The age-herald., 1901-11-06
ROOseOSAt on HuIs 3wst NLessaoe.
BY W. MANNING.

world he Is undermining the prosueritv of millions and millions of his own coun- trymen. Protection in many lines of en- terprise has accomplished its mission, and the time has come when to advance the interests of all 1t will have to be dispensed with to a greater or less ex- tent. The late President saw this clear ly, and gave forcible expression to 1t In the memorable Buffalo speech. It was the wisest utterance he ever delivered. Co that great policy of his predecessor President Roosevelt is committed and there need to be no apprehension that he wils abandon 1t. The interests of a few hundred or a few thousand great mill owners are as nothing when placed in the scale with those of the agriculturist of the nation. When the latter suffer, all suffer. They are the backbone of the nation and of the Republican party.
 Another unpleasant symptom is the re- sistance that is evidently to be made to any reduction in the taxation that had to be imposed to meet the expenses qf the Spanish war and support the vastly increased military and naval establish ments. Leading members of Congress are already beginning to declare that "the revenue must not. be reduced" Ev- cry cent of It, they assert, will be needed to meet the immense appropriations that are contemplated. First of all they point out that a river and harbor bill exceeding fifty millions of dollars will have to be passed, and then there is the isthmian canal, which 1t is now certain will be built. This is all nonsense. One-fourth of fifty millions of dollars would be am- pie for harbor improvements. and 1t is as much as ought to be expended in any one year. In no branch of the service is the pruning knife so necessary as 1t is there As to the canal, 1t is difficult to see how more than ten or fifteen mill lions can be used up in one year There is no occasion whatever for rushing the work and crippling the people in order to complete in five years or so a work that might well take ten without serious ly incommoding anyone. The gentlemen who talk in this way or not wise lead CTS. and their advice should be summed. No one can tell what the situation will be when we come to the election of a new Congress, and the record for econ omy in the present one will be a strong ground of appeal to the people, who are already tottering under as heavy a load as they can well bear
 The Sampson -Schley controversy, or whatever 1t may be called, has created fued in the navy between the partisans of the two officers that is likely to last for years. It has sundered friendships, the foundations of which were laid more than a generation ago in the old halls at Annapolis, and that up to this time nothing else has been able to break. In the clubs 1t has divided men into warning factions. It's influence Is felt even so- cially and the hostess who Is planning functions has to be exceedingly careful not to bring Schley man and Samp- son man in close contact at her dinner parties. The women of the service side of course, with their husbands fathers. or sons. so that it may be said that there is never ending battle of Santiago in progress at the capital. It is not impos- sible that the department will yet have to take action on the subject. Officers, 1t will be remembered, were prohibited from writing to the newspapers or dis cussing the subject for publication. A supplemental order may have to be is- sued making the battle taboo between officers. That would help to keep the peace.
 Senator Hanna will give the President his most vigorous support in carrying out all the ideas of the great chief to whom he was so firmly and unselfishly attached. Not ofily that, he will labor as untiringly in the future as in the past | for the continued success of the Republi- can party. As a leader and organizer the Ohio Senator is without peer in either party. and his retirement from active politics would be at this juncture of af- fairs an incalculable loss. He Is the safest man in whom the destinies of the party could be placed, and so long as he directs them Republicanism is certain to conquer and add fresh laurels to It's mag niflcent history.