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CHArTF.lt II.—CONTlNIIUn. |
t fes'YJi' gnve me a cordial greeting, and nf
• -*^pr inquiring, with much seeming interest,
; . , * Hki my own health nml that of my moth
% f er, lie asked how the Oriental and Occi
.(dental wns getting on.
*1 "A-8 web as cun be expected for a new
jtJ\S (tor. ipany,” I answered, cautiously and
Is;. *»H ttely.
4*v 11 You find the 'Niobc’ papers all In order,
' IlF.ipe?”
&;,« ’-A "Oh, yes; the paper*"—emphasis on
Si “papers”—"appear to he quite in order.”
"That is all right, then. When shall we
, *end round for our check! It is a large
■amount to be out of. Wulkers settled yes
Srlii tafday, and the othercompanies will settle
®8j .do-day, I belieYC. All the same, there is
.‘no hurry, and if it would be more conven
ient next week—”
"You can send round for the check when
•ever you like, Mr. Brandyman, but,”—here
I paused a moment—"I am by no means
«ure thut you will get it.”
“What for, I should like to know?”—tir
ing up.
"Look at this, and yon will seo what for!”
And with that I whipped out the sketch
and laid it before him.
He looked at it curiously, but when its
meaning dawned on his mind (os It did
"Very quickly) his countenance changed ns
if he hnd seen a (lorgon’s head. His high
■color gave place to a death-like pallor, tho j
paper dropped from Ids trembling hand, ‘
•and there was a hoarse gurgle in Ids throat ‘
■which mado me fear that ho was going to
have a tit, |
"You seem faint, Mr. Ilrandyman; drink
this, and you will feel better,” I said, till- i
ing a tumbler of water from a carafe that ,
stood on the table. ,
“Thnnk you!” ho gasped. "’Tlsa sud- ,
don faintness. It must be the heat of tho .
room, I think. A—a curious sketch tldsl
‘Where—where did you get it?”
“I drew it, Mr. Drandymun—from in- 1
formation / reedveil."
"Heally!”—looking nt it again; "I did *
not think you were so clever, Mr. Erie, *
and—and—whatcun I do for yon, Mr. Erie?” f
"Nothing at all. Ouly, with yonr per- J
mission, I should just like to give you a 11
Jvint.” t
"Of course—certainly—I am sure—yes— *
what is it?” returned Mr. Brandyman, a *
little incoherently. f
“Well, if I were you, I would not send *
round for that check. We are a young *
company, and don’t want litigation; but—” 1
"1 will think about it, Mr. Erie. I will
speak to my partner, and think about it. 1
.V_, -And this sketch—you cun perhaps leave it *
with me. I should not like—I mean I •
should like to keep it, if you will let me. *
It is so very curious.” <
"By all means. Keep it as amementoof f
■our interview, Mr. Brandyman—and of the *
‘Nlobe.’ ” i
And then I bade him good-bye, and re- I
turned to the office in the full assurance 1
that the twenty thousand pound check *
would never be sent for. True, I had no 1
•evidence of the barratry worth mentioning <
—from a legal point of view—but con- 1
.science makes cowards of us all. Mr. *
Brandyman gauged our knowledge of the
facts by his own fears. He believed, too, *
though I had not said so, that we should *
resist payment of the claim; and as I could 1
well see, he dreaded the scandal of a law- 1
suit, involving a criminal charge, as much 1
•as we dreaded litigation and heavy law ex
penses. i
The Board fully approved of whnt I had 1
•done, and I received many compliments on 1
jj my smartness. I had saved the Oriental '
mud Occidental from actions danger, and 1
, given it a new chance of life; which is an- 1
other way of saying that 1 had saved the
directors a good deal of money, for as all
were shareholders, the failure of the oom- '
pony would have brought them both loss
and discredit. i
A few days later Tom Bolsover called at '
■the office to tell me (what 1 knew already)
that the "Diana” had arrived in the Mersey
■and to remind me of my promise. ,
This was quite a work of supererogation
■on his part. I was not likely to forget
either his services or my promise, and I
Tenewed my offer of a handsome reward;
but he would accept nothing more valuable
than a pound of cavendish tobacco and a
box of Havana cigars.
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Shortly afterward I saw Captain Peyton -
and asked him, as a favor to me, to grant
JBolsover’s request if he possibly could.
■"Well,” he said, smiling, “I’ll do my
•best. Crazy Tom is a thorough seaman;
and, yes—1 dare say 1 can.”
“Crazy Tom!” I exclaimed, in surprise.
“Why crazy? I never met a saner man In
• my life.”
“Oh, he is sane enough except on one
i point, and what is more, he’s honest. A
good many folks call him ‘Honest Tom.’
lit was ouly on my ship they called him
■crazy. 1 expect that is why he left me; and
he may be thinks that it I make him boat
swain he will escape being chaffed.”
■“But why on earth did your people call
the poor fellow crazy, and what did they
chaff him about?”
“Well, he has a fad; tells a yarn about a
tost galleon, with a lot of treasure on board,
and not only swears it is true, but believes
the galleon is still afloat, and that one day
or another he’ll find her.”
“And why*shouldn’t she be still afloat?”
“Well, seeing that, from his account, it’s
■more than a century since she disappeared,
■it is not very likely, I think! The Idea is
■perfectly ridiculous and absurd—crazy, in
fact,” said Captain Peyton, who was a
bluff, matter-of-fact north-countryman.
“‘But all this Is second-hand. Tom never
•poke to me about it in his life, and he has
been so unmercifully chaffed that I fancy
be does not like to speak about it. 1 dare
•ay, though, he would tell you the yarn if
you have any curiosity on tho subject.”
"Well, I rather think I should like to
bear the story of tho lost galleon; for if not
•brae, it is pretty sure to be interesting,
-snd that’s the main point in a story, after
•alt Se non e vero, e ben trovato, yon
However, I dirt not hear Tom’s yarn just
‘than, nor until several things had hap
-pened which I little expected. Captain
IPeyton got fresh sailing orders sooner than
ihe anticipated, and made Bolsover happy
iby engaging him as boatswain; and the
latter was so much occupied that he had
barely time to call and say “good-bye” the
day before the “Diana” was towed out to
sea. I did not see him again for several
months, in circumstances which I shall
^presently relate.
CHAPTER Uh—NIL DESPKBAXDUM.
And now I think it is time I told how It
•came to pass that, at an age when most
young men of m.v years have only just left
college or begun business, I was a profes
sional underwriter, and virtually the man
ager of the Oriental and Occidental Insur
ance Company.
My father was a merchant, and for mnny '
yeam a partner In the house of Waterhouse,
Watkins, Erie & Co., who traded prlncl
pally with the West Indies and South
America, though being .very catholic in
their commercial Ideas, they would have
shipped coals to Newcastle, or warming
pans to Madagascar, If they had been sure
about their reimbursement, and could have
seen a trifling prolit on the venture.
My father, who was tho traveling mem
ber of the firm, went about a good deal
■‘drumming’' for fresh business, and atone
period of his life spent several years at
Maracaibo, in Venezuela—a fact which ac
counts for my having been born there.
Now, anybody who goes to Maracaibo as
surely gets a touch of yellow fever as any
body who stays a winter in London gets a
taste of yellow fog. It is a matter of
course, and new-comers make their ar
rangements accordingly. My parents un
derwent the ordeal the year before I came
into the world, which circumstance was
supposed to confer on me a complete im
munity from this terrible pest of the trop
ics. I was acclimatized by the mere fact
I cannot Ray that I esteemed the privilege
very highly, for I had not the most remote
Intention of returning to Maracaibo, which
from all accounts is u pestiferous, mosqui
to-haunted pandemonium.
My poor father used to say that whatever
pise he might leave me, lie should at least
leave me fhoo from ail fear of Yellow Jack.
As It turned out, ho left me little else.
After his return from foreign climes he
icttled down In Liverpool, took a big house
n Abercrombie Square, entertained Inrge
y, and lived expensively. When I was ,
ibout sixteen, and u pupil at Uppingham ,
School, my father (who had been a free ■
iver) died suddenly of apoplexy, and an i
nvestigntion of his a (lairs resulted In the
ininful discovery that, after payment of
ils liabilities, the residue of his estate '
rould only provide my mother and myself !
vith an lncomo of something less than two
lundred a year. So we had to give up our 1
Ino house in Abercrombie Square and go 1
ato lodgings, and I loft Uppingham and ■
egan to earn my own living—literally, for ;
ftor I was seventeen I did not cost my '
mother a penny. i
The calling 1 took up was not of my Own
hoosing. Had my father lived a little
onger, or left us better off, X should have 1
one into the army. 1 did subsequently
oln the volunteers, and after serving for
while In the urtillery, became first lieu- j
enant and then captain in a ride regiment,
n the circumstances, however, I was glad 1
o accept the offer of Mr. Comble, of the '
rm of Comble, Nelson & Co., ship and
usuranco brokers, to take me Into his of
Ice and push me forward, “if I showed 1
oyself smart,” as he was sure I would. '
I justified his confidence, and he kept his 1
rord. • Although I would much rather 1
iave been a soldier, I had sense enough to, ,
;ive my mind to tho insurance business,
.nd in a comparatively short time I be
ame familiar with all the intricacies of 1
;ennral average and particular average, | 1
he draughting of policies, and the rest; ;
nd If I did not, as Captain Peyton had ' ,
old Torn Bolsover, know ‘Lloyd’s U?gis- ! :
er’ off by heart, there was not n sea-going ;
hip belonging to the port of Liverpool '
those age, classification, and character
which meant, In many Instances, the char
icter of her owners) I could not tell with- '
mt referring to the book.
The partners often consulted me os to
be-premlums they ought to charge, and
he risks which it was prudent for them to
ake; they gavo me a salary which made i
ny mother and myself very comfortable, !
md had I been patient and waited a few ,
rears, I should doubtless have become a
nember of the firm. Hut I was ambitious; I
md when the newly constituted Oriental I
md Occidental Marine Insurance Company |
nvlted roe to become their underwriter, I 1
iccepted the offer without either hesitation
>r misgiving. I
But cautious Mr. Comble shook his head.
“It's a very fine thing," he said, “for a
roung man of two-and-twepty to get tho
vritership of a company, and, though I
tay it that should not say it—to our firm.
Hut you are taking a great responsibility
>n yourself, and you will need to be very ,
prudent. Fifty thousand pounds is not too
much capital for an Insurance company,
and this Is a time of Inflation, and the
shareholders will expect you to earn them
big dividends. Between you and me, I
have no great confidence in these new con
cerns. They are going up like rockets,
and some of them, I fear, will como down
like sticks. But you are young, and if the
Oriental and Occidental does not answer
your expectations, you will still have the
world before you, and I have always said
that you are one of those chaps who will
either make a spoon or spoil a horn.’’
The senior meant kindly, and I thanked
him warmly; but I was too much elated by
my advancement to give due attention to
his warnings, although I had good reason
to remember them afterward. My elation
did not, however, arise solely, or even ’
chiefly, from professional pride and grati
fied ambition. The fact is, I had lost my
heart to Amy Mainwaring, a charming
girl of eighteen, with peach-like cheeks,
soft brown eyes, and golden hair; and be
ing as impetuous in love us I was diligent
In business, and Amy loving me as much
as I loved her, 1 had made up my mind to
marry at tho earliest possible moment—
that is to say, as soon as the father gave
his consent and I could afford to keep a
wife. I thought the salary which I was
now beginning to earn would enable me to
do this easily. But Mr. Mainwaring did
not quite see the matter in the same light. !
He said we were both absurdly young, and
however well off 1 might be, wo should bo
all the better for waiting awhile. More
over, like Mr. Combie, he had not absolute
confidence in the stability of the Oriental
and Occidental.
To my pressing entreaties he answered—
“Let us see what a couple of years bring
forth. You will be quite young enough
then, and the delay will give you a chance
of laying something by for a rainy day.”
Two years! To Amy and me this seemed
an eternity; but as neither of us wanted
to defy her father, and he was quite deaf
to re n, there was nothing for it but to
sigh and submit, and wait with such pa
tience as we might for the fruition of our
Tints went on, and long before tbe per
iod of probation expired I hud to acknowl
edge that Mr. Muinwaring’s caution had
morn warrant than my confidence. After
, doing a brilliant business during the first
1 six months of our career, the tide turned,
j and in a very short time we lost nearly all
I we had made. For this result—though we
had really very ifl-luek—1 fear that I was
in part responsible. 1 was too keen and
sanguine; I did not like to turn money
away. I had not Mr. Combie and Mr.
Nelsou to consult with, and I underwrote
I risks that I ought to have refused. I had
not always the choice, however; for our
paid-up capital being small, llrst-chiss in'
surers fought shy of us, fine business went
elsewhere, and I had to take my pick
; among tbe residue and remainder.
Till* was the state of tilings eighteen
months after I Joined the Orlentnl and Oc
cidental; and had I not got over the diffi
culty nbont tho "Nlobe,” It Is extremely
probable that the company would have
ammOied or I should huve been dismissed.
In either event I should have lost my occu
pation, and in either event Mr. Malnwnr
lug would, 1 felt sure, have insisted on the
rupture of my engagement with ills daugh
ter.
Hence my prospects, whether business
or matrimonial, were not of the brightest,
and Amy anil I were often in horribly low
spirits. We had thought two years a ter
rible time, and now I began to fear that I
might have to wait for her as long as Jacob
had to wait for Kacliel. I am bound to
say, however, that our gloom was relieved
by rather frequeut gleums of guyety and
happiness. One does not duspair at thn
aud-twenty.
CHAPTER IV.—CUAZT TOM’S YARN.
After my memorable Interview with Mr.
Brandyman, things took a more favorable
wr™ wlth the Oriental and Occidental.
We had better luck, and I took more care,
preferring rather to do a small business
than run great risks. Our spirits rose
with the shares of the company—mine and
Amy's as woll os tho directors'—and we
l)egan to think wo wero on the highway to
prosperity, when a misfortune befell which
mattered our hopes to the winds. The
’Jreat Northern Hank (like our own, a Hin
ted liability concern of recent creation)
mspended at n time when we had a heavy
balance to credit, and the very day aftor
ve had paid away several largo checks in
icttlement of claims. Tho checks, of
iour.se, canid back to us, and ns wo had no
neatis of taking them up, we too laid to
luspond.
I lost my place, of courso—a defunct
lompany bus no need of an underwriter;
tnd worse—I had taken n part of my salary
n shares, and on those shares there was
m unpaid liability which absorbed all my
nvings. The collapse of the company left
ne as poor as when I entered Combio &
kelson's office seven years before; nnd by
vay of tilling up my cup of bitterness to
ho brim, Mr. Mainwaring informed mo
in a letter otherwise very kind nnd sym
inthetic) that my engagement with Amy
mist bo considered at an end. He did not
orbid me to visit his bouse, but he said
ilainly that the seldomer I came the better
le should bo pleased.
I thought ho was hard, but I felt he was
’ight. What was the use of a man being
mgaged to bo married who had no present
neans of keeping himself, much less a
vifef All tho same, Amy and P swore
iternal constancy, and we vowed that,
lome weal, come woe, neither of us would
iver mnt;ry anybody else; and I thought
:he really meant it—I am sure I did.
This conclusion, however satisfactory so
'ar ns it went, did not afford much help
award a solution of tho pressing question
if the moment: Wlmt. should I do?—how
ivoid becoming a burden on my mother?
; had asked Mr. Combio to take me back;
mt my place was tilled up, and as a severe
Inancinl crisis had just set in there was
ittlo chance of my finding a place else
where. Firms and banks were falling like
linepins, nnd men of business looked and
alked as if the world were coming to an
md. A word to any of them about finding
ne a situation would have been regarded
is an insult to his understanding.
While I was revolving these things in
Tiy mind, and wondering wlint on earth I
should do, I recotved a call from Captain
Peyton, svlio had lately returned from ono
voyage and was about to start on another,
lie condoled with me over the failure, nnd
nquired whatI“thonglitof doing,” where
upon, as he was an old friend, I told him
if my difficulties, and asked his advice.
“What do I think you should do?” he ex
claimed, cheerily. “Why, what can you
lo better than come with me to Monte
video? I mean, of course, as my guest,
make the ronnd trip; you will be back in
dx months, and by that time business will
be better, and you will get as many bertha
ss yon want. Young men of your capacity
and energy are not too plentiful. What
do you say?”
TO BE CONTINUED.
No Need Tor Eye Stones.
On a pleasant day recently a re
porter was standing on Broadway in
the neighborhood of the big dry-goods
stores with a well-known oculist. The
man to whom the mystery of sight is
nu open book und the handling of the
delicate optic nerves a mutter of every
day occurrence gazed with pleasure at
the scene. Perhaps lie appreciated the
fact that but for his profession many
mortals would not be able to enjoy it.
The curious gaze of the reporter and
the business eye of the doctor dis
covered at about the same instant a
sympathetic movement on the part of
two ladies on the opposite side of the
street. One of them had evidently got
a cinder or something else in tier eye.
Another lady was trying with the aid
of a handkerchief to extract tho ex
asperating mote, but with no great
success. The oculist watched the
scene for a moment uud then philos
ophized timsly: “There are two
ladies, intelligent looking, and evi
dently informed on a variety of sub
jects, yet they are ignorant on as sim
ple a matter ns tile removal of a for
eign particle from the eye.
"The simplest and quickest way to
dislodge anything that lias bocome
fixed in the eye is to catch up the oyc
lid by the skin and pull it away from
the eyeball gently aud repeatedly. I
have'often tried 'the method myself,
and have never knowu it to fail. It
instantly relieves the sensitive member
from pain and shifts the particle so
that it can be easily dislodged. I
learned the method myself from a
railroad hrakenmu. His class are es
pecially liable to annoyance from Hy
ing cinders, aud nearly nil of them use
the treatment I have described.”—N.
1’. Mail and Express.
Ornithological.
A New Ilnrou man placed a pigeoc
on n uest of eggs a short time ago. A
week later a hen flew into the nest,
drove the pigeon away, ami, after de
stroying tlie eggs, laid’oue of her own. j
The pigeon returned and kept the |
hen’s egg warm for twenty-four days,
and a day or two ago a "little while
chicken was found in'the nest. As the
pigeon found some trouble in feeding
the chicken it was placed iu a brooder, *
and now the chicken is heartbroken. |
The house in which Columbus, died,
at Valladoid is falling into decay, and '
tho Spanish government is much re |
broached for allowing it to go to ruin.:
The Italians talk of purchasing it by > I
national subscription. J
THESE FIGjURES TELL
IN FAVOR OF THE WAGE*
WORKERS’ TARIFF.
W«I«l Con»t»utlj on the Increase While
tho NMmarln of Life Continue to
So Down—Enfllali Influence* In South
America—'Tariff Picture*.
Messrs. Cleveland and Mills assert
that the home manufacturer of pro
tected goods adds the duty to the price
of his product and pockets an extra
profit A correspondent, agreeing
with them, writes to say that "the
benefit of all tariffs, low or high, stops
in the pockets of employers. It need
go no further, and never docs.”
Do the following figures show that
those assertions are true as regards the
highly protected glass industry? By
the census of 1880 the total value of
the window glass made ii. the United
States was #5,047,313. The average
rate of duty collected on the imports
of that kind of glass in 1888 was 109
per cent. Applying the beautiful
Mills-Cleveland rule, the manufactur
ers of the window glass made in 1880
would, but for the tariff protection,
have asked for it only #2,415,000. The
wages paid the workmen in that census
year were #2,139,000. According to
the free-trade Democrats those wages
would not have been reduced had their
been no protection. According to the
correspondent, the tariff had nothing
to do with making them what they
were.
Deducting the wages from what
Messrs. Mills and Cleveland say the
glass should have been sold for there
remains #270,000 with which to pur
chase the raw materials of the glass.
According to the census those cost
#1,849,530. Some of the articles used
paid a duty, but the great bulk did
not. Had all the chemicals used been
duty free the cost of the raw materials
would not have fallen below #1,500,000.
Therefore the manufacturers ought to
have sold the glass they made in the
census year for #1,234,000 less than it
cost them, says the Chicago Tribune.
It does not take a strong intellect to
see that under those circumstances
there would be no glass made here. In
that case what would the workmen in
the glass factories do? If they turned
to some other mdpstry they would find
no demand for labor there. They
would be unable to retain their old po
sitions except by consenting to a cut of
wages of 60 per cent or more. That
would bring them down toward the
Belgian basis and would give the
American manufacturer some prospect
of coming out even.
The American glassworker gets bet
ter pay than his Belgian competitor.
He also lives much better. He is bet
ter housed, clothed, and fed. He and
his family are more comfortable, have
more conveniences and luxuries. The
correspondent and his Democratic au
thorities say that he has these things not
because of the tariff, but because of
some reason which they never explain
satisfactorily. Sometimes they say
that the American workman produces
more to the hour than his foreign com
petitor. But the workman who leaves
Belgium and comes here does not have
to double his productivity to get the
American wages. He gets them at
once. If his pay was governed by his
output he would stay in Belgium,
double his output, and get increased
wages there. But he never does.
Breadstuff Exports.
Those ardent free traders who pre
dicted that the McKinley law would
cut down and cripple the export trade
of the United states get Bmall comfort
in the statistics of breadstuffs exported
in 1890—91 and 1891-92. For the ten
months ending on April 30, 1892, the
’value of breadstuffs exported was #253,
065,000, as compared with #97,'126,000
for the ten months ending on April ’1,
1891—an increase nearly trebling the
record of the previous year. With the
increasing movement of breadstuffs
abroad it is not improbable that the
exports for the year ending on June
30, 1892, will be quite three times that
for the year ending June 30, 1891.—
New York Tribune.
Increasing Doubt. j
Every day brings new indications of
the increasing doubt felt by English
men as to the advisability of adhering
to their free trade policy. “English
free traders have gone too far,” sa^d
Lord Salisbury in a recent speech. “Jt
is time to refuse nutions who Injure lx
assess to our markets. The wonderful
progress of the United States under j
protection, simultaneously with the
retrogression of Great Britain under
free trade, has done much to convert j
the English. They are commencing to
see that “free trade may be noble,” os 1
Lord Salisbury says, “but it is not j
business.”
Tariff Pictures.
New York Press: A high tariff de
stroys trade, say the free traders. As !
usual the facts tell another story. For 1
the three years ending March 31, 1889,
the average balance of trade iu favor
of the United States.was 39,661,459.
For the three years ending March 31,
1893, the average balance o> trade in
our favor was 893,733,456.
Domestic Tin riate.
Not only lias tho tin-plate duty re
sulted in the establishment of a domes
tic tin-plate industry, but it has created
a market for the prod ucts of another in
dustry—that of manufacturing t£p
plate machinery. Already we have
seen the advertisements of two firms
prepared to furnish machinery for tin
plate works. There is a chance her*
for some energetic tin-plate liar.
Free Coinage Democracy. '
It is beyond question that the Demo
cratic purpose is tt' wive the country
free silver coinage. ®»e hopes of the :
Democrats in Congress hare bee*
clashed, and their evasive policy has
been brought about by their knowl
edge that President Harrison would
veto any free coinage measure. It
therefore becomes absolutely certain
that the only safety of the country
against the deluge of debased coin is
to keep a Republican on guard in the
presidential office and to elect a Re
publican Congress to sustain him.
WAGES IN ENGLAND,
Free Trad* ImporerUhiujj Eniillili Work*
Ingnisn.
No one could be better qualified to
study the condition of English work
ingmen under free trade or to compare
it with that of Americans under pro
tection than Mr. John Jarrctt, United
States Consul at Birmingham, who has
just arrived on a visit to his home in
Pittsburg. Mr. Jarrett was a free
trader when he came to this country in
1860, but experience soon made him an
earnest advocate of protection.
Speaking of the condition of wages
in England Mr. Jarrett says that skilled
labor is paid less in England now
than formerly. “In I860," he adds,
“skilled laborers in the Staffordshire
district, where the highest prices are
paid, were then given twelve shillings
per ton for puddling, and now, over
thirty years afterward, they receive
only eight shillings. I expect the
prices per ton will soon be six shillings
and sixpence. In juxtaposition, look
at our country. In I860 we paid pud
dlers S3.50 per ton, or about fourteen
shillings, and now they receive 85.50
per ton. Protection raised the wages
in this country, and free trade lowered
them in England.”
Mr. Jarrett slates that “the recent
j election in Rhode Island was a great
disappointment to the free traders in
| England, and now many of them doubt
j whether the Democrats will be able to
; elect a President next fall. Material
j aid will no doubt be given the Demo
■ crats in the coming campaign.”
[ All the material aid that English
free traders can give to the Democratic
party in the coming campaign will be
much more than offset by the knowl
edge on the part of American working
men of the material aid which protec
tion has brought to their homes and
their firesides.
Revenue Tariff Countries.
In Germany, France, Belgium and
Switzerland wages are not one-tliird ol
what they are in the United States.
England pays a higher average of
wages than either of the countries
named; but even then she does not pay
quite half as much as we pay. Wages
in Italy are not one-fourth our rates.
Germany, France and Italy have adopt
ed a tariff system, but the rate is not
high enough to be protective, except
upon a very few articles. Wages, how
ever, are steadily increasing. Last year
cheap foreign labor was imported into
the United States in the shape of manu
factured goods to the value of 8692,
319,768. This was a great wrong
to American labor. In the
immense amount of imports permitted
by our insufficient and defective tariff,
the labor of women employed in the
Manchester, Eng., cotton milis, whoso
wages do not average 860 a year, came
into competition with the higher-priced
labor of Southern and Northern cotton
spinners.
Munich is a gallery and a center of
art. German women, with as many as
six children, saw wood in its streets
for 15 cents a day. May a merciful
God sink the United States ten thou
sand feet under, the sea before that
hideous spectacle shall become an in
cident of our civilization.—George W.
Atkinson of West Virginia.
A Cheerful Indication.
The fact that the Democrats in Con
gress have already begun to abuse John
I. Davenport is infallible evidence that
they see tokens of party defeat in the
handwriting on the wall. Whenever
the Democrats see disaster ahead they
begin to denounce Davenport; when
they realize that their disho nesty and
incapacity are about to result in their
overthrow at the polls they try to lay
the blame on Davenport. They parade
him as the author of their misfortunes,
the designer of their defeat and the
evil genius of their lives. It is a good
sign that they have begun to abuse
Davenport thus early in the season.—
N. Y. Recorder.
A Photograph of Free Trod*.
Glasgow, in Scotland, is the largest
steamship factory of the world; and
its blast-furnace owners ana iron roll
ers howl for free trade day and night,
flf the families in that manufacturing
Sodom, 41,060 out of )00,000 live in one
room; and half cf the men and women
in the city are out of work. That one
room for a family of father, mother,
daughters and sons tells what wages
are in Scotland, and how they drag
humanity down into bestiality and
misery.—American Economist.
Tariff Pictures.
Nothing’ shows the industrial devel
opment of a country more surely than
the amount of raw material consumed
in its manufactures. From 1877 to
1890 the consumption of raw cotton in
creased in free trade England 85 per
cent. In the United States, under pro
tection, during the same period, it in
creased 85 per cent.
Uty We Are the lleet Buyers.
Our party stands for the doctrine
that the American market shall be
preserved for our American producers.
* * * Our <>0,000,000 of people are the
best buyers in the world, and they are
such because our working classes re
ceive the best wages in the world.—
Ben Harrison at Indianapolis. Julu 31
1888.
A Democratic Wall.
“A boom for the subsidy principle"
is the comment of the Boston
Globe on the bill admitting the Inman
steamships to American registry. The
Globe is at least honest. Most of the
“reformers” have been hailing this
£11 as 9 step to waft tree shin*
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