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Day
25
Month
May
Year
1894
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Public Domain
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There is said to be a great scarcity of farm labor -rs in the lower Mississippi valley. The Coxey "industriáis" give such places a wide berth. The Cedar Springs Clipper and Caro Advertiser, both rock-ribbed republican papers, openly denounce Governor Rich and his followers, and declare that the whole crowd should be turned down. It would be well for the machine to look after its own malcontents instead of spending so much time in prating about imaginary democratie disaffection. The suggestion that the coming democratie state convention make nominations for United States senators is a good one. If it is to be acted upon, it ought to be included in the cali for the convention, that the people may have time to carefully .consider the matter and instruct their delegates, not hastily and in "snap" fashion, but with sober second judgment and with proper regard for the highest party interests. After one month's experience with the statute requiring congress men to do the work for which they are paid or lose their pay, members of the house are "humping" them selves to find some way of evading its provisions. If these "statesmen' would attend to the business of their constituents with one-half the zea they manifest in trying to get their salaries without earning them, the public business would not surfer anc a public disgrace and scandal woulc be avoided. During the fiscal year which wil' close on ths 30U1 of June there has been an expansión in the money circulation of about $100,000,000. There has been an increase in gok coin, in currency certificates and in national bank notes. During the same time there has been a smal decrease in silver and a contraction in legal tender note circulation. Standard silver dollars have decreased from $57,029,000 to $52,655,000, and the United States notes from $320,875,000 to S284,443,000. The entire money circulation at the present time is $1,691,700. The senate sugar schedule places a duty of 40 per cent ad valorem on all sugars, raw and refined, and oneeight of a cent additional on refined sugars. From the first the government will probably receive from #43000oo to 46,000,000 of revenue. The one-eighth of a cent additional is concentrated extract of protection since no refined sugar is ever brought into the American market from abroad. It will raise the price of every pound of sugar to the consumer and every dollar thus extracted will go into the pockets of the unsconscionable sugar trust. It is dead wrong. The supreme court this week handed down a decisión in the mandamus proceeding of Gov. Rich to compel the board of state canvassers to recanvass the vote on the salaries amendment of 1891. Under the decisión of the court a new canvass will be made and this will undoubtedly result in showing that the salary amendment of 1891 failed to secure the approval of the people. It begins to look as though the blots placed upon the Constitution of the State by means of a dark conspiracy to override the will of the people would yet be removed and the conspirators brought to light. "So mote it be." 1 One of the most serious prohlems confronting European statesmen to: day is the problem of disarmament. W'hile the surface discussions going on do not indícate that disarmament ! is receiving much attention, nevertheless it is a vital issue of the day. It is rapidly becoming a question of j stern necessity before which tradi tional enmity and thirst for military ! glory will be forced to give way. The issue has not progressed suffi' ciently yet to bring out popular 'demonstrations in its favor, but j many of the far-sighted statesmen and keen political observers regard disarmament as a thing of the not distant future. The perpiexing question is how to bring it about. When it is an accomplished fact, the benefits will be incalculable. The attempted bribery of Sena tors Hunton and Kyle in the inter ests of the protectionists indicates that the republicans regard the tarif bilí as a much longer step in the direction of tariff reform than any one would suspect from the hovvles which they constantly emit about the failure of the democrats to embody in the bill the full measure of their platform pledges. It is true that the bilí contains too much oi the principie of protection to please the great mass of democrats, and it ought not to pass if anything better could be secured from the senate; but the fact remains, nevertheless, that the measure makes a large cut in the McKinly rates. In a recent interview Hon. Frank Hurd, of Toledo, than whom there is no better posted man, upon the tariff in all its details, said that the general average of the bill will be more than 30 per cent. less than the rates of the McKinly bill. Such a cut means a great deal to industries which have long been accustomed to gov ernment favoritsm and they are willing to pay roundly to prevent the reduction. The measure will pass, however, aud as expressed by Mr. Hurd: "It will bring to the country and business everywhere such a degree of prosperity that the people will never be satisfied until the last vestige of protection has been eliminated from our tariff system."

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