Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-07-20
HoKE SMITHS .cHARITY.n
A Democratic Fake Those Markets
Of the World.

ders never cease. Although Mr.. Reed
probably has as yet given little atten-
ton to. and has certainly not made
up his mind on any particular policy
to be followed when he becomes
Speaker ofthe House, Democratic
newspaper published in Washington
has found out all about it and has
taken the public into its confidence.
II there ever was more gall displayed,
even in these days of ''enterprising"
newspapers it has escaped your cor
respondents attention. and he devotes
his entire time to trying to keep up
with the procession. 1t is unneces-
sary to mention the programme out
lined by this knowing newspaper fur
Their than to say that it begins with
the absurd statement that the Repub-
licans will be afraid to touch the tar
it, 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 certainties of the next session
of Congress is that the House will re-
vive the tariff in a number of impor-
tant particulars, and it is probable
that the REVISION will be accepted by
the Senate although that body will
not have a Republican majority. AS
Josh Billings used to say, "'Tis bet
ter to be ignorant than to know so
darn much that amt So"
1t has leaked out that Mr.. Cleveland
would like to remove Ambassador
Eustis for his recent indiscretions in
the way ofjingo speeches and news
paper interviews, but is afraid that if
he does so he will make Eustis the
Democratic candidate for President.
He recognizes that however indiscreet
the utterances of Mr.. Eustis may have
been in diplomat his opinions have
voiced the sentiments of many Amer
leans and that his removal from office
for such an offense would make him
very popular. That being the case
it is probable that Mr.. Eustis will re-
main in Paris, unless he gets mad at
being reprimanded and resigns, as he
may do. 1t has been whispered ever
since that London speech that Mr..
Eustis has presidential inspirations.
oh, hurnbug, one of thy other
names is certainly Hoke Smith A
New York newspaper has started a
popular subscription for the benefit of
Miss Elizabeth Key, granddaughter of
the author of "The Star Spangled
Banner" who was ON the first of July
dismissed without cause from the pet
ty clerical position she had filled for
fourteen years in the Pension Bureau,
which was the only support Of her
self and her aged and invalid mother.
Among the Washington contributors
to this fund appears the name of Sec
rotary Hoke Smith, the IMAM who has
it in his power to restore Miss Key to
the position from which she was SO
mercilessly and cruelty dismissed with
his approval, thus enabling her and
her crippled mother to live indepen-
IDENTIFY, 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 donation to the Key
charity fund; it was merely con-
science 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 sup
port from herself ard mother from the
newspaper charity fund donated by
the public.
Agricultural Department officials
cannot brush away the accusation,
that spectators get advance informa-
ton 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 re-
ports are issued in a way to make
money and to make it appear to other
people that they were acting upon
actual knowledge. Perhaps these
spectators only guess, but it seems
little odd that they should always
guess right, while others just as in
telligent continue to guess wrong
right along.
Members of the administration are
having a difficult task to reconcile
the promise that a Democratic tariff
would open the markets of the world
to the producers and manufacturers of
the United States with the cold, hard,
! figures containe in the official report
of the Bureau of Statistics-fgures
compiled by Democratic officials.
During 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 SIS, 900, 900 in value-to be ex-
act, the expectations for eleven
| months under the Mckinley tariff
amounted to 1913, 54S, 800 while the
expectations for the same period
under the Democratic tariff amounted
only to $739,65I,So5. These are the
sort of facts which have convinced
those who control 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 not soon be forgotten,
but will stand like stone wall over
which the Democratic party cannot
hope to get during the life of the pre-
sent generation.