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f4 1 TT" k- - r i la: ,v7 t Jlattsmcnth Journal C IV. MI Kit MAN. iiri-r. VLAlTilOU"i H. AM A SUM IN ADDITION. One and one are two. . Two and two are four. But Khfn we add The good or bad We cannot keep the score. Add a gentle word To a loving thought (One and one are two, you say, And think that I am caught) ; Eternity alone can pay The total that is wrought! Add a wicked tongue To an evli heart (One and one are two, you say, And think to make me start): Vet you may cipher night and Ly And only add a pari. Add a pleasant smile To loving thought and word (Two and one are three, you say, And think that I have erredi; You cannot reckon anyway The total Btill deferred. Add a crafty hand To cunning heart and lip (Two and one are three, you say, And tell me that I tripi: Go seek the total as you may, It still eludes your grip. Add a noble d"ed To thought and word and smfle (Three ana one are tour, you say, "However you beguile"; And yet the sum goes running jo, Increasing all the while One and one are two. Two and two are four, Hut when we add The rood or bad We cannot keep the score. All red H. Mites, in Golden Days. Outside was howling windstcrm. and the blinding1 drifting snoir; Inside was warmth and laughter, while the firelight's ruddy plow Drove shadows from the corners in a merry, fitful chase, Touched with brightness all the faces gathered round the chimcey place; But most lovingly it lingered on a quaint old instrument Just a worn old violin 'twas, with a case all warped and bent But grandmother touched it gently as she looked across the snow. "Twas last played in such a storm, dears, just two hundrtid years ago." Then we sat there in the firelight, storm without and warmth within, And listened to the strange old story of Faith Bradford's violin. In the days when sturdy Puritans, (strong of heart and stern of Trill, Made their homes in bleak liew Eng land. toiling1 on through good and ill. Came one Capt. Bradford, sailing from the land across the sea, Bringing with him his one treasure a wee maiden just turned three. Brave and sturdy was the captain, heed ing neither want nor ccld; Foremost in each expedition 'vhere was need of leader bold; And his roughly-fashioned dwelling-, strong- without and plain within. Had no sign of wealth or b-sauty 6ave a quaint old violin. Kaufrht of music knew the captain never had he drawn the bow But his brother oft had played it in their childhood long- ago. In the old colonial village, swiftly passed the years away; Each one saw the captain feebler; each, one saw his hair more gray. Though they left so many traces on his weather-beaten face, Lightly passed they o'er his daughter, each one adding some new grace. Gentle was she like the May flower hid ing 'neath its leaves of green, Eut in all the little village was no fairer maiden seen. Well she kept her father's dwelling, deftly could she sew and spin, But so happy was she never, as with that old violin. 2Cb one taught her how to use it; she but echoed what she heard, "Whispering wind and laughing brook let, hum of insect, song of bird; And the stern old captain, listening, shook in doubt his grizzled head; Then: "I see no mischief in it. Let the maiden play," he 6aiL Meantime had a stealthy rumor crept around from ear to ear: 'Who had taught Faith Bradford music? There is something strange, we fear'." Ever louder gTew the whisper, strange looks met her often now Looks that made her (why, she knew not) flush all over cheeks and brow. One day came the stern-browed elder, long the captain talked with him; When he went to call his daughter his sharp eyes were strangely dim. Quickly Faith obeyed the summons, reverent stood before the guest. Waiting with a gentle courtesy that she might hear his behest. "Daughter," said the elder, irravely, T have heard strange tales of thee And the instrument thou playest. Are these sayings true? Tell me." And Faith answered: Of these say ings, truly I have naught to telL Save, perchance, the one confession. that I like the music welL Rone hath taught me, and my art is very simple and unskilled, But it is a pleasure to me, when each duty is fulfilled." 6till more gravely said the elder: "Thou art young and dost not know All the ways the evil Tempter draweth mortals here below. And just that which seemeth dearest, seemeth hardest to give up, Is the sacrifice that's called for. Daugh ter, wilt thou drink this cup?'' Slowly answered Faith: "Thou know est I am willing to obe3 Yet, so ft eble is my vision, is it sure this is the way? How can He who sent the west wind. lie who taught the birds to sing. Say, whenever mortals touch it, music is a wicked thing?" And rebuking said the elder: "Foolish are thy words and wrong. The little birds do weli to praise Him with their voices and their song. But these instruments are carnaL Thou dost speak beyond thy ken. Woman knoweth naught of reason. That gift is bestowed on men. The Book sayeth that every woman should look well to household ways; Should be humble and submissive, and should raise her voice in praise. 'Tis a maiden's task, my child, to dili gently sew and spin. Tis un maidenly and sinful, if she play the violin." He ceased speaking, and Faith stood there, et'es cast down and cheeks aglow; Then, with loving touch she laid her hand on violin and bow. Saying simply: 'l obey thee. If I use them from this day. Thou with justice shall rebuke me, and remove them far away." Then the elder rose and left her, well pleased with the duty done: And Faith watc hed him down the val ley radiant with the setting sun. She made no complaint or murmur; she had sinned, she must atone; But the day seemed dark and cheer less, all the light and music gone. Summer vanished. Quickly faded all the autumn's fleeting gold. And the winter, long and dreary, came with bitter storm and cold. All the day had it been snowing, and when early twilight fell. Scarce a trace could be discovered of the roads once known so well. And good Capt. Bradford, standing in his fire's ruddy light. Said: "God pity any traveler who is out on such a night!" Hark! a sound of muffled footsteps, and a knock upon the door. Then the voice of the old elder: "Open, captain, I implore!" Quick Faith rose then, from her spin ning, and the door was opened wide. And the elder, weak, half-frozen, came with feeble steps inside. "Xay," he said, "I must not tarry; I can but few moments stay, For old Goodman Dale is dying, and he dwells a mile away. "But," said Capt Bradford, gravely, "hast thou counted well the cost? Buried now are all the landmarks, and 'tis death if thou ait lost." And the brave old elder answered, while his face shone with strange light: 'In His hands all living things are; what He 6endeth will be right" Then returned the captain, proudly: "Ne'er shall it be said of me That I shrank from any danger, Goest then; I go with thee." All the time had Faith been standing, though unnoticed, white with fear. Kow she started to detain them, when she plainly seemed to hear: "Just the thing which seemeth dearest, seemeth hardest to give up, Is the sacrifice that's called for. Daugh ter, wilt thou drink this cup?" And she checked the words unspoken, and spoke words of quiet cheer, And she watched them till they van ished in the 6torm and darkness drear. Slowly, slowly dragged the hours. She could only wait and pray. Two had passed now three. Kind Heaven! They had surely lost their way.' Oh! what could she do to save them, she a girl on such a night. Whose cold would freeze the strongest traveler, snow conceal the bright est light? Suddenly a thought came to her was it answer to her prayer? 'Twas "unmaidenly and sinful;" and her promise would she dare? But her father and the elder! Aye, to save them she would tin And with eager, trembling fingers she took down her violin. , Srsv'r;: 'Sir; mm LOUDER, STRONG EH EASG THE MCSIO Then she cast her cloak about her and wide open threw the door; She trembled with strange gladness, just to hold the bow once more. And once she softly whispered: "Help me;" and twice, and yet again, And then, with piercing sweetness, rang out the first wild strain. Fiercely cold the north wind stung her, but she stood there undismayed. Louder, stronger, rang the music, and: "O help them. Lord," she prayed, On the borders of the forest did the two lost travelers stand. They saw but death before them, only death on either hand. Freezing wrapped the north winu round ii M them, pathless snow concealed their waj'. "Now if God doth not. send us rescue, we must perish soon." said they. And the elder prayed (while near him stood the captain, reverent, still): "Oh! soon guide us home in safety, mighty God. If 'tis Thy will." Then sweetly, clearly through the forest, stole a strain of music rare, And faintly distant was it echoed in the woodland bleak and bare. And the elder, praying, heard it. and he said with quickened breath: "Doth the Evil One entite us, or is it, is it death?" Then spoke brave Capt Bradford, as he reverent bared Lis head: "Thank God we are saved, for 'tis my daughter. Faith," he said. "Of a truth, while we were thinking we had still a Tar to go, We had almost reached the village, but were blinded by the snow." Eagerly, led by the music, they then stumbled on once more. Till at lust, through the thick snow flakes, streamed a light from open door. Why so sudden stopped the music? Why did cry of anguish ring? Ah, for life she had been piaying, and she'd broken the last string; Helpless sank she in the doorway, and her sad lips moved in prayer. Hark! was that a shout that reached her. piercing through the snow filled air? Yes, another, and another! And dim figures soon were seen, looking like "strange phantom war riors with the blinding storm be tween. Then rose Faith with heart of glad ness, and set forth her simple store. Murmuring softlv: "God is great; so shall I trust ilim evermore." Soon they entered numb, half -fain ting. frozen snow in beard and hair. But the gentle Faith revived them, min istering with tenderest care. Then the elder, looking upward, saw Faith standing at his side. In her hands the violin, and on her cheeks tears not yet dried; CLEAR AXD DID FAITH BRADFORD'S TOCKG VOICB BLKG. But a kind of gentle courage seemed to shine fortluin her face, An air of quiet dignity to mingle with her grace. "I have broken, sir, my promise, I have played the violin; Of a surety, I know not, even now, il 'twas a sin. If 'twas wrong to save my father in the one way that was given. Then in truth. I'll seek forgiveness, as I sought his life of Heaven. But as we have made agreement touch ing this, I bring to you My poor violin. 2Cay, shrink notl It can no more mischief do! Thou canst see the strings are broken, and the music all is dead." And the stern old Puritan took it from her trembling hands and said (While looking at the worldly toy he shook his head in doubt): "Truly, strange Jehovah's ways are very strange, past finding outl I had thought such things were snares, delusions of the Evil One. Lo, He makes them as His servants! I know not what will come. The Good Book saith babes shall lead us. Perchance, daughter, thou art right Take back thy violin. Thou surely hast found favor in His sight" On the next bright Lord's day morn ing, many, many years ago, When the bell had called to worship, ringing solemnly and slow, The old elder, from the pulpit, such strange words of love did pour That the people said in wonder: "Never spoke he thus before." And when the long prayer was ended, and the people rose to sing. Clear and sweet above all others did Faith Bradford's young voice ring: For not only did her father stand be side her safe once more. But she knew sb.3 was forgiven, if she had done wrong before. But the violin lay silent Never did she draw the bow After that strange, stormy night, so many, many years ago. Good Housekeeping. Dreadful. The distressing state of mind into which some English scholars are thrown by the American spelling, so called, is amusingly hit off by a little scene imaginary, no doubt at the world's fair. An English visitor was talking with a reporter. "It's really a beastly Ehame," he said, "the way Court of Honor has been spoiled, you know!" "What's the matter with it?" asked the reporter. "Isn't tb architecture good?" "Yes." "Isn't the color scheme appropriate? Don't you like the statue?" "Certainly, but" "Nothing wrong with the fountains, eh? Obelisk is graceful, isn't it? And the Administration building i3 impos ing? WelL then, what is it that troub les you?" "Oh," 6aid the Englishman, "every thing's pretty, y' know, and all that, but think of spelling the word 'honor' without a u'!" Chicago Herald. Calcutta has 081,500 population and 2,873 police, who in 1891 made 47,802 ar rests. or iar mi HHtjj SWEET, ABOVE ALL OTHEK9, rort. 4mh,.Jeuw-.. WILSON ON THE TARIFF. Final Argument of the Chairman of Ways and Means Committee. During the closing debate on the Wilson bill in the house on 1 hursday, February 1, Mr. Wilson, chairman of the committee on ways and means, made an exhaustive and pointed argu ment in defense of his bill, closing with the following forceful remarks: "It was but two hundred years ago that men were willing to tight for the Idea that govern ments were made to serve the governed and not for the benefit of those who Kovern. Not j yet in all the world, have men advanced to j that point where the government is operated j exclusively and entirely in the interests of all the govcrnei'-. That la the goal of perfect free dom. That is the achievement of perfect law. j And that is the goal to which the democratic , party Is courageously and honestly moving in ; Its tight to-day for tariff reform. Whenever that t party and whenever the members of it are able : to cut loose from local and selfish interests , and keep the general welfare alone in their eye, we shall reach that goal of perfect free- . dom and will bring to the people of this country . that prosperity which no other people in the world has ever enjoyed. j ' I remember reading, some time ago, in a speech of Sir Robert 1'eel s, when he was be ginning his system of tariff reform in England, of a letter which he had received from a 'canny Scotchman' a fisherman in which the man protested against lowering the duty on herring, for fear, he said, that the Norwegian fisherman would undersell him: but he assured Sir Hub ert, in closing the letter, that in every other re spect except herring he was a thorough-going free trader. Now, my fellow democrats, I uo not want any man to say that you are acting in the cause of herring, not in the cause of the people. I do not want herring to stand be tween you and the enthusiastic performance of your duty to your party and your duty to the American people. "If time permitted I would like to take up some of the arguments against the bill uinouz my democratic friends. The first argument ; is that the bill will create a deficit, and there- ' fore ought not to he passed. In the name of common, sense how could you ever pass a tariff reform bill if you did not reduce the taxes under the existing laws that you seek to reform? Have gentlemen forgotten that there may be a system of tariff taxation under which the government receives little, and the protected industries receive much, and that there may be a lower system of taxation under which the government receives a great deal and the protected industries receive but little? "The McKinley law is constructed on the first line, and the pending bill is constructed on the line of revenue. If you take up the history of the free trade movement in England you will find that nothing so surprised the tariff reform ers as to see that the more they cut down taxes and the nearer they approached free trade the more the revenue grew, in spit-- of tnem At the beginning of that movement there were 1.3J0 articles taxed and at the close of it only seven; and the revenue was as great on the seven as it had been on the 1,'JMU. I have here ' the report of Kobert J. Walker, as secretary uf the treasury, showing that in the first year of the operation of the Walker low tariff of ists the revenues went up from ?io,5JU.oou to 531, "Hut I cannot dwell on that matter. The next argument which mv friends on this side are usii;g among themselves against the bill, or to hesitate, at least, in voting for the bill, is that the income tax has been added to it 1 need not say to my brethren on this side that I did not concur in the policy of attaching the in- come tax measure to the pending bili. I had some doubts as to the expediency of adding the income tai measure to the pending bill. But ' when the committee decided otherwise I threw in my fortune, loyally and earnestly, with that amendment, because I never have been hostile to the idea of an income tax. ! "John Sherman has boon quoted as saying that an income tax is class taxation. It is nothing of the kind. It is simply tas the gen tleman from Georgia, Mr. Crisp, declared I an effort an honest effort to balance the weight of taxation in this country. During the fifty years of its existence in England it has been j the strongest force there in wiping out class i distinctions. It was a doctrine taught by Sum ner, Walker and other New England tron I omists that an income tax was the most simple form of taxation New England taught that j doctrine to the south and west, and she has no ' riht to come up to-day and complain because her own teaching has been used against her. In ! all my conferences on the subject of this bill I have heard no man protest that we have been ac tuated by an unworthy motive, or that this great scheme of taxation was undertaken in any class or sectional spirit "Gentlemen (addressing the republican side of the house) 1 doubt not your sincerity. I doubt not the love of your fellow man which impels you to champion your side of the question any more than I doubt that which impels my asso ciates on this side. I agree with the gentleman from Maine (Mr. Keedi that the question of general welfare and the question of wages of the workingmen are after all the vital ques tions in this controversy. We are trytajr an experiment whether, in God's name, we can establish a country where every man torn into It will be born with the possibility that he can raise himself to a degree of ease and com fort and not be compelled to live a life of de grading toil for the mere necessities of exist ence. That is the feeling which animates all who throuch danger and ilefeat have steadily lulored for tariff reform. We wish to make this a coumry where no man shall be taxed for the private benefit of another: but where all the blessings of free government, of education, of the influences of the church and of the school shall be the common, untaxed heritage of all the people, adding to the comfort of all, adding to the culture of all, and adding to the happiness of all. "And now one word mora We are about to vote on this question, if I knew that when the roll was called every democratic name would respond in the spirit of that larsrer pa triotism which I have tried to suggest, I would be proud and light hearted to day. I wait to say to my brethren who are doubtinir as to what they thall do that this roll call will not only be eutered on the journal of the house, but ! it will be entered on the history of this country, I and it will le entered in the annals i,! freedom. I ' This is not a battle expressly on this tax ' or on that tax: it is a battle lor human free j dom. As Mr. Burke truly said: The great bat j ties of human freedom have been waged around i the question of taxation. You may think to ' day that some -herring' of your own will ex cuse you in opposing this great movement; ! you my think to-day that some reason of lo ' caiity. some desire to oblige a great interest I behind you, may excuse if. when the roll is j called, your name shall be registered among ' the opponents of this measure: but no such cx ! cuse will cover you. j "The men who had the opportunity to sign the declaration of independence and refused or neglected because there was something in it which they did not like I thank God there were no such men but it there were, what would be their standing in history to-day? If, on the battlefields of Lexington and Bunker Hill thrre had been men who became dissatis fied, wanted this thing and that thing and threw away their weapons, what do you sup pose would have been their feelings in all the years of their lives when the liberty bells rang on every coming anniversary of American freedum? And in the uame of honor and in the name of freedom 1 suminuo every democratic member of the house." UNSET GEMS ! The top of a cloud is always bright. The easiest thing for a fool to do is tell how little he knows. It is impossible to travel far with the man who rides a hobby. What true man would not rather die for truth than to live a lie? A pkttdent man doesn't tell every thing he knows every time he opens hi9 mouth. One of the times when a woman ha9 no mercy on a man is when he comes to her store to buy a bonnet tr his wife. Carar llorr INFAMOUS TACTICS. Contradictory Declaration of the Panlc Vawplnc Protectionists. -Almost ever since the adjournment of the special session of congress very many of the beneficiaries of McKinley ism and nearly everyone of their organs have been exerting themselves with in creasing energy to deepen the depres sion necessarilv following the silver- protection panic I Employers have attempted to reduce j wages, sometimes with success, and j threatened to reduce them further in the event of the passage of the Wilson ' bilL They have suspended work in many instances and threatened to sus pend in many more without good rea- : son and for no other purpose than to j coerce their employes into protesting against the passage of that measure, and to frighten the majority in congress into the abandonment of even their small beginning of tariff reform. They have taken every advantage of the situ ation resulting from the panic to op press their men and if possible create another panic Their organs are en gaged in the same despicable work. ; Day after day they groan for the poor working man. They tell him that the present industrial depression is all ow ing to the Wilson bill and that his wages must go down, down until "labor in this country and Europe will le on the same plane and level, having the same hours of work and the same pay and poverty." They even say that the panic of last summer was caused b3 the prospect of tariff reduction, and that it is stiil "raging." That they know better is proved con clusive by the fact that their utterances are now in flat contradiction of their utterances from four to six months ago, when the panic really was raging. Then they admitted the truth that manufacturers were not alarmed by the result of the elections of Jsoveni ber, lS'Ji, although they knew what that result meant as well then as now. They admitted the fact that manufac turers continued to increase the num ber of their establishments and to en large their plants for eight months af ter the election. Like Thomas Dolan, president of one of the most rabid as sociations of protected manufacturers, they admitted that the panic was caused entirely by the silver-purchasing policy, and that the coming reduction of the tariff had nothing whatever to do with it. They admitted that it was a money panic, and not a tariff panic at all. They have no way of escape from the conclusion that they are now deliberately lying everyday when they call it a tariff panic, and when they attribute all its necssary and unneces sary consequences to a very moderate tariff bill which cannot g'o into effect for five or six months to corae. The3 ought to be able to see by this time that they are not accomplishing their purpose by pursuing this course. They do not make friends of working i men by lying to them; workingmen have memories and know what these same would-be panic breeders said a few months ago. They do not frighten congress at all. On the contrary, the house has shown itself more coura geous and radical than its ways and means committee. The overwhelming ' majorities by which amendments cut . ting the committee's rates are adopted 6hould teach the McKinley organs that . the scare policy is a flat failure. I If they cannot see it now they will ; see it at no distant day, when events I falsify all their calamity predictions regarding employment and wages. ; They will not earn public confidence ' and good will by inciting employers to ; acts of cruelty or by lying about past events, or by endlessly reiterating ; false prophecies of disaster. Chicago I Herald. " A M'KINLEY RIOT. The Promised I -and of Protection Ablase with Incendiarism IJe it understood that this riot in the Mansfield coal region of Pennsylvania is a republican riot, a high tariff riot, a McKinley riot. The rioters are Iiuns, Slavs and Sicilians, the very dregs and offscourings of southern and south eastern Europe. They were imported to this country (duty free) by the coal barons, and, in the name of "protection to American labor," substituted in the mines for decent American, English, Irish and German labor. The coal barons had no use for decent labor, for self-respecting labor, for labor that knew its rights and demanded to live as a white man should. They brought in these convicts and fugitives from justice (duty free), and, having in stalled them in filthy hovels, stripped them of their names, numbered them like convicts and then paid them what wages they liked, chiefly in store truck. They supplied them with cheap whisky, and, in a word, snpplied all the ac cessories of a pandemonium on earth. That is what the coal and coke re gions of Pennsylvania have been made by these rascals who are now insult ing American labor by denouncing the Wilson bill in its name. These are the fellows who, forsooth, must now cut down wagos to 'the European level." They have done what they could already to debase labor below any known Eu ropean leveL 2ot in Siberia, not in the quarries of Carrara or the vine yards of Sicily is labor at a lower ebb, mentally, morally or physically, than in the hilly fastnesses of these robber barons of Pennsylvania. It is their riot a McKinley riot. They brought this mob element into a peaceful land and planted their con- I vict colonies. The convicts (duty free) 1 , i i , , i ' nave uronen loose unu are spreaumg murder and arson ovtr the region. The very center and promised land of MeKinleyism is lighted up with in- j cendiary bonnres irom tne torcnes oi the wretched creatures whom McKin-let-ism has brought (duty free) into the land. It is a notable triumph for the McKinley party. Chicago Times. The charge that Mcjvinley has one speech will no longer hold but good, lie fit-er the northern heart b- de claring that the Wilson bill was framed by rebel brigadiers, and then he in forms the southern people that the measure is especially designed to ruin their particular industries. This streak of versatility is a f rt.at innova tion for McKinley. 2s. Y. World. of tio!5c e clrlastice co-ar i. M'KIMLEY'S BRAG. Effect of Protection on the Eastern Woolen Mill. One of the proudest boasts of the author of the McKinley tariff a boast which has gone th rounds of the pro tection press and had innumerable changes rungr on it is in these words: "I know every factory was running and running on full time irom the date of the passage of the present tariff law up to the election of the present adminis tration." It was a ridiculous boast on its face and has been so shown to be a score of times; but the Springfield lie publican exposes its absurd untruthful ness so clearly and convincingly that its showing is entitled to the widest publicity in the interests of truth and justice. A correspondent of the Republican takes it to task for certain statements in its columns relative to the effect of the McKinley act on factories and prac tically reiterates the McKinley boast, declaring there was but one failure of a woolen niill after the passage of the McKinley act until the present year. Thii declaration is made on the au thority of a New England expert; and the Republican "goes for" expert and correspondent in the most thorough manner. To refresh the memory of the former and further enlighten the latter as to the remarkable nature of McKinley's claim, it says: "We have taken from the files of the American Wool and Cotton Reporter a few items of mill news for the 6ix or eight months succeeding the enactment of the McKinley law." These it then gives as follows: "Home 'U oolen Mamufacturing Co., of Lew lston. Me, failed about ten days after the Mc Kinley law tJok effect About the same time the Bel Air woolen mill at I'lttslield shut down indefinitely. -The next month, or in November, 1?90. the Alexander & Co. knitting works at Decatur, I1L, tailed for ?Si,0OU, "In December, ls), came the big Ritten house Woolen Manufacturing Ca's failure with liabilities of Ssoj,ulj, made more conspicuous by j the fact that Edward IL .Ammidown, president ! of the American Protective Tariff league, was the chief owner and that the failure was pre j cipltated by Ammidown's speculations bised on his confidence m the wonderful curauve effects of the McKinley law. "The same month brought further failure and distress to the woolen industry. The Kinsley, Davis &. Co. mills at Braintree, Alien Woolen Co., of Hanover, Conn., East Dover (Me.) woolen mill and Kockford (111.) woolen ciill all shut down indefinitely. Wil liam Furnelh woolen manufacturer, of Wilton, Me., failed with liabilities of f70,0ja The Har ris woolen mill of Woonsocket, K. L. shut down for an indefinite period. The Rankin Knitting Cot, with the "oldest, largest and best equipped" knitting mill in Cohoes, N. Y.. shut down and went into receiver's hands; liabili ties. S15J.0UU. "The Union Manufacturing company's mill, at Manchester, Conn., was in the same month reported idle and looking for purchasers. E. P. I'arsons & Co., woolen manufacturers of Tilton, X. IL, were announced as embarrass 3d. The woolen manufacturing business was re ported by the Boston Commercial Bulletin as dull at Blackstone, Mass., and nearly one-half of the operatives are out of employment "Three months of the McKinley law found things in January, 1 f-f 1 , in about the same state. II W. Lewis & Son, of Ansonia, Conn., woolen manufacturers, failed for HO.uOd ;w. F. Spink, woolen manufacturer of North Kings ton, K. L, assigned. The embarrassment of the Forbes satinet mill, at ast Brookfield, was announced. The Troy Manufacturin; com pany of Cohoes, N. Y., denied that their mill was to Btart up. The Thompson & PettengU knit mill, at Amsterdam, X. Y., was sole, at re ceiver's sale. "Most of the hands of the American Worsted company, at Woonsocket, were reported idle in February, lt&i. McCauley & Pell, of Staf fordville. Conn., woolen manufacturers, as signed; one hundred persons thrown out of work. The Essex yarn mill, at Newark. N. J., failed. "In March, 1S21, six hundred weavers at the Wanskuck mills at Providence struck fcgainst reduced waces. A strike for the same cause in the big Atlantic mills involved twenty-one hun dred hand;!. The Fonda (N. Y.) Knitting com pany failed and went out of business. "During April and May, the Peninsular knit ting worta at Detroit were sold at receiver's sale. Glover, Sanford & Sons, of Bridgeport, Conn., shut down and offered njill for sale. The woolen mills at E.mvilie and .Kiliingiy, Cono,, shut dowa and the help begun to move away." Concluding, the Republican says: "And, without going' further into de tails, we may add to the testimony of the American Wool and Cotton Reporter that this was a bad time for the woolen business, the statement of the Boston Commercial Bulletin, a McKinley pa per, that 'the year 1S91 will long be re membered as one of the gloomiest years the wool trade has known.' And at the end of the year the Bulletin re ported: 'The situation among the wool en mills is anything but encouraging. This all ought to prove sufficiently fill ing for our Ohio reader. Gov. McKin ley is describing how such conditions of manufacturing as he expected would exist after his law took effect not what actually did exist. What this matter lias to do with a statement of the relative demand upon the woolen manufacturing business just before and after the panic, nearly three years re moved from the enactment of the Mc Kinley law, we are at a loss to under stand." Detroit Free Tress. COMMENTS OF THE PRESS. The new issue of government bonds ought to be known as the rt pub lican deficiency debt. N. Y. World. Neither injunctions, nor filibus ters, nor Boutclles, nor o; her pestilence must divert the democratic party from its purpose to relieve this country as rapidly as possible from the effects of republican misgovernment. Louisville Courier-J ournaL When Gen. Harrison comes to fig ure up the expense of his next swing around the circle it will be well tc re member that he has no earthly chance of getting a pass over the 2sew Eng land road while Boss Tlatt is its re ceiver. Detroit Free Press, The revival of business is an j omen of good, and the intelligent ob- : 1 T . . 4 1. a . . 4l,o4- witVi tha Bin 1 T 114 UULC Llic: 4taib kua, - prospect of the passage of the Wilson bill an impetus has been given to trade everywhere. Doubt is giving way to certainty and the signs of the times are propitious. Toledo Bee. An extravagant republican ad ministration left the country in a con dition bordering upon bankruptcy, and now its wire-pullers are striving to make trouble over the plan which Sec retary Carlisle has adopted to meet the demands of the emergency. Whether on the aggressive or defensive the re publican managers of these latter years are invariably in the wrong and opposed to the best interests of the r ple. Detroit Free Press. ;"Ucat odor in ii pentt tne xaiaw . ana wa delreTed to
