Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-07-10
REVISE THE TARIFF.

ITepuDllCduS WnO say LEU We'll
enough alone. The writer is one,
and it hss been said that we are so
radical protectionist that we would
oppose change in a single schedule
of the present law. But not SO.
Whenever schedule needs revising,
either up or down, let congress amend
the law the same as it does with all
laws. We believe the Dingley tariff
is the lest the country ever had, but
if there can be a better one let us
have it. But who will write it? A
democrat No. Democratic tariff
laws have always been failure. BY
Republican revisionists? If so. Why
For six years their demand for re-
vision has been incessant. But so far
not one of them in Congress or out
has ever suggested what the new law
should be. If they would get down to
busin ess. and if they are the protec-
tionists they claim to be, possibly the
stalwarts would indorse. There has
been talk enough but 1t has been ran
dom talk. Let us know what is
wanted. Let the new law be written.
Do this and possibly, as we have said,
there will be no serious disagreement.
If so, then in due time ther evision
will be made. .
The country is prosperous. 1t is not
necessary that the revision be made
today. Tomorrow will do. If the
country was panic stricken, if the
furnace fires in factories and mills
were banked, if there were idle men
everywhere looking for employment
but looking in vain. if the people
were living on the fruitage of 1S93-96,
there would be hurry up call
for immediate action, as there was
after the 1897 Inauguration of McKin.
ley. But not so. Where there were
idleness, hunger and want, then.
there is now days work for every
one who wants to work" and at a liv-
ing wage. There is demand for
laborers everywhere. in the factories
and mills and on the farms. that can
not be supplied. There has been a
"plenty and to spare ever since the
furnace fires were re-lit in 1897. The
mill owners and manufactures have
been unable to fill their orders. There
is no night in the mills. Twenty -four
hours day the factories have been
beehives of industry. Our commerce,
inland and foreign, has so far out
grown the dream of the dreamer that
he has quit dreaming and is enjoying
restful sleep, while the doers have
no time to rest only as they steal
away from their business and it's in.
creasing demands. But it is possible,
we are told, that we might have a
better tariff, one under which the
country would be more prosperous
than now. If so. let it be "enacted. I"
No human law is perfect, and the
people are entitled to the best there
is. It is up to the revisionist to give
us something better il they can. and
when they do, the stalwarts will help
ring the bells "day time and night
time until every one joins in the
jubilee. Marion Register.
The death of Francis Murphy. at
Los Angeles, CAL. June 30th, removes
one of the most noted temperance ad-
vocates the country has ever known.
Mr.. Murphy was born in Wexford,
Ireland, April oath. 1886, and came to
this country in 1856. His first public
address was made in Portland, Maine
in 1870. at the solicitation of the
mayor of that city. Six years later
he spoke in Pittsburg, where he was
instrumental in persuading 45,l00
people to sign the pledge. Mr..
Murphy was the founder and leader
of the Blue Ribbon movement which
swept over the country thirty wears
lago. He was an orator of great power
and rivalled John B. Cough in his
marvellous influence over an audience.
AS q result of his exhortations, l0.-
600, 900 persons who had been addicted
to the use of liquor foreswore its in
dulgence and others who were unfor-
tunate in their ways were given both
spiritual and material aid. Mr..
Murphy was soldier in the Union
Army and later served as chaplain
in the Spanish. American war.
An epidemic of appendicitis seems
to have struck the town of Grundy
Center. There have been five victims
in as many days and fears are enter
tanned that the scourge will continue
it's ravages. Unreasonable weather
producing catarrhal condition Of the
bowels and appendix it is said may be
the cause OF the trouble.
There once were two cats of Kilkenny,
| Each thought there was one cat
| too many.
SO they quarrelled and spit. and they
i scratched and they bit.
| Till, excepting their nails and the
Il tips of their tails,
] Instead of two cats, there weren't any