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THE LATEST BY WIRE
GIVING the news up TO THE
hour of going to press.
Brief Mention of Daily Happenings
Throughout the World.
The strike situation in New Orleans
has assumed a serious phase and a race
war is threatened.
Governor Flower, of New York,
started ont Monday upon his six days
of political campaigning through the
state.
Governor Waite, of Colorado, spoke
to a crowd of 10,000 people on the lake
front, in Chicago, Sunday, in behalf
of the populist candidates.
A special of Monday says: It has
been snowing steadily at Red Cliff,
CoL, for twenty-fonr hours. At Gold
Park Mining camp, two and a half
feet of snow has fallen.
At Greenwood, S. C., while a crowd
of negroes were going home from
church Sunday night they were fired
into by parties concealed In a railroad
cut. One man was killed, one woman
shot in three places, and another nRn
hit. An investigation is now going
on.
The auditor has concluded the ex¬
amination s of the afiairs of the Normal
Park Loan Association at Sprinfield,
Ill., of which the late F. W. Porter
was secretary, Porter also having been
the auditor of the Rock Island rail¬
road. The examination developed the
fact that Porter was a defaulter to the
sum of $23,000.
A special from Iron Mountain,
Mich., says: The work of rescuing
the imprisoned miners at the Pewabic
wan accomplished between 6 and 7
o’clock Monday morning, and they
were hoisted to the surface without %
mark, after having been entombed
more than forty-three hours. There is
great rejoicing in the community.
Mrs. Mary A. Woodbridge, corre
sponding secretary of theW. C. T. U.,
died at Chicago Monday. Mrs.Wood
bridge was known as Miss Willard’s
right arm, and her death is the direct
result of overwork. The disease from
which she died is termed embolism,
Her health was exceedingly good up
to a few days ago, and she died before
her friends realized that Bhe was really
The case against Dispensary Con¬
stable CaiD, charged with murder in
the Darlington riots, was nolle prossed
Monday by the solicitor in Darling¬
ton, S. C., because he was satisfied
from the McLendon trial that no spy
wonld be convicted by the Tillmanites
composing the jury. So ends the at¬
tempt to bring to jnstioe the murder¬
ers of some of Darlington’s best cii
izeus.
United States Senator Gibson was
made the victim of a decided snnb at
a democratic mass meeting at his home
at Easton, Md. The meeting was
completely captured by the anti-Gib
sonites, and though the senator was
present, he kept his seat in the audi¬
ence, and was not even invited to the
platform. To make the Blight more
pronounced, the meeting elected anti
Gibson officers.
Charles Morganfield, the alleged
train robber, is making a fight at Cin¬
cinnati against the Adams Express
Company t<? recover the money taken
from him at the time h$ was arrested.
It is claimed that the express company
cannot identify the money as ever
having belonged to them. Morgan
field’s attorneys say they are armed
with abundant proof that their client
was not engaged in the robbery.
J. J. Porter k Co., wholesale dealers
in millinerv and notions at Pittsburg,
Pa., were entirely bnrned out Monday.
The fire started shortly after 9 o’clock
and it took the entire fire department
at hard work to keep the flames con¬
fined to the Porter building. Porter
k Co.’a loss on stock is $20,000. The
bniiding, whioh was owned by B. E.
Jones, the iron manufacturer, and val¬
ued at $50,000, waa almost entirely de¬
stroyed.
Lundberg’s variety theater, at St.
Iiouis, waa destroyed by fire Monday
morning. The flames spread to an
ahio adjoining boarding honse, and this was
burned. In the boarding honse
' several rescued with dif¬
persons were
ficulty. The found body of Albert Shaw, He a
porter, waa in a rear room.
bad been suffocated by smoke. Two
women were found unconscious in an¬
other room, but were revived soon af¬
terward* The money loos was small.
Fire broke out late Sunday night in
tiie freight warehouse of the Bridge
aad Terminal railway in East St.
Loom. The fire spread to the of
freight can on both sides the ware¬
house and burned itself out for want
of material. The warehouse filled
with hay, ootton and grain. Over 200
loaded and empty ears were burned.
The est im ates of the low range from a
half million to three-quarters of a mil¬
lion dollar*
A dispatch from Beck, Muskogee, L T.,
•ays: Charles with twenty In¬
dus deputy sheriffs, has captured five
of the Cook gang of outlaw* The
under arrest Dick are Joseph Reynold* Johnson,
Moses and Price, Lon Perry. The Jim
Bates
s made midway betw
Muskogee. Tbe rest of the
in hiding Wagoner, the
bdi» police.
It is believed tile
will noon be ander
held at Montgom
between Governor
of
s »*ur 2
mill t labama. It is re-
work law as relating to ootton facto
ries, and also the law prohibiting chil
dren under fourteen from working in
such establishments. It is stated that
.Alabama will certainly get the factory
if these laws are repealed by the legis¬
lature.
ROASTED TO DEATH.
Eigh n Charred Rodies in the Ruins
of a Boarding Honse.
In fire at Seattle, Wash., early
Saturaay morning in a West street
house, at the corner of Columbia and
West streets, sixteen persons lost their
lives and several others were injured,
The following itf a list of the transient
guests as shown by the register taken
from the burning building:
“ As.....Weston, F. Bollman, R. D. Si
monson, C. D. Yohnson, M. MeSorley,
John Chesterman, G. Hicks, Mrs. J.
W. Hussman, D. Fraser, Mrs. J. Smith
and friend, J. F. Clark, Charles A. Pe
ter, James Merme, W. P. Coffery,
William Matheson, M. J. Lawson, D»
McDonald, city; C. L. Gibb, George
J. Moon, Redmond T. Schmitt, George
Bothell, C. L. Bellman, John McGuire,
D. Chase, William McNair, John
Kingson, city;M. G. Dednckson.Port
Blakely. A. G. Buttler, a brother of
the proprietor, is missing. A number
were badly injured.
Immediately after the fire
charred bodies were recovered. The
saddest sight of all was found in the
inBide room off the passageway which
led to West street, There, calmly
lying in a charred and blackened bed
was evidently a whole family, The
father lay on one side, the wife next
to him and a little burned and black¬
ened arm, the flesh falling in shreds
from it and the small fingers clutched,
showed that a little child was among
the victims.
Crouched in a corner of a small in¬
side room two charred and naked skel
etons met the gaze. The flesh was
burned from each, and the first, that
of a man with blackened stumps of
arms, seemed to be lighting an im
pending danger. Immediately behind
bim, also bolt upright and clutching
bis waist, was the skeleton of a wo
man. The eyes were burned from the
sockets of each, but even then one
could easily imagine the look of hor
for, the deadly fear which clung to the
ill-fated couple as they fought with an
unseen foe.
There were about twenty transient
guests registered, and Night Clerk
Butler cays *,he hotel had about twenty
permanent guests. It is absolutely
known that sixteen persons perished
and the next few hours may add
largely to the terrible death.
TRADE TOPICS.
R. G. Dun & Co.’s Report of Business
for the Past Week.
R. G. Dun & Co. ’s review of trade
for the past week says: “Engrossing
political exoitement in many of the
states causes a natural slackening in
some kinds of business. But, on the
whole, business indications are rather
more favorable than they were last
week. Gold exports hale ceased, while
a number of mills have gone into oper¬
ation, and the demand for products, if
not equal to that of prosperous years,
is better than it has been most of the
time this year. The prices of farm
products do not improve much, and
there are still some strikes to resist
redaction of wages, so that the pur¬
chasing power of the people cannot
have materially increased, bat there is
a more hopeful spirit which prompts
greater activity. On the other hand,
the reeord of past transactions are
somewhat less favorable of late. It is
interesting that, in spite of the low
price of the principal southern crop,
manufacturers and wholesale dealers
report rather more improvement in
trade'with the south than with any
other section.
“In iron and steel the west shows
weakness, while eastern markets show
more encouragement. Nothing of
consequence is doing in rails,
the deliveries for the year to Octo¬
ber 1st being only 510,000 tons, mnoh
below ordinary requirements for re¬
newals. In stractnrsl works some
moderate contracts are reported, but
bar iron is extremely doll, and it # is
stated that the low prices reported last
week—95 cents for iron and $1 for
steel—have been shaded in some trans¬
actions. There is a decline in wire
nails, $1.90 being quoted for galvan¬
ized barbed and $22.50 for wire rod*
The beat feature ia that the heavy in¬
crease in the output of pig does not
yet seem to overload the market, and
there are rather leas signs of pressure
to sell them of late.”
The Women Will Vote.
The registration of women in Den¬
ver is almost as large ae that of men.
The total number of names entered on
the books which are now closed is 61,-
500. The registration in the county
will exceed 70,000. Should 70 per
cent of these registered votes be odbt
at tiie next election, it will be consid¬
erably more than twice as great aa it
was two years ago, when the total
vote was 22,975.
Fall River Stride Ended.
Secretary Whitehead, of the Weav¬
ers’ Association at Fall River, says
that the strike will be deelared off at
The weavers, at a special meet¬
ing held ia the Academy of Mueie
Monday morning, voted almost unani¬
mously to declare the strike off
For Equal Ri g ht s.
con
over the
a COMBINE WANTED
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WHEREBY FARMERS MAY DlC
TATE THE PRICE OF COTTON.
Letter from John Roddey to Southern
Cotton Planters.
The Columbia, S. C tl State prints
the following from John T. Roddey,
member of the New York cotton ex
change and a son of a wealthy South
Carolinian. He has for some time
been advocating some concerted action
by southern farmers:
To the thinking farmers of the south
—For the past two years I have made
cotton commissions my business, and
daily have I witnessed the downward
tendency of your product. Ifyoiiwill
think for a moment, you will realize
the fact that though you are the pro
ducers of this country and should be
the most independent, yet you are the
most dependent people in America.
“Why? Because there are combi¬
nations on nearly everything you nAe.
The manufacturers of the north com
bine on everything and say what it
shall bring, while yon sell your prod
uct for whatever they are willing to
pay you. Why cannot you protect
your cotton in the same way?
“I should like, if it meets your ap
proval, to organize a trust company Trust
called the Southern Farmers’
Company, for the purpose of protect¬
ing your product from the depressing and
influences of speculators, spinners
capitalists, and provide a means by
which you oan name the price for your
product, instead of having the price
dictated to you, as is now the case. I
feel satisfied this can be done by form¬
ing a trust, which would be able to
handle most of the cotton you grow.
t‘Let the capital stock be $50,000,
000 to $100,000,000, subscribed en¬
tirely by the farmers of the south and
divided into as many shares as may be
necessary and small enough for every
cotton planter to subscribe. Let each
farmer take stock to his utmost capac¬
ity and support the trust in every pos¬
sible way.
“In case you receive 10 cents for
your ootton, instead of 5 cents, whicjji
yon are now receiving, bides you save on m
crop of 8,000,000 about $200,
000,000, at least twice as much as the
capital stock of the trust company. In
case speculators sho d become fright¬
ened even at the mention of the trust
and advance the price of cotton, so
mnch the better for you, but very like¬
ly they would attempt at first to bluX
yon. it is time to act.
“I think now
What benefits the farmer or laborer
unquestionably benefits all classes. If
snch a plan should meet your ap¬
proval, I would be more than glad to
meet a representative alliance, cotton either grower in
from each state or
New York or in some southern city, to
Bee if something cannot be done to
bring abont some benefit to the south.
Something mast be done or your lands
will not be worth cultivating.
John T. Roddey.”
The Stomp Robbers Caught.
William A. Beach and H. Olay Sin
sabangh, who are charged with being
accomplices in the recent stamp rob¬
bery in Washington, were arrested at
Columbia, S. 0., Monday night.
McLendon Acquitted.
A special from Darlington, S. 0.,
says that at 11:30 Saturday night the
jnry brongbt in a verdict of acquittal
of the dispensary constable, McLen
doD. of murder.
ATLANTA MARKETS.
CORRECTED WEEKLY.
UrMwIn.
Coffee—Boasted—ArbuoUe’t 20.75 t 100 lb
ease* Levering'* ...... Ohreen—Extra
choioe 20c; choice good 19c; fair ISo; com¬
mon 17c. Sugar-Granulated 4 Jfc.
white powdered C 5Wo; Sjic; New cut Orleans _ yellow loaf clari¬ b%
extra
fied 4%s4^o; yellow extra 0 4Vie. Syrup—
New Orleans ohotoe 45c; p rime 85(d}-tOc; common
20<g30c. MoImms—G enuine Cuba &Vg38o; im¬
itation 22@36. Teae—Black 8&i$55c; green
40@fl0c. Nutmeg* 6&@8Sc. Cinnamon ........
Allspice Maoe 9L 10@ltc. Rice, Head Singapore good S^mommon pepper
lie, Japan flo; Salt—Hawley’s
4V«c; imported $1.40; 6®5V^
dairy, Ioe cream $L00;
Virginia 70* Cheese-flat* 12 pall* %&'&%
White fish, half bbl* $4-00; OJo;
Tallow, Mackerel, 100 half ban, barrel* 75 $&OO0Q.fiO. lb* $8.00(35.78. Soap
turpentine, 00 ban, 00 lb* $2.23 a 2.00;
Candles—Paraflne lie; star lie. M*tche*--
400* $4 00; 800* $5 00*375; 300* $3 00*2 70; 00*
5grow $3 7* Soda-Kega, bulk 4c; do 1 lb pkgt
end exoeUior
hills 9* Candy—Aa*orted stack 434* Fronob
mixed 12*12%. Canned goode-Oaodensed Milk,
te 00*8 00; imitation mackerei$3 00. Sal¬
mon $628*00); F. W. oysters $179; L W
$125; corn $310. $200*909; tomatoes Lamp. $2.00
Ball potaeb Siarafc—Pearl 4e;
4*r: nickel package* $S 10; eeUnloid $0.00,
$110*1 Pickle* 75. plain Powder—Mfle, or mixed, pints kegs 90ea$i S3-45; 00;quart*, %kag*
*1 90; % kegs$l U. Shot$1* per saek.
Mear, Uraia **4 10 —1 .
st patent $$$9; assewt *4 patent family
13.25-, extra Corn—Na fancy $2.90-, fancy •$* 80, Ha
12.50. 1 white 2
white, 08* Used, 58* ted Oat* Mbrni Geanta, “
white 47c-, rust proof SOs. rye,
70* Hay—Choice timothy, targe bake;
93c; No. small 1 timothy, bales, 90e: targe No. betas, t Ms;
w^n^e^-TbSSr timothy, timothy *_Wb. <
Large e*-ks 80s, 80s, Gilts,
Pearl ft 73.
28 U 14*15*
« Psaey
10*1$, lb;
K 5 S
4te40e par bn. Hen— CMAxt] -M aS bn.
Ctet 79^* ysr
tasrSm^wL^SiSfSsa^ejlie^CsmfimieASy^"
CURIOUS FACTS.
Hollow glass building bricks are in
use.
Martinique gives tbe world bananas
and sugar. - '
Werchojansk, Siberia, is the coldest
known spot on earth. *
A Missouri frog farmer contends
that frogs have a language.
Scholars, generally, agree that the
tale of William Tell is a myth.
New Orleans tmee attempted to
light its streets with cotton seed oil.
A New York man has had the same
carpet stolen three times during the
last three months.
Bananas are so plentiful in Marti¬
nique that a big bunch may be bought
for one cent. The same sized bunch
in New York would bring a dollar at
retail.
The infant sea otter, when removed
from parental care, dies--of either
grief or starvation. So far it has been
imposible to raise it to maturity by
human hand.
Louis Levison, of San Francisco,
has the largest and most valuable eol
lection of stamps in the United States,
He has 25,000 varieties, and he values
them at $50,000.
One of tbe legislative districts of
Connecticut casts 110 votes aud has
one member of the Legislature. New
Haven, a city of 82,000 inhabitants,
has but two members.
An earn of corn was gathered near
Bock Hill, S. C., the other day, which
measured eleven inches iu length,
nine in circumference, and had 1000
grains in twenty rows. .
Natives of certain parts of Norway
regard eight as an unlucky number,
and have as much aversion to sitting
at dinner with eight persons as some
people here would with thirteen.
The old house originally occupied
by the first John Jacob Astor as a
dwelling, at 485 Broadway, New York
City, was sold the other day for $205.
000. It is Jto be demolished to make
way for a huge modern structure.
At Heppner, Oregon, three little
girls, the eldest but eleven years of
age, have caught this year in traps
1864 squirrels. Their father also shot
and trapped over 1000 of the lifitle.
pests, ana, through the efforts of all,
his crop was saved.
A lineal desendant of Peregrine
White, the first white ohild born in
New England, she having been born
within the limits of Cape Cod on board
the Mayflower, November 20, 1620,
(O. 8.), is living in Clinton, Mass. He
is ninety years old, being the fifth
generation removed from Peregrine.
He still engages actively in farm work
and seems to have a long lease of life
yet to run.
A San Franoisoo fisherman has a cat
that is said to lore water as mnch as
other oats love a rag in front of a
grate fire. When he goes fishing the*
cat lies quietly in the boat and does
not appear to mind how wet he gets.
When the seine with its load of live
fish is healed, in the ost seizes the
largest one, trying to shake it as he
wonld a mouse. He does it entirely
for sport, as he never attempts to eat
the large fish, and lives almost wholly
on the smaller fish need for bait.
Food ot Animals.
Though animals are classed as car¬
nivorous and gram ini vorus, says Mee¬
han’s Monthly, it is being demonstra¬
ted that many, equally with man, oc¬
casionally mix their food. Even
canines in a perfectly wild condition
have been known to diet on Indian
corn, when animal food has been scarce.
Among birds many woodpeckers,
tbongh they have a structure specially
adapted to predation on insects, are
fond of vegetable sweets, and the Bal¬
timore oriole may be often seen search¬
ing flowers for nectar. Th*e sap suck¬
ers’ holes in many trees are well known,
though those who hold to the strict
lines between tbe herbivore and car¬
nivora contend that the holes are
bored in search of insects, which the
experience i entomologist knows are
not there. The lover of natural his¬
tory is well aware of many instances
in which one creature manages to lire
on the labor of another, and a corre¬
spondent of Science speaks of the aid
to the humming bird of whioh this
reference to the sap sucker reminds
one. He says the holes these birds
make in the sngar birches and maples
are frequented later on by the hum¬
ming bird, which makes a rich repast
on the sagary liquid which flows from
the holes.
A Pomologies! Wonder.
A queer oaae of natural cross-fertili¬
zation is reported from Anjon, France.
A grapevine, which grows in 'close
proximity to a large apple tree of the
ruseet variety, has developed a foil
bunch of small apples on the stem
which is usually set with grape* There
are twenty-nine end of these queer “grape
apples” in ell, they ere so thickly
set upon the stem that many of them,
all in foot, except those growing at
the ends, are mashed ont of shape, so
that they ahe almost angular ae oorn
graia* Each of these freaks has its
“blossom end” like true apples; and,
is the fine specimens which have been
examined, eleven poorly developed ap
pleased* were found. The pomologuts
of Europe ere greatly excited over the
pstblieation of tbe facts relating to
as they appeared in La
Nature, and many who have never at¬
tended a meeting of the Imperial Po
nvological Society, will do eo this year
in order to hear the curiosity die
% Those who have ever peid any
and know
tbe
of^ragwimsMd apple tree* are, will
of
this freak —Detroit Free Press.
Bookkeeping is first
Itahr about 156$.
&' mmm
> K ■*.
WHAT HARRISON KNOWS.
THAT REPUBLICAN LAWS CAUSED
HARD TIMS ALL OVBR
THE COUNTRY.
That He Had. Squandered the Cleve
land Surplus and Juggled Ac
counts to Conceal the Empty
Treasury —That the New Tariff
Brought Prosperity.
Ex-President Harrison recently de
livered a speech in Mr. Wilson’s dis
trict in which he said: “If depression; you have
felt the effects of the if
you think more of these effects and
prefer not to lead the country through
the slough of despondency, show it by
defeating Wilson
McKinley and Sherman also declare
that the hard times, which began a
year bsT--—“ and a half ago, were due to
d ,ho
Never before did “statesmen” 1b
rnTSrlh £ riite5^Le th o7afr
lightened Nation. Harrison knows
PlilTJ £ !
'
tamSE rr . 5 , ,, .. .|? .. .
r
transfer accounts and to juggle the
books to conceal from the public, if
possible, the exhausted surplus of
8100,000,000 which Cleveland turned
over to Harrison in 1889.
He knew that the Sherman Silver
must result in I a panic. He knows, ™ as
does Sherman, who voted to abolish
panic was precipitated by the fear of
capitalists that gold would go to
? to P r^T(mTn00 com $4,000,000 of oViilvL°a stiver a mnntS month
we would soon drop to a silver be sis.
He knows that tariff reform was too
far away to have had any material ef¬
fect in starting the depression. He
may not know the cause of the period¬
ical panios that effeot not only this
oountry, but the whole world, about
every ten years, but he does know, or
ought to know, that the fear of “free
trade” was not, at any time, one of
the principal causes of the prolonged
depression.
He knows that his Secretary in
tended and prepared to issue bonds to
replenish tJnoertainty the Treasury.
as to what duties would
be levied undoubtedly aggravated and
perhaps prolonged the depression,
Reed has too muoh common sense to
declare that a tariff bill, that brought
prosperity with It, osused a panio a
year before it was born. He said, ip
his New York speech, of October 18 :
“Nobody can oharge this (depression)
fairly to the terms of the tariff whioh
used to exist. What caused this dis
aster everybody knows who ha. any
business sense. It was the utter un
oertainty, the Appalling doubt as to
what would happen to us.”
Reed is muoh too rough on the
Democrats, but is not so demagogical
as MoKinley and Harrison. How little
Senator Allison believes of this talk is
evident from the fact that he has re
cently adopted the tariff for revenue
plank of the Democratic platform.
Perhaps the responsibility for hard
times has never been more clearly
fixed than by Thos. G. Sherman in bis
speech in Paterson, N. " J., early in
1898. Heseid: -
What laws are In force?
Republican law*.
-Who, when the panto began, held nine
tenths of the offices through which those
laws are administered?
Who Republican*. hold most of the offices to-day?
Republican* Who passed the tariff in exlstsnee?
now
Kepubll all tbe tariff law* that have
Who passed
been In exlstenoe for the last thirty yean?
Republicans. leu protection Ameri¬
Is there more or to
can Industrie* In force to-day than there
wa* In tbe first year of Harrison’s adminis¬
tration, when we are told that everything
wa* eo prosperous? by about one-third to one-half.
More, Republicans been telling
What have tbe
ns, for the last thirty years, waW the oause
of The Amerioan Morrill prosperity? tariff. ,
Is there more or 1 proteotion given the by
tbe tariff to-day than was given by gnat
aud wonderful Morrill tariff?
More by 100 per cent, all around ; more on
woolen goods by 200 per oent.; more on
Iron and steel by 80 per oent.; more on silk
by 60 per oent. ; more on flax manufacture*
by 100 per oent.
To which, After quoting, Congress¬
men McKeighen added:
“Everything stands to-dey as Harri¬
son end McKinley left it, with every
Amerioan industry protected guaranteed and
everybody in this country
tremendous prosperity ee the result of
texing each other. Yet, here we are. ”
Prosperity that withers ee soon ee
tariff reduction is sogg eeted cannot be
very substantial. Yet that is wh*t
MoKinley wonld have us believe his
proteotion prosperity did-, although
it was rooted in thirty years of pro¬
teotion soil. All sensible and un¬
prejudiced persons know that riotous
speculation fostered by continued
high proteotion, whioh gave special
privilege# to corporations and trpsts,
had made the oountry ripe for a panic.
They know that the countries that
suffered most when the panio came,
were the highly protected countries
of Australis, United States aad Prance.
Trusts Are Nick.
Trusts not advancing prices
UkTihS* did'sftor^the McKinley bill
took effect. Many of them hove el*
ready exhibited symptoms of w ee kl ies
and have been compelled to re
None of the ox—not i
so
to
look like trees a few
they have been hove “girdled.” not been Unfortunately, completely
girdled by the rs m s va l of ell pffufi i r
The Borax Trust, which advance*
prices one cent per bill pound four day law
after the McKinley became
reduced prices one cent per pound a
soon as the new law reduced price
from five to two cents per pound
Hie reduction not being sufficient fi
prevent importations, the Oil, P«
and Drag Reporter, of October *
tells us that “a flying visit from
reputed head of the California syi
cate, last Friday, resulted in
*»• to * he
° redn«apriew cto ber anothw qn^Cmti ^
f the out >
“ ^e»gn«s inatlon 1B out . “*5“£L of the markefc V £ ^ S*
wbich basalreadybeenorderedca, U bere
no ce P \ n a ? w * ', 08i lfc “ *° e *'
Borac ., d ., . . JteSLPta . . .
* c a £
year °r two beld firmly at thjrteen to
“;“,r.tr£ ft
duetion exactly corresponds to the re
***** ^Vanother trust that
« squirming under rednced dntiM.
prices have declined from the prices
which have ruled for several years,
but it is true that prices will have to
b *
™nt ^here importations, od
18 no «°
the dnt * ° Q } V* “
removed at f the Deoember mw sesemn'of
the P re8ent
Portation. ^ The Hon. Tom. L. John
qq who ^ bni i ding a $3,000,000 steel
rail m Cleveland, Ohio, has
declared that we would make more
Bt#el raiU and # loy more ubor at
hi trSie. h Undoubtedly if we had absolute free
' with the cheap
. . the M the ooat of
making steel ia leas hero tijan abroad.
We can and should compete with all
competitors not only foreign in our market* own mar
kets but in many
Take off all duties that support
trusts 1
Tariff Umbrella Smashed.
Ex-President Harrison let the oat
ont of the bag the other day when Braail, he
said to the workingmen at
Ind: —
“Ton told that it would , be a
were
good thing to smash this tariff am
brella under whioh you and your em
ployer had been walking together and
sharing the bemffits of its protection.
Yon were told that you were getting
too muoh of the drip, but you found
you had smashed the umbrella that in
the rery nature of things he had an
accumulation and had provided while him
$*lf *ith a rubber coat, yon
were That left is in your only shirt part sleeve* of the truth, \
a
Protection has provided castle, mid
»te%p yachts as well as lubber ooato
tor many employers, while it bee left
the employes penniless and hungry.
Thirty years of protection began with
nil prosperous and wealth well «*
tributed. It ends with panic and de
pression, and with 5000 millionaires
«*n<l 5,000,000 tramps and pauper*
1“ I860, nine-tenths of the people
owned nine-tenths of the wealth; in
1890, the nine per oent. of eighty-four the people
under the umbrella owned
F*r oent. of the wealth. “
.
That protection umbrella has been
a greet thing for those under it, but
the workingman has, as ex-President
Harrison says, been getting only the
drip. The smashing of the tariff am
brella has revealed a horrible state of
affairs under it. The laborers of this
country have grown employers. poor holding that
umbrella over their
that it is being smashed, all will
alike again.
Bosh!
*” •■•A '- /: £ ~
American of Octo¬ ■
The Economist
ber 12 devotes considerable
quotations from nemigriff foreign net
to show how tbe “w
fit the British manufacturer. ” All
glad that our tariff walla are not mo
high, have and why shouldn't soli, they rejoice?
They products to
people want, and they sraotthe things
that our people have to sell. • Th
have been unable to buy our goo
because we could not tako the
does not matter whether two
who wish to trade live in 4
countries, different State# or d
counties; in any case
better off—in his opi
has made the trad* The Eooaon ft
thinks it an excellent exchange thing that S
Yorkers can products v
Pennsylvanians without paying toll
customs officers; but it is horrified
the idea that New Yorkers ah®
think of exchanging £
Canadians without pa; ti
fifty cents on every do *
goods exchanged. Of course, if Can
should bo annexed to thia eountary
conditions would entirely wonld be changed, 1
be proper to
people trade ae much ae they
please. Bosh! m
Bight Kind of
The bill which past
with all its
features, contains, even by the ada
sion of Its severest criti— a moot je
of tariff
freer iid 7
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