The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1898-08-13
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent.
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From our Regular Correspondent.
Washington, Aug. Sth, 1905
The news from General Miles con,in-
ues good. More than half of Porto Rico
is already in his possession aud ne is
steadily extending his lines without
fighting.
Gen. Shafter's army is being brought
away from Santiago just as fast as the
ships at hand can get them away. in
order 10 give the men a chance to re-
cuperate.
President Mckinley gave the two
Cincinnati bows who started the idea
of raising, by contributions from school
children, the money to buy the finest
battleship in the world, for presenta-
ton to the L. s, and to be named the
american Boy letter endorsing
their project and saying: Il am sure
the boys and girls will deem it privi-
lege to be numbered among the con-
tributors to this patriotic undertaking"
Master W. Rankin Good, Of Cincinnati,
President of the National American
Boy Fund, and companion. had a
very pleasant interview with the Presi-
dent-two interviews, in fact.
The Department of State has been
officially notified that an international
Congress, for the purpose of discussing
tariff legislation and the regulation of
labor, will be held at Antwerp. Bel
GUM, from Sept. 18th to 18th, inclusive.
Public economists, socialists, manufac-
turers, merchants, employers and work
men are invited to take part. The
points from which these questions are
viewed by Americans and Euro
peans are SO wide apart that few
Americans are likely to attend this
congress, except from curiosity. Am
orleans have a tariff system now that is
bringing them great prosperity, and
countries that are prosperous have little
difficulty in the regulation of labor.
Not only is the American manu- rac-
turer holding his own market under the
Dingley tariff law, but he is pushing
his goods into all the markets of the
world at a rate that must be astonish-
ing to those who claim that protec-
tive tariff would cause our manu- Gac-
turers to lose all their foreign trade. 1t
was generally known long before the
bureau of statistics could foot up the
figures and announce the grand total,
that our expectation of agricultural pro-
ducts during the last fiscal wear, was
largely in excess of any single year in
the history of the country, and it is now
known that our expectation of manu-
featured articles during the last fiscal
year exceeded that of any other year,
by nearly So 100000, and reached in
value the enormous sum OF SIS. 81 ,4i9,
and, what is still more gratifying, our
imports of manufactured articles during
the same period were unusually light,
showing that our manufacturers have
recovered control of the home market,
which they partially lost under the low
tariff law. enacted bv the Democrats as
well. as increased their foreign trade.
These are the sort of facts that will have
to be forgotten before the people of
this country vote the Democratic party
back into power; they are also the sort
of facts that speak for themselves and
need no labored argument to make
them understood.
SUPERINTENDENT Sternberg has writ
ten a general defense of the medical
corps of the army and himself from at
taCks made upon them, many of which
he says were instigated by those who
became offended at his opposition to
sending female nurses to camps of in
struction or with the army in the field.
He says the only trouble with the medi
cal corps is that there are not enough
surgeons in the army, even in peace;
that 1t is probable that in taking on
about 800 contract surgeons, some in
competence may have slipped in, Ow-
ing to the hurried examinations. OF
the shortage of medical supplies at San
tiago, he says: The principal reason
was that the supplies were left behind
when the army left Tampa, owing TO
lack of transportation facilities, and one
of the minor reasons was the delay in
landing supplies of all kinds at Siboney.