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‘‘AN ACT OF MADNESS.” THE PROPOSED ABANDONMENT OF PROTECTION. |f We Are to Achieve Commercial Supremacy We Mum Hold to tlie Policy That Han Made lie Industrially and Financially Supreme. A timely article on the subject of “Commercial Empire and Protection” Is contributed by Hon. Edward N. Dlnftley to Onnton's Magazine for Oc tober. It Is Just now quite the fash ion among certain expounders of "ad vanced" economic theory to assert that protection has outlived whatsoever use fulness It ever had In the matter of developing and sustaining domestic In dustries. and. In view of the new con ditions which have arisen, must now be greatly modified, or, belter still, al together abandoned. Such ts the pur port of an article In a recent number of the Forum, and to this proposition Mr. Dlngley addresses himself with the vigor and zeal born of an Intense con viction that the abandonment of our fixed national policy Just at a time when Its successful operation has wrought such splendid results would be an act of madness. It was by establishing and maintain ing a protective tariff, as Mr. Dtngley points out. that the founders of our republic, after having thrown off the political yoke of England, took steps to throw off the commercial itnd Indus trial yoke which the ‘ mother coun try” had so firmly fastened upon the necks of the American people. How successful was this determination and what magnificent results have flowed from the practical realization of the hopes of the fathers of the republic are matters of history. Today the re public stands supreme among the na tions of the earth— supreme, Industrial ly, commercially, and financially; the home of the most prosperous and pow erful nation the world has ever known. After the lapse of a century from the passage by congress of the first tariff bill under the federal constitution, framed by Mad.son and approved by Washington—an act "for the support of the government, for the discharge of debts of the United State*, and for the protection of manufactures"—the same fundamental principles remain alive in the Dlngley tariff law of to day: the raising of revenues and the encouragement of domestic Industries. The effective manner In which these principles are carried out under the existing tariff law. together with the demonstrated fact that because of the Increased employment and the In creased purchasing power of the people a protective tariff produces more revenue than a free-trade tariff, are matters wbicb Mr. Dingley’s article emphasizes most convincingly. Simi larly cogent Is his demonstration that the "home market can be preserved only by maintaining to the highest pos sible degree the purchasing and con suming power of our own people.” This Is the pivotal point of the whole ques tion. Turning to the question of commer cial supremacy, Mr. Dlngley urges that "a nation must be Industrially and financially supreme before It can be commercially supreme; it must be strong at borne before It can be strong abroad.” It Is for the full develop ment and maintenance of this strength at home that the writer appeals—a strength which has come by and through protection, and which will re main with this nation as the result of steadfast persistence in the faith of the fathers who planned protection as the surest, the only, way to secure for their country absolute freedom, abso lute independence, absolute prosperity. If for no other reason than to Berve notice upon all whom It may concern that protectionists nee nothing in ex isting conditions which suggests the wisdom of abandoning the American policy, but are, on the contrary, firmer than ever in their adherence to that policy, Mr. Dlngley has done well to make public his views In the article In Cunton’s from which we have quot ed, ProtectfonistB know where they stand, and It is well that the "ad vanced” theory expounders should alao know. NOT OVERPRODUCTION. I ml*rr.iii«iini|>l Ion 4 »ui«l Our Tnillblwt lu I'm* Triita TIiukv. Some of tin* free trader*, like Mr. l)r>an ami Mr IMmonl, are Mill talk ing atiout the '‘burdens" of the people. Other free traders, who have *en-* euough to know that the people ran t <>e fooled with any claptrap a unit ‘ bur dens' when they are In the widat of such prosperity aa eiista unlay. wh»u work I* seeking the woiker and when (tie Saturday night wage la larger than tt hat ever been before, are looking about for some more available weapon to use against the protective U'lff Th* hugauoothey present is overprtaluelion This U a more etibile argument than that of the "burden rrlers, but not more sound Kaeta are gime aa aUong ngatnst It, Farmers, manufacturer* and merchants ait Hud a *' rong an l steady demand for ail their t'en, and the prices are g>su) ;» demand for labor la unuaunll* good and is on the In* reave These are not the signs of overproduction l*e«ple Jut go on holing sfiw »h*v have hat enough and empioyere d*»n’t contnus to hire guts laborers when they have products enough on hand to satisfy eater mg 4* ■sands The rhaarus are that th* free traders •re sot •• til ain*'sre In Ihsir rry agsinet e»s»pr**l Mima hut, if iher •re, It !• on » further ss dear# of their •Iter Inahiiti* to understand economic grtnetplse If the Am»n an pe »*e no enmetl •• hMsre la time* of >*dn»trtn< •etlttty asseh ns the proses' then in ••• sf Indus trie depression i*hi ss the years from 1S93 to 1806, overpro duction would be a reality. But indus trial activity, with the Increased work and wages which It means for every body, brings also increased consump tion on the part of everybody. As we produce more and have, thefore, more of the wherewithal to buy, the more numerous are our wants and the great er otir demands for the products of other workers. The economic system is a system of interdependence. The market for the increased product in any one Industry Ik at hand In the increased demands of the workers in every other Industry, Furthermore, tf. Instead of having more of the luxuries of life, we pre fer to lay up money, there are the world's markets to take the surplus product* which we don't want for our selves. Our increased and increasing foreign trade shows that we are taking advantage of them. In any case, so long as human nature Is what it is; so long as the more we can have the more we want, there will be no overproduction. In free-trade days we have more than once suffered from underconsumption, but we have never yet had a case of overproduction, and we are not likely to have such a case. I’ron parity amt Kiluratlon. From all over the country there ore reports that the enrollments at public and private schools, from the primary grades to the universities, are larger this year than ever before. Home in crease might have been expected as a result of the steady growth of popula tion, but the marked gain noted this season Is much more largely (Vie to I be general prosperity of the country. Thus the good times that have resulted from wise national policies, from large crops and from good marketB not only bring employment to all who seek It, not only afford good investments for all wbo have money to invest, not only increase the earning power of bolh labor and capital and contribute to the comforts and necessities of dally life, but they open the way for more liberal educa tion. Children who had been forced to earn something for the family are re leased from their employment and s< nt to school. Young men and young women who have had but limited op portunities for higher education now find themselves able to attend the col leges and universities. The beneHts of prosperity are incalculable, but among them one of the greatest Is along edu cational lines.—Kansas City Journal. Never Again. Wane Earner: "No, I thank you; not any for me. I tried your game in 1892, and know exactly how it works. Protection is good enough for me." A llestroellve Remedy. Since the election of McKinley pro duction has increased at such a rale that the per capita consumption in 1SS8 will probably be more than double that of the disastrous years under Cleveland. We can only maintain this rate of consumption by keeping our mills employed, and that can only be done by preventing the encroachments of foreigners, who are constantly try ing to break into and break down our market If we dispense with protec tion we simply Invite Germany and other countries where capital has been effectively organised to drive our in dustries to the wall. No sane people will take such a risk. If the trusts become oppressive the American peo ple will take them in hand and regu late them, but they will not commit the blunder of destroying the manu facturing Industries of the country in n I senseless effort to avert an evil which ! tnuy ire remedied by a resort to sensl j ble methods. San Francisco Chroni cle. truth •< tu Iruet*. Mr. Oxnard* utatemotu that triuta I itre ihe reimlt of cum petition watch baa taken biiain«*» beyoud a pitying point In certainly the truth at applied to moat cage*. Combination* are the law of present duy trulrmlti. un.t tt 1* only natural that wheu conipetitlou au | reduced ptoAt* that there «aa nothin* j irft fur tha producer, combination ! •ho»it>| etep In lit pretent eu* h a •laughter Thta d>w* not Jiirtify auvh i ombineUon*. but merely explain* ih.m It alto indicate* the fooiuh lie** of colili** tl*g lbe-e reeuit* ail|i the tm iff The greater truata tut in the I nlied Htaten were formed lltlrf tha ilutwan M ilton tariff aytiew the greatest truttt in all hUtoty bar* been formed la other cnuatite* at other | tune* and under nothing la th* aha pa of a imtMlIi* tariff •yvtm IVwria till i Journal a.— «•»? new. I ha laboring wen *ho •till *ltng to Htygawm ahuwl4*idbe into iumMwi lion IbU fa I Mhan Ilf >an made hit preyiowa lour through lie rutury t her tow Id g" and b«*r him oithont Kieing ani Uw* whatever from the job* they d»dn l l*<« Mon every indue i IMwwai t la* lined we* hank gad day la borer «IM bavw to lay off'* from hie | Jab or ml** (be affaevh Tbe le.-aon la •tear enough -Igdlehagoll* Journal TALK WITHOUT THINKING. People VI'he Artie That the Kemorat ef the Tarts Would AbolUh the Truet*. That a free-trader la a person who •Imply recites formulas without a thought as to their application ia again shown by the attitude of the remnant of the old Cobdenite contin gent in the Chicago conference. One after one the votarle*—a man named Purdy from New York and a man named Holt from Boston and a man named Seymour from Chicago—like mivage priests beating the temple gong, intone solemnly the words, "Abolish the tariff and you abolish the trusts,” thump their breasts, bump their brows and retire into the robing room. Not one of these men had apparently ever thought of the consequences of the practice proposed any more than he had examined the basis of the the ory propounded. He had heard thut the tariff prevented competition, that a lack of competition create^ trusts and that trusts raised prices, and that, therefore, the lack of a tariff would prevent trusts and lower prices. Not one had ever tested tbo grounds of the major premise, nor noted the pat ent facts that the greatest trusts are the unprotected industries, and that the greatest increase of prices has been in the most keenly competed indus tries. As with cause so with effect. Not one can possibly have considered for an Instant the Immediate result of the adoption by the government of the course proposed. The American Sugar company and Its solitary rival are In all men's minds when the subject of a trust in a protected industry is mentioned. Let us suppose the tariff abolished on this commodity. What would be the result of the Impact of the German, Austrian, French and Belgian goods upon the producers of the American goods? Which would suffer—the great com bination with its 150,000,000 capital, its enormous reserve of undivided profits, Us huge plants and conse quently cheap output, or the single corporation which is fighting it? Is it not plain that It would not be the “trust” or combination of concerns which would succumb to this foreign competition, but the Individual con cern? And what, then, would be the result? We saw it here a little over a year ago when the foreign steamship ; companies formed a pool to wring double rates from the United States government for carrying the Spanish prisoners to their homes. The result would be the formation of that thing so completely irresponsible and wholly unconscionable In its absolution from the governance of the public opinion of its vicinage—the international trust W’e would have a thing whose ex cesses would be blamed in Germany upon the American sugar trust. And the healthful domestic competition, which inside the tariff, with the aid of jealous public sentiment, had regu lated the price of the commodity, would be extinct. Every step of these processes must be unavoidably plain to the most com monplace mind at the moment that it is concentrated on the subject. Yet gentlemen travel a thousand miles, considering their “problem” all the way, and never once putting their formulated solution to the most ob vious test of practice. There is no barbarian religion more thoroughly benumbing to the mind than the out worn doctrines of free trade.—New York Press. Prosperity for AIL The editorial writer of the Gratiot Journal in last issue said that “the prosperity of the country had not reached the middle and lower clasaes of society,” and then proceeded to get off a canned article on trusts. The Journal writer knows. If be has given the matter any attention, that even Ithaca factories are running on fuller time than they were during the last administration. There isn't a farmer in the vicinity of Ithaca that isn't getting more for his cattle, sheep and j other stock. There isn't a working : man in the country that can't get work if he wants it, and at good wages. The Iron mines, the iron mills are hus tling their hardest, something they weren't doiug in Think of it! Big factories refusing orders because they are already filled up for three >cura to come, with thetr mills run ning on double time, and then have some one here yell out that the mid dle and lower classes are nut feeling the better timet. At. laiuU (Mich.) | Republican-leader. \ rr liter* Any »« HIliut f Teh thutiaand dollar* paid to work ing n.en and women l>) four Xenia fae* 'orIf* last Saturday. "The but* her. the taker and the t»Oiile*tlrk matter tha dry gooda dealer and the gutter, | th« t int bier the a hue dealer and tha printer, and every line of trade, and 1 the landlord, eat h got part of thla money Within a lew hoiira It had paeaed from band to hand and had | bought the ntt*a*nrlee of life in make Home tiiinfortabla and happy 'Thla t* what Inttrnal lnda»trl«* do for a na i it hi Thla U what tha I4«pitbl|ta* party ha* tong and brately fought fur protat Uug id utern an Industrie* |* thern a man or woman in >01 r t•im munity an blind a* In not tea thnl theae ahutiid ba fttalerrd* Xenia dl l l layette M twilag Hut r»y»l*i. Mr Hr tan I* againal Iron* hot S* been I Mid yet whni ha w««id 1!* t*t throitla them ne»n ha eietl-d nre«|. fan* And It may ha n** eaeary for him to outline n piiirr hafora Urn pa-pm pi* a the undivided not tide it.a m Me i aMHty Mera howling tan I popular nn» morn Tha ndaiy at# hn hoar nith I ha new M« Malay p tunpm ny t« Haten In ‘la* tarnation Wlnahnrtar fill | Ptaednid OUR OLDEST PACIFIC ISLANDS. We Expanded in That Direction Over Forty Years Ago. Out In the wild waste of waters southwest of Hawaii, ten days’ sail from that Island and four days sail from the nearest land, the American flag has flapped and fluttered over two tiny bits of land for more than forty years. Baker and Howland are the names of these old Pacific possessions of ours. They nestle close to the equator near ITS longitude, and are marked on every good-sized map of that part of the world. Yet how few of us have ever known that we ex panded in the Pacific long before the guns roared at Fort Sumter. Peace fully we took possession of them,peace fully we have held them. No congres sional debates have ever occurred as to their form of government, no senate has ever been called upon to ratify an lam] was leased to the American Gu ano company. There was no safe an chorage about the Island and the com pany placed a buoy about a mile and a half from the western beach. This la the only anchorage today. Baker Island forms an Irregular quadrilateral figure about a mile long and a fraction less than a mile in w idth. It is of coral formation. There is absolutely no water on the Island, and drinking water can be obtained only by distilling sea water. The to pography of the island Is somewhat similar to that of Ilowland, save- that on the west side is a small open bay, in which is a boat anchorage. The island is encircled by a reef some 300 feet wide, and its jagged heads are awash at, high tide. A beat about for days before an anchor age is possible. f Baker island was discovered by Capt. Henry Foster, of the bark Ja maica, In 1857. It was reported from time to time by various other marin ers, but was not accurately charted until Commander Meade visited it, in 1872. The island Is a veritable death trap of the sea, as Its wreck-strewn reef attests. Not only are shores strewn with wreckage, but nearly a dozen skeletons of ships still exist in the clutches of the reef. Such are our other possessions In the South Sea. MRS. LANGTRY'S HOME. A Country llaaldance In »• Kngllih Village. Mrs. Langtry's country residence Is situated in the pretty village of Kent ford, four miles from Newmarket. It is fitted throughout with all that mod ern convenience and luxury could sug gest. The entrance hall has a wooden THE ONLY HARBOR ON BAKER ISLAND appointment of a governor over thpm. In fact, they are so far from anywhere that even the most persistent office seeker would scarcely accept an ap pointment there. Howland or Hol land Island Is the larger of the two, and Is separated from Baker island by an arm of the sea about twenty-live miles wide. It is about two miles long and a trifle over a half mile in width. It was discovered by Capt. G. B. Neteher, of the American bark Isabel la, Sept. 9, 1842, and waa formally taken possession of by him the next morning in the name of the United States. He raised a flag on the island and deposited a box at the foot of the staff containing a record of what he had done. In 1857 the Island was vis ited by the whaling bark Portsmouth, rhe flag staff erected by Capt. Neteher had been blown down by the winds, but the bark's captain found the record and promptly raised another flag. He was determined that it should stand, and how well he succeeded Is shown by the decaying stump which still stands there, though another flag staff was raised some fifteen years later, on a higher part of the island, by Comman der Meade, United States steamer Nar ragansett. Capt. Neteher tlso dis covered another island, quite moun tainous, and evidently of volcanic ori gin, about forty-five miles north of Howland, and took possession of this also in the name of the United States. Near the center .of the island are thickets of small trees covering an area of many acres. The eastern side of the island is composed of a succession of ridges, generally of sand and shells. At curlier stages of the island's growth these may have successively formed the weather shore. Bits of pumice and driftwood are scat tered all over the Island. There are no springs on the Island, but water may be obtained by digging a few feet In the renter the Island spreads out In a plain con tain In a about 400 or .".no acre*. ThU la susceptible of rultlva tioa. but tbo Inland would Ip* valueless were It not for it* i-nral and It* guano deposits, ThP guano rover* thr rntirp luiddlP part, from north to south, and Is from *u Int'ba* to four fe«u In depth At tbp tun*' of Commander Mead"’.* visit. In l»7i. the guano r a port »*. about l.Otto ton* annually Conaldt-r able <oral was nUo being exported During the early nines the llrittsb ship Pelican was wrerhrd on a reef near Howland Island. The crew man* aged to get to tbs Island In safety Home years later the hut* they had ll»ed In and other tra<es of the trig, in lilt, iwuld nut lie found t he men had disappeared What hail become of them will doubtless never he known Iknihitess tired of the eternal soil tude. an I of hauling with sea birds and rats with which the island abounds, they Mb a raft or a boat and put to **s only to meet d»a’h ta the auahif waters llow'anl Island will never be via Med by tourist* ftvs the sabs of Its I #.S>U»i « 4 m.-.' II k | fogoiwiion and uses bm meaty feet 1 those the level of the reef ,.eli about twelve at gfieea ebove the level of the high IWe The wewtera eld* uf the lalaad la elighily depteweed and mush tif it te ksweeed w«lh aa abundant I grwwth af vegetal i-mi 1 thk.n i after th« eltll war the te strong current, running nearly four miles an liour, sets in around the Is land and makes navigation near it ex tremely dangerous. The land slopes away so abruptly from the reef that an anchor will not grapple, and for this reason a number of large moor ing buoys are anchored Just outside the reef. Approaching the island from the western side, the large white buildings of the Moulders Bros., a guano firm, of London, to whom the guano deposit was leased, can be seen fourteen mllPS from shore. If a ship should be at the buoy there, she can be sepn for an hour before the island comes into view. From this side the island presents a pretty picture, with the white houses nestling in the arms of the surround ing greenery on top of the reddish coral cliff. High above them all waves the stars and stripes. But not always does that flag wave there. It is used as a signal to incoming ships, as well as a symbol of our ownership. From November to April it is prac tically impossible for a ship to ap proach the island, and during the other months of the year a landing is not always possible. This is entirely due to the strong current around the Island. When a vessel approaches the land she hoists the Jack at the fore royal masthead. If conditions are fa vorable, the ensign continues to float from the signal staff on shore, and the ship approaches the buoy, but if there is any danger the flag on shore is hauled down, and, to prevent being wrecked on the reef, the ship must stand to sea. sometimes compelled to parquette flooring of a very pretty and unusual design and leads through an oak archway Into a large, oak-paneled reception hall. There is a dog stove, with old Dutch tiles, and from this one passes to a most charming dining room, in which is fitted a brass-mount. ed stove. In the drawing room the woodwork and furniture are enameled white, the walls being hung with green ribbed silk, and separated fiom the bil liard room, into which it looks, by a handsomely carved screen, enameled white. It is understood to be these rooms which are reproduced in Mrs. Langtry's play, “The Degenerates.’’ The first floor is approached by a prin cipal gallery, oak staircase with carved newels and paneled soffit, and a large landing and corridor leads to the six principal bedrooms, each of which is fitted with enameled white mantels and tiled hearths, the appointments be ing well chosen. There is. at the fringe of the pleasure grounds, stabling for eighteen horses, and fortunate must be those “gee-gees” who find shelter therein, for better arranged stables are seldom seen. The property formerly belonged to George, Lord Bishop of Co lumbia, but the ‘ faire” owner has, even within the last three years, spent some thousands in improvements. A Valuable 1‘rodnrt. Last year 5,200,000 pounds of alu minium, valued at $1,710,000, were produced in the 1'nlted States. The value per pound was therefore ;t;t cents. In 1888 19,000 pounds of that metal were produced, valued at nearly $3.33 a pound. BOER METHOD Of TETHERING HORSES. The liner uever carries forage for hid mount, hut de pend* «n such pas ture uh the spot he I'htNwes for hin ramp may afford, t he way the hor*ea are hobbled, a* shown in the draw. (««. 1* certain!) as > If eel!*# a* it !a true I I'rulest« ha*e been made by humane me in Iters of the Mouth Afrl. •an roloa lea and republic*. hut I ha • U*lon« seems tot* f tleepl* routed to he • a»it* abolished Mm* these Mo clattau are a dan letou* kd Muhhuh* Only to lhrwMet*ee though. Then* thurth a# fair* wo* t hurt )»u unit ae you at ••ad them n»u»a la e« •«y ■•# ha* aa a« ruwht la th* aaaut mi»n haah