Many of the farmers of the United States...

Many of the farmers of the United States who were foolish enough to believe the lingo of the tree traders three years ago are now selling wheat for tifty cents a bushei and wool for ten cents a pound, and yet the blind moles are ascribing their misfortuiies to the demonetization of silverinstead of the Gorman tariff.- State Kepublican. The only farmers caught by that kind of rot are those who are still blindly voting the republican ticket. The wide-awake farmer knows that he was getting, in gold, $1.49 for his wheat, 75 cents for his corn, $l per barrel for his pork and 14 cents a pound for his cotton, when the republican party picked up the reins of government in 1860. He knows also, that, as soon as the boom incident to the war wore off the price of all his produce steadily declined under a high protective tariff, until, long before the democratie victory of 1892, the prices of 1860 were cut in two. Knowing these things he is not giving the high moguls of protection the cordial support of other days. Republican doctrines depend for support upon those whose source of information is limited to a class of newspapers, of which the State Republican is a fair representative. Illinois is afflicted with a legislature almost as bad as that rattling around in the halls set apart for wise and delibérate council, in the capital at Lansing. The Illinois body has, for sorae weeks, been passing bilis as fast as the state courts could daclare them invalid. It is now considering a measure that will exclude married women from the public schools as teachers. It may not have occurred to the "sucker" statesmen that the softening influence of wifehood and motherhood detract nothing from a woman's usefulness in the school room when she is so situated that she can spare her services to the public. Senatorial courtesy does not prevent Michigan senators from delivering as forcible opinions of each other as can be readily molded into the queen's English, but the Nebraska body sees the Lansing beligerents and goes 'em one better. The debate out there is conducted under Queensbury's rules and the arguments come from the shoulder. It might facilitate the transaction of business to remove the desks from the Nebraska state capítol and supplant the speaker by a referee. That trouble will be unnecessary at Lansing, however. Hostilities up there will be strictly verbal. A San Francisco paper says: "Dividends to the amount of $800 on every $100 par valué of stock in the Alaska Commercial company, paid in five years, is one of the most prominent features of the Wasserman-Schloss law suit." This is the company that was organized during Harrison's administration to take the monopoly of the seal fisheries, and of which Russell Harrison was a leading stockholder. The lower house of the Colorado legislature has passed a. bill granting a bounty of $2.00 per ton on sugar beets. The people of Colorado sat down pretty hard on "blood ,to the bridles" Waite, but they'll have to do another job of sitting pretty soon. Come to think of it, there's nothing like the Jeffersonian brand of democracy for handling affairs of state. A local election offers many opportunities for adjusting petty grievances. Vesterday's was no exception. When t comes to enforcing tb Monroe doctrine, these Unitec States will be a nation with a big N President Cleveland is not the ma to let the country go off at half cock but when he decides that a littl bluster or something more serious i necessary to preserve our nationa dignity and national traditions, th country will be a unit in his support Republican jingoists can't make handle out of the Hawaiian minis ter's withdrawal. Minister Thurs ton in his zeal for his governmen overstepped the bounds of diplo matic decency. The accredited rep resentative of a foreign power is no supposed to adopt the tactics of ward politician. A notable feature of the industria development of the south is the fac that it is pushing right along unde the reduced tariff of the Wilson bill It is the New South with its many advantages for cheaper production that furnishes the most formidable competition for the North Atlantic states. Our esteemed friend Bill McKinley has worked his jaw so vigorously during the past winter that he has pumped the wind all out of his presidential boom. In view of this disaster Tom Reed has spiked his hatchways down until further notice. In this instance what is Reed's gain is not necessarily the country's loss. In the midst of the wrecked hopes and damaged aspirations incident to the spring elections the people of Wichita, Kas., at least, have cause for congratulation. Mary Ellen Lease positively declined to accept the honors of mayoralty. The legislature handles the liquor and railroad problems with the extreme caution observed by the monkey when pulling chesnuts from the lire.