The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-04-08
Brief Comment.

The advance agent of prosperity
is up where he can be seen now. Let
the procession move.
Canton is bound to keep up the racket
in some way. The town is now Offering
II bonus for a boiler factory.
renely while he reads of the tribula-
tions of Mckinley. the hunted.
a merry wink goes round as McKin-
| ley declares he will crush the trusts
but protect the manufacturers.
| The Houston Post says that the
Hingley tariff bill is imperfect because
it neglects to fix duty on horned
horses" This is gnus.
Just how we are TO get increased rev.
eilue from importation and shut out
the impOltatiOns for the benefit of home
producers nobody deigns to explain
Philadelphia Ledger.
Somehow or other Marcus y. Hanna
has Il grip on the neck of the new ad-
ministratiOn that means submission OF
protruding tongues and purple cOun-
tena enances.--VincennesG Gnd.) Sun.
There is a consolation in the fact that
the fight between the Atlantic and Gulf
ports for the traffic of the West is
bound to be benefit to the farmers
whichever may win. City Trib
une.
Under the new tariff foreigners will
get American articles cheaper. while
American consumers will have to pay
higher prices. The American consumer
will have no friends in the new admin
istration.-St. Louis POst-Dispatch.
We infer from the remarks of the
newspapers that there are some parts
of the country where the people have
not even had Il glance of the fellow
who Is putting up the Autographs for
the advance agent of prosperity
Washington Post.
During the campaign, it is said. Mr..
Mckinley greeted 1,0UO.OU0 persons
Notwithstanding his impaired health, Il
large proportion of this 1,00o,0U0 insist
on greeting him again in order that he
may be enabled to perceive their fitness
for places under the new admiristra-
tion.--St. Lo.Iis Post-Dispatch.
Ii was so easy. The coal barons want
ed S4O,OOOOo0. That was only a baga
telle. They simply advanced the price
of coal 81 and ordered 40,00O.000 tons
mined. Hermann or Keller never per-
formed Il more adroit trick than that.
The trust system encourages just such
legerdemain.-India Journal.
There are still Il good many Republi
cans, who. like GrosvenOr. cannot I'M
derstand Why Democrats should be al
lowed to held office under a Republican
administration, and they promise tn
make life pretty uncomfortable to Maj.
Mckinley when the flowers of spring
begin to i.loom.-Philadelph Bullctir.
The old Mckinley tariff reduced the
Revenues Of the country and the Re
prblicans promise that the new Me
Kinlay tariff which they hope to enact
will increase the revenues. A McKin
ley tariff is apparentlya magfcian's bot
tie out of which you can get any kind
of liquor yen call fOr.-Buffalo Courier
If the Mckinley tariff. which wiped
out SGu.GCDG00 of revenue by putting
sugar on The free list. was a more Of
fpctive producer of revenue than is the
Wilson tariff. why does the proposed
Din.ley tariff increase the existing SUI
gar duties with the view of producing
additional revenue to an estimated
amount between S20,000.0OO and 500
OCG.GOO: Buffalo Courier.
The tire way i'll II time of profound
industri;. depression to help distressed
business is to tighten the burden of tax
alton by cutting down taxes to the limit
of safe economy and 10y cutting down
expenses to the measure of revenue.
But the Congress has NOT even cOnsid
cred IL decrease of taxes. and only one
man in Congress has labOred effective
ly to cut down eXpenditure.-Philade
nhia Record