The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-01-03
SPIRIT OF TUE PRESS.

MARKING TINE, NOT MARCHING.
The Brooklyn Eagle says: did anyone
ever know of tariff bill which was not
put upon its final passage under high pres
sure and subject to the charge OF gag law
and unfairness: That is the way in which
the Mckinley bill was passed, at the last,
and those are the charges which were lev
eled against the party which put it through.
Exactly the same remark holds good as to
the Wilson bill, or law, since it is now a
law. Consequently no citizen, not an ultra
partisan, will be impressed with like
charges and imputations concerning the
passage by the House of Representatives
on Thursday of a bill comprising some
amendments of the existing tariff enact
ment. 1t is something for which Demo
Gratis could not well vote, because it puts
a duty on wool and some other things
which they treated in different way in
the Wilson law. To be sure it contains a
concession to Democratic precedent, in as
much as it recognized the horizontal prin-
ciple introduced into the almost forgotten
Morrison tariff bill. The Democrats them
selves, owever were not fond enough of
that principle to introduce it into the Viii
son measure, and the Republican recur-
renee to it on Thursday did not carry any
Democrats to the support of the scheme,
nor did it commend it to several Republ-
cans who, nevertheless, voted for it under
party pressure.
The Republicans are boasting that their
passage of tariff amendments ''for revenue
only is a patriotic response to the mes
sage of the President upon the condition
of the country. 1t is not such response,
but the Republicans need not be charged
with falsehood in saying that it is. They
have simply persuaded themselves that it
is, and there is no more doubt of the sim
cerity of their delusion than of the frequent
capacity of men or of parties to delude
themselves without much difficulty. The
inclination is rarely wanting, and the in
clination appears to be all that is neces
sary"
THREE WARS IN THREE ISLANDS
The New York Sun of Saturday says:
There have this year been three wars not
unlike each other, from military point of
view-the war of the French in the Island
of Madagascar, that of the japanese in the
Island of Formosa, and that of the Span
iards in the Island of Cuba. For some
reason, there was long delay in beginning
the French advance upon the capital of
Madagascar; but, after active operations
had been begun, they were short and de-
GIVE The japanese campaign for the re-
duction of Formosa has been carried on
titfully and egularly during the year, and
| we suppose it must now be regarded as at
an end, with success for japanese arms.
The Spanish war upon the people of Cuba
began early in in the year, and has been
carried on up to this time without seeming
| to approach its end.
| Neither the French war in Madagascar
nor the japanese war in Formosa was a
war against freedom, as is the Spanish
war upon Cuba. That may be one reason
WHY Spain has been less successful than
France and Japan. 1t is often hard to
crush people who rise in arms for liber-
ty"
| NEW YORK AFTER THE CONVENTION.
| The New York Herald says: Il view of
the great benefit that must accrue to the
business interests and trade relations of
New York by holding the next democratic
national convention here the Herald takes
pleasure in announcing that it will head
the subscription list for that purpose with
the sum of ten thousand dollars, provid-
| ed the rest of the amount required be
subscribed by the business men of the
city. The commercial value of the con-
vention to tie metropolis is recognized
and appreciated by the representative
merchants and citizens no are moving
to secure it with commendable public
spirit and with and without regard to po-
litical considerations. This value lies not
so much in the money that will be spent
here by the thousand of persons who will
be drawn to the city by the convention
though that is a very material consideration
as in the promotion of trade relations
that must naturally follow. The delegates
and visitors will comprise traders and
buyers from all parts of the country who
will naturally have an eye to business
while in the metropolis. They will come
into contact with our merchants and
manufacturers, with the result OF
strengthening old and opening up new
trade relations