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N e f:-.ﬂ Ay = @n;{% N .. (G B N I B r B (Oopyri(ht.. 1894, by the Author.) ¥ e s | CHAPTER V.—UONTINUED. ~ - " . With any luck at sll the boy should . bave got back to the old post by three pr & quarter past three in the morning. Crane and his little guard, Mrs. Downey snd her sympathizing friends, howpver, had reasoned that he would not ~ be allowed to attempt to return, and so - had ceased to look for him. Crane conveyed to the woman the tidings brought by Ferguson, for up to that moment he lad disbelieved Muncey’s wild tale. Then, doubling his.sentries, but telling the rest of his party to lie down and rest, he coolly sprawled him- _ pelf on’his blankets and went to sleep. The next thing he knew it was nearly ‘dawn, and the sentries had roused the guard. Springing to his feet, Crane de- | 'manded the cause of the alarm, and _ was told there was firing up by Kelly’s ranch. It was still dark, though the eastern sky was beginning to flush as the little detachment quickly, noiseless-, )y assembled in the starlight in front of the old guard house. Two veteran war soldiers, Tracey and Collins, were on post at the time, and both declared that there had been a rapid fusillade—mt least & dozen shots. It could have come from nowhere but Kelly’s, said they, though from their stations they could not see the farm buildings. = Corporal Foot, on duty, was inside the cor‘ral wall when the distant firing began, and ran for the gateway at once, but it had ceased by the time he.got to a point whence Kelly’s ranch was visible. ‘Then for a moment the lieutenant was in a.quandary. His orders reguired him to send to and fire the beacon at the butte if the Apaches appeared in the valley, but this might x:?t have ‘been Apaches at all. . It might have well been a skirmish between the ~ horse thief and his pursuers, who had tracked him to some refuge near Kelly’s. That was a matter in which milftary interference could hardly have been tolerated. Settlers and frontiersmen, though eager enough to have the army look after the Indians, much prefer to dispose of their own reprobates {n their own way. If an attack had been made by Apaches it was speedily - over, for not another sound was heard. Within the corral the women and children, however, had beéen aroused by the suppressed exeitement, and Kelly’s daughters were new clamoring to be allowed to go to see if all was well . wwith father and mother, and Crane ordered a corporal and two men to mount, ride thither and ascertain what had happened. In ten minutes they rode away, and in ten minutes more were back =#gain, driven in by a ‘sharp and sudden volley from the 'thicket along the Sandy, not' five hundred yards up stream. The prowlers " had sv secreted themselves as to enable them to command the road leading to Kelly's and the canyon, reasoning, no doubt, that some of the troop would be.. ;tsent up to reconnoiter. Crane had | mever fought Apaches before, but this / served to convince him. He reascned ¢ that the Lottom was full of Tontos, that they surrounded him on every side and that the only thing for him to. do was to dispose his little force as best to defend the terrified women and children and held out against overpowering numbers until relief reached him from the fort He now thought it high time to fire the beacon, but who ‘ was to do it with Apaches/watching every pathway? How could anyone hope’ to reach- that outlying butte? Every minute it' was growing lighter, however, and as soon as broad day came he determined to make the at- . tempt, and then Downey, also an exdragoon and.a stalwart settler, took a hund in questioning the corporal who, with his fellows, had been driven in ur_hurt, yet a trifle demoranlized. Neither horse nor man had a scrateh; yet every- - body had heard the fusillade—six or eight rapid shots almost bunched. “I never knew Apaches to fire so many ~ .shots before,” said he, “and miss. You're sure they weren't more’n ten yards away?” : “Certain sure,” said the corporal. ~ *“Certain sure,” said his followers, two good looking young troopers. . Then after a moment’s pondering Downey said he believed he could get to the butte in safety, and he’d go and fire the pile, whereat the women began to wail again and the lieutenant to protest, and right in the midst of the discussion somebody shouted ‘“‘Hurrah!” and a column of smoke, speedily bursting into * flame, shot upward toward the zenith ' from the summit of the old butte, and .' [ f ¥ 5 - . - JQ:NJ“" e%l X : &’ ‘ (’wp“ﬁ;r“‘ 2 v-\/ . q?’ N Bl LY VBL 2N 49 L \ Y/ I } A\\‘H % 7N 3 "\ \ /%) 2 / B “h\ 7 "" kLI /.f...?, i Al RN A eN 2 W -,’l\\ Wl "~ N = é e\ X 01/d cé b ] ’”’ g /, A 5 /| - - I A L N eI, Yy & VHE i R %/;" el JBONGEORYen 20> T 7 AN % [l o CHemlßs “THEN WHO FIRED THE BEACON?" - ‘everybody thought liow plucky a thing it was in Kelly to creep out there and climb that jagged bowlder strewn cone in the dim morning light, set fire to the ever ready stack of wood and steal back - %o his lair. They were italking of it ~'when broad daylight and Kelly came in together. _ : : 1 *The blackguards ran off my mules,” he said, with'a fierce oath, ‘“‘and killed poor Bustamente. There can’t be more™n six all told. Can't the lieutenant spare mea few men to go after them? They’ve 4 ﬁ skipped off for the Socorro.” But e { 1 u-sigl h;?e@? him;e:‘f with a dozen " 'men if need be, for he been chafing »’mﬂ&ﬁmdm nothing at -sl and was eagor to retrieve himself owe relief could reach them and the -ehsmce begone. . . b ‘ X. 2 th 7 ,7: ,~‘w,< ©“Yes, the bottom's clear enough, sir, R RS M PR e TR s T PSR AT RO MR e

“I'm sure I don’t know, sir. I thought, of course, some of this party had been sent over to do so.”

And then men began looking into each other’s faces, bewildered. If not by some one at Kelly’s or here at the post who could have scaled the butte and started the signal fire? Already a lookout, peering eastward through the lieutenant’s binocular, reported a dust cloud far up the rise toward the new post—the coming of the reinforcements —and if Crane meant to do anything at all now was the time.

“I'll leave you to find out who did it, sergeant,” he said. ‘“We'll go on after the mules. Perhaps the Apaches did it themselves as a joke.” ‘‘Apaches don’t joke,” growled the old man, with gloomy face, as the detachment trotted away. ‘‘There’s been no joke from one end of this night to the other, but there’s been some stupid blundering on somebody’s part, or I'm a recruit.” And then, turning to one of his daughters, who stood silently by, he said, briefly: ‘“Fetch me the pony, Kate. I'll ride back to your mother.” “Sure, didn’t you know yet, father? "Twas Leon took it to ride to the fort for medicine for Mrs. Downey.” '‘And thus for the first time was the veteran trooper made aware that his little friend and foundling had dared that midnight ride. Fiercely he broke forth:

. *“And was there no man among ye?” he turned to thesilent group of soldiers left behind. ‘‘No man among ye fit to do a man’s work that ye should leta boy baby ride into the teeth of them Indian divils? Where were you, Phil Downey, that you should send a kid like that for yer wife’s poppy sauce?” “Where was I but tending to my own business, as you were, Sergt. Kelly,” answered the’ other veteran, stoutly, for between the two ex-dragoons and rival ranchmen little love was wasted. “Of course, if I'd been here, 'tisn’t Leon or anybody else would have gone for medicine but me, as you ought to have sense enough to know if you wei‘*"f, 80 keen to be saddling blame on other fellows’ shoulders and so diverting it from your own. Me and Mike spent ‘the night at our ranch, as you did at yours, and niver came wup till we heard the firing.” And Downey’s eyes flashed angrily on his more prosperous neighbor. ‘I haven’t a gov’ment post or a gov'ment arsenal to dhraw on to defind me property and I have todo it meself,” he added in withering sarcasm, and if anything would stir old Kelly’s wrath to the nethermost ‘depths it was the faintest hint that he ever used so much as a single cartridge of all the ordnance stores confided to his care. - ;

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known what it was to whimper, and she and will see what we can do to find the brave little lad that’s gone to die for you and yours—for by me sowl the hand that lit yon blazing signal was his, as sure as this,” and he clinched a hairy fist under Downey’s nose, ‘‘is at yer service in any way ye'll have it, Mr. Phil Downey—an’ it won’t be the first batin’ it gave ye.” - With that he turned his back on a shame-faced groupand strode fiercely away in the direction of his home. Never until that instant had it seemed to dawn upon them.that by any human possibility Leon had striven to return—had found the Indians interposed between him and ‘the old post in the valley, and then realizing what its original projectors had not thought possible—that the Indians had probably 80 closely invested the post itself as to prevent anyone’s getting out te fire the beacon—he had risked his own brave life in the attempt; had given the signal that brought rescue to them at the gallop, and in so doing had betrayed his own presence to the. lurking foe. Here again, therefore, was a case where the ground remained in the hands of one party, but all the telling blows were dealt by the other. The soldiers had felt the sting of Kelly's words. True, no one of their number had been ordered to make .that perilous ride, though all had heard Mrs. Downey’s cries and moans and appeals for aid, and some one might have volunteered and been allowed to go, but not until Leon was .well on his way. True, had Downey been there he would not have permitted the sacrifice, and was now ready to bitterly upbraid his wealker half for inspiring it. A good woman in many a way was Mrs. Downey, and very fond of the boys, Randall and Leon, but the least pain or illness prostrated her, and a serious pain frightened her to the verge of distraction. All this Leon was too young to appreciate. He believed her suffering terribly and in dire need, as did all who heard her, perhaps, but Kelly’s girls and her own Mexican maid of all work—and so, just as he thought Randy would have done had he been there, he determined to go and went withouta word to Crane, who might have stopped him, as, indeed, Mrs. Downey was shrewd enough to declare he would if he bappened tohear of it. ' ' i And now Crane and his party were well away into the Socorro in pursuit, and Kelly, returning wrathful to his home, was anticipated in his search for Leon by the coming of Turner’s troop, followed within a moment or two by Charlton’s dramatic announcement of ’“’&‘%‘WW"? of the mugm pony. ~ Half an hour later while the old sérgean t was bending over and examining W the stiffencd careass of his pet broncho, E &F@i{??:i&fgﬁ;’;“ Sy T s )‘tf"e","’ga‘,fr‘“}“: gl

diup foes. Others were examining the signs in the timber and along the Sandy, and the more they found the more they were mystified. 'Apaches, as a rule, in those days were foot warriors. The Tontos, Sierra Blancas, Hualpais, Apache Mohaves and Apache Yumas had small use for horse or mule, yet there were more hoof than moccasin prints in the timber and around Kelly’s corral. What was more, both mules and horses were shod. That meant that they had run off a good deal of stock and were riding instead of walking, said Turner’s men, but Kelly, growing graver and less disposed to talk with every. moment, continued searching on his own account, and ‘neglecting many a chance to snub some callow young trooper hazarding theories as to the numbers and movements of the Indians:

Maj. Thornton contenting himself with sending a platoon on the trail of Crane's party, had ridden up to Kelly’s ranch to pencil some instructions for Raymond. It was now seven o'clock, and neither he nor his men had seen a single Indian; neither had he news of Foster, nor tidings of any kind, yet with the events of the night still fresh in his mind, with the death of Ruckel and Rafferty and Kelly’s Mexican assistant and the loss of Leon to mourn, the major felt convinced the Indians had swooped in force upon the valley, and would have killed, burned and destroyed everything in sight but for his prompt answer to the signal which his forethought had caused to be provided at the top of the butte. The Apaches had desisted from their attempt only at his approach, and had fled into the hills, whither his men were now pursuing. Such, at least, was his theory. This, too, was to be the tenor of his report to department headquarters, to be sent forward by a detachment that day. Already he was framing his diction, and after a few penciled words to Raymond, bidding him hold the fort, as he wasn’t coming—for the present, at least, the major had borrowed a big sheet of the ordnance sergeant’s official paper, and began: : “KeLLY’s RANcH, South of Apache Canyon, June 2, 187-. Assistant Adjutant General, Headquarters Department of Arizona: :

“Sir—l have the honor to report, that on receipt of your dispatch notifying me of the Apache outbreak, and directing me to guard well my working parties at old Fort Retribution ard the road connecting it with the new post, I detached Lieut. Crane, with twenty of Capt. Raymond’s troop, and sent him to camp temporarily at the abandoned corral, and also took steps to notify the settlers north and south of the post of the new danger. Deeming it possible that the Indians might attempt to pass around us and raid the ranches, I had caused a beacon to be built on the summit of Signal Butte, and instructed Lieut. Crane to fire it if he learned the Apaches were in the valley. ; “‘Last evening my sentries reported firing on the Prescott road, north of the new post, and Capt. Foster, with his troop, was sent to investigate. He reported by courier that he kad come upon two Mexicans, who clakned that the Apaches had attacked them and run off their mules, they themselves escaping by hiding in a dark ravine. They also reported a large party of prospectors, ete., at Raton Springs, and represented them as being in peril of similar attack, so Foster pushed on at once to their succor, expecting to reach them at midnight. At two-thirty a. m. Trooper Ruckel, a sentry on post No. 5 in the low ground to the north of the post, was found dead, pierced by several Apache arrows, and Capt. Raymond with his men made a search through the chapparal as far as the foothills without discovering anything of the enemy. A few minutes later a horse recognized as Private Rafferty's, of C troop, came riderless and wounded

into the post, and I had just dispatched Capt. Turner with his troop at daybreak to scout the country along the Prescott road, when the flaming signal at the butte told that the Indians had worked around to the valley to the west of us. Leaving Capt. Raymond with the infantry and his half troop to guard the post, I proceeded with Troop F (Turner’s) to this point, reaching here after a sharp trot in less than an hour and a quarter, only to find the Indians fled with some stock from Keliy’s ranch and Lieut. Crane already in pursuit. The only casualty in the valley thus far reported is one Mexican herder killed at Kelly’s, and, i régret to add, the probable loss of a gallant little fellow, Leon MacNutt, whose pony was found a few minutes ago at the foot of the butte with three Apache arrows through him. It is feared that the boy has been killed or run off by the Indians, who are reported to have fled into the fastmesses of the Socorro, to the north of us. If so, between Capt. Foster’s troop, already in the field, and those here at hand, I hope to make short work of them.” And here Maj. Thornton was interrupted by the entrance of the ordnance sergeant. It mustbe remembered now that old Kelly had served in Arizona in his dragoon days, before the war, and had just .completed another period of five long years with the Eleventh cavalry, the predecessors of Thornton’s regiment. Like every other old soldier, he was inclined to the belief that newcomers had very much to learn, and, as we have seen, the Indians themselves were taking advantage of this inexperience. Kelly couldn’t be disrespectful to an officer, but he had much to say, and there was no time to be lost. :

|TO BE CONTINUED.]

Self-Bitten. About a quarter of a’century ago Beranger’s ‘‘Grisette” was performed at one of the theagers. The part of Lisette was allotted to Virginie Dejazet. This popular aetress, then advanced in years, had lost all her teeth, and, to do justice to the new role, she had ordered a fresh set. As the teeth felt uncomfortable, she took them out when the play was over and put them in her pocket. When in the green-room she incautiously sat down, and immediately jumped up with a scream. “What is the matter?” inquired our jolly old friend, Adolph Dennery. : “Nothing,” said Mlle. Dejazet. “I have only bitten myself.”—Revue Thoatrale. o , Ensy to Do, - ! ' *Do you think woman will ever sno cessfully fill the pulpit?” - A I see no reason why she should not It ought to be casy with the slecves she | ‘wears."—lndianapolis Jowrnst, - _ Ix the construetion of the Suez canal £0,000,000 cubic. yards dw«-}mj excavated by 30,000 labore

M’KINLEY’S CANDIDACY. ; Corrupt Methods Employed to Put Him : KForward. ; It _is not to be wondered at that {he republican opponents of Mr. McKinley are making charges touching the virtne of the men who are conducting this campaign. They are saying that rich manufacturers have been corrupting the primaries throughout the country, and that the delegates have been purchased. However that may be, it is clear that a public man must gain a reputation that unfits him for the pres:dency if he is the gervant of those who are interested in government only as it enures to their pecuniary profit. Whether Mr. McKinley's strength in the convention has or has not been procured by the corrupt use of money. whether, if it has been, he is or is not a party to the corruption, he is the cantidate of those who want to divert the government from its constitutional function of promoting the general welfare that its chief power may be used for their own selfish purposes. And it is because Mr. McKinley has already permitted himself to be employed as the agent of such men, and is presumably willing to be so employed again, that the extreme protectionists show such anxiety to bring about his nomination that prominent men .of their own party are led to accuse them of employing corrupt means to accomplish their end. ; ; Another aspect of this candidacy is that McKinley is not only the chief of the extreme protectionists, but he has heretofore been for unsound money, and is now, if we are to believe the platform of the Ohio state convention which nominated him, in favor of bimetallisin, either through international arrangemeht or, if that cannot be had, through congressienai legislation. In other words, the protected manufacturers, in order to capture the silver vote for the restoration of the tariff law of 1890, are.willing to elect as president a man whose views on the currency are unsound. It will be difficult-—we trust, impossible—to elect Mr. McKinley president on the theory that has dominated his canvass for the nominmation. The tarifl is not to be the issue at the coming election, nor, if it were, do we believe that the couniry would agree to make another trial of McKinleyism. The issue is to be the currency question. Neither the silver men nor the gold-standard advocates are likely to support 4 double-dealer merely because he is ready to do the bidding of the men who are now working for his nomination. If the republican party has really come under the control of the beneficiaries of the tariff of 1890, and if therefore its convention mnominate MeKinley in grateful recognition of past tariff favors, and in hope of like favors to come, if in order to make the tariff issue prominent the party is to face both i ways on the currency issue, the leaders who are anticipating a triumph at \t-he coming election are likely to be grievously disappointed; for, no matter what the politicians may think, the l country wants the money issue settled, and the question that will be put to ' candidates in the approaching cam- - paign is: “Where do you stand on the money question?” 1o this question Mr. McKinley hasnot yet made a reply that is satisfactory to the advocates of sound money; nay, he has more than once ranged himself on the side of those who could debase the curreney in order that 50 cents might be made to pay a dollar of indebtedness. Although he would .not prokably dare renew his advocacy of such a silver bill as the Sherman law, and although he might fear to stand squarely with = Teller, Dubois, Stewart, and his other silver friends, Mr. McKinley does not favor the single gold standard, and therefore his election to the presidency would be fraught with danger to the best interests of the country.—-Harper's Weekly. ;

POOR PROTECTION. The Kind That the Cross-Bred Republic= ans Would Provide. The course of the republican freesilver senators in blocking tariff legislation with a free-silver substitute has had its expected result. It has brought the representatives of the protected manufacturers of Pennsylvania to overtures which were promptly responded 10. One secret conference has been held in Washington betiveen the senators and the manufacturers, and an agreement has been reached to join in an effort to sway the action of the St. Louis convention in their jointinterest.

While this alliance is' a matter of pure bargain and sale on both sides, it is not at all unnatural. On the contrary, it is perfectly logical. A tariff policy which aims to protect the jron and woolen and other manufacturing industries is bound in ordinary consistency to protect the silver industry. The advocates of the frec coiAnagé of silver would be equally inconsistent if they did not recognize their duty to protect the manufacturers.

This reciprocity of interest which is the basis of the alliance is the best guarantee of its maintenance. It adds to the interest of the situation. It is a challenge alike to the sound-money sentiment of New York and to the Ohio. straddles and McKinley evasions which have hithert® been assumed to represent republican financial opinion. It is the entering of a wedge which with a little vigorous pounding may force the St. Louis convention to declare itself on one side or the other. y

There is no reason for secrecy about the proceedings of the new alliance. As it is perfectly frank and eandid in its motives it should be open in its methods and stand or fall on its merits.—N. Y. World. e ;

——llf the McKinley boom is lapsing, and ps a consequence he cannot come within 100 votes of securing a nomination on the first ballot, then he will not get these necessary votes, because his methods and those of his managers have not been concilitary. Those methods have been such as to intensify and embitter hisopponents. Ttignot unlikely that before the campaign is over there will be a cry of “anybody to beat MecKinley,” as in 1880 the cry was “anyhody to beat Grant.” The resulf will be the same if McKinley does not pick up a good many delegates next month. ~—Chicago Tribune (Rep.). i

——There is no man who so fitly represents McKinleyism as McKinley. The repudiation of McKinley would be a partial repudiation of MeKinleyism, The movement in the various states against McKinley iz a sign that the republicans would shirk the istue of PSS el S e S N S ERD C SR R R

THE PLATFORM ARCHITECTS. Each One Working on His Own Plans and Specifications. In view of the stubborn claim made by the republican party that it is the party of sound money and sound financial principles, the platforms presented by it in different states afford the evidenee on which the people will base a popular verdict. The stupidity of the claim had already been established by the course of certain United States senators, and among them the chairman of the republican national committee, but it is emphasized by the comparison of platforms. It is plain that the builders have been governed by politic considerations and are deliberately aiming to hoodwink the voters.-in every section, or that there is a division of sentiment that cannot be healed by any false pretense of unanimity. Indeed, there are stréng reasons for believing that both of these potential influences inspired the architects. : The ambiguoua expressions of Ohio republicans on the subject of silver were unquestionably designed to attract western, northiwestern and southern delegates to the support of MecKinley. It has been noted that sinee the promulgation of that financial double-header the same confusion of ideas has been embodied in the *“‘decJaration of principles” given out by other states in the sections named and that they have shown a strong leaning toward the representative of the Ohio idea. On the other hand, the New York platform was constructed with the purpose of unifying the delegates from the middle and eastern states against MecKinley and uniting them on’ Reed or Morton, as the one or the other of these candidates may develop the greater strength in the convention. It is inevitable that these conflicting sentiments shall assert themselves in the national convention, and the alternative against an open rupture will be an adjustable financial plank so constructed that it will dovetail with the dominant sentiment of any and ail communities. It is this horn of the 'dilemma that will be taken by those in control. Then the thinking delegates with honest convictions will be governed largely by the known character and records of the candidates. The study of these is a matter to which patriotic republicans should’ address themselves, for to attach importance to platforms diametrically opposed or to act upon the declarations of a convention that will be afraid to do more thanr to disguise its views would be the errox of insgincerity and partisan servility. The claim that the republican party is distinetively the champion of sound money is without the slightest foundation in fact.—Detroit Free Press.

THEY WILL DECIDE IT. Contested Delegates Will Make Trouble at St. Louis. According to present indications the balance of power in the republican national convention at St. Louis will be held by the contested delegations. “Joe” Manley, the secretary of the republican national committee, is re« ported as saying that 56 contested seats are already reported and that there are likely to be 100 more. : The convention that was held in Texas recently presented a case resembling many others at the south and resembling the condition of affairs likely to exist at St. Louis.” A huge colored politician named Cuney is chairman of the Texas republican state committee. He is said to be an Allison man, and a combination has been formed by Reed and Allison to procure southern delegates against McKinley. In the Texas convention of 300 or 400 delegates there were 136 contested seats, and Cuney’s committee decided all the cases. MecKinley men were all thrown out and their opponents admitted to seats. This shows the advantage of controlling the committee that decides contested cases,

At St. Louis the delegation from each state will choose one of its number for member of the committee on credentials. Forty-five states, five territories and the District of Columbia will each have a member of the committee, making 53 in all, of which 27 is a majority. The prospect before McKinley is as plain as his facial resemblance to Napoleon Bonaparte. _ MecKinley must go into the St, Louis convention with a majority of the delegates from 27 states and territories or the committee on credentials will be packed against him. With an adverse committee the claim of 156 McKinley 'delegates to seats in the contested cases will be decided against them and their places will be given to anti-McKinlay men. :

In short, it appears that in an indirect manmner, but effectually, the next republican candidate for president will be nominated by the committee on creden~ tials and not by the delegates as chosen from .the people.—Chicago Chronicle,

OPINIONS. AND POINTERS.

——>Some of the McKinley delegaies are reported already t» have eaten their tags.—Chicago Tribune (rep.). - ——Who says Toin Reed is weakening? Ile is “firing™ democrats out of the house though the republican majority is too large to be manageable already.—Cincinnati I'nquirer. ——lf Easy Boss Platt discovers that he is Gov. Morton’s' Jonah it may sadden him. But he is likely to be still sadder after he has turned the stomach of the McKinley whale.--N. Y, World. e -

——llepublican papers in New You'k nre solemnly proclaiming that there is absolute harmony in the ranksof the party in that state. The ostrich evidently has his bhead in the sand.—De¢troit Free-DPress. ——All this talk in indiana about MeKinley is humbug. The republican Losses in that state are knifing him. '‘They are pipe-laying for Harrison. The impression is being made that McKinley is radical and Harrison conservative apon the tariff question. The latter is as radical as the former, and perhaps more sO. Harrison signed the McKinley bill willingly. If he ever suggested any modification it is not recorded.— Indianapolis Sentinel

——A few DPennsylvania manwfacturers met with the leading free silver vepublicans in Washington lately for the purpose of foimulating a plan o 1 campaign in favor of free silver and protection. The twe causes are rightiy linked together. Both have for their purpose the alienation of the United Btates from the rest of the world. Botl serve the sume plirpose—to build r wall arouind this country and place obstacles in the way of international tradg: There is at feast a shadow of logic in the adYoeaey of free silver by an advocate of SsS DR eR G

- IMPORTS AND EXPORTS. Bome Interesting Comparisons of the Trade . of the Country. The report on the commerce and navigation of the United States for the fiscal year 1895, prepared by the United States bureau of statistics, affords an opportunity of making two or three highly interesting comparisons of the import and export trade of the country:: Taking together exports and imports, New York does about half and Boston about a tenth. Following New York, Boston has about as large a foreign trade as any two other American cities combined, for, while a number of these places do a considerable export trade, they do not, as a rule, seem to have a grasp upon the import business. Galveston, for example, has rather more than five per cent. of the export trade of the country, but the import trade at that port amounts to only one-fifth of one per cent. of the imports of the United States. About 8 per .cent. of the country’s exports pass through the port of New Orleans, but less than two per cent. of its imports come in through that channel. To Boston 10.59 per cent. of the exports of the country are credited, and 9.14 per cent. of the imports. making altogether, as we have said, an average of about ten per cent.. of the entiregtrade.' New . York is unlike Boston dn respect to the division of its trade, its imports amounting to 65.26 per cent. of all the imports of the country, while its exports foot up to only 40.32 per cent. of our national outgo. In other words, Boston exports about a quarter as much as New York does, but imports only about a seventh as much as New York, showing clearly the need—apart from possible evasions in the New York custom house—of en~ couraging the import branch of trade byv the active exertions of our merchants.

- It is also interesting to notice that in spite of the alleged changes in the tariff, which have thrown, it is said, our business into the hands of the English, compelling us to purchase the products of British labor instead of using our own, the British working people, whom we are taught we should hold'in contempt, purchased from us last year mnearly half. of all of the products of American labor that we send abroad; or, to put it exactly, of all the exports from the United States, 47.94 per cent. found their consumption by the capitalists and wage earners of the United Kingdom, while we on our side did not take from England in value half of what she purchased from us, for our importations from the United Kingdom were only 21.74 per cent., of our imports, and, it .may be added, our gross imports were very much less than our gross exports. It is a significant fact that we sold last year in the United Kingdom more than ten times as many of our exports as found a market in the entire continent of South America. If anything were needed to make it clear how materially our industrial welfare depends upon maintaining, as we easily can, our good relations with England, and how little our welfare depends upon conditions of trade in South America, surely the ficures we have given above should afford all of the evidence needed. Another interesting exhibit, as indicating the bearings of our tariff laws, is found in the classification of imports which the chief of the bureau of statistics has prepared, running through a period of 16 years; that is, from 1880. The per cent. of the whole average of the exhibit is as follows: -

. ' 15 years.. 1895. Articles of food, and animals..... 33.24 30.97 Articles in a crude condition which enter into the various processes of domesti¢ industry. 22.28 25. 64 Articles wholly or partially man- ’ : ufactured for use as materials in the maunfactures and me- ) ChaniC ATt .. orefisnitaivesanvess 11554 11.46 Articles manufactured, ready for : > consumption........ili .o, 10084 5 1925 Articles of voluntary use, lux- - . MBS, BLCL oo e s aiahiatssov e enga 112042 21268 It will be seen from the above showing that, when the articles.of importation are classified, it is found that during the last year the only material change in condition made has been that we have impgrted relatively a smaller value in arti(ges of food and animals, and a larger amount in vyalue. than usudl of articles in a crude condition which enter into the various processes of domestic manufacture. In other words,-the exhibit printed above is a complete refutation of the assertions that have been put forth by those who are laboring to have a radical revision of the tariff made in the direction of high protection. We have been told that, during the year last past, our country has been practically inundated with manufactured goods of foreign production, in this way taking work away from American |wage earners, when, as a matter of fact, while there has been on the average a notable increase in the importation of erude commodities that have to be fashioned by the labor of American wage earners into forms fit for use, the importation of articles manufactured and ready for use in the year 1895 was below the average of the previous 15 years, and these 15 previous years cover a period during which, at all times, with the exception of the last few months of 1894, a high protective tariff was ir force. A

The percentage of manufactured goods imported into this country in 1883, 1884 and 1885 was over 22 per cent. of the entire importation of those years, and yet that time covered a period during which the tariff prepared under the direction of the protectionist tariff commission was in force. The fact is that in the last year our importations of manufactured goods were on the whole exceedingly small, when one takes into account that we had to make up for the experience of 1%94, during which year there was a smaller relative importation of manufactured goods than in any other year during which a classification has been given by our government. Our belief is that the results of the year 1806 will show that while crude commodities will be :jlnported in increasing amounts to be anufactured in this country, the percentage of manufactured goods coming in this year will be less than it was during the years 1891, 1892 and 1803, In other words, that it will be shown by ‘these ununswerable results that the | Amevrican manufacturers are supmly. ing a larcer amount than ever of the manufactured articles used in this country.-—DBoston Herald. ; :

i ~ Good Proef. . Probably thlere eould be no bettér proof of inmfproved ' business than: is afforded by the statement of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co., for the reason thatits gain of ten per cent in gross _earhings has been made in despite of lower freight rates than were ever ibefumebtzzmghwhinm%w St mioord, e

WHAT OHIO REPUBLICANS WANT At Least What the Party Bosses Tell Them - They Ought to Want. . At the republican state convention of Ohio, held on March 10th and 11th,a platform was adopted which affirms the party’s belief in the doctrines of extreme protection, and demands the restoration of the high tariff law repealed in 1894.° This was expected from the state of Maj. McKinley, but it was not supposed that even in that stronghold of trade-hating dagtrines the republicans would have the hardihood to falsify the facts of history and charge the democratic tariff with the evils which occurred under protection. Yet the Ohio platform declares: ““We denounce the present tariff law as the sublimated product of democratic ignorance and incompetency, bringing unprecedented adversity and distress, from which nothing but a return to the policy of protection can relieve it.” SR ;

Either the men who wrote these words are fools, or they are knaves who believe that the people are fools. Is there a man of voting age in the United States who believes that the people were ‘‘prosperous and happy during 1893 and the first six months of 1894?”” ‘Were not those years periods of panic and bankruptey, with trade and industry almost at a standstill? Did not the “unprecedented adversity and distress” bßegin and continue: while the McKinley tariff was in full operation?_ Is it not a notorious fact that the country was doing business® under ‘the republican policy of protection, while the poverty and suffering was at its worse? And is it not equally certain that immediately after the Wilson tariff became law, industry began to revive, trade improved, wages were increased and a- 'period of great business activity followed? - That these plain and undisputable facts should be denied by the reckless partisans who represent the. Ohio republicans, is evidence of the desperate ficht “which they are preparing to . make to again secure power.: Regardgardless of the truth, they propose to appeal to ignorance and prejudice, and if possible to gain votes by cunningly devised falsehoods. But their efforts will be in vain if the democrats will simply put before the people a statement of the real conditions which existed during the last years of McKinleyism, and of the increased prosper--ity which has followed the enactment of the Wilson tariff. 3SR ;

it ' 'WHIDDEN. GRAHAM.

GOVERNMENT REVENUE. %

Gratifying Reports from tlfe Treasury Department—Receipts in Excess of Expendituresd ,

The February returns of the United States treasury contain the very gratifying intelligence that the government’s receipts of revenue during the last month exceeded the mnational expenditures by $127,840.42. The total revenue was $26,059,228.42, and all expenditures $25,931,388. The revenue derived from customs duties was $13,908,393.38, which amount is over 50 per cent. of the grand total. _ The figures show that the amount of customs revenue which the Wilson tariff act is now producing is decidedly better than was expected by its eritics, and that if any part of that act needs revision for the purpose of raising more revenue it is not so much the part containing schedules of duties on imports, as the internal revenue provisions of the act. During the present fiscal year (beginning with July last) the receipts from internal revenue up to February 29 were only $98,732,619.21, while the customs receipts were $112,628,463.50. It seems evident, therefore, that the present tariff rates of duty are not principally chargeable with the defieit’ in the government'’s revenue. The customs receipts last month were $3,101,000 greater than the’ internal revenue receipts. ; But the revenue is now improving, though slowly, and if congress will practice economy in its appropriation bills the revenue may catch up with and more than equal the expenditures of the government before next autumn. Redundancy of revenue is sure to breed extravagancesand is a greater evil than a temporary deficit. But for the great falling off in our crops and the prices of farm products in 1894 and 1895 the people would now have the money to import foreign merchandise much more largely. With improved harvests next summer, it is likely that the importations, and consequently the customs revenue as well as internal revenue, will increase very decidedly. But in any case, economy in congressional appropriations is imperatively demanded.—N. Y. Herald.

A TARIFF PHILOSOPHER.

The Props Are Completely Knocked from Under His Philosophy, However. - A tariff spoliation organ sententiously remarks: ‘‘The world’s supply of useful products is now, and it always has been, insufficient for the needs of men. But men who have desired the things produced have been forbidden to obtain them because misgovernment has obstructed the movement from producer to consumer.” Just so. Of all the obstructions:produced Wy misgovernment the worst has been a protective tariff in enhancing the cost of commodities and restraining’ the exchanges of commerde. Our tariff philosopher goes on to say: “Thus there seems to be a surplus prodiiction, ‘but in truth there is nothing else than partial paralysiss of the business of making exchanges.” Why, then, in the name of common sense, increase ‘this paralysis by raising high tariff obstructions to prevent American manufacturers from obtaining cheap and abundant raw materials of pro- - duction? In consequence of the repeal of the wool duties the woolen manufacturers of the United States produced in 1895 purer, better 'and cheaper fabrics, and in far greater quantities, than in any former year in the country’s history. The inevitable effect of a restoration of the w;;?l 1 duties would be to again obstrnct the ‘movement from producer to consumer and increase the paralysis of the business of exchanges. Happily, this danger is past for a time, and, let us hope, - iiforever!——-Philadeh)hi_& Record. - L Do High Taxes Make Low Prices? . Hon. Milliam M@%le,x’é?o!ares that - there is not an art wwy-fﬁpl malt ‘to-day made possible by a protective tariff ;thg&&ﬂiﬁ??’ been gheapen °db§ Jeoleatlonse wg ‘ mer.” IE this is true, why does Maj. McKinley BRSNSt e Wilson w2lt becasin hey ay 3o bt Jlowered prices. Protectionists' claim ‘that our wool growing industry was -Sade D %%%“%M*%&”ﬁ 1 the-