The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1899-10-11

industry gives no sign of weakness.
STEEL FOR INDIA.
Here is another from the Harris
burg Patriot of the same day, headed,
More Steel for India 'Thirty-nine
Carloads Moved Last Night-Rail
Shipments Another big shipment
of steel for India was made from Steel
ton last night. Thirty-nine cars OF the
heavy steel were sent east over the
PENNSYLVANIA railroad. Contrary TO
former announcements this will not be
the last shipment made for the big
viaduct. The 80 cars sent east last
night raise the entire shipment made
to date to about 100 carloads. This, 1t Is
now announced comprises butone-half
of the metal to be used and will make
up the cargo of one steamer The
rest will be shipped later, but the ex-
act date is not now known. The metal
will go by way of New York, thence
across the Atlantic and east by way
of the SueZ canal route. This has been
a busy week at the works, and the
mills have had difficulty in getting
enough raw material to keep them in
operation. Yesterday the first install
ment of about 200 cars of iron ore ar
rived. It is lake ore and came from
Erie by way of the Pennsylvania. 1t
will be turned into iron as quickly as
possible and given out for consump-
ton to the different departments. The
rail mill has been busy, but the ship
ments during the past few days have
been light. Earlier in the week the
shipments were heavier, and as nigh
as &c carloads going out in one train.
These rails were of the heaviest type.
Here is still another, taken from
the Philadelphia Record, headed, Big
Cargo of Locomotives The Puritan
Will Sail Today for Russia With
Forty of Them The British steam
ship Puritan will clear today for China
and Siberia with the largest cargo of
railway material that has ever gone
from any port in the United States.
Her destination is Vladivostock and
New Chwang. She will take out 40
Baldwin locomotives and tenders and
IS steel bridges for the Chinese East
tern railroad, besides several thousand
tons of miscellaneous cargo. She Will
proceed via the Suez canal direct to
Vladivostock, afterward returning TO
New Chwang to complete discharging
her cargo. The Puritan will be fol-
lowed to the Russian Black sea ports
by an almost similar cargo which the
British steamship Uplands is now load
ing here
Where in all the long doleful four
years from 1892 to 1886 could such ar
ticles as these have been clipped? II
you were to search all the files Of all
the papers, Democratic, Republican,
Populist. Prohibition and insurgent,
printed in that time, where could such
statements as these be found? But
now. every page of every paper is
filled with advertisements of business
until one can scarcely find the news
in the midst of the elaborate display
The mills and mines are overwhelmed
with orders, and day and night, Sun
day and Monday, wet and dry, hot
and cold, in season and out, on they
90 in the wild race to overtake theil
orders, given from six months to
year ahead.
WHAT CAUSED THE CHANGE.
"Who did all this? Well, it was no
| the Democratic party. What did al
this? Well, it was not '16 to l. or thu
issue of additional money, either, t
initiate or corrupt our currency.
"To convince you that it was no
the Democratic idea of more none!
that wrought this change, listen t
| some facts: In 1894, when business
was at its lowest ebb. the per capt.;
| of money in this country was 1888
| In 1899, on the 1st day of August, i
was S33.01, or S2.3S less than it was il
1894. The amount in 1894 in circula
ton was S24.2S, and on the 1st of Au
gust, 1899, it was s25.31, or only S1.0'
more than it was in 1894. 1t is. there
fore, clear to every reasoning man tina
the prosperity which is now upon u
| has not been due to the amount o
money present in the country nor t
the amount in circulation, for ther
! is less today than there was in 1894
when the country was in the depth
of business despair, and it must be ow
ing to some other cause not directl!
related to the money question at all
What change was made by the Re
| publican administration when it cam'
into power in 1897? Only this one
American industry was protected by
wise tariff schedule. This is all tina
was done, and to this. and this alone
is due the marvellous prosperity whicl
we now experience and enjoy. Th'
business management was changed
Experiments with the peoples occupa
tions by which their livelihood i
secured were abandoned. and the olC
and we'll tried and effective doctrin,
Of protection to American industry
was restored. This is all, and as tn,
Democrats look on today and hear tn,
deafening whirl of business aroun(
them on every side, and see the ac
tivity and cheerfulness of men, wher,
only three short years ago all was still
and silent as the grave, they explain
with astonishment with one accorC
whenever they suppose that no one cal
hear 1T certainly beats the band
"In view of facts like these, are tn
farmers of Pennsylvania interested II
the business management of thi
country? If they are, then how shoult
the farmers of Pennsylvania vote
Shall they be guided simply by the in
herited tendencies and traditions o
their fathers, or shall they awake fron
the sentimental side of politics an
throw their influence, their voice an
their vote in favor of that organiza
ton of their fellow citizens which ha
uniformly and consistently given goo
government, sound money and prosper
Gus conditions to the commonwealth