The Press., 1889-12-26


 CONGRESSMAN Sn6oNDs was one of the few congressman who had refused to sign re- ceipts for his salary in advance, thereby en- abling defaulting Cashier Silcott to get away with so much poodle.
 TIE new republic of Brazil does itself no credit in decreeing perpetual banishment to Dom Pedro, cutting of the allowance voted him, and confscating his property. The new republic could well afford to be at lea t just, if not generous, to the man whose reign is a credit to the nation.
 CHRISTMAS brings to us lots of familiar faces-the boys and girls from schools and colleges and places of employment. It 'scomes but once year," and is only one of a rapidly growing list of holidays, and don't equal Thanksgiving as astime of family re- union, but it is . day that has grown into American hearts, and every year finds it fill. ing bigger place there. ..e
 TIE Grant monument fund has got long lift from the New York.Ma and Express, which gives $10, 600 outright, besides open ing list for % contributors, each one of whom, besides full aeknowledgment.of of same by printed list in the paper, is given the weekly Mail and Express for one year, and gets from the monument association hand some certificate: of his having socontributed.
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 IN the list of committees, as announced by Speaker Reed on Saturday, Congressman Si- monds of this district stands second on the committee on patents, ..also is on war claims. Russell of the 3d district is chairman of the committees on education and printing. MT. Russell favors the Blair bill. Wilcox of the 2d is on coinage, weights and measures, also on claims; Mills of the 4th on expenses of interior department and Pacific railroads.
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 HENRY ". GRADY, editor of the Atlanta (Ga-) Constitution, whose oraterical gifts have of late attracted considerable attention, died of pneumonia on Monday. He was but Ss years of age, native of Georgia, and was one of the most gifted and promising men of his age in the south. His name has been con- nected with that of ex-President Cleveland for the democratic national ticket in 1892. Though warm admirer of the ex-president he was yet believer in the policy of protec- ton, under which the south, his own section especially, was 80 rapidly developing in pop ulation and wealth.
 Goys AMEs of Massachusetts, is lifted from the commonplace, so far as the history of his term of administration goes, in the distinction of having largely by his efforts secured the enlargement of the Massachusetts state house and the laying of it's corner stone. By the plan adopted the fine front of the original building is retained intact, the extension be- ing at the rear, and providing amply for all likely future needs of the departments of gov ernmsnt. On Saturday last the corner stone of the extension was laid by thesstate officials and the grand masonic lodge of Massachusetts. The cernex stpnes Of flss original building was 1nid ii 179f by Governor Samuel Adams and Gnnd Eas1pie Master Paul Revere, the hero Of ':fxul 1svste'a Ride ?
 Ir1nay net be 50 alarming that big syndi- cates of Englishmen are gobbling np Ameri- can industries. They will remain American, all the same, and will Americanize.the new owners rather than themselves become eEn- glish, you know" i" and experience shows that there is a limit to possibility of consolidating all little industries into big ones. A few years ago, when the Rhode Island Spmgues were building and buying mills in different New England states, we were told that the day of small corporations was past, that big fish were to consume the little ones, and hereafter none but mammoth corporations could do business. Time has exploded that theory. The Sprague mills have gone back to null tiple of owners, and it is seen that small con- cerns have some advantages over big ones The syndicate business may meet the same fate. It ought to.
 WADE's Fibre and Fabric, strong protec- ton paper, goes in as strong for free raw material, and chiefly free wool. All New England, manufacturers and operatives, would be glad to. see wool. put On the free list if as- sured that it would demake wool cheaper, but the mass of the people take the view that free wool will mean free woolens. The consent of the western wool growers is needed to sus- tain protection to the fabric maker. Whether free wool would mean cheaper wool is also a debatable question. Experience has not shown in the past that we have secured lower prices by putting ourselves at the mercy of foreign producers quite the contrary. The majority of the woolen manufacturers of New England, believing free woorn legislation would be accompanied by free woolensn en- actments, are not agitating the question. The Springfield Republican publishes list of manufacturers in this vicinity who favor free wool, and have given their signatures to that effect The list includes but two Stafford names, those of Charles Fox and A. H. Weaver, and this vicinity has no other nearer representative than one at Broad Brook This is not a large percentage of represents tion of the woolen interests of this wool man. ufacturing region, and, small as it is, we ven- ture to say that it would be sensibly reduced if the signers understood that protected wool ems and protected wool were inseparable, as we believe them to be. :,
 Springfield Republican: Secretary Blaine has taken wisely conservative position in the matter of resorting to retaliatory meth ods of compelling France and Germany to abandon their prohibitory duties on Amer s-a- 1 n .