Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 4, 1893, Page 4

EOMAHA DAILY BE IWATER. Bditor. Pally Dee Patly and Sunday, One Year B1x Months s Cmaba. The Beo Butlding, 0l ets e building 1 od Edito o8 showd be Omal e made vainess letters and remittar Tiec: Prblishing com pan d postoMec orders o f the com SWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION, Etate of Nebraska, | County of Douglas, { Geo. T, Trsehnck, s Mehing company aetual erenlntion of rotary of Tie 4 olemnly aw DALY DBEE f was o8 follows: Tuerday Wednesds Friday. D T ; ARE the message? ou ready for president’s —n ave a few annual reports cabinet officials are still to be THE whose heard. —_— UNLESS the time-honored rule no longer holds good the Chicago mayor- alty race will go to the Swift. FrENCH silk manufacturers are not quite satisfied with the concessions granted them by the Wilson taciff bill. The bill should be revised at once. CALIFORNIANS do not relish the pro- posed reduction in the tariff on raisins, figs und prunes. Distance does not seem to lend enchantment to the view in this case. WE TRUST that the members of con- gress enjoyed their brief vacations and are now prepared to work move and talk less during the vegular session than they did during the extra session of that body. THE State Board of Transportation has now succeeded in keeping the rate down on two commodities, green apples and dried grass. The next thing they will tackle will be dried apples and green grangers. WOMEN have acquired the constitu- tional right to vote at all elections in Colorado. Now let the horde of woman suflrage agitators migrate to Colorado and enjoy the fruits of their work. The other states will gladly grant them leuve of absence. EUROPEAN governmentsalready know that the United States will permit no foreign intervention in Brazil. nce the enunciation of the Monroe doctrine they have usually been loth to in- terfeve in the face of protests from our government, and it is scarcely probable that they will attempt anything of the kind at this time. NEBRASKA still offers inducemen's for the settlement of desirable immi- grants within ber borders. People de- siring to improve their economic condi- tions cannot do better than to seek comfortable homes on Nebraska farms. The next year is bound to witne: increased immigration, accompunied by 8 vise in farm values all along the line. IF THE Bank of England is driven into politics by reason of a propo secure a closer connection between the government and the management of the bank the results cannot but prove un- fortunate for all concerned. The two United States banks failed to withstand their introduction as factors into poli- ties. Experience has shown that politi- wal banks cannot be sustained, 1T 18 to be expe ted that the presi- dent’s forthcoming message to congress will be one of extraordinary interest and length. Matters of great national im- portance will demand the president’s .attention and his expressions will be re- garded as in a measure foreshadowing the policy of the administration on lead- ing 1ssues now before the public. It gees without saying that TaHE Ber will print the message in full, HOUSEHOLDERS should demand that their grocers shall sell them coul oil that will stand the legal test and the dealers will in turn bo particular to buy none other. The local dealer is not to blame for the inferior and dangerous compounds that ave sold throughout this city in the name of kerosene. They ‘pay the price of the best oil and in many cases donot know what they are getting uatil the consumers make a veport to them. Ev n is entitled to the protection the law affords in this re- spect. CHICAGO savings banks have decided to cut down the rate of interest which they pay to time depositors from 4 per cent to 3 per cent per unvum. This will doubtless prove a very profitable move for the stockholders of Chicazo savings banks, but it is a black eye to the indu; trial avmy of Chicago and incidentally 4 the re’sil merchants of that city. The Chicago savi banks are at this time reputed to have 16,000,000 on deposit and a reducticn of 1 per cent on savings deposits means a shrinkage of $160,000 g year in the scant incomes of the army of wage workers who have laid by a portion of their earnings for a rainy day. The first effect of this reduction will prob- ably be the withdrawal of several mil- lions from the Chicago savings banks, to be either used in puying off debt alveady incurred or in private loans. Chicago bankers have so far given nosign «f a disposition to cut down the rate of in- terest cn loans, although it is well known that loausble funds are overabundant in thele vaults. The return of o nfidence does net seem to work both ways. 38 an | ! trying to impose. | mew rate as excessive and unreasonable THE REGULAN $108 OF CONGRESS. At noon today the Fifty-third con- gress will meet in regular session. The organization being complete hoth branches will be able to settle down to business at once and it is to be presumed that the disposition will be to proceed promptly with the work of the session. The party in power has no simple or casy task before it. Were it a united party, entirely harmonious regarding policies, it would find little difficulty in legislating upon the important ques- tions with which it must deal, for the provalent feeling among republi- cans appears to be to allow the domocratic majority to assume all the responsibility for legi lation, the republicans contenting them- selves with discussing democratic poli- cios and pointing out what they regard as the mistakes of the party in power, without having recourse to any filibus- tering or obstructive tactics with a view to defeating or unduly delaying action If this shall prove to be the intention of the republicans, and theve is good au- thority for assuming that it will, the democrats will find less trouble from their political opponents than from the dissension in their own ranks. The tariff will, of course, command the largest share of attention and the prospect is that months will b con- sumed in discussion of the new bill. The date fixed by the framers of the measuro for it to go into effect is March 1, 1894, but no one seriously belioves that so radical and comprehensive a bill can be passed through congress prior to that date The republicans will un- doubtedly insist upon ample opportunity for discussion and amendment and it is presumed that the majority will accord the fullest time for legitimate debate. The holiday recess of ten days or two weeks will be taken out of the time and it is thought to ba doubtful whether the house will bo advanced beyond the stage of general debate before the recess begins, Tt is possible that the bill will be completed in the house by Feb- ruary, or a month before the date named for it to go into offect. The sen- ate finance committes will probably not take less than two weeks to examine the measure, and it is very likely to take a greater time. But assuming that the bill may be placed before the senate by the middle of February, it is safe to say that two months will be occupied in its discussion by that body. It is pretty sufo to say that a new tariff bill will not be ready for the signature of the presi- dent before May 1, and persons with ex- tended experience in the business of con- place the date of the passage of ilson bill as far off as July 1. The currency question is only second in importance to that of the tariff, but the country is not £0 well informed as to what the poliey of the party will bo re- garding the former as the latter. It is understood that there will be an attempt on the part of the silver element of the party to get some further legislation re- garding the white metal, but any such cffort will fail. The present congress will have nothing more to do with the silver question. But the demand for a plan to supply more currency will be urgent, and an effort will be made to comply with it. Thereésecems to be very little probability that the proposal to allow the national banks to issue cur- rency to the pav value of their bonds deposited to secure cireula- tion will be adopted. The opposition to it is believed to be too strong to be overcome, and the democrats who are friendly to the proposal will not make much effort in its behalf. The demand for repeul of the 10 per cent tax on state bank issues is assured a very consider- able support. The southorn representa- tives ave practically unanimous in favor of it and they will not be entirely alone in support of the demand. There will be enough democratic opposition, how- ever, to defeat it in conjunction with the republicans. The condition of the treasury calls for immediate attention and something will have to be done to velieve its necessities in advance of results, necessarily un- certain, from revenue legislation. This congress will probably adopt the recommendations of Secretary Carlisle, which may embrace both an issue of bonds and the coinage of the sil- ver seigniotage. There are other questions which will give interest to the regular session of congress—for example, the Hawaiian issue and the repeal of the federal elec- tions law—but these are of far less con- sequence than the tariff and revenue questions, though the course of the party m power as to all of them will have a decided influence upon its future, THE RATE ON BALED HAY, Considerable comment has been aroused throughout Nebraska by reason of the recent action of the State Board of Transportation in acceding to the re- quest wade in a shipper's petition ask- ing for a more favorable rate on huy, and many of the notorious railroad organs have hastened toattempt to make political eapital out of the wonderful dis- covery that the rate on hay established by the order of the board is only half that which is laid down in the new maximum freight rate law. In the first place the action of the State Board of Transportation in rela- tion to the rate on Lhay has been for the most part misunderstood wherever it has not been intentionally misconstrued. The ehurges by way of the Iilkhorn road for shipping hay from Holt county to Omaha had been 7 cents a hundred for some time past. Jn early Oectober the railread gave notice of an increase in those charges to 10 cents per hundied, and it was against this increase in charges that the protest in question was filed. The State Boavrd of Transpor- tation then did not lower the previously existing rate. It merely forbade the railroad from keeping in force the. pow rate of 10 cents per hundred that it was To characterize this required no very great amount of cour- aze, because the T-cent rate bad long been in effect without any objection on the part of the railroad. Without changed conditions making the cost of carrying hay from Holt county to Omaha greater in October than it was previous to October, the new rate was manifestly extortionate on its face until the proof to the ¢ ntravy should be forth- cuning, Tho railroal failed t» make out its ease, and the board could scarcely bave rofused to aceede > the pe . S5 far as eoncerns tho 15-cont hay rate deduced from the maximuam freight rate | bill, it must be remembared that that act mocely fices the maxima above which the rates are not t> by raised ex- coptalter going theough the judicial procodure providel in thy act. Thenew law does not direct that a single exi ing froight rate bo increassd. It pro- coeds upon the theory that the legal schedule is lower than that now existe ing, but it does not make the maximum rate als) the minimum rate. Tho law expressly divects the State Board of Transportation “t) rovise said classifi- cation of froight as horeinbalre tablished whenever it shall appear to a majority of said hoard just and reason- able to revise said classification.” With a brard inclined ty « out the law the fact that a lower rate had for a long time provious to its cnactment been profitably enforced by the railroad would in itsell make the legal muximum oxcossive and unreasonable and bring into operation that mandatory clause which requires the board to revise and lowor such maximum, The inferencs which organs have sought to the new maximum would tend to raise lowar them because schedule is higher than that now in force. The fact that the railroads have had the law tied up in the federal courts—it appears now indefinitely—is the best evidence that its enforcement would cut into the present exactions and not increase them. Had tho State Board of Transportation conscientiously exercised its power to fix rates there would have been no call for the recent maximum rate legislation. 1t will take more than a refusal to allow the Elk- horn to raise its rate on hay to restore the state board to the confidence of the people. o8- the railroad convey is that freight rato law rates rather than in & fow items its ENTERPRISING AND INVINCIBLE. There has been a great deal of blow, bluster and solicited puffery for pre- tended newspaper rivals of THE BEE in these parts. But an intelligent com- parison affords striking proof every day in the year that THE BEE hus no rivals worthy of the name in its broad field between Chicago and the Rockies. THE BEE does not feast its patrons on roast turkey and cranberry sauce Sundays and Christmas and starve them on water gruel and wind pudding the balance of the week. THE BEE can be relied on to furnish the most savory dishes to its readers day in and day out. It is simply absurd for concerns that ave eking out a bare existence to boast their superiority in any ‘department of journalism over this paper. THE BEE pays out more money for editorial brains and telegraphic news than all the dailiesin Nebraska, together with Council Bluffs, Sioux City and Des Moines dumped in. In the quantity and quality of these dispatches, including cable service, congressional news, finan- cial reviews, markets and exhaustive re- ports of every incident that occurs on land or sea, THE BEE is and will con- tinue to be peerless and invincible. When it comes to the earnest and intelligent discussion of na- tional, state and local issues its alleged competitors are simply not in it. Ring orgams and fake factories have to be put on stilts and resort to the well known methods of the mock auction and cheap john shop, but THE BEE always has been and expects always to continue to be patronized on merit alone. Those who subscribe for it get their money’s worth and those who patronize 1ts ad- vertising columns know that they are investing in a paper of known circula- tion. In buying papers or buying space for advertising experience has always shown that in the long run the best is the cheapest. DOWN W.TH THE LOCAL COAL TRUST. In every large city there are hundreds of competent and industrious mechanics and laborers out of employment during the winter season. Omaha is no better off in that respect than other cities. Business depression the past five months has resulted in-increasing the aggrogate number of unemployed men and in a re- duction of wages for mauny of those who have been fortunate enough to hold their positions. 1t is within reason to say that the nnmber of unemployed men of families was never greater in Omaha than it is today. It is also true that the -cost of living has not been reduced in fair. proportion to the scaling down of wages. Anything, therefore, that con- templates a decrcased cost of the neces- saries of life to the consumers of Omaha is worthy of consideration at this time. THE BEE has frequently of late made reference to the excessive price of soft coal, due solely, as we believe, to a com- bine among local dealers, abeited by railroads over which the coal is shipped into Omaha. That such a eombine exists is proven by the fact that the stiff prices prevailing could not be maintained with- out a pool between the dealers and the transportation companies. The average prices of the best grades of soft coal per ton at the mines in lowa, Kansas and Missouri as reported to THE BEE ave: Slack, from 15 to 50 cents; nut, 80 cents to $1; mine run, 80 cents to $1.25; lump, $1.25 to $1.60. The average railroad tariff rates per ton on these grades of coal from the states mentioned to Omaha are: On slack, $1 to $1.32; on nut, mine run and lump, $1.18 to $1.60. It will be noted that the cost of trans- portation of a ton of coal is in most in- stances greater than the original cost of the product at the mines. Take for ex- ample the price of mine run coal, the grade which, more than any other, is sold to the thousands of private con- sumers, the householders of Omaha, It sells at the mines, less than 300 miles distant from this city, at from 80 cents to 81.25 a ton. For hauling this coal the railroads charge from about one and one- fourth to «ne and one-third times the first cost of the coal. This would make the fair average costof this standard | pools and grade of soft coal, laid down in the yards of the Omaha dealers, not to exceed $2.60 per ton. These figures are not invented, but will bear investigation. KEvery private consumer knows that he cannot purchase & ten of mine run soft coal fit to put in a DAY, DEUEMBER 4, 1893 stovo for less than, 84,50, and for what is claimed to bo of a sootless quality he must pay §6 perston. This loaves the dealer a margin of profit on every ton of coal sold to pM¥dte consumers of from $1.90 to 82.40. "Il anybody doubt for & | moment the existence of a coal combine in Omaha? ¥ Istheroa rédelly? The last legis- lature passed a law to prohibit just such combinations organized to flecce the puble, /This law made it un- lawful for any coal dealer or dealers, or other person or. perso: partnership, company, corporation or association to enter int) any agreement, eontract or combination fol! the pooling or fixing of pric Heavy penaltios and costs of suit are imposed upon those convieted of violation of this law. It is within the power of the labdyr organizations or any other class of citizens to test the right of ccal dealers and railroads to extort tribute from the people of Omaha by excessive prices on a commodivy that every resident is com- pelled to buy. We believe that the courts, if invoked by the people, will break this local trust, and enablo con- sumers o biiy coal at reasonable prices. LABOR organizations the membership of which is composed largely of em- ployes of the Union Pacific railway promise to invoke the fedoral court to restore the old scalo of wages on that system. They contend that it the court can fix the salavies of the five new re- ceivers it can also hearken to their humble appeals, Their claims are worthy of consideration and if the re- ceivers arve entitled to a salary of $18,000 each $he men on the line ave cer- tainly entitled to their old rate of pay. The prineiple involved is the same. If the court can fix the pay of the mana- gers it can fix the pay of every man on the road. This may be a place where the Raiiway Employes association can show its hand, unless it is a jug-handled affair, as we have always believed it to be. ONE of the most recently established charities in New York City aimsto give employment to worthy laborers and at the same time to improve the condition of the tencment house district. A con- siderable fund has been subscribed, which is to be devoted to keeping the streets clean in a densely populated area which receives but, little attention from the street cleaning department. The charity will thus operate in a two-fold direction—upon those furnished employ- ment and upon the poor people who are given a better sanitary service. The fund might be expended in supplement- ing any branch of the municipal govern- ment with equally’ beneficial results to ail concerned. Here is an opportuuity for local philanthropists everywhere. About the Size of It. New Yark Recorder. There will be & balance on the wrong side of the national ledger of at least $50,000.000 when the current fiscal year is ended. You will pay o tax ou.youy income next year to mako the deficiency good. e Destraction by Degrees. Globe-Democrat, The sugar. bounty is to be abolished ac- cording to the theory of imputating a dog's tail an inch 4t a'time, and the kindness will be appreciated by the interested parties in a manner corresponding to he canine feeling under such circumstances. ————————— Assorted Tuxes, Minncapolis Tribune. The democracy’s way of removing the bu- den of taxatien from a long suffering people 1s a wonderful thing o bebold. Not since the civil war has' any pariy coquetted with $0 many schemes of taxation more or less odious.” Never has there been o time when the American people wero threatened with a greater variety of taxation of the most ob; noxious form: —_— THiman and the Courts, Philadelphis Ledger. Touse an everyday, homely expression, Governor Tillman evidently believes that “soft words butter no parsmips.” In his message to the general assembly he gives vent to his feelings toward the courts in consequence of their ‘action towards the state liquor dispensary in language more forcible thun elegunt, more earnest than diplomatic. Juaging by the phrases that have been sent out by the dispatches as be- ing thickly scattered through the message as outlets for his wrath, the document, us a state paper, must be truly extraordinary, intoresting and exciting, —— Wrestling with the Defleit, Washington Star, A good many people are reserving their final opinion of the pending rovenue bill until it is completed—in other words, until the ways and weans of raising all of the necessary revenue have been stated and explamed. The present bill suggests how the revenue ean be obtained less some $40,- 000,000 or §0,000,000. It is negessary to know how this deficit is to bo met—whether by an income tax or a corporation tax or a duty on sugar or on some other articles now on the free list—before the cautious states- man can safely commit Limself to an unqual- ified opinion coferning the measure. ey sIng of Mosher. icago Herald, “The mlls of God grind slowly,” but a grist genoerally results. It was 80 in the caso of Mosher, the bank wrecker of Lincoln, Neb., who has finally been put in zebra garb in tho penitentiary at Sioux Falls. He was for many years a republican boss and a prison ring contractor at Lincoln. He robbed the state through his contracts, and later of a large sum of state money deposited in his bank. He robbed his confiding vrivate depositors as well. He rodo on the top wave of success while republican politics prevailed in Nebrasks, but the end came, Phore is a moral hidden somewhere hero that dishonest |Kil}ihlmlll and bank officers may profit by if they discover it soon enough. ————— CRUMBLING C iBINETS, 3, s Washiogton Post: ' King Humbert is con- frouted with a rather formidabie job of turn- ing out rascals. i New York Prass:; The Italian govern- ment is having the usual experieuce of Lry- ing to run a first.class business on & second- class incomo. Minneapolis Times: Tn France and Italy ex-pramiers and exbinbt ministers are almost as numerous und tugortant as colonels in the United States. 1] Kansas City Stir! Cabinets have re- med or are mu-m{ w France, Spain, Servia and Portugal’ To the American poli- ticiau this incomjrehensible. New York Advertiser: Italy's ministry rosigned, and now a8 ministries of France and Servia follow suit. The Hawaiian min- istry was still on top at latest advices. New York World: France, ltaly, Spain, Portugal and Servia are enjoying cabinet crises. They must have some excitement over there, us they don's play foot ball. Kansas City Journal: France and Italy are to haye new cabinets, but the Unil States will probably be obliged to put up with the present one i spite of the fact that it is the poorest oue in the world, Philadelphia Ledger: _Senator Spuler, who will be the now premier of France, if he should scceed in forming a cabinet, 18 a rilliaut journalist and statésman, but holds no fixed opinio He is an opportunist, ad- justing his policies to suit _opportunities they occur. He has served in the cabinet before, and is in every way qualified to be- came a prominent figure in Fronch politics. A Wide Diversity of Opinion on Democ- racy's Fisoal Policy. THE TREND OF EDMORIAL CRITICISM Forty Views Lar soly Colorod by Party AMii- Atlons ~Discordint Notes 1 the Ranks of 15 Sapporters and Opponents. Repab ior Chicago Journal: T¢ should be entitled a bill to destroy, American industries and de- graue Ameritan labor. No one who has read tho Wilson taril bill need be told what it is referred to, Buffalo Ixpress: However insane Mr, Wil son and his colleagues may be, there must be some democratic members of congress who are not ready to commit political suicide by signing the death warrani of the country’s prospority. Philudelphia North American: Mr. Wil- son of West Virgiuia has given another blow to prosparity under the bolt, and has only this to comfort him-—that he has remanded Morrison, Mills and Springer as tariff tinkers to profound oblivion. New York Recorder tated crime against labor. If it shall pass, wages must come down to tho Kuropean standard. ‘T'hat is as certain as that congress will meet next Mooday. And what will be the compensatory benefits to labor? None whatever that any sane man can see. Minneapolis Tribune: Indeed, the Wilson bill is built on protective lines so larw that a dispassionate person would consider it decidedly nearer being a republican me: ure than the revolutionary abolition of pro- tection demanded in the national democratic platform. Kunsas City Journal: The tariff bill as presonted by the ways and means committeo will probably be quite another measure by the time it reaches the president. The southern senators and congressmen are not goin to sce the industries of their states slaughtered without interposing vigorous re- sistauce. St. Paul Pioneer Press: [he interests as- sailed by the bill are so extensive and so varied that it is by no means certain that it Jority of the democratic tes, especiully in the senate. The co tainty of its defeat would bring great rehef 1 the country, and it cannot be long before its fate will be settled. Chicago Tribupe: On the other hand this bill is a radical one. It goes farther on the road toward free trade than the one for which Senator Mills was the sponsor. [t is like that in that it is framed with ereat tenderness for southern interests and gre: disregard for northern ones. THe unwis- takable trail of the southern brigadier 1s over 1t all. Denver Republic Altogether, it m be said to be well, viewed from the republi- can standpoint, that the democrats nave committed themselves to so extreme a m ure. They will be on the defensive in the next congressional election, and they will find it very hard to convince the American people that the policy of protection should be reversed to 50 great an extent. New York Tribune: In short, nearly all classes must shave the blessings of this democratic change, farmers and miners, woolgrowers and weavers, cotton spinners, furnace men and lumber me Itis nov an American bill, but is distinctively for the benefiv of other countries and their indus- tri it is hauling down the American flag in this country as well as in Hawaii. Boston Advertiser; The new tariff bill prepared by the democratic majority of the wars and means committee is partly good and partly bad, a mixture of wisdom and folly. It is notso bad and foolish as there was at one time reason to fear that it would be. Forthat measure of relief let the coun- be duly thankful. The bill bears many infallible marks of having been moditied under the influence of the recent elections. Philadelphia Press: he Wilsun tavift bill will arouse and alarm the country. It is much more extreme and drastic in its de- structive features than has been expected. It far outruns conservative anticipations, and comes up to the most radical demands of the most pronounced enemies of protec- tion. No such bold approach to free trade his ever bafore taken legislative form in this ountry. Cincinnati Commercial: The manufac- turers of Shefield, Birmingham, Liverpool, Nottingham and other great manufacturing centers in England should cable their con- gratulations to the dewmocratic committee- men who drafted the tariff-for-revenue-only monstrosity. They might also post their names for bonorary membership of the Cob- deun club. It is due that they should recognize the solicitude with which their interests have been looked after at Washiugton, Indianapolis Journal: The Wilson tariff bill is the most radical stride toward freo trade that has ever received the sanction of a waysand means committee of an Ameri- can congress. The Mills bill was conser tive compared with it. and the Waiker tariff of 1846 and the further step toward freo trade in 1857, which brought bankrupicy to the treasury, are conservative measures compared with this now before the cotntry. Milwaukee Wisconsin: Upon business, hardly less than upon patriotic and economi cal grounds, the pending bill is flagrantly faulty. It substitutes the ad vaiorom for the specific system in levying duties. ‘This is a deliberate turning back of the wheels of customs administration and is the renewed adoption of u practice which the govern- ments of the world have for the most part discarded. The ad valorem system is one thut puts & premium upon fraud. Philadelphia Inquirer: It will take time to get down to all the iniquities and blun- ders of this bill. The great manufacturing establishments will have to do an imwmense amount of close fizuring. Some of them will close; others will go on. Business must struggle along some way, and of course many factories will get upon their feet af- ter a fashion and will do the best they can. But where does this bill leave the workman, the ono above all others who was promised large wages and pleuty of work by the tariff tinkers! The workman is out at both ends. St. Louis Globe-Dewmocra The one thing that was needed to make this bill odious to the country is provided in the change from specificduties to the ad valorem form. Almost every authority on tariffs who has spoken for the past forty or fifty years has condemned the ad valorem sys- tem, and advocated the imposing of specific rates whenevor practicable, as they are i nine out of every ten cases. Ad valorem duties put a penalty on honesty and a premium on perjury. The Wilson bill is consiseut in being destructive and vicious throughout, and the republican party will fight it with all the resources at its com- mand. The bill is a meai- Independent Republican. Washington Star;: There are many good points about the Wilson bill. It is not u free trade measure, it is not a tariff-for-re- form-ouly measure. There is much less of rotection to American industries in it than n the McKinley act, but it is a protective measure. It corrects some excesses of the McKinley act; it is possibly too radical itself in the propositions of certsin of its schedules, and over these issues the legis- lative battle will rage. [ndignapolis News: On the whole the bill appears to be an honest effort in the direction of a tariff for revenue only. There is plenty of protection in it yet. The exor- bitant McKinley duties ave reduced, und they will range from 15 and 25 per _oaat to something like 00 per cent. Perhaps 30 per cent is about the average rate on dutiablo goods, Itis not free trade, uor anything like it. 1tis uot even s tariff for revenue cnly. Butitis probably as much as the tariff reformers had a rizht to expect, Philadelpbia Ledger: Chairman Wilson 1 one of the ablest memvers of the fpresent congress, and it would naturally be thought that he would be sagacious enough not to dig a double pit, one iu the froat, in the shape of his tariff revision scheme, and auother in the rear in the formof au iu- come tax levy, for his party Lo plunge into. “Tho first of these is, as he and his associates have dug it. deep enough and broad euough to bury his pariy beyoud all reasouable chance or hope of resurrection, To add to the tirst pit 4 second one, du income tax, and, in addition, & stamp tax, a tax on inher- itances and & tax oo rents and stocks, would be to dig for the destruction of the demog- racy more fatally than the enewles of his party could have dove. Under the mighty [THE WILSON TARIFE BILL| | feeling of the coun load of his tariff bill, the democracy would staggor to irretriovable defeat; it'is past the saying what would be_their fate if to that loaa they should ada the crushing bur- den of atax on incomes and similar war taxes in times of peace, Demooratio. St, Louis Republic: The bill is adm in theory and is a practical tax moa carefully worked out. 1t will neot amendments and only a_short debate. Our federal taxation is-getting closo to the con- stitution. Atlanta C ablo nstitution: However faulty it may be as & measuro of complote relief, it will be accopted gladly by the people in proferenco to the existing statute—by all odds tho worst of its kind in the whole course of tariff legislation Dotroit F'reo Press: 1t dof that tho representatives of de. mocracy have thus boldly stood byits pledg for such courage in the face of a powerful and conscienceless opposition {8 in itsall strong evidence of a rightoous cause. Chicago Herald: Taken altogether, the measure may be described as a bill to reduce prohibitory duties and to provide somewhat less protection, with consideravlo opportunity in certain_cases to test the working of free trade. The tariff proposed doos not_at all resemble in its entirety a tariil for rovenue only. New York World: The bill generally is excollent, 1t has been prepared with great and entire conscientiousn It goes very far, perhaps as far as is vossible to go at once, toward a complete fulfilment of democratio pleages. When it passes and becomes a law a new and brighter will begin for American commerce and manu- fuctur Philadelphia Record: As a whole, the proposed measuro should commend 1tself to the intelligent public sentiment which one year ago endorsed the platform upon which its framers have builded. At last the demo- cratic party finds itself in a position to per- form a8 well as to promise. If it have tho courage of its convictions we 1 ave no foar of the resuit. Boston Globe: Once carvied into effect, tariff reform must commend itself, we feel sure, to the people of the whole country. In the new era of prosperity which will follow its introduction, the defenders of MeKinley- vill indeed ' bo few and far between, reform, onco embodied in luw, will amply and abundantly justify itseif by its results. 1t will be here {0 stay. Kunsas City ‘Times: It will at onco bo scen that under the Wilson bill our o facwuring industries will bo groatly stim lated, being cnabled to compate with tho of foreign nations. The raw maternals for which they have boen vompelled to pay eral pricos without any benefit to tho home producer, they will now be enabled to se- cureat somewhere near the cost of produc- tion. Cleveland Plain vorted enlarges the fre pectations. We do not at leogih till we have us. 1f. however, the r tas 10 its main_featu it is not a ente tariff bill. If it had been constructed strictly on the idea of raising revenue it would not have placed so many articles on the free list nor would it have cut so romorselessly on nearly every schedule, Chicago Post: The bill 1s far cal than_any previous tarff rof 2005 10 ocratic is a fact tobo Deales The bill as re- st beyond all ex- fore more radi- em bill. It uso with every will pass. In the sonate it e opposition, which can immaterial featuros. It bafore any reaction in the can so alter the gov- ernment as to vt its provisions. At rty years of protoction, we are sured of a respite from tie anoy. Ww York Sun: We bave read Prof, Wil- tari bill. 1t mav be called a sound protectionist document from one end to the other. ‘There is no revenue only in it, and no democr If McKimley had made it be needu’t be ashamed of his work. He might aiffer with its dotails, but 1ts principle would warm his honest old heart. And it s work of so-called democrats and tariff ve formers! To what hase uses we may roturn, 1c Tmperinl ¢ oad ind turne Might stop u hole to keep the wi Pmladelphia Tim 4o extension of the free hist eally U caut part of the new tarifl. ‘This is entirely in accordance principle laid down by M nd in his famous message of 188 gradually became un aceepled principle of party pol only change it n will go into effe: McKinley ty and 1802, ture of the new t; turers to compete with those of other tries v it iout reducing the wi Louisville Courier-J bill thun either of the the Mills bill whick, on similar grounds, we advocatel, althouwh they fell far short of the mars aimed at by well instructed tarift reformers. We mereiy wish to disown re- spousibility as to those features which scom to us an 1mposition upon the country and to express disapproval of such omissions as ought to have been embodied in the bill, re- serving the right in the forthcomiug debato to challenge whichever of its details as may illustrate the case of free trade against pro- tection. Independent Demociut. ‘Washington Nex coun- s of labor. It is a better lorrison bills or The proposed tariff bill prepared by Chairman Wilson and his democratic associates on the ways and means committees follows with remarkable strictness the traditions of the democratic party, and 1is presentation is a full redemp- tiou of the pledges made in the Chicago plat- i i ¢ form distinetly accepted by the people of the United States last November, New York Evening Post: tarift points on known as the industrials that from hear. iarly known a bill has cauged a decline the stoc ter qua are Tho Wilson of a fow market_in the group and tho groans quite shocking to hose are the concerns more famil- vrusts, They blossomed out reat luxurionsness after the passage of inley bill and became the subject of popular odium. Springfield (Mass.) Republican will meot with the he: the more radical reformer: measure, but it walks so line of probable safety, as vatism will not bo repudiato it. ( The bill rsement of a radical soly along the a rule, that cone disposed squarely to nung that the froe-listing of 8o many important raw materials makes ssary lib 1 producer tured prodi the way of out s, the dificult on done well Kansas City Star taxat from which favors tho mills and factories instead of crippl of many commoditics of common is estimated that it will re st tion 1t n alarge lie at the list base ¢ leading raw materi 1t thus foste g it. It cheay saving to tho peoplo of Tt will adjust taxation in ner, for the benefit of another. Chicago Reeord drafted by the democratic committeo on ways divecti protec tection is extended to manufa free raw materials inexchange for the in the scajes ombra inte experts in the differe Soin the teeth of embraced 1n the bill 1t can | proposed tarifl is a prote New York Times and moans @ tariff, not a re cLure who have ng th roful o8 of oxtonsive t the tive tariff, al concessions to the raw analysi: vroduc - on manu- work has Tho Wilson bill frees of commodities production. nufacturers by vlacing on the free § used in big 5 ndustey ons the cost 1 N equitable mn: Tt will not exact tribute from one class Brielly the now tarift bill wembors of under n of Chairman Wilson outling nue tarif, with considerable cara been granted the the a low Pro- cut r products, How e bo ! fon, free list id that tho oA The committee 1s par- ticularly to bo commendod for proposing that the law, with the dutics on wool 1st of March. prompt accept 15 to secu nce by congress, excoption shall go into offect on the 0 tho mora 1d it tonds of the 1o give certainty to tho caleulations of busi 1088 e the operation of the luw b sional cleciions of next yeu the coun fairly int of the law. mitteo 1t allows, als 'y will have been We v sound o rd the wo! izht months for fore the cong In that blo to obtain i v knowledze of the workings of the com- d statesmantike, an ad- mirable combination of fitelity to with jud Leginnin time n cinciplo, tous caution in its upplication, tho of the final triumph of the cause of commercial fresdom, full of richest prom. ise for the prosperity ¢ Denver News: bill is rates on son tho cific not Lowell Cou rasps the feell Now enough to be Philadelphin knew a husin substitution of ad duties. been all manufacturod duced, and all the specitic Dbeen at most de the land. Topulist, froe tho aw - material, manufactured valore: All raw mado fr duties shed. But The motive in the material the . rticles has not been re: have tho tread to Wil- reduced article and spo. has on not is isive in the measure, aud the trend is in the right direction. - JOKERS' JINGLING BE Orl Record: Muggins: 1o take so Muggins: New York Herald: five dollar bill in t paired for me? Yos, sir. the bill for six months! Indianapolis Journ Hawal M in Lifo: Fond Parent--Reas, enables i Bobh, Fou won .&co The largest makers and sellers ot fine elothes on Barth Drydapple Mrs. Hasheroft 1 Tow has provod In what The hoard y mornin: sood thi Bobby—Pop. what is reason? an to d And what i Parent—Insti she 15 right wh A FLOX Tndianapoiis Journal, Tam the Chrysanthemum, 1 know I'm yiller And But Tam in [t jast tho same. Tam aware 1'm bullt Bomewhat After the pattern of a mop; But yet Lani an afflorescent epitome Of the great American spirit Of it tl ) For I struc A strangor, Without a scenw And no carital, Excopt my blooming shapo; But I'stood straight up And held my head high, And do y And toduy mysolt And my descendants Are in the floral 400, And the more Erills Wo de The mior this country "BROWNING, KNG 7" All night and all day there were falling sntw- flakes, coming down by the thousands as big as pan- But in all of the falling done by the white snow, it stood not a chance nor a ghost of a show, with the way that the people fell onto those suits, which cakes. went like a snow slide when downward it shoots, BROWNING, KING & CO., fend the money and we'll pay the eXpress. | 8. W. Cor.15th and Douglas Sts. REFRYRVERERRERRRS TR RRRTE: O e interost A will somotimoes poorated ieg All persons old uld bo vacein never i his What is he? ravers—Did you find & * pocket of that overcont Tiien why the mischief didn’t you send 1t to m lor—You told me you didn't want to see I Mrs. Hasheroft—This < for nio. s et to diseuss- and thoy get my bov, is that which o whalt 15 right. s - =