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SECRETARY WJLSON SO RECOG ,NIZEt> BY AGRICULTURISTS. Idberal ] Extracts from an Address by the Able Head of the Agricultural Depart] uent - A Practical Talk by a Very P-actical Man. Gr eatness of Onr Country. It is time that Americans fully realized the relati' e greatness of their' own people, with a v.ew to fuller comprehension of their ability to make a market. They are the best educated, best fed, best hous ed, best c othed and farthest traveled 70, 000,000 o; people in the world. If the laws interfere vith their industries in any way, favoring their competitors abroad, inter fering with their power to purchase to ward education, nutrition, lodging, cloth ing and raveling, as we have seen for the four ’’ears past, their power to make a market is ' lowered correspondingly. Prosperity has come naturally; public policies hive been changed; the workers are employed; they buy more liberally; the farmer gets better pricesjdie puts the price of ais crops into circulation; the current v arms up all the veins of com merce; the twenty millions of farmers buy more libe -ally of all household and other commodit es; the wholesale merchant feels the quickening influence and puts more agar ts on the road; the country mer chant whose stocks have been low for years rei lenisbes his shelves, and this gives ord irs to the manufacturer, who employs more labor and skill; the busy workmen have money to buy the farmer's and other products, all of which make the good timfs we enjoy. The beginning of all this was the change of public policy that was ordered last November by the people wien they elected Gov. McKinley President the keeping of our jobs at home for our own people, and the keep ing of the money at home to pay out to our own jeople. Preside it McKinley s administration has set at out the introduction of prosper ity among all classes of people by a com plete charge of public policy. That change is bringing: good results already. The first effect is tetter prices for farm products. It is said that the scarcity of wheat abroad is the cause of better prices here. Concede hat for the sake of tho argu ment. W by are other grains higher, with beef, mutton, pork, wool and other farm products? The voters who changed pub lic porlicie? a year ago have confidence in the change of administration. They are the moving power of the republic. They do the bulk of its business. They are fa miliar witli American history for a cen tury and a quarter, as affected by pro tection to home industries and the want of it. They are not ready to take a step toward tie experience of tho last four years. Ti e questions that were settled a year ago 'rill stay settled while this gen eration iiv es, and the cost of sending our jobs abroad and starving our workers at home is fresh in our memories. Effect of Changes of Policy. The effeit of -the changes of public pol icy on agr [cultural interests is well illus trated by the changes in the prices of our farm stock and farm products. The de crease in file value of the horses has been very great; during the past ten years. Superficial observers tell us that the sub stitution o:' steam and electricity on street cars for horses has made this change. But there ire other factors that have been at work di ring this decade to destroy the value of horses. The United States changed i1s public policies in the mean time. Industries along all lines were par alyzed, because our workmen were turned out of employment. They were not able to buy fa m products, the factories be came idle, and the farm horses were not wanted about the factories, in the towns, nor anywhere in the United States, as i much as formerly. If the value of horses were redu< ed during this change of public policy, ant the prices of other materials remained the same, we would be com pelled to conclude that some other cause than gene-ai depression had lowered the price of ho rses, hut we(will find in looking over the productions of .this great State that everything else pertaining to the farm decreased in value at the same time. The farm ?rs were ■ left with large sur pluses on their hands. Unfortunately for us, our he-rses could not be puit to any great extent upon the world's market, be cause we liad been producing such horses as pleased us, and not such horses as the world demanded outside of the .United States. The world's market for horses fixed the prices for us, and we had so few that the tv orld wanted to buy, that prices dropped tc an unprofitable figure. If we had been producing heavy draft horses, coach horses and saddle horses, Europeans would hav e bought them at high prices. They hav ? agents in this country, and have had 1 hem for many years, searching fot the kiiid of horses I have named, but are not able to find them as plentifully as they dosire. We are undoubtedly able to product.' horses in the United States cheaper than any other country can pro duce them, because we have the cheapest grains and grasses, good water, and intel ligent people to rear them. It is a ques tion for tlje farmers in the future as to how they shall breed and develop their horse stock. Snjjar Beets. ; We pay $100,000,000 each year for su gar, made to a groat cxte\it from sugar beets grown in Continental Europe, since the Gubar war began. People will re meinber that when President McKinley was chair nan of the Ways and Means Committee in the House of Representa tives some years ago, he secured legisla tion in th( interest of the farmer, giving encourage: nent to the growing of sugar beets. Tie attention of American farm ers was irawn toward that industry. Arrangem aits were made to test the ca pacity of our soils in all parts of the Unit ed States. Some factories were built, and within a .-easouable time all the sugar American!-: require would have been made in the United States. Sugar, like but ter, consists of labor and sunshine. The price of lapor would have been raised all along the line, from the growing of the sugar beefs to the making of the bags or barrels fof its final reception. The farm er would have been enabled to diversify his crops and grow less of what was least profitable. Work would have been given to those who plow the soil, sow the seed, cultivate and harvest, and deliver to the factory. Laborers, skilled artisans and professionals, would have been given em ployment n the factories. Transporta tion eompinies, merchants, etc., would have been employed in handling the Amer ican product. The $100,000,000—over 000,000 to each State—would be saved the American people. The experiment people In 1892 resulted in the repealing of this legislation by Congress in the Wilson-Gonnan act of 1894, stop ping this industry. The Dingley bill, en acted by the extra session of the present Congress, has again revived the hopes of the American people. There is a pros pect now that this $100,000,000 will, with in a few years, be kept at home to be dis tributed among the working people throughout the country. One question the American farmer must always have in mind, and that is, the steady employ ment of our laboring people. We are workers ourselves. Those - who employ labor in other lines would feel the effect of these new industries. Labor would be more in demand and get better prices because of the distribution of this $100, 000,000 among our people. It will be an opportunity, valuable to the farm not only in the diversification of crops, but-with re gard to its benefit to the dairy. The by products of beet factories will be as val uable for feeding to the dairy cow as the sugar beet would be before taken to the factory, because the bulk of our staple crops has more carbonaceous matter than the dairy cow requires. Tho factories only use the carbonaceous part of the beet, leaving the nitrogenous matter entirely in the pulp. A great impetus will be giv en to dairying in the United States. The sugar industry will enable the farmer to find this necessary element of cow feed, and the farmer, when he takes a load of beets to the factory, will bring back a load of pulp and save it up against the time when he needs to feed it. Note the effect of the two policies as they bear upon the farmer and his prosperity. The theory of the one is that we should buy in the cheapest market. We tried that during the last administration. The theory of the other is that we should produce in the United States everything that our soil and climate are capable of producing. We remember distinctly the effect of this pol icy under all Republican administration. We are getting an earnest of the effect of it now under the present administra tion. Protection Establishes New Industries That protection establishes new indus tries we have had a lively illustration within the past few years. In 1891 we had no tin manufactures in this coun try ; we imported 1,030,4S9,074 pounds. President McKinley placed 2.2 cents a pound on tin coated iron and steel. That act has created nearly 200 tin plate mills. In 1891 we imported $25,900,305 worth. For the fiscal year ended June 30, 189o, we only imported $11.4S2,380 worth. >V’e import now for special uses only; very soon we will not import any. The ideal condition to be reached is such diversification of industry that the fartn er will find a home market for most of his products. The establishment of every new industry brings us nearer to that ideal. It is estimated that 40,000 people are directly and indirectly employed la the tin plate industry. They are n<fw customers here for the American farm ers that we formerly fed at arm’s length in other countries. Dingley Law Fulfills Promises. The Dingley law is doing all that its framers promised for it up to this time. The November receipts will averngenear ly one million dollars per day for each business day of the month. All of this is accomplished without any material revie nue from the duty on sugar, as the im porters are now using up their large stock of that article which was imported before the new law went into effect. It is esti mated that the revenue from the duty on sugar when the present stock is exhaust ed will average $5,000,000 a month, which of itself will be sufficient to bring the Tevenue up to a sum equal to the ordinary expenditures. With the increase which will come from other articles, such as wool, woolen goods and other manufac tures wilth which the country had been filled, it is now perfectly apparent that the revenue produced under this law will be ample to not only cover all* the ex penses of the Government, but replace the losses under the Wilson law. We Welcome Maryland. Maryland, by her recent Republican vic tory, now assumes a permanent position in the Republican column. In three suc cessive years—’95, ’96, ’97—the Republi cans have, in hard-fought campaigns on both sides, carried the State by good majorities, so that many leading politi cians of both parties now look upon Mary land as a safe Republican State. This is another evidence of the steady growth of sentiment in favor of Republican princi ples in the South, as well as the North, the Republican representation from the South in the House having grown from year to year until it is now larger than in any previous year in the history of the country. Blind, bnt Still Shouting. The fact that the gold mines of tlije world are now producing more than enough gold to furnish the currency nec essary to keep price with the growth of population does not disturb the silver mine owners, who are clamoring for the use of tlieir metal for currency. It has recently been shown that the cost of pro ducing the amount of silver required for ri silver dollar is on an average about twen ty cents, but notwithstanding this they go calmly on ihsisting that their metal shall be used for making dollars at a cost of twenty cents apiece, despite the fact that sufficient gold is now being mill ed to meet the .requirements of commerce and business. He Speaks Ilis Si inti. “Uncle Hod” Boies cannot be kept still. All of the threats and persuasions of his Democratic associates will not induce him to any longer support the free coin age proposition of the Democratic plat form of last year. He is out in a new and vigorous communication, in which hie says that while he wants to see silvejr used as currency, he is satisfied that the proposition for its free and unlimited coin age at a ratio so different from the cont mercial ratio would be not only injudi cious, but fatal. Why Are They Silent? It was! thought that the mails and wires would he kept hot and humming with re ports as to why Japan ought not to have adopted the gold standard, as a result of the trip -of a certain trio of American sil ver statesmen who took a vacation in Japan at the expense of the silver trust, but the American people have again been doomed to disappointment and not a word has been heard from these patriots. England Buys American Goods. The growing demand in England and other foreign'eountries for American mari nfaetures is commented on by the Lon don Economist, which says, in a recent issue, that England is becoming a largp purchaser of American manufactures, es pecially in iron and steel lines, and that ) English manufactu their cost of prodt hold their ground competitor. And under the Dingle must cheapen If they are to linst the.American ll this is happening of which the free traders said, three months ago, that its effect would be to closfe foreign markets to American commence, and especially manufactures. “ What’s the Matter with Gold?'* We have coined about $700,000,000 of silver. We have now over $600,000,000 of gold. Silver will sell for the cost of production at the mines, and it is being mined now profitably in many mines. Free coinage at 10 to 1 wopld deprive us of our gold currency and bring the country to a silver basis, while all the nations we need deal with pay us god. The hard times just vanishing were not reused by any legislation regarding curr&iey, as other people have claimed. The farmers bring the money from abroid into this country; wo get pay for grains, meats, dairy pro ducts, etc., in gold. Some people advise us to insist on getting our pay in silver. What’s the matter mth gold? It goes; it is all our foreign customers have to pay us with. Nobody refuses it here. We deal in gold values now, do business with “it.” Why interrupt coming prosperity with divided counsels over a change to silver values that would relegate gold to the safety deposit vaults? Gold is an American product,, increasing every day from Alaska to Tennessee. Gold, and pa per representing it, are good the world over. We have perl.aps $700,000,000 of silver in circulation. It pays debts be cause redeemable to gold. Its certifi cates are good and to national use. Our greenbacks are good because redeemable in gold. We have plenty of currency, all good, all interchangeable. Why should we inquire farther into currency? It i# merely the measuring stick of exchange. Exports Outstr p Population. Mr. Michael Mulball, in a paper in the North American Review, asserts that in the last twenty years the population of the United States hap risen from 45,000, 000 to 71,000,000 souls—an increase of 58 per cent—and at the same time the value of exports has risen 175 per cent—that is, three times as fast as, the population. The same eminent authority declares that “the quantities of food yearly exported are sufficient to feed 30,000,000 persons in Europe, from which it appears that American farms rais? food for 100,000, 000 of people yearly.” With a productive capacity so vastly to excess of the de mands of the home market it is evident that foreign markets must be opened for our surplus if the country is to enjoy per manent prosperity. If the administration can do this through the gates of recip rocity, all right; if nt>t, the country will find another way of breaking down the barriers which choke the channels of dis tribution.—Exchange. .Exportations Increase Under Ding ley Lair. Not even the satisfaction is loft to the free trade Democrats of saying that the Wilson law was better for the exporters of American manufactures than the Ding ley law. They thought they had things dead to rights on this score, and that as soon as the new law went into operation they would be able to ]>oint to the decrease in the exportations American manu factures, but in the very first month of the new law’s operations the exportations of manufactured articles were larger than in the corresponding month of any for mer year. This is disappointing to these gentry, and somewhr.t amusing, in con nection with their wails of regret that such a wicked measure should be enacted as the Dingley law, which would cut off oar foreign markets. English Compliments. It is not often that the London Times pays a compliment tel the productive in dustry of the United'States, but here is an item from its columns that American labor can enjoy: “American machine tools by hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth are sent, freight paid, for thousands of miles across the ocean to England Germany, France, Russia, Japan and China, and it is diffi cult to resist the contention that this simply means the success of free and in telligent labor well paid.” “Free and intelligent labor well paid” has given to this country its achievements in the commercial world. Every experi ment of free trade in, opposition thereto has proven an unhappy failure.—Ex change. jj | Teller’s “ Deadly Competion.” Senator Teller will soon be able to lay away on the upper she if of his library that much-worn sentence about the “deadly competition" which the silver-using coun tries are making against the United States in international commerce. Rus sia, Japan and several of the South Amer ican silver-using countries have all gone to the gold standard since Mr. Teller, started his deadly 'competition argument into the field, and now word comes that China is about to follo w in the same line, thus leaving Mexico and a few South American countries our only “deadly com petitors.” No Retaliation. Not so much is being heard now from Democrats as a short time ago about the retaliation of foreign countries against the provisions of our new tariff measure. A great deal was sail about the injury to our export trade which would result from the action whica “foreigners would feel obliged to take t> offset the results of the new tariff; but official figures now show that our exports of grain and man ufactured articles continue right along in spite of the new tariff, and, in fact, that they are increasing rather than de creasing under it. Increased Wheat Exports. Everything seems tD be going against free silver theorists. Despite the refusal of the United States to adopt the free coinage of silver, the farmers of the coun try received more than twice as much for the September sales of wheat as in Sep tember of last year. The September ex ports of wheat, according to Dun’s Re view, were 25,868,833 bushels, against 17,640,815 bushels in September, 1S9G, but owing to higher prices this year the: money received for these exportations was more than double in 1897 than in 1896. ____ His Logic Doesn’t Convince. Mr. Bryan “expla ns” very satisfac torily, to himself, why silver has fallen a fifth of its value since he was roaming the country last year, while at the same time wheat has advanced 50 per cent in value, but now and then he runs up against a farmer who can’t see through his logic. It is remarkable how some farmers can’t be convinced. "T....... ... A Great 1 ad as try. SecVetary Wilson ii constantly on the lookout for ways and means to benefit the farmers of the United States. The report of his department is of nnusual impor tance this year, because it treats of the efforts to stimulate the production of sugar beets. Secretary Wilson is an en thusiast on this subject. He predicts that in ten years the Unit’d States will be an exporter of sugar, in stead of the largest importer in the world. The capacity of the United States for the production of beet sugar is praticnlly unlimited; and with the object of ascer taining the most favorable localities for its growth, Secretary Wilson distributed seven tons of import'd sugar beet seeds among 22,000 farmers in twenty-seven States, with the understanding that they should furnteh samp es of their crop to the department for the purpose of analy sis and a statement explaining the condi tions under which each sample was pro duced, and the methoi of culture. The Secretary ex oreeees himself as deeply gratified by the returns. Th* most favorable result* hav« been obtained from those sections of the ‘ jnited States where new industries were demanded for the farmer and /whcre the manufacture of beets into sugar can be accomplished with the greatest econoro f as to labor and transportation. The experiments in west ern Nebraska, Utah and California which have been going on for some years have demonstrated the practicability of beet culture in those Sections, but the samples of this year’s crop which have-been for warded to the department at Washington and the experiment stations elsewhere show that the soil and climate of Ohio and other Central St itea are even better adapted for this sort of crop than those of the far West. It is on the result of these tests that Secretary Wilson bases his prediction that in ten years this coun try will have sugar to sell.—Akron (O.) Beacon. British Exports c n the Decrease. The returns issued by the London Board of Trade show that during the month of October there was a decrease of $7,000,000 in the ”alue of British ex ports, and also a decrease of $3,000,000 in the value of imports The decline was chiefly in yarns and textiles. The decrease in the exports of machinery was nearly $2,500,000, owing to Ihe strike of the en gineers. The shipments of tin plates to the United States continue to decrease, and the wheat Bluproepte from America to increase. Th* hr ill decrease in the value of exports far :gn months of 1897 is $30,000,900, ffs cam pared with the cor responding period-last year. The successful competition of the Unit ed States, Germany, Belgium and other countries blessed by protection has had far more to do with the decrease in British exports of machinery than has the strike of the engineers. Tc the same cause is due the decrease of $30,000,000 in the general line of British exports in the first ten months of 1897. Of all the nations of Europe Great Britnin is the only one left that clings to free trade, and she is losing her prestige in manufactures at a ruin ous rate.—American Economist. Good Times lar Farmers. Comptroller Eckels of the Treasury T5b partment says that the conditions through out the country are most satisfactory. The improvement has; come rapidly and permeates all lines of industry. It began with the agricultural dasses. The farm ers hare good crops a id are getting high prices for them. The cattle raisers are benefited by a substan tial rise in the price of cattle. The same is true with the sheep raisers. This improvement in agricultural earnings has had its effect on the rail roads by increasing their earnings. It has put money into circulation and has enabled people to discharge their debts and thereby benefited the merchants. No Satisfaction for Free Traders. Free traders who expected support for their peculiar views from the English statistician, Mulball, will be disappointed to know that he has txken pains to point out the fact that the exportations of the United States have increased three times as fast as has her population during thfe protective tariff period. Mr. Mulhall shows in a recently published article that while the Increase in population in the past twenty years has been 58 per cent, the increase in the vnlue of exportations has been 175 per cent, and practically ail that under a high protective tariff. Populists Tired of Democracy. Further fusion between Populism and Democracy grows more unpopular in the South as the months pass. Congressman Howard of Alabama, a prominent mem ber of the Populist pirty, said in a re cent interview in Cincinnati: “It will be iompssible to get the support of our party for Mr. Bryan again. Populists will not be drawn into the support of Democratic candidates. We have been betrayed by the Democrats, and it will be impossible for them to use our party again iu a ua. tional election.” Joint Tour of Stars. Who is responsible for the statement that champion Fitzsimmons and ex-can didate Bryan are to make a starring tour, Fitzsimmons to do the sparring and Bry an the starring? T1 is would make a strong team in view of Fitzsimmons’ well-known popnlaritj and Bryan’s ex ceptional success of lute in making speeches at county fairs for a share of the gate receipts. Largest in .Elistory. The report of the Interstate Commerce Commission adds to he weight of evi dence already at hand of an improved business condition of the country. It shows that the freight tonnage of the last year is the largest of any year in the his tory of the country, being 70,000,000 tons greater than that of last year. Knows a Be ail Dog. Your Uncle “Hod” Boies has made an other statement to the effect that “the Chicago platform is at variance with the whole theory of our form of government.” Now, Uncle Hod was supporting the plat form last year, but he knows a dead dog when he sees it, and he would like to rally the party to some other issue. Mexican Bryanits Prosperity.’^ When a Mexican takes $5 in Mexican silver, for every dollar of which he has to work as hard as his American brother works for his gold dollar, and buys with it goods worth $2 in American gold, that is Mexican Bryanite prosperity. The workingmen of this country don’t want any of it in theirs. Asia Becoming )ur Market. The Bulletin of the Bureau of American Republics contains some interesting fig ures showing the extei t to which a mar 36,< ket for American whedt developed in Asia, inclusive, average an flour In Japan were 1882 to 1896, inelusiv^, alone Japunn bought our flour. For the sa age annual sales in and 20,723. The be^i however, seems to be sion of Hong Kong, 825,872 barrels of flour. From products is being 1887 to 1891, 1 sales of wheat 059 barrels; from 71,148. In 1890 103,582 barrels of periods the aver (fchina were 15,008 Asiatic market, the British posses ich last year took .—Exchange. IP gle tf A Single Evidences of impro tiocs are found in almojs' United States. A sin is given by Congressmt who says of the village State, that the output at that place in Augu^ 200, against $3,200 in in September, 1897, $^' 600 in September of 1897, $26,400, against of last year. The Pit catetl in the same dist or sale of iron in the than of the entire yeai ustance. business condi it every spot in the instance of this n Weaver of Ohio, of Troy, in that the wagon works _ it, 1897, was **0, 1 .ugust of last year; .7,700, against $5, ,t year; in October, $7,300 in October ua rolling mill, lo ■ict, reports a larg it seventeen weeks of 1896. Faith in the The great business the country has seen si largely to the feeling and business men that furnish both proteetior cient to run the Gover pie restoration of con forth millions of dollars ment'to thousands of wages. It has causes. to pour forth black sm to revolve merrily. T operation, and its reve ly increasing month by week. Yet it is Democrats will say has nothing to do with I lew Tariff. i nprovement which ice last July is due among merchants the new tariff will and revenue sufli nment. This sim fjdence has brought and given employ hands at improved unused chimneys oke and idle wheels tie new tariff is in nues are constant month and week be expected the t the Dingley law the improvement. b / th a ew Craze. is substituting for Adopting a N That the Democracy the; free silver issue the single tax idea and others such is shown by the action of National Committeeman Shanklin of In diana, who, in the sa Mr. Bryan as the next President of the United States and then stated that he would support Henry in New York. As is w was the original single tax prophet aftd, in addition to this, attracted to his sup port in New York all the socialists, dis contentists and other lists. This brings Bryah, free silver, single tax, socialism, red flags and various ojther cardinal prin ciples into pretty close! touch. Gleorge if he were ell known, George He Disagree!! “Those who, at the own enemies, disregarded and attempted to revopi of their old party will sponsible for all the resi tofore followed or shall their departure from ]] pies and traditions, and fused to desert the old :i esee with the advocates ism, protectionism or government paternalism to stand where we are liverance which is su Secretary Carlisle. With Bryan. dictation of their tl their old friends utionize the creed justly be held re that have here hereafter follow democratic princi we who have re itandard and coal of fiatism, social other form of can well afford and wait for de ; to come.”—Ex th Customs Receipt? The receipts from now show an increase of the Wilson law at a last year. The treasu by the first of the year will be sufficient to mee' of the Government, experience to such clerli the Treasury Departme beginning of Cleveland tion. A New O The new Commissionje Mr. John Kasson, is et; the position to which he ed. He is an eminent serving as minister to as minister to Germany, ble service to this cou mercial standpoint. M engaged in getting his into running order. Fizzle. A Bryanltic Th^ Bryan experiment in Ohio during the closing days of tbs campaign there was a fizzle. In the covnties in which he held .forth to the delighted farmers the Republican majorities averaged about a hundred greater than lait year. If Bryan had spoken “from every stump,” as orig inally announced, what j would have been the result? Increasing, new tariff law ’over the receipts corresponding date ■y officials expect that the receipts current expenses is will be a novel ;s as have been in art only since the s last adminjstra r on Reciprocity, pecially fitted for has been appoint diplomat and when Austria, and, also, rendered valua titry from a eom r. Kasson is now new department Increased Circulating Medium. Something over a yeajr ago Mr. Bryan was stating that the only way to increase the circulating medium of the country was by the adoption of tpe free coinage of silver, and yet the treasury figures show that to-day there are millions and millions more money in circulation than when this statement was made. Deficit Days Nearly Over. It will be a novel segsi.tion for treasury clerks to be confronted sach month by a treasury surplus rather than a deficit. The receipts under the new tariff law hew show an increase ever the receipts of the Wilson law at a corresponding date last year, and the dqys of deficits are nearly ended. Silver Cannot C< The Treasury Departin ble for the statement tl i. in the world $4,235,900 money, and that of that cent is full legal tender, though silver had not b< against to any great exte omplain. ent is responsi iat there is now ,000 in silver amount 85 per This looks as en discriminated nt. Do Not Follow a B: It may be well enougi crats to assume that tl cans are going to qua selves over the senators! ii be mistaken. Kepublieajn to treachery, although t Democratic example for «d Example. for the Demc ie Ohio Republi 1 among them p, but they will are not given have had the many years. Amount Dost by A statement compiled records of the Governme free'trade Democrat s Cleveland's last term thfe> country lost more than a year by decreased con creased values of product They Wish They It is understood that the gentlemen who had framing of the Chicago now regret that they are to join Uncle Horace congratulation that he tieipant In that incident. The McLean mud m operation. Issues have entirely. Farmers, from the. official nt prepared by a Low that during farmers of the a billion dollars siumption and de Hadn't. a good many of to do with the ilatform of 1S9G not in a position Boies in his self was not a par gchine is in full been abandoned ANGLO-CANADIAN TRADE. _ England’s Gilt-Edge Arrangement f—» with Canada. A l{ng article iQ tjie London Time# shows clearly the English anticipations of future trade with Canada, also what share of English trade the Englishman proposes shall be captured by the Cana dian. Whether this English arrangement will suit Canada remains to be seen. It is, in fact, that Canada shall be an ex clusive market for British manufae ersj while Canada may supply Great aim with more foodstuffs. There h tainly a veTy liberal opportunity far Can ada to do this because she now,'sells to England only one-fourteenth of the food that the mother country buys, or $40,000, 000 worth out of a total of $577,000,000. But the first trouble likely to arise, as it sectns to us, is that the buying and selling transactions are not arranged through the same agency. It is the British manufac turjer who sells the British manufactured goods 'to the Canadian who deals in them. But the transactions in the Canadian food products pass through an entirely differ ent set of hands. The Canadian exp - t ers of wheat, cheese, butter, meat or po tatoes will be anxious enough to sell as much of these products as Canadian farms can produce at the best possible price. They will think that the English buyer of produce should give Canadian‘produce the preference in the English market be cause Canada discriminates in favor of British manufacturers. But while the British manufacturer can sell his goods to advantage by aid of this discrimination, all his interest ends there, as he is not the man who buys farm products. When the English dealer in farm pro ducts makes hisipurchases he must bear in mind that he has to sell them again in competition with a thousand other deal ers in food supplies. Sentimentally they may favor the Canadian farm stuffs, but sentiment is not business, and they have to buy the best they can get at the lowest priee. United States, Australian or South American supplies may be just as good as the Canadian and a shade cheaper. Why, then, pay Canada a higher price just for sentiment? Or our farm stuffs and those to the south of us may be a shade better in quality than those of Canada, and prices may be equal. Why then pay Can ada the same money for an inferior arti cle? It. isn’t business, says the British denier in farm produce, and, as he is not selling any manufactures to Canada, he makes the deal that will bring him the best results, and he buys the Australian, United States or Argentina foodstuffs. How can the Canadian prevent this? We lire afraid the Canadians are lia ble to be disappointed with their end of the stick. The gilded handle will be held by John Bull. The establishment of a co-rqplebe system of cold storage for Cana dian farm products should undoubtedly tend to help their sale. But the class of goods that need cold storage will not in terfere with the sale of our farm supplies, for we only send to England, and that oc casionally. a little fruit in cold storage. The new rapid steamers to run between England and Canada, equipped with re frigerating machinery, will supply the final link in carrying perishable products. But this, if successful, will be at the ex pense of Australian shipments of similar products. The cost of freight naturally being ld;wer from Canada than from the Antipodes, our northern neighbor should stand a good chance of securing a fair share of the trade in frozen meat, butter andi other perishable things, that is now held by Australia. Beyond this we doubt whether Canada has much prospective gain from her tariff deal with the mother country. Political Bird-Shot. It w’.'jB an “off year” in Ohio for the other fellows. Mjt. Bryan and ex-Gov. Boies are still on s&e&king terms. Mr. Bryan is probably thinking now of the blasted furnaces. The free silver sun has set and the free silver wave has receded. The Hon. Arthur P. Gorman is con templating retiring to private life. The rails in the Western country are bright and shining with the heavy freight traffic. There have been two “off years” in Ohio. This year and last year—for the Democrats. Some of his speeches would indicate, that. Mr. Bryan wore smoked glasses } white in Ohio. Chairman Jones still sticks by ex-candi date Bryan, and says that silver is all right asi an issue. The Mexicans will forgive Mr. Bryan for going to Ohio first if he will make his next call on them. How about that Dingley law Chinese wall? It doesn’t interfere, apparently, with; our export trade. The freight traffic of the West keeps the rails blight. Railroad rails; not I’opo cratic mils against prosperity. The Mexicans missed the greatest op portunity of their lives when William Jennings didn’t visit them. The waves of Republican prosperity continue to wash away the planks from the silveTcratic Chicago platform. Mr. Bryan made numerous speeches during his recent tour through Ohio, but reading one was reading them all. Facts, figures and prosperity are run ning along hand in hand and they are all giving the free trade silver croakers trou ble. Mr. Bryan’s Ohio speeches showed that he is; still joined to his idols, despite the fact that everybody else is abandoning One hundred thousand tons of AJabama coal have recently gone to Mexico for the use M her locomotives. Good for the South. It is to be expected that Democrats will deny that the Dingley law has anything to do with the return of prosperity to the country. * The Ohio counties in which Mr. spoke in the late campaign increased their Republican majorities 097 votes over those of .Inst year. Last year, in our commercial relations with Great Britain, the balance of trade in out1 favor was greater than viousi year in history. Under President Cleveland the per ita |eireulation in- the country fell 121.10. but it has. increased under Pr dent McKinley to $22.S9. The Democratic New York Jon says tlr.it “gold is on its way to York ard the tide of domestic,m turing interests rises higher each railroads are blocked up with business all along 4:
The Star of Zion (Charlotte, N.C.)
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Dec. 16, 1897, edition 1
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