The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-12-24

1here are kind and cOnSlderate per-
sons apparently who would save us
from any trouble of running our Gov
ernment ut all and could make money
for themselves by furnishing our pa
per circulation and by arranging our
tariff schedules. For the latter pur-
pose it seems that a Tariff League
has been organized. which has laid its
plan before Mr.. Mckinley at Canton.
This precious project is TO relieve
Congress and the Executive of all trou-
BILE about tariff \ commission of sew
enteen is to be created. nominated by
the President and confirmed by the
Senate. The House of Representative.
and the voters are to have nothing TO
DO with it. The commission should
have It's power to regulate the tariff at
all times, and to change at will the
rates of duty. 1t is urge6r-up0p the
President-elect as demand of the bIssi;--
ness community and as meeting the
requirements of the times. and likely
to be satisfactory to manufacturing
corporations. This suggestion is not
only impossible to accomplish; it is pre-
pOsterous and absurd
Our Foreign Relations.
The foreign relations of the Omitted
States will undoubtedly occupy much
attention at Washington during the
winter session Cuba. Venezuela and
Hawaii are the points of interest.
Add to these the Armenian and Tur4
kish troubles, the high-handed conduct
of British Colonial officials on our
Northwestern frontier, the unsettled
seal fishery claims and the new Ger
man port charges complication and it
can easily be seen that there are inter-
national questions enough to interest
the diplomatic world. Most of them
will probably settle themselves. or go
over for the consideration of the incom-
ing administration. but some must. and
several may, press for earlier action and
come upon the carpet with the new
year.
The impression is very general that
Major Mckinley is favorable to the-rec-
ognition, perhaps the annexation, Of
Cuba, and is also committed TO the ac-
QUESTION of Hawaii as Il Territory of
the United States. Both these propso-
ais involve questions of race. and it is
probably for that reason that the pres
ent administratio has shrunk from
handling them
The uniting to the United States OF
either Cuba or Hawaii would bring to
us large non-Caucasian contingents Of
population. upon whom, under our Fed
eral Constitution, the right of suffrage
must be conferred equally with its en-
'oyment by whites. The negroes and
nulattoes of Cuba and the Kaukas.
Japanese and Chinese of Hawaii, would
I'll become fullfedged citizens of the
United States Whether President
Mckinley will favor measures TO bring
about this parti-colored complexion. for
the American people remains to- be
seen. 1t is possible that the sympathy
we all feel for the Cubans and the
Hawaiians may not after all. be furtb-
er invoked than to carry out a scheme
of protectorate or colonial connection
Poverty and Crime.
Statistics prove beyond the shadow
of a doubt that crime increases as the
opportunity for work decreases. This
seems to be at least the result of a nat
ural law. if not natural law itself.
The present carnival of crime is a veri-
tication of it, though by no means the
first given in the worlds history.
The average mans heart may be. it
doubtless is, more or less corrupt and
desperately wicked The. BiJs4euaASrs
so. and experience indicates it. But
at the same time he would prefer the
bread of honesty to the fruit of theft.
When times are good there is COM
;paratively little crime against--tha
rights of property: in seasons of depres-
sion thieves become bold and desper-
ate.
What better proof is there that gov
ernment. MS Il measure of self-defense,
should afford all of its citizens the OPP
portunity to work? Legislation should
be directed to this end. instead of be-
ing shaped for the purpose of Cutting
the market with labor, and beating
down the price of toll
1t is said that the hour of necessity
always develops ihe man of resources.
Who will solve the problem before us
to-day? Who will guide the people
from Il condition that threatens nation
al life?
Every tramp is Il menace to society
TO property. In seasons of prosperity
there are few of them: to-day there are
a million. Can we expect them to be
honest? Who would preach the sane
tity of property rights to starving
man and expect that man TO agree with
him?
Jails and penitentiaries are expensive
luxuries. 1t is doubtful if they would
be necessary at all under system rec
OgniZing the right of all to live
Tariff Taxation.
1t is perfectly appropriate. and ac-
cOrdin1 TO the eternal fitness of things