The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-06-13
hat may be interesting:

at will be seen that it was fully six
weeks before the export figures had grown
to really phenomenal proportions but that
was only because it took time TO get the
grain moved from the west to tide water
and time to get the ships here for its sea
transportation. Freights went up in
measurably close connection with the in
crease of shipments, the rate Cfrom New
York to LiverpooD being 3 q pence on Feb.
10 and fivepence on April 30. But, al
though the volume of shipments kept up
all through May and were only slightly di-
unfinished the first week in June, they began
to drop on May IA, and fortnight later
had gone down to threepence, farthing
lower than they were in March, and have
remained at the low figure ever since
1.-THE relation between the grain freights
and Deweys victory at Manila is signifi-
cant Although Dewey destroyed the
Spanish fleet on May /, conflrmatory de-
tails were not known until May and full
information as to what he had done was
! not received until some time after that.
The drop in freights was delayed a little
after that even, owing to the pressing
!, necessity of the shippers to get the grain
they had bought on the move, but as soon
as the pressure was relieved, early in the
week ending May 20, the present low level
was reached.
"Why should Dewey's victory decrease
the demand for American grain? Because
the entering of Manila harbor and the
! smashing of the Spanish ships showed as
, nothing else could have shown that tho
Americans know how to fight and have
the tools to do it with and that the Span
iards neither know how nor have the
| wherewithal That being the case, there
was no probability that American ports
would be blockaded or that 1t would be
difficult to get American grain.
Low Rates to Continue.
"That there will probably be no great
: increase of grain freights in the near fu-
| ture Is probable from the fact that some
| 40 or so empty tramp steamers arc now
known to be at sea on their way hither Tor
! Grain and cannot be turned back, ana
, will. of course, accept cargoes at very low
! rates rather than to go MS they are coming,
in ballast.
"This haslbeen understood for days by
| SINNERS here, but fall revival was conn-
IDENTIFY expected until very recently because
! their heavy orders for August and sep
+, tember had been placed. Many OF these
have recently been Cancelled, however, De-
! cause of exceptionally favorable crop re-
J norts from several European and other
I grain growing regions.
Ia Correspondencia de Espana.
Concerning the Madrid newspaper La
| Correspondencia de Espana, which Is re-
| norted TO have made enormous sales re-
Gently by printing bogus news In big type
! about fictitious Spanish victories, only 10
| donv itself the next in small type, which
| no one sees. man who has Travelled a
| good deal in Spain told me this morning
ola Corrcspondencia Is tho most ex-
| traordinary newspaper in existence, III
| that a. has no editor, and in ordinary times
a. made ND almost wholly of gossip. rms
a. literally true. The publishers depart
mcnt is well enough organized, perhaps,
| but the copy producing force consists Oh "
number of clever Independent Contributors,
some of them being men OF culture ahu
some otherwise, who gather all the small
talk they can from every circle In Mauriu'
har none. write il up and put the copy III
big leather bag. hill 10
urbo foreman decides what snail pe
ur,n,ad and what shall not, and his deci
i.,ons are not made on any editorial prih
o,,lcs hut are governed solely on the space
~ command and the copy In hand. In
other words, he sets what is offered with.
ont regard TO its subject until he has
on 70 All the paper, and then he stops.
"The result is a highly amusing sheet,
| in which scandal about washerwom N,,a ah no
wineshop keepers often appears SIDE en-, py
eide with news of the doings OF titled ioik.
That so,nc hot news is thus occasionally
laid over till it Is old doesn't matter IN
Madrid. Tomorrow is as good time io'
tha publication of news there rs today.
VIZ MANY damage suitsS ! don't know.
There may be some one whose duty !. =
70 edit out libclous matter, put ! neye'
S ~ Of such an attacheon the stan OF Ia
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