Morning journal and courier., 1893-06-28
SOME COOL EXPEDITIONS.

Some people are never satisfied, and their
dissatisfaction takes queer forms of ex-
preston. For instance, there are those
who can't rest while the North Pole re-
mains unvisited. And just now there is
quite an outbreak of these dissatisfied ones.
Four separate expeditions are to penetrate
into the mysterious regions of the frozen
north during the present summer. Their
respective leaders are Dr.. Nansen of Nor
way, Lieutenant Peary of our navy, Col.
Glider of New York and +. g. Jackson
representing the Royal Geographical sooi-
ETY. of Great Britain. Each of them has
had some previous experience in polar ex-
ploration; and though their respective pur-
poses now are different from each other,
there will, of course, be friendly rivalry
between them in respect to the amount
that each can add to the sum of humsn
knowledge. Psary'spurpose is to determine
the nature and extent of the new archipel-
ago which, on former journey, he disoov-
cred north of Greenland He will make
the important stages of his journey on
sledges. Nansen, whose object is to reach
the Pole, will go all the way by boat, aud
in a specially designed craft which he
thinks will resist all pressure from the Ice
foes. The jackson expedition will aim at
the same end, but will make the attempt
on eledges, undeterred by the probability
of encountering an opsn sea. Glider will
seek not 30 much the North Pole as the
magnetic pole" which is supposed to
have moved several degrees in the present
century.
1t has been soberly argued that the fear
of death Is one of the weakest influences to
when one reads of such schemes as thess
the argument appears to be well founded.
A FREE TRADERS CONFESSION.
Mr.. Lasc.lles Carr, editor of the West
ern Mail, of Cardiff, Wales, has been
travelling in this country and has learned
something. For instance, he W rites to his
paper that he has become convinced that
In this country a workman earns nearly
twice as much as he would in England,
and the cost of living, except In the matter
of rent and clothing, is about the same
He is, free trader, and yet he confesses
that throughout the length and breadth of
this vast continent one Ii almost daily
brought face to face with the solid, indis-
putable facts that seem to give the lie to
the soundest and most universally accepted
axioms of political economy. AS an illus
trof ha hoo 10 b.,
shadow of a stringent protective tariff the
manufacture of paper commenced in the
United States. Paper ia still subject to
heavy import duty. According to our
theories that ought to enhance its
price to the consumer in this coun-
try. AS a matter of fact the New
York newspaper proprietors buy their
''news" at a less price than that at which
It could be supplied them in London, and
some of the paper mills in New Jersey
are actually exporting paper to the old
country. Unless 1t can be shown that
this paper industry would have grown up
without the aid of protective tariff 1t Is
futile-nsy, 1t is an impertinenoe-for an
outsider to say that the Americans have
acted unwisely in taxing themselves for
few years in order to establish In their
midst great industry, giving occupation
to great quantity of highly pricsd labor.
AID 1t seems to me that this set of facts
and the arguments based on it apply to
many other industries which are assum-
ing such colossal proportions throughout
the length and breadth of the land.
This reads very much like Republican
campaign speech, but 1t isn't one. 1t ia
the confession of free trader who has
found the same difficulty that many 9th
ers have found in.reconoiling the facts of
protection with the theory of free trade.