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-;- . Ik, PROTECTION! INDUSTRY!" ENTERPRISE I PKOSPKKITyI - - mM li- HICKORY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JUNE i7t 1897. KUHBEH2T "IV 1 4-11 rV1'PV T Tlrnr---- .. '1 " . WASHINGTON LETTER. From our Regular Correspondence.) Washington, June 14th, 1897. Tlie territory of Hawaii. How does that sound? It is going to be the next addition to Uncle Sam's family. It is now known, although no official state ment has been made, that a treaty for the annexation of Hawaii will be sent to the Senate in the near future, prob ably before the close of the present session of Congress. There is very little, if any, doubt of the ratification f that treaty, as the sentiment of the Senate, regardless of party is over whelmingly in favor of the annexation of Hawaii; but owing to the difficulty of keeping a quorum of the Senate, in Washington after the tariff bill has been passed, the treaty will hardly be acted upon until the regular session of Congress, even if sent in at this ses sion. 1 'resident McKinley will return from his trip to the Nashville exposition tomorrow, and, the White House, wind) lifts Len quite deserted by all but the sight-seer. hile -h-e -h-? beeil away will again Like oh an air of bus- The attempts of some of the deino cratic Senators to explain that they art- not protectionists, although they have voted for protection for the products of their states, have been more or less ludicrous. Senator Me Enery, of La., Is the only one of them who has come out squarely for pro tection, although a number of them have voted for it in particular sched ules. He said in reply to the taunts of Senaspr Jones, of Ark., and Vest.; "Considering the vast interests Louis iana has in rice and sugar; considering the output of her saw mills, her salt and sulphur mines, is there any rea son why the democratic party of my state should not be committed to pro tection? Not high protection, but such protection as is consistent with revenue necessities. This, also, I be lieve, is the doctrine of the republican party. Call it what you will, protec tion, revenue duty with incidental protection, or anything else, large amounts must be raised, and there is 110 reason why the industries of the South should not be protected.1' The democrats took advantage of the agreement of the republican Sena tors to shorten the tariff debate as much as possible by not making speeches or taking part in' controver sies, to make a number of statements concerning the sugar schedule which has been adopted by the Senate, that they must have known were untrue. The only one of their statements that any attention whs paid to was. that asserting that the new sugar schedule would give the American sugar refin ers more protection than the schedule tor which it was substituted, and that was only replied to indirectly y Sen ator Allison, who stated that the new schedule would give the American Migar refiners less protection than the one abandoned, and that it would be shown by indisputable evidence as m)Ou as a statement nfwjbeing prepared bv unprejudiced experts could be completed. Senator Allison's word was enough for the Senate which adopted the new schedule. The object of the democratic Sena tors m talking to delay progress on the tariff bill is obvious. It is esti mated that every day the bill is delayed means a loss to the govern- J ment of at least $100,000 in duties, and j the more that is lost in that way, the j better prepared will be democratic fctutup speakers to charge the new tariff with not producing enough revenue daring its first nine months or a year. Of course intelligent people will know that advance importations under present duties will prevent the new tariff showing what it can do as a revenue producer for sometime after it goes into effect, but intelligent people are seldom or never influenced by the untrustworthy statements which form such a conspicuous feature of demo cratic stump oratory; it is the unintel ligent and poorly informed class which is led astray by such talk. , It has been denied that Bryanism stood fcr repudiation, but it cannot be denied that a bill introduced by Rep resentative Bell, of Colo.,, a populist disciple of Bryan, provides for partial repudiation, pure and. simple. His bill provides for scaling the debt of the U. S., which is represented by Ihe 162,315,400 worth of bonds issued by the Cleveland administration in Feb ruary 1S93, by directing the Secretary of the Treasury "to pay not less than one-half of the interest and principal of said bonds in standard silver dol lars." The odd part of Mr. Bell's re pudiation scheme is that he only spec ifies that it shall include one of the Cleveland bond issues. The bill will not be heard from again, but it shows the spirit of Bryanism and is therefore worth mentioning, as a warning of what might be expected should Bryan ism ever get on top. A PROTECTION DEMOCRAT. M'Enery of Louisiana Defends Hi Vote on tba Tarlfl. Washington, June 12. The debate in the Senate to-day did not come up in point of interest to that of preccd ing days. Democratic Senators had it all to themselves; but the protective principle was ohampioned by one of them as strongly as it could have been by Mr. Aldrich himself. It was Mr. McEnery of Louisiana who had the courage to oppose all his party associ ates and to jiVtify the votes which, he has been Riving on tlie side of protec tion. It was his first speech in the Senate, and the fact lent additional interest to it. It was curious to see a dozen Republican Senators seated in the area in front of where Mr. McEnery stood and listening to him with strained attention as he attacked de flantly his Democratic associates and declared that he would vote for any measure that would bring prosperity to hia State, regardless of party princi ples. The speech followed by a vote on the amendment offered by Mr. Jones of Arkansas to strike certain words out of the sugar schedule, the effect of which amendment would be diminish slightly the profits of the sugar refiners, and the amendment was defeated by a majority of three only. Another amendment was then offered, the effect of which would be to have a uniform duty on all sugars whether raw or refined, ment was offered by This amend- Mr. Lindsav (Dem., Ky.) and was advocated by him and Mr. Caffery (Dem., La.). So vote was reached wl en the time came for adjournment, but notice was given by Mr. Morgan (Dem., "Ala.) of an amendment imposing a tax of 2 per cent, on profits made in buying and selling stocks and bonds. The debate was opened by Mr. Vest (Dem., Mo.), who challeuged Mr. Alli son, in charge of the bill, to state clearly and unequivocally the effect of the amendment adopted yesterday to the sugar schedule. He (Mr. Vest) asserted that it largely increased the protection givrn to the Sugar Trust. Testimony had been read yesterday from the principal officers of the trust that the trust was now making 21 per cent, net on its watered capital. He charged that the legislation gave to that monopoly such au enormous in crease.and the Senator from Iowa (Mr. Allison) had replied that the amend ment did give an increased protection if the discriminating duty on bounty paid sugar was included in the esti mate, but that otherwise there was no increase. Not once had the Senator from Iowa undertaken to tell the Seuate the effect of the amendment it the export bounty elau.se were kept in the bill. By what sort of legerdemain Air. est asked, had the senator ex eluded that export clause? Experts might be wrong. Senators might be in the dark and might ring fog bells as much as they pleased, but the specu lators in Wall street knew what this legislation meant. Sugar stock had been selling at 1 IS when the caucus amendment was reported and a day afterward it was selling at 124. Did anyone believe that those Wall street speculators did not know what the protection to the trust was? He had heard but one excuse for that enor mous and outrageous legislation, and that was the statement made yester day by the Senators from Iowa that the object was solely for the puroe of prospering the great agricultural industry of beet sugar. That industry was prospering now. He repeated what he had said the other day, that there was one class of men who under stood the effect of this legislation. Mr. McEnery, (Dem., La ), the one Democrat who has been Toting regu- larlv with the Republicans on the sugar schedule, made his first speech in the Senate in defer.ee of his action. ITa caul tht a. worse trust than t he A Sugar Trust was the Great American Cotton Company, that controlled the new process of lulling cotton to the injury of the cotton planters, while the interests of the sugar producer of the United States went hand in hand with the iuterests of the Sugar Trust. He went on to discuss in detail the particulars of the sugar industry, bin desk being covered with specimens of various grades, by which he illustrated his argument, his purpose being to show that if those who opposed the sugar schedule should succeed, the effect would be to stifle the sugar cane industry of Louisiana, and sugar beet interests all over the country. He gave the aggregate importation of sugar for the last six years at $1,670, 000,000, and argued that that enor mous amount could have been kept at home, as sugar is produced in thirty three States of the Union. The manu facturer of beet sugar to an amount equal to the raw sugar now imported by the sugar refiners would require the erection in this country of 530 factors, at the cost of $150,000,000, and there could be no doubt that with proper protection those factories would be established. With the vast iuterests which the State of Louisiana had in the cultivation of rice and sugar, in her saw mills and her salt mines, was there, he asked, and reason for doubt ing that the Democratic party of that State was committed to protection? He had gone before the nominating caucus in Louisiana and had expressed those views,and not only had there no dissenting voice heard, but his state ment had been (according to news paper reports) received ''with an out burst of applause." Mr. McEnery charged Democrats with inconsistency in favoring protec tion for local interests while opiosing (t for general interests. If it was a good thing to protect the fruit and borax interests of Colorado, and to protect the lumber iuterests of Georgia and South Carolina, why was it not qually good, he asked to protect tlie. manufacturing interests of Sew York and New England, and the farming interests of the West? He declared for himself that he would, regardless of party principles, vote for any measure that would bring prosperity to Louisiana as well as to the whole country. Diverging from the tariff to the financial question, Mr. McEnery started, as his belief, that there would be no restoration of confidence and prosperity until the mints were oiened to the free and unlimited coinage of silver. Mr. McEnery spoke for nearly two hours, and then the vote was taken on the amendment offered by Mr. Jones of Arkansas to trike out of the paragraph the words "and on all sugars," leaviug it to reid "on sugar above No. 1G Dutch standard in color, which has gone through a process of refining, 1. '.'" cents per pound." The amendment was rejected yeas, 2i; nays, 32. Two Populists Senators (Allen and Heitfeld) and two silver Republicans (Mantle and Pettitrrewi voted a ve and one Democrat (ilcEnery voted no. Death ol An Eccentric Millionaire. Joseph Riehardsou. au eccentric millionaire, died here Tuesday. He made his fortune iu railroad building, and was closely associated with the Vauderbilts and Goulds. He con structed large sections of the Inion Pacific, Missouri Pacific, Iron Moun tain and Mexican Central Railroads. He came as ioor boy from England. Mr. Richardson's fortune has been es timated at $20,000,000. In many ways the dead millionaire was so eccentric as to excite public comment, although his chief aversiou was seeing his name in print. He dressed more like a tramp than a wealthy man, ami lived and died in a house which was only five feet wide. This place has been called the "Spite"' house. It was built because the sur rounding proerty owners refund to mee Mr. Richardson terms for the nirrow lot. He afterwards refused fabulous sums tor the little peace of ground ou which his house stood, amid the tall houses on the best part of Lexington avenue. He wlh be buried iu a coffin he se lected 32 years ago and which U now stored i. his baru at Bridgeport, Conn. It i- ccinposed of one inch planks cut irom a big tree specially selected bv Mr. Richardson. His greatest boast was: "I am a working man. I want no fuss iu either life or I death. When 1 die if my coffin is too I lame fill in the empty space with sawdutt." TUKKS SWARM INTUFSSALY as. O OTTOMAN 1 ROOPS IN f M AT TER RITORY. Sae.Soa Mare la .V.Krd'wl RcaJy to .1. Over the Boeder Tba Sullci Weal. LIka ttknWhtiewri Will UiNSertek tn Job t Tarnlne; Hit Army Out. London. June 12. The Sun reKrter at Salon ica writes: "Euroie had better make up its mind to a prolonged Tuiki.h occup tion of.Thei.. The Saloniea rail road is as busy now a on the eve of the war. Trains conveying truo and stores have been running cease lessly for three months. "Europe scarcely see tun to under stand the position of affairs even now. It is this: There are 250,000 Ottoman troops in Thessaly at the present mo ment, and 300,000 more in Macedonia ready to join them; and the Sultan wants to know which power or what combination of powers is going to un dertake the job of turning him and his soldiers out. Turkish civil and military officers of the highest rank are continually passing to and from Constantinople, and all snap their fingers at the powem and my rude thing of the Ambassadors. These officers Stnow what is going on in tlie palace. There is not one of them who does not laugh to scorn the idea of any combination of the overs against Turkey." Here in I.nndon, at the Turkish Embassy, one hears precisely the same language as the foregoing, with the addition of the utmost confidence ex pressed in the willingness and ability of Russia' to help Turkey if the other powers "drive the Sultau into extreme courses." Although 250,((0 Turkish troop are in Thessaly, and the Greek army has practically ceased to exist as a war factor, there is one place in the con quered province which still flies the C'ttistiau tlag and bids defiance to the Cresceut. This is the monastery of Meteora in the northwest corner of Thessaly. inrched ujon an almost in accessible rock, defended by stout monks, and well provisioned with a flock of goats and sheep ou the moun tain pasture behind it. The place has, so far, resisted reieated assaults, and the blue ami white banner still waves proudly in the breeze, and ev ery morning and evening the monas tery bell calls the good Christians tf matins or evensong. Manv of the Christians long since fled, and the solemn sound of the lell serves but to exasperate the Mohammedan soldier enoamied in the valley. The monks have been reeatedly called from pray ers to fight, attacking the Turks with guns and rocks; and they are calmly confident of their ability to keep the lireek llag over their roof until, in the providence of i Oil. the l urks with draw from Thessaly. in aii Oh t LB A. An Important Lipeditlon Orgaalictl tl. Coat uf Florida. Wa1U.(iTi'.. June 12 -The Tr.ii- ury liepartmetit has received y r .-r euce from the Secretary of Sta:- a communication fnui th- ini.iii minister, to the effect that h has in formation that an iliiK)rtnul filibus tering eeditieu is lelhg organ Zed on the coast of Florida, and asks that steps be taken bv the Irovemtueut lo frustrate it. The Department com municated this information to all col lectors and masters of the patrol fleet on the Florid coast with instructions to be on the alert to prevent the tie larture of any susected expedition This was done to day by telegraph. It devekied later that the Depart ment has specific information of the shipment of arms and munitions of war for what promises to be one of the most important filibustering expedi tions for several mouths. A car load of arms left Jacksonville yesterday morning by the Florida Seacoast rail road and passed near Smyrna last evening, southbound. A second car load of rilles and dynamite left Jack sonville yesterday morning on the regular freight train, lor the probable purpose of being transferred to some vessel on the east coast, probably the yacht Valusla, which has been 'en gaged to transfer these munitions from the railways to the reel des tined for Cuba, It is probable that the vessel which will receive these arms will not come close to shore, llornlnet Star. HAWAIIAN ANNEXATION Dlcaead a ta RcpatUcaa 5aateta4? Qaetcve aa a PrababJDtjr a IW Nar Fat are. Vamiiutx. June li The repub lican senators were in caucus for two hours to day and devoted the entire time to an effort to agree upon a course of actlou to be pursued with regard to the Hawaiian reciprocity treaty In. connection with the sugar schedule of. the tariff bill. The meeting of the senate at 12 o'clock forced an adjourn ment Ik fore there was time to reach z conclusion, and the caucus direil to meet again at 4 30 o'clock in tbt afternoon Senator Nelson, of Minnesota, led! the fight in favor of the abrogation ot the Hawaiian treaty. He said that, the United States had paid $t 3,000, 0-XO ouly for tlie Ixmlslana pa re base, lTt. iu tariff remissions on sugar alone there ba t been paid 11,000,000 for Pearl harbor. 1 Senator Frye made a vigorous de fense of the treaty and of the jtolicy of maintaining the closest sort of rela tions with Hawaii, which had been sett It 1 and civilized by Americans. Senator Davis also spoke in defense of the treaty, going into a detailed argument to show that the relation between this couutry and the Hawaiim islands should le maintained upon the present. reciprocal basis. There were freuent reference to the probability of a new treaty for tlie annexation of Hawaii, and it seemed to be quite generally understood that such a treaty was Included among the Iossibilities for the near future. There- apeAred however, to lw no definite information as to the details and the references were very general in char- arter. o one assumed to steaK ior tlie presideut on this oint, but so far as anything was sald.it wasapiarently bascd uiKjti the supiKnltiou that the pre-sident was prepared ta enter Into negotations looking to placing the islands uuder the protection of the stars and stripes as a part cf the United States. Senator Frye referred once or twice to the Mjftsibility of annexation and Senators Thurston and Uou, who strenuously opiKed the contlnuanct of the prevent treaty, in effect an nounced themselves as prepared to consider favorably the question of at Delation, on the theory that an ar rangement for consolidation on that fjasis would 1" reciprocal; whereas, they contend that the preseut treaty was entirely onesided in its advantages. Senator Thurston contended that the lest way to insure anuiation would le through abrogation of tlie eitinr. treaty. At the afternoon caurti. jtfter ou sidertng the Hawaiian reeiprrty pro vision, it a derided to refer the mat ter.together with various proposition which had leen submitted, to tl e re publican member of tlie rfmii)i'!-on tlimii'v to formulate a projo-ltion which shall ! submitted to a fntnr catif u. it i.ot atisfrtorv to all. T-rniJ Drill Kinii aela. We have lire drill in our public school in theKvt. and every effective drill they have proved in more than, one rn- of -iuergeicy In KnA they have no tire dnlU. or. if the) have we have still t. hear of it. lut there tornadoes are more to be dreaded than fire, ami the school children are now being trained in tornado drill. When tornadoes ttrikea Kansas town every one once makes for prairie. It is the way to ecae death from fly ing doors and chimnie. falling treea and topping buildings. School child ren are trained to kuow this from the cradle, and on theae occasions rush pell mell for the nearest bit of clear prairie attainable. Hut many children hate been maimed and even killed In the terrible storms. So they have tarted a movement throughout the State to have tornado caves build unde the schoolhousea Urge enough to areutataodate all the children while the blow latts. And here come in a tornado drill, which is al ready beiu put into practice. It is very much like our own fire drilL The teacher sound the alarm on the pUuo and the children all stand op. Then the march is played and oat they go in good ordrr, down the stairs and into the care. Then let the winds blow! Let the en tire building tall in ruins! The children are safe and only hare to be dag oat.
Hickory Democrat (Hickory, N.C.)
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