The Greencastle Democrat, Greencastle, Putnam County, 19 October 1895 — Page 3

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THE DEMOCRAT.

9REFN CASTLE, , INDIANA

TWO IN Tin: DESERT.

RAGGING itself westward acroaa the • Ireary plains of Utah, the overland train, from a vantape point in the sky, looked like a small h o rs e-hair snake erawlinpover the earth’s surface. The earth—almost the air — was white with the heat of the summer sun. All was vastness, immensity, silence, loneliness; above, the flawless blue; below, those seemingly illimitable plains of reddish yellow, streaked with alkali white, that swam back and forth before the eyes in parallel lines until far off they melted into a long, low stretch of shivering 1 light, the mocking water mirage at the base of the mountain range hundreds of miles away. Encompassed within that horizon there was no thing df life except within that desultory moving train. Stocked in the emigrant or third-class car of the train was a crowd of tired, miserable and dirty people. They looked out listlessly at the passing landscape, or stupidly at each other, or twisted themselves into all sorts of uncomfortable positions on the hard wooden seats in vain efforts to secure a little sleep. I'erhaps the most unprepossessing of them ail was a darkfeatured, roughly-dressed man. beside him was a very little girl in a blue dress. His lowering, repellant face had a scowl upon it which suggested the convict or the desperado, but he was neither. The scowl and the unconscious sneer about his ugly mouth were born simply of a long and thoroughly fruitless struggle with misfortune. Although pretty, it was easily to be sei u that the little girl was his child. She was a momentous factor in a mighty problem to the man whose arm was about her and whose knit brows and troubled face showed how hard it was he studied it. A crazy letter had come to him across the continent, and he had left the tenements of New York to try and reach the golden land of California, lie had started with hardly sufficient money to take himself and child more than half the distance, but he had a confused sort of an idea that he would in some way reach his destination. better it was, at ail events, than to remain in the noisome Hester street den. where, without work, or the prospect of any, his little sum of money would soon be gone. The station to which his scanty purse had enabled him to buy a ticket for himself and child had been passed hours before, and he was wondering how soon the conductor of the train would discover the shameless imposition lie was practicing upon the railway company lie had not much longer to wait, for presently the autocrat of the train, in a hurried passage through the car, stopped suddenly before him and glanced at the check in his hat. ‘•Hello! Where are you going?” Tile man looked up in what was intended as a humble, respectful and piteous appeal, but his lip curled up over his teeth, like that of a harried dog. lie could not help it. His voice was mild enough, though, as he said: “I am going to California, sir, with my little girl.” The man’s looks seemed to irritate the not-too-even temper of the railway officer; “You are, eh? Well, where’s your ticket for the rest of the way?" “If 3’ou would please let me go through the train with 1113' little girl,”

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“IIKLLO! WUKRE AliK YOU GOI.NO?"

replied the unfortunate one. fnlteringly, “I think I could raise the mone3’.” “Go through the train? Not much. Third-class passengers sta3 - in this ear. You get off at the next station,” saiil the conductor, in a voice of fierce warning, as he passed on. In about an hour the conductor came into tile car again and gave the bellrope a vicious pull. The engine responded with two short whistles, and gradually the train slackened its speed and stopped. “Come, now, you get off hero,” said the conductor, roughly; “we’re behind time alread3’, and you want to hurry up about it.” Again the man’s lip curled in an ugb,' wa v, but he made no answer, except to gather up the few paper bundles of bread and meat on the seat before him. Then, taking his child in his arms, he followed the conductor to the platform and stepped off the train, before it was under way again, however, a humane brakeman on the lust step called out to him: “Nay, partner, ther ain’t nothin’ here. This is only a flag station. The eastbound’ll be along in a few hours, tstop her and board her. The conductor on that train'll let you on. It’s a

d—d shame to put that kid off in such a place!” In truth little about the place indicated a railway station. There was a little closed sentry-box-looking affair beside the track, and fifty 3-ards behind it the remains of an old dug-out. Not even a trail showed where it was that an3 - human being had visited the spot. And round was the dreary waste of billowy plains and the burning sun overhead. In the rear of the sentry box its projecting roof had cast a little shade, and here the man sat down upon the ground with his child still in his arms. Strange things, for him, came to his e3’es—tears. The little one looked up at him in a puzzled way, and he hastily brushed his hand across his face and left a broad smudge of railway soot upon ins cheek. She dapped her hands and laughed with giee at his funny face. Then thirst came to them—that awful, torturing, unreasoning thirst which tiie desert alone can give. The child cried for water, and the father left her in the scant3 T shade and stepped out into the glaring sun. Neither in the sky nor in the parched ground was there a drop of moisture, and he knew it. He returned and tried to comfort her, and then lie sat down again, buried his face in his hands and tried to think. The evening was coming on when he rose to his feet with a new resolve. Away far off in the west a thin, almost imperceptible streak of smoke told him that the east-bound train was approaching. Near the track he found a dirty shred of a flag hanging to a stick, and lie placed it in the socket of Hie upright post st&uding in frout of

UK roI.NTED TO THE SMOKE.

the house. Nervously his fingers fumbled in his pockets until lie produced the stump of a lead pencil. I’icking up a piece of nasteboard, he wrote upon it in great, rough letters:

; NOME ONE TAKE THIS CHILD, j : SHE HAS NO PARENTS j

With a string lie placed the placard around the neck of the little girl. This done lie took her in ids arms, kissed her again and again, pointed to the smoke that was becoming blacker and longer, and told her that water was coming. When the rails began to sing of tiie approach of the coming train, he placed her near the track, and then ran and hid himself behind tiie dug-out. From liis hiding place lie looked out and eagerly watched the child, while the rattle and clamor and thunder of the train grew louder in his ears. On it came with a rush and a roar, and flew past the station in a gale of wind and dust. The man’s heart died within him, and then it beat wildly again. The train had stopped several hundred yards past the station, and was coming hack to tiie sentry box. The engineer had seen the tattered flag. As the long train rolled slowly backward, curious and inquiring heads protruded from tiie car windows. The gold-emblazoned conductor stepped off and looked about him in wonder. Not for several moments did lie discover the child. Immediately there was a crowd about it and the placard was passed from hand to hand. A whitejacketed porter came out of a Pullman ear and placed a wooden step on the ground before it. He was followed b3 r a lady in black, who descended from the car and joined the throng. A pair of 3’earning. eager, beseeching e3 - es watched it all from the dug-out. To the man hiding it seemed that the determination of his child’s fate never would be reached. Finally he saw the lady in black take the child in her arms, kiss it, and reenter the car with it. Tiie passengers scrambled back into the cars, the conductor waved his hand, and the trafM moved on. Then the father came, forth and gazed longingly at the departing train —gazed at it until it became smaller and smaller—until it became a dot in the plains—until it vanished—and lie knew he was alone. The terrible sun rose the next day aud looked down upon him as its victim. He endeavored to cat some of the bread lie had saved, but the dry crumbs were torture to liis throat. One tiling only was there to do—to follow the track until an inhabited station was reached. It might he fifty miles—it might he more—but there was no salvation away from the railroad. At noon, when resting for awhile, lie heard the rattling of an approaching freight train. Hope swelled up within him as he stood on the track and made frantic motions to stop tiie train. The trainmen merely laughed at him. lie did not know he ha 1 employed tiie favorite ruse of tramps. Freight trains were not for the accommodation of such gentry. Nor was it a supposable case that a wayfarer in the desert was unprovided witli food or drink, else why would he lie there? After this his progress was very slow. On the third day he came to tiie end of his journey'. He may have been delirious or he may have lieen quite sane. A train stopped for him and took him on board. This they always do when they kill a man.—Nan Francisco Argo naut.

OUR FOREIGN TRADE. ' nant of 10,03.-1,044 pounds, valued Pt We Pay far lrapopt«wnti Kipnrtm Not with 81.H1.-..0I1, was imported for making

Money—All Trsile la Harter. clothing.

The only resort loft for the protec- 1 To **">’ °ne who can read and undertionist organs is their claim that by stand these comparative returns of encouraging foreign commerce the wool imports under MeKinleyism ami Wilson tariff is “sending all our money under 1 he auspices of free trade mark out of the country.” In order to make an industrial revolution. The Texit appear tiiat this has been the result ,ile Manufacturers’ Journal asserts

that the promises of “diversified” production under free wool remain unrealized. As a professed organ of the woolen trade it can perceive "no tangible confirmation of these claims in the actual experiences of the past few months.” What, then, is the meaning of the vast increase in the imporlations of the finest lleeces in the world’s markets and of the corresponding decline in the imports of coarse and cheap wool? Do not these facts demonstrate the promptness and decision with which American manufacturers of woolens have seized their opportunity to enter tiie world’s markets and select tiie best varieties of wool in order to diversify and improve their production? it is not necessary to trace the fleeces of Australia and Argentina from the cus-

ot tlift new tariff, these papers are publishing statistics showing ttiat the imports during the fiscal year ended Juno 30, lS0.->, nre larger than those for the previous fiscal year. And the fact that there has been an increase in the total value of imported goods is made tiie basis of the charge that tiie tariff reform policy is ruining the country by bringing in more goods than we can

pay for.

To this attempted protection argument a correspondent declares there are two conclusive answers. Tiie first is that while imports were larger during the past year, they were nearly $100,000,000 less than in 1S93 and more than $00,000,000 less than in 1 s9i or 1891. Comparing tiie statistics of imports under the first year of the Wil-

son tariff with those of the last year tom bouse to tl >o niills where they under MeKinleyism, when owing to bave been converted into line clothing, the high tariff panic tiie importation rivaling in quality the best products of all kinds of goods had greatlv fallen : European looms. In regard to this off, is a fraudulent pretense that is industrial revolution the Record coneasily exposed. The proper vear for fidently appeals from the organ of the

comparison is the first 3'ear of the McKinley tariff, when the imports were $844,910,190, over $60,000,000 more than last year. No if the Wilson tariff is bringing ruin, the oflicial statistics

woolen manufacturers to the manufacturers themselves, who know whether or not they have used the great varieties and increased quantities of imported wool for diversifying

prove that the McKinley tariff was far an< * enlarging production

more ruinous.

Friends of low tariffs could well afford to rest satisfied with this re-

in presence of the beneficent change brought by the genius of commercial freedom the woolen manufacturers of

joinder to the erv of increased imports. H'e United States are threatened in reBut they do not believe that even 1 publican party conventions with a resthough tariff reform did cause larger toration of tiie McKinley duties on imports, it would be an injury, or that wool. If the republicans return to the sending of money abroad is a loss | power they are to be shut out of the to this county. If foreign manufac- markets for the best varieties of Torturers are willing to exchange their wool once more by prohibitory products for tiie gold and silver prod- duties and driven back to the coarse nets of our mines, why should we com- wool whence the3’ ma3 - be able to sort plain? Gold and silver are not sent a s'nall quantity to mix with the do

abroad as money, but as commodities, and require labor for their production, just as much as oil or wheat. Nobody complains when we sell pork or cotton to foreigners. If the latter continued

mestic product in making clothing. Such is the “diversified” production that is promised them under a restoration of the McKinley act. In order to reconcile tiie manufacturers to a re-

fer any length of time to sell us goods ! actionary policy portentous of disaster and take nothing but what the protec- , thev are “d'ered the lure of a revival tionists call "money,’’ they would soon 'heextortionate McKinley duties on

find that they had parted with valuable products in exchange for metal that they could neither eat, wear, or use to satisfy any rational desire. Tiie

woolens, with a return of the era of smuggling and fraudulent under-valu-ations. But even if the great mass of American consumers bo left out of the

only way in which their stores of account tiie American manufacturers

money could be made useful would be to send it back to this country in exchange for food, cotton, oil, etc. Protectionists do not seem to understand that foreigners, as well as Amercans, only want money in order to exchange it for goods or services. The

of woolens after enjoying the policy of free wool will never consent to its sur-

render.—Philadelphia Record. SUGAR PRODUCTION.

The Industry v houM I5e SHf-Sintalninu—

No Bounties NeceHunry.

. • 1 1 The country was sufficiently .warned

Idea that a country would c*et richer , ..... , . • . . . .. . , 1 • 1 • year that the beet suirar industry

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by hoarding up metal of any kind is a delusion which belongs to the centuries when men believed that money was tiie only real wealth. If it were true that sending money away for goods was an injury, it would apply as well to domestic as to foreign trade. It would lie just as hard to send money from Vermont to Georgia in payment for cotton, as to send it, to Canada to pay for barley. In both cases money is exchanged for goods. The fact that one country is under a different government does not alter the real nature of the transaction. All trade is barter, and tiie more trade the better for all

countries.

FLOODING OUR IViARKET. 4Yhy il Low Tariff Stimulates W oolen Im-

portation.

In order to show how great is the “flooding” of American markets with foreign woolen goods under tiie new tariff the Textile Manufacturers’ Journal takes the first six months of the live years from 1891 to 1S9.*i for compar-

was practically ruined by tiie substitu tion of a low duty for the bounty that had existed for four years. But dispatches from tiie sugar beet counties of Nebraska show that the business of raising beets and of making sugar is flourishing beyond all precedent. In spite of tiie withdrawal of the bounty and of a great increase in the amount of beets produced, the price remains the same as last 3'ear, 95 a ton. Although sugar beets involve more labor than most other crops, yet at iin\’where from ten to fifteen tons of beets to tiie acre sugar beets at $5 a ton or even a good deal less would lie the most profitable crop a farmer who had suitable land could raise. While $5 is the price paid for beets immediately delivered, the sugar manufacturers at Norfolk and Grand Island are offering more on a sliding scale for beets delivered during the late fall ami winter, the highest rate being $5.40 a ton for beets delivered in February. In tiie Norfolk district are

Ison. By this method of working com- 4,000 acres of beets for which the fannmercial statistics an enormous increase ers will receive well over $'.'00,000. and

in imports of woolens is exhibited. But as everybody understands, large importations of woolens were withheld from market in the latter months of 1894, so that they might be brought in under the reduced rates of duty after the first of January, 1895, when the

possilil3- near to $300,000 in cash. There will be about tiie same licet production in the Grand Island district Thirtyfive thousand tons of beets is tiie least amount expected, but as about 4,000 acres have been cultivated, and ten tons to the acre is a rather light yield,

new schedule on woolens went into ef- l and farmers who have taken pnrticu-

fect. Had not the new tariff been passed at all most of these goods would

larU' good care of their beets are estimating twenty-five tons to the acre, it

have been admitted in the months of ; is more likely that the crop will tie

October, November and December, 1894; and American consumers would have paid the exorbitant McKinley du-

ties on them.

No friend of the new tariff pretends to dispute the tendency’ of the new tariff to stimulate import trade. It was perfectly natural that there should be an increased demand for certain

45,000 tons, for which the farmers will get more than 95 a ton, if they’ do not insist on selling tiie entire crop at once. Farmers around York and Lincoln are taking steps to secure sugar factories in their vicinity. The Norfolk factory will run 100 days and 100 nights on tiie beets now in sight and turn out 7,000,000 poundsof granulated

classes of foreign woolens when the sugar, and the Grand Island factory

extravagant McKinley duties of nearly KM) per cent, on these fabrics were reduced to 50 per cent. But there is no “flooding” of American markets with foreign fabrics to afford any justification for protectionist clamors. On the other hand, tiie imports of wool, hemp, flax and oilier raw materials of Anieri-

will run day and night five or six months, and make the greatest run in the history of beet sugar making in America.—N. Y. Journal of Commerce.

Tin- I’rlee of Wool.

Andrew Kuli, of Lake Geneva, Wis., a wool grower of thirty consecutive

, , . , . , , years’ experience, writes to the American industries since their removal to CBn Wool ant , rotton Reporter, giving the free list have Increased vastly be- tvventy rea80ns , f rom the wool grow-

yond the increase in the imports of foreign fabrics of these materials. Compare tiie imports of raw wool during the seven months ended July, 1895, with the same period of 1894. In the seven months of freedom the imports amounted to 141,7<ii,9'J3 pounds, valued at $19,063,151, against 30,907,704 pounds, valued at $4,020,669 in the former period under tiie McKinley

er’s standpoint, why wool should remain on the free list. He reminds that the price of American wool declined from three to five cents per pound while the McKinley tariff was in operation, and concludes by saying that “now that wool is on the free list and prices advance the world over, even tiie wool grower is getting his eyes open to tiie fact. Right here in Wal-

duties. No one can mistake the sig- t , nllntv pi . icos huvo advanced 50 niflcance of these comparative returns per cent> within ;l few months, and

of trade. What enhances their significance is tiie fact that since wool was put on the free list the bulk of its imports consists of tiie qualities for making clothing. Under the McKinley tariff, on the other hand, the wool imports consisted mainly of the coarse grades lit only for making carpets. Thus in the seven months of 1495 under consideration the imports of clothing

more of the same is coming.” The Reporter editorially questions the figures that represent the increased slaughter of sheep in this country, and quotes very high authority in support of the ground that they are not warranted by the facts in the case,—Boston Herald.

After I-tght.

The Buffalo Commercial (rep.) says;

wool amounted to 87.607,010 pounds, “What the people want to know is not

valued at $13,990,745. In the' corresponding seven months of 1891 the total imports of wool amounted to Oft**

what started the business boom, but what is going to keep it up." The republican organs arc much exercised by

9c7.704 pounds of the value of $4,030,- the fear that the prosperity the coun609, and of these imports 28,272,660 try is beginning to enjoy will last unpoundsconsisted of coarse carpet wool, til the presidential election of 14961—N

valued at $2,205,028. The little rem- Y. Telegram,

THE REPUBLICAN PROGRAMME. N0T SO RUINOUS.

Bchriuc of thf Protect ionlM* for liaising

the Kovrnuc.

The Washington correspondent of the Chicago Tribune is authority for the announcement that the republican leaders have practical^’ agreed upon their financial programme for the coming session of congress. “The idea of more revenue through a revenue tariff on wool, with tiie Allison notes for emergencies, will be tiie republican financial scheme," sa3'S this corre-

spondent.

Whether he lias learned this directly from the republicans or by making u survey of the situation on his own account, very likely lie is right. The republican leaders may not have come to a distinct understanding yet, but logically they cannot vote to increase the revenue without at the same time voting to protect somebody. Just now the wool growers are the most clamorous of all the late republican proteges, and naturally their demands will be the first considered. Ollier producers of raw materials, such as coal and iron ore, are still protected to some extent, and there will lie a certain degree of plausibility in the claim that tiie farmers who grow wool are as much entitled to protection as the cap italists who are concerned in the production of other raw materials. But the republicans cannot well vote to increase tiie duties on wool without at tiie same time voting to increase the duties on woolen goods. Tiie woolen manufacturers must have more protection if the price of their raw material is to be increased by protective duties. Tiie republicans always have legislated upon this principle and they always must adhere to it, not only for the sake of consistency,

t ;illar mu- Prediction* of Kepuhllran# It#gitrdlng the Iron Trade. The prediction of the ruin of our industries that was to follow the passage of the Wilson bill are still fresh in the minds of the people. Even their authors have not forgotten them, though they’ nre praying for some “sweet oblivious antidote” that will remove them from the memory of others. The iron trade lias long been regarded as a sort of barometer indicating the state of generdl business. It furnishes the implements of production to sucli an extent that it must be virtually affected by either an increase or decrease of activity in productive industries. The statistics of the business are carefully collected and published, the Iron Age being a leading

authority.

Gu March 1, 1892, the Iron Age reported tiie weekly production of American furnaces to be 193,993 tons of iron. This was tiie largest production ever attained up to that date. It was high-water mark under the McKinley bill or any’ previous tariff bill. It was never equaled in any subsequent week before the repeal cl the McKinley act On August 1, 1894, the beginning of the last month of the life of the “bill of abomination,” the weekly production of the furnaces was 115,113 tons. On August 28 the new tariff bill became a law. On September 1, 1894, the weekly capacity of the furnaces had risen to 151,113 tons. A year later, on September 1, 1895, the weekly output had risen to 194,029. This is not a large increase over the greatest previous production, but it is an increase. It is a new high-water mark, established under a tariff law

but also in order to retain the support which, however imperfect from the of their most valuable allies, the maim- 1 standpoint of tariff reform, was con-

lacturers.

When they increase the duties on manufactures of wool in order to cotnpensate for the duties imposed on tho raw material they will admit that tho effect of a duty, or, at least, tho intended effect, is to raise the price of the article on which it is laid. They admit that a duty on wool is intended to raise tho price of wool. They must, then, admit that an increase in the duties on woolen goods is intended to increase the price of those goods. Otherwise raising those duties would not compensate at all for the duties laid ou wool. Are the republicans prepared to admit that they wisli to increase the prices of all woolen goods? What do they think consumers will have to say to that? They must make tiie admission, and the democrats are willing that they should. As for the “Allison notes," it will be neco--sury to issue securities of some kind if the government needs thirty million dollars more revenue, ns tho republicans claim, and if no more revenue is to be provided except from wool. No duties which the republicans will dare propose on wool ana woolens would provide more than half

that sum.

it is estimated that this republican programme lias been agreed upon on tho assumption that the administration will not take tiie responsibility of recommending any plan for raising more revenue. "The administration,” we arc told, “would like the revenue without the responsibility.” If tiie republican programme is wholly contingent upon this assumption we may rest assured that it will never be entered upon. President Cleveland has never y’et hesitated to recommend any measure that he deemed necessary or of great importance and there is no reason to think that lie is going to show the p ditical white feather at this late day. If lie thinks there is a real need for more revenue lu will not hesitate to sa3' so or to let congress know that what lie wants is revenue and enough of it, and not tariff protection for the Ohio shepherds 01 au3’body else.—Chicago Chronicle.

Ucmncd everywhere in protection circles as a free trade measure and as certain to ruin our industries. Against these reckless and unfounded predictions, which we denounced at the time they were made, we have the satisfaction of setting the testimony of a protection author that tho “barometer of trade” now registers a higher figure than it ever did before.—Louisville Courier-Journal.

SADDENED BY PROSPERITY. Kepublicans Di*trej*8f(l by Improved Bualno3M Condition*). The improvement in the finances of the country and in the general condition of business has disclosed the existence of a painful state of mind among the editors of certain republican papers. The announcement that tiie receipts of the treasury for tho month will exceed the disbursements causes them deep distress. The estimate that the continuous deficit of the past two 3’ears will hereafter be replaced 1)3’ a steadily increasing surplus is received by them with every indication of genuine sorrow. They tyv not to believe it. They even go so far as to argue that it must be a mistake. They accuse the treasury department of withholding payments, of starving tho government service, of juggling with the transaction of public business, of seeking to force a balance for tiie purpose of influencing the elections. What kind of Americans are these whose hearts are saddened at the evidences of their country’s prosperity? What kind of patriotism is it which carries partisanship to such an extreme? Above all, where is the intelligence in acting tho part of a mere calamity howler in a country in which prosperit3’ is inevitable?—N. World. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. In the language ot tiie jrachtsmen the McKinley boom shows signs of buckling—Chicago Chronicle. Mr. Heed hasn’t been consulted in the proposed withdrawal of Harrison in favor of McKinley.—St. I’aul Globe.

WHEAT EXPORTS. Improving Condition* L'mlvr tho YVIhon I.»w. A high tariff contemporary claims that Europe bought more “high-priced wheat from us under the McKinley law Until low-pricod wheat under tho Wilson law.” Y'os, it did in 189 J because of crop shortages that year and tho year before in Europe. Crop damages were so great that some of the European countries suspended tiieir duties ou grain and otherwise favored 113’ legislation tiie import of American wheat But MeKinleyism couldn’t help our farmers after that. Not only diu our wheat exports fall off in 1895 over forty million bushels, but tho price per bushel fell tweuty per ccut. • Instead of recovering the lost ground in tho next year of MeKinleyism, wheat continued to fall in price. Not until the Wilson bill had taken effect was any improvement perceptible. The average export price of No. 2 red wheat has been higher this 3'oar than at aii>’ time since Europe's crop shortage 111 1893. Tiie average for tiie year lias also been higher than during the corresponding period of last year under tiie McKinley bill. When we compare quantities we find that up to the 1st o,' August about two million three hundred thousand bushels more were exported than during the corresponding period 9! last year. Our crop shortage this 3’ear in winter wheat cut down exports cousidably until the spring wheat crop was harvested, but sine. 1 tiie mi idle of Septemper they have exujedo l last year’s exports. We are ahead now of Js94 umi are likely to make gains every week for several mouths over the year 1S9-3 as well as last year. Wheat is higher now than it was a year a -o and as high as it was in October, Imu, There is this difference, however. While the ten 101103’ t * u ' market two years ago was downward it is now upward.—St. Louis Republic. Delu ive comparisons of our trade during tiie panic year and the one tiiat followed it are well enough for organs of monopoly, but they are unworthy of 6113 one who aspires to be a st fttesmaa. —Louisville Courier-Journal

If this tide of prosperity keeps on rising,what will our republican friepds have to talk about in the campaign of 1896?—Philadelphia Record. Latest returns fnm the anxious bench are to the effect that Gen. Harrison is still on the lookout for that “great emergency.”—Grand Rapids Democrat. The republicans could talk with a good deal more assurance of the beauties of protection if McKinley were not such an embarrassing fact.— Indianapolis News. A few republicans attribute the return of prosperity to tiie republican congress that hasn't met yet. No wonder tiie lunatic asylums are crowded. —Anderson (Ind.) Democrat. Now tiiat Tom Reed lias had an engine company in Kentucky named after him, it is time for Gen. Harrison and Maj. McKinley to do something noticeable quick.—lloston Globe. Mr. Harrison wishes it distinctly understood tiiat while he is not and will not be a candidate for the presidency, he must not tie understood as recommending either Mr. McKinley or Brer Reed.—N. Y'. Journal. With the new tariff law proaucing sufilcicnt revenue, it looks as if tho next republican congress will not be troubled with the question that seemed to worry Senator Sherman the other day about the relief of the United States treasur3’.—Utica (N. Y'.) Observer. The south is in clover. Cotton and tobacco are bringing higher prices than for 3’ears. Corresponding^’ the demand for free coinage is abating. It will get so low after awhile that Tom Reed and Napoleon McKinley maybe aide to muster courage to tell how they stand.—Pittsburgh Post. The republican national committee is shy forty thousand dollars and will locate tho convention in the citi’ that subscribes the amount. That scheme failing, possibly Andrew Carnegie or some other manufacturer who has made millions out of the protection policy of the republican p:irt3’ and is planning to make more m tho event cf the return of MeKinleyism might be induced to put it up.—Kansas City Star.

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