River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-07-19
POLITICAL DRIFT.

eY-It is hard to find democratic
senator who acknowledges using sugar
even in his coffee.-Chicago Inter
Ocean.
Vice President Stevenson's bust
has come from Italy in marble. His
party's bust will come from the ballot
boxes next November in paper.-Cleve-
land Leader.
B"Mr. Cleveland's illness has been
pronounced contagious. II is noticed
that whenever he gets sick Secretary
Gresham is laid up for repairs, too.
Minneapolis Journal.
sB"The dem ocracy 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.
sB- What monumental hypocrisy it
was on the part of the national demo
cratic committee to food the country
with campaign documents two years
ago. denouncing trusts and monopo-
lies, when at the very moment they
were cashing the fat checks of many
of these simultaneously N. Y. Re-
corder.
10 According TO recent census
bulletin the total receipts of the ma.
tional, state, county and municipal
governments of the United States in
1890 were 81 ,O4O, 473,0 OF this sum
less than $3.50, 100000 came from tariff
duties. This fact shows how senseless
is the clatter about ''untaxiDg" the
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 to
abor and capital in this country to the
European level. 1t is being with drawn
because it can find profitable invest
ment at home manufacturing goods
for export when the tariff bars are let
down Pittsburgh Gazette.
.E-The Globe says the democratic
party has done something; it has de-
clared for commercial freedom" II
free trade is meant, there is no doubt
that the party declared for it in 1892.
But when il 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-
Guile of the world. Now what does its
declaration amount to?-Minneapolis
Journal.
sYThe 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
average family; and the pending dem
ocratic tariff bill will increase the
price of this necessity at least one
cent a pound, with 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. Louis Globe-Democrat.
s8-Hon. Hoke smi tn 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
mitted 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 to regard him with seorn and
disdain.-Albany Journal.
That the ClevelandCarlisle sugar
schedule was made at the suggestion
and order of the sugar trust cannot be
doubted. Mr.. Carlisle acknowledges
that Searles and Reade called upon
him and discussed votes They we're
the men, with Havemeyer, who de-
manded q valorem duties, and it is
this feature. inserted by the organ of
the administration at their bidding,
that will put into the pockets of the
trust forty million dollars per year Of
the peoples money. II is easily the
most open and boldest fraud that was
ever attempted by law-making body.
Chicago Inter Ocean