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Show n AS OTHERS SEE US. If, we ns a nation could get rid of a littlo of our monstrous, swollen egotism, ego-tism, It would be worth a great deal to u,.'fihancinlly, morally, educationally nnd fn every other way. We nre cut off from tho rest of the world. All that we see of Germany, France and England Is in tho poor emigrants who, falling to make n living in their own coufitry, come hltherward nnd the avenge American seeing them, Blip-poccn Blip-poccn that he knows Englishmen, Ger-mtuM Ger-mtuM nnd Frenchmen. Tho immo mny bo Bald with reference to Cliinn nr.d Japan. Our newspapers and tuperfi-cialravelera tuperfi-cialravelera abroad come bnck with theuamo flntterlng story. They arc usually homesick and they .tell us that AmMca is good enough for them; then emphasize how much bitter it Is than any other place in tho world. It la of course better in somo respects. Tho natural resources nnd wages, owing to exclusion, nre better hero than in any other county, but there is an immciue deal tor us to knrn aLrond, if it were poatlblo for us to escape our provincialism provin-cialism nnd see oumolvcs ns others see JTake for example, tho tariff question yrli(rh Is now before the country nnd in VrMclTovery man, woman nnd child In America is interested although few of thm know It. Germany appointed a scientific tariff commission nnd from it evolved a tnrlir law which is fast dis- ' tributing German wares nnd mnnufnc- taresnill over the world nnd is exciting tlwjenvy of Europe and erpccially cf dreat Rritain, tho country that has heretofore had a monopoly of tho Wjfjd's trade. Dut whin tho same pkm of n tariff commission for tho United States was suggested by Scnu-toriBavoridgo Scnu-toriBavoridgo of Indiana, a year ago, it was silently smothered in Congres', each member of which feels responsi ble? as he will doubtless bs held by his eeMtitucntH, for thu particular selfish Interests represented In his district. JWlsit will bo the course of revision MCongrcss Is already apparent With M Interest insisting on the mainten-Smmw mainten-Smmw of the schedules that affect It and jMpWing for reduction of the duties ! affect somo other locality, there jp such pulling at cross purposes iiUpfc.'i'hat in tho cr.d we will have a ttriff bill not ono whit belter than tho one it is supposed to supercede. Senator Elkins is not distinguished for wit, but he said thu oilier day that wo were all anxious to revise the other fc'Iow's tariff. This is the wholo story. The beet and cane sugar men in Louisiana Louis-iana nnd tho northwest want the tariff i on sugar sustained or increased. Am-eriran Am-eriran millionaires who own Cuban ' sugar plantations wont n reduction of , lio larm; and fo it is all over the country. Massachusetts, with her hundreds hun-dreds of shoo machlncB, wants a free importation of leather und hides from Br.zil, Argentina and Mexico, but the ' western people, a thousand timCH more numerous than the operatives in tho fchoe chops of Massachusetts, want thu .tariff on shorn removed ho that thuy and their children may have cheaper foot wear. All tho rest of tho country j wants freo Iron nnd a'col, but IVnnsyl-,van'a, IVnnsyl-,van'a, West Virginia nnd Northern Alabama insist on maintaining the present taiiff. The Miiculties of a proper udjustment nppcar indeed to be I insuperable. A committee of experts j would doubtless draft n moro ripiitnble tariff bill than would be possible in the jprciont Congress, but after ull tho bill would not bo enacted except through tho medium of thia Congress, und there you arc. |