The morning call., 1891-06-24
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Referring to the tendency nowadays 10 en-
courage the establishment of manufactures,
Major Mckinley In his Columbus address made
a telling point ag1 lnst the free-traders There
is no section of the country, north or SOUTH"
said the great advocate OF protection, which is
not seeking by every manner OF mducement TO
get manufactures established in their midst.
They are giving donations; they Offering
bOunties; IN some communities they are taxing
themselves and Durdening their property for the
sake of securing industries, which EN-
plOy labor and enlarge their neighborhOOd
markets. 10 the South, the great center Of
Tree trade they are Offering freedom from taxa
lion for ten to twenty years TO those who Will
bring their capital ana invest 10 productive
enterprises, and this by authority Of law. And
while this is going on tbs leaders OF the Demo
cratic party are proposing 10 tear down the pro-
tectiYe tariff and inundate this country with
foreign competing products to dlsplace those
which these very manufactures propose to
make, and which the people are taxing them
selves to establish"
In the establishment Of reciprocity with Mexi-
CO, the millers OF Kansas see opportunities for
disp0sing OF every pound Of their surplus prod
uct, thereby doing away with shipments 10
European markets and The payment OF excessive
rates OF Height The Secretary OF State has con-
Sequently been urged to expedite the negOlta-
tons for reciprocal relations in trade with our
Southern neighbor, so chat the producers Of
Kansas may not be compelled to dispose of the
products OF their mills and farms in European
markets at prices dictated by the -four importers
OF Liverpool and Glasgow and tile pauper. labor
producing countries of the world"
The success OF the whaleback steamer W. L.
Colby In running the rapids OF the ST. Lawrence
River marks new era In ship building on the
great lakes The Colby was too large to enter
the canal locks around the rapids. The plan
submitted by other ship-bullders would have
been to cut the vessel in two amidships, rejO!n-
ing the sections al Montreal, the additional cost
being $4,000. That the trip must have been
an exciting one may be imagined from the great
swiftness Of the current as it boils and eddies
and dashes onward toward the gull.
Chicago merchants view with alarm the dis
position Of the Canadian railroads to cut rates
and divert traffic between New England points
and the Northwest, the rate-cuttlng lines being
under such restrictions as the Interstate com
merce law places on American roads in making
through rates. ii is asserted that aided by such
rates as the Canadian lines are making the
Northwestern trade is literally stocking up IN
New England, while Chicago iobbers are com.
pletely frozen out.
The prospect that the Behring Sea contro-
versy will soon be disposed OF by arbitration re-
wives interest In the fact that the United States
has ben a great promoter of this method OF set
Ting international disputes. Not less than three
arDitrations were provided for in one OF the first
treaties the young republic made, and there have
been forty or fifty arbltralOns since In which
this country was a party IN Interest.
Ex-COngressman Dorsey prOnOunces the crops
OF Nebraska never better than at present, and
argues that good crops will hurt the third party
movement, which would flourish best in ad.
YeFsitY.