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ly to be an interesting contest in the
legislature.
Bryan Likes to Tour.
Charles Page Bryan, our minister to
BRAZIL has a weakness for riding on
battleships. 1t will be recalled that
when he was appointed to his mission
in South America he came to Wash
j ington and called on Theodore Roose
welt, then assistant secretary of the
navy. and preferred the very unusual re-
quest that a battleship be detailed to
take him to his post. Roosevelt nearly
had fit. He showed all his teeth and
told the blonde gentleman from Illinois
that the United States navy had more
important business than taking I'M
7edged diplomats to their posts Minis
ter Bryan is now sojourning in this
country on leave of absence. Since his
arrival he has been telling just one
thing about his five years labors in
Brazil to-wit, that he visited all the
less important coast ports of that coun-
try on one of the smaller vessels con-
nected with the South Atlantic squad
ron, which seems to have filled his soul
with ineffable joy.
Republican Stumbling Block.
The following from President McKin-
leys speech at Buffalo is proving some
thing of a stumbling block in the way
of congressman who are openly opposing
reciprocity and tariff reform. Said Nc
Kinley:
Reciprocity is the natural outgrowth of
our wonderful industrial development I'M
der the domestic policy now firmly es
tablished. What We produce beyond our
domestic consumption must have vent
abroad The excess must be relieved
n nl1tlPt S1Ollll
sell everywhere We can, and buy Wher-
ever the buying will enlarge our sales
and productions, and thereby make
greater demand for home labor.
The period for eXclusiveness is past.
The expansion of our trade and COM
merce is the pressing problem. CONNER
cial wars are Improbable. A policy of
good will and friendly trade relations
will prevent reprisals. Reciprocity
treaties are in harmony with the spirit
of the times; measures of retaliation are
not.
If perchance. some of our tariffs are
no longer needed for revenue or to en-
courage and protect our Industries at
home why should they not be employed
to extend and promote our markets
abroad?
low members of the ways and means
committee to explain what Mckinley did
mean if he did not favor reciprocity and
tariff revision.
Pennies Being Counterfeited.
The manufacture of counterfeit pen
MES is one of tho most profitable
branches of the counterfeiting industry.
The copper required to make a hundred
pennies costs about 80 cents. The MAX
ing costs about Il cents more. The
agents who shove them are paid Al
commission of u cents on dollar. That
leaves a profit of about As per cent.
l.ofrxr4
$50 and SIS worth a week. The German
who was recently arrested in Boston
had been in the penny-making business
for four years. He had come to- feel
quite secure in his operations and grew
careless.
1t is comparatively easy to pass coun-
terfeit pennies. Nobody scrutinizes
coin of so small a denomination, and it
requires an expert to distinguish the bad
from the genuine. About the only diff
ference is a lack of sharpness IN the
lines of the head and the lettering. This
is due to the fact that the die for the
genuine penny is cut by hand in the
steel, while that for the counterfeit is
made by striking a fresh penny into the
steel heated to a white temperature ana
then cooled and tempered to hardness
While the Boston plant was in full OPP
GRAFTON the counterfeit pennies came to
the treasury at the rate OF o,OVO day.
The largest shippers were the owners of
the slot machines. They claimed that
1 per cent of their receipts were lost by
this means.
The governments secret service de-
partment has had hard task in running
down the operators. John Wilkie finally
hit on the plan to run down the sources
of the counterfeiter's copper supply He
canvassed every wholesaler until he
found the one who was selling to them.
Then it was only matter of watching
the gang and getting evidence which
would convict.
viii Meet Rough Riders.
When the president takes Western
trip it will probably be to attend the
reunion of his regiment of rough
riders. Mr. Roosevelt has told Repre-
sentative Jones and others that he
wished and hoped to go West next year.
By some this has been interpreted to
mean next spring, and it has been
planned to entertain him in cities of the
Northwest at which he will stop en-
route. In thinking it over the president
is convinced that it win be unwise to
make any definite promises or even to
hold out strong hopes. Congress will