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1 r 7 -.. Commoner Extracts From W. . Th Ohio 1'Ut form. The Ohio democratic convention was 1 be political event of last week. The platform adopted made a strong pre sentation of some of the issues Imt ia.iled to reafiirm the Kansas City plat - 'nn- It beiran w ith municipal and state issues and the handiwork of Mayor Toni I... .lohnson was evident in the crse aim emphatic declaration of di m- this country for two such parties. rxratie principles so far as they apply Then was a' time, under the Cleveland floral questions. The necessity for j regime, when the party leaders used .unicipal reform is an urgent one and i general anl ambig-uous phrases to de t;iere is sound democracy in the plank j ccive the voters, but that scheme can e.emamniin. that the jH-ople !m; -riven an j not Ik- worked a-rain. We cannot expect opportunity to vote o:i -uestio;iN in- j the voters to have confidence in the I,e t'raillllijj or c.tentlllr of a franchise. The plank which declares that -steam anil electric railroads and other corpo rations jMtsscssing' public franchises .shall K' assessed io the same proportion to their salable value as are farms and city real estate" is both lo.'icaland just, but it is likely to offend the very people who were to Ik conciliated by an evasion of the silver question. .hum J..ISSI S is an rigm but will not make votes amon;r the so- vailed conservatives. The platform v.rres tariff reform. . The anti-trust plank would have l-cn st ronger if it had reiterated the Kansas ity platform on the subject. T!,e free ... w.i- o.e.eui.o,. ox rauroori ins- onminaiions are TimkI so far as t hey iro tiit tliev do not jro far enough W lienever a trust can export its jjmhK toother countries it can live here with out any tarilT. Something mtire than free trade is necessary to such a case. .Absolute fairness in railroad rates is desirable, but oven this will not make private monopolies impossible. The Kansas City platform suggested a com plete remedy the only one yet pro mised and it is to lie rep-retted that the Ohio convention was so prejudiced Jtgainst the last national platform of the party that it ignored a remedy en dorsed by more than six millions of vo ters. The plank condemning imerialism criticizes the republican jx.il icy without pointicsr out a remedy. Here ajrain the failure to reaffirm the Kansas City platform has weakened the Ohio dem ocracy. The convention endorsed the propo sition to elect senators by the jieople. The lal-or plank is excellent, but those who wrote the platform failed, either intentionally or unintentionally, to mention government by injunction, the black list and arbitration. A reaffirm ation of the Kansas City platform would have eovered these points also, but having failed to reaffirm, the con vention should have lieen careful to touch on all the important questions. The convention not only failed, but refused to endorse the Kansas C'ity platform. and. from the manner in which the jroli element lias rejoiced over this feature of the convention. one would suppose that the main object of the convention was xiot to write a new platform, but to repudiate the one Trip sin which the la.st national campaign was fonpht. Oeneral l inley was rip-lit in insisting- upon a vote on his resolution en dorsing the Kansas City platform, but he made a mistake in intruding- in his resolution a complimentary reference to Mr. i:ryan. Mr. Bryan is not a can didate for any office, and a mention of him mipht lie construed by some as an -endorsement of him for office. The vote should have lieen upon the naked proposition to endorse the platform of last year, and then eg one could have excused his abandonment of democrat ic principles by pleadinphis dislike for Mr. Bryan. The cause ought not to be made to bear the sins of an individual. Mr. Bryan will endure without com plaint any punishment which the dem ocracy of Ohio may itee fit to adminis ter to him, but lie Kes not want his name used to the injury of a good plat form. The pold papers assume that the con vention refused to endorse the Kansas City platform because it contained a silver plank. If so.it would have been more courapvou to have declared open ly for the gold standard. If the cold btandard is p-ood it oufrht to have been endorsed if bad. It ought to have len denounced. To ignore the subject en tirely was inexcusable. The money question is not yet out of politics. Every session of congress I will have to deal with it. Republicans -declare that it i dead but they keep working at it. At the last session of congress they tried to make the silver dollar redeemable in pold and when that is accomplished they will try to limit the legal tender qualities of the dollar. The gold standard will not be .-.omplete -until pold is the only legal tender inoney and Vatik notes the only paper money. Then our supply of pri mary money will lie controlled by for eign financiers, and our supply of cred it money by domcsti: financiers. This plan has lieen developed grad ually and exery tep Has l-een taken secretly and stealthily. The republi can leaders have lieen in this movement for vears; as soon as the democratic The men who paid the I'orto Ilican tariff under protest are not worrj-ing. Thy added enough to the price charged to the cdnmmer to pay the tas, and now they are to get the tax back. The tax paj-er who fails to tee the point deserves to lie held up. This is the season t hen the lenefi-c-iaries of republican policies meet at cool summer resorts and devise plans for making- it botter for the masses, who have neither the time nor the money to take a vacation. Is it because the republican editors are unselfish and anxious to see the democrats win that they are exultant over the repudiation of the Kansas City platform by the Ohio convention? There are indications that the re publican leaders are lieooming sadly mixed in their -"home market' and "'foreign market" arguments. The British war office admits the pres ence of 251.000 troops in South Africa. The British tax payer is certainly fret ting a long- run for "his money. Comment. J. Bryan's Paper, -5- - r . , party found that mhiic of its leaders had joined the eonspirswy those leaders were deposed. It looks now as if the reactionary i n 11 tu-nee were onee more tryinir to set lire control. If thev suc- I eed in Ohio o: elsewhere it simolv j means another jrijrantic st ruckle such i as w a witnessed in is'ic. 'i i,.. fium,u era tic party i-unnut he made a pluto cratic party oven if there was room in ! TiartV unless the inrlr lis .-onfi.l.-nce in tl'n-c.t u.,i it 'u l,. .t. tii'onee in the voters it will state its position ,n all important questions le fore the country and invite judgment. The present campaign involves a sen ator, as well as a state ticket, and as the convention dealt with other na tional questions it should have dealt candidly and honestly with the monev question. Mr. McLean is supposed to ; a canditate for the United State ; senate, and is also supposed to have j dictated that portion of the platform j that has to do with national issues. ; The senator elected bv the next Ohio ! Kiam,-,. ,iave t vot. n th. In:u.v qll,.stion. Tht. democratic par- 1y t,f xhe nalil)!1 is oppo.a to making pposed Tilt. jj Vt.r (I) ,; er iioiiar a liromise to iav in pold. and is also opposed to substitut ing national bank notes for govern ment pjiper. but the democratic party in Ohio was silent ujion these import ant subjects. Why? Did the leaders ignore the money question in order to please those who liolted? Or does Mr. McLean want to Ik left free to affiliate with the ay-publicans on financial ques tions in case of his election? Mr. Killxiuriie. the nominee for pnv ernor. is an excellent man. a lifelong democrat and an active supporter of the national ticket in lmth lfJ'.tfi and l'.too. He is lietter than his platform. He deserves and should receive the sup port of every democrat in Ohio. If any of the Ohio democrats feel ag grieved ) localise the ri-organizing ele ment of the party triumphed at the convention, let them not visit their dis appointment upon the state ticket, but rather see to the nomination of sena tors and representatives who will se lect a trust-worthy senator. Let them see to it Ris that the state platform is made at the primaries next time rath er than at the convention. lithe voters at the primaries had instructed their delegates to insist upon the reaffirma tion of the Kansas City platform the result would have lieen different. In the Hollow of Tht-lr Hands. At a banquet given by the American Society in London on July 4. the Rev. Too Parker proposed a toast to President McKinley: and in the course of his re marks said: '"Despite the traditional prejudice, which happily has lieen weakening during- the past century, it is now well recognized that no other nation can sustain the relation to (ireat llritain which the I'nited States now holds: and. fortunately for the world, (ireat Jlritain and the I'nited State now holds the wor'd's jeacein the hollow of their hands." t ireat Ilritain and the I'ditod States probably do hold the jieace of the world in the hollow of their hands.' This might Ik1 true because of tle great influence and power, moral and ma terial, wielded by these two great na tiotis. It happens, however, to be par ticularly true at this time liecause of all the governments of the earth, the I'nited States and (Ireat Ilritain are the only ones now engaged in serious warfare. On the part of Oreat Brit ain, it is a ease where a nation claiming- to be the greatest civilizer of all nations of the earth is ong-aged in de stroying two formally organized re publics. In the case of the United States, this government is carrj-ing- on a war in the Philippine Islands, a war that stands as an antagonism to the purest of American traditions and the most sacred of American principles. (iranting it to lie true that Great Britain and the United States t'hold the peace of the world in the hollow of their hands." is it not strange that these great nations do not discharge the high and sacred responsibilities alwaj-s resting upon exclusive custo- dians of great purposes? All over the land today men and wo men are hoping and praying that the terrible blight of drought will not lie visited upon this country. The anxiety is not confined to the farmer for men in all the avocations of life are asking the question, "What shall the harvest lie?" All the material interests of the country are lieing. affected by even the threat of crop failure. This should serve to open the cyeji of those who have lieen blind to the fact that the welfare of the general public depends largely upon the welfare of the farmer, "llurn down your cities and leave our farms and your cities will spring- up again as if by magic: but detroy our farms and grass will grow in the streets of evcr3" city in the countrv." If the republican reformers are so horrified at iK'mocratic rule in New York, how will they ' feel when they survey the corruption of republican of ficials in Philadelphia. If the administration is responsible for the big- wheat yield in Kansas it stands to reason that 'Bryanism" must be responsible for the burning- up of the southern Kansas corn crop. At any rate the commissary fraud seems to le keeping- well up with the Hap. The indications are that the protect ed industries will lie infants just as long as the tariff food holds out. Republican solicitude for the colored man exists chiefly of "whereases" and "there fores." The soft coal trust is preparing- to administer the people some hard knocks. The new game of grab is very pop ular with Uncle Sam and Johnny Bull. They arc certainly adopts at the business. TflK WHITE SLAVES. ' STRIKE AGAINST THE TOBACCO X TRUST. Dally Papers Suppress News Low W r of Uirls Ilmplnyed la Rlnfhaaitoa Factories Out of tile lZrllt Tbat Cry tog VanjciDea Froaa Binghamton, N. Y., Independ ent: Last week Wednesday sixty-five girls working at the Trust Cigar fac tory struck for an increase. Oa Sat urday about 00 more were locked out of the same factor-. It is now more than a week since the strike starte.d and not a mention of the rrattr hss appeared in the daily pap?rs. Brief re poits have appeared in a few pnp?rs cutside, and the silence cf the nom? papers is causing: much comment, and a great deal of adverse criticism. The American Tobacco conpany. commonly known as the Tchacco trutt. after having secured -i practical mon opoly of the 'chewing aoA smoking tobacco business, iias now turned its attention to the cigar making branch, and an attempt is being made to con trol this also. As Binghamton is next to New York as a cigar center the tiust decided to open a factory here Barlow, Rogers & Co.. sold out thtir large factory to the Trust about twu months ago. When tho change was made Mr. Barlow assured the em ployes that no change would li? made in wages and that it v.cui.l he a good thing for the men and wom-u work ing. A superintendent from Kingston, where the trust has a larg factory, was put in charge, and several foremen from the same place installed. Very soon a change was made in the system. Girls were paid the amcunt they had averaged under the old system while they were learning the new and then their pay was by the hundred. Rolling machines were part of the new method. "What are known as bunch makers were paid seven and one-half cents a hundred, the same price that was paid by Barlow. But while before they could make from 1,000 to 1.200 bunches a day. under the trust system they could make but 700 or 800. Rollers were paid twenty-seven and one-half cents per hundred, or the same as before, but instead of being able to make 700 or 803 a oay they could make only 300 or 400. The effect of the change was to re duce wages nearly one-half, and in stead of making from $1.75 to $2.25 a day, the girls could make only seventy-five cents to $1.25. After working from two to five weeks under the new system the girls were convinced that they could not make enough to sup port themselves d-c-ently, and when their request for a higher price was refused, they struck. About 300 em ployes were still working on the old work, but as they understood that it was but a question of a few weeks when they would have to do the work under the new system they agreed to help the strikers. In addition to the increased amount of work they are compelled to do, the strikers complain about the way they are given tobacco. Out of each pad they are required to get 100 cigars They say that the pads have be?n made so small that they can get but ! about -eighty, and as they are do: l:ed for all they use over at the rate of 30 cents a pad, this still further reduces their wages. Another thing they com plain cf is the practice of taking out of each hundred from 3 to 17 cigars as defective, for which they get no pay. These cigars they say are put up in hundred packages and sent to the packing room. The work that the trust wants is practically hand made cigars. At the prices paid the cigarmakers would get $4.50 per thousand for doing the work. The same work at the union scale would come to $16.50 a thousand. The trust claims that the same work Is be ing done at Kingston for less than the price offered here, and that the girls are making big wages. Those who know the conditions at Kingston know that the wages there are very low, and that the girls make barely enough to pay expenses. A few speedy operators may by working long hours get what would seem to them to be fair pay, but on the average the pay is not what girls should have in or der to live respectably. A DANGEROUS DECISION. Some years ago a Chicago woman was engaged in a labor strike. She was no worse than all the others par ticipating In the same strike. After the strike was over and peace was declared she attempted to get work, but could not do so. She applied to firm after firm and always met the same answer. Nobody would give her employment. She could beg, steal or starve, but she couldn't work. There was no way by which she could make an honest living. She had been black listed. The decree had gone forth that no employer should give that woman a job. A brand had been set on her brow. She was a paraiah among the people helpless and homeless. She was like Cain, a fugitive and a vaga bond on the face of the earth. In her dire extremity she was in duced to sue the cowardly scoundrels who blacklisted her. She proved her case all righL There was no question about the facts. Everything was es tablished as above set forth. But the court decided that employers had a right to blacklist employes and pre vent them from getting work else where. It practically decided that slavery still exists in America. Not the mild kind of slavery that existed in the south before the war. but a condition a thousand times more ter rible. Black slaves were sure of a comfortable support they were nsu ally well treated they were not over wor'ke'J they had their holidays and their simple pleasures. The slavery established by this corrupt court has none of these ingredients. This poor wage slave is entirely helpless 6he can find no work she can earn no wages she can only starve, live on charity or do worse. This Is all ac complished by tie order of a tyrant, backed up by the decree of a court. What hope is there for a laboring man or woman who is blacklisted when -the law sustains that form of slavery? He . cr she had better get out of the world or else proc&re a g-in and learn how to use it. No intelligent man believed tha. any court would ever make such an out rageous decision, but it is made and it will be sustained by the higher au thorities. Our judges are daily advancing in Infamy. They ere making decisions now for which they would have been Impeached twenty years ago and if any Judge had made a decision so dis reputable a generation ago he would not hare had the privilege of an Im peachment, for the people would have hung him up on the nearest lamp post. Central Farmer. THE TRUSTS MUST EE PRO TECTED. Yv'ilbur F. Wakeman is secretary of the American Protective League, and as such is of course opposed to the entry cf any foreign goods into this country that would compete with vur trust made products. He jilso. by the grace of the President and the Repub lican majority of the Senate, holds the important office of appraiser of merchandise of the port of New York. This occupation cf . thee two oSicas by the same person accounts for the universal ruling of the appraiser against the importers of foreign goods and the stretching of the tariff law, al most to the breaking point, to make such goods subject to tlie highest duty that can be assessed agiiinst them. That Mr. Wakeman is most cc-tive in this matter and more intent on lobby ing to prevent a revision of the tariff and to protect the trusts from com petition than he is in fairly carrying out the law, will be seen from the fol lowing interview: Speaking of the threat of certain Republicans to sup port the Babcock movement to place trust made articles on the free list. Mr. Wakeman says, the league will make a strong fight againtt any emas culation of the protective tariff sys tem. "We do not propose," said he, "to allow the .system to be used as a stalking horse for the purpose of doing work which should be done by state legislatures. These bodies have the power to dal vith trusts doing busi ness within the borders of their Etates. It them apply the remedy." That's It. No national legislation againtt the trusts, they are, to quote Hanna. good things and must not be disturbed. WAGES FALLING IN ENCLAND.' Last year it was quite the usual thing in England to see each month that numbers of workers varying from 100.000 to 300,000 had obtained sub stantial increases of pay. whilst those who had sustained slight reductions to talled up to only a few hundreds. In November, however, the figures be gan to tell a different tale. The num ber of those who had received additions to their wages were, it is true, still as many as 137. but the reductions had risen to 11.036. In December the in crease had diminished to 18.383, and the reductions were 8.21C. But it is January that shows whither we are drifting. During last month only 3,oCl workers received increases of pay, whi!et. on the other hand, the decreas es had risen to the large total of 51,631. Justice, London. England. Cuba is spoil that can be handled at leisure. Just now the administra tion is making the refractory child understand that the velvet glove cov ers the hand of steel. Poor deluded Cuba mu.t first swallow the Piatt amendment in order to prove that it has acquired a sufficiently meek and contrite spirit to fit it for dealing with the United States; then other things will happen to it not independence, by a long way, either. San Franciscc Star. If endowing one man with unre strained power over the lives, liber ties and property of 10,000,000 people lacks a single feature of an ideally perfect despotism, then one never ex isted on earth. Congressman McCall. It Is estimated that the men ol Great Britain spend 250,000 a yeai on silk hats. A small sample of the wholesale land-grabbing which was the almost sole impelling motive of the war on the Filipinos, has cropped out at last in the form of a deed from the Sultan of Sulu to Prince Poniatowski (of thlj city) and others, of the island ol Palawan, for fifty years. A copy ol the contract has been filed with the Secretary of War, who says that "seri ous questions are Involved." tilrU Fortilddan to ITrar Corarta. An active crusade against the wear ing of corsets is being carried on at Budapest. The Hungarian minister for public instruction has issued an en ergetic order against their use, for bidding all girl pupils attending the public and private day schools in Hungary to wear them. Herr von Wlassics declares in his order that the corset prevents the full develop ment of the bodily organs and stunts the growth. He desires a uniform blouse to be adopted in its stead. This order has been eympathetically re ceived in educational circles, but re gret is expressed that the fe male teachers have not been includ ed In it, as it is thought their exam ple may be prejudicial to their pu pila. London Telegraph. BIoslo for Antarctic Explorers. A lady member of the Baxter fam ily, so well known In connection with the industrial development of Dundee, where the steamship Discovery was built, has presented Commander Scott, R. N.. with a pianola and a quantity of music for the entertainment of the members of the exploring party dur ing their adventurous voyage to the Antarctic regions. Piano-forte music has not heretofore formed any part of the explorers equipment fear of frozen fingers presumably, being the reason but with the pianola all such reasons disappear, and the exploring, party will now be able to enjoy the best music without any misgivings. Cardiff Western Mail. The census returns giving the area of various states show that the one which has the largest amount of land nnder water is Florida, and the least. In proportion to size Wyoming. Many estates are spent In the set ting. AGAINST THE PEOPLE REPUBLICAN PARTY HOPELESS LY FOR TARIFF LOOT. TCvldrnoe That Tiirjr Intend to Protrt lh Trusts nnd I'erpetuate th Tariff Making tb Iu for lb Next Caoipalu. That the Republican part- does not Intend to legislate against the trusts, however much individual members may proclaim that it is necessary, is thown by the evidence of Hon. Robert Taylor, member of congress from th3 ISth Ohio district, given before the industrial commission. In his opening remarks he declaieJ that any attempt to take the tariff off even trust maUe goods would be bad in its effects. The tariff principle, he said, should not be ubandoned. As a general proposition. Mr. Tay lor announced himself as oppesrd . to trusts. "I am one of those," he said, "who have not been ab.e to bring themselves in harmony with the idea that the trusts are good things." "The trusts," he declared, "put too much power in the hands of a few men." Speaking of dealing with trusts, he raid he knew of no remedy for that evil, if it is an evil. Publicity might be a good thing, but it would be a mere scratch on the surface. He knew that a trust has power to re duce the price of an article, but he did not think the public would get mi-ch benefit from that. In order to pay dividends on securities of the United States Steel Company that company would have to extract a great deal from the public. The wiiness said that apart from any other question he thought that it vould be exceedingly unfortunate to Introduce any elements of unrest In the country by discussing the tariff in congress or opening up the tariff for any revising. Now, Taylor, is chairman of Election Committee No. 1, and was selected as such because he could be relied on to do the bidding of those who rule con gress and being a friend and follower of the administration, his evidence makes it certain that there is "no rem edy for the evil" as far as the Republi cans intend to discover one and that even to discuss the revising of the tar iff "is to introduce elements of unrest in the country." j If Mr. Taylor represents the Repub lican policy on the trusts and the tariff nothing will be clone to abate the evils. He admits there is robbery being committed when he says the steel trust wiP. "have to extract a great deal from the public," but he and the large majority of protection Republicans in tend to sit still and see the steel trust and the other combines "extract great deal from the public." A very cool proceeding on the part of those who have ben selected as the ser vants of the people to protect their in terests. The Democratic position is entirely the reverse of this. They believe that there is a remedy to prevent the trust from carrying out their plan of robbing the people and that is to revise the tariff by placing trust pro ductions on the free list except what duties may be necessary for raising revenue for the support of the govern ment a tariff for revenue. This will not kill the trusts but it will allow the world to compete with them by withdrawing the protection that now gives them a monopoly. A ROBBER TRUST. The law under which corporations are organized in the state of New Jer Bey certainly ought to be amended or repealed. Minority stockholders have no protection and from appearances the law was created espeeialiy to swindle them. Public Policy says: By its charter the United States steel corporation may deal in its own se curities, which has not usually been f regarded as a proper function of corpo rations. It may or may not pay any dividends on tne common stock, no matter what the profits may be. and the recalcitrant stockholders will get no consideration; he can see the books as much as the statute, the board of directors or the whole body of stock holders permit. Now is not that a nice corporation to own stock in? If any one buys any of it and knows of these restrictions and loses his money he has only him self to blame, except that rascally leg islature that passed a law that allows such a trust to be organized. There are millions of stock cn the market and the trust Is trying to push it off on the public and doubtless many an innocent purchaser will buy it, not knowing the way the steel trust may rob him. And yet the Republicans say the trust are all right. RECIPROCITY. AND TARIFF RE- FORM. The attempt of President McKinley to reform the tariff by reciprocity treaties was stopped by the United States senate refusing to ratify them and yet there is strong evidence that the president will persist in that line of action. Reciprocity Is a back-handert ray of revising the Dingley tariff that can be better accomplished by straightforward methods. We cannot make a reciprocity treaty with one country that does not virtually make it apply to nearly all the others. This is brought about by the clause which allows the same rights and rates as tb most favored nati?n is given. If a rreaty is made with France that allows certain of her productions to be im ported into the United States at a less Cuty than the rate provided in the Dingley tariff. Germany, who pro duces the same articles, under the most favored nation clause must be granted the same rate. There is also another obstacle to these reciprocity treaties, a constitu tional objection, that has not been ad judicated, but is believed by most of the constitutional lawyers to be a bar to such legislation. Congress cannot delegate its power to raise revenue, which is a constitutional province of Congress alone and such revenue bills must ordinate in the House of Keprc- sentatves, thus keeping the taxing power In the hands of the direct repre sentatives of the people. To revise the tariff law by making reciprocity treaties is a makeshift that does not touch the protection granted the trusts and monopolies and those who advocate it are attempting to still protect these giant corporations. As the trusts are selling their produc tions in Europe for less than they ar obtaining from our own peop'e, they no longer need protection and their products should be put upon a tariff for revenue basis or even placed on the free list that competition may benefit 811 alike. POLITICAL COMMENT. A Canadian newspaper tells us that the French statesman, M. Jules Sieg fried, says not long ago when he was at the White House, President Mc Kinley admitted that he was no longer tn ultra protectionist, "the time for heavy protection has passed," are his ciuoted words. The president evidently sees that the tariff must be revised, tut how to do it, that is the question. What a row it will raise. The Ameri can Protective League and the Home Market club will be on the warpath and the protected trusts. Well, we sha'l see. And now comes Senator Chauncey M. Depew and joins in the third term chorus, he says McKinley is the only man against whom there is no opposi tion. There is no doubt some truth in this, the trusts, combines, corpora tions, especially the railroads, want McKinley as long as he if so complai sant to their interests. A strong gov ernment that will put down strikes under the name of a republic but really an empire, juct suits them. They are under the rrespnt adminis tration the oligarchy that contro'.s the United States and the senator is their mouthpiece. The Cubans do not take kindly to the dictation of Secretary Root, but a little more "influence" brought to bear on some of them by a careful distri bution of the secret service fund will probably round up a majority for all that is wanted . Perhaps it would bp advisable for the American Protective Tariff League to keep an eye on Brother McKinley unlets they rely on Hanna to keep him in the straight and narrow protection ;atk. The Home Market club is in a bad way, being an annex of the Protective Tariff League, they have always cried "give us the home market and we care nothing for the world." But now the Republican newspapers and spell binders, even McKinley himself is shouting for the world's markets and even the protected infants are boasting of their competition with foreigners and the trusts are shouting with glt of their conquest of the markets of the world. The logic of the situation would seem to demand a revision of the tariff to meet the new conditions but this does not suit the protection ists. Here is another traitor to the pro tective tariff. Hon. W. P. Hepburn of Iowa, who at a dinner in London giv en to the visiting members of the New York Chamber of Commerce, said: "The chairman of the Republican cam paign committee has announced that the tariff will be taken from all so called trust commodities, and our abil ity to produce has so largely outgrown our capacity to consume that the 'open door' is rapidly becoming the shibbo leth of America." This is brave talk but it will take more backbone than most Republican members have shown in the past to refuse to obey the cau cus dictation that Hanna and the trusts will bring to bear on them. Perry Heath, the man-Friday of Mark Hanna. w hen ways that are dark and tricks that are vain are required, has lieen interviewed again, this time in Chicago, he still sticks to Mark Han na for president unless McKinley wants a third term. "I am not boom ing Senator Hanna for president," he said, "I think he could secure the nomination if he went after it and be lieve there would be no doubt of his election." From the choice of these two evils, good Lord, deliver us! As Congress is the sole arbiter of the fate of our new territory and the president through patronage and the caucus system controls congress. President McKinley will rule our an nexed colonies until a congress is elected who will be independent of stratagem and spoils. The amorphous government that you are netting up in the Philippines, Pres ident McKinley. will bring you trou ble: yon cannot govern people with half military and half civil adminis tration, it ia sure to result In fric tion. Fred Grant. Trho is a general from being the sor. of his father, has none of the generosity of the victor of Ap pomattox; he would put Aguinaldo in jail and set him to breaking rock and recommends that when he comes over bre we treat him with contempt. Grant will find that the American peo ple respect a fallen enemy more than a feneral made by political influence. The money power will never be sat isfied until they have organized a banking trust that will control all the financial institutions of the country. This project is again being discussed in New York and is said to offer 3 per cent interest on bankers' balances, sub ject to call, as an inducement to join the trust. With such an institution in existence with branchts in everv city and town who shall and who shall not ' borrow money and even declining the accounts of those who do not act in business or politics to suit the trust, complete financial slavery would re sult Secretary of War Root, and Knox, the trust lawyer, are said to disagree as to the power of the President under tne Bpooner amendment to the army bill. The President has sided with ! Knox, who peems to be the new power ' behind the throne. Great is K-jor, tie steel trust lawyer. WESTERN WATER FARMING. nuruuii'l Mao7 TLnkM ttlrn 1'romU) of UrMt I'rollt. Scientists who make it their buiDess to look ahead into the far future ar now busy telling what will hapjieu after all the land in the United States has been put under cultivation. When there are no more quarter sections up on which the settler can establish him self, it is predicted that water farm ing will become a general occupation. This information is comforting o resi dents of Wisconsin. No state in the Union has better facilities for water farming than the one famous for the number and beauty of its lakes. When the time comes for men to feice off acre plots on the c rystal a rs of the inland seas Wisconsin will hae a boom worth while waiting for with pa tien:e. Of course there wi!i be draw backs to water farming, hut the in dustry offers great possibilities. Al though it will be difficult to kr-ep one "a crop of fls-h from being mixe.l with one's neighbors', there w ill be no plow ing or harrowing, no wrestling with stumps, and no trouble over Irrigation. After the fith are planted each s'-ason there will be nothing to do b it to wait until harvest time. By a little diplo matic advertising water farmers may persuade city men to spcn;l th'-lr va cations on the lakes as assistants dur ing this harvest season. HoUM-boats on the water farms would l- ideal places of residence during I lie hot months. It is estimated that th" fish eries of the United Slates pro lu e food cf the value of f 45.Ooii.0-'" every year. As toon as the water farming industr;. has a good start. Wisi-oi.sin will be able to adJ millions to this amount. If the calamity howler cannot find any thing wo;se to prophesy about t!:an th water farm, this state can ptir.-ue daily its business pursuits withunt iiny fore bodings. Milwaukee Sentinel. HOW TO KILL MOSQUITOES. Chinatown Stills a Cheap and Moil I f fee tire Obll Uratr. It is the experience of the uei apt housekeeper in Philadelphia that no matter how thoroughly the doors and windows of a nouse are screened, mos quitoes will get inside. Many of them do not understand that a small pool of stagnant water in a cellar or water Ftanding in pitcher plants is a birth place for thousands of mosquitoes. In flower vases on the table, where the water is not frequently changed, mos quito eggs are found In great numbers. Applications of kerosene oil will top that. The general question i how to get the small insect pests cut of the house when once they are in. To jh 1 -sous of careful habits chlorine gas Is recommended. Pour into a plate con taining four teaspoonsfula of chloride of lime about ten drop of crude sul phuric acid. This liberates the c filorine gas, which is said to kill tbe mob quitoes. The plan can be used only in rooms not temporarily occupied, or in which the gas vapor c-ar be allowed to remain for ueveral hou:. The burn ing of pyrethrum powders in a room will also kill them. The powder khoubi be moistened and then made into lit tle cones, which are dried in the oven. When a cone is lighted at the top it smoulders slowly, emitting an odor w hich many persons find pler.rant. B it a good, simple and cheap mosquito killer may be bought in Chinatown. The Chinese use pine or Juniper saw dust, mixed with a small quantity of brimstone and an ounce of artenic This mixture is put into little baps in a dr." state. Each bag is coil-d like a snake and tied tightly with a thread. The outer end is lighted. The c-oiis fie!l at 10 cents a hundred and two c theni are said to be enough to clear any or dinary room of mosquitoes. Great Production of Coal. It is not at all surprising to barn from the statistical gentlemen at Washington that the I'nited States leads the world in the production and consumption of coal, nor that the out put for the last 3-ear of the nineteenth century exceeded that for any previous year. The statistics themselves are very impressive, however. The quan tity of coal mined reached th enor mous total of 267,542,444 tons, valued at $297,920,000. The increase over the previous year's value was 16 per cent. Familiar as Fennsylvanians are with the magnitude of the coal business in this commonwealth, it is still worth while noticing that this state produced more than half of all the coal mined in the United States. The rapid de velopment of the coal resources of West Virginia is seen in tb fact that our neighbor reached a production of 20.000,000 tons for the first time, and showed the largest relative increase. A Remarkable Yoya ?. The arrival at Manila of the quad ron comprising the gunboat AnnapolU and the ocean tugs Frolic, Piscataqtia. and Wampatuck. which sailed from Hampton roads early last winter, com pletes a remarkable voyage. This Is the longest trip ever accomplished by such tiny naval craft and was prob ably never equaled by similar war ships. The distance covered was near ly two-thirds around the world, cross ing one ocean, skirting the Bouthern part of Europe, thence through the tornado seas of the Indian ocean, down to the Philippines at a seaon when typhoons are usual. There have been trips of small ships across the Atlantic and once an old monitor was bent around to San Francisco by the Horn, but no vessels of such light displace ment have yet covered so much dan gerous water area as the little squad ron of American boats. ToSarvey Rollvla. The government of Bolivia has re cently taken steps to obtain a complete survey of the country. A Parks firm has engaged to immediatelv survey and map 40,000 kilometers and to lay off a triangulatlon which will enable a complete trigonometrical survey of the country to be made. Bolivia has also arranged with Paraguay for a Joint commission to trace and mark the boundary between the two nations. A joint commission with Brazil ;rver! months ago commenced surveying the Bolivian-Brazilian line. A school of mines has also been established by the Bolivian government to train and cn- courage its own people to the devel opment of its mJnfr.al resources. ) n