The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1906-01-11
A FEW
BRIEFS
By ALEX S. ARNOLD,
Woonsocket. II. /.

| Editor Providence News
! ! send few more briefs, as follows:
=. Mr. schiffs calamity bowl hasn't
rocked the nation or thrown the coun-
| try's financial ship on her beams end
| The fact is tnat since the Dingley Pro-
tective tariff was enacted we have had
several Wall street panics that would
have shaken the nation from centre to
circumference under a semi-free trade
measure like the Robber Wilson tariff;
but under the Senehcent Dingley sched-
ule OF duties, we mind Wall street about
as much as a storm confined to Burrill-
Vile woods and viewed by telescope from
her celebrated lighthouse.
6. "A protective tariff is immoral and
oppressive" says the British Liberal
leader. or course It Is. There are 1000
coo wage earners In Great Britain pray
Ing for employment instead OF asking to
be made paupers and loafers. Their
wives and children are in a condition OF
semi-starvation and throng the streets
of London and other cities beseeching
those In high official positions to give
their husbands and fathers work. That,
however. says the Liberal leader. would
be immoral; so the wealthy are trying to
raise from $l,00e,OO0 to 1000, 600 for these
poor, famishing subjects. which sum,
when evenly and tudiciously distributed
among the needy. will amount TO almost
80 cents each. with which ample flnan-
cial supply the suffering poor Will be able
to buy bread enough To last a whole day.
and what more could needy bread win
ner justly ask? A protective tariff would
supply the needy wage Garner with work
and wages; hut when we consider the
immortality OF so base measure that
would deprive the rich OF their present
privilege OF living cheaper, any unpreju-
diced person can easily see where the
wealthy would be oppressed and their
shoes pinch.
T. The wonderful kindness of Professor
Charles Eliot Norton was never more
plainly seen, without the aid OF double
convex lens than I'm his benevolent prop
osition To murder various unfortunates.
This is the same old benign copperhead
and anti-ifnperialist w.o was so anxious
that the noble Malay Filipino should be
treated with so mucn gentleness and
consideration. Why? We'll. charity should
Invariably be duly inaugurated abroad
while the unfortunates at home should
be gently thrust under the NTH rib, in
fact. with all the humane sympathy of
the man who deprived his pct canine OF
his caudal appendagc. chopping of an
inch only at each blow OF the axe so as
not 10 hurt the unfortunate quadruped
unfortunate. but our Divine Masters ex-
ample has become n back number and
we cannot seek for an up-to-date leader
day too soon. Suppose we choose
Charles Eliot Norton as our modern
Moses. and as mentally and otherwise
exceedingly unfortunate perhaps he
might choose himself ~ the first subject
in carrying out his pet scheme and thus
demonstrate the practical value OF his
sublime theory
II will 1e noticed that his serene
highness shotgun Tillman Is exceedingly
deslrous OF investigating our nations
dealings with san Domingo. but not n
desire OF the most feeble nature regard
ing any inquiry appertaining 20 his pet
nephews shooting down an unarmed edi-
tor In his Insane thirst for blood: neither
has the gentle TIL manifested any long
lng for the shadow OF an investigation
about shooting down wage earners 90
carry South Carolina election farce
Ilowbeit, no man who ever cut a throat