THE NORTHWESTERN.
BFNhCIIOTEIt * GIBSON. E.U »nd Fab»
LOUP CITY,
The department of agriculture In its
annual ropor. gives the amount of
money the people of the United States
spent in buying Coweis at retail in
1 Si#9 as follows: Hose.-. $0,090,000; car
nations, $4,000,000; violets. $750,000;
chrysanthemums, $500,000; miscellan
eous, including li’iss. $1,250,000.
A remarkable burglary has just been
committed at the suburban station
of Herkulesbail, Buda-Pesth. Three
men delivered a coffin, apparently
empty, for conveyance to Buda-Pesth.
"carriage to pay.” The last train hav
ing gone, it was locked for the night
in the station master's office. Next
morning the coffin was found with the
lid off, and.Abe office safe had been
rilled.
The geodetic commission of Switzer
land has undertaken an exact leveling
of the whole country by the mos
scientific methods. The work has
been going on fur many years. Each
point determined is fully describe 1
so that, in its turn, it may serve as a
datum point for more detailed w'ork
and all the points are referred to one
origin—namely, to a monument lu
Geneva whose altitude above the sea
has been fixed.
A German expert in the east points
out that as time goes on more and
more men are required to coerce
China into doing the will of another
powe-r. The opium war required only
4,60o Europeans, the Anglo-French
war against the Ctiinese lti.000 and
4 SOO Indians. Tae Japanese needed
95.000 men and 1,5.000 coolies, and to
day we find 90 men-of-war and al
most 150,000 men attempting to com
pel obedience from the giant empire.
Most curious are the sewing or
tailor birds of India—little yellow
thumb. To escape failing a prey to
snakes and monkeys the tailor bird
picks up a dead leaf and flies up into
a high tree, and with a fibre for a
thread and its bill for a needle sews
the leaf onto a green one hanging
from the tree: the sides are sewed up.
;.n opi ning being left at the top. That
a nest is swinging in the tree no
snake or monkey or even a man would
suspect.
In the Hawaiian legislature the na
tive or rea tionary element, which
calls it.- elf the ' Home Rule party,” is
in control. Its loaners were opposed to
annexation, and some of them have
not abandoned the hope or the recall
of the ex-queen. Not all the members
speak English, and few of them are
familiar with American institutions.
They make unreasonable demands
upon Governor Dole, and consume
much time in personal bickerings.
Many radical measures have been In
troduced, but the only bill enacted
during the first half of the session was
one appropriating money for the ex
pense of the legislature. Altogether, It
is a di.-appointing beginning; but legis
lative vagaries will be held in check by
the executive, and gradually experi
ence and growth of intelligence will
bring improvement.
A London scientist is exploring the
"color cure” or "cliromopathy,” based
on the influence on disease or morbid
staus of the system which different
kinds of light waves are presumed to
exert. The modus operand! is to allow
light to pass to the patient through
glasses of different tints. Disease, says
the discoverer, “shows a want of har
mony in the system—in other words,
a want of color.” The main doctrine
propounded under the system Is that
red i. a stimulant tint, and should be
used where there Is lack of vitality,
while blue exerts a soothing and seda
tive action. Yellow is “a capital cere
bral stimulant.” But the color curlsts
are not content with the action of light
alone. They think that colored rays
allowed to play on water endow that
fluid with curative properties, the wa
ter being used externally or for inter
nal administration.
Unrle Sam is not only building a big,
new mint in Philadelphia, but he is
making it the finest in the world. He
is also bringing it wholly up to date;
for electricity, and electricity only,
will be the power which makes the
thousands of wheels go round. Elec
tricity is the password for every appli
ance that knocks for entrance here,
and nothing that will not lend itself
to the energy of the dynamo can find
a resting place. The building is a gi
gantic bunch, of electric nerves, and the
floors of the many rooms are tatooed
with little brass plate.. which mark
the spots where* these vibrating nerves
may be tapped to secure the power
used in driving the machinery. Every
machine in the place will have its own
motor attached, tnereby rendering its
use independent of any otner part of
the system, making it possible to op
erate the smanest device, both night
and day, without moving any other
part of the system.
An interesting fact hi ought out by
the recent elections in Colorado is the
marked tendency of Colorado men to
elect women as city treasurers. Mrs.
Margaret Robins was unanimously
chosen city treasurer of Idaho Springs.
At Aspen, Mrs. E. A. Kenney was re
jected to the same office by a large
majority. Mrs. Jennl? dale was elect
ed city treasurer at New Castle, Mrs.
Emma C. Palmer in Greely, Mrs. Clara
Clark at Alma, Mrs. Mary Shank*
»t Ouray. Miss Nellie E. Donahue at
Victor and Mrs. A. N. Frownle at Man
Xou.
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
"JUDGING OTHERS” THE SUB- j
JECT LAST SUNDAY j
From the Foil owing Bible Tr*t: “The Lord
Welghetli the Spirit*" — Pror. XVI: 3
— Weighed In the Divine Scale*—>’a
tlons Like Individuals.
(Copyright. 1W1. by Louis Klopseh, N. Y.)
Washington, May 26.— in tins dis
course, from a symbol of the Bible,
Dr. Talmage urges the adoption of an
unusual mode of estimating character
and shows how different is the divine
way from the human way; text. Pro
verbs xvi, 2, “The Lord weigheth the
spirits.”
The subject of weights and measures
is discussed among all nations, is the
subject of legis’ation, and has much
to do with the world's prosperity. A
system of weights and measures was ;
invented by Phidon, ruler of Argos, j
about 800 years before Chiist. An i
ouDce, a pound, a ton, were different
in different lauds. Henry the III. de
cided that an ounce should be the
weight of 640 dried grains of wneat
from the middle of the ear. From the
reign of William the Conqueror to
Henry VIII. the English pound was
the weight of 7,680 grains of wheat.
Queen Elizabeth decreed that a pound
should be 7,000 grains of wheat taken
from the middle of the ear. The piece
of platinum kept at the office of the
exchequer in England in an atmos
phere of 62 F. decides for all Great
Britain what a pound must be. Scien
tific representatives from ail lands met
in i860 In Paris and established Inter
national standards of weights and
measure. • • *
Two Kind* of Truth.
There are Christian people who had
faith that China would be redeemed
and for thirty years have been con
tributing toward that object, but they
changed their minds and now despair
of the Flowery Kingdom since the
Boxers began their massacres. There
are those who were busy in New York
missions and expected the salvation of
our American cities until recent de
velopments showed that the police
were in complicity with crime, and
now these Christian workers are des
pairful, as though all were lost. Of
what worth is such a man's faith?
When weighed, will they have what
the chemists call atomic weight—the
weight of an atom? No. Such faith is
no faith at all.
But there is a man who by repent
ance and prayer has put himself into
alliance with the Almighty God. Made
all right by the Savior's grace, this
man goes to work to make the world !
right. He says to himself: ‘ G d
launched this world, and he never
launched a failure. The garden of Eden
was a useless morass compared with
what the whole world will be when it
blossoms and leaves and flashes and
resounds with its coming glory. God
will save it anyhow, with me or with
out me, but I want to do my share. 1
have some equipment—not as much
as some others hut what I have I will
use. I have power to frown, and I will
frown upon Iniquity. I have power to
smile, and I will smile encouragement
upon all the struggling. I have a vo
cabulary not so opulent as the vocabu
lary of some others, but I have a store
house of good words, and I mean to
scatter them in helpfulness. I will as
cribe right motives to others when it
is possible. If I can say anything good
about others, 1 will say it. If I can
say nothing but vile of them, I will
keep my lips shut as tight as the lips
of the sphinx, which for 3,000 yeai a
has looked off upon the sands of the
desert and uttered not one word about
the desolation. The scheme of recon
structing this world is too great for
me to manage, but 1 am not expected
to hoes this Job. 1 have faith to be
lieve that the plan is well laid out and
will be well executed. Give me a
brick and a trowel and 1 will begin
now to help build the wall. I am not
a soloist, but I can sing ‘Hock of
Ages’ to a sick pauper. I cannot write
a great book hut I can pick a cinder
out of a child's eye or a splinter f:om
under his thumb nail. I now enlist in
this army that is going to take the
world for God, and I defy all the evil
powers, human and s.itanlc, to dis
courage me. Count me into the ser
vice. I cannot play upon a musical
Instrument, but 1 can polish a cornet
or string a harp or applaud the or
chestra.”
A Cheerful Falili.
All through that mail's experience
there runs a faith that will keep him
cheerful and busy and triumphant. I
like the watchword of Cromwell's
Ironsides, the men who feared noth
ing and dared everything, going into
battle with the shout: “The Lord of
hosts is with us, the God of Jacob is
our refuge! Selah!” No balance that
human brain ever planned or human
hand ever constructed is worthy of
weighing such a spirit. Gold and pre
cious stones are measured by the
carat, which is four grains. The deal
er puts the diamond or the pearl on
one side of the scales and the carat on
the other side and tells you the weight.
But we need something more delicate
ly constructed to weigh that wonderful
quality of faith Which I am glad to
know will be recognl/.eJ and rewarded
for a'l time and all eternity. The
earthly weighman counterpoises on
metallic balances the iron, the coal,
the articles of human food, the solids
of earthly merchandise, but he cannot
test or announce the amount of things
spiritual. Here is something which
the Attic and Bnbylonian weighing
systems of the past and the metric
weighing system of the present can
not manage. "The Lord weigheth the
spirits. • • •
f»o I)
But look Into the dream of that
schoolboy who, without saying any
thing about it, planning his life
time career. From an old book part
ly written in Hebrew and partly writ
ten in Greek, but both Hebrew and
Greek translated into good English,
he reads of a great farmer like Amos,
a great mechanic like Aholiab. a great
lawyer like Moses, a great soldier like
Joshua, a great king like Hezekiah, a
great poet, like David, a great glean
like Ruth, a great physician like
Luke, a great preacher like Paul, a
great Christ like no one on earth or
in heaven because the superior of all
beings terrestrial or celestial. He has
learned by heart the Ten Command
ments and the sermon on the mount
and has splendid theories about ev- j
erything. Between that fair haired
boy and the achievement of what he
wants and expects there are obstacles
and hindrances known only to the God
who is going to discipline him for
heroics magnificent. I have no power
to prophesy that different experiences
of his encouragement and disappoint
ment. of his struggle or his triumph,
but as sure as God lives to make his
his word come true that boy who will
sleep tonight nine hours without wak
ing will be final victor. I do not know
the intermediate chapters of the vol
ume of that young man's life, hut T
kraiw the first chapter and the last
chapter. The first chapter is made of
high resolves in the strength of God.
and the last chapter is Ailed with the
rewards of a noble ambition. As his
obsequies pass out to the cemetery the
poor wiii weep because they will lose
their best friend. Many in whose
temporal welfare and eternal salva
tion he bore a part will hear of it in
various places and eulogize his mem
ory. and God will say to the ascending
spirit, “To him that overcometh will
I give tp eat of the tree of life which
is in the midst of the paradise of
God.” In the hour of that soul's re
lease and enthronement there will be
heavenly acclamation, as in the royal
balances “the Lord weigheth the
spirits."
Other balances may lack precision
and fail in counterpoise. Scales are
affected by conditions of atmosphere
and acid vapors. After all that the
nations have done to establish an in
variable standard, perfection has nev
er yet been reached, and never will he
reached. But the royal balances of
which I speak are the same in heat
and cold, in ail weathers, in all lands
and in all the heavens—just and true
to the last point of justice and truth.
The same balance that weighed the
tempted spirit of Adam under the
fruit tree, and the spirit of Cain in
the nr.st assassination, ana me spirit
of courage in Joshua during the pro
longed daylight, and the spirit of cru
elty of Jezebel, and the spirit of gri«f
in Jeremiah's lamentation, and the
spirit of evangelism in Paul between
the road to Damascus, where he first
saw the light, and the road to Ostia,
the place of his beheadment, is weigh
ing still and never yet has varied from
the right one milligram, which is the
one six-thousanth part of a grain. The
only perfect standard of weights and
measures ever established was estab
lished in the heavens before the world
was made and will continue to do its
work after the world is burned up.
To measure the time we have calen
dars. To measure the lighting w’e have
the electrometers. To measure the
heat we have the thermometers. To
masure the atmospheric pressure we
have the barometers. To measure
souls we have the royal balance. “The
Lord weigheth the spirits.”
Welched In Divine Scale*.
In the same divine scales the spirit
of nations and civilizations is weighed.
Egyptian civilization did its work, but
it was cruel and superstitious and
idolatrous and defiant of the Al
mighty. It was cast out and cast
down. The tourist finds his chief in
terest not in the generation that now
inhabits the regions watered by the
Nile and sprinkled by her cascades,
but in the temples that are the skele
tons of ancient pride and pomp and
power—her obelisks, her catacombs,
her mosques, the colossus of Hameses.
the dead cities of Memphis and
Thebes, the temples of Luxor and
Karnak, the museum containing the
mummified forms of the pharaohs. It
is not the Egypt of today that we go
to see, but the Egypt of many centuries
ago. Her spirit ha3 departed. Her
doom was sealed. The Lord weighed
her spirit.
Now cross over the Dardanelles or
Hellespont and see Grecian civiliza
tion put in the royal balances. Surely
that is an imperishable spirit. A land
that produced a Pindar and a Homer
in poetry, a Sophocles and an Aeschy
lus in tragedy, a Herodotus ami Thu
cydides in history, a Socrates and
Plato in philosophy, a Strabo in geog
raphy. a Hippocrates in medicine, a
Xenophon in literature, a Plutarch in
biography, a Miltiades and an Alexan
der in battle and could build a tem
ple of Dianna at Ephesus and the
acro-Corinthus at Corinth and could
crown the Acropolis with a Parthenon
i —surely such a land, with more genius
compressed in small space than in any
of the nations of all the ages, will
stand forever triumphant among sur
rounding nations. No. Her pride of
heroics, her pride of literature, her
pride of architecture, must be brought
down lower and lower, and humilia
tion must follow humiliation until in
the latter part of the nineteenth cen
tury she Is compelled to submit to the
outrages of a sultan whose hands are
[ red with the blood of 50,000 Arme
nians. Had Athens prayerfully listened
to Paul’s 6ermon oa Mars hill and
adopted his precepts of brotherhood
and divine worship she would have
stood In her old power today, and all
Greece would have stood with her.
and that civilization so long dead un
der the carved pillars of her shrines
and under the marble of her pentel
lean mountains would have been, per
haps for all Asia and for much of
Europe, a living civilization. Bu! for
her arroganoe she was cast out and
cast down. The Lord weighed her
spirit.
Thti WHfhlnf of >at nni,
And so the spirit of our American
nation is put into the royal balance,
and it will be weighed as certainly as
all the nations of the past were
weighed and as all the nations of the
present are being weighed. When we
go to estimate the wealth of this na
tion. we weigh its gold and silver and
coal and iron and copper and lead,
and all the steel yards and all the bal
ances are kept busy. So many tons of
this and so many tons of that, a
mountalnful of this metal and anoth
er mountainful of another metal. That
Is well. We want to know our mining
wealth, our manufacturing wealth,
our agricultural wealth, and the bush
el measure and the scales have an Im
portant work. But know right well
there is a divine weighing in this
country all the time going on, and 1
can tell you our country's destiny if
you will tell me whether it shall be
a God honoring nation, reverential to
the only book of his authorship, ob
serving the “shalt nots” of the law of
right given on Mount Sinai and the
law of love given on the Mount of
Beatitudes, one day out of the week
observed not in revelry, but in holy
ronvoeation, marriage honored in cer
emony and in fact, blasphemy si
lenced in all the streets, high toned
systems of morals in all parts of our
land, then our institutions will live
and all the wondrous prosperities of
the present are only a faint hint of
the greater prosperities to come.
Keep the National I.lfe Tare.
But if our character and behavior
as a nation are reversed and good
morals give place to loose living and
God is put away from our hearts and
our schools and our homes and our
people and our literature be de
bauched and anarchism and atheism
have full sway and the marriage rela
tion becomes a joke instead of a
sanctity and the God whom Columbus
prayed to on the day of his landing
from stormy seas and whom Benja
min Franklin publicly reverenced
when he moved amid derisive cries
the regular opening of the American
congress with prayer shall in our na
tional future be insulted and blas
phemed, then it will not be long be
fore we will need another Edward
Gibbons to write the decline and fall
of the United States republic.
i v in mis was King aim nan large do
minion, but was determined to make ]
war against the Romans, and Cineas,
the friend of the king, said to him,
"Sir, when yon have conquered them,
v/hat will you do next?” "Then Si
ci!y is near at hand and easy to mas- !
ter.” "And what when you have con
quered Sicily?” "Then we will pass
over to Africa and take Carthage, j
which cannot long withstand U3." j
"When these are conquered, what will
you next attempt?” "Then we will J
fall in upon Greece and Macedonia
and recover what we have lost there."
"Well, when all are subdued, what
fruit do you expect from all your
victories?” “Then,” said the king, “we
will sit down and enjoy ourselves.”
"Sir,” said Cineas, "may we not do it
now? Have you not. already a king
dom of your own. and he that cannot
enjoy himself with a kingdom cannot
with the whole world.” I say to you
who love the Lord, the kingdom is
within yon: make more of the invisi
ble conquests. Study a peace which
the world has no bushel to measure,
no steel-yards to weigh. As far as
possible we should make our balances
like to the divine balances.
The Uniform Man«l*ro.
By joint resolution of congress, in
1836, the treasurer of the United
States was ordered to send a complete
set of the standard weights and meas
ures adopted by the national govern
ment to the governors of all the
states, so that there might be uni
formity and accuracy, and that distri
bution was made. So. now, the Ruler
of the earth and heaven, having estab
lished forever the right standard,
sends to us all and to all people a
copy of that standard—the standard
by which “the Lord weigheth the
spirits.”
What a world this will be when it
is weighed after its regeneration shall
have taken place! Scientists now
guess at the number of tons our world
weighs and they put the Apennines
and the Sierra Nevadas and Chimbor
azo and the Himalayas in the scales.
Lint if weighed as to its morals at
the present time in the royal balance
the heaviest things would be the wars,
the international hatreds, the crimes
mountain high, the moral disasters
that stagger the hemispheres on their
way through Immensity. Rut when
the gospel has gardenlzed the earth,
as it will yet gardenize it. and the at
mosphere shall be universal balm and
the soil will produce universal harvest
and fruitage and the last cavalry
horse shall be unsaddled and the last
gun carriage unwheeled and the last
fortress turned into a museum to show
nations in peace what a horrid thing
war once was, then the world will be
weighed, and as the opposite side of
the scales lifts as though it was light
as a feather the right side of the
scales will come down, weighing more
than all e'.se those tremendous values
that St. Peter enumerated—faith, vir
tue. knowledge, temperance, patience,
godliness, brotherly kindness, charity.
nig tilft for Toiler#.
George Cadbury, the English choco
late manufacturer, has presented to
the city of Birmingham an estate of
416 acres, valued at $900,000, upon
which to build houses for working
people.
LESSON OF THE AGE.
TAUGHT BY ENGLAND'S PRES
ENT FISCAL POSITION.
The Trading Froe-Traile *'onntry In the
World Flndw Itweir Sinking Deeper Into
Debt at the Kata of Over Half a
MlJ lon Dollars In the l’ut Two Tears.
England's enormous deficit of $541,
000.000 fdr the two years 1900-'01. 1901
'02. with its accompanying causes and
effects, teaches one of the most im
portant economic lessons of the age.
In spite of the abandonment of pro
tection in 1846, England seemed to
prosper for nearly thirty years, a con
dition due to the impetus of her 400
years of protection, just as a ball pro
pelled by force will roll up an incline
till overcome by the law of gravita
tion. About 1874 England reached the
point where she could no longer resist
the inevitable law of commercial grav
ity, and, first coming to a standstill,
slowly began rolling backward with
increasing rapidity. Her enormous de
ficit has increased her debt to nearly
$3,500,000,000. and with the anticipated
new loans, it will soon approximate
$4,000,000,000, or $100 per capita, as
compared with $14 per capita in tire
United States. Here alone is not only
a continued interest burden, but a
legacy to the next generation that will
hardly be welcome.
But this is not all. England is no
longer loaning money to the world;
she is borrowing abroad. She is pass
ing from a creditor to a debtor nation.
She is reaping in earnest the fruits of
free trade and an adverse volume of
trade. For the last few years she has
been selling back millions of American
securities, and her annual dividends
and interest charges are decreasing.
She has gone backward in everything
but her shipping, and that is the only
tning she protects.
And it is needless to say that this
plight in which England now finds her
self is due to the South African war.
That might temporarily increase ex
penditures anil add to the national
debt. But within the last three years
the United States has conquered a
much mightier nation and has over
come an insurrection. Yet we have a
surplus in the treasury, and our finan
ciers are lending money not only to
England but to Germany and other
European countries.
Could we have done it in 1893? No.
We had to borrow money then for or
dinary expenses. Why could we do it
a few years later? Because we substi
tuted protection for free-trade. Be
cause we began again to manufacture
for ourselves. Because we employed
our own people at American wages.
Because an adverse balance of trade
became a favorable balance to the
amount of 1300,000,000 and more an
nually. We have not only added to our
material wealth, but we have acquired
a credit of $2,000,000,000 on the world’s
ledger, and a large part of it can be
found in our account with Great Brit
ain. And when we stop that little
ocean freight bill of $200,000,000 a year
we shall he still better off. It is now
admitted that England was never in
a worse plight and that she is drifting
to financial ruin. Sir William Har
court says she is worse off than at the
close of the French war and that the
recent statement of Sir Michael Hicks*
Beach, chancellor of the exchequer, was
the most disastrous that the exchequer
had ever made.
We need not concern ourselves over
the outcome; it is not our funeral. Let
British economists and British parlia
mentarians find and apply the remedy
if one is to be had. But the lesson
should be heeded and studied. It is
the more apparent because of tae com
parison with the finances of the United
States. We are today enjoying the
greatest prosperity ever known by our
own or any other people. We are
more fully employed, we are producing
and consuming more, we are selling
more abroad, we are increasing our
foreign credit, we are reducing our na
tional debt, we are loaning money to
other nations, and, best of all, we are
maintaining and increasing the
highest wage rate known to
mankind.
And yet only five years ago all these
conditions were reversed. The time is
too recent to need a reiteration of our
condition. But the lesson to be drawn
from a comparison of our national
and individual condition now and then
and from a comparison with England’s
pitiable plight is only too full of
meaning and moral.
We do not have to reason from un
solved problems or guess at riddles.
There are certain economic truths es
tablished beyond question. One is that
If we buy more (han we sell we shall
in time become bankrupt. Borrowing
and bonds do not pay the bill. An
other truth is that an individual or na
tion who is idle and does not produce
an equivalent of wh#t is consumed will
soon become ruined. These two eco
nomic laws are the great lessons of
the age, proved beyond question by
actual results both at home and
abroad. There is no need to study
Adam Smith or John Stuart Mill to
day. Study the existing conditions of
the past decade and the practical
teaching will suffice for all. And it is
the more important that we give heed
to these great lessons, for there is a
certain class among us who will always
ignore truth and fact, and endeavor to
teach precepts that lead to ruin. The
free-traders, now combined into their
immense trust, are scattering their
pernicious doctrines over the land
and boldly preparing to "capture con
gressmen” next year and so bring
about doubt and restlessness in busi
nr»is, even though no free trade blit
could become a latv.
Protectionists must keep on guard.
Nothing is surer than that.
HARMLESS IF NOT NEEDED.
When Protection Heroine* t'imece»»arjr
It Crmei to He Operative.
Gen. Russell A. Alger was asked by
a Free Press representative whether
in his opinion the Republican party
would modify its position on the pro
tective tariff in the next national cam
paign.
‘‘it would be very difficult to say
what the attitude of the party will
be," said the general. "Conditions are
changing so rapidly in these days that
it is by no means easy to predict what
will be considered best for the people.
It la certain, however, that the Re
publican party will protect those in
terests that might suffer from com
petition of foreign concerns. Protec
tion is ns-nercssary to the workingman
of this country as to the capitalist.
Our prosperity depends in a large
measure upon the good condition of
our working classes. When they are
making good wages and ran live well
there is a demand for everything that
makes trade. When the workingman
must economize dullness and hard
times ensue."
The general was reminded of the
statement often made that American
products, particularly steel, are sold in
European markets for less than the
price in this country.
“That may be the result of our manu
facturers disposing of their surplus
abroad." said he, "and some business
men ronsider it a good principle to get
rid of their surplus in this way. main
taining prices here at a figure that in
sures a reasonable profit to the manu
facturer. as well as good wages to the
workingmen of this country.”
"Hut is it not true,” General Alger
was asked, "that in many lines of
American manufacture we have
reached a position where we ran pro
duce more cheaply articles now on the
tariff lists than the foreign makers
are capable of doing?”
"That is probably true,” was the re
ply, “but even if that is the case it
ought not to hurt this country. The
tariff then simply becomes a dead let
ter. as foreigners will not. be aide to
send their goods here to compete with
us. and then the tariff will not operate.
“Altogether. I think it best to keep
tlm tariff on manufactured articles.
Even if it does not operate in <asc3
when we can manufacture cheaper
than the foreigner, the law will do no
harm. It is like the reserve fund. It
may seem useless, but there may come
a time when it will be of great serv
ice."—Detroit Free Press.
PROSPEROUS BUSINESS.
Uncle Sam: “1 guess I’d better give
this business my mast careful atten
tion; for I find that my horn*’ trade is
fifty to a hundred times bigger than
my trade with all foreign countries put
together.”
For tlif United States All the Time.
The thought of protection is not ex
cluded from a free list, and if duties
are lowered it will be because the
higher duties are not required for
protection nor for revenue. If freer
trade will best protect and promote the
industries of our own people we shall
have freer trade under laws enacted
by the Republican party, but it will
never be the aim of the Republican
party to legislate in behalf of foreign
markets to the disadvantage of our
own. Conditions change, and methods
change with them, but it does not fol
low that the principle guiding action
is not the same. It is a distinction of
the Republican party that it has flexi
bility; that it is not hidebound, that it
can deal promptly with new questions
and adapt policy to now relations. Hut
the Republican party is aU the time for
the United States of America.—Sioux
City Journal.
Unfair Unit Injurious. ;
The wisest man camyjt balance vary
ing exports and imports accurately, but
whatever tlie balance may lie and on
whichever side it may be found, the re
sult, when obtained by means of a reci
procity treaty, will involve the sacri
fice of the weaker American interests
for the benefit of the stronger. Cali
fornia may never hope to make tho
balance in her favor, and if it did turn
that way the process would be none
the less unfair and injurious. The
reciprocity treaties must be fought on.
principle, and with no dallying on
our part with deceptive suggestions
that we may profit by the robbery of
others. We shall not so profit, and it
is kicked to attempt it.—San Francisco
Chronicle.
Chicago is pluming itself on being
one of the best places in the country
to study birds. Over 200 varieties have
been seen, outside of those in the com
mon council chamber.
