Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1900-06-15

he has many times been tlattered
with the prospect of Il nomination
for governor of that State, and it
has even been limited that he may
be the Vice Presidential running
mate of Mr.. Bryan, on the Demo-
cratic ticket.
The Ways and Means Committee
very properly sat down upon Rep
resentative Richardson s (DemOcrat)
proposition to admit sugar and mo-
lasses free of duty from Cuba and
Porto Rico. Its effect would have
been to make n present of $14, 100000
to the Sugar Trust.
The record of President MeKin-
ley first term will not be complete
until provision has been made for
the upbuilding of our merchant ma
rine in the foreign trade, a question
to which Congress will give its at
tention as soon as the session begins
next December.
OF the four reports on the ship
ping bill filed in Congress during the
session just closed, each one speci-
fically declared against the free
American registry of foreign built
ships. The free ship proposition, SC
far as the United States is concern
ed, is as dead as Pharaoh.
Cotton, provisions and mineral
oils show larger export values dur
ing the ten months of this fiscal
year ending April 80 last than atany
time since 1902.
The people of the United States
have tired of paying foreign stea N.
ships 5000, coo, 900 each year for car.
rying our imports and exports. A
bill to put an end to that is pending
in Congress and will be passed at the
next session.
The prosecution of Neeley and hi
associates for the Cuban posta
frauds is being vigorously contin
ued by the Administration and vii
not cease till sentence has been pro
nounced upon the guilty.
The Republican party has persis
emily endeavored to strengthen anC
upbuild the American Navy. The
Democratic party has just as per
sistently opposed such II policy a
every possible opportunity.
The Arbuckle Sugar Refining peo
pie have beaten the Sugar Trust il
legal battle in Ohio. Arbuckle
held stock in the Trusts coffee fac
tory and wanted to inspect it's book
right to which they are entitled
under a recent decision. Anothe
blow for an octopus.
If the filing of the reports in favo
of the shipping bill during the session
of Congress just closed have accomp
lished nothing else, they have, a
least, buried for all the so-caIlet
"free ship proposition, which on ex
animation, is found to be measui
for the promotion of British ship
building.
Since 1870, the population of tn
United States has increased 100 pc
cent and the production of cotton 80
per cent. With 200 per cent more il
rcease in production than in populf
ton, the decrease in price has bee
less than 100 per cent, and the quan
ity used by American mills has il
creased 800 per pent. This indicate
the growth and value of the HON
market.
J The United States now has a dC
: minion nearly three times greater i
area than it possessed whenit becam
nation. We have been expandin
} all the time, and most of it was aC
ded by the party now opposing e1
pansion.
Civilization and commerce alwaN
go together. 1t was so Hawai-
/ 1t will be so in the Philippines al
Porto Rico.
The policy of expansion, whiC
gives us a foot hold in the Phil
pines, and enable us to increase OF
commerse with China, and will be
(: great benefit to all our people, al
r more especially to farmers and wag
! earners.
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