Confession Good For The Soul

That the republicans are sore over the return of business prosperity is evidenced by nearly every issue of their leading papers. That they would have been delighted had the bard times lasted a year longer, is but too apparent. More business, longer hours, increased wages, when admitted by them at all, are very grudgingly acknowledged. Even when such admissions are made, there is coupled with them the asertion that the country is not yet in these particulars where it was in '92 under McKinleyism. They 6tudiously avoid allusion to the conditions during 1893-1894 under McKinleyism. They are no longer able, however, to deny that their calamity howl is shelved and that a democratie tariff has brought renewed prosperity to the people. The United States seems to be getting a firmer hold on the tiade of other countries since the Wilson tariff becarae operative. Recently we sent to Chili twelve American ten-wheel mogul locomotives, four express locomotives and two engines for light work. Heretofore this trade has gone to England. Our manufactures are also finding their way in increasing quantities into England itself. Not only are we able to hold our own markets, but find it possible to carry our compe tition into the home markets of the European countries. With equal opportunities for obtaining raw material we can pay higher wages apd still hold our share of the world's trade. This is because of the vastly greater productiveness of our labor. Governor McKinley prophesíes that the majority by which he was elected in the year of the great political landslide "vvillnot be matcrially decreased" in the Ohio election this f all. Predictions of this sort may be expected all around. But with republican politicians generally it will be nothíng more than whistling to keep their courage up. The fact is that the world has moved fast and far since November, 1894, and the conditions have altogether changed. That was a time of depression, low wages, poverty - a republican year. This is a time of business revival, of rising wages, of comfort and hope - a democratie year. - Boston Post. That is a fine object lesson to duelists which comes up from Mexico. Two "bloods" of very high social position quarreled and a duel resulted in which one of the two was killed. Public opinión demanded tbat the survivor be tried for murder. The trial resulted in conviction, and the judge sentenced the gtiilty duelist to four years' imprisonment at hard labor, the payment of $4,500 annually to the widow for eighteen years and the costs of the suit. Not raany experiences of that nature would be needed to keep such crimes in pretty close bounds. It is said that England has a surveying party running lines up in Alaska with the view of laying claim to some of Uncle Sam's land. If this be true, they should be taken by the nape of the neck and the seat of the pantaloons and unceremoniously pitched across the boundary. England is said to claim a strip of land varying from fifty to a hundred and fifty miles wide and including some of the best harbors on that coast. She will know more before she vorks any such scheme on our Uncle Sam. Previous experience in this line should have taught her wisdom.