Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-11
WASHINGTON LETTER.

WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, D. c.. June 8, 1891.
A wild westerner who is probably
opposed to the new tariff law has
named supic;ous five cent cigar 1.-THE
Mckinley"
The net surplus in the treasury is
$5, ,OOO, 900, a smaller surplus than has
been in the treasury within the mem
ory of the Oldest officials.
The president appointed Hon. Will
lam D. Owen, of Indiana, to be super
intendent of immigration, an office
created at the last session of congress,
at salary of 81 900 per annum.
| If the foreign manufacturers should
be obliged to pay the heavy duties on
goods imported to this country, as tar
iff-mongers foolishly assert, they would
soon be driven out of business, since
they could not compensate themselves
elsewhere for such loss. American
consumers alone can afford the luxury
of paying the high duties which the
Mckinley tariff imposes on them.
| The third party was not side-tracked
in Iowa by the republicans as it was in
Ohio and in consequence is in the field
with full state ticket from governor
to supreme judge. The candidate for
governor, A. J. Westfall, ran for con-
gress as third party candidate last
fall, polling 5000 votes, but failing of
election. He is an old-time republican
who believes in prohibition, woman
suffrage and fiat money. He won't be
! elected, but he may draw enough crank
votes from the republicans to elect a
democrat, which is what the republi-
can leaders fear. They adopted Ohio
tactics, but did their work so clumsily
as to expose their plans to the third
party people, who nominated ticket
to save themselves from the charge of
being side-tracked by the republicans.
The nomination of the third party
ticket will make the Iowa canvas a
very hot one and give it national i'm
pOrtance as affording an opportunity
to test the strength of the farmers alli-
ance movement in the northwest.
|
The surrender of the Itata to the
United States warships at IQuique.
together with the 5000 rifles she took
on board at San Diego, loses to the
Gillian revolutionary party supply OF
arms that is no doubt much needed
but solves somewhat unpleaeant com
plication in a satisfactory way to al
concerned, excepting it may be the
immediate parties to the rife specula
ton. However, by this surrender
some provocation will be afforded to
the English critics who have been
sneering at the Charleston's chase and
asserting that the whole pursuit was q
piece of jingo-lsm i'll consorting with
the real sympathy entertained in this
country for the insurgents. The truth
is that even here so little is known
about the civil war in Chill there has
been no opportunity to form opinion OF
extend sympathy of any kind. But as
the revolt is interfering with British
commerce the natural English deduc-
tiOn is that Americans have nothing
better to do than to gloat in the prem.
iseS.
a crop is never safe until it is har
vested, but the indications are thai
American wheat has survived frost
droughts and the Hessian fly, and vii
, harvest above the average. In othel
, words the wheat prospect at this time
, is good. The reports from the wheat
growing countries of Europe indicate {;
short crop, SO that whatever surplus w,
have in this country is likely to find ;
market at a good price. This prob
ability is reflected in the present price
June wheat selling yesterday up t.
s1.O9. The political farmers who farm
the farmers for offices are already dis
cusslng the probable effects of good
prices for wheat on the coming. elec
TONS Ex-President HAYES used to sd,
that the republicans usually won wheI
wheat commanded a dollar bushel
and if he were republican prophet il
good standing with his party, the lead
ers would bank on the present situation
with some sort of confidence Du
things have changed in politics sine
Hayes was in it, and the republican
leaders are not at all c.nfident that
good price for wheat will convince tn
wheat growers ttat they owe the ad
vance to the Mckinley bill or Ton
Reeds gag rule.