«. IV. KIUIHEK, Editor.
M’CRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1901.
VOL. I.—NO. 9.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
The queen of the Netherlands a.nrl
her husband will visit Emperor Will
iam of Germany, at Pottsdam, from
May 30 to June 1, at the emperor’s in
vitation. >
On the 23d the members of the Ohio
delegation in congress were the
guests of Tacoma, Wash. They were
greeted by members of the Ohio so
ciety, including Congressman Cush
man and other prominent citizens.
On the 23d Charles Boysset, repub
lican, doyen of the French chamber
of deputies, died in Paris. He was
born in 1817; was a deputy in the leg
islative assembly in 1864; was elected
n member of the national assembly in
1871, and had since been continuous
ly re-elected.
John Riley Tanner, former governor
of Illinois, died suddenly, on the 23d,
of rheumatism of the heart,at Spring
field, 111., aged 57. In iiis proclamation
announcing the death,Gov. Yates says
of the former governor: “His efficient
services as a soldier of the republic in
his young manhood and as an official
in many important places of trust in
his maturer years, entitled him to the
respect of his fellow-citizens. Ilis un
tiring efforts and struggles enabled
him to rise from comparative ob
scurity to the highest position within
the gift of the commonwealth.”
II. II. Gilfrey, a legislative clerk of
the United States senate, is now in
London, endeavoring to trace the es
tate of William Baskett, supposed to
have been a London banker, and said
to have rcceitly died, leaving £6,000,
000, the principal heirs being the Bas
ket ts of Polk county, Ore.
On the 24th the challenge commit
tee of the New Y'ork yacht club held
a meeting and decided to extend the
time for the America's cup races one
month, in accordance with the wish
of Sir Thomas Lipton, on account of
the accident 1o Shamrock II.
The “Ulk,” a Berlin humorous pa
per, dc-picts Count Von Waldersee
ready to depart from China standing
before three empty trunks, labelled
“Victories,” “Acquisitions” and “In
demnities,” and asking: “Is it worth
while Hiking them along?”
It is semi-officially asserted in Ber
lin that the resolution by the minis
ters of the powers in Pekin not to re
duce the Chinese indemnity below
450,000,000 taels in final, and also that
China accepts this, thus rendering ap
proximate reimbursement of the ex
* peditionary expenses of the powers
certain.
MISCELLASEOCS.
The London Yachtsman, in an edi
torial written before the accident to
the Shamrocks, says: “The trials of
the two Shamrocks have shattered
our faith in the new boat. We can
not scs what prospect of success Lip
ton has.”
On the 23d the coroner's jury', at
Chicago, which had, for two days,
listened to the evidence in the case
of Mrs. Emina Lucy Judd, wife of one
of the. officials of John Alexander
Dowie’s Zion, returned a verdict hold
ing Dowie, H. W. Judd, husband of
the woman, and Mrs. Sprcclier and
Mrs. Bratseh, to await The action of
the grand jury, or> a charge of crim
inal responsibility for the woman’s
death.
On the 23d the. making of a new
mast and gaff for Shamrock II. was
begun at Glasgow.
In Wyoming 1he live stock industry
is face to face with a grass famine.
Trouble between the cattle men and
sheep men is feared.
On the 21th the schooner C. IT.Hack
neys Capt. Win. C. Ertel, went, ashore
in a northeast gale off Port Washing
ton, Mich. The Milwaukee life-saving
crew was notified, and went to the
wreck with a big wrecking crew. Af
ter considerable exertion the six mem
bers of the crew were rescued, though
the schooner was an utter wreck.
The statement of the treasury bal
ance in the general fund, exclusive of
the $15,000,01)0 gold reserve in the di
vision of redemption, issued on the
21 ill, showed: Available cash bal
ance, $158,910,841; gold, $95,264,790.
The anti-German, agitation in the
province of Posen has assumed alarm
ing proportions, and the Prussian gov
ernment has forbidden all Polish in
door or outdoor meetings for the Pen
tecostal holidays.
Filipinos are manifesting discontent
at the appointment, of American
•judges, and alleged discriminations iu
the civil service in favor of Ameri
cans is finding expression, encouraged
by some of the native judges, who are
aware that the reorganization of the
judiciary' will result in the loss of
their positions.
On the 24th R. G. Dun & Co. report
ed- “Failures for the week num
bered ISO in the United States,against
1S5 last year, and 22 in Canada,
against 20 last year ”
On the 24th the steamer Tactician
cleared from New Orleans for Cape
Town with 1,100 horses for the Brit
ish army.
The merchants and clubs of Havana
have 3ont* ibuted library for the re
lief of th«. Jacksonville fire sufferers.
On the 21th the gunboat Scorpion
arrived at Memphis, Term., and was
received with screeching sirens and a
salute of 31 guns, the latter being re
sponded to by the warship. The
Scorpion will remain there until after
the confederate reunion.
At their next meeting, directors of
the Pullman Sleeping Car Co. will be
ashed to pass upon plans for pension
ing the 12,000 or 15,000 employes of
the company.
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.
The Manila & Dagupan Railroad Co.
lias presented a claim 1o the United
States authorities at Manila for 2,
300,000 for damages sustained during
the insurrection.
The Pretoria correspondent of the
London Daily Mail says that Geu
Louis Botha has asked Gen. PeYVot
to meet him to discuss the situation.
A Washington dispatch says that
Aguilaldo is likely to come to the
United States next fall and spend the
winter at the national capital.
Ernest Dutton, colored, who plead
ed guilty to administering poison to
Wm. Elgood, his father-in-law, with
murderous intent, was sentenced, at
Wilmington, Del., on the 25th, to re
ceive GO lashes, to stand one hour in
the pillory, be imprisoned four years
and pay a fine of $5,000.
Switezrland has awarded a con
tract to Derr Krupp for the equip
ping of the entire Swiss field artillery
with Krupp guns.
The anniversary of the birth of
Queen Victoria v.as observed at
Kingston, Jamaica, on the 2411i, as
a. public holiday. Special Victorian
services were attended by large
crowds.
A statement by tlie internal rev
enue bureau shows that the total re
ceipts under the war revenue act up
to April 30, 1901, were $300,137,884, oi
which $105,702,142 came from docu
mentary stamps; $94,301,128 from
beer, and $45,284,714 from tobacco.
Moses T. Hale, for eight years city
treasurer of Colorado Springs, Col.,
and Charles K. Smith, formerly city
clerk, are under arrest, as principal
and accessory, for the alleged embez
zlement of $20,000.
The published report, that the pope
intended to abolish Ihe apostolic del
egation in Cauda and annex it to that
in the United States is denied in a dis
patch fiom Rome.
The Mark Lane Express expresses
the belief that the British wheat har
vest can not begin until August, ow
ing to the backward weather.
Lewis W. Stone, a wealthy Chicago
real estate owner, was beaten and
chocked into insensibility, in his barn,
on the evening of the 24tli, and robbed
of $11. The robbers evidently expect
ed to secure his day’s rent rollections,
estimated at $1,000, but he had banked
them.
Five persons were killed outright
and 40 others were seriously injured,
on the 2G1h, in a collision between
trolley cars moving at 40 miles per
hour, two miles from (Ireenbush, X.
V. lioth motormen were among the
victims. The scene presented after
the wreck was awlul to behold. The
kinglingwcod to which the two cars
were reduced was mixed with blood
and mangled bodies.
A great strike ot oil was made at
Sour Lake, 20 miles northwest of
Beaumont, Tex., on the 26th. A well
was struck in the rear of the Sour
Lake hotel, and at once became a
gusher, fowing 13,000 barrels a day.
This new strike so far from the Beau
mont field has caused renewed excite
ment all over Texas, and a rush 10
the new district commenced immedi
ately.
A commission from the state of
Wisconsin arrived at San Francisco,
on the 26th, with a $10,000 silver ban
quet service to be presented to the
battleship Wisconsin by the state
whose name she bears. In addition
to the siher service there was also a
bronze badger four feet high cast
from a Spanish cannon captured dur
ing the recent war.
lTp to the 26th 32 bodies, some ‘-f
them terribly mutilated, had been re
covered from the Universal colliery in
Senghenydd, in the Rhonda valley, in
Wales, where the recent explosion oc
curred. The gruesome worked pro
ceeded very slowly, and many painful
scenes were witnessed at the pit’s
mouth.
A Sunday-school class of over live
thousand people was a spectacle pre
sented at the Dunkard national con
ference in Lincoln, Neb., on the 26th.
The meeting was an inspiring one.
The international Sunday-school les*
son of the Dunkard quarterlies was
used.
Chief Examiner A. K. Servon, of the
civil service commission, left Wash
ington, oi the 26th, via New York, for
Honolulu, where lie and Civil Service
Commissioner Rodenlierg, who will
join him en route to Kansas City, will
look into the civil service in Hawaii.
Thomas Morris Avery, founder of
Elgin National Watch Co., died in Chi
cago, on the 26th, from a stroke of
paralysis, Mr. Avery, who had been
ill for the last two years, was born
79 years ago in Madison county, New
York.
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS.
Testified From .Stretcher.
Many sensational development!
came up at the trial of G. C. James,
charged with assault with intent tc
kill J. T. Wilson, also highway rob;
berv, at Hot Springs. Wilson, thq
vh-tim, was brought into court on a
stretcher. He positively identified G.
C. James and -C. I). Etu as his assail
ants. lie told, in detail, the circum
stances of the assault and robbery.
How he was knocked down, blindfold
ed, gagged, then dragged to the rail
road track, thrown upon the rails in
front of the cars and held until the
bell began to ring and the train
started, and how he managed to pull
his body off the track before he was
killed, but too late to save one leg.
which was crushed off. Wilson’s wife
and brother, who were in court, cried
while he told the story of the crime.
Ai-knnsuK Grand LodKC, K. of I».
The Knights of I’ythiasgrand lodge
in session at Little Rock, selected Hot
Springs for the place of next meeting
and elected the following officers:
Supreme representative, M. J. Man
ning, Clarendon; grand chancellor, J.
J. Doyne, Little Rock; grand vice
chancellor, V. II. llallmon, Hot
Springs; grand prelate, J. II. Hine
mon, Pine Bluff; grand K. of It. and
S., Hen W. Bartlett,Little Rock; grand
master exchequer, F. W. Hoyler, Pine
Bluff; grand master-at-arms, N. E.
Diiffie, Batesville; grand inner guard.
A. M. Ponder, Walnut Ridge; grand
outer guard, John W. Hall, Hot
Springs.
(laid on Moonshiner*.
Deputy United States Marshal Tati
arrived at Fort Smith the other day
with five moonshiners and committed
them to the federal jail. Says a dis
patch sent from Fort Smith: “They
were arrested near Bluffton, Yell
county, and belong to an organized,
oath-bound band of moonshiners.
The leader of the band, Ivan Biggs,
who was one of the five, is 72 years
old and a typical moonshiner. He ad
ministers to every member of his
band a solemn oath to protect each
other from the officers of the govern
ment. Several more names of mem
bers of the band have been secured
and further arrests will follow'.”
Arkansas Plinrmacists.
Tlie Arkansas Association of Phar
macists met at Little Rock. The fol
lowing' officers were elected: Presi
dent, William R. Appleton, Hid ora do;
first, vice-president, J. II. Carnahan,
Fort Smith; second vice-president, J,
11. Chestnut, Hot Springs; secretary,
L. K. Snodgrass, Little Rock.
Runaway lloy Hurl.
A 14-year-old boy, giving his namt,
iis Willie Wolfe, home Memphis,
Tenn., was struck and injured by a
trian near Fayetteville. The hoy ran
away from home two months ago.
The railway surgeon said the lud
might recover.
New Station for Fort Smith.
B. F. Yoakum, president of the Fris
co, while at Fort Smith, recently,
stated positively that the road would
soon begin the erection of a fine sta
tion, to replace the old frame strue
ture now in use.
Street Car Hails Arrive.
Six carloads of steel rails for tip
Citizens’ Light and Transit Co., tin
first shipment, have arrived at Pine
Bluff. Active work of laying tin
track has begun.
Fatal Fall From a Latilrr.
Samuel Waver, of Ozark, Frank I ii
county, while engaged in painting a
church, fell from a ladder, a distance
of 30 feet, breaking his neck. Hi
leaves a family.
A Million Capital.
The St. Francis Oil and (-as Co., of
Paragould,(I ret lie eonny.lias filed ar
ticles of incorporation with the sec
retary of state. The capital stock is
$1,000,000.
New Academy
Tt. has been decided by the church
of the Immaculate Conception, at
Fort Smith, to begin the erection ol
a new structure, to cost $30,000
Ipliolds the Anti-Gambling: Act.
Circuit Judge Duffle, at Hot Springs
has upheld the validity of the drastic
anti-gambling act passed by the legis
lature at its recent session.
Tragedy Near Atkins.
Jeff Owens shot, and killed Kit Fan
near Atkins,Pope county, The troublt
grew out of Owens visiting Farr’*
sister. Both colored.
Corn nnd Potatoes.
Corn generally is a poor stand, hut
recent rains have improved it. Irish
potatoes are ;i good stand, ana prom
ise excellent yield.
Drowned in Snllne River.
-Mrs. Dillar Reaves and her infant
child were drowned while trying t.o
ford the Saline river Dear Warren,
Bradley county.
Sold to Ivannas Capitalists.
The Bank of Commerce at. Harrison
has been sold to capitalists of Wichi
ta, Kas., and it will be merged into 8
national bank.
Funeral of Former Governor John R,
Tanner at the Capital of
Illinois.
THE REMAINS VIEWED BY THOUSANDS.
Springfield Thronged with Visitor* From
Abroad—Profuse Floral Tributes—The
Funeral the Largest Ever Held In the
City With the Exception of That of
Abraham Lincoln.
Spring-field, 111., May 27.—In the
beauty of a perfect May day and with
all the pornp and circumstance of a
military funeral and the rites of the
church, the remains of Gov. Tanner
were consigned to the grave, yester
day, in Oak Ridge cemetery. The cas
ket was covered with a flag and with
beautiful floral offerings. When the
casket had been lowered into the
grave the musketry fire of the Fifth
infantry, Illinois national guard,
rolled three times over the open
grave, and the trumpeters sounded
“taps.”
A Large Funeral.
The funeral vvas the largest in point
of attendance ever known in Spring
field, with the exception of the burial
of President Lincoln in April, 1865.
Every railroad brought excursionists
and there were 3,000 strangers in the
city. Scores of prominent politicians
were present from all over the state.
On every public building of the city
Hags were at half-mast, and at sunrise
a major-general’s salute of 13 guns
was fired from a cannon near the
state house. This was followed at in
tervals of half an hour throughout
the day by one discharge, and at sun
set a salute of 13 guns was again
fired.
The remains were taken from the
residence of Turney English, father of
Mrs. Tanner, where they had re
mained since their removal from the
Lei and hotel, at 5:30 a. m., under an
escort of six sergeants of the Fifth
infantry, engineers and signal corps,
under command of Lieut. John Raffer
ty, Co. M, Fifth infantry, Canton, to
the state house, where they lay in
state until the time came for their
being taken to the church.
nemaini laiu in »iarr>.
The rotunda of the state house was
a mass of floral designs, flags and
black and white draping. The public
was admitted at 8:30 a. m., and from
then until 1:30 p. m., when the doors
were closed to the public, there was
a steady stream of people passing
through the state house, the number
being estimated at 30,000. The proces
sion which was to escort the remains
to the church and cemetery formed at
the Leltnd hotel, and, at one o'clock,
marched down Capitol avenue to the
state house, where the hearse and car
riages containing the funeral party,
active and honorary pallbearers and
distinguished guests, fell into line and
the march was taken up past the exe
cutive mansion, the portico of which
was draped in flags and black and
white, to St. Paul’s pro-cathedral.
Til© Chureli Services.
Arriving at the pro-cathedral, which
was filled with those who had been
given tickets of admission, the troops
presented arms and the colors were
dipped, while the Fifth regiment baud
played a dirge, which, added to the
booming of cannon and the tolling of
bells, made a very impressive effect.
Bishop Seymour presided, and after
the reading of the opening sentence
and the lesson by Archdeacon Fred
erick W. Taylor, rector of St. Paul’s,
and Bishop Coadjutor-elect of Quincy
diocese, he recited the creed, made
the closing prayer and pronounced
the benediction. The vested choir
rendered appropriate hymns. At the
close of the service the band played a
dirge, end the march to the ceme
tery was commenced.
March to the Tomlin
The procession was headed by Gov.
Yates and his military staff, in full
uniform, followed bj the Fifth infan
try, Illinois national guard,Col. James
S. Culver commanding; hearse; carri
ages of mourners, and active and
honorary pallbearers; G. A. It.; Sons
of Veterans; Knights of the Macca
bees; 1,200 miners, led by state offi
cers Springfield federation of labor,
and, lastly, the Odd Fellows, 500
strong.
At the cemetery Hon. Isaac N. Phil
lips, of Bloomington, 111., reporter of
the supreme court, and a close per
sonal friend of Gov. Tanner, delivered
an eulogy of Gov. Tanner as politi
cian, political leader and friend.
Archdeacon Taylor then read the
committal service of the Episcopal
church and Bishop Seymour pro
nounced Ihe benediction. The Fifth
infantry fired a salute of three vol
leys of musketry and the trumpeters
blew “taps," concluding the ceremony.
Among the distinguished men pres
ent were Former Gov. John M. Ham
ilton, of Chicago; Congressman Prince,
of Galesburg, and former Congress
man Lorimer, of Chicago, formerly of
East St. Louis, and John I. lieinaker,
of CarliaviUe.
A NEW TARIFF ARGUMENT.
Indication* of a Revolt Axrnlnnt
Protection Are Growing
More Plentiful.
Representative Itabcoek, who intro
duced a bill in the last congress pro
viding for the reduction and even the
removal of certain tariff duties, re
ports that his policy is favored by
many manufacturers. However, there
is one argument which he uses, and
which others have used in favor of
lower duties, that may be used by
those who oppose a more liberal trade
policy. We refer to the fact that our
manufacturers in many cases sell
more cheaply to foreigners than they
do to the people at home. That this
is unfair, and especially so from the
protectionist point of view, cannot,
of course, be denied. The American
people have taxed themselves for
years to build up and maintain certain
industries on the express understand
ing that ultimately they would be able
to buy the products of those industries
at a much lower price than would oth
erwise have been possible, and, there
fore, it seems most unjust for these
protected producers to charge those
who have protected them more than
they charge those against whom they
have been protected. We have, at
their request, given them practical
control of the home market, and now
we find them discriminating against
that market.
But in spite of all this it has al
ready been suggested that the people
ought to be willing to pay higher
prices than foreigners pay, because
by so doing they help our manufac
turers to capture foreign markets.
This matter has been made very clear
by foreign writers. Only the other
day an English authority warned the
people of England that the competi
tion of American trusts would be in
creasingly formidable as the years
parsed. He argued that the monopo
listic production in the United States
was of the most economic kind, and
that it was further helped by the tar
iff, which enabled them to make a
great deal of money in the home mar
ket. His theory was that they made
so much at home, behind the shelter
of the tariff wall, that they could af
ford to sell in foreign markets at cost,
or even below it. Thus the effect of a
protective tariff, in a trust-controlled
market, may be to stimulate exports
by increasing the power of our export
ers to compete in foreign markets.
ure ufive no uuuui uiiu mis urgu
ment will be pushed vigorously by
those who are interested in keeping
up tariff duties. It will be said that
it is as important to develop trade as
it was to establish industries, and that
the former is as much a public object
as the latter. Our favorable balance
of trade will be dwelt on with the ut
most impressiveness, and it will be
attributed to the fact that our people
are willing to pay “a little more” for
their goods than they would have to
pay without the tariff, thus making it
passible' foT our manufacturers to
beat the foreigner even in his own
market. It will be pointed out that
every dollar's worth of goods sent out
of the country means the employment
of just so much more labor. And we
shall be reproachfully asked whether,
for the sake of saving a little money,
we are willing to shut up American
factories, or seriously curtail their
operations, and throw American work
ingmen out of employment. It will
not be easy for the converted protec
tionists to meet such arguments. Rut
the revolt against protectionism is
bound to come. Kvery trust that is
organized in a protected industry will
be an argument in favor of greater
commercial freedom. And every evi
dence of fear of American competition
abroad will strengthen the American
people in their conviction that protec
tion is no longer needed.—Indianap
olis News (Tnd.).
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
-Billy Mason informs an anxious
public that he is willing to do six years
more of blushing at the old salary and
perquisi tes.—Omaha World-Herald.
-Hanna's declaration that “there
are no trusts” was a “good-enough
Morgan till after election,” but it
sounds a little odd now.—X. Y. World.
——Quay's declaration that he in
tends to quit politics “for good” is
wholly superfluous. He couldn't quit
politics fox anything else.—Chicago
Itecord-IIerald (Ind. Rep.).
-President McKinley received a
hospitable welcome in the south, but
that doesn’t mean that the next re
publican candidate for president will
receive the southern vote.—St. Louis
Republic.
-Xorthern republicans who have
invested in the great McLaurin south
ern white republican scheme will dis
cover very soon that they hav® been
caught by one of the brassiest “gold
bricks” that was ever put on the mar
ket.—Atlanta Journal.
-Xo wonder Mr. Babcock has
deemed the time ripe for sounding a
note of warning against our tariff-for
trusts-only. This anti-trust-tariff ad
vocate may be lonesome in the repub
lican organization—now simply the
political annex to the trusts—but the
honesty and intelligence of the coun
try is with him, regardless of party.
—-AYhecUmr Register.
CUBA TO BE MILKED.
Certain Protected Interests In This
Country Getting; Ready to
Do Ilnslness.
When Senator Platt talks about
what is “morally incumbent” on the
United States in the case of Cuba he ia
deceiving no one, not even himself.
If the Cubans accept his amendment
it will not be because they believe
such a yielding will procure them any
favors here. It will be simply and
solely because they are convinced that
the surrender is unavoidable. The
mere command of a power like this is
equivalent to the use of force, and
even the independents grasp at the
amendment now to avoid the alterna
tive of annexation.
Prospective reciprocity may seem to
be a factor in the matter, but if a reso
lution of congress can be construed
out of its plain meaning what do
vague assurances of friendliness on
the part of a single senator amount
to? Should the Cubans pretend to
take them seriously it would only be
for the somewhat sterile satisfaction
of piling up the “morals” to make
them artistically complete. They
would know as well as any American
politician that the practical side of the
question was left untouched. Its im
port, however, is not a mystery. It
was quite apparent when the National
Cigar Leaf association decided to
lobby against any concession what
ever to Cuba.
The undeniable fact is that certain
interests in this country propose to
milk Cuba. If we control the island
under the Platt amendmenet they will
oppose reciprocity. If we annex the
island they will oppose free trade.
They have no thought of uniform laws,
and if they believed that annexation
would bring them about they would
throng the corridors of the capitol to
prevent any such consummation. The
kind of annexation which they might
favor would leave Cuba outside the
constitution and under unequal laws
made in Washington. This would be
an ideal condition from their stand
point and particularly advantageous
for the milking process.
It is evident, therefore, why the
Cuban radicals prefer the amendment
to annexation, whatever they may
think of the chances of reciprocity.
The developments incline them to
keep as clear as possible from the dic
tation of the hostile interests here.
The people of the United State*
would honor our pledges to Cuba, but
trade interests have no bowels.—Chi
cago Record-Herald (Rep.).
SPEECHES OF THE PRESIDENT
OntcroppInKi of a Tendency to I.ay
A«l<le the Old Chinese W nil of
Duties Idea.
The character of the president's
speeches has been a surprise even to
his party friends. With no elections
in sight, and with the next session of
congress more than six months off, it
was supposed that Mr. McKinley’s re
sponses to the greetings en route
would be made up of that pleasant
oratorical 'compound known as
taffy." Instead of this, the presi
dent has not only reaffirmed his ad
herence to “expansion,” which he has
good reason to know is popular at
the south, but has boldly hinted at a
progressive economic and commercial
policy.
It was announced before the presi
dent's departure from Washington
that “during his trip he would be reg
ularly informed^of the progress of
the plans for loc%l revenues in Porto
Rico, and the moment the expenses
of the island are met by its local
revenues the proclamation of free
trade between Porto Rico and the
I’nited States will issue, wherever the
president may be, though of course it
will be dated from Washington.” This
notion will offend the tobacco and
sugar growers of this country, who
have protested that “free trade’’ with
our new possessions will spell ruin to
them. Rut the president forestalled
this complaint in his Memphis speech
in saying that “maxims are not as
profitable as markets,” and by ad
monishing his hearers that we must
“solve the problems that confront us
untrammeled by the past.”
Some of the old republican maxims
about the beauties of a one-sided
trade behind a Chinese wall of duties,
once expressed in the question of
a spread-eagle western senator:
“What is abroad to us?” have been
smashed by the logic of trade events
of the last four years. We have an
enormous foreign trade and are
reaching for more.
Mr. McKinley perceives this, and ev
idently purposes to shape the policy
of his second term without being too
much “trammeled by the past.”
There is no better politician in the
country than William McKinley; and
what he hears “with his ear to the
ground” is quite likely to come to
pass.—N. Y. World._
-Mr. Hanna is one of those repub
licans described by Mr. Babcock, men
who hold the high protective tariff da
a “fetich to be worshiped and not
touched.” It is contrary to all Icgie
that the tariff should be touched by
the people. On the contrary, the peo
ple must expect to be “touched” by
the tariff.—Albany Argua.