Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-08-09
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Especial CORRESPONDENTS OF THE MONITOR.
1907

secretary gage Is pay my oPOSAoA
attention to the working of the Ding
ley tariff law, which he thinks one of
the best the country has ever had and
one which will rapidly grow in pop
ularity as its manifold advantages be-
come generally known. The actual
administration of the tariff law is in
the hands of Assistant Secretary
Howell, who is an expert in the COM
Plications which necessarily arise
when a change is made in the tariff,
but Secretary Gage is so much inter
ested that he keeps in close touch
with all tariff matters. Treasury Of
ficials say the new law is unusually
free from the errors and contradic-
tions which have made SO much
trouble for those who have been
charged with the administration of
previous tariff laws.
There is one thing about Secretary
Sherman's recent very vigorous in
structions to Ambassador Hay on the
seal fisheries question that cannot be
denied; they brought the government
of Great Britain to time. Up to the
publication of Mr.. Sherman's plain
language Lord Salisbury had declined
several suggestions from this govern
ment that a conference be held on the
subject. AS soon as Ambassador
Hays instructions were made public
John Bull suddenly saw a new light
and speedily accepted the last propo-
sition made by the United States for
an international conference on pei
agic sealing in Behring Sea, and the
conference will be held in Washing
ton this fall. No better proof could
be found that plain talk is sometimes
needed between nations just as much
as it is between individuals.
1t seems almost pity that the gov
ernments of Hawaii and Japan could
not have postponed their official
agreement to settle by arbitration
the dispute which so many magma
tive newspaper writer's have been
making the basis for thrilling stories
about the certain to come war be-
tween the Japs and Uncle SANS boys,
at least until driven to studying up a
new foundation upon which sensa-
tional stories may be built, as the
Klondike gold fields are already bad
ly overworked and the probable eff
fects of the Dingley tariff can no
longer be safely lied about.
Mr.. S. G.. Durham, a mining expert
and statistician, connected with the
u. S. Bureau of Labor, is now on his
way to the Klondike gold fields for
the purpose of making an official in
Vestigation of the resources and con- !
ditions of the. gold fields. He expects
to get to Dawson city before cold
weather stops travel and will spend
the winter there. Upon Mr.. Dun
HAMS report, which will be made as
early next year as he can ascertain |
the necessary facts, much will de- |
pend. If he finds gold as plentiful |
as it has been reported to be there
will be the widest rush from the
United States and Canada in the
he reports the finds of gold to have
been greatly exaggerated, and tells
the other side of the story generally,
the Alaskan gold excitement will die
out as suddenly as it began.
Every republican should be on
watch for the tariff beats, and he
should have no hesition in exposing
them wherever found. tits, of course
expected that the democratic free
traders will duplicate the fight they
made against the Mckinley tariff and
endeavor to make sentiment against
protection by pushing up the prices
on everything, but there is a worse
class of tariff beats. Those traders
who for no other reason than greed
attempt to raise the prices on goods
ed extent by the tariff. If you have
any such in your vicinity, expose him
and refuse to patronize him, and per-
suade your neighbor to follow you in
going to the dealer who is too honest
to try to add to his profits by putting
up prices on everything and charging
it all to the tariff. Watch them, and
show them up.
Neither the Republican National
Committee, nor the Congressional
Committee, will have anything to do
with the management of the cam
Paign in Maryland this year, but both
will render aid in every way to the
of that state. The Mary
land republicans are not disposed to
boast, but having licked Boss Cor