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Show Right for Them to Celebrate T T was good for the Democrats to celebrate Jackson's day. Their party is in power. Their president has shown a disposition to see that to the victor belongs the spoils. This has not only reference to the lesser offices entirely,- but the president has extended it to tho diplomatic service, and Mr. Bryan is credited with saying that no preliminary training is required for a foreign for-eign minister. The tariff bill is passed. It is too soon to judge the effects of that measure. The country expected a reduction in the tariff for several reasons; rea-sons; one was the belief that the manufacturers of the country were obtaining too much profit and were vitiating the principle upon which the protective pro-tective tariff originated in this country. The people peo-ple expected there would be reductions in that line and voted for it not only in 1902, but four years before. But when tho Democrats got at work they forgot the pledge they made year before be-fore last and directly attacked the industries which promised to save immense amounts or money to the country and to give thousands of men employment who needed employment. It is too soon to judge what the effect of that legislation legisla-tion will be. The income tax which has been passed is a good law. It may need some amending, but it is a good law and would have been passed long ago except there was a doubt abf' ( its constitutionality, constitution-ality, and there was a tacit understanding that there would be no law of that kind passed until the supreme court had passed upon the principle behind it, and whether its enforcement should be by th,e government or the federal power. The currency bill cannot yet be judged. Tho old law made it possible for a combine of bankers bank-ers in the eastern cities to practically control the business of the United States, to bring on panics when it pleased, and, in order to carry out a personal graft, to distress tho whole country. Whether the now law will cure that we cannot tell. We all hope it will. A great many arc afraid that under the new law there will bo a still further expansion of speculation, still higher prices, a kind of carnival among second-rate financiers, but that as yet is untried. M And so it is natural for the Democracy this M now year to bo exultant, to praise tho principles jH of their party and to rejoice over the change which has placed their party in power. Wo shall M all know more in another year. Wo hoar a great 1 deal about President Wilson's policy toward IHI Mexico. Wo can see no change in it ovdr that M pursued by President Taft, except that Presidont Wilson has directly interfered in his opposition M to one man and has been snubbed by him for it, and for his demand for a fair and constitutional M election in a land where there are nine half-sav- ages to one enlightened person. Just nt present in that land the killing off of the people is going M on at a rate which ought to insure exhaustion M after a little more, and perhaps furnish a basis fl upon which a peaceful intervention may be of- M At this writing tho country seems to be quiet, E and moreover tho majority of tho people seom willing to give all the policy of tho president and H his chief leaders in the house a chanco to win out, a fair trial on merit, Perhaps a year hence M the Democracy may still exultantly celebrate tho H coming of Jackson day, but our fear is that they M have more cause for rejoicing this year than they H will next, and that fear is grounded on the fact jH that the practical statesmen who through bus I- M ness experience have learned the effects of cer- IH tain laws on a country's industries, and how those M Industries will be directly affected by the changes H which have been brought about have been ig- M nored by men who have had no practical expert- M ence in life, but who have treated politics as they M would any theme upon which they were called M to write an essay. M Finally we notice that tho proposition is to M celebrate Mr. Lincoln's birthday. We confess M that that seems more cheeky than anything we M ever read, but perhaps it is Washington's birth- M day rather than Lincoln's that they propose to M celebrate. That they can do safely, because all M Americans can endorse the principles that gave M to George Washington a character so stately that M it stands out pre eminent among not only the H great men of his own country, but of the world. H |