Protection And Plutocracy

Until the civil war brought upon us the series of high tariffs that began with Morrill's and ended with McKinley's the wealth of the United States was pretty evenly diyided not only as between north and sonth, east and west, but also as between the two gTeat interests - agriculture and manufactures. The Democratie party had been in substautially continuous ascendancy in the government from the inauguration of Washingtou to that of Lincoln. lts leadership and legislation were all that time untainted with the corrupt influences of the great vested interests that are nowadays based on the protective system, and which, as Senator Voorhees justly said in his speech opening the debate in the senate, have succeeded in placing it ' 'under the duress of a small majority" of that body. - Baltimore Sun. Miss Mary McGreevy of Indianapolis does not seem to share the supposed feminine desire for an elabórate wedding. She was married the other day to John Perry, and the cereinony occupied exactly 9 seoon hv the watch.