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Show SPIRIT OF THa PHESS. Tl. rolltloaL Agitation. Lottan Paily Nation. About the only subject discussed now in Sait x-ake City is the new political movement. The Tim lis has Hepped forward with marked ability as the champion of republican principles, while the Herald has passed to the control con-trol of gentile democrats and is loud and eloipieut in the cause of democracy. democ-racy. The Tribune skulks with wet powder and a broken sword behind the crumbling walls of the liberal ramparts ram-parts and is diligently striving to ward olf the bsfs aud owls and various birds of ill omen. Jt is noteworthy note-worthy that so eminent a man as Judge Zane the chief justice of the supreme court of l'tah, and a man whose well poised opinions receive marked attention atten-tion both at home and abroad has declared de-clared that the proper time has arrived to establish parties on national lines. Hu stated that wheu tho manifesto was published hi gave expression to the belief that it was sincere and now that it bus proven to be so there is no just reason to dcibt the present sincerity of the mormons in offering to abandon old party methods and adapt themselves to the new conditions. The opinion of judge Zaue will have merited weight throughout the country. Jr.. Trad Ine0a.ltt.ae7. San Francisco Chronicle. A frse trade contemporary assails the Mchlinicy hill in connection with tho strike in the Dobson carpet mills, and by implication professes to be in favor of excluding foreign contract laborers from our shores. The position of our contemporary Is a false one. It cannot consistently advocate free trade and at the same time oppose the admission of foreign working men into the country. The free-trade idea is opposed to any restraint on tbe cheapening of products. So otherwise good a man as John Bright violently antagonized the factories act, which prevented the employment of children of tender years in the English cotton factories, on the ground that such legislation hampered trade, aud to the day of hit death ho tlonounced trades unionism for the same reason. It is only protectionists who logically advocate'the rights of men to organize to secure fair treatment from their employers, em-ployers, and protectionists alone can be depended upon to enact and enforce laws which will prevent the inundation of the country by foreign working men. Will B.o.tlt Utah. Aspen Times. It is plain to be seen that the political rt'Ttilsfun which has been going on in Salt Lake City will bring about a radical radi-cal change by dissolving the old liberal and people's parties, and t tie organization organiza-tion in their place, of tbe political elements ele-ments on national questions upon which the republican and democratic parties are at issue. The old parties arrayed the gentiles and mormons against each other and kept alive a bitter local strife that effected all business and social relations re-lations of the poople. The new movement move-ment is warmly supported by men of both sides who have grown tired of this rancorous division, and the new life and blood that has gone into tbe city in the city in the past few years is try ing to break up the old factional discord. Its success will do much in promoting tbe welfare of the city generally. It.nellU uf tn Mckinley TarlflT. New York Press. A practical illustration of the operations opera-tions of the McKinley tariff law is to be found in the decreasing importations of woolen manufactures and worsted goods since it went into effect. For the lira I three months of ISilO under the old law, the importations of woolen manufactures manu-factures were 1,471,400 yards, as against 1, 160. 100 yards for the first three months of 1H01, under the new law. For the same period in 1M0 the importation of worsted goods was lfi.thVl.IJOO yards, as against 7,2:MI,:)00 yards this year. The country's consumption of these goods is certainly not less, but greater, this year than last, increasing population alone would have the ellect of making larger consumption. These figures show as no argument can show the benefit ben-efit of the McKinley bill to the wage earners of tbe United Stales. K.cd Will It. Fullow.d. Butte Inter-Mountain. Congressman Buchanan, of New Jersey, Jer-sey, says in an interview that the democratic demo-cratic speaker of the next house will undoubtedly adopt the rulings of ex-Speaker ex-Speaker Heed and follow all his precedents. prece-dents. This is rich. It is a confession either that Reed was absolutely correct in his rulings, or else that tho democratic demo-cratic majority proposes to enter upon a career of injustice, bulldozing and terrorism. If Reed was right, then the democrats must admit that their objections objec-tions to bis rulings were partisan, malevolent male-volent and dishonest to the last degree. If Reed was wrong and they propose to follow him, they confess themselves to be hypocrites and demagogues aud usurpers of the most blatant and odious typo. To which charge do the free trade organs plead guilty? Th. Electoral C'ull.g., St. Louts Globe-Democrat. ' In the electoral college of 1892, which will be forty-three votes larger than tbat of 1888, 223 will be a majority. The republicans in 18S3, however, on tho smaller aggregate, had ten more votes than this number. With tho six new states, all of which, or all but one, are certain to be republican, tho party ought to be able to secure in 1HM as many electoral votes as it obtained in lc88, and doubtless it will. Th.y Will W.t It Straight. Omaha Bee. The administration is promised to have another international trouble on its hands. The Austrian government is said to intend asking for an official statement in regard to tbe coke region riots. James i. elilaine is still at the helm of the state department, and tho Austrian government can rest assured that the true state of affairs will be given. The Truth Will Oat Chicago Intr-Oc.an. O'Sullivan, the Cronin convict, is out in a talk with a contemporary protesting protest-ing his own innocence and observing that the lawyers sacrified him in order to save Coughlin and Burke from hanging. hang-ing. Some day the truth will out on this celebrated case. |