A Model of Perversion
Milwaukee Journal: The “great
speech” of Congressman La Foliette on
the tariff has finally emerged in official
form as part of The Congressional Record,
and Wisconsin at least has been flooded
with it. Asa model of jsjryersion, eva
sion and misrepresentation, in regard to
truth compels the admission that it
could not well lx* excelled, begin
ning with the usual absursity
that taxation to meet every
want of government is free trade, the
tqxtaker proceeds to demons!rate that what
it neither wants nor needs, and is exacted
from lalior as a bounty to capital, is pro
tection to American industries. Reason
ing from such premises, the conclusion
embodies as mma. truth as the assump
tion, both of which are safe.
Milwaukee’* Frisky Mayor.
Chicago Times: Mayor Peck, the hu
merous executive of Milwaukee, played a
practical joke ii|sm the bridge tenders of
the city, hv making a tour "f inspection
of the bridges at ■’ o'clock in the morn
ing. The joke has had a bracing effect
u[ion them, and they no longer sleep at
their posts.
Her If nband K new IVUrr.
Epoch: Wife —"The census man want
ed to know if I had any chronic disease.”
Husband —“And what did you tell Mm?”
Wife—“l told him no, of course.” Hus
bano—“You made a mistake.” Wife—
“ What chronic disease have I, you silly
man?” Husband- "Shopping.”
Getting Down to Basin*-**.
Boston trlobe: The college graduate is
now looking about him for a job. It is
the saddest period of his life.
A National Conundrum.
Providence Journal; Hon. James G.
Blaine is the great political conundrum of
the present time, and everybody u obliged
to give up the answer.
I-earn From the Cheerful Tea-Kettle.
