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BANKS('!O!TN T TVJOr\\N VL 03i3ial Derail of flunks County W ALI.A- "d L HARDER, lUniroa amd * lblisher. •£ Sulmcrlptlon. One yenr '0 cent ft cash or t" 1.00 on time months i*'. cents caah or 50 cents on time h‘,Uer it >' //"'" Ga. *ix ' Contributions r.i solicitol, but Correspon dent# shoul l remember • lu.mlrotls of people are expecce-.i to read t <ir wri. therefore they shoulil he short an i V> the point. The oditor of this paper does not hold himself •sponsible forth* views or expressions of con ributora. The JocstVAL i pnblH*ed f^rv morning and ell copies should be in this office not lister than Saturday morning to iusure publica tion. Address all communication* to Wallace L. Harden, Editor. THURSDAY, AUGUS 19,1897. i The New Duties on Imports. In The Review of Reviews Mr. Charles A. Couaut gives a summary in telligible to the average citizen of the changes that will be made in American customs duties by the new tariff law. It is not possible to tell before June 30, 1898, just how much increased revenue the new law will produce, from the fact that importers tnshod to bring in goods free of duty before the new law should be passed. They therefore stocked them selves up with supplies whose selling tirico they will at ej.ve lift to the level of the same goods at duty prices and thereby make a neat little speculation. The increased price of cotton fabrics was already noticeable in the retail market before the new tariff bill was enacted. It is not until the supply of goods brought in by importers iu ad vance of the new law is exhausted that thero will be any considerable buying under its provisions. The quantity of goods thus imported was sufficient, however, to seriously reduce the first year’s revenuo from the new tariff law. The most important difference bo twcoti the former law and the new one is that the new one is constructed ou the principle of taxing raw material, j while the Wilson Lill favored free raw materials. The new law will therefore levy a duty ou imports of produce raised by tho farmer, such as wool, bides, lumber, cotton and flax. There will be a direct attempt under tho new law, ac cording to Mr. Couaut, to develop the flax industry, fax growing and flax weaving. Imported linens are therefore taxed from 68 to 89 per cent on their value. This will nearly doable the price of linen goods t i the consumers. Asa matter of fact, the new law raises con giderabljahighct the duty on all textile fabrics. This is to compensate the mau ufactnrer for raising the price of raw cotton, wool and silk ou him. The most bitter struggle in congress was over the sugar schedule. According to Mr. Couaut, the senate leaned to ward favoring the sugar refiners, while the house, egged ou by the popular out cry against these magnates, was dis tinctly against increasing their privi leges. Finally the house and the people triumphed, at least in a measure. Mr. Couaut says the new tariff will afford protection enough to the sugar refiners, although it docs not at all give them such “liberal margins” as previous laws did. It is gratifying to know that at length iron and steel manufacturers j in the United States have reached that | stage where they need no especial pro- ' tectiou. The duties on these have there fore net been greatly changed by the new law. “Art works,” pictures and statues \v|! pay a duty of 20 per cent. Tho wily, treacherous Turk seems to be more than a match for all the re sources of European diplomacy. He is so adept at making proposals and de lays concerning the terms of evacuating Thessaly that the prospect is the twen tieth century will dawn with the Greco- Turkish question still unsettled. The only way in which the sultan can be positively pinned down to an agreement will be by an actual order for the for eign fleets to anchor opposite Constan tinople ready to blow the Turk’s town into splinters. Abdul Hamid was or dered by the powers mouths ago to take his troops out of Thessaly, but they are thero yet and seem likely to remain un til the powers get into their minds the truth that the Turk is only playing with them and has no thought of giv ing up Thessaly so long as lying and falso pretenses can retaiu it. Many of the bicycles of 1898 will be • chaiuless, and it is only a matter of time when they all will bo so. With the remarkable cheapening of wheels that came with 1897 the danger was that they would be carelessly built. A bi cycle that is net constructed with the painstaking care and nicety of adjust ment that belong to a good watch is as dangerous as a clamp gun. There is so much competition, however, that mak ers will not dare to put upon the market the deadly trash that for awhile passed under the name of cheap wheels. The sewing machine that sells at $25 is as good as those that formerly brought SIOO. It will be the same with bicycles, and tho people are to be congratulated thereou. Captain Morienson of the bark Ans gar reports that ho saw in the White sea, July 33, an object which he thinks was a collapsed balloon, and he thinks it was Andree’s balloon. Why did he not go and see? The death of Canovas will certainly be for the good of the Cuban cause, from the fact that in the Spanish cabinet be fore his death everything was as bad as it could be against the patriots. THE NEW TARIFF LAW. False In Design and Will Op press the Fcople. REVENUE KOT IT3 REAL PURPOSE. It* Object In to Acmimuiatn Trcuourj NotcH an.l Itotiro Them From Circula tion Eiml.lei* One Clan* to Collect Trill* ute From Another. Representative Joseph W. Bailey ol Texas, Democratic leader of the house, sums up the new tariff bill as follows: The pretense that the new tariff bill Is designed primarily to increase tho public revenues is a false one upon its very face, because if that had been the object it could have been accomplished without disturbing all the business in terests of the country by a general re vision of cur tariff duties. A slight change iu the existing law would have sufficed. An amendment substituting tho sugar schedule of the pending bill for the sugar schedule of tbo existing law, with the differential duty iu favor of the Sugar trust entirely eliminated, would have increased the revenue at least 121,000,000, and the substitution of tho tobacco schedule of the pending bill for tho tobacco schedule of the ex isting law would have added over $5,000,000 more, making a total in crease by theso two amendments of $8,000,000 above the deficiency cf the last fiscal year. Revenue for the government, how- ever, was not the real purpose which the framers of this bill bad iu tlseif* minds. They desired to collect more money, it is true, but their purpose in doing that was almost wholly apart from the support of the government. On the first page of his report tho dis tinguished chairman of the committee on ways and means shows that the difference between the government’s receipts and expenditures during the fis cal year of 1896 was less than $26,000,- 000, and toward the conclusion of his report he declares that this bill, asorig inully reported to the house, was ex pected to raise $113,000,000 more than was collected under the present law during that time. We charged that their object in creat ing that enormous surplus was to ac cumulate the promissory notes af the government in the treasury and to hold them there, thus effectually withdraw ing them from circulation. We huve repeated that eliargo in the most specifio rnauner, aud no Republican with au thority to speak has ever made a specific answer to it. Not only is it true that protection i)i minishes our wealth by abridging the freedom of international exchange, but it is also true that it diminishes our wealth by fostering those combinations of capital which tiro formed for the pur pose of limiting production in. order to maintain prices. Trusts are tire legiti mate and unavoidable outgrowth of pro tection, aud both aim at the same end. Each is intended to enable the manufac turer to escape competition, j is designed to protect domestic munu- I facturers against foreign competition, | but does any man suppose that when our manufacturers have learned how profitable it is to bo relieved from for eign competition they will suffer a dim inution of tlioir profits by competing against each other? We stand upon the broad aud unas sailable ground that taxation can only be justified when it is levied for the purpose of supporting the government, and thaj all taxation which is designed to enable one class to collect tribute from other classes is a legalized robbery. If the manufacturers are as selfish and ns prosperous as we have been taught to believe, it is an unpardonable crime to exempt them from taxation and thus increase the burdens of the putient and unnumbered multitude. I canuot fiud lauguage stroug enough to denounce a policy that would lift the burdens of this government from the great manu facturing establishments uud lay it with crushing weight upon the farms. I know the agricultural peoplo of this laud, aud I know their unselfish devotion to their country. I know, too, that it is as true iu the economic as it is iu the physical world that all things rest upon the earth, and when these who cultivate the soil are made to suffer the nation must suffer with them. The farmers are tho most useful and the most con servative of all our citizens. I do uot plead for special privileges for the farmers. I only plead in defense of the Democrutio party for having said that iu dealing with this question it will keep its pledge that none shall en joy a special favor nor shall any suffer a special burden, but that ail shall stand equal before the law. To establish and maintain the equal rights of men was the great mission to which its founders dedicated tiie Democratic party 100 years ago and to which we reconse crated it last year. If we adhere stead fastly aud faithfully to this, the most vital of all our principles, the America n peoplo will reward our fidelity with their confidence, and we can reward their confidence by perpetuating forever and forever more this, the greatest, the freest aud therefore the best government that ever rose to animate the hopes or to bless tho sacrifices of maukiud.— New York Journal. The Suffur Trust'll Victory. No further proof 13 needed of the Sug ar trust's victory in the final revision of tho new tariff bill than the rise of its stock in Wall street. Instead of far ing worse than it did in the senatfc schedule, it is the opiuiou of the expert speculators that it has come out of the conference coinmittoe far better, and the result is the raking in of millions by those “on the inside” from the mar ket fluctuations alone. Please note tho Constitution advertisement on ptge 8, can't you supply the missing word? Subscribe for both papers, at 51, 25 per year, semi the money and orde” to The JOURNAL, HOMER. Ga. Dont forget to send in your Subcseription for the BANKS COUNTY JOURNAL. At the remarkably low price 50 cent Per annum,if paid for in advar.-* , PLATFORM PROMISES. Republican Pledges Still Unre deemed. TRUSTS ORLY RECEIVE FAVOR! Tariff Law Framed In tho Intercut of Wealth - Toiler* Get Notlilug but In creased Taxes Their Pockets Held Open For the Hand of tile Dospoilur. The following paragraph is going tho rounds of the Republican press: Just one*twelfth of the McKinley adminis tration hns* passed, but in that timo Republic ans have done tporo in tho way of carrying out tho pledges of tho platform than was over I accomplished in double that time by any pi o vioui* administration. When you consider that 1 this lias lrfs-n dono with a senate in which tho Republicans are in u minority, you should oelebmto tho closo of tin- first four months in stead of grumbling because the full four years' 1 undertaking has not been completed. A little comparison of Republican platform promises with Republican aj ministrution fulfillments will certainly ho welcomed by tho Republican organs which hnve given space to the above paragraph or which may concur in its sentiments. Ou the question of sugar the Republican platform said, “Tho Republican party favors such protection as will lead to the production ou Amer ican soil of all tho sugar which tho American people uso. ” In carrying out this promise a sugar schcdulo was framed that- gave to the Sugar trust ab solute control of tho sugar market, and at the request of a Republican senator tho Republican senators voted against an amendment to the tariff bill provid ing for a bounty tt sugar growers. Of Cuba tho Republican platform says. “We believe that the government of Hie United State:! should actively uso its influence and good offices to restore peace and give independence to the is lands. ” How has this pledge been ful filled? For three months one man, back ed by tho known wishes and desires of tbo administration and supported bv a lot of rnorl cowards, has thwarted every attempt at recognition of the Cu ban patriots. “One-twelfth of the Mc- Kinley administration has passed” and instead of asserting the supremacy of the American flag, protecting Ameri cans in Cuba in the exercise of their rights and using our “good offices tore store peace” and bring independence t,o the island, wo still submit to Spanish insults, offer charity to wronged and outrage-d Americans and refuse to recog : nizo the patriots who are struggling for freedom. Tho Republican platform stated that Republicans “believe in an immediate return to the free homestead policy of the Republican party.” But free home steads havo been lost sight of in tho mad rush to do the bidding of the tariff barous. The Republican platform demands that “every citizen shall bo allowed to cast one free aud unrestrained ballot and that such ballot shall be counted as cast. ” How well tho Republican party has complied with its own demand is shown by the tyranny of Speaker'Reed, ! who refuses to allow members to vote, j counts votes never cast and overlooks votes cast against his wishes, j The Republican national platform says that Republicans “favor tho crea | tion of a national board of arbitration j to settle and adjust differences which may arise between employers und em ployed engaged in interstate commerce. ” j This is ouo of the nation’s most serious problems, aud notwithstanding the fact that “just one-twelfth of the McKiu j ley administration has passed” not one step has been taken by that administra tion in this direction. The Republican party renews the par ty’s “allegiance to the policy of protec tion,” because “in its reasonable appli cation it is just, fair aud impartial, equally opposed to foreign control and domestic monopoly. ” The Republican idea of “reasonable application” aud its conception of “justice, fairness and im partiality” are shown in the sugar sched ule, emphasized by tiie. wool schedule and made plain to all men in the sub serviency shown to tho trusts. It frames a tariff bill that tuxes the cradle and the coffin, the food and the clothes, the erstwhile free gospel of salvation and tho remedies for bodies diseased. It holds open tho pockets of the toilers that favored men may run their hands therein. It confers favors upon those who are already rolling in wealth and throws a few stale crumbs to the toilers of the nation. It prated about what its tariff law would do for the toilers aud then framed a law that skims the cream for tho rich and leaves the skimmilkfor the poor. This is the way the Repub lican administration is carrying out the pledges of its platform. It has violated every pledge given to the people and carried out every pledge made to the trusts aud tariff barons. If the Repub lican orgaus are proud of this record, they axe easily pleased.—Omaha World- Herald. David U. Remarks. David B. Hill, deceased, arises to remark that his “views of party policy are too well known to need repetition.” Correct, David the Defunct. Your views of party poficy are known to be taken from the iunermost recesses of a hole into whioh you crawled during the last campuigu. Not Yet Illpe. "Another essential condition of pros perity,” says the New York Tribune, “is that it must not be plucked before it is ripe.” Are we to understand that we have committed the green persim mons act as regards the McKinley pios perity?—Exchange. Rceil aud the Benate. So it seems that Tom Reed didn’t bully the senate much after all. The Sugar trust seems well enough satisfied. The senate went a little high on the sug ar schedule so as to be able to drop in conference to about the figure they wanted. Switzerland is naturally one of tho poorest lauds in material resources of any in civilization. It is all mountains and glaciers, with a few fertile valleys. Yet so much have the frugal, intelli gent and iudustrions Swiss made of themselves and their country that they show us today the nearest approach to a model government and the largest deposits in savings banks of any nation. In the savings banks of the country there are $55 to every man, woman and child in the republic. I A GOLDBUG ENLIGHTENED. | Query as to What a Silver RrpoiJlican r<* Readily Answered. The Hartford Courant, Senator Haw ley's newspaper, wants to know a few things, and, as such a laudable nrnbi ticn should be encouraged, we hasten to give The Courant (ho desired informa | tion. It asks: What is a "silver Republican," anyway? Who can expound to us the out of his Jib? How did it happen, and want's ho liko.andwlu.ro is ho at? Wlty do the Washington proas agents and newspaper t-0.-respondonfs persist in tag ging tho Republican label upon persons who took a public, formal and docidodly theatrical leave of tho party a year ago—to its great relief and benefit—because of their avowed hostility to its principles and policies? If the Hartford Conruut will refer to tho Republican uuiiounl platform of 1892, it will find it declaration to the effect that “the American people, from tradition and interest, favor bimetal lism, and the Republican party de mand.! the use of both gold and silver as standard money. 1’ A silver Repub lican is a Republican who is so thor oughly American that he stands by American traditions and American in terests. lie stood upon tho Minneapolis platform’s financial declaration and re fuses to step down at tho bidding of for eign bosses, who think nothing of Amer ican “tradition and interest.” It is a pleasure to he able to enlight eu an earnest seeker after knowledge, and, therefore, wo are pleased to inform The Courant that a silver Republican is a Republican who is so thoroughly American that ho believes that a nation that can make and eufp irtariff pol icy without the -&id or tdnseut of auy other natkrn.can make aud enforce a money policy without the aid or con sent of tmy other nation. If the Hartford Courant is not satis fied with the definitions above given, The World-Herald will take pleasure in quoting some more. Many quotations can be made from William McKinley, John A. Hogan, John M. Thurston, William B. Allison and others who are now or have been leaders of Republic anism. But tho chief characteristic of a silver Republican is that he persists iu thinking for himsolf. —Omaha World- Herald. A POLITICAL BIGAMIST. McKinley Finds Himself -In tho Predica incut of a Man With Three Wives. Imagine the embarrassment of our president when called upon, as he now is, to redeem conflicting promises made to opposing parties to secure votes for his election, says the Cincinnati Com mercial. First and foremost he is pledged to whatever Wall street finan ciers want. They want tho gold stand ard, and want It bad, and want it right now. True, they agreed to allow tire Republican platform to favor interna tional bimetallism subject to British oousent, but they say that was the merest play and that now the election is over such nonsense ought to be drop ped. They want “currency reform” which will aboljish silver dollars and greenbacks aud substitute for them tho “sound mouey” cf private bank notes, with gold ouly ns a legal tcuder. Those silver Republicans who staid in the party after Teller and other lead ers had left on account of the betrayal of the cause of bimetallism want the president to keep making motions to ward an international agreement. Heuce the presence of Senator Wolcott to foot at the, shindy in Buck- Whtfre he met the Prince of Wales and other friends. Thou there are the rag money freaks of tho Indianapolis convention. Our obliging president tied himself up to their committee by a pledge to send a special message to congress asking that body to abdicate its powers and author ize him to appoint a little tin congress on wheels, composed of nine of the freaks, to enact a law for the inundation of the land with irredeemable bank notes. The president is like a man with threo wives, each of whom believes herself to be the only cue and all of whom persist in being taken to the tho ater by him on tho same evening. Oh, what a tangled web We weave When first we practice to deceive 1 A contemporary prints a long article on “How to Study an English Cathe dral.” What does anybody want to study an English cathedral for? The news that ex-King Milan of Sexvia is seriously ill is not surprising. The ouly wonder is that tho old repro bate was not dead long ago. Chicago has 47 new public school buildings all going up at ouce. New York cannot equal this, not even Great er New York. It required a week, to bury Canovas, but ouly half a minute to kill him. The Knockout Hlow. Ohio is the solar plexus of the Repub lican party. Now watch the bimetallists land a knockout blow there this fall. THE TRUTH V/ELL STATED. Scarce Dollar# Cheapen Libor and the Product# of Labor. The truth of tho financial situation has never been better stated than in the following editorial taken from the col umns of the Covington Star: It has often been stated by those who depend upon others for their ideas and opinions on the money question that the single gold standard of primary money must be the best thing for the people, because most of the bankers and rich men who possess large amounts of mon ey are generally in favor of it. But this is a mistake. It is not because it is best for the whole people that these men favor the sing's standard, but because it is better for them, aud enhances the value of their dollars. They care nothing for the in terests of the people, only so far as their dollars may be enhanced in value by the increased demand for them on ac count of their scarcity in circulation. The single standard makes a scarce dollar, and a scarce dollar makes a more valuable dollar and cheaper prod ucts of labor. It is a good tiling, of course, for the people to get cheap goods, but as 80 to 90 per cent of the people are producers of marketable goods a much greater number are benefited by receiving good prices for their products than are bene fited by reason of procuring oheap goods. As the dollars become scarce they be oome more valuable, and the prices of farm and other Droducts become lower and cheaper. ENCOURAGING TRUSTS. Tbo Ulngley Bill Fill" tho Bill In That Kind of Prosperity. Though tho far prospect of the Diug- Itiy tariff failed to start tho tidal wavo of prosperity, as the Republicans pro dieted it would, thero is no question' that its effect in the way of (rust en couragement was instantaneous, says tho Kansas City Times. One proof of protection’s power in trust building is furnished by tho efforts to organize a tin plate trust. Tin plate has for several years been subject to a duty designed to protect the “infant Industry. ’’ This sturdy infant has fattened ou its subsidy. Last summer it managed to pull itself log. (her sons to reduce wages aud increase prices simultaneously. Still it considers that the price might he raised a little more without letting in tho foreigner. Iu the words of Manager Wheeler of the Great Western Tin Plate company: “Thero is at present a difference of from 60 con s to 75 cents between the domestic and (he import price, which tho trust, if formed, would proceed to annihilate. In its capacity as about the heaviest user of steel billets iu tho country such a trust would gaiu tbo co-operation of the huge steel plants in crashing presumptuous pieople who ven tured to start independent mills.” . This programme is being carried.yaf. The trust is heiiig formed' and will be -gia-tmi active work of crushing compe tition aud fleecing the public as soon as the Dingley bill goes into effect. Iu en couraging infant trusts the Diuglcy bill will have no equal. Making a Tariff. Since the constitution providos that all bills for creating national revenue must originate in (he United States house of representatives, the first draft of anew tariff iasv must always come from that house. The ways aud means committee prepares the hill. Then it is put before the whole house iu session and passed. Alter the law is safo through the l-.ou.se of representatives it is sent to the senate. It is referred first to a committee, the senate com mittee on finance. This committee, like the house committee, considers it, makes snch changes as it sees fit aud then lays the bill before tho full senate. It is passed by the senate. But iu the upper house, of course, many changes havo been made in it and amendments appended. The house must consider these and pass them on its own account. It does not see fit to pass without change many of the senate’s amend ments, however, so it asks for a com mittee of conference. The senate appoints tho committee of conference and tho house appoints also its committee, an equal number of members of each: house. They confer. Each sido usually makes concessions aud the differences are compromised. A bill satisfactory to tho conference committee has been prepared. But the work is not yet done. It is not certain that the houses of congress will be sat isfied with the work of the committee, so the draft of tho law as finally fixed by the conference committee must go to each house. It is first given to the rep resentatives. After they pass it, it goes to the senate, and on being approved by that body it is ready for the final step, the president’s signature. That affixed, it is a law. Few private citizens have auy idea cl the labor involved in making a tariff schedule. The interests of every manu facturer of auy kind, every farmer and every importer iu the country are mors or less involved iu the duties to be levied on imports, aud these interests are iu many cases diametrically opposed to eaoh other. Every industry goes before congress and makes its cry. For in stance, it is to tbo interest of tho inhab itant of Maine to get oranges and lem ons as cheaply as possible, while it is to the interest of the fruit culturist ol California or Florida to have tho price of these as high as possible so that peo ple will buy them. The farmer wants wool to be protected so the price will be high; the manufacturer wants it free so he can get it cheaply. Tho high gear of tho now bicyoles it notable. Women’s wheels used to be geared to only 50 because it was thought a lady would not have strength to pedal up hill with a higher gear. Now, how ever, ladies’ wheels aro frequently geared to 70, aud the women find they can chove themselves up hill as easily as they used to with the low gear. One pressure of the pedal under the higt gear makes the machine whirl forward so much farther than under tho old ad justment. Tho increased strength which long practice has given to the leg mus cles of bicyolists is partly wbat lias warranted the adoption of increased sprocket power, but it is also partly due to the greater perfection and finer ad justment of the bicycle machinery itself. Practice makes perfect in making as in riding a bicycle. If now these expert makers can only give us au entirely comfortable saddle and a dependable tire, they will have reached the climax of greatness and goodness in bicycle building. Lord Kelvin is to be congratulated on his latest achievement, and civilization is to be congratulated on possessing Lord Kelvin. He has invented aud put into successful operation at Shoreditch, England, a garbage crematory. Its ac tion is mainly automatic, by means of electricity. The lifting aud emptying are done by automatic electric hoists which deposit the garbage into cells where it is burned. The heat of the fur naces is intense, aud it is increased by forced draft. This is perhaps the most interesting part of the process. The air to produce the tremendous draft in the furnaces is drawn by pumping ma chines from the city sewers. Thus the sewers are ventilated aud their noxious gases destroyed. The heat produced in cidentally is used for making steam, aud that runs dynamos for any firm wanting manufacturing power. When the Cuban patriot army was afar from Havana and in the outlying orovinces. it was necessary for the 1 Safety of tho capithl that VVeyler shonlil stay there aud guard it. Now, however, that the Cubans are at the gates of Havana, skirmishing with its Spanish defenders and whipping them almost daily, it is necessary for - the city’s safety that Weyler should stay ontsldo of it, somewhere in tho provinces of Matauzas or Havana. The disastrous commercial results of the war in Cuba appear in many ways. One of them is manifest iu the recent shipment of 100 bales of tobacco from Jamaica to New York. This is the first tobacco Jamaica ever sent to the United States, aud it was said to be grown by refugees who went to the British island from Cuba. Oanovas was Spain’s man of iron. But he was not likewise a man of progress, or his end might have been different and Spain might have been able to hold on to Cuba. Fi*om Violence Violence Comes. For his own fame as a statesman probably the assassination of Canovas del Castillo was the most fortunate thing that could have happened just now. He will go down to posterity with the halo of a martyr and a great men .ereaodJiis tent's. Well, he was neither. He was merely a scholarly man of some talent who stuck fast to his mirpose, a bloody and disastrous one, through thick and thin. His death filled civilized men with hor ror. They have ouly sympathy for tho family thus bereaved of a loved one . and for the hapless queen of Spain, who j had learned to trust anil rely on Cano vas, however ruinous his policy was. But let ns go baik a year. June 7, 1896, a bomb was thrown into a church procession at Barcelona. It killed and injured a number of porsons. Anarchists had apparently done the deed, or was it tho work of Cuban sympathizers? At. any rate 400 persons were arrested ou suspicion. Those against whom evi dence was strongest were tortured iu a manner that wonld have shamed the red Indians of North America in their cruelest days. The victims had their bones broken on the wheel, their feet: crushed und their necks pierced with iron collars. The instruments known iu the days of the Spanish inquisition never did more horrible work than was dono on tho bodies of tho suspected bomb throwers. Their nails were torn off; they were burned and beaten. From old time, through the middle ages, in the years following tho discovery of America by Columbus, Spanish noble men aud gentlemen stand before the world as monsters of bloody cruelty. The tortures inflicted on the Barcelona suspects were ordered by tho premier of Spain, Sonor Canovas del Castillo, so the friends of the tortured victims declared and believed. They swore they would retaliate. “I have avenged my brothers of Barcelona!” cried Miohelo Agiuo Golli as Canovas fell. Buying Kali Goods. Signs indicate that tho people of this country have about Worn out all their old clothes and .are going to get new ones. The vast wheat crop and its good prices have given many tho wherewith lo buy clothes aud whatever else they need. We may hope the farmer’s boy and girl will this fall bo able to enter on that coveted year in college which had to bo deferred before. Merchants in some parts of the coun try, notably in the south, report a pros pect for brisk fall trade. The action of several of the southern railroads in fix ing reduced excursion rates for mem bers of the Merchants’ association who wish to visit New York has resulted in sending a great number of them to that city and other points in the north. Bos ton has Merchants’ association, and buyers are flocking thither. A Teuuesseo trader who lias visited the principal towns in his state reports the business prospect there excellent. Men from various points from Missis sippi to Ohio tell tho same story. The number of wholesale merchants going from all parts of the country to New York lo buy their fall and winter sup plies is reported by mercantile organi zations to be greater than was ever known before. At Santa Rosalia iu the Cuban prov ince of Santiago was enacted recently a scene which vividly recalls Byron’s poem on the ball in Brussels before the buttle of Waterloo. Iu Santa Rosalia also “thero was a sound of revelry by night.” Tho Spanish officers guarding the town were at a ball attended by the beauty and chivalry of the town. While they were dancing merrily, in a mo ment, without the briefest warning, a baud of Cubans attacked the reveler’s. Tho insurgents seized the town and or captured nearly all the Spanish officers and private soldiers wbo were garrisoning the jlaoe. This was easier because many of the Spanish soldiers, taking advantage of the absence of their officers at the ball, had left their bar racks and were reeling about the streets or lying around here aud there drunk almost to insensibility. The Cubans in this affair were under command of tho brave and accomplished General With the emperor of Germany it seems to be no longer “God and me,” but now “the czar and me.” Twenty-seven hundred hapless na tives were killed in the little skirmish which Great Britain has just finished up in the Chitral district in India. But what does it matter? They were only weak, ignorant, miserable natives, 1,000 of whose lives were not worth that of one Englishman. But let us not forget that Englishmen never tire of casting it into our faces how cruel we have been to red Indians and negroes. The British iu the Chitral seem to have had a picnic of shooting down natives, much the same as the Prince of Wales had in shooting rabbits on tbe Vander bilt-Marlborouuh estates iu England THE INCUBUS. | Corporations Are Invading Indi vidual Rights. CRUSHING OUT ALL COMPETTnOIf. ' the A (fgrewloH ftf U’eiUtli (litre Heeomt I Hvrion.H Menace to the l*er|tulty o# Oiif Institution* ~Mn*t He l>riven Back to Tliclr Proper Ilountlarie*. At tho recent convention of Republi can league clubs held at Detroit H. M. Duflield, replying to strictures made upon corporations by Governor Pingrec, said, “Corporations aTe good things, and this country could not get^along Without them. ” Mr. Dnffieldbas begged the question and dealt in sweeping generalities. When conducted with proper limita tions, it cannot be denied that corpora tions are good tilings. In the modern method of conducting business aud in dustrial operations on a large scale they have grown to be important, almost es sential. factors in the carrying ou* of enterprises too vast for the scope of in dividual effort. They are tho creation usually of general or specific law* and should be confined wijhbu l.be tefOrdf their' respective charters. When so operated, they are not necessarily in imical to tho public welfare. It was not against corporations con ducted after this legitimate manner that Governor Pingree inveighed. Hla condemnation was directed against those combinations of capital which transcend their delegated functions by invading tho rights of individuals and using their wealth and the influences it brings for crashing out competition, damming the channels of public policy *nd destroying the opportunities that lie open to private enterprise. That the more powerful corporations all over the oountry have sinned iu these aud in numerous other ways is a truth that is too plain for controversy. Their aggressions have been increas ing as their wealth multiplied during the past quarter of a century, untill the task of driving them back within their proper boundaries has become a neces sity if this government is to be perpet uated according to the plan of its founders. These creatures of the law have grown to such threatening propof tions that they have assumed to defy and override the power that created them. Armed with tho power of enormously accumulated capital, they have gone into the legislatures- of the states aud into the halls of congress, aud by the employment of money and the agencies which it controls they have caused to be enacted laws which have legislated millions into their already plethorio treasuries. Millions of acres of the pub lic domain have been given them with out a cent of consideration, taxes have been indirectly levied for their enrich ment, aud bonuses have been voted into the pockets of their stockholders. These undeserved and unearned boun ties have been used by them iu the op pression, impoverishment and robbery of the sovereign people who grunted them a right to exist. They have placed their agents and their servitors in tlie chairs of governors, iu tho hcusesof rep- f resentatives; in the senate chambers, in the state legislatures, in the cabidet, in the presidential ihaii 2 abd eVen in those inner sauctnaries of a people’s rights, the courts of justice. . One of these corporations, the Sugar trust, held the federal senate and the i house of representatives at bay, demand ing that they should not adjourn until they had passed a law authorizing it to take millions of dollars out of the pock ets of the tax riddeu consumers. An other of them, the Union Pacific Rail road company, marshals the support of nearly half the senate of the United States in its efforts to evade the pay ment of the vast sums it owes the gov ernment, while more than 100 of these corporations await like birds of prey with sharpened talons uud whetted beaks tho signal that the tariff infamy has been consummated, so that they may begin to devour the substance of tho people. Until the voters of America have de livered the deathblow to this hydra headed corporation monster this will not be the government of the people, for the people and by the people for which Washington fought, Jackson battled and Lincoln died. This task is a hercu lean one. But the principles of liberty and equality which stood behind the bayonets at Bunker Hill, shotted the guns that flashed above the ootton bales at New Orleans and breasted success fully the battle aud the storm during the four years of our fratricidal civil strife live iu the hearts of the Ameri can people yet. These principles will flame into action in good time aud with the power of ballot sweep away this in cubus that has lain so long upon the hearts and paralyzed the energies of the producers. Kingly rule has been driven from onr shores. Black slavery has been abol ished. White slavery and commercial servitude are the twin oppressors whose yoke the people are called upon to throw off. The struggle will be fierce and long, but the right is sure to tri umph.—Kansas City Times. Takes Care of the Trusts. Senator Teller, who has been some thing of a protectiouißt himself, says of the Dingley bill: "In my judgment it is the worst tariff bill ever passed. The rates are exceedingly high. It takes care of all the trusts in the country, aud, I say it withont offense, the trusts aud combinations and syndicates have had too much to do with this bill. ” Pathetic. We never understood what real pa thos was until we took to reading Ly man J. Gage’s appeals to prosperity to come on back. The horse season of 1897 is notable for furnishing another pacer, the great Joe Patcben, who hopped his mile in it minutes 1 % seconds. From present in dications the two minute pacer will ar rive before the two minute trotter. - Sultan Abdul Hamid may well look out for himself now. Politics has got into his harem among his menagerie of wives and it is said the members of the Young Turk party are making them selves extremely agreeable there.