Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1904-01-13


from $500 per day to $1.S4 per
day, and that there wss sore dis
tress over the matter and much
Indignation. The beginning of
hard times is not only visible
among the laboring men of the
country, but among the better paid
classes of people. That is eviden-
ced by the falling-off i'm the atten-
dance at the theatres all over the
country, and by the number of
actors who are stranded and nunt-
ing for work, there being fully
200 companies disbanded in the
last thirty days, and over 1000
actors out of employment.
If that is republican prosperity
then the sooner the people get rid
of it the better for them.
The discussion among the men
in Congress who are leading dem
ocrats, concerning the dinner given
in New York on the fourth instant
TO the Hon. George b. Mcclellan.
is to the effect that the speeches of
Hon. Richard Olney, of Massachu-
sets, in naming Grover Cleveland
as the man who should be nomi-
mated by the democrats for the
presidency, has completely elimi-
mated himself from the running,
and injured the chanches of Judpe
Parker, inasmuch as he was con-
sidered the residuary legatee of
Cleveland. Things are rapidly
narrowing down to German and
Hearst, with Hearst in the lead.
Although the republican Stand
Patters" have not budged from
their-position on the tarifT-trust
question, which is that it is mad
visable to disturb the graft" of
the trust by lowering the duties
that protect them during presi-
dental campaign, and when the
"fat-frying" process is the only
resort for big campaign fund,
vet, from the way they twist and
squirm, it is evident that the posi-.
ton of the "Stand-Patters" is get
ting very uncomfortable. So
great has the pressure for lower
duties become that two republican
Senators have actually introduced
bills to put important articles on
the free list. Senator Lodge has
introduced a bill to put hides, and
Senator Warren one to put boots
and shoes on the free list. Nobody
knows better than these two Sena-
tors that revenue-producing or re-
ducing bills are out of order in the
Senate, unless they come from the
House; both have acted in this
childless way simply and solely to
still the voices of the people in
Massachusetts, and Wyoming.
Both Senators winked at each other
while introducing their buncombe
bills. Senator Warren's bill was
to offset Lodges. Senator War
rem probably did not know that
four-fifths of the boot and shoe
manufacturers of New England
have asked for free hides, and
have expressed a willingness to
have the duties on boots and shoes
taken off, if necessary to obtain
free hides. Hence Warren's bill,
If enacted with Lodges, would
not spite Massachusetts "a little
bit. " If both bills could be intro
.duced in the House and could be-
come law, the leather trust would
not continue To sell leather to for
.eign manufacturers 10 per cent
below what ours have to pay. and
the cost of making boots and shoes
here would be reduced about s per
cent. The charitable societies
which are unusually busy this
year supplying shoes to the poor
would appreciate even an s per
cent Reduction in the price of shoes.
Republican newspapers are not
boasting about the fact that bitumi-
nous coal will go back to the duti-
able list on January 10. They
don't want the tariff question agi-
tated. Neither do the trusts. For
the ten months ending last October,
during the whole of which period
the suspension of the duty was OPP
erative, the exports of coal from
the United States were 5,2S4, ,94S
tons, compared with 1926, ,967 for
the same portion of 1902, and with
1854, 1924 tons in 1901. That is,
the exports increased over $50. 900
tons in 1903, when the duty was
suspended, The imports of coal
into fho TFottol Stoko- k A. n.