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PROSPERITY IS NOW GENERAL
Business Improvement Moves Forward by Great
Leaps and Bounds.
The Doleful Cries of Calamity Howlers Cannot
Check the Advance of Good Times.
Being unable to deay that prosperity
la come again upon the country, the
Topocrat statesmen and organs with
tne accord are loudly proclaiming that
It Is all due to the failure of tho foreign
wheat crop. The growers of wheat,
they gay, are prospering, but other
wealth producers are getting no bene
fits. There Is a great deal of difference,
however, between mere assertion and
well authenticated fact. There Is
abundant evidence on every hand that
all classes of the people, lucluding
"wealth producers of every description,
are sharing In the new prosperity. The
failure of the foreign wheat crop could
not start hundreds of Idle shops aud
factories to operating and give employ
ment to hundreds of thousands of Idle
worklugmeu. The failure ef the forel?!i
wbe-at crop would not suffice to stimu
late all lines of 'business and produce
a feeling of confidence and security
atuoug Investors and merchants
throughout the country.
The failure of the foreign wheat crop
would not quicken the domestic wool
xrnde, the leather trade, the trade In
print cloths and sheetings, the tin, cop
per and Iron trade, the boef, pork aud
krd trado, the trade In petroleum,
iglass, lead, cottonseed oil, lumber, pa
per, brick, coal, salt, hay, hemp, pota
toes, corn, barley, rye, butter, eggs and
fruit. According to Bradstreat'i, which
has kept a record of the business duno
In all lines for the last four years, the
trade In all these commodities and
cores of than has rapidly lticreBsd
Inet July the mouth In which tho Re
publican tariff was enacted.
Regarding the stories of Western
farmers paying off their mortgages In
such enormous amounts, the Urauge
Judd Farmer has made careful Inqui
ries and says that while It finds the
newspaper statouients somewhat ex
aggerated, there Is unquestionably im
Immense amount of liquidation goln;?
on. During the past few years the
farmers have practice 1 such economy
that the marked Improvement In'wheat
and other prices has wonderfully Im
proved their financial condition. Ouu
great Incentive to pay off old mort
gagee Is the lower Interest rates at
which new loans cau bo oblaluud.
Cause of Good Time.
Advocates of the theory thnt the revival
of ImihIiu'hi throughout the country is due
to the w limit crop Instead of the tariff
found something to ponder over In the
trade reports of Dun and Brudstreet a
for lust week. From these It appenra that
the runners have not yet marketed one
ten ill of their wheat, but are holding It for
the higher price which the foreign domainl
Implies. Hence 00 per cent of the einli
returns already credited to tfawiu in Hem-
ecru no estimate bua not ft gone into
Americas circulation, ami cannot possl
bly fear canned or ftilluenced titer aTtijs.ral
renpeitng of iron, loot, ruhher and fVx
ttte tmlustrlt-s and the Increase in the tyra
nts of all private business which
Wn In evidence since July. The iieeSnt
point at Interest ald from tlila tn the
trade reports are: An Increase altiea one'
year ago of 34 par cent In the employ
Kent of members of trade union; a gain
of Pi per cent la one month In the output
of pig Iron. Implying an Increased ton-
uniptlon of luti.liuo tone; a rise of 8 cents
in tlie price of wheat; an advance for Au
gust In prices of mora than 100 staple
farm ami manufactured artlclca of a. 4
per rent, follow Ing a 3.1 per cent advance
In July, aud a marked deciense In failure,
both In number and the average amount
of linhilltlea. la tula chapter the tariff
plajra a leading part-Sea Fraucieeo
Chroulcle,
high prices, ana It Is little wonder they are
making the best of It. The people are mak
ing an earnest effort to get out of debt, and
when they succeed In doing this the Kansas
farmer will be the most Independent person
on earth, because he knows enough to keep
out of debt when once he gets started In the
right direction.
Kansas Is to-day the most prosperous State
in the Union. There will be 40.000 home
steads cleared of mortguges this fall. Think
of what that means. The mortgages will
average $1,000 each, which means the ex
penditure of $40,000,000. It means also that
this State Is becoming a Commonwealth of
homes.
If Breidenthal had said last November
that In less than a year 40,000 Kansas
farmers would pay off $40,000,000 of
mortgages, under a Republican President
and the gold standard, his fellow 1'opu
lists of Kansas would have chartered a
special train to convey him to an insane
asylum. Kansas City Journal.
same aenaltlveneas to the maket. This
proposition was brought out vlth special
force by Gov. Tanner In an Interview
given to the St Louis Globe Democrat.
At the time the Governor spike the ad
vanoe In wheat had been 30 cents per
bushel, and he added:
But railroad stocks, manufacturing stocks,
and all other atocks of a character to feel the
effects of prosperity have lucreised all the
way from BO to 60 ner cut. on the former
values at the same time that wheat Has
been making thla gain of '0 e;iis a bushel.
Cattle, hogs, corn, oats, redtop seed, all
farm products, have gone op aluost. If not
quite, in the proportion that stocks and
wheat have. Bonds and mortgafea nave en
hanced. Taking the vast lute esta repro
sented bv stni.ka on i. .mi, la vtu Will find
that the Increase In the total falue made
during the oast three months . s-i.wo.ui"-',-
000. The advance on toller ihngs, cattle,
hogs, corn, and so on, has uiuouited to more
than Siioo.ooo.noo Thorn la a irr-ind total
of $1,300,000,000 added to the wr'ilth of this
country, it has been done by Ice auopnon
of a wise and encouraeine ecotoinlc policy
wnicn has restored the conncimce oi our
people. Chicago inter Ocean.
Why Do the Croakers Croak?
Solemn silverites whose knowledge of
affairs Is wider than that of most of the
men who voted for Bryan lust full, are
not altogether silenced by the rise in
prices under the conditions existing since
the complete triumph of sound money in
the United Stntes. Some of them, like the
luhugrious Ritchie, of Summit County,
essay the weary task of persuading people
who like the change in the times that it is
the result of famine in India and ruined
harvests in Europe. These persons pa
rade before the voters of America the
dread procession of gaunt victims of star
vation in Hindustan, and they quote the
gloomy reports of crop failure in Irelnnd.
They point to meager grain fields In Rus
sia and to the shortage of fjU.OUO.titiO busn
els in the wheat crop of France. "There,"
they say, "is the source of higher prices
in the United Stntes. Let famine and
ruiu abroad be followed by normal weatb
er and harvests, and the general level of
the markets will again be as low aud weak
as the price of silver."
, This sort of explanation can never be
effective, for two reasons. The first is
that It goes too far for the average voter
to follow with much interest. The second
and the best is that it wholly fails to ac
count for the advance in many important
commodities which have nothing to do
with the harvests in Europe or the famine
in India. Has there been a famine In
hides anywhere? Has the leather crop
failed? What bad weather has made
Iron scarce and raised the price of steel?
W bat Is the force that has lifted the mar
ket for wool as far. in proportion to for
mer quotations, as wheat has risen? Why
are lunibs much higher than they were
when the Dingley hill was passed? How
about the butter crop? Has that failed
in India? Is the cheese market feeling
the effects of the harvests In Russia?
Where is the cotton crop a failure? Who
has heard of a lumber fuuiiue? Cleveland
Leader.
BRYAN AS A DEADBEAT.
No Time far Creakiest.
Tbe pro...ail or the calamity bowler
to predict misfortune for this cum try ami
to emphasise the dark aide of life, , nm
little encouragement by contrasting the
preaeut condition and prospect of the
American people with thus of Hie ret of
the world. Fur im h a comparison will re
veal the fact that we are vastly better t.tT
today than timet peoplca. While other
Countries are threatened wllh distress ow
ing to abort crop, we American lutr
been blessed with one of the tim,t abun
dant harveite In our history. W hile the
far Kast la auftVrliig wllh famine and
bile the harvest In liuland ia reported
ruined by unprupltloiia weather. Me In
America are chiefly roiicerucd with the
problem of translating to market the
surplus prod net a of the farm, hie ris
lug prltee will bring dismay to those
parte of the world which are under the
eve!ly ef buying, the American firm
er, with granary overflowing with wheat
and corn, looks wltb rumpUeeiii-y iiti.in
the eteedilj climbing grain markets. The
great laws of supply and demand are
working la eur favor, ami ate bound m
bring renew J prosperity to eur country.
Detroit Ft Pre,
ftreltteatbal Adiutto It.
One of the mml remit and rttUu.i,t
etamplee of a IVptilist who has .1 ar.l.-J
the calamity howl fur tlie pr.trity
hep I J. W. Kreldenthal of K it it
He la the Hank t Viiniil.i,.!, r of the
Slate, and less than one ) rar aro he mi
Hranite, who fuM ne tin ptor ty
ad no elvatlt.n for the country nnVss
the t..y Orator t.f the Plm'e an ).-, tr,
and ! er given free to'inge at t',e ! at
eaord unrd tatfo of 10 to . It it ti
thai ha (hntu'cd u. e thin, He Im
eeee a great I !it. and tin I what he
baa In any t d ir :
Meter la the Ml..r of Ktnut M ISrr
beea a aiitva mMiry alia iii It trt ! it. i
a ae d.i.l In Mi t., i f : t
kt lin k aii,lf,t niMsk, f hi k i
dlltatt t.rtn (-hi fit ni rii .-r- p lli pn r
4nel, tair i p . t
1-u.l prica, t lir ..Ui,.,u f.,. Ki
a la a "t pitiii. i i....at iwrto y
tlmrvt.r. an4 a r a .nf li
1 fcra uM ka Iweu titt la tl, b !?
Of the Slate a b ti n ft-iari n it
taitmi eau(K la ur N nUr
aleat feal, a Ilk ! cih aad
Cotton'a Itcet Vcnr.
Thla butchery Is sickening. There Is
no hedge, nor bush, nor rock on ail tho
stricken (icltt in whoso slim shadow some
shuddering ailvcrile may not be found
hiding from the statistician a ateel. i hey
are tlilckeet behind tho refuge of foreign
crop failure. A pole In these eeta all
eorla and eliea t- V.t rlifxliiii.'. Oiaridnn
Hand anil Hoy aud Teller wnil-
a aaw lb "ChtUtiuutl-i' aud morn Iffy
depend on mora lu,ln for Tsick tlm'a
amelter. And aa thct wriggle they squeak:
"famine, yon hrntcst You are gloating
over famine, l on are exulting in the mis
eries of the victims of the gold atandard
In India and Austria and Kugland and
1' ranee, lucre la nothing tn tins wave
of prosperity which ouch! la giving tit
some temporary emhnrriimmit'iit but a for-
eicu shtrtage in wheat.
Let us atir up the wrlgglrra a little
further. Titer baa been no foreign short
at:e In cotton. If there hnd been, tt would
not mutter In the sense that a wheat
shortage mntters. for we supply "D per
rent of the world a cotton anyway, and
never more than -." per cent of Its wheat
Yet we are getting an extra V per cent
tbl year say, j:ui,()ih,ih)ii nn $:!on,nno,
UtKt for our cotton. These are the tig
ure. jnst compiled by the eerctarv of the
New Oilcan Cotton Lxchange, Mr, II
i ter:
The Iron Barometer.
Among the proofs of reviving prosper
ity, which some people are trying hard
not to see, must now be Included tne in
crease of 12 oer cent in the output of pig
iron within about one montt alter tne
new tariff was enacted. For many years
there have been not a few amoig the fore
most practical business men who have re
garded the production and consumption of
iron as the surest barometer of the con
ditions upon which depends increase or de
crease of general prosperity. J-his is in
part because the production is of necessity
months ahead of the final consumption in
finished forms, and is based upon all that
some of the shrewdest practical men in
the country can foresee of the future de
mand for rails, car materiali and other
railway supplies, for freight vessels along
the lakes and on sea coasts, for business
buildings and the structural shapes of
which their skeletons are framed, for ag
ricultural implements and the iron and
steel entering into their construction, for
extension and improvement of farms, and
so for fence wire and wire rods, and for
erection of residences and other build
ings, and po for nails and hardware of all
kiuds. When evidence points to material
ly increased consumption in so many
forms trained business men calculate that
hpttpr times ere comine.
The production of pig iron started this
year with a weekly output of about KjU,-
000 tons, having enlarged to that extent
from 112,782 tons last October, a gain
of more than 40 per cent. There was a
little further advance to about ku.uw
tons In March and April, but as the pass
im? of the tariff hill came to be considered
more remote or uncertain and stocks of un
sold iron accumulated the production was
diminished to 104,000 tons at the begin
ning of July, showing a conservative de
termination to defer further increase of
ontnut until tlie conditions necessary for
future prosperity were more positively as
sured. This assurance came with the
passage of the tariff bill late in July, and
the weekly output was slightly raised
Aug. 1, and increased 20,128 tons weekly
during that mouth. Rut the output Sept.
1 was already the largest ever known for
that month, excepting in 1895 when a
sudden Hurry lifted prices about to those
of lSiiD and it was 34,000 tons larger
than Sept. 1, 1S'J2.
It Cannot ISe Concealed.
Once in a while we meet a man who
says that while he sees a good deal in the
newspapers about a revival of business he
finds no improvement iu his own condi
tion and cannot ace any iu that of his
neighbors. It is true that the marked im
provement which has been so strongly felt
iu the East and in the souimvesi iias uoi
yet reached the Northwest in full volume,
imnlv lici-nii.se our harvest la later. Our
wheat crop has only just begun moving to
market. The 100.000.0K which thia
year's crop will fetch Into thla region hua
mil hegun to be distributed. Neverthe
less. If the Demon who complain thnt
prosperity ho" t"t yet rmiched him will
look around oter tne wnole e a atau
he cannot fail to perceive a very marked
Improvement. The banka aje In better
shape and are loaning money more rreeiy.
The merchants are full of hope nd confi
dence, and manufacturers are making ar
rangements for a full output. L.oa idle
men are seen, and, in fact. It la claimed
by employment agencies that no person
who la able and willing to work need now
suffer from lack of employment. The in
crease in the volume of business through
out the country is unmistakable. It ia
revealed In the statement of weekly bank
clearings, which show a gain of 45.11 per
rent, aa compared w ith the Corresponding
week of last year. Minneapolis' gain ia
411.2 per cent, w hich may be taken aa an
indication that from thia time on the re
vival will he felt here iu full force. Miu
neapolis Trsbuue.
He Attack the Corporation and Then
Asks and Accepts Favor from Tbem.
The more Mr. Bryan tries to explain
away his foraging expeditions on railroad
passes the more he convicts himself of
demagogy and willful deception. When
the San Francisco papers made puono
the fact that Bryan had solicited and ac
cepted favors froin Huntington's South
ern Pacific Railroad in the shape or rail
road passes, Bryan's friends at first de
nied the charge. They backed their de
nials by producing the requisition written
by Bryan in which he applies for the free
ticket over the Southern facihc oa ac
count of the Omaha World-Herald.
Upon inquiry at Omaha it developed
that Brvan had severed his connection
with the World-Herald a year previously
and furthermore that the World-Herald
had no advertising contract with the
Southern Pacific and was not entitled to
any transportation for ally advertising
done for that road. To parry this ex
nosnre Brvan rptorted over his own name
that he was still a stockholder in the
World-Herald. By this, matters were not
much mended for the reason that as a
stockholder in a newspaper he could have
no claim upon any railroad for free rides
and furthermore that under the interstate
commerce law interstate railroads are for
bidden from giving free transportation ex
cept to railway employes.
The Southern Pacific is not, nowever,
the only railroad on which Bryan has
been foraging. Mr. Bryan traveled to
St. Louis some ten days ago over the Wa
bash and dead-headed his way with an
1897 annual pass. The pass is ostensibly
issued on account of the Worid-Herald
but bears on its face the flat contradiction
of the pretense that it is a business trans
action. Railroads do not Issue annual
passes in exchange for advertising. In
the nature of thlnes thev could not know
how often they would be used, for what
distance and how much advertising vaiue
thev would represent.
The discreditable nart of Bryan's dcad-
hcndinir over the railroads arises not
merely from the fact that he poses as the
champion of the anti-monopoly forces and
denounces the railroads for discrimina
tion In favor of influential non-producers
as neainst the common nconle who must
pay their way, but also because while
amply able to pay his fare he is resort
ing to deception to cover up his accept
ance of railroad gifts. Omaha Bee.
to the savings banka. If the currency
were depreciated 60 per cent, aS It would
be were sliver coined free at the ratio of
16 to 1. the depositors would lose 15 1-3
millions. No friend of the free coinage
plank mentioned that fact or argued that
building and loan association investments
would be affected injuriously.
The constant experience of the world
has been that when there is a change for
the worse In the money standard the
wages of abor are slow to adjust them
selves to it. The price of commodities ad
vance rapidly. The price of labor lags
behind. Thus there is a real reduction la
waces. Though thev may he nominally
a (ittle higher, their purchasing power is
decreased. Chicago Tribune.
COME, MR. BRYAN.
Try to Be Consistent In Tour Theories
and Assertions.
At Atchison. Mr. Bryan made a speech
from which the following are detached
sentences: "Last fall the republicans
said we were repudiationists because we
wanted to lessen the purchasing price of
the dollar. The price of wneat
and corn Is governed by the law of supply
and demand solely. The law of supply
and demand governs the value of a dollar,
If there is a short crop of money dollars
will rise. Nature makes a short crop of
wheat. Man makes a short crop of dol
lars bv law."
A year ago Mr. Bryan asserted that the
value of a dollar was not influenced by
any cower whatever except the declara
tion by the Government that it was a dol
lar, lie asserted in season and out of
season that such a declaration was sufil
cient not only to make every silver dollar
worth a gold dollar, but also to raise every
ounce of silver bullion In the world to the
value of gold at a ratio of 10 to 1. With
such a record as this, how can the man
have the audacity to now come babbling
about the value of the dollar being gov
erned by the law of supply and demand?
He saya the dollar has grown too valua
hie because It has not kept pace with the
law of demand. The more money there
Is In the country, he contends, the less
the dollar will buy. Does history bear
out such a claim? In one of his lectures
Mr. Ifryan .present a tnble to how that
lnc the crime of 1873tre ha been a
' M.flfc III m fcJ.lw; Ut 117
ducta. To make his flU-v rood h ut
also show that there huiTTieen a diminish-
ment in the number of dollar. On the
cotttrary, there haa been a steady and
rapid increase in the number of dollara
a'uice 1n7.'5, uutil now we have a per cap
ita circulation of 24.:i0, whereas in 1H711
we had but f 18.04. Kansas City Journal.
t'ntnmen'lst crop. tVlne
I1M7 1"?!. .'. n.H
1 Mi,', on '."it ire.
1'U O.i '."17 ii.IT. Mil
11.1 !' .1.1 IS 117
I VI.' 0.1 yM.:..-...M
is.il v iti.-oi.! I.'
Iu other word, we have ante pun ic
values ami awepnnic price, me crop
i worth f.'.i.iNHi.iSHi more than it h
Im en in the best jear fur live )'cur. - l ew
1 oik I it
Houltiern Cotton Mills.
One of the most rut nursling fcjiurc
of the bnitie season flidcd on the lint
f tlii mouth was the show tit ttmde 1 .y
Siiiiibi rn mining ami inanuf ii tuung rn
letprise. Iliport from irliah'e .urct'
indicate that all of them were f lirly prn
iktoii. rvrn w nne aimunr in iuir w ere
!t'pree(l in oilier part cf the etnmtrr
the result bnj due in great men.ure to
the advantage of the proximity ,,f 0ii
taw material to point of cuiinmiipiioti or
manufacture, ami to the favorable c mat
W ci.n.l tion. 'I In w a especially true of
cotton manufacturing, whi. h ev,.lcn, ,.,
growth both ti.iitliiuou and of tcntat lia
ble ieiit. For the first tune the c.i.
aiiitiption of HiiiUhirri tnil! excvedrJ a
hid, ion bale. ilni h a Kcimlter.
tine to KrpuMU'ea roller.
It I only a ! ' while nil. the hm t
cU of the .hi ii t r r wci teumlng tie
II- ; i!- .mis wuh tl.e '.!,. of pr,,
I . i) In i turning, lit re ti , .. t
iiij, are the ni i f i' urn tig? Ti,e
lira- tariff bid baiit'y been a gne. u j
t'niitre at; -it e.l In f r the Im.hh 1t
..ii in ait U f .r.e a tn be uu .eiut. 1 1(
blindest nsstiii st u the it mi iiic .(r
tt had to a lmst it. 'I hen t sine the t la ui
tli.it the s'i Hi i e of wheal abroad wa
the Ma of it sit. lbl wa the burden
uf Mr, Iti jsn' l ia i.f. h
d. nit. I the h.iit,i-e in the wheal an t
rje rri-p of the oiht-r gin exporting
r...iiint ha .! an ! the pi ice of wtn-t j
in lit rt.uniri. t ut tn f rest n mral f . t
l the casr i thnt there km her
ststatlat'r the . hi- t'ht advame in tie
pri.-e ef ethef (loyert.r ef abuUl l'ie
The Tariff and Farm IMce.
Our free trade friend asert that the
sole reason for the rise In the price of
wheat i the grain ehortage abroad. They
are Vot-lforou In declaring, in season aud
out of season, that the eniii-tmont of a
licimlilican tariff ha had nothing to do
w ith thp farmer a increased prosperity
lit u look Into thia claim for a moment.
It ia nut truth aa many of the anti protec
tion oritnna Imply, that wheat, of which
we export vat quantiliee, i the only agrl-
cultural tnp!e that lia risen In value.
'Du re ha been a marked increase In the
pn e of corn, oata, rye. pork, butter,
t hif.e. hops, hide and pttt"e. I.nmbs
for slaushterlng are worth f l.'.Ti per head
tiioie than tl cy were one year ago. The
value of sheep kept for wool ha also risen
significantly since the paee of a tariff
that protect American nocka, Tltese aa
erii.ui are not made rashly. They are
based upon the olticlal statistics of the
Ihpariuiriit of Agriculture. It will be
seen at a glance that product- of which
as export roinparauvely moderate
summit have kept close to wheat In it
Hint rtnl movriiirnt. In our estimating the
tar. (I Im bad a great deal to do with this,
Since the lUtis'.ey bill became law a ante
sirnv of previously Id e men has been et
to wi.ik throughout the I'tuted States.
SViii'e earner who had been emplojed
vu'y part time ate now Working tu t twit,
No Haltlnii tne Advaace.
Ihiu rt;ra, w boh h Uo jubilant
In if prm Initiation of busnirs revival for
setrisl icss, df. lart-t that there In n
hiit.iitl in the Ivan; that Imamest
ii. . s I .irr lit all w ) i ; that there I a
s t ,i ! im it e In production and work
in f-.r.e. and ttiat the power of the peo-
t V to ti:. base i feature w h t h over
s'- t.l-. s ail other. ,t w lorn rrpurt
sli.. that win1! I hot the only ciuui vl
liy thnt i a lt an. i.g in price, tor over
one bun l ed staple at higher, and there
Is l t. nt. n ued heavf tttmiaj for tuauii
f j -luted f.t! ef ail k'li'l.
The frtfr ire rap'.l'y grtnng ba
the !- is .i.inai wbuh they ht la the
ta ut of thru sheep iiaelcf frx-e tftde.
BEETS AND CAMPHOK,
SECRETARY WILSON'S VIEW3
ABOUT THEM.
Tens of Silver and Yens of Gold.
It was very unkind on the part of the
Director of the Mint to delay his recent
statement about the comparative value of
the coins of the world until the departure
of those silver patriots who recently has
tened to Japan to learn the true cause or
the demonetization of silver there. Uaa
they had opportunity to study Director
Preston's little table they might nave
stayed at home and devoted their ener
gies to explaining to the farmer wny
heat has gone above a dollar a bushel
while the free coinage dollar has fallen
below forty cents. Director Preston's
table shows the comparative value of the
silver and gold yens of Japan during the
past decade. One minute's study of these
figures would have been sufficient to show
these peregrinating patriots the true cause
of Japan's action. Here are the figures-
read them for yourself:
Value of Value of
Tear. Silver Yen, Gold Yen.
isss ,
1889
iniio jn, , ,
1801Jf.
lKnJLJ.
I8iw rr..
18114 ,
1805 ,
1 81)11 ,
.75.3
.73.4
.75.2
.8H.1
.74.5
.firt.l
.65.6
.40.1
.50.9
09.7
99.7
09.7
99.7
89.7
99.7
99.7
09.7
99.7
09.7
1897 (July) 47.8
Work of the Dingley Law.
reports from the little State of Rhode
Island are full of cheer. "The mill situa
tion Is better than it has been for five'
years," says a special dispatch to the St.
Louis Globe-Democrat. The Lonsdale
company has started on full time opera
tion, employing 5,000 men and women.
In the Woonsocket worsted mills, the
200 employes had their hearts gladdened
by the restoration of wages to what they
were in 1803, which is a virtual increase
of 7 per cent. But more than this,
ground has been broken for the erection
of a new mill in the Olneyville district,
and a plant near Blacltstone, which has
been Idle for almost five years, will be
purchased by a new company and started
into full operation. It will not require
a microscope to observe that the develop
ment in the mill situation is the direct re
sult of the Diuglcy tariff law. It meaus
prosperity.
UNAMERICAN.
The rrlnclplea of Dch-lsm Wilt Not ft
Welcomed by 1'utrlota.
The ferocious hatred for the rich felt
by men like Mr. Debs and his Social Dem
ocracy ia utterly un-American. It argues
Iu the men who feel and express It an
estimate of the importance of wealth so
Inveterate that It haa destroyed their self-
respect. Apparently they cannofhreathe
freely can hardly live, so miserable are
they so long they see other men far
richer than theniselvoe that la to say, p i-
aeased in far larger measure than they
of the only thing that they think of Imnor
taoee. To them, the men who have wealth
belong necessarily to different claaa front
the men who have not Not brain, nor
learning, nor character, mark the differ
ence between men, they think, but wealth
ouly. No men have expressed more ab
ject deference to weullh than these K.
cial lu-iiocrata. who wish to kill all who
posw more than little of It. Tiny
cannot, apparently, conceive Of a poor
man wing a seir-respecting, a resected,
aa nappy ana a useful a a rich one.
It I a fortunate thing for the rountrv
that the rWinl Democracy apeak out
Its mind frankly, and government will tie
very nnwise If it d e anything to rttv
pre (ta apirit by pulling penalties on It
excesea. A rear weak-minded nt ricknia
men. It la true, may be misled and svrn
rendered dangerous to society, but the
bet argument against the aeml social!-
tic, mi-anarchistic purpose of the SSu.
rial Democracy that ran be addressed to
the mass- of the American people r the
utteran.e of the Social Prniocrata them
aclvea. New Orlctin IVayune. I
l atMir ami Free Mlxrr.
The ll.itjoi l'iilrftioa of bur hat re
ad. pied, a part of it platform, dnuaad
for the free i-oHtage of silver at the ratio
of Id ! I. Hot on tbi. a oa prevlmi
occit'i-.. the advocates of the plank f!
eJ to point n't w herein labor would be
tn urti'.rd by the giant of of in, h ( d
man J. No attempt wa mm! ta contro
vert the ap'citie statement t a here
free coinage woulJ do lrteprhl harm to
lahnr.
'1 be worklngmea of 111. not fcuve rtgh'y
million dollar lutes!,. in budding nd
loan as.Mtatioo. A t line to the motto.
metallic iter standard of a free roiusi
U7H, gram dollar Wuuid redum it. .
of these investment shout iai jr rent,
and Ubof wool I Kite fvcty kht tu ition
doliaia ea one Iteia.
The ot..n ps.p'e of it, gists, hlrt
Waaed s.'1 nn...tos la g : j Ut 4 '
Political Bird Shot.
Mr. Bryan has not yet issued his sched
ule of prices for speeches in Mexico.
Those wretched Ohio editors will not
stop talking about John McLean's gold
bond.
The Western farmers are not burning
corn this year; they are burning mort
gages.
The silverites insist that the rise in
wheat Is due to scarcity only. But how
about wool?
Wool has made as big an advance as
wheat in the past year. Is that the result
of "scarcity" too?
The free traders are not shouting about
that recent sale of American tin iu for
eign markets.
Altgeld (to McLean) Why didn't you
take warning by my fate and keep that
gold bond out of sight?
A bushel of wheat now call for two
ounce of fine ilvr. La at year on
outlet wa mora than auracleut.
Silver has fallen 25 per cent In value
alncesMarch of last year and 20 per cent
since the Jtovember election of lS'JO.
Bland, Tillman and Bryan admit that
there la "temporary" prosperity. A year
ago they aald even that couldn t come
without free coinage.
Forty thousand farm mortgnges, aver
aging fl.000 each, are being paid off Id
Kansas this fait. That's "what's the mat
ter with Kunnai" now.
Over $2,000,000 In British money com
lug Id to Van Francisco from Australia to
pay for American wheat! How ia this for
British goidbug control?
Was It the "gold powers" of Great
Britain that sent statistician Miilhull over
here to show that thia is tha most pros
perous country In the world?
Mr. Bryan should hurry up with hit
Spanlib lesions. If he doein't hasten hit
trip to Mexico, another "crime" agaiuat
silver is liable to be committed.
Tom Wataon aays all the silver men
will have to Join the Populist force, lit
thinks the Democrat are going to heave
over the lU-to 1 theury altogether.
The silence In the vlclnliy of Yellow,
stone Park, where Mr, Bryan Is neglect
ing to speak np about the relative values
of wheat and silver, Is becoming painful.
The Denmcrala have laid aside their
uual cry about Increaaed prii-e under the
new tariff law. They tea that low tariff
Is no lunger popular, eveo with their wi
people.
Will wonder never cease? Wm, J,
Bryan, In recent article In a New Vrk
puper on wheat aad sliver, says "ths
who advocate let coinage mar be
w rung."
Fpejklng of the "growth ef export ef
manured arte omler free trade," wdl th
Democrats rlatm the recent foreign sales
of Anirritaa tin as due to their boa pro
tective theory?
Tl fuel that the Make hate larger de
posit than ef before and that rate of
Interest are low seem te ara the IW
ocrttie theory that Ib.s rouulry ka tut
tttuury enouah.
According to Tom Watson, there will
nut be a xteea to-one fie.eii8 B,ln
left la the Democratic party this fS. .
at that the only p ate fur thria la la
the I'tip il at rank.
People w- are wondering whit the
Di-uint-is's will Had f..r isto if ptj
boulii pos'potie tbeif Worry, a thre my
be ea Democratic part; by that t rue, the
way thing are goitif.
Hie Kansa farmers are paying off 40
millions of luJfblediies leaf, Jw
Im ky for the Pi. p. ..-ran that l to 4 da t
hippos year a-i. "Hey wouida't kv
rartietl sa le, ur ant ahere.
I thi royalty really an badly off f if
ttioiief ba the i.iis bate lar.ef Jep..
I's tkaa eier before ia tht.r b stufy isd
"'f tt Waa.tig at Uar fate thi at
y Iwti immttf at the areata! g"uit-
The Agriculturist and Arborlcnlturlat
Receiving Bpecial Attentlon-Wilaon
Saya There Is No More Season foe
Buying Sugar Abroad than Wheat.
Would Keep Money at Home.
Special Wuslitugtou currespuuuencu:
Secretary Wilson, the head of the De
partment of Agriculture, coutinues earn
est if not enthusiastic about the practica
bility of putting into the pockets' of the
farmers of this country the $100,000,000
that the people are now sending abroad
for their sugar. "The more 1 think of
this beet sugar business," said he, "and
the more I look into its vast possibilities,
the more I am surprised that the Ameri
can people have been buying such quanti
ties abroad. There is really no more rea
son why we should buy sugar abroad thau
wheat. We have in this country liiud as
well adapted to the growth of sugar beets
as anywhere in the world, and it is a re
markable fact that our people have been
so long in seeing the possibilities a ltd put
ting forward every effort toward tlie ac
complishment of this end. Sugar enter
Into our consumption to such a large and
national extent that the triumph of bring
ing about the growing of all our own pro
ducts In this direction would be no biihiII
one. The way iu which the Americas
farmers nre taking hold of it shows what '
a comparatively easy mutter it would
have been at any time of lute years to es
tablish the industry on a permanent basis,
and as I say, it seems strange Hint far
sighted men have not seen the advantage
to result to those successfully fostering
it. Iu my trip through the est 1 founu
fnrmers generally enthusiastic over the
subject, all of them anxious, and hoping
that the analysis to be made or tneir ueei
would show such a satisfactory percent
age of sugar as to enable them to at once
enter into the growth of the beet as a
cron. In fact, the danger lies in over-
enthusiasm; In the large outlay of money
and establishment of plants In sections
where the beet cannot be profitably
grown.
"The McKInley bounty on sugar
operating well, and if it had continued
would have so encouraged both cane and
beet sugar industries thnt we would, by
this time, be quite independent ol toreigu
markets In this respect. The bounty pro
posed for beet sugar In the Dingley tariff
bill would have still furtner si uu u
the Industry, but even as it Is, I believe
we are on the way to seeing a good qual
ity of sugar supplied from a great many
i. i!iio,i Ktntos The sugar
poiuia in me uuinu ,
beet thrives on a variety of soils, being
best adapted to sandy loams of moderate
fertility, and 1 presume tnni repon
our analyses will show great areas in va
..! .iton. f th country capable of
r nn section or me counui "i"
raining beets containing a sufficient per
centage of sncchnrlne matter to warrant
the building of factories aud the plautiug
of large areas.
"About 2.200 of the farmers of the
country have grown beets for tests, and
we are now receiving samples for analy
sis. If everything goes right we will have
a complete report on the subject uy
first of the year. This will show the tnont
desirable sections for entering into tue
beet Industry and will enable opera tori
to erect beet sugar refineries with some
degree of assurance that the industry will
be a success iu their particular section.
"Any new crop which lake the placl
of present crops, and thereby reduces
their acreage, tend to stimulate
prices received for those crops, by dun if
ishing their yield, and this is one of Hie
Indirect ways in which a general cultiva
tion of the sugar beet will belter the coo
dillon of the farmer. The saving of
000,000 to the country will g ve I nat
srnount to labor. Sucsr repieseata Inbot
almoat entirely, from the growing of the
seed to the sugar barrel. The diversifi
cation of our ludt.striea to thia extent will
have a tendency to help the prices of olhr
crops. ,
The production or campuor. cmi""-"
the Secretary, "ha been leccnlly cuiicu 10
my attention, and I think 1 ce in una
connectlou another Industry to be devel
oped and oue especially advantageous to
the South. We are gathering statiatltl
now In regard U the area la which the
tree will thrive. It is known to do well lo
Florida. In fact, there are now Iu that
Slate large treea which were sent dowa
there from this department years age ai
little plants. Intended then for shad and
ornament, but they have demutut rated
clearly that the tree growi well In Flor
ida, and what I want Is to see whole
groves planted on the rich hammocks and
bottoms of the State, where the mil il
very productive, but not sufe from frosts
for the growth of orange, lemons ana the
more tropical products. K'ery part of the
camphor tree la now used In the extrs
tion of thia valuable gum: the leaves,
chips, the roots, everythiae. All our
camphor ta bow Imported from the far
Knt, aud If we ran keep lb a money la
our owd pocket, we are o mnh the bet
ter off. The South, especially. Is ia need
of a diveraificatioa of crops, and I hope
It will lie found that the camphor Indus
try will be practicable and profitable."
GEO. XilCLVILLB.
I! hot at ih Fatwere,
The free tradera took their lal ht at
the farnier In Juue; they aii.ilnl la ev
erything availab'e oa which the new tariff
law Increased the rate of duty. The UU
lowing huai the value of some of the
more Important farm products la Jsua,
DPT, compared with June, IMat:
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