there seems to be a general consensus of opinion that no other foreign Power shall be permitted to assume control of the islands. THE ISLANDS AND NAVAL CONSIDERATIONS. WHO THE REVOLUTIONISTS ARE. a fell off from $4,935,911 in 1891, to $3,662,018 for the deliberate purpose of promoting Chicago Times (Dem.), Feb. 3.-Possession of the Hawaiian Islands is deemed important because of the value of Honolulu as a coaling station. Coal is not mined in the islands, but is brought there for the purposes of filling the bunkers of steamships. Exclusive possession and jurisdiction over the Hawaiian Islands becomes matter, therefore, of high strategic Kansas City Times (Dem.), Feb. 3.-Friends value in the event of war. A matter of great, of the Hawaiian Queen have been declaring though secondary, importance for steamship that the present uprising is due to the presence interests in the Pacific is cheaper fuel. That of a set of officious foreigners on the islands. which is used now comes from Australia, even That any such statement is a misrepresentation from England, and coal that in Chicago is sold of the facts is shown by an examination of the at $1.75 a ton commands at Panama or in personnel of the Commissioners who are on the islands of the Pacific used for coaling their way to Washington as representatives of stations as high a price as $25 a ton. If the Provisional Government. A dispatch from the United States, meaning to maintain the train that is carryiug the committee to the a large fleet in the Pacific, not only had a capital shows that of the five members three coaling station midway, but also had the were born in Hawaii, one in Canada, and one means of obtaining coal at very decided re-in England. The two foreigners have lived duction of its present price in the Pacific, it would possess great advantage. When the Charleston pursued the Itata, steaming from San Francisco to northern Chili, she carried in " on the islands for twenty-three years. It ers Toronto News (Ind.-Conserv.), Feb. 1.—If it her bunkers no less than $80,000 worth of coal. representatives of the "foreign" population be true, as reported in New York dispatches, on the islands, it is easy to understand Pittzburgh Chronicle-Telegraph (Rep.), Feb. why the Provisional Government desires to that Goldwin Smith intends calling on Presi3. In his first annual message to Congress in be annexed to the United States. Writ- dent-elect Cleveland to urge joint action to enDecember, 1885, President Cleveland observed: without any knowledge of the situa- courage the prompt annexation of Canada, "Maintaining, as I do, the tenets of a line of tion and a vast fund of pessimism have ad- then that uneasy and mischievous gentleman precedents from Washington's day, which pro-vised the United States Government that only has come perilously near the limit of forbearscribe entangling alliances with foreign States, a few sugar barons in the Hawaiian Islands ance which has allowed him the use of this I do not favor a policy of acquisition of new Smith is following a course which and distant territory or the incorporation of the duty on sugar. want annexation, in order that they may save country. The Provisional Govern- must inevitably end in bloodshed, and perhaps remote interests with our own. Possibly by ment is not in the sugar-raising business. It involve Great Britain and the United States in the time the matter of protectorate over, or is made up largely of native Hawaiians who one of the bloodiest wars in their history. Let annexation of, Hawaii shall come before Mr. are white and a sprinkling of foreigners who him once arouse the cupidity of the Yankees Cleveland in an official way, the fact that the have been there a long time. They are not by such misrepresentations as he is now inUnited States joined France and England in upstarts or rebels, but far-seeing business men, dulging in, aud the result will be a filibustering 1845, in guaranteeing the independence of the who realize that there will be no further pros-expedition which will throw the Texas raid Sandwich Islands, will also be remembered. perity in Hawaii without better government. completely in the shade. Canadians are far Our military and naval authorities will like- In looking about for a power with which to too tolerant of those who are trying to bring wise give the weight of professional opinion ally the nation, the new authorities naturally about a transfer of this country to a foreign to those who say that, so far from Hawaii chose the one lying nearest and with which Power, and it is time that Goldwin Smith addding to the military or naval strength of they have had the closest commercial relations. should be shut up short or expelled from the the country, the very reverse is the case. No It would have been ridiculous, under existing country. coaling station however strongly fortified can, circumstances, for them to have made any in case of war, hold out for long, if its com- other choice. munications are cut off by sea. These places St John (N. B.) Gazette (Conserv.), Feb. 3. -Goldwin Smith airs himself in the presence of a New York reporter. He is quoted as ex LET THE ISLANDERS VOTE ON THE QUES- pressing himself, last Tuesday, as follows: TION." are valuable in war time only so long as their owners dominate the adjacent seas; naval supremacy having disappeared, the coal must be We are hopeful that the Cleveland Administration will meet us half way in the matter of annexation. destroyed and the fortifications demolished Minneapolis Tribune (Rep.), Feb. 3.-When Were the question put to a vote in the Dominion, I before others seize them. In other words, we the islanders have expressed a popular demand believe a large majority would be returned for a union would, in case of war, have to send a good for annexation it will be time enough for this with the States. It must come, sooner or later. The part of our navy 2,000 miles away from our Government to seriously consider the ques-traordinary development of the agricultural and miner own cities and harbors in order to protect the tion; and it cannot consistently or effectively interests of the Dominion. We are after a better marcoaling station in the Hawaiian Islands. This take action before. If it should transpire in the ket, and we trust that changes will be made in the Mcfleet would have to be of such strength as to attempts to take a ballot, that the Hawaiians Kinley Tariff Law that will insure freer trade between could make it superior to any our adversary bring to bear. OUR TRADE WITH HAWAII. ositions. moment the union is established there will be an ex the two countries. Should Canada be annexed I believe the votes of the people would be about equally divided between the two great parties." Canadians have yet been compelled to witness. are incapable of expressing their will by that "The public debt of Canada," continued Professor intelligent method, that would be an important but has remarkable possibilities. All that is needed is Smith, is about $280,000,000. The country is poor, fact worth consideration in connection with the American enterprise to open up the mineral and other proposition to place these people under repub-wealth of the Dominion, and prosperity will result. lican government. The chief problems of the Bradstreet's, Feb. 4.-We import a good annexation question are as to the political sendeal more than we send. In 1882 the total timents and qualifications of the Hawaiian peo- We cannot characterize such false, malicious, value of our shipments thence was only $3,272,- ple; and those problems can, to an important and traitorous utterances in fitter terms than 172, while we imported in that year Hawaiian degree, be solved by a resort to a popular have been applied to them by the Toronto produce to the value of $7,646,294, more than ballot on the annexation issue. Let the annex- Empire. The disloyalty of this renegade Engtwice as much, thus leaving what is called the ationists first submit their proposition to the lishman has been well known for years, but his balance of trade largely "in favor" of the Hawaiian people, and then come to the Amer-proceedings on the present occasion present Hawaiian Islands. Nine years later the totalican Government with their petitions and prop- the most disgraceful chapter in his career that value of our exports to that kingdom were given at $4,935,911, a gain of 50 per cent., but our importations in that year were valued at $13,895,597, a gain within nine years of 80 per cent., showing that our takings had increased within the period named in a greater ratio than what we had sent to Hawaii. The value of our imports from these islands in 1891 as compared with what we exported thither showed a balance of trade in favor" of Hawaii equal to 180 per cent. of the value of what we sent there. But in the fiscal year 1892, there came a change. The total quantity of our importations from the Hawaiian Islands was valued at only $8,075,881, or 58 per cent. of our receipts in the year before, while our shipments the ce THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA. Dispatch from Toronto, Feb. 7.-In an edi. torial of considerable length, the Globe this afternoon strongly defends Prof. Goldwin Smith against the attacks of his political opponents. Referring to the report which was telegraphed here that Mr. Smith, while in Washington, intended to call on Presidentelect Cleveland to urge him to recommend measures favorable to the annexation of Canada, and which story Mr. Smith has sirce repudiated over his own signature, the Globe says: Professor Smith is an Englishman, with an Englishman's courage and an Englishman's honor; a scholar of sible, sensation-hunting correspondents. Sir John Thompson declared in Parliament last session that the promoting of political union by constitutional methods was not treason. If then the advocacy of political union is not treasonable, we must meet its advocates with sober speech and calm words, and not by social ostracism, violence, and intimidation. United States. imperial fame, a leader in the great democracy of letters, | their faults, are both brave and patriotic. That | they did not prevent frauds upon the Treasury, and he ought not to be lampooned and denounced on they have not thriven as they ought to have is a good case could be made out for their present the strength of words put into his mouth by irrespon- apparent to themselves as to others, and it is abrogation, or at least for a much more searchalso apparent to many of them that the forming scrutiny than is now instituted. But this The Globe refers to the fact that a motion is of government which they have outgrown is, statement is not made for the reason that it now before St. George's Society of this city; to a large extent, responsible for their lack of could not be sustained. There is an attempt of which Mr. Smith is a life member, to expel prosperity. They are a grown-up nation, and in the President's message to hint at something him for his advocacy of annexation of Canada ought no longer be in the nursery. They of the kind, to throw suspicion upon the method to the United States, and says such action is should declare their independence and shift for without asserting a fault, as, for example, when actuated by narrow and offensive partisanship. themselves. This is the natural and inevitable he says that he does not consider the present In conclusion the Globe says: destiny of every distinct political division on practice of merely inspecting the lock or seal this continent, and the Canadians ought not to without verifying the contents of a car an expect to evade their destiny and grow lusty adequate protection against the surreptitious and strong in spite of it. When they have introduction into the car of dutiable articles; and fully exhibited their capacity for self-govern- further on, that such practice is inconsistent with ment by building up their bankrupt fortunes the safety of our revenue. These two comand paying off their huge public debt, it will be ments are based upon the broadest sort of time enough to talk about annexation to the theorizing. For quite a number of years past the practice now criticised has been going on, and if, during all that period, merchandise has been surreptitiously placed in the cars coming in under Consular seal, or frauds have been permitted upon the Treasury, we have no recollection of a single instance of this kind coming to light. We take the liberty, therefore, of doubting whether anything of the kind has ever occurred, or, if it has ever occurred, if it has been of importance and significance enough to in any way justify the proposed cessation of these privileges. We feel confident that if the President or the Treasury Department had in its possession the least evidence of evasions of our customs laws by the methods referred to, they would have been brought out as evidence in support of the argument that a change should be made, and in the apparent absence of all evidence to the contrary, it is fair to assume that the service has been honestly carried on and that the Government has not lost a single penny of revenue which it would otherwise have obtained. in the world. Syracuse Standard (Ind.-Rep.), Feb. 3.Possibly the Gladstone Government shares the notion of the Canadian Conservatives that there is something treasonable in Goldwin Smith's and Edward Farrer's labors in behalf New York Sun (Dem.), Feb. 3.—The assault upon Prof. Goldwin Smith by two Canadian newspapers because of his statesmanlike views respecting the destiny of Canada, simply shows Philadelphia Evening Telegraph (Ind.-Rep.), that his arguments are unanswerable. Calling Feb. 3.-The acquisition of Canada would imProf. Goldwin Smith a "renegade English-mediately double the size of the map of the man and crying out for his expulsion from United States. It would bring into the Union Canada because he has the sagacity and clear- seven more States at once, and within thirty ness of vision to see that the only hope of years the number of stars upon the flag would Canadian progress and development lies in annexation to the United States, does not alter not be less than three-score, and perhaps as many as five-and-sixty. The population of the the fact that he is one of the ablest, most dis- Union in 1920 would reach a round 100,000,000. tinguished, and most disinterested men in the Is this manifest destiny? Is it the work of the Dominion, and its stanch and wise and loyal present generation to provide for this? It is a friend and adviser. It does not alter the fact gigantic problem, a question that may well that as Canada is, it is dying of dry rot, a demand the attention of the best minds of the stagnant community lying next to the most Republic, and it must not be settled hastily, prosperous, progressive, and powerful country in a selfish, reckless, or prejudiced spirit. Finally, what will England do about it? As a matter of fact, the mother country has as yet given no serious thought to this question; neither, however, did any considerable number of the people of Canada until very recently. Its public men were silent, and necessarily so. To talk of annexation was to commit political suicide. The night before New York Times (Ind.-Dem.), Feb. 4.-The Goldwin Smith left Toronto he made a public fact is that the President does not deal with speech, favoring continental union, which was the real cause of the whole controversy, which reported in the leading journals, and treated in is the advantage that the Consular sealing the most respectful manner. As he observes, privilege, whether abused or not, gives to the even one year ago such a thing would have been Canadian railroads, and especially to be subimpossible. So the British journals and states-sidized Canadian Pacific in competition with men must take this matter up. The home our own railroads. So far as the transportation Government can unquestionably hold Canada under seal is alone concerned, they are placed by force of arms. Would it do this? That on the same footing with the railroads of the is the question. The people of the United States can prevent annexation. They can indefinitely postpone favorable consideration of the whole subject; but they should not permit political intrigue or commercial selfishness to compromise our Government, or accomplish even the preliminary work of annexation, until the whole matter is thoroughly understood and has been most thoughtfully considered in all its many and important phases. It is a coming question, indeed, a real topic of the hour, and interest therein must rapidly develop. Of this there can be no manner of doubt. of annexation; for it is announced that a Mr. Irwell, of England, has come to New York, according to one report, to offset the work of these men, according to another, to watch it. The colonial party in Canada has charged Professor Smith with nothing worse than dis loyal agitation, while it has accused Mr. Farrar of being at one time in communication with public men at Washington in the interest of annexation. They know that these two men, the ablest writers of English in the Dominion, are exercising great influence upon Canadian opinion; and it is not improbable that they will seek occasion in what Smith and Farrer may say over here to bring charges against their loyalty and so lessen their strength at home. Americans know Prof. Gold win Smith, being acquainted, through his long residence in this country, with his learn ing and personal force. They have also heard of Edward Farrer, who is the strongest editorial writer in Canada and the superior of all but a very few men connected with the press of the United States. If the visitors address public gatherings here, they may be sure of audiences interested in them and still more in the subject they are agitating. THE CONSULAR SEALING PRIVILEGE. Boston Herald (Ind.-Dem.), Feb. 4.-PresiBaltimore American (Rep.), Feb. 4.-Prof. dent Harrison's special message to Congress Goldwin Smith is an able and learned man, on the Canadian bond transit question will but a very poor politician. He has persistent- seem to most of those living in this part of the ly pursued the course which is least likely to country a decidedly inconclusive document. gain the end which he professes to seek the He points out that under Article 29 of the annexation of Canada to the United States,-treaty of Washington the free transit in bond and his latest move is probably his greatest was permitted to merchandise of both the blunder. He has announced his intention of United States and Canada over the railway consulting Mr. Cleveland concerning annexa- lines which cut the frontiers of the two countion, and has stirred up a hornet's nest in Can- tries. There were a number of different classes ada. He has endeavored for a number of years of transportation specified under this treaty, to produce the impression upon the Canadians but to one and all the same rule held good that that the people of the United States are pining the customs regulations ordinarily enforced on for Canada, and that unless annexation comes the border line were not to apply, and the railvery soon, their impatience will get the better road service for goods in bond or goods placed of them and precipitate a disastrous war. in cars under Consular seal was to be carried Even if this were true, it would be excessively on in precisely the same manner as it would United States, but they are free from the restrictions of our Inter-State Commerce Law in the making of rates, and this, with the advantage of the Government subsidies, enables them to underbid our companies. It is the competition through the cutting of rates that is the real cause of complaint, and the agitation for withdrawing the Consular sealing privilege aims at hampering the Canadian railroads by having merchandise brought into this country by them subject to revenue inspection at the border, if not to the payment of duties as importations from Canada. If there are abuses which are in violation of law, these can be remedied by more stringent regulations and a Istrict enforcement of them. But the main of Canadian railroads with our own can be question is whether the damaging competition curbed in a way that will protect and subserve our public interests. Indianapolis Sentinel (Dem.), Feb. 3.—The President's suggestions regarding the differences between the United States and Canada are sensible and business-like. They are such as a President ought to make. But they are so at variance with what the Republican press has been promising that they are almost ludicrous. The President's newspaper organs have been telling us to prepare for big events; to watch and we should see the man in the White House literally mop the earth with England and all her dependencies. But here comes a plain, simple document without threats or bombast or very much buncombe. It is well that it is impolitic to endeavor to influence Canadian be if the line of railroad ran through so, but it puts the organs in a very ludicrous public opinion favorably by such an argu- the territory of a single country. If light. ment; but it is not true, and a person of the experience of the last few years, Professor Smith's discernment ought to know that it is not true. Threats are not the weapons to use in convincing a brave and patriotic people, and the Canadians, whatever may be during which time there has been an immense Toronto Empire, Feb. 4.-The obligations increase in this international transportation are reciprocal, as are the benefits. Boston and business, had shown that the regulations made New England, the American producer who by the Government were not enforced, or that wises cheap transport for his products, and might have been left to give themselves, and by the people's consent, the one last thing, the Supreme Court. If a State's Rights man of unrecanted secession ideas the Western farmer, all clearly recognize the | The President has attempted to do the latter, | session of the Presidency and Congress, they mutual benefit. Apart altogether from the in- and, unless this is an exceptional instance, the ternational aggressiveness of President Harri- result will justify the wisdom of his choice. son's plea for United States railways, and the inherent weakness of his argument, there is little danger of anything practical coming from it. The present Congress will "hang up" his recommendation; the next is Democratic, and, although we prefer not to prophesy concerning any action it may take, it is reasonably safe to anticipate that the pressure against any restriction upon Canadian roads, coming from all parts of the Republic, will be too powerful to permit of this policy being carried out. Boston Advertiser (Rep.), Feb 4.-During Southern and his term he has made four nominations to the must be on the Supreme Bench, and be in the Supreme Bench, and many other judicial nom-end the final one to give it a Democratic mainations of great importance, and it must be jority, the Republican Senate ought not to be conceded now, when his term is almost ended, a party to it. Let such an appointment wait that the appointments have been of almost un- to be made by a State's Rights, anti-negro, precedented excellence and deserving of un- anti-pension, anti-tariff, anti-Republican, antistinted praise. These appointments not only national President and Senate. The Repubredound to the credit of Mr. Harrison as a lican party, which is still living, and which is statesman, but will undoubtedly serve as a pre- to rule again in the nation despite of any man's cedent which his successors will hardly dare to disappointments, may well be saved from the violate. The importance of keeping the sys- present reproach and the historical dishonor of JUDGE tem of Federal judiciary on the highest possi- such an act of perfidy and wrong becoming an ble plane cannot be too strongly emphasized; accomplished fact. Last week President Harrison nominated Judge Howell E. Jackson as successor of the late Justice Lamar on the United States Supreme Bench. Judge Jackson is a Democrat, was a supporter of the Confederacy, and has always been a "State's Rights" advocate. He was appointed to his present office (Judge of the United States Circuit Court) by President Cleveland. The Democratic newspapers unite in praising the President for this act. Very few of the Republican organs criticise it in any strong terms, and many of them commend it as a signal manifestation of the non-partisan spirit that should control in the selection of Judges. Some newspapers, however, blame the President for not permit ting Mr. Cleveland to fill the vacancy, and others criticise him because of his supposed intention to appoint a Republican to the place on the Circuit Bench that will be vacated by Judge Jackson's promotion. A few Republican journals attack the President in the spirit shown by Mr. J. S. Clarkson, who has pub. lished an exceedingly bitter protest against this selection of an ex-Confederate and "State's Rights" man. New York Tribune (Rep.), Feb. 8.-It is hard to believe that there will be any serious opposition in the Senate to the confirmation of a man so admirably fitted for a place in the Supreme Court as Judge Jackson. One of our Washington dispatches to-day recalls the circumstance that six years ago, when Judge Jackson was nominated as Circuit Judge, the Senate confirmed the nomination without even referring it, in the usual way, to the Judiciary Committee. If the present nomination is considered on its merits, as it most assuredly ought to be, both the Judiciary Committee and the Senate will unanimously favor confirma tion. a and President Harrison in his insistence on the Boston Herald (Ind.-Dem.), Feb. 4.-President Harrison has done an exceedingly handsome act in the appointment of Judge Howell E. Jackson of Tennessee to the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States. Judge Jackson is a Democrat, and in this respect the President has shown himself above party considerations in a manner which deserves full recognition. We remember no case of a President for fifty years at least who has shown the same liberality to political opponents in selections for the highest Court of the country. Nashville American (Dem,), Feb. 3.-It is hardly in order to comment critically upon crat to the Federal Supreme Bench, but there President Harrison's appointment of a Demowould seem to be a Republican bug under the chip. Possibly that bug is the knowledge that Judge Jackson's nomination will be confirmed, which will make certain the confirmation of a Republican successor to the Circuit Bench. However the latter may be, and whatever political motives actuated Mr. Harrison, he certainly chose a Judge who will do great honor to the position to which he has been assigned. Jacksonville Times-Union (Dem.), Feb. 3. Eminent men in both political parties agree that this appointment from a purely judicial standpoint is one of the best ever made by a Chief Magistrate of the United States, and even those who oppose it on the ground of its being contrary to good policy and the most approved party custom, all admit the eminent qualifications and the fitness of the appointee for the position. The Times-Union admires party loyalty, but there are other things in the world equally admirable. FROM MR. CLARKSON'S PROTEST. The President's act in appointing a Southern State's Right Democrat to this high Court of last resort in the present critical national situation is a gross betrayal of public trust and party faith. Indeed, in my judgment it is an act of party perfidy little short of a moral crime. New York Morning Advertiser (Rep.), Feb. If Democrats and unrecanted 3.-The nomination by President Harrison of Judge Howell E. Jackson, of Tennessee, to believers in secession and State's Rights and the vacancy on the Supreme Bench caused by Free Trade and hatred of Union soldiers may the death of Justice Lamar, is a pleasant evi- be appointed to the Supreme Bench by a Redence that devoted party loyalty need not publican President and confirmed by a Repubnecessarily make a President any the iess alican Senate there would seem to have come a broad-minded patriot. Judge Jackson is time when there is no need for a Republican thorough Democrat, but he has made a record to live at all. There may be, and is, and long as one of the ablest jurists in the United States. will be an honest difference of opinion as to In nominating him President Harrison has the negro's right to citizenship and officeholdrisen above party and has secured for the Su-ing. Although the Republican party is bound preme Court the services of the best man the by every covenant of honor to uphold his Democratic party in the South had to offer. manhood and finally establish his citizenship, the question of humanity and the recoil of conscience against the unspeakable cruelties toward the black people, now so rife in the South, is such that there can be no question in any American home where either honor or pity abides. The negro and his rights as a human being find defense in our Christianity as a people if not in our politics as a nation. After the enemies of his common rights to untortured existence or to kind treatment even as an animal have come into pos Cleveland could not have done better. Boston Journal (Rep.), Feb. 4.-The criticisms of disappointed Republicans betray, not less plainly than the anticipatory attacks of Democratic partisans, a low and merely political estimate of the judiciary, against which the President's action is an emphatic protest. It would have been easy to make a partisan appointment; it was not easy to find a man of the right qualities and of representative character. LAW. In the United States Senate last Monday the motion of Mr. Hill of New York to take up for consideration the bill to repeal the Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1891 was defeated. This refusal to consider the measure is regarded as a demonstration that the repeal of the Sherman Act cannot be effected during the present session. New York Herald (Ind.), Feb. 7.-The defiant refusal of the Senate yesterday to take up the Sherman Law may serve to delay but cannot defeat the repeal of that iniquitous measure. The Herald has contended that the outflow of our gold coin to Europe (four millions more of it last week) was mainly due to the operation of the Sherman Law, which impelled our foreign creditors to withdraw their balances in one hundred cent gold dollars now, for fear of being paid in sixty cent silver dollars later on. Some of the silver maniacs have questioned this and asserted that the withdrawal of gold to Europe was solely due to foreign Governments accumulating abnor mal stores of the yellow metal in prep- were true it might well have set the silver- That it was not anti-silver measure in the Senate had been voted down. Stocks declined sharply, and there was at once a demand for bills of exchange to remit to Europe. Early in the day there was a general belief that the Senate must bow to the will of the people and permit the question of repealing the Sherman Law to ers cabled orders to buy stocks and bonds in come up for discussion. Consequently foreignthis market, and no gold was engaged for export by to-day's steamer. New York Tribune (Rep.), Feb. 8.-This vote makes it evident that a majority for the repeal of the Silver Purchase Act might have been obtained in the Senate if that body had been asked to pass a bill which had already been passed by the House, even though the effort to do so might then have involved a long and But such a struggle, weary test of endurance. with every probability that the House would not act on the subject at all, most of the Republican members were not inclined to begin. It appeared to them that the Democrats in the House ought to take the responsibility of sustaining or defeating the policy which their President-elect urged upon them. The truth is that if the Democratic members in either body had been sincere or much in earnest about this repeal they would not have left the matter until more than two-thirds of the short session had elapsed, so that the remaining time might without great difficulty be exhausted by the speeches of a few silver Senators. It goes without saying that few will find it easy to credit the Democrats in Con- | the repeal bill is to be settled elsewhere. It New York Evening Post (Ind.-Dem.), Feb. 7.-The vote in the Senate yesterday on the question of taking up the bill to repeal the Silver-Purchase Act need not discourage any of its supporters either in or out of Congress. The movement was not very well timed, and Mr. Hill was not the man to lead it, although he is to be commended for moving, if those who ought to lead hold back. We say that he was not the man to lead the movement because THE COMING ADMINISTRATION. It Atlanta Constitution (Dem.), Feb. 3.—Those who imagine that the Democrats were endorsed merely for the purpose of playing with the tariff should go to the platform of the party and read the doctrine which the people have endorsed. There is no straddling about that plank. It minces nothing. It is radical. goes to the root of the whole matter, and leaves no room for cunning evasions. The issue is there more clearly defined than it ever has been in any Democratic platform since the war-or before, either, for that matter. "Tariff reform". is a term that may be given over to any degree of vagueness, but it is no his own position heretofore has been extremely longer vague for the Democratic party. It has dubious, and is not much cleared up by his been defined in the Chicago platform, so that speech, although his vote is satisfactory this there is no longer any excuse for misundertime. Although Mr. Hill's motion failed, standing it. The platform says that Protection it had the gratifying result of showing for 'Protection's sake is unconstitutional, and twelve Democratic Senators in the affirm-must, therefore, be swept away. The repeal ative, Senator Sherman having expressed confidence in the passage of the repeal bill whenever ten Democrats should be pledged to vote for it. There is good reason to believe that the bill will pass the House soon in the form in which it has come from the Banking Committee, in which case there will be a crucial test in the Senate. If it fails again in that body, President Cleveland will undoubtedly call an extra session, and it is to be hoped that he will do nothing, except name his Cabinet, until this stumbling-block to national finance and the national prosperity is removed. If the Treasury is saved from insolvency till the 4th of March, that is as much as we can hope for. It would be insolvent now (even without reckoning the sinking-fund payment as a legal | claim), but for the withholding of money actually appropriated by Congress. Mr. Cleveland and his Cabinet can probably make better use of their time in devising ways and means to stave off bankruptcy than in listening to the claims of office-seekers, whose pressure is becoming intolerable to Democratic Congress men. of the McKinley Law is only a step in the New York Sun (Dem.), Feb. 3.-Discrimina- to predict. They will follow their old precedents and practices in tariff tinkering; they will hack at, and punch holes here and there in, the Protective tariff schedules; they will select certain industries for attack, and will cripple and injure them; they will try to show especial favor to foreign importers and to Southern and Democratic interests, and generally and particularly they will fool with and bedevil tariff legislation, and in the next Presidential campaign will be on the defensive, trying to explain their own cowardice and inconsistency. DIFFICULTIES OF THE CLEVELAND PROGRAMME. Baltimore American (Rep.), Feb. 4.-It is evident that the new Administration will enter upon its work with full hands. The programme that has been mapped out is crowded with labor and big with destiny. It contemplates a distinct rearrangement of the country's fiscal affairs, and a radical change in its most important policies. There appears to be no doubt of the intention of these readjustments, and the only uneasiness is in the ability of those in command to carry out their pur poses. This ability is by no means assured. Take, for instance, the first thing on the list-silver. On that question Mr. Cleveland and the men most intimately associated with him occupy plain and unmistakable ground. They say they want the Sherman Law repealed, and if they had their way they would probably repeal it. But it so happens that the men of their own party in Congress-in both branches of Congress-are ready to defeat any movement for this repeal, and if the law is changed at all in the direction of making the Government purchase less silver, it will have to be done with the assistance of Republican votes. Right here, therefore, is a party difficulty to begin with, and it is a difficulty that is capable of infinite damage to the harmonious progress of a new Administration. Mr. Cleveland is on record in an interview ley Bill be repealed?" with these words, “I as replying to the question, "Will the McKinwould like to know what else the people elected Mr. Carlisle takes the Treasury portfolio largeus for!" It is the general understanding that ly for the purpose of drafting and guiding the new bill which is to supplant the'present law. History has shown that Congress is far from a likelihood of accepting with full favor bills that originate in this way. There are many small New York World (Dem.), Feb. 8.-The sound-money Democrats in the House will not abandon their fight for the repeal of the Sher-ocratic party, to affirm that the Walker tariff Jealousies even in our national politics, and man Law under discouragement of the Senate's action. They have made a careful poll, and find a clear majority of the House in favor of repeal. This, of course, includes sound-money Republicans. If these latter will unite with the sound-money Democrats, the programme arranged will be carried out. The rule for the consideration of the Andrew-Cate Bill, which is to be brought in on Thursday, will be amended by the addition of a closure clause, and the bill will be passed. The one fear now is that the action of the Senate may induce Republicans to refuse needed assistance in thus forcing the question to a vote. was less highly Protectionist than some of the duties. Jersey City Evening Journal (Rep.), Feb. 2. Will the McKinley Law be repealed? Will the demand of the Sun that the Democratic New York Times (Ind.-Dem.), Feb. 8.-Our party shall be honest, consistent, and couragereaders are already aware that the motion ous, be complied with? Will Mr. Cleveland's made by Mr. Hill, and which was preceded by expectations of a substitution of the British the reading of his amazing essay, was not, and Free Trade policy for that of the American was not intended to be, a decisive motion. It Protective policy be realized? Not at all. was merely an incident, and an insignificant The Democratic party will not redeem its one, in the course of a crowded short session, pledges. It will not dare or venture to do any When he gave notice of his purpose to submit such thing as the Sun is prodding it to do. It the motion there was some curiosity as to what will not extirpate or extinguish the Protective he meant by it, as to what, in the language of system. It has neither the honesty nor the his class, he was "after." It is clear now that courage to undertake or accomplish any such his only purpose was to provide an occasion destructive work, and the Sun is, we think, for the reading of this composition. He suc- quite as well aware of this as we are. The ceeded in that. The rules of the Senate did significance and force of the warning given by not permit anyone to stop him. All that was the Sun, along with its exhortations, will be possible was to make it plain that Mr. Hill's appreciated by the Democratic leaders, but they course was ridiculous, and had no definite or will. precisely reverse the Sun's application practical relation to the business of the Senate of it; they will not risk a certain and or the course of legislation upon the silver overwhelming defeat in 1896 by now adopting question. That is certainly clear enough in an honest and consistent course in tariff legisthe record of Monday's session. The fate of lation. What the Democrats will do it is easy sometimes they become potent factors in legislation. Further than this, a bill that the House and thus the course of tariff reduction promises may accept may fare very badly in the Senate, to be full of obstacles and annoyances, especially as no two Democrats have the same technical ideas on the subject, and the constituents of every representative will clamor for the continuance of the Protective feature to their local campaign slogan, but it becomes a general asindustries. Tariff reform may be useful as á sault upon the industries of the country when it is embodied in legislation. And these industries can arouse a rather formidable opposition when their interests are attacked. To expect them to be passive when the work of tariff reduction begins is to look for the impossible. There will, of course, be the usual attempt to reduce the expenses of the Government and to make a record of economy. This will probably be the greatest difficulty of all, for it is perfectly plain to every intelligent person that a great nation like the United States-the richest and most powerful on earth-cannot be conducted on a penny-wise policy. In the excellent speech which Secretary Foster made at the banquet of the Merchants and Manufacturers' Association in this city, he said impressively that this was now a billion-dollar country, and in course of time it would be a two-billion-dollar country. A nation whose wealth grows at the rate of hundreds of millions a year, whose people are the most prosperous on earth, and whose workers receive better wages than those of any other land, is not the proper prey for the little cheese parers whose statesmanship is as patriotism. It does seem, after all, that there will be a tremendous amount of effort with comparatively little result. It may be to a certain degree the first Administration of Cleveland over again. Those four years were years of progress and prosperity to the country and to the people, because the tariff and financial policies of the Republican party continued in force. It is rather doubtful that they can be upset now, but Mr. Cleveland and his friends may have a rather interesting time in trying to do what they could not do during his former term. DAN LAMONT. contradict himself. By such a course he will only put in peril his own position and that of his supporters. If Minister Rudini and Minister Miceli thought it best to adjust all the difficulties in the family, after the patriarchal fashion, Minister Giolitti certainly does not mean to throw away the responsibility thrust upon him of bringing the guilty to justice, by an act of weakness or of mistaken pity towards him who stands trembling in the dark. May the whole thing be quickly exposed to the light, even at the price of new griefs, new revelations, and new scandals. narrow as their | his inauguration he has still to choose the the Penal Code, cannot retrace his steps and Syracuse Standard (Ind.-Rep.), Feb. 3.When Daniel S. Lamont takes a place in the Cabinet of President Cleveland, next March, it will be a glorious illustration of the possibilities of citizenship in this republic. There is not a farmer boy in the land who should not take heart from the example. Those of us who have had the advantages of urban rearing and city polish are apt to think of the life of the country-bred lad as altogether benighted and ordinarily unpromising, yet here is a youth whose early years were spent beyond the pale FOREIGN MATTERS. THE ITALIAN SCANDAL. keener interest than the events at Paris. a from the fact that The certain Rome Diritto, Jan. 20.-We have to admit that Italy has also her Panama, One of the most deplorable, if not the gravest, of the faults of the banking institutions implicated is the limiting their credit to a few privileged persons, when that credit ought to have aided industry and commerce. The Giolitti Ministry was in a situation of great difficulty at the beginning of its career, but its present trials are very severe. It is to be hoped that it will find a way out of the quagmire in which it is floundering. If that shall turn out so, and the present surroundings of the Government be purified, we shall reap benefits, and, perhaps, have no cause of complaint for having had our Panama. Putrefaction precedes resurrection. Courrier des Etats-Unis (New York), Feb. 3. -It is a pretty little name, Panamino, but it would appear that the Italian Panama, since it is a Panama of stalwart proportions, should more justly be called Panamaximo. The word was not coined by a French journal, which might be suspected of prejudice toward a country which is a member of the Triple Alliance. Nor was the word manufactured by a Republican journal, which might be thought inclined to exaggerate the scandals of a monarchy. It was a journal of Brussels, L'Independance from Rome that the "diminutive is out of place" Belge. To that paper a correspondent writes ing in Italy is in no wise inferior to the one and that "the financial scandal which is brewwhich has long afflicted France." In Italy, moreover, there is this aggravating circumstance, that there the scandal is not about a private enterprise, more or less wrongly conducted, but about financial institutions created by and placed under the inspection of the State, which in this way is directly attacked. of what we know as civilization, because re- ISIDOR STRAUS. New York Times (Ind.-Dem.), Feb. 7.-In making choice of his Cabinet officers a President-elect is beset by a multitude of perplexities. Mr. Cleveland, with all his experience and wider knowledge, has found the task scarcely less difficult now than eight years ago. With less than four weeks remaining before thus was an accomplice in the criminal act of at a critical moment must have been necessar- would seem that it was neither the best nor the Il Progresso Italo-Americano (New York), Hamburger Nachrichten (Bismarck's organ), Jan. 19.-As to the project of increasing the strength of the Austro-Hungarian army, following information is given in press correspondence: the In the inner circles of the Austro-Hungarian army officers there is still no definite policy in relation to the proposed increase. At present the highest authorities in the army have in view only a decided increase of priations for the artillery service-both ordinary the forces of the active Landwehr. Besides, it is desired to make a larger allowance in the army approand "extraordinary." As for strengthening the cavalry, the opinion is that this is not to be thought of, If we contrast these modest Austro-Hungarian because of the expense that would be involved. plans with the German, we shall get a new idea of the magnitude of the sacrifices which the present Military Bill imposes upon the German Empire. And yet the general situation is such that while we are fully able to cope with France, and can easily avoid a war with Russia by skillful diplomacy, the continuing danger of war is cultivated by nothing else than the conflicting interests of AustriaHungary and Russia, which give rise to the casus foederis and in all human probability will be the only cause of bringing about conditions that will require Germany to wage a war at its two frontiers. And notwithstanding the fact that it is Austria-Hungary which occasions for Germany the menace of a double war, it is Germany that has to bear the enormous burden of protection against the danger, while Austria takes her ease. If we turn to the thought of a better foreign policy, and con |