Democratic Press, Volume 2, Number 55, Decatur, Adams County, 31 October 1895 — Page 2

FIGHT 01! \ "I'l.l NK." LOOKS AS THOUGH BRITAIN COULDN’T NOW BACK DOWN. or th* Hrill*h-V*n*«ntUn •situation Venrsnvl* •" Ready *“ Brins th* Thing to a Head M boon ■ • Our Congrcre l» In Scre*o**. J. Hull «nd Unci* Sum. Gmt Britain’* radical »t*q»» toward Vcuvxu*l* continue to excite the livellett tutrn ot In official and diplomatic circle*. President Crnepo, who ba« been absent from th* capital on a vacation, ha* start* rd back, for the purpore. it i* believed, of tiling th* four vacanci** in bia Cabinet u hi» h ’M*curr» , <! recently. Oo<* of bow officer* la the Minister of boreign Affair*. There is no doubt entertained in Washington that Creapo’a new Mini*ter will ebar* the view* of hi* predeceeBara, aa no Ministry or administration Could survive in Venezuela which did not make r>ri*t«nc* to British n*gr<-«»ion ita f or .»t i*>licy. Some of the latvat report- from London enure comment and eriu. >n among official* in Washington. One c< these statement* attribute* to Am-bas-affi.r Bayard the declaration that the

THOMAS FRANCIS BAYARD. »*•• American Ambassador in London Upon Whom Devolve* the Doty of Defending the Monroe Doctrine. J ' .'T . Q>t! < ~ fc'JL ■ ■ "'C i7 V ' ‘ 1

Uruan incident is independent of the boundary question, and that the United States can take no part in the former incident. It is pointed out that the two questions are inseparably connected. The Uruan incident is based on a claim that the Venezuelans arrested Serjeant Behrens of the British constabulary on British soil, and that this indignity must be repaired. The Venezuelans claim that it occurred on Venezuelan soil. A Washington correspondent thinks that if the newspapers and the wiseacres w r LOBIt SALI.'HCKY. have “got it right” the question of what the Monroe doctrine means is Approaching a solution pretty rapidly for a subject in the hands of diplomats. That is, it looks like it would not be a great while before it is k: own whether the present Interpretation by the American editor and Washington correspondent ‘‘goes. - ' From what can be learned it looks as though John Bull is going right ahead with the Settlement of the Venezuelan question in his own way without intending to trouble Uncle Sam for either advice or dictation. The trouble between the two Governments is that they don’t interpret that doctrine the same way—at least that is bow it looks from the alleged information at hand. The British claim that they favor the doctrine, but they don’t define it quite as broadly as it is alleged the Cabinet here does. There is where the trouble comes in. And if the statements of the press as to the position of the United States and the doings of Great Britain are correct one of three things must occur England must back water, or the United States must, or there will be war. That is the straight view of the case ns it is presenter]. The American administration is declared to have taken the view that the United States must, according to the Monroe doctrine, interfere in the Venezuelan boundary dispute, because Great Britain's claim is a violation of that doctrine. Transgressions of the Monroe doctrine are by the doctrine itself declared -in unmistakable terms—unfriendly acts toward the United States. And there you nre in the Venezuelan ease. Meantime Great Britain is reported to have sent an ultimatum to Venezuela, and hasn't said a Word to Uncle Sam about it. either. There is scarcely a doubt that Venezuela, strong in the belief that the American eagle will begin to scream if J. B. persists, will peremptorily reject J. B.’s ultimatum, and then the question will be “What next?"

Seat I* that *omel•ody , will bare to ••flunk" or tight. That i* mt. There may be a serie* of diplomatic pour patter*. but they will be only the preliminary to the •‘flunk" or tight. While official* and diplomat* in Ma»h Ingu.n do not go to the extent of saying that war ia probable or even I"**'"* " tween thia country and Great Britain, they do not ree how It can be avoided without the complete humiliation of one of the two <-untr>e. If Great Britain prweed* to enforce it* threats aiti.it>* Venezuela that country will undoubtedly resist. and then the United States will either have to stand by the theories of president Monroe ns they are now interpretated or drop that interpretation. It i* well known that Venezuela ha* been nret>aring for thia event for some time, and the belief is general that a* <«*>••' Congress meet* in Washington *o that the President can secure immediate cooperation the Venezuelan* will make a boll move to occupy the disputed territory, relying on help from Uncle Sam. The new* han of nuch a character that then* Is talk already of a special session of Congress to assist the President in "maintaining the integrity of American soil.' British View of the Mutter. There are intimation* that the British Government would at first have been in dined to take no active step*, ponding the consideration of the note from the United

State* »übniitte'l by Bayard. Had the matter been kept reasonably quiet, it is said, Salisbury tniglr have consented to some arrangement which would have "let Venezuela down easy.” But the alleged demand* of the United States have been made public on all side*, and thi* has forced Salisbury to act. A . able from London says: "Summed up briefly tbe attitude of the English press and people towards Venezuela is one of conscious righteousness and calm serenity. It is everywhere accepted here that the British claims are perfectly justified and complete confidence in the firmness of the Government is expressed. Hint* have been thrown out for some time past that the Marquis of Salisbury will stand no nonsense from the Venezuelan Government, and consequently the announcement of the St. James Gazette that the Premier had sent an ultimatum to President Crespo caused but little surprise. As is the case of Nicaragua, everybody expects this latest ultimatum will have the desired effect without the necessity of a recourse to the arbitrament of arms.” An official statement from the Venezuelan foreign office covers the policy of Venezuela in case the British attempt to build the military road recommended by British Minist r Chamberlain in his letter to Gov. Lees, of British Guiana. The Venezuelan statement closes with the significant sentence that on the question of building this road the course of Venezuela has been snch that the "invading neighbors" cannot make another step further “on the Venezuela side of the line" with ont at once provoking a collision.

UNCLE SAM'S PROTEST TO JOHN BULL. fJ \ —«=» Um ■ f/M r

GROVER REACHES ATLANTA. Presidential Party P*yo a Visit to Ihr Ew City* For the present, at hast, the seat of th* Government of the United State* m»y be }( j io br'** u t«» Atlanta* for, say* a dispatch from that city., the city harbor* the President, the Vice President an-l ai« member* of the Cabinet, not to mention Treasurer Jordan. Governors Coffin of Connecticut, <>’Ferrel of Virginia, d'one of Mississippi nnd a long list of other dignitarie* of officialdom. Tuesday afterm-n the Presidential special, running a* the first section of th* lL>uthwe»tern vestibule liuiit<*l on. the Southern Railway, rolled into the Union dcis.t In accordance with the expressed wish of ’he President and the desire of the exposition authorities the arrival of the party wa* deprived of anything in th* nature of a hipi«»drt>me. T<-n thousand people had assembled in the vicinity of the station, crowding the street* a* thickly aa the space would allow and overflowing for several blocks in every direction The roofs. window**, awnings, telegraph pole* and every point of vantage in the neighborhood had been utilised by eager onlooker*. The special was stopped outside the depot, however, the partv disembarked and escorted to carriages by the reception committee, and the drive to the Hotel Aragon, their destination, began before the expectant thousand* realized that the distinguished visitor* had reached the city. Mr. Cleveland was in evident good hnmor and bowed in response to the continuous ovation he received all the way to hi* hotel. Secretary Carlisle. who with Mrs. Carlisle rod.- in the second carriage, was heered frequently, and Secretary of the Interior Hoke Smith, who found himself on his native heath, was given a hearty reception. At the Aragon the party wa* made com- , sortable until 8:30 p. tn. At that hour th* ladies were escorted to the Grand Opera House, where they were the guest* of Mr*. Hoke Smith at a box party to sea Rice’* ”1492." The presence of the bril-1 liant array of Cabinet representative* had packed the house, which is by far the | largest place of amusement in the South. , Atp. m the President and Cabinet officers sat down in the Aragon banquet hall to a dinner, given in their honor by Porter King. Mayor of Atlanta. Cover* were laid for eighty, including the exposition officials, the visiting Governor* and other distinguished citizens. BIG FIGURES ABOUT MAILS. Annual Report on Postal Revenue and Expenditures la Made. Kerr Craig. Third Assistant Postmaster General, in hi* annual report for the past fiscal year, show* that j«>stal revenue from all sources were $76,983,128, the expenditure* being $86,790,172. an excess over receipt* of $9,807,044. Not taking into account the outstanding lia-1 billtie* or the earning* of the subsidized 1 Pacific railroads if1.395.7.’12i, the comparisons with the statistic* of the year ending June 30, 1894, show an in.-rease of receipt* amounting to $1,002,649. and an increase of expenditures of $2,4*’>5.738. - The principal item* of expenditure were: | Postmaster*’ salari-•*. $16,079.5)8; clerks in post office. $9,414,135; free delivery service, $12,139,092; railroad mail transportation, $211,429,747; »tar route transpor'aticn. f-5.753,570; mail messenger transportation. $1,192,985; railway postal car service, $2,946,939: railway postal clerks, $7.103.025: foreign mails, $1,171,455. The principal item* of revenue were: Letter postage paid in money (made ap principally of balances due from foreign postal administrations). $135,818; box rents, $2 ’09,949 sales of postage stamps, stamped envelopes, newspaper wrapper* and postal can!*. $73,477,440 money order business. $812,068. Mr. Craig also submits some statistic* 1 relative to the increase of second class, mail matter, upon which subject Pott-, master Gcnerel Bissell made a vigorous report last year. He says the weight of second class matter sent in the mails during the year (not including matter circalated free within the county of publication) wa* 2*15 314,382 pounds and the amount of postage collected, $2,653,143. This was an increase in weight of 10,524.076 pounds and in postage collected of $105,240. Estimating, as heretofore, that 15 per cent, of all second class matter mailed is sent free of postage within the respective counties of publication, the number n pounds of such matter may be placed at 4ti.-82o.185; adding this to the number of pound* on which postage wa* paid, as above; makes the total weight of second class matter mailed 312.134,567 pounds, or over 156,067 tons. The number of requisitions for newspaper* and periodical stamp* filed during the years was 1.1,003, an increase of 1,194. The number of newspapers and periodical stub books requisitions received duping the year was 3,3.85, on which were forwarded to postmasters 5.593 stub l*>oks, 2,727 being of the manifold kind. There were also sent to postmaster* I 5,619 packages containing 56,190 newspaper and periodical envelopes.

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INDIANAPOLIS DEMOCRATIC. Reed - Say. Ben. bow’* this? By gum- “ Have thing* in such a fix In your own town what pull have yo» To show in ’1*1? Great Caesnr. Ben, if my home town Should do a* y»ura ha* done. I’d t" and saw my leg* off short Before I’d try to run. MortonDear Benjamin. Um pained to Your town in »uch a plight. If thi* is all that you can do I’ll beat you out of tight. I played the *e*-<>nd fiddle once. l>-n’t you remember. Ben? WelL once wa* quite enough, dear boy; I’U not do »o again. McKinley— Democratic! Gosh. What strange things happen when We have no gun! Say. do you think There’s any chance for Ben? Take my advice and stay at home. And Benjie. buckle down To local polities until You've straight* m-d out your town. Allison— Dear me! Dear me! D-uir Benjamin, What new* is this I hear? Have you js-rmitted Democrats To catch you in 'he rear? And right at home! Well. I deciare! But, since the job is done. When will you write a letter to Announce that you won't run? NOT FOR PUBLICATION. HarrisonI!'!!!! clam! II!II ! I »< » »" » t 11 ! !! ’ll! ! ! ! ! Jl —New York Sun. A Surplus for repteuiber. The prediction of the Democrat* that the Wilson tariff would yield sufficient revenue for all public exchanges as soon as the business of the country bad fairly recovered from the McKinley panic, is already being fulfilled. The receipts for the month of September show a surplus of $3, < «*>,(**> over the expenditures for the same period, a condition of the treasury which will please everyone except a few chronic croakers aud high tariff newspaper backs. From this time onward It Is certain that there will be abundant revenues, if not a further surplus. The most gratifying feature of this Improvement in public finance* is Its convincing answer to the clamor of the prot- tionist press for a return to McKinhyism. on the ground that more revenue was needed. Forgetting that the tariff of 1890 was primarily Intended to shut out foreign goods, and thereby decrease the receipts from cus toms duties, the high tariff organs are joining in an agitation for its restoration. Th:* evid nt Injury to all business interests, through the threat to unsettle trade by tariff changing in the wrong direction, has been justified by the Republican* with the claim that the Wilson tariff was yielding a deficit. Os course they failed to show how carrying out the protection policy of prohibiting commerce, in order that we might make all our goods at home, would increase the customs revenues, but Republican* are never expected to be consistent. Now that the temporary deficit has given way to a monthly surplus of $3,000,000 there will not be left to the high tariff agitators even one excuse for threatening to restore MeKinleylsni. In increased revenues, as well as in higher wages and better markets for goods, returning prosperity has destroyed the last hopes of the party for protection, panic£and pessimism. McKinley's Exploded Idea. Gov. McKinley's opening speech was intended to show, among other things, that wages were higher under his tariff than under any other. It is not true; but what if it were? We can show McKinley that wages under hi* tarifl were 50 per cent higher in some States of the Union than in others. If the tariff regulated wages, why were they not equally high all through the country? Furthermore, It can easily be shown that wages were higher in the non protected than in the protected industries. While Goc. McKinley is about it will he tell why his party in Congress voted down, under his lead, a proposition providing that no increase of duties should take effect unless accompanied with a corresponding increase in wages? Will he explain how it was that though he increased the duties in every schedule save two—an average of over 10 per cent in bounties to manufacturers—there was hardly a single Instance of an increase of wages under his tariff? Gov. McKinley can bo counted on to fight shy of all these facts and inquiries. But there I.* one fact that will outweigh al] of id* twisted figures and limping logic. This fact 1* that the wages of 1.000,000 workingmen have boon Increased under a Democratic tariff that cannot be disturbed for two years to come. Juggle with figures as h" may. this fact puts him down.—N Y. World. Free Wool and Free Hide*. There is not a tanner in the United States, says the Philadelphia Record who qan give a valid reason why the hide of an ox should not be subject to a duty as well as the wool of a sheep. But many tanners favor protection, including the wool duties, in the belief that there Is no danger of a restoration of the duty on hides. Should the threat-

! eiini tariff reaction suede*!. tW ! ’ sa y j wake up some Une morning them*ehr« vaatly mismk.n, iu»y made a very narrow escape « m’n- • u ‘ Ider pn-ssun- of the b*-ef symlh-ate In 'Uhleago. the framera of th* McKinley ! act favorably cmwldered a duty «»n hide* It Is hardly necewniy to urge that a duty on hide*, in arresting the profitable export trade In leather, w.stld lie a heavy blow to the tamilng Interest* of the United States. If the pro'**’-tloui-ts ever get another opportunity ! to revise the tariff in die dirertlon of I MeKlnh'vlsm they will not be guilty »f the Inwnsittency of taxing «00l ami |«BV ing hide* and g.stt skins on the fre* I list. A word to the wise should be sufflcient The Crime of a Vermont Miniater. The Springfield Republican snys: “The Second Congressional Church at Hartford, Vt, advertised a year ago for a pastor who wa.* young, married and a Republican. Bev. Herbert W. Boyd applied for the place and wa* accepted. It wa* learned afterwar*!, however, in some unknown way, that the young man had so far departed | from the path of Republican righteousneaa in 1892 as to vote fur Grover Cleveland. He had not taken this brief aberration in his politic* Into the pulpit. He had not advertis'd it publicly. But there was something almut the man, j his appearance, or his way of putting I things, or his walk, or general demeanlor which aroused the suspicion* of bls so keen to scent ixdltical heresy, and. on investigation, the awful truth rame out. Tb. re was trouble at ' once, of course, and, with a powerful 1 faction In the church refusing to contribute anything for the pastor’s salary, others quitting the fold and others barely tolerating him. the young minister is in a precarious [wsdtion. “Une of the principal supports of the church is Ephraim Morris, a woolen manufacturer, who is said to contribute one-thinJ of the annual expenses of public worship there. He expresses himself a* follows: •• ’I mistrusted from Mr. Boyd's application that he was not a Republican and cautioned the committee against hiring him. saying that I «wuld not contribute toward the support of a Detuocrat, but they were all wise and had their way. I gave them fair warning and they must take the consequences. I went to Mr. Boyd and he acknowledged that he voted for Mr. Cleveland. lam a woolen manufacturer. Democracy is detrimental to my business, aud I wouldn’t hear the gospel preached by a Democrat any more than I would cut ’off my right hand. If they secure a Rwi>nbiican they *-an have my support; otiierwise they'll go without IL* Aud nc if the church cannot square itself with the interests of this woolen mill it must put up with the meager contributions of the gentile poor. That means that Rev. Mr. Boyd will have to go." The Great lasue* in lowa. There is no issue before the voters of lowa except those affecting the policy and interests of the State. No question of national policy, of the tariff, or of the currency, or of coinage is Wore them for their decision. All these issues belong to next year. The issues of this year relate to the people of lowa, not to national Interests. General Drake, the Republican candidate for Governor of lowa, has evaded aud dodged the only Issues before the people. He has refused to answer the plainest questions. He has shirked everything of Interest to the taxpayers whose votes he solicits. Hi* campaign 1* one of silence or equivocation. It is a fraud on the voters.— Chicago Chronicle. Hi* Adjustable Opinion*. Gov. McKinley had a little experience in hastily defining his opinion on some public question* last winter. It subjected him to so much criticism that he has probably concluded to wait until he has ascertained the sentiment of the people regarding the Cuban question. and then form his opinion in accordance therewith. It is so much easier to adjust one’s opinions to public sentiment than it is to adjust public sentiment to one’* opinion. An adjustable set of opinions is an excellent thing to keep in stock.—Topeka State Joun nal. People Concimlnt More Good*. The customs receipts at tills port during July. August and September of last year were $24,738,266.81. During the same months this year they amounted to $30,896,.817.63. This certainly doe* not suggest that the new tariff is going to create a deficiency of revenue, while it Indicates a tremendous increase in the country’s commerce and in the people’s ability to buy and enjoy goods. Another Stab at McKinley. Tlie annual report of one of the principal southwestern roads, which has Just been published, shows an increase of 67.25 per cent. In net earnings. Some of the Western roads are not doing as well as that, but the general improvement Is so marked that it to convince McKinley of the utter uselessness of continuing to allow his heart to bleed for his country. The Ruined Woolen Milla If the woolen mills are being “teetotally ruinated," as tbe McKlnleyites assert they are, by the new tariff how comes it about that these same’mills have consumed about 100,000000 pounds more wool in the last six mouths than they ever consumed In equal period before?

A Mt* Reenter Arm;, The mlihtxr ka*t of tbl* wiq la r*. »r l*v*lid> wbo*« bowel*. li».r», , n * ■eba b*ve been regulated ba Sloinach RHtera A regular li.-i.it ,? bruagbt alwul thro. *h u«lu* the Hitler*’J by violently agliatlbg *ti<l (rtpli * tu teatteea, but by re**f..nlu< ibeir aa-,*, and < itialn* • flow of tl><- bile tnio ita i>-v-A rbaanel Malaria, la «r!pj„ flj.i.aib « trndeary t* Inactivity ut the k.durj* Jz cuuqu«r*d by tb* lliltvta. IlcyoiHt llellvf. New Hector St. Fashion ('h* *.> • I regret to rind •••tanning t.nqwyof doubter* among my !*arUhuu»» Mr*, lorundred." Mr*. lorundred~-* , \Vhat el** you expect? The Bible -n »timtth. Four Hundred, and the people ou’* -;. of it, all *’»me from the *» e It'* ridiiulou'.”—New York Weekly Women'* itightu. Mr*. De Ferralo I* it tru* imong the Zulu* the women are tj, •oie owner* of tbe bouse*Traveler Ye*, madam, aud U;*. ought to own the n. 1 ••ofiourse they ought." “Yes. They build them.” IN the fourteenth and fifteenth e**. turiea. even when Fran e and i ng *-4 were at war. tiahermen of the tw<> n*. tions remained at peace, and withog animosity bought fro n and sold torn* another and ex hanged their t*n ut a* in time* of profound at ea ■». 4 Nvw’a Ibla! We nfler One Hundred Bolins Reward w any r»* *d Catarrh that cannot be vured kt Hall * < atarrli Cure. r. J. < lU.NkY • Cf>. Prop* . * W» th* ui>d<*rtls>*d have known I .11 fnr th* last n rear*. »aU beli.-v* hua honorable IB all tnatnoM trail con, inj ttif cu»lw übte I* .arty out aay •bliga- ou iux4th tbelf lira* W*wt ATavaX. Wholesale nnigjbU.lolad* a Waixhvu. Kisxas A Muc. i>. Wbaiada l>r<:*g',*ts. Toledo. O, h.Til's Catarrh Cur* Is taken bit -raallv vtta directly ure» th* hired ati.t 1 ~ - tcej the «v«teiu. Price Tie. ye* buttle. Sold Byg BrugghU. TetUinoulab free. NO WONDER the minutes fly s* '**{. they are making up ti ..e. A*k agents of the Nickel Plata mad •bout Bunters rates to Mi ,-*iig»n and cousin. Ticket* on sale until Nov. 15. Mrs. Win*loW. So vwtao *r*rr 1. Ulaj* ;a*B. cure* wiad eotac. '£» ut • b it.«.

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