s m
2Go-J First settlement in Maryland , that
of tfi. Mary's , founded Lord P.al-
tinmrt-'K first colony lauded in Mary-
laud.
9GK2 Public inauguration of omnibuses
in Paris under a royal decree of
Louis NIV.
371 ! ) Spanish armada dispersed by a
storm.
ti.741France declared war against Eng
land. *
170U Stamp act repealed by the British
Parliament.
1S01 Louisiana territory divided into
two sections by act of Congress.
1SOG France restored the old relations
with the little republic of Andorra ,
in the Pyrenees.
' 3S12 New Spanish constitution promul
gated by the Cortes.
1S1R United States Congress granted
pensions to needy veterans of the
Revolutionary war.
1S20 Bank of New Brunswick incorpo-
> rated.
1S30 First issue of the Philadelphia
Public Ledger.
IS 50 Charles Albert of Sardinia abdi
cated in favor of his son , Victoi
Emmanuel.
5.851 France declared war against Rus
sia.
ISoS Nicaragua placed herself undci
the protection of the United States.
18(50 Japanese embassy , first to leave
Japan , arrived at San Francisco. . . .
Treaty of Turin ; by which France
acquired Savoy and Nice.
1SG3 Prin n William George of Den
mark elected King of Greece.
1SGS Admiral Farragut received by the
Pope at Rome.
1871 French National assembly met at
Versailles.
2.S74 Fiji Islands ceded to Great Brit
ain.
3578 British warship "Eurydice" ' foun
dered.
ISSo Rebels of Northwest Canada de
feated Major Crozicr at Duck Lake.
ISS7 Dakota suffered heavy loss through'
floods. \
IS91 The Canadian Pacific completed
between Montreal and Vancouver.
ISO-1 Coxey's * 'aruiy * ' moved from Mas-
silion to Canton , Ohio.
1805 Sixty miners killed in explosion at
Evanston. Wyo.
JLS.HS Port Arthur "leaser to Russia.
7.905 William Warner elected United
States Senator from Missouri .
Fifty-eight persons killed by boiler
explosion in factory at Brockton ,
Mass United States took charge
of the revenues of Santo Domingo.
10CC Two hundred and fifty men killed
in a coal mine at Nagasaki , Japan.
1907 Twenty-six persons killed in
Southern Pacific train wreck near
Colton , Cal.
The Russian duma has adopted unani-
motley an interpellation asking M. Ko-
kovsoff. the finance minister , to explain
his icasons for inducing the emperor to
issue a ufcase about the end of January
authorizing an international loa i of § 5x- ! )
000.000 in violation of a provision of thc
fundamental law requiring the sanction ol
the duma in all budget operations.
The Belgian Parliament received from
King Leopold's ministers a new annexation - !
tion treaty in which tl-e king agrees to
abandon the crown domain in the Congo
Free State , provided that Belgium as
sume obligations amounting to $21,000 , *
OOO , continue the king's use of the Congo
revenues for life , and respect the Ameri-
* au concessions of IfHMI. with which
Thomas F. Rjan is identified.
Prince Lndwig Menelik of Abyssinia
has been expelled from Germany as an j
undesirable foreigner. The prince is a
near relative of the King of Abyssinia ,
and a negro. lie was born at Addis
Abeda. and for a long time past he has
been making unsuccessful efforts to or
ganize companies for the exploitation of
mines , rubber and cotton , in the king
dom of his relative. He has been charg
ed repeatedly with drunkenness and dis
orderly conduct in various parts of Ger
many.
The Yaqui Indians are again killing
miners in Mexico. They have extended' '
their operations into districts where'
Americans are numerous. Mexican
troops are pursuing them. f
Tlie sweeping concessions made by King
Leopold in the new treaty which pro
vides for the annexation of the Congo In
dependent State to Belgium are attribut
ed to his dread of British intervention ,
backed by the United States. The king , '
it is declared , would rather run the risk !
of facing an international accounting of
his stewardship than the former contin
gency.
Census Bureau Figures Show o
Decrease in Tuberculosis
\
Deaths in 1906.
GAUGES IS 01T THE INCREASE.
Table of Mortality Hates Announced
l > y Gfflcials of Department
at 'y/nchiiiten.
.Mortality statistics compiled by the
census bureau , according to a report
recently < issued by rhe government ,
show a decreasein the death rate
among those aillictcd with tuberculosis
and meningitis and an increase in the
mortality irom cancer diseases , typhoid
fever , whooping cough and violence.
Tlu > rt'part covers-all mortality statis-
ti-.s in the fifteen registration States
; i2iil the District of Columbia and in
si'VC'iily-Si'vi'ii cities in non-registration
States for the years r.)07 and 190G.
Tlu- causes of death , wit'h their
ratrs , for TJOti , ranked according to the
number of deaths for each 100,000 , are
as follows :
Tuberculosis of lungs I. i9.4
1'iuMimonia ( including broncho-
I pneumonia ) 149.0
! I It-art disease l.'SO.T
, 1 > iarrho a and enteritis 122.9
Violence 120.9
j iSnght's disease ami nephritis 119.8
Apoplexy 71. ?
Caiuvr 70.8
Premature birth 34.8
< ld age 31.3
ronirenital debility 34.2
Typhoid fever 32.1
HrouchitJs 30.3
Diphtheria and croup 2G.3
Meningitis 2. > .Q
While a part of the decrease in the
number of deaths from tuberculosis
shuwn in 190G as against 1905 is due
to the inclusion among the registra
tion States of several with a low mor
tality rate from this disea.se. there was
also noticeable a noteworthy decrease
in tin. ' oltl registration area. Of the
ti.ial number of deaths 3G,032 were
shown to be Liales and 29.09 : females ,
Mic ago of greatest mortality among
males ranging from 2. > to 29 and among
females from 20 to 24 years. South
D.ikota and Michigan showed the low-
" -'t mortality among the States , while
L'"lurado and California had the high-
SL Neither of the latter States show-
Mi au ! ncrra. o in the disease among
th ? native population. Nejv York had
UK * highest mortality rate among the
. -ilii-s. that rate being .103 in 190G , as
compared with oI G in 1'JOo.
Cancer was the cause of 29,020
I aths in 3 HOG. of which 11.1GG were
males and 17.sr t females. The age of
/reutest mortality from this disease is
het vcen the ages of GO-nnd G4. Cali
fornia showed the highest death rate
and New Jersey the lowest , while Bos
ton led all the large cities.
Practically all of the increase in the
mortality from typhoid fever cornea
jvith the inclusion of new registration
. < ites. This rate was 2ij in 1905 and
32 in 100 < ; . Pennsylvania and Colorado
showed the highest death rate from
lyphoid. while Massachusetts and
llhotle Island had the lowest. Pitts-
V.iriand Allegheny , Pa. , lead the reg-
i.srrarkm cities in mortality from
t ; . id-old.
The total number of deaths in the
.itiiv registration area for 190G from
; .ll forms of violence was 49.oo2 , cor-
r. ; ( Hiding to a death rate of 120.9 per
1 < i . ) ( , ( ) of estimated population. The
, " -ath rate from suicide apparently
-h.nved a large increase for each year
of the period from 1902 to 1905 and a
de'Tease for 1900.
Deatuis from accidental Iraumatlsmsr
numbered 20.S42 , and the rate was 50. &
per 100,000 of population ; the corre-
sjjoiuling r.ite for 1905 was 42.1.
Deaths from steam railroad accidents
and injuries for the registration area
numbered 7.090. and 1S3 were due to
automobile accidents.
( Jirl's Xerve-Knckinjr experience.
A midnight battle with three score
infuriated blood-suckin.'c bats , which as
sailed her from all sides , was an experi
ence which came recently to Miss Alice L.
Earle of South Norwalk , Conn.
Attacked in bed in the middle of the
night. Miss Earle jumped up in alarm ,
only to bo more generally attacked by the
vampires. Her nerves stood her in good
stead , for she wrapped a bed covering
about her head and body , rushed from
the room , slammed the door , and fainted
in the arms of her maid.
Miss Earle was spending the winter
in San Antonio , Texas. Contrary to ths
custom of these parts , she threw open
her window. During the night a ter
rific thunder storm arose , which drove
the bats into Hi" room. When daylight
came the attendants of the hotel en
tered the room and killed sixty-one bati
ljn ; Francisco tJrnftiiiK
Coincident with the liberating of
Sehmitz and Uuef. the convicted San
Francisco grafters , a number of the po
lice ofi'iccrs under the5 present adminis
tration have been caught with marked
money taken to protect divekeepers in
Chinatown.
f Truants I'unisliecl.
Five fathers and one mother of truant
ichool children were sentenced to one day
jn jail and a fine of ? 5 by a Chicago jus
tice and warrants for other parents were
oat
<
WORK OF
Tin1 Senate \\as not in session Satur-
ilay. But little progress was made in tlio
House in considering tlie agricultural bill.
i'he discu.s.si m divclt mainly upon the pro
posed estabiishniont of federal standards
of cotton srrades and federal inspection of
grains , Consideration of the bill had not
been concluded when the 1 1 OHM * adjourned
( ill Monday. 1
Th < passage of a large 'irimhor ' of
of minor importance and afi extended
discussion rf a measure to juithorix" tie !
lammi : } of tit'1 Sns'.ke Kivi-r. Ws'shi'iir-
ton. occupied the entire time of the Sen
ate .Monday. The e sion was brought tea
a sudden close by lack of a quorum.
Charges of a serious nature against ( Jif-
ford I'inchot. chief of th < > forestry bu
reau. were mad" in the House by Messrs.
Smith of California and Mondell of W\o-
ming. during the consideration of the ag
ricultural appropriation bill. Mr. Smith
accused him of entering into a secret un
derstanding with the City of Los Angeles
with the view to securing the city valua
ble water rights in the Owens River Val
ley as airainst the interests of private
parties having prior claims. Mr. MOM-
dell denounced him for. as he charged , il
legally paying the expenses of forest ofli-
cials in attending conventions in the
\Vest. The bill was under discussion all
day.
f * _ _
Nearly Hie entire session of the Scnatt
Tuesday was consumed in consideration
of a bill to permit the building of a dam
on the Snake river , Washington , and an
adjo'irnmeut was only reached after Mr.
Ileyburn of Idaho announced that IIP
would not i i-rmit aotc to be taken.
1 Miring thrt discussion of the bill Senator
Teller made a speech against executive
encroachmcn- . Several bills of minor
importance w-re passed. After ha\iri :
undergone many changes , the paragraph
mf the agricultural appropriation bill re-
'ati'.i to the bureau of forestry , was
finally pa ed by the House. Messrs.
Mon'-ell of Wyoming and Smith"of Cali
fornia continued their attacks on the bu
reau. supported by Messrs. Bon.uige of
Colorado and O.shmau of Washington.
These embraced charges ( hat the bureau
had created timber monopolies in favor of
larire corporations , illegally assumed jur
isdiction over water rights belonging to
the Western States , and jugsled/with / fig
ures in order to obtain lartie appropria
tions from Consents. The appropriation
for the investigation of soils was in
creased.
The passage of a bill authorizing the
' on- : ruction of a dam across the Snake
River in the State of Washington , and
the consideration of a measuiv for adju-
'dicatiug the claims of States airainst the
government account of the disposition of
the proc.-eds of public lands , occupiel
nearly the entire session of the Senate
Wednesday. Debate of the agricultural
appropriation bill in the House wa- de
void of the charges And imputations
whk-h marked its consideration Mon-
f
"day and Tuesday. More progress was
made with the measure than on any pro-
\ ions day. The discussion dwelt on n
' for an incivased appropria
tion for the farmers' bulletins , whi h ,
'however ' , was refund , and the .subject ol
inquiries into road building , etc. . by tiis
lenartment. the trend of opinion b"inq
that such work should be encouraafd.
! Tli" session was opened with a bitter attack -
[ tack on Attorney General Bonaparte by
f.Mr. Clark of Florida , who denounced Him
' TS bei'ijr uo lawyer , and unfit to hold SsN
joftVe. The occasion for the utterance
was the reporting out of committee of a
[ resolution by Mr. Clark calling for n
( statement of the expense connected with
j peonage investigations and prosecutions.
| That the resolution v.as simply a further
iirt unnecessary attack on the Atn.rr.i-- '
General by Mr. C'lark was the declara
tion of Mr. Caul field of Misouri , who led
the opposition. The revolution was la
sted.
\
The session of the Senate Thursday
, vas largely consumed by discussion of n
bill to reorganize the public school svs-
tem in the District of Columbia by plac
ing it under the control of a director ap
pointed by the national commissioner of
education. The bill relating to tlie set-
Clement of claims of States on account of ;
'the ' disposition of public lands was a-rain
taken up and the Bacon amendment for
settling the accounts of owners of cotton
ceized by the government during the Civil
'War. ' amounting to $ r .000. < l)0. ( ) was con
sidered , but \\ithout results , either on the
bill or the amendment. The Senate ad
journed until Monday. Carrying a total
af $ n.r > OSSOG. the agricultural appropria-
tum bill was passed by the House. Dur
ing the debate a brief flurry was created
by Mr. Harrison of New York , a Demo
crat. characterising as socialistic the bill
if Minority Leader Williams providing
for the utilization of the treasury surplus
in the construction and improvement of
roads in the several States. With the ag
ricultural bill out of the way. the Demo
crats , under the leadership of Mr. Wil
liams. conducted a successful filibuster
against the transaction of any further
business. At 10:10 : p. in. a motion to
adjourn until Friday was forced through
by the majority.
NATIONAL CAPITAL NOTES.
The Cullom bill , providing for an ad
dition to the land at Fort Sheridan. 111. ,
passed the Senate.
The government of the little African
republic of Liberia * has appealed to
America to protect her territorial integ
rity against France.
The House committee on navy affairs
lecided to report favorably the bills in-
reduced by Mr. Butler of Pennsylvania
and establishing the 'rank of machinists
in the navy as warrant ofliccrs. and in-
'reasing the pay of mates to § 1,200 at
jea , 91.1 HO on shore and $960 on leave
3r waiting orders.
The bill introduced by Mr. Mann of
Illinois to regulate commerce in adul-
.erated nnd misbrnndcd seed and to pre-
rent the sale or transportation thereof
, vas reported favorably to the House by
: he committee on interstate and foreign
winuierce.
DEEP WATEH'/AY TO THE QUIT
The Mississippi River Commission
Favors Project.
A deep waterway between Chicagc
and the gulf seems to be one of the
possibilities of the uear future. The ,
project has been discussed for many
years , but now at length it seems to
be ripening to a head.
The Mississippi River Commission ,
in a report now in the hands of the
Secretary of War , proposes to go ahead1
with that portion of the lakes-to-the-
gulf deep waterway which lies within
its jurisdiction on the Mississippi
River. The members believe that it
will be both economical and in the
j line of permanency for them to adopt
i immediately a deep waterway project.
} and in future work ha\e that big n-
terprise in mind instead of temporary
bank revetment , desultory dredging
and sporadic attempts to clear certain
harbors. The report recommends that
the Secretary of AV.ir asks Congress
to give the commission a million of
dollars a year for three years , in ad
dition to the sum now at the disposal
of the commission , and with this
amount permanent work on the deep
waterway can go forward. The commis
sion now has at its disposal the sum
of $2,000,000 a year for three years ,
and it holds in the report to the Sec
retary of War that it cannot expend
the $0.000,000 already authorized by
Congress in an economical way if there-
is ever any thought of building a deep
waterway.
Tlie real significance of this recom
mendation from the Mississippi Itivcr
j Commission lies in the fact that three
members of the commission are alsa
members of the Board of Survey , which
was authorized at the last session or
Congress to .study the whole situation.
It is believed that tlie board will be
in readiness to make its report in
October or November and that it will
recommend a 22-foot channel from St.
Louis to the sea. With the Mississippi
I Iliver Commission already committed
to a deep waterway from Cairo to the
gulf and the prospect of an intelli
gent , comprehensive and technical re
port on the project from St. Louis to
the gulf , there is every reason for be
lieving that initiatory legislation for
the deep waterways will be secured at
this session of Congress. As is gen
erally known a survey has already
been made and a complete report is
in the possession of the government
for that portion of the deep waterway
from Chicago through the drainage
canal , Des Plaines and Illinois rivers
to St. Louis.
With a Board of Survey outlining
the plan for the entire distance , ap
propriations will be sought for the im
mediate starting of the work.
The average length of life of a trades.
I man is two-thirds that of a farmer.
I The union movement is beginning ta
make rapid strides among the farm labon
; ers in Ireland.
Union printers of the country hav
contributed $12,977.70 to the Gumming *
memorial fund.
The Women's Trade League is planning
to get all of the 0,000,000 American
working women into labor unions.
Literature published by the A. P. of L ,
is to be translated into Yiddish , to bq
used for educational purposes among im
migrants.
Strong pressure has been exerted by
manufacturers on Gov. Ilarris of Ohio
to veto the Reynolds child labor bill ,
now passed by both houses.
William D. IlayTvood is no lunger sec
retary and treasurer of the Western Fed
eration of Labor. Ernest Mills has been
appointed to that position by the execu
tive board.
The Legislative Council of Victoria ,
Australia , has excluded clerks , carters
and drivers , stablemen , firewood carters
and other workers from the benefits of
wage boards.
In order to carry on a labor war
against the Western Federation of Min
ers at Fairbanks , Alaska , agents in Port
land , Ore. , are offering employment to
2,000 men at ? 5 a day to go to work in
the North.
The National Rc.ilway Trackmen are
planning for the establishment of a home
for their aged and indigent members. It
is proposed to acquire a tract of 500 acres
near Ft. Scott , Kac. , as the location for
the institution.
Statistics show that in 190C there oc
curred in France no fewer than 1,300
strikes , in which 4GS,4GG persons were
concerned. This number included 3SG.435
men , 31,331 women and 1G,710 young
persons of both sexes. Most of these
strikes were successful in securing short
er hours for the wage earners.
From the year 1890 to the close of
190G , 22,849 men met death in the coal
mines of the United States. Not since
1S97 has the annual list numbered less
than 1,000 , and each year the number
has grown larger. In 190G the fatali
ties were 2.0G1 , and 1907 , when the fig
ures are all in and compiled , will num
ber more than that.
A bill to license motormen has been
introduced in the Assembly at Albany ,
N. Y. It provides for a bureau in the
State Department of Labor with an ex
aminer and four assistants , to be appoint
ed by the State Commissioner of Labor ,
each to hold oflice for three years.
The \\igmakers of New York celebrated
a double event , the recognition of their
union and the winning of the first strike
of the year. The organization is known
jvs the Human Hah Workers' Union , and
is composed of the njkers of wigs , tou
pees and all other ! ; products , composed
if human hair.
Jii.
THE DAY
I.ulior 1.x
The New York Journal of Comnier--e ,
the only financial and business pap r
that is independent of Wall street and
trust influences , thinks that American
mills should seek foreign markets. Ir
quotes ibe opinion of a man connevred
in an exe'-utive and prati ' : il way with
oie of the lar c-t industries in this
country , who said that It was only by
filtering into the competitive business
abroad could it be hoped to prevent one
of the most trying. < Tiiel and disastrous
periods that labor lias experienced.
"The public have not yet begun to ap
preciate the severity of the labor out
look. " he continued. "They hear of
the hundreds of thousands of workmen
ol" all kinds being out of work in the
great cities , but they do not begin to
realize the situation and the prospects
at the woolen manufacturing centers ,
for instance , " throughout New England.
What is needed are foreign markets tenet
net as a regulator or insurance for the
home market. "
But how is the American manufac
turer to overcome the high tariff rates
that foreign countries impose on Amer
ican products in retaliation for our
high tariiY duties imposed on their pro
ducts ? Virtually only the English mar
kets are open to our wares and even
the I'.ritis-h colonies , such as Canada
and Australia , now impose tariff pro
tection to protect their own manufac
turers. Every country but England
has a tariff wall around it and the
United States has the. highest tariff
wall of all. with the possible exception
of Russia.
To seek foreign markets for our sur
plus products under such conditions is
a thankless task , for our manufactur
ers would have to < ; ffer their goods for
a price , that with the tariff rates of
other countries added would be less
than the price the manufacturers of
foreign countries ? ell for. We cannot
coiiipete with England for her manu
facturers have free raw materials and
the lower cost of living for her work
men and thus lower wages and cheaper
cost of production than the manufac
turer of the United States has.
The sad state of affairs that the lie-
publican policy of protection has pro
duced both for the manufacturer and
the workmen cannot be much bettered
by the trusts and tariff protected indus
tries s llintr cheaper abroad than here ,
because after all but little internation
al trade can be accomplished between
tbi.st : who want to sell and refuse to
buy. It' we want to sell to foreigners ,
we must buy of them as a general prop
osition. No country can afford long
to pay gold for foreign products , ex
cept for raw materials which it re
sells as finished products. The pro
tected interests here must abide the
conditions they have created and noth
ing but reforming our own tariff with
free raw materials and other redir-tions
that will allow our workingmen tu
live cheaper will for-e open foreign
markets for our surplus products.
As long as the business boom was
on everything was lovely for awhile ,
but now the breakdown has come we
are helpless under the inelastic work
ings of the Republican policy of tarill
I protection.
I The Republicans now propose a tar
iff commission to investigate the tariff
abomination , but as that far-seeing
statesman , former Gov. Douglas of
Massachusetts , has lately said :
"While the commission will be slow
ly prosecuting its investigation the tar
iff trusts will continue to plunder the
helpless consumers and will raisre a
campaign fund that will almost insure
the re-election of standpatters and the
defeat of revisionists. Instead of this
program of delay. I would have a Pres
ident who would call an extra session
of Congress to revise the tariff imme
diately and radically.
' 'The proper time to get rid of some
thing bad is right now. Nor do I be
lieve iu compromising with an evil and
in agreeing to abolish it piecemeal
pay , 10 per cent a year when it is pos
sible to get rid of it at once. If I have
an ulcerated tooth that should be ex
tracted. I do not want it pulled by in
stallments , so that the process will last
several hours or several days ; I want
the agony of the separation to be as
short as possible. "
" \VJtat JefiVr.soii V"onl l Do.
Wise nii-n study past history to guide
them for the future , while at the same
time considering the difference of time
and circumstances.
"Jefferson In his day agreed with
the beliefs of us moderns , in abhor
ring public debts and high taxes. To
him the least possible government was
the best , partly because it was less ex
pensive , inllicted light burdens only
upon industry and insured the greatest
amount of freedom and independence
to all men. Were he alive to-day we
may be certain that he' would be ac
tive for direct legislation which would
put tlie legislative power , in practice
as well as in theory , back into the
hands of the people ; for more and bet-
tir schools : for smaller public debts ;
for reduced taxes ; for free raw mate
rials ; for"no duties on manufactured
goods sold cheaper to foreigners than
to Americans : for greatly reduced tar
iff duties , reciprocity with Canada and
other nations , for no tariff or other
protection to giant trusts ; for equal
and uniform freight rates to all ahip-
pers ; and for less intermeddling in for
eign affairs. "
Such Avere the words of lion. Wil
liam L. Douglas when Governor of
Massachusetts in 11)05.mil ) this en
dorsement of .Teffersonian policies and
indictment of the Republican leaders
is a ? true to-day as wlUMi said. What
a gulf there is between the present Re
publican administration for the benefit
of tiie few and Democratic policies for
the benefit of the many.
Gov. Douglas was only Governor ono
year , as he refused a renomiuation , but
in a series of masterly speeches dur
ing that sihort time and since , he so
impressed the people of Massachusetts
with the necessity of tariff reform and
i-arrying out the .Teffersonian policies
of equal , rights to all and special priv
ileges to none that even a great major
ity of the Republicans of that State
are now demanding tariff revision.
When the tariff planks of the Ohio
Republicans and the Nebraska Demo
crats are put in parallel columns for
comparison In Washington there ap
pears no marked difference between
them as far as language defines princi
ple. The principle defined by the Ne
braska" platform is that of the restora-
/tlon of the tariff from the prohibitive
to the revenue basis. The Ohio plat
form proposes next year a revision "in
suring the maintenance of the true
basis of protection. " Avhich is explain
ed as such customs duties as will equal
the difference between the cost of pro
duction at homy and abroad.
This Ohio promise carried cnit la
good faith would give a low tariff. It
is not claimed by anyone that the dif
ference in the cost of production at
home and abroad on articles which
give the bulk of the revenue from a
tariff amounts to as much as a fourth
of the value of the articles in any open
market. So that the Nebraska plank ,
representing Mr. Bryan's view of a low-
tariff for revenue. Is seemingly in har
mony with Mr. Taft's Ohio promise oC
a low tariff for protection.
If Kansas , Iowa , Nebraska and other
western Republicans can be convinced
that the Ohio plank means what It says
they am. be convinced that /it / meets
their views as anti-monopolists. This
is what western Republicans are in
their well-known impulses. As they
differ from some other Republicans
elsewhere , they are nothing if not anti-
monopolists.
The Nebraska plank defines itself
fully on this point by proposing to with
draw government protection at the cus
tom h use from monopoly established
Under custom hon.se taxation. The Ohio
plank leaves such monopolies to be as
fully protected by custom house taxa
tion ns other industries it proposes to
protect. Where language is used with
skill in Ohio , differences may seem to
disappear from language itself. Bnt
on the fundamental point of opposition
to monopoly Republican anti-monopo
lists in the West will ask the meaning
OL" Ohio silence. St. Louis Republic.
. . _ _ _ _
Truth BeitiM- lUau Fiction.
Ill spite of the panic and business de
pression the Republican leaders cannot
seem to throw off their habit of boast
ing that prosperity follows their foot
steps. It is apparent that the financed
of the government are in bad shape ,
that the revenue is falling greatly be
hind the exiKnditures. so that It has
been found necessary to call upon the
Wall street national banks to return
$ : j."i.iKi,000 ! of the Si'oO.OOO.Ol/O loaned to
them without interest , and that bonds
were Iatel3 * issued to further help the
banks , all of which are hardly matters
to boast of. But Congressman Boutell
of Illinois has discovered that the Unit
ed States Treasury is bursting with
riches , having over a billion of gold In
its vaults , and he boasts of it so as to
thereby try and boost the flagging spir
its of his Republican brethren. But
unfortunately for the taxpayers this
enormous amount of gold belongs to
tho.se who deposited it in the treasury
and gold certificates have been issued
against it. Nearlj" all that vast amount
of gold is owned by the banks , who
hold the certificates , or "yellow backs , "
but few of which are in tlie hands of
the people. The ordinary business of
the people is done with silver certifi
cates and national bank currency and
but little gold is in circulation.
There is ? 150.000,000 of gold held by
the government , in what is called the
gold reserve fund , to provide for the
redemption In gold of the greenbacks
and treasury notes and to keep the
silver certificates at irnr with gold.
So the boasteTl riches of the govern
ment dwindle down to nothing , for tlie
gold reserve cannot be touched to pay
the expenditures of the government.
What is the UPC to try and deceive the
people by boasting of riches they do
not possess ? The voters of the United
States are too intelligent to be fooled
by such boasting , and even if they were
not. they are entitled to know the facts
and not be fed on fiction about their
public financial affairs.
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