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Show Newspaper Opinion. "We are now making iron cheaper than it is made in Pennsylvania," says Representative Forney, "of Alabama. Cannot some kind of tariff be invented that will protect Pennsylvania from Alabama? Louisville Courier-Journal. There is a truthful writer who speaks of the United States as "that great land upon which, if England were bodily set down, it would be as hard to find ns a threepenny bit in a ten-acre field." Yes, this little penny bit of territory, with its free trade, outstrips commercially the great republic and all the other high-tar high-tar itf countries of the world. Louisville Louis-ville Courier -Journal. Kansas is now harvesting the greatest great-est wheat crop in her history, while the out-look for corn and potatoes is exceptionally excep-tionally flattering as to immensity of yield and growth. The wheat yield will be donated to the railroads and speculators, specu-lators, the corn utilized for fuel, the potatoes fed to the hogs and the garden truck cached for wintering the "old woman's chickens," McKinley has made Kansas a great state. Ouray Colo.) Muldoon. For the first eighteen days of the present pres-ent month the pension payments alone exceeded the entire revenues of the government, gov-ernment, leaving less than nothing to meet the other expenses incurred by the Billion Dollar Congress. At that rate Mr. Harrison will not have time to move out of the White House before the creditors of the United States are clearing out the furniture at sheriffs sale. S'a?i Francisco Examiner. The information that the series of Peoples' partv meetings soon to be held in Kansas will be illuminated by the appearance ap-pearance of the Hon. John James In-galls In-galls as a full-fledged adherent of the new party is sensational, but not altogether alto-gether surprising. It simply affords evidence evi-dence that the gifted gentleman who was one of the great guns of the last republican campaign, has only required seven months to discover what principles princi-ples are required by the majority of the Kansas people, and to provide "himself with a full set of new principles to order. Pittsburg Dispatch. |