Leavenworth, Kansas, experienced a
tornado on Monday. Several dwell
ings were demolished and a woman
fatally hurt. A wholesale grocery
store was unroofed and a 570.000 stock
water-soaked. Mancie, Ind., also had
a windy experience on Monday, and
Louisville, Ky., suffered severely from
a tornado one day last week.
After a careful investigation. Dr.
Ueeve, of the state board of health,
says that the reports that leprosy ex
ists among a certain class of Nor
wegian immigrants in Wisconsin is
false.
What Protection Is.
Madison Democrat.
By a system of false reasoning akin
to fiatism, resting on similar soph
istry, and rendered plausible only as
it appeals to a short sighted selfish
ness, is the doctrine of protection up
held. It is claimed by its advocates
that it creates capital; that it increases
wealth: that it is not taxation in
tripple-handed exaction, but is the tal
isman to prosperity in industry. It
is true that it operates as an artificial
stimulus to some industries. It builds
up a wall against the importation of
foreign products and leave the many
home-consumers at the mercy of the
few protected home-producers. The
home manufacturers reap a rich har
vest for a time. The fact that a
business is made profitable by the
operation of law, tempts many
to invest their capital in it This
diversion of capital and labor creates
an activity in the localities of the
manufactures which some mistake for
a general prosperity. But it is only
the mere diversion of labor into new
fields which can be made profitable
only by the interference of the tariff
with the operation of natural laws.
