The herald., 1896-01-19
Free Trade Facts From an Out
spoken Republican
Mckinley HIRED PLEADER
Sops Thrown to Blind American So
Called Protected LabOrers
CannibaIism in Russia-Exile to Siberia De.
fended-Viadvostock Harbor and Rail.
way-The Nicaragua Canal

GAINESVILLE, w., is on a Visit TO frlenUs III
Santa Ana valley. He said yesterday: In
common with all ether Republicans L must
admire McKinley's great talents, but his
ultra views on protection makes it as inn
probable that he should receive the nomin-
alton of his party for the presidency as
that Ii Hung Chang will be restored to
favor. His close association with men
who have made large fortunes by the for
nation of rings and syndicates, who en-
deavor to throw dust into the eyes of pro-
ducers by the donation of princely sums
for the erection and maintenance of music
halls, libraries and theological seminaries,
has created more than a suspicion that Nc
Kinley's seemingly sincere anxiety for the
good of protected American labor is the
ardor of an attorney for his client. 1t is
notorious that those special industries.
whose ultra protection calls out the most
eXhaustively diffuse eloquence of the eX-
governor of Ohio, are precisely those
which, by the operation of extreme protec
tive tariffs, are almost entirely of foreign
ownership. For instance, such costly
plants as the Carnegie Iron and Steel COM
pany, whose NAV encloses almost without
exception the great mills of Pittsburg.
Birmingham and Allegheny City. and all
the output of mills westward from New York
to Illinois. You remember that the huge
plant of the American Iron works at Bir-
mingham. Pa, just across the Mononga-
hela river from Pittsburg, is nominally
owned by Jones & Laughlin, Mr., Jones,
the senior of the company. having been
chairman of the Republican national COM
mittee, but it. and the other great plant of
Oliver Bros. & Phillips, are in the Carnegie
combine. In Illinois, the plants of the
North and South Chicago rolling mills, the
Joliet Iron works. and every mill westward
to the Pacific coast is in the control of an
amalgamation under the title of the Joliet
Steel and Iron Works company. This,
like the Carnegie outfit, is purely foreign
corporation, controlled by Scotch capital,
and whose manager, w. r. Sterling, is,
like Carnegie, an alien. The only differ
ence between these two large aggregations
of capital and skill lies in the fact that
Carnegie's conscience has some occasional
twinges, resulting in his highly lauded
benefactions, SO called, to Pittsburg and
Allegheny in the donation of libraries to
those cities, ,and his starting Damrosch in his
musical career at the great Carnegie Music
hall, New York. The Scotch outfit has
done nothing of the sort yet. McKinley's
pathetic pleadings for the American laborer
are simply the following of definite in.
structions to an able counsel. No fiscal
enactments can benefit the American pro
ducer of the foreigners wealth, unless he
have some larger share of the profits thar
now accrue to him. The skilled rollers
pay looks princely; it really is not so, as he
has to take all risks of constantly occurring
imperfect heats, while the wretched Pole,
Hun, and scum of the Baltic are paid like
asses and housed like dogs.
The wild and fantastic stories by Ken
nan of the horrors of Siberia have caused
many smile to those who know facts and
decline to color them to the shade of tra'
ditional beliefs. The majority of the
r,.cl,ip rrIs
lent old ladies and gentlemen weep SO SYM
pathetically, are degenerates for whom
public safety demands eXtradition. The
crimes are mainly those for which, in the
United States, said Nicholas Demetrich. a
wealthy merchant of Vladivostock, you
Americans deem burning at the stake no
unfit punishment. Much more frightful
crimes are often the cause of the so.called
barbarities, and are unmentionable. For
instance, quite recently man and his son
we're arrested for an extraordinary case of
cannibalism. The boy, about % years old
was suffering from congeni.al disease.
He and his father were of the Mahomedan
faith, and had no use for Christian doc
tor. They consulted a mollah, who adj
vised the boy to eat the heart of freshly
killed virgin. One was enticed to lonely
spot and killed. The son removed the heart
and devoured it. Father and son were sent to
Siberia for twelve years the mollah was
posed from all rights as a citizen and sent
to Siberia for life. Mr.. Demetrich came to
this country in a small vessel by way of
Alaska. He says that the construction of
the great transcontinental road from Vlad-
livestock to st. Petersburg is being very
rapidly pushed and that the division, the
most important one connecting the great
Pacific naval station of Russia with Mos
cow will be ready for opening before the
day OF the czar's coronation as emperor of
all the Russias, and head of the Greek
church. He added that the completion of
harbor and arsenal at Vladvostock, would
shortly be the chief port of entry into
Russia of American products. He thought
that the chief demand would be for wines,
liquors, and above all for light hardware
and agricultural implements. Mr.. Dome
trich will spend the winter visiting old COM
patriots in Southern California.
E. A. Murchison, civil engineer of very
varied experience in the construction of
large irrigating systems in Northwestern
India and, conjointly with his deceased
father, in that of the Suez canal, some
sections of the now abandoned Panama
canal, the Manchester, Eng, ship canal.
and the great North sea canal, recently
opened at Kiel with much eclat, is in the
city, and very sick. He has only just
come from Nicaragua, where, from sheer
love of his profession, he has been verify
ing surveys made at various times by the
United States, England and Brazil, of the
proposed ship canal. Mr.. Murchson
said: 1.-THE United States should build
the canal. One might almost say she has
the right to do SO, and to maintain perma-
nent control of 1t also, just as the English
do their great highway to their richest
possessions in the east-the Suez canal.
Ihe surveys made are now as accurate as
it is possible to make them. The terms of
the concession to the United States are
most generous, giving almost absolute sov-
ereign rights, and very valuable terri
tory on either side of the proposed route.
The profit to this country in one year
after the opening of this great waterway
quite independently of tolls, would, | am
sure, exceed greatly all that has ever been
received from Alaska, including the cost of
the country to the United States when sold
by Russia. Near the seaboard, as is uni
versal in South and Central America, the
climate is hot, unhealthy, and the country
rise in sea level is instantly felt and the
great table lands and rolling country of
much. Every effort should be put forth
by patriotic Americans to press this matter
on congress to Il speedy conclusion. Sim
should be eagerly entertained. Being
quietly quizzed as to his pro-American en-
thusiasm, hs said: have no AK to grind IN
the matter. l have finished my travels,
and if live this will be my country and
my home. Kind hands care for the in
trepid engineer in his sickness.