Morning Oregonian., July 13, 1901, Page 5, Image 5

THE MORNING OEEGONIAN, SATTHtpAT. JULY 13, 1901.
' WEEKLY TRADE REVIEWS
CROP CONDITIONS IESS FAVORA
BLE THAN IiAST YEAR.
Firmer Feeling? in Iron and Steel
Wool Shovrs Improvement Rail
Tray Earnings Larger.
NEW YORK, July 12.-Bradstreefs to
morrow will say:
Varying: commercial and Industrial con
ditions make It difficult to strike In -a sen
tence the keynote of general trade for
the -week. In the East business appears
to be of a mid-Summer character, -while
In the Southwest conditions have been ad
versely affected by drouth and hot weath
er reports, which superinduced a ten
dency on the part of many to cancel or
ders previously given. In the Northwest,
on the contrary, business seems to be
Quite active, as the result of excellent
croo conditions, and credit Is reported
being freely granted, but In the middle
"West the tenor of trade Is apparently
steady, while In the South ordinary con
ditions are noted.
But for the week the important devel
opments seem to have been the rampant
speculation In corn and oats, due to re
ports of exceedingly heavy damage In the
Missouri Valley belt, the nervousness of
the stock market and a somewhat trou
bled railway rate situation, together with
a more favorable feeling In labor circles.
The crop reports to the Agricultural De
partment point to a reduction of 400,000
acrest or 5 per cent, from the area planted
last year, with a lowered condition as
compared with July a year ago, and as
a result the statisticians are figuring on
a crop of 2,095,000,000 bushels, which may
bo regarded as somewhat above the prob
able yield, If account be taken of the de
cline In Conditions as compared with the
average for the season last year. For
the wheat crop, as a whole, a total of 704,
380,000 bushels is figured out, also seem
ingly an estimate which may have to be
revised in the direction of a reduction.
The wheat remaining In farmers' hands Is
estimated at 31,000,000 bushels, which Is
less by 20,000.000 bushels than on July 1 a
year ago. The oats crop shows a decline
In conditions for the month of June, and
as compared with July 10 last year, while
"barley shows a slight gain lor the month,
"but an advance as compared with July
last year.
There Is a firmer and better feeling in
the Iron and steel market, though new
business Is of small volume. Steel rail
mills are now accepting orders for deliv
ery In 1902, at $28 per ton. and the position
Js regarded as being rather strong". A re
port this week indicated that an order for
20.000 to 30,000 tons of steel bars had been
placed with the Carnegie and Jones and
Xaughlln people by the agricultural Im
plement men, who were holding out with
the hope that the price would go lower.
Blast furnace statistics Indicate a decline
In the weekly capacity from 306,991 tons
on June 1, to 303,793 tons on July 1, but
consumption seems to have almost bal
anced output Structural material Is
active.
Tin, after soaring on speculative manip
ulation, broke toward the end of the week
as the result of a coup by the leading
bull interests.
Labor troubles, so far as surface Indi
cations go, are approaching an amicable
settlement
In wool the situation shows Improve
ment, but no speculative Interest Some
mills that had secured Fall orders are
covering by buyljag raw wool, the bulk of
the demand for which Is for territory
fine medium and fine. Offerings of sta
ple lots are scarce. New wools are being
picked up and values are hardening, while
fleece wools are quiet and some Austra
lian wools have appeared on the market
and are selling at firm prices.
Gross railway earnings for the month
of June, as reported to Bradstreefs, ag
gregate $53,510,413, as compared with $50,
103,521 for June last year, an Increase of
6.8 per Cent
Leather Is inactive on domestic and ex
port demand, and so are hides and skins.
In shoes a fair line of business for prompt
shipment is reported, but forwardlngs are
below those of last week, amounting to
S2.781 cases, against 101,761 cases last week
and 81,119 cases for the week In 1900.
"Wheat (Including flour) shipments for
the week aggregated 5,016,149 bushels,
against 3,787,639 bushels last week, 2.829,
910 bushels in the corresponding week of
1900, and 3,263,815 bushels in 1899.
Business failures In the United States
for the week were 199, as against 145 last
week, 221 this week a year ago, and 174
in 1S99.
Canadian failures for the week number
22 as against 13 last week and 25 last year,
'and 27 In 1899.
ACTIVE, PROGRESSIVE BUSINESS.
Manufacturers "Well Employed Rec
ord "Wheat Crop Expected. '
NEW TORK, July 12. R. G. Dun &
Co.'s weekly review of trade tomorrow
will say:
General business continues Its even
course, with all the leading industries
well employed and with confidence ex
pressed on everj' hand. Bountiful crops
of wheat seem assured, and the damage
to corn, while considerable In some di
rections, does not promise to be suffi
ciently general or serious at all to im
pede the progress of the country. Labor
troubles are in process of settlement and
speculators have been responsible for
znnst of tho unrest which has been re
jected In the markets.
Steel mills are actively employed and
Ithete is a distinct Improvement in the de-
Lxnand for finished products, while quo-
stations are without alteration. In bars
rfor use by makers of agricultural lm-
pleinents there Is a brisk movement
plates are taken readily and there is no
sign of diminished purchasing in struc-
itural material. Rails are ordered freely,
rwlth notable pressure for trolley and
jOthrr light weights. Billets are more
r quiet and few new transactions are re
corded in pig Iron. The total number of
pig iron furnaces In blast on July 1, as
recorded by the Iron Age, was out tnree
less than a month previous, and the week
ly capacity was 310,950 tons.
Improvement is general in the footwear
Industry, although no higher prices can
be obtained. Leather Is in good demand
and firm, but without quotable change In
prices.
Heavy woolens are securing duplicate
orders and mills are making extensive
preparation? for the light-weight season.
Manufacturers are well employed and
exhibit Increasing interest in raw ma
terial. Wool has not altered in price,
but the tone is firmer and sales increas
ing. Growers are said to be selling
Tather than consigning, while many
ranchmen refuse to do any business at
present prices.
Grain crops this season are occasioning
much uneasiness among speculators, ow
ing to the extremely complicated situa
tion. According to the latest official and
unofficial prognostications there Is rea
son to anticipate the heaviest wheat yield
ever harvested, and, making the cus
tomary allowances for domestic consump
tion, even with the small supply on
hand when the year opened, there ap
pears available for export about 50 per
tent more than went abroad In the year
of greatest shipment Yet prices are far
above the low record and vigorous rallies
follow each decline. Extensive needs
abroad continue, the movement from the
Atlantic ports for the week amounting
to 3,208,634 bushels, against 2,189,443 bush
els a year ago.
Failures for the week numbered 208 In
the United States, against 196 last year,
and 27 In Canada, against 24 last year.
CROP NEWS AFFECTS MARKET.
Railroad Troubles and Low State of
Bank Reserves Also Depressing
NEW YORK, July 12. Bradstreefs
financial review tomorrow will say:
TThile last week's market was irregu-
lar and exceedingly dull, the present
week has developed a declining tendency,
accompanied by ''greater activity. Most
of the Incidents which influenced specu
lation were of an unfavorable nature, and
while the public Interest In stocks was.
not sufficiently large to produce a gen
eral selling movement, there was evi
dence that a good deal of liquidation was
going on. In, fact, In some quarters It
was held that certain interests of the
larger class have become somewhat over
loaded and the principal cause for the
weakness In the general list was the un
stable technical position of the parties.
The adverse news about the corn crop
was one of the leading factors in creating
a fejjllng of uncertainty. The fact that
the wheat yield Is almost a record
breaker received scant attention, al
though its Importance to the railroads Is
obvious. In addition to unfavorable crop
advices the market was affected by the
news that the cutting of rates by the
Chicago Great Western had at last result
ed In retaliation, the Atchison having put
out a tariff involving very serious reduc
tions on many commodities between
Southwestern points and the East
The main factor of disturbance In the
market was, however, furnished by the
low state of the New York bank reserves
and the necessary calling of loans which
this involved. The dullness of specula
tion and the Inactivity of commission
houses would indicate that there is at
present no excessive borrowing by Wall
Street at large. Nor, although money
was quoted at the opening of the week
as high as 8 or 9 per cent on call, has
there been any real difficulty as to rates,
the quotation for call money after last
Tuesday having been 6 per cent.
Bank Clearing"-
NEW YORK, July 12. The following table,
complied by Bradstreet, shows the bank clear
ings at the principal cities for the week ended
July 11. with the percentage of increase or
decrease, as compared with the corresponding
week last year:
Clearings.
New York $1,303,237,000
Boston 147,320,000
Inc. Dec
58.4
1G.5
11.6
7.0
50.2
20.1
7.3
23.2
22.0
36.4
6.0
Chicago
154.051,000
00,059.000
49.097.000
40.502,000
23,680,000
23.415,134
19,870,000
18,973,000
0,034.000
10.763.000
12,863,000
10,417,000
0,321,000
8,3!H,000
6,704,000
4,074,000
6,875,000
6.619,000
8,370,000
7.024.000
2,393,000
4,549,000
4,485.000
6,102,000
2,013,000
3,045,000
2,141,000
2.351,000
2,111,000
1.C34.000
2.027.000
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Pittsburg
Baltimore
San Francisco
Cincinnati
Kansas City ........
New Orleans
Minneapolis
Detroit
Cleveland
Louisville
Providence ..........
Milwaukee
St. Paul
Buffalo
Omaha
Indianapolis
Columbus, O
Savannah
Denver
Hartford
Richmond
Memphis
Washington
Peoria
Rochester
New Haven
Worcester
Atlanta
Salt Lake
Springfield, Mass....
Fort Worth
Portland, Me
Portland, Or
St. Joseph
Los Angeles
Norfolk
Syracuse
Des Moines
Nashville
Wilmington, Del.. ..
Fall River r
Scran-ton
5.7
37.0
37.2
12.8
32.1
9.7
D.2
44.5
3.0
18.0
24.1
33.0
33.0
10.8
30.1
6.0
15.6
18.1
17.0
43.3
19.4
0,523.000 139.7
1.762,000 0.3
2,791.000
1.O90.000
2,344,040
6.207.000
3,287.000
1,721.000
1.548.000
1,008,000
1.807,000
1.070,000
1.053.000
1.283,000
1,502.000
003,000
w 700,000
1.382.000
2,856.200
758,510
1.S25.893
1.152,000
424,000
638,000
982,000
801,000
401.000
402,000
674.000
309,000
472,000
G.7L0OOr
458.000
455.000
410.000
334,000
349,000
268.000
153,000
1.069,000
2.672000.
6.170.000
6,108,000
811.000
1,102,000
640,000
579,000
729.000
508,000
618.000
724.000
693.000
354,000
297,000
52.4
33.8
4.6
17.3
24.8
12.0
6.9
32.5
15.3
8.1
14.6
13.5
Grand Rapids
Augusta, Ga
Lowell
Dayton, O ...
Seattle
Tacoma
Spokane
Sioux City
New Bedford
Knoxvllle, Tenn
Topeka
Birmingham
Wichita
Blnghamton
Lexington. Ky
Jacksonville, Fla....
Kalamazoo ..........
Akron V
Chattanooga .I....,..,
Rockford, 111... .'....
Canton. O .....
Springfield, O
Fargo, N. D-.
Sioux Falls. S. D...
Fremont, Neb..
Davenport ....
Toledo
Galveston
Houston .......
"Wllkesbarre .
Evansvllle ..........
Macon .
Helena
Little Rock
Springfield, 111
Youngstown, O
Colorado Springs ....
Wheeling
Chester, Pa
Bloomlngton .,
1.3
7.4
40.7
16.5
6.8
14.13
12.8
9.5
1.8
14.3
39.T
17.1,
25.8
50 .5
10.1
62.6
3.0
6.4
72.9
2.0
4.0
40.2
16.8
9.0
"7.6
72.5
68.3
20.1
10.8
0.0
14.0
3.4
5.3
Totals TJ. S $2,136,321,047
Totals outside N. Y..$ 773,083,981
DOMINION OF CANADA
Montreal $ 21.713.C9S
Toronto w 13.323,290
Winnipeg 2,432.804
Halifax v. 2,193.144
Hamilton 854.516
St. John. N. B 806.148
Quebec . 1.578.583
Vancouver 1,167.654
Victoria 712.516
8.3
22.6
5.3
Totals $ 43.203.673 18.5
Spain's Colonial Methods.
Chambers' Journal.
Spain had not a teeming Indigenous pop
ulation, nor had she manufactures seek
ing a market With the growth of her
colonies a disposition to encourage the
manufactures of the mother country at
the expense of the colonies might have
been expected even at that period; and
Spain did not encourage immigration, al
though the high cost of living consequent
upon the discovery of America would nor.
mally have Invited a stream of white
wage-earners from neighboring countries.
Therefore, while Spain was steadily
drained of her most vigorous sons, she
did nothing to fill their places. The state
did not by any means encourage emigra
tion to the New World at least, not be
yond the numbers thought necessary for
conducting the government and securing
tribute from the colonies. Spanish sub
jects in New Spain were regarded merely
as an army of occupation, who were to
act according to orders from home, .and
to have no interests In the New World ex
cept as servants of the crown; so the
government passed many regulations in
tended to discourage those desirous of
leaving the mother country. The outgoing
ships were carefully examined, and the
intending emigrant had to show a spe
cial license, to secure which he had to
prove, among other things, that no mem.
ber of his family for two generations had
fallen under the suspicion of the Inquisl.
tlon.
Suspicion, indeed, "war; the keystone of
Spanish colonial administration. No soon,
er had a Governor or Viceroy sailed from
Spain than a commission followed him,
charged with the duty of ieportlng secret
ly about his doings. The crown trusted no
one, and the Inquisition machinery was
set In motion for political quite as much
as for theological heresy. The partnership
between church and state in Madrid was
reflected in every Spanish colony, the sole
difference being that on American soil tho
church was the only partner seriously con
sulted. Suicide of an Ohio Judge.
CINCINNATI, O., July 12. D. A. Rus
sel. of Pomeroy, Judge of the Circuit
Court, committed suicide here-today, judge
Russell killed himself in his room at the
Palace Hotel with a revolver. He was a
prominent Republican. He had worried
over business troubles. Including an un
satisfactory Investment In a California
gold mine.
Massachusetts Republicans.
BOSTON, July 12. The Republican State
Convention has been called to meet in
this city October 4. Governor Allen, of
Porto Rico, will be Invited to preside.
1 1
BUSINESS ITEMS.
If Baby la Catting- Teeth,
Be sure and use that old arid well-tried remedy,
Mrs. Wlnslow Soothing Syrup, for children
teething. It soothes, the child, softens the gums,
allays all pals, cures wind colic and dirraoea.
PORTLAND SHOULD MOVE
COULD BE THE GREAT AMERICAN
ORIENTAL EMPORIUM.
First-Class Passenger and Freight
Service One of the Most Es
sential Things.
COLOMBO, Ceylon, July 12. (Special
correspondence.) Exports front Ceylon to
the United States for the year 1900 and
1S01 to May 27 were as follows:
1901. 1900
Black tea, lbs 875,622 2,271,228
Green tea, lbs 307,302
Cinchona, lbs 23,834
Cocoa, lbs ,. 107,520
Cardamus, lbs ' 2,781
Cinnamon, lbs 107,100
Cinnamon chips, lbs 34,533
Cocoanut oil 784,784 3.390.MX)
ueslccated cocoanut, lbs 679,653
Plumbago, lbs 7,727,328 .541,232
Coir yarn, lbs 48,944
Coir fiber, lbs 113,456
Palmyra fiber, lbs 4,250
Citironella oil 138,749
Cinnamon oil, ounces 800
These figures aggregate about 7000 tons
for 1900, and a proportionately larger
amount for 1901.
Cinchona, cocoa, plumbago, coir fiber
and Palmyra fiber were exported In an
unmanufactured condition. If manufac
tured at Portland instead of the Atlantic
cities, substantially the same advantages
would accrue to the manufacturer as ap
ply to other articles referred to in pre
vious letters.
Imports from the Northwest "to Ceylon
are 'apparently nil, but there is an op
portunity to develop a good business in
Oregon products if undertaken along the
lines hitherto Indicated.
For the first time since leaving Japan
the predominant influence of Chinese
business methods has -entirely disap
peared, and coincident therewith is no
ticed the lamentable wall of European
merchants so conspicuous in Japan. Re
pudiation of contracts, congested mar
kets, etc., are indicative of the unsatis
factory condition of commercial affairs,
thus furnishing more evidence of the in
dispensabllity of honest "John."
In summing up the situation It is diffi
cult to arrive at any other than the fol
lowing conclusion:
That a united and comparatively feeble
effort Judiciously exerted by the public
spirited men of Portland would result In
making-Portland the great American
Oriental' emporium. Two prime requisites
are essential to the accomplishment of
this object, viz: A first-class passenger
and freight service between Portland and
Singapore (or, preferably, Colombo), and
the acquisition of a few additional kin
dred factories.
In a commercial community like Port
land no difficulty should be experienced
In forming an active committee, substan
tially Indorsed by a large number of cit
izens, for the purpose of adopting and
executing a comprehensive, systematic
and aggressive plan of campaign.
The start has already been made by the
Portland & Asiatic Steamship Company,
which is operating a freight service part
of the distance. The proposed commit
tee should meet the Portland & Asiatic
Company and endeavor to induce it to ex
tend its line to Singapore and add a pas
senger service. If it is no't disposed to
do so, others are waiting for the oppor
tunity, provided they can arrange rail
way connection, which the O. R. & N.
should be glad to supply. I am credibly
Informed that the Hamburg-American
Line is contemplating the Inauguration,
of a fast Pacific service and is about to
make arrangements for a Pacific Coast
terminal. This company should be In
terviewed at once and If possible induced
to run to Portland. Something should
be done In this matter without delay or
the opportune time will have passed, as
with the Hamburg line established at "San
Francisco, and the Great Northern at
Seattle, it would become a much mere
difficult problem to solve.
Has Start in Right Direction.
Portland also has an industrial start
In the right direction, having a coradge
factory and rice mill, both of which are
receiving their raw material from Asia.
This should not be overlooked when dis
cussing this subject with transportation
companies. A careful perusal of previous
letters will disclose the fact that a dozen
new industries could be established in
Portland that would receive their sup
plies from Asia, and there is no doubt
that this number could be augmented
from time to time as the exploitation of
these prolific tropical regions progresses.
When traveling, especially in foreign
lands, one is occasionally confronted
with certain striking peculiarities of an
alternately harmonious and discordant
nature. As a rule the harmonious fea
tures are noted, and elaborated on, while
the discordant or obnoxious features are
ignored and often soon forgotten. The
latter, however, made the deepest Im
pression on me, and I cannot In con
cluding this, my last letter refrain from
deviating from the subject under discus
sion, in order to explain a few of the
Intrusions on my otherwise symmetrical
pathway. I refer to the military man
euvers of the great powers, the humiliat
ing and barbarous "tipping" system, and
the missionary evil. These are the great
stumbling blocks to human progress in
Asia. These obstacles are met with at
every angle. They are as kindred spirits
closely associated with each other in their
work of destruction, each performing its
respective part and all tending In one
direction.
When great nations condescend to
dicker, bluff, connive and deceive, as
would ill-become an ordinary citizen, If
not a professional horsetrader, what can
be expected from Individual citizens? This
is undoubtedly a mllltary-ridden continent.
Every prominent point of land protrud
ing into the sea and every navigable
streapa Is occupied by this destructible
element, under various flags, with lips
curled and teeth shining at each other.
The extreme jealousy manifested by
these "great powers" Is really amusing to
the unprejudiced observer. The defiant at
titude assumed when one attempts to gain
the most Insignificant vantage ground Is
actually ludicrous. The monotony of the
bugle, "barracks, forts, men-of-war, etc.,
becomes almost unbearable, especially
when one realizes the magnitude of the
farce they are all participating In. These
nations, supposed to be endowed with
philanthropic motives, have but one de
sign: to steal from their unarmed and
unprotected Asiatic brother the las,t ves
tige of proprietary rights, and, If pos
sible, reduce them to the verge of slav
ery. Their encroachments have so far
been practically uncontested, but now,
that their phantom enemy has been re
placed by their real enemy themselves It
Is more than probable that the one-sided
slaughter of Asiatics will be superseded by
the doleful and Incessant European growl.
Stand off, Uncle Sam! Do not jeopardize
your commercial supremacy Dy snaring
In this International iniquity. Do not per
mit the Stars and Stripes to become be
smeared with the indelible earmarks of
National piracy.
Tke "Tlppingr Evil.'
The "tipping" evil has assumed 'such
vast proportions throughout the entire
world that the time has- arrived when it
should be reckoned with as an Important
factor in the degradation of nations. The
traveler can scarcely turn in Asia with
out being accosted for a bribe.
His legitimate expenses are but a frac
tion of his daily expenditure. Imagine
transportation companies and $5-a-day ho
tel keepers participating in this degrad
ing "squeeze" system by underpaying em
ployes. The actual perpetrators of this
glaring humiliation are the employers or
their superiors, the "board of directors."
I have no hesitation in accusing them of
encouraging the development of one of the
lowest Instincts of mankind. To be In.
cessantly harassed by these Infernal
leeches is the unenviable daily ordeal of
a traveler In Asia. Thousands of them
are sneaking a living In this way out
of the gullible, and it Is almost impos
sible for even those who are familiar
with their methods to avert the nuisance
altogether. They actually succumb to
the agonizing look of disappointment de
picted on the face of the supplicant if
his bribe is not forthcoming or if it falls
short of his expectations. Legislation ap
pears to be the only remedy, and Its ap
plication should not be delayed by self
respecting nations.
It Is practically the universal opinion
of business men throughout Asia that the
missionaries are a very undesirable ad
junct to the population. The general re
mark applied to them Is: "They are a
confounded nuisance." They are met
with everywhere (except In the Dutch
East Indies). The missionaries are, of
course, to be accredited with some com
mendable acts of charity, and in this re
spect are at present rendering a very good
service, but quite Insufficient to compen
sate for the presence of such a vast army
of them and the amount of their annual
expenditure.
Their effort to revolutionize the forms
of worship now predominating in Asia
have utterly failed. Their interference
with the ancient religions of these peo
ples creates prejudices that are a menace
to industrial progress, without accomplish
ing the object aimed at It is not re
ligious tuition these people require, nor
Is It Industrial or commercial: It is sci
entific knowledge that Is most required.
Their religious object Is practically the
same as that of the Christian, only In
tho ancient forms, which appear to have
been quite satisfactory to some of our
forefathers. I have seen a red-haired mis
sionary in the north of China dressed In
Chinese costume with a red pigtail at
tached to his hair, for which he offered
the excuse that he did not wish to at
tract attention -when in the interior; but
this excuse for such a ridiculous freak Is
not acceptable to the oldest European in
habitants of Asia. It Is, however, a sat
isfactory explanation to the victim at
an old-fashioned missionary meeting In
Europe and America.
The United States is in the rear of
this procession of corruptionlsts, al
though there Are strong evidences of a
tendency In the direction heretofore In
dicated, and I have only given the sub
ject a superficial scratch in the hope of
attracting the attention of a congenial
spirit, who will delve more deeply Into
it I contend, with assurances of strong
indorsement, that the human agencies
.heretofore referred to are not giving value
received; that their services are not com
mensurate with the cost of maintenance,
and that their abolition would be con
ducive to the public good.
I. A. TEREX.
CAPTAItf JERKS' PET PIKE.
I
A Veracious Fish Story That Origi
nated in a Michigan Lake.
.Detroit Free Press.
The angler Is again In his glory, and
many picturesque stories are being scat
tered abroad of fine catches and strange
experiences with the finny treasures of the
deep. Perhaps the prize yarn of all up to
date has Its source in Cass Lake, which
is a very popular resort with local an
glers. The story Is told by Captain Frank
Jenks, a quaint old character, "who has
the care of several Summer cottages at
the lake, and who passes his spare time
In luring the elusive and sporty fish from
their home. He tells of his latest catch
In a sincere and sober manner that can
hardly fall to carry conviction. In fact,
he would probably wax Indignant were a
suspicion cast upon the truth of his state
ments. Upon several occasions he noticed a
beautiful pike in the vicinity, and he re
solved upon his capture- The usual rod-and-reel
method falling, he set a flshtrap
for the beauty and succeeded In confining
him. The pike didn't seem to be at all
put out. In fact, he seemed to rather
like his new quarters, and he formed the
habit of reporting regularly for his meals,
even becoming so tame as to feed off his
captor's Jiands. Captain Jenks -was think
ing of teaching him a few clrcufe tricks,
but he has found that he Is of more value
In other ways. The discovery was made
accidentally. The Captain thought he
would test the pike's love for his new
home, so one day he took, him ashore, and,
boring holes In his front fins, just back
of the gills, he attached 30-foot trolling
lines, with tho customary spoons. Then
he cast Mr. Pike adrift Tesolved to see
whether he would return. Did he return?
Well! Not only did the pike come back
within a few hours, but when he appeared
In the trap he was towing a four-pound
bass and a three-pound pike on the trol
ling lines.
Captain Jenks' new and original method
of catching fish Is attracting a great deal
of attention In angling circles.
CHURCH BURNED.
Three Thousand Dollar Fire at For
est Grove.
FOREST GROVE, July 13. The Congre
gational Church at Forest Grove has been
nearly destroyed by fire, which is now
raging this morning. The building cost
about $3000, and will be a total loss.
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The Iron Man's Story.
Leslie's Monthly.
Do you remember the span over the
South Channel at Cornwall, Ontario, in
1895? I can tell you exactly the time it
was almost noon, on the 6th of Septem
ber, on a Tuesday when the pier gave
way. There were it men icuiea in tnai.
The bridge was almost finished, and was
ready to turn over to the railroad peo
ple In a week or two. It had three camel
back spans, and its piers were supposed
to be on blue hard pan. A cofferdam had
been built over one of these and filled up
with concrete and cement Big, solid
blocks of stone had been put upon that.
We had been given the foundations for
it all right, and we'd put our iron work
on that. There was a big traveler up, and
when the pier gave and two spans
crumbled with a crack, the traveler, of
course, came down. One man on It never
tried to Jump, and rode the traveler as
it fell, hanging on to a cord (of steel).
He was never hurt. That particular steel
bar happened to stop ten feet away from
the water, and he simply climbed off.
"Once," said Billy, returning to his
reminiscences, "a man I knew, who was
workings on a ridge of an iron house
roof, lost his hold and commenced to
slide down the corrugated Iron. It was a
slide of about 25 feet to the edge, and
then came a drop of 50 feet, as he knew,
on some heaps of scrap-iron. Down he
went, and just at the edge a rivet caught
his corduroys and held him there."
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Some Church Peculiarities.
Elbert Hubbard in The Independent
In the village of East Aurora there are
seven preachers on salaries of from $400
to $900 each a year. Among the village
churches there is more or less strife. The
fires of hate are often respectably banked,
but the embers smolder, and now and
again the flame bursts out The churches
are all In competition with each other.
rivalry is rife, and the spirit of the Mas
ter is smothered in a scrimmage to raise
the wind. Chicken pie socials, poverty
parties, guesses as to the number of
pieces in a bed qulltf, fairs, maple sugar
soirees, cat propagation, and all the usual
round of petty, pious blackmail Is resort
ed to In order to make up the deficit And
some years ago we tried the plan at one
of our. churches of having a dozen pretty
young women take off their shoes and
stockings and stand behind a curtain that
left exposed only their pedals. Then we
paid 10 cents each, passed by, and made
guesses as to the owners of the under
pinning. The man who made the highest
number of correct guesses, and he could
guess as often as he wished by paying a
dune, received a prize. I only mention
this to show to what straits country
churches are; often put to raise money to
carry on the good work.
-A chip from an elm which Mr. Gladstone
cut down at Hawardon in 1889 sold In Lon
don at auction for 5 shillings
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Some stores don't like to hear a man say that he is
, "just looking around," but we do. That man is just as
good as "top o' column, next to reading matter ad"
for us. He sees our qualities and hears our prices---,
and they are our best arguments. So he generally gets
what he is looking for. You're always welcome, Mr.
Man come in any time. If you don't buy, perhaps
you will by and by.
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We have a lot of
extra good
much higher
75c Underwear.
Good quality French balbriagan,
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BROOKIYK" EAGLE DISCUSSES DAIi
ZELIS VIEWS.
Common Sense Observations on the
Tariff Question Trade Should
Be Free as the Flag.
The Brooklyn Eaglo of July S has the
following1 vigorous leading article anent
the recent Interview with Representative
Dalzell, the Pennsylvania protectionist:
Enters John Dalzell, of Pittsburg. He
Is a Republican and a member of the com
mittee on ways and means. He could not
be a Plttsburger and a Democrat and a
member of the ways and means commit
tee. It Is as Impossible for a Democrat to
go to Congress from Pittsburg as It is for
a rich man on retiring from business to
live in Chicago. The Plttsburger with
Congressional aspirations always goes into
Republicanism. The Chicago rich man
with aspirations for distinction or for
case always comes to New York. There
are bomc things which are absolute. One
Is tho inveterate Republicanism of Pitts
burg and another is the incompatibility
of Chicago with the comforts adequate to
affluence and with the luxuries which
wait on leisure.
Well. Mr. Dalzell is not merely a Re
publican, but he is also a Pennsylvania
Republican. The difference between a
Republican in general and a Pennsylvania
Republican in particular is that between
an epicure and a glutton. A Republican
in general Is content with satisfying his
political" hunger and gratifying his moral
esthetlcism. A Pennsylvania Republican
for a "meal" substitutes a "gorge," for a
"collation" a "feed," and for a table a
trough. ' A general Republican, other
things being equal, is willing to earn his
own living and be content with a fair
profit, to the detriment of no one else. A
Pennsylvania Republican keeps his left
hand on his wallet for Inspiration while he
plunges his right arm Into the treasury of
the Government for subsidies, duties tariff
bounties and the like. So addicted is
Pennsylvania Republicanism to living on
the Government that. If there was no
Government with which Pennsylvania
could articulate Its pocket nerve, it would
Invent one for that purpose. Naturo has
given to Pennsylvania a fertile soil, but
Pennsylvania insists upon duties for a3
many agricultural products as possible.
Nature has given to Pensylvania abund
ant coal and iron and wonderful forests.
But Pennsylvania also Insists on virtually
prohibitive duties on the coal and iron of
other countries as well as upon all the
manufactured products which can be fab
ricated by the conversion of coal into heat
and of Iron Into machinery. In short.
Pennsylvania Is to protection what Mecca
is to Mohhammedanlsm, Constantinople to
intrigue, Smyrna to sin, Delaware to
peaches, Newfoundland to codfish, Boston
to self-complacency, Paris to style, or New
Jersey to mosquitoes.
So Ingrained Is protection In Pennsyl
vania that the fountains of indignation
against wrong in that state have been
sealed up. Mr. Dalzell himself, well
meaning man though he is, is a contented
commoner in a city which has been robbed
of the rights of local government by a
Legislature alongside of which the forty
thieves were saints and Tammany HalL is
a shrine. And Mr. Dalzell has undertaken
to make the pace of Pennsylvania Repub
licanism on protection the pace of the Re
publican party of the United States on the
same policy, which Is essentially a vice,
and which,, like all vice, should be tempo,
rary to bo endurable, and can be made
permanent only with the result of moral
death.
He says, in an interview today, that if
he can have his way, there will be not
only no revision of the tariff, but there will
be no reciprocity treaty ratified which
will at all interfere with any interest of
the United States. It is curious to note
what "interest" signifies to him. The peo
ple of the United States are about 75,000,-,
000. They may be supposed to 'have an In
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terest in cheap coal, cheap iron, cheap
hay, cheap lumber, cheap clothes and
prints and the like. But their interest in
those things counts for nothing alongside
of Mr. Dalzell's estimate of the interest
of those who make such things, in main
taining1 high prices for them and In 'secur
ing large fortunes from them.
To Mr. Dalzell the whole world reduces
itself to manufacturers. Consumers are of
no consequence. To him a tariff bill with
prohibitive rates is Old Testament, New
Testament, Sermon on the Mount, Golden
Rule and the Ten Commandments rolled
into one. We do not say that ho is not
sincere. He is. He is as sincere as a fa
natic and as wide as a match. We do not
say that he is not honest. He is. He Is
as honest as the multiplication table and
as broad as a needle. We do not say that
he has no charity. He has charity for
those who manufacture things, but his
limitations cut him off from charity
toward those who must buy them and use
:h(m. We do not say he is not logical.
He is logically convinced that government
of manufacturers, by manufacturers, and
for manufacturers shall not perish from
.the earth.
So he says that we cannot have free
sugar from Cuba because that will hurt
the beet-sugar growers and makers in the
United States. We cannot have cheap
silks from France, because that would
hurt the manufacturers of such fabrics
here. We cannot have a reduction of the
duties on coal, iron, hay, fruit or the
like, for that would disturb the profits
of those concerned in those things here,
despite the fact that they can sell their
products at a profit, 10,000 miles from
home, at lower prices than they charge to
those within pistol shot of their plants.
If Mr. Dalzell can have his way, the
next Congress will resolve "that there
shall be no tariff reduction,' 'and that
there shall be no tariff relief by reciproc
ity treaties or otherwise, for have we not
prosperity? And is not agitation the
enemy of prosperity? And are not those
who would have Americans pay no more
for home products than foreigners pay
for them, 10,000 miles away, only wicked
people, disturbers, incendiaries, and truth
to tell, Democrats?
His was the voice that was expected.
We are glad he has spoken. We would
not all other Republicans spoke like him.
But we want them all to speak, be the
result discord or harmony. The nation
is entitled to the opinions of Its public
men. It has a right to know what they
think on present questions, or the next
one in our affairs. And the next one,
beyond controversary, involves tariff re
lief through tariff revision or through
sympathetic reciprocity with other coun
tries. The nation is not going to be
"shoo'd" into silence by cajolery or by
threats. It does not believe that pros
perity is made by laws, for it knows that
it is made by the people themselves, by
their labor, by their enterprise, by their
skill, working in conjunction with the
unexampled prodigality of nature and of
opportunity here and the fortuitous con
course of congested conditions and of
ungenlal circumstances abroad. It does
not believe that American prices for
American products should be higher than
the prices of American products in for
eign lands. It does not believe that the
multiplication of enormous trusts and
combinations should be arrested, for that
Is a law of business. But it emphatically
does beleve that those who act upon that
law of business should not and shall not
count the Governm.ent of theUnlted States
as a silent partner in their business and
the people of the United States as the
victims or losers by that unfair advantage.
There is another story than the Repub
lican in this country. It is the Democrat
ic party, a sorry thing now but a great
thing once, aye more than once, and to be
a greater thing still than ever it was,
in case the Dalzell Bourbonism is to be
made the doctrine, shibboleth or policy
of the party now in control of the Gov
ernment. There Is more than a market
in the tariff question. There is morality
In it and there is manhood in it. Indeed,
of all questions it Is most intimately af
fected by a relation to manhood and to
morality as well as to markets. This
country has. said so again and again, and
can be trusted to say so still again, and
that before long.
We care not through which party It
v;
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says so. Parties are but instruments. If
one serves not a rightful purpose, It can
be cast aside for another. Parties are
but vehicle. If one breaks down or takes
the wrong road the other vehicle need not
break down and can be put on the right
road. Underlying all parties is the value
of them. The value of them Is their worth
to the people for what the people want.
The people want partnership between
Government and all of their business, or
partnership between Government and none
of It. The time for preferred business
classes like the time for preferred political
classes has gone by. Free Is a noble word
when put In front of speech, of press, of
conscience, or of men. It is; not an Ignoble
word when put In front of trade, or com
merce, or labor, or opportunity.
We are aware of the practical charac
ter of our people. We know their solici
tude for the American wage. We realize
that they desire as much duty on the
things other nations make in competition
with ours as will represent the difference
between the wage here, which we would
preserve, and the wage there, which wo
would not have here. But that Is ac
complished, not by prohibitive duties,
for they only make us who buy, and
who do not manufacture, pay more here
for products, made here, than are paid
for them abroad. The American wage
is preserved by the access of American
products on terms of advantage to mar
kets abroad,. In which we can undersellc
our competitors on their own soil. Wo
are thoroughly aware that the American
wage can bo preserved by a reasonable
reduction of those high duties which
prosper a few and disadvantage all
others. And we are also convinced that
the political Justification and the moral
excuse for any tariff whatever Is to be
found In the raising of as much revenue.'
and no more, as will meet the legitimate
expenses of Government economically ad
ministered. If the Republican party does not real
ize this and meet this by revision or
reciprocity, It will cease to be the smart
party in our history, to say nothing of
being the party of great moral Ideas.
If the Democratic party realizes this and
acts upon It, dropping Its insane non
sense on Sliver, against Expansion and
toward disorder, it will cease to be tho
asinine party In our" history and may
command the affirmative of the next
Issue to be settled In our politics. Wo
make no predictions. Calculations on
Republican fatuity should not be confi
dently Indulged. Expectations of Demo
cratic wisdom should not be rashly
formed. But this is certain: There Is
no more permanency in Protection, for
a lusty nation, than there Js for crutches
for a man no longer lame. It is of tho
essence of Expansion that trade and the
flag should go together. It is of tho
essence of that Expansion, that, con
sistently with needed revenue, as free as
the flag, trade itself should be. It lsf
of the essence of right that all the peo
ple must be the beneficiaries of Govern
ment, or none of them. The people as a
whole ask no benefits of Government.
They can support themselves and excel
competitors by their own genius. They
do Insist that a portion of their number
shall no longer be the recipients of spe
cial favors and of bounties which mean
fortunes for a few, high prices for all.
and a spirit of discontent with the dis
parities of life which gives text and pre
text ror tne dangerous elements in our
republic.
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Dream.
Zona Gale In tho Bookman.
Last night I dreamed I saw my mother young.
I never knew her till her hair was gray.
nEast night I saw tne wrinkles smoothed
away
And pearls about her satin shoulders strung".
Out from our homely tools of toll among
She. came as If she knew them not. There lay,
Old hopes in her young eyes. Faintly today
Are sounding the dead madrigals she sung.
I
I, who had watched the stolen march of days.
And would not see the days they stole away.
Moved breathlessly to meet her, mute with
praise.
But, ah, tho vibrant hand that In mine lay
Was not the one I love upon my hair;
Nor hers tho mother eyes, deep, deep with
prayerl