Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1890 — Gratifying to All. [ARTICLE]

Gratifying to All.

A Minnesota paper has been calculating what dividends the English syndicate who have bought out the Minneapolis flour mills, will draw from their productions per day. Leaving aside all speculative estimates, the figures of the actual total capacity of the eight mills which have passed under British control are 38,575 barrels of flour per day. This means the control of the food of millions and peace in America, no matter how the Anarchists of Europe may make a war. It is said the pension agents will “work” the census for all there is in it. A great deal of information will be got about the surviving Union soldiers, and, it is claimed, will put the pension agent on the track of many who might be induced to apply for tile benefits of the disability bill, or the age section of the Morril bill, or the special cases In which existing chronic disease might be urged as a result of service. There would certainly be “millions in It” if the agents could get names or 'addresses. But there’s the rub. In 1870 the Canadian government negotiated with the United States government for a reciprocity treaty on the basis of the cession for a term of years of the Canadian coast fisheries' to the Americans, the freo uae.of their canals, the free navigation of the St. Lawrence. the assimilation of customs and excise duties, etc. The question is being revived now that every one of the Canadian Provincial Governments that indorsed a resolution in favor of unrestricted reciprocity wilhtheUnited States have recently been sustained by the people. The Canadians think that reciprocity is a winning policy. Senator Stanford’s utopian scheme to lend money to farmers at 2 per cant might be widened a bit. He only wants the government to take as security unincumbered land. Wouldn’t it be a better idea to adopt the French Mont de Piete idea—lend money to anybody on an article of value, but limit the annual interest to a reasonable figure? A lot of national pawnshops on a largo scale would boa great and good thing for the impecunious. Tho gilt balls of Venice need not swing above the doors, and the attendants need not be of the ten tribes. Mortification aud humiliation would be reduced to minimum witli the goverment as one’s creditor, and industry would be stimulated by the knowledge that a 2-per-ocnt interest doesn’t necessarily forfeit the article “put up” as collateral. Congress proposes, says the New York World, to treat the results of the deliberations of tho Pan-American Congress with scant courtesy. It invited the American republics to send delegates to Washington. It appropriated $75,000 for the expenses of Congress. It authorized tho Socrtrtary of State to treat with these powers. JThe invitation was accepted Delegates came to Washington from seventeen republics. They deliberated seriously and industriously for several months, and embodied their conclusions on the important questions considered in elaborate reports. The representatives of Mexico and the Central and South American republico thought they were rcaiTv transacting international business, but the Ccxof the government which invited them hits apparently thrown their recommendations into a waatepaper basket without even doing them thb honor tb read them. If the work of municipal annex-' ation and absorption in this eoufitry wero as 'easy as it is in England, France or Germany, the United States would now have the second city in. the world in population. New York by the census just taken has over 1,600,000 inhabitants. Brooklyn lias 1,000,000 more, while the other towns ad- ■ 1 -I.— ' * joining the metropolis, including those in Kings, Queens, Richmond and lower Westchester counties, and the cities west of the Hudson and near New •York Bay, have almost another 1,000,000. The big collection of cities and villages in the Bri’ish metropolitan district called London have a little more than 4,000,000 Inhabitants, while rthe American metropolitan district, which is as compact, homogenous and as allied in interests And pi ratio us .as that on the other Bide of tae ;\t- - ilantic, has a population aggregatin'ft,600, 000.

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