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DECEMBER WHEAT 109
Tliia la the Highest Notch Touched
Since the 1891 Corner
Amid the wildest excitement seen on
the Chicago Board of Trade within the
memory of the oldest trader December
wheat sold for 109 Thursday This ia
the highest mark which the cereal has
reached since the historic combine of 1891
During the four hours of session a rise
of 7 cents over the opening price was
recorded The Chicago price was 1G cents
over Minneapolis and Duluth 10 cents
over New York and 7 cents over St
Louis
At this price the wheat of an eighty
acre Kansas farm land value 15 per
acre was worth more than the land itself
the farm equipment and the house and
barn Not a farmer in Minnesota or the
Dakotas with 2400 bushels of wheat the
product of eighty acres last harvest but
what could have sold his grain in Chicago
Thursday for more than his land would
bring and have a few hundred dollars to
the good
If the pace of the first few minutes had
been maintained during the rest of the
session it is probable that kernels of wheat
would have sold as high as diamonds at
the close The cereal shot up to 105
at a bound and the holders of big wheat
contracts could have disposed of them
at this stage without any trouble When
105 was bid for December wheat some
of the bulls thought the temperature was
getting rather high and dumped a lot of
their claims This action had the effect
of easing the market and checking tempo
rarily the efforts of the more aggressive
Ten minutes of comparative quiet reign
ed in the stormy session and then the
bulls by a coup started the figures their
own way again So complete was the
surprise that many of the dealers declar
ed that they expected to see the price sail
up to 150 before the end of the session
At 100 the explosion of a Krupp gun
could not have been heard above the pan
demonium The bulls forced the cereal
by fractions of a cent up to 107 Here
their foemen made a temporary rally and
brought another elevator full of grain
into their midst A half hour of deadlock
resulted but the dealers with the horns
metaphorically speaking concentrated
their forces on a weak point in the other
ranks and shot the price to 109 the high
water mark of the day and of six years
Then succeeded the usual slump as the
time for the clang of the gong approached
and December closed at 107
THE SKAGUAY PASS
It 18 a Trail of Horror and Death
Leading to the Klonkike
The Skaguay Pass en route to the
Klondike region is thus described by an
American miner who has just returned
The Skaguay Pass is a rank fake ad
vertised by a lot of Shylocks and mounte
banks at the town of Skaguay for the
purpose of making money out of the de
luded people who are persuaded to go that
route What is called the Skaguay
Pass is no pass at all it is simply forty
eight miles of mire I never saw such
human suffering in my life as I witnessed
THE SUMMIT OP WHITE PASS
among the 1200 people who are now
camped in Skaguay Pass Not five per
cent of them will get over and the others
are coming back I found men only
twenty miles away from the town and it
had taken them forty days to get that far
Horses get down in the snow and mire
and hundreds of animals have their legs
broken and must be shot The bottoms
of the canyons are covered with the car
casses of dead animals that have been
rolled over the cliffs There will be much
suffering and starving this winter among
the people camping in Skaguay Pass I
saw one poor man who had mortgaged
his home in Seattle for 500 gave his
wife and children 150 to keep them this
winter and spent 300 for his outfit He
could not get across the fake pass and
returned to the town of Skaguay to sell
his outfit The eight or ten outfitters of
that town all stand together and he could
get no more than 40 for his outfit The
MAIN STREET OF SKAGUAY
poor man saw that he had lost his home
and he was broken hearted I felt sorry
for him and gave him 100 and his elo
quent thanks were the tears that stream
ed down his cheeks This is only one of
a hundred like cases and for humanitys
sake the Skaguay Pass should be de
nounced as a fake of unscrupulous swin
dlers The town of Skaguay is full of
dissolute characters
Sparks from the Wires
Spain will send no further
to Cuba
All the members of the Board of Health
appointed by the Governor at New Or
leans La have resigned
Secretary Long has addressed a letter
to Miss Christine Bradley asking her to
christen the battleship Kentucky
Nicaragua passed a law Oct 9 last
absolutely prohibiting the immigration of
Chinese The officer who infringes on
the law is subjected to a ficc of from 25
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THE TREND OF POLITICS-
It is as plain as the uose on a mans
face that the trend of party politics is
toward Democracy Every municipal
and State election since the election of
McKinlcy has shown big Democratic
gains more than the gains which are
always made by the outs after a suc
cessful campaign by the ins
This country is by inclination and in
terest Democratic As long as the Re
publican party is in close touch with the
great middle class of our republic so
long it is on the right track but the
moment it joins hands with the Mark
Hannas the Tom Platts the Matt
Quays the Andrew Carnegies and that
stripe of patriots it parts company with
its principles and laughs defiance at
government by the people
The Republican party won in 189G on
account of a terrible panic for which no
party- was responsible It had been a
thousand times better if the Demo
cratic party had lost in 1S92 for the
panic was due just the same and no
power save providential could have
stayed the avalanche of financial disas
ter To prove that the panic would
have been upon us just the same if
Harrison had been re elected we need
only to cite present conditions which
are not much better than a year or two
years ago If the Republicans had the
Aladdin lamp that would build castles
and golden palaces in 1893 why do they
not rub the lamp late in the fall of 1897
If it was Democratic incompetency and
stupidity that led the country into a
slough of despond in 1892 why does
not the Republican party say the magic
word that will transform an Egyptian
famine into a Canaan flowing with milk
and honey
It is not in the power of any political
party to say to panicky times so far
shalt thou come and no farther Neith
er has any party the rigb in decency
and fairness to lay the blnfte of unpro
pitious financial conditions upon ie
opposite party
The Democratic party failed in 1S9G
because of the panic long continued
but there were other reasons It had
to answer for an emasculated tariff bill
which had been pruned and trimmed
and remodeled till its own creators did
not know it from a last years birds
nest It was shamefully disfigured so
much so indeed that Grover Cleveland
refused to sign it The men who by
their narrowness their treachery and
political villainy brought about that re
sult are bless the Lord being rapidly
retired to private life and they go to
endless oblivion as the victims entered
Dantes Inferno knowing that it is
abandon hope all ye who enter here
There is no weeping or commiseration
over their downfall
The Democratic party is being purg
ed of its self seekers of its Gormans
Hills Murphys McPhersons and like
ilk The Democratic party is being re
habilitated after this house cleaning
On the ruins of the old party is being
erected a new party grander nobler
and better than before The trend is
towards Democracy Republican prom
ises are not being redeemed Washing
ton la Democrat
Jekyll Hyde Tariff
Thomas B Reed has made a remark
able discover He has found out that
the Dingle- tariff bill is a Dr Jekyll
and Mr Hyde affair
Just now it is unfortunately true that
the Mr Hjde nature of the tariff is
manifesting itself but later on the
good Dr Jekyll will appear and the
wicked Mr Hyde will leave the stage
of operations B some peculiar auto
matic change this Dingle- delicienc
producer will become a surplus pro
ducer and ever thing will be in
the Republican camp
When Dingle was busy preparing
his bill he used the argument that the
Democratic deficit caused the bond is
sue and that the Republican tariff
would cure all such evils The result
is now a deficit of nearly 50000000
with good prospects of doubling that
amount in the next six months
The New York Evening Post is not
so optimistic as the rotund Reed and
announces brusquely that currency
reform in the presence of a deficit is
impossible If this is true what are
the Republicans going to do about it
v Will the- postpone reform
until the benevolent side of the Jekyll
Hyde tariff puts in an appearance or
will they admit that Mr Hyde has
gained a permanent ascendency and
tackle the tariff question a second
time
Things are badly mixed and the Re
publicans must either confess that
their tariff is a failure or stubbornly
blunder along with it nntil a deficit
of 100000000 frightens them into
making a revision
Tariff Dilemmas
The Republicans will discover if
they have not yet reached that stage
of enlightenment that the Dingle- tar
iff dilemma has two horns Just now
the tariff tinkers are squirming on the
horn of a deficit but with an optimism
worth- of Mark Tapley they laugh at
the suggestion that they are hurt and
assert that after December the deficit
of 60000000 will be made up by in
creased importations and prpsperity
will datvn Is that so
For the sake of cheerful amenity let
the assertion be accepted What then
have the Republicans gained To be
sure they have cured the deficit but
at what expense American manu
facturers were promised a glorious
dawn of prosperity after the Dingley
j bill had performed its perfect work
Will an increase of importations so
enormous as to yield an extra revenue
of 60000000 be considered a blessing
by the manufacturers of tins country
W S Gilberts paradox in The Pi
rates of Penzance is nothing com
pared -with the delightful paradox per
petrated by DIngley which promises
a tremendous boom in the way of im
portations and a suniburst of prosper
ity to home manufacturers as coinci
dentally beneficial results
Protection which does not protect is
one horn of the dilemma Protection
which produces a delieit is another
horn If the Republicans escape the
one they will be pierced on the other
Facts About Imports
A correspondent writes to the effect
that articles claiming the Dingley bill
is a success in producing revenue are
published in certain weekly papers of
Chicago and these journals are scat
tered broadcast free gratis for noth
ing
In his letter this correspondent asks
for the facts The figures taken from
official reports have been published in
these columns from time to time and
they demonstrate that the Dingley bill
is a failure as a revenue getter All
statements to the contrary are in de
fiance of facts
The Dingley tariff has produced a
deficit up to date of 4U5S1120 Every
month of the life of this measure from
the date of its passage July 24 1S97
has produced a deficit The plain un
disputed figures are as follows
July ll073r4j
August 14504452
September 3433718
October St310007
November Sr72109
In the face of this showing it is sim
ply falsehood for Republican politicians
to send out reports claiming that the
imports under the new tariff law com
pare favorably with those of a year
ago
The deficit for the last fiscal year end
ing July 30 1S97 was only 18032254
and the deficit for the four months of
the present fiscal year is 46581120
nearly three times as large as the total
deficit for twelve months last year
Does this showing of imports compare
favorabl with that of a -ear ago
The Dingle tariff is a wretched fail
ure and the Republicans might as well
admit this fact first as last The people
cannot be fooled all the time and with
such facts as those given above to en
lighten them they cannot be fooled at
all Chicago Dispatch
Thurstons Blatherskite Talk
To intimate that ever man who does
not vote the Republican ticket is an an
archist in disguise does no particular
good and may do some harm Senator
Thurston himself knows that the great
of the American people of what
ever part- are decent law abiding citi
zens To state otherwise is to insult
the intelligence of his audience Such
blatherskite talk probabl loses more
votes in the long run than almost any
other kind of tactics that the Nebraska
Senator might follow As a simple
matter of winning votes if for no other
reason it pays to be fair in American
politics Boston Advertiser
Who Will Guard the Guardian
Senator Morgan of Alabama sa s that
the possession of Hawaii is necessary
for protecting California and Alaska
in the coming war with our traditional
enemy Great Britain But who is to
protect Hawaii in the event of such a
Avar Would not the fleets nd fortifi
cations required for Hawaii prove more
effective for national defense nearer
home Is it necessary to fortify a
outpost 2000 miles from the Cali
fornia coast in order to protect San
Francisco from bombardment when
batteries in that harbor would be much
more to the purpose Philadelphia
Record
Haj makinc Time for Republicans
There can be no hope of bringing the
revenue and appropriations together by
economy for two reasons The appro
priations for this fiscal year are already
made and the estimates indicate a defi
cit approaching 70000000 The ap
propriations for the next fiscal -ear are
little likely to be lessened by a party
which sees on ever- hand evidences
that its complete control over the Gov
ernment is to be wrested from
it The Republicans can be expected
to make har for themselves while the
sun shines New York Journal
Trouble Ahead for Mr Gage
If currency reform is not to be press
ed upon thfa Congress with the whole
Influence of the administration In the
hope that the next Congress will be bet
ter disposed the Secretary of the Treas
ury will be apt to find himself con
fronted by a hostile Congress on the
first Monday in December 1899 The
political future does not belong to a
party unconscious of Its aim or having
an aim and wanting in the courage to
pursue it Philadelphia Record
Stilling the Clamor for Office
One of the greatest benefits of civil
service reform is its effect in putting a
stop to the clamor for office and every
position placed upon the classified list
is one temptation removed from hun
dreds of persons who think a Govern
ment office no matter what the work or
is the one thing above all others
to be desired Cleveland Leader
Ireland has the most equable climate
of any country in Europe
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Real Estate
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