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IN BLUEBERRY TIME.
A Quiver of heat 03 the upland.
And white lies the duHt on the plain.
And dark in tie west is the beauty
C th !o Maud that bringeth the rain.
Swilt home to the nest wing the robins.
And Beet to the hive swing the bees.
And straight to the mother the children
Kun down the locg path through the tree.
By the firm gate the mother is waiting,
Her hand hollowed overlser eyes;
One wants the dear children about her
When tempests march black in the skies.
Acii scfe is tae pray little farmhouse.
Tfc:ii;i'h storms n:ay be ravir.fr aloof.
And the tramp of the rain-host as steady
As hoof-beats upon the old roof.
Tis blueberry time, and the pasture
ii:;h up on the hillside is sweet
With the fragrance of hay. and the lncens
Or flowers you c-ush 'r-eath j our feet.
The stone wail is crimsoned with briers.
The clematis tansies its spray.
Tk1- deep wln-red plume of the sumac
T';'l.rts like soldier's ut bay.
Wlih banners all bright for the autumn
Ere yet the dear summer has fled.
The graee of the golden-rod swayetn,
T!.e fairastsr raiseth her head.
And countless lush Trasses are waving.
And ripples th brook aa if rhyme
Were the syllabled music of nature.
In beaulirul blueberry time.
Bob White." with his silvery whistle.
s-lng-s shrill from the h-?art of the corn,
And clear o or lir-top and elm-top
The caw of the black crow is borne;
And night falls in shadow and silence,
S- only the katydid s strain.
And the hoot of the owl from the thicket.
Or the whippoorwill's plaintive refrain.
"Tls blueberry time in the mountains.
The time of the quiver of heat
The time of the sudden down-plashing
Of ri.iu that is welcome and sweet.
The barefooted, brown, dimpled children
Troon out with their baskets and pail4;
The rabbits are scared at their laughter.
And startled forth Cutter the quails.
'Tis blueberry time, and the mother
Rr.erabers how she. in her day.
Tripped up the steep path by the pasture.
The path of her laddies to-day:
And some one was waiting to greet her,
LTp there by the old meadow bars.
And they loitered and lingered together
Till evening had lighted the stars.
Ah. well! time has passed: she is older.
'V.'ake.dearl it is bedtime." she says.
To the husband, who peacefully drowses,
Tired out after long workinjr-days.
The rain dies away in soft patter.
Ihe children upstairs am asleep.
God guards them: the I'ear little family
His angels are ordered to keep.
Margaret E. Sangster. in Harper s Bazar.
LOVE FOK A YEAR.
Case of "Absence Makes the
Heart Grow Fonder."
Scene: A pleasant sitting-room In Alicia's
home. Present. Alicia and Kaimund.
Alioia (with dignity) No, no, Eai
mnni I taa't listen to you.
Bairaund (pleadingly) But why,
Alicia; why?
Alicia For a hundred reasons. I
need not name them, since my answer
is final.
Ilainjund (desperately) It can't be
flea!. I won't believe it. I love you
too much. Oh, do you think I can give
jou up for one refusal? That is not
my way of loving. What can I say to
make you understand?
Alacia (gently) You hare made me
understand. 1 appreciate most truly
the depth and warmth of your feeling';
but, mf dear boy, it is altogether im
possible wildly impossible, this dream
of yours.
Rairnund It is in nowise impossible.
That's the wron? word.
Alicia (firmly) Ilaimund, listen to
me. Counting- by time I am four years
your t-enior.
Kaimund (promptly) I don't care.
Alicia And counting by experi
ence Kaimund (interrupting) Experi
ence? If you come to that your experi
ence can't rank for a moment beside
mine. I am twenty-five, but I have been
struggling with the world since I was
sixteen. You have been busy with
your books and music, going out into
society now and then. What can you
learn of life, of its real significance, in
the pleasant drawing rooms of your
select little circle of friends?
Alicia (with a retrospective smile)
Enough for dissiliusionruent enough
40 see the folly of such a marriage as
you suggi-st.
Ilaimund Then you have learned
Very little. I have been out battling
with fat struggling against worse
oddi than you can dream of; but I was
rorkiiig my way to you.
Alicia (smiling) And I was growing
old in the meantime. Come, now, be
bens! hie.
Kaimund I am sensible, therefore I
refuse to accept your decision. I re
peat again, 1 love you. and I want you
for ray own. Oh, Alicia! (his voice
breaks a little) if you don't quite hate
me if there is no one you car for
more don't you see that I can't give
you up? I must hope.
Alicia (softly) There is no one else,
and I am very, very fond of you. I
Bee so much in you that is noble anl
manly
Rairnund (quickly) Don't--don't
praise me. You never did before, and
it makes me feel afraid. I know quite
well I am not worthy to tie your shoe
ribbons, but I worship you so. There
is nothing in God's world I would not
do to prove my devotion.
Alicia (after a panse) I wonder if
you would do one thing1 I might ask of
you--make one little sacrifice for both
our sakes?
Raimvind (fervently) Yes; any
thing anything in my power, Alicia,
except to leave you, and that is not in
my power now.
Alicia Hut that, dear, is what I
would ask you to do. Mo, let me
speak. 1 do believe that you ai-e true
and loyal and full of love
llainiund Oh, Alicia!
Alicia Hush, now! And it is for
this reason that I wish you to po
away. Yesterday, wheu you spoke of
your partner trying to persuade you to
take busines trip
Ilaimund But I told yon I would
not go bt cause it would separate me
from you.
Alioia I thought it was what yon
ought to do. lie wanted you to stay a
year, you said
Raimund Yes but I won't.
Alicia And take charge of the firm
in Sun Francisco. (Gravely.) Sup
pose I demand of you to make this
test of your love to 6tay away a
year?
Rairnund (impetuously) I can't,
that's all.
Alicia If you love me if yon are
sure your love will last yoacan. Now,
see. dear. I will suy this much: that
if you go away for a year among new
interests and new people, getting the
new experiences that are sure to come
to you, and then return to me with
the fiLrae unchanged regard, I might
be able to see but I won't promise
only perhaps
Rairnund (passionately) Oh, yes,
you will promise you will let me hope
for a promise. That is what you mean,
my best and dearest. Then I'll go.
It's hard, it's heart-breaking; bat I'll
leave you for a year, Aiicia. And
when I come back you'll marry me;
say you wiii?
Alicia (giving him her hand) Don't
ask me for any pledge. Come to me
and see.
CfKTAIX.
Soen n.: The same. Alicia alone,
Alicia (musing) It doesn't seem like
a year since Raiinond went. Ah. yes,
it does. And it seems a little more like
five years. I can't realize that I shall
see him so soon. Dear boy! he has
changed; I can feel it in bis letters.
He seems more dignified, more guard
ed. I notice that especially in his
writing of his friendship with my
cousins. I know from Helen's letters
that he has been with them constant
ly since he went to San Francisco, and
yet he mentions them always in the
most distant way, as if he saw them
once a month or so. Perhaps that is
significant. I rather fancied that he
might be attracted permanently, they
ate both such charming girls, though
Amy, of course, is very young not
eighteen yet. lie has spoken of her
more often than of Helen, perhaps
because he knows she is my fa
vorite. Heigho! Poor Rairnund! I
hope he has come back cured, or
do I hope it? I am a year older, but
am I a year wiser? I don't know.
My heart goes beating as if it belonged
to a young girl expecting a call from
her first sweetheart (smiling softly). I
am Raimund's first sweetheart at
least I was; but much can happen in a
year. 1 have a curious feeling as if
something were coming to make me
sorry. I wonder there's the belL It
can't be so soon! I told Mora to send
him up. Yes, that's his footsteps (Con
trols herself and stands waiting until
a tap is heard.) Come in. (Enter Rai
rnund.) Rairnund!
Rairnund Yes, I'm here, dear dear
Alicia! (Grasps both her hands warm
ly) How glad I am to see you again!
Alioia And I am more glad than I
can say.
Rairnund Is it possible you are more
anything than you can say? You never
used to be. (He laughs.)
Alicia (mentally) Oh, he's changed.
How brown he is, how handsome!
Mo, it is only that he has grown to be
a mao.
Rairnund (still keeping her hands
and looking brightly into her face)
Well, do you recognize me? I think I
must be altered. The life out there
is so different from our Mew York life;
but I like it it is splendid. I am glad
I gave it a trial.
Alicia (with an odd sense of depres
sion) Yes, you are altered, Rairnund.
i on seem to have grown larger, every
way
Rairnund Thank you. My views of
life I know are wider. You? You
don't seem changed at all, but you
look pale. Were you always so pale,
Alicia?
Alicia I am a year older, you must
reraem ber.
Rairnund (heartily) And a year
lovelier, indeed you are. I think I must
have forgotten about your being so
very pretty. It strikes me so forcibly
now. And your eyes are just the same.
I have thought of them so often. Your
cousin Amy's eyes and yours are very
much alike.
Alicia (mentally) Dow bold he is!
(Withdrawing her bauds). Yes, they
are alike, I think.
Rainmud (critically) Amy's are
darker, a little. By the way, they've
sent letters and packages your aunt
and cousins but I've riot got, at my
trunks yet. I just stepped off the
train, took a bath, and came straight to
you.
Alicia How nice and kind!
Rairnund To myself. It's such a
delight to sit and talk with you again,
but there's so much to tell you. 1 don't
know where to begin! I've had a glo
rious time with your cousins, and your
aunt has really been like a sweet
mother to me. Right at once they
made the strange city seem like home.
Alicia And Aunt Laura's health in
so wonderfully imp-oved. Helen writes
me.
Rairnund (enthusiastically) Im
proved! You nev.-r saw anything like
iu And the girls are really well, real
ly beauties, both of them. They are
coming on to Mew York, I suppose
Helen lias told yoi. very soon now.
Alicia Sh has uft spoken of it.
Rairnund -h! they are coming; at
least, I hope thf.y will that is, 1
think they ought to.
Alicia (mentallr) How confused he
seems. (Aloud, smilingly). Why do
you think they o-ight to? Aren't they
qnite happy in S.d Frv-iseo?
R.-iimund Weil, I'm selfish, I sup
pose. I'll miss them a good deal.
Alicia (sprcpathetically) Oh! I can
understand that. Helen is so charm
ing, don't you think? I said at once
when I knew you were to stay in San
Francisco that Helen would be just
the friend you needed there.
Rairnund She certainly is splendid,
but it s curiou-j somehow, I took to
Amy more.
Alic.a Ob. did you She" very
f young.
Ealmund-I liked that, 1 never had.
such companionship before. I mean
er (reddening lightly) ah I'm- glad
Amy is your favorite, too.
Alicia (slowly) But I've scarcely
thought of her, except as a child We
have not met in three years, yon
know
Rairnund She is a child or rather
a child with a woman's heart. But if
you've not seen her in three years you'll
be surprised and delighted. I have her
picture here. (He detaches a little
locket from his watch chain and hands
it to Alicia.) That is just as she looks
now. j
Alicia (in surprise) Is it possible !
she allows you to wear her picture?
Rairnund (calmly) Yes. She fas
tened it on my watch chain before I
came away.
Alicia How strange! But (smiling
faintly) perhaps it isn't strange. Per
haps there was a good reason.
Rairnund Well yes. I will tell you
the reason in a minute, but you must
admire her lovely face a little first.
Alicia I do, extremely.
Raimund And she's such a darling
the best of darlings, the sweetest
and sincerest why, what's the mat
ter, Alicia?
Alicia (bravely) The matter? Noth
ing. Raimund There is; you're so awful
ly pale and you're crying!
Alicia (with a sob) Oh, not crying
only this sweet young face and I'm
thinking hoping that you may be
very, very happy, Raimuud!
Raimund (very gravely) That is for
you to say, Alicia.
Alicia And I say it, with all my
heart. Be happy! Yes. I wish you to
be. Don't mind a few tears. They
only come because (hysterically) I am
glad glad
Raimund (with soothing tenderness)
Because you are glad to see me
that's right! It's all right! Let me dry
your tears, and then 1 must ask you
one little question which Amy told
me to ask.
Alicia (imploringly) Oh, wait
wait give me a moment. Doyou think
I have no feeling no remembrance of
what is past? You and Amy have all
your lives to be together all the days
and years that are coming
Raimund (in astonishment) I and
Amy? What in the world are you
talking of, Alicia? What doyou mean?
Do you suppose you don't suppbse
Alicia Ah, dear Raimund, I know,
I know! And it is natural it is just
what should be. There! I won't be
selfish any more. Mow talk and tell
me about her. Pour out all that is in
your heart.
Raimund (still astonished) But
there isn't anything to pour. Amy
only wanted me to ask you if you
would let her be 3'our bridesmaid
when we are married.
Alicia Raimund oh, Raimund!
(Sobs wildly in his arms.)
Raimund enraptured but perplexed)
My blessed girl! Oh, don't, Alicia!
You break my heart! What is it dear
est? What makes you grieve? Oh!
(suddenly turning pale) you can't
you don't mean to cast me off after
all!
Alicia (from his coat collar) Dot
this seem like casting you off?
Raimund Mo-o but speak to me,
for Heaven's sake!
Alicia (with an effort) Oh, I
thought you had come to tell me you
loved Amy and wished to marry her.
Raimund Loved Amy? How could
you get hold of such an idea?
Alicia You wore her picture.
Raimund She was sending it to
you, dear, locket and all, and snapped
it on my chain so it would be sure not
to be forgotten.
Alicia Bat you spoke of her so
much, every moment
Raimund Because for this longyear
she has been my little helper and con
fidante. She knew all my doubts and
uncertainties. I could go to her and
simply rave about you. and I did. An
older woman would not have listened.
And when your freezing letters came
it was such a relief to tell her how
wretched they made me.
Alicia (repentantly) Oh, po-o-or
boy!
Raimund And she knew how I
dreaded to put my fate to the test-
that I was afraid, as the time drew i
near, to come back to you for my
answer. It was she who suggested I
that I would appear before you, care
lessly and recklessly, as I've tried to
(with my heart in my boots at the
same time), and pretend to take every
thing for grated. And he told me I
must not make 3-ou a proposal at all,
but merely ask you if 3-ou would let
your cousin Amy be your bridesmaid.
Will you, darling?
Alicia (almost inaudibly) If you
still think I am worthy to be the
bride. Madeline A. Bridges, in Les
lie's Mcwspaper.
Handel's arctismn.
Handel had great natural wit and
good humor, which were constantly
showing, the real good-heartedness of
the man. When the "Messiah"' was
being performed in Dublin Dubourg
led the band, and one evening had a
close to make, ad libitum. Following
the fashion, the violinist lock his
cadenza through various keys and eon
tinned the impmvization until Handel
began to wonder when he would really
come to the "shake" which was to
terminate the part and bring in the
other instruments. Eventually Du
bourg finished the cadenja with a
grand flourish, whereupon Handel, to
the merriment o the audience, ex
claimed, loud enngh to ts heard:
"Velcome home, velcome itvme, Mr.
Dabourg!" On op occasion a per
turbed singer had some warm words
with Handel and wound up the
wrangle by threatening to jump on the
harpsichord which he pla3ed. "Oh,"
replied Handel, '"let me know when
yon vill do dat, and 1 vill advertise it.
i for 1 am sure dat more people rill
come to see you jump than to hear yo
sing." Youth's Companion.
Your prodigal is generally too sel
fLbh to be generous. -Chicago Herald.
WILSON ON THE TARIFF BILL.
Ihe Champion of the Hons IS ill Reviews
the Battle.
At Martinsburg, W. Va.. on August
9, Hon. W. L. Wilson, chairman of
the ways and means committee of the
house, was nominated for reelection
by acclamation by the most enthusi
astic convention that was ever held in
his district.
Mr. Wilson made a notable address
to the convention, and it was warmly
received. After a felicitous exordium,
in wh'ch he characterized the recent
tariff right as "one of the greatest and
tnost monstrous struggles that has
marked our political historj-," he said:
'The congress which adjourned yesterday
nas charged by the ieop!e with a duty clear,
cnmistakabln. transcendent, to secure from
the grasp of private and selfish hands tho
power of federal taxation: to lift from the
backs of the American people thtt burden of
tribute tD privilege and monopoly which under
thirty years" republican legislation has crown
constantly heavier until it far exceeded their
legitimate nd necessary taxation for the sup
port of tho eovernment: to reclaim and make
forever .ure that heritage of American youth
which is tiie true meaning and priceless boon
of derro-ratic institutions eijual opportunity
la a land of equal rights.
This was the inspiring mission which tho
democratic party had long sought from the
American people power and authority to per
form. Xo man could fitly undertake a revenue
bill for a nation of seventy million people
without being appalled by the greatness of the
trust committed to him and the thickening
difficulties in the way of its successful per
formance. No man could worthily approach
such a work without putting away from him
any potty peronal umbition and any selfish
concern for his own political future. No man
could hope for any measure of ral success
who was not willing to dedicate to such a task
every power of body and mind, with a humbla
Invocation for strength and wisdom. 1 knew
that you were tariff reformers without reser
vation; I knew that the democrats of West
Virpinia were not protectionists for West Vir
ginia and reformers and free-traders for other
states. You know, for you have followed with
watchful interest the varying history of our
attempt at tariff reform: you have followedi
with risiDp hopes and hearty approval, the ac
tion of the house of representatives in the
framing and passage of a measure bearing tho
badges of democratic principles and fraught
with promised benefits to all the people.
"You have followed with waning hopes and
angry disapproval the tedious and tortuous
passage of that bill through the senate and
have seen that despite a nominal democratio
majority in that body the great trusts and
monopolies were stiil able to write their taxes
as they had done under republican rule in some
of its most important schedules. The burden
upon you is the same whether they use a demo
cratic or a republican hand as their amanuensis.
Hut the wrong to you is infinitely the greater
when those who bear the commission of your
own party, thus prove faithless to its highest
duties. I need not recite to you the successive
steps, the material and baneful alterations
through which the hohse bill quietly passed
into a law yesterday morning without the sig
nature and approval of the president, who was
elected upon the issue of tariff reform and who
anticipated as the signal triumph and historic
achievement of his administration the privilege
of affixing his name to a genuine and thorough
reform bill.
You know by what influence that was
brought about. The country knows and his
tory will know where to put the responsibility
for our partial failure to redeem our pledges to
the people and our partial failure to dislodge
the great privileged interests from our tariff.
I am not sure that this very failure may not be
the harbinger and assurance of a speedier and
more complete triumph of commercial freedom
than the smooth and unobstructed passage of
the house bill would have been. The American
people are aroused as hardly anything else
could have aroused them to the deadly menace
which protection begets to the purity and tho
very existence of free government. They have
seen a single great trust empowered by our
tariff laws to control the production and sale of
a necessary or life, parceling out the country
with its partners, and using its law-made
wealth and power to thwart the best efforts of
the people to reduce their own taxation. They
have seen it hold up congress for weeks and
have heard its representatives boldly declare
that there would be no tariff bill in which their
interests were cot protected, and they have re
alized the final fulfillment of the boast.
When the sugar trust thus challenges the
American people to a contest of strength its
days are numbered, its temporary triumph is
Its sptedier and more complete overthrow, and
with its overthrow will vanish its sister brood
of monopolies that ore strong through its sup
jKrt. But. my friends, there is another and a
brighter side to this picture. With all its man
ifold failures the new biil carries in it very
f uli-tautial relief to the people and must be
sot epted as a substantial beginning of thorough
und progressive tariff reform. If we denounce
some of its duties and rates, it is because what
may be much lower than the duties and rates
cf the MeKinlcy bill are yet enormities in a
democratic bill. We have gained a vant:;e
p-round from which we shall continue to shell
the camp of monopoly. The day of mad pro
tection is over in this country: McKinieyism
will disappear as a d.irk and hideou-j blight
from our statute books. The tight will go on
licit, mayl'e. in such a general engagement and
protracted struggle as we have just pa-sed
through, but that s'eady aDd resistless pre--j-ure
that will take one after another of
th? strongholds of privilege until all shall
disappear before the advance of public opinion
ami public eman"ip.tion.
-We have a right to confess our own short
comings as measured by the hieh standard of
our own principles and professions. Hut all
this does not in ply dissatisfact.cn with our
own party as a whole or distrust as tomeanin:;s
anu intentions. If the closeness of the vote ia
one house of congre-s gave opportunity fur a
few to combine against the people and against
all tho rest of their p.'.rtv and o!stiu;t its
faithful efforts to redeem its pledges, the over
v helming mass of the democrats in the country
are subject to no just criti ism. If we have
done le.-s in the way of relieving the people's
burdi ns than we had hoped and promised they
would huve done nothing at all If we have
anywhere uucovered a trust and found it too
strong for our complete d.slodgement in lh
first itttack we have never failed to find then,
sturdily and -solidly arrayed for its defense.
The ueapons with which monopoly has fought
us they have forged and tempered and sup-.
plied. The entrenchments an.l fortresses be
hind which privilege has shielded itself from
our attack they have builded for it. stone b-".-stone
and stronghold by stronghold."
With the revival of business and
renewed prosperity between now and
June, lSSi. the call for McKinley to be
the candidate of the republicans for
president will be audibly less stento
rian, even if it does not lapse into com
plete silence. Without the possibility
of any demand for the restoration cf
the McKinley tariS there will be no
.iemaii'l for .McKinley. Chiecgo Her
ald. MOMENTS WITH SCIENCE.
A gallon of alcohol can be made
from a bushel of sweet potatoes.
The largest comets are so ratified
that they never harm planets or satel
lites by colliding with them.
Mars is ordinarily 141,000.000 miles
away from the earth, but every fifteen
years it approaches to within 35,000,000
miles.
Officials of the Smithsonian insti
tute have discovered evidences which
lead them to believe that the mound
builders were the progenitor cf the
modern Indians.
WHAT HAS BEEN WON.
Benefit to the I'eople Tlirough Tariff
lied art Ion.
Western democrats have told where
in the tariff bill is a disappointment.
The great American privilege of let
ting men who do not act on the square
know what we t hink of them has been
exercised against those who spoiled
the house bill ia the senate.
There is the difference between dem
ocrats and republicans. The McKinley
bill was privately denounced by
Blaine. Senator I'lumb voted against
it. But the voice of protest was in
stantlj' silenced by party machine, and
the western republicans, who had been
forced by the trust-bought managers
to eat their words and abandon their
interests, have either said nothing
ffnce or have sworn b- all that was
sacred thr.t the McKinley act was the
best tariff law ever passed or proposed.
Kepublicaas have learned how to
give up tha right of free speech for
the sake of party. Democrats never
have learned and never will learn to
surrender a single manhood right for
the sahe of party and politicians.
We have spoken our opinion of the
senate bill's shortcomings. We have
also an opinion to the effect that our
representatives and senators collect
ively have, at the cost of unstinted la
bor and in the face of unnumbered dif
ficulties, passed a bill which is so much
a relief that it is a revolution.
The influences which withheld much
good which elevated civic wisdom
would have bestowed were protection
influences. They constituted the re
maining strength of a long pampered
aggregation of interests which the
democratic majority in the senate was
not large enough to dislodge.
The merits are the democratic part
and they are manv. The democratic
heroes in both houses deserve the
highest commendation; for every re
duction was a battle with desperate
aDd well-armed partisans of protec
tion. Fifty per cent, of McKinley taxes
have been taken from most of the ar
ticles of common consumption. Wool
en manufacture, which has languished
in spite of almost unlimited protec
tion, will be expanded through access
to the world's wool markets. We shall
have cheaper and better clothing and
blankets and we can at last get pure
woolens of American manufacture. 1
Steel and iron will preserve a healthy
level of prices, instead of being the
plaything of alternate scarcity and ,
overproduction. Cotton ties and bag
ging will not be monopolized whenever
there is a good crop of cotton. Tin
plate duties are fifty per cent. less.
In woolens and knit fabrics the re- :
duction is from one hundred per cent,
to an average of thirt3--five per cent.
This is of great significance, not only ;
because it will cheapen these abso- '
lutely necessary articles to the con
sumer, but because it will stimulate
trade with Germany, Belgium, France i
and England, where the demand for
our meats, flour and grain is the
largest. The protectionist may ask :
how foreign trade can be stimulated ;
and home woolen manufacture en- ;
larged at the same time. The answer .
is that consumption will increase with
great rapidity. Among three-fourths
of our people far less of goo.1 woolen !
clothing, carpets and blankets is used !
than the users would lik- and would
have if H1C3 could pay for more. En- :
large their export markets and they
will enlarge the home market. j
Our new tariff will have a good ef- ,
feet on business and production.
Southern and western democratic
members have done their best, and !
have a great public good to show for ;
their year's labor. 1
Send to Washington a larger majr- '
ity. Confer spon the democratic par- :
ty power to change specific to ad va- :
lorcm duties, so that the inventions ;
which cheapen goods everywhere may
go to the benefit of the people. The ;
only tariff which does not require
tinkering every session is an ad va
lorem revenue tariff which adjusts '
itself to the needs of government and
the conditions of production. We want ,
no specific duties, which put low grades
01 goods under tue same charges us
iiigh grades, and which keep the same
tax in force for years even if invention
reduces the natural cost of an article
to one-tenth. The next two objects of
tariff reform are free ra.v materials
and ad valorem rates. The people
have but one avenue to ihe reform
the election of democrats. St. Louis
Republic.
The McKinley law gave the trust ,
free raw material and a difference of
half a cent per pouiid, with a bounty
of two cents a pound t ) domestic pro- ;
ducers in large quantities. The demon
strated result of this was to take S-0,-0'JO.OOD
a year from the people for the
benelit of the trust and 12,000.000
more for bounties, and practically put j
nothing into the treasury. The pres-
ent bill, with its concession of one- ',
fifth of a cent a pound differential. '
will put 540,000,000 a year into the
treasury and save Sli. 000,003 in boun- j
ties. We do not propose to make any !
defense of the sugar schedule, but we j
deny the right of any republican to I
criticise it. It is a relic of republican- j
ism which must go at the first oppor
tunity. Indianapolis Sentinel. J
The long tariff struggle is not '
over. Jt may be said to have only be- i
gun. and will probably be found to j
have widened, so as to include in its 1
scope the overthrow of trusts and the
reform and reconstiuction of the
United States senate. To the busi
ness and industrial world a settlement
which settles nothing, and which only
promises to be the prelude to fiercer
agitation and more radical schemes of
'egislation. is a profound disappoint
ment. Baltimore Sun.
The fact that a conspiracy in the
senate has prevented the realization
of the full measure of relief proposed
by the house will not blind the people
to the other fact that the greater part
of what they have demaade.d is given
them in the senate bill. It at least
makes an end of the gross and dis
astrous, injustice of the McKinley
tariff and strikes the shackles off in
"I
dustry and triie. Boston Post.
WILLING TOOLS.
Favoritism
Shown the Combines by the
liepu blicans.
The republican party organs make a
loud outcry againt the new tarifT bill
because it deprives our suffering" in
dustries of protection. Day after day
they reiterate the assertion that it will
either ruin our industries or force
manufacturers to make a deep cut in
wacres, or both.
And yet, with no less persistency
and clamor, they repeat the declara
tion that the bill has been ''manipu
lated by the trusts." Herein they
manifest their peculiar sense of con
sistency. They are the creators and
friends of the tariff buttressed trusts.
The foul brood of trusts are the na
tural progeny of the protective sys
tem. If the new biil strikes a fatal
blow at that system it necessarily
must be hostile to the trusts, and it i:
ridiculous to say that it has been manip
ulated by them If it has been manip
ulated by them it cannot be hostile to
the protective system.
What trusts have manipulated the
bill? Is the sugar trusts one of them?
By the admission of their own tariff
leader in the senate their own Mc
Kinley law gave the trusts the benefit
of CO cents on every 100 pounds of
sugar, while the new tariff bill gives it
the benefit of only 42; cents per 100
pounds. And yet they call the allow
ance by the new bill "indecent favor
itism to the trust." If that is indecent
favoritism, that of the McKinley bill
law must have been over 41 per cent
more indecent by the snowing of their
own tariff leader.
And, besides, everybody knows that
the democratic house voted to put an
end to all favoritism to the sugar
trust. Ever3'bodv knows not only that
the house has done this twice, but fiat
the senate would have done the same
long ago but for the republican sena
tors, aided by a handful of recreant
democrats. Throughout the struggle
the republican senators, with unbroken
ranks, have shown the most '"indecent
favoritism" to the sugar trust, declar
ing that the3' would permit no action
except such as would keep the McKin
ley law in force in its entirety, and
give the sugar trust 41 per cent, more
than it is given by the bilL
But the republican organs talk of
"indecent favoritism" to the "trusts,"
not the "trust." To what besides the
sugar trust do they refer? One organ
names the steel beam trust. There
was such a trust, and it flourished
mightily under the republican law of
lSsU, which protected it by a duty of
S-S per ton, and under the McKinley
law, which protected it by a duty of
SJ0.1G per ton. The new tariff protects
the steel beam makers by a dut3- of
$13.44 per ton. If that is "indecent fa
voritism" what was the 50 per cent,
higher duty of the McKinley law or
the 10S per cent, higher duty of the re
publican law of 1Ss3?
Furthermore, the house reduced the
duty on steel beams to 30 per cent.,
which on the importations of and
was equivalent to SS.45 per ton.
How came the senate to increase this
to 13.44? It was because Senator
Quay dictated the increase and the re
publican senators in a body, with a
little squad of recreant democrats,
stood by him. The republican sena
tors are responsible for $5 per ton of
this "indecent favoritism" this duty
which republican organs now de
nounce as prohibitory.
And the same is true with respect to
the "indecent favoritism" to all other
tariff-buttressed trusts and interests,
past and present. The republicans
are the men who have shown tho
favoritism. They have fought from
first to last to defeat all legislation
and to keep on the statute books un
changed the McKinley law, which is
from 40 to 100 per cent, more' favorable
to all the tariff-shielded trusts and
combinations formed to plunder the
American people under the protection
and by the active aid of republican
laws.
COMMENTS OF THE PRESS.
The tariff bill will be known as a
step in the right direction. Boston
Uerald.
By a statement made by Disburs
ing Officer Evans to the department of
agriculture the statement shows a re
duction of more than 14 per cent, in
the expenditures during the fiscal
year ended June 30, 1S94. Asa result
more than SoOO.000 will be covered
back into the treasury out of the ap
propriation for the fiscal year. N. Y.
Post.
Another democratic pledge has
been redeemed. The McKinley tariff
law no longer lives to oppress the peo
ple and disgrace the statute books of
thecountry. The democrats promised
its repeal and the promise lias been
kept. The new law may not be all
that the people desired, but it is a vast
improvement on the McKinley act.
Chicago Herald.
Nothing could be more idle than
the assertion that the sugar trust oper
ates exclusively upon the democratic
party. Its hold there has just been
demonstrated, but its octopus arms
extend into both parties. If there
publicans were free from it they might
easil3' unite with the democrats and give
the country the benelit of a bill that
would destroy all the trust's present
advantage. Boston Herald.
"McKinley's is the schedule
we're fighting for," was declared by
the president of the sugar trust dur
ing" the tariff struggle. It is not diffi
cult to see what candidate would re
ceive the largest contribution from the
combines that are piling up riches at
the expense of the masses who are
striving to regain control of their own,
resources. Detroit Free Press.
That atrocity, the McKinley bill.
is about to be wiped from the statute
books by democratic votes. The pledge
of 1S9"- to the people is redeemed as
far as the people have conferred tho
power. The tariff reformers could not
control a senate to which a majority
of real reformers had not been elected.
Having placed the blame for the in
completeness of the reform where it be
longs, the house democrats can ad
journ in the "consciousness of duty
done.' St Louis Eepublic