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HE HELD UP HIS END
Hon. Roswoll G. Horr Told How
. j ;; ,tho Tariff Was a Benefit.
DEALT WITH FACTS, NOT THEORIES
ExCons:ressman Horr Gives the
Democrats and "Calamity
..) . i Howlers" a Black Eye-A
Few Facts Concern-
Ins the Tariff. .
"j Despite the intense heat last
night a large audience was present
" l at . the Waterman opera house to
i'i listen to Hon. Roswell G. Horr ex
J,' pound good republican doctrine.
Judge Chapman was selected and
presided over the meeting, and, in
introducing the speaker, said that
we were on the eve "of another presi
dential election, and that au there
I were several questions of vital im-
f, portance at issue which could be
? better explained by the ex-congress
ij man than anyone he knew of, he
f would not detain them anj' longer.
- 'Ex-Congressman Horr spoke
about two hours.
He did not deal
j in theories, but in facts, and the.
it way he handled his subject was a
' ( caution. He is a well-read man and
) has the tariff question down to a
fine point. Those who failed to
hear him missed a rare treat. As
hot as it was in the fjpera house
last night he held the audience
spellbound for two hours. Fol-
, lowing is a part of what he said:
"There was a strange thing hap
, pened in the outset of the cam
li fcjaign this year, and that is the fact
i that our democratic friends, when
they formulated their platform at
Chicago, the committee made a re
port. The majority of that commit
tee were in favor of a tariff, a plank
which had been prepared by the
men who won their purpose lonom
inate a candidate, who was nomi
nated, and that plank in the plat
form states that they were in favor
i of levying duties so as to protect
the working people of this country,
'I and that they were in favor of
I destroying the tariff only so fast as
States would warrant; but the dem
ocratic party, in convention, struck
that nronosition out. eliminated it
4 4
! j from the platform, and by a large
in ;ij ur i ly vuicu in sijuaic mi
trade proposition that the protect
ive tariff i.i robbery, and they even
went so far as to state it was uncon
stitutional. Now it is quite a mys
tery to a good many people why
that convention should declare the
protective tariff unconstitutional
It bothered me at first to find out
how such a thing happened, but I
think I struck the reason for it.
;iThe constitution, the one adopted
J by the rebels, which went into force
at Richmond, had a clause in it
prohibiting the levying of protect
ive duties, and the delegates in that
convention, so many of them had
f served under the Confederate con
stitution, that they got their cousti
Hutions kind of tangled up and then
j passed their resolution. They
, ? passed the one which would have
, been true under the Confederate
'constitution, but which is not true
as applied to our constitution, be
cause in fact there is not a syllable
of the kitd in the work. Why, don't
you know that Washington, who
presided over the convention that
adopted our constitution, that he
signed the first protective bill that
ever was siirned in the United
States, and it was the second bill
'signed after he became president
and nearly every man who sat in
that convention that framed the
constitution was in that very con
gress and voted for that very bill
. jXow, don't you think that men who
helned frame the constitution
'should know as much about what
lis constitutional as those fellows
'at Chicago? It seems to me they
did. Then there is another trouble.
'.They had a leaky roof in their wig
warn at Chicago, and just as they
-were putting that plank in the
"platform the roof came down and
' flooded the whole house with water,
and too much water will cause
democratic confusion any time.
After Mating the relative posi
tions of the two great parties he
stated that if there was any one
thing he was posted on it was salt
for over one million barrels of that
article were made last year in sight
of his door.
In 1S61 salt was worth $150 per
barrel in Michigan and congress
1 levied a duty of 04 cents per barrel
and salt had been going steadily
down instead of up; in lt0S it sold
at $1.40 per barrel and in 1872 at $1.10
iper barrel, when the republican
inartv revised the tariff and reduced
J . i :
-it to 32 cents per oarrei, wnnc j
has remained for twenty-four years
and is to-day, and to-day salt sells
for 50 cents, barrel and all. At the
factory the barrel costs 20 cents, so
that salt really sells for 30 cents per
barrel, two cents less than the
tariff. So the consumer cannot pay
the tariff in this case. A few years
ago wire nails were selling at $6 a
keg, and none were manufactured
iu this country. The republicans
levied a tax of $4 per keg, and, if
what the free traders say is so, nails
should have advanced to $10 per
keg, but instead they dropped to $5
per keg in one year and have been
going down ever since."
He went on and took up crockery,
silks, steel, woolen goods and linen
and showed , that all had been
cheapened oil account of the tariff.
He even tackled the tin question,
which the democrats said we could
not make in this country. He said
there were twenty-one establish
ments in these United States
making tin to-day and inside of
four months they would be in
creased to forty-six, and all making
tin plate right here in America.
The great convention hall at Min
neapolis, where the next president
and vice-president of the United
States were nominated, was car
peted with American-made linen.
The Jolly Farmer Man.
I know a jolly farmer man, a tiller
of ye soil we've had them since the
world began, these sons of noble
toil. It was as late as yesterday my
farmer friend dropped in, as cheer
ful as a morn in May, to swap a lit
tle chin; to talk of crops and grow
ing herds, and asks the news in
town, or give his views in home
spun words on topics floating
'round. He hadn't very long to
stay, for sunny days in summer
were just the days for making hay,
by every hay-seed hummer.
"The crops are fine," my yeoman
said, "the oats and wheat are grand,
the flax is coming into head, and
corn's a bully stand. There's not
a runt among my shoats my steers
all feed in clover, and not a cloud
of trouble floats the dear old home
stead over. The desert blossoms
as the rose, and sure there's plenty
in it for every willing man who
knows enough to work and win it
For brawn and brain are in com
mand, as sure as I'm a sinner, and
he who mixes brain with brawn is
many times a winner. Our states
men all may legislate to make con
ditions better, but riches will not
vegetate for him who plays the
'setter,' who wonders why he's out
of luck, when every day to town he
comes he goes to talk calamity
and howls the rascals down; who
thinks there's surely something
wrong, while all around is brewin'
a storm to sweep us all along to
everlasting ruin; who swears the
country's downside up, and all the
good things spilling, the while
his leaky old tin cup with bitter.
ness is filling; who looks out
on the ship of state, short-sighted
eyes a blinking, and vows that all
her precious freight is steadily a
a sinking; who sows the seed of
rank distrust among his fellow men,
and kicks up such a cloud of dust
he can't wash clean again". No
thank you, mister printer man, 1
don't want none of that, for I'm no
follower of Van. and don't talk
through my hat. I'm letting well
enough alone, the tariff and all sich;
I have no hard lot to bemoan, and
envy not the rich. I'm surely not a
fool let loose your parden sir, I
beg to go and kill the good old
goose that lays my golden egg."
Oh, blessed be ye farmer man,
with sunshine in his soul, and may
the heaven's brightest span rest on
his final goal where demagogues
are quite shut out, with all their
kith and kin, and croakers, too, will
wail and shout because they can't
get in. Kearney Hub.
Cholera infantum has lost its
terrors since the introduction of
Chamberlains colic, cholera and di
arrluea remedy. When that remedy
is used and the treatment as airec
ted with each bottle is toiiowea, a
cure is certain. Mr. A. W. Walters,
a prominent merchant at Walters
burg, 111., says: It cured my baby
boy of cholera infantum after sev
eral other remedies had failed, the
child was so low that he seemed al
most beyond the aid of human
hands or reach of any medicine."
25 and oO cent bottles lor sale by h,
G. Fricke & Co.
The fourth annual summer con
ference for bible study of the Ne
braska Young Men's Christinn As
sociation will be held at Beatrice,
Nebraska, August 8 to 16. The con
ference will be held on the Chautau
qua grounds. For further in form a
tion call on or address A. Nash,
State Secretary Y. M. C. A., Omaha,
Nebraska.
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CO., OF N, Y.
T. II. Pollock, Agent,
The Cross brothers of Victoria
Cass county, have the finest field of
winter wheat in the country. Judges
say it will 3'ield fifty bushels per
acre. Word-Herald.
N. G. Chilberg, H. D. Apgarr.C. C.
Parniele and T. II. Pollock, went to
the Platte bottom this morning on
a fishing tour.
ACCIDENT INSURANCE,
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THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
News From Abroad Concerning
Different Things.
KILLED WHILE PLAY1NU CARDS.
A Drunken Militiaman Makes a Mur
derous Assault Upon an Inno
"cent Citizen at'.Homestead
That Will Result -Fatally.
Information has been filed
against seven of the Homestead
strikers and from all report there
will be about 250 strikers arrested
for murder,
The arrest of the leader of strik
ers at Homestead has caused great
excitement among the men and a
conflict with the militia is feared.
Irving Hart was drowned yester
day at Norfolk, while in bathing.
A lot of Italians at Woodbridge
N. J., who are on a strike, attempted
to wreck a train at that place yes
terday, but the sheriff gathered a
posse and arrested the leaders and
tbe rest removed the obsiructions
they had placed on the track and
said they did not wish to violate the
law.
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A MUKDKKOUS MILITIAMAN.
A dispatch from Pittsburg this
morning says: David Lester of
company A, Fourteenthh regiment
National guard of Pennsylvania,
stabbed Frank Calhoun with a bay
onet on Grant street, near Fifth ave
nue, Pittsburg, at 9:30 o'clock this
morning. The affray is the outcome
of a night's carousal that Lester and
Howard Hook indulged in last night
They were drinking yet this morn
ing. Thej' went along Grant street,
insulting every person they met and
brandishing their bayonets in the
faces of passers-by. When they
reached Devore's undertaking estab
lishment, where Calhoun is em
ployed, the latter advised Lester to
be more careful with the bayonet he
was thrusting about. Lester, with
a vile exclamation, plunged the
weapon into Calhoun's stomach
Calhoun fell without a struggle
Lester rushed upon him again, but
was caught by bystanders. After a
hard fight Lester and Hook were ar
rested.
Dr. McElvery, who attended Cal
houn. says the wound is very seri
ous; the stomach was torn, and the
liver was penetrated by the bayonet,
and he has no hope of recovery
Calhoun is 54 years of age, a mem
ber of the Grand Army of the Re
public, and has a familj'. Lester
lives in the Thirty-second ward of
Philadelphia, and is 26 years old.
Lester and Hook were deserters from
the camp at Homestead.
The Homestead mills are being
filled with non-union men and the
mills are expected to be in full
blast by Saturday.
V
A dispatch in this morning's Lin
coln Journal states that II. M. Rice
who disappeared from Lincoln
last winter has been discovered in
San Francisco.
V
Dr.C. C. Terry a well known phy
sician of Fall Rivers, Mass, was
killed last evening in a peculiar
manner. He was taking lessons in
fencing from Professor Castalda of
Newport, when the button on the
tatter's foil broke and, the weapon
passing through Terry's right eye
into his brain. He remained uncon
scious until his death. -V
Three boys at Atlantic City, Iowa,
were terribly mutilated yesterday.
Thej were playing under a car on a
side track when it. was struck by
another car doing a flying switch.
One boy was killed outright by the
car cutting his body in two, another
one had his leg cut off and the third
was cut and bruised all over.
PERSONAL.
Chas. Harris had business in Om
aha to-day.
Frank Carruth was a western pas
senger this morning.
Mrs. J. N. Summers departed on
No. 5 this morning for Beatrice.
Judge Russell, of Weeping Water,
is in the city to-day transacting
business at the court house.
Hon. Roswell G. Horr left this
morning on No. 5 for Hastings
where he will speak to-night.
Miss Mamie Umstead, who has
been the guest of Mrs. C. S. Johnson,
left this morning for Tecum seh.
Clint White and his sister, Miss
Nettie arrived this morning from
Aurora, 111., to visit with the family
of E. S. Greusel.
Mrs. W. A. Swearingen and Miss
Dora Swearingen, sister of Mr.
Swearingen, returned home from
Weeping Water to-day.
Notice to Water Consumers.
The hours set apart to sprinkle
lawns are 5:30 to 7 o'clock a. m. and
6 to 8 o'clock p. m. Sprinkling
must be confined to these hours,
and hose found in use except during
the above named hours will be
shut off without further notice.
6 Plattsmouth Watek Co.
A carpenter by the name of M. S.
Powers, fell from the roof of a house
in East DesMoines, Iowa and sus
tained a painful and serious sprain
of the wrist which he cured with
one bottle of Chamberlains pain
balm. He says it is worth $5 to
a bottle. It cost him 50 cents. For
sale by by F. G. Fricke & Co.
FOR SALE Two desirable resi
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to Plattsmoutfi, within a block of
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Notice to Contractors
Sealed proposals will be received by the
secretary of the board of education until
6 o'clock p. m., Saturday July 23, 1892, for
the construction of one two story, four
room brick building on the lots 10, 11 or 12,
in Stadleman's addition in accordance
with plans and specifications on file at the
First National bank of Plattsmouth. Each
bid must be accompanied by a certified
check of $200. The board reserves the right
to reject any and all bids.
. By order of the Board of Education.
J. I. Uxkuh, Sec'y.
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