Come Home To Roost

The following story which we clip from the Hillsdale Leader explains itself. It shows how sonie people have allowed their political prejudices and pig-headedness to get the best of them, and how the McKinley bill lies, like chickens, come home to roost. This item is worth reading. Please read it : The Allen demócrata are kicking themselves. They had been reading democratie papers and listening to democrat free trade talk that the McKinley bill raised the price on what the farmer has to buy, so when a republican store keeper out there happened to remark that after the first of April they could buy granulated sugar for five cents per pound one of the leading democrats of the town eharacterized the statement as d d republican lie and said he would give six cents per pound for a barrel of it, and to make sure of getting it he would like to put the contract in writfng. He was accommodated and the contract was duly executed. Then the smaller democratie lights following the lead of the king bee among them wanted to make just contracts and they too were all accommodatei and contracts put in writing. They have since learned that wholesale dealers are offering to deliyer it by the barrel or carload after April lst at 4}4 cents per pound and now wliile kicking themselves over their Btnpidity, they are denouncing the store keeper as a republiean trickster. The McEinley bilí reduces the tariff $00,000,000 per year instead of increasing it, but some democrats will use six cent sugar for some time yet, while their republican neighbors will use the same kind of sugar at a littlé over four cents per pound.