The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-12-15

npSiay. In iDelT EdilhHt dittihb't ~ $500
| Gle the income tax here and now.
This urgent deficiency appropriation to
enable an fniquity has passed the House
simplv because the Republican managers
do NOT intend 20 let the Democracy escape
any Of the consequences OF its Shameiui
surrender to Populism. Scarcely quo
rum OF the House voted on the question
The Republican leaders made no secret
OF their motive in Withholding votes,
which unquesuonably would have gone
against the Populist tax had the propo-
s.tion been Republican proposition 10
repeal the same. This may be shrewd
politics. but II Is scrubby patriotism.
The first duty OF good citizenship Is TO
Kill the snake with any club that offers,
and regardless OF the direction in which
IL seems TO be crawling.
This opportunity 10 rise above petty
partlsanship our Republican friends In
the House have missed.
New York Times: What will our Repub-
lican friends say now about the attitude
OF their party in the Senate toward the
discriminating duty OF lilo OF a cent
pound on sugar from Germany and the
Trusts protective differential of IS Of
cent on sugar that has been refined.
We have repeatedly directed attention
to the fact. which Is admitted by promi-
licans OF the Senate, under the leader
ship Of Mr.. Aldrich, were in alliance with
Mr.. German and his group Of Sugar Trust
Democrats at the last session. and that
the alliance has continued TO exist since
the beginning OF the present session, the
purpose of it being to prevent, in the
interest of the Sugar Trust, the removal
Of these TWO duties
Ill. u haI
Tennoyer, and Colorado Waite to repre-
sent them in the United States Senate,
the Scnator-eiect from South Carolina
might not have been so lonesome as he
now promises TO be; but what Senator
Tillman may lack in cOngeniai companion
ship he VIII make up in conspicuity For
"A man who has no opinions but fighting
opinions. no respect for precedents. no
regard for order, and no belief that any
thing IS right except what he thinks is
right. the Senate Of the United states
will be a field Of action full of promising
possibilities. Caliban, beset by Pros
pero's apes, hcdgehogs and adders. was
not more uncomfortable nor more VindC-
tive than Mr.. Tillman viii be tangled IN
senatorial toggeries ana traditions, and
set upon by smooth and sharp-tOngued
associates, who will hiss him into mad
ness" and make his place hot for him
by their intOlerant tolerance There will
be fun with the gentleman from South
Carolina.
New York World The Kaiser viii not
be gratifiCd In his desire TO prosecute as
traitors members Of the Reichstag who
refused TO cheer when mis- name was men
toned. The committee TO which the pro-
posal was referred rejected it by 9 to 4
a vote which ought to remind the Kaiser
Of the respect he failed TO show the Ger
man throne and German people when he
made his puerile proposition.
New York Herald: We have heard of
a man who was too kind to chop off his
dogs tail all at once. and nipped an
inch from it every day.
If Mr.. Lyman j. Gage, the Chicago
banker, ever locked his animals tails he
would probably do it in that way. He
writes to the House Committee on Bank
ing and Currency that the true principles
Of a credit currency cannot be cached
by any one step, and that years may
intervene before it could be realized
Tie monetary system is too important
and delicate a subject to be dealt with
on any step-by-step plan involving
series of legislative enactments extending
over years and keeping the country I'm
constant apprehension. Now that the
question IS fairly before the people il
must be settled once for all.
Boston Transcript: The Evening Tran
script has kept a record Of football ac-
cidents made public during the past sea-
son, beginning September 18th and ending
December 5th. From the exhibit il APP
pears that more than fifty accidents, more
or less severe, have occurred. Three
players have died. one was paralyzed,
and one became insane. The list is inn
pressve enough 10 call for radical re-
forms in football methods
No surrender