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SUPPLEMENT TO THE COLUMBUS JOUBNAL. Wednesday, Dec. 8. VERY SATISFACTORY NEW TARIFF LAW IS PLEASING ITS FRIENDS Treasury Figures Show It Is Prodnct ivtr of Increased Kx porta of Ameri can Products and Decreased Imports "Retaliation" McanurcH Fail. Showing I" Gratifying. floccJai Washington correspondence: The new tariff law continues to move Mitootlily 6 far a relates to farmers and also as relates to the revenues of the Government. A document just issued by the Treasury Department showing the September importations points out that there has been a marked falling off in the importations of numerous articles of farm produce compared witli September pf last year, while the exportation of the pro ducts of agriculture has increased very greatly despite the insistence of free trad ers that nn increase in our tariff rates would damage our markets abroad. The September exportations of agricultural liroducts amounted to $74,201,573, against &"0,"j29,00S. in the corresponding month last year. While the general exporta tions of domestic merchandise increased 25 per rent in Septemler over those of the same month latt year, the increase in farm products was even greater, being, ns will be seen by the above figures, about 4 per rent. In Septemlier of 1897 agri cultural products formed 72 ier cent of the total exportations, while in Septeni 'ber, 1890. they constituted but IVtVj per vnt of the total exportations. In ini'ior latiou of farm products there has been a marked decrease in many articles. The September importation of unmanufac tured -otton fell oftyn per cent, being but fiSl.HW pounds, against 772.029 pounds in September of last year. The importa tion of tlax, hemp and other vegetable fibers, unmanufactured, amounted to less than one-third of that of last year, being $.KMi,(KM in value in September, 1S97, against nearly $1,000,000 in September, 1890. The importation of flax, which amounted to $0S,729 in September, 1S90, dropped to $41,019 iu September, 1897. 'Ike manufactures of flax, hemp, jute, etc., imported iu September, 1S97, were but about one-half in value those of Sep tember, 1S90. being but $1,142,174, Hgainst $2,139,55!!. The importations of fugar in September. 1897, amounted to less than $2,500,000, against over $8. K.l00 in September, ISO., while those of vegetables droptied from $148,1545 in September. 1S90. to $89,994 in September of the present year. Of course, the most noticeable decrease is in wool, which fell from 4,795,470 pounds iu September of las year to 2,505,07" pounds iu Septem ber. 1S97, while the manufactures of wool fell oh" in a much larger ratio, being iu raltie but $5tv'KS of the present year against $2,000,101 in September. 1890. In the matter of exports there lias beeu marked increase iu almost every line of farm production. The September expor tation of cattle amounted to $',272,i;8, ngainst $2,750.10!' in September of last year. The value of the horses exported was $'578,492. against $2M,;i.i in the eor icsporduig mouth of 1804". The exporta tion of barley amounted to $1,044,822, against $788.451 in September of last year: com. ?0,2H,72::, against $3,902,012 in September of last year. The exporta tion of corn meal increased from $47, r::r. in value to $110,401; oats from $201. 077 to $1,041,009 in Septemlier, 1807; oatmeal from r,012.97S pounds iu Septem ber, 1810, to 5,:.1 0,909 Hiiinds iu Septem ber. 1897. The exportation of rye prac tically doubled. Wing iu value $::U'.:'22 in September of last year, against $020, 1 10 in September of the present year. Of hops the exportation in September, 1S97, was more than four times iu value that of September. 1890. Itciiig $05,205, against $15,458. Of bacon the exportations were iu Septemlier, 1897. over 50.000,000 pounds, against ill .000,000 pounds in Septemlier of 1890. Of hams the pounds exported in Sfeptember. 1897, was over 17.tHIO.000. against !MKK).000 in Septeni l.er of last year, while the exportation of Stutter juniied from ".494,5.52 -Mjunds in September. 1890. to 5,9'5"',407 pounds in September. 1897. At the Treasury Department the new law is proving equally satisfactory. The receipts are steadily increasing, and for the month of November average fully a million dollars for each business day, while there is every reason to expect that the increase in the importation of manu factured articles and sugar which will come with the beginning of the new year will add from eight to ten million dollars per month to the receipts, thus bringing them alove the requirements for the run ning expenses of the Government and imtl'iig the treasury again in a position lo accumulate a sufficient surplus to carry m the busiuess of the Government with safety and reduce somewhat at least the indebtedness incurred under the Wilson law by liberal contributions to the sinking fund and the creation of such a surplus as will be needed to meet the outstanding fuouds when they fall due. Another very satisfactory feature of the operations of the new law is found in the fact that nothing whatever has come of predictions made by the Demo crats during the discussion iu Congress of the Dingley bill to the effect that the enactment of the rates named in the bill would result iu closing our market in foreigu countries. It will lie remembered that numerous protests were made by the representatives of foreign countries to this Government with the implied threat that if the increased tariff was put on their goods it would le necessary for the 4!overnments of thoM countries to enact retaliatory tariffs against our own goods, which they had been previously buying. There were thirteen of these countries making formal protests, and the follow ing tables show our exportations to the thirteen countries during August and September of the present year under the lMuglcy law compared with August and September of last year under the Wilson law: also onr importations from those eouutrie in the months in question under the two laws: Aug. 4 Sept.. Aug. Sept.. 1S9G. under 1W, under Exports to- Wilson law. "lugleylaw. ;.trla.IInasar3- .. $223,801 $573,029 Ite'Rluni Jen mark sraii'e ..... 5.149.519 t.o:i.oiw ;.a-c.c:: 11.089.340 1.398.349 14,-j5S.4?r 19.133.897 3.906.542 L34L522 80.563 2.148.616 40.293 7S.739.7S1 1,741.180 2.614 Total ...$107,077,786 $131,446,363 Aug. & Sept.. Aug. & Sept., isub. unaer itsn. under Impcrts from Austria-Hungary ISelgtuni Denmark France Germany ....... Italy , Argentine Turkey Japan , Switzerland .... Great Uritalu ... China Greece Wilson law. Dingley law. $1,520,347 $586,186 1.504.840 13.099 9.25G.9SI l7.oofi.sor. 2.243,030 750,718 G1S.9G9 2.429.3fit 2.137.995 19.0SS.44H 2.G10.19H 07.097 1,351.072 32.534 8.2:.2-6 9.103.073 2.903.657 701,349 544.616 3.613.344 1.357.C57 13.298.583 2.748.054 74,193 Totals $59,515,404 $44.613.5S3 The above tables show the utter fallacy of the Democratic predictions, for they show that not only have we curtailed our imports from those countries to a very large extent, but despite their threats, they have continued calmly buying our products and in greatly increased degree. GEORGE MELVILLE. What Canoed the Change. What does high-priced cattle and hogs j mean : aimpiy mat more people cast or the Missouri river are eating meat. Why? Because they are earning wages. They are at work. The people who were idle under the Wilson tariff of the PopocraU are employed. The people who were employed under that tariff are get ting higher wages. What caused the change? Faith of business men, capital ists, employers of labor and money, in the Republican party and ita well-tried tariff policy. The tariff nothing to do with it? It has everything to do with it. Canadian eggs and chickens are shut out on the north and Mexican cattle on the south. The American market for the American fanner, is the Republican principle, and it is working, as it always has worked, for the welfare of the nation. Pauper labor is shut out. Pauper made goods are shut out. The American market is reserred for the American laboring man and the American farmer, and both are realizing the benefits of this patriotic, business-like policy, tested anu vindicated by American history for more than fifty years. The Kansas farmer gives away rattle, hogs, corn, wheat, hay, eggs, butter and milk iu every vote he gives for Bryamsm, Populism or fusion. It is bad business. No level-headed farmer will permit the calamity orators for free silver aud fiee trade to deceive him again and induce him by specious but false promises to vote away his own property aud prosperity. Topeka Capital. Export or Cora. Corn is about to become one of the food stapled of Europe. Iu 1892, we exported 75,451,840 bushels of corn and 287,009 barrels of corn meal. In the last year we exported 170,010,305 bushels of corn and 475,203 barrels of com meal. As all are aware, Europe formerly had au iutensc prejudice against American corn, regarding it as unlit for human food. This prejudice was largely allayed by a commission sent to Europe during Harri son's administration for the purpose of introducing corn as a food. This commis sion gave lectures about corn, demon strating its usefulness as a food by prac tical instruction in cooking. As a result of the work of this commission, a largely increased demand for com was created. The business depression abroad, and the food shortage in many countries, has caus ed cofn as a cheap food staple to estab lish itself firmly as a permanent food. There will 1m? an increasing foreign de mand for it from now on, aud the Ameri can overproduction will each year find more of a sale awaitiug for it iu European markets. This means it better price for the farmer. The commission, discontin ued during Cleveland's administration, should lie re-established in the interest of the American fanner. Exchange. Practical anil Prudent Protection. In our manufactures we start with the advantage of having our raw material ready at hand, while England must go thousands of miles for every eottcu hall she spins. We can produce all the wool, cotton, woods and met a Is required for any and every variety of manufacture. It is, therefore, clear that with these three nat ural advantages of food, fuel and raw material iu available abundance, we only ueed favorable conditions of enterprise aud competition to attain and maintain absolute supremacy in every Hue of hu man industry. These conditions can only be provided by the system of protection. This proposition requires no argument. It has beeu amply demonstrated by expe rience. We require for continuous and increas ing prosperity, not so much any particu lar tariff schedules, as the general, vital, conserving principle of protection, prac tically applied aud prudently adjusted to the industries aud interests of all sec tions and classes. Wool Record. It Is Coming Along; All Right. Intelligent people understand that, as far as the new tariff is concerned, it is too early to forecast definitely what it will accomplish. It is true that it does not furnish sufficient revenue yet, but with the enormous anticipatory importations made while the Dingley bill was tending this was not to be expected. Moreover, it requires time for industry and trade to adjust themselves to the new conditions created by that enactment, a process that has been made doubly difficult oti account of the devastating gale through which they have passed since the last inaugura tion of Mr. Cleveland. Before loug peo ple will be able to pas, judgment intelli gently on the tariff, and, unless all signs are amiss, experience will amply vindi cate the widom and expediency of that measure. New York Commercial Adver tiser. The Laugh on the Other Fellow. Mr. Bryan boastiugly anuounced in his Ohio speeches that he had come to Ohio to "bury Mark II anna." This sounded very fuuny to the audience at the time, but the laugh was on the other side when it was discovered after the election that the counties in which he spoke increased their Republican majorities about one thousand votes over last year. It was another case of "he laughs best who laughs last." English Doa't Like It, The imports of linen goods from Eng land were only 2,204,600 yards in Septem ber, 1S97. against G.087.000 yards in Sep tember, 1890: the importation of jute piece goods in September. 1897. was 6, 2S2.100. against 9.100,400 m September, Germany 15.416.834 Italy 2.85840 Argentlno 1.417,048 Turkey 13,361 Japan 1.689.741 Switzerland 2.090 Great Britain 70.013.494 China 2.273.039 Greece 8.400 1 sssBBBBErB?B"B?Br3fi m tartBsssMsssssssaHBlswBlQ & BsssBsssssssssssssstsViiPlKllHuBsBSB&aHlr3 IWyJBBf BfsM"?T S "KSKrmTtrmKjlKfkJ--fftt. "FSs"nSljtnSj!iMSl ."TTSBMhS THE NEW CONGRESSIONAL LIBRARY. THE now Congressional Library is one of the greatest architectural achievements of the century and is without ex ception the most magnificent building of its kind in the world. It is twenty-four years since the idea of the building was conceived and ten years since its erection was actually commenced by the tearing down of the seventy or more buildings which occupied its site. This palace for books is a monument to American advancement in building design and art. It is strictly American. American architects and designers, American builders and American artists have done all the work upon it. Such shortcomings ns may be found in it are to be laid at their doors, but to them is also due the originality of conception and excellence of execution which mark it out among other buildings of its kind in this country. At more than one time there seemed n possibility that much of the beauty of the design would be lost through changes in the arrangement or in detail. In the ten years consumed in its construction the library passed through numerous vicis situdes. John L. Smitmeyer and Paul J. Pelz, the original architects, were superseded by Brigadier General Thos. L. Casey, who employed Mr. Pelz to make the plans tinker the direction of B. R. Green. Later Edward P. Casey, Gen. Casey's son, took Mr. Pelz's place and carried on the work of the interior decoration. The death of Gen. Casey before the completion of the building gave to Mr. Green the task of finishing his labors. But through these numerous changes the consistency of the design has beeu maintained. Each new architect has contented himself with carrying on the work of his predecessor instead of undoing it, and the building shows no evidence of its checkered architectural career. The general form of the structure is rectangular. From the center of the pile rises the dome of the rotunda, but aside from this the stern rectangularity is almost unbroken. The four corners of the rectangle are emphasized by pa vilions, aud the entrance hall, in the center of the west side, is of the same form. Within the rectangle the building hns the shape of a Greek cross, the center of which is marked by an octagonal rotunda or general reading room. The decoration is lavish, but everywhere governed by artistic conception. One arm of the Greek cross which forms the inner plan of the building is occupied by the entrance hall. The three others are devoted to the stack rooms. In these facilities are provided for shelving 2,000,000 volumes, with possibilities of further increasing that capacity to 4,500,000 volumes without encroaching upon the reading or working rooms. This total is about twice that of the library containing the largest collection of volumes iu the world, the National Library of Prance. Elevators and pneumatic tidies and other mechanical carrying devices and a telephone are arranged so that the attendants in the stack rooms may be informed as to what is wanted iu the central reading room aud forward the books to the attendant there. There is also a funnel between the library and the Capitol, a quarter of a mile away, so that books and papers can be conveyed rapidly from one building to the other without extra handling. In the main reading room the attendant occupies a box iu the center of the space, so as to be easily accessible from all parts of the room. Around this the desks for readers are grouped in con centric circles. Besides the principal rooms of the main floor, there are offices for the librarian, catalogue and copyright rooms and records, special libraries and periodical rooms. In the basement below are rooms for clerical work, binding, repairing, receiving, printing, packing and mailing, and storerooms. To reach thi second story it is necessary to return to the main entrance hall and mount the broad staircases. On this floor there are exhibition halls for rare books, curios, etchings, art works, engravings, photographs and the like. Of these the Hbrary aln idy possesses an extensive collection, unseen for years because of lack or space for display. In the attic, with a restaurs t are some minor offices. Throughout the whole building the decoration has not been stinted. AU is of a high order, am' a profusion of beauties may well be pardoned. The total cost of the building was $0,J50,000. 189G; that of silk broad stuffs 4,202 yards, against 9,833 in Septemlier of last year; that of woolen tissues 22,900 yards, against 050,000; that of worsted tissues 224,800, against 1,451,000, and that of woolen carpets 6,800 yards, against 47, 400 iu the corresponding month of last year. No wonder our English friends do not like the tariff of the Dingley luw, and no wonder that the law is popular w'h our manufacturers and their employes. Keeping; Wealth Distributed. Out in the Southwest, in one of the iiew settlements, the citizens resolved to take time by the forelock and avoid many of the heart-burnings that are common further east regarding the distribution of wealth. A citizen of that locality vis iting the East was asked regarding the practical workings of this new theory ia this community. He was questioned as to how they wire getting along in main taining u reasonably fair average in the acquisiton of wealth. He replied that they were getting along first rate. Don't you find some of your people more enter prising than others, have a better busi ness capacity, and acquire more wealth than others? Yes. we find that out there. Don't you also discover that some of your Iieople get up earlier in the morning than others, do more work than others, and so produce more? Yes. we find that there too. Then how iu the world do you man age to keep things on the de-ad level with regard to the acquisition of proierty? Why. it is the simplest thing in the world. When we find a fellow getting ahead of the rest decidedly, we appoint a good sized committee which will be able to meet the occasion, and send them out there to live with him until they eat him back. From address of Secretary Wilsoc at MiddlefMd. O.. Oct, 12. 1897. More Democratic Tariff Blaster. The wail of the free traders over the supposed increase in prices under the pro tective tariff is not fully justified by the facts. A m-ent investigation by the New York Tribune shows that the advance ia the price of articles imported, basing the estimate on the net change iu some thou sands of articles, in less than 1 per cent. The Tribune finds iu the same investiga tion that there is a marked increase iu the prices of farm products generally. When the increase in earnings of those employed iu the manufacturing lines and the increased profits which those engaged in agriculture make, are considered, it is easy to see that the slight increase iu prices of the class of goods affected by the tariff is far more than balanced by the gain in earnings of those employed in producing aud manufacturing. Gradually Dropping- It. The friends of silver are becoming fewer and fewer. Senator Stewart has told the people that they may as well fall in. line and get their share of prosperity, as it is useless to talk silver now; cx-Got. Alt geld has dropped silver, and is said to be organizing a paper money party, ami ex Gor. Boies has denounced the 10 to 1 proposition as suicidal, in view of the great discrepancy between the coinage ratio and the commercial ratio of silver. Many other Democrats, being greenback ers cX heart, have advocated free silver as simply a stepping stone to true fiat ism, and now that free silver is becoming so unpopular, they are gradually dropping it. Free Silver Clab Deserts Bryan. The Canton. O., Free Silver Club has decided to abandon the Democracy and cast its lot with the Populist party. This club, which was denominated the "Bryan Free Silver Club of Canton, Ohio," was one of the strongest silver organisations iu the State last year, and an active sup porter of Bryan's presidential candidacy, its renunciation of the Democracy and transfer of allegiance to the Populist par ty is therefore the :nore significent. GREAT PRODUCTIVE POWERS. Reaalta of Protection as Pointed Oat by an Kns;lih Statistician. It is a singular fact that the people of the United States are more indebted to an English writer than to auy American for information concerning the industrial and commercial resources and progress of their country. The papers published by Mr. Mulhall during the past ten or twelve months have been a revelation to even the most intelligent Americans of a vastuess of wealth and power iu the United States of which they had no pre vious conception. In the "North Ameri can Review" for November Mr. Mulhall presents an interesting summary of the results of American trade for thirty years, in which he says: "The world is only beginning to have evidence of the enormous productive Miwer of the United States." Our farms, he says, raise fod for 100, 000.000 of iersons every year. He shows that in twenty years our production of grain has increased 77 er cent and that of meat 72 per cent. In the same time j the cotton crop m the otith has increased 125 per cent, and that, it seeuis to us. is quite sufficient to account for the low p:ce of cotton ns compared with other great staples. It is probable that the IeopIe of the cotton States would have been more prosperous had they been con teut with less iucrease of production. Mr. Mulhall does not liud any indication that ; cur resources are npproacniug a period of depletion, but confidently predicts that our exports of food and cotton will in crease with our growth in population. This iucrease in our exportation has been coincident with a wonderful development in our internal trade, which. Mr. Mulhall says, "is the best gauge of national pro gress, because it reflects the power, en ergy and resources of a people." Our free trade friends will not fail to note the significant fact that all this ad vance in both foreign aud domestic trade has been accomplished under protective tariffs. And if they are dis-tosed to argue that agricultural exports are not a proof of the benefits of protection, we have only to say that our exports of manufac tured articles are attaining a splendid growth. And they owe that growth to the policy that has built them up not less than to natural advantages. In spite of the superiority of our natural resources, it would have been impossible to have at tained prominence in manufacturing un der free trade or "a tariff for revenue only." Without protection we sboald have beea principally engaged iu raising food to exchange for the products of Eu ropean factories, and our population sad wealth would have made eomparatively small gains. Our internal trade is, as Mr. Mulhall says, "the best gauge of na tional progress," and its marvelous growth is largely due to the policy that has kept the home market for the benefit of oar own people. It is far more impor tant than foreign markets for onr fac tories, but we need not make a choice be tween the two. We have one and are steadily gaining in the other. Washing ton Post Dem.. Exports Increase Under Protection. Statistician Mulhall announces that while the population of the United States has increased 58 per eent in the last twen ty years, the value of her exports has risen 175 per eent, er three times as fast as the population, yet practically all of this has happened under a protective tariff, which the free traders have in sisted was unfavorable to foreign and ad vantageous commercial relations abroad. Wise Vor&i or Justice Field. People wo are railing against the Unit ed States courts and their methods would do well to read what retiring Justice Field said of that highest of all United States tribnuals, the Supreme Court, afr more ;"an thirty years' opportunity to observe the court. In his letter announcing his retirement he said, "As I look back over more than a third of a century that I have sat on this bench, I am more and more impressed with the immeasurable impor tance of this court. Now and then we hear it spoken of cs au aristocratic fea ture of a republican government, but it is the most democratic of all. It carries neither the purse nor the sword, but it possesses the power of declaring the law, and iu that is found the safeguard which keeps the whole mighty fabric of the Gov ernment from rushing to destruction. This negative power, the power of resistance, is the only safety of a popular govern ment." We Can Produce Onr Own Sugar. Secretary Wilson, the head of the De partment of Agriculture, continues his practical work in pointing out to the fann ers of the United States the importance of supplying from their own production the $400,KM,0K) worth of articles for which we send this amount of money abroad every year. One hundred million of this is for sugar and the remainder for hides, fruits, wines, animals, rice, lhix, cheese, grains of various sorts and other articles which can lie produced by the fanuers of this country. His annual re port, which has just been presented to the President, states that his exierinieiits thus far with the sugar lieet convince him that the people of the United States can readily produce all their own sugar, while nearly all of the other articles of agricultural production can also be grown by them. liaree Increase in Money. The October statement of the Treasury Department shows that the money in cir culation to-day is, in round numbers, $100,000,000 in excess of one year ugo. Curiously, more than one-half of this in crease is in gold. The following table, issued by the Treasury Department on Oct. 1. shows the money in circulation Oct. 1, 1897, compared with Oct. 1, 1890: Anit. In clrcii- Aurt. In circu lation Oct. latlon Uct. 1. 1897. 1. 1S96. Gold coin $528,008,753 f47M.771.490 Stand. siL dots. 57.145.770 S1.5i:'.178 Subsidiary sliver. 01.170,415 a.22.s.2:H Gold certificates 30.ft9S.550 :w,TJ;.CC Sll. certificates. 374.t.'0.'r!i :i54.431.474 Tress, notes, act July 14. '90... 89.81C.06S 8S.9G4.UJ7 i:. S. notes 251.793,344 249.347.:a Cur'y eertlfis.. set June 8. 'Tl 32.S25.000 34.)5.iOO Nat. hank nots 22'.404.135 220,-S04,S;:t Totals .$1,078,840,338 $1.3S2.no2.2M A Satisfactory Tariff Measure. Congress will find no reason to regret its recent tariff work, when it conies to gether in December. The treasury re ceipts under the new law have now reach ed puch n figure that it is ierfcctly appar- J ant lha.t the measure is iroine to lie n tue- cess as a revenue producer. The earn- j ings of the present month are running at the average rate of a million dollar for each business day, and when the increase which must come after the stocks of for eigu wool, sugar and manufactures now in the country have been consumed, is realized, the revenues will he ample to meet the running expenses and restore sonle of the losses sustained under the Wilson law. Postal Savings Bank. The British postal savings banks are growing in favor with the English public. The Inst annual report of the department gives 0,802,035 as the number of deposit ors, this being one in every six persons of the population of the United Kingdom. Postal savings banks should be establish ed in the United States with the least possible delay. The people are anxious for them, and that they would be a success there can be no doubt. Exchange. PARAGRAPHS WITH POINTS. Brief Political Cessment est sfeta and Pablic Affair. The proportion of those WBofailte see the returning prosiierity is estimated now ' at something less than one-fourta of one per cent. The Kansas State Bnatti of-Agrknlture estimates the total value of Kansas ag ricultural product for iXfl t he ?170. 000,000. the greatest Mee 180H. Editor Mclean of Washing!", D. '.. has surrendered hi h'su-se in Cincinnati, reuted temporarily for the Ohio campaign to "establish" residence in tlhici. With only $ir:.000.000 of silver coined by the United States mints hist year the silverites cannot rake out a strong cav about 'Miserimiewtion" against silver. A free trade tariff: general depression and distress. A protective tariff: pros perity and p'enty. This has been simply the history or the country since its lirt President. The "Chinese wall." due to the Diugtcy law, don't seem to be seriously interfer ing with our export trade. In fact, lh:u trade is larger with the wall than k was without it. Wheat has gone up agaia, sat the ca lamityites have some consolation left in the fact that the New England mackerel catch is 00,000 barrels short sf that of a year ago. The comparison between the railroad earnings and the bank clearances at the present time and one year ats indicates an astonishing change in the business of the country. Indications in Washington tend to the probability of an early reopeaisg of nego tiations for the adoption of a treaty of ar bitration between the United States and Great Britain. JJ What has become of the three Senators of the Capitol who went boldly forth to discover wiry Japan fell into the hands of the "money power" and abandoned the silver standard? Wheat, silver and Bryan! Last year they all stood together, but they have since parted company, though Bryan hns been trying to keep pace with silver in its downward course. The total value of the agricultural pro ducts of Kansas for 197, according to the report of the Board of Agriculture of that State, is ?17,000,000, the kirgest in the irescnt decade. "The first six months of the MeKinley administratiou were the most disastrous in the history of the country." W. A. Bryan. This is well in line with most of Mr. Bryan's remarks. The export trade coutiuues heavy, not withstanding the fact that a protective tariff law is in operation. It was 22 per cent larger iu September, 1S97, than it was in September, 1890. "Uncle Hyd" Boies continues to pro test that lie had nothing to do with the construction of the Chicago platform. There are others who wish that hey were iu a position to similarly assert. With nil the Democratic vituperation against the oppression and wickedness of the Dingley law, we haven't heard any wish expressed yet to return to the hen&ti eent provisions of the Wilson law. It is not known what amount Bryan received for his speeches in Ohio, but it is thought he made good terms in view f his willingness to accept payment in sil ver. McLean dislikes paying out gold. The receipts under the Dingley law con tinue to increase month by mouth, and :t seems likely that the prediction that it will meet all running expenses of the tov enimeut after January will prove true. Still the Republican strength in the South continues to grow, and the latest and most notable addition to the list is the prospective successor of Arthur I. Gor man in the Senate of the United States. The increase in the postal receipt:) of the country for this Septemlier over those of September of last year simply augments the evidence piling up on all hands to show a condition of increased business. Secretary Wilson wants the establish ment of agents of the Government at all the embassies, to secure infonnation for the benefit of American fanners, and to help in the extension of our foreign trade. With a hundred thousand tons of Aln bania coal going to Mexico for the use of her railroad locomotives in competition with English coal, it looks as though n. new field is open to the South for her rich product. "The rovival of all industries and the commencement of prosperity in all parts of the United States were the natural and necessary results of the action of the President and a Republican Congrew." John Sherman. The export trade of September was the heaviest of any mouth in the year, and was greater than in any September for vfars. It amounted to $lii4,f91,70v, .t gain of over 22 ier cent over that of the September of a year ago. Mr Bryan kept up his calamity ery in Ohio this year despite the fact that the October statement of the national bunks of the country showed that the individual deposits in the national banks were $2.h, OOO.OOO in excess of those of one year ag. Mr. Bryan was heard to say some months ago that he would be glad if the McKinley administration could bring prosjK'rity to the country. That was very patriotic, but has anybody heard his ex pressions f satisfaction since it has come? Conservative estimates state SlOO.OOf). 000 as the figure which will probably be reached by the gold reserve of the Treas ury Department Itefore the end of the crop season. This stute of affair pre sents something of a contrast to the lust administration. Senator Hanna. it N understood, has only one regret regarding the Ohio cam paign, and that is that Mr. Bryan did not make more speeches. The Republican gained an average of nearly a hundred votes t the county in their majorities where Mr. Bryan went. Silver' liow CoaU Mr. Edwia Atkinson baa recently shown from careful examination .of the reports of the silver mining countries that the cost of producing silver is less than 2T cents per ounce, so that the silver used in the manufacture of a dollar won'd probably cost about 20 eeats. lie also discovers that three-foarths of .the value of the silver mines of the United States is owned abroad.. No Wonder that the silver mine owners of this country are willing to spend millions to force ths United States to adopt lawn Jy which they can turn 20 cento warth of their products into a dollar. ; m S-4A: , -am
