Coinage of the United States mints from 1846 to 1902.

[From the report of the Director of the Mint.]

Republican reciprocity is reciprocity in non-competing articles and in nothing else.-Hon. John Dalzell, in Congress, March 1, 1904.

The national credit is of too paramount importance and nothing should be done to tarnish or impair it.-Hon. W. McKinley, in House of Representatives, April 15, 1878,

The biggest corporation, like the humblest private citizen, must be held to strict compliance with the will of the people as expressed in the fundamental law.-President Roosevelt at Cincinnati, Ohio, September 20, 1902.

Remembering those Republican promises and their fulfillment in the years since, calling to mind the unfilled Democratic promises and the bitter years of 1893-1896, what will you gain by voting the Democratic ticket in 1904?-Representative Chas. Dick, of Ohio, in Congress, Jan. 5, 1904.

Production of gold and silver in the world since the discovery of America.

[From 1493 to 1885, from a table of averages compiled by Dr. Adolph Soetbeer; since the latter date, the annual estimate of the Director of the Mint.]

Production of gold and silver by principal countries, in 1902. [Includes all countries having a product of more than $1,000,000 of either gold

PASSPORT PRIVILEGES UNIFORM.

Statement by Congressman Williams at St. Louis Wholly

Misleading.

Hon. John Sharp Williams said in his speech at St. Louis: "Our fellow-citizens of Russian birth and Jewish extraction who cannot procure from the State Department a passport to revisit Russia without being cautioned that they will not be protected there will read this part of the Republican platform, considering its source, with singular astonishment."

"This statement is wholly misleading. When an American citizen of Russian origin receives a passport from the State Department he receives a notice showing what are the provisions of Russian law liable to affect him, in order that he may be forearmed not to incur danger through ignorance.

An American citizen of German origin receives a similar notice as to German law when a passport is granted to him; a citizen of Austrian origin receives one as to Austria; of Turkish origin as to Turkey; of Portuguese origin as to Portugal; of Italian origin as to Italy, and so on for all countries which have laws liable to affect a naturalized American citizen when he returns.

Mr. Williams's statement is disproved by Document No. 590, LVIIth Congress, first session. This was the resolution of Representative Goldfogle, of New York, calling upon the Secretary of State to state (1) whether American citizens of Jewish faith were prevented from entering Russia, and (2) whether Russia had any regulations applying especially to the exclusion of American Jews. Secretary Hay's reply, printed in this document, said: "The second question may be categorically answered in the negative. Such discrimination, if it were made, would call forth immediate action of protest from this Government.

"This department has no information remotely indicating that American Jews stand upon a footing different from that occupied by the Jews of other countries in the administration of Russian law.

"The exclusion of naturalized citizens of Russian origin and of Jews from Russia was thus commented upon by Secretary Olney in his report to the President for the year 1896:

"The published correspondence for a number of years back has shown the persistence of the United States in endeavoring to obtain for its citizens, whether native or naturalized, and irrespective of their faith, the equality of prvilege and treatment stipulated for all American citizens in Russia by existing treaties. Holding to the old doctrine of perpetual allegiance; refusing to lessen its authority by concluding any treaty recognizing the naturalization of a Russian subject without prior imperial consent; aserting the extreme right to punish a naturalized Russian on return to his native jurisdiction, not merely for unauthorized emigration, but also specifically for the unpermitted acquisition of a foreign citizenship; and sedulously applying, at home and through the official acts of its agents abroad, to all persons of the Jewish belief, the stern restrictions enjoined by the Russian law, the government of Russian takes ground not admitting of acquiescence by the United States, because at variance with the character of our institutions, the sentiments of our people, the provisions of our statutes, and the tendencies of modern international comity.

"Under these circumstances conflict between national laws, each absolute within the domestic sphere and inoperative beyond it, is hardly to be averted."

"Since this report the position of the department has not changed, and its efforts to secure uniform treatment for American citizens in Russia, begun many years ago, have continued, although they have not been attended with encouraging success.

"The Department of State now sends to all persons of Russian birth who receive passports an unofficial notice showing what are the provisions of Russian law liable to affect them, in order that they may not incur danger through ignorance. In transmitting a copy of this notice to the Ambassador of the United States at St. Petersburg, for his information, he was instructed on February 15, 1901, as follows:

The State Department grants to every American citizen, native or naturalized, Christian or Jew, the same passport, and insists that all foreign governments shall accept it is prima facie proof

that the person it describes is a citizen of the United States and entitled to protection as such. Any statements, therefore, that Jews are refused passports or that when they receive passports they are notified that they will not be protected in any foreign country is absolutely without foundation in fact.

For the past four years the State Department has furnished every American citizen of foreign birth who receives a passport with an unofficial statement showing the general provisions of the law of the country of his birth which may affect him if he returns, and which, therefore, it is important for him to know before he goes abroad. Before these notices were issued naturalized citizens frequently put themselves in a dangerous position through ignorance, and complained that had they known what the laws were which would be likely to affect them they would have avoided danger or taken steps to overcome it; but there can be no ground for such complaint now. When a Jew receives one of these notices it is because he was born abroad and not because he is a Jew. The State Department requires no man to state his religion and never knows that the applicant for a passport is a Jew, unless he volunteers the information.

In order that the notices sent to naturalized citizens with their passports might not possibly be construed into meaning that this Government was disposed to relax its equal protection to all American citizens traveling abroad, Secretary Hay sent the following instruction to every American minister as soon as the notices were prepared, the instruction to the Ambassador at St. Petersburg being quoted as an example:

"The inclosed notice to American citizens formerly subjects of Russia who contemplate returning_to_that country the department is sending to all persons born in Russia who receive passports. It is sent to you merely for your information, and you are instructed that it is not intended to mean that there has been any abatement on the part of this Government in its policy of protecting equally naturalized and native born Americans during their travels or sojourn abroad, as the law requires. Nor does the notice foreshadow any mitigation of such dissent as this Government may have expressed to the laws or regulations of Russia which may deny equality of treatment to all lawabiding citizens, regardless of their place of birth."

It is also a standing instruction to each American minister and consul to protect every American Jew from unjust molestation, and this Government's attitude towards the Russian Government's position on this subject is one of permanent and oft-repeated protest.

Indeed, there has never been a case brought to the State Department's attention of the arrest or ill-treatment of an American Jew in Russia that interposition in his behalf has not been made. As recently as June 13, 1904, our Ambassador at St. Petersburg was again directed to reopen the question and to present the House resolution of April 21 to the Russian Government as evidence of the popular support in this country of this Government's position, and the Secretary of State has over and over again pressed the matter upon the attention of the Russian Ambassador at Washington, presenting it anew on July 1 of the present year.

The Democratic platform trades upon Republican measures in many of its features. For example, it pledges the party to insist upon equal protection abroad of all American citizens, whether native or naturalized, and demands that negotiations be begun to secure equal treatment of all Americans from those foreign governments which do not now accord it.

On March 27, 1899, Secretary Hay sent a circular instruction to all the diplomatic and consular officers of the United States, in which he said:

"This Government does not discriminate between native-born and naturalized citizens in according them protection while they are abroad, equality of treatment being required by the laws of the United States (Secs. 1999 and 2000 R. S.)," and later in the same circular: "It is not to be understood by this that naturalized American citizens returning to the country of their origin are to be refused the protection of a passport. On the contrary, full protection should be accorded to them, until they manifest an effectual abandonment of their residence and domicile in the United States." (See Foreign Relations of the United States, 1902, p. 1.) These orders to our agents abroad have been repeated