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Exposition.
Lake shore, foot of Adam* street.
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Lake Shore, fool of Waililnston street. Game ho*
tweens picked nine and next year's White Stockings at
3:110.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1878.
Greenbacks at tho Now York Stock Ex
change yesterday closed at UiM.
A verdict of suicide was yesterday ren
dered by tho Coroner's jury in tho cose of
Bcn/amdi W. Fat. Tho act of solf
slaughtor was planned with much ingenuity
to resemble murder, but from tho facts and
collateral circumstances developed at tho
inquest tho theory of suleido was well es
tablished, and tbo verdict will bo generally
concurred in as correct.
A law point of Interest was yesterday de
cided by Judge Dillon, of tbo United States
Court at St. Louis, in a case where an As
signee of a bankrupt’s estate bad secured
possession of a valuable diamond which tho
bankrupt had presented to bis wife when in
solvent circumstances. Tho lady claimed
tho jewel as her individual property, and her
right to It was sustained by tho Court.
Tho experiences of Hazel Green, Mt.
Carmel, and Barrington in tornado terrors
wore yesterday repeated at tho little village
of Sherman, Isabella County, Miob. Tho
eyclono undertook to demolish tho place,
and succeeded in leveling nearly all tbo
stores, dwellings, churches, etc., in an in
credibly short space of lime. Casualties
were numerous, but fatalities fortuuotoly
few.
Cohen’s attempt to “organize hell” in
Washington by means of a gonoral uprising
of tho laboring classes resulted yesterday in
ignominious failure. Ho found theautborilios
■well prepared for any demonstration against
property by the misguided rubble collected
under tho leadership of this disreputable
loafer, and best of ell, be found that the
workingmen ns a class disposed to (urn
against him.
While people ore diacussing the propriety
of abolishing the National-Dank system ami
of replacing ita currency circulation with
Treasury notes it will do no barm to increase
tho general block of information regarding
the thing proposed to be abolished. Mr.
N tenon, in his lecture last evening upon
Ranks’and Ranking,” presented
Homo facts which tho Fintist orators are evi
deafly in ignorance of, judging from the ah
surd statements they habitually make when
wrestling with tho question.
From nearly every point in (ho Mississippi
Valley, where tho yellow fever has existed,
tboro come reports that .the dissaso is fast
loosening its bold, -and that the fatalities
credited to tho scourge are perceptibly lus.
scuiug iu numbers dally. I2vou Grenada is
emerging from her terrible load of affliction,
the doctors are leaving for other points, and
tho daily newspaper has once more mode Its
appearance. Little Rock reports the advent
of tho cold wave, which, it is to bo hoped,
may inmolrate the Lower Mississippi region
and cut short the reign of tho dreadful
pestilence,
Gamoetta's attack upon Ultromontanism,
delivered ut Rou«u on Wednesday, has ere*
ated a profound impression in all political
circles, being generally regarded os a defini.
tion of the Republican programme. Tho
journals of that pereuasion indorse It, many
of them unequivocally, while others, like (he
DtbaU and the Tmpt, give in a
qualified approval of the Radical leader’s on
compromising attitude toward the Church
parly. Ry the Catholic press tho speech* is
looked upon as a declaration of war against
Catholicism, and all agree that GiMoerrA
has sounded tho keynote of tho policy that
is to be pursued by the Republicans of
Franco toward tho hitherto privilogod priest,
hood.
When llutulb Khali have finished roodihg
the icport of his Indianapolis «i»cech,pnutcd
iu tho morning papers to>day, his eye will
light upon an item of nows from Massachu
setts that will engage his serious attention,
110 will notice a disposition on tbo part of
the resjicclablo Democrats put on tho ticket
with him at Worcester to repudiate tbo rv
podiaturs who burglarized themselves into
ih« possession of tho Democratic titate or
ganization. Two of tho there
Humiliated have ‘bwlinefl to sot as
pall-hearers at the funeral of the
Democratic party, and a third is expected to
join in their withdrawal. Joum Uovui
o’itciu.T and D. N. bxitusqs, respectively
candidates for State Treasurer and State
Auditor on the Uuruut ticket, have stepped
down and cut, and U is underOoyd that Ca
i.cn Ctrnmno will refuse to remain the nom
inee for Attorney-General. These drclinn*
lions are An evidence of (ho reaction against
Underlain that has Act in, And of tho deter
mination of tho lending men of tho nomoc
racy (o refuse any countenance of tho die*
gracofnl surrender of the party to Iho howl
ling mob which has gained temporary pos
session.
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One of tho blowings of tho English oecn
patiou of Cyprus is the prompt nod thorough
mntiner in which tho now administration
stamps out slavery. A correspondent of the
London Time* Buys a woman of Kikosin re
cently averred herself to bo n alato, com
plAined of ill-treatmonl, and demanded her
liberation. Tlio Civil Commissioner of the
plnco, nndcr instructions from the Oovern
ment, investigated tbo case at once, found
tho woman's statement to ‘bo true, immedi
ately liberated her, and punished the master
who hsd ill-used her.
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6.00
Among the transactions on 'Change yester
day was the sale (o representatives of Euro
pean bouses of 30,000 barrels of Alcohol.
Tho sale was on private terms, but the price
was equal to 83$ cents per gallon, and tlio
average was seventy gallons to a barrel, or
2,100,000 gallons, amounting to $700,000.
Tbo total spirits distilled from grain ex
ported in 1870 was 130,381 gallons; in tho
year ending Juno, 1877, they bod increased
ty 1,008,741 gallons; for tho year ending
Inst June tho increase over 1877 was large,
but wo have not the exact figures. It will
be seen that this single sale yesterday was
equal to twice tho whole amount exported in
1877. It is estimated that the exports of
alcohol daring the present year will roach
from 6,000,000 to 8,000,000 gallons.
A very important olomout in Russia's re
cent successful struggle with Turkey was
the colossal progress she Ims made in mil
road construction since the Crimean war,
enabling her to raoTO large bodies of troops
into Asia Minor on Ibo one band and down
to the Truth on the other, whereas, in the
Crimean campaign, her armies mored on
foot and subsistence was carried in wagons.
It is ominous of future events in Asia that
she has now perfected arrangements for
building a railroad from Tiflis, on the south
side of the Caucasus, —horsoulhernmoatrail-
road limit, —around the Caspian Sea to Tehe
ran, the Capital of Persia. It is oven said
that she also contemplates a continuance of
the lino from Teheran southeastward!/ to
Herat, in tho Province of Caboo), where
Russian diplomacy .has already so far circum
vented Eugland os to threaten a war be
tween tholalter nudAfghanistau,—* a struggle
which could hardly bo regarded with indif
ference by Russia.
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF BUTLER'S CAM
PAIGN.
Tho address issued by the Republican State
Central Committee of Massachusetts reveals
an acute apprehension of the real issue that
bos been forced npon that State by Durum's
success in “pooling tho issues" of tho Na
tionals, Communists, and Democrats. Prob
ably no State election ever assumed a larger
national importance than the Massachusetts
election this year. Had there been the usual
contest between tbo Democratic and Repub
lican parties, with Greenback, Labor, and
Prohibition candidates running their custom
ary side-shows, Massachusetts would have
attracted no more attention this fall than any
other State,—probably not so much os Ohio
and Indians, which were recognized oh the
chosen homos of tho Flutists. But when a
great and established party, claiming o con
temporaneous birth with the Republic and
actually controlling ouo branch of tbo Na
tional Congress, abandons tho field to a new
mania, as tho Democratic party hoa done in
Massachusetts, the event portends on out
come of national importance. Tho success
of Butlerism in Massachusetts will make
Butlerism tbo national issue in 1880, and
hence tho overwhelming importance of tho
struggle in that State. That tho Massachu
setts Republicans fully understand tho situa
tion, and have determined to meet it square
ly, Is sufficiently attested by tho following
extract from tho address which has been
issued by the State Committee:
Shall Massachusetts be true to tho faith of the
fathers.— that honest debt shall bavo honc-»t pay
ment, that honest currency Is based on value, ami
nut on flol, and at any coat or sacrifice the national
honor snail bo maintained untarnished? Or ahull
•he. hound hand and foot, he delivered over to
the champions of dishonor and disgrace? Shall she
suffer the chief head and front of this offending to
occupy the chair of |(AXcm-K. and Adams, and an
tmaw, making nf Us dishonor a stooping-stone to
the leadership of a national party founded on b>«
ruins of a national credit and thu public fsllh, a
debased currency, and a repudiated debt? This
plot we shall expose, this paramount Imho wo
shall discuss before the jieople of Ibis Common
wealth. We will not suffer it to v be disguised or
stmlllcd out of sight. And to a calm aud huosst
consideration of this Issue we luvuke tho con
science and Intelligence of Massachusetts. We
call upon the workingman sod the capitalist alike
—whoso materia! Interests are at slake, tho one
equally with the olher-to aid in maintaining the
standard of value In our currency on a pat wills
ibatof all tbu world We call upon every indi
vidual voter to recognize and enforce the truth
tnaL. Id public no less than private dealings, a
faithful discharge of obligations at whatever cost
is the only foundation of permanent prosperity.
We invoke all Christian cltlxcna to proclaim that
Hie salvation of cominiiultlcs, os of individuals,
rests in conscientious aud unwavering adherence
to the everlasting principles of honor and irtitls.
And the conscience and intelligence of Massachu
setts will nut fall as.
Rut Rtrrutu’s campaign represents same,
thing more than repudiation; it is a stray
glo iu which revolution and anarchy are the
aims of a largo faction of his supporters. Let
us recall, from Rutleq's recent utterances
and actions, some of tho schemes to which
he is pandering:
1. Durum is in fsvor of ousting Hates
from office, either by usurpation or partisan
impeachment. He was given a place on tbe
Fotteh Committee with a full understanding
that be would encourage aud aid (bo revolu
tionary faction of tbe Democratic party. As
tho most active member of that Committee,
he has declared his intention to expose an
alleged bargain that should form tho basis
for Impeaching President Hates; to this
end ho has lent a willing ear to self-con.
feased perjurers, to notorious political ad.
venturers, and to poor, demented wretches
who were fit subjects for the strait-jacket.
Durum’s service in this matter is his claim
upon Doiuocralio support; it was the
excuse for the outsido' influence which
secured him the Democratic nomina
tion for Governor, It is expected of him,
in case he be elected Governor with the aid
of Democratic votes, that he will continue
to lend his active influence to the faction
which is bent upon ousting Hatbs from tho
White-House. This means revolution, what
ever form it lakes. It is not tho aim of tho
Democratic party as a whole, but of a faction
of that party who are ready to sacrifioo oven
party organization for a speedier seizure of
the offices than they can hope for in the
legitimate contest of parties at tho polls.
To Democrats, therefore, tbo party signifi
cance of Dutleb’s success will I* (he eu>
of a faction of extremists iu
the party who find little sympathy among
tbe musses. Thus Dotlxb represents revo
lution.
‘i. DUTLXk was one of the tint to declare
hi:as» JX in favor of «a unl-u.K .U,u« of ua
THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY' BEPfEMBE
exclusive nnd irredeemable paper cnrrency,
and one of Iho first to revirn the pehemo for
the psymrnl of Govsrnmyul bonds in green
backs which was ro overwhelmingly voted
down by tho people in tho Preridcntial elec
tion of IPT.S, Hence ho enjoys tho confi
dence of those in favor of “absolute” or
“ flat ” money; these people know they may
count upon hts support of any phase*of this
particular lunacy which may develop the
most strength. A man who boliovos in tho
permanency nnd efficiency of a currency sys
tem that is based upon no intrinsic valno
whatever, and the chief aim of which is to
exclude all possible exchangeability with
tho money of other nations, —nnd llrn-xn
has declared this as his financial creed, —is
prepared for the wildest schemes that specu
lation may suggest. Tho platform of tho
Nationals on which ho is running declares iu
favor of tho repeal of the Resumption net
for nit time, the issuing by tho Government
of so-called 44 absolute ” money, nnd tho pay
ment of the national debt according to tiro
“original contract,” as U ahall bo construed
by a Supremo Court that will bo reconstruct
ed under the auspices of tho National party.
Tims lltm.Kß represents repudiation.
3. In his relations with Krarnbt, and ovon
more distinctly in a speech which ho de
livered not long ago boforo tho printers on
the organ of tho 41 Nationals " in Now York,
Hutlku has pandered to tho most disgrace
ful and visionary aims of tho Communists.
Ho has re-echoed In somewhat more
choice but equally dangerous language
tho disposition to 44 corral the oqjfi
talists, and when yon’vo got Vm
corralod, grind ’em, God damn ’em.” He ad
vocates taxation of the Government bonds in
direct violation of tho contract, and in utter
disregard of all tho principles of economy.
Ho has hold ont tho promise that his success
will result in a reduction of tho hours of
labor to eight or loss with tho maintenance
of tho ten honra* wages, though ho knows
that no State statute can accomplish this in
Mftssaohusotts-whilu tho othor Slatos refuse
to pass tho same law*, and that no national
statute of tho samo purport can bo operative
while other countries compete in ronmtfncturo
and trade upon the basis of ton Lours’ serv
ices for ton hours* pay. Ho has undertaken
to draw a distinction botwcon capital and
enterprise, nnd has virtually promised his
cooperation in every scheme that makes war
upon the money-lending interest. In one
word, Rtm.cn has improved every oppor
tunity for months to pander to Communism
in tho full knowledge, of its ulterior aims,
lima Hctleji represents anarchy.
Run.nn’a candidature in Massachusetts
signifies, then, tho *• pooling of the issues ”
which have been known as Revolution, Re
pudiation, (Aid Anarchy, and which Lave
heretofore been advocated severally by a
faction of tho Democratic party, by the
Flutists or Nationals, and by tho Socialists or
Communists. It is to this combination which
the Democratic party of Massachusetts ha;
resigned tho field, indicating a willingness to
do the same thing in the national struggle in
tho event of tho combination’s success in
the State contest. This disposition ou tho
port of tho Democracy is further indicated
by tho chiefs of tho party hi tho Western
States who have assimilated Ibo Fiat doc
trine and catered to tho Communistic senti
ment The fusion of the Democratic party
as an organization with tho Nationals (In
eluding Communists and FiatisU) only waits
npon Bctleii's success. Huch an outcome
will probably make Butlcb tho Prosi
dentlal candidate of the now party
of repudiation and destruction, but,
in any cose, there will bo no room
to doubt its aims and purposes. Tho Rc
■ publican party will bo left to fight single
handed this combination of evils. Wo do
not mean to say that all Democrats can bo
whipped Into tho support of Rutlerism,
but they will have to choose between But*
lerism and (ho Republican party. It would
bo an indignity to the intelligence and hon
esty of the American people to donbt the
result, and wo oro not sure bnt it will bo a
blessing in tbo end to have tho issue be
tween tho lawless and conservative dosses
thus clearly presented, rather than run tho
risk of inducting tho former into power by
permitting them to bido their designs under
the cover and name of the Democratic
party. Massachusetts will bo an object of
pity If Bdtlui shall succeed, but that local
success may lead up to a summary demoli
tion by tho notion at largo of tho dangerous
elements for which the Democratic party
will thus become responsible.
THE CANADIAN ELECTION.
Oar Canadian neighbors beyond tho lakes
have just emerged from the excitements of
an election that has agitated the Dominion
quite os seriously as a Presidential election
affects this country. As a rule, tho ins
and outs of Canadian politics are os com.
plicated and incomprehensible as the issues
of Schleswig-Holstein or the belief of a
Gorman Particularism but in this case tho
issues wore clearly defined. The election
was for 20.) members of tho House of Com
mons, and its result decided tho party that
will have control of the Government during
the next five years and dance attendance
upon tho Marquis of Lobhb 'and his Royal
lady. In this election, tho party now in
power, distinguished os Liberals, and headed
by Mr. MscxxrfziE, was confronted by on
Opposition, designated as Conservative:!,
and beaded by Sib John Macdonald, who
was ousted from tho Premiership five years
ago, principally for his connection
with the Credit-Mobilior scandal in the Can
oda Pacific. The result was o clean sweep
of the Dominion,—nearly every province
contributing to the Conservative victory.
In Prince Edward’s Island the Opposition
elected all the six members. In Nova Scotia,
ut last accounts, the Opposition carried ton,
the Government eight, and throe in doubt;
m Now Brunswick, tho Opposition four, the
Government eleven, and one indoubt; in
Quebec, the Opposition thirty-six, the Gov.
eminent sixteen, and seventeen in doubt; in
Ontario, tbu Opposition forty-five, the Gov
ernment twenty-six, andpeventtiou in doubt.
It is estimated that when the returns ore ail
in they will show that Dir John Macdonald’s
majority in the new Parliament will be as
high os seventy, if not higher. In this eon.
motion, tho following extracts wilt show tho
feelings of tho respective parties over the
result. The Mail (Conservative) boys:
These figures amply attest lbs amazing uupopu-
Itnlyuf the UuowK-))Ackit*sis parly, uml ttio
strength of tbe demand for fair play to our native
imiustrlvs. Klve years ago the (inu would uavo
U that sir Juus Macdonald bad suua au low that
be would ueverrUe again. Kivu short years have
vindicated bis statesmanship and given mefraga-
Ine proof bis great popularity. The extraordinary
reversal of public opinion winch bos taken pUcu
iu that short tune is simply amazing. Mr. Mac
kxnzik's star bos gone out, never to shine again.
Hut to-day we can only brlvily tomcats the ex
traordinary character of tbe victory which tus
been Achieved.
Thu Globe (Liberal) thus consoles itself:
The causes that coutrlbuted to tills sUrtliug
clause of imbue aeuttmeut arc uot ditllcuii lu dis
cover. The commercial depression •till ensues
ever the North American Cuutiueut. sod the rest
less ocsire fer some uniilucd ctauze trut would
bun?about “eater tl.uu*." bad. uud.mbt. very
e.utj lo uowith a. Ta- seductive detadeu Laid
nnt In the weaker sort of nc<pilrln<r wealth qnlckly
hy ahutilnir out (or.icn commodities anil Inrrc.n-
Insr larcely the ronsumiitlntt and price of homo
tiMmif.icinrc* drew many vlctlma after It.
Ami the th-'roncli party orynnlratloti of the Tory
party for itriipicntlti!! Ihejr sentiment* nml bring-
Inn out their im ntlitl the feat, lint whatever the
muse of tho I,litoral defeat may have l»oen. tho
change of ailn.itton I* n treat fuel. We accept It
frankly. The electoral comeat hna been fought
fairly enough, —our opponent have won the day,
—and It only remain* for the llcform parly lo.closo
tip their rank*, perfect thnt which mav be amis* In
ihelr policy and orgimL-ailon, and Maud by their
limrdionAd principle* more tlrmly and vlgoroua
ly lluwwf.
Horn the extracts printed above hint at
the main issue in this remarkable contest.
That issue was the promfee of But .Tohn
Macdonald that if elected his party would
thoroughly protect home manufactures by
imposing increased duties, and that they
would retaliate upon the United Slates by
imposing the same prohibitory customs du
ties upon our products as wo now loty upon
theirs. As there is no law in the Dominion
preventing the people from spiting their
faces by biting their noses off, tins short
sighted policy has carried the day, notwith
standing the protests of the lower provinces,
where our products are most largely con-
Burned. A correspondent of the Now York
Time*, writing before the election, gives the
following instance of the operation of this
policy: %
.. the necessary article of flour, for example,
the production of wnlcli In tltoso provinces— Nova
Ncplla. New Hmnawlck, sou Prince Edward
■•land—ta fnsnfllcleni for cunanmption. In Urn
fiscal year 1577 they received from the United
NiatcsiHT.OTt barrels ol wheat floor, which, bclna
duly free, was obtained, probably, on more ad
vantagenm terms than from Ontario. As, how
ever, the tnrlil of (he United Slate* Impose* a
duly of tfflpvr cent on Canadian and other llmtr,
—iMjiiivaleni to about Jl.uo per barrel.—the "re
taliatory iMihcy" of me Opposition parly requires
the imposition of a‘similar duty on wheat dour
Imported from the United State* into the tuantimo
province*. It I* apparent, therefore, that while
till* policy would be entirely snliafaclory to the
fanner* of Ontario, who would tbu* tin J a market
In lh« lower orovlncc*, the lumbermen, and fisher
men, and other consumer* of dour in tho latter
would vigorously oppose n party which advocate*
the imposition of a heavy burden In the nbapo of a
tax upon an article of prime necessity.
Tbo policy of a protective tariff, however,
was not tho only issue involved in the dec.
tion. In Ontario this issue was involved
with that of Catholic representation. It has
long boon the b union of complaint that the
Catholics of Ontario arc not fairly represent
ed in proportion to their numbers. Although
there is a strong Catholic vote in tho Domin
ion Parliament, owing to tho preponderance
of French Canadians in Quebec, fifty of tho
oixty-fivo members of tbo letter province be
ing Catholics, Ontario has but one Catholic
among its eighty-eight representatives,
though the Catholics number bolwcouono.fiflh
and one-sixth of the population of the prov
ince, while in tho Local House tho Catholics
only number eight hi tho whole body of
eighly-oigbU Under thoso circumstances
tho Catholic vote, which has hitherto boon
with (ho Liberals, was split, ami
three-fonrths of it wont over to
tho Opposition. In its general aspects, how
ever, tho election turned upon tho tariff
issue, and, like oar own recent election in
Maine, represented o vague, unintelligent
desire of (ho dissatisfied people to try sumo
now remedy for tho hard times. Rather
than endure the evils they have, they were
willing to fly to others that they know not
of. Certainly there was nothing in tho rec
ord of Sir John Macdonald, tho lato head
of tbo Canadiou Pacific Crcdit-Mobilior Cab
inet, to inspire confidence; but as ho hod the
sagacity to Join a popular stampede and gel
tho control of it he has come out ahead.
Tho result of this victory is yet to come. It
will not bo atmogo if it is similar to tbo
result of oil popular delusions.
NATIONAL OS' NATIONAL B4NK PAPES
, MONEYJ
The boat of hard-monoy men may have
valid differences of opinion as to whether
tho paper cnrroncy of tbo country should bo
supplied by the National Hanks or tbo Gov
ernment. Secretary Soebmxn is quite right
in instating that his recent expression of
preference for a national paper currency
over tho National Bank notes carries with it
no question of tho resumption of specie pay
ments. Nothing bettor, politically as well
as financially, could happen now than a
flank attack on tho inflationists by bringing
into tbo front ot tho debate tho agency by
which tho paper money of tho United States
should bo furnished. Although there are
theorists who hold that gold and silver are
the only money, it is tho prac
tice of every civilized nation to use
paper and gold and silver ah
money. An adequate supply of papsr
money, convertible Into coin, this country
must always have. The llepnblican party
created both tbo national paper currencies
now in use. Both have done well tbo work
for which they were made, but tbo world
moves, and it is to-day a fair question wheth
er wo will leave tho currency as it stands, or
nse one kind to the exclusion of tbo other, or
relegate the supply of our paper to tho Slate
banks as before tho War. Tho cost of tho
National Bank currency is greater than It is
usually supposed to bo. B. F. Nouiuz, of
Boston, shows in a recent communication to
tho Pitutncuti OhronieUs that the singlu item
of loss of interest on tho National Bonk
notes in transit for redemption costs tho
country $”000,000 a year. In Franco,
Germany, and for the most part in
England, tho paper money Is mode and
handled by n single bank, but in tho United
States over 2,000 banks issue notes. An
immense tax Is imposed on tbo country by
tbo expense of this multiplication of tbo
cost of engraving, issuing, redeeming, traus
porting, and manipulating tbo currency. If
o single agency could bo set up that would
do all tbta and furnish bills as good as green
books or National Bank notes, tbo people
would makengroatenving. ilr. Nounss pro
poscqtbe creation of an Office of Issue like
the Issue Deportments of tbo Bank of Eu
glano and tho Bank of Franco, in being
owned by private individuals, but unlike
them in many important points, one of
which Is that tho Government shall have
most of the profits of the business.
The Office of Issue Is to bo u
corporation with $22,000,000 cash-coin
capital. Tho stockholders are to be
tho National Banks. This corpora,
tion ta to put up with tho Treasury $:ioo,«
000,000 in United Btatcs bonds, uml ta to be
allowed to issue against this security $.'100,.
000,000 of notes and as many more as it
coven with a deposit of coin in its vaults.
Thu office ta always to redeem, (he notes
in com. Tbo notes as long oh they are
kept redeemable in coin can be used as full
legal-tender by everybody except the Office
of Issue. It will bu scon that tbta corpora
tion acts under security us tbo responsible
agent of tbo Government in the exercise of
tbo sovereign right to make money. Thu
corporation gels no Interest ou the bonds
deposited us security for circulation. Its
capital and business are to bu exempt from
taxation. As compensation for supplying,
issuing, and redeeming the entire note our
runcy of tho United Staley it is to receive
from the Treasury, which keeps the inter
est ou its bonds, (1) tbo amount of its
expenses, (2) 2 per cent interest on Us
c.q'Ur.l, aud (d) vrlitovcr additional sum
R 21, 1878-TWELVE PAGES.'
may bo Agreed upon ns necessary to make
tip fair pay for tho work done. Under this
arrangement tho Treasury would pixy tho
Ofllco of Issue perhaps Sr»,(HK),OOO or $0,000,-
f>o(> n yew altogether, and wonld pockol as
profit tho $0,000,000 or $7,000,000 remain
ing of tho $12,000,000 Intercut on tho bonds
deposited. This plan Depurates tho banking
business and tho issno of cnrroncy, which is
nn advantage. It Is in its main points sub
stantially what was proposed many years
ago by Gamaliel Bradford. The Tribune
does not accept it, bnt presents it as worth
considering and comparing with other plans
for the improvement of our paper money.
THE SUOAR FRAUDS.
Tho Importation of sugar is ono of tho
largest branches of onr foreign trade. Tho
duties on sugar afford more revenue to the
Treasury' than do the duties on any ono
other article. Bat the laws rognlating these
duties have always boon adopted in the in
terest of thoV iUßftr refiners. There is a
largo propeifUm of the sugar produced in
other countries which might be used in the
raw state by tho mass of tho people for gen*
era! purposes without requiring to bo refined,
but the duties are so great on this quality of
sngorthat it cannot be imported.. The great
bulk of tbo sugar, therefore, brought to this
country has to bo taken to tho refineries,
whore at a nominal cost it is washed, and
then furnished to the pnblio at an advance
of several cents per pound. Sugar frauds
are dally practiced. Tbo duties on
sugar are regulated by “color,"—we having
a standard or tost which was in force 200
years ago, but which has boon discarded by
alt other countries. Under the opportunity
afforded by this law American refiners pur
chase sugar and have it stained. It is then
imported ns of tho lowest grade, paying tho
lowest rate of duly. Taken to the refinery,
this stain is easily removed. The refiners
are therefore enabled to defraud tho revenue
ami swell tho enormous exactions which (ho
law renders it possible for them to make.
Sugar importers have boon driven from tbo
business because the law is framed to
place tho whole business in tbo hands of
the refiners. Ono of those merchants, at a
recent investigation in New York, exhibited
tho following statement of tho losses of
revenue on sugar, owing to tbs frauds that
tho law makes possible t
IMPORTATION*,
.... .. .. ’ TtnVtt Ante
Height, IS. weimt. per lb.
IS7J i.mi.hihms 0j7.02.vm a.ll
1*77 1,493,J87.t1M 31.U37.HM 3. JO
liii|«irlulloti Mr
vnon'it at ,V. 1.,
fiscal year 1878.1,073.608.143 24.5JJ.786 3.5131
•-(•dug 72. HU pur centum of tliu loul importations
Into tiic Uillicit .Stale* fur tlio fiscal year.
New York inipuriatluna amount to 72.80 per
centum of total lor IH7B. New York Importations
L’nulo above No. 10 D. 8., as per eatlmaius of tho
cmnnilMion un the Now York Custom-House,
known us the Jay Commission.
Consequently at least 72. KU per centum of total
importations were above No. 10 1). 8.
Uuteof doty on 7J psr centum of total im*
. putts ~..2.8123
Itule of July ua 27 per cculuia of total tin*
port* ........2.60
Average.
KKUSPItPLATIOS.
... ««f* nmi/
II deW. I>. per lb, rteetreil.
1870.. I.MU,Han.m3 2.41 Collect'd duly. SJ7.n2.VuU
I.WII.BHO.MJ 3.7281 Correct duty.. 42.H10.00J
IJt ., x .. „ Discrepancy...ii.nsi.iew
1877.. 1.4V5,357.au 9. as CoileaiMduly. J4.:u7.!iVi
1,tt9,287,HM 2.7281 Correct duty.. kJ.704.7U7
1878..1.07.1,ft1W, 143 3.3151 Collccrj ilitty. ai.RU.TH)
tiU7J,titM, 142 2,7281 Conect duly.. 2U.41J.X1J
Discrepancy.... $4,378,053
. SI'MUAaTOPmn-TDtSOaKPAXOIIS.
IH7J.. Amount... 64,884,(H0
I*77.. Amount a. sm, 4 it)
1H78.. Amount, New York 4,978,692
lloru Is o loss of revenue averaging
$".,000,000 a year in tbo undervaluation of
sugar, not Including a tax 6f perhaps
$25,000,000 collected of the people by tho
practical of the refiners. Like tho business
of making whisky, the honest refiners can
not compete with tho other class, and must
either adopt the practice of swindling tho
Qovernmout or of going out of tho business.
Otto of thoso refiners, Mr. Lawson A. Poixxn,
stated to tbo Committee:
He thought It Impossible for tbo Appraiser to de
tect fraud under mo proscot system of campling.
Ilu aald that with the collusion of campion he
could defraud the Government out of flint), 000 a
year. The people wore compelled to huy rcilnod
sugar*, a* all other* were koot out of the market.
Hw thought that hy tho prelection accorded the re
finers tho Govornmentlost $.*1,000,000 or SO,OOO •
OOOaimuatly. The witness udvocuted feifniform
rate on oil sugars. which would placo everybody
ou an euuul footing and tend to elevate tbo wbolo
trade, lie wa* awaro that nuineroua frauds wero
lierpotrotcd hy lorge houses, uut did nut fee) Jneil*
led In mentioning the names of the guilty parties.
Tho witness had given up the refining business for
the moment, as tie could not compote with certain
other house* under the existing tariff, ttomu of
tho largest house* in the country bad already given
up tho trade fur the same reason. Ho thought that
the majority of tho prominent retlners who no their
own Importing artnltornto their sugars with glucose
and other ingredients, lie believed that the re
finer* wore producing too roauy low-grade sugars.
X'or fifteen years Congress has boou at*
tempting to revise tho tariff ou sugar, bat Uio
refilling Interest has always successfully do
footed auy interference with Us privileges,
ami still maintain tho monopoly. The av
erage duty collected on sugar imported is
about 000,000 a yeof. That Is paid Into
tho Treasury, but the bounty paid to tho re
fluors under tho law is fully as much more,
and this is tho curse of tho wltolo revenue
low—that for every dollar that is levied for
the Treasury thero is one, two, or three do!-
lars levied to benefit some private interest.
An uniform rote of duty of two cents per
pound ou all sugars would cut off all frauds,
would admit of a larger proportion of sugar
not needing refining, and would cheapen tho
prlco of sugars to the consumers. The law
could thou be executed fairly, and that is tho
precise reason why the present law is so per
sistently maintained.
Scuator Goody, in his reoout exposition of
the power of tbo Government to make forced
loans upon tho people, used the fallowing
illustration and argument to sustain his po
sition 5
Any man may make hi* promissory note, am] U
may pass to others at such value as may i*i fixed on
It by the receiver. Hut the limited liability of
private persons renders such a »chvme valueless
for commercial purposes. Tho point of enlarged
liability may be removed by the aggregation of
capital in an association of Individuals, but tho
complications which may arise by death ant
otaernUo reader this plan of little more use than
tho other. A corpuraiiuu may bn oigauixed which
would ayold such UUUculltes, uut a corporation
must bo created by the bUto or National Govern
meul, and It can oat/ exercise such powers ts may
be granted by thejmwfcr creating It. Hut the Gov
eminent cannot iHlegsto a power that It does nut
posse**. Whatever it may do by another. It may
tie Itself. It follows that'll Government may |»»nu
such bills, If It can authorises bank corporation to
>du so.
The Constitution'expressly confers upon
tho ' Government the power to “ borrow
money," and that power is comprehensive
enough to authorize tho General Govern
ment to issue a promissory note, or ccrlih*
cate of indebtedness, or a bond, either or all
of them, end to make them payable with or
without interest, and at such rate of interest
as may be determined on. Tho United
Slates, from its earliest dates, issued what
wtore called Treasury notes, and issued them
sometimes in largo sums j no one ever ques
tioned the power of the Government to do
this. It also chartered a National Dank,
with power to issue promissory notes j it
-also chartered tho present National Banks,
with power to issue promissory notes.
In tho absence of any prohibition,
we suppose every man and wo.cau in
the United States has the constitutional
right to borrow money and issue therefor
his or her promissory notes. But the power
to Imhtow money and inane notes therefor
does not include the power to compel per*
wmfl to take tlicm fw mor -y ami in payment
for labor or debts. Tbo point la not nfl to the
power to-borrow money ntul to Issue nolos
therefor, but Uio power to make those notes
a legal-tender. Will Mr. Ootmr point out
when and where the Government lias created
a corporation with authority to i«mo notes
to ho legabtcndor !n payment of privoto
debts? If Congress .has 110 power to
delegate the authority to issue legal-lon
dor notes, and Congress may delegate
to others what it has nnthority to do itself,
then, according to Mr. Qoudt’s argument, it
hos no power to borrow money by force in
the way of issuing logal-londor notes. The
mistake of Mr. Oounr is iu assuming that
tho creation of a bank with nnthority to
issue notes carries with it tho power to mako
these notes legal-tender. It is not the issue
of Treasury notes that is objectionable, but
tho issue of forcod-notos paper, which is
compulsory or fiat money.
Qcn. Butler's coup (Trial in Worcester tho
other day has not failed to arouse the people
of that irrand old Commonwealth to a lively
appreciation of their danger. They “do not
fail to comprehend the signs of the times in
which they live,” as Napoleon oiico said. Nor
do wo believe that they will fall to provide for
tho exigency that Is now upon them. Tho
Boston Journal says that tho men of Massa
chusetts will bo quick to Interpret such startling
signs aa “those set glaring In the political
heavens at Worcester on Monday night” It
says that, “If the Democratic managers had
pone up to Worcester with the very best plan
for discrediting and damaging the Butler
movement which It was In their power to devise,
and bad successfully carried it out in the
Convention, they could not have begun to
hurt Butler so much os his own men
have gratuitously done.” Llkc Butler’s powder
ship that he had exploded in tho vicinity of Fort
Fisher during the War, Ids Worcester fiasco
made a tremendous smoke, a big noise, and an
offensive smell, hut beyond that the damage Is
nut great, nor tho net results of very much ac
count to old Uck. “ What his purblind follow
ers have done,” continues tho Journal 11 Is to
make an Issue free and clear of all partisan
lines, sti Issue between the political rowdyism of
Massachusetts audits pmlty and honor; between
thcagcnls of all that we know as tho dangerous
classes In this State and the sound body of citi
zens, Irrespective of party, who have upheld be
fore the world tbo honored reputation of Mas
sachusetts hitherto.” Tho Journo', add* a word
of advlco to the honest and intelligent Demo
crats of Massachusetts, closing with this para
graph :
There la no reason why every Democrat ahnnld
not on strongly feel (he force or these considera
tions as any Itepiiblican. Ho ban the same public
Interests Involved, end then he linn been specially
Insulted, contemnea, and trampled upon by the
rowdyism of (he Hrri.cu * • imin inn (lull. *’ Ho In
asked in substance to lick tbe band of (ho assassin
of lili* party. Am we have said. however. it N not
on tbo gruundof partisan consideration of any kind
that tiie new Issue ahoubl lio met. Tbo Republic
ana move forward with thoir organization, became
at this hour that l» the mint oircctual way of deal*
hit; with Unlterlsm la tbe campaign. If they were
to relax Ihotr canvass nr chance (heir policy, (bey
would please only the Dtrri.ancrowrt, Hut they vote
agatnat him. not ea n Democrat at all, not merely aan
Grcenhackcr nml the champion of monstrous cur
rency falsehoods, but an, under tbo clrarunstnnccs,
tbu worst ami moat dangerous innu In Massachu
setts. Am) (hero uru thousands of Democrats In
all parts of thu Commonwealth— lovere of order
and decency In pobtlca—who, without chancing
tnetr parts connection*, will ho found voting with
them for Tiionam Talbot in November, because In
that way they can most surely and effectually crush
out the evil lortuences of Underlain In Massachu
setta. '
as
Tho following extract from n letter of a citi
zen of Yurktowu to a citizen of Cnicugo will be
read with Interest, as showing something of tho
present political conditions in Southeastern Vir
glnttj , ,
Youktown.Vo., Sept. 0,1878.—0 n the fid Inst,
wo rode to Hampton. Vn,, a-village twenty-four
miles from here, to attend a Hopublican Conven
tion held for tho purpose of nominating a can
didate for Congress. I wo* a delegate to It. Isoud
you a paper with the speech of imr suindard-bcor
or. \\ e had the last two election* stolen fiom us
by ballot-box stußlng, Intimidation, and devices
brought to bear on the ignorant colored people,
ordering them thorn to remove from their lamia if
they did not vota the Democratic ticket, or hiring
them on election-days und paying more than ordi
nary wages on that day In order to gain lliolr voles
uy their not voting,— mul, m fact, 1 have been nn
eye-wltnciM to thu Juouus actually Changing thu
votes after receiving them in the window of thu
voting uroclnct. Thutu tilings exist In this country
within a few hours' ride to the Capital of thu na
tion, and, of course, must he awpalllng down South.
Not knowing your political status, I fear I may have
■aid too much. If so, please pardon mu, for I have
said nothing from malice, but simply truth.
One of the newspaper reporters who went
down to Worcester to see Dutleu*« Democratic
oiunkcv-sbow semis this photograph of the
crowd there assembled to a Dutton newspaper:
It was a rare audience there gathered, consisting
in largo measure of unintelligent Irishmen, who
were addressed by orators mainly of (he suino na
tionality, but of somewhat better education,
dauulied at the Jokes and stones—usually slide, oc
casionally broad, ami sometimes btasphmnons—
applauded to lliu echo all allusions to •* ilUTi.au,”
••bloated bondholders." •.‘the rights of the labor
lug man," and other allusions with with which Dm
addresses were adorned, and howled and houlcd
down anybody who was hardy enough to favor
other methods and men than lUoss under consider
ation.
Bays the T.'o.-U.\
The Omaha Itepubtlean suggests that •• Wiscon
sin lias recently had a cuiniestiou of dead-heads. •'
If that comes to the ears of (ten. I.kUuc. tho Jtc
publican may bid good-by to e.tny cabbage seed.
Tim head of agriculture don’t brook sued compli
ments.
Tho point of tlio Joko Is that Mr. LeDuc Is a
Minnesota man and nut culled upon to rescut
the Insults directed against Wlscouslu’scltUeus.
It Is one of ibo y.-D.-C/- , i usual blunders.
Tho Milwaukee Dally AVim, (ho only English
Democratic dally paocr printed in Milwaukee,
holts the nomination of Mr. Deu.iTßK, amt will
propably remain neutral during Die campaign.
DaubTSit was nominated by 'acclamation hy tho
Democratic Convention, and will undoubtedly
be elected without the aid of tho AW>. The
AVtw has the example of Dsustbu hhuself In
bolting, as ho Is uu old baud ut Id.
Tho coouudrum that Just now interests tho
cud-man la the Democratic show otoro tlmn any
other is this: If Übn Durum can capture a
Democratic Statu Convention and get elected
Governor of Massachusetts, won’t he play tho
same trick In iB6O, and cobble up the National
Democratic Convention and bulldoze tbom Into
taking him us their t*mlldatef
After Thurman, Hbnurioks, McClellan,
BBYMOUIt, i'KNULBVON, EIVINU, KSAItNKY’,
Jbvv Davis, and other Presidential aapirauta
are killed olt lu tho Democratic Autiotul Con
ventlua lu IBSU, how funny U will seam to too
the ‘‘dark Itoreo '* led out, blanketed and
hooded, and, when uncovered, mealing tbo
head and front of Dbn Durian.
It Is estimated that tho contrlbutious from
thu North In utd uf UlO yellow-fever sufferers
lim already reached fully 91,(X)U,0U). It U a
magiilllceiit sum to be gathered In small doua
lions from a gem ruus people, and It ought to
be a bond of union between two sections that
still bear thu aeura of an angry conlllct*
Oov. Cui.lom hit tho nail on tho head lo a
little speech the other day at u county fair. He
Mid:
If all men In Illinois would admit tbs proposi
tion that production will hcucHoah be the only
source of wealth, and Its corollary, that the true
measure of lh*i value of real e«tis:u U its annual
rental or earning capacity, wo should no longer
have a clamor fur ludatlou of tho currency.
“ Dutlbb spent bis money like water to pack
Democratic caucuses,” Is tbe report of one
correspondent. Aud yet Ur. Dutlbb appears
before tbe footlights just now la thu role ol a
Reformer.
Xf Den Dutlbb run* for President and comes
within one voA of it, as Tilpsb did, then look
out. He would make Kotue howl.
Hallo, Tuukuaml i)o you know a Democrat
ic party by the name of Dun eul
WASHINGTON.
The Agitator Cohan's Demonstra
tion a Most Inglorious
Fizzle.
Workingmen Threaten to Asstmio
the on'cnslve Against
Him.
Silver Dollars Circulating Mod
erately on the Now
Plan.’
further Facts Concerning tho Manufac
ture of Sugar from Uaht ami
Sorghum.
COHEN’S FIZZLE.
TUI WOHRISOUSN WILL HAVE HONS OP Illy,
fyjxe.at niutaich to Thu Tnbun*.
Washington, D. C., Sept. SO.—Cohen wn
not successful to-day in tho attempt to secure a
great strike. 'llls motley procession moved
throughout sections of the city occupied by the
working classes, and received accessions until
It amounted to about 4(10. Few attempts were
mode to forco unwilling workingmen to Join
tho strikers, but the greater portion of the
workingmen resisted, and tho presence of tbo
police prevented Cohen's Marshal from carry
ing out their throats. Ilndeod, many Working,
men who opposed Cohen appeared to be qntie
ahto to take care of themselves, and threat
ened the Cohen crowd with personal
danger if they endeavored to inter
fere with them. The contractors on
several of the public works have ascertained
that tho men are adverse to tbo Cohen move
ment,. and to-morrow should tho strike cun
tlnue, will repel all attumpts to Interfere with
them by force.
The Indications arc Incrcnstng-that Cohen I* a
mere llguro-hcad, and that some demagogue for
political purposes Is seeking to create the im
pression that at the Capital of tho eountrr
there Is nu Inevitable eoiilllcl between caudal
mid labor. Cohen, for instance, has not a dollar
except wlmt he collect* by passing around tho
hut among Ids deluded negro followers, yet hij
band of•ver 400 men Is encamped to-night In
one of liW suburbs of tho city, uod have beep
supplied wlthiood.
HBAPT FOR THEM.
To UVsf/ni AniKlatfd
Baltimokr. Sept. 20.—Companies D and 11,
Second Artillery, armed as Infantry, left Furt
McHenry this lUtcrnuun for Washington.
Washington. D. C., Sept. &).—iiiu regular
troops from Baltimore arrived, and will prompt
ly quell any disturliance which may bo brought
about by Cohon and bU followers.
SOLID.
CAPT. WlftTß’S RRCOUMBNIUTIOS ron TRR !UIL-
WAV MAIL BRRVIOII SUI’CUINTCNtHJNCV
fy'diti Dlit/Mlclt to The Tribune,
, Washington, D, 0., Sept. 20.—C01. Uobb, of
Cblouru, arrived hero fu-nlght with impure rec
ommending Capt. James White, Maltreat Mosul
Superintendent of Chicago, to the portion of
Uenurol Superintendent of tho Hallway Mull
Service in thu event of tho resignation ‘of pres
ent Superintendent Vnli. It Is prolmblu that
such strong recommendation* ns these In favor
of Capt. White were never before brought to
this city. They embrace testimonials from all
the leading men of Chicago nml Federal olH
cors, with Governors of States mul leading 11c
publienns throughout the entire Northwest.
Uobb will not lilu these pauefs at the
I’ost-Olllce Dcpartinont, but will take them
with him to New York to-morrow, and
present them penmnully to tho I’resldent next
week, when tho (’resident Is expected to return
here. Thu reason why the Indorsements are hr*
be first presented In the President Is that It Is
understood that Postmaster-General Key imi
chosen another candidate (or the position, and
Capt. While’s friends consider It a wise policy
to bring the matter directly to tho iiUeutiun of
the President, Tho position of General Super
intendent of tho Uallwav Mall Service is not a
Presidential onico In the aunne that the ap
pointment requires confirmation by the Senate.
Tho Superintendent receives Ids appointment
directly from tbu Postmaster-General.
CO UNBTA LK-S UG A 11.
rUBTUKU VAVCA IN IHUUitD TO TUB NEW Dl*
COVUitV.
From Oar Dim CorrttrnndenU
Washington, D. C.,Bopt. 18.—The Washing
imrton dispatches of TiicTiuiiunb havecou
tallied tliu oiitUitctt of the new discovery by
which It (a possible to make sugar from fmlimi
corn ami sorghum. The results of these experi
ments arujuat published In o llttlo book en
titled “Sugar Made Iron) Maize and Sorghum,"
by Tho Uepubllc Company of Washington.
Tlio lollowing are oddlllouul extract* from ItiU
volume:
CORN AS A SUGAR-PLANT.
Plants containing a awtet juice may be divided,
generally, according to their composition, mu
three classes, viz. j
1. Those like the sugar-cane and the beet,
which. wn«n their juices are mature, contain, iu
association with other substances, truu, crystallise
bio sugar only,
g. Those like most fruits, such as the apple ami
tliu grape, which, whatever their cuiuposltluu
otherwise, contaiu no true sugar, but only glucose,
levuloso, etc.
a. To those must now bo added a third clan,
heretofore not generally recognized us distinct.
uhtch contain iathur hetlcomJ<liun both truetuaor
,a»ti ylticotf, but the miter uniformly iu couipaxa
tlvu small quantity.
Tim representatives of this dost are maize aa4
sorghum.
1 propose In show in the following pages that tin
Isit-meutionod plants have a lugllimalu claim la ts
ranked wltn Dm beet species no*
known. Ju proof of this, and In lha face ut nat
ural obstacles to a practical realization hUhctWuf
Dm ruliu- of theoe plants In this particular, which
nunu so well know the magnitude of as those who
have fully uneuuulerea thorn, it can now be sl>o*u
that the current uphmm as Iu Dm uucryslullUuldo
charucieruf ihußii-pirof Die Juices of those plauU
Is put founded on fact.
This opinion u based upon tho very uniits
ground (hit. Ik-cuusu sugar lus not been practically
obtained from th«#« sources hitherto, they no out
contain it; lor it can now be clearly suown dial
chemical Biiatvsis invariably rsvesls that imloulf
are Dm juicus o| maize and sorghum gtuwn m tbs
Culled bUltrn as radi, if nut richer. In sugars Pun
any other plants that can be grown iu lumperetu
latitudes, hut that, when In the proper coimltlou,
nlne-tenlhs of their ssccnarioa mailer Is crysUt*
llzuble sugar of Dm into rone type.
rosy or uanup*cturb.
The cost of me inuimiacturo of corn orior-
Shunt sugar In this country cun easily be re*
uml lo less than onu-tmU tho cost of the heel
sugar manufacture in Europe,— the earbumtbttun
imKeaaml the nss of animal eharotul U n(j
fire y uii/i, ami t/a me v/ the vacuum
j*tn mailt unHtttiMfy,
spumous corn-sugar.
Indian corn Inu recently obtained some celebrity
a* a sugar.plant in I'.* capacity to furuUti from lb*
•larch of lu grain. bp a well-known tran»forw.i-
Hun, the miserable *'*larch-a<ii|«r M lu wlnca, by
an amarine sUefth of courtesy, the u-tiua ef
• •corn-augur ” haa been applied. Tim munouic?
should deceive no one, tula spurious sugar ><
mauuiactured largely for iim a««i of tna brewf*r
atiddUtlllcr, and fur fabrication, with other*ua
stances, uf Cheap lablc-siruoi. bat, hi 1U tauhUtfd
form, it luck* all the essential qualities uf t<“ J
sugar except •weeino**, and that in so muca
lower dears* oa lu reduce lu commercial veluo to
about one-third that of common auifar. and m*
capacitate II from any of lu ordinary use*.
VOBUBIi BXPSUIMHNTS.
TLa only experiments ever mode lu the United
State# to extract auaur from corn of which there IS
any record were made by a few persons, ma»lly laim*
era, in dilferwnt part* ot the cuuntry, principally
during the veaia |Kftf and IHM, un Sciuuul m
wbicu suptuts In the reports of the lion. Ilcary L.
Ellsworth, I'uimnlsMlouer ol Patent* at that tunc.
These exnenmenU, nntortuMately, weraol»uih
a desultory character ua to determine nothing «**
cvpt the inapimipriuieuas* uf lbs mean* Used to
secure Ilia tb'sired end. No trustworthy sxjuuiu
tluu uf the Juice wua made to determine It* nature:
mid. aa might uute been anticipated. the tuouc m
treatment was iu«cd upon enoia which a inn*
rigid investigation wouhl have corrected.
Auvantxiils to ub übmivbii moil masl--
• ♦pArruuß or coiiN-suoAU.
It may now be confidently alllrmed that not
only maize lit the erven atule. bat also the tut*
ncac ami African canes, are l>evuml eoiuparwou
superior lu uuy other plant# that can be suc
cessfully crown lu the United Slate* for autrar*
production, either t* to certainty of results,
abundant and regular yield, ease of cullute, or
cbeapneaa and tacliltv uf manufacture.
It I* dlttlcult lu cxurcss m few words the im
portance uf lids statement. It will readily bo
seen that the natural resource* of the United
Stale* lor auuar-proditcllon from these plant*
are practically limitless, if the fact* heieai*
•uuted prove to be well established.
The area of laud annually planted in Indian
corn ot late years lu tbe Uullod States averages
■IS,UOU,O(XJ acres a* sbuwu by the rcpuris to tbd
Department of Agriculture at Washington.
It Is demonstrated that. If the average sueor
prouuciug vapidly ol either sorghum or lud.au