The Split In The Prohibition Party

is of national interest, because that Is not only by far the oldest of the minor organiza tioms of the present day, lut it toas lived much langer than any other "third" party which bas ever figured in American politics. Itö first national ticket was put up In 1872, and ifc !ias pa-rticipated in every presidemtial campaign irom that time to tflite. lts vote lias gro-wn steadily from Uhe beginning. Nevertlheless the party never had any ïninfluence in national politics except in 1884, "sv'hen the democratie margin I was so small in tlhe decisive state of New York, tlhat tlie prohibitionists may have turned the scale. Very few miinor parties have ever split, but wlien one of them does thte, its days are mumbered. Slavery split nearly every other party at one time and anatber, except the free soil and the repuWican parties, and lt never participated in another presidential election. Thie Manuiacturer, as its name indicates, is a paper pujbllsned ia the interest oí th emanufacturers of America, and Diere is a paragraph from lts columns that has a moral in it for all Americana - except those -vlio make a living "by importing foreign made goöds and foreign grown products : "While our own milis aro halt idle and our own laborera working on part time with decreased pay, our British rivals are waxing fat over proüts lugged away {rom this market. It Is a currous condition of things and interest ing just as a study of the pasisibilities of liuman iolly. "We pass a tariff act to' prostrate our ïnaTiufacturing industries. AVe adopt a British iinancial system to run our fanaiag industries. Tlien we Torrow momey with which to pay our running expenses, and ïinally we try to keep gold in tlie treasury !y rnaking agreemonts to pay out more than v-r; fcake in"