Show LINCOLN FOR EXPANSION the new york sun quotes from morses lite of lincoln to prove that lincoln was an expansionist in his debate with douglass in lincoln said 1 I am not opposed to honest acquisition of territory and in any given case I 1 would or would not oppose such acquisition according as I 1 might think such acquisition would or would not aggravate the slavery question among ourselves some interesting figures on the increasing production of gold in the south african republic have been sent 0 the department Denart ment of state by consul macrum at pretoria the rand the consul writes has at last reached and surpassed the marvelous marv elbus output of ounces of gold as the production of a single month of twenty eight working days every twenty tour hours then witness the recovery of ounces of gold worth over the rand total comprises only the output of mines along a stretch of some thirty miles of country with this statement for the month of october the gold einings of the whole republic tor the ten months of 1898 amount to ounces at this rate the total for the whole of 1898 would be over ounces it Is not likely however that this amount will be reached as the mines are running short of water the value of the october ounces Is which may be compared with the value for all in 1897 and 59 the value of the gold production of the united states in the same year although the combined mines of colorado california dakota montana nevada and alaska put out more gold last year than did the south african republic it is not likely that the transvaal will take second place this year the year 1898 has seen more railroad building than any since 1892 when the total was miles the total tor the past year was miles lines the total in 1897 was 1880 miles the principal building was in the Southern states where more than half of the total was constructed in fifteen states |