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R008EVJILT AND FAlRBANKS
THE PLATFORM THEY
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All Views Harmonized In Tariff and
Reciprocity Declarations That Ad
there to the Doctrine of Protection
to Every Form of American Labor
and Industry
The cause of protection to the labor
and industries of the United States
lias gained a triumphal victory in
Iho national convention of the Repub
lican party The platform of the
party and the nomination of Roose
velt arid- Fairbanks carry a pledge to
the labor and industries of the United
States that so far as the Republican
party is able to control results they
shall be exempt from ruinous attack
which so much endangers the har
jmony of successful commercial de
velopment and the wage earning ca
pacity of our people
The Republican national platform
of lliis year will stand the careful
scrutiny of students of political econ
omy as well as of the Republican
party leaders whose devotion to the
principles of protection has contrib
uted so much to the development of
American industry and commerce and
to the well being of labor during the
past forty years The one striking
feature of this excellent platform
cannot fail to attract the attention
of Republicans everywhere and that
is the pledge against unnecessary
tariff tinkering and the pledge that
no schemes for reciprocity in trade
with foreign nations shall be per
mitted to injure any industry in the
United States
The fact will not be lost sight of
that had the principles enunciated in
this platform governed the Repub
lican national adminisTracion during
the past two years there would have
been no such thing as reciprocal trade
agreements with any foreign nation
no matter how great the incentive nor
how charitable the spirit which
prompted such negotiations when the
The closing clauses in the tariff
plank of the platform constitute an
arraignment of the Democratic
partys position on the tariff which
must go home to the hearts and
minds of people overywhero in this
country It points out how the Dem
ocratic party has declared the pro
tective tariff to be unconstitutional
A party with such beliefs could not
in justice to itself do otherwise than
promptly destroy every vestige of
protection immediately upon being
given power to accomplish that re
sult
Another point which will not soon
lie forgotten is that a Democratic
tariff has always been followed by
business adversity a Republican tar
iff by business prosperity The facl
was not lost sight of also that free
trade England is now engaged in ac
tive agitation to return to the prin
ciple of protection in her international
trade arrangements
The platform declaration on the
subject of our foreign trade with
special bearing upon the question oi
reciprocity while not so emphatic as
it might have been when examined
closely -will be found to meet the
requirements of the time The reci
procity section guarantees that inter
national trade arrangements shall
when put into effect be consistent
with the principles of protection and
without injury to American agricul
ture American labor or any American
industry
Reciprocity in non competing prod
ucts is the reciprocity of McKinley
and of the Republican party
Trade - agreements with foreign
countries which safeguard American
agriculture and American labor and
every American industry are trade
agreements consistent with the prin
ciples of protection and will not be
harmful to the industries and the
labor of the United States
Another Objection Disposed of
A few years ago men who were in
clined to consider the tariff question
from the standpoint of actual good io
the country were inclined to believe
that we should continue to be a great
exporting nation so far as
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Would Displace the Keystone of the Arch
fact was clearly demonstrable that
more than one industry in the United
States was certain to be injuriously
affecled thereby
Sturdy devotion to the principles
of protection and pledges that all
American labor and industry shall be
safe guarded were made the keynote
or the Republican party declaration
The Republican national platform
of this year makes this emphatic
declaration which is in harmony with
the doctrine upon which the party is
based
Protection which guards and de
velops our industries is a cardinal
policy of the Republican party The
measure of protection should always
at least equal the difference in the
cost of production at home and
abroad We insist upon the main
teuance of the principles of protec
tion and therefore the rates of duty
should be readjusted only when con
ditions have so changed that the
public interests demand their altera
tion but this work cannot safely be
committed to any other hands than
those of the Republican party
Two vital points are embodied in
this clause of the Republican plat
form First that the measure of pro
tection shall be the difference in the
cost of production in this country
and in foreign countries This is a
guaranty that every esesntial ele
ment in the cost of production
whether It be the rates of wages paid
to workingraen the value of capital
investments or the cost of plants
and whether the production so meas
ured relates to commodities of the
factory the mine or the farm shall
always be at least embodied in the
laws governing the importation of
competing products -admitted to the
ports of the United States Second
and what is a vital principle in this
platform declaration is that the Re
publican party shall determine when
conditions have so changed as to
make readjustments of tariff sched
ules necessary or desirable in the
public interests Certainly it is a
proposition to which all sensible men
will agree that no such readjustment
should be made at any time when
the good results expected to be ob
tained thereby would be more than
outweighed by the attending injurious
effects to industry and labor certain
to attend such readjustment of the
tural products were concerned but
they could not believe that we should
be large exporters of manufactured
products These opinions were not
set forth in public as political opin
ions but were the subjects of many
a discussion in private The men
were sincere It was simply a ques
tion of what would actually occur
not what the politician needed to pro
claim to advance his own political in
terests or the interests of the par
ticular party with which he was al
lied Since then however many of
these men have had reason to change
these opinions for the steady in
crease in the export of manufactured
products has been a mathematical
demonstration that they were mis
taken The statistics now indicate
that the fiscal year ending a month
from now will show a great increase
in the exports of manufactured prod
ucts above any years in the history
of the country In other words the
facts as they have actually occurred
have taken the pith out of the theory
and thus another theoretical objec
tion to a protective tariff has been
disposed of Muncie Ind Times
An Ill Advised Step
The National Association of Manu
facturers has stirred up a hornets
nest by its recommendation to Con
gress that a tariff and reciprocity
commission be appointed Opposition
to this recommendation comes from
manufacturing and general business
circles Certainly it does seem to
have been an ill advised step to take
in a presidential campaign year for
it develops an agitation that may
form a new complication in tariff
discussion and neither of the two
great political t parties appears dis
posed to rush into the tariff arena
The Ohio Valley Manufacturer
The Mother of Measles
The Democracy claims that the
tariff is the mother of trusts By the
same token the women are the moth
ers of measles The mothers of the
land have children and the children
have the measles Kill all the indus
tries of the land and you will surely
kill all the trusts and abolish all the
mothers of the land and you- will just
as surely abolish all the measles
Gov John N Irwin at Iowa Repub
lican State Convention Burlington
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The Incubator on the Farm
The incubator and brooder are the
modern allies of the poultry raiser
Originally the fowl laid but few more
eggs than she could hatch It is dif
ferent now We have developed our
hen to lay 150 eggs a year and she
can at most hatch not more than
thirty of them To keep the hatching
ability up to the laying ability we
have had to Invent the incubator and
brooder These machines are espe
cially adapted to the use of people
that are making a business of poultry
raising but they are also adapted in a
lesser degree to the use of our farm
ers that keep flocks of a hundred or
more fowls On some of our large
farms from 200 to 500 fowls are raised
annually Yet in a good many in
stances the only means of hatching is
from hens The operation drags along
through the summer with the result
that in the fall the farmer has a good
many kinds and sizes of fowls for
sale some of them marketable and
some not On a farm such as we have
mentioned it will certainly pay to buy
and use an incubator and brooder or
brooders
In the first place there is uniformity
in the flock both as to age and size
The birds can be raised by the hun
dreds in March and April at which
time eggs are readily obtainable and
when fall comes the birds that are to
be disposed of will be all of a size
and well grown They will then bring
a better price than otherwise if the
seller knows his business This will
be true whether the birds are sent to
some commission house or are dis
posed of to the private trade
Another advantage in using an in
cubator is the increased certainty of
having chicks at all There are some
years as all of our poultry raisers
know when the hens show little in
clination to be broody and more than
once the poultry raiser has found him
self at the beginning of summer with
only half the number of chicks he ex
pected to have The number to be
hatched is controllable by the ma
chines but not otherwise A man can
start the machines in February or
March and hatch till he has secured
the number he wants for raising
Then he can stop If the first hatches
prove a disappointment he can con
tinue to use his machine a little long
er Not so the hen She wili often
disappoint one and then make no sec
ond attempt to make good her prom
ises to bring forth a brood
Then too the brooder removes the
necessity of making nests for the sit
ting hens This is a large task where
hundreds of birds are to be raised
Frequently the nests of the sitters in
terfere with the placing of nests for
laying purposes The care of the hciis
is certainly as great as is the care of
the incubator and after one becomes
expert with the incubator the care
is less The care of an incubator
lessens in proportion as we get ac
quainted with it which can scarcely
be said of the hen We have referred
only to the use of the incubator in the
spring as the fall use relates to the
production of broilers which is a
business almost of itself The incu
bator also makes it possible to get
the birds out of the shell in time to
develop into winter layers before the
snow flies
Packing and Shipping Eggs in Den
mark
The work of grading and testing is
done mostly by women who become
very expert The eggs are graded ac
cording to weight There are six rec
ognized classes ranging from G1 to
9 kilograms per 120 eggs 143 to 2
pounds per dozen eggs The expert
graders work behind a long table
upon which they have six wooden egg
racks or franles each frame with ten
dozen holes in which the eggs are
placed The graders can tell at a
glance to which grade an egg belongs
and they distribute them very deftly
When a frame is filled with ten dozen
eggs which are taken directly from
the boxes received from the circles
the frames are taken by a man and
weighed If the 120 eggs weigh too
much or too little for the grade for
which they are intended eggs are
taken out and substituted with larger
or smaller ones as the case may be
The frame of 120 eggs Is taken into a
small tightly closed room and set on
top of a hopper shaped box which is
about two feet deep the sides of
which are lined with looking glass
The bottom of this hopper shaped box
is about eight by thirty inches Four
sixteen candlepower electric lights
stand up from the bottom equal dis
tances apart The eggs as above in
dicated are placed over these lights
and looking glasses thick ends up
The tester looks carefully at and
through each egg and if any be un
sound they are rejected
The eggs are then carefully and
snugly packed side by de with
nothing between them in four layers
in pine boxes 22 by 72 inches nine
inches deep Between each two lay
ers of eggs is a substantial layer of
straight clean rye straw on the top
layer of eggs another layer of straw
The thin boards are securely nailed
on the boxes are properly marked
with the companys trade mark the
number of eggs and the grade indi
cated and they are sent to the ship
All eggs are rold by the pound The
co operative company pays all ex
penses from the time the eggs leave
the circles until they are placed on
board ship The average expense is
about one cent per dozen The cost
of collecting the eggs from the farm
ers and bringing them to the circle
centers is borne by the circles them
selves This work is done by a col
lector selected by the circle board
The collector is usually paid so much
per pound of eggs collected The ex
pense of this collection Is very low
perhaps on an average not more than
one half cent per dozen The total
cost to the farmer from the time the
eggs leave the nests until they are on
board steamer is therefore one and
one half cent per dozen United
States Consular Report
To Get Winter Eggs
I have been in the poultry business
for a long time and my experience
has convinced me that the first thing
to do to secure winter eggs is to have
a warm place for the hens The tem
perature should not be lower than
about 40 degrees above zero I feed
all kinds of grain I can get but not
too much corn as in that case the
birds will get too fat The houses and
yards should be kept very clean and
the fowls should not be allowed to
eat foul stuff They should have a
good deal of exercise and this may be
induced by throwing grain into litter
The nests should be kept clean and
the nest litter changed quite often
Green cut bone is the best thing to
stimulate egg production that I have
ever used
J K Austin
Iroquois County Illinois
A Few Sheep
In looking over some reports of
sheep on larms we are struck with
the fact that in some of our states
not one half of the good sized farms
carry any sheep In the old days it
was assumed that every farmer had
at least a few sheep We believe that
to day it would be better for the
farms and better for the whole popu
lation of the country if every farm
had a small flock of sheep It ap
pears to us that a small flock of sheep
could be kept in the summer time
at least at almost no cost and with
great benefit to the arable portions
of the farms The husbandman works
to get the weeds out of i is tniauie
fields but the whole length of the
pasture fence is a mass of weeds on
the side of the pasture and from their
tops blow millions of weed seeds
every year The sheep would keep
most of these weeds down and thus
destroy the source from which the
fields get their annual supply of weed
seeds One reason why farmers do
not keep more sheep is that dogs are
destructive to the flocks but as these
ravages occur generally in the night
the trouble is obviated by penning the
sheep at night The matter of fences
is another cause that deters some
but a fence that is hog proof and
horse proof is generally sheep proof
During the last few years there has
been a steady decline in the sheep
growing industry in every state ex
cept one ease of the Mississippi This
condition of affairs is profitable neith
er to the nation nor the farmer
Pigs in Prison
In the older parts of the country
it has been the practice to keep the
pigs shut up from birth to maturity
A little pen in the barn was thought
to be sufficient and sometimes there
was even no yard for the pigs to run
out in The said pen was sometimes
only six or eight feet square Here
the pigs were kept close prisoners
No wonder that troubles like thumps
were common with pigs so treated
io some extent this practice still
remains There is no question that
swine should be given room for exer
cise even if no pecuniary advantage
can be figured from it None of our
farms are so small that there is net
an abundance cf room for the yard
that should be connected with every
pig pen The larger the yard the
better and if it is large enough to
be divided into sections in which
green stuff may be grown alternately
it will be the more profitable
A Manipulated Test
Reports from Vermont say that at
one of the creameries in that state
a little unpleasantness has been occa
sioned by the discovery that two of
the patrons had been working a
slight-of-hand trick on the cream
gatherer and had continually substi
tuted test bottles filled with very
rich cream for the bottles containing
the samples of cream from the prod
uct of the patrons in question One
man had thus secured from the
creamery payments in excess of a
thousand dollars not belonging to him
At last the creamery officials began
to suspect that something of the kind
was being done and laid a trap for
these patrons The two were caught
at the trick and means taken to se
cure repayment of the money thus
fradulently secured
More Trophies for College Boys
The Union Stock Yards and Tran
sit Company of Chicago has decided
to offer two new trophies to take the
place of the Spoor trophy won per
manently by the Iowa State College
One of these new trophies will be of
fered for excellence in judging cattle
hogs and sheep and the other will be
awarded for judging horses These
trophies will be offered as prizes to
students representing the various ag
ricultural colleges of the United
States and Canada at the coming In
ternational Live Stock Exposition in
Chicago the first week in December
and in addition it is expected that
liberal cash prizes will be offered
The orchard that is not looked after
will be a failure We have seen or
chards that have been planted by
proxy by city men who evidently ex
pected to make a great fortune out of
them But their end came as a result
of being overrun by grass caterpillars
and scales
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Gradually our live stock interests
are working southward though they
have not as yet reached in a very con
siderable degree even the more south
erly limits of what wo are pleased to
call the Northern States Wo have
noticed thjs gradual movement in Illi
nois during the last ten years At
the present time a traveler in South
ern Illinois is struck by the compara
tively few cattle to be met with there
yet he will also notice that the num
ber is much larger than it was a few
years ago Here and there stock
farms have been established that are
being looked up to by the farmers of
the vicinity most of whom have no
stock to speak of In the very south
ern part of the state the writer passed
one farm on which was a fine herd
of Herefords A man of the neigh
borhood said Yes Judge is
beginning to get something from his
stock farm now though for some
years he put two dollars into it for
every one he took out But he was
all the time bringing up his land Now
it is in fine condition But then he
was a judge and his salary helped run
the farm
This points a double lesson First
that the belief must be inculcated into
the farmers of those sections that live
stock is a good thing and second
that it takes capital to tide over the
time when the live stock farm is be
ing established if all things are to
be done at once and on a largo scale
The southern parts of Illinois and In
diana have a climate and soil well
adapted to the growing of live stock
The location is not far enough south
to endanger the animals from Texas
fever and is not so far north that
beef cattle need much protection in
winter The growing or not growing
of live stock is the difference between
constructive and destructive farming
The presence of live stock helps to
build up the land Its absence fre
quently results in depreciating it
though this is not absolutely neces
sary It is however the usual result
and is likely to be for some genera
tions to come
Care in Dressing Animals
In the dressing of any animal it is
always well to consider that possibly
it may be affected with tuberculosis
or some other contagious disease
There is little danger of infection ii
there is no wound on the hands that
can come into contact with the meat
A good many cases are on record
where men have lost their lives by
carelessness in this regard Butchers
are perhaps oftener the subject of
such accidents than any others and
the amateur butcher is as certainly
in danger as the professional A Chi
cago man reports as follows to the
United States Bureau of Animal In
dustry
G E W Pole age 34 weight 170
pounds healthy looking man butcher
by occupation Family history nega
tive Father of three healthy chil
dren Has no recollection of having
been previously sick On May 3 1S99
while cleaning cattle viscera he fell
and - a stationary meat hook upon
which the earts and lungs are hung
penetrated through the right hand be
tween the second and third metacarpal
bones A tendo vaginitis resulted
with some lymphangitis of the arm
He received the usual treatment for
an infected wound and apparently
made a gcod recovery with however
some limited motion of the fingers
and a sensitive scar at the site of
puncture Four months afterwards an
abscess formed in the axilla which
was cleaned out and tubercle bacilli
were demonstrated in the broken
down gland tissue At this time
there was no soreness in the arm
lymphatics or elbow gland but he
complained that there had been In
throe months afterwards or seven
months from the original accident he
died from pulmonary tuberculosis
System in Feeding
Animals cannot get the best results
from their feed unless it is given
them regularly and in quite uniform
portions Every farmer should have
a regular system for the feeding of
his farm animals whether the ani
mals be the ones used for the produc
tion of meat and milk or for the pro
duction of force to he expended in
labor Irregular meals are as bad for
animals as for human beings The di
gestive systems adapt themselves to
certain habits and seem to be as
much opposed to irregularity as If
they were sentient beings On many
farms there is no system of feeding
and the results obtained are poor
One man will work his horses for
hours beyond their regular meal
times During the last hour or so the
animal is losing vigor rapidly He is
given food when his strength is partly
exhausted Tne stomach had not the
vigor of digestion that it had at the
regular eating time and the result is
more or less disarrangement some
limes resulting in the imperfect diges
tion of the food taken This is a mat
ter that every human being has ex
perienced himself The results are
far more disastrous than we have
been led to suppose The fact is eas
ier to establish than the reason for it
The cow the pig and the sheep when
depending on man to do the feeding
fare best and thrive best when their
food comes in accordance with a reg
ular system It is not so much a
question of how many meals rn ani
mal has a day as of their reguaritv
Bare faced fibs are apt to grow up
and become bald headed lies
Moisture in Tobacco
The presence of moisture In tobacco
Is tho Lancet believes of somo Im
portance to public health uince tho
combustion of tobacco containing a
large proportion of moisture ia im
peded while as the generation of va
ocr is increased so are tho chances of
tho poisonous principle being carried
into the mouth
A Syllogism That Proves Much
The famous syllogism of
cles was that his infant son ruled tho
whole world proved thus
My infant son rules his mother
His mother rules me
I rule the Athenians
Tho Athenians rule the Greek3
And the Greeks rule the world 1
United States Fish Catch
According to the National Geo
graphic Magazine the total catch of
food fishes in tho United States and
Alaska as shown by the last canvass
was 1733314324 pounds- valued at
45531165 The number of men em
ployed was 214056 and tho capital In
vested was 722G1MG
Of Wide Interest
Breed Wis July 18 Special
Charles Y Peterson Justice of tho
Peace for Oconto Co has delivered
a judgment that is of interest to the
whole United States Put briefly that
Judgment is Dodds Kidney Pills are
the best Kidney medicine on the mar
ket to day
And Mr Peterson gives his reason
For this judgment -vile says Last
winter I had an aching pain In my
oack which troubled mo very much
the morning I could hardly straight
en my back I did not know what it
was but an advertisement led mo to
ry Dodds Kidney Pills After taking
Dne box I can only say they have done
aiore for me than expected as I feel
as well now as ever I did before
Pain in the back is ono of the first
symptoms of Kidney disease If not
sured by Dodds Kidney Pills It may
develop into Brights Disease Dia
betes Rheumatism or some of tho
other deadly forms of Kidney Disease
Ban on American Dentists
The Supreme Court of Germany has
rendered an opinion that the title of
doctor conferred by American dental
colleges is not to be recognized in
Germany constituting a violation of
the German law against unfair compe
tition and is therefore prohibited to bo
used Three hundred end twenty den
tists in Germany who heretofore held
the title of doctor from American col
leges are affected by this decision
Youth a Relative Quality
Youth has nothing to do with year3
the real youth that accepts life and
learns from it the lessons which exalt
and purify But it is given to fevr
to carry with them into old age the
splendor of the dawn to retain the
old unconquerable hope to the end
Those few however are the salt of
the earth whether they write or dig
or sweep crossings
Learning Russian at Heme
Swallow a white seidlitz powder
following it with a blue one Then
simultaneously swallow a big drink of
water and inhale some finely pow
dered cayenne pepper Have a phono
graph handy when the trouble starts
and you will have on record the city
directory of St Petersburg Balti
more American
Keep Most of Products at Home
In the city of Smyrna there are
factories that make thread yard cal
ico prints for head wear boxes etc
there are Hour mills machine shops
carriage and cart factories and a
cigarette factory None of the manu
factured articles with the exception
of carpets is exported
Is It Not Worth While
if you travel on business or pleasure
to got the best service for tho lowest
rates Ask the Erie Railroad Com
pany 55 Railway Exchange Chicago
for full information Booklets free de
scribing Summer Tours and the Beau
tiful Chautauqua Lake Region also
Cambridge Springs
New Value of Aluminum
A German experimenter Herr
Eernhard noting the structure of
aluminum decided to try it for putting
an edge on fine cutting instruments
such as surgical knives razors etc
He found that it acted exactly like a
razor hone of the finest quality
More Flexible and Lasting
wont shake out or blow out by using
Defiance Starch obtain
you better re
sults than possible with any other
brand and one third more for same
money
Oldest Woman in World
Madrid claims to have the oldest
woman in the world Maria Nieto
who has lived in three centuries hav
ing been born in 1781 She was twice
married and had nineteen children all
cf whom she survives
Occasionally a man marries because
he imagines a divorce suit is less ex
pensive than a breach of promise suit
Ccrnu Medals
An influential committee has been
formed in Paris for the purpose of
striking a medal in honor of the mem
ory of the late Prof Cornu The com
mittee includes many members for
eign associates and correspondents of
tue Institute of France as well as oth
er leaders m the scientific world The
medal will be in bronze silver bronze
and silver and the price will be 15
francs 20 francs and 50 francs re
jpectively
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