Crawfordsville Daily Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 1 December 1893 — Page 2
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FRIDAY. DECEMBER 1, 1893.
NONSENSE OONJS MAD.
Tariff taxes gather and cumulate on the consumers of the flntsued product. They hurt labor by narrowing the market for what it produces.—Chairman Wilstn't Statement.
If there was ever written in the English langnage two sentences of equal length, containing more misinformation than the above, it has not been onr misfortune to see them. The great trouble with the tariff reformer is that he never ceases to study theories instead of facts of history, ana is always making statements about the tariff that experience flatly contradicts. Can any tariff reformer name one instance where a tariff ever so large, on a product we can make, has ev^r "gathered" or "cumulated" on the on.-« who bought the finished product? Can any plan be suggested or acted upon that will test tha truth of eucli a statement than to go to a store ami buv a tin bucket or a keg of wire na'.lt? Both were wholly imponed a few years ago from abroad and now both tiro being Bold with heavy duties on tbarn. Does not this fact involve every f»fitnre of the above statement from Chuirtuan Wilst-n? There is not, to-day a man in America who is able to buy a tin bucket or a peper of nails but who can readily perceive the falsity of Mr. Wilson's statement. Before the duty was levitd on steel wire miils, we bought them from German factories at 88 per keg. Since that time tariff of S4 per keg has been placed on them and they now sell at SI. 30. From this fact it seemB that the tariff has "gathered" and "cumulated" in the opposite direction than the one suggested by Mr. Wilson. While this change was going on millions of dollars have been expended in building factories and in the man ufacture of naile, all going directly into the pockets of the laboring olaES. Ow ing to the brisk competition among our manufacturers of nails striving for the market the tariff took from the foreigners, the price of wire nails has diminish ed to such an extent as to startle the world. Their cheapness has consequently enlarged the market for them because they 8re universally used, and when a thing so universally used is very cheap, the market for it will necessarily grow and not be "narrowed," as stated by Chairman Wilson. If the duty on tin plate had been left as it was in the McKinley Lw there is no doubt that the history of the nail industry would have been repeated in tinware.
Such matters are within the observation of the most stupid and with such results how anyone oan master up courage enoagh to say such a tariff "gathers" and "cumulates" on the consumer and "narrows" the market of labor is beyond our comprehension.
The Wilson tariff bill places wool on the free list. Should the bill pass American wool would come in competition with the Australian product, which can be laid down in New York at five cents pound. The consumer is not the bene ficiary of this low priced wool. He "will pay as much for his clothing then us he does now. The only person benefitted by the destruction of this industay will be the importer. It will be millions in his pocket. Are our farmers prepared to vote these millions out of their pock etB and into the pockets of these foreign importers? Congressman Brookshire has declared it hie purpose to vote for free wool. The sheep raisers of .the Eighth district will be heard from later on.
The free trade papers continue to howl about the burdens heaped on the people by the McKinley bill. They conceal all the time, so far as they can, the fhct that every article of manufacture, on which the McKinly law increases the tariff, is cheaper to the consumer than it was when the McKinley law was passed. Fortunately all the people have to go to the stores to buy goods, and the most ignorant at once detect the falsehoods with which these papers try to gull theia. A majority of 81,000 voles in Ohio made manifest their indignation at the way they had been im posed on, and they will do the same thing in Indiana when they get
The new tariff bill leaves the McKinley bounty on sugar just aa MoKinley provided, till June, 1895. After that date it will become "unconstitutional" and will be gradually removed, and the wounds inflicted on the constitutional lowed to heal.
As exchange says that Gov. Napoleon McKinley's prominence just now ajay be only a return from Elba. It looks more like a return from Austerlitz, since "the allied powers" in Ohio were all overthrown and routed.
IN DIXIE'S LAND!
BEFORE THE WAR.
BY J.AJS. VRANKUM ffXTTS. CUAPTEH V1 (COXTt S NX) Tin1 niv!me»s, the mock humility wiili which
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turuvil from the.dis
tress and rvproaeh 1:1 which her father's words, ii i11 left her. to this seriocomic uspeet of the situation. nro not to be described. Mr Bollock whs.completely won. lie rose from his e.hiiir. he clasped us both in one embrace, tears wst his furrowed face "At last," lie s-aiil. with a Mjrh of infinite relief, "that dreadful burden is rolled from ray soul. 'l'o keep that secret 1 have sued i.-iuod, have spent abundant f^old, 1 hare become prematurely aired, and suffered in mind as men rarely sutler. Let me right the wrong that 1 did this dear child, so far as 1 can, when my passions t,rave her life let me 'make my peace with au offended God, if that be possible let me see you two Happy together—and then let me depart. Corry, forgive your erring, miserable father. 1 have sinned, as other men sin but 1 have suffered as they have not."
She answereil him with kiss. "In the morning'." he continued. "Le Fevre shall ride over to Thibodeaurc. uud bring Mr. Coteau, the lawyer. The deed that I have never dared to do, because then the people would know your story, Corry—I will pxontc 1 ttill declare your manumission, in writing signed, sealed and acknowledged it shall be placed among' the public records—and then, child, you will be as free in law as you ever have been in fact. In the next hour mv will shall be made. Everything' shall be yours."
We sat upon the ottomans at his feet—we two—and in the seclusion of that room we heard from his lips the story of his errors and sufferings. The overseer rapped at the door, and called out that he must see Mr. liostoek. but was answered that he could not be disturbed. The servant who came to call us to the table was sent away. The hour was given to the past.
We listened attentively, Coralie and I, for we were both concerned in the strange story, and I especially was caper to hear the things explained that had puzzled me yet. ever and anon, as I returned the pressure of the hand, my heart bounded e.xultinfrly forward. The past was no more a terror the future was secure. Upon none Could the fair September sun rise so brightly tomorrow as upon ns two, the darlings of fate)
So 1 thought, as 1 sat there, clasping her hand and listening to Mr. liostcek's confession.
.: t'HAl'TKK XVII. •.V
B11EAKISG TUB SEAl.S.
I must go back (said Mr. liostoek) to the time of my marriage. The lady was a belle of New Orleans—beautiful, but not wealthy. I was then, though a young man, the richest planter of the La Fourehe. I had a rival, Napoleon Cast-ex, who was settled in Cuba, but who often came over to enjoy the social festivities of the mild winters in New Orleans. Our rivalry was close and sharp. I was successful, and gained the man's lasting hatred in consequence.
Why is it that men and women will deliberately marry, when they are by nature, habit and education, utterly unfitted to mate together? Such things always have been and always will be. Less than three months of wedded life showed us that we were utterly uncongenial. But we lived on together, making .the best of it, and enduring our irksome bonds.
We had but one child, Conrad. I will speak of him later. I desire now to say that, so far as I have been able to see, he resembled neither of his parents in anything. Me was bad. reckless and profligate, from an age when boys usually have no knowledge of the world. I have somewhere read that hereditary vices, as well as diseases, will sometimes skip several generations, and appear in a child of parents not given to evil. It must be so the accumulated sins of many ancestors must have been inwrought, in that boy.
I attended one day at the New Orleans slave-mart an auction of the people of a Cuban plantation, who had been sent there to obtain better prices. 1 learned upon inquiry that their owner was Castex, who had become ruined by unfortunate speculation. A little orphan, thirteen years old. apparently as white as myself, attracted my notice. 1 became her owner and took her home as a house-servant. She was called Louise Bonfant.
Time passed the coldness between my, wife and myself increased. Let me not try to apportion the blame: perhaps there was none. Our mistake was when we mutually promised to love, honor and cherish.
But she was better than I she at least tried to keep her vows. Cherishing no affection for her I became careless of those vows. The pretty slavegirl grew up: she was petted and educated: shr usurped the place of Emilie. For awhile the latter bore it. silent and indignant At length her outraged womanhood spoke out. "It is better that we part quietly and without scandal." she said. "I can no longer stay in this house. Make a suitable provision for me and I will take the boy and join my people, who have gone to Paris. Tell what story you please about my absence it will not be contradicted."
I was glad enough to make this arrangement. She went abroad and died there a few years after.
Her parting words still ring in my ears. 'I leave you in sorrow, not in nnger," she said. "The holy church, of which I am a child, has taught me that there is nothing more sacred in Heaven or earth than the marital vows. You have broken them you are laying up wrath for yourself in days to come. An offended God will surely call j-ou to account, and you will remember my words."
Often have I remembered them. Emilie,has been exquisitely a venged! Conrad accompanied her to New Orleans, but before the packct sailed he returned home. I received him with surprise and displeasure, for I had felt immeasurably relieved when Emilio proposed that he should live with her. "I've thought the thing all over, governor," said this boy of fifteen, "and I concluded to come back. You see I've nothing to do with the old woman's quarrels and as you've got the money, and I'm getting on where I shall want lots of it, I reckon I'll stick to you."
With In one week from the departure
of my"wife you were born. Corry, your mother dying in the same hour. The love that Kmilic should have was given to your poor mother, child. 1 was nearly distracted at her loss. In my frenzy it sccrnwl to me the lirst fulfillment of Emilie's prediction.
Soon my affections and hopes were transferred to Louise's child. Then the crushing thought came that this child wa^ a slavo, born of a. slave mother, and that to miuiumit her would be to publish the fact to the world.
I could not bear the alternative. To nave it, I resolved on a 'course which good judgment should have warned me against. 1 would break up my home here, lease the plantation, go four hundred miles up the river, and, iu a locality where no stories would bo likely to come from La Fourciie, 1 would bring up this child of my nlteetiou. No one there should know of the taint in her origin no one should ever guess that she was born in bondire.
This plan I put in execution immediately. It promised to succeed. Unfortunately. I had not taken into account the precocity and wickedness of that boy. lie instantly divined the truth, and began to hold the knowledge of it over me like a rod. For five years he kept me iu constant terror, not so much by his evil courses as by the constant threat of betraying my 6ccret. The amount of money that I have paid him for his silence would represent a fortune. At last, in his twenty-first year, he agreed to leave home and never return, and to keep his knowledge to himself. 1 was to pay him a large quarterly allowance, which has, in fact, been almost doubled. 1 have relied on his love of money to keep him from betraying me and my purse alone has closed his mouth. Where the great sums that 1 have given him have gone, the gamblers of the river can tell.
I look back to the time between 1S40, when I got rid of this unnatural son. and 1833, when the tragedy occurred which will be briefly noticed, as the happiest of my life. The disagreeable part was all behind ms conscience, as well as the fear of exposure, so torturing in these later years, did not trouble me: you were growing up, Corrv. to be just what I wished you charming acquaintances, valued friends were all about me my success in growing cotton was adding enormously to my wealth. All this was rudely troubled by the appearance of Napoleon Castex.
I had heard little of this man since my successful rivalry for the hand of Emilie ma le him my enemy. After my purchase of Louise 1 learned incidentally that he had once visited NewOrleans. and it was told me that he made particular Inquiries about me. There were none but unpleasant recollections connected with him, and I hoped that I should never meet him again.
Suddenly, twelve years after my removal from La Fourehe. he presented himself to me. I had no previous knowledge that he was in the neighborhood, and the sight of him disconcerted me.. It was at a gentleman's dinner party at my own house, and he came with one of the guests, whom he was visiting. I knew that the man was revengeful and a good hater, and 1 began to tremble for the consequences of such a visit. I conjectured that if he had not learned the true cause of Emilie's alienation from me. lie would be likel}' to guess it if he happened to see you, Corry: for you were then about the age of your mother when he last saw her, and very closely resembled her. And what he should discover I knew that his hatred, of me would prompt him to spread broadcast in the neighborhood.
Before I could form any plan to check such a catastrophe, dinner was announced. We were just seated, when you, Corry, came to the door and looked in. prompted. I suppose, by childish curiosity. Castex saw you, recognized your face, and asked me in French if that was my daughter. I replied that she was: and then—
The man is dead: 1 must soon follow him. I would like to sp^ak to him now without bitterness or passion yet I should not speak the whole truth if I did not say that his face was shining with savage joy as ho gave me the brutal rejoinder in French that assured me that his discovery would be published far and near. lie said: "Ah, monsieur: live or six years hence, when the charming daughter of Louise Bonfant shall come to the same auction block in New Orleans where you purchased the mother, then I think the spirit of your wronged wife will feel avenged."
I saw that he hail deliberately planned to force a quarrel on m'c. I knew that there could be no safety for my secret while he lived. A duel followed, and I killed him. The wound that I received at the same time from his hand laid me up for weeks, and nearly brought me to the grave.
My misery dates from that hour. It is not a comfortable reflection to carry around with you night and day that you have fclaiu a fellow creature, though a bad one, and the thought has troubled me but much more tormenting than this was the fear that Castex had iu some way left his discovery to be revealed after his death. I grew suspicious of everybody I abandoned old friends while they never suspected the reason, I was continually fearful that the truth would be known and made public. Then the thought occurred to me that all this torment might be endod by returning to La Fotirche. 1 came back to this place as suddenly as 1 had left it. We had been absent fifteen years, and there had been many changes Coralie was everywhere presented as my daughter, and I gave out that Emilie, her mother, had died at my plantation far up the river.
Tims, in fear and falsehood, have I preserved your good name, my child, and conccalcd the story of your birth. That concealment has always been at the mercy of accidents, and I have lived in the same state of torment since the duel. Perhaps it is all part of my punishment Emilie's words were prophetic. You saw the agitation and the excitement into which the visit of that reprobate son threw mi?. For the sake of both of yon, this falsehood can be told no longer. The truth is painful, it is humiliating but that way lias safety for you. Thank God, the burden is gone, at last: In the morning Mr. Coteau shall come and make the writings.
(To Be Continued.)
WE print sale bills on short notice. TAN .TOCIINAI, Co., PHINTEUS.
Children Cry for
Pitcher's Oastorla?
TO BE SOLD
By Order of Court
Big Bargains In Clothing.
The stock of goods formerly
owned by Jim Molony to
be sold by order of
the coui t.
$16.00 Suits for 15.00 10.00 5.00 A Good Shirt, worth 50c 25c. Good pr Overalls w'rth 50 c,25c
Remember the Place,
211 E, Main St.
sale-
In the Joel Block,
South Washington St.
Having thirty days in which to dispose of the stock of the "Corner Book Store, either by wholesale or retail, attention is called'to bargains in
Miscellaneous Books, Albums, Pictures, Notions, And Especially
WALL PAPER
You can't afford to mies this opportunity to buy cheap goods.
L. A. Foote,
ASSIGNEE.
The Test of Time
Is the proper test of
PLUMBING
Investigate before you have your plumling done and you will be sure to come to lis.
WILLIAMS BROS.
Next to— The JourxalBuilding.—
LOOK HEREI
There anew firm of Butchers in town, but they are at the well known stand on South Washington street so long occupied by T. J. Weil. They keep the best and sweetest Meat, pure kettle rendered lard aod all kinds of Sausages, Bologna and Weincrwurst. The name of this firm is
WEIL & ARCHY
PEEK & HYATT,
Horse Shoers
New Shoes $1.00 Old Shoes .80
Wabash Ave., between Washington and Green sts.
A.SK FOR
Boudinard's Bread.
Sweet and Wholesome.
MOSOK ROUTE.
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You should see them.
See the New Silk in All Styles. See the New Dress Trimmings, See the New Kid Gloves and Ribbons
Our Great November
Is Now On.
Louis Bischof
customers the benefit oi low prices.
$7.50 $10
Give this department a careful look.
One lot of
75c.
36
Has just returned from New York, Philadelphia and Boston with one
Ladies' Cashmere Wool Hose, seamless heel and toe,
See the New Handkerchiefs, See the Laces and Embroideries See the New Hair Ornaments
See the New Blankets,
you.—All welcome.—Come to
Ladies' Fleece Lined Hose, high spliced heels, regular made, fast black.
25c. Ladies' Cashmere Hose, Seemless Merino Heel and Toe,
Ladies' Extra Quality Ribbed Cashmere Hose,
Ladies' Fast Black Cotton Hose, 50, 8c, and 10c.
Chileren's Fast Black Hose at
Children's Hose.-
4B&
of the Largest and Best Selected stocks of Merchandise ever
shown in this city, and ail bought at spot Cash, and will give my
•Cloaks and Furs.-
There's something about the garments that catch the taste of most of the ladies and the prices we are making this Fall are astonishing and by comparison with Indianapolis and Chicago, or elsewhere, both style and Price make this the purchasing point. Is it to be wondered at? We will save you from $2 to
on each Cloak you buy of us. See our nice Cloak and Caps at
and up as high as j'ou like. Wo have the Stock and Styles.
Dress Goods.?
livery day brings something new in Dress Goods, either a new weave is shown or a new combination in colors. The great business in ihe Dress Goods Department during the past week show that we have what the people want.
To-morrow, in addition to our tailor-hiade Suitings, Broadcloths and French novelties, we will put on sale our late purchases. Some of them you can buy at half-price.
=Our Suit Department.•
inch Cloth Suiting. Regular retail price was
Our price in.this sale only 39c per yard. Ask to see our Cheviot Suitings. Ask to see the novelties in suitings. See the Storm Serge, all colors, all prices.
Black Wool Goods are popular this seasortv See our line and see the low prices. See Silk Finish Henriettas. All colors and the lowest prices.
Ladies' Hosiery.-
10c.
Children's Fast Black Novelty Ribbed Hose, 10c. Infant's Cashmere Hose, 10c, 12 1-2C,
A .good quality of Ladies' Cotton Union Suits for
50c.
All Invited to See the New Goods.
In fact, come and see all my late purchases and we will try and please
LOUIS BISGHOF
127-139 EAST MAIN STREET.
$4,
50c, 60c
and
19c.
15c, 20c
Ladies' Underwear,^
Ladies' Jersey Union Suits, extra qualitj?, with pearl button and crochet, neck at $1. Ladies Jersey Vests, high neck and long sleeves, at
Those extra heavy basket weave vests,with pants to match,softly fleeced on inside, only
In fact we have a full line of Underwrear. We can please you. Give this department your attention and save money.
•Children's Underwear.-
We have Vest and Pants, all prices and sizes, from 10c, 15c 20c and :5c.
21c'.
25c.-
and 25c.
50c.
25c.
See the New Lace Curtains See the New Comforts and Yarns, See the New Chenille Portierres,
See our New Children's Cloaks, See our New Ladies' Cloaks. See the New Styles in the celebrated Strr Waist
Sesf
for Boys.