We 'have a Darling mayor anyway. McKinle...

We 'have a Darling mayor anyway. McKinley and Coxey, the cause and the effect. McKinleyism and Coxeyism are the opposite ends of protectionism, but the motto of each is the same, "on to Washington." Why is there not greater rejoicing in the republican fold over the return of their prodigal, W.G. Thompson, to his own? He is now where he belongs, with those who appreciate him, and let us supplicate that he may never wander more. According to the best republican authority obtainable, there have been more business failures under the workings of the McKinley bill, aggregating a larger amount, than ■during any other like period of time in the history of the country. The principie of the Wilson bill is free raw materials and lower customs duties, When the bill returns to the representatives of the people they should insist upon the reinsertion of this principie which has been largely eliminated by the undemocratic senate. The McKinley act made a few more mülionaires and a million traraps. Financially, the redoubtable Major himself would belong to the latter class today had it not been for the opening of the long purses of the oligarchy benefitted by his bill whereby he was placed on his feet again. Eleven of New York's twenty-four aldermen are liquor dealers. They give that city "practical temperance" and one of the rottenest city governments on eartk. - Charlotte Tribune. The practical temperance part of the above we cannot vouch for, but wethink our esteemed contemporary ís a little off on the matter of New York having "one of the rottenest city governments on earth." Undoubtedly the New Vork city government ' is expensive and has other weak spots as have all municipal governments, and yet it is probably true that it is one of the best governed citiesof this country today. That far famed "home market" for the tarmer's wheat which was to be one of the results of the great and glorious McKinley act, according to one B. Harrison and various other advocates of protection, has materialszed, and in it the farmer sells thirteen bushels of wheat for -one ton of protected coal. A few years ago four bushels of wheat would buy the same amount of calorie. It has had a similar effect on the laborer's wages. He now must law down a week 's hard labor for a ton of coal, whereas a few short years ago it cost but little, if any, more than a third of that amount. Great indeed are the results of McKinleyism to the farmer and the laborer. The republican organs had their howl against the new Chinese treaty all prepared weeks before they knew its contents and when they learned that it had been approved by Secretary Gresham they let their howl out without ever examining the provisions of the document. It was enough to know that it had been accepted by the man who had dared to oppose the re-election of one B. Harrison to the presidency. An examination of its contents fails to discover the clause opening wide the doors to unrestricted Chinese immigration, and now comes Congressman Geary the most rabid, eating, anti-Chinese. of the Pacific slope and the says that it is all right and gives it his approval. While this alone is pretty satisfactory eviidence that the treaty is not what the organs charged, still it will probably in nowise affect the howl of the said organs. Senator John Sherman, the recognized financial leader of the republican party, in a speech in the United Statessenate on .March 15,1881 , said. " 'The public mind is not yet prepared to apply the key of a genuine revenue reform. A few years of further experience will convince the whole body of our people that a system of national taxes which rests the whole burden of taxation on consumption, and not one cent on property or incorne, is intrinsically unjust." ' The decisive vote with which the income tax measure passed the house of representatives would seem to imply that the people are convinced at last. There is no question, in fact, but that the people are convinced and unless the millionaires in the senate are again allowed to shifc the burden of government upon the shoulders of the farmers, the laborers and the raerchants, we shall have a tax on incomes which is intrinsically just. The Detroit Journal in conmienting upon the position, as recently defined, of Hon. Wellington R. Burt on the salt schedule of the Wilson tariff bill, says: "Why does he want protection for himself and free trade for his neighbor? Why doesen't he kick over the whole anti-protection outfit, and come out squarely for protection to all home industries?" This is a legitímate question naturally suggested by Mr. Burt's recent utterances, and if he were an honest man, he would do just what the Journal suggests and betake himself over into the republican party from whence he carne andjjwhere he now evidently belongs. Being actuated by the spirit of private revenue only, he should, as the Journal suggests, "kick over the whole anti-protection outfit, and come out squarely for protection to all home industries." That a man of his standing should accept a nomination and an election on the democratie ticket and on a platform declaring for a tariff for revenue only, and then, when the party is in the supreme crisis of its efforts to carry out the commands which he helped to give, be found giving aid and comfort to the enemy, comes but little if any short of treachery. According to his present position, a tariff for revenue only is all right when it removes the duty from the producís of others, but when it touches his herring interests, it is all wrong. This shows him to be actuated, not by the spirit of the grea't tariff reform movement, but by the most bare-faced, boiled down, concentrated spirit of protectionism which is but another namefor rank selfishness. He is undoubtedly a relie of Randallism which was formerly powerful enough to strike out all after the enacting clausej of any tariff reform measure the party might see fit to introduce. There are a few of these still lingering in high places, but that they are rapidly passing cannot be questioned. In view of the almost evenly balanced condition of the United States senate at the present time and thepresence there of a few democrats of the Burt stamp, the complete carryingout of the principie of tariff reform may be retarded for a few years, but its ultímate triumph is certain.