The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-11-19
PARAGRAPHS WITH POINTS,
Short and Timely Commentaries a.
Men and Events.


Men and Events.
There will, it is announced, be six ceie%
tial eclipses in 1898. But there will be
other eclipses, too.
The silver ENJOYS who went to Japan to
see why silver was demonetized don't
seem to be in any hurry to report Time
is passing, gentlemen.
Under President Cleveland the per cap
ita circulation in the county fell to
S21.10, but it has increased under Presi-
dent Mckinley to S22.s o.
Even the Tammany Democrats have
snubbed Mr.. Bryan. He wrote them urg-
ing that they should put silver into their
platform and they promptly responded by
keeping 1t out.
Nobody has been heard to hint for the
past two months that William Mckinley
made any mistak last fall when he re-
marked that he thought it better to open
the mills to American labor than the
mints to the worlds silver.
1t is hinted that the Democratic ticket
OF 1900 may be Henry George, of New
York, and Tom Johnson, of Ohio, on a
platform of single tax. The party must
have an issue, you know, and ag free trade
tlLiu IItt Billy eI dEC uSdd LuSIE StSllI5 W pc
nothing else left.
The year ending Sept. 1, 1897, was a
bad one for the wheat-and-silve
hand theory. One ounce of silver ON Sept.
l, 1896, was worth just as much as one
bushel Of wheat in New York On Sept.
l, 1897, 1t took just two ounces OF silver
to buy bushel Of wheat.
1t is understood that Mr.. Bryan will
issue another book shortly, to be entitled
''The Complete Letter Writer" and that
it will contain full instructions ON the art
bf getting private letters into print with
out waiting for the aid and consent Of
the party to whom they are written.
The earnings Of the Dingley. law in the
second half Of August were slightly in ex-
cess of Sc, 200, 900; those OF the first half
Of September were over $4,000 900, and
those Of the last half of September were
In excess of $11 900, 900, showing a steady
and gratifying increase in income under
It ~. =.
''The true story of Mr.. Hanna's attitude
70 his workmen and toward union labor,
as far as his mining interests in Western
Pennsylvania are concerned, is that he is
the best nan In the whole district to work
ner, Secretary United Mine Workers of
Pfttsburg District. = ~''-.
The treasury receipts under the Dingley
law are steadily increasing. The receipts
Of It's second month are greater than those
of the second month under the Wilson
law, despite the fact that the Dingley law
found the country filed with foreign
goods, while the WILSON law found many
millions dollars worth of goods waiting
to :enter: and contribute OTIS earnings.
The TammaEy. Democrats evidently
thought a live national chairman better
thana dead d presidential candidate. Chair
man Jones advised them to give silver the
cold shoulder in.their platform. Ex-Can-
didate Bryan urged them to embrace it.
As Jones will remain chairman until the
NATIONAL convention of 1900 is fully organ
ized, the willy Tammanyites stood by
Jones. :
The Philadelphia Press has made a
careful canvass Of the State of Pennsyl
vania, sending out 1O2 inquiries into the
81 counties Of the State relative to the
business and Industrial conditions. The
result is most gratifying and the reports
unanimous to the effect that times have
greatly improved, factories started up all
over the State, orders are coming in and
labor finding employment everywhere.
The leaders Of the calamity party are
oyerjoyed at the slight fall in wheat late
ly. They are expectantly watching quo
tations, in the hope that something will
conduce to further depreciation of its
value SO that they can say, 1--WE told you
so" to the farmers. The fact that an
ounce Of silver year ago was equal In
value to bushel Of wheat, but now buys
only half a bushel, has knocked the wind
out of their specious arguments.
A couple of months ago the free traders
looked compla Gently at the large exporta-
tions of manufactures under the Wilson
law, and were only waiting to point exult-
ingly to the falling off of these exporta-
tions under the new law. 1t seems, how
ever, that they were wrong, as usual The
first month Of the operations of the Ding
ley law showed larger expectation Of
manufactured articles than for any CORE
spending month of preceding years. So
much for their statements that the enact
ment Of protective revenue law would
cut off our market abroad for American
manufactures.