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In the meantime Mr.. Secretary Shaw
of the treasury has somewhat compli-
Gated matters by recommending an ap-
preparation of $10,OO0OO0 for the cree
ton of buildings where sites have al
ready been purchased. This is diff
ferentiation to which members with
meritorious propositions for buildings
where sites have not already been pur-
chased cannot appreciate. They will
ask, and with reason, why town with
a given population and given amount
OF postoff1ce receipts should be favored
by reason of site having been already
purchased over another town with the
same population and postoffice receipts
for whose building no site has been
bought. Consequently both Secretary
Morton and Secretary Shaw seem to
have rough Shedding ahead of them for
their recommendations.
A Classical Misfit.
The American Economist organ of
the American Tariff league, is an inter-
esting publication, but it is unfortunate
when it drops into poetry. The last
number contains a cartoon entitled
Proposed Assassination" Protection,
in the guise of King Duncan, lies in a
bed Of state, with crown hanging on
a bedpost. Above his head is the leg
end Prosperity In front of him
stands Congress Macbeth" apparently
on guard. Close by is Lady Macbeth,
offering her lord the dagger of free
trade" Congress Macbeth is sup
posed to be spouting these lines:
He's here in double trust:
First, as am his kinsman and his SUBJ
Strong both against the deed; then as
his host,
Who should against his murderer shut the
door,
Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath
30 clear in his great office, that his vir-
tues
WIN plead like angels, trumpet tongued,
against
The deep damnation of his taking off.
! Surely nothing could be more inap-
propriate. If Duncan has any lineal
descendants they ought to sue the
Economist for SANDER for comparing
that amiable monarch to the high pro-
tective tariff system, a system whose
extortions forced even John Sherman
to characterize it's chief benefciaries as
'robber barons." Now, remember 1t
was not Democrat who did that, but
John Sherman, lifelong and profess
sional Republican, one of the ablest of
them all. If there was ever anything
In this world that hath not "borne his
faculties 80 weak" it is this same high
protective system. It has bullied pres
1dents, cabinets and congresses, dictat-
ed schedules in the Mckinley bill, fixed
/ the quantity Of its own largess and in
| other ways used like giant the giants
strength which it undoubtedly pos
/ sesses.
If the Economist will pursue the his
tory Of Duncan and Macbeth still fur
Their it will discover something which
will furnish food for thought, for not
withstanding Macbeth's splendid words
his mind and not only killed Duncan,
but usurped his throne. If history re
peats itself in this instance the Dun
can protection would do well to sleep
with one eye open when Macbeth
congress" is on guard. The Economist
cartoonist did not vouchsafe to lis any
Information as to whether Macbeth
congress" is the expiring Fifty-eighth
or the incoming Fifty-ninth. It's pity
he did not enlighten US on that subject.
II the Economist is searching for a
historic example on the tariff it can be
found not in Shakespeare, but in JUS
tin McCarthy's History of Our Own
Times" wherein it is related how that
immortal Englishman, Sir Robert Peel,
In the campaign Of 1912 boosted that
he was the head Of ''the gentlemen's
party of England" and who declared
that any advocate Of the repeal Of the
corn laws ought to be clapped into a
strait waistcoat and padded cell, but
who in 1916 repealed those same corn
laws himself Whether there is an
American Sir Robert among the Re
publican statesmen who will run things
for two years and two months at least
remains to be seen.
The Prspostsrous.
"Can you hop, Ned?" Eyes, can
hopT was one Of the lessons in the
old First Reader tackled by many
worthy Americans whose heads are
now blossoming la the almond tree.
This is recalled by the recent antics Of
the congress touching the place in
which to hold the inaugural ball. Ger
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