Of
Three Lions
BY i
H. RIDER HAGGARD |
CHAFTGK III.—(CoirriHumo.)
“ ‘She wilt be back again presently,’
'I said; ‘look out, bat for heaven’s sake
• don’t fire unless I tell you to.’
"Hardly were the words out of my
mouth when back she came, and again
passed the ox without striking him.
“ ‘What on earth is she doing?’ whis
kered Harry.
“ ‘Playing with it as a cat does a
mouse, I suppose. She will kill it
presently.’
“As I spoke, the lioness once more
‘flashed out of the bush, and this time
■ sprung right over the doomed ox. It
was an exciting sight to see her clear
him in the bright moonlight, as though
It were a trick she had been taught.
“ ‘1 believe that she has escaped from
a circus,’ whispered Harry; ‘It’s jolly
to see her jump.’
“I said nothing, but I thought to my-,
•self that if it was,. Master Harry did
not appreciate the performance, and
small blame to him. At; any rate, his
teeth were chattering a bit.
came a longisn pause ana i
'began to think that she must have gone
away, when suddenly she appeared
again, and with one mighty bound
landed right on to the ox, and struck
it a frightful blow with her paw.
“Down it went,. and lay on the
ground. She put down her wicked
looking head, with a fierce growl of.
contentment. When she lifted her
muzzle again and stood facing us ob
liquely, I whispered, ‘Now’s our time,
•fire when I do.’
“1 got on her as well as I could, but
Harry, instead of waiting for me as I
told him, fired before I did, and that of
course hurried me. When the smoke
cleared, however, I was delighted to see
that the lioness was rolling about on
the ground behind the body of the ox,
which .covered her in such a fashion,
however, that tfe could not shoot again
to make an end of her.
" ‘She’s done for! she’s dead!’ yelled
Pharaoh, in exultation; and at that
very moment the lioness, with a sort of
convulsive rush, half rolled, half,
sprung, into the patch of thick bush to
the right. I fired after her as she went,
but so far as I could see without re
sult; indeed the probability is that I
missed her clean. At any rate she got
i to the bush in safety, and once there,
began to make such a diabolical noise
as I never heard before. She would
whine and shriek, then burst out into
perfect volleys of roaring that shook
the whole place.
“ ‘Well,’ I said, ‘we must Just let her
roar; to go into that bush after her at
night would be madness.’ -
“At that moment, to my astonish
ment and alarm, there came an answer
, ing roar from the direction of the'
river, and then another from behind
the swell of bush. Evidently there
■ were more lions about. The wounded
lioness redoubled her efforts, with the
object, I suppose, of summoning the
.others to her assistance. At any rate
they, came, and quickly too, for within
five minutes, peeping through the
bushes of our skerm fence, we saw a
magnificent lion bounding along
toward us, through the tall tamboulln
i grass, that ip the moonlight, V was
now very like ripening corn.;* On
he came in great leaps, and a glorious
sight it was to see him. When within
fifty yards or so, he stood still in an
-open space and roared, and the lioness
roared to, and then there came a third
roar, and another great black-maned
lion stalked majestically up, and joined
number two, and really I began to
realize what Jim-Jim must have under
gone.
“ ‘Now, Harry,’ I whispered, ‘what
•ever you do, don’t fire, it’s too risky. If
•they let us be, let them be.’
"Well, the pair of them marched off
to the bush, where the wounded lioness
was now roaring double tides, and the
whole three of them began to snarl and
-grumble away together there. Present
ly, however, the lioness ceased roaring,
and the two lions came out again, the
'black-maned one first—to prospect, I
suppose—and walked to where the car
cass of the ox lay, and sniffed at it.
"‘Oh, what a shot!’ whispered Harry,
who was trembling with excitement.
" ‘Yes,’ I said; ‘but don’t fire; they
might all of them come for us.’
"Harry said nothing, but whether it
was from the natural willfulness of
tyouth, or because be was thrown oft his
balance by excitement, or from sheer
> recklessness, I am sure I can not tell
you, never having been able to get a
-satisfactory explanation from him; but
.at any rate the fact remains, he, with
out word or warning, entirely disre
garding my exhortations, lifted up his
Westley Richards, and fired at the
black-maned Hon, and, what is more,
' bit it slightly on the flank.
j-vexi seconu mere was a most awful
roar from the injured brute. He
^glared around him, and roared with
pain for he was sadly stung, and then
before I could make up my mind what
to do, the great black-maned brute,
■evidently ignorant of the cause of his
pain, sprung right at the throat or his
companion, to whom he evidently at
tributed his misfortune. It was a curl
•■ous sight to see the evident astonish
ment of the other lion at this most un
provoked assault. Over he rolled with
an angry roar, and on to him sprang
the black-maned demon, and com
menced to worry him. This finally
■ awoke the yellow-maned lion to a sense
- of the situation, and I am bound to say
that hs rose to the occasion in a most
effective manner. Somehow or other
'be got to his feet, and, roaring and
■smarting frightfully, closed with his
: mighty fee. . And then ensued a scene
that absolutely baffles description. You
know what a shocking thing it is to
see two large dogB. fighting with aban
donment. Well, a whole hundred of
dogs could not have looked b&lf so ter
rible as those two great brutes as they
rolled tod roared- and rent. In their
rage. It was an awful and a wondorful
thing to see the great cats tearing at
each other with all the fierce energy of
their savage strength, and making the
night hideous with their heart-shak
ing noise. And the fight was a grand
one, too. For some minutes it was Im
possible to say which.was getting the
best of it, but at last I saw that the
black-maned lion, though he was
slightly. the: bigger, was failing. I am
-inclined to think that the wound in his
flank crippled him. Anyway he began
to get the worst of it, which served him
right, as he was thq aggressor. Still
I could not help feeling sorry for him,
for he had fought a gallant fight when
his antagonist finally got him by the
throat, and, struggle and fight as he
would, began to shake the life out of
him. Over and over they rolled to
gether, an awe-inspiring spectacle, but
the yellow boy would not loose his
hold, and at length poor black-mane ‘
grew faint, his breath came in great
snores and seemed to rattle In his nos
trils, then he opened his huge moiith,
gave the ghost of a roar, quivered, and
was ripnri
“When he was quite sure that the
victory was his own, the yellow-maned
lion loosened his grip and sniffed at' his
fallen foe. Then he licked the dead
lion’s eye, and next, with his fore feet
resting on the carcass, sent up his own
chant of victory, that went rolling and
pealing down the dark ways of the
night in all the gathered majesty of
sound. And at this point I interfered.
Taking a careful sight at the center of
his body, in order to give the largest
possible margin for error, I fired, and
sent a .570 express bullet right through
him, and down he dropped dead upon
his mighty foe.
“At that, fairly satisfied with our per
formances, we slept peacefully till
dawn, leaving Pharaoh to keep watch
in case any more lions Bhould take it
into their heads to come our way.
“When the sun was fairly up we
arose, and very cautiously proceeded—
at least Pharaoh and I did, for I would
not allow Harry to come—to see if we
could see. anything of the wounded
lioness. < She had ceased roaring im
mediately on the arrival of the two
lions, and had not made a sound since,
from which we concluded that she was
probably dead. I was armed with my
express, while Pharaoh, in whose hands
a rifle was indeed a dangerous weapon
—to his companions—had an ax. On
our way we stopped to look at the two
dead lions. They were magnificent
animals, both of them, but their pelts
were entirely spoiled by the terrible
mauling they had given to each other,
which was a sad pity.
In another minute we were following
the blood spoor of the wounded lion
ess into the bush, where she had taken
refuge. This, I need hardly say, we did
with the utmost caution; indeed, I for
one did not at all like the job, and was
only consoled by the reflection that it
was necessary and that the bush was
not thick. Well, we stood there, keep
ing as far from the trees as possible,
and poking and speering about, but no
lioness could we. gee.
" ‘She must have gone away some
where to die, Phara'oh,’ I said in Zulu.
" ‘Yes, Inkoos’ (chief), he answered,
‘me has certainly gone away.’
“Hardly were the words out of his
mouth when I heard a most awful roar,
and looking around saw the lioness
emerge from the very center of a bush
just behind Pharaoh in which she had
been curled up. Up she went on to her
hind legs, and as she did so I saw that
one of her fore paws was. broken near
the shoulder, foi it hung limply down.
Up she went towering right over Pha
raoh's head, as she did so lifting her
uninjured paw to strike him down.
And then, before I could get my rifle
round or do anything to avert the
coming catastrophe, the Zulu did a
very brave and clever thing. Realis
ing his own imminent danger, he
bounded to one side, and then, swing
ing the heavy ax round his head,
brought it right down onto her back,
severing the vertebrae and killing her
instantaneously. It was wonderful to
see her collapse all in a heap like an
empty sack.
“ ‘My word. Pharaoh,’ I said, ‘that
was well done, and none too soon.’
“ ‘Yes,’ he answered, ‘it was a good
stroke, Inkoos. Jim-Jim will sleep bet
ter now.’
"Then, calling Harry to us, we ex
amined the lioness. She was old, if
one might judge from her worn teeth,
and not very large, but thickly made,
and must have possessed extraordinary
vitality to have lived so long, shot as
she was; for, in addition to her broken
shoulder, my express bullet had blown
a great hole in her that one might have
put one’s fist into.
“Well, that is the story of the death
of poor Jim-Jim and how we avenged
it, and it is rather interesting in itr
way, because of the fight between the
two lions, of which I never saw the like
in all my experience, and I know some*
thing of lions and their ways.”
“And how did you get back to Pil
grims’ Rest?” I asked hunter Quater
main when he had finished his yarn.
“Ah, we had a nice Job with that,”
he answered. “The second ox died and.
so did another, and we had to get on
as best we could with the three remain
ing ones harnessed unicorn fashion,
while we pushed behind. We did about
four miles a day, and it took us nearly
a month, during the last week of which
we pretty well starved.”
“I notice," I said, “that most of your
trips ended in disaster of some sort or
another, and yet you went on making
them, which strikes one as a little
oueet”
“Tea, I dare say; but.than remem
ber I rot my living for many years out
of bunting. Besides, half the charm of
the thing lay lit the dangers and dis
asters, though they were terrible
enough at the time. Another thing Is,
they were not all disastrous. Some
time, if you like, t will tell you a story
of one which was very -much the re
verse, for 1 made four thousand pounds
out of It, and saw one of the most ex
traordinary sights a hunter evef
clapped his eyes on.” • - •
REBUILDING NOStS.'
Aluminium M > Foundation and How It
Is.I'led. ■
In this era of reconstruction through
which New York is passing even noses
come in for their share of remodeling
and rebuilding, says the New York
Tribune.. So many people are afflicted'
with a disfiguring disease which eats
•away the nose and face that “plastic
surgery" has felt called on to find
means to restore' broken or decayed
noses to their original beauty, or even
to improve on that. Dr. Robert Weir
.was among the first to discover a prac
tical solution. He experimented with
some success in transplanting bonea of
living fowl to the human fade.. One
.of his' earlier operations was conduct
ed in a stuffy little Harlem fiat. His
patient was stretched on the table un
der ether; her face was laid open and
streaming blood, but the duck, not re
ceiving due attention, had escaped un
noticed from the assistants “Now, doc
tor,” said Dr. Weir to a'dignified par
ticipant, “oblige me by half-killln'g that
bird and let me have about three inches
from its breast bone for thrs girl’s
nose.” Amid the grewsome surround
ings there were ten minutes of rigorous
exercise'in catching the bird and re
ducing it to a state of insensibility.
Since then he'has dispensed with live
birds and has turned his attention to
gutta percha, rubber, silver and gold
for nose bridges. All these failed be
cause electrical action was generated,
requiring further operations. Finally,
pure aluminum was resorted to with
satisfactory results. Now the nqse bone
is made of that metal. It has a stout
hook at the upper end by which it is
secured to the base of the forehead,
while the other end is held out from
the face by two short legs terminating
in sharp spikes which are anchored, in
the bone. There is no necessity for ug
ly scars, because the operation is par
ried on entirely beneath the skin." A
long incision is made under the npfier
lip above, the teeth, so that the whole
flap of the face can be turned back like
a mask or an old glove. Then when the
metal framework is secured the skin
is drawn down again and the nose tis
sue is shaped into a Grecian, Roman or
pug nose, as desired. Seven years ago
Dr. Weir got his first ideas from French
publications, but has since made maiiy
modifications and Improvements. Other
prominent surgeons have followed his
example, such as Dr. Abbe, Dr. Powers
of Denver and Dr. Knight. The opera
tion is comparatively simple and all
have succeeded in restoring noses,
which, if they are noft of service in
distinguishing bad odors from good,
are at least beautiful in looking nat<
ural.
STOLE A STONE WALL.
It Surrounded • Cemetery—Lire Flfhee
Alio Become Booty. -
Two of the most unique cases of
thieving on record are being investigat
ed in Haverhill, Mass., says the New
York Press. One is the stealing of 15,
000 live fish and the other the theft of
a big stone wall surrounding the cem
etery of the Hebrew Burial association.
This is the first instance ever chroni
cled of the larceny of’ a atone wall
from a graveyard. Last fall Charles
Goodrich, constructed an artificial lake
on his estate and stocked It with “shin
ers” which he Intended to. sell this
winter. Yesterday he had the sale and
went in search of the fish, but found
that they had all gone. The lake was
still there, and as there is no outlet
there was only one explanation of the
mystery.
The Hebrew Burial association pur
chased twenty acres of land near the
Whittier homestead twO years ago. It
inclosed the lot with a stone wall. The
wall has taken wings Just as mysteri
ously as did the fish in the artificial
lake. •• *'•
The members of the association claim
that the stones were taken when the
Millvale reservoir was built, and they
say that they will bring suit against
the water board. The members of the
board, however, deny that they touched
the. stones at all and say that they got
their stone from a lot of land which
they purchased.
The stolen wall was about half a
mile long. It Is estimated that there
was nearly 1,000 cords of stone in the
wall., Haverhill thieves have certain
ly selected strange booty. What have
they done with it? Where could they
hide it? The folk of Haverhill say
that a man who will steal the fence
from a graveyard will hesitate at noth*
ing.
,A Mmrrlad Man/
Merchant Tailor—Good morning,
Mr. Truepay. What can I do for you
this morning? Mr. Truepay—I want a
suit of clothes. “Yes, sir. John, the
tape and book, please.” “Eh? Heady
made?” "Yes—a cheap one.” “Cer
tainly—certainly. Right this way,
please. I hadn't heard of your mar
riage.”—New York Weekly.
For Fun.
Theatergoer (to piofessional claqueur)
—Why don’t you applaud this piece?
Don’t you think it’s excellent? “Oh,
yes, but I am here only for fun to-day.”
—Fliegende Blaetter.
Major McKinley will be the third
Methodist president.—Phlladelphi
l Press.
PUSHING THE TARIFF
THE DINGLEY BILX THE CHIEF
, - SUBJECT OF INTEREST.
Working Men and Farmer^ Arguing It*
Fauage -*-lmporter* . anil . Forelgnara
Fighting It—A Great Boon for the.
Working People. > v.
The only persons who are- expressing
dissatisfaction with the new tariff bill..
are the foreigners and Importers. Ger
many, Canada, England and other for-'
eign countries are scolding about the
Dingley blU; so is the Reform Club of
New .Yorhi, which Is made up principal
ly of importers. The. chief objection.
offered to the bill Is that it Is a bill.
The people want it to become an act
and that very promptly.
Capital Awaiting Investment.
Millions of capital Is now awaiting
the action of Congress on the tariff
bill. Its enactment will be a signal for
activity among the factories of the
cast, and the beet growing sections of
the west, In the cotton fields and fac
tories of the south, in the manufactur
ing establishments of the Mississippi
valley and on'the fertile fields of the,
Pacific slope. ;
Banting* Already Increasing. -
One hundred thousand dollars a day
Is a neat Sum to add to the earnlngB of
the working people of one state in
six months' time. 'The Labor- Bureau
of Pennsylvania reports. one hundred
thousand more men employed in that
state today than were so employed
prior to the election-of McKinley. This
means one hundred thousand dollars a
day increased earnings by them, to say.
nothing of the Increased wages paid to
those who were employed, or working
on short time. Multiply this by the
number of states or by their propor
tionate populations and you get a prac
tical demonstration of the imprdve-'
meqt going on In business since the
election of last November, w)>ich as
sured a protective tariff and increase in
employment.
The Free Coinage Democrat* Depressed.
Ex-Candidate Bryan, who has been
In Washington the last few days, ad
mitted to his friends that the silver
developments of the past few months
have been very damaging to the cause.
Had they occurred In the five months
preceding it, the4 collapse of their sil
ver proposition would have been much j
more complete and crushing than It
was. ' Japan, Russia and China, to
which they constantly referred as the
chief props in support of tbelr silver
theories; have all, since the election,
announced their desertion of the sil
ver standard. This leaves Mexico and
South American countries about the
only ones now maintaining the Stand
ard of the white -metal and several of
these are making preparations to go
to the gold standard as quickly as pos
sible.
It was a mean thing on the part of
the people of the empire of Japan to let
the people of the United States go all
through the agonies of the campaign,
looking to them as a great silver peo
ple, when they had already made up
their minds to adopt the gold standard.
The latest advices from that country
show that the proposition for the adop
tion of the gold standard had been un
der ' consideration for two years and
that' the officials of the nation had
practical determined to adopt ft dur
ing the very time that t£* people of
this countiy were looking Upon t\em
as the most ardent advocate/ of silver.
, A hint,.as 46d their'plana would have
saved much of the worry and speech
making in the late election In the
United States.
Had Importer*. -
The importers of the country are mad
as so many wet hens. They expected
to make millions out of their excessive
importations prior to the Anal enact
ment of the Dingley bilj, but the re
trospective clause introduced at the
last moment and passed by the house
has upset their plans completely. Their
hope of being able to Import hundreds
of. milliohs of dollars worth of goods
during the discussion of the bill in the
senate is gone, and they will not be
likely to add materially to the enor
mous stocks of goods which' they had
already brought in to escape payments
of increased rates of duties.
The South, for Protection.
No tariff bill ever passed in Congress
received as many southern votes as did
the one which has just passed the
house. Twenty-five -republicans, five
democrats hnd one populist, from the
south, supported the Dlngtey bill in
the house, and the other populists from
that section declined to vote against it.
Protection in, the south has made won
derful strides in the last few years and
Wijl continue'in the same line.
• Factory smoke breeds republicanism.
The springing up of factories through
out the south has been followed by a
growth of protective -sentiment and re
! mbllcan. membership in congress from
[ hat section. More than thirty votes
rom the south were cast for a protec
ive tariff measure in the house and
:he southern states had ihjrty-three
■opublican members in last congress,
while In no preceding congress had the
jarcy been represented by more than
naif that number from that section.
VVbenDemocrats from North and South
Carolina, Alabama. Mississippi, Louis!-,
ina and Texas joined with the repub
licans in’ supporting protective views
and a protective tariff bill, there can
remain no doubt of the growth of re
publican principles in that section.
G. H. WILLIAMS.
Prosperity Is Returning.'
rresperity cannot be restored to this
i ov.ntry in a day, in a year—or per
■ars for several years. To understand
-his fully, we should consider the great
< Vatrucllonr. v.hich lie'in the pathway
r Huso who have undertaken the her
culean task of restoring tbe country
to its normal conditions. The path
way to success in (his effort Is render
ed almost impassable by the wreckage
of our industries; the arteries of trade
and commerce are choked up with for
eign and deleterious substances; the
very life blood of the nation is poi
soned -with .potions', administered by
hllen- enemies. .* ■
We stand at the dead line of na
tional bankruptcy and general demor
alization. True, we have retraced our
Bteps, under the guidance of a wise
and skillful leader. But it is always
easier to descend than tq, ascend a hill.
It is a long and tedious road to the
summit of Mount Prosperity. '.It was'
a good deal easier for the Israelites '
to get Into Egypt than to get out
again. So It was a good deal easier
to ruin our Industries than It will be
to rehabilitate them. Yet we have a
Moses who will lead us safely through,
the Red Sea, and although the Journey
to the promised land may be attend
ed with many dangers and hardships,'
and though a silver calf may be set up
to seduce people away from the true,
way, or brazen serpents may be set up
to avenge disobedience, our Intrepid
leader will smite the rock for the thirs
ty, and, if we are guided by the light of
faith and intelligence, we shall event
ually reach the land of jeorn and
wine.—Cleveland World,
Japan and' Silvan
. In adopting a monetary system
which will keep both gold and silver in
circulation, Japan has destroyed the
frightful proportions of the scare which
the advocates of , free stiver coin
age had prepared by representing that
by being on a silver basis Japan would
capture,our markets if we did not
adopt sliver monometallism, which Mr.’
Bryan mistakes for bimetallism. A
year ago quite a number of people were
mystifle4, by the story of the great
prosperity of Japanese manufacturers
under a silver basis, and it was said
that the same, prosperity would come
to us if we should legislate so that
silver would be the monetary stand
ard. .Japan was paying much less
wages in silver than was belrig paid
in geld in the United States. Under"
such conditions there could be no
mystery in the statement, th^t .the
manufacturers of cotton goods in Japan
could make very much more money to
each thousand spindles than was be
ing made by manufacturers paying
more wageB on the gold basis. It was
not the mysterious potency of ■ silver
which caused manufacturers to thrive
in Japan, but the plain fact that in
paying wages in stiver they paid In
money of half purchase power. The
manufacturers who have a market and
pay only a quarter as much wages as
their competitors will make money
where the others will fall. And that
was the reason for the prosperity in
Japan for the limited number having
capital invested In cotton mills. But
for the thousands who worked in the
mills nothing was said, but people
were left to infer that they shared this
prosperity when, as a matter of fact,
they worked for very low wages and
subsisted on rice and ' on otherwise
scanty diet.
AH this has been changed. Japan
has declared for the coinage of both
metals on the ratio of 33 to 1. The
value of the silver wages of a year ago
has been doubled.—Indianapolis Jour
nal. . ' !
f : The Dlsglaj • TaVlff.
■" The punctual passage of the Ding- !
ley tariff by a solid republican vote,
is something more than mere proof
of the excellence of the party dis
cipline. It is more than proof of ad
mirable party leadership. It is a
token of the splendid unity of pur
pose of the republican congress
men, who, differing, perhaps, as to
some details of the Dlngley bill,
are one in their loyal approval of
it^ great principles and purposes.
This absolute unanimity In support of
a measure so complicated and so im
portant is extraordinary-in the annuls
of legislation.—Boston journal.
Is the Interests of Honest Manufacture
To build up the American manufac
ture of woolen goods has been one of
the hardest tasks met in all the thirty
six years of protection. It is the Judg
ment of the ablest and most experi
enced men, after many years of only
partial success, that there has never
been a tariff on woolens which had not
weak and vulnerable points. ' A duty
of 50 per cent on steel rails cannot be
evaded. But-a duty of 10 per cent on
many kinds of woolen cloths is of no
effect whatever, if the foreign maker
can produce what appears to the ordi
nary consumer tHC very same cloth, by
use of shoddy, at half former cost.. It
is the deliberate purpose of the Ding
ley bill to make impossible this de
structlon of American manufacture by
importations of swindling products of
shoddy.—New York Tribune.
It Gnar<U Great Interests., .
In the arrangements necessary, to
secure sufficient revenue the commit
tee. it is gratifying to know, ttaa not
lost sight of the relations of a wine
tariff system to the attainment of the
highest possible material life of the
nation. The framing of a tariff in
one sense is the building of the nation.
A bill of this kind should be so con
structed as to secure the nation 4n
times of war, both in its metlns of
defense and of industrial independ
ence. It Bhould csnsider its position
among other nations. It should en
deavor to encourage all the arts which
fortify, enrich and adorn, give em
ployment In skilled labor and extend
In every possible way the comfort and
welfare of all the people. To show
how momentous to these interests are
the questions involved in such a tariff
revision as thal Just completed by the
ways and means committee I have pre
pared a statement of the productive
Industrials of the country for five da
cades, all of which are affected in soma
way by the bill under consideration.
Until the sudden revulsion of our In- ,
dtfetrlal progress, soon,after, the advent!
of the free trade administration, March
1893, our Industrial advance had’ beqa $
as follows;
Number
Tear. Employed.
1850 ....... 057,06:1 I
1861 .1.511,248
1871) .2.053.990
1889 ..2.738.950 •
Wages- Value of
Paid. Product. •
230,755.464 11,019,106.01#.
878.878.966 1,885,861,676 • •
775,584,343 . 4,232.325.44* * *
947.919,674 5,369,667,706
o nKc rat on*
1890 .4.476,684 2,171.76(U83 9,056;764;90t
Nearly live times as many employed .•;
In our industries and nine times the
annual wages paid and value of product
Is the measure of the forty years of
progress.—Robert P. Porter.
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England Don’t' Uke It.
The’soul of the London Times is har- -
rowed up because the United States Is
about to' make "a long backward
stride." What ire are about to do la
going to result In “serious annoyance
And derangement of business for ex
porters, as well as a corresponding loss
for Americans themselves." This las' j
what makes It so bad, we are all going
to ruin together. ■ s
The'trouble is that we are about to
enact another tariff law on protective,
lines. We have done this before and ■
Always have stirred up the British Hon
by doing It Not to go very far back ’
in Our, history, when the McKinley law! •
of 1899 was passed, the London Times
and other free trade interests foresaw •*
destruction of this great republic. Our
history tells that the McKinley tariff
act did not destroy the. country; on
the contrary It was under that law
that we saw the very best times in :
the history of the country.
It Is easy to understand what is the
1 matter with John Bull. He Is nursing; ■'
an. acute case of disappointment. Tho
Democrats have disappointed him some
by not going the. full length of tbaj
tether, but he consoled himself with: '
their promise to go further the next
timel -They promised him to carry that
election of 1896,, after which they were ■
.going to give him some more b!g slice*
off the large American loaf.
In the making of the Republican tar- .
iff bill, which has a good prospect tol
become a law, John Bull realises tho *
full measure of his bitter disappoint
ment. The hand M Dingley Is not thd ’
band of Wilson, nor does President Mc
Kinley share the tariff views of Presi
dent Cleveland—Wheeling Intelll
genbsr.
All Industries Ask Protection.
For the first time- since 1816 every T
employment of the American people is
united In a common recognition of the
importance and. value of a reasonable,
discrimination by our laws In favor of .'
our* own people—the farmer, because
■nearly everything that he has for sale
must be sold here or not sold at all;;
the manufacturer, because he has ,.\
found It impoMible to sell home-made t
goods in a market place that has al- ’
ready bought Itself poor at the “bar
gain,.counters” of Europe and Asia; '%
and commerce, because a nation like
this that goes past the closed doors
and broken window-lights of Its own
factories to the end of the earth far
what It buys, is- in a condition that la
completely fatal to all commerce, do
mestic and foreign.—Congressman
Dolltver in House of Representatives.
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The Wall of the Megwamps.
.The Mugwump press profess great
indignation over the Republican pro
gram to pass a new tariff law. Those'
gentlemen who are too good to unite
with any political party say that Dem
ocratic McKinley votes were won by;
false pretenses, that they were, swin
dled. etc. These'assertions are-with
out the least foundation. The platform
upon which McKinley, stood declared
most emphatically for protection. Not
.another plank in the platform waa
more distinct and emphatic. That plat
form declared emphatically and unmia-'
takably in favor of “the pdllcy of pro^
tectlon.”—Youngstown Telegram.
Democratic Tariff a Failure.
The Democratic party which is crit-:
Icising the Dingley bill could do s» ;
with some effect perhaps if it had ever
framed a tariff bill which brought eitk*
er revenue or protection. The trouble •
with Democratic tariffs is they are
good for neither one thing nor the oth
er. Nobody can toll what they were
framed for. It is a difficult task to de
vise a bill which will produce both
revenue and protection, but intelligent,
up,biased-persons will be apt to accept
the Republicans: opinion that this
measure will 4o both these things.—
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.. "
Turn th« Thiabiermi on the BenaMg
It Is mi the • senate that public at
tent Ion must now be concentrated. Sh»
Inherent, exasperating procrastination
of thpt unwieldy body must be over
come by - the Irresistible pressure at '
popular sentiment. The effort of the
rabid free trade opposition will be to '
prolong the debate on every conceiva- .
ble pretext and postpone the return of
the general prosperity, which is sure
to deal the final death blow to the free *
trade propaganda.
This fatuous policy of delay cannot
be tolerated. There is too much at
stake.—Boston Journal.
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Why the Germane Kick, '
The Germans In Germany are not tiii
favor of the Dingley tariff bill, which Is
the expression of the protective poller
of the McKinley administration. Why
this opposition? Simply because tho .
German manufacturers prefer to havo *
us for customers, and are sharply;
against our management of our own
affairs so as to give our manufacturers „
protection against foreign labor and '
our farmers’ markets at home. Coma
to think of U, it 1b very simple.—Stand
i ard Union.
