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A Difficult Undertaking.
Scnatoi Hoar has gradually become one
of the most extreme of protectionists. He
never misses an opportunity to talk about
the blessings of the high tariff. Indeed
ho talks too much to be always careful.
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Levi P. Morton says nothing but the
stubs of his chcck-book probably show that
he ia sawing-wood like fury.
Tiie State University has opened. Tho
iiniver-ity is still without a chancellor.
The university needs a chancellor.
Dr. Ti
having reg
kek is probably happy u
glued the Christian Index. Till
loctor lias a way of making things hum.
1 it, a prospect that the democratic
— "fogetker. I 8 will -’.Igree and poll
Cleveland/^ hev were fighting in 1534. but
Several large rattlesnakes have been
hvii near a swell New York club house.
The most remarkable part of the story ia
that they were real Bnakes.
TnE name of the man who gave the
$12,000 to the yellow fever sufierers is
still a myBtery in New York. Wo sup
pose, however, that it la quite well known
in heaven.
The Boston Herald remarks that “the
dignity of the United States Senate is a
theory, not a condition.” The Herald
should have added that no man has done
more to degrade the tone of senatorial
courtesy than the sanctimonious G. Frisbie
Hoar, of Massachusetts.
The Californians have every reason to
think themselves very important persona.
Both houses ol congress have been playing
A broad farce for their especially delecta
tion for ten days past, and they don’t gen
«rallv make a show of themselves to people
furtner off than the galleries.
The democratic House of Bepresenta
tives passed a bill to pay a Georgia negro
$3,000 for cotton taken by the United
States authorities during the war, and the
republican Senate cut the amount down to
$1 ,600. Another evidence of the grand old
party’s devotion to its dusky ward.
Can it possibly he true? Humor* are
Hosting around in Maine that the vener
able Hannibal Hamlin, republican founder
and chief of the veteran office-holders, has
become a mugwump and voted the dem
ocratic ticket the other day. Something
disastrous is going to happen when as old
a rat as Hannibal deserts.
. A leak has been discovered in one of
the treasury vaults in Washington. This
is the first accident of the kind that has oc
curred under the present administration.
Under republican rule treasury leaks were
frequent and large, and instead of letting a
little water in, they let a great deal of
money out
Am enthuiiaslic Nebraska republican has
bet hit wife against a Democratic neigh
bor’s cow that Cleveland will not be re
elected. The woman is willing to abide
th# result. The community would per
haps be divided at to whiqjj party gives
the odds in this het, and it is therefore
walueless as a campaign "pointer.”
President Nokthen baa invited the
cotton planten of the south to meet in
Macon during the state fair and discus*
wages ol the workingmen In consequence of the
tariff are from 40 to HO per cent, higher.
There is certainly something wrong
about this. The workingmen of the
country really include nearly everybody,
for everybody works, except some thous
ands of rich idlers in the east, most of
whom the tariff made rich; but Senator
Hoar probably used the term in a more re
stricted sense. He may have meant in
speaking of workingmen only those
who • nso tools or machinery
in their labor. Still this would
properly include farmers, railroad men,
printers, etc., as well ns the employes of
manufacturing establishments, and to
gether these would constitute a large ma
jority of the people of the United States.
Now, if it be true, as Senator Hoar says,
that oi all the articles used by these mil-
lions of people only 15 or 20 per cent, are
named in the tariff, and of this small pro
portion a largo part"is not increased in
price, the question arises: Where does
the money come from that pays these
millions of workers 40 to 100 percent,
higher wages than they would otherwise
receive? The expenditures of workingmen
must come from their earnings,
and cannot be greater. It would
be an agency as wonderful in its
power as Aladdin’s lamp that could col
feet a fund from assessments upon less than
15 per cent, of workingmen’s expenses and
from that fund pay a premium on the
whole sum of their earnings of. 40 to 100
jier cent. In fact, we think that process
would speedily have bankrupted the treas
ury of even the slaves of the lamp.
It is probable, however, that Senator
Hoar did not mean farmers, railroad men,
etc., when he spoke of workingmen, but
referred only to those persons employed in
what are known as “protected” industries.
Such a restriction does not accord with
the protectionist claim that the bless
ings and tho burdens of the high
tariff are shared by all citizens alike, but
it would make it easier for Senator Hoar
to prove that protection takes n very little
money from the people and pays a great
deal back. The collection would be from
many;the payments to only a few. That
would lie a very lame i-xpluniition, but it
should be remembered tluit tbe mau has
got 4 very delimit job mi baud wlijVh
out to prove ifiKTprdtectjfj, j*-T*!*..
I
A Wild Statement. I Profess tonal Leaders*
Our friends, the republicans, do not ob- I When the republican national commit-
ject to everything English. They seem to tee “engaged” (?) the services of Charles
Some Very Suggestlvo Figures.
The department of agriculture at Wash
ington did not add to its reputation for
accuracy by its estimates of the colton crop imm
for the season of 1887-8. Last November jean movement toward lower larifl taxes ^ the Knights of Labor, there were some in-
the department after "careful inquiry and , to say of it that it is a stop toward that j nocen t people who expected to see a con-
full reports" from all parts of the cotton j most horrible^of things, English or British | vulsion in politics. But the only percepti-
region estimated the crop then going to free trade, free trade could not, in their j,[ e e fl'cc t of Mr. Litchman’s announce
market at 6 300,000 bale* It turned out; eyes, he described in all its loathsomeness
to be 7 017,7«3 bales, leaving the depart-- unlers it were called English or British,
ment’s estimate 717,793 bales wide of the , Hritish protection, however, is a d-an and
mar k I lovely thing. There isn’t much of- it, it is
Eome figures recently prepared by the ! true, but what thero is is just too sweet for
bureau of statistics are interesting and anything.
Because ol this admiration for English
protection, the republicans have imported
an English orator, Mr. H. J. Pettifer, to
help them in their canvass. The gentle
man is president of a “fair trade” league,
and presumably ia paid a handsome per
diem during ilia tour. His first speech
A Yellow Ferer Expert.
Next Saturday Dr. Paul Gabier, a young
. , but distinguished Parisian physician, will
accuracy by its estimates of the cotton crop think it quite sufficient to crush an Ainer- jj_ Litchman, former national secretary of sad from France for the United States.
| a j--* XT l—I :—i/,n,J * - ■ •• The object of his visit is to study the yel
low fever at Jacksonville, and he bears an
official commission from the French gov .
ernment for this sc vice. Last year Dr
Gabier made a careful study of the yellow
fever in Cuba. In a paper which he re
cently read before the Paris Academy 0 f
ior ine-nWlVmwa the lab
40 to 100 per cent, while it fails to increa
their selling price. It is an explanation
too, calculated to make the taxpaying
many dissatisfied. The cherished few. also,
might ask some awkward ques
tions. For instance: Do the thousands of
iron and coal miners of Pennsylvania, who
work for 80 cents to $1.15 a day, buy their
goods from company stores, pay high rent
for miserable shanties and live little better
than dogs—do these miners get the 40 or
tho 100 per cent advance that protection
pay*? The same question might be asked
about the Fall Biver operatives who test!
lied under oatli that they earned less than
$150 a year,
Tho truth is that Senator Hoar and his
party are engaged in an attempt to gai
control of the government in a campaign
based on talse pretenses. They do not dare
to tell the truth about the tariff, and
their only hope ia to deceive. The
primary purpose of a protective tariff ia to
raise the price of articles on which it is
laid; yet Senator Hoar, injthe paragraph
quoted, says that it has failed of its pur
pose. The justification for raising prices,
according to protectionist doctrine,
that thereby manufacturers are enabled
to pay higher wages; Senator Hoar says,
in effect, that they do pay higher wages,
while explaining that the tariff helps them
little in doing so.
The tariff as now laid covers nearly the
whole range of production possible in the
United Suites; very few things escape.
Yet Senator Hoar says that
only 15 ‘or , 20 per cent, of
the article* entering into general consump
tion are touched by the tariff, and many
of these are not advanced in price.
If his figures are Accented, i« nn( the con
clusion inevitable that the prosperity of
the country is not dependent on protection?
Eighty-five per cent or more of its produc
tions are beyond the tarifF* influence.
When Mr. Harrison can spare the time
from his handshakings he should sit down
and write a letter to the people explaining
how a reduction from $47 to $40 on every
$100 worth of dutiable goods! would leave
American labor unprotected. But 18 per
cent, of all the manufactures in this coun
try goes for wages. If the foreigner paid
nothing for his labor, a tariff of 18 per
cent weuld therefore cover tbe difference
between the laoor of Europe and the
United State*.
Senator Aluson said the other day
that, though the surplus was only $20,000,-
the cotton bagging question. Macon ij' G00, the Senate tariff bill will provide for
the best possible place for such a meeting,' * reduction of $00,000,000 in the revenue,
swathe time Is appropriate. We are ccn- Are we to accept this as an acknowledge
fid.at that there will be a Urge attendance ment that $40,000,000 are wasted in the
•f planters from all the cotton slates. A current appropriation bills? With making
general exchange of views tan he product- ‘hose appropriations so Urge the Senate
ive ol nothing but good. had most to do.
valuable. Advance sheets of the bureau’s
report show that the exportsof cotton lrom
Sept. 1st, 1887,to Sept. 1st, 1888, were 2,237,-
133,972 pounds, valued at $220,099,071.
This ia the largest quantity of cotton ever
exported from the United States in any
period oi twelve months, except one. That
was in 1882-3. The value of the exports
of the last cotton year has frequently
been exceeded. Cotton exported for the
year just closed exceeded that exported
the previous year by 108,700,000 pouuds
and falls behind the exports of 1882-3 by
51,000,000 pounds.
The average export price in 188B-’87 was
9.1 cents; in 1887-’88 Jt was 10.4 cents.
The home consumption of cotton, which in
188#-’87 was 2,375,000 hales rose in 1887-
’88 to 2,530,000 bales. This, added to
last year’s exports, makes the total’con
sumption of American cotton for 1887-’88
7,108,334, which surpasses all previous
records. The last crop is 68,034 bales
ahead of the next large t, that of 1883.
The most valuable portion of this report is
found in the comparison which is made
between the cotton consumption in the
United States and elsewhere now and ten
years ago. Ten years ago
our mills took 1,784,000 bales
a year. Last year they consumed 2,530,000
bales. But ten years ago the mills of Eu
rope and India used 6,701,230 bales of cot
ton, and last year they took 8,381,000
hales. In these ten years our milU in
creased their consumption of cotton 41.8
per cent, while the milU of Europe and
India show an increased consumption, of
47 per cent. In The past decade the in
crease in cotton manufactures in Europe
and India has been 12 per cent, greater
than in the United States under our sys
tem of “protection.”
In India the consumption of cotton has
increased 108 per cent, in ten years, an in-
crcaso 121 per cent, greater than that in the
United States. These figures are surpris
ing, and they justify these words from the
Conrier-Journal:
"Our expanaton In manufacture has not been,
thero'ore, at nil satisfactory. On tliectmtmry, in
\ iew nf our inrotiipuniMo r,-sources, it is to the
lust degree discreditable tothe nation, disgrace
ful to their commercial in elligem e, their pollt
ieal science, their unaqnalcd natural opportuni
ties. Hut si te’C 1..a (there is - unset’ ra-.lclH^pj^V
ment, xW-lt is mainly a.tfreilir In Ac munn, V
-.r. ni. ft.v «u the wyiiil, Hini, cneruioro, con
l»Gln laic iiatiniieii tut wrii nx that ifiiwat annnlw
and also the most and cheapest of the motors,
both of human and mechanical horse-powers,
that is to say, the cheapest food and fuel—hut
hero wo aro working up 40 per cent, of our cot
ton and sending 60 per cent, abroad for $220,COO,.
000 for other people to mako $£00,000,000 out of
It. The free trade farm is producing 2,377,000
more bales at the end of tbe decade than at tho
beginning, and the high-tariff mills Is consim-
lng 746,000 bales more!
Mercer University.
Next Wednesday Mercer University will
enter upon its fifty-first year. The in
stitution has finished half a century
of usefulness and honor. It has won a
high place among our educational institu
tion*. Ita graduates aro to ho found
throughout the south, many of them dis
tinguished in their chosen lines of life.
Mercer University has been largely in
fluential in shaping the manhood
of Georgia and the surrounding
states. From ita foundation to tbe present
time the institution has been in the hands
of faithful, earnest men, who have held
high both ita intellectual standard and its
moral tone.
Mercer University is now better
equipped than ever for its good work. The draws the black ball ia bound to dispose of
chairs of the faculty are filled by men of himself either by shooting, hanging, drown-
recognized fitness for their work. The uni- ing, or any other manner which may ue
made in UoBton, and we 'find one of
his statement: in the Now York Mail and
Express, where it is used as the basis of an
editorial. It is as follows:
We give foreign competition the credit for
ptetty much all too distress there is in Ragland
at present, and we reckon there are about 0,000,-
0JJ wage-workers, men, women and children,
out of employment.
The Mail and Express doesn’t see auy-
thiig remarkable in this statement, beyond
the evidence it affords of the direful effects
of, free trade, but there is more in it than
ti at. Let’s see. The population of Eag
le id and Wale9 together, by the most
re :ent statistics, is less than 24,000,000,
T ey are among the very richest countries
it the world, having the largest leisure
c ism'S, They have, also, many soldiers)
8: dors, professional men, etc. It must,
tl trefore, bo a most liberal estimate to say
tl at not more than 18,000,000 of the
2,000,000 are wage-workers. If this
c imate be accepted, and it
w 11 be seen that we have
n ids it more liberal by including the
p palation of Wales when idle English-
n *d only wore spoken of, then the effect of
Jfr.l’etlifer’s assertion is that every other
«ag!-workcr in the “workshop of the
tord” is idle.
Tie statement is absurd on its ,face, and
the peaker must be possessed of the aver
age Cnglishman’s insular contempt for the
oute barbarian or he would not have given
it ulerance in the city that considers itself
the ery center and radiating point of
Ararican intelligence and “culture.” If
Epgmd can go on extending her empire,
decrusing her public debt, en-
largig her commercial fleet,
addiq to the national wealth and tighten
ing hr grip on the trade of the world—if
Engl id can do all these things with the
czpcilitlire only half her productive
farce f labor, supporting the other half
r$l te classes akw-ve it in idleness, then
1- other oduntoitk had better drop- out
„ fit l UP •wl iupremuev.
| •' ‘uL’ettih r is uotlbff* ~ ujlug to cam
his siarv.lmt lie will fail to done unless
warwti that Americans :ire not all fools.
If heran be made to appreciate that fact
and id need to trim his statements down
to the range of plausibility, he may not
ham; his employers more than he benefits
then; .
A Queer Sort of Duel.
A.strange story comes from Chicago. A
yoqng Hungarian, Oers Barotby by name,
witlput any apparent cause, committed
suicjlc. lie had been moody and dU-
poneent, and his crime was explained by
sayjpg that he had been disappointed in
lovi That is the usual and proper thing
to Ry under such circumstances, But in
tliil instance it was not true.
lettirs have been received by BarotUy's
rektives, written and posted by himself,
that give his aide of the itory. Three
yeurs ago, lie wrote, in the old country, he
becane involved in a deadly quarrel with
in army officer, and challenged -him. In
Ilusgary there arc three methols allowable
in such events—the sword, the pistol, or
what is termed the “American plan.” This
consists in each party drawing one or two
bills, a white or black. The man who
rneut was to arouse the indignation of the
organization in which he held a responsi
ble office. He was promptly kicked
out of the position which he had | Medecinc he declared h:s conviction that
used as an advantageous trading ^ ie microbe of yellow fever diflered little
post. Knights of Labor assemblies ! from the cholera bacillus, and, like it, was
all over the country have repudiated ! almtfst invariably found in the intestines.
Litchman and denounced his presumption
in pretending to speak for the working
men of'the country. His present attitude
is clearly understood ana the universal
opinion is that Litchman lias by long odds
the best of the agreement he made with
the republican leaders. The workingmen
of the United (States are, as a rule, Intel)!
He intends to make another search at
Jacksonville for the microbe but doubts
whether he shall find it Rnywhere except
in human intestines.
Dr. Gabier rejects thetheorv that yellow
fever may he prevented or mitigated by
inoculation. He says:
My firm belief Is that vellow fever Is a local
versity has fine advantages of locality and
surroundings. It is liberal and pro
gressive.
Tho last year was very satisfactory and
the prospects for that which will open next
Wednesday are good. The people of Macon
should appreciate the rare opportunity
they have for giving their sons a thorough
collegiate course at home. Mercer Uni
versity deterves their encouragement and
patronage.
decided upon by the challenged party be
fore the bulls are drawn. Barothy drew the
black, or unlucky ball. It liad been.agreed
that the drawer of the unlucky one should
kill himself by shooting on • the
third anniversary of the duel.
The third anniversary came last Wed
nesday, and Barothy proceeded to “pre
serve the honor of himself and his family"
by 1 ilowiug out his brains. He had not
during the three years told of the obliga
tion under which lie rested to anyone.
Mr. Burotliv was a verv absurd voune
gent and independent. They cannot be , “flection of which the first cause is tho devel
opment of microbes in tho intestines. It flour
ishes only under peculiar conditions ofclimate
race and temperature."
As to the treatment, Dr. Gabier says the
strength of the patient should be kept up
as well as possible and the action of the
kidneys carefully watched. Strychnine,
alcohol and champagne may be fonnd use
ful in some cases, but tlxe local treatment
is by far the most important point. At
tho outset purgatives should be prescribed.
Dr. Gabier would give the patient - from
thirty-five to forty-five grains of sulphate
of soda; the next day from forty to fiftv
grammes of castor oil in two or three
doses; on the third day one gramme of
calomel. .
Dr. Cabier has great confidence that this
treatment will insure recovery in a large
per centogc of cases in a week. He relates
some remarkable cases which he effected
by it in the West Indies. In one desperate
case which he successfully treated he used
as antiseptics bi-chloride of mercury and
chlorohydric lemonade.
Tho observations and experiments of Dr.
Gabier at Jacksonville will he watched
with great interest and may result in an
increase of knowledge as to the nature of
yellow fever and the best treasment of it.
In n Nutshell.
We are accustomed to find good things
in the a cw York Evening Post, but the
following is especially striking;
Tbe Republican party has become essen'lally
a syndicate of rich men, with a following oi
dupes who have been persuaded that the pros
perity of tbe country Is promoted by high taxes.
Translated Into plain English tbclr rallying cry
ia this: “Let tbo government tako care oi tbe
rich, ami tbo rich will take care oi tbe poor,"
That is tbo truo significance of nil tbn racket
about wages."
The arguments, apologies and pretexts
that are oflered for the present tariff are
all compressed into that one sentence: “Let
the government take care of the rich, and
tl,*» rich will tuke care of the poor.” Stript
down to til is bare statement, what a satire
stares ns in the f ace! And yet it is a logical
statement of tho republican theory of tax
ation. Tho first part of the proposition
has worked well. Under the pres
ent tariff the rich have prospered.
Enormous private fortunes have been built
up. Money kings have combin d until
they are almost strong enough to defy the
power of the government itself. There
can he no doubt that the government has
taken care of the rich. But how have
these beneficiaries of over-taxation dis
tributed the favors they have received
from the government. They have made it
a rale to keep all"they could and dole out
as little as possible. They have bought
labor, as they bought iron and cotton, at
the cheapest market price. When a pro
tected industry clears a million a year for
a manufacturer, 'the workingman gets no
more than he would receive if the profits
were one half so great. A great iron
manufacturer scaled the wages of hit work
men 10 per cent, about the same time that
he boasted to a friend that his profits
from their toil were $5,000 a day. The
party of the people, the Democratic party,
has nil duo respect for the rights of capi
tal but it holds that the benefit of the
government should be fairly distributed.
When there is overtaxation somebody suf
fers. It is not the rich.
A Higher I.hw,
A new question has been raised in New
York as to the scope of the law forbiding
the importation of contract labor. Among
the passengers on an emigrant ship which
controlled in their political affiliations by
any smooth-tongued demagogue who hap
pens to be found in their ranks. They
have a habit of thinking for
themselves on all subjects and
their political alliances arc usually the
result of mature deliberation. The pro
fessional workingman like Litchman fit
regarded with contempt or indifference by
those with whom he pretends to wield a
strong influence. As a campaign invest
ment we think Litchman will prove a bad
bargain to the national republican com
mittce.
That professional Irishman, Patrick
Ford, has also failed signally to demon
strate his boasted influence. He and his
teachings are utterly repudiated by .the re
cent notion of the Irish American Inde
pendent Association, of New York. That
organization heartily indorses the Mills
bill and declares its belief “that the full
measure of protection to workingmen, and
the greatest good to all the people, can be
best secured under a lower and more equal
system of customhouse taxation
The association further declares that
the Republican party and its presidential
candidate cannot in ono short campaign
and for partisan effect atono for the
repeated utteranoes of Benjamin Harrison
hostile to citizens of Irish birth and
derogatory to the dignity of tho honest
American workingman. The resolutions
pay this compliment to Gen. Harrison: ,
••tve denounce that candidate and those
utterances for tbe narrowest bigotry and preju-
dlce and call on all those who cherish liberal
American spirit to assist in bis overwhelming
defeat."
The association numbers over 1,000 Irish
voters in New York, and what innlrca its
action the more significant is the iact that
it supported Blaine in 1854* The value of
the professional workingman ami the pro
fessional Irishman will not be enhanced
by the l.tstory of the pending campaign.
Couservatlvo Constituencies.
1 here arc live congressional districts in
the city of Philadelphia and they contain,
perhaps, tho most conservative constitu
encies in this country. Fourol the Phila
delphia congressmen wore renominated lost
Wednesday. No action was taken in Mr.
Kandall’a district, but bis nomination and
election are foregone conclusions.
These five congressmen compose a re-
remarkable group. They 'are all men of
ability and enjoy the great advantages con
ferred by long legislative experience.
Every one is p veteran in congressional
service. Gen. Harry Bingham at the end
of the term for which he has just been
nominated will have been a member of the
House twelve years. F»w men stay In
congress so long, but Gen. Bingham is
quite a novice in comparison with the
other Philadelphia members. One more-
term will run Mr. Harmer’s service up to
eighteen years, but he will then be in con
gressional life eight years the junior of liis
colleague Mr. O’Neil, ten years behind
Mr. Bandall and twelve behind Mr. Kelley.
So at the end of tho next congress if these
gentlemen are alive Philadelphia can
point to five congressmen whose aggregate
terms of service have been 114 years, an
average of nearly twenty-three years each.
No city or state in the union can show a
record that approaches this. It could
probably not have been made anywhere,
except in the staid old city
of Philadelphia, but it is a very
creditable ahowing. It speaks much for, p i||(KiJ al ,.a. llu (!arU „ fl liUlt Wiek were
the men who have for so many years com- j y . t( , ur Swedish maiden* Soon .after
manded the reaped and confidence of the.r ! thejr , rrivB , n a!>mt Swede , B ,, e(l f or one
constituents. It is evidence of the wisdom o( ,, ir| „ amJ |(Jo|f , leJ off , IIe bUttd
of constituents bhMh|Nli worthy u „ t lboUKh h . hlM , nerulttn her before
Oi.d Ben Butler in 1882 unbosomed representatives. 1 hiladelphra has a right bkd l0nie „ lwc j,l| y , 0 marry
himulfon the tarifl'in a way which showed U °" “T, T “! 'T™' * her congremional veteran,. , lim u lurDeJ „ m lhat lhe olher twenty-
that he wax speaking hi. convict Soob Mr. Barothv was a verv absurd young inE Veterinary Medical Association of | ti,ree K‘ rU nad a,i ° flee" ““Ported uuue.
Here is what he said then: ,nan ' . I,ar ‘ /°f ft ,eV * '*1^ the United States was in session in New j contract to marry young Swedes, who were
Iamooeof toe largest wotlen manutaetuif ) Al “ tr ' ia “ !° ““ * tor7 York last week. One ol the resolutions anxiously awaiting their arrival. The en-
contempt for him; he no doubt thought adopteJ WSJj , Q the cffect that 05 p „ cent gagementa had been effected by letter and
himself a hero. But what shall we s.y of | u{ lhe Bi]oh ^ of t)|e eagtern BUte8 ' and after an exchange of photographs,
the spirit that upheld !>““ through tlffise wefe Bfllicted wilh tuberculosis, and that j 8nd regular contracts had been made.
the fatal day approached and in t j ie op i n i on 0 f t | ie association, 80 per I One oflhe hard-hearted subordinates of
-deem a looltsli q{ ^ deathg ^ hanun bcings - the custom house thought the contract
from consumption are due to tbe transtnis-! **^°r law had been clearly vio-
sion of tho disease through milk. We do! l ate d and rushed to the collector
not know that veterinarians are competent' to •'‘“erlain whether brides-elect should be
judges as to the origin of consumption. I <>elivered to their waiting groom. The
hut they are intelligent men, and the con-! cas0 wa * tur “ed over to the legal authority
Clualou they have reached is so startling! " ho = Silc s lear ncd research
era Id tbe United Mates. I do not say tbfi
boastingly, but to sbow that I am not sclfl.a la
tbe views I bold. Tbe cloth 1 wear Is of n$-
own msnufsetore, and I notice several gentli-
meu around me who wear tbe same. On tbi-ic
goods there is a tariff of CO per cent. Republt
con orators and newspapers tell you this tariff U
to protect tbe mill laborers. Twenty per cent,
will pay our entire labor expenses. What 4o
you suppose becomes of tbe other .0 per cent?
These same republican orators and newspapvs
tell you it goes Into tbe United Slates treasury.
Not a dollar reaches there. Every cent goes Into
my pocket. And every one ol you Is paying
this bounty to the woolen manufacturers. Tbe
whole tariff scheme Is an imposition and a fraud
on tbe American people.
Butler is now defending tha system of
taxation which he then so forcibly ex
posed, but he docs not explain when it
ceased to be “an imposition and fraud
u.ien the American people."
The European press ia talking about
ycai
finally caused him to redeem
and criminal promise in such a horrible
way 7 We hope -Mr. Barothy was as faith
ful to all other obligations during life as
to the last. Such taithfulne^ might stand
him in good stead where he has gone.
Fohty-kive of the policemen who —j — -— 0 , _
fought the Anarchists in the naymarket, j that the closest investigation by the most into ‘I'* TBri ° n * in^P^a'i 0 " 9 ol ,aw
including eight who were wounded, have competent*xperta should follow. * nd decision* tlMMUi f* n f
been disunited from the lore* by the re
publican mayor of Chicago, to make room
for party men. Cities, as well as re
publics, are ungrateful.
Ip the republican* are so sure of their
case, why do they refuse to debate the
Bismarck’s resignation as of an event m ar larifl qtiesti-m with democrats before tbe
at hand, but it probably isn’t. It is a big
enough thing to lie seen a long ways
ahead.
Another week of the campaign has
gone and the democratic cause is stronger
cting I
this humane official decided that as no
compensation had been specified in the
contracts under which the girls had been
voters who are to decide between them?
Several of the’most prominent among them ' whom the public scrutiny
have refused to do ao. | Turn on the light.
than it was a week ago. There is every imported, they coold not be excluded,
reason to believe that this gain will con-1 Thecouutry will approve this decision,
tiaue until the day of the election. The and the twenty-four happy young couples
beauty about the democratic campaign i, j will doubtless hold in kindly memory the
that it is based on principh-s which will good man who gave to the old and uni-
? 1 stand discussion, and directed by men for ( versa! law of love due superiority t« a
“ , whom the public n-rutiny has no terrors, statute of recent birth and limited appli-