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tofore voted, some with, one party, some with another. Some are 

 called protectionists, some are classed as free-traders, yet all may 

 come to a practicable agreement on practical methods of tariff 

 reform. If that agreement could be brought into effect both, 

 here and elsewhere, to the end that every candidate for election 

 to Congress or to the Senate of the United States, whether named 

 Republican or Democratic, would be given to understand that his 

 election would depend upon his giving his support to methods of 

 tariff reform which are consistent with common sense, such as I 

 have attempted to bring before you, we might feel perfectly sure 

 that the average candidate on either side would hasten to get the 

 benefit of the first conversion to these views. 



In the great struggle by which personal liberty was estab- 

 lished, the men at arms knew no difference between Republican 

 and Democrat. Loyalty to the principle of liberty was the sole 

 test by which men were justified or condemned. May we not es- 

 tablish the same test in the struggle for relief from the burden of 

 obstruction and destructive taxation ? 



When in the fullness of time, with due preparation, with care- 

 ful consideration, and with consistent regard to all existing con- 

 ditions, the object may be attained which is aimed at by every 

 intelligent protectionist, tariff reformer, and free-trader alike ; 

 when all the conditions precedent have been safely established on 

 the lines upon which we may now enter — we may begin the next 

 century free from slavery, free from debt, free from destructive 

 taxation, free from the cruel burden of great standing armies and 

 navies. Then may the people of Massachusetts and all her sister 

 States conduct their work and serve all nations as they serve 

 themselves, sustained and governed by the principle which is en- 

 graved upon her own great seal : 



Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem. 

 [Concluded. ] 



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SOME NATIVES OF AUSTRALASIA.* 



By ELISEE KECLUS. 



SHAKEN collectively, the Dayak populations differ from the 

 -■- civilized Malays by their slim figure, lighter complexion, 

 more prominent nose, and higher forehead. In many communi- 

 ties the men carefully eradicate the hair of the face, while both 

 sexes file, dye, and sometimes even pierce the teeth, in which are 

 fixed gold buttons. The lobe of the ear is similarly pierced for 

 the insertion of bits of stick, rings, crescent-shaped metal plates, 



* From Oceanica, the fourteenth volume of Reclus's great illustrated work on The Earth 

 and its Inhabitants, now in course of publication by D. Appleton & Co. 



