Show SOME EDITORIAL COMMENTS St Louis GlobeDemocrat It Is absurd ab-surd that ally of the senators should be ruining I their health by an ansry discus fCI ri lb f rt1e fC lhne rt atoll or the tariff bill The result is certain cer-tain and the remaining details should be easily arranged Louisville CourierJournal And it Is a i A < > Republican senate which rejects a specIfic spe-cIfic and levies an ad valorem duty on hides What becomes of all those eloquent elo-quent Republican denunciations of the democratic abomination ad valorem duties Baltimore Sun Sneaker Reeds name has been mentioned In connection with the proposed game of baseball between members of the house and senate As Mr Reed never plays second fiddle on any occasion it Is probable nothing short of the lofty position of umpire and master of the match woUld satisfy his exalted fame Boston Herald General Master Workman Work-man Sovereign saY5r Utopia Is a nightmare night-mare and that Debs1 alunntlc The only salvation of the workjngmen In his opln ion is to be found within the ranks of tne Knights of Labor Annie Besant on the other hand allows that the Utopian commonwealth may ultimately be estab lished but not untfl theosophy Is accepted ac-cepted as the poor mans creed All of which sees to illustrate the fact that people who ride hobbies find It very difficult diffi-cult to rcognize any Use In any but their own Philadelphia RecorU The duty on borax of 4 cents a sound Is equivalent to an advaiorem rate of 425 per cent This was one of the tax t demanded by Sena tor Jones of Nevada as the price of his support of the tariff bill The tax Is laid in the Interest of the Pacific Borax company com-pany a monopoly largely controlled by English Investors and as the amount of borax used in this country is over 20000000 pounds it will put a fereat deal of money in the sockets of the enterprising stock holders of that corporation Ths borax tax ought to be dubbed a tax on washerwomen washer-women I New York TI erhat President Mc Kinley Is a man of tact is shown by his letter to Queen Victoria upon the occasion oc-casion of her jubilee It Is customary to conclude official lettes and proclama tions from the president with the words Done at Washington this day of A D 1S37 and in the year of the inde nendence of the United States the one hundred and twentyfirst or whatever the year may be But in President Mc Kinleys letter to the oueen only the words are used Done at Washington this twentyeighth day of May A D 1S97 I the reference to our Independence being omitted Perhaps Mr McKinley thought that It might be an unpleasant reminder to the venerable and respected lady known affectionately but rather familiar ly to Tommy Atkins and his compan ions as the Widdy |