Show THE united states occupies a unique position it is the only country in the world whose statesmen are troubled about the question of disposing of its income in all other countries the burning question is to get enough to make ends meet england has seen nt through her journalists na lists to sympathize with us in our trouble and backs up suggestion to cripple our manufacturing industries dus tries by removing tariff this joint remedy would doubtless prove efficacious it would certainly relieve ua of the terrible strain of thinking how to dispose of our surplus and might at the same time help the english financiers in their arduous task of raising sufficient revenue to conduct the government without exciting a rebellion against excessive taxation fan miles of railroad constructed in 1887 footed up nearly and there is a strong probability that this rate of development will bo maintained this year there are many who affect to believe that railroad construction lias advanced too rapidly in the united states but they are the same pessimists who declared in 1883 that the country could not for twenty years to come adequately support the roads then in existence since then we have added miles to our system and as has already been observed the prospects are eliat in the next four years we shall supplement them with more miles THE soldiers monument to be erected at indianapolis will be an ambitious affair it is expected that will be expended upon its construction tho multiplication of memorials of this kind all over the land ia a distinct gain for art no matter what the pessimists may say on the subject there are and no doubt will be many wretched and inartistic creations but the effect will not be to lower taste but rather to elevate it education in art matters is ut pained alone by the study of fine examples artists frequently profit by faults which observation teaches them to avoid international exposition which will be held in washington in 1892 to commemorate tin four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of america should surpass that of which was by all odds alie most effective affair of the kind ever held up to that time the people of the united states should be ablo to show that they have made a great deal of progress in alie interval between 1876 and 1892 |