St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-18
AMONG THE REVIEWS.

is QOuDled in value.
AMONG THE REVIEWS,
The Forum: Andrew Carnegie 'trath
er likes the swing of the question -
the editor asks him to answer and pro-
ceeds to tell What 1 Would Do With
the Tariff if L Were Gar" To keep
free of duty the necessaries of life
used by the many and tax highly the
luxuries of the few" is his primal
principle, and on this hangs his COM
ments and schedules. Considering the
past relations of Mr.. Carnegie to the
tariff and the congresses that have en-
acted them, 1t is safe to assume that,
IL he were car and arranging duties. he
would regard steel rails and structural
Steel as luxuries enjoyed by the few
and tax imports of them severely. In
1act, he says there should be no fur
Their reductions of the tariff on these
because the duty on them is trif1ing."
Out of the SIT, 600 collected in Gus
toms in 1892 $114,0O0,00 are designated
by him as 'luxuries of the rich in
which he tables wool, cotton and flax
manufactures as, he says, the impor-
tations of these were of the grades
only that wealthy people buy. The
treasury reports tell us why this was
so. On wooden cloths valued at not
above 80 cents pound in 1893 the unit
of value of imports was q cents a
yard and the duty imposed was equiv
alent to 163 per cent, while on the
highest-priced cloths, whose unit of
value was $1.14 cents a yard, the equiv
alent ad valorem duty was IS per cent.
The same was true of cottonS and flax
fabrics. Admitting its theoretical JUS
tice he would have no income tax, be-
cause OF the demoralizing effect it has
on the tender consciences of those
subject to it. Recalling his former
proposition for the unification of the
governments of all the English-speak-
ing peoples one reads with some sur
prise his objection to Treer trade rela-
tons with Canada, because she loves
allegiance to foreign power, founded
upon monarchical institutions, which
may always be trusted at heart to de-
spise the republican idea. Having ad-
justed his tariff he would have no
change in it for ten years, and then; IL
the tariff had given the home maker
of an article mot used exclusively by
the rich a monopoly of the market, he
would reduce the rate, and if he had
not obtained the monopoly he would in
crease the rate. After going through
the article one can understand the COM
placency of the writer which allows
him to refer to Mr.. Wilson as "ineX-
perienced.'
Frederic Harrison contributes study
OF Charlotte Bronte to determine her
place in Literature" Naturally and
inevitably his comments center on
Jane Eyre" on which almost alone
will rest her claim to any permanent
place in the literary world, and whose
title to place there is because into
it she poured 1.-The very soul of one
proud, loving girl Literature has
many such. Most of the books of pro-
life writer's are but the expansions of
one of them. Editors of magazines re-
mark the number of one-article writers.
Into the sanctum comes some powerful
article and the editor congra tulates
himself that he has discovered new
genius that will set the world of letters
ablaZe. But no further message comes
| The writer has exhausted himself. Into
the one article he has poured his one
| great life experience. So was Char
! lotte Bronte whose "Jane Eyre" as Mr..
! Harrison summarizes, with all it's
| faults, narrowness of range, it's occa-
| sional extravaganza, will long be re-
membered as one of the most creative
| influences of the Victorian literature,
| one of the most poetic pieces of Eng
lish romance, and among the most
vivid masterpieces in the rare order of
| literary Confessions"
| Hamilton w Mabie comes down into
the arena where the adherents of the
realistic and idealistic schools of ro-
nance are holly arguing the suprem-
| acy of their respective schools and
commands silence while he tells them
| they each are both right and wrong;
| that each is but the other side of the
| shield of truth and fact, and that each
1 has a right to exist and a useful place
/ in the divine economy of literature.
Each is a natural development from
pre-existing conditions. LAS a matter
of fact, the particular activity to which
men give themselves with passionate
| ardor in any given half-century is ths
j activity from which they are likely
| to turn away in the succeeding fifty
! years, and the form of art they are
| practicing today is the form likely to
| fail into desuetude tomorrow. If the
logical faculties bear the weight OF
work in. one generation, the magma.
ton must take its turn in the next Sc
man works out his nature and lives his
| life" AS the realists seemed domi.
| nant but few years ago, so the ideal
lists are now in fun swing, but 1.-THE
novel of realism will continue to bt
written, read and enjoyed
Prof. Seligman enters the lists
| against Mr.. Wells and others, and
supports the constitutionaiity and just
ice of the income tax. He traces the
| development of the term direct tax
to ascertain the intent of its use in
the Constitution, and shows that i
had no precise meaning, Adam Smith
| refusing to accept the ideas of the
physiocrats that tax on land was thy
only direct tax, and no answer being
given to Mr.. Kings request in the con
stftutional convention for a precise