The McCook tribune., 1897-06-11
DEMOCRAT DISUNION.
ALL THE FACTIONS. HOWEVER
BERATINC CLEVELAND.
Business Increases Element
In the South Clearly Apparent -Fea-
lures of the Tariff BiIl-The Worlds
Rapidly Increasing supply OF Gold.
washington letter.

ploded in the midst of mining camp
would not have been more effective in
its disintegration than was President
Cleveland's speech in the distribution
of the remains of the once powerful
Democracy. 1t has torn that ill-fated
organization still further asunder.
Editor Henry Watterson of the gold
Democracy is attacking it savagely.
The organs of the silver Democrats
and Mr.. Bryan himself are hurting
roeks at it; Mr.. Bailey is attacking it
savagely and the Populists are jump
ing on it with both feet, while the Re-
publican editors of the country are
tearing it to tatters.
Signs of Prosperity.
The calamity shriekers who have
been insisting that the promised pros
perity has not materialized are thrown
into confusion by a recent announce
ment from that reliable business ba-
rometer, the Weekly Review of R. G.
Dun & Co., which in it's last weekly
issue says: Nearly all will be aston
ished to learn that actual sales in April
by leading houses in each line of busi-
ness in the principal cities east OF the
Rocky mountains average only about
ten per cent less than in April, 1892,
the year of largest business hitherto,
and were 81 per cent more than in the
same month last year. Yet this is the
summary of 357 reports, each covering
actual sales of merchants in one of
fourteen cities. They are especially
encouraging in view of great fall of
prices within the last five years and
floods and other retarding influences
this year"
Southern Senators Protectionists,
The growth of the protective senti-
ment in the south, which was clearly
shown by the fact that over thirty
southern votes were cast for the
Dingely bill in the house, will be again
emphasized when the votes for the bill
in the senate are counted. At least
five southern votes will be in favor of
the bill in the senate, one of them by
a Democrat who announced before his
election that he should vote for pro-
tective tariff. When it is considered
that every one of these five southern
senators who will support the protec-
tive tariff bill succeeded men who
voted for the free trade law now upon
the statute books, the growth of the
protective sentiment in that section
will be recognized.
A Years Supply of Free Wool.
The wool growers of this country
while they are delighted with the pros.
pect that they are to get protection
must not expect to feel the effects i'm
mediately. Latest investigations as tc
the supply of wool in stock in this
country show that the amount of for
eign woods now in the hands of the
manufacturers is sufficient for at least
seven months supply and that if the
present enormous importations con-
tinue, as seem probable, they will
probably have full years supply on
hand when the new law goes into eff
feet. This is a deplorable fact. but
it is one of the numerous misfortunes
attendant upon the existence of the
free trade tariff law now upon the
statute books, and until it can be got
ten rid of there can be no getting rid
of its depressing effect. Eight and
nine cents pound duty on first and
second class wools, while it is not as
much as the rate named by the Dingley
bill when it passed the house. is lust
8 and 9 cents more than the rates of
the present Wilson law. 1t is also
conceded to be more in proportion to
the general value of wools than tbn
rates established by the Mckinley law.
which was quite satisfactory to the
wool growers.
Hides to Be Protected.
The reciprocity feature of the new
tariff law is likely to be even more
satisfactory than that of the Mckinley