Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-04-26
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The Kansas City Journal inquiries how
1t happens, IL free trade with Puerto
Rico be right, that Pettigrew is in ia
Vor OF the policy.
Whenever the Republican party does
something or doesn't do something the
Democratic party is reasonable certain
to have another issue-Sioux City Qa.)
Journal.
The party that thrives on labor
strikes and business failures is natur-
ally opposed TO the prosperity pro-
duced by a protective tariff and a sta
BILE currency.
Excitable editors who are retiring
President Mckinley because of the lit
tie Puerto Rican muddle, forget that
the country loves prosperity.-Kansas
City (Mo.) Journal.
When the people take a vote in No
vember on the question of expansion
the Democratic leaders will have to fall
back on the Old reliable didn't-know-it-
was-loaded explanation.
THE conditions now remind me of
the conditions in 1892 more than any
other time | have ever seen."-Senator
j. X. Jones, chairman of the Democrat
ic National Executive Committee.
Senator Pettigrew is constantly call
ing on the different departments for in
formation. Yet Mr.. Pettigrew has the
reputation of being the most thorough
ly misinformed man in Washington.
Chairman Jones says be Is absolute
ly certain that Bryan will be elected.
1t is Chairman Jones business to have
thoughts like that, and he will express
them more and more frequently as the
campaign waxes.-Minneapolis Times.
Did anybody ever hear of a single
trust that the Democratic party has
killed?-Chamberlain Register.
Yes, the Democratic party has sue
ceeded in killing what little trust the
people ever had in it's ability to do any
thing in their behalf.-White Lake
Wave.
New Jerseys bank depositors in
creased in number from 1877 1897 in 1894
to III, 100 in 1899, a gain OF almost 80
per cent. The amount of deposits in
creased from $34, 266, 29S in 1894 to s4S,-
S52, 1873 last year, a gain of more than
40 per cent.
The Republican "clean sweeps in
the Mississippi Valley do not indicate
a revolt because the Republicans in
congress have not adopted free trade
with Puerto Rico to suit the Democrats
and establish a dangerous precedent.
Senator Jones is correct. There has
never beer such prosperity in the
United States since 1892 Is in 1899
1900. 1t would be a mistake to make
anuy change now, as was done then.
W~age-earners do not want four years
of enforced idleness again.
The Democratic statesmen who are
now inclined to go so far away from
home to bestow their sympathy are the
same gentlemen who, during the last
Democratic administration, were too
selfish to give themselves any concern
over the empty dinner pals of the
American laborer.
In two years of the Wilson free trade
tariff, 1896, Europe bought from the
United States merchandise worth
81 01, 600, 900. In the two years, 1898
1899, of the Dingley protective tariff,
Europe bought from us TO the extent
of 81, 80 00, 900. There was an in
crease under protection of $500 900 900
q, fuo years' sales of orr goods TO Eu-
rome That tariff wall" doesn't seem
70 have stopped our goods from getting
out. and it won't as long as Uncle Sam
holds the key to our gates Of COM
merce.