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THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE,
SATITRDAT. BEPf. 1. 1551.
SCORE ONE FOR THE HOG.
Want, absolute want has knocked the
bottom outof Germany'stariff on Ameri
can wheat and pork and now western
flour and the great American hog will
have free entrance into German ports.
Heretofore a duty of 40 cents a bushel
has been levied upon wheat and rye and
the importation of American pork, bacon
hams and sausages has been virtually
prohibited. All this has been recently
changed. The German ministry-un
like our own government-coulJ not
hold out against the clamor of the peo
ple for cheaper bread and meat. So it
was ordered that wheat be admitted free
and that American pork when accom
panied by a clean bill of health, shall
pay no duty. This makes the market
for northwestern bread stuffs and pork
as wide as the old world and as keen as
a half-famished people can make it.
The free entrance of the American hog
into German larts is a surprise. That
empire has been fighting our grunters
for years. He was accused of Iosessing
all the ills to which hog flesh is heir, the
deadly trichinea being among them. The
German people were made to believe
that American pork was little less than
a deadly poison, and hence the sweet
ineated parkers were tabooed. Of course
the German ministry believed nothing
of the sort, and when it became clear
that owing to short crops the people
must stiffer unless they could get cheaper
bread and meat which were already 50
per cent higher than in former years
the tariff was taken off.
In taking off the duties upon these
articles of food the German ministry
has shown a consideration for the weal
of the people to which the dominant
party in this country is a stranger. With
the single exception of sugar the neces
saries are taxed to the highest bearable I
point. and if the people can not pay the
tax they must go without them. The e
law is as irrevocable as that of the
ancient Medes and Persians. Germany
has br (ken down hers and permits the t
great American porker to stalk in. Score 1
one !or the hog.
yI'.1I)ARY F Lf. .lIlEREMEN.
A prominent uniherman informed a
T'itntst representative a day or two ago
that no applicant for permission to cut
timber upon the public domain has, to
his knowledge. received a favorable or
unfavorable response to his application.
Sawmill-men are in a "hole." They
dare not cut timber for their business
without a permit and have consequently
taken their choppers out of the tiniber,
who are now lying idle. This is an in
justice to the lumbermen. The time for
profitable timber cutting is rapidly pass.
ing away, and with it a profitable lum
ber season next year. Now is their log
harvest. but they can't gather them in.
In the meantime all the present stock of
lumber and available logs are being rap
idly consumed and nothing in sight to
replace them. The result will be a ma
terial advance in price for all kinds of
lumber, mining timbers and fuel, and all
because Mr. Carter has got his foot in it
through his timber rules and regulations
and doesn't know how to get out of it.
MLus. M1cKi.c.v does not keep posted
on the doings of the treasury under
"Calico Charley." In his Niles speech
he sail that the silver dollar had Si)
cents of intrinsic value in it and 20
cents of "-the iore breath of congress."
The it cents is held in the treasury for
the protection of the dollar, he says.
He iay not be aware, or he may con
veniently overlook the fact that Secre
tary Foster has proc.ured from the
solicitor of the treasury an opinion that
he can issue notes against the seignior
age, and the absence of the usual treas
ury statements leaves ground for the
suspicion that the secretary has done
this to help him out of his "pinch."
But what becomes of the 20-cent secur
ity?- Ex.
TALK about cheek! Talk about the
"genial influences of civilization." The
Sioux Indians of South Dakota have the
one and have absorbed a stalwart meas
ure of the other, as is evidenced by their
filing a claim against the government for
$10,O00,0000 for the destruction of the
game that once abounded in the north
west. There is not a white man in the
country who could muster the gall to
make such a demand. Those Sioux are
entitled to the pennant.
"IT is difficult to perceive how any one
of average intelligence could have been
surprised at the rise in wheat. The only
remarkable thing is that it did not come
sooner," says the Chicago Inter Ocean.
(Republican protectionist.) It is remark
able from the Inter Ocean's point of
view, when we reflect that the McKinley
raise of 5 cents a bushel in the tarif
took effect last October.-St. Paul Globe.
CIoAR smokers will please note that
cigars that cost $15 per thousand in Cuba
before the passage of the McKilaey bill
now cost in this country $75 per thousand.
Of course cigars are a luxury which can be
dispensed with, but when one knows he
is throwing off 6 cents cf tariff taxation
in amoke every time he smoke.s Havana
he may more heartily enjoy it. A man
should know what he is paying for his
whistle.
THE FRIENDS OF SILVER.
Montana is vitally interested in thi
7 final disposition of silver, not because ib
full remonetization would enhance thE
value of its silver mining properties, bul
if because it would bring millions of out
s aide capital in the state for investment
n in other industries. A country whom
.11 principal industry is the production of
s. money, and in which production no clams
el of men nor no other industry is injured,
d must in the nature of things attract cap
n ital and stimulate enterprises in which
y all the people are directly or indirectly
Y beneficiaries. Montana is a silver money
I producing country, and as such it is. as
it has been said, vitally Interested in the
) disposition of the metal. For years it
it has been kicked around as a merchant
e able commodity, subject to the manipu
lations of speculators who have reaped
11 profits from the fictitious market values
t they have temporarily placed upon it.
k It is time this should cease. It is time
the people of the state should see
that it shall cease.
Now is the time to sta ike. Harrison
has clearly defined his position upon the
silver question. He is opposed to the
free coinage of the metal. The people
have no assurance that Blaine is more
friendly to it. One or the other will be
the candidate of the republican party
for the presidency. The national plat
form upon which either must stand will
declare against free coinage. It is not
to the interest of Montana that either
be elected. On the contrary the fate of
the metal for years to come depends upon
the defeat of the republican candidate,
whoever lie may be. Cannot the people
of Montana see this? Now the ques
tion occurs, will they place the vital in
terests of the state in the hands of a
man whom they know is hostile to it?
And If they do what is the outlook of
silver?
Let us look at this matter as reason
able men. Let us divest ourselves of all
partisan pride or prejudice in the con
sideration of the matter. Let us con
sider the interests of the people of the
state and then decide how we shall act.
As stated, we have no assurance that
the interests of silver will be enhanced
by the election of either Harrison or
Blaine. But we do have reason to be
lieve that silver has an earnest friend in
the democratic party. Every state
democratic convention held this year
has adopted resolutions declaring for the
free coinage of the metal, while not a
single state republican convention has
taken the Montana view of the question.
These are facts patent to every reader of
the events of the day, and each should
know which party is its friend. Men of
Montana, whom will you serve? The
friends or the enemies of silver? Now is
the time to make your election. Now is
the time for you to array yourselves for
or against it. Under which king will
you serve?
FOSTER'S SHREWDNESS.
Secretary of the Treasury Foster has
had a rather hard problem to solve dur
ing the last month or so. There were
$51,000,000 of 4}2 per cent bonds to be
redeemed the 2d of this month. At no
time since the adjournment of congress
has the national treasury contained that
amount of money. Mr. Foster knew
something must be done to satisfy the
holders of the bonds. He proposed and
the proposition met the indorsement of
several bankers--that holders should
continue them at 2 per cent interest.
About 2.3,(XK),00 of the bonds, it is said,
have been thus continued, leaving $28,
000,000 to be redeemed in gold. How to
get this gold was a nut which the secre
tary tried to crack. He cracked it this
way. as told by Bradetreet's:
Heretofore the currency which was
shipped west t3 move the crops passed
through the hands of express compames
that charged 75 cents per $1,000 for ex
pressage. Foster prevailed upon west
ern bankers to order their currency
through the sub-treasury at New York
at the rate of 15 cents per $1,000. The
story there is that the sub-treasury offi
cials required either gold certificates or
coin from eastern bankers, and while the
gold was retained in New York or for
warded to Washington, legal tenders
were shipped to the west. By this
shrewd scheme Mr, Foster gathered in
$12,000,000 in the yellow metal to apply
to the redemption of the 4% per cents.
His very latest proposition is to extend
the time indefinitely in which holders of
4% per cents may continue them at 2
per cent. As interest upon the 4% per
cents ceased the 2d inst, the success at
tending his last proposition will soon be
known. But Foster is a shrewd one.
GOVERNOR CAMPBELa has challenged
Major McKinley to a joint debate at
Ada, Ohio, sometime this month and the
major has accepted it. The debate will,
no doubt, be conducted on a plane above
personalities and will be an interesting
event in the Ohio campaign.
Mas. Roaxar RaT HAmunoi made her
debut on the theatrical stage at a town
in New Jersey, the evening of the 2d
inst. The play was "All a Mistake."
The plot is an adaptation of the story of
Mrs. Hamilton's life, in which she of
course is the central igure. It every
woman ia the country who has made a
mistake in marrying should follow in the
footstep of Mrs. Hamilton there are not
enough theaters in America to give each
a night ina year. As for the men-why
-well, one theater would do.
IRATE CONGRESSIONALISTS.
e The New York Herald of recent date
a publishes dispatches from Valparaiso
a in which it is stated the fact cannot be
t denied that there is a very bitter feeling
existing against the United States upon
t the part of the congressionalists. This
s feeling is so strong that unless placated
t in some way it may seriously affect
s American commercial interests in Chili
I, for some time. The causes which led to
this unfriendly spirit was first the cap
a ture of the Itata. This event created
r the impression among all classes of Chili
r an. that the United States government
i was actually unfavorable to the revolu
a tionary cause. This impression was in
t tenilfled by the action of Admiral Brown
- of the flagship San Francisco. The ad
miral made it a point to be present at
I the landing of General Canto's army at
Quintero bay and invited several other
naval officers to go with him and see the
show, The Chilians charge that the ad
miral was a government spy on the move
ments of the congressionalits' army and
no amount of explanation has been suffi
cient to remove this impression.
Then other things have served to
strengthen the feeling against the
United States. Not the least important
is the very general belief that Minister
Egan has been an active partisan of
Balmaceda, and used his influence in
preventing the state department from
recognizing the belligerent rights of the
insurgents. Acting Secretary of State
Wharton's action in ignoring the congres
sional envoy even now, when it isarecog
nized fact they represent the only gov
ernment of the country, has increased
the feeling against the citizens of the
United States. Admiral Brown's action
in refusing to give up political refuges
who have found an asylum aboard his
ships has also added to the general irri
tation. It is the general belief Admiral
Brown is acting under instructions or by
advice of Egan.
It is thought Egan's recall by our gov
ernment will be demanded, but it is
hoped Mr. Blaine will pay no heed to it.
As far as the Itata affair is concerned no
American who is cognizant of all the
facts in the case will blame his govern
ment for the part it took in the matter.
The Itata had violated our neutrality
laws and sought to escape punishment
by flight. The vessel voluntarily sur
rendered itself to the commander of the
Pacific squadron. The insurgents or
congressionalists, as they term them
selves, knew the Itata had violated in
ternational law, and entered no demur
rer against her surrender.
Whatever Admiral Brown did was
done in pursuance of instructions from
his government or to gratify personal
curiosity. It is an insult to our govern
ment to charge it made a spy of one of
its admirals for any purpose whatever,
As far as Minister Eagan is concerned it
does not appear he acted outside his au
thority. If it be shown he has not he
should not be recalled, for his recall
without cause would reflect upon this
government. The fact that he is un
justly suspected by the insurgents of di
recting the movements of a "government
spy" should determine this government
to stay by him.
According to this mornings dispatches
President Harrison has ignored the ex
istence of his secretary of state, Mr.
Blaine, and in the name of the govern
ment recognized the insurgents' envoys
at Washington and wired Minister Egan
to recognize the congressional govern
nient at once. Just how Egan can do
thi4, when, at present, it is simply a gov
ernment of force, the country not having
a recognized civic head, is unexplained.
But President Harrison has taken the
matter out of Blaine's hands and gone
into the recognition business on his own
hook. He will now look for aid and
comfoot from the little rainless strip of
country on the Pacific in his race for the
presidency. Whether this hasty action
upon the part of the president will pla
cate the irate insurgents remains to be
seen. At last advices they were mad
and on their right, royal, revolutionary
ears.
Accoaniao to republican organs that
McKinley tariff is a wonderful thing. It
takes the tax off sugar and the price
falls. It puts a heavier tax on wool and
the price ulls. It adds and increased
tax on wheat and barley and the price
rises. It raises the tax on leading im
portations and the importations increase
and their prices fall. It taxes woolen
and cotton goods at an average of 120 per
cent. and the price falls. Truly, what a
marvellous thing Is the McKinley tariff!
HEan is a Globe Tower shot that hits
the bull's-eye full in the center. "Un
limited capital stood ready to invest in
tin plate mills as soon as the bill passed,
was Mr. McKinley's confident assurance
last year. The tin plate rise has been
starting mills everywhere ever since, but
beyond Niedringhaus' one-Welshman
and-a-boy mill in St. Louis none has
been discovered. Now comes Mr. Oliver
of Pittsburg, who says that capital is
waiting to -e it the fifty-second con
gress will not repeal the tax."
HENRY CAaor Lonos-he of force bill
memory-wishes it to be distinctly un
derstood in his article in the Forum that
the democratic party is the party of free
coinage and that the republican party is
against It. How many republican or
pas are there in Montana that will echo
Mr. Lodge's sentiments? Don't all
speak at once.
NO BLUNDER COMMITTED.
Several leading eastern democratic
journals are of the opinion that the Ohio
democrats committed a serious blunder
in putting a free coinage silver plank in
their platform. They contend that as
the republicans invited a contest upon
the tariff issue alone the democrats
should have accepted the challenge and
made a square fight upon it, leaving the
silver question to take care of itself.
They base their criticism upon the
grounds that the making an issue of sil
ver has exposed the democratic party of
that state to attacks upon the front and
flank; that while McKinley is carrying
on the tight for his pet measure, Sher
man is turning on his batteries against
the white metal; that the democrats
must divide their forces for aggressive or
defensive action, and it they prove vic
torious the republicans will not concede
a tariff defeat, whereas if McKinley be
elected the republicans will claim a vic
tory for his tariff.
There may be some grounds for these
objections, but the TRaIuE. cannot see
that a blunder was committed by the
Ohio democrats in making free silver
coinage an issue. In fact it believes
they acted in the direct line of sound
policy. In the first place the silver
question cannot long remain in abeyance.
The time has come for definite action to
be taken upon it. The question has
been thoroughly discussed in and out of
congress. Gold bug theorists have long
since seen their favorite argument, that
the circulation of silver with gold would
drive the latter out of the country, re
futed by facts which have entered in the
political history of the country. The
mass of the people are prepared to vote
intelligently upon the question, and
those of Ohio are not an exception. In
the second place the farmers' alliances of
Ohio favor free silver coinage, and while
their vote may not be cast for Governor
Campbell, it will not be given to McKin
ley and his anti-silver platform. In mak
ing silver an issue republican silverites
will be driven from their party unless
they choose to stultify themselves by
voting with it. They will hardly do the
latter. For these reason it would ap
pear that Ohio democrats have nothing
to fear through the silver plank in their
platform.
THE IRRIGATION CONGRESS.
The Salt Lake city committee having
in charge the irrgation congress which
meets in that city the 15th, 10th and 17th
of the present month, has issued a circu
lar letter of instructions in which the
objects of the congress are thus set
forth:
The sole purpose of calling this con
gress is to induce the national and state
governments to enact laws, whereby
these arid lands can be best and quick
est brought into the market, settled and
developed. Without offering any sug
gestion whatever as to the plan to be
pursued, or the legislation to be suggest
ed, each delegate is requested to form
his own ideas as to the most beneficial
and feasible legislation calculated to
bring about the development and up
building of the agricultural lands of the
western states and territories.
J B. BARNLM, Wisconsin's self-an
nounced Christ, has been adjudged in
sane and sent to the Oshkosh hospital.
His wife accompanies him, she being also
pronounced of unsound mind. If all
the rest of the religious cranks in the
country were treated as people of
diseased imagination much annoyance
and actual suffering would be prevented.
Hospitals and asylums are the places for
them, rather than freedom and the per
secutions of senseless mobs.
Cn:.o;o proposes to build a 32-story
house at the World's fair grounds in
stead of an Eiffel tower. Chicago is
practical. The sky scraping house may
be used for various purposes, while the
tower could serve none save a point for
observation.
As Ohio political speaker who was
converted to tariff for revenue only, in
trying to prove that protection was a
good thing for the people of the coun
try, says McKinley will be buried under
an adverse majority of 50,000.
BLAINE is provoking. While denying
that he had said he was not a candidate
for the presidency, why could not he
have said he was or was not. Harrison
had his ear turned Bar Harborward and
strained to catch a comforting answer,
but it never came, and now Blaine's can
didacy is as much of an enigma as it was
before the canard was sprung upon the
Maine man concerning his avowal that
he would not be in Harrison's way.
It you want to rent a house call on
Phil Gibson,
The family trade of Dunlap & Gaunt
has increased to such an extent that
they have had toput on another delivery
wagon. Their customers can now rsst
assursd that their orders will be prompt
ly filled. _______
Preparisg fer not Weather,
The following telegram from White
wr1ght, Tex., indicates that the people in
that vicinity do not Intend to be caught
unpreprd
Wrlawawoar, Tex., June 2,1891.
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