The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1897-02-06
WHAT EXCHANGES HAVE 70
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The Mansfield journal thus twits
our Republican friends on the present
unsatisfactory financial condition Of
the country:
"S'range to say. the Republicans
suggest u" rrasnB for the alarming a.
naciai condition If the country. Con
fidencc has been restored, but instead
Of r%.l"icsig aver the return 1T prosper
ity the papers are filled with ~accnunts
Of bank failures. Had Mr.. Bryan heen
elected the opponents Of free ailver
would have found in that fact the
cansa ut all the tronhi- !; hut ~ he was
rot it cannot be aajd that the ..repa.
diators" aud anarchists" have the
country Ivy the throat. The election
Of Mckinley opened the mills hut they
appear 60 lie cl"sing pretty fast. The
new nd administration will find the fnan-
cial problem ~ difficult AZ til. one III
power has round it,"
The Rayne Tribune has been fol-
lowing np Senator Aliens investiga
ti"ns Of the extraordinary vote given
President Mckinley ID some states
which, went Republicans By large ma
Jorifies and thus sums ~
"Senator Allie J, the great Populist
leader, has been fguting over the
votes casr ~ THE several States for
presidential candidates, and has fir-
ur-d it out ia his " way that Major
Mckinley, wan elected By frand. He
groups the following states which n.
claims were carried by fraud: .Mary-
land, West Virginia, OHIO. Michigan,
Indiana, ~lilinols, Kentucky, Iowa,
W%isconscin, Minnesota, Oregon and
California. 1t il getting to be in this
gay aud age that votes il classpd IA
merchandise, and VIII" ever bids the
highest takes the pet.n
The same paper also wisely rem arks:
"The people OF the United States
send millions Of dollars to the Old
World to better the poor heather, and
right now thousands Of people all
over the country are suffering for food
aud clothing to cover their ~nak+dness.
We think it il mucl, better to Keep
the spare dollars at homer
The Sugar Planters journal ia
pleased with the prospect Tor adequate
protection to sugar. 1t says:
$50 much has been said about the
probable effort of the reciprocity poll
cy Of the Mckinley administration.
that We are greatly pleased to learn
from il trustworthy source (througl.
the we'll informed Washington corre.-
pendent Of the New York Journal
OF Com nerce), that the Ways and
Means Committee ate favorably dis
posed to sugar. We do not Gee how
they could be otherwise. when they
remember the pledges made for sugar
in the National Republican platform
npon which the new administration
came into pOweT.'
The Sugar Bel: Vindicator thinks
the trusts will have to 60.
1T is a significant fact that nearly
every Governors message this year
contains o strong recommendation III
favor ola law to suppress the trnafs
Those nefarlons combinations have
made themselves obnoxious Ia all or
the states, and they will have to GO"
That ia the remedy: the warrior,
states of the union must knock tl,r
trusts 10 the head by stringent iegis
lati0n.
The Shreveport Times thus philoso-
phises over the unseemly scramble 70,
office at the hands Of the incoming adj
ministration
"N0 more forcibie exhibition Of the
mad last for power and the insane
thirst and am ition for Office could BE-
exhibited than the wild scramble Of
in every state in the union 70,
recognition at the hands Of the incom-
ing Administrations. It is the fruits Of
the epirit Of the age. 1t marks the
decadence OF the higher and nobler
spirit Of patriotism and devotion to
native land that characterized the ear
iier days Of the republic. 1t il q Sign
board that mans ambition is o~'erleap-
ing itself in the aim to acquire gain
through questionable channels. It il
a reply to the peculation, the prodiga-
cy, the corruption, the recklessness III
expenditures that characterize the
times and that are expressing and i'm
poverishing the people. What will
the harvest be ~
The Louisiana Democrat notes with
satisfaction the satisfactory condition.
of the States finances aud pays a de-
served compliment to the present ad-
ministration for its wise management
OF the fisc. It says:
The State Funding Board met last
week and elected the following banks
as fiscal agents Of the State in the fol
proportions New Orleans Ma
%tional, three-teDtlIs Of the States mon
ey deposits and to the Louisiana
National and H,bernia National Banks
three-tenths each also. The remain
ing tenth was awarded to the NationaJ