The sun., 1897-12-24
III SUM- WILMINGTON DELAWARE FRIDAY, DECEMBER "a 1897

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Good Morning.
CHINA will understand thoroughly before long the something
equally yasgood proposition.
New YORK milk trust been organized With capital of
$4,000 ooo-watered of course
WASHINGTON is beginning Of its
baseball deal with Baltimore There is growing suspicion
that Washington is very easy town.
Mr. BRYAN ought stay home and help sraghten affairs
there In three last administrations the Nebraska State Treasury
has been faudulenty relieved of half million dollars.
CHICAGO made great deal Of fun Of reom during the last
campaign, and elected City Council that had for 'his
goody soody business" they called it, city affairs The
Aldermen have voted themselves $780, each for
ae for which they have much they have for extra
pr Of feet It Of the picturesque exhibitions Of treas
ury loong witnessed for long me and Chicago will precious
little sympathy while it goes
WHEN cegymen undertake discuss economic andsoca prob
lens they almost invariably ignorance of the facts in
volved in them Here is Dr. Rainsod for example, proposing
find employment for the unemployed by setting them ctvang
the soil! "Thee work the farms he says, 'and there is
he thinpn MOTTO is
agrcuure Yet last Monday convention of
Memphis Tenn unanimously agreed that too much cotton is
raised The Western farmers i'll places burning their
because will not sell for much buy co the
oveproduction Of wheat except this year, hasept the price of
down to half dollar buse aud from aover the country
complaints that poao hops apples and othe crops fail to
munerate the farmer
TURKEYS apology firing on the Bancroft came in double
quick time.
When the gunboa Bancroft the Mediterranean it
understood that her mission take station guardip
Constantnop if the Turks would permit At that time there
foolish talk Of herrunnng the gauntlet of the Darda
nee forts, which, Of course, could have sunk her in few
moments She did not test Turkish Workmanship in that wav
but few weeks she got blank shot her bows from the
Yenkale fort at Smyrna when trying that port night
The Bancroft has been stationed long, time Smyrna and
returning from short trip another place. suggestion
that has been offered therefore, is the possibility that her
mander ignorant of the regulation prohibiting the
osps night The explanation given that there lights
in the lighthouses but the vessels nevertheless su,s
to have been timed for the night INSTEAD of the day.
However, appears that the Turks speedily put themselves in
the wrong When boat from the Bancroft sent toward the
shore to find out what the trouble couple muset
from sentres and the boat then put back The Porte accord
ing the account lost little time making all due apologies
firing the Bancroft Smyrna is not the only port where restrict
ions against night entry exist and closer study Of foreign port
regulations may result.
In series of resolutions adopted by the American Cotton
es' Protective Association at its meeting this week in Memphis
with view to the Improvement Of the industrial condition the
South the uboned recommendations o build factories fo
manufacturing the fields that the South IL
receive the largest oneac annual CROP and that
home markets may be built all other farm products" Tie
wsdo of the policy set forth in the foregoing resolution sell
evident. The resolution denes in less than forty worls
economic system under which the Northern and Western States