El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-23

p~roposition that we buy the Panama
gold brick is cropping up again. Inc
Clayton-Bulwer treaty bars us in re-
gard to both routes however
1t is informally announced that a
treaty abrogating the layton.Bui-
wer convention will be prepared De-
fore the next session. 1t is
to have to negotiate to get PERMISSION
to dig a canal for our own purposes.
with our own money and in a hem1s-
we boss absolutely.
Yankee Forever.
However We'll get square on the
British with the big steei trust. 1t Will
make them lots of trouble and extract
a deal of money from their pockets-
of which will go into the pockets OF
some of the nephews of Uncle sam.
Probably The Herald readers won't
he particular nephews. but then it's all
in the family. Then when the British
conclude to buy it up, paying good
yellow sovereigns for the stock,
it's factories will be antiquated and
some enterprising Americans will erect
new steel making plants and run 1T
out. That's the usual course of things.
Years ago when the breweries were a
new thing as an investment the British
crowded in and kindly took all the an
cient establishments of the hands OF
their owners. With the purchase mon
ey, new and up-to-date outfits were
erected and the British held the bag.
Same way in other industries. At one
time, III shot towers were all sold to
a trust. largely British -hich cornered
every place of the kind in the country.
Then the former owners began to make
in the abandoned shafts of the
Missouri lead mines, which were quite
as good as towers and cost nothing in
particular
Gold in the Old Stocking.
In the meantime, the United States
treasury has $4S2, 913. O23 in gold tuck
ed away which compares ~favorably
with the legal reserve of 500, 000. 900.
The country is certainly having a
boom. There was an increase of $780,
On0. 900 for the seven months ending
with January. 1901. in exports over
the corresponding period last year. All
the world is prosperous now. but none
else SO much so as We. Germany is
but her increase was only half
much in twice the time. $40 .000. 900
the whole of last year. france ev-
showed a decrease of $14. 900 900 in
exports for 1900. People didn't buy
many bonnets. Great Britain shows
increase of exports just half of ours.
being $50. 900 900 for the same seven
AS her population is about
half also. this looks we'll apparently.
but as a matter of fact it indicates
that she is receding from her place in
the front of the line. All the other
countries show increases except de-
crepit Spain and Italy.
Uncle Sans Rluff.
The state department is going to
bluff Morocco some more. Bluffing
pays there. The New York, now on
her way to Manila, has bee ordered
to stop at Tangier and TAX OF board
our minister. Mr.. Gunnere. conveying
him to the nearest port t. Fee. what
ever it is. The Moors refuse to pay
up some back number debts, and this
demonstration, which of curse means
nothing whatever. is expected to scare
them into compliance. They are an
artless crowd and no match for what
Senior Cisneros calls the 'astute diplo-
macy of the North Americans in his
late circular. That is the first time
that particular kind of flowers has ev-
er been thrown at us. it may be men
parenthetically.
That Bill Against the Sultan.
Our indemnity from the Turks. which
We were to get through the Cramps.
won't materialize and instructions
have been sent t renew the pressure
at Constantinople. The state depart
ment gave a quiet tip to the ship
to ask for an installment oh
account beginning work on the cruiser
ordered-which was an unnecessary
precaution. There is nothing trusting
about the Cramps and the sultan has
a ~malodorous financial reputation any
They didn't get ii and on investi-
cation it was found hat the kaiser had
stuck his mailed fist" into the affair.
Turkey owed an old bill to the Krupps
for armor and the Germans intimated
that it was as well to settle old az
for wal material before starting
new. So Minister Leishmann Will be-
gin dunning. The promise to pay
through the Cramps was obtained. it
will be remembered. by just such a
dodge as we are to try on the Moors.
The Kentucky called at Smyrna on her
way to the Philippines and scared the
Turks into seventeen kinds of par
oSysms. all different. If the gentle
Orientals knew more about our system
government and difficulty of declar-
ing war. they wouldn't be half so
to bluffs.
A Mail Box Experiment.
We are trying a lot OF experimental
boxes on the avenue-they were
put in today. Each box is electrically
with the post Office and tele-
graphs the fact when the mail collect
or empties it. Also il has an automat-
ic dingus which prevents him from
taking the boxes out of their regular
order scalps him and ANS the scalp if
tries to come anne or something
OF the sort. My mind is not perfectly
as to what happens to him but !
I'm certain 1T is a cataclysm which will