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About Heppner gazette. (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 19, 1897)
A GREAT INDUSTRIAL WAVE Continues to Sweep Over the Land, Placing Prosperity on a Solid Basis. Various Sections Vie Proclaiming Good THE record of mercantile and manufacturing activity continues to verify the predictions of those trade optimists who have been contend ing all along that the upward move ment Is not spasmodic or speculative but actually rests on a basis of growing demand which Is destined to be perma nent. It Is now over three mouths since the new tariff law was approved by the President. While the most ultra-pro-tcetlonlsts will not contend that the new law could have such a marvelous effect upon trade conditions In so short a time, no careful observer will deny that the revival of business confidence has been steady and continuous since Its enactment. It is an Illustration of what a settled economic policy on the part of the Government will do for the business Interests of the country. The slgnlOcant features of the phe nomenal trade Improvement are tho heavy increase In Iron production and consumption, the largest payments through clearings ever known in Octo ber, the Increase in the employment of labor and the record breaker in wheat exports. At every point where actual production can be tested It appears greater than before. Tho Increase in tho employment of labor has continued and there are dally reports of resump tion of work In Idle factories and sharp advances in wages. Tho September exports of wheat sur pass all records, amounting to 25,S(18, 8:!8 bushels, against 17,0)0,815 bushels last year, the vuluo being over 100 per cent larger for all brcadstiiffs. For tho week Just closed the total exports of wheat from both coasts of the United Btates aggregated (!,0,TO,72() bushels, against 4,8:ir,(;-U bushels last week, 4, 15(1,817 bushels a year ago and 2,409,000 bushels In 181)3. With such a favorable showing In all departments of business activity the pessimistic calamity hasn't a leg left to stand on. Konau I Prospermia, A correspondent in Wichita tells of re markable revival thus: u miracle been wrought beside the Kansas Nile? In this n case of the deml brought to life? Truly prosperity lias breathed into the nostrils of Wichita. The fever of boom ing raged here In Its most miilijmiuit.funf. It w u. t.r a irail I'-like state of in li continuance that niniin mistook It fur rl.mlh Kill mi m. Mil.-..,, I,,.. I.,.. 'I'l... I flush of rctui niiiK health in plainly visible. The pulse In beating strong. In the hanks of Wichita aie more deposits to day than at any previous time since the boom win at ill height nearly ten years ago. They are exactly double whut they were one year ago. On one of the principal corner ntniula a bunk .which ha been organised a year, with fj:.,d(NJ capital. It hn in deposits to-day $250,0(10, just ten times its cup, ml lock. Six hundred loans came due th a year In Sedgwick County, of which Wi chita Is the neat, and 4o0 of thcni have lieiMi paid off. Money is cuing begging. Block, the millionaire cupilaliHt, has hceu trying fur thioe weeks lo place $IO,(MI whete It will earn aotnctli.ng n ixl still has It. Traveling men fur Wichita jib bers, whose sales n year ago sveiaged $'. IHMI a week alp now turning in orders for f-'0,(KH) a week. A new mill grinding IlOO barrels of Hour a day lias Jim started. lu the directors' room of one of (he banks eight or ten of the suhatautial men of Wichita were gatheicd to make piepar atioui fur (he Kansas biinkeis' conven tion, to I held here. One of them talked and the others acciues.Til In this view of the changed conditn "We are lulinite ly better olT than we were hint jear. We have doubled our dcN.sita ami me carry ing stronger reserves than ever before. We have on mi average CO p. cent in cash in our vaults. Our Jobbers are dolni double the business they d.d last jc.tr. There Uu't one of them that can keep up with his orders. We have live whole-ale grocers, two wholesale drug houses, two Jobbers In dry goods mid the mi hie mini her III boots mill allocs. Ten er tiftieu more Jubbeta rnuld come here anil do well. The country InnU nil around us me In fine condition w ith linger ill o t t h i n they ever bnd. The live slotk InteiiM III this vicinity are larger than the) ever were. 1 he leports show that we have CS.lXiO hega In this county of Sedgwick. In Sumner, the next county, the wheat crop this year was l.r.uii.iKHi bushels, in..;., than was raied in any oilier county of the Stale. .More pcop'e are buying home la Wichita than at any lime mine the boom period. The books of a Irad.tig re i state firm show mote transactions is n weeks past than In ait years prete.ling. Ve think good time have route tn Wi chita to stay." And thee aie but a few ustances of Wichita's prosperity. Trade, I'rlce ami Iron. All other filets and i . 1 . 1 1. i in the bustiies siliiation aie of si.iull e n.... quenie by the sole .,f the sudden ami rap d Iniicase In hcp-i tiil.er in 1 1 cmi aomptioii of Iron. 'I he piodii.'t.i.n ,,f Iron l no greater in f.i.t, It (, i,.,;,, b'M than iwu jear neo. 'I'l,, w.nklv prod net imi. tl.t. I, isi.'t, wasn't. 41 1 t..i,a f'lrwn Age" tigute.l, sil on the trt of the cur i cut month the total product, Weekly, was '.HKI.V.'S t..n. Tins makes the pto.ltict praili. ally e.piil t.o and t years ago 'I lie ei.iiiiii,t ,,n i9,, however, grently ln.rei.el In tv.i,- when the ptnilii I Ms llii.isti tons in three litnnh, from July I t.i (),-t ags.u.t 8l1.IX.l lues l ow, the lupoid t,x ki stead lly grew Th t ).ar th untold stn'ks fcav fallen in ik.c ItiKfi'hs from l.C),- U tost July 1 v C-'l.J.'T ton Ovt V a With One the Return Times. Another of in fall of SDO.0S9 tons; The amount of iron made now and during three months past is very closely equal to the amount in 1895; but the amount actually consumed is considerably greater. This goes to the root of prosperity be cause the consumption of Iron is the best possible measure of the activity of rail roads, both in maintenance and in new construction, of house building and of new manufacturing plants. This increased ac tivity also was chiefly in the past mouth. From duly 1 to Sept. 1 stocks only fell 1110,502 tons. In September pig iron stocks fell 172,5815 tons. Taking pro duction and stocks together, in July and August, about 172,700 tons were consum ed each week; In September 220,200 tons weekly. Here is an increase of 53,500 tons In the weekly consumption of Iron in September over the average of July and August, an increase of 31 per cent. Such an advance in the consumption of iron Indicates a very large advance in the disbursement of wages, because the amount spent on any enterprise for iron Is a very small share of the total expended for wages in the same enterprise. , More of It. The Financial Chronicle notes many proofs of Improving business. Hank clear ings in August were 3d per cent better than in August, 189(5, and September clearings are 50 per cent better. Tho September clearings, In fact, are the larg est in our history. Failures were but 1,012, with liabilities of .$10,309,0311, against 1,514 failures, with $29,774,917 of liabilities In the same month last year. Itailroad earnings were 13.5 per cent bet ter on eighty-four roads than on the same roads in the same month of 189(5. These are cheering signs of a general growth In business and returning prosperity. If we could only quiet our jingoes and give prac tical interests a chance a bright future might be anticipated. Baltimore Suu (Lem.). Whut Comptroller Mckcla Faya. The statement of Comptroller Eckels of the United States treasury iu regard to the business Improvement throughout the country Is very encouraging. He states that "the Improve it has come rapidly mid permeates all lines of industry. It began with the agricultural class. The farmers have large crops and are getting good prices fur them. The cattle raisers are lienciiled by a substantial rise in the price of cattle. The same Is tru wilh the kIm-jJi raisers. This iniprovemlM iu agri cull'l 1 earnings has had It ulT-- -- me ""s ,"0,'('I",""K their eiKings. It ha-ylit money into elrculatiiHF and en alilill people to pay off their debts, aud lias thereby beneliled the merchants." A Pure riHrnmeter, The monthly statement of the postnl re ceipts of the principal cities of the coun try, which baa just been made public, is of great significance as an indication of the condition of general business. A handsome increase In the income of the postnlllccs of the leading cities win made in September, as compared with the same month in IMMi. In only a few places of 50,(1(1(1 Inhabitants or over was there any falling off lu the month. One of thine w as New Orleans, w here the decline was probably due to the yellow fever, which lias seriously depressed business In that town and throughout a large part of the rcsiuu bordering m the Uulf of Mexico. Hanks Attest Krvlvnl. St. I.ouls bank clearances iu the week just ended, w hich were, in round figures, $30,1 II K 1,1 1 10, were up near the highest hie ever reached. The Increase over the same week In IV.nl wns 'JS.'J per rent. Tuilm. bly If the yellow fever seme lu Texas and along the gulf coast were ended, St. I .on a clearings thee days would be breaking all records. I'lirt of the territory thus nlTeeted Is, In a business way, tributary to SU Louis. St. l,uls (ill be HetiioiTUt. I'i pui rnts. Attention! What were some of thoe remarks that were he.ulilod around from I'uporrntic stump to stump last year, to the effect that our currency was so limited and con tracted that we could not do business, mid th.it the only hope for a return to proi.oiity wns through the free coinage of s lver at l'i to I? It Is quite evident to observant men that some of these I'op errata were laboring titnlcr a mistake, be. cause by n fereiiie to the election returns of 1V.HI It w ill I e .ceti that tlu free coin age pro p aition whs not adopted, and Jet bete we l,n, In the roiintry to-dny nearly a handled milium dollars more In circula tion than theie wn a jear ago, and not a dollar of It free silver. ;,.!d alone ha Inciensed in ril'i'u'at.oti lu the last )ear over tifiy million dollars. Ise Action. The President's action lu the appoint ment of a spec-si reciprocity commias oner to arrange our recptocal trade relations with the ivuiiti es entering into our recip rocity agrceuu ,t,s Is sp,,i n (,f with gen eitil satisfaction. I'luler President Har rison's t .1 ill 1 il slrntioii these matters weie atttiole.l to i!m"ih the .Stale hrpart. iivM, w Ice tc li. us rmr me tin th U occs. sou 1. 1 ens ilei.ibie il.liiv, tint the s.l,. Jo.'t w as nil r r ment at that fine, w hip under the last adiinn sirstioii the ire p M. ny treaties were all abrogated, tesding to k tnl story mensures on the part i f S u, I'raio e, (ieruuiiy and South Auier Uuu repiib'ie. rri lion illsin. The s:nediet of p otec'ioir.t sentiment lu the S.itl.h, IU llliiiirl,4l and wholly lot tioital splitt whi.h baa dr'eruitoej the provisions of the licgley law, snj the w se n! !. in.iiiM. Mteranes . f Prvs.d-nt Mi Iviii'ey have g.ee far to de 'riy tie remnant of that sss.ttoua.Uui which, foriv je.irs , threatvnei te de Crur U I'b'.od There sj ecenusa ut America and of American Instltntions who are fond of prophesying that the time will come when the United States will split up into several different countries. The wish is father to the thought, for It has no real basis on existing facts. Every true American knows that that time will never come, and deplores and condemns any talk which tends to arouse sectional ism. What spirit of sectionalism still exists, we owe almost entirely to tb free traders. They systematically try to stir urJ the West against the East on the ground that protection unduly favors the Eastern manufacturers; they try to rouse the East against the West because, as they say, protection favors the Western ranchers to the detriment of the people of the East; they try to arouse the South against the North and the North against the South. It is quite consistent that those who wouid make a catspaw of our own country to enrich the nations of the earth should try to sow the seeds of disunion within our own borders. The American people are indebted to the free traders for many evils, and not the least is this effort of theirs, on every occasion, to stir up a spirit of sectionalism. It is an evil which should be stamped out in summary fnsh lon amd all honor should be given to that thoroughly American law, the IHugley law, which, by protecting all sections of the country alike, has disarmed section alism. American Machinery In Africa. The British vice-consul at Loanda states that up to the present no British firm has sent out a representative to Angola. There is a fair demand for cane-cTUshing mills, steam engines and turbines. A representative of an American firm is out for the third time within four years, and has done good business. He sees no rea- ONE of the most prominent features of Washington, D. C, aud a scientific establishment of world-wide reputation hi the Smithsonian Institution. It was founded, by act of Congress, approved Aug. 10, 1S1U, on the beijuest of James Smithson of England for the "increase and diffusion of knowledge among men." The amount first received was $."15,lt;;; the residuary legacy, $J(!,210.G3; total sum derived from the beijuest, J.'U,:7!).('a. lu ISO" Congress au thorized the Increase of the fund to $1,00(1,000, and $108,01:0.37, resulting from savings of income and increased value of investments, was added to the amount then in the U. S. treasury, making the fjind lOOO.OOO. Later betuests have In creased it to over $700,i)00, of, which the Interest Is available and sulllcient for the support of the Institution. The Smithsonian building is one of the most imposing edifices In tho L'uited State. Its architecture is of the Norman or Ibuu anesque style. The material of which it is constructed ia a lilnc-grny freestone, mined twenty-three miles np the Potomac from Washington. The corner Hone whs laid May 1, 1.V47, In the presence of President Polk and his cabinet. On Jan. 21, ISO,", the building was partially destroyed by fire from a defective flue. Scientific operations were not, however, seri ously Impeded by the fire and the great building has since been gradually restored, uutil now it is wholly reconstructed and fireproof. By law the Smithsonian Institution Is the depository of the national museum, which la a collection of "all objects of art and of foreign and curious reenrch, and all objects of natural history, plants aud geological and mineraloglcal specimens belonging to the United States." It la particularly rich In objects illustrative of ethnology, ornithology aud Ichthyology. Pew apeenmens are piiminscd, additions being made through gift or by exchange. Iu the early history of the Institution It established a system for the Interchange of American and foreign scientific thought. By this system, which has now attained great proportions, societies and Individuals are brought Into close couimuuinn by the Interchange of pub lications. This system, w hich coal nearly $111,000 annually, w as establish! d iu compliance w ith the second provision of the founder's will, which enjoined the "diffusion" of know-lodge among na n. The Smithsonian Library wna several years ago transferred to the rare of the Library of Congress, and now forms the National Science Library. It consists of about llO.(HK) volumes. For a number of years the Insti'tutlnn conducted an extensive series of meteoro.oglcal observations, but these were discontinued when the I'nitcd States signal service bureau was established. The Institution Issues three aeries of publications. The first la a quarto entitled "Contributions to Knowledge"; the second an octavo styled "Miacelluneiuia Collections." it in) the third an octavo Annual Kepor't. The Institution la not a national, but an Individual, establishim-nt. That Smithson did not Intend the benefit of his g'ft for the exclusive enjoyment of auy one people la plainly Indicated by the terma of tu Instrument come; lug the legacy. son why the British manufacturers should not do ennally well, sud says that "the American machinery Is Inferior to that of British make, ntid cheaper, but It sells well, ami that Is the principal thing." If few Lugtish firms were to subscribe to gether and send out a man to visit the Island of PrinHpe anil S. Thome, and then liiitiila, Beuguella and Mossani niedes, so that they might ge-t an Insight into whit class of tnach'nery la required In those parts, their money would not, the vice consul stated, he badly spent, nd they would learn a gnat deal. They would prnhahlr h am something about the superiority uf the American machinery. Iriiulslana Itnlnea lmprnvet. Tlie Sliret.irt J !.'. its snt wtmli-snters Unite In sstiltg thsl Uir tMmitirss sesson Is opening iilci-iy sn.t prniiiisrs In be menus:! active, 1 hi y are In a p. s i l, n In know, siol we hope Slid suspect Pi.y are correct lu Hi! roneluslen. I'mill-li iter Is gtmlsis.iy Incies. lug lu sll ilepirt n ruts nf lrn!. and It really seems prolili e Hist (tie .m etiiecteit era of prosperity I ni""t In ilswii up ni mir fur ami fi-r'l.e t.iitlh!si.il It Is tru.i.-l thst the rvpcetstii.u "'V ""''I rrltinij. hlirevi port il I Tliiii s We are glad to lenrn of Up b i i.rsa Im provement, snl trust Hut li rvtcn.l throughout Iiil siiiia. The unswerving efforts of I'nitcJ Maiis Sei,atr M, I'.u cry to secure protect ,,u fr, ai l ti pro mote the inteicn of, h;s State aie promptly bearing So.l fru t. Whenever the su.ar Industry of b in ini la pros perous, then all It wli .'e.a'e snj retail iliteiesi II.Ul b iU the .iii,p li4p;iy condi tion. They ltappotntit. The Peuiix'ratie urnt. r who were er, f ttur to umke lu n e Hunt of the frjtyre t.f the liinclry law reUt.ng to rp irtstmn of American nianiitaii me line lapse! luta s.ti4u!sr si'eioe. .or are they a sk ing eimarioii f the export si cm un der the Bf law Snj th.e of a jer sgi under the Wilson law. lr their eicli- K Inf.ittiiil on. attention I ii te-'el to the fact that thee exportation ag-e fs'e.1 during the eesnnd ro.nth of the l iy la $liU,..t!'.i'J a ( in; $sj,. "J'i.ihJ La thi eunstBdg iboaia f lAat pa. DISCOURAGINQ TO BRYANITES. Money Circulation Increases a Hun dred Million in a Year. Mr. Bryan and his free silver colaborers would like to blot out the newspaper rec ords of their speeches a year ago. It was just this time in the campaign of 1S96 that they were asserting that the country was suffering from a lack of currency, and could only be supplied by the free and un limited coinage of silver. The people of the country did not agree with them, and free and unlimited coinage has not been put into operation. Yet the October statement of the Treasury Department shows that the money in circulation to day is, in round numbers, $10,000,000 in excess of that one year ago. Curiously, more than one-half of this increase is in gold. The following table, Issued by the Treasury Department on Oct. 1, shows the money In circulation Oct. 1, 1807, com pared with Oct. 1, 1800: Amt. In clrcu- Amt. In circu lation Oct. latlon Oct. 1, 1807. 1; 1806. (fold coin $528,008,753 1478,771,400 Standard sliver dollars 67,145,770 .66,513,178 Subsidiary sil ver 01,170,415 60,228.208 Gold certifi cates 30,808,539 88,736,630 Silver certifi cates 874,620,209 854,431,474 Trcas. notes, act July 14. '00.. 80,816,003 88,064,047 United States notes 251,705,544 249,547,300 Cur. certlflets., act June 8, '72 62,825,0(10 84.305,000 Nat. bank ats. 220,404,135 220,804,803 Totals .....$1,078,840,538 $1,5S2,302,289 A Pitiable Spectacle. The American people must be proud of the record the defeated candidate of the Popoerotic party of last year is achiev ing in making of himself a drawing card SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. for county fairs through the country. Mr. ltryan "lectured" at the Wichita, Kan., county fair the other day, under an agri-e-Inetit to receive am- half uf the gate re ceipt. This wna paid him, aiuonnt'ng to f-.tiKi, but it wna then discovered that he had been swindled by the niunageiiiciit, which had made extra charge fur grand stand tickets and for selling Imcr, the pr.-eec-,1 of which were not divided wuh Mr. Ilrj an. Italtroail Men Wera W ise. The railroad employe uf the country an- not regretting their luhir and rotes of Inst jetir in favor of McKtnley, sound nmney mid protection. The gross earn lug of the )ear Just etuhsi for the rail roads of the country are $7..(",iiiil rnfiter than In the year preceding, and the minder of people eniiIojel ha large ly Incre.-ued. with a higher -! of wage In many raw. Kaliroad shops have start ed up ail over the country on full and overt. me, giving employment !o thousand i f old hnnd who had been thrown out of employment l y the previous d prt-ss'on, and th cl (Terence grtiersily brtwn o e.,n d.tioii in rai!rad circle now at, J a er au sliuw a' '"mark able eb;vi, llipurltof Manafaetueera. The Mini of tuerc hand! rxpsirts for Septciulier reach the tupuuoua fg ure of ICV.'M.l';. Th s I I. .(.. isO turr t b x most I b'fal el u a' and HS.iVO.imj mr than sttnurd I k'y two weeks ago. Never In uiir eotumerc.al h tety hat export x-eu so larg frt.rn the Itsm-r p,.rt and th.s tiers tig all cal culation. The excess of evporta I al most lw li iir ex M In September, 1"'.hI, $-14.'.'.'.li H. Ivst year th eot..n crop was early. This year It is late. It It mov ing la tMobvr when the xc of rorr rhand'se efpt-rta waa t'.l.lMi.2'.7. Im ports are th year es tha last yef for New W ,y I.M7.V"1", an4 ski ex port frm New York sr shout $j-x',(nl 1V they sr ondi.ubted.y larger far th count, at RU.( more hi e ef coiton are) U.'sh'.ms) hash'. of wheat are knia t. hv ta ex p. nJ fruia I! port. The heavy tior ef fp!n.rt ill therefor te la all prt,Sbi;ivy j'il!e4 ss4 the two uioxl'J a Li asve etc tor'Jk uf $120,000,000, or abont f 2,000,000 a day. The gold exports which have begun are therefore small by those which will follow and they will come at a time when the treasury at Washington holds within $4, 000,000 as much gold as the Bank of England. Not unnaturally discount rates are falling here and risking abroad, and with the rise abroad in discounts has come a sale of American securities to this coun try. The national mortgage is being paid and ote more step taken toward the finan cial and commercial supremacy of the world. Wheat prices turn just now on Argen tine supplies, which may be from 10,000, 000 to 50,000,000 bushels, no one knows which. Free exports continue and the Western fanner is making his sales at higher profits and less trammeled by arti ficial causes than in a number of years, to the national advantage. The Daily Dry Goods Reporter puts the cotton yield at 9,371,000 bales of 500 pounds. This would be, with one exception, the largest crop on record, and both cotton and print cloths fell last week. Bessemer pig and steel billets rose last week and in general iron and steel look to larger prices. The ship ments of boots and shoes are now at the highest figures reported. Philadelphia Press. They Acknowledge the Corn. The silverites have at last weakened In the face of the rapid depreciation in the value bf their metal. . It was a matter of surprise that they should have shouted silver as long as they did, in view of its steady depreciation, but they were doubt less in hope that something wheat or something else would carry it up again to its price of last year. Instead of this, it has gone down like a chunk of lead, lit erally, and finally stands at such a ridicu lously low figure that they have been fore- etl out of self-resjiect to quft howling for free coinage, ainl are now kicking around the (Hilitlcnl Junk heap for smue other worn-out kettle whlih they rnu pati h up and hang over the Hiliticn fire. f ar from lii'iurngliig. The free Irnle nrgnns nr f nit of citin'isr- lug the liirllT receipts of III til t SMV ij.lt of th iMiigl.y law wM the r.r.l .txir tirs uf th XVI son law-trell Inmlng II, ,t ,. elal cniiPloin o,.irat.-tl In Ijim f n,n . on toil lH-f..re lis pi. sn. lil n,e Iliigiey law mi ,eU,ir.g Ii.iieion it's i llllell gemt r. Allow lug f..r the disadvantage ninlrr which the liiiigley hill a-.i.ti-red, tlurtig the lirst siitv tlnys of pt eimcuiient, B conit-r.n of Its r"u!ts with th, uf the i son hill during its first two tn..i,tt,s' Iticubnti n. Is fur from J mitag t,g t tit friends of protection. It will be fuunj else bore American II nnines. It I Secretary Shenpsn's blunt way that I displeasing tu lingl sh-ni ri, and It certainly d -es n. t pla e Suturr in the most favor.il le I ght. Tht Amer.. aii pr.-ple will tmi tMi.k any the le.. of See. rv-ury Sherman for the opinion regard ing hun of the LLg ish pn .. H , ,. waiUuig in the u.. li arts and w I of iliplr.ii.aey. but he knows l, w t v state fact a tht everib!y ran understand tin m and le hi shown h in f t v a mst.b In e.tifiit er.y f, r SaUMrv or any other P.ntish ilv'oiiiat.-limal.s p.,. tiiHttl foe the) ling.y l aw. lenati.r Jot .- of Artsii.i e.x!'e at!. tlin in ;-. h In t'i K. a; -i t,, remarkable t. .,t. of I' t;t law a relating ti t!. eiv,rial.on of American mn if.-tnn-. And yt th expor'a .,-t of tli s rias un.ler t! ao.-r.nd ni iith of th operatH.na of tl Ii.tg'ey law w- pr cent In excess of th of th e.irre spotid.ug month of th Wjfc.t la cf las: )'at. Won't A i-know le lCe !) f'nr). ' 'f ' ! ll' ig ej Is ln.;.. .e.) as fsr I' 7. I op. a I .e I d ,a . f i , .iu iv ! o.i,..o.. i i ltf i i u aa a rMa , a.t.s s. -jaka l.Nefc I i.e Tra But e f-r tr!.r trc! o,,,, be kt tbCai to sio w lb PARAGRAPHS WITH POINTS. Short and Timely Commentaries oa Men and Events. There will, it is announced, be six celes tial eclipses in 1S0S. But there will be other eclipses, too. The silver envoys who went to Japan to see why silver was demonetized don't seem to be in any hurry to report. Time is passing, gentlemen. Under President Cleveland the per cap ita circulation in the country fell to $21.10, but It has increased under Presi dent McKInley to $22.89. Even the Tammany Democrats hava snubbed Mr. Bryan. He wrote them urg ing that they should put silver into their platform and they promptly responded by keeping it out. Nobody has been heard to hint for the past two months that William McKinley made any mistake last fall when he re marked that he thought it better to open the mills to American labor than the mints to the world's silver. It is hinted that the Democratic ticket of 1900 may be Henry George, of New York, and Tom Johnson, of Ohio, on a platform of single tax. The party must have an issue, you know, and as free trade and free silver are dead there seems to be nothing else left. The year ending Sept. 1, 1897, was a bad one for the wheat-and-silver-hand-in-hand theory. One ounce of silver on Sept. 1, 1S90, was worth just as much as one bushel of wheat in New York. On Sept. 1, 1S97, It took just two ounces of silver to buy a bushel of wheat. It is understood that Mr. Bryan will issue another book shortly, to be entitled "The Complete Letter Writer," and that it will contain full Instructions on the art f.f getting private letters Into print "with out waiting for the aid and consent" of the party to whom they are written. The earnings of the Dingley law in the second half of August were slightly In ex cess of $9,000,000; those of the first half of September were over $10,000,000, and those of the last half of September wera In excess of $11,000,000, showing a atendy and gratifying increase in income under It "The true story of Mr. Ilanna's attitude to his workmen and toward union labor, ns far as his mining interests in Western Pennsylvania are concerned, is that he is the best n an in the whole district to work for." From statement of William War ner, Secretary United Mine Workers of Pittsburg District. The treasury receipts under the Dingley law are steadily increasing. The receipts of its second month are greater than thoB of the second mouth under the Wilson law, despite the fact that the Dingley law found the country filled with foreign goods, while the Wilson law found many millions dollars worth of goods waiting to enter and contribute to its earnings. The Tammany Democrats evidently thought a live national chairman better than a dead presidential candidate. Chair man Jones advised them to give silver the cold shoulder in their platform. Ex-Candidate Brynn urged them to embrace it. As Jones will remain chairman until the national convention of 1900 is fully organ ized, the wily. Tammauyites stood by Jones. 'li Philadelphia Press has made a careful canvass of the State of Pennsyl vania, sending out 102 inquiries Into tha 07 counties of the State relative to tha business and industrial conditions. Th result is most gratifying and the reports unanimous to the effect thnt times have greatly improved, factories started up all over the State, orders are coming in and labor finding employment everywhere. The leaders of the calamity party are overjoyed at the slight fall in wheat late ly. They arc expectantly watching quo tations, In the hope that something will conduce to a further depreciation of Ita value, an that they can aay, "We told yon so" to the farmers. The fact that an ounce of silver a year ago was equal ia value to a bushel of wheat, but now buy only half a bushel, has knocked the wind out of their specious arguments. A couple of months ago the free trader looked eomplnccutly at the large exporta lions of manufacture under the Wilson law, and wet- only waiting to point exulte Ingly'to the fulling off of these exporta tiotia under the new law. It seems, how ever, that they w ere w rong, is usual. Tht lirst month of the operations of the Ding ley law showed a larger exportation of manufactured articles than for any corre sponding month erf preceding year. So much for (heir statements that the enact ment of a protective revenue law would cut off our market abroad for American manufacture. A Itehuke, to Demagogue. To the demagogue aud agitator wha ate assailing the corner stone of Ameri can government, th Judiciary, the ex ample of Justice Pleld comra as a speak ing rebuke. Field entered Upon his dutiea Just befo the most trying time in Amer lent! history, the -r!od of reconstruction. During h long career on the Supreme iM-nth lie Won th respect even of his bitterest political npiNiiicnts, II ws ever true to his convictions. Cincinnati Times .Var. Have Money in SpenO). Prnfl's ai.il wages lteg g n the att'e msy rsue sn.-ti ilrmsMl s.l roiiid thst th llnilsli lrs.tr wli feel a .metritis' of II la apii of th tariff. lirattfurU il.uglaud) Ob server. We think so. Thi waa th re tilt dur ing our .r.s;.erlty under McKinley pro tection. W hen money Is abundant here, our people always buy freely of IlrltuJ) luxuries. It is from sm b pur. haae at ti es that we add largely to our custom revenue undo protective tariff. Nrhraska'a Ileal Hop. Me. TVysn'a remarks la a prlvs'e letter ef i!iiioti!t,oo to h.s frtrnd in Nehrsska li nt the lU'piil.licans " Work tig Bight aid t1sy t carry th H'ste. , doubt th s i true, and It will be great g h1 luck f.r Ni-'.is'i. If the Kepni.i can aii'-cood in il.- .r object. -M. Iaui U.oU Drtoio- rat. llarsl f l..t 1.1. Tk ennittrr tssn.a rt fo.m tsfff tr"s- r .T In kr!hg atit tieei.lr t'.ere Is fi-s ! s ip ;., l st tl.e it s. nt I - r" ..I ts in? kiter Ur If !.-. l.ji. l.!.urg . a I .Ne W do-iM w hell er any C-.rt eon! J xh a be-trr tariff It, apeak t p, Mr. P.ryan. Mr P.rysa waa heard to $ annrt m.it.'li gv that he i.j. Le g .4 if t), MMn( adrn n ,t. tt i s .u'.d -mg p-v:t.tj Uit eo4.n;y Tt it ry Ittrotlc, but lt !.) s'r k et- ! ( a'tr,'l.o it it tea ev0