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General Bup't, Traffic Manager,
J. 0. HAILE, General Pass'r Agent,
¥ J, ROBINBON, Ass’'t General Pass’'r Agent
BAVANNAH, GA.
PLUNDERS THE FARMER.
Policy of Protection Places a Heavy
Burden on His Shoulders.
The policy of protection has, from
the beginning of our government, been
a burden, and a heavy one, upon the
farmer. It is a pity that our farmers,
who are the backbone of protection to
day, could not read and learn the les
sons of historv. What Congressman
Smith of South Carolina said in our
first congress, in 1789, is as true today
as it was then. He said:
“It has been said, and justly said, sir,
that the states which adopted the con
stitution expected its administration
would be conducted with a favorable
hand. The manufacturing states
wished the encouragement of manu
factures, the maritime states the en
couragement of shipbuilding and the
agricultural states the encouragement
of agriculture. We have laid heavy
duties upon foreign goods to encour
age domestic manufactures, we are
now about to iay a tonnage duty for
the encouragement of commerce, but
has any one step been taken to en
courage the agricultural states? So
far from it that all that has been done
operates against their interest, every
duty we have laid will be heavily felt
by South Carolina, while nothing has
been done to assist or even encourage
her or her agriculture.”
~ ORIENTAL LANTERNS. |
How They Are Made and Uses to
. Which They Are Paut. ‘
The lantern of the east is as old as
elvilization. Its primary object is to
protect the, flame from sudden drafts.
‘Beyond this is the comcentration of
light for the convenience of a reader ‘
‘and, last and least, the regard for beau
ty. The oldest form is a perforated |
cylinder or rectangular box. Of this !
type there are numberless varieties, old ;
and new. The ancient ones which bave
been preserved are of iron, copper and l
brass, nearly all simple in construction
and finish, but a few richly decorated.
Occaainnaljy one runs across lanterns
made of silver or ivory. These come |
from palaces or temples and iu most
instances are richly c¢arved. Not in-"
frequently the perforations are fitted |
with pieces of colored glass, rock crys:
tal, amethyst and garnet. LR
In China and Japan the traveler’s or
street lantern is a feature. This is a
sphere or ellipsoid ranging from six
inches to two and even three feet in
diameter, made of oiled paper, cloth or
silk. In Cathay this lantern is used to
show the rank of its owner by the col
oring or inscriptions on its exterior.
The humble citizen uses a small affair
in white or red, the official of low rank
a sphere a foot in diameter hanging in
front of his sedan chair, while the high
‘mandarin employs a huge lantern, re
splendent with his titles in colers, car
ried by an ablehodied cooly who walke
a yard in advance,
1t is in house lanterns that the great
est variety is found. Of these the gen
eral fype is a four, five, six, seven,
eight or ten sided box, whose length is
usually twice its width. Eaeh side is
% pane of glass, plain, ground, frosted
or decorated. I‘rom the angles hang
pendants of many sorts. The/frame
worlk is usually of teak, but ebony,
rosewood, mahogany and other woods 1
are employed. Often the sides of the
- are -alternately ~wood - and ‘
glass, the latter being covered witl !
ground designs and the former richly
carved in relief or inset with ivory.
mother-of-pear! or silver, 7 )
Upon the pendants the artificers put
their brawdest work. Some are made of -
oelorgd beads, strung and massed with
fansagtic shapes and knots. Others
are strings of little bells, which: ring
with every passing breeze. Lines of
glittering tinted glass balls betray the
origin of a favorite mode of decorating
Christmas trees.* Quaint objefs in
gaundy enamel or colored percelain, con
nected by threads, chains or wites, con:
stitute a fourth and very pleasing
group. Floral festoons made of arti
ficial flowers are popular, especially
with the fair sex.—New York Post.
GROWTH OF SOCIALISM. |
Directly Due to the Republican Pol- ‘
icy of Protectlon. |
The rapid growth 6f Soclalism is di
rectly due to the ilepublican policy of
protection .und subsidies. It leads
men to belleve that' the government
ghould care for them as it protects the
trusts and corporations. Seeing the
tariff barons are made rich by special
laws, why cannot, they ask, all of us
have our legal share of the plunder?
Instead of numerous trusts why not
have a national trust in which every
one can be a stockholder? Protection
thrives on public extravagance and
breeds corruption, another argument]
for the Socialist. |
Honest Republicans who have been
led to Welieve in protection should
think of the broad road they are driv
ing in and the revolution and destruc
tion of republican government that
must be met at the end of their jour
ney. The only salvation for the masses
{s their being led to believe that
“equality of opportunity for all”—the
fundamental doctrine of Democracy—
will destroy monopoly and give each
his share for his labor without the
paralysis of individual effort that So-
C'ism would produce.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.. l
Set a small box of lime in the pantry.
and it will belp to keep it dry and the
eir pure. 4 !
Soda should never be used for flag
pels, and if they are kept in good con
dition. they should be neither manglcd
dor ironed. ; ,
Mud stains can usually be removed
from silk by rubbing with a piece of
flannel. If the stain proves obdurate,
rub with a piece of linen saturated
with alcohol. By
If your window glass is lacking in
brilliancy, clean it with a liquid paste
made of alcobol and whiting. A little
%7 this mixture will remove specks and
fmpart a high luster to the glass.
To rendér feathers white immerse
‘them for a short time in naphtha or
benziney, Rinse’in a second dish of the
game and dry, in the open air. Then
bleach by exposing in a box to the va
por of burning sulpbur in a moist at
mosphere. . : b
Good clear starch is easily made.
Wet the lump stareh with cold water,
stir till smooth, pour on boiling water
and cook till elear. It takes a quart of
boiling water to “clear” two table
spoonfuls of lump starch. if too thick
thin with blued water.
THE LEAVEN WORKING.
Tariff Reform Idea Has Still Many
; Supporters In lowa.
The National Manufaeturers’ associ
ation at its late meeting at Pittsburg
committed itself to the policy of reci
procity in competitive products. A res.
olution was adopted calling for a per
manent tariff and reciprocity commis
sion and for presidential authority to
issue proclamations giving effect to reci
procity treaties. The Des Moines Reg
ister concludes that— : v
“Had the manufacturers’ idea been
incorporated in the Dingley bill every
one of the Kasson trade arrangements
would today be in full operation, to the
great advantage of American indus-
Moy d AL dke s -
" President Roosevelt o Necretary Cor
telyou will have to bring pressure to
bear upon this “lowad idea” enthusiast
or the leaven of tariff reform will start
to working again in lowa and may be
come unmanageable, Corporation in
fluence and railroad money were too
much . for the Register and Governor
‘Cummins ‘when the delegates to the
Republican convention were elected. 1
but the voters may yet show, even in
that trust ruled state, that high tariff l
prices and Tailroad monopoly are more !
than they will submit to. ‘
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COST OF LIVING.
The Party In Power Has Raised It to
\ the Limit. \
“But may the good Lord deliver us
from another period when living ex-}
penses are cheap!” was the pious wish ‘
expressed by Secretary Shaw in his
Wilmington (Del.) speech.
This litany of stand pat is just now
abundantly answered. The party in
power—not to debate the divine source
of its authority—-has made the cost of
living high enough to satisfy the most
exacting.
The trouble is that it has not grati
fied that other desire stated by Mr.
Shaw, “employment for all our people
at a given wage.” Some 75,000 ex
perienced men from the railroad ranks ‘
alone are paying high prices for thei
necessaries of life on no wages at all.
To ask these men, some of whom live
in Wilmington, to join in the praise of
high prices is a piece of folly that
might tempt the president not to put
the other eight cabinet members on the
stump.—-New York World. ]
A Surprise For Workers, 1
Those people who are wage earners
will be glad to know that their salaries’
have been increased at an astonishing
rate the past few years, for Secretary
Shaw says the figures are being pre- |
pared by the highest authority to prove
It; also that the increased cost of liv
ing has. merely kept pace with the
wages. That will be quite a surprise
to those who are finding it difficult to
make both ends meet.
PROSPERITY AND PLUNDER.
The Tariff Allows Trusts to Extort
High Prices. g
The full dinner pail and prosperity
cry of the Republicans will have to be
laid away in cold storage for another
campaign. The numerous strikes and
jockouts, the large number of men
hunting 10r a job and the railroads and
other large industries reducing their
force jof workmen must be causing
a scanty table in many homes. With
the nu—uber of bank failures greater
than at any time since the height of
the panic prosperity cannot be very
prevalent. These and other causes
have had a mos¢ disastrous effect upon
general business, for, according to the
latest report of business failures, they -
far exceed previous years since 1897.
Dunn’s report for the first quarter: of
this year gives the number a 5.3344
and the amount as $48,066,721, and it
18 to be feared that for the quarter
just ended the number will show .a
further increase. A
If the Republicans had not falsely
boasted in their platform that a Re
publican tariff always has been fol
lowed by business prosperity, the fact
that the Dingley bill was a trust breed
er and overshot the mark would not be
so remarkable. The constant advance
in prices through the enormous o
tection to the trusts that the Ding-
Jey law provided hes been too great
a strain upon the pockets of the great
majority of the people, and they have
been forced to curtail their purchases.
Hence the large number of failures of
business men. The Republican plat
form ocould have truthfully said that
the Reépublican tariff has been followed
by trust prosperity.
~ Money Standard Not an Issue.
Can any candid man say or will any
gane man fear that the gold standard
will be any more put in jeopardy by
the electipn of Judge Parker than the
election of Mr. Roosevelt? *“I regard
‘the gold standard as firmly and frrevo
cably established and shall act aceord
ingly,” says the Democratic candidate,
and the convention takes him at his
word. It would be childish after that
to say that the monetary standard is
an issue in this campaign in the sense
of being put in peril of change by any
possible result of the contest.—New
York Times
. REPUBLICAN STAGNATION.
Present Leaders of the Party Are
Dismal Failures.
The great majority of the Republican
party used to worship James G. Blaine
and the policies that he stood for. He
favored reciprocity, especially with
South American countries, and in 'a
speech at Waterville, Me,, Aug. 29,
1890, he said:
“Our great need is expansgion. I
mean expansion of trade with coun
tries where we can find profitable ex
changes. We are not seeking annexa
tion of territory. Certainly we do not
desire it unless it should come by the
volition of a people who might ask the
priceless boon of a place under the flag
of the Union. I feel sure that for a
long time to come the people of the
United States will be wisely content
with our present area and not launch
upon any scheme of anmexation. At
the samg time I think we should be
unwisely content if we did not seek to
engage in what the younger Pitt so
well termed annexation of trade.”
The Republican leaders today are
distinctly opposed to just what Mr.
Blaine was striving for. He little
thought that within a few years a Re
publican president would be forcibly
annexing countries not in this hemi
sphere and a Republican congress
would be standing pat and refusing to
‘ratify reciprocity treaties that McKin
ley had arranged. : :
The Blaine Republican must, like the
few followers of Abe Lincoln that are
left, view with dismay the dismal fail
ure of their present leaders, who fear
to'legislate on important matters, but
in place adopt a policy of legislative
stagnation. Does any one believe that
l Blaine would stand pat at the preser’
Juncture?