The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1898-08-19
Washington Letter.
From our regular Correspondent.

WASHINGTON, d. C. Aug 7, 1898.
Gen. Skaters army is being brought
away from Santiago just as fast as the
ships at hand can get them away, in
order to give the men chance to re-
Gu gate.
President Mckinley gave the two
Cincinnati boys who started the idea
Of raising, by contributions from
school children, the money to buy the
finest hattleship in the world, for pre-
Senta tiOn to the U. S. and to be named
the "American Boy" letter endors-
ing their project and saying ri am
sure the boys and girls will deem it
privilege to benum bered among the
contributors to this patriotic under
taking" Master w. Rankin Good, of
Cincinnati, president of National
American Boy Fund and companion,
had very pleasant interview with
the President 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 u 17th inclu-
Slve. Public economists, socialists,
manufacturers, merchants, employers
and workmen 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. Amer
leans have 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 manufac-
turer holding his own market under
the Dingley tariff law, but he is push
ing his goods into all the markets of
the world at rate that must be as
tonishing to those who claim that d
protective tariff would cause our manu-
facturers to lose all their foreign trade.
1t was generally known long before
the bureau or statistics could foot up
the figures and announce the grand
total, that our expectation of agricul-
tural products during the last fiscal
year, was largely in excess of any
single year in the history of the coun-
try, and it is now known that our ex-
portation of manufactured articles
during the last fiscal year, exceeded
that of any other year, by nearly $12,-
100000, and reached in value the
enormous sum of $2S8,S71 ,449, and,
what is still more gratifying, our i'm
ports 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 by the demo-
Gratis, as we'll 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 demo-
cratic party back into power; they are
also the sort of facts that speak for
themselves and need no labored argu-
ment to make them understood.
Surgeon-General Sternberg has writ
ten a general defense of the medical
corps of the army and himself from
attacks 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
instruction or with the army in the
field. He says the only trouble with
the medical corps is that there are not
enough surgeons in the army, even in
peace; that it is probable that in tax
ing on about 900 contract surgeons,
some incompetence may have slipped
In, owing to hurried examinations.
OF the shortage of medical supplies at
Santiago, he says: The principal rea-
son was that the supplies were left be-
hind when the army left Tampa, owing
to lack OF transportation facilities, and
one OF the minor reasons was the de-
lay In landing supplies of all kinds at
Siboney.