Prosperity Awaits Protection

There are some complaints by the donbting Thomases that the election of McKinley has not transported u back at once to ench prosperity as we had in lcSOl and 1892, under the McKinley law. That is about as reasonable as to expect roses to bloom out of doors in December because Jane is coming. Because we know June is coming, we may order rose trees, but we don't expect the roses to bloom until the December suow is gone Wliile the Wilson-Gorman bill is the law of the land we caunot expect any great measure of prosperity. The most that we can hope for is that we may be spared from further disaster. Merchants have the same inducements to by abroad that they have had from the beginnhiÉr ot the law. It is true that many milis which were closed have started up, and that manj' others which would have shut down incase of McKinley's defeat have continued. So much substantial good has come from the mere prospect of Protection in the near future. But these milis have gone 011 with work in expectation of future orders, when Protecti n to American industries will once more be established, rather than to meet present demanda. Confidence has been restored, and further disaster prevented by the assurance of the re-establishment of the American system ; but real or widespread prosperity cannot come until Protection to American industries is a reality of the present and not a promise of the future. How would it do for the govenor to have curfew rung at the capital while the Iegi8lature is in session ? He might not have to look somebody in the eyè next morning and ask him if he would henceforth be