River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-04-19
COMMENT AND OPINION.


tT President Cleveland's official fam
lily is not happy one just at present -
Boston Traveller
Ga The Wilson tariff bill shouters
need strong ionic; they have the
spring fever Y. Tribune.
rs Leeches are on the free list of the
Wilson bill Bound to bleed us well
AMI bleed us sick. Inter
Ocean.
sE The men who have felt the pinch
of democratic hard times the past win
ter will express their opinion of de
mocracy by voting the republican tick
ct at the spring election.-ToledoB Blade.
Ia Exrc rience. after all, is the most
effective teacher; and the logic of the
past twelve months has done away
with the necessity for tariff speeches
and educational campaigns Albany
journal.
sWThe plain truth is that democratic
tinkering with finances and the tariff
has made trouble. and the only remedy
is to stop that tinkering and to leave in
force the laws under which unprece-
denied prosperity was realized.-N. Y.
Tribune
s-The democrats since they came
into absolute control of the government
last yesr have dexterOusly contrived to
render their control brief and to de
stroy all chances for its return in the
immediate future.-St Louis Globe
Democrat.
The republicans continue to win
the municipal elections in many of the
northern states where the democrats
swept everything before them last No
vember. The conditions are extremely
favorable for republican success all
over the union next fall.-Omaha Bee
sSThe call for the annual conven-
ton of the National republican league,
to be held in Denver in June. anathe-
matizes President Cleveland and his
party friends as this tariff-tinkering,
bond-issuing, debt-increasing, treasury
depicting, business-paralyzing. wage
reducing, queen-restoring and up-A1er-
lean administration.
eH-Under the Mckinley Iegime our
tariff has so far protected our home
markets that the British government
has just found it necessary TO bring in
The largest budget" on record. Ninety
five million pounds is the comfortable
sum placed before the British free trade
fanatics for their consideration by the
Rosebery administrations. Y. Mail
sTThe senate finance committee
has reported to that body the tariff bill
on which il has, with much wet nurs-
ing by the protectionists in and out of
the senate, been incubating for weeks
The free trade egg laid at Chicago has
been pushed out of the nest, and a
democratic congress has Matched full
fiedged protectionist cuckoo. The
sugar trust, the coal and ore and steel
trusts, the linen and collar and cuff
trust, the sole leather trust, and all
the nefarious brood of trusts are each
and all of them safely sheltered under
the wings of this audacious cuckoo bill
st Paul Globe Dem.l.
sTThe intcrminable conflict over
the tariff bill has Disguised the conn
try and paralyzeti the democratic par
ty, which, if it went to an election
now. would secure but a corporaPs
guard of representatives in congress.
The spectacle of a party which came
into power ia 1892 with almost unex-
ampIed enthusiasm now in the slough
of despond because of the selishness,
inca pacity and narrow mindedness of
its leaders in congress is not fattering
to republican government The party
press, which so vigorously champloned
tariff reform, now impOrtunes con-
gr,.ssmen to do ANYTHING rather than
keep mp the su,pel5,. Phi .issl ',is
Ledger lDeml.