The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1894-05-16
POLITICAL POINTERS FOR ORR
CON. VOTERS.

When a Democratic president Is In
Washington there is always scare OF
some kind on hand.
AZ a knocker-out Of labor, capital.
thrift. enterprise, progress and pros
perity, the Democratic party holds the
championship.
If the gentlemen Of the sugar trust
don't see what they want in the tariff
bill let them ask for it and the Democ-
racy will give It to them.
The country is getting very tired of
labor riots, OF Industrial armies, Of
business uncertainties, of hard times
in short, of Democratic rule.
A year ago the Populists were dictat-
ing terms of alliance with the other
parties in several states. and now they
are bidding for the privilege of playing
tail to any kite that flies.
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Pennoyer, of Oregon, must have real
lied that he has all the qualities the
governor of state should not have.
The failure being total his eye is fixed
on the United States senate.
ses
If Coxey fails to influence congress he
need not feel very bad. About 5O,OOO,OOO
people in the United States have been
trying to do the same thing for year
past and have failed.-Inter-Ocean
Hts
Thirty years Of Republican rule and
one year of the misrule of Grover
Cleveland" is the way convention of
Democrats in Missouri expresses it. The
historic old Democracy is almost as dis
cordant as it was in 1861.
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Congressman Mills, who fairly blub
bered over taking the poor mans
shirt" is one of the noble advocates of
taxing every pound of the poor mans
sugar" You see 1t is the only way he
can buy the votes Of the senators from
Louisiana.
The current argument for the passage |
of the Democratic tariff bill is the |
strongest that has yet been presented. !
Ii is simply that the country Is now |
in such a deplorable state that nothing
can make it worse.
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More compromises have been entered |
into on the Wilson bill than were adopt
ed in all the tariff measures combined |
which the republicans enacted. And the
worst of it is the bulk of the Demo-
Gratis think the compromises have made
the bill worse instead of better.
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Under Republican rule and protection
to labor such armies as are now march
Ing and begging under the command of
the Coxeys and Kellys were impossible.
Busy and prosperous people are con-
tented. 1t is the enforced idleness that
has wrought the discomfort and mis-
chief
The fruit industry. which is rapidly
growing into Importance on the Pacific
coast, and which with adequate protec-
lion Is capable of an indefinite expan-
sion until the Pacific coast could supply f.
the people of the whole Union with the
inest fruit, is to be stricken down and
destroyed in this general onslaught on
american industry by the party in
], N. Do!ph, Record,
March /. 1894.
Are you for England or are you for
america? have noticed that whenever
england desired to acquire additional
erritorSs from Africa, that she would
END her soldiers there and demand 1t,
nut whenever England is deslrous of ac-
luiring the markets of America, she
makes the alliance with the Democratic
'arty
A cloud has settled over this country
nd all of its industries within the last
ear more awful In it's blackness than
ny that has overcast the sky since the
errible days of 1860 and 1861 The sim
.e threat of free trade, and power to
erry that threat into execution has
aused a loss of property and shrink
sc OF values that can hardly be COM
rehended by the human mind--Iion.
/. l.. Hagar, Record. February ., 1894,
Whether the universal sentiment in
lvor OF protection as applied to every
ountry is sound or not, do not stop
, discuss. Whether it is best for the
nited States of America alone con-
rms me now, and the first thing /
ave to say. is that after thirty years
protection. undlsturbed by any ser