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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-16
Mayor Edward Hoos Sends
Another Communication
to the Board Of
Works.
FAV0Rs MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP
Specifications Must Stand Test Of
Professional and Legal Sharps
or lie Will Veto Them.

Mayor Hoos this afternoon sent in the
following communication to the Street
and Water Board approving the appoint
ment of the experts for the drafting of
the plans and specifications for new
water supply
August l6 1897,
To the Honorable the Board of Street and
Water Commissioners
GenIlemen-Realizing as / do the ur-
geney. for immediate action en- the water
question, and wishing to expedite mat
terS as much as possible, l have this day
confirmed the appointment of the experts
made by your Honorable Board. 1 wish,
however, that it be distinctly understood
that l am in favor of municipal owner
snip. / desire that every step taken in
the matter of obtaining new water sup
Fly should be attended with the strictest
conformity to law. Furthermore. unless
the specifications that may be adopted
are. able TO stand the test of rigid ex-
tent professional legal and engineering
authorities, and unless / shall be con-
vinced that all action which may be taken
is for the best interests of our city, L
shall unhesitatingly withhold my APP
prevail
This is respectfully submitted with the
may give this important matter the high
est possible degree OF care and atten-
ton.
EDWARD Hoos,
Mayor
The Mayor, it will be recalled, vetoed
the resolution fixing the salaries for the
experts, on a technical ground Subse-
quently resolution was drawn and serv-
a on His Honor, who then signified his
intention to approve the appointments Of
c. G. Vermeule as engineer for the
Board of Finance and Garwood Ferris
Board
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-16
MA11ERS or EAcr.

Stores, factories and institutions can 49,
get their supplies as good as any ~ T. a.ass
can serve them. Complete Stock. low prices
At D.. Z. CIeary & Co.'S wholesale grocery
storss. Montgomery and Greene streeta
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-16
CHARLES COMPTON DEAD.

lBy Cable to The Associated Press.l
LONDON, Aug. IS, ISs7.-Charles Comp
ton, the actor, is dead
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-16
WEATHER INDICATIONS.

NEW YORK, Aug. is, 1Ss7.-Local fore
cast for New York city and vicinity for
the thirty-six hours ending eight p. NJ.
Tuesday: Thunder showers this after
noon or tonight; fair Tuesday; cooler;
northwest winds.
Hartn.sr,s Thsrmnmafer Ranorf
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-16
WRATH OF THE CHURCH.
BY Cable to The Associated Press.l

fBy Gable to The Associated Press.l
LONDON. Aug. IS, 1Ss7.-A special de-
spatch from Rome, published today, says
1t Is reported there that the Pope will
excommunicate Prince Henry of Orleans
and the Count of Turin, as duelling Is for-
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-16
a Time saver.

HOAX .scribbler has d great scheme z
Joax-ss What is it n 1oax-ssIe's arr
rs nging a lot Of popular novels for the
use OF female readers by placing the last
chapter frs" "
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-16
JoIued the Strikers.

MATEWAN, w. Va, Aug. 49, 1884,
Eight hundred miners at Simmons Greek
and Logan Joined the strikers this morn
ing. Fifteen hundred men are now out
in the Norfolk and Western district.
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1897-07-14

"Tea I'm using is good
enough for me-" Yes! That's
what you said about talloW
candles, then coal oil lamps,
then about gas, yet you use
electric lights. 1t is more es-
sential that you change from
bad tea to SCHILLING'S
BEST, than from poor to
good light.
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1897-07-14
MINIS TER RESIDENT IRWIN.
Passenger on Gaelic Bound for
Iapau

r. w. Irwin, Hawaiian Minister Res
ident to Japan, arrived by the Gaelic
last night, en- route to his post Mr..
Irwin has been in the United States
since last November, spending most of
his time in New York, Boston and
Washington.
His visit to the United States was of
a purely personal character, and with
out any political significance, nor does
his return to Japan at this time bear
particular relation to the present trou-
bic between the two Governments. His
stay here will be only while the Gaelic
remains in port In 1893 Mr.. Irwin
spent several months in Honolulu. and
during his visit was the recipient of
great social attention.
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1897-07-14
CAPTAIN COTTON'S RELIEF.
Captain Dyer VIII Arrive July 81.
Next.

News was received by the Gaelic TO
the effect that Commander " NJ Dyer
has been detached from duty as inspec-
tor of the first light house district and
is ordered to Honolulu to take com
mand of the L. S. S. Philadelphia, re-
lieving Captain c. S. Cotton on the
oath inst
Captain Dyer has just been examined
for promotion and has received his
commissioner as Captain. His relief
of Captain Cotton has no significance
whatever, the latter's three years term
of sea duty having nearly expired.
Rear Admiral Miller will relieve Ad-
miral Beardslee as soon as the former
returns from Spithead. England. Ad-
miral Beardslee is slated for duty in
Washington as president of the Naval
Examining board.
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1897-07-14
$Agbs MATBER nULLErIH.
"NhnaShaxvs Sous
DIAMOND HEAD, I
July u, 1897
Weather clear. wind light northeast.
Big Reductions in Ladies
Shirt Waists.

Our stock of elegant shirt
waists atreduced prices; they
are the finest ever brought to
Honolulu. The reduction is
for this week only.
Ladies' white sailor hats
q cents, trimmed with rib
bon, regular price 75 cents
and 81.
Ladies' white vests, Is
cents, extra quality worth 3
cents.
Ladies' black hose, 25 cents
or $2.5o per dozen; extra fine
and guaranteed absolutely
stainless.
Ladies tan and white hose,
in plain, drop stitch and open
work.
These reductions are for
this week only.
N. S. SACHS,
$40 Fort Street.
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1897-07-14
<
Summer Reading
Another Lot of New Books
Call early and get first choice.

The Pursuit of the House-Boat. A
sequel to The House-Boat on the StyX.
Under the Red Robe, by Stanley
Weyman.
The Sign of the Cross, by Wilson
Barrett.
Quo Vadis, by Sienkilwicz. A narra-
tive of Rome during Nero's time.
King Noanett, by F. J. Simpson.
On the Red Staircase, by M. 1. Tay-
lor.
Marin Lisa, by Kate Douglas Wig
gin.
Margaret Ogilvy, by J. M. Barrie
Phroso. by Anthony Hope.
The Seats of the Mighty, by Parker.
Jane, by Correlli.
Sentimental Tommy, by J. NJ. Bar
rie.
The Lilac Sunbonnet, by Crockett.
The above new books are all the
rage in the States at present.
WALL. NICHOLS COMPANY.
BOOK DEPARTMENT,
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-12-31
Keeping Wealth Distributed.

Out in the Southwest, in one of the
new settlements, the citizens resolved to
take time by the forelOck and avoid many
of the heart-burnings that are common
further east regarding the distribution
of wealth. A citizen of that locality Wis
iting the East was asked regarding the
practical workings of this new theory in
this community. He was questioned az
to how they were getting along in main
tanning a reasonably fair average in the
acquisition of wealth. He replied that
they were getting along first rate. Don't
you find some of your people more enter
prising than others, have a better bust
ness capacity. and acquire more wealth
than others? Yes, we find that out there.
Don't you also discover that some of your
people get up earlier in the morning than
others, do more work than others, and so
produce more? Yes, we find that there
too. Then how in the world do you man
age to keep things on the dead level with
regard to the acquisition of property :!
Why, it is the simplest thing in the world
When we find a fellow getting ahead of
the rest decidedly, we appoint a good
sized committee which will be able to
meet the occasion, and send them out
there to live with him until they eat him
back.-From address of Secretary Wilson
at Middle6eld, o., Oct. l., 1897.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-12-31
What Caused the Change.

What does high-priced cattle and hogs
mean? Simply that more people east OF
the Missouri river are eating meat. W ny i!
Because they are earning wages. Ihey
are at work. The people who were idle
under the Wilson tariff of the Popocrats
are employed. The people who were
employed under that tariff are get
ting higher wages. What caused the
change? Faith of business men, capital
lists, employers of labor and money, in
the Republican party and its Well-trled
tariff policy.
The tariff nothing to do with it? 1t
has everything to do with it. Canadian
eggs and chickens are shut out on the
north and Mexican cattle on the south.
The American market for the American
farmer, is the Republican principle, and
it is working, as it always has worked,
for the welfare Of the nation. Pauper
labor is shut out. Pauper made goods
are shut ont. The American market is
reserved for the American iaboring man
and the American farmer, and both are
realizing the benefits of this patriotic,
business-like policy, tested ana vindicated
by American history for more than fifty
years.
The Kansas farmer gives away cattle,
hogs, corn, wheat, hay, eggs, butter and
milk in every vote he gives for Organism,
POpulism or fusion. 1t is bad business.
No level-headed farmer will permit the
calamity orators for free silver and flee
trade to deceive him again and induce
him by specious but false promises to vote
away his own property and prosperity
Topeka Capital
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-12-31
EXPORT of Corn,

Corn is about to become one of the food
staples of Europe. In 1892, we exported
15,4o1 $40 bushels of corn and 2S1 500
barrels of corn meal. In the last year we
exported 176,919,365 bushels of corn and
40, 263 barrels of corn meal
AS all are aware, Europe formerly had
an intense prejudice against American
corn, regarding it as unfit for human food
This prejudice was largely alayed by a
commission sent to Europe during Harri-
sons administration for the purpose of
Introducing corn as a food. This commits
sion gave lectures about corn, demon
strating its usefulness as food by prac-
tical instruction in cooking. AS a result
of the work of this commission. a largely
increased demand for corn was created
The business depression abroad, and the
food shortage in many countries, has caus-
ed corn as a cheap food staple to estab-
llsh itself firmly as a permanent food.
There will be an increasing foreign de-
mand for it from now on, and the Ameri-
can overproduction will each year find
more Of sale awaiting for it in European
markets. This means a better price for
the farmer. The commission, dscontin-
ued during Cleveland's administration,
should be re-established in the interest
OF the American farmer.-Exchange
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-12-31
1t Is Coming Along All RIGHT

Intelligent people understand that. as
far as the new tariff is concerned. it is
too early to forecast definitely what If
will accomplish. 1t is true that it does not
furnish sufficient revenue yet, but with
the enormous anticipatory importations
made while the Dingley bill was pending
this was not to be expected Moreover
it requires time for industry and trade to
adjust themselves to the new conditions
created by that enactment, process that
has been made doubly difficult on account
of the devastating gale through which
they have passed since the last Inaugural
ton of Mr.. Cleveland. Before long peo-
pie will be able to pass judgment intelli-
gently ON the tariff and, unless all signs
are amiss, experience will amply yindi-
cate the wisdom and expediency of that
measure.-New York Commercial A6ver-
tiser
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-12-31
Practical and Prudent Protection

In our manufactures We start with the
advantage of having our raw material
ready at hand, while England must go
thousands of miles for every cotton ball
she spins. We can produce all the wool.
cotton, woods and metals required for any
and every variety of manufacture 1t is,
therefore, clear that with these three nat
ural advantages of food, fuel and raw
material in available abundance. we only
need favorable conditions of enterprise
and competition to attain and maintain
absolute supremacy in every line of hu-
man industry. These conditions can only
be provided by the system of protection.
This proposition requires no argument.
1t has been amply demonstrated by expe-
rience.
We require for continuous and increa s.
ing prosperity, not so much any particu-
lar tariff schedules, as the general. vital.
conserving principle of protection, prac-
tically applied and prudently adjusted to
the industries and interests of all see
lions and classes.-Wool Record.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-12-31
More Democratic Tariff Bluster.

The wall of the free traders over the
supposed increase in prices under the pro-
tective tariff is not fully justified by the
facts. A recent investiga ton by the New
York Tribune shows that the advance in
the price of articles imported, basing the
estimate on the net change in some thou
sands of articles, is less than 1 per cent.
The Tribune finds in the same investiga-
ton that there is a marked increase in
the prices of farm products generally.
When the increase in earnings of those
employed in the manufacturing lines and
the increased profits which those engaged
in agriculture make, are considered, it is
easy to see that the slight increase in
prices of the class of goods affected by the
tariff is far more than balanced by the
gain in earnings of those employed in
producing and manufacturing.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-12-31
Gradually Dropping 1t.

The friends Of silver are becoming fewer
and fewer. Senator Stewart has told the
people that they may as well fall in line
and get their share of prosperity, as it is
useless to talk silver now; ex-Gov. Alt
geld has dropped silver, and is said to be
organizing a paper money party, and ex-
Gov Boies has denounced the Is to
proposition as suicidal, in view of the
great discrepancy between the coinage
ratio and the commercial ratio of silver.
Many other Democrats, being greenback-
ers 1T heart, have advocated free silver
as simply stepping stone to true fatism,
and now that free silver is becoming so
unpopular, they are gradually dropping it.
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The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-12-31

Secretary Wilson, the head of the De-
partment of Agriculture, continues his
practical work in pointing out to the farm
ers of the United States the Importance
of supplying from their own production
the $40O,OOO,00O worth of articles for
which we send this amount of money
abroad every year. One hundred million
of this is for sugar and the remainder for
hides, fruits, wines. animals, rice flax,
cheese, grains of various sorts and other
articles which can be produced by the
farmers of this country. His annual re-
port, which has just been presented to
the President, states that his experiments
thus far with the sugar beet convince him
that the people Of the United States can
readily produce all their own sugar,
while nearly all of the other articles Of
agricultural production can also be grown
by them.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-12-31
Amt. in circu- Amt. in
lation Oct
IOn-
Totals 80. $1,67s, s4o,53s S1,5s2, so2. $50
"A satisfa Glory Tariff Measure.

Congress will find no reason to regret
its recent tariff work, when it comes to-
gether in December The treasury re-
ceipts under the new law have now reach
ed such figure that it is perfectly appar-
ent that the measure is going to be a sue
cess as a revenue producer. The earn
ings of the present month are running at
the average rate of a million dollars for
each business day, and when the increase
which must come after the stocks of for
eign wool, sugar and manufactures now
in the country have been consumed. is
realized, the revenues will be ample to
meet the running expenses and restore
some Of the losses sustained under the
Wilson law.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-12-31
GREAT PRODUCTIVE POWERS.
Results of Protection as Pointed Ont
by an English Statistician.

1t IS singular fact that the people of
the United States are more indebted to
an English writer than to any American
for information concerning the industrial
and commercial resources and progress
of their country. The papers published
by Mr.. Mulhall during the past ten or
twelve months have been a revelation to
even the most intelligent Americans of a
vastness of wealth and power in the
United States of which they had no pre-
vious conception. In the North Ameri-
can Review" for November Mr.. Mulhall
presents an interesting summary of the
results Of American trade for thirty
years, in which he says: The world IS
only beginning to have evidence of the
enormous productive power of the United
States"
Our farms, he says, raise food for 100,
OOO,UUO of persons every year. He shows
that IN twenty years our production of
grain has increased II per cent and that
of meat y per cent. In the same time
the cotton crop in the South has increased
10 per cent and that, it seems to us. is
quite sufficient to account for the low
price of cotton as compared with other
great staples. 1t is probable that the
people of the cotton States would have
been more prosperous had they been con-
tent with less increase of production. Mr..
Muihall does not find any indication that
our resources are approaching a period
of depletion, but confidently predicts that
our exports of food and cotton will in
crease with our growth in population.
This increase in our expectation has been
cOincident with a wonderful development
in our internal trade. which, Mr. Mulhall
says, is the best gauge of national pro-
gress, because it reflects the power, en-
ergy and resources OF a people"
Our free trade friends will not fail to
note the significant fact that all this ad-
vance in both foreign and domestic trade
has been accomplished under protective
tariffs. And if they are disposed to argue
that agricultural exports are not proof
of the benefits of protection, we have
only to say that our exports of manufac-
tured articles are attaining a splendid
growth. And they owe that growth to
the policy that has built them up not less
than to natural advantages. In spite of
the superiority of our natural resources,
it would have been impossible to have at
tanned prominence in manufacturing I'M
der free trade or "a tariff for revenue
only" Without protection we should
have been principally engaged in raising
food to exchange for the products of Eu-
ropean factories, and our population and
wealth would have made comparatively
small gains. Our internal trade is, as
Mr.. Mulhall says, 'the best gauge of ma
tional progress" and its marvellous
growth is largely due to the policy that
has kept the home market for the benefit
Of our own people. 1t is. far more impor-
tant than foreign markets for our fac
tories, but we need not make choice be-
tween the two. We have onekand are
steadily gaining in the other.-Washing
ton Post DEM.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-12-31

than thirty years opportunity to observe
the court. In his letter announcing his
retirement he said, LAS look back over
more than third of a century that l have
sat on this bench. | am more and more
impressed with the unreasonable impor-
lance of this court. Now and then we
hear it spoken of as an aristocratic fea-
ture of republican government, but it
is the most democratic of all. 1t carries
neither the purse nor the sword. but it
possesses the power of declaring the law,
and in that is found the safeguard which
Keeps the whole mighty fabric of the Gov
eminent from rushing to destruction. This
negative power, the power Of resistance,
IS the only safety of a popular govern
ment"
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-12-31
Silver's Low Cost.

Mr.. Edwin Atkinson has recently
shown from careful examination Of the
reports of the silver mining countries that
the cost of producing silver is less than
70 cents per ounce, so that the silver used
in the manufacture of dollar would
probably cost about 20 cents. He also
discovers that three-fourths Of the value
OF the silver mines Of the United States
IS owned abroad. No wonder that the
silver mine owners of this country are
Wiling to spend millions to force the
United States to adopt laws by which
they can turn 20 cents worth Of thei
products into q dollar.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-12-31

1896; that of silk broad stuffs 4,202 yards,
against 1888 in September of last year
that of wooden tissues $4,000 yardsa
against 100000; that of worsted tissues
224 800, against 1,451 900, and that of
wooden carpets $500 yards, against A.,
400 in the corresponding month of last
year. No wonder our English friends do
not like the tariff of the Dingley law, and
no wonder that the law is popular W IN
our manufacturers and their employees.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-12-31
Free Silver Club Deserts Bryan.

The Canton, O., Free Silver Club has
decided to abandon the Democracy and
cast its lot with the Populist party. This
club, which was denominated the Bryan
Free Silver Club of Canton, Ohio" was
one of the strongest silver organizations
in the State last year, and an active sup
porter Of Bryan's presidential candidacy
Its Remuneration of the Democracy and
transfer Of allegiance to the Populist par
ty is therefore the more significant.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-12-31
The Laugh on the Otber E.,,o

MI. Bryan boastingly announced in his
ONO speeches that he had come to Ohio
to bury Mark Hanna" This sounded
very funny to the audience at the time.
out the laugh was on the other side when
1t was discovered after the election that
the counties in which he spoke increased
their Republican majorities about one
thousand votes over last year. It was
another case Of The laughs best who
laughs last"
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-12-31
Postal Sayin os Rank

The British postal savings banks are
growing in favor with the English public.
The last annual report of the department
gives 6,S62,O35 as the number of deposit
ors, this being one in every six persons
Of the population of the United Kingdom.
Postal savings banks should be establish
ed in the United States with the least
possible delay.
The people are anxious for them, and
that they would be success there can be
no doubt.-Exchange
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-12-31

Statistician Mulhall announces that
while the population of the United States
has increased SO per cent in the last twen-
ty years, the value of her exports has
risen 175 per cent, or three times as fast
as the population, yet practically all Of
this has happened under a protective
tariff, which the free traders have in
sisted was unfavorable to foreign and adj
vantageous commercial relations abroad.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-12-31
go Az 4O4 S44.613.5S

The above tables show the utter fallacy
of the Democratic predictions, for they
show that not only have we curtalled our
imports from those countries to very
large extent, but despite their threats,
they have continued calmly buying our
products and in greatly increased degree.
GEORGE MELVILLE.