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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 200, 25 September 1888, Page 3

The Queensland farmers have asked Sir Thos. M ’ll wraith for a bonus of £5OOO for the first 5000 yards bf cotton grown and manu-factured-in Queensland, in addition to a grant of land, give an impetus tq th|s industry. A New York correspondent writes The effret of the Presidential contest, with the question of free-tr*de or protection pending upon the result, has been to paralyse a good many industries, or put them iu a condition of stagnation. Both sides claim to be confident of victory, and as far as one can observe, both sides are really confident of it. Campaign clubs without number have been organised, and each party has its general headquarters in this city, with a large staff of clerks busily employed. Tons of. printed matter are sent out daily, and the voters are bping enlightened as to the respective merits of free trade and protection to an extent that would send a givat many people to the lunatic asylum if they read half the literature thrown and to be throw $ at them. The services of the printer are in demand apd so much SO that’some of the printers’ unions that were threatened to strike have p stponed action until after the election. They have the good sense to see that if this kind of work, should be put off it will not be done at all. Election printing demands the extreme of promptness, and political documents are of no value except as waste paper after the votes have been cast and counted. The master printers who accept orders from politicians invariably insist that the work should be paid fOr on delivery, most of them having learned by bitter experience that when work is thus not paid fdr it is very likely not to be paid for at all. The American politician, without regard to party, is not the most trustworthy personage in the world so far as money mat|pis ape concerned ; election expenses are usually much larger than expected, and a man who enters a campaign of this sort without his eyes fully open ia quite likely to illustrate a homely American proverb that saye, "he it off more than he could chaw.”