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THE PROPER SPHERE FOR WOM-
AN-HER OPPORTUNITY.
! ! i ° T5oted Preacher Says That Capacity
L the Guiding Star of Woman's 17ao-
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T. LOUIS , MO. ,
June 16,1895.-In his
ieermon for today
; Rev. Dr. Talmage ,
y who has reached
Ithis city on his
western tour , dis
tcusses a subject of
universal Interest ,
viz. : "Woman's Op.
portunity , " his text
being : "She shall
be called woman. "
i Gen. II. , 23.
God , who can make no mistake , made
snan and woman for a specific work and
'o to move in particular spheres-man to
be regnant in his realm ; woman to be
dominant in hers. The boundary line
between Italy and Switzerland , between
England and Scotland , is not more thoroughly -
oughly marked than this distinction between -
tween the empire masculine and the empire -
pire feminine. So entirely dissimilar
are the fields to which God called them ,
that you can no more compare them
than you can oxygen and hydrogen ,
water and grass , trees and stars. All
this talk about the superiority of one
sex to the other sex is an exerlasting
waste of Ink and speech. A jeweler
Islay have a scale so delicate that he
can weigh the dust of diamonds ; but
where are the scales so delicate that
you can weigh in them affection against
alTection , sentiment against sentiment ,
thought against thought , soul against
soul , a man's world against a woman's
world ? You come out with your stereotyped -
typed remark that man is superior to
woman In intellect ; and then I open on
my desk the swarthy , irontyped , thun-
der-boltell writings of Harriet Marti-
neau and Elizabeth Browning , and
George Eliot. You come on with your
stereotyped remark about woman's su-
perlority to man in the item of afTec-
tion ; but I ask you where was there
more capacity to love than in John the
disciple-and Matthew Simpson the
bishop and Henry Martyn , the missionary -
ary ? The heart of those men was so
large , that after you had rolled into it
two hemispheres , there was room still
left to marshal the hosts o : heaven , and
act up the throne of the eternal Jeho-
vah. I deny to man the throne Intellec-
tual. I deny to woman the throne afi'ec- '
tionaL No human phraeseology will
ever decline the spheres ; while there is
an intuition by which we know when a
man is In his realm , and when a woman -
an Is in her realm , and when either of
them is out of it. No bungling legislature -
ture ought to attempt to make a definition -
tion , or to say : "This is the line and
that Is the line. " My theory is , that if
a woman wants to vote , she ought to
vote , and that if a man wants to embroider -
broider and keep house , he ought to
be , allowed to embrolder and keep
Clouse. There are masculine women and
there are effeminate men. My theory
is that you have no right to interfere
with any one's doing anything that is
righteous. Albany and Washington
might as well decree by legislation how
high a brown-thrasher should fly , or
how deep a trout should plunge , as to
try to seek out the height and depth
of woman's duty. The question of ca-
paclty will settle finally the whop question -
tion , the whole subject. When a woman -
an is prepared to preach , she will
preach , and neither conference nor presbytery -
bytery can hinder her. When a woman
is prepared to move in highest commercial -
cial spheres , she will have great Influence -
ence on the exchange , and no boards of
trade can hinder her. I want woman
to understand that heart and brain can
overfly any barrier that politicians
may set up , and that nothing can keep
her back or keep her down but the
question of incapacity.
My chief anxiety is , not that woman
have other rights accorded her ; but
that she , by the grace of God , rise up
to the appreciation of the glorious rights
she already possesses. First , she has
the right to make home happy. That
realm no one has ever disputed with
her. Men may come home at noon or
at night , and then tarry a comparatively -
ly little while ; but she all day long governs -
erns it , beautifies it , sanctifies it. It is
within her power to make it the most
attractive place on earth. It is the only
calm harbor in this world. You know
as well as I do , that this outside world
and the business world , are a long
acene of jostle and contention. The
r
man who has a dollar str , , blcs to keep
it ; the man who has it not struggles to
get it. Prices up. Prices down. Loss-
es. Gains. Misrepresentations. Un-
derselling. Buyers depreciating ; salesmen -
men exaggerating. Tenants seeking
less rent ; landlords demanding more.
Struggles about office. Men who are in
trying to keep in ; men out trying to get
in. Slips. Tumbles. Defalcations.
Panics. Catastrophes. Oh , woman !
thank God you have a home and that
you may be queen in it. Eetter be there
than wear a Victoria's coronet.
Better be there than carry the
purse of a princess. Your
abode may be humble , but you can.
by your faith in God , and your cheerfulness -
fulness of demeanor , gild it with splendors -
dors such as an upholsterer's hand
never yet kindled. There are abodes in
every city-humble , two stories ; four
plain , unpapered roe ns ; undesirable
neighborhood ; and yet there is a man
who would die on the threshold rather
than surrender. Why ? It is home.
whenever he thinks of it he sees angels -
gels of God hovering around it. The
ladders of heaven are let down to that
house. Over the child's rough crib
there are the chantlus of angels
as there that broke nvr'r E'thlehem. T !
is home. These children may come up
alter awhile , and they may win high
position , and they may have an affluent
residence ; but they will not until their
dying day forget that humble roof , under -
der which their father rested , and their
mother sang , and their sisters played.
t Oh , If you would gather up all tender
memories , all the lights and shades of
the heart , all banquetings and reunions ,
all filial , fraternal , paternal and conjugal -
jugal affections , and you had only just
four letters with which to spell out that
height and depth , and length , and
breadth , and magnitude , and eternity
f meaning , you would , with streaming
eyes , and trembling voice , and agitated -
ed hand , write it out in those four liv-
capitals , H-O-M-E.
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When you want to get your grandest
idea of a queen , you do not think of
Catherine of Russia , or of Anne of England -
land , or Marie Theresa of Germany ; but
when you want to get your grandest
idea of a queen , you think of the plain
woman who sat opposite your father
at the table , or walked with him arm-in
arm down life's pathway ; sometimes to
the thanksgiving banquet , sometimes to
the grave , but always together-sooth-
Ing your potty griefs , correcting your
childish waywardness , joining in your
infantile sports , listening to your evening -
ing prayers , tolling for you with needle
or at the spinning-wheel , and on cold
nights wrapping you up snug and warm.
And then at last on that day when she
lay in the back room dying , and you
saw her take those thin hands with
which she had tailed for you so long ,
and put them together in a dying prayer
that commended you to the God whom
she had taught you to trust-Oh , she
was the queen ! The chariots of God
came down to fetch her ; and as she
went up all heaven roseup. You cannot
think of her now without a rush of tenderness -
derness that stirs the deep foundations
i
of your soul , and you feel as much a
child again as when you cried on her
lap ; and if you ooufj1 bring her back
again to speak just once more your
name , as tenderly as she used to speak
it , you would be willing to throw yourself -
self on the ground and kiss the sod that
covers her , crying : "Mother ! mother ! "
Ah ! she was the queen-she was the
queen. Now , can you tell me how many
thousand miles a woman like that
would have to travel down before she
got to the ballot-box ? Compared with
this work of training kings and queens
for God and eternity , how insignificant
seems all this work of voting for aldermen -
men and common councilmen , and
sheriffs , and constables , and mayors ,
and presidents ! To make one such grand
woman as I have described , how many
thousands would you want of those people -
ple who go in the round of fashion and
dissipation , going as far toward disgraceful -
graceful apparel as they dare go , so as
not to be arrested by the police-their
behavior a sorrow to the good and a
caricature of the vicious , and an insult
to that God who made them women
and not gorgons , aid tramping on ,
down through a frivolous and dissipated -
ed life , to temporal and eternal damna-
tion.
tion.Oh
Oh , woman , with the lightning of your
soul , strike dead at your feet all these allurements -
lurements to dissipation and to fashion ,
Your immortal.soul cannot be fed upon
suchgarbage. Godcalls you up to empire
and dominion. Will you have it ? Oh ,
give God your heart , give to God all
your best energies ; give to God all your
culture ; give to God all your refinement ;
give yourself to him , for this world and
the next. Soon all these bright eyes
will be quenched , and these voices will
be hushed. For the last time you will
look upon this fair earth. Father's
hand , mother's hand , sister's hand ,
child's hand will no more be in yours. It
will be night , and there will come up a
cold wind from the Jordan , and you
must start. Will It be a lone woman on
a trackless moor ? Ah ! no. Jesus will
come up in that hour and offer his hand ,
and he will say : "You stood by me
when you were well ; now I will not de-
sert'you when you are sick. " One wave
of his hand and the storm will drop ;
and another wave of his hand and midnight -
night will break into midnoon ; and another -
other wave of his hand and the chamberlains -
berlains of God will come down from the
treasure-houses of heaven , with robes
lustrous , blood-washed and heaven-
glinted , in which you will-array yourself -
self for the marriage supper of the
Lamb. And then with Miriam , who
struck the timbrel of the Red Sea ; and
with Deborah , who led the Lord's host
into the fight ; and with Hannah , who
gave her Samuel to the Lord ; and with
Mary , who rocked Jesus to sleep while
there were angels singing 11T the air ;
and with sisters of charity , who bound
up the battle-wounds of the Crimea ,
you will , from the chalice of God , drink
to the souls eternal rescue.
Your dominion is home , 0 woman !
What a brave fight for home the women
of Ohio made some ten or fifteen years
ago , when they banded together and
in many of the towns and cities of that
state marched in procession , and by
prayer and Christian songs shut up
more places of dissipation than were
ever counted. Were they opened again ?
Oh yes. But is it not a good thing to
shut up the gates of hell for two or
three months ? It seemed that men engaged -
gaged in the business of destroying
others did not know how to cope with
this kind of warfare. They knew how
to fight the Maine liquor law , and they
knew how to fight the National Temperance -
perance society and they knew how to
fight the Sons of Temperance and Good
Samaritans ; but when Deborah appeared -
peared upon the scene , Sisera took to
his feet and got to the mountains. It
seems that they did not know how to
contend against Coronation , and Old
Hundred , " and "Brattle Street , " and
"Bethany , " they were so very intangi-
ble. These men round that they could
not accomplish much against that kind
of warfare , and in one of the cities a
regiment was brought out all armed to
disperse the women. They came down i
in battle array ; but oh , what poor success -
cess ! for that regiment was made up
of gentlemen , and gentlemen do not like
to shoot women with hymn-nooks in
their hands. Oh , they found that gunning -
a
ning for female prayer-meetings was a 1
very poor business ! No real damage
was done , although there was threat
of violence after threat of violence all
over the land. I 'really think if the ;
women of the east had as much faith
in God as their sisters of the west had ,
and the same recklessness of human
criticism , I really believe that in one
month three-fourths of the grog-shops
of our cities would be closed , and there
i
would be running through the guttrs iI
of the streets , Burgundy , and Cognac , I
and Heidstck , and old Port an3
Schie-
dam Schnapps , and lager beer , and you ,
would save your fathers , and
your husbands , and your sons ,
first , from a drunkard's grave , and
second , from a drunkard's hell ! To this .
battle for home let all women rouse
themselves. Thank God for our early
home. Thank God for our present home.
Thank God for the coming home in F
heaven. 1
One twilight , after I had been playing
with the children for some time , I lay
down on the lounge to rest. The children -
dren said , play more. Children always
want to play more. And , Ilalf asleep
and half awake. I seemed to dream this i
dream : It seemed to me that I was In-
a far-distant land-not Persia , although
mace than Oriental luxuriance crowned
the cities ; nor the tropics-although
I
more than tropical fruitfulness filled the
gardens ; nor Italy-although more tha ;
Y ; C : YS
ftalian softness filled the air. And r
wandered around , looking for thorns
and nettles , but I found none of them
grew there. And I walked forth and 1
saw the sun rise , and I said : "When
will it set again ? " and the sun sanlz
not. And I saw all the people in holiday -
day apparel , and I said : "When do
they put on workingman's garb again ,
and delve in the mine , and awelter at
the forge ? " but neither the garments
nor the robes did they put off. And I
wandered in the suburbs and I said :
"Where do they bury the dead of thh
great city" and I looked along by the
hills where it would be most beautiful
for the dead to sleep , and I sad castles
and towns , and battlem i a ; but not a
mausoleum nor monument , nor whits
slab could I see. And I went into the
great chapel of the town , and I said :
"Where do the poor worship ? where
are the benches on which they sit ? " and
a voice answered : "We have no poor in
this great city. " And I wandered out ,
seeking to find the place where were
the hovels of the destitute ; and I found
mansions of amber and ivory and gold ,
but no tear did I see or sigh hear. I
was bewildered , and I sat under the
shadow of a great tree , and I said :
"What am I , and whence comes all
this ? " And at that moment there came
from among the leaves , skipping up the
flowery paths and across the sparkling
waters , a very bright and sparkling
group ; and when I saw their step T
knew it , and when I heard their voices
I thought I knew them ; but their ap4
parel' was so different from anything
had eve seen , I bowed a stranger t
strangers. But after awhile , when theyl
clapped their hands and shouted : "Wel
come ! welcome ! " the mystery wax
solved , and I saw that time had passed
and that eternity had come , and that
God had gathered us up into a higher
home ; and I said : "Are we all here ? "
and the voices of innumerable generations -
tions answered : "All here ; and while
tears of gladness were raining down :
our cheeks , and the branches of Leb =
anon cedars were clapping their hands ,
and the towers of the great city were
chiming their welcome , we began to ,
laugh and sing , and leap and shout
Home ! home ! home ! " I
Then I felt a child's hand on my faced
and it woke me. The children wanted
to play more. Children always want to
play more.
A BONAPARTE LOVE LETTER.
Endearing Terms with Which Luclen
Wrote to Mme , Recamtor.
An invincible charm wraps up your
very Indifference. You repulse my
prayers , you order me to be silent , you
repeat the declarations that drive mete
to despair , you chill my hopes , you
dispel my Illusions as fast as they
cAowd on me , and although one word
would make me happy you will not say
it. A gesture , a kind look , another sight
of you in the garden walk where you
avoided me would transport my soul.
I prefer to hear you chide me to being
banished from your presence forever :
In telling me that I am a mad man
you infuse a grace into the harsh words
that make me truly mad. Those pretty
trifling airs and graces of which you are
unaware are mingled so deliciously
with your refusals that I cannot resent
what you say. They go to the bottom
of my soul. My Juliet , believe me when
I say that I never knew what a demi-
sentiment was , that I could never lie
to a woman , that I am capable of going
through fire and water for her , and that
I should be broken hearted were it not
for the fancy that a momentary gleam
of joy passed over your face the last
time I approached you. I was too timid
to show my feelings. I did not dare
ask you for as much as a piece of ribbon -
bon , as a symbol of my slavery , for aleck
lock of hair , a flower. Send me a snip
of ribbon or a tress. Write nothing. I.
shall then respectfully throw myself at
your feet. The only thing I want is td
see the tear of sensibility fall from your
eye , or to hear from you that you trust
me as a friend. This , indeed , would be
a blessing. Oh , Juliet , a ribbon , a lock
of hair , or a tear.-L. B.
Too Lazy to Move.
A most curious and sluggish creature
is the tautawa , a nine-inch lizardd ,
whose home is in New Zealand. This
little imitation saurian has the reputation -
tation of being the laziest creature
ever created. He is usually found
clinging to rocks or logs along the
shores of rivers and lakes and has been
known to remain in one position perfectly -
fectly motionless for many months ,
How the creature manages to exist is a
mystery.
Many people in the state of Washington -
ton who dislike the abbreviation
"Wagh. , " are trying to substitute
"Wn. for it.
Spain has , a magnificent domain of
119,000 square miles , a territory as large
as the combined area of Missouri and
Illinois.
The largest sailing ship afloat is the
remodeled Persian Monarch , 3,923 tons
measurement. Her iron masts are 134
feet high from the dccx.
There will be a copy of the great bazaar -
zaar of Constantinople , a Cairo square
and an exact reproduction of the Al-
bambra at the Paris exposition in 1900.
Jinklets-I want my wife to be a
woman who thinks before she speaks.
-Plunkett-Why don't you say you are
confirmed bachelor-Detroit Free
Press.
"What makes them call Boston the
hub ? " "I guess it's because its such a
center for wheels , " replied the vulga-
rian who thinks Browning is nonsense.
'as'm'rton Star.
Many of the pleasure gardens and
castles of the Japanese nobles are now
turned into parks and schools , and used
for other public purposes.
Two or three species of birds are
known to accompany the crocodile
whenever he appears above water , and
they give it the alarm when danger ap-
pears.
The brain of man is the most convoluted -
voluted of that of any animal in the
world. The lower the animal in the
scale of intelligence the smoother the
brain.
The humming bird , in protecting its
young , always flies at and pecks at the
eyes of its adversary. Crows have been
found totally blind from the humming
bird's bill.
There are practically no oaths in the
Japanese language. About the most emphatic -
phatic remark available for use , even
by jinrikisha men in a street blockade ,
s shinksu , or "beast. "
Lady-How nice you removed that
bunion. Chiropodist -es , I have had
considerable experience. I used to do
all the carving at one of the biggest
hotels in this city.-Tamamny Times.
GRAND OLD PARTY.
MORE TRUTHS ABOUT DEMOCRATIC -
CRATIC MISRULE.
The Blessings of Free Trade Coming
with a Vengeanro-Results of the
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Great Crime of 189.1-Sound Arguments -
ments for a Protective Tarif.
The following table shows the
monthly receipts of the treasury since
the enactment of the McKinley law ,
and will enable the reader to see at a
glance what the workings of the McKinley -
Kinley and Wilson laws have been. He
will see that from the enactment of the
1lciinley law until the meeting ( August -
gust , 1893) of the Democratic congress
whose mission was the destruction of
the tariff , the receipts seldom fell below -
low $30,000,000 a month , never as low
as $25,000,000. The moment that congress -
gress met , however , the receipts
dropped to the nnprecedentediy low
figure of $23,890,885 , and in the twelve
months that congress was considering
the tariff continued at unprecedentedly
low figures. He will further observe
that , low as those figures were , they
are far surpassed in their unsatisfactory -
tory showing by the receipts under the
new law , and that no eight months'
period in the entire history of the McKinley -
Kinley law has produced such small
receipts as the eight months of the
new law , nor can any month be found
in the record of the old law which produced -
duced such small receipts as those of
several of the months under the new
law :
McKinley Law Enacted.
October , 1890 . . . . . , , , , , . . , . $39,222,174
November , 1890 . . . . . . . . . . . . 28,678,674
December , 1890 . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,106,164
January , 1891 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36,810,33
February , 1591 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29,273,173
March , 1891 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29,027,455
April , 1591. , . . , , , , , , , , , , , 25,465,231
May , 1891 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27,289,305
June , 1891. . . . . . , , , , , , 31,631,849
'July , 1891 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34,258,244
August , 1891 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28,713,981
September , 1891 . . . . . . . . . . . . 27,165,554
October , 1891 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28,448,562
November , 1591 . . . . . . . . . . . . 26,562,057
December , 1891 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27,646,515
January , 1892 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,383,4 78
February , 1892 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,698,944
March , 1892 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29,836,606
April , 1892 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26,971,24
May , 1892 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2S,228,393
June , 1892 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,955,617
July , 1892 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34,314,331
August , 1892 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33,479,058
September , 1592 . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,797,623
October , 1892 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,288,540
November , 1892 . . . . . . . . . . . . 28,739,835
December , 1892 . . . . . . . . . . . . 33,066,963
January , 1893 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35,005,652
February , 1893 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29,69S,192
March , 1893 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34,115,809
April , 1593 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28,415,367
flay , 1593 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,92S,957
June , 1893 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,717,101
July , 1893 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,905,776
Democratic Congress Meets.
August , 1893 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $23,890,885
September , 1893 . . . . . . . . . . . , 24,553,756
October , 1593 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,553,394
November , 1593 . . . . . . . , . . . . 23,979,400
December , 1593 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,312,027
January , 1894 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,5S2,738
February , 1894 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,269,299
March , 189.4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,824,797
April , 189.4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,692,364
May , 1894 . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . 23,066,094
June , 1594 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26,455,925
July , 1894 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34,809 339
August , 1894 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40,417,605
Wilson Law Eacted.
September , 189.4 .22,621,22S
October , 1894 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,239,240
November , 1894 . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,411,403
December , 1S4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,866,126
January , 1895 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27,804,399
February , 1895 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22SSS,0057
March , 1895 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25,470,475
April , 1895 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,247S16
The following figures might be a
good thing for the average voter and
citizen to paste in his hat by way of
comparison of the Wilson and McKinley -
ley laws :
Wilson law , receipts in its first eight
months , $153,448,874 ; McKinley law , receipts -
ceipts , same period , preceding year ,
$189,314,735.
McKinley law , receipts in its worst
eight months , $187,347,219 ; Wilson law ,
receipts in best eight months to ( late ,
$183,448,87.4.
McKinley law , receipts in first eight
months , $2.46,872,409 ; Wilson law , receipts -
ceipts in first eight months , $133,449-
874.
McKinley law , surplus first eight
months , $21,208,767 ; Wilson law , deficiency -
ciency first eight months , $51,73,466.
-New York Tribune.
The English Wheat Supply.
No. 47.-Can I obtain a statement of
the imports of wheat from different
countries into Great Britain during a
succession of years or for even one
year ? R. H. BOND.
Sterling , Kan. , April 30 , 1895.
Certainly you can , says American
Economist. The total imports of wheat
into the United Kingdom during the
years 1593 and 1594 were as follows in
hundredweights : -
1893. 1594.
From Cwts. Cwts.
Russia . . . . . . . . .10,061,9SS 16,775,851
Germany . . . . . . . 362,086 715,043
France . . . . . . . . . 1,452 4,715
Turkey . . . . . . . . . 103,55 3"1,523
Roumania . . . . . . 89,272 108,03)
Egypt . . . . . . . . . . 10,586 1S4
United States. . .32,62S4S 24.65S,245
Chili . . . . . . . . . . . 2,580,147 1,764,413
Argentine . . . . . . 7,845,587 13,272,152
Brit. E. Indies. . 6,196,096 5,349,036
Australasia . . . . . 2,5S95S8 ; 3S77,418
Brit. N. America 3,157,355 2,525,515
Other countries. . 201,431 456,121
Totals . . . . . . . .65,461,9SS 70,134,355
It will be seen that England imported -
ed 4,673,00 hundredweights more wheat
aat year than in 1S93 , but she bought
7,600,000 hundredweights less from the
United States , her pi j iiasea in 1894 bet -
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lug larger than in 1S93 from every
country in the world , except Egypt , the
United States , Chili , India and Canada.
Of interest in the same connection is
the statement of the wheat crop of the
world during the same two years ,
which we give as follows in bushels :
1593. 1894 ,
Bushels , Bushels.
N. America. . 446 ; 87,000 515,438,000
S. America. . 81,453,000 104,000,000
Europe . . . . . .1,469,526,000 1,538,216,000
Asia . . . . . . , . 355,016,000 341,959,000
Africa . . . . . . . 31,891,000 47,095,000
Australasia . . 42,458,000 33,360,000
Totals . . . . 2,426,731,000 2,590,121,000
Goods In Bond ,
We have given from time to time ,
and will continue to do so , as complete
details of the workings of the Gorman
tariff as it is possible to secure , but
manufacturers and wage earners should
bear in mind that there is always a
considerable quantity of foreign goods
in bond at the close of each month that
are waiting to be sold in our markets
over and above the actual imports that
have been entered for consumption. At
the close of last March the total value
of these goods amounted to $31,431,128 ,
the principal items being as follows :
Articles. Value.
Bar iron , rolled or hammered. $ 143,621
Chemicals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564,64
Cotton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,184,112
Earthen , stone and china
ware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341,380
Glass and glassware. . . . . . . . . 425,619
Gloves , of kid or other
leather . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192,211
Leather . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 804,823
Manufactures of textile
grasses and vegetable
fibers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51,345
Rice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379,655
Silk , manufactures of. . . . . . . 2,238,660
Tin plates , tome plates and
taggers' tin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614,506
Tobacco leaf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,703,571
Vegetables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112,062
Wines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,277,694
\Tools , manufactures of. . . . . 1,770,963
Total value of imports of
merchandise remaining in
warehouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $31,431,128
In the textile trades the manufacturers -
turers of woolen goods , silk and cotton
goods have an idea of the extent c'f the
foreign competition that they must expect -
pect to meet every month , over and
above the actual quantity of goods that
have been sold Fu the market. The
manufacturers of tin plate , too , will
note that at the end of March the quantity -
tity of plate in bond was worth $614-
506. The rice growers of the South will
find that there was a large tuantity of
foreign rice waiting to depress the
value of the home product , and the
same is true in the cases of glass and
glassware , earthen , stone and china
ware and gloves. The supply of tobacco -
bacco leaf in bond seems to be inexhaustible -
haustible and gives no promise of better -
ter prices for the American tobacco
trop to American farmers.-American
Economist.
Free-Trade Ii lid of Reciprocity
The American cattle grower who is a
Democrat can now have an object lesson -
son of Democratic practice more forcible -
ble than any mere theory could bring
to him. By reason of the scarcity of
cattle American growers were about to
receive fair prices for their stock , but
Secretary Morton tobk it into his head
to interfere , and in order to knock
down the price , under lletense of fighting -
ing the dressed beef trust , he ordered
that imports of Mexican cattle be per-
mitted. Forty thousand of these are
now coming in. The beef trust promptly -
ly takes them and keeps up the price
of dressed beef precisely as before , but
rises the Mexican cattle importations
to depress the price of cattle on the
hoof. The Mexican cattleman is delighted -
lighted , the dressed beef trust is helped ,
the administration is happy-but what
about the American cattle grower-
Tribune , Salt Lake , Utah , April 29 , 1895 ,
Labor I , : Cheaper.
Democratic papers are taking much
pains to tell the laboring man how
much cheaper everything is nowadays
and what bargains he can have if he
will only pitch in and buy. And all
this owing to the Wilson tariff bill.
The thoughts of the workingmen when
they read such stuff can best be inferred -
ferred from the reply which one of
them made to a man advancing a similar -
ilar argument. Said this latter to the
laborer : "Jack , you had saved up some
money , why don't you go to work and
put up a home of your own ? Why , ,
man , you never could build as cheap
as you can now , ever since the Wilson
bill is in effect. " Answered the laboring -
ing man : "Yes , d-n the Wilson bill.
T'have been out of a job ever since it
was passed and my savings are gone. "
-The Burlington Havrkeye , April 2.4 ,
1595.
Farmers Are Neglected ,
We have not heard anything of the
benefit of the Gorman tariff to the
American farmer who grows hay , but
would draw his attention to the fact
that last March we imported 26,718 tons
of foreign hay , as against x,577 tons
imported in March , 1594. During the 1
nine months ending April last we
bought almost 90,000 tons more of for-1
eign hay than a year earlier , over halt'
sent out of the country. How does this
benefit the American farmer ?
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About Gloves. t
The manufacturers of American kid ,
or other gloves made cf leather , must a
be having a lively time of it in meeta
fag the foreign competition. In March
l
our imports of gloves were valued at
$764,599 , as against imports worth only
$322,572 in March , 1894. During the
nine months ending March 31 , 1395. the
increased value paid for foreign gloves'
was $1,100,000.
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