The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-11-14

! uuV IL IL MS annual
duty to furnish a
brief. ~reciting events of Importance that
have occurred in the civilized world since
the last message to Congress was written
and such facts relating thereto as may
interest the President. 1t is understood
that the message will be particularly
strong on the Monroe doctrine and CON
sentative on Cuba, Notwithstanding the
opinions and predictions Of the Hon. Don
Nj. Dickinson. | nave it straight that the
President doesn't expect the Cuban rev
olution to survive the winter. He thinks
it will be crushed out as soon as the
weather will permit an active campaign
by the Spanish army.
Secretary Carlisle's report. at the time
this is written, has not been begun, al
though several bureau officers of the
treasury are preparing material for it.
The first copy Of Secretary Morton's re-
port is finished and is being revised. 1t
will be longer thar usual, and packed
with information of interest and value to
farmers, livestock growers. packers,
fruit men, and particularly to those who
are seeking foreign markets for agri-
cultural products.
The report of the Commissioner Of In
ternal Revenue will show that the total
consumption of beer in the United States
for the last fiscal year, ended june 30,
was 33,460,GGl barrels, which was an in
crease Of $4,000 barrels over the con-
sumption Of 1894, but a decrease of 353,-
211 barrels from the consumption Of
) Therefore, it would appear
that hard times have something TO
do with beer drinking. A barrel of
beer in brewers measure contains BIZ
gallons. The people Of the United States,
therefore, drank 1,O45, 926, 906 gallons of
beer last year. The largest consumption
of beer in the United States was in New
York. Pennsylvania, Illinois and Wiscon-
sin. The total sales in the city of Mil
waukee alone were 100000 barrels, or
about one-sixtecnth of the whole. Kansas
is credited with only 5000 barrels of beer.
The report of the Secretary Of the navy
will be of unusual interest this year for
the reason that it Will contain a sort of
review Of the work Of rebuilding the
American marine, which has now been
practically completed upon the plans that
were adopted at the end of the Arthur
administration and the beginning of the
Cleveland administration ten years ago.
England Must Fight.
1t is the unanimous opinion among
diplomats here that England must fight
or lose her foothold in the East, and that
ever since the close of the Japanese wal
she has been seeking a preteXt for de-
sccnding upon China to counterfeit the
success of Russia aud restore her own
prestige. 1t is believed to be the inten-
ton of Great Britain. sooner or later. 10
occupy Marking, just as she seized II
held Hong Kong forty years ago. Nan
king is the greatest city in the interior of
China and commands the commerce OF
the Yang tie, which is the greatest river
and furnishes transportation for the most
productive and prosperous portion of the
empire. And rs soon as Russia takes
possession of Manchuria. the northern
province, and starts her railroad down
the Liao-Tung Peninsula, John Bull will
find an excuse to occupy Marking and
organize Il provisional government of his
own there, supported by II British fleet.
1t matters not what the preteXt may be,
England will demand exactions which the
Chinese Government cannot comply with,
and nothing but the combined powers of
Europe can compel her to loosen her foot
hold when il is once obtained.
Commercial disaster threatens England
both in Japan md China. Those coun-
tries have been the largest and most prof
liable markets for British manufacturers,
bur her trade is decreasing rapidly and
before many years Japan will supply the
Asiatic market with almost everything it
needs. The enormous increase of cotton
factories in Japan and their rapid intro
duction into China will soon be felt by the
manufacturers of Manchester. Since the
treaty Of peace between China and Japan
was signed four companies, with capital
of not less than 81 100000 each, have
been organized in Shanghai to construct
cotton mills; two in Marking. II in Han
kow and two more ut Hong Kong. which
will get their raw material from America
and eat a great hole intp the English
trade. 1t is true that three-fourths of the
capital to be invested in these mills comes
from England and is largely furnished
by the cotton manufacturers of that cOun-
try. who realize the evolution in trade and
will move their mills from England to
Asia as rapidly as they can India has
practically ceased to consume British cot
tons and is able to furnish almost her
entire supply. Japan will be in the same
situation within the noxt two or three
years and China will follow rapidly after.
She Killed a Boy.
While public sentiment at tie national
capital cordially supports the action Of
the Grand JurF of the Dist 'ict of Column
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