News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-08-23
NOTES


The average duty on the new tar
if bill is 3S per cent. In the Morrill,
war tariff OF 1862 the average was
SO per cent. In 1873 and 1874 it
was 3S per cent. The new bill makes
an average reduction of about 20
per cent. from the Mckinley bill.
Apparently the Chinese policy is to
confine the war as much as possible
to the land. If the greater portion
of the fighting is done there they feel
confident of victory, while in sea bat
ties they are plainly second to Japan.
utthe latter may have something
to say about this arrangement.
On fifty-one articles the duties in
the new tariff bill are higher than in
the Mckinley law. The increases
range from a fraction of one per
cent. to $50 per cent. Is there any
tariff reformer who can explain why,
if protection is robbery, consumers
should be forced to additional rob-
berry on these articles?
The income tax provision in the
tariff bill is so vague and complicat-
ed that the ablest lawyers are puz-
zled as to its exact requirements.
Already preparations are under way
to contest it in the courts as uncon-
stitutional, and it is likely the gov
erDment will have long fight before
it collects much revenue by this
means.
It the average quantity, 125,000,-
600 gallons, of whiskey is now in
bond, it is estimated that the whis-
key trust will make $25, 100000
should the new tariff bill become a
law. With a $25,0OO,0OO or $780,
100000 gratuity to the sugar trust,
tariff reform seems to have simmered
down to combine of whiskey and
sugar.
Reports from Corea indicate that
in both the Japanese and Chinese
armies there is much sickness. Under
the conditions in which the soldiers
are living only strict sanitary meas
ures will preserve health, and it is
probable that very litUle attention is
paid to that branch. So no one will
be surprised if disease claims almost
as many victims as the field of battle.
The western counties of Kansas are
undergoing a depopulation of sur
prising extent because of the arid
nature of the soil, In twenty-five
counties, lying in the most western
section of that State, the decrease in
population during the last eight
years has been from 100000 to 49,
600. The whole State has diminished
in numbers since last year 1862,
owing, as already intimated, partly
to the necessity of artificial irriga-
ton in section of the State, but
largely from the political craze which
has afflicted Kansas the past three
years, driving capital into other
States, and exciting doubts as to the
security of property.
Rudyard Kippling's seven words
for 81 said to be the highest price
paid any literary man of our times,
reads very small in comparison with
what was paid Judge Paxton for a
literary article, says the Springfield
Republican. Until Mcleod came on
the scene the Reading railroad had
used an old sign at the crossings.
Beware of the Engines and Cars, "
with a mass of further instructions
in small print. In some suits for
damages it was claimed that the
warnings we're not clear. Mcleod
went to Judge Paxton, who COM
posed this admirable notice, Grail
road Crossing-Stop, Look and List
en-! !" For this little composition he
received the modest sum of 81, 7S0,
or over $796 &C a word. When it
comes to emoluments the poets are
not in it with the lawyers.