Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-07-08

stefan and surgeon. Office in Wood
block, telephone No. 10. Residence
on High street. next door TO E Kroner.
telephone No. 100. If
Last years experience as a tan to the
democratic kite was quite enough for
the average populist. He wants no
more Of it this year, and is determined
that he will not have it.
The fact that the democrats propose
TO grab all the fat offices IN the states
where they are now urging another
''fusion' with the populists makes the
members Of the latter party somewhat
wary this time.
Railroad men, manufacturers, and
business men Of all sections and paIties
report marked Improvement is business
and confidence, and predict that the
renewal Of activity is permanent in its
character.
The average southern democrat who
finds the productions Of his section we'll
protected by the new tariff measure.
now looks with entire complacency
upon the fact that one-half Of the mem
bers Of congress from south of Mason
and Dixon's line voted for protection.
! The demand for those beautiful tables
by which the silver orators sought to
prove last year that the price of wheat
is dependent upon the price Of silver
has suddenly fallen off since wheat has
! continued to advance and silver has
steadily decreased i'll price for many
months past.
Silver-mine owners who are attempt
ing to carry Iowa and Ohio on the silver
issue this fall should have "business''
consultation with Mr.. Debs and arrange
with him to delay the departure of his
communistic organization until after the
election. They need all of that kind of
votes they can muster.
The Commissioner Of Pensions does
not agree with the democratic idea that
the duty Of examining surgeons is to
invent ways and means of keeping old
soldiers from getting pensions justly
due them, and so has dismissed about
five hundred democratic examining
surgeons who seem to have thought
that their chief duty during the past
four years.
Democratic support for the protective
tariffs one ofthe causes ofthe improved
conditions through the country. Bust
ness men who are constantly studying
these conditions are of the opinion that
the tarif'bill which has just been framed
will remain on the statue books for a
! long time because of the growth Of the
protective sentiment among the Demo
carts, and that with its permanency
there will be permanent business pros
perity.
Ex-Governor Boies Of Iowa has re-
fused longer to follow the free-coinage-
of-silYer proposition, and is out in an
urgent argument in favor Of a paper
currency based solely on the market
value Of the silver bullion against which
it would be issued. Governor Boies'
Reputation of the democratic doctrine
which proposes to base a currency on
| legislative action which should call 46
cents a dollar is a severe blow to the
| free coinagists.
Just one-twelfth of the Mckinley ad-
ministration has passed and in that
time republicans have done more in the
way Of carrying out-the pledges of the
platform than was ever accomplished
in double that time by any previous adj
ministration. When you consider that
this has been done with a senate in
which the republicans are in a minority
you should celebrate the close Of the
first four months instead of grumbling
because the full four years undertaking
has not been completed.
'Protests" coming from foreign ma
tons relative to the tariff which we are
about adopting are not looked upon as
serious matter by our statesmen ID
| Washington. A COld-bloOded statis-
tician who wanted to see whether these
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