'TAIMAGE'S ' SEEMON.
' "
"THE BALANCES , " THE SUBJECT
ON SUNDAY.
Trom Daniel C : 37 na Follows ; Meno ,
Tekel Upharlaon Thou Art
In the balances and Art
1'ouml
Babylon was the paradise of archi
tecture , and driven out from thence
the grandest buildings of modern times
are only the evidence of her fall. The
site having been selected for the city ,
two million men were employed in the
rearing of her walls and the building
cf her works. It was a city sixty miles
in circumference. There was a trench
.all around the city , frora which the ma
terial for the building of the city had
been digged. There were twenty-five
gates on each side of the city ; between
every two gates a tower of defense
springing into the skies ; from each
gate on the one side a street running
.straight through to the corresponding
gate on the other side , so that there
were fifty streets fifteen miles long.
'Through the city ran a branch of the
river Euphrates. This river some
times overflowed Its banks , and to keep
'it ' from ruining the city , a lake was
constructed into which the surplus
water of the river would run during
-the time of freshets , and the water
was kep't in this artificial lake until
time of drought , and then this water
-would stream down over the city. At
either end of the bridge spanning this
Euphrates there was a palace the one
palace a mile and a half around , the
fc other palace seven and a half miles
J around.
The wife of Nebuchadnezzar had
"been born and brought up In the coun
try , and In a mountainous region , and
she could not bear this flat district of
( Babylon ; and so , to please his wife ,
'Nebuchadnezzar built in the midst of
the city a mountain four hundred feet
high. This mountain was built out
into terraces , supported on arches. On
the top of these arches a layer of fiat
stones , on the top of that a layer of
reeds and bitumen , on the top of that
two layers of bricks closely cemented ,
on the top of that a heavy sheet of
lead , and on the top of that the soil
placed the soil so deep that a Lebanon
cedar had room to anchor its roots.
There were pumps worked by mighty
\ machinery fetching up the water from
r" the Euphrates to this hanging garden ,
as it was called , so that there were
fountains spouting into the sky. StandIng -
Ing below and looking up It must have
seemed as if the clouds were in blos
som , or as though the sky leaned on
the shoulder of a cedar. All this
Nebuchadnezzar did to please his wife.
* "Well , she ought to have 'been pleased.
1 suppose she was pleased. If that
would not please her , nothing would.
There was in that city also the temple
of Belus , with towers one tower the
eighth of a mile high , in which there
was an observatory where astrono
mers talked to the stars. There was
In that temple an image , just one im
age , which would cost what would be
our fifty-two million dollars.
Oh , what a city ! The earth never
saw anything like it , never will see
anything like it. And yet I have to
tell you that it is going to be destroyed.
The king and his princes are at a
feast. They are all intoxicated. Pour
out the rich wine into the chalices !
Drink to the health of the king ! Drink
to the glory of Babylon ! Drink to a
great future ! A thousand lords reel
intoxicated. The king seated upon a
chair , with vacant look , as intoxicated
h men will with vacant look stared at
the wall. But soon that vacant look
takes on intensity , and It is an af
frighted look ; and all the princes be
gin to look and wonder what is the
matterand they look at the same point
on the wall. And then there drops
a darkness into the room , that puts
out the blaze of the golden plate , and
out of the sleeve of the darkness there
comes a finger a finger of fiery ter
ror circling around and circling around
as though it would write ; and then it
comes up and with sharp tip of flame
it inscribes on the plastering of the
wall the doom of the king : "Weighed
in the balances , and found wanting. "
The bang of heavy fists against the
gates of the palace is followed by the
-breaking in of the doors. A thousand
.gleaming knives strike into a thou
sand quivering hearts. Now Death is
king , and he is seated en a throne of
corpses. In that hall there is a bal
ance lifted. God swung it. On one
side of the balance are put Belshaz-
zar's opportunities , on the other side
of the balance are put Belshazzar's
sins. The sins come down. His op
portunities go up. Weighed in the
balances found wanting.
There has been a great deal of
cheating In our country with false
weights and measures and balances ,
and the government , to change that
state of things , appointed commission
ers whose business it was to stamp
weights and measures and balances ,
andia great.deal of , the wrongrhasrbeen
corrected. But still , after all , there is
no such thing as a perfect balance on
earth. The chain may break , or some
of the metal may be clipped , or in
some way the equipoise may be dis
turbed. You can not always depend
upon earthly balances. A pound Is not
always a pound and you may pay for
one thing and get another ; but in the
balance which is suspended to the
throne of God , a pound is a pound ,
and right is right , and wrong Is wrong ,
and a soul is a soul , and eternity is
eternity. God has a perfect bushel ,
and a perfect peck , and a perfect gal
lon. When merchants weigh their
goods in the wrong way , then the Lord
weighs the goods again. If from the
imperfect measure the merchant pours
out what pretends to be a-gallon of oil ,
and there is less than a gallon , God
knows it , and calls upon his recording
angel to mark it : "So much wanting in
that measure of oil. " The farmer
comes in from the country. He has
apples to sell. He has an imperfect
measure. He pours out the apples
from his imperfect measure. God reg-
ognizes it. He says to the recording
angel : "Mark down so many apples too
few an imperfect measure. " We may
cheat ourselves , and we may cheat the
world , but we cannot cheat God , and
In the great day of judgment it will be
found out that what we learned in
boyhood at school is correct ; that
twenty hundredweight makes a ton ,
and one hundred and twenty solid feet
makes a cord of wood. No more , no
less , and a religion which does not
take hold of this life , as well as the
life to come , is no religion at all.
But , my friends , that is not the style
of balances I am to speak of today ,
that Is not the kind of weights and
measures. I am to speak of that kind
of balances which weigh principles ,
weigh churches , weigh men , weigh na
tions and weigh worlds. "What ! " you
say ; "is it possible that our world is to
be weighed ? " Yes. Why , you would
think if God put on one side of the
balances suspended from the throne
the Alps and the Pyrenees and the
Himalayas and Mount Washington.and
all the cities of the earth , they would
crush it. No ! No ! The time will
come when God will sit down on the
white throne to see the world weigh
ed , and on one side will be the world's
opportunities , and on the other side
the world's sins. Down will go the
sins , and away will go the oportuni-
ties , and God will say to the messen
gers with the torch : "Burn that
world ! weighed and found wanting ! "
So God will weigh churches. He
takes a great church. That church ,
great according to the worldly esti
mate , must be weighed. He puts it on
one side the balances , and the minister
and the choir , and the building that
cost its hundreds of thousands of del
lars. He puts them on one side the
balances. On the other side of the
scale he puts what that church ought
to be , what its consecration ought to
be , what its sympathy for the poor
ought to be , what its devotion to all
good ought to be. That is on one s4de.
That side comes down , and the church ,
not being able to stand the test , rises
in the balances. It does not make any
difference about your magnificent ma
chinery. A church is built for one
thing to save souls. If it saves a
few souls when it might save a multi
tude of souls , God will spew it out of
his mouth ! Weighed and found want
ing !
So we perceive that God estimates
nations. How many times he has put
the Spanish monarchy into the scales ,
and found it insufficient , and condemn
ed it ! The French empire was placed
on one side of the scales , and God
weighed the French empire and Na-
peoleon said : "Have I not enlarged
the boulevards ? Did I not kindle the
glories of the Champs Elysees ? Have
I not adorned the Tuileries ? Have I
not built the gilded opera house ? "
Then God weighed the nation , and he
put on one side the scales the emperor
and the boulevards , and the Tuileries
and the Champs Elysees , and the gild
ed opera house , and on the other
side he puts that man's abominations ,
that man's libertinism , that man's sel
fishness , that man's godless ambition.
This last came down , and all the bril
liancy of the scene vanished. What is
that voice coming up from Sedan ?
Weighed and found wanting !
Still the balances are suspended.
Are there any others who would like
to be weighed , or who will be weighed ?
Yes ; here comes a worldling. He gets
into the scales. I can very easily see
what his whole life is made up of.
Stocks , dividends , percentages , "buyer
ten days , " "buyer thirty days. " "Get
in , my friend , get into these balances
and be weighed weighed for this life ,
and weighed for the life to come. " He
gets in. I find that the two great
questions in his life are : "How cheap
ly can I buy these goods ? " and "How
dearly can I sell them ? " I find he ad
mires heaven because it Is a land of
gold , and money must be "easy. " I
find from talking with him , that re
ligion and the Sabbath are an inter
ruption , a vulgar interruption , and he
hopes on the way to church to drum
up a new customer ! All the week he
has been weighing fruits , weighing
meats , weighing ice , weighing coals ,
weighing confections , weighing world- -
ly and perishable commodities , not
realizing the fact that he himself has
been weighed. "On your side the bal
ances , O worldling ! I will give you
full advantage. I put on your side all
the banking-houses , all the store
houses , all the cargoes , all the insur
ance companies , , all the factories , all
the silver , all'the gold , alf the money
vaults , all the safe deposits all on
your side. But it does not add one
ounce , for at the very moment we are
congratulating you on your fine house
and upon your princely income , God
and the angels are writing in regard
to your soul : 'Weighed and found
wanting ! ' "
ButI must go faster and speak of
the final scrutiny. The fact is , my
friends , we are moving on amid as
tounding realities. These pulses which
now are drumming the march of life
may , after a while , call a halt. We
walk on a hair-hung bridge over
chasms. All around us are dangers
lurking , ready to spring on us from
ambush. We lie down at night , not
knowing whether we shall arise in tne
morning. We start out for occupations ,
not knowing whether we shall come
back. Crowns being burnished for thy
brow , or bolts forged for thy prison.
Angels of light ready to shout at thy
deliverance , or fiends of darkness
stretching out skeleton hands to pull
thee down Into ruin consummate !
* * *
But says the Christian : "Am I to
be allowed to get off so easily ? " Yes.
If some one should come and put on
the other side the scales all your im
perfections , all your envies , all your
jealousies , all your inconsistencies of
life , they would not budge the scales
with Christ on your side the scales.
Go free ! There is no condemnation to
them that are in Christ Jesus. Chains
broken , prison houses opened , sins
pardoned. Go free ! Weighed in the
balances , and nothing , nothing wanted.
Oh ! what a glorious hope ! Will you
accept it this day ? Christ making up
for what you lack. Christ the atone
ment for all'your sins. Who will ac
cept him ? Will cot this whole au
dience say , "I am insufficient , I am n
sinner , I am lost by reason of trans
gressions , but Christ has paid it all.
My Lord , and my God , my life , my par
don , my heaven. Lord Jesus , I hail
thee ! " Oh , if you could only under
stand the worth of that sacrifice which
I have represented to you under a fig
ure if you could understand the worth
of that sacrifice , this whole audience
would this moment accept Christ and
be saved.
We go away off , or back into his
tory , to get some illustration by which
we may set forth what Christ has done
for us. We need not go so far. I saw
a vehicle behind a runaway horse
dashing- through the street , a mother
and her two children in the carriage.
The horse dashed along as though to
hurl them to death , and a mounted po
liceman , with a shout clearing the way ,
and the horse at full run , attempted
to seize those runaway horses to save
a calamity , when his own horse fell
and rolled over him. He was picked
up half dead. Why were our sympa
thies so stirred ? Because he was bad
ly hurt , and hurt for others. But I tell
you today of how Christ , the Son of
God , on the blood-red horse of sacri
fice , came for our rescue , and rode
down the sky , and rode unto
death for our rescue. Are not your
hearts touched ? That was a sac
rifice for you and me. O thou who didst
ride on the red horse of sacrifice ! come
and ride through this world on the
white horse of victory !
EATING TO MUSIC.
A Popular Craze In metropolitan Hotels
and Restaurants.
Music at meals Is now the thing in
the metropolis. The craze is still very
young , yet it has spread all over the
town , and looks as if it had to stay.
Not long since a certain restaurant of
the Bohemian class not far from * 'our-
teenth street encouraged a couple of
itinerant performers on the guitar and
mandolin to come around two or three
evenings in the week and help enter
tain the guests. There were three
rooms in the restaurant , and the musi
cians wandered from one to the other ,
alternating their instrumental selec
tions with really good vocal numbers.
When any of the latter happened to
be well-known airs , guests around the
tables were not slow to join in the re
frain , and as the evening progressed
one may well Imagine that the musi
cians , whose pay was mostly gathered
from their happy hearers , were not
slow to select such pieces as had a
singable chorus. There was frequently
a number of persons at the tables with
good voices , and the audible result by
no means to be despised. The large
hotels , almost without exception , em
ploy orchestras ranging in number
from four to ten men. One of the
mose prominent of these places estab
lished an afternoon tea service a year
or so ago , and the tea drinkers and
muffin eaters beguiled an hour listen
ing to the yodeling of a blue and white
clad Tyrolean quartet , or the guitars
and mandolins of a group of Neapol
itans attired in spotless white trous
ers , with gorgeous and voluminous
sashes. Another well-known hotel en
tertains its after-theater habitues in
a palm garden , with seductive music
by a hidden harpist. Another place
down on the East Side seats its dinner
guests at tables in a cellar , on one side
of which great casks of wine are
ranged , while at the further end of
the cob-webbed room a band of gyp
sies discourses the weird music of the
Hungarian composers.
BOOKS OF ADVENTURE ,
Mystery and Crime the Favorite Litera
ture of Convicts.
New York World : Criminals , like
the people of stageland and of other
professions I that exact high nervous
II
-I pressure , have their superstitions.
Nothing is better proof of the fact than
the library list of Sing Sing prison and
a computation of the favorite books of
men who have run the gamut of crime
from murder to felony. In a two-
months' record out of the well-fur
nished library of upward of 4,000 vol
umes of science , travel , biography , re
ligion and'fiction , 'the book "that heads
the list , with a circulation of 463 , is
Charles Reade's "It Is Never Too Late
To Mend. " Lever's "Charles O'Mal-
ley" is a close second and Lytton'a
"Paul Clifford" as third shows the
standing of the gentlemen highway
man with the men"of his calling. Ales
Dumas' "Count of Monte Cristo" was
out,39Q timesin those qjght weeks.and
the Dickens books which contested its
run most closely were "Oliver Twist , "
with its famous history of Bill Sykea ,
and "A Tale of Two Cities , " with its
Sydney Carton , who lived a vagabond
and died a hero. The Sherlock Holmes
stories of Conan Doyle and Wilkie Col
lins' "Moonstone , " "Woman in White"
and "The Dead Secret" are In constant
demand. Capt. King and Capt. Marry-
att both have a strong following , and
Stanley Weyman's spirited romances ,
so replete with incident , stand side by
side with Mark Twain's "Tom Saw
yer" in the estimation of the prison
readers.
The prosperous man who is too busy
to think of God , is as ungodly as the
criminal who is too vicious to do so.
Ram's Horn.
ABUSING THE TAKDFE
TIRADE BY A DEMOCRATIC
PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRANT.
Augustus Van \Vjck at ICicliaril Crokor's
Ten-Dollar JefTtTHonhm Dinner De
nounces the Protection System Deaplto
All the Facts of Keiitored Prosperity.
"It is the foulest mockery of reason
to profess In one breath devotion to
the doctrine of the equality of all men
before the law of the land , and in tne
next to applaud a tariff system which
squeezes the blood out of the average
man for the fattening of select indi
viduals who have mastered the art of
depraving all federal government , and
directing a new feudalism which pro
poses to subdivide the land into pluto
cratic dukedoms. " From the speech
of Augustus Van Wyck at Richard
Croker's ten-dollar Jeffersonian din
ner in New York , April 13 , 1899.
This peculiar view of the conditions
now prevailing throughout the length
of the most favored land that the sun
shines on is the view of the man who
was the Democratic candidate for gov
ernor of the state of New York at the
election of 1S98. He Is , moreover , un
der serious consideration as a possible
Democratic candidate for the presi
dency of the United States in 1900 , and
is perhaps the most formidable com
petitor of William Jennings Bryan for
that nomination. Otherwise it would
be difficult to understand how an
American citizen , surrounded on every
side with unmistakable evidences of a
restored prosperity , which showers its
blessings equally up6n rich and poor ,
falling alike upon the just and the un
just , could take so absurdly pessimistic
a view of existing conditions as to
characterize the American policy of
protection as "a system which squeezes
the blood out of the average man. "
What class of gudgeons does Mr. Au
gustus Van Wyck expect to catch with
this sort of bait ? Certainly not the
two thousand ten-dollar Jeffersonians
FOREIGN MARKETS AND PRO
TECTION.
Wlmt Might Happen to Brethren Who
Hhovr Signs of Weakening.
Robert Ellis Thompson In Home
Market Bulletin : The protective tar
iff is getting in its work , and is justi
fying its friends' predictions for it , as
fast and far as can be reasonably ex
pected. But there are signs of dan
ger ahead , to which the friends of the
protective policy will do well to take
heed. The first of these la the weak
ening of the loyalty of some protec
tionists , through the dream of expan
sion and commerce and exports by the
annexation of the Philippines , and any
other country we can lay our hands on.
Repeatedly the fruits of the protection
ist policy have been sacrificed through
this craze for securing foreign , mar
kets.
It was this which led the cotton
manufacturers of England to acquies
cence in the miserable compromise tar
iff of 1835 , as they felt sure that the
recent improvements they had Intro
duced into cotton spinning and weav
ing would make them masters of every
foreign market. Their utter prostra
tion was the result.
It was this that made the manufac
turers of woolens in New England to
combine in 1883 with the free-trade
party in effecting a reduction of the
duty on both wool and woolens. They
believed that with cheaper wool they
could do without much protection , and
could export their woolens to every
country that wore them. In six
months three-fourths of their facto
ries were shut down or were running
on short time.
The same craze now seems to have
caught many of the makers of car
pets and iron wares in our part of
the country. They think that the tar
iff Is no longer of any use to them ,
and that they would do even better
under free trade , with low wages and
cheap raw materials Russian wool ,
and iron ore from everywhere. They
also may "go for wool and come home
shorn. "
EASY TO SEE WHICH TREE WILL BE CUT DOWN.
who were within the sound of his voice
and every man of whom has shared
liberally in the increase of national
wealth which has followed the resto
ration of the very policy which the
speaker denounced. Certainly not the
vast army of wage-earners of all oc
cupations who have to thank the re
turn of good protection times for more
work and better pay for it tnan they
had during the awful stringency of the
last four years of Democratic domina
tion. Certainly not the great body of
farmers who have enjoyed the sub
stantial benefits of enlarged consump
tion and Increased values of agricul
tural products. Certainly not the gen
eral community of merchants , manu
facturers and business men who , as the
commercial statistics show , are pros
pering as they never did in free-trade
times.
What ears , then , did this possible
presidential candidate expect to reach
with his diatribe ? The ears , it may
be presumed , of the average Bourbon
politician who always recognizes the
denunciation of a protective tariff as
a sure sign of sublime statesmanship.
These he may reach , but not the ears
of a prosperous and contented people.
All such will smile a pitying smile at
the foolish mouthings of a typical
Tammanylte , trying to tickle the fancy
of the fellows who boss caucuses and
control conventions.
Just as a matter of contrast , let us
quote what Thomas Jefferson wrote in
1809 , In a letter to Humphrey :
"My own idea is that we should en
courage home manufactures to the ex
tent of our own consumption of every
thing of which we raise the raw ma
terials. "
Had Thomas Jefferson lived in these
days of trade expansion and of Amer
ican victories in the contest for pos
session of the world's markets , he
would point with pride to what he
wrote ninety years ago and urge ad
herence to a policy that had wrought
such splendid results. ' But. then ,
Thomas Jefferson is not now alive , and
Augustus Van Wyck is a very differ
ent sort of person.
A man is strong when he admits to
himself his own weakness.
< ; < ) od Times Kverywliero.
The New York World gives utterance
to some most praiseworthy rejoicings
in an article headed. "Wages Up for
200,000 Workingmen ! All New Eng
land Cotton Mills Raise Pay 10 Per
Cent. " It does not attempt to disguise
the fact that there is similar prosper
ity in other parts of the country , for
it adds to the article on cotton mills
this paragraph : "The wages of the
iron workers in Michigan , Ohio , Illi
nois and Pennsylvania were raised last
week generally about 10 per cent. "
True ! And glorious it is that 'tis
true ! But ought not the World and
other bitter enemies of the Dingley law
explain how it is possible that it can
be true ? How many times were we
warned of the woes that would fall
upon the wage earner if the Dingloy
tariff were adopted ! How many pre
dictions were there of the disasters
into which we all should plunge if the
Wilson free-trade principles were
abandoned ! The poor man was to
starve , because the manufacturer
would rob him of his little all. Prices
were to go so high that only the Vnn-
derbilt and the Astor , enriched by a
monstrous tariff law , could afford to
buy a breakfast. The government
would have no revenues , the country
woule / a barren waste and its pop-
ulatiou heaps of whitened skeletons.
But wages-are up , everybody is busy
at work , the bread-winner ia savitiK
money again , the customs receipts are
rising , and the sun shines more clear
ly than ever it shone before !
Why , when the lovers of Prof. Wil
son's theories once thundered against
Dingley's tariff like the main batterj
of a battleship , do they now pipe down
to the thin note of the bo's'n's whis
tle ? New York Press.
They Co Hand In Ilsinii.
These are Republican times. Last
week the advance in wages affected
over 110,000 hands , adding greatly to
the purchasing power of these opera
tives. As the Press lias hud frequent
occasion to remark during the last
twenty-seven years , "Protection and
prosperity go hand in hand. " Man
chester ( la. ) Press.
TARIFF AND BOYCOTT.
The Case of the Merchant and the So
cial Smugglers.
Louisville Post : The retail mer
chants of New York having to pay du
ties on their stocks had a strange Idea
that they were entitled to the same
protection as the Ironznaker or the
woolen manufacturer. They were so
blind that they could not see the jus
tice In taxing the merchant who im
ported his goods and allowing that
merchant's customers to import their
purchases free.
Consequently they organized a * * -
sociation for the enforcement l the
law. They laid their css befort
treasury officials and asked a
rigid application of the law.
This produced a change x-hich has
created great distatisfactioa zmoas
the rich smugglers of New "iork. Thf
smugglers thus caught ia ih * tails
made their complaints to tb * Nw
York Evening Post , and -asked Mr
God kin what recourse th y bad.
The New York Post at once de
nounced the merchants' asocte.Uoa a *
a gang of miscreants who -srere sr r
"traders. " It singled out areabers of
the association for especial ridteate. I :
referred with English eoaei pt ta
men who would so degrade tbeafeiTfrs
as to be engaged ia retail trade a
"furriers , " "hosiers. " "shirtauL&en.
"shoemakers. " and haberdab V
and found the English
scarcely strong enough to express con
tempt for the whole ere * " .
Somehow this artificial thnader bad
no effect. The men coaceraed autatie * :
ed no shame ; they brazealy eof - < l
that they had engaged ia trad * as JU-
tor had done , as Gould had doae. as
Vanderbih and Rockefeller , as Godkta
himself , as a host of Americans hai
done. They even. proclaimed ia th *
advertising columns of the Ereatag
Post that they were doing busiaeat at
their old stands.
This cynical indifference , this aorai
obliquity of vision , enraged the Ewe-
ing Post , and it then proclaimed a.
boycott against all merchants irbo
were members of the associaUoc. 1 :
advised Mr. Kennedy Ted and hi * as
sociates in idleness , and all the dai
lies of the social smugglers , to rafto *
to patronize any merchant The had
been so unpatriotic as to ask tb 50-
ernment officers to treat the rich sul
poor smugglers alike , and to pet a
stop to the robbery of the rereaoe br
ladies and gentlemen who caiaed : aor-
al and financial enlightenment Irom
Godkia.
The Evening Post the : : published a
partial list of the offenders aad held
them up to scorz and contempt. aad
told the Kennedy Tods aad various
other families enriched by ssmsjrlias
to "close their accounts"srith tb * of
fending merchants.
The merchants in. qaestios
it was a waste of money to
in a newspaper which advised its
readers not to buy of them , aad so
stopped advertising in , Mr. Godkte
paper.
This independence surprised tie Ne .
York Post and its aiders aad abettors
and there was an. outcry. Tbe B s :
denounced this action as ata eSort o :
the "storekeepers * * to curb the &ee-
don of the press. Mr. J. Keaaedy Ted
wrote a letter of condolence to Cod-
kin. announcing that he kept accotxat >
with three of the ofTeadiag aerchaat.-
aad that they would all be closed.
We do cot know how valuable the--
Ted accounts are. but th * Ted iette-
recalls a story. During the ouapmipr.
of 1S96 a free-silver advocate ns dis
cussing the issues with Col. W. R
Ray. the banker. "Colonel. " be said
"Bryan is sreiac to be elected , mcvl
then I am going to pay yoor bsak
what I owe it in nfty-ceat dollars. "
"Don't wait until the electioa of
Bryan. " said the colonel : " 111 be ghi.i
to get fifty cents of your debt nader
any circumstances. "
A Choice HetMetMi Two S
A trade paper states that aaother
large industry is coming to this coun
try. The ( Inn of Alexander Morton Jt
Co. of Darvel. Scotland , a concera well-
known throughout the world as
ufacturer of carpets and other
has decided to locate at Xiacara
and. it is stated , has already made ar
rangements with the Niagara Power
Company for the supplying of pow-er
and for the purchase of property.
Free-trade brings the fureijrado
products of pauper labor into the coun
try. and sends American money out of
the country to pay for them ,
American workmen sit in
Protection brln.ss foreign Industries
and foreign capital into the country to
labor for American -
provide u-orl\rao .
and keeps American money within the
country , to bo paid In exchange for
American made swoils. As Lincoln put
it. under free-trade we .cet the s\v Js
so long as our money holds outtiR *
the foreigner ' < the nwney. Under
protection we .cet the jcvxNls and the
money , too. A choice between the two
systems would not seem to lv har\l te
make by the well -balanced mind.
of Vr Tnulo Onp n.
Wages Up for 200.000 Workmen All
New England Cotton Mills Knteo
Wages 10 Per Cent. Heailllne In N #
York World In 1899 under Uc ubllcnn
administration.
Soup Houses In a llnmh-tM Oit o - -
Wages in Iron Mills ami all Allied In
( lustries Cut 10 Per iVnt.MomUln * t
New York World in IS ! > . * umlor a V > em-
acratic free-tnulo nihnlnlstnitian.
And the hypocritical old roiufUAt * '
continues to try to fool the people In
its editorial columns ! Womv still. U
is only a type of the froo-tnule organ
New York Press.
Some of the Cuban leiulov * aw > catl
ing Gomez hard iminu * . Th tllvtulott Of
spoils will always cuuso moro or &MM *
" lotion.