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main have been patented under this ad-
ministration than during any correspond
ing period under Republican rule.
THE SURPLUS.
In his last annual message to congress
the president brought that body and the
country face to face with an alarming con-
dition of affairs. As he himself tersely
said, 1T is not a theory but a condition
that confronts u.s." Over one hundred
and thirty millions of dollars, increasing
at the rate of almost $500, 900 a day,
lying idle in the vaults of the treasury.
One hundred and thirty millions of money
diverted from the marts of trade and the
channels of industrial enterprise, to that
extent threatening to depress industry
and paralyze industrial enterprise. One
hundred and thirty millions OF taxes I'M
necessarily collected from the people of
this country, and increasing at the rate of
$500, 200 a dav. A computation will
readily show that the people of the terri
tory paid of that amount almost half anil
lion. "a further computation, based on
Judge Carey's estimate of our popula-
ton. will show that under the existing
tariff we pay annually to the protected
industries OF the government over $780,
600. Revise the tariff, reduce taxation,
and we can her afford statehood.
A HINT TO HOME PEOPLE.
1t has been said and no doubt truth
fully, that one cause for the depression in
this territory is the fact hat so much
money has been expended for public land.
This amount will not exceed $500, 900
during the last three years. For that sum
a consideration has been given and the
people of the territory will reap the ben
eft of the outlay. But here is lone-half
million of dollars that the people of the
territory have paid, not a dollar of which
they will ever see again. II this money
had not been taken from us, if $500, 900
additional were not taken yearly we would
not hear so much of depression and hard
times.
What is to be done? shall this condi-
ton continue, growing more alarming
every day, threatening to absorb the
working capital of the country and thus
entail widespread disaster and ruin? or
shall a halt be called and a remedy pro.
vided? were the questions %propounded to
congress and the country by Grover Cleve-
land. The majority party in the lower
house responded with what is known as
the Mills BILL" 1t is called the Mills
bill simply because Congressman Mills is
the chairman of the committee of ways
and means, with whom the bill originated.
REVISION OF THIS WAR TARIFF
is necessary; has been promised by the
Republican party since the close of the
rebellion, has been recommended by
every Republican president beginning
with Grant and ending with Arthur, and
by every Republican secretary of the
treasury. Since 1868 the leaders Of the
Republican party in both houses of con-
gress have promised revision and the Re-
publican party would have kept that
promise had its councils not been con-
trolled by the monopolists who have
grown rich under the existing tariff law.
Our Republican friends say that this
bill is a free trade measure. A word
ought to dispose OF that. Free trade
means the abolition of all import duties.
The Mills bill leaves the average duty at
~ per cent. AS Rev. Myron Reed of
Denver. happily put it, you might as well
style a man a prohibitionist who reduces
his drinks from Al to AZ a day as to call
the Mills bill a free'trade measure.
AS TO WOOL.
Again our Republican friends say that
that the placing of wool, and tin, and
coal, and hemp, and salt, and sugar and
lumber upon the free list will drive out
those industries. We say it will stimu-
late them. And we can prove our asser-
ton by reason, by common sense, and by
past experience. Now as to wool: We
do not raise half of the wool used by the
manufacturers of this country. And if
we raised ten times as much we would
still have to import, as by reason of geo.
graphical situation and climatic influence
we can not raise the finer woods, and we
must import them in order to utilize what
we do raise. Under the existing tariff
law the American manufacturer is OBJ
iged to pay IN exorbitant duty ON foreign
wool. He must compete with the foreign
manufacturer who gets it duty free. He
is thus compelled to give less for the
American wool, and to give less to the
labor he employs. Take the tariff from
wool-let him get his foreign wool duty
free and then the American manu-
f~acturer can afford to pay to the American
producer of wool a larger amount for it
and still compete with the foreign manu-
tacturer. There is no palmer PROPOSE
ton than this: If you are compelled to
pay an exorbitant price, a price far above
its value for certain material which enters
into the construction of an article, you can
not afford to paw a large price Tor the
other articles and for the labor which is
employed. Apply this principle to wool
and it is just as plain as the multiplication
table, that this high tariff on wool instead
OF keeping the price of American wool up
continuously bears it down. Did it not
advance three cents a pound soon after
the passage of that bill? Has not Gov.
Warren purchased a large number of
sheep since the passage of that bill2
What does all this indicate? That the
Mills bill threatens to destroy the wool
industry? We all know Gov. Warren,
and we all give him credit for having a
considerable amount of that commodity
called common sense. He may give you
a different aud a very plausible explana-