Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-08-21


saying nasty things about each other.
OF course the row is about the Federal
patronage. They are all patriots there
and want an Office.
i Perry Heath's bank, the Seventh Ma
| tional of New York, that failed recent
been assessed 100 per cent, only pay 80
per cent on the dollar to depositors.
Banks with a political pull don't seem
to be desirable investments.
Why should there be a prohbitive
duty on salt equal to SO per cent in
bulk and 3S per cent in bags or other
packages? The freight alone prohibits
its importation unless the salt trust is
charging much greater profit than for
eigners would be willing to sell 1t for.
The American Protective Tariff
League is threatening to smoke out
Speaker Henderson ON the tariff ques-
ton. The League will for once be do
ing good work if it will show up how
the trusts. through the Republican
Speaker and majority of Congress,
make or balk legislation to suit them
selves.
There would seem to be another fac
tional fight In progress among the Re-
publicans about the future Of Cuba and
the tariff on her productions. One side
represented by the New York Press
would repel and impoverish Cuba; the
other side, of which the Chicago Inter
Ocean is the spokesman, would pave
the way for manifest destiny" which,
III this case, means annexation. The
beet sugar and tobacco combines may
yet disrupt the Republican party, and
if they do they will be blessings in the
disguise of cormorants.
Admiral Sampson says that General
Shafter insisted on seeing him in per-
son for a conference and that this cir
cumstance accounts for his absence
from the scene of activities when Adj
miral Cervera attempted to bolt with
his ships. What General Shafter may
have to say on this subject will be in
teresting. If Shafter took Sampson
away, and had the right to insist on a
personal meeting, as being higher in
command, he will regret it for the rest
of his life, and so will the public. There
is burning public curiosity to know just
what Sampson would have done had he
been within gunshot when the Spanish
vessels rushed out of the harbor. Adj
miral Sampson, by the way, claims that
he picked a time for his necessary alb
sence at which 1t would be most un-
likely that the Spaniards would try to
escape. He presumed tile night time
would be chosen. Cervera, however,
may have noted SIMPSONS absence.
How he must regret that Schley was
not sent to confer with Shaftcr.
|. President Mckinley and his associ-
ates in the government will be especial
ly interested us to how much damage
has been inflicted on the crops by the
extraordinary heated term. The wheat
Is safe, but how much injury to corn
there has been is yet to be determined.
An analysis of our foreign trade has
shown that our prosperous condition
depended on the sale abroad of cotton,
corn and other farm products. In the
fiscal year 19O0-1901 nothing was gain
ed over the previous year in our sales
to foreigners of manufactured goods.
Tho gain of 500 ,OO0,OOO in our exports
was in agricultural products. Prosper
ity seems to be the result of the boun-
teous products of the soil and condi-
tions abroad that made a market for
them, rather than the inspired work of
the beneficent Mckinley. 1t would be
a sad thing indeed If at the present
stage Of affairs the President should
be obliged to abandon the title of lad
vance agent" etc. The failure of the
crops would expose pretense which
seems to have been accepted as gospel
by large portion of the community.
| 1t would slow that William Mckinley
is really only human. like the rest OF
us, and can do nothing without rain.