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pollute American citizenship with
semi-savages, nor traduce American
principles i n the name of trade.
Newton (la.) Democrat: Even
some of our republican friends have
become sick of furnishing pap for the
"infant industries" of which we heard
bo much a few years ago. The tariff
has been found to be a tax, and it
seems that even leading republicans
now see the injustice of making the
foreigner (?) pay it. The next demo
cratic platform must present a strong
anti-tariff plank and the people, will
vote for it.
Durango Wage Earner: Democracy
is all right, like the sea. The winds
and storms that beat upon it and
lash its waters into fury only make it
pure and wholesome. They stir it up
from the bottom, and relieve it from
those things which if allowed to re
main would make it a putrid mass of
corruption. -The decaying, debasing,
offensive elements, like drift-wood, are
tossed by the turbulent waters hither
and thither until they are finally cast
ashore and blown by the winds into
the republican party, where they be
long. A party that doesn't purify it
self occasionally by a mighty upheav
al will be destroyed by spontaneous
combustion.
Farmlngton (Mo.) Times: The sil
ver question as set forth In the Kanr
sas City platform,, and about which its
opponents are having so much to say
for fear it may be reiterated In the
next national platform of the party,
may not' be the paramount issue .in
1904-7indeed, we do not believe it will
be useless some other very important
questions are settled before that time
but It is mighty sound doctrine and a
good thing to keep standing in tho
platform. One thing is pretty certain,
no man who helped to knife the demo
cratic party in 1896 and 1900 because
of tho issue of bimetallism on the his
toric ratio is going to receive tho
united support of the party as a leader
fn 1904.
Monticollo (la.) Times: Allen Daw
son, editor of the Des Moines Leader,
has been convicted by the brethren of
the craft for using one of Beecher's
addresses for editorials without credit
ing it to tho departed orator. The
brethren of the press should deal gen
tly with Mr. Dawson for the reason
that the "independent democratic"
editors have been using editorials fur
nished by the republican national com
mittee since early in 1896, and as a
result, such editors .are out of practice
as editorial writers and it becomes
necessary for them to "crib" editorial
matter. There is no evil which starts
an editor downward mentally and mor
ally as quickly and as effectively as
that of turning his paper over to tho
national committee of a political party
to edit.
La Grange (Ga.) Graphic: Tho
Graphic is a democratic paper. It be
lieves in" democratic ideas, and above
all things hopes some day to see na
tional policies regulated on a demo
cratic basis. And so believing as we
do we are getting hungry for some
word of praise for some democrat good
or bad. As far as we have differed
with him, yet we would be glad to even
hear a little slush over Groyer Cleve
land than to see it all wasted over re
publican leaders. One thing would be
true, Mr. Cleveland would have no
power to reward flunkeyism like tho
republican organization has. Can't we
democratic papers try and manage to
get up some little enthusiasm in talk
ing about democrats?
Pekin (111.) Times: The so-called
democratic party, headed by Palmer
in 1896 and supported by Watterson
had a following of 130,000 in tho United
States and carried one township in
which there were about six votes. This
Is tho democratic party which the Chi
cago Chronicle supports. The six mil
lions who voted for Bryan are sup
posed to know nothing while the
few thousand Palmer helpers of tho
republican .party in 1896 aro the whole
thing "in a horn." It would seem
that a candidate for tho presidency
would need the votes of 6,000,000 dem
ocrats more than ho would the votes
of 130,000 republican assistants of 1896.
It is absolutely likely that 6,000,000. of
voters know as much as 130,000 voters
and are much safer and more likely
to bo trusted with the reins of gov
ernment. Majorities rule in this coun
try. Durant (I. T.) Times-Eagle: In '96
the rank and file of tho democratic
party rose up in their might and cap
tured tho party and have saved it as a
heritage for the people of this country,
that its acts may be, as its name im
plies, by and for the people. Two
presidential races have been run and
lost with a platform in harmony with
tho interests of tho common people.
Shall these principles be deserted be
cause we have met defeat? Certainly
not! Tho children of Israel wandered
around until there was only one man
that left Egypt that ever entered Cai
nan. Then again the republican party
occupies every bit of the ground, its
stands for especial privileges, sub
sidies, trusts, single standard, empire
and everything tliat te in the interest
of tho dollar and should the demo
cratic party re-organize on tho lines
laid, it would be necessary to steal
a lot of republican thunder; this we
can't afford to do. Let the principles
of democracy alone; let them stand
for humanity and right If we never
taste any pie, or elect a president.
Items of Interest.
The coal fields of tho south cover GO,
000 squaro miles.
It is stated that Infectious diseases
are unknown in Greenland.
The first gold pen was made in 1840.
A million and a half are now sold
every year.
According to foresters the best tim
ber is grown on black soil intermixed
with gravel.
HoreaTfccr tho gas street lamps In
Berlin aro to bo lighted simultaneous
ly by electricity.
Tho English war department offers
a prize of $4,000 for the best self-propelling
military wagon.
Grecian currants will soon be plen
tiful on American markets. Seven
thousand tons aro now en route.
Kansas has spent $5,000 in a vain
effort to rid the state of tho prairie
dog pest by the use of poisons.
It is reported that Chicago meat
packers sell meat In Havana, Cuba,
cheaper than they do In Chicago. '
In Kansas a bushel of potatoes is
worth more than a bushel of peaches
or apples, something unheard of be
fore. Statisticians declare that Great
Britain is foremost among letter-writing
nations, and that France lags far
behind.
The Cowthorpe oak Is the largest, In
England. It is estimated to be over
1,600 years old and to contain 73 tons
of timber.
Wine to the amount of 132,000,000
gallons Is stored in Portugese cellars
and the problem of finding storage
room for tho new crop is a pressing
one.
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