iTEN The Railroad Fare Record of One Who is Now Leading the Fusion Legislative State Committee. A FINE SAMPLE OF THE FUSION FORCES How He Tried to Work Every Working Hour of. Every Working Day , and in Doing So Worked the- Gov ernor and Other Professed Reformers. Attorney General Smyth's rulini that a state officer must devote "ever ; working hour of every working day to his job before he can lay oiain to his salary has not only struco. bin in the face and sadly disfigured hi countenance , Lut it has hit J. H. Ed nilsten , state oil inspector and chair man of the fusion legislative campaigi committee , and in fact every state oifi cer s > nd employe who has anything tide do with the administration. Governo Holcomb was out o * the city ycsterda ] and has been for the past few weeks making campaign spechea. Though hi does not appear to put in every work ing hour of every working day at hi : office lie continues to drav/ his salary and an occasional ยง 40 thrown in foi house rent. The attorney general I ; in the earne boat , Uie house rent , ex- cepted. While Oil Inspector Edmistei puts in clay and night trying to placf Senator Allen back in office and possi bly defeat some of the state officers who were not Edmisten men in th < state convention , he keeps right or drawing pay as state oil inspector , in- culding liberal allowances for railroat fare and other "expenses. " Contrary to the attorney general's viev/s in the Irvine case Mr. Edmisten does not gc to the trouble of proving that he puts in any working hours of any working day. It is the general opinion about the state-house that Mr. Edmisten and other state officers care as much for the attorney general's opinion in this mat ter as he seems to himself. How much of the attorney general's opinion is "preached" and how much of it is prac ticed by him is too wall known by those -who are aware that he is spend ing most every working hour of every working day and part of Sundays on the trains. BEFORE TAKING. There are those who contend that Oil Inspector Edmisten did try last year to put in "every working hour of every working clay" on his job as shown by his expense account and his reports of oil inspected by him. These reports taken together prove that he made a desperate effort , because he is shown to have been in two or three places at cnce , industriously drawing railrcad fare for trips to distant parts of tlie state when he was at other points in the state industriously in specting oil. Governor Holcomb made a mild protest and it was intimated that he thought Mr. Edmisten had rail road passes en at least three of the main line railroads in the state , but like the governor has done on other occasions , he prave 5u and allowed Mr. Edraisten to dra\7 the Tars. It is re- portad that the governor consented only after Mr. Edmi .ien reminded him of ths house rent affair. How Mr. E-jmifcten explained his rapid fii'rfit over the stats and his evident omnipresence is not known , Imt it is claimed by his stats house friends that he is fully able to ex plain anything. The roost common ex planation piven is that be was simply following tbe pdvice of Attorney Gen eral Smyth that a state , employe , must devote "every v/orking hour of every working diy' to his job before he can lay c'aiTO to hs r-alary. Two obsta- cles'ia tlie p3th of his reasoning are that the -attorney general's famous 1'cl'ljrcr hd not Voen given tben and that when the holding was made pub- II" it v-33 found not to contain any thing fioiit railroad passes or onini- uresenc ? . WHILE TAKING. Regardless cf vv.c4hcr Alr.'Edniistsn vras trying to put in full time last year en his job , it is admitted that he is net doing'much at it this year. As chairman of the legislative cam paign committee lie has no time to de vote to work enbehalf o ! the state. In or er lo make s. showing for Sen ator Allen he is compelled to give most of the working hours cf most working clays and part of Sundays to working up a sentiment in favor of re form. Ks labor last year in the oil inspector's office 5s considered just the training necessary to make , him valua ble this year in heading a reform movement. This is a part of his rec ord v.rr."tten in his own hamlwriMng in his expsnsa account for May , 1897 , ths dates mentioned Jieiii2 given in ths crdsr in which they were writ ten in his account filed in the ofiice of Auditor Cornell : Jvlay 2. Ponder and return , fare. $ 8.37 May 8 , Chappell and return. . 24.24 May 9. Oziaha and return 3.30 May 12. Beatrice and return. . 3.00 Way 15 , Orleans and return. . . 13.26 I.Ir.y 17 , Oaiaaa and return. , . . 3.30 Tctal for railroad f-va $ 45.48 ' AFTEH TAKING. This amount was drawn by Mr. Ed- nisien for ths month of May for rail road fare in addition to his salary , which is S2.COO a year. It was not a very large amount , but what Mr. Ed- nilsten lias not explained to the public iswhy he drew $24.21 for the expenses of a railroad trip to Chappeil and re turn , on May S , when his report of oil inbpsctsd shows that on May 8 he was in Omaha and Baaver City working like a beaver tryrag to get throush with Uie inspecting of 205 barrels at the latter place and 117 barrels at the former place. When this is explained the people will probably ask how Mr. ESmlsten happened to pay railroad fare on May 2 from Lincoln to Fender and return and on the same day in spect 117 barrels of oil at Grand Island and 113 barrels at Lincoln. Then when this Is answered some reformer may rk why Mr. Edmiston drew railroad fare for round trips to Fender and Chappell and did not drav/ railroad fare for any of the trips mentioned IE the following monthly report for May , the dates being given iu the order written by Mr. Edmistea himself : Barrels inspected. May 18 Lincoln 29G May 22 York 117 May 10 Pav/nee 152 May 21 Tecumseh 118 May 25 Grand Island 117 May 26 Omaha 88 May 26 Lincoln 117 May 27 Nebraska City 87 May 27 Nebraska City 155 May 27 Beatrice 11 May 28 Falls City 83 May 28 David City 118 May 28 Hebron 117 May 2 Grand Island 117 May 2 Lincoln ] 18 May 8 Beaver City 205 May 15 Falls City 87 May 8 Omaha 117 Total barrels 2,331 HIT OR MISS. The record for May Is a fair sample of many other months in the year 1897. Some months he drew fare to certain towns and other months drew nothing for trips to the same towns. While Mr. Edmisten is limited to a salary of $2.000 a year the records in the state house show that he drew $3,634.97 for the year 1897. Of that amount $710.17 was drawn under the head of "railroad fare. " His bill for fare Increased from $39 in Aucust to $82 in the month of October when the political campaign he was managing grew hotter. At that time he was chairman of the populist state central committee. The following is Mr. EdmiGten's rec ord by .months for the year 1897. It shows the amount he c'aims to have expended for railroad falre and also the amount he drew for salary and expenses : Railroad Salary & fare. expenses. January $ 74.23 $ 299.60 February 44.02 309.60 March 51.56 305.57 April GG.24 281.08 May 55.48 413.61 Tune 51.32 275.57 July 60.36 301.33 August 39.44 2o8.22 Sentember 74.88 282.44 October 82.50 288.95 November 83.52 293 56 December 76.62 327.38 Totals $716.17 $3,634.97 Mr. and Mrs. Croaker Telk Politics. "I see 'by ' the weekly Growler , " said Cooker to his wife , "that Attorney General Smyth has drawed the Bible on 'em. H s skinnia' the republicans from the text , 'Thou shalt not steal. ' Gives it to 'em right from the shoulder on the Hartley and Moore defaults. Says that wherever you see republic ans in office there you see stealin' . But wherever fusiomsts are in ofiice there you will see honest government. Says the issue in this campaign is 'twixt honest men and republican default ers. " "Say anything about any other de faulters excepc republicans ? " asked Mrs. Croaker innocently. "Hain't no ethers , Mariar , hain't no 3thers. " "No defaults in this stats except by republicans ? Better read your paper jver again. You've missed something. " "I've missed nothin' , Mariar , notlim' . Read every line of the Growler every week for the last six years an' if any reformer had gone astray it would aave been in the paper an' I'd know ibout it. That's ons thing , Mariar , tbout the weekly reform press. It al- , vays gives the news , the Tacts , the , ruth and nothin' but the truth. That's ivhy the reform voters are so well aosted. They read the reform press. Why , Mariar , here ! Read this paper , : he Weekly Growler ! Look at it ! There's a standin * notice , kept run- iin' every week so that every sub scriber can read it , which says : 'This mper prints all the political news and jives both sides so that the common > eople can keep posted. The Growler lews to the line , let the chips fall vhero they may. ' That's why I like ; he Growler , Mariar. It gives both lides and hews to the line. And that's vhy I say there hain't been no reform ) fficials gone astray in this state. If ; here had been the Growler'd had it a print an' I'd have read it. The Growler hews to the line , Mariar , hews : o the line , " and Croaker shook the iaper at his wife as if to defy contra- iiction. "Do you remember , " said Mrs. Droaker , slowly , "about the burning ) f the cou'-t house in Gosper county a rear or two ago ? " "Yes , " said Croaker , nervously ; 'yes , I guess I do. Yes , I remember ; hat. Read about it at the time , but .he Growler didnt say who caused the nirnin' . Said it was a mysterious case ind that the county treasurer -who was i reformer an' was missin' , would no loubt turn up all right. Didn't he lever turn up ? " ' "No , he never did. Robbed the county 'or every dollar it had , set fire to the : ourt house and ran away by the light ) f it. " "Well , " said Croaker , with a long " ' . One re- jreath , "that's one on us. 'ormer gone astray. Just one. " "Do you remember , " said Mrs. Croaker , "that it was one of your jeautiful fusionists who was county treasurer in Hamilton county whei tlie default occurred there and whei the court house was burned to covei It up ? " "Yes , I remember the court housi burnin' in Hamilton county , and th < default of the county treasurer , bui it didn't know that the treasurer wai a fusionist Growler didn't say at the time what his politics was. " "Do you remember , " continued'Mrs Croaker , "about the $30,000 default ol the county treasurer in Platte county a year or two ago ? " "Yes ; I remember about it , but Mariar , that man couldn't have been one o * the silver forces. Why , Mariar , it's impossible. Platte county has been in control o' the silver forces for years. Judge Sullivan lives there. Was district judge there for years. If a fusionist defaulted in Platte county when Judge Sullivan was on the bench there he got promptly punished , you can count on that. Mariar , for a reform judge lets no guilty man escape. " "Well , " said Mrs. Croaker , "it was a reformer who defaulted and there was a reformer on the bench and a re form prosecutor , but there was no prosecution. The brother of the de faulter who was -with him in business when the default took place has since been promoted to a situation in the state house at a fat salary. " "Must have had a strong pull some where , to saved 'em from prosecution and then give 'em promotion after wards. " "Yes , they had a pull , The man promoted meted into the state house is Senator Allen's son-in-law. " "But , Mariar " "Wait a minute , John. Do you re member the $30,000 default in Greeley county ? There was another reformer and another bright and shining leader of the silver forces , in a fusion county where the people go wild with enthusi asm every time the Bartley default is mentioned. They shake hands and congratulate each other on every street corner and at every cross roads pcstofflce over the Bartley default as if it was an act of Providence , a drift ing star to keep populism afloat for another two years. And there was Custer county ! Keep your seat , John. I'm not through yet. There was Cus ter county , the very nesting place of calamity and repudiation , where Pop Holoomb was on the district bench ; where Pop Sullivan was on the dis trict bench ; where Pop Billgreene was on the district bench ; where all the county officers were pops ; where the prairies burned all night with enthusi asm for wild cat money and wild cat reform ; where each reform candidate is compelled to stand up and pledge himself that he will never steal and will never ride on a railroad pass , for they distrust each other as hypocrites always do ; there in Custer county they defaulted in the county treasurer's of fice , in the county judge's office and all over the county among the town ship treasurers , and if you'd go thure today you'd find 'em sitting 'round reading the Weekly Growler and gloating over the Bartley default. " "One township treasurer in Custer county ( Elk Creek township ) was short $400 at the end of his term and they put him in again as they said to give him a chance to psy up. " "Did he pay up ? " "At the end of his second term he had increased the shortage to $700. The pop county judge was short $600 and the county commissioners so an nounced it , but the ring renominatcd liis for re-election. " "Ought to taken him off the ticket , Mariar , in a case like that , " said Mr. Droaker. "Take him off the ticket ? Why ? He was no worse than the others. There was the township treasurer who tiad defaulted for $700 , and there was Seal renominated for senator who had mioughed $1,200 or $1,500 as investi gator and there was Governor Holcomb , vho had raked in as much more from ; he state as house rent and it was i merry ring of reformers all dancing round the Bartley scandal and crying Step Thief. ' How could they take the lefatilting judge and the defaulting ownship treasurer off the ticket while it the head of the ticket was the name > f a governor whose pockets were mlging with ill-gotten house rent and ailrcad passes ? " "Now. Mariar , how much does this cot up ? " "Well , there's $ n,000 in Gosper coun- y and the "court house burned ; $6.500 n Hamilton county and the court louse burned ; $30.000 in Platte county , nd Senator Allen's son-in-law pro- < : ioted ; $30,000 in Greeley county and 15.000 in Custer county. " "That's $86,500. Mariar. " "Then there's $2,600 in Stanton coun- v , $17,000 in Howard county , $5,000 in 'hayer county , $5,000 in Sherman ounty , $1,540 in Sheridan county , $25- 00 in Hall county , $5,000 in Keith ounty and $13,184 in Harlan county , 25 a grand total of $204,384. ' "Still , Mariar , that hain't as much s Bartley stole. " "No , it is not as much , but it was 11 they could get. Bartley turned ver $800,000 in money to his success- > r. What would have happened if nese house burners had been in the tate treasurer's office ? " "But Meserve is in the state house , " aid Croaker. "Yes , Meserve is in the state house , nd his straw bond is in the state otise , and we haven't settled with him et , " said Mrs. Croaker. The 15utt < ; rino IHSUO. The fusion forces are making no re ly to the articles published showing p their butterine record. They are laking no reply because there is noth- ng which they can say to contradict single statement that has been pub- ished. All the long record showing heir purchases of bufclerine. giving the Dumber of the vouchers , and the wholesale -way in which it has been sed in state institutions , is the abso- ute , undeniable truth. It is not the , 'holo truth , for If the entire butterine iusiness was sifted to the bottom it irould show double the amount used . hat any record has been made con- erning it. While the populists state fficials see the hopelessness of any re- ponse to the facts of record as pub- ished , they are hoping that it will go o further and are somewhat surprised hat after the records of the purchase f three or four tons was compiled that be whole record in all its greasiness ? as not given to the public. Even the usual defense resorted to y populists when their inexcusable cts are shown up , is not resorted to i the butterine case. Their customary plea of "you fellows did it" cannot b used in this case. Ordinarily whe populist officials can say "you repul licans did it , " they seem to think it i a complete and satisfying answer t the public. They have treated th pass business with this kind of rem edy ; treated the house rent record o Governor Holcomb with this remedy treated the do-nothing subserviency o the railroad commission with thli remedy , but they cannot apply it t < their ill-flavored butterine business. When the republican legislature ir 1895 , by the overwhelming vote pjacei upon the statute books a law whict practically outlawed the product o ! packing houses and rendering estab lishments made up in the form and appearance of butter , public opinion was expressed In a way not to be mis ; understood. For nearly two years fol lowing the passage of this law a repub lican itate board was in power at the state house , and the beard of purchase and supplies was a republican board. During -that period n'ot a pound of the butterine packing house product wag purchased for the state institutions. The state board of purchase and sup plies abided by the law and recognized public opinion. It was left for those professing higher integrity and more ability to recognize the voice of the people , to force upon the unfortunate wards of the state the tons of this un wholesome product which has been fairly and openly outlawed. The attitude of Governor Holcomb when this law to protect the public from the fraudulent imposition of but terine makers was placed on the statute bocks , is more and more inter esting the more one considers it. The governor was against this charac- Ler of legislation ; that he was is slmwn in the light , and that he had a veto ready when the law was first passed. He based his veto upon the claim that when the law compelled butterine makers to color their product pink that they were going too far. The Jairy and creamery people of the state who urged the passage of the law , wanted to wipe cut the fraud as completely and thoroughly as it had aeen already outlawed in such states is Iowa , Wisconsin , Illinois and Min- lesota. They knew , and Governor Holcomb knew , that If the stuff was : olored pink that it would not be ilaced on the market at all as a food jroduct. They knew that people would ; lot make a practice of eating plnkt ) Utter any more than they would pur- . ) le lard or black axle grease. So the ittitude of the governor in vetoing .he first bill passed was to make a- vay for butterine manufacturers to bist their product upon a community ind fool them into the use of it. That t has worked to the governor's sat- sfaction , at least , is shown very con- lusively in the showing made of the vho'esale purchases made in the last ourteen months for state institutions. There is one feeble protest that has ieen made in semi-defense , and that is he claim that at the soldiers' home a Grand Island no butterine has been ised. This claim is in direct contra- icticn to the statement of scores of Id soldiers who insist that they have sen fed upon the stuff aaid there is the rord of these old soldiers standing out gainst the one feeble protest made "by lie squaw man of the fusion adminis- ration. But what if this were true ? What ind of a defense is it that attempts 3 justify the feeding of the stuff to imates of all the institutions and then laking one exception ? Is there any jason why the blind children at Ne- raska City , who cannot see what they re being fed , or that the dumb chil- ren at Omaha , who cannot speak leir protest against that kind of food , iould be given butterine and some ther institution be given , the real holesome product ? Is there any rea- > n why the boys and girls in the re- > rmatories , or evsn .the poor , helpless isano should be given this product of > me grease foundry of unknown line- re , while some cue institution is be- ig made an exception ? This is a very Miclusive kind of defense to put up ir an intelligent public to acccept. Nebraska is just fairly entering the mrpany oE the great dairy states of ; e northwest. Its resources and pos- bilities in the creamery line are equal i any possessed by its neighbors. ; her states have builded Lheir eream- y and dairy business into great eminence and profit by absolutely amping out by legislation the pack- g house false butter competition , ebraska has started in to legislate i this question , and this lesislation is the confidence and the support of e public behind it. When , therefore , ese who represent the state in its ghest capacity attempt by their acts id influence to nullify existing law id fly in face of public opinion , they mply brand themselves as enemies the state and its people , and as en- cies of one of the greatest industries at tends to the future prosperity of e commonwealth. LEARING DECK FOR ACTION hat Disposition Is to Bo Olado of the Uoats. Clearing away all deck hamper foi tlon Is the question. What Is to be- me of the ship's boats which hang ; davits fore and aft ? In case of se- 5us action every boat would become a urce of grave danger , says Chambers' urnal. If an enemy's shot struck any ie of them ( and they are In such posed positions that they must in- ' itably be struck ) , the splinters of sod and iron would carry death and struction to the suns' crews and oth- s on deck. The scattering fragments , o , would be almost worse than the rsting shell. It could not be hoped at , after an engagement of half an iur , there would be a single boat left at could float , and meantime their esence would have added heavily to e already inevitable loss o * life In tion. So speedily has this been rec- nized that many naval officers of ex- rlence have it in their minds that , they were called upon to engage , they mid drop their boats over the ship's Ie and let them drift. When the ac- in was over a victorious ship could en cruise round the place where it d been fought and take the chance FOR LACK OF YESSELS FREIGHT FOR ASIA REFUSED ON THIS ACCOUNT. Why Pre ltlont Hill of the Great Northern Kulltvuy Wait Obliged to De cline the Haul of Cotton and Steel for China and Japan. A correspondent of the American Economist , referring to a recent ex pression by James J. Hill , president of the Great Northern railroad , in favor of a bounty of $2 per ton on all export tonnage as a means of reviving the American merchant marine , makes the following caustic comment : "It seems that J. J. Hill is merely a subsidy hunter and an advocate of free ships. Our steamship people are all that kind , pretty much. All they want is support for their lines , and let the nation go to the dogs. They don't want too many lines in compatl- tion with theirs , even if American. Now , what we want is the national in terest attended to first , private enter prise second. Subsidy is monopolistic. Three great corporations comprise most of the German steam marine. That wiR never do in the United States. " There fe much force in these terse observations. American sentiment in favor of < a fair and open field for in dividual enterprise will not take kind ly to the policy of subsidies , free ships and marine monopolies. That is not the kind of a merchant marine to suit the peopja of the United States. Sub- eidy carries on its face the fact of favoritism , and an export tonnage bounty is only another came for sub sidy. If American shipping were as effi ciently protected in the oversea traf fic as it is in the lake and coastwise traffic President Hill would not now be refusing the transcontinental haul of steel rails for Japan and raw cotton for China because of lack of ships to carry the freight across the Pacific ocean. He has already solved this ing trade , and you will bring back the marine supremacy that has been lost for nearly forty years. Then and not until then. PROTECTION VICTORY. Miff Foreign Manufacturing Plant to B Transferred to America. The proprietor and manager of the .largest tin plate plant in the world , William Williams , has sold his Welsh interest and will locate in Pittsburg. The Worcester and Upper Forrest works , at Morrlstown , Wales , were sold in August at a public sale for 88,000. r- The plant was equipped with furnace and steel mills , but had been idle for some time. Two sons of Mr. Williams spent some time in the United States last spring , and , it is understood , leas ed land in the vicinity of Pittsburg for a tin plate plant. The loss of the great American mar ket , the heaviest consumer of tin plate in the world , has necessitated this mi gration from Wales to the United States. It all comes of protecting the manufacture of tin plate in the United States. Now we are making the greater I part of the tin plate used here , and the cost to the consumer has steadily fall en to the lowest point ever known. To have forced the largest manufacturer in the world to close up his Welsh plant and invest his millions in an American plant , where the American rate of wages must be paid , Is another of those protection victories that have been coming thick and fast in the pas' year. Loses MucU of Its Force. For a few years at least manufac turers , importers and exporters need have no fear of a derangement of busi ness due to tariff agitation. The tariff cannot be touched so long as Mr. McKinley - Kinley remains in the white house , which brings us up to March 4 , 1901 , and , even it the Republican party should be defeated in the next presi dential election , the Republicans might still be able to retain control of the senate , and effectually block an at tempted revision of the tariff. But the / 4 FOR LACK OF SHIPS. " V "The Great Northern road alone has been compelled to refuse the shipment of 60,000 tons of steel rails and 30,000 , OCO pounds of cotton all demanded by Asia simply because there are no water facilities by means of which this merchandise may be transported to Asiatic ports. " President J. J. Hill in a recent interview. problem as regards rail and lake car rying , and he would solve it as read ily in the matter of rail and ocean traf fic if the conditions were the same. The trouble is that while the lake carrying trade is amply protected from alien competition , the ocean carrying trade is wholly without protection. Some years ago Mr. Hill undertook to reduce the cost of transporting a bushel of wheat from the granaries of Minnesota and the Dakotas to the ter minal elevators at Buffalo. He or- lered a reduction in the Great North ern's charge for hauling the grain 'rom interior points to Dtiluth , only : o find that the hoped-for addition to : he price realized by the wheat grow er was promptly wiped cut by an ; quivalent increase by the lake trans- jortation companies in the charge for lelivering the wheat from Duluth to Buffalo. President Hill thereupon ook mattem into his own bands. He : aused to be built and put in service jetween the head of Lake Superior and .he foot of Lake Erie a fleet of fast iteel steamships , each with a freight lapacity of over 3,000 tons. From that noment he was master of the situation ind the power of the Great Northern ailroad to make and maintain a rate ras once for all established. Lake shipping was protected then as low by laws which made it impossible or foreign vessels of cheaper construc- ion and cheaper payrolls to compete njuriously against the new Northern ine. If oversea traffic in American lottoms were similarly protected to- lay President Hill would not now be efusing freight for lack of ships to ake it across to Asia. Long before this he Great Northern railroad would iave had in operaton its own line of teamships to handle its trafilc with Ihlna , Japan , Australia , and the Phil- ppines. With a system of discriminating du- ies in force these ships could be c-er- ain of return cargoes at remunerative ates. Instead of having to take their hances with the underbidding tramp teamers manned by underpaid tramp rews. Discriminating duties made nd maintained the American mer- hant marine from 17S9 up to the time rhen that wise and sensible system -as - abandoned for the folly of "mar ie reciprocity. " Then the American ag gradually disappeared from the ea , until today it is , not displayed t the foretop of more than one- .velfth of the ships that carry Ameri- in commerce. Bring back the policy iat In times past made our shipping idustry foremost in the world's carry- tariff is not the live issue it once was. Figures are more potent than theories. With an enormous balance of trade , with a demand for American products in all parts of the world , with imports falling off. and the American market supplied by American manufacturers as it never was before , the argument against protection loses much of its force. The Republican party has always been a party Of "good times" and profited by fortunate trade conditions. So long as the farmer receives high prices for his wheat and other cereals , and the manufacturer finds a ready market for his wares at a fair profit , there is little disposition shown by th * country to exchange protection for free trade. There is the danger to bo feared from a "boom" and overproduc tion and reckless speculation. If busi ness is conducted on conservative principles there need be no fear of the future. Maurice Lev.in the National Review. . "The inference is plain that this large decrease in purchases abroad must have been offset by increased expenditure - penditure and production at home New York Times , free trade is it not well ? And if well , must there not be some virtue in an eco nomic policy which decreases the vol ume of purchases abroad , increases the volume of sales abroad to the- highest figure ever known in our commerce and also increases expenditure and production at home ? Are not these ideal conditions of commerce indus try and finance ? What nation of the earth can make a similar showing ? Is it wise , sensible or patriotic to fi-ht the party and the policy by whFch" these conditions are brought about ? * Sort of Annoyances. * A strong protest was made by the tree traders when the DingCy [ tariff imposed a duty on the wearing apparel of returning tourists purchased in for eign countries. They said it was p tty and annoying and the revenue that would be derived from It would not amount to enough to pay for the col lection. The record shows that dur ing the last year under that head $343,518 was paid , as against $ S741 > 5 the previous year. It might have been annoying to the wealthy tourists whc paid -this snug sum , but Uncle Sam is that much richer , and none of jt came out of the pockets of the labor , ing people. Let us have more such annoyances. Rome ( N. Y. ) Citizen.