Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 35, Petersburg, Pike County, 7 January 1898 — Page 5

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PROBABLY AN OVERSIGHT McKinley Docs Not Credit the Rise la Wheat to IMngley'i Tariff Bill. It may bare been an oversight on the president’s part, and theu he may have been actuated by a feeling of jealousy toward the urbane Mr. Diugley, but 1 whatever the cause the president haa just given the tariff a blow between the eyes, says the Omaha World-Herald. In a conversation the president remarked f that “the present boom in the west is due in a great measure to the large crops and to high prices caused by the failure of crops in ether countries.” The president is not in acoord with his party organs on the important matter of wheat prices. The president declares that the increased price is due to the failure of crops in other countries, while the organs are rending tbeir ueth-! er garments and pulling all the ink off tbeir form rollers in an endeavor to convince us that the increased price. of wheat is due solely t<o the Dingley bill. By declaring thatw* are experiencing , some benefits that not due directly to a high protective tariff the president has played false to the whole fabric of Republicanism. For him to attribute the increased price of wheat to anything' but the Dingley tariff is a bit of treason to the protective principle that cannot be condoned. The president should remember that everything good is the direct result of the Dingley tariff. The moment that it reoeived the president’s signature the wheat crops of Russia, India and Argentina were attacked by chinch bugs, weevils and drought. While it was being carried from the senate chamber to the executive mansion every head of American wheat swelled to twice its former size. While the Dingley bill was in process of, cultivation American wheat stood still and waiteld for the salvation that it kbew wa* at hand. And now to have the president snub the law which brought about all these beneficial things! As the late Artemcs Ward remarked, “It iz tew much!”

A MARYLAND DEMOCRAT. Major Vellott Prefen Democratic Frinrlples to Spoils of Office. It appears that a great many of tbe Democrats of Maryland are not satisfied with the straddle ou the currency question which Mr. German thought necessary, although that straddle took tbe party away from its former gold standard declaration and brought it uoaier to the Democratic platform. During the campaign of last year an emergency committee was organized by the Democrats and Major John I. „Yel* lott made chairman. Tbe “Democratic committee of 1896“ still exists, and Major Ybllott, as its chairman, has issued an kddress to the Democratic voters of Maryland, in which he substitutes the -following declaration for tbe straddled Orf behalf of the Democratic) voters of Maryland, who, from principle and conviction, fought the battle against plutocracy and trusts In U**i under the leadership of William J, Bryan, the' •'Democratic txmimittee of 1895” reaffirms the platform adopted by the Democratic national convention at Chicago and declares fyr frtwdoru of speech, freedom of the press, freedcin of conscience, the preservation of personal rights, equality of all citinens before the law, the faithful observance of constitutional limitations, the rights of the state against the encroachment of federal power, the protection uf the “-.common people” against robb.-ry by hvh tariffs and. tho .-itwle gold standard, the jx-rfect equality, of our money metaLs by their free and unlimited coinage at the just ratio of M to 1 without the aid or consent of any other nation, against the subjugation of the working people by injunction and demands the regulationiy law, aud^tf necessary, the destruction, of odious trusts and monopolies. This is ccitaihly explicit, aud, to Democrats, much more satisfactory thin , ' the double back acting India rubber declaration. Major Yellott is a Democrat of the old school aud prefers a straight out declaration in behalf of Democratic principles to any prospect of office, near or remote. In this he is at one with the masses of the people, who care more for principles than they t do for office. ! EVIDENCE OF PROSPERITY. I - . ▲ Few Facts Which f.o to Provo That We Are In the Midst of Good Time*. The concurrent outcry of the gold bug and Produce Exchange newspapers, to | tbe effect that tbe promised prosperity \ has at last arrived, receives a queer sort of indorsement from such facts as the western strike of hundreds of thousands of underpaid coal miners, the New York revolt of thousands of half starved sweatshop tailors and cigarette makers and the New Jersey persecution of the hordes of tramps. The last of these evidence* of prosperity shows that tbe roads and fields are swarming with homeless aud destitute wanderers, literally without a place in which to lay their beads and whose very existence is a burden to the community and a curse to themselves. Prosperity may have arrived for others, bot it has not come for these poor, friendless wretches. Down in Middlesex county, N. J., says the New York News, there are so many poor, hungry fellows in the high- ! ways that the supervisors have resolved to arreft every stranger asking for work or alma The culprits are to be jailed and set to work on the roads, each dragging a chain and ball as a punishment for the atrocious crime of poverty. A Mr. Conse, chairman of the committee having the matter in charge, gives out, in the papers, that he expects soon By t this means to have good macadamised roads, which otherwise would tjgt be had in years. Mr. Conse is probably one of those shriekers for freedom who used^to be so conscientiously opposed to negro slavery. jibe only mitigation of tbe condition 1 of these New Jersey tramps is that they ' • are likely, while their liberty is forfeited, to get something every day for their dinner. H nr ram for Republican prosperity! It hea arrived! The newest brand of Populist is the j Mark Hanna. Let ns hope that it will I ha exclusively confined to Ohio.

MEXICO PROSPEROUS Manufacturers Enjoying a Boom In Trade, PABMEES ABE ALSO BENEFITED. Gold Hm Goue to a Premium and Haa the Effect oT a Tariff Wall, but the Silver Dollar Baji as Much Goods as Bv*r. Capital Pour in* la For Investment. The Constitution is of the opinion that those gold organs which are piously engaged in extending their sympathy and condolence to Mexico on account of the supposed deplorable condition in which that country is left by the fall of silver have failed to read the dispatch recently sent to the New York Herald by that paper’s special' correspondent in the City of Mexico. That dispatch makes very interesting reading at this time. The Constitution has already printed it in full, but some of the statements made by The Herald’s Mexican correspondent are worthy Of further consideration. In order to thoroughly understand the situation depicted by the correspondent it is necessary for our readers to bear in mind that, while silver has depreciated with respect to gold in the gold standard countries, no such result baa taken place in Mexico. Silver has not fallen at all, has not decreased in purchasing power to any appreciable extent. On the other hand, gold has risen to a premium off 1.45. ^ Remembering this fact, it is easy to understand the dispatch, which would otherwise be inexplicable. ’Merchants are bnrt by the rise in gold and are canceling their orders for import. Why? Because they can get no more silver for the sto». !;s they have on hand than they could before gold rose. Consequently they are unable to import goods except at a profit. Meanwhile Mexican manufacturers are enjoying the greatest boom in their history, as the gold premium makes a most effective tariff wall. Ail the agricultural interests are prosperous, as they sell abroad for gold and pay their laborers in silver. “Strange to nay,” remarks the correspondent of The Herald, “the Mexican dollar buys as much goods as it ever did, save of the imported variety.” This is a statement the gold organs should digest. It must be true, for it appears in the columns of a most rantankerous gold organ. More than that, foreign Capital is pouring into the country to take advantage of the high premium on gold—this premium being in the nature of a bonus on every dollar of gold invested in Mexico. Another Result is that “rich Mexicans, accustomed to living much of their time abroad, are Ftaying at home investing their silver in building improvements. ” Real estate is rapidly increasing in price, and the demand for contractors is large. The Herald correspondent says the government is “hit hard, ” as it most pay the interest on its foreign debt in gold. But there are some blows that react, and this will be one of them. There is talk of repudiation, and in that case" the holders of the bonds will be hit, but the probaibiity is that President Diaz will refund the government debt and cut its interest charge in half by reducing the rate from 6 per cent to 3. Meanwhile the whole course and tenor of The Herald’s dispatch shows that those who have tears to shed for Mexico should reserve them for folks nearer homa—Atlanta Constitution.

REPUBLICAN DISHONESTY. Viator Chandler's DUeotery of Crookedness on the Part of His Fellows. Senator Chandler’s latest discovery of crookedness and chicanery on the part of his fellow Republicans touches the clause of the Dingley bill imposing arlO per cent extra duty on all foreign products coming through Canada into the United States. He contends that the legislation was passed by writing it as new matter in the conference report, where it was adopted by both houses of congress without being noticed by more than those persons “engaged in the scheme.” The senator also points out that the conference committee men went beyond their powers when they inserted so important an amendment into a clause of the law about only five words of which there was any disagreement between the house and senate. Speaker Reed the other day denounced the proceeding as a “scheme” and said that the clause had evidently “been slipped in. ” c Senator Chandler says that Senator Cannon in open senate asked whether it was intended to do anything bnt settle differences between the two houses and that Senator Allison very promptly and emphatically replied that of course no further effect was contemplated. “Having bad experience with conference reports which should have warned me to read every word of this report, 1 have no excuse to offer for not doing so, ” apologetically exclaims Senator Chandler. “I hope to be forgiven,” he pleads, * ‘but I shall never forgive myself.” & What a disgraceful state of affairs is here presented of legislative rottenness and Republican dishonesty! There can be no . doubt, from this corroborative testimony, that the Dingley bill was tampered with by the agents of rail roads whose interests are to be subserved by the law as it now stands. Either some member of the conference committees “slipped in” the objectionable clause or some clerk of the enrolling fence did it In either case the evidence is too complete to be denied that corrupt methods were employed in bringing about the result It now remains to be seen whether Republicans in authority will permit this stain to remain upon the party’s escutcheon—St Louis Republic.

BOUND TO THE PLUTOCRATS. • B«pnbU«n L^jfliilstion Is All In the Interest of Trusts. Senator Hauna was uotin public life when be wrote to Attorney General Watsou of Ohio in 1890 that “no man : in public office owes the public any- ; thing.” We do not say that if tk is false add diabolical utterance bad bem published ' at the time he would neve.* have been in public life. Its publication ought to ‘ destroy all chances of a p iblic career for the author. The public officer who | adheres to this doctriue is t traitor. But the interests to which this dcc- ; trine is agreeable are exceec ugly pow1 erful iu politics. When At oruey Gen : eral Watson was told that 1. i ought not to antagonize the Standarc Oil com- ; pany, because it was nearly as powerful as the United States, t was told ; the truth. Frequently it ha - proved iti self the stronger. It has coi ^rolled the | government and the courts. 1 The trusts have just pr* ved themi selves stronger In the present adminisj tration than the people. They con- ; trolled congress for their owt purposes j and dictated a tariff law which deiiv- : ered the people into their h aids to be plucked. The Standard Gil trust is stroug enough, it is said, wi h the administration to keep Mr. Wi cson, who refused to be drawn or bribe 1 into its service while in public of ice, from promised honors. It was not necessary that t his utterance, be published to show where the political fealty of Senator H luua was pledged. The Ohio senator has clearly illustrated his doctriue iu hi* political conduct. He bound his party to the plutocrats and it has industriously ! served its masters. Iu the first six ! mouths of its power it has done nothing for the people, but has sti* uuously endeavored to pay its obligations to the trusts aud syndicates'who filled its campaign coffers. But the .publication of the political motto of tne?plutocratic leader now in command cf the dominant party is an excellent thing. It shows the people the kind of polio s and the type of j politician now dominant. It exposes I the fatal heresy to be stamped out in j order to save this government for the j people and to restore it to the honest | and safe basis upon which it was placed i by the fathers.—St. Louis Post-Dis-patch. CONGRESS AND COINAGE. No Power Vested In Congress to Destroy Either Gold or Silver. “Gold and silver,” says the Buffalo Times, “are the money of the constitution—the logical money under which the nation grew into greatness.” Congress never was vested with the power to destroy either. Its powers are only j preservative until the constitution has ! been amenufd by tiie people, giving [ congress authority tb destroy one-half I of the people’s money. With the free aud unlimited coinage of gold aud silver which became incorporated as a part of our constitution, the money was governed by the law of supply aud demand and became automatic iu' its own regulation, for no produS cer would offer either metal for coinage ! when it was worth more as bullion, nor i retain it as bullion when worth more as ! money. Thus both metals regulated I themselves and each other and more ac- | curately than did the other products of i the country. These metals always adjusted themselves automatically as money to the public necessities. There is no suggestion even in tp& constitution or its amendments of toe delegation of a power to destroy any kind of money the states had delegated to congress the coining of, nor any destructive power whatever over any fundamental principle of government If congress had the power to destroy either silver or gold, or both, as money, all would become a prey to destruction and chaos would reigu. Our country’s great wars since the Revolution were fought, and its debts paid, based upon silver and gold, and the greatness of the people produced only because of this. Now, however, in the people’s fight against usury and monopoly it must do so with a crippled money, the sound portion of it in,the hands ol their enemies.—Kansas City Times.

TRUSTS AND MONOPOLIES. Ex-Coifrnor Flower, Being • Jieneflciary, Finds Them Good. Ex-Governor Flower has the intrepidity of his interests, which is the modern millionaire politician's substitute i for the courage of one’s convictions. Having a Wall street operator’s interest in trusts and monopolies, the ex-gover-nor naturally finds much good in them. > Mr. Flower is right in saying that corporations are a natural and necessary outgrowth of our business conditions. In their legitimate field they are highly useful and economical organiza tions. But Mr. Flower is astoundingly wrong when he makes this “law ol progress’* cover the system and the operations of the Standard Oil trust, the Sugar trust and similar conspiracies ol greed. Mr. Flower can hardly be ignorant of the fact that both these trusts have remorselessly crushed competition, that they have corrupted legislation in their own interest, that they have nultified law by the power of their money, that they have subsidized political parlies to “protect their interests. ” It is not a sufficient answer to this tc say that oil and sugar have bewi reduced iu price. The colossal fortunes oi the sugar and oil kings are ampli prooi that the price has not been reduoed parallel with the reduction in the ooat The by products of oil refining pay more than the cost of the process. . Monopoly ia robbery, moderated only by “what the market will bear” oi what the law allows. Mr. Flower aays, “Let ua not sit mi the coattail of progress and hollei 'Whoa!*** No, but neither let ua lie down under the monopoly juggernaut and lay that a little crashing is good for ua—New York World.

Torimeniing ‘I eaffere 1 for years Kith totter. On arising my hands were stiff am! my fingers crotm d. They wonld creek allover and the blood would run from them-TKe' doctor ordered me to give up work. Then a frit ad said, ‘Try AYER’S SARSAPARILLA* I took in all eight bottles, which completely healed me.” Mrs W. SLOAN, Roversford, Px Tetter, The Burlington’s New ! Observation Vestibnied Trains. The most complete daily t rains im-the West, for all el asses at travel, are ynst out of the Burlington's shop*- These are trains Nos. li ami hi. between St. Louis and Kansas City, st. Joseph. Colo -ado and Montana These art vestibuied throughout with tlit ' handsome wide observation Pintech-lighted vestibules. I he chair cars have oak and mahogany finish. Pintseh light and courteous free porters' service. The latest productions of compart* tnent sleepers, bptweeu st. Louis and Kuusat City, offer the exeiusiveness of drawing rimnis without any additional berth eharkes.: These are the only wid r vestibuied trains from St Lon Is to Kansas City and Denver. These art also the trains ftom st. Louis. St-. Joseph nn<1 Kansas City for all travel via the Burlington’* short‘Northwegt M r in Line, to. Montana WnsiiingtoH, Tacoui Seattle, etc. WOK ABU ELLIOTT, General Mauagtr, L. W. WAKBLEY, Gen. Passenger Agent. St. Joseph. Mo. St. Louis, Mo. t. M. RUGG, TRav. PASSR AGENT. ST. LOUIS, MO, HOWARD ELLIOTT, GEN'L MCR., ST. LOUIS. MO V '.V. VUAKELEY, GEN'L PASS'R AGT..ST. LOUIS, MQ Sf. Louis of Chicago. ViSTiEOLED TRAMS, SLEEPERS, D!H!Nii CARS, CHAIR CARS (WE?),

L i The* nndersigr.e j point i i>il'i «' hoi) • door aimvi- i tie Mi as- Stocks millinery store, Street, and examine h!a stock of Coffees. Teas, Spices, Extracts an4 Baking Powder. We1 offer you free with each poor*! a beant iArt premium. Onr stock of C offee consists of Kins. Samos,Guatemala. Mexicans; Jav*s and Mocha. Empress Blenu Teas,. Mixed Teas. Klack Tens, t folonp English Breakfast. Veylous. .open Tens. Japans, Gunpowder. Imperial. Young Hvson. Old Hyson, Tea Oust, Black Japan.-Green Tea Dust. Call Slid see me. L. R. HARGRAVE. A Superior Through Sleeping Car Line Between St.Louis ami Jacksohrille. Commencing December Aith. the Louisville Air Line has established the great Through Sleeping car route to Florida. Through sleeping cars arranged to leave St-. Louis 9:15 p. in. daily, missing Louisville 7:00 a. m. Lexington 10:55-a. m.. reaching Chattanooga. 5:55 p. m,, Atlanta If :10 p. m. and Jacksonville t*:40 a. m.—second morning. Stop-overs allowed. This route Is through large amf interesting Country, ami while a new Uinhugh sleeping ear route, is over most superior and well established line.- of railway T^e schedules are fast and mo-t convenient. /•This line also affords passengers Tor Florida -trip via Asheville. N. C., tlie greatest American all-year-round resort. Correspondence solicited and information promptly furnished. R. A. O V M P | Gcipfral Passenger Agent. St. Louis, i This is also the iiest. line to points in I tuoK\,-Tennessee, Georgia ami North i South Carolina.

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