The Courier this week admits that a remo...

The Courier this week admits that a removal of the tariff would decrease the price of clothing, and yet it urges its readers to vote for a protective tariff. In 1884 there were 322,756 pensioners of the United States. In 1887 there were 406,007 an increase of 83,251. This hardly looks as if the democratic party was an enemy of the soldiers, as some interested parties tried to make out. The republican journals in some of our northern counties are crying out that the democrats are about to reduce the price of lumber. Thats a very good argument for voting the democratic ticket. If lumber was cheaper more men could own their own homes. In 1880 according to the estimate of the chief of the bureau of statistics in Washington there were in this country engaged in occupations subject to competition with foreign countries 827,184 persons while there were 16,564,914 persons engaged in gainful occupations not subject to foreign competition. In other words only 47 out of every 1,000 persons were subject to foreign competition. A WRITER who hides himself behind the pseudonym " X." in the Courier this week, evidently flatters himself on having demolished an Argus editorial. He can't see how more workingmen can build homes without there being a greater destruction of forests and drying up of land in this country. Let " X " ponder this problem. Why not allow the Canadian workmen who are imported by Alger, Palmer and our other lumber millionaires to destroy he forests of this state, cut down the Canadian forests, and our farmers, and mechanics have the benefit of he two dollars a thousand feet of lumber now paid as duty. Will the extra number of homes built destroy the American or Canadian forests? These Canadian workingmen in this country aid no one here but the lumber barons. Why not allow them to stay at home, cut timber there and save our forests ?