Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-03-10
F. s. RENNE.
County Clerl

Ii is about time to call the caucuses
! Of the several wards in the city. The
! civ convention should also be called
and notice given in the next issue of
the REPORTER.
The Wausau Record says that the
man who states that advertising does
not pay should think of the standing in
history of George Washington, Napo-
leon, Alexander, julius Caesar, and even
such old fellows as Moses and Confu-
cius. If advertising Gree will do for
men what it has done for those old fell
lows, what will it do for live man who
has every modern opportunity to make
a business bit and advertise it.
The fact that the Republican party
is responsible for all the benefits which
the beet-sugar industry has ever re-
favorable to beet-Sugar interests and
to the production of American sugar
TO Americans, seems to be sufficient
answer TO those who assume that the
administration policy of Hawaiian
annexation, if pursued, will result
diSaStTOusly to beet-Sugar interests.
The predictions of the trainers of
the Dingley law are being rapidly full
filled. The February receipts reached
more than a million dollars day dur
| ing the entire month and were nearly
| 1000, 600 in excess of the expenditures
of the month. The increase in GUS
| tom receipts since the new law went
into effect has been very rapid, the
figures being 1926, 400 per diem in it's
first month. and 1851, 1S1 in it's seventh
month, February.
The cause Of free silver is evidently
losing its charm with many Demo
Gratis 1t is now understood that the
! New York State Convention this year
will be expected to ignore this Ques-
tiOn, and that this disposition is
making itself apparent in many sec
tions of the country. So strongly
marked is this new development
among democrats that such papers
as the Philadelphia American, edited
| by Wharton Barker, and the Cauca-
sian, of Raleigh, n. c., owned by Sen
ator Marion Butler, chairman of the
POpulist National committee, are pre-
dieting that the democratic party in
1900 will swing back to the gold stand
ard.
The labor commissioner of New
York has destroyed another idol of
the silver WOrshippers. In his report
just published he shows that the
farmers of that State are complain
| ing bitterly Of the reduction in the
prices OF their farms, not in 1878, the
year Of the ''crime," nor in the years
Immediately following it, but in 1898,
and the succeeding years in which the
free-trade 'crime" began it's work,
when the people elected free-trade
congress and president. He says
specifically that the complaints of the
farmers are that their farms have
been reduced from 80 to 10 per cent.
in value during the past five or six
years-nOt during the past twenty
five or six years.
1t must be quite disappointment
to the Democratic orators to find that
their predictions of awful results from
the new tariff law have not been
realized. One Of the things about
which they expected to scOld in their
campaign speeches was the price of
shoes, which they assumed would be
greatly increased by reason Of the duty
placed upon raw hides by the Dingley
| law. 1t seems, however, that there
! has been no advance. On the con-
traTy, prices are lower, the latest quo
! tatiOnS Indicating that wOmen'S buff
shoes which sold at so cents, whole
sale price, on January l, 1897, are now
only III cents: mems buff shoes which
were SLIT! January l, 1897, were S1.15
January l, 1898; creedmOre splits which
were S1.00 at the beginning Of jan
uary, 1897, were gu cents at the end
of that year, and mems grain shoes
which were quoted at S1.O7t January
l, 1897, were on February %, 1898,
quoted at S1.00.
The market prices of wheat and
silver must make a somewhat depress-
ing study for Mr. Bryan and his CO.
labOrers just now, especially if they
compare them with those of the date
of Mr.. Bryan's nomination. An
ounce of silver at the date Of his NOM
ination for the presidency was worth
considerably more than bushel of
wheat, being quoted at 699-l0 cents in
the New York markets, while wheat
at tho Samn date was worth 6t4 rents