Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1895-11-28
WASHINGTON LErTFp
From our regular corresoona..

~ - AZ reality Wort
ing in the interest of the unsonas A'
OF all wildcat, or STATE ~,
currency. The public utteranos AUX
Secretary Carlisle leave ~ "
that Mr.. Cleveland will in III ao'
sage to congress recommend 81
tirement of the treasury notes No.
larly known as greenbacks WI
he will be bold enough to recom,,a,.
the repeal of the ten per cent raw ~
state bank currency at the san,
time is at yet question, but enona,
has been said to democrats frnm ~.
south, where the only sentiment i,
favor OF a restoration of state b,nl
currency has its abiding place +
make it plain that such is tie nl.i
mate object of both the presiden,
and his secretary of the treasury i
is wild hope they are indulcino r.
No republican congress will ever
vote to repeal the tax on state bank
currency. If there was only a choice
between state bank currency and tbe
free coinage of silver there isn't -.
publican of prominence in either
branch OF congress, not excepting
Senator sherman, who would not
choose the latter.
The greenbacks Will doubtless +
the not distant future be retired. but
1t will not be done until sometime
that is entirely safe has been agreed
upon to take their place, and it is al
together probable that that some
thing will be some form of national
currency. Having for mere than
thirty years, thanks to republican
legislation, enjoyed paper currency
that was worth its face in every state
in the union, the people will never
be satisfied to return to the old
method of increasing the discount
on note the further away it gets
from the bank which issued IL
would be too much like substituting
stage coaches for railway trains to
please the most progressive people
on earth. Dollars provided by repub-
lican legislation have always been
and always will be dollars; that can
absolutely be depended upon.
Those people who suppose that the
republicans Of the great northwest
are less ardent in their support Of a
protective tariff than their brethren
of the middle and eastern states are
badly mistaken. representative
Tawney, of Minnesota, who has just
arrived in Washington, says the re-
publicanS OF that state believe the
revenus for maintaining the govern
ment should be raised by tariff
upon imports rather than by an in
crease of internal revenue taxes; and
he cites the following among other
reasons for that belief; "rhe duty
upon barley, as fixed by the demo-
cratic tariff law, works serious injury
to the farmers of the west by per-
hitting the importation of Canadian
and Russian grain and bringing it
into disastrous competition with our
own product. just before | left home
IA farmer gave me an instance in bis
own experience. In 1894 he raised
33 bushels Of barley to the acre, which
he sold for 30 cents bushel. IN
1895 he increased his yield 81 -
bushels an acre, but the price for
which he could sell the barley fell TO
% cents a bushel. So that, although
the produtiyeness of his farm in
creased largely, he lost $5.l5 all acre
over the previous year
Representative Henderson, OF iowa
who arrived in Washington last week,
characterizes as nonsense, originat-
ing from a democratic source, the
story that he and Senator Allison
We're in Chicago several days ago IN
the interest of the latters eandidnncy
for the republican presidential nomi-
nation. Gen. Henderson is one OF
lllC iGJubllCdHS WIN billh9 AItt az
tariff revision should be undertaken
at this session of congress. He says:
1--WE know in advance that the con-
gress and the executive are at the
antipodes and that no revision the
republicans can make would be
agreed to BY the president. We
should be patriotic and think Of the
country first of all, and, il it is pos
sible to get the president to join us
in this we should do so. ! do not
think we can come to any agreement
to increase revenue by internal tax
alton, but we will wait and see what
the president has TO say, 1t is ms
right and duty TO make suggestions
to congress, and we shall act upon
them, ann sure, in patriotic spirit
according to our best judgment.