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V-yf*'**' ’’ : ' 7 ' ’ v'
A QUEER RACE.
•A ITOAT OP A STItANGK PKOPLR,
CT WIT.I.IAM WKHTA1.U
CI1 APT It It IV. —CONTINUED,
ses, with alt my heartl" I answered,
•grasping bis hand. “Thanks—a thousand
time, thanks. Captain Poyton! X have Ion*
Wanted to make a deep-son voyage, and
After the turmoil and anxiety of the last
few weeks the 'Otann' will be a veritable
haven of rest. When do you sail?"
"In a fortnight nr so.”
* MAll right; I shall be ready. I suppose
Bolaover is still with youf"
•Tea, Cracy Tom is our boatswain; and
A good ono he makes. He will may be toll
you that yarn of his, If you take him when
lie Is in tho humor. I tried him one day,
Imt it was no go. He wnnld not bite. I
•expect ho thought I wanted to chaff him.”
"Yarn, yarn: Oh, I remember. Some
thing about a galleon, Isn’t ltf”
•‘Yes; a Spanish treasure-ship, lost ages
ago. The crazy beggar believes she Is still
Afloat. He Is sane on ovory other point,
though. However, you get him to tell you
All about it. It Is a romantic sort of yarn,
j isncy."
"Whon we get to soaf”
I* *'Ym: that will bo the time. When wo
get Into the northeast trades, all anils set
aloft aud alow, mid thero la not much go
, Idr on—that U your time for spinning
yarns."
Shortly after this I heard a piece of news
which completed the tale of my misfor
tunes, and made mo wretched beyond
measuro. I heard that Amy Mainwaring
was engaged to young Kelson! If my
mother had not seen it in n let’ sr written
by Amy herself to a common friend. I
couldn’t have believed it; but incredulity
was impossible. I was terribly cut up and
extremely indignant, and vowed that I
would never have anything to do with a
woman again—In the way of love.
Two days later wo were at sea. The
■"’Diana” was a Hue, full-rigged merchant
man. one thousand two hundred tons bur
. den, with an auxiliary screw and a crow
of thirty-nine men, miscellaneous cargo of
Brummagem ware, Manchester cottons,
and Bradford stuffs. She had half a dozen
passengers, with all of whom (except, per
haps, a young fellow who was taking a sea
voyage for the benefit of his health) tlmo
was more plentiful than money. For all
that, or perhaps because of that, they were
very nice fellows.
We had lots of books among us, and
what with rendiug, talking, smoking,
sauntering on deck, playing whist and
chess, the days passod swiftly and pleas
antly. Now and again wo gave a sort of
onlrfed entertainment In the snloon, at
which the skipper and ns many of the
■hip’s company as could be spared from
their dutlos on deck were present. Two
of the passengers could sing comic songs,
( cne fiddled, another recited: I played on
■ -oeeordeon and performed n few conjuring
tricks, and one way and another wo amused
•our audiences Immensely, and won great
applause.
■ I naturally saw a good deal of Tom Bol
.-■over, but in the early part of the voyago
ths weather was so variable and he so busy
- 'that he had little time for conversation,
•and we exchanged only an occasional word.
But when we got Into the region of the
trades ha had more leisure, and going for
- ward one fine morning, I found him sit
ting on a coil of rope, apparently with
nothing more important to do than amoko
I, Bit pipe and stare at the sails.
< "‘I was very sorry to hear of the bnsting
nap of that ’ere company,’’ he sold, after
if,. we had exchanged a few remarks about
vthlugs In general.
fcp, t “See; yon saved ns twenty thousand
'pounds, and I thought that would pull us
// through; bat we lost twice as mneh by the
anspenslon of our bankers, and then we
< - ’were up a tree, and no mistake.'’
i “I hope yon did not laMmuehby lt,sir?”
■ • ''Well, 1 lost my situation and all my
' money, and I had a very nice sum laid by.”
“All your money! Dear, dear! I am very
worry. But yon surely don’t mean quite
-all?”
“Yea, Ido. I have very little more left
khan I stand up In. But what of that! I
|4 -am young, the world Is before me, and
. > when I get back I shall try again. I mean
bo make my fortune and be somebody yet,
<; , Bolsover, before I am very much older.”
“FortuneI tortunel If we could only
Bud the 'Santa Anna’ we should both
. make our fortunes right off. There Is gold
v l nod silver enough on that ship tor a hun
died fortunes, and big 'una at that ”
4 “The ‘Santa Anna!’ What lathe ‘Santa
■ .Anna,’ and where la she?”
“1 wish I knew,” said the old sailor, with
: *a high; “I wish I knew. It Is what I have
'4>een trying to find out these thirty years
f/ -and more. I’ll tell you all about it”—low*
4 -wring his voice to a oonfldeutlal whisper—
’“only don’t let the others know—they
1 laugh at me, and say I am crasy. But
, never mind; let them laugh as wins. I
r ahall find her yet. I don’t think I could
-die without finding her.' Yon won’t say
‘V tauything?” -
' ■ f '“Not a word.”
'.4 ’“Well," went on the boatswain, after a
gp Sew pensive pulls at hts pipe, “it came
. , about In this way: My father, be was a
seafaring man like myself. Us has been
i; dead thirty-three years. He’d have been
•- nigh on ninety by this time if he had lived.
Well, my father—he was a seafaring man.
’. you'll remember—my father chanced to be
•at the A sores—a good many people eees the
: .Anoree, leastways Pico, but not many landfl
if) (there—but my father did, and stopped *>
' ' month or two—I don’t know what for—and
: being a matter of sixty years since. It doe*
.not much matter. Well, while he wsf
-there, he nsed to go about In a boat, all
V stone, fishing and looking round—my
.father was always a curiosish sort of man,
'<;> and he had an eye like a hawk. Well, one
-dej he was satling round the island they
?’ ««alla Corvo. very close Inshore, when he
. spies, la a crevice of a cliff—the coast is
’ - uncommon rugged—he spies something as
l': didn’t look quite like a stone—it was too
. ronad and regular like; so he lowers hit
. anil, takes his sculls, and goes and geta It,
What do you think It was?”
“I have no idea A bottle of rum. per*
ihaps."
“No, no, not that,” said Tom, with a
Si* ’hurt look, as if I had been jsstlng with a
) sacred subject “It was a tin case. It bad
been there a matter of forty or fifty years,
) may bo, washed up by the sea and never
•eon by a soul before It was spied by my
father. Inside the case’was a dokyment
i • as told how, in 1744, a British man-of-war
if) captured the ‘Santa Anna’ a Spanish gab
• ' Jeon, with millions of money on board.”
i . , “Millions! Not millions of pounds?”
: “Yea millions of pounds. She wns a
■■ : big ship, carried forty guna and must have
. been a matter of two thousand tons bur
• ' dea Now. a ship of that site can tola a
.sight of gold and sliver, Mr. Erie.”
“Bather. Almost as mnch as there la »
’ .*11 England, I should say.”
•*Ju»t no, Mr. Erie,” said Holsover, with
glistening eye*. "Suppose she carried no
more than one thousand five hundred ton*
dead weight, and hall of it was gold and
hall silver, that would be a pile o( money
make baskets and buckets full of sover
eigns and crowns and shillings, to say noth* ,
lug of sixpences and fourpenny-plecos,
wouldn’t It, sir?” I
"Carloads! Why, you might give away
n few wheelbarrows full without missing
them.” As the poor fellow was evidently
quite cracked on the subject, I thought It
host to humor him. "Hut you surely don’t
mean to say that the galleon was full
bang up full of gold and silver?” I
"Yes, I do; and why not? Doesn’t the
dokyment say as she was a richly laden
treasure-ship? And doesn’t it stand to 1
reason as If she was rlohly laden—mark
them words, sir, ‘richly laden’—that she
must have been full?”
“Why, yes, it does look so, when you
come to think about It,” I said, gravely.
"The man who finds the ‘Santa Anna’ will
have a grand haul: nothing so sure.” i
“Won’t he!" returned the boatswain,
gleefully; In his excitement chucking his
nine Into the sea. "Now. look here. Mr.
Erie; you Bald you was poor—as you hod
lost all the money os you had. Here’s a
chance for you to get it all bock, and
twenty thousnnd times morel Help me to
tlnd the ‘Santa Anna,’ and wo will go
halves—share and share alike, you know."
"Thank you very much, Bolsover. It’s
a very hnndsome offer on your part, and I
am nwfully obliged; but ns yet I must own
to being just a llttlo in the dark. Say ex
actly what it is you want mo to do. If It
Is a ease of divlgg, I don’t think I am the
man for you; for, though a fair swimmer,
I oould never stay long nnder water, and I
don’t understand diving-bells."
“No, no, sir; the ‘Santa Anna’ never
foundered; she is onJhe sea, not under it.
You surely don’t think, sir, us Qod Al
mighty would let all that money go to
Davy Jones’ locker? As fur ns I can make
out, all the ship's company died of thirst.
When thnt dokyment wus writton, they
was dreadful short of water; and the ship
became a derelict, and wont on knocking
about all by herself—is, may be, knocking
about yet—she was teak-built and very
staunch—or otherwise she has run aground
on some out-of-the-way island, or drifted
into a cove or inlet of the sea. Auyhow, .
she is worth looking after, and I have al- t
wuys thought os if some gentleman would t
give me a helpin’ hand—somebody yvith
more ’end and edycatton than I have my- j
self—we should bo sure to succeed in the ,
end; nay, I am sure wo should—I feel it; I
know it. Will you help me, Mr. Erie? I
cannot toll you how—I am only a common
seafaring man; but you are a scholar, with ’
a head like a book. They say as you knows
'Lloyd’s Register’ by heart, and a man as .
can learn ‘Lloyd’s Register' by heart can
do anything.’’ j
"You are very complimentary, Bolsover,
and 1 am extremely obliged for your good I
opinion. But yon give mo credit for a good
deal more cleverness than I possess; for,
tempting as is an offer of half a shipload
of gold and silver, I reully don't see what
I can do. It I were a skipper and had a '
ship, or a rich man and owned a yacht, I
might possibly help you; but you must sea
yourself that I cannot go about exploring
every island and inlet and cove in tha
world, or keep sailing round it until I spot :
tha derelict 'Santa Anna,’ particularly oa
you don't seem to have the least idea where I
she was when last heard of.” I
“There you are mistaken, Mr. Erie. I
oould a'raost put my finger on the very
spot But will you read the dokyment? |
Then you will know all about It—more
than I know myself, for a man as can learn
'T.IrtvH'a liutn,1_it I
"The document! The paper your father
found? You surely don’t mean to say you '
have It?" I exclaimed, in surprise; for up .
to that moment I had thought the boat
swain's story pure illusion, and himself os
erazy on the point os Peyton said he was. |
"Yes, I have jt. My father, he gave It
me just afore he died. ’Tom,' he says, ‘I |
cannot leave you no money, but I gives
you this dokyraent. Take care of It, and
look out for the ‘Santa Anna,’ and you’ll
die a rich man.' Will you read It, Mr.
Erie?"
"Certainly. I’ll read It with pleasure,”
Bolsover rose from the coil of ropes, slip
ped into the forecastle, and in a few min
utes came back, with a smile of satisfac
tion on hta face and a highly polished tin
case in his hand.
. "Here it Is," he said; “you’ll find it In
side."
"But this Is surely not the case your
father found at the Azores?1*
"No. That was all rusty and much bat
tered. He had hard work to get the doky
ment out without spoiling it. He got this
case made a-pnrpose. Nobody has ever
read it but him and me. Everybody as I
mentioned it to always laughed, und that
made me not like showing it. When you
have read It, Mr. Erie, you’ll tell me what
you think. But keep the dokymeut to
yourself. What’s least said is soonest
mended, you know; and if you was to men
tion It to the others they’d only laugh.
And now”—looking at his watch—“1 must
pipe up the second dog-watch."
Promising to observe the utmost discre
tion, 1 put the tin cose in my pocket, went
to the after-part of the ship, lighted a
cigar, sat me down on a Southampton
chair, and proceeded to carry out Tom’s j
wish by reading the paper which had so 1
much excited his Imagination, and was
now, In spite of myself, beginning to ex
cite mine.
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CHAPTER ▼.—THE DOCUMENT. *
The "dokyment," as poor Tom called it,
though It seemed to hove been carefully
used (the leaves being neatly stitched to
gether and protected by a. canvas cover),
had suffered much from wear and tear, the
rust of the original tin cose, and the fre
quent thumbinga of Its two readers. The
ink was faded, the handwriting small and
crabbed; the lines wore, moreover, so very
close together that I found the perusal, or,
more correctly, the study of the manuscript
by no means easy. Parts of it, m fact,
were quite illegible. I had often to iufer
the meaning of the writer from the con
text, and there were several passages
Which I could not make out at all.
No wouder the boatswain wanted a man
of “ ’end and edycation" to help him. The
form of the document was that of a jour
nal, or log; but it was hardly possible that
it could be the work of any combatant of
ficer of a warship on active service. The
style was too literary and diffuse, and, so
to speak, too womanish and devout. The
writer, moreover, whose name, as I read
on, I found to be “Hare,” did not write in
the least like a seaman. He could not well
have been a passenger; and I had not read
far before I found that he was a clergyman
and naval chaplain.
The first entry in the diary was prjbably
written at Spithead, and ran thus—
“H. M. S. ‘Hecnte,’-17th, 1743.
"Left our moorings this day. under seal
ed orders, so as yet no man on board knows
whither we ore bound or where we ore to
cruise. May God bleas and prosper onr
voyage, and protect the dear ones we leave
St home! I
“19th.—Been very mtich indisposed the
last two days; not very surprising, consid
ering that this is my first voyage, and we :
have had bad wenther. Wind now moder
ating, but still blowing half a gale.
‘‘SOlh.—The captain nos opened his or
ders. The ‘Hecate’ Is to sail with nil speed
across the Atlantic, cruise about the Gulf
of Mexico, In the track of homeward-bound
Spanish merchantmen, and keep a sharp
lookout for treasure-ships. Officers anil
ship’s company highly delighted with the
prospect thus opened out of prize-money
and hard lighting, these treasure-ships be
ing always either heavily armed or under
convoy, or both. To do the ‘Hecate’ Jus
tice, I believe the prospect of hard knocks
affords them more pleasure than the hope
of reward; and though we carry only forty
guns, there Is not a sallo^on board who la
not confident that we are n match for any
two Spanish frigates afloat. Our British
tars are veritable bull-dogs, and albeit
Csptalt Barnaby does sometimes Indulge
in profane swearing, the Royal Navy pos- .
sesses not a better man nor a braver ofll
Next followed a aeries of unimportant
entries, such as:
“Ohurch parade and divine service.
“in the Hick-bay, reading the Bible to
Bill Thompson, A, B.. who fell yesterday
from one of the yard-arms, and lies a-dy
lng, poor fellow.
"Dined with the captain, the second luff,
nnd two of the young gentlemen.
“This dny a ffylng-llsh came through my
port-hole. One of the ship's boys caught
him. aud the cook made an excellent dish
of him for the gun-room mess. It seemed
a shame to kill the creature who sought
our hospitality and protection, for he was
doubtless escaping from some enemy of the
sen cv the air.”
And so on—and so on. All this did not
occupy much space, yet, owing to the rev
erend gentleman’s crnbbcd fist, the faded
ink, and the thumb-marks of the two
Bolsovers, it took long to read; and In or
der not to miss anything, 1 had made up
my mind to rend evory word that it was
possible to decipher.
At length my patience and perseverance
received tholr reward. The diary became
gradually less tedious nnd monotonous.
There was ft storm In which the “Hecate”
HUlTered some damage, and the diarist
(who docs not seem to have been particu
larly courageous) underwent considerable
anxiety nnd discomfort; and a man fell
overboard, and, after an exciting attempt
to rescue him, was drowned. Then the
“Hecate" chases a vessel which Captain
Bnrnnby suspects to be a French privateer;
but remembering how Imperative are his
orders to make with all speed Ills crulslng
ground, he resumes his course after fol
lowing her a few hours. For the same
reapin he shows a clean pair of heels to a
French frigate, greatly to the disgust of
his crew, for though sho is of superior size
they are quite sure they could have bested
her. The chaplain, on the other hand,
warmly commends the captain's prudence
observing that “discretion in a commander
Is to the full as essential as valor.”
The region of tho gulf reached, every
body is on the watch. There is always a
lookout at. tho mast-head, the officers are
continually sweeping the horizon with
their glasses, and the men aro exercised
daily at quarters; for Cnptain Barnaby,
with all his prudence, appenrs to have been
a strict disciplinarian. Being of opiniou
that he will the better attain his object by
remaining outside the Gulf of Mexico than
by going inside, he cruisos several weeks
In the neighborhood of the Bahamas.
With little success, however: he captures
only two or three vessels of light tonnage
and small value, which he takes to Nas
sau, In New Providence.
“Ill-satisfied with this poor result, Barn
aby resolves to take a turn in the gulf,
and, If he does no gcod there, to make a
dash south, in the hope that he may per
chance encounter some homeward-bound
galleon from Chili or Peru. So passing
through the Straits of Florida, he runs
along the northern shores of Cuba, doubles
Cape San Antonio, revictuals at Kingston,
In Jamaica, and re-enters the South At
lantic between Trinidad nnd Tobago.
A fortnnate move was this in one sense,
though, so far as the poor chaplain and a
considerable port of the ship’s company
were concerned, it resulted in dire mlsfos
TO BE CONTINUED.
She Was Ready fbr Him. |
Yesterday morning, at exactly lo
o’clock, says the Detroit Free Frees, a
well-dressed young ntan entered a gate
on Congress street east nnd pulled the
door-bell of a house.
No response.
Then he went to the sido door and
knocked.
No response.
Then he returned to tho front of the
house and pulled tho bell again. After
waiting and watching for a' couple of
minutes he went back to the side door.
Getting no response to the repeated
knocks he pulled a paper from his
pocket and was making a “mem.,”
when a second-story window was care
fully raised, a pail of water balanced
for an instant on the sill, and then
sous it weut over tho young man be
low. He uttered a yell and leaped
into a lilac bush, and from there he
reachod the fence and gained tho
street. Just then au oilicer came up
and asked:
“Anything the matter?”
“Oh, only a trifle."
“What were you doing iu there?”
“Trying to collect interest on a
chattel mortgngc—that’s all. Lady
told me to call at 10, and I called.
She was ready for me. Good-day.”
Dickens and the Boston Hackman.
At the time Charles Dickens was
about to leave this country for tho last
time the writer happened to be in a
railroad station in Boston wheu the
S-eat novelist arrived to take a train.
o was accompanied by Mr. Dolby.
The hack driver who brought them had
evidently* been employed by them sev
eral times, and had the manner nnd
address of a thorough gentleman. Aft
er be had deposited the last piece of
luggago he said: “Good-by, Mr. Dol
by. I hone you will have a safe
voyage.” "Mr. Dolby took the man's
extended hand, thanked him for what
he had done for them while in Boston
and for his good wishes, and said:
“Good-by, my good fellow; a long life
and a happy one to you.”
Turning to Mr. Dickens the man
said, extending his hand: “Good-by,
Mr. Dickens; 1 hope you will reach
home safely,” Dickens'turned prompt
ly on his heel, cocked up bis loraly
nose, nud, with Ins back toward the
' speaker and without noticing the mau’s
! hand, said: “Da-da, da-da!” as he
' walked away. The man looked at him
I in surpriso and, as Mr. Dolby said
i something to him in an undertone,
walked otf smiling.—Kindcrhook Hough
Notes, . — — •
BOUND POLITICAL SENSE.
A* LAID DOWN *1*0.11 A RSPCB.
UCAN STANDPOINT.
Bomll li, Harr Lift Down ■ Few
Simple Frapoeltlone— Democracy's
Doctrine Demolished—Free Trade
Fallacies Net and Dlfftieed bjr Lof
leal Arguments.
Ex-Congressman Horr of Mlohlgan.
during a recent visit to Omaha, made
an addreaa on the political iaauea ol
the day. In introducing the apeaker
of the evening, Dr. Mercer aaid it waa
not often that the cltizena of Omaha
had ap opportunity to liaten to a die
cusaion of iaauea of national import*
ance by a gentleman of auch wide
reputation, a reputation oo-exte naive
with civilization, and he took great
pleasure in introducing on thia occa
sion Hon. Roswell G. Horr of Michi
gan, a writer on the New York
Tribune, the paper owned and edited
by Hon. Whitelaw Reid, the republi
can nominee for vice president of the
United States.
As Mr. Horr. arose he was moat en
thusially welcomed, and it was some
little time before he waa permitted to
fully acknowledge the cordial greet
ing. He said:
"Ladies and Gentlemen, and Fellow
Citizens: I propose this evening to
discuss some of the questions about
which some of the people of the Uni
ted States differ. The political parties
do not agree as to the proper policy of
this government on certain vital prin
ciples. I shall speak from the stand
point of a republican, as I have been
a republican all my life. Rut before
I get through, if there are any demo
crats in the audience, they will think
that I know about as much about the
democratic party as they would care
to have mentioned in a public speech.
"The democratic party does not be
blieve in a protective tariff. Some of
them believe in a tariff for revenue
only, with protection as incidental re
sult. Accidental would be a better
word, tor if the democratic policy ever
benefited anybody it would be entirely
accidental. The democrats do not
like to be called free traders. They
prefer to be called tariff reformers.
They like to hear the word reformers,
but thus carries my mind back to Mar
tin Luther and all that sort of men,
and when you come to tangle Grover
Cleveland up witn Martin Luther you
are getting things rather mixed, and
to I call them free traders, not to hurt
their feelings, but to save myself from
taental contusion.
DIFFERENT KINDS OF PROTECTION.
"There is no country that proceeds
itrictly on the principle of free trace.
Great Bri^pin levies a tariff on articles
that she cannot raise herself. Our
protective tariff levies duties on a plan
exactly opposite to that. We object
to levying duties on articles of neces
sity not produced in this country, be
cause that kind of a duty increases the
price of an article and taxes the con
sumer. The revenue from such a
tariff comes out of the pockets of the
common people. The duties on tea
collected in Great Britain last year
amounted to f23,000,000. This was
paid by the common people. We ob
ject th such a duty as this, and our
policy of protection is to admit tea and
other necessaries not produced in this
country free of duty.
••ine protective system is to levy a
duty on articles which we can produce
in this country. Our democratic op
ponents object to this. They claim
that a duty placed on an article that
we can produce has exactly the same
effect as one levied on an article that
we cannot produce. That the duty is
added to the price of the article and
impoverishes the country.
EFFECTS OF PROTECTION.
••Sow, there are four natural re
sults of our system of protection that
I want to call y Our attention to. First,
it builds up new industries and fur
nishes labor for more people, and this
even our free trade friends cannot de
ny. YVe not only do that but in the
second place we pay better wages than
the laboring people get in any other
country on the face of the globe. Once
in a while we find some one who de
nies this, . but it is true whether he
denies it or not. Then some of our op
ponents claim that while our wages
'sound bigger, everything that a labor,
ing man uses costs so much more that
he can buy more in Europe with what
he gets for a day's work there than
he can here with our wages. I won.
der if they believe it. For if that is
true the workmen in Europe is better
off than the workingman in America,
and if that is the case what makes
so many of them come over here? 1
can understand how railroad and steam*
ship lines can ooncoct schemes to pro
mote immigration, but when they find
what a terrible country they have come
to and compare their pitiful condition
here "nth the elegant times they had
oveir there, why don't they go back?
bid you ever hear of any of them go
ing back, except some of those who
come over in the steerage and go back
as cabin passengers? Why. these peo
ple know that there is no country in
the world where the working classes
are so well off as they are here.
• The third point is that we keep
the money in this country. I don't
need to argue that. If the money is
kept herei, it is here. Tom lieed set
tied that point when he decided that
when a member was in the house he
was—in the house. When we produce
the goods in this country and sell them
in this country we necessarily keeD
the money here.
MAKES THINGS CHEAPER.
••The fourth benefit which I claim
is that we cheapen the price of com
modities. Now, some of our free trade
friends dispute this, and one of the
things that they claim has risen in
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price m the result of the protective
tariff is bidding twine. I have been
out here to Fremont where they are
manufacturing binding twine right un
der the guns of the McKinley bill.
They tell roe that since the protective
tariff went into operation the price of
binding twine has been reduced from
14 cents to 9£ cents per pound. Among
all the articles which have been pro
duced under the protection of the tar.
iff I don’t know of a single article that
uas not oean cneapenea alter we got
fairly to work. When I wai a boy we
couldn’t get a caseknife to eat with
that did not bear the mark ‘Sheffield,
England,' and they were clumey things,
too. Those knives cost more than the
light and highly finished cutlery we
have now. which is manufactured in
this country. A mowing blade, such
as I paid $1.40 for when I was a ocy,
costs me 65 cents now. and a shovel
that used to,be worth $1.25 is now sold
for 50 cents. There is not a single im
plement used on the farm in the
United States that has not been cheap
ened by producing it in our own coun
try. Crockery furnishes another case
in point. Most of us can remember
when every piece of crockery we used
bore the stamp of the lion and the uni
corn. If the republican party has
never done anything else to deserve
the support of the people it has made
it possible for a man to eat a square
meal without that English chromo
staring him in the face and it costs
less than half what it did then.
WATCHING THEM MAKE TIN PLATE.
■■mow is there a single article that
has not been cheapened by the pro
tective tariff? Somebody always says
•tin plate.’ They say that there is no
tin plate manufactured in this country
notwithstanding the tariff. But they
can't make me believe that, for 1 have
been in five different factories myself.
I have seen the steel ingots rolled
back and forth until they were reduced
to the required thickness, then dipped
in the vats of oil and then in the vats
of tin that adhered to the steel, and
then burnished, cut and packed for
shipment. They would have to talk
an hour to make me believe that there
is no tin plate manufactured in this
country. ’\Ve have twenty-two facto
ries making bright tin ana roofing tin
ana forty-one others getting ready,
and before long we will make one. third
of all the tin plate used in this coun
try.
■•But they say that the article is not
cheapened. It is selling 8 cents a
pound cheaper in Omaha.today than
it was when the McKinley bill passed,
ana we have only begun to manufac
ture it. Inside of two years we will
make better tin and sell it cheaper
than ever before, and still the demo
crats say we can’t make tin plate.
CAN MAKE ANYTHING IN AMEltICA.
“I believe we can make anything
here that can bo made anywhere on
this earth. They said we could not
make steel rails and plate glass. They
got quite religious over the plate glass
question. They said that God didn't
intend that plate glass should be made
in this country.' They made that re
mark in congress, and we wondered
how they found it out. We doubted
whether their relations with the Infi
nite were such as to make them good
authority on God’s ideas. Then they
said we could not manufacture lined
in this country. The fibre of the flax
was not good. But they had been in
the Ananias and Saphira business so
long that we decided to try it. We put
a duty on linen goods and built a mill
at Minneapolis that cost $500i 000, and
wnen. me convention tnat nominated
the next president and vice president
of the United Slates met there the con
vention hall was carpeted with linin
manufactured at this very mill. I want
to paste the American flag on to this
linen and shake it in the face of every
free trader 1 meet.
“If you can produce any article on
the other side of the ocean for less
money than you can in this country, it
is because they take the difference in
price out of the bone and sinew of the
men who do the work.
* ‘Again they say that to manufac
ture the goods in this country brings
in the pauper labor of Europe. I will
join hands with any free trader here
to prevent the dumping of crime and
ignorance on our shores, but I am dis
posed to welcome the honest man with
a day’s work in him and remember
that some of us haven't been here such
a great while ourselves.
APPLYING A LAW OF NATURE.
“Self-preservation is the first law
of nature.” It is a man’ssfirst duty to
protect himself and his family. And
what is true of the individual is equally
true of the government. I iike our
protective tariff because it benefits our
own country first. After we have
made this country the greatest and
most prosperous nation on the globe I
am willing to help out some of the
rest. This country first and England
afterwards and if I had my way it
would be a long way afterwards, too.
“And now I want to talk especially
to the workingmen a little while. All
property does not come from labor,
borne comes from the ingenuity that
makes nature do the work. There
are a lot of calamity howlers going
about the country who claim that there
should be more equality of wealth.
PROrEllTY AND PROPERTY RIGHTS.
“In primitive days I suppose all the
animals were the property of all men
in common, but, mind you, when a
man caught an animai and killed him
that animal became his especial prop
erty. So all fruits belonged t o man
kind in common, but when an indi
vidual gathered fruit it became his
own. tVater is the common property
of all but when a man digs a well
! does that water belong to everybody.
| In the course of a debate with Dr.
McGlynn some one asked me whether
ff I hnd dug the first well and a man
should Come along and ask me. for a
drink of w'ater 1 would give it to him.
I told him yea I would give him five
or six drinks, but if a lot of men hung
around day after day and refused to
make any effort to dig a well pf their
own my benevolence would begin to
ooze out
•‘Labor gives a man the right to use
the product of labor. Some people
really question whether wages have
indeed gone up under the protective
tariff. They argue that because wages
in some particular instances have not
gone up protection is a failure. There
is such a thing as maintaining wages.
Any old man will tell you that wages
aro now more than twice what they
were in the old low taritl days, w nen
I was a boy we hired carpenters at
$1.25 a day who receive $3.00J now.
Bricklayers who get $4 a day or more
now worked for $1.50 then. You can't
theorize in the lace ot such facts as
these. 1 have been in over 400 facto
ries in the United States and have
taken the testimony of the employes
as to whether wages were better here
than abroad and I never yet found a
man who was not getting from 60 per
cent more to three times as much as
he got on the other side of the water.
So I don't have to theorize on that.
So when they tell me that binding
twine is higher and I come here and
find that they are sellingit for
9} cents instead of 14 cents, I know
that 9} is less than 14 and you can't
make me believe any different.
NEBRASKA AS AN ILLUSTRATION.
“Now, some of our friends claim
that protection is runping this country.
1 hadn’t heard of it Now, are you
not getting on tolerably Well in Ne
braska? 1 have been out to Beatrice
and Fremont and Norfolk, and if lever
saw a garden spot you have it here in
Nebraska. We have produced more
wealth in the last twenty years than
Germany, France and Great Britain
combined.
“And then they refer to the mort
gage on the farm. You would think
to hear some of the calamity shriekers
talk that some big animal was going
through the country and every time he
catches a farmer with his back turned
be claps a mortgage on the farm.
Now, I have a farm of my own and
there is a mortgage on it, but I put it
there myself. There are some cases
where a mortgage is given to escape
from some pressing want, but in nine
cases out of tea is put there because
the owner believesthathe can improve
himself by doing it, and the money is
obtained to effect some improvement
that he regards as a judicious invest
ment. The man you want to weep
over is the one wad hasn’t anything
to mortgage.
SOME FINANCIAL FACTS.
“Another cry is made that we want
more money; that the country is going
to the dogs and the only way out is for
the government to manufacture what
money wo need. This whole effort
comes from the mistaken notion that
the government creates money. In
. cases of necessity It can issue notes
and make the people take them, but -
will any one claim that this should be
resorted to in times of peace and pros
perity? Some time ago the govern
ment made the yard stick measure
thirty-six inches. They might change
it to two and one-half feet if they
wanted to. Now our greenback friends
practically assert that the government
cannot only make two and one-half
feet a yard, but make the two and one
half feet as long as three feet. The
government can produce money but it
cannot create value. It cost this na
tion a good deal to put down the re
bellion with a depreciated currency.
It was a case of stern necessity. The
repuuucan party nas maae every aol
lar of that money as good as any other
dollar, and we intend to keep it that
way. You cheapen the dollar and the
man who feels it first is the man who
labors. Some of us can remember
back in the fifties when we had money
galore, and when we took a dollar we
didn’t know whether it would be worth
a cent the next day or not.
SUKIEKS OF CALAMITISTS.
“Now, how does it come about that
people of this nation follow off these
people who are trying to make us be
lieve that everything is going to ruin?
It is because they are prone to reason
from a few isolated instances and from
general conclusions. It is the same as
assuming that because a preacher is
once in a while guilty of something
wrong the whole class is unworthy,
that because there is a case where a
mother has abused her child that there
is no more any such a thing as mother
love.
I often wonder what kina of a his
tory Brother Weaver or Brother Van
Wyck would have written of Job and
his troubles with boils. Job was a
Chaldean and I suppose that to read
their history you would think that the
whole Chaldeic nation was one »reat
carbuncle. That is just the way "they
do it. If there is a hard frosttheylay
it to the McKinley bill. If a cyclone
comes they say it is another -republi
can trick.’ They go about trying to
make everyone dissatisfied, to make us
believe that this is the meanest nation
on the globe for a working man to
live in.
••Let us stand in this coming great
fight by the party that has ever stood
by labor, by the party that does every
thing it can to build up our industries,
that stands by the government and
stood by it when it wa3 in peril. I can
refer to this because Grover Cleveland
and I served in the same brigade dur
ing the war. We both belonged to the
home guard. But we differ in this,
that I would not have vetoed the pen
sion bills that gave aid to the boys
who did so much for the nation.” J i
Mr. Horr’s address occuDied an hour
and three-quarters and* held the
closest attention of the audience to its
cldyie. He concluded amid a storm of *
applause, and the au&ence dispersed
while the band rendered a selection.
An Atchison girl recently walked
the whole length of Commercial street
with a tag on her hat with • -Reduced
to fl.oO'’ printed on it in large type.
A Topeka young lady is said to have
recently sent back a typewriter which
she had rented, saying it was a very
bad speller and she did not want it. ■
