Morning journal and courier., 1893-12-26
COMMENTS OF THE STATE PRESS

C0MMENTs OF TIE STATE PRESS
Current Opinion on Live Toplcs-The |
Mckinley Bill Analyzed-American |
ism-Dramatic News Effects In Bra |
zfl-Protection,s Good Effect.
A calm and dispasaionate reading of the |
minority report of the ways and raeans
COMMITTEES, as written by Thomas B. Reed,
shows wherein the Wilson tariff bill is
weak and how the pledges made in the
party platform for tariff for revenue
only have been cast aside. The new bill,
instead of providing q revenue sufficient
to carry ON the government economically
administered" really creates deficiency
of $74, 000, 0e0-just that much below our
income in 1892. Besides this, the large
part of taxation is transferred from the
foreigner to the native citizens. Instead
of doing away with the ''favored classes"
about whom SO much was said during the
last campaign, it creates new ones and fog
ters the old. Mr.. Reed presents mastery
analysis of the new bill and shows why 1t
should not pass.-Ansonia Sentinel.
THE AGE OF AMERIcAN1sM.-
The wave of intense Americanism ina
tional pride) that has overspread this vast
country during the past eight or twelve
months is a sign of the times that lends
peculiarly gratifying significance to the
holiday season. In many of Its manifes-
tations this expression of proud conscious
ness has taken a crude form, and has gone
further with its expression than Is des1r-
able, but We must remember that 1t 10 TO q
large extent q new emotion. 1t will In
tims settle itself and become what Ameri
can manhood has always been, sturdy,
dienifed, and forceful capitalization OF
virtues that brought us political and re-
lipious independence and free form OF
government.-N. 81. Register.
WHAT EXPERIENCE HAS TAUGHT.
It is possible, of course, that the insur-
gents have really captured the Brazilian
capital and that President Peixoto Is
prisoner in their hands, but it is at least
equally likely that they haven't. Exper-
fence has taught us that a very large per-
centage of the "news" from South Ameri-
can states in insurrectionary seasons is
more remarkable from dramatic effective
nees than from accuracy.-HsrtfordC our-
ant.
SLOW PROGRESS OF TARIFF REFORM.
The hundreds of Connecticut artisans
who are forwarding protests to Congress
man sperry against the passage of the
Wilson bill are hearing from him. His re-
plies are great deal more creditable to
| Lewis Sperry than they are to Lewis
Sperry's party: For instance, James
Brsen of Rockville, who was at the head of
| the anti-free trade protest In that city, has
| received this letter from the Hartford con-
gresham:
Ny DEAR S1R-I have received to-day
your letter of December 10, together with
a very numerously signed petition and re-
monstrances in relation to and In opposi-
tlon to the passage OF the Wilson bill.
| Congress will probably adjourn this week
and nothing will be done about the tariff
until after tie holiday recess, when the
bill will be brought up for discussion.
Friends of the bill seem to be confident
that they will pass it through the house,
but my own impression is that the bill
| will lose strength when the members re-
turn heme. It will be no easy task to
| pass the bill in its present state. I am re-
| csiving circumstances from different parts
of the district I should say from what
I see and hear that the bill is not very
popular in most of the northern states.
Yours truly,
LEWIS SPERRY.
This is guardedly worded, but never
theless it is decidedly significant, not only
on account of what 1t says, but also or
account of what it suggests. We are nc
less confident than Mr.. Sperry that tbs
holiday recess will operate against the
Wilson bill.-Waterbury Republican.
MERRY CHRISTMAS
Where Christmas begins first upon tht
earth we cannot say, but with the opening
of Monday next wherever that Is, the day
will be ushered In and will follow the sur
in his daily course around the world
There ia not a civiliz,d or semi civilizsi
nation on which the light will fall, ani
scarcely barbarous people anywhere
upon whom the day will not bring som'
reflected light of gladness, and this is thu
strongest testimony possible to the wide
. spread influence and dominating work O.
, Christianity upon earth. Among the mos
appropriate suggestions of the Christma
will that suggestion have been followed
year.
1t must bs ''merry Christmas" and t.
those who cannot make it SO for them
selves, the help of the more fortunate will
be freely Observation-Disclosures Standard
THE EFFECT OF PROTECTION.
The Mckinley law has never bsen in fav
or with English manufacturers, but tn
proposed Wilson bill is very agreeable t.
them because 1t promises to restore to then
the trade which this protective measur
deprived them of. A comparison of tn
goods imported from the United Kingdom
!, during the years 1889 and 1892 is as fol
l lows: