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BY EXPERTS VITAL IS of the Day Are Considered and on Prominent and Live Topics WARREN. WHAT REPUBLICANISM HAS DOIiE Hi WYOS.'fiG. BALDWIN. CONSOLIDATING ROADS ASSISTS THE EMPLOYES. HOAR. DissicansETTs semtor AGAIVSr BRMMSJI. HORNBLOWER. SCOTT. SOUTHERN PROGRESS UNDER PROTECTION EAA1ES. AMERICANS ARE NATURAL PIOIiEERS. NATIONAL HONOR OVER GOLGiilAL QUESTIONS. We Must Advance Commer cially, Being Producers. Miners and Stockraisers Are Better Chance for Railroad Mea n : ri,.nA D n t , -n a at,. P n e No Confidence in a Party that Denies Self-Government. Why Judge Hornblower De clines to Support Bryan. Improvement Directly Traceable to Piotection. Receiving Good Returns than Ever Before. SUES DSCUSSED TSi Pal Issue Is the Preservation of National Financial Honor and Not Whether A.ulnaldo Shall Succeed. (By Hon. Oeorge I IToar, United Slatea Senator.) I am asked to etate briefly why I think anti-imperinlisU should vote for Presi dent McKinley thin fall. There li In my Judgment such thing as Imperlaliam, and such a thing as anti imperialism. The imperialist Kjya the I'hilippino Island are ours. The anti-Imperialists say the Philippine Ulai.ds belong to the Philippine people. The imperialist! aay we will establish for them the Best government we think they are fit for. The anti-imperialists any they hare a right to establish for themselves such a government aa they think good and fit for themselves. Now. President McKinley made the treaty, and Sir. Bryan, when Its defeat was assured, rame to Washington and saved it. These two great political lead ers, between whom you are to take your ehoice, are equally responsible for every thing that bus happened so far. When the treaty beeame the law of the land, the public faith was pledged. to pay $20, )IK),OIO for sovereignty over the Philip pine Islands, and that Congress, and not the people, should dispose of them here after. It bernine the constitutional duty f the President, until Congress should act, or dcilare otherwise, to reduce them to order nnd submission. The Supreme Court of the United States so held long ago. The only difference up to this point between President McKinley and Mr. Bryan is that President McKinley be lieved he was doing right, belonged to a party which had alwoys been, as he him self had been, the champion of political liberty, in the past, and is right on all ef the other questions that are at stake lu the coming election, and is fit to be trusted with all new questions that shall arise. On the other hand, Mr. Bryan thought the whole transaction wrung, make Nome thin and frivolous excuses for bis conduct, and the party with whom lie acts; uud the men who surround him J nd will surround him aa his counselors are men who have been the opponents of righteousness, equality and civil liberty always in the past, are wrong on all the . other great questions that are at stake In the present election, and are not. In my Judgment, to be trusted with new ques tions, however Important or vital, that are to come up in the future. In the matter of imperialism there haa been little practical difference between President McKinley and Mr. Bryan in the past. There will be little practical difference in the future. Mr. Bryan does ot even promise to use his power as ex ecutive and commander-ln-rhlef In call ing our troops from the Philippines. lie only promises to call Congress together. He knows very well he cannot command even the atreuxth of hla own party to undo the mischief which seventeen of his wn followers in the Senate, at his own Instance, wrought-when they ratified the treaty Messrs: HcKnery, McLaurin, Morgan. Pettus, Sullivan. Allen, Hut lor, Harris, Teller,' Kyle and Jones (of Ne- rada) hare not changed- their minds. Possibly Mr. Way of Georgia and Mr. Kenney of Delaware among hia associ ates have done so. It Is hopeless, even If the Democrats get a tie, or even a ma jority In the Senate, to expect them to accomplish anything In behalf of the In dependence of the Philippine Islands. In 18!HJ yoa regarded Mr. Dryaa'a can palgn as a "passionate crusade of dis honor." Von said Its success would bring with It not only adversity, but disgrace, W ould Its succesa not bring disgrace now? Mr. Bryan said at Topeka that If Be were elected the free coinage of ailver should be accomplished before another presidential election. , Secretary Gage aays he ran lawfully accomplish It by executive power alone. Whether Mr. Gage Is right In his construction of the I lowers of the President under existing sw, I will not undertake to say. But I will undertake to aay that Mr. Bryan will not hesitate to use that power If ha las the great authority of Mr. Gage for Its lawfulness. I do not believe the man who promoted the ratification of the Spanish treaty means business In this matter of the Philippine Islands. But I do believe be means business in the mat ter of the free coinage of ailver, In the matter of free trade, and In hia purpose to reconstruct the Supreme Court He means bad businesa. lie meana bualneaa which will overthrow prosperity and em barrass manufacture; which will reduce wages and destroy credit; which will de bauch the currency and render the stand ard of value uncertain; which will Impair the oblia-ation of contracta and the value ef savings; which will hurt our credit and break our faith. All tbia you believe, aa I do. You said ae In 180l. You have been confirmed In your opinion by every thing that has happened since. Will yot aupport a cundiuate who. If be nave hla way, you a.luiit will accomplish all these things, Ik cause be and bis party give jou an empty promise of Juatire to 10,000, 000 Asiatics, and at the same time threat en grievous injustice and wrong te 10, 000,000 Americans? r will not rote for a candidate for the presidency, or help to bring a party Into power who, while they plant one heel oa the forehead of Booker Washington, and the other on the forehead of Robert Small, wave the Dig over Agulnaldo and ftfsl.inl. GKOHUB V. HO AH. Worcester, Ml' Opinion ct a Leading New York Jurist Vb.oe Election lo the Supreme Bench Was Beaten by D. B. hill. (By Judge William U. Hornblower of New York.) Judge William B. Hornblower of New York, who was nominated to the Su preme bench of the United States by President Cleveland, and whose confirm ation was beaten in the Senate for pure ly personal causes by David B. IWA, has made the following statement why he, a Democrat, cannot support Bryan: I have been repeatedly asked during the past few weeks what, In my Judg ment, la the duty of a Gold Democrat who la also an Auti-Imperiulist, in the pending presidential campaign. The question is by uc means a simple Jnc, and I can well understand and appreciate the position taken by such men as Mr. Schurs, Mr. Sbcpard and Mr. Olney. for my owu part, however, I cannot see my way clear to reaching their conclu sions. The same reasona which compell ed me to oppose Mr. Bryau In 1800 com pel me to oppose him lu the present cam paign. All the heresies, financial and Popullstic, which were embodied in the un-Democratlc, crazy-quilt platform of 180(1 are readopted without any attempt at modification or mollification by the Kansas City platform. The 10 to 1 plank is expressly reaffirmed and redeclared, and this at the instance of Mr. Bryan himself. I cannot support a candidate who still adheres to a proposition which, to my mind, is a monstrosity and which, if carried into effect, wouldin my judg ment produce untold disaster to all classes of the community and bring dis honor aud humiliation to our nation. The fact, if it be a fact, that recent legisla tlon has made It difficult for Mr. Bryan to carry into practice hia avowed princi pies docs not, it seems to be, make it any the more right to vote for a man who still maintains these principles. It is quite within the possibilities that dur ing his administration, If he should be elected, a complete change might be ef fected In the political composition of both houses of Congress, and the verdict of the people expressed at the polls In fnvor of Mr. Brynn'a election aa President might be carried Into effect. It will cer 'aiuiy be Mr. Bryan's duty, according to Ills expressed declaration, to do what in Mm lies to bring about this result. It is uot to be forgotten that Mr. Itryan Is not only the candidate of what is left of the Democratic party, but he Is the candidate also of the Populist party, and haa accepted the nomination on their plat form. The radical notions of the Popu lists, If ever carried into effect In this country, would reduce popular govern ment to a position where we should be the laughing stock of the nations, and would produce a reaction In the minds of the voters which would carry us far in the direction of domestic imperialism, which I suppose will be conceded to be of vastly more moment to us and to our posterity than colonial Imperialism. In deed, the chief objection to colonial In periallsm is its probable effect upon our domestic Institutions, and its tendency to wards enlarging the powers of the execu tive as between the executive and the legislative departments of the govern ment, and towards increasing the pow era of the Federal government as be tween Itself and the Statea. The queatlon aa to what la the "para' mount Issue" In this campaign la one on which men may honestly differ. -Ft seems to me, however, that the most Important Issue before us at the present moment is whether our domestic affairs are to be thrown Into confusion and exposed to dis aster. The rights and wrongs of our co lonial possessions must In this emergency be aubordlnated to the rights and wrongs of our own affair. Furthermore, I am by no mean satis fled that Mr. Bryan would be a safe per son to whom to Intrust the Imperialistic questions which will confront us in the future. In my Judgment be onght to hare made his fight at the time when the treaty with Spain was before the Sen ate. He should have upheld the hands of such dissenting Republican aa Sena tor Hosr, and he should bare opposed to the bitter end the principle of buying for eign people without their consent and In the midst of a war for Independence on their part By supporting the treaty Mr. Bryan made himself a party to Ita com pact, and la, more than any ether one man, except Mr. McKinley, responsible for the itnatlon. The treaty was rati fied, the purchaae money waa paid, the Islands are In our possession. In my judgment, the question of their future and of onr future, as determined Indi rectly by their future, must wait until we have settled the question of the present, and that question i whether honesty, In tegrity and common sens shall be ap plied to the financial affairs of the United State, or whether popular approval ahall be given to the vagaries, whims, a-.d fal lacies of the Populist and Bryanitea, with all the resulting diaaater and dis honor. WILLIAM B. HORNBLOWER. New York, Sept. IS. "What 1 denounce la Protective Tariff. It I false economy and the moat vlclona political principle that baa ever cursed thla coon try. "Will lam Jennlng Dryam la m apeech In the Hoaae of Representative, 194, advocating; the pvaaaareof the Wlleon O or ma, a Free Trade Tariff Law. Acknowledged and Understood by South era Businesa Men and Planter, Whose Sympathies Are with Republicanism. (By non. N. B. Scott, United States Senator, of West Virginia.) The South ia the citadel of Democracy in this country; it has also always been the citadel of free trade. Twenty-five years ago a protectionist Southerner was almost aa rare as a white blackbird. The overthrow of the old Whig party bad practically eradicated that element of po litical society in that section. But since then a great change has been gradually going on. The growth of pro tectionist sentiment in the South during the last quarter century is one of the most importaut developments of recent political history. It Is a fact susceptible of ample proof that whenever we hare had a protective tariff the whole country. North and South, has prospered, and whenever we have had a low tariff, or practically free trade, the country has suffered from hard times. In every branch of productive Indus try that can be named there has been " It 5ort o Looks as increased activity and increased profit during McKlnley's administration as compared with the previoua low tariff of Cleveland's admlniatration. In these benefits the South has fully participated and shared equally with the North. All this progress, Improvement and profit Is due mainly to the Republican protective tariff, operating according to the fixed gold atandard. The change of opinion among the Southern business men In regard to the principle of the tariff and other funda mental businesa principles during the present campaign has been wonderful; In fact, quite revolutionary. I'n West Virginia the feeling In favor of protection la very strong; in fact, the inhabitant realize that the Republican tariff on coal and Iron ha been the mak ing of the State. The farmer of the State also appreciate the rise In pricea of farm products, which they see is due not so much to bountiful, crop a to a good market for those crops. The re cent tremendous Increase In the foreign demand for American coal I also appre ciated at Its full value "by the Weat Vir ginia people, and they are fully aware that it ha been rendered possible by the protection afforded te borne product by the Dingley tariff. The banking bouse of Hambleton A Co. of Baltimore, all of the menibera of which are prominent Democrats, bar com out with a circular to tbelr cllenta and correspondents all over the South, In which they advocate the defeat of Bry an and the re-election of McKinley, on account of the great beneflta to the South which have accrued from the working ef the Republican financial and commer cial policy during the last four yeara. In brief, ae aectlen of the country ha had a larger ahare of the general pros perity during the present administration than the South, and It has been due main ly to the operation of the Republican tar iff and currency laws, a the Southern business men now understand and ac knowledge. Never before In the history ef the United State ha the output of the Southern iron ore and pig-iron, lum ber, coal and coke, been ao large a It ha been la the pat two year; and not for year. If ever, have the pricea been ae high. Never before wn ao Isrg a pro portion of Southern products shipped from Southern port. Never before ha money tosned there st inch low Interest. AU this haa occurred under the gold standard and the protective tariff. A few years sgo the South had practically no mnnnfactMree; It has now over 11,000,. 000.000 Invested In factories, paying over $350,000,000 In wage, and producing be tween $1,500,000,000 and 12,000,000,000 product yearly. Moat of this Increase has beea secured ander the present ad ministration, and 1 directly due to the operation ef the Repnbllcaa policies. . N. B. SCOTT. I EArOH I o j-tiiV; . 1 Hawaii: hmMM OwjIMm; J 1900 YsmM.sJK W I iwo.i- mWnWsMs J EXPORTS I rL m Philippines: WtBm 12.640,449 7 A Mast Seek Market Dehere and Cre ate Ntw Openings for Our Goods- Expan ion Natural in Nailon'a Life. By John C. Earaes, of the n. B. Claflin . Co., of New York.) How any man at all interested In the advancement and welfare of this great country can preach the doctrine of anti expanston is more than I can understand. Anti-expansion means contraction, or at least that would be the result. Unless we seek markets for our goods outside of the limits of our own country we cannot advance commercially. We are a coun try of producer. Not only do we draw from nature' bountiful supplies of the ground, but, by using the. ingenuity Providence has given us, we have demon strated that we can by modern machin ery turn out more manufactured goods than we can use. Therefore we must not only seek markets elsewhere, but we must create new markets for our produc tions. To do this our country must have at least a foothold in other countries, commercially at least. 'A It I'd Have to Expand." Our occupancy of Cuba and Porto Rico ha assured us of the greater part ot the trade with those Islands. The Influence for good hae not stopped there, but it has extended to all the Spanish-speaking countriea of America. Inqulrlea from these countries for American good .and manufactures are becoming more numer ous every day. I wish to say right here from my own knowledge of the businesa men In Cuba, and from what they have said to me per sonally, that I am sure that their confi dence in us alone was what made them continue business on the Islands and feel that there waa a future for them. With out an exception the business men from Havana and other cities in Cuba have stated frankly to me that if the United State should withdraw entirely from Cuba they themselves would fee obliged to go out of business; that all business confidence would be shaken. Speaking especially of fabric manu factured from cotton, think how Impor tant it i that we find new markets for our cotton goods. Of the nine to twelve million of bale of raw cotton produced in this country two-third of It I ex ported and made up Into cotton clotha abroad. The exportation of the raw ma terial In Itself Is an Immense factor In our foreign trade and commerce, but how much better It wonld be, Instead of aend- lng two-thirds of the raw cotton abroad and usjng one-third In manufacturing goous in tnia country, to export ene-third and use two-thirds here, exporting the nnisneu proauct, thereby doubling the number of our mills and factories and giving employment to twice the number of operatives. It Is not probable that we win ever gain very much of a foothold on Chlneae shores, for It does not seem to be the de sir of the people of this country at large that we should expand to that extent But we have the Philippine Islands, prae tlcally forced upon n by circumstances, which In the near future will prove to be one of the most valuable territorial acquisitions that we have made since the original thirteen State were organized. Not only can we. In time, anpply the even or eight million Inhabitant of those Islsnds with practically everything that they do not raise or manufacture themselves, but we can tiae the Tslanda as a atepplng-stone to Asiatic countries The majority of the large Hongkong and Shanghai bousea already have branches In Msnila, as well as representatives In New York; this will complete the chain of commercial intercourse between this country and China. What we need to expand onr trade and commerce with other countriee la a broad and liberal policy by thla government such as the present administration has adopted. JOHN C. EAMES. New Torn. Senator Warren Tells Why the West Will Return Good Majorities for McKinley and Rooitvt.lt This Year. fRv Hon. Francl E. Warren, United States Senator.) The people of Wyoming are vitally and intensely Interested in the outcome of the present campaign. Wyoming haa been a State but a little over eight yeara, and of thia period four yeara each of Demo cratic and Republican government have served to Impress upon the minds of Its people two distinct and Impressive ob ject lessons. The first period waa dur ing the Democratic administration from 18U3 to 18'Jti nclusive. in which we suf fered so severely in business matters and when our material conditions were con fessedly so devoid of hope that as we look buck it all seems like a hideous nightmare. - ' The second period of four years Is that formed by the McKinley administration. At the outset of it we were awakened to life and hope. During this tftne our industries, depressed aud unprofitable under Democratic policies, have become prosperous, .and our business ventures remunerative and satisfactory.. The ranches, farms, cattle, sheep, mines and railroads of our State oil give substantial returns to the capital and labor expend ed upon them, and our people, instead of being constant borrowers, are now pay ing their debts and becoming lenders. Bryan's scare beads "Expansion, Im perialism and Militarism" are not an issue of the campaign In Wyoming. This State is the product of expansion. Every foot of Its area of 97,000 sqrare miles was formed from territory acquired by acts of expansion such as the Louisiana purchase, the seizure of the Oregon coun try, the Mexican treaty, and the Cali fornia purchase, and all this without the consent of the governed. One of our Wyoming volunteers who. when the war broke out, was a leading Democratic politician of the State, who went to the Philippines as a private and through merit won a commission, recent ly wrote home as follows: "I would like to be home so that I could rote against Bryan. I hope be will be defeated so badly that the buga boo word Imperialism will never be heard again." The chief Industries in Wyoming are live stock raising, farming, coal mining and railroad operation. Sheep, cattle and horse raising form the greatest in dustry of the State. During the four years of Democratic administration, and under the direct operations of the Wil son tariff law, the condition of the sheep and wool Industry in Wyoming waa ap palling. Sheep brought less than one dollar a bead; wool sold for five cents and sometime less per pound, and mut ton shipments would acarcely realize the railroad freight to market. During that four years the highest annual assessed valuation of all the sheep In the State was $1,808,000. But with the McKinley administration and the Dingley tariff of 181)7 sheep, which could scarcely find a purchaser at a dollar a head, now sell for four dollars. Wool now brings from fourteen to seven teen cents. Mutton now sells for from 'four to six cents a pound on foot. And the assessed valuation ot aheep In Wy oming ia now $..,4211,403. a gain In four years of over 800 per ceut. The contrast between the cattle In dustry under Democratic and Republi can cdminiatration is almost start ling. From 1803 to 1897 depression and ruin was the rule. But, In the aheep business, the election of McKinley and inauguration of Republican policies wrought a marvelous change. Mixed herds of cattle for the past three year have eold for thirty to thirty-five dollars a neaa; calvea bring fifteen to twenty dollars a head, and ateera now net the cattle raiser from forty-five to flftv-fiv dollar each. The assessed valuation of cattle In the Rtate now amonnta to $8, 154,000 and la rpldly Increasing. Under the past four veare of Repub licanism, Wyoming haa grown to be an Important factor among the coal-producing State. During the four year of Democratic rule, with the aame number or minea at present, the annual pro duction waa 2,4:19,311 ton as arsln.r 4,500,000 tons per annum during the pst two years of the McKinley adminis tration. The Increase In production meana more miner, more day worked, better pay. The most hopeful feature of W Ing'a businesa condition Is to be found In the fsct that Ita local banka now carry the credita of Ita businesa nennU Th deposits of Wyoming banks have Increas ed four-fold In the past four yeara and the number of depositor baa Increaaed five-fold. Western banks are now as In dependent of the East as the East I of Europe, and It will be difficult, I think, for Mr. Bryan to convince our people that this comfortable atate of affairs Is not due directly to the wise and patriotic policy of the Republican party. In mm, when four rears of 1nr..i. and disaster had almost driven our people to despair, Bryan carried the State by about 2.V) plurality. Now If the people will (pare time from business, from the ranch and from the mine te go to the polla, this plurality will not only be lost to Mr. Rrysn. but the MMfi.,1.. j Roosevelt electors will r.rrw k. b...- by a substantial majority FRANCIS K. WARREN. United State Senator. Cheyenne, We, A Return to the Old System of Hlfh Freights, Hifh Fares and Jerk, water Railroads Is an ln possibility. (By William II. Baldwin, Jr Preside, of the Long Island Railroad.) To appreciate the aigniftcance of the value of railroad consolidation to the pub lic, it is only necessary to attempt tt conceive of a return to former conditions. The small independent railroads, witt their relatively smull number of em ployes, each road with ita own standsnli of equipment dependent upon the idioayt crasies of its principal officers or dhre tors; each road with responsibilities tt the public as a carrier only to the extent of its own short line all these liuiitt tious suggest a local independence whlck would permit to the railroad the employ ment of labor on the basis of "supply for its small demands. On the other band, the gradual growls of large eystems composed of many such small lines produces a new and constant ly growing responsibility to the public, until finally a point is reached where th law of supply and demand affects but remotely the skilled labor necessary it transportation service. The function per formed by railroads has become too im portant to the body politic to permit of any solution of these fcerious labor and wage questions, except by intelligent con sideration on the part of the representa tives both of the management and of tin employes. The effect of consolidation has brought many good results to the employes: Ai increased ability on the part of the rail roads to pay higher wages; to employ more men; an improvement in standards of tracks and equipment, which has re duced the hours for s day's work ni has made the service less dangerous. It has also made the employment of ran in the aervice more regular throughout the year and thus kept together a regular force, and has developed a code of stand ard rules, governing the army of em ployes, which have dignified their em ployment and made more permanent their positions. The saving by consolidation is due t the ability to develop business econom ically. Conversely, the business of any trunk line to-day could not be handled by I series of independent lines with varying standards, at the present rates which art profitable to the larger lines. With tht Improved efficiency and economy of trans portation, ratea have constantly declined and t rattle haa been continually derclep ed. , With Increased deu-dty of traffle, the number of employes has been increaa ed In proportion uud has been paid S higher wage. The Improved facilities and higher speed of trsins have made the day's work for a trainman, not one hus dred mile as a maximum, but at a sals imura. so that to-dav. with high speed trains thm Irilnmnn tllsv earn ID tVS hnnra' llm waira higher than be ttr .1 In aarllar lava III five hour! tiff Pmh Ihnu.h ka waira nor mile ruO WeTt tt, aamm a.j1. aa In nnul venrS. tht tt tnal work which the trainman can pby .!-M .1 ..Itku M..An.l,l. hnnrs It bii an, uv 1 1 u 1 11 . , u . v 11 ' ' . .... .: ...... inn m.i vi-A.tur. The lt Anmnll ara-ln..ar nf tn-llsv mSV tVeraft easily one hundred and seventy-five milet per day, and at en Increased rate of pay over the one-hundred-mile day of tot past. In railroads, more than In any class of labor in this country, we have seen tat reult of wise leadership on the part of the trade unions. Both capital nd lab alm at monopoly, the best result ! ob tained only wlfen Intelligent counsel pre vails. The railroads are moving 00 te ward greater consolidations and with tantly Increasing benefit to their millios employes and to the public. More at more each year the managements of rail road cknowledge their public dutlet, more and more each year the operallo of railroad I becoming a governmental function, o tht, as I see it, the t condition will be reached when tn re lations between the government sad in railroads are intelligently defined, wiw the management nd operation U-rt the hand of prlvte persons. The w condition Is to so operste the rsilroa" to pproch an Ideal goveromea'ai operation and yet to retain the owaeraaip In private capital. . The history of railroad wage -shown that the public has beea w ; always to recognize the respon.lb.li tW of railroad men, and haa given It sj" pathy to them In their r'lont,Mt mands. The employes, aa a rule, as shown an Intelligent understand!- the reasonable wage, and whea have not acted fairly and wtoelj ' have not been anpported by the p hive been refused their demand! WJ" railroads and have le.roed thtt ra must prevail. , WM. II. BALDWIN. J"-; New York. REMEMBER! If there la anyone who Oold Ataedard la K ,h " that It mwt be maintained. I him not to cast hla ballot for caaee I promise him It will maintained In thla country then I am able to tret rid of tuh j lam Jennlnara ry PTT KoavUle,Teon., Hep.