Democratic Press, Volume 2, Number 64, Decatur, Adams County, 2 January 1896 — Page 2

OUTLOOK FOB WHEAT CROP OF THE UNITED STATES UNDERESTIMATED. Conarrvatlve Estimate of the World’* Prodnctlan U,41« 080.000 BtmhrlaProapert Hllghtly BullUh Philadelphia's Htrcjt Car strike Mettled, May Be 418,000.000 Bushel*. An the cyreal year progresses the Impression continue* to grow, no far as the wheat crop in the United States is con* eertoMl, that it ha* been materially underestimated. According to Hrad»treet’a the official figures as to the size of the crop, or the interpretations of earlier official wheat crop reports, placed the total probable outturn at about 390,000,000 bushel*. At the present time trade estimates in very few, If any. instances put the profit, hie aggregate yield at less than 4tio.tMM>,ooo bushel*—and the end is probably not yet, in the matter of revised figures. This, in view of comparatively moderate exports of wheat and Hour thus far during the cereal year, continue* to perpetuate the dominance of bear influence* In the world's wheat market*. Some of our optimistic foreign friends art- even now Inclined to think the wheat crop here may amount to 475,000,000 bushels, as against 520.0tt0.000 bushels last year. Canada come* out with an estimated Increase of about 10,000,000 bushels, and Argentina is now expected to show 80,000,(MM) bushels, although only a month or two ago titt.uoo.uuo bushel* Was accounted a high estimate, the out£nt last year having been rather under 8.000.000 bnshels. As against this, however. it is becoming probable that Australia i* likely to be an importer rather than an exporter of wheat. In fact, she ha* already begun to import wheat. The Crop in Kue*iu. In Russia, a most important source of •upply, the minister of agriculture estimates the crop of the European provinces at 122.000,000 bushels less than last pear; but this is deemed too low. "as the oflieial estimates usually nre,” and it is generally appposed that the production of Russia ano Poland together will not be Core than 88,000,000 bushels less than st year. Russia generally has a larger surplus from previous crops, and it is this reserve widt h will enable her to keep the balance between exporting and importing countries. , One of the more conservative estimates of the world's production of wheat in 1895 places it at 2,416,000,000 bushels, as contrasted with 2.560,000.000 bushels in 18! v". a falling off of about 144,000,000,0(10 bushels, the significance of which is gathered from the fact that the general Consensus of opinion as to the approximate total world's annual consumption pf wheat is about 2,400,000,000 bushels. With a production this year of only 2.416,000.000 bushels of wheat in the face of estimated requirements amounting to 2,400.000,Oft• bushels, stocks of wheat carried over from the outturn of 1894 and

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prior thereto gather special significance, or would do so if they could be known with any degree of accuracy. The following is Beerbohm’s estimate of the surpluses which the chief exporters will have to spare from this year’s crops, in comparison with last year: Estimate. Actual. Exporters. 18115-6, qrs. 1804-4, qrs. United States and • Canada 15.fW.000 18.500.000 Russia 15,000,000 16,500,000 Roumania, BuiTurkey, and Servin.... 7,000,000 4,750,000 Austria Hungary 500.000 250,000 India and Persia. 3.250,000 2,300.000 Algeria. Tunis, and Egypt.... 1.250,000 1.250.060

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THE AUTHOR OF THE .MONROE DOCTRINE V nSk 'll /’*/ « ■L. Vwllk Ia ft ftiff?’ tuK TVtft II /fiiu wi fl Ae owe it. therefore, to cindor and to the amicabl* relat ona e« st.ng between th* United States and the allied powers to declare that we should consider any attempt on their part to e»tend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety. With the existing colonies or dependencies of any European power we have not interfered and shall not interfere, but with the Governments who have declared the r independence and maintained it, and whose independence we have on great consideration and just principles, acknowledged, we could not view an interposition for the purpose of oppressing them or controlling in any other manner their destiny (by any European power) in any other light than as a manifestation of an unfriendly disposition toward the United States — From Monrottf meftage to ConfrM in December, ISS3.

Chili ami Uruguay ......... BOtyMO 600X100 Australasia .... 600.000 WJO.OuO Argentina 5,000.000 5,750.000 e—— HIM I I I I* Total suitplu*.. 48,000,000 50.800.000 Total *urpl**,bu.3B4,ooo,ooo 406.400.000 This estimate wa* formed when the Argentine production was expected to be not much, if anything, over that of Inst year; but should it amount to 80.0u0.000 bushel*, tlcn one may take the available surplus for the current year to be about 400,000.000 bushel*. Great Britain require* to import 200.000,000 bushels, France about 20.000,000 bushels, Belgium, Germany and Holland together about 86,000,000 bushels, Italy about 28,OtMJ.OOO bushels, the rest of Europe about 44.000.000 bushels, and the West Indies, China. Brazil, etc., about 28,000,000 bushels —in all. *ay 406,000,0110 bushels, against a probable surplus on the year's crops of 40.000,000 bushel*. This is altogether too close a fit and call* for some examination as to probable stocks of wheat carried over from the preceding crop year. There were, and probably are. large wheat reserves in Russia which enabled that country to export so freely during the fall and winter, while in India and Australia reserve* are

and have undoubtedly been relatively small. Prices Likely to Go L’p, The world's available »tock* of wheat, thoev in sight, on land and afloat, are not smaller thi* year than they were last, notwithstanding the heavy decline in production. Either tbe invisible supplies must be smaller than cnetomary (except in Russia, of course, which are believed to be largo), or there is likely to be, a* is generally the ease, more than “enough to go around." Quite certain is it, however, that 1895-96 is likely to eat well into the world'* old and new cereal stocks of wheat, and that the following cereal year, at leant, may witne** a considerable price stimulus to the cultivation of the cereal. Thi* is not quite as bullish a view of

' the situation a* many producers and traders may have been waiting for during the last few* years of depression, but it is a literal interpretation of the beat available statistic*. STRIKE IS SETTLED. Philadelphia’* Street Car Trcublc Ha* Been Satisfactorily Adjusted. The great trolh-y strike in Philadelphia is ended. John Wanamaker i* the man who brought about the settlement, succeeding where all others failed. He was aided in the work by members of the Christian I-eague. The basis of settlement follows: First —While the Union Traction Company will only treat with the workmen in - its employ, it will allow them membernhip in any lawful organization; second, > it will take up all grievances and give them full and fair consideration; third, ' it will, so far as it has vacant places, immediately put on the old men, and as fast as vacancies arise will give preference to the old men yet unemployed, and endeavor to arrange the trips of the car* to , favor the old men as far as possible without violating its contracts with the new men. The questions of compensation and hours are left for future determination. The battle has mainly been fought on the question of the employes’ membership in the Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Employes, which the company ha* persistently refused to recognize. The new men engaged since the strike began number nearly 1,000. There were about 5,000 strikers. Wanamaker submitted the ideas embraced in the settlement to the strikers. They accepted them, and in turn submitted them to the company. Considerable correspondence and many conferences followed, and finally announcement wa* made that l»oth side had agreed to the terms. To properly round out the matters a mass meeting , of the strikers was held for the purpose of ratification. Here the strike was officially declared off. all the leaders were called upon for speeches, and there was a veritable love feast. ROBBED BY MASKED MEN. One of Ed Corrigan's Employe* Relieved of the Track Receipt*. In San Francisco four masked robber* held up a Mission street car returning from Ingleside and robbed Reuben Clarke, an employe of the Pacific Coast Jockey Club, of the receipts of the day, said to aggregate $3,000. Clarke and two other men were shot by the robbers, but it is believed none of the wounds would prove fatal, although Clarke will probably lose one of hi* legs. The robbery occurred in a lonely place eight miles from the city. On the Picket Line. Now is the time to resign from the militia. As a lion-tamer Uncle Sam is a great success. God save th* Queeu! She isn't to blame for it. In the meantime Venezuela will greatly oblige by not slopping over. It is well to be firm, but do not go off half-cocked. That is no way to shoot The present little flurry will either retard Canadian annexation for several year* or wifi precipitate it in a hurry. A nation which in the nineteenth century will refuse to arbitrate need not expect to got any sympathy wheu it is rebuked. Even if he had no Monroe doctrine to sustain. Uncle Sam would oppose, on humane grounds, the vivisection of a neighbor.

THE RIGHT TO STEAL BOLD CLAIMS OF A PROTECTIONIST PAPER I Th* People Will Not Indorse It* Doctrine *■ KnllghteneA Helf - Interest tlliow* Protection to Be n HwitidleGreat Helicine to Got Rich. Pup-Fed Oruiin'* Claim. Insolent and overbearing as are the pap-fed organs of the high-tariff trust* ami monopolies In their assertion of the doctrine that tux burden* should be laid on the many for the benefit of the few, it 1* eeidoni that one of them goes so far a* to declare that the protected interest* have acquired the "right" to rob consumer* through high price* extorted by high taxes on Imports. Yet this 1* the claim put forward In a recent Issue of the Philadelphia Manttfaetnrei’, the organ of the protected manufacturer* of Pennsylvania. The Ledger, a Republican paper, having stated the well-known fact that to increase the duties on wool and woolens would be to "Increase the cost of nil kind* of men's, women's and children'* clqthlng. blanket* and other necessaries." the Manufacturer replied: "Supposing this result would follow, might It not lie Jiistiflcd upon the ground that men. women and children have no right to buy these articles cheaper at the expense of the woolgrower* and woolen manufacturer* of the country?” The braxen impudence of this pretense that sixty-five million men. women and children “have no right to buy articles cheaper" at the expense of a few thousand manufacturers and woolgrowers may lead some people to consider that the Manufacturer was simply joking. But it was In deadly earnest and proceeded to denounce the popular desire to purchase things at the lowest possible price, in the regulation McKinleylte style. Evidently Its etlitor believes what lie wrote. While tills declaration of the "rights” of the few to high prices at the expense of the whole people Is only the logical outcome of the protectionist policy. Its brutal bluntnea* should shock those amiable Republicans who have clung to their party in spite of its degeneracy into a mere tool of monopoly. So long as a high tariff was cloaked under the pretense that It was needed to raise large revenues, or that it tended to reduce prices by encouraging domestic competition, there was some excuse for men who had not studied the tariff question adhering to the party which once stood for human freedom and popular rights. But that time has gone by, nnd there can now be not the slightest doubt that a* a whole the Republican paj-ty Is committed to the monstrous doctrine that the men who have been robbing the public have a “right” to continue their stealing undisturbed. Against this absurd and unjust proposition every min of sympatliy and intelligence should protest. The idea that the few mten who grow wool, or convert it into cloth, can have a right to compel each uian, woman and child to add to the profits of these growers or manufacturers, Is a denial of the basis of American Institutions nnd all civilized society. The whole fabric of human rights proceeds from the universal agreement that each man has the right to life, liberty and the enjoyment of the property he produced. To take a portion of their property away from the many In order that the few may get richer, is a direct violation of every principle of morality. If it be true that the manufacturers have the right to charge higher prices than would prevail under free and fair competition, where and how did they get it? Who had authority to give the rights of the people into the control of a handful of men: How dare the advocates of McKinleyism deny to the American consumers their undeniable right to buy goods wherever they can get them best and cheapest? When was the principle of “the greatest good to the greatest number” changed to: "the greatest good of the woolen manufacturers?” Who are the protectionists. anyhow, that they should presume to say that men. women and children shall not buy their winter woolens as cheaply as possible? An attempt to Increase the cost of clothing and other woolen necessaries at this season of the year is an illustration of the inhumanity on which the trade haters and McKinleyites rely for support. But it is no more inhuman than the belief that a small privileged class, have more right to consideration than the whole people. Both doctrines are worthy only of savages. Protection a Swindle. A favorite protectionist argument Is the assertion that free trade means national unselfishness, and that n high tariff advances the interests of the country adopting It even though it injures other nations. As the great majority of mankind regard most questions from the standpoint of self interest. it is only natural that they should Incline to favor the policy which s'-ems at first sight to be one of thorough selfishness. But on closer examination ft will be found that protection has no right even to the doubtful honor of being the best policy for seifish people. Properly understood the doctrine of 'roe trade is simply the carrying out on a large scale of the same business principles which are found to work so well i u small communities. For instance, the selfish desire of each man that lie shall get as much as possible In return for his labor, leads to the widest diversification of Industry. Instead of trying to make for himself everything he uses, the intelligent man devotes his time to the production of one particular article, which he exchanges for such products as other men can make more easily. In this way the total production of wealth Is grout Iv Increased over wbat it would hw

If each man In a short sighted •elfishucm tried tn satisfy hl* varied med* without exchanging Id* lu**<»r product* for those of hl* fellow*. Trade with people of foreign conntrie* I* curried on, under free trade condition*, on exactly the aauto principle* a* domestic commerce. Tho advantage arising from diversified industries in one country nre even greater when the product* of the wind* world are exchanged. Difference* of soil, climate, natural reeourcea, »tc„ enable one net of mon to produce a certain article at lex* expense than i some other men. A* the latter excel lu making another commodity a system of exchanges will Increnoo th« wealth of both parties. In this mutual benefit there I* no pretense of unselfishness. It I* purely a question of enlighten *J *<>lf-intere*t. such a* prompts all trading. Tested by Its actual op -rition* pin' tection I* no les* an unjust system than It I* lu tlu-ory. It is not denied by fn>e trader* that by lnij»oslng high tax-** on all imports, a few manufacturers and other inono|M>li*ts will be benefited. But u* Increased price* Injure the sixty live million* of people who buy things, while the total number of person* directly or indirectly belfied by protwtlon I* !••** than two million, it 1* clear that the interest* of by far the greatef number aro opposed to the high tariff policy. So that on the protectionists' own ground of apjs-nls to selfishness, their doctrine is a failure and a fraud. How to Get Rich. A* men differ In opinion on the tariff, currency, or other questions, they are all agreed in one particular, the universal desire to accumulate wealth. This is a most praiseworthy ambition, and he who furthers the common aim is a real benefactw to mankind. Such in his own estimation is the tariff editor of the New York Pres*. A recent editorial in that paper returns to the Lubin project for a bounty on exjiorts of farm products, which has been worrying the McKtuleyite* a good deal for more than a year. Opposing the proposition to tax the whole of the American people in order to give foreigners cheaper farm stuffs, the Press says: “It would Im* well had we nothing to export, but Jost enough to pay our debts and to purchase tropical supplies.” Here's the secret of getting rich. Hon't raise anything to export, or at least no more than to pay debts and buy sugar, tea and coffee. If the ignorant foreigner wants our work, wheat, cotton or beef, and is willing to work hard to make things to give us iu exchange, why, that is his mistake. We protectionists know better. We would stop all this foolish business of raising food for the swarming millions of Europe. Let ’em starve, wbo cares? We hate trade, and exports are a nuisance. Besides, the ungrateful farmers are asking unpleasant questions, actually wanting to know huw they are benefited by a high tariff, when they sell a large surplus of their products abroad. And the cheeky fellows say they won’t vote for higher taxes unless we give the farmer a show. Well, here's our doctrine. Stop raising such big crops. Then there won't Lc any exports to pay bounties on. After a while. If the high tariff policy is restored, there won't lie many farmers, i Then everybody will roll Ju wealth produced ny simply rubbing a l>ounty against a subsidy. The rest of the |>copie will live on tropic al suppli-t*. Great scheme, isn't ft.’ A Statesman Ont of Place. John Shennan knows the facts in regard to the nation's finances. He is a statesman whose public career, ns he himself has said, is nearly finished. Senator Sherman should therefore leave to small politicians and big demagogues the partisan work of misrepresenting the facts. In a published interview Mr. Sherman is represented as saying that “no difficulty could have arisen at this time except for the fact that by the Wilson-Gorman tariff bill duties were so reduced as to be insofficlent to pay the current expenses of the Government” And he added: “I have no doubt that if additional Import duties be Imposed sufficient to cover deficiencies, the demand on our gold reserve will at once cease.” As a former Secretary of the Treasury and long-time chairman of the Finance Committee, Mr. Sherman, of course, knows that a reduction of duties tends to increase revenues. He voted for an increase of duties lu the McKinley bill for the avowed purpose of diminishing the revenues. That object was accomplished. There wa* a loss of .$88,000,000 from 18ill to 1894. Why dm-s he now favor raising the duties to Increase the revenues? Are high tariffs equally efficient in stopping a surplus and stopping a deficit? Ah a matter of official record Senator' Sherman must know that the present tariff law is producing all the revenue tliat was expected of it (the deficiency coming through the nullification of the income tax), and that It is yielding more than the McKinley tariff did. For the present calendar year the customs collections will be about $167,000,000. During the last fiscal year of the McKinley law they were only $131,818,000. The customs receipts for November were $11,455,314, a gain of $1,200,000 over the same month In both 1893 and 1894. For the first ten business days of the present month the collections were at the rate of $14,000,000 for the month. If it l«a reVenue tariff that Is needed the present one is $35,000,000 a year better than its predecessor. The prosperous condition of our great industries prove* that It is ample for protection. Senator Sherman is out of place among the tarlff-rippero.—New York World.

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