Birmingham state herald., 1897-03-05

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 | they will conclude that the appeal In be 1 half of the worl1ingmen was addressed | to deaf ears President McKine1y has ye l chance to redeem himself. Will he havl
 the strength to do1so?-tSt Louis Post 1 Dispatch.
 Of the sS2 representatives who served with MT. Mckinley in the congress oi | 1891, only forty will be in the new con gress. Possibly another congress vii l find that this remnant has also disap- l peared.-St, Louis Post Dispatch.
 l Tine myth about Jefferson riding al l alone to the capital hitching his horse l to post. and assuming the presidency | without any apparent interest In the | matter by himself or anybody else, dies l hard. In fact there Is no certainty thai 1 it will ever die. It has often been ex- posed in recent years, but great neWspa- | pers and books here and there seriously repeat 1t at the slightest ,pFovncatton and probably will continue to do so foi years to come Tt has already lived lon | ger than the Washington hatchet story 1 and may yet run a close race in longevi- | ty with the tale about William Tell,St Louis Globe Democrat. s..s-.. ..,z,ss The veto of the immigration bill merely delays that measure a few months or a year. bill on the lines of the late measure, with one or two objectionable 1 features which crept into it elinfina ted, will probably be passed in the first regu- l lar session of the next congress, or per haps in the extra session. and will be signed Public sentiment in this country very strongly favors the exclusion of the hordes of illiteretes who are dumped on our shores every year.-St.. Louis Globe Democrat . @7n Ex-Senator Ingalls, correctly estimates the opposition to trusts in a recent let ter to New York paper. It is not 'hoS- tility to capital, hatred of wealth or envy of success" he remarks. but the belief that the inevitable effect of these com binations is to restrain competition, inn pair the dignity of labor, destroy the ln- dependence and self-respeot of the la
 borers and make liberty the heritage of the few instead of the many"
 But the ex-senator is scarcely accurat te in his position that ..the power of the people to suppress injurious trusts and monopolieS is ample already" If that were true. all the trusts ;. which now flourish would be suppressed at once, for public sentiment Is hostile to these com binations. But they are so firmly en- trenched in legal technlcalities that ad- ditiona1 legislation will be necessary to- dethrone them. The president, in his annual message, suggested that such legislation should be enacted by state legislatures, and the best legal opinion of the country concurs in that view. But the legislatures are tardy in performing
 their duty. They seem reluctant to strike the blow that win kill
 MT. Ingalls, suggestion that the su- preme court decision iH the state bank cases-namely. that the power of con- gresS to tax was the power to destroy placed a formidable weapon in the hands of discortent" smacks of revolution.
 Probably congress has the right to tax trusts out of existence. as 1t taxed the
 circulation of state banks out of exist ence some thirty years. ago. But the
 same authority that the ex-senator quotes has been more recently decided that con-
 gress has no right to tax trusts or indi- viduals on incomes, and 1t is not clear, therefore, how 1t is possible to tax trusts
 to death The better plan is for every state legislature to enact rigid antitrust laws and enforce them.-Kansas City Star. -t- 7srsi
 The drift of sentiment in the senate,
 as it Is likely to be constituted after the
 4th of March is now to let the new tariff cure be tried The country will not stand another Mckinley law, and con-
 gress is not likely to adopt anything so extreme; but it can make no change in the line of protection and raising revenue
 that will not be an increase of taxation. No new tariff law Is going to help the farmer: and if it does not help him it will come pretty near being useless to everybody else. Still there is a general disposition to give the new administra- tion a chance to work out the salvation
 of the country in its own way.-Cincin- natf Times. 1sst
 A delegation of ten or twelve newspa- per correspondents made a formal call on President Cleveland on Saturday. The president asked how many newspaper men there were in Washington, and when told the number expressed surprise that so few had been able to get away from their work.-Cincinnau Times. The members of the new housa of rep- resentatives know. what sort of a man Thomas B. Reed is. Ills rules and par liamentary methods have been much ap- plauded. but probably he is not much
 more popular among republicans than hs is among democrats. Still the members do not seem to have nerve enough to have an understanding with MT. Reed before they re-elect him to the speaker ship.-Cinoinnati Times.
 The Pfttsburg Post paints Mark Han- ma thus: 'He is supreme of the Ameri- can boss type. Others dominate states, but Mark Hanna. straddles the conti- nent. He is the most dangerous man in America today. He is not 'the man on horseback" but the man with the money bag, who acts on the principle that every man has his price. He has "the stuff to make the purchase if he considers 1t worth while Or to his inter- est. He is in reality more president than Mckinley. and rules the repub- lican party with a rod of from