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The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-20
iTRNALIST WELLMAN
...,orising Featsof Our Wash
,.oton correspondent.
rv,v SUCCESS AS A PROPHET.

liable Record of scoops" and Po-
p , predictions to His Credit-oorrect
''"' lion Forecasts-His Career as Re-
' ,.,. Editor. Correspondent and Ex-
plOrsr'
/ ,he messengers sailing from New
[ors " Wellman, the well known newspa'
alter ""oSnondent, accompanied by his
p OOi NJ Wellman said just before sail
pre- - he was not going to Europe for
Pe 'n"' or rest. "If were going to travel
|eas 'aasure it should be in my own coun-
y P p 10 said, "and as for rest, do not
Es,t | am going on business. One
feu ~ y, the hard times in this country is
|uT number of Americans who put
p iae Europe every summer, spending
Money among foreigners instead of
E,sh our own people. Why they do 1t Is
han | can understand. Men and
POle . '' who have never seen the Yosemite,
!O'I ya,lowstone, the Grand canyon, Den
p Can Can francisco or any of the other in
fr ..,n, cities and scenes in our great
trevel all over Europe, scattering
|e's American dollars at every turn. The
W. W. of IL is that all this good money Is
Dhoa mn by hotel keepers and shopkeepers
Sroer at America and Americans the
lnn Ir the backs of our fellow citizens are
"nod have no sympathy with this
..o FOR European travel. IL Is a mere
: and II is q bad thing for the United
'atos taking out of the country every
ra a,' SsO 600 600 to $50, OO0,000 If bust
' AID not call me TO Europe, l should
cw be ON my way to the Yellowstone and
be Pacific coast"
His influence with the President.
Mr. Wellman talks like the true Ameri-
IN he IS His newspaper correspondence,
I'm which our readers are familiar, al
AVS breathes the spirit of Americanism.
n Wellman has become noted among the
nblio men at Washington for his advocacy
what might be called the American ex.
nnsion policy. Now that the great west
settled, he believes this country should
roaden its field, always within American
ines He has advocated colonial policy,
4 all American colonial policy, with
npexation of Hawaii and Cuba. 1t Is
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-20
The Boss Is Obnoxious.

Ishpeming, Mich, July 2O.-There Is
liable to te a walkout at the Cleve-
land Lake mine within few days. The
workmen are dissatisfied with their
boss, Captain Thomas Buzzo, and want
him removed. About ten days ago
Buzzo assaulted a Finlander employee,
breaking an umbrella on his head.
Since then the men have shown consid-
cradle uneasiness and say that Captain
Buzzo is ugly in various ways to them.
They say they will ask Agent Duncan
10 remove Buzzo, also Zachary Karkeet,
one of his foremen, whom they say also
makes il unpleasant for them when
ever he has an opportunity.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-20
The Danes.

The Danes, or Mortimer, first became
prominent in European history in 1888,
when they began to ravage the north
coast Of France and southern shores OF
Great Britain. The daring of these
hardy seamen was remarkable, for In
their small ships they even penetrated
the Mediterranean and became terrors to
the seaboard population of Italy, Sicily
and Greece. The first king OF Denmark
Ia said to have been Skiold. 60 b. q.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-20
No Coal to Run Factories.

Peoria, Ills, July 20.-The tow glu-
cose factories shut down Monday, being
unable to get the $50 tons of coal they
used daily. This also shuts down the
cooper shops and throws 1,5O0 men out
of work. But three mines are running
I'm the Peoria coal field, under contract
to supply the street car and electric
t;,r,,t onies
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-20
Mrs. Lease for Governor.

Topeka, Kan, July 20.-Nrs. Mary r.
Lease is a candidate for governor on
the Populist ticket. She told her init
mate friends that she intended to sue
coed John w. Leedy. There is moth
ing in the state constitution or state law
that prevents a woman from holding
that Office. and Mrs. Lease has reached
the conclusion that the time has ar
rived for the women to assert them
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-20

Omaha, Neb., July 20.-Dan Farrell,
Jr., prominent manufacturer and MEM
Der of the directory of the TRANSMITS
sissippi Exposition company, died Sun
day evening from lockjaw. On the aft
ernoon Of the 5th inst. a firecracker ex-
ploded in his hand, injuring that men,
Der seriously. For several days Mr.
Farrell has lowered between life and
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-20

The rarest and costliest gems, though
not always esteemed the most beautiful,
are pigeons blood rubies, fire opals and
diamonds that are pure but shed a dis
tinct glow of blue or pink. A very per-
feet pearl of generous size and lustrous
skin, tinted rarely beautiful golden
green. was valued. unset. at Sl,750.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-20
Consul General Gowdy Improving.

Paris, July 20.-United States Consul
General John X. Gowdy, who has been
seriously i'll, is now improving, and Is
about to be removed to Plembiers,
neaItn resort on the Angroone. for a
change Of air.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-20
Her Chaperon.

Do,io-so you have dismissed your chap
eronS -. COO ,av-Town
Topics
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-24
The American Farmer and His wheat.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SrS-Sir: The farmer has
for several years complained that the prices of his
crops were depressed about the time OF his harvest.
Discomfort with the low prices which he was often
Obliged to tale for his crops was perhaps the princi-
pal cause for the remarkable though fortunately
short appearance upon the political stage OF Bryan
the domagogue. This year and this harvest, conditions
are reversed and high prices are coincident with an
abundant harvest.
VIII the farmer see his opportunity or viii! he DO
deludcd with the idea that wheat, because II Is his
property. is the most valuable OF commodities, and
thai there Il no more TO Oc gotten?
Prices OF grain are nine. tcnths sentiment and one
tenth supply and demand. The present price OF wheat
Is about ninety. nine parts sentiment and speculation
and one part demand. The buyer from necessity is
forced To pay n high price by the competition OF the
spCculator, who buys only TO sell. The latter when
to throw over his w heat ut any price.
Even now II Is said that Liverpool, which bought
for consumption and speculation, has sold Its specu.
latiHc holdings back to us at q handsome profit taken
from us.
The world always raises enough wheat for our Also
Lutte needs and there are plenty OF cheaper substi.
tut"s for food. A wild speculation having placed the
price a~bnormally high az harvest. let tho farmer once
get the ADVANTAGE Of the speculator and sell all he
has or Will harvest, even his seed wheat. He can buy
o,hcr 10 or 20 cents cheaper. Ii. G. uARRIs.
NEW YORK, Aug. II.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-24
Square Enough!

The Democratic candidate for Governor
Of Iowa opened his campaign at Fort Dodge
with a speech in which he planted both
feet squarely on the Chicago platform:
~ am asked: VIII we be able as u single nation
20 insure the success OF free coinage by maintaining
the parity Of the doilar?' That depends not upon tho
Irrelevant fact that we are q single nation. but upon
the material fact or question whether we have suci.
oient power. the necessary capacity to absorb in our
business. our trade aud commerce. our share
Of the worlds annual output of silver, or
that part OF 1t available for coinage. Do not
toll me that we cannot maintain the parity OF
the dollars and then point to Mexico for your evt
aence. as has been your uniform practice. To under
take to compare this tremendous country, with
Its teeming and cnterprisins population. equalling in
creative power over 200. o0O. 900 of Europeans, with
buch q comparatively weak republic as Mexico, is no
Eair comparison or parallel.
"Let every enc bring silver TO our mint. and we
viii coin it into a full-aedsed American dollar. We
will pus the eagle on one siIc and the Goddess OF
Liberty on the other, with the superscription added.
not in the money power. but In Con we trust.
We will. through the power OF the law. the law
being backed by the power OF public opinion. maks
this silver dollar an actual dollar that viii stand
in need of no redeemer. We will invest 1t with the
character OF absolute. primary money. We will not
d'shonor #, send It forth an orphan. n oiscrcd.ted
coin. We will make It AN unqualified lega. tender.
We will clothe It with every essential function pos
seased by its yellow brother"
The name of this Bryanite Democrat is
FRED E. WHITE, and he seems to be an
honest man, 80 far as concerns the square
u%tterance Of opinions which he believes to
be honest.
Wheat may go up, up, up, and silver may
60 down, down, down, but the situation
which confronts the allied opponents OF
Organized Democracy is precisely what it
was at this time last year, barring the fact
that the next national election Is further
away han was then the case.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-24
senator Georges Mcssase to Cleveland.

From the ChicdOO Times Herald.
Senator George was a man OF earnest convictions
aud one OF the sonndcst constitutional lawyers the
country has produced Perhaps his most noticeable
trait was Independence, H. was a living rcfuta.
tion OF the Byronic maxim that every man has bi,
price. Nothing could buy him. When Mr.. Cleyo.
land called Congress into extraordinary session
in 1899. with to- purpose Of repeating the sherman
coinage act and thus utterly dsmonetiziuR all.
yer, he withheld all important nominations, with the
design at whipping Congressman into line, and he did
whip them into limo. American history furnishes mo-
more pathetic Instance OF men surrcnderinR their
most cherished convictions for the sake OF epon.
senator George would not DO led or driven. He was
much interested In tho candidacy of w. H..
L. heihinsway 10 be District Attorney for
New Mexico. In order 10 placate him MI. clsye.
land appointed Hemingway. hut he would not be pla.
Gated Then Walter .. Gresham. q man whom he
loved was sont to him with a request that he call at
tho White House. You tell tho big beef from But.
falo.' was his hun answer. that It ia no nearsr from
tho Capitol to the White House than from the White
Nouse to the Capitol. I get up at 8 O'Clock every
moraing, eat my breakfast. come down here and 10
t'Work' II he wants to SOC me he knows where to
hnd me-"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-24
THE SUN, TUESDAY. AUGUST "a, 1897.

which existed in 1890, except only that
the Peoples Municipal League reformers oil
that year now describe themselves less
euphoniously as "Cits," though their gen
cral plan of campaign is in no manner dit
ferent or improved. They are fighting the
"politlcians" and expecting those OF the
politicians who are Republicans to help
them in doing this.
The fact Is not to be lost sight OF, that no
Governor or State officers, no members OF
Congress, national officers, are to be voted
for this year. II, therefore, the full Repub-
lican vote, which is absolutely indispensa-
BILE to success against Tammany, Is to BIO
brought to the polls in New York, 1t can
be lone only by the vigorous, well-dis-
ciplincd, and methodical efforts of the Re
publican local organization. Any course
OF action on the part of the Cts which
would lessen the force of the labors Of tho
Republican organization, or render difh-
cult its task, will operate solely to the ad-
vantage Of Tammany, by keeping many
Republicans from the polls. 1t will not be
contended seriously by any one not an en-
forced resident OF the institution ut White
Plains, or of the institution at Amityville,
that the Cts Union, an organization made
up of Mugwumps for the most part, its
very cornerstone being inveterate and
undying hostility to the Republican par
ty, It's candidate and its principles, can
be more successful in bringing out the full
Republican vote than the well-organized
and we~ll-established Republican Commit
tee in this city. The members of the latter,
encouraged by the course and policy of the
Republican party in Federal and State af-
fairs, are intent thisy year on repeating what
was done last year without any help or
countenance from the Cts Union. namely,
to carry New York against the forces
allied in support of Organism.
The lines upon which the municipal bat
tie of 1897 is to be won in New York are
straight and clear. Only by the unwise in
termeddling OF the Citizens Union, or such
organizations, can the S~heehanized Tam
many be boosted into power.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-24

The %unceasing contest between st. Paul
and Minneapolis loses nothing of its heat. st.
Paul crows proudly and remarks that it is the
metropolis OF the Northwest. Minneapolis
crows deiiantly and remarks that st. Paul is "A
village and Minneapolis the genuine Gopher
metropolis. minneapolis" says the Tribune OF
that city, has the largest population OF any city
in the State; 1t has tho largest assessed valuation,
and II does the biggest business Therefore IL
Is tho metropolis. Tho late DIR. EDWARD A.
FREEMAN would havo been reused TO madness
by this usc of the word metropolis, but 1t is
convenient. Minneapolis must he accepted as q
Minnesota metropolis. and n spirited sort Of
place 1t must be. 1t is the capital of Henncpin
county, in which some ten or fifteen wolves
wero caught in the last year. st. Paul folks
say that there are no wolves In their metropolis.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-24

The Hon. RICHARD FRANKLIN PETIT.
GREW Of South Dakota is in Japan studying
the silver question. The Hon. WILLIAM JES-
NISGs BRYAN is in Montana translating into
C~astilian such instructive sentences rs Have I
the dollar Of silver of tho poor man :" and "No.
but you have tho gold dollar OF the rich man"
After Mr.. BRYAN gets back from Mexico,
and Mr.. PETTIoREw from Japan, there
ought to be u public conference between
them. Travel and study will have lono
much to ripen these illustrtous minds and
to enable them to inform an anxious public
why they were so remarkably near to each other
In their predictions last fall. Mr.. BRYAN said
that wheat would go to 80 cents a bushel IL Mr..
MCKINLEY was elected. Mr.. PErTIGREw said
that 1t would go to 20 cents in the same event.
Such a coincidence of sagacities Is rare.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-24
The Working of the Raines law,

The loss to the citizens Of New York by
the operation of the Raines Liquor Tax
lawi is estimated by Mr.. julius HARBUR-
GER, formerly Commissioner Of Excise, at
from Sc, 900 to $7, 900 900 yearly.
Mr.. HARBURGER's calculation is that
more than 1000 liquor saloons have been
closed by the Raines law. and thus that
thousands of barkeepers and others for
merly employed in them are now without
work. Their loss of wages, added to tho
portion sent to Albany OF the taxes paid
by the remaining saloons, makes up the
amount specified.
Mr.. HARDURGER does not consider, how
ever. hat the money which would have
been spent in the suppressed saloons is not
lost, but stays in the pockets of those
who would have spent it, and that the
taxes paid by the surviving liquor dealers
como out of the profits they make from
their customers, who have 1t in their
power to save the money il they choose to.
The loss Of which he complains Is, there
fore, partly imaginary and partly volun-
tarily incurred, and is not chargeable to
the Raines law.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-24
ALMOST A MILLION A MILE.
A Costly Washington Railroad OF which MA
Jones Has Now the Entire Management.

From the Daues Chronicle.
Skamania county, Washington. has n railroad
that Is q curiosity. 1t Is less than four miles
long, but is said to have cost SO. 900, 600. 1t 10
tho old portage road from the Upper to the
Lower Cascades. and was built by the old Oregon
Steam Navigation Company, and is now the
property Of that company's successor. the o. r.
immense business. carrying all the products of
the inland empire to tidewater. all the freight
destined for tho mines OF Idaho. eastern Oregon.
and the vast region east of the Cascades.
Tho days of its glory have departed. and to-
day It is scarcely more than two streaks of rust
and n right of way. Its sole use now Is to carry
the SALMON from the fisheries along the rapids
to the Lower Cascades. from which point they
runs" only with the run of fish. Mr.. Jones.
who has been employed on the road since it
wns first built, has entire control of 1t. He Is
superintendent. engineer, conductor, brakeman,
fireman. section foreman, and section crcw-the
Alpha and Omega and all the balance of the al
vice Of the company. yet every day he gets ont
the solitary engine. gets up steam. and makes
the round trip over the road. The engine has
gotten wheezy. and TO get up steam a fire has to
be built in the smokeetack to get up "A draught.
Recently the Railroad Commissioners made .
trip over the road, and to do honor to. the occa-
sion Mr.. Jones got out the -" directors car" the
one solitary passenger coach. 1t had been used
for a long time as n storehouse for chicken feed,
and occasionally the chickens had used II as a
the Commissioners a ride over the road. He is
Rood-natured happy. and contentcd, and thor
ouShly enjoys his unique position as q whole
railroad company.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-24
The falschood that two Mexican dollars

The falschood that two Mexican dollars
will buy rs much in Mexico Us two American
dollars will command in this country. has re-
Gently been repeated by the hIarta Constitu-
ton. The fact Is that at the latest dates tho
Wholesale prices Of staple commodities in the
City of Mexico. rcckoncd in Mexican money,
were: Cotton cloth and prints, 10 cents per yard {:
raw cotton. ls-a cents per pound; rice, 7la to 8
cents per pound; refined sugar, $ cents per
pound; coffee, &c cents per pound; -four,
l to 8 cents per pound; common soap.
Q cents per pound; refined lard. ls cents per
pound; sea salt, 2l2 cents per pound, and to-
bacco, 4 to 20 cents per pound. What the retail
prices are the Merican Herald, from which we
take the quotations given. does not mention. but
they are not, OF course. less than the wholesale.
During the Presidential campaign Mr.. Y
made the same misstatcment that the atlanta
Constitution makes now. but 1t was promptly
refuted then. and tho Constitution must DO
hard up for ammunition to repeat it.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-24

of Great Britain rosc In che twenty years
from 20. O72, 2s4 10 $685. 72, the num-
Der OF tho agricultural laborers fell from
1,I61,73S to 919,6s5. AS regards wages,
there has been a decline since 1892 in
the group Of counties between the Wash
and the Thames, in Lincolnshire, South
willis, and in parts Of Berkshire, Stafford
shire, Warwickshire and Westmoreland.
In the remaining English counties, in
Wales, md in Scotland there seems to
have been no downward tendency. The
number Of laborers has fallen, not because
employment is less lucrative, but because
there has been less work to do.
As to the cause of the depression there is
no disagreement on the part of the Commits
%sioncrs. All ascribc 1t to the serious de-
cline in the prices of farm produce, which
in turn is imputed directly to the pressure
Of foreign competition. or any permanent
abatement of this pressure the Commission
ers car perceive no prospect. No doubt the
high price Of imported wheat this year will
afford the British farmer some temporary
encouragement, but, In view OF past expert
ence, he is unlikely sensibly to increase the
amount of acreage under the plough.
Tho Commissioners are unable, as we
have said, to agree upon. any remedy, but,
on the contrary, look forward to q further
reduction of the area of British LAND sus-
ccptible of profitable arabic cultivation, to-
gether with a corresponding contraction of
production and q d%iminution of the rural
population.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-24
The Hopeless Decay OF British Agri-
culture.

Official and conclusive proof Of the irrep.
arabic decline of farming in Great Britain
Is furnished in the lately published report
of thS Commission on agricultural
was appointed
in 1898; it has sat III days it has heard
many scores of voluntary witnesses, and it
has p~rofted by the expert observations of
agents delegated to visit specially selected
areas In England, Wales, and Scotland.
The conclusions reached are pcssimistic in
an extreme degree, the Royal Commission
having been unable to discern signs of re-
covery In any quarter, or to agree upon
any remedy for which more than q pallia-
tive effect can be claimed.
Let us glance first Mt the data relating to
the extent and distribution of the agricul.
tural depression. All parts of Great Brit.
ain have not been equally affected, but
there has been n general withdrawal of
Lane from the plough. Does this mean
that some hope is d~isccrniblc in the grad
ual rcversion of England from an arabic
into a pastoral country, such as 1t was
under the PLANTAGENETs? Undoubtedly
the depression is of a milder character in
the cattle.raising and sheep raising coun.
Ties, yet even III most OF lntSe ule uepTtCl-
alton in the value of live stock between
1885 and 1893 and the persistent fall in
the price of wool have largely diminished
farming profits and rents. Only in dis.
tricts suitable for dairying, market gar.
dening, and poultry raising has the decline
been relatively less marked.
P%ortentous are the figures exhibiting the
falling Off in the capital value Of agricultural
lands. Calculated on the basis of the income
tax assessments, this shows a decrease of
@4,170,O0o,0 00, or 80 per cent. in twenty
years. The gross nnu value of land in
England and Wales, which in 1S79.SO
was about 5000, 1000, 900, had fallen in
1s93.94 to 5000, 900 900, a decrease of
sos, 900 900. In Scotland during the same
period the decrease in gross annual value
exceeded $500, 900. So much for the
loss which has fallen primarily on owners
and tenant farmers.
The effect on agricultural laborers should
next be noted. The reduction in the mum
Der Of male waSe.earners In agriculture In
Great Britain between 1871 and 1891 was
1877, 800, the decrease in the first ten years
OF the period having been 105,4l4. In the
number Of female wage-earuers the reduc-
tion between 1871 and 1851 was l6,3s5,
and between 1881 and 1891 It was 1892.
In other words. while the total population
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-24
The Firth Avenue Improvement and the Vow
York Herald.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuS-Sir: ! have noticed in
the last few issues OF the Herald that q prominent
position in that paper has been given for the purpose
OF ~vflifying Gen. Coils. the Commissioner OF Public
Works, for the improvements now being done in
Fifth avenue.
Being myself a large property owner in Fifth ave.
nue. and the ncishhorhood thereof. I merely wish tho
public In general To know that I OF my own knowl.
edge know thHt the property owners aud tenants in
that district. that is n large majority OF them. do not
object to the present Inconvenience, because they
fully appreciate the benefits to come.
! have visited n number of my friends. tenants.
and also owners OF property IN this district, and they
invariably have told M that they are only too will.
Ing To DO thus inronYCuiencci On account OF tho
future benefits 10 he q rived. Tho John n. Con.
stable estate. Mr., T.. II, Van Ingen. and numerous
others have oppressed this opinion 10 me.
by request OF numerous owners and occupants of
property in Flfth avenue. ! write You these lines,
a sthcr, as well rs myself, appreciate the improve.
ment Gen. Coils Is now making in Fifth avenue.
despite the schemes Of the Hrruid.
NEW YoRK, Aug. -. HoRACE X. TOWNSEND.