. The literary digest. tled. It isnow proposed by Haiti to submit the case to arbitration. IfAmerican arrogance had been at all comparable with the Ger-man variety we should long ere now have harried the coast ofHaiti and slaughtered tens of thousands of Haitians in our effortsto compel satisfaction by bombardments.—The Record {Jnd.),Phil a de I phi a. The fact that the German Government sent two gunboats toPort-au-Prince and enforced its demands, outside the channels ofdiplomacy, detracts nothing whatever, in the estimation of man-kind, from the dignified position taken by President Sam in re
. The literary digest. tled. It isnow proposed by Haiti to submit the case to arbitration. IfAmerican arrogance had been at all comparable with the Ger-man variety we should long ere now have harried the coast ofHaiti and slaughtered tens of thousands of Haitians in our effortsto compel satisfaction by bombardments.—The Record {Jnd.),Phil a de I phi a. The fact that the German Government sent two gunboats toPort-au-Prince and enforced its demands, outside the channels ofdiplomacy, detracts nothing whatever, in the estimation of man-kind, from the dignified position taken by President Sam in re-senting the undiplomatic conduct of the German Ambassador atPort-au-Prince in the Liiders matter. All the world understandsthat the German Emperor acted the part of a bully and braggartin his publish,ed utterances in relation to the incident. He mustinevitably suffer, as the strong fellow does always who jumps ona small fellow and then blows about it. All honor to PresidentSara.—The Age {A/ro-Americatt), New HOW IT IS DONE ^O^.—The Herald, New York. THE DEFICIT, AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT. A STIRRING battle with figures is being waged over the•^*- Dingley bill and its results. The revenue of the TreasuryDepartment for the first five months of the present fiscal year,beginning July i, is less than the expenditures by S46,581, deficit by months is as follows : J^> $,073-545 August ,432 September 3,435,718 October 9,310,097 November 8,572,109 The Presidents message laid much stress upon the alleged factthat our recent embarrassments with the gold reserve and thesales of bonds were due to a deficient revenue, and his recom-mendation concerning the greenbacks is conditioned on the res-toration of a revenue at least equal to expenditures. Under thecircumstances, the continued deficit becomes a bone of very ani-mated contention, and a number of interviews have been pub-lished on the subject. Senator Allison is reported as follows : The present tariff act c
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