Show En glands prosperity great britaina Brit ains finances have been kept up while ours have gone down alie report ef th chancellor of the exchequer for alie last year shows the surplus to me more than in spite of these unparalleled facts the expenses of the government have boon greater than in any year since the last great war the national debt has been reduced by the largest annual amount in its history the amount ef bullion in the bank of england is the proportion of its reserve to its liabilities is the highest on record so marvelously well have her public servants done their work that the empire could in the face of an emergency raise fer defense without imposing an atom more debt upon the people than the nation had borne in 1857 without a murmur when the report was read even the opposition la said to have applauded it and there is no wonder for the showing 13 indeed commendable but we cannot help believing that the increased prosperity over there is due to some extent to conr depression here everybody knows what magnificent opportunities were afforded british manufacturers manufacture ra by the democratic tariff legislation it seemed to be especially ally adapted to the desire of the factories across the sea it was different whan the ruled their tariff the mckinley act caused sorrow on the other side of the big water times were very close there then while they were prosperous here perhaps iho scale will again tip to the protective side in a year or two it is then this country will prosper not before england always gets the lions plure in free trade she has the saim and the factories and plenty of pauper labor this country cannot compete with them except at a great ios io s |