"PUBLICAN NEWS ITEM. CHARLES L WING, Editor. Published Every Thursday Afternoon By The Sullivan Publishing Co. A.t the County Seat of Sullivan County. LAPOHTE, PA. W c. MASON, l'resicien. THUS. ,1. INGHAM, Sec y & Trcas. E ired at the Post Office at Laporte, a;. sppombclnns mail matter. REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET. For Supreme Court Justice. .1 >ll N I'. IM.KIN, of Indiana County. ForJPresidential Electors. electors at Large- —Robert l'itcairn. Allegheny; Levi"f4. McCallev, Chester. REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET. For President Judge. HON. E. M. DUNHAM, of Laporte. For Member of Assembly. ]>H. M. K. IIKItRMANN, Fur Sheriff'. FRANK \V. BUCK. For Congress E. \V. SAMUELS. or 11 BALANCE SHEET UNCLE SAM'S FINE SHOWING FOR THE PAST YEAR. lie- < «in<lnuen to Sell Mncb More Than lie Hily» lilid (o Keep American l.n- Fjiir StenclHy lilntployed lit Ilemti iterative Wnffew. The fiscal year of the United States j vc rnnient enils on June 30, when the uunual balances are made up. Although tl exact figures have not yet been completed, enough is known to show a comparative statement of the eommer cinl and financial results ol' the year IDO4, As regards the ordinary receipts and expenditures, the surplus for the year ■\v s somewhat over .$13,000,000, which, though not equal to the large excess of receipts of recent years, was quite sat isfactory. From the large accumulated surplus Uncle Sam was able to make a l'nuaina payment of $50,000,000 anil also to lend the St. Louis exposition $4,- 000.000, $500,000 of the latter already having been repaid. During the year millions were also paid in reduction of the national debt. With the exception of one year the expenditures of ISO 4 exceeded any in our history, and yet they were most judiciously made and were warranted by the receipts, which were more than sufficient to meet them. Uncle Sam conducts only one great business in addition to the regular gov ernment finances —that is, the postof li-e department. Here, too, the reve exceeded all preceding years and w.: -ranted a larger increase in the ap -1 r i; -.'iation for the rural free delivery s'Wic ■, which has now reached most astounding proportions under the ad ii s nis I rations of McKinley and ltoose vclt. i'assiog from the financial condition cf iKe treasury and its operations, one i i xaniine with great satisfaction t . reign trade of the country and t j.■ • splendid favorable balance of 1004. t exports of $1,460,820,530 were the 1. . Li in our history, with the exeep t ii oi' the year 1001, when they were <ied by about $27,000,000. The ex -s ~112 exports over imports, amount i j in S4TO.(iiK).O(Mi, is a most favorable I '.lance, and approaches again the av. r. ;e balance of the past several years. It will be well to glance at the fell.living table, showing our foreign ti:,ne under the operation of the Ding le- tariff, which went into effect July 2-i, is!>7: Excess of exports over V. :i; ti. imports. Exports. Imports. ]- stac.o49,tis4 11,231. 452,330 JiilO. 4:12.1170 JV.-'.i.... G97.145.489 1,227.023,302 029,874,8X3 j: J.... 84!), Ml. Ivl 1,21)4,483.082 644.541.898 J; ..... 823.1V: Ilia 1,457,704,991 0ti4.592,82fi 1. ... 903:1-0,948 1,381,719,401 471.398,403 1 ...1.ii:",.V1:i.:37 1,4211.141,879 394.42-.412 990,745,084 1.400,829,539 470,084.455 ; j ;: evident that some s4t)o,< 100,000 or o.i :)0,000 is necessary to satisfy iiur annual foreign charges and prevent th 1 exportation of gold. Just what these charges are it is impossible to say. although we know that more than 11::;of them are due to ocean freight 1 i and settlements of the expen U t .. . s of tourists abroad. iriiig the year 1004 our excess e:<- t Tl sof silver amounted to s'Jl,7N3,<!£>>. 1:, ilgures for I'.>■'» being $20,000,00'.. a'! I for ]!)(s'Jl.soo.( 00. These shottM 1 • added to our in rehandise balance. The xolil imported was $00,000,000, an . w. exported $51,500.000, making an ex :'ess of gold imports of $17,500,000. It should be noted that In spite of t'.e fact that we appropriated $50,000. I I fir the Panama canal, to be paid in eld, and which was settled during tie month cf May. yet our excess of 1 ts of ■. ! 1 during the year was ' :;.".000. This would seem lo show tin,i in:' indebtedness abroad has been la; ( l.v lii|tii(lalcd (luring recent years, rii.l that we shall not for much longer be great debtor nation, but may soon In line a creditor nation, if we have in already reached that condition. We are now firmly established as the lar_. st exporting nation on earth. Nor i :1s due to large sales of agricultural pr ducts, as has been the case for many .v. .rs until recently, our sales of man t:f . lures abroad for the past year were the largest in our history, and si ,i to lie constantly Increasing. A1 though our exports of farm products I " e fallen off somewhat, yet it has r, ilted in no decrease in revenue lo our farmers, tin the contrary, they have been enabled to market almost r. r entire product at heme, and st I h, or prices than they would have ri ; eiveil abroad. We have filtered upon a presidential •impaign, which is always supposed to be more or less detrimental to business, and yet the outlook for the future is stand by the impartial commercial agencies and financial journals to be bright indeed. There is one industry to which atten tion should be called at this time, and tiie proper lesson drawn therefrom. We refer to the wool industry. Never in our history was there such a demand for raw wool as there is today. It ha.~ taxen six or seven years to recover from the blight and the blow given to this industry by the free wool tariff from 18'. 14 and 189". The large stocks of foreign wool which accumulated iu this country under that law have at last been consumed, and we are now operating under normal conditions, and our wool growers are reaping the bene fit of protection to their product. 11 can be said that buyers are standing by the shearers, ready to take the wool as fast as it is clipped and almost at the grower's own price. As this wool is made up during the coming year into garments, the double benefit of a tariff upon both wool and woolens will be more and more apparent, and the situation will help largely to mitigate the losses of the last year, because of the abnormally high price of cotton, although in that Industry conditions A LOST OPPORTUNITY HOW DEMOCRATS MISSED BEING SANE AND CONSERVATIVE. William Jennings Ilryan Forced Up on the Democratic Party the Plat form Declaration to tlie Kffect That All Protection In llobbery. It is refreshing in these days of par tisan radicalism to encounter so calm, so sane and so intelligent an expression on a subject of hitdi importance as the following from the Brooklyn Eagle, an independent newspaper of Democratic proclivities: "The Bryan substitute for tlio Wil liams draft begins with a characteris tic Bryanism. At this writing the full text of it has not come from St. I.ouis, but it is described as declaring that all protection is robbery. This is a proposition with which the country may take issue. It is undoubtedly a proposition from which the voters may withhold the seal of their indorsement. They do not regard protection as rob bery. The rank and tile of Republic ans and many more Democrats than can be counted regard the schedules, with all their infirmities, as a shield. Prices paid for labor in Europe are such as are suggestive of pauperism here. The difference is a sort of credit balance in favor of the American ar tisan. It is a balance he is more than disposed to keep on the right side of his ledger. To ask him to vote it out of existence is to invite him to become his own worst enemy." It was the Bryan substitute which went through, while the far more mod erate and guarded draft of John Shun* Williams was voted down in the com mittee on resolutions. Bryan was in the saddle so far as concerned the form of declaration to be used or not used relative to vital questions. The Ne braska malcontent could not control the presidential nomination either utlirma tivoly or negatively, but he could and did bar the way to the recognition of the gold standard as an accomplished fact, and lie could and did compel the adoption of a tariff plank whose rabid folly of denouncing protection as a felony must offend many Democrats and alarm many liepublieuns who might otherwise have been favorably disposed toward tariff revision at the hands of the Democratic party. It was the blind Samson pulling down the stones of the temple on the heads of the Philistines. Bryan could not rule the convention, but he could ruin the chance of the Democracy to regain pub lic confidence. Barring a few fanatical free traders, the delegates to the St. Louis conven tion know now, and knew when they voted to adopt Bryan's tariff plank,that they were voting to adopt a lie. They know perfectly well that protection is not robbery and that it is not so re garded by nineteen-twentieths of the American people. The Eagle well says: "They know what robbery means. They know that the policy of protec tion is legitimate, even though there are instances in which it is pushed to extremes. They know that the only free trade country In the world is be coming restive under the system and may invoke a change. And they know that under the existing tariff this coun try has broken all industrial records. Commerce in this country is not rob bery. It is giving an excellent account of itself in competition with countries which v.ould a.-;. : ..tl/.ng ' :\v than an opportunity to umlers( II the Ameri can producer In his own market." To say that protection is robbery U to say that protection is a felony, an in famous crime against society, and to say this is to insult the intelligence of close on J0.000.000 voters, who, though some of them may object to that policy for one reason or another, know perfeet ; l.v well that protection is not robbery. The Democratic party has simply lost one more opportunity, to be sane, safe, reasonable and decent on the tariff ques tion. A I'io Ins Investment. Cood roads, no matter what they cost, are a paying investment. They increase the value of every acre of farm prop erty. save time, wear and tear on wag ons, harness and horseflesh and make it possible for country people to enjoy privileges that would otherwise he be yond their teach. John D. Reeser's Big Store, Lank ?>iock, Dushore, Petm a. ! Reasonable Goods. \ The most fashionable of the season, the serviceable .Moiiair, stylish lor traveling, mountain or se.olu.ic wc.. and a perfect material for shirtwaist costumes. All prict s iioiu soc t<> i25 Black and colors. LININGS The very best linings, have in stock and you fan be easily suited as they are very reasonalie i., price and best materia! 12 1-3, Is, and 2sc yd. in Black and Colors. fc WASH GOODS, have a very pretty assortment of W is:i Goods and now is a good opportunity to buy as t!u yjj are within reach of everyone. jj CORRECT FITTING CORfETS. A perfect fitting (or ot is a necessity to make your costume look we!! rc'j when we can give you one that exactly suits your tigure n tin* same price as you pay for one that docs not, .!u : j you can see the advantage of buying here § Have the best brands including Thomson's Glove Fittiug Millitant J. ('. C. Corsets, Annorside Abdominal. Girdles. in .JuKei>hi»e.B Cleopatra and H. &U. Ribbon Girdles. Have a fine assortment in 50c corsets; but the 1 .00 and 81 .."•() corsets wear the best. I Suit Cases, Satchels, Telescopes and Trunks, a new Ihe having been received and the prices ranging to suit youl Come in and look over the remnant counter as you will fuiu that they are reai bargains tor you. Carrying complete line i 1 Dry (loo.ls, Millinery, Shoes, Crockery, Carpets, Rugs, Oilclotns, Curtains aiu o G oceries. Will buv Spring Chickens every Wednesday. John D. Reeser's Big I •4 ■ V . .T . erg DITSHIOE/E • 8 Get ft)C Habit OF BUYING YOUR SUPPLIES OF US. OUR MOTTO !S "GOOD Q,TJJLI_,IT"Y"" "ZHZCOSriEST Q,TT A NTITY" ; SELL CHEAP AND SELL A HEAP AND KEEPING EVERLASTINGLY AT IT SALT FISII Ciscoes and No. 1 Family White in 10 Ib. pails 75c. | { brl at 2.00. No. 1 Lake Trout 10 lb pails 510 c. large lish to the , package. Alaska Blood Hod Salmon Trout 10c per lb. ( i ran ii lated Sugar 5\ per lb. '-J5 lb. bags. Lancaster or Auuiskeag . (iinghams 7c yd, Choice No, 'J, \\ bite Old Oats »5e per bu-liel. BRAN 1.25 per 100. We make "Excelsior'' Chop right. All discrim- j inating feeders know it. Ask your dealer for it. In its nianutaclure | we are proud of more than money making, but that is why our trade | grows continually. On suits made to order we invite inspection. Our sales embrace lnanv orders including husinkks mkn, Clerical and a General line of made to measure by expert tailors. Silk sewed and well lined gar ments at from Sl'-'.OO per suit up. Try us and compare values from any source you may choose to and we know we will share in your patronage. A. P. WIELAND CO. General Merchants, PROP G R R I ,|™^ L i TEAM USTCXR JDJS/EOJSTT, Carpets, Carpets, We have the largest line of Carpets shown in Suili van County; at any price you want, any color, any patern, any grade, at any price, in any quantity you want. Aattincrs Aattings Some of the greatest bargains in Mattings you ever saw shown in this or any other town. All grades and all prices. Don't forget that we also carry the largest stock ol FURNITURE in this section of country. HolcombecrLcKier, Furniture cT Undertaking DUSHORE, PA. TELEPHONE. FIRST NATIONAL BANK BIITGHIESVILLE, JPJL. CAPITAL STOCK, SSO 000 DeWITT BODIHE, President C. WILLIAM WODDBOP, Vice Pres. W. C. FDONTZ, Cashier. SURPLUS AND NET PROFITS, DIRECTORS: $50,000 DeWitt Bodine, C. Wm. Woddrop, Peter Reeder, Transacts a General Jeremiah Kelley, William Frontz, W. C. Frontz, Banking Business. ; .. „ James K. Boak, T John C. Laird, E.P. Brenholtz, accounts ol Indivtd ! Peter Frontz, John P. Lake, Daniel H.Poust, unhand FirmsSolic-j John Bull. >cd. | Don't Tobacco Spit uml Sl okc Your Life Ann jr. To quit tobacco easily and forever, be magr ] nt uc. full of life, nerve »mJ vigor, take No-IV] Miic. the wonaor-vrorUer, that makes vveak men strong. All druggists, .'i"c or £l. Cure gunran* tt" «l Booklet ami .-ample Tree. 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It is in fact; oJ** H county and conies from the t-uui 1 ! almost a daily newspaper, an<o If of justice with new news from } you cannot a fiord to he without? 1 thi- county olliceti, clean new? I it. We oiler this unequaled jj from all sections of the county j paper and the NEWS ITEM | n and political new- vou want ' j together one year for I § rend. ThU with Tri wceklv- at i $1.50| dt j 51.50 Hie REPUBLICAN MEWS ITEM | qhxa T i*i- vfeekly GAZETTE AND BULLETIN. n I I T i ! ? j In every city there is one best j If you want to keep in touch | paper, and in Williamsport J with the Republican party jit is the < iazette and Bulletin. I; >i ;.':>nization and he informed I it is the most important, pro- j. " • all real estate transfers or ! gressive and widely circulated E hyal matters in general that paper in that city. The first [; transpires at the county seat 6 to hold the fort journalistically. £ yon must necessarily take th.' ? Order of the News Item. | NEWS ITEM. ; __J L ... 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