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?? A-f&J SUPPLEMENT TO THE COLUMBUS JOUBNAL. Friday, Not. 5. DEMOCRATS AFRAID OF THEIR PLATFORM. INCBEASE IN EXPOBTS LARGER UNDER THE DINGLEY THAN THE WILSON LAW. H:Utln.-: Am M il v FACTS AND FIGUBES. WHAT THE FARMERS LOST BY FREE TRADE. "Eaormo: Decrease in the Valae of Agricultural Products ia Conse qaencc of a Free Trade Administra tion and Free Coinage Agitation. Official Records Show It. It i -hown by official reports, prepared "by the tlk-iaU of President Cleveland's la-t almici-tratiun. that the decreased eon-t:mp::on of wheat was :511,S&6.1tW bu-hels. and the decreased consumption of corn. ".Wo.oy.bTO bushd a total de creased consumption of o.ti-YiVi 16,077. bu-hel- of wheat and corn in the United State- daring those four year. In thi.-arti-le .- given the total production of wheat bi.l corn in the United State? each j.-ar f-r fite year?, the total value of each ra.-'- crop, and the decreased farm value .f -ath ear's crup compare"! with Istl!- nbtn the wheat crop of the United State- u- larger than in any of the other ears nacwl and the world's wheat r..p ji- large a- the average of the year- s.n- e lii) a- proved by the following fig'ire taken from page '-.)'.', of the "Stati-u ai -Abstract of the United STat. l"W." urhi-h was prewired under the direction ' S- retary "arli!e. a- proved by the let ter thcrIn -ubmitting the report to the IIu-e'f Representative- except the fis-ure- on wheat and corn erop of 1X0 xrhi h Lav- been obtained from page rT.t tt lb.- "Vt-jr Book of the U. S. Depart ment f Agriculture." which was pre jwred It Secretary J. Sterling Morton. vb i :. of the most extreme free trader- in 'he a:-titn: I-o- n nb-ejt trjp H'1 eat crup. Yenr Tori tu. Total value. !-: .. .i..'U'J.n $.?gg.iii.-i i-:c :;.!ni.7i. ,i::.iti.:i !-: ...4.irr.4i; :Ei.,.,Js.C. 3 -'A". . -JOT HC!.!H7 ITST.'.tt.-.tr.K iw, . .rs: '".54.340 3io.cus.o3:) Decrease froai 1-Vs. $10.-.'.i40.rrf uv.t.o; -4.1TS. :: Total J r-a- in valoe of Unlteil j tatt" hrat crop during tU jiat fojr y-ar KOO.&:5S1 Karm lo on forn crops ' 'trncrop. Decreai. j Yvir. Total Iu. Total valoe from 1SIC KK l.C.434.( $,J.14J.tt: I iv.c: -i.cw.4W.i3i 5!i.inr.2:7 rn.52i.cc ' 1:M .l.rj.77n.ijK .W4.T19.ltZ: ftT.4T.4B5 ' is:c. .ii.-ii.i..vn i!T.ris).ijG 74,g3T.k:4 , is. .;.!T5.i; 49i.ooo.yor ioi.i39.ooa Total decrea-e in value of United Stat- corn crop during thu pa-t four yt-ar $3C3.7.GriS Aiid ttai fann lo oa wheat Uur- ln? the four yars COXS32.239 Total Ies on wheat and corn.54.r5S.239 It will 1 noticed that the !os in the value of the wheat crop of the United Stat- during the past four year $3J0.-XE-'-W wa- nearly one-third of the total value of the Tnp for the four years wht-n vuinpared Wjth the value of the wheat eroj in U.'. It will a!-o be noticed that tin- total detrta-ed farm value of the com crop- of the pa-t four year- aj:::re-.rated rr:.7U."i.r. a total lo-s of .(;."s.2:Kt ,zi the farm value- of the wht-at anil com croji- -.f i he U;i!t-il State during the pa-t four ynr- c uipnred with the farm valu -of tho-- -rop- m 1W2'. Keiuember that i: i- th- "farm" value of th raiu- that i Uo;e! :rom the o3icial tabk-. If ti-jur-d on thf -p-rt value of wh.'at and corn for th- y-ar- :.amed the lo on the wheat and cm f-.r the year- named the lo-- on the whe-jt and -rn erop- 5- nearly double that f-r the "fann" lo for it i- over a biil-:.-, d-'lar-. LO-.-C-- on Oats, and Hay. The f..i;.iwii. tiieial -tati-tie- -ive the 1' -- ' "1 e f:.mier- of the Unltetl State "a I r it- lud hay -rop- for the year-r.anv-i '.n -.:4Muence f the deereased h- ir,- -., i-iiniptioTi during the four ymr .f free trade -TiriiKieiit and free silver spiral ol I.. . - ..--- lt-'-rp. Peere:le. Y-ar Total bu. Total vain". from l-'.C j-:r . :i.mr,.oo S2io.-J.vt.on l-i . ::-.-.4.-.M l-.T.STO.f.rj -Jl.TT.."l! M-M4 . .'rjjciurj- -JH.-io.trjo r...r:.:wr.t l -!".. .-'J-.443..V1T ir:.t-v..i- 4r...v-..4:'. 1-:h: . ToT.540.4o i:rj. l-."..l5 TO.TO.r.T S144.O44.04O ' i u-r a-el value -f corn crop in lv,4. ! in-te! frrm lH-r-.lel 'i 1 tin j:li'T year- nauietl. r..V!.3l9 T : -irt io e nual- crop of :lie f-mr y-.ir- $13v.4y-l.."?:l I !. bay i r.p Hay .T'tp-. Deerea-. Year. r-'r.tl !-a-. Vaine. from l'.'L i-ic; . Cv.-..Tsvir- sr.To.v.-'j. -T2 i-:; .. . ."V4.-tj.4 40-.r.T..TJi .mi:M TiT.i i-'.e; . 4T.oT-.r-4i sxir..oi.". i".o:tT.-j.".T J-'."S.. .y.i--MC5 3.li5.014 1-.T3T.2T. .4S.T:2t; . i:fc.Mi.:u:i a-i i .n na ; crop : i ."nr vear-2--U hay .". lo on oat- S1.22i).3;T Th -3 ial r por- -n the oat crop- for the jer.r- lV- to lHTi were obtained from jwsc -J". 4 of the "StaTi-tical Ab-tract of the Untt'-d Sates. lv,.t;" and the oat epip f ;; from page ."'7 of the "Y-ar It.)! -f the U S. Department of Asr -cnlrnr-. lv!(j." The official hay crop sta-ti-;.-- v.ere ltaicil from page Ti71 of the "Year I-ok I". S. Ilepjirtment of Agri cnlTure. Iv!t;." which -tate- that no offi cial '-TiiaaTe were made on the hay crop for ;hi jr- ivM to 1V!'J inc!ti-ive. If the -t..T:-tic- fiir lv02 ha! ltt-u collected th- Tf tal !o-- on The hay crop- wonld un-dr-"iTi i'y have been largely increa-ed by -o a.pan-.n ;th the total value of l!-L. I.o e on Farm Animal-. T!:e f-'nuer- enormou- !-- on the value --f ihe.r farm anin'al- during the :i:r jer- of free trade governmn and tree -h r '.irsagc agitation ending March -4. 1M7. are proved by the following figure- Taen from page- Ti74. r7.". o7 and ."77 of the "Year Rook of the U. S. Ee-lar;in'-.t i Agriculture. Iy7." prepared under the direction of Secretary J. Sterl ing M-ra-n. who wa- the free trade Secre tary of Agruulture during President Cleveland'- la-t term: Los- -vj farm animal; Decrease from Jan. 1. lsyr.. sr.iiosb.y'JT O04.o0.3i. "r..i.:wx7 -JS.U1C.0isj Yei: Total vale. Jan. i. isnr. $J.4-::..v.;.osi .Jan. I. 1W .. .SilTO.-10.Tr-4 Jan. 1 WT. . l..-V..40.3ii .'Jan. 1 l-'.-t l.TUT.'J-JiOM -Jaa. 1. Is-.tT l.Vw.414.01U Ttrial less on farm animal deg rin the four frre trade years $2.rV.4i.9.' The largest tin plate mill in the world is to bt- erected at Newcastle. Pa. See. didn't somebody predict just a few year-gr- that no amount of protective encour-.ares-est would make it p-.'ss-is fc; aia.nu- IW rW&r "'Iff m jii3is life facture tin plate s'icees-fully in America'' Treasury officials now have no doubt that the Dingley law will produce ample revenues after it sets fairly at work. The earnings of is second month exceeded those of the second month of the Wil-on law. and are steadily growing. Secretary Wilson says the beet sugar manufactories in the United States will l- (juadrupied in nnmber in the next year. Is this due to "famine abroad"? Of course the Dingley law must not be credited with it. Prof. Vilon is o busy with his new duties that he hasn't had time to explain why farm products and prices of labor in creaed as soon as the Dinjrley law went into operation. The Democratic New York Journal says that "sold is on its way to New York and the tide of domestic manufacturins inter est ri-es hicher each day. The railroads are blocked up with the crush of business all alons the line." It will be noticed that the total lo- on the value of the farm animal- of the Unit ed State- during the year- 1-1C5. lJr.4. IMKi and WHJ reached the enormou- as-irre-.-atc of j?i."";n.4"JiiHS: That is the Ios- in the value of farm animals alone during the pa-t four year-. The-e are vitally important facts to the farmer- of the nation, and they are only another link in the chain of official prf prepared by free trade official-. that the farmer- of the United State- lo-t over live billion of dollar- by the decrea-ed con-umpTioii and decrea-ed value- of their crop- durinir the four year- of fret- trade government and free -ilver asitation. The reader- -honld cou-tantly reuieniln-r that the -tati-tie- siven here are not "Itesi-ter lie-." but are taken from the official report- of the fr-e trade Secretary of the Trea-ury and the free trade Secretary of Airrirulture of I're-id-nt Cleveland'- la-: adtuini-tration. Ie- Miiue- Uesister. McKinley and 5-Cent Wheat: The fn-e silverite- la-t year made -un-dry bold -tatement? al-ju: a coutract'Hl currency; that there wa- not enough mon ey in the country with which to do bu-i-ne . and that the only way out of it wa by the adoption of the free and unlimited coinage -cheme. Thi would lix thing- up all right, but unle adopted, many terri ble thing- would happen: wheat would drop to '27 cent- a bu-hel. mortgage WollM be forec!oed. nieii could find no employment, and a general gloom would -ettle over the country, -uch a- had never been -een before. It will lie remembtreil. however, that the free coinage propo-ition wa- not adopted by the voter- of the coun try, and yet in -pite of ihi- fact the circu lation of the country witliin a year ha increased nearly $Ki.'Unnj. wheat ha goue up to the dollar mark, mortgage- are being rapidly paid off. men are employed everywhere, and the only gloom ob-erva-ble in the country come- from the fac tory -moke. Onr Farmer Will Profit. Estimates made by the Jovemment sta t:tician of the United State- and Au tra-IIungary place the deficiency in the world' w heat supply for this year at '2')-.-isOO.OuO buhels. The total crop of last year fell ISO.f 0.0C bnheK -hort of the average. o the net deficiency of the two year- aggregate oT.lMriKUH. or more than one-sixth of a normal year" -upply. Thi i- sufficient to account for the ad vance in price, when taken in connection with the fact that the conuming popula tion is constantly increams. Report from the wheat exporting cnuntrit f the Southern Hemi-phere promi-e a god average yield from the next harvest, but the outlook for next year" American win ter w heat is I ad enough to more than bal ance the sol prorai-e of Australia and Argentina. On the whole, the outlook i for no letter supply next year than this, including India. Pittsburs Di-patch. Another Evidence. An evidence of the improvement in bu-1 iness since the people of the country de cided in favor of protection and sound money is found in figures in the recent re port of the Interstate Commerce Commis-' ion. They show that the freight tonnage for the j ear just ended is the largest ia the history of the railways of the country, ' and is uo le-s than seventy million tons j in excess of the preceding year. The gross earning- of the railroads of the I country for the year were nearly $7."X",-, Lifci greater than those of the preceding! year. fWfPiv i (k mm ?mr sySfrC CAN'T MAKE TIN. CAN'T WE? Old Free Trade Argument Knocked Into a Cocked Hat. Everybody remembers how the free traders scoffed at the idea of making tin plate in this country, and how long they denied that it was being made at all. Now we are making tin plate enough to supply our own markets and bip some abroad, and we are making it better and cheaper than the Welshmen did. London Hard ware of Sept. 16 says, referring to the Welsh makers: "It is not their fault if the American works, brand new in all their appointments, turn out plates a little cheaper than the Welsh mills. Besides, the Americans get their tin bars cheaper. Of course the loss of the Ameri can trade is a great diater. but it came in the natural order of things, and mut be accepted patiently." There never was a sreater triumph for the protection prin liple. -r a bl.i'ne- J- lons'ration of -t effectivenes-. than the esMbli-hment of the tin plate industry in th conntry. and appreciation of that fact wa one rea-on why the free traders- fought it - maiig linantly. Loui-vil!e Commercial. Compare the Two Law-. . The American Econom -t contain an instructive compari-on between the tir-t two month- of the Wil-o:: tariff and the Dinsley tariff. The figure- -how that dur ing the fir-t month of it- ojieration. Sep tember. 1V.)4. the Wil-on bill yielded a revenue of -5.J'J1.'. and during the sec ond month .?lt.i:C.24n. The Dingley bill produced .H).0"j:;.(;ir, .luring the fir-t month of its oiH'ration .md .LlJjIts during the --coml. The point of contrast i- that while the Wil-on bill -bowed a large falling off in the eond month the Dingley bill -how- a large gam and $2. 7!'.'.r more than the Total reventie re eived during the -econd month of the Wil-.ni bill. From another point of view, covering expenditure- a- well a- receipt-, the deficit during the tir-t month of the iMngley bill wa- netirly Sl.Q M ) greater ihan during the fir-t month ot the Wilson bill, while in the -econd month of the Dingley bill the deficit wa- over SHUXt). iimi If... than in the -econd month of the Wil-on bill. The Wil-.-ri bill deficit srew a- the bill got dder and continued to in-crea-e. while the Dinsley bill deficit wa Si.iNut.HM) le.. jn the -e-ond month than in the fir-t. -howing the superiority of the Dinsley bill a- a producer of revenue, while a a prlucer of prosperity there i no room for compari-on. The Wii-on bill destroyed pro-perity. while the Dinsley bill is restoring it. An Eminent Man- Views. People who are railing again-t the Unit ed State- court- and their methods would do well to read what retiring Justice Field -aid of that highe-t of all United State tribunals, the Supreme Court, after more than thirty year-" opirtunity to observe the court. In hi letter announcing hi retiremenr. he -aid. "A- I look back over the more than a third of a century that I have at on this bench. I am more and more inipre ed with the immeasurable importance of this court. Now and then we hear it spoken of a an aristocratic feature of a republican government, but it is the most democratic of all. It car ries neither the purse nor the sword, but it possesses the power of declaring the law. and in that i found the safeguard which keep the whole mighty fabric of the government frnni ru-hing to destruc tion. Thi- negativi power, the power of resistance, is the only safety of a popu lar government." Trade Revival Not Threatened. The -ante sort of reaction which ha occurred in the to-k market in the pa-t two week took place in th-1 latter part of 1S70. the year of sold re-umption. and many person- predicted then, as they do now. that the "boom ha.- bur-t." The very same influence which can-ed the re action then cau it now wild specula tion. Prices went up too fast at the be ginning of the trade revival then. a they have done in the pat few months. Busi ne expansion wa not checked in the slishtest degree, however, by the tempo rary drop in stocks in 179. nor is it In ISO". St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Their Case flopelens. Senator Gorman's offer to surrender the Democratic leadership in Maryland nrovided the Baltimore Sun unrorts it uartv in the State and legislative cam-! paigc, i the Democracy's flag ot distress in that State. Gorman is a candidate for re-election to the Senate, and the Legis lature chosen this year will elect his suc cessor. A few weeks ago Gorman an nounced that he was not seeking another term. That was the first confession of weakness on the part of the Maryland Democratic managers, for Gorman's can didacy, as both Democrats and Republi cans well know, will take away thousaads of votes from the Democratic State and legislative tickets. Gorman's conditional offer now to abandon the leadership of his party and cut loose his official connec tion with it means that he and the other managers believe that the party's chances m the campaign are hopeless. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Dingley Law Doing Splendidly. A good deal has been said in the Demo cratic news-papers, and more particular ly in the mugwump free trade papers, about tlie failure of the Dinsley bill to produce sufficient revenue. They were not willins to wait until the bill had leen fairly tried and until the stock of import ed good had leen exhausted, but legan a-s -oon a the bill went into effect to com plain that it was not a revenue getter. They utterly ignored the fact that in an ticipation of it the country had been tloo-1-ed with imported geod and that conse quently importation- fell off a- n as the new law went into effect. The WiNon law wa declared on it face to be a revenue getter purely, and it- advocate- a-srted that it was a tariff for revenue only. It went into effect in September. 1M4. In it- fir-t month the receipt- were S'J'J.rt'Jl. :!-'. In October, the -ecvnd month, the receipt- were ?1!.1"K. "M. The total receipt- for the fir-t two months wen S4I.70".4X. The Dinsley bill wa in operation two mouths on the 1st of October. In Ansu-t the receipt were $l!.t""."l.". and in September -5-1.-'.CUMf.Jt;. the total for the fir-t two uionth f the new law being .S4n.,.).";.71".. or Ie- than a million below the receipt.- of the fir-t two month of the Wil-on law. Here i- another way of put'ins it. In the fir-t month of the Wilson law th de ficiency wa ?7.7i.i.7!)l: in the -econd month! $i:!.."i7:.Ni: the total deficiency in the firt two month- beins .rJl.-7.".C)o. Under the Dingley bill in the fir-t month the deficiency wa- .?14.."i.4:i2 and in the -econd month. September la-t. :?:;.4::.".71N: the total for The two month- being SIS Hi.l. Therefore the deficiency in the fir-t two month- under the Wil-on law w.i- over ?-,.l !'.! .Ht sreater than in the fir-t two month of the pre-ent law. Put tins these result in tabular form we fur nish the following- -tatistic-: First two month-: Wil-on Rill. Exp-nditure-. . ..::.:.o.-It Receipts 41.7CJ.1C Dinslev I RUi. j .."vs,5Ci;.-i:? j 4 ..- ;,7i:: Deficiencv "21.27."..V.MJ J1Js.u:m,1."j Unduly Everci-ed. Henry Watterson. the Lmii-ville philo opher. has b-en v:ewins with alarm again. je sees evidences that the French revolu tion is to be revived very s))0n on the American stage with Altseld. Tillman and Henry George ca-t a.- Robespierre. Dan ton and Marat re-pee:iveiy. As a mat ter of fact, there was never le-- danger than now that we are near to a conflict with the force of disorganization. The American people are better fed. better housed, better clothed, better educated, and more contented than any other people in the world, and if they should i-onilnde that any political or -oci.il change- are necessary or promising they will make them peaceably through th- uaHot lox. Mr. Watterson should cheer up and re turn for a -easou to those mild Swi wines. Ex. Probably an Over-iht. About the only wild vagary that the Chicago platform did not indorse and adopt wa- the single land tax. and it looks now a- if that might go in the next na tional Democratic platform. The truth i. there is not much el-e left for the par ty. The tariff question is settled for many years to come, free silver will never fisure in another national election, "gov ernment by injunction" is too thin for a national issue. ?o what is the poor old Democracy to do? John G. Shanklin, Democratic national committeeman from thi State, has been a pronounced advo cate of the single land tax for years, and a few day.- aso he said to an interviewer: "Were I in New York I should support r i : Henry George because he is the only ex ponent among the candidates for Mayor of the principles decided at the Chicago convention, absolute loyalty to which is the test of true Democracy." Henry George cares more for the single land tax than he doe- for the entire Chicago plat form. Mr. Shauklin knows this, and when the time comes he and Henry George will both be found working to get a single-land-tax plank in the Democratic plat form. Indianapolis Journal. Populist Dropping It. The Populist party is rapidly abandon ing the free silver proposition. The To peka. Kan.. Advocate, a recognized offi cial organ of the Populist party, in a re cent editorial, says: "The principal differ ence between the orthodox Populi-t and the Republicans and Democrats on the money question consists in the fact that he believes paper money of the right sort i as good as sold or silver, and does not need to be redeemed in either metal. He knows that the fiat or the law written on the coin (one dollurt is its coinmis-ion and sive- it it- lesal value, and h care nothins about the value of bullion. There i no more room in the bimetallic theory for the fiat idea than there is in the monometallic theory." "Money Power" Again. I it that terrible "money power" that i destroyins the crops all over the world for the pnr;si. of giving Atnericau farm ers higher prit and thus -howing them the faL-ity of the wheat-and ilver theory? There i- ju-t as much -tn-e in a-suniins that the money jMwer could control the wind and weather and gra hopix-r- and other i-atN1- of foreign grain shortage as it wa- to a--unie Iat fall that a hand ful of financiers located in -ome my-teri-oi:- -evret chamber in London or else where could control the legilatim of the sreatest and most intelligent nations of the world in behalf of the sold standard, a was a--erted from day to day and week to week durins the entire campaign of is-.)";. Another .-lump. Another fall in ilver i- recorded from the financial tenter- in thi country and Europe. Durins the clo-ins wek in Sep tember the price of silver bar dropped from ."-j cent per ounce to ."i4 cents. in New York. A money metal which would fluctuate ".' per cent in value in a single w--ek can scarcely commend it-elf to the average voter as a safe one for adoption by a single nation with, at least the . operation of other countries to -utain it value. Bryanism Free Trade Free Ruin. If Louise Michel should come to thi conntry to preach the go-pel of anarchy -he would probably begin by avowing her allegiance to Bryani-m. free trade and free ruin and wind up by denouncing Mark Hanna and the Dinsley tariff. Grand Rapid II raid. Political Bird Shot. Report- from the farming resioa- how that the corn i- -hocked. So are the trie ilver advot-ite- who note it advance in value. Those dark cloud that hang over very manufacturins town nowdays are not of a dangerou character, except to the ca lamity howlers. "pie Bank of England is becoming alarmed at the outflow of gold from its coffer to this country, and various meas nr are being attempted to stop it. But it -till continue to come. The Democratic new-papr are bewail ing the tact that the deficit of the second month of the Dingley law wa- over thre million dollar iSi.1'0.0-0. They prob ably did not notice that the deficit of the second month of the Wil-on law wa over "Mr. Hanna Is the owner of a mine ia Michigan. It i- the only one in Michigan where the miner- own th-ir own honr1-. In this mine thy are getrins better pay than at any other mine in the State." Statement by A. W. Wrisht. ex-Memb-r Board Knisht of Lalor. The Philadelphia Record says that the Dingley law come thundrins down the line in the second month of it- operation with a deficit of three and a half million dollar. What a noi-- there must have been in the .-econd month of the Wilson law. when the deficit was thirteen and a half million! Argeatiae Retaliation Seesss to Be a Blaff-PopalaritT of tae Departsseat of Aa-ricaltare Interesting Kxperi teats for the Benefit of Farmers. Gratifying Outlook. Special Wasnlnsioa cor-wpondeocs: There appears to be no check to our exports of American manufactures under the new tariff law. The treasury figures for August, the first full month under the new law, -show the largest exports of do mestic merchandise of any August ia the history of the country. They were $7l 41)0t4, as against $06.IVJ-U for Au gust of last year, and this in the face of the contention of the free traders that the exportation of American manufactures was greatly facilitatcil by low tariff. For the first eight months of the year 1S07 the exiwrts were over $61,000,000 in ex cess of those of the first eisht months of 1S!. so that the treasury officials are pre dietins that the exports of thi year will far exceed those of la-t year, which itself was a record breaker in the matter of ex Kirts, Our first month's trade under the present tariff with Europe save a balance of upwards of ?40,u00.000 in our favor. The following table shows the balance o trade with the several continents: Exports to. Imports from. Europe $.V.OiV.000 SiO.OOO.OOO North America. . South America. . Asiatic Oceanica Africa 11.000.000 .".000.00. i."00.000 6.."-0O.HH) y.ooo.ooo 5.000.000 iooo.ouo ::.o.ojo l.OfO.000 '.0.000 The present indications are that ex ports of thi character will amount to nearly $:UX).00.OtX for 107. as against a little over $"J."Uio0.00O for 1S'J and S.lAMn'O.OOu for 1 !.". Although to this time the exports of manufactured article have held up wonderfully, it is thought here by close observer.- more than likely that thi- exportation will fall off to some extent in view of the fact that American manufacturer- are running overtime to supply goods for the American market. The Argentine Case. Considerable more comment ha- been caused over the report of the Argentine re taliation against our tariff than the case warrants or than the reports received here would indicate. It is stated that Ar gentina intends to impose extraordinarily high duties on all goods exported from the United States to that country. This ac tion would emanate from a desire to re taliate for the duties placed on hides and wools by the Dingier law. But it is easily shown that the people and merchants of Argentine would Io-e more by the opera tion than they would gain or even cause this country to lose. Despite the com plaints from Argentine, our first month's business with South America under the Dingley law resulted in a balance of trad. in their favor of over $4,000,000. or about $."0,000.000 a year, and our trade during the past year ha been about three to one in favor of Argentina. Our trade with South America has been aptly said to be very much like a jug handle all on one -ide. The official figures of our dealins. with the principal South American coun tries for the fiscal year ending June 20. RW. -how that we imported from them about $101.(mi),m north of their pro ducts, admitting over l'1- per cent f that entirely free of duty, and that they bought from u only about S'.O.OfO.oOo worth of our product- and imp'r-ed duties on near ly all of it. and in some case- extremely high duties. The President of the Argen tine Republic ha- recommended retalia tion asain-t thi country for curtailing privilege- heretofore accorded that coun try, in common with other countries, far greater than any privilege we have en joyed from them, but it is not probable that the Argentine Congre will take Je-ci-ive -teps when the true relations of the two countries are shown by the discussion which will en-ue in that body. Secretary V.il-on ha- arranged with the Po-to nice Department to allow farmer- to n-e ( Jovernment franks for sending their sample- of -usar lw-et- to the department and to the experiment -tation- for analy--i-. This relieves the fanner of any e.x-pen-e in the matter and will enable him to determine whether hi soil is adapted to the growth of the smrar beet. There i no department of the admin istration more popular or doing better work than that of Secretary WiNon. He ha b-en making interesting cxjieriment with reference to gid roads; he has been working to get in an increased and profit able market abroad for our butter: he in working upon the introduction of foreign eed likely to be beneficial to our farmers; he is doing good work looking to the pres ervation of our American forest and .i hundred other things which the Agricul tural Department can do for the benefit of the farmer of the pre-ent day ami the benefit of which hi- children will reap m year- to come. GEORGE MELVILLE. What About Corn. Pork and Wool? How do the free -liver and free trade theorit who are .-hu.-ging up the advance in wheat to the shortage abroad account for the advance in all other farm products. corn. rye. beef. pork. wool, cattle, horse-. -hep. hops, tobacco and potatoes? The fact is that it i- due to the inerea.-ed con umption at home. People who earn little economize in eating; tho-e whose earn ing are increased spend far more for food and get that of a better quality. When the working pe-rIe of the Unite-1 States are employed at good wages they buy more food and clothing than when un employed or workins for half pay. It L a protective tariff that doe- the business. They Would Ruin V. It i a pity that thi- -onntry should be -o i-ompletely at the mercy .f th "gold power" of England. Jo!d ha been pour ed into the United State, at San Fran . New York and all the great port, until our gold irct:lation i- fifty million more than it wa- a year ago. while the total increase in circulation i nearly a hnndred million. There really w?ra; to be no way to stop thee schemers in the old eonntrif from flooding u with th-ir gold and sweping away the underpinning of the Chicago and other free coinage plank. Wheat Will Keep Up. European crop reports confirm the es timated shortage- that have been made from time to time and sive a-surance that the foreign demand will keep the prices of American breadstuffs up to the point about which they have fluctuated for the past few week-. The property of the American farmer L not a myth in any sense &' the word. Omaha Bee