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Show HBB Old Story; Modern Application. HHH There Is un old story of a bumpkin HHH who saw a fowler take aim nt a bird BBBJ ;j lu the topmost branch of a tree, nnd BBBJ ' who, when tho gun had been (lis- HHHJ charged nnd the bird came down with HHHJ a thud to the earth observed: "That HHHJ ' was a waste of Kwder; tho fall alono HHHJ Was enough to kill thu bhd." BBBJ Tho Democratic party hns nlways BBBJ Aeon addicted to equally shallow crltl- HHHJ el riii. In tho 70's tho Democrats of HHHJ Wisconsin were greenbnekers. They BBBJ ; bitterly denounced thq resumption BBBJ ; vet; nnd when resumption was fob BBBJ towed by a return of probpeiity thoy BBBJ j lefiibcd to admit that tho resumption BBBJ i act hnd nnythlng to do with tho Im- HHHJ 1 1 ' t provement of business. In 1S9G thoy BBBJ furiously attacked tho gold standard, BBBJ having previously taken advantage of BBBj" a brief lcaso of power to run afoul of HHHJ the protective tariff. When Hepubli- BBBJ can legislators enacted the Dlnglcy HHHL law nnd placed tho currency upon a HHHJ sound basis, and prosperity returned BBBJ after dreary years of panic and do- HHHJ prcBslon, tho Democrnts said tho pros- BBBJ- porlty would havo como anyhow, from BBBJ, the revival ot confidence, their eyes BBBJ wcro tightly closed to tho fact that BBBJ i sound currency and tho Dlngloy tariff BBBJ woro tho conditions prccodent to tho BBBJ . revival of confidence, without which BBBJ'. ! confldenco would not havo revived any HHHJ more than tho bird that provoked tho HHHJ J bumpkin's foolish remark would havo BBBJ. fallen if It had not boon shot, BBBJi 'ftportsmen would bag fow birds if BBBJ?;;i' " a mw were passed compellinr Uiom HBBH 4, HHBk BJBflKHBBBBfll to dlspenso with weapons and wall till the birds fell from tho trees. Thq Democrats nro going Into tho pros' cnt congressional campaign ndvocat-Ing ndvocat-Ing a policy ns foolish as, that mora foolish, indeed, for tho business prosperity pros-perity ot tho country is of vastly greater importnnco thnn tho bagging of birds. Mllwaukeo Wisconsin. |