Great Protection For Farmers

The lies that are being 'told about the tin-plate schedule are a fair sample of the weapons employed against the bill througuout. It ís alleged, for instance, that the increased woolen and linen ilutles will iiievitably niise prices upon the consumer. Now, it is plain that they can have that eftect, if they have t at all, only upon those varleties of goods on which increased duties have been imposed. Those varietles are only the finer grades, such as persons of large incomes will use. The duties have not been raised, but lowered instead, upon the ordiuary grades 8uch as are in conimon use, añil the prices of these cannot go up, because the market for them is already in the possession of American manufacturers. The cll'orts of tliis bill In all 18 departinenls is to recover to our people markets that they have lost and to oUain for tlicni new markets into which they have not, hitlicrto, sougbt au entrance. The duties on iron ore, pij iron, scrap iron and scrap steel, and all the various forms of bar Iron, have been retalned as they are in the present tarifl", except where they have been slightly reduced. So have those on iron and steel forging, on steel ingots and on coppcr. WHU the exception of the diity 011 tin, the metal sehedules have been subjected to a general reduction. The extent to which the bill has gone in protecting the producís of the farmer Is a striking wituess of the care which the republiean party haa always exercised over the interests of that Immense portion of our population engaged in industrial pursults. The duty on bindingtwine has been placed at seven-tenths of a cent, which is Jifty per cent. lower than the duty tixed in the Mills bill. The farmers of the country will realize the hollowness of democratie preteneious and the wickudness of democratie talsehoods when they consider that, whereas under the Mills bill every one ot' their producís was placed upon the Iree list, or left witli the ifliction of a revenue duty, and almost all of their necessities hcavily taxed, by the MeKinley bill increased protection has been accorded tbem for everything they have to sell, and lower duties establisbed upon substautially everythlng they have to buy. The republiean party only asks thnt the people will examine this new tariff law ; that they will consider well the principies that liavegoverned its construclion; that they will vote the many and extensive industries which, under its provftlons, will be immediately established, givlpg employment to thousands of workingmen and vastly increasing the domestic market in all parts of the country. Tlip rpiinlilipüii prry knows that time will vindícate its wisdom in this splendiü enactinent, and that its results will be a revival and an extensión of industry eveiywhere, and a remarkable lowering of jirices in all its lines of manufacture to the consumer. Ilenry James, our great American novelist, was bom in New York city April 15, 1845, and was educated under his supervisión in New York and Paris. His family went abread ia 1855 and remained In Eurote for three years. Young James then returned to his native country where he entered Harvard luw school. In 1865 he bejjan to contribute sketches to the magazines. A year or two later he essayed serial stories, but during the flret ten years of his literary career he produced no extended novel. Tlie subject most frequently treated of in his works is tlie contrast between American and European life and manners. The scènes of several nre laid in the old workl, and the principal characters are Americans travellng abroad and coming for the flrst time in contact with European society. When the nction of his t-tor ies takes place in the United States he Introduces foreigners in order to Ilústrate the diyergencies between American and European llfe. Mr. James originated tlie international novel and is classed with T. B. Aldrichand William Howells as a represe ntatl ve of the analytical school of novelista. In botli style and method lie follows French models and he early acquired a m istery of the French tongue so complete that a story contribulcd by him to the Revue des deux Mon des bas been praised by severe French critics as an example of elegant French. His best novéis are ''The American" The Boston ians" and "Diisy Miller." In the katterlie describes the íollies of an American girl in Europe and the compromisinj; situations in whicu she placed herself by defying European rules of propricty. Thls novi-1 brought upon Mr. James the reproach of his countrymen wlio accused him of having become denationili.eil, and of devotinji his talcnts to deridlng and belittllng his own country. __________ "You had better get two thennometers, George." "What can we do with two?" "Oh, we may need 'ein. It gets pretty hut hete sometimes." - Puck.