The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, October 13, 1904, Page 7

aaa Deanne eee ee JUDGE PARKER'S LETTER Dignified and Virile, Former Representative and former Governor Benton McMillin, of Tennes- ®ee—It is an able, dignified and virile document. Judge Parker meets the is- sues in a square, straightforward man- ner that cannot help appealing to the ‘American people. Strong, Manly, Dignified. ' Representative Gooch, of Kentucky There can be but one opinion con- cerning Judge Parker's letter of ac- ceptance. It is a strong, manly, dig- nified statement, free from personal abuse, explicit on every issue before the people and dodging none. It ought to win the party thousands of votes, and in my opinion it will. It should only be necessary to put into the hands of the non-partisan voter a copy of Roosevelt's vainglorious letter and then that of Judge Parker. I can hardly see how any Aniérican citizen could prefer the bragging, boasting — Roosevelt to Alton B, Par- er, eee Will Appeal ‘te the Independent Voters William F, Harrity (Philade!phia), ex-National Democratic Chairman— Judge Parker, in his letter of accept- auce, clearly stated and defined the issues involyed in the present cam- paign. I do not believe that any Dem- ocrat will dissent from the views therein expressed, His more pro- nounced stand upon the tariff question ought to meet with unqualified ap- » proval of all Democrats. I feel confi- dent, too, that Judge Parker's letter will appeal to independent voters throughout the country, especially in the close and doubtful States, ee Masterly Presentation. Charles P, Donnelly (Philadelphia), Democratic City Chairman—Judge Parker's letter of acceptance is a strong and masterly presentation of the issues of the present campaign m a Democratic viewpoint, and the “Pavorable impression produced by his “gold standard” telegram has been - greatly strengthened by the tenor of his letter, ee! Issues Clearly and Ably Defined. ’ Patrick McCarren (Brooklyn)—All the issues before the country have been very clearly @nd ably defined by Judge Parker. He has taken no equiy- ocal ground anywhere. His letter has brought out more clearly than ever the importance of a change in our Goy- ernment. His letter was a splendid definition of the issues on which we go to the country, *e 8 Superb. Thomas Taggart, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee— Judge Parker's letter is superb. The instant effect it has upon the country is shown by the large number of tele- grams I have received to-day congrat- ulating the country and the party up- on such splendid letter. These tele- grams come from Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, New Jersey, Delaware and many other States. I expect that the campaign will go forward with greater enthusiasm as soon as the letter is generally read, ee! -#F Rebuke to Bluffing. * Samuel Untermyer (New York)—The letter is a calm, masculine, judicial presentation of the issues that will ap- peal to the intelligent and conservative of the country. The polite rebuke ad- ministered to our bluffing President on the laws of trusts will meet with general approval. What a pity that Judge Parker's sense of dignity would not permit him to properly character- ize the-performance, se ¢ Strong and Convincing. J. Edward Swanstrom (New York)— Judge Parker's eloquent letter of ac- ceptance fittingly opens the Democratic | campaign. It is a patriotic and states- manlike document, particularly strong and convincing in the statement of-the issues from a Democratic standpoint, and is sure to bring inspiration and en- couragement to the Democratic cause, ef 4 Letter of a Statesman. Mayor Collins (Boston)—It is the let- ter of a statesman, grounded in the fundamental principles upon which our institutions rest. All the expres- sion is “safe and sane” and worthy of the hour. I hope it will be read and pondered by every voter, and I feel sure it will make a profound impres- sion upon every thinking and patriotic wis eee Vim, Force aud Positiveness. “Judge Parker's letter,” said Sena- tor Stone, of Missouri, “will put new life into our campaign. It was the very thing needed. It will give the people something to think about. It has vim and force and sufficient posi- tiveness to satisfy those critics who have said that Judge Parker was too mild and gentle to contest with a man like Roosevelt. This document is an inspiration to Democracy.” - see ‘Wins Approbation and Admiration, Congressman John H. Keliher (Bos- ton)—Like every word he has uttered and every line written upon the politi- cal issues of the day, Judge Parker's letter at once commands approbation and wins admiration. It is a clear, concise, comprehensive statement. Contrasted with the self-satisfied, bumptious declaration of President Roosevelt, it further emphasizes, if such a thing is possible, the marked difference in the make-up of the can- - didates. no . eee Courageous and Convincing. | De Lancey Nicoll (New York)—The letter presents the issues in so forcible a way that no one can fail to under- stand them. It is clear, courageous and convincing. It reveals its author to the country as a_ thoroughly equipped candidate for the Presiden- tial office, conversant with all public questions, and as a man who makes No sacrifice of principle for votes, but who, believing that he is right, will Femajin steadfast to the end. i HIT A SORE SPOT. Discrimination Against Home Buyers and Favoring Foreigners. } The Democratic charge that the | American people are paying higher prices for articlés of domestic manu- facture than are paid by foreigners for identical articles exported from the United States has hit the G. O. P. in a sore spot. very thoroughly in the Democratic Campaign book, where It Is shown that Americans are compelled to pay from ten to thirty per cent. more for articles made ip this country by “protected” WHY ROOSEVELT MADE A BUREAU- George B. Cortelyou Tapping Corpora- This subject is gone Into | manufacturers, than is paid by Euro- peans and Asiatics for identically the same articles made here and shipned abroad. Many instances of such dis- crimination against our home people are cited, narticularly In the lines of agricultural implements and builders’ hardware, To break the force of this charge the State Department prints a string of statements made by American Con- suls in Euronean countries, in which it is alleged that manufacturers In England and Germany also sell manu- factured articles abroad cheaver than they do at home, It Is plain that these statements were put forth under orders from the Administration®and that little care was taken to have them accurate. But even if it be true that European manufacturers sell their “surplus odds and ends” abroad at reduced prices, as one Consul says they do, of what Interest Is that to the average Ameri- ean who is held up by our “protect- ed” manufacturers and comnelled to nay. not for “odds and ends,” but for his farming tools and implements, his engines and machinery, and scores of other articles, from ten to thirty ner cent. more than his European brother has to pay to the same manufacturer for like articles? The American people are not com- nlaining because manufacturers ship their “odds and ends” to foreign coun- tries and sell them at low prices, Their complaint is that they are diseriminat- ed against In favor of the foreigner: that they are being robbed right and left by mannfacturers who shield themselves behind the Dingley tariff. MARRYING IN THE ARNT. Class Distinetion to Be Fos'ered by Corbin’s Proposition, General Corbin's fdea that army life should be governed as a social and ar- istocratic organism was probably im- bibed in Germany, where the General appeared on dre’s parade a year or so ago as a guest of the Kaiser, That his idea has the cordial approbation of President Roosevelt, there can be little doubt. For it fs at least a minor sten In the President's grandsmarch toward full-fledged “Imperialism:” In brief, General Corbin nroposes that no officer in the army shall marry without the authority of the Secretary of War, and not then unless he ean prove to the satisfaction of the Secre- tary, that Lis income will be sufficient to support himself and his family. Sueh a rule vrevails in Germany, with the result that a lot of rich, and in many cases, silly girls, have been brought in- to army circles: class distinction has heen fostered ond army officers there have become indolent, tnsolent and profifgate. The best army officers In the world have been bred in this country and without interference by the Govern- ment in their private domestic affairs. The great American generals were. as a rule, married men, having families dependent upon them, and although their salaries were small in compari- son with those paid to officers of like rank now. they contrived to get along and usually do something better than make both ends meet. Yankee soldiers have been accustomed to go into battle to the tune of “The Girl T Left Be- hind Me,” and this custom fs likely to be kept up long after General Corbin shall have ceased to ape the customs so dear to the heart of the Kaiser and his would-be rival, President Roose- velt, ROUSES. SUSPICION. Everlasting Habit of Republicans of Grasping Credit For All Good. Claiming all virtues for the Repub- Iican party, and telling what “we” have done does not stop criticism, but,, rather, tends to arouse suspicion that the charges made against Republican policies and practice cannot be dis- proved. That the tariff-fostered trusts are plundering the people by greatly increasing the cost of living is too pat- ent for a bold denial to count with a voter, who is paying from thirty to forty per cent. more for necessaries of living than in 1897. Claiming that wages have been ad- vanced at the same ratio as the cost of living will not convince the work- man that bas had his wages reduced that prosperity is rampant, although Roosevelt. may boast and Fairbanks smilingly may say so, Standing pat may suit the trusts, but claiming that everything is so fa- vorable under Republican policies that no change is needed is poor consolation for those who find themselves being plundered by the trusts, with their in- come standing still so that their abil- ity to pay has decreased one-third. It is easy to claim, but diffienlt to ex- plain when the facts are against you. German Citizens Rallying. The Republican newspapers of Chi- eago are using columns of valuable space in hysterical efforts to prove that Carl Schurz is a “has been,” and utterly without influence among Ger- man-Americans. Meanwhile the com- ing of Mr. Schurz is awaited with the greatest interest by German-Ameri- cans who are daily enrolling by hun- dreds in the German-American Parker leagues. Parker Stock Is Up. One of the most striking instances of the appreciation of Judge Parker's letter of acceptance was its reception in Wall Street. Brokers who had been betting on the outcome of the election, offering long odds in favor of Roose- velt, after reading the letter prepared by Judge Parker, reduced the odds they had been giving and Parker stock went up materially. 4 a PULITZER’S CHARGES. OF CORPORATIONS. tions For Campaiga Funds a Grave Questioa. Your record In your own words, Mr. President, shows that you began your crusade for the regulation of the great corporations with an insistent appeal for “Publicity in the interests of the pudlic.” Yow seemed. determined to vindicate the people's right to “inspect and examine the workings of the great corporations engaged fn interstate com- merce,” even If it were necessary to amend the Constitution of the United States, believme, with many corpora- tion lawyers of your own partyr—and of the Democratic party, for that mat- ter—that the Sherman law was tncon- stitutional. You demanded this Pub- leity “as a right from all corporations affected by the law,” and “not as a fa- vor from some corporations.” Your persistence in a good canse finally triumphed. Congress, under the pressure of the public opinion that you had so skilfully directed, enacted the legislation you asked for. It created fn Department of Commerce, with a Bu- reau of Corporations. It extended the scone of the Interstate Commerce law to forbid the giving or receiving of re- bates. It passed an act providing for the special advancement in the United States courts of cases arising under the anti-trust laws. It gave you the extraordinary, the unprecedented ap- propriation of $500,000 to enforce stat- utes prohibiting combinations and con- spiracies in restraint of trade, ee ee ee The first thing to do, as you sald tn your speech at Wheeling. was to “find out the facts.” Your initial step was to appoint as your Secretary of Com- merce your private secretary, George BR, Cortelyou, The Bureau of Corpora- tions was organized February 26, 1905 —more than nineteen months, more than eighty weeks—exactly 588 days ago—yes, exactly Five TWundred and Eigehty-three Days ago, ‘ Will you kindly tell the country: 1. After these 583 days of supposed activity and official duty, how much more does the publie know about the conduct and management of these great corporations than it knew be- fore? 2. After these 583 days of supnosed activity and official duty, what single witness has heen subpoenaed? 8. After these 583 days of supposed activity and official duty, what single witness has heen comnelled to testify? 4. After these 583 days of supposed activity and official duty, what docu- mentary evidence has been produced? 5. After these 583 days of supnosed activity and official duty, what cornor- ation magnate has been comnelled to testify under oath as to secret rebates on freight charges or other acts of con- spiracy in restraint of trade? G. After these 588 days of sunposed activity and official duty, what does the publie know about the work of this burean of publicity? Is there a cornoration fn the Tnited States. Mr. President, whose affairs are administered in greater secrecy than ave the affairs of your Bureau of Cor- norations, which was created to afford “Pnblicity in the interest of the pub- lie?” Does the public know anv less ahout the internal workings of the Standard Oil Comnany, for example. than it does about the internal workings of this Bureau of Cornorations? Yet in your letter of acceptance you have—may I eall it the magnificent an- dacity ?—to declare df t.e act creating this bureau and of the related acts: The Congress that created the Bu- reau of Corporations, which. you say, has been administered “with entire | efficiency.” gave you the uniaue, the |) extraordinary appropriation of $500,- 000 to enforce existing laws against corporations, What is your record in the exnendl- ture of this money? About $26.000 of it has heen spent for the purnose to which it wes annropriated, The rest has been lying idle in the Treasury for 583 days, er, @ @ @ @ Do you mean to say that you are fn nossession of all the “data” as to the “organization. conduct and manage- ment” of the business of these corpora- tions? It was to collect such data that the bureau was created. To you mean to say that this infor- mation, or so much thereof as you have required, has been “made public,” as the law says it “shall be?” It was to insure such publicity that you asked for this legislation. On the contrary, Mr. President, ts it not true that not one word, not one sy]- lable, not one letter has ever appeared of that proper publicity about which you talk so glibly? But when your Presidential cam- paign began and Mr. Cortelyou had learned all he needed to know of the secret business affairs of the great corporations, you made this Grand In- quisitor of Corporations Chairman of your National Committee. And why? Was Mr. Cortelyou a member of the National Committee? No. Was he a member of any commit- tee, State or local? No. Had he any reputation or experience as a campaign manager? No. Did the veteran politi- cjans of your party desire his appoint- menf? No. Was there—could there be —any reason for his appointment ex- cept that he knows from “diligent in- vestigation” the business secrets of these great corporations upon which you depend for your campaign fund? se ee @ @ You will pardon a delicate question, Mr. President, but when the most in- telligent Mr, Cortelyou goes out to col- lect money for your campaign fund, af- ter spending the night in your hospit- able home, is it conceivable that these corporations dc not assume that he rep- resents in a pecul: rsonal man- ner the President of the United States? Convincing. Herman Ridder (New York)—I con- sider Judge Parker's letter strong and convincing. time. THE FARMER'S DOLLAR, What Providence Gave and What Congress is Taking Away. “The people cannot be fooled all the Facts are stubborn... Whip them} around as you will, mask them, dis- guise tlém; they will, nevertheless, come out to bear witness to the truth. The Republican party seeks to fool the people. It has sought to mask facts, to disguise them. The Democratic party secks to re- place the facts before.the people that they may bear witness to the truth, The people want the truth, eee: The Republican party claims that the so-called “era of prosperity” is due to the wisdom of party policy in en- acting tariff and other legislation. President Roosevelt has endeavored to portray “prosperity” by stating in his letter of acceptance that wages have been increased during the last few years in greater proportion than the cost of living. Now, the facts refute the President's statement. These facts are derived | frora statisties—from records, They show that the increase in wages is twelve per cent., the increase in the cost of iiving is thirty-seven per cent. Therefore, before the “era of prosper- ity” the man who earned. $1.50 9 day could buy goods as then valued to the | amount of $1.50; during the “era of prosperity” the same man received for the same labor $1.68, but the same goods would cost him $2.35; or, putting | it In another way, where one dollar's worth of labor was worth one dollar's worth of merchandise before the era, during “the last few years,” President Roosevelt's years of prosperity, one | dollar's worth of labor was worth seventy-one and a half cents’ worth of merchandise, | eee The farmer, the hired man, the miner, the day laborer, the mechanic in every department of industry, the bookkeeper, clerk and shop girl to-day finds that “everything is dearer.” The rule admits of no exceptions, Labor receives its wages in money, counter the value of the dollar when it is to be exchanged for merchandise has shrunk in its purchasing power to sey- enty-one and one-half cents, eee It Is a fact that conditions fy to this Nation beeame apps avorable 1897; conditions which to-day should | armer, manufacturer | have blessed and me chanie, rehant, laborer, clerk and me- wholly mar the bounty of Providence. It is a fact that in 1897, by reason of the failures of the wheat erop in the Argentines and Southern Russia, the harbors of New York and Boston were filled with vessels seeking wheat for Great Britain and Europe, Wheat leaned {o $1 per bushel, Millions in gold, the purchase money, flowed in te the country, The farmers bought mer- chandise of all kinds. This started “the hoom.” Factories and mills he- eame busy, railroads were choked with freight. and the labor markets were emptied of the unemployed, This was due to Providence that gave the coun- try abundant crons when all the earth, elsewhere, failed to supply breadstuffs, But the farmer working fn his fields to produce this wealth little thought that if Providence had come to his assistance hy providing him hich prices for his wheat that his fellow man would exact higher prices from him for the merchandise he required. is what a Renubliean Congress did, By ils protective tariff it shut the gates of the Nation to foreign comne- tition, by its patronage of manufac- turers it enabled them to combine, and so prices for manufactured goods were advanced and imnosed on the farmer. Thus by the tariff and trusts was trib- ute wrung from the farmer. Every farmer's wife knows what she paid eight years ago and she knows what she is forced to pay to-day. Ev- ery farmer knows what he then paid and what he now nays. If to-day the farmer sells his wheat. corn and rye. his steer, sheep and hogs at a good price, it is no reason for his being compelled to pav higher prices for his merchandise. There is no reason, save | that of the tariff and the trusts, that he should find his dollar is only exchange- At the| Even a Republican Congress | and a Republican Executive could not | | tional tiek Yet this | ATTEMPT TO JUSTIFY President Roosevelt's Pension Order by Commissioner Ware. Commissioner of Pensions E. F. Ware undertakes to justify President Roosevelt's action in the matter of the age limit pension order, which is declared to have been unconstitutional by the Parker Constitutional Club of New York and in contravention of Sec- tion 9 of Article I., which reads as follows: “No money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in consequence of appro- priations made by law.” In the course of his argument in de- fense of the President's action, Mr. Ware says: “The passage of the appropriation bill recognizing the validity of the order and voting the money to carry it out ended the consideration of the rem- edies proposed.” That settles it, according to the reasoning of Mr. Ware, but the fact remains that it was an action which he should not have presumed to take un- der the power of making regulations for carrying into effect the statute of Congress. Congress had a right to en- act that the attainment of a certain age created a presumption of inability. It was besought to do it and it refused It has been besought to do it at every session since the disability act was passed, and it has not done it. The proper discretion of the Executive in making regulations was limited to car- rying out the law as enacted, and did not include a regulation relieving the applicant from the »peration of the law which required that actual disability should be established by proof, Ae- cording to the new regulation, disabil- ity needs not to be proved, but must be assumed on an age basis, precisely what Congress has never sanctioned, BRYAN'S ATTITUDE. To Hasten Time For the Triumph of Democratic Principles by Sup- port of Parker. Persistent reports are being elreu- lated both East and West that Colonel William J. Bryan will not support the Democratic nominees in the coming Presidential election, The latest of these reports is attributed to Chan- cellor E, Benjamin Andrews, of Ne- ” Chancellor Andrews is quoted as s “there is every chance that Roosevelt will secure the electoral vote of Nebraska, that the Republican State ticket will be elected, and that the Fusion element will dominate the Legislature and elect W. J. Bryan next Senator from that State.” In complete refutation of the sugges. | tion quoted above, one has ofily to read Colonel Bryan's attitude to the Na- as set forth in a ringing speech delivered by him in’ Missouri in the early part of the campaign, in whieh he ur all Democrats to sim- port the ticket faithfully. In the course of this speech, Colonel Bryan j sald: ‘T believe tn the triumoh of everv faith in the rightness of our cause that Tam not afraid that any poliey in President. *even thangh he may not agree with us on all enestions, Tf he will beln us remove the issues whieh now distreet attention and prevent a consideration af eeonamile enostions, we can await the time when the neonle ean again give their sttention ta the industrial sitnation, Yor ean hasten the coming of this fime hv vanr sup- port of the Democratic ticket.” AGREES WITH PARKER: Justice Brewer's Attitude in Accord With That of the Democratic Candidate. Mr. Justice Brewer, of the Supreme Court. will get Inia tronhle if he keens on talking as he did yesterday at St. Tonis abont the Constitution vs, the Renublican poliey in the Philippines. Why, he annarently takes the same view as Tndge Parker! This is in flat violation of the only ¢ommon law that the President knows—the law, name- ty, that good Rennblicans must swal- low their convictions and suport all that he does, Indge Brewer should remember that he was a Republican before he was a jurist. Te was not able for seventy-one and a half cents of the protected manufactured goods. Of course, a high tariff fills the Treas- ury. ‘ Of course, it takes much money to rebuild and refurnish the White Frouse and to rebuild and refurnish the Presi- dent's yacht Mayflower—but it comes pretty hard on the American farmer to reduce his dollar to seventy-one and a half cents. Shows the Fraud of It. How the tariff operates and the trusts give our own people the worst of it can hardly be better illustrated than in the case of steel rails sold in Can- wee put on the heneh to furnish aid and comfort to the Democrats. Tmagine a Republican Senate ever confirming his annointment to the Sunreme Court If it had imagined that he would balk at finding the law for whatever the narty wanted to do! The JAnstiee. we dare sav, would draw himself un if any suggestion were made to him that he ought to he a nartisan on the bench, and wonld ruf_le in Lord Coke's style about doing “as hecometh a judge:” but he should understand that we are changing all that in these high-flying days when a President announces that he will nay no attention to anv Constl- tutional provision which, in his opin- ada and the United States, There is a railway which runs along the border between the two countries, sometimes in its course being on this side and sometimes across the border. It is re- markable that rails for use on the Canadian part of the railway are sold for $21 a ton, while those for use on the American side cost {he same road $28 a ton. This ‘> t#P*rase of one road, The New York Central is an- other railway which has to undergo the same experience illustrative of the inequalities of the protective tariff system, and how it operates against the very people it proposes to protect. “Telegram” Not Fooled. The New York Evening Telegram declines to be fooled by the absurd boastings of the inspired organs of the G. 0, P. Not only does this enterpris- ing and wide-awake independent news- paper refuse to credit these improb- able yarns, but it actually prints a map showing the political situation as it appears to be to-day to impartial observers. The only absolutely certain Roosevelt “territory, according to the Telegram, is New England and a part of the Middle West. Perhaps the Tel- egram errs in not giving the Republi- cans a better show on the Pacific Coast, but with this exception, its prog- nostications may not be so far out of the way. fon. would reduce him to “impotence.” —New York Evening Post. TRADE JOURNALS PLEASED. Journal of Commerce and New York Commercial Gratified by Parker's Letter, There are two important daily news- papers published ia New York that are distinetly devoted to the interests of trade and commerce, and both express hearty approval of Judge Park- er’s views on political questions, as ex- pressed in his letter of. acceptance. These papers are the Journal of Com- merce and the New York Commercial. Thé former is independent in politics. but of Democratic leanings, so that what is has to say of the letter may not be as significant as are the utterances of the Commercial, which also is an independent journal, but with inclin- ations toward Republicanism. The Commercial expresses its appreciation of the letter, as a whole. calling it “dignified, temperate and conserva- tive, and calculated to win recruits for the cause Judge Parker repre- sents.” Referring to’ the cnndidate’s hand- ling of the tariff and reciprocity ques- tions, the Commercial declares that “the Judge has dealt a stinging blow at the Republican party.” righteous prineinle and T have such! which we have eonfidence ean be de- fealed by the election ef a Demoeratle HOLD-UP GAM |Figures of Prices on Goods Exported Expose Republican Protection Policy. | For a Republican paper the New York Sun take a sensible view of the recent large increase in the export of American manufactured goods, for It declares that while the showing is en- couraging, there is no occasion as yet to “point with pride” to the record. Great as the increases are in certain cases, the Sun observes that in none is the increase greater than the sales of one good-sized concern, ‘ But the Sun omits to state that tne some of the Instances of which It makes niention, the increase was dué rery largely to the fact that the goods were sold to the forelgn consumer at much lower prices than our neanle at home have to pay for Wentical artl- cles. For instance. the Sun shows that our export of agricultural implements has increased fram $5,000,000 to $21,+ 000,000, This seems at first thaneht & ‘ most extraordinary gain, but it | t so when we consider that agrientinrad Implements made in this country ore sold in Furone at fram ten to twertys three per cent. less than the same ime nlements ean be henght for here, Al churn either evlinder or thermometer, is soll abroad twenty-three ner conte cheaner than at heme: a corn-sheller is sald abrand twenty ner eent, chean- es than at home; erain mills thorsed eleven ner cent, eheaner: cultivators Marrew), twenty-three per eent, ehean- er: cultivators Mand, seventeen ner cent, cheaner, What ts trne of serl- evityral imnlements ts likew'se tread of hardware, our exports of whiett have inereased in value by several mile Hen dollars, Amer’ mode hardware of every description ts sold ta the neos nle of Eurone at nvices far helow what our own neople are obliged te nay. For evomnle, snirit levels ean be honght in’ Rerane thirty per cent. cheaper than they ean be honght heres tuhe seraners ean be had abroad at nrices avereging thirty-three ner cent. less than the vriees asked at homer avenr bit stieks, twenty per eont.t Arilling mochines, fiticen ner cent? breast Avills, thirty-three ner eent.s hammers, erowhars and stedsos, elev- en per eent: Dnteher saws, thirty-fives ner cent.: spades and shovels, thirty. three ner eent.: eagle horse plows, twenty-five ner cents M. EL chilled nlaws, seventeen nor Tn onr exnort of there has alsa hee lareo Tnerease, Dut this is due ta a eansiderahle ex- tent to the fact that these aud athor articles comine ander the head of ma- shinery are sold abrve ing hetween twenty-three ¢ elght ner cent, below the priees asked at home, A roenresentative of the Demoeratle National Committes mode an seenrate ostimate of the value af a sively caren | ahont ta he shipped from New York to South Afriea, This ¢ pnt an board bv the drm of 1& Co. of New York, and Duvers in Sonth Afviea S21°.004 ». Wad it heen cold to buvers York wonld have cast $246. Thus, on 9 ear vf this one small s ner fof anlv ©S70 tons regis. ter) a rte of S848t was made In favor of foreigners, Th other wards, awing to the Repnh- Nean lngh tariff taxes. whieh vermit the trusts to eharee high prices te home consnmers without fear af for- eign comnotition, this ene small earge enst American c@snmers S83.481. or + 15.7 ner cont more than the trusts are glad to sell the same goals for to bry- ers on the other side of the globe. 1f, on a eargo of one little steamer, Amor- jeans are muleted in sneh on amount, it is norfectly clear that in the ease of exvorts running info the milliens of dollars. the money practically fileho?® from the nockets of home consumers wonld be tremendous. No wonder some peante sneak of the Dingley tariff as the “robber tari.” THE WAR WITH SPAIN. Hypocrisy of a New Englanl Rou lican Platform, : ' For sublime effrontery and unblush- ing falsehood, it would be hard to beat: this declaration which appears in thew platform of the New Hampshire Re~ publicaus: “The Republican party, since it was restored to power, has fought a successful war with Spain,” It is a matter of history that the Me- Kinley Administration did everything in its power to avoid a war with Spain, but was forced to .ndertake it be~ cause of the popular agitation in favor of it, which was shared alike by Dem~ ocrats and Republicans in Congress and by the press of voth parties. In its inception the war was entirely, just. There were at least as many Democrats as Republicans actively engaged in it, and the decisive blows at Manila and Santiago were struck by Dewey and Schley, both of whom are Demoera For what been done in Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines since the war was brought to a successfub conclusion, the Republican party ia welcome to assume the responsibility. These include the negotiation of @ treaty with Cuba, which has helped to make the Cubans our enemies rath- er than our friends; the subjeetion of the Filipinos, who were struggling he- roically for freedom, and who were our allies in driving Spain from the Isl- ands; the trampling under foot of the Declaration of Independence and the buncoing of the people of Porto Rico, who are now in a worse plight in some respects than they were when under Spanish rule, And to sum it all up, the Republican party is entitled 4 to whatever credit it can get from the substitution of “imperialism” for “con- stitutionalism” and the- addition of $600,000,000 to the oppressive burden of taxation upon the American people. Governor Aycock to Speak. Governor Charles B. Ayvock, of North Carolina, will speak in several of the doubtful States the last two weeks of the campaign. His time has been divided as follows: West Vir- ginia, October 24, 25; Indiana, October 26 to 29, inclusive; Connecticut, Octo- ber 31, November 1; New Jersey, No- vember 2 and 3; Maryland, November 5. He is one of the ablest of Southern speakers, wee