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Darnv. one year. :3; six'months, $1.75; three
months. $1.00; one month, 30c.
WEEKLY. one year. in fradvance. $1.90: six
months. 60c.: three months, 35c.
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 1897.
Revenue First.
President McKinley’s message t r
Congress upon its convening in extra-
ordinary session Monday at- hts call is a
' thorough business document. Then is
in it- no attempt at rhetorical effect, to
phrase making, no ohtrusion of the first
person singular. It is short, plain ard
to the point—one pornt only, and that "a
the crying necessity for more revenue
to meet the absolutely neceSI-ary ex-
penditures of the Gowrnment. There
is nothing essentially new in the Presi-
dent’s presentation of the official figures
portraying the great: and growing; 'l‘rer. --
sury deficit, but he makes it periec ly
plain that only evil can come of a polity
of borrowing and continual debt cor-
‘ ,tracting while the country has unlimit-
ed means at its 04. mmand. A condition
of the revenue that allows this, says ti 9
Executive ”.s at justifiable and should
be corrected. '
It is for this purpose that Congress
has been convols ed. All other business
must wait upon revenue legislation.
The message makes no allusion to cur-
rency reform or t) any specific plat-
form pledge of the party in power. Re-
venue is the great need of the hour, and
the manner in which itshould be raised
lis thus tersely outlined by the Presi-
dent upon strictly Republic-tn printi-
ples:
Duties should be so
foreign products as to preserve the
levied upon
home market, so far as possible, to
. our own producers; to revive and in-
crease manufacturiet; to relieve and
encourage agriculture; to increase our
domestic and foreign commerce; to aid
and develop mining and building, and
to render to lalt r in every field of use-
ful occupation the liberal wages and
adequate rewards to which skill and
industry are justly entitled. 'l he neces-
sity of the passage of a tar‘fi‘ law which
shall provide ample revenue need not
be further urged.
The bill framed by Chairman Ding-
le) ’3 committee may depart in some of
its minor provisions from the strict let-
ter of the ideal measures sugge:tcd by
the Pres‘dent, but it is tusceptihle of
amendment, anddhe entire CL untry has
confidence in the ability of the House
of Representatives to shape it closely to
his model. If the Senate will only act
with (qual intelligence, patriotism and
promptness four-fifths of the battle for
better times will have been fought and ‘
wen before mid-June.
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What Free Seed May to.
Secretary Wilson, of the Agricultural
Department perceives a chance to turn
the free-seed institution to account that,
had he been t‘q'ially w'se, might have
saved ex-Secretary Morton some heart-
hurning and bitterness. Mr Cleveland’s
Secretary denounced the free supply of
seeds as a piece of paternalism not far
removed from the fostering of crime,
and the application for seeds as a form
of degrading mend‘cancv. Mr. Wilson
declines to take this view. He soesso
tar as to think that’some 1'! al good may
be accomplished by his department by
encouraging a “greater diversification
of agricultural industries and agri-
cultural products” and the develop-
ment of new resources. He has set on
foot a series of it quiries that may
eventually have remarkable results.
It is notorious that in some of the
sec ions of the Southwest that are ad-
mirably adapted to almost any agricul-
tural purpo: es the uninventive and un-
imaginative farmer proceed°, year'after
year, to raise nothing but the corn that
he cannot sell and has to burn. In
other parts of the South he continues
to raise the cotton that is superfluous,
or the tobacco that eats up his soil with-
out making any adequate return. And
then, because he reaps the crop‘ of his
own stupidity, he curses nature and
turns Populist, with every intention of
cheating his creditors.
If Secretary Wilson can, by the dif-
fusion of'a little free seed, new a little
common sense throughout these sec-
tions, he will do more to restore iros-
perity among tl em than all the more-
tary conferencesin the world’s listory
have ever accomplished—and [more
than any tuture on as i re Ii! ely to.
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Two Good Appointments.
President McKinley’s first appoint-
ments, like his‘first message, will win
for him the cordial approval of the
country. The men Selected to repre-
sent the Unit. d States as Ambassadors
to Great Britain and France are aimed-
laily well chosen and capable. Both
Colonel John Hay and General Horace
Porter have made their mark upon
their time by active and well performed
public? service. They have moved
among the greatest of their period, and
are familiar with official life.
Colonel Bay was brought into the
closest relationship with Abraham Lin-
c rip, through the s‘ormy days of the
latter’s service, and has giv‘en the
world-a closer unt"erstanding of that
great eluracter than any' other bio-
grapher except his collaborateur.He has
served his apprenticeship in diplomacy
at two courts, and is at homa in the
science.
General Porter served with distiic-
tion in the army, and was, the intimate
friend of President Gratt, as veil as
Assistant Secretary 'of War Curing his-
administration.
Both have succeeded in Ii’erature,
though they could hardly be claSIed
with Lowell in that domain. I. will be
interesting to watch whether the Lon-
don Emba’sty will exert on the new
Ambassador the same glamour that has
not failed to capture every representa-
tive of the United States at the Court
of St. James’ almost since the end of
the war.
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AMUSEMENTS.
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McCarthy’s Mishaps.
Barney Fergurson,!as Dennis McCar-
thy, in the above named comedy. will
appear at Hoyt’s Theatre, next Satur-
day, March 20th, and give two perform-
ances, opening with a matinee. Mr.
Fergurson will be ably assisted by John
Mahr, who plays an eccentric Irishman -
of another sort, and the two succeed in
keeping the audience in a roar of laugh-
ter from the rise tothe final curtain.
The supporting company is composed
of cIeVer comedians and pretty girls
and many new and original specialties
are introduced by Ferguron’s merry
company. Matinee, 10 and 25 cents;
evening 25, 33, 50 cents.
—~Live Merchants keep their names
before the Public. An Advertisement
in THE.GAZETTE will be read.
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DEALER IN
Staple and Fancy
Groceries
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No.9 Main St.
ENTERPRISE—
Bottling Works,
7 Wall Street.
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EXPRESSLY FOB FAM-
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Mail orders receive
prompt attention.
Edgar Buttery,
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NOBWALK, CONN.
Trees. Shrubs and
Plants. Strawberry
Plants 8. Specralty.
Brandy Wine, Rio and
Marshal. 39 other
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Ofllce, 6 Water St.
Nurs’ys. Broad River.
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taEtna Life
' Made the Following Gains in the Year l896:
Llncrease [ in: Income,
'_$ I ,057,8 I 6.28.
Increase in Assets,-
$ I 997,234.42.
Increase in Surplus,
$l98.8l6,8l.
Increase in New Life Business,
$ I 598,668.00.
Increase in Life Insurance in Force,
$5,608,680.00. ‘
Increase in Accident Insurance in Force,
$2 I ,736500 9’3
Injrease in Accident Premiums,
$ I 75,086.72—01‘ 62 per cent.
Increase in New Lite Insurance Written in Connecticut,
$3 I 0,642.00.
Increase in total Life Insurance in Connecticut.
$472,569.00.
From the increased Surplus the usual increase of dividends to
making the Twenty-Filth Regular
and a record unparalleled .
policy-holders will be paid in I891,
Annual Increase of Dividends to the insured,
in the historyol life insurance.
Notwithstanding the material increase of
the expense in Life Insurance is chiefly incurred, the ratioof expense to
income on the Life business of this company, excluding the ”Accident
lower than last year, 'and is 23 per cent. less
than the average expense of the ten leading “purely mutual” companies
business, is somewhat
ort't eyear I895.
Their figures for I896 have not. been published.
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MORGAN G. BIILKELEY, President.
H. W. 81‘. JOHN. Actuary.
W. C. FAXON, Ass't. Sec. Accident Department:
JAMES CAMPBELL, M.D., Med. Ex.
J .C. WEBSTER. Vice-Pres.
G. E. GILBERT. Ass’t. Sec.
G. W,,RUSSELL, M. D” Med. Director.
E. E. HALLOCK, General Agent, 5 Hubinser Bld’g., New Haven.
J. I. HUTCHINSON,GeneraI Accident Agent, Hartford.
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INSURAHGE
new business on which,
GOMPLIIY.
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350 pairs of Lounsbury, Mathewson & 00.7.5 Ladies’ Fine Shoes at half price.
500 pairs sample 3, 3i- and 4, C. D and. E, from 75c to $125; worth from
UNHEARD OF BARGAINS.
'Now GOING- 0N 1
TH, 0. : H. OLSEN’
GREAT ,BANKRUPT SALE“ OF SHOES.
CHANCE OF A LIFETIME.
150 pairs Ladies’ Calf, Lace and Button, worth $250, at $1.25. ,
400 pairs Ladies’ nice fine Kid Button and Lace, $2.50 and $3, at'$1.50.
300 pairs Ladies” Goodyear Welt, Button, patent leather tip, 3 styles, worth $3, at $2.
75 pairs Misses’ Patent Leather Spring Heels, at 7 5c.
80 pairs Misses’ Patent Leather Spring Heels, at 5 50.
250 pairs Men’s Calf, Square Toe, 'Douhle Sole, Lace, regu
60 pairs Men’s Calf. Square Toe, Single Sole, Lace, regular $1.50 shoe, at $1.
50 pairs Men’s Police Bals Tap, Lace, regular $2 shoe, at $1. 50.
50 pairs Boys’ Tap Sole, Lace, regular $1.25 shoe, at 7 5c. '
100 pairs Boys“ and Youth’s, a good one, Lace, regular 85c.
.180 pairs Men‘s High Boots, sameuas a year ago 2.85.
100 pairs Men’s Storm King, same as a year ago, 552.7 5. _
lar $3 shoe, at $2.
‘ I Theo. H. Olsen, ‘
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$1.25 to .53.
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