Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-12-26
EDITORIAL OPINIONS.


What would be the use of protective
tariff on wool and iron when both com
modities are lower in this country than
in Europe?-Kansas City Star, Ind
Now. that Mr.. Depew has announced
that Mr.. Vanderbilt is not after office
the latter will advance several yards in
popular estimation. Nothing is so OBJ
noXious to a man who desires to serve
the public as to witness the greed or
others to do the same thing.
Journal, Rep.
No little regret is felt in the United
States senate over Don Cameron's pros
pective retirement. No senator of recent
years has been able to approach Gamer
on in the eloquence and dignity with
which he makes his stated motion that
the senate do now adjourn.-Albany Ar
gus, gold.
One of the strange things in connection
with the present condition of American
industry is that so many iron and tin
plate mills are starting up without any
assistance from the government in the
shape of more protection. Can the edvo-
Gates of a high tariff explain the phe
nomenon?-Detroit Free Press, Dem
The boiling democrats of Missouri have
solemnly declared their opposition to
trusts. They did not rush to extremes
bitterness They simply remarked in a
perfectly lady-like way that they thought
the trusts We're real mean. 1t is to be
hoped that this will not cost any of the
boilers their jobs.-Kansas City Times,
Dem. 5i#r.s--
The laws of etiquette in England may
be inexorable, as Ambassador Bayard
observed in his letter to his fellow-coun-
trymen in London, explaining his alb
sence from their Thanksgiving dinner.
They seem to have been more or less
elastic. however. where they permitted
the ambassador to say that nothing short
of the command of the Queen would have
found him dining with her majesty at
Windsor instead of with the Americans
in London.-Boston Herald, Ind.
Senior Antonio Canovas del Castillo is
again Haunting Spanish hate in his re-
marks about the United States. Not con-
tent with calling us "a nation of shop
keepers" he now says that Uncle Sam
will never be able to take down the Span
ish flag in Cuba until he has won 1t after
a glorious Trafalgar in front of Havana.
The wrath of a Canovas is something ter
rible but it would take grit, generalship
and fierce fighting on both sides to dupli-
cate Trafalgar, and Spain has none too
much of those qualities Her.
aid, rep.
fortunately, however, the Texas Is by
no means a fit representative of our
American navy. and the responsibility for
such disgrace as this country has sus-
tanned in the misfortune of the Texas
should be laid exactly where it belongs.
Including the various repairs which have
been made in the machinery of the vessel
since it was first launched it has cost the
government no less than So, 000, 600 If
the statement sent out from washington
is correct this sum of money might just
as well have been sunk into the Ches-
apeake.-Atlanta Constitution, dem.
Senator Jones' suggestion that an addi-
tional dollar a barrel be placed on beer in
order to meet the deficit in the revenues,
is not likely to please the republicans.
Firstly, because they are not taking
democratic advice, and, secondly, because
their plan is to proceed to general tariff
revision. which will Involve the raising
of the protective duties on a number of
staples. The tariff on wool and wooden
manufactures will not doubt be the cheap
republican method of increasing the rev.
enues, SO that they.are not apt to attack
the poor mans beer."-Minneapolis
Times rep.
The favor which the proposition for
tariff commission is gaining among re-
publicans shows that the time when the
tariff will be taken out of politics, MAY
be much nearer than anybody yearior
| two ago supposed it to be. The neces-
! sity for framing tariff bill acceptable
| enough to the country to have reason
able chance to stand for a long time with
| only minor changes is more obvious and
urgent now than it was a dozen or
score of years ago, for the country has
seen q good deal of the injurious effects
of frequent tinkering in recent years.
This necessity will give the proposition
| for a. board of tariff experts considerable
strength with the peopfe.-St. Louis
Globe-Democrat Rep.
The republican party, through it's chos-
en- representatives must take UP this
great question In a statesmanlike and
patriotic spirit. TIE members OF the
house. ways and means committee,
through frequent conferences with the
northumberland all this, under the
circumstances. Is not only allowable. but