Revision Should Come Promptly

It is a fact evident to any man whose mind is clear enough to see that two and two makes four, that any circumstance, of whatever nature it may be, which enables a manufacturer to charge higher prices for his products, forces the consumer to pay more for those products. That proposition none will deny. The primary object of the protective tariff was, as every one who is acquainted with the history of protection knows, to keep foreign competition out of our markets so that the home manufacturers could command better prices for their products. The republicans themselves stated that that was the object of the tariff. Now it is evident that if it enabled the infant industries to command better prices for their products, so long as it is continued it will enable the successors of the infant industries to do the same. We all know that the infant industries of the past are now the giant trusts, and that the same laws which enabled these infant industries to grow rich off of the consumer, enables their successors, the trusts, to levy tribute off of the same consumers. The republicans cannot blow hot and cold at the same time. They cannot deny deny their own statements that the tariff was designed to hold up American prices, and they cannot get around the fact that if the tariff held up prices then, it boke up prices now. And it is equally evident that if the manufacturer is enabled through the tariff, to charge more for his goods the consumer has to pay more for them. The great mass of the American people are consumers. The tariff compels them to pay more the product of consumption than they would otherwise have to pay. Every time they buy a trust made article they pay a tribute to the trust which controls it, a tribute made possible' by a protective tariff. It is evident, therefore, that revision must come, and Chat the American people are gotog to demand that it shall come.

It is not claimed that Governor Bliss got up in his nightshirt to appoint General Alger senator, but he seems to have made the selection just before he got into his night robe. It was after twelve o'clock when the appointment was made and after he had said most positively that it would not be made then. Or rather he said he would not make it on Saturday and probably be waited until after midnight in order lo keep his word good. It is not reported whether Tom Navin was the early visitor in this instance who persuaded him to sign the general's commission as senator, but it is suspected it was not.

General Fred B. Wood, democratic candidate for congress in the second district, was present at the county convention on Thursday and was called out to speak to the assembled democrats. He was received with enthusiasm and made a brief talk which was evidently pleasing, judging from the prolonged applause which greeted its points. He will run ahead of his ticket in this county. He will get every democratic vote and a large number of republican votes which are opposed to boss rule.