Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-09-21


factions and all of the parties, north.
south. east and west who were opposed
to the Republican idea, and the battle
was fought out on this issue as no
previous battle had ever before been
fought. Foreign nations, as spectators
of the conflict, predicted as result
the overthrow of the financial system
of the country, and perhaps the ulti-
mate destruction of the republic, and
| many conservative, thoughtful citizens
at home were seriously questioning
whether free people, made up of such
diverse elements as composed the
American nation, could govern them
selves
when, however, the election day
came, the Republicans had clearly
shown that the injury to the business
of the country and our other indus
trial ills were not due to the money
question at all, but that the tariff poll
l,cy of the Democratic party was the
cause of all of our disturbances in
business and promised that if the Re-
publican idea that tariff for the pro-
lection of American industry were re-
instated prosperity would return and
business resume it's beneficent sway
all over the land.
M'KINLEY AND PROSPERITY.
major Mckinley was elected; no
change has been made in the financial
| system; no other part of our business
has been seriously modified; all Is
left substantially as before, except two
| things: One is that the tariff for reve-
nue. only has been stricken off and a
tariff for the protection of American
| industry has been restored. The other
| is that Republican citizens who be-
| lieve in this doctrine of protection to
| American labor have been put in Of
fee to carry the law into effect.
| What is the result? Listen to
| these clippings, all taken from Demo-
cratic papers in single day of the
| current month.
Here is what the Philadelphia Rec
| ord says: The outturn OF pig iron in
| July was greater than in any other
July since iron was first made in the
United States, but the demand is so
brisk that buyers complain of a pig
iron famine. But for the fact that the
markets of all the rest of the world
are in practically the same condition
of under supply the boom in prices
might be esteemed close to the point
of collapse, but the condition of the
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 railrcxd. Contrary to
former announcemt ~; 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, it is
now announced, comprises but one-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. 1t is lake ore and came from
| Erie by way of the Pennsylvania. IL
| will be turned into iron as quickly as
| possible and given out for conSump
| tion 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 We're heavier, and as high
| as 26 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
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| ing here
"Where in all the long doleful four
years from 1892 to 1896 could such ar
| ticles as these have been clipped? If
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 mage of every DaOer 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, Sum
| day and Monday, wet and dry, hot
and cold. in season and out. on they
go in the wild race to overtake their
| orders. given from six months to a
year ahead.
WHAT CAUSED THE CHANGE.
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