Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-02-20
fund could be accommodating for any future
reductions Meanwhile it 10 believed the tar

fund could be accumulating for any future
reductions. Meanwhile it Is believed the tar
on whiskey would be fully sufficient with
other legitimate incomes Of the government
to pay all current expenses, the constant ex-
panse and growth of the country. also, being
taken into account. Such course would
only be deemed expedient il congress failed
to agree upon tariff reduction of any sort
The advocates of the tariff measure feel
very anxious about its passage, knowing
that the 4th of March is so near. Judging
by appearances and talk, the democrats are
not half so anxious TO see the bill defeated now
as they were at the beginning of the session.
Then it looked as if there was half precon-
certed plan for that purpose. But they have
opened their eyes to the fact that the people
everywhere are in earnest on this question
and want no trifling on SO serious matter
to them. Many parts of the South have
changed front on the protection side of this
question, owing to increased manufacturing
interests there, and this fact is Fostering and
confusing those free-trade advocates of the
democratic party who have heretofore relied
quite implicitly upon Southern aid in spread
ing maintaining and If may coin word)
poIiticizing their doctrines Many parts of
the West, too, are dipping into manufactures,
so that it would seem that this evidently IA
vorite dogma of modern democracy is des-
tined to meet with decided opposition in sec
tions which they have hitherto relied upon.
1t is strongly evident that protective tariff
of a pretty firm kind. will be endorsed by a
majority of the people of the United States
for many years TO come.
The death of so many persons of promi-
nence Of late has been the theme of much
comment Thurlow Weed, Lot NJ. Morrill,,
Benjamin Hill, Burnside, Elisha II. Allen,
Marshall jewell, Ex-Governor Morgan and
many others of almost equal rank in the po-
litical world, besides many in other prominent
walks OF life make the mortuary list of the
present a noted and surprising one.
II is said that the death of Gov. Morgan
has had depressing influence on the Pres-
dent; since their relation 10 each other po-
ltically and socially has extended over many
wears and has been Of the most intimate kind.
The President got his title as General by be-
ing upon Gov. Morgan's staff as Quartermas-
ter General during the war, and in many
ways the deceased helped the President into
prominence. Gov. Morgan leaves fortune
of from Sc, 900, 600 to S., 600, 900 all of which
goes to his widow and son.
Building operations in this city will soon
commence in earnest as the present month is
about the last of cold weather in this vicinity.
1t is said that the prospects in this line
were never better, and should prices Of labor
and material continue moderate, a very large
number of buildings will be erected. The
proposals for building ALREADY trench on the
million figures, and the general prosperity of
the capital for another season seems assured.
The French fiat system of building is
coming into vogue here and it seems likely
that quite a number of styles of buildings
will be erected, some upon the elaborate but
more upon the cheaper plans, so that the
government employees may be able to live
comfortably without paying enormous rents.
Many of these have been successful in New
York and other large cities and there seems
to be no reason why they should not be here.
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