Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-09-27
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washinqton, Sept. 90, 1897.


President Mckinley has not com
planned becaus he failed to get any
rest while away from Washington, on
his recent vacation, but he has ar
ranged for another little trip which
he thinks will give him some rest. He
is going to the Berkshire hills of Mas
sachusetts, where himself and Mrs
Mckinley will be guests at the resi- :
dence of an old friend. 1t is not prob
able that President Mckinley has
done a harder weeks work since he
was inaugurated than he has just
completed, but he has got all the rou-
tine work up to date again now, and
as there are no important matters
pressing, he feels free to go away
again and try to get himself braced
up little for the arduous duties of
the winter. He was surprised to find
SO many Office seekers awaiting him
when he returned, but he saw as many
of them as he possibly could and
made a number of appointments,
which, of course, also made a much
larger number of disappointments.
He is very much interested in the
Greater New York campaign, and
willingly listened TO those who had
information to impart concerning it,
but he says only enough to draw them
out. He has expressed no opinion on
the subject. >.
It was definitely settled at a confer
ence between the President and Con-
sui General Lee that the latter should
return to Cuba at the expiration of
his leave of absence, or earlier if cir
cumstances should make his presence
there necessary. This indicates that
General Lee will continue as Consul
General to Cuba for some time yet.
His leave of Absence expires early in
October.
Pension Commissioner Evans, Ex-
Commissioner ("Corporal") Tanner,
and General Baird, accompanied the
Washington members of the Union
Veteran Legion, who left this after
noon on special train for Columbus,
Ohio, where the 18th National En-
campment of the Legion will be held
this week.
Under the new policy of the Pen
sion Bureau, to give the papers of ap-
plicants for original pension prefer
ence, Commissioner Evans estimates
two hundred thousand applications,
which have been hung up under the
democratic policy win be disposed of
during the present fiscal year.
Secretary Alger is determined to
find out as much as possible about the
condition of things in the Klondike
region, in order to be able to carry out
his poject of sending food into that
region, if it becomes necessary to
prevent suffering among toe numer-
Gus Americans who have gone there,
at his own expense but in the name
of the Government of the United
States. AS step in that direction,
seph Iadue, os Dawson City, a gen
tlemah lately from the Klondike and
who has mining interests there Ar
rangements have been completed for
sending company of U. S. soldiers
to st. Michael, Alaska, for the purpose
of maintaining order and protecting
property at that point,
The free trade press regards it, or
tries to make it appear to the public
that it so regards the matter, that the
compelling of foreign manufacturers,
who have established market in this
country for their wares, to start fac
tories over here or lose their Ameri-
can trade, is a misfortune, but it does
not so appear to sensible people,
whether they are republicans or not.
1t is clear enough that every estab-
lishment employing labor started and
maintained in the United States must
necessarily add to the prosperity of
our people, and while increased pros
perity for the people may be a mis-
fortune for the professional calamity
howlers among the democratic and
popuIist politicians, it will certainly
not be SO regarded by those who get
additional work and become sharers
in the increased prosperity. If every
thing consumed or used in the United
States could be made by our own cit
liens, it would be one of the very best
things that could happen to the coun-
try. 1t was largely because we bought
SO much stuff of foreign production,
brought in under the low rates of the
democratic tariff, that we had such a
long period of business and industrial
depression. These are facts that
should be constantly kept in mind by
the people of the United States.