LETTER OF SEWALL
ACCEPTING THE NOMINATION
For vice president.
Olseusalon of the Financial Issue—Be
Buys All Other Reforms Most Walt
Upon the Settlement of the Cu'trencj
’Question—Free Coinage Held to be the
Sole Remedy for Existing Evils.
Sewell's Letter of Acceptance.
Bath, Me., Oct. 8.—Hon. Arthur
‘Sewall, Democratic "candidate for
Vice President of the United States,
has made public ifis fetter of accept*
tnce. It is as follows:
“Hon. Stephen B. White, Chairman,
and Members of the Notification
Committee: Gentlemen—I have the
honor to accept in writing1, as I have
already verbally done, the nomina
tion tendered by you on behalf of the
Democratic party, as its candidate for
Vice President of the United States.
And in so doing, I am glad, first, to
express my satisfaction that the plat
form of our party, which has com
manded my life-long allegiance, is
honestly and fully declaratory of all
the'principles, and especially of the
absorbing financial issue, upon which,
ss you say. 1 took my stand when the
hours of triumph seemed remote aud
when arrogant money-changers
throughout t ie country boasted .that
the conquest of tne American masses
was completed.
“These principles have been of late
In abeyance, bat only because those
whom we trusted to maintain them
have failed to do so. These principles
can never die. We have rescued our
party from those who, under the in
fluence of the money power, have
controlled and debased it. Our mis
sion notv is 1o rescue from this same
power and its foreign allies our own
beloved country. This is the first and
highest dulv imposed bv our Bartv's
platform; until ’.no performance of
this duty all other reforms must wait.
“The test of party principles is the
governnient they assure. The proof
of good government is a contented
snd happy people, and the supreme
test of Doth is tne ability to guide toe
country through crises, as well as to
administer the government in ordi
nary times. Uur people now fact; a
crisis; a crisis more serious thau any
since the war.
“The best money in the world is
.none too good tor those who have got
it, but bow is it with the 90 per cent
of our people who have got it to get?
“How is it with those who inu.-t
buy this ‘best money in the world’
with the products of their own labor?
These are the people for whom the
Democratic parly would legislate.
What is the best ui ney for these is
the question for,ail 10 ask who really
love this land How else canyon in
crease labor’s purenasing power, but
by increasing the price of labor’s pro
duct. Is it a fair measure of values
that in our great producing section
ten bushels of potatoes must be paid
for a dollar, ten bushels of oats for a
dollar, six bushels of corn for a dol
lar, three bushels of wheat, and all
other products of the soil and mines
and the labor of all wage earners at
! the same ratio?
“It has brought os at last to the
parting of the ways. Whither shall
the people go—in the way that has
led to their enslavement, or into that
Which offers them tneir only chance
to begin individual liberty, lasting
prosperity and happiness?
“Let not our opponents charge us
with creating class distinctions. Alas
for the republic, they are already
here, created by the Republican policy
of the lost thirty years, created by
the very system we would now over
throw and destroy.
“Behind.the strong entrenchment
of the gold standard are gathered all
those favored classes it has fostered,
the only dangerous class of the land,
avarice and uuholv greed are there,
every trust and combination are there.
Every monopoly is there, led by the
greatest monopoly of all, the mono
poly of the power of gold.
“With us in our assault upon these
entrenchments are all these unselfish
men who not1 now suffering them
selves, can not rest content with con
ditions so full of sufferings for others,
•nd that vaster number of our people
who have been sacrificed to the small
and selfish class who now resist their
, j attempts to regain their ancient
.^rights and liberties
“These are the patriots of 1896; the
foes of a ‘dishonest dollar,’ which en
riches 10 per cent of our people and
rqbs the rest, the defenders of the
homes of the land, the public morals
and the public faith, both of which
alike forbid the payment of govern
ment obligations in a coin costlier to
those who have to pay it, than that
that the contract calls for, the de
fenders of the nation, whose most sa
cred charge is to care for the welfare
of all its citizens.
“The free and unlimited coinage of
silver is the sole rtemedy with which
to check the wrongs of to-day, to un
do the ruin of the past, and for our
inspiration we have the justice of our
cause and those cherishod principles
of Jefferson and Jackson, which shall
be our guide on our return to power.
Equal and exact justice to all men,
absolute acquiescence in decisions of
the majority, the vital principles of
republics, the honest payment of our
debts and sacred preservation of the
public faith.
“ABTHUR SEWAT.L.”
McKinley on the Money Question.
Canton, Ohio, Oct. 8.—Shortly alter
t o’clock this -torning a small but en
thusiastic delegation arrived in a
special car attached to the regular
train from Goodale, Ind. To them
McKinley said in part: “We are en
gaged this year in a great national
contest, the result of which will de
termine for years to come the public
policies which shall govern this coun
try. .Government is always an inter
estng study. There is a good deal of
misunderstanding as to how the gov
ernment gets its money and how it
pays it out. There are some people
who seeiu to believe that the way the
government gets its money is to make
it. The government gets its money
by taxation and can get it in no other
way. There are three or four sources
from which the government of the
United States gets money The
chief sources of revenue are through
tariffs and internal taxation. Then
the government (eta tome money
from the sale of Its pnblio landa
and from its postal service— and
from these several sources there
comes the money that is annually re
quired to meet and discharge the pub
lic expenses. It takes about PtSO.OOO,
000 a year to conduct this govern
ment. A million and one third dol
lars for every day are required to
keep its wheels in operation. Now, if
the government had the power to
make money, as some people seem to
believe, or had the power to double
the value of a thing by its stamp or
flat, it would not need to resort to
taxation—it would simply set its
mints to work and make the necessary
amount of money to pay its running
expenses It would have paid off the
national debt long years ago in t'his
way. There is another thing 1 would
have you all know, that the govern
ment cannot get gold or silver except
j through the custom houses or the in
ternal revenue offices without giving
something for it just as you and 1
have to give something for it if wo
want gold or silver.
“Now, how does the government
distribute this money? Somebody
asked me this question the other day.
The government distributes its annual
receipts under appropriations of Con
gress to its creditors. That is the
wav the iponey of the government ia
distributed. It is distributed to the
army and the navy, fog public im
provements, for rivers and harbors,,
for the great postal service of the
country, for the expenses of Congress,
for sustaining the judiciary, te pay
the principal and interest of the pufa»
lie debt and to pay pensions of sol
diers and the other creditors of the.
government, and there is no other
way for the government to distribute
any money except pay it to the peo
ple to whom it owes money. There
is no such thing as a general distri
bution of money by the government
of the United States. The point I want
to make in the little talk 1 am giving
to you this morning ia tbis—that the
government does not create money,
that it cannot create money, and that
whatever money it needs it has to col
lect from taxes, either by a system of
direct taxation or by a system of indi
rect taxation known as a tariff; and
that if the government wants to have
any gold and silver minted for its
own uses it has to psy for that gold
and silver just as you and 1 would
have to pay for it if we wanted it for
i ur purpose. me luva inti toe gov
eminent can create wraith is a mere
myth. There is nothing that can cre
ate wealth except labor, as my friend
to the right pots it.”
Mr. McKinley then briefly advocated
the protective tariff system of raising
revenue and said: “If we could create
money by merely starting our mints
running, then there would be no ne
cessity of taxes. Now, there is an
o' her thing I want to talk to you
about for a moment. We want our
money good. I do not care what em
ployment we may be engaged in—
whether we work in the shop or on
tne farm, or in u profess ion—we want
the duller we have in circulation as
good as our flag and as unquestioned
us the currency of any country in the
world; and that is the purpose of the
Republican »r‘" -o' • ”
URGED TO FUSION.
Wr. Bryan Confers With Indiana Pops*
list Candidates and Leaders.
Indianapolis, Ind., Oct 8.—The
only delegation Mr. Bryan received
while in the city was one which called
upon him at 10 o'clock last evening,
after he had gone to bed. It was
composed of the candidates upon the
Populist state ticket and a few mem
bers ol the Populist state committee.
He had consented to see them,
because the Populist state ticket
stands in the way of complete
fusion in Indiana. He shook
hands with each one of them and
said that the work of fusion between
the two great parties was begun at SL
Louis and had been completed satis
factorily in every state where it was
a matter of importance except in In
diana, While he did not know any
thing of the details of the situation in
this state, he sincerely hoped that
nothing would be permitted to stand
in the way of complete unity and har
mony among ths foroes engaged in
the battle of the people against the
gold standard policy, the trusts, syn
dicates and money lenders of Wall
8 treet.
The conference qnly lasted fifteen
minutes, and Mr. Bryan was left to
sleep while the Populists retired for
a brief conference with Chairman
Martin of the Silver Democratic State
committee. They made Mr. Martin no
further promises than that they
would confer among themselves and
then say definitely whether they
would withdraw the State ticket.
THE FLORIDA ELECTION.
count Et«Mdln|lj Slow—Domooratf
Bleat the Entire Ticket.
Jacksonville, FIs., Oct 8.—The
counting of the vote of Florida’s elec
I tion is progressing exceedingly slow
I and unsatisfactorily because it was
! the" first under the new Australian
j ballot law. Returns are greatly de
I layed and thus far are so meager that
; no more can be said than that the
1 Democrats claim a plurality of 20,000,
white the Republicans claim that
Bioxham, the Democratic candidate
for governor, will not have more than
12,000 plurality and that Sheats, whc
is running for superintendent of in
struction on the same ticket, will
have even less. Both claims are
guesses.
The vote was light, especially in the
storm-stricken section, and the Aus
tralian ballot law further reduced the
1 total. As to the legislature, it is be
lieved that United States Senator Call
secured thirty-five of the 100 members
The election was anlat.
| Mo fusion In Wast Virginia
Pakkensbitbo, W. Va., Oot. 8.—Col
onel N. W. Fitzgerald, Populist candi
date for gorernor; I. B. Olfner, Popu
list candidate for auditor; “Cyoloaen
Davis, I. C. Ralphsaydar and other
Populist leaders, met John T. Degrbw,
Democratic national committeeman;
Andrew Sdmtatoa, chairman of ths
Democratic state esecntive committee,
and other leaders last night and they
conferred in secret session and ad
journed without agreeing upon a
fusion. It is rumored that the Demo
crats made generous offers, all of
which were rejected by the Populists
CZAR’S VISIT UNLUCKY.
**■•» Mishaps la Frmaos Oaass Papas
■tllloos CsasMSl
Pams, Oot. 8.—A series of unplaao
ant inoldents has marked tha visit ol
♦he esar of Russia to Fraooa and su
perstitious people are busy comment
lug- on the matter. First earns thi
gale in which he crossed the channel,
and whioh nearly wrecked the decora
tions at Cherbourg, as well as caused
a slight mishap at the landing. Thes
came several slight misadventures al
Cherbourg and on the way hern
These were followed by the backing
of the imperial carriage against th«
curbstone by restive horses, during
which the czarina was struck in the
face by a shrub and forced
to abandon her visit to the Elyses.
Finally the performance at the opera
last night was terminated abruptly In
the middle of the ballet owing to the
illness of the czar, which, it Is said,
was occasioned by the bad cooking al
the Elysee palace. What effect these
various mishaps will have on the osar’s
feelings no one can say, but there are
•■any who fear that he will remember
these more strongly than the eathu*
siasm of the million people who greet*
ed him yesterday and the reception
given by the President and statesmen.
He is known to be very euperatltioua
and it is feared that the untoward
incidents will affect him unfavorably
to France.
NO AMERICAN CUARDSHIP.
Turkey ItluM to Allaw The lannaft
1° Batfr the Boaphem.
Constantiwoplb, Oet 8. —It U semi
officially announced that the Turkish
government has decided not to admit
the United States cruiser Baneroft
through the Dardanelles, and there
fore it will not be able to aet as the
guardship ef the United States lega
tion. The porta has also decided net
to admit guaidships ef Greece and
Holland. The exact ground for the
refusal is not stated, but it is known
in official circles here that Busaia has
objected to the presence in the Bos
phorus of United States, Grecian or
Dutch guardships because the Berlin
agreement excludes from naval rep
resentation in the Bosphorus any
powers that were not parties to that
agreement.
New Point* About Plaaeta.
Boston, Oct. S.—A dispatch received
here from Lowell observatory, Flag
staff, Ariz., announces that the as
tronomers of the observatory have
discovered that each of the planets
Mercury and Venus turns once on its
axis during one revolution about the
sun, making the day just equal to the
year on these planets. They find fur
ther that Venus is not cloud-covered,
as has been reported, but has about it
a thick atmosphere, while Mercury
has none.
Bryan at Indianapolis
Indivnapolis, Ind., Oct. 8.—The re
ieption accorded William Jennings
Bryan on his arrival in Indianapolis
yesterday was nearly as great as any
he has received during his entire trip.
He made five sneeclies here, two in the
afternoon and three at night, and at
eaoh meeting he addressed immense
audiences, one of which was nearly as
i large as that addressed by him on
Boston Common, the largest of the
campaign.
IOWA PATENT OFFICE REPORT
Deb Moines, Oct. 5.—A copyright
rw u”," *r*;ted to Pe"J Perkins, of
Des Moines, for a wark of art sd
engraving entitied “Anchor, Cross and
Heart. A patent has been allewed
to the Ellshunt Medicine <£ ot Det
Moines, for a trade mark consisting oj
the word symbol “Ellshunt,” as
applied to protect cough mixtures,
blood purifier powders, liniment, pills
8nJTupr*’ S,xtric**>. ionics and bitters.’
T; Robb,ns« of Newton, has
nt5d * Canada potent for his
not water furnace for heating build
for "bioh » United State! patent
was issued heretofore. The invention
is in successful operation in Jasner
county court house and other places
A patent has been allowed to W E
Edwards, of Wapello, for a wheei
usld wdh tha‘ can b« successfully
used with or without a tongue. It has
bad • successful introduction and
practical test and is favorably known
where it has been used by the unique
name of ‘T. e Grass Hopper.” Val
uable information about obtaining,
raluing and selling patents sent free
many address.
Thomas G. and J. Salm Omria,
_Solicitors of Patents.
LITE STOCK ANI> PRODUCE MARKETS
Quotation! From New York, Chicago, St,
Louis, Omaha and i-.lsewhero.
OMAHA.
Batter—Creamery separator., is ® IS
Butter—Choice fancy country n ® i*
Eggs-Fresh.. 13'',® 14
Poultry—Live hens,per . 54Q g
Spring Chickens. 5**^. «
Lemons—Choice Messlnas.4 60 @ 5 00
Honey—! ancy White. 13 ur 54
Sweet Potatoes per bbl. 1 75 @ 2 00
New Onions. . 35 qi, go
Cranberries—(’ape Cod, bbl ... 6 00 & 6 50
Potatoes.......... 30 ® 40
Oranges—Per box . 5 00 ® S r,o
Hay—Upland, per ton. 4 SO ® s 00
Apples Per btil. 1 50 » 2 25
SOUTH OMAHA STOCK MAHKET.
Hogs—Light Mixed. 3 00 a 3 10
Hogs-Heavy Weights. 2 SO nils
Beef—Steers. 3 00 @47;
Bulls..'. 165 ® 2 5
Milkers and springers.25 00 ®6"> 00
Stags. 2 50 ® 3 00
Calves.. 3 25 ® 5 00
»eIf,er».-i-w-'i. 1 *0 ® 3 00
Stockers and Feeders. 2 80 ® 3 00
Cattle—Westerns. 2 10 ® 3 25
Sheep—Native. *7 j 7*
Sheep—Lambs. 2 6.1 « 4 00
CHICAGO.
Wheat-No. 2 Spring. 67 ®
Corn-Perbu. 23 ® 23.4
.. 6 45 t 6 50*
c^e-primi-sieersv.::::::::: 1 Tl i g
Western Feeders.. 2 50 ® 2 75
Hogs—Medium mixed... ...... 2 90 ® 3 25
Sheep—Lambs. 4 7,5 a 6 00
Sheep—Western range. 1 50 ® ■> go
NEW YORK
Wheat—No. 1, hard. 77 ® 77,/
Corn No. 2,. £9 3 29*
L«™—. 4 45 ® 4 50
ST. LOUISl
Wheat—No. 2 red, cash. 63%® 64
Corn-Per bu. 21 S 21W
Oats—Per bu. 16 a ls2
Hogs—Mixed packing. 3 00 ® 3 65
Cattle—Native Shlp'ng Steers. 3 50 ® 4 in
hASsAstl 1.
Wheat—No. 2 hard. 60 ® 6114
Cattlf—Stockers and feeders.. 2 00 ® 3 5
Hogs—Mixed. 3 00 ® :i 20
Sheep—Lambs . 2 80 ® 3 50
Sheep—Muttons. 1 ao ® 2 85
One of the mottoee carried in the La
bor Day parade ran In this way: “Who
ever la elected, we shall have to work."
There was sound philosophy in that
motto, and workingmen may confident
ly apply it to the situation In which
they And themselves to-day. A11 of us
—all of the vast army of wage earners
here in the United States—must work
if we expect to get money. Labor is
the only thing that most of ua have to
give for money, and if we do not sell
our labor we have no income.
What doea it mean, then, when some
people tell us that we shall grow rich—
that we shall get more money—if a
great many more silver dollars are
coined for mine owners who take their
allver to the mints? Is it meant that
we shall be able to get some of these
new silver dollars without working for
them? Surely not this; for we “shall
have to work, whoever is elected pres
ident."
Perhaps it is meant that workingmen
will get more of the silver dollars for
the same amount of work which now
brings them dollars as good as gold.
But who is to guarantee this to the
workingmen? They do not get more in
Japan, surely, or in Mexico, or in Ar
for the Chicago platform and Mr. Bry
an; indeed they had all to do with
drafting the one and naming the oth
er. Since this information has beoome
general we hear less from Mr. Bryan’s
side of the house of the eastern mil
lionaire and hia preference for sound
and honest money as opposed to silver
Inflation and repudiation.
But the free silver agitator is much
disturbed Just now because the east
ern manufacturer and the railroad
officer are telling their employees that
the factory and mill cannot run and
the railroad be operated profitably un
der a free silver monetary system.
They say the employer has no right
to intimate to his employee what con
ditions are favorable to his industry
or enterprise and what not Why
hasn’t he? Are not the interests of
employer and employee largely identi
cal? Is it possible for the employer to
be hurt without the employee feeling
it? Should an employer allow his em
ployee to be misled into doing what
will result in loss of work or wages
without saying a word by way of cau
tion to put him on his guard? Is the
right of free speech to be denied the
employer? And is a word well meant
Another strong rival referred to else
where in the report is Argentina, whoa*
farthers have cheaper and freshdr tand|
and whose labor expenses are much
less than those of their American com
petitors.
Cheap land or cheap labor, or bot|
combined, are what the America^
wheat-raiser has to contend against,
and not the gold standard. The At*
gentlne farmer can get fresh govern*
ment land for a song, and hence doet
not have to put as much capital Into
his farm as the Minnesota or Dakota
farmer does. He pays less for farm
labor, and his transportation facilities
are often better. Hence he can sell his
grain more cheaply.
The moment the Sues canal was
opened the wheat-raisers of India, who
already had cheap labor, got Quick and
cheap transportation, and became for
midable competitors. Fill up the Sues
canal and force them to send their
wheat around the Cape of Good Hope,
and they would cease to be such dan
gerous rivals. Give the wheat-raiser
of the northwest deep-water trans
portation from Duluth to Liverpool,
and he would get more for his wheat
than he does now.
The American wheat-raieer has got
to deal with the fact stated by Senator
Pefter that wheat costs about 13 cents
a bushel on the India farm, largely be
cause labor Is so poorly paid there.
It is estimated that it costs 65 cents
to raise a bushel in New York or Penn
HONEST VOTER—Let Them Com* On, We'll Teach Them a Lesson In November.
gantina, or in any silver country, ..^he
workingmen in those countries ' get
about enough wages in silver to pay
for the food which the American work
ingmen’s children give to thr'r pet dog
or cat. If there is any fact about
which there is no dispute, it is that the
lowest wages and the poorest living
are those of the workingmen in coun
tries where the silver standard pre
vails.
Now, one of two things must happen
if the United States undertakes to coin
53 cents' worth of silver into a legal
tender dollar for everyone who has the
silver and asks to have it made into
a dollar. Either the new silver dollars
will be worth as much as gold dollars,
or they will be worth less. If they hold
the same value that our dollars have
to-day, how are worklngmvn to get
any more of them for the same amount
of labor? If they do not hold that val
ue but depreciate, in what way are the
workingmen going to make up the defi
cit in the value of their wages?
No one now seriously contends that
silver dollars, or the treasury certifi
cates representing such dollars, could
be maintained at a parity with gold
under free and unlimited coinage. That
Job is too big for even Uncle Sam to
handle. The value of the dollar, and
so the value of wages, would inevi
tably fall, and it would fall badly. But,
we are told, there is the poor farmer
who has a mortgage overdue and could
pay it off so much more easily with
this cheap kind of dollars. True
enough; he could pay off his mortgage
with the money which the workingmen
lose in wages. This might be pleasant
for the farmer, but 13 it exactly cheer
ful for the workingmen?—Boston Post.
| EMPLOYER AND EMPLOYEE, j
When the free silver agitation was
young; while yet the theories of the
white metal doctrinarles were plaus
ible and their arguments specious, it
was a clever trick with which to catch
unthinking voters to harp upon the
fact that the capitalists and million
aires of the east were opposed to the
free and unlimited coinage of silver
at the ratio of 16 to 1 without the co
operation of other first class powers.
But it was soon learned by the public
that the capitalists and millionaires of
the far west, the silver states, were for
the free silver idea. And it was
learned, too, that these millionaires
had about as many millions as the
same number of eastern rich men.
Twenty-two silver kings represent an
aggregate wealth of 17,00r>.ooo, a*d
•very single solitarv o* them is
they will receive ihore .so-called dol
lars even if it will take two of them
to purchase as much as one will buy
now. If there is any iplace In the
United States, where the employee
must vote to please his employer It is
In the silver country.—Zanesville (O.)
Courier.
I'^ywH-ftVIsToT'l
Two years ago Senator Peffer made
a report to the senate on the cause of
the fall in agricultural prices. In that
report he declares that—
"Our home prices for wheat are large
ly controlled by the foreign wheat mar
ket, and that is regulated by those who
supply the greater part of the demand.
The effect on our wheat market Is to
bring down prices. Our strongest rival
is now India, whose farmers during the
last seven years furnished nearly one
half as much as we did of the wheat
from him and for the employees’ bast
Interest to be tortured into Intimida
tion? The truth is the natural re
lation between employer and em
ployee Is a close one. It has been
widened by the politician and walk
ing delegate until In many cases rm
nlty has supplanted the good feeling
which should be fostered.
Let us see the inconsistency of the
free silver people. Have you ever
been in the silver mining states since
the Stewarts, Tellers, Newlands, and
that class of men have been making
sentiment for the cause of the white
metal? Have they enlisted the silver
miner who works for them? Have
they? Why, he is rampant. If he
were not he could not only not hold
his job or not hope for one when
Bryan gets to be president, if he is
out of employment now, but it would
be too uncomfortable for him to live
out there.
Bulldozing, do you call this thing
of employer enlisting employees in
behalf of what will benefit the
former? Well, then, you should go
Into the silver mining districts and
behold it flourishing with vigor and
luxuriance. The silver miner is told,
with free silver, wages will go up. It
is not explained to him that they will
go up as measured by a silver stan
dard. It is enough for him to know
and for the purposes of such skin
flints as Senator Stewart that
requirements of our best customer—
England. * • • Wages of India
farm hands run from 6 to 10 cents of
cur money per day, and wheat costs
about 13 cents per bushel on the (arm
there ” •
sylvanla, and about 50 cent* In
How does the free silver farmer think
this difference in the cost of production
between America and India will bet
done away with by free oolnage? Does
he think the cost of labor will be in^
creased In India, and not Increased!
here? Or does he think the Cost of la-t
bor will be decreased here and not In-;
creased in India? Does he expect to
see the American farm laborer Injured
er the laborer in India benefited? .
Free coinage will not Increase the
yield to the acre. It will not add to
the number of wheat consumers. It
will do nothing to aid the farmer. By
creating a panic, by disorganizing all
branches of business, by reducing the
city consumption of wheat and all oth
er farm products free coinage will do
the farmer Indescribable Injury. It will
damage his home market, which Is hii
main-stay.—Chicago Tribune.
Opposed to Mr. Bit an.
Among other things to which Mr.
Bryan has declared himself to be op
posed Is national protection to the beet
sugar industry. This man, who pre
tends to be the friend of the American
people, does not want to see American
Industries developed, for he knows that
with the revival and development of
commerce and Industry and con
sequent return of prosperity the op
portunity of the demagogue passes
away. A contended, prosperous peo
ple has no Inclination to listen to his
rant. Had not the tariff policy of the
present administration brought on
financial depression and consequent
hard times the silver! 'es would not
have been able to spread their falla
cious doctrines, for none would have
listened.
But to return to the protection of
American eugar. During the fiscal year
ended In 1895 this country imported 3,
516.158,168 pounds of sugar valued at
374,829,794. During the latest fiscal year
the amount of Imported sugar was 3,
708,874,786 pounds, valued at $83,866,
200.
There is no reason why all the sugar
that is consumed in this country
should not be made from cane or beets
raised in this country. The $158,695,t
994 which have been sent abroad to pay
for the sugar which we imported dur
ing two years should have been distri
buted among American farmers and,
manufacturers of sugar, and they,
would have been If the Republican pol
icy had been permitted to remain la
force. And to the restoration of that
policy Mr. Bryan, the pretendsd friend
of the masses, is bitterly opposed.—*
Albany, New York, Express.