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TlrlE HERALD.
Jl IM.I-III-I" I' Ml V I.Xl I I I' SI M'.W
NATES OF SUBSCRIPTION.
HMI.Y Kl'llluN.
One Year tin tnlv.i'ii ei - V, mi
Six moot 1 1 1 "'
Uy Carrier, per wirk, .... 1. 1
Wl-.I- K I.V KM I loX.
Olio Year in it'lvance, "
11 not iii-l in iilv.ince, J'.' Ii
Sil mi nt In, 1 '
TlllfC IIIOlllllS, I'1
Ti'K'iili'iiu' Nimili'-r ;!.
IX Sl'AM-ll tin- ple-ent iK IIH
cratic m.ijiirity is called Incura th
olicio. A nrxni of red-kins are making
things lively f.ir liit Mexicans .il
present writ in:.:'.
Al.I, Of till' IlllitV MM'lilT-l will IH.W
be t. living coons ; 1 1 m i l; with lllril)
when they go tn s ( h eland.
I'K'I'.SIIHA I ll.lMl-i. thinks Hint
tariff 1 1- isi.ni should In- loll tin Hie
next congress, .mi! tin1 present eon
gress, it is sale t' say holds the
saline opinion.
Tin: country is in t.tvor of plac
ing tin- in, liter of quarantine under
iiii t ion. 1 1 control, as President Har
rison recommends. Congress
ought tu ii' l -.ri i m J 1 1 y on this sttg
geslh in.
IT will give President Harrison
great pleasure tu veto that anti
upturn bill if it reaches him, iiml the
sooner it teaches liim iiml is dis
posed of tin' better it will be fur the
country.
IX Tin; event of the passage of n
dill ro -i 1 1 1 1 jv tlliit no mail shall
draw ;i pension while holding an
office, ( ieueral John C. Hlack w ill
hesitate about asking for a federal
appointment.
Til K legal rat io of value between
silver anil gold in this country is
about l'i to I, but the eniiiinerei.il
ratio in about 'J."i to I. Silver is now
down near the lowest figure at
which it has ever been lloteil.
Si;.XATou- llll.l. has introiliieeil a
bill to repeal the silver law of 1VK.
As men ns far apart as Davul It.
1 1 ill ami John Sherman in polities
an trying to eel the law repealed,
(he chances are that its days are
niiiubered.
l)k IWk'Klll'KST has stepped on
the tail of the Tammany tiger, and
lie roars louder than lie did about
the time Mr. Cleveland use those
bit; cuss words. The trouble is Mr.
Parkhurst is in earnest.
Tut; trust funds held by the gov
ernment for the various Indian
tribes aggregate over I ,(HK 1,0(1(1
which certainly dot s not show that
the ml man has been very badly
.worsted in real estate speculations.
TlIK recommendation of a presi
dent who has been beaten for re
election, and whose parly lias been
voted out of power in congress
seldom impress the country
tdrongly yet the advice which Presi
dent Harrison gives is wise uud
timely.
Thick is a general feeling over
the country that we can get along
for n spell now without Kuropean
immigration. The character of the
immigrant for some time has not
not been encoura dug, but now the
danger from the threatened plague
mattes restriction imperative. Con
gress tdiould act, and act .it once.
There is not a day to lose.
IT is understood that Speaker
Crisp is in favor of continuing in
the next congress the "pop gun"
method of attacking the tarit'f w hieh
lias prevailed in the present con
gress. This is not what the demo
crats promised in the canvass
Perhaps the Wilson faction of tin
party in the house and fhe -Mills
taction in the senate can .-poil this
game.
Chairman IIakivItv say s that he
is too poor to accept a position in
Cleveland's cabinet. This must be
another calamity entirely due to
the McKinley tariff, for the state ol
Pennsylvania paid llarrity's salary
as secretary of the Commonwealth
regularly every month while he was
absent in New York running the
democratic campaign. Five mouths'
salary not earned ought to have al
lowed llarrity to accumulate some
thing. "I AM glad no lives were lost and
that I alone am the principle suffer
er from the disaster." This is Un
characteristic reply of George W.
Child to those who olTcrcd sympa
thy for the loss of his Public Ledg
er building in Philadelphia. The
jam who rejoices that others are
not to share ibis losses is truly a
philanthropist, and no one will
doubt Mr. Child' iright to be disputed.
THE MORTGAGE BUKDEN.
The figure presented upon the
tin ii tgage ipiestioii by Mr. Waite,
special agent of the census I!i;rcau
are pnrtieulury interesting and
suggestive. Tin y show that the in
debletluess from 10 to 1VI was
1V per cent in the west and -d per
cent in the south, and that the in
euinbranceavcraged ail per cent of
fhe assessed value of farms and Co
percent of the- assessed value of
town lots, A large share ol this
.ureal burden was assumed tor the
purpose of buying or improving
properly, and with Hie expection
tli.it it would be lifted by the pin.
tils from crojis or increased bind
values. I in I these sources of ad
vantage have not come U to fhe
requirements; and ci nisei pient ly
I he i ll I dell has been reduced ii':y
a t I he rate ol about T cent a
year. The aggregate Value ol linn
products has declined, but there 1 1 ; i .-,
been no I'orrespiiii' b n t (let tease in
the a gi.; re;; ate obligations ol the
I n iner. ( In Ihe conti !irv. l!i' in-debtedne.-s
has increased bister
til. in (lie accumiil.il ion ol we.il I h.
The borrowed money has not
-aved the intciircd purpose, or. n
other words, has not yielded the
burr iivt i' the profit that he looked
lor in his business. II has paid
interests furlhe use of capital with
out making enough to jitsliliy the
transaction. 1 1 is contl i t ion has nut
been improved, -because his gains
have all gone to meet his expense-',
and he sees no prospect of doing
any belt r in the future.
This is all very unpleasant ami
the victims in the case are to be
prolouutlly cominisserated; hut Ihe
fai l remains that they did their bor
rowing voluntarily, not to siv
eagerly in in iny instances, ami up
on what they considered goud pros,
peels of realizing a handsome
profit. It was not their fault that
their calculations failed. They were
mistaken, ami things did not turn
out as they had hoped and believed.
The blame does not belong t Un
laws ei t her, or to pol i I i al consider,
ations ol any kind. There was no
legislation at that time thai tended
to depress the price ol farm pro
ducts, or to prevent the apprecia
tion of hind values. The unfavor
able conditions were produced by
causes over which the law making
bodies hat! no control; ami it is
eipially true that such bodies can
not now reverse the situation ami
pro ide an easier way of paying
debts than that which is prescribed
in (he contract. It is manifest that
many of the farmers are mortgaged
too heavily, but they are still worth
a good deal more than the indebt
edness, and it will pay to hold them
ami work out the problem in an
honest ami practical way. Less
than half (he whole number ol
farms are included in the mort
gaged list, even in the new western
states, and that is an encouraging
fact. There is very little borrowing
at present anywhere, ami that isan
other wholesome indication. It will
take several years to remove the ex
isting burden, but it can be done In
patient industry and economy, ami
it cannot be done by any other
means, whatever the demagogues.
ami fanatics may declare to the
contrary,
REFORM CLUB BANQUET.
The New York annex of the Cob
den cluli, known as the K'eform club
took occasion hist Saturday night
to assert itself. The bampiet given
in honor of Mr. Cleveland nllorded
opportunity for several very pro
nounced free-trade speeches. Carl
Sell u iv K'oger O. Miller. Senator
Carlisle, ami others of that type
made speeches in which they in
sis(ed .stoutly that the pledges
made by fhe Chicago convention
should be carried out in good faith.
Mr. Cleveland himself dealt, as
Usual, in ii string of platitudes. At
one stage of his speech he seemed
to be on the point of saying some
thing in the same straightout way
as the rest, but before really reach
ingany practical suggestion he lost
himself in the fog'of getierali.ation.
Almost any sentence would be all
well enough as a preliminary
llourish; a prelude to something
definite. Hut from beginning to
end it was a series of fog-banks; the
culminating point, where some
thing might be expected suggest
ive of an idea and a purpose, being
this observation:
We wliii :ire tu In- iluiryt if with Hie ie
spinisil.ilit v of tntikinu iiml exei'iit inu lite
lii slimilil tii-yiu nur 1 1 1 -1 1 1 1 1 lit i , 1 1 fur tlie
t.i-k liy n riniil self i-Miininiitien iiml liy n
self 1'iire.atinti liotti all ignoble unit ml
wmiliy ti'iMi-ncu'S t lne.iteiiniir tu enter
intu nur nintives iiikI ilesiyiis; then tuny
we en it ii il nputi nil tun- ( mint rvnien 1 lie
siinie duty, iiml llien niiiy we hopi-tu per
forin faithfully and successfully tlie work
intrusted to our hands l.v u conlidinn pen
pie.
Lvidently the sermons which the
president-elect heard from his
father's pulpit in childhood mode
led his literary style and gave lorm
to his public utterances, whatever
other effect they may have had or
failed to have. Hut this vague
moralized ns a substitute for real
thought is so common that it has
ceased to occasion any surprise. It
is possible that his inaugural will
have some point to it but he is cer
tainly ipiite capable f say ing a
great deal without really saying
anything.
Another notable thing about this
bampiet was the insult to Speaker
Cri.-;. Officially h - is the third
highest dignitary in the land and
practically the second, lor the vice
president outranks him in theory
only. When il copies light down
to actual power in Ihe government
the speaker is second only to tin
president himself. Mr. Cri.-p was
iissjon,.,! ,. seat of honor to which
he was eul i tied, a i:,l !ie had reason
to expect to speak, otiite as a mat
ter of Course. IIe;,nve his speech
to t he A ss( n'iated Pr, in advance
iiml in 1 1 1 1 i 1 1 g .-1 1 be v. . i s g 1 1 i 1 1 y of no
presumption. l!at i' turned out
thai he Wiis not expected to .-peal,
and lelt the hall In-fore ihe speech
making was over, i i1 h inly not car
ing to con real bis i hagrin. liis
va ncil : she, 1 n a I, .'-i !!, id i'ea-.
made a speech, and -o did -eveiid
Ie.--,-r I i gh t s, iue ! ii i , ,i .; Cong'tes.--liiiiu
Johnson of (.-;-. e who shaie.
with 1 1 1 n ry V,il i i t - , e i tile honor t , I
placing Ihe free t.v le plant, in I lie
Chicago !.t I toim.
Mr. Crisp will hardly lad to see in
fhis conspicuous in-iili a notice
Ironi the new admi :i-!l'.,l;on that
some other man is wanted ,,r tic
speakership sum one, perhaps,
le.-s pliant to Tarn ma u y. In return
Speaker Crisp will In- likely to force
an extra session of congress if he
thinks the president does nol want
it ami his own chances lor the
speakership wool I he increased
thirchy. I Ie is also believed to be
master of the situation. If be
should wi-h it the present congress
will probably expire with some in
dispensable and annual appropri
ations nit passed. It is easy to get
ii tlisiiec, fiut-nt ii m I prevent an ad
justment. Mr. Cleveland is herein
iit the mercy of the man hisespecia!
hiiiupious snubbed antl insulted
Saturday night.
It was a great night for mug
wumps "anti-snappers." Hill, Gor
man, l-lower, Price ami all the Tam
many braves wen1 conspicuous for
their absence. This may prove sig
nificant. Mr. Cleveland may have
taken this method of notifying the
opponents of his nomination Unit
he can remember what happened
during tin- first half of the yearand
that ii "friend in need is a fjicud in
deed." Hut the republicans must
not rely upon the dissensions of
democracy to restore to them the
reins of power. They must, on the
contrary, continue to be aggressive
ami constructive, and not merely
alert to democratic blunders and
animosities.
TARIFF TINKERING.
An extra session of congress, in
which wool, binding twine and tin
plate might be put on the free list
"readily," would help in "restoring
hope and confidence to industry
in general" is the conclusion of the
Nation and of sundry other jour
nals. "It would start the woolen in
dustry, which has long been langu
ishing, into renewed activity. The
shoddy mills would shut up, but
the poor man could get a coat
whose dieapness and durability
would, far from making him a
'cheap man,' increase his self-respect
as well ;is his temperature,
ami he would go to sleep under a
real wollen blanket, and not a Mc
Kinley cotton or shoddy simula
crum," Such is The Nation's ver
dict. The truth if , as on r coluuis have
proved by solid fails, that the
wollen industry has not languished
but has revived under the McKinley
tariff, ami that less shoddy js- used
in American th in in I aiglish wool
ens, less made here th in in Lug
land. The Nation waxes indignant and
says: "The fraud of the McKinley
1 n II oil the poor through their blank
ets alone contains moral guilt
enough to till one ol the biggest
penitentiaries in the country with
malefactors."
Let every protectionist bow his
head and he humbly thankful that
his fraud is rebuked by this ir
tuous Journal. In tlie next sentence
after its assertion about shoddy,
which never hits ami never .'an be
proved, for it is not true, we are
told that "McKinley "s national rep
utation is now entering on a new
phase, which raises u serious (pies
tiou lor all patriotic Americans.
When he was hated and feared
among all civili.ed nations it was
our obvious duty, of course, to bow-
before him ;is a miracle of wisdom
and benevolence, and let him walk
over us to his heart's content. Hut
now he has become an object of
world-widt and inextinguishable
laughter."
Do the growing company of Kng
lish workmen who are protesting
against Hritish free trade join in
this laughter: Is it not the rejoic
ing of traders who would sell us
their foreign products: It is an
early and shallow shouting, which
will do no harm to an eminently
able and true man. Wait a little.
Kemeinber that old saying, "He
laughs best who laughs last."
THE MERCHANT MARINE.
The president, in Unit part of his
message which advised liberal ap
propriations in aid of the rchabil
fatiou of our inerali mt marine,
said:
lar ;:;;iiii and iae;is (J;, , l,cen I alien at
oar own li.K I,-, and our I.,l(- iltl,etls
t iiere laid down !,y i',iri-,-!i -h ; pui.i -1 er-.
An tnereasiiitr torrent of Anieriean
t,a'l t" I'iniopr lai-i out nteited n a-t
- nil an il ilillly to t lie d . id -n-ls i ,f h ,n -i.il
saijrou tiers. Tie- Iml.an e ol 1 1 ode sle.u it
hv till- liool.s of our I lit-, illl hoil-es li.i-l-eeti
erv 1;itl;,-1- r,"l'li';-,!, iold in mane
M.it- iiltogciher e.tiii's;t!i-lie. l.y tl.i
( , ,li -t aat d iiii it. lilt!;,- eai 1 ' 'J ,,n i ' iJ-t
I er Cent I ,(' oil r i 1 1 ; , I - We, I- I110IIL.I1I ill
A -lie. lean e--ei-. "liic-r ..r-at l-V'i:u
I e.l ttl -! 1 1 i 1- 1 1 1 a i n t a . 1 1, d l -'Ol lol.l!e eie
1 1 . a . I o I t 1 1 e : 1 1 u r 1 ! e I , " o ' ' . I t - w i '. ' I t!l, i I'
te elle i e ? 1 1 1 ii, 1 1 1 i, wil.'Ii ill
linn- ol v.af they will I., .-on:-- .:t."t ,-l
t heir :il l'i, t li..;il e t.ilitl !,::!. 11:--. l'r-1
i ' 1 1 1 1 e : ,
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in tone ,
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sides for ships it " pa 1 : -incited
polic v v "iii- ii G 1
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P.i iti.i t
has reiioii ! ici-i 1 i, i -..; a .'' i hit ,
ireat I hit i. i II did I n .1 pt'et I to l e- ,
nouuee il until by long u-e of it
-lie had made bet -ell l li.-'.l'es- ol i
ihe - -as -it s t he 1 at r ( ((:: 1 1 . and
wii-iis),. did i re! ea 1 in i e, ton to e
il -he rested in pretension, fdie I
eh.rlgcd the name ol the thing, bill
kepi the thing. Iii-'liad of "sub.
.--I dc -," .- he pa id "compensation b't'l
po-lal service," but she paid far in
evct-ss of the re il value of the ser
vice, fail it "s-u!.-i ly ," or call it
"com H-iisai ion, " I a-1 pay American
ve.-sels Iron) the Amciican treas
ury at the rat.-s paid to Hi'itish ves
sels from the Hriti-li treasury,
and there soon will be a re
vival o f A niericau shipping inter
ests ;iml a transfer ol the Anieriean
passenger ami freight trade from
Hritish to Anieriean vessels.
The Hritish government has paid
to the "postal packet serv ice," mean
ing to shipowners who carried
Hritish mails, the billow ing named
sums between iN'.sand VL
Year
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In lNiil-TH, while Hritain was :iy
ing ifii.tlllt.CKMo her vessels that car
ried foreign mails. the I'nited States
was paying the inconseipientiil sum
of lfl,rja,:i:t:i. In lssst), while Hritain
w;is paying li.t.ll.llla, the I'nited
Stiites was paying ,fa(il!,tiil(( for the
whole of its foreign mad service.
Over ami above these payments,
the Hritish Government gives a vir
tual free insurance against risks of
war to the vessels owned by firms
that carry mails, by making con
tracts for the actual purchase, or
the lessing, with payment of full
value in the event of capture or des
truction by the enemy, of the best
and fiistest vessels of the merchant
marine.
It has gone further than this, fn
a contract made with the Koyal
Mail Steam Company, carrying
mails between Southampton and
Hi'a.ilian pol ls, in addition to the
birge "compensation" or "subsidy"
the n line is immaterial - of l.liad.
iioo, which is about double what the
I'nited Statc paid for the carriage
of all its last year's ocean-goine.
m ail, the Hritish Government made
his guarantee:
Win-never tlie annual income of the
cotiiiaiiy from all sunn es doe- no! admit
of the payment of a di nl'-lid of s jet
c -til on tlie capital employed, t he sal i I
-lull l,e increased hy so niai h snhjei t to
a I im it i if Id" n-tti ;is is rcjuired to iiiaio
up -,ii 1 1 a di idctid.
And y t t there are people who
speculate upon the causes of Un
American merchant marine. It de
clined ;is life declines in all
things that are insufficiently nour
ished or iitiideipialely protected
during the period of y outh.
THM SHERMAN ANTI- I RUST LAW.
A case is to be brought up in
Massachusetts within a lew day's to
lest the constitutionality of the
Sherman antitrust law. This is
decidedly welcome news to the
country. Although the law hits
been on the statute book about two
years, no really serious attempt
has yet been made to auforce it. Il
was understood at the time of its
enactment that the frameis of the
law acted in good faith in bringing
it forward and pushing it to pas
sage. They reali.ed that the abuses
against wliicn it was directed were
serious, and there is good cause lor
the beliel that they wi re convinced
this act would remedy them, or at
any rate would lessen them. Mr.
Ldmunds, who was still in the sen
ate when the Sherman bill was be
fore Unit body, says Unit the meas
ure received the careful revision of
the beet constitutional lawy ers of
the senate, and thai, in his opinion,
it cm stand all the legal tests to
which it can be subjected. The emi
nent Vermoiii-.-r is himself one of
the best constitutional lawyers in
the country, and has declared that
this act is operative is doubtless
' the cause of the bringing up of the
case in Massachusetts to test the
law. The National Cash K'egister
company, it is said, is to be attacked
and if the act is found to stand the
assault which the agents of this
concern will make upon its con
til ui ionality is assured, and the in
tention then is to invoke it against
the rest of the combines.
It is time that this law was sub
mitted to the required tests, so that
the country could tell if any means
of redress against tin- irusts were at
baud. I f the law fails in its pur
pose then other acts will have to be
passed un t il one is obtained that
will main) tin itself The readiest
and most i-lfective way lo down the
combines in dutiable articles is to
a s-a u 1 1 i hem at the custom house.
1'he sugar trust could be crushed
iii this way. Let the duty betaken
oil' 1',-li a,-,! sugar am I l lie (rust can
not exist ii month. 1 !ti I neither par
ty seems to have the courage or the
honesty t-i strike tin- trust at this
point, tln-relore it will have to be
dealt wilh by some such ctiact
m -ids as the Sherman law. More
over. there are Iru-ls on articles
111 it are not ! nt iahlc. am 1 w hieh can
not be attacked at Ihe national fron
tiers. The hard .-oal trust is one ol
lin se, its product being on (lie free
list. Perhaps this combine could
be hampered by taking the duty oil
soil coal. The soft coal men haven
trust of their ow n, and by removing
the impost on their product the
combine could be stumped out ami
the o'her might be weakened, if not
crippled. There is a strong oppo
sition. though, in the south as well
as in of her loca I it ies to t he reiuova I
of flu- duty on soft coal, ami public
sentiment can hardly be arc-used
sufficiently at present to compel
congress to abolish the duty and
strike down the combine. Hut the
trusts which are not due to the tar
iff in any way ami which can nol be
iit'ect by any lowering or abolish
ing' of duties, are so numerous and
so iuf imous that anti-trust laws are
necessary, and il the Sherman law
be found iiiiidetpiijle other ami
better laws will have to la- framed.
HOW IT IS ALREADY WORKING.
Those who have regarded ns mere
political clap-trap the warnings ol
republican party that the election
ol Cleveland uud Stevenson would
unsettle the business of (he coun
try will no,v have the satisfaction,
such as it is, of witnessing Un
truth of all the lias been said or
written in regard to the effects of
free trade on the industries of this
country. Already its ellects are
visible, although over it year will
elapse before the convening of the
Fifty-third congress, which alone
can give effects to the free-trade
dogmas of the democratic parly.
Woolen manufactures here in Neiv
Ivngland sei-ni to be the ones most
likely to suffer, as many of them
have countermanded orders for
new machinery which were given
prior to the national election, a case
in point being that of a large con
cern at Lawrence in the state which
had placed an order foriKI looms
with a Worcester manufacturer ami
has canceled it since the election
assinginga reason that, whatever
the democratic party might m
might not do, the business of tin
country would be in an unsettlei!
condition for the next four years
after March 4 next, and it would
not be side to invest machinery tin
h-r such an uncertain condition as
is bound to exist. These are fact -will
grow interesting to wage-earners
in (he near future. - Hostm
Commercial.
Hlll'i iK'i; the national prison con
gressiil Haltiniore last Saturday ;r
Haiti more ex- President Hayes mad
ii speech in which he said: "luinii
gration, ;is it exists today, is the
lion in tlie path of the progress ot
America." Time was, he said, when
emigration from Lurope wn
promptcd by a desire on the part ot
the emigrants to enjoy liberty and
to secure a betterment of their so.
cial condition. Now the evils ,,
co nt met labor, the greed of ca pi tit I
iss to populate western lands, and
above al I the iucrcii sing churls nt
"Kuropean communities to send to
America their chronic paupers. In
natics and criminals have given to
this question a gravity that has not
before belonged lo it." The ex-pl'i-s.
ident's views are perhaps a trille ex
treme, but t he in ssity ot finding
;i side dividing line is nevertheless
apparent.
Mr. Cmiviii.AMi can ied New York
but he is nol as po .Hilar as Govern
or 1-lowcr, who is (he only man
who has had a majority of
the votes in the Kinpin
Stiite in many years. ITower had a
clear majority over all other candi
d ites for governor a year ago. Mr.
Cleveland had a plural ity' of L.V.isV
votes ovct Harrison, but he lacked
L'U.ooo votes of having a majority.
There were H-.'J-.J prohibition votes,
l.i.'.'l'.l socialistic labor votes and b,-
:t1 people's party voles cast hi the
Kmpire Stiite.
llAKk-iso.N carried Montana at (he
recent election by I .lit c. I votes.
CRISP'S SPEECH. J
It now seems likely that onrijfv I
again "the stone whi :h the ''iiihl,fTj
rejected tin same slvill he tlie lie
ol the corner." In the ordinal.
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course of, events the speeches m
;it (he New York K'eform club b;
(piet says the Inter Ocean, would I
forgotten almost as soon as spoke.A
as transient as a bird of passage. ; '
Hut the Crisp speech that never f f
was spoken is likely lo be memor
able. Whether the speaker whodid
not speak was justified in giving
out his speech ill advance or not
may be an open question. It
certainly proved a clear cast- of too
1 1 re i ii I - ii ess itot los 1-iiMiiU in , f
s ; s I tli:d he was perfectly pislliali
in his i n i ere: i ce ami not open to an ' l;
criticism whatever. S1'
I his episode recalls the i ud i gi: i ty V
put upon Martin Van Huien by a
democratic s,,n,-,ie, nilderlhe lead of
John C. Calhoun, during Jackson's
first term. Mr. Van Hiiren was :ip
poiitled minister to Knglaud dur
ing' Ihe recess of congress. With
out waiting for the senate to aiil
upon tin- nomination he repain t! v
the court ol St. James, never dream", -g
ing of opposition to continuation.,'1 t
Hut Mr. Calhoun, then vice-president,
ami jealous of Van Hureu's
ascending star, procured his rejec
tion, confident thai he haddisposcd
of the wily New Yorker forever. In
his "thirty years in the senate," Hen
ton tells the story, quoting the con- .
fidenl prediction of Calhoun that
Van I in rcn would never recover
from that liu in iliiit ion. Hut the elfect
was just the opposite. I'roiu that
lime on the "Fox of Kinderhood'
was the man of presidential des
tiny, and Calhoun was the corpse,
except as his own state chose to
honor him. Whatever ell'ect this
Crisp episode may have upon ls(ni,
it is likely to enter largely into the
speakership contest, already vir
tually begun. The pro.-pect is that
the 'Cleveland influence will 1
thrown for Hreckinridge, of Ken- t
, 1. l-.-l f w ,
on ivc; n iisoii, in uesl Virginia,
or some oilier candidate, and all '
'plite iipart from any tpiestion ot 'j
principle or line of policy. .,
The speech itself was not partial- 4
hirly Martling. The speaker cairn
out tli.t and siiuare for higher
duties on luxuries and none at all
on raw material. lie made no ex
ception. All raw material was to lie
put on the free list, and no duties
should be levied for anything ex
cept revenue, lie justified the
policy of the democratic house in
not attempting any sweeping and
general changes in the McKinley'-''
bill, but wants the next congress to
make thorough work of it. 1 Ie said
nothing about silver, state hanks, ij
or any thing except the tarilf. ' (,
Mr. I-). Kllery Anderson says that
Mr. Crisp is not their kind of man.
that is. he is more of a llillite than
a CTeveiauder. This may be true,
but in his undelivered speech he
evidently intended to put himself
en rappori with the reform club and
went as far in the direction of free,
trade as any of the speakers of tin
evening. The only evasive speech
of the occasion was (he homily de
livered by Grover Cleveland. If the
president elect has any definite
ideas he keeping them all to him
self and puis off the public with a
lish of mush.
Il- IT is true that General Vai;
Wyck has rented his farm it is to be
Imped tha he does not have it in
niml to abandon tin state. He oc-v
' ooi s ,i nun in- position 111 .XCDIilS- 1
. I ami especially ill Otoe county,
mil to be frank, we can't spare him.
His politics may be all right for
him, but people will pick Ihiws in
diem if they are so disposed; but
.hen the gen -ral is nut of politic
and let "l.y.oones be hy-gont s."
I he general must ,,, k,.j, j,, p;u.
h'ld.-- Nebraska City Press.
Till: speech of Carl Schitr. at thr-
K'eform" bainpiel last Saturday
d'ght may be condensed into the
lollowing: "Mr. Clevclond. vou were
elected upon your own merits, you
don't owe anything to any party or
to any faction ot' any p,n t y, and you
can safely go ahead as you d -u
please In-the next lour years."
Cl.IIVV.I. .i ha reason to b, f
proud of the fact that he funis him
self in the company ot a man like'
John Sherman as n target for the
animosity ol the -il ver lunatics.
A lion:, of llanibtiig is ,,,it nl.
tirely of compressed wood, which is
as hard as iron a,,,! )y t-1 , t. , , , ; 0 -t j
treatment has been math priHi
against lire and insects.
Kl'.MDS rules will be needed in the
next house in ord. r ( ,,mv 10
'''""aatstopu.-h tarilf legislation
without unnecessary delay. The
rules should be adopied.
A N r M line of un,,,,. a,v mention.
j I'd in co-im-ctioi, with the Xew York
".atorship. I"lt ''"'Thy is the
i name ol the man who will o-,-t th.
plum.
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