The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1897-08-07
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent.

WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent.
Washington, August 2. 1897.
Secretary Gage is paying especially
close attention to the working Of the
Din.ley tariff law, which he thinks one
of the best the country has ever had
and one which will rapidly grow in pop
ularity as its manifold advantages be-
come generally known. The actual ad-
ministration of the tariff law is in the
hands of Assistant Secretary Howell,
who is an expert in the numerous COM
plications which necessarily arise when
a change is made IN the tariff, but Sec
rotary Gage is SO much interested that
he keeps in close touch with ali tariff
matters. Treasury officials say the new
law is unusually free from the errors
and contradictions which have made SO
much trouble for those who have been
charged with the administration of pre-
vious tariff laws.
|
Sherman's recent very vigorous instruc-
tons to Ambassador Hay on the seal
fisheries question that cannot be denied !;
they brought the government of Great
Britain to time. Up to the publication
of Mr.. Sherman's plain language Lord
Salisbury had declined several sugges-
| tons from this government that con-
| ference be held on the subject. AS
soon as Ambassador Hays instructions
were made public John Bull suddenly
saw new light and speedily accepted
the last proposition made by the United
States for an International conference
! on peiagic sealing in Behring Sea, and
the conference will be held IN Washing
ton this fall. No better proof could be
found that plain talk is sometimes
! needed between nations just as much as
! it is between individuals.
Mr.. Samuel c. Durham, mining ex-
| pert and statistician, connected with
the t. S. Bureau of Labor, is now on
! his way to the klondyke gold fields for
the purpose ofmaking an official invest
ication of the resources and conditions
of the gold fields. He expects to get to
| Dawson City before cold weather stops
travel and will spend the winter there.
| Upon Mr.. Dunham's report, which will
be made AS early next year as he can
ascertain the needed facts, much will
depend. If he finds gold as plentiful
as it has been reported to be there will
be the widest rush from the United
States and Canada in the worlds his
tory. If. on the contrary, he reports
the finds of gold to be greatly exagger-
! ated, and tells the other side of the story
generally, the Alaskan gold excitement
will die out as suddenly as it began.
Every republican should be on watch
, for the tariff beats, and he should have
no hesitation in exposing them wher-
ever found. 1t Is. of course, expected
that the democratic free traders will
duplicate the fight they made against
the Mckinley tariff and endeavor to
make sentiment against protection by
pushing up the prices on everything,
but there is worse class of tariff beats.
These traders who for no other reason
than greed attempt to raise the prices
on goods that will not be affected to any
marked extent by the tariff. If YOU
have any such in sour vicinity, expose
him and refuse to patronize him, and
persuade your neighbor to follow YOU
in going to the dealer who is too honest
TO try to add to his profits by putting
up prices on everything and charging
1t all to the tariff 1t was just such men
as they who brought about the four
years of hard times from which the
country has now happily emerged
Watch them, ana show them up.
Neither the Republican National
Committee, nor the Congressional Com.
mi,tee, will have anything to do with
the management of the campaign IN
Maryland this year, but both will rem
der aid in every possible way to the re.
pubicans of that state The MARYLAND
republicans are not disposed to beast
but having licked Boss German out O.
his boots last year they express conf
dence IN their ability to repeat the
; whipping this wear and to elect major
liv of the legislature which will cleo
: Germans successor in the Senate.
Owing TO the election law which en-
: ab!es democrats TO tio as they please il
that state, the Virginia republicans art
not hopeful OF accomplishing anythin.
IN that state this year. although the,
say there is no doubt of the state bein.
republican, if fair connt could be had