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When the growth of the White Caps is checked the American people can devote itself to the denunciation of the Mafia. If Republicans believed the story of Mr. Cleveland's friends to the effect that he will not accept the Democratic nomination for President unless he can make the party platform they would not be bo happy as they now are. Truly, with cheap sugar, the prospective establishment of the tin-plate industry, the auspicious working of Brazilian reciprocity aud the general activity of home industries, free-traders have enough to make them unhappy. The proposition for municipal suffrage for women has been before the Massachusetts Legislature nearly every year for twenty years, but was never set aside by so emphatic a vote as it was in the present Senate last week 12 yeas to 25 nays. A person who cannot see that, the question of State's rights is a large factor in the Italian question as affecting the relations of the general and State governments is too densely stupid to see anything. It is at the root of the whole business. That is a queer clause in the treaty with Italy relative to the- protection of the citizens of the two countries in case of war. The purport of it seems to be that hostilities should not begin until fiix months after war was declared. In case of actual war the provision would not amount to anything. TnoROUGU investigation at New Orleans shows that all of the dead Italians were naturalized American citizens except four, and of these four three were fugitives from justice, two being murderers and the third a robber, while the fourth has no record. This would be a line lot of citizens for Italy to go to war about. The News has an editorial on the Italian controversy in which it quotes "what we said,, among other things," several weeks ago, to prove its foreknowledge, and condescendingly admits that Secretary Blaine is right because he "admirably states our position." The News seems to confound itself with the government. The medium of independent thought and the dispenser of all the news gave its readers columns about the probable increase of the price of pearl buttons, last October, but not a word to inform the public of the decline in the price of sugar nearly one-third. Ergo, pearl buttons are more important to the American people than sugar. There is no suiting some people. Directly after tho New Orleans massacre papers like the Atlanta Constitution found fault because Northern papers did not denounce the affair as roundly as did the Southern press. Now the Southern papers find fault because Secretary Blaine, in his communication to Governor Nicholls, spoke of the murdering as a massacre. Free-trade papers in the East have been so stirred up by Major McKinley's recent speeches that they are declaring that our glass manufacturers are making pressed glass tumblers cheaper than any other manufacturers in the world. What, then, becomes of the GO-per cent, duty which the present tariff act imposes! It cannot be added to the cost to the consumer. Secretar? Blaine's reply to the letter of the Italian minister announcing Ins recall ia ablo and admirable. Written the day after the minister's withdrawal and under circumstances of considerable provocation, it is cold as ice and clear as crystal. Tho points are niade with telliug effect and the position of the United States is justified boyond cavil or doubt.

The indictment of the clerk of Delaware county for taxing excessive fees in the estate of a decedent is a remarkablo proceeding and probably the first case of the kind in tho history of the State. It has long been a matter of notoriety among lawyers that decedents' estates were, in many instances, unconscionably plundered in the way of court fees. Lawyers have been to some extent estopped from protesting because they could not afford to incur the hostility of clerks, but the victims of tho injustice)

have often made loud complaints. The Journal is not informed as to the particulars in the Delaware county case, but probably it does not differ materially from thousands of others. The law prescribes the fees in such cases, but the law is one thing and its administration is another. 'Judges have often been greatly at fault in allowing exorbitant fee bills, and a system of practical favoritism has grown up, to tho great detriment of decedents' estates. The fee and salary law passed by the last Legislature ought to havo contained some stringent provisions on this subject, but it did not, and it left all the present incumbents free to continue their excessive charges to the end of their terms.

TEE ITALIAU COMPLICATION. The brief report of the interview between Mr. Porter, our minister at Home, and the Italian Under Secretary of Foreign Affairs shows quite clearly its drift and outcome. Ou the part of Mr. Porter it was an attempt to allay the irritation of the Italian government by assuring them that the United States would do all in its power to right any wrong that might have been committed, and pointing out the constitutional difficulties that prevented the federal government from interfering in State affairs. On the part of the Italian official it was a protest against pleading local barriers to excuse the national government from executing the laws and punishing tho slayers of those who were legally entitled to its protection. Finally, when Mr. Porter tried to make clear to Signor D'Arco the relations of the general government to the individual States as fixed byithe Constitution, the latter replied with some heat: "We have nothing to do with your Constitution. If it is found wanting you must mend it. You know that it is no constitution worthy of a free, civilized country if it does not insure punishment for crime and protection for the weak." It is not easy to see what Mr. Porter could say to this. From a foreign stand-point it admitted of no answer, and the report does not show that he made any beyond assuring the Secretary that he would report the substance of the interview to his government. It is an undeniable fact that the Italian official put his finger on the weak point in our Constitution. WTise and admirable as it is in the main, and wonderfully well adapted to the genius of the American people, it is conspicuously lacking in such a bestowal of power on the general government as will enable it to interfere in any State for the enforcement of law and the punishment of crime when tho occasion demands. There is no other government in the world whose hands are thus tied, and it is a palpable defect in our Constitution. It has been felt before, and will continue to be felt whenever an emergency arises requiring prompt and effective action on tho part of the general government for the enforcement of law or the protection of the lives of its own citizens or those whom it is equally bound to protect. The Italian Secretary s was entirely right, from his 6tand-point, when ho said: "We have nothing to do with your Constitute; if it is found wanting you must men i it." As one of the Italian papers said., the Constitution could not be set up id negotiations with a third party. Certainly it could not be 6et up in defense of an alleged shortcoming in international obligations. As between the general government and the States, or the government and its citizens, it is the supreme law, but foreign governmentsare not obliged to take any notice of its peculiarities or defects. In any international controversy they look to the government of the United States alone, and expect it to 1 confoim to the requirements of international law, constitution or no constitution. They recognize the government of the lUuited States, and do not care to look further into our Constitution. As another Italian paper says: "When Americans are tho offended parties satisfaction is demanded because the persons concerned are citizens of the Uuion; but when the offeuded parties are foreigners the, Union throws the responsibility upon the offending State." That is the way it looks from their standpoint, and we cannot deny that there is some truth in the statement. If a citizen of Louisiana should be seized and imprisoned in Italy tho United States government would demand his release as a citizen of the Union; but when citizens of Louisiana commit n outrage which brings on an international controversy the United States throws the responsibility on Louisiana. It is pretty hard to reconcile these two positions as consistent aud logical. But while the position of the Italian Secretary was entirely logical, and while he undoubtedly had a technical right to enforce it, even to the exclusion of any recognition of our Constitution, international comity and diplomatic courtesy should have induced him to recognize the constitutional difficulties of tho caso as sufficient to justify the seeming delay on the part of the United States in ascertaining tho facts of the New Orleans affair and deciding upon its duty in the premises. It is true that Italy is under no international obligation to recognize tho constitutional limitations of the United States government, but it would have been no more than polite to do so, and it was truculent not to do bo. The United States has never shown a disposition to evade or repudiate its obligations to other governments, and Italy had no right to conclude or imagine that it would do so in this case. If our methods of procedure differ from those of European countries they are fully as honest in purpose and as satisfactory in results. The Italian authorities had no right to suppose that the United States intended to evade any responsibility or to do anything short of full and complete justice. There was no occasion for haste nor for insisting on a departure from usual methods. Tho Italian government should havo given full weight to Mr. Porter's representations, and should have requested him to inform his government that it recognized tho difficulties in tho way of prompt action and would await the outcomo of such meas

ures as it might adopt, confident that it would do justice in the end. Such a coureo would have been dignified ana friendly, but the present attitude of tho Italian government is neither. It savors strongly of hot-headedness, bravado and bluster.

THE WELSH TIN-PLATE MONOPOLY. The discouraged free-trade organs, with a few exceptions, have ceased of lato to expatiate upon the outrage of the tinplate section of the present tariff, law. The higher price of the workingman's dinner-pail, to use . the phrase of Mr. Cleveland, has fallen into "innocuous desuetude" with the outrage of tho higher dnty on pearl buttons and on raisins, which the evening advocate of free trade in this city told its readers with tearful pathos, just before Christmas, would cut short the American boy's allowance of that old-fashioned sweetmeat. In fact, the lenten period of the free-trader seems to have begun. , When; the Welsh makers of tin-plate, who have so long maintained a monopoly in that article, in view of the development of the industry in this country, declared that they would pay the increased duty imposed by tho tin-plate clause, which goes into effect July 1, they left their.' free-trade champions in this country in. the lurch,, and consigned to the cold, cold grave the last feature of the McKinley law which could be used to work upon tho feelings of the people who have an interest in cheap tinware. A free-' trade paper which evidently has not seen this proposition of the Welsh tin-plate-maker, calls attention to the rise in the article from $3.25 per box in May, 1800, to $4.26 in March, 1891, and attributes it to the McKinley law, but the portion of that law relating to tin does not affect the present price of tinplates, as it does not go into effect for three months yet. Having control of the market at the present time, the Welsh makers resolved to make a good thing of their monopoly1 while It is theirs. Sheet steel is no higher now than in May, 1800, and there has been no advance in tin, but now they are tho only makers. In 1880 tho Welsh makers, without any pretext whatever put up the price of plates from $3.50 to' $9 per box. They simply controlled the market. Now, by an advance of 1 per box, they will, before our factories get at work, make $3,000,000 by advancing tho price, just as they made $10,000,000 in 1880. When a large tin-plate industry is established in this country the Welsh monopoly will be broken, and if it sells plates in this country next year it will be compelled to pay the additional duty, as Welshmen declare a willingness to do. THE KE8ULT INEH0DE ISLAND. J Tho election in Rhode Island on Tuesday indicates that the Republicans are surely reclaiming that State, which ja number of unfortunate causes have conspired to make Democratic, the chief of which were the striking out of the State Constitution of the liquor prohibition amendment after it had been adopted by a three-fifths popular vote, the admission to suffrage of; foreign on the same terms as native-born citizens, and the defection of the ProvidenceMburr nal by a change of ownership, after it had been a stanch Republican paper for more than a quarter of a century. The vote of the Statu since 1880, as between the two leading parties, has been as follows: , : Tear. Hep. Dem. Tluraliy. 1837 16.111 18,005 2.93H-D 1888...W 20.GUS 17,f23 3,173-1 R 188U 10.273 21.2S9 5,Ol8-I 1890 18,9S3 0,543 . 1,560-D 1&91 21.895' 22.243 343 X The last time there was a Republican plurality in the State was in the presidential election of 18S8, aud it is fair J assume that a like result would appeA in a presidential election now. Davk, Democrat, is now Governor, chosen'by the Legislature because the ConstitutiM of Rhode Island requires a majority -of the popular vote to elect. In the las; Legislature, which has just adjourueth the Republicans", had 52 and the Demo crats 57 votes on joint ballot. In the Legislature chosen Tuesday the Republicans have elected sixty-five members ten more than a majority of the whole. The fact that the Republicans have increased their vote 5,G22 since tho election in 1880, and have redeemed the Legislature, while the Democrats have increased their vote only 954, makes the result of Tuesday a Republican triumph in an off year. NO DIVIDED CITIZENSHIP. The United States immigration laws ought to require every foreigner who comes to this country with the intention of remaining or engaging in business to sign - a paper renouncing allegiance to any foreign power and declaring his intention to become an American citizen. It is contrary to the policy of this government to have colonies of unnaturalized foreigners living and doing business here, and it has been demonstrated more than once to be a source of mischief and danger. , We cannot exclude tourists or visitors, and all such should be free to come and go as they please, but persons who come here to engage in business or to work for wages should be required, before being permitted to land, to formally renounce all allegiance to any foreign power, and all right to claim protection as foreign citizens. "-,.... If the Italians who were killed in New Orleans were not naturalized American citizens they had at least practically renounced their allegiance to tho Italian government. They had been doing business in New Orleans for years, and probably would not have dared to return to Italy. It is an outrage for the United States to be called upon by a foreign government to make reparation for the killing of persons who ' had as little claim to foreign protection as these fellows had, but under the rule proposed, if they had been required before landing in New Orleans to formally renounce their allegiance to Italy the present controversy could not have arisen. Some time since British Guiana rejected Canada's proposition for reciprocity, and now it is announced that Trinidad has done the same thing, on the ground that its people cannot afford to enter into an alliance with a country

of 5,000,000 of people and thus discriminate against a nation of 62,000,000 who are now their best customers. The Governor of Trinidad has urged tho legislature to remove the duties on ' American products, in order to reciprocate the advantages which the people of that colony receive from the United States. It is possible that the British Ministry may refuse to sanction such a discrimination in favor of the United States, but the purpose of the government of that colony shows that the Republican.policy of reciprocity is a taking

one. Legislatures and city councils should more very cautiously in dealing with telephone companies m the near future, for the Hell patent expire in lbUi, and then the public should get relief from the extortion now practiced. The claim that telephone service is now supplied at as low a price as the companies can afford, is proven to to all balderdash by the experience of other countries. Now is the time for cities to apply to the telephone companies a little of that squeezing process which they have so liberally bestowed upon a suffering public. SeutiueL .As the Sentinel was the recognized boss of the last Legislature it should have enforced these views on that body. It reduced, the tax on telephone companies from 1 per cent, on their gross receipts to one-fourth of 1 per cent The people would like to knowwhy a Legislature which increased their taxes nearly 100 per cent, did at the 6ame time reduce the taxes of telephone companies 75 per cent.; also, the tax on sleeping-car companies 75 por cent., the tax on telegraph companies 50 per cent., and the tax on express companies , 50 per eut. Perhaps it was in pursuance of the Sentinel's scheme to raise all the revenue by a land tax. If we shall have to go to war the people will rise np and bless ex-Secretary William C. Whitney, who gave the country a righting navy. ' The Memphis Avalanche-Appeal is not correct The building of the new navy : was begun during the Arthur administration, and was well under way when Cleveland became President. As a mat-" ter of fact, Mr. Whitney did little or nothffcg during the first two years of his term, and would have made less progress than he did if the Republicans in Congress had not urged him on and demanded that' policy which made great success possible by establishing home plants for manufacturing steel plates and armor. TnE annual report made at therecent meeting of the American Telephone Company shows that its gross earnings ini800 were $4,375,290, against $4,044,704 WisSO, and its net earnings $2,809,418, while its net surplus is $2,151,011. The regular dividends of tho year were $1,403,913, and the extra dividends $750,000. Ifj in this connection, the report would state the amount of cash paid for the stock upon which these dividends are paid, it would have added largely to the public interest therein. n TnERE was bloody work yesterday, at Moore wood, Pa., when a large body of strikers attempted to raid the Standard coke-works. The sheriff' and his deputies and the men in the company's employ received the rioters with a deadly jrolley; and several men were killed and quite a number wounded. The killed were all foreigners Slavs, Poles and vone Italian. The sheriff seems to have rlpne only his duty, and the rioters invoked the punishment they received. a If - ''That portion of tho mugwump and "Wl i.: 1. 1 L i i giipuiuciaiio prose wuicu lius uecu hubktaining tho British side of the Behrhig ea controversy need not be solicitous Jt the Presideut and Secretary Blaine fll represent the United States with dighified ability in the Italian controversy. Both are Americans. '"hr fact that the accidentally Democratic legislatures of Michigan and Wisconsin are trying to force the adoption ofrftho discarded method of electing presidential electors by representative districts is full confession that the Democrats do not hope to carry those States in 1892. ."''Tne Republican House of the Connecticut Legislature having ascertained that the Democratic Senato would not agree to submit the question relative to the canvass of the vote to the Supreme ; Court, has adjourned until November. AL bulletin issued by the Purdue Uni'yerity experiment station, on 'Smnt in Oats," estimates the annual loss on the oats crop in this State from this cause at 10 per cent. The -following is given at a preventive: ' The seed to be nsed la p.ut Into scaldlnc water at 135, for five minute, and then tspread out and dried. Tho .grain dries rapidly Irooi being po warm when removed from the water. The water may, without harm, be as hot as 1453 when the seed is tlrst put in. which will allow for -the cooling that necessarily follows, but if th temperature falU below 13'J3 th eed must be left in lonjfer than tlve miuutes. From a half bushel to a buahel of oats can be treated at one time by usimc a tub for the hot water and a coflee-aack to hol.1 the.Reed The eed should be stirred while in tho water, bo a to heat it evenly, beed can be treated with equally pood results any length of time before sowing, as may be niont convenient. Such a preparation of the seed will Insure a crop practioally free from smut, and, in consequence, a proportionally larger harvest. Beside the Increase due to the removal of the frmut, there will be a more vigorous growth and a considerably heavier yield, comiuic entirely from tho beneficial influence of the hot water. If the oats crop in this State can be increased more than 10 per cent by eo simple a process, it is well worth trying. In 1890 the crop was very light, being 15.5C6.207 bushels. It is estimated that, without Finnt. it would have been 17,295,785 bushels. In other words, it is estimated thai smut destroyed 1,729,578 bushels of oats, which, at '85 cents a bushel, would have brought $605,352. Such a sum is worth saving. While the men who compose the governing power of some of the leading religions organizations resist with all their masculine might the entrance of women into the pulpit, others are leas governed by inherited prejudice and willingly make place for women who give satisfactory proof that they have a vocation for the ministry. Not many women receive the call to preach the gospel, but to some it has come unmistakably, and these are so acceptably fulfilling their mission that the barriers that have stood in the way of such ministrations are gradually being broken down and the way made smooth for others who may follow in their footsteps. In the United States the women whoareregularlyordained ministers and in charge of congregations now number scores, perhaps hundreds. The majority of these, perhaps, belong to the sects classed as unorthodox, and also as moro liberal, but this is the misfortune and the fault of the other denominations, aud there are many notable exceptions. Among

these may be mentioned the Rev. Anna. Shaw, of Washington, D. C, who is a. thoroughly orthodox Christian, was graduated from Boston Universitr School, and is a regularly ordained minister in the Methodist Protestant Church. She is a woman of high character and fine oratorical gifts, and the association of women whose guest she is honor themselves in paying tribute to one whom they rightly call a representative woman. The woman's building at the world's fair, the accepted design for which was made by a Boston girl, is to be of the Italian renaissance order. This was all right a few days ago, but in view of recent events do the women want an Italian renaissance building? They ought to think of this without delay. , If the Washington Wimodaugbsis, whoso

accomplished president is beingentertained by the Propyla;um ladies of this city, will nut have its ridiculous name changed by special act of Congress, perhaps it can be persuaded to get married, and so accomplish the desirable end. And now comes a denial of the statement that Rev. Dr. Mendenhall. of Cleveland, claims to be the Author of the "Breadwinners." Somebody deserves a secero reprimand for circnlating such reports and getting us all worked up, only to be cast into gloom again. BUBBLES IN TH AIR. Positively Negative. Biggars Your wife she ah is a woman of pretty positive opinions, is she not! N. Peck No; they are generally negative to any opinions I may advance. Different. Yabsley I can't conceive of a man falling so low as to e trite a woman. Miss Laura There would be no harm In it, if he happened to strike her favorably. ' The Answer of a Tyrant Tommy All potatoes have eyes, don't they, pawl r Mr.Figg-Yep. Tommy Sweet potatoes, tool Mr. I'igg Oh. that's so. No; I guess not Tommy (gleefully) Then what is the "great eye yam" that we read aboutl Mr. i'igg Yon go to bed. Unconsidered Trifles. The pavement that led out from Eden was doubtless a Macadam. Courier Journal. There has been a popular impression that It was composed of good intentions. An open-handed citizen the bliad beggar. A well-rounded period A suggestion for house furnishing Oriental hangings should be put up with a bowstring. The hypnotism plea of defense for murderers can be very easUy tested. Provide the prisoner with a good, stout rope and let him be ordered by a bypnotizer to hang himself at a certain hour. If ho obeys orders his Innocence may be considered proven. AB0DT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Secretary Blaine has recovered from his indisposition and looks very well. The familiar gray uniform of letter-carriers will soon disappear, aud a new shade of cadet blue will take its place. The contract for furnishing two suits each to the 10,070 letter-carriers throughout the country at $15, without bat or cap, has been awarded to a Baltimore firm. Thackeray did not like lecturing as Dickens did. He used to say, "Bang this lecturing; it is the most unsatisfactory tiling to me you can imagine. If any audience does not applaud me I feel mortified because 1 hav failed to interest them. If they applaud m-s I feci like a successful mountebank, it is equally uncomfortable both ways." Mu. Dana's salary, as editor of the New York Sun, has been increased from $25,000 to $50,000 a year; that of his son Paul from 150 a week to 15,000 yearly; and a similar increase from a like sum was made for Chester Lord, the managing editor. Business Manager Lallan's stipend was increased to $25,000 a year. The Sun is said to have made more money last year than in any other j-ear of its existence. Mr. Arthur Leary is thetold-time bean and predecessor of Ward McAllister as 'a leader of New York society. He is a tall, distinguished person, and has a host of friends, nil of whom know from whom he inherited his money. On one occasion a wild Westerner at Saratoga attempted to cast a slur upon the New Yorker by asking him who made his hat "My honored father, sir," replied the old beau, "and I am proud to wear a hat of such excellent make." Rider Haggard, who has just returned from Mexico, says "the climate is very trying thin air and insufterable heat And the insects! The air swarms with thera mosquitoes, 'jiggers,' a kind of tick they call 'garapata and 1 don't know what more! -They made life a misery, and you couldn't even sleep at night for them. 1 have plenty of material-for rdy story. I shall take the time of Cortez to tell it in, as 1 believe that Mexico was more civilized then than it has ever been since." TnE biographer of Emma Abbott in Minneapolis utilizes this among other incidents in her careen On one occasion an overzealous woman declared earnestly to the songstress a doubt whether any stage star "ever lived with the man she married," to which Abbott replied: "Then, madame, behold me, I have been on tho stage for liftcen years,' during half of which time I have been the wife of the gentieman at my side, not half so good as he deserved, 1 admit, but at least sharing a fidelity and devotion none dare question." A correspondent of the New York Recorder, who called upon the venerable Isaao Pitman, the inventor of phonography, at his home in England, recently, has this to say of him: "Considering his age (eighty), Mr. Pitman is indeed a unique man. In his habits he is almost asoetic. for neither wiue, beer nor spirits, fish, flesh nor fowl passes his lips, tor many years he worked sixteen hours a day. and it was not until he was fifty that he allowed himself the slightest holiday. Even now ho works twelve hours a day, but takes a midsummer rest, generally in Switzerland." Twelve seniors from the Johanneum College, in Hamburg, made a pilgrimage to Friedrichsruhe a few weeks ago in the hope of peeing Bismarck. The ex-Chancellor heard of their presence ou the castle grounds, sent for the young men and invited them to drink Khein wine with him. For almost an hour the Prince talked to the young men of bis own student day a and gave them good advice as to what they should do after entering the university. The Prince cautioned them especially against incurring debts. The young men were delighted with their reception. Whek April flowerets greet the sight And apple trees give blossoms birth. The ioet pale liegin to write And works the spring for all it's worth. -New York Herald. THE NEW TAX LAW. The increased tax is simply the interest you will have to pay on the ten million the Democratic party managers have mortgaged the State for. Lawrence burg Press. It will hardly be worth while for the Democrat party in this State to try to catch the farmer vote at the next election. The effects of the new tax law will then be fully appareut, and it will be evident, among other things, that it was by no means' a xneasnre ot relief for the farmers. Monticello Herald. The Democratio papers are now busily engaged in argument to show that the new assessment law will not increase anybody's assessment, and especially the assessment of real est tte. There is one thing very certain, and that is, that the law was intend

ed to produce that very effect; and if it does not cause tax-payer, and especially owners of ri al estate, to pay a good deal more money than heretofore in the shape of taxes it will Inmertably fail to accomplish the chief purpose of its enactment Lafayette CalL Corporations have never made moro money, or farmers less, than in the past few years. Yet the Democratic Legislature selects the farmers to pile up taxes on, and lets the big companies and saloon-keepers down easy. After a Democratic Legislature always comes a day of judgment Kushville Republican. The last Legislature refused to make tho railroad corporations pay their share in the increase of State taxes. It also refused to raise the tax on saloons to the high-license basis of many other States, which would have made a larger increase in the State's revenue. Instead, the new tax law imposes thu entire burden of 6 per cent increase in assessment upon owners of real estate, falling mostly upon farmers. It remains to be seen how ranch longer the people of the State will submit to this species of legislation. Winchester Journal. Which way the tax-payer looks he is confronted with a proposed increaso in his taxes. The late Legislature raised the rate of State taxation from 12 cents to 18 cents. The object of this increased rate was to provide for the increased expenses of the State under Democratic administration and for tho interest of the large State debt made by Democratic legislatures. The LegisUturo attempted to disguise this object by denominating the G-oents increase a tax for the benevolent institutions of the State. It matters not by what name the rate iscalled the pocket-book must foot the bill. Besides the increased rate of taxation forStato purposes, the new tax lnw proposes to assess all property at its real value. This law is, of course, .intended to cover all species ot property, but there will be no change in its, operations. The man who has money, bonds, deposits and other evidences of property will be able to conceal them largely as before, while the man whose personal property and real estate is in sight will continue to bear the burden of taxation. Attica Ledger.

THE ITALIAN EPISODE. FAVA'snoteis so entirely- un warranted as to indicate that Rudini, the now Italian Premier, is making a play in Italian politics and seeking prestige by (hawking at the American eagle. Memphis AppealAvalanohe. Italian immigration to the United States' has come to be regarded as almost an unmixed evil, and any readjustment of the relatious between Italy and the United States ought to result in the very strictest regulation of immigration from the former country. Kansas City Star. The present difficulty is due to the impetuous nature of the Italian, and the lack of experience of di Rudini, the new Prime Minister. There is evidently some of tho Born bastes Furiso in bis nature, which has fonnd vent in this recall of Baron Fava. Youngstown (O.) Telegram. TnE situation is serious only because it appears that Italian affairs are in the bands of men unconscious of their responsibilities, and unfit for their duties. They may not punish assassination at home, bnt ther must understand that this viceof Italy will not be tolerated in this country. Louisville Courier-Journal. It is pity N that as Baron Fava returns homeward he cannot take every member of the Mafia with him. We have no use for them here. Some of them were killed, and we mnst settle; but we may enact 6ucb laws as will minimize any chance of such another atrocity as was perpetrated at New Orleans. Chicago Times. If Southwestern bandits of the Jesso James stripe were to settle in a foreign land and meet tieath at the hands of an enraged populace, this country would scarcely go into spasms over the event although it would be eminently proper that the facttj should be inquired into. And to this exact point we must hold Italy. Minneapolis Tribune. It must be admitted by every candid American who tries to get the Italian point of view that a situation which allows the subjects of Italy to be killd in Louisiana, and leaves the punishment of the murderers and the reparation for the wrong wholly to the community which largely approves the killing, is an exasperating one. Buffalo Commercial. The United States can afford to regard any menace of danger from that source the Italian navy) with complacency and silent contempt, and no threat or bluster on the part of the Italian government will affect its attitude in this business. Whllo it will evade no just responsibility, it will not be moved by any premature or rabid displays of Italian rancor. Chicago Tribune. Viewed from any point, the action of tho Italian government it as unwarranted as it is hasty and extraordinary. It looks as if the King or his Premier were in a dudgeou, or, as has been hinted, the move was designed merely for home political buncolne. To the United States It is hardly to be regarded as courteous, and might possibly be construed into an affront. New Yoric Herald. Italy has no grievance against us in the Mafia matter which would stand a moment's serious examination. The question of the nationality of the assassins, as has often been pointed out had no more to do with their taking off then had the color of their hair ortbecutof their clothes. Native American malefactors in their place would , have been treated the same. St. Louis Globe-Democrat It is to be inferred from the radical con rue adopted that there is in Italy a popular sentiment regarding the New Orleaus affair, of the strength of which the Ainericau public has not been made aware. The Italian Ministry is new to power. Its hold ou public favor cannot be firm. Premier di Kudini apparently finds a demonstration of fervent patriotism helpful, if not essential, to his continuance in authority. New York Recorder. It is not yet clear that any one of the murdered persons was a subject of the King of Italy, and until it be determined that one or more of them were subject to the Italian monarch no consideration of State or national reparation can be had. The. action of Premier Kudini was rash, and it likely to be followed by semi-apologetic explanation, or it may be that the action of Baron Fava was not warranted by the instructions from his government. Somebody representing Italy has blundered. Chicago Inter-Ocean. FKEE SLGAR. TnE McKinley bill has settled the sugar question "for keeps." as the boys say, and has settled it favorably to the consumer. Chicago Inter Ocean. The country enjoys for the first tmo in many years the privilege of using free sugar. The remission of the tax on that commodity will insure to its consumers a saving of rifty miilion dollars a year. Kansas City Star. It will be felt by every family aud every person, by the poo- more than the rich, and by labor more than by capital. It will give) this country the cheapest sugar in the world and free sugar for the tlrst time in ita history, for the McKinley tariff removes the duty on sugar when even the free-trade tariff ol 1842 and 1& imposed it Philadelphia Press. . Sugar has been reduced 2 cents a pound by the McKinley law. For this benefit that comes home so to the entire population of the country, the 'people are indented to the wisdom and courage of tho Republican party. Bu1; for this party no such immense, reduction in price would have been madt in fact, none would have been made at alL Jet credit and praise be given where it is due. Detroit Tribune. The abolition of the duty on sugar will affect every family in the United States to a greater or less degree. It was tho work of a Republican protective tariff Congress, and was opposed by an almost solid Democratic vote in that body. Free sugar was and is one of the triumphs of the McKinley bill, and "McKinley prices" for suar will make the new tarid bill popular beloi 1S.C New York Pre.