Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-10
EDITORIAL NOTES.

We have heard of a woman in this city who declines to marry a man because he is''an in- fidel and Democrat" Wise woman.
 Most of the cigarmakers in New York do not like the Spanish treaty, which pro- poses to admit leaf tobacco free of duty and cigars at a considerable lower rate than now; but one of the largest manufacturers of ci- gars in the country says that the treaty will do no harm to the trade nor to the cultiva- tors of tobacco in the United States. Be- cause, as he says, Cuba supplies and can supply only small part of the cigars used in this country, and the supply from the Spanish islands cannot much affect the price of cigars here. The only effect, he thinks, l will be to give somewhat better quality of cigars at the same price than is now paid for little inferior grade.
 MT. Nissan, prominent member of the liquor league of Ohio, in @ recent speech spoke frankly, as follows: We are just com 1 ing to hot fight and we must fight together.
 The prohibitionists are preparing to wage a
 bitter fight. From now on it will be whisky or prohibition. Let us stand with a solid l front for our side We must fight our bat | ties in politics. The question of license will be one of the questions before the legis- 1ature. What we must do is to spot every
 candidate for the legislature and make sure l that he is right on the liquor question. If
 not, he must be defeated. tell, you, gen.
 tIemen, there is danger ahead. The Demo
 cratic legislature must be warned not to con- l aI, l. 4o k 1 temperance clements
 1 In 1882 Chili imported sixty millions l worth of manufactured goods. Great Brit
 ain sent her S22, ,O00, 1000 worth of that total; l the United States just $2, 557, ,992. The same year Chii exported to other nations $71 ,000, : 900 worth of materials, of which $52, 900, 900 worth went to England; to the United States $2, ,619, ,049 worth. This is fair il- 1ustratien of our relations with all the South American nations. Their foreign trade ex- ceeds $700, ,000, 900 a year. It is three times the whole annual trade of India. It is more than that of all Mexico, Central America and the West Indies combined. Our part in it is well measured by our part in Chili's trade. We are behind every other nation in the world, though the Chilians themselves would be glad to favor our merchants if they could afford it. The Chiian government has de- termined to open an exhibition of American manufactures and machinery at Santiago, and its consular representative at Boston, Mir. Horace N Fisher, is pushing the thing in this country. He ought to be encouraged.
 In 8 recent lecture by Sir. R. Rawson, president of the Statistical society in Lon don, the differences between the area and population of the several mother countries and their colonies were shown. With re- gard to area, England has 65 square miles to the square mile of her own area; Holland, 54; Portugal, 20; Denmark, 6.30; France, 1.90; Spain, 0.86 square miles. The area of the British colonies is nearly eight millions of square miles-rather less than the area of the Russian empire, including Siberia and Central Asia; but if the area of the native feudatory States in India, amounting to 509, 284 square miles, be added, over which Eng land exercises as great control as Russia does over much of the territory under it's sway, together with that of the United Kingdom itself, 12O, ,757 miles, then the area