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Kansas CRY. Mo. April i0-when
he commercial congress met yesterday
morning ex-Gov. Click. Of Kansas.
made a brief address. reviewing the de-
pressed condition Of the agricultural in
tenests Of the country and the remedy.
Hon. 2. T.. Elder. of Kansas. also spoke.
The Kansas man was followed by Dr.
Parsons delegate from the agricultural
department Mr.. Parsons discussed the
department he represented. spoke o. It's
policy and purposes Of the good II had
accomplished and expected 10 accom-
plish. His remarks were well received
and the congress showed that the new
department Of the government was 4
popular one
4. 5. Hall, president Of the Missouri
Farmers Alliance. was given n more
cordial reception Thar any Of the speak
ers who had preceded him. He had
prepared an exhaustive argument ON
the subject under discussion. but the
twenty-minutc rule prevented him from
celebrating. He said: ~ think that
ne enactment Of unjust legislation has
been through the influence Of party pol
itics, which has prevented the agricult-
ural section Of the United States from
standing by and supporting economic
principles hat are beneficial 30 that sec
ton. We see this well illustrated by com
pairing the votes of the two great agri-
cultural states of Texas and Kansas on
the great economic question Of the
tariff In 1855, when one of them rave
100, 600 majority one way and the other
81, 900 majority the other way, when
their interests are the same,
This is only brought around through
the influence Of partisan politics. The
Legislation that has been enacted
through the influence Of partisan poll.
ties that has brought this depressedc cor.
dition is what maintains high tariffs, de-
creasing the volume of the currency.
and allowing railroad companies 10
water their stock and charge excessive
passenger and freight rates to yield
dividends on this watered stock.
1.-The Importance of the money ques-
ton springs from the fact that the peo-
Pile have gone in debt when the volume
of the currency was from $50 TO $40 per
capita, and since contracting those
debts that volume has been decreased
no less than one-half, thereby doubling
their debts, according to the teaching
of the best political economists upon
monetary matters.
when Mr.. Sidney Dillon, the presi.
dent of the Union Pacific railroad, as
serts as he does in the April number of
the North American Review that IL Is
an i~mpertincnce in any citizen 10 ques-
ton the right of n railroad corporation
to increase the amount of its capital
stock TO any amount 1t may desire, he
asserts a proposition that must re-
fleet either upon his intelligence
or his candor for any one
to claim that n railroad corpo-
alton which can only exist by n grant
of power from the state has n right TO
pay 81, 800 n mile for railroad and then
increase its capital stock to 500, 900 q
mile and then demand of n board of
railroad commissioners that IL shall fix
rates that will allow such company TO
declare u reasonable dividend on their
increased stock, is certainly preposter.
GUS. The best %refutation of such a
proposition is the stating Of it,"
State Senator A. 7. McKelvey, of
Ohio, made n ten-minute speech at the
close of L. s.. Halls address. In il Mr..
Mckelvey discussed the causes of the
great depression in American
from n radically protective standpoint.
Zone of the gravest causes" he said,
tsie tho enormous pafrnuuna ~ f,rafpn
markets. Last year s315, O00, 900 were
sent abroad TO foreign producers at
the very time when that money
was needed most right here
ut home. Why is it that Americans
viii spend $50, 900, 900 for foreign wool
when that might just as well go toward
nurturing the home product? Over
$40, 900, 900 were expended for foreign
breadstuffs, tobacco and fruits, when
men were mortgaging their business
for want OF trade. That is the prime
reason to be attributed for the great
depression in our markets"
Congressman Crisp, of Georgia, spoke
on the subject of taxation, and Con-
gresham Gear. of Iowa, and others
spoke upon the needs of the west and
south.
ENDORSED ny DELEGATES.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, April 16.-The
news of the action of Secretary of State
Blaine in his reply to the Italian Pre-
micr Rudini was received with interest
by many members of the congress.
Mr.. John C. Wickliffe, of New Or
leans, who was one of the leaders
against the Malta in the lynching last
month, felt an especial interest in the
matter. When told that Secretary
Blaine had denied the right of indemni-
ty in the cases of the slain Italians,