McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-12-11

OF tne gU,r oh ~ - soupht 10 devise scheme by
RON iah ,r,,hont nnfaSorable changing the con.
dition OF the workingmen: Our me- con.
marine shall be raised from its enieeoi .is saIs
dition, and new markets prUo snifold fruits Of
| onr Industrial enterprises. The propien %
oomnjex and can be solved by no single ,nea 20
nre Of renovation or reform. tine counlleo a., y.
the western continent, ana tne auJn.,ro,
lands, are for the United S.a,s' ' II Is from
market Of supply and demand. 70 a. not
them that we should obtain what we 90 mo-
| nroduce or do not produce in sufnclency, anu
Il Ia to them that the surplus products u
fields. our mills and our WORKSHOPS s..o ~
flow, under conditions that VIII eq a;.,,, com
favor them in comparison with foreign conl,
petition. Four paths OF policy, seem 70 Pon i
| In this end First, a series OF reciprocal Gull
mercial treaties with the countries OF Amerlca
which shall foster between us ana i, tneIn an al
unhampered interchange OF trace ne free sd-
mission of such merchandise as this country
| does not produce in return for admission Tree,
or under a favorable scheme OF duties, Oh our
! Droducts the benefits of such excnange " aP
ply on these goods carried under tne nag " o.6
| parties to the contract. The removal on potn
sides from vessels, so privileged, OF all Ton.
| mace on dress and national imports so tnat
| their vessels may ply unhindered between our
| ports and those Of other contracting parties
| though without infringing on the OBSERVER
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| of burdens on the exported products Oh tnose
| countries coming within the benefits OF the
! treaties land the avoidance Of the technical re-
strictions and penalties by which our inter-
course with those countries is at present nalii-
| pered)
Secondly. The establishment of the consul
lar service of the United States on salarled
| footing, permitting the relinquishment OF con-
| sular fees not only as respects vessels unuer
the national flag but also as respects vessels OF
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| benefits of treaties, Thirdly, the enactment OF
| measures to favor the construction ana NAM
| tenance of a steam carrying marine unuer
the flag of the United States. Fourthly, the es-
tablisment of a uniform commercial treaty LOT
the countries of America so that the colneu
products of our minis may circulate on equal
terms throughout the whole system of common
wealth. This would require monetary union
of America, whereby the output OF the oulllon
producing countries and the clrculaton OF
those which yield neither gold or silver, could
be adjusted in conformity with the population,
wealth and commercial needs of each, as many
of the countries furnish no bullion to the
common stock of the surplus production.
If our mines and minis might thus be util-
lied, and step taken toward the general re-
moneylizaGion of silver to the accomplishment
of their ends, so far as they can be attained By
separate treaties the negotiations already
concluded and now in progress have been Oh
rected and the favor with which this enlarged
the belief that its operations will ere long en-
brace all or nearly all the countries OF this
hemisphere. 1t is by no means desirable, how
ever, that the policy under consideration
should be applied by these countries at once.
The Tariff Problem.
The healthful enlargement of our trade with
Europe, Asia and Africa should be sought by
reducing the tariff burdens on such OF their
wares as neither we nor the other American
tnfa tod Infr
ourselves to obtain in return a better market
for our supplies of food, of raw materials, and
of the manufacture in which we excel. 1t
seems to me that many of the embarrassing
elementsin the great national conflict between
protection and free trade may thus be turned
to good account, that the revenue may be re-
duced so no longer to overtaX the people; that
protective duties may be retained without be-
coming burdensOme; that our shipping inter-
ests may be judiciously encouraged, the cur
rency fixed on firm basis, and above all such
unity of interests established among the
states of the American system as will be of
great and ever increasing advantage to them
all.
On the Goth of February last transmitted to
congress the first annual report of the civil
service commission, together with communi-
cations from the heads of several executive de-
partments of the government respecting the
practical workings of the law under which the
commission had been acting. The good re-
suits therein fOreShadOWed have been more
than realized. The system has fully answered
the expectations of its friends in securing
competent and faithful public servants, and in
protecting the appointing officers of the gov
eminent from the pressure of personal impun-
ity and from the labor of examining the claims
and preteDtiOns of rival candidates for public
employment. The law has bad the unqualified
support of the president and of the heads of
the several departments, and the members of
the commission have performed their duties
with zeal and fidelity. Their report will
shortly be submitted and will be accompanied
by such recommendation for enIarging the
scope of the eXacting statute, as shall com
mend themselves 10 the executive and the
commissioners charged with its administration
In view of the ge neral and persistent demand
throughout the commercial community for a
national bankrupt law Hope that the differ
ences of sentiment which have hitherto pre-
vented its enactment may not outlast the pres
ent season.