POLITICAL.

THE REFORM CLUB'S TARIFF BILL.

show themselves very susceptible to new | located in the 124 principal cities of the coun-
creeds and easily led off by specious argu- try. If the Scandinavian races, which so
ments that appeal to their cupidity. This generally crowded upon the farms of the
development of the South is sufficiently Northwest, were excluded, it would probably
curious to arrest the attention of those who be found that much more than one-half of this
study popular movements. The chief basis population was located in the cities.
of it all appears to be a willingness to
prune men of much of their individuality
and to enlarge the paternal functions of gov-
ernment. The principle, instead of being to
confine government to its narrowest limits,
allowing the utmost freedom to the citizens,
seems to be to invest government with powers
to regulate all the concerns of life and put the
people in straight-jackets. Should this idea
ever be largely sanctioned, the Government
would soon come to be viewed as a despotism
and offensive tyranny, and there would be an
uprising against it as soon as the people failed
to find that it did not make sunshine and pros-
perity. And so it appears to us that the
present popular tendency is of fearful import,
and is by far the most dangerous outcropping
that this country has ever witnessed.

OUR

FOREIGN-BORN POPULATION.

lisle has no foolish ideas on this subject, but announces his readiness to consider suggestions from clubs and other organizations, all of which will be treated as suggestions and nothing more. If they commend themselves they will be accepted; otherwise not. Congress has repeatedly made efforts to obtain suggestions of the same kind in preparing tariff bills, and there is no reason that Mr. Carlisle should not. The only difference will be that this time the consumers will be consulted instead of the beneficiaries.

Pittsburgh Post (Dem.), March 24.-It is Chicago Herald (Dem.), March 25.-On the not difficult to forecast the general trend of whole, the bill which the committee have prewhat tariff legislation will be under the new pared seems to be a very good one, so far as conditions, and the pledges of the Democratic can be judged from the outline of its provisions party, and this the bill of the Reform Club which has been laid before the public. The does. In the first place duties will be levied commitee would have done better, however, if on the ad valorem plan so far as practicable, they had frankly admitted that they purposely and it is practicable in all but a few exceptional retained features of protection, instead of precases. At present there is a mixture of ad tending that they framed their measure on valorem, specific, and compound duties, which revenue lines purely, and wholly regardless of is a great obstruction to business. Then the protection. It would be better to admit the Reform Club bill proposes to admit all raw intention is to change from the artificial to the materials free of duty, and reduce to a minimum natural by successive steps, than to come bethe rates on crude manufactures to be sub-fore the country under partly false pretenses. jected to more advanced processes. The rate The committee would have done better also if of duties will in no case exceed 25 per it had proposed to restore the purely revenue cent., and as an illustration it is stated that, duties on tea and coffee, and the almost purely with wool on the free list, the duties on all revenue duty on sugar, making the rate lower, woolen and worsted manufactures will not be however, than it was under the law of 1883. more than 25 per cent. This is a cut from the reform bill sent the Senate by the House at the last session, and which proposed 35 and 40 per cent. on woolens. The existing rates of duties on wool and woolens are abominably mixed, and run all the way from 50 to 150 per cent. They are on the principle of highway robbery. The Reform Club bill does not favor New York. Chicago. a specific free list, but that everything shall be 161,037 made free which is not expressly subject to 7,683 duty. All articles upon which the revenue col21,835 lected does not pay the expenses of collection 7,087 it is held should be made free of duty.

Springfield Republican, March 26. New York City was given a population of 1,515,301 by the Census of 1890; Chicago 1,099,850. Recent Census bulletins show that at the same time New York had a foreign-born population of 639,943 and Chicago 450,666. This gives to each city about the same proportion of foreign-born citizens, or something over 40 per cent. But the various nationalities have distributed themselves in a curious way between the two cities. The following table will illustrate:

Germans

Irish..

Russians

Norwegians.

Danes..

Swedes..

Bohemians..

Poles....

Hungarians..
Italians..
French....

210,723

190,418
48.790
1,575

1,495

7,069

8,099

6,759

1,222

39,951
16.535

Boston Globe (Dem.), March 24. This particular bill may not be adopted, but it will furnish valuable material for study and sugges2,502 tion, as coming from men who have wrought Aside from the Germans, Irish, and Hunga- it, not as politicians and agents of interested rians, the people of the various nativities show constituencies, but as thinkers and economists. a marked disposition to flock together. New There is ample evidence in the published York draws the Russians, Italians, and French, extracts from this new measure that free raw while Chicago attracts the Scandinavian races material will be its foundation principle. While and the Bohemians and Poles. While the Ger- the purpose of the new bill is objectively for mans outnumber the Irish in New York, they are revenue, its framers by no means propose to little heard of in the politics of the city; and while cripple the necessary revenues merely in in Chicago there are more than two Germans to order to spite the protection theory, and it is one Irishman, the latter is quite as conspicuous frankly declared that incidental though suffiin public affairs there as the former. British cient protection will be found in the duties subjects by birth, other than Irish, are about proposed. The Democratic party will be found as numerous in one city as the other-Chicago loyal to its platform, and at the same time having 65,000, and New York 60,000. It loyal to the business interests of the country, would appear that the Germans are much in the tariff adjustments to be finally settled less disposed to activity in politics than the upon. But whatever bill, is finally adopted, it Irish. Such is undoubtedly the case. But will not be the bill of any dominating leader it is to be borne in mind that the Irish or clique, but a deliberate verdict gathered were, as a rule, the earlier comers, and that from the best judgments and arguments prethey have always evinced a greater eager- sented. ness to shake off their former allegiance and become naturalized than have the Ger

Baltimore News (Dem.), March 24.-The mans. From 1850 to 1880 the Irish led in the committee regards it as highly desirable that number of immigrants, and it was not until there should be no specific free list, but that the last decade that the Germans came to the everything not expressly made dutiable should There are such difficulties, however, The foreignin the way of this change that the committee born population of the United States in 1850 has compromised by placing upon the free list was 2.244,602, or 9.68 per cent. of the total; in "all articles upon which the revenue collected 1890 it was 9,249,547, or 14.7 per cent. But the great increase was not evenly distributed is too small to pay for collection, and upon over the whole period. It was crowded for which it is not probable that any mere reduction the most part into the decade ending with 1860, So long as raw materials are taxed there can of rates would produce substantial revenue.' in which the foreign element increased from be no equitable reduction in the protective 9.68 per cent. of the total population to duties upon manufactured articles. The man13.77 per cent. Since 1870 there has been ufacturers of America could not compete with practically no increase in the proportion their European rivals if they were compelled of foreign-born to the whole population. In 1850 the Germans and Irish together to pay more for their raw materials. Therefore, such materials have mostly been placed upon the free-list in the committee's bill, in they now make up about one-half of that order to justify a substantial reduction in the duties upon manufactures.

Richmond Times (Dem.), March 24.-We see no harm done to any one by Mr. Anderson amusing himself with tariff exercise of this sort. The tariff has got to be revised-that is certain, and if Mr. Anderson can revise it well it is a gratuitous and meritorious service for him to donate nis work in that direction to the public. If his work, when done, is valuable, Congress can adopt it and save itself the labor of performing it. If it is worthless, it can be thrown aside with no harm done.

Richmond Dispatch (Dem.), March 24. The New York bill provides for the levying of customs duties for the avowed purpose of compensating the American manufacturers of certain articles for the internal taxes levied upon them. This is of course a proper concession to the manufacturers in question. The Government might by its legislation ruin forever some of the industries of this country if it were to act upon the theory of the Free Trade doctrinaires. The people of Virginia would not be able to sell a pound of manufactured tobacco-indeed, would not be able to manufacture tobacco at all-if the Free Traders were allowed to admit foreign-manufactured tobacco into this country free of duty at the same time that they levied a heavy internal tax upon every pound of tobacco manufactured in this State. This practical exemplification of the working of a Free Trade governmental policy ought to teach the New York reformers that there are two sides to all the important questions raised by statesmen in connection with the tariff policy of this country. The New York reformers themselves lay down a wise rule on this subject when they say, as they do, that "all foreign articles which, if made here, would be subject to internal taxes, must of course be subjected to an equal tariff tax." But those reformers are not doing what they claim to be doing. They cannot be credited with providing for a fulfillment of the pledges under which the Democrats obtained control As an objectof the National Government. lesson Mr. E. Ellery Anderson's tariff bill may render valuable service to the country.

24.-These reformers have made up a reform Jersey City Evening Journal (Rep.), March be, with the exception that it won't suit the tariff bill, which, they say, is what it ought to Southern representatives of the sugar, rice, and cotton interests, and, therefore, they propose to leave the adjustment of tariff matters, as to those specifically Southern interests, to the representatives of that section of the coun

try. This is in accord with the usual Democratic method of allowing the Southern Democracy to have its own way in everything. Wells, Shear

man & Co., do, however, propose to have the Democratic Congress and Administration put the knife to the throat of all, or most of our thriving industries in the States north of the Potomac and Ohio rivers. They reluctantly consent to "draw it a little mild " on the iron industry; they open the old door to all the traditional and certain swindling of the Government by the revival of the old ad valorem system of levying duties on foreign imports. It is altogether a curious and interesting exhibit, and we shall by and by have a chance to find out to what extent the Free Trade British cranks are likely to be able to control the Administration of Grover Cleveland. They have two ideas that prompt all their acts. They are antiAmerican and pro-British in all their ideas, and they exhibit in all their operations a cerJain and persistent ignoring of all the facts that pertain to the question of Free Trade versus Protection.

Boston Advertiser (Rep.), March 24.-It is barely possible that the action of the truly good, great, and generous New York reformers may go unrecognized by the Administration. President Cleveland has the reputation of being rather set" in his views on public questions. It is barely possible that he may decline to accept the programme of the self-sacrificing importers who have so kindly undertaken to relieve him of all responsibility in the matter. Of course such purblind obstinacy would seem outrageous, viewed from the standpoint of the Reform Club; nevertheless, that course would be very characteristic of Mr. Cleveland. Mr. C. S. Fairchild, who is a prominent member of the Club, would give his fellow members some very interesting and instructive " points" on that score out of his own recent personal experience, and he really ought to do so at once in order to prevent any over-confidence on the part of the Club concerning the accept ance of the proffered tariff reform bill.

Boston Evening Transcript (Ind.-Rep.), March 23.-Nothing President Cleveland has said warrants the belief that he proposes to wreck any established interest. And if Representative Holman is correct, that Congress will not be called together at an earlier period than December, he is in no mood to hurry the disposition of such an important question as the tariff which affects American business in so many different ways.

This is the simple state of the case, and largely | vicious legislation and opposed to things that
explains why the first attempt at tariff reform are wholesome and of good report. Organized
by the New York professional tariff doctors labor, in vindicating itself from what it con-
has received such cavalier treatment in the siders an insult, finds itself going with the
house of its supposed friends. From a prac- whole trend of sentiment in the State which
tical standpoint it will not bear even super- makes for purity in public affairs. In State
Next!
ficial examination.
matters Mr. Burke made himself odious. In
matters pertaining to the city of Indianapolis
he was the enemy of reform, purity, and prog-
ress. It would be difficult to name, offhand,
anyone so objectionable to the instincts of
right and righteousness, in public affairs, as
Mr. Burke. He is the type of everything that
Mr. Cleveland is known to oppose in public
life, both in act and idea. Add to this that he
was an enemy of Cleveland, doing his malev-
olent best to defeat him and heap upon him
ridicule and abuse; to have Mr. Cleveland
appoint him to such an office as this, or any
office, gives to the act not merely reinforce-
ment of the powers of evil, but the quality of
a humiliation on the part of Mr. Cleveland.

Albany Express (Rep.), March 25.-If Mr.
Cleveland were less of an egotist, he would
have become restless under the importunities,
suggestions, prayers, and commands of the
little fellows of the Reform Club and their
congeners, who sought to constitute themselves
directors of the Administration. But being
what he is the break was sudden and complete.
In a spirit of petty revenge the Reform Club
has put forth its ridiculous tariff concoction in
the malicious hope that it will stand before the
country a striking reminder of Grover Cleve-
land's broken pledge to smash the tariff-for
even the fanatical “reformers" in that institu-
tion, at length perceive that Mr. Cleveland will
not commit himself to the support of their Springfield Republican (Ind.), March 24.-
hare-brained schemes against the manufactur- No one knows President Cleveland will take
ing interests of the country. This is the mean-any stock in the story that he is using the
ing of the " Tariff Bill" offered by the Gasbag public patronage to buy the favor of Chairman
Club, otherwise known as the Reform Club of Voorhees of the Senate Finance Committee for
New York. It is the mark of the parting of the Administration's financial and tariff politics.
Mr. Cleveland from the cranks who thought But it is none the less certain that in naming
they would mould his Administration. It Voorhees's man Burke for United States
means that the Mugs and the Anti-Snappers District Attorney for Indiana he has made a
are not going to run Mr. Cleveland.
blunder which should not be allowed to stand.
Not only do the independent and many of the
New York Herald (Ind.), March 24.-The leading Democratic papers of the State and
plan which the Reform Club has formulated the reform elements denounce the appoint-
after much travail and agony of soul seems at ment, but the labor organizations are passing
first sight to be a rehash of propositions which resolutions stating that Burke "as a legislator
have been discussed for many years. There proved to be a tool of the corporations," and
must be, of course, something original and that "we denounce said appointment as an in-
unique in it, but we have not yet had time to sult to labor and acquit President Cleveland of
discover where it is. It is barely possible intentional wrong in the matter, believing he
that the Administration may be able to jog was grossly imposed on by Senator Voorhees
along without calling on any one to do its and Congressman Jason B. Brown, and we ex-
work for it. Let us at least hope so, unless press the hope that he will rectify the wrong by
the Reform Club has something better to sug-removing the appointee.' This comes from a
gest than the old ideas, which have become mass-meeting of Democrats and laboring men
threadbare and tattered. Mr. Cleveland may at Indianapolis. It is not the first time Voor-
be trusted to handle that particular topic-to | hées has deceived Cleveland in such matters.
which he has devoted considerable attention—
without the uninvited help of gentlemen who
think the universe will crack unless they step

to the front.

THE OFFICES.
BURKE APPOINTMENT-THE

AND SENATOR VOORHEES.

PRESIDENT

All

New York Evening Post (Ind.-Dem.), March 23.-The trouble into which the President has got over the appointment of one of Senator Voorhees's followers as District Attorney for Indiana, calls attention once more to the danger which lurks always in trusting the repreRochester Domocrat and Chronicle (Rep.), March 24. The committee of the Reform THE sentations of spoilsmen in matters of this kind. The chances are a hundred to one that they Club regrets that some incidental protection will not tell the truth about their candidate's will remain in their scheme of tariff reform. It must be distressing Civil Service Chronicle (Indianapolis), March. qualifications, and that behind his candidacy to thorough Free are bargains and deals and shady Traders, but the volume of importations in--The appointment of Frank B. Burke, of Jef- there vited will neutralize this supposed incidental fersonville, to be United States District Attor- political transactions which will be brought protection by shutting up our factories right ney for Indiana, is so unfortunate that it ought to light sooner or later, to the humiliation of to be withdrawn. and left. Competition in all the markets now Burke was a member of our everybody concerned in the selection. reached and supplied with American products State Senate in 1889 and 1891. He was one of the trouble of this kind that President Clevewill shut those products out and the producers the leaders in defeating the Civil Service Bill land has ever had has come from his occasional will go tramping. It is very simple. This is which would have taken the benevolent institu- yielding to the spoilsmen of his party. He the dose the people must take, they have tions out of politics. He opposed the Australian has had no trouble from the appointees whom ordered it. Let them have it as quickly as Ballot Bill, and was the only Democrat in he has put into office either in opposition to possible. the General Assembly who voted against it. the wishes of the spoilsmen or without their He opposed the new charter for this city. knowledge. These have invariably comBallimore American (Rep.), March 25.-The Any measure that was for the general bene-manded general approval for him at the time fact of the matter is that the country does not fit could safely count on Burke's opposi- of their selection, and have given him no want a tariff bill from New York. New York tion. He is one of the most vicious men reason to feel ashamed of them or to make exis an importing city. A bill such as Messrs. who ever got into public place. His appoint- cuses for them after they have entered upon Anderson, Fairchild, Shearman, Wells, War, ment seems to be due to the influence of their duties. The lesson of experience in this ner, Wheeler, and Schoenhof-all Free Traders Senator Voorhees. After being the chief factor matter is so clear that argument upon it is a and anti-snappers-have prepared would bring in bringing Mr. Cleveland's former Adminis- waste of time. immediate disaster to the country. It would tration into disgrace in Indiana, it is strange flood the United States with foreign goods, that Voorhees should have any influence. He close our factories, throw the balance of trade is working solely and only to secure the reelecagainst us, and knock that gold reserve higher tion of Daniel W. Voorhees to the Senate

than Gilderoy's kite.

Philadelphia Evening Telegraph (Ind.-Rep.), March 24.-The professional tariff reformers can go right ahead presenting their various schemes; but when the solid work is to be

done it will be found that there can be no suc

cessful assault made upon the American protective system. The Democratic party may well put off the day of judgment in this matter.

It will find the tariff problem the hardest qut to crack it has ever been confronted with.

without friction. He cares nothing for the

There is a

public service. He is a bourbon of the bour-
bons; he has never been known to lift up his
voice for any kind of reform.
reform element in the Democratic party in this
State. It has had to fight steadily against such
it has already accomplished important work.
men as Burke and Voorhees, and against them

New York Times (Ind.-Dem.), March 26.Mr. Cleveland appeals to the intelligence and frankly against the advocates of the free-silver conscience of the country. He appeals just as fallacy in Indiana, as against the local rings of spoilsmen in New York or elsewhere. He is no more likely to "trade and dicker"-as Mr. Charles Francis Adams said in 1872—with one than with the other. He knows that his been shown to be, lies in the mutual confidence strength, remarkable and inspiriting as it has

between himself and the honest voters of the country. They trust him, even when they do not agree with him, because he trusts them. To his noble and constant appeal to their man

hood and honor they have responded magnifi- | Assuredly, our people do not expect pensions, selves and our countrymen of the idea that cently. He is not likely to throw away a and wouldn't accept them if offered; but we there is anything shabby or disgraceful in force of this proved greatness to take to poli- merely cite a case in point. No ex-Confederate economy.' In this sentence is to be found the ticians' methods of barter. The appointments would object to an honest pension roll of Union secret of his remarkable popularity. One that seem to some to give force to such a soldiers, but it is wholly improbable that any would have supposed from the acts of the wild inference must be set down to the errors ex-Confederate will live long enough to see leaders of the Republican Party that the Amerof judgment that any man is exposed to, or to such a roll. The simple truth is, the South has icans were a nation of money-worshipers. misinformation or bad advice. They cannot been for many years taxed to the utmost Those who possessed not wealth were assumed be accepted as evidence of gratuitous folly. farthing to enrich the tariff kings of the North. to be given over to the worship of those who The Republican President Boston Herald (Ind.-Dem.), March 24.-The They have grown rich to the extent of colossal did possess it. fortunes, whilst we have grown constantly openly scoffed at cheapness as something ab serious mistake made in the present [Indiana] They have gotten nearly all the horrent and disgraceful. I cannot," he said, case is enough in itself to show that a rule poorer. "find myself in sympathy with this demand which allows the opinion of Senators to be money there is in the country, and we are livFrom what the ing on hope. So the South is entitled to a for cheap coats, which seems to me necessarily conclusive is not a safe one. people of this country know of Senator Voor- very full share of patronage under an Admin- to involve a cheaper man and woman under Acting in obedience to such high hees, they would not think of making him istration which she did so much to place in the coats. Pending a reduction in the burden- authority, the Republican Congress literally President if it was only on account of the class power. of men with whom he would surround his some taxation which is grinding the life out of voted to abolish cheapness. They took the this section, let us have whatever of Federal great surplus in the Treasury and scatAdministration. If he is not fitted for the ap- patronage that we may be entitled to under a tered it to the winds by favoring jobpointment of officers in the country generally, liberal dispensation. We merit the exercise bery and extravagance of every kind. is he fitted for the appointment of officers in of great liberality on the part of the President, But the Americans are a nation of Indiana? This is what courtesy to Senators in and we believe the President fully realizes the plain people. The overwhelming majority the President implies, and what Senatorial truth and will act accordingly. of their citizens find life a constant struggle etiquette makes necessary. with poverty. Frugality, economy, and unTHE FUTURE OF THE POPULISTS. ceasing labor are their daily companions. If Farmers' Voice (Chicago), March 25.-It they had really become a nation of moneyseems to be the common expression of politi-worshipers, a people so dazzled by the speccians that the Populist Party is dead. They tacle of wealth that they were willing to put men in office simply because they were rich, it not time that aggression and defiance be profess to found their belief upon the trouble then their character as a people had undergone the most deplorable transformation witnessed since the closing days of the Roman Republic. But they have not changed. Mr. Cleveland, appealing straight to the people in the plain language which the people recognize as their own, has been heard with joy in every corner of the land. He appeals to those principles in American character which have made the greatness of the American Republic in the past, and which alone are capable of insuring for it an honorable and lasting future.

MR. CLEVELAND VS. THE MACHINE.

Brooklyn Eagle (Dem.), March 25. - The machine was once aggressive and defiant.

That was before the Cleveland tidal wave. Is

brought to a halt? Like the unruly urchin in the Kansas Legislature. The Voice is not
stepped on by a horse, the machine is not partisan. It will make no difference to it if
But the Voice has
nearly so handsome as it was before the people any party lives or dies.
turned down its oracles and broke up its eyes to see and intellect to think; and it but
schemes, A little patience, a little modesty,
reiterates what it has said, that the movement
on the part of the masses to this Government
and a little consideration for the eternal fitness of the people, by the people, and for the peo-
of things would do no particular harm at
the present cheerful and interesting junc-ple will go steadily forward to complete
victory. If President Cleveland and his
ture. Adoption of a different course will do
Congress-which is of the same political
the machine no service, and may do it
faith- should give the people what they
some positive injury. To men who cannot
see beyond their noses organization is always business of this country; should say that
demand, a currency sufficient to float the
formidable; but its formidable qualities be-
the national bank system is a money
come infinitesimally feeble when brought into
the clear light of fact, of reason, and of sober should issue all money; that we should have
monopoly, and that the Government itself
experience. With all its forces and all its re-
free coinage of American silver; that the
sources even the machine cannot afford to
stimulate derision.

HAWAIIAN ANNEXATION.

That is precisely what the Inter-State Commerce Law shall be strength- importance to the United States.

henchmen of the organization are doing in their incoherent demonstrations against Democrats

who thought Grover Cleveland preferable for President in 1892 even before the machine gave them permission to speak or think on that or any other subject.

ened until it is of some effect as regards our

farmer shippers; that the infamous patent
laws, under which farmers are the greatest
sufferers, shall be remedied; that he is for the
people and not for Wall street, we think he
and his Congress might destroy the evident
uprising of the people. If these things, and
some others that we might mention, are not
done by the present Administration, the Popu-
list party, or some other party that takes its
place, will forge ahead to the destruction of
both the old parties.

FOREIGN COMMENT ON THE CLEVE-
LAND ADMINISTRATION.

THE SUN ON THE OFFICE-SEEKERS. New York Sun (Dem.), March 27.-Let us cease to admire the chatter of the popinjays and princoxes, the fools who believe and the unfortunates who think they believe, that there is any taint of the ridiculous or the harmful about the men who seek public honors. The President, the Senators, the beads of the deMr. Cleveland and his policy occupy a large partments are lucky office-seekers; and if they The prevailing so far forget themselves and their duties as to space in the Foreign Press. be impatient with other office-seekers, sensible opinion is that his Administration will exalt men will not fail to remind them that the American interests, and also do much to fingers and the hand are in even a less favor- strengthen international commerce and the able situation for quarreling with each other than the pot and the kettle. When you read bond of union between the United States and of the "incursions of the office-seekers" and the nations of the world. of their "descent " upon Washington you read of something to be proud of; you read that there are still plenty of men alive to their duty and their glory as citizens and patriots. Honor to the office-seekers, and confusion to the puling and measly prigs: the Americans ashamed

of themselves!

THE SOUTH AND THE PATRONAGE.

Birmingham Age-Herald (Dem.), March 24. -If a good man desire good office, let him get it if possible, for it is honorable. If he be a good Southern man he shall have the best of our good wishes, for our people have been kept out of good things governmental almost entirely since the restoration of the Union. The Government money is not distributed down this way to any hurtful extent. Of the $200,000,000 expended in pensions, probably not one-twentieth is paid out in the "rebel" States.

THE TARIFF AND SILVER.

dam, Holland.-President Cleveland appears
Nieuws van den Dag (Conservative), Amster-
to be unwilling to call an extra session of Con-
time until the end of the vacation to plan a
gress. He evidently intends to utilize the
thorough revision of the tariff, and to devise
means for a satisfactory settlement of the
Silver Question.

The Times (Independent), Melbourne, Aus-
tralia. The real silver-crisis will come, if, as
is threatened, the United States Congress re-
peals the Silver Law of 1890. If the greatest
single customer for silver in the world vanishes
from the market, we may expect a bad frost in
silver interests!

ECONOMY AND EXTRAVAGANCE.

Atlas (Liberal), Algiers, Africa.-Mr. Cleveland once said: "We should strive to rid our

Kölnische Zeitung (National Liberal), Cologne, Treaty with Hawaii. But there is no doubt Germany.-Mr. Cleveland has withdrawn the that the Hawaiian Islands are of the greatest The Ameritheir maritime interests, and they cannot overcans are rapidly building a navy worthy of look the value of a naval-station in the middle of the North Pacific Ocean. German influence ranks third at Honolulu, but it is predominant in the Samoan Islands. No doubt these matters of the Pacific Ocean will be settled agreeably to all parties concerned.

De Mail Courant (Conservative), A 1sterdam, Holland.-According to advices from Washington, the Annexationists have lost all hope. The common-sense of the American people has therefore gained another victory.

FOREIGN MATTERS.

The Panama Scandal still continues to occupy space in the European papers, and the German Military Bill is as hotly discussed as ever.

In France, the Protestants evince considerable interest in the concessions which Rome

has made to the French Democracy.

A Branch of the House of Orange is about to return to the Roman Catholic Faith.

The Italian Government has lost heavily by the licensed lottery during the Pope's Jubilee.

The winter vacation of the Dutch Chambers has been shortened on account of the many important questions which will have to be settled during the present session. The Houses met in the last week of February. Among the matters under discussion are the Universal Suffrage Bill, and the affairs of the Zuyder Zee Company. The ever-increasing deficiency in the Colonial Budget and the continual attacks upon the Government coffee-monopoly will probably lead to a total change in the adminis

tration of the East Indian possessions of Hol- The Committee ought to have advised the little favor with them now as it did last year, but acceptance of one of the proposed amend- they do not stand as solidly against all extenments. It is said that two such amendments

land.

This

were handed in, one by M. Richter and the sion of the franchise. Such anti-revolutionary
other by M. de Benningsen. Both reduced members as Deputy Pierson are not altogether
the new forces demanded to a sensible number. | against a revision of the present law.
M. Richter's motion was rejected. M. Ben- gentleman says in the Standaard (Anti-Revolu-
ningsen chose to withdraw his, expecting a
tionary). Amsterdam:
like defeat. It is very curious that Chancellor
von Caprivi defended his Bill in such energetic
manner, and refused to listen to the reasonable
propositions which were made to him. It
seems almost as if the Government had made
up its mind to encourage the opposition in
their resistance, especially the Ultramontanes,
who as yet will not vote without compensa-
tion. The worst is that this obstinacy of the
Chancellor and the Minister of War has caused
After three months
a waste of precious time.
of useless debating the matter stands just as
before.

THE PANAMA SCANDAL. Kölnische Zeitung, Cologne, Germany.-A Frenchman has published a paper at Berlin, entitled "The Truth About Panama." That the author is really a Frenchman is sufficiently proven by his style, which shows that he thought in the French language and translated He writes to dehis thoughts into German. fend his countrymen against unjust attacks. As we cannot be accused of giving away to race-hatred in this case, we give a few sentences of the opening pages of the pamphlet: I have learned to love the Germans during the long time which I have stayed in their country. They show honesty and thoroughness in all things to a degree which is not reached by my countrymen in these qualities. But I would free the French people from the accusation that they are identical with the crew of pirates which has been enabled to bring dishonor upon our nation by sailing under the colors of the noble Charles de Lesseps. The French Nation is honest, and will remain honest. Yet we will never know the full extent of roguerying a closer relation with French Democracy. which has been practiced. Arton will not be It is not Papacy" which does so, but only found until the political spies on his track have the present Pope. There are three principal obtained from him all his papers, by fair reasons for this: A historical cause, an econommeans or foul. The police do not want to ical cause, and a moral cause. The historical find him because he has it in his power to bring cause is the constant renewal of society. The the chief rogues to justice. When these proofs peril which the Church incurred from the Rehave been taken from him he will be taken public has disappeared since the clergy have and sentenced as a peace-offering to the Na- allied itself with the Pope, and the clergy had tion. But he will not be caught until the means to do this because their old defenders, the to destroy the republican form of government aristocracy, have died out. have been taken from him."

Panama business.

of similar schemes.

LUXEMBOURG.

ROME AND THE FRENCH

RACY.

I am not against Universal Suffrage, and would willingly extend the franchise even to women. I also think that orphans have a right to be represented through their guardians. But the simple qualifications demanded in the Van Tak motion do not seem to me sufficient to prove the ability of a voter to grasp questions of national interest.

De Tijd (Rotterdam) advocates extension of the franchise to all, but would give additional votes to property holders.

Edward van Hoffmann, the well-known DEMOC-writer and philosopher, has created some sensation by a scheme in which he adjusts the voting-power of each individual with great Le Signal (Protestant), Paris.—The [Roman] nicety. Thus one vote is to be given to a citiChurch does not at all commit itself by seek-zen at twenty-one, another at thirty-five, another at fifty-three years of age. An additional vote is to be given to a married man, because the cares of a family necessitate sober habits, and the means expended in keeping house contribute directly to national prosperity. Another vote is to be added for military service, because experience has proved that military men are more patriotic than others. High intellectual development should entitle to some influence in the legislation of the country. M.

The second cause is that democracy needs a moral force in its social and economical revolution. This force

supremacy.

The moral cause is what we

von Hoffmann would therefore reward men of

extra vote.

Nothing

He intended to cast

letters, of science, and of learning, with an La Epoca (Liberal), Madrid, Spain. It offers itself to the Democrats in the form of would hold as many as twelve votes. In this way some individuals There appears to be impossible for the French Depu- the Church, and they fancy it can be used is a good deal of common sense in all this," ties to perform their duties honestly if any says the Handelsblad; “such a system would temptation is put in their way, as in this entirely for their own ends in their struggle for It has already been con- should like to call " Gambettism" or positivism.dinary one-man-one-vote system. be more just to individual merit than the ortemplated to exclude in future from the Cham-Science has become the idol of the present illustrates this better than the story told of an bers all members of syndicates, all promoters generation and has taken the place of sound ex-President of the United States, a man who moral philosophy. But the Church is willing had served his country in many ways during to enrol science among its allies. All these a period of fifty years. BETHROTHAL OF THE DUKE OF things unite to bring about a lasting peace be- his vote at some election, and had ordered his tween French society and Rome. We have, coach. Before entering it, however, he asked however, a profound conviction that the former his colored coachman : Nieuws van den Dag (Conservative), Amster-will become the dupe of the latter, although dam, Holland.-While the people of Luxem we are pleased to be told that neither French bourg, who are for the most part Roman Democracy nor Young France intend to bow Catholics, rejoice in the bethrothal of the to the Pope's slipper. Hereditary Grand Duke with the Princess of Braganza, the Germans are not very much pleased with it. The Conservative Reichsbote, a paper which is extensively read at Court, writes as follows: "It is presumed that the Duke has given his consent that any children which may be born to them shall be brought up in the Roman Catholic faith. Thus the House of Orange will return to the Romish Church, unmindful that its founders fought, suffered, and died for the propagation of Protestantism."

THE ITALIAN LOTTERY.
De Mail Courant (Conservative), Amsterdam,
Holland.-The Pope's Jubilee costs the Italian
It was to be
Government a pretty penny.
expected that such a rare occurrence would be
made use of by the Lotto-players. The two
numbers which represent the age of the Pope
and the years which he has been a bishop were
played in every possible combination.
people jostled each other at the lottery-offices,
and nearly every one played the "ambo
50-83. And the incredible has happened
these numbers have won. Signor Grimaldi
nevertheless pays his large debts without a
pang. He knows that most of the money will
return to him in the form of new stakes.

AFFAIRS IN HOLLAND.

The

THE GERMAN ARMY BILL. Magdeburger Zeitung (Liberal), Germany.Sometimes it has been a good thing for us that our German thoroughness prevents all hasty action on the part of our legislators. But in this important matter all delay must be injurious. We cannot agree with those who think that the fate of the Bill is entirely in the hands First and foremost to-day stands the Uniof the Centre Party. If only the other great versal Suffrage Question. The Government Parties would do their duty, then the Government will not be forced to obtain the means is determined to have this matter settled and necessary to strengthen the Empire by mak-threatens to dissolve the Chambers if no defiing concessions to Rome. If the other Parties nite settlement can be arrived at during the stand united, we need not fear that Romish atpresent session. tempts to rule in Germany will ever be successful. It is, however, pleasant to record the increase of meetings in favor of the Bill. May the patriotic citizens everywhere remember that upon our strength alone rests the safety of the Empire.

L'Independance Belge (Liberal), Brussels.— It is not quite clear why the Committee of the Reichstag has positively refused to advise the increase of the effective forces of the Empire.

Will you also vote to-day, Sam?'
Yes, sah!'

May I ask for whom?'

Certingly, sah, fo' Mr. X.'

Well, you may unharness the horses. We can both remain at home, for I intended to vote for Y.""

There is surely something wrong in a system which allows a common laborer who has just come of age and pays no taxes to neutralize the vote of a citizen of experience who has served his country in the highest capacity.

THE ZUYDER ZEE COMPANY.

The Zuyder Zee Company, which will ask to be incorporated during the present session, does not seem to have all plain sailing. The failure of the Panama Company has made peo

ple extremely careful. Although it is now
generally admitted that it is not impossible to
shut off the bay by a dike, and thus reclaim
the province from the ocean, yet engineers
of note think that the estimates of the cost
have been too low.
do the work gradually. The income from the
Mr. Treslong advises to
reclaimed land, he thinks, would then pay in-
terest upon the capital expended at an early
date, and make a Dutch Panama impossible.

De Mail Courant says: The Royal Institute The Liberals support Van Tak's Bill, which of Engineers and Professor Huet break anproposes to extend the right to vote to all male other lance in favor of the project to lead the Hollanders above the age of twenty-one, pro-water of the Yssel through one large channel to vided they can read and write and have never the North Sea. This would make again a seaof Amsterdam, in the true sense of the port been sentenced to states-prison. word. But the people seem to have lost all

The argu

ments in favor of this Bill are neither new nor
The Conservatives show a great
striking.
want of unity. Van Tak's Bill indeed finds as

hope of ever regaining the trade which has been absorbed by Hamburg and Bremen since the establishment of the German Empire.

There are not wanting persons who strongly advocate a Customs Union with Germany, and only the fear that the national independence would be jeopardized prevents closer relations with the larger country.

CANADIAN AFFAIRS.

THE FRENCH-CANADIAN EXODUS.

OBITUARY.

ELLIOTT F. SHEPARD.

New York World, March 26.-The FrenchCanadians continue coming over the border in great multitudes. There are nearly as many of them and their descendants in this country as there are in the French Province of Quebec. The immigrants are driven out of their native country by poverty. This movement does not necessarily mean annexation, for annexation cannot be accomplished without the consent of both sides. Canada cannot be taken in after the manner of the attempt recently made on the Sandwich Islands. Annexation would benefit the farmers of Quebec by opening the markets of this country to their agricultural products, but it would not make their soil more fruitful or inspire the people themselves to adopt modern and better modes of agriculture. It is yet to be determined, too, whether the Union wants a State dominated by the French sentiment and law of the 17th century and by a quasi-state church. The French Canadians become in time good citizens. When they first make their appearance in the States they are venal and easily and willingly become the tools of corrupt political bosses. In time, as their prosperity increases, they become more jealous and regardful of their rights and duties. PAYMENT OF MEMBERS OF PARLIA- departments, and the wonder is that his sucThey are industrious, sober, and frugal, admirable mechanics, and docile and skillful operatives in factories. There is no objection to their coming to this country; whether we want an independent State having the population of Quebec is, however, quite another question.

MENT.

at his

been presented in the Dominion Parliament | by successive Reform acts, have been made to incorporate the company in that country, electors, but not themselves eligible to office. and a bill is in the New York Legislature to Once let a stipend equaling or exceeding the incorporate it on this side. The territory average earnings of such hard-working men be through which the canal will run on this side paid to a member of Parliament, and the trethe national line is all in New York, hence no mendous political and social significance of the charter need be asked of the United States. measures giving to poor men a preponderance This looks like a deep-laid plan to head off the in the British electorate will become visible. movement of the American lake shipping interests for a Government canal connecting the lakes with the Hudson river, and thus with the seaboard. The seheme would simply compel the ship companies to pay such tolls as the company saw fit to impose. That the lake boats should have free access to the seaboard through American territory is not a matter Brooklyn Eagle, March 25.-To sum him up. which concerns the Northwest alone, but of would be as difficult as to carry the plus and grave importance to the nation at large. With minus functious of ideal algebra into applied a free waterway these boats would convey to arithmetic. To set forth all his qualities or all the seaboard, and many of them to Europe, his typical actions would be a tabulation of one-third of the corn, small grain, and flour of paradoxes. His efficiency in journalism was the United States, at rates which would be a due to his energy, fertility, and optimism. His wholesome check upon the grasp of railway corerrors in it were due to a want of training un. porations. It would afford a European market der severe authority, to an incapacity to perfor all this and the product of the industries of ceive the relative values of issues and, we the West and Middle States of vast importance, surmise, to an absolute destitution of that and which could be built up in no other way. corrective sense of proportion, which comes A toll system means simply a blockade to from imagination and humor. A managing such a traffic. The Dominion owns all its editor could have got good work out of him; canals, and they are free waterways to all but no managing editor could be Canadian ship-owners, and will ever be main- best under him. A city editor who could tained as such. With a toll system on our have turned him loose within the large side the Canadian ships would shut out our but distinct limits of an "assignment" ships from the business of both countries. could have secured excellent results from him. But he was projected on journalism without experience either in its business or its other cess was so marked and his mistakes so easily discounted. A fine business habit, derived New York Tribune, March 26.-The prog- from the law and from the care of great propress of democratic reform in England is in-erties, he had, and his paper and his associates. dicated by the passage of a resolution by the profited by it. The new journalism of selfCommons in favor of compensating Members respecting, saving, and independent minds. of Parliament for their legislative services. was distinctly forwarded by him. The disThe resolution was introduced by a Radical, appearing journalism of Bohemianism, rum, and was adopted by a vote of 276 to 229. The debts, " levies," "strikes," and of periodiChicago Herald March 25.-Canadian Pro- proposal to pay salaries to Members of Parlia- cal devices to flank perennial impecuniosity tectionists are being sorely tried by dissenters ment will be bitterly denounced in England by found no consideration at his hands. in their ranks. Dalton McCarthy, M. P., those who are in sympathy with the old order. always just and he was generous when he dehitherto a prominent member of the Tory party, They will regard the innovation as an unerring sired to be on his paper. The desire was not has just struck terror to the hearts of the tariff indication of the intellectual and moral de- infrequent. The political, religious, society, thieves by attacking in Parliament the Protec- cadence of Parliament. Trust the people!" and home life of the man have become known tive system which he himself had supported exclaimed John Bright at the close of one through his newspaper life, for he was as comfor fifteen years. While deprecating an imme- of the finest speeches on reform legisla- municative about himself as the world was diate return to Free Trade, he made an earnest tion. That is the effective reply which curious about him. Toward the last his Reappeal for a substantial reduction of duties Mr. Gladstone and the Radicals can make publicanism was taking on the quality of an upon all necessaries, particularly on articles of to Tory criticism over Parliamentary salaries. appreciation of the good which Grover Clevefarmer consumption. Speeches and resolutions The present system of unsalaried representa- land is minded to do to government in Amerwere quoted to prove that not even the found- tion favors wealth, rank, and social class. It ica, as well as a realization of the necessity of ers of the Canadian Protective tariff regarded discriminates against the masses, whose per- radical reforms within the opposition party. such a policy as economically sound or as sonal representatives cannot afford to sit in His adhesion to Presbyterianism was unquesanything more than a temporary political Parliament without receiving compensation for tionably as sincere as it was conspicuous. expedient. The protected interests having their time and service. The democracy reigns, long since reached the stage of combination but it does not govern. It will govern as well for the purpose of extorting abnormal prices as reign when the seats at Westminster cease from consumers, Mr. McCarthy inquires to be reserved for titled gentlemen and plutowhether it is not time to let these favored ones crats of the middle class. That is the view conduct their business without the aid of which Radical England takes of the matter capital filched from the public. He thinks that when it cries out: Employ and pay the repif after fourteen years of pampering at the ex-resentatives of the people! Traditions and pense of the people an industry cannot con- precedents may be violated, but the English tinue upon its own merits it is proof positive people will inevitably be more directly and that it ought not to exist at all. Trim and adequately represented in a salaried Parliament hedge as he will, the spirit and logic of this than they are now at Westminster. Whoever latest rebel in the tariff camp are those of has an abiding faith in popular government Free Trade. His special plea for a preferential and representative institutions will welcome tariff upon British imports and the apparent the change. desire to compromise with powerful interests which now cling to their privilege of robbing New York Sun, March 27.-The most consumers as one of divine right are the mere wiles of the politician. These inconsistencies may well be overlooked and forgiven in a political leader who has the courage to stand apart from his partisan friends and denounce the Protective tariff as a blunder and a crime.

A TORY CONVERT FROM PROTECTION.

KIRBY SMITH.

He was

New York Times, March 29. General Smith was the last survivor of the seven distinguished generals of the Confederate army, and the last of the list of full generals on both sides. He was appointed a brigadier in the Confederate army under Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, and was badly wounded while leading his. brigade into action at the first battle of Mañassas. Made major-general in 1862, he was transferred to East Tennessee and placed in command of that department. Under General Bragg he led the advance in the invasion of Kentucky, and routed the Union forces. at Richmond, in that State, advancing to generous proposal yet put forward, namely, Frankfort. Promoted to the grade of LieutenMr. Labouchere's, contemplates giving a ant-General, he engaged in the battle at PerryBritish legislator only $3.75 a day. Small ville and Murfreesborough. He was then as such a stipend may appear to the relatively placed in command of the trans-Mississippi overpaid lawmakers of the United States, it department, opposing General Banks in his will suffice to revolutionize the character of Red River campaign and engaging in the battle the House of Commons. Followed, as it of Jenkins Ferry. He was the last to surrender unquestionably will be, by an act throwing the forces under his command, May 25, 1865. the cost of elections either on the constituen- After the war closed he became President of cies or the imperial exchequer, it will for the the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company, first time in centuries make poor men through- but in 1870 he found more congenial occupaout Great Britain entirely eligible to the national tion as Chancellor of the University of Nashlegislature. Heretofore, the small shopkeeper, ville, which five years later he resigned for the artisan, the mill hand, the agricultural the professorship he held at the time of his laborer, who have been nominally enfranchised death.