The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-12-02
POLITICAL PARAGRAPHS.
BY A CONTRIBUTOR.

fOL!l iCAL PARAGRAPHS.
BY A CONTRIBUTOR.
REPUBLICAN members of Congress
will have no occasion to regret their
action on the Dingley bill when they
come together next month.
The proposition to defeat Mark
Hanna despite the fact that Ohio Re
publicans have control of the Iegisla-
ture seems to have been abandoned.
THERE is every reason to believe
that the Hawaiian annexation treaty
will be confirmed by action of the Sen
ate very soon after Congress meets.
ADvICES from China confirm those
of some weeks ago which indicated
that the gold standard is likely to be
adopted by that government as soon
as practicable
THE Canadian proposition in favor
of closer relations between the United
States and Canada is anotherevidence
that the protests against our tariff
merely a bluff"
WHAT has become of that special
commission which went to Japan to
find out all about the "conspiracy''by
which that country was brought to
the adoption of a gold standard? Did
it fail to lind material for report?
MR. BRYAN should hasten in his
trip to Mexico or he may not arrive in
time to enter his protest against the
adoption of the gold standard. How
ever, protest after it was all over
would probably do Just as much good
as if offered now.
SECRETARY BLISS has evidently
carried his business habits with them
to the Interior Department. He has
succeeded in getting down the esti-
mates of his subOrdinates for the next
fiscal year over $4,000, 600. This is an
effective way every time of fighting a
deficit. New York Commercial Ad-
vertiser.
The prospective attitude of Presi-
dent Mckinley on the Cuban ques-
ton is now Il matter Ofmuch interest.
This anxiety is doubtless due to the
fact that a war cloud would check, if
not absolutely destroy, the business
Improvement among farmers, manu-
facturers and merchants, which has
been apparent since the Republican
success of 1897.
REPRESENTATIVES, for the free
| coinage proposition met in Kentucky
the other day, and, after few min
utes of private conference, announced
that they had decided to keep up the
fight for silver In view of the fact
that the Republicans made gains
where silver was made an issue in the
recent elections, members OF that
party will offer no objection.
! THOSE people who were disap-
pointed at the destruction of the reci-
prOcity arrangements under the Will
son act will be gratitied to know that
the Dingley law is likely to operate in
this line in Il wider and more complete
way than did the Mckinley law, and
reciprocity under the new tariff act
will, it is said, be of even greater value
and give greater satisfaction than was
the case under the old law which was
so popular.
The reply of Assistant Secretary
Day to the communications of the
Spanish government, the subject of
American tillibusters for Cuba. shows
that eight vessels have been employed
i'll this work, cruising over Is, 900 miles,
i'll their police duties, capturing seven
vessels engaged in that work, and
breaking up Il number of other expe-
ditiOns which were intended to oper-
ate from our ports in violation of our
neutrality lays.
CONGRESS, when it meets next week
will find very gratifying showing
for the first four months of the new
tariff law. Its earnings during the
first four months have exceeded by
several millions of dollars the earnings
of the corresponding four months of
the Wilson law; its November earn
ings reached $25,OOO,OOO, which is
more than 25 per cent. in excess of the
November earnings in the first year
of the Wilson law.
WHEN or why is it that our expor-
tations to practically all of the coun-
tries which protested against the new
tariff have increased under the new
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