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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-12-11
Faith In the New Tariff.

The great business improvement which
the country has seen since last July is due
largely to the feeling among merchants
and business men that the new tariff will
furnish both protection and revenue sufti-
cient to run the Government. This sim
pie restoration of confidence has brought
forth millions of dollars and given employ
ment to thousands of hands at improved
wages 1t has caused unused chimneys
to pour forth black smoke and idle wheels
to revolve merrily. The new tariff is in
operation, and its revenues are constant
ly increasing month by month and week
by week. Yet it is to be expected the
Democrats will say that the Dingley law
has nothing to do with the Improvement.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-12-11

The returns issued by the London
Board of Trade show that during the
month of October there was a decrease
of 100000 in the value of British ex-
ports, and also decrease of 100000 in
the value of imports. The decline was
chiefly in yarns and textiles. The decrease
in the exports of machinery was nearly
s., 800 900, owing to the strike of the en-
gineers. The shipments of tin plates to
the United States continue to decrease,
and the wheat shipments from America
to increase. The total decrease in the
value of exports for ten months of 1897
is S3O,000,00O, as compared with the cor
responding period last year.
The successful competition of the Unit
ed States. Germany, Belgium and other
countries blessed by protection has had far
more to do with the decrease in British
exports of machinery than has the strike
of the engineers. To the same cause is
due the decrease of S30,00O,00O in the
general line of British exports in the first
ten months of 1897. OF all the nations of
Europe Great Britain is the only one left
that clings to free trade, and she is losing
her prestige in manufactures al a ruin
Gus rate.-American Economist.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-12-11
R,ind. but SIM shoutine.

The fact that the gold mines of the
world are now producing more than
enough gold to furnish the currency nee
essary to keep pace with the growth of
population does not disturb the silver
mine owners, who are clamoring for the
use of their metal for currency IT has
recently been shown that the cost of pro-
ducing the amount of silver required for n
silver dollar is on an average about TWEEN
ty cents, but notwithstanding this they
go calmly on insisting that their metal
shall be used for making dollars at a
cost of twenty cents apiece, despite the
fact that sufficient gold is now being min
ed to meet the requirements of commerce
and business.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-12-11
" What's the Matter with GoId?"

We have coined about 500, COG, 600 of
silver We have now over 5000, 0O0, 00C
of gold. Silver will sell for the cost of
production at the mines, and it is being
mined now proftably in many mines. Free
coinage at 16 to L would deprive US of our
gold currency and bring the country to
silver basis, while all the ma tons we need
deal with pay us gold. The hard times
Just vanishing were not caused by any
legislation regarding currency, other
people have claimed. The farmers bring
the money from abroad into this country;
we get pay for grains, meats, dairy pro-
ducts, etc, in gold. Some people advise
US to insist on getting our pay in silver
What's the matter with gold? 1t goes;
1T is all our foreign customers have to
pay us with. Nobody refuses it here. We
deal in gold values now, do business with
1T Why interrupt coming prosperity
with divided counsels over a change to
silver values that would relegate gold to
the safety deposit vaults? Gold is an
American product, increasing every day
from Alaska to Tennessee. Gold, and pa
per representing it, are good the world
over. We have perhaps SI00, 100000 of
silver in circulation. 1t pays debts be-
cause redeemable in gold. Its eertifi-
Gates are good and in national use. Our
greenbacks are good because redeemable
in gold. We have plenty of currency, all
good, all interchangeable Why should
we inquire farther into currency? 1t il
merely the meas surfing stick of exchange
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-12-11
DineIey Law FulfiIls PROMISES.

The Dingley law is doing all that its
trainers promised for it up to this time.
The November receipts will average near
~ one million dollars per day for each
business day of the month. All of this is
accomplished without any material reve-
from the duty on sugar, as the i'm
porters are now using up their large stock
of that article which was imported before
the new law went into effect. 1t is esti-
mated that the revenue from the duty on
sugar when the present stock is exhaust
ed will avera ge S5,00O,0OO a month, which
of itself will be sufficient to bring the
revenue up to sum equal to the ordinary
expenditures. With the increase which
will come from other articles, such as
wool, wooden goods and other manufac-
lures with which the country had been
filled, it is now perfectly apparent that
the revenue produced under this law will
be ample to not only cover all the ex-
penses of the Government. but replace the
losses under the Wilson law.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-12-11
A Great Industry.

Secretary Wilson, is constantly on the
lookout for ways and means to benefit the
farmers of the United States. The report
of his department is of unusual impor-
lance this year, because 1t treats of the
efforts to stimulate the production of
sugar beets. Secretary Wilson is an en-
thusiast on this subject. He predicts that
in ten years the United States viii be an
exporter of sugar, instead of the largest
importer in the world.
The capacity of the United States for
the production of beet sugar is practically
unlimited; and with the object of ascer-
tanning the most favorable localities for
its growth, Secretary Wilson distributed
seven tons of imported sugar beet seeds
among $1,000 farmers in twenty-seyen
States, with the understanding that they
should furnish samples of their crop to
the department for the purpose of analy-
sis and statement explaining the condi-
tons under which each sample was pro-
duced, and the method of culture
The Secretary expresses himself as
deeply gratified by the returns. The most
favorable results have been obtained from
those sections of the United States where
new industries were demanded for the
farmer and where the manufacture of
beets into sugar can be accomplished with
the greatest economy as to labor and
transportation. The experiments in west
ern Nebraska, Utah and California which
have been going on for some years have
demonstrated the practicability of beet
culture in those sections, but the samples
of this years crop which have been for
warded to the department at Washington
and the experiment stations elsewhere
show that the soil and climate of Ohio
and other Central States are even better
adapted for this sort of crop than those
of the far West. 1t is on the result of
these tests that Secretary Wilson bases
his prediction that in ten years this coun-
try will have sugar to sell.-Akron 90
Beacon.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-12-11
Tel,er,s "DeadIy Connection,

Senator Teller will soon be able to lay
away on the upper shelf of his library that
much-worn sentence about the deadly
competition" which the silver-using coun-
tries are making against the United
States in international commerce. Rus
STA, Japan and several of the South Amer
lean silver-using countries have all gone
to the gold standard since Mr.. Teller
started his deadly competition argument
into the field, and now word comes that
China is about to follow in the same line,
thus leaving Mexico and a few South
American countries our only deadly COM
petitors."
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-12-11
Exports Outstrip Population.

Mr.. Michael Mulhall, in a paper in the
North American Review, asserts that in
the last twenty years the population of
the United States has risen from $780,
600 to Il 100000 souls-an increase of 90
per cent-and at the same time the value
of exports has risen TO per cent-that is,
three times as fast as the popula ton. The
same eminent authority declares that
1.-The quantities of food yearly exported
are sufficient to feed 100000 persons
in Europe, from which it appears that
American farms raise food for 10000
600 of people yearly With a productive
capacity so vastly in excess of the de-
mands of the home market it is evident
that foreign markets must be opened for
our surplus if the country is to enjoy per-
manent prosperity. If the administra ton
can do this through the gates of recip-
rocity, all right; if not, the country will
find another way of breaking down the
barriers which choke the channels of dis
tribution.-Exchange.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-12-11
Expectations Increase Under Ding
lev LAW.

Not even the satisfaction is left to the
free trade Democrats of saying that the
Wilson law was better for the exporters
of American manufa ctures than the Ding
ley law. They thought they had things
dead to rights on this score, and that as
soon the new law went into operation
they would be able to point to the decrease
in the expectations of American manu-
features, but in the very first month of
the new laws opera tons the expectations
of manufactured articles were larger than
in the corresponding month of any for
mer year. This is disappointing to these
gentry, and somewhat amusing, in con-
nection with their walls of regret that
such Il wicked measure should be enacted
as the Dingley law, which would cut off
our foreign markets.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-12-11
Good Times for Farmers.

Comptroller Eckels of the Treasury De
partment says that the conditions through
out the country are most satisfacto
The improvement has come rapidly and
permeates all lines of industry. 1t began
with the agricultural classes. The farm
ers have good eraps and are getting high
prices for them. 9'he cattle ra:sers are
benefited by substantial rise in rhe price
of cattle. The same is true with the sheep
raisers. This Improvement in agricultural
earnings has had its effect on the rail-
roads by increasing their earnings. 1t
has put money into circulation and has
enabled people to discharge their debts
and thereby benefited the merchants.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-12-11
Adopting a New Craze.

That the Democracy is substituting for
the free silver issue the single tax idea
and others such is shown by the action of
National Committeeman Shanklin of In
diana. who, in the same day, addressed
Mr.. Bryan as the next President of the
United States and then stated that he
would support Henry George if he We're
in New York. AS is well known. George
was the original single tax prophet and,
in addition to this, attracted to his sup
port in New York all the socialists, dis
contentists and other lists. This brings
Bryan, free silver, single tax, socialism,
red flags and various other cardinal prin-
ciples into pretty close touch.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-12-11
He Disagrees with Bryan.

'Those who, at the dictation of their
own enemies, disregar ded their old friends
and attempted to revolutioniZe the creed
of their old party will justly be held re-
sponsible for all the results that have here
tofore followed or shall hereafter follow
their departure from Democratic princi-
pies and traditions, and we who have re-
fused to desert the old standard and coal
esce with the advocates of fiatism. social
ism, protectionism any other form of
government paternalism can we'll afford
to stand where we and wait for de-
liverance which is sure to come. Elk
Secretary Carlisle.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-12-11

Evidences of improved business condi-
tons are found in almost every spot in the
United States. A single instance of this
is given by Congressman Weaver of Ohio.
who says of the Eillage of Troy, in that
State, that the output of the wagon works
at that place in August, 1897. was 80
200, against So. 200 in August of last year;
in September, 1897, $17.100, against So
600 in September of last year; in October.
1897, $26,4 400, against $500 in October
of last year. The Piqua rolling mill. To-
Gated in the same district, reports a larg-
er sale of iron in the last seventeen weeks
than of the entire year of 1896.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-12-11
We Welcome Maryland.

Maryland, by her recent Republican vic
tory. now assumes a permanent position
in the Republican column. In three sue
cessive years-95, go, '97-the Republi-
cans have, in hard-fOught campaigns on
both sides, carried the State by good
majorities, so that many leading politi-
clans of both parties now look upon Mary
land as safe Republican State This is
another evidence of the steady growth of
sentiment in favor of Republican princi-
pies in the South, as we'll as the North,
the Republican representation from the
South in the House having grown from
year to year until it is now larger than in
any previous year in the history of the
cOuntrv
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-12-11
Political Bird-ShOt.

1t was an ':off year, in Ohio for tho
other fellows.
Mr.. Bryan and ex-Gov. Boies are still
speaking terms.
Mr.. Bryan is probably thinking now of
the blasted furnaces.
The free silver sun has set and the free
silver wave has receded.
The Hon. Arthur p. German is con-
templating retiring to private life.
The rails in the Western country are
bright and shining with the heavy freight
traffic.
There have been two .'off years. in
Ohio. This year and last year-for the
Democrats.
Some of his speeches would indicate
that Mr.. Bryan wore smoked glasses
while in Ohio.
Chairman Jones still sticks by ex-candi-
date Bryan, and says that silver is all
right an issue.
The Mexicans will forgive Mr.. Bryan
for going to Ohio first if he will make his
next call on them
How about that Dingley law Chinese
wall? 1t doesn't interfere, apparently,
with our export trade.
The freight traffic of the West keeps the
rails bright. Railroad rails; not Popo-
cratic rails against prosperity.
Il he MeXlcanS missed the greatest op-
portunity of their lives when William
Jennings didn't visit them.
The waves of Republican prosperity
continue to wash away the planks from
the silvercratic Chicago platform.
Mr.. Bryan made numerous speeches
during his recent tour through Ohio, but
reading one was reading them all.
Facts, figures and prosperity are run
ming along hand in hand and they are all
giving the free trade silver croakers trou-
bic.
Mr.. Bryan's Ohio speeches showed that
he is still joined to his idols, despite the
fact that everybody else is abandoning
them.
One hundred thousand tons of Alabama
coal have recently gone to Mexico for the
use of her locomotives. Good for the
South.
1t is to be expected that Democrats will
deny that the Dingley law has anything
to do with the return of prosperity to the
country
The Ohio counties In which Mr.. Bryan
spoke - the late ean1paig<- i7creaEef1 their
Republican majorities 997 votes over
those of last year.
Last year, in our commercial relations
with Great Britain, the balance of trade
in our favor was greater than in any pre-
vious year in history.
Under President Cleveland the per cap
tia circulation in the country fell to
$21.10, but it has increased under Presi-
dent Mckinley to 500. SO.
The Democratic New York Journal
says that gold is on its way to New
York and the tide of domestic manufac-
turing interests rises highereach day Inc
railroads are blocked up with the crush OF
business all along the line
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-12-11
No Retaliation.

Not so much is being heard now from
Democrats as a short time ago about the
retaliation of foreign countries against
the provisions of our new tariff measure.
great deal was said about the injury
to our export trade which would result
from the action which foreigners would
feel obliged to take to offset the results
of the new tariff: but official figures now
show that our exports of grain and man.
ufactured articles continue right along
in spite of the new tariff, and, in fact,
that they are increasing rather than de-
crea sing under it.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-12-11

ket for American wheat products is being
developed in Asia. From 1887 to 1891,
inclusive, average annual sales of wheat
-four in Japan were Sc, 659 barrels; from
1892 to 1896, inclusive, a Jas. In 1896
alone Japuan bought los, 5S2 barrels of
our -four. For the same periods the aver
age annual sales in China were 1o.ooS
and 20, 723. The best Asiatic market,
however, seems to be the British posses
sion of Hong Kong, which last years took
S25, S72 barrels of flour.-Exchange.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-12-11
Populists Tired of Democracy.

Further fusion between Populism and
Democracy grows more unpopular in the
South as the months pass. Congressman
Howard of Alabama, a prominent mem
Der of the Populist party, said in re-
cent interview in Cincinnati: 1T will be
iompssible to get the support of our party
for Mr.. Bryan again. Populists will not
be drawn into the support of Democratic
candidates. We have been betrayed by
the Democrats, and it will be impossible
for them to use our party again in ma
tiOna1 election -
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-12-11
Increased Wheat Exports.

Everything seems to be going against
free silver theorists Despite the refusal
of the United States to adopt the free
coinage of silver the farmers of the eoun-
try received more than twice much for
the September sales of wheat as in Sep
TENDER of last year. The September ex-
ports OF wheat, Acrori1ing to Dunfs Re
view. were 25,86S,S38 bushels, against
IL GAG, S15 bushels in September, 1896,
but owing to higher prices this yeac the
money received for these expectations
was more than double in 1897 than in
1896
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-12-11
No satisfaction for Free Traders.

Free traders who expected support for
their peculiar views from the English
statistician, Mulhall, will be disappointed
to know that he has taken pains to point
out the fact that the expectations of the
United States have increased three times
as fast as has her population during the
protective tariff period Mr.. Mulhall
shows in recently published article that
while the increase in population in the
past twenty years has been 50 per cent,
the increase in the value of exporta tions
has been 115 per cent, and practically all
that under a high protective tariff.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-12-11
He Speaks His Mind.

''Uncle Hod' Boies cannot be kept still.
All of the threats and persuasions OF his
Democratic associates will not induce
him to any longer support the free coin
age proposition of the Democratic plat
form of last year. He is out in new
and vigorous communication, in which he
saws that while he wants to see silver
used as currency, he is satisfied that the
proposition for its free and unlimited coin
age at a ratio so different from the COM
lnercial ratio would be not only inJudi-
cious, but fatal.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-12-11
A New Omcer

The new Commissioner on Reciprocity.
Mr. John Kasson, is especially fitted for
the position to which he has been appoint
ed. He is an eminent diplomat and when
serving as minister to Austria, and, also,
minister to Germany, rendered valua-
BILE service to this country from COM
mercial standpoint. Mr.. Easson is now
engaged in getting his new department
into running order.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-12-11

English manufacturers must cheaper
their cost of production if they are to
hold their ground against the American
competitor. And all this is happening
under the Dingley law, of which the free
traders said, three months ago, that its
effect would be to close foreign markets
to American commerce, and especially
manufac tureS.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-12-11
Customs Receipts Increasing.

The receipts from the new tariff law
now show an increase over the receipts
of the Wilson law at corresponding date
last year. The treasury officials expect
by the first of the year that the receipts
will be sufficient to meet current expenses
of the Government. This will be novel
experience to such clerks as have been in
the Treasury Department only since the
beginning of CIeveland's last administra-
tiOn
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-12-11
Joint Tour of Stars.

Who is responsible for the statement
that champion Fitzsimmons and ex-can-
didate Bryan are to make a starring tour
Fitzsimmons to do the sparring and Bry-
an the starring? This would make a
strong team in view of F'itzsimmons'
weIl-known popularity and Bryan's ex-
ceptional success of late in making
speeches at county fairs for share of the
gate receipts
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-12-11
A Bryanitfc Fizzle.

The Bryan experiment in Ohio during
the closing days of the campaign there
was fizzle. In the counties in which he
held forth to the delighted farmers the
Republican majorities averaged about a
hundred greater than last year. If Bryan
had spoken from every stump as orig
inally announced, what would have been
The reSIIIt2
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-12-11
Lareestin Historx.

The report of the Interstate Commerce
Commission adds to the weight of evil
dence already at hand Of an improved
business condition of the country. 1t
shows that the freight tonnage of the last
year is the largest of any year in the his
tory of the country, being 100000 tons
greater than that of last year.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-12-11
KNOWS a Dead Dog.

Your Uncle ..Hod" Boies has made an
other statement to the effect that 1.-THE
Chicago platform is at variance with the
whole theory of our form of government .
Now, Uncle Hod was supporting the plat
form last year, but he kBowA azt1e1d dog
when he sees it, and he would like to rally
the party to some other issue.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-12-11
why Are They silent?

1t was thought that the mails and wires
would be kept hot embarrassing with To
ports as to why Japan ought not to have
adopted the gold standard, as n result of
the trip of certain trio of American sill
yer statesmen who took a vacation in
Japan at the expense of the silver trust
but the American people have again been
doomed TO disappointment aud not n word
has been heard from these patriots
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-12-11

When Mexican takes So in Mexican
silver, for every dollar of which he has to
work as hard as his American brother
works for his gold dollar, and buys with
it goods worth 81 in American gold, that
is Mexican Bryanite prosperity. The
workingmen of this country don't want
any of it in theirs
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-12-11
His Logic Doesn,t Conxince.

Mr.. Bryan explains" very satisfac-
torily, 10 himself, why silver has fallen a
fifth of its value since he was roaming
the country last year, while at the same
time wheat has advanced 80 per cent in
value, but now and then he runs up
against a farmer who can't see through
his logic 1t is remarkable how some
farmers can't be convinced.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-12-11
England Buys american Goods.

The growing demand in England and
other foreign countries for American man
ufactures is commented GA by the Lon
don Economist, which says, IN a recent
issue, that England is becoming a large
purchaser of American manufactures, es-
pecially in iron and steel lines, and that