Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 33, Number 25, Jasper, Dubois County, 6 March 1891 — Page 7

WEEKLY COURIER, C. DOAKB, lttltHlnr.

INDIANA. HKCKENHAX WYTHE. tie hmoboly Story of a Vary KCK K N II AM WYTIIK wu a miserable man. It was Ills irmly expressed opinion that he was the most miserable H1MI1 o the face of tht: earth since, the days of old Job. Not that he was troubled with boil, or any thing' of that sort. I Soil w o u 1 d have lieen blessings to what lie was obliged to ondure! He fcakl so, Bi nothing made htm mow angry than lor some rudely unsvniathutio person to express a doubt concerning' his wretched condition. His troubles were notof a physical nature; he could have endured anything of that sort and always worn a smiling face. He said his misery was of u mental character; still it made him exeited to tell htm it was all in his niind. Had you met fteckenham Wythe on the street, you would have seen at a planee that he was a miserable man. lie did not wear crape, but he did wear the most dejected countenance ever k'cu on human being. The, pensive look in ids eye denoted sorrow, the drooping corners of his mouth denoted melancholy, the downward twist of his (liort, red mustache denoted woe, the sharp point of his chin denoted a piercing tfrief, the staggerine; cast of Ids thin now denoted shattered hopes, and the vdd disorder of his long hair gave him an ajarct of utter despair. Even alwiut his clothes there was an air of misery; ami still he was a tailor! lie was always followed by a most wretchedlooking dog, that sneaked along with its head down and its tail between its los, and seemed to be continually regretful it whs alive. People carefully turned out for Mr. Wythe upon the street and shivered as he passed, or looked -after him with sad sympathy. People who were laughing Mopped with remarkable suddenness when their eye fell upon him; children avoided him, and excepting- his own wretched cur even the dogs shied away nim hnn and growled. Whenever he entered a pleasant room, he brought a 1 ., it ! " th him that shut out the sunHit . . and it was little short of torture to sten to the melancholy droning of Jiin voice It was torture if one was , -ioreed to endure it a great while. Xr. Wythe was shunned in the house -where he boarded, and Mrs. Spriggs, the : indladjr, aahl she would not keep him if ne were not such remarkably eoud pay, and did not stay in his room sn w i when he was at the house. lie cli' m itpoke of any thing but hi? own aiWry. and the moat trivial things aoMid to the Mountnin of woe beneath which lie was nurieil, .Vow. lieeketihaui Wythe wfi a mau wltohail soured, on women a on aerytibf else. It was little wander, for v "Tn are not usually attracted to n li woebegono beings as Mr. Wythe, and they were not apt to return smiling glances for his sour ones. The women and girls who worked for him in his little shop usually had as little to say to hitn as possible, and he repaid them by only speaking to them in an unusually unpleasant manner as if his customary aianner were not bad enough! XexttoMr. Wythe's boarding-house Mood a little white cottage which had Von purchased br a widow. The widow seemed to be an exception to the usual run of women, for she sat at the window and smiled atlleckcnhamas he passed with his dog1 skulking along t his heels. At first he paid no attention to it, but the widow persisted, and he Was obliged to notice her after a time. Hut he thought she was making -pJrt of him, ami ho returned her Mnttes with his moid, sour glances. Mill the whlow was not daunted, for SAT AT THK WINDOW AKD 8M1LKP. corkscrew curls! Still she has a re markably fine sot of teeth, and she "w. them in a really bewitohiag Wanner." I'oor, unaophlsticatcd Beokenham! He never (.hnuirlif (it niinnlinn tb von. ""R'ncss !- 'l e-" of the widow's parttaular "'arm, ' he wl(lon- eourage was wonderful, r during four long weeks site never led to be at th window day by day ' Mr. Wytlte paaseil, and she con"noed to swap her smiles for hie sour oak, u whn not long before he found imisslf unable to paaa the little white 2aJ without looking for the whlow, w. altkoimh he dki at know it, he

Me retained her position at the window aifHm so effusively, and expressed snen k iemiuioH or ,atwm nana oe mm j .jinrs on the first 1

d continued to smile ution him, i reirrct fr what had happened, that his . ' " SSZr:;; ! b. removed.

"Homely old thing!" exclaimed Mr. 1 Htiger disappeared, and he came nearer ,HH),(1UMl ,rtMt.r reileinptum of Sugar has already n yt he to himself. "Skinny neck and milintr than lie had for ten years. 4eiit. w.th t)remlMn,aperM'e- ' in price: ami when

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would have be terribly disappointed If she luul falkul to W t iter kmI by the window. The widow had a pet eat that wa declined to add a ntMl greater misery to lieckrnluuu Wythe's life, One da r his dj pursued tlu? eat till it ran up a tree. Instantly the widow appeared in the greatest com- for the safety of her IM-t She rushed out at the door, urying

sunny to the aig: "Ho way, air, go way! Oh, he will kill poor 1'ausy! Shoo! Uo way!" She picked up a small stone and threw ft at Uie dog, but, with the usual accuracy of a woman, she managed U hit Mr. Wythe on the leg. Itcckeiiham was not a man given to profanity, so lie dM not swear, hut he lifted up his foot ami said over something, while be hopped about on the other foot. It was really a comical sight, and it was little wonder that the widow tittered as rtlte apologise!, lint the injured man made no reply. Calling: his dog, he moved away down the street, limping slightly, and looking more miserable and dejected, than usual. For several days after this, lleokenham did not glance toward the widow's cottage as ho passed, but when he did venture to steal a look toward it, lie found the widow at the window smiling upon him a before. However, he fancied there was a regretful sadness alMuit her smile. "She's not hucIi a very Imd-looking woman after all," lie told himself. "Indeed, the more I see of her the liettcr she looks. She has a plump figure, for all of that thin neck. She might make a good wife for some man, but a man with so many troubles as fall to my wretched lot has no right to get married." And for several days' after arriving ft this decision, he was still more dejected than ever, if such a thing were possible. One day as he was passing the cottage, the widow came running round the corner and caught him by the arm in the greatest excitement. "Oh, sir, do come quick!" she cried. "She has fallen into the water anfl is drowning! You must save her! Quick, or it will be too late'." 'Some one drowning?" exclaimed Hcckculiatn, the natural chivalry of Ids nature aroused. "Lead the way! I will save her, or perish in the attempt!" He followed the widow around the cottage till they came to a hogshead, half sunken in the ground, and used for the purpose of catching rain-water to use for washing purposes. The hogshead was half full of water, and in the water the widow's pet kitten was swimming round and round, vainly seeking to escape, ISeckcnhnm uttered an exclamation of amazement and disgust. "Is that what you want me to rescue?" he demanded. "Oh, yes, yes! replied the widow, Hasping her hands in agony, ami look ing at him appealingly. "have her, and I will do any thing in my power to repay you any thing; He could not resist such an appeal as that, so he hung; himself over the side of the lwgshead and reached down for the kitten. In some way he lost bis Italance and fell into the water head first. Then 'H-H-IIKKK 'SHOKK-OC-CONr-OUXllKIl cat!" the whlow hhowed her heroism, for she caught him by the heels and dragged him out. He had seisted the unfortun-drowneduas-TcMi.p gasped for breath, looking more miserable Ui an eer larfore in all his life. Finally he managed to gurgle: "H-h-here 'shore c-c-e-eqnfounded cat!" She clasned the dripping kitten to her breast, and thanked him again and It was about two weeks alter mis that .Mr. Wvthe acted so strangely that ! his assistant cutter ventured to ask him what the matter was. Hcekenham drew him aside and whispered in a very confidential manner, but loud enough for every one in the shop tp hear htm, that he was engaged to lie married. 'Plus nnwed a thunderbolt for those who knew him, and they wondered who it could be he was going to marry, but he made no bones of telling she was a widow, and a very plump and handsome one at that For all of the happy prospect, Hcekenham did not lose his air of melancholy, although his appearabce of dejection seemed to pass away in a measure. At length tho wedding oecurrco, but the very next morning after the event Hcekenham appeared at the shop, I Joking ten-fold more miserable and wretched than ever before in all his life. When hU cutter Asked him the cause of the sudden and unexpected change he confided to him tliat nts plutnp and liatuU-ome" wife had literally "taken herself all to pieces," from her false teeth and hair, to the padding that gave her the plump appearance. The shock had quite unnerved him. and he was tortured by the suspicion tliat she had thrown the kitten into the hotfshead of water for the express purpose of tolling him into her clever matrimonial trap, which she hatf baited with nuitlea. "He is happy again," said the cutter, aside, Mfor he has now acquired a genuine misery tliat will be oeutiaually with him." Yaakua Vhuto

A DELUSIOR Pesute W Itm Itellrv That I H TsrtS KshMM Wim My I iiia Ou4 Their MUtalw. People who Ml I believe that the tariff raises wages ought to keep their eyes open now; for these ore very interesting days in which to learu lessen In tariff ami wages. The )Mpr am full of reports of east where, wage have been reduced hi protected industries which got a fresh dose of protection from Or,

McKlnley. Ah laterestlng ease k Uiat ot the re-' duct km of wage and the consequent strike in the potteries of Trenton, X. J. AihUtkutal interest is given p this etust front the fact that the increased prttotion given to this industry in 1hs$ was follows! in two year by a reduction of wages. The recent Juyiugoii of' Higher (UitranU a mio:tionof waees fUowlnir MKtit after reads like a twice Udd tale. The tifst telling of this story took place before the McKlniey committee la;t winter. Mr, Moaes, one of thoe jiottcry mamifaturcrK of Trenton, N. .1., was the man who told the story, The following extraeta from lib. testimony w'ill show how .Mr. Car.bde drew the truth from the reluctant Mows: Mr, Carllftl'Ia anwer U a tuettHt CJovt rnor (,Mr, you I1 ttiut It the Mill Mil liH'l )m . I, fit your op I ii (on you would to .v beeH -Hijml eittonr t evMi mu yoar eotlilisluHPUt or to rtulitee wntfi, It Ht fir t tlnit Hliortly alter tti pai,iMe rf tbe set of 1-wJt. wlileh iHeretneU ttoe ituttes, you retlnewl Wdff&H at Trenten? Mr. Move .No, sir. 3ir. Carlisle They have never mm reOueed since iVat Mr Monea la 1 there wa a reduction Mtlimitteil toby tile men thiMiielvr, owihk to the rwJiiftlon uiailu In the prive of kmmI. From 1SW to J-W there wan no redoetlon of any kind, Hlthouxh the price of khhi )tMl I wen Krailually hoIiik down. In !, about tlie Itr-t or Jaiiuury, It th-r awl fM a w ealM our men to-1 roio-ultttioiw and we , hIioh mI that there a Heeetlt y tor a re duetloii of wa(t'H, Mr (Tarllxte That wa lew than iwe year after the set of 1M took Ih al)Ut two year after that you (omul you were not alile to pay the kmhio wuki' sm you did belore that set wan pM-e I. Mr. Mte Vi, Kir, that in true. leeaMe the foreign itiunin of all rhie were thrown into our market I'rjein of awslri fell lathe forelKtt market Ami now for the second telling of the t story. Thk shall also be from a protec tic uUt authority. Here is the story hs made up of two mragraphs from the same ovlumn of that highest of high tarilT otfrpns, the lloston Commereiai Bulletin: Th pottery inifaetMrer of Treat, N 'ul I J , haVf sui)inittet a (Mnediiie or ' the nanttarv wtre pre)ri which meaiMt a reduction of jr i-mit. Nearly 4 Mi potters are on ctrlke in TreatoH. i X. J becauHe of the leeiloa to releet the retluetioH of wane jir"iMeeJ hy the inanufaeturet s. Tb men were wdlfna to eontlnao work at the old m- ie pmul.nK farther lave, j t aatioH.lHit the boscp nithted that toe new liat wa to ao Into effect, and the men quit t work. ! Now where is the man who says tlie ) tariff raises wages? Let hint wake up ' the tariff' and tell ft to do its work. j SQUANDERED MILLIONS. emitor ('nrllole IHwimhm "the VhhIahIh j NhthIh" lie .Show h ieneit oi " v , . t.... r u., IIchh i:xtravMKHre anrf lllKH Tarlir Tx-J Htbw. 1 Everybody bus known that the Re-' publican majority in Conirress has about Succeeded in sqnnmleringtlie great surplus in the Treasury. Kverybody hue heard intimation, too, that a deficit is likely to take the place of the surplus in the near future, epublicaa Senators themselves have male publie atntementc which showefl tliat the possibility of a deficit wan looming up to dhtturb the peace of the Kepumcau lawinaKers. The quiet haste with which Speaker , Reed ami the small eabel now running the House of Keuresentu tires let the inrect tax refunding bUldmpwanotlier iiulication that tlielKittom of theTrens--ury would soon be reached f

The exact state of the Treasury ami Hn, similar rot; it asks for hhrher ouite future condition have thus oowie to I tie ami ireta the : then comes the final

be subjects of sticculation and prophecy; but tliere was no trustworthy informa-; tion which took account of the future demands upon the Treasury together with its resources for meeting them. Such a statement has: now Ihmmi made by the mot competent authority in public life, Senator CarlisK of Kentucky. He doe-, thh in a strikingartie'e in thei Korum Magazine for February, entitled "The Vanishing Surplus." Senator Carlisle timlis that the condi4... 1. 'lM..MU.. M 4- fl. f.t.W.k flf tlt, ? " ... I be approximately as follows: ASr.T. AvallaMe eah on haal .fwly I, IS", IneltMtiHa redemptioH fitml $tll H7 Reteipti.,, .... if ',e sb i; i r.tAmtmna. Total,,.. expenditure.. Jl,sw.rtj retsry'.i .report iw,ce,x Total. ........ ............ . ..J1V This shows a deficit of St4.0OO.0Ow for the year. The account for 1W will show a much larger deHeit. Here is Mr. Carlisle's forecast of the condition of tlie Treasury at tin end of next year: Af!KT. Revenues from all onrec-.. ?,tl.W T.UHIMTIM Peflett for year 1"1 li.ew.we KAtlmnted ordinary expenditure, aeeoriiiiiK ! the SeereUry report,.-- ..,. ............- Jai.snfc 3e! Pension deaclenry,,... . IJivei himI harlior MM S.aklnic fund v;tti.V Total . ,.,. .....,.. ,. itWMW "This shows a deficit of $S4,04f,88T on .Inly 1, lSfc'J, if tlte requirements of the sinking fund law are to lie compiled with, or a deficit of fM.81MM if noth-,

1 Ordinary

ine whatever is to he paid On that ac- they like untaxed sugar at five cents a count " pound than high tariff sugar at seven "while Senator Carlisle does not claim r J?l,tHlolut accuracy for these estimates : ThMaterenU Farmer, he gives good reasons for : believing that If every man in Kansas who raises the deficiency will in each ease be alnive corn or wheat, or cattle or mules, ami rather than 'below tlie amounts stated, i every merchant who is Indirectly beneSome interesting comparisons are fited by the prosperity of the Kamma

made by .Mr. Carlisle to snow now rapidly the. expenditures of the Government have outstripped tlie rate at which population has grown. "While oar Emulation." he says, "in l!SK was only it veu times as treat as m 17M. our CXperHUVUres, .-vi.im....p, "", ,1, ihM Interest ami principal of the xncndltures, excluding all pnymenw public debt, were more than M times as ereat. In other words, th popttla - tion increased from 3,i,14 in lTu to tc'msie w WW. wkik iiry

annual expenditure, exeludi ; payJ at -nt on the principal and hit rct of the pubUe delrt, ros from $l,'J'J ".in to Another interesting erapurlv' lithe following "From mi to IMI, including the ieriod of the Setuln e war. Um population increased M.HT pvr ent. and ' the expenditure increased M per eeat; ! from 11 J to i aM, during which time the war with Mexico was com wen-"! and

ptMMv. ted to a ftueattful tnrtniaatkMi, the population iiHwased .T pf r mmU and tif? expeaulMm iarer I y pec cent.: btit trim I&mj i 11 J, a period of profound peace, population tU7rcaad js-r cent and xpenditurei iw civased .U per cent. The ordinary ex penditure for the. current meal year. ' w " ,rw pevrem. ' " ' " as shown bv the recent eanaua. Is in creasing at u rate of let than er cent per annum. I The record of the Republican party in increasing the expenditures of the iorer anient will he seen from the following figure, which do not include payj ment on the iatereat and principal of ; the public- debt: i lj jtrr cmiUh. ( lOI. . . . ...',, ,,..,.... . '$ i&y ' hw. . ....... ..,,,,,,... 4 ay . - ..... ,..... ..... 4.111 In view of this increased expenditure ami the in reased tariff taxation which it indicates. Senator Carl Me concludes: The public peace may be preserved, tlte righte of person may be scrupulously respected, ami ample remedies may be afforded for all injuries iuflieted upon the eitiaea by private individuals, but all this will not make the people prosM:rouK, or permit them to is? ro, if the tioyerninent usetf roos me pn't oi them for tlte imrnose of distribtitiuj,' the spoils to another jwrt. (Jenerosify in a commendable virtue, hut justice greater one. It w the con tinned ami incurable habit of the party now in power to dhiose of the public money in a wasteful ami extravagant manner, and tliere is no reason to suppose that it will cease to pursue this coarse until the Treasury is exhausted. What wan tw years ago the richest public treasury in the world, will he snlistantially , lmiikrupt long before the term of the j present Adiuinbktra tion shall expire, ami then, perhaps, even the executive ofi Heers of th (fovernrocnt, who now deliffht in creating deficiencies to he sapplied by additional appropriations, will lie willing to assist in oevistng some t . . i i . ... . . I piMH uy w men e.vieiMiiiMrn ran w chi - fnilml.'' ' A rrtteeteil "lHrHt. Atsfmt five rears ago n company with eHnitill of Tt 0i)0 wllh organilswl in an , . ., ' . American city t manufacture lamp chimneys, lampware awl candy jars. This company ojierates it facUrfcps only eloveu months iu the year, yet it has declared dividends of 3U per cent, every i year, besutes laying up In five years a I surtdns fund of S1T5.000. ,j.,J(t wjlt ppotectton has donel ., , . " , .....v.:i. , Hut tlu people meanwhile pay for it! The duty on lamp globes, shades and chimneys of gla-us in the old tariff was 40 to 45 per cent. 3deKlnley raise these duties to fW per cent These article are h part 01 ute manuiaciiireK m im great filnt giaas iadutry, of widen there are some thirty or forty factories in the country. There is another ebapter to thus story. A recent dfonetch from Pittsburgh, !., reports that the Hint gl mauwfactnrers of that city a aayinar that over per cent, of all tlte producing capacity ,f the country has been bought up by a flint glass syndicate. Itistlie same oW tariff story over iuniin. A highly prosperous industry f,Hfs to W'ashington ami talks about foreign cotnKtitkn, cheap pauper lslaw HCt to the corned v a trust is formed to imlilde up the spoils of McKinleyism. ClettiHK Keadj fr Cheap Sugar. A recent diwiuitch eomes front Sua Franise to the following effect: 1'nllv TtJm ttm of bonoHl Java nenr He In the wrehwe.i on 5thiw Koek the ian Kranel- H be property of Clan .SiiwkleS and will be heW tlwre t II April 1, when, under the provision, of the M.-lCiiiltv liltl it h ill Ih- sdHlittt'U Into Mm eountrv'dutv free, and when the eonsawntion rtf ar In thi eoaatry wltlo Kreatly increase a to wake Mr. SpreeKeue anceipa ....... .uMt.' mhUMidJtf nmMjhlii. in ouier worms me snfcnr the sugar tariff n a tax. the removal of which will result in cheeper sugar to the people ami In a great saving of expense to them every rear. Snreekels knows the tariff is a tax. ami he finds it t J his advantage to have avast quantity of sugar in the (Jovernment warehouse really for his lay that Ute tax beg-HH to decline all the people of the country Imy their sugar at least two cents ladow the. price under the new tariff, will there remain one man in all this broad land so stupid as to ask still whether the tariff is a tax? A Philadelphia pajier States that whereas granulated sugar is now selling at BI4 cents x pound, aontraets have already leen mmle in that city for sugar to 1k delivered in April at 4 4 cents. uIn two days one wholesale house received orders for l.rtW barrels and tlie I'hiladclpia refineries have now m many orders for April delivery that hey refused to take any more" (ranu'.ated sugar at 4! cents a pound ' "Wholesale will retail at five cents a pound. With fine white sugar at twenty pounds to the dollar the. people will have no difficulty in decidinr what the effect of a tariff is, ami whether farmer, is not interested in having Mex ican Max ores put on the free list, as a stp toward inducing Mexico to hi! mil our farm products into that country free of duty, then the Champion is simply mistaken. The admission of thes tore iree 01 uuiy wmmy means tn . : opening up to lwot market within easy aueui and Um . refusal to do so, means our exclusion i from that market, That h all there k it.Atchkon (Kaa.) Cuf4oa,

PHATIMQ ASOUT TIN Pi-ATI.

That iiilinlry. The N'ew York Tribune tries to draw eomfort from the recent advanee in the price ot tin plate, which it seem to look on aa ooe of the beneficent r .-suite f tlM McKlniey tariff. It says aJ o: Tke fact lumt hmmt eMattiaacuts aave asirtahts taxUaeM la MiMit, kve ptoriihMl urtlawr sad tnaaaJ UMmt mmA lisre atrwiiijr tavraMt Iwa nim ta Um aadwrUkiaav vcaM Mlfltc WlUl BMMt pWWMM flC ION tO ptW xhmt tha maaafactaf wa uecwl t ytM a - - . wav M. I ..1 . , 1 -I t .1 . ,-i.. et. 1 it., : vtarted them and when? How much eapUal have they invented ia them? Ana this ia something which no alleged manufacturer of American tin nlate has seen fit to Mate how much the tll) plmXm mmAi this side of the Mi h mawwi T&itiientMul for them to make it at the present duty of a cent a pound and preaent prvee. or are they losing money now, expecting to make up their losses whea July eomea and the duty is advanced to 3.8 eenta a pound? Nothing would be more interceding than sueh statistics showing what the steel plate cost. what tlie tin costs and what American labor gets. The new duty does not go into foree till July, but the price of tin plate has gone up already. Let it be admitted that it ha done so because of the MeKinley Mil. Who hi benefited thereby? Tlte American consumer? Certainly not. for it has raised the price of many article he uses and thus has hurt him. Han it helped American labor? No. Where are Ute statistics to show that it has been aided? II ow many men are working in American tin plate ndlla and what wages are they fretting? Why is no information vouchsafed on these points? Are the mill bosses benefited? Xo; there is nothing to show tliat they have gone into the business. The McKinley bill furnishes them with better ways of making- more money. Tnere was a dispatch the other day to the effect that certain Pittsliurjrb iople. are goinjr to start a sheet steel and tin plate mill at JolieU Perhaps they will. But, while there have been many such dispatches siaee last September, the mills do not seem to materialiae, ami there do not seem to be any manufacturers taking advantage of the present high price of tin plate. The House passed the MeKinley bill last May, or nine menths ago. Kvery one knew that the Senate would pass it Therefore no man risked any thing by going ahead at once ami beginning- the manufacture of tin plate. But why were they so slow about it? 'hy did not those Pittsburgh mem, who, according to Congressman Itayae, were jnst aehiag for a ehanee to capture the American tin plate market, jump in last Jane and do so? This singular delay, this unpatriotic hanging back, has not been explained bv the 2C ew York Tribune or any other papers which favor the extra high duty on tin plate! While speaking- of this subject H may not he amiss to ask what has become of the Blaek Hills tin output, about wbiek so mueh was said last summer. Senator Moody made some glowing propheeies to the effect that if the tin plate duty were raised i mannfaetorias would sprinr up at onee-ra the Blaek Hills, where all the tin plate of the country would be made. His constituents do not seem to take much stock in his talk, for they are evidently ia no hurry to re-elect him. They do not fancy having to pay more for their tinware to boom imagin ary factories and tin mines wake do not materialise. The whole business was a humbug. Consumers are taxed ami nobody is benefited. The only practical result thus far is the ousting from seats which they might have kept otherwise of a, large number of Republican Congress men. Chicago Tribune (Rep) BLAINE'S NEW DOCTMME. Falltax ITmmi a llr itjr rsrty. It is a pretty serious matter to undertake to raise again a party wkWh k not onlv dead but rotten, ami, ht order to do so, to reverse its policies and pend its traditions. Through all its eareer the Federalist-Republican party has been the enemy of freedom in om meree ami industry, the party of bar barous restriction against enlbrhtened liberty. It has held that the (Jovern ment will do better for the people than the people can do for themselves; that the instinct of trade is a false guide and the wisdom of the Bourbon ruler a better. All this Mr. Blaine has learned, if he did not always know, hs wicked and ruinous folly. He has caught a spark from the torch of Jefferson. He is trying to turn the face of this outworn party, at least partially, towards the morning instead of the verlastinr night. He would set it to undoing a part of the evil it has aeeom plished. lie brought it to a dead halt when he sakl of the monooottMs' last and worst tariff that it opened no m wet lor another nuftuei of grata or another barrel of pork. He compelled the ineorporatkm. with the hill of the reciprocity clause not what he would have liked, hat all he conkl get And upon this slender authority he has pro ceeded, with tremendous energy, to ne gotiate treaties exhausting ia each ease the whole of the power conferred. The Brazilian treaty h hat one of the and the acclamation with which it has been received in this country is proof enough of the intense longing of our people for the new mar kets which are to rive scope, to their in duutrial enterprise, with comparative freedom to their industries, ami insure to them the enjoyment of a greater por Won of their earnings. The advantages of the Brazilian treaty are plain., The advantages of some of those to follow will probably he plainer still. With Mexico and Spain the conventions hardkr fall to restore natural rights of trade, between the countries of th utmost value. A mere glance at the figures of Cuban and American trade will show that an Kldorado kt there and what boundless pomibtHtkM of wealth toe the paapU aC both eouakies

await the removal of the

tkMis which eoaflise their Cuba k dottbOeas politkmlly Wyood our raaeh, hut in a emmerebl aeoae wo have every thing to gain nod nothing to lose by the moat friend !v reUtkms. Thee W bhwsiuirs f Densoeraik freedua, the live cOuU frota the Jegersonhui altar. It not airanffe, not h the least stmnge, that any rational attempt to revive and popahvrlae the Jtourboa-Mooopoly party mwat be has ad upon the very principles of Mbarty againai which H has always 4i sUtentlr eoatended. The mil aao i mo iw was upon a siajrk article of faith me necessity of restricting the people m their private business and Of represstttffthem ia their political action. Mr. Blaine's new doctrine is precisely the reverse ami it is solely because it is the reverse thai it offers the slightest hope to tht- villainous Egyptian whelmed la the Red sea of the late elections. 3f. Y. World. , AN ANTIQUATED SYSTEM. The Karel ec a Dtoeseseu1 rarty. The most important point involved in this whole controversy is the disregard of the popular will manifested by th Republicans. The situation is entirely different from what it was ia the first session of this Congresa. Then it was possible to maintain that the people, t electing a Republican majority to th House, bad announced their desire ta see the Republican policy carried oat, and tlie foree bill passed as a feature of that poliey. But since the first eesslon of this CongTess an election has been held, in which the Republicans submitted their poliey, the foree bill included, for popular approval or disapproval. The verdict was so emphatically against them that, if the House elected ia November had met on the first of Janu ary, a measure, like the foree bill would have been rejected by a vote of three one. According to all the rules which govern legislation tliroughout the country, the newly elected House would have met on tlie first of January, and the Congress whose work the people had passed upon at the polls would have exercised no further power, 'lam the natural and logical way of in terpreting elections, aa is shown by the fact that it is the way adopted In every one of the forty-four States in the Union. It is only the survival of an antiquated system which allows aa old CongTess ts meet after a new one has been e hoses. Die system has never worked aay particular harm, because this second session of a Congress has usually been confined" to the passage of routirer measures like the aptmiprlation bills. But for a party which has just been dis carded at the polls to attempt to fasten upon tlie country in January' a poliey which the country rejected by an overwhelming majority in November is as gross a specimen of usurpation as is to be found in parliameatary aaatats. X Y. Post. POINTED PRESS UTTERANCES. The Republican Sapers 'pointing with pride" to Republicanism exemplified in Dr. Harrison. Cmvaiaad Plain Dealer. If the war tariff robbed the Demrats alone, Major MeXhsley wantd find smooth sailmg; hut it robs th Re publican also, and the latter are beginning to rebel. Tecumseh HerskL "Blaine and Basinets" as Re publican cry ia ISM means, being Interpreted, that if the Plutocrats are al lowed to have all the subatdiea they want, they are willing- to put down their force bill club long- enough to fill their pockets. St. Loais Republic Mr. Cleveland eould not be drag ooned into prematurely expressing his views on tlte present phases of the silver question. He waited until th favorable opportunity and then he spoke. Governor Hill is entitled to the name liberty of choosing his time to declare himself. There are some who are no more to be driven against their will than Balaam's ass was. Brooklyn Eagle. Major MeKinley has lmd the op portunity of proving that he is a straight Bourbon. Ilia recent speech on tlie beneficent effects of high tariffs was merely a rehash of the ancient arguments worn threadbare ia England before the Ohio repudiated was out of short clothe. His presumption kt at tempting a reply to G rover Cleveland suggests the thought of places where angels fear to tread. Chicago Times. Blaine's "reciprocity" treaty with Brazil is free trade nothing mora, nothing leas and it is a square back down from the protection plank ia the platform of the National Republieaa party in 18Mj. But Blaine can never secure a Presidential nomination from the Republicans for adopting Democratic principles. Neither can Mr. Jilaine'a party hold itself in power by going back on itself and its record. Jacksonville Times-Union. The Republican high priest of protection is learning valuable lotaona. The Democratic campaign of education has taught James G. Blaine that the Republican Chinese wall must down or American industries will he stifled to death. The first step is with IlrHzil, but reciprocal treaties with oth er countries must follow, secretary Blaine is acting on the recommenda tions' of the Cleveland administration. Albany Argus. Oa Rate Jfoft Xee4ea. The raphl progress which the Senate is making in doing the public business since tlie attempt to pass the foree hUl was dropped shows that there was not the slightest. aeoeonity of a "gag rule" for any other purpose than to get through that partisan measure. An attempt was made to cultivate the idea that the Senate must abolish the system of free discussion in order to perform its necessary work, but there was never any sincerity ia the elaim, and its alisurdity is novV apparent to everybody. The only effect of the long controversy over thm qtmetioa is that the Senate mut work harder from new until the 4th of March than It would have had to da if so much valuable time had not been wasted by the HepabUean mmrboa.-X. Y. Ft