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Mr.. Cleveland in his letter to Chairman
Wilson of the House Ways and Means
Committee uses the personal pronoun
either directly or in some relative form
6S times. "I'' appears in 20 places, 1--WE"
In 10, Our in II, "Us" in q, "Mep in 8,
''My'' in 8, myself, In /, and "Our-
selves in l. Perhaps this may explain
why the President labeled his letter
Personal"
A definite limit to debate and posi-
lively no limit to trickery is what the
tariff thinkers want in the House. They
know that nothing can be accomplished
by talk, but they have great faith in the
efficacy of Mr.. Cleveland's whiplash.
When the eagle screams next Fourth
of July his vosiferous voice will be heard
in Hawaii as we'll as in the United
States. The proud bird o. freedom has
built perch in Honolulu and is there to
stay.
1t is cruel of the Arkansas Populists to
threaten to ''smash Wall street" A
little inquiry would show them that
Wall street was tolerably fiat already.
Now Breckenridge of Kentucky ought
to be sent as envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary to Coventry.
According to Bishop Watterson and
Mgr. Satolli, it is going to be almost as
difficult for a Catholic in the liquor bust
ness to enter the Kingdom of Heaven as
for a camel to pass through the eye of a
needle.
In the injunction which was OBJ
tanned in the New York courts against
Lillian Russell, she was described in cold,
legal type as person possessed of su-
perlative personal attractions" Wemay
shortly expect to see this on the illu-
minated bill boards.
The gold reserve is lowering in the vi
cinity Of S62, 900, 900, which is the lowest
point on record. This is record-break-
ing Administration.
The appointment of Congressman
Breckenridge of arkansas to the mission
to Russia, is of the nature of eonsola-
ton prize. Has the President enough
of them to distribute among other Dem
ocratic statesmen who will be out of a
job after next March?
The work of the Federal Grand Juries
at Chicago and st. Paul should convince
actual or intending strikers that it is
not safe to interfere with Uncle Sans
mails.
Having been repulsed by Uncle Sam,
Cousin Canada is now trying to CO.
quette with President Dole of Honolulu.
Reciprocity is what the new Republic of
Hawaii is seeking, and if we are not care
full Canada will outstrip us. The present
administration should bear in mind that
Hawaii is great sugar" country.
Men, for the Investigators of the Sugar
Trust scandal: Let no guilty Senator
escape unless he can show that his stock
was ordered by the cook.
Ex-Speaker Reeds speech in the
House Friday was masterpiece of
argument and sarcasm whose arrows,
winged with truth and barbed with the
inimitable wit of the able Republican
leader, went strait to their mark. 1t is
no wonder that the Democratic leaders
writhed under the arraignment which the
ex-Speaker drew up with such skill and
delivered with such force. Mr. Reed
sounded the true keynote of Republican
ism when he said: ave believe, not in
the success of the North, but in the
success of the whole country, and we
stand ready to give the South the benefit
of the laws of the land, which make
higher wages for men and an increase of
wealth for all, as freely and readily as we
give it our own people," This one sem
tence summarizes the principles of pro-
lection.