Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-06-03

M'kINLEY A FRIEND TO OUR
CITIZENS IN CuBA.as
Calls ON Congress TO Relieve Thosc
Who Are Homeless and Destitute
bill Opposed In the House by n
Democratic Leader.
Capital City Chat.

Cuban question shows that he has a re-
sponsive heart for those who suffer,
and especially If they are American cit
liens. The knowledge that citizens of
this country were suffering and in
want Of food and shelter brought in
stantly from him a message recon-
mending an appropriation for their
benefit. 1t Is understood that the Pres
ident Is only awaiting for more detailed
Information from special representa-
tives whom he has sent to Cuba before
taking equally vigorous action in re-
gard to other matters there. When 1t is
remembered that the first three weeks
of McKinley's administration witness
ed the release of practically all the
Americans who were in Cuban prisons
on the 4th day of March, and that his
action for the relief Of those who were
suffering for want of food was equally
prompt, the contrast between his ac-
tions and those of President Cleveland
is strongly marked. When 1t is remem-
bered also that the objection Of a Dem
ocratic leader" prevented the prompt
passage Of the relief bill in the House.
the contrast between Republican and
Democratic methods is still more sharp.
ly outlined.
Ex-senator Dubois, who has gone
back to Idaho to herd cattle. assures
the dear public, in taking his depar-
ture, that he will be at the front again
with free silver in 1000. The fact that
Peru, Japan and Russia have all gone
to the gold standard since the cam
paign of 1896. in which Mr.. Dubois and
his co-labOrers were vainly shouting
for the free coinage of silver i'm the
United States. coupled with the further
fact that half dozen other countries
have adopted the gold standard during
the past two years, does not supply a
very favorable outlook for those who
are proposing to make the free coin
age of silver an issue of 1900. If the
gold standard continues to make head
way with the nations of the earth as it
has done in the past few months Mr..
Dubois and his associates will find
themselves entirely alone in their adj
vocacy of the free and unlimited coin
age of silver when they attempt to
carry out their promise of bringing it
forward in 1900.
Increased Gold Product.
The gold production continues to in
crease both in the regions where mines
were in operation last year and through
the development of new gold fields.
Mr.. Otis s. Gage, formerly of Wash
ington, ID. c., who has spent the past
two years in Ecuador reports the gold
fields of that country surprising in
richness and extent the famous mines
of South Africa" Reports from Mexico
represent that new and very rich gold
fields are being developed there, ad-
vices from Texas indicate that gold
mines are being developed in the Wich-
ita Mountains, while the new processes
which are now being followed in the
mines Of Georgia and North Carolina
are making gold mining in that section
extremely profitable. Present indica-
tions are that the gold production Of
was the largest in any year in the his
tory Of the world.
Peru's abandonment of the silver
standard proves to be of the most rad
ical type. Detailed statements of her
action on this subject which have
reached Washington show that not
only does she make gold the standard
of value, but the act goes so far as to
prohibit the importation Of silver coin.
Even the product of her own minis
which have gone out OF the country
cannot be returned except mt one port.
where it must be melted into bars.
The assertions of the silver orators
of the last campaign read curiously
now. For instance, that one in which
they insisted that farm products and
silver kept pace in rise and fall IS es-
pecially amusing in view OF the fact
that farm products have steadily risen
in value i'm the past eight months, while
silver has gone in the other direction.
Silver has in the last few weeks reach
ed the lowest point in its history, while
wheat in that same time has reached
a selling price double that which ex-
listed at the very time that these argu-
ments were being most vigorously pre-
scented.
About the Tariff Bill.
4 One million barrels Of American flour
went to Asia last year. This shows
that new field for American farm
products is being opened, and with the
opportunities for reciprocity which
the proposed duty on tea will offer, the
market for our farm products in that
part of the world will be greatly in
creased. A good evidence of the
growth Of the protective sentiment in
the South Is found in the presence at
Washington this week of delegation
from several of the Southern States
urging that the protective clause of the
Dingley bill on rice be maintained, and
the lower rates named by the amend.
ment Of the Senate committee rejected
That the pending tariff bill is espe-
cially satisfactory to the farmer is
shown by the closing sentence of an
article in the Minneapolis Tribune
whose editors have especial facilities
for testing the sentiment of the agri
cultural classes of the country. The
sentence in question says: There is
one thing certain; the Western farm.
ers will not have any cause to com
plain that the bill was constructed In
the interests of Eastern manufactur
ers and capitalists as opposed to their
own; II Is the most favorable tariff bill
to the farmers ever framed" Notwith
standing these things, Prof. Wilson Is