Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-12-06

stantly being appropriated. The exports
OF agricultural products from the United
States for the fiscal year ending June 30,
1894, amounted to $6.S, 1853. OBS, being 72.2S
per cent of American exports Of every de.
scription, and the united kingdom of
Great Britain took more than 81 per cent
OF all farm products finding foreign mar
kets.
Animal Industries.
The scientific inquiries of the bureau of
animal industry have progressed steadily
during the year. Much tuberculon and
mallein have been furnished to state au-
thorlties for us 9 in the agricultural colleges
and experiment stations for the treatment
OF tuberculosis and CHAMBERS.
Quite recently this department has pub.
lished the results of this investigation OF
bovine tuberculosis and its researches will
be vigorously continued. Certain herds In
the District of Columbia will be thoroughly
inspected and will probably supply adequate
scope for the department to intelligently
prosecute its scientific work and furnish
sufilclent material for purposes of illustra-
ton, description and definition.
The recommendation con, aimed in the
report OF the secretary for 1898, that the
vicious system of pre- miscuous free dis
tribution of its departmental documents
be abandoned is again urged. These pub
locations may well be furnished without
cost, to public libraries educational instl-
buttons, and the officers and libraries of
states and of the federal government, but
from all individuals applying for them a
price covering the cost of the document
asked for should be required. The secre-
tary also again recommends that the
gratultous distribution of seeds cease, and
that no money be appropriated for that
purpose except to experiment stations.
A further important utility in agricult-
ural statistics is found in their calculation
OF the relation of the supply of farm pro-
ducts to the demand for them in the mar
ketS of the United States and of the world.
1t is deemed possible that an agricultural
census may be taken each year through the
agents of the statistical division of the de-
partment. Such course Is commended
for trial by the chief of that division. Its
scope would be:
l. The area under each of the more i'm
portant crops
2. The aggregate products of each of
such crops.
3. The quantity of wheat and corn in the
hands of farmers at a date after the spring
sowingS and paintings and before the be-
ginning of harvest; and also the quantity
of cotton and tobacco remaining in the
hands of planters, either at the same date
or at some other designated time. The cost
of the work is estimated at 600,
Civil Service Reform.
The advantages of the public service of
an adherence to the principles of civil ser
vice reform are constantly more apparent
and nothing is so encouraging to those in
official life who honestly desire good gov
eminent as the increasing appreciation by
our people of these advantages. A vast
majority of the voters of the land are
ready to insist that the time and at
tention of those they select to perform for
them important public duties should not be
distracted by doing out minor offices, and
they are growing to be unanimous in re-
garding party organization as something
that should be used in establishing party
principles instead of debating the distribu-
ton of public places as rewards of partisan
activity. Numerous additional offices and
places have lately Teen brought within
civil service rules and regulations and some
others will probably soon be included. The
report of the commissioners will be SUD-
mitted to congress, and invite careful at
tention to the recommendations it con-
tains.
The National Health
am entirely convinced that we ought
not to be longer without national board
of health or national health officer, charged
with no other duties than such as pertain
to the protection of our country from the
luNdSlOu Oh peSIlleuCS anu ulSedSo
There seems to be at this time a decided
inclination to discuss measures of protec-
ton against contagious diseases i'll interna-
tional conference with view OF adopting
means of mutual assistance.
The Labor Troubles.
By virtue of a statute of the United
States passed in 1888, appointed in July
last, Hon. John D. Herman of the state of
Vnrly and Hon Nicholas r. Wort h
ington of the state of Illinois tu form with
Hon. Carroll ID. Wright, commissioner of
labor, who was designated by said statute,
a commission for the purpose of making
careful inquiry into the causes of the con-
troversies between certain railroads and
their employees, which had resulted in an
extensive and destructive strike, accom-
panied by much violence and dangerous
disturbance, with considerable loss of life
and great destruction of property. The
report of the commissioners has been sub
mitted to me and viii be transmitted to the
congress with the evidence taken up on
their investigation. Their work has been
we'll done, and their standing and intelli-
gence give assurance that the report and
suggestions they make are worthy of care
full consideration.
The Tariff Bill.
The tariff act passed at the last session
OF the congress needs important amend
ments if it is TO be executed effectively and
with certainty. In addition to such neces-
sary 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,
I would be glad, under existing aggrava-
tions to see every particle of diferential
duty in favor of refined sugar stricken out
of our tariff law. If, with all the favor
now recorded the sugar refining interest in
our tariff laws, it still languishes to the ex-
tent of closing refineries and thousands of
discharged workmen, it would seem to
present a hopeless case for reasonable leg
islative aid
Whatever else is done or omitted, | ear.
nestly repeat here the recommendation
have made in another portion of this com
munication that the additional duty of one
tenth of cent per pound laid upon sugar
imported from countries paying bounty
on its export be abrogated. 1t seems to me
that exceedingly important considerations
point to the propriety of this amendment.
With the advent of a new tariff policy
not only calculated to relieve the con-
sumers of our land in the cost of their
daily life but to invite a better develop
ment of American thrift and create for us
closer and more profitable commercial re-
lations with the rest of the world,
imperative necessity that we should
at once remove the chief if not the only
obstacle which has so long prevented our
participation in the foreign carrying trade
of the sea. A tariff built upon the theory
that it is well to check imports and that a
home market should bound the industry
and effort of American producers, was fitly