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LABOR TO THE FRONT;
THE ARMY OF WORKWOMEN MUST
.STRIKE AT 0EM0CRA0Y.
Tfce Battle b bra Vmt Ceaas of
Maa'a Vote, aad Pretectlea a .'the PoUa
or Every fUcatfal Voter The Selld
Soa'.h.
The workingmen of America, said Mr.
Blaine, cannot be placed upon the Euro
pean level without their own consent
They have the right of suffrage, and can
vote to lessen their own opportunities
and reduce their own wages. Capital
takes good care of itself.
The ocean is less than a week's journey
wide nowadays, and laws of protection of
yearly increasing importance.
The inanuf adturers care -for themselves
always." They have inside news and are
apt at smart turns, and must find a
market according to their surroundings.
Will the American workingmen,' informed,
enlightened, 'armed and equipped with
equal rights, do lees' for themselves and
consent to the overthrow of the protec
tive laws?
This, in -Mr. Blaine's judgment. Is the
precise question that the Cleveland ad
ministration places before the people, and
anything that tends to obscure it weakens
the case of those who protect the country
by the restoration of the friends of the
United States to power.
Mr. Blaine's programme is, in a word,
to put labor votes of the labor army
and carry the whole field by striking the
Democratic line at its weakest point with
massed columns of the men of labor
whose instinct, as well as education,
warns them that the day has come when,
for their own sake, they must be practi
cal politicians. This is according to the
military maxim that the way to win a
battle is to find the right spot to make
the fight, and get there first with more
men than the enemy has.
The point is well taken, and consent
ing to it, we contend that it is not-thrown
into obscurity not overshadowed but
illuminated by impressing upon the
people the facts that we array, and enu
merate in this order:
1. That if all the workingmen in this
country had freely voted and their votes
had been fairly counted according to the
constitution of the United States four
years ago, James O. Blaine would have
had a popular majority-for president of
the United States of at least half amil
Hnn mu" lm would have been chosen
officially by a majority of more than fifty
electoral votes.
2. If all the workingmen of this coun
try could freely vote and have their votes
fairly counted in November next, there
would not be a film of doubt of the elec
tion of Harrison and Morton or of the pos
session by the Bepublican party of both
houses of congress after the 4th of March
next. It is the disfranchisement of black
Republicans in national affairs after their
emancipation and enumeration the es
tablishment of caste rule from Pennsylva
nia to Mexico, with the exception of a few
congressional districts that makes the
Mills bill possible, and provides the possi
bility of the continued defeat of the will
of the people at large.
Q Tho monniMTiiT mmldltiur with the d-
fensive system that protects our indus
tries through a 'tariff that discriminates
in our own favor originates in that sec
tion and thosstTBwlieTnaBSTjoYern
ment is established; where labor is sub
ordinated and degraded; where the latest
and most important provisions of the
Constitution are nullified; where public
opinion is not formed by freedom of
speech; where manhood suffrage Is not
sustained, and where it is -the popular
teaching that raising raw products for
exportation is the only reputable employ
ment of "the lords of creation." In other
terms, the Mills bill is representative of
communities that are not advanced in the
arts of prosperity and comfort and the
mechanical appliances that distinguish
the latest development of our civilization.
4. The Democratic majority in the
house is made up from the southern dis
tricts, in which there are enumerated, for
the purposes of representation and dis
franchised, the Bepublican majorities. In
nineteen of the districts no Bepublican
candidates are permitted to run.
The representatives of every one of
these districts, where the Bepublican ma
jorities are intimidated, and counted as
cattle to increase the voting power of
their masters or, if you prefer the term,
herdsmen were present and voted for the
Mills bill That measure, therefore, be
comes the business expression of the polit
ical power gained In the south by the nul
lification, which amounts to the abolish
ment of the war amendments to the con
stitution. It is the solid south holding the house
unconstitutionally that threatens the pro
tective system with revision byhostile
hands, and the message of President
Cleveland, made part of the Democratic
platform, is in precise accord with the
Confederate constitution; and the Canted-.
erates had in the days when they were
trying their memorable experiment of
Democratic government, the sympathy
and support of the British in their efforts
to return substantially to the old colonial
system and the Democratic party now
enjoys the same significant and sympa
thetic alliance. The solid south has
British countenance in assailing the inan
uf acturing industries of the more highly
developed parts of the south, as the
Southern Confederacy had it when war
ring to destroy the Union of the states.
There would be no sectional polities in
this country if manhood suffrage were
fully established. The southern trouble
is government by a class. Wo0 -16
old slave power in a new shape, but it if
not less offensive than of old.
Will it offend any if we ask: Why are
there twice as many votes cast for con
gressmen in Hsmilton county as in the
wholo state of Georgia?
Georgia has ten members of the house,
and we have two from this county. Here
is the penalty of the inequality of dti
sens. ft it were not for the existence of
a ruling class stronger than the constitu
tion in the south, tiie tariff would not be
threatened, the higher wouH I not be at
tacked by the lower civilization on thto
continent in that form; we should not be
looking at the spectacle of the exclusion
of Dakota because there a a hundred
thousand Republican votes there to pre
vent the narrowing of the margin Dy
which southern fraud rasps Mfaonal
power, and the attempted dictatorship of
representatives of Texas and Arkansas to
legislation hostile Ji'tbe taiattojn.
Pennsylvania, New Jersey. New York and
Vew England. We cannot escape from
the solid south by ignoring ft. We must
end it by breaking it. Cincinnati Com
mercial Gazette.
ABOUT ELECTION FRAUDS.
De.oerf Oppoae Parity of the Ballot.
.-..- D.hiicMi Werfc for IC
Gen. Harrison's referenceto the efforts
of the Republican party In Wjdfofdee.
toral reform in the course of his speech to
rhedeTegSons from three Indiana conn,
ties wlJre-ballot box stuffiJkg
Sands have been practiyt1?;
crats was appropriate to the og
The Benublican party. en. Hn
.said "has always stood for eiecwim
SSsaS&iSfss
every voter tnernir and" nor' exercise ot
the franohise those laws have been ex
acted by Republicans.- For years Repub
licans ' sought by Federal legislation to
protect the voters of the south in their
exercise of the franchise at congressional
elections and incidentally at state elec
tions held at the same time. When the
Democrats obtained a majority in the
house of representatives .they set them
selves at once to remove the Federal safe
guards to electoral purity. Being unable
to secure a repeal of the Federal elec
tion laws, because they have not since
their enactment 'controlled the executive
and the legislative departments at the
same time, they have contrived to make
those laws inoperative by refusing to
make the necessary appropriations to
carry them into effect. At the last con
gressional election, to use tho Democratic
E resident's language, the Federal election
lws were allowed to fall into "innocuous
desuotude." It will be the same at the
elections in November:
, A like policy has been pursued by .the
Democrats in the northern states. Though
some of the better men of the party in
Chicago urged the reform of the electoral
laws of Illinois after the ballot box frauds
'herein 1884 and. 1885, tho Democratic
members of the legislature steadily op
posed that reform. The new election law
which has proved such an excellent meas
ure was the work of Republicans. It was
carried into effect despite the opposition
of tho law department of the Democratic
city administration and the Democratio
county Judge, who was intrusted
with its administration on non-partisan
grounds. In Indiana the Democrats have
also steadily resisted electoral reform.
Two years ago the Democratio district
attorney, who is now one of the United
.States senators from the state as the re
sult of the Democratic frauds, failed to
enforce the laws, such as they were,
against the ballot box stuff era from whose
operations he profited and Gen. Har
rison's audience of Wednesday suf
fered. In the New York legislature
this year the Democrats opposed an elec
toral reform bill, and when it was passed'
by the .Republicans, despite Democratio
opposition, it was vetoed by the Demo
cratic governor. And so it has been with
tho Democrats in other states. They have
invariably opposed electoral reform.
"Find me," said Gen. Harrison, "the
party that sets the gate of election frauds
open or holds it open and I will show you
the party that expects to drive cattle that
way."
Turple, who defended ballot box stuffers
in Chicago, allowed ballot box stuffers in
Indianapolis to go scot free when it was
his duty to secure their conviction and
Sunishment, and who occupies tho seat
lched from the Republicans by Demo
cratio ballot box stuffers. will not fail to
appreciate Gen. Harrison's remarks. They
aro worthy more than passing attention,
as they foreshadow in the event of Repub
lican success, which now seems assured,
that the next Republican president will
Insist on the enforcement of the Federal
laws for the protection of the purity of
the batyot box, and advise their amend
ment to, insure that protection. Chicago
Tribune.
MINERS' WAGES.
They Are Lew fa This Ceaatry, bat They.
Are Much Lower la Eaglaad.
The free trade organs have a good deal
to say about the low wages paid to miners
in the coal and iron regions of this conn-"
try. It is true that the return for the'
tmmmdoiie -htbor end greet -dak whleh
miners have to undergo seems dispropor
tionate, and that it does not compare
very favorably with the pay which men
receivo in certain other Industries. But
this seems to be something universally
characteristic of the miner's calling. Tho
circumstance that a good deal of mine
labor comes very near the definition of
unskilled probably has considerable to do
with It. ft Is absurd at any rate for the
American ires traders to use the low
average of miners' wages in this country
as an argument in favor of the destruc
tion of the tariff, for low as they may bo,
the stipends of English miners are far
lower- A comparison of the two may be
instructive. This little table gives Eng
lish and American wages for mining
bituminous coal:
weekly
Oceupatioa. wans,
Bagtonrt.
Weekly
wages,
u.a
fl09
1900
10 00
1100
00
too
10 00
00
00
f CO
00
000
15 00
15 00
10 00
Hewers. IS
Tunnelera.
6 04
4 66
5 28
Shifters.
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Dcreauxaea.. ..
BolpefBoC
45S
489
OK
8 75
SSS.
8 59
460
670
060
660
408
Drivers.
Bwltchkeepeis
Cactmea
Smiths
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Joiners..
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BgHI66rS. .
liemen....
eweeeeeeeeeee
408
10 00
Thus It will be seen tnatjsngustt Bitu
minous coal .miners receive wages only
about half ai large as do-their American
brethren. The superior condition of .our
own wage earners In this industry isquite
conclusively shown by the fact that very
many of them are themselves Immigrants
who have found here more comforts than
they could get abroad. Nino or ten-dollars
a week, the lowest wages paid full
grown men in American coal mines, ac
cording to this table, are quite as low as
anybody, except the free traders, would
like to see them go. An approximation
to the miserable pittance of $4 and. even
less which some classes of English miners
receive may be a desirable thing from the
free trade point of view, but genuine
Americans would regard it as purchasing
mere cheapness at an .exorbitant cost.
Four dollar a week men may do lor a
monarchy, but they are not the kind of
ritisens for a free republic. Boston
Journal.
' BRITISH PRESS COMMENT. .
rtftmlaaa fihewl ' That
tea crereiaau'e
The London Iron and Steel Traders'
Journal speaks of the Democracy as "the
party which advocates entire freedom of
trade., '
.It is considered here that free trade
with us (In AmericaHs just what laneeded
to revive drooping .English industries.
London Dispatch to New York World.
He and they (Mr. Cleveland and the
Democratic leaders) have taken up again
the old free trade policy of the South
Carolina politicians. London Saturday
Review.
We shall be much mistaken if the effect
of this state communication will not be
to strengthen considerably the cause of
free traders in all parts of the world.
London Post.
Mr. Cleveland has taken his" stand on
free trade. And on that, broad question
Mr. Clevelsnd's candidature naturally and
necessarily carries English sympathy.
London Globe.
Theelectoral conflict now in progress is
between free trade and protection and
nothing less. The stone now set rolling;
wfflnot atop until it has broken Jthe idol
of protection to pieces. London News.
PROTECTION BRINGS 0000 WAGES.
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It
W better under protection than
yaSJgbmtna. Thto to dear when jhe
United Btatesana xmnro Kr'"-""'
bvside. wagea grow nuw v
?f JiT tmT ha? haaaaa clear In
ZTwhtae aWd. mine and mlByield
i.Jhan those of Fnjrawiil, beeause.tae
Ger-
landiaooorae. and feeds mere
therefore naff rar lower wages untu oer
many;adopted protection. Wages
grow; big under protection 'because the
output Is bigger, and the output is bigger
because protection leads men to work to
gether and get all they can out of Uncle
Sam's farm. Any system which does this
must! be good for wages.
Hoiv does protection do this? Take two
sets iil settlers side by side. It is dear
that the set which gets most out of farm,
mine' and mill will have most to divide.
Both sets must first work with the ax
and flow. All' new lands must. In one
lot men say, we will each day give a little
more work to get this coal pit sunk. We
will put in extra hours to set this forge
up. . A few hours more' each week shall
go to building a mill dam. If a man will
come here and set up his loom and spin
our wool we' will keep him in house and
board until he can turn his corner and
begin to make things cheap. We will use
what Is made here and we will use noth
ing else.
This all would cost more than to trust
to the ax and plow alone and sell what
was cut and raised -in the mart where all
was cheap. The cost of living would go
up where this plan was tried.. Each man
would have to work harder, but he would
get more for his work. There would be
more to divide and more to save. The
mine would be sunk, the forgo be hot, the
mill wheel turn and the loom would hum.
The farmer would get more for his land
and the worker more for his work. All
would be done on high pressure, and the
land would flow with fatness.
Even with this drawback, it is clear
this set of men would turn out more than
the one which took things as they came
and let all alone. It would have an ad
vantage over the one which put no prize
on hard work, and let the mine, the forgo,
the mill and the loom be set up when
'some man thought he could risk turning
from the field in which he knew there was
money to a new trade in which there
might be but was not likely to be with
old hands In the old country all In full
running shape. Wages would be lower
and would stay lower with this second
set, because less would be done. The
.man with a turn for setting a mill going
would think twice before ho did it with
no sure market open! and the man with
coal on his land would go on plowing for
food instead of digging for coal.
This is ail so plain and clear tnatno
man can gainsay it. It has been said be
fore and will be again, and it tells all the
truth about the way protection raises
wages, first by raising more out of which
to pay wages, and next by raising men
who work harder. Philadelphia Press.
PROTECTION AND EXPORTS.
A Wise Tariff Increases External Trade
aad Stimulates Preductloa.
One of Mr. Mills' fancied strong points
In favor of bis free trade measure' was .
that free Imports promote exports, or to
state tho case conversely, that protection
hindered exports. It has many times
been conclusively shown that the exports
of tho United States have increased in a
greater ratio than those of any other
country, and also that since 1870, when
Germany adopted the protection system,
that the exports of that nation increased
so enormously as to extort a jealous cry
from the English press, forcing it to ad
mit that it was within the bounds of
probability that in the near future the ex
ternal commerce of the German empire
would exceed that of Great Britain. Now
we are told by The Gazette Russe that
the export trade of Bussla is Increasing
Immensely.. Here Is Its longusge:
"However strange It may appear In tho
mldat of all complaints about the depres
sion of Russian trade, it is, nevertheless,
a fact that in 1887 Russia exported more
goods to foreign countries than ever be
fore during her history. The amount of
42,627,000 tchetverts of cereals nearly
equals the abnormal figures of 42,800,000
tchetverts for 1878, which was the result
of a blockade for two years. More linen,
more linseed and hempseed, and more
timber has been exported in 1887 than
ever before. The exportation of petro
leum has made great advances, increasing
every year. It has risen now to the figure
of 19,000,000 pounds. The Russian pe
troleum has succeeded at last in conquer
lng theEuropean markets." ,
It would appear from this that protec
tion not only protects, but it actually in
creases external trade by stimulating pro
duction to such an extent that there is
more than enough for home consumption.
In England, under free tradethe reverse
condition Is noted. English' agriculture,
which a few years ago was one of the
great sources of the prosperity of that
country, has been ruined, and the produc
tion has fallen off so 'generally that Eng
land, in case of aforeign war, could bo
Sromptly starved into submission, as she
oes not begin to raise enough food; to
subsist her population. San Francisco
Chronicle.
A TALE WITH A MORAL
Satlth Preyesed te Guard Bis Corn as
We-Sheaf d Aamericaa Industries.
John Smith had a board fence around
his corn field to keep out his neighbor
Brown's cows. Mr. Brown didn't like
this fence at alL His pastures were lean
and dry, and hei thought it would be a
fine thug If his cows could get Into Mr.
Smith's field. Accordingly he set to
work with Mr. Smith's hired man and
persuaded him by arguments and bribes
to pull down a part of the fence.
One day when Mr. Smith was looking
over his farm he found the man at work
removing some of the boards from the
fence.
"What are you doing there!" demanded
Mr. Smith.
"I'm reforming the fence, sore there's
a dale too much of it for the good of the
corn."
"But you'll let in Brown's cows, and
they'll trample down the whole field,"
urged Mr. Smith.
"Bedad. it wont be so bad as that,
sorr. Tm only taking; down 15 or 20 per
cent, of the fence. There's enough of it
loft to protect the corn, sorr. H'm only re
juicing the average of the fence. Sure,
it's there stilL"
It Is enough to say that Mr. Smith
didnt see the point, and ordered the fence
and its protection restored. Springfield
(Mass.) Union.
i
Explained by Sfclenee.
Science has at last .furnished an un
answerable reason why very young men
know so much more than old ones. The
brain decreases in weight with age. It is
heaviest between the ages of 14 and 20.
The old gentlemen 6hould now. get off the
band wagon as gracefully' as their age,
will permit Denver Republican.
A Stupid Mistake.
Customer (in restaurant) A
broiled
spring chicken, waiter,
and a small bot-
tie. vintage '74.
Waiter Yes, sir. (Later) Find every
thing right, sir?
Customer No: vou'ye made a mistake.
You've brought me spring wine and.- 74
vintage chicken. New York Sun,-'
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THE LITTLE ONE FIRST.
BillSykes puts Oliver Twist through
the window, to open' the door for him.
Time. j-
WAGES STEADILY INCREASING.
The Result of Thirty Tears of Pretectlea.
A Hesae Market
In illustration of the advances made in
this country under a protective tariff we
said on Saturday that the gross value of
manufactures increased, from 1850 to
1880, 300 per cent.; while population In
creased only 110 per cent, and the farm
acreage 78 per cent. The figures were too
small; the net value of the products of
manufacture Increased over 300 per cent..
the gross value shoeing a gain of 427 per '
cent. But as the value increased al
though tho prices of products have low
ered the wages of the workers have gone
up. Although the prices of manufactured
articles are lower, so that you can buy a
handsaw or a set of dishes much cheaper
than you could thirty years ago, wages
have gone up hi the meantime, because
the tariff has enabled us to make so many
articles, having command of a large home
market, that the returns have been large.
In the thirty years between 1850 and
1830 we find that the amount of wages
paid has gone up over 300 per cent., while
the number of hands employed has in
creased only 185 per cent. This means
that the average wages are nearly 50 per
cent, higher now than they were thirty
years ago. This Increase, remember, has
been right in the .faco of some of the
most discouraging conditions possible.
During those years wo have had tho
greatest immigration known in the world's
history. Such an, influx of labor, by it
self, would undoubtedly tend to lower
wages. Tho amount of work to be done
remaining the same, and the prices ob
tained for the product of the work not
rising, an increase in the number of
workers is bound to bring down
the share of each. But a protec
tive tariff has made- It possible that the
amount of work should be Increased more
rapidly than the number of work
ers, oven while the prices obtained for the
product were falling; and so tho share of
each worker has been decidedly increased,
instead of being diminished, as it must
have been under any tariff that did not en
courage the starting of new Industries
and the continuance of those already
started. In 1850 about one million
factory -laborers'' earned nearly $237,
000,000 about i240 7 apiece. In 1880
there were not quite two and three-quarter
millions of laborers in manufactures,
and they were paid in wages nearly $950,
000,000, or aboui $850 a-piece. Thto re
markable fact fit the wages and the out
put increasing together, while the prices
of the products of tho factories were de
creasing, it Is worth thinking about.
Withoufa tariff, and a pretty high tariff,
new industries certainly could not have
started; and without the securing of the
home market bya continuance of that ta
riff, certainly our manufacturers could
not have afforded to raise the wages of
ltheir employes instead of lowering them
to the European standard. JKew xors:
Mail and Express.
DEMOCRACY AND THE VETERANS.
It Says They Caa Go to the Pourbeeae If
Not Self Sopportlaf;.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer referred to
the Union veterans as "stupid and bigoted
soldiers." Congressman Kilgore, an ex
Confederate Democratic officeholder,
openly Insulted them on the floor of the
house as paupers; and nowMatson, the
Democratic candidate for governor of In
diana, in a Democratic majority report
from the committee on pensions, bays:
And if one (meaning a soldier pensioner)
receives not enough, it is because he did
not serve long enough, and can he be
heard to complain if ho gets a lust rate
equal to his fellow soldiers? And for the
remainder of the relief necessary to his
support, he shall be allowed, as other
citizens must, to accept the charity of the
local authorities.
Isn't that statement disgraceful? If an
old veteran, maimed or In the last stages
ef disease, Is unablo to support himself,
he can go to tho poorhouse before the
government shall aid him. That Is the
exact substanco of Mr. Matson's declara
tion. This is some more of thogreat love
the Democratic - party bears toward the
soldiers! : '
How a Reduced Dnty Reduced Sheep.
The Philadelphia Press, in answering a
subscriber who wants to know what effect
the tariff law nassed bv consrress a few
years ago reducing the duty on wool had '
on the sheep industry oi tne country,
says:
"The tariff of 1888 not only reduced the'
duties on wool, but by reducing the rates
on woolen goods and changing thedassi
fication on worsted it stimulated imports,
so that the market for home wool was cut
both ways, directly and indirectly. The
number of sheep in the United States has
decreased under this tariff from 50,000,000
in 1885 to 43,000.000 in 1888, while on the
regular advance in progress before It
should have reached 64,000000. The
sheep in this country belong to 700,000
flock masters, employing 1,200,000 men,
with an invested capital of $500,000,000.
The wool dip of the United States is the
sixth lareest In the world, and under the
skill expended in developing our wool uv-i
oustrv the average weight of tne Ameri
can fleece has advanced from 1.85 pounds
.in 1840 to 3.52 pounds In lKO'and to 6
pounds In 1881 The duty protecting this
industry amounts to 8 cents per head."
Xbe Canvass la TVest Virginia,
The canvass' in West Virginia has
opened witiy'taany signs of promise for
the Republicans. The congressional del
egation now, Includes three Democrats
ana one Republican. Mr. Goff. The Sec-
y. ond was carried by Mr. Wilson in 1886
by a beggarly plurality of ninety, and
with a strong candidate .the Republicans
now nave strong nopes oi retiring nun.
Mr. Wilson Is a member of the commit
tee of ways and means, which is' re
sponsible f oc'the Mills bill, and he has been
an earnest advocate of that measure. His
speech In" defence of that measure has been
considered by good .judges of tariff argu
ment the strongest that has been heard
on the Democratic side. His constituents,
however, complain with reason that he
baa sacrificed the industrial Interests of
his state, and are anxious to sends Pro
tectionist in his place. The third and
fourth districts are also fighting ground,
sines the Democratic majority hi 1888 did
sot exceed ;800 in either of them. Nsw
They Staad by Each Other. '
Our esteemed contemporary free trade,
of course says "manufacturers want free
raw materials, but what they- aro afraid
of is-tho desire to get even which would
movo to vengeful action the raw material
producers." Of course 'manufacturers .
would like to have free raw materials, but
it shows that they are patriotic as well as
extremely sensible in recognizing' the fact
that the farmer wuld be a fool if he
voted for a system which encouraged
manufacturing alone, and that, afforded
hni no protection. Our contemporary
states the "case exactly when he says that
"it is a case of '111 stand by yon if you'll
stand by me.'" And this very matter
has helped tho United States to reach its
present proud.posltlon of being the lead
ing industrial nation of the.world. Hod
the farmer and manufacturer 'not stood
by each other, had they adapted- the ab
surd advice of the free traders, the United
States today would have been the third
class power it was when the Democrats
handed tho government over to theBo-
rablieans in 1861. San Francisco Chron-cle.
Protection
the Tracts.
"They are forming a lumber trust;
therefore abolish the tariff on lumber,"
shrieks a Mills bill advocate. WeU. why
not abolish the tariff on kerosene oil and
coffee and thus kill off the oil and coffee!
trusts? "But there isn't any tariff on oil
or coffee." some freetrader remarks. Howj
does it happen, then, that these products
are controlled by trusts? We thought lt(
was the tariff that caused the trusts, ori
made them possible. There will be trusts.
It auDears. whether there is any tariff on
not. The whole salt product of Europe is'
conirouea oya trust, ine iormaiion oi
a lumber trust does not depend upon the
tariff. Unless- trusts are prohibited,
there is likely to be a lumber trust
whether there is any tariff or not. Abol
ishing the tariff would create the strong
est possible Incentive for a trust. Cleve
land Leader.
AM Object tiMsna.
The Pall Mall Gazette of July 25 eon-'
tains the following:
"ABise ik the Prick or Tin. The
passing by. the United States house of
representatives of the Mills tariff bill,
which places tin plates on the free list,
has led to a sharp rise hi the price of tin.
Yesterday Straits touched 89 7s. 6d
cash, ana 89 15s. three months. This is i
an advance of from 14 to 15 on the
figures quoted recently. If the senate
passes the bill In ita present form, tin'
will command higher prices than have!
ruled of late, and a great impetus will be
given to an important branch of manu
facture In this country."
This is plain business. There is no ob-'
scurity. The passage of the Mills bill by
one house puts up the price of tin in Eng
land. We are to lose the revenue on tin'
but do not get plates cheaper. This Is
a sample fact an object lesson. Study
U. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
FTom-txi "Harrfsoa Alataaae."
The old "Harrison Almanac" of 1840
contains a great deal of matter that la
strictly pertinent and timely for the
second Harrison campaign. For instance,
theso questions and answers:
"Who will vote tho Van Buren ticket?"
"All who wish to see tho price of labor
reduced to a level with that paid In
Europe. All such as prefer tho Interests
of the office holders to the interests of the
people."
"Who will vote the Harrison ticket?"
"All who believe that the condition of
our workingmen has been better than
that of the workingmen of Europe, and
who wish to have it remain so. New
York Mail and Express.
The Free Traders' Transparent ScheaM.
"Why not tell the real truth and de
clare that we not only favor tariff re
vision, but that wo consider it only a step
toward the abolition of tho entire tariff
system?" is the question asked by The
Democrat, a new campaign paper pub
lished in this dty. This inquiry would
be more pertinent if the MULsebill had
not already given away tho scheme by
removing the protection from 100 Ameri
can Industries and making up the average
to 40 per cent, by unholy rates levied on
sugar, rice and other articles of necessary
food. New York Tribune.
They Kaaw the Mas.
"Here in Buffalo, where Cleveland lived
for thirty years, there will be a strong
majority against him, as there was against
him In 1884." These are the words of
Hon. Lewis F. Allen, one of the most con
spicuous residents of western New York
and an uncle of President Cleveland.
"There will be a strong majority against"
Cleveland In Buffalo because Buffalo has
had a good opportunity to become ac
quainted with him. If Mr. Cleveland
should reside two or three years In Louis
iana, that state would be reliably Bepub
lican afterward in any canvass In which
he would be a candidate. St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
States That Democracy Slay
Tho Democratic national executive com
mittee, according to Democratic authority,
spent Thursday in debate over "states
that may be won." Texas was undoubt
edly first on tho li?t. . If these gentlemen
will begin to consider "states that may
bo lost." they will find the list about as
follows: New York, New Jersey, Connec
ticut, Indiana, Virginia, .West Virginia,
North .Carolina, Florida and -Tennessee,
'with several yet to be heard from. New
York Tribune. .; '
, The DatT U Not 'Added to The.Cett.
. Our present Democratic 'administration
has proven that the'aawantof duty levied
upon foreign merchandise is not added to
the cost ofTtho article in this'countrj If.
the duty on the 2,000 woolen blanket? had :
been added to the price of those recently
offered'to our government by the; home'
reducer they would have cost. $7,530.
!ut our manufacturers'" offered 'them for
$6,120. or $2,400 less than they; would
have cost if the fuUjduty had'beerl added
.to the selling price. Cleveland Leader.
Cieveland'a Friends Bolting HU:Tlcket.
One of -the remarkable features of the
bolting this year is that the bolters are
not only 'Democrats, but- in many cases
formerly. personal. friends of President
Cleveland. E. C.a Bobbins, a prominent
.-"lawyer and Democrat of Buffalo, Is one of
the latter. He says: "It Is the duty of
protectionist Democrats to administer
such a rebuke to Cleveland and Ins pres
ent advisers that no one will ever again
try to identify the Democracy with the
doctrine of free trade." Ohio State Jour
nal. Rather Sncsestlve.
The Cleveland Leader savs that CoL
Brice, chairman of the Domocratio cam
paign committee, is a heavy stockholdei
- in the Chase National bank of New
York, and that the government on the
ere of a campaign has deposited in this
bank $2,000,000, which is practically in
the hands of the chairman of the Demo
cratic campaign committee. This is rather
suggestive, to say the least of it.
Canada Sympathises with Clevelaad.
Tho residents of British America are
waiting anxiously for s time when the
Democratic policy, shall go into effect, A
Winnipeg paper says: "It is s matter of
the greatest importance that the Manitoba
and northwest farmer should have free
tMta mth W TTiiltjri States in wheat."
I It must be a matter of great regret to Mr.
vieveianu tnai ine vote oi vauaoaaou uw
Srovinees cannot be counted in November.
f his popularity hi those regions thive to
no quastioev lajtossfslto Journal.
air. Cleveland's Eteraal Vigilance.
The nresident allowed the river and
harbor bill, appropriating millions of -dol
lars for the benent of certain localities m
which' big Democratic majorities are ob
tained, to become a law by omitting to
give it attention within tho prescribed
period of ten days; but ho would net
dream of permitting such-a thing to hap'
pen in the case of a bill granting a pen-,
sion of $8 per month to a soldier's widow."
I St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
They Won't Vote far Hla This Ttaee.
George Alfred- Townsend, in a -recent
fetter to the Democratic Cincinnati En-
'quirer, gives a long Interview with Dun
lap, the New York hatter. Among other
things the Mr. Dunlap said: "1 work.700
hands. At the last election I set in for
Grover Cleveland-and used my best influ
ences with mv men to accomplish his elec?
tioiu Now I don't think he will get a
vote out of the establishment."
atalaed by Peer Crepe aad Free" Trade,
The summer ha been so wet and -cold
tn'England that British crops have suf
fered severely. The poor farmers i
Great Britain, who have been going fron
bad to worse for years, will have a hard
time this season, for the English market
is open to the bountiful harvests of
America, Russia, India and Australia, and,
the scanty home crops will not eveu com
mand a high price. Exchange.
. Dfeeoaragtaa; for. Democrats. ."
Of the 1.700,000 voters In .the three
states. New York. New Jersey and Con
necticut. whose vote will decide the next
presidential election, fully one half aro in
industries directly protected by tat
tariff and threatened by tho Mills bill'
No wonder that Mr. Frank HurJ says that
the Democrats cannot win in New York
this year. Philadelphia Press.
They Are la a Tight Place.
The Democratic newspapers that have
been'squeesed so hard by their Republl
can contemporaries as to attempt a de
fense of the financial operations of
Buchanan's administration, pointing to it
as an era of pride hi national history, are
in pretty tight quarters. It is only" an
other step to make a radical defense for
Jeff Davis. Cleveland Leader.
The Democratio Declaration.
It safe to say that workingmen will
not support the Democracy this year, nor
will they throw their votes away. Thero
is a proposition for a universal reduction
of wages. It originates with the Demo
cratic party. It is put in the form of a
declaration against the protective system.
Cincinnati Times Star.
Democratic jiger in c:inger.
There are reasons for believing that the
zealous free trade Democrats who aro now
digging a political grave for Samuel J.
Randall will be buried in it for their
trouble. These enterprising grave dig
gers have yet to learn that to have a
funeral they must first make sure of their
corpse. Philadelphia Press.
Better Keep Qniet. Sir. Mills.
The free trade speeches which Roger
Q. Mills has delivered in West Virginia
seem to have given a new impetus to the
Republican campaign in that state. It
will be only when Mills begins to talk for
the tariff that protectionists will fear him.
Philadelphia Press.
Gsat S-uOeet They Are Sliest On.
If the president had issued a proclama
tion making am mention of the subject
unishable by Instant death, the Cleve
lir.'l organs could hardly have less to say.
atwnt civil service reform than they have
t present. Boston Journal.
Honorable Names so the Ticket.
With a soldier for president, a soldier
for governor and a fighting parson for
lieutenant governor, the Republicans of
Indiana will have no difficulty in recalling
the hcro.c memories of the post this year
Denver Republican.
The leading Mormon organ The Salt
Lake Herald is enthusiastically in favor
of Cleveland and Thurman. It stanis
solid for polygamy and reform.
Phrase of the Novelists.
London Truth is in a state of mind be
cause novdists will never refer to a.hand
pure and simple; it always must be h
"gloved hand" or an "ungloved- hand."
Truth says, and Intimates that- the next
thing in order is to find the boys of 'fiction
bathing with "unshod feet" and playing
football with "shod" ones, while the dy
ing heroine in tho last chapter may be ex
pected to turn her "lovely, unborsefed
head on the snowy pillow" aud the hero to
walk down Pall Mall with Ids "intellectual
head magnificently hatted." New York
Sun.
Chapter In Locust Lore.
Omaha Boy Oh, Pap. here's a 17-year
locust, an' it's got W on its wings. Aunt
Jane says that means war.
Pap There won't be any war in this
country except a political war. I guess
the W stands for "wrangle."
"Maybe so. Grandma ays it isn't a W,
though. She savs it's an M upside down.
"All the same. If it's anMit stands
for 'mud.' "Omaha World.
A Carious Fhcnomenoa.
Gentleman Is that tho dog you've al
ways had. Aunt Dinah?
Aunt Dinah Yes, sah; he am do scf
ganedawg. When 'no fust got him he
was? a bright yaDer. but mo an Rastus
am werrv da'k complected, Kah;.an' he has
been wif us so long, dat ob late yeahs dat
yallef hue la kinder turnin into er rusty
black. But1 he am do saino dawg. The
cpocu.
It is Absurd
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tion, unless they refrain from eating
what is unwholesome ; but if anytl irig
will sharpen the appetite and give to:ij
to the digestive organs, it is AyerSar
saparilla. Thousands all over the land
testify to the merits of this medicine.
Mrs. Sarah Burroughs, of 218 Eighth
street, South Boston, writes : " My hus
band has taken Ayer's Sarsaparilla, for
Dyspepsia and torpid liver, and lias
been greatly benefited."
A Confirmed Dyspeptic.
C. Canterbury, of 141 Franklin st.,
Boston, MahS., v.iites, that, suffering
for years from Indigestion, he was at
last induced to try Ayer's Sarsaparilla
and, by its use, was entirely cured.
Mrs. Joseph Aubin,. of High street,
Holyoke, Mass., suffered for over a year
from Dyspepsia, so that she could not
eat substantial food, became very weak,
and was unable to care for her family.
Neither the .medicines prescribed by
physicians, nor any of the remedies
advertised for'.the cure of Dyspepsia;
helped her, until she commenced the
use of (Ayer.'s SarsapariHa. "Three
bottles of this medicine," she writes,
."cured me."
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