The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1893-05-12
CURRENT COMMENT.

silver ldW.
The export of gold has been, think,
enormously charged to the Sherman law.
These exports would occur had the Sher-
man law not been enacted. 1t must be
horne in mind that since the great finan-
cial disturbances in the Argentine Re-
public and the failure of the Barring
brothers, foreign holders of our securi-
ties have been continually dumping
them on our market, not because of our
financial disorders, but because of their
own. In payment for these securities,
we send our produce and gold. This
process would be in operation had the
Sherman law never been heard of. We
can't pay our debts and retain all our
money at the same time.
~
The representatives of the United
States in the Bering Sea proceedings
are holding up the credit of this country
in masterly fashion. If we get the
worst of the Judgment OF the arbitrators
it will not be because the case was not
exhaustively prepared and ably pre-
sented
*.*
The Sioux Falls Press complains that
the LeMars trotting meeting has been
set on the same dates as the Sioux
Falls races, and the Aberdeen News
quietly calls the attention of the
Press to the fact that the Sioux Falls
meeting happens to fall on the same
dates as the state fair. It makes quite
a difference which foot the shoe pinches.
~
The coming convention to nominate
candidates for the Supreme Bench does
not excite much attention as yet, prob
ably due to the fact that there is a very
general acquiescence in the idea that
the present judges should be given
another term.
The Worlds Fair correspondents
seem not to be able to find anything Of
interest to furnish the outside world ex-
cept the petty details of insignif cant
s9uabbles among the managers, squab-
bles that probably are unavoidable but
which good taste should keepfrom being
paraded before the whole world. Who
cares particularly that there is dis
agreement over which make of piano
shall be used on the grounds. or that a
lot OF hysterical women are having a
church social racket among themselves
over nothing in partic llar SO far as can
be discovered? Tt seems as though the
magnificence of the display from all the
nations of the earth, the unprecedented
exhibition of cosmopolitanism, and
the tremendous significance of this
Columbian celebration ought to furnish
press writer's sufficient inspiration and
material to leave them no time, let
alone inclination, to peddle the trash
about the country which is just now
flooding the wires.
*x*
Free trader Henry George is COM
planning about the slow movements of the
Democracy in tearing down the pro-
tective fabric. He refers to the refusal
of President Cleveland to call an extra
session of Congress and the assertions
of the leaders of the party that it. must
not go too fast, and says: "Notto go toe
fast? Would not abolish the tariff al
once? Because I have been robbed al
the years of my life is that the reason
1must go down into the grave still be
ing robbed?"
~
AS if the Democrats of Iowa had mo-
enough to complain of in the fact tha
not a single Federal appointment ha'
been made from their state, their hearts
are now further lacerated by the sugges
ton that it may be necessary to go ou
OF the state for pension agent in thu
Des Moines district. No wonder ex
Congressman Butler, who was can
didate for superintendent of the railwa.
mail service, plaintively remarks IL
his paper, the West Union:
Iowa has not yet been favored by tn
administration with one single fedora
appointment. We hope to get ou
state placed on the map sometime dur
ing the summer.
*.*
Judge Tripp is to be rendered gran
farewell banquet by his Yankton friend
on next Monday evening. He WI
start for Vienna on Wednesday.
~
The National Cordage Trust has gon
the way of many artificial schemes llk
lt-and lot of innocent suckers al
holding an empty financial bag. In
good old way of doing business on Il
sitimate lines and being content wit
moderate yet sure returns is after
the better way. When lot of greed
capitalists try to fence in the earth az
the inhabitants thereof they are pret
certain to find the job heavy one