Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1897-06-25
Political Gossip.


Political Gossip.
President Cleveland pulled down
the American flag in Hawaii Presi-
dent Mckinley pulled it up again.
Indications still warrant the be.
lief that the tariff bill will pass the
Senate before the end of the month
and that the conference over the
difference between the House and
Senate will be unusually short one.
This has been a sad week for the
few Democratic fossils who still
cling to the free-trade Democratic
theory. One third of the Southern
votes in Congress have either sup
ported the high protective features
of the pending tariff bill or refused
to be recorded against it.
With one member of the Demo-
cratic team pulling in the direction
of free trade, another towards pro
lection, still third in favor of free
silver, and a fourth headed reso.
lutely toward the gold standard, the
Jeffersonian- -Jacksonian band wagon
is not making much progress.
The trade reviews and the daily
papers of the country unite in the
assertion that business is brighten
ing in all parts of the United States.
More men are employed, the volume
of new orders is increasing, and the
amount of work done is steadily
gaining. With the final action on
the tariff bill, which may be ex-
pected during the present month, an
increased improvement is confid.
emily expected.
People who are surprised that the
Republicans in the Senate are not
answering in detail the attacks
made by the Democrats upon the
pending tariff bill need not suppose
that it is because of lack of argu
ment or facts upon which to base
them.
Their silence is simply because of
their unwillingness to consume a
moment of time more than is abso-
lutely necessary in getting the bill
before the Senate.
Every side of the Cuban question
is being considered by President
Mckinley now, and a course of ac-
ton is likely to be indicated in the
near future. The Importance and
gravity of the issues involved and
possible consequences of a mistake
are so great that the President and
his advisers are moving with the ut.
most caution, as any judicious citi
zen would do if such grave responsi.
bilities were placed upon his indivi.
dual shoulders.
If farm prices do not stop advanc.
ing and silver prices do not stoI
their downward course, there will
be nothing left to sustain the CHIEF
theory of the free coinage orators OF
last fall that prices of products kept
pace with those of silver. Leading
farm products have increased il
price from so to 100 per cent. since
this beautiful theory was exploited
ON the stump last fall, while tho
price of silver has meantime stead
lily decreased.
Rotation in Office is popular
with the friends of free silver a!
we'll as others. 1t is whispered tina
the real cause of the Chicago gather
ing of a few days since which or
ganized what was called the Silver
Republican Party was to set on foo
a movement which should push t
the front an entirely new leader fo,
the silver cause and dump to tn,
bottom, of the deep blue sea William
Jennings Bryan, who led the party
to defeat last year.
Senator Jones, Vest and Mill
didn' t know it was loaded. They be
gun shouting about a small advanc,
of 6 per cent. in the value of sugar
trust stocks simultaneously with
settlement of the sugar schedule
by the final action upon it in tn
Senate caucus, but had evidentl!
forgotten that when the tariff bill
was in their own charge, in 1894
stocks of this same sugar trust ad
vanced 55 per cent. in value durinl
their manipulation of the bill.
The fear that the conference owe
the disagreement between the Hou-
and Senate on the tariff bill woul'
be long one is being very materi
ally reduced by the fact that tn
Senate has rejected the most i'm
portant of the changes made by th
Finance Committee, and returned t.
practically the House rates OF
nearly all of the items where tn
changes have created much discus
sion. The only important schedul
now remaining is that which relate
to wool. and there is reason to be
lieve that the House rates will be re
stored in this.
just try 1Oc box of Cascarets tn
finest liver and bowel regulator eve
made.