Show IT is amusing to watch the republican press of the country gradually come around to the arm stand talan by CLEVELAND during the last campaign this will bo fully illustrated by a clipping we macj from the chicago tribune which was one of the choat advocates for HAK and the republican party platform during the last campaign here it is tariff duties arc taxes higher duties will increase the burden put upon the millions ane high duty is protecting wool grower and robbing the people the increased duties on wool and woolen goods as provided in mckinless McKin leys bill will work hardships to all classes the wrong headed idea of reforming alie barill by pushing up and increasing taxes so as to make them as oppressive to one class as another instead of reducing them must be abandoned tho people are all users of leather from the imant to the oldest man aud women and will hardly welcome legislation adopted for the express purpose oi making them pay more no for boots and agoes so log as the burdens of a war tariff remain and are adjusted so as to bear unequally on different classes this question will continue in politics and will be a thorn in tho llesh of the party cespon eible for it tho heavy increase in creaso in the duty on tinplate may serve to develop more carnegie millionaires at pittsburg Pitts burp but it must be at the cost of increasing the expense of all its forms on the people of to entire country tn sentiments on journalism ox by SCOTT of the illinois editorial association at a convention hold last week have a gibat deal of meaning although spoken in a jovial way me says has taken a good while lor many of our brethren of tue tripo dand count ing room to gearu that st takes money and horse bense to make the newspaper mare go it is all well enough to have the people pat us on the bade and tell us we are making a great light for humanity and that therefore we shall have special privileges in heaven pre huma bly the privileges of publishing notices of church suppers gratis and pay in 25 cents for a plate ot warm sour milk and water in which a lone oyster is taking an involuntary hath humanity is all right in the abstract hut it dues not buy bhones for the baby nor billa we must fiant for ourselves pay our own bills or be veritable deadheads THERE AEE said to be no less than five million farmers members of the farmers alliance so recently stalled throughout tho western states wo may expect them to go in solid for the principles of democracy in 1892 which will cause a sad awakening among the lle publican ranka if that party wishes to make a fight against tho democrats the issue must bo on a greatly modified plat lorm from which tho last campaign was based i THIS paper has refused to sell itself to speculative boomers it has preferred to pursue an honest fearless and independent course and over and over again has spurned preferred patronage on such degrading terms THE ENQUIRES is published in the invests of the people and that fact nobody can deny the people have learned to place implicit trust in it IT is highly desirable that when brovo shall have a street railway the controlling cont roling interest of capital invested be in the hands of our home citizens there is wealth enough in the city to build a railway without calling on foreign help THE SAD of DOM bringa up the many sad scenes through which ho has passed and calls forth public sympathy in his behalf THE trusts of the united states are so alarmingly increasing that Congress has been seriously considering means af pf preventing them by some enactment the question is a hard one to handle and after discussing the SHERMAN anti at great length in the senate a new measure has now been presented by the judiciary committee AN INDIANA farmer who voted for and has now fathomed the fallacy of protective tariff sums up his sentiment by the following notice on his farm cottage information for census anum ator I 1 own two calbos calvos a doubled mortgage on the farm my wife and seven children and a life of BEN written by the author of BEN hun THE habit in prance has become BO alarmingly prevalent that a law has been enacted for punishing any druggist who shall self the drag to any but professional men in the future |