The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-12-07

been continued and Il, 044, 056 head were
inspected during the year at cost of 1A
cents per head, against Az cents for 1898.
The amount of pork microscopically ex-
amined 80, 437 1897 pounds, against 90
| 677, 40 pounds in the preceding year.
| The cost of this inspection has been di-
minished from S% cents per head in 1893
to 61a cents in 1894. The Secretary of
Agriculture recommends the law provid-
ing for the microscopic inspection of ex-
port and interstate meat be so amended
as to compel owners of the meat inspected
to pay the cost of such inspection, and l
call attention to the arguments presented
In his report in support of this recommen-
dation. The, scientific inquiries of the
Bureau Of Animal Industry have prog
ressed steadily during the year.
Agricultural experimentation.
The Office of experiment stations, which
Is a part of the United States Department
of Agriculture, has during the past year
engaged itself almost wholly In prepar-
ing for publication works based upon the
reports of agricultural experiment sta
tons and other institutions for agricultu-
raj inquiry in the United States and other
countries.
Under the appropriation to enable the
Secretary of Agriculture to investigate
and report upon the nutritive value Of
various articles and commodities used
for human food, the Department expend-
Cd In the fiscal year 1892 So, 345, S09.56;
and out OF that sum the total amount
expended In scientific research was 45.G
per cent. But In the year ending June
| 30, 1894, out of total expenditure of
| 81, 94S, 98S.3S, the Department applied
| 61S per cent. of that sum TO scientific
work and investigation.
On the subject of civil service reform
| the President says: THE advantages to
the public service of an adherence to
| the principles of civil service reform are
constantly more APPARENT; and nothing is
80 encouraging TO those In official life
who honestly desire good government as
the increasing appreciation by our peo-
pie of these advantages"
Tariff Needs Amendment.
The tariff act passed at the last session
| Of the Congress needs important amend
ments IL Il is to be executed effectively
and with certainty. In addition to such
necessary amendments as will not change
rates of duty, am still very decidedly in
| favor of putting coal and iron upon the
free list. SO far as the sugar schedule is
concerned would be glad, under exist
ing aggravations, to see every particle of
differential duty in favor of refined sugar
| stricken out Of our tariff law. If with all
the favor now accorded the sugar-refining
| interest in our tariff laws, it still Ian
| cuisines to the extent of closing refneries
| and thousands of discharged workmen,
| 1t would seem to present a hopeless case
for reasonable legislative aid. Whatever
| else is done OF omitted, l earnestly repeat
that the additional duty of onetenth of
cent per pound laid upon sugar imported
| from countries paying bounty upon its
export be abrogated. 1t seems to me
that exceedingly important considera-
tons point to the propriety of this amend
| ment.
With the advent of a new tariff policy,
| not only calculated to relieve the consum-
ers Of our land in the cost of their daily
| life. but inviting a better development of
American thrift and creating for us closer
| and more profitable commercial relations
with the rest of the world, it follows as
| a logical and imperative necessity that we
should ut once remove the chief If not
the only obstacle which has so long pre-
vented our participation in the foreign
carrying trade of the sea.
Issuing of New Bonds.
During the last month the gold reserve
| in the Treasury for the purpose Of re-
| deeming the notes of the Government
1 circulating now In the hands of the peo-
pie became 80 reduced and its further
| depletion In tho near future seemed so
certain that In the exercise Of proper
care for the public welfare 1t became nee
essnry to repienish the reserve and thus
maintain popular faith in the ability and
determination Of the Government to meet
as agreed its pecuniary obligations.
It would have been well if in this emer-
gency authority had existed to issue the
bonds Of tho Government bearing n low
rate of interest and maturing within a
short period, but Congress having failed
to confer such authority, resort was nee
essarily had to the Resumption act of
| 1875. Nothing could be worse or further
removed from sensible finance than the
relations existing between the currency
| the Government has issued. the gold
| held for its redemption and tho means
which must be resorted to for the purpose
Of replenishing such redemption when i'm
| paired. We have an endless chain in
operation constantly depicting the Treas
ury's gold and never near a finaire
As Il this was not bad enough, we have
By a statutory declaration that it is the
policy of the government to maintain the
parity between gold and silver, aided the
| force and momentum Of this exhausting
process and added largely to the cur
rency obligations claiming this peculiar
gold redemption. Our small gold reserve
10 thus subject to drain from every side.
The demands that increase our danger
also increase the necessity Of protecting
this reserve against depletion, and ii is
most unsatisfactory to know that the pro-
lection afforded is only a temporary pallia-
| ton.
II 10 perfectly and palpably plain that
the only way under present conditions by
which this reserve, when dangerously de-
pleted, can be replenished, is through the
issue and sale Of the bonds of the govern
ment for gold; and yet Congress has not
only thus far declined to authorize the
issue of bonds best suited to such pur-
pose but there seems a disposition in some
quarters to deny both the necessity and
power for the issue of bonds at all. l can
not for a moment believe that any of our
citizens aro deliberately willing that their