The Greencastle Democrat, Greencastle, Putnam County, 2 December 1893 — Page 3

WAITING.

Sit tin'; In the coziest corner Humming o'er the old-time lays. Living in the past ami present, Mixing now with yesterdays. Grandpa, grandma, dear old couplo, Li;rhi and cjmfort of our home, Pass their twilight hours serenely, Neath our humble cottage dome. Now their day« are growing shorter, Now their years seem not so long. And their dim ••yes will turn backward Where their youthful pleasures throng: Now their hold on life grows weaker, Oft they falter us they go, But their f. ith ull fears subduing Leaves no room for seliish woe. Not a shadow mars th“ beauty Of their peaceful love-111 sky, Death Is but the gate to Heaven They will enter by and by. So I hear them talking softly. In the firelight’s ruddy glow, Of the happy past and present. Waiting for their time to go. • -M. J. M. Smith, in Christian at Work.

LEAViNG HOME.

TTnclo Henry'e Heart la Touched by a Familiar Picture.

Briyht and early they arrived at the lair grounds, and the first building they entered was the Art palace. It miut not be inferred from this fact that they loved art—not at all. They came to this strtieturc simply because it was a part of the exposition they had not visited before. They had come several hundred miles to see the fair, and it would weigh heavily on their minds if they failed to see any portion of it Impelled by a stern sense of duty, they had “done" every building, from the convent of La Itabida to Horticultural hall—even though the exhibits in some of them were as unintelligible to them astne inscriptions on an Egyptian obelisk. The Art palace and the Fisheries building alone remained to b'? visited; and it was to complete their cycle of sight-seeing that they had come to the fair this morning. It took no close observer to see that they were simple, well-to-do country people. One knew instinctively that their paths hud lain in sequestered places, through cool, green pastures, where mild-eyed kinc grazed contentedly and birds sang through the long summer days. It was plain to be seen by their honest faces that they were far better verscil in the ways of nature than in the wiles of man. This trip to the fair was the supreme event of their lives—the brightest bit of color woven into the dull gray warp ami woof of their existence. They had never before seen anything more important than a county fair; and this great carnival of the nations seemed so stupendous and overpowering that sometimes a feeling of awe came over them. They realized the hopelessness of seeing and comprehending more than a smal 1 part of the whole. At such times, Uncle Henry would sigh and sadly remark that he “reckoned” it was too big for him. Uncle Henry was the head of the family. He had a kind, honest face, and a look of simplicity that was refreshing. Lucy, his wife, was a hearty, buxom old lady, who looked at peace with the whole world. Their youngest child was with them—a pretty, budding girl of seventeen or thereabouts. Then there was Uncle Henry's sister, an old maid, whose patient face gave evidence that her life had been one long sacrifice for the welfare of others. “1 never did care no very great sight for chromos,” remarked Uncle Henry, as they passed rapidly through the various sections. “I kind o' like to see ’em,” said his wife. “Hut dear me! Here’s so many you git all mixed up. You can't begin to stop and look at ’em all close, for if you did you wouldn’t git through in all day.” “Ma, look here!” called the girl, attracted by a painting of a bouquet of gorgeous dowers. “Ain't this beautiful? Wish 1 bail it. Reckon they'd sell it, pa?” “t'ourse,” answered her father. ‘‘Sell anything here for money.” “Won’t you buy it for me?” she coaxed. “What's the use bnyin’ piekehers when you git such nice ones free with every pound of tea you buy?" Uncle ■Henry asked. “Hut they're not like these here, pa. These are all painted. They're only printed.” “Oh, I see. All done by hand, eh? Wal, l think some of 'em better been left undone.” They sat down on one of the sofas to

rest,

"Ma, I want to learn to paint," said the girl. "There’s a lady stays at the Johnson's who teaches folks to make pictures. Can’t I learn?” “1 reckon it's nice to know how to do such things ” said the mother. “What do you think about it, Henry?” “Think it’s nonsense!” said Henry, decisively. “No earthly use. Let Flora learn to paint, and our house would soon be a rog’lar pickcher gallery, like this. You go into the Johnson’s, where that teacher stays, and you see a sunflower here and a cat-tail there, and a long-legged binl of some sort over yonder. Johnson was tollin’ me his girls hail got the craze so bad they even ‘decorated’ the coal-scuttle and the spade, anil wouldn’t let him use 'em. If Flora wants to learn to paint. I’ll git some white lead and oil and let 'er tackle the front-yaWs fence." No one made any response, and he continued: “We've seen all this we want to, I guess. Let’s go over to that place where the queer fishes is.” They were passing through a gallery in the United States section, trying to find an outlet. The old maid sister, who brought up the rear of the little group, stopped to examine a picture more closely. "Look here, Henry," she said. The picture to which she called his attention was entitled: “Hreaking Horae Tics." The scene was a plain, Imre room in an old-fashioned farmhouse. A lad, perhaps eighteen, was leaving his boyhood’s home to go out alone into the broad, unknown world. His mother, an infinity of maternal affection in her tearful eyes, stood by him. both her hands resting on hia shoulders The boy’s father had turned

tow*rd the open door. In his hand was a curpctsack like those our grandfathers carried; it held the few belongings of the departing lad. The aged grandmother regarded the scene, a look of sadness in her patient face. A young lady sister sat near by, her hand resting on the head of the family dog—a great, noble animal, that looked anxiously into the young man's face as though striving to fathom the meaning of the strange solemnity. A younger sister—a mere child—stood near. Through the open door could be seen the driver waiting to convey his passenger to the village. The boy’s face was a study. It showed the keen regret he felt in leaving' mother, friends and home. There was no bravado or assumed carelessness in it. One felt that tears were almost reaily to start—probably would when the excitement of separation was over. Hut there was no weakness in the face—itexpressed high purpose and firm resolution. It was hard for him to go like this; but once started he would never turn back—he would accomplish what he set about, quietly anil determinedly. He was one of those boys you trust instinctively, feeling that a good mother’s influence is strong within him. It seemed so real, one could almost fancy hearing the parting words: “God bless you, my boy. He true to yourself, and do not forget your home and mother.” Uncle Henry regarded the picture for some time in silence. It evidently appealed to him strongly, for as he looked his face took on a retrospective expression. The passing crowds were unheeded. The time, the place were alike forgotten. The memory of the White City—of forty years of toil and hardship that came before—faded from his memory like a dream when one awakens. He forgot everything but a little Now Hampshire homestead and a weeping mother’s last farewell. Some one in passing brushed rudely against him. He started as one who is aroused from slumber; then turning to his sister, asked: “Mighty purty pickcher, ain't it, Alice?” “Yes, 'tis; right purty.” “It 'minds me somehow of that day I left home. Don’t it you, Alice?” “Yes, it does.” “Must be 'bout forty years ago, ain't

it?”

“Forty year, come next May.” "That chap there’s just about my age then. And you was the size of that little girl, too. (Jucer, ain't it? Alice, that day comes back so clear I see it all —mother tellin' me good-by, and father bringin’ the team 'round to the front door, and you staudin' there cryin'—all so plain! “And I 'member her last words, too —‘Henry, it breaks my heart to let you go, but I guess it’s for the best. I know you’ll always be a man, and not do what you'd be ashamed to tell father and me about, won’t you, my boy?’ "That was forty year ago, and all that time that scene lias stood out in my mind just as plain as if Iliad a fotygraf of it there. And this pickcher 'minds me of it powerful. Somehow it brings it all back, and for awhile I sorter forgot and imagined 1 was leavin’ homo agin’.” There were tears in Alice’s eyes, while a sort of haze gathered on Uncle Henry’s old-fashioned eye-glasses, and he found it necessary to wipe them with his handkerchief. “Say!” he exclaimed, as though struck by a sudden idea, “I wonder who made that chromo. If 1 knew the man I’d offer ’ira two dollars to make me another jest like it Yes I would,” he persisted, in answer to an incredulous glance from his wife. “Ft high, I reckon, the way piekehers sell nowdays, but I’d be willin’ to give it for this. I'd like to have it in a nice black walnut frame hung over the organ in the parlor.” “it’s kind of purty, but I don't see nothing very wonderful about it,” said his wife. “Course not! You wasn't there. You didn't break no home-ties like I did. Always lived close to your ma and pa till they died. Hut [ tell you I know how it feels to leave a good home and I the best mother in the world, and go | 'way off where the probability is you’ll I never see ’em ag’in. I know how a boy feels about then, for I’ve been through the mill. Nay, Flora, do you reckon if you was to take paintin’ lessons you could do such piekehers as that?” “I reckon so,” was the answer. f’Well. I’ll tell ye what we’ll do. When we git back home, you may go to that paintin’ teacher and have ’er learn you to paint. Hut if 1 was you I wouldn't pay no great attention to rankin’ sunflowers and cat-tails. If I was a painter I'd make somethin’ like that—somethin’ common folks like mo can understand and appreciate. I wouldn’t waste two seconds drawin’ long-legged storks and posies nobody never sees growin’. Maybe these are all well enough, and the reason I can't appreciate 'em is because 1 ain’t up on such things. Hut what I do like is a pickcher like this—somethin’ you can look at and study, and feel the better for doin’ it.”—Walter Hall Jewett, in Chicago (iraphic.

EXPORTING CARPETS. In Spite of HIkIi WagcM and Duties on Wool Our Mauufaeturerti Need 1‘roteotlon Only to llleed I’m. Among the poor, helpless American “captains of industry” whom McKinley and his co-la borers were very careful to shield against foreign competition were the manufacturers of carpets. Under the old law the more costly carpets, such as Aubusson, Axn»raster, Saxony, and Wilton, were taxed 45 cents |*cr square yard and HO percent, ad valorem in addition. The McKinley law increased those rates to i'il( cents per square yard and 40 per cent, ad valorem. The McKinley law increased the tax on llrussels carpet from MO cents per square yard and :10 per cent, to 44 cents per square yard and 40 per cent. On three-ply ingrain and like carpets it increased the tax from 1? cents per square yard and MO per cent, to 10 cents per square yard and 4<> per cent And so on through the list The theory of the McKinley law was that the carpet manufacturers of this country needed all this increase in the taxes on imported goods to defend them against foreign competition, and the “pauper labor of Europe.” Four fellow-! Hut what have we here? Nothing less than a report that a manufacturing company at Yonkers is exporting carpets to Europe and selling them there without any protection whatever in open competition with the products of European pauper labor. And it is something more than a report. A representative of the leading commercial daily paper of New York interviewed the agents of the manufacturing concern referred to, and learned from them that the report was true. “Yes, this firm is shipping carpets to England," said one of them. “The carpets that go to the other side are not seeking a market, but have been sold before they leave the manufactory.” Strange, is it not, that manufacturers who have to be protected against foreign competition in the home market by taxes ranging from 00 to 100 per cent., or more, are able to ship carpets to England and compete against their foreign rivals on their own ground without the least protection? How does it happen that these men can send their goods to England and as i no favors of the employers of Hritish cheap labor? Have they cut down the wages of their Yonkers operatives to the low scale which is alleged to prevail in England? The agent explains that "the manufacturers here have developed and perfected machinery and have improved the qualities of the loom.” So, then, it takes less labor to produce a yard of carpet of a given quality in this country than it does in England, and the American manufacturer can pay higher wages and yet sell his goods at the same prices which the English manufacturer sells his. There is one point of interest upon whicli the agent of the Yonkers firm sheds no light He would not state the prices at which the goods were sold on the other side. What the people of this country would like to know is whether the firm is taking advantage of the tariff to exact from them (10 to 100 per cent, more than it gets from Englishmen for the same grade of goods. The reticence of the agent suggests a suspicion that such is the

ease.

He that as it may, it is cortara that the Yonkers firm needs no protection in the home market. It is not selling goods abroad at a loss, if the agent tells the truth, for he says: “We have been wonderfully successful.” And further: “The domestic manufacturer, by his genius, has created and will maintain a market for his goods on tin* other side.” If he can do that now, when lie is taxed on his wool and other materials, what can he not do when his materials are untaxed? Hy the admission of the Yonkers firm he can hold the home market now without i the least protection. With free materials he can feel perfectly secure. When the ways and means eommit- | tee comes to deal with carpets it would do well to inquire into this matter, and j if the statements made arc found to be true it should take care that American manufacturers are not licensed to exact from their own countrymen more than they are glad to get from foreigners for the same goods. And it should do the same as to goods of other kinds, j —Chicago Herald.

The cotton brought to this country comes almost exclusively from Egypt, and is valued for its long staple, which in this respect is excelled only by the cotton of the Sea islands on the coast of South Carolina and Georgia. There is not a question here of difference in price, for the Egyptian cotton is not imported because it is cheaper than the Sea island cotton, but liecause it is well adapted for certain purposes of manufacture. In mixtures of silk and cotton for some fine tissues it serves better than the coarser varieties of American cotton. The Egyptian variety cannot compete with the great mass of the American product: and the planters, therefore, have no need of “protection” against it. Should its importation Ik* prohibited it would merely arrest the manufacture of some fine cotton fabrics, in the same way that prohibitory duties on fine qualities of wool prevent the manufacture of cer-

tain grades of woolen stuffs.

The Egyptian cotton cannot compoie with the Sea island product, for the simple reason that the planters of this cotton have no difficulty in disposing of their whole supply. If the Sea island cotton could be produced in sufficient quantities there would be no importations from Egypt, for the former Is of superior quality. Hut the Sea island cotton is produced on a comparatively small acreage that cannot be enlarged. It is not easy, therefore, to perceive

who would be benefited by tective duty on cotton. Such

would doubtless deprive a few American manufacturers of a needed raw material; but it would neither promote the production of cotton in this country nor tend to raise its price. In putting wool and other materials of textile fabrics on the free list it would be rather absurd to levy a duty on Egyptian cotton. Hut the “friendly movers” who suggest a duty on cotton for the benefit of the southern planters might find more profitable employment in an effort to unite the sheep growers of the country against free wool. Many of the sheep growers have become extremely skeptical—and well they might be—concerning the benefits and beauties of the

A SOUND COMMITTEE.

REPUBLICAN ROT.

The ••runie" Elertlou Will Have So Effect on Tariff Uetonn .Heamirefl. According to the most trustworthy j information from Washington the re- ] suit of the recent elections will not inlluenci* any of the democratic members of the ways and means committee to favor tile emasculation of the tariff bill now in course of preparation, bays a recent dispatch: "Without a single exception the democratic members of Hie committee denounce such talk as cowardice, and they declare that the election inspires them to radical reform rather than frightens them into more moderate revision.” If there is to bo any cowardly retreat it must be made after the bill lias been reported

to the house

The statement is further to the effect that protests from coal and iron mine owners and representatives of other special interests in the Virginias, Alalmma ami elsewhere will not swerve the committee from their purpose to put raw materials on the free list. The committee will not be moved by appeals because they come from professed democrats or from democratic states. They will do what the democratic party stands pledged to do, and what they believe to be to the best interests of the country, regardless of all mere partisan considerations. That is the right kind of talk. It is indicative of backbone and steady ad-

a pro- , Terence to principle that cannot be a duty bent or swayed by the outcome of a

panic election. It is expressive of the courage and the sense of justice and duty which a party must possess in order to achieve or deserve more than ephemeral success. A single step backward from the tariff reform position now lield would be fatal to the democratic party. It would prove that the party in its leadership is fickle, inconstant and destitute of fixed principles and convictions as the floating crowd that is to-day with this party and tomorrow with that, according to the direction of the fitful breezes of prosperity or adversity. The party that stands for the right, unmoved by temporary reverses, strong in the faith

, . , , . , i that reason and right will prevail in wool tariff Texas is the third, if not , th, f ond. will achieve enduring success, the second, sheep raising state in the because it will deserve continued confi-

union, and every representative of that donee.

great and magnanimous state votes | The committee is right in excluding

all the time for free wool. Texas is also the second cotton producing state in tin* union. It would Ik: just as easy

sectional considerations from tariff revision. Such considerations necessarily enter into the scheme of protection;

to persuade tin* representatives of Tex- | they must necessarily be excluded as to vote for protective duties on cot- 'from a system of tariff for revenue, ton as on wool. 1 rotection is about They have operated under protection as rational in ono case as in the other, to the special advantage of certain Philadelphia Record. | portions of the country and the special l injury of other portions, but in the re-

’ form of the iniquitous system there | must be no attempt at retaliation, for that would involve the retention of the same vicious system, with a change only

! in the victims, o

One of the results of our high tariff The only way to effect a reform worth legislation is shown in a report made having and to secure prolonged ascendby ex-C'onsul Gen. Sutton which is be- nncy to the party of reform is to ailing published by the Two l{epublics of here strictly to the doctrine of Hie the ( ity of Mexico. i democratic platform that no taxes, I'p to three years ago nearly all the 1 tariff or excise, should be laid for any silver ore mined in the northern half other purpose than to raise needed revof Mexico was brought to the I nitod enuc, and that it is essentially unjust States for reduction. The railroad J for government to promote the ictercompiinios in tin* southwest received ests of any class or section by means of

COSTLY PROTECTION.

What American Transportation < onipanfe* ami Workmen Lose by the Tariff on

Mexican Ore*.

Crunhlns: the C lerk. Th.'* hotel clerk who is flip may be a pri^* package to his employer, because some people love the easy familiarity which blooms without cultivation, anil then again, some don’t. One of those ! who doesn't recently walked up to the desk of a hostelry. “Can you give me a room in this house?” he asked, with the airof a man who wanted the best. The clerk spried up at onee. “I couldn't very well give yon one out of it,” he replied, whirling the register around. “Well, 1 guess somebody else can,” retorted the visitor, and he picked up his bag and walked out — Detroit Free Fress. —A mouse lately showed great presence of mind on falling Into a dish of cream. It swam round and round violently, until it was able to crawl out on the butter. This was in America.— Tld-Hits.

COTTON AND THE TARIFF. Sops Thrown to Southern riuntcrs hy Protectionists. The increased imports of cotton within a recent period have not been altogether lost upon the protectionist organs, who now and then take occasion to remind southern planters of the dangers threatening them by the competition of cheap cotton-producing lai bur in India and Egypt In the preaI enee of this alleged danger the planters are invited to make common cause with the growers of wool and to demand protective duties on cotton. During the last eight months the im- | ports of raw cotton have amounted to ‘J7,495,832 pounds, an increase of about 0,000,000 pounds over the same months of IMO'J. During the same period thfc exports have amounted to more than a billion pounds, or forty times the amount of the imports. While the imports on raw cotton have never reached $5,000,000 in value in any year, the average value of the exports in the last five years has amounted to not less than $250,000,000. Of course, the benign object of the protectionists is to make a slight diversion in the ranks of the tariff reformers in this attempt to create alarm among the southern planters in regard to Indian competition in cotton. The wool growers and cotton planters, if they could be united, would no doubt form a very redoubtable combination. Hut no one is less concerned than the cotton planter on this score; for he well knows that the cotton of India is so much inferior that it can never enter into competition with hi.s product. In quantity of production India is the only country that could exercise an influence upon the world’s markets against the exportation of American cotton; and India does not produce one-fifth of the yield of the United States

aliuut $1,000,000 a year for carrying the ore, and the smelters of Pueblo, Denver, Kansas City and St. Louis also derived a handsome revenue from it A change was made by the Harrison administration in the classification of silver ore containing lead, and this was followed by a heavy tariff on silver ore. | The result was disastrous to the business of our smelters and the traffic of

our railroads in Mexican ore.

A concentrating plant just erected at Laredo, Tex., at a cost of nearly $1,000,- i 000 had to be abandoned, and a similar j fate befell another new plant at El j Faso. Had the duty not been imposed these works would have given employ- i meat to several hundred men, and the 1 concentrates from the ore would have been shipped on to Colorado. Kansas and Missouri for smelting. Mr. Sutton reports that plans for other concentrat- ! ing and smelting works in the southwest had been made, and that these enterprises were also given up on ac-

count of the prohibitory tariff.

Capital that was to have been invested on this side of the Rio Grande was put into smelters in Mexico. Three large smelters have been built at Monterey and one - the largest anil most complete of its kind in the world —at Sun Luis Potoso. A number of smaller plants have been put up at other points in Mexico, and all are doing well even now, the mining business in that country having been comparatively little affected by the low

price of silver.

According to Mr. Sutton, some #lff,000,000 has lK*i*n invested by Americans in Mexico as a result of our tariff legislation. Our smelting works have lost a considerable portion of their business and the annual loss to our railroads is estimated at $2,000,000.—St. Louis Re-

public.

Vuriiirrii SlimiUi study Eronnniir*. “Humanity generally, and the farmer particularly, has no enemy equal in efficiency for evil than ignorance. Therefore, each tiller of 'he soil should investigate for himself the various methods of cultivating lands, of producing good crops, and of securing remunerative markets. The one honk which I can recommend the farmers for their perusal is Adam Smith's “Wealth of Nations." I would also have, if possible, a daily newspaper from a great city at every fireside. “The daily newspaper is an educator because it leads out into full view every morning all the markets of the world. It turns the light upon all the causes of the fluctuating markets. It constantly illustrates the terse truthfulness of the great .sentence in modern political economy: 'A market for products is products in market,’ less legislation and more learning; less ! gregariousness and more individuality, less dependence upon associations, with the alliances and the granges and more self-relying independence, based upon acquired facts, is a fair statement of the necessities of the American far-mer.-Secretary Morton at Worlds Congress of Agriculture

taxes or in any other way. Let the democratic party hold fast to this doctrine and apply it fearlessly, regardless of selfish appeals from any quarter, and it will win and hold the confidence of the people. Hut if it revises the tariff on protection lines and goes votehunting among the populists and other cheap money cranks, it will be turned out of power as soon as people get a chance at it after they recover from the demoralization of the silver panic.

—Chicago Herald.

THE HAWAIIAN AFFAIR.

KehoeH from the IK-niorraUc Tress os the

President's Policy.

The republican papers are loudly denouncing Fresident Cleveland’s “unpatriotic Hawaiian policy.” If to be just to the weak and to condemn the greed and ambition of unprincipled adventurers is to be unpatriotic, then Fresident Cleveland is guilty. Otherwise

not.—1SL Paul Globe.

The gentlemen of the provisional government of Hawaii are probably kicking themselves now for not taking 1 Claus tSpreckcl's advice to postpone the j revolution until the next presidential , election. He was the only one among j the adventurers who saw that Cleveland's election \\ as likely to upset the game of plunder.—SL Louis Fost-Dis-

patch.

Jingoes and excitable fools will assail the Cleveland administration. The mass ! of citizens who have a regard for national decency will be glad that the administration refuses to turn our government into a tool of bold private ! schemers. They will commend the | president for firmly preserving the tra-

Idlotle O. O. 1*. Drivel on the tlawnllas

Matter.

“A Nation’s Shame” is the titlecf the New York Fress’ leader on the Hawaiian affair; “Our National Shame” is the way the Philadelphia Fress put it; and so it goes a'l along the line of the thick-and-thin brigade of the O. O. F. bazoos “Every American who believes in the immortal principles of the declaration of independence,” blows the New York bazooter, “every American who holds that Hie tyranny of a monarch is treason against the inalienable sovereignty of the pei> pie, every American by whom the starry symbol of the republic is held in reverence and honor, and to whom tha dignity and euthority of the republio are sacred, will regard the outrageous purpose of the Cleveland administration to restore the Hawaiian monarchy with intense indignation and profound shame. Grover Cleveland and the republican renegade whom he has rewarded for party treachery with a seat in his cabinet have gone about their infamous task”—and so on and so on to the extent of a column of hysterics, exclamation points and language of such a character that it would have been more in accordance with common usage if it had been represented by —’s instead of spelled out in the full exposure

of type.

Of course, none of this sort of fustian has anything to do with the case. There is no question of the Americans’ preference for republicanism to monarchy. Even as bold, bad vilyuns as the presa holds Messrs. Cleveland and Gresham to be would not be stupid enough to make sucli an issue as that before the American people. The simple and only question which confronted the administration in this Hawaiian matter was, not one as to the form of government which the United States would prefer to see in the islands, hut whether the provisional government had been established with or without the illegitimate action of our own officials and forces. The evidence which the administrae tion lias taken the pains to gather and weigh for the last seven or eight months shows clearly, according to Secretary Gresham's report, that the Hawaiian government was overthrown and tlie provisional government set up through the complicity of the United States minister at Honolulu and his unjustifiable use of our naval forces at that station. That being the case, we violated our national policy and did the Hawaiian government a wrong which can only be righted by restoring the status which existed before our interference. The fact that the government which we pulled down, and which we are, therefore, in duty bound to set up again, was a monarchy, and a very shabby and disreputable specimen of one at that, has no bearing whatever upon the ethics of the case. We cannot cut our ideas of justice by our own special fashion-plate of government. We cannot claim to keep our flag unsullied by dealing honorably and justly, and in practice deal honorably and justly only with republics. We had nothing to do with the original seleo tion of Hawaii's form of government, and, unless wo annex Hawaii and become responsible for its government, we certainly have no right to change that government Least of all have we the right to change that government, through an intrigue with a few aliens, in order that we may annex the country irrespectively of the wishes of the great body of its citizens. Tha{ is just what our former minister did, and that is what we must undo if we are to continue to boast of bur national integrity, anil to keep “the starry symbol of the republic” worthy of "reverence and

honor.”

It has never been our policy to go aliout the world overthrowing monarchies because we think a republic is the only true form of government. On the contrary, it has been our announced and observed purpose to maintain our own sovereignty, to interfere with nobody and to prevent foreign interference in the Americas. When we proclaim our intention to abandon that policy, which has been the source of so much of our national power and pride, it will be time enough to forsake our own affairs and enter upon the militant work of republicanizing the nations of the earth, whether they wish to be republicanized or not. “Our national shame” would lie, not in rectifying the wrong we have done a puny power, as the administration proposes to rectify it, but iu condoning it, persisting in it. and even profiting by it, as the republican bazooters demand that we should do.—Louisville Courier-

Journal.

OPINIONS AND POINTERS.

uud

ditum established by Jcfforsou Monroe.—St. Louis Republic.

Ferhaps if ex-Minister Stevens had not been such a persistent advocate of Hawaiian annexation long before the deposition of the queen and the establishment of the provisional government lie would find it an easier task to induce people to believe that he took no part in that annexation conspiracy.—Louis-

ville Courier-Journal.

Let Brother McKinley enjoy his presidential boom while it lasts. It is three years till the next presidential election, and in those three years many a boom-ta-ra will become a boom-ta-rain't—Louisville Courier-Journal. The democratic congress has lieen specially commissioned to reform the tariff, and the most violent opposition from the specially protected and subsidized interests cannot turn it asitltv McKinleyism must go.—Buffalo Cou-

rier.

■The McKinley presidential boom

Fresident Cleveland’s decision in the is now at its zenith. When it comes to

Hawaiian case is the only just one possible. He has simply undone the wrong which Minister Stevens, acting without authority; committed in the name of the Harrison administration, and which that administration itself was forced to disavow after it had made thoroughly discreditable use of it. —N. Y. Press. With those who do not stop to consider the importance and significance of this policy and its necessity to the preservation of American diplomatic influence, the course of the administration is not popular. It is just now the object of violent attack. That was to have been expected. Hut it is none tin* less rigid and for that reason it will lie approved as soon as it is really understood. Those who are howling the loudest would have howled just as loudly whatever this administration might have done. The great heart of the nation always comes out right In the end.—Philadelphia Times.

spreading the advocate of high tariff over the entire country he will flatten out considerably. This was clearly demonstrated in 1800 ami 1802.—N. Y. World. While the tariff will be revised with a view to lessening the burden of taxation, especially upon the materials of manufacture, the policy does not contemplate a reduction of the customs revenue, but rather a more equable distribution. — Philadelphia Times. Let no democrat be deceived. The duty of the hour for the demoeratio party is tariff reform. The country has a right to expect a prompt settlement of this question in the line of the promises ^f the democratic platform, 1 and the failure of the party to understand its duty and perform its mission at this time will be its ruin. No party caucuses are needed to hatch compromises and evasions. Let the work bo open and thorough and bo promptly done.—Kansas City Times.