Judge — August 4, 1888 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. Proidet + WY Amwee Art Department» Breswand Editor ie 1. M. Gexcony TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. UNITED STATES AND CAKADA, IN ADVANCE. One copy, one year, or s2 numbers, . $4.0 Pg: One copy, six months, or 26 numbers, . 3.00 One copy, for 13 weeks, ee tae ‘Single copies, 10 cents each. FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS —To alt for eign countries in the postal $5 year Tue Jupce Pustishinc Company (Potter Bu Park Row, New York. LDING), , santee advertiuers larger circulation at cheaper rates than The Toocn ts fer tale at Brentane vy other 17 Avenue de L’Opera, Paris “PROTECTION NUMBERS. We will issue within a short period a series of Protectinn numbers of the Junck, show- ing the interests of the country that need protection. TO OUR MAIL SUBSCRIBERS. We regret that many Junces sent to subscribers by mail are going astray. A little in vestigation has resulted in some surprising discoveries. The investigation will go further and will be followed by a system of our own for the distribution of the paper that will insure a perfect delivery regardless of the carelessness or dishonesty of the mail service THE MILLS BILL—It is so English, you know. EVER A DEMOCRAT cries out against free whisky but he takes another to give him strength for further demonstration. eee WE SUPPOSE there is the utmost affection between Cleveland and Hill; but so there is in the family disturbance which destroys the entire family, oer FREE TRADER is that unwholesome in- dividual who gives the corn to his neighbor and carefully preserves the husk thereof. HE BEST American industry is that of the senate in defence of and for the protec- tion of American enterprise and labor. HERE HAS been much curiosity as‘ to Grover's letter of acceptance ; but the main question should have been as to his letter of declination. eee HERE IS A UNION between the Demo- crats and the Greenbackers of Michigan which curiously reminds one of the devil and the deep sea. eee OLONEL BRICE, Mr. Cleveland's head of the national campaign committee, is as closely associated with the aqueduct business as Mr. Hill's John O'Brien. How strange these coincident accidents are! eee HE EXTRA SESSION did its work well; but it adjourned with such haste that one is half inclined to call it the exti cessit er THOSE DEMOCRATS who desert one Democratic organization to go into another mean well to some extent; but it-is merely a leap from the frying-pan into the frying-pan. THE MILLS CALAMITY. R. MILLS in the closing speech on his tariff reduction bill made the appalling statement that there was a surplus of $129.000,000 in the treasury, wrung, as he claimed, “from the toiling millions, ete, by unjust tax." No Democratic administration ever had so magnificent a legacy left it, by the policy of any previous administration, to attack. The last Democratic one was bankrupt. ‘This one purposes. if possible, to parallel its own political predecessor. Mr. Mills is chary in saying anything, in fact ignores the existence of the $250,000,000 of “ promises to pay,” and due on demand, which if applied would honestly cancel the surplus, There is no real surplus; there can be none while a greenback debt is not only due, but due on demand. Furthermore, is less than two dollars per head a large amount to be held A TIMELY WARNING. * Look a heah, chile! don’ you know your Uncle Rufus done git de meloncholy ob yars, jes actin’ a fool like yous doin’ ?” in the national savings bank? If New England holds in its savings banks an average of nearly $300 per head, is there special danger from a two-dollar per capita national deposit ? A proposition to pay off the floating debt of $250,000,000 by issuance of certificates of deposit against the sum on hand, or treasury accumula- tions, would put an honest currency in circulation and pay an honest debt. The bill that Mr. Mills passed is not the one originally attempted and in- troduced, It is a political crazy quilt with new patches put on by Demo- crats, whose constituencies had local interests to be cared for. The sugar duty, that affects sixty millions of people, is touched lightly and tenderly to shelter the twelve hundred Louisiana planters, whose re enues it would menace. The eight millions of people who are directly affected as growers, manufacturers and workers of wool are unheeded. John Randolph of Roanoke, full of the same spirit of Democratic hate that now impels the party, said forty years ago he would go out of the way a mile to kick a. sheep. Mills prefers to organize his party into « pack of dogs to hunt, tear and destroy the flocks of the United States, A lessening of the tariff, or absolute free wool, would only tempora- rily lower the price of the staple or manufactured goods. It is well re- membered that the abolition of the tariff on wool in 1846 so lowered the domestic price that sheep husbandry was abandoned. Mutton was as rare as venison; flocks disappeared, and foreign wool without a home competition advanced to a higher figure than ever. Protected domestic growth is the only safeguard against exorbitant foreign price. If the three hundred and fifty million pounds of wool of native growth is materially lessened or canceled, the call for the foreign product will advance its value Flocks cannot be raised in a summer, like a crop of corn, and a ruined in- dustry takes years to repair. Mr. Mills, with singular inconsistency, while denouncing domestic manufacturers as monopolists, has no protest against foreign ones, and yet states that free wool will help and protect our manufacturers, forgetting that a menace to its domestic growth is as fatal as an attack. It is the old millennial dream, “The lion (British) shall lie down with the lamb,” with the Democratic amendment that the lamb shall be inside him. The congressman from Texas is also evi- dently ignorant of all the ways of Providence in saying “ God made salt for man and beast, and it ought not to be taxed.” God does not make salt, does not dig it, any more than he digs iron or grows wheat. It is pumped as brine and evaporated by fuel. A ton of salt means a ton of work for labor here or for labor abroad. As to free lumber to help build houses for the poor farmers on the prairies, we all know logs are now free and have been for many years. The duty is only on sawed and worked lumber, and Mr. Mills’s bill purposes simply to transfer this labor benefit and saw-mill profit to the Do- minion. It is a part of the same Democratic policy that would concede Canadian fishery demands, that fattens Canadian railroads, and fills Cana- dian steamers with American freight. It is to be hoped that the “unlucky thirteen” majority that passed Mr. Mills’s bill will be a prophesy of its early death. stomach for foah ba WHAT IS THE MATTER? Every week brings its quota of complaints from subscribers that the /ufelligencer for the week. or for two weeks, of for a longer time, has not been received. ‘The reason why has been searched for by us repeatedly. The result is a settled conviction that the negli gence or dishonesty, resulting in these disappointments, is in the post-office department Somewhere. A number of our contemporaries, both newspapers and magazines. are receiv ing similar complaints from their subscribers, and the conclusion is general that the post office is the offending party. Even of such a publication as the North American Revir: ‘over one thousand copies of the numbers containing the debate between Mr. Gladstone and Col: Ingersoll disappeared in the mails. Whether such things are the result of carelessness or dishonesty no outsider knows. There is a suspicious method in the carelessness. — Chris tian Intelligencer, The JuDGE has been treated with similar unfairness or carelessness by the postal clerks, as a notice at the head of its editorial columns this week shows. There bas.been the utmost stupidity owing to changes in the management of the service, or there has been positive dishonesty. Complaints have been reaching us for some time back, and they are growing more numerous. We do not believe it is the intention of the Democratic authorities to suppress this or any other Republican paper, but that sort of outrage must stop. comicbooks.com