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Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-07-26
GEN. BEATTY,
Columbus Republican, Replies to Gen. Grosvenor--Pary
No Longer Insists Upon Equal Opportunities For ALL

T. 4
there have been in any year. or any
four years since. .FN
When General Grosvenor assumes
that the four years under Mckinley
have been unpreoedently prosperous,
he does so without warrant of fact.
The people of the country generally
have not been more than ordinarily
successful. The only great success
achieved has been by the trusts and
combines. Under the high tariff these
have been enabled to make corner
on the manufactured products of the
country and rob the American con-
sumcr as he was never robbed before.
Nail mills have declared semi.annunl
dividends on their capital stock of $50
per cent, other protected and cornered
industries have paia dividends varying
from 20 per cent to 200 per cent. The
stockholders and manipulators of these
concerns have prospcrcd, bat the
bulk of what they have gained has
been lost by the great body of peo-
pie. Mckinley prosperity, socalled, is
sham. Ii cmpties the pockets Of the
many and fills the pockets Of the few
1t controls the home market, and after
supplying it at prices from 80 to 10C
per cent higher than its products arc
worth, sends any surplus it may have
abroad to be sold there for whatever
it may bring. As the result of al
this American nails, railway bars
woolen gods, etc, cano be bought IL
Europe at lower prices than in Amer
lea. This may be q good thing for thu
combines and for foreigners, but 1t Il
not at all likely to contribute to thu
prosperity Of the American consumer
: The old Republican party insisted UP
: on equal opportunities for all. 'Th
Mckinley party plays into the hand
, of trusts and combines at home ant
, bullics weak and dcfcnsclcss peopl
! abroad. In short, II robs American
and slaughtcrs Filipinos aud the
shouts prosperity to divert attentio
$ from It's misdeeds
l JOHN BEATTY.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-07-26

Of the six or seven hundred trusts
that nave bccn organized under the
protection of American laws there is
not one that has reduced prices to the
consumers. The trusts produce more
chcaply than Individual firms, brt ,hcy
tavc not lowered prices, Upon ,hc
contrary they have taken advantage of
their monopoly to make an arblrnry
advance, In tho prices of their pro,
ducts Tako away the tariff protection
that is given TO many of the trusts
and their power to take from The pco
pie tribute far in excess Of a Legitimate
prot, viii be restricted, The Demo
cratic party alone offers to tho pcopl,
hope Of relief from the continued ant
even Increased cxuctions of trusts fol
tho future, =;
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-07-26
Congressional Ticket
For Congress,
CHAS. Il. CHADMAN,
OF Ashtahula.
A PRIVILEGED SERVANT.

A remarkable feature of the Cuban
postal steals was the zeal with which
the officials at fault presumed upon the
Indulgence of the Administration TO
protect them in their wrong doing
The report of Fourth Assistant Post
master General Bristow, n summary of
which was made public today, shows
that the Neely steals reach the total of
SI3t,7i3, while Major Rathbonc has
not only been guilty OF collusion with
Neely In his cmbczzlemcnts, but has
of the Cuban revenues, and has made
excessive and fraudulent charges for
alleged expenses aud extra services,
II is not difficult TO account for the
reason why Mcssrs. Rathbone, Necly
and others presumed that so long as
they wanted TO loot the Cuban treas
Nry they were secure from prosecution
by the present administration. Mai
Rathboue was given his appointment
In direct consideration OF the notoriou,
part he played in the bribery scandal
attending tile election OF Senator Han
ma. and II was but natural that he re
garded his appointment as u license I,
work" his new position TO the lim
OF It's opportunities. That he did 40
and that the Administration was yer!
.ndulgeut toward him. Is evidenced b.
kthe report of Mr. Bristow. showing
how request after request on tho par
OF Rathboue for an extension of hi
privileges and remuneration, was con
Cured 10 AT Washington.
The report shows that Neely, who l
loaded dowu with responsibility, nom
nal, at least. for most OF the stealing
went into the Office bankrupt, upo
a moderate salary, ana astonished hi
friends by the rapidity with which
noc,mulatod wealth auJ entered upo
large speculations. The Nicely frauc
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-07-26

A prominent Milwaukee German Of
fers in Milwaukee paper to wager
81 900 that MIR. Bryan will carry Wis
cousin hy $4,000 plurality on account Of
the dsalfcction Of German American
farmers, who do not like the imperial
!stlc tendencies of the Administration
Mr.. Hanna will not take the bet, but
he will send more than thousand dol
lars into Wisconsin.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-07-26

practically unanimous vote not to put
n Presidential ticket in the field this
fall. The members of the party Will
be left to support whomsoever they
choose. The Gold Democratic ticket
polled just Is votes in Summit county
four years ago, and the result of the
election will be in doubt to the cam
paign committees until they determine
to which party the thirteen martyrs
will throw their support,
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-07-26

Gen. Egau was retired on full pay
as punishment for his connection with
the cmbalmcd beef scandal, and Mai,
l,athbone's punishment for connection
with the Cuban postal frauds is that
no bc invited TO '.rclmburse" the gov.
crnment for it's losses in his depart
mont, when ho has nothing to REIN
bursc with. For punishment that does
not publish these sentences cannot be
eNcclled.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-07-26

In the July number of the North
American Review, General Charles
Henry Grosvenor adds somewhat TO
the luster Of his reputation as crimi-
nal lawyer by lengthy defense Of
McKinley's Administration. He starts
out by. affirming that the so-called Re.
publican party needs no defense and
then proceeds TO defend it. The fact
is General Grosvenor knows very well
what only the Republican blockhead
has failed to discover namely, that
Mckinley, Roosevelt, Hanna and their
Confederates, have abandoned every
thing the old Republican party ever
adhered to except the name, and that
they are now doing a fraudulent bust
ness under a stolen trade mark. Cen
eral Grosvcnor asks "What was it that
lprecipitatcd this country from the high
pinnacle of the commercial, Industrial
and financial prosperity of 1892 down
into the pit in which we wallowcd for
four years"
1t was the so.called Sherman law of
1S90-the law authorizing the purchase
Of 100000 ounces of silver per mont,
for which Mckinley and General Gros
venor voted II they were in Congress
at the time, and which | know botl
defended on the stump in Ohio. This
law prccipitated the panic of 1893
and this panic continued with the ut
most violence until Cleveland called
Il special session Of Congress and hat
the law repealed. From the hour o
its repeal the panic ceased, and TIN
restoration of public confidence be
gan. The panic of 1893 and the fou
years following that panic undc
Cleveland, were no whit worse tha
the panic of 1873, and the -four year
following that panic under Grant Th
number of failures in 1000 firms 1
1875, 1876, 1877 and 1878 all Republ
can years-wcrc greater than in 1S0'
And there were during those year
more laboring men unemployed tina
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-07-26
Hopeful Canton.

Tips on census figures are not al
ways available but it can be said of
Canton that it will turn out to be a
very large city, very close to Youngs-
town and much in the lead of Akron.
We think we have more than Akron
reasonably expects. Canton News
Democrat.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-07-26

that will be hurled against him when
he goes to convention for Office in
the few hundred votes he would lose
in the county if he runs for Congress
again. Dick knew Raley was DEM
ocrat. He knew that Raley's father
sent him to Florida, but he kept mum
and smiled, for he saw that it would
/ kill Judge Sperry. =.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-07-26

The Administrations fearful punish.
mcnt Of Maj Rathbone Tor his leading
part In the Cuban postal steals is u
Recommendation that he 'rclmbursc'
the government Tor moucy actually
converted to his use without author.
iiy. Rathbone Is bankrupt and could
not pay ten cents Oh the dollar, hay
Ing just becn sold ont by the Sheriff
Mt his home In Hamilton, hut the re
comnendatiou Is deemed by the otfi
clals at Washington 10 he sufficient tc
satisfy the public demand for ven
geancc. Some queer types OF justice
are parccled out from Washington
nowadays.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-07-26

A sixteen ycar,old bride Is suing at
Cleveland for divorce from her nine
teen ycarold husband, And Cloro
lands preachers are wondering why
about one of every i've of the marlag
os entered into upon liccnscs ISSUED
from the Cleveland probate office have
proven To he failures.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-07-26

The war In South Africa, TO date,
has cost the British government $685..
0Oo,ooo. And moro than 10000 British
soldiers are reported killed, disabled or
missing, This Is more than the ad-
voca,cs of the war bargained for.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-07-26

What chiefly concerns Senator Hoar,
saws the Philadelphia Record, is the
fact that his term Will expire on Mar
4. next. AS the Republican Lcgisla-
ture of Massachusetts will elect n
Senator next winter, he knows full
well that 1t will choose no opponent of
Mckinley and his administration. This
Is what lncllnes Senator Hoar so
strongly to the belief that "he and the
Republican party" will secure TO the
| Filiplnos local government, not
wlthstanding the evident purpose of
the Administration TO govern the terri
tories outside Of the Constitution
There is nothing that n man believes
so easily as that which he has great
interest In believing,
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-07-26
Preparing For Camp.

Colonel Edward Nollrath, of Buoy
rus, and Captain Feederic of Akron,
were at the adlutant generals office AT
Columbus yesterday making requisi
ton for equipment, supplies, etc, fol
the Eighth regimen, encampmont al
New Philadelphia the forepar' of Au
gust.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-07-26

were permitted TO continue, through the
colluslon of Director Rathbone, until
they had reached startling proportions
The rcport shows that the entire Gu
ban postal service was honeycombcd
with corruption, the officials at fauit
seeming to feel assured that the friend
ly administration would tolerate 1t.
II is amusing to note the varying de-
gree of punishment that is recommend
ed to be metcd out to the offenders.
For Director Rathbone who is charg-
ed with responsibility Of obtaining
honesty in the service, and who should
be held primarily at fault, for there
could have been no corruption had he
sot the example of honesty TO his sub
ordlnates and exercised proper de-
gree Of diligence in detecting misd0'
ings upon their part, for him 1t is rec
ommended that he should be compel
cd to "rc-imburse' the government iol
the ovcrcharges that can be imputed
directly TO his department
| But to Nicely the extreme limit OF
punishment is recommended.
Nccly Is without influence, he knows
no dangerous secrets and can he treat
ID as any common offender. Rathbon'
| still holds the leverage that won fol
him his position and favors, and mus
be treated with the grcatest lcnicnc!
possible under the circumstances.
1t Is unfortunate for Necly that HI
had no part in the Ohio Senatcria
scandal, else he too might have escap
ed bearing the scapcgoat's burden.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-07-26

Tie National committee of the Gold
Democratic party has decided by a
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-07-26
State Ticket

Tor Eloctors-at-Larg
GEN. |. r. SHERWOOD, of Lucas.
GEN. A. j. WARNER, of Worthington
For Secretary Of State,
II. II. McFADDEN,
OF Jefferson.
Tor Supreme Judge,
Lien w. SMALLEY,
OF Wyandot.
; For Dairy and Food Commissioners.
BALLARD Il. YATES,
OF Plcknway.
For School Commissioners,
j. u. SIMKINS,
OF Auglaize.
For Board of Public Works,
PETER V. BROWN.
OF Ross.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-09-22
The sonth,s Political FoIIr

The growth of its textile industries
of late years makes it necessary for the
South to forget dead issues and look to
the future Of its business interests in
its politics. The more sensible bust
ncsslike politics of the North have al
ready saved the South from severe
losses which it would sustain under
Democratic free silver and free trade
policies.
But the question for thinking men in
the South is, Can it afford to rely on
the North indefinitely to protect it
against its own political folly? Isn't it
about time the South exercised some
political Judgment itself? How long is
it going to follow blindly in whatever
the Democratic party dictates, ire
spective of it's growing business inter-
ests?- Topeka (Kan.) Capital
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-09-22

The mind of the inventor works bet
ter during times of Republican pros
perty than it does when hard times are
knocking at the door, and a govern
nent report just issued from Washing
ton shows that during the past year
the cash receipts at the patent office
have been 81 ,35S, OBS a larger sum than
ever before received in one year. The
number Of patents issued 2G,540-iS
also the largest in the history of the
office. American inventors are doing
much to bring the trade of the world to
our doors, and it is gratifying to see
that their minds are now more active
than ever.-Des Moines 1owa) state
Register.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-09-22

mento and promise of an extra session
of Congress is brandiShing a torch to
kindle wars, and offers a premium for
the daily assaults in the Philippines
upon American soldiers who are. by
Mr.. Bryan's fatal necessities of futile
policy. presented as the instruments of
"A ruthless despotism and that we are
warning in the Philippines TO change
the way of our republicanism and char
acter of our government and make it
imperialistic. Bryan's extra session, L
believe, promises, if the November cleo
ton approves it, more war and anarchy
after Mr.. Bryan's election, and guerrilla
warfare until that time. The session
to be held by Mr.. Bryan would be an
open door" not To commerce in the
Orient, but to European Intervention in
the Philippines. Ii seems 4 surprise
that Mr.. Bryan should have risked his
ease on a state of facts in the Philip
pines ana did not know what it was.
He has read Pettigrew's Senatorial in
terjections of irrelevancy into the Rec
ord, and has accepted the sinister com
pilation as Il yeritablc history.
Mr.. Bryan has broken himself by
that hlunder.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-09-22

BY the best figures obtainable it ap-
pears that the farmers of the country
paid over $S00,000,O0O in the shrinkagc
in the value of their live stock alone
as part of the price of the election to
the Presidency of Grover Cleveland on
free-trade platform in 1892 Most Of
this loss they have made good since
free trade received Il knockout blow in
1896 and protection returned to It's own
again. II the farmers have more money
and more prosperity now than they
want and would like 20 get rid of some
of it, the surcst way in the world Is to
vote for Bryan and free trade this fall
1t wouldn't take long under Bryan and
free trade for live stock to become OF
as little value as it was in the days of
Cleveland. But if, on the other hand.
the farmers of the country want to
keep what they have and to add to it,
they need TO stand by the policy which
gives the American market to the
American people, and which. by bring
ing work and money and prosperity to
the industrial workers of the countrS,
creates Il strong home demand for the
products Of the farm.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-09-22


Protection and Progress" by John
Z. Young. is work just from the press
of Rand, McNally Il Co, New York and
Chicago. The title may suggest an
argument in reply to Henry George, but
the work is not directly controversial in
character and only indirectly touches
on any Of Georges themes. 1t is a
new and valuable study Of the economic
basis of the American protective tariff
system by a student whose marked
ability for original Investigations and
luminous discussion of economic uues-
tions was demonstrated in his work on
The Manufacturing Industries of
Japan" and "Bi-Metallism or Mono
Metallsm." This work is Of greater
Importance and interest than either of
those, and. indeed, marks n distinct ad-
vance in the discussion of the question
of protection versus free trade. A strik-
ing feature is the chapter showing
trusts and monopolicS to be the natural
Outgrowth of free trade. Equally sue
cessfully in attacking another delusion
the author shows the wrctched blunder
of economic theories which perststently
look to the interest Of the consumer
and overlook those Of the producer.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-09-22

lowing day When she mo he doctor
had her securely blindtodcd with
took a tiny mouse. which he had ready
ami held the Lively little thing hy liz
tai before the girls face. though not
touching her, while he ordc ed The band
age 70 he removed 80 sooner was the
blndage off than her screams rang
through thc place, and her eyes We're
wide with terror az The harmits. littIr
ro4rnt, which had thrown her 50 con-
pIrt"ly off her guard and exposed the
unpc sture. OF course she saw il. or She
Woald not have screamed Needless to-
say The applicant did not get that ccrtif-
cafe Minneapolis Tribune.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-09-22
Colorado Will Como Rack.

IN 1894 Colorado mined a lot of silver
and only S9,491 ,514 in gold and was
crazy for Bryan and 16 to /. In 1873
she mined gold to the value of SO. 195.-
800, and will unquestionably come back
to the Republican column, where she
belongs. Colorado has become a great
manufacturing State and has no use
for a party which proposes to draw the
fires from her furnaces. San Francisco
Chronicle.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-09-22
Easy to- Understand.

There are some people who cannot
understand why stocks went down
when Bryan was nominated four years
ago and go up now. That is easy.
There was really some danger that he
might be elected four years ago, and
there is not particle Of suspicion even
that he will do any such thing now
Peoria Gll) Journal.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-09-22

They are branded as traitors. They
shall not come back" So said William
Jennings Bryan at Richmond, Va. in
1896. And how he fawns and caresses
David Bennett Hill and Arthur ?. Cor
man and other traitors" who have re-
turned to the fold. Not only that he
encourages Senator Wellington and
John Beatty TO their reasonable assist
ance in giving comfort to the Tagals.
Singular, isn't it?
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-09-22
Demagogue and Anarchist.

Mr.. Bryan says the present campaign
IS a contest between Democracy on the
one hand and plutocracy on the other. 90
This is the talk OF demagogue VINO is
an anarchist at heart. There are rs
many capitalists in the Democratic
party as there are in the Republican.
and as many Republican workingmcu
as Democratic.-Indl Journal.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-09-22
Mine Workers Are Neutral.

The United Mine Workers viii, as an
trail ground. Politics will be eliminated
for the good of the organization, which
is the most powerful labor body in the
world. More than one labor organiza
tion has been wrecked against political
rocks. We will have no political en-
tanglements Of any kind. As a labor
organization we have made our infiu-
ence widely felt: and believe that the
only way in which we can keep the
respect we now have Is in pursuing our
present course.-John Mitchell, Presi-
dent United Mine Workers Of America.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-09-22
Appreciative.

think the platform Is superb.-W i.
Bryan, in a heart TO heart correspond
ence with Pat Egan
And he wrote it himself.
Truly mOdesty's a candle to tde merit
Of the gallant young gentleman from
Nebraska. -Chicago Journal.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-09-22
MURAT uALSTEAD.
PORTO RICO TRADE GROWING.
In Spite of the Walls of the Demo.
Gratis the Island Is Frightening,

In Spite of the Walls of the Demo-
Gratis the Island Is Frightening,
Commerce between the United States
and Porto Rico has developed rapidly
since the new act went into effect on
May /. 1900. Imports into the United
States from that island have increased
90 per cent over those of one year ago
and are three times as great as the
average when Porto Rico was Spanish
territory, while exports to the island
have increased nearly $50 per cent over
one year ago, and are nearly five times
as much as the average when Porto
Rico was Spanish territory. Daring
the month of July. whose figures have
just been completed by the Treasury
Bureau of Statistics. the exports from
the United States to the island were
$520,729, against $2OG. 46G in July, 1899,
and S156.296 in July, 1897. Taking the
entire three months in which the new
act has been in operation May June
and July. the exports to the island were
$2.11T.20I, against $ST3,453 in the cor
responding months of 1899. $4SJ, 279 in
the corresponding months of 1897, and
1898 10 in the corresponding months
of loJ6. On the import side the figures
for July. 1900 We're $640,023. against
S44S2 i'll July, 1899, $145,273 in 1897,
and $254,67G i'll July, 1896.
1t is apparent, therefore, from an eX-
animation of these figures that imports
from Porto Rico in the three months
operation of the new law are fully 80
per cent in excess Of those for the cor
responding months of 1899, when the
island was under the American flag,
but the former tariff relations yet I'M
affected. willie they are nearly three
times as much as in the corresponding
months of the closing years of Spanish
control of the island
The following shows the commerce
between the United States and the ISL
and of Porto Rico in May. June and
July of each year from 1896 to and in
Guiding the year 1900, and enables a
comparison of the trade of the first
three months under the new law with
the corresponding months of each year
i'll the term covered. No comparison is
made with 1898, owing to the fact that
the hostilities in existence during June,
July and August Of that year would
make the comparison an unfair one.