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Show once upon a tariff, and yet frewtrade orators and newspapers, with owllike owl-like gravity, repeat Cleveland's assertion asser-tion mat lue uritf is responsible for trusts, and that free trade would render such combinations iuipossibls or unprovable. un-provable. Why Wot Annas Eaglaad. Albany Express. ..... ..v. There is a great deal of talk about toe Tuited States annexing Canada. Why should we not go further and aunex Ennland? TD "mother country" is .'.-tin,? in a Lad way. while the off-tonug off-tonug is stalwart and lusty. Vr e think we are snoot; euough "to whip all creation." At auy rate no other power , cares to tackle toe republic, and if we i should take poor oid England under j our wing it would escape uiauy of the i stings and arrows of outrageous fortune. I aajr I w Mistake. i Dflnver Sto k T.n hanK Journal. 1'residcnt layior says that the trans-MinsiMippi trans-MinsiMippi conKress made a big mistake when it passsd the resolution favoring free coinage of the American product only, He nays that their action provoked pro-voked considerable mirth throughout the sa.M, and is regarded there virtually a an olier of compromise with the gold bill's, and an evidence that the west is nut sincere in itd dumand for the restoration restor-ation of the white metal. Allka la Ttr Things, Philadelphia l'ri-s. Siavin and Sullivan are alike In two things; their surname begins with the same initial letter, and they have the siime capaeity for getting drunk and acting as disreputably as possible under un-der the circumstances. Pugilists in their lighter moments prove themselves to be but little higher than the beasts. Bj.' ton News. Although in thestmgglejbctween Hip-polyte Hip-polyte and Legitime the United States sympathized with the former, hit present pres-ent course is such that be must be condemned con-demned as a cruel and inhuman ruler, whose acts place him outside the palo of civilization. SPIHIT OF THE "PRESS. Tlie PcuiIob List. New York Press. The democratic organs, in their strenuous stren-uous efforts to create a pauio over pensions and tho surplus, studiously ignore ig-nore the fact that iu 1807 tho interest charges on tho bonded debt were $113,-000,00(1 $113,-000,00(1 and the ponsion cbargd only $'.'0,OO0,0J0; thai the soldiers afterward waited while the bondholders were being be-ing paid; that the iuterest on the public pub-lic debt is now $2(3.000,000, while the pensions amount to $132.0:10,000. If it were not for the soldiers tho bouds would have been worthless, and yet the soldiers are receiving annually in principal prin-cipal less thau the iuterest on the bonded debt twenty-four years ago. And this result is nil a part of the republican re-publican policy which withheld what was meet when il was necessary for the couutry; which now gives freely, it is true, but ungrudgingly, for to these soldiers and to this party is due a national credit which is uow highest among tho nations of tho world. Tha democratio calamity editors will find it as difficult to destroy this credit as they have totind it impossible to alter republican principle and purpose. Protaetiotl In the South. nttaburg Commercial Gazette. Southern men of u'.i sections recog- m.e that protection u indispensable to tho growth arid prosperity of that country, coun-try, aud it is only by reason of past political po-litical conditions that they have been slow iu moving in that direction, as it will involve a cutting loose from the democracy on national issues. But in tho end business interests will prove to be stronger than party prejudice or political po-litical 'reminiscence, and material development de-velopment under a protective tariff will bo the rock which will cleave the southern south-ern democracy. A writer in the At-lauta At-lauta Constitution speaks of a factory in Home, (la., that is turning outSiO bundles of JO cotton ties each daily, and says they could sell twice as many as they can make. "We can make them cheaper than thev ran :n either Ohio or Pennsylvania. Tho McKinley bill has helped us out in this considerably, but our people down here dou't like us to say mat." Trnsts and the Tariff. San Francisico Chronicle. It is a familiar principle that it is impossible im-possible to prove a negative, and therefore there-fore it caunnt be demonstrated that trusts would not exist under any tariff conditions, but that is a very different proposition from the free trade assertion asser-tion that trusts exist only because of a protective tariff. We have shown that one trust ccrtaiuly exists in au article which is on the free list, and it has been shown time and time again that such trusts as the Standard oil trust, Ine cottonseed oil trust and many others oth-ers cau have no connection or depend- |