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Arizona republican., 1897-12-07

NNJANTED-To board and room, two gentle
 w men or man and wife; 315 miles North West of Phoenix Good board and Compton able rooms. U,e of horse and saddle. For particular address P. O. box 1l22 or ina uire, ,at the Alham ambra.
The herald., 1897-01-23
THE SECRETARYSHIP OF THE
TREASURY

1t is not surprising that Mr.. Mckinley
finds no one begging for the treasury
portfolio. The troubles which have be-
set Mr.. Carlisle were there before he be-
came finance minister, and he will leave
them to his successor when he steps
down and out. Several times since Mr..
Carlisle became secretary the treasury
has been crowded close to the wall but
timely bond issues prevented disaster,
and bonds may be made to avert disas-
ter again and again, but not forever. In
1890, when the country was thought 20
be enjoying sound and satisfying bust
ness conditions panic was turned aside
by the governments going into the open
market and buying its own bonds, pay
ing premiums aegregating over $21, 000,-
900 on bonds aggregating nearly $74 600
900. That is to say, the secretary gave
the money market temporary relief by
paying $4,000 600 cash for bonds calling
for less than s14 600 600. In 1892 the treas
ury had to pay out nearly $4,000 600 in
gold on greenbacks and treasury notes
for account of European bankers.
The policy which Mr.. Window be-
aueathed to Mr.. Foster was bequeathed
by that gentleman to Mr.. Carlisle, and
Mr.. McKinleys secretary of the treas
ury will find it in supreme command
" hen he relieves Mr.. Carlisle, and like
all his predecessors he will find it
breeder Of trouble and only trouble.
The conditions which caused the treas
ury to be depleted of gold under the Har-
rison ard the Cleveland admins
trations are likely to be Gre
ated at any time. Whenever Europe
wants American gold the treasury will
be raided, and until the policy of giving
the payee the option of designating the
form or kind of money the government
shall pay in, the world can make the
treasury of the United States it's gold
supply center. 1t Is for this az -vall az
The herald., 1897-01-23

for other reasons that the treasury port
folio is not sought after by those hunt
ing cabinet positions. The secretary
ship of the treasury is fatal to ambition
for higher preferment, but it would not
be were the policy OF the office not so in
opposition to the Judgment of the peo-
pie.
Senator Sherman, who will be chief of
the cabinet, announces his opposition to
the retirement of the greenbacks and he
is equally opposed to the government
exercising it's right to redeem its obliga-
tions in gold or silver coins, as the law
authorizes it to do. 1t is plain, therefore,
that the troubles which have made offic-
al life burden to Mr.. Carlisle will be
found waiting to embrace the new sec
retary. If gold spectators want gold,
Mr.. McKinley's secretary of the treas
ury will have to sell bonds. if need be. to
get gold for them, just so long as they
can buy greerbaeks to present for re-
dlemption Le gold. 1t is doubtful IL any
other nation was ever cursed by such
financial policy as the United States
maintain, ylt the law provides for as
good a policy as any country on earth
enjoys.
The herald., 1897-01-23
HUMOR OF THE HOUR.

Charlie Gagged s. on hearing song by
celebrated bass)-"Father. did he make
all that noise on purpose" ?"-Tit- Bits.
Maude-"Miriam is trying to keep her
enga cement a secret" Martha-"How
do you know" "She told me so."-
Yonkers Statesman.
Female Book Agent-"You seem
much absorbed by that paper" Pa
tient Victim-"Yes; 1t Is a blotting pa
per" Exit agent.-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Approba ation.-He-"There is one thing
that / particularly like about our min
lister" She-"What is that?" He
His practice of frequently exchanging
pulpits. Puck.
She-"It seems almost Impossible that
YOU should love me-" He-"Thats what
my mother says. How nicely you and
she will get along if you always agree
like that. Harlem Life.
mo, Mr.. Coolhand," she said kindly,
II am sure l could never learn to love
you" ''Oh, perhaps you could" re-
joined Coolhand cheeringfy Never too
old to learn, you know."-Tit-Bits.
Fashionable Doctor-"John, try and
find out from Baroness Landrathis SER
wants what summer resort she would
like to so to next summer. so I may
know what to prescribe for her" r."-Flie-
gende Blaetter.
Domestic Cruelty.-"I saw Mrs. Highly
standing at the window weeping. "I
don't blame her; Mr.. Highly was clean
ing the pavement with tila hand painted
snow shovel she gave him Christmas"
Chicago Record.
The Humanly Feminine.-"Yes," ex-
claimed the elephant bitterly, they have
gone and educated my wife to almost
human intelligence, and now she doesn't
know how to get along with one trunk
any more."-Detroit Journal.
Intuition.-She started sffrightedly
from her slumber. There's a man in
the house" she cried. Impossible"
Then it's a very advanced woman" ="
That was to say. her intuition could not
be wholly at faut.-Detroit Journal
Georgie-"I heard mother tell father
the other day she'd found out where the
shoe pinched, / wonder what she
meant" Dickie--"I dunno; but if she'd
said she'd found out where the slipper
stung I'd have knowed. London FL
garo.
Tuffold Knutt-"You always talkin'
about hard luck. If you had a million
dollars you wouldn't know what to Go
with it," Mosely Wraggs-'Y Yes, would
I'd be a thunderin' sight more select
about the company | keep than l am
nowu'-Chicago Tribune.
Yabsley-"There comes Nudge. Let's
run" Wickwire-"What is the matter
with Nudge that we should flee?" Yabs-
ley-"Haven't you heard? He's got so
that every time he has eight or ten drinks
ne wants to give recitations in Scotch
dialect ct"-Indianapo Journal.
Legal Precocity.-A farmers son up
in the country conceived the desire to
shine as a member of the legal profess
sion and undertook clerkship in the
Office of the village pettifogger at nothing
a week. At the end of the first days S
study the young man returned home.
well. Tobe, how dyer like the law?'
was the first paternal inquiry. "Tain't
what it's cracked up to be-" replied
Tobe. Sorry learnt It. t."-Harlem Life.
The herald., 1897-01-23

To the deficit which the Mckinley law
caused by it's prohibtory features, there
should be added s54. 900, 900 of the national
bank redemption fund which would
make the total expenditures exceed the
total revenue nearly s114,000,000, to say
nothing of about SIS, 900, 900 of subsidiary
coin which the Harrison administration
transferred from unavailable to availa-
BILE assets. When the present admins
tration relieved Mr.. Harrison the ac-
cumulations of surplus funds in the
treasury had not only been spent, but
there was $4,000 900 less than enough to
table shows, there was surplus from
customs in the treasury of over $105, ,0O0.-
600 when the Mckinley act became oper-
ative and a deficit of nearly 10000, 600
in the last year of it's operation, and yet
Mr. Dingleys new bill will provide for
even higher schedule of tariff duties
than did the act which failed so sig
nally to support the government, for the
purpose, as he says, of raising revenue.
But it is of 10 consequence what Mr.
Dingley says. The bill is not being drawn
with reference to revenue, but it will
provide for an increase in protection all
along the line. The industries did not
contribute 10000, 600 to elect Mr.. Nc
Kinley to be turned down by a tariff
act for revenue. The idea is to tax all
the people from so to 100 per cent higher
than they should be taxed FOR manu-
factured articles of consumption and if
bonds have to be sold to provide for the
governments expense account, the peo-
pie can pay another tax to meet the in
terest. But in no event will the Mckin-
ley administration attempt to give the
country a better financial system until
all the wants of the protectionsts are
attended to. The size of the calamity
which Mckinley's election infiicts upon
the country grows wider and deeper and
higher as the days come and go.
The herald., 1897-01-23
THE HOUSE ON THE HILLTOP.

a gray old house on a hilltop
IN childhood was dear to me-
Though time my vision is diinming,
That house can clearly see.
Sometimes / sit in the twilight
And dream I am breathing still
The scent of cinnamC roses
That bloomed by the vindowsill.
Once more | visit the pasture,
Down through the shadowy lane.
And the fragrance OF the sweet fern
Seems filling the air again.
| climb the mound O. gray granite
From whose rough ard isossgrown height
We watched the lettering cattle
On their homeWard way at night.
Was with trembling shadows strewn,
And floated the b ooms Of clover
Away to the great unknown.
/ sit in the hush of rightfall
And my eyes will efttimes fiji
AS | see that brook and wonder
Whether children play there still,
Do they search the tangled thicIzet
And learn where the blackherries grow:
Do they swing on supple branches
Like tho children Of long ago;
Go up and down and back and forth
While their shouts the sweet air fill,
And their youn4 breasts with happy sense
OF daring adventure thrill?
Oh. the years are many since freight
Made the pictures on the wall
Valleys and hills. and peopled them,
And many a castle tall.
Thoughts may travel through years and
space,
And often / dwell there still.
And live once more the care-free days
OF my childhood on the hill.
C. A, NJ. Webb in the Boston Evening
TRANSCRIPT.
The herald., 1897-01-23
FILINGS AT THE FAIR SEX

Mrs. Flightly: They say the woman
who deliberates Is lost" MIR. Flightly:
"Yes-probably extinct. Truth.
1t doesn't require the mind of phil
osopher to note that a woman who is
compelled to wear her last seasons cos
tunes is never late at the theater-New
York Journal.
1t is late custom for lady to invite
as many friends to her birthday party
as she is years old. and an Atchison girl
who VIII be q years old next Tuesday.
will observe ii by inviting seventeen
girls to tea.-Kansas City Star
Mrs. De Styles: Our debating club
has decided to take up the leading oues-
tons OF the day for discussion this year"
Mr De Styles: UNI" Mrs. De Styles:
We've selected as the first subject,
Tight Sleeves or e?"-Philadelph
North American.
Mrs. Brink: Mrs. Klink Mrs. Klink!
Your little boy is in our yard stoning
our chickens" Mrs. Klink: Horrors!
He'll get his feet wet in your big. ugly,
damp grass. l don't see why you can't
Keep your lawn moved, Mrs. Blink
| New York Weekly
How did you happen to insure in that
particular company" Il consulted the
wishes of my wife" "Of course. that's
very praiseworthy. But does she know
oiiS eAiHS dboui iilt insurance cOtnpdn-
ies?" Yes. She Investigated and found
that this one always issues the prettiest
calendars. .'-Washington Star
Fenderson-'Hello. Fogg! How's your
wife? understand she Is confined to the
house. Fogg-She was for few days,
but Mrs Bass came in yesterday and
told her something about Wigger and
his wife, and made her swear she would
not tell soul. Half an hour later Mrs
Fogg had her things on and was out, and
she has been out ever since.-Boston
Transcript.
Five Shelbyville Und.) bachelors have
sworn to be married inside of year, and
If any one of them fails in his oath he is
to sit at banquet with the others, bound
and gagged, and in charge of the sher-
iff. Why he is to be bound and gagged.
and a prisoner Is not explained, unless
it Is to put him, as nearly as possible, in
the same condition as the benedicts.-
St. Joseph (Mo.) Gazette.
The herald., 1897-01-23
ABOUT PEOPLE.

The Pope continues to give daily re-
ceptions to the diplomats, and the re-
Instance to the fatigue attendant upon
these receptions shown by his holiness
causes general surprise.
Since Jerry Simpson is returning to
congress it is recalled that he was the
very first representative to throw dig
nifty to the winds and to appear sailing
down Pennsylvania avenue on a oi-
cycle.
Ex-Queen Isabella III of Spain recent
ly celebrated on the same day her sixty
eighth birthday ard her golden We'd
ding. Her husband from whom she has
been long separated, was not present at
the celebration.
A "prominent member Of the Players
club of New York" informs a Philade.-
phia reporter that Mark Twain received
in London recently a letter mailed 10
him in New York and addressed only
Mark Twain, God Knows Where"
Princess Louise, marohioness Of
EoEne.sis theaonly- one-6d the Enefis-
The herald., 1897-01-23
A GOOD BILL

City Attorney Dunn's bill to authorize
cities other than those of the first class
to refund their indebtedness is
good one. It very often
happens that a city has opportun-
ity to refund it's bond debt and fund its
floating debt upon highly advantageous
terms, and if it is not permitted to do so
the people are obliged to sustain an un-
necessary loss. 1t is not often desira Bile
for a city to pay its bond debt t ma tur-
ity, but on the other hand, it is very ma
tural that the debt should increase as
the city grows in popula tion, and hence
it is business wisdom to take advantage
OF eNery opportunity to reduce the in
terest charge.
Mr.. Dunn's bill will be put before the
legislature at once, and it is expected
that there will be no opposition to its
becoming a law. No doubt the purpose
of the bill meets the hearty approval of
every city in the state of the class in in
terest, and since it is simply business
proposition, without q, thread of politics
in it anywhere it should become a law
without obstruction from any quarter.
The herald., 1897-01-23
TONIGHT'S ADJUSTMENTS
PROTECTION, NOT REVENUE

1t becomes more apparent every day
that the high protectionsts will have
things pretty much their own way with
the incoming administration. Notwith-
standing the Democratic members OF
the tariff committee have time ard again
ventilated and exposed the greedy puf-
pose of the industries by cross question
irg those who appeared before the COM
nittee to demand high protection, the
only thought of the Republican leaders
is for the manufacturers. Nearly every
manufa cturer who has appeared before
the committee has been driven to admit
that protection high enough to prevent
foreign competition is what the indus
tries want and expect Will be given
them. Nor has single Republican mem
her of the committee SO much Is ifti-
mated that the industries should not
have all they ask for, and yet Mr., Ding
lev insists that the bill is being framed
with the view of largely increasing the
revenue. How utterly absurd it Is to talk
about customs duties in connection with
a law that prevents the importa ton of
goods and wares.
Mr.. Dingley has the reputation of be-
fug above the average in understanding
of the science of government and polit-
ical economy, but if he really is, the con-
clusion must be that he is deliberately
doing the very thing that is most con-
demned by the science of government,
T. e., oblige the government to borrow
money from time to time to provide for
the difference between income and ex-
penditure. Nothing could be surer than
that bonds will have to be issued if the
bill which is now being prepared be-
comes q law. 1t is claimed by Mr. Ding
lev that the new bill is being drawn
upon lines that will provide high protec-
tion and at the same time largely in
crease the revenue but the proposition is
eelf-contradiotory. One cannot eat his
pie and have it too. People of ordinary
intelligence understand very we'll that
the higher the customs duties the
smaller the volume of imports, and they
know, too, that foreign goods must be
permitted to come in very large quant-
ties If much revenue is to be obtained
from imports.
The fact of the matter is, the leaders
of the Republican party are deceiving
themselves and trying TO deceive the
public; moreover, their argument is the
reverse of what it was when the Nc
Kinley act was pending. President
Cleveland left large treasury balance
In 1883, mostly from customs duties
which gave promise of further increas-
ing it, and, as will be remembered, one
of the strongest arguments that was
made in favor of the Mckinley bill was
that it would put stop TO the steadily
increasing treasury surplus by pro-
hibiting the Importation of certain lines
Of merchandise and putting others on
the free list. Then high protection was
wanted to decrease the revenue receipts,
but now hish protection Is wanted to
The herald., 1897-01-23
THE OLD PLAN OF CAMPAIGN.

The plan of the steel billet pool is very
simple. The big producers Will buy up
the allotments Of the small concerns
and close them up. The firms closed
will receive dividends from the pool
The pool will throw thousands of work
men into idleness 10 cheaper the cost
OF production. bat VIII make billets for
the entire country and raise the price.
After "clinching' this plan at Pitts
bu:g q strong delegation of the billet
makers will appear at WASHINGTON and
ask for big tariff in behalf Of the
American WorlSngman. Business is
buslness. .--kaMsas CitN WORLD
The herald., 1897-01-23
POOR TIMBER IN THE SENATE.

The difficulty with the senate is not
that it fails to be sufficiently attractive
TO able men; it is rather that it is too
attractive TO another class. Its men,
bership has ccme to be q prize for men
OF wealth. and for those who manipulate
politics. The squabbles to elect sena-
tors this winter 1--WE can give them no
more dignified an appellation) come
from the irruption into the senate of
wealth and the lower grade of politi
cians.-Boston Herald
The herald., 1897-01-23
PARADOX AT TEE CAPITAL

It can hardly fail to be noted that
though the premature hearings now go
lng on at " ashington are oStensibly for
the purpose of providing needed rev.
ehoe lof the government. nearly every
man who has come before the commit
tee or ways ard means to testify has
complained that the government is re-
ce!Ning too heavy impolta tions on the
articles in which it is interested. The
ehort making, therefore, is clearly to
reGuce revenue, for 10 one is innocent
enough TO claim that more revenue can
be obtained by shutting out importa-
tions.-Boston Herald
The herald., 1897-01-23

increase them. But, of course, Repub-
lican statesman could not be a consist
ent Republican and consistent busi-
Eess man at the same time.
AS we have said, when the Mckinley
law became operative the annual sur
plus was and had been for some time
about $1oO. .0o0, 900, but it soon turned the
surplus into a deficit, as the following
able shows:
The herald., 1897-01-23

princesses who wears her hair artistic
ally. The marchionees, who really
grows handsemer and handsomer as she
leaves girlhood behind her, abjures all
court hair dressers.
The Baltimore News says that John
Henfield of that city, now a years oi
age, is the oldest practicing pho
tographer in the United States. During
the gold fever in California he Travelled
through the west in a prairie schooner.
fitted up as photograph gallery, and
made as much as SS5 a day.
The herald., 1897-01-23
THE SPLITTING NUISANCE

A man was fined sos in st. Louis the
other day for splitting in a street car A
worse nuisance than the splitting man
in public places would be hard to find.
He afflicts us in Atlanta on many oc-
casions and it is high time that he be ham
died by the firm hand of the law. We
would like to see one of these expecto-
rating nuisances hauled up before Judge
Calhoun, our worthy recorder. and made
to understand that he lives among a
clean and decent people.-Atlanta Jour-
nal
The herald., 1897-01-23
AN EASY TASK FOR M'KINLEY,

AS long as the trusts are permitted by
congress to frame the import schedules
they will flourish IN this country, but no
longer. If Mr.. Mckinley doesn't believe
it let him try putting on the free list
some of the articles whose prices have
been artificially boosted up. A friend
authorized to speak for the president
elect" says it is his intention to do what
he can to restrain the operations of
trusts. Here is a simple and easy meth
od.-Louisville Courier journal.
The herald., 1897-01-23

The Chaffey college at Ontario is to
have an agricultural department. Funds
have already been donated to start the
enterprise, and its friends are quite en-
thusiastic over the prospect of having
a thoroughly equipped experiment ranch.
Among other things there will be chem
ical department to test the value of all
fertilizers that are offered for sale. so
that farmers may know which to buy
and which to let alone. No doubt the
agricultural department of Chaffey will
grow into something that Southern Cal
ifornia will have reason to be proud of.
The herald., 1897-01-23
NO HEARING FOR THE CONSUMER

Every cd bounty-grabber that has
benefited in the past by the rotten
scheme of robbing the great body of
the people for the benefit of the few is
coming to Washington with his pet
plan. The consumer Is not entitled to a
hearing, and he gets ncne. There is but
one comfort in the whole miserable busi-
ness. The chances are that the Republic
cans VIII go as far as they dare; they
will make the duties as high as possible,
and their reign will be that much short
er.-Peoria Herald
The herald., 1897-01-23
OFFICE SEEKERS AND PRESIDENT

1t is. of course true, as we are often
told, that every American has a right to
seek and to hold office. But no man has
the right to devil the life out of the chief
magistrate of the nation, or to obtrude
his private affairs upon the public in
such way as to interfere with the prop
er discharge of the public business. 1t
Is, for example. much more important
that the financial system of the country
should be reformed than that any given
man should be appointed to any Office
InIianapOlis News
The herald., 1897-01-23
FREEDOM FROM TRUST MONOPOLY

1t was said long ago that this country
could not exist half free ard half slaves.
That between slavery and freedom there
was a. iri epl essible conflict. That
same old conflict is on again. and just
as irrepressible. II presents itself how
ever, now in the shape of competition
against trusts. The question has got
to oe answered some day as to whether
trusts shall be omnipotent and all busi-
'nea drift into trusts. or whether trusts
The herald., 1897-01-23
THE PUBLIC PULSE

(The Herald under this heading prints
communications, but does not assume re-
sponsibi,ity for the sentiments expressed
Correspondents are requested to cultivate
brevity as far as Is consistent with the
proper expression of their views.)
The herald., 1897-01-23

In Sundays issue of The Herald will
be published the interesting and sugges
tive paper of Mr. Hugh l.. Mcneil on the
Limitation of Wealth. This paper was
read before the Sunset club at the meet
ing last night. This paper is we'll worth
the study of our citizens
The herald., 1897-01-23

why doesn't Baron Carnegie of Null
ligatawny castle pour some Scotch
whisky on the troubled financial wa
ters?" That is what the Memphis Com
mercial Appeal wants to know.
The herald., 1897-01-23

Do you know why raw oysters are so
palatable? Well, it is because every
oyster is the happy home of 60, 900 to So 600
germs of various kinds.
The herald., 1897-01-23

After refusing for fifty years Russia
| has given her approval of a plan that
| will make the unspeakable Turk act like
| a human being.
The herald., 1897-01-23
DOESN'T LIKE NEW STYLES.

LET me see-your place oe business is
in State street,"
mo, sir; my place of business is a
house and the house is on State street.
Do you take me for ewsboy?"-Chi-
cago Tribune
The herald., 1897-01-23

The twenty electoral votes which Tom
Watson got are hardly enough to make
him feel that he was in the race
The herald., 1897-01-23

Senator Thurston says there are things
that are worse than war. That's right,
senator. One of them elected you to
the United States senate. 1t is called
the "g. O. p"
The herald., 1897-01-23

To be mentioned for the cabinet" and
Il decline to talk for publica ton" are
getting a trifle stale.
The herald., 1897-01-23

Senator Sherman's very latest opinion
is that this country should not recognize
the Cuban republic nor annex Hawaii.
He is to be Nc Kinley's chief of staff, re-
member
The herald., 1897-01-23

1t is said that Senator Mills of Texas
struts up and down the senate chamber
with an "all-hell- shall STIR for this
glare in his eyes.
The herald., 1897-01-23

shall go out of existence and business
come back to its legitimate place of fair
and honorable competition.-Cleveia
Plain Dealer,