HJD1890_16.jpg HJD1890_17.jpg HJD1890_18.jpg transcribed by Linda in MO Jefferson Democrat, Jefferson County, Missouri Thursday, May 22, 1890 (part 2) The sporting men of De Soto were quite indignant, last Sunday, because the Sheriff interfered with the base ball game, which was advised to take place at the Fair Grounds. They complain because they were not notified beforehand that the game would not be permitted. It was known that the De Soto players were stopped from Sunday games last season, and why they expected St. Louis teams to be granted more privileges than home men we do not know. We are not discussing the propriety of the law which forbids Sunday games - on that point there is room for great difference of opinion; but when it comes to sworn officials attempting to do their duty and enforce laws, whether popular or not, and whether they are enforced or not in other counties, we will give the officials our support every time. If the law is wrong it should be repealed, but while it stands it should be enforced. The Republican ideas, in????? from expressions we have heard, is that a tariff is not a tax, but some kind of blessing that benefits certain classes without injuring any other. They even claim that it does not add to the cost of the protected articles; but this is not consistent with the plea always made in Congress, that unless a tariff protection is given they can not compete with foreign products. That if it does not add to the prices which are demanded for the goods, there is no protection, is a truth so plain that anybody with ordinary common sense can see the point. Farmers are not protected by a tariff on wheat and corn, because it does not and can not add to the price of wheat and corn, for this country is and exporter and not an importer of those articles, and the price is fixed in competition with the cheapest labor in Europe and Asia. A tariff on tin plate does add to the price of tin, and it is for that purpose alone that it is urged; and this is true of the other protected articles of manufacture. The following, from the Journal of Agriculture, is sufficient to answer the long article in the Mirror regarding the circular signed by Judge MADISON and James H. WAGGENER, as members for the F. & L. Union, in favor of Judge THOMAS. The above mentioned paper is the organ of the Farmers’ and Laborers’ Union. Read what it says: “The attention of the Journal of Agriculture has been called to a circular signed by the President of the County Union of Jefferson Co., Mo, and also by the President of one of the local Unions of that county, urging the nomination of a personal friend of theirs for Supreme Judge. We see no objection to the circular whatever; because a man belongs to the Farmer’s and Laborers’ Union, does not debar him from citizenship. Neither does it encroach upon his pol?ted prerogatives. The circular merely asks the farmers who affiliate with the party to which these gentlemen belong to attend their primaries and see that good men be nominated. We were unintentionally absent from the county convention last Saturday. In ?????ting to entertain a St. Louis gentleman, who was here with a view of investing in Jefferson county property, we had taken a trip to Big River, and a series of unforeseen circumstances delayed our return. We learn though that every thing passed off harmoniously, except as to some interruptions by a drunken individual, who immediately subsided on the appointment for a sergeant-at-arms for his benefit. Mr. John T. BURGESS made a speech which was a surprise to many of his bearers, who did not know that he was so well informed on the issues of the day, and so capable of presenting his views. The only other speech was a short one by Dr. Charles WILLIAMS, which was also full of good points. While there was no mention of Judge THOMAS, it is a fact that everything was done just as a desired, and the proceeding were all in his interests. The delegates will go to St. Joseph for the purpose of securing of securing his nomination if possible. We may have to enlarge our paper soon. We have just had an offer from an advertising agent of ??, for running a five inch ad one year. Washington Letter. No better evidence could be shown as to the weakness of the Republican in the tariff discussion than is afforded by the ???? movement to check a ? debate and force a vote on Wednesday next. The truth is the Democrats have had their op????? crowded to the wall and they are glad to escape the scathing review ????? of ar??rary partlamentary power in forcing a final vote on a m???? of great economical importance without due and clear consideration. Although the Democrats had a tight grasp on their political throat, it needed the utterances of the erratic Ben BUTTERWORTH to complete their demoralization. They had endeavored to choke off the Ohio ??? and refused to assign ??? a [..???..], [new column] although he is considered one of the healthiest? men on the Republican side but the gentleman from Ohio had something to say, and was determined to say it. It was, without doubt, a curious legistlative episode to see a leading Republicans orator dependent for sympathy and applause upon his political enemies, while his own political friends are around with misery depicted on their faces. The Democrats will print this Republican tariff speech, or rather honest tariff admissions made by a Republican, for circulation in the next campaign. As to the Mc Kinly bill: it will pass the House, for the leaders say it must go through, and the Republicans are too well drilled not to obey the commands of their leaders. That there is individual dissatisfaction with the measure, almost in its every line, need not be said; that personal grievances and discontent will all be sank in the effort to make a record for the grand old party. The d????gues in the United States Senate of the Blair? stripe, have concluded that the post-canteen system in the army must go. because the enlisted men are there said light wines and beer. Al the legistlative contest?, as a ??? the Democratic Senators upheld the canteen, not that they had any particular favor for liquors, but because a knowledgeing the fact that soldiers as well as other men will drink less under restraint than they would if given full liberty. At the canteen,too, they got no whiskey - only beer and light wines. As evidene of the good sense of Democratic Senators in the ?????, the following letter from the commandant of a leading military post has been received. “The canteen has been a success in every particular. This ??niated ??? in s??un??? near a small town, where only the poorest kind of whiskey can be had. The canteen has remained the temptation for the town by providing the men comforts as well as light beverages. It has done much for the discipline of the post and the contentment of the enlisted men. The leaders of the Republicans in Congress now recognize that they are confronted by a condition and not a theory. The trouble is that was all that ??? surplus in the treasury, which the Democratic administration left there have not enough money to go round. One thing must be ????, they say, add that is to increase the pension expenditures by many millions. If the Morr?? bill, passed by the House, is agreed on, the immediate annual expenditure, according to the war department authorities, will be at least $??,???, ??? annually, or , with what is now allowed, in the neighborhood of $175, 900,000 a year. If the bill passed by the Senate, known as the dependent bill, is taken as a compromise, the increased outlay will be $10,000,000 annually. We?, as ???, these millions must be provided, for the Republicans dare not increase the anger of the soldier boys, and as Legislators have already been more than r???? in their drafts on the treasury, it is recognized that a ha? must be ralied. In fact, some of the huge expenditures contemplated must be lopped off, and in this is anxiety, for the river and harbor men are fearful that their pet measure will die aborning. The public building men also realize that that their schemes may turn out to be failures, while the only people happy are the pensioners in prospective and the subsidy grabbers, who want to revive commeres by dipping their hands deep into the treasury.