The morning call., 1894-04-26
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

One form OF robbery is as bad as the other
There is no need for either. One Is taxation OF
he many for the benefit OF the few, the other is
taxation of the few for the benefit of the many.
And the income tax Is just now thousand
times more dangerous than the sugar bounty,
because it is the entering wedge of socialism,
New York Sun.
Miss Estele Clayton tells the Professional
Women's League OF New York that the sex
barrier must be broken down, land then we shall
have individuals running the race together"
This opens up halcyon vista, although. as a
matter OF fact, feminine individuals already
run large part of the masculine race.-Phila-
delpba Record.
In 1943 the great Disrseli declared in a
speech in Parliament: Free trade Is not a
principle; Ii Is an expedienL" That IS as true
to-day as 1t was when uttered, bur the strange
thing is that any intelligent citizen of the United
States can be found to-day who even regards it
as a wise expedient.-New York Commercial
Advertiser.
The Police Department of this city is in a
condition of extreme hilarity because Police
Captain Dpvery was not convicted. The people
OF New York realize now fully that vast con-
spiracy exists In that department to protect
accused officials and TO save lawbreakers from
the penalties which they deserve.-New York
Tribune.
Perhaps, after all, the income tax provision
OF Professor Wilson's bill Is looked upon as
harmless by It's advocates. IL is possible they
realize that II Professor Wilson's bill should
pass nobody In this country will have an iu-
come ltrge enough to be worth taxing.-New
York Mail and Express.
The appalling possibility that Paramount
ho noI1n ar in, 70 in,
vestigate the Bluefields imbroglo suggests the
ACCESSIBILITY of sending some one down there by
an early boat to nall the stars and stripes to
the Observation-Disclosures Inquirer.
Boss McKaue writes TO friend from Sing
Sing saying that he did not boiler about the last
election at all, but left 1t to others for whose
misdeeds he now has to pay the penalty. New
ertheless. the last election is bothering him.
Omaha Bee.
II Is about time for Voorhees, to step forward
with another OF his periodical predictions Of
the early passage of the tariff bill, matter
about which he probably knows less than any
other member of the Senate.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
A large number OF the members of the Fifty
third Congress put in one OF the most useful
afternoons OF the session yesterday. They left
off what they have been calling business and
went to baseball match.-St. Louis Star-Say.
ings.
Ii Mr. Depew wants 10 be President he should
not say word for publication during the next
two years; but what loss that would be to the
instruction as well as to the gayety Of the ma
lions New York Recorder.
We are decidedly In favor Of giving the city
OF Washington all the home rule she wants IL
she will agree to return the compliment. The
rest OF the country is ruled too much at Wash
ington.-St. Louis Republic.
After reading about the New York man who
was awarded verdict OF cents for the loss OF
his luxuriant whiskers Senator PETER is proba.
bly, wondering II life is really worth living
Chicago Times.
Mrs. Lease may be standing In the middle
OF the road" but she is not begging cold vIctuals
and stealing rides on her way to Washington.
She Is not that kind OF a commonwealth
Chicago Inter Ocean.
The seventeen-year locusts are due in these
ATTITUDES this season. They evidently want one
more sweep at the country before the free-trade
devastators get TO work.-New York Press.
B. Clark Wheeler, son.in-law Of Governor
Waite, is to take charge Of Populist organ In
Denver, Colo Denver has been s0rely afflicted
Of late.-New YORK World.
st. Gaudens' statute of General Logan has
been approved. 1t is needless to say that the
artist put the general into full suit Of clothes.
st. Louis Pest Dispatch.
Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris has decided to
make Washington her permanent home. Let