THE FISHER-BOY.
utile Jack live* close by the stormy sci:
The son or a lisherman bravo is he,
Who kails away in a stout old boat,
The bravest ami truest man afloat
IJttlo Jack with his mother stays at home,
But he loves on the sandy shore to roam,
And ho the first to catch i slylit
Of Ins father's boat eominj hack at night.
And lie the first, whim it comes to land,
To offer a ready hvlptna hand:
And there's not in the to s n a lad so spry
In spreading the long net where twill dry.
And he helps the men who have worked all day
Unload the flsli in the merriest way.
Anil when the car.ro is ail ashore,
lie I'lms ahead to tho cottage door.
There the mother waits, with the supper spread
Bat stoops to put fondly the curly head:
For fond and proud or her bov is she.
The lad who a fisherman brave will be
And then he lies down to slumbers light,
Ho dreams of a boat with sails so white,
And he sails in dreams far over the sea.
And who so happy and say as her
Ah, the day he distant when from tho shore
He may watch for the boat that returns no
morel
When he turns to the cottare with weary tread
Ami the mother weeps for the father dead!
—Harper's Younir People.
Wliat Is a Coward?
“You are a coward."
“Ain I?"
It was one of tho crowd of boys who
were pouring out of the public school
who made the statement, another
who asked the question. Then a
closely cropped red head and a curly
blond head, a gray jacket and a
black one, four fists, four knicker
hockered legs and two bookbags
seemed to mix themselves up in the
center of the street, and a crowd of
other boys closed in about them.
fs'ot being acquainted with the rules
of “the ring,” I cannot tell you of the
fight, but I believe that whatever the
little blond fellow who had been
ealled a coward could do with his
fists to prove that he was not one, he
did in the interim between . the first
blow and the arrival of a very large
policeman, who lifted the pair apart
as a giant of the fairy tales might a
pair of Tom Thumbs, and inquired
sternly:
“Say. what’s the matter with yous?”
There was so much the matter in
the shape of bruised foreheads, black
eyes and bloody noses and puffed lips
that I imagine motherly tears were
shed over both red and blond heads,
and I am sure that both these boys
were told never to fight again, be
cause it was both wicked and ungen
tlemanly.
But what can a boy do when he is
called a coward? And if he will not
fight he is a coward; and worst of all
tilings is to be that, argued Johnny.
And he is right. A boy who is that is
worthless. And if it is necessary to
fight in defense of honor, of country
or weaker folks, let him bo ready to
do it.
But there are other things neces
sary, too, and a great many fighting
characters are arrant cowards at
heart: men who, when you come to
get at the root of the matter,are only
braggarts who delight in terrifying
peaceful people.
In many Western counti-v places are
men known as “Jim the Terror,” or
“Sam the Shooter, •' who are spoken
of as having “painted the town red
one day last week” and being danger
ous to the community. I've no doubt
that some boys fancy that, however
bad these fellows are, they must be
brave men. On the contrary they are
the most contemptible of .cowards—a
record of their exploits will prove it.
Two of them will rush through the
town armed to the teeth, raid the
saloon and drink some mild old Ger
man’s beer without paying him for it,
smash the sashes of the candy store,
roar hideous oaths at the window of
the parsonage-, overset an old man
with a basket of eggs, devour the
poor fruit woman's apples and or
anges, threaten to shoot the polite,
respectable elderly tailor on his way
• home with a new suit of clothes, de
molish things in the Chinese laundry
and cut of Chung Foo’s precious pig
tail despite his mild petitions for
mercy, and insult country ladies who
have driven in. to shop, but wilt like
spinach in boiling water when faced
by three stout townsmen with good
revolvers.
1 remember seeing one of these men
who had been supposed to threaten a
eertain village with destruction at
noon, hanging out of the “lock-up”
window at dusk, weeping and beg
ging “some good Christian” for
heaven's sake to give him a “chaw of
tobaeker.” He was a coward of course.
There is another person you think
very brave, perhaps. Your cousin
John who is at college. He looks
such a fine fellow as he sits telling
you little boys of the fun they have
“hazing the freshmen.” and you
think that when you are old as he
you will “haze freshmen” also.
Now there are few more cowardly
decds done in this world than much
of that same college hazing, and the
fact that boys have been at it here
and in England for 200 years makes
it no better. To heap insult and in
jury on some unoffending young
stranger, to cover him with mortifica
tion when he naturally wishes to ap
pear his best, to pain his heart and
harm him physically, can be fun to
no one but a coward. Now and then
a tragedy occurs, and hazing takes an
other shape and becomes murder,and
the public learn plainly that the
ringleaders of college hazing are
coarse, brutal and contemptible cow
ards. A boy who teases a girl is a
sort of a coward. I do not like the
little fellow who wilfully upsets his
sister’s work basket or throws her
doll down the well, or laughs at her
when she practices her music lesson.
1 like a little boy to whom his sisters
come to get him to mend their toys,
or show them how to do their sums,
to take care of them when a dreadful
dog barks, and who is always ready
to help them. That shows that he
has the spirit of the protector in him,
and one who has that is never a cow
ard.
Another thing is very cowardly—to
tell lies. You may fight all the hoys
in your count}-, but if you habitually
tell falsehoods you are a coward all
the same. Sometimes it is the bravest
of all brave things to tell the truth.
Do it for that reasejn. Do not have it
on your soul that you have lied to
save yourself from a reproof or even
a punishment; do not know in your
heart that you are a coward.—St.
Louis Star-Sayings.
(icntleuiiin Brown.
Drown was simply a large dog, who
was so strong, so fearless, so intelli
gent and so active in affairs that he
was considered the champion of the
town.
He could thrash any dog round
about, and always did it when it was
necessary.
Dut he was extremely kind and be
nevolent. He showed great kindness
to tramp dogs, and protected many a
little vagabond, and saw him safely
out of the town in good condition.
One day he brought a specially bad
specimen home with him. lie came
into the house and into the dining
room, where the family were at din
ner, the wretched little tramp dog at
his heels.
He looked up at liis master, wagged
his tail asking for something to eat.
A plate of food was set down and the
little dog snatched at it ravenously.
Drown seemed to think that was all
right. He did not offer to touch the
food. When the little dog was
through he asked lor another plateful
and had his own dinner.
He kept the little dog for quite a
while, always permitting him to eat
first. At night he took the dog into
his kennel, himself sleeping outside.
He was not at all intimate with the
dog. but treated him as a visitor, not
at any time as a friend. The tramp
finally went on his way, strong and
well, end as plump and sleek as any
dog need be. What was said between
these two dogs, both at meeting and
parting, would be very interesting to
know.
Dad ISrcaks.
A clergyman was explaining to a
class of boys the passage of scripture,
“It is easier for a camel to go through
the eye of a needle than for a rich
man to enter into the kingdom of
God.” He told them that this very
strong expression was meant to show
the extreme difficulty, adding:
“You know it would be impossible
for a camel to go through the eye of a
needle.”
“Of course it would, sir, on account
of its hump,” responded the natural
ist of the class.
An Irish clergyman called upon an
old lady. Just as he entered the
room she stirred the fire, causing it
to send a cloud of sparks up the chim
ney.
“Aye, aye,” said she. “ ‘Man is
born unto trouble, as the sparks fly
upward;’ though indeed, sir, I never
could see what trouble the sparks
have in flying upward.”—Irish Life.
Do Animals Love Fun?
There seems no reason to doubt it.
Monkeys are full of frolic for its own
sake, and enjoy themselves most of all
when playing mischievous jokes. Mr.
Romanes’ terrier performed its tricks
so consciously that when no one
praised it for them it used to become
quite sulky. A flock of geese have
been known to cause a number of pigs
to run the gauntlet between them,
merely to hear the squealing of the
porkers as they were bit at by the
birds.
There was a soldier's horse that
was wont to be fastened by a river's
bank, and the creature had the ill
habit of kicking at passing men, in
order to make them fall into the
water. The jackdaw will watch boys
at their games with evident apprecia
tion of the fun, and the amount of
roguishness in kittens is perfectly no
torious.
Both Are Waiting.
A schoolmaster once said to his boys
that he would give a crown to any
one of them who would propound a
riddle he could not answer.
“Well,” said one of them, “why am
I like the prince of Wales?”
The master puzzled his brains for
some minutes for an answer, but
could not guess the correct one. At
last he exclaimed: “I am sure I don’t
know.”
“Why,” replied the boy, “because
I'm waiting for the crown.”—Amusing
Journal.
.Jennie at Church.
Four-year-old Jennie went to church
on Sunday with her father. The men
of the congregation could not have
been very devout, for when she came
home and her mother asked her what
the people did at church she said:
“The preacher and the womens
pra3-ed, and me and papa and the
: mens sat up and looked at 'em.”
Accepted the Doctrine,
j Little Frances’ parents have been
! discussing reincarnation and tne
i small maiden has acquired some of
1 its phraseology.
“Mamma,” she said one day, “my
I kitt3F must have been a pin in a pre
j vious state of existence, for I can feel
’em in her claws j'et.”—Judge.
REPUBLICAN DOCTRINE.
REED’S ELOQUENCE.
Choice Extracts from HU Speech mi the
Tariff, February 1, 1894.
The history of protection is' most re
markable. Fifty years ago the ques
tion seemed to be closed. Great iiritain
bad adopted free trade, the United
States had started in the same direc
tion, and tlie whole world seemed about
to follow. Today the entire situation
seems to be reversed. The whole civil
ized world except Great Iiritain has tie
come protectionist, and the very year
last passed has witnessed the desertion
of English principles by the last Eng
lish colony which held out. This has
been done in defiance of the opinions
of every political economist in Eng
land who' wrote prior to 1850, and of
most of those who have written since.
VI hen you add to this tiiat the argu
ments against it have seemed so clear
and simple that every school boy can
comprehend them and every patriot
with suitable lungs could fill the at
mosphere with the catchwords [laugh
ter], the wonder increases that in every
country it should still flourish and
maintain its vigor. Ten years ago it
was equally true at one and the same
time that every boy who graduated
from college graduated a free trader,
and that everyone of them who after
wards became a producer or a distribu
tor of our goods became also a protec
tionist.
The arguments of the political econ
omist, clear as crystal, do not seem to
have convinced the world, nor, what is
much worse, do they seem to have
made any substantial progress.- On the
contrary, these economists have taken
up the tusk of tearing each other to
pieces, so that today there is hardly a
nameable important proposition on
which they agree, and the more the
facts of the universe are developed the
more confusion seems to reign among
them. Meanwhile the world has pro
ceeded in its own way without much
regard for their theories and their wis
dom. I do not mean that studious men
have not discovered great truths and
had glimpses of still greater, but in the
main they have only passed from one
inaccuracy to another, because they
have forgotten that the whole race is
wiser than any man. [Applause.]
Whether the universal sentiment in
favor of protection as applied to every
country is sound or not, I do not stop
to discuss. Whether it is best for
the United States of America alone
concerns me now, and the first thing I
have to say, is that after thirty years
of protection, undisturbed by any seri
ous menace of free trade, up to the very
year now last passed, this country was
the greatest and most flourishing
nation on the face of the earth. [Loud
applause on the republican side.]
Moreover, with the shadow of this un
justifiable bill resting cold upon it,
with mills closed, with hundreds of
thousands of men unemployed, industry
at a standstill, and prospects before it
more gloomy than ever marked its his
tory—except one—this country is still
the greatest and the richest that the
sun shines on, or ever did shine on.
[Renewed applause.]
The question of wages is all-import- i
ant as bearing upon the question of j
consumption. All production depends on I
consumption. Who are the consumers?
In the old days, when the products of
manufactories were luxuries, the lord
and his retainers, the lady and her '
maids were the consumers, a class apart
by themselves, but today the consumers
are the producers. Long ago the la
borer consumed only what would keep
him alive. Today he and his wife and
their children are so immeasurably the
most valuable customers that if the
shop had to give up the wealthy or
those whom it is the custom to call poor
there would not be a moment's hesita
tion or inomen's doubt.
L nfortunately the gentlemen on the
other side have pc; sistently retained
the old idea that the producers are one
class and the consumers are another,
and hence we hear on all hands such
stupidities of speech as those which
sum up the workers in each branch and
compare them with the whole people.
One hundred and fifty thousand work
ers in woolens—you ask what are they
compared with 70,000,000 consumers;
200,000 workers in steel, what are they
compared with 70,000,000 consumers;
200,000 workers in cotton, what are
they compared with 70,000,000 con
sumer's, and so on all through the long
list, forgetting that all these people
added together make the whole 70,000,
000 themselves.
it so happens that America is filled
with workers. There are idle people, j
but thet- are fewer here than elsewhere
except now, when we are living under ■
the shadow of the Wilson bill. If j
those workers are all getting good j
wages the}' are themselves the market,
and if the wages are increasing the
market is also increasing. The fact
that in this country all the workers
have been getting better wages than
elsewhere is the very reason why our
market is the best in the world and
why all the nations of the world are
trying to break into it. We do not ap
preciate the nature of our market our
selves.
I have given you already the glow
ing testimony of Englishmen who have
seen us with their own eyes. “Amaz
ing prosperity,” “Greatest market in
the world,” “Paradise of the working
man.” These are strong words; but let
us see if cold mathematics do not put
to shame the fervor of adjectives.
We are nominally 70,000,000 people.
That is what we are in mere numbers.
But as a market for manufactures and
choice foods we are potentially 175,
000,000 as compared with the next best
nation on the globe. Nor is this difli- ■
cult to prove. Whenever an English
man earns one dollar an American
earns a dollar add sixty cents. I speak
within bounds. Both can get the food
that keeps body and soul together and
the shelter which the body must have
for 60 cents. Take 60 cents from a dol- ■
lar and you have 40 cents left Take
that same 60 cents from a dollar and
you have a dollar left, just two and a
half times as much. That surplus can i
be spent in choice foods, in house fur
nishings, in fine clothes and all the
comforts of life—in a word, in the pro
ducts of our manufretures. That makes
our population as consumers of prod
ucts. as compared with the English
population, 175.000,000. Their popula
tion is 37,000.000 as consumers of prod
ucts which one century ago were pure
luxuries, while our populatiou is equiv
alent to 175,000,000. [Applause on the
Republican side.]
Farm Mortgages and Demagoguery.
Wealth comes slowly to new sections.
“Calamity howlers*’ menace not the
rich alone, but the poor and the great
middle classes most of all. Everyone
who had carefully considered the mat
ter knew that the census investigation
would show just what it did establish
—that mortgages, especially upon
farms, are, ip the main, evidences of
prosperity. They represent the pur
chase price of farms by young men. the
purchase price of lands which prosper
ous farmers have added to their orig
inal farms, to add to their productive
ness or the comfort of the owners.
They represent improved labor-saving
machinery, and when they are not evi
dences of prosperity they represent in
most instances money squandered in
idleness and dissipation. Ninety-five
per cent of all the mortgages in this
country represent and were the means
of the improved condition of the mort
gagors.
I iie continual talking1 about the un
equal distribution of wealth, and the
causes to which it is attributed by a
class of people in this country not in
aptly called ' calamity howlers," and
the continued falsifying of facts, has
for its object the creation of dissatis
faction with existing conditions, the
rendering of personal and property
rights insecure, the weakening of the
respect of our citizens for law and
order, the sapping of the foundations
of Republican government. The pros
perous and wealthy are not alone con
cerned in the maintenance of law and
order and in the prosperity of the coun
try. The laboring, dependent classes,
above all others, are interested in main
taining a stable government, in the
maintenance of the laws which pro
vide protection to all citizens alike,
whether rich or poor, in such protec
tion to capital as will secure its active
employment in the great industries of
tlie country which give employment to
labor.
Discussions- of the propositions for
legislative enactments to show their ef
fect upon the condition of the people
are legitimate and desirable: but I de
nounce the man who, for the purpose
of advancing his own personal inter
ests, or the interests of his party, ap
peals to the prejudice of a class and
seeks to array one class of citizens
against another, and to mislead the
people by false statements, as an ene
my to his country, deserving no better
fate than that which lias always over
taken men false to their country, men
willing to sacrifice the country for a
little temporary personal or party ad
vantage. b'oncernidg such men we
may ask, in the language of Addison:
"Is there not some chosen curse, some
hidden thunder in the stores of heaven,
red with uncommon wrath, to blast the
man who owes his greatness to his
country’s ruin? ”
MORE ABOUT AL) VALOREM DUTIKS.
Tac Class of Goods They Will Admit at
Lower Cost Price.
The gentleman from West Virginia
[Mr. Wilson] in commenting upon high
ad valorems under existing law made
an exhibit of two pieces of cloth suited,
as he declared, to the use of our labor
ing people, upon which there was a
duty of 200 to 300 per cent. Through
the courtesy of the gentleman 1 have
those identical samples before me.
Here they are. A laboring man would
be ashamed to wear either. What are
they? One is a plush with cotton back
and warp and a tilling of mohair waste,
while the other has the additional
adornment of cows’ hair. There was
not an ounce of wool in either. We
plaeed a high duty on the stuff for the
purpose of keeping it out of our mar
ket, and saving our laboring people
from being imposed upon with these
ciieap fabrics. Having driven our
workmen out of employment by your
free-trade policy, you now offer them
the consolation of lower ad valorems
on clothing of cotton and cows’ hair.
When commenting on high ad val
orem on crockery, the gentleman omit
ted to state that a toilet set of twelve
pieces, which in 1878 cost §13.25, can be
had now for §4; that a tea set of fifty
six pieces, decorated, which cost in 1878
§11.75. costs now but §3, and that a de
corated set of 125 pieces, which cost in
1878 §40.70, can now be secured, after
fifteen years of high ad valorems on
crockery, for §13.
Let me say to the gentleman that the
masses of the people, however, at this
time are not specially enthusiastic over
the prospects of lower ad valorems.
Our workmen are not searching for low
ad valorems, but for employment.
.Shivering by desolate hearths over the
expiring embers of the last handful of
coal, they are not solicitous about ad
valorem, but fuel.
Starving families clutching for the
last morsel of food, cannot be lulled
into forgetfulness of present misery by
the announcement of lower ad valorems
on the necessities of life. Tramping
the streets, out of employment, re
ceiving alms, lower ad valorems will
not heal the wounded pride of the
brave men who never before were de
pendent on public charity. The labor
ing people of this country ask not lower
ad valorems, but work. They prefer
high ad valorems, constant employ
ment, and abundant wages, to ad val
orems, idleness, and want.
Progress.
The republican party has been the
party of the common people from the
hour of its birth until the present time.
Every policy adopted and carried
through to completion by that party
has been born of an unselfish desire to
develop the material resources of this
country and better the conditions of
the people without regard to class, sec
tion or party. The results of years of
republican rule can be seen throughout
the great north and west where there
has been no opposition to the onward
march of civilization and progress.
There one sees every condition favora
ble to happiness and prosperity, while
on the other hand the south shows a
striking contrast in every condition
surrounding their people, because
southern leaders and a democratic pol
icy have stood in the path of human
progress and effectually blocked its
way. _
What is Yoar Answer.
If protection oppresses the com
mon people, why were the first con
gress of the United States and Presi
dent Washington all protectionists?
If protection is unjust, why was Abra
ham Lincoln, who was recognized as a
just man by all parties in all states, a
protectionist?
If protection is unconstitutional, why
did not the interpreters of the law en
acted by the first congress declare it so?
If protection was unconstitutional,
why did the men who formed the con
stitution make such a law?
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