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M.NlNLEYs POLICIES.
First. open the MiiI--Thcn Attend 60
Lesser Matters.

III lS hardly necessary TO state that the
American Economist is in hearty accord
with President Mckinley's call for
a special session of congress for the
immediate enactment of a protective
tariff. The carnestneSs OF his desire TO
afford an opportunity for every Ameri-
can Wage-earner To secure days worl;
Is eNemplified by the early date, March
-. on which the Fifty-fifth congress
assembled. This one act is In full ac-
cord with AIR. McKinlev's veranda
speeches To the delegations who
crowded TO his home during the heat
OF last years campaign. Open the
mills was his constant cry, and one of
his first official acts rs president was
10 summon congress for that purpose.
There IS a far brighter outlook before
the country to-day than any single day
has witnessed since March 1. 1S93 Then
the glamour of free trade was held be-
fore the people rs their salvation. Then
they had been overburdeued with
work, but the free traders had made
them believe they were overburdened
with "the tariff tax" OF protection
Their taxes have not been lightened
uurlhS the TOUR years OF democratic
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.; but their pockets
have been lightened of the wages they
used To earn, wages that have, since
1898, been earned 10y Europeans instead
ct by Americans. The tariff tax" Of
free trade has cost many wage Garner
500 year through inability TO sell his
labor i'm his home market, and has thus
proven 10 he Ear more costly than any
protective tariff that he never knew he
was paying. and which enabled him to
be busy every day in the year il he
wpdtcd to.
The fallacies and falschoods OF the
free traders have been thoroughly eN-
posed since 1893. II hardly seems posi-
bile that one solitary person can now be
found in the United states TO put faith
or credit i'm them. Yet there are thcor-
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pereRso our.
The Free Coinage Craze Il n rafnE .s
he Rnsf.

The FREE tOtuuEc Craze II a fntuE 90
the Past.
After spending three weeks in Mis-
souri,. Texas aud Kansas. l can say that
free Silverism is dying out in its SOUTH
western stronghold. The people now
talk about the craze dispassionately and
with reason. The verdict is that IL was
the ghost of the greenback craze which
set the farmers wild in 1sS6. When
asked q. ID. Austin, of che Bates County
Record. what had caused the stampede.
he said:
The farmers were deceived. They
thought free coinage would be con-
tinuation OF the old coinage acts, when
the government bought silver at its
market price. coined $625, 0O0, 900 worth
of il, and guaranteed every dollar as
good as gold
And what have you found out since?r
| asked.
"They have found out that the mine
owners don't want that. They want IL
fixed so that the mine owners can make
the profit on coined silver and not the
government. They find the mine own
crs wish TO take their 50-cent silver to
the mint rs they take gold TO the mint,
have IL coined. and handed back to them
worth dollar like the $025. 900, 900 which
have been coined. The farmers have
found out that this would only enrich
the mine owners at the expense of the
people and give the farmer no better
money than he had before. The farm
ers have at last found out that they
are not In it, while the mine owner,
with free coinage, would treble his
wealth.
THE farmer kept saying when Clcve-
land was buying gold TO pay the ex-
peuses Of the government; why don't
he pay silver for gold? 1t has now
dawned on the farmer that the govern
mcnt bought gold for something worth
less than coined silver. 1t bought
gold for paper. The government gave
paper note. IL IL had bought gold with
coined silver IL would have paid so
cents worth of silver and so cents worth
of guarantee 10y the government. II has
dawned on the farmer that the 625 .0O0,-
600 silver dollars coined by the govern
mcnt, and which the farmers are using,
have not been demonetized at all. The
peoples money is all right, but the sill
vcr i'm the ground was dcmonetized. and
they say: That don't hurt MS farmers,
we don't own any of IL, and that won't
hurt the mine owner either IL he will
} let il alone
Then" continued Mr.. Austin. when
fryan kept saying i'm all his speeches
that gold had appreciated, that it had
gone up and our gold dollar was worth
200 cents, the farmer said: What are
we selling our wheat and cotton for?
Why, we are selling our products for
this doublc-priccd gold, where dol
| lar is worth POO cents. We are getting
twice as much value for our corn and
/ pork as we will get IL we have free coin
/ age and drop the price of gold They
now see that Bryan was lying TO them.
Bryan said the 'goldbug' bankers arc
corncrng gold, and now the farmers
see the banks full of gold and IL Is as
free all over Texas and Missouri as sill
yer or paper
Then the free silver craze has petered
out?"
YES. gone. II will never be n cam
! paign issue again. Intelligent farmers
are ashamed Of it."-lIli Perkins, in Chi
| cago Tribune
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COMMENT AND OPINION.

tyWell, here is tariff for revenue,
not for deficit and bond sales-N. Y.
Tribune.
ga tariff law can he judged only by
what It does. The Wilson law hasn't
done anything except the country
Chicago Times Herald.
rTClcveland didn't quite succeed in
wrecking this country, but il must be
confessed that hc jammcd the ship of
state pretty hard and high on the rocks.
Philadelphia Press.
GA free trader may ne defined as n
person who can thcorize without limit
nbout "a tariff item, and yet is perfectly
indifferent TO "A deficit Of $4,000. 900 n
month.-St. Louis Globe Democrat.
GThe Cleveland administration was
dead wrong on every public question ex-
ccpt the currency issue The new adj
ministration's first work will be TO rec
tify its predecessors blundcrs rs far as
possible.-Tolcdo Blade.
EyWithout the free coinage Of silver
at sixteen 90 one. Japan is shipping her
rejected stock TO America Under the
popocrauc proposition this country
would be inundated by the silvcry tide
from other parts OF the world.-Troy
Times.
rTIt will take time 10 restore the
rospcrity Of former years. II We can
not promptly attain 10 we can reso-
lutcly turn our faces in that direction
and aid its return by friendly lepisla-
ton. However troublesome the situa-
ton may appear, congress will not. I
am sure, be found lacking in DISPOSE
ton or ability 10 relieve 10 as far as
legislation can do SO. The restoration
Of confidence and the revival Of bush
ness which men Of all parties 80 much
desire depend more largely upon the
prompt, energetic and intelligent ac-
ton Of congress than upon any other
single agency affecting the situation
President Mckinley.
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il you prefer 10 send your products to
us in "a foreign ship"
Then Senator ElI<ins would he sug-
costing u reciprocity provision in the
new tariff bill, instead OF a discrim-
inatory proyiso. Perhaps the end
would he the same, but il does seem as
though the characterization of the
policy would make a potential differ
cncc in presenting the subject TO the
American people and, possibly, To con
@ress. The reciprocity provision OF the
Mckinley tariff bill was adopted for the
purpose of charging the foreign mar
kets for American products The reci-
procity provision OF the new Dingley
bil! could be made to create and cntcnd
Il market for the employment Of Amcri-
can vessels in the foreign trade The
purposes would be Identical. and the
methods employed almost Identical
And both policies have been shown ben
ciicial when in actual operation. There
IS a precedent and record established.
by both reciprocity and discrimination,
that would make the adoption OF either
OF these policies Of the greatest benefit
70 the people Of the nited States
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lists. impractical men who never work.
students who have never engaged i'm
business. fools who preach what they
would never practice, malcontents who
live but 20 stir up disCord, newspapers
that bid for circulation by creating
class distinctions, professional agita-
tors who never did an honest days toll.
yet who decry capital as the opprcssor
OF labor-thesc and Others of their ilIl
exist and always will exist. and while
they exist there will ever he antagon-
ism 10 honest government. TO truth in
politics, TO earnest and upright admin
istration in our national affairs, and 10
protection and prosperity people.
President Mckinley assumes the high
trust that has been given him by the
American people at an hour Of dark
ness. But we feel assured that the dawn
Of light will follow. to be succeeded by
bright days for rs all. We are sur
rounded by wars and rumors of wars
among foreign countries But these are
none OF our concern so long as we are
not oppressed. Our duty is at home. In
orr own country. among our own pcO-
Die. u is not for us 20 war with stran-
gers while our workers are idlc.starving
may be, and without the opportunity
10 earn their daily bread. War has been
forced upon us. but il was not the war
Of bloodshed and slaughter upon the
field Of battle. IL was the war Of in
dustry forced upon us by Grover Clcvc-
land and his band of free traders. war
that attacked the homes Of our people.
that shed their blood bv suicides. that
has stricken them down bv starvation.
that has ruined homes. turned honest
workers upon the streets to- beg. starve
or steal-this has been the war Of brig
andage that tho United States has been
engaged iu during The four years Of our
first step toward free trade under the
leadership 81 Grover Cleveland
The president i- right stop am this
d"-titutiou among our people. Stop
90 once. Restore the demand for hone,
American Ibor Let the American
wnge-sarne-s have the opportunity col
cell their product the labor that Gre
atcs wealth. Bring back comfort and
happinc to our homes. Light The fires
in orr furnaces Give bacl, 20 Nmeri
can labor IFS honor and its indppeud-
euce. Then deal with subordinat.
affairs Of state. But first first Of aII.
Oucn the mills
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RECIPROCITY.
Protects American Goods In Foreign
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Duties.

There are some people who profess to
believe that the idea Of readopting the
early American policy OF discriminat.
ing duties is barh0rouS. and these same
people hailed the advent Of reciprocity.
as Incorporated i'm the Mckinley bill.
with great 10Y. The sentiment i'm be
half OF reciprocity swept from one end
Of this nation to the other and actual
" forced its Incorporation in the Me
Kinlcy bill.
Really the Mckinley reciprocity pro
Niso Disseminated mark the word
in favor OF the countries that made eN-
ceptious in favor OF our goods. But
it was called reciprocity, and reciproci-
" had generous, peace-effectiug
sound that captured the people of this
country even to the free traders, wSo
declared that reciprocity was a step In
the direction OF free trade. whereas il
was founded upon the imposition Of a
tariff on imports and had the effect OF
protecting American goods in the mar
kcts OF other countries, and was there
fore. more strongly protective of Amer
lean interests than any previous tariff
bill in the history of this country.
Were Mr.. Elkins. of West Virginia
the senator who has introduced the 50
called discriminating duty bill in con
gress. To move an addition TO the new
tariff bill OF a certain per cent. OF duty,
inclusive OF goods then on the free list,
and provide, after the lapse of sufficient
time to permit the formal abrogation OF
treaties, for the omission of that extra
duty. provided imports came TO our
norris i'm American vessels TINT would
be called reciprocity, because il would
be precisely the same kind of reciproci-
" that the Mckinley bill provided.
This nation would then, i'm effect, say
to other nations: IF you will mploy
American ships to send your products
To the United States We are willing TO
be reciprocal. and we will remit "A por-
ton of the duty that we would eNact
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Al en.-NviAL>
The Streets Are New N,ri-abl- Only n,
h"At.-fisntstions yer a., foe. Uader
water Arr W Submer.rd

rhs Streets Are Now N,vt-ahl. OIL, n,
hoats -PisRtstions yer B,foe. Uader
Water Arr y W Submerged.
JACKSON, Miss. April S-The only
change IN the situation in the delta /.
for the worse. The water is still pour.
ing through the breaks and encroach.
ing upon places heretofore thought
above the danger line. Plantations
never before under water are now ~, b.
merged The streets of Greenville are
now navigable oaly by boats The
Hood from above IA aving met and ioin.
ed forces with that from below. near.
~ one thousand families in Greenville
are surrounded by water: still some
portions of the little city are dry.
The levees there still hold. however.
Citizens of Huntington telegra pied
the governor Friday TO send so tents
at once. They were forwarded by the
first train, but will have TO make sew
eral miles of the journey by skiffs.
The state is doing all in its power &c
assist its delta people but the depleted
condition of the treasury can afford
little else than the labor of her soc
convicts.
Mr. j. L. Price, OF this city, returned
Friday morning from Leferve, which
Is border county. reports that the
waters have not yet reached there. but
the small streams are all Overlooking
on their own account The bottom
lands are under water. but blowing
and planting are going right along on
all the higher places and even down
to the waters edge.
NEW ORLEANS La, April 3.-The
second break in the lower Louisiana
levee system occurred this morning on
Bayou La Fourche. Friday afternoo
the break had widened TO 100 feet. and
there Is no hope that il will be closed.
The break is 30 miles below TribodauN.
where the levees are neither large nor
modern.
In that section there are large
mum Der of truck farmers who have
well cultivated and extremely fertile
lands. II is quite probable that these
unfortunate people will suffer severely
because the crevasse comes too large
for the water TO run off for them to
make another crop
The situation in New Orleans Friday.
IN spite Of the hrimmingful river. is
not discouraging The river - rising
slowly and it will continue to rise for
eight or ten days more. The high wa
ter here Is several inches short of the
record OF 1898. The authorities are on
the alert and have all prepared TO meet
any emergency. New Orleans can
stand foot and half more water and
escape flood
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me APPROPRIATION I'm,

W AsWNcroN, April 2-Thc senate
committee on appropriations has de-
cided 90 report the sundry civil. Indian
and agricultural appropriation bills.
which we're passed boy the house week
before last. 90 the senate next Tues.
lay. This action Is taken as an
indication that the measures will not
be materially changed from tho form
in which they passed the house. The
general deficiency bill will be held
until later in the session. so as 70 pro-
vide for all possible ontingencies that
may arise in the service before the
siose Of the fiscal year, June 80.
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NEW TARIFF BILL
Discussed by American Business Firms In
Paris.


PARIS, April 3-The Dinglev tariff
bill now before the American congress
has mate rally excited American bust
ness houses here. The American cham
Der of commerce has held a largely at
tended meeting 70 consider the effects
Of the bill
Vice President PeartrCe related sta
tistics Of the mutual trade of France
and the United States. showing that
the latter country had sent into
France, duty free. goods to the value
OF 10000. 900 francs. while France had
sent into the United states. duty free
only So 900, 900 francs worth OF articles.
France, he further said. favors
American exports by admitting 90. 600.
600 francs worth on the minimum tariff.
but the market for American manufac-
tured articles was very restricted
Owing 20 the reduction Of duties 70
some countries, not the United States.
the chamber suggests that the United
states reduce It's tariff on some of the
most important French exports.
France would then admit many Amer
lean articles at reduced rate
The chamber hopes that the addi.
tional discretionary powers asked for
by President Mckinley in his inau-
gural address will be granted. so that
reciprocal relations between France
and the United States can be estab-
lished
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The reciprocity clauses OF the new
tariff are designed TO protect the farm
ers. miners and manufacturer Of the
United states against unjust discrimi-
nation against their products. This
country is Germany's best customer
for sugar and Brazirs best customer for
coffee Yet Brazil and Germany have
gone 10 Britain and its colonies rather
than 10 the Jrited States for supplies
Of meats and cereals. The like IS true
as 20 Cuba and the Latin American
states, and in some degree as TO Italy
and France. Under . limited and ten
tatiye application Of the principle 81
reciprocity our foreign trade increased
greatly; under revival and extension
of that principle 10 is l'kely to increase
yet more.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
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The booming Of cannon throughout the
country on tho ffh Of March. " hiie intended
as a manifestation Of rejoicing for the
triumph or the party Of free trade. Will
prove iu the end TO have been the FIRST size
nal guns Of distress. hcraldiug. We fear r.
long period OF darkness. during which the
poi eutialltcH or American enterprise ard
Industry viii boz held to battle with tho boz.
sidiOua advances OF thr commercial van.
dals ~ Europe. FOO that the heat and bur
don or the hHht will fan upon the wage
earrrr. whose employ mCnf lt destroys u
- the snddest day the country has known
for years. American Ecoromift March iI.
The foregoing words appeared on the
fret editorial page Of the American
Economist iu-t two weeks after the
Cleveland administration assumed office
3D. March, 1895. not one word was
wrong; not one word was too strong
"1hc first signal guns Of distress" were
followed by continuous fusilade and
destructive broadsides that have
brought ruin TO thousands and that
have wrecked industries Most truly
was it said. four years ago, chat the
heat and burden Of the fight would fail
upon the wage Garner" But az that
was "the saddest day the country has
known for years" so was the 9Th day
% this month the gladdest day.
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STAY az Governors island expires at
noon Friday, and his successor will
probably take charge within two
week. Cen !. r. Brooke. Of ~ Paul.
is expected to succeed Gen. Merritt in
Chicago.
AsHrNGroN. April 3-The army
changes resulting from Mai Gen. Ru-
gers retirement Friday have been ar
RANGED and according TO the slate Gen.
Wheaton, who was Friday promoted
past Cen. Brooks, who ranks him, will
make another vacancy 10y retiring May
5, when Gen. Brooks will receive his
deferred promotion to major general.
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STEAMER GRIGGS
sinks In the Chattahooches Kiver-Fiv,
Men Perish

Men Perish.
ATLANTA, Ga, April Reports
have just reached here OF the sinking
Of the alleged 6libustering steamer
Griggs on the Chattahoochcc river
near ~. Gaines At least i've men are
drowned and one man. Eandolf Rus.
sell, from Alabama, after fierce
struggle with the waves. reached
shore with enough life in him 20 tell
Of the disaster. Particulars arc slow
in coming. as the storm has seriously
affected the wires in that section Of
the state
he Griggs belonged 90 the indie.
pendent line, and her regular run was
between Columbus and Apaiachicola.
She sunk about - miles below Column.
bus She was tho last boat left ~ the
many which once formed the Inflated
line. Another and smaller one went
down only last week
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Victory ainstthe E.iIv.,.

NASHVILLE Tenn, April g. Never
IN tho state Of Tennessee has such a
victory been won against the railway
companies as was won Friday when
the senate passed the railroad commits
sion bill. The fight against this meas
ure by the corporations has been a bit
ter one. u has been the sole topic in
legislative halls for the last two
months. and the people OF the state
nave been aroused TO the highest pitch.
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The nnr Of LnI,iIcc-

Equally opposed 10 foreign control
END domestic monopoly, 10 sectional
discrim nation and individual favorit-
ISM Is what President McKinley's
platform said about fuc policy of pro
lection. and that is what Mckinley '+Sp.
auguration means to Che country. And
his inauguration Gat was % day ~ re-
ioicing 10 every American citizen who
loves hi, country and 20 whom his
country prosperity BIS dear
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STARTING OUT WELL.
The President liz STEADILY Increasing
Ia rOpmInrIIN.

In Popularity.
IL is the universal verdict i'm the ma
tional capital that President Mckinley
has made better start with his adj
ministration than any other president
of recent years. Not since Gen. Grant
FIRST came to the white house has a
president made as good an impression
with his policies, his utterances and his
bearing ns President Mckinley has
made during his first four or five DAVIS.
IL may be said that this is praise
which his friends and partisans would
make whether il were justified or not.
But IL is not only the friends OF the new
president who are saying this. Demo-
Gratis, silver men, populists, even re-
publicans who from circumstances were
not originally counted in the Mckinley
following. and on the whole were rather
antagonistic TO him, say the same thing.
The more it is studied the better the
presidents inaugural address is liked.
IL points cut with boldness and frank.
ness business policy for the country.
The president follows il up with bust
nesslike preparations for putting his
policy in force. He is conciliatory To all
men, and TO all other branches of the
government. Instead Of having con-
gress on his hands," he pays a compile
ment TO that body in his inaugural adj
dress. He sends TO the senate his
friendliest greetings.
Everything the president has said and
done in the few days he has been in
Washington has attracted friends to
him and won him confidence.
At the white house great change is
noticeable in the manner Of doing bust
ness and receiving visitors. Instead Of
the rigid rules, the military-like meth
DDS. the cNclusiyeness which prevailed
when Mr. Cleveland was there, a truly
democratic spirit pervades the atmos-
pherc. Men are made 10 feel welcome
The presidents assistants treat every
one with great consideration. They as
sumo that their business is to assist
those who wish 10 consult with the
president, and not 20 impede their prog
ress.
As for President Mckinley. he is pa
thence and good nature personified. lie
sees everyone that calls. lie is light
hearted and pleasant Gifted with a
splendid memory for names and faces,
he grects his old friends and acquaint-
auces Familiarity and even afectionate-
ly. calling come of them. well known to
him. by their first names. He can talk
TO three or four persons together. and
understand everything that is going on.
He brings into play his phenomenal
tact. and disposes Of his callers at a
rapid rate, and yet with everyone weu
satisfied with his treatment. More than
one visitor during The past three days
has remarked that President McKin-
ley actually appears ~ like the people"
r. is needless TO say that this transit
ton from the Cleveland regime is the
more pleasant because of the contrast
which 10 affords.-TOlcdo Blade
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MADRID, April IA rumor was cir
eulated in the chamber OF deputies
Friday 70 the effect that Gen. Maxine
Gomez, the commander in-chief Of the
Cuban army, is suing for peace.
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MERRITTs SUCCESSOR.

Gen. Wheaton Promoted Past Gen.
Brooke. who Ranks Him.
CuICAGo, April Maj Gen. Wesley
Merritt, Thursday received the first
official information of his transfer TO
the New York command. Gen. Ruger's