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DECORATION DAY.
Its Patriotic Observance in Vari
ous of tho Large Cities.
A Notable Fnrside In C'hloafro The Cele
bration In Washington Uranf Tomb
Bounteously Oeoorated t'eremo
ulcs Held in St. Louis.
IN CHICAGO.
Chicago, June 1. Decoration day
was marked by the finest military dis
rlav that has been seen in Chicago since
the close of the war. The column, re-
viewed by Gen. Miles and staff, con- j
tained not less than 10,000 men, and
was composed of police, firemen, regu
lar troops from Fort Sheridan, Illinois
militia, Grand Army posts. Sons of
Veterans, Sons of the Revolution and
civic societies.
The day was observed in an appro
priate manner in most of the towns in
Illinois. Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin
and Indiana.
Ia Washington.
Washington, June 1. All govern
ment departments were closed on
Wednesday, and private business gen
erally suspended. Flags hung1 at half
mast on the public buildings. There
was a long parade in the morning.
The Ceremonies.
The most important ceremonies were
held on the heights of Arlington,
across the Potomac and overlooking
the city, where 16,000 union soldiers are
buried. Every grave was marked with a
flag and a bouquet of roses. Thousands
of people crowded the grounds, among
them many members of congress and
some representatives of the foreign le
gations. At noon a national salute
was fired, and the tornb of the un
known, where the bones of hundreds
of soldiers taken from battlefields are
interred, was decorated with services
by the Grand army Posts, the Woman's
Relief Corps and the Sons of Veterans.
In the amphitheater where religious
services are held on the Lee plantation
on Sunday the bugle sounded as
sembly. Music was given by the Ma
rine band and the Grand Army of the
Republic musical assembly. President
Cleveland arrived shortly after 12, ac
companied by Secretaries Gresham and
Morton.
A. L. Martin, of Indiana, chairman
of the committee on pensions, deliv
ered an eloquent oration and Col.
John A. Joyce read a poem. Repre
sentative Rryan, of Nebraska, aroused
much enthusiasm hy his speech. Pres
ident Cleveland sat through the en
tire programme, which lasted three
hours, but did not speak. After the
ceremonies he drove back to the city
with the members of his cabinet.
At Grant's Tomb.
Ni:.v Yokk.. June 1. The great
feature of Memorial day in this city
was the parade of the Grand Army of
the Republic, the United States army
and the national guard, and the review
at Madison square by the mayor.
After marching the veterans and
troops disbanded and went in de
tachments to the various cemeteries or
to the tomb of their great commander,
Gen. Grant. Here were the principal
exercises of the day. The tomb was
decorated at 2:30 p. in. bv U. S. Grant
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post o27, G. A. R.
The floral pieces j
exceeded in beauty and number those
of any previous year. The address
was by A. W. Tenney, of Brooklyn.
In St. Louis.
Sr. Loris, June 1. Memorial day
was observed here in the usual man
ner, the graves in the national
cemetery at Jefferson barracks and
those in the city cemeteries be
ing lavishlv decorated. The special
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feature of the day was the Minveil
ing of a monument in Rellefontaine,
erected to the memory of Gen. John
McNeil, Frank II. Ulair post, G. A. R.,
conducting the ceremonies. Special
memorial services were held by the
Woman's Relief Corps at the Grant
statue and by Ransom post at Gen. W.
T. Sherman's grave at Calvary.
A DOZEN DEAD.
Awful Itesults of Two Explosions
in tho
ISay of Biscay. j
Madrid, May 29. Details have been '
received of an explosion that occurred ;
Saturday on the Norwegian steamer ;
Norden at Gijon on the Ray of Uiscay. j
The steamer was taking coal on board '
when one of the boilers exploded with j
terrific force. Her decks were shat- i
tered and the boats and deck fit- ',
tings were blown to splinters. ,
Some of the debris was carried ;
across the quay at which the vessel !
was lying and a piece of timber struck 1
a dock laborer, killing him instantly.
Two steamers laden with sulphuric
acid anil gunpowder were lying close:
to the Norden. Part of the masts of ,
the latter were carried away by the j
force of the explosion, and in falling ;
struck the other two steamers, caus- j
ing great damage to them. i
Five of the crew of the Norden were I
killed and several others were either
sea hied or injured by the flying debris.
Rrusski.s, Ma3' 29. An explosion oc
curred Sunday at a mine at Anderlues,
killing six miners and injuring several
others.
Killed by an American.
London. May 31. Gen. John Hews
ton, an American who has been stay
ing at the First Avenue hotel in this
city, has been arrested charged with
causing the death of a man of the name
of George Hurton. Gen. Hewston was
walking in Gray's road and was rudely
jostled by a party of itinerant musi
cians. He remonstrated and the party
turned upon him and struck him. Gen. j
Hewston carried an umbrella and used I
it to defend himself. The point of the i
umbrella entered the eye of Hurton, J
who was one of his assailants, and he !
fell. He was taken to the hospital and
there died.
Opposed to Postal Telegraph.
Washington. June 1. Postmister
General Hissell is opposed to the pro
posed government ownership of the
telegraph system. He does not think
a postal telegraph service would prove
profitable in this country, or that such
service could be fully accomplished
without material additions to the pres-
nt post office organization and in-
THE COAL STRIKE.
An Amicable Settlement Prevented by tho
Consolidated Coal Company.
Springfield, 111., May SO. Illinois
holds the key to the mining situation,
and the Consolidated Coal company
holds the key to Illinois. This is tho
sum and substance of the conference
between the national officers of the
United Mine Workers and the central
and southern Illinois operators held
here Monday. The executive com
mittee expresses itself as willing and
ready to settle and call off the strike
whenever the Illinois operators can
ag.ree a
amicaDie
mong themselves upon an
arrangement of difference
existing, and the operators say they
are willing to settle upon any reason
able basis whenever the Consolidated
Coal company will agree to join with
them, but otherwise they cannot make
any overtures nor accept any proposi
tion which will place them in compe
tition with this powerful corporation.
New York, May SO. The coal famine
has begun to make itself felt in all
lines of business in New York and
the east, and unless relief comes
speedily there will be a serious
interruption of manufacturing and
transportation industries. The cor
porations which have reserved
fuel for ordinary uses are ob
serving strict economy in its use
and are refusing to sell their holdings
under any circumstances. The usual
source of supply being cut off by rea
son of the strike among the miners in
Pennsylvania and in the west. New
Yorkers have been compelled to send to
Wales for fuel. Thirty big ships are
now on their way to this port with coal
from the Welsh mines, but under the
most favorable circumstances the re
lief to be afforded by their arrival will
be but temporary. Coal contractors
say that by the time the vessels arrive
New York will be entirely out of fuel
and that the supply they will bring
will be exhausted in a week or ten
days.
NIPPED AGAIN.
Jack Frost Pays Late Visit to North
western States.
Chicago, May SO. Frost Sunday
night and Monday morning did consid
erable damage to fruit and grain
crops in Illinois, Wisconsin, Michi
gan and other northwestern states.
In the northern part of Illi
nois corn was in many places so
badly nipped as to require a replant
ing. Vegetables and small fruits were
also damaged and in some instances
ruined. In Wisconsin it was so cold
that ice formed. Huckleberries and
other small fruits were damaged, and
what promised to be a large
crop may be a failure. Michigan
reports damages to strawberries, mel
ons, tomatoes, potatoes and other
small fruits and vegetables. Peaches
and the grains were not especially in
jured. In northern Indiana the wheat
was hurt bv the frost.
BAD BLOOD IN KENTUCKY.
One
Man Is Killed and One Fatally
Wounded Near l'llot Hock.
IIorKiNsviLLE, Ky.. May 29. A fatal
shooting' affray took place Saturday
night at a country store near Pilot
Rock. 9 miles east of here. Neal
Edwards shot and instantly killed
Samuel Martin, with whom he had
some trouble. Joe Martin, a brother
of the man killed, and James G.
Edwards, father of Neal, drew their
weapons and began firing at each
other. They continued until their re
volvers were emptied. James G. Ed
wards was fatally wounded and Neal
Edwards' horse was killed under him.
The affair has stirred up bad blood in
the neighborhood and more trouble ia
feared.
A CHILD'S TERRIBLE DEATH.
It Is Caused by Lockjaw Which Follows
Vaccination,
New York, June 1. Lockjaw now
comes forward as a possible accom
paniment of vaccination, as shown in
the case of little Frank Evans, whose
death was reported by Coroner's
Physician Frank J. OTIare as hav
ing been due to tetanus, consequent
upon an application of vaccine
virus by one of the young doctors of
the health department nearly three
weeks ago. The child, who was
years old. died in fearful convulsions
in the early hours of last Monday
morning. His jaws were locked and
the muscles of the arms and legs were
spasmodically contracted. j
Two Men Killed. j
Chicago, June 1. A Chicago & East-
ern Illinois freight train ran over and
killed two men at Sixteenth street j
Wednesday morning. They were: W. i
N. Young and R. II. Stewart, both of j
Berwyn, a suburban town. The men
were walking east on the St. Charles ,
Air Line tracks near their junc
tion with those of the Chi-!
cago & Eastern Illinois A freight
! train on the latter road was backing
up from the south. They evidently did
not see the approaching cars and both
were struck at the same time and
thrown under the wheels, l oung was
instantly killed and Stewart was so
badly crushed that he died on the way
to St. Luke's hospital.
To Abolish the Word ".Male."
Albany, N. Y., June 1. The assem
bly chamber was filled Thursday night
with hundreds of women from all parts
of the state who are here in advocacy
of the movement to abolish the word
"male" from the constitution. The
constitutional convention committee
on suffrage had charge of the hearing
Jockeys Killed In a Hurdle Race.
Philadelphia, May 31. Two jock
eys were killed Wednesdays in a hurdle
race at Phoenixville, near here. As
Arthur Davis' mount attempted to go
over the hurdle the animal stumbled
and upset Guy Gilbert s horse. The
boys fell under the animals and were
crushed.
Cut a Fellow Convict's Throat.
Columbus, O., May SO. Edward Mas
sey, in the Ohio penitentiary, knocked
down Alijah Lynch, unother prisoner,
and cut his throat. Death will prob-
ably ensue. Massey ia believed to ba
SWEPT AWAY.
Towns in the Far West Totally
destroyed by Floods.
No Loss of Life Is Reported, Bat the
Damage to Property Will Reach Into
the Millions Distress in Denver
and Other Cities.
IN THE PATH OF A RAGING TORRENT.
BouldeH, Col., June 2. The flood in
Boulder creek has caused great de
struction to property in this city and
surrounding locality. In this city five
houses were swept down stream. Tho
occupants were rescued by a relief
corps. All the city and railroad
bridges have been washed away.
The towns of Crisman and Sa
lina, small mining camps in Boul
der canyon, about 7 miles from
here, have been totally destroyed and
over 300 people rendered homeless. A
number of the placer mines are ruined.
The Sunset branch of the Gulf rail
road has been completely washed
out. All the crops in the
St. Vrain valley have been
destroyed by the flood. The total loss
in this city and in the adjacent terri
tory is estimated at SoOO.000. On ac
count of the storm and floods, tele
phone and telegraph wires were ren
dered useless and outside communica
tion has been cut off.
Fifty bridges between here and the
mountains have been carried away.
The towns of Copper Rock and
Sugar Loaf are gone, the Prus
sian and Corning mills flooded and
six of their outbuildings swept
down the canyon. Springdale and
Jamestown suffered greatly, but
no particulars can be had except
that the Springdale hotel is in ruins.
Several other small towns along the
canyon have been partially destroyed,
but nothing definite regarding losses
can be learued until communication
with these districts has been estab
lished. Denver, Col., June 2. Platte river
continued to rise until 3 a. m., and a
raging torrent continues pouring
through this cit3'. Colfax and Jerome
Park were flooded at 11 o'clock Thurs
day night and the people living on the
low ground had to flee for their
lives. The railway embankment
was washed away in places and
bridges were badly damaged. The
loss will not be very great, but
the inconvenience will be extreme. In
Jeroiae Park and vicinity 175 families
were driven out of their houses and
are camped on higher ground. As
many more families living oa the river
bottoms in this city also fled to higher
ground. Edward Whitman, a boy, fell
into the torrent and was drowned. No
other fatalities have been reported.
The damage to the mountain roads
by the floods is the heaviest experi
enced in this state. An experienced
railroad manager estimates the loss to
the railroads at S-5,000. He figures
that the loss on business reaches S15,
000 a day. and 10,000 will cover other
expenses to the roads. The South Park
branch of the Union Pacific is under
water from Wheatland to Pine Grove,
a distance of SO miles.
Manitou, Col., June 2. Business is
practically suspended and hundreds of
men are working to save their proper
ty. The stream fro?n Williams canyon
is rushing over Mineral Water park,
leaving gravel in place of grass. Tons
of earth have been torn from the pa
vilion grounds. Dynamite has been
used frequently to demolish gorges.
The damage to streets, parks and pri
vate property cannot now be estimat
ed. The water is still rising.
Idaho Springs, Col., June 2. The
damage by the flood in this county is
estimated at 8100,000. The storm was
the longest and most disastrous in the
memory of the oldest inhabitant. On
the mountain tops, instead of rain, 18
inches of snow fell. Almost all the
bridges over Fair creek and its branch
es are gone. Some houses werewashed
away and mines flooded.
Portland, Ore., June 2. The flood
in the Columbia continues to increase
and the indications are that the worst
is yet to come. The river is more
than a foot higher than ever
before known and the damage
will be immense. The fertile bot
tom lands along the river from the
Rocky mountains to the sea, a distance
f 000 miles, are all inundated. Crops
are all ruined, houses washed away
and stock drowned. The flood has
come gradually, which has given resi
dents an opportunity to move household
goods to places of safety, and in most
instances stock has been driven to
higher ground. The salmon canning
business has been almost annihilated.
Fish and canning establishments along
the river for a distance of 200 miles are
under water. It is estimated by can
nery men that the loss will reach
S100.000.
Telegraphic communication to the
north and east is cut oil except by a
roundabout way. For miles along the
river water has risen over the tops of
the telegraph poles. Along the Union
Pacific from this city to Umatilla 20
miles of track aw under water. They
have established steamboat service,
which enables them to carry the mails
and passengers.
In this city the water has risen into
basements as far back as Ninth street,
and more than half the elevators in
the city are stopped for want of power.
Sauvies island, a few miles below
Portland, is almost entirely under
water. Many buildings have been
lifted from their foundations and
are afloat.
ltrtital Thieves.
Greenville, Pa., June 2. Mrs. Eliz
abeth Williams, 80 years old, who
lives in a cottage along the Erie &
Pittsburgh railroad, was robbed of
SI, 100 and beaten by ruffians who es
caped. One of the robber:s.choked her, a
second flourishing a knife and the third
bearing a light. They threw her on
the floor, chloroformed her and piling
bedding upon her jumped on her body.
The money was taken from her trunk.
Part of it had been sent her from Car
diff. Wales, by relatives. She has lived
in .New lork, iienton anu innauei
phia. She is left without a penny or
any means of support.
STRIKE HURTS TRADE.
Business Shows the Effects of Mining
Troubles.
New York, June 2. R. G. Dan &
Co.'s weekly review of trade says:
"It Is a sign of cheerinpr import that In fin
ished business, represented by clearings nnd
railway tonnage, there has been less decrease
since the strike began than might have been
expected. Hut in inchoate business, tho
orders which start the wheels, to result
in tonnage and payment weeks or months
later, there seems to be an actual de
crease. Meanwhile the consequent inter
ruption of traffic and Industry increases. Tho
stoppage of Iron furnaces between tho Alle
gheny mountains and the Mississippi river
has become complete and a great number of
concerns manufacturing iron, and others re
quiring soft coal or coke for fuel, have
been forced to stop. Husiness cannot
increase in volume under such circumstances,
and yet payments through all clearing houses
for tho week show a decrease of only -0.8 per
cent, compared with lust year. Though a large
number of works aro idle the demand for prod
ucts is not whr.t inijtht be expected either in
volume or in urgency.
'Aguin tho lowest price ever recorded has
boon made for cash wheat, 56 cents at New
York. ugii;nst 73 cents a year ago. while the
average in May. 1HV2. was 'JO cents, and in
April, isyl. SI. tsv;. Corn is stronger, with,
exports about half as large us a year :igo.
and the unfavorable outlook for oats results
In a higher price. I'ork products aro weak
with continuing large receipts. Cotton has
varied little, though receipts from plantations
have fallen off, for stocks in sight are very
large, a new crop, for which prospects are do.
cidedly good, is drawing near, and the demand
for goods is uncertain.
'Liabilities reported in failures for the fourth
week of May were rJ.ffay.0H7, and for four weeks
ending May 24. $11.3!1.04'.!. of which 84.1..'p05
were of manufacturing and Jo.wW'yi of trading
concerns. Keports yet to come in may increase
the aggregate to i-14.OJ0.(KH for the month. Fail
ures this week have been 13 in the United
States, against 238 last year, and "7 in Canada,
against 21 last year. Only two failures, both
banking, are for $luo.0(0 or more."
Rradstreet's says:
"The decidedly unfavorable condition of gen
eral trade reported last week continues with
out material improvement. Continued delay
of tariff legislation prolongs the stifling effect
of wholesale business. The greut coal strike
continues without sIkii of early improvement,
no concession having been made by cither
side. More mills, factories and furnaces have
closed their doors for want of fuel. There are
no new labor strikes of importance to record,
but almost all of those previously reported aro
In existence."
OPEN REBELLION.
Civil War Hrraks Out in llulgaria Sev- j
era I Killed in ltuttle.
London. June 'J. The removal from
ofiiee by Prince Ferdinand of the Rul- j
garian Iremier Stambuloff lias re-;
suited seriously. A dispatch to the :
Telegram from Relgrade. Servia, says
the following telegram has been re
ceived from Sofia: j
"Ex-Premier Stambuloff and the ministers '
who formed his cabinet are under arrer t. Civil
war has broken out. Two battalions of troops
have rebelled and demanded the reinstatement
of Stambuloff. They have been joined by the i
gendarmes in an attack on the troops who have ;
declared for Prince Ferdinand."
Hkklix, June a. Dispatches received
by the Tageblatt from Sofia. Rulgaria,
say that two battalions of infantry and
the entire police force have issued a
manifesto in favor of ex-Premier Stam
buloff. The dispatches add that a
bloody fight has taken place between
the revolted soldiers and police and
the loyal troops, during which many
were killed on both sides. Several dis
turbances directed against the prefects
are reported from the provinces, and
one of these otlicials is said to have
been killed.
On the other hand it is reported that
Irince Ferdinand has received many
telegrams thanking him for having
dismissed Stambuloff from ofiiee. j
INDICTED.
After a Delay of Two Years Action Ia
Taken Against Iron Hall 01H ers.
Pmi.AlJF.i.i'HiA. June 2. After a de
lay of nearly two years since their ar
rest indictments were presented Fri
day against Freeman D. Somerby,
Charles II. Raker, Joseph Glading
anil James 11. Eckersly. of the
defunct order of the Iron Hall.
These men were respectively supreme
justice, supreme cashier, chairman of
the committee on laws and supervi
sion and member of the committee on
finance and accounts of the order.
The indictment charges them with
conspiring to defraud the supreme
sitting of the Iron Hall out of
some S-OO.C0O; with diverting it
to the uses of the Mutual Hanking,
Surety, Trust and Safe Deposit
company. This large sum was the
money which the defeudantsclaim was
diverted from the Iron Hall treasury
to save the toppling Mutual bank and
preserve intact some S4."0,000 addition
al Iron Hall funds which were on de
posit there. John W. Hayes, cashier
of the Mutual Hanking, Surety, Trust
and Safe Deposit company, who was
arrested at the same time, turned
state's evidence.
SHOT BY BURGLARS.
Uanker John M. Itusscll and Wife of Pal
myra, Mo., Seriously Wounded.
Palmyra. Mo., June'-. This town is
in a condition of great excitement and
the surrounding country is being
scoured for two men, who, at 13
o'clock Thursday night, shot Hanker
John M. Russell and his wife. The
men, bent on burglary. entered
through the south bay window. Mrs.
Russell was awakened, gave an out
er', and the burglar, taking delib
erate aim, shot her in the fore
head between the eyes. Mrs. Russell
fell back unconscious. The cry had
aroused her husband, who grappled
with the other burglar. The latter
was quick to shoot, and Mr. Russell,
who is 50. years old, was also
wounded. Roth he and his wife are in
a serious condition. Police are trail
ing the rob'jers with bloodhounds.
RAM'S HORN WRINKLES.
Tub more yon love yourself the less
you will be loved by others.
The day becomes longer every time a
lazy man looks at tho clock.
The one who has suffered has a key
that can unlock many hearts.
Nothing makes us richer that does
not make ns more thankful.
" It is much easier to love some people
than it is to agree with them.
Time sets his chisel a little deeper
whenever there is a frown upon the
face.
jWHAT OF THE CONSUMER?
Ills Rights Ignored by Protectionist I'an
derers to the Producer.
We were prepared for almost any re
sult of the customary hysterics of the
New York Press, but we hardly looked
for it to stumble upon such an honest
condemnation of protection as this:
"A tariff measure which discriminates
against one section in favor of another, and
which confers immense beneiits upon a single
interest at tho expense of a whole people is not
protection, but spoliation."
There never was a tariff measure con
ceived that failed to do this very
thing. There never will be one, as
long as one section differs from an
other in its natural adaptation to cer
tain industries. The industry with the
strongest pull gets the biggest protec
tion and holds it until some other in
terest comes along and complains that
it has been injured by the protection
of the other. Then another attempt is
made at an equal distribution of the
stolen cheese, to be followed by more
complaints, with the result that the
average of protection is pushed higher
and higher in the effort to satisfy all.
If there is such a thing as "genuine
protection," under which, as the Press
avers, "all American producers possess
equal rights and enjoy equal privi-
leges." what of the consumer? His
very existence is forgotten. lie is not
so much as mentioned while those who
despoil him are trying to divide the
booty. And when an attempt is made
to ease the crushing weight of taxa
tion which rests upon his bending
shoulders and to place a little of it upon
the possessors of large incomes, a cry
goes up that such a measure is com
munism and sectionalism.
There is no better answer to this
folly and no better defense of the
rights of the consumer than certain
words of Hon. John Sherman, which
were quoted without challenge no
longer than last November by Hon. U.
S. Hall, of Missouri, in a speech before
the ways and means committee of the
house as follows:
"The public mind is not yet prepared to
apply the key of a genuine revenue reform. A
few years of further experience will convince
the whole body of our people that a system of
national taxes which rests the whole burden of
taxation on consumption, and not one cent oa
property and Income, is intrinsically unjust.
While the expenses of the national rovc-rnraent
are largely caused by he protection of prop
erty, it is but right to call on property to con
tribute to Its payment. It will not co to say
that each person consumes in proportion to his
means. This is not true. Every one must see
that the consumption of the rich does not bear
the same relation to the consumption of the
poor as the income of the rich does to the
wages of the poor. As wealth accumulates,
this Injustice in the fundamental basis of ovr
system will Le felt and forced upon the atten
tion of congress."
The injustice has been felt, and the
first attempt toward righting it finds
arrayed in opposition all the forces of
protection and privilege which have
thrived upon it. It is denounced as "a
fine upon thrift," a "confiscation of the
savings of the industrious;"' a some
thing that will discourage economy.
Does anyone who applies these epi
thets to it know of anybody who would
not rather have an income of four
thousand dollars year, with a 2 per
cent, tax on it, than not to have such
an income to tax? Louisville Courier
Journal. DEMOCRACY AND THE TARIFF.
Ucneficlal Reforms Obstructed by Protection-Fed
Monopolists.
The consequences of nearly thirty
years of robbery by protected monopo
lists are not easily overcome. The
democratic party has a great and seri
ous task. It has undertaken to reform
the tariff and to turn back the princi
ple of tariff legislation to the right
method, the method that prevailed in
framing the Walker tariff and the
ta.-iff of 1S57. Rut it is met on the
threshold of its reform work by a gi
gantic combination of interests that
have been built up by the republicans
who have taxed the people to enrich
monopolists in consideration of gen
erous contributions to campaign funds.
Rack of the men who have invested
their wealth in industries for the sake
of securing tariff bounties, who have
bought laws and corrupted congresses
and who are entiMed to no sympathy,
are thousands of innocent persons who
must not be injured by sudden changes
of laws.
It is a hard task, but the democratic
party is making an effort to reform
abuses. If the party could have its
way, if it could be rid of some of its
own bur.iens, it would make a de
cidedly stronger effort. As it is, the
Wilson bill attempted to give the
country cheaper clothes, cheaper fuel,
cheaper homes, cheaper tools and a
larger maruet for the products of the
soil. In standing in the way of this
effort the republicans and their allies
are inviting much more radical legis
lation than has yet been attempted.
The people have determined to be rid
of the odious system which wrinirs
millions of dollars from them through
tariff taxes for the benefit of million
aires, and the democratic party is j
pledged to help them. j
If there is too much resistance there
int!V be more destruction than was con
templated. Carnegie, with his pock
ets bulging with the loot that had
been stolen for him by tho republican
party, was the wisest protectionist of
them all when ho advised his accom- ,
piices to accept the Wilson bill. !
There are men calling themselves 1
democrats who hold and practice re-
publican principles, but the heart and
inind of the party are right, the real
leaders of the party are right and t he
struggle against the system of protec
tion, which is a struggle for larger hu
man liberty and for less governmental
paternalism, will be carried on by the
democracy of the country. The repub
lican party is the servant and slave of
monopolists. It is built on ill-gained
wealth. The democratic party is the
party of the people and it will redeem
its pledges to break down McICinley
ism. What the democratic majority in
the house accomplished in the face of
republican power in the senate i a
guarantee of the party's good faith. It
may be obliged to go slow, but it will
go in tiie right direction. N. Y. World.
After McKinley the deluge has
long been a popular notion in Pennsyl
vania. Louisville Courier-J ournal.
A SYSTEM OF BRIBERY.
The Corrupt Practices of High Tariff
Advocates.
It is not at all strange that direct
bribery has been attempted as one of
the means to influence the votes of
senators on the tariff bill.
Of course the attempts at bribery are
directed against democratic senators.
The votes of republican senators have
been secure from the beginning against
any change that would reduce the
enormous rates of monopoly tariff tax
ation. Corrupt influences would be
used, naturally, only to affect the ac
tion of democratic congressmen.
It was to be expected that, sooner or
later, at some stage of the issue, the
tariff corruptionists would offer direct
ly to purchase votes.
The entire McKinley tariff system is
brilery. Not a member of congress
can vote to impose a high tariff tax
for purposes of protection except from
some motive of sordid selfishness and
greed corrupt political greed or greed
for gain.
Protection bribes the popular vote.
The farmer is bribed by the false
promises of a nearer market and bet
ter prices for his products. Labor is
bribed by false promises of higher
wages, iomraerciai classes are unoeu.
by false promises of llush times and
big profits in trade.
The panic and wreck in financial af
fairs, in labor affairs and in agricul
tural affairs, show how false was the
corrupt promise which the protection
ists made to the people. The bribe
j that they offered was illusive. Hut the
corruption was real.
The offer was like that of the being
who promised "all the kingdoms of the
world" for the service and worship of
the person to whom the temptation
was addressed. The being who made
the offer could not fulfill one of its
conditions. It was a false offer. Hut
it was equally corrupt and criminal as
if he could have paid the price which
he had promised.
Experience shows that the prosper
ity promised by the protectionist is a
disastrous illusion. The offered bribe
was not a reality. Hut the corruption,
the crime of the transaction, though
the consideration failed, is the same.
Failure to pay a bribe does not alle
viate the guilt involved in a pledge of
payment.
The entire process is a system of
bribes by which votes are manufac
tured against such a tariff as the dem
ocratic party pledged its faith that it
would give to the people. Nothing is
more corrupt in the history of legisla
tion than the acts of which the sena
torial gamblers in trust certificates
were guilty when they framed the
sugar schedule after raking off their
profits in buying and selling sugar se
enrities. The same impeachment holds in re
gard to every other feature of the tariff
on which schedules have been manipu
lated by congressional dabblers in
bucket-shop manipulation. Chicago
Herald.
POINTS AND OPINIONS.
Perhaps the "great emergency"
Trof. Harrison is waiting for will arise
about the time Hon. John C. New lo
gins to feel bound to save the country
bv getting back into office. 2. Y.
World.
The evidence of republican sen
ators concerning trust influence in
legislation is entitled to considerable
weight. They have had wide experi
ence in driving bargains with the
agents of monopoly. N. Y. World.
A republican newspaper under
takes to convince the great American
public that the Wilson bill threatens
the destruction of the mackintosh in
dustry, as if the people didn't know
enough to come in out of the rain.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
The number of fraudulent pen
sioners on the rolls is certainly not
less than a hundred thousand out of
the total of near a million, and no
amount of protest from the Supporters
of fraud should be allowed to intimi
date Mr. Cleveland in his attempts to
restore something like a semblance of
honesty. N. Y. World.
The republican party has no call
to say a word about Uncle Sam's lack
of revenue. Revenue depends largely
on imports, and the republican party
started out to check imports, if it had
to smash all the banks and embarrass
all the merchants in the country
and plunge the country into a pro
tracted panic to gain its point. Louis
ville Courier-Journal.
Senator Quay held the floor hour
after hour, and day after day. for the
sole purpose of having statistical re
ports read to the senate by himself and
Mr. Gallinger: "And yet in the face of
such work republican organs have the
impudence to assert that what has
thus far taken place in the senate has
not been filibustering, but legitimate
debate." Jioston Herald (Ind.).
It remained for a democratic ad
ministration to assert that the oath of a
private is as good as that of a commis
sioned oCicer when it comes to the of
ficial consideration of pension matters.
With all the blasted love of the g. o.
p. for the soldier it was only true to its
instincts in giving greater weight to
the word of a leader than to that of
one of the rat.k and tile. Detroit Free
Press.
In defiance of an overwhelming
public opinion and of the latent senti
ment in the republican parly in tavor
of tariff revision the republican sena
tors resist every effort to make the
slightest reduction in the scale of
duties. While tlic3' imagine that they
are promoting the intercstsof party in
severing the tariff-fed monopolies they
are preparing for a repetition of the
jiopular demonstration;; of 1S?0 and
lsJO. Whether this reaction from the
tariff panic of is;: shall come this f:ll
.r two years hence may depend upon
the degree of republican resistance to
the present effort to enforce the popu
lar w ill. Philadelphia Record.
Tin: mikado of Japan has recently
issued a decree nllowing u Japanese
woman to lead, if she chooses, a single
life. Hitherto, if found unmarried
after a certain age, a husband was se
lected for her by law.
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creased expenditures.
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