The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-10-28
Was h lin Letter.
(From Orr Regular Correspondent .
WAsH1NGToN. Oct. ~. 1897.

therefore the enterprising newspa-
per man who have; by making use
Of All old interview with Mr.. Gage
just before he came to Washing
ton and q little guessing, attempted
to give the public in advance the
financial recommendations that the
secretary will make in his annual
report are a little premature, not
to use:a harsher term. Especial
care will he taken by Secretary
Gage to prevent his financial re-
commentators becoming public
until his annual report has been
made.
| Secretary Sherman put stop
to lot of nonsensical stories, when
he announced his intention of 90:
ing to Ohio for the purpose Of
casting his vote for the republican
state and legislative tickets: in the
success of both of which he is
deeply interested. -
Assistant Secretary Howell, of
the treasury department, who: has
direct charge of the custom hous-
es Of the country, has just return
ed from a visit Of inspection to De-
troit and Chicago. He says lie
found business booming, AMI add
ed: "The total value Of the ex-
ports Of provisions, including cat
tie and hogs, from the northern
border districts during the month
of September were $l,28l,243,
against $973,968 in September
1896, and in addition there was a
large increase in the exports of
domestic manufactures over that
of September last year, That's
what protection is doing for the
United States.
.. If the charges which have been
filed with the post Office depart
ment against Postmaster Mowry,
at Charleston, c., ARE true, he has
been making public Office a pri-
vate snap sure enough. He has
held the office for about eleven
years, having been originally ap-
pointed during the first Cleveland
administration and left in office
during the Harrison adminstra-
ton because of the failure of the
republicans of the city and Post
master General Wanamaker to
agree upon his successor. He re-
ceived his third commission dur
ing the last Cleveland administra-
ton, and It has about year to run
before it expires, but if the inves-
tigation now being made substan-
tiates the charges made against
him, he will probably be summar-
lily dismissed. One of those charg-
es is that ever since he has been
postmaster he has had in force a
set of rules for the trifing infrac-
ton of which fines have been inn
posed npon the emplyes of the Of
flee, and that these fines, which
aggregate large sum, have been
'pocketed by Mr.. Mowry.
Hon. Eugene Hagen, who was
member of the sound money
democratic state committee of
Kansas last year, and who is now
visiting Washington, paints this
beautiful word picture of things
in his state: "Our people are bet
tor off than they have been for Is
ye IS. The banks have plen-
thora of money, and the farmers
are no longer worrying over the
mortgage question. They have
been lifting their mortgages with
rapidity unparalleled. To use a
slang phrase, Kansas is on Easy
street. People have absolutely
nothing to say about the issues
over which they were wrought up
so tiercely in 1896. I think that
the alliance between the populists
and silver democrats will not he of
long duration. Sooner or later it
will break in pieces as result of
friction over the division of the
offices. The conservatism of the
pres mt populist state government
shows that the days OF wild-eyed
radicalism in Kansas politics have
passed away forever"
Mr.. William P. Smyth, U. s.
consul at Hull, England, has made
an official report to the depart
ment of state that ought to be read
by every opponent of a pre- to ,tive
tariff IN this country. This report
says in part: s'The fall Of 1897
recalls the fall of 1890, when the
Mckinley bill put its first cr:mp
in English competition. 1 remem-
Der the staggering blow it received
when the bill had a chance to
reach out with a full swing and
what a loud and terrific shout
went up from all parts of the king
dom for retaliation. But if the
Mckinley bill -foored English in
dustries in 1890 and held them in
zubjection for three years, while
our manufacturing industries at
home were permitted to enjoy
brief period of prosperity, the
Wilson bill brought them to their