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THURSDAY, AUGUS 19,1897.
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The New Duties on Imports.
In The Review of Reviews Mr.
Charles A. Couaut gives a summary in
telligible to the average citizen of the
changes that will be made in American
customs duties by the new tariff law.
It is not possible to tell before June 30,
1898, just how much increased revenue
the new law will produce, from the fact
that importers tnshod to bring in goods
free of duty before the new law should
be passed. They therefore stocked them
selves up with supplies whose selling
tirico they will at ej.ve lift to the level
of the same goods at duty prices and
thereby make a neat little speculation.
The increased price of cotton fabrics
was already noticeable in the retail
market before the new tariff bill was
enacted. It is not until the supply of
goods brought in by importers iu ad
vance of the new law is exhausted that
thero will be any considerable buying
under its provisions. The quantity of
goods thus imported was sufficient,
however, to seriously reduce the first
year’s revenuo from the new tariff law.
The most important difference bo
twcoti the former law and the new one
is that the new one is constructed ou
the principle of taxing raw material, j
while the Wilson Lill favored free raw
materials. The new law will therefore
levy a duty ou imports of produce raised
by tho farmer, such as wool, bides,
lumber, cotton and flax. There will be
a direct attempt under tho new law, ac
cording to Mr. Couaut, to develop the
flax industry, fax growing and flax
weaving. Imported linens are therefore
taxed from 68 to 89 per cent on their
value. This will nearly doable the price
of linen goods t i the consumers. Asa
matter of fact, the new law raises con
giderabljahighct the duty on all textile
fabrics. This is to compensate the mau
ufactnrer for raising the price of raw
cotton, wool and silk ou him.
The most bitter struggle in congress
was over the sugar schedule. According
to Mr. Couaut, the senate leaned to
ward favoring the sugar refiners, while
the house, egged ou by the popular out
cry against these magnates, was dis
tinctly against increasing their privi
leges. Finally the house and the people
triumphed, at least in a measure. Mr.
Couaut says the new tariff will afford
protection enough to the sugar refiners,
although it docs not at all give them
such “liberal margins” as previous
laws did. It is gratifying to know that
at length iron and steel manufacturers j
in the United States have reached that |
stage where they need no especial pro- '
tectiou. The duties on these have there
fore net been greatly changed by the
new law. “Art works,” pictures and
statues \v|! pay a duty of 20 per cent.
Tho wily, treacherous Turk seems to
be more than a match for all the re
sources of European diplomacy. He is
so adept at making proposals and de
lays concerning the terms of evacuating
Thessaly that the prospect is the twen
tieth century will dawn with the Greco-
Turkish question still unsettled. The
only way in which the sultan can be
positively pinned down to an agreement
will be by an actual order for the for
eign fleets to anchor opposite Constan
tinople ready to blow the Turk’s town
into splinters. Abdul Hamid was or
dered by the powers mouths ago to take
his troops out of Thessaly, but they are
thero yet and seem likely to remain un
til the powers get into their minds the
truth that the Turk is only playing
with them and has no thought of giv
ing up Thessaly so long as lying and
falso pretenses can retaiu it.
Many of the bicycles of 1898 will be
• chaiuless, and it is only a matter of
time when they all will bo so. With the
remarkable cheapening of wheels that
came with 1897 the danger was that
they would be carelessly built. A bi
cycle that is net constructed with the
painstaking care and nicety of adjust
ment that belong to a good watch is as
dangerous as a clamp gun. There is so
much competition, however, that mak
ers will not dare to put upon the market
the deadly trash that for awhile passed
under the name of cheap wheels. The
sewing machine that sells at $25 is as
good as those that formerly brought
SIOO. It will be the same with bicycles,
and tho people are to be congratulated
thereou.
Captain Morienson of the bark Ans
gar reports that ho saw in the White
sea, July 33, an object which he thinks
was a collapsed balloon, and he thinks
it was Andree’s balloon. Why did he
not go and see?
The death of Canovas will certainly
be for the good of the Cuban cause, from
the fact that in the Spanish cabinet be
fore his death everything was as bad as
it could be against the patriots.
THE NEW TARIFF LAW.
False In Design and Will Op
press the Fcople.
REVENUE KOT IT3 REAL PURPOSE.
It* Object In to Acmimuiatn Trcuourj
NotcH an.l Itotiro Them From Circula
tion Eiml.lei* One Clan* to Collect Trill*
ute From Another.
Representative Joseph W. Bailey ol
Texas, Democratic leader of the house,
sums up the new tariff bill as follows:
The pretense that the new tariff bill
Is designed primarily to increase tho
public revenues is a false one upon its
very face, because if that had been the
object it could have been accomplished
without disturbing all the business in
terests of the country by a general re
vision of cur tariff duties. A slight
change iu the existing law would have
sufficed. An amendment substituting
tho sugar schedule of the pending bill
for the sugar schedule of tbo existing
law, with the differential duty iu favor
of the Sugar trust entirely eliminated,
would have increased the revenue at
least 121,000,000, and the substitution
of tho tobacco schedule of the pending
bill for tho tobacco schedule of the ex
isting law would have added over
$5,000,000 more, making a total in
crease by theso two amendments of
$8,000,000 above the deficiency cf the
last fiscal year.
Revenue for the government, how-
ever, was not the real purpose which
the framers of this bill bad iu tlseif*
minds. They desired to collect more
money, it is true, but their purpose in
doing that was almost wholly apart
from the support of the government.
On the first page of his report tho dis
tinguished chairman of the committee
on ways and means shows that the
difference between the government’s
receipts and expenditures during the fis
cal year of 1896 was less than $26,000,-
000, and toward the conclusion of his
report he declares that this bill, asorig
inully reported to the house, was ex
pected to raise $113,000,000 more than
was collected under the present law
during that time.
We charged that their object in creat
ing that enormous surplus was to ac
cumulate the promissory notes af the
government in the treasury and to hold
them there, thus effectually withdraw
ing them from circulation. We huve
repeated that eliargo in the most specifio
rnauner, aud no Republican with au
thority to speak has ever made a specific
answer to it.
Not only is it true that protection i)i
minishes our wealth by abridging the
freedom of international exchange, but
it is also true that it diminishes our
wealth by fostering those combinations
of capital which tiro formed for the pur
pose of limiting production in. order to
maintain prices. Trusts are tire legiti
mate and unavoidable outgrowth of pro
tection, aud both aim at the same end.
Each is intended to enable the manufac
turer to escape competition,
j is designed to protect domestic munu-
I facturers against foreign competition,
| but does any man suppose that when
our manufacturers have learned how
profitable it is to bo relieved from for
eign competition they will suffer a dim
inution of tlioir profits by competing
against each other?
We stand upon the broad aud unas
sailable ground that taxation can only
be justified when it is levied for the
purpose of supporting the government,
and thaj all taxation which is designed
to enable one class to collect tribute
from other classes is a legalized robbery.
If the manufacturers are as selfish and
ns prosperous as we have been taught to
believe, it is an unpardonable crime to
exempt them from taxation and thus
increase the burdens of the putient and
unnumbered multitude. I canuot fiud
lauguage stroug enough to denounce a
policy that would lift the burdens of
this government from the great manu
facturing establishments uud lay it with
crushing weight upon the farms. I know
the agricultural peoplo of this laud,
aud I know their unselfish devotion to
their country. I know, too, that it is
as true iu the economic as it is iu the
physical world that all things rest upon
the earth, and when these who cultivate
the soil are made to suffer the nation
must suffer with them. The farmers
are tho most useful and the most con
servative of all our citizens.
I do uot plead for special privileges
for the farmers. I only plead in defense
of the Democrutio party for having said
that iu dealing with this question it
will keep its pledge that none shall en
joy a special favor nor shall any suffer
a special burden, but that ail shall
stand equal before the law. To establish
and maintain the equal rights of men
was the great mission to which its
founders dedicated tiie Democratic party
100 years ago and to which we reconse
crated it last year. If we adhere stead
fastly aud faithfully to this, the most
vital of all our principles, the America n
peoplo will reward our fidelity with
their confidence, and we can reward
their confidence by perpetuating forever
and forever more this, the greatest, the
freest aud therefore the best government
that ever rose to animate the hopes or
to bless tho sacrifices of maukiud.—
New York Journal.
The Suffur Trust'll Victory.
No further proof 13 needed of the Sug
ar trust's victory in the final revision
of tho new tariff bill than the rise of
its stock in Wall street. Instead of far
ing worse than it did in the senatfc
schedule, it is the opiuiou of the expert
speculators that it has come out of the
conference coinmittoe far better, and
the result is the raking in of millions
by those “on the inside” from the mar
ket fluctuations alone.
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PLATFORM PROMISES.
Republican Pledges Still Unre
deemed.
TRUSTS ORLY RECEIVE FAVOR!
Tariff Law Framed In tho Intercut of
Wealth - Toiler* Get Notlilug but In
creased Taxes Their Pockets Held Open
For the Hand of tile Dospoilur.
The following paragraph is going tho
rounds of the Republican press:
Just one*twelfth of the McKinley adminis
tration hns* passed, but in that timo Republic
ans have done tporo in tho way of carrying
out tho pledges of tho platform than was over
I accomplished in double that time by any pi o
vioui* administration. When you consider that
1 this lias lrfs-n dono with a senate in which tho
Republicans are in u minority, you should
oelebmto tho closo of tin- first four months in
stead of grumbling because the full four years'
1 undertaking has not been completed.
A little comparison of Republican
platform promises with Republican aj
ministrution fulfillments will certainly
ho welcomed by tho Republican organs
which hnve given space to the above
paragraph or which may concur in its
sentiments. Ou the question of sugar
the Republican platform said, “Tho
Republican party favors such protection
as will lead to the production ou Amer
ican soil of all tho sugar which tho
American people uso. ” In carrying out
this promise a sugar schcdulo was
framed that- gave to the Sugar trust ab
solute control of tho sugar market, and
at the request of a Republican senator
tho Republican senators voted against
an amendment to the tariff bill provid
ing for a bounty tt sugar growers.
Of Cuba tho Republican platform
says. “We believe that the government
of Hie United State:! should actively uso
its influence and good offices to restore
peace and give independence to the is
lands. ” How has this pledge been ful
filled? For three months one man, back
ed by tho known wishes and desires of
tbo administration and supported bv a
lot of rnorl cowards, has thwarted
every attempt at recognition of the Cu
ban patriots. “One-twelfth of the Mc-
Kinley administration has passed” and
instead of asserting the supremacy of
the American flag, protecting Ameri
cans in Cuba in the exercise of their
rights and using our “good offices tore
store peace” and bring independence t,o
the island, wo still submit to Spanish
insults, offer charity to wronged and
outrage-d Americans and refuse to recog :
nizo the patriots who are struggling for
freedom.
Tho Republican platform stated that
Republicans “believe in an immediate
return to the free homestead policy of
the Republican party.” But free home
steads havo been lost sight of in tho
mad rush to do the bidding of the tariff
barous.
The Republican platform demands
that “every citizen shall bo allowed to
cast one free aud unrestrained ballot
and that such ballot shall be counted as
cast. ” How well tho Republican party
has complied with its own demand is
shown by the tyranny of Speaker'Reed,
! who refuses to allow members to vote,
j counts votes never cast and overlooks
votes cast against his wishes,
j The Republican national platform
says that Republicans “favor tho crea
| tion of a national board of arbitration
j to settle and adjust differences which
may arise between employers und em
ployed engaged in interstate commerce. ”
j This is ouo of the nation’s most serious
problems, aud notwithstanding the fact
that “just one-twelfth of the McKiu
j ley administration has passed” not one
step has been taken by that administra
tion in this direction.
The Republican party renews the par
ty’s “allegiance to the policy of protec
tion,” because “in its reasonable appli
cation it is just, fair aud impartial,
equally opposed to foreign control and
domestic monopoly. ” The Republican
idea of “reasonable application” aud its
conception of “justice, fairness and im
partiality” are shown in the sugar sched
ule, emphasized by tiie. wool schedule
and made plain to all men in the sub
serviency shown to tho trusts. It frames
a tariff bill that tuxes the cradle and
the coffin, the food and the clothes, the
erstwhile free gospel of salvation and
tho remedies for bodies diseased. It
holds open tho pockets of the toilers
that favored men may run their hands
therein. It confers favors upon those
who are already rolling in wealth and
throws a few stale crumbs to the toilers
of the nation. It prated about what its
tariff law would do for the toilers aud
then framed a law that skims the cream
for tho rich and leaves the skimmilkfor
the poor. This is the way the Repub
lican administration is carrying out the
pledges of its platform. It has violated
every pledge given to the people and
carried out every pledge made to the
trusts aud tariff barons. If the Repub
lican orgaus are proud of this record,
they axe easily pleased.—Omaha World-
Herald.
David U. Remarks.
David B. Hill, deceased, arises to
remark that his “views of party policy
are too well known to need repetition.”
Correct, David the Defunct. Your views
of party poficy are known to be taken
from the iunermost recesses of a hole
into whioh you crawled during the last
campuigu.
Not Yet Illpe.
"Another essential condition of pros
perity,” says the New York Tribune,
“is that it must not be plucked before
it is ripe.” Are we to understand that
we have committed the green persim
mons act as regards the McKinley pios
perity?—Exchange.
Rceil aud the Benate.
So it seems that Tom Reed didn’t
bully the senate much after all. The
Sugar trust seems well enough satisfied.
The senate went a little high on the sug
ar schedule so as to be able to drop in
conference to about the figure they
wanted.
Switzerland is naturally one of tho
poorest lauds in material resources of
any in civilization. It is all mountains
and glaciers, with a few fertile valleys.
Yet so much have the frugal, intelli
gent and iudustrions Swiss made of
themselves and their country that they
show us today the nearest approach to
a model government and the largest
deposits in savings banks of any nation.
In the savings banks of the country
there are $55 to every man, woman and
child in the republic.
I A GOLDBUG ENLIGHTENED.
| Query as to What a Silver RrpoiJlican r<*
Readily Answered.
The Hartford Courant, Senator Haw
ley's newspaper, wants to know a few
things, and, as such a laudable nrnbi
ticn should be encouraged, we hasten to
give The Courant (ho desired informa
| tion. It asks:
What is a "silver Republican," anyway?
Who can expound to us the out of his Jib? How
did it happen, and want's ho liko.andwlu.ro
is ho at? Wlty do the Washington proas agents
and newspaper t-0.-respondonfs persist in tag
ging tho Republican label upon persons who
took a public, formal and docidodly theatrical
leave of tho party a year ago—to its great relief
and benefit—because of their avowed hostility
to its principles and policies?
If the Hartford Conruut will refer to
tho Republican uuiiounl platform of
1892, it will find it declaration to the
effect that “the American people, from
tradition and interest, favor bimetal
lism, and the Republican party de
mand.! the use of both gold and silver
as standard money. 1’ A silver Repub
lican is a Republican who is so thor
oughly American that he stands by
American traditions and American in
terests. lie stood upon tho Minneapolis
platform’s financial declaration and re
fuses to step down at tho bidding of for
eign bosses, who think nothing of Amer
ican “tradition and interest.”
It is a pleasure to he able to enlight
eu an earnest seeker after knowledge,
and, therefore, wo are pleased to inform
The Courant that a silver Republican
is a Republican who is so thoroughly
American that ho believes that a nation
that can make and eufp irtariff pol
icy without the -&id or tdnseut of auy
other natkrn.can make aud enforce a
money policy without the aid or con
sent of tmy other nation.
If the Hartford Courant is not satis
fied with the definitions above given,
The World-Herald will take pleasure in
quoting some more. Many quotations
can be made from William McKinley,
John A. Hogan, John M. Thurston,
William B. Allison and others who are
now or have been leaders of Republic
anism. But tho chief characteristic of
a silver Republican is that he persists
iu thinking for himsolf. —Omaha World-
Herald.
A POLITICAL BIGAMIST.
McKinley Finds Himself -In tho Predica
incut of a Man With Three Wives.
Imagine the embarrassment of our
president when called upon, as he now
is, to redeem conflicting promises made
to opposing parties to secure votes for
his election, says the Cincinnati Com
mercial. First and foremost he is
pledged to whatever Wall street finan
ciers want. They want tho gold stand
ard, and want It bad, and want it right
now. True, they agreed to allow tire
Republican platform to favor interna
tional bimetallism subject to British
oousent, but they say that was the
merest play and that now the election
is over such nonsense ought to be drop
ped. They want “currency reform”
which will aboljish silver dollars and
greenbacks aud substitute for them tho
“sound mouey” cf private bank notes,
with gold ouly ns a legal tcuder.
Those silver Republicans who staid
in the party after Teller and other lead
ers had left on account of the betrayal
of the cause of bimetallism want the
president to keep making motions to
ward an international agreement.
Heuce the presence of Senator Wolcott
to foot at the, shindy in Buck-
Whtfre he met the
Prince of Wales and other friends.
Thou there are the rag money freaks
of tho Indianapolis convention. Our
obliging president tied himself up to
their committee by a pledge to send a
special message to congress asking that
body to abdicate its powers and author
ize him to appoint a little tin congress
on wheels, composed of nine of the
freaks, to enact a law for the inundation
of the land with irredeemable bank
notes.
The president is like a man with
threo wives, each of whom believes
herself to be the only cue and all of
whom persist in being taken to the tho
ater by him on tho same evening.
Oh, what a tangled web We weave
When first we practice to deceive 1
A contemporary prints a long article
on “How to Study an English Cathe
dral.” What does anybody want to
study an English cathedral for?
The news that ex-King Milan of
Sexvia is seriously ill is not surprising.
The ouly wonder is that tho old repro
bate was not dead long ago.
Chicago has 47 new public school
buildings all going up at ouce. New
York cannot equal this, not even Great
er New York.
It required a week, to bury Canovas,
but ouly half a minute to kill him.
The Knockout Hlow.
Ohio is the solar plexus of the Repub
lican party. Now watch the bimetallists
land a knockout blow there this fall.
THE TRUTH V/ELL STATED.
Scarce Dollar# Cheapen Libor and the
Product# of Labor.
The truth of tho financial situation
has never been better stated than in the
following editorial taken from the col
umns of the Covington Star:
It has often been stated by those who
depend upon others for their ideas and
opinions on the money question that the
single gold standard of primary money
must be the best thing for the people,
because most of the bankers and rich
men who possess large amounts of mon
ey are generally in favor of it.
But this is a mistake.
It is not because it is best for the whole
people that these men favor the sing's
standard, but because it is better for
them, aud enhances the value of their
dollars. They care nothing for the in
terests of the people, only so far as their
dollars may be enhanced in value by
the increased demand for them on ac
count of their scarcity in circulation.
The single standard makes a scarce
dollar, and a scarce dollar makes a
more valuable dollar and cheaper prod
ucts of labor.
It is a good tiling, of course, for the
people to get cheap goods, but as 80 to
90 per cent of the people are producers
of marketable goods a much greater
number are benefited by receiving good
prices for their products than are bene
fited by reason of procuring oheap goods.
As the dollars become scarce they be
oome more valuable, and the prices of
farm and other Droducts become lower
and cheaper.
ENCOURAGING TRUSTS.
Tbo Ulngley Bill Fill" tho Bill In That
Kind of Prosperity.
Though tho far prospect of the Diug-
Itiy tariff failed to start tho tidal wavo
of prosperity, as the Republicans pro
dieted it would, thero is no question'
that its effect in the way of (rust en
couragement was instantaneous, says
tho Kansas City Times.
One proof of protection’s power in
trust building is furnished by tho efforts
to organize a tin plate trust. Tin plate
has for several years been subject to a
duty designed to protect the “infant
Industry. ’’
This sturdy infant has fattened ou its
subsidy. Last summer it managed to
pull itself log. (her sons to reduce wages
aud increase prices simultaneously. Still
it considers that the price might he
raised a little more without letting in
tho foreigner. Iu the words of Manager
Wheeler of the Great Western Tin Plate
company:
“Thero is at present a difference of
from 60 con s to 75 cents between the
domestic and (he import price, which
tho trust, if formed, would proceed to
annihilate. In its capacity as about the
heaviest user of steel billets iu tho
country such a trust would gaiu tbo
co-operation of the huge steel plants in
crashing presumptuous pieople who ven
tured to start independent mills.” .
This programme is being carried.yaf.
The trust is heiiig formed' and will be
-gia-tmi active work of crushing compe
tition aud fleecing the public as soon as
the Dingley bill goes into effect. Iu en
couraging infant trusts the Diuglcy bill
will have no equal.
Making a Tariff.
Since the constitution providos that
all bills for creating national revenue
must originate in (he United States
house of representatives, the first draft
of anew tariff iasv must always come
from that house. The ways aud means
committee prepares the hill. Then it is
put before the whole house iu session
and passed. Alter the law is safo
through the l-.ou.se of representatives it
is sent to the senate. It is referred
first to a committee, the senate com
mittee on finance. This committee,
like the house committee, considers it,
makes snch changes as it sees fit aud
then lays the bill before tho full senate.
It is passed by the senate. But iu the
upper house, of course, many changes
havo been made in it and amendments
appended. The house must consider
these and pass them on its own account.
It does not see fit to pass without
change many of the senate’s amend
ments, however, so it asks for a com
mittee of conference.
The senate appoints tho committee of
conference and tho house appoints also
its committee, an equal number of
members of each: house. They confer.
Each sido usually makes concessions
aud the differences are compromised.
A bill satisfactory to tho conference
committee has been prepared. But the
work is not yet done. It is not certain
that the houses of congress will be sat
isfied with the work of the committee,
so the draft of tho law as finally fixed
by the conference committee must go to
each house. It is first given to the rep
resentatives. After they pass it, it goes
to the senate, and on being approved
by that body it is ready for the final
step, the president’s signature. That
affixed, it is a law.
Few private citizens have auy idea cl
the labor involved in making a tariff
schedule. The interests of every manu
facturer of auy kind, every farmer and
every importer iu the country are mors
or less involved iu the duties to be levied
on imports, aud these interests are iu
many cases diametrically opposed to
eaoh other. Every industry goes before
congress and makes its cry. For in
stance, it is to tbo interest of tho inhab
itant of Maine to get oranges and lem
ons as cheaply as possible, while it is
to the interest of the fruit culturist ol
California or Florida to have tho price
of these as high as possible so that peo
ple will buy them. The farmer wants
wool to be protected so the price will be
high; the manufacturer wants it free so
he can get it cheaply.
Tho high gear of tho now bicyoles it
notable. Women’s wheels used to be
geared to only 50 because it was thought
a lady would not have strength to pedal
up hill with a higher gear. Now, how
ever, ladies’ wheels aro frequently
geared to 70, aud the women find they
can chove themselves up hill as easily
as they used to with the low gear. One
pressure of the pedal under the higt
gear makes the machine whirl forward
so much farther than under tho old ad
justment. Tho increased strength which
long practice has given to the leg mus
cles of bicyolists is partly wbat lias
warranted the adoption of increased
sprocket power, but it is also partly due
to the greater perfection and finer ad
justment of the bicycle machinery itself.
Practice makes perfect in making as in
riding a bicycle. If now these expert
makers can only give us au entirely
comfortable saddle and a dependable
tire, they will have reached the climax
of greatness and goodness in bicycle
building.
Lord Kelvin is to be congratulated on
his latest achievement, and civilization
is to be congratulated on possessing
Lord Kelvin. He has invented aud put
into successful operation at Shoreditch,
England, a garbage crematory. Its ac
tion is mainly automatic, by means of
electricity. The lifting aud emptying
are done by automatic electric hoists
which deposit the garbage into cells
where it is burned. The heat of the fur
naces is intense, aud it is increased by
forced draft. This is perhaps the most
interesting part of the process. The air
to produce the tremendous draft in the
furnaces is drawn by pumping ma
chines from the city sewers. Thus the
sewers are ventilated aud their noxious
gases destroyed. The heat produced in
cidentally is used for making steam,
aud that runs dynamos for any firm
wanting manufacturing power.
When the Cuban patriot army was
afar from Havana and in the outlying
orovinces. it was necessary for the 1
Safety of tho capithl that VVeyler shonlil
stay there aud guard it. Now, however,
that the Cubans are at the gates of
Havana, skirmishing with its Spanish
defenders and whipping them almost
daily, it is necessary for - the city’s
safety that Weyler should stay ontsldo
of it, somewhere in tho provinces of
Matauzas or Havana.
The disastrous commercial results of
the war in Cuba appear in many ways.
One of them is manifest iu the recent
shipment of 100 bales of tobacco from
Jamaica to New York. This is the first
tobacco Jamaica ever sent to the United
States, aud it was said to be grown by
refugees who went to the British island
from Cuba.
Oanovas was Spain’s man of iron.
But he was not likewise a man of
progress, or his end might have been
different and Spain might have been
able to hold on to Cuba.
Fi*om Violence Violence Comes.
For his own fame as a statesman
probably the assassination of Canovas
del Castillo was the most fortunate
thing that could have happened just
now. He will go down to posterity with
the halo of a martyr and a great men
.ereaodJiis tent's.
Well, he was neither. He was merely
a scholarly man of some talent who
stuck fast to his mirpose, a bloody and
disastrous one, through thick and thin.
His death filled civilized men with hor
ror. They have ouly sympathy for tho
family thus bereaved of a loved one
. and for the hapless queen of Spain, who
j had learned to trust anil rely on Cano
vas, however ruinous his policy was.
But let ns go baik a year. June 7,
1896, a bomb was thrown into a church
procession at Barcelona. It killed and
injured a number of porsons. Anarchists
had apparently done the deed, or was
it tho work of Cuban sympathizers? At.
any rate 400 persons were arrested ou
suspicion. Those against whom evi
dence was strongest were tortured iu a
manner that wonld have shamed the
red Indians of North America in their
cruelest days. The victims had their
bones broken on the wheel, their feet:
crushed und their necks pierced with
iron collars. The instruments known
iu the days of the Spanish inquisition
never did more horrible work than was
dono on tho bodies of tho suspected
bomb throwers. Their nails were torn
off; they were burned and beaten. From
old time, through the middle ages, in
the years following tho discovery of
America by Columbus, Spanish noble
men aud gentlemen stand before the
world as monsters of bloody cruelty.
The tortures inflicted on the Barcelona
suspects were ordered by tho premier
of Spain, Sonor Canovas del Castillo,
so the friends of the tortured victims
declared and believed. They swore they
would retaliate. “I have avenged my
brothers of Barcelona!” cried Miohelo
Agiuo Golli as Canovas fell.
Buying Kali Goods.
Signs indicate that tho people of this
country have about Worn out all their
old clothes and .are going to get new
ones. The vast wheat crop and its good
prices have given many tho wherewith
lo buy clothes aud whatever else they
need. We may hope the farmer’s boy
and girl will this fall bo able to enter
on that coveted year in college which
had to bo deferred before.
Merchants in some parts of the coun
try, notably in the south, report a pros
pect for brisk fall trade. The action of
several of the southern railroads in fix
ing reduced excursion rates for mem
bers of the Merchants’ association who
wish to visit New York has resulted in
sending a great number of them to that
city and other points in the north. Bos
ton has Merchants’ association,
and buyers are flocking thither.
A Teuuesseo trader who lias visited
the principal towns in his state reports
the business prospect there excellent.
Men from various points from Missis
sippi to Ohio tell tho same story. The
number of wholesale merchants going
from all parts of the country to New
York lo buy their fall and winter sup
plies is reported by mercantile organi
zations to be greater than was ever
known before.
At Santa Rosalia iu the Cuban prov
ince of Santiago was enacted recently a
scene which vividly recalls Byron’s
poem on the ball in Brussels before the
buttle of Waterloo. Iu Santa Rosalia
also “thero was a sound of revelry by
night.” Tho Spanish officers guarding
the town were at a ball attended by the
beauty and chivalry of the town. While
they were dancing merrily, in a mo
ment, without the briefest warning, a
baud of Cubans attacked the reveler’s.
Tho insurgents seized the town and
or captured nearly all the Spanish
officers and private soldiers wbo were
garrisoning the jlaoe. This was easier
because many of the Spanish soldiers,
taking advantage of the absence of their
officers at the ball, had left their bar
racks and were reeling about the streets
or lying around here aud there drunk
almost to insensibility. The Cubans
in this affair were under command of
tho brave and accomplished General
With the emperor of Germany it
seems to be no longer “God and me,”
but now “the czar and me.”
Twenty-seven hundred hapless na
tives were killed in the little skirmish
which Great Britain has just finished
up in the Chitral district in India. But
what does it matter? They were only
weak, ignorant, miserable natives, 1,000
of whose lives were not worth that of
one Englishman. But let us not forget
that Englishmen never tire of casting
it into our faces how cruel we have
been to red Indians and negroes. The
British iu the Chitral seem to have had
a picnic of shooting down natives,
much the same as the Prince of Wales
had in shooting rabbits on tbe Vander
bilt-Marlborouuh estates iu England
THE INCUBUS.
| Corporations Are Invading Indi
vidual Rights.
CRUSHING OUT ALL COMPETTnOIf.
' the A (fgrewloH ftf U’eiUtli (litre Heeomt
I Hvrion.H Menace to the l*er|tulty o#
Oiif Institution* ~Mn*t He l>riven Back
to Tliclr Proper Ilountlarie*.
At tho recent convention of Republi
can league clubs held at Detroit H. M.
Duflield, replying to strictures made
upon corporations by Governor Pingrec,
said, “Corporations aTe good things,
and this country could not get^along
Without them. ” Mr. Dnffieldbas begged
the question and dealt in sweeping
generalities.
When conducted with proper limita
tions, it cannot be denied that corpora
tions are good tilings. In the modern
method of conducting business aud in
dustrial operations on a large scale they
have grown to be important, almost es
sential. factors in the carrying ou* of
enterprises too vast for the scope of in
dividual effort. They are tho creation
usually of general or specific law* and
should be confined wijhbu l.be tefOrdf
their' respective charters. When so
operated, they are not necessarily in
imical to tho public welfare.
It was not against corporations con
ducted after this legitimate manner
that Governor Pingree inveighed. Hla
condemnation was directed against
those combinations of capital which
transcend their delegated functions by
invading tho rights of individuals and
using their wealth and the influences
it brings for crashing out competition,
damming the channels of public policy
*nd destroying the opportunities that
lie open to private enterprise. That the
more powerful corporations all over the
oountry have sinned iu these aud in
numerous other ways is a truth that is
too plain for controversy.
Their aggressions have been increas
ing as their wealth multiplied during
the past quarter of a century, untill the
task of driving them back within their
proper boundaries has become a neces
sity if this government is to be perpet
uated according to the plan of its
founders. These creatures of the law
have grown to such threatening propof
tions that they have assumed to defy
and override the power that created
them.
Armed with tho power of enormously
accumulated capital, they have gone
into the legislatures- of the states aud
into the halls of congress, aud by the
employment of money and the agencies
which it controls they have caused to be
enacted laws which have legislated
millions into their already plethorio
treasuries. Millions of acres of the pub
lic domain have been given them with
out a cent of consideration, taxes have
been indirectly levied for their enrich
ment, aud bonuses have been voted into
the pockets of their stockholders.
These undeserved and unearned boun
ties have been used by them iu the op
pression, impoverishment and robbery
of the sovereign people who grunted
them a right to exist. They have placed
their agents and their servitors in tlie
chairs of governors, iu tho hcusesof rep- f
resentatives; in the senate chambers, in
the state legislatures, in the cabidet, in
the presidential ihaii 2 abd eVen in those
inner sauctnaries of a people’s rights,
the courts of justice. .
One of these corporations, the Sugar
trust, held the federal senate and the i
house of representatives at bay, demand
ing that they should not adjourn until
they had passed a law authorizing it to
take millions of dollars out of the pock
ets of the tax riddeu consumers. An
other of them, the Union Pacific Rail
road company, marshals the support of
nearly half the senate of the United
States in its efforts to evade the pay
ment of the vast sums it owes the gov
ernment, while more than 100 of these
corporations await like birds of prey
with sharpened talons uud whetted
beaks tho signal that the tariff infamy
has been consummated, so that they
may begin to devour the substance of
tho people.
Until the voters of America have de
livered the deathblow to this hydra
headed corporation monster this will
not be the government of the people, for
the people and by the people for which
Washington fought, Jackson battled
and Lincoln died. This task is a hercu
lean one. But the principles of liberty
and equality which stood behind the
bayonets at Bunker Hill, shotted the
guns that flashed above the ootton bales
at New Orleans and breasted success
fully the battle aud the storm during
the four years of our fratricidal civil
strife live iu the hearts of the Ameri
can people yet. These principles will
flame into action in good time aud with
the power of ballot sweep away this in
cubus that has lain so long upon the
hearts and paralyzed the energies of the
producers.
Kingly rule has been driven from onr
shores. Black slavery has been abol
ished. White slavery and commercial
servitude are the twin oppressors whose
yoke the people are called upon to
throw off. The struggle will be fierce
and long, but the right is sure to tri
umph.—Kansas City Times.
Takes Care of the Trusts.
Senator Teller, who has been some
thing of a protectiouißt himself, says of
the Dingley bill: "In my judgment it
is the worst tariff bill ever passed. The
rates are exceedingly high. It takes
care of all the trusts in the country,
aud, I say it withont offense, the trusts
aud combinations and syndicates have
had too much to do with this bill. ”
Pathetic.
We never understood what real pa
thos was until we took to reading Ly
man J. Gage’s appeals to prosperity to
come on back.
The horse season of 1897 is notable
for furnishing another pacer, the great
Joe Patcben, who hopped his mile in it
minutes 1 % seconds. From present in
dications the two minute pacer will ar
rive before the two minute trotter.
- Sultan Abdul Hamid may well look
out for himself now. Politics has got
into his harem among his menagerie of
wives and it is said the members of the
Young Turk party are making them
selves extremely agreeable there.