| Show SOME EDITORIAL COMMENTS Boston Herald Chairman Aldrich of the senate and Chairman Disney of the I house appear to be very wide apart on the question of the adequacy of the tariff law to yield rsvenue for the support of the 1 government A conference committee i would seem to be in order I Philadelphia Ledger The president in his extraordinary long message makes no recommendation no suggestion to congress con-gress in respect to providing adequate revenue for the government except byway 1 by-way of borrowing it on a new kind of bonds By his unqualified approval of the Dingtey act and his absolute avoidance of any mention of or reference to the fact that the tariff instead of producing a surplus is inflicting a monthly deficit of MOuOOOQ the president seems to indicate that he is not seriously Impressed by a condition which is regarded as one of I vital gravity by the representatives of the countrys great business interest I Chicago Record These are questions which cannot be avoided and yet which are immensely difficult to answer Whether or not it is true as has been i urged that the American occupation of these islands involves a dangerous expansion ex-pansion of the American policy deprives the nation of its detached independence and thrusts it into the embroilment of international l in-ternatIonal interests the questions relat i lag solely to the internal life l of Hawaii i gufgls rnlntt l le h i 1 would bo sufficient to give the legislators i pause It may be assumed from the sudden I sud-den change in their attitude that they I I have awakened at last to the nature of I the Task in hand and are likely to delay If they do not actually thwart the presi dsnts effort for annexation i Nashville American The Georgia senate sen-ate is considering a bill to prohibit the sale and manufacture of cigarettes in that state It is strange that any legislative body should not be familiar with the rata of such laws in other states The very recent experiment in Tennessee and the decision of the federal courts that it was not valid should at least be before their eyes Baltimore American The battleship Kearsage is to be launched and there are two ladles in the field and that means I more trouble It is as bad as the Kentucky Ken-tucky case and as it has just becun it I will be well to watch the fun In the I hope of peace the American offers a suggestion sug-gestion Let congress give the christening christen-ing of ships to the most beautiful woman in the land Lovely women give good luck to the craft The sailors like It The country will profit by it Of course this plan would confine the heroines of the launches to Maryland hut our girls would bravely try to sorve the nation New York Evening Post To omit to provide sufficient revenue after it is officially offi-cially declared to be Inadequate Is to do the country a grievous wrong Is to throttle throt-tle currency reform to chill business to discourage enterprise to alarm foreign capital seeking investment here niiet first nsJe main business of congress to make the treasury solvent and put an end to the deadly Dingley deficit |
