The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-03-23
NOTES AND OPINIONS.

President Mckinley sent to the Senate
on Tuesday, the nominations of John Hay
of the District of Columbia, to be Am.
bassador to Great Britain; Horace Porter
of New York, to be Ambassador to France
Henry White, of Rhode Island, to be Sec
rotary of the Embassy to Great Britain
The appointments have received general
commentator. The gentlemen named
are em1nently fitted for the positions.
Silver is down very near the lowest
point which it ever touched, while wheat
is at high level, and is likely to go high
er. Nobody hears the parrot talk now Of
silver and wheat being yoked together,
but this is because the silver issue is dead,
temporarily or eternally. If the issue
should be resurrected in 1900 the follies
and falsehoods of 1896 would be repeated.
ST. Louis Gko6s-D Democrat.
Not many words were required to put
the newly-organized Congress in pos
session of the facts of the financial situa-
ton as understood by the Executive The
current expenditures of the government
are greater than its receipts. This condi-
ton has become chronic in our fiscal af-
fairs, so that within three years and eight
months there has been incurred treasury
deficit aggregating $IS6, o62, $50, and mon
ey has been borrowed for public purposes
to the amount of $293,454, ass. -Newayk
Meas.
The first message of President Mckinley
was presented and read in the United
States Senate on Monday of last week.
1t was devoted entirely to the tariff. The
total receipts for the past three fiscal
years. he said, had been insufficient to
meet the expenditures by $r37, SII 900,
and the interest on the public debt had
increased by $II,493 900. These condi-
tious were for Congress to correct. Am
pie revenue should be provided for the
expenses of the government, the prompt
payment of liberal pensions and the liqui-
dalton of the public debt. The necessity
OF the hour was the enactment of a tariff
bill that would provide ample revenues
and render labor in every field of useful
occupation liberal wages.
Prof. Wilson has written denunciation
of the Dingley Tariff bill, thus displaying
an astonishing degree of shamelessness.
Whatever the faults of that bill may be, it
has been constructed in strict accordance
with the Dledpes of the r eDublican Mat
form, whereas Prof Wilson's own tariff
was perfdiously based on principle en-
phatically rejected by the Democratic
platform as unconstitutional and immoral.
Besides, it has been under the Wilson tar
if that the business and industry of the
United States have suffered as never before
in the history of the government. Instead
of being the tariff for revenue only de-
manded by the Democratic platform, it is
tariff for protection so bunglingly con-
structed that it has produced an enormous
deficit, causing a great increase in the
public debt And if the Senate had passed
it as it came from Prof. Wilson's hands,
its effect would have been even more dis
astrous-N Y. Sun.
Though steadily increasing, business is
still below its volume in former years of
prosperity, and many express disappoint-
ment. Yet there is some gain every week,
with more hands at work and more mills
in operation, and the sure result larger