Show A mighty poor show the advance agent of the great republican circus is ie loudly proclaiming that his three tent show will be filled with various various kinds of prosperity especially for the farmer with his distinguished predecessor the late P T barnum mckinley evidently thinks that the people like to be hum bugged and is IB doing his best to fool them into voting for his high tariff mono hippie aggregation unfortunately for the ohio showman his circus was on view for a good many years and the people found out that it is is a monumental fraud the stale jokes of the tariff is not a tax clowns no longer amuse amnie their hearers and the som somersaults turned by the men who claim that protection puts prices up and also makes them lall are so clumsy as to be painful the alleged savage animals labeled british free trade and foreign pauper labor are known to be stuffed with sawdust and the sacred home market cow is is a clumsy continuance ti nuance of pasteboard and straw the pink lemonade which mckinley calls high wages for labor is is made of one lemon rind to one hogshead of water sweetened with invisible sugar the ring performance is is very bad the only diversion being the attempt ol of major mum to straddle two financial horses going in opposite directions in spite of the cries walkup walk up walk up and see the great magician extract good times from high tariff pumpkins the crowd is not running to the mckinley tent everybody who saw the show in the years from 1890 to 1894 davs says that it is is not worth the price of admission |