Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-01-28

| UEon Petitions for The equalization Of the act
! Of Camp Eenson A ssoeistion-
/ By order Vt the committee,
| FEAsxIIS 9. PArsos. SECRETARY.
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| The fact that the reserves OF the New
York hanks are larger than they have
been for several years goes to show that
the money stringency is thing of Tho
past In the metropolis.
The three Patrons of Husbandry in
the Michigan Senate who held the bal
anee of power. have by acting with the
Republicans blocked the scheme OF the
Democrats to gerrymander the state and
control the Congressional districts.
The Iowa state Register says that
while DIR. Jacob II. Gallinger may moi
be stronger man than Mr.. Blair, his
title indicates that he viii not make
speeches six weeks in length and defeat
a good measure merely by his own pro
lixity.
| In the present tariff law the duty or
imported linen thread is per cent
higher than under the old law, but an
extensive manufacturing firm has just
reduced the price of domestic button
| linen threads from So cents to so cents 0
| dozen.
No organization in the country has
rendered more effective service in pro
tecting American industry from ths
unfair competition of the Old World thar
the American Protective Tariff League
and Ii is completely in keeping with it;
| past excellent record that its officers are
now found urging the immediate organ
ization for the approaching presidential
campaign.
Protests against free coinage are going
up to Washington from boards of trade
and other commercial bodies all over
the country. They are of nature to be
needed and it really seems impossible
| that Congress should dare disregard
| them. But if il does there is the strong
| right arm of President Harrison and his
courage and firmness will be equal tC
the great duty that will be placed before
him.
Never in the history of the city-noi
even in the great blizzard of lSSS-haS
| New York experienced so fearful q
storm, nor has such havoc been made
with the telegraph. telephone and cleo
tric wires, as during the storm of Sun
day last. Telegraph poles were pros
trated by the thousand, and miles upon
miles of wires are in a collapse. The
great lesson is--'put the wires under
| ground"
|
c Wood Davis, a Texas farmer and
statistical writer has figured out. in an
article in the + forum that in very few
| years the farmers will be the most pros
porous class in the community. Also
that from 1906 onward this country vii
have to quit exporting cotton, begin
importing breadstufls, or slower the
standard of living" Some of US will
be able to see how his prediction turns
| out.
Every intelligent citizen in all parts OF
the country will endorse the statement
of Congressman Lodge in the debate on
the naval appropriation bill in the House
of Representatives on Friday, as to the
duty, the necessity and the urgency OF
making provisions on comprehensive
scale for putting this country in posi-.
ton where diplomacy with any mari
time power can be backed up by visible
means of defence. 1t is just what the
country needs and what it is surely com
ing to,
1--WE can show the Worlds visitors at
the Columbian Exposition says the
Boston Traveller, ''no grander institu
ton than d Sabbath decently respected,
a day when the laboring man has the
opportunity for rest, and an institution
which gives to the nation moral tone,
which is one of its greatest safeguards -
In this opinion men of all shades of
political and religious opinion will coin
eide. The moral influence of the New
England Sunday is greatly needed in the
modern city of the Plains.
A bill is now pending in the House of
Representatives to repair what looked
like breach of international faith
towards the Hawaiian Islands, by the
passage Of the Mckinley tariff bill, some
of the provisions of which were in con-
travention Of the treaty of reciprocity
between the United States and Hawaii.
President Harrison called attention to
this discrepancy in his last message to
Congress, aud he will soon have the sat-
isfaction Of attaching his signature to a
bill which will show the good faith of
our Government towards that of the
Island Kingdom.
MAINE GOSSIP.
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