The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-03

life for months on the same conditions
as the poorest. He raised himself from
the vagabond class by the only door
that Is open to them-the door of labor
He entered into their organizations
labor unions, socialist meetings, and
anarchist societies. He does not be-
lieve that we are on the eve of $50
cial Revolution" and he tells why.
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The leading article in The Forum this
month is by Secretary of Agriculture
Wilson and Is entitled, SHOULD the
United States Produce Its Sugar?" A
writer in the November Forum ques-
toned the desrability of establishing
in the United States the beet-sugar in
dustry. Mr.. Wilson's paper is strongly
in favor of the proposal. He points out
that, in addition to keeping at home
the $l00,000,000 now paid for imported
sugars, the production of beets would
be found profitable for stock-feeding.
Mr.. Wilson grew beets by the acre from
1891 to 1896 ut the Iowa Agricultural
college, ami found the enterprise quite
remunerative for this purpose alone.
He shows, further, that whereas GER
tain other crops-tobacco for instance
are exhaustive of plant food (none
the SOLD with the sugar-bee no plant
| food is lost to the soil, as the root is
| taken to the factory and the pulp re-
turned to the farm. Mr. Wilson pre-
sents statistics showing that If our i'm
! ports of sugar from cane-producng
countries were wholly discontinued,
there would still be left a trade balance
in favor of those countries of more than
$60,000,000 a year. Hon. William j.
Stone, ex-governor of Missouri, con-
tributes a crisply written article on
! THE Democratic Party and its Fu-
| ture." After tracing the origin of the
! party, Mr.. Stone argues that, for the
. first time in many years, Democracy
was itself again in 1896 He prophesies
/ that the battles of the future will be
| substantially along the same lines as
/ those of the past, The Chicago con-
/ vention, he contends, was absolutely
! Iright-"bOth right and Democratic" are
/ his words--upun the questions of the
| coinage of silver, the issuance of bonds,
| the income-taX decision, and govern
| ment by injunction. Defeated" he
! says, but not dispirited, the Demo-
cratic party will go forward more reso-
/ lutely than ever" Another article which
| is sure to attract wide attention is that
| by Senator Frank ID. Pavy, on state
| Control of Political Parties" Mr.. Pavey
! gives an exhaustive analysis of the ex-
| listing evils, and claims that no remedy
can be found for them until the rights
! of every member Of party, at a eau
! Gus, primary, or convention shall be
| legally fixed beyond question. Mr.
! Pavey insists that the state should in
sure the great engines of political ac-
! ton from internal decay or external
/ destruction. They must no longer be
! the tools or toys of the political bosses;
| but the right of every member of every
| political party TO the full use and en-
joyment Of every piece of the party
machinery must be protected. Other
papers are: "China's Complications and
American Trade" by Mr.. Clarence
Cary; England and Egypt" by Mr.. A.
Silva White; "Our Duty to Cuba" by
Senator II. d. Money; "The Duty of
| AnneXing Hawaii" by Senator John T.
Morgan; Some Recent Municipal Gas
History" by Prof. Edward w. Bemis;
! Organ Music and Organ Playing" by
| the celebrated organist, NJ. Alexandra
! Guilmant; TT is Worth While to Take
| Out Patent" by Mr. Edwin j.
Prindle, Assistant Examiner in the
United States Patent Office; 1.-The
| Tramp Problem: A Remedy" by Mr..
| f. T. Rood; Recent Astronomical
Progress" by Prof. Simon NewcOmb; ;
and The Neo-ROmantic Novel" by
Prof G.. r. Carpenter, of Columbia
| University.
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| The contents of the March issue of
| Woman's Home Companion are char
acteriZed by breezy brightness thor
oughly in keeping with the artistic
| cover-page by Martin Justice, foretell-
| ing the coming of spring. Among the