the democratic
party in power has paralyzed industry
and threatens to reduce the returns IN
labor aud capital in this country to the
European level. 1t Is being withdrawp
because it can fnd profitable invesA
ment at home manufacturing good
for export when the tariff bars are |,
down--Pittsburgh Gazette.
sThe Globe says the democrats
party has done something; it has de
clared for commercial freedom" If
free trade is meant. there is no doubt
that the party declared for it in 1s9s-
But when it had the whole machinery
of government and legislation under
its control it backed down and re-
pudiated its own declaration to such
an extent as to bring upon it the ridi-
cule of the world. Now what does its
declaration amount to?-Minneapolis
Journal
q The Mckinley law caused a re-
duction of three cents pound in the
price of sugar, equivalent to a saving
of about ten dollars per annum TO the
70 ,v,I ~
ocratic tariff bill will increase the
price of this necessity at least one
cent a pound, with a corresponding
addition to every family's expenses OF
living. This is one of the things that
voters can readily comprehend as an
argument in favor of another political
change.-St- Louis Globe-Democrat.
VHon. Hoke Smith is doing quite
well for his fellow citizens of Georgia
Already he has made provision for one
hundred and sixty of them in the in
terror department alone, and when all
the counties of Georgia have been
heard from and when reports are sub
nitted from the various federal de-
partments, it will be found that Hon
Hoke Smith has following in Georgia
which is likely TO dismay the states
men of Georgia who have been dis
posed 70 regard him with scorn and
disdain.-Albany Journal.
.Thas the Cleveland Carlisle sugar |
schedule was made at the suggestion |
and order of the sugar t-ust cannot be
doubted Mr.. Carlisle Acknowledges
that Searles and ReSde called upon
him land discussed votes" They were
the men, with Havemeyer. who de-
manded ad valorem duties, and it Is
this feature. inserted by the organ OF
the administration at their bidding, 4
that will put into the pockets of the
trus: forty million dollars per year OF
the peoples money. 1t is easily the
most open and boldest fraud that WA
ever attempted by law-making body. /
-Chicz0o Inter Ocean