Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1899 — Adders in England. [ARTICLE]

Adders in England.

Although adders are comparatively rare in most parts of England, there are people, hardly past middle ago, who remember when they were so common on the south side of Clapman a xSraing to'dS

no Tariff tinkering. Representative Payne, of New York, chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means, is certain that the present Congress will do no tariff tinkering. “The Fifty-sixth Congress has important work on its hands,” said he in a recent interview. “There will be no tariff legislation during the present session. The condition of the country is to-day thoroughly prosperous and will continue so unless ill-advised and radical legislation affecting the business and financial interests of the nation is enacted during the next few years. “The country demands and should have a settled and assured policy In respect to those questions. The Dingley law as a revenue producer haß more than satisfied those responsible for its enactment, and has proved gratifying to the people of the country generally. “It has furnished ample revenue to carry on the Government from the moment the sugar and wool schedules began to operate. lam convinced that the happy results It has produced wiU be permanent.” Representative Payne Is right. The Dingley law has proved so satisfactory and in all ways beneficial to the country that the people have no desire to interrupt Its operations for some time to come. Protection and the Gold Reserve. The Treasury statement for Oct. 13 shows that the gold reserve in thetreasury stands a,t $257,746,906. The Democratic “endless chain” seems powerless to draw the gold out of the treasury during a Republican administration. When we had free trade, or tariff reform, the Democratic administration sold over $262,uu0,„00 in inter-est-bearing bonds to obtain gold with which to maintain the gold reserve and to pay current expenses of the Government. There has been no drain on the gold in the treasury since the Republicans were placed in charge of it, because the people have full confidence in the financial ability of the Republican party. If the Democratic party was placed in power to-morrow our unparalleled prosperity would vanish, our gold reserve would melt away like snow in August, and before six mouths had passed the “endless chain” would be doing business at the old stand, bonds would be sold to pay expenses and maintain the gold reserve, business would he paralyzed, and before a year had passed the country would be swept by a panic, and labor would be thrown out of employment.—Benton (Ill.) Republican.

Everywhere Recognized. A San Francisco merchant who has just Yetumed from a business tour of Eastern manufacturing centers reports that manufacturers are so overcrowded that they have been forced to stop taking orders. Their works are running to their full capacity, wages of employes are being advanced, and there are no unemployed spinners and weavers to be had at any price. This era of prosperity is recognized everywhere as the direct result of the domestic and foreign policy of the McKinley administration.—San Francisco Chronicle. At Both End*. The American farmer appears to be catching prosperity at both ends of the trap this year. The war in the Philippines, by cutting off the supply of hemp, has greatly enhanced the value of flax. It is estimated that North Dakota farmers alone will get more than $10,000,000 for their fix crop, which will enable them to hold their wheat crop for better price*.—Seattle (Wash.) Po*t-Intelll-gencer. ' • /.'.-yt Oh, the Badnea* of Prosperity! Everything seems to be lost for the time being in the whirl of money-mak-ing—the pursuit of money.—John R. McLean, In Cincinnati Enquirer. This is the pathetic way in which the candidate defeated on a platform of calamity and discontent describes general prosperity. The situation, as Mr. McLean describes it, may seem sordid, but It is all right—New York Sun. Another Orphan Child. Another trust has Just made its appearance in free trade Great Britain. The London Economist announce* the formation of the United Indigo and Chemical .. m

sponsible for this British trust, or that the absence of a protective tariff constitutes any serious bar to the formation of trusts. A Financial Contrast. Under Cleveland and free trade we had peace and no extraordinary expenses of any kind, and the govern, ment was obliged to issue bonds in order to keep good the national credit and to get gold for our depleted and well-nigh empty treasury. Under McKinley and protection we are conducting a costly war, yet, to relieve stringency in the money market, the Secretary of the Treasury has offered to take from an overflowing treasury $25,000,000, and put it into general circulation by buying bonds to that amount The contrasting circumstances outline in vivid colors the difference there is, in respect to the condition of our national finances, between free trade and protection. Knows His Business. No Secretary of War before Secretary Root has shown a more masterful grasp of the army’s conditions and greatest needs, or has proposed changes which, If adopted, wtll open for it so successful a future.—New York Sun. No Longer Idle. The iron mills In the vicinity of Cleveland have enough orders on hand now; to keep them busy all of next year. Before McKinley was elected many of ’them were lying idle or working only half time.—Cleveland Leader. A Change Would Suit Him. The times are unusually prosperous. “Let’s vote for a change,” says Mr. Bryan.—Burlington Hawkeye.