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Show News items. For the three months ending March 31, 1891, as compared with the same period last year, there was a decrease in our exports of about 38 per cent, the heaviest decline bein in farm product;. This is a direct result of the McKinley tariff act, which the democrates in Congress Con-gress predicted would curtail our foreign markets by means of reciprocity; recip-rocity; he knows that our surplus farm products have got to find a market somewhere or universal bankruptcy will stare us in the face. The Denver Newt Says" The rumbling of another war between Russia and Turkey are becoming more and moredistnet, In the last war between these two countries Russia managed to move her southern south-ern boundries forward to the Pruth. Her next step will be to establish it on the Bosporus and the Egean, and make the Mediterranean the highway for her ships of war and of commerce. This has been the goal of Russia's ambition since the days of Peter the Great: If England is not drawn into this conflict in behalf be-half of Turkey, Russia, being much the stronger country of the two, w ill no doubt carry her point. But if England takes part in the war other European nations may be drawn in-'o in-'o it, and the ultima e result cannot be foretold. |