The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-08-01

That would be very well if those who
attend did not have to settle-for
tickets before going.
THE Salina Republican, with oracu-
lar solemnity, informs us that Garfield
as chancellor would be a disgrace to
the state.' Give Brady a consulate
somewhere in the south seas. A man
who can SO deliberately make pic
turesque ass of himself for party's
sake, ought to be promptly rewarded
and gotten out of the way.
THE Leavenworth Times is not
pleased with the way things are being
run at tue penitentiary coal mines.
Only 200 men are at work in the mines
when there should be 400. The price
of coal has advanced, it says from 6 to
"a and cents bushel by the wagon
load. AS a reformer Colonel Anthony
is bound to lead. The gubernatorial
CAD fly is pricking him on at a lively
gait. A duel with Munford of the
Kansas City Times would however, if
he should come off victorious, contri-
butte more than anything else to his pol
itical aspirations. The duel is the
thing Colonel. Stir up Munford again.
THOSE who have said that the move
ment which will evidently result in
tariff reform, will derive its greatest
strength from New England, may
prove to be more reliable prophets
than they are given credit for being.
Already cry is going up in that sec
tion for free iron, free coal, free lum-
Der and free access to all the materi-
ais which we know so well how to use,
and New England will again begin to
be prosperous. Manufacturing is
moving away from that section and
taking up its abode where the raw ma
terial is at hand. This is true of cot
ton, wooden and iron industries. New
England has had her day. She made fab
ulous fortunes out OF the tariff. But
now, when its rewards are going tt
other sections, and instead of being a
BENEFICIARY of it, she is becoming {
common taxpayer, like other and fal
wider sections of the union, she hal
the sense to kick for free raw mater
ial. If in time, she cannot get that.
she will kick for free trade.
RESPECTING the rumored confer
ence of republican statesmen soon t.
be held in New York, for the purpose
of mapping out line of policy to b'
pursued when congress meets, thu
Globe-DemOcrat says, touching the rev
enue features of said policy:
The amount of revenue which can b.
spared is known in general way, anC
the object of the dominant party il
congress will be to SO frame Legislation
that the governments income will b
cut down accordingly. The problem
will be, however, as to what duties o.
taxes can be reduced or abolished SO a
to bring about this reduction to thu
greatest advantage, or to the least dis
advantage to the classes or interest:
most Immediately concerned. Gu
revenue system, as a whole, for rea
sons which are as obvious as they ar
iustifiable, is even now more extensive
diverse and complex than any othe
country ever had or perhaps ever viii
have, and on the general question as tt
which impoSts should be touched whel
the cutting off process begins there i
not as much harmony among repub
licanS as could be desired. Somt
would make the greater part of the Gu
on the internal taxes, abOliShing tn
impost OH tobacco aud beer and reduc
ing that on whisky, while others would
let the reduction bear heaviest on the
customs list.