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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1899-01-07

Albany DemOcrat:-A remOdeled
court house Will not be luxury, but
necessity In Linn county. We need
II 10 our business for fact, as a walk
through the present structure will
convince any one, and the county
Is emlnently In the best condition Of
any Ia the state 10 improve It's court
house
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-06-10
1T is A DEAD ONE.
The Anti-EXpnnsion Lunncy VIII
Not Last Until Next
Year.

A promising democratic issue has
been destroyed by the collapse of the
rebellion E the Philippines. There will
be no anti-eXpansion talk in the cam
paign of 1900. There will be none in the
canvass OF 1899. Bryan began talking
on the anti-eXpansion line early. He
started it before the peace treaty was
ratified. He urged his friends to re-
| Train from obstructing the treaty. He
aid this because he knew that obstruc-
ton would not defeat the treaty, while
it would be death to the Instructors.
Expansion could be fought afterward,
he said, and would he winning issue for
| his side.
Bryan was mistaken. The country
has already expanded. The only men
who could have fought expansion to any
purpose or with any effect have ac-
cepted it. The sensible anti-eXpanders,
if there could be said to be any sense at
all on their side, were the Filipinos, and
they have virtually acquiesced to it.
Aguinaldo and Luna, as anti-expanders,
were entitled to show of respect. They
are not Americans. They committed
the blunder of taking Bryan. Hoar and
their fellows to be true opponents OF
American ideas and intentions. BRYAN
and Hoar declared. that the United
States wanted to enslave the Filipinos,
and hence they fought against the
| A M frhn,,
will very soon discover, that these per-
sons do not represent American senti-
ment, and, they are beginning to sus-
pect, do not know American purposes.
Hence the Filipinos are willing to trust
themselves to the American sense of
justice and propriety.
Thus anti-eXpansion as an issue is
dead. Expansion is here, and it will
stay. Americans are not in the habit of
fighting facts. Even its opponents will
say that nothing can be accomplished
by trying to put Aguinaldo in posses
sion of Manila. The clock of time will
not be turned backward at the bidding
of Bryan or any other reactionary.
American sovereignty over the Philip
pines, which was guaranteed by the
peace treaty, has been agreed to by the
Filipinos, or will be agreed to in day
or two. The Filipinos will have all the
home rule which they can stand with
safety to the interets of the United
States and of the Filipinos themselves.
This self-government will from time to
time be extended as the Filpinos be-
come fitted to use it. All this can be
promised with the utmost confidence.
Long before the democratic convention
of 1900 meets Aguinaldo and his men
will be so thoroughly satisfied with the
American connection that they would
fight against anybody who would want
to end it. In every direction fate is hit
ting the doomed Bryanite.-St. Louis
Globe-Democrat
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-06-10
OPPONENTS OF TRUSTS.
Republicans Are the Only Ones to
Make Any Efforts Towards
Combating Trusts.

1t will be noticed that while demo-
cratic orators and organs have much to
say about the evils of trusts, none of
them has so much as named remedy.
In two states of the south legislatures
have passed antitrust laws which have
driven out insurance companies. The
result of such legislation in Arkansas
is that company which had a large
risk on a manufacturing establishment
that was burned has refused to settle
the damages, on the ground that the
receipt or payment of money by insur-
ance companies in that state makes the
agents of companies liable to fine and
Imprisonment. Generally, however, the
opposition, while setting forth the dan
gers and evils which combinations
called trusts present, and making the
present tariff responsible for them, Of
fers no remedies. 1t is like physicians
who would attempt to cure disease by
shouting about its fatality and decla'r-
ing that unless something shall be
done at once the loss of LIE must be
very great.
On the other hand, republicans who
are familiar with the business of the
country are studying the subject, and
some of them are making suggestions.
One of these is Senator Depew. He has
made two suggestions. One of these
is that the banks refuse to advance
money on securities not known by them
| to have solid assets. thus keeping the
! trade within safe limits. The banks
in the larger cities have done this, but
| it must be remembered that the banks
| do not own all the money they have in
their keeping. and that those who do
own it can draw it out and invest it in
the stocks of trusts.
The other suggestion of Mr.. Depew
| is more important 1t is that states
shall intervene to require corporations
in the nature of trusts to give very full
publicity as to their assets, condition,
operations and methods. This is in the
nature of remedy. Such publicity is
not required by any state law, but there
can be no doubt of the states right
to require such presentation by cor
porations of their condition, operations
and methods. Indiana requires insur-
ance companies to publish statements
frequently which show the condition of
the companies, and the United States
calls for statements of the condition OF
national banks.
But it is not to examine Mr.. Depew's
plan that attention is called to this mat
ter, but that he is one of the men who
are honestly trying to find remedy
for the evils which trusts seem to in
volve. The other men, those who are
making the most noise about trusts. dc
not wish to interfere with their growth
On the contrary. they desire to foster
the trusts for political effect. That is
the truth about the matter.-In dianap.
oils Journal
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-06-10
BEYOND CALCULATION.
BENEFITS of the PrOtectiveT Tariff Have
Helped the Race as We'll as
the Country.

Some self-named "philanthropists"
have affected to be opposed to pro-
teetive tariff because, as they say, it is
founded on national seltishness. Al
though there are many things which
could be said in favor of national self
quoted to uphold it--such as Charity
begins at home" and Heaven helps
those who help themselves"-which
ought to appeal even to the piety of
these righteous free traders, yet pro-
tectionists are not even forced to rely
on these things for justification of their
policy.
The direct purpose of a protective
men good wages, which win insure to
them comfortable living for them
selves and for their families, and en-
able them to educate their children ac-
civilization. Education, and the intelli-
gence which is developed and utilized
through education, work not only to
the benefit of the individual and of the
nation, but to the benefit of the whole
world. The direct results of American
education and intelligence have been
the improvement of methods of manu-
facture and the cheapening of the cost
of the necessities and the comforts of
life. What they have contributed ind-
rectly to the progress of the human
race is beyond calculation.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-06-10
Money Talks.

Before the enactment of the Dingley
law. the tin plate industry in this coun-
try was Frustrated. American dealers
were obliged to go to Europe for that
commodity, and before it reached the
hands of the consumer it became ex-
pensive because of the cost of trans
Atlantic transportation and the fact
that the manufacturers had corner on
the market. We were told by the free
traders that tin plate could not be man.
ufactured in the United States in quail
ty and quantity that would meet the de-
mand. But American capital and Amer
lean ingenuity have been equal to the
emergency. andwe now find the making
of tin plate among the leading indus
tries of the country. The men who are
earning $54 week will not agree with
the free traders that the Dingley tariff
has been of no benefit to the tin plate
industry. Money talks. and that is
what the employees of the tin plate
manufactures are earning.-Trenton
On j. Gazette
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-06-10
PRESS OPINIONS.

EDryan's war record will require a
good deal of artistic dressing up before
it can be put in shape for active cam
paign duty.-SiouX City Journal.
GTThe American people naturally
have greater admiration for soldier
hse Col. Funston than for a soldier like
Col. Bryan.-Kansas City Journal.
uJSilver went up to over GA cents one
day recently, and this was the highest
price that has been paid for two years.
Strange how the gold standard is ruin
ing" silver.-Iowa State Register.
GAS long as Csl. Bryan is staying
at ten-dollar-a-day hotel he can al
ford to drop in and lunch at a onedol-
lar banquet and yet not be hungry
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
uTThe more Mr.. Bryan thinks of it
the more firmly is he convinced that
President Mckinley should show the
white feather in the Philippines and
thus enable "a boy orator to become his
successor.-W Washington Post.
OThe Roman punch said to have
been introduced in this country by
Thomas Jefferson is light tap com
pared to the Knockout drops with
which the Bryanites have been trying
to embalm the memory of the great
democrat.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
UThe anti-imperialists ask the pres
RI triCn ha Of hn A pnri-
cans who have been helping the Fill
pinos. Why, of course. Let the ene-
mics of this government be exposed.
The sooner they are smoked out the
better. The bluff of the 'aunties"
should be called.-Cleveland Leader.
UIt is mistake toi say that the ca
lamity howlers have nothing to howl
about. Ten per cent. raises have just
land cotton mills and of the iron work.
ers in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio
and Illinois, to say nothing of the in.
creases in other industries that are be-
ing daily announced.-Loui Cou-
rier-Journal Oem.).
UDispatches from the west tell of a
well-developed anti-silver movement
among the democrats of Texas, Ne
braska, Kentucky and other states, in
which Mr.. Bryan hitherto believed his
party to be true to him. The story
lacks confirmation, but it is plausible,
One of these days Mr.. Bryan may be-
come appalled, at the size of the "ene.
my's country. Albany Journal.
UMany people in this country are
| deceiving. themselves in regard to pub
lie sentiment relative to the war in the
Philippines. They may imagine that
it would meet the approval of the
American people to have the United
States retire from the Philippines and
lsave affairs in the hands of Aguinaldo.
If they do so imagine they are de-
ceived. If the president should give
the order to retire from Manila his
name would be denounced all over the
country. Even those who now criti-
| else and assume a hostile attitude
would denounce an act which would hui
/ miliateThe American nation in the eyes
of the world. To-day in this country
the quality which may be called ma
tional pride and self-resrect stands for
something.-lndianapoIis journal.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-06-10
Unset All Theories.

While the revenue under the existing
tariff law has not quite come up to ex-
pectation. the effect of the law in infus-
ing life and activity into our industries
has been all that was hoped for. Its
operation has confuted all the theories
and predictions of its opponents. 1t
was, in their view, certain to check the
exports of manufactured products. but,
on the contrary, these have grown
steadily and largely since the law went
into effect and are still growing. We
were told that it would be harmful to
labor. but. on the other hand, since the
law went into effect labor throughout
the country has been better employed
than almost ever before. At this time
there is not only good demand for Ia
Dor in nearly every industry, but in
some of them wages are advancing
Omaha Bee.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-06-10
WITHOUT SENATORS.
Several States Have But One Rep
resentative in the Upper House.
Should -he Constitution He Amended
81 That Senators Could BE Chosen
by the Direct Vote of
the PeOplet
Especial Washington letter.

One OF the growing questions before
our people is whether members of the
United States senate shall continue to
be elected by state legislatures or by di-
rect vote of the people.
There are now As states in the federal
union, and each state is entitled to two
senators. Consequently, if every state
legislature performed its constitution
al duty, there would be 80 members
of the national senate. When the con-
stitution was adopted there We're 13
states, each entitled to two senator's;
and the total membership of the ma
tional senate was rs.
Thirty-two states have been added to
the federal union since the foundation
OF the government. By purchase, by
cession and by conquest the original
republic has expanded from the At
lantic to the Pacific oceans, and from
the great lakes to the gulf.
But, while the republic has been
expanding, and while its power has
been increasing, men gifted with tai
ents for acquisition have acquired
wealth in great measure. Their sons
have added to the boards by modern
methods of speculation. They ignore
that Scripture which says that it is
Harder for rich man to enter the
Kingdom of Heaven than for camel
TO pass through the gate called the
needles eye. They have laid up treas.
ure on earth, seeming to care little OF
nothing Cor laying up treasure in
Heaven.
1t is because of this accumulation of
riches that many of our people be-
lieve that legislatures are corruptible,
and that rich men buy their way into
the national senate. No higher honor
can be attained by any man in this re-
public than that he shall be elected
to the national senate; excepting, of
course, the presidency. Rich men covet
the distinction and the social honor
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-06-10

1t is not a secret that, not many years
ago, man expended upwards of
quarter of million dollars to secure
his election to the senate.
The salary of senator is only $4,000
a year, and the term lasts but six years.
Consequently when man is elected
to the senate his total salary for six
years amounts to 100000. And yet a
man expended quarter of million
dollars to secure an election to the
senate. Why did he do it?
He expended that large amount of
money simply to have the honor of be-
ing a senator: just as he expended $780,
600 for painting to adorn his parlor;
just as he expended $4,000 for house
in certain city.
Now when the expenditure of quar-
ter of a million dollars will enable a
rich man to have himself elected to the
senate many of our good people think
that halt should be called. If a man
in one state can control legislature
with money, man in every state might
do the same; and hence no man could
aspire to become great law-giver
without first becoming a rich man.
Moreover, all legislatures might be-
come corrupt.
That is, in brief, the argument made
bv the people who favor the election
of senators by direct votes of the peo-
pie. 1t is for the purpose of enabling
poor men to aspire, as they did in the
DAYS of jackson, Polk, Clay, Webster.
Lincoln and Garfield it is for the
purpose of putting the poor men on
n level with the rich men in aspiring
70 national honors and distinction that
they advocate the proposed change.
But there is another side to the ques-
ton. If wealth continues to accumu-
late. and rich men continue to aspire,
they will have the advantage anyway,
because they can have bigger meetings,
better brass bands, bigger professions,
more expensive and extensive barbe-
eues and other entertainments; so that,
even by direct vote of the people, the
election of senators might be corruptly
secured. That is to say, the rich man
who would exPend a quarter Of mil
lion dollars to corrupt a state legisla-
ture would spend half million to infu-
ence the votes of the people in the vari-
Gus polling places. The millionaire of
the present can as well afford to spend
half a million for the honor as he can
afford to spend a quarter of million.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-06-10
Panics and Panics.

Trade reports from all over the coun-
try continue to tell of remarkable bust
ness activity. with prices strong and
steady, collections good and an increas-
ing demand in all lines of trade. One
correspondent to a trade paper sized up
the situation as buyers panic"
That is the kind of panic" that a
protective tariff always brings about.
In 1898, under the free-trade admins
tration of Mr.. Cleveland with its tariff
reform Wilson-Gorman law we had
another kind of a panic. the kind that
has always followed upon every. expert
ment made with free trade or any APP
proach to it by this country; panic
when banks failed factories closed
business men went to the wall and Idle
workmen walked the streets. 1T is safe
to say that the people of the country
prefer the buyers panic" of 1899 under
protection to the sort of panic we had
in 1898 under partial free trade.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-06-10
NATIONAL WEALTH.
Enormous Gains in the Past Ten
Years.
Census of 1900 Expected to show In
crease of $45,OOO, 900 900 Since
1890 ana Largest WealuA Per
Capita of Any Nation.

According to all present indications
the federal census of 1900 will be
record breaking one. If the present
rate of increase is maintained it will
show a total accumulated wealth not
far from $4,000 GEO. 600. or nearly 70
per cent. more than the amount shown
by the census of 1890. By the federal
census of 1890 the aggregate material
wealth Of the United States, compared
with the wealth of Great Britain, was
less in ships and merchandise, but eX-
ceeded in many other items. The real
estate of this country was then valued
at 500 COS, 100000, the live stock at 3d.
600, 100000, the railroads at $4,000, 0U0,-
600, manufactures and their contents
at $4,000 100000, mines and quarries
at $1,000, 100000, and gold and silver coin
$1,000. 100000. In 1860 the wealth of
the United States was estimated at
500 900 600. 600; in 1870 at $4,000, 000,-
OoG; in 1880 at $45 900 100000. and in
1890 at sos 100000, and in 1890 at $685.
900 100000
According to the estimate of Mulhall,
published in 1892, the wealth of ma
tons was as follows for the chief coun-
tries. for lands. farm utensils. bullion,
cattle, houses. furniture. railroads,
shipping. merchandise and sundries:
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-06-10
MAKING FREE TRADERS.
by Anti-PrOtectionists
Leaders of the Blind.

Our free trade friends do not seem to
share in the general joy at the many
increases in the pay of wage-earners
NOW going on all over the country.
Thus the Times of Hartford, Conn:
"a ten per cent. advance in the price of
cast iron stoves was decreed by the COM
bined manufacturers yesterday. This
means that the American people will pay
100000 or S5,G00,0O0 more for stoves in 1899
than in 1898, owing to the advance in the
price of the metal"
And the Utica On. W Observer, an
other pessimistic Cobdenite, takes up
the cry:
welcome the latest manifestation of the
blessings of protective tariff! This is
something that the foreigner does not have
to pay.
Not one word about the advance ia
wages concurrent with the advance in
prices by stove manufacturing indus
try; no mention of the fact that in the
matter Of stoves. as in the relatively
few other articles whose price has been
increased through natural and healthy
causes, the larger wages more than
compensate for the larger prices. All
this is concealed, and the blind follow
ers of these blind guides are left to in
fer that the return of protection has
merely increased the cost of living with
out increasing in still greater degree
the wage-earner's purchasing power. 1t
is She spread of this sort of intelligence,
or lack of intelligence, by the free
trade press, that constantly menaces
the welfare of this country. Happily,
however, most of the people now
know the truth.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-06-10

There is also the danger that the PEG
pie might become accustomed to look
for wholesale bribery, and enough of
them become corruptible to sell their
votes, and affect the elections.
There you have an epitome of both
sides of the argument. The reason for
calling attention to this condition pros
pectively affecting our body polite lies
in the fact that during the past decade
various state legislatures have failed to
perform their constitutional functions,
and have adjourned without electing
senators, thereby depriving sovereign
states of their right to complete repre-
sentation on the floor of the national
senate.
One striking example of this condi-
ton may be referred to without preJu-
dice. In 1894 Senator Mitchell, of Ore
gon, discussing the right of the gov
ernor of Montana to appoint Lee Mantle
as senator, after the legislature of
Montana failed to elect senator, said:
Suppose a rich man should arise in
Oregon, two years hence, and prevent
my reelection to the senate. Suppose
that rich man should be in collision
with the governor of Oregon. And, aft
err preventing the legislature from
electing me, that rich man should be APP
pointed to the senate by the governor of
Oregon, would it be right to give him a
seat in this body? l say not; and Twill
vote against the admission of senator
from Montana appointed under such
circumstances"
Strange as it may seem, two years
after Senator Mitchell had delivered
that speech the Oregon legislature was
induced to adjourn without electing a
senator to succeed Senator Mitchell
Very soon thereafter the governor OF
Oregon appointed one Corbett, very
rich man, to the senate. The case
was considered carefully and, by vote
of two to one, the senate refused to give
Corbett seat. Thus precedent was
established. When Legislature fails
to elect the governor of a state cannot
appoint a senator.
The Corbett case is the last one or
record. The first precedent was formed
in 1793 at a session of the senate fol-
the third congress. Senator Read, O.
Delaware, resigned in December, 1892
when the state legislature was in SEES
sion. His successor was not elected
and the governor of Delaware, il
March, 1898, appointed Kensey Johns
After full discussion the senate re
fused to permit Mr.. Johns to be seated
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-06-10
Prejudice Against Subsidies.

The system of discriminating duties
was on trial for good many years, and
it is notable that in those years there
was an enormous increase in the
number of American vessels carrying
the American flag. When the provision
for discriminating duties was repealed
we began to lose our hold on ocean traf-
fic, which went into the hands of Great
Britain. country which for 200 years
had encouraged by subsidy and bounty
the upbuilding of the greatest mer-
chant marine in the world. In this
country prejudice was excited against
the subsidy system because in two or
three cases there were evasions of con-
tract, and in other cases il was charged
that undue lobby influence had been eX-
erted.-Exchange