The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1900-04-28
CURRENT NEWSPAPER COMMENT.
What the Editors of the Country are
Saying About the Leading
..-.s.s5 Topics of the Day. ~ sa

-!-a..fs. Topics of the Day. -. ass
:, The Democrats are giving them
selves a great deal of unnecessary
uneasiness over the alleged Repub-
Gcan differences as to a tariff for
Porto Rico. The Republican party
thinks for itself, and usually to
some: purpose and with the result of
settling fairly and satisfactorily the
great questions with which it has
to deal. When it gets through
with Porto Rico the people of that
island will have no reason to com
plain. The Democratic party,
which never yet enacted a piece of
constructive legislation, is occupy
ing the usual position of fault-fnder
and growler in general, with not a
practical idea to suggest.-Troy On.
W Times.
The men who are so blatant1y at
lacking the administration are not
the men who have faith in the Re-
public. They are Of the same
stripe as the men who did not
believe the Federal Government
could hold the Union of States in
tact, and who shouted that "the
war is a failure" But the Union
was held together and the inte1li,
gent men in the States that strove
to set up a confederation of States
were the quickest to realize, when
the end came, that the Union was
to be preferred to two Republics
Wilmington (De1.) Ne50s.
Ali industries, with some rule
providing exceptions, such as an
thracite coal and coal oil, are Pro-
tected, and have become Protected
because in the commercial evolution
of the one country on earth which
can supply, practically, all its own
wants they have needed and receiv-
ed Protection. Consequently the
Protection of every industry is the
one policy to which all other poll
cies, foreign or domestic, must give
way. There is no safe place for
breach i'll a. wall. There is no safe
link for a break in a chain.-New
York Press.
Ali the revenue raised is to be
used in paying for the government
and betterment Of Porto Rico. If
this is "sordid and mercenary,"
what in the name of common sense
would be just and generous? 1t is
going to cost money to govern and
improve the island, and the bill
provides the easiest and least bur
densome method of raising it. Some
Of the critics seem to have lost their
heads in discussing this matter
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
Our Democratic friends had hop
ed to make some political capital
out Of the Porto Rican tariff matter
but the Democracy has been out
classed again. The Republicans as
usual demonstrate their ability to
intelligently and patriotically adjust
great national questions. .---Schenec-
tady IN. W Union.
Thirty new cotton mills are to be
built in North Carolina this year.
And yet there are spongy-headed
individuals, here and there; who
complain that times are no better
now than they were three years
ago, when the mills already built in
North Caro1ina,were id1e.-Trenton
IN. j. Gazette. ..
The President and the Republican
majority in the House have shown,
however, their real good will toward
both the people of the United States
and of Puerto Rico in a manner
that will prove entirely satisfactory
to a large majority of the voters O.
the country.-Pittsburg Times.
Times does not admit of the de
ye1onnent of orr merchant marine