TIMELY TOPIC
The difference between a fly
and the
Yellow Jacket is the finishing pouch.
"Elect us" is the remedy
the
dem
ocrats offor for the tariff
and the
L dem-
trusts.
Now and then you can hear
ocrat hollowing for free silver and
hard times.
i i
Republican prosperity
is
highly
if they
enjoyed by the democrats even
will try to vote it down.
If you don't like the way thfe Yellow
Jacket sizes up things,! perhaps you
would better not read it.
The bore who asks whcter it is hot
enough for you or not is about ready
to make his. annual inquiry.
We are a happy peopld
but of
course this doesn't include
democrats
who aro searching for an issue
According to the democratic papers,
if anything goes wrong in your lo
cality just book it to Mark Hpnna.
The democracy that you rejid of and
hear so much said about to-day is the
same old hook with the bait i hanged.
f I
If snarling and fault-findi ig make
statesmen, then the democra ic party
ought to have a good supply of the
aforesaid article on hand.
Barnum said: "The American
peo
This T)le like to be huinbuirired
must be the reason so many
vote the
democratic ticket.
The surplus in the United' States
Treasury, for the jcar just Closed, is
602,100, 000 and yet some pec pic have
the temerity to talk of a deficit.
Keep this fact before thj people!
There is just as much
honor in the
man who steals a sheep as there is in
the man who steals a ballot.
Readers of the Bible will
remember
that Kzekicl long -ago sounded a warn
ing to "them that dwell carelessly in
the isles."
The various substitutes for rubber
are useful for almost everything ex
cept those purposes for' whiih rubber
is general y used.
Photographs of Mont Peleb in erup
tion demonstrate that the distinguish
ed subject neglected to j look
while sitting for its picture.
pleasant
Emperor William is experimenting
with an alcohol plow on his farm at
Kadinen. He is, however, lermitting
somebody else to hold the h indies.
It is a waste of time to arnie with a
man who declines to admit
have improved. He hasn't
hat times
got sense
enough to know that water is wet.
Miss Rose Budd was z.mong the
graduates of the Marion, -Ivan., high
school a few days ago. Lot us hope
her fragrance may not be w isted upon
desert air.
The Hon. W. J. Bnyai and the
Kansas City platform are conspicu
ous by their absence in thf platform
just adopted by the
crats.
Georgia demo-
The anti-imperialistic
ssue,
in-
spired by the Peerless lieader has
proven as much of a boomerang as
did the "16 to 1" issue, ol which he
was the great apostle.
Mr. Andrew Carnegie has giver a
nice $1,000,000 as a weddiig present.
As no conditions to the gift are men
tioned. -it is assumed that the bride is
-Compelled to buy a library with
the million.
Senator Vest recently s;. id that so
long as repuoiican prosperity secur-
eu iub uij;usii prices to
and manufacturers for the
there was no hope of dem
he farmers
r products
pcratic vic-
tory. Undoubtedly the
correct. j
Senator is
In view of the continual
reports of
a scarcity of farm labor ih the west
ern states, it would seem that a most
practical philanthropy might con
sist of some mcausj whereby the la
borers in the congested ce iters of the
cast migui. imj ii uusporteel
calities where their serv
to the lo
ices are in
demand.
The President has appointed Major
Micau jeniiins.r lurmeny pi the Rough
Riders, internal revenue collector
lor uiav- ouuen Carolina.
rrn, t o to tViM ?n.mn MnirTll t i
Xlild A - www - -J W A.
whom Mr. Roosevelt
sword when he was in
Jenkins to
presented a
j Charleston;
Senator Tinman's nephc
remembered bumptiously
president to stay away.
IV it will v
advised the
The Saturday Evening
-r-i ;ont worships I in ;
ff'ostsays the
Poor little
, ,v, in Washington th
at will hard-
ly seat two hundred peor le. Instead
t Maborate music led by j a hz uirm
e Instead
b! pipe
!
organ, the singers gather around a
little parlor organ and sing hymn?.
This is exceedingly j sensible in Mr.
Roosevelt, though it is hard : on the
society people who are disgusted, no
doubt, at the taste of the President.
. Senator Hoar tells a story that a
friend of his was in Mississippy when
an old colored man applied for reg
istration in order to vote.. The old
colored man was asked1 if he could
read and explain the constitution of
his State. He replied, "Boss, I
recinlkin." 'Well, then," was the
reply, "What is a certiorari?" The
old colored man scratched his head
and answered: "I'm not; exactly cer
tain about dat, boss; but I think it is
somethin to keep a nigger from vot
in." And on the strength of the ans
wer lie was alls wed to register and
vote. i
Not A Tariff Trust.
It is pretty small business, but we
aro afraid that it is characteristic and
inevitable this clamor of the demo
cratic organs and politicians that the
Protective Tariff is responsible for all
the exactions of the great Beet Trust.
..One of our Boston democratic news
papers, voicing this latest freak of
Bryanisra, declares ; that the Govern
ment's proceeding against the Beef
Trust is all humbug, certain to be in
effective "so long as the trust has the
privilege of exacting from our people
40 dcr cent, more than they ought to
pay for their meats." . "The Dingley
Tariff," this headlong organ exclaims,
"makes possible the trust extortion."
But this democratic newspaper takes
mighty good care to give no exact fig
ures. It does not want its readers to
know tho precise amount of the in
iquitious Republican Tariff, for . then
thcy.would discover that the real hum
bug was not at all in President Roose
velt's vigorous onslaught on the Beef
Trust, but in the democratic editorial
argument. . r
As a matter of fact the Tariff rates
on meats have never hitherto been re
garded as excessive. The rate on fresh
beef, veal, mutton and pork (par. 274
of the Dingley act) is only two cents a
pound. The rate on cattle (par. 218)
ranges from two dollars a head for
animale less than one year old to $.753
for animals valued at not more than
$14 a head. Animals valued at more
than $14 a head are dutiable at 27i per
cent, ad valorem. ! Sheep are dutiable
at from 75 cents to $.150 a head.
These are entirely moderate figures.
They are not extravagant, if the farm
ers and stoek raisers of the country
are to have any Protection at all. It is
manifest that these rather low duties
have played a very small part, if any
in the Beef Trust operations. The
wildest Free-Trader would not pre
tend that a Protective Tariff could
possibly be used to raise the price of
a given article by any more than the
full amount of the duty. How can a
duty of two cents a pound on beef or
mutton, therefore, be held accountable
for the trust's increased prices of three
to six cents a pound? And how can a
27 i per cent, duty on cattle be utilized
to compel our people to give "40 per
cent, more than they ought to pay for
their meats?
The moment this anti-vTariff argu
ment of our democratic contemporary
is examined it goes all to pieces. Tho
wide disparity between the actual
rates of duty and the increase in the
price of meat demolishes the whole
contention. It is significant that the
democratic! leaders are not urging
this Free-Trade remedy in Congress.
They know well that it is not only a
humbug on the face of it, but that it
would not "pay" politically. The
Beef Trust has been using its po'per to
force down the price of the cattle
which it purchases from Western
farmers. It has bought at a low
price, though it has sold at a high
price.
The result is . that the trust's low
price has gradually driven Western
farmers out of f cattle raising, until
there are now fewer cattle by hun
dreds of thousands in this country
than there were ten years ago. But if
the Tariff were smashed, and cheap
cattle from Canada and Mexico were
admitted free of duty, the Western
farmers would be so much worse off
than they are at present, for the trust
would buy these foreign cattle at its
own low figure and use this fact as a
new club to beat dowu still further
the unfortunate stock growers of the
Western States. 1 Then, having
bought its cattle cheap, the trust would
proceed again to sell its meat dear.
The farmers would be injured, but
there would be no relief for the equal
ly unfortunate consumers.
. The thing to do is not to smash the
Tariff, but to smash the trust, which
does not care a snap of its finger
whether it has or does not have Tariff
Protection. President Roosevelt and
Attorney General Knox understand
this question a great deal better than
do, democratic newspapers or demo
cratic politicians. With the , trust
once smashed, the great beef concerns
will once more have to compete with
each other in the cattle market, prices
of cattle will advance to a remunera
tive figure and the Western farmers
will be encouraged to go into stock
raising more extensively. . At ,the
same time, the beef magnates will
have to compete with each other in
the selling of their products, their
present artificial I and extortionate
prices will disappear and the Ameri
can people will once more be able to
purchase for a reasonable sum of
money one of the chief necessaries of
American life. I .
On this question of the Beef Trust,
as on other questions, the country is
willing to leave its interests in the
hands of Theodore Roosevelt, rather
than in the hands of William J. Bay an.
Somehow the republican party does
not talk so much as the democracy,
but it has a way of doing things.
Boston Journal.
Cleveland's False Position.
Former President Cleveland is a
gain trying to commit his party to
"Tariff reform" as its leading issue.
In the course of his speech before
the Dave Hill harmony meeting in New
York last night Mr. Cleveland made
this remarkable statement:
No one doubts to-day that a high
Protective Tariff has proved the ' -parent
of trusts," just as was predicted it
would.
We call this a remarkable statement
becaus it was made by an honest man
who told a deliberate untruth. We
say "deliberate" because his knowl
edge is too broad and his prominence
too great to admit of any other con
clusion.
Mr. Grover Cleveland cannot cite a
single fact in the industrial history of
the world tu.prove that the Protective
Tariff is the V 'parent of trusts," and
no one -knows it better than he does,
for great knowledge of ancient history
is not necessary to become possessed
of the facts of industrial development.
The ancient world knew little about
aggregated capital. Plato, in his.laws,
ordered a citizen to be punished if he
attempted to concern himself with
trade. Augustus is said to have con
demned a Senator to death because he
so degraded himself as to engage in
manufacture. Rome obtained her
wealth by means of the Tammany plan,
by plunder and not by production.
England now little of aggregate capi
tal until within three centuries.
In the close of the sixteenth century
England began to feel the spirit and
exects of association of persons and
capital. Her people formed trade com
binations or-, trusts, and as Daniel
Webster declared in one of his mag
nificent speeches, "England became a
power to which Rome, even in the height
of her glory, was not to be compared."
The first trusts ever organized in the
world came into existence in Free
Trade England. For years trusts
have nourished there, and when sever
al years ago public protest was made
against such combinations of capital
Hon. William E. Gladstone said: .
You might as well endeavor to stay
tho formation of the clouds, the falling
of rains or the flowing of the streams,
as to attempt by any means or in any
manner to prevent organization of
industry, association of persons and
aggregation of capital to any extent
that tho ever growing trade of the
world may demand.
Mr. Cleveland, undoubtedly know
ing these facts of history well, has
the monumental gall to stand before a
great audience of American people
and make an assertfon which he knows
is absolutely false, and yet he denoun
ces William J. Bryan as a demagogue
Free-Trade England is the birth
place of trusts and Mr. Cleveland
knows it.
Trusts are being organized in Eng
land to-day and Mr. Cleveland knows
it. He also knows, as everybody
else knows, that there is no Protective
Tariff in England, and yet he brazenly
tells the people of this country that
the Protective Tariff, which had npt
been even thought of when trusts
were born, is thq father and mother
of trusts.
The gloom and blight of Cleveland
Free-Trade began to fade when the
advance agent of prosperity Will
iam McKinley was elected to the
Presidency. The people have not
forgotten that gloom and that blight.
Mr. Cleveland had better go way
back and sit down. New Haven
Ledger.
The best thing that can be said of
the democratic party is that it, is now
industriously engaged in going back
on its last two platforms. Benton
111., Republican. . . '
THE REPUBLICBN PARTY.
No man ever made the republican
party. No one man ever formulated
its political doctrines, fought its bat
tles, won its victories or established
its greatness. And one man can ever
make the republican party cut loose
from its traditions, recant its beliefs,
violate its solemn pledges, reverse its
policies and deliberately plunge to de
struction and oblivion. Stick a pin
right there.
The republican party believes in the
doctrine of Protection to American in
dustries not Protection to some of
them at the expense ol others, but
genuine Protection to all in the inter
ests of the entire people. It is pri
marily owing to its economic policy,
and its legislation and its administra
tion, and to the energy which this dog
ma in the republican creed has fos
tered and promoted, that the United
States have attained such a proud and
prominent position among the nations
It is surely owing in no small part to
its solemn pledges, its faithful observ
ance of them and its brilliant accomp
lishments in this direction that the
republican party has won its well-nigh
impregnable position in the confidence
of the American people. Stick another
pin there.
The republican party has achieved
greatness because it has merited it-
because its mission has been patriotic
bec'aase its beliefs and its practices
have been positive and affirmative-
because its policies have resulted in
placing the United States in the front
rank of nations and have given to the
American people prosperity such as no
other nation of this earth has ever en
joyed. The republican party has
achieved greatness because it has
never allowed itself to be seduced
from the fundamental truths of its
political creed, nor enticed from its
well-defined aims by reasons of mere
temDbrarv expediency. It has; never
been influenced by half-way bugaboos
nor mugwumpian hysterics.
4 Under no circumstances has the re
publican party walked open eyed into
pitfalls laid, perhaps unconsciously
by conceited fools, nor deliberately
given help .to those who sought its . un
doing, or desired, even unwittingly
to give the country's prosperity a
black eye. And never, no never, has
the republican party allowed i itself to
be bulldozed and coerced into, aband
oning its traditions, forswearing its
creed, reversing its principles, and in
viting destruction, Chatham, N. Y.,
Republican.
A Strictly Republican Platform.
Michigan is the first republican state
to declare itself on the Cuban reci
procity question sjnee the president,
by his special message on that subject,
adopted the doubtful policy of array
ing himself openly against a consider
able element of his own party. Michi-
republicans in State convention a?
sembled on the 26 th. of June, adopted
the following as their platform:
We unreservedly pledge to President
Tneodore Koosevelt our sympathy
and sutJDort in the administration of
the great trust which came to him
xnrougn me aeain oi resident lviatvin-
ley. we realize xne .greai prooiems
and serious questions of state, foreign
and domestic, with which he has to do,
and hereby express our sincece ad
miration" and approval of the ability,
integrity and desire for iustice '-which
he has brought to bear on all public
arrairs.
We cordially approve of the record
of Michigan's Senators and Repre
sentatives in Congress on matters per
taining to the advancement of our
country's welfare, and in the fulfill
ment of our party's pledges, and we
especially desire to note oiar appreci
ation of their zealous and able work
in behalf of Michigan's important in
dustries' and to thank them for the ser
vices rendered. ' - ,
We congratulate both the President
and Congress upon the successful es
tablishment of the new Republic of
Cuba, thus fulfillincr to the
Uecoud pledge of the nation. We glad
ly express again our loyalty to the
broad princples and national rn1inio
of our party as last affirmed in . the
piatiorm adopted by the National Re
publican Convention in Philadelphia
in 1900.
We continue our abiding faith in
the Protective Tariff and are opposed
to all efforts to destroy it or emascul
ate it or weaken its henp.fi
tion. We favor no plan that would
interfere with the industries of the
United States and u-nniH iQr u
legitimate fruits of American labor.
Anybody who looked to Michigan for
astraddle was mistaken. An vbodv
who counts upon Michigan support in
playing ducks and drakes with the
Protective Tariff system will also be
mistaken and disappointed. Either
the system of Protection to American
labor and industry is in its entirety
sound republican doctrine and bind
ing upon the republican party, or it
is not. Michigan republicans seem
to think it is ,
Watte rsotis Advice to Bryan.
Henry Watterson, in an editorial
in1 the Louisville Courier Journal
headed "To a Young Statesman
Greeting," says, among other thino-s'.
"JEr. Bryan should for a moment
lay aside the scepter of a party lead,
ership ere it slips from his grasp; he
should put on his thinking cap, ana
having divested his mind of all sur
plusage of vanity, confidence- and
pride of opinion, he should commune
with himself. If he should do this
his thoughts might perhaps take this
turn:
Although I am not President of
the United States, I have done fairlv
well for a man of my years. I wen"t
to the National Convention in 18!)(j an
ill-paid newspaper writer and I came
away its nominee. I have done mv
best for an unprosperous cause and
have lost, I believe that from lirst
to last I was right. I shall always
think this. But I agree that there are
more ways than one for catching- a
rabbit, and, as it seems that my way
has not caught him, I will let . some
one else try his way. I am a. Con
structive, not a Destructive, and I
will not risk my popularity and in
fluence with my own people, nop
wreck their future and my future, by
breeding quarrels and making issues.
4 'I will continue to help them all I
can. I will go to the next National
Convention to help rebuild the fences,
to help mend the breaches, to help
bind up and heal the wounds-. I will
go there with love in my heart and
smiles on my face, and I will take off
my hat to the boys and I will say
to" them: 'I thank you for all- you
have done for me, for all you have
been to me. I may not be able wholly
to agree with you in everything that
you are intending to do and say bub
I am with you heart arid' soul, and I
will go with I y6u, even if you go to
perdition. '
"That is in a nutshell the wisdom of
Mr. Bryan's situation. Ifc requires
considerable self-denial, but no abase
ment; considerabla generosity, but no
renunciation. Mr. Bryan has a great
opportunity before him. "
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