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TIMELY TOPICS. 
Oh the Western man and the Western 
country ! Here is a Missouri genius threat¬ 
ening to turn out artificial eggs by the car¬ 
load or cargo at three cents per dozen with 
an outfit costing less than $500. Another 
Ananias up in Wisconsin claims to have 
discovered a subterranean layer of prime 
cheese 3% feet thick and of indefinite ex¬ 
tent ! Can the McKinley Tariff save the 
American hen and the American cow from 
such cheap Western competition? 
In Iowa and North Dakota, and, indeed, 
in the other Prohibition States also, the 
whisky rings are making the fiercest sort of 
struggle to regain or assume a baleful as¬ 
cendancy. Prohibition is by many classed 
with Greenbackism as a craze of the past; 
but in the disturbed States it shows a mar¬ 
velous energy for a moribund existence. 
According to the latest reports 10,000 
boomers had entered the Cherokee Strip 
and taken possession of land claims in vio¬ 
lation of the President’s proclamation. A 
detachment of the national cavalry and 
Indian scouts, however, had started to 
drive them all out, confiscate their arms 
and ammunition, and burn all houses and 
stationary tents. This is very severe treat¬ 
ment, especially at this season, which is 
liable to be very inclement occasionally, 
even as far south as the Indian Territory. 
A large proportion of the settlers had en¬ 
tered the forbidden country, no doubt, on 
advices from Washington that it would 
soon be thrown open to settlement; though 
the illegality of such squatter sovereignty 
must have been known to most of them ; 
but the knowledge of such a fact would be 
an incentive rather than a deterrent to the 
adventurous spirits of the Southwest, to 
whom land-grabbing from the Indians is a 
pleasure as well as a profit. 
Status of Women Suffrage—As 
anticipated, the Kansas Republican Senate 
has defeated the bill recently passed by the 
Kansas Alliance House, conferring on 
women the right or privilege of suffrage. 
The bill was at first defeated in the House 
also, and about the strongest argument 
yet made against female suffrage was de¬ 
livered by the Alliance Speaker. It is al¬ 
leged that were it not that the members 
were confident that the Senate would de¬ 
feat the measure, it could not have passed 
the House. At present the status of 
women suffrage throughout the country 
is briefly as follows: The Territory of 
Wyoming extended the right of suffrage 
and of holding all territorial offices to 
women in 1869, and ratified the Act in 1890, 
on its admission to the Union as a State. 
Utah followed Wyoming’s example in 1870; 
but in 1882 polygamists of both sexes were 
disfranchised by Congress by the Edmunds 
Act. The Territory of Washington ex¬ 
tended the right of suffrage to women in 
1883, but in 1888 the Territorial Supreme 
Court declared that it had no power to 
do so, and on the admission of the Terri¬ 
tory as a State in 1890, the proposition to 
give suffrage to women was defeated. 
Women, then, have the full right of suf¬ 
frage only in Wyoming. They voted in 
Utah from 1870 to 1882, and in Washington 
Territory from 1883 to 1888. In January, 
1890, Oklahoma gave them the privilege of 
municipal suffrage, and they have enjoyed 
the same privilege since 1887 in Kansas. 
The following 18 States allow women 
more or less extended rights of suffrage 
on the school question: Michigan, since 
1875 ; Minnesota, 1875 ; Colorado, 1877 ; 
Oregon, 1878 ; New Hampshire, 1878 ; 
Massachusetts, 1879; Vermont, 1880; New 
York, 1880; Nebraska, 1883; Wisoonsin, 
1885, but doubted in 1890 by the Supreme 
Court owing to ambiguity in the statute; 
Washington, 1886; Kentucky, 1886; Dakota 
Territory, 1887, and the States of North 
and South Dakota, 1889; Arizona, 1887; 
Idaho, 1887; Montana, 1887; New Jersey, 1887. 
The new State of Montana, besides retain¬ 
ing school suffrage for women, gives to 
women taxpayers the right to vote upon 
all questions submitted to the vote of tax¬ 
payers of the State or any political division 
thereof. No attempt to so amend the Con¬ 
stitution as to give women the right of 
suffrage has yet been successful in any 
State. Such attempts have, however, been 
made in the following States: Michigan, 
1874; Ohio, 1875; Nebraska, 1881; Oregon, 
1882; Rhode Island, 1887; Washington* 
1889 (separate articles to the Constitution 
being proposed); South Dakota, 1890; and 
Colorado, 1877. The two latter, as new 
States, had a constitutional provision re¬ 
quiring the legislature at its first session 
t o submit the question to the voters at the 
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next general election. In Wisconsin in 
1880, and Indiana in 1881, the legislatures 
passed a bill to submit the amendment to 
the voters, but in each State it failed to 
pass the second legislature, as required by 
the Constitution. Woman suffrage is 
making slow but steady progress; and 
could the men of the nation be convinced 
that its women—not a small but vociferous 
minority of them—really desired it, there 
is no doubt whatever that very many of its 
present opponents would become advocates 
of the measure. 
Canadian Elections. —The Canadian 
elections on March 5, according to present 
appearances, cut down the Conservative 
majority from 50 to from 23 to 25. Several 
recounts, protests and reelections still ren¬ 
der the exact figures problematical, but 
there is no doubt that Sir John Macdonald 
will have a fair working majority. The 
Tory losses have been almost entirely in 
Canada “ proper’’—Ontario and Quebec— 
and the gains in the Maritime Provinces— 
barring Prince Edward’s Island—and Brit¬ 
ish Columbia—the “floating vote.” The 
Canadian farmers generally favored re¬ 
ciprocity ; but it is probable that many of 
them relied too much on the wily old 
Premier’s promises ;hat he would be able 
to secure reciprocity in "natural pro¬ 
ducts” only—agricultural products, tim¬ 
ber, minerals, etc. There is little doubt 
that a larger proportion of them would 
have voted the Liberal ticket, which would 
mean unrestricted reciprocity, were it not 
for the specious pleas in this line made by 
the government. The demands for better 
terms of trade with this country were, 
however, so general and emphatic that it 
is certain the government will honestly 
exert itself to secure satisfactory terms at 
Washington. In view, however, of Secre¬ 
tary Blaine’s emphatic statement that he 
will not hear proposals that limit negotia¬ 
tions to natural products, the government 
must greatly alter its policy in the line of 
unrestricted reciprocity, with a tariff 
against others in harmony with ours, or 
abandon any expectations of being able to 
fulfill its preelection promises. Indeed, 
there are reports that the authorities have 
already Intimated to the manufacturers 
that they must prepare for free trade, as 
the government cannot maintain the pro¬ 
tective tariff any longer; and it is alleged 
that the manufacturers threaten to defeat 
the government should it abandon protec¬ 
tion. 
Benj. Franklin's adage, “Buy the best: the best 
is cheapest, is true every time, and he who acts on 
this basis reaps the reward. 
It is false economy to buy a poor quality suit of clothes or 
a poor horse merely because they are offered at a cheap price. 
Of late there has been a rage in some sections for 
low-priced fertilizers, and this rage has been satisfied, as can be seen by 
numberless brands of cheap fertilizers now on the market. Let the farmer 
ask himself seriously if he can afford to buy them. Can he afford to risk 
his labor for a whole year upon an article which by its price proves that 
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The election was marked by intense par¬ 
tisan bitterness. Charges of treason, tieach 
ery and all kinds of rascality and turpi¬ 
tude were flying in all directions. All the 
worst politic methods practiced in the 
slums of New York or other scenes of po¬ 
litical chicanery and corruption on this 
side of the line appear to have had numer¬ 
ous examplars on the other; and, moreover, 
there were a number of fresh inventions. 
Of course the reports are likely to be a 
trifle exaggerated in the passion of the 
hour ; but there can be no doubt of the in¬ 
tense bitterness of the contest. The Con¬ 
servatives selected their own time for the 
comestand laid down the lines on which 
the battle was to be fought; they had the 
enormous influence of power -and patron¬ 
age; they were backed up by the wide¬ 
spread influence of the Canadian Pacific 
Railroad with its numerons ramifications 
and by all other subsidized interests; they 
were supported by all the manufacturing 
interests which had for years been stimu¬ 
lated by their policy of protection; they 
were materially aided by the jingoism of 
' loyalty ” and patriotism; they were led 
by one of the shrewdest and most popular 
politicians on this continent; still they ap 
pear to have lost half their majority in Par¬ 
liament and may yet have to adopt the 
“ free trade ” and “ unrestricted recipro¬ 
city ” policy of their opponents. Anyhow, 
they have a new lease of power for at least 
the next five years. 
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