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of port The who, !- I gBtfUl any; I in ju.Mt i i u prouil to BOtUa don n 0 . c Into UM "''I ' way. Ti gfOttdmS' riirlslm.is fron tlM boys; H BseBOS youtiK aguln. 'l ill tlx' little ones at ploy, AikI OO'Off an hi Ii Of yuin. fit : MUM Dll'l Nfll. with precious Uta Prora .ill ih m lajhhora near, Bach toot a note with wishes sweet, TwOUM J" you sow! to hear. hi. I ' hair! frm Brother Tom; j h -.'in thlH fiir-ltnid hood", . I.. r Hub's ( ll ck f roll; M: ).,,;.! Kur winters coal and wood. !:.! im- Kolil spectacle! Ktnin I'orothy. I Melt's lass; T1" V -ay rta'l lamoua an a bell p. Hunk li s come 10 pass Tti.it Dick, tny boy. my youngest one. i revet swapping thlliKS. gl,.. iM be a magnato In the land. One o" them railroad kiaura, Tli - box is lat-l'-'1 from Um k. IV They Uvo In Idaho A pair of sliver candlesticks' I wonder if th y know n m often by ih hickory tire I've 'inin both wool and thread. At.'! in ly liKht'd c:n:(ile. w).u. We went upstairs to bed Tri IM vtr In their modern hum Work d as their grand;'.! 'I d, Vho wore the sheep's rough akin and Willi, And dined upon the kid. TJi. v want me, too, but '..! s their boortö 1 ouldn'l llv their wav : I'm uted to this old Breplai And here I nu an to st.iv. PM laed to every homely thing Hallowed by smile and tear; I i ilildtl't have to nl rangt- r hat. da What tort has made so dear; I mi food of my old roeklnK-ehatr. 9UOÜ brother's gift Is fine. 1 r t ore oiue laid the silver hair. Thai hanged aa f aat a.s mine. An I doom the road a l.ttle way. Then up the hillside steep, I : .-t s,,. the Kraulte rrosa Ik r.- ' father'- lifs ssleep; g, höre I t' -t and haply, when Old Santa oooaoo this way, I', bl e- i whole vear's happ nei, Wrapped In a single day. Mit A I'eniaon. In Hadies World. New York. A4 Bctafed Clvristtiids. . I AI NT t',,in to make any ( lit i still a a." said noett, decisively, as she ut her tmshand's second cup of a "Ihc Lord ain't pood to us. oil I don't feel called upon to act as if I thoogbl B was." "Why, Hannah, how you talk," and Samuel Brnnott set his cup down fco uddenly that some of the tea spilled over upon the table. "It sound kind i icrilepious." "I ..in't help it if it does. There! you've aloiied your tea on the tablecloth. Why ain't you careful?'" "lotl k.ml o' s'prised me, savin' that, at d " "Surprised you. did Hi nfll t : wiped up the 11 pi! " and Mi led tea wit h ink near at I said anyI pilCss it a c.otb tauen from the band. "I don't know'j tbihg 00 X cry terrible. am t im WOfse than actin' try in' to have a Christ mas out a I'C, w hen on don't feel it." "Iliit t!t- Lord is pood to HonotT'n i .. w I hoy s a lot of folks w e." "Then I'm sorry for cm. Sain H n- ' " Look at u.s. We ain't had BOtb it bad luck this whole yc.-r H"'i t talk to me. It's settled." ;m I Hennett knew his wife too lo argne the qneettoa, so bo left hi r at il went out to do the "chores." 'bft went glnnfaf ahoul the task ot ; sidi'p the supper dishes. Hut in the old man's heart, as he went out to feed the eon and fix tin- nofo'a itnJl for the alght, waa Ihc knot fooling ppolntd ch He liked ( " "u l-. He had i v.iys looked forwnrd lo it with pleasurable an- ' ballon, althooph for many years the day had not meant so very nim h But lie had taken delight in trimming up the plnin rooms of the htile farmhouse with everpreens, and alwoyi had managed t give Hnn''lh a little present, while she had ret failed to remember bin with BOetnl product of her own Work. Hut these humble pifts wer,- real lunanraji to him, for he men tired them in line's own balance, end t'ioir brightness was a retieetion of tio rffulgenl Christmas glory. He and linn nah wire alone in the world, their only ehihl havinp died in infttacy. But they had been kapp tgether and fairly prosperous, until Within the past year. Burin p this time. Samuel, ,,s he ex1' 1 it. had "lost his holt." One tliiiiLr after another hail happened to i Brnge. hlaa ami set him hank, eirst, his horse died, leaving only the rather decrepit old mare to help him 1 bla Iii Id work; then crops had failed Never before had his few acrea of RTonnd yielded so sparitiply, and the fruit trees were never so barren, along about harvest lime, s if to complete his mi.-fortune. he Wft taken ill and for weeks was mi able lo work, while a doctor's hill accumulated. He was obliped to hire a BW to do the work, and the farm produced hardly enough to pa for

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these service. Thi had ul! put him In-' lad, ami now. in tin latti i part of Daocmbor, BO lUoi to have Oforf reu-.,,,, tu il COUraged. But it was Hannah atha hod given up. Ho would still 0410 been hopeful and looked on the bright Bodo, but for her. She piumbied. "1 feel awful kind o' bud not t have iiiin ( hrihtmax." confided Samuel to the mare. j lie laid the truw for her bod. "1 know thinps uiu't so afight, hut Hannah hadn't ou-ht to feel tO, It niijflit bo arorae. I gUM we can piUl through. Hut then, it'll have to Im- as Hannah sup. If she won! hue tin brtatmaa. I can't."

He felt like oryuog is his diaoppolot - ment. Samuel BCDMtl "as ,,ld eOOOgb to DO fOttlngt lit childish. In the liousc, Mrs. Bennett ua pot tin if away the supper diahai in nn IBtklbli frame of mind. "I don't care," gho mattered, "wiiat he tMako. I ain't said a word hut the truth. How we'll ever pet alono; this winter, I don't know. Starve, Rotbbj. The idea o' BubkiOf a fuss ohout ("lirist1 I mo when you ain't pit a thinp cheerful to look ahead to! No, 1 ain't aIfoing to do it. Sain can make the beol of it. I mean r.ual 1 say." That evening th was nothing fun her said nliout CllriatnuUi tweeO the farmer and his wife, By nine o'clock they were in lied. It was Tuesday nicht and Thursday would lie the holiday. As he lay there. Mr. Lien nett wondered what he should do with the "' cents which he had saved up to boy his wife a present. With no Christinas, of course there could be no present. He fell asleep, saddened by the thoupht. The day before Christinas was hripht and clear. There had been a peneroiis fall of snow during the night and evcrythlog out of doors was covered with the pure white mantle. Samuel lleunett was out hoveling paths when the expressmen drove ft long, with a well-oiled sleigh. "Hello, there!" shouted the driver, cheerily. "Merry Christ mas. Saiu! It's a little ahead of time, I know, but I may rot too yoo airain." "Thanks. The same to you," an swered Samuel, leaning on his MOW ftbovet. "tiot lots of bundles, ain't '"" Yes; evcr Itoil v's fit soinctliinp. "That so? Ain't come to ours yet, have you?" The poor old man chuckled at his own pitiable little attempt at a joke. "No, not yet." was the merry answer from the sleigh. "I'll brinp that arouad to-morrow, most likely. Well, good-by. ti'lanp!" and on sped the 'h with ita jingling bells. "I piiess he won't, thoupll." tnuseil the other, as lie fell to work shovel-in-' apain. "Tain't likely we'll get anything, There ain't pobodj tosend it to us, t hat I know of." And Hannah, looking out f the window, echoed his tLottght with one still more doleful. "Eve ry body'U pet something but ii-." she mused. "I put ss chrlatnme Wna intended for rieh folks. Nobody o. ts that ain't pot." That a(terr.oon aboul three o'clock. i mufhed-up little form trudged through the snow and up the load to the Bennetts' farmhouse. "h. Amy Harrow, what you dolag here in all this snow '.'" exclaimed Mis. Hennett. as she opened the door ami saw the little pirl standinp on the steps. "Come tight in before you freeze." "Oh. Mi-' Hennett." Bold the shiveriup child, in a oiec choked with tears, "won't yOU come right over to our house 7 Ma's aw ful M'k." "Is that so'.' What's Yen I'll po ripht over." "It's one of her had the matter'.' spells, only worse." waihd Amy. "Hie -B v s she don't know hut she'll die." "Oh. I puess it ain't a- had as tha'." aid Mr.-. Hennett. kindly. "Don! you be M-art. Sam!'' She was ut the woodabed door now. "Hitch up the mare right off. Pi cot to go over to Mi-' Harrow's. She'- si k." Samuel dropped a: armful of WOOd and hastened toward the burn. In lis- thua 1 minutes the old-fashioned cutter wna at the door. Amy was tucked ill between the farmer ftttd his wife, ami tiny WCfC off as fnot as the whoeay mare COVM conveniently carry tin in Mra, Hennett had her medicine bottles under her ihnwl. she wa said by her nelghbora to lie "nboiit as good no a doctor." The Harrows lived half a mile or more from the Hennett s, farther on away from the village, which w is nearly two miles from the Hennett farm. Mrs. Harrow was suffering

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;' 'nil. and there wu no tire la the boom i Mi Bhlldn i , navUr than to i yea r-oki Amy, oero shivering oo ÜM bed with their mother. "Ain't then- no lire'.'" exclaimed Mm. Hctiuett. "My boJbooI 'iiiis weather, ton." "I couldn't cut the wood," Sold Amy. "It's all bi),' sticks." Mrs. I'.cnneti lost 00 time Ul k'Hing the -ick woman sonic of tier honiemaile cordial, ami Samuel .soon had o lire blazing in the kitchen stoo. 'I'lie heal froduoll Crepl into t lie adjoininif bod room. You're ao jfood," aifhed the poor oromon on Um bed. "I felt ao had I had to do OOaetbinf, and there wasn't a thinf but to send for you, Mi-' lleunett. It was .so far to po for t he doctor( and " "Which wasn't necessary," interrupted Mrs. Bennett, "I truest yoo feel Rom better now. don't you?" "Yes; that medicine seemed to oturt mj heart afavla. I tboufbt it would just stop heating, one spell." 1 eruess you II he all ripht nmv, said Mrs. lleunett. eom fort i 0 fly. Her naturally kind heart had been touched by the sieht of some one eLse in distress, and she forpot herself in ministering to another. "It was pood of y ou to come over," continued Mrs. Harrow. "I'm afraid it will spoil your Christmas. You must have been pettinp ready for it, seeinp it's Christmas eve." "Don't you worry. It ain't Inithcrin' mo a hit," responded Mr-. Hen nett. Hut some t bin ir w as hotherinp her. It was somethinp in her heart that almost sent a moisture to her eyes. but she choked it down. "You need somethinp to eat," she said, "some tea mid loast. And these children must he half vtarved." "I'm afraid then ain't much to e;ct," said Mrs. Dnrrow, feebly. "I don't know as there's anrthinp but a little bread. "Well, that'll mnke toast." Mr.-. Bennett knew that Widow Harrow waa poor, hut .-he never had known that the family were so deatitute as she found them to be. this day lefore Christmas. "It'- dreadful." she thought, as -he searched the bare cupboard. "They're jest starvin'." A moment later she was sayinp privately to her husband: "Sam. you po home and pet a loaf of bread and Borne of that tea. Tin n you pet a pat of butter and a little ham and hurry right hack with it. They're all starvin", sun's I'm born. 1 puess that's what ails Mi' Harrow. Now you hurry ." "Yoo, Hannah." The old mare seemed to realize that she was on an errand of mercy, and actually tiickei.ed her pace. It was not lOttg before Mrs Harrow had her toa.-l and tea. and the children were enjoy inp what to them WM B bountiful feast. It was dark when Mr. ai d Mr-. Bennett left for home. As they ore re elding along, Mra. H nnet I sa d i 'Sa in ! 'Yen, Ha n nah. "Them ehi k stockin's." "Have they "Hut, 8am, thinp in 'cut. have h up their Poor little there won't lh in be onyThev think there Banty CUua. "I w ish t In p wa band. "Hut there ain't lirhed Iter husanawered praeand there won't tical Mrs. n. t'ett. be one thinp in them stock n'.-. it's holes. Mis' Dur row cried Ul less a bout it. I ln too bail." There was silence for a moment, then Mrs. Hennett continued: "Sam. there must be somethinp put in 'em." "I I ii can t hey, Hannah "Well, I puess there can. You go down to the store and pet something. I puess we can spare a little." Mte got Samuel interrupted, atul then he paused, almost afraid to tell the rest. He had always been a bit afraid of his wife. "Well, what haVU fWl gUtf "Fl ftj cut-, Hannah. I kind o' saved it up. alonjr. to buy you a a Cbriatmaa preatnfn but" "I don't want no prcseirt. That'll buy some canily und a few trinkets for them children, Then, while you're gone to the atore, til pop some corn, and there's aORM red applcv You can !:i) ever and It1! them stockiBga.1 "Jest like Sa t v iaiis." BtM the old man. delighted, The thoupht vv, limed his kind Old Ilea I I aievv. and the ( hristuias spirit within him began to revive. That eveuinp, ticinu-i

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bor kitchen of the llarrow hiiUsf, t n it a whole pumpkin pie in the cuhoanl, ami wci.t home, leavinp O promlw to ooom .t it tit the Morniog anil see bow the HtOtbOf .Uni rlilldli'U were gOttii h ulonp. Mi v Harrow waa much better. .She aaid she thought she would be a le to pet Up III tha moriiiup. Chrlatnaoi morninp, as ooun o thy bad bad tbelr breokfoot, Mr aad Mr. Hennett apain drme over to the Dar rOWO', They found the mother s.ttinp up, boppj with her children over their humble pifts. 1 hey DOd been sure that Santa Cbtttl would bring them BonMthiaffi and be bad not hetrayed their childish confidence. "I declare," said Samuel Hennett, when he and his wife were aeain in the cutter, on their way home, "it seems, kind o' Ch i i-1 ma -y . after all." "1 don't know but it does." admit ti-d Hannah. "1 e kind o made up my mind we ain't the worst off OVOf was, after all." She vrna learning the true lesson of Cbriatmaa time -that it is doing for "the least of these" that tl"; doonest iov. Hut she was still to bud the fuller happiness of that Christ mas day . "hand!" she exclaimed, us they , neared the house. "There's the expreaaman in front of our pate, wi.ot can he w ant ?" "I don't know," replied Samuel. "It j can't lie anythinp for u-." Hut it was. "I brought your packape," called I the axproasman, "only it's a box." The mysterious box wai soon carried into thi house ai d opcttod. It was peiierous in sie, and as the cover Cam off it waa found to be well filled. "Here's a letter, Sam. Open it." Samuel lleunett opened the letter,' which bore his name, and read it wonderingly. It said: "Hear (Tnaiei I puess you have forgotten me, but I urn still alive and prosperous. As Christmas approached, 1 thoupht of y ou and Aunt Han tali, as the only living relatives I have, und I send you .somethinp to make you think of nie. There was further explanation, and then the letter ended with: "Now, Unci Samuel, if vou need any assist ance, let BM know. I shall be find to help you. I have plenty and to spare, and if I can do anythinp for you it will be a blessing to nie. Write to me soon. Your affect innate nephew, John Hennett." "My brother Henry's boy." -aid Samuel. "I never knew what had become of him. Ain't it queer?" "Queer'.'" said Hannah. feelingly. "I call it a Qodaend. And to think I rumbled and found fault with the Lord. Wasn't I wicked'.'" And then aha sat down und Im-pan to Weep. "Don't, Hann a! 'Tain't nothin' to cry over. You didn't mean it. and the LordU forgive you. Let's take the i t hinga out of the box." There were many beautiful pifts for both of them, .lohn Den net 1 had shown his liberality when he packed the Christmas box. "Sam." remarked Mrs. Bennett, When they had examined and won-' dated at the last article, and the box had beef removed to the woodshed. "1 wonder if you couldn't po aud pet a few everprcCns. We might trim up a little." "Uf course. I could." at BWored Samuel, radiantly. "It ain't far to the woods, and the snow ain't deep there. I could get some in no time." "Then you pet some. And while you're pone. I'll po io work and pet the best dinner 1 can. We'll have a Christmas, if it is a kind of a late one." "Oh. Hannah," cried the delighted old man. with a suspicious shake in his voice, "you make BM 00 h ippy. "I feel that way my self, Sam." .-he replied. Then she did somethinp which ha had not done before in mnny years. ; She went up to her husband and Il nt kisscd him. lie, siirti'-ised i ito ecatacy, blushed like a 'ooy . as lie went out after the evcrgrecBa, That ki s was the sweetest ( hti-t-Bsaa gift he had ever received. N. Y. Ohsen nr. OT r A VOM A II IV nil'KK.SSKD. Simmon- Do you know his wife? Kimiuous Only throiiph some d pars she nave him Christmas.- Town Topics. Chelntmna with Ihe Dane. In many countries the ( brlatmBB feast formerly lasted from two to three week-, end it was beiicveo that the tttgela partook of the i.uthly food. Denmark, even at this time, consider it obligator, to have break fast, dinner ni i rapper of dlatinetlva dishes on Christmas. Beefateah and reladeer cutlets form pari of th BMBU for breakfast. The dinner consists of grod (a soup of oatmeal and rice), rOOSt gOOOfl Stuffed With apples and roart pork with beat rool and gherkin pit kl

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TARIFF AND TAXES.

I I'oll -r Aaaeaaeed by I'realtleat Mi Klalrr Abaadoued br Heuablleaaa. A tTaoblnfftoa aUopnteh to Um New York World aaya that it ia eatintated that the net treasury surplus for the present Soeoljreai ataj reach IMOrQatV LKK), and tb it as a OOOOOquenoe, repullican Ii a lers in rsmprooa with the preoIdent'a sanction have adopted a plan to cut off all the war taxes, reducing the tntemnl revenue to tipttres OR I'.w, if not lower, than those which prevailed before the Spanish-Aiiuri-can war. According f the World' dUpotebi the iihnlitiim of these sjiecia! taxes will reduce the revenue to about 165,WKl.OOO. The tax on luer wül he reduced from $1.60 to one dollara barrel, thus taking off about $2.',.o(X).00o. The tax on tobo ceo will be rodnced from nine to six cents jier pound, Ii d the 1.1 m 1.1. in t I .. rl - ar 'neiiinf win ne rear, ai nr, AS to effect, topether with the l i era! tax reduction, an additional reduction of IC.'.noo.OOO. In this way it is estimated lhat the entire war tax will be wiped out and the surplus reduced by iboal fi'i.vnon.ooo. The World's correspondent say thst It ia also BUggeatcd that the tax on whisky may be reduced to certs a pallon, the p'e . rax beinp $120 per Callon. The World's correspondent seyc: "ha presMsnt arrt the rrpubllear. members of the wnv. nr.'! means committee, with two possible exrrntlnr.s. are unaltersbly opposed to nr.y r vision of the tar ft All netep that redaction on on article enuld not be efTeeted without itolr.s: throuiih the erttre list, and inch a revision Is not j contemplated. All suee slo that business would be unsettled and the present pros- j perlty materially h k '. Ti e pr. rt ar.d these numbers think it wise to lesee sell enough alone." It is alao stated that it is not now believed that anyone of the pending reciprocity treaties can obtain ratification in the senate, ami that "there seems no prospect along ihe line of reciprocity" The World's corresponib nt is au- i thority for the statement th" when certain members of the way! means committee supported to lb president thut possibly the trcasutl .ititliio nan1.! 1... t..it-.,r? be ri'i I, mi .i. . , ,.., "i - I. .i of the tariff schedule in WhlCn loe greatest degree of proteetlon is . lowed, "the president declared Irs close adherence to the doctrine of high protection and expressed his opinion that the present prosperity shoii'd be allowed to continue, and that there should be no tinkering with the tariff to unsettle business and cause apprehension in commercial circles." Chairman Payne, of the ways and means committee, said: "The country is doing better than ever before, and there is an old adape to let well enough alone." Representative Ibissell. of f'onnerticut, said: "Revision of the tariff alonp special lines is a practical impossibility at present. Condition are gOOd, and thev should be permitted to remain so." More and more every day it ap pears that Re presen tatl ve Babcock a fitrht for tariff revision will be a hopeless one in the republican party. Repnbiicna leaders, who, like BabBock, have ehnnged their opinion as to the Influence of a high protective tariff on the general welfare, would have a eery strong following in the republican party, and perhaps the recognition Ot t'nis fact has something tO do, aside from the deairc to reduce the surplus, with the concessions which the adininist ra1 ion leaders seem disposed to make in the matter of the war taxes. Doobtleaa these lenders be Here that by a material reduction Of the war tae-. thus affording relief in BOme iiiarters. they can postpone the demand for tariff rt vision. Certainly the republicans have the power to defeat tariff revision, and probably they have the ability to close for time the public eye to one preat evil, while aff irdiiur a BegrUB of relief from war taxes. It is Interesting also to m te that the same authority Hint aeOUrea ns there will be no tariff revision also conveys the information "there seems no prOOpCCl alonp the line of reciprocity ." lb-publican new -papers had much to say by way of commendation of President McKinlcy's Inst sp h, and yet, if the New York World's Washington correspondent is tO be relied upon, already there nrc indications that the policy announced by the lamented president, in his last speech, has already ln-en abandoned by the republican party. The senate thinks the reciprocity tri at lea are -uf. !y pigeon-holed. In the meantime our niaiiufacturinp capacity poes on iiiercasinp far beyond our ability to consume. The fore'pn market is booomittg more and more ! of a desideratum. The time to enlarpe the foreipn market is when we are prosperous, for that is a men I - of continuing prooperity, But the chances are that we shall a-e. pt the blindly optimistic theory of lett.np "well enouph alone." and not attempt to en larpe our markets by treaty until the eecumulation of mrplui products has depreeeed prices and tiven us hard times. Minneapolis .Journal RP- , fhe power of condensation never has been among the pood literary qunlities of Theodora Booaevelt, but if he has abundance of language and ideas he has also the faculty of presentinp what he wishes to -ay n an interestinp manner. His first forma! messape reai's more like a in -i v. ' nriicle than a public d .cument. buffalo Kxpress. Mr.Btryna Will apain have to seek consolation in the though I thst It is really far nicer to be in a position to criticise a president's message than it would be to be in a position to write one Aibanv Journal

CLASS INTERESTS ARE FIRST.

Tariff HeiUloa lmUril I noa mm Impossibility I adrr Hraab llcau Hale. Few snbjecto will come before con trri 'his winter in any form of mor Imnortaaee to this nation's industrial inferes's, and more especially to the oomaacrcki and Industrial interests Of the state of Minnesota, than the In Itawnt Which slmuid be eti nded to BUI live stock and dairyinp inter-e.-ts. -ays he St Haul ('.lobe. For all practical purposes it seems determined that we shall have no reelprneity treaties ratified by the present senate. The chief value of such treaties is, of course, in the extended markets they offer t o our breadst uffs, as well as toour ma n ufact urcd article. The debate now in propreR in the ierman parliament ihowa what we have to contend with in foreipn landa in the effort to send into them our eh-ap food products. Thooa L'"ern ments will fin us no market they can keep from us. They are not willing that our exclusive trading system, whereby ore seek t n I without bay Inp in return, shall nceive even tolei .t: ion at t heir hands. fo rmally lm been one of the most ) tsistent of the fops of our exclusion laws The agrarian interest in that country has consistently and steadily opposed the introduction of our food products. The present excitennmt In ii' rmnn Ii idriatlee circles ob that score is no new circumsta nee. It may be for the pviorer classes in Co rniany th- en aetmeat of "hunper laws." as the so cialist representatives claim, and it may be inconsistent with the true welfare of the (ierman mass. s hut thT is no man who will say that It is not justifiable as a matter of national reprisal. What the Herman government lo try !np to do with reference to American food prod acta we are trying to do toward ourselves in Ilm attempted ad vanoetnent of class interests through legtelation. Every Minnesota congreaaman having a rural constituency of;, r-y ix'eit .: - made his appearance A ihlnffton this winter with a measure i'i atgU d to drive the oleomr.rtririt.e Industry out of ex'stenc. :-d wh'l-i ne stands watchlnpln won , . ... , , . . i.i i iiiria in, i sji.a v 01 class kciiisiis- and i a rri vx -niindedness there appear on th scene the representatives of the eattle-ratalng interests, with their legislative programme. Thy ' are apainst all that the dntry'np interests seem to demand, and they demand B Whole lot of things which th i dairy interests seem to be indifferent toward. The republican party has brOttghl the conscience and moral sense of the I country down to such a low level that it is almost impossible to consider pubI lie aaeaonrea without immediate nnd Controlling reference to the interesta which are pecuniarily interested adversely or favorably, Lenialatioa ia Mocked on as a form of public favorltsm, and it seems to he the principal QjUeetion lo w much more one interest can tret out of the pr.th-hap than any other interest, No wonder, indeed, in such a situation, that tariff revision is looked upon as an impossibility, and that the pong has been thrown up already by the bnckert of the reciprocity idea. PARAGRAPHIC POINTERS. Tf Mark Huna is in political peril in Ohio will President Rooeevett heap coals of fire on lfs hea., by help inp him out ? St. Louis lb-public. The president says that great fortunes have not been made 0Ut of the tariff, but w e puess it helped penerOUaly to the inakinp of some of t hem. Hlnphamton Header. If the senate iitsists upon "lettinp well enoiijh alone" the Huffahi peech of McKinley became a campaign document for the democracy that will p far and hit "hard.- Jacksonville Citizen. President Roosevelt promised t'' carry out the policy of his predecessor, but there is danger that the protectionists iitnl manufacturers will scare h'm away from the president' reciprocity sul'IM's! ions. - 'I be ( on moner. That republican conpreaamOUl who telhl how millions nre beinp squntulered 0B the Philippine pay-rolls eory naturally give an anonymous interview. Such sentiments arc "not popular with his party. St. bonis Itepublic. Ih re colloquial nod almost flippant and elsewhere "preachy." it has more of the Btegasine flavor than of th- dlgnit of expression her tofor studied in the ines-ape of the presidents of the United Slates, buffalo Courier, The Washington Star BBB O Word of wnrning for the republican congressnaen who malntnm an nncoapromiaing attitude s high protect ionists. "It was gene rally conceded," says the Siar. "during his lifetime, that Mr. McKinley area a good Judge .f public seotinfhnt. His oppononta twitted nlm with steeping his ear to the ground Would it tint be well for coegreM to imitate him in that particular? An election for the purpose of choosing a new house occurs next Kofi mboT. - Albany ArgUB. There is a monetary crista in the Philippines which SOthlng hut an aol of conpress will remove. It is only one of many instances constantly 0B earring IB vh:ch the development of American relations with the island is hil led anil hampered by the necesIty for congressional legislation, And this, with the varyinp virus of eonüet ag interests to be consulted, la alway s tBfdj and penerally unsatisfactory." rjnlem history reverses RoetsV it will be found that the preatest impediment in the way of the sssimilsHon of the Philippines and other dependencies is the American coogrea.

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