The morning call., 1891-08-27
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Mckinley, in his vigorous address at Niles, al
luding TO the Democratic majority in the next
House, suggested that 1t would present to The
country It's plan aud purpose OF tariff law.
" VIII The new plan BE- fashioned after the Mills
BILL which The country so emphatieally rejected
in 1SSS?'' asked Major Mckinley. VIII it
have free wool and fax and hemp? VIII ex-
pose The products of agriculture to the unre-
strained competition Of Canada and other COM
petlng countries? VIII 1t strike deadly blow
at Northern capital and labor? VIII il put
sugar back on the dutiable list at 2Js cents a
pound, where the Mills bill proposed to put it,
or will ii accept tile horizontal process invented
by Mr.. Morrison for revising the tariff? | long
TO see Ibis model and symbol Of Tariff REFORM
WIN 1t be fashioned by Cleveland after the
British plan, or constructed by Hill after the
Randall model? When 1t comes the cOuu ry
can look AZ it-it will be a spectacle TO behold.
New England free raw material, FOR which the
mugwumps and reformels voted last year to re-
store the Democratic party TO power. will be left
out-just as it was left out In the Mills BILL"
Eastern nautical men are now considering the
plans of a steamer which its designer thinks can
make the transatlantic voyage in four days.
The vessel is TO be furnished with six propellers
so arranged that they can he used In pairs or all
together She VIII be independent OF steam
steering gear and can be handled even after los
Ing her rudder Everything offering resistance
TO tile air Will be eliminated as Ii, ely to retard
speed; consequently cabins, deek-houses and
such impedmenta VIII have no place in her CON
structiOn. The hull Is 10 possess twice the
streng b OF ordinary ocean steamships and the
shaft can never be sprung out of line. Such a
vessel would be in great favor with tile
squeamish, for 1t Is claimed it would neither
roll nor toss.
Have protective tariffs piled up the debts OF
the United States ?" asked Major Mckinley, re-
Gently. " Lei the record answer" The Treasury
dtsclOses how the public debt IS being Teduc d.
lii twenty years, from 1870 TO 1890 inclusive,
the Federal debt was cut down from $3.50, 00O,-
600 to S98S, 100000. the State debts have been
reduced from S352. 900, 900 10 SI52 600 900.
and The county debts have been reduced from
S7,o00,OOO to S115,o0o,Ooo. In the same
time our population has Increased from 80, 55S,-
81 to 62,622.2oo, so that the per capita tax
only S2S compared with nearly SIC twenty years
ago.
Until the new tariff law went into effect the at
tempts of American manufacturers 10 compete
with foreign lace-curtaln makers met with poor
success, ii not absolute failure. With the en-
couragement given by the tariff TWO factories are
about to be established at PHILADELPHIA and
Camden for the manufacture of tue finest quality
Of Brussels lace curtains and the m dunn quality
tambour The policy that puts up a factory or a
mill where nothing was before and turns every
idle wheel ana spindle IN the land is bound to
win in the long run.
England has just made arrangements with the
Canadian Government for the transportation OF
British troops 10 India by way OF the Canadian
Pacific Railway in the event of there being
war and a Russian blockade Of the Suez Canal is
the announcement made by a London cabIegram
Italian papers now declare that the Treasury
deficit for the last fiscal year will prove to be
9O,000.000 llre-about SIS, ,000, 900. Italy's pol
icy of antagonizing France has had the effect OF
reducing her exports TO that country and materi-
ally cutting down the demand for her bonds.