UO NOT COMPLAIN; DCCAU3E PROSPERITY HAS NOT BEGUN BEFORE POSSIBLE. Tlir \\l»y IIuhIii**** IIim Not Itr \ImmI Mon* IIns **• with Junior ( ulJout on th#* •C ukHplallit* About 4 outfit Ion*. (Wash in glim Correspondence. I Incredible as it may appear, there are | apparently some people In the United States who are Impressed with the cry which the Democrats are raising that "the promised prosperity has not come.” It seems difficult to understand why anybody could expect the business improvement promised by legislation lo occur before the legislation Is had, hut they evidently do. judging from the reports reaching here. Reports reaching here Indicate a dis position on the part of some persons to join In the eiimplalnt which the Dem ocrat a are fostering by these meaning less and absurd statements. "I can not think It true, however,*' said Senator I'ullom of Illinois, talk ing on tills subject, "flint the people as a class have any such thought. It Is to lie expected of course that those who are opposed to the Republican party politically, especially those who are willing to make any sort of trouble for political effect, would put allout and encourage suggestions of ibis sort. Hut I can not believe that the thinking people, who know that It Is Impossible to enact a tariff law In a single month, or even In two or three months, are making the complaint which the news papers and politicians are charging tiicm with.” “You do not think It reasonable, then, to expect prosperity and business activity until sonic IcglslatIon Is had'.’ "Not to any considerable degree. Of course the result of the election last fall showed to the countr> that the stability of our currency system Is not to he destroyed. But. the same vote j which gave confidence to the business public as regards further destruction I of our business conditions showed j them that a restoration of the proa- j perlty whleh existed under a protective i tariff could not be accomplished with- ; out legislation.” "By the term legislation, you refer j of course to the larlff bill." "Yes. That Is at least the first step in legislation promised, and the (list step necessary to restore business ac- j tlvlty.” "The mere promise that such legis lation is to be had you do not con- j sider sufficient to start the factories, ! then?" “No. On the contrary, In isapv ! cases, the knowledge that such legf.v [ iation Is to Ire had reduces the amount of work they are able to perform un- ! til the proposed law Is actually upon ; ■ ha statute I looks In nor a row cases 1 the effect will he felt still longer, for ! ■wherever an Importer sees that rates of duty are likely to be increased on a* given class of articles he Is rushing those articles Into the country in on- ! ormotis quantities. The result is that j the manufacturers are not only unable to determine what they can do In prices until they know what the new j larlff law is lo actually he when it Is placed upon the statute books, nut the* niso know that the country is be- { ing flooded wwfe an unusual quantity i cf goods at the low«,«- t*atcs," "The result, then, upon tin» manu facturer must be to reduce his business l activity rather than increase it for the present?" "Certainly. This has always been the effect to a greater or less extent of tariff legislation. Everybody familiar with the history of our former tariff hills will remember that the mere fact that < hanges were about to he made in the tariff law was of itself sufficient to compel a temporary suspension of man ufacturing. or at least to so disarrange prk s and the possibility of making contracts (hat business! was to a great extent suspended among that class of citizens. I mu is especially title when a tai iff Is to he ehuiixi <1 I'i'om a lower to a higher rate, for not only Is there uncertainty on the part of the manufacturer as to what his prices must lie In (lie future, hut there is a certainty in his niiml that the country is being tilled with . hc_p foreign goods it the (dd tariff rates which will lie peddled out ill competition With him fi r many months." "It Is a fact, then, is tt. thut very large duantltles of foreign goods are HOW being In ought In and urt like In to continue 10 compete wiili our own manufacturera for many months yet?" , Certainly Anybody »»** **• •"lee lb, irouble to-"n,‘ ru.toma co IH»'V being made at New Veers tied other iserts will see that at a plain Krone ihe day tmigien. no l gid began coiisoln.iiii.il of tie tariff I ill the iccvipta leone custom e in. ir..»ed • 11 orme.ualy. doubled and sometime* trebled This iieeaiia that the ipianti t» of duttuble goods being brought >U sow auei fur many weeks past is more Ibau lie tilde I be ordinary Importation* fur the saute length of ttri" In adit i ion to this emir mints .piuulll Or of giee's tti.w on the free list, but likely tei be tr* safer red to the dotiai i ot » i« i s lug brought in. but tod iniintioi •n tke insresne tn eiirttset p. siyp n. kill you lake those facts into e* 1st • alien any of os ran with a tte .* put lit eight 'hat eh > menu1 e«e tier id make co-tir.ifts to go e g ndth their e taring enterg«t«» « erttt I %he ..g.c«r Stilt the no* he ■' iO '< aud ilut ink *.h> u th*k 4n ki<>t II. tipi » < ih he baiige »d foe to. t t t. • »th • hi it oda » Msh the in.i«>i«n l this it •« Hi ami ike SUS1 rilsie. , |.d dr s asibrad hats bw *4 into |i I ’lad piaten, hi Hug the t» »4*4 nareho.,** •a,, raipsMeg the cyod of ban Ut > J it* 'tw i TM It will be months lieforo manufactur ers can resume the activity which ex isted under the McKinley law. Not only must they l>e able *o tix definite rates uftef they know what the new law in to be. but they must wait for some proportion of the enormous flood of foreign made goods now coming in to disappear. While it was expected that the retrospective clause of the bill would In time check these importa tions. It has not yet done so, because importers order their goods months ahead, and the act Is only to apply to goods ordered after April 1. "Then* are things." continued .Sena tor (’ullom, as he resumed his paper, "which I he intelligent people of the country ought to understand and they are intelligent; and if they will slop to think a moment of these facts, I am sure they will understand it." (i. II. WILLIAMS. flunllnii of sugar Market. Mr. Henry Wallace of 1>ph Mollies, Iowa, delivered an able and Instruc tive address before a beet sugar con vention at New |t|ni last week. He puts the <|iiestlon to the farmers In tills way: "Why grow fill bushels of corn to the acre and sell It at 20 cents per bushel, when you can grow from 10 to 20 tons of sugar beets to the acre and sell It at from $1 to i*er ton?” Fifty bushels of corn al 20 cents aggregates $10; ten tons of beets ut $1 aggregates $40 and twenty tons of beets at $•'■ would bring $100 per acre gross. If the possibilities of profit from beet culture are even as good us the lowest aggregate named. It would not taki much to Induce our northwestern farmers to turn from corn and wheat growing to sugar beet culture. All the inducement they would need would be the gnu ran lee of a steady market rnr me h. Could a steady market lie Insured If a large percentage of our farmers were to engage In lieet culture? On this head Mr. Wallace presents some fads and figures that are very utriking. He suys there Is practically unlimited mar ket in ihis country for sugar. Accord ing to official statistics our people have consumed during the past thro,, years an average of nearly 65 pounds of sugar per head. To supply this demand we have Imported during the last four years an average of 1,672.613 tons of sugar, and to pay for t.h)*< sugar re quires about our total export of Wheat and flour combined. "We pay," says Mr. Wallace, "from $76,000,000 to $126, 000.000 a year for our Imported sugar, while our exports of wheat and flour combined have been lint about $95,000, OOo. St. 1 stills (Ilobe-Democrat. ,„U«- Tlgurrs In liolnler I-res Trade. A very careful and a thoroughly in formed writer on finance has thrown down a gauntlet which Mr. Worthing ton C. Ford, chief of the bureau of sta tistics in the treasury department dur ing President Cleveland's term of of fice, must pick uii, or confess himself to he discredited. Mr. Ford has stated officially that the exports of American manufactures for the calendar year 1896 amounted to $256,962,505, and thereupon the Democrats have assert , ,1 the Wilson tariff to he the most ben eficial of measures, acting directly to ward enlargement our foreign trade, and of <*oiir#e. creating a de mand for home labor in the manufae Uii-e or toe articles exported. It may tic said in passing that If the free trade statement, "Tariff is a tax added to the price of the thing upon wh c i duty is paid." he true, then the wages paid for the manufacture of ar ticles of export must he lower than those paid for articles manufactured for home use. For such exports mu»t compete with the "untaxed manufac tures” of foreign countries. Hut the gentleman who. under the signature of "Statistician,” occupied nearly two columns of the Inter Ocean of Wednesday, waives all special pleas and boldly denies the accuracy of Mr. Ford's figures, and in great detail sets forth the name and value of every class of manufactured exports during 1896, and finds them to he not $256,962,505, us officially set forth by Mr. Ford, but $138.-193,637 Inter Ocean. Tirol of Hit- I'ontiliat Combination. Th« Topeka Democrat Is a new spa p, r of unimpeachable Democratic reg ularity, which put Its bruins in Its pock n mil! i.«11111u11\ Mii|i|Mincii m i an in thi i-ampaiyn nl IS##. Thl* I* what it hut lo **a\ about the matin now Vij , Kunlun in brail in Hannan. * . . ..1*1011 with i U1. ni lH.li aurt ammain Paopl* * imr lv Thr nuprrtnr ililty of I hr hour lor Itrntt > rai* in Hanna* I* lo nit hainr , ... in. tvatrrlni rorpa* of thr l*ro p|r a pirl) Thr rautlnp CopuM*!*. with full powrr to art. hat* irlnl thrlr hauil at ntatr ttovrrnmrnt lawn an- | n unthl* man want Ibrnt hat h attain .* \V« nhnihl proftt b> rkparlrhrr I hr laiiiMratb party It UmiI l«u> hrab) a haul a> Chliapo to |t« plmlomi Capital U prn»r»*nlh lint lit, Thr hUittt*** Intrrratk of Ih* lOttbllI t»" h alarm at th«* moluttun aty platloMn I* *** a r>ar ta** of biiitta oh mutt than »h*> itutld . ha* “ Th* imutt nhoul'l *rr»r a* a aanima Th*' l'*'i’Ull»t pasty la ili«oH»>*.l |t *111 imti itaatpl th* . uuhora * of ih* gw* pi* If th* »*•«■* tail* » * ImmI t ip* vrktMMk I# !!***• ah alt r*p*at th* bilk ttwf of ino* tu labta# it ia u a | ta»f» m la ttii'h Ih.poliat »«* t, *r b'M**« (I w,il * .r with • ok a |t*«lii t thr y Hi )t«k II oil h»l Siunwutf *i, rtntntbw IUI *»» InmiO •* la 1*1* h* »<*al ahtoMi ' ttf it.*’ >1 iu%«• r1T « tkaaui. * a*** th lh» • tot nt Sfiata* *a* |4ltM’ Tht It* HP' it **» #*J .*# iT^.ta* Ih lit# ‘*V!? 4rti# «.§ | b|: *,1 g*«| « % ** * *V* »f UtUk' I*, moil in4-.«tM**t » . » a up I* t*T» H »*» I ft; i; it lo I »l»th* *».-•* paid to employes of this description a mounted to $775.584.743. Ill IS90 t V.' wages uaid were $2.283.2115.529. In ii.71 llie value of the products of Ar. .'■lean factories was $4,232,325,412. fti 1830 it had Increased to $9,372,437 283. These are merely a few of the u.iient feature in the progress of the nation under twenty years of continuous protection. Here was prosperity which lasted an era of widespread Industrial develop ment. of increasing employment and ol rising wages without precedent in tin history of human affairs. The teglllnifttr Trulls of the (Tileugc ■*l«t form. Iti addition to this abandonment ol the vital principle of tariff reform, lh< convention at Chicago nominated fot pretldent a man who had repeatedly declared that the free coinage of sllvei was liie only aim to lie considered, anil who In the whole course of his cun vais either evaded qucslions about Hi' tariff or absolutely refused to discusf the subject. The cue was taken by all (hi- free silver orators and press and fmni first to last nobody heard a tar IT speech or read a tariff editorial, The subject was tabooed. There win nothing but silver and abuse of sound money Democrats. Four of llie five Democratic member of the House who voted for the Ding ley Idll are pronounced sllverltes. and ttm Republican sllverltes and I’opu lists In the House either voted for the Idll or refused to vote at all. Not even to tills late day lias Mr. Bryan abated one Jot or little of his cam paign position that free sliver was the whole thing. What Impudence It Is, then, in Me Mlllln and other slxteen-to-one-or-bust enthusiasts to get up now and howl about the lurlff prlnelple which they x I * 11 11“ I ill * I Jr Mil* I V i'll III III* nil i roll v cut Ion. to gain protectionist allies with whom it ey are still cheek by Jowl. Memphis SHmlter No I(«>mI DniKHMlic (txliift. Mayor-elect Harrison of Chlcigo. spoils the beaut Jful theory which Dem ocratic shrlckers were spreading hroadeast lhat the municipal elections were a hopeful sign of restoration for the Democracy. He admits lhat Ihe success was purely upon the question of municipal reform and that national questions did not enter Into the cam paign Investigation of the conditions attending Democratic success In other cities show lhat this was the case gen erally. In not a single one of the municipal elections did national Issues •-lit any figure, while In Ihe state elec tion of llhode Island, where national issues were at the front, the Ilrpuhli eans increased their vote 20 per cent over that which they gave to William McKinley In 1896. IlfMvjr Wrtjglit C'lntliliig Tlial. Professor Wilson, who Is now adding to the »7r,.000 which he has drawn In salary from the government during tin past few years, by writing articles at so much per column for the New York Herald, say-B in a recent attack upon the Dlngley hill that the wool tariff will add more than 2f> per cent to On cost of clothing. By this he means that about $5 will he added to the cost • if a suit of clothes. As the rate of duty nameu the bill uverages 12 cents per pound, the professor must calculate that 40 pounds of wool goes into a suit of clothing. But what bet ter can he expected of a man who framed such a measure as that now upon the statute books bearing his name? T!i« south Want* . The experience of the Soufn (||r paHt few years with the new indusi developing there, the manufactures and the new demands which they call out has strengthened the protective sent! ment very greatly. Not only has it in creased the demand for material foi use in the manufacturing establish ments, such as cotton, lumber, Iron coal, wool and other articles of that class, hut It has also proved advan tageous to the general agricultural in terests of that section. lllrt hplrti r. Buddha Sakya-Muni's long lost birth place was recently stumbled upon ae cldentally, according to the Pittsburg Chronicle, by u gnvernmefjj lc uglcal expedttjgn^f around his Nlr _ .anil stupa lit ixoiingummu. 111 it iuuii a Ih taa of tsot » Kv txaHona wtU be made ther* a« moat aa the lam In* wht»h is now a I gt ling Vcptal la over it »• *> p»d «• x Wittier teas* I a* mag soiroun I the Ilgh of p*»‘P vit» with evtw t« me'll safeguard*, bn i* i# «Msa> MisyiHf .a *« in th» wn t unHy «*«. dm da and bounds are n » ih the pap*t lb t arc arittea p». I. It »’ ihhcnaat >ARM j AND GARDEN. V1ATTERS OF INTEREST TO AGRICULTURISTS. Some |*p-to-«l»»te Hint* About C'nltlva fl«*« of the Soli hih! V i«*l