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TUKWKEKIA llHUALt): IMsATTSMOUTlI, XK1UIASK A, N()VE MHEIt 21 1802 THE HER.ALD. ri'lM.lSMKK ll.MI.V KXCKCT ht'MlVV 23 TT ICITOTXO Z3RC. HATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. ll.MI.V KIUIION. One Year (in iiilviiun-l - si mi Six monllis, ! lly Carrier, per wool;, K WKKKI.V EIilTlov Our Your-In ililviinco, SI "i" II nut In ikIvmikv, J- 0" Kix ill Hi' - . ' Tlirw ill' nit - - " 'IfU'i itiotit Xiimlier St. It ki mains t In. M'i'ii whether the democratic platform was f i r buncombe, in for practical upplica-timi. Tin: wi-iither bureau report n ruld trive coining. In Manitobi the mercury has (alien to eight decrees lielow xero. It is gtaiifjing ,() u,,,w Cleveland hail (he courage of hit) jirof.mil) in resisting the demands if I'a i ii in i n y oflice seekers. N i:x r Thursday is the day to g i ve thanks tur the privilege ol living in the best and must prosperous na tion on the fare of the globe. Tin; Omaha Daily l'uhlic, the independent organ puliliKlied clur ing tlie campaign at Omaha lias given up t lie ghost ami ceased pub lication. TlIKKli in some likelihood that the republicans will control the Kansas legislature after all, and tiuaie the senator who is to lie chosen this winter. Union services will he held in the Christian church tomorrow morn ing, and services will also he held in the Kpiscopal church, so there is no reason why all should not go. Jkkky SiNi'aoN will have to make "the beg eliort of his life" i( he suc cessfully plays the clown to the next congress. It is going to be 'tlie biggest political show on earth." Till! Durban (. C.) Globe is doubtless the happiest paper in America, (or Cleveland is to be given another opportunity to "slap the dirty beggars (pensioners) in the face." TliK Kansas City Journal cays: "If Mrs. Lease goes to the senate, the position of hide-peeler in that tiody, which has bcun vacant since the retirement of Senator Ingalls, will be tilled." This is high praise. William Jennings Ukyan'h breast must certainly have swelled with pride when he gazed upon the aggregation of small boys with tin horns and cowbells who were await ing his arrival. Such a reception was enough to make strong men weep. TliK republicans of Iowa have n special cause to observe Thanks giving day to the utmost. The state treasury is safe for at least two years more, and the voters of the utate have grandly endorsed over a third of a century of republican government. O.NB of the causes of Harrisons defeat is to be found in the fact that the republicans did not have the same facilities for keeping demo cratic voters away from the polls in the north that the democrats had for keeping republican voters away from the polls in the south. St. LOUIS is one of the pieces which the republican party has saved out of the general wreck. St. Louis is one of the few large cities which returns a republican plural ity. It is situated in a democratic state while the other large cities, New York, Chicago, etc., are situa ted in republican states. Telescopes now reveal six com 'ts in sight. On next Saturday mid Sunday night the public is informed that the earth will move through a meteoric zone. The phenomena are not likely to be in any way alarm ing. It is h.ud to scare the people who passed through the zone of a lozeu comets on the night of No vember 8. KnglANO, it is said, is firm in its opposition to bimetallism, and will so state through its representatives in the international monetary con ference. This means that the con ' ference will fail to accomplish any. thing, as the other conferences did. In this event the United Slates gov rnment will be compelled, for self protection, to stop purchasing sil ver altogether. This will send the price of silver away down, throw India's finances into serious disor ler, and eventually start a cry in that region lor an international re t.tifntioiiof silver which Euglan will be compelled to heed. A FOREIGNER'S FOKECAbT. 1 hf .Montreal C.a.ctte takes an editorial utterance nf our own Mug wumptaii Itofiou Herald as the basis of a prognostication concer ning the elfect ( democratic legis lation upon the farming interests, of Canada. Says the lioslou Her ald. The tiiiitT uill lr ti I j -1 1 fur pur Mi-c of revenue, Iml with 11 1 1 ) t - cuii--iilii ill inn fur (lie prolei-iiun nf Ante ririin itnlii.! rirs lis tine nt' il iiititlrnts. Tliis ill In-r-preiitlly Hie c:ie iih lar us labor is to In' ellertril. The ilutles Hint lire luweretl will hi ill In' t-nllii icut tu more than cover the ilillerent in the cnt nf laliur lie) ween tliis country ami uhrnail. If laliur it i iit down, t hen-hire, It will nut he tin iiirouiit nf the tarill. This is in wholly different tone from the before the election utter mice of lite Herald. That il had no language too strong tor approval of the democratic platlorin's total renunciation of protection as an un constitutional condition of tariff. Then it was in favor of "iarilT for revenue only." Hut now that i1s democratic allies are in power it prophesies and advocate a tarilf whith "ample consideration for the protection of American industries." Oh, what falling otf is there, Itrother Wattersnn ami fellow citi zens ! Hut the Montreal Gazette argues that the Mills bill will be a model of future democratic legislation on tarill, nam! reminds its readers that that measure left an average duty of :t) per cent, per yard, with .'10 per cent, ad valorem added on carpels; a duty of 45 per cent, on china ware; a duly of 40 per cent, on cotton clothes, ami a duty of irotn '-" to 10 cents per pound, with !!." per cen'i. ad valorem added on woolen cloth ing. Hut it reminds then also that it robbed the American farmer of all protection to wool, in order to feed the woolen manrfaeturer with high duties on woolen do. lis. Hencr- the Montreal (ia:.elte pre dicts a democratic tarilf that will lemove or reduce duties on a'l farm products, and so open the United Siates market to Canadian farm pro ducts. Hy way of encouraging its Canadian readers, the .Montreal (la .ette publishes this comparison of duties on farm products: AHTK'l.K. Mills Hill. .Mckinley hill Il.irlev hack wheat Cum i Mis Wheat butter Cheese He tins Hay HlljlH l'llt.ltllfH (iartleii seetl Hie per tin. Ill per cent. Iiie per Int. Hie per hu. !Hi" per hu l ie per hu. I.V per Im. IV per hu. .lie jier tin. 'J: per hu. 4e per in. to per Hi. i'ree. ! ree. lie per Ih. V per Hi. Wc per hu. .V per tin.. $1 per ton. I V per Ih. per ton c per IP. 1"k' per liu. Kree. 2c per Ih. Ic per Hi. Kree. -V per Im. w per cent. V per Hi. lie ier Ih. Yi tu ;' per Ih. HacoiuV hums Kerf Ac iiiiit'll Wuul And it bills them hope tor a re vivalofthe Mills bill, or the pas sage of a tarilf bill based upon it. It is not improbable that such hope will be proven to be well grounded. Hut was it for the purpose of abol ishing or diminishing protection to their own products that the farmers who voted for Weaver aided in the election of Cleveland? OUR TARIFF IN SHEFFIELD. There can be no question that so far as Sheffield is concerned, Amer ican protection means loss of em ployment to large numbers of Ivng lish workman, and proportionate loss of profit to their employers. Nor can it be much comiort to them to lie informed that though they are so heavily hit, Knglaud as a whole benefits by Hrother Jona than's fiscal policy. That may or may not be the case, but the Shef (ielders feel it hard to have the meat taken out of their mouths lor the advantage of American manufac turers and workmen. Hut we are inclined to suspect that there are other Hritish industiies which suf fer almost equally from the McKiti ley tarilf. The contiHtious dimin ution of our exports this year, com pared with last, goes some way to indicate that they are restricted by some cause which did not operate in 1890. There is no reason to mip pose that the external markets are over-stocked with Knglish manu facturers; were that the case prices would have fallen largely. As they are fairly maintained on the whole, the inference seems to be that the diminution results from shrinkage of the American demand. London Globe. SUCAR, COFFE AND TEA. Some democratic statesmen and editors are revealing by their de mands that the capacity of the pro minent men of their party for bluii dering in critical exigences has not been overestimated says the Globe Democrat. They are recommending- that not only sugar, but also colfee and tea, be put on the duti able list. Sugar was made free by the McKinley law, while the other articles have been on the free list for twenty years. Neither tea nor can sugar except to the extent of a tenth or a twelfth of our needs. Kach of these articles his been materially cheapened by the re moval of the duty. The duty was for revenue purposes purely, but that ' is the chief reason why the democrats want to restore it. It protected nobody in this country I PRINCE BiSMARCK IN OPPOSITION except a few sugar-raisers in Iou-I Prince Hismarck in opposition isiana. If the duty were reimposed and out of oflice is a very il itferent sugar, colfee and tea would burnetii- figure in Kuropean politics from ately and permanently be advanced I the Iron Chancellor, who for so in prices to the extent til the duty, j many years was a more potent in The lack of revenue is the cause iluence in the cabinets of Kurope alleged" for the restoration of the , than ever his imperial master, says ; duties on these articles. The gov- the InU-r Ocean. The sudden fall ernment's outgo under present con-; of liismai in in the height of bis tlitions about equals its income, power sugests the parallel of Car having no margin for extraordinary dinal Volsey in all save the attitude emergencies or for debt paying, of the two men toward their sover litit the income can be increased eign after taeir fail. Until the without touching any ol these great Cardinal and the great Chan things. Duties now practically pro- cellor came eventually almost to hibitive on many commodities consider thems-lves rulers and ! could be reduced sufficiently to sovereigns, and each was suddenly . considerably increase the revenue, flung Irom power. Volsey's spirit j while still alfording all the prolec- was crushed by the mignitude of tionjthat is required or is desirable( 1 calamity that had overtaken him, An expansion of !jJ,"i,XK),(Xio or $.'0,- , but Hismarck. though stripped of 000,1)00 in the revenue is all that i ollice, is still a power in lierinany, would be needed under any circiim- and his criticism of government stances. It is much more than nieasurcs'lias bt come a modifying would be needed if the democrats j and restraining force, though his carry out their loudly proclaimed j voice is not heard in the Imperial cry of "retrenchment au l rt form." ! Diet. Colli 1 the ex-Chance llor but Nobody asks for a it turn of tlis old restrain his pcrsm.il feelings and heavy payments on the national give forth his utterance with less of ! debt. Our obligations have been the bitterness of disappointed am : cut down to manageable propor- j bition his influence would be still tions and are not troubling the ; greater, and he might become the ! country. None of the government's j leader in bi inging about a peaceful creditors are clamoring for their money. The democrats make the assult on the brea tfa-tt table which some of their leaders rei'om neud, the, days ol supremacy for their party are numbered. The removal of , theseduties hurt uobo ly, but their rcimposition would instantly in jure every person in the country. ; There is no real reason for the for the :ll nice siigeste.l. I Sufficient revenue for all the needs of the Government can be gained without touching sugar, coffee or tea. There is a tleci led opposition among the people to the revial of any impost which has been for any considerable length of time abo lished, and in the case of these articles the opposition would' take on a pronounced and aggressive plnse. The people are deeidely hostile to lite surrender of the ,.)0, 000,0,10 which they have gaii ed from the removal of the duty on sugar, and of the f'0,000,000 or if'J.l which they now save from the plac ing of tea and colfee on the free list and if the democrats reimpose these duties they wi, I be driven out of power by a more sweeping ma jority than that which put them in. TRUSTS TO Ba MOS ' FEARED. The San Francisco Chronicle says: " The worst trust the Ameri can consumer has to contend with is the importer's trust. So long as we were dependent upon the for ei tier for many Classes of manu factured articles which ve now pro duce in great abundance, we paid all that the importers' judgment de cided we could bear. An article once introduced into the country at a certain price was kept at that price, the importer generally assum ing that the volume of his sales would be about the same at the higher as at the lower price. Take the case of prunes. For a period of years prices scarcely varied, no matter how great the foreign pro duction. It was only when the American producer entered the field that competition became sharp and the importer was obliged to re linqttish his enormous profits. It has been the same with all the classes of woolen goods which we have learned to produce on a large scale. All such gootls are now Hold at a very narrow margin of profit, but the tine cloths anil cassimeres. those of n quality we are not yet producing largely, are still at old time prices, because the importer, having no American competition to meet, can get, so long as a demand forthese superior cloths exists, any reasonable price he chooses to ask. This is bound to be the importer's method so long as he has us at his mercy, but so soon as we meet him with an American product of equal value he will abate his demands at first and then ultimately retire from the field and leave the market to the home producer." All true and clear, save that we make more fine cloths than The Chronicle supposes, yet not enough to be felt by the foreign makers as is the competition in our substan tial wooh ns for common wear. Combinations, at home or abroad, to keep prices above a fair level are not to be encouraged, but they are not a result of either protection or free trade. They exist in Knglaud as well a9 here, and the Reading coul combine aims at the control of the anthracite coal supply, a kind o( coal on which there is no duty. The Chronicle well says that the im porters' trust, the keeping up prices on foreign goods by breaking down home manufactures and competi tion, is the worst to deal with. CLEVELAND has twice prevented the nomination o( ex-Governor Gray i of Indiana for the vice-presidency, ' and it remai is to be seen if he will mould a cabinet officer of a man against whom he is thuscommitted, revolution in Germany. lint Hismark in retirement is still in spirit the haughty statesman who, when according to his own ac count, the Ktnperor William asked him whether he was prepared to gosern against the majority of the national representatives even with out a budget, unhesitatingly answered "Yes." This attitude and spirit deprived Hismark of the full inilunce his great talents and genius would otherwise command among the moderates and those who would fashion Germany upon the model o( the Kogland ot today, where the .sovereign's power is but a shadow of its former greatness. Hismiirk's criticisms of imperial measures are too evidently inspired by resentment to commend them heartily even to the most resolute of the opponents of the government. In a recent interview when asked whether be would not come to Mer lin ami repeat before the imperial ditt the views hehatl just expressed about tin- army bill, in which case he was assured a large majority would group themselves around him. 'the ex-Chancellor replied: "Majority, indeed. The majority would siitin me as i( I were pest stricken. cholera patient straight from Hamburg would have si better welcome ih. hi I should. Most of them would be afraid to lose their chance ol an invitation to court, or would tear to injure their son's prospec , or what not." Somei ing, of course, must be pardone,! to a fallen minister, but if Hisuiarrv i - correctly reported in the above iit'crauee, misfortune does not seem i have chastened him, or given him larger faith in the people or clean i vision of the coining day in Kurope, when the people shall have learn d how to govern them selves ami be able to dispense with kings emperors. Hismark. great as he was ami is, belongs to the oldonler, and will never become like Gla Istone, a leader in the mighty but peaceful revolution which is lowly but surely changing the old order into the new. Nevertheless, Prince Mistnark's oppositio i to the new finny bill is the greatest obstacle in the way of the real .it of Chancellor Cap- rivi's great measure, and its effect will proti.ioly soon befell in the de bates of me Weichstag. Mistnark's questio i to how the tremendous increase ii t-vpc nditurc is to be met is as yet .i i . iveretl. The federal states, Ii- I clares, cannot tlo it ami an a t :npt to force them would provoke a o-' imtent "which might have sci i. is consequences for the national i.im ." Hisuiark adds that he recog . - the shortcomings of the mi' ' is organization, but claim- ii. 'I.i not arise from a de ficiency 'oeu, tint from a deficien cy of mM i -. non-commissioned of ficers, an , u s, son a peace footing. The pro, -ol ntioii of the difficul ty, in h..- . 1 1) it. is for the Imperial Diet not eject the bill off-hand, but to il l i e its readiness to sup ply the t hci. ncies he refers to "as soon as t ic s Mirccsof revenue are indicate.: tra expen fresh ho: states." I.XSl'KA busiiii s.- . ested in . braska Ci properit the full a i tm red. i the vain, last legt utiquestt intent ol is very . vmcli are to meet the ex pire, without imposing ns upon the separate companies doing Nebraska will be inter virdict rendered at Ne iventoa party whose i- only partially burned unit for which it was in - is the first case under i obey law passed by the ire, and the verdict is i Jy in .iccord with the legislature. The act ir and explicit in its ! it was passed as a ;.ivtection to insurers, c were largely at the insurance companies, ntpaiiy takes a risk it uh the full knowledge terms, . necessar . who for i, mercy ot Now if a does to that it may hae to pay what the policy calls for, regardless of the actual amount of damage. It can do as it pleases in assuming the iisl, but it ca-inoi settle on its own 'e- .--liee. STI ES OF RESON3 BILITY. ' out of politics." says the . Vol. I naes, in relation to the I ni in. It cannot be. Hut :! I l ! II - t"!,. i ! . ' If 1 1 he Times that its democrats, solely are ior the political charac oatroversy and tariff in the beginning, and i.ey became a synonym -m, which was early in protection to home in iield by federalist and o be an essential to tar I ti r ..: ti . , -, ol -. . the , . diii i repm in iff legi-lat on. It was when the fed-erali-is 1,,-oaiue whigs ami the re publicans became democrats which then meant slaveholders ; that the democratic party, led hy ; such men as Calhoun and McDullie, , began to a-sert the iinconstitntion jalityof tarilf for protection. The i doctrine ot these emi.tent slave holders i- the doctrine placed in the platform ot the democratic conven tion of IS'.U. It is distinctly a demo cratic doctrine that protection -accidental, incidental or of set pur pose -is vicious. It is. the doctrine of a great majority of the American people-even of that partof it which voted for Cleveland -that some measure of protection to home in dustries is needful. Hence Hie ques tion of tariff legislation can be ta ken out of politics only by a formal recantation by the democratic par ty of the last democratic platform, and alsoof all dt niocratic traditions concerning tariff. This act of con fession and contrition by the demo cratic party must precede any partisan debate or legislation. If the democratic parly nnkes full confession of belief in pro tection as a necessity of American conditions, but avers that the amount of protection needed it but slight, than the republican party might join nonpartisan issue as to the amount of protection required each party basing its argument upon the basic idea of revenue. Hut this would require plain re nunciation of the democratic plat form, plain renunciat ion of Cleve land's description of the protective principle is"the various, inequitable and illegal source of national rev enue." It would require, also re nunciation of the dictum of Lewis, of Alabama, w ho spoks thus in con gress on the tariff legislation of KI'.!: Our complaint (the tleniucratic ctni plaint) has lieen that protective duties are levied on those articles which are made in one portion of our country, for the purpose of raising the price of manufacturing labor. Audit would require democratic renunciation of the di :tuni of Sena tor McDuflie, of South Corolina. on the same topic: The iiKKrexate of all the other elements nf cost beimj less in KiikUim.I, except the priceof labor, does it not fullow that in a free competition for the market of the Cnitetl States, the wanes of labor in the manufactories of the Northern States must he reduced at least as low us the waues of the same laliur in Knglaud. All these things are by implica tion affirmed by the democratic platform made at Chicago, and denied explicitly by the republican platform made at Minneapolis. There is no way by which congress can "take it out of politics" except by democratic confession and re pentance of error. Nothing more cowardly, more vile, more scandalously hypocriti cal than this nitigwuinpian plea for non-partisiiii action by the pres ent senate has been made. The open falsehoods of the always un truthful world are respectable in comparison to the mugwuiupian can't that seeks to avoid danger to its democratic allies by supplicat ing for non-partisan action on tar ill legislation. The democrats have elected a president and f. con gress; let them use them, If it be true, as they have said, that it is "democratic doctrine" that all protective legislation is un constitutional, let them boldly re peal all such legistion, let them construct their boasted "tariff for revenue only." And let them ac count to the people for the ditasters that will attend it. Or if it be true that they do not believe what they said in their plat form, if it be true that the Presi dent Cleveland of is wiser than the President Cleveland of 1HSV. and has recanted his express opinion of the "vicious, inequitable, and illegal" nature of protection, then let the democratic congress and president follow the path trodden by republicans, ami continue the republican gift ol adequate protec tion. The democrats ate about to as stunepower. Their cowardly allies, the mugwumps, will not beallowed to induce republicans to divide the responsibilty. The democrats must wear their mantles of oflice lined with the thistle of responsi bility. Try the"Crown" couuh cure. Barret Kuorautee it. Brown tc THEI OLD TRICKS. , An assured majority of eight ! i unsuiru niiijoiiiy oi eigui the house of representative? I ght to satisfy democratic, grot" j in on; ii sunuui commenl itsc t to ueu i cratie cunnin; ning as a number beyoi ji which a majority cannot be ii creased with s.it -iy :. the party in'y power, but the g reet! of democracy i is stronger than i's ciiniuug, and its natural love of fraud, as fraud, in stronger than either its gread or its cunning. To cheat a lTp-.iiilicau out of his place in congress is a pleas ure that no democratic majority ever has been able to forego. , Hence no one will be astonished if in the contest for the First di f trict of North Carolina Williams l' (iciiareti ty the democratic major A ity to be duly elected, although the j r i vote for Settle.retmblican. has been ! tleel:irel t,, tl... . I:...-:.. n..tl,.,.:i:,.u ......... v, . ti. v ti.. ti i. t i ti tit o i 1 1 it. ei to be greater by -KM thin that cast'1 I for Williams, and this, after 37S votes that were cast ior Settle iu ! Granville and Guilford, had been summarily rejected by the demA , pr;t ( ii1 tiiMiuiel.ti j .i.wt I in u i ii'rn. Nor will it be .surprising if the'S congressional majority, in con tempt of the large majority nearly I,") - which Mr. Cannon has gained over Mr. Huscy in the Fiiteenth Illinois district, should try to un seat. the duly elected representative. Mr. Cannon's election was honor ably won, and despite of a most un scrupulous and vigorous opposi tion. Hut it is quite probable that the presence of so logical and elo quent a representative of republi can principles will In-objectionable enough to incite an attempt to rein state Musey, who was elected by an accident in lS'.H) and was fairly de feated in lS'Xj. Such an attempt will fail. THE FARCE ENDED. Labor Commissioner Peck bast just been acquitted by a court of competent jurisdiction of the charge preferred against him by the democratic gang of New York. Indeed the gang did not make a serious effort toward his conviction. There was no case in law against him. The charge was brought for political purpose-! only. The fig ures which he officially gave in proof of an increase, in wages and production of manufacturers since and because of the McKinley bill were unimpeachable, and no demo crat has dared to impeach them nor ever will. The suit brought against the publisher of these un controverted figures was brought without intent to prosecute it. It was brought solely to mislead the public into a belief hat they were fraudulent. When there was no further 1 lenefit to be gained by the democratic gang in misleading the public the sham prosecution was dropped. In like manner, all those republi cans of N'ewYork who were arrested at democratic instances because of their intent to enforce the law that provides for a free vote and fair count were discharged .is soon as the election was over. In both cases the arrests were malicious, ami were manifestations of a democratic love of '.mil-dozing that only is restrained in New York from proceeding to sin hern extrem ities by fear of the law as admin istered by northern courts that have not as yet became parts of Un political machine. IK one-half what tin: democratic orators and writters have been say ing about the McKinl -y bill be true it is almost a crime to leave it tin- touched on tlie statute book one week longer than is absolutely nec essary. The democratic party can not afford to hang tire over it, now that it has got hold of it. Pronmt repeal of it, or prompt modification of it, is what the business interests of the country call for, ami in this we are sure republican ami demo cratic business men are of one mind.--New York Kvening Post IDcm.) u an arbitrary word used to designate the only bow (ring) which cannot be pulled off the watch. Here's the idea The bow his i groove on each end. 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