Supplement
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
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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.