The advocate., 1897-08-25

III IL Is lawful TOT men 10 agree 10 quit
work, it can hardly be criminal to ad-
wise or incite' them to do so; and the
circumstances must be very peculiar
to make 1t an Offense to approach the
property of a coal company"
The American: This colonial plan
for imperial federation was long
treated with Jscant courtesy by the
British government, 1t was turned
down with a sneer by the Gladstone
government. But it has now become
the dream, not alone of colonial pre-
miers, but Of Mr.. Chamberlain, and
perhaps the purpose of the British gov
ernment. If it is the purpose, if Bri-
tain Is about to abandon her policy of
worldwide free trade for one Of free
trade within the empire, If she is about
to put discriminating duty on agri-
cultural products to encourage the
trade of her colonies, and with a view
of drawing her food supplies from her
own colonies, thus making the empire
self-supporting, no country will be
more seriously affected than the United
States, for we now supply England
with 40 per cent. Of her food supplies.
The Two Republics Mex: Mr.. Bryan
will find, among other things, that
there is the same disparity between
Mexican gold and Mexican silver as
there is between Mexican silver and
foreign gold. In other words, he will
find that free coinage Of silver in this
country has not established a ratio of
16 to /, and that gold and silver are
not on a parity. He will find this, if
he finds any gold at all. He will find
that dollar is a dollar here, but it is
not dollar when 1t gets into those
foreign markets from which the MeXi-
can merchant buys his goods. And,
at this writing, it is not a half-dollar.
He will not find that silver bullion has
increased in price to $1.29 per ounce,
and he will not find a man in the re-
public who will not give him two silver
dollars for one gold dollar or one paper
dollar with Uncle Sans trade mark
blown upon it.
Springfield Republican: One thing
seems to be certain. Come what may
as respects revenue, the volume Of ex-
pendlture authorized by Congress will
go right on broadening out as IL the
treasury were filled to overflowing.
Nobody has had so much to say Of the
hard times as the statesmen at Wash
ingtOn, but they have not done the first
thing to reduce the costs of government
prOpOTtiOnately to the reduction of the
taX-paying power Of the people. Fed
eral expenditure, on the contrary, con-
tinues to increase. 1t promises this
fiscal year to break all previous records
Of extravaganza. Revenue under the
new tariff is entirely problematical;
but there is no uncertainty in regard to
expenses. The deficit may continue
and become larger, but the problem as
taken up by Congress will remain as of
old, not how to reduce expenditure, but
how to raise more revenue.
Review of Reviews; The English
are superb Colonizers. More than any
other nation they make the solitary
places joyful and the desert to blossom
as the rose. No other race can ap-
proach them in colonizing and in gov
erning ability. In India and Egypt,
in HOngkong and the Straits, they have
brought order out of chaos, and in
Australia and New Zealand they have
found and peopled new continents.
This Is their one amiable weakness as
cOlonizers-they never get weaned,
even in the third and fourth genera
ti0n, from the old home. Admirable
as this power of Britain to claim the
allegiance of all her children, even
though they wander to the antipodes,
the very affection which they bear to
the mother country carries with itsthis
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