Show WHAT IT MEANS oar readers a very distinct recollection ol of alie fact which caused much discussion last summer and fall and subsequently that one of alio great political parties of the united states in its national platform declared emphatically lor a bariti for revenue only the republican Ee policy of a tariff for pro te clion was denounced as a fraud tho alien existing tariff was characterized as robber tariff working directly in the interest of tho millionaire manu facture rs and against tho toilers and producers and the democratic party pled geif itself to reform this state of ahinga and bring about an era of greater prosperity alian this country had heretofore known many month have passed since the presidential election yet the democratic party being in full possession of the legislative and executive departments of the government has not made a move to carry out its announced policy in the meantime it elems feces ary to add that tho condition 0 alio country hae steadily grown worse and there are not nt present any indications ol 01 a change for the better the president and his theorists and dreamers about tariff for revenue only are evidently at sea over the tariff matter it apparently dawned upon their minds bome time ago that they could not carry on the business of this government by imposing ft tariff upon every foreign article imported into this country yet that is alie only logical result of a tariff for revenue only this fact is plainly biown by the new york sun an able democratic paper which does not bellevo in tho democratic doctrine of a tariff for revenue only but does believe that alie democratic party is in honor bound to fulfill it ante election upon which it rode into power A tariff for revenue only nc cording to the definition of a distinguished republican senator ex of the united states means if honestly interpreted that duties shall be levied in euch way as to raise the most more without regard to the articles on alio tariff shall bo levied this definition is good as far as it goes but as the sun says the gentleman fails to add that a tariff for revenue only does not allow of any free list or tho admission free of all duty of articles of eity because they are required by alie poor or articles of art because alicy are supposed to exercise a refining influence upon tho people or of books because it is thought they contribute to education or of materials of manufacture because they serve to promote american industry all these are paternalistic or protectionist ideas republican ideas ED and alie moment protection Is condemned and rejected the free list however composed is rejected and proscribed along with it to this rule there is no logical exception now THE STANDARD is not blessed with alio gift of prescience and can not therefore tell with absolute certainty what the democratic administration will do with regard to the tariff tills however it does feel justified in saying to wit that whatever that party of rash promises may do it will not exact ft tariff tor revenue only nor one which in effect will be without any element 0 protection TUB of nevada and more particularly dioso residing in county will not bd displeased to learn that hank bauhan Va uhan the desperado who was a holy terror in eastern nevada twelve years ago passed in his checks a fowe days ago at pendleton or vaughan achieved his farst notoriety when 18 years old at that timo associated with a companion in the burnt river country Idaho and they biad in their possession horses stolen from umatilla county sheriff haddock with one deputy crept upon hank and bis companion in the night timo and a fight with pistols egued in which banke companion and the deputy sheriff were eliot and killed the sheriff wag shot through the jaw and hank was unhurt for this affair he was sentenced to th estates prison for life but wag pardoned after serving eight years on his release he went to nevada and remained several years he finally turned up in boise city and won the affections and right to uso the fortune of mrs roble his escapades have been numerous and ib is said that when he died he had thirteen bullet holes upon his person received at divers times in hia various ecra pea his most notable exploit aiace tho first was ais encounter with charles long in prine ville ten or twelve years ago on that occasion lie was in a saloon and invited everybody to take a drink lone who was a quiet man refused to come up grab the end of this or take a drink said hank presenting the end of bis handkerchief long accepted the challenge and both men emptied their revolvers into each other both were riddled and were supposed to bo mortally wounded however to the surprise of everybody both recovered and long ia still alive products fall with the price of silver wheat prices are lower than they ever were before and silver has fallen to a point never before reached within the memory of man and yet statisticians assure us eliat the production of the cereal ie decreasing while the population of the wheat con suming portion of the world ia increasing this circumstance circum stanco the san francisco chronicle declares seems a singular one and no doubt surprises many people but there is nothing singular about it alie result was foretold years ago by the advocates of freo coinage of silver who plainly foresaw that if the policy of contraction were adhered to the result would be robbery of the farming and all producing classes and the enhancement of tho value of gold and credits they also recognized alio fact thai alie spoliation of tho producing classes would not go but they did not imagine that the collapse would come as soon as it seems about to if the breaking of banks continues as it promises to the creditor class will be apt to realize is a dangerous game when carried too far is a man of rare perception as his lectures to boys show he my son I 1 see you leave a tendency to shirk liard labor and are looking for the easiest work possible you are seeking the manner of a majority of the youth of today wh aro forsaking the plow alio forge and farm to find a nice easy job in the city you have biad nn idea jn your head the only ono bouvo biad for tome timo that the world ia full of soft jobs from fortunes are derived youre wrong my boy youre wrong find after a while that the soft job is liko a torchlight procession mighty fine for a time but dont last let me breathe into your youthful ear eliat its bood sound hard knocks that brings down the most persimmon a and the man who knocks the longest and hardest will fill his measure quickest tackle alie best trade regardless of the labor attached so that its a trade suited to your liking go now but when youve finished eliat game of seven up come home to supper so your mother will not have to keep supper waiting in tho little cupboard AT lait report at the test of dairy breeds in jackson park chicago the jersey cows were leading alie and shorthorns at every point the breeders of jersey cattle all over the united states are rejoicing and claim that this lias clearly demonstrated eliat their breed is alie breed par excellence for dairy purposes A fair average jersey cow weighing ibs live weight will yield about ibs of butter per annum the common run of cows yield about halt of this amount IT is not true that all thoc wicked little boys who go fishing on sunday and get drowned go to hel ena or salt lake city as tho preachers tell us for the ilano gazette of a boy who caught a five pound mccloud river trout in the truckee river and lived to bring it into town and exhibit it to the admiring gaze of hundreds of people being made for a monster meeting of the nebraska state council of tho american bimetallic league inomata on tho first wednesday in august tina meeting will be an epoch in the great silver contest long to bo remembered |