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The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-09-16

years ago Great Britain was supreme
in the iron market. She could produce
iron and steel, and the machinery made
of them, at less cost than the people
of any other nation. Because she was
able to do this the fire traders declared
that it was an economic mistake for
Americans to seek to make their own
iron and steel and machinery. The
proper thing to dc, they urged, would
be to buy in the cheapest market. For
tunately this bad advice was rejected.
Instead we elected to disregard the al
lurements of nominal cheapness and
went ahead and developed an iron in
dustry of our own. The result of this
policy has been to give us real cheap
ness-the cheapness which is indicated
by a constantly increasing per capita
consumption of iron and steel, which
now exceeds that of any other people.
1t is impossible to contend for mo-
p1ent that the cheapnCss we are now
experiencing could have been enjoyed
if the free traders advice to buy in
the cheapest market had been followed.
Had we needed the New England Free
Trade league and similar organiza-
tons we would not be producing more
than million tons of pig iron every
month of the year, and the price of
that product would not be as low as it
is at present in this country and
throughout the world. 1t is the ire
mendous output of the United States
which has effected real cheapening
Had we remained dependent upon Eng
land for iron and steel, because a few
years ago they were able to produce
them more cheaply than we could, we
would probably be paying two or three
times as much for them as we do to-
day.
The New England Free Trade league
fools itself if it believes that the silly
and exploded doctrines of the Golden
ties can be dressed up SO as to deceive
the American farmer or any other
American producer. The man who tills
the soil understands the effects of com.
petition as well as the most learned
professor, and he realizes that adher-
ence to the doctrine of buying in the
cheapest market would be destructive
to the creation of the most potential Of
all rivalries, that of nations. Had pro-
| lection not called into existence the
rolling mills and machine shops of the
= H. =
countries, the area of competition
would have been confined to an insig.
niflcant island, and the result would
have been disastrous to the rest OF
mankind, as 1t would have made them
dependent upon resources limited in
extent, and which would have been
dealt out at prices that would have
kept consumption at the minimum
point.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-09-16
REPUBLICAN SURPRISES.
Return of the HaIcyon Days of Album.
dant Revenue-How the Repub-
lican Tariff Works.

The peace budget surplus declared in
the first full years working of a re-
publican tariff leaves the effect of the
Wilson-Gorman tariff plainly visible. 1t
made huge crevasse in our national
financial system, the edges being cut as
clean as those ever left by the Father
of the Waters" in his passage through
levee.
In every year since the financial
equilibrium was resumed after the war
there was large surplus up to that OF
the Wilson-Gorman congress of 1S93-94
1t was so large a surplus that its re-
duction was the main issue of the cam.
paign of 1SSS--the democratic party
promising reduction through the repeal
of protective tariff duties, the repub
lican seeking the same end by the re.
tention and increase Gas to new indus.
tries especially of these duties to an
even prohibitive amount as to commod'
tiles of foreign competition, and a
wholesale increase of the free list on
articles impossible or insufficient of do
mestic production. The Mckinley tar.
if was the execution of this promise.
and so scientific was its construction
that the surplus for the year 1893 was
reduced to between two and three mil.
lions. With the calling of the special
session of congress Immediately after
the close of that fiscal year importa'
tons promptly ceased in anticipation
of lower duties. The deficit of 1894
reached nearly S7OOO0,COO Through
the succeeding years of 1861, when
the Wilson law was in full operation
this tale was retold. This tariff had
all the advantages of the holding back
of imports before its passage and the
rushing in of imports prior to its re.
peal But neither condition could help
it to revenue. Secretary Carlisle est.
mated $60,000,000 for its final deficien.
cy. The holding up" of the Dingley
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-09-16
COMMENT AND OPINION.

EyCoxcy says the democratic party
needs new set of brains. Few fools
are fools all the time.
ryMr. Bryan seems to take it as aper-
sonal insult that the farmers of the
west and northwest are calling Justify
for men to help them gather their
crops.-Chicago Tribune.
ESome of the free silver editors are
able to see an immense procession of
gold democrats marching into the
Bryan ranks. These are the same gen.
tlemen who had charge of the Bryan
predicting in 1s96.-Washington Post.
UA Chicago man has turned against
President Mckinlt. because he did not
get the Office he wanted, and he is
frank enough to give the reason. If
all the present enemies of the presi-
dent would be honest what flood of
confessions there would be.-Cleveland
Leader.
DTherepublicans of Iowa have setthe
pace for the coming campaign at high
notch, not only by the harmonious man
ner in which they nominated their state
ticket, but more particularly in the
stirring utterances of their platform;
they evidently realize that republican
success is always assured by straight
forward platform and strong ticket.
Minneapolis Tribune.
JIndia has adopted the goldstandard:
This action has been so long expected
that it attracts comparatively little at
tention now that it has occurred. China,
Mexico and few of the countries of
Central and South America are now the
only nations which stick to the silver
standard, and Mexico and some of tie
others are likely to be on the gold basis
within a few years. The forlornest and
deadest of all lost causes is that which
Stone, Bryan and the rest of the demo-
cratic antediluvians champion.-St.
,, Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-09-16

bill by the senate finance committee
decreased this to $2O,O00,O00 through
anticipatory imports. The $4o,oo0,00O
of revenue thus transferred from the
first years operations of the Dingley
law was exactly reflected in the deficit
of 1898. The first years unhampered
working of that law yields the surplus
noted of $2O,OOO,OOO. Thus the return to
the republican rule of SURPRISES is abb
solute and immediate.
Party methods, party management,
party intelligence and the opposite were
never before so sharply outlined in
figures as in these. Democratic mis-.
rule leaves it's track of devastation as
focd.-N. y. Press.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-09-16

Mrs. Charles Cole, of Aurora, Ind,
was attracted by peculiar kissing In
her bedroom. On investigating SIZE
beheld large black snake swinging
from the top of the dresser by its tail
and viciously fighting it's reflection il
the mirror. Mrs. Cole called for he1
husband to come and kill the reptile,
but when he appeared he could no,
strike at the swaying serpent. that CON.
tinued the combat with the shadow
in the glass, unmindful of his presence,
for fear of SCATTERING the costly mirror,
He then procured long pole and sue
ceeded in disengaging it's coils from
the mirror frame and hurting it out OF
the open window through which it evi.
IDENTITY entered. The fall to the ground
from the second-story room stunned
but did not kill the snake, and when
Mr.. Cole descended the stairs and
reached the yard to accomplish its
death it swiftly glided away in the gras.
and escaped.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-09-16
A Wonderful Blind Girl.

Helen Kellar, the deaf and dumb and
blind girl, has passed the final exami.
nation for Radcliffe college, passing
with credit" in advanced Latin, get,
ting high mark in advanced Greek,
and failing in no test. 1t is said that
the examinations were just as rigid for
her as for the other candidates and
no precautions omitted in regard 20 the
papers. The questions were submitted
In slips of pricked paper and the girl
at once sat down to her typewriter and
clicked off the answers. Such case
as that of Helen Kellar will be carefully
studied by specialists in education.
Sight and hearing and speech lost while
q mere child, this blind wonder set out
with terrible handicap. What Helen
Kellar might have accomplished had
sickness not been so unkind to her Ia
a matter of conjecture. Certainly, say.
the Chicago Tribune, she gives re.
markable illustration of the power oil
mind in overcoming physical defects
If such an intellect as she possesses
could be unfettered the world would
probably be great gamer. Her genius
may convert her defects into advan.
tages and give wholly new point oi
view to many questions which have
baffled those who can see and hear and
also utter the thoughts which come to
them.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-09-16
BRYAN WILL HELP BRYAN.
There Is Only One Man for Him for
the Nomination on the Demo-
cratic Ticket.

The announcement that Bryan will be
delegate to the next democratic ma
tional convention will surprise no one
who has followed the theatrical career
of the toy soldier of the Platte since he
played the title role in the Coliseum
ope-act farce of 1896.
Mr.. Bryan stands alone in the history
of our politics as seeker for the presi-
dency with no other visible interest or
occupation aside from devoting himself
assiduously to the promotion of his can
didacy. Although time and the work
ings of natures laws have completely
obliterated the economic absurdities
that led to his nomira ton in 1896 he has
chung tenaciously to his purpose to Sc
cure the nomination in 1900. Nature
has demolished Organism, but Bryan is
still with us. From his spectacular APP
pearance in a Georgia camp as colonel"
of Nebraska regiment of volunteers,
possessing no military training or
knowledge, innocent of gunpowder as
a newborn babe to his speeches at fire.
mems tournaments and fat stock shows
for division of the gate receipts Mr..
Bryan's career exhibits all the farcical
characteristics of opera bouffe.
Of course Mr.. Bryan will be here in
10OO-we say there" advisedly, for it is
hardly conceivable that the national
committee will seriously consider any
other city for holding national con-
vention. Mr.. Bryan will be on the floor,
incidentally to protect "the cause" from
rough treatment at the hands of Tam
many, but principally to guard the in
terests of the only our-year-seasoned,
full-grown candidate in the convention.
He will be loaded with points of order
and crowns of thorns and motions to
adjourn.
OF course the dignified thing for Mr..
Bryan to do would be to remain in the
bosom of his people in Nebraska, close
to telegraph instrument, quietly and
modestly awaiting the call" of lead
erless democracy. But Mr.. Bryan was
never known to do the dignified thing
in politics. He will not wait for any
calls in 1900. Having called himself in
1896 with his own speech, he is going to
be where he can listen to the call in
1900 and help make it little louder
with his rear-platform voice.
Mr. Bryan away from the next demo-
cratic national convention, modestly Sc
questered in the shades of the Nebraska
corn-belt, would not be Nh. Bryan
| Chicago Times-Herald.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-09-16
A Eable in Stocks.

Once upon time an operator in stocks
was sold short, and ruin stared him in the
face unless the market should break. In his
desperation he remembered having heard
that honesty is the best policy. He tried to,
dismiss the foolish thought, but in. vain.
Finally, like the drowning man catching at
the straw, he resolved to try being honest.
The very next day he put his design into ex-
ecution, and he hadn't been honest more
than 10 minutes when II of the leading bulls
Hereupon the market naturally broke, and
the operator could get all the stocks he
wanted at his own figure. 1t is claimed that
,ome, if not all, of these bulls had taken,
-adishes and ham for breakfast, but that, it
is submitted, does not destroy the moral Of
this fable.-Detroit journal.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-09-16
Pooling the PUBLIC.

"I'm about pushed in the matter of curl
osities," unused the owner of small store
"It's a bad habit-this idea of drawing
trade by making museum of the window,
but | can't stop now-busincss won't allow
it,"
A few hours later the soda water trade
was rushing. The crowd outside the win.
dow gazed until it was thirsty at the re-
narkable. bird that. hung in a big cage.
alphabet Historically put together and de-
signed for scientific name. After it were.
the words: "From Samoa"
A few days later the curiosity" was feed
ing in the back yard with the rest Of the
bantam hens.-Detroit Free Press
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-09-16

In the district court at Oakley the
other day, reports the Kansas City
Journal, jury gave Mr.. Kepple one
cent damages against Mr.. O'Neil on ac-
count of some injury done to Mr.. KEEP
Piles crops by Mr.. O'Neirs sheep. But
this verdict carried with it $500 in
costs, and if Mr.. O'Neil will now appeal
TO the supreme court Kansas may yet
be able to rival that celebrated Iowa
calf case.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-09-16

The Kennebec (Me.) Journal tells of
q man who has a fox and hound that
are boon companions. When both ami
mails were in the pup stage they were
placed together, and have now enjoyed
q year of each others society in peace
and harmony. They sleep together and
play with each other much after the
manner of two frolicsome pups.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-09-16
would ne n Foolish remedy.

The tariff has simply made good
times; good times have made it possible
for trusts to be profitable. The pro-
posal is now made by the free traders
that the tariff should be done away
with, thus doing away with these
good times, in order to do away with
the trusts. 1t is much like urging one
to cure painful corn by cutting off
the foot.-Council Bluffs Nonpareil.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-09-16

Georgia melons are said to be de-
clining in flavor, and a southern cor
respondent accounts for it by saying
that "in order to strengthen the rind
for shipping purposes the gourd is
mixed with the melon, giving to the
fruit the taste and smell of old sheep"
Melons must be melons and not modi-
fled gourds. Georgia should not mix
the vines and subject the lovers of mel
ons to the old sheep aroma.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-09-16

In criminal prosecution recently
tried in York, Neb., the jury, after a
brief deliberation, returned the follow.
ing remarkable verdict: eve. the jury
In the above named case, do not believe
one word that the witnesses have sworn
to; neither do we believe that any Of
the attorneys have spoken the truth,
nor that either of them could do so,
even if he should care to take the
trouble to try" The humor in remarks
casting doubt upon the veracity of the
legal profession, says Law Notes, has
lost the freshness of early youth, and
good, stiff penalty for contempt in
cases of this kind would probably re-
dound to the benefit of mankind in gen.
eral.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-09-16

Some interesting Investigations have
recently been carried on by physicians
and scientists, intended to prove the
long-suspected relation which mos.
quitoes bear to malaria. Enough has
been done to demonstrate clearly the
fact that the night air is not the real
enemy, but the mosquitoes which enter
when the windows are open. Persons,
even in the most malarious of countries,
who wear gauze wells by day and who
sleep under nets at night, remain i'm.
pervious to the evils of the climate,
proving that insects, not the air, have
caused the trouble. A limited observa.
ton has shown that babies suffer some
thing more than the mere local irrita-
ton when an insect has stung them and
many remember how generally misera-
BILE they have been after several bites.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-09-16

UThe Maryland democrats lodged
both the financial and expansion ques-
tions. 1t is but the forerunner of other
lodges TO BE played next year.-Cip-
cinnati Commercial Tribune.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-09-16

There were $500 suicides in this
country during the last year, compared
with 5000 during the previous year. At
the same time there was falling OH
Of nearly so per cent. in the number
Of reported embezzlemeIts.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-09-16

EyThe Maryland democrats who held
astate convention and nominated candi-
dates without saying word for silver
will probably be careful not to open any
letters postmarked Lincoln, Neb., until
after the close of the campaign.-Chi-
cago Times-Herald.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-09-16
Ifs Euuivu1eut.

Pedagogue (severely)-Now, sir, for the
last time, what's the angle of the hypothe-
muse of right-angled triangle equivalent to!
Boy (desperatelyl-It's equivalent to e.
lickin' fer me, sir. Go ahead.-Boston Tray
eler,
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-09-16
An ounce of Prevention.

doctor, a friend of mine has assured me
that sucking lemons will prevent sea sick
ness Is that true?"
eyes, provided you sit in the shade Of
tall tree while you suck the lemon" stand.
ard and Catholic Times.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-09-16
shouId Never Hurry.

The woman who would have grace
full figure should never hurry. Haste
makes waist.-Chicago Daily News.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-04-27
SHORT TEXAS SPtClAlS

I
.EpIIRNE.-Tom Moore, ageu ma ibid
t,Ted blood vessel while at pay w
proving fatal. LIS shuv Y
ANpERsoN The county RECORDS AIMS sls a
crop mortgages hled TINS ss
last, same dates. ,.rtlrr ID
MAROUEZ.--A farmers aIe less eolies
gtn.n, potatoes ana truVA
Corn is doing poorly. 80 hls slotS'
ENNIS are laying "a crcp "a
as they think this will DC
with a good demand. srti Il.
SAN ANTONIO. Harry BToo Ss,sI ron J
hotel clerk. died at the Eiss
overdose OF morphine. sxseuift
BAY CITY.-Sugar cane Wiliasitsr. fss'
r, ltivated IN this section hets \, tsls yrsf
who could get seed cane put y h.ys "
MARLIN.-About 1000 acres acres. seouals- !,
n1ertad In irish potatoes IN lnis ,oo AZ ~
mo orop does well It is estiinassS
els win be shipped .rs viii q,
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a squirrel hunt. Dagley sun strikirs J.
silv discharged the conten .,nr ! w.
romnanion In The side, innisns
f,om which no died Ia 10" ,n,r Ols'n9
GREENvlLLE. Hunt s,Usnt d
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Hess and J. II. BOYD, ,n LIN peoples W W
being editor and owner o. lived lived ier l..ss
q. Cooper where so be 9 MIil have have he p''~
'nent Of the Observer ..,nsy W..
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! meter, ofhcer aad adyoesse q Ks ssy<
loor men especially hsIe a. a. op.si4
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Linn permitting ssriplinE q ~ nsuit
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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-04-27

Il could have been bought for in the open
market!
In nearly every case where wages have
been raised-remembe that--the price on
the commodity manufactured has been In
creased. The manufacturers have simply
forced their home customers, and among
the latter their laborers. to stand this ex-
ira compensation of labor. The money has
been taken out of one mans pocket and
given to another without repayins the man
from whom 1t was taken. We are borrow
ing from Peter to pay Paul and calling It
prosperity
Then again the exclusion OF imports
cuts down revenues and these must be OBJ
tanned by additional taxation' The situa-
tons logic is that the greater the exac-
lions from the many in behalf OF the few
the greaer the prosperity-of the few!
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-04-27
HOUSTON, THURSDAY, APRIL ~.
TEN PAGES TODAY.
NneLnorrNc 4 PROMISING FIELD.

No popular sympathy can ever be felt
for those business concerns in this coun-
try that are complaining OF restricted mar
kets and demanding new territory for
Commercial purposes" so long as the OF
fetal figures continue to demonstrate that
our manufacturers and shippers are neg
lecting our most natural foreign custom
ers--the Central and South Americans
A Washington dispatch few days ago
informed the public that a letter just re-
ceiyed by the bureau of statistics of the
treasury department states that American
merchants and manufacturers apparently
are not making the effort TO extend their
trade In South America that those Of other
countries are making Imports into the AR
gentine Republic from Germany Increased
S6.00O,000 from 1887 to 1896: those from
Italy showed the same Increases those
from the United Kingdom, about ll,OOo'-
900 increase, while those from the United
States which in 1886 were S76T3,00O We're
In 1896 only 81 2lO, 900. out OF total i'm
portation in 1896 of s1l20OO,OOo in value,
An examination Of our own export figures
by countries shows that our exports to Ar
gentina which In 1889 were S0293, Sos,
were in 1898 S6,A29O 7o.
Here Is decreasing trade as shown by
the figures for 1898, when we should aud
could have had, by proper effort an I'M
mense increase Out Of purchases by Az
gentina alone OF Sl12,O00,0O0 we ought to
have come In for the bulk Of the sales.
In South America tho imports amount u
considerably over $500, 900, 900 annually, and
Of that big trade wo enjoy not much more
than 70 per cent,
Recently special correspondents Of
American papers have travelled through
several OF the South American republics
and report universal disposition dowr
there to extend commercial relations Will
the United States. The fault lies with ON
people alone that we are not now enjoynt
commerce to the south of us tsn time
the volume and value of our present trade
We do not seem to solicit that custom sn'
refuse to extend the credits given by Eu
ropean firms. or even 10 pack goods to sui
South American tastes.
II Is a standing answer to those i'm
perialsts who are bowling for expansion
for trade purposes" that we do not utiliz
the opportunities now at our doors, as J
were, and that can be made profitable
without using our army and navy.