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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-12

STATE OF GEORGIA, COUNTY OF
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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-24
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 ku-
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 increas-
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 sec
tons and classes.-Wool Record.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-24
Export of Corn.

Corn is about to become one of the food
staples of Europe. In 1892, we exported
5,451 $40 bushels of corn and 2S7, 500
barrels of corn meal. In the last year we
exported 116, ,919,36o bushels of corn and
415,263 barrels of corn meal.
AS all are aware. Europe formerly had
an intense prejudice against American
corn, regarding 1T as unfit for human food.
This prejudice was largely allayed by
commission sent to Europe during Harri-
sons administration for the purpose of
introducing corn as 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, 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-
Hsh itself firmly as permanent food.
There will be an increasing foreign de-
mand for it from now on, and the Ameri-
can oyerproduction will each year find
more of a sale awaiting for it in European
markets. This means better price for
the farmer. The commission, discontin-
ued during Cleveland's administration,
should be re-established in the interest
of the American farmer.-Exchange.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-24
What Cai1sed the Change.

What does high-priced cattle and hogs
mean! Simply that more people east of
the Missouri river are eating meat. Why?
Because they are earning wages. They
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-tried
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 out. The American market is
reserved for the American laboring 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 Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-24
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 16 to 1
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 at 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.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-24
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 -burnings that are common
further east regarding the distribution
of wealth. A citizen of that locality vis-
iting the East was asked regarding the
practical workings of this new theory in
this community. He was questioned as
to how they were getting along in MAIN
tanning 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 busi-
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
baek.-From address of Secretary Wilson
at Middlefeld, O., Oct. II, 1897.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-24
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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-24
ills Coming Along All Rfeht.

Intelligent people understand that, as
far as the new tariff is concerned, it is
too early to forecast definitely what it
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, a 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 intelIi-
gently ON the tariff, and, unless all signs
are amiss, experience will amply vindi-
cate the wisdom and expediency of that
measure.-New York Commercial Adver-
tiSar
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-24
GREAT PRODUCTIVE POWERS.
Results of Protection as Pointed Ont
by an English Statistician.

1t is a 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 hard 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 1O0,-
OOO,OOO of persons every year. He shows
that in twenty years our production of
grain has increased Il per cent and that
of meat 12 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..
Mulhall 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, sis the best gauge of national pro-
gress, because it reflects the power, en-
ergy and resources of people,
Our free trade friends willie 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 a 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 un-
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 a choice be-
tween the two. We have one and are
steadily gaining in the other.-Washing
ton Post (Dem).
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-24

than thirty years opportunity to observe
the court In his letter announcing his
retirement he said, "As look back over
more than a third of century that have
sat on this bench, l am more and more
impressed with the immeasurable impor-
tance 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
ernment from rushing to destruction. This
negative power, the power of resistance,
is the only safety of a popular govern
ment -
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-24
We Can Produce Our own Sugar.

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 S400,00O,000 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, fax,
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 Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-24
More Democratic Tariff Buster.

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 investigation 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 Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-24
A satisfa ctory 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 revenue producer. The earn
ings of the present month are running at
the average rate of 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 Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-24
SiIHer,sLox 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
% cents per ounce, so that the silver used
in the manufacture of a 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
willing to spend millions to force the
United States to adopt laws by which
they can turn 20 cents worth of their
products into Q dollar.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-24
Postal Savings Bank.

The British postal savings banks are
growing in favor with the English public.
The last annual report of the department
gives 6,S62, ,03o 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.-Ex change
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-24
The Laueh on the other Fellow.

Mr.. Bryan boastingly announced in his
Ohio speeches that he had come to Ohio
to bury Mark Hanna" This sounded
very funny to the audience at the time,
but the laugh was on the other side when
it was discovered after the election that
the counties in which he spoke increased
their Republican majorities about one
thousand votes over last year. 1t was
another case of '.he laughs best who
laughs last"
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-24

1896; that of silk broad stuffs 4,202 yards,
against 1888 in September of last year;
that of wooden tissues 22,9O0 yards,
against 650,000; that of worsted tissues
224 800, against 1,451,0 600, 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 wish
our manufacturers and their employees.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-24
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 siGniicent
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-24
Exports Increase Under Protection.

Statistician Mulhall announces that
while the population of the United States
has increased So per cent in the last TWEEN
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 ad-
vantageous commercial relations abroad.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-24
English Don't Like 1t.

The imports of linen goods from Eng
land were only 2,204, 900 yards in Septem-
Der, 1897, against 6,0S7, 900 yards in Sep
tember, 1896; the importation of jute
piece goods in September, 1897, was g.
2S2, ,16O, against 9,166,400 in September.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-24
Wise Words of Justice Field.

People who are railing against the Unit
ed States courts and their methods would
do well to read what retiring Justice Field
said of that highest of all United States
tribunals, the Supreme Court, after more
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-24
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Imports from
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The above tables show the utter fallacy
of the Democratic predictions, for they
show that not only have we curtailed our
imports from those countries to Il very
large extent, but despite their threats,
they have continued calmly buying our
products and in greatly increased degree.
GEORGE MELVILLE.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-24
Large Increase in Money.

The October statement of the Treasury
Department shows that the money in cir
culation to-day is, in round numbers,
$1O0,000,000 in excess of one year ago.
Curiously, more than one-half of this in
crease is in gold. The following table,
issued by the Treasury Department on
Oct. 1, shows the money in circulation
Oct. 1, 1897, compared with Oct. 1, 1896:
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-24

Amt. in circu- Amt. in circu-
latjon Oct. lation Oct.
Arizona republican., 1897-11-19
NEGRO MAIL CARRIERS REMOVED
Accused of Circulating Reports Which
 Were Investigated

Richmond, Va, Nov. 1S.-Post- master w. H. Culhngsworth has re- lieved from duty E. s. Holmes and c. R. Chiles, two colored mail carriers. Unenviable notoriety, growing out of a police court trial, in which the two negroes were involved, was the cause that led to their removal Holmes and Chiles were charged with circu- lating reports refecting upon hhe character of the wife of a colored window dresser.
 The case was referred to the post office authorities in Washington, and an officer was sent down to this city to look int othe matter. His report on the case resulted in the order to discharge the men, received by MT Cullingsworth yesterday. Messrs. w. B. Joyner and w. S. Doughty, two white men, were taken from the eligi- ble list to fill the places of the re- moved carriers.
Arizona republican., 1897-11-19

Washington, Nov. 18.-Senator Will liam E.. Chandler of New Hampshire, in an interview regarding legislation at the coming session of congress, said: Senator Lodge proposes pushing a measure looking to restriction of passage without delay. Bills propos- ing to bar the undesirable foreign el- ement from entering into this coum- try are now pending in both house and senate and there is no doubt that the two houses will be able to agree upon bill.
 s'The house measure lays restric- tionS on what are called birds of passage" but the senate bill does not. The class referred to is that which lives along the northern and south ern border lines of the country and embraces Mexicans and Canadians who work daily in the United States, but live in their own country. This part of the bill, in my judgment, even tually will be omitted and the senats g bill, which applies to European and oriental countries, will be passed.
 Some action, I believe, will be taken looking to the relief of the Gu ban insurgents. Of course the repub- hcan policy will largely depend on the presidents message, but in my opinion he will leave the entire mat fer ta the ind omenf of congress
 1.-The prospects for the ratification of the Hawaiian treaty are excellent.
 "As to financial legislation, espe- cially as to the revision of the bank ing laws, I cannot see how any such legislation can be passed"
Arizona republican., 1897-11-19
TWO GIRLS WHIPPED.
Dragged From Their Beds at Night
 by Ohio Whitecaps.

Oakwood, O., Nov. 1S.-Two girls, Edith and May Roberts, who are 19 and 17 years, respectively, were whipped and otherwise maltreated by a band of whitecaps here last night. Eight or ten men entered the girls rooms, dragged them from their beds and out to the road and there f1ogged them with a cat-o'nine tails. After whipping the girls the men gave them a coat of tar and feathers, and took them back to the house. The young women were found unconscious there this morning. The younger one is in a critical condition, the whip having cut her flesh to the bone.
 The girls received notice several days ago warning them to leave the neighborhood, but they paid no at tention to it. There is no clue to the identity of the whitecaps.
Arizona republican., 1897-11-19

field the Klondyke probably has a future of twenty-five years, and that if quartz develops, it is impossible to Incidentally he again denies that he was horsewhipped by miners.
 ''The unexpected fall of the Yukon river" he said; ''set back every expa- dyke. The river should have risen two feet. The heavy rains in the upper country cause the rise and all naviga- tion is benefited by it, but for some unaccountable reason this year was drought.
 'As to food supplies in the Klou1yhe there was not as much at Dawson City as I expected. but plenty at Fort Yukon, 400 miles from there
 up at Dawson they have a cha.- acter called Swift Water Bill Well, he is swift water He made strike of immense value after four or five years of hard grub stalking. One night he came into town and walking into a saloon bought it for S2.OO0. pay ing cash down. The place was i'm mediately turned over to him. He stepped across the room and took down the card over the faro table, pre- scribing the limit of the game. Then he invited everybody to pay while he dealt. In short time he had $3O,000 more to his credit. Finally he stepped to the doorway and invited everybody passing by to come in and have a drink at his expense.
 "He bought all the diamonds in the Klondyke that he could find. Some time after this I saw him on the trail in patent leather shoes, dress suit, open shirt front, his neckIie filled with his diamonds, packing his shovel, pick and pan to the fields to resume the search for gold. He had gone broke.
 Saloons, of course, are everywhere and the hurdy-gurdies are hot. Gambling is open. Gun plays is a feature of this 1897 mining that is entirely absent. The miners some times have a fist fight, but a display of guns or man who is known as a killer are rarities."