Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-03-31

and the apparently charmed lives led
by the members Of the. regiment are
reflected in the following letter from
Corporal Manley Of Company H:
Saturday morning the natives at
tackled Ourl boys but were repulsed
with heavy loss, but not until they
had wounded a couple of the Idahos.
The loss of the insurgents at CalOOcan
is estimated Mt 1000. After the bat
tie, as a Spanish officer saw the flames
and smoke rising Caloocan said:
'The Americans in five days with
10000 men have done more than the
Spanish with 10000 men have done in
fifteen years."
Returning from the battle field of
Caloocan we had an opportunity to
see the results Of the war. The awful
stencil from dead horses, caribaos and
men was almost unbearable, while the
piles of ashes and household utensils
told the story Of what was once home.
The North Dakota boys were to be
sent to CalOOcan; If needed, but as they
Q not, they remained in their bar
racks Friday night. The 18th an un-
expected brush with the natives south
of Malate again took our boys to the
country, with the exception of H and
@, who remained at the fort and on
outpost. Before the North Dakota
companies reached the scene of action
the Fourteenth infantry had put the
natives to fight intlicting q heavy loss.
Two men of the Fourteenth were
wounded. All North Dakota compan-
les r still down by Camp. Dewey
except H and G.. They will probably
join the regiment tomorrow. The
officers of the Fourteenth infantry,
who fought on our left in Sundays
charge. also Gen. Ovenshine and staff.
pay n high tribute to the worth of the
North Dakota boys as fighters.
They say they are as cool as regu-
lars and splendid shots while they
knew no such thing as fear. So far
the boys Of iii regiment seem to lead
a charmed life, as in the opening bat
tie men fell dead and wounded on both
sides of us in the same charge while
they escaped unframed.
The United States is now the largest
exporter in the world. Despite the
assertion that a protective tariff would
injure our markets abroad, our expor-
tations have gone steadily on, gaining
upon those of free-trade Great Britain
until we have outstripped her in the
race. The exports from the United
States in 1898 were, for the first time
in history, greater than the exports
from Great Britain, while the growth
Of our exports since the adoption of
the protective tariff has been far
greater than that of the mother cOun-
try. An examination of the record
of the past thirty years-for it would
be unfair to include the period of 1861
to 1865, which was so much affected by
the civil war-would show that our
own exports have more than quad
rupled, while those of Great Britain
have increased but about 40 per cent.
Our exports of domestic manufactures
in 1868 amounted to $2G0, 200, and
in 1893 to $1,21O,291,913. Those of the
United Kingdom were in 1868, 49,
677,O12, pounds sterling, and in 1898,
$780, 1872 pounds sterling. That we
should have doubled our exports more
than twice during thirty years of prac-
tically all protection, while Great Brit
ain increased hers less than half dur
ing thirty years Of free trade, ought to
forever silence those who have been
asserting that protection is injurious
to the foreign commerce of the country
adopting it.