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WITH THE NEW YEAR, we beg to call our readers’ the ri attention to pid and marked improvement exhibited in Tue JupGe, both in cartoons and in This improvement, we intend, shall continue letter press, during the past year. until no room for improvement is left; for we are determind to make Tue Jupce the BEST COMIC ILLUSTRATED PAPER ever pub- With the close of the year many of our friends’ We re a renewal from our old friends, and orders lished in America, and to keep it so. subscriptions expire. pectfully solicit from our new ones—for we are making new friends every week. Subscribe now for 1885, and no matter how hard times are, it will be money well invested. A good laugh is often better than money, and that (the laugh, not the money) we can promise you fifty-two times a year. THE NEW ORLEANS EXPOSITION. LovistaNa in particular, and the South in general, are to be congratulated on the auspicious and successful opening of the great exhibition at New Orleans. Louisiana will receive many callers this year, and nearly all of them will leave some- thing behind more substantial than the flimsy paste-board of the average New Year's caller. ‘The exposition will give a mighty impetus to the trade and manufactures of the South. Visitors, on the other hand, will take away with them much that will give them food for reflection. The South, torn by faction and racked by politics and race- conflicts, has not seemed a very desirable place to the outside world for many years past. ‘The New Orleans exposition will give | a gigantic advertisement to the fact that of late there has been a more healthy feeling J} springing up south of Mason and Dixon's line; it will show the world that the south- ern states have done much to develop their immense resources of late years, and are willing todo more. It will convince the world of the tangibility and reality and value of these resources, and it will set the world a thinking. The South has needed just such an advertisement as this for many years, and now it is just in the position to profit by it. For what the South especially needs is emigration and capital—capital especially The exhibition of her products and the fruits of her enterprise, exemplified at this world’s fair, willdo much to attract both. Many representatives of capital will visit New Orleans during the next few months. will see and judge for themselves. Capital is always secking new avenues for employment. A visit to the New Orleans exposition will convince many that a good field exists in the South, With the con- viction will come investors, speculators, manufacturers and traders, and with their advent a new era of prosperity will dawn for the South. And with this prosperity will come en- lightenment and education. Men of enter- prise are never hide-bound. They bring their own ideas, and modify them according to the demands of the situation in which they find themselves. We believe that this exposition will do much to knock the Demo- cratic fetters off the limbs of thinking men, and that soon we shall have no such political disgrace as is implied in the words ‘‘a Solid South.” Nor will the advantage of this exhibition be merely sectional. It will help to extend the trade of the whole country. It willopen up new markets—especially with the South American republics, which have hitherto been practically closed to American enter- prise; and it will give a fair showing, along- side of foreign nations, to American products and manufactures, more especially to those of the South. New Orleans deserves all possible credit for the energy with which she has pushed the enterprise to a conclusion that so fairly promises such eminent success. THE SPANISH TREATY. Mvcu has been said and written about the new treaty with Spain, and so far the project scems to have met with unqualified disap- probation from all parties most concerned. However, we must expect to be confronted with much treaty-making and legislation of a similar nature during the next four years, 80 we may as well make up our minds to it first as last. It is the entering of the free-trade wedge, and how far that wedge will be able to split up our national prosperity, i time alone can answer, At present, the sition to the treaty comes from a question principal opy the tobacco interest, which is menaced with acompetition, on almost equal terms, with the servile labor of Cuba. At the price which labor commands in this country, com- petition with Cuba in the manufacture of cigars would become, under seriously reduced dutie sible. removed or . practically impos An enormous industry, whic hundreds of employs thousands of laborers, both men, women, and children, and in which millions of capital are embarked, is thus, at a stroke, threatened with annihilation. The sugar trade is menaced also, though the result in that case would not be so sweep- ing, as a much smaller percentage of the total cost of sugar production is paid for labor, Nor is the same amount of public interest, for that very reason, felt in the rmarket. As the old toper remarks— “What's the good of cheapening sugar. The saloons throw that in free.” Decidedly, the cigar fa ories and the to- bacco interests generally are most directly threatened by this adroit attempt, on the part of the Spaniard, to. pull the Uncle Sam’s But apart from tobacco, and sugar also, there is another great com- ool over mercial interest, paramount in some sec concerning which litile has been said during this discussion, and which is now threatened very seriously. ‘This is production of crude iron. At no time has this indu been very well protected from Cuban co of the duty would the petition, and any lessenin: be most disastrous. Even now, prote by a duty of from fifty to seventy-five a ton, many mines cannot be worked profit, and in New Jersey the railre daily carrying quantities of import ore past once productive but now disused mines. As lon. bor can be obtained in Cuba at from thirty so long will it be impossible to meet Cuban ve cents a Ay wh, competition on equal terms here. This Spanish treaty, of it, will be like! the free trade the and were it not for the suffering entailed on innocent workingmen, Tur JupGe would be inclined to say, ‘* go ahead, and find out how you like it.” ‘There are some people who never can be taught anything, except by experien , even in the prospect to give the Democrats all y will want for some time; THE DEMOCRATIC NEW YEAR. Tuts year of grace, eighteen-hundred and eighty-five, which is just about to dawn upon us, promises to be remarkable for many things; but in no way will it be more memor- able than for the sweeping change it will inaugurate in the government of this coun- try. Tue Jupce is free to confess that he contemplates this change with misgivin he does not like the political outlook which comicbooks.com