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Show SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. Relation! With CliUf. Hutta Miner. While there are many thing in connection con-nection with the performance of Minister Minis-ter Egau'a duties that reflect credit neituer upon him nor the country, there will be no division of s-ntiraonta to tho correctness of his action in this instance, in-stance, and there will be no disseutiug voice to the statement that the country should not only uphold him in the attitude atti-tude he has taken, but should demand a suitable apology for every slight put upon its representative. It i not a (tiesuon of politic at ail; it is a matter of national concern, when, through it accredited representative, the nation is insulted. A little dispute with Chile on tho high seas, though the United States would ullirnatalv come oil victorious, would servo aJmirably U show how insuiHciently this country ir equipped to maiutain it own against auy.one of the first class powers, and would awakea tho country to a realization of lae uecess.ty for placing it on a better footing iu that regard. What It Has Don.. San Francisco Cflronlcle. When tho free trader wishes to be particularly severe on protection be declars that it represses production. It is not a bad idea to examine into the matter in order to ascertain whether tho charge is correct. To begin with population, ours baa doubled since tho beginning of the protection era, that is to say, since 18U0; our national wealth has increased more than fourfold; our production of .cereals has increased nearly fourfold; of general farm product pro-duct other than cereals wo produce nearly ixfold; our manufacturing production pro-duction is over four time as great as in 1860; our railroad mileage has increasefS over fivefold; the cJ sumption of com .has increased nearlyoinefold; and our foreign commerce has grown to four times tho amount it footed up in the beginning be-ginning of the sixties. If this is not a satisfactory showing wo challenge any free trader to tell of another country that has done half as well. The Dairymen's loalng-. Kansas City Star. Tho dairymen and dairywomen come in for their full share of the prosperity of this glorious year of tho Lord, 1801. Tho exports of cheese and butter last August were 50 per cent larger than thoso of August. 181)0, aud the average value of the butter was 18 per cent greater and of cheeso 7 per cent greater, in most of tho markets of this eountry butter i now 3 to 5 cents a pound higher by wholesale, than at this time last year. This is rather bard on the city folks who have to pay for it, but it brings comfort and delight to the farmers farm-ers and their wive9, and it is high time they were having an inning. No Longer Room for Paupers. Omaha Republican. Tho loug wait and mad rush of home-seekers home-seekers into the little strip of Oklahoma land, opened to publio settlement last Tuesday, furnishes n object exemplification exemplifi-cation of the fact that the segregation period of American populatiou has arrived, ar-rived, and that immicration should be restricted to desirable classes. There is no longer room, in this country, for European paupers, criminals and leaches. In fact, there is scarcely room for all our decent people, as the Oklahoma Okla-homa rush fully deojonstrates. Tit:, to the soiL Host "in Globe. Land reformers will take notice with satisfaction that in guiding tho Oklahoma Okla-homa rush for land the government de-liues de-liues true title to the soil to reside in personal occupation, cultivation aud use. The principle ought to bo made to hold true asraicst aliens who buy up great tracts of our soil and fence it ia for more purposes of speculatioa. American T'.a. : San Francisco Bulletin. i An KugUh iuvestment of $-,000,000 in the Dakota tiu mines shows that foreign for-eign capital sees American opportunities opportuni-ties more clesirly than our own democrats demo-crats and mugwumps tvho have been s trying to persuade the public that we never will make tinware out of our j own tiu. 2 Fh.llow lrairr, St. Louis Republic. i no plowing match between the t vo candidates for governor of Maryland may not result in vrrv deep or very i straight furrows, but the furrows will certainly be less shallow than this kind of demagogy. |