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America and of American institutions
who are fond of prophesying that the time
| will come when the United States will
split up into several different countries.
The wish is father to the thought, for it
mas no real basis on existing facts Every
true American knows that that time will
never come, and deplores and condemns
amy talk which tends to arouse sectional
ism.
What spirit of sectionalism Still exists,
We owe almost entirely to the free traders
Illey Systematically try to stir up the
West against the East on the ground that
protection unduly favors the Eastern
manufacturers; they try to rouse the East
against the West because, as they say,
protection favors the Western ranchers
to the detriment of the people of the East;
they try to arouse the South against the
North and the North against the South.
Ii is quite consistent that those who would
Make catSpaw of our own country to
enrich the nations of the earth should try
to sow the seeds of disunion within our
own borders. The American people are
indebted to the free traders for many
evils, and not the least is this effort of
theirs, on every occasion, to stir up
spirit of sectionalism. 1t is an evil which
should be stamped out in summary fash
ion and all honor should be given to that
thoroughly American law, the Dingley
law, which, by protecting all sections of
the country alike, has disarmed section
aliSm
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Louisiana Business Improved.

The Shre|eport jobbers and Wholesalers
unite in saying that the business season is
opening nicely and promises to be unusually
active. They are in a position to know. and
we hope and suspect they are correct in this
conclusion. Confidence is gradually increas-
ing in all departments of trade, and it really
seems probable that the long expected era
of prosperity is about to dawn upon our fair
and fertile Southland. 1t is trusted that the
expectation may meet full realization
Shreveport La) Times.
We are glad to learn of this business i'm
provement, and trust that it extends
throughout Louisiana. The unswerving
efforts CT United States Senator McEn-
cry to secure protection for, and to pro-
mote the interests of, his State are
promptly bearing good fruit Whenever
the sugar industry of Louisiana is pros
porous, then all its wholesale and retail
interests mast be in the same happy condi-
ton.
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500 600. 900. or about S2O00,0Oo day.
The gold exports which have begun are
therefore small by those which VIII 1oilo"
and they will come at a time Wneh ~ .,le
treasury at Washington holds within a4'-
O0O. 900 as much gold as the Bank OIL
England. Not unnaturally discount rates
are falling here and riskins ABROAD anu
with the rise abroad in discounts mas come
n sale of American securities to this coun,
try. The national mortgage is neins pau
and one more step taken toward the man
cial and commercial supremacy OF 'iie
world .
Wheat prices turn just now on argen- 1ad
tine supplies, which may be from lo'ooo'-
600 to 5O,OOOOO0 bushels, no one knows
which. Free exports continue ana the
Western farmer is making his sales at
higher profits and less trammeied by ar.i-
fetal causes than in number of years, 10
the national advantage. The Daiiy Drs
Goods Reporter puts the cotton yleid at
9,371, 900 bales of 500 pounds. This would
be. with one exception, the largest crop
on record, and both cotton and print cio'iis
fell last week. Bessemer pig and steel
billets rose last week and in general IRON
and steel look to larger prices. The snip
ments of boots and shoes are now at the
highest figures reported.-Philadelphla
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Popocrats. Attention.

What We're some of those remarks that
were heralded around from Popocratic
stump to stump last year, to the effect
that our currency was so limited and con
tracted that we could not do business,
and that the only hope for return to
prosperity was through the free coinage
of silver at 16 to L: 1t is quite evident
to obseryant men that some of these Pop
ocrats were laboring under mistake. be-
cause by reference to the election returns
of 1896 it will be seen that the free coin
age proposition was not adopted. and We:
here we find in the country to-day nearly
hundred million dollars more in circula.
tion than there was year ago. and NOT
a dollar of it free silver. Gold alone has
increased in circulation in the last yea,
over fifty million dollars
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-11-05
American Bluntness.

1t is Secretary sherman's blunt way
that is displeasing to Englishmen, and
1T certainly does not place Salisbury in
the most favorable light. The America n
people will not think any the less of Sec
retary Sherman for the opinions regard
ing him of the English press. He may be
wanting in the useless arts and wiles of
diplomacy, but he knows how to state
facts so that everybody can understand
them and he has shown himself to be =
match in controversy for Salisbury or anv
other British diplomat-Omaha Rec
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-11-05
Railroad Men We're Wise,

The railroad employees of the country
are not regretting their labors and votes
of last year in favor of Mckinley, sound
money and protection. The gross earn
lngs of the year just ended for the rail-
roads of the country are $75,0OO,0O0
greater than in the year preceding. and
the number of people employed has large
ly increased. with higher scale of wages
in many cases. Railroad shops have start
ed up all over the country on full and
overtime, giving employment to thousands
of old hands who had been thrown out of
employment by the previous depression,
and the difference generally between con-
dltions in railroad circles now and year
ago shows remarkable change.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-11-05
Trade, Price and Iron.

All other facts and conditions in the
business situation are of small conse-
quence by the side of the sudden and
rapid increase in September in the CON
sumption of iron. The production of pig
iron is no greater-in fact, it is little
lcss-than two years ago. The weekly
production. Oct. 1. 1895, was 2O1, ,414 tons
t1ron Age" figurcs) and on the first Of
the current month the total product,
weekly. was 200 tons. This makes
the product practically equal now and
TWO years ago. The consumption has,
however. greatly increased In 1895,
when the product rose 10000 tons in three
months. from July / to Oct. /, against
10000 tons NOW, the unsold stocks stead
lily grew. This year the unsold stocks
lave fallen in three months from 1,OOO.-
ca tons July to 691 ,527 tons Oct. 1,
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son why the British manufacturers should
not do equally well, and says that ''the
American machinery is inferior to that of
British make, and cheaper, but it sells
well. and that is the principal thing" If
a few English firms were to subscribe to-
gether and send out a man to visit the
Islands of Principe and S. Thome, and
then Loanda, Benguella and Mossam-
medes. so that they might get an insight
into what class of machinery is required
in those parts, their money would not, the
vice-consul stated, be badly spent, and
they would learn a great deal. They
would probably learn something about the
superiority of the American machinery.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-11-05
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.

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The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-11-05
Far from Discouraeine,

The free trade organs are fond of compar-
ing the tariff receipts of the first sixty days
OF the Wilson law-well knowing that spe
cial conditions operated in favor Of the vii
son bill before its passage and while the
Intelligencer. y a.
Allowing for the disadvantages under
which the Dingley bill suffered, during
the first sixty days Of its enactment. q
comparison of it's results with those Of
the Wilson bill during its first two months
incubation, is far from discouraging to the
friends of protection. 1t will be found
elsewhere.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-11-05
Kansas Is Prosperous.

A correspondent in Wichita tells of re
markable revival thus: Has miracle
been wrought beside the Kansas Nile!
Is this a case of the dead brought to life (:
Truly prosperity has breathed into the
nostrils of Wichita. The fever of boom
ing ragged here in it's most malignant form.
1t was followed by trance-like state of
such continuance that some mistOoE it for
death. But an awakening has come The
flush of returning health is plainly visible.
The pulse is beating strong. In the banks
of Wichita are more deposits to-day than
at any previous time since the boom was
at its height nearly ten years ago. They
are exactly double what they were one
year ago.
On one of the principal corners stands
bank which has been organized a year,
with $4,000 capital. 1t has in deposits
to-day S25O,00O, just ten times its capital
stock. Six hundred loans came due this
year in Sedgwick County, of which Wi
chita is the seat. and $50 of them have
been paid off. Money is going begging.
Block, the millionaire capitalist. has been
trying for three weeks to place 1000
where it will earn something and still
has 1t. Travelling men for Wichita Job
bers, whose sales year ago averaged S.
$4,000 a week. A new mill grinding 800
barrels Of flour day has just started
In the directors room of one of the
banks eight or ten of the substantial men
of Wichita were gathered to make prepar-
atlons for the Kansas bankers conven-
ton. to be held here. One of them talked
and the others acquiesced in this view of
the changed conditions: I'VE are Infinite
lS better off than we were last year. We
nave doubled our deposits and are carry
ing stronger reserves than ever before
we have on an average 60 per cent in
cash in cur vaults. Our jobbers are doing
double the business they did last wear.
There isn't one of them that can keep I'D
with his orders. We have five wholesale
grocers, two wholesale drug houses. two
Jobbers in dry goods and the same num-
Der in boots and shoes. Ten or fifteen
more lobbers could come here and do we'll
The country banks all around us are in
flne condition with larger deposits than
they ever had. The live stock interests
in this vicinity are larger than they ever
We're. The reports show that we have
GS,O0O hogs in this county of Sedgwick.
In Sumner, the next county, the wheat
crop this year was 100000 bushels. more
than was raised in any other county of
the State. More people are buying homes
i'll Wichita than at any time since the
boom period. The books of leading real
estate firm show more transactions in six
weeks past than in six years preceding.
We think good times have come to Wi
chitn to stay" And these are but a few
instances of Wichita's prosperity.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-11-05
A Wise Action,

The Presidents action in the appoint.
ment of special reciprocity commissione,
to arrange our reciprocal trade relations
with the countries entering into our recip.
Tocity agreements is spoken of with gen.
eral satisfaction. Under President Har.
rison's administration these matters were
attended to through the State Depart.
ment, whose tedious routine methods occa
stoned considerable delay. but the sub
iect was an experiment at that time. while
under the last administration the recip.
rocity treaties We're all abrogated, leading
to retaliatory measures on. the part of
Spain, France, Germany and South Amer
lean republics.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-11-05
They Are Disapnointed

The Democratic orators who were ex-
pecting to make mince meat of the feature
of the Dingley law relating to expectation
of American manufactures have lapsed
into singular silence. Nor are they max
ing comparisons of the expectations un-
der the new law and those of year ago
under the Wilson law. For their exclu-
sive information, attention is directed to
the fact that these expectations aggre-
gated during the second month of the
Dingley law $103,36O,00O as against Ss3,-
136,o00 in the corresponding month of
last year.
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A Rebuke to Demagogues.

To the demagogues and agitators who
are assailing the corner stone of Amerl-
can government, the judiciary, the ex-
ample Of Justice Field comes as speak
ing rebuke. Field entered upon his duties
just before the most trying time in Amer
lean history, the period of reconstruction.
During his long career on the Supreme
bench he won the respect even of his
bitterest political opponents. He was
ever true to his convictions.-Cin Cincinnati
Times Star.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-11-05
A Sure Barometer

lhe monthly statement of the postal re-
ceipts of the principal cities Of the coun-
try, which has just been made public, is
OF great significance as an Indication of
the condition of general business. A
handsome increase in the income of the
postoftices of the leading cities was made
IN September. as compared with the same
month in 1896. In only few places OF
10000 inhabitants or over was there any
falling off in the month. One of these
was New Orleans. where the decline was
probably due to the yellow fever, which
has seriously depressed business in that
town and throughout a large part of the
region bordering on the Gulf of Mexico.
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Continues to Sweep Over the
Land, Placing Prosperity
on a Solid Basis.
Various Sections Vie with One Another in
ProcIaiming the Return of
Good Times.

" HE record Of mercantile and
manufacturing activity continues
to verify the predictions of those
trade optimists who have been contend
ing all along that the upward move
ment is not spasmodic or speculative
but actually rests on basis of growing
demand which is destined to be perma-
nent. 1t is now over three months since
the new tariff law was approved by the
President. While the most ultra-pro-
tcetionists will not contend that the
new law could have such a marvellous
effect upon trade conditions in so short
n time. no careful observer will deny
that the revival Of business confidence
has been steady and continuous since
its enactment. 1t is an illustration of
what settled economic policy on the
part of the Government will do for the
business interests of the country.
The significant features of the phe-
nomenal trade improvement are the
heavy increase in iron production and
consumption, the largest payments
through clearings ever known in Octo-
Der. the increase in the employment of
labor and the record breaker in wheat
exports. At every point where actual
production can be tested it appears
greater than before. The increase in
the employment of labor has continued
and there are daily reports of resump-
tion of work in idle factories and sharp
advances in wages.
The September exports Of wheat sur
pass all records, amounting to 25,S6S.-
S3S bushels. against 17,646,S15 bushels
last year. the value being over 100 per
cent larger for all breadstuffs. For the
week just closed the total exports of
wheat from both coasts of the United
States aggregated 6,O39,72O bushels,
against 4,S35,641 bushels last week. a.
156,S17 bushels year ago and 100000
bushels in 1895.
With such a favorable showing in
all departments of business activity
the pessimistic calamity waller hasn't
a leg left to stand on.
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for county fairs through the country. Mr..
Bryan "lectured' at the Wichita, Kan,
county fair the other day, under an agree
ment to receive one-half of the gate re
ceipts. This was paid him, amounting to
S2,4OO, but it was then discovered that he
had been swindled by the management,
which had made extra charge for grand
stand tickets and for selling beer, the pro-
ceeds of which were not divided with Mr..
Rryan
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Banks Attest Revival.

st. Louis bank clearances in the week
Just ended. which We're. in round figures.
S3o,ooo,0OO, We're up near the highest line
ever reached. The increase over the same
week in 1896 was 2S.2 per cent Proba-
bly, If the yellow fever scare in Texas and
along the gulf coast We're ended. st. Louis
clearings these days would be breaking
al records. Part of the territory thus
affected is, in a business way, tributary
to st. Louis.-St. Louis lobe-Democrat
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Have Money to Spend.

Profits and wages being good in the States
may cause such demand all round that the
British trades will feel something of 1t in
spite of the tariff.-Bradford (England) ob-
server.
We think so. This was the result dur
ing our prosperity under Mckinley pro-
lection. When money is abundant here,
our people always buy freely of British
luxuries. 1t is from such purchases as
these that we add largely to our customs
revenue under protective tariff.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-11-05
Sectionalisn.

The spreading of protectionist sentiment
in the South, the impartial and wholly ma
tional spirit which has determined the
provisions of the Dingley law, and the
President Mckinley have gone far to de-
stroy the remnants of that sectionalism
which. forty years ago, threatened to de-
stroy the Union. There are enemies Of
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-11-05
Good for the Dtngley LAW

Senator Jones of Arkansas called a+tan.
tlon-in speech in the Senate-to the
rema rkable record of the Wilson law as
relating to the expectation of American
manufactures. And yet the exporta tions
of this class under the second month Of
the operations of the Dingley law we're
20 per cent in excess of those of the CORE
spending month Of the Wilson law Of la st
ynar = -o
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Speak Up, Mr.. Bryan.

Mr.. Bryan was heard to say some
months ago that he would be glad if the
Mckinley administration could bring
prosperity to the country. That was very
patriotic, but has anybody heard his e%
pressions of satisfa ction since it has coii:e!
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-11-05
American Machinery in Africa

American Machinery in Africa.
The British vice-consul at Loanda states
that up to the present no British firm has
sent out representative to Angola.
There is fair demand for cane-crushing
mills, steam engines and turbines. A
representative of an American firm is out
for the third time within four years, and
has done good business. He sees no rea-
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-11-05
Nebraska,s Best Hope.

Mr.. Bryan's remarks in private letter
Of admonition to his friends in Nehra ska
that the Republicans are working night
and day to carry the State. No doubt
this is true, and it will be great good luck
for Nebraska if the Republicans succeed
in their object.-St. Louis Globe-Demo-
crat
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They Acknowledge the Corn.

The silverites have at last weakened in
the face of the rapid depreciation in The
value of their metal. 1t was matter OF
surprise that they should have shouted
silver as long as they did, in view Of its
steady depreciation, but they were doubt
less in hope that something-w or
something else-would carry it up again
to it's price Of last year. Instead of this,
it has gone down like chunk of lead, lit
orally, and finally stands at such ridicu-
lously low figure that they have been fore
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-11-05
Won't Acknowledges the Corn

Already the law Dingley) is vindicated so
dar as Its effect upon the industries of the
country is concerned 1t will be justified in
due time as revenue measure.-Omaha
(Neb) Bee.
True. But the free traders will never
be honest enough to acknowledge it.
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ed out of self-respect to quit bowling for
free coinage, and are now kicking around
the political junk heap for some other
worn-out kettle which they can patch up
and hang over the political fire
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-11-05
DIscouRAGlNa TO BRYANlTEs.
Money Circulation Increases n Hun
dred Million in a Year,
,Ir. BRYAN md his free silver colaborers

Mr.. Bryan and his free silver colaborers
would like to blot out the newspaper rec
ords of their speeches year ago. 1t was
just this time in the campaign of 1896
that they We're asserting that the country
was suffering from lack of currency, and
could only be supplied by the free and un-
limited coinage of silver. The people
of the country did not agree with them,
and free and unlimited coinage has not
been put into operation. Yet the October
statement of the Treasury Department
shows that the money in circulation to-
day is, in round numbers, $10,0OO,0O0 in
excess of that one year ago. Curiously.
more than onehalf of this increase is in
gold. The following table, issued by the
Treasury Department on Oct. /. shows
the money in circulation Oct. 1, 1897, COM
pared with Oct. ], 1896:
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Hardly Possible.

The country wants a rest from tariff aglta-
ton and tariff tinkering, and besides there
gress would pass any better tariff law
Lynchburg VaD News
We doubt whether any Congress could
pass better tariff law.
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What Comptroller Ecke1s Says.

The statement of Comptroller Eckels of
the United States treasury in regard to
the business improvement throughout the
country is very encouraging. He states
that the improvement has come rapidly
and perneates all lines Of industry. 1t
began with the agricultural class. The
farmers have large crops and are getting
good prices for them. The cattle raisers
are benefited by substantial rise in the
price OF cattle. The same is true with the
sheep ralsers. This improvement in agr-
cultural earnings has had its effect on the
railroads by increasing their earnings 1t
mas put money into circulation and en-
abled people to pay off their debts and
has thereby benefited the merchants"
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otals .....s1,67s.s $40, ,5ss
A Pitiable Spectacle.

The American people must be proud of
the record the defeated candidate of the
Popocratic party of last year is achiev-
ing in making Of himself drawing card
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-11-05
More of 1t.

The Financial Chronicle notes many
proofs of Improving business. Bank clear
lngs in August We're Sc per cent better
than in August, 1896. and September
clearlnss are so per cent better. The
September clearings, in fact, are the larg-
est in our history. Failures We're but
LUZ, with liabilities of $1O,3O9, ,O33,
against 1,514 failures, with S29, ia ,917
OF liabilities in the same month last year.
Railroad earnings We're 1875 per cent bet
ter on eighty-four roads than on the same
roads in the same month of 1896 These
are cheering signs of general growth in
business and returning prosperity. If we
could only quiet our jingoes and give prac-
tica! interests a chance bright future
might be icipated.-Baltimore Sun
Dem.).