Judge — December 27, 1890 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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NYTHING wil a mistletoe, The main question is whether the girl likes it. do for T.,B: REED will get a present of a certificate of re-election, a very rare thing among people of his variety now. UDGE THURMAN having quit taking snuff, a large portion of the Democratic party will cease to know when to sneeze, THE FARMERS of the alli ance expect the world in their Christmas stockings, and they won't get enough of it to put a hoe in. GENERAL ALGER may easily find the second position in his hosiery; but he n praying for the first just the same. eee DITOR of the New York Herald in his nomination of Dana for the senate acts, not like a stuffed prophet, but like a stuffed goose. [7 WOULD be well to make the Indian work, as General Sherman says: but it would require two white mei h Indian, and a third to watch them and see that they didn’t steal his earnings and kill him for his hide. in early Christmas William !" to ¢: FE. HAD better buy the Sandwich islands. from Kalakaua his title, nations with royal honors; That would take away that he need not be received by other ind besides the purchasers could easily win the money back from his majesty at the royal game of poker. THE LATER POLITICAL QUACK. [F THE Republican measures passed in the last congress to lessen the unusable revenues of the government, to cheapen the poor man’s sugar, to develop domestic industry and give enlarged employment. to shift the burdens from labor by increased tax on goods consumed by the rich, had been thoroughly understood, this policy would have been in- dorsed by popular approval. If there had been time to check and expose Democratic misrepresentation, it is beyond a question that a part at least of the present financial distrust would have been lessened, if it could not have been wholly avoided. There was no mendacity left unworded, no sordid appeal unused, no suppression or distortion unshaped, no jugglery but was. performed. y Democratic ink-stand held a conscious Mrs. ENTERNOU (as Witatast (thickly) —" No, madam ; ill.” Ananias. The surplus was a Republican crime. The measures to di- minish it were another. ‘The public debt was a calamity laminated with southern suffering and protest. Its payment was another. Manufactur- ers were denounced as leeches living on the vitals of the people, and still hungry. The misled and uncritical voters were imposed on by this pre- meditated mendacity. Rares Recently there was published a long list, in a Democratic newspaper, of about two hundred men, each owner of many millions. Yet only two in this statement of vast wealth were manufacturers, and neither of these, as is well known, achieved his great fortune from his business. Are the Vanderbilts, Astors, Goelets, Goulds, Rockefellers, Flaglers, Sages and others of colossal fortunes manufacturers? Wealth is not largely won in this way. Competence may be, competition prevents more. The vast fortunes were harvested in other fields. Yet the political demagogue deluded the voter by the statement that all riches were achieved by the manufacturer at the expense of the people. The credulous victim bought his green goods with his ballot. The general glorification from Gotham to the gulf over the late political success is a reminder of a similar rejoicing, years ago, by similar patriots over the federal repulse at Bull Run. The victorious Democracy, however, is threatened by the overheating of its blood. It has howled against wealth, denounced competency, and asserted that the people (whites) are but serfs. It has preached that property is unjustly divided and that law deprives man of his inalienable heri- tage; that capitalists and colored men have, in fact, no rights. Governor Tillman of South Carolina de- nounces the declaration of independence and uses as adoor-mat that hitherto respectable document. The inevitable result of such harangues has been to develop a new political force, and the farmers’ alliance is the mongrel prod- uct, born of ignorance and discontent. This Frankenstein threatens to immolate its creator, and is piloting the party it has lassoed to the brink of de- struction. Brother Mills in his pre- election speeches advocated free trade, the abolition of customs duties, the imposition of a land and income tax for the support of the government, and posed as the drum-major of the new political band that recently adjourned. at Ocala. The old Democracy, lost to its earlier traditions under the new mask, appeals to every social- istic instinct that would stimulate laziness to rob labor. ttt What farcical statesmanship is this “alliance” platform! Free silver and a depreciated currency. Government loans at a low per cent. on land. Federal control of rail-transportation and the telegraph. Money advances on warehoused farm products. Denunciation of every measure to make the ballot south and north the unsuppressed voice of the voter. Condemning class legislation, yet advocating benefits only for a class. Are not the shoemaker and the carpenter and the single house-owner entitled in pro- portion to their investment to the same cheap loan-helping ? ‘nternou comes morning) —* Well, + +t The Argentine republic, with a population made up from and re- enforced by the immigration of European socialists, has sadly tried this ex- periment. There the government built or backed the railroads, and loaned its credit on lands, and on every project that had a rainbow promise. Real money was soon frightened out of the country and gold reached two hundred and fifty premium, until the interest on its unearning enter- prises was defaulted. One of the elements of our present financial trouble comes from this cause. European holders of American securities, losing faith in foreign investments, have poured into our market every stock sal- able, and have thus drained us of millions, There is added to this the embarrassment of the greed of vast importations of foreign goods purchased to profit by the tariff advance; goods now to be paid for, but unsalable on a glutted and a lower and losing market. the South American insanity? level heads even in the Demoers this latest political frenzy? Are we to follow Are there not some strong hands and ic party that will asylum the leaders of Jo As comicbooks.com