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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-12-11
w twaas hera Il best reason for suppos-
ing it always to have been in facts gov
ernment merely on paper. SIS
DestrucfIon of Property:

- = .uestruct1On OF properly.
!. Meanwhile, as in all cases of protract-
ed civil; strife: the passions of the
combatants grow more and more
infamed. and exeesseaa qn Rs tn ssdes
become more frequehtk { AAAf s4lofe
deplorable. They are also participated in
by bands. of. ;marauders who now in the
name of one party, and now in the name
of the other. as may best suit the occa-
sion, harass the. country at Will and
plunder it's wretched inhabitants ffafs their
ow -hdyantage: Such conditiopsof things
WouiH Inevitably entail immense destruc-
tf6r fpfopsrty, gwen if it were the policy
of one party to prevent it as far as prac.
fticable. But while such seemeds 10 be st he
original policy of the SpaHish gSWefnMsl
it has now apparently sabando onea JE ASfs1
is acting-hpon the same theory as the IN
suFgehts, namely; That the exigencies of
the contests require the wholesale ami
hilation OF property that itsnay not prove
of any use aud advantage to the enemy.
1t is to the. same. end that, in pursuance
of general orderss Spanish garrsons are
now being Withdrawn from pfantations.
and, the rural :populatiop; is being re-
quired TO cenceptrate itself in. the town.
The sure result would seem- he that-th he
Industrial value of the island is fast -di-
minishing, and that 4nnless there is a
speedy and dsradical~ehange in. the existing
conditions :it will soon disappear alto
gether'
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Our Concern in Cuba.

The spectacle of the utter ruin of an
adjoining country, by nature one of the
-most<fertte- and. charming on the whole
globe, would engage the serious attention
of the government and the people of the
United States in any circumstances. In
point of fact, they have concern with it
which is by no means of wholly senti-
mental or philanthropic character. 1t lies
so~near to US as to be hardly separated
from our territory. our acfuaf -pecunfary
interest in it is second only to that of the
people of Spain. 1t is reasonably estimated
that at least from $50, 900 900 to $50, 600, 900
of American capital is invested in. planta-
tions and in railroads, mining and other
business enterprises on the island. The
volume of trade between the United States
and Cuba, which in 1889 amounted to about
$4,000, 0e0 rose in 1898 to about $103, 600, 900,
and in 1894, the year before the present
insurrection broke out, amounted to near
ly SOC, 600, 600.
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1t SHOULD be add6u tnat 1t cannot De 8ea-7
sonably assbmed ehat xthe hitherto sex,
be Indefinitely maintained. While we are
anxious to accord all due respect to tile
sovereigntySof Spain, we cannot view the
pending coIAjct in all its features and prop
erly ,apprehend our close relations to it
and rs possible results without considering
that-by thsscourse of events we may be
drawn -mtossuch an unusual and unprece1
dented condition as will fix limit to OUT
patient waiting for Spain to end the con-
test. either. alone and in her own way,
or with our. friendly cooperation.
When the inability of Spain to deal sue
cessfully with the Insurgents has .befone-
manifest, and it is sdemQrs stratfd THAI her
sovereigntsSis is extinct In Cuba For san purs
;psses of its rightf1l efistepces and when
IA. hopeless struggle for its re-establish-
lent hasSAegenerated into strife which
means n6Yhing more than the useless
sacrifice OK human life and the. utter de
struction tof every subject matter pfsfhe
conflict, a situation will be presented IN
which our: obligations to the sovereignty of
Spain Will, be superseded by higher obli-
cations, which we can hardly hesitate to
recognize and discharge. Deferring the
choice Of ways and. methods until the time
for action arrives, we should make them
depend upon the precise conditions then ex-
listing: and they should not be determined
upon without giving careful heed to every
consideration involving our honor and in
terest, o. the International duty we owe
to Spaii:.s! Until we face the contingencies
suggested, or the situation is by other in
eidents- lmperaively changed, we should
continue in the line of conduct heretofore
pursued, thus in all circumstances exhtb-
iting onE obedience to the requirements of
public law and our regard for the duty en-,
Joined upon US by the position we occupy
in the galaxy of nations.
; A contemplation of emergencies that may
arise should plainly lead us to avoid their
creation, either through a careless disregard
of present duty or even an undue stimula-
ton and ill-timed expression of feeling. But
have deemed it not amiss to remind the
congress that a time may arrive when a
correct policy and care for our interests,
as well as regard for the interests of other
nations and their citizens, Joined by con-
sideratiens of humanity and a desire to see
rich and fertile country, intimately re-
lated to us. saved from complete devasta-
tion, will constrain our government to such
action; will subserve the interests involved
and at the same time promise to Cuba and
its inhabitants an opportunity to enjoy the
blessings of peace. q. xETf
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sential, too, that early provision be made
to supply the necessary force of artillery
to meet the demands OF this service. /"
q & - i, e = Z s. y e. :, =:

to supply the necessary force OF artillery
to meet the demands Of this service. :"
Coast Forfifca tons. = =
Dertng.the past year, rapid-progress has.
been made toward the completion of the
scheme adopted for the protection and
armament of Notifications along our sea-
coast, while equal progress has been made
in providing the material for submarine
defenSes in connection with these works.
Z 1t iE peculiarly gratifying, at fhiss time!
to -1ote the sreat 4advahce thats has BEEN
made in this important Undertaking since
the date of my annual message to the SD
congress at the opening of its second an
nral session lip pecember, ,-1S93. At that
time I a dnformedi the cohgress of the ap-
incR and "a ssineh Ihish-poWer steel guns.
and rs 12-inch rifled mortars.t This total
then seemed insignificant compared with
the great work remaining to be done, yet it
was none, the less source of satisfaction
ITO every citdYen when ;ha reflected that: it
represented the first fnsta1lment Of the new
ordnance of American design and American.
manufacture, and demonstrated our ability
10 supply from our own resources guns of
Eunexceiled POWER and accuracy. At that
date, however, there were practically no
carriages upon which to mount these guns,
and only 81 ;emplacements for guns and
81 for nnortars. Nor wereHa1i these ems
placements in condition to receive their
armament. Only one high-power gun was
at that time IN position for the defense. of
the entire coast Since that time, the num-
ber of guns actually completed has been
increased to q 12-inch. 56 1O-inch. and 81
8-iEch riffed mordars.,
In addition there are in process of con-
astrnction onb .1e.ineh-type gun, $50 Pinch,
56 10-inch,- N S-inch high-power guns, and
66 R-fnch rified moftars,- in all 42S guns and
mortars.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.
Export. of Farm Products.

Exports OF Farm Products.
The secretary reports that the value of
our exports of farm products during the
last fiscal year amounted to $50, ,00O, 900,
an increase of 81, 900, 600 over those of the
year Immediately preceding. This state
ment Is none the less welcome because
of the fact that Notwithstanding such in
crease the proportion of exported agricul-
tural products to our total exports of all
descriptions fell off during the year. The
benefits of an increase in agricultural
exports being assured, the decrease in the
proportion to our total exports is the more
gratifying, when we consider that 1t Is
owing to the fact that such total exports
for the year increased more than SIS. .000-
600.
The large and increasing expectation of
our agricultural products suggests the
great :, usefulness of the organization
lately established in the department for
the purpose of giving to those engaged in
farming pursuits reliable information con-
corning the condition and needs and sad-
vantages of different foreign markets.
Inasmuch as the success of the farmer
depends upon the advantageous sale of
his products and inasmuch as foreign
markets must largely be the destination
of such products, 1t is quite apparent
that a knowledge of the conditions and
wants that affect those markets ought to
result in sowing more intelligently and
reaping with better pron 20 profit.
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Excess of Expenditures Over Re.
ceipts.

ceipts.
The secretary Of the treasury reports
that during the fiscal year ended June 80,
1896, the receipts of the government from
all sources amounted to $4O9, ATS, ,40S 76.
During the same period, its expenditures
were $434, ,67S, ,654 4s, the excess of expendi-
'-tures over receipts thus amounting to $685.
20S, ,245 72. The ordinary expenditures dur
ing the year were 81, OILS, ,S52 q less than
during the preceding fscal=year.4sOf.: the
receipts mentioned, there were derived
from customs the sum of $3.50, ,021 Isl 81, and
from internal revenue $146, $50, SIS g.. The
receipts from customs show an increase of
/, 81, 1863, ,134 % over those from the same
source for the fiscal year ending, June
30, 1885, and the receipts from internal
revenue an increase of 1854, ,537 81.
The value of our imported dutiable mer-
chandise during the last fiscal year was
1868, 757, ITO, and the value of free goods
imported s409, 1867, ,470 being an increase of
Sc, 523 ,675 in the value of dutiable goods
and $41, ,2S1, ,034 in the value of free goods
over the preceding year. Our exports of
merchandise, foreign and domestic,
amounted in value to $685., ,6O6, ,93S, being an
increase over the preceding year of $75,-
06S, ,773. The average ad valorem duty paid
on dutfable goods imported during the
year was 1894 per cent, and on free and
dutiable goods taken together 2O.55 per
cent.
ss'The cost of collecting the internal rev.
enue was 2.7S per cent, as against 2.S1
per cent for the fiscal year ending June 30,
1907
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THE TARIFF.
The Presidents Defense of the Wilson
Bill.

I desire to refer to the: statement else
where made concerning the gover ernfnent re-
ceipts and expenditures for the purpose of
venturing upon some suggestions touching
our present tariff law and its operation.
This statute took effect on the 18th day
of August, 1894. Whatever may be it's
shortcomings as a complete measure Of
tariff reform, it must be. conceded that it
has opened the way to freer and greater
exchange of commodities between the
United States and other countries, and
thus furnished wider market for our prod
ucts and manufacturing. The only entire
fiscal year during which this law has been
in force ended on the Both day of June, 1896.
In that year our imports increased over
those Of the previous year more than
Sc, SOC, 900, phile the value of the domestic
product WI exported and which found mar
kets abrosd was nearly 81. .o00. 900 more than
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during the preceding year.

during the preceding year.
Those who insist that the cost to our
people Of articles coming to them from
abroad for their needful use, should only
be increased through tariff charges to
an extent necessary to meet the expenses
of the government, as well as those who
claim that tariff charges may be
laid upon such articles beyond
revenue and with the additional purpose
of so increasing their price in our markets
as to give American manufacturers and
producers better and more profitable oppor-
tunities, must agree that our tariff: laws
are only primarily justified as sources of
revenue to enable the government to meet
@the necessary expenses Of its maintenance.
Considered as to Its .suff1ciehey in this
aspect, the present law can: by no means
fall under just condemnat ton. During the
it has yielded nearly IS, 900, 900 more revenue
than was received from tariff duties In the
preceding year. There was, nevertheless: a
deficit Between our receipts and expendi-
tures of little more. than s25, 600, oo0 II
The situation :, was such in December.
seven months before the close Of the fiscal
year. that the secretary of-'the treasury
foretofd "a deficiency Of 81, ,000. 900. The
great and increasing apprehension and
timidity in business circles and; the !. de.
preston In all activities. intervening since
that; time, resulting from causes perfectly
well understood and entirely disconnected
with our tariff law or its operation. seri-
ously checked the imports we would have
otherwise received and readily account for
the difference between the estimate of the
secretary and the actual deficiency as well
as for a continued deficit. Indeed, it must
be confessed that we could hardly have had
a. more unfavorable period than the last
| two years for the collection of a tariff
revenue.
We cannot reasonably hope that our re-
cuperation from this. business depression
will be sudden. hut 1t has already set in
with a promise of acceleratiop and con-
tinuance. -: .
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A Growf0k Abuse.

The deficit. for the. year. although much
less than that of the last and preceding
years. emphasizes the necessity for legis-
latio4 to correct the growing abuse of
second-class rates. to which 'a1deficit is
mainly attributable. The transmission at
+. the rate iof 1. cent a. pound, of serial IL
braries, advertising sheets, "house or
gans" periodicals advertising some par
ticular 'house" or institution, sample
copies and the like, ought certainly to
be discontinued. A glance at the revenues
received for the work done last year will
show more plainly than any other state
ment the gross abuse of the postal SER
vice. and the. growing waste of its earn
ings. The free matter carried lin the
mails for the department, offices, etc,
of the government, and for congress, in
pounds, amounted to 94,480,189. If this
is offset against buildings for postoffices
and stations, the rental of which would
more than compensate for such free postal
service, we have this exhibit:
Weight of mail matter (other than
ahove) transmitted through the mails for
the year ending June 30 1896:
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use OF the surpIus.

I believe our present tariff law, If allow
ed fair opportunity, will in the near
future yield a revenue which. with reason
ably economical expenditures, will over
come all deficiencies. In the meantime no
deficit that has occurred, or may occur,
need excite or disturb us. To meet any
such deficiency, we have in the treasury, In
addition to a gold reserve of $100. 10000 q
surplus of more than $12s, 600 600 applicable
to the payment of -the expenses of the
government, and which must, unless ex-
pended for that purpose, remain In USE
less hoard, or, If not extravagantly wasted,
must, In any event, be perverted from
the purpose of its exaction from our people.
The payment, therefore,; ;of any deficiency
in the revenue from this fund is nothing
more than it's proper and legitimate use.
The government thus applying a surplus
fortunately in its treasury to the payment
of expenses not met by its current; reve-
nues. Is not at all to be lkened; to a man
living beyond his income, and thus incur
ring de & or encfoaching on his principal
1t is not one of the functions of our gov
eminent to accumulate and make addi-
tions to a fund not needed for immediate
expenditure. With individuals, 1t Is the
chief object of struggle and effort. The
.sapplication of an accumulated fund by the
government to the payment of its running
expenses Is duty. An Individual living
beyond his income and embarrassing him.
self with debt or drawing upon his ac-
cumulated fund of principal Is either un-
fortunate or imprevident The distinction
is as between a government charged with
the duty of expending for the benefit Of the
people and for proper purposes e.an the
money it receives from any source and
the Individual who is expected to mani
fest natural desire to avoid debt or
to accumulate as much as possible and
to live within the income derived from
such accumulations. to the end that they
may be increased, or at least remain un-
impaired, for the future use and enjoyment
of himself and objects Of his love and
affection who may survive him.
It is immeasurab1y better to appropriate
our surplus to the payment of justifiable
expenses than to allow It to become an
invitation to reckless appropriations and ex-
travagant expenditures.
I suppose 1t will not be denied that under
the present law our people obtain the neces-
saries of a comfortable existence at
cheaper rate than formerly This Is a
matter of supreme Importance, since 1t is
the palpable duty of every just govern
ment to make the burdens of taxation as
light as possible. The people should not
be required to relinquish this privilege
of cheap living, except under the stress
of their governments necessity made plain.
1y manifest.
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concluding Remarks.

In concluding this communication, its
last words shall be an appeal to the con-
gress for the most rigid economy in the
expenditure of the money it holds in trust
for the people. The way to perplexing
extravagances is easy, but a return to
frugaIity is difficult. When, however, It
is considered that those who can bear
the burdens Of taxation have no guaranty
of honest care, save In the fidelity of their
public servants, the, duty of all possible
retrenchment Is plainly manifest. When
our differences are forgotten and our COM
tests of political opinion are no longer re-
-membered, nothing in the retrospect of
our public service will be as fortunats
and comforting as the recollection OF Of
ficial duty well performed, and the menu
ory of constant devotion to the interests
Of our confiding fellow countrymen.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
Executive Mansion. Dec. 1896
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A Character to MAINTAIN.

: The correctness of this forecast need be
neither affirmed nor denied. The United
States has, nevertheless, a character to
maintain as a nauon,- which plainly die
tates that right and not might should be
the rule of it's conduct.
: Further, though the United States is
not nation to which peace is necessi-
l ty, is is, in truth, the most pacific of
powers and desires nothing so much as
to live in amity with all the world. Its
own ample and diversified domain sat
isfies all possible longings for terri
tory, precludes all claims of conquest and
prevents any casting efscovetous eyes up
on neighboring regions, however attrac-
tive.
That our conduct towards Spain and her
-dominions has constituted*no exception to
this national disposition is made manifest
by the course of our government, not only
: thus far. during the present insurrection,
bat during the 10 years that followed the
rising of Yara in: 1868. .ssNo other great
power, it may safely be"said, under cir
cumstances of similar perplexity, would
have manifested the same restraint and
: the same patient endurance.
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INTERIoR DEpARrMENr.
Spent -as Much Money, as 1t Used II
Take to Run the Governmelat.

The report of the secretary of the interior
presents comprehensive and interesting
exhibit of the numerous and important
affairs committed to his supervision. It is
impossible In this communication to do
more than briefly refer. to few Of the
subjects concerning which the secretary
gives full and instructive information.
The money appropriated on account Of
this department. for its disbursement for
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Death in tho Pyrenees.

A Paris disptach says that terrible
disaster has occurred in the Pyrenees.'
A score of Spaniards, crossing on foot.
had reached Gavarnie, in France. where
they related with apparent remorse
that they had left woman, unable to
proceed, with her husband and bro
ther, two hours distant. Guides hur-
ried back to the rescue and heard calls
for help, when a sudden avalanche
blocked the mountain pass 80 that the
guides were obliged to return to Cav
arnie and wait there for two days.
When they finally reached the ill-fated
trio, two of them were dead and the
third was dying.
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THE VENEZUELA BOUNDARY.
Negotiations for a Treaty of Genera
Arbitration.


Arbitration. -"
The Venezuela boundary question has
ceased to be matter of difference between
Great Britain and the United States, their
respective governments having agreed upon
the substantial provisions of treaty be-
tween Great Britain and Venezuela, Sub
mitting the whole controversy to. arbitra-
ton. The provisions .ef the treaty are so
eminsntly just and fair that the assent of
Venezuela thereto may confidently be an
ticipated. IS
Negotiations by treaty of general .ar-
bitration for all differences between Great
Britain and the United States are far ad-
vanced, and promise to reach successful
consummation at. an early date.
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Marine Hosptta1 Service.

The operations of the marine hospital
service, the revenue cutter service, the
steamboat inspection service, the light
-house service, the bureau of navigation and
other branches of public work attached to
the treasury department, together with
various recommendations concerning their
support and Improvement, are fully stated
in the report of the secretary of the treas
ury, to which the attention of congress
Is especially invited.
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Swallowed Morphine.

Lizzie Emerson, a handsome woman,
about % years of age, swallowed dose
of morphine, with suicidal intent, in
San Francisco. When discovered she
was taken to the receiving hospital, but
soon after expired. The woman came
to San Francisco from Seattle about
three months ago. To friends SHE said
that her husband had died about two
months previously, leaving her. with a
little girl to support. She could find
no means of supporting herself and
child, and becoming Respondent, de-
! cided to end her life,
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On His Way to Mexico.

Percival Lowell, of Boston, whose
astronomical researches with reference
to the inhabitability of the planet mars
have commanded wide attention, is
now on his way to the City of Mexico,
near where he has erected an observa-
tory. He will have with him in Mexi-
co distinguished party of scientific
men, and it is the purpose to continue
the investigations in that country for
at least two years, if the climatic con.
ditions prove favorable.
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the fiscal year ending June 80. 1896, amount
ed to more than $15T e0e;080, or greater
sum than was appropriated for the entire
maintenance of the government for the
two fiscal years ended June 80, 1851.
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Intense excitement prevails in East
St. Louis over the brutal murder of
Christopher Ludwig, aged SO, by Harry
Schneltzer, ged %. Schneider struck
Ludwig on the head with an ak, kill
ing him instantly. The murderer es-
capped. but is being pursued by posse.
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Tug Edith Burned.

The tug Edith, of Seattle, burned
near Doflemeyer's point, and is prac-
tically total loss. The ting was act
ing as tender to a dregder and was
on her way to Seattle.