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TALM AGE'S SERMON FORGIVENESS BEFORE SUN DOWN SUNDAY’S SUBJECT. From Kplitilani, Chapter Four, Verae Twrnfy-ali, aa Follow*: "Let Not the Hun (la Down L'pon Your Wrath”— Flea to Man's Nobleat lnatlncta. (Copyright IS99 by I.ouls Klopsch.) What a pillow, embroidered of all colors, hath tho dying day! The cra dle of clouds from which the sun rises is beautiful enough, but It is surpassed by the many-colored mausoleum In which, at evening, it is buried. Sunset among the mountains! It almost takes one's breath away to re call the scene. The long shadows stretching over the plain make the glory of the departing light, on the tip top crags, and struck aslant, through the foliage the more conspicuous. Saf fron and gold, purple and crimson commingled. All the castles of cloud In contlugratlon. Burning Moscows on the sky. Hanging garden of roses at their deepest blush. Banners of va por, red as if from carnuge, in the bat tle of the elements. The hunter among the Adirondacks. and the Swiss villager among the Alps, know what is a sunset among the mountains. After a storm at sea, the rolling grandeur into which the sun goes down to bathe at nightfall, Is something to make weird and splendid dreams out of for a lifetime. Alexander Smith, in his poem, compares the sunset to “the baren beach of hell,” but this wonder ful spectacle of nature makes me think of the burnished wull of heaven. Paul, In prison, writing my text, re members some of the gorgeous sunsets among the mountains of Asia Minor, and how he had often seen the towers of Damascus blaze In the close of the oriental days, and he flashes out that memory In the text when he says, *'I^L not the sun go down upon your wrath." Sublime all-sugestlve duty for peo ple then and people now! Forgiveness before sundown! He who never feels the throb of indignation is Imbecile. He who cau walk among the injus tices of the world inflicted upon him self and otherB, without flush of cheek, or flash of eye, or agitation of nature, is either in sympathy with wrong or serai-idiotic. When Ananias, the high priest, ordered the constables of the court room to smite Paul on the mouth, Paul fired up and said: "God shall smite thee, thou whited wall." In the sentence immediately before my text, Paul commands the Ephesians: "Be ye angry and sin not.” It all de pends on what you are mad at and how long the feeling lasts, whether anger Is right or wrong. Life is full of exas perations. Saul after David, Succoth after Gideon, Koruh after Moses, the Pasqulns after Augustus, the Pharisees after Christ, and every one has had his pursuers, and wre are swindled, or be lied, or misrepresented, or persecuted, or in some way wronged, and the danger is that healthful indignation shall become baleful spite, and that our feelingB settle down into a pro longed outpouring of temper displeas ing to God and ruinous to ourselves, and hence the Important injunction of the text: “I^et not the sun go down upon your wrath.” Why that limitation to one s anger? What that period of flaming vapor set to punctuate a flaming disposition? What has the sunset got to do with one's resentful emotions? Was it a haphazard sentiment written by Paul without special significance? No, no; 1 think of five reasons why wo should not let the sunset before our temper. First: Because twelve hours is long enough to be cross about any wrong inflicted upon us. Nothing is so ex hausting to physical health or mental faculty as a protracted Indulgence of Ill-humor. It racks the nervous system. It hurts the digestion. It heats the blood In brain and heart until the whole body is first overheated and then depressed. Beside that, it sours the disposition, turns one aside from his legitimate work, expends energies that ought to be better employed, and does us more harm than it does our antagonist. Paul gives us a good, wido allowance of time for legitimate de nunciation, from »! o'clock to 6»o'clock. but says: "Stop there!” Watch the descending orb of day, and when It leaches the horizon, take a reef in your disposition. Pnloose your collar and cool off. Change the subject to something delightfully pleasant. Un roll your tight list and shake hands with some one. Hank up the fires at the curfew bell. Drive the growling dog of enmity bark to its kennel. The hours of this morning will pass by, and the afternoon will arrive, and tho sun will begin to art, and, I beg you, on its biasing hearth throw all your feuds, Invectives and satires. Other thiuga being equal, the man who preserves good temper will come out ahead. An old writer says that tbs relebrated John Itrndcrsou of tlrlatol, England, was si s dinner party where political excitement ran high and the debate got sngry, and while llender sou was speaking, bis opponent, un able to answer his argument, dashed a glass of a Inc In h>« furs, when, the speaker deliberately wiped the liquid from his fare and said Thin, sir, Is a digression, now. If you please, for the main argument.” While worldly philosophy could help but very few to such equipoise of spirit, the grace of Ood could help any man to such s tri umph. "Impossible, • you say, "I Would have either left the table In anger or have hmated the man down ” Hut I have come to helteve that nothing Is Impossible If tlod help Aye, you silt not postpone till ms down forgiveness of enemies If you css rerftne list their behavior towards you may be put Into the catalogue of the "all things" that "work together for good to those that love God.” I have had multitudes of friends, but I have found in my own experience that God so arranged it that the greatest opportunities of usefulness that have been opened before me were opened by enemies. So you may harness your antagonists to your best interests and compel them to draw you on to better work and higher character. Suppose, instead of waiting until thirty-two minutes after four this evening, when the sun will set, you transact this glo rious work of forgiveness at meridian. Again: We ought not to let the sun go down on our wrath, because we will Bleep better if we are at peace with everybody. Insomnia Is getting to be one of the most prevalent of disorders. How few people retire at 10 o'clock at night and sleep clear through to 6 in the morning! To relieve this disorder all narcotics, and sedatives, and mor phine, and chloral, and bromide of potassium, and cocaine, nnd intoxi cants are used, but nothing is more important than a quiet spirit if we would win somnolence. How Is a man going to sleep when he Is In tnind pur suing an enemy? With what nervous twitch he wilt start out of a dream! That new plan of cornering his foe will keep him wide awake while the clock strikes 11, 12, 1, 2. I give you an un failing prescription for wakefulness: spend the evening hours rehearsing your wrongs and the best way of avenging them. Hold a convention of friends on this subject In your parlor or office at 8 or 9 o'clock. Close the evening by writing a bitter letter ex pressing your sentiments. Take from the desk or pigeon hole the papers in the case to refresh your mind with your enemy's meanness. Then lie down and wait for the coming of the day, and it will come before Bleep comes, or your sleep will be worried quiescence, and, if you take the pre caution to lie flat on your back, a frightful nightmare. wny not put a bound to your ani mosity? Why lot your foes come Into the sanctities of your dormitory? Why let those slanderers who have already torn your reputation to pieces or in jured your business, bend over your midnight pillow and drive from you one of the greatest blessings that God can offer—sweet, refreshing, all-invig orating sleep? Why not fence out your enemies by the golden bars of the sunset? Why not stand behind the barricade of evening cloud, and say to them: “Thus far and no farther." Many n man and many a woman is having the health of body as well as the health of soul eaten away by a malevolent spirit. I have in time of religious awakening had persons, night after night, come Into the In quiry room and get no peace of soul. After a while I have bluntly asked them: “Is there not some one against whom you have a hatred that you are not willing to give up?” After a little confusion they have slightly whis pered, “Yes." Then I have said: "You will never find peace with God as long as you retain that virulence." A boy In Sparta, having stolen a fox, kept him under his coat and, though the fox was gnawing his vitals, he submitted to It rather than expose his misdeed. Many a man with a smiling face has under his Jacket an animosity that Is gnawing away the strength of his body and the integrity of his soul. Better get rid of that hidden fox as soon as possible. There are hundreds of domestic circles where that which most Is needed is the spirit of forgive ness. Brothers, apart, and sisters apart, and parents and children apart. Solomon Bays u brother offended Is harder to be won than a strong city. Are there not enough sacred memories of your childhood to bring you to gether? The rabbins recount how that Nebuchadnezzar’s son had such a spite against his father that after he was dead he had his father burned to ashes and then put the ashes into four sacks and tied them to four eagle’s necks, which flew away in opposite di rections. And there are now domestic antipathies that seem forever to have scattered all parental memories to the four winds of heaven. How far the eagles fly with those sacred ashes! The hour of sundown makes to that family no practical suggestion. Thomas Carlyle. In his biography of Frederick the Great, says the old king ! was told by the confessor he must be at peace with his enemies If he wanted to enter heaven. Then he said to his wife, the queen: “Write to your t brother after I um dead that 1 forgive I him." Itoloff, the confessor, said: “Her majesty had better write him j immediately." "No.'’ said the king. “after 1 am dead; that will lie safer.” | Ho he let the sun of hta earthly eg* | Interne go down upon his wrath. Again: We ought not to allow the I sun to set before forgiveness takes place, because we might not live to see another day. Aad what If we should tie ushered Into the preaeU'e of our Maker with a Kludge upon our soul? The majority of |ie«>pte depart this life la the night. Iletween II o'cliM k p in and 3 o'clock a m there Is something in the atmosphere whhh relates the grip which the body has oa the soul, and moat of people enter the j nest world through the aha>tow» of tbla world is i Haps God may have arranged It in that way, so as to make > the coatraat the none glorious I have seen sunshiny days In thia world that must have been almost like the radi* ' aloe of heavea tlul as moel people leave the earth between euadown and aunrMe. they null this world at Ita j ilarheat, aad heavea always bright will be the brighter for that voatras! Out of darhneas lam Irradiation Mabono t said "The sword is tb* hey of heaven and hell * Hal, my hearer*. In the Iasi Iter we will tad just the t|H»«lit of that to l»e true aad that the Bword never unlocks heaven, and that he who heals wounds is g~eat er than he who makes them, and that on the same ring are two keys—God b forgiveness of us and our forgiveness of enemiea- a*d these two keys unlock Paradise. And now. I wish for all of you a beautiful sunset to your earthly exist ence. With some of you it has been a long day of trouble, and with others of you It Will be far from calm. When the sun rose at six o’clock It was the morning of youth, and a fair day was prophesied, but by the time the noon day or middle-life had come, and the clock of your earthly existence had struck twelve, cloud-racks gathered, und tempest bellowed in the track of tempest. But as the evening of old age approaches, I pray God the skies may brighten and the clouds be plied up Into pillars as of celestial temples to which you go, or move as with mounted cohorts come to take you home. And as you sink out of sight below the horizon, may there be a radiance of Christian example linger ing long after you are gone, and on the heavens be written In letters of sapphire, and on the waters In letters of opal, and on the hills In letters of emerald, “Thy sun shall no more go down, neither shall thy moon with draw Itself, for the Lord shall he thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.” So shall the sunset of earth become the sunrise of heaven. BELL RUNG ON THE PREACHER A Nrrluim Duty linpawil on Church Member* In a Michigan Church. "You remember the chestnut bell, ot course?” said the man who had got out of Chicago with only the loss of one of his shoe heels. "Well, I was greatly tasen with It at the time, and when 1 set out to visit my old home In Michi gan I bought a dozen bells to take along. Nobody In the town had heard of them, but I hadn't worn one over a day when the people caught on and l was fairly besieged. When Sunday came I prepared to attend church like a dutiful son, anti at the proper time mother and I were seated In the pew. Just what the text was I can’t remem ber, but the minister had scarcely an nounced It when six of my chestnut bells sounded among the congrega tion. The good man didn’t mind them In the least, but went ahead with his work. lie was rung up on his hymn, and he was rung up every minute or two on Ills sermon, and though there was something amusing about it I was also half-seared out of my boots. As I had brought the bells to town I didn't know but what he’d hold me responsible, and open out on me. About the middle of hla sermon he said something about Jonah, and eleven of those bells went ‘t-l-n-g!’ on him In succession. He stopped, and looked around, and then calmly said: ‘Will those people who are jingling keys kindly jingle a little softer?’ I was thankful to get out of that church without a calamity,” continued the bell man, "and I didn’t do any laughing till the next day. Then It was because I learned that every blessed man who had rung up the minister was serious ly In earnest about it and felt it a sort of duty, and because that minister himself called at the house and ac cepted my own bell and rung It up on mother within five minutes.” Nepalese I.etter*. The author of "In Northern India" tells of his experience at Bhagwanpur, where he wished to post four letters. They were addressed to friends In England, who are stamp-collectors, and only contained a few lines to say I had sent them in order to secure Nepalese stamp. The postmaster re fused to accept them. Foreigners, he said, were not permitted to post let ters In Nepal, the postal service being oniy for use by the Nepalese. We sat on our elephant and reasoned, but he was firm, and the police and other offi cials all supported him. After long discussion we at lust persuaded tlm to let us post the letters and leave It to the government at Katmandu to de cide whether they might be forwarded. Then we went Into his office, a mud hut, und sat on low stools, nearly the whole population watching In a crowd in front of the large open space. Tho postmaster redirected each letter in Nepalese characters,and taking a largo sheet of paper, prepared a full report for his government, tho police In spector reading our description, und so forth, from the "permit." We were particularly required to declare that the letters did uot contain any politi cal matter. Then tame the very seri ous business of stamping them He had to get out a large wooden box for ti.e stamps, and another for the dato stamp. There are stamps of three values, equal to one penuy, twopence and sixpence, lie assured us we could not pay beyoud Nepal, so we decided to put a one penny stamp on each, and leave the exceaa to lie collected on delivery If they ever reached England. Fortunately they arrived after some delay, aud strungenough, no excess was charged, ami thus I had the pleas ure of anticipating the penny post, which Is not likely to be extended to Nepal for many year* to tome. >»• Ike Hues'. U an Instance of the sort of things one might wish to have expressed dif ferently, a prumlnenl physician reports a remark made to him by a patient. The dcMtor had written a note to the lady, aad on his next visit she asked him to tell her what two word# in H were, as she had leex unable to tie < ipher them It has hewn said of me | that my writing ta the worst thing ahont me. said the pbrantan, laugh ingly. as he enrveyed his own scrawl with doubt Oh. hot I am aor* that I la not so* waa the haaty disclaimer •' Fir from it. doctor. Nr from tt!" AS TO RECiriiUtlTi. NEW FRENCH TREATY CAU3INQ UNEASINESS. -- 40L Amtrleac Frodnter* Want Information A* to tbc< Mannar In Wlilt-h Th«lr In v*ra»n Are AITrcted by the Ue crruaeU Untie*. What nro the provisions of the reci procity treaty arranged between the Lnlted States and France? The Amer ican Economist Is unable to answer this question, owing to the failure of its efforts to obtain a copy of the treaty. An application for a trans cript of the treaty was refused. Com inlssloner Hasson, who has represented the United States In the negotiations, stems to be determined that the people of this country shall be kept in abso lute ignorance of the provisions of the treaty until that instrument shall have been submitted to congress for its ap proval. So the treaty remains under the seal of secrecy, In spite of the fact that publicity is indispensable to a correct understanding of its operations and effects upon a number of impor tant industries. It is not the fault of Commissioner Kasson if some facts regarding the proposed reciprocity arrangement with France have become known in this country. The French government has not been so secretive as to deny to its people all knowledge of a treaty so profoundly affecting their interests. Through foreign sources Information comes which is calculated to excite much apprehension and alarm among the American Industries which, relying upon the guarantees of the Dlngley tariff law, find themselves in danger of being compelled to go out of business and go out of the home market to for eign competitors, because of the pecul iar advantages which the latter will enjoy under the reciprocity treaty. The following letter will be found interest ing and instructive in this connection: Established ocnoeimopi «“■ line &. ChPtnlcai Co., Buffalo, N. Y., Nov. 17, 1899.—American Protective Turlff league, New York.—Gentlemen: Herewith I hand you an extract from a German trade paper, showing the proviHlona of the draft of the new reciprocity treaty between France and the United States. To say that the provision relating to coal tar colors is discouraging is putting it mildly. At every tariff revision Htnce 1883 our in dustry has been discriminated against. Even the present Dinglejr law makes it difficult to compete against the older and highly developed European in dustry, for it taxes a large proportion of our ruw material from 30 to 50 per cent, against only 30 per cent for the coal tar colors. Nevertheless, taking for granted that this rate would not be disturbed for a number of years at least,, we have gone right ahead and invested large sums of money In en larging our plant, and in the face of the fiercest kind of foreign competi tion we have steadily been gaining ground. If, however, the rute is now going to be reduced again even below the Wilson bill rate, we are about ready to throw up the sponge. We earnestly hope you will succeed in averting this great wrong, for it is certainly most unjust to permit us to spend large sums in improving our plant, and then by a stroke of the pen make all these movements valueless. Sincerely yours, Schoellkopf Aniline & Chemical Co., lly J. F. Seh., Jr. Ej tract from “Chemische Zeitung,” \'o. 77, Gotha, Germany, Sept. 27, 1899. Regarding the reciprocity treaty between the United States and France, w». learn the following: The treaty must he ratified inside of et'.'ht months from date of the signing of the draft. It is to run for five years, aid is to renew itself unless notice to to'minate it is given one year before It expires. France agrees to apply the tu nimum tariff to all articles im puted from the United States, with tbe following exceptions: Cheese, but ter, lucerne and clover-seed, sugar, ct icory-roots, cast iron, porcelain, piste board, prepared hides, electric dynamo machines. In return the United States agrees to giant France the privileges of the most favored natiou clause, and in addition the following reduction in duties: Per- I turnery, manufactured with or without alcohol, 10 per cent: coal tar colors, 20 per cent; glue, 10 per cent; glycer- | Ine, 10 per cent; olive oil, 15 per cent; paiuts and varnishes, 10 per cent; potash. 10 per cent; mmlicluul prep arations. 10 per cent; soaps, 10 per tent, soda and products of audit, 10 per cent; slated, enameled, decorated (lies unit roofing tiles, 10 per cent; ce ment. lU per cent, bottles 15 per cent; glass vessels, 6 per cent; window and uther glass, 10 per tent; plants and seeds 20 per cent; fruits, preserved with sugar or alcohol, lo per cent, roasted and ground chicory, 4 per rent, oordials. 10 per cent, mineral waters. 10 per cent. I w The extent to which the Industrie* j i of the l lilted Htalee would be effected by tits swe-ping feint lions run- j templsted la tbe »e< iprut tty treaty la a matter who h should receive the meet veieftal consideration and most thot ; ough investigation t ong-ess would fall In performing Its duties should It j fall iu obtain full Information on this point Ths it'isetion of government r**« auaa la seriously involved m tg* test prosily treaty Front statistical ye ports tn th* moathb summary of mar-*- and Ansar* of the United ituta* fur th* Naral r*wr ending Jane Jg lagg wr tad the total turns of importetiams Ir. the United States of the below men tioned items given as follows: Perfumery . |514.860 Coal tar colors and dyes. 3 799,353 Glue .. 479,450 Paints and colors, dutiable.. 1,207,440 Glycerine . 1.034,131 Soda products, dutiable (about) . 1,000,000 Dottles . 371,394 TIN PLATE PRICES. Always l,nnrr I'ndrr Proleetlon Than Cutler Free Trade. The following diagram reproduced from a recent issue of the Iron Age, a standard American authority on met als, will be found useful In tracing tin plate prices from 1890 to the present time: It will be remembered that ia 1890, the first year covered by the diagram, there was no tin plate production in the United States. Starting at $4.75 per box, the price of foreign plate dropped to about $4.37^, and from that point the price rose rapidly until In 1893 it had reached $5.50, the top figure. Hy this time American tin plate production, called into active ex istence by the McKinley protective tariff of 1890, began to be heard from, and with the result invariably attend ing the stable establishment of a new industry under the stimulus of pro tection namely, a swift decline in the price of the imported plate. Welsh plate fell from $5.50 a box in 1893 to $3.75 a box at the close of 1895. At this point domestic tin plate be came the controlling factor, and our diagram, beginning with 1890, Bhows the prices of the domestic article, ldd the price rise when the domestic pro ducers, guarded by a protective tariff, became masters of the situation? On the contrary, prices of American tin plate steadily declined until the latter part of 1898, when the low point, $2.75 per box, was reached. At this time, mark you, American consumers, under protection, were paying precisely one half what they had paid for Welsh tin plate in the absence of protection. Beginning with 1899, in response to the largely increased cost of materials and wages, tin plate prices took an upward turn, reaching $4.75 per box early in the fall of this year. The present price is $4.65. But it will be observed that the rise of the current year has not carried prices back to the free trade level of 1891 to 1894. The home consumer of tin plate is today paying 85 cents per box less than he paid In 1891, when the foreign pro ducer was master of the situation and American competition had not yet come to the front as a result of the protective tariff. One more fact remains to be consid ered. A glance at the high range of prices for tin plate paid by American consumers prior to the establishment of the industry In our own country reveals an impressive contrast with the low range of prices that have pre vailed since the time when American tin-plate producers were able to con trol the situation. Taken as a whole, and counting in the present advanced price, resulting, as before stuted. from heavy advuneea in costs of materials and heavy advances In the wages of tin-plate workers, it Is found that many millions of dollars have been saved through protection to the con sumers of tin plate from IMl to date, to say nothing of the many millions of dollars kept at home and paid out to American labor In the shape of wages. Precisely such a diagram as that for which we «tand indebted to the Iron Age was needed In order lo make the tin-plate question as clear as daylight. I mSMImi »«mI 1 heavy. The Job hunts the man now, not the man the Job, and where this con dttbin estate labor Is always better re warded ’ said President McKinley This Is the condition The lietao* rnlie theory la that labor la being ground down by the octopus, and needs relief by the Ires coinage uf stiver.- Tacoma I Wash l l-edger Sees I»a4# •»«* the heath. A Mb-pound bale of cotton la Wurth |l« more lo-uy than It a ye#r ag« If the south stlcbt to free trade mush longer we mlaa am guesn I lee Muinsn i Iowa 1 Hegtelet, THORNS ON THE BROW OP LABOR. Sir. Itryann hniom Figure mt Speech lltindcred Ridiculous bj Prosperity. The army of the unemployed la work. The soldier who marched under the command of Gen. Coxey or Carl Brown has a Job If he wants it. Evidences of the fact that these are laboring men's times loom up before one by the time he can get a block from the depot. There Is more work than workers. The toller Is in de mand; he has It his way; there Is competition for his services; wages are advancing. That is what makes times good. The country cannot have hard times when the wage earner has steady employment at good pay, and when the farmer lias a good price for his produce. It seems that ull these good times had been brought about as though by magic. It was not magic. Before he was elected president, Mr. McKinley told us what was needed. When he suld It seemed to him that it would be better to open our mills to the labor of America than our mints to the sil ver of the world, his words were good, hard-headed protective sense. But Bryan in smooth metaphor told the Republicans that they must not press the crown of thorns on the brow of labor; that they must not crucify mankind on a cross of gold. McKinley opened the mills by put ting a protective tariff duty on foreign goods. These times of steady work and advancing wages are what Mr. McKinley said would come, and what Mr. Bryan said would not come. The states of the west are beginning to call on each other for help in these t'mes of long demand and short supply of lubor. Here are a few sample thorns that ere pressing down on the brow of labor right here in Kansas City. I plucked them off an advertising board on Union avenue; Laborers wanted dally for Memphis; transportation free. We want coal miners for Colorado and New Mexico. The Colorado Fuel and Iron Co. I 100 rock men wanted. We want carpenters at 27V6 cents an hour. Wanted, men for a fence gang at $1.75 a day. laborers wanted dally for Wyom ing; no office fee charged, and railroad fare furnished free. These few little pierring "thorns” tell of a wreath of prosperity that reaches from Tennessee to the Pacific coast. The 1899 army of the unemployed that was to march across the continent under the leadership of Carl Hrown started at Wichita and ended at W>hl ta. Signs like these In Kansas City stand out like picket posts of prosper ity to Intercept him. It is impossible to march through the linos of jobs awaiting workers; Impossible to dodge employment. These are protection times ngain. The free silver cry proved a false alarm, and the laborers will not be fooled by the same man flying anti-trust, anti-expansion colors. — E. G. Pipp, In American Economist. llljf FiKiirn of Froipfrlty. The manner In which the restored prosperity of "McKinley and protec tion" has touched the finances of the American people Is Indicated hy a re port Just issued by Comptroller of the Currency Dawes. In collecting the data entering into his report nearly ' 10,000 reports from banks have been examined and compiled. The results of the investigation Indicate a magni tude of banking resources and a rate of growth in number of deposit ac counts which is unparalleled in the financial history of the world. It is shown that In the past ten years de posit accounts have Increased In num ber from 6,708,971 in 1889 to 13,153,871 in 1899; that tlie increase in the num ber of borrowers is much less than the Increase in the number of depositors; that the average deposit of the indi vidual or corporation has greatly in creased; that the rate of interest on loans has decreased; that the aggre gate of individual deposits has in creased from 13,776,410,402 In 1889 to $7,513,954,361 in 1899, and that in ten years the aggregate of loans has In creased from $3,475,272,262 to $5,751, 467,610. These are big figures, but It takes big figures to express the kind of pros perity now being enjoyed by the people of the I’nlted States. Tli« til f otaltl ll«» No Worn1. Tbe Youngstown lOhio) Vindicator quotes approvingly from the Kansas City Star, which it designates as "a leading He publican organ of the wast,” an article which beglus by saying that "the moat demoralising factor In the life of this nation has »e«n the protect ive tariff.” One of the first things fur the Ynuttgetoan Vindicator to do Is to vindicate itself from the a»perslai\ of being either foolish or untruthful. An editor who does not know that the Kansas City Mar Is sad always has been one of the most rabid and uncom promising Iwmocrstlc free trade news papers In the country ought to abdl rate the shears and pasts pig sad turn theta over to the office rat. M«4 X»e Se Imm The tariff la not now as issue hut nobody ran tell what the Ikstnu. rata will do before seat election. There are at pr sweat slroag ladt.stbrns of an at tsmpt to force the tariff to the front hy taking down the trust Issue on the lir.ee laid dona by lirysn. sad If that la done, the tsatiatony of Mr Ur are as la the heaeffrtal effects of prutastton will he Internet tag nadtay lOhtad Jeffers. >a tan