Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-11-28
DoNGs AT WASHINGTON
Washington. NOV. -. 1895.

the administration is in reality work
ing in the intere of the unsOunaGst
of all wildcat or state bank
currency. The public utterances of
Secretary Carlisle leave no doubt that
Mr.. Cleveland viii in his message TO
Congress recon mend the retirement
Of the treasury notes, popularity known
as oreenbacks. Whether he will be
bold enough to recommend the repeal
of the ten per cent tax on state bank
currency at the same time is as vet a
question. but enough has been said TO
democrats from the South, where the
only sentiment in favor OF a restora-
ton Of state bank currency has its
abiding place, to make it plain that
such is the ultimate object of both
the president aud his secretary of the
treasury. 1t is a wild hope they are
INDUCING in. No republican Con-
gress will ever vote 10 repeal the tax
on state bank currency. If there was
only choice between state bank cur
rency and the free coinage OF silver,
there isn't a republican OF promi-
nence on either branch OF Congress,
not excepting Senator sherman, who
would not choose the latter.
The greenbacks will doubtless in
the not distant future be retired, but
it will not be done until something
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 more 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 it. 1t would be
too much like substituting stage
coaches for railway trains to please
the most progressive people on earth.
Dollars provided by republican legis-
tation 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 middlesand eastern states are
badly mistaken. Representative
Tawney of Minnesota, VINO has just
arrived in Washington, says the re-
publicans of that state believe the
revenue for maintaining the govern
ment should be raised by tariff up
on imports rather than by an increase
of internal revenue taxes, and he
cites the following among other reas-
ons for their belief: The duty upon
barley, as fixed by the democratic
law, works serious injury to the farm
ers of the west by permitting the inn
portation of Canadian and Russian
grain and bringing it into disastrous
competition with our own product.
just before | left home a farmer gave
me an instance in his own experience.
In 1894 he raised 80 bushels Of barley
to the acre. which he sold for 80 cents
a bushel. In 1895 he increased his
yield to is bushels an acre, but the
III lO1 Which, Ht COAtlQ SCiI iiit Val
ley fell to % cents bushel. So that,
although the productiyeness of his
farm increased largely, he lost $6.l5
an acre over the previous year
Representative Henderson of Iowa.
who arrived in Washington this week,
characterizes as nonsense, original
inc from a democratic source, the
story that he and Senator Allison
were in Chicago several days ago in
the interest of the latter's candidancy
for the republican presidential nomi-
nation. Gen. Henderson is one of
the republicans who thinks that no
tariff revision should be undertaken
at this session of Congress. He says:
.'Ne know in advance that the Con-
gress and the executive are at the
antipodes and that no revision the
republicans could make would be
agreed to by the president We
should be patriotic and think Of the
needs of the country first of ALL and
il it is possible. 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 in
ternal taxation; but we shall wait and
see what the president has to say. 1t
is his right and duty to make sugges-
tions to Congress, and we shall act
upon them. ] am sure. in patriotic
spirit according to our best judy
ment think any increase Of reve-
nue. must come from customs. but we
have no need to make record. Our
record is made, we believe in pro-
tecting American industries.
Representative Babcock Of Wiscon-
sin, who has right to be proud Of
the work he did as chairman Of the
republican, Congressional campaign
committee last year. is in town ready
for the sessions work He is especi-
ally interested in the Monroe doctrine
which he declares TO mean that no
European power shall be allowed to
acquire additional territory upon this
continent. either by purchase. force