Thk treasury balance has bsen
reduced to 12700,000, but Secretary
Foster gives notice that it is
large enough lor all practlcaal pur
poses, and so the democrats hare
nothing lo gain by predicting: evil
in the case.
Thk big Minneapolis miller.Char
lesA.l'illsbury, presents a strong
argument against free coinage of
silver when he says that under euch
a policy the farmers would receive
more nominal dollars for their pro
ducts, but the dollars would not
buy so much. This feature of the
nattet is one that the inflationists
never mention.
Ties Minneapolis convention will
have but little else to do than to
nominate Nr. Harrison as the can
didate of the republican party for
president The declination of Mr.
Blaise simplifies conditions and
assures Harrison's nomination by
acclamation. Next to Blaine he is
the most popular of republican
leaders and his administration has
been one of the best for the people
in the history of the nation. It is to
be regretted that a man loved as
Mr. Blaine should be so situated as
to prevent the people placing him
at the head of affairs in this coun
try. The presidency would bring
no honors to him but it would be
a gratification to his friends to have
the privilege of once more shout
ing his name. Blaine is to the
American people what Napoleon
was to the French. Indianola, Iowa
Herald.
WHY EDISON IS A REPUBLICAN
The father and brother of the
threat electrical inventor, Thos. A.
Edison, were both democrats. Some
one recently asked him to explain
how he happened to be a republi
can when nib environment was
republican.
"l will tell you all about it in a
very few words," he Baid. "I be
came a republican in New Orleans
I was on a street corner where a
poor devil in a blue uniform was
grinding an organ. He was blind
in one eye. lie nau a big scar
above the other eye. One of his
ears was slashed off. One of his
legs was cut oil below the knee
The other leg was severed above
the knee. His left arm was cut off
above the elbow. His right arm
was so mutilated that only the lit
tie linger remained. With that fin
ger he turned the organ handle
and brought forth doleful tunes
ft t a r . .
a oig urine 01 a southerner came
along and stopped iu front of the
organ, looking the crippled soldie
all over. Then he drew a ten dolla
bill from his pocket and tossed it on
the organ. As he started away th
old soldier called after him to know
if he had not made a mistake, say
ing no man had ever given him
bill before. The southerner turned
about with a fierce look and re
sponded that he was willing to giv
$10 any time to see a Yankee sliced
up likke up like the organ grinder,
uecause lie wopiu liRe to see every
blankety blanked Yankee carved
up. Well, that incident made a re
publican out of me." Kx.
PLANS TO MAKETHE SENATE
"POPULAR."
Apparently the proposition that
United States Senators be chosen
by the popular vote is gaining
strength among the people. It is
not a partisan matter, and it finds
freinds and enemies in each of the
great organizations. The friends,
however, of the scheme seem to
largely outnumber the enemies.
At least this conclusion is inevita
ble if the public men who have
been giving their opinion of the
matter, for or against, fairly repre
sent the sentiment of the people.
The notion is a taking one. Chang
is the order of the day among a cer
tain set of political petitions and
social thinkerg.ahd institutions and
beliefs which have been accepted
by generations of wise and conserv
ative men are compelled in a meas
ure, to justify themselves anew and
to show entice why they should not
be overthrown.
Several bills are uow before con
gress providing for a change in the
mode of electing senators. All of
them seek to put the choice of these
officials directly in the hands of the
people of the states, the selection to
be by the majority of the aggregate
vote, as is the case with governors
There are important differences of
detail between the measures. One
of them provide for n single
senator from each state.'and ene ad
ditional for each million of inhabi
tants, tt ie safe to say that this bill
cannot pass either branch of con
gress. It makes a wider departure
from the present arrangement than
the people are ready for at present
The equality of the states in the
senate in the matter of membership
will not be disturbed, even if the
manner of choosing the senators be
altered.
this is a big question, and much
is to be naid on both sides. The
leading argument of the advocates
of popular electi ona is that corrupt
and Incompetent men reach tne
senate under the existing system
who would be buried under the
proposed plan. This reasoning is
not conclusive. A state convention
can be bribed as readily as a legisla
ture, and can be made to do the bid
ding of the boodlers. Indeed, the
convention offers less difhcuity
than does the other body to this
sort of work, for the members of
the convention are in the public
eye for a day or two only, and con
sequently are under less restraint
than are the individual legislators
whose service lasts a year or two.
At all events, the proposed change
should not be made lightly, and it
will not be. Any scheme which in
volves an amendment of the consti
tution, as this does, will be sure to
call out full, free and intelligent
discussion. Globe Democrat.
GENERAL WASHINGTON AND
AMERICAN MANUFACTURED
GOODS.
Would that all Americans had
the love of country and of the home
nstitutions that possessed the
spirit of Washington. His adop
ted Bon, George Washington Parke
Curtis, in a letter to Thomas Car-
bery, dated April 1, 1830, relates an
ncident which well illustrates the
Americanism of the Father of his
country. Says Curtis: "In 1799,
when in command of his last army,
in which I had the honor to bear a
commission, a blue coat with em
broidery was the arrangement
made by a board of general officers
as the costume of the chief. Wash
ington merely asked, 'can this af
fairs be done in the United States?'
On being told 'no,' that the em
broidery must be executed in
Europe, the venerable chief de
clined the whole affair instanter."
THE EXILED EUGENIE.
Upon her first visit to Paris
Eugenie's beauty .was ravishing,
She was likened to a snowflake on
a July day; like the fairy-like mist
that hangs over Niagara; like all
that is purest freshest, loveliest in
nature was the impression that she
produced upon people. Once at
great ball she was clad entirely in
white, of the fleeciest, gauziest mist
iesi description, ana witn a very
simple parrure of emeralds and
diamonds glistening in her blonde
hair, looping up her transparen
sleeves, and shining on her lovely
neck, she was as completely
vision of delight as eve eested on.
tne remainder of the story
is
known, add her marriage, her reck
less extravagance, the war, her
downfall and escapes, are tales o
history told again and again. She
encouraged frivolity and spent
money more recklessly, perhaps,
than any other woman ever did
She was coi.ceeded to be the best
dressed woman in the world. Her
wardrobe costs $1,000,000, and her
jewels were of fabulous value. She
spent $10,000 a (lay for household
expenses. It was the age of gold
she undoubtedly was the cause of
her own downfall, but she did
many kindly deeds. She was one
of the first to recognize the merit
of Kosa Bonheur, and it was by her
wish that the talened artist was
decorated. Her legacy of woe is
unmatched by any woman in
history. She is all alone. Her
jewels have been scattered to the
corners of the earth; her crown is
torn asunder, and the precious
stones are now used to decorate
women she never saw. Her steps
are dogged by spies when she
steals like a house breaker into be
loved Paris. Her beauty and
strength have faded. She has long
waited for the end. Ada Chester
Bond in the March Ladies' Home
Journal.
PROCRESS OF AMERICAN
TIN-
PLATE.
It must grieve the democrats to
hear that American tin olate in
still in the race. At the recent
meeting of the Canned Goods asso
ciation the secretary of the Tinned
Plate Manufacturers' association,
Mr. Clarence R. Britton, delivered
an Interesting address upon the
progress made during the past
year. The canuing industry uses
more tin plate than nil other indus
tries combined, and the address was
therefore pertinent. It is only 13
months since active work was com
menced on the development of this
new industry. What has been ac
complished in that time? Let the
secretary of the association tell it
in his own words:
There are now in successful opera
tiou twelve different tin plate works,
varying iu size from the one 7 by 9
feet which Governor Campbell's
lieutenant claimed he found at
Apollo, to those at Dernier and St.
touts, covering from four to six
acres. There are fourteen others iu
course of erection, some nearly com
pleted, and all of which will be in
full operation by the fall of 1892.
These twenty-five works will con
tain 53 mills, with a capacity cf
about 3.1,000 boxes a week, or be
iwtrrn nu.uuu una tu,nn) tons per
year, which is about one-sixth of
the present consumption. These
twenty-hve works, when completed,
will represent an investment oflbe-
tween three and four millions of
dollars. If this be done In one .
year's time, what may be expected
in three or five?
This is doing pretty well for one
year. Who can aeny lir ine
world's fair is not being built in a
day. Neither can a great industry
like this be built up in a day, or in
a year. Hut who is not proud of the
progress that is being made?
Think of the number of men who
find employment in these factories
carpenters and masons iu build
ing them, and the expert workmen
n making tin. How much better
this is than giving employment to
men in Wales! And all this has
been accomplished in the face of as
bitter a opposition and in the face
of the threats continually made that
the law would be repealed. It is
nothing short of marvelous, this
what ha been done. Fire years
from now democrats and republi
cans will alike be proud of the
great industry that is now develop
ing in this country. Iowa Register.
ALFRED DOLCE.
Alfred Dolge whose great piano,
felt and shoe factory at Dolgeville,
Herkimer couuty, N. Y., are know
all over the world, is perhaps the
most noted among manufacturers
who has sought to bring workmen
and employees into better relations
with each other. Mr. Dolge's sys
tem of pensions and earning shar
ing is entirely original and has
been so successful that it has at
tracted careful attention both in
this county and Europe. The an
nual reunion of the firm and em
ployees was held Saturday night.
Mr. Dolges address would occupy
four columns of The Citizen and we
can only make extracts from it. In
opening he said:
I am glad to tell you, and I know
that you will be glad to hear that
the year 1891, all in all, has been the
most prosperous that we ever had.
This is our twenty-third reunion,
and let me frankly Bay. that the
pleasure I feel in meeting you
all in these social gatherings in
creases year by year as I am able to
report to you our growing pros
perity and success.
Eighteen hundred and ninety-one
was not only our meat prosperous
year; it was also the most eventful.
The volume of business done ex
ceeds by far that of any previous
year,
As a matter of fact, we have been
able to keep up within our orders,
although the greater part of the
year we ran the felt factories night
and day,
Our friends of the Free Trade
Press had a good deal to say last
year, because I told you that on ac
count of the McKinley bill I could
not increase your wages about 12
per cent, and reduce the jtaurs of
labor to They pretended, with
an imprudence that was sublime,
that I was getting 40 per tent, more
for the felt we make, and was mak
ing an extra profit of over $500,000
per year because of the McKinley
bill, the raise in wages of 12 per
cent, was not near enough and 1
should have given you much more.
All of you know that we do not
get one cent more .than we did be
fore for the goods which we have
made since the passage of the Me
Kinley bill. On the contrary, the
prices of some of our goods have
been lowered. And with all that I
find myself in a position where I
can raise the wages of some of you
felt makers another 10 per cent, this
year because of this very McKinley
bill.
How is this? Our friends the
Free Trader will ask.
Let me tell how it is.
Hecause we have a basis to work
upon; we are no longer at the
mercy of the importer of foreign
felts. We can kept our machinery
going the year round and know
that our competitor cannot sell any
cheaper thau we can unless he has
superior methods of making felts
If protection prevails, if we have
a period of rest from agitation so
that we cau conduct our business
on the basis of its present adjust
ment to tariff laws. I believe that
the hsurs work can be reduced
within a year ortwo to uineper day.
I think you will agree with me that
this cau be safely done after the ex
periment and the experience of this
year.
It is true that on some of the
machines less goods have been
made, because a machine cannot
possibly make as many revolutions
in nine and one-half hours as it
does in ten hours, but on the whole
we have turned out as many goods
during the past year while working
only nine and one-half hours as we
did working ten. True, there are
some amongst you who will come
late; they would do that even if
they had to work but four hours
per day.
I have found, however, that the
majority begin to understand more
and more that time is money, and
that no factory can be run success
fully unless absolute order be
maintained in every department-!
Some of our leading men have
propose that a fine be imposed on
all who do not keep the factory
hours properly, on the ground that
the other workmen have to suffer
for it, and I think that yoa will
agree that it would be proper to
charge a ten cent fine for every
such case, the fines to be paid to
your Aid society.
At the risk again being accused
of making propaganda for a politi
cal party. I must state that this re
duction of working hours and
maintenance of the present rate of
wages is only possible if protection
prevails.
The Free Trader tcannot 'say, as
they did last year, that this is an
empty threat Hardly have they
assembled at Washington than a
billjis offered in congress putting
wool on the free Rat. In the
speeches they make in their news
papers they argue that the road for
free trade will be clearjas soon as
the wool tariff is smashed.
The Free Traders . appeal again
(as they have always done) to sel
fishness of the manufacturer, and
they seem to think that they can
make the manufacturer believe
that fret wool would be a benefit to
him and his work people. You
might as well tell a teamster to kill
his horses because he has to pay
for their feed.
An American wool manufacturer
know that if wool is put on the free
list, the American farmer cannot
atlord to raise wool and compete
with the foreigner. A large num
ber American farmers who raise
sheep would be forced into bank
ruptcy. Our flourishing mills and fac
tories are an eyesore to the Free
Traders. That is why they want to
smash and destroy them. Our
prosperous farmers with their
comfortable homes fitted out with
American carpets are distasteful to
them; that is why they want to
smash the wool tariff, break up the
farmer's flocks of sheep and des
troy our great wool raising indus
try.
While the free traders cannot de
stroy all that has been built up
during these years of protection,
they can cause uneasiness and
frighteu capital, which is always
timid, from embarking in a new
industrial enterprises.
If protection prevails, and I do
not doubt for a moment that it will,
you will see one factory after an
other put up in our village as you
have seen factories put up along
the Mohawk valley during the past
year. Dolgesville will prosper as
the entire country has prospered
during the year and a quarter, that
the McKinley bill has been in oper
ation.
I believe I voice: the sentiment of
the majority of business men, im
porters included, when I say to the
free traders assembled at the
Capitol, at Washington, what Grant
said atter the War of the Rebellion:
"Let us have peace."
Ik a democratic house, with
majority of two-thirds, can run two
monthB at an expense of over $700.
000, without doing anything, or
even getting as far the adoption of
rules, how much can it expend and
how little can it accomplish in the
course of two years?
Thk nearer the farm and factory
are to each other the greater the
hoitie market, and the greater the
home market the greater the value
of the farm.
Every worker at manufacturing
in this country consumes over $!K)
worth of our agricultural produce
per year, the English laborer con
suming only $4.42 worth.
ALL great, successful, and pro
gressive ideas bearing on the pub
lic life and policy of the nation,
within the last thirty years, have
been originated by republicans.
Reciprocity is a great, successful,
and progressive idea.
The Factoryyille Roller Mills' new
process buck wheat flour "takes the
cake." There is no better made. Ask
your procer for it. All live ffrecers
keep it, if they do not they will
order it for you. d AwOt
T. M. WAKNB,
Union, Neb.
Robbed a Clothes Line.
Last night some sneak thief pur
loined two white shirts a pair of
pillow shams and a dress from the
clotlu'9 line in Fred Kroeler's yard.
Fred says it is not very often that
he wears white shirts, but when he
(roes to a dance or a democratic jub
ilee he has to wear one. He says he
will have to buy a new one or stay
at home hereafter.
Captain A. D. Yocum yesterday
shot and killed Myron Van Fleet, at
Hastings. The trouble grew out of
an article alleged to have .been
written by Van Fleet in it was stated
that Yocum daughter eloped with
his colored coachman: It was af-
lerwaras proven that the young
in question was in the city all
the time. Captain Yocum's just ar
rived home the other day and has
been looking into the matter which
resulted fatally.
La ie 9
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HAVE PLACED OX THEIR
REMNANT:
AT PRICES TO CLOSE OUT QUICKLY.
Remnants of Black and Colored double
width Dress Goods in 2 yds to 8 yds
lengths.
Remnauts of Prluts, Sheeting and Mus
lins. Remnants in Turkish Oil Red Prints
nice lengths for boys Shirts and waists and
a lot of odds and ends in Corsets.
We Make a very Material reduction in the Price
cf our Ladies
SERGES AND STOCKINET JACKETS
For Spring Wear. A Full Assortment of Sizes-
o
TO REDUCE OUR
KID GLOVE STOCK
We offer a lot ofabont a hundred pairs in good shades t a pri
sure to sell thetn.
fSTTIIE ABOVE AUI MOT OLD SI10P.WORN GOODS
WE irsVITE YOUR ATTENTION TO TliEM.
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Another Old Sett!erCone.
Win. Lloyd died, this morning at
his home in Mt. Pleasant about
half past five o'clock, from rheuma
tism of the heart. Mr. Lloyd was
about 80 years old and had been
troubled with the rheumatism for
some time past He arose as usual
this morning and come down stairs,
and told his family that he would
not live much longer. The doctor
was sent for, but before he arrived
Mr. Lloyd had passed away while
sitting in his chair. He leaves a
wife and six children to mourn his
loss, five sous and one daughter.
David, Joseph T. Bnd George are
married, anrl the others, Jane,
Stephen and John, live at home.
Mr. Lloyd came to this couuty from
Knglandfor freedom after seiv'ng
his time in the British army.
He first settled in Washington
county, New York state, where he
married Miss Julia Mills, and they
emigrated to the state of Illinois;
there to this state, arriving here on
the 13 day of June, ISO". He has
always been known as a staunch
republican all his life. He was u
member of the Presbyterian
church. The funeral will occur at
11 o'clock from his late home ou
Wednesday, February 24.
Pronounced Hopeless, Yet Saved.
From a letter written bv Mrs. Ada
E. Hurd of Groton, S. D., we quote:
" as taken with a bad cold, which
settled on my lungs, cough set in
and finally terminated in consump
tion. Four doctors eave me uo say
ing I could live but a short time. I
gave myself up to my Saviour, de
termined if 1 could not stay with
iny friends on earth, I would meet
my absent ones above. My hus
band was advised to get Dr. King's
New Discovery for consumption
coughs and colds. I save it a trial
took in all eight bottles; it has cured
me and thank God I am now a well
and hearty woman." Trial bottles
free at F. G. Fricke & Co.'s drue
store, regular siae, juc. ana ?l.UU.
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