ANOTHER CUBAN BOM BARDMENT , : SILENCED BY THE TERROR. .Many Spaniards Il psrt ( l Killed After an Hour's Firing The Gunboat ainchla Alia Took n Hand Shot * From the Shorn Uat- \ torlo * Provoked Attack by the Wur Vessels. 1 NEW Yonir , April 30 A dispatch printed by a Wall street news agency : says that the monitor Terror and the gunboat Much las bombarded Cardenas killing many Spaniards , but after an hour's firing the batteries of the enemy were silenced. A New York Evening Post dispatch from Key West to-day says : "Reports received here from the blockading' fleet this morning were to the effect that the bombardment at Matanzas on Wednesday was followed up yes terday by a bombardment of Carde nas , cast of Matanzas , on the north coast of Cuba. " At that station were the monitor Terror and the gunboat Machias. Shots from the shore batteries pro voked them to fire back. For two hours , the report says , Cardenas with stood the bombardment. Then the ancient guns , which did no damage to the ships , suddenly grow silent. Captain Harrington of the Puritan heard nothing of the firing upon Car denas , where two Spanish gunboats were hid in the inlet He says it is impossible to get nearer than six miles to the town , which is not forti fied. MONITOR PURITAN. WAR REVENUE BILL. Republican Members Doclde Upon Fifty Amendments. "WASHIXGTO : ; , April 30. The Repub lican members of the ways and means committee held a 'meeting ' yesterday at which fifty amendments to the war revenue bill were agreed to. Many of them are mere verbal amendments , but some are of considerable import ance. One of these exempts mutual and co-operativo life insurance companies from taxation. The tax on insurance companies is transferred from the policies to the premiums. In this the amendment conforms to the law of 1SGO. The tax on marine , in land and fire insurance policies is ex tended to cover employers' liability associations , title insurance companies , glass and all other special insurance companies , of which many classes have grown up in the past 'few years. Railroad telegraphic messages and all other leased wire messages are ex empted by an amendment limiting the tax to messages "on which the com panies' charges are to be paid or to be collected. ' The tax on chewing gum is reduced from 1 cent on a 5-cent package to } cent The tax on beer is extended to include beer "stored. " The amendment was deeme'd necessary to cover beer in storage. The lieenso of dealers In leaf tobacco is reduced from S'-4 to 812 on those whose sales do not exceed 810,000 per.annum , and from S43 to S34 on dealers whose sales exceed that amount The most important amendment was one which levies a tax of 1 cent upon all pay telephone messages cost * V ing below 25 cants. The original pro vision exempted messages for a dis tance below thirty miles. Mr. Tawney of Minnesota estimates that this amendment , which will cover all city and suburban business , will raise 55,000,000. To Urge Saint * to KnIUt. SALT LAKE , Utah , April 10 A letter from .the first president o.f the Mormon church to Governor Wells on the sub ject of enlistments has caused some thing of a sensation. The president said that the fact that the Apostle Brigham Young , in a discourse at the tabernacle Sunday , counseled the saints to remain at home , and that the recruiting office in this city the open ing day-secured only forty-seven vol unteers , was regarded as a reflection .upon the patriotism of the people and that the presidency of the church would urge the saints to enlist Carman Attnclin to Go With the Troops. BEKLIN , April 30. Lieutenant Count Von Goatz , the German military at tache at Washington , who is now in this city , has been ordered to'return to the United States t nd accompany the'forces of the United States which will operate in Cuba. r I'olo Slay Uo to England. TOHONTO , Ontario. April 30 Senor Polo received several long cipher ca bles from Madrid last night The. only information , however , that could be obtained was that as a result of one of the cables the minister might atany .moment hare to start for London. SEIZED-SPANISH MAIL. . . . Cotter * From Blanco and Report * of Hplei Are In tlin Government's Hands. WASHINGTON , April 30. The clerks in tin dcud letter office at the- Post * office department have been busy all day examining the captured Spanish mall , the first batch of which has been received in Washington from the postoffice at New York. By an order issued by the Postmaster General , all postmasters throughout the country are instructed to forward to the de partment at Washington all letters and packages addressed to persons In Spain. iSorao of the letters were of verj great importance to the military and naval authorities cf * he United States. Somn of them are reports made by General Blanco and other Spanish of ficials in Cuba to their superiors in Madrid , dad relate to the condition of affairs and plans for the defense of the island. Others were written bj Spanish spies in this country , and most of them arc unimportant Several letters will be turned over to the secret service division of the Treasury department , as they contain clews that may bo useful hereafter. No one can remember when the government of the United States has hold up and opened private corre spondence before. Certainly never since the war of 1812 , although during the rebellion letters were frequently intercepted by orders of the war de partment or the department of justice , when it was suspected that they con tained official information. TRAITOR ON THE PURITAN Donth Sentence to a Spanish Seaman on the American Monitor. KEY WIST , Fla. , April 30. It is as serted in an authoritative quarter that a Spaniard whoso name is Charles Yglasiaz was discovered tampering with the largest magazine on the monitor Puritan last Sunday after noon. The Spaniard was engaged in drill ing holes in the bulkhead of the 12- inch magazine when discovered. Ho was Immediately placed under arrest He has been six years in this navy and rates as a storekno-per. He was sev eral years on the Minneapolis and the time of his present enlistment would have expired in a few weeks. He is now in double irons in the brig of the Puritan. A court of inquiry has found him guilty and recommends court-martiaL A thorough examination of the man and his suspicious actions during the last few weeks , when recalled by his detection , have convinced Captain Harrington , commander of the Puri tan , that the man harbored an insane notion that , as his country demanded it , he was willing to make himself a sacrifice and destroy the monitor by igniting the contents of the largest magazine on board. When searched the man was found to have about his person cotton waste saturated with turpentine. This , it 5s- belicved , was to have been used as a fuse. Papers in the case are in the hands of Rear Admiral Sampson. Great ex citement is said to exist among the men on the war ships in consequence of the discovery. INSOLVENT BANK RULING. Comptroller of Currency Dawes Renders an Important Decision. WASHINGTON , April 30. An import ant ruling has been made by Charles G. Dowes , comptroller of the currency , relating to the practice of the comp troller's office in regard to the collec tion of the assessments against the stockholders of insolvent natiobal banks , and the distribution of the proceeds of svich assessments. Under this ruling , whenever it be comes necessary in adjusting the rights of creditors and stockholders of insolvent banks , to cither levy a second end assessment upon stockholders for the benefit of the creditors , or to re turn an excessive assessment to stock holders , the comptroller will review the original assessment for the purpose of making such an adjust ment , contrary to the practice of the office heretofore , which has been to regard an assessment based on the first estimate of deficiency in the bank's assets as final , irrespective of whether that estimate was , as a matter of fact , too large or too smalt The ruling is of great importance as it relates to assessments already levied throughout the country , as well as those hereafter to be levied upon stockholders of insolvent national banks whose affairs are not entirely closed. Ban : u City Klre. KANSAS CITY : , Mo. , April M. The Golden Eagle Clothing Company's store , at the southwest corner of Eleventh and Main streets , was heavi ly damaged by fire at an early hour this morning. The loss is estimated at from $30,000 to 340,000. Gnn and Ammunition Destroyed. Sioux FALLS , S. D. , April 30. A fire at Worthington , S. D. , burned to the ground the armory. The ammunition , uniforms and guns of company D , National guards , wera totally de- stroved. SOUTH'SWOKSTENEMY * _ _ vvwnv M FREE TRADE MORE TO BE FEARED THAN NEGRO SUPREMACY. Protection of American Industries De clared by a Prominent Virginia Demo crat to Ho Sound Doctrine "Which the South Should Uphold. Quoting from these columns a re cent article entitled "Will Louisiana Remember ? " the Sugar Planters' Jour nal of New Orleans says : "This is a pertinent query of the American Economist , in an article re ferring to the betrayal of the interest of Louisiana sugar planters by the de mocracy. Will they remember this at the next election ? We are sure they will. Just at present the sugar repub licans are apathetic , owing to their disappointment at the. apparent lack of appreciation of them by the present administration. Our contemporary is in error about any Louisiana sugar planters being free-traders. All are honestly protec tionists , but the small remnant who did not align themselves with the re publican party were restrained because of the unpleasantness of affiliation with colored republicans. Our interests lead us to the party of protection , but when the administration gives preference to the colored element it is enough to take all the enthusiasm out of us. Still , we believe two or three republican con gressmen v/ill be sent by sugar plant ers next fall. " Judging broadly from results , and without taking into account any ques tion of intervening fears or prejudices , there would seem to be ample reason for the conclusion that the sugar in terests of Louisiana have not hitherto identified themselves as effectively with the cause of protection as they might have done. Whether the reason given above for their failure to mass their forces in a winning fight for the rescue of the state from free trade domination is a good and sufficient reason , is a matter for themselves to decide. Viewed from an outside and a distant standpoint , it certainly looks as though they were unnecessarily dis turbed by a bugbear. On this subject we cannot find a more convincing an swer than that which is given by a broad minded Virginia democrat in re ply to a recent editorial in the New York Sun congratulating the couth up on its fervid patriotism and the coun try upon the total obliteration of sec tional lines as shown by the unanimous vote with which the war emergency ap propriation of $50,000,000 was passed by both houses of congress. Writing from Buckingham county , Virginia , March 12 , Mr. Camni Patteson , a south ern democrat , but not a southern free trader , says , among other things : "We are not properly to be blamed for having voted solidly in the past. There was a real substantial fear of negro supremacy , and all other ques tions paled into insignificance before it. That question , happily , is settled now forever. It has taken one generation of mankind thirty-three years to settle it , but at last it is accomplished in the interest of both races. "There is now no possibility that there can ever be negro supremacy in the south. The making several years since of a standard gauge for all Amer ican railroads bound us together with bands of steel and made both secession and negro supremacy impossible. Ye it went further ; however much we may battle against it , however dearly we may cherish the traditions of the past in our theories about states' rights , it made this a strong national govern ment. "It is proper to state that I am a democrat , but I belong to that south ern wing of the party which has con sistently favored the protection and not the destruction of American industries. We have been smothered in the past , but the feeling in favor of a "protective tariff" is growing with tremendous strides , not only in Virginia , but the entire south also. We do not favor protection per se , because we believe it to be unconstitutional , but we earn estly favor a tariff so framed as to give the strongest possible incidental protection to American industries. "The only objection we have to the Dingley bill is that it does not go far enough in the interest of protection. We do not believe in the introduction of free raw material of any kind. Free coal and free iron would be absolute ruin to Virginia and the south. The duty upon both and upon wool should be far higher than it is under the Ding- ley bill. "The south is peculiarly in a condi tion to be immensely benefited by pro tection , and , with the bugaboo of negro supremacy out of the way , the southern democracy mean to be heard on this great and vital question. We claim that the protection of American in dustries is true , sound democratic doc trine , and we mean to uphold it. We have been grossly misrepresent ed in the past. The Wilson bill was an aggregation of iniquities , and , while I do not wish to criticise the representa tion of Virginia in congress , I must say that her representatives have not for many years measured up to a high standard. They have been tremen dously outclassed by their opponents. "And here I trust I may be pardoned for alluding to the late Grover Cleve land , to say of him what the distin guished writer , Carlyle , said of an English statesman : 'I believ.e Grover Cleveland to be one of those fatal fig ures created by America's evil genius to work irreparable mischief which he alone could have executed. ' You will note that I have slightly changed the quotation. "It was with a feeling akin to satis faction that I noted in the last few days his ex-postmaster general , Wil liam L. "Wilson , now a professor at Washington and Lee College , lectured against the emergency appropriation hill of ? 50,000,000. From his legislative action in the past this might reasonab ly have been expected. It shows how far ho differs from the people of the south. " What the south of today needs is defense against a real and not an Imaginary peril to her moral and ma terial Interests ; protection from the positive menace of free-trade rather than from the dead and gone danger of negro supremacy. There are evi dences on all sides that belief In pro tection as the true American policy is indeed "growing with tremendous strides , " not alone In Virginia and Louisiana , but in every one of the states of the end of the century south. WHO PAYS THE TAX ? AVhy Mr. Dingley Wants the Tnr on War Materials Itcinlttcd. Some of the short wltted free trade editors have had a great deal to say about Mr. Dlngley's resolution provid ing for the duty free admission of such war materials as the government may purchase abroad , and have been ask ing whether this does not completely negative the contention that in all protective tariffs the foreigner is the one who pays the tax. When the joint resolution was before the house a few days ago some of the Democrats tried their smartness on the protectionist leader by asking him why these sup plies should be admitted free of duty if the "foreigner paid the tax. " Repre sentative Diugley replied rather sharp ly that it was perfectly understood that where articles were purchased abroad and imported , the purchaser paid the duty. duty.Mr. Mr. Dingley was slightly in error. The economic principle he enunciated is perfectly understood by everybody excepting that numerous body of free trade cranks and sophists who never can understand anything that conflicts with their pet dogma. It is too much to expect that they will comprehend the distinction between the duty on an article purchased abroad and imported by the purchaser and an article sent here by the foreign producer to be sold in competition with domestic mer chandise. But for the stress cf hurried prep arations for possible hostilities the United States would have no need to go abroad for war materials. It would purchase them at home and for a lower price than that for which they can be imported free of duty. The building up of great industries which can turn out unlimited quantities of ships , can non , projectiles and everything per taining to the weapons of modern war fare is one of the results of the Ameri can policy of protection. Ont in the Cold. Greatest Tax of All. The New England Free Trade Lea gue is sending out a circular in which much is made of certain statistics gathered under the direction of a Dem ocratic secretary of the treasury , al leging to prove that protection pro tects less than one-tenth of our in dustrial population from injurious competition. It is then assumed that the other nine-tenths are taxed for the benefit of the one-tenth. There are so many conditions entering into such a consideration of the benefits of pro tection that its value cannot be esti mated very highly. For instance , it is pertinent to ask how many of the other nine-tenths are in need of pro tection , and whether they have not been benefited indirectly from the pro tection afforded the minority. Then would come the question whether the exposure of this one-tenth to injur ious foreign competition would , not in effect be a greater tax upon the nine- tenths than the protection afforded is alleged to be. But more significant than any of these questions is the fact that the attempt at free trade experi menting under the administration of which this secretary of the treasury was a member , was a greater tax upon the whole American people than they had ever experienced under twenty- five years of protection. Lowell Mail. Which Is the llest ? We now have a tariff law which cnce more is encouraging the erection of sugar factories in our state. The two immense factories already in existence when the new law took effect were run to their highest capacity last year , and a new one was erected. This new one is now being doubled in capacity , another new one , larger than any yet in the state , is being erected in the central part of the state , and one of moderate capacity is about to be put up in Santa Barbara county , while a large one is being built in Ventura. Let the Dingley act remain in force for ten years and the United States will produce all the sugar needed in the country , and keep $100,000,000 a year at home now being paid to for eigners. Take into account the increase of trade with this city and the increased demand for farm products in the neigh borhood of these factories. Which is the best for Los Angeles ? Consider the many people who earn a living in the beet fields , the money paid th * farmers for beets , and what goes into circulation In this section through these factories. Which policy Is the best for all the people ? Los Angeles Express. VALUE OF FARM ANIMALS. EnormouMly Increased as n llcsnlt of tu Dlngloy Tariff. A recent bulletin of the department of agriculture gives some interesting figures concerning the number of live stock on farms In the United States on January 1 , 1898. The report says there were " 13,960,911 horses , 2,257.- 665 mules , 15,840,886 milch cows , 29- 264,197 oxen and other cattle , 37,656- 960 sheep and 39,759,992 swine. Of the seventeen states reporting a total of over one million of hogs , Pennsyl vania , Ohio , Georgia , Missouri , Kan sas and Nebraska show an Increase , and Indiana , Illinois , Iowa and eight southern states a decrease. There Is a marked increase in the value of live stock on farms reported from almost every section of the country. " The largest Increase in value has been in sheep , the farm animals whose value Is most affected by the presence or absence of a fair degree of protec tion. While it is true that the 45,000- 000 cattle owned in the United States command a higher market price than would prevail if there were no restric tion upon the free importation of ani mals from across our borders , and while the same is true as to horses , mules and swine , the most ruinous ef fects of foreign competition are visi ble in the case of sheep and their great staple product , wool. Free wool under the Wilson tariff cost the farmers of the United States an average of more than $1 per head of their sheep in the reduced value which resulted from the free admis sion of the low-priced wools of all cre ation. In many cases the loss was far greater than $1 per head. For example , In October , 1894 , two months after the Wilson tariff went Into operation , at an assignee's sale in Jefferson county , Ohio , several lots of fine black top merinos were knocked down at 69 cents each for ewes , 20 cents for lambs and 50 cents for registered bucks. To day , according to the secretary of the Ohio state board of agriculture , "ewes of the same grade are worth $3 to ? 4 each , lambs $2 to § 2.50 , and registered bucks $15 to $25. " It is conservatively estimated that the gain in values of sheep and wool as the direct result of the Dingley tariff amounts to upward of $100,000- 000. Not long ago the Des Moines Reg ister , one of the leading daily news papers of Iowa , printed figures show ing that for the four years of Wilson- Gorman free trade the loss in values cf farm animals in the United States amounted to $2.500,000,000. It will therefore be seen that the sec retary of agriculture puts the case very moderately when he says , "There is a marked increase in the value of live stock on farms reported from almost every section of the country. " The benefits to farmers must be reckoned by hundreds of millions of dollars. Stranger Things Have Happened. In commenting upon the export sta tistics of the United States for the year 1897 the Pall Mall Gazette says : "That American woolen goods are also finding an increased market is also shown by the figures we have quoted. And if a million dollars' worth of woolen goods of all kinds seems , as indeed it is , a very small quantity for a big country to export , just compare the shipments of last year with those of the fiscal year 1893 , when they amounted to no more than § 326,055. One would like to know the destination of these woolens. " Ten years of uninterrupted protec tion to both fiber and fabric will still further open the eyes of the world to the possibilities of wcolen manufac ture in America. As the case now stands , American cloths of certain grades are recognized by clothing manufacturers as honester , better and more serviceable than the same rela tive grade of goods produced in Eu rope. There is less of shoddy and "mungo" and more of genuine wool in them than there is in the foreign cloths. This is more than ever true since the importation of these substi tutes and adulterants has been dis couraged by the heavy tariff rate im posed upon such substances by the Dingley law. Superiority of product is now the al most invariable rule in American manufactures , and it is not impossible that American woolens should event ually share in this enviable repute. Stranger things than this have hap pened as the result of protection. r > ead Industry Itevivctl. A year ago the lead mining industry of this country was stagnant and heavy. Lead producers all over the United States were closing down their mines or had already done so. The Dingley tariff bill became a law and within a few months the lead mines of the United States were stimulated into renewed activity. In the Coeur d'Alene district lead properties have been reopened after a prolonged shut down , and in all the lead producing camps of this country there are signs cf renewed activity , caused by the in crease of the tariff upon their pro ducts. Tacoma Ledger. Foreign Trade Promoted. The exports of the United States have , exceeded its imports since Janu ary 1 , 1S97 , by the enormous sum of $732,111,914 , enough to pay off the greenbacks more than twice over , and even -then there would be left over enough to clean up all the other non- interest-bearing debts of this govern ment not covered by coin. And yet we are told that the Dingley lav.is not a revenue producer and that such laws shut us away from the commerce of the world. Grand Rapids Herald. A Historical Certainty. The Republican protection idea Is no longer an experiment. It is a his torical certainty. Mauch Chunk ( Pa. ) Gazette. icnce And Not Experiments , Should bo Your Aim In Buying Medicine. 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