would be increased greatly beyond those of our military administration,” was suggested to Colonel Bliss. "It is true that the new government will have to meet certain expenditures that the military government of intervention did not have to consider. But, on the other hand, the new government will be free from other expenses. Nevertheless, there will be the additional cost of maintaining the legislative branch of the government. American military collectors of customs are replaced, in a number of cases, by native officials, who must be paid from the Cuban treasury. The withdrawal of all the American forces will almost certainly make necessary an increase in the rural guard. Again, if an extension is made of the school system, as President Palma has expressed a desire, there will be another cause of additional outgo." THE 'HE New York Evening Post never goes out of its way to attack the tariff, for that is its chief business, and it never hesitates to perpetrate a falsehood if thereby it can mislead people on that subject. In commending the President's words upon trusts in his Pittsburg oration, the Post put the matter in such a way as to lead the Boston Transcript, which leans the same way, to give it the heading, "Promotes Tariff Cut on Trust Products." In another column we print all that the President said on trusts and there is not a word in it about the tariff. What the Post said was: And when Western Republicans come back to Washington next December with a renewal of their request that at least one blow against trusts be struck in the abolition of those protective duties which merely serve as bulwarks to monopoly, we do not think that the President will say them nay. Thus the Post sought to graft its own idea upon the President's and to create the impression that he said what he did not say. It is familiar free trade tactics. As for the Western Republicans, they are likely to discover before the campaign is over, as most of them know now, that removing protection from goods made by the trusts will hurt their domestic competitors more than it will hurt them. The Evening Post knows that there are better ways for reaching the trusts than through the tariff and the President indicated some of them. But the editor did not write to point out the true way; he wrote to point out his own way and he tried to mislead some Republicans by practically misrepresenting another. THE Republican majority in Congress is beginning to come to its senses, and shows a disposition to listen to those who advocate the letting of well enough alone. For a while past men posing as protectionists have been doing all in their power to contribute to the gratification of those anxious to strike down the Dingley act, but as the closing days of the session approach they are growing more considerate of the platform upon which they were elected. The prospect of meeting their constituents face to face has a great deal to do with their accession of reasonableness.-San Francisco Chronicle. FOOL REMEDIES FOR [San Francisco Chronicle.] ONGRESSMAN RICHARD COSOGT of Tennessee, representing for at home. the Democrats, still sticks to his alleged "remedy" of reducing the duties on products largely produced by trusts to a point where it is certain that all manufacturers outside the great combinations must go out of business. How this is to cure the "trust evil" Mr. Richardson does not try to explain. He does not have to. What he wants is an "issue" upon which Democratic spellbinders can yell themselves hoarse to ignorant audiences ready to swallow anything offered to them. Such tactics cannot be prevented. Probably they ought not to be. It is, after all, by the discussion of such "issues" that the mass of the people comes to be educated in sound doctrine. The trust question presents no such theoretical difficulties as that of the standards, and will therefore be mastered the more quickly. Since all understand that the great combinations can produce cheaper, and therefore, if they will, sell cheaper, it will not take long for the people to see that if duties were reduced so as to injure an industry, the first mills to shut down would be those which supply the only competition which the trusts have. And the first men to see it will be the workingmen, who may be depended upon to vote to keep their jobs. Democratic cuteness, Representative Richardson proposes to reduce the duty on any articles sold for export, by American producers, at lower prices than the same products are sold for at home. All this is in a bill which Mr. Richardson certainly does not expect Congress to act on, but which he intends as the text for certain stump speeches. In substance this is a proposal that, when the American workmen have supplied the American market, the mills must shut down until a new home demand arises. The greater part of international commerce consists in the dumpage of surpluses, almost invariably at cut prices. Such prices pay wages, but frequently do not pay profits. Richardson proposes that no American goods shall be sold which do not bring profits to capitalists, as well as wages to labor. We should be rather glad to see the Ways and Means Committee report the Richardson bill back, with an amendment that a prohibitory duty should be placed on foreign trust-made goods, and on products imported at lower rates than those current in the country of origin. It is a poor rule that will not work both ways. A week or two of discussion in Congress on a bill so amended would be very edifying, and help to clear up the muddled Democratic brain. We do not know just how they would determine when either foreign or American goods are sold at cut rates for export. Pass it up to the President, we suspect. That seems to As a further illustration of alleged be the fashion. A MEMORIAL TO ELI WHIT THE NEY. HE New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association is about to place a bronze tablet, a photograph of which we are privileged to print in this number, on the clubhouse of the Eli Whitney Country Club, at Rock Creek, near Augusta, Ga., which has been modelled by Mr. Cyrus E. Dallin of Boston, who received a gold medal at the Paris Exposition and was also a medallist at the Columbian Exhibition in Chicago. The tablet will bear an alto relievo portrait of Eli Whitney, supported by bolls of cotton, and the following inscription: "A Memorial to Eli Whitney for the invention of the American Cotton Gin, a contribution to the resources of civilization and the material welfare of the United States, erected by the New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association, MDCCCCII.” In the lower left hand corner the seal of the association forms a die, while on the opposite corner is a similar disk, a representation of the original model of the cotton gin. The donors have taken the wise precaution of placing the tablet under a deed of trust in the care of the mayor of Augusta, the ordinary of Richmond County, Georgia, and the judge of the city court of Richmond County, and their successors in office, to care for and preserve and to remove to some public building of their selection, if at any time the Country Club should discontinue the occu pancy of the clubhouse where it is to be placed. The portrait is almost a front view, which is somewhat remarkable in sculpture, as most bas-reliefs are profiles. It is very accurate and highly artistic, and the New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association is entitled to credit for thus perpetuating in the South, near the scene of the invention, the features and fame of the inventor who contributed so much to the wealth of the South, and indeed of the world, but who afterwards had to come North to make money. Although the saw gin of Eli Whitney has been greatly improved upon, and is now liable to be supplanted by the invention of another Massachusetts man in the form of a roller gin, which will clean as much cotton in a day as any saw gin, and without breaking the fibre, still few inventions of the last 150 years of marvellous discoveries have taken rank for usefulness with the cotton gin of Eli Whitney. But it is doubtful if his later discovery of the duplication of parts in machinery was not of even greater value to mankind. When he began the manufacture of firearms at New Haven, Conn., it was the universal custom to fit all the parts by filing. Therefore, no two locks of the same kind of gun were so nearly alike that their parts could be exchanged for each other and fit perfectly. It occurred to Mr. Whitney to use machinery for making them all alike. And from this beginningfor it can hardly be called either a discovery or an invention-has dated. |