Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-08-24
JUBILANT UNCLE SAM
BUSY. BUT FINDS
TIME TO TALK.
Greatly Pleased with Our Export Trade
of oo,ooo,ooo. Treasury Balance.
0I75, 100000 and Trade Balance of
Nearly S7Oo,ooo.ooo.

found Uncle Sam yesterday deeply
absorbed in a mass of fiscal reports
The old gentleman fairly beamed as he
gave me a hearty hand grasp, but
when 1 told him 1 had come for an
other interview his manner seemed to
relax a little, thought
III tell you how it is, Uncle Sam"
said /. THE people enjoyed your
Fourth of July talk SO much that there
are requests from all over the country
for a small weekly chat. Now you
won't refuse the people, will you?" /
pleaded
mo, I won't exactly refuse he re-
piled; but, really, I'm awfully busy
all the time. 1 thought l was busy in
1892, when the Mckinley law was in
such perfect order, but it didn't COM
pare with what this Dingley law is do
ing. Why, I'm breaking the records
all along the line. Just look at this
total of foreign bills of sale-$1, 500,-
100000. There amt another country
on earth that can show such a total -
But" 1 remarked, there seems to
be falling of in exports of manu-
features"
Don't you worry about that a min
ute" he replied. The falling off is in
ngures, not in fact. For instance, 1
sold nearly $40, oOo. 900 of goods, most
ly manufactures, to Porto Rico and
Hawaii in 1900. Well, I've sold them
considerable more this year, and yet
not a dollars worth appears in the re-
ports. Then the war in China has cut
on enough to make up the rest of the
difference between this year and last
oil
reduction in prices; so, really, exports
of manufactures have increased.
But that amt the whole point
either. I've sold fully $4,000, 600 900
worth more of manufactures at home
this last year; so don't worry, my boy,
about an apparent loss of few mil
lions in foreign sales"
Does the surplus please your" I
asked.
Its great, isn't it? Kept right up
to the mark and the estimates. And
now 1 have reduced taxation by $40
100000 year, and my friend John
Bull is taxing his people right and left
and wondering how he is going to foot
the bills 1 reckon he looks at my
$240,O00,0o0 of customs receipts a little
obviously; but he is too stubborn to
change his fiscal policy, though 1 ex-
pect to see him putting up the bars
before long.
Then look at this treasury balance.
$175, 000,0 900, besides the $3.50, OOO, 900
reserve fund. I'm buying bonds all the
time, too. Quite different from what
my last manager, Cleveland, did when
he ran me into debt to the tune of
about 1862 900, 900, to say nothing of the
interest on the bonds he sold 1 tell
you the people did me a mighty good
turn when they gave me Mckinley for
a manager and a Republican Protec-
ton Congress to back him up
The old gentleman rubbed his hands
boy In swimming.
You have not said anything about
the big balance of trade" 1 remarked.
Don't need to; it speaks for itself,''
tersely responded the happy man
But" he added, I'm prouder of
those figures than I can tell you 1t
isn't so much the six hundred and
thirty odd millions to my credit, but it
shows that the people are expanding
at home as well as abroad. We are
buying more homemade goods and
getting more and more Independent of
the rest of the world every year. We
can afford to buy a few hundred mil
lions worth of 1uxuries abroad, but 1
want my people to buy all they can at
home, and 1 guess they all see the
point"
And the old gentleman gave me a
merry wink as he went of with his
pockets crammed to overlooking with
coupons. F. c.