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We Place A Duty Of About 50 Per Cent

We Place A Duty Of About 50 Per Cent image
Parent Issue
Day
20
Month
May
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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on foreign goods eDterting our markets tliat compote with our own products. The purpose of that duty is to Protect our own people. But we permit foreign ships to bring goods into nur ports under as favorable condlttoos as wc do eur own ghip8. In the caseof our ships we do not discrimínate: but in case of our products we do. It is time this discritniuation against our own ships, in the way of l'rotection. ccased, and that the discrimination in favor of our own products be made to include discrimination in favor of our ships. That is a Eepublican pledge. Tmc course (if young Trowbridge is another of the inany instances which are being constantly recordcd by the press of young men yielding to temptation and committing crime. Such cases are becoming so common as to cause great fear for the future. Such things show that there is radically Wrong in the moral training which the average young man receives. It is also plain to most people that the tendency of society is to lead young mentospend more money than itis possible for them to earn. This condition of things, with a lack of moral stamina. is bringing a terrible harvest. What can be done to offset such a state of afFairs is ono of the important problems of the day. The war in Cuba drags its slow length along, with skirmishes hcrc and there, with repeated massacre3 of Pacilicos by the Spanish, and with increasing suffering from lack of food and shelter among the people who have been huüdled togetber in cities under the orders of Capt. Gen. Weyler. The insurrection seems to be as stronsr as ever. if not stronger, and there is no thought on the p;irt of the Cubans of laying down their arms until they have secured their independence. Under these conditions it is not strange that a part of the British press has called attention to the faot that our condernnation of Great Britain for not interposing in behalf of the Armenians loses much of its iorce when such inhuman atrocities are being perpetrated in Cuba at our very doors without even a formal protest from our government. Il' England is responsible for the continuance of Armenian oppression and suffering, how much more. say our Knglish friends, is the government of the United -States responsible for the present state of things in Cuba, when it can easily prevent it. This retort is not without force, and this government will be compelled sooner or later, in the interest of humanity, to interpose in order to put an end to this waste of property and human Ufe in Cuba.

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