Middletown transcript., 1895-07-20

| becomes Speaker OF the House, q DEM
ocratic newspaper published in WASH
ington has found out all about it and
has taken the public into its confidence.
If there ever was more gall displayed,
even in these days of "enterprising"
newspapers it has escaped your CORES
pondent's attention, and he devotes his
entire time to trying to keep up with
the procession. 1t is unnecessary to
mention the program outlined by this
knowing newspaper further than to
say that it begins with the absurd
statement that the Republicans will be
| afraid to touch the tariff. That is false
enough, as time will show, to stamp
the whole story as Democratic office
made fake. 1t is the Democrats who
are afraid. One of the certianties of
the next session of Congress is that
the House will revise the tariff in
number of important particulars, and
it is probable that the revision will be
accepted by the Senate although that
body will not have Republican ma
jority. As Josh Billings used to say,
"tis better to be ignorant than to
know so darn much that aint so.'
Oh humbugl one of thy other names
is certainly Hoke Smith. A New York
newspaper has started popular SUBJ
scription for the benefit of Miss Eliza
beth Key, granddaughter of the author
of "The Star Spangled Banner" who
was on the first of July dismissed
without cause from the petty clerical
position she had filled for fourteen
years in the Pension Bureau, and by
which she supported herself and her
aged and invalid mother. Among the
Washington contributors to this fund
appears the name of Secretary Hoke
Smith, the man who has it in his
power to restore Miss Key to the posi-
tion from which she was so mercilessly
and cruelty dismissed with his approval,
thus enabling her and her crippled
mother to live Independently, instead
of having to eat the bread of charity.
Mr.. Hoke Smith would find it difficult
to convince any unprejudiced person
that any feeling accompanied his dona-
tion to the Key charity fund; it was
merely a conscience contribution. If
he had either feeling for the Keys or
the patriotism which every American
should have, he would reinstate Miss
Key and save her the humiliation Of
accepting support for herself and
mother from the newspaper charity
fund donated by the public.
Agricultural Department officials
cannot brush away the accusation,
that speculators get advance informa-
tion of the departments official crop
report, by referring to them as "old
Stories" Old or new, it does seem
strange that certain big spectators
should always be able to lay their bets
in the market just before those reports
are issued in way to make money and
to make it appear to other people that
they were acting upon actual knowl-
edge. Perhaps these spectators only
guess, but it seems little odd that
they should always guess right, while
others just as intelligent continue to
guess wrong right along.
Members of the administration are
having difficult task to reconcile the
promise that Democratic tariff would
open the markets of the world to the
producers and manufacturers of the
United States with the cold, hard,
agures contained in the Official report
Of the Bureau of Statistics-6gures
compiled by Democratic officials. Dur
ing the eleven months ending May 81,
1895, exports from the United States
fell off, as compared with the same
period ending May 81, 1894, when the
Mckinley law was in force, nearly
S75, 100000 in value-to be exact, the
for eleven months under
The Mckinley tariff amounted to
1913, SAT 1866, while the expectations
'or the same period under the Demo.
cratic tariff amounted only to $780,
ISL S65. These are the sort of facts
which have convinced those who con.
rol the great business interests of the
country that it is not safe TO have the
Democratic party in control of the
National government, and which will
lot soon be forgotten, but will stand
ike stone wall over which the Demo-
;ratic party cannot hope to get during
be life of the present generation.
WASHINGTON, July 18th, 1895.