Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-07-26
VA SRlNGTON LETTER.
ESPECIAL oonaEsroaDHNon OF THE MONITOR

abandon attending the dedication OF
the Logan statue in Chicago, owing to
the delay in disposing of the tariff
bill. He did so very reluctantly, as
he was anxious to be there, but duty
came first. He did not wish to be
away from Washington when the tar
iff bill is finally acted upon by Con-
gress, as it is certain to be this week,
now that the conferees have reached
an agreement, notwithstanding the
threat of coterie of democratic and
populist Senators to delay the &C
ceptance of the conference report by
the Senate. These threats were prob
ably made for effect before the agree
ment was reached, as nothing can be
gained by delaying the acceptance OF
the report and even democrats and
populists are not likely to engage in
butting their heads against the rock
wall of public opinion when they can
get nothing by doing so.
The country is to be congratulated
that the House conferees had their
way about the important schedules of
the tariff bill; also the republican
party, and the result is largely due to
the practical unanimity of the repub-
lican press in declaring the House
schedules to be preferable to those of
the Senate. This was especially true
of the sugar schedule, the most
troublesome of them all. To have
agreed to the Senate schedule would
have furnished the opponents of the
republican party with great deal Of
campaign material without aiding any
American industry or adding to the
revenues of the government. This
fact was fully recognized by Speaker
Reed and the republican members Of
the House, and too much credit can
not be given them for taking the
stand that the Senate schedule would,
under no circumstances be agreed to
by the House. Quite number Of re-
publican Senators also assisted in the
good work by condemning the Senate
sugar schedule.
The tariff bill, az it now stands, is
not perfect-nothing of human con-
struction is-but it is good bill, and
will be endorsed by all who believe in
a protective tariff, and will add to the
believers in protection. It will en-
able many thousand Americans to get
the profitable employment they have
been without for four years, and will
at the same time, produce all the re-
Id %T,0
ment. No one man deserves more
credit for this bill than Mr.. Dingley,
whose name the bill bears. Since last
December, he has worked early and
late on the measure, and if the Ding
ley tariff proves as popular as its sup
porters expect, who knows but its
author may not in the course of time |
be as highly rewarded as was the au-
thor Of the Mckinley tariff. Here's |
hoping that Dirgley times may be as
prosperous as Mckinley times, and [ I
am sure that Mr.. Dingley would rath- T
er see the country prosperous than
to be President.
There is little probability that this
government will take any notice Of
Japan's protest against the annexa-
ton of Hawaii, not because Of any
particular desire 60 snub Japan, but |
because Secretary Sherman's reply to
Japan's first protest covered the
ground so fully that no other answer
is needed. The action of the Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations in
foTnro hlu he
treaty was additional notice to Japan,
and all the rest of the world, that an
nexation is going to be accomplished
regardless of the opinions or wishes
of other nations.
No official of the administration nor
member Of either branch OF Congress
takes seriously the English made ru-
NOR that Spain and Japan had form
ed an alliance to make war upon the
United States. Nobody in Washing
ton would be the slightest bit worried
even if it were known that such an
alliance was an accomplished fact,
instead of being an English attempt
to scare somebody, as means of
"getting even" for the truthful state
ment of the tricky conduct of the
British government, made in Secre
tary Sherman's instructions to AM
bassador Hay, concerning the seal
fisheries negotiations. 1t was not in
tended that these instructions should
be made public at this time, but they
were obtained by wide awake news
paper man and printed. The publica-
ton has made the English editors
very mad at the Q. S., and their old