the jfabniine emocmt
SUCCESSOR TO
CHERRY COUNTY INDEPENDENT
ROBERT B GOOD - Editor Pkop
Valentine
NEBRASKA
The women suffragists have now bat
forty one more States to conquer Come
to think of It Idaho has a sort of a
reomanly sound
The Dallas News says that the bride
was arrayed in a beautiful costume of
cream That was all right she prob
ably was a peach
The largest manufacturer of umbrel
las in this country has made an assign
ment He ought to have put up some
thing else for a rainy day
If Ananias looks up tipon the affairs
of the world he will wonder why it
went so hard with him and so many
Cuban war correspondents escape
The Kansas City Globe remarks ed
itorially We are prone to drink whisky
to excess If you continue to drink it
to excess you probably will be prone
forever
A New York Sunday paper has an
editorial article on the sea serpent The
editor must have drawn on the July
pigeon hole This Isnt the sea serpent
season
A Missouri paper says In Lake
Ctounty the other day a woman was di
vorced from Buck Sigerflip without
mlleging any cause Well no other
cause was necessary
Counterfeit sliver dollars as good as
-the genuine so far as intrinsic value
Coes are said to be plentifully in circu
lation They have the right ring but
ire coined by the wrong ring
This is a euphemistic age A thief
nowadays is called a kleptomaniac
a murderer is called a psychic epilep
tic and in Chicago an Alderman is
called one of our best citizens
Prince Louis Lucien Bonapartes
great philological library has been sold
to a London bookseller as the efforts
to raise money enough to buy it for the
Guild Hall Library were unsuccessful
A Baltimore newspaper says that a
contributor recently sent it a mangled
copy of Whitticrs Barbara Frietchie
lor publication with a note to the effect
that it Was an entirely original compo
sition
Force of habit strong in life is illus
trated in the trappings of a dray mule
In New Orleans which used to haul a
bobtail car and refuses now to draw the
wagon an inch unless the old car bell
langlesy from its collar
Having coined gasphyxia as a term
to describe death by escaping gas the
people of JBoston now propose to adopt
dirigible from the French to express
that which can be directed or
steered What is the matter with di
rectable
Lillian Russell is highly indignant at
the reports that she had married again
Why she exclaims I havent been
divorced from Mr Mr you know
I mean my present husband
wluch shows a delicate appreciation of
the law becoming rare upon the stage
Apropos of the large mortality by the
Inhalation of illuminating gas it is in
teresting to note that the medical so
cieties of Pennsylvania are giving their
attention to a substitute for the gal
lows They have concluded that the
most humane method of extinguishing
the life of the criminal sentenced to
death is by the use of gas and they
propose to present a bill to the Legisla
ture this winter providing for the
change
Mrs Annie Besant makes a touching
appeal in a New York newspaper for
famine stricken India and if half she
relates is true the conditions in some
parts of that country are terrible but
we do not see why America should be
called upon to relieve distress in a
British province Great Britain has
milked India dry for two generations
and her government and people have
been glutted with substance wrung
from a proud spirited and conquered
people If the English had spent half
-the money the Indian army has cost in
building reservoirs and irrigating
ditches famine might have been un
known
Augusta Chronicle Georgia can
raise better hogs and cattle than the
West better turnips than Nova Scotia
nd at least equals Maryland in terra
pin and oysters - Her fish supply is
uperb -along the coast and in the wa
ter courses of the inland Experts
ay that she has a gold belt superior
to that of the Pacific States Her pos
uni and taters cannot be surpassed
Her peaches do not challenge those of
California or Delaware but easily
lake first rank and if her Indian peach
were revived there would be no kind
of comparison Texas raises more cot
ton but Texas is nowhere in manu
facture of the fabric in rivalry with
Georgia We regret to say that Geor
gia is delinquent in one thing she ap
parently prefers to patronize products
away from home when her own home
industries are iust as good and can bre
iad at better rates
The item in the French budget asking
for 40000000 for the improvement of
the navy is an incident indicative of tha
-times The fact is appreciated by all
civilized governments that the warfare
of the future will be more largely upon
the high seas than by invasion of an
enemys territory and more attention
is being given to naval than to military
equipment In this commercial age the
most effective fighting is that directed
Coward the destruction and interrup
tion of commerce and the interference
with colonial relations Great Britain
was the first of the great nations to
see this vantage ground and to occupy
it but the others are following briskly
after herdead
If what Mr Barrie the writer saya
of his sensations while composing is
true we are glad that he does not write
in public He says It is my contemp
tible weakness that if I say a character
smiled vacuously I must smile vacu
ously if he frowns or leers I frown or
leer if he is a coward or given to con
tortion I cringe or twist my legs until
I have to stop writing to undo the knot
I bow with him eat with him and gnaw
my mustache with him If the charac
ter be a lady with an exquisite laugh
I suddenly terrify you by laughing ex
quisitely This is simply awful and
we cannot but think the gifted author
is poking fun at Mr Howells who laid
bare his throes of composition to tho
readers of the Ladles Home Journal
At the dinner given in his honor m
Philadelphia Col A K McClure the
editor of the Philadelphia Times told
the following story relating to his first
newspaper venture started fifty years
ago I well remember the case of a
frugal farmer of the Dunker persua
sion who was sufficiently public-spirited
to subscribe for the Sentinel for six
months to get the paper started but at
the end of that period he had calculated
the heavyexpenses of gathering the
ripening harvest and decided to stop
ihis paper for a while L need not say
that he was enthusiastically confronted
with many reasons why a man of his
intelligence and influence should not
be without the county newspaper but
he yielded only to the extent of further
considering the matter with his wife
He returned in a few days and spread
sunshine around the editorial chair by
saying that his wife had decided to con
tinue for another six months as the
paper would be very handy in the fall
for tying up her apple butter crocks
The presence in San Francisco of
President McCoy of Pitcairn island on
one of those rare visits which the de
scendants of the Bounty mutineers
make to the outside world calls atten
tion to the remarkable peace and hap
piness in which this Pacific colony
dwells There are 130 in the Island re
public living as a single family very
devout healthy and contented There
is said to be no contention from years
end to years end and no one is concern
ed with what he or his neighbor owns
There is no advantage in the accumu
lation of goods or money and of the
latter little exists and Is not -valued
vnry highly by its possessor Seldom an
inhabitant ever visits the rest of the
wrld and when he does it makes him
homesick for the peace and content of
his island again Bellamyites and oth
ers with the community fever should
note that the Pitcairn republic is a suc
cessfirst because it is completely iso
lated and second because the colo
nists are not eaoh loaded down with
too many theories about government
The fast liners of transatlantic steam
ers have increased the minimum rate
for first class passengers The com
panies participating in the agreement
are the French the North German
Lloyd American Red Star Netherlands-American
White Star Hamburg
American and Cunard The Anchor
Line is in the agreement about the book
ing agencies but the agents on this side
have received no instructions with re
gard to the minimum rate The lowest
rate after Dec 1 and until April 1 will
be 75 to Southampton and 7750 to
Bremen on the express steamers For
the so called summer season April 1
to Nov 1 the lowest rate will be 100
on the express steamers and 75 on the
slower steamers That means that the
minimum price of first class tickets will
be from 10 to 15 higher than it has
been There Avill be no reduction for re
turn tickets the winter season on both
sides will be from Nov 1 to April 1 and
children over eight years of age must
pay full fare those between eight and
one paying half fare The half far
age was formerly twelve to three
For thousands of persons the deatn
of Herrmann the magician will cause
a stirring of many reminiscences The
mans place in public regard was as
peculiar as his own very peculiar pro
fession He was perhaps the best
known of the men who practiced the
art of prestidigitation He never claim
ed that his magic was anything other
than a highly developed and intelligent
trickery the result of skill and dexter
ity Yet the people flocked in immense
numbers to be puzzled by this trickery
and applauded the brilliant trickster
It is rarely that one finds a man with
an employment so peculiar winning
such a complete success The great
actor or the great singer finds his just
reward in an admiration for his art
The magicians work is not recogniz
able as art It is a unique form of en
tertainmentsomething analogous to
that of the vaudeville specialist The
remarkabje thing is that a man with
one specialty should have been able
not only to draw the public every even
ing throughout a season but to attract
it constantly and throughout the en
tire country When it is remembered
that Herrmann not only became a fa
miliar figure to thousands of persons
of the present generation but held the
same fortunate prominence before mul
titudes many years ago one can gather
something of the remarkable charac
ter of his success
H0AT0R OLD HICKORY
LEADERS OF DEMOCRACY OB
SERNE JACKSONS BIRTHDAY
Ex Presidential Candidate the Guest
of the Eveninc Governor Altceld
Shares Honors with the Noted
Nebraskan Party Faith Laid Down
Gather at a Banquet
William J Bryan was the guest of
honor at the Jackson banquet of the
Bryan League at the Trement House in
Chicago the other night Many of th
distinguished party leaders were present
Mr Bryan sat at the head of the festal
board and in a speech of about twenty
minutes length outlined the present atti
tude and future policy of the silver men
Other speakers discussed various phases
of the question but it was Mr Bryans
speech that commanded the closest atten
tion for it was understood that his ut
terances were to sound the keynote of
the next campaign And he did this in no
uncertain tones He declared for the con
tinuance of the silver crusade and with
much emphasis said there was no place
in the Democratic party for those who
advocated the gold standard The ma
jority must rule he said and the princi
ples enunciated by the Chicago conten
tion of last year represented the convic
tions of the majority of the Democratic
party
Gov Altgelds speech was the most im
portant of those that followed His t0
was The Mission of the Minority Par
ty which he declared was to arry for
ward great reforms He paid his re
spects to the corporations and money
power of the East and declared that the
Standard Oil Company and other kindred
organizations had controlled the Demo
cratic conventions of 188 1888 and 1802
and had tried to control the one of 189G
but had failed He touched on the Cleve
land administration saying it had proved
the pliant tool of Wall street
Over 400 men sat down to the banquet
which did not begin until 10 oclock and
it was midnight before Mr Bryan arose
to speak The speakers table was in the
form of a crescent from which projected
four tables extending the length of the
dining room The tables were lavishly
decorated with American Beauty roses
and maiden hair ferns and in front of
Mr Bryan was a great bank of the form
er On the wall at his rear was a large
picture of Tackson enveloped in the folds
of the American flag and along the side
walls were similar pictures of Bryan
Sewall and Gov Altgeld Flags were
also hung in festoons about the walls
An orchestra of ten pieces furnished mu
sic during the progress of the banquet
From S to 10 oclock Mr Bryan held a
reception in Parlors J and K and they
were thronged
BRYAN DEFINES DEMOCRACY
Separation of Gold and Silver Fac
tions Necessary and Desirable
W T Bryan spoke as follows
As we are assembled on this occasion to
do honor to tlu memory of Andrew Jackson
we may properly discuss the relations which
should exist between the Democrats who
Indorsed the Chicago platform and the so
called Democrats who aided in the election
of a Republican President The Democrats
who controlled the Chicago convention earn
ed tl Mr right to the party organization and
to the party name by whatever rule leir
claims may be measured A democracv is
i imuniuieiii m wincn me people rule In
other words It is a government such as Lin
coln described A government of the peo
ple by the people and for the people and
i Deinociut in tho broadest sense is one
who believes in this form of government
When I say believes in this form of gov
ernment I mean actual sincere heartfelt
belief not a formal and enforced snbmission
to that form of government Measured by
this definition those who sunnorted the Chi
cago platform are Democrats because they
assert the right of the people to govern
themselves and the right of the American
people to legislate for themselves upon all
questions legardless of the wishes of those
who live in other lands
In a technical sense democracy is- outlined
and dellned by the Democratic party The
Democratic party of the United States in
national convention assembled according to
custom adopted a platform which received
the sanction of nearly tivo thirds of a very
large proportion of thei Democrats of the
nation That convention had a right to de
li ne democracy in a party sense and we
have a rijrht to declare that those who re
fused to support the platform are not Demo
crats
The right to the party organization be
longs to the majority and the right to the
party must also belong to the majoritv
There should bo no difficulty hi understand
ing the relations which should exist between
the Democrats who -remained in the party
and those norsons who went out of the
party A party is llefiiiPil n nn nccnohiHin
of persons who agree upon an important
question or questions and who unite to give
effect to their ideas The money question
became the paramount issue of the day
The Democrats in conventon took a posi
tion upon the question and made a gallant
light in defense of the platform adopted
it the money question was now considered
settled another issue could be taken up and
a new alignment made But the money
question is not settled The contest for
the restoration of the money of the Consti
tution will go on with renewed vigor The
people who advocated free sliver before the
election advocate it now The election has
decided the Presidency for four vears and
t has determined the complexion of Con
5ress for two years but it has not over
thrown the convictions of those who be
lieve that the gold standard is a conspiracy
against the welfare of the producing masses
nor has it changed the convictions of those
who believe that trusts must bo abolished
and corporations made to obey the law
This campaign 1ms shown the Impossibility
of keeping bimetallists and gold standard
advocates in the same political organiza
tions and it will be a more difficult task in
the 1utuie than it has been this year To
use a common illustration a henls always
uisiuiueu ii auu tuts m uer uroou a tew
ducks which insist upon paddling in the
water while the chickens are content to
scratch upon the land The Democratic
party will In like manner be ill at ease If It
has a few web footed members who Insist
upon crossing the ocean for their Ideas
while the great majority of the party are
willing to And their political food upon
American soil
Not only is this separation between the
gold standard Democrats and free sliver
Democrats a necessity but it ought to be
desirable to both sides If the gold stand
ard Democrats are as bad politically as we
think they are we ought not to care to
affiliate with them and if those who sup
ported the Chicago platform are half as
bau as the goldbugs say they are they are
apt to contaminate all who associate with
them
We aie engaged now In just such a con
test as that through which Andrew Jackson
passed and we do well on this occasion to
take encouragement from his devotion to
tho cause of the people Ho gained his
greatest victory In his light against the na
tional bank
We have the same fight on hand to day
The national bank Is
seeking to force a re
tirement of the greenbacks and then mon
opolize the issue of paper money The Re-
puuneans uuring tue campaign just closed
avoided this subjectand refused to declare
themselves either for or against the retire
ment of the greenbacks But when thev
come to apply their ideas to legislation they
must disclose their views
A statement Issued by the Treasury De
partment near the close of December
showed an available cash balance Including
gold reserve of more than 225000000 Of
this sum about 300000OO was iu greenbacks
and about 530000000 In Treasury notes
This money Is either good or bad If it is
good It ought to be in circulation among
the people Instead of locked up in the
vaults at Washington To keep a balance
of 225000000 In the Treasury when the
money Is needed among the people is In
excusable The only way to get this mon
ey out among the people Is first to have
the taxes less than the expenditures In
which ease the amount of the deficit is be
ing saved to the people in taxes and sec
ond to loan it through banks or other
agencies We have got a surplus of about
123000000 above the reserve For the fis
cal year ending June 30 18D5 the expendi
tures exceeded the receipts nearly 43000
000 for the year 1890 a little more than
25000000
If the Republicans attempt to Increase the
revenue they must expect either to in
crease the expenditures or the surplus in
the Treasury I think we are safe in assum
ing they are hostile to the greenback not
because It is inferior to the bank note but
because the national banks desire to retire
the greenbacks with bonds and then draw
upon the bonds the interest which the peo
ple as a whole now save on the greenbacks
While the Republicans have not yet had
an opportunity to write their policies upon
the statute books we have proceeded far
enough to discover that the mere announce
ment of Republican success does not restore
prosperity If the advocates of free silver
had won every bank and business failure
would have been attributed to their success
and the gold standard papers would have
been loud in their wailing But the Repub
lican organs although compelled to chroni
cle an increasing number of business fail
ures over the corresponding period of last
year never connect these failures with Re
publican success
During the month of November 189G
seven national banks failed and in the
month of December eight more closed their
doors I find upon examination of statistics
that December witnessed the closing of
mora national banks than were closed in
any other month since Jan 1 1893 except
ing the three months of the panic of that
year
One bank announced as the cause of Its
failure Inability to realize 6 per cent
upon ussets This notice was a confession
or the argument made during the campaign
by the advocates of free coinage We have
all along Insisted that the gold standard
was destroying the value of assets With
money -rising In value and property falling
In value hard times must continue That
this is not due to local causes Is evident
from the fact that the same complaint
comes from other nations The press dis
patches state that the holiday trade in Ger
many was a disappointment to the mer
chants
The fact that Senator Wolcott has been
sent abroad by the President elect as an
ambassador most extraordinary to bring
Europe to bimetallism is an evidence that
the gold standard is still concealing its
blessing from the American people If the
gold standard is the standard of civilization
why should we risk a return to barbarism
by chasing after international bimetallism
If Senator Wolcott succeeds In stirring up
a silver agitation in England he will be ac
cused of disturbing business and destroying
confidence in that great center of financial
confidence London If his errand proves a
fruitless one It will only give additional
evidence that the United States must act
alone
If in other words our opponents succeed
in bringing bimetallism thev will relieve
us of a great deal of labor and enable us
to turn our attention to other reforms If
on the other hand they fail in their effort
to restore bimetallism after confessing that
bimetallism is desirable we may expect the
American people to join with us In the
opening of our mints to free and unlimited
coinage at 10 to 1 without waiting for the
aia or consent of any other nation
AITGELD CLOSES THE FEAST
He Discusses Tlie Mission of a
Minority Party
Gov Altgeld the last regular speaker
of the evening discussed Character and
Mission of a Minority Party He said
All great reforms all forward move
ments of the human race were born nf
were nurtured rocked and reared by minor
ity parties The minority party being free
from embarrassments can devote its best
efforts to the consideration of great prin
ciples Its mission is to discover the pole
star of eternal right and to meet the newly
developing wants and needs of our clviliza
ion
In 1SS4 the Standard Oil and other cor
porate Interests came to Chicago and con
trolled the Democratc convention They
did not want a Democrat nor did they in
reality want a President What they wanted
was a registrar some one who would do
their bidding They knew their man and
they got him In 1S8S the Standard Oil and
other trusts and great corporate Interests
went to St Louis and controlled the Demo
cratic convention In 1892 the Standard and
other trusts and great corporate interests
came to Chicago and controlled rh
cratic convention
In 1890 the Standard Oil and the great
trusts and corporate interests came to ObJ
cago to again control the partv but the
Democracy of America had shaken off its
stupor They proclaimed ncnln Hip hhi h
of humanity they raised again the banners
of Jeffprson and of Jackson and they de
clared that the Democratic party must again
stand for Democratic principles They
adopted a new declaration of independence
and they selected for their standard bearer
he who made the most remarkable campaign
ever witnessed by man
We celebrate the birth of Andrew Jackson
because he stood erect In the sight of om
nipotence and all the children of man and
defied the forces of plutocracy It is be
cause lie stood for those doctrines that are
vital to free government What is the situ
ation now Jefferson declared that the pre
rogative of issuing money or bills which
should circulate as money belonged to the
Government alone and that banks of issue
were destructive of the liberties of the
Yet the present administration had tram
pled that principle into the mud and openlv
advocated that the
Government should sur
render Its prerogative of Issuing bills that
shall circulate as money to tho corporations
Jackson found the money changers in the
temple and drove them out and when the
plutocracy of his day became Insolent and
oppressive as It Is to day he declared
By the eternal the people shall rule this
land and not the money power
The picsent Federal administration in
stead of following the footsteps of Jackson
had made a complete surrender to the money
power Yet notwithstanding these facts
there will gather to day at various places in
this country some men who uphold aud ap
plaud the present administration for the
course It has taken in insnltincr tho monmrw
of Jefferson and spitting upon the good
name of Jackson who yet insist upon call
ing themselves Democrats We know we
stand for certain great principles If we
stand by ou colors success Is In sight and
the relief of the people is near at hand
WILL EQUAL NIAGARA
A Wonderful Project to Be Carried
Out in St Lawrence County
Niagara will have to look after her
laurels A scheme has just been con
summated for the development of from
100000 to 200000 horse power by the
construction of a canal between the St
Lawrence and Grass rivers in the town
of Massena St Lawrence County and
more power may be developed if need
ed
Last May a company was formed for
this purpose and almost unlimited pow
ers were given to it by the Legislature
Foreign capital was then attracted and
the project has thus come to a head
The two rivers parallel each other at
the point where the canal is to be con
structed and are from three to four
miles apart The St Lawrence is 47
feet higher than the Grass river and by
the construction of the canal enough
water power will be obtained to gener
ate between 300000 and 200000 horse
power of electric energy There will
be room for large industries and a great
industrial city will rapidly follow ths
carrying out of the project
P
A DO NOTHING CONGRESS
The Republicans in the present Con
gress evidently would like to tinker
the tariff but have not the courage
They are disposed to take a more mod
erate view as to the needs of the coun
try in the high protection line than is
entertained by both nanna and Mc
Kinley and they would like to put
their opinions on record but they fear
the punishment that the next Presi
dent and his chief adviser will mete
out to them if they do so
The closing session of this Congress
will therefore be practically a do
nothing one The money question the
Republicans dare not discuss at all
just now for the reason that they are
appalled at the size of the Democratic
vote in November and they do not
want to take any steps that will keep
the people engaged in thinking over
the financial situation With the tariff
and silver both barred there is noth
ing to discuss in a broad way outside
of the Cuban situation just now
Even on the Cuban question how
ever the Republicans lack coherence
of opinion and courage of conviction
Those who are not over much in love
with McKinleys extreme high tariff
views and who think that political
capital can be made for their side by
a bullying policy toward Spain are
in favor of a course that may lead us
legislation are taking a conservative
stand which is somewhat surprising
and is only to be explained through
the supposition that they fear a reac
tion from any belligerent legislation
Tin Republicans in this Congress
also feel a certain sympathy for Presi
dent Cleveland who wishes to get out
of office now without having to bother
with any legislation concerning which
public opinion is divided If the ordi
nary appropriation bills only are pass
ed he will be- well pleased and the
majority in the House certainly and
in the Senate probably are disposed
to enable him to make his exit from
public life peacefully and quietly
The Union of Democrats
The Buffalo Evening Times which
did good service in the late campaign
for the Democratic cause copies a
recent Daily News article upon the ne
cessity for united action among Demo
crats and editorially remarks as fol
lows
It -behooves the Democratic party to
prepare for a conflict which will be
marked as was the battle of 1890 by
the use of unlimited sums of money dis
tributed by tuusts corporations ana
syndicates on one side and the exertions
of self sacrificing men appealing to rea
son and patriotism on the other Agi
tation and education must work in har
mony with the party organization We
will need all our strength Let it not
be waited
The campaign for 1900 cannot be com
menced too early We all feel no mat
ter whicli way we voted that the re
sult of the presidential election of last
November was unsatisfactory and in
definite The nonular maioritv of lie-
Kinley aud Bryan was but a trifle of
the aggregate vote while of the forty
five States only the electoral votes of
twent3 two were given in their entire
ty for the successful candidate
The election in fact determined
nothing except that the wholesale out
put of money and influence by the com
bined banks trusts and syndicates tem
porarily deluded and induced enough
voters to give McKinley a sufficient
majority The issues of the Chicago
platform of 189G are yet on trial and
uncondemned before the American peo
ple AVben with a fair contest and a
full hearing and a mature deliberation
they shall be rejected we may despair
of the republic
There are abundant evidences on ev
ery side that Democrats are uniting
for a final effort With the McKinley
administration we can wage a perpetual
wanare with every hope of our grow
ing in strength and profiting by its ab
surd errors The
extra session now
resolved on ought to unite Democrats
as much as it is sure to divide and dis
tract our opponents We echo the en
couraging advice of the Times Let us
summon and unite all our parry
strength New York News
Immigrants and Edncation
The immigration bill now pending in
Congress provides that all immigrants
to this country who are over 1G years
old must be able to read and write the
language of the country from which
they come the only exception being in
favor of parents and grandparents of
persons already here
The object is of course to keep out
the illiterates from Italy and Russia
which are becoming a matter of serious
concern In most of the large cities of
the country and particularly in New
York The proportion of immigrants
over 16 unable to read and write is be
coming larger every year under the
present laws This year they number
29 out of every 100 while last year they
were only 20 an increase in one year of
nearly 50 per cent
rue worst ciass or new arrivals n
this respect are the Italians as Presi
dent Cleveland pointed out in his last
message Last year 55 out of every 100
of that nationality who came here over
1G years old could neither read nor
write Russian Jews being considerably
ahead of them the percentage of al
solute illiterates among those above th
school age being forty one
Very few persons over 10 from cue
countries that have furnished the bone
and sinew of this nation would be ex
cluded under the proposed law The
Irish the Germans and the Swedes and
Norwegians above that age who came
here can nearly all read and write It
is only the Russian and Polish He
brews the Slavs and Magyars from the
Austrian polyglot empire and the Ital
ians who show any great amount of
illiteracj
The bill may possibly work an occa i
sional hardship but it certainly will
prove conducive to the greatest good of
the greatest number which is or
should be the aim and object of all
laws New York News
For a Tariff on Lumber
The men assembled in Cincinnati to
agitate for high protective duties on
lumber represent an Industry in which
large fortunes have been made with
ease and rapidity They represent an
industry which least of all should askl
for higher taxation of the people notf
for purposes of revenue but for the en
richment of private individuals and cor
porations
Our forest reserves are being destroy-
ed too rapidly as it is Why should en l
couragement be placed upon such de i
Stniftfnn hvthp immciinn nf hic h nrn l
into war while those who want the teccive duties Suppose a small amount
decks kept clear for more protective of lumber is imported from Canada is
not the result the preservation of parti
of our own limited forest domain until
a time when it will be more valuable
Instead of placing a premium upon
the destruction of our forests whose
preservation is so desirable for reasons
relating to climate and rainfall the
Government should rather undertake
to maintain a forest reserve
If it be said that high duties on lum
ber are a benefit to the workingmen
let it be remembered that the only im
portation of lumber is from Canada
and while it is desired to lovy a duty
on such importation there is nothing
to prevent Canadian workingmen from
coming across the border into Ameri
can lumber camps whicli they do in
large numbers
High protective duties on lumber
would mean higher prices to the con
sumer witli little benefit to any one
but millionaire lumbermen who al
ready have made fortunes out of the
business Lumber is a commodity
that should be as cheap as possible in
order to encourage building Thus
would encouragement be given to labor
and the consumer would be benefited
at the same time Chicago Record
Tl Deficit Knplnined
The effect of the Cuban insurrections
upon our commerce with the island has
been disastrous In 1S94 our iinports
from Cuba were valued at 76413131
In 1S93 the value was 51052123 anci
for nine months of the present year it
had fallen to 227002GS Our exports
to the island were 171SGS35 in 1894
anlthis year they will not reach 6
000000 If the war continues much
longer our exports will fall to almost
nothing
A recent report of the collector or
the port of Philadelphia shows that
the loss of revenue at that port this
year on Cuban imports is S000000
The entire revenue lost by the Govern
ment this year must be several times
that amount
These are facts which should be con
sidered before condemning the Wilson-
Gorman law for its failure to raise
enough revenue They are due to con
ditions which could not have been fore
seen by the framers of the bill When
the losses from the income tax not be
ing enforced from the decrease in
Cuban commerce and from business
depression are considered the deficit
can be explained in a manner which
does not reflect upon the authors of
the act and those who voted for it
Woes of the President Kiect
Major McKinley so report has it has
been compelled to flee from Canton in
order to get rid of the demands of the
lG0O or more office seekers who have
come to the front with the claim that
each is the original McKinley man
Just now the President elect Is free to
time his moments so as to escape the
crush of office seekers But ensconced
in the White House he cannot dodge
the hordes of the hungry who are seek
ing plac3 under the new administra
tion Compared with the preparation
of speeches to visiting delegations Mc
Kinley will find the dodging of them a
much more difficult task Philadelphia
Item
Trusts the Allies of Protection
No one will presume to sav that Mr
McKinley favors these iniquitous mon
opolies In common with all other good
citizens doubtless he would like to see
them restrained But they are insep
arably connected with the protective
tariff system Steel rails could not be
sold at 28 ion but for the 10 tariff
on the forpn product If competition
to a trust could not be found in this
country it would certainly be developed
abroad Were the consumer free tn
buy wherever he chose he could snap
his fingers in the face of domestic mon
opolists Louisville Courier Journal
rirakinc Returns for Fat Fried
The clamor for a high tariff meas
urethe higher the better is not for
the relief of the Government so much
as to redeem pledges made manufac
turers in return for campaign contri
butions to the Hanna fund Leadville
Herald Democrac
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