The record-union., 1897-08-19


stead of buying these roads, should use
the money proposed to be expended in
their purchase in the construction of a
good road TO Yosemite Is one that will
where. ~
When European Governments have
adjusted their tariff and revenue sys-
TENS to suit their own tastes and needs,
there has been no protesting from this
country. We may not have relished the
schedules. but we have never believed
that it was any business of ours ex-
cept in cases where, as in Germany, in
the instance Of American hog products,
there was fiat exclusion of our goods on
other than customs grounds. Now,
however, the passage and enforcement
of the Dingley bill, we are told,
Will bring out host of protests from
foreign States, the ground taken being
that the bin hurts the trade of those
countries. Let us suppose that to be
true. Are we in the business OF promot
ing foreign trade over our own? OF
course, the right of protest is not open
to denial, but the growing back of it is
idea is altogether too expansive in Eu-
rope that the American people main
tain a nation mainly for the accommo-
dation of the manufacturers and pro-
Of to
overloaded greatly by the antfeipatory
imports from Europe is a thing We must
bear uncomplainingly and the eessa-
ton of that paying business We expect
Europeans to put up with, with corre-
spending equanimity. The profits on
these importations are already safe in
foreign pockets, but our own viii feel
the effect harshly for probably the next
sixteen or eighteen months More than
that. the Government itself suffered by
the loss of revenue upon these goods
rushed in to find lodgment before the
bars We're put up, and this loss the peo-
pie must make up. Is it in keeping with
just and temperate spirit, then, for
the European statesmen and journalists
to denounce Americans as vulgarly sell
fish and narrow minded, because they
build up their own productive capacity?
Yet German, French and English ex-
preston concerning the people of the
United States is exteremly harsh just
nd fo1 hot oil Va ar2
told that the Dingley bill was enacted
for the express purpose of injuring the
German trade, French industries and
English manufactures. But we know
that while the effect of the new law will
be to somewhat restrict imports from
those and other countries, the primal
and main consideration was of that or
der of selfshness that is in all human
beings to be commended. If now there
is retaliation on the part of foreign
States the American people Will not be
heard loudly complaining. If they deem
il wise to draw about thebm the guards
| of protective policy, they cannot rea-
sonably complain of any nation that fol-
lows their example.
The Count of Turin and Prince Henri
| of ORLEANS have fought a duel and
pricked one another-one is badly hurt.
! The cause of this assault at arms was
/ found in letters written TO the Paris
! Figaro" by Prince Henri, in which he
/ characterized the conduct of Italian Off
GERS made captive in the Abyssinian
campaign in terms admitting of but one
| interpretation: "Cowardly''; that is,
they bemeaned themselves so as to sac
rifice their self-respect. This was taken
as offensive by number of Italian Off
GERS. but Henri refused to fight until one
he deemed his social equal appeared. In
the duel the Italian Count won, and the
French critic lost. The momentous
question, Therefore. is settled beyond APP
peal. namely, Were the Italian officers
in Abyssinia cowardly? No." The whole
world was waiting for this answer, and
the world is now satisfied. 1t could not
possibly have based a judgment upon
the facts of the campaign in Abyssinia.
1t will be noted by those who have read
the accounts of the duel that the ques-
ton involved came very near being de-
cided the other way. The point of the
sword of the Prince, in one of the as
/ saults, struck a commonplace button
upon the pantaloons of the Count and
was bent If the button had not been
there Henri's rapier would have passed
through the Counts diaphragm, and II
would have been settled that the Italian
officers in Abyssinia behaved in a cow
ardly manner. But the bone button
was on duty, and stout in resistance tc
the thrust; therefore the Italian officers
were not towards. How great concerns
do hinge upon vulgarly small and in
consequential things. Live the duedlo!
1t is a boyish practice into which some
of our san Francisco contemporaries
have fallen of beaSting Of the exclusive
! oxrorx- hir Of nous they hanner