7 -"V - 1 If vS: - .V M S, - . . . TOfi. Yffl. NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1892. NO. 28. H i A ft 0 u 33 1 Of) h OS THE MODEL. Are Determined to Unload. We want to sell our enormous stock of FINEST TAILOR MADE SUITS and sell ii quickly. We are about to make the DEEPEST GDT INTO PRICES that you have ever known. It will be one continuous picnic 'for cloth ing buyers- from now until AUG-UST FIBST. During this time we reserve noth ing. Everything goes. Clothing, Gents1 Furnishing Goods, Boots, Shoes , Hats, Caps, and Valises. Everything to be slaughtered RE GARDLESS OF COST. THE MODEL CLOTHING HOUSE, M. EINSTEIN. 'I -3 4 5 GREAT DURING THE NEXT THIRTY . DAYS I WILL OFFER FOR SALE hi n )i;kd Choice h In the City of North Platte at Prices ranging: from $50 to $150 PER LOT. TERMS: One-tenth cash and bal ance in monthly installments of from ' $5.00 to $10.00 each. The prices on these, lots, are not to exceed one-half their real value. Call at iiiy.ipffice and see plats and prices. No trouble to show lots. Tho,s. C. Patterson. T I H Opportunity Has Arrived. j y H m i I T ! 0 a Q l H o LUMBERS COAL. LUMBER, i . SASH, BLINDS, V - DOORS, Etc. Slime anq $?EiEfiT. iRock Springs Nut, Rock Springs Lump. Pennsylvania Anthracite, Colorado Anthracite AND Colorado Soft ? . " " COAL. A PEACTIGAL TAEIFF SOUD FACTS VERSUS DEMOCRATIC FREE TRADE 'GENERALITIES. The AdmIslon of General "Walker, i Free Trader, Once tlie Census Snperlo tenclent That the Tariff Creates anc Maintains High Kates of Wages. It is noticeable that the editorial pages of Democratic and free trade newspapers seldom give faqts and figures to back np what they say about the workings of the tariff. They, blaze away with reck less dogmatic assertions like this: "The price of living has gone up, but the prico of labor has either remained stationary or been painfully depressed. If yon want a rich class and a poor class: if you want a moneyed aristocracy at one end and a horde of stolid laborers at the other end, yon will support the Repub lican ticket. These are the words of the New York Herald. They occur in and represent a drift of a leading edi torial occupying the most conspicuous column of the page which that journal uses when it thinks it is thinking. There is not a solitary figure about prices or wages, past or present, from the beginning of tluj article "to the end. But it is twice asserted that "the labor ers throughout the country pay more for the necessaries of life and get less for their work." Jsoi the laborers here and there, bnt the laborers tlirough out the country. Not that they pay more for one or two necessaries of life (wo have seen no proof anywhere that even that is true), but for the necessaries of life in general. Not that wages have been cut down here and there, but where a business was in a peculiar condition, but "laborers throughout the country get less for their work." We appeal to the experience of every lal)orer who reads this article on that point. The Press published on Sunday, Oct. i, 1891, the results of a canvass mado by its own reporters among the dealers in cutlery, earthenware, tin plates, rope, women's dress goods, serges and flan uels, carpets, linen table cloths, towels, shawls, woolens, hats, blankets, men's garments, shoes and tobacco, which showed that in the j-ear following the enactment of the McKinley bill the prices of these articles had either gone down or remained virtually unchanged. The Ame.4-an Economist, at the same time, published a table of seventy-two leading articles of daily use, including, in addition to the above, such imple ments of labor as axes, crowbars, files, handsaws, mowing machines, nails, plows, rakes, reapers, binders, shovels, spades, washboilers, washtubs and wheelbarrows, with tho prices as modi fied in tho j-ear that had just passed. There were 08' increases in duties, 59 decreases in prices, 12 articles marked "no change" in prices, and 1 increase, 'namely, in the price of pearl battons, which .had increased from 11 to Vd cents a dozen. There are bone buttons and wooden buttons and brass buttons and cloth buttons and china buttons and rubber buttons, but this two cents increase in tlie price of pearl bnttons has been figuring as a sore oppression of the laboring man ever since. It is a .highly favored fact, in that it is ad mitted into free trado editorials where no other specific fact is allowed to come, certainly not the fact that tho number of pearl button factories increased from 17 to 77. Tlie advertising, columns of The Press and oxuer uany papers, tue marlret re ports of the trade papers and the busi ness news of the country in general sIiqw that the campaign bluster of the free trade and Democratic journals is tho merest demagogy and reckless disre gard of truth. Only yesterday it was announced that eight of ths largest wholesale dry goods firms in this city and thirteen of the leading dry goods jobbing houses in Philadelphia, who virtually control the trade of these two cities, had signed an agreemeut not to give such large discounts for cash as heretofore. This was the reason given: "Competition had gradually forced discounts up so high (that is, cash prices so low) that it finally became a question of combhling or quitting." Competition in selling dry goods is the result of large and widespread home production,-and protective dnties have caused this large home production. Just as soon as anybodj' exacts exor bitant prices for tin article, of protected manufacture, somebody else goes into that branch of manufacture and cuts under the high prices. That is 'the way protection works in variably, outside of the vague and hazy generalities which free trade, orators and Democratic scribblers evolve out of. their "inner consciousness," without taking the trouble to investigate the facts. It is the tariff that opens factory doors and tnms factory wheels when ever it is high enough, and as for its effect on wages, General Francis A. Walker, a free trader, who was superin tendent of .census in 1880, thus contra dicts the campaign demagogues in his latest work on political economy (ad vanced course, section 263): "It is perfectly true, as the protection ist asserts, tliat a tariff of customs duties upon foreign goods imported into new countries tends to create and maintain high rates of wages in tho factory in dustries." And if in the factor industries, it must affect wages in other industries fa vorably from the very fact that it reduces the general supply of unemployed labor. President Harrison well said that the free trade jioliticians studied maxims, not markets. They seem to know noth ing about the markets for either goods or labor. General Walker, as a census superintendent and statistician, studied facts and markets. That was why ho had to admit that protection tended to rajse wages anil to keep them up. New York Press. " MAINE'S NEXT GOVERNOR. The Republican 'standard Bearer la th Old Tine Tree State. Henry Bradstreet Cleaves, who has been nominated for governor by the Re publicans of Alaine, and who will coa 6equently bs the next chief executive of the Pine Treo State, is fifty-two years old, a lawyer and a man of wide a varied experience. " n. B. CLEAVES. Mr. Cleaves was educated atLewiston Falls academy, and served in the war as a private, rising through gallantry to the rank of lieutentant in Company E, Thir teenth Maine infantry. He. studied law after the war, and became a member of the firm of Howland & Cleaves, Port land. In 1876-7 he was a member of the legislature, later city solicitor for Port land, and then attorney general for five years, llis election as governor is as sured by a very large majority, for he is an extremely popular man and Maine is a reliably-Republican state. A Convenient Title. In theso days when the real soldiers of tho "war are growing few and fewer there is a marked increase of generals, The ready acceptance of militarj- titles by men who never wore the blue is a trifle surprising. So readily are they put on that any general manager, gen eral superintendent or genen ger agent becomes endowed glittering prize. A gentleman who was a first assistant postmaster general a few years ago, and who is now tho Democratic candidate for vice piesideut of the United States, is found enjojmg the title anil is promptly supplied with a heroic Avar record "by his adinirincr fellow Demo crats. Neither war record nor title is his, however. Chicago News. 1 passeu with the 2ajrhe He Isn't Any More, Now is the proper time for Senator Hill to issue a second edition of his cele brated dictum, "I am a .Democrat." Chicago Mail. The Exploded Tin IMate Lie. It is, wq may surmise, partly on ac count of the San Jacinto and the Harney Peak tin that the attack upon the tin plate schedule in tho hunso of represen tatives has languished and dragged along so. Tlie tin plate lie was exploded so very promptl) that it would not afford an excuse for altering the provi sions of the McKinley bill, and when there came the added fact of the discov ery of American tin and tho certainty of its production in prreat quantities the Democrats iu congress lost interest in the tin plate schedule. San Francisco Chronicle. A 3Ii.stako Somewhere. W e trust the charge against Senator Brice, of Oyork, to the effect that he turned over a private expense bill of $700" for the local Democratic committee to settle is untrue. The senator while in Chicago did not squander a cent in haircuttinsr or whisker trimunner and spent no time running down rainbows. It will bo remembered there were no rainbows in sight. There is a mistake somewhere. Exchange. He rnlls Strong ivilli Tammany. It is pretty well settled, that hereafter when the Democracy have any little Echemes they would like to cany through they would do well to consult a fellow by tho name of Whitney. It appears that when he puts his thinker into active operation things come his way just as if they were greased.-rSt. Paul Pioneer Press. The Buzzard's Bay Si;n. Because Mr. Carnegie's Homestead steel mill is surrounded by a high board fencQ, the Democratic papers call him a feudal baron. What do they think of Grover Cleveland's action in posting a notice on his Buzzard's Baj' grounds, "Trespassing or shooting on these prem ises is positively not permitted?' Buf falo Express. Tito L.ettcr That Never Came. Postmaster Wanamaker should be in vestigated. Henry Watterson's experi ence in his one sided correspondence with Senator Hill was bad enough, and now here is poor General Stevenson, who is unable to get a letter from, hia chief through-the mails. Chicago Mail. Democratic Platform Amendment. tiiev s.vin: " But it is not yet too Into To pnt the tiling fctraislit; So wo show you our hand As those of a band Whose history's mado All up of free trade. Philadelphia .North American. It Was Too Tough for Them. It appears that there arc sixteen Dem ocrats in the United States senate who have not read and digested the Chicago platform. A marked copy of that docu ment should be forwarded to them with out delay. Boston Herald. It aieans Vree Trade. To reduce the tariff to tho standard of revenue only means to wipe it out en tirely. A revenue tariff means greatly increased importations and sure free trade. Philadelphia North American. l'por Old Stevenson! In every northern state a rebel would run better than a copperhead for any pffice. Poor old Stevenson! St. Louis Globe-Democrat, A Sort of Bitter Sweet. Dr. Dana's editorial utterances now adays somehow suggest the snsjar coat- I ing of quinine pills. Chicago Mail. Who Is Ktereasoa? To thenjistion "Who is Stevenson?" we reply, Mr. Stevenson is one of the remnants of the old Greenback party; He was nominated to catch the riffraff of tlie old fiat money craze, but it is rather doubtful if he can even gather np tljat scattered-wreck of very attenuated matter. We should say that the bid for the Greenback vote would profit the old barn storming party very little. We suppose that the eighth section of the platform was intended as a standing place for Mr. Stevenson. It is a propo sition to return to wildcat banking pure and simple, and if allowed would com pel a traveler to change his money every time he should cross a state line. The Democrats would do nothing by halves, not even in revising tho tariff. They propose to lift the defenses against wildcat money, or rather to .substitute depreciated paper for the full par value we now have, and which is good any where in the United States. Tlie object of this is to create a kind of currency that will not pass outside of tho state of issue. This, it is argued, will make money plenty for use within state bounds. This may not be the view of Mr. Stevenson, who believes that the government presses should print as much money as the people may want. We presume that if the states do the same thing for their citizens it will dc just as well. Philadelphia North American. YARD ON K. R. TRACK WEST OF DEPQT, So She Won't Elect Him And in addition to this, Tammany knows that if she falls through Cleve land's election, She falls like Lucifer, .Never to rise again. Her. power in the Democratic party will be gone, and with that all power will have departed. Even the despised Mugwump will be - preferred iu Demo cratic councils to all of Tammany's sachems, and the Mugwump will feast End fatten himself "on spoils; while the jjne'e prond and haughty "tiger" dies with hunger. Ohio State Journal. ' Who la Stevenson? Of the vice presidential candidate on the Democratic ticket one may quote Mark Twain's lines: "Ferguson, what did yon say the gentleman's name was?' Philadelphia-Press. Waiting for November. It ww young Davjd Bennett Hill Who stroked his smooth, bald head. All in the evening calm and still, And not a word he said; Hut he fing red the.blade of a rusty knife. And smiled a grewsome smile. And thought to himself, "Yon let your lifo Just waltalittlo while!" " Nev" York Recorder. 'Whew! "Political Blackguards!" The New York Times (Dein.-Mug.) has taken charge of so much of the Cleve land campaign1 in New York as Tho Evening Post turns over to it. Its first general order is that William F. Shee- han, the. Democratic lieutenant gov ernor, shall be bounced from the national committee, and that Chairman Murphy, of the state committee, 6hall be fired out of the party, and pronounces both of them "political blackguards." As to Flowef , it does not dignify him by un dertaking to read him out, but sajs con temptuously,. "It doesn't matter about Flower; he doesn't kuow any better." But why 'doesn't Tho Times go for higher game? Why doesn't it demand that Hill shall be fired out of the party? Why decapitate only his lieutenants? Chicago Tribune. What It Prohibits. The McKinley law is described d its enemies as a "prohibitive" tariff. It is prohibitive on some things. It prohibits the importation of offensive or immoral pictures, books or statuary. It pro hibits the importation of foreign goods bearing counterfeited American trade marks and compels foreign merchandise in this country to show its true colors. It prohibits the importation of foreign products made by foreign convict labor. To this extent, aud this only, is the Mc Kinley tariff prohibitive. Would any sane person have one tf these prohibi tions repealed? Boston Journal. It Will Win Again. Kansas Republicans havo nominated ;ufarmer for governor and put a negro, a son of Blanche K. Bruce, on the stato ticket. Tho people who expected to see the Republican party killed by a single defeat have worked themselves up to a 6ad disappointment. The party in Kan sas appears to have emerged from its wholesome chastisement stronger and more vigorous than ever. It had been winning, so easily beforo the rise of the Alliance that it had grown careless. Now it will win by hard work. Buffalo Express. - Which Shall It Itc? The November election will decido whether G3,000,000 people shall be sad dled with the curse of free trade and low wages or whether Whitelaw Reid, who had a dispute with his printers which is now ended, shall bo elected vice president. In other words shall tho interests of the nation be sacrificed m order that one man may be punished for private business matter which has since been adjusted to the satisfaction of all the parties interested? Butte City luter-Monntam. The Truth In Doggerel. The man who called the Democratic ticket the ticket of the "two Steves," referred-to the time when Grover Cleve land was known as Stephen Grover Cleveland. This has also led a poet to invent the following lines: Steven, Steven, Steven's so decebin' Do debbel can't h'lievo 'im. Iowa State Register. Not a Good Prophet. Ex-Governor Campbell, of Ohio, is sure that Mr. Cleveland will bo elected president. Eight months ago Mr. Camp bell was equally sure that ho himself would be elected governor of Ohio, Yet somehow-a fellow named McKinley now lolds fnat office. Mr. Campbell's repu- atiou as a prophet is not good. Boston Journal. Were They Bought? There can be but little doubt that Whitney wanted the presidential nomi nation for himself, but we would rather not believe the Democratic charge that tho votes of the territories were bought for Cleveland. Buffalo Express. Cleveland, and Slupsky. Joe Jefferson says Grover Cleveland is tho greatest man this conn try has ever known. Has Mr. Jefferson ever "met Colonel Abe Slupsky, of St. Louis? Chicago Tribune. And Then He'll I.angh. Hill has not yet said a word about tho nomination of Cleveland. Contrary to his usual practice, he will do his talking after the election. St. Louis Globe- Democrat. Stevenson's Address Furnished. Mr, Cleveland, the namo of your run ning mate is Adlal E. Stevenson, and his postoffice address is Bloomington, Ills., U. S. A. Cliicago Mail. Consistent Records. Stevenson's copperhead record is en tirely consistent with Cleveland's record js a pension vetoer. bt. Louis (ilobe- L'emocrat. Grover's Transatlantic Boodle. The 0,000 which was subscribed by the foreign steamship ring in New York city to promote Cleveland's re-election in 1888 has whetted tho. Democratic appetite for more of the same kind from transatlantic monopolists. Boston .Journal. The Great Gobbler. Senator Hill is a young man' yet, and ho has done pretty well for a man of his ago, iiere'U be several chances to gob ble up the earth between uow and the day set for its dissolution. Washing ton Pnar. Tw Typtaal Bemocratie Prececal . Recently two processions started from Jersey City headed in different direc turns. One traveled toward the state prison and 'the other toward the state penitentiary. The first procession was made np of fourteen ballot box" stnffers wno were on tneir way to serve out a sentence of eighteen months, and the second procession consisted of seven other ballot box stnffers who havo a sentence of nine months to serve out. iVery man in tne two processions is a Democrat. The crime they committed was done for the benefit of the Demo cratic party and that party is now en joying the benefit of it. They are Dem ocratic processions. If it were not for the countenance the Democratic party gives these crimes they would never have been committed. Philadelphia Press. Hill la Right for Once. Senator David B. Hill has suffered another relapse a serious one. He has not only left his official duties, but has resolutely refused to express any political opinions since he did so. Before he left, however, David delivered him self of anepigraui which contains a big nugget 6rtruth.'"ThlsTs wfiaYhesjifil:" "The tariff plank of the platform adopted at Chicago has made every workshop and factory in the United States a Repablican campaign headquarters." Washington Dispatch. Whether it has done so or not it ought to, for it is the workmen in the factories, mills and shops who are hit by the Democratic free trade plank. The leisure and capitalistic classes escape pretty well, but the toilers catch it between the eyes. How do they relish it? What do they now think of tlie Democratic demagogues' love for the "poor man?" Chicago Tribune. "Simply tying." Tlie Albany Times-Union thinks the state bank plank was put in the Demo cratic platform "as n sort of tub to be thrown to the Farmers' Alliance whale, and tho convention of course gave it no deliberate consideration." That is evi dently intended to give tho impression that tho Democratic party does not pur pose to repeal the state bank tax. but only said it does to catch Farmers' Alli ance votes. It i simply lying. Per haps this is the easiest way to get out of a disagrecablo position, but what a stultifying claim it is! Buffalo Express. Free Trade Amendment Bid It. Democratic politicians who have taken pains to sound tho Democratic business men of New York city are said to bo in a panic over the sitnation. Mr. Fred eric P. Olcott, president of the Central Trust company, is one of the men who have bolted their party ticket and pro pose to support Harrison and Reid. Mr. Olcott says that fifty business friends of his, all Democrats, will follow the same course. That free trado declaration did it. Henry Watterson has tied a very weight millstone about his party's neck. Boston Journal. Frco Trado Means Hard Times. We aro asked the question whether protection always insures good times? If protection does not always insure good times, free trade at least insures perpetual bad times. If a combination jot circumstances bring about uncertain and slow business it is infinitely bet ter to bo master of a poor business than the slave of bad times. Protection makes the American workingman mas ter of te situation, whatever that situa tion happens to be. Pliiladelphia North American. An Kx-Grcenhacker. It is discovered that Adlai E. Steven son, the Democratic candidate for the vice presidency, ran for congress on the Greenback ticket in 1878. A man who- finds it necessary to deny that he was a member of the Knights of the Golden Circle, and who cannot deny that he was a leader in the Greenback heresy, is incapable of adding much luster to even tho ticket of the mildewed old Democratic party. Evening Wisconsin. Look Out for the Slump. Tlie only occasions when Grover Cleveland met with success at the polls were when Republican disaffection cansed a slump in that party's vote. It looks now as if a slump in the New York Democratic vote will put an end to a political career the luckiest in the history of American politics. Terre Haute Express. lUiyme and Reason. Ben Jn mln and Whitelaw Kilit law. Bright law; The combination's rich. But Grover C. and Adlail Uadlv. Sadly Do-they seem to hitch. New York Recorder. Wants to Save Ills Reputation. Mr. Whitnej wisely declines to act an chairman of tho Democratic national committee. He doesn't propose to for feit the reputation that he won at Chi cago by taking charge of a campaign that is certain to end in disaster. St Louis Globe-Democrat. Tho Tiger Will Howl. It is real nice in Grover and Aillai t both march to New York and receive notice of their nominations direct from the Tammany bosses. Tlie tiger will howl with satisfaction. Snob KnWr. viency was never beforo witnessed. n - T . i vuicago inter ucean. Hardly! Tammany succeeded in getting Grover Cleveland and David B. Hill on the same platform in behalf of Governor Flower, but it will hardly sncceed in doing so in behalf of Grover Cleveland. Buffalo Express. His Name Will Be "Aildley." It is sincerelv to be honed that th Australian ballot system will permit of the publication of diacritical marks over Mr. Stevenson's remarkable first name. Chicago News. He' Only a Party Hypnotist. But it remains to be seen whether Mr. Whitney can extend hw famous hypnotic treatment 1eyoud strict party lines. Chicago Mail Dana's Delicate SarcSUui. The bisrsrest man in a nroce.sion dnps not necessarily march first. The head of the national ticket does not exhaust all the cheers. Thera mar 1 more for his colleague and associate, whose name is in smaller letters on the campaign banners. Remember that Thomas Jefferson, tho founder of De mocracy, was vice president before he became president. In him Stevenson has an illustrious exemplar. Tho po litical warrior of Bloomington but fol lows in the footstens of the saw of Monticello. Tlie vice presidency is a public trust! New York Sun. YOU MAY NEED Additional Lawn Hose before the Sum mer is over, and we desire to call your at-, tention to the fact that our stock embraces several grades, and the prices on the same are away down. This ho.t weather naturally suggests something cool ice cream, for instance. Why ' not make your own? "We have a nice line of freezers which we are offering low. They range in size from half gallon up. 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