Crawfordsville Daily Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 12 December 1893 — Page 2
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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1893.
THE TARIFF TISKJSRERS Professor Swing, the uotfd Chisago divine, preiiebed a sermon to his congregation last Sunday on "Oar National Distress" from the iollowiDg ten:
Though thou should'st bray a fool in ft raortAr among wheat with apostle yet will not hie foolishness dupart Irom him.—Pnvcrbt, xxvii.
And he made a practical Bpplic&lion of the text to the foolishness now goiDg on at Washington City among Demo crntie statesmen. Among other things he said:
If we admit for the moment the wisdom of the protective tariff we must perceive at onoe that it must remain uniform at least for a generation. Men cannot build freat facoriee on a year's basis American cutlery came at last to displace aud rival Sheffield cutlery bo cause the tariff on ed^ed tools lay still lor nearly forty years. Men cannot be taught a trade by one tariff and then turned out of doors by another. The nation that teach, ten thousand men to make axes oueht not to go to them in four years and ask them to quit that work and become the weaver of velvet plush or 1 le makers of muslin or playing cards. When a million persons have been Inducted by a tariff into the trades that fall under tho heads of brass, glass, zinc, tin, nickel, copper, lend, wood, lea'her, paper, cotton and wool, it is gross injustice lor the government to come aiongl and ask them nil to qu'.i their shops and teach school or go to farming. Our men have only one life. The) cannot change their pursuits at tho request of a Democrat or a Republican. An art Is at least as long ss life. A government that changes its polioy every four years ought tc» rule only in tho 6hop of some French milliner.
The nation is now being "brayed in the mortar," and the late elections would seem to indicate that the proverb of Solomon is not true in all cases, for the foolishness of those working men who helped to elect Grover Cleveland and a free trade Congress, seems to be rHpu.ly departing from them. The Professor will, of course, be accused of preaching politizs in his pulpit but what he said is the truth and it is always appropriate to epeak the truth. The distress now prevailing among the laboring people of Chicago who have been thrown out of employment by the "tariff reformers," is well calculated to drat7 out just euch talk as Professor Swing indulged in last Sunday.
A NEW TEST OF UNCONSTITUTIONALITY. In the last Democratic National platform there wae a sweeping plank that aimed its full strength at the destruction of the protective tariff for the reasons that it was unconstitutional and a great robbery. The manner in which the party has met these great evils is oalonlated to excite the laughter of a gate poet. Like Diogenes, the cynic philosopher of old, who took his lantern and looked for an honest man, the Wave and Means committee seemed to have taken a thermometer and looked for the unconstitutional parts of the McKinley law. Along the cold Canadian border the tariff on b11 agricultural commodities, including poultry products, was so unconstitutional that it was wiped completely out of existence. A few hundred miles further south the test seemed to have risen a few degrees and the tariff on tin plate was found to be only partially unconstitutional and consequently two thirds of it was left to aid in building up the great robbery in the gas belt of Indiana. On reaching the rice fields at the sunny South—the home and center of Democracy—the test shows the tariff on rice to be wholly perfect and not the slightest signs of robbery could be found in it. While in this same south land the test was applied to the supposed gigantio robber, the sugar bounty, and no doubt to the surprise of all, the test showed only the minutest germs of being unconstitutional, and registered the miruculous result, that while it was not bad now it would be in eight years. Like the wonderful lamp of Aladdin, this thermometer seemed to have executed the will of those who handled it.
The Indianapolis News' latest article on the Hawaiian situation Beerns to us quite inconsistent. It first argues that the provisional government could not have been established without the interference of Minister Stevens, presumably because the people were in favor of the monarchy and Queen Lil. But, further on, it argues against the restoration of the Qneen for the, alleged re&Bon that she could not maintain her position, if restored, without the assistance of the
United States government. Put these Iwj positii ni together and make them coneiBt if you can.
I is noticeable that workingmen in all parts of the country are holding maBS meetings and circulating petitions to protest against the Wilson tariff bill. How many similar efforts have been made in favor of the paeeage of that bill? Not on*.
COALING STATIONS.
Tho English Opinion of Their Im» portanoe in tho Navy.
While Not EsicntUl to tlu 3Iatut«nauv« of Nml Poi^et These Station* Are Fortinpd Afftlngt the Ships I of Foreign
Sailing ships could, and did, remain at sea for many months at time. Lord Brassy writes in the Nineteenth Century. Their power to remain at sea was only limited by the amount of water that they carried. The period during- which a modern ship of war can remain at sea is determined mainly by her coal endurance, and to a great extent by the necessity of effecting' repairs in port to delicate machinery. The coal endurance of modern ships of war is even more limited than official figures, so far as any are available, lead us to suppose aud when Lord Salisbury placed the limit of tho striltinp distance of a ship of war! at two thousand miles—viz., the distance at which she could deliver a blow and return to her port—he certainly did uot underestimate her powers. Tho country which possesses the mostnumeronseoaling'stations and the best situated as reg^ardr, trade routes will have a great advantage iu a future war. In this respect the British empire is without a rival.
While a navy depends for its power of operating iu distant waters very largely on coaling stations, the existence of the latter depends absolutely on the power of the fleet to protect them. No loon! defense, whether in fortifications or men, will preserve them to a power which has lost the command of the sea. The history of Malta during the great war affords an admirable instance of the interdependence of fleets aud coaling stations, though it must be admitted that the lesson to be drawn is to some extent weakened by the need of modern ships for coal.
Many people consider that the possession of Malta is indispensable to the maintenance of British influence in the Mediterranean. How far this is true may be judged from the fact that Nelson won the battle of the Nile when Malta was in the hands of the French, and that Malta fell into our hands, though not for some time, as the direct consequence of that battle, which gave us the command of the Mediterranean. Capt. Mahan summarizes the conclusions, which should be drawn in these words: "Its fate when in the hands of France gives warning that the fleet depends less upon Malta than Malta on the fleet." If this be true of Malta, it is still more true of other coaling stations which do not lie in such proximity to the ports of foreign countries.
We have acted wisely In giving to our coaling stations sufficient defense against one or two hostile cruisers. More than this is not required. As long as our navy is maintained at Its proper strength and is efficiently officered and manned, it should not be possible for a serious expedition to leave the enemy's port without a British fleet being Immediately in pursuit.
AHEAD OF ERICSSON.
An Amtrlan Said to Hare Invented th« Modern Screw Propeller. The Austrians have just been celebrating the centenary of Joseph ResBel, one of the many claimants to the honor of being the inventor of the screw propeller, by a festival in front of his statue in front of the Polytechnic Institute of Vienna. It Is said that Ressel. who died in poverty and neglect in 1S57, described his plan for using the Archimedean screw for the propulsion of ships as long ago as 1813, but it was not until 1S'29, when all his earlier patents had lapsed for want of money to renew them, that he succeeded in interesting a Trieste merchant, Fontana, in his device, and securing a trial for it on board a small steamer called the Cldetta. Unluckily for him one of his steam pipes burst, and the authorities thereupon forbade all further experiments. Poor Ressel was derided on all sides, and was asked whether he wished to bore a hole in the sea. The New York Evening Post says there is no doubt that he was a genius in his way, or that he, in common with many others, was working on the principle of the screw for some years before Ericsson obtained his patent in 1838. John Bourne, in his treatise on the screw propeller, describes one hundred and twenty-six different Inventions, but does not even mention the name of Ressel, although a monument to the memory of the latter *iad been erected already in Vienna. Ericsson's plea for a patent was contested stoutly in the English law courts, but he was able to prove that the only propeller in use before 1836 was the Archimedean screw, and one with arms like the vane of smokejack. Capt. Delisle, a French engineer, presented a design for a submerged screw to the ministry of marine as early as 1823. But the Austrian inventor must have been a remarkable man, for in the list of his inventions, which perished for want of money, may be found steam tramways, the pneumatic tube, iron ribs for ships and bent wood for furniture.
Extinction of Alligator*.
Alligators are the next animals to be tn danger of complete extermination at the hands of reckless and merciless hunters. There has been a great de mand for alligator skin, which for many purposes is unsurpassed, and with even decent killing of the creatures the supply of this useful leather might be kept up indefinitely. That their extinction ib close at hand is not surprising when we learn that over three million have been killed in Florida since 1880, and/-that six hundred was at one time a fair week's work. As it Is with the alligators, buffalo and seals, so it is with many species of southern birds which have been so relentlessly slaughtered for their plumage that within a few years they will bccome absolutely extinct.
I was troubled with catarrh for eeven years previous to commencing the use of Ely's Halm. It has done for me what other so called cures have failed to do—cmed me. The effect of the Balm'seemed magical Clarence L. Hull, Biddeford. Me.
After trying many remedies for Catarrh "during past twelve years, I tried Ely's Cream Balm with complete suceess. It is over one year since I stopped using it and have had no return of catarrh. I recommend it to all my friends,—Milton T. Palm,
Heading, Pa.
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AN INTERESTING SKETCH. Nothing appeals eo strongly to a mother's Refection as her daughter just budding Into womanhood. Following is an instance: "Our daughter. Blanche, now 15 years of age, had beeu terribly afflicted with nervousness, and had lost the entire use of hor right arm. She was in such a condition that we had to keep her from school and abandon her music leasons. In fact, we feared St. Vitus dance, and are positive but for an invaluable remedy she would have had that terrible affliction. We had employed physicians, but she received no benefit from them. The first of last August she weighed but 75 pounds, and although she has taken only threo bottles of Nervine she now 106
attends school rceularly, and studies with comfort and case. Sue has recovered complete use of her arm, her appetite is splendid, and no money could procure for our daughter the health Dr. Miles' Nervine has brought her.
When mj brother recommended the remedy I had no faith in patent medicines, and would not listen to him, but as a last resort he sent us a bottle, we began giving it to Blanche, and the effect was almost immediate."—Mrs. K. R. Bullock, Brighton, N. Y.
Dr. Miles' Restorative Nervine is sold by all druggists ou a positive guarantee, or sent direct by Oie Dr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind., on receipt of price, $1 per bottle, six bottles for $6, express prepaid, it Is positively free trom opiate* or dangerous drugs.
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There were heaving*, within, mid quivering! without A liver upheaved and turned inside out: A new man was formed from the wreck in trice. And twenty-five cents per box wna tho price.
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