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VERY SATISFACTORY TARIFF LAW IS PLEASING ITS FRIENDa Treasury Figures Show It Io Product ive of Increased Exports of Ameri can Products and Decreased Imports —'"Retaliation” Measures Fail. Showing Is Gratifying. Special Washington correspondence: The new tariff law continues to move nnoothly so far as relates to farmers and Uso as relates to the revenues of the Government. A document just issued by the Treasury Department showing the September importations points out that there has been a marked falling off in the Importations of numerous articles of farm produce compared with September of last fear, while the exportation of the pro ducts of agriculture has increased very greatly despite the insistence of free trad ers that an increase in our tariff rates would damage our markets abroad. The September exportations of agricultural products amounted to $74,261,573, against $56,529,668 in the corresponding month last year. While the general exporta tions of domestic merchandise increased 25 per cent in September oVer those of the same month last year, the increase in farm products was even greater, being, as will be seen by the above figures, about 40 per cent. In September of 1S97 agri cultural products formed 72 per cent of the total exportations, while in Septem ber, 1896, they constituted but 67% per cent of the total exportations. In impor tation of farm products there has been a marked decrease in many articles. The September importation of unmanufac tured cotton fell off 35 per cent, being but 581,903 pounds, j against 772,629 pounds in September of last year. The importa tion of flax, heinp and other vegetable fibers, Unmanufactured, amounted to less than ope-third of that of last year, being $330,000 in value in September, 1897, against nearly $1,000,000 in September, 1896. : The importation of flax, which amounted to $68,729 in September, 1896, dropped to $41,639 in September, 1S97. The manufactures of flax, hemp, jute, etc., imported in September, 1897, were but about one-half in value those of Sep tember^ 1898, being but $1,142,174, against $2,139,559. The importations of sugar in September, 1897, amounted to less than $2,500,000, against over $8, 000,000 in September, 1896, while those of vegetables dropped from $148,345 in September, 1896; to $S9,994 in September of the present year. Of course, the most noticeable decrease is iu wool, which fell from 4,795,476 pounds in September of last year to 2,505,673 pounds in Septem ber, 1897, while the manufactures of wool fell off in a niuph larger ratio, being in value ibut $536,393 of the present year againsit $2,066,101 in September, 1896. In the matter of exports there has been a marked increase in almost every line of farm production, The September expor tation! of cattle j amounted to $3,272,308, against $2,750,109 in September of last year. 1 The value of the horses exported was $678,492, against $234,315 in the cor responding month of 1896. The exporta tion <j>f barley amounted to $1,044,822, against $788,431 in September of last year; corn, $6,200,723, against $3,962,612 in September of last year. The exporta tion of corn meal increased from $47, 536 in value to $119,461; oats from $201, 077 to $1,641,069 in September, 1897; oatmeal from 3,012,978 pounds in Septem ber, 1896, to 5,516,969 pounds in Septem ber, 1897. The exportation of rye prac tically doubled,! being in value $319,322 in September of last year, against $626, 140 ip September of the present year. Of bops the exportation in September, 1897, was more than four times in value that of September, 1896, being $65,265, against $15,458. Of bacon the exportations were in September, 1897, over 50,000,000 pounfls, against 31,000,000 pounds in September of 1S96. Of tarns the pounds exported in September, 1S97, was over 17,000,000, against 9,000,000 in Septem ber of last year, while the exportation of butter jumped from 3,494,532 pounds in September, 1896, to 5,933,467 p'ounds in September, 1S97. Atfthe Treasury Department the new Jaw is proving equally satisfactory. The receipts are steadily increasing, and for the month of November average fully a million dollars for each business day, while there is every reason to expect that the ihcrease injthe importation of manu factured articles and sugar which will conic) with the beginning of the new year will add from eight to ten million dollars per month to tile receipts, thus bringing them above the [requirements for the run ning; expenses [of the Government and putting the treasury again in a position to accumulate a; sufficient surplus to carry on the business! of the Government with safety and reduce somewhat at least the indebtedness incurred under the Wilson law by liberal contributions to the sinking fund and the creation of such a surplus as will be .needed to meet the outstanding bonds when they fall due. Another very) satisfactory feature of the operations of the new law is found in tJjio fact that nothing whatever has come of predictions made by the Demo cratk during the discussion in Congress of tlie Dingley bill to the effect that the enactment of the rates named in the bill wou^d result .hi closing our markets in foreign, countries. It will be remembered that numerous protests were made by the representatives of foreign countries to this Government with the implied threat that if the increased tariff was put on their! goods it would be necessary for the Governments of those countries to enact retaliatory tariffs against our owh. goods, which they had been previously buying. The re were thirteen of these countries making formal protests, and the follow lables show our exportations to the countries during August and of the present year under the w compared with August and of last year under the Wilson Iso our importations from those in the months in question under Aug. & Sept., Aug. & Sept., 1S90, under 1897, under Wilson law. Diugley law. $229. SOI $573,02!) 5,140,519 11,0S9,540 1,071,060 1,308,340 r. n.na.63t 14 2.50.437 19,133, SOT 8,906,542 1,341,522 80,563 2,148,616 40,293 75,739,781 1.741,180 2,614 Germany ......... 15,416,854 Italy . 2,858,240 Argentine. 1,417,948 Turkey . 13,363 Japan . 1.689J41 Switzerland. 2,690 Great Britain. 70,013,494 China..,..-. 2,273,039 Greece. 8,400 Totals ..*.$107,077,786 $131,446,363 Aug. & Sept., Aug. & Sept., 1896, under 1897, under Imports fror i— Wilson law. DIngley law. Austria-Hungi ry ., $1,520,347 $586,186 Belgium . 1,504,840 - Denmark . 13,099 France . 9,256,981 Germany . 17,066,803 Maly . 2,243,950 Argentine..... 750,718 Turkey . 648,969 Japan... 2,429,361 Switzerland .. 2,137,995 Great Britain. 19,088,446 China. . 2,616,198 Greece .. 67,697 1.351.072 32,534 8,299,266 9.103.073 2.903.657 701,349 544,616 3,613,344 1.357.657 13,298,583 2,748,054 74,193 Totals ... The above of the Deni' show that nc imports fron large extent they have c products and .$59,545,404 $44,613,5S3 tables show the utter fallacy >cratic predictions, for they t only have we curtailed our i those countries to a very but despite their threats, intinued calmly buying our in greatly increased degree. GEORGE MELVILLE. What Caused the Change. What does high-prieed cattle and hogs mean? Sim >ly that more people east of the Missouri river are eating meat. Why ? Because the/ are earning wages. They are at Work. The people who were idle under the W ilson tariff of the Popocrats are employed. The people who were employed u ider that tariff are get ting higher wages. What caused the change? Faith of business men, capital ists, employers of labor and money, in the Republican party and its well-tried tariff policy. The tariff nothing to do with it? It has every thing to do with it. Canadian eggs and chickens are shut out on the north and Mexican cattle on the south. The American market for the American farmer, is the Republican principle, and it is work in/, as it always has worked, for the well are of the nation. Pauper labor is shift out Pauper made goods are shut out. The American market is reserved for the "American laboring man and the American farmer, and both are realizing thi > benefits of this patriotic, business-like policy, tested and vindicated by Americai. history for more than fifty The Kansas farmer gives away cattle, hogs, com, wheat, hay, eggs, butter and milk in every vote he gives for Bryanism, Populism or fusion. It is bad business. No level-hesded farmer will permit the calamity orators for free silver and fiee trade to deceive him again and induce him by specious but false promises to vote away his ova property and prosperity.— Topeka Gap tab I Export of Corn. Corn is about to become one of the food staples of Europe. In 1892, we exported 75,451,840 bushels of corn and 287,609 barrels of co m meal. In the last year we exported 17f ,919,365 bushels of com and 475,263 ban els of com meal. As all are aware, Europe formerly had an intense prejudice against American corn, regarding it as unfit for human food. This prejudice was largely allayed by a commission dent to Europe during Harri son’s admin stration for the purpose of introducing < ora as a food. This commis sion gave lictures about corn, demon strating its Usefulness as a food by prac tical instruc:ion in cooking. As a result of the work of this commission, a largely increased demand for com was created. The busines s depression abroad, and the food shortag ? in many countries, has caus ed com as t cheap food staple to estab lish itself firmly as a p ’jmanent food. There will jite an increasing foreign de mand for it ’rom now on, and the Ameri can overpro luotion will each year find more of a sa e awaiting for it in European markets. This means a better price for the farmer. The commiss^jn, discontin ued during Cleveland’s administration, should be re-established in the interest of the American farmer.—Exchange. Practical and Prudent Protection. In our manufactures we start with the advantage of having our raw material ready at hsnd, while England must go thousands ot miles for every cotton ball she spins. ’ Ve can produce all the wool, cotton, woods and metals required for any and every variety of manufacture. It is, therefore, cl par that with these three nat ural advantages of food, fuel and raw material in available abundance, we only need favorable conditions of enterprise and competition to attain and maintain absolute supremacy in every line of hu man industry. These conditions can only be provided by the system of protection. This proposition requires no argument. It has been imply demonstrated by expe rience. We requirj for continuous and increas ing prosperi :y, not so much any particu lar tariff schedules, as the general, vital, conserving principle of protection; prac tically appli'd and prudently adjusted to the industries and interests of all sec tions and cl isses.—Wool Record. It Is Co min" Along All Right. Intelligent people understand that, as far as the new tariff is concerned, it is too early t< forecast definitely what it will accomplish. It is true that it does not furnish sufficient revenue yet, but with the enormo is anticipatory importations made while the Diugley bill was pending this was no t to be expected. Moreover, it requires time for industry and trade to adjust themselves to the new conditions created by that enactment, a process that has been made doubly difficult on account of the dev: stating gale through which they have pissed since the last inaugura tion of Mr. Cleveland. Before long peo ple will be able to pass judgment intelli gently on tie tariff, and, unless all signs are amiss, Experience will amply vindi cate the wijjdom and expediency of that measure.—h ew York Commercial Adver Thc Lau gh on the Other Fellow. Mr. Bryan boastingly announced in his Ohio speeches that he had come to Ohio to “bury Mark Hanna.” This sounded very funny to the audience at the time, but the lau.sh was on the other side when it was discovered after the election that the counties in which he spoke increased their Republican majorities about one thousand votes over last year. It was another cate of “he laughs best who laughs last.’ English Don't Like It. The imports of linen goods from Eng land were only 2,204,600 yards in Septem ber, 1897, against 6,087,000 yards in Sep tember, 1896; the importation of jute piece goods in September, 1897, was 6, 282,160, ag iinst 9,166,400 ia September. THE NEW CONGRESSIONAL LIBRARY. THE new Congressional Library is one of the greatest architectural achievements of the century and ii without ex ception the most magnificent building of its kind in the world. It is twenty-four years since the idea of the building was conceived and ten years siflce its erection was actually commenced by the tearing down of the screnty or more buildings -which occupied its site. This palace for books is a monument to American advancement in building design and art. It is strictly American. American architects and designers, American builders and American artists have done all the work upon it. Such shortcomings as may be found in it are; to be laid at their doors, but to them is also due the originality of conception and excellence of execution which mark it out among other buildings of its kind in this country. At more than one time there seemed a possibility that much of the beauty of the design would be lost through changes in the arrangement or in detail. In the ten years consumed in its construction the library passed through numerous vicis situdes. John L. Smitmeyer and Paul J. Pels, the original architects, were superseded by Brigadier General Thos. L. Gasey, who employed Mr. Pelz to makejthe plans under the direction of B. K. Green. Later Edward P. Casey, Gen. Casey’s son, took Mr. Pelz’s place and carried on the work of the interior decoration. The death of Gen. Casey before the completion df the building gave to Mr. Green the task of finishing his labors. But through these numerous changes the consistency of the design has been maintained. Each new arch tect has contented himself with carrying on the work of his predecessor instead of undoing it, and the building shows no (evidence of Its checkered architectural career. The general form of the structure is rectangular. From th«j center of the pile rises the dome of the rotunda, but aside from this the stern rectangularity is almost unbroken. The four corners of the rectangle are empl asized by pa vilions, and the entrance hall, in the center of the west side, is of the same form. Within the rectangle the building has the shape of a Greek cross, the center of which is marked by an octagonal rotunda or general reading room. The decoration is lavish, but everywhere governed by artistic conception. One arm of the Greek cross which fo:-ms the inner plan of the building is occupied by the entrance hall. The three others are devoted to the stack rooms. In these facilities are provided for shelving 2,000,000 volumes, with possibilities ot further increasing that capacity to 4,500,000 volumes without encroaching upon the reading or working rooms. This lotal is about twice that of the library containing the largest'collection of volumes in the world, the National Library of France. Elevators and pneumatic tubas and other mechanical carrying devices and a telephone are arranged so that the attendants in the stack rooms may be Informed as to what is wanted In the central reeding room and forward the books to the attendant there. There is llso a funnel between the library and the Capitol, a <|uarter of a mile away, so that books and papers can be conveyed rapidly from one building to the other without extra handling. In the main rea ding room the attendant occupies a box in the center of the space, so as to be easily accessible from all parts of the room. Around this the desks for readers are grouped in con centric circles. Besides the principal fooms of the main floor, there are offices for the librarian, catalogue ind copyright rooms and records, special librSries and (periodical rooms. In the basement below are rooms for clerical work, binding, repairing, receiving, printing, packing and mailing, and storerooms. To reach the second story it is necessary to return to the main entrance hall and mount thelbroad staircases. On this floor there are exhibition halls for rare books, curios, etchings, art works, engravings, photographs and the like. Of these the library already possesses an extens .ve collection, unseen for years because of lack of space for display. In the attic, with a restaurant are some minor offices. Throughout the whole building the decoration has not been stinted. All is oil a high order, and ^ profusion of beauties may well be pardoned. The total cost of the building was $6,350,000. 1896; that of silk broad stuffs 4,202 yards^ against 9,833 in September of last year; that of woolen tissues 22,900 yards, against 650,000; that of worsted tissues 224,800, against 1,451,000, and that of woolen carpets 6,800 yards, against 47,* 400 in the corresponding mo-nth of last year. No wonder our English friends dp not like the tariff of the Dingley law, an<J no wonder that the law is popular wi*h our manufacturers and their employes. Keeping Wealth Distributed. Out in the Southwest, in one of thb new settlements, the citizens resolved to take time by the forelock and avoid many of the heart-burnings that are common further east regarding the distribution of wealth. A citizen of that locality vis iting the East was asked regarding the practical workings of this new theory in this community. He was questioned a? to how they were getting along in main taining a reasonably fair average in the acquisiton of wealth. He replied that they were getting along first rate. Don’t you find some of your people more enterj prising than others, have a better busi ness capacity, and acquire more wealth than others? Yes, we find that out there. Don’t you also discover that some of your people get up earlier in the morning than others, do more work than others, and so produce more? Yes, we find that there too. Then how in the world do you man| age to keep things on the dead level with regard to the acquisition of property ? Why, it is the simplest thing in the world. When we find a fellow getting ahead of the rest decidedly, we appoint a goodi sized committee which will be able tP meet the occasion, and send them out there to live with him until they eat him back.—From address of Secretary Wilsorl at Middlefield, O., Oct. 12, 1897. More Democratic Tariff Bluster. The wail of the free traders over the supposed increase in prices under the prof teetiv tariff is not fully justified by the facts. - recent investigation by the New York Tribune shows that the advance ib the price of articles imported; basing the estimate on the net change in some thou sands of articles, is less than 1 per cent. The Tribune finds in the same investigaj tion that there is a marked increase iii the prices of farm products generally!. When the increase in earnings of those employed in the manufacturing lines and the increased profits which those engaged in agriculture make, aTe considered, it is easy to see that the slight increase in prices of the class of goods affected by the tariff is far more than balanced by the gain in earnings of those employed in producing and manufacturing. Gradually Dropping It. The friends of silver are becoming fewer and fewer. Senator Stewart has told tilt people that they may as well fall in line and get their share of prosperity, as it is useless to talk silver now; ex-Gov. Altr geld has dropped silver, and is said to be organizing a paper money party, and exr Gov. Boies has denounced the 10 to 1 proposition as suicidal, in view of the great discrepancy between the coinage ratio and the commercial ratio of silver. Many other Democrats, being greenbacli ers at heart, have advocated free silver as simply a stepping stone to true fiatism1, and now that free silver is becoming so unpopular, they are gradually dropping it*. Free Silver Club Deserts Bryan. The Canton, O., Free Silver Club has decided to abandon the Democracy and cast its lot with the Populist party. This club, which was denominated the "Bryan Free Silver Club of Canton, Ohio,” was one of the strongest silver organizations in the State last year, and an active supj porter of Bryan’s presidential candidacy, its renunciation of the Democracy and transfer of allegiance to the Populist par ty is therefore the more significant. GREAT PRODUCTI i/E POWERS. Results of Protection as Pointed Out by an English Statistician. It is a singular fact that the people of the United States are nore indebted to an English writer than 'a any American for information concerning the industrial and commercial resources and progress of their country. The papers, published by Mr. Mulhail during the past ten or twelve months have been a revelation to even the most intelligent Americans of a vastness of wealth and power in the United States of which they had no pre vious conception. In th-> “North Ameri can Review” for November Mr. Mulhail presents an interesting summary of the results of American trade for thirty years, in which he says: “The world is only beginning to have evidence of the enormous productive pouter 0/ the United States.” Our farms, he says, raise food for 100, 000,000 of persons every year. He shows that in twenty years oir production of grain has increased 77 per cent and that of meat 72 per cent. Ia the same time the cotton crop In the South has increased 125 per cent, and that, it seems to us, is quite sufficient to account for the low price-of cotton as compared with other great staples. It is probable that the people of the cotton Stites would have been more prosperous had they been con tent with less increase of production. Mr. Mulhail does not find any indication that our resources are approaching a period of depletion, bnt confidently predicts that our exports of food and cotton will in crease with our growth in population. This increase in our exportation has been coincident with a wonderful development in our internal trade, which, Mr. Mulbnll says, “is the best gauge of national pro gress, because it reflects! the power, en ergy and resources of a people.” Our free trade friends will not fail to note the significant fact that all thisbad vance in both foreign and domestic trade has been accomplished ffnder protective tariffs. And if they are disposed to argue that agricultural exports; are not a proof of the benefits of protection, we have only to say that our experts of manufac tured articles are attaining a splendid growth. And they owe that growth to the policy that has built them up not less than to natural advantages. In spite of the superiority of our natural resources, it would have been impo ssible to have at tained prominence in ni mufaeturing un der free trade or “a tariff for revenue only.” Without protection we should have been principally engaged in raising food to exchange for the products of Eu ropean factories, and our population and wealth would have made comparatively small gains. Our internal trade is, as Mr. Mulhail says, “the best gauge of na tional progress,” and its marvelous growth is largely due to the policy that has kept the home market for the benefit of our own people. It is far more impor tant than foreign markets for our fac tories, but we need not make a choice be tween the two. We have one and are steadily gaining in the other.—Washing ton Post (Dem.). Exports Increase Under Protection. Statistician Mulhail announces that while the population of the United States has increased 58 per cent in the last twen ty years, the value of her exports has risen 175 per cent, or three times as fast as the population, yet practically all of this has happened under a protective tariff, which the free traders have in sisted was unfavorable to foreign and ad vantageous commercial relations abroad. Wise Words of Ju stice Field. People who are railing against the Unit ed States courts and tbe r methods would do well to read what retiring Justice Field said of that highest of nil United States tribunals, the Supreme Court, after more than thirty years’ opportunity to observe the court. In his letter announcing his retirement he said, “As I look back over more than a third of a century that I have sat on this bench, I am more and more impressed -with the immeasurable impor tance of this court. No tv and then we hear it spoken of as an aristocratic fea ture of a republican government, but it is the most democratic ol all. It carries neither the purse nor the sword, but it possesses the power of declaring the law, and in that is found the safeguard which keeps the whole mighty fabric of the Gov ernment from rushing to destruction. This negative power, the power of resistance, is the only safety of a popular govern ment.” We Can Produce Oui Own Sugar. Secretary Wilson, the head of the De partment of Agriculture, continues, ilis practical work in pointing out to the farm ers of the United States the importance of supplying from their own production the $400,000,000 worth of articles for which we send this amount of money abroad every year. One hundred million of this is for sugar and the remainder for hides, fruits, wines, annuals, rice, flax, cheese, grains of various sorts and other articles which can be produced by the farmers of this country. His annual re port, which has just hem presented to the President, states that his experiments thus far with the sugar btet convince him that the people of the Ui.ited States can readily produce all their own sugar, while nearly all of the ether articles of agricultural production can also be grown by them. Large Increase i:i Money. The October statement of the Treasury Department shows that tie money in Cir culation to-day is, in round numbers, $100,000,000 in excess o! one year ago. Curiously, more than one-half of this in crease is in gold. The following table, issued by the Treasury Department on Oct. 1, shows the money in pirculation Oct. 1, 1S97, compared with Oct. 1, 1890: Amt. In circu lation Oc 1, 1897. Gold coin. $528,098,753 Stand, sil. dols. 57,145,770 Subsidiary silver. Gold certificates Sil. certificates. Treas. notes„act July 14, ’90... U. 8. notes Cur’y eertifls., act June 8, '72 Xat. bank notes 01,176,415 36,808,559 374,620,299 Amt. In circu lation Oct. 1, 1896. $478,771,490 56,513,178 60,228,298 38,7.36,639 354,431,474 89,816,663 251,795,544^ 52,825,COO 226,46-4,135 88,064,047 249,547,300 1M,305,000 220,804,863 Totals .$1,678,840,538 ?4,5S2,302,2S0 A Satisfactory Tariff Measure. Congress trill find no reason to regret its reoent tariff -work, when it comes to gether in December. The treasury re ceipts under the new law have now reach ed such a figure that it is perfectly appar ent that the measure is going to be a suc cess as a, revenue producer. The earn ings of the present month are running at the average rate of a million dollars for each business day, and when the increase which must come after the stocks of for eign wool, sugar and manufactures now in the country have been consumed, is* realized, the revenues u ill be ample to meet the running expenses and restore some at the losses sustained under the Wilsou law. The British postal savings banks are growing in favor with the English public. The last annual report of the department gives 6,862,036 as the number of deposit ors, this being one in every six persons , of the population of the United Kingdom. Postal savings banks sho aid be establish ed in the United States with the least possible delay. The people are anxiouu for them, and that they would be a success there can be no doubt.—Exchange. Postal Savings Bank. Brief Political Comment on Hen and; Public Affai The proportion of those wjho fail to see the returning prosperity is estimated now; at something less than one-fourth of onei per cent. The Kansas State Board 4f Agriculture estimates the total value oj Kansas ag-' ri cultural products for 18971 to be $17(5,-' 000,000, the greatest since 1890. i Editor McLean of Washington, D. C.. has surrendered his house in Cincinnati, rented temporarily for the Ohio campaign to “establish” residence in Mhi^f With only 8153,000,000 olj silver coined by the United States mints jiast year the silverites cannot make out a strong case about “discrimination” agaihst silver. A free trade tariff: general depression and distress. A protective tariff: pros perity and plenty. This hap been simply the history of the country (since its first President. The “Chinese wall,” due to the Dingley law, don’t seem to be seriously interfer ing with our export trade. In fact, that trade is larger with the wail than It we* without it. Wheat has gone up again, but the ca lami tyites have some const lation left in the fact that the New England mackerel catch is 60,000 barrels short of that of a year ago. The comparison between- the railroad earnings and the bank clearances at the present time and one year ago indicates an astonishing change in the business of the country. - Indications in Washington tend to the probability of an early reopening of nego tiations for the adoption of a treaty of ar bitration between the Unitjd States and Great Britain. What has become of the three Senators of the Capitol who went baldly forth to discover why Japan fell into the hands of: the “money power” and abandoned the silver standard? Wheat, silver and Bryan! Last year they all stood- together, but they have! since parted company, though Bryan has1 been trying to keep pace with silver in its: downward course. The total value of the agricultural pro-j ducts of Kansas for 1897, according to! the report of the Board of A.griculture of* that State, is $176,000,00), the hugest* in the present decade. “The first six month® oi| the MeKinleyi administration were the mast disastrous in the history of the country.”—W. J_i Bryan. This is well in line with most or Mr. Bryan’s remarks. The export trade continues heavy, not-' withstanding the fact that a protective* tariff law is in operation. It was 22 per' cent larger in September, 1S97, than it was in September, 1896. “'Uncle Hod” Boies continues to pro test that he had nothing to do with the construction of the Chicago platform. There are others who wish that they were in a position to similarly assert. With all the Democratic vituperations* against the oppression and wickedness ofi the Dingley law, we haven’t heard any wish expressed yet to return to the benefi cent provisions of the Wilson law. It is not known what rmount Bryan received for his speeches in Ohio, but it is thought he made good terns in view of his willingness to accept payment in sil ver. McLean dislikes payi lg out gold. The receipts under the Dingley law con tinue to increase month by month, and it seems likely that the prediction that it will meet all running expenses of the.Gov erament after January will prove true. , Still the Republican strength in the South continues to grow, and the latest and most notable addition to the list is the prospective successor of A rthur P. Gor man in the Senate of the United States. The increase in the postal receipts of the country for this September over those of September of last year simply augments the evidence piling up on all hands to show a condition of increased business. Secretary Wilson wants the establish ment of agents of the Government at ail the embassies, to secure information for the benefit of American farmers, and to help in the extension of out foreign trade. With a hundred thousand tons of Ala bama coal going to Mexico for the use of her railroad locomotives in competition) with English coal, it lookjs as though a new field is open to the Soijth for her rich products.' “The revival of all indi stries and the commencement of prosperity in all parts of the United States we e the natural and necessary results of the action of the President and a Republicajn Congress.”— John Sherman. Septe The export trade of heaviest of any month in was greater than in any yefirs. It amounted to gain of over 22 per cent September of a year ago. Mr. Bryan kept up his Ohio this year despite the October stat.emeut of the of’the country showed that deposits in the national bai 000,000 in excess of those o|f mber was the the year, and September for $164,091,705, a er that of the Mr. Bryan was heard months ago that he'would McKinley administration prosperity to the country, patriotic, but has anybody pressions of satisfaction ilamity cry in fact that the ational banks the individual is were $253, one year ago. to say some be glad if the could bring That was veTy heard his ex since it has Conservative estimates 000 as the figure which v reached by the gold reserv^ ury Department before crop season. This state sents something of a cent: administration. Senator Hanna, it only one regret regarding paign, and that is that Mr. make more speeches. T1 gained an average of ne:i votes to the county in tl wlicre Mr. Bryan went. Co: mm Silver’s Low Mr. Edwin Atkinson hown from careful exa eports of the silver mining he cost of producing silvf 15 cents per ounce, ao that n the manufacture of a irobably cost about 20 c liscovers thnt threc-fourtl s f the silver minbs of the s owned abroad. No w liver mine.owners of rilling to spend -millions Jiiited States to adopt hey can turn 20 cents’ reducts into a dollar. ths sjtate $160,000, 1 probably be of the Treas e end of the of affairs pre cast to the last li iderstood, has the Ohio cam Bryan did nut e Republicans rly n hundred cir majorities 'St. has recently ation of the countries that r is less than the silver used dollar would 4nts. He also of the value United States render that the country are to force the by which worth Of their 1 iWS
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