BIG IMPLEMENT TRADE
Nebratln Will Interest Jobbers Hczt
Spring and Summer.
SOD HOUSE PAYS DIG MONEY
BONNESS MUST GO BACK
ENCOURAGING BUSINESS OUTLOOK
Btonoy 80 rirntlful thnt Few Collectors
Arc Needed Id Buttle Accounts-Mnn-Rtcil
by Hue Miscellaneous NebrmUn
Mutters.
OMAHA, Nob., Dec. 21. "If the
spring of 1002 opens up as well as
now Bccms probable, Omaha will have
such a business In Implements and
hardwaro as Is nevor experienced be
fore," was the positive statement of a
collector lor ono of tho largest farm
supply firms In the west as ho tnlkea
with a former salesman at tho hotel.
Mn. Ilowier Tellt of Her Ills Triumph
.at UufTalo Exposition.
OMAHA, Dec. 23. Mrs. L. Bowser,
of sod house fame, tho Nebraska wo
man who roado such a success of sell
ing Nebraska cooking In a Nebraska
pralrlo homo at tho I'an-Amcrlcan ex
position, Is back to her native heath.
In an Interview with tho Deo sho Bald:
"This fall I had an opportunity to
find out how valuable sod houses uud
the ICO acres of Nebraska land that
surround them are. When my hus
band and I first sottlod In Nobraska
with our two children wo took a
claim near Newport, In Rock county,
and erected a little sod homo. It was
a comfortablo home, too, und somo of
tho happiest days of my llfo wcro spent
thoro. Wo planted and improved tho
placo, but wero not contented and sold
tho llttlo claim for $300. My sou has
"No wagons or buggies or corn
Bhollers or grinders wcro sold last fall n,wayg wantcd to own tho pmc0 Thls
uecauBe overyoouy nau ueen mnuo uxo- . . t , d tho , la
nomlcal by tho partial crop failure,
and tho result will be a doublo demand
In the spring that will literally over
whelm the whocsalcra and factories.
Tho last snow was a real blessing to
tho mauy Nobrasknns who had Bown
winter wheat and the condition of tho
latter Is now most promising, for tho
ground was originally well saturated
with tho necessary moisture. It Is, I
have learned, a fact that tho rainfall
In tho western part of this stato after
last Hummer's hot slego was finally
broken, amounted to about forty-ono
Inches, which is at least ono Inch
moro than tho total of tho fall of tho
average year. It took tho llfo out of
tho buffalo grass, on which many cat
tlo aro usually wintered, but otherwlso
It was wholly beneficial and we will
all reap the benefit In tho spring.
now $G,000. That shows tho lncreaso
thcro has been in tho value of No
braska land during tho last twclvo
years, for It was Just a dozen years
ago that wo left tho llttlo sod house.
"I have been at a loss frequently to
explain why eastern peoplo aro so
much Interested In sod houses. I know
why I have such a lovo for a homo of
Nobraska turf, but tho hundreds of
thousands of peoplo who visited tho
Buffalo exposition scorned to bo Inter
ested in my llttlo house, tucked away
in a spaco so small that It could hardly
be Been. Tho slzo of my ontlro spaco
was thirty-seven feet by seventy-flvo
feet and tho building covered almost
every Inch of It. It was all tho room
I could get.
"In that llttlo houso thirty-seven
Nobraska men and women wero em
Gorernor Urntits ItequUltlon, but Ctilcn-
conn Still llnttlco.
OMAHA, Dec. 21. Governor Savage
granted tho requisition of tho gover
nor of Illinois for the return to that
state of Frederic Bonness, who wna
arrested In Omaha December 10, and
was later released on bond.
Bonness Is charged with deserting
in Chicago his wlfo and four small
children. Pollcomnn Joseph T. Barry
left tho Windy City Immediately upon
hla arrest, bringing with him the
ncccssarsy papers. Bonness, through
his attorneys, claims that ho Is not
married to the woman. Tho ofilcor
who is after him Bays that tho wo
man Is tho legal wlftf of tho man and
that when Bonness left Chicago ho
had in his possession $1,400, lcnvlng
his wlfo penniless with a child but
Ihreo weeks old nnd tho threo other
children too small to caro for them
selves.
Tho fight mado beforo tho governor
by Bonness' attornoya lasted for somo
time, and upon Its conclusion tho
papers woro signed for his return,
THE LIVE STOCK MA11KET SOUND RECIPROCITY.
Latent Uuotiitlottt From 8outli Omaha
and Kniisn City.
SOUTH OMAHA.
Cattle Thcro were a Rood mnny cattle
for thin tlmo of tho week nnd an nil polnti
wcro quoted lower tho feeling nt this
point wns also weak, lluyors did not start
out until Into, bo tho morning wns welt
advanced before much of anything hod
changed hnnds. llocolpts did not Include
vcyr many corn-fed steers, but still prac
tically nil kinds woro a llttlo lowor nnd
tho market wna very Blow. Somo of tho
moro deelrablo grndos wcro perhaps not
very much lower, b'ut asldo from those it
was n dull, weak market. Tho cow mnr
CtfVlNED BY THE NATIONAL CON
VENTION OF MANUFACTURERS.
I'ructtml llunlnem Men Fnt-or Only
Such TnrlfT Concessions ns Will Not
Injure Our Dnmritlo Intercit of Mntiu
factum, Commerce uml Agriculture,
The National Reciprocity Convention
haB come and gone. Called under the
nusplces of tho National Association of
Manufacturers with tho avowed ob-
ket whs also slow and lower, liuyers did Ject of promoting tho scheme of trado
not seem to bo particularly nnxlous for nKrccmcnts embodied In what are
mippUi-H today, and an tho receipts wcro
Ubtrnl they tool: their tltno about filling
tholr orders. Tho market on bulls, veal
calves and sings wns nlso slow nnd weak,
particularly on tho less deslruulo gnidos.
Thero was a bettor demand for dcslrablo
grades of stockrrs ami feeders than usual
known as tho Kasson treaties, and Its
management lodged In tho hands of
mou thoroughly committed to what
Chnrloa Hobor Clark so aptly charuc
torized ns "tho policy of Industrial ns
?"u"1 s,0CKf the convention prior to
u ,ln:l- l"" " " ""' 1.1,. . 1 .... . ..M.ln nnlnr
In its proceedings, seemed to stand
nllcncd for wide oncn reciprocity. Its
pcrmanont chairman, Mr. Theodore G
Search, executed a neat straddle in hla
of Colorado cnttlo Hold ns high as $1.10,
which was considered a good, steady
prlco. Common cattle, howovor, wero neg
lected nnd In most ensos sold a llttlo
lower than yesterdny.
tf.iiva Tli n v 1. .1 1 . nlmw
ntid lower. Tim rm.nml market could Opening ttddrCSS. Ho plcndod for ft
safely bo nuoted a dime lower than yes- broader commercial policy, and In sup
torclny. Cholco heavy hogs weighing over i)0rt of that pica misquoted tho Buffalo
immediately upon tho receipt of tho "Mf, SirS'iffi theCwS V!!, "S
Information In Omaha . BonnesB was a few of them on sulo. They wero picked ""!" r " 7"",.
up first and sold largely from M.60 to J3.75. moaning 01 uiui ininuua
Oood mixed hogs woro fully GfflOc lowor carefully suppressing Its qualifying
und sold from to JC40. Light mixed phrases. Chairman Search did not feel
nnd butcher weights wero fully n dlmo cnnua UHOn t0 quoto these portions of
ro-arrcstcd and his lawyers began
habeas corpus proceedings and tho
nrgument will bo heard beforo Judgo
Baker. Bonness la a meat cutter l)y
trado and wns employed whllo in
Omaha by tho Omaha Tea cotnpauy.
ADULTEnATION MUST STOP
"Another peasant thing to report ployed during tho entlro summer nnd
now at tho closo of tho year is tno at times my employes numbored as
slnocuro that tho collector for lmplc- njBh jm clghty-slx. Somo Idea of the
ment houses has. Never slnco 1892, BrCat amount of Nebraska creamed
when I first went Into tho business, chicken wo sold can bo gained from
havo I known money to be as easy In tho fact that I paid nearly $20,000 for
Nebraska, with the exception 6f tho tho chickens wo used. Somo days wo
heavy crop years of 1898 and 1899. used forty dozens of chickens. Coffco
Originally my firm had seven collec- Wns bought by us at tho rato of 1,000
tors on tho road for months at a time.
Now It has just one. Last July we,
llko everybody else, felt that condi
tions woro going to bo very bad and
took precaution to fortify oursolves,
but it has proved wholly unncessary.
pounds a week. It wns nothing un
common to uso 150 pounds of coffco
per day. Two Omaha men wero kept
busy making coffeo all tho tlmo during
tho oxnosltlon and sometimes thero
wero as many as fourteen peoplo draw-
Our collector simply goes to our coun- lng nnd serving coffee.
try customer and gets his money at "Thoro was nothing to bo had in
tho promised time. Indeed, It Is n my houso but tho plain cooking that
fact that tho principal complaint of might bo found in any Nobraska home.
my firm is that too many of tho coun- Creamed chicken, glugor bread, baked
try dealers are availing themselves of beans, brown bread and coffco wero all
tho discount for ensh. And this Is
true of nearly tho whole torrltory trib
utary to Omaha, Including South Da
kota'. "As for tho partial crop failure, I
am Inclined to believe that it was
something of a blessing. It reduced
tho volume of sales some at tho time,
that wo served. At times tho crowds
wcro bo denso In our llttlo sod houso
that It seemed as though peoplo must
bo trampled under foot. When I went
to Buffalo I told Mr. Buchanan that
it was my ambition to servo tho best
coffeo on tho grounds and to run my
receipts up to $1,000 a day. I accom
pllshed both and havo only pleasant
State Proposes to Knforce Turn Older
Vinegar Act.
LINCOLN, Dec. 21. Deputy Food
Commissioner S. C. Bassctt Is prepar
ing to prosecuto manufacturers and
dealers who sell vinegar that does not
como up to tho test required by tho
law or sold under a falso name. Tho
department has already analyzed
many samples of alleged cider vinegar
and found it to bo a bnso lmllMlon.
A distilled product, colored to ro-
Bemblo applo cider vlnegnr, la tho
most common of tho ndulteraled ar
tlclo on tho mnrket. Ono of tho sur
prises Is that tho stato has bought
"elder vinegar" for 3 cents a gallon,
nnd upon Investigation it proved to bo
below tho test required by law nnd
boro no cvldcnco of having been In
tho vicinity of an npplo. Vinegar of
this character has been shipped Into
Nebraska for 3 conta n gallon and re
tailed for from 25 to forty cents a gal
lon ns pure cider vinegar. Ono sam
plo taken from a Lincoln storo con
tained salicylic acid. ThlB acid la
UBod as preservative and according to
law its uso Is mado an offense pun
lshablo by a flno of not less than $50.
Light hogs sold from S.CO down und wero
very hard to dlsposo of ut a dccltno of 10
iro.
Sheep Quotations: Cholco lightweight
yearlings. N. coy (.23; good to cholco me
dium weight yearlings. I3.75tft.00; fair to
good yearlings, $3.COi3.73; cholco wothcrs.
W.CMN.00; frtlr to good wethers, W.3MI3.C0,'
choice owes, W.101J3.40! fair to good ewes,
K.SW3.10; common owch, tl.0OQ2.00; choice
lambs, fci.0CKJ5.10; fair to good Iambs. 51.00
5.00; feeder wuthors, 1!WJ3.15; feeder
lumbs, S3.00ft3.t0.
KANSAB CITY,
Cnttlo Mnrkot stoady to lOo lower;
cholco export nnd dressed beet steers, J3.C0
i'0.r; fair to good, tl.7505.SO; stockors nnd
feeders, t2.75ftl.Z3; western fed steers, $1.75
5?5.73; westorn rango stcurs, t3.60ft4.75;
Texas nnd Indian steers, t3.00ft4.6O; Toxns
cows, t2.25ft3.50; native cows, t2.50ft4.23;
heifers, t3.230C.(w; canners, $l.D0ft2,40;
bulls, t2.23O4.00; culvcn, t3.2J05.23.
Hogs Market heavy and 10c lowor: light
nnd pigs, 10ft20o lowor; top, tO.C7Mi: bulk
of sales, t3.70ftC33; hoavy, tO.COdTC.67H;
mixed packors, SU0ftG.5O; light, t3.25ftC.23;
pigs. S4.2SftG.15.
Sheep nnd Lnmbs Market steady to 10a
lower: nntive, lambs, t4.75ft5.25; western
lnmbs, SI.60S5.00; natlvo wothers, S3.75ft
4.23; western wothers, S3.60ft4.00; ewes,
S2.75Q3.73; culls nnd feeders. S2.00ft3.50.
tho speech of President McKlnlcy:
"By sensible trado arrangements
which will not Interrupt our homo pro
duction." "Wo should take from our customers
such of tholr productH ns wo can uso
without harm to our Industries nnd
labor."
"Wo Bhould sell whonovor we can,
buy whorovor tho buying will enlarge
our sales and production, and thoroby
mnko a groator demand for homo la
bor." This was tho McKlnloy Idea of reci
procity as expressed In tho Buffalo
speech. Chairman Search cannot havo
overlooked or forgotton those vital por
tions of tho speech. Honco the infer
ence that ho oloctcd to suppress thorn
and In so doing wub guilty of misquota
tion and perversion. But tho omissions
woro supplied later In tho dny In the
very oxcollont nddross of Mr. Frank
can industries If thoy can thus obtain
a chanco to soil moro of tholr fabrics."
Then camo tho gront speoch of tho
convention, tho turning point of its de
liberations, nho event which moro than
nny other or.o thing, and perhaps moro.
than all other things combined, saved
tho day for Protection and fair play,
for tho kind of reciprocity that builds
up and does not tear down; thnt cher
ishes and docs not nssnsslnato domes
tic Industries j the reciprocity of Blalno,
McKlnloy, R.oosovclt and Dlngley; tho
reciprocity of tho Republican platform
of 1900, which tho Amorlcan pooplo
hnvo Indorsed nt tho polls and which
by that Indorsement stands ns tho un
written lnw of tho land. By somo for
tunnto chancefor It Itf hard to bo
llovo that tho convention managers re
alized In ndvanco what a mighty
weapon was to bo turnod against them
tho duty of delivering the second of
tho general pnpors dovolvod upon Mr.
Charles Heber Clark, a dologato from
tho Manufacturers' Club of Philadel
phia. Evidently tho lovel headed Quak
ers know their man much bettor than
tho convention managers know him.
Tholr Bcloctlon wns a marveloiiBly
good ono. Mr. Clark did moro than
answer Mr. Fnrquhar. Ho annihilated
him. Ho mndo that mnrblo hearted
Cobonlto look llko very much less than
"thirty cents." Ho carried tho conven
tion by storm with hla massing of
facts, statistics and logic, his gift of di
rect statement, his offhnnd, colloquial
manner of oratory, his touches of
humor nnd his keen shafts of sarcasm.
Rehearsing tho tremendous growth of
our foreign trado under tho Dlngley
lnw as contrasted with tho Wilson
Tariff, Mr. Clark would pauso a mo
mont nnd then ask: "Do you sco any
thing In this to" Justify tho banging of
n holo In tho Dlngloy Tariff?" And tho
convention would burst Into an uproar
of applause and laughter. Straight to
tho mark llko a rlfio shot went this
statement:
"Jf you enro to ongngo In reciprocity
experiments along tho linos laid down
In tho Ropubllcnn platform of 1900 and
In harmony with tho4 reservation bo
cnrofully Insisted upon by Prcsldont
McKlnloy nt Buffalo, wo say go ahead
and soo what you can do. But If you
dopnrt from those wlso, safe, sensible
lines and tindertako to put tho knlfo
Into ono or moro Industries for tho
REPORT UPON SCHLEY
hut those nconlo who natched up their
old Implements and .wagons last fall recollections of tho Pan-American."
will havo to buy new ones In tho
spring and in tho meantime they havo REAL ESTATE ASSOCIATION
learned tho ever useful lesson of fru
gality and thrift, Whllo tho grain they Letters Sent Out 8ucctlng Such an
did ralso sold at better prices than If
the crop had been larger."
OrgunUatlon.
LINCOLN, Dec. 23. Deputy Labor
Commissioner C. B. Watson has sent
Mnr Onlce. Dt.contlnuoU. uu- btwt. "'e
OMAHA. Nob.. Doc. 21. The official of a stato association by real estate
postal guide for December, Just recolv- dealers. From many responses receiv
ed by J. Cramer, superintendent of cd it Is apparent that tho dealers In
mniu linwH that durlnir tho eleven the state aro ready to tako up such
months from January 1 to Dccembor an enterprise, tho object in view bo-
i nf this vwir. sixteen nostoilkes In lng to encourage immigration to e
Nebraska havo been discontinued on braska. It Is believed that a majority
account of rural free delivery. Dur- would prefer not to admit real estate
.1 rr. Uor.,n dealers in tho cities of Lincoln or
reason sixty-six have becn discontinu
ed In Iowa.
DUgorges One Inch nf Hone.
GRAND ISLAND, Neb., Dec. 24.
Henry Lauer of tho Soldiers Homo
had a peculiar experience. Sixteen
years ago, somo tlmo during the year
Omaha, as such dealers aro supposed
to bo Interested moro particularly In
city property. Farm property Is rep
resented moro generally by agents llv
lng outsldo tho largo cities.
Tho towns of York, Haatlngs, Grand
Island and Columbus nil havo been
mentioned as tho probablo placo of tho
first meeting. If a meeting Is called
Of INTEREST TO TEACHERS
Teachers Attending Association Mooting
Will Oct Low Ilntci.
LINCOLN, Doc. 21. For tho in
formation of teachers and others who
wish to attend tho forthcoming meet
ing of tho Nobraska Stato Teachers'
association, Superintendent Fowlor
publishes tho following rato bullotln,
which wna received from tho Western
Passenger association:
"Rato of ono faro for tho round trip
from points In Nobrnska and tho
Black Hills district of South Dakota;
oxcurslon tickets to be sold from
points In tho territory mentioned
from which tho local ono way rato
to Lincoln Is moro than $3 on De
cember 30, 31 and January 1, nnd
from points within tho radius men
tioned on December 31 and January
1, good to return until and Including
January 4, 1902. Tickets limited for
Kolng nassago commencing date of
sale and for continuous passage
each direction."
Judge Advocate I.etuley nnd Solicitor
11 mm IMlu Ilepljr to Objections.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21. Judgo Ad
vocato Lemly and Solicitor Honna sub
mitted to Secretary Long their report
upon thto bill of objections filed by
Admiral Schloy, through hla counsel,
to tha findings of tho Schley court of
nlqulry.
In aubstanco tho roijort Is an argu
ment supplementary to tho argumont
mado by tho writers boforo tho court
of Inquiry. Tho principal points nro
an Instnnco upon their contention that
tho first report Is tho unnnlraoua ro
port of tho court of Inquiry; that tho
court was Justified In rejecting Ad
miral Schlcy'a ovldenco by tho num
ber of witnesses who took Issue with
him, and that thoro Is no sufficient
reason for a reopening of tho cuso ns
requested by Admiral Schley.
Socrctary Long has not yet ncted
upon tho report, but is expected to do
so today. If adopted, tho report will
bo forwarded to Admiral Schley.
A MISOHIEVOUS MAGNET.
s
la
t 1 DDK 1m aiirn11rtirw1 fi Itnnn It
i o, ,"""Y " " r w it will bo hold early In tho now year,
lodged and has been resting on his M.
inn ovop ehen. Tloenntlv he hnd an J
soclatlon, to promoto Immigration, (lis-
Pai'-8 dealing with land values,
.UK ,u u .., - "'' acreage and tho yield of crops and
rib an Inch long, was thrown up. . .
A dealer In York county writes that
ho has secured good results by adver
tising Nebraska in reputable nowspa-
Hnlr Humeri From Heml.
FRIEND, Neb., Dec. 24. Miss Wllla
Burger, a teacher in tho public schools, pcra aud fam Journala ,n IoWtt und
was seriously umntu neio u mu linnols
suit of a celluloid sldecomb In her hnlr
igniting. The young woman wns
standing near a rod hot atovc. Nearly
nil the hair was burned from her head.
flluny I'nstnmsters Quit.
OMAHA, Dec. 24. Rural delivery
routes havo played havoc with post
ofllcos and postmasters nt crossroad
points, Star routes have been discon
tinued and with tho star routes gone
tho little postofflccs could not exist.
Several farmers from Alcdo, 111.,
have already bought land In York
county nnd It Is reported that a party
of fifty farmers from tho samo placo
will buy tickets for York county on
March 1. Ho says tho Illinois farm
ers who havo bcon in Nobraska now
roallzo that thoy can sccuro as much
profit from Nebraska land ns they can
from Illinois land valued at $90 and
$100 an acre.
I.I to Stock III Guild Condition.
HI3BRON, Neb., Dec. 24. Reports
from ranchmen In this part of tho
stato Indlcato that the cattle passed
County School 8iiierlnten(lrnt.
LINCOLN, Dec. 23. Superintendent
Fowler has issued a call for a busi
ness meeting of county superintend
onts nnd Bunerlntondcuts-olcct, to be
the late sevcro cold spell with llttlo nc,d ln tho Henat0 chambor beginning
suffering; genornlly they kopt on tho TlleB(lay afternoon, December 31. Mr.
open rango nnu picneu tncir own xeeu; KnwiBP Baya: Wo bono to havo' a
no losses reported. Not for aoveral very interesting and profltablo meet
yoars has stock entered the winter in lng Superintendents now In offlce
bettor condition than this fall, and Bnouia meet with us and give us the
every stockman has a bountiful sup- benefit of their experience, whether
ply ,of liny and various other Kinds or thl)y remaln in office or go out."
rough feed. 1
Hhortaco Mndo Oood.
LINCOLN, Dec. 21. Tho shortage
of former Oil Inspector J. N. Gntfln
was mado good by tho payment of
$522.03 to tho stato by tho Fidollty
and Deposit company of Baltimore
Tho settlement was brought about by
tho stato board of compromise, of
which tho attorney general," Btato
treasurer nnd stato auditor are tho
members. A check for tho amount
was given to tho nudltor.
I.lvo Stock StnniU It.
HARRISON, Neb., Dec. 21. A bliz
zard set in Sunday evening nnd con
tinued until Monday evening, piling
up a foot of snow on tho lovel nnd
great heaps In railroad cuts and over
tho rango. Cnttlo aro ln good condi
tion, and It Is thought will bo able
to tide over all right.
NOT OPPOSED TO THE PENSION
Ituaiel Ilnrrlion Buys He li Not Fighting
CInliu for Stepmother.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21. Colonol
RUssell B. Hnrrlson, son of tho late
Prcsldont Benjamin Hnrrlson, wna ad
mitted to practlco in .tho court of
claims nt Its last session.
Colonol Harrison, in reply to nn In
quiry concerning tho reason for his
presenco ln Washington, said:
"I havo been hero entirely on legal
business. Tho roport that I am oppos
ing tho granting of a pension to Mrs.
Bonjnmln Harrison la ubsolutoly with
out foundation.
"I havo hesitated to make reforonco
to this matter, even to deny tho truth
of tho Idle rumor earlier, simply from
a disinclination to mako reference to
family matters."
Mm. Nntlon ut Ilnntrlnc.
BEATRICE, Nob,, Dec. 21. Mrs.
Carrlo Nation lectured hero, but lior
nudlenco was qulto small owing to tho
inclemoncy of tho wcithor.
Killed liy I.onri nf Logs.
GLENWOOD, la., Dec. 21. Whllo
walking alongsldo of a load of logs,
Sam Red was almost luotutitly killed.
Tho nccldont happened on tho Boll
Wyant farm, about twelve miles south
of town. Red wua on tho way with
aged 40 years, fell Into an open cel-
bcsldo tho wagon to keep warm. In
uomo way tho load becamo uncoupled
mid the logs rollod oft tho wagon onto
Red, crushing him.
Mlxnourl Against NelirniLii.
LINCOLN, Doc. 21. Attornoy Gcn-
Lcnko, chairman of tho delegation from
tho Manufacturers' Club of Philadel
phia, so that the convention was not
left ln tho dark us to the McKlnloy
lden of reciprocity nftor all. Mr.
Search mado a mild plea that consid
eration bo shown to all Industries, but
that was all. Ho was on tho top of
tho fonco whlchovor way the cat
Jumped. To tho Protectionist clement
ln tho convention thero was an omi
nous Blgnlficanco In the Bonding to and
tho acceptance by tho Now England
Frcc-Trado Longuo of an Invitation to
send delegates; also ln tho fact that
tho dollvory of tho first address on tho
subject of reciprocity was uBslgncd to
nn avowed Froo-Tradcr, Mr, A. B. Far
quhar of York, Pa., a manufac
turer of agricultural Implements so
completely guarded by patontB nnd
royalties as to render foreign competi
tion Impossible. Being himself ln no
nocd of Protection or, at any rate,
holding that vlow, and apparently ob
livious to tho fact that upon tho gon
ernl prosperity produced by Protection
ho must depend for by fnr tho larger
portion of Bales l:i tho homo market-
Mr. Farquhar eaBlly nrrlves at tho con
elusion that no othor Industry Bhould
havo Protection. Whnt ho wants to
do is to sell Implements to foreigners,
no matter what becomes of tho general
Industries of his own country. Ho Is,
ln short, a typical reclprocator. Charles
Heber Clark's definition of reciprocity
fits Farquhar llko a glove:
"But of lato we havo heard a domnnd
for reciprocity of qulto anothor kind
and this now vorloty of reciprocity, un
sanctioned by any of the groat chain
plons of Amorlcnn Industry In tho past
has found advocates In this convon
Hon nnd has even been formulated
ln treaties by representatives of tho
Government of tho United States. It
Is not eusy to put Into a slnglo phrase
tho theory of this new kind of reclproc
lty; but tho purpose of tho authors
may bo expressed it wo shall lmnglno
them saying, for example, to Franco
"If you will let us knlfo somo of
Hettlers HnfTcr From Cold.
GUTHRIE, O. T Dec. 21. Every
oral Prout has returned from Wash- rod .left(1!,,B 'nto 11,0 T b y0I1P industrlCH wo will let you stab
lngton, whorn ho appeared boforo the
supremo court and asked that com
missioners bo appointed to tnko cvl
Btlll lined with prospective Bottlers.
Qonorally theso aro mon i.n poor finan
cial circumstances, who aro moving
aw T in Wo .it of MlrT against wHh their families Into this region to
uuuur iiiuir uuiiuiuuu. mcj uuu oui-
Nobraska. Tho controversy nrlsos
over several acres of land cut off from
Nebraska by a nudden freak of the
Missouri river. Tho land and citi
zens aro still considered Nebraska's,
taxes being paid In Nohama county.
forcd untold ngonlcs an tho result of
tho recent cold wavo. Without food
and gonorally without monoy and in
a country sparsely settled, they havo
starved and frozon.
somo of ours.' In short, wo find cor
tain American manufacturers who
havo grown to greatness under tho
Protcctlvo system, willing to sanction
partlul repudiation of thnt system bo
that they mako gains for thorn
solves In foreign markets. Llko tho
famous humorist who was willing to
havo all his wife's rolatlves go to th
war, they will agree to the Injury or
tho destruction of a few llttlo Anion
benefit of othor Industries Booking to
oxtond tholr forolgn trndo, I Bay to you
now wo will fight you to tho blttor
end,"
Othor nddrcsscs thoro wcro of
marked ability and strength, notably
that of Mr. Leako, whoso clear and
calm exposition of tho views of tho
Important body for which ho Bpoko
gained closo attention and respect; of
Mr. Gcorgo J. Soabury, who effectively
urged that nn American merchant ma
rine, nn Isthmian canal and tho lay
ing of Pacific cables to bo owned and
operated by Americans Bhould precede
nny gonoral scheme of reciprocity; of
Mr. Henry Dnlloy of Now York, who
presented an earnest, scholnrly plea
for deliberation, caro nnd wisdom bo
foro embarking upon tho unchartered
sea of wldo open reciprocity; of Mr.
Titus Sheard of Llttlo Falla, N. Y and
Mr. Owou Osborno of Philadelphia,
who contributed somo valuable facts
rolatlvo to wages and cost of produc
tion in tho knit goods and hosiery in
dustry; of Mr. S. O. Blgnoy of Attol
boro, Mnss,, whoso statomont concern
ing tho great Jowolry industry of Now
England might well mnko Mr, Farqu
har feel ashamed of his encoring allu
sions to "bogus Jewelry."
In the formation of tho commltteo on
resolutions the outlook for protection
wns not at first glanco encouraging,
but the obvious tcmpor of the conven
tion as n wholo hnd Its effect upon the
committee's deliberations, with tho re
sult of producing a roport which stands
for tho malntonanco of tho principle
of protection for tho home market, nnd
for only such modifications of tho tnr
Iff aa can bo mado "without Injury to
nny of our homo lnteresta of manufac
turing, commerce or farming." Sound
republican and protection doctrlno,
tersoly and plainly statod! Tho reso
lutions also recommend tho creutlon by
Congress of a reciprocity commission
and for tho establishment of n depart
ment of commerce In n body of clew?
upon 300 delegates these resolutions
woro ndopted with only threo dlssont
lng votes. Ono of theso was changod
beforo tho result was announced. Two
remained obdurate. Ono of theso was
Honry W. Lamb, a dologato from tho
New England Froo Trado League, and
tho othor declined to disclose his Iden
tity. So ended ln all honor nnd Justice and
equity and wisdom nnd patriotism the
assembly of notables to bo hereafter
known In history at tho National Reci
procity Convention. Iu tho language of
tho devout Mr Beubury we say: Anion!
