Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-01-06
WILL BENEFIT THE SOUTH.
Senator McLaurin Speaks About
the Benefits to Be Derived from
the Nicaragua Canal.
A REPORT ON -RE VASES OF INDIA.
Consul Patterson Gives Some Statistics Re-
lative to Lsbnrers Around Calcutta and
Their Small R-munerat,on-Turkey
Objection to the Zionist Movement
Submarine Navigation solved.

Washington. Jan. L-Senator Nc
Laurin, of South Carolina, thinks the
construction of the Nicaragua canal
| will be the right thing for the south.
Speaking on the subject yesterday he
said:
haven't heard a man in either house express
| himself otherwise than as favorable to the cut
ting of a canal We are now shut out of the
markets of western South America. Asia and
| the islands of the Pacific because our European
competitors BY use of the Suez canal, get
| cheaper transportation than we do by use OF
| the trapScontinSntal railroads Freights even
| go. am told. from the Atlantic ports to Cali
| fornia by the way of Antwerp. because it is
cheaper than by rail across the continent The
south has mnch to hope from the construction
| OF the canal Her staple product is cotton and
| the quantity produced is far in excess of the
demands of the European and American mar
| kets- Her only hope is to find mar&et for her
| raw and manufactured cotton among the teem-
| ing millions of the east The Nicaraguan canal
will bring American ports 5000 miles nearer
western South America than European ports
while South Atlantic and gulf ports will also
| be much nearer northern China, Australia and
Africa than are European ports through the
SueZ canal
Report on the Wages of India.
Washington, Jan. Limited States
Consul Patterson at Calcutta has sup
piled to the bureau of foreign COM
| merce of the state department some
statistics relative to the cost and
means of subsistence of laborers in
India that exhibit in a striking man
ner the extreme economy practiced by
the natives. His tables show that the
highest wages paid for skilled labor is
"a. so per month for jute mill hands,
while ST. 80 is the monthly wage of
able-bodied agricultural laborers.
But the consul says that in northern
India wages are much lower than the
| figures quoted. The laborers live alto
gether on grain, using about Is pounds
per day each. costing on an average
from "a to three cents, yet with this
| food they do the hardest kind of man
ual labor and keep their muscles we'll
developed, their endurance in carry
ing heavy loads being remarkable. A
ma jority of the laborers not only exist
on these small wages, but manage to
keep families and save money. q
The II ,nist Movement.
Washington, Jan. 1.-The depart
ment of state recently received from
the United States minister at Con-
stantinople information that the min
lister of fore ign affairs of Turkey had
informed him that the Turkish gov
eminent had no Intention to prevent
American citizens, whether Jews or
Christians looming as indiuiduals and
not en- MASSEY. from visiting Syria or
| Palestine as travellers or visitors, the
only object of that government being
to prevent further colonization of
Palestine by Jews, as the settlement
| there of religious bod les in preponder-
ating numbers might lead to political
com plications, which it is the purpose
| of the Ottoman empire to avoid. The
| foregoing official announcement ap-
pears to have a direct bearing on the
Zionist movement for the establish
| ment of Jewish nation in Palestine.
Submarine Navigation Solved
Washington, Jan. IA most i'm
portant communication was received
yesterday by the navy department
| from a naval attache abroad. For
good reasons the secretary of the
| navy declines to make known the
name of the writer. The information
which is sent to the department is that
the French government is confident it
has solved the problem of submarine
navigation. The French naval budg-
ct, which is now being prepared, will
contain an item making an appropria-
ton for the construction of six SUBJ
marine boats, on the plan of a model
which is soon to be launched.