Tariff Kickers

There can no longer be any doubt that the British free traders are not only very much displeased with our protective tarff policy, but are anxious for Democratie success in the coming election in order to see the tariff destroyed. One of the most striking evidences of this is found in a collection of clippings from British newspapers and trade journals whicb Hon. A. C. Bowen, of Denver, made while spending a few weeks in England. iney show the greatest bitterness on the part of the manufacturera, who say that the American tariff , under the McKinley law and its reciprocity features, is absolutely destroying British commerce iu the countries where they have been fostering trade by large expenditures for years. The British journals make no secret of their hope for Democratie success. The London Times says: "Englishmen can f eel little sympathy for either of the ues engagea ín mis ignoblestruggle, but undoubtedly our interests as a trading country must make us wish success to the Demócrata, who now, for the firsi time, go to the polls as the avowed champions of f ree trade." Commenting on the advantages which our reciprocity treaties give American commerce over that from Great Britain, The Colliery Guardian, a very influential British industrial journal, complained bitterly that the ver;4;ountries where Englishmen have invested great sums in public and private enterprises should give American manufacturera great advantages over those of England. It says frankly that the protective policy which the Republican party has fostered and the Democrats opposed has not only made the United States a large producer, but with the additional leverage of reciprocity is forcing our producís into the countries where the English have heretofore had their own way. On this subject it says of the Republicans and their policy: "Their effort is to obtain the monopoly of the trade of the New World, and they are so influencing some of the countries that produce from the United States is beins admitted Antv fVoo vvhereas the goods of other nations have to _pay heavy duties. The McKinley tariff affords an excellent bargaining power when negotiating trade treatie which we in Fngland cannot possess. seeing that in return for any concession theymight inake we could give theti nothing, because we already admit dat}' free alinost everything we import. "Last year, it will be remembered, we had one prominent example of this uewly inaugurated policy of the United States in the case of its treaty with that large and interesting market, Brazil, which placed us at a great disadvantage in our trade with that country. Tüe uciiuaiiipor uiai treatment to our manufacturera cannot be denied, for whatc-ver deyelopment there his been in the inta.-tries and commerce of that country has been in great part brought about by English aid; British capita] ba been found to construct the railwtys and other public works, and privme undertakings have been extensively assisted out of English pockets. "ff therefore any nation had a right to have its gootls received in Brazil on the most favorable ternas it was the Rritish and not the United States, which has done nothing to foster the development of the country, and tiij the new treaty was signed charged heavy duties on all Brazilian products imported to 'ts shores, whereas for years we have Jevied no- or at any rate very sinall- duties. The people of the United States are no w therelore renpiug where we nave j sown, and onr governmcnt, which bas ! been appealed to by the chambers oí' i commerce and various trading bodies appears to be una blo to obtain for usbetter treatment. "Ancther instance of this new policy j is their treaty with Cuba and Porto Bico. It wil] be almost impossible for onr producers to coniüeto aarainst thns n? iQ United States in the Spanish West India islands, and the hardware manufacturera of the inidlands, in endeavoring to get our foreign offi ■ to move in this tnatter, have represen teil thattheir busi nesa with those islands- which is not ai all inconsiderable- vili be practically annihilated." There was a general belief of the loyal people that Stevenson was a raember of the Knights of the Golden Circle, and it afterward tui-ned out that he was. Kev. O. n. Snedeker.