The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1906-05-31
MONEY
WORRIES UNCLE SAM.
Little Brown Brother" Doesn't
Care. but Silver Dollars Are
Exported.
MAPLE SUGAR INDUSTRY TRANS.
PLANTING TO SWITZERLAND.
Can the Government Compete with
Contractors in building
Ships, etc.

Washington, May 2S. Especial. J
Whatever the general belief
concerning the policy which add
ed to the territory of this country
the Philippine Islands, one thing
is certain, and that is that hav-
ing gotten them we find them
very handy for experiments.
The echoes of the struggle in the
country over the ratio of coinage
are hardly dead yet; nearly
every day some one comes for
ward with a new scheme to pro-
vide for a more elastic currency,
and though all haved impractical
BILE, or at least, not sufficiently
proven to try on this country,
Uncle Sam is now about to at
tempt a readjustment of rates Of
the Philippine coinage, to say
nothing of establishing a more
elastic currancy. 1t won't mat
ter much to the "little brown
brothers." for, aside from having
any money, he generally lacks a
a pocket to put it in, ALI ratios
look alike to HIM; the only way
in which elasticity can appeal
to his dusky soul is by stretching
out his income. AS matter of
fact, the readjustment is not to
be undertaken so much in behalf
of the Filipinos, as to protect the
government from loss through
the expectation of the silver
desc or dollar from the archipel-
ago The great trouble at pres
ent is due to the fact that that
coin, while having a purchasing
power of fifty cents, contains
fifty. two and one half cents
worth of bullions. Very natur-
ally it is expected, and Uncle
Sam loses two and one-half cents
on each one. The readjustment
will give a long sought opening
to amateur financiers all over the
country, and it is expected that
something like million sugges-
tions will be received by the Sec
rotary of war, under whose super
vision the work will be carried on.
The call which Senator Aid
rich, Republican leader of the
Senate, made at the White House
this week is taken to be signif-
cant in many ways. 1t is the
first which he has made since the
rate bill came into the Senate,
and shows that although gener-
ally referred to as the chief op.
ponent of President Roosevelt in
the rate fight, he has not let the
Presidents victory rankle. The
President got what he wanted,
in the shape of effective legisla-
ton, and announced himself as
satisfied. Contrariwise, Mr.. Aid
rich didn't get all that he was
after, ard consequently didn't
do any announcing. There was
some fear that the Rhode Island
err, dissatisfied with the result,
might stir up trouble in the Re-
publican ranks, where he is a
power, but his call at the White
House has quieted as much
rumor. 1t is understood that
Mr.. Aldrich will support Mr..
Roosevelt's presidential candi-
date, even though that candidate
be such a Rooseveltian as Mr..
Taft, of whom it is now whisper
ed that the White House and not
the Supreme Court bench will be
his next field of activity.
The United States is about to
see another of its pet industries
taken up by a foreign country,
according to the Department of
nothing less, indeed, than the
production of maple sugar.
HSugaring off" among the Alps
may sound bit fantastic, but
this is just what wall take place
if experiments now being carried
on in Switzerland are successful.
Some months ago 300 sugar ma
pies were i'm ported by that coun-
try from New England, and altho'
half of them died from poor ship
ment and lack of proper care,
the other half are now flourish
ing, with the result that large
paintings are contemplated in
the immediate future. The re-