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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-21
Indicates a general satisfaction with the

indicates a general satisfaction with the
wool schedule, and has not received sin
gle complaint in regard to the bill gen
orally from the farmers.
ut cannot be expected" continued Mr..
Steele. that any genuine prosperity ana
stability will come to the country until
this tariff matter is settled and rates on
all articles adjusted permanently. fRe
trouble was after the enactment OF the
Mckinley law. that the people did not al
low sufficient time for conditions to prop
eriy adjust themselves and to allow the
law to show its full power. before they
overwhelmed the country with an adverse
criticism and demanded a trial of low
tariff. The people of the country have
had opportunity to see the free trade the
ory put into practical operation and nave
found it wanting, and now we hope tnat
when, this present bill is enacted into law
they will be patient and allow the new
law to thoroughly adjust itself to the con-
ditions of the country. before passing
final judgment on its merits. We conh-
dently predict. that it will bring prosper
ity to the country. but it is not reasonable
to suppose that it can work miracles. or
that it can Immediately place the country
upon the footing and prosperous basis
through many years of continuous protec-
ton prior to the advent of the Wilson law.
The country has demanded a return to the
protective system. and no class has made
the demand stronger in this line than the
farmers. Now when the system is put
into operation. Jet rs give it the necessary
time. after the past years of tearing down
the protective walls of the country, to
gradually bring confidence and the hum
of industry. which has been through his
tory the accompaniment of protective
tariff.
Under free trade. or a low tariff. the
producer or manufacturer has no assur-
ance what the PRICES for his products Will
be. The prices are regulated by the
floods of ma terial and manufactured ar
ticles which are unloaded upon our shores,
the products of the pauper labor of Eu-
rope: he is thus tinid about pursuing this
line of industry TO his full capacity for
fear it will leave him in debt by finding
his markets occupied by foreign goods;
thus his operations are circumscribed and
his purchasing power reduced to mini
mum and many of the people who sold
him their products find themselves With
out a customer Such an instance multi
piled by thousands largely accounts for
the loss Of the home market in this coun-
try"
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-21
Wilson'S Winning Ways.

Secretary Wilson has adopted most
effective way of disabusing the minds of
farmers. particularly in the West and
South, of the delusion that the coinage or
currency question is at the bottom OF
their troubles. 1t will take time, of
course, to carry his project fully into eff
feet. but it marks a decided step in rem
dering the Department of Agriculture one
of the most practical and useful branches
of the Federal Government The public
will heartily sustain him in his efforts to
enable American farmers to better their
lot and to free themselves from the Pesti-
lent influences of political mountebanks
and fakrs.-New York Commercial Ad-
yertiSer
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-21
the price. and it was never SO hard for

the price, and it was never so hard for
the laboring man or the farmer to buy
new suit. How can laborer be benefited
by a reduction of $5 per annum on his
clothing and S10O on his income? OF
what advantage to farmer is cheap
shoddy if he cannot sell his products ex-
cept at prices below cost?
A silly pretense and generally dishon-
est one that should be everywhere expos
ed, is the contention that duties increase
invariably and permanently the prices of
similar domestic production. This is
neither the object nor effect of duties. 1t
is to exclude excessive foreign competi-
ton and hold the home market for home
enterprise and home labor. both in indus
trial and in rural lines. And this is not
theory; it is an accomplished fact. the
inevitable result of which is assured in
very brief period with our abundant cap
ital and superabundant labor, the latter
increased by 100000 to 100000 immi-
grants yearly who cannot be kept employ
ed while our food and clothing is made in
Europe and elsewhere This is PROPOSE
tion which is readily admitted by anyone
not an idiot. In this connection cannot
the farmer see how he is benefited by pro-
lection? The day has arrived when the
farmers must hold the home market or
stare ruin in the face. Ten years increase
of our population requires half as much
wheat as we export and our expectation is
threatened with decrease by Russia and
Argentina, with no prospect scarcely
possibility of increase. We import half
as much food and drink as all our agri-
cultural exports. and our entire consump-
ton already almost equals the enormous
farm production, much of our exports 60
ing to offset the cost of our agricultural
imports. What folly. then, for farmers
to seek to destroy their own market by
free trade competition. 1t is not the dam
ger merely of imported farm products, but
of imported manufactures which make
labor idle. non-consumptive and paralysis
of all industries and that of the farmer
with inevitable certainty. Even blind
farmer ought to be able to see this point
distinctly in the record of four years of a
semi=free trade administration
J. r. DODGE,
EX-Statistician q. S. Department of Ag-
riculture
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-21
Bryan's Case Hopeless.

If these immense crowds which greet
Mr. Bryan wherever he speaks mean that
he is likely to be nominated in 1900 they
indicate that Providence is going to stick
to the Republican party. Mr.. Bryan is
an eloquent and picturesque man, but his
popularity does not grow on close ac-
quaintance. He will never be as strong
again as he was last year. Despite his
rawlings in 1896 that his defeat would
mean national bankruptcy and general
disaster, and his silly fings at the Repub-
lican party since the election, a majority
of the people probably think he is sincere,
but majority of the people can never be
led to think he is the sort of man this
country needs for President.-St. Louis
Globe Democrat
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-21
steady Business improvement.

good many people are complaining
that business is no better than it was be-
fore the election. There has certainly
been no boom, and men of small means
find it about as difficult to get money as
before; but there is certainly an improve
ment in financial conditions, and people
with good collateral and gilt-edged credit
can secure money for legitimate opera
tions at lower rate of interest than ever
known before in this country.
If people will exercise little patience
they may yet witness marvellous bust
ness recovery. as the result of the health
Ter political and industrial conditions
brought about by the Inauguration of a
Republican President and the passage of
a protective tariff.-Minneapolis Tribune.
The interest on our public debt increas-
ed so per cent during Grover C.eveland's
second term in Office. but the interest in
Grover Cleveland and his party during
that time decreased more than 80 per cent.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-21
the President to reduce, If by SO doing

the President to reduce, If by so doing
Germany and France would make similar
reductions on commodities we sell to
them. 1t is, therefore, to be hoped that
Congress will not nibble at reciprocity, but
give the country a strong measure, even
more farreaching than the committee pro-
poses, that will give us new markets for
our-agricultural products in Europesand
our machinery and farm implements in
South America. We have been doing
very We'll IN our exports of manufactures
during the last few years, but the gain in
that direction has not made up for the
loss in agricultural products. We have
plenty of articles to trade on in the man.
ner suggested, if Congress only shows the
courage of its convictions and invests the
President with the widest possible lati-
tude.
The proposed legislation to give1us rev.
enue. increase. our home production, give
employment to American labor and in
crease our influence in the worlds mar
kets is not going to glide through Com
gress without opposition. The free trad
ers will put up strong fight against it,
and they propose to make all the capital
possible out of it, even if there is no fac
tious opposition.
ROBT. P. PORTER, "
Ex-Supt U. S. Census.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-21
Member Ways and Means Committe
-.
Hon. 7. r. Dodge,

Free traders are apt to sneer at the idea
of tariff on farm animals. wheat, barley,
eggs and other products of the farm, and
call attention to the limited amount of
such imports. 1t they are intelligent such
sneering is insincere; if impracticable doc
trinarians, they know no better. Without
a duty on wheat, it can be brought from
Argentine to New York at less expense
than from Nebraska; barley is brought
from Canada in spite of ordinary duties.
and. cattle from Canada and Texas. Wool
was brought from Australia, Cape Colony
and several South American States when
the duty was II cents per pound, and
since it came in free, with free shoddy in
its wake. an amount in single wear.
equal to the entire clip of the United
states, has flooded the country, sending
prices below cost of production and a
fourth of the flocks of the country to the
butchers block, to expectation and to
death by neglect; reduced the value of
those remaining and almost elimina ted
value from the pasture lands of farm and
range The manufacturers who were
promised so much benefit from free wool
greater variety, cheaper cost, a larger ont
put and a foreign market, have been over
run by enormous quantities and denre-
ciated au0ities of manufactured FOREIGN
goods, not admitted free. but at lower
duties. and the result has been the shut
ting down of mills until at one time three
fourths of the factories were imperative
artisans and laborers out of employ. con-
sumption of farm products reduced. conf
dence destroyed, panic intensified and ey-
cry interest of the country affected The
wool growers and manufacturers alone
have lost more by this experiment of free
wocls and lowered wooden duties than the
sum represented by the increase of the ma
tional debt during Cleveland's admnistra-
ton And who has gained? Nobody. The
quality of clothing is reduced more than
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-21
Hos, Walter Evans.

"The agricultural interests of the coun-
try are very comprehensive and include
subjects of vast extent and Importance
corn wheat, sugar, rice. tobacco, cotton,
fruits, horses, mules, cattle. sheep. wool,
etc, are probably those that first strike
you. The farmer needs that demand
should be created and sustained for all
farm products at good prices. Without an
active demand that is reasonably contlnu-
Gus and permanent in character aSrlcuf-
sturai Interests languish. If there is such
demand they flourish. and that is pre-
Gisely equivalent to prosperity for the
fariper: The tariff bill aims at two things
in this conRection, namely, ffrst,Stp guard
>onr .faGmsrs and farm labor against the.
lower wage conditionssef otter. esllltries,
such as Mexico, Canada and many others
more remote, and. second. TO SO stimulate
: the genafal 'industrial energies of the
whole country as to give all the people
work at fair compensation in one form or
another. and IN that way to gain them
the power to buy what the farmers have
for sale. and as a consequence to create
and sustain the demand of which l have
spoken. No class of our people are, more
dependent than are the farmers upon the
successful operation of the doctrine Of pro-
lection to home industries. for, if those
industries are prosperous the great labor
ing classes will have moneS. and will
Herewith buy freely and pay literally and
promptly for what the farmer has, but if
the laboring classes are out of employ:
ment they cannot and do not buy what
the farmer must SELL The last four years
have demonstrated this.aand it seems to
me that the people will not forget it.
Speaking generally, l may say that no
class of our people were more thought of
by the Republican members of the Ways
and Means Committee in preparing the
bill than We're the farmers. and | believe
the provisions of the bill will show this to
be a fact We tried to do what was need
full to re-create our sheep focks and the
wool clips that would follow. We espe-.
cially endeavored to encourage the pro-
duction of sugar, feeling sure that our
farmers could produce all we require if
they would go to work at it. So with all
the other great agricultural products l
have named And in my judgment if the
planters of the South will only address
themselves to it there are other crops than
those now raised there which can be cul-
tivated with great proht-notably, for in
stance, Jute."
WALTER EVANS,
Member Ways and Means Committee.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-21
WALTER EVANS,
Member Ways and Means Committee.
Fon. Robert p. Porter.

The tariff bill is now before the public.
and it is easy to make comparison, item
by item. of the proposed bill with the
present law and the Mckinley law. The
opposition plan is to attack the new bill in
detail. as they did the Mckinley law. and
make all the political capital out of these
attacks. 1t is well for Republicans to be
on guard against these misleading and in
sidious attacks. They should recall the
fact most potent at this time that the sec
tions of the Mckinley law which were
most bitterly assailed are the very sec
tions that subsequently proved of most
benefit to the American producer and the
American wage Garner.
The agricultural interests of the conn
try have been we'll cared for, directly by
the Increase of duties wherever necessary
and indirectly by the provisions for recip-
rocity, which are sure to increase our ex-
ports of agricultural products. Our free
trade friends have shown. great anxiety
over this reciprocity feature of the new
bill with sugar on the dutiable list.
what have,we got to trade with % they in
nocently exclaim. The answer is: ssIots
of things" The new reciprocity will au-
thorize the President to reduce duties in
cases where other nations are willing to
reduce duties on our commodities For
instance. an eighth of a cent reduction per
pound on refined sugar will be an impor-
tant club to hold over Germany, and may
make that nation hesitate to prohibit our
grain and -four and cattle and meat. The
changes in the mineral water schedule
will have the same effect So in the case
of silk and wines from France This pol
lev should be extended much further than
the committee has gone. In addition to
a duty on tea and coffee. but the rate is
not high enough TO have the right effect.
And in the case of the countries which
should make reciprocal arrangements for
our agricultural products the duties should
be placed high, and the right invested in
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-21
Fen. George W. Steele.

Major Steele. Congressman from In
diana and a member of the Ways and
Means Committee, discussed various ton
les of the pending bill. having looked care
fully into the features of the Wilson law
as compared with the Mckinley law. nm
ON which the Dingley bill is very cenera,ly
based. Especially with reference TO live
stock he shows by his remarks in the Con
gressional Record that the decrease in
the values of horses. cattle and sheen in
Indiana alone have been ehormous in
some cases over 60 per cent. In the GA Sc
of cattle and sheep this decrease in vaIue
is directly attributable to the operation
of the Wilson law Cattle were broupht
into-dhis country in great numbers from
Canada and Mexico. Mexican cattle were
brought in across the border at a total
cost. including duty. slightly in excess of
SS per head. and were driven in great
droves eastward. to be finally fattened
in the great corn areas of the West and
then placed upon the Chicago and ether
Western markets. BY this method of
driving. the buyers of herds escaped the
necessity of winter feeding. and they were
thus brought into competition with the
cattle raised by our own farmers at a
cost of about $40 per head. Vast areas of
the grazing kinds of the West are now
idle by reason of this competition. In
addition to this. infectious diseases af-
fectings cattle have been largely spread
among our own herds by these passing
,groves. the Western cattle raiser never
knowing when his herd would become af-
fected anl depleted. Continuing. Mr..
Steele said that there has been an un-
doubted evasion of the law in the payment
OF duty and that great numbers of cattle
have been, brought in without the payment
of any tariff whatever.
The farmers of the middle West, Mr..
Steele says are well satisfied with the re-
turn to 81 per ton duty on hay. This will
shut out the great quantity of Canada
hay which has been brought into the
northern central section of the country by
reason of the short haul, selling in our
markets there. while the hay of the farm
eEs of this country rots in tie stacks. He
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-21
Signs of Better Times.

While the revival of industry from the
depression caused by the Democratic tariff
is slow, as was foreseen by all intelligent
men, it is nevertheless, progressing stead
lily. and in no part of the Union are signs
lacking that the hard times are passing
away. and better conditions returning to
all classes of trade and industry.-San
Francisco Call.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-21
Southern Farmers Prosperous

Hon. J. Pope Brown, president of the
Georgia State Agricultural Society, is re-
ported as saying that ''the farmers of the
State are in better condition than they
have been in twenty years" Mr."Brown
is a farmer, progressive, successful and
prosperous He ought to know and we
believe he is very correct.-Houston Home
Journal
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-21

The following expressions from leading
agriculturists. statisticians and statesmen
relative to the Dingiey bill and its rela-
ton to the agricultural element of the
community and to agriculture itself, will
be of interest to every reader, whatever
his occupa ton. The class of men select
ed for this expression of views includes
men whose trainingsas students of agri-
culture from a practical and statistical
standpoint of actual practice in prepar-
ing the bill itself. renders their consensus
of opinion upon this measure extremsiy r
valuable
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-21
A VERSATILE AGRlCULTURlST.
Secretary Wilson Looking Out for
Various Farm industries.

Secretary Wilson Looking Out for
Various Farm Industries.
Secretary Wilson of the Department of
Agriculture, learning incidentally that
corn was being shipped from the United
States to Denmark to be fed to cows,
whose butter is marketed in London, at
once conceived the idea that American
corn should be turned into butter by
American cows and marketed in London
by American farmers. :
Upon inquiry at the Treasury Depart
I ment, Mr. Wilson learned that he had
power and authority to spend the Gov
ernment's money about as he saw fit. He
had purpose in view in. making the in
quiry. and at once issued orders to his as
sistants to buy several hundred pounds
of the. best creamery butter made in Hi
nois, Iowa and one or two other States.
This will be shipped to the Governments
animal industry agent in London, and
+ placed upon the market. The butter will
be.seht in various packages, and the agent
will be instructed to report what the mar
.ket wants in the way of package, color of
butter, salt, favor, etc. 1t is expected
that in this way a knowledge of the wants
%of the English markets will be obtained.
to the end that the farmers of the United
States will soon be getting fair share
of the English butter trade.
. Secretary Wilson says scientific work is
all right, but he wants scientific work
that has practical value. 1.-THE trouble
with many of our scientists of the Agri-
cultural Department" he says. ''is that
they work for the delectation of other sci
entists. for the approval of their fellows in
the'scientifc world. l want them to work
for the farmer"
Currency Reform Not "Shelved."
The assertion which is made by some of
the sound money Democratic papers that
the Republicans have .'shelved' monetary
reform is little too preciptate. Presi-
dent Mckinley gave prominent place to
this subject in his inaugural address, and
suggested the appointment of a commits
sion to go over the whole question and re-
port plan which would bring our diverse
and illogical financial system into approx
innate harmony with the requirements of
the time A bill to carry out the Presi-
dents suggestion has been introduced in
the House.
1t would be unreasonable to blame the
Republicans for giving precedence to the
tariff question A deficit of something
like $7O,O00,O00 year in the revenues is
to be provided for; and this necessity is
far greater than that of reforming the
financial system, urgent as the latter re-
quirement is. The condition of the cur
~rency will not get worse, for the assault
on the nations monetary stability and SOL
vency made last year has been repelled,
and it cannot be repeated until three years
hence at the earliest. On the other hand
the necessity for immediate action on the
question of the revenues is Imperative
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-05-04
Hammering Sense Into Him.

I'm cured, F." declared young fellow
with good looks and an abundance of
animal spirits to several of his boon
companions the other evening. "You
know that my sister Lena clerks down
town and is frequently detained till
after dark. On such occasions she walks
home with girl friend in the same es-
adjustment Lena has always said that
if any man ever tried to stop them she
would make it SO hot for him that he
would try to find some hcuest employ
ment, and / thought I'd Just test her
courage for the fun of the thing.
Il did. When the girls were hurrying
along about two blocks from home. I
sprang out of an alley, stuck an empty
revolver in their faces, ordered them to
throw up their hands and told them
that scream from either of them would
mean immediate death. The other girl
went to screeching, but Lena was loaded
for bear and swiped me over the head
with an iron poker that had dangled
from her belt under her cloak. l tried
to explain, but she was too excited to
heed anything but the job she had un-
dertaken. I was knocked down, but she
welted away till my scalp was slit in
30 directions. The cries of the other
one brought policeman, and even after
the whole thing was explained he in
sisted on walking home with us to make
sure Of my identity. Under the impress
sion that the policeman had dubbed me
numerically, the old gentleman was
calling for weapon with which to an
initiate him, when Lena hurriedly told
the story.
I'm 90, but father kicked me around
the house three times and then threw
me into bed. He informed me that the
average lunatic could teach me common
Eense, and believed him. I've sworn
off on practical jokes Detroit Free
presq