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Show bill having been savej from unnecessary unneces-sary (lunger by th.it patriotic, common seme rule, causes the public) to feel all the mora grateful to Mr. limni. Th people aro very well satisfied with the law, they are convinced that Ki:ed'3 ruling") were right, ami the more the democrats seek to condemn both the more earnest will bo public approval of both. THK M'KIiVLKY LAW. The IhruJd says that Mt KiM.KV "is a candidate iu defiance of tho overwhelming over-whelming condemnation given to that measure (his tariff bill) by the American Ameri-can people last November." In view of the fact that every charge by which the democrats misled the people last Movembor has been disproved, it is scarcely iu order to say that the bill w as condemned. The free traders indulged in-dulged in a campaign of the most monstrous mon-strous falsehoods ever put forth in a political po-litical contest, and they succeeded in cre.ating a stampede am "ig the vote's. Iiut thu memory of the deception practiced prac-ticed iu the last election will have a marked effect in that which is now approaching, ap-proaching, and it is not likdy that a single rrpubiic.au who voted with the demonrats under tho scare following the enactment of tho Mi Kini.ey law will refuse to voto with his party this year. Then, the new law is proving to be one of tho most beneficent ever enacted by tho American congress. Coder il, the general average of prices of tho common com-mon ueoessariu8 is being lowered wiuie domestic manufacture is being stimulated. stimu-lated. New factories are springing up and old ones aro being enlarged. Tho j opportunities for labor are being widened and tho home market for American Amer-ican products h being broadened. The law has justified itseif. Lvery one of the multitude of shameless democratic falsehoods of last year has been exploded, ex-ploded, and the freo trade party is left W ithout a plank to stand on. But the lUrulil thinks the measure must bo bad because of "Czar Herd " It condemns his rulings and iusists that tho bill was erowded through for tho purpose of oppressing the country. It is truo that 11 bed's rulirfgs gave the bill great assistance. The democrats had determined to defeat tho measure by indirection, and if it had not been for tho firmness firm-ness of tho speaker the conspirators might have succeeded ia shelving it by their filibustering tactics. The rulings of 1 liEF.i), under which men present ia tho house wero counted whether they voted j or not, have met with tho approval of probably nine-tenths of the American people; and the fact of the AlcKlNLf i |