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Show SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. The Alliance anJ .Socialism. Tor ek 1 Stato Journal. It may be and probably is true, that the majority of the Kansas farmers who are in the alliance are not socialists. They arc not ready to believe that the srovevnment ought to oivn end manage all the means of production produc-tion and distribution. There is not one in ten of the alliance farmers in Kansas who v.ouid riant to give up his farm to the government gov-ernment and hold it only us a tenant; but nevertheless the alliance is socialistic in its tendencies. It wants the government to control the railroads and eventually to own them; it wants the government to build granaries for wheat and corn, and it wants the government to do the banking business of the country. All these are partial socialism. social-ism. They are the lirst three steps toward it. So far as this, most of the alliance tanners tann-ers are willing to go; hut their leaders arc socialists to tin: core. Quay oa the War rath. Piiilad bilii.i Press. Senator Quay shows a proper sensitiveness aud a just sense of what is due to his position posi-tion in bringing suit against the newspapers, which have maligned him in connection with the Bard-ley due bill. A court of law is the proper tribunal in which to redrtss grievances of this sort. The notion that prevailed pre-vailed only recently that it is beneath the dignity of a public man to resent newspaper attacks upon his character has been prcttv effectually dissipated by the overwhelming evidence of the damage" to reputation which the policy of silence in the face of compromising compro-mising charges can inllict. The only rational ration-al course for a public man is to meet every charge that confronts him, promptlv, fear-lissly fear-lissly and effectively. A ft out ana Convention. Bntte Miner. The press of the state should not cease the agitation for a state irrigation convention until the convention has been called. The Salt Lake meeting has been followed by state conventions in neighboring commonwealths. common-wealths. The subject isone of grave importance, im-portance, and as Montana is a candidate for the next national irrigation convention, the least she can do is to shov,-a pu''l'c grjjrjteil interest m !! suhWt . miiiittiis iTrt-tinTt.-TTmproV!1't; hcr with agricultural rcouixff Ma.-.-.rpesscd by any state in the union. The - state convention conven-tion should be called. Effects of Reciprocity in Trade. New York Prcs-. The effect of the reciprocity clause in the new tariff is shown by the machinery export trade with Brazil. Since April last 123 locomotives loco-motives have been sold to Brazil ly the Baldwin v.-orks of Philadelphia. The airsre-jrate airsre-jrate value of machinery exports to Brazil from April to Auirust this year is ?'2t,104, as contrasted with $211,21 for the same period in IH'M. AVill Ivoep Blaine Busy. St. Lo-.i:s Globe-Democrat. Secretary Blaine's chief business for the next few months will Ixj the arrancrins: of reciprocity treaties. Several countries of the American continent arc anxious to inaKe commercial deal; v.itli ut, Mexico being among the number. |