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Newspaper Page TextSupplement TO CORVALLIS GAZETTE. FRIDAY MAY 21. 1807 CAPITAL CITY CHAT. LETTER 'FROM OUR WASHING TON CORRESPONDENT. A Whole Carso of Good TMnijs, Every One of Which Is Worth Readinarnnd Rememberins Republican Always Gain When National Questions Arise Melville's Manifest. Special Washington correspondence: NB of the highest Irecommendations that the Dingley "bill has had thus far and it has been high ly commended from various sections is the iact that qjpre sentatives of various foreign governments are enterine protests jject of a protective tariff is to take care 2. of American citizens. i'ra atives Ul OlUtri mi la ir irvnt rnp worm nprin to mU' . li ' complain about it it is safe to assume that the purpose of th bill is being accomplished. . Twenty per cent or" gain in twenty weeks is a pretty good record for any po litical party to make in work. ThisHs the gain, which the Khode Island Repub licans made in the recent State election over the vote" for. McKinley in 1S9G. This Is the only spring' election in which na tional politics has cut any figure,' the elections in the cities having hinged upon purely local issues which had nothing to do with the growth or otherwise of Re publican or Democratic sentiment from a . national standpoint. Democrats Tired of the Pops. The Democrats are geting tired of their bewhiskered allies in the late election. Not only have a large majority of the par ty in the House of Representatives re spectfully declined to follow the sockless Simpson, but leading Democratic news papers of the Populist tainted sections are beginning to swear off from supporting Populists. The Topeka,- Kan., Democrat, a representative Democratic organ which supported Bryan in 18915. says:. "Fusion is dead in Kansas. A united Democracy and no further fusions with the selfish and arrogant People's party." The supreme duty of the hour for Democrats in Kan sas is to cut loose from the festering corpse of the People's party. The ranting Populists with full power to act have tried their hands at State government." Great minds will differ. Mr. Bryan assumed in his utterances regarding the recent elections that his cause and him self have been vindicated. On the 'othef hand, that sterling Democratic paper, the Macon. Ga.. Telegraph, which, expresses the sentiment of the genuine Southern Democracy, says: "The Democratic suc cess of Monday shows unmistakably that Bryanism and Altgeldism are done for. in this country. Washington bid two distinguished peo ple in one day recently Robert Fitzsim mons and William J. Bryan. Of the two Fitz attracted the far larger crowd and awakened more enthusiasm. He was greeted at the depot by a brass band, while Mr. Bryan's only music was that of his own horn which he never neglects to blow. Pemocratic Ofiic'nls In Trnnble. Democratic statisticians whom the Cleveland administration foisted upon the Government through the civil service sys tem are getting themselves into bad odor. ' Secretary of Agriculture Wilson recently suppressed a "single tax" document is sued by one of these7 gentry, while a cor respondent of the Chicago Inter Ocean comes to the front with figures to show that the statements of the chief of the bureau of statistics of the Treasury De partment regarding exportations of man ufactures are grossly inaccurate. Statis tician Ford recently, asserted that the ex ports of American manufactures for the -calendar year 1896 , amounted to $256, 902.505, and were a considerable increase over those of the last year of the McKin ley law. In answer to this the Inter Ocean correspondent asserts, and sup ports his assertions with official figures, that the exports of American manufac tures in 1896 were only $138,493,637. Fig ores, it is said, won't lie, but to make this statement accurate, it should be added that the people who deal with them should be truthful. , The Union soldiers fared badly under the Cleveland administration. More than a thousand of them were dismissed from the Government service in Washing- ton city alone by that administration, and comparatively few soldiers appointed to fill the vacancies thus created. : One of the first things done by the new adminis tration was to set about reinstating these dismissed soldiers. Secretary Wilson of the Agricultural Department reinitated a dozen or more in his department during the first week in April, and the-heads of the other departments are following .the same plan, so that it is probable that most of the dismissed soldiers will be re- , stored to their positions during the first half year of the new administration. Pemocratic Piss nsions. Sam Randall's famous remark about the wings ef the Democracy "flapping to gether" would scarcely apply to the con dition of the remains of that party to-day. In the House of Representatives where Mr1. Randall was once so prominent a fig ure in Democratic ranks, the party' is di vided into almost infinitesimal factions. The Bailey and Bryan factions are con stantly at war as to the control of their side of that body and as to the methods to be pursued. Another factional question is as to whether the alliance with the Pop ulists shall be continued, and in regard to this there is a wide difference of opinion and much bitterness. The question of pro tection and free trade is making a wide breach in the party and the various fac tions are boins again rent in twain by this issue. Add to this the great and Incurable division on the financial question and it will be seen that the once-strong Demo cratic party has absolutely lost its cohe siveness or definite purpose of .action. Nothing has so alarmed the element which controlled the Fopoeratic bfganization of last fall as the prospective dissolution of the partnership which then existed. The 5 ( 1 -"rr ! W free sllveritei gee that without the Podu lists their ohance of success is absolutely gone and are terrified that the partnership is to come to an end. Mr. Bryan's spe cial organ, the Omaha World-Herald, sounds the note of clarm in a recent edi torial in' which it urges the continuance of the fusion between Democrats, silver Republicans and Populists, saying:"Get nlists, silver Republicans and Democrats. J It means the selection of a silver man to the United States Senate at the next session bf the . Legislature; it means a solid phalanx of silver followers in all campaigns from now till 1900. It would be worse than folly for the Populists to refuse to fuse with the silver Republi cans and Democrats at this time and the disastro-is results would extend consid erably further than the local campaign." GEORGE MELVILLE. THE "STRUGGLE" OF 1893. It Was a Contest Between Honesty and Pishonesty. The "struggle" of last year was not be; tween "the money power and the common people." It vt as between the mass of the people and a combination of dishonest ras cals who wanted to rob millions of the community by means of cheap, cheating silver dollars, to be made to apply retro actively on obligations incurred in honest dollars and for the payment of future wages of labor and by the aid of retroac tive legislation for the payment of exist ing debts. The confidence operators whom Bryan headed, in funtnerance of this vil lainous scheme, wanted . to establish de based silver, monometallism not bimetal lism so that all who had loaned money, or sold property-on time", or had money on deposit in banks might be done out of half their dues. That was the game for which Bryan made his 600 speeches. Bryan knew that the silver monometal lism he advocated and miscalled "bimet allism" would involve, 'this wholesale cheating all over the "Union, but he did not dare to justify .or admit it publicly: He made hundreds of harangues during the campaign in all parts of the Union, and he has made still more speeches since his overwhelming defeat, and has written a big book sincV'&en, putting them into type, but he has. never dared to avow the purpose and effect of his retroactive scheme of wholesale repudiation aind vio lation of existing contracts and pecuniary obligations. Chicago-Tribune. Encouragement fop Farmers. The Democrats all along, the line, have always, as they do now, insisted that the farming interests of the country never re ceived a benefit from protection. Yet, in spite of these animadversions, and even before the proposed Dingley bill had pas,s-. ed the House, farm products began mov ing to higher' levels of-price, and are con-, tinuing to move right along because the good effect of proposed protection has stimulated 'general trade and opened fac tories that have long been idle,, and made of them, greater consumers of what the farmers hid to sell. . Wool, 'wheat and corn ba-ve each advanced in value and are holding their own, with a good prospect, of doing still better. Stock of all kinds, horses, cattle and sheep, have greatly improved in price, and it may confidently : be stated that the said advance has been the direct and good result of the proposed' prbtectibi" that Congress is going to. give "the couiftfyC The authority for these statements is derived from the standard and recognized commercial agencies which are lo'eated. n the great commercial cen ters, and are thus enabled to state in ex act terms what the conditions are. Du buque Times.. Why. We Protect Everything. ' There is no other nation on the'face of the earth so well equipped by nature as our own to make a broad and thorough test of the protective principle. There is not one "raw material" of the first impor tance of -which we are hot capable of producing within, our borders the great bulk of our supply, and sugar, tea 'and coffee are the only prime articles of food for which we have to depend dppn foreign countries. . - . , , - With these exceptions, America is, or could easily be rendered, absolutely self sustaining. And Hawaii and Cuba, if they "were both within our possession, coirid. be developed to yield all-the sugar required for our needs. .. A , vast country like the United; Sjat'es follows an unerring instinct when it endeavors to protect not only its manufactures, but its raw mate-: rials.?. The early tariffs of Washington. Hamilton and Jefferson sought to protect everything .which could possibly be fabri cated or grow n in America. Jefferson, in his fierce protectionist zeal, "wished that the Atlantic might be a great lake of fire to cut us off uUer-lx frwn Europe. Bos ton Journal. . . ; . Successful S cretary ofAerlcultu-e. Secretary Wilson.' the new hand of the Department of Agriculture, is demonstrat ing that he is the right man in the right place. Unlike the Nebraska busybody who preceded him, he does not spend his time in writing theoretical essays on top ics which in nowise . concern his depart ment. Secretary Wilson believes that he was appointed to his present position to promote the interests of the tillers of the solfand he is not ealy. devoting himself strictly to these duties, but he is devot ing himself to them in a practical and sensible way, which promises to be of the utmost value. ;' One of the reforms be has inaugurated is to collect new seeds from all parts of the world, and to distribute them, with the necessary instructions, among farmers who are likely -to put them to use. .His object is to encourage a greater diversity of farm products Nothing could be wiser, no master from what standpoint the mat ter is viewed. New York Commercial Advertiser. ' ' ' Heavy Weight Clothing. A suit of clothes weighing forty pounds would be a. novelty. Yet it is apparently the sort of, suit .which Prof, Wilson con templates for the average. American' indi vidual. He argues, in his newspaper ar ticles at so much per column for the .New York Herald, that the tariff placed on wool by the Dingley bill will add at .least 20 per cent to the cost of a suit of clothes. Since an increase of 20 per cent in the price of a suit of clothes means an' in crease of probably $5 m its cost, and the proposed duty on wool is 12 cents per pound. Mr. Wilson must calculate, that forty pounds of wool would be used in the manufacture of a suit of clothes. This is a fair sample of the misleading and ab surd propositions upon . which the free traders build their theories and. sometimes get into office. The lMvided Democracy. There are signs of trouble for the Dem ocracy again in 1900. The free Silver fa natics now n control of the party organ ization are doing everything possible to maintain their grip, wltile the sound POSTOFFICE DEPARTMENT BUILDING, WASHINGTON, D, C. rr HE Postoffice Department building,' a" view of whicTr.is given herewith, stands upon the site occupied by the build I in" erected for that service when the' capital city was located and occupied in the year 1800. The British invaders in X 1814 after burning the War Department building, headed towards the Postoffice budding, but the explosion of a magazine at Grenleafs Point,-which destroyed the lives of ."Several' of their companions, coupled with a tornadoand vio lent rainstorm-which set in at that time, checked the progress if the vandals and the building was. saved. . In lbdtt,. how ever, it was destroved by fire. It was succeeded by the hanSsbme marble building represented above. It covers an entire square, being bounded by Seventh. Eighth. B and F streets. Frpm this building are issued the orders and in it is conducted -the business which directs the greatest organization of the Government service. There are seventy thousand postmasters,. ' an army of themselves; there are twelve thousand letter carrier USrf as many as the standing, army of -the Lnited.ttes;. there are thousands of contractors all over the country who 'carry-"! mails on horseback or mulebjick. . by light, vehicles over the country roads, by steamboats, by railroads, by lightning; express, and nowlby pneumatic tabes under the rumbling wheels of the busv cities. What will the next step be? Perhaps electricity, a postal telegraph. Who knows? The work of the Postoffice Department costs in round numbers a hundred million a year. ' Yet its receipts almost meet running ex penses., and but for the fact that newspapers, especially country newspapers, are carried at far less than the cost of, trans- . portation the departmental service would mere than meet its own running expenses of- a. hundred, million dollars a year. , The policy however of the Government, and it is a wise One. is to encourage the distribution of instructive literature to the people,' and for that reason, and that only, is it necessary for . the Postoffice Department, with ity hundreds of thou sands of employes, located in every section of the country, to call upon the general' government for a -tnfle of three or -four million dollars k year to meet the slight deficit which, now exists in -its operations- - - ... - v.: ..-'- money leaders are layitig' plans to recap ture the organization" On behalf of the fojmer William J. Bryan is on the lecture platform again, following up the Demo cratic victories, so called,-in the recent municipal elefctions.-: He is claiming them as free silver triumph, and is proselyting .u. thot linn He is to tour Ohio, and Lwill be in Cincinnati in , due time. ' tj n me omer uuuu, . i . . - nAviath -nr!?nnization. .is. arranging for a' t6 days; conference to precede the annual ainner, m conference the future, of the Democratic party is to be:. discussed? G rover Cleve land, William L. Wilsdn,-:Joh.n G. Car lisle. Wm. D. Bynum, C,.S, Fairchild and other cold meUiWfll be there, and they will determine what ts best 16 be done to rescue the Democracy from the free suver faction. Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. champ on;; SHIPPING. VIEWS THE QUESTION AS AFFECTS THE NATION. IT Protctl6n for'Americm f nips TMs cussed from Ship-Builder's Point of View Ensland Stralnins JCvery Nerve to Perpetuate Her tea Power. '.-'. . - : - .C-pfc ;. x tetter-to Senate Committee. - A meeting of representatives of the shipping interests was held in the room of the Senate Committee on Commerce at Washington. Among thse present were: C. A.1 Griscom, Wv"P. Clyde. T. W. Hyde, A R. Smith, C. H. Cramp. Samuel S. Sewall, H,P. Boeth, E. Bliss. Aaron V an derbilt. D. C. Mink, F. J. Firth. C. H. Keep, ex-Senator G. F. Edmunds and Senators Frye, Elkms, Hanna and Per kins The meeting was held for the pur pose of promoting legislation looking to the encouragement of American shipping. There was a general exchange of views. Senator E'.kins' bill providing .for a dis criminating duty on goods imported in American vessels , afforded a basis for much of the proceedings, but there was a want of unanimity of opinion upon all of its provisions. Mr; Griscom presided and the meeting was private. " , Several addresses were made during the day -by those in -.attendance, one of the most important being the. following decid edly interesting and important letter from Charles H. Cramp, Esq., president of the Cramp Shipbuilding Company.. It pre sents the shipbuilders' side of protection for American ships very forcibly: Sir: We have to'deal with real facts and actual conditions. The interests of ship owning and shipbuilding are identical, because no nation, can successfully own ships that cannot successfully build them. No nation can either build or own ships when unprotected and unencouraged, it is brought in competition with other na tions that are protected and encouraged. This is the existing condition of the ship-owning and ship-building interests of the United States, . '. . . The resulting fact is that the enormous revenue represented by the freight and passenger tolls on our commerce and travel is constantly drained out of this country in,td British, German and French pockets, in the order named, but mainly British: while the vast industrial incre ment represented-by the necessary ship building inures almost wholly to Great Britain. For this drain .there is no recompense. It is sheer loss. :It is the principal cause of our existing financial condition. So long as this drain continues no tariff and no monetary policy can restore the national prosperity.' - '-'-' - ' Until we make some provision to keep at home some part at least of the three hundred and odd millions annually sucked Out of this country by foreign ship-owners and ship-builders, no other legislation can bring good times back again: It is a constant stream' of -gold always flowing out. " v . ' The foreign ship-owner who carries our over-sea commerce makes us pay. 'Jie freight both ways. . ' For our exports we get the foreign mar ket price less the freight. -i For our imports we pay the foreign mar ket price plus the freight. No fine-spun theory of any cloistered" or coHegiate doctrinaire can wipeout these facts. The fact that so long as the freight is paid to a foreign ship-owner, so long will it be a foreign profit on a foreign, product, is fundamental and- unanswerable. The English steamship is a foreign pro duet, and, its earnings, which we "pay, are a. foreign profit. '- ' '' :l No sane man will argue that a foreign profit on'a' foreign product onn be a do mestic.benefit. . . Add to this the fact, equally important, that the carrier of commerce co'jrtrols its exchanges and the conditions pf commer cial, financial and industrial subjugation is complete. Such is our condition rb-day"..' Great Britain has many outlying .col onies and dependencies. '; . jf!.-. . -. -The greatest two are. India, .an ..the United States. . " She holds India by force of atm"s;fwhere by her control of that country fcosts her something. She had to pay sproethiag .f or her financial and commercial drainage of India. . . She holds the United States fcy the folly of its own people, wherehy her control' of this country costs her nothing. She has to pay nothing for ber financial-and, com mercial drainage of the United States. But the amount of her annual drainage of gold from the United States far ex ceeds that from'India. " ' Therefore, the United States is by far" the most valuable of all dependencies of Great Britain. . In the relation of England to India there is something pitiable because India is helpless. - - In the relation..! the United States to England there is nothing jthat is not con temptible, because it is'-rhe willing servi tude of a nation that could help herself if she would. - England is wide awake to these condi tions and keenly appreciates their price less value to her. . The United States blinks at them, half dazed, half asleep, insensible of their tre mendous damage to her. England clearly seeing that, in this age, more than ever before, ocean-empire is world-empire, strains every nerve to per petuate her sea power and exhausts her resources to double rivet the fetters which it fastens upon mankind. Though in 1SS5 England already had a navy superior to those of any two and equal to those of any three other powers, her new navy, with what remains most available of the old one, overshadows the world and makes the sea as much British territory as the county of Middlesex. Since 1885 England has expended $517, X)00,000 for new ships of war and their armament During eleven jeare she has built thirty-eight first-class battleships, three second-class battleships, nine ar mored cruisers, twenty first-class cruis ers, fifty-one second-class cruisers; thirty-three third-class cruisers; thirty gun boats; twelve composite sloops, and seventy-four torpedo destroyers, including the vessels authorized in the current year's program. The aggregate is 270 yessels of 1.136. 575 tons total displacement, 1,674,700 horse power. Of the navy England already had in 1885, there remain available 42 armored ships, 34 cruisers, 11 sloops. 19 gunboats and 95 torpedo boats, which she is re-en-gining, rearming, and otherwise modern izing as rapidly as she can. . ' In personnel afloat she has augmented her force from 52,600 in 1885 to ,100,500 in the estimates for 1897. In other words, England has doubled her navy in personnel and material and more than quadrupled it in warlike effi ciency during eleven years of the prb foundest peace the world ever saw. . Even greater exertions has England put forth in the augmentation of her mer chant marine. During the calendar year 1896 she added 1,3S0,000 tons of new steel steam shipping to her merchant fleet, breaking up meantime 530,000 tons of old and obsolete shipping which could no longer be operated profitably; a net addition of 850,000 tons to the total of her merchant marine by the register, but a practical addition of the whole 1,380,000 tons," because the 530,000 tons broken up bad done .its work for ber aggrandize. ment and simply passed through the scrap heap and the mills into the new tonnage. No great fact can 'exist without a great reason. . . . , In recent years Germany, on a large scale and in a systematic way, and this country, cn a small scale and in a spas modic, way, have put forth efforts in the direction of sea power.. ;f . England instantly takes alarm. , To her the growth of any other sea power, even if its scope be comparatively' small and its extent. comparatively feeble, is a peril second only to the landing of an invading army in Kent. - ' ... ' England is determined that she shall be Bot only the Supteme-sea power, but also that xcept,.wjthin limits set by herself there' shall be no other sea -power at all. She will' tolerate" the growth of any oth er sea- power only so far as the point' at which.it begins-to. affect' her naval sii jiremacy or dispute the ocean nlonopoly o'f her merchant marine. ; - . The moment' any other national aspira tion toward sea power reaches that, point England must be' prepared to crush it. She will crush jt by intrigue, by cajolery; by .treaties, if she can.' She will crush it by preponderating force if sbe.must. Ever since two first-class American ships were put in the transatlantic trade under-American management- evSryi device of foul, play. that, selfish ingenuity -can: tit vent and. every resort that unscrupulous rivalry can suggest have, been exhausted by.'the English press and the English ad ministration to defame and discredit them. .. ..English officials abroad, from ministers and consuls down, industriously reproduce in the newspapers of Japan, Chili, Argen tine and -Brazit the misstatements of the English press about American vessels.' The British postoffice delays the Ameri can mails for idays in the slow-er ships of the Curiard line, rather thap send so much as one letter by the American line. Our postoffice responds by liberal allot ments of its European, mails to all the British lines. The result of all "this is that while this country has never known such industrial stagnation and such financial distress, England has never known such industrial activity and financial prosperity as now.. ' Does it not occur to men who look the least bit below the surface that the war fare for ocean-empire and' the strife for commanding sea-power which England forces upon the rest, of mankind have reached a stage so acute that her pros perity unalterably means the misery of everybody else, and that everybody's loss is inevitably her gain? What is the response of the United States to this tremendous" exertion of English energy and resource to the ag grandizement of her sea-power? To the English estimates for the current year for further increase of . her navy amounting to eleven million- nine hundred and five thousand pounds sterling (11, 905,000, say $57,334,500) and a program involving 108 new ships in all stages be tween laying down and completion, the United States, responds by a sudden halt in even the comparatively feeble program fitfully pursued since 1885,' and a flat collapse of the policy of the new navy as a whole. ' To .the 1,380.000 tons of new merchant shipping built by England during the past year, what will-be the response of the United States? Now the future lies wholly in the hands of Congress. ' .From that quarter comes no sign. A tariff bill framed to produce revenue, and at fhe same time to promote and en courage American industries, is to be pass ed. To greater or less extent this tariff is calculated to promote and encourage every 'American industry 'but two ship owning and ship-building. '- As I have already said, this 'ceaseless ebb of gold without compensation is the tribute this country pays to England, and it is paid through English ship-owners. - The United States has never been able to get any of it back except by borrowing .it on bonds. England is keenly alive to these great economic facts and their results. Is the United States to be forever blind to them and their significance? These are the questions wbich confront us. Very respectfully, CHS. H CHAMP." Brief Comment. Bryan Is still keeping up his fight on the Cleveland wing of his party. He attack. ; ed them viciously in his Jefferson's birth day speech. He knows that the contin uation of this war between the factions, of his party is the life of his personal no toriety, and is willing to sacrifice party to self every time. . Great minds will, differ.- Mr. Bryan as sumed in his utterances regarding the re- icent elections that his cause and himself have been vindicated. On the other hand, that sterling Democratic paper, the Ma ton, Ga., Telegraph, which expresses the sentiment of the genuine Southern Dem-- ocracy, says: "The Democratic success of : Monday shows unmistakably that Bryan ism and Altgeldism are done for in this" country." - ; One of the highest recommendations, that the Dingley.bill has had thus far and it has been highly commended from various sectionals the fact that repre sentatives of various foreign governments , are entering protests against it.. The ob ject of ii protective tariff is to take care of American citizens, and when represent atives of other parts of the world begin iu uu ui in uiu auum it ii is sale 10 assume that the purpose of the bill is being ac cqmplished. . - , ' "Twenty per cent of gain in twenty weeks is a pretty good record for any po litical party to make in work. This is the gain which the Rhode Island Republi cans infirlp in fha ioan. Stata alantinn over the vote for McKinley in 1896. This is the only spring election in which na tional politics have cut any figure, the " elections in the cities hnviner hinfrpH nnnn purely local issues which had nothing, to do with the growth or otherwise of Repub-. lican or Democratic' sentiment from a na tional standpoint The newspapers of the country are at tacking the Populists because they refuse .to vote for or against the tariff bill and saying that they show political cowardice by their 'conrfc in this matter. The fact is that- the Populists recognize the over whelming sentiment of the country in fa vor of protection and yet do not dare to go back upon their old alliance with the Democrats, to whom they, still look for some crumbs of office,, should that party ever again be successful.. The Popocrats are scared. There is a rebellion in the Democratic party against further continuance of the alliance be-, tween silver Democrats and Populists, are wild-with alarm. Mr. Bryan's organ, . the Omaha. World-Herald, is frantically appealing to the old members of the po litical job lgt which failed in business last November to still hang together. It says: "It would be worse than folly at this time for the Populists to refuse to fuse with the Democrat and silver Republican's," -and adds that a continued combination pf. their forces "means a solid phalanx of silver forces in' all campaign"- from now till 1900."-. -: J" -- ' ' Eucoarage.ment for the Farmers. The Democrats all along the line have always, as they do now, insisted that the farming interests of the country never re- spite of these animadversions, and even before the proposed Dingley bill had pass ed the House, farm products' began mov ing to higher levttiarflif price, and are con tinuing, to. move, rjght talong because the stimulated renera1 trttde and opened fac fofies that have-long been closed, put men at work who had-long beep, idle, -and made ofwthem greater consumers of what the farmers had to sell. Wool, wheat and corn have each advanced in value and are holding their own, with a good prospect of doing still better. Stock of all kinds, horses, cattle and sheep, have greatly im proved in price,' and it may confidently be stated that the said advance has been the direct and -good result of the.proposed pro tection that Congres? is going to give the country. The .authority for these state ments is derived from standard and recog nized "commercial agencies. Dubuque Times. ' The Sugar Beet in Minnesota. The report of the Senate Committee on Beet Sugar Industry in Minnesota fur nishes the farmers of the State with about all the necessary information to enable them to conduct experiments in beet rais ing successfully. The report has been compiled for the committee by P. E. Kais er, A. M., who has evidently given to the subject much rime and research; and the chairman, Henry Keller, who is familiar with the operations in Germany, the orig inal home of the beet sugar industry, has contributed much practical information. The conclusion of the committee is that sugar beet culture and sugar beet manu facturing are perfectly feasible in Minne sota, and that there is hardly any limit to the magnitude which' the industry may at tain when once started. They quote the testimony of chegiists to the effect that any good wheat land is suitable for beets; also Prof. Shaw, of the Agricultural De-' partment of the State University, to the effect that. Minnesota could grow more beets than would suffice to make sugar for the whole United States. . Dreary Imbecility. "The Democratic criticisms of the new tariff," says the Inter Ocean, "are drear ily imbecile." The language is strong, but what else can be said of criticisms that are essentially imbecile in argument and most vapidly dreary in language. No other phrase can so accurately present the exact nature of the attacks which the free trade orators and organs are now making upon the bill which is designed to provide protection for our industries and an adequate revenue for our Government. San Francisco Call. No Detoauch, This. President McKinley has just returned from a short trip for recreation down the Potomac. It is mentioned that in taking , his wife and two other ladies along he differed from the practice of President Cleveland upon such occasions, who was rather convivial in his tastes, and more of a Bohemian in his habits. In manners and morals, as well as in breadth of statesmanship, our present national execu tive is an improvement upon the one who preceded him, although as a fisherman and duck hunter he may not be up to the standard. Louisville Commercial. Desertms the Silver, Cause. Commencing with this week, this paper will again champion the cause of sound money. It believes in an honest dollar. A dollar that is just as good as any other dollar, and thaf is a gold one. The people must learn that 62 cents is. not acdollar. i They must understand the relative values of the two metals before passing judg ment upon their stability as a circulating medium. With this end in view the Chron icle will labor until a satisfactory result U obtained. Portland. Ore., Chronicle.