The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-10-05

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The session of Congress which closed on
Wednesday last will probably become noted in
our legislative history for much that it did as
well as much that it didn't do. The passage of
the Tariff bill is bound to have large effect on
the country, and that this effect will be bad
there are already indications. 1t is beyond
question that even in the Republican
party the idea has taken strong hold
that the tariff system builds up vastly profitable
industries for the benefit of the few at the ex-
pense of the many, and that its operations are
glaringly unequal in different sections. On
many of the necessaries of life, even at this
early date after the passage of the BILL its effect
has been to raise prices With the public mind
pretty well Informed on the general principles
of the tariff question and specially directed to
this vital point of the raising of prices,
there can hardly fail to be a
strong renewed growth of tariff re-
form sentiment among that great class of people
who are not at all or only remotely interested
in the industries which high protection imme-
diately benefits. Perhaps such a robber measure
as the MCKINLEY bill was the last thing needed
to set the tide of tariff reform sentiment flowing
so impetuously that it will sweep the advocates
of high protection into obscurty. And while
the session of Congress just closed devoted so
much of its time to this MCKINLEY bill,
the immediate if not the sole bene-
ficiaries Of which are men of wealth
devoted to the production of more wealth, not
q single measure was passed for the benefit of
the millions of other American citizens who
have no wealth at all, but who daily exhaust
the energies of their bodies and minds in OBJ
tanning the food and the clothing necessary for
the bare support of life, with no hope or
chance OF gaining more than will keep them
from the poor-house when they become too old
or too feeble to longer endure the daily grind.
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Congress has adjourned but Jack the Rip
per has broke out again in London, and there
will still be something to get excited about.
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il poor insane wretch killed himself in st.
Paul's. Cathedral, London, the other day, and
the authorities have decided that the great edi-
fee must be reconsecrated.
The New York Ereriag Post has begun another
and general attack on Tammany Hall The
articles fairly siZzle in theirhotness. Meanwhile
Tammany Hall smiles and smiles and will con-
tinue to be villain.
No better evidence of the way in which the
South is booming could be had than the fact
that Georgia has led all the States in the ex-
tent of her railroad construction in the first
nine months of this year.
The discovery Of errors in the Tariff bill as it
was enrolled and passed by the House was no
surprise to the Democrats. What would sur
prise them would be the discovery Of items in
the bill which We're not errors.
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There is a boom in the price of human life
out In Iowa. railroad has been mucted in
SlOCOO for killing section hand This, the
despatch says, is the largest amount ever al
lowed in johnson County for death.
The Republican negotiations with ex-Con-
gresham CONVERSE, the high-tarifI Ohio Dem
ocrat, to induce him TO take the stump for Nc
KINLEY, have failed. Perhaps Mr. CoNyERsE's
tariff is even too high for McKINLEY's mana
gers.
Another new Portuguese Cabinet has been
formed. If the names OF the members furnish
any criterion, discord is bound TO prevail in it
How will it be possible, forinstance, for senior
MARTENS FERRAo and Gen. D'ABREU L SoUsA
to get along together?
At New Haven Friday night Speaker REED
Informed his audience it was of vital necessity
that the House Of Representatives should be
sustained by the people, And the people vii
sustain the House Of Representatives-thew wholel
House OF Representatives against an autocratic
Speaker gag law, ana Russian methods gen
orally.
Evidently some ironical practical Joker started
the scheme to send Gen. CLARKsoN as Minister
to China. AS well talk about sending Col.
BOB lNGEksoLL as American representative TO
the Vatican. So eminent and extreme a spoils.
man as Gen. CLARKsoN would pine away and
die in the native land of the hated .Chinese
system" OF civil service reform.
speaker REED in political harangue in Con
nectcut few nights ago ehanted the praises of
the session of Congress just closed, and ex-
pressed hope that the MCKINLEY tariff Jaw
would remain in force long enough to secure
the benefits it was sure to bring. AS the Senate
is likely to remain Republican for some years
70 come, Speaker REEDS hope will be realized.
The monopolists who will wiring millions from