The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1890-12-12

| reveal the real motive OF any continued
| restriction of their use; and, that having been
made clearer, the duty ef the Executive viii
be very plain.
THE DEET SUGAR INDUSTRY.
The information given by the Secretary Of
| the progress and prospects of the beet sugar
| industry is full of interest. 1t has already
passed the experimental stage and is com
| mercial success. The area over which the
| sugar beet can be successfully cultivated is
| very large, and another field crop of great
value is offered to the choice of the farmer.
THE CIVIL SERVICE LAW.
The law relating to the civil service has, so
| far as / can learn, been executed by those
CLASSIFIED service with fidelity and impair.
| tiality and the service has been increasingly
| satisfactory. The report of the commission
shows a large amount of good work done
during the year with very limited appropria-
| tions.
| LEGISLATION.
| congratulate the Congress and the country
| upon the passage at the first session Of the
| Fifty first Congress of an unusual number OF
| laws of very high Importance. That the re-
| suits of this legislation will be the quickening
| and enlargement of our manufacturing in
| dustries, larger and better markets for our
| breadstuffs and provisions both at home and
| abroad, more constant employment and bet
| ter wages for our working people, and an
| transaction of business. I do not doubt
| some of these measures were enacted at so
| late period that che beneficial effects upon
commerce which were in the contemplation
of Congress have as yet but partially mani
| tested themselves.
| TRADE AND INDUSTRY.
| The general trade and industrial conditions
| throughout the country during the year have
| shown a marked Improvement. For many
| years prior to 1888 the merchandise balances
| of foreign trade had been largely in our IA
vor, but in that year and the year fol-
| lowing they turned against us. 1t is very
| gratifying to know that the last fiscal year
again shows a balance in our favor of over
S6S 600, ,09O The bank ciearings, which fur
! nsh good test OF the volume of business
| transacted for the first ten months of the
year 1890 show, as compared with the same
| months of 1899, increase for the whole
country of about "a per cent; while the in
| over 13 per cent. During the month of Octo-
| Der the cleariugs of the whole country
october, 1889, while outside of New
| York the increase was 11l2 per cent These
| figures show that the increase in the volume
Of business was very general throughout the
| country. That this Large business was being
| conducted upon q safe and profitable basis
| hundred less failures reported in october,
1890, than in the same month of the preced.
ing year, with Liabilities diminished by about
| TIE M'KINLEY TARIFF.
I The General Tariff act has only partially
| gone int3 operation, some of it's important
dates yet IN the future The general pro-
| visions of the law have been in force less
nan sixty days: i Its permaanent pna effect on
ure. 1t is curious to note that the
advance in the price of articles Who'll
By many hastily ascribed to that
| act. Notice was not taken of the fact that
| the general tendency of the markets was mp
ward from influences wholly apart from the
| recent tariff legislation. The enlargement
| of our currency by the Silver bill undoubtly
| gave an upward tendency to trade and had a
| marked effect on prices; but this natural and
desired effect of the silver legislation was by
| many errOneusly attributed to the Tariff
| act.
TARIFF REVISION.
| There is neither wisdom nor suggestion
that the subject of tariff revision shall be
! opened before this law has had fair trial.
/ 1t is quite true that every tariff schedule is
! subject to objections. No bill was ever
! framed l suppose that in all of its rates and
| classificatiOnS had the full approval even of
| party caucus. Such legislation is always
| as to details, and the present law is no
! exception. But, in its general scope
| port of those who believe that American leg
islation should conserve and defend Amer
lean trade and the wages of American work
men.
The misinformation as to the terms of the
act which has been so widely disseminated
at home and abroad, will be corrected by ex-
perience and the evil augurics as to its results
confounded by the market reports, the saw
ings banks, international trade balances and
the general prosperity of our people. Already
we begin to hear from abroad and from
our custom houses that the prohibtory effect
upon importations imputed to the act is not
justified. The imports at the port OF New
York for the first three weeks of November
were nearly per cent. greater than for the
same period in 1889 and % per cent. greater
than In the same period of 1888. And so far
from being an act to limit exports, conf
IDENTIFY believe that under it we shall secure
larger and more profitable participation in
foreign trade than we have ever enjoyed, and
that we shall recover u proportionate par
tlclpatlon in the ocean carrying trade OF the
world.
PRoHIBTToRI OR RETALIATORY LEGISLATION.
There is no disposition among any of our
people to promote prohibtory or retaliatory
Legislation. Our policies are adopted not to
the hurt of others, but to secure for ourselves
those advantages that fairly grow out of our
favored position asa nation. Our form of
government, with its iLcdent of universal
suffrage, makes it imperative that we shall
and dfstresses which ant work and wages
that have no margin for comfort always
get. But aft9r all this is done, it win be
found that our markets are open to friendly
commercial exchanges of enormous value
to the other great Powets.
RECIPROCITY.
There were but two methods of obtaining
control of this question open to Congress:
To place all these articles upon the dutable
list subject to such treaty agreements as
could be secured, or to place them ali pres
emily upon the free list but subject to the re-
imposition of specified duties if the coun-
tries from which we reC eive them should re-
fuse to give US suitable reciprocal benefits.
This latter method, think, possesses great
advantages. 1t expresses in advance
the consent of Congress to reciprocity Gr-
rangements affecting these products which
must have otherwise been delayed and uu-
the Senate and the necessary legislation en-
acted by Congress. Experience has shown
that some treaties looking to reciprocal
trade have failed to secure a two third vote
in the Senate fer ratification, and 9th
erS having passed that stage have for
years awaited the concurrence of the House
and Senate in such notifications of our rev
enue laws as were necessary to give effect to
their provisions. We now have the concur
renee of both Houses in advance in dis
tinct and definite offer of free entry to
our ports of specific articles. The Ex-
ecutiye is not required to deal in con-
lecture as to what Congress viii ac-
cept Indeed this reciprocity provision
is more than an offer. Our part of the bar
gain is complete; delivery has been made,
and when the countries from which we re
cefve sugar, coffee, teas and hides, have
placed on their free lists such OF our products
as shall be agreed upon, as an equivalent for
our concession, proclamation of that fact
completes the transaction; and in the mean
time our own people have free sugar, tea,
coffee and hides.
NEW LEGISLATION.
In addition to the important bills that be-
came laws before the adjournment OF the last
session, some other bills Of the highest i'm
portance were well advanced toward a final
vote and now stand upon the calendars of
the two Houses in favored positions. The
present session has a fixed limit, and if
to a final vote all the work that has been
done upon them by this Congress is lost.
The proper consideration OF these, of an Op-
pOTtlonment Dill and or the annual appro-
priatioH bills will require not only that no
working day of the session shall be lost but
that measures OF minor and local interest
shall not be allowed to interrupt or retard
the progress Of those that are OF universal
interest. In view of these conditions, 1
refrain from bringing before you at
would otherwise be made, and most earn
estly invoke your attention to the duty of
wel1 advanced, TO some of these measures
which seem to me most important now
briefly call your attention.