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THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TO ESP A 7. SEPTEMBER 25.1883.-TWELVE PAGES.
notable impostors.;
People Whtf Have Deceived
H a Gullible World.
g QUACK DESCRIBED BY CARLYLE.
tter too and Ireland, the Literary
Forger. -Shakespeare’s Manuscripts
* Cleverly Imltated-Many Law.
yera Duped.
— ibe Boston Herald.
Whether it be in the shape of a Tich-
toe claimant, a professor of astrology, a
°iritual medium, a clairvoyant or a lite-
forger, imposters are to be found at
dl times in our midst, and the community
l, r ge seems to be impressed with an
pecial desire for being imposed on. Man
tled is born credulous.' Its gullibility is
1 -.thine stupendous, and the amount of
jS.it ind fraud which it will swallow is
ioeihing to engage our special wonder,
wfare imposed upon by a Herrmann or »
r.lltr and the greater the imposition the
‘ we like it, and with the greater
Jadiness surrender up our money for the
dt Rut°the impositions of such men as Ilerr-
m ,nn and Kellar partake of the nature of
kVrmless amusements, and it may be that
.hile our senses ire being imposed upon
Z most, we are yet receiving more pratse-
worthy instruction, and are thus entertain-
ine angels unawares.
g ALL DUPKD ALIKE.
Credulity is confined to no special class,
l„t it is shared alike by the rich and the
Lr, the high and the low. It counts its
victims by the hundreds of thousands, and
ther seem to be affected in the same way
Don Juan’s friend, Donna Inez, said the
.omen were; that is, thev "Love again,
,nd are again undone." With the grossly
credulous, old experience will never attain
to something of prophetic strain, for tliey
msv be duped the nine and ninetieth
time,and they will feel slighted if not
Wien in for the hundredth.
ihomasCarlyle wrote: “The quack of
quacks, the most perfect scoundrel, that in
Wese latter ages has marked the world’s
History, we have found in the Count Ales-
wndro di Cagliostro, pupil of the sage
Abbotai, foster child of the Schertfl o>
Mecca, probable son of the last king of
Trebizond; named, also, Acharat, and un
fortunate child of nature; by profession
healer of diseases, abolisher of wrinkles,
friend of the poor nnd impotent, grand
master of the Egyptian Mason lodge of
high science, spirit summoner, good conk,
grand cophta, prophet, priest and thau-
maiurgic naturalist and swindler; really a
liar ot the first magnitude, thorough-paced
in all provinces oi lying—what ono may
call the king of liars.”
LITERARY DirOSTORS.
The two most noted literary imposters
.ho ever frighted the world from its pro
priety were undoubtedly ihomas Chatter-
ton, “the marvellous boy who perished in
his pride," and Ireland, the forger of the
Shakespeare manuscripts. Chatterton was
bomia Bristol, England, on Nov. 25, 1753,
being the ton of a school teacher. When
the boy was 11 years of age, some verses of
bit on a sacred subject appeared in Felix
Fuley’a Bristol Journal lor January, 1763,
which clearly proved the boy’s precocity.
Shortly after this lie provided .Mr. llttr-
gom, who was a pewterer, with "An ac
count o! the family of the De Uerghams,
from the Norman conquest to this time,
collected from original records, tourna
ment roll, and the heralds of March anti
Garter reoorda.” for which he received the
inm ol five shillings, after which he pro
duced a continuation of the work, bring
ing it down to the time of Charles II. In
thu last portion was to be found the nume
of ope John I)e Bergham,'a poet, and a
ipecimen of his style as a poet, entitled
'The Komaunt of the Conyghte," accom
panied with a modern rendering. When
Chatterton was asked where this _ poem
came from he answered from certain oltl
manuscripts and parchments which his
father had taken from a chest in 8l Mary
Bedcliffe’a church. This for the time
proved satisfactory.
HEATH OK A KOTORIOUS FORGER.
A few years after this Chatterton burst
out in all his glory as a furnisher of old
manuscripts. A stock of poems, supposed
<o have been written by one Thomas Kow-
ky, he offered to the famous publisher
hodley. He opened a correspondence with
Horace IValpole and sent him a scries of
notices of ancient paintings for his “His
tory of 1’aintinga” and received from the
letter writer of Strawberry Ilill a letter of
tbanka. Horace finally got his eyes open
and addressee to young Chatterton some
wvere advice tonching the vileness of lit—
rrary forger*.
Shortly alter this he went up to London,
"here he remained four months, leading a
miserable existence, although at the same
time misleading his friends in Bristol with
& accounts of his rising fame and
them to believe that ho was fully
‘tie to live without their help. It is true
t«*t for.t short time he did some consider
able lilerary work, but this began to fail
'"’.•ml before long he began to starve.
, the morning of August 5, 1770, he was
loaml lying on hia bed stiff and cold, with
the remains of arsenic between his teeth.
Alter his death there was a great deal of
tontroveriy with regard to the genuiness
0 the Ilowley poems, and finally the fact
r ^omitted that they were forgeries, and
bat Thomas Rowley was Thomas Chat-
“rton hitdaelf, for there was nothing an-
oenl discernable about the 4>ocnts save
|l^®P e 'ling and occasionally the phrase-
■MITATlKtl THE GREAT PLAY WRITER.
About tha dsTrning of the year 1??5, Mr.
bamuel Ireland, a man of’literary preten-
ons, well known in London, made the
bouncement that he had come into pos-
. uton of a large number of manuscripts
‘ J~ e handwriting of Shakespeare, the
ink • L lc *by ®f which he was desirous of
t Y n * to the opinion of all compe
ars it If? 1 ' . ^ number of gentlemen ac
ts k . invitation, among whom were
v , eminent people as Dr. I’arr, Dr.
*‘Py, Dr. Joseph Walton, (leorge Chal-
p r, > John Pinkerton, Sir Isaac Heard,
•ncit Town diend, Iticliail Brindsley
2Jff“** B t Sir Robert Croft and J ames Bos-
u r®am Johnson’s Boswell. The man-
77, Pj* "ere carefully collated with the
Toubted autographs of the poet, and by
Kentlemen pronounced genuine; and
thu "tr nt ®° ^ ar iu>,0 B 'kn a certificate to
|L ( ™t Here was a literary find worth
tan tom of a dozen kings.
n 7* c °llection comprisad the entire nian-
litd'I? °* Lew.” which varied a
—- Iri)| u the printed folios; a fragment
mustang Liniment
Man a least, pent: rhates
* L SvI* 4PUUUI xo THE TE«r BONE-
ot “Hamlet, two unpublished plays, “Vor-
tigem” ana "Henry IL" Bed dot there <
were a number of books from the poet’s
library, with many marginal notes; letters ,
to Annie Hathaway, the Earl of South
ampton and othersa profession of faith ,
and other minor documents. Boswell, in
his enthusiasm, before signitu- the certifi- j
cate r.-li upon bis knees mid kissed “the
invaluable relics of our bard,” and, in a !
tone of exultation, thanked God that he j
had lived to witness the discovery, and
could now die in peace. Shortly after this
the publication ot the ynannEcripts was an
nounced. and the first volume, under Ire
land’s editorship, was issued in 1706 at the
price of four guineas.
WHERE HE GOTTIIE MANUSCRIPTS.
Ireland, in his preface, told the public
that he had received the manuscripts'from
his son, William Henry Ireland, a young
man then undar nineteen years of age, by
whom the discovery was accidentally made
at the house of a gentleman of considera
ble property. But the singular part of it
is that the contracts to which Shakspeare
was a party were first found among a mass
of family papers, and soon afterward the
deed of gift to William Henry Ireland, de
scribed as Shakspeare’s friend, in conse
quence o' having saved his life from
drowning in the Thames.”
The owner of the papers was taken aback
by the coincidence that they should be
discovered by the namesake of this person,
and what else could he do than reward the
young antiquary, William Henry IreUad,
the son of Samuel Ireland, than by making
him a present of all the Shak6pearian
manuscripts lie could find at any of his
houses, wm-im-1 in town or rountiy V K oil
er gauzy this, isn’t it?
fllK FORGED PLAY “VORTIGEBN,” PRO
DUCED.
The manager of Drury Lane theatre,
succeeded in securing the unpublished
play, “Vortigern,” for representation upon
the payment of £300 and the division of
the profits for Bixty nights, and it was an
nounced for performance in the spring of
1706, the leading parts to be sustained by
John and Charles Kemble and Mrs. Jor
dan. But there was one man, at least,
who was not to be caught napping and
this was Edmund Malone, the most emi
nent Shakespearian critic of his day and
editor of an edition of Shakespeare's works.
When the advertisements appeared he
warned the public by hand bills to put no
faith in ll Vortigern." Indeed, be bail
already proved to his own satisfaction the
spuriousness of the manuscripts and was
engaged upon an analysis to prove their
worthlessness.
That capital Shakespearian scholar and
actor, John Kemble, was also persuaded
tha the manuscripts were fraudulent, but,
by his engagement, lie was bound to take
the part for which he was cag, pet he
used all the influence for which his posi
tion of stage manager of Drury Lane thea
ter warranted him to render the perform
ance a ridiculous failure. The night of
representation at length came. The house
was crowded, and, up to the fifth act, the
piece was received with almost silence.
In the second scene of the fifth act there
was a line to be spoken by John Kemble,
who was the Vortigern:—
“And when this solemn mocker/ la o'er,"
which was delivered by the actor with
marked emphasis. It was a telling hit.
Tho rest was all“inexplicabledumb snow,”
for not nnother line was heard, and the
piece, as Touchstone says, "was damned to
everlasting redemption.”
Ireland's confession.
Shortly after the failure. Malone’s in
quiry into the authenticity of the ramn
scripts was published, and the Irelands,
father and son, were not lett a leg to stand
on. As if Malone’s crusher was not
enough, the younger Ireland, who was a
law student issued a nAmnhfat avowing
him soil the soie author of the fraud. He
undertook it, he said, in order to gratify
his father’s craving for Shakespearian
relics. He commenced by the forgery of a
single autograph, and the success of this
led him to bolder flights. When pressed
by his father to make known the source
from whence he derived the manuscripts, he
cooked up the story that they belonged to
a descendant of Ilemingc, the actor, who
was Shakespeare’s partner with Condei in
the Globe theatre, and acquired them as
his trustee of certain bequests to an imagi
nary W. II. Ireland, which bequests had
never been fulfilled. The elder Ireland,
reluctant to believe in tho forgeries, nev
ertheless discarded his son, and the latter
eked out h'» existence by liferature until
1835, when he died. Shortly before his
death he is said to have made a confession,
in which he took back all ho had pre
viously said, pronouncing it a tissue of
lies, invented by him for the sole purpose
of making money, but there is not the
slightest doubt that the manuscripts were
constructed from whole cloth.
a Quaker's swindles.
Joseph Ady, who flourished in London
something more than half a century ago was
a member of that peaceful and presumedly
guilelcse sect, the Quakers, but he was an
arrant knave for all that. He was such a
grave and reverend Beignor iu appearance
that no one would imagine that hot barm
could come from him, and hence itbecanie
the more easy for him to carry on his
impostures. This was his “little motive.”
It was his custom to examine as closely as
ho possibly could the iists of unclaimed
dividends, estates or bequests^ waiting for
the proper owners, and unclaimed proper
ties in general. Becoming possessed of
the names, he would send letters to indi-
viduals hearing the same cognomens,
informing them that on remitting to him
the fee of a guinea they wouldbe informed
of something greatly to their advantage.
When the terms of his first letter were
complied with he dulv sent a second letter
informing his client that in such a list was
a sum of money or an estate due to a per
son of his name and on which he might
have claims worthy to be investigated.
«o bov that in no instance out of
lOjoOO the right nail might be hit on the
head.* The practice was a dishonest one,
but as there were no le^al penalties attach
ing to it, the sanctimonious Joseph went on
practicing it from year to year.
ADY ACKNOWLEDGES IILBSCHEMES.
Finally, in May, 1830. Ml Balm ire, a
London solicitor, acting for a Sir. Salkelif,
had given in charge one Beniamin Ridge
way, for defrauding him of a sovereign.
Mr Salkeld had received one of Ady s
letter*, and had requested Mr. Balmire to
look into the matter, and a sovereign
having consequently been given to Ridge
way, who was Ady’s servant, a notice had
been returned stating that the name of
Salkeld was in a list of persons having un
claimed money in the funds. Mr. Balmirc-
being of the belief that there could be no
connection between the two Salkelds, de
manded back the sovereign, and ott failing
to obtain it, gave Ady’s messenger, Rid fc e-
wav, into custody.
Ady appeared before tlie magistrate to
defend his servant, and having admitted |
that he received the money from Ridge- ,
way, admitted that he had carried on
transactions of a similar nature for a num
ber of years, and, said lie: “Although I
have met with brisous who were ungrate- .
ful enough to demand back the fee which ;
I require for my trouble, I have always I
maintained my point, and I mean still to 1
maintain it”—and he did. Among hi« l
dupes were some of the highest legal j
standing, including the solicitor-general ■
for Ireland.
A NOVEL AIlt-SHU'
STEWART’S SPEECH
In Reply to Mr. McKinley’s
Salt Springs Effort,
A SOLID ARRAY OF FACTS.
MUSTANG LINIMENT
MEXICAN MUSTANG LINIMENT, for Rheun-b-
LMH&itfOtScutfi&i, Law* Hack, Stiff Joints.
Which an KiUerpriaing German Hopes to
Navigate.
From tho New York Times.
Philadelphia, Sept. 16.—Next Mon
day at Rising Sun Park, Charles Augustus
Kinsel, an ingenious young German living
at Eighth and Chestnut streets, Camden,
will attempt to ascend to the clouds and
sail through the air in a mammoth air
ship which he is building in the rear of
his home. It is a queer looking flying
machine. Kinsel has utilized a four oared
skiff as a car, fitting it with a rudder ami
wingi. The whole is to be buoyed tip in
the air by means of three balloons contain
ing mill cubic I,, : ,,f Kinset's air
ship is surrounded with a heavy wooden
framework, above which arc heavy iron
stays and beams, to which an iron frame is
fastened. The balloons will be attached
1" tin- .Miper.-trucmre, which risis about
six feet over the boat or car.
The rudder of the strange craft comists
of an iron frame about lour feet square,
over which will he strapped canvas. The
wings on either side are designed both as a
steering and propelling apparatus. They
can be folded or shifted, at the will of the
navigator. On each side of the boat rise
two masts, about ten feet high. Sails will
be spread from them to a very long bow
sprit. Iu addition to the wings and sails
there is a paddle-wheel on cither side of
the boat. This latter device ban been
patented by Mr. Kinsel), who thinks that
the weight of his air-ship, without ballast
or cargo of any kind, will be about 1,600
pounds. He expects to be able tocarry up
with him five or six persons. He is con
fident of success.
He explained to a reporter in broken
English and with the aid of an interpreter
that he has experimented eight years on
his machine, a large portion of his work
being done while serving as a soldier in
Germany. He made several ascents there
in tlie balloons attached to the imperial
service. He thinks that he can attain a
speed of from seventy to eighty miles an
hour wifji his mi chi ne, and will be able to
guide it in any direction at will. His bal
loons are- constructed of heavy canvas,
and before being inflated will receive a
c at of heavy paint, which will render
them impervious to the gas. Kinsel
will take with him tbree parachutes, with
which to descend to the ground in case of
accident. He and his assistants have been
secretly working this air-ship for some
time Mr. Kinsel has applied for patents
covering every portion of his apparatus,
and has forwarded a working model to
Washington along with his application.
The Duke’s Dog.
From the All the Year Hound.
The Due d’Engliein had a spaniel which
passionately lamented over his death, and
we wonder if Dapoleon suffered any qualm
of remorse when he read of it fiercely be-
moat at Vidcennes. At the first halt the
Due d’Enghien’s alKlucP.rs made, their
prisoner requested them to semi back to
Ettenheim for his “dog and his clothes.”
lie did well to ask lor his dog, for at
Strausburg Napoleon had ordered that
his friendH and servants were to leave
iiiui. Ilia uug, however, a.nce it lacked
“the divine power to sneak words,” was
not included in the order. In the brief
days of hi* life which remained to him
this speechless friend was hi) only com
panion, went with him a prisoner to Paris,
and entered VincenneB at his heels. On
his arrival there he was depressed, and his
dogsidled up to him, nnd Lamartine says:
“The spaniel which he had kept at his
heels t.’ie whole route, rested his head
on his master’s knee.” The dog beguiled
him ont of dark thoughts of his doleful
prospects, his spirit rose and he h ft tlie
window, out of which he had been discon
solately staring and called his dog to (hare
his supper with him. Thefaithfulcreature
was on guard beside him, when, one mid
night he was aroused from his sleep to ap
pear before his judges. Tho duke, sure of
iiis innocence, went to tho mockery of a
trial with sanguine hopes of speedy release.
He did not know that during his trial his
giave was being dug. After leaving the
judgment hall the prisoner, still unsus
picious of the haste to fulfill the sentence
from which he expected a pardon, was
talking to Lieutenant Noiret, a soldier
who had known his grandfather, the I’rinte
of Conde. A historian says “lie played
with his dog” while chatting gayly to the
soldier. The poor beast had been ill at
ease, for Borne subtile instinct warned it
that there was danger afoot. Its dull spir
its weie raised bv its master’s assurance;
bnt it was but short lived content
ment, for the duke and his dumb
friend were soon parted by death. The
prisoner was ordered to follow the com
mander down a darksome stairway, which
led into the moat. The duke hesitated;
but the dog, as usual, followed without
question at Bis master’s heels. The duke,
when he reached the trench, realized the
truth. He cut a lock of his hair, gave it
and a ring to Noiret, to send to his he
frothed, Princess Charlotte de Rohan. As
3 o’clock struck the soldiers fin d, anil Na
poleon’s voting victim fell. The spaniel,
in the "dim light—for it was a gloomy
March morning, and the moat was lit by »
solitary lantern—had not seen its master’s
face, and was unaware of his evil fate till
it saw him dead. In vain it dawned upon
tilm who. l.nt a few minutes nreviouslv
had stroked and commended his pleased
favorite. It was with difficulty that the
poor animal could be torn from the spot
and given to one of tlie prince’s 6orvantE,
who took him to the Princess Charlotte.
The Leadvttle Tiger,
From the New York World.
After live years of innoceou* dasnetndg
the roulette ball dances merrily in the
gambling dens of LeadviHe, Col., the fasci
nating hot fatal jackpot lores its victims
to disaster and the double-decked fs
game tempts the unwary by its dangerous
allurements. Each gambune house under
the present rule is obliged to pay $200 i
month to the city. A bonded debt whicli
worries Lytdvilic will thus be paid ail, bnt
the greatest financial benefit derived from
the new order of things will accrue to den
proprietors. High play is the rule in Col
orado, and in the end the lioti-e win
Alas for the tenderfoot who trifles with tli
Leadville tiger.
Opposed to the Theories ami Sophistries of
the Ohio Congressman—The Plea
That Protection Helps Labor
Kxplotled—Taxes, Etc.
Yesterday’s Congressional Record con
tained the speecli of Iton. John D. Stewart
of Georgia in reply to the tariff sjieech de
livered by Hon. W. M. McKinley at Salt
Springs some weeks ago. We make the
following extracts from Judge Stewart’s
remarks:
The gentleman from Ohio, as well as
others of his political faith, insist that a
protective tariff is most beneficial to the
laboring men of this country. If this be
ime i tbsn fl|l should sing pn-sns of praise
tithe American system. But of all the
devices resorted to to increase tlie gains of
tlie manufacturing class this is the most
specious.
Why not claim that tho tariff laws
regulate heat and cold, the changes of the
moon, or some other of the laws of nature?
I f this position of protectionists be true,
that tariff regulates wages, then It must
follow that wages are low in a low-tariff
country and high in a high-tariff country.
What are the facts touching this matter?
Germany and France have a high tariff
and masons get $1 to $5 per week, and in
free-trade England masons get $8 per
week. Germany and France pay common
laborers $2.66 to $3 per week, iree-trade
England pays $5 per week, anu abont the
same rates apply to other wage-workers.
If tariff regulates wages and benefits
labor, then for the same class of work
wages should be uniform in this country;
but an investigation Bl.owsthat New York
pays laborers less than Chicago, Philadel
phia more than St. Louis.
In 1880 in Alabama hands in blastfur
naces received 98 cents per dav, in Virginia
for the same work they received 82 cents
jier day—this was unskilled labor—and in
Pennsylvania the same kind of laborers
were paid $1.02. Take the yearly wages
of hands in the woolen mills. In 18S0 iu
New York they received $285, in Indiana
$230 and in Ohio $196. In the cotton
mills in 1880, in New York, they received
$261, and in Georgia $181. How can this
all be accounted tor on the theory that
the tariff regulates wages? It only shows
the litter folly of the claim of our protect
ive friends. As all mast know and should
have the candor to admit, the wages are
regulated by various causes.
Tbe law of supply and demand is the
most jiotent; the question of rents and the
price of provisions in various localities en
ter largely into the account, and climatic
influences affect the price of labor. Let us
foncedo that it is true, for the sake of ar
gument, that a protective tariff does in-
trease the wages of those working in man-
lifactories, but bow does this benefit those
who do not labor in factories.’ Tire hrick-
iuyi *•, carpenters, roofers, plasterers, com-
tloljs earners, merchants aiiu tiadenuieh ;
# i-iLg - 'Lpose the greater p,-t of our wage-
worters. Have they no rights? Are they
to be outlawed? By what right are they
to lie disinherited? Are they aliens or
bastards in the sacred household of protec
tion? I submit their cases to the tender
mercies 6f our protection friends.
i i,nether pvifienep that n nrn.
tective tariff is not beneficial to the labor
ing man: for a number of years the coun
try has bad high protective tariff, and there
liar grown up between labor and capital
an antagonism |bitter and uncompromis
ing. Never la-fore in the history of the
country lias the relation between labor and
capital, between the wage-worker and hts
employer, been so unsatisfactory. We
have had strikes and lockouts (amounting
almost to l evolution), which in the last
six years have resulted in the loss of from
fifty to sixty millions of dollars to the
wage-workers; property has been destroyed
and blood has been shed. Organizations
have been formed, and so great has been
the antagonism between the wage worker
and his employer, that many have become
alarmed, ami have entertained fears about
the perpetuation of our American insti
tutions.
How can this state of things be recon
ciled with the idea that a protective tariff
is beneficial to the laboring man? Is it
not true iu the protected industries that
large fortunes are accumulating in the
hands of the employers, and that these
millionaires are growing strong, aggres
sive, aud insolent, and are forming com
binations or trusts, by which they have
advanced the prices of many articles which
are of absolute necessity, and the result is
that the wage-workers have become dis
trustful? In view of these facts how can
any reasoning mind claim that protective
tariff is beneficial to labor?
From 184tito 1868, under alow tariff,
this state of things did not exist. Strikes
were scarcely known; between capital and
labor there was no antagonism. In dis-
cutsing the proposition that a protective
tariff benefits the people of our country,
our friends are accustomed to resort to the
census re pi ri--, and put together a large
number ot figures, and are constantly ex
claiming “Se* what the tariff does.” Be-
In,M the I igh developmept whicli it has
wrought.” Will the members of this House
indulge me for a moment while I expose
these misstatement*, not to say wanton
luisrcjiresentations. For I now declare
that the highest prosperity of the country
is realized under a low tariff. In 1850 our
nnpnlali.m OQ lOl OVA. Ij, 1 QUA I
31,442,321; ibis was an increase of 35 per
cent. In 1870 our population was 38,673,-
851; in 1880 our population was 50,155,*
783—an increase of only 30 per cent,
l-'rom 1850 to 1860 we bail low
tariff; from 1870 to 1880, a high tariff.
In 1850 we had 9,021 miles of railroad;
in I860, 30.635 miles of railroad, an in
crease of 239 per cent, in ten year*. In
1870 we bail 32,901 miles of railroad. In
1880 we bad 93,849 miles of railroad, which
shows that under a high protective tariff
our gain was much less than under a low
tariff. Take the valuation of real estate:
In 1850 it was valued at $7,066,562,9S6; ic
I860) at $12,055,053,118, a gain of 70 pci
cent. In 1880 it was valued at $16,902,.
993,543, a gain of 41 per cent, for the pre
ceding ten years. Take our manufactur
ing industries: In 1850 the amount of
capital invested wa- $538,245,351; in 1860,
$1,209.953,715, a gain of so per rent. In
1870 tne valuation was $2,118,208,769; in
Is-,i, $2.790,272,600, an increase of 68 per
cent. And I might extend these re mar 1
by -h<'\, ing the , Ii.l<li;,i,n i,f n, ;i: l , ;ti 1 I,,;r
indn-tr'i, . -t-ihlMiim; the filet that tbe
country enjoyed the greatest prosperity
duringjthe period of low t;u-iff, and especi
ally is this true in reference to all com
merce as well as the valuta of personal
property.
It would seem that candor would induce
the friends of protection to cease the oft-
repeated declaration that the country lias
prospered most during tlie period of a high
protective tariff. While it may be true
that wealth has rapidly increased In the
hands of a^ few who are at the head of our
protected industries, and who are engaged
in the management oi great corporations,
and who have been the participants in
trusts and combinations, yet it is not true
during the period of a high protective
tariff that the wealth of the great mass of
our people has rapidlv increased.
It is quite noticeablo that the gentleman
from Ohio in his Chautauqua speech failed
to call the attention of the country to its
present financial condition. There is now
jocked up in the vnults of the treasury of
the I'nile,! Static till,nit $1:1(1,iiuti.dliu
money which was gathered from the peo-
ple by an excessive nnd unjust taxation.
This money belongs to the jieople and the
business interests demand that it be re
turned to them. It was wrung from their
hard eanings by the “American system,”
or in other words by a protective tariff,
and as time progresses we are collecting
about $10,000,0u0 each month /nore titan
our necessities demand. This large sur
plus of money in tho treasury is a
standing menace to good government.
It tends to corrupt legislation, mid
when the friends of revenue reform bring
forward a measure which would only tax
the people an amount necessary for an eco
nomical administration of "the govern
ment, the gentleman from Ohio is found
working with might and main in ojtposi
lion to this measure, seeking to maintain
his “American system,’’ contributing all.
his strength of mind and character to the'
maintenance of a system whose burdens
gather thousands from the hard earnings
of the toiling millions of this country,and
in view of such conduct on his part it does
not appear to me consistent that he should
pose so conspicuously ns the ftiendof the
laboring mnn.
Injurious Inlluence* of City Life,
Dr. Walter B. Flatt in Fopular Science Monthly.
If there is one general physical differ
ence betweenthe country-bred nnd the city-
bred man, it lies in the size and strength
of the muscles of tlie shoulder and arm. It
is almost impossible for a man to live in
the country without tt-ing the arms far
more than the average city man. TliiB
use of the arms has, in both men and wo
men, an important bearing on tbe general
health, since it increases the capacity of
the chest, and thereby the Burface of lung-
tissue where the blood is spread out in thin
walled vessels through which oxvgen and
carbonic acid easily pass in opposite direc
tions, serving thus the double purpose of
feeding the body more abundantly and rc-
luoviug a constantly ‘accumulating waste
product. This richer blood is again
.jj-ienn with '-rciitcr force b v iscrssssd
heart and arterial action through its cir
cuit. The vital organs are better nour
ished, and the jiower to produce work h
increased. Few will deny that a weli
nourished body can lie trained to do more
anil better mental work than tbe same or
ganism in a feebler state. Walking on an
even auriace, the only variety oi physical
exercise which most businese and profes
sional men get in town, is well known to
be a poor substitute for arm exertion.
The reason is partially plain, since walk
ing is almost automatic and involuntary.
The walking mechanism is set in motion
as we would ^tnrn un^ hour-glass,
less volition and separate discharges of
force from tlie brain-sutface with each
muscular contraction, as in the case with
Ste great majority of arm movements. The
arm-user is a higher animal than the leg-
user Arm mo'ions are more nearly asso
ciated with mental action than lev move
ments. A man’s lower limbs merely carry
ltis higher centers to Ills food or work. The
latter must be executed with his arms and
hands. A third way in which nrm exer
cise benefits the organism is through the
nervous system. Whether this it due to
an increased supply of richer, purer blood,
or whether the continual discharge of
motor impulses in some way stoles up
another variety of force, we do not
know. One thing is certain, the victim
of neurasthenia is veiy seldom an individ
ual who nses his armB* for muscular work;
with this, the limitof hurtful mental work
is seldom reached. It seems evident that
arm rather than leg movements are essen
tial to increased productive power, if these
are neglected, the man, as a social factor,
degenerates and falls a prey to hia stronger
fellow-man in the race for supremacy and
productiveness. It may he remarked that
American goat, that condition of the blood
which causes our English cousins pains in
their feet, and Americans universal pains
and increased irritability, has one sovereign
remedy so simplo that few will take It, and
this is daily systematic arm exercise.
It is nature's sedative, for whjch
she charges nothing the next day, but give
us sleep instead of insomnia, anu cheerful
ness in place of discontent. A man may-
in an hour four miles, on a city sidewalk,
and reach his desk tired, exhausted of
force, and better only for the open air and
a slight increase of the circulation. Had
he spent half that time in a well-ordered
gvmnasium. neing chest and rowing-
weights, and, after a sponge bath, if he
had gone by rapid transit to hi) office, he
would have found his work of a very dif
ferent color, easiei to do, and taking lees
time to perform it. The view for some
time held by Hartwell of the John* Hop
kins University, Sargent of Harvard and
others that arm exercise prevents, or does
away with nervous irritability, and at
the ~*u.e time incrcnccs the
lute capacitv for mental work, has
not been sufficiently urged or accepted.
The remedy for this *tate of things is to
cause every man and woman to realize the
importance of arm exercise. Make it
compulsory in ichools, and popular after
leaving school. If one’* occupation docs
not require it in itself, muscular exertion
of some kind ought to be taken daily, with
the 6amc regularity as food and sleep, for
all three are neees-ary to the fullest devel
opment of our powers.
1'oor Little Maine.
From the Chicago Herald ilnd.).
Whatever Maine may have been in the
past, it is no longer fairly representative
; of American intelligence or .prog ns*. It
| is corruptible. It is fanatical. It is on
’ the decline. The last apportionment took
one congressman from it. The next will
take another, and, perhaps, two. Whether
such a state goes democratic or republican
really makes no difference.
OUT IN OHIO.
( Politics hi
■ (turkey* State—Fornker’a
Silly Speech.
Special Correspondence.
Cincinnati, Sept. 19.—In this part To!
the country the political issues of the day
are attracting more and more of the public
attention. The economic question in
volved directly affects the pockets oi i).a
people of this state, for Ohio in » g»v,u
manufacturing state and is the home of th*
wool-grower, of whom we have heard
much in tlie debates on the Mills bill. *
The nominations for the offices involved
in the coming election have all keen made,
or nearly so, throughout the oldie nnu the
campaign can be said to have fairly com
menced. Gov. J. B. Foraker takes the
lead of the republicans, while Allen (»,
Thurman stands at the head of the dem
ocrats.
The republicans here cannot question
the brain power, sterling honesty and
character of Judge Thurman, and so they
are concentrating their attacks upon thrro
main points, anil supply in m.dignity aiul
persistency what they lack of truth.
One of the points on which they dwell in
that Jndge Thurman, in a speech delivered
some years ago, said in substance that ho #
did not believe the negro to be the equal’
of the white man in those qualities which
have made the white race the foremost
race in the world. This opinio# in tho
greatest of heresies to tho par y which has.
succeeded in this state in having the white
and negro children educated side by side
in the public schools, and is doing all that
it can to break down the social barriera
between the races by teaching the ri&ing
generation of white children that they are
in no way superior to the blacks.
Another of tho points on whicli the
republicans attack J udge Thurman is that
during the war while a number of confab
erates were imprisoned near Columbus,
O., the residence of Judge Thurman, Mrs.
Thurman, who is n Kentuckian by birth,
in the kindness of her heart sent delica
cies to the prnoners and sought in various
ways to relieve the rigors of their imprison
ment. The republicans claim that the acL
of Mrs. Thurman relieving the wants of
men who had been taken in arms against
the United States show’s that her husband
indorsed the act* which brought those men
into captivity. Of course this silly stuff
has no effect with sensible voter?.
The third point that is urged against
Judge Thurman is the feebleness resulting
from his age. Because a man of 75 has
not the activity of one of 30 therefore, say
our republican friends, he cannot live
more tlian one or two years longer. But
since the judge in hi* recent tour through
Ohio, Michigan nnd Illinois surprised the
people by his vigor and strength, we have
heard less about this objection. It U true
that the judg^ was unable to speak to his
New York audience, but the cause of hia
inability to do so was not owing to old a^o
but to a temporary indisposition which
came on but three or four hours before he
was to speak. The ailment was one to
which all men, from the strongest to the
weakest, are equally subject.
I have recently talked to & prominent
SttQfflw nf nnlitirnhna. vjin U nn« *.f tho
law partners of Col. T. K. Powell, tho
democratic candidate for governor last
year, and who knows Judge Thurman well
and he says that with the exception of
being slightly rheumatic the judge bar. nnd
has had the heht of health.
If we wanted further pr.tof of the falsity
of this charge we could find it in the fact
that Judge Thurman is still engaged in
the active practice of his profession, that
of the law: and that not three years hack
he was lending counsel for the federal
government in its great suit brought at
Columbus against the Bell Telephone
Company to dpcl&re void the patents of
Geo. Foraker has already mads a nurn
l»er of speeches, but the one he delivered
at Richmond, Ind., Aug. 23 is the most
elaborate and carefully prepared one he
has yet delivered. In it he laid down tlie
lanes of the campaign, and these he de
clared to be “a free ballot and a fair
count,” and ‘‘whether we are to continue
the protective policy.”
Tlie firet oi these he declared to be the
most important for this reason: That on
the next election dej>end not only the poU
itics of the next President and both
houses of congress, but also the politics o
the supreme court, and consequently tho
maintaining of the war amendments cf the
constitution and the reconstruction legis*
tion.
Thcoldcrv of “a free ballot and a fair
count” has had its day; the most of tho
other people hare about concluded to let
eonthern people manage their own affair*.
But the bringing of thesupreme court into
the campaign is a new departure, and it
shows that the Republican party is not
satisfied of the validity of the war amend
ments of the constitution and the recon
struction legislation and is afraid to bring
them to trial unless before a packed jury
i. e. a supreme court having a lepuklican
majority.
bpeaking of the two great parties in his
Ricnmond speech Gov. Foraker said:
“Our political differences are largely based
on a difference of opinion,a? to the relatioii
of the states to the general government,
the validity of the war amendments and
the reconstruction legislation. To say of
a man that he is a democrat is to say of
him that his views on these subjects are
opposed to those entertainedjby republicans
It does not change his views to make him
a judge. The supremo court is constantly
passing upon questions involving a con^
siruction of the constitution, these amend
ments and this legislation, and hence our
rights to have a care for the politics of tho
supreme court. That body consists of nine
judges. Only one was a democrat when
this administration commenced. The
other eight were repub-,
licans. Now three ^ are
democrats and only six are republicans.
Alt llwwn Moiiktia.n {.)(}»«• aw mpn ad-
vanced in years. With only the samo
number of changes during the next four
years that have occurred during the last
four, the court would be democratic. It in
not reasonable to calculate upon any other
result. Every man should understand,
therefore, that the contei-t in which we are
engaged involves not only the election of
a president, but also the Senate, the House
of Representatives, and the supreme court
of the United States.”
Can any other deduction he drawn from
these words of Gov. Foraker than that he
regards the war amendments to the consti
tution and the reconstruction legislation
invalid and capable only of being sustained
by a republican court? B.
True.
From the New York Graphic.
One thing wortji remembering. Among
all the bitteruc.-s of campaign talk, not a
word of unklndness or disrespect has been
uttered against Allen (i. Thurman.
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