Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-08-29

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than any previous year. Exports to
Porto Rico under the unfavorable con-
ditions noted amounted to $685., S4S,
which Is 100000 more than in 1897 and
greater than any previous year. The
exports to the Philippines have jumped
to $4O4,171, which is more than foul
times as much as in 1897. The effect of
annexation of the Hawaiian islands has
been a large increase in the American
trade. our exports having jumped from
s5,s07. 155 to $s,305,470. Combining these
figures for the purpose of showing the
effect of peace and the abolition of
Spanish trade restrictions, it is seen
that the total exports of the United
States to Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii and
the Philippines We're $31, oil, 1896 This is
more than twice as much as in 1897 and
exceeds even the reciprocity year OF
1893, so that in spite OF the war and
with the Spaniards in Manila, Cuba and
Porto Rico for large portion of the
year, American exports to these island
possessions were greater for 1899 than
ever before. This is the commercial
balance sheet of the war and it ia AL
ready favorable.
Inc war department orders that each
regiment of artillery hereafter will con-
slst OF twelve batteries of heavy guns
ana ll3 men each and two batteries of
Held of 1872 men each
Looker-On calls attention elsewhere
10 serious case of leprosy in Iowa and
the duty 1T imposes on the state.
$50
complaints were made in Seattle,
Wash, recently that the fire alarm
system of the city was working yery
badly. Investigation Of the boxes
showed that yellow Jackets" had
clogged many of them by deposits of
clay, which had hardened. The wasps
had crawled through the key holes and
built their fire-proof houses.
Ex-Governor Stone, of Missouri. is
reported to be about to cut loose from
Bryan. He may be like others-afrafd
If they cut away they will have abso-
lutely nothing left to center on.
go
That mans views are colored by his
surroundings is shown by the Decatur
incident. We We're told by the capital
city papers that 1t was premature and
for the T.-R. to give De-
catur county to Gear; that there was a
strong Cummins sentiment in that
county, and that the Curn1nins people
hoped to control it. Even the Des
Moines correspondent of the T.-R.
caught the Infection. WE'LL Decatur
held her convention last Saturday If
there is any Cummins sentiment there
1T must have been sidetracked, for it
never peeped in the convention. DR.
Eiker. the strongest kind of a Gear
man, was named without opposition.
Swift, the great Chicago packer. saws
oeef is high because there is so much
prosperity in the country; that more
people are eating beef. and more of it.
than ever before. The people will not
justify the butchers, though, in pushing
it too high.
A great national movement has been
started for the observance of the one
hundredth anniversary of the death of
George Washington on Dec IA. The
Sons of the Revolution and other SINH
lar organizations have the matter in
hand and are arranging details Of the
plan.
Peace first, then government of
law and order under the stars and
stripes" as declared at ocean Grove.
WI. II is said, be heard on every stump.
not only this fall but in the great cam
paign of 1900. The republican leaders in
Washington are delighted with the war
cry furnished them by the president
and say 1t expresses the policy of the
administration better than a message
70 congress or a proclamation to the
people could.
According to the Louisville Courier
Journal DE Wolf Hopper is displeased
at the way American newspapers pry
into family affairs. De Wolf would
have less cause for complaint if he did
not have SO many family affairs that
man can not turn a corner without
running into one of them
We are at the height of the bug and
insect season in Iowa. In a few weeks
frost killing frost will end their
nonotonous night songs.
Comparisons between the democratic
and republican tariffs show striking
differences. 1t is five years since the
Wilson tariff law went into effect, after
ten months spent in its preparation
1 During the fiscal year ended on June
80, 1895, the exports We're $50, 53S, 165 and
the imports s731,969.965. an increase in
imports but a decrease in exports un-
der the operation of the democratic law.
When President Mckinley and repub-
lican congress came into power the
Dingley tariff was substituted, and
since then the imports have decreased
and the exports rapidly increased, I'M
til during the last fiscal year the i'm
lports Of merchandise were 1916. O49 ga