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Show SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. Can't They Tell the Truth ? New York Prese. Our free trade contemporaries are still unwilling un-willing to make a manly retraction of tbcif misrepresentations about "McKinlcy prices" by publishing the list of these price weich the fwi printed thirteen days ago. Really, gentlemen of the Evening Post, Times and fioston Herald, e are ashamed of you. You persistently asserted that the tariff raised the cost of the -workinrman's necessaries. neces-saries. The Press proved that blue shirting thnt cost ll cents per rard in October, 1SS0, a year before the McKinley bill was passed, costs uov only 9 cents. But you don't dare to print it. The Press proved that friurhams had been similarly, reduced from 10 cents to 8 cents. Evidently you are afrai 1 to print that, too. It showed that the workman's overalls whose average price was Tit cents one 'year ao, now cost him on an average less than 71 cents. Yet yon can't screw your courage up to an honest admission admis-sion of the fact. You have been raising a great cry about "wool." The -?-; showed that n excellent suit of woolen K)thing that cost the worker f 16.75 in October, 1S, now cost ; him but $14.25. You haven't pluck enough to face that one item. 'Why not be honest now? Does a cardinal principle princi-ple of the free trade propaganda prohibit your telling the truth about the tariff ? A Deliberate Deception. St Louis Globe Democrat. The controversy among New York Democrats Dem-ocrats regarding the meaning of the silver plank in their state platform has not closed yet, but it has gone far enough to prove that this utterance was a deliberate deception, decep-tion, and that it was designed to be interpreted interpre-ted one wav in the neighborhood of New York and New England and the opposite way in the south aud west. American Muilt Ships. Kew York Mail and Expref. Ye men of the sea, don't forget that so long as you vote the democratic ticket you yote to keep the stars and stripes off the ocean. Vote the republican ticket for the upholding of otir merchant marine, and putting put-ting "old glory" over American-built ships, and thus crowd out of thw ocean-carrying trade the enemies of our foreign trade and commerce. A General Block. Laramie Republican. Nebraska's railroads are all blocked up, owing to the shortage of grain cars, and the voices of the calamity politicians arc all blocked up, owing to the signs of prosperity that will not down. Nebraska will come out of the political woods this fall. |