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The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1895-01-17

elevations and the memoir on the
formation Of the coal measures. Be-
sides, there are several important
reports which are very nearly ready,
some requiring a little additional
field work, others needing some fur
ther preparation and revision before
being sent to the press. Among
those may be mentioned two sheets
on the southeastern part Of the state,
four sheets on Greene county in the
southwest, and the report on clays of
all the state.
There are several lines of work,
which are now far enough along to
be completed during the next two
years; these are the examinations OF
the building stones and the geology
Of several districts. ea.s---.- ''-'s-.-a-
Regarding the continuation of the
Investigations, previous estimates
made for conducting operations have
been based on $40, 200 for the bien-
NAL term; and during the first three
years the amount made available
at this rate. During the next bien-
nial period there will be, in addition
to the continuation Of ihe regular
work and the accomplishment of the
necessary field operations a large
amount of material which must be
prepared for printing; and this last
feature will form a somewhat heav-
ier item Of expense than heretofore,
for the reason that the results have
been allowed to accumulate. New
ertheless, it is believed that the work
is now far enough advanced that it
may be carried on successfully and
satisfactorily on an amount consid-
erably less than what has been
counted on in former years.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1895-01-17


CONFEDERATE HOME.
The executive board Of the Mis-
souri, ex- confederate association met
at the Laclede Hotel, st. Louis,
last week. The main question was
whether the state can contribute
to the support of the home without
its being absolutely transferred, or
whether the state would be COM
PEELED to receive the property
absolutely before appropriating
funds for its support.
The sentiment among many of the
members was that IL the state can
assist the home and have it under
its present management, with the
understanding that when it's work as
an ex-confederate home is ended
by the death of all the veterans, the
property shall revert to the state,
well and good. The members Of the
association are willing to accept snch
support. But il the property must
pass from the present management
to get state support, the majority of
the members are opposed to it. These
were the sentiments expressed by
Capt. Pitts, Capt. Guibor, Mr..
Gaiennie, W. McNinch, Mrs. P. G..
Robert and others. 1t was learned
that Judge Porter had decided that
the state could not aid the home
without taking absolute control of it.
The question was then turned over
to the executive board for discussion.
Frank Gaiennie, who is opposed to
letting the home go under the states
control, made a speech in support OF
his position. He holds that it should
not be done on sentimental grounds,
and thinks that it would be impossi
BILE to do it il it was so desired,
owing to opposition in the legisla
ture. The proposition to ask state
help was voted down, 8 to 7. W, II.
Kennan, Maj. Salmon, Judge Hoy
and Messrs. Catron, Bronaugh, Pitts
and Mrs. Rainwater voted aye.
Had the vote been the reverse,
Hon. W. II. Kennan had ready bill
to present to the legislature provid-
ing for the purchase Of the home by
the state in consideration of $40, ,0OC
a year for II years, when 1t shall be
put to any use the state might see
At. 1t was to be managed by the
state like any other eleemosynary
institution.
Mr.. Kennan said the transfer
would be constitutional and in accor
dance with the laws regarding
eleemosynary institutions. He fav-
ored the transfer and had prepared q
bill which he submitted, and which
he said, he would present to the
Legislature at once, II accepted. A
deed In fee would be made to the
secretary of state from the associa
ton giving the 1858 acres of land ant
improvements, on the date the &C
went into effect. For this gift th'
state would appropriate every two
years $4,000 to support the hom'
for II years. The governor woult
appoint an executive board, two o
whom should reside In Higginsville
II at any time In the next II year
there should be q less than q
inmates the state would be at libert.
to make any use of the home it saw
At, provided the inmates wer
properly provided for or sent bacl
to their counties. The only salaries
officers were to be manager at 800
and n natrau and phvaician af H20
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1895-01-17
IN OUR OWN STATE.

BIG HORSE COLLAR WORKS BURNED.
In 81. Joseph Friday fire destroyed
the horse collar factory Of the Wyetb
Hardware and Manufacturing Com
pany. The taAel loss Is estimated at
s110, 900 fully Covered by insurance.
1t is supposed the fire stated in the
stufiing room, which is always lit
tered with materials.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1895-01-17
CRUSADE AGAINST DANCING.

CRUSADE AGAINST DANCING.
The churches Of Wsrrensburg have
declared war upon all who dance and
have commenced wedding out their
congregations. The session of the
Cumberland Presbyterian church
dismissed FIVE ladies at its last meet
ing aud other denominations will
follow suit. The action has created
much feeling.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1895-01-17
SWINE BREEDERS.

o W
At Chillicothe the Missouri Swine
Breeders Association elected the
following officers for the ensuing
year: President, s. P. Harris, La
Mine; vice presidents, for Berk-
shires, W. N. Briekey, Independence;
Chester whites, j. @. Canady, Bo-
gard: Victorias, ]. G. McClellsnd,
Kirksville; Yorkshires, j. M. Ken
nedy, Bedford; Poland Chinas, @. G.
Sparks, Mt. Leonard; Duroc- -Jer-
seys, W. L. Addy, Parnell; secretary,
A. ]. Blake, st. Louis; treasurer, H.
O. Sydnor, Corder.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1895-01-17
MISSOURI LEGISLATURE.

The legislature awaited the an
nouncement of committees before
commencing business in earnest.
There was animated debate over
several resolutions. Both houses
voted TO visit the State University on
January 18 and 10.
The senate voted to purchase cop
les of the Jefferson City Tribune
(democratic) containing the official
proceedings and the house of repre-
sentatives voted to purchase copies
Of the Courier (republican) for SINH
lar purpose.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1895-01-17

Senator Madison believes that the
-cspfraf should be nearer the city of
st. Louis and that the people may
have a chance to sustain his views
he presented a joint and concurrent
resolution amending the constitution
so that that the capital may be
located in St. Louis county.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1895-01-17

Among the bills introduced in the
senate were these:
Mr.. Yeater: Providing for non
partisan board of curators for the
State University; making the board
consist of nine members, not more
than Ave of whom shall be of the
same political party.
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done, is it any wonder that many are
skeptical about the success of the Valley
roadP 1t is to try to show what has been
done, what is being done and what will be
done, with the idea of convincing the peo-
pie of this State that the Valley road must
be success, that this article is written.
This latest movement to provide true
competitor to the great Southern Pacific
has been organized for ten months, and in
that time much has been accomplished
and the Southern Pacific people, when
spoken to on the subject, no longer say
with dubious shake OF the head, 1.-THE road
is not built yet" In place of this is
heard, ~ suppose it will go through, but
it cannot pay"
That the Southern Pacific should recog-
nize that much is something.
Next, the money has been raised for the
actual construction of over 100 miles Of
road, and raised in such way that the
Southern Pacific cannot get control. Ordi-
narily, railroads are projected, bonds is
sued and the road built on the proceeds of
the bonds. Part of the money raised
must go in various ways to pay for floating
the bonds, and only a small fraction of the
money paid in really goes into the rail-
road. This has been the great STUN bling
block to all the roads started in California.
The road could not pay interest on the
bonds during the first few years of its ex-
istence, the bondholders have had to take
the road and they in turn have been glad
to give it into the keeping OF the Southern
Pacific on condition that their interest
would be paid, and in this way the new
rival of the Southern Pacific has become an
additional member of that system.
In no such way as this can the Valley
road be absorbed, because when the road
has been built. say to Fresno, it will be in
condition to begin earning money. 1t will
not owe one dollar ana the men who sup
piled the money to build it will control it.
Even in the face of ruinous cutting of
rates on the part of the S outhern Pacific,
the Valley road can hold its own because
it has no interest to pay, but only running
expenses in order to keep out of Its
enemy's lands, while the greater corpo-
ration must not only pay running ex-
penses, but must pay the interest on it's
bonds and on the bonds issued for many a
mile of desert. 7 therefore, it is plain that
the money raised for the Valley road has
been raised in the best way possible by
stock subscriptions.
OF the money subscribed nearly one-third
ha been paid into the treasury and a
fourth installment is now being promptly
paid up. There is therefore no fear but
that the financial part of the Valley road
is all right. The question may be asked:
What has been accomplished with this
money, and how has it been spent?
First, rails enough have been purchased
and paid for to lay the track from Stockton
to Fresno. Part of this rail is now here
and the track already laid, and all of the
balance is on the water and daily drawing
nearer. 1t will not arrive too soon. Next,
ties have been purchased, and there are
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not offset by the hurt we intiict in another
way. II we double mans wages, but in
so doing we also double the price of what
he buys, we do not aid him. Likewise if
the cheapening of the goods he buys must
be purchased by cutting his income in an
equal degree, we cannot pose as his bene-
factors.
What the American workIngman has to
sell is not shoes or chintz, or steel rails he
helps to make, but his labor. There is no
use in lifting the price of these products,
except as means to eventually lifting the
price of his labor. The chintz and shoes
are not the property of the workingman,
but of his employer, and to raise their
price, by artificial means is primarily to
benefit the manufacturer by increasing his
receipts. To raise the price of commodi-
ties, therefore, as an earnest of our desire
to help the workingman is honest only in
case the benefit does not stop with his en-
ployer. but is passed on TO the working
man in the form of higher wages. More
over, about all of this benefit must be
passed on if we are going to help him. For
to raise the price OF cloth and shoes and
hardware, is to raise the price of some OF
the things the workingman buys. We
cannot benefit him, then, unless we atone
for this loss in certain directions by a
more than proportionate increase in his
wages.
The workingman has his labor to sell
and we set about to help him by raising
the price of what the manufacturing en-
ployer has to sell. Very good, certainly,
but it Is fair to ask If there is no more dl-
rect way of helping the American laborer.
In sending him benefit by an indirect
route there is always danger that part OF
it may leak out on the way and line the
pockets of other classes. If raising the
price of products by restricting the in
bringing of foreign goods is good way to
benefit the American wage-earner, GER
tainly much surer way lies open to US by
raising the price of labor directly by re-
stricting the incoming of foreign laborers.
1t is strange that we should have over
looked so simple device Of keeping up
the price of that article which the working
man has to sell, viz: his labor. 1t is
true we have an alien contract labor law
that prohibits the INFRINGING of foreign
labor under contract, but there is abso-
lutely nothing to keep the Old World
laborers from walking across the gang
plank at the rate of a million year. And
no doubt if foreign made crOckery and tin
ware and calico had legs with which to
walk themselves into this country we
should find them quite as depressing to
homemade goods as the goods brought in
by an importer, and should tax them quite
as heavily.
1t is not simply the presence of the
foreigner that hurts American labor. II
the competition of immigrants were OF
such character as to lower the price, not
only of what the workingman has to sell,
but also of what he has to buy. it might be
all one to him how many pour in annually
from overcrowded Europe. If there came
in, not only outland bricklayers, to lower
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and Raymond of Kern County show what
can be done in this line. The quality OF
fruit produced by them and the prices re-
allied are an indication of what can be re-
lied upon with proper conditions and
proper care.
Another fruit from which great results
can with the utmost reason be expected in
the San Joaquin Valley is the olive.
Wherever it has been tried success has at
tended the experiment. A noteworthy
fact, and one that points to this part of the
State as certain in time to become promi-
nent as producer OF olives and olive oil,
is the assurance that in this valley the
olive tree is absolutely and entirely free
from the attacks of what has proved so
great a drawback to this industry in loca-
tons nearer the coast-the black scale.
This insect pest appears to have Pc
culiar affinity for the olive, and wherever
the climate is moist and cool there it
t1rives. In the hot interior valleys, how
ever, it cannot live, and trees infected
Herewith which are taken to the interior
and planted are soon entirely rid of the
pest without other aid than natural causes.
There is rapidly growing demand for
both olives and olive oil in this country,
and at present the supply is far from ade-
quate. The prices paid for the fresh fruit
are so high as to insure a most satisfac-
tory return to the grower, while the trees
in this valley mature rapidly and give
satisfactory return at an early date. 1t
must not be supposed, however, that the
entire valley is adapted to the olive any
more than it is to the orange. 1t is along
the edge of the valley and in the lower
foothills that locations are found where
these fruits will thrive, and of such loca-
tions there is vast extent.
There is just one more prominent fea-
ture of horticulture in the San Joaquin
Valley which is worthy of note, and that
is the production of apples in the noun
tains tributary to this valley. While in
other respects I have been careful to say
that this part of the State does not AFRO
gate to itself superiority, in this one detail
an exception will be made. The apples
raised in the mountain portions of the San
Joaquin Valley counties of Fresno, Tulare
and Kern are without a superior in the
world, and if they have an equal it is not
apparent in the markets of this State.
They are as nearly absolutely perfect as
fruit can be. In color, size, flavor, tex ture
and absolute freedom from insect enemies
or Disagreement they stand supreme.
They are impossible of excelment. At
present the production is no more than
sufficient to supply the home demand, the
fruit selling readily in the local market
at high prices. In the near future, how
ever, there is bound to be a stimulus
given to the planting of apple orchards in
the localities mentioned, and then this
will assuredly become the great apple
belt" OF California.
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THE VALLEY ROAD.
A Brief Review of the Work
Already Done on the
New Line That Will
Traverse the Great
San Joaquin Valley.
Written for THE CALL
By w. Il. STOREY JR.
Chief Of the Engineering Corps.

From the beginning of railroad building
in this State, in the late sos, to the pres
cnt time, there have been many roads Or
ganized and started; some with large
promise and brilliant prospects and Others
with bat limited aims. Gradually all
these roads have been absor bed by and in
corporated into one system, operated and
controlled by one corporation. AT the
present time, therefore. the carrying busl-
ness of the State is in the hands of one
great railroad.
This one road has been able, by virtue OF
its great power, to crush out and keep
down sill attempts to start rival projects.
The cash value of nearly one-third of the
entire gross product of the great interior
of the State passes into its hands, and in
recent times no one has been found bold
enough and daring enough to risk capital
in trying to share this great business. A
feeling of hopelessness had fallen on our
State, and even yet are found many who
cannot believe that there will really be
competition in the field.
Our own capitalists have been afraid,
and outside capital would not come be-
cause it has been paid to keep away The
representative of the English stockholders
reported to his people: mo less than 277
companies have been incorporated at diff
ferent times to build railroads in Cali
fornia, none of which undertakings have
come to maturity in consequence of the
enterprise of the promoters of the South
ern Pacific" And the president of the
Southern Pacific takes occasion to quote
this in his last annual report.
Viewing these facts as the people have
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hachapi," was to write himself down as a
rank ignoramus. The mere suggestion
was hooted at, and the choicest shafts of
satire, ridicule and even brutal and sense
less abuse were aimed at the suggester.
Time passed on--not so long time,
either-and pretty soon the papers in
Tulare, Fresno and Kern commenced to
tell about few oranges being gathered
there from trees only three or four years
old. Then the mirth broke out again.
Time passed On again. The orange
growers of the San Joaquin Valley pos
sessed their souls in patience and attended
strictly to business. Pretty soon carload
or two of the golden fruit was shipped from
hither and yon. and while not making any
special to do about it the valley still felt
a iustifable pride in it's achievements in
this direction. Again was the old sheer
repeated, only this time it was varied. No
longer was it said "You can't raise oranges
north of the Tehachapi" Now it was,
Huh whats carload or two2"
Pretty soon there came dozen carloads
at time from various localities and then
it came about that the dealers in San
Francisco began to look actually to the San
Joaquin Valley for their earliest oranges
for the holiday trade. And not only did
they look, but they got the oranges as well.
But still the sneer came back: whats a
dozen carloads by the side of our big crop
or eight or ten thousand car:oads?"
Now it has reached upward of hundred
carloads, and all in only about six years
from the time the first commercial
orange orchard was planted in the San
Joaquin Valley.
Considering that they have been raising
oranges commercially ever since 1856, while
the San Joaquin Valley has been in the
business for but five or six years, there can
not be the slightest doubt that the crop OF
this valley will be outranked a hundred
fold; but by the time the San Joaquin Val
ley has been growing oranges forty or fifty
years it is quite reasonable to suppose,
from the rate OF progress already made,
that hundred times as many oranges will
be produced and shipped as now.
But to take up the general thread of this
article: Nowhere in California has the
cultivation of the fig reached greater sue
cess than in the San Joaquin Valley. 1t
may have been fully as successful else
where, but certainly not more so. The ex-
tensiye experiments OF Denicke at Fresno
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FOR HOME LABOR.
Protection in It's Scientific AS
pect-Its Relation to
American Industry
and the Workingmen
of the United States.
Written for THE CALL
BY PROF. +. A. ROSS.
Chair Of Economics Stanford University.

With the rapid advance of America to
the front rank of manufacturing nations
it becomes increasingly necessary to re-
view the motives which lead US to keep
up our protective system, and to see which
has been lnvalidated by the marks of events
and which are still sound.
1t is beyond all question that the infant
industry plea and the Investigation of in
dustries argument have no longer the
force they once had. And it is clear that
more and more protection is being de-
Tended as device to shield the traditional
American wage against the depressing
competition of low-paid foreign labor.
That this is at present the chief prop OF
the system is significant from the fact that
it frankly rests the case on the effect of pro-
lection, on the distribution of wealth.
The older arguments looked to the pro-
duction of wealth, asserting that the power
to produce wealth would be increased if
industries were diversified and our re-
sources developed. Protection was thus
the path to National prosperity, but now
stress is laid on the sharing of the National
product among the contributing classes,
and, it is asserted, not so much that pro-
lection makes more wealth, but that it
causes more of it to fall into the hands of
the workingman. 1t is, therefore, by its
bearing on the partition of product be-
tween classes, that we shall test it in this
paper.
Obviously we can help man econom-
ically only by making the proceeds OF his
labor go farther toward satisfying his
wants. This we can do by raising the
price OF what he has to sell or lowering the
price of what he has to buy, or both. But
he must take care that the help we give is