Show HOW FUNNY I Repubican papers sometimes get to be very facetious as evidence of which we have the Oceanside California Sar saying that India would be a good country for a Democrat to go to It has free trade and a nice juicy succulent leg of mutton can be bought for 15 cents when it costs 15 cents a pound in the protective United States But meat is not the only cheap thing in India laborers can be had in any number for 5 cents a day The Hindoo Workingman has to toil three days for money enough to buy the mutton This is not excellent argument but it will do in an emergency like the present when the Republican party is so sorely beset and so very very nard up for munitions of war It might ba suggested if one were disposed to resort to the argumen tum ad hominem that China would boa bo-a good place for a Republican to got go-t Protection in its most complete form protection amounting to exclusion exclu-sion has prevailed there for centuries the result of which is that mutton costs nothing where it is to be had at all by the populace for they have to grow it Ito I-to get it Wages are one cent a day where there are any wages and Repub licanism in various shapessuch as paying tribute to favored concerns prosperity for monoplists and eternal subserviency for the massesis rife These things in connection with the fact that Hoosier Harrison favors the Chinese and Monopoist Morton employs em-ploys imported cheap labor ought to endear China to the average Republican Republi-can heart and those who want to go will certainly not be stopped Go wet Republicans unless you prefer to reach the land of the celestials by going east Any way wiil do I |