Who Pays The Tariff?

Mr. Andrcw Willamson, a retired London importcr, wlio traveled over the l'nited States last year, contrlbntes to tbe IjOndon prefs some corrections of lts general fallacios regarding the McKinley tarifï bilí. Araong other tliings he say?: ín oider to show the utter fallacy contalned in the free-trade axioin tliaf'lliere never v:is i duty tbat was not pald by the cousumer,'" I shatl glve an luslance wutcu occurred n mv own experlence when at the head of a laru'e iinporilnc house ia Calcutta. In 1888 the ludían Oovernment raised thu duty on Manrhester manufactures l'rom "j to 10 perceut. 'J'liis did not affect market valué, because it led to no curtailment Ín thesupply. When, years afterwarii, the rate was ledueed to 5 per cent again, the mark et was uot afTected. Ilere clearly was a case Ín wliicli, as my flrm lbund to lts cost, ihe importer iui'1 not tbe ooiMumet paid the duty. To Americana, our system, whcrc'uy m )cry 20,000,000 pounds sterling a j-car on such artlcles as we cunnot ourselves produce, nliile we admit freo what we can produce, seems nothinx short of sui cidal raaclness - an opinión fully sliared by the rest of tho world, and rapidly jiaining groun 1 aniong cunelre, - Dry ( loods Chronlcle. The prohibitiouists and their unie?, t! e democrats, will control the ntxt legislature, and we fhall expcct a prohlbltory law passed, of conrse, and yet the raice of a high-Hcense pystem In regulati.'ig tlie evils of the liquor trufflc 'n sliown in the recent resolution of a syndicare nf Clilca;o brewcrs to stop advancliif; money to saloon keepers to pay for tbeir lieenses. For several years tliis has been earried on r.itlier extensively. but it has been found nnpiolitable, as it always will be under a proper high license system, and now 1000 saloons will po out of business as a conRcrjuence, in Chicago alone. Much the sanie excellent resulta haye been aecomplished elsewhere by high license. In Phlladelphia ander the old pystem ther were hundreds of saloons whcre the proprietor was in fact only an agent of some brewery, and the brewery put up the funds and controlled the concern, which was frcquently a low grog shop. High licenee bas put a stop to such proceeding. By so clomg it has lessened the political influence of the grcat brewers, and in general resuHed in better public orderi and in a raarked mprovement in the welfare of tho people. The fullowing table of antrUBl subsidies given hy foreigu governments to steamship lines shows very plalnly w'ny the American merchant marine bas declined: France f6,792,178 (ireat Brltain 4 269 874 Italy KSÜSOij Oermany 3,131,610 Argeutine Kepubllc 8,000.000 Hrazll 1,700,01)0 Spain 1,571,085 Netberlands 775.191 Mexico 730.0IX) Canada 730,000 Russla 4M.306 Japan 600,1)00 Belglum 4.W.127 Austrla-IIungnry ; (XK) Australia U80.O0O Chili 2i5,0O9 I'ortugal 10S.O0Ö Trinidad 98,000 Barbadoes !K),000 Jamaica 72,000 New Zealand rü,(nX) United States 48,968 Norway and Swcden 41,(135 From all over the coutity and State comes the demand for better roads. Listen to tliis good sense from the Dexter Leader: "Would not the present winter be a good time for the people to conclude whether they can añord to have good roads with all the ready-made material which nature has supplied in unlimited fiuantities f It ia the opinión of at least one individual that there is no reason wliy every road leading to our village filiould not. within a very few year?, be 80 well graveled that no time of year would bring bad roads.'' To tho?e who think there is no adwmtage to the wage-earners in this country from the higher wajrea paid we commend an interview with Mr. E. Dickinson of Shefiield, a nianufacturer who has just returned from the United State?, in which hesays: '-The week's waes in America come to about, doublé what they are here, money there isnotwortli more thiin half what t is in England." Do our laboring men want to try the results of free trade on their w.iges in this country ? We think not.