Taxes Already Too High

Ex-Congressman Butterworth, of Ohio, said in an interview shortly after tha recent election : The people of this country are ia lach a state that not ven the most prosperóos clíiss will stand the addition of another feather's weight of taz. It wm the most unwise policy that any party conld pursue to take the stand of favoring an increase in the tariff when it is and has been apparent that a reduoticm is what has been needed and wanted. I think I saw what was coming, at least my actions show that I pursued a wise course, and other Repnblicans knew oiily too wcll the inevitable conaequanoa of the McKinley bilí adoption. I received a letter from a Minnesota coagressman this morning which raad: "How terrible was the slaughter! Yoa saw the tronble and slid out, bat I staid like a lamb, and was bntchered beautif ully. The McKinley bill and the Farmers' Alliance were too much for me." Nearly every one knows that the Democratie gains were made because tha mas of Republicana are becoming mor and more disgusted with high tarifï teachings. Now that the prophet has spoken and a lesson been tanght I have no doubt that proper adjattments wül TnmWiifly follow. The Illinois Farmers' Alliance eoavention decided to co-opeiat harvaftar with the Farmers' Mutual Benefit ossociation, and the delégate to tha national assembly of the Farmers' AJIianc and Industrial unión, which meets at Oseeola, Fla., the first week in December, were instructed to work for national co-operation. The ultímate aim is to consolídate with the F. M. B. A. association, which is much the stronger in Dlinois numerically of the two, though nationally the Alliance is the saO:-1, powerful. A great deal is said about the rights of individuals, but we hear comparatively litlle about duties. Now rights and dutiee aro so closely connected that it is impossible to correctly xneasure the foll import of the one without ing the other.-