A Nut For Mckinley To Crack

Mr. McKinley made lúa notorious -oíd tariff speech over again at the Minneapolis convention. He is still pretending that the foreigner pays the tarifl tases ftnd that protection simply taxes "the producía of other nations" instead of the producís of our own. Mr. McKiuley, however, has never answered the question put to him by The World over and over again: Why is it if the foreigners pay the tariff taxes that the Fifty-first congress was content with spending a billion dollars? Why did it not lavish more of the foreigners' money on the people of this country? Why did it not wring a more splendid sum out of the manuf acturers and merchants of Europe for the payment of the government's expenses and the Republican party's extravagance? How can Mr. McKinley excuse this self restraint, which still leaves some of the public bnrdens to be borne by Ainericans? Will he not answer the questiou uow that he has repeated the proposition? Moreover, he might teil the country why he even refrained from raising enough to make up the deficiency caused by the extravagance of the congress in which he was the leader on the floor of the house of representatives - JNew ïork World. What college crew would attempt to win a boat race with haft of their oarsmen rowing in one direction and the other half in the other direction? And pet we expect to secure commerce by putting bounties on shipping to encourage trade while we have taxee and dufcies on importe and shipping to restrict trade. Verily some of our statesmen are pulling at their boot straps and wondering why tliey don't lift themselves.