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ohmbw Mouxml w t- V - - a 3 a. J 3 VOL. XLX.-NO. 18. COLTJMBUS, NEB. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1888. WHOLE NO. 954. m c o ! o o r o o o o o o o I COLUMBUS STATE BANK. COLUMBUS, NEB. Cash Capital - $100,000. DIRECTORS: LEANDER GERHARD, Vn-JU ' GEO. W. 1IULST, Vice Pres't. JULIUS A. REED. It. II. HENRY. J. E. TASKER, Caohier. smd Eichannf. CellectleaM Promptly Made all PelatN. ry lHterMt est Time epew- Ita. 274 i m OF- COLUMBUS, NEB. CAPITAL STOCK, $50,000. OFFICERS: C.H. SHELDON, Prea't. V. A. MCALLISTER. Vico Pres C. A. NEWMAN. CaHhier. DANIEL SCIIRAM, Ass't Cash. STOCKHOLDERS: J. P. BECKER. JONAS WELCH, .1. I . Hrxvci., CARL RKINKE, J. H.WUKDEMAN. GEO. W. GALLEY, 11. i H. OEHLUICH, II. M.-W1NSLOW, ARNOLD OEHLBIGH. This Bank transacts a regular Banking Busi net, will allow interest on time deposits, mako collections, buy or sell exchange on United States and Europe, and buy and pell availablo socuritiee. o We shall be pleased to receive your business. We solicit jour patronage. 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Each box contains oae month's treatment. $1.00 a box, or six boxes for S3.00.aest by mail prepaid on receipt ofpnce. WE GUARANTEE SIX BOXES To core any case. With each order received by us for six boxes, accompanied with 95.00, we will aead the purchaser oar written guarantee .to re fund the money if the treatment does not effect 7 core. Guarantees issued only by D0? Becher, druggists, sole agents, Columbus, fieb. decTgy , HENRY G-ASS. TJNDEETAKEE ! COFFINS AND METALLIC CASES "Benairina of all kinds of Upliol- tterjf Ooods. 4t COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. rMKwJjy3ftgywEiMEMi WaBwBwBwBwBW SaaaBSsnSBaSSswaSaWnwaWsWSVSw FACTS, NOT FANCIES. SENATOR FRYE COMPARES PRO TECTION AND FREE TRADE. The Former Gives the Working Man Good Wages, Good Food, Good Clothes, mad Glvea HU Children Education The Lat ter Means Starvation. One party favors a protective tariff chiefly for the best interests of men who work for wages. What is a protective tariff? Let me illustrate it so that it will be within the comprehension of this bright eyed boy I see sitting before me, and in the illustration I shall be governed by facts, not by fancies. Wherever I give wages I shall give those abroad at the highest, and those at home at the lowest. Now if yon please consider for awhile Woodstock to be the United States; New Haven, England; and I take Eng land because it is the best wage pay ing country in the world outside this re public. I propose to build a twelve set woolerujaittaepa at Wooasiocay United States, and its exact counterpart in New Haven, England. I commence here In Woodstock, United States. I pay men who excavate for the foundation from $1 to $1.40 a day, and the men who work in the quarry and set the stone, from $ 1.50 to $2 a day; men who make the bricks, from $1.50 to $2 a day; the painters, from $2 to $8 a day; the quarriers of slate, from $1.50 to $2 a day; the masons who lay the bricks, from $2 to $3 a day; and when my mill is complete it has cost me $400, 000, 00 per cent, of the whole amount be ing money paid for labor. I step across into New Haven, for the time being Eng land, and 1 proceed to erect the same milL To the men who excavate I pay from 45 to CO cents a day; to those who quarry tho rock and lay the founda tion from 60 to 80 cents a day; to the brick makers from SO cents to 80 cents a day. I go to Staffordshire and hire, it may be, 100 women to make my bricks, and pay them 84 cents a thousand; or, it may be, I hire some little girls, barefooted and bareheaded, from 10 to 14 years of age, to carry the wet day In my brick yard on their little bare heads, from 6 to 8 cents a day. I pay my masons at from 73 to 85 cents a day; my slaters $1 a day; my painters from 60 cents to $1 a day; and when my mill is completed, it .has cost me $200,000. Why this mill $200, 000 and tho mill in Woodstock $400,000? What makes this Immense difference in cost? Remember that the mill is 90 per cent, labor. Remember that the trees in our forests, the clay in our banks, the stone and slate in our quarries, the coal in our mines and the iron in the earth, are as cheap as In Europe. 'What, then, makes the mill here cost twice as much as there? Clearly, only that labor here is paid more than twice as much as labor there. I now build my machinery for the mill in Woodstock, the United States. I pay my machinists from $2.50 to $5 a day, and it costs me $75,000. I step over into New Haven, England, and I pay my best machinist $2 a day, and my machinery costs me $36,000. Remember that of the machinery 90 per cent, at least is labor. Now the mills are complete, and here in Woodstock, the United States, I hire my men and my women, my sorters, my spinners, my weavers and my dressers. 1 pay my women from $6 to $8 a week, my men from $10 to $20 a week. I get out a case of cloth at a cost to me of Just $100. I go over into New Haven, Eng land, and hire my men and my women. I pay my women from $1.90 to $8 a week, my men from $4 to $7 a week. I get out a like case of goods, and find its cost to be just $80. Now if I can take that case of cloth, costing $80, bring it here and sell it in competition with tho case which has cost here in Woodstock $100, don't you see I can sell it for $90, $10 less than tho cost of the caso here, and still make a profit of $10? How long, then, will my mill in Woodstock run against such com petition as that? Now the Democratic party says, under its doctrine of free trade the right to buy in tho cheapest markets and sell in the dearest make all the goods yon please over there in New Haven, England, send them freely here, and sell them in competition with the goods made in Woodstock. But, my Democratic friend, will not the mill in Woodstock be compelled to stop? "No." How can it run? There is but one way on the face of the earth it can. and that is by cutting down the wages of the men who work on the excavations, in the quarries, on the foundation, in the brickyard; of the plasterers, tho "painters, the wood workers, the slaters, the machinists, and the men and women who work in the mills, to the wages paid in New Haven, England, and then the mill can run. Says my friend who works in the mill: "I cannot work, Mr. Frye, for any such wages as those you have named." "Yes fou can, for they do in Europe." "But couldn't have meat every day, and the comforts and luxuries for my family they ,now enjoy." "No, you couldn't; but you could have meat as often as once or twice a week. You could have soup every day, thick coffee sweetened with molasses and a dark colored wheaten bread. That is free trade diet for workingmen." "But, Mr. Frye. I couldn't send my children to the schools." "No, with your present pride you could not dress them to your satisfaction to send them to school; and, indeed, you would need their services in the mill to help earn the bread they eat and such clothing as they wear." "But, Mr. Frye, I could not save any money; could never bur a home for my family." "No, you could not, .and the workers there do not. Inspector Wheatly. who devoted ten years to a study of the- condition or the wortungmen ox Knglanfl, in answer to a question, said: I do not know of one skilled artisan who owns a teeeof land or the house standing on t." Senator Rye's Fourth of July speech at Woodstock. Conn. Of UOUKSETHEY ARE INTtHHSrtD. An Kngilsh Journal Which Realises the Importance of Cleveland's Election. The American agents of British indus tries have not been able yet to muzzle the entire British press, though strict orders were sent over weeks ago to the English free trade newspapers to be silent on American politics. A recent issue of The London Sunday Times contains a long ed itorial on American affairs, supplement ing their correspondence from this side of the water. It sees the effect of Cleve land's policy as clearly as does its greater namesake, "The Thunderer." The fol lowing extract shows the drift of the ar ticle: "The electioneering campaign in America ought to be most interesting to the English people for historical, politi cal, philosophical and economic reasons. The main question at issue is English free trade against the Continental system of protection. The republic is on trial. Good, conservative government under Cleveland is opposed by the rule or ruin party of Blaine, whose friends nom inated Harrison, and who would certainly be secretary of state under a Harrison administration. Thus the American peo ple are directly involved in the contest through their pockets, which will be af fected by the tariff, -and their future, which would be seriously influenced by the restoration to power of such a fire brand as Blaine, with-his home rule sym paties and anti-Canadian policy. The American election Is infinitely more la- E irtant to Englishmen than their own ternal politics lust at this junc ture, and they should observe' every vhase.of.the casassig3icl0selx.and iitWWw stanaingiy. it U'trom tnis point cr vtow that the copious dispatches to The Sun day Times are cabled. The mntdc of the American election will be.'p to decide many important issues in Great Britain." New York Dispatch to Philadelphia Press. nsrrnoa rrotecnonUt-at IV. To give some notion of the cJhss of '52 at Miami, Gen. Wallace quotes the state ment of Mr. Lewis W. Ross, of Council Bluffs, la., who was one of Mr. Harrison's fifteen classmates. Mr. Ross says: "This class varied in worldly wealth and available brains about as other classes have done. David Swing, of Chicago, took second honors, and Milton Savior, now of New York city, took tho first hon ors. Harrison, in class standing and merit, ranked abovo tho average Ho was respectable in languages and sciences, and excelled in political economy add his tory. Harrison had a good voice and a pure diction. He talked easily nuJ lat ently. The subject of his graduating address was The Poor of England,' and his treatment of it showed that ho had sounded both tho depths and tho causes of this poverty. lie was a protectionist at the age of 19. He is a protectionist still." Review of Wallace's Life of Har rison. "Short Hair" Chicago "Peiacrwtt, Chicago Democrats are divided into two sections, one of which is known as the "short hair" crowd, and is led by ex-Mayor Carter Harrison. The "short hairs" have not had a "smell" of patronage since President Cleveland came into power. President Cleveland's course with refer ence' to Chicago appointments has been constantly unfavorable to Carter Harrison and his friends until recently. His ap pointment of John A. King as postmaster is tho first recognition they have had. CoL George R. Davis says that King is a wealthy wholesale druggist, and in his opinion the appointment indicates that President Cleveland wishes to placate all elements of his party in Illinois, with the view of trying to carry the state. New York Tribune. it jaestioaa, If the tariff on wool 36 per cent. Is "robbery," as the Democrats claim, what is tho tariff on sugar which is 83 per cent.? If the tariff on wool Is robbery, what is the tariff on rice, which is 100 per cent.? If the object of the Mills bill is to re duce the revenue by reducing the tariff, why not reduce the tariff on sugar, which produces $58,000,000, instead of removing altogether the tariff on wool, which pro duces only $5,000,000 revenue? If the object of reducing the tariff is to lighten the farmer's burdens why not re duce it on sugar, which the farmer has to buy, instead or removing it from wool, which he raises to sell? Philadelphia News. An Apt Comparison. Troy, N. Y., is a great linen manufact uring town. It has some of tho largest factories in the United States, and bears the same relation to this country as Lon donderry does to Great Britain and Ire land The Troy Times has recently been making an inquiry Into the wages paid in the two cities. Here is the comparison it makes: Deny (Ireland). Troy. Stilted cutters. S160&8 flftQSO Girls in stitching room v G0Q8 10QU Girls in launddes 800Q5 19&20 The workmen In the factories at Troy are practically unanimous for the main tenace of the tariff. Many of them know from personal experience the difference between the two cities in the matter of wages. Free Trad and the Slav Basinets. "The removal of so many firms from large centers to country shops is telling on us in Lynn," said Luther S. Johnson, a large shoe manufacturer of Lynn, Mass., to a Boston Advertiser reporter. "Talk about free trade, why those coun try shops are more than a match for us, and if foreign competition were also added, I don't know what we should do. Many shops that have moved away get labor al most 50 per cent, cheaper than we do. They are selling shoes for sixty-five cents that it costs us nearly seventy cents to make. That five cents a pair is a bifl item." Tho North Carolina Democrat) Quarrel. The violent quarrel which has orison between the freo trade and protectionist wings of the Democracy in North Caro lina should encourage the Republicans to renewed efforts lu that state. North Carolina is Republican at heart; tho tar iff sentiment is strong and deon, and an earnest, aggressive contest could hardly fail to securo tho electoral voto of the stato for the Republican ticket. Phila delphia Press. Starvation for the fYoffangmcu. Nathaniel McKay, the well known ship builder and contractor, has gene to Eu rope ou a business trip, during which ho intends to investigate the condition of labor abroad as compared with its condi tion here. Just before ho sailed he said: "1 shall publish the result of my investi gations so that workingmen may see what their destiny will be under freo trade starvation." John T. Dunn, of Union county, ex speaker of the New Jersey assembly, has loft the Democracy, and says it is a toss up whether or not he will stump the state for Harrison. Other Irish-Americans of Elirabethport will follow his ex ample. New York Press. anej An ter Hnrrlaoa. The Messrs. Lauts and Albert Stover, large soap manufacturers of Oswego, for merly for Cleveland, are out for Harrison and against the Mills bilL Their business employs a thousand workmen. New York Press. There is one thing wnien a gooa many people would like to know, and that b whether "Mr. Morey," the eminent forger in the campaign of 1880, is coee more on the pay roll of the wtiiiT Democratic committee. r the Engineers, Engineers on the Great Northern rail way, England, are given at least nine hours' rest between one day's labor and another, as a precaution against accidents. Chicago Herald. Thee Ol Griggs What on earth is the matter with the lady over there? Has she the St Vitus dance? Briggs Oh, no; she's Just trying to put on a pair of new gloves. Judge. Adam was not as good as he might liava been, but he never reeled off lies by the yard about the pranks of his schooldays, Philadelphia Call. A doctor's report would properly coma under the head of the news of the weak, Duluth Paragrapher. Mr. Cleveland Beams to be taxing ma wonted pains with that letter of accept ance. And he'd better. Hartford Cour- ani. awtntanla mPar&as had on good result: It has devetafed a fashianior walking among women. Never allude to a dressmaker as Miss Sew-and-aew. Binghamton Republican, LSifi GROVER TAKES A HEADER. rf.smtr San Francisco Chronicle. POLITICAL POINTS. Gen. Harrison's model speeches are ad mired by all who hear and read them, and the Indiana man is gaining friends by thousands. Those- who know him best love him best. There is a most striking contrast between him and Mr. Cleveland, who In 1884 ran behind his party ticket and was beaten in his own county, in his own city and in his own ward, because he was longest and best known in his own county, city and ward. Tho editor of Tho Buffalo News, among the first New York Democrats to bring Mr. Cleveland out of obscurity, says there is little hope of his re-election. He asserts that the Democratic confidence heard early in the campaign is no longer heard; that the betting of two to one has ceased and the bets are now on odds the other way. The United States manufactures nearly four-fifths as much cloth and clothing as England, one-fourth more than Germany and a third more than Franco, and its people use nearly all of it. The pauper labor of England produces more than twice as much as its wealthy and poor alike can afford to buy. Democratic organs, Including those with the mugwump barrel attachment, are busily denying that the Mills bill means free trade, while to say that it means protection is the same as saying that black is white. English supporters of the Cleveland administration are more frank in construing the meaning of the bilL English newspapers are still favoring the Democratic plan of reducing the sur plus by sending a large part of it across the water to British manufacturers. There are nearly 40,000 members of Re publican League clubs in Indiana, and the number is rapidly increasing. Meanwhile the Democrats are waiting for some one to open the bungholo and start the bar rel rolling. The rate of wages in the iron industry in England has fallen 21 per cent, during the last twenty-two years. During the same time wages in the United States have risen in some branchesover 50 per cent. THE MILL8 BILL. It la Oao Long Discrepancy Some of Its Glaring Imperfections. The Mills bill is one long discrepancy, first, because it does not make its reduc tions evenly, so that all would share the retrenchment of protection alike; second, because in making reductions haphazard, it nearly always hits hardest the finished product. Here are some examples, the Imports and duties being for 1887: Take two agricultural products sugar and wooL Sugar, whose price has been advanced by a trust, and which pays $58, 016. 68R, every penny out of the consumer's pocket, is reduced a fifth, so that the price to you, which moves by cents and not fractions, will not be cheapened. Wool, which pays $5,899,816 on one-fourth of our consumptioa, and whose duty lowers price by stimulating product, so that the consumer does not pay all the tax, la de prived of all protection and made free altogether. Needles are made free, iron ore is left under old duty. Tin plate Is made free, the sheet iron out of which tin plate must be made and all that lies behind is left with a duty of 35 to 70 per cent. Wood screws, made in a Democratic district in Connecticut, unchanged; cut tacks and sprigs, made in New Jersey and elsewhere, reduced in duty one-half. Cotton ties, free; the hoop iron of which cotton ties are made, 35 per cent. Structural iron, which requires special machinery and special skill to roll it, six tenths of a cent a pound; Iron and steel beams which do not, seven-tenths of a cent per pound. Steel flat, advanced by longitudinal ribs, ready to make fencing, four-tenths of a cent a pound, say 30 percent.; the same flat at on earlier stage, 45 per cent. Burlaps, under sixty Inches in width, free; over sixty Inches, 25 por cent. both made in the United States one deprived, the other given protection. Jute bags for grain, free; jute bags for potatoes, three-eighths of a cent per pound. Raisins, grown in California, cut down one-third; peanuts, grown In southern states, cut down one-fourth; oranges, grown in Florida, close state, untouched, Freestone, granite and sandstone, un dressed, northern building stone, free; marble, undressed, Tennessee product, forty cents per cubic foot. China, clay and kaolin, dug in Virginia and other southern states, $3 per ton; the china made out of it in New Jersey, plain, reduced from 55 to 40 per cent. ; decorated, 60 to 50 per cent. Pig iron, made, we aro glad to say, in twelve southern Btates, reduced from $6.72 per ton; to $6; steel pens, made in Camden, N. J., and elsewhere, reduced from twelve cents per gross to 35 per cent., equal to two cents per gross. Lastly, the worst discrepancy about the Mills bill is that while it pretends to reduce the revenue from duties, it will increase the revenue by stimulating im ports. New York Press. DEMOCRACY AND THE TRUSTS. The Three If est Gigantic Monopolies In Frist ence Are In Its Control. From this time forth no Democrat need open liis lips to say a word against trusts. He and his party are hopelessly committed In support of this peculiar form of mo nopoly. The vote in the house on the sugar amendment to the Mills bill fixes the last link in the chain of damning evi dence. These are the three great monop olies, the managers of which control prices at their will: The Standard oil trust, the sugar trust and the whisky trust. The first of these is the most gigantic monopoly In the world. It crushes all opposition and fixes the price of a uni versally used commodity with the utmost nicety. No man may buy a gallon of kerosene or other coal oil products at a price less than that which the Standard 041 trust has made for him. The Standard Oil trust ramifies into every branch of the government, into every department of commerce Its representative in Mr. Cleveland's cabinet is Mr. Whitney, sec retary of the navy. Its representative in the senate is Mr. Payne, senator from Oslo. Its representatives in the house are J. H. Othwaite. of Columbus, O., and W. L. Scott, of Erie, Pa. All these gen tlemen are Democrats Tne largest consumer or tin piate m tne United States is the Standard oil trust. That concern demands that tin plate, used for its packages, shall be placed on the free list. The obedient servants of the Standard oil trust have reduced tho tariff ou tin plate in tho Mills bill so that the duty is to be placed at its lowest pos sible notch. The demand for the reduc tion of tho duty on tin plate comes from tio other source than that of the great many armed polypus the Standard oil trust. Newark Advertiser. The Campaign of 188S. Either the Tennessee Republicans are unusually active or else The Louisville Courier-Journal war.ts to frighten the Democrats of that state, for it claims to have private Information that tho Repub licans are planning to carry Tennessee by a still hunt. The weak points of the Democrats, it says, are divisions and dif ferences hi their own rauks and the hos tility of the manufacturers. Tno Democrats in Massachusetts ars robably tho worst rattled political organ ration in any state. They have held no ratification meeting as yet, and no date Ljias bdestfixed for one. They expected to persuauo congressman tiusseii to run zor governor, but he positively refuses. Gen. Butler predicts a Republican majority of at least 80,000. Evidently the Mugwumps aro spending no money this year in Massa chusetts. The California Democrats were informed that if they would nioko au effort to carry that state they could have a "sack" of money from tile east. So they havo be gun to work the Chinese question by per suading tho Chinese residents to get up meetings and express their satisfaction over the nomination of Harrison. A Republican campaign in Vermont nover showed as much activity and enthu siasm as the present one does, and it will not need any unusual expenditure of money to bring the majority next month abovo the figures for some years past. Tho effort of the Democratic Springfield Republican to discount the effect in ad vance will hardly succeed. A Question of Bread and nutter. Of what avail is a cheaper suit of clothes or a cheaper blanket if you have not the money to buy either one or the other? We are fighting now for the existence of our mills and factories. Fighting to keep them open. Fighting to keep nearly a million men and women employed right hero in these three states. Fighting to keep them from swooping down, im pelled by hunger and tho desire for em ployment, upon the absolutely protected occupations and reducing wages In their eagerness for bread. It is a question of bread and butter, not of politics. New York Press. A Change of Banners. The Democrats aro already very tired of tho red bandanna as an emblem. They are making desperate efforts to change tho subject from dirty handkerchiefs to Chi nese flags. As Mr. Cleveland Is now, un der the facts brought out by their own too hasty investigations, recognized as a friend of Chinese immigration, the Chi nese flag will suit admirably as a Demo cratic banner. Virginia (Nov.) Enter prise. tittle Faith In "Experts." I confess that I attach no sort of Im portance to the question whether the signa tures are declared to bo genuine by experts, because I myself could so closely imitate Mr. Paraell's signature that no expert would bo able to Vfclngnih between bis name written by himself and written by me. In proof of this, I make tho following sporting offer to The Times, to experts, or to any one else who will take up the challenge. I will sub mit twenty sheets of paper signed C. S. Par nell, and I will make a bet that it will be Im possible to say which are genuine signatures and which are not. Any ono who takes this bet shall have full opportunity to study the twenty sheets, and may call to his aid all the experts in the world, N. IS. 'I am a man of business, and, as I am ready to stake the money, I shall expect any one taking up this challenge to do the same. Henry Labouchere In Loudon Truth. An Administration Trick. The straits to which the Democrats have been driven by the exposure of their unpatriotic attitude on the tariff question are well Illustrated by the campaign docu ment issued (at the public expense) by Land Commissioner otocKslager and de scribed in the Washington despatches to Tho Tribune. The report claims that tho administration has added over two million acres of land to the public domain, and n sample "restoration1' is that of 32,400 acres of Northern Pacific lands, which had been located on the wrong side of a sur veyor's line. This land was "restored" to tho government by giving the Northern Pacific railroad 22,400 acres on the oppo site side of the line in question in its stead. This is the sort of thimblerigging that the Democratic administration is in dulging in to catch votes. Now York Press. Tapping the Democratic Bar!. A secret circular from the Democratic headquarters in North Carolina, which lias somehow gained publicity, contains a piteous call for campaign funds, and in the event that they are not forthcoming prophesies defeat for Cleveland. With states hitherto Democratic becoming more doubtful every day, the party certainly has need of all the aid it can get from Jay Gould, the Standard Oil Interests, Nickel-plate Briee, monopolist Scott, and the rest. At the rate the barl is being tapped now, it must be a big one to hold out. Indianapolis Journal. The Canadians Becognlxe It. That Mr. Cleveland's efforts to bring about free trade and the consequent ben efits to Great Britain are appreciated by the Canadians, la shown by the following clipping from The Toronto World: "Fol lowing President Cleveland's last message the Mills bill, approved by the Democratie majority in the nouse, would be an im portant step toward free trade, while it Is equally certain that the bill now being framed by Republican senators will strongly affirm both the principles and practices of protection.' Gen. Harrison's Speeches. The Democratic papers are saying In general terms that Gen. Harrison Is mak ing entirely too many speeches for a presidential candidate, and that they are of poor quality. The fact is if they thought so they would say nothing about it. Cindnnat! Commercial Gazette. Indeed, The Democrats want to call It "Pro gressive Free Trade. Is creeping paraly sis any better than the nor sudden kind! Buffalo Fxprssi o stepmone a-oannie wrenoas is. Well paid labor has become one of the corner stones of the Republican party, and therefore its representatives in con gress pertinaciously resist the Mills bill. Milwaukee Wisconsin. Syrsp of Fig Is Nature's own true laxative. It is the most easily taken, and the most effective remedy known to Cleanse the System when Bilions or Costive; to dispel Head aches, Colds and Fevers; to cure Habit ual Constipation, Indigestion, Piles, etc. Manufactured only by the California Fig Syrup Company, San Francisco, Cal. For sale only by Dowty & Becher. 27-y DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN LIES. of the hiiftiHil Attempts Already Had to lajmra Hantaan. It is finite evident that tho managers of the Pet aocratic campaign have Issued or ders t make a simultaneous attack along the whole line, to stop, if possible, the wholesale stampede ox workingmen from then party into the ranks of the one devoted to protection to American Indus try. On no other hypothesis can the present outbreak of lies against Gen. Harrison be accounted for. The Journal proposes to catalogue a, few of the baldest and most notorious lies that have come to its notice, with the liars who utter them or are made responsible for them, wherever they can be identified: Lie No. 1. That at a meeting In this city in 1877 Gen. Harrison sala to the railroad strikers that he would have every train run, or "wade in blood to his finger tips." This lie, in this special form, is credited to "Uncle" Ben Zahm, of Rood house, His. Lie No. 2. That at a meeting in this city in 1877 Gen. Harrison sola to the railroad strikers: "Were I governor I would force yon back, or you "would be shot down like dogs." This lie. sub stantially in this form, has been repeated a number of tunes, but as quoted here is attributed to one E. F. Gould, of this city, and Is printed as coming from him in The New York Herald Lie No. 8. That Gen. Harrison said to the railroad strikers: "Your wages afford you a living. Workingmen do not need fie, cake or sugar. All these are luxuries hat you seldom enjoy. A dollar a day and two meals, consisting of good breaa, butter and sow belly, is enough for any workingman." This lie is also credited to E. F. Gould, and is printed as coming from bun in The New York Herald. Lie No. 4. A letter to The Journal says that on a train of the Pittsburg. Fort Wayne and Chicago railroad the conduc tor handed the writer the following, written on yellow manifold paper, on type writer, accredited to The Milwaukee Dafly Review: "GOOD PBOTBCTfONlBT DOCTBHrB. " 'Better for the workingmen that they be willing to content themselves to work for ten cents per day rather than incur the risk of being thrown out of employ ment by then masters, because of their efforts, by means of organization, to se cure increase of wages. A dune will buy two loaves of bread, and water can be had for asking. Even this poor fare is better when eaten in Independence than that doled out by the hand of charity. . "These words were uttered by Benja min Harrison, the Republican nominee for the presidency, while making a speech at Attica, Ind., during his gubernatorial campaign against Blue Jeans Williams in 1876." The conductor who handed this slip to The Journal correspondent says It was "being busily circulated by a Mr. Reed, lost car accountant of the Pennsylvania company." Lie No. 5. Mr. E. F. Gould, of this city, in his New York Herald Interview, repeats tius lio about the Attica speech in sub stantially the same words.' Lie No. 6. The Golden (Colo.) Transcript quotes a letter, which it says was written by Mr. Condon, of Bloomington, His., to a countryman and personal friend in this city, in which he says: "Ben Harrison stated here eight years ago, in Durly hall, in this city, that it was a well known fact that the Irish race fur nished most of the occupants of the peni tentiaries, and that the only thing he knew to be good in us was to shovel dirt and grade railroads." Lie No. 7 et aL These refer, generally, to Gen. Harrison's relations to the soldiers under his command; that ho was harsh and cruel; stringing men up by the thumbs for light offenses; neglected the sick and dying of his command, etc., etc., and that out of 145 members of his com mand In this city 93 declare that they will vote for Cleveland. As to each and all of the others, The Journal desires to mako a job lot of them, and of any others of similar import or purport, and to say that such of them, and all of them, in essence, in spirit, in form and substance, in word, phrase and sen tence, in every possible aspect, are pure, unmitigated, baseless, venomous false hoods, and the men and the papers mak ing themselves responsible for them, in any way, are common liars ana slanderers. Minneapolis JoumaL SLAVERY AND FREE TRADE. A High Protective Tariff Necessary to tht. Prosperity of the Country. From the year 1824 to 1832 the country was in s prosperous condition. Why? Because there was a high protective tariff, and Henry Clay said it was the most pros garous period of the administration. But lay, at the dictation of the southern leaders, submitted in 1833 a bill known as the "compromise tariff." which, as soon as it became a law, was felt all over the country, business of all kinds became depressed, and in 1837 a great panic broke out and continued until 1840. Previous to 1840 the working people began to com bine and the' nominated the grandfather of the Republicans' present candidate applause, and by their united efforts V,a WM iutHt wu vlptrtrttna Tn lfi.12 a new tariffbul was enacted, and it was J surprising to see how soon the free soup houses were closed and the men who had been seen lounging on the Btreetswere nowhere visible, mills were opened and everything denoted prosperity. I came to America a free trader of good old Welsh extraction, but I soon began to investigate the platform of the two par ties and I found that the Democratic party were the advocates of Blavcry and also the advocates of free trade. They were the people who tried to break up the Union, while the Republican party was just the reverse. I began to study, and found that the south were free traders and slave holders and against the interests of this country, and particularly of the laboring men of the north. I am a protectionist because I believe in an American standard of labor on Ameri :an wages. Whenever the Democratic papers quote prices they always quote English prices. I don't know what for, tinless "it's English, you know." A man told me once he was converted a free trader in a theater one evening, be cause a man near him -had a suit on which he had purchased from a fashionable tailor and paid $55, while the suit be had on only cost him $25. which he purchased in London. But here note the difference in the prices paid for the labor. In Lon don the tailor received four shillings for the making of the suit, while in this country the tailor received $2.50 and the cutter $4. Do you expect to get a suit of clothes for the same money when the wages are three tunes as much as in Eng land? The puddlers in Philadelphia get $4 per ton and in England $1.62. John Jarrett to Philadelphia Workingmen. ENGLAND'S GREAT INTEREST. Extracts from British Jwntla Showing Their Sympathy with Cleveland. It is useless for Democratic organs to belittle the strong preference expressed by the British press for the success of the Democratio ticket, or to endeavor to blind the people as to its significance. Ameri cans thoroughly realize one thing and they will be governed by the consid eration when they go to the polls in No vember. England doss not desire the election of Grover Cleveland through any love of us or for the benefit of our indus tries. 8he has always sought to secure a monoDoly of the marketa.of. the .world ana u sne oenevea tnst tne uemocratle policy would be to our advantage Instead of to her own. she would not be found en couraging it. Some of the British papers have oeen frank enough to admit what would be the result of the success of that policy and how they are interested: "In the cosiest botweea Mr. Harrison and Mr. Cleveland." says The London People, "it la not to Mr. Harrison that this country should wish success. For the question at issue Is. broadly speaking, s question of free trade against protec tion." "British sympathies." says the Edin burgh Scotsman, "cannot fail to bo on the side of President Cleveland. The Repub licans have chosen to ally themselves with the enemies of this country." "The Republican cause, says the Man chester Examiner, "will not commend itself to English Liberals. They cannot but regret that a great party should make tho exploded doctrine of protection a leading plank in its platform." "The central issue of the contest." savs Tho London Globe, "lies between the maintenance of the present fiscal system intact and its modification in the direction of freo trade. And on that broad question Mr. Cleveland's candidature naturally and necessarily carries English sympa thy." "Tho electoral conflict now in progress," says The London News, "is a conflict be tween free trade and protection and noth ing less." "Tho only time England can use an Irishman." says The London Times, "is when he emigrates to America and votes for freo trade." In tho face of such expressions as these from representative British journals, isn't It time for Amerlcans'to consider whether thby can afford to support a candidate and a policy so highly favored by onr commer cial rivals and enemies? Buffalo News. Gould and tho Democratic Canvass. The Democratic managers have begun to deny the story about the close relations existing between Jay Gould and the clique in charge of the free trade canvass, but sside from the fact that it was at first os tentatiously given out at their headquar ters, there is ample evidence that Mr. Gould sees In Cleveland's re-election his main chance for the perpetuation of his telegraph monopoly. Besides this, Mr. Gould is heavily interested In legislative schemes now pending In Washington, and which, having started with the powers now in control, must be carried through by them. A change of adminis tration would, therefore, seriously inter fere with the success of his plans. The Democratie committee was at first elated by the visit paid them by Dr. Norvin Green, -as well as with the $10,000 check that has followed it, but they are begin ning to realize now that there is too much monopoly and railroad patronage coming to them, and fear that it will have a bad effect on the working classes, already mado less than lukewarm by the tariff agitation. For this reason they have started in to disown the Gould crowd in public, though they are secretly hanking on some large sized checks from them in the near future. New York Letter. He Ought to Wear Bristles. The Boston Globe, which has been can vassing New England to find a manufact urer who is not opposed to the Mills bill. Is delighted with the opinions of a Mr. Dempsey, who, it is alleged, owns a bleachery in Lewiston, Me., and expresses himself as follows. But let us see what this gentleman wants. He is partially satisfied with the Mills bill bo cause it gives him freo raw materials without touching the tax on goods bo as to effect them; but even this is not enough, for ho insists that the duty on fine woolens, linens and cottons should be largely increased so as to enable our manufacturers to compete with foreign ers, who now get "the cream of the trade." That man should not wear wool, cotton or linen; bristles would becomo him better. He's a hog, as is any other man who asks comrrcss to protect his business by laying a heavy duty on his goods, and at the same tlmo havo other people at the mercy of the foreigners by abolishing all duties on what they pro duce. Concord (N. H.) Mirrorand Ameri can. Verily, It Is Enough. The estimato that English mannfse turers havo subscribed nearly 2.000.000 or $10,000,000 to tho Democratic cam paign fund means that at any rate they aro deeply Interested in forcing open tho doors of tho American market. Where there Is so much smoke there is a good deal of fire. Nobody knows just what the amount of their subscriptions is. but It is enough for true incorruptible Americans to know that tho are subscribing. New York Express. Why Ben Butler Opposes Free Wool. Gen. Bntler gives his reason for oppos ing freo wool as follows: "I oppose free wool now. because if we admit it to the free list wo can't keep our granger friends next year from taking off tho tariff on tho manufactured goods. Our tariff system has been carefully adjusted by long effort and the greatest care. We can't afford to pull any of tho props from under it." Philadelphia Press. And Still They Come. Republicanism Is rampant In tho city of Troy. Five Democratic ex -mayors of that city have announced their intention to support Harrison and Morton. Look out for a Republican tidal wave in November. Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. Foroa of Imagination. 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