The Globe-republican., 1897-12-23
R.puBLlcAN oPiMi0S

REPUBLICAN, OPINION.
The United States as q whole Il fol-
lowing the example which the farmers
Of the country set In utilizing their
FIRST earnings for reduction Of their
mortgage Indebtedness. Less Of Am
erican securities are now being held
abroad than At any time in the past
quarter Of a century, thus showing
that the country. like the citizens. is
reducing as rapidly as possible the
amount which 1t must pay to others for
interest on Indebtedness.
Not one of the thirteen countries
which offered protests" against our
new tariff has excluded any American
products because their protests were
unheeded. Instead of shutting out
our products the thirteen protesting
countries have increased their pur-
chases Of our products 25 per cent.
while we have, under the operations
of the Dingley law, reduced our pur-
chases from them in q like proper
ton.
The tin plate manufacturers Of the
United States will, it is believed. soon
be actively competing in the Euro
pean markets with the tin plate MAX
ers of Wales, who less than a decade
ago were supplying not only all OF
Europe. but all of the United States.
Will he Democrats claim this Is an
other evidence of the accuracy OF
their theory that low tariff cultivates
a foreign market for our productions?
Mr. Bryan made no effort during his
four years in congress to obtain legis-
lation on the subjects which he now
so uprOariously supports as the CHER
feature of his political faith. He had
not a word to say about arbitration.
government by injunction, antitrust
legislation, or any of the other sub
jects on which he now appeals to the
public. But of course he indorses all
of them now that the party advocates
them.
The new tariff law presents its COM
pliments to its trainers on their return
to Washington. with an evidence OF
steady growth in earnings. They were
in August $19,023.614. in September
$21. 49,, 09S. in October $24.391, AIS. and
in November $25,OOO.OOO. This is u
steady. healthful growth. which indi-
Gates that long before its first year
has ended it will be producing the
promised surplus.
A ton Of cancelled farm mortgages
is proposed as an interesting exhibit
for the Trans-Mississippi Exposition.
The farmers of the entire Mississippi
valley could easily arrange this. but
wouldn't it be pretty hard on MIR.
Bryan, right in his own state and I'M
der the shadow of his own editorial
sanctum?
The silver statesmen who visited
Japan last summer ought to make
a report before the departure OF MIR.
Bryan for Mexico. and thus enable him
to advise the Mexicans how to escape
that horrible fatality which has drawn
the most intelligent nations of the
earth away from the fluctuating silver
standard.
Free coinage advocates find little en-
cOuragement when they compare the
results of the late election with those
of corresponding date in previous
political cycles. In Ohio, Nebraska.
Iowa, Kentucky, Virginia and Mas.a-
chusetts the Democratic platforms
made the silver issue as prominent i'll
the elections of 1897 as in 1896. In
every one of these states the falling OFF
in Democratic votes as compared With
the preceding presidential election was
greater than was the case In the
election of 1898, the year following the
presidential election in which genuine
Democratic principles Of free trade
were the issue. The Democrats OF
these six states in 1893 stuck to legiti-
mate Democratic issues. similar to
those of 1892. while. in 1897 they rei:-
Grated their free silver doctrines OF
1896. The result was that in Ohio they
lost in 1897 Is per cent of their vote OF
the preceding year. against loss OF
IL per cent in 1893; in Iowa the loss in
1897 was 13 per cent. in 1893 II per
cent: in Kentucky in 1897 the loss was
IA per cent, in 1894 (there being no
election in that state in 1889. 6 per
cent; in Virginia in 1897 % per cent.
In 1893 81 per cent; in Massachusetts
in 1897, "a per cent. in 1899 IL per
cent; in Nebraska in 1897 a loss Of
IL per cent, against an actual gain OF
IS per cent in 1893. Not very encour-
aging to new doctrines. EN-?
The administration has managed its
work so admirably as to give the enc
my no points of vantage. while The
tariff legislation of the special session
of congress is go satisfactory to the
public that it can not be successfully
attacked. Democratic attacks about
the Cuban policy, the Hawaiian policy.
and the Pacific railroad sale have one
by one failed. while the general pros
perity which has followed Republican