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Show the tariff of 1S.-5S wm rill in operation. This i widely different from what the .emurrals said would he the rasa. Hie new tariff largolv reducad thu pries pi stun-, and the i t lure of tha crops in tho t)!d World increased the price o wheat. Put taking sugnr. wheat arid every other neeiitiiai y nrtic'i into the estimate the level of housekeeping ex- i peu.liture ia about the lamo as it was '. at tint time iu 1.K) or 1SS0. Exceeding;' Inworthy. Philadelphia Press. Sou.': of the New York newspapers are doing their utmo-t to diseourngo the World's fair project io Chicago. l'hi.s is exceedingly unworthy. If tho exposition had boeu located in New York that city would have justly clsun-1 clsun-1 id, mid doubtless wouid have received, j the cordial support of the v. hole conn-I conn-I try. Chicago won the fair.aud it should I nut be made a matter of jealousy bs-I bs-I tweoi cities. It 'S something in which everybody and every locality is intcr-caied, intcr-caied, and anything dorm to discredit it is a wrong to lio entire country. New York can ati'ord to ba big iu mutters of tuis kind. I :nirvlil' of W. a tern r.v.r, I Denver The anti-siiu-treasury branch of the fanners alliance is determined to star. for honest monev, and is sternly opposed op-posed to thfl crazy selioma of finance proposed by the other faction. It is at til tunes more doserviug the i'avor of western people whose interests are go largely idontilie.l with geld and .silver. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS, Ontia il.o'proolty. v York Press. Aide free, trado w riters have asserted, argued aud proved to their own intense satisfaction, over since the terms of the Spanish-American reciprocity treaty were ms.de known, th.it the United States wutild ujt- ei.uro any positive beuelits from it, because England and Canada were tradinu with Cuba under treaty with Spaia, which could only be n urogatut by a denouncement made before July 1 in any year. If thore had been no denouncement by Spain of this treaty prior to July 1, the lirst date ou whicn its operations could havo been ausp.ii'.ded would have been July 1,1-!( . The argument was ail right, imr, as U3iial, the free tra !e press was wrong a? to facts those cold, hsrl, unsympathetic un-sympathetic facts that tip over so many free trade assertions and argument, lion. John W. Foster, who negotbited the treaty for the state depsrtn'ent, is authority for tiia a .loujKvme.it that the official publieation'of the American reciprocity ;irrangmeu'. at Madrid was aecompanied in tne. same oflioial paper by an i.ouoi'nccniyn'. from the minister of .-.tate tiint ad commercial treaties which Spain had with Kuroptau gov ernnu-ints in respect to Cuoau jirodnctf had already been denounced, and th.it the last of them would cease to have any forco alter .July 1. 1 ;-:;. Cuban reciprocity is therefore for the United ! States only. t Well F I. Sau Franehco fliroiiLi'3 There ba.s been a mutiny of a i'o-t'lchmnnt i'o-t'lchmnnt of Ilavuriaa troop, which j discloses the fact (hat tl.e ficrm in army i" net woil fed. About the h,-mh Ireat-iiiiiiit Ireat-iiiiiiit to which tl.e (ieiiiiin Mtidier is subjected theic i . ii: tie ijuiD-tion, imt hitb-1 erto it has not been HiiL'STeaMd that he : was ill fed. If the story told of :h . j Irw.Uiiient of the Bavarians is truo it , SHems incredible that much ci iii'nlnce iii.nid be placed in the tror.ps. Jf German Ger-man K-iIdii-rs in tiice of jiea.'n revolt because they cannot get enough to eat they must be composed of ei::raordio-ary ei::raordio-ary material if they csn be depended , upou by those who cause them to be starved. Mil.t fie MiiTiibngr. I'itt b irg C-iituaerc'.al-OsTOtte. Democratic or.vors and organs havo I been shou!,ing that reciprocity is frto' tra:!e. hut tho New York democratic j platform calls it reciprocity humbug.1 As things which are mpial to tne same 1 thing aro e pnal to each other, there- ' foi e, accoriiiug to democratic logic, free trado must be hnmbuif. l.l n(r fitiimum K lao.il St. Louis tilobe-lk'.eoorat. Living expenses in Uiis country, leaving leav-ing sugar and wheat Hour out of tho calcination, are somcwhst smaller on the sama amount and varieiv of purchases pur-chases than they were a year "ao, wheni |