The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1897-09-03

convention, Inc name OF Jne he'
publican boss in Maryland is
"Mudd."
There must have been mud
throwing at the recent Maryland
Republican convention, at least
Mudd came out on top.
How can the people ever expect
relief from the eXorbitant rates
charged by express companies,t ,tele.
graph lines, and sleeping cars
when every Senator and Congress-
man who will accept the bribes are
dead-heade d by all Of these gigan'
tic monopolies? John Wanamaker
while Postm aster-General, demon.
strated that the telegraph tolls
charged the public are from 100 t.
l 900 per cent higher than should
be, while competition in express
companies, when real, has shown
that the rates charged are enorm-
Gus and outrageously high. The
sleeping car monopoly could make
larger profit at half the present
prices than is realized by any
transportation company on the
Continent. Why don't some strong
man of the people come forward
and champion these real and nec-
essary reforms?
The results of an Investigation
regarding the camphor tree are
announced in a bulletin of the
Agriculture Department just issu-
ed. 1t says that for most of the
secondary purposes the camphor
tree may we'll be cultivated where
ever it can be made to live. But
for the distillation Of camphor gum
or oil with a commercial view and
for the production of wood for capi.
net purposes, it must be grown un-
der the most favorable conditions.
Secretary Wilson is now at Deer
Lodge Montana, where he has spent
several days in investigating the
advisability of crossing the wild
horses of that section with the Nor
man breed, with an idea of selling
them to the European countries for
cavalry purposes on the frontier,
this will afford them the advant-
age of hardy animal and one of
great endurance.
1t is unofficially announced that
Attorney General McKenna has
a decision TO take effect
on the first proX,, eXempting from
the civil service all Offices under
the Public Printer, whose force
comprises about 5000 employees
T his is the first and only indication
that few of the understrappers
and henchmen of the Hanna cam
paign may catch onto federal Of
fee as reward Tor their work in
inaugurating an era of Hanna and
prosperity"
A patent has just been granted
to Pearl Crowell, of Chattanoos a,
Tenn, that promises an innovation
in the cotton industry in point of
economy, time and labor. 1t gins
and packs the cotton at the same
time. 1t is portable and can be
Hauled from place to place by
team of horses. One of the princi-
pal features of the invention is that
it takes the cotton from the wagon
with suction fan, and cleans it
before entering the gin.
0 O
1t is not strange that stock gam
blers should indulge in extrava-
CANT eXultation over what they are
pleased to call return of prosper
ity. 1t is their business to boom
everything when prices are low;
but it is incomprehensible that
level-headed, well-informed busi-
ress men should be taken in with
such twaddle. That there is q
sharp squirt in wheat, everyone
1t is ,rue that few of the
many mills and factories that have
been idle for years have resumed
operations, but when the exhaust
ed stock is replen;shed they will
suspend again, unless the demand
for their products continues and
the buying power of the people is
increased.
A spasm of speculation on the
stock exchange is as far from con-
stituting "prosperity" as rise in
wheat, resulting from crop failures
and famine conditions in other
countries, or the starting up of
few idle factories merely toreplen-
ish exhausted stocks after years of
extraordinary business depression,
is from bringing about the prosper
ity conSummatiOn 40 deyoutlv and