The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1897-04-01
washington Correspondence

metallism, has alarmed the silver lead
era. They begin to fear that they are
going to lose their occupation. They
have talked themselves into public
prominence and public positions on the
silver question and they are now scared
lest the proposed International silver
conference will take that subject out
Of politics. They recognize the fact
that il the bimetallic conference agrees
upon a plan and it is adopted by the
various nations, the silver question
will 60 out of politics in the United
States and they will be out of a job.
They also recognize the fact that if
the nations fail to agree upon a system
for an increased use of silver, it would
be folly for the United States alone to
undertake it, hence, they would be I'M
der those circumstances, out of a job.
So, 1t is not surprising that such men
as Dubois, Teller, Stewart and other
alleged friends of silver sneer at the
proposed bimetallic conference and are
doing all in their power to prevent its
success, or even its consideration.
Protection Gaining Ground.
The protective tariff idea is gaining
q foothold permanently in every party.
Senators McEnery, Caffery, Smith, and
several others on the Democratic side
Of the senate are likely to support the
Republican tariff measure. Populists
Kv1o Hatfield ond mn m <xvo nth oro
of that party are, it is understood,
likely to vote for protection. OF the
silver Republicans, practically all are
in principle protectionists. Thus the
great principle of the Republican party,
that which has been the leading
thought in its declarations since it's
existence, is coming to be gradually
recognized and accepted by members OF
all parties.
Great Britain has another evidence
of the distress of free trade in the ex-
perience of one of her children, Aus
tralia. New South Wales recently en-
tered upon new experiment in low
tariff and the result has been extreme
distress. An official report of the New
South Wales Chamber of Manufacture
ers shows the effect of the low tariff
to have been reduction in wages,
workmen discharged, works closed and
industries abandoned which had taken
expenditure of many years of effort and
much capital to establish This is
very much like our own experiences
with 10vu TO riff
Free Traders Responsible for Big APP
preparations.
The Republicans in the new con-
gress are going to make an effort to get
back to the system of placing the ap-
preparation bills in the hands of one
committee. The free traders who got
control of congress when Grover
Cleveland hrst came into the White
House distributed the appropriation
bills to a half-dozen committees in or
der to take them out of the hands of
Protectionist Sam Randall and at the
same time more thoroughly control the
house in favor of the free trade plans
They succeeded, both in distributing
the appropriation bills and in passing
their free trade tariff act. The result
of the distribution of the appropria-
ton bills was an enormous increase in
expenditures and the result of the pas
sage of the low tariff act was an enor-
nous decrease of the receipts. Result:
An increase in national indebtedness
in the last four years amounting to
262 million dollars. The Republican
party, now that it resumes control,
must first change the systems which
produce these evil results and then go
to work and pay the debts which the
Democrats piled up. To do this they
will first reduce expenditures by. plac-
ing the appropriation bills in the hands
of one committee; second, increase
the receipts by protective tariff and
general business activity, and then re-
sumo the task which they carried on
successfully for many years of paying
off public Indebtedness.
"a Plain American Citizen"
President Mckinley has shown him
self a plain American citizen in the
first week of his occupancy of the Pres
idential Office.
There were no ''frills" about his in
augural address, no unnecessary ex-
clusiveness in any part of his share of
the days doings, and when he became
master of the White House it's doors
were thrown open, and day after day
throngs of people from every section
and state have been received by him.
The surviving members of his old regi-
ment, the Twenty-third Ohio, called
upon him the day following his inau-
guration, and not for many years have
the walls of the White House echoed
such ringing cheers as those with which
they greeted their old comrade and
commander. The days work over, this
statesman and plain American citizen
donned his hat and overc0at, and for
the first time in many years there was
witnessed the spectacle of a President
~ <ho TYuifo6 States valkin0 nnaffond.