River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-05-23

I viii NC uSlu dO DuI anu SuhS iof ~
and 2l.
The state census will be taken
beginning June 70. The work is TO
be done by town and city clerks.
Dairy Commissioner, Hon. ii. c.
Adams, says that the manufacture of
Tilied cheese has been entirely sup
pressed in this state.
Suits have been begun at Superior
To enjOin the sale of lands for the
taxes of last year on the grounds of
inequality ia the tax levy and of illegal
appropriations, specifically the
normal school tax of $4,000 and the
one Tor the Douglas county window
/ at the Worlds fair.
In one of his speeches Governor Nc
Kinley said: IF we do our work at
/ home our labor at home will be en-
| plOyed and the wages paid at home
will be spent at home. This is the
| philosophy of protection, and IL
cannot be abandoned, amended or
abated." And nearly every patriotic
| writer and speaker in the country has
said the same thing. 1t is simple
statement of an incontroyertible
| truth.
Governor William Mckinley said in
one of his addresses that President
Harrison paid off 1896, 100000 of the
public debt and turned over to Mr..
Cleyeland'S administration Sl2i 900,
! 600 surplus. There was not moment
from the Inauguration of Mr.. Harri-
son TO the second Inauguration of Mr..
Cleveland in which we did not collect
for every year sufficient revenues to
pay every demand and obligation of
the Government.
The monument erected at Viroqua
To the memory of Gen. j. NJ Rusk
will be dedicated Memorial day. Ex-
Senator John G. SpOoner will deliver
the principal address and eXPresident
Benjamin Harrison is expected to
deliver a short eulogy of his favOrite
cabinet officer. Many Grand Army
posts will participate. Gen. Rusk
died Nov. 81, 1893. The shaft of the
monument is 20 feet-total 33 feet.
The surviving members of the Harri
son cabinet are expected to be present.
Dunn County News.
On hearing of the Income Tax
case before the United States
Supreme Court that tribunal on Mon
day last rendered its final decision
holding the act unconstitutional in
toto. Four of the Judges dissented
from the descisiOn of the Court, five
uniting in the opinion-a bare
majority. The decision is to the
effect that the law conflicts with the
clause of the constitution which says
that, mo capitatiOn, or other
direct tax shall be laid, unless
i'm proportion to the census enumera-
ton" This will result in adding
some thirty million dollars to the
deficit in the Treasury for the current
year, and is another monument to the
stupidity of the administration.
The Hudson Star and Times
reprints from the Milwaukee Sentinel |
the stale old story that the 'de- |
mobilization act" of 1878 was fully |
discussed before its passage and that |
the debate covers some LOO pages of |
the Congressional Record. We are
not defending free coinage but we |
fail to see where anything is gained |
for an otherwise good cause by mis- |
representation. 1t is true that the |
act of 1873 was debated for long
time in both Houses of Congress, but |
the characterization clause was insert |
ed when that debate was about closed |
and was not the subject of long discus |
sion. The act of 1873, so much |
discussed is entitled, IAN act revising |
and amending the laws relative to the |
Mint, assay officers, and coinage of
the United States" and the de-
monetiZation of silver is very small |
part of il. Better tell the facts, |
Brethren, or you lay yourselves open
to the charge you yourselves make |
against the author of Coin"
1t has taken Boss Keyes of |
Madison thirty-four years to find out |
that he was soldier during the late
war. That fact seems TO have dawn |
ed upon him lately and he applied a |
few weeks ago to be made membe |
of the G.. A. II. Post at Madison, but
was rejected. He bases his claim TO |
admission upon the fact that at the
beginning of the war he happened TO
be in Washington, and we would
naturally suspect from what we know
of his record of those days, for the |
purpose of impOrtuning President
Lincoln for an office for himself and |
others,-and the Capital being in |
danger a hOme-guard was organized
i'm which he was enrolled. These
men never crossed the Potomac,
never intended to, and were no more
enlisted in the army than were the |
men IN Prescott who at the time of the |
Sioux outbreak in Minnesota organic |
ed into company for home prOtec- |
ton. The Madison G.. A. II. Post did |
right in rejecting the ex-boss.
The State ought to, and does, deal |
literally with the State University.
1t il an institution in which we may
al n ingf rApihn Tho Ia =
legislature made liberal, and we think |
lust appropriations for it. But il |
ought 10 be open to all young people |
of the State at as low cost as possible |
Only in that manner can 1t maintain |
its claim TO being popular" institu-
ton. We regret that the Board of
Regents should have found il neces-
Sary to increase the tuition as w
done at one of its late meetings. |
There are many young men and
women in the University supporting
themselves by their own efforts.
On these the tuition charged is a
burden. while the sons and daughters
of wealthy parents will feel no addi-
tional burden by reason of the in
crease. The University will cease to
be popular" place of learning when
we exclude from il by increase in
tAptHSt llC fONAlE gVciliFh VI NhN
State. The Board should Dy all means
at the earliest opportunity retrace its
steps. The old tuition was high
enough.
Senator Sawyer says he has not fully
determined as TO whether he will be a
candidate before the next legislature
for United States Senator TO succeed
Senator Villas. He says if he con-
cludes TO go into the fight he will
make it lively for the other fellows.
Undoubtedly. He laid the founda-
ton for his peculiar method of
campaigning last winter by killing
the Corrupt Practices Act" which
was intended to prevent and punish
the use of money in elections.
Sawyer will be, if he lives, seventy
nine years old next September. He
says. Just at present | am feeling
very >well; better than l have for
several years past" This sounds
little as if he were in his dOtage, and
reminds us of the old bishop in Gil
Bias. by whom the latter was employ