Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1897-12-17
POLITICAL GOSSIP

which the protective system has
brought to such perfection are still
steadily moving southwark and
carrying with them the protection
sentiment into that section of the
country. The latest example of
this Is found in the Indian Head
Cotton Mills of Cordova, Ala, whose
proprietors have just closed a con-
tract for the sale of the entire out
put of their mills in China during a
five years period.
There is a growing feeling that
the elements of patriotism and of
willingness to give the party in
power an opportunity to test it's
proposed principles which caused
the passage of the tariff bill may re-
suit in drawing to ether a suffici ent
number of votes in the Senate to
PISS a bill based upon the proposi-
tions of President McKsnley's mos
sage, in which he recommends a
system by which it will be impossi-
BILE to embarrass the Government
by a continuance of the use of the
gresnbacks to draw gold out of the
Treasury.
The calm, clear, and forceful ex-
pressions of the President as to the
prospective course of the Govern
mont in the Cuban question in case
tho Spanish promises of autonomy
and justice to tho Cubans are not
carried out have impressed the
country very greatly in his favor,
and have developed general will
ingness to leave this important and
delicate question in the hands of the
administration instead of attempt
ing to force action and embarrass
th5 Government by such Congress
sional action as was demanded by so
many people few months ago.
Dingley law earnings
first four months. :. $50, ,5I7,1 ia
Wilson law earnings first
four months .... $S2, ,038, ,007
The above official figures are
NOTED for the purpose of calling at
tention to the injustice and absolute
falsehood with which opponents of
the present administration attack its
measures and operations. The New
York journal, the eastern mouth
piece of the silver party, on the
morning following the presentation
of President McKinley's message,
said specifically in its editorial col
umns that the president finds the
Dingley bill producing smaller rev.
enues and greater deficits than the
measures which his platform de-
nounced ever did" OF course the
Measure his platform denounced
was the Wilson law, and the mac
,uracy of this statement by this
mouthpiece of the silver party is
shown by the official figures quoted
above.
A revenue law which increases its
earnings more than twenty-five per
cent. in four months and has a pros
spect of continuing that increase for
several months at an equally rapid
rate ought not to be embarrassed by
or denounced by people
who profess to be friends of the
party framing it. The Dingley law,
which started in under the embar-
rassing circumstances under a con-
dition in which the country has
been filed with foreign goods prior
to it's enactment, has increased its
earnings more than 25 per cent. and
there is prospect that the earnings,
which are now over $25, 200, 900 a
will be increased from $5,-
900, 900 to $7,0OO,0 900 per month
shortly after@the beginning of the
new year. 1t is thus apparant that
the people who are demanding that
Congress shall Immediately legislate
to increase the revenue are doing an
injustice to the law and to business
interests which are, of course, dis
burbed by any proposition for furth