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f where high ranges of hills and other
local conditions modify the climate.
A northern slope receives no full sun
light , the sim's rays fall obliquely in the
morning or toward evening according to
the angle of elevation. The winds it re
ceives in winter are colder than those re
ceived by the southern slope , but the few
winds which strike it during the grow
ing season are not strong , hot or very
dry. As the vegetation is a little de
layed on a northern slope there is less
danger from late spring frosts , than on
a sunnier aspect and as the snow melts
slowly there is a better chance for its
waters to sonk into the ground. Incon
sequence of these facts trees are less lia
ble to suffer from drouth on the same
kind of land with a northern than with
a soxithern exposure. The trees keep a
more regular form and growth is more
uniform and certain. It will generally
be found that where timber is cut off
from a northern slope growth renews
itself very quickly , for tree seeds are
most likely to grow under the conditions
found there.
An eastern slope receives the sun in
the cool morning hours when the tem
perature and light are moderate. It is
not exposed to our hot , dry winds nor to
the intense heat of the sun. The soil re
tains its moisture fairly well and trees
make a good growth. For'trees it ranks
next in value to a northern slope.
A southern slope receives the most
direct ravs of the sun. and the full force
of our hot , dry winds and beating rains
during the growing season. Consequently
quently vegetation is more liable to in
jury by late spring frosts because of
starting earlier in the spring than in any
other location. The soil is most liable
to erosion from beating summer rains
and dries up most quickly after the
spring rains. The trees grow irregular
in form , the seeds seldom start well on
southern or western slopes and when
once cleared tree growth is of ten difficult
to renew. As proof of the importance
of these conditions as affecting tree
growth we have the commonly observed
fact that the south and west sides of
steep hills and mountains are more likely
to be bare than any others. This can be
very plainly s en on the bluffs along the
Mississippi river in Minnesota.
A western slope receives the sun's rays
obliquely , but in the warmest part of the
day and in this section gets the full force
of our hot dry southwest winds. The
effect of such an exposure on growth is
aboxit the same as the southern slope.
Some very good
HltAG TOO .MUCH. , . . . , ?
republican citizens
of Nebraska and other states as well are
rather conceited as to the position of
McKinleyism on the gold standard.
These fervid and somewhat short-mem-
oried disciples declare that the gold
standard is purely the creation of the
republican party and the St. Louis con
vention which nominated McKinley ,
who in congress had always voted for
silver.
The truth is that silver got more ad
vantages from the Bland-Allison act
which President Hayes vetoed , and
which was passed over his veto by a two-
thirds vote Major McKinley voting to
so pass it than by any other legislation ,
not even excepting the so-called Sher
man act which made the government a
warehouse for silver bullion and caused
warehouse receipts to bo issued , called
them U. S. treasury notes and circulated
them us money.
McKinley was for all that legislation.
Ho even denounced Grovcr Cleveland as
an enemy of silver. And all well-rend
Americans know that Major McKinley ,
awaiting the nomination of the Sr.Louia
convention , was like a lackey awaiting
employment ready to wear any col
ored livery which his employer sug
gested. McKinley was not a gold-stan
dard statesman. Ho was not an out-
and-out sixteen-to-one advocate he
- - - ; was
in waiting and ready to renounce either
gold or silver at the command of the
convention.
In view of the above it is well enough
to recall some financial vagaries of
our republican friends and to thus ob
serve their family resemblance to popu
lism. It was on February 20 , 1800 , that
so conservative a statesman as Mr. Hoar
of Massachusetts declared in the senate
that there was not , so far as ho knew ,
in MnKsnnlnisntts or in the six Now
England states , "two per cent of the en
tire republican party who hold the
theories of Grover Cleveland as I under
stand them. There are no gold mono-
metalists there. " In the same speech he
declared that " 90 per cent of the people
of the country were bimetalists , " and
that "they believed in the concurrent
and continued use of silver as well as
gold , not merely as token or subsidiary
11101103' , but as the world's standard of
value. "
Some brag too much. In the speech
quoted the wickedness of the gold stan-
dardism is fastened upon Grover Cleve
land by Senator George F.Hoar who de
clared himself , like Coin Harvey , a bi-
metalist.
The Omaha Bo < 3
THIS COXSHKVAnnd oher < leading
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journals of the re
publican party agree that while there
is much dissatisfaction with the policies ,
expedients and methods of existing poli
tical organizations it would bo a work
of time and great energies to bring
into rank and file and discipline a new
party the conservative party.
This may be true.
It is just however what the whig
papers said in 1854 when the republican
party held its first conventions in Michi
gan , Ohio and other states. It did not
verify then and it might not prove time
now.
The country needs a party to work for
the republic and its betterment in every
department of government. The United
States has suffered from a surplus of
statesmanship seeking to exalt individ
uals instead of principles. It is time to
bring to the front that citizenship which
is ambitious to do for the government
instead of that too common brand which
desires government to do everything
for it.
The United States needs men who are
capable of forgetting individual or class
interests for the sake of promoting peace
and laying the foundations of permanent
prosperity.
The great masses of the people need
educated , fearless and patriotic leaders ,
not what they have now in super
abundance mere followers , demagogues
who will agree that the moon is made of
green cheese if the multitude so declares.
ANTI-KXPANSION SHNTIMKNT.
Annexation will not build railroads or
steamship lines. Neither will it incul
cate in the Malays the habit of wearing
clothes or of buying foreign food
when they can pick up native food in
abundance almost at the doors of their
huts , or of working when they can live
comfortably in utter indolence. The
notion that the millions of assorted
Asiatic savages who inhabit the Philip
pines are going to blossom suddenly into
a great commercial people , and establish
a wonderful market for the surplus pro
ducts of the United States , is one of the
most fantastic delusions of the whole
expansion craze. Worcester Spy ( Rep ) .
There is no section of the earth that
needs new markets more than New Eng
land , and that fact is fully realized by
her manufacturers and merchants. The
business associations of Boston are as
much in favor of a liberal reciprocity
treaty with Canada as they are opposed
to the fatalistic nonsense that is urged ,
ad nauseam , with respect to the Philip
pines. They are not in favor of letting
go the opportunities at their own door to
chase the mirages that are deluding im
perialistic dreamers. Hero is the trade
of an empire indeed , whereas in the bar
barous Philippines there is a commerce ,
all told , but little larger than that of the
single West Indian island of Santo Dom
ingo. Boston Transcript ( Rep ) .
We are glad to know that both the
Georgia senators are opposed to taking
the Philippines on any conditions. They
represent the convictions of a great ma
jority of their constituents in the stand
they have taken on this question. At
lanta Journal ( Dem ) .
Wo have more ground than we can
cover and crowd in two hundred years ,
and problems enough to- engage all of
our attention for the whole of that time.
When we secure freedom here , and can
restrain an army from such ruffianism
as has been exhibited in Porto Rico , it
will be time to offer it to whomever
wants it. Boston Record ( Rep ) .
