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from 1853 to 1857. During his second term
he was elected Speaker of the House, after
the most remarkable contest that ever oe-
Cured for that position, which lasted for
three months. He was chosen q second and
third time Governor of Massachusetts,, and
at the breaking out of the war entered the
service His career in the army was con-
spicuous, and is familiar to our readers
His last appearance in public life in Wash
ington was as a Member of the 45th Congress
Since 1879 and until recently he has been
United States Marshal for the District of
Massachusetts He is now in the Esd year
of his age, and is well preserved and active
as ever. In appearance he is a handsome
man, and possesses one of the most melodi-
GUS voices ever heard in the Halls of Con-
gress
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WHEN demagogs want to upset an ex-
listing condition Of things they cloak their
designs in a concerted howl for Reform"
Mr.. Barnum, Of Connecticut, proposed to
reform the country some years ago, even
III cost the price Of seven mules 5" to do il.
Now the old oligarchy of the South that Is
once more endeavOring TO break down intel
hgent labor and reduce the people Of this
country to but two classes, the aristocrat and
the peasant, are trying to do it under cover Of
a CRY for tariff REFORM The fact Is. they do
notwant reform, but power. That the North
should bow its knee to men who would be
felons but for the mercy Of a benign con.
queror, is one Of the marvels of the world's
history, yet the Brigadiers in Congress have
the afrontery TO demand submission and
more wonderful stil, expect to get it.
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VIZ DO not hear so much about the accu-
mutation Of the dangerous surplus lately.
1t IS about time for another message discIos~
ing a new mares nest The silver dollar
seems to Brighten no one any more, the sur
plus has a8kwardly refused to 60 on accu-
mulating, the Canadian retaliation scheme
seems to be less popular since it was found
that it promised to injure us more than the
Canucks, and now China seems not to have
rejected that treaty after all. Nextl
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TIE cables a few days back reported an
other attack upon Americans By a mob in
China. It cannot be said any longer
that these MoDgoliaus learn nothing rom
Western civilization. They are doing wen.
but so far as reported we eahead. Within
less than three years mob5 in the United
States havekiued IS Chinese citizens. There
were . killed at Rock Springs, in Wyoming,
in November, 1885 and at four ether places
since, in Oregon, Washington and Idaho our
mobs have disposed of 20 more in eases that
are Of record What is more, our Government
has so far neglected tosetde the biII for dam
ages Still, the business with China is worth
over 100000 a year to Americans, and
We are now trying to sell them the steel
rails for the great national railroad $500
miles long from Hong Kong to Picking.
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re r.Im1r or HrMAN LIE.

It seems to be hard for man to live over
a hundred years We have to chronicle this
week the sudden death of that wonderful
centenarian, Col Perkins, of Stamford, Conn,
who celebrated his Tooth birthday in perfect
health just a month before the day he died.
There are many such cases where the un-
usually great age is reached which rounds
out a century, when all at once, very soon
after the hundredth year is passed, the
powers collapse and the machine stops with
out any apparent cause. 1t is simply run
down.
There have been well authenticated ex-
captions where persons have lived to con-
siderable period beyond the century, but they
are very few. There is much doubt as to
whose record of years is the longest in his
toric times. cold" Parr, who died in Eng
land in 1855, claimed to be 152, but the fact
of his actual age cannot be substantiated.
Many cases also of Indians and negros in
this country whose ages have been CLAIMED
as far above century are of doubtful au-
thenticity. According to the census of 1880
there were 4,016 persons in the United States
who reported their ages at 100 or over, out
of population of 50,000,000.
1t appears from a study of the mortality
tables that man is more apt to die before five
and after 80 than during the other decades
of his life If he once turns 90 his chances
are excellent to make the hundred, and thus
equal in years the range of existence enjoyed
by the elephant. The reason why, with his
superior intelligence man may not surpas;
in years all other creatures is no doubt due
to deliberate violation of the laws of health
which is practiced almost universally, ever
with the full knowledge that the result is tt
shorten life
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WHAT Is TIE MATTER WITH THE
POSTAL SERYICEP


From all parts Of the country come COM
plants of ineficiency and corruption in the
postal service of the country. A registered
package containing 100000 in currency
disappeared somewhere between Portland,
Ore, and New York City a few days ago.
A week later a letter containing three
notes for $4,000 each is missing in New
York. Last month gang Of thieves were
discovered in Chicago with duplicate box
keys, and the postofice officials of that city
think that over 100000 lost within a few
months is thereby accounted for Thousands
of rifed letters were found in the head
quarters of the robbers who had grown too
careless even to take the trouble to destroy
these evidences of their guilt
It has come apparently to be no crime at
all for pOstoflice employees to tampeF with
newspaper mail It is charged by response
BILE publishers that newspaper wrappers are
opened and campaign literature inserted.
The partisan postmasters are displaying an
unusual interest in the circulation Of the
press, and are taking it upon themselves to
see that, so far as possible, no periodicals not
friendly to the President are allowed to
poison o. the minds of the people.
There is a general demand for reform in
the service, and the country has a right to
expect it.
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YOUR WIFE.
How Did You Manage To
Get Her?
A Chance for the Veterans
To Tell RomanCeS.

Among as spirited and daring a body Of
young men as formed the Union army, there
must have been many instances Of peculiarly
romantic wooing Of the women who became
their wives. These stories would be very
interesting to the rest OF the comrades. and
THE NATIoxAL TRIBUNE viii be glad to
publish them. Come, boys, tell your COM
rades If there was anything peculiar and
romantic in the way yOu managed to secure
your beloved helpmeets.
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Here we have the collection of more than
a hundred million dollars of revenue from
the tariff on imports in free-trade England
for the last fiscal year.
Still, England is free-trade country in
spite of the fact that she has tariff system,
and the United States, could it be reduced to
free-trade basis under the theory held by
Mr.. Mills and his supporters, would likewise
be compelled to raise revenue from a tariff
England is characterized as q free-trade coun-
| try because its tariff is a tariff for revenue
only, and not for protection. On the other
hand, the tariff system of the United States
! is a protective system, because it is levied
with view not only to collect the neces-
/ sary revenues for the maintenance of
the Government, but to put the duty
upon articles which are produced both by
| American and foreign labor and thus protect
the workman of the United States against
his poorer paid competitors in Europe and
Asia.
1t will be observed in the English tariff
list given above that the duty is collected
chiefly from tea, coffee, tobacco ard wine.
England produces no tea. The levying of
the tariff upon this product, therefore, can
not protect any tea growers in England Her
farmers produce no coffee. Therefore the
tariff upon the coffee bean can protect none
of her people. Her wine comes from France.
Therefore a tariff upon it can be of no assist
ance to vineyards in England because they
do not exist there
In the United States, under the SYSTEM Of
protection, such articles as cannot be pro-
duced within our bOrdersgo on our free list
For instance, we have no duty on either tea
/ or Coffee and instead ofleyying tariff which
r can in no possible way protect any industry
, or interest in this country, we place it upor
. the articles made in foreign mills and grains
l grown in foreign fields which would ente
s into ruinous competition with our own wer
J, their introduction not INSTRUCTED by tn
r wise legislation advocated by the fathers 0
n the Republic and in vogue now Thus, in
t stead of an unmeaning duty on tea we plac
e it on wheat, to keep the Fellahs of the Nil
i Valley and the Ryots of India from furnish
it ing flour to the people of our Atlantic sea
g board. Instead of tariff on coffee, we lev
e it on steel rails, in order that the workme
lie in American mills shall not be brought t
n the degraded level Of the pauper labor {
Great Britain, where even women and chi
d dren work at the furnaces.
ct 1t is therefore no answer for Mr.. Mills |
sr say that his bill is not free-trade bill b,
o. ! cause it Ieyies certain amount of duty, 70
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as shown above, the degree of protection or
free trade in a revenue system has little or
nothing to do with the rate of duty levied,
but depends entirely upon the manner in
which it is adjusted.
In the language Of a popular opera, Mr..
MiIlss answer has nothing to do with the
caseu
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TIE attention Of cur correspondents is
called particularly TO the notice at the head
Of the editorial page relative to manuscripts
II is impossible 10 send manuscript to the
printers when written on both sides Of the
paper without copying II all out on fresh
sheet Our editors cannot do this work for
want Of time, when hundreds Of such COM
munications are sometimes received in a
week We are always glad to hear from our
readers on any subject and if they viii
kindly bear this point in mind, and not
write on both sides Of the paper, they will
give us an additional pleasure and relieve
rs Of a great burden.
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TIKI NATIONAL ENCA1IPsrENr.

The great annual gathering Of the Grand
Army is taking place at Columbus O., as
we 60 TO press. Its action viii be awaited
with keen interest by the members of the
organization from Maine TO California.
Much is involved in its doings which viii
be reflected in the progress Of the Order dur
ing the coming year Every oonrade should
read and consider fully the account Of all
that is done, for It is matter Of vital mo-
ment to ali alike
Our next issue viii contain a complete re-
port Of the proceedings, and no one should
miss It.
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A CosrRADE sends us a copy Of long
speech on general pension legislation, which
purports to have been delivered in Congress
recently by Col Matson, and asks if If was
really heard there. We answer, No. Not a
word Of it was ever delivered on the floor Of
the House; and, furthermore, on the day
when il pusports 10 have been spoken the
Record shows that Col. BIatson did not utter
3 word on any subject whatever.
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WHERE THE ESCABTPsIENTs HAVE
BEEN HELD.


The following is list Of cities in which
the National Eneampments Of the GAR.
have been held:
1866, Indianapolis. Ind; 1868, Philadel-
phia, Pa; 1863, Cincinnati, o.; 1870, Wash
ington, D. c. 1871, Boston, Mass; 1872,
Cleveland, O.: 1873, New Haven, Conn;
1874, Harrisburg, Pa; 1875, Chicago, III;
1876, Philadelphia, Pa; 1877, Providence,
T. T.; 1873, Springfield, Mass; 1873, Albany,
n. Y; 1880, Dayton, o. 1881, indianapolis
Ind; 1892 Baltimore, Nd; 1883, Denver
Colo, 1884. Minneapolis, Mimi; 1855
Portland, he; 1856. San Francisco, Cal.
1887, ST Louis, No; 1855, is in session
Columbus O.. this week.
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A AIR. MACARTHUR, wool grower Of Aus
tralia, has naively assured a Chicago reporter
that if the American Congress viii only take
the duty Of wool, this country VIII be their
chief market Thanks. We knew that be-
fore, but the fact is We prefer wool raised in
Ohio Vermont, Colorado and Texas, if Mr..
Mills and his Australian friends win waive
their objections. Not that we love Austria
lisns less, but Americans more.
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THE meeting at Madison Square in New
York city on Wednesday of last week at
which Mr. Thurman was to speak, had a
sensational opening. 8Ir. Thurman had
spoken but few words when he was seen
to falter, and had to be assisted to a chair,
in what appeared to be fainting fit He
rallied, however, and was carried to his hotel
and put to bed. It appears that nothing
serious was the trouble except weakness in
cident to the overtaxing Of his strength, and
to his extreme age. 1t is a cruel spectacle
to behold the old veteran who ought to be
enjoying the quiet of his chimney corner,
dragged out of the repose he loves so well to
serve the purposes of lot of designing
politicians who would go to the edge Of the
grave to accomplish their ends.
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teet the market. The operations of the dis
tillers of alleged fruit brandy under the ex-
listing law are therefore well understood in
commercial circles, and the effect of the Mills
bill, should it become a law, is equally
obvious.
TheSouthern distillers ea1ready educated
up to the conviction that it is no crime to rob
the Government of its revenue. They are
unanimously in favor of Mr.. Mills's bill, for
not only were the tariffs arranged to protect
the South at the expense of the North, but
their peculiar views upon this subject of the
Internal Revenue system were fully en-
bodied in it. If anything was lacking to
secure solid support south of Virginia this
sop to the "Moonshiners did the business.
Section 40 of the bill repeats all special
taxes upon manufacturers of stills and retail
dealers in liquors, both malt and distilled.
1t is suggested that on the occasion Of Mr..
MilIs's next speech he give some time to the
explanation of the Internal Revenue clauses
of his bill, instead of consuming all the time
in platitudes about the tariff.
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE ENGLISH
| AND AMERICAN TARIFFS.
The advocates of the Mills bill are fond Of
declaring that it is not free-trade measure,
because it provides for an average duty of
over ~ per cent. Mr.. Mills himself never
fails of the opportunity to ring the changes
upon this point, which he treats as clincher
in all arguments on that subject.
This is simply pettifogging. The question
of the percentage of duty levied by the Mills
bill has nothing to do with the question as
to whether its tendencies are toward free
trade or not 1t is true, as a matter of course,
that the bill is not an absolutely free-trade
bill. Even the present House could not be
dragoOned into passing such measure. The
truth about it is that it is the result of an
attempt by its promoters to go as far in the
direction of free trade as was polite, looking
to its passage.
Indeed, in the beginning of the discussion
upon the subject in Congress, the policy Of
advancing toward free trade by measures
like this was openly advocated and declared
to be the plan of the supporters of the Mills
bill. In the course of a few weeks, however
it became evident that the country was in 6
state of revolt against such scheme and
they Immediately changed front, and as
sumed the attitude they now take, by deny
ing simply that the bill is a free-trade bill
at all, and giving as reason therefore the
average tariff for which it provides.
England is the best example of free
trade Government in the world, since The
collapse of the go-called Southern Confed
eracy, and it is the current opinion thai
there is no tariff upon English imports Thii
is popular error. The fact is, England ha!
tariff system as well as the United States
and other countries. Indeed, there is NJ
civilized nation that does not raise portion
Of its revenues from tariff on imports.
The official statement of the amount o
revenue collected by Great Britain for th,
fiscal year ending with March 81, 1887, is be
/ fora nc and ehorvg fha folloyyipr.
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WHEN it is proposed to redeem the Gov
ernment's honor by paying what it owes to
its veteran soldiers, the scream of another
raid on the Treasury browns all calm argu
ment. On the other hand to lend the Ma
tional banks so OF Conditions of public money
without interest has a soothing effect, and
the screamers drop to gentle coo of salts
faction.
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A SPECIMEN of the queer financiering of
the present Administration was furnished
last Wednesday when the Secretary of the
Treasury, after declining bonds offered day
after day, turned bull" on himself and
bought 100000 of per cents at 100, and
$2,500,000 of a per cents at 1861. This
was an advance over the current market
price of Z per cent. on the 4s and for AS
This is the result of going into the money
market with brass band, and is in keeping
with the "I-told-you-so policy of the
Treasury ever since forced by Congress to
an unwilling halt in an attempt to accumu-
late surplus for campaign effect.
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TIE LOGAN MoNU1rENr FUND.

The following additions to the Logan
Monument Fund have been received since
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GEN. BANKS TO RUN FOR CONGRESS.
Gen. Nathaniel P Banks, it is announced,
is to again run for Congress in a Massa-
chusetts District. His career has been
remarkable one, and his temperance in
public life at the Capitol will awaken
memories of stirring scenes and great events
long passed away. lie was the son of poor
parents, who were operatives in factory in
Waltham, Mass, and he had no educational
advantages except those afforded by the
common schools. In early life he became a
newspaper editor in his native town, after
ward studied law, and in 1848 was elected to
the Legislature of Massachusetts, serving in
both Houses, and at one time filing the
Speakers chair. Later he was elected Gov
ernor of Massachusetts, and then to Congress