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Meet ajabberwoc ?
Wo hope you never will. Our artist also has in his menagerie several
other queer animals , among which are the Willywoss and the Wazzle *
tailed Spingo. We will probably show them later.
DO YOU BUY WHERE YOU Ctf * [ BUY BEST ?
We will
build a buggy THIRTY YEARS OF HARD WORI Thirty years In the same
to your order business attending strictly to Its details , thinking , planning ,
during this selecting goods , learning to select the wheat from the chaff this
winter and Is why our business has grown from nothing to millions a year.
' ship It to you Honest goods no trash. Lowest whole *
next spring. sale prices. JVo one allowed to under *
$5OO depos * sell us on the same quality of goods.
It. Write for Two million customers buy of us right
circular. along. Jtre you one of them ? We have
special catalogues on almost every line
you can think of. Tell us what kind of
goods you are Interested In and we wilt
send you , absolutely free , a handsome.
Illustrated catalogue quoting wholesale
prices. Be sure and mention the one
you want.
Furniture Farm Implements Vehicles Sewing Machines Hardware Crockery Glassware Stoves
Sporting Goods Harness Drugs Stationery Toys Leather Goods Musical Instruments Silverware
Carpets and Rugs Underwcai
Groceries Bicycles Baby Car'
rlages Goods Dry Notions Goods Books Photographic Shoes Ward fr Co.
Millinery Cloaks Shirts Furs Montgomery .
and Men's and Boys' Suits ( both jff
ReadyMadeand MadetoOrder )
Including Samples. Chicago
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THE PRINTING PRESS.
As some far sun astronomers have found ,
Whose burnished rays , like plummets , were
cast down ,
In the beginning , through the seas of space ,
Rays which must fall through ages yet to
come ,
Sounding eternities on their way to meet
The ga/o of races still unborn , even so
Must spread the vivid , permeating beams
Of that great light John Gutenberg discerned
In thought's broad universe , the Printing Press.
The king it is that stands behind all thrones ,
With power boundless as the realms of space ;
In on ) firm hand the lamp of knowledge burns ,
The other , reason's flambeau hold aloft ,
And the twin flames illuminate the world.
[ Wo do not know who wrote this , but wo
think it is very good. ]
THE OBSTRUCTORS OF RECIPROC
ITY.
It is practically impossible to ne
gotiate a reciprocity treaty with a
European nation or a small "West In
dia Island without its containing con
cessions by the United States which
some interest will say , with or with
out cause , are harmful to it. No
matter how insignificant may bo the
interest which says it will bo affected ,
no matter how large the measure of
protection it is proposed shall bo left
it , whenever the suggestion is made
that the duty on competing foreign
products be reduced over so little , that
particular interest makes a vehement
outcry. It appeals to its friends in
the senate to defeat the treaty which
is to affect it.
The growers of citrus fruits are not
affected by reciprocity with Russia ,
but they protest against reciprocity
with the fruit-producing West India
Islands. The manufacturers of cheap
jewelry personally are willing to let
foreign oranges in free , but they put
their veto on a reciprocity treaty with
France. The beet sugar people can-
not find fault with that treaty , but
they protest against reciprocity with
Cuba and lower duties on sugar.
Practically all these individuals "pool
their issues' ' and unite to defeat every
reciprocity measure.
The question is whether
these comparatively insignificant
interests shall bo permitted to
throttle a policy which will beef
of much value to other and greater
industries which produce in excess of
the clomostic demand and must have
access to foreign markets or restrict
production. A. B. Farquhar says in
his address before the Academy of
Political and Social Science , which
was printed in Thursday's Tribune :
"The genuinn advocates of reciproc
ity would injure no one if it could be
helped , and regret that two or three
industries , employing a few thousand
laborers at most , under an investment
of a few millions capital , may fail to
share in thoi general ' benefit that the
most important of tho'pendiug treaties
( that with Franco ) would bring ; but
they cannot think it right to sacrifice
the interests of every other/jproducer /
along with the great army of consum
ers in this mighty republic to those
of so slender a minority. "
This is no trivial question. Are
the great producers , among whom the
farmers and the live stock inen'are to
be counted , to be denied the right of
freer access to foreign markets because
a few small industries fancy they will
be injured by the granting of that
right ? Is American wheat to bo shut
out of Franco sooner than allow
French manufacturers of cotton lace
to sell a few thousand dollars' worth
more of their goods in this country ?
Is the trade of the West India Islands ,
valuable to the American farmer and
the manufacturer , to bo lost in order
that Jamaica oranges may not bo eaten
by Americans ?
It is true , as Mr. Farquhar
says , that we cannot expect to
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obtaiu concessionsV worth having
without giving something for them
in return , "and the results cannot
in every case bo kept from causing
some alarm or at least some appre
hension of diminished business profits f
in some quarters. " But this alarm or / /
apprehension should not bo allowed to
stand in the way of the attainment of
the greatest good' for the greatest
number. Foreign markets must not be
closed to many industries in order that
a few industries may continue to en
joy excessive protection in the home
market. Chicago Tribune , Dec. 80.
FREE TRADE ALMANACS.
Send two cent postage stamp for the
Free Trade Almanac issued by the
American Free Trade League , 602 Tre-
mont Building , Boston , Mass. , 52 pages
fall of almanac matterwit and wisdom ,
Poor Richard's proverbs , quotations
from Webster , Olay , Sherman , Garfield -
field , Henry George , original articles
from prominent free traders and pro
tectionists on free trade , protection ,
reciprocity , free hides , wool , etc.
A %
who neither sands
his sugar nor
waters his milk
who believes in
the best , and is particular to
please his patrons.
That's the grocer who recom
mends and sells
lion Coffee
Coffee that is coffee unglazed
unadulterated.