Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-05-25

North sea; yea, into st. George 5
channel, not merely boarding the
lion in his den. but coming away
with those same hands stuffed with
indisputable trophies, with Wis
able fragments of his name and tail,
| do not wonder they called him a
pirate, but if he was a pirate, WASH
ington was a highwayman and
Franklin was a lobster"
Practically complete returns to
the United States geological survey
for 1904 show that the production OF
coal last year amounted to 35l, 1856
953 short tons, having total value
at the mines Of Sli5.643,52S, Com
pared with 1903 this shows falling
off of 6,l59, 463short tons in quantity
and S5S.0S0,S53 in value This
decrease, although proportionately
large in the figures of value, does
not indicate any interruption to
the generally prosperous conditions
which have prevailed during the
last eight years. 1t was simply a
natural reaction from the Abnormal
activity which had been maintained
throughout the coal mining regions
in 1908, due to the exhaustion of all
coal stocks on hand by the strike Of
1902. In order to renew the coal
stocks and at the same time to pro-
vide fuel for immediate use, the coal
mines in 1903 were pushed to the
capacity of the railroads to handle
the output. As result the enor-
nous production of 3o7,3o6,4 l6
short tons was recorded Prices
raised high by the famine of 1902
remained high for large part of
the year, and the totalvalue of coal at
the mines, before any expense of
transportation or selling costs had
been added, amounted to $503, 724,
3SI, an increase of sl3e, SOC, 900
over that of 1902.
Recent incidents have contrib uted
to enlist interest in the status of the
trade between the United States and
Germany. 1t was reported three
weeks or more ago that the German
government had notified the Wash
ington authorities that the agree.
ment with the United States which
was entered into under the terms OF
the Dingley act would terminate in
March next, when the new recipro.
city treaties entered into by Ger.
many go into effect. Later it was
announced that actual notice of its
intention to terminate the existing
agreement has not been given by
Germany, but that some communi.
cations had passed between the two
governments looking to the opening
of negotiations on the subject in the
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fall. In view Of the situation thus
brought about, special significance
has been attached to some remark:
which fell from Secretary of the
Treasury Shaw at the banquet Of
the international Railway Congress
at Washington last week. Mr.Shaw
said that the United States was con-
sistent with itself in that it criticised
no nation tor levying duties, ne
matter how high, when they were
levied either for purposes of pro
lection or for purposes OF revenue
provided only they were made tc
rest no more severely upon it than
upon other nations. The United
States, he said, only asked the right
to buy in foreign markets on the
same terms as her commercial com.
petitors, and the right to sell in all
markets on terms as favorable as
any, and, he added, America would
never be involved in tariff war OF
retaliatory legislation so long as the
} United States pursues its present
policy "and other countries do not
discriminate against those who dc
J lot discriminate against them"