Plymouth Tribune, Volume 1, Number 14, Plymouth, Marshall County, 9 January 1902 — Page 2

Established October 10. 1901.

HENDRICKS & CO., Publishers. R. B. OGLiESBEE, EdltOP. OFFICE in Bissell Block. Corner Center n4 Laporte Street. iVrüTISIN(j HATES will be made known on application. Entered the TuMoffice at Pljmouth. Ind., as secord class matter. SUBSCRIPTION: pre Year in Advanced. s o Six iMonths 75 cents; Three Months 40 cents.de livered at any postoffice. Plymouth, Ind., January 9, 1902. It was Bryan who preached free silver and declared that no other policy could increase the per capita circulation. That circulation is now 85.59 greater than it was a year ago, when it was higher than ever before. Can anybody recall a single Important statement of Bryan's that has not been flatly contradicted by cold facts? Babcockism. which deludes a few republicans and delights all democrats, is as far from true republicanism as would be the doctrine that the present tariff is complete, perfect and unalterable, which nobody believes. The tariff is a flexible instrument, intended to be adjusted to changing conditions as the flood of business rolls on. Republicans believe in looking after American industry in making such alterations, and therein they differ with the democrats. The robust healthfulness of Unclfe Sam's financial system is gloriously refreshing when compared with the situation which compelled Cleveland to fore 3 the sale of government bonds to foreign purchasers at a high interest rate for the purpose of paying the government's current expenses. This is worth reflecting upon. It may also be profitably remembered that Indiana is rapidly reducing the state debt instead of increasing it. Republican management never hurts a public treasury. The bill to provide revenue for the Philippine islands, which tha democrats in congress are preparing to oppose, was framed as an emergency measure to maintain present conditions there until a law for the permanent government of the islands can be enacted. The democrats will oppose the temporary measure without offering any substitute for it, and when the permanent government bill is reported they will oppose that. Democratic statesmanship consists in opposing all constructive and progressive measures without offering anything in lieu of them. There appears to be some misapprehension concerning the attitude Ql this government toward the VenezulaGermany imbroglio; we frequently read that this country has consented that Germany may send warships into Venezuelan waters to enforce the collection of a debt. Nothing could te further from the truth. Such consent has not been given or asked. The affair is one between two foreign countries and is none of our business any more than any other international dispute not concerning us would be. Germanv mav enforce her claim but must stay clear of the Monroe doctrine. The Logansport Journal appears with some changes and improvements under the management of C. C. and T. W. Torr, who have purchased the interest of their former partners, n. T. and F. C. Tomlinson. It announces that its "effort will be to give, in addition to the best newspaper in the city and county, a republican paper that can always be relied on to work earnestly and constantly for the triumph of the principles of the J party hat has always been and is recognized and demonstrated tobe the party of Peace, Prosperity and Progress." This is a good and a significant promise to come from gentlemen who were born and raised as democrats. A. S. Roberts will continue as editor ' Those democrats who think a personal grievance is a sufficient basis for a national campaign have curiously mistaken the political temperament of the American people. Who knows what Schley thinks on any question of a political character now of vital interest to the public? What is his position on the revenue, or reciprocity, or tariff reform? What are his ideas about the money standard, or the banking system, or expansion, or colonial policies? How does he stand on the commercial treaties, the isthmian canal, or the proposed ship subsidy? No one, probably not even himself, can answer any of these queries, and yet there are democrats wno have a notion that the people may be willing to lay aside all consideration of national and international questions and vote for the brave seaman merely because of his grievance. The real truth If that such a grievance, fostered for campaign purposes, would be sufficient in itself to defeat any candidate for

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At a reunion of the fourth district democracv held at Columbus Thürsa day night Senator Joseph II. Shea sprung a tremendous surprise on the banqueters in his response to a toast. He denounced in strong terms t'ae foreign policy announced by Bryan in the last campaign and the boldness of it made his hearers gasp, especially in view of the fact that Senator Shea is a candidate for congress. Referring to the fact that Bryan himself hastened to "Washington to urge the ratification of the treaty jf Paris, by virtue of which the Philippine islands came to us, and then in his campaign speeches denounced that very treaty, the speaker said that it not only weakened the party in that campaign but has handicapped it from that day until the present hour. "In the last issue of the Commoner, " said Mr. Shea, "Mr. Bryan indorses the epigrammatic expression, 'The Philippines were acquired in folly and should be disposed of in wisdom.' If it was roily to acquire them, it was folly to ratify the treaty which brought them to us." After a moment's silence Senator Shea's bold utterance was applauded to the echo and he was complimented liberally for his nerve in saying what they all knew to be true.

HEARD AT THE LOVE FEAST. Among the commendable sentiments expressed by the prominent speakers at the republican love feast at Indianapolis none is more excellent than the following uttered by Senator Beveridge: Organization is invaluable, even in its narrow sense, but ideas and ideals alone make organization vital. Principles are the life blood without which the organization, however perfect, is lifeless. The people care nothing for the spoils of oflije. The people despise the feuds of faction. But the people care everything for the prosperity of the country; the people care everything for the hODor of the nation; the. people care everything for the power and glory of the republic over all the earth and on all the seas. Honesty of purpose is properly the first great consideration of a political party, and organization to make that purpose effective ranks next, (rue republican party has a glorious past; whether or not it is to have a glorious future depends more upon honest policy and thorough organization than upon anything else. The selection of committeemen and delegates in precinct, county and district is now a matter of paramount importance and no republican having faith in his party can afford to neglect the duty of participating in that work. FULTON'S CANDIDATE. Speaking of the candidacy of Rr- C. Stephenson for republican " district chairman the Rochester Republican says truthfully and pertinently: "The republicans of Fulton county are very anxi ms to have some recognition and representation in this congressional district and the republican takes great pleasure in presenting Mr. Stephenson as being "a stalwart iollower ofThe immortal" Lincoln and every way capable and worthy of the position he has expressed a willingness to accept. Mr. Stephenson of the firmof nölman & Stephenson, "attorneys at law, is one of the wellknown citizens of Rochester and Fulton county, and because of his business relations his acquaintance extends throughout Indiana and somewhat of the adjoining states. Socially his presence is everywhere accept able, politically he has at all times stood in the front rank of republican party work, and possessing the greatest integrity, energy and sagacity, in addition to his financial ability, he is eminently qualified to do justice and honor to the chairmanship and to the party. "Notwithstanding Fulton county is the south county of the district, and heretofore disposed to be democratic, our working republicans are impressed with the conclusion that we deserve some recognition worthy of our services, and with the proper en couragement we have the assurance at the coming state and county elec tion Fulton county will be pwmanent iy placed in the republican column. And with these hopes and assurances and aspirations we solicit a full con sideration of our claims and the wil liner vote of every delegate to the O w convention," MUST WE. TOO, HAVE A PANAMA? The new converts of the transcon tinental railway lobby, which is trying to kill every project for an isthmian canal, urge three points in favor of the purchase of the Panama canal: 1. The Panama canal is shorter than the Nicaragua canal, and there fore will be of greater advantage to American commerce. 2. The Panama canal is at nea t level, and therefore will be more ad vantageous than any other isthmian canal with locks and dams. 3. If the Panama Canal company will sell its property and rights on the isthmus for $40,000,000, a ship cana under American control may be buil on that route more satisfactorily than on the Nicaragua route. To which the evident replies are: 1. . While the Panama canal would be shorter than the Nicaragua canal the Panama route for shippers would

be longer. The Nicaragua route be-

ween New York and San Francisco or between .New Orleans ana ban t rancisco or uetween -ew uneans and Manila is two davs shorter than he Panama route. 2. The statement that the Pana ma canal is partially constructed at the sea level is false. The canal was planned and advertised as a sea-level canal, but in 18S7 it changed to a ock canal, and the dams contemplated by the engineers are more difficult of construction than any on the Nicara gua canal. 3. If the Panama Canal company would sell its property and rights on the isthmus for 1,000, to say nothing of $40,000,000, it would not be pos sible for the United State to construct on that route an American canal under American control. If the United States should purchase all the rights and property or the Panama Canal company, our engineers would still have eight yeais' work be fore them, providing they could solve several problems now regarued as unsolvable, and meantime would not have a single concession giving this country control of the canal. However, the convincing argument against the Panama project just now is that it is advocated most furiously by the transcontinental railway lobby. This lobby is against any canal. Therefore, when it advocates the Panama canal it gives the strongest proof that it knows the Panama canal is not possible. Yet this lobby finds newspapers to fool the people for it congressmen to shout buncombe for it. Shame on such perfidy! Must America, too, have its Panama scandal? Chicago Inter Ocean. THE SCIENCE OF WEEDS Theodore Dreiser, in Alnslt-e's Magazine. Vast sums of money and an army of men are being employed by the gov ernment to locate, understand and put to their proper uses the weeds of he country. From every town and hamlet and country wayside this great government gathers reports concern ing these vegetable outlaws. The im pudent d(ck that surreptitiously slips his seed on the coat of a passerby in Nebraska is recorded in the annals of ;he agricultural department, and the ine of the dock's progress is marked on the maps which show the areas of distribution in the United States. It is now known what and where the weeds are, and a constant surveillance is kept over them. Those that threat en to become pests are headed off by all the forces of government. It is a act that an order to kill some lone specimen of a perniciousCanada thistle has been sent by telegraph from Washngton. There is, however, little need of en couraging the destruction of weeds. The thing important now is to utilize these that have been found indispen sable. There are weeds that are soil renewers, weeds that are food for man and beast and weeds without which thousands of acres of our most fertile mds would be wastes today. These weeds the government is endeavoring to preserve. It is surprising in the light of these discoveries to consider man's attitude toward weeds in gen eral. That he should have sworn at them, sought measures of extermination, plowed them toilsomely under year after year and yet himself re mained really handicapped in the battle for substance because he lacked the aid which one or more of these would have readily given him seems incongruous. One kind if properly used would have supplied deficient soil with potash, another would have j brought it the needed lime, a third the nitrogen or phosphorous, taking it out of the atmosphere and aepositing it where his crops of cereals and vegetables would readily draw upon it and wax strong. In one he could have found a better food for his cattle than he ever had before, in another a hardy worker capable of thriving with scarcely any rain and yet making re turns in food or fertilizer far beyond the petty achievements of the most pampered and cultivated of domestic plants. The outlaws of husbandry have for ages held the secret of bind ing the sands of the sea so as to fix the shore, of digging deeper than any plow and searching for the minerals which,make deficient land arable, and of drawing upon the atmosphere and taking from it the valuable chemicals which no farmer is rich enough to buy In sufficient quantities to make his poor holding profitable. These bandits of the garden have turned out for the most part to be saviors and man's best friends, and so clearly have their distinguished, merits become that scientists are even apologizing for the need of calling any of the remaining, and as yet little understood vegeta tion, weeds. So we have all unused plants now divided into poisonous and nonpoisonous, with the reservation that all may be and probably are extremely useful. If poisonous, the new attitude is to find out wby. Where the Doison comes from out of the air or the earth. How is it dis tilled? What is its nature? Wheth er it is a known or unknown poison What its effect may be cn one and every other object, particularly upon life and growth. These and others are the questions scientists seek to answer by investigating tne weeds.

AMERICAN RECIPROCITY

BRIEF REVIEW OF THE SEVERAL STflG&S THROUGH WHICH THE POLICY HAS PASSED SINCE JEFFERSON PROPOSED THE "FRIENDLY ARRANGEMEN T 99

PART In 1881 our government issued invitations to the American republics south of us to appoint delegates to a conference to be held in Washington in 1882, "for the purpose of considering and discussing methods of preventing war between the nations of America." The question of trade relations was not mentioned. In fact, the invitation stated: "The President desires that the attention of tha congress shall be strictly confined to this one great object," of devising a plan to preserve peace on the American continents. Soon after these invitations had been issued Mr. Blaine retired as secretary of state m and his successor Mr. Frehnghuysen recalled the invitations, on account of the state of war which then existed in Chile, Bolivia and Peru. President Arthur, however, maintained his interest in the questiop, and after the termination of the war mentioned he introduced into the original plan the commercial feature which made the question of reciprocity one of the most important subjects discussed at the conference. The delegates finally met at Washington in October 1889, and among other recommendations to their governments they advised "the negotiation ..f reciprocity treaties foi the free interchange of the products of the American nations, so far as is consistent with the raising of revenue for the support of their governments. " This recommendation was followed out by the United States in the McKinley tariff law, which provided the legislative machinery for the reciprocity treaties of 1891 and 1892 with Cuba and Central and South American countries. The most pressing need for reciprocity in 1890 was to give the farmers relief from the over production cf agricultural products, which depressed prices and made agriculture unprofitable. The building of railways through the west and the settlement of the prairies had progressed so rapidly between 1870 and 1890 that consumption had not kept pace with the supply of agricultural products. The ! result was a long depression in prices, which extended over a period beginning in the eighties and continuing almost to the close of the century. In iRTntiio miiiAnf fipiri nrrdnrte nor

acre, as shown by the census returns, "L1??""? tv thatt fited n0i ia ,A c i i except the sugar trust, which at averaged $12.96. So general and J that very hour th attorne'y general severe had been the decline in prices , of the United States was prosecuting

in twenty years that in 1890 the census returns show an average value of only $6.88 per acre. President Harrison seems to have fully recognized the acuteness of this depression in agriculture when he stated to congress in his annual mes-i sage in 1900: From the time of my induction into office the duty of using eviry power and influence given by law to the executive department for the development of larger markets for our products has been kept constantly in mind and no effort has been or will be spared to promote that end The reciprocity clause of the tariff act wisely and effectively opens the way to secure a large reciprocal trade in exchange for the free admission to our ports of certain products. Under the reciprocity clause in the McKinley law, Secretary Blaine directed the negotiation of the follow ing reciprocity treaties: with Spain covering Cuba and Porto Rico, taking effect September 1, 1891; with Brazil April 1, 1891; with Germany February 1, 1892; with San Salvador, February 1, 1892; with Nicaragua, March 12, 1892; with British Guiana, April 1, 1892; with Honduras, May 25, 1892; with Austria- Hungary, May 26, 1892; with Guatamala May 30, 1892. All of these treaties continued in force until the Wilson tariff law went into effect, August 27, 1894. In these treaties our agricultural products were especially favored. The McKinley law provided for the free admission of sugar, coffee and other tropical products from such countries as would join with us in a treaty in which they would give the like free admission to our flour, provisions and other food products. Other articles like our manufactured goods were either admitted free or at a reduced rate of duties, but in nearly all cases provision was made for placing our agricultural and ..food products on the free list of the other party to the treaty. These treaties resulted in a considerable enlargement of our markets in the countries to the south of us. The results are fairly shown in the statistics of our exports to Cuba before arid during the term of this treaty and after its expiration.- It was noticed that In many items our exports' doubled during the two or three years the treaty was in force, but fell off again when it was abro gated. In his fourth annual mcscage, in

U i TWO 1892, Tressdent Harrison reviewed the favorable results attained by the reciprocity treaties negotiated under the tariff of 1890 as follows: Under these trade arrangements a free or favored admission has been secured in every case for an important list of American products. Especial care has been taken to secure markets for farm products in order to relieve that great underlying industry of the depression which the lack of an adequate foreign market for our surplus often brings. An opening has also been made for manufactured products that will undoubtedly, if this policy is maintained, greatly augment our export trade. The abrogation of the reciprocity treaties of 1891 and 1892, when the Wilson tariff law was passed in 1894, was one c! the most serious blunders ever committed in American diplomacy. We not only sacrificed the trade that had been built up by these treaties, but we gave serious offense to the nations interested. Quoting the Hopkins report (Report of Committee on Ways and ' Means concerning Reciprocity and Commercial Treaties, 1896): Such an offense as was committed by the passage of the tariff act of 1894, if committed by any individual or a corporation, would be" followed by a suit for damages, but when committed by one nation against another, the usual recourse is a declaration of war or commercial retaliation. The government of Germany adopted the latter part of the alternative, and proceeded to. inaugurate a commercial warfare against the United States which has demoralized our commerce with that country and been a serious blow to the export trade. Nor is it confined to the German empire. Sympathetic retaliation has followed from Austr.a, Belgium, Holland and Denmark, until now our agricultural products are practically shut out of the markets of northern Europe, and the result is felt by every man wno raises a bushel of wheat or corn, or who sends a hog or steer to the stock yards. Our commercial relations with Germany were perfectly satisfactory, and profitable to the people of the United States until the filtr-third congress arbitrarilv revoked the reciprocity arrangement which ex changed our agricultural products for ner beet-root sugar. This action was taken in violation of the usages of international etiquette, and imposed upon the largest and most important article of export from Germany a dis in the courts of Philadelphia as a menace to the welfare of our people. Our reciprocity treaty with Austria provided for the admission of our meats and other products on the most favorable terms granted by her to any nation, in return for placing her sugar on our free list the same as the sugar that we imported from other countries with whom we had treaties under that law. The Austrian minister at Washington filed a protest similar to that of the German government against the countervailing duty on sugar which was provided for in the tariff of 1894, in which he particularly set forth that this countervailing duty was in violation of a commercial treaty between Austria and the United States, which had been in force since 1842, and which provided, that goods imported, into the United States from Austria-Hungary should be subjected to no discrimination In respect to duty. The minister from Guatemala also protested repeatedly, and pointed out that large investments had been made in plantations in his country by people who relied on the good faith of the UnitedStates in respecting its treaties. Brazil, Nicaragua, Porto Rico and Santo Domingo also entered protests and expressed their regrets at the termination of arrangements which had been highly satisfactory to them, and as they supposed, profitable to the United States. Thesesmaller nations, of course, could not be expected to follow the example of Germany in retaliating against our commerce, but it must be a matter of serious regret to all Americans who have studied this question that the United States should show bad faith towards the countries to the south of us, which are not big enough to resent ill-treatment. A Good Recommendation. . j "1 have noticed that theealeonCnamberlain'a Stomach & Liver Tablets ta almost invarably to those who have ODce used them." says Mr. J. H. Weber, a prominent druggist of Cascade, Jowa, What better recomendatiou could any medicine have than for people to call for it when aeain in teed of such a remedy? Trj them when you feel dull after eating, when you have a bad taste in your mouth, feel bilioue, have no appetite or when troubled with constipatk o, and you are certain to be delighted with the prompt relief which they afford. For sale by J. W, Hesa, "Druggist.

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STORY OF A BRAVE BOY A Young American Hero in the tant Philippine?. DisLast Sunday the Journal's Washington dispatches told of the complimentary letter written by Secretary Long, of the navy, to the secretary of theVar, commendatory of the zeal and perseverance of Capt. G. A. Detchemendy, Lieut. Parker Ilitt and the men under their command in prosecuting a search for the remains of D. G. A. Venville, a naval apprentice who was murdered by Filipinos at Baler, P-1., when Lieutenant Gilmore and his party were captured. The pathetic story of young A'enville's bravery in the right just previous to his capture is related in a recent issue of the Youth's Companion by a writer who was evidently unaware that the body had been recovered. The article says: At Sei wood, near Portland, Ore., there was recently unveiled a monument to Arthur Venille, a lad who lies in an unknown 'grave in the Philippine islands. 'Venville was born in England, but was brought to this country at the age of ten months. When he was only seven years old his father died, charging the child with his last breath, almost, "to take care of the mother and sisters." The little fellow, promised.. lie was a quiet boy of studious habits. He liked to go to school and he wanted to go to college, but he. had to take a place in a shop to help support the family. In. 1897 his health began to fail and he enlisted as an apprentice in the navy, still giving his peo'ple wages. The other fellows called him a "girl sailor," he told his mother when he cama home on a furlough a year later. Venville was on the gunboat Yorktown in 1899. She went to the Philippines and in April she sent to Baler Bay to rescue some Spanish prisoners. The young apprentice was one of the party of seventeen which, under command of Lieutenant Gilmore, was sent ashore to reconnoiter. As the qrowded launch approached the silent shore there suddenly burst upon it a storm of bullets. Several men were killed, others were desperately wounded, and all were drenched with the blood of their comrades. Lieutenant Gilmore has srnce told in McClure 's Magazine of the behavior of Venville, the eighteen-year-old apprentice, who had never before been under lire. "Having no other weapon than a revolver, useless at the range," wrote the officer, "I reached for the rifle dropped by one of the dead. It had been hit in the lock and the clip was

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