Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-12-08

but it is one which will not injure the
consumer in the United States.-Buf-
falo n. Y. Express.
The Dingley law has proved effect
i've in turning the home market over
TO home manufacturers, and it will
enable them to keep it.-Textile Man
ufacturers Journal.
1t has been said that annexing Ha-
wall would burden us with an ele
plant. The animal is so welI-behaved
that the Philippines elephant" may
be expected to turn out equally well.
Mr.. Dingley says there will be no
tariff revision legislation at the COM
ing session of congress. And why
should there be? Everything is work
ing well. = Mankato Mimi Free
Press.
One consolation for Spain is that
few Of the nations of Europe have
been successful in governing colonies.
Even England lost some that were
valuable before learning the proper
methods.
Zinc and copper are booming in the
open market. Perhaps silver would
do equally we'll if it could be rescued
from the professors of fiction who
have rgiven it an equiyocal place
among commodities.
The Philippines more than paid
their way up to Two years ago, in
spite of Spanish mismanagement.
They will not be a financial burden
under the intelligent business regula-
tions of the United States.
The Spanish dream that some Euro
pean nation would be willing to pool
issues with an exhausted and foolish
country has been disappointed.
SPANS trouble hereafter will be to
keep back European aggression.
The country restored the republican
party to power because it wanted the
protective tariff system restored. Now
that that has been accomplished the
country wants a cessation of tariff
Observation-Disclosures Record.
Before war was declared Admiral
Ceryera assured the government in a
confidential letter that Cuba was en-
tirely lost to Spain outside of "a
romantic ideal" 1t seems that all
the statesmen of Spain did not lose
their heads.
Nature made the country a great
grain producer, and the wisdom, cour
age and foresight of the old-time pro-
tectionistS made us an independent
manufacturing nation, soon to be felt
in all the markets of the world.-Cin-
cinnati Commercial Tribune.
The lesson for the United States is
not only that protection should not be
abolished, but that it should be eX-
tended to our carrying trade, and an
American merchant marine should be
built up to compete with that of any
nation on earth. - Tacoma Daily
Ledger
The result of the Dingley tariff is
being realized every day in the great
benefits to this country. New capital
from across the water is being invested
in this country, giving employment
to thousands of laborers, which in
time creates a home market for the
misunderstanding wv. Va Tyler
Gazette.
Our friends on the other side of the
house, who just now are hunting with
great diligence for some kind of an
tissue" to help them out in 1900,
would like to excite dissension among
republicans on tariff questions. In
that endeavOr they have not hesitated
as it now appears, to resort to gross
and grave misstatements. - Albany
IN. Y. Journal.
Any tariff agitation, even by the
friends of the protective policy, would
have more or less Of an unsettling in
fiuence upon business, and even though
the tariff needed some notifications
the business interests of the country
would infinitely prefer continuance
Of the present schedules to the dis
turbance which would surely follow
the reOpening of the tariff question.
They want a chance to do business
Grand Rapids Mich Herald.
The republican party of the state of
Wisconsin will prove itself unworthy
further confidence from the people Of
the state if they do not fulfill every
promise they made in their last con-
vention platform. If they 60 back
upon any promise they will deserve
defeat indefinitely in the future. We
believe the legislature and state Off