Show Ey GLAND GrANI GOING DOWN poor old england the inot mother ber of nations having readied reached the tile zenith of lier her greatness is gradually sliding down ali the hill of adversity ad ersley her agriculture is fast becoming an industry of the past owing to tile mammoth stream of products constantly s noting flowing into her markets mark acts from america and other countries with whom her farmers find it impossible pep gilt her manufactures to compete are in the same stagnant condition with no hope of a permanent revival in ili every market for her wares where she elie formerly enjoyed an almost undisputed monopoly she elio finds the way hedged up by foreign com competition on which she c cannot annot successfully contend she will never be able to recover her position as supreme mistress of the coni commerce merce of the world england lias has lately been enjoying a business spurt in the iron trade which lias has raised some hopes of a permanent revival but the eap exp expectation is comp comparatively ely baseless it was caused by large orders from this country occasioned by tile unprecedented demand for railroad Y afi materials ite rials which american manufacturers rs were unable to supply that source of revival will be brought brou glit to a close by two causes the impetus the tile demand will wll give to the extension of manufacturing facilities in this country and the completion of the numerous projected railroads even inthe in the ten temporary increase in ill this branch england land is working za at a disadvantage having to pay duty on every pound of iron shipped into the united states state one of causes that has led to En glands pres present and prospective depression is h free trade this system is not in itself disastrous but must always be so when not reciprocated by other nations As it is other countries can call ship their products into england and her lier numerous dependencies free of duty while she is charged a more or less heavy tariff on almost everything she sends to foreign markets philex n opens her ports free to the rest of the world she enriches other nations by the payment of heavy taxes on her products shipped tot to liem free trade without reciprocity must lead to failure to add to En glands commercial discomfiture france is extending exten extending din the scope of her tariff on oil importations thu thus is the way w ay of the old country being hedged up tip on every side sonic agitation is going on oil reg regarding arding the expediency of returning in some sonic measure to protection by alic imposition of tariffs on foreign importations this however is not practicable if a duty were placed on agricultural products pio ducts 41 the neemi aries of life would receive such a sudden hoist in prices that millions would be driven to starvation this would also necessitate ces a proportionate in crease fil in the price of labor which would be a still greater drawback draw back to the manufacturer fac who seeks to compete with ZA foreign makers it will be seen I that aliat nei neither thern a partial nor universal return to protection is p practicable for halfway half way measures would involve discriminations in trades that would produce the most perplexing entanglements entangle cements de ments and dissatisfaction itis it is a remarkable fact that while free trade without reciprocity lias has greatly tended to produce the present stagnated state of business in england a return to a protective policy would not even mitigate the disaster america F france rance belgium and other countries have in the meantime stolen a march upon her that appears appear sto to her irretrievable there is every appearance that england must continue to glide downwards from her former P pinnacle inna of commercial greatness IT frequently that the press and ana public throw their sympathy away on very unworthy objects not long since a mr in 17 gerroll ger soll a kew new york merchant had red pepper thrown in his eyes and a cowhide applied to his shoulders b by y ellen gardner for the alleged rca rea pon that ho lie ila biad insulted her a poor frien friendless dloss girl without other means of redress ho he denied lier her story and said she elie was a blackmailer she is very pretty and the papers took up ftp her caso case and worked up general sympathy for lier her being rich and plucky lie spent five thousand dollars in ill employing detective service showing lier her history Iii story to be aa as follows alic she had been a barmaid bar maid in london bad forged lier her employers name and ran away to this country with the money and a man not lier her husband had been cell married to half a dozen diffie different rent men and lived with as rus many more had bad been turned out of respectable boardinghouses for misconduct with strangers had frequently attempted to blackmail lier her various employers had put up this job on air ingersoll deliberately and had recent recently ay married a sir mr gardner gardn e r who believed her an all honest country girl when confronted aith the tile fact facts eshe she admitted them and soon I after went into co court urt pleaded guilty to a charge of blackmail and was sent to prison NEW ui the democrats now have an actual regular and positive majority of the senate they rhey have the power to reconstruct all the committees and to take the organization of the senate so far as it is completed out odthe of alic hands of the it republicans p bubli cans by simply passing a resolution to that effect suppose they should offer such uch a ruo resolution lution and the republicans should resist its passage in ill what sort of a predicament would the latter bo be placed after having denounced their opponents as guilty of treason to use the language of I mr hoar hear because they opposed tile corrupt bargain with mahone Malio nc UTAH HAS mis a it population of and would long since have been cell a state but for tho the unjustifiable prejudice against the people because of religious institutions dakota has bas inhabitants will probably soon be divided and the most populous portion admitted aa as a state new now INI mexico exico has 1181 people and ought soon to be a state st ate washington lias has arizona Mont montana mia idaho wyoming the completion of the atlantic m pacific road will bring many more people into arizona and montana will be similarly helped bythe by the completion F letio of the northern pacific road ay iy 1800 there were of people speaking english today to day there arc are the russ tongue is spoken by german by spanish by and italian by the greatest in increase is is ili in english and russ |