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•Commissioner Glessner and his Geor
gia car have become a live issue in the
west.
Ben Butler’s effort to cut a figure in
this campaign demonstrate the fact that lip
i- the doadeot duck In the political burn
yard. _
Money for the relief of Jacksonville
continues to How in an increasing volume.
The heart of a great people has been
touched and there are no bounds to its
benevolence.
The closing years of tbe last century
•were among the bloodiest in history. The
European nations are Increasing their
armies, as if with the intention of making
the last years of this even bloodier.
The anxiety the republicans manifest
lor Judge Thurman’s health is touching
•evidence of their generosity. He must
leave the stump, they say, or die. Does
not his continuing to make speeches in
volve some danger to tlA; life of the repub
lican party also?
■Kansas will be full of forests if the rate
at which trees are being planted is kept up
long. Thirty million were planted last
year. Perhaps about the time Kansas gets
as many as she needs, Georgia people will
"find out from the want of timber that trees
are too valuable to waste.
Mr. Morion’s duties in the present cam
paign are not of a character to attract at
tention to him; consequently he is never
mentioned in the newspapers, hut he no
doubt knows wbat is expected of him, aud
is attending to business.
Gen. Hovey, the republican candidate
lor governor of Indiana, has declined a
joint discussion witli Col. Matson, the
democratic candidate, on the ground that
such a discussion would ‘‘solidify the par.
ties.” This is a confession that in the
general’s opinion Indiana is a democratic
state.
Clara Barton has devoted her life to
the alleviation of human suffering, and
now that she is an invalid and can no
longer minuter to the afflicted, she sends
SI fWVI tn Mtt tb» SMtnlii of .T*t»V«Anv!!|i
No wonder the world honors and loves
this noble woman.
The Telegraph has received an invi
tation to attend the Chattahoochee Valley
Exposition at Columbus, and will not fail
to be represented at what promises to be
one of the very best o f thayear’s illustra
tions of southern progress, in one of the
liveliest of southern cities.
I*' the calibre of the two candidates may
be estimated by their ietteis of acceptance,
intelligent republicans will have to admit
that they have a frail dependence. There
is a long, long drop from the letter of
President Cleveland to that of Harrison,
It must be said, in common fairness, that
Harrison probably did tbe best he could
A Jersey oyster sloop was run down
by the United .States war ship Boston, the
other day, and badly damaged. There
Could be no better evidence of tbe iui
proven,ent of the navy in democratic
hands than is afforded by this incident.
Under the old regiuit, the Boston would
Infallibly have gone o tbe bottom.
Gen. Jlnrrlson's Letter.
The first impression created by Gen. Har
rison’s letter of acceptance is that thy gen
tleman is at great pains to pro -e himself
a good ret ublican. He goes over the
Chicago platform carefully, approves it
paragraph by paragraph, and where possi
ble states that his past record is in har.
mony with the platform’s demands. As
no one has ever doubted that Gen. Harri
son is a republican of the most orthodox
pattern, with no original ideas that might
excite admiration or criticism, his labor in
this direction may be said to have been
superfluous.
Gen. Harrison does not depart from his
strict conformity with tbe common repub
lican standard in his arguments against the
democratic policy. He merely repeats, in
good form and with literary skill, those of
his party press and republican orators in
congress.
Recognizing the fact that the question of
tax reduction is the leading issue of the
campaign, he endeavors to show that the
democratic policy would inevitably lead
to free trade. The Mills bill, he says, is a
step in that direction, and, if supported by
the country, longer ones will follow. Gen.
Harrison does not explain howthesupport
of the country is to be obtained for the
subsequent steps, even admitting that they
would be in the direction of free trade, if
the first should bring about the depression
and distress so confidently predicted by
himself an.l his party. They could not be
taken withont the support of the country,
gained by the good results of the first. The
fate of tlie parties may depend on the re
sults of that first step. The demo
crats bring solid arguments and facts
drawn from experience to show
those results would be wholly good. Gen*
Harrison and his party are content to reply
that the democrats mean free trade. They
refuse to remember that the democratic
policy in its most perfect expression was
not free trade, but low taxation, and was
so universal! - acceptable in its effects that
the tarifi question was taken out of poli
tics, all parties uniting to uphold it. To
these facts Mr. Blaine, beyond Gen. Harri
son the leader of his party, bore witness
when he wrote three years ago:
The principle of the tariff of 1816 seemed for
the time to be so entirely vindicated and ap
proved that resistance to It ceased, not only
among the people but among the protective
economists, and even among the manufacturers
to a large extent. So general waa this acquies
cence that in isd6 a protective tariff was not sug
gested or even hinted at by any of the three
parties which presented presidential candi
dates.
In 1857, after ten years’ trial of the dem
ocratic tariff, nil parties united in congress
to make the rates still lower, it is fair to
argue from the position ol Gen. Harrison
and bis party that they fear for the special
interests from whose wealth they mainly
derive their strength rather than for the
prosperity of the country at large. Other
wise they would not be so afraid of the
gradual but certain approach to free trade
which they say will follow a slight reduc
tion of tbe tariff.
Gen. Harrison appeals to the fears of
workingmen in the usual republican way.
lie assumes that larger importations of
foreign goods will follow a lowering of the
tariff, and that “lower wages
must be accepted as the inevita*
ble result.” Gen. Harrison must
know that former reductions of the tariff
have not caused the wages of workingmen
to decrease, but, on the contrary, the period
of the lowest tariff is notable as that when
wages advanced most.
Gen. Harrison also follows the fixed
republican policy of belittling the dangers
arising from the surplus and excessive
revenue. The administration is charged
with having “magnified and nursed the sur
plus,” by depositing money in banks instead
of buying up bonds. The question involved
is whether it is better to put back in the
channels Jof trade money unjustly with
drawn from them by depositing it in sol
vent banks, with the amplest security, or
by paying an exorbitant and ever increas
ing premium on the government’s own
evidences of debt. In its anxiety that
trade shall not be embarrassed, tbe treas
ury has pursued both methods, having
bought many millions of bonds, and is now
offering a premium of 29 per cent, for
them. It could not buy more liberally
without raising the premium still higher.
General Harrison’s criticism on this point
is weak.
From the free whisky declaration of the
platform the republican candidate makes a
distinct back-down, and here is the weakest
part of his letter. He attempts to palliate
the atrocity of the platform’s choice by
saying, in effect, that if entrusted with
power the republicans will so increase ex
penditures that the country will not be
forced to choose between a high tariff and
free whisky. Pensions are indicated is s
means of getting rid of much of tlie money.
It is not necessary to follow Gen. Harri
son in his dealing with other subjects
touched upon. They are merely inciden
tal to the main question in dispute, and
upon some of them the parties are agreed.
He will be judged by what he says of the
methods of taxation and expenditure, and
this part of his letter will not strengthen
hia party. He leaves it as plain as before
that the Republicsn party love* taxation
for its own sake, regarding it as a blessing
to the people, and will indulge in any ex
travagance necessary to keep its rate high.
It is impossible to Wliere that a party and
a caudidat* professing such principles can
be endorsed by the sensible American peo
ple-
General Harrison step* about on his
olatform with a careful precision that in
dicates a fear he may step on a rotten
plank and skin hia leg.
President Cleveland's Acceptance.
When Mr. Cleveland was first nominated
for President lie accepted in a letter which
was remarkable for its brevity. His sec
ond nomination demanded quite a differ
ent sort of a response.
The Democratic party and President
Cleveland are now on trial before the
country, and it was expected that the let
ter of acceptance would discuss at some
length the great political issues of the cam
paign.
Tlie President meets this expectation in
the admirable paper which we laid before
our readers yesterday. When he prepared
it he seems to have had in mind that prac
tical maxim which he uttered in his last
annual message: “It is a condition which
confronts us—not a theory.” These words
might have been used as a text for this
address of the President to the people of
the United States.
The great political problem of the day
is the equalization of the burdens of the
government and the reduction of unneces
sary taxation. To this question
“unmixed with baser matter,” the Presi
dent devoted his last annual message and
it is the chief topic of his letter of accept
ance. The message was a bold and distinct
declaration of tlie true principles of taxa
tion and pointed out the line along whicli
reform should progress. Tlie message made
the issue for this campaign. It has been
accepted all over tlie country by both
parties os the declaration of democratic
policy.
In his letter of acceptance President
Cleveland again calls the attention of the
country to the evils of the present tariff
and again suggests • remedy for them. He
sets forth in his most powerful style tlie
depressing effect of an enormous surpiuB
in the treasury, which, he says, “consti
tutes a separate and independent menace
to the prosperity of the people” by with
drawing from circulation a large part of
the medium of exchange, thus impeding
commerce, shackling enterprise and cramp
ing every department of business and labor.
He utterly repudiates the doctrine so
often proclaimed by the apologists of tlie
present tariff, that insidious and indirect
methods of taxation can excuse extortion.
On this point the message is at direct issue
with a recent declaration of the
republican candidate for Pres
ident. The pasP record and pres
ent attitude of the Democratic party to
ward workingmen are clearly set forth
The tariff jiolicy advocated by President
Cleveland and tlie Democratic party pro
poses in raising revenues for tlie support of
the government to “concede such encoUr-
ngi-nu'iit ami advantage to the employes of
domestic labor as will easily compensate
iny difference that may exist between
the standard of wages whicli should , be.
paid to* ourTaHCTirfg TflftT "IfM" rate’
lowered in other countries.” But the
Democratic party proposes to do more,
arnitipn mnwiiing thia advantage to home
labor it would widen the field for Amer
ican industry by the introduction of
cheaper raw materials, thus giv
ing steady employment and
increasing the demand for
labor. The President shows how labor has
been ihe least protected commodity under
a system of taxation which asks for pro
tective duties in the name of labor. The
domestic workman has been brought con
stantly into competition witli cheaper
labor, either imported for the purpose or
which drifted to our shores in the almost
unchecked flood of immigration. The ex
clusion of panper labor is one of the re
forms which the President urges. In other
words, the aim of the Democratic party is
to give the working man the benefit of the
proper adjustment of the tariff as well as
the manufacturer, and to restrict immigra
tion so that he will not be brought into
competition with that pauper laber which
has been in large demand among protected
manufacturers in the north.
No part of the message will strike the
country with more force than the merci
less attack on the trusts, or conspiracies
under a new name, as President Cleveland
ctlls them. They are not only the legiti
mate children of -the present tariff, but
they find their only champions in the Re
publican party.
These words will strike all impartial
minds with great force: “Such cmibina-
tions have always been condemned by tlie
Democratic party. The declaration of ita
national convention is sincerely made and
no memuer of our party will be found ex
cusing tlie existence or belittling the per
nicious influence of them devices
to wrong the peoplj.” A
notable contrast will ar.se instantlv
in the mind of every intelligent
reader of those words.
The letter of acceptance takes rank with
the President’s messsge as a maaterfnl ap
peal for honest taxation and economical
government. The message laid out the
lines for the pending campaign; the letter
of acceptance will give fresh enthusiasm
and vigor to the party which, under the
lead of President Cleveland, is destined to
triumph in November.
Dangerous Political Influences.
The last President whom the republi
cans elected declared himself in favor of a
protection that would to free trade. He
apparently looked upon the system of pro
tection as a temporary evil whicli circum
stances made necessary, hut which should
be discarded as s:on as freedom in com
merce beesme possible. Mr. Garfleld was,
judged by this declaration, a more radical
free trader than any democrat now pr mi-
nent in public life. Nor did he 6tand
alone among republicans. It has been
only a few years since Senator Sherman, in
an official report, likened customs re
straints upon the interchange of com
modities to tlie dealings' of the
robber knights of the Rhine
in the middle ages, who sustained their
troops of armed retainers by levyiog black
mail on peaceful commerce. Even Wm.
D. Kelley is on record as in favor of free
raw materials, as is almost every republi
can of prominence whose political career
goes back a dozen years. The last re
publican President in office mo.e than once
urged Upon congress the necessity of reduc
ing tlie war tariff, and in 1883 a republi
can commission recommended that it be
cut down one-fifth.
Now, the republican party in convention
declares that the war tariff must stand,
claiming that even tbe smallest reduction
would inflict injury upon the country and
degrade its labor. A measure providing for
a reduction of only 7 per cent, isdenounced
by the party press as the work of rebel
brigadiers, seeking to advance British
interests, and is refused even consideration
by the republican Senate. The so-called
leaders of the party, whose position on
this question of taxation was only a few
years ago not greatly different from that
now occupied by the democrats, have
come under influences that have caused
them to abandon their convictions and
stultify their record.
The influences that have wrought this
change form the most dangerous element
in American politics. They seek to con
tinue indefinitely the use of the taxing
power of the government as the principal
means in the accumulation of vast
private fortunes—to make it more
a factor in private business than a grant
by tlie constitution necessary to raise
money for public use and lim
ited in its scope. The power of these
influences is illustrated in their domina
tion of one of the great parties and in the
desperate fight it is making for power. If
that fight is successful we may expect to
see ia our country the drift yet more rapid
from American to European conditions. It
used to be considered the greatest strength
of our republic, tlie surest guarantee of its
s ifetv, that ia it property was widely dis
tributed. There were no immense fortunes
..m” erlrisure class; iTo pez , - ! * * 1
antry bound lo the soil by their
poverty and hopeless of advance
ment in the hit. her walks cf life.
All were cjntent, because there was little
room for jealousy, and uncommon success
the result of uncommon merit or ap
plication.
This condition is being changed by leg
islation that tends to make the rich richer
anil the poor poorer. It lias come to the
time when a man worth only a million in
some parts of the country is no longer con
sidered rich. Millionaires are too common
to be remarkable, and the cities where
they most abound are packed witli pov
erty stricken men.
Such cannot be a healthy state of afiairs.
It is unnatural and unrepublican, but If
the legislation which has produced it is not
modified, it will grow worse and the
state of our society will approach nearer
to European models. If the trusts and
monopolies and like manufacturers of
millionaires and paupers, in their present
stage of development, can prevent the
withdrawal of any part of the bounties
now paid them, they may be expected to
do what they please hereafter.
It is raid that the $12,000 donation for
the Jacksonville sufferers came from Mr.
George Law, a well-known man-atiout-
town in New York who is worth several
millions. Mr. Law sent the money to
Mayor Hewitt by his agent and ordered
that it should be announced as coming
from "an American.” Mr. Law was writ
ten up extensively a few days ago because
he “got on a spree” it Saratoga and gave
away several thousand dollars’ worth of
diamonds to some very disreputable com
panions. lie has found a better use for
his surplus cash, and hia splendid chsr.’ty
atones for his former foolishness.
A Chancellor for the State University,
The University of Georgia will soon
resume its work. The university is-still
without a chancellor. We are confident
that this fact will injure the prospects of
the institution for the coming academic
year. The affnirs of the university need
the direction of a chancellor; and tbe
duties of the office cannot be satisfactorily
performed by a temporary or ex-olficio
executive. There ought to be a chancellor
who can work and plan for the future of
tlie university as no temporary official pos
sibly can.
Besides, the professors have a quite suf
ficient burden already, and it is requiring
too much to make one man as.*nine the
general supervision of the university and
| its various branches and at the same
i time attend to the demands of a particular
I chair. What action will the trustees take
! at their approaching meeting? It is the
almost universal wish of the friends of the
university Jhat they shall elect a chancel-
| lor. To find a man who will give satisfac
tion will not be an easy task os the trus
tee* have learned by experience.
Why not try to get Dr. J. L. M. Curry?
nc lias resigned his office as minister to
Spain and will sail for home next week.
He is in every way suited for the chancel
lorship. He is a native of Georgia and
though he has won fame in two other
states his love for Georgia has always re
mained fresh and strong. A great part of
! ilia life has been devoted to educational in-
' terests. His tastes as well as his talents fit
! him in an especial degree to be an efficient
' ami popular chancellor. We have no
' means of knowing whether Dr. Curry
would accept the position or not, but we
1 are quite sure that hs would make a model
‘ chancellor.
A Creator of Opinion.
The Philadelphia Ledger, which is an
independent protectionist paper wijh re
publican leanings, in discussing the “dis
integration of the solid south,” says, in ef
fect, that the south will become republican
just in proportion as it becomes rich.
“There is nothing else so selfish as cnpL
tai,” it says; “nothing else so influential
in creating opinion.”
Mr. Childs could not have stated tlie
sources of republican strength in this cam
paign more strongly or succinctly. Back
of the party is an enormous capital, in the
hands of comparatively few men, jealous
of the privileges which have enabled it to
grow so rapidly, utterly selfish and witli an
enormous power in “creating” opinion. As
tlie Ledger says in another part of its ar
ticle, capital makes of taxation a “purely
business matter,” and it is only business
to get out of it as large a profit for itself
as possible. It does not consider the rights
or wrongs of the people who pay tlie
taxes. That would be a question of poli
tics, or statesmanship, or simple justice—
not of business.
The power to "create” opinion has for
some years been used with wonderful suc
cess in a business way. The men who
wield it, though comparetively few in
numbers, have so arranged tlie
laws that they not only
escape their proper share of the
burdens of taxation, but recoup Lorn their
poorer fellow-citizens uauch more than
they pay out, and take to themselves
the larger part, year by year,of the wealth
produced by the labor of 60,000,000 of
people. It cannot be denied that this is
“business.”
The present campaign will decide
whether the power of capital to “create”
opinion is great enough to control the
country indefinitely, or whether the peo
ple who pay the taxes are able to limit
their contributions to the needs of the gov
ernment. The result, in our opinion, de
pends upon the thoroughness with which
the people are aronsed to the danger of the
situation.
Seeing that, as the Ledger says, capital
is utterly selfish and wealth identified with
republiranism, the attitude of the Itepub-
1 icon-party is peculiarly hose. Its power
to “create” opinion is founded on false pre
tenses. Afraid to fight openly for the
8(>ecial interests under its care, U even de
nies their existence, and while refusing
even the smallest concession to the tax
payer through whose sacrifices these in
terests have grown powerful to “create”
opinion, it alleges that it is only the work
ingmen who are beneficiaries of the high
tariff. In this campaign “utterly selfish”
capital assumes for effect the benutiful
rb of philanthropy.
Railroad Dalt.Ung uud 1‘roUta.
According V> PooPs MatmaH’tlia great
extent of railroad building has itbt pre
vented an increase in profits. Tlie earn
ing! lor INSi were ¥ 1 UI>,<HIO.OI 10 greater
than in 1886; the expenses were only 76,-
000,000 greater, leaving an increase of
33,000,000 in net earnings. The mileage
iocreased 9.7 per cent, and the liabilities
6.2 per cent. Poor estimates that there
were ia the United States at the closo of
last year 149,913 miles of railroad with
$-1,191,562,029 capital and total bonded and
vested liabilities of $8,896,413,214.
Last year railroad building in the south
increased 1,229 miles over 1886 and 1,859
miles over 1884. Earnings for the three
years prior to 1887 in the south were about
$4,000 a mile gross and about $1,300 net.
Lost year showed a great impetus ia south
ern railroad business. It was attributable
to the rapid development of the country
and large investoients in southern lines,
fcoutbero railroads lost year exceeded the
gross earnings of 1886 by $12,304,00-1, and
the net earnings increased by $-1,094,542.
In 1886 the gross earnings of southern
•oads averaged $4,005 per mile; the net
$1,33 i per mile. Last year the gross earn
ings of the roads averaged $4,412, and the
net earnings $1,453, an increase of $119
per mile. On this showing Poor’s Manual
says:
The returns from the loath for 1887, when con
sidered tn connection with the remarkable
activity now being exhibited In all branches of
Industrial enterprise In that section apparently
Indicate that the long-expected era ol prosperity
which has been so confidently predicted for
those states (* approaching. It seems probable
that when tbe next number of tbe Manual shall
be Issued the earnings of these roads will aver
age at least 35,000 per mil*.
A TnrifT Kplgniin,
Gen. Grant was famous for his brief and
pointed remarks. He spoke little and had
the faculty of Baying a great deal in ftw
words. He hardly ever compressed more
truth into one sentence than he did when
he said: “A tariff on raw materials is pro
tection to the foreign manufacturer.” It
is evident that Gen. Grant would approve
the Mills bill if he were now living, be
cause it embodies those principles which
he advocated in more than one official de
claration. No amount of sophiatry can
convince the intelligent voters of the
country that a measure is inimical to onr
manufacturing interests which relieves
from taxation the materials to be used in
American industries. A tax on raw mate
rials affords no sort of protection to capi
tal or labor either. It is a tax on both,
and on every consumer. In some of onr
industries it makes the difference which en
able* foreign competitors to capture mar
kets that would bo ours but for a false
economic system.
General Master Workman Powder-
LY says there are at least a million idle
workmen in the United States. This is un
der a tariff which has as the only reason for
its existence that it gives constant employ
ment and high wages to American labor.
The Georgia State Fair.
Three weeks from next Wednesday th e
annual Georgia state fair will open in this
city. There is every reason to believe that
it will be the largest and most complete
exhibit on of the kind ever held.
The State agricultural society never was
in better condition; it never enjoyed more
fully the sympathies and confidence of the
people. Almost 6ince the gates of
year’s fair closed President Northen b«
been preparing for tlie fair whicli is u ow
almost at haud. He has been among the
people in every part of the suite, and has
awakened a general interest in tlie great
work of tlie agricultural society. Mr.
Northen says that wherever he has been
in Georgia, he has found improved met) ods
of agriculture, a great boom in stock rais
ing and dairying, better returns from land
and labor, and other evidcn.es of a pro
gressive spirit among the farmers. Few
states in the union show a greater variety
of products than Georgia, and it
is the ambition of the management
of the comiug fair to make it
the most representative Georgia exhibit
ever seen. The county contest will engage
from twelve to fifteen of the most pro
gressive counties in the state in a com
petitive show of their resources, and the
triumphs of their induslry and skill.
These alone would make a Georgia fair
well worthy the name. But from every part
of the state there will come exhibits Irom
farmers’ clubs and individuals. The Geor
gia car filled with a great variety
of products is still on its travels in the
west. Commissioner Glessner has exhibit
ed his stock at several great fairs. Geor
gia has by this means been advertised in
the west as she never was before. When
the car returns for. the fair it will he es
corted by a large excursion of western
farm, is who are coming to prospect for
houi.s m (“is state. They will find that
the fair wiq • oar out on a large scale
every p!eu b , m..d- hy the miniature ex
hibit in the ant.
It is probable Unit Speaker Carlisle,
Senator Morgan, of Alatmtn , and Hon.
Frank Hurd will attend the f iir and ad
dress the people. There will be tlie usual
variety of attractions, and all who cume
may be sure that they will be well c«red
for in the city and highly entertained at
the fair grounds. All the railroads have
agreed to give a one cent rate. 1 he state
fairs in Macon have never failed to attract
great crowds, but we expect a larger at
tendance than usual this year.
We have heard of many conversions to
tho democracy during this campaign but
one of the most notable, and we may add
most acceptable, of them all occurred last
week in New York. Mr. Myron Bangs of
Syracuse, who is one of the largest iiinnti-
facturcrs of cement in the country, hail
bcefi a republican for twenty years.
Though he is engaged in a pro-
vinced that the best interests of
the country would be served
by tlie success of tlie Demrcratic party in
this campaign. Mr. Bangs not only be
lieves that President Cleveland’s adminis
tration is lione-t and strong, but is per
suaded that the President and the Demo
cratic party hold correct tariff doctrines.
Mr. Bangs left the Republicsn party, and
walking into the democratic headquarters
in New York laid down his check for $10,-
000 as a contribution to tlie democratic
campaign fund. Mr. Bungs and hi* hand
some check are thrice welcome.
Cat uuet and IIeclasi.uk is selling for
twelve dollars to one of face value. The
d> posits of ote will’ll the company wprks
are the largest aud richest, aud the copper
produced is tlie best in the wurld. The
dividends declared have been immense
year,after year, it would seem that if any
industry could take care of itself—
needing no sacrifices from others to make
it profitable—it would be this. Yet there
has for many years been high “protection”
for the owners of these mines. The fact
that they have sold theii^product for a
long time to come to a syndicate of foreign
speculators, though it might prevent an
immediate decline of the price of copper
if the duty were removed, only furnishes
farther reason why that step should be
taken.
The fortifications bill having becomes
law, the democratic administration will
pioce d to arm the forts protecting our
seaports with the most powerful modern
anil,err. It has already made good pro
gress in building a navy worthy of the
country’s greatness. In about two years
twenty, tire or thir y rte.d vessels of the
best is p-*. armed wuh rifles of erest size
and the highest purer, will lie aliost. Tlie
democratic administration will have to he
kejit in power to insure the proper carry
ing forward of this necessary work, and
the country will show its appreciation of
this fact in November.
Til e M inuesotn rcpubl iesns have queerly
contradictory idea* on the tariff. They
declare in favor of the Chicago platform
and “the American system of protection,
hut at the same time demand that “articles
of prime necessity which «ntcr into the
ordinary consumption of the people’ shall
be placed on the free list. Minnesota re
publicans are evidently democrats in larit*
I'M!-
Congressman O’Neil of Missouri has
leWve to print a tar.ff stsech in the Con
gressional Record. He say* he intend* to
print the President's letter of acceptance
instead of giving any views of hi* own.
This shows that Congressman O’Neil hss
property sized up the President’.- ability
and bll own. He has at lead the talent
requisite to the recognition of a go'el
thing.