The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1894-09-14

not for general distribution bnt TO
Rneakess and editors, the committee doe
not decide what sort of documents arr t
be sent into a Congressional district.
merely sends what is asked for by tn
candidate or those authorized to slYoai
for him. So IT is simply impossible ha
members of the committee should dis
nufe over wglat documents shall be sen
ont. THE committee is filling all lI
j orders sent to 1t. and will continue to d
So Senator Faulkner says the informant
ION lac is receiving from all over III
country is daily adding to his coniideHc
that the democrats will retain control o
the House, and he thinks that the gre; .el
the Improvement in business, now lpcCgm
ing apparent in ali sections, the largel
the democratic majority will be, as tht
only thing that ever made the issut
doubtful was the business depression ani
the disposition of many voters to hold
the party in power responsible for the
hard times.
! Representative John T. Dunn. of New
Jersey, has some very strong ideas on
/ political economy, and they are thor
oughly practical, as is the man. Speak.
1 ing Of the effect of the republican policy
upon farmers, he said: fiIf there is any
4 class of people under the san who ought
| tUsSote the democratic ticket it is the
farmers. Since 1860 farm values have
4 decreased fully 40 per cent in the United
/ States, as shown bp the census figures.
There isn't aeountry place in New Jersey
today that is worth over $50 per acre for
i farming purporer. / happen TO own the
old Doty homestead, on the outskirts of
Elizabeth, on which the celebrated Ben
Wade was born. 1t contains eighty-four
seers, and IN 1860 was held at S25, 600.
| am now negotiating to sell it for So, 800
Land is the only thing in this country
that has not kept pace with the increase
of population. Protected industries have
absorbed the increase of value that, in
the absence of laws favOring a special
class, would have gone to land owners.
As a legitimate consequence of this beau
tiful protection doctrine, Egyptian cot
ton aud Indian grain have been brought
into competition with the products of
our soil, forcing down prices of both to
the lowest point ever recorded
In order that the matter should be
dealt with by experts, Secretary Carlisle
has designated a number of United States
Customs Inspectors and officials oil the
Customs Bureau of the Treasury depart.
ment, to act as q commission to draw up
the regulations necessary for the enf0reee
ment of the sugar schedule Of the new
tariff. This commission VIII be under the
immediate direction of Assistant Sec
reaTy Hamlin.
Senator Jones, sOf Nevada, isn't much
of populist, Notwithstanding his SEN
sational letter announcing his abandon
nent of the republican party and his in.
tehtiOn to act with the pOpulists in the
future; but he is firm Deliver in the free
coinage of silver at q ratio of 16 too, and
a very shrewd politician; hence the
publication of that letter. His sole,
object, in the opinion Of your cores
pendent, was to endeavOr to force the
silver question to. the front in the Con-
gressional campaign, because he thereby
hopes to lessen the number of democrats
elected to the next house, owing to the
known differences of opiniOn in the party
on the subject, | dOnOt hesitatetO predict
that upon all political questions Senator
Jones will continue to vote with the re-
publicans, as he has always done, Mark
the prediction, In other words, the move
is a republican trick. ~ ~
Secretary Carlisle wears a broad smile
these days, in spite of the work lac is
having to do inGOnnectisn with tile new
tariff. Cause whyi the cash receipts Of
the Treasury are steadily increasing and
it is no longer necessary for him to Sit mp
o'nights TO study out how to meet the
obligations of the government.