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CHAPTER XXV. ( Continued. )
" ' " Tom Lam-
"All's ever now , < mld
bourne , as he grasped the tlllnr with
a firm hand , after cnrefully wrapping a
blanket round poor IIIslop. who droop
ed beside him In the sturn-shcelH.
" \Vlilc-h way shall we pull ? " naked
the bowman , us wo paused with our
oars In the rowlocks.
"It matters llttlo , mates , " cried Torn.
In a loud voice , with his left baud nt
the side of his mouth , to send w.mt
ho said forward above the roar of the
wind and sea. "Wo muni bo many
hundred miles from Brazil , the nearest
land , and we can do nothing now but
keep our boat allvo by baling and
steering till daybreak. Now , Master
, Hlslop , " he added , lowering his voice ,
"how do you feel , sir ? "
j "I feel thut 1 am quite In your way ,
my lads a useless hand aboard , to
consume your food and water , " re
plied IIlslop , faintly.
"Why , sir , " said Probart , the stroke
oarsman , "you don't think wo could
have left you to burn In that poor old
brig ? "
"No , not exactly ; still I am of no
use to you , and I fcol "
"What , air , what ? " asked Tom , anx
iously.
"Heart sick and despairing , " moan
ed Hlslop , letting his chin drop on
his breast.
"Don't talk BO , sir , " said Lambourne ,
stoutly ; "despair never found a place
in the heart of n British Bailor. "
. "You arc right , Tom ; and perhaps
Til giitiief headway nnd get to wind
ward yet. "
"Of course you will , " replied Tom ,
cheerfully ; "but here's a Ken coming
together , ladfl , pull together ! "
Despair might well have found n
place In all our breasts-at that awful
crisis ; but Tom's bluff nnd cheerful
way prevented our hearts from sink
ing , 'though ' the hours of that awful
night scorned dark and long.
Well , without compass , chart , or
quadrant , there wo wore , ton In num
ber , in an open boat , tossing upon n
dark nnd stormy sea , enveloped in
clouds , with the rod lightning gleam
ing through their ragged openings , or
at the far and flat horizon ignorant
of where wo wore , whore to steer for ,
, or what to do , and full of terrible
J " anticipations for the future !
* wo"werejjllout and ,
a "My heart was full 'of horror , grief
I 'and yagup ajarln yhon I thought of
j ? my home -the quiet , the happy and
5 , peaceful old rectory , with nil who loved
mo there , and whom I irilght never HOC
again. '
The hot tears that started to my
r * eyes mingled with the cold spray that
1 drenched my cheeks , nnd there scom-
_ _ one consolation for mo , that my
fathor',13iy affectionate mother and sis
ters , dcaV-Dot.nnd little Sybil , could
never know how I perished by hunger
or drowning , if such were to bo my
fate.
fate.All
All the stories I had heard or road
of ship-wrecked men tholr Bufferings ,
their endurance of gnawing hunger
nnd burning tnirst , tnoir cannibalism ,
their mortal struggles with tholr dear-
eat friends for the last morsel of food ,
for the last drop of water , and how
the weak perished that the Htrong
might live crowded upon my mem
ory to augment the real terrors of our
situation.
So suddenly had this final catas
trophe como upon us that wo had con
siderable dlillculty In assuring our
selves of its reality , and that it was
not a dream a dream , alas ! from
which there might bo no awakening.
So hour after hour passed darkly ,
slowly , and silently on.
The turbulence of the wind and
waves abated , the lightning passed
away , the scud ceased to whirl , the
vapors were divided In heaven , and
faint light that stole tremulously up
ward from the horizon served to Indi
cate the cast and the dawn of the com
ing day.
CHAPTER XXVI.
Discover Land ,
The following are the names of those
who escaped with mo In the long
boat :
Marc Hlslop , mate.
Thomas Lambourne , second mate.
Francis Probart , carpenter.
John Thomas Burnett , ship's cook.
Edward Carltou.
Henry Warren.
Hugh Chuto.
Matthew Hlpkln.
William Wllklns , usually called
"Boy Bill. "
As the morning light came In there
appeared to the southwestward a vast
bank of mist or cloud , which shrouded
half the sky and assumed a variety
of beautiful tints when the rising sun
shone on It yellow and saffron , deep
ening into purple and blue as its
manses changed In the contrary cur
rents of air ; while to the eastward , In
the quarter of the sun's ascension , the
I rippling ocean shone as if covered with
tromuloua and glittering plates of min
gled gold and green.
A ration of rum-and-water in equal
proportions was now served round to
each man , the leathern cover of a
bung being our only cup , as wo had
omitted a drinking vessel among our
hastily collected stores. Half of a bis
cuit given to each constituted our
breakfast , and with hope dawning with
the day in our hearts wo Bhlppcd our
oarfl and pulled stoutly toward the
vest. '
Tom Lambourno steered ; ' the Bca
wan smooth , the wind light , and In our
favor ; HO cro long the mast was ship
ped and a mill Imlmcd to lessen the
labor of the rowers.
Wo wore anxious for the dense bank
of purple cloud to clear away , that we
might have a moro extensive view of
the horizon , nnd perhaps discover a
sail , but the envious vapor Boomed to
darken and to roll before us , or rather
before the wind that bore us aft after
It.
AboiU midday , when wo wore paus
ing on our oars , breathless nnd pantIng -
Ing with heat , drenched with perspira
tion , which ran Into our cyea nnd
trickled down our broaHts , and when
visions of Ice-water nnd bitter beer
came tantnllzlngly to memory for sea
and Bky were equally hot , as the for
mer seemed to welter and become oily
under the blaze of the latter a Bharp-
wlnged bird that skimmed past us sud
denly caught the hollow eye of Hislop ,
who , I thought , was sleeping.
"Do you. see that bird , Tom ? " ho
exclaimed , half starting up from the
Htcrn-shcctB ; "It is a man-of-war
bird ! "
"What then , sir ? "
"Wo must bo near land , " replied the
mate.
"Lund ! " reiterated every one in the
boat , their voices expressing Joy , sur
prise or incredulity.
"is it Brazil ? " asked Tattooed Tom ,
with amazement In his singular face.
"I do not think so , " said IIIslop ,
passing a hand wearily nnd reflectively
over lilu palo forehead" . "Brazil it is
Impossible , by the last reckoning I
made before that Spaniard wounded
me. But Heaven only knows whore
wo may have drifted to since then ! "
"Tho wind and currents may have
taken us many hundred miles from
where the last observation was made , "
ndded Carlton.
"But I am convinced that wo are
near land look at the Boa-wrack that
passes us now ; and wo must bo out
of the track of the Gulf-weed , " con
tinued the mate , with confidence.
"And may I never see the Nero
again If that ain't land now , looming
right ahead through the fog-bank ! "
exclaimed Tom , starting up and shad-
lug bin eyes from the sun with both
bands , as ho peered Intently westward.
As the reader may Imagine , wo nil
gazed anxiously enough In the direc
tion Indicated by the old seaman , and
a swell of rapture rose In the breasts
of nil when something In the form of
a headland or bluff could be distinctly
scon right ahead , bearing duo west ,
about seven miles distant , standing
out from the bank of vapor , or loomIng -
Ing like a darker shadow within it.
This appearance never changed In
outline , but remained stationary , and
every moment became moro defined
and confirmed.
Exclamations of joy now broke from
UB , and wo congratulated each other
on making the land so soon and so
unexpectedly , without enduring the
miseries which BO frequently fall to
the lot of those who are cast away ,
as wo wore , In an open boat , nt sea ,
"But what land IB it ? " was the gen
eral Inquiry.
Another allowance if grog was serv
ed round ; the oars wore again nhlpped ,
wo bout our backs and breasts sturdily
to the task , and at every stroke al
most lifted the boat clean out of the
shining water In our eagerness to reach
this suddenly discovered shore.
This had such an effect upon Marc
Hlslop that , though weak and sinking
as he had been , ho begged that ho
might bo allowed to steer the boat a
llttlo way , while Tom Lambourno kept
a bright lookout ahead , to watch for
any rlpplo or surf that might indicate
the locality of a treacherous coral reef ,
as such might prove dangerous to a
largo and heavily laden craft like ours.
With every stroke of the bending
oars the land seemed to rise higher and
moro high.
Ere long wo could make out its
form clearly. It was bold , rocky and
mountainous , and as the mist dispers
ed or rose upward Into mid air , wo
could BOO the dark brown of the bluff ,
nnd Bomo trees of strnngo aspect , with
drooping foliage on Its summit , were
clearly defined , as they stood between
ua nnd the blue sky boyond.
Wo soon mndo Out distinctly that It
was a largo Island. The shore was
Bomowhat level to the northeast , nnd
In the center towered an almost per
pendicular mountain of vast height ,
the sides of which seemed covered with
furze , gorse and brushwood.
Elsewhere its dusky and copper-col
ored rocks started sheer out of the
sea , whoso waters formed a zone of
suow-whlto surf around tholr baso.
Wo headed the boat to the north
east , where the shore scorned more ap
proachable , and as wo pulled nlong it ,
but keeping fully three miles off , wo
saw high crags , deep ravines , shady
woods nnd dolls In the interior , though
no appearance of houses , of wigwams ,
or of Inhabitants.
Many speculations wore now ven
tured as to what island this might bo.
"May It not bo land that has never
before been discovered ? " I suggested ,
with a glow of pleasure , in the antici
pation of bolng among tbo first to
tread an unexplored nnd hitherto un
known shore. Hlslop smiled nnd
shook his head.
Henry Warren , who had been an old
South Sen whaler , suggested that it
was the island GraliUo , , but Hlslon fis
sured UK that this was Impo nlblc. In
the first pluco , by the position of the
sun , ho could see that wo wore not so
far Bouth as the parallel of Port San
Giorgio on the Brazilian shore , nnd In
the second , the existence of such nn
Island was doubted.
"Can It bo Trinidad Island Tristan
da Cunha , or the Rocks of Martin
Vnz ? " asked Tom Lambourne.
"If the latter , " replied Hlfllop , "wo
Hhotild now bo In south latitude 20 dcg.
27 mln. , but this land In no way an
swers to the aspect of the Martin Vaz
Hocks. "
"Did you over see thorn , sir ? " asked
several.
"No ; but they are described by La
Porroiiso an appearing like five dis
tinct headlands. " After pausing nnd
pondering for n moment , ho suddenly
ndded , with confidence. "It Is the
Island of Alphonso do Albuquerque ! "
"How do you know ? " I inquired.
"By the appearanceof that cliff , and
the mountain Inland. "
'You have been hero before ? " asked
Probart.
"Never ; but I know It to bo Alphonso
by that cliff on the north , nnd the
mountain , too , which were particularly
described In n Spanish book I lost In
the Eugcnlo. The mountain is a peak
which the author says resembles did
any of you ever see a place Hko it be
fore ? "
"It Is as like Tcnny Reef from the
port of Santa Cruz as one egg Is like
another ! " exclaimed Tom Lambourne.
"Exactly , Tom , that Is what the
Spanish author likens It to , though ho
doesn't UBO the simile. So if it is
the Island of Alphonso , wo are now
somewhere In south latitude 37 dcg , 6
'
mln. , and west jongltude 12 dog.2 mln.
ull southward , my fads , the shore
opens n bit beyond that headland. We
cJinll find a smooth bench probably
within that bight yonder. "
"Anyway we're not In pilot's water , "
added Tom , laughing ; "give way ,
: nates stretch out. "
We pulled with n hearty will , and
; re long were close In shore so close
.hat our larboard oars seemed almost
.o touch the mighty rocks which rose
sheer from the sea , like mighty cyclo-
: ) oan wallB , but covered with the green
est moss ; they overhung and over
shadowed the dark , deep waiter that
washed their base , and as they shield
ed us from the fierce noonday heat of
tno sun , we found the partial coolness
rcircshlng and delightful.
As Hislop had foreseen , on rounding
the bluff , the shore receded inward , and
through a line of white surf , Hko that
which boils over the bar at a river's
nouth , wo dashed into n beautiful llt
tlo bay , the sandy beach of which was
shaded by groves of bright green trees.
Still we saw no trace of inhabitants ;
but selecting n smnll creek , which was
nlmost concealed by trees that grew ,
like mangroves , close to the edge of
the water , wo ran our boat in , moored
her securely , where none were likely
to find her save ourselves , nnd then all
BRVO Hlslop and Billy the cabin boy ,
who remained to attend him , wo
went on an exploring expedition in
search of natives or whatever might
turn up next.
( To bo continued. )
Woeplng at the Thoatur.
"There's JiiHt this about crying at
the theater , ' said the average woman.
"You'll cry If you're In the mood for
It and you won't if you're not no mat
ter how harrowing or nonharrowing
the play may bo. Like most average
women , I rarely cry , either at the
theater or anywhere , but I long ago
discovered that It depends entirely
upon my mood at the tlmo. I once
wont to a genuine comedy and found
the tears filling my eyes Just because
I happened to bo blue at the tlmo , and
I've beori at many a play with all the
women around mo mopping tholr eyes
and drying their pocket-handkerchiefs
on their fans , while I being for some
reason or other uplifted sat there
dry-eyed , almost smiling. No matter
what my mood , however , the thing
Biire to keep mo from weeping at the
theater is any emotional display on
the part of her who Is with me. I can
attend the wceplest kind of a play un
moved with my slater , for she starts in
away ahead of tlmo , making mo feel
moro like laughing than crying , and
then when the true lachrymose oppor
tunity arrives it finds me pathos-proof.
This is the only way by which I may
make myself Immune from wooplng at
theaters upon all occasions. " Phila
delphia Times.
The "Kyo" of an Awful Storui.
The observations of Captain Carpen
ter , of the Royal Navy , show that the
hurricane which destroyed moro than
17,000 houses and hundreds of lives in
the islands of Barbados and St. Vin
cent last September had a calm "eye"
nt Us center four miles in diameter' .
The phenomenon of n central calm at
the core of u whirling storm is charac
teristic of the West Indian hurricanes.
The diameter of the storm center , in
cluding the circling winds that enclosed -
closed the eye , WOB about thirty-five
miles during the period of greatest de
struction. After the hurricane passed
St , Vincent , the storm center enlarged
to a diameter of 170 miles.
The Special Delivery T.cttcr * .
A special delivery stamp crowns an
ordinary letter and Insures it royal
care. It travels first-class ; the clerks
pass it rapidly on its way ; on reaching
its destination all schedules are dis
regarded ; it is honored by being sent
by n special inessauger. This service
was begun In 1886 ; In 1898 the number
of these stamps leaned waa over 6,000-
000. Now York city delivered the >
greatest number of these letters .
about 093,000. Boston came next , with
275,000. The average tlmo , throughout
the nation , for delivery from poetoflloe
to addressee was seventeen mlnutea.
WTIERETllKYTJUUVE
rnusrs FuounisH IN FREE-
TRADE OHITAIN.
Any Attentif > Oniiiplr with Cmnhlnm
li.v III" Abolition of rroteellon In the
United Mitten Wiiiilil I'nitit
to Domestic Industrie * .
San Francisco Chronicle : Under the
caption , "The Growth of Monopoly In
English Industry , " H. W. Macrosty , In
the March Contemporary Review , fur
nishes some Interesting Information re
specting trusts In Great Ilrltnln ,
which deserves to ho attentively stud
ied by those misguided writers who as
sume that protection Is responsible for
the movement In the direction of In
dustrial combinations so prevalent in
I his country at present.
Mr. Macrosty furnishes abundant evi
dence that the phenomena Is not con
fined to protective countries , and shows
that the movement Is as far-reaching
In free-trade England as In the United
States. Speaking of the growth of
combinations In the United Kingdom ,
he says :
"Single amalgamations , while not
entirely excluding competition , control
the screw , cotton , thread , salt , alkali
and India rubber tire Industries. In
other cases a formal agreement of mas
ters fixes prices ; thus , In the hollowware -
ware trade ( metal utensils ) prices are
arranged by an Informal ring of a dozen
Birmingham flrms. Similarly there Is
no open market In antimony , nickel ,
mercury , lead pipes , fish supply and
petroleum. Steel and Iron rails are con
trolled by an English rail ring , which
so manages matters that It IB under
sold by American , Belgian and German
competitors. All the largest flrms In
the newspaper making Industry have
just consolidated their Interests into
one large combination. In the engi
neering trades twenty-four firms have
a subscribed capital of 11,245,000. In
1897 Armstrong & Co. absorbed Whit-
worth & Co. , raising their capital to
4,210,000 In the process. Vlckers &
Co. , the armor plate manufacturers ,
are another example of a very large
amalgamation. In the spring of 1897
they bought up the Naval Construction
and Armament company , and later
they acquired the Maxlm-Nordenfeldt
Guns and Ammunition company. Now
they boast of being the only firm ca
pable of turning out a battleship com
plete In every respect. The most note
worthy examples of combination , how
ever , are to be found In the Birming
ham staple trades and in the textile
industries. "
This condensation is supplemented
by extended details showing that slow
ly but surely the British organizer is
bringing every possible plan of money
making within the field of his opera
tions , and that England is rapidly becoming -
coming the homo of trusts. Here is
his summing up :
"Wo thus see in British Industry a
steady movement toward combination
and monopoly , a movement which Is
the natural outcome of competltion.and
therefore not capable of being prevent
ed or undone by law. "
The keen critic will not fall to note
that this admission is fatal to the as
sumption that protection is responsible
for the creation of trusts. If trusts
are the natural outcome of competi
tion , as Mr. Macrosty avers , then the
ovll cannot bo attributed to a policy
which has the effect of restraining the
area 01 competition , wo may add tnat
this view , that competition is respon
sible for combinations , has found ex
pression in the works of such distin
guished free traders as J. Thorold
Rogers , and that it is only the
"feather-weight" economists , fighting
under the Cobden banner in this coun
try , who have sought to fasten the re
sponsibility for the evil on protection.
Not only Is protection not responsible
for the trust ovll , but it may bo claimed
that it offers the only remedy for its
suppression. Wo venture to say that
no protectionist will assent to the prop
osition that combination is "not capa
ble of being prevented or undone by
law , " but it Is natural enough for a
frco trader to assume that the ovll is
irremediable , as Mr. Macrosty does in
his closing sentence , in which ho says :
"Nevertheless , with the weapon of
state control in hand , combination maybe
bo welcomed , and if control proves in
sufficient , state purchase and public ad
ministration remain behind. "
Protectionists , accustomed as they
are to the idea of regulation , will not
hesitate to resort to the most drastic
measures If they find it necessary to dose
so in order to stamp out the evil. By
carefully limited the area of competi
tion to their own country the states
men of a protective nation can con
trol trusts , but that will be found an
impossible achievement In a free-trade
country , for the simple reason that the
attempt to prohibit combination in a
land with wide-open trade doors will
prove destructive to domestic indus
try.
The Triumph of Intelligence.
A communication recently sent from
London to an American commercial pa
per contains the following :
"Practically all the equipments of
now London electric railways , includ
ing elevators , are brought from the
United States. There are many outward
signs of this American Invasion. A
largo proportion of things advertised In
papers and magazines the Americans
recognise as homo products. One big
'hotel in the 'commercial quarter has a
whole wing given p to sample rooms
of American drummers. They show
machinery , novelties and manufactured
articles , of.all Jtlnds , Nordo these ad
vance agents of Yankee prosperity con
fine themselves to .one hotel. Some of
the pioneers are reaping a harvest.
American shoes soil nt 60 per cent over
Now York prices , and bicycles and
other articles are also well up. An
outcome of this movement , already ap
parent In some quarters , Is that Great
Ilrltnln Is urged to Impose a tariff to
save her homo market from her new
est rival. "
This state of affairs goes to show that
the cheapest products , considered as to
tholr stilling prim * , are today , in a
large number of cases , the products of
the highly paid and intelligent labor
employed In the protected irdustrlcs of
America. Wo are now having a prac
tical realization of the protectionist
claim that protect Ion will , In the cud ,
mean cheaper production than would
be possible under free trade , because
protection means intelligent labor. As
President MoKlnley once said :
"A revenue tariff cheapens products
by cheapening men ; a protective tar
iff cheapens products by elevating men
and by getting from them their best la-
her , their best skill , their best inven
tion. "
Satan ItelmlcliiB Sin.
What did the Democrats ever do
when they were in power to restrain
the developments which they now af
fect to deplore , but at which they se
cretly rejoice , recognizing , as they do ,
in them a possible chance of salvation ?
They never did a thing. On the con
trary , it was while the Democracy was
in olllco that the seeds of the growth
wo see going on were planted. The
great sugar trust , which was one of
the first to be formed , was little less
than n Democratic organization. Its
contributions had assisted Grover
Cleveland's election , and it is an open
secret that by way of reward it was
permitted to dictate the sugar sched
ule in the disaster-breeding tariff bill
to which Professor Wilson gave his
name. The Democracy denouncing
trusts will be strongly suggestive of
Satan rebuking sin.
The position of the Republicans Is
much better. The only anti-trust law
upon the federal statute books , the so-
called Sherman law , was a Republican
measure , and in the anti-trust legisla
tion of the states it Is the Republican
states which have consistently taken
the lead. If the Democrats cannot find
any other Issue upon which to unite
than one upon which all politicians of
whatever allegiance arc agreed , their
straits must indeed be desperate. Ex
change.
Too Good a Thing t < > Drop.
John Bull Now that we're getting to
be such warm friends , Isn't it about
time to drop that foolish tariff of
yours ?
Undo Sam Thanks , Johnnie , for
your assurances of friendship , but that
foolish tariff has proved too good a
thing to drop. Why don't you try it
yourself ? There's millions in it !
Yearning for Soup Houne 1'ollcy.
Two hundred day laborers of the
Mount Vernon Car Manufacturing
company have received a 10 per cent
advance in wages. The works were
closed down much of the time early
In the nineties for want of orders , but
now it has contracts for building 1,700
new cars , in addition to those upon
which the men are at work. Business
men , farmers and others in that vi
cinity claim that local conditions are
Improved by the expenditure of thou
sands of dollars of wages , monthly , In
the city , but others who earn nothing ,
build nothing , pay nothing , and do
nothing but talk and long for the re
turn of the soup-house policy party to
power , are not happy at the outlook ,
and bear upon their forlorn visages the
unspoken prayer of "give us calamity
or give us death. " Carml (111. ( ) Times.
The < 5o\ornment Could Pay.
McKlnloy sold 3 per cent bonds to
the people ; Cleveland sold 4& per cent
bonds to a syndicate of bankers. The
total of our public debt Is a mere baga
telle compared with our wealth and re
sources. The continuation of the Re
publican party In power , which would
mean continued prosperity , would en
able the government to pay It off in a
few years. Western ( Nob. ) Wave.
Need thu Doctor.
The balance of trade in favor of the
United States is at the present tlmo
fifty-four million dollars a month. Un
der the Wilson mil ami tuo Cleveland
administration It was less than seven
millions a month. A little argument of
this kind will make a Democrat sick
enough to call In the family physician.
Lawrence ( Kan. ) Journal.
Al\vujs True to ltd Pledge * .
The business and finances of the na
tion always have been in satisfactory
shape when the management of gov
ernment affairs is intrusted to the Re
publican party , the only national or
ganization which over has demonstrat
ed Its capacity to conduct them success
fully. Springfield (111. ( ) Journal.
How easy It Is for some people to
advise others how to conduct their af
fairs when their own show a lament
able want of attention.
THE BRITISH WAY.
I'pon the IVorkliiKiiian Mint 1'nll th
Co t of Im-reailng Competition.
The Duke of Devonshire , in an ad
dress delivered a short tlmo since be
fore the shareholders of the Furnoss
railway , referred to the fact that , as
ho put it , "even the most enterprising
of English firms , with well-equipped
works expressly put down at the coast
for export trade , have been under
quoted In their own country by Amer
ican-made rails , " and said : "Excessive
care must bo taken not to demand
overmuch In the way of Increased
wages or lessened hours , lest produc
tion be mndo so dear that the for
eigner can cut in below our country
men. "
Americans have no quarrel with this
attitude on the part of English states
men , especially so as the policy advo
cated Is not likely to result in the
shutting out of American rails. Wo
arc more than willing to let the Eng
lish munugo their own atfairs. Yet
one cannot but marvel at the eco
nomic bigotry which prefers to secure
the home market by having laborers
"not demand overmuch in the way of
increased wages or lessened hours , "
rather than to hold it by putting a pro
tective tariff on competing products.
Wo have had considerable experlenco
with that same kind of economic big
otry on the part of free traders in this
country. Fortunately for the Interests
of the country , the great majority or
American workmen have not been de
ceived by the false ideas of "cheap
ness" advanced by these bigots , and
have Insisted on a policy which gives
protection to American labor and
makes good wages sure. It is not past
belief that English workmen will some
day wake up to their own interests and
demand protection for their labor and
their wages.
In Vivo Southwestern States.
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat , in
the course of a review of the industrial
conditions of five southwestern states ,
published in a recent issue , sold that
the four years of depression had been
quickly followed by a business revival
never equaled In the history of this
country ; that this improvement had
continued for two years , and that evi
dences of renewed prosperity wore in
creasing daily. It continued as fol
lows :
"New Industries have been estab
lished , having a capital of at least $14-
763,150 , and the plants are valued at
$13,230,600. The value of the annual
output of these new Industries in round
figures Is $76,592,486. These plants give
employment to 16,436 persons , and pay
out annually in wages $10,156,601.
Those totals , large as they are , are
small compared with the aggregate
which a complete showing of the com
mercial expansion in all lines would
present. There is no doubt but that
the figures would reach into the hun
dreds of millions were it possible to " \r
ascertain the exact amount invested In
commerce , manufactures , agriculture ,
and mining during the past two years
in the states thus partly covered in the
reports received from the fifty-four
towns making up this enumeration. " | ,
With such a showing as this , there la t
llttlo chance that these states will bo . *
found again in the ranks of free trade.
The citizens will not be in a hurry to
give up their prosperity through clinging -
ing to an exploded theory.
Protection nnd the Farmer.
The report of the agricultural de
partment showing the Increasing extent - <
tent to which foreign countries were in
1808 purchasers of the agricultural
products of the United States presents 1
some interesting facts Illustrative of j'j
the wisdom of an economic policy
which promotes the foreign trade and
domestic trade at one and the same \
time. Domestic exports of all kinds
In 1898 exceeded Imports of all kinds
by the onoromus sum of $591,242,259 ,
which was more than double the excess
of the preceding year , the largest re
ported up to that time. Agricultural
exports for 1898 amounted to 70.93 per
cent of the whole , behig a gain of near
ly 25 per cent over 1897. There was ,
on the other hand , a marked decrease
In 1898 of purchases of foreign agrl- ,
cultural products as contrasted with & \
the fiscal year 1897 , when under the '
free wool provisions of the Wilson law
we Imported $53,243,191 worth of for
eign wool , against less than seventeen
millions' worth under the Dlngley tar
iff in 1898.
The American farmer had much the
best of the situation in the first eleven
months of restored protection , as his
sales to foreign countries more than
doubled the value of our Imports of
foreign agricultural products , the ex
cess amounting to $514,216,146. Alto
gether , the agricultural export and Im
port figures for 1898 show well for pro
tection and Its benefits to the American
farmer.
Ilnrtl to Hot Over.
A tribute to the effectiveness of the
protective policy In adding to the gen
eral welfare of the United States is
paid In a recent report of the German
imperial commissioner at Bremen , aa
follows :
"The strong tendency toward the
United States , In spite of immigration
having been rendered more difficult ,
finds an explanation In the fact that
American Industry has largely devel
oped In consequence of the Dlngley tar
iff , and that the demand for experi
enced artisans has therefore greatly in
creased. Moreover , German manufac
turers have , In order to save the cus
toms duties , established branch houses
of their works in the United States. "
Facts like these are , like n barbed
wire fence , "hard to get over. " Free-
trade writers don't attempt to get over
them. They dodge and ignore them.
