Decatur Democrat, Volume 34, Number 29, Decatur, Adams County, 10 October 1890 — Page 6

©he democrat DECATUR, IND. W. BLACKBURN, - - - Publisher. A French scientist declared that the domestic cats of the world carry at least 40 per cent, of the contagious diseases from house to house. It is illegal to sell cigarettes to boys in Cincinnati, and all boys found smoking are to be arrested and held until they tell where they got the prohibited articles. A column of army worms invaded Woodbridge, Cal., recently. It was half a mile long and was followed by immense blackbirds, which preyed upon them?; A Young womaOwho has a dressmaking establishment in New York makes her rent by storing furs, wraps and winter dresses for her customers during the warm weather. It is very easy to distinguish the journalist from the newspaper man. The journalist usually wants to borrow a dollar, though it must be admitted that the newspaper man can’t always lend it to him. A society “for the endowment of poor marriageable girls” is being started in St. Petersburc'zon the same plan as that of the Moscow society, which works for the same object. The constitution of the new society is being drawn up and the licens4 ol the government is confidently expected. S. S. Karr, of Almond, N.Y,, claims that he was the last union prisoner to leave Andersonville prison. He secured the rebel flag which had so long floated over that prison and the wretchedness and misery its walls inclosed, and has it still in his possession—probably one of the most interesting relics of the civil war. Two EMINENT clergymen have recently preached in a Hartford, Conn., church, and their sermons were so nearly alike that people began to whisper the awful word plagiarism. But it turned out that they both used the same book of sermon skeletons. Unless carefully used, a sermon skeleton is a dangerous weapon, Apparently the tables are turning. California prunes have become so popular in this country that it is said the French are beginning to put up their prunes in the California style, so that they will pass for California prunes. Some of these days, perhaps, dishonest dealers will try to sell French wines by putting on them California labels. “Westward the Star of Empire takes its way.” The old New York Marble Cemetery on Second street, between First and Second avenues, New York, is notable as containing not a single grave. The ground was filled up from the beginning with sunken stone vaults, in which the dead are placed. These vaults have a thin covering of soil thrown over them, which is now laid out in grassy plots and walks. Robert Fulton, of steamboat fame, is buried in this cemetery. Some jokers at Schenley Park, Pittsburgh, had a little fun with a Hungarian who asked for work. They gravely gave him a position as hostler to a bear, and supplied him with a curry-comb and brush. The bear enjoyed being scratched with the currycomb, and showed it by rolling on the ground as fast as he was. cleaned. He also evinced his appreciation by playfully clawing his valet, and by the time the latter had completed his job, he had no clothes on worth mentioning. That was rather a remarkable spectacle when scores of leading citizens of Spokane Falls turned out to fill the places and do the work of 200 carpenters who had struck for some trivial cause and refused to work on the exposition building. The result was that lawyers, doctors, bankers and business men suddenly developed an unsuspected talent for driving nails, and the work of roofing the building went on at a rapid rate. The average American citizen seems to be equal to almost any emergency. , v A young woman of Paris has invented a new method of robbery, which she has carried on with a good deal of success for several weeks past. Wearing a traveling dress, with a traveling bag in her hand, she waited about the stations, as if she were quite new to Paris and did not know where to go. It constantly happened that gentlemen took pity on her and proposed to take her to a hotel. On arriving at the hotel, the gentlemen, of course, demanded to be shown rooms. The ’young woman invariably stopped downstairs, and before he returned had jumped into the cab with the gentleman’s luggage and driven away. There is a girl, not yet 17, in the town of Essex, Connecticut, who wished much to go to school and gain lomo special instruction and training. She cast about for away to earn some money, and finally hit on the making « of two articles in which she excels. They are brown bread and cream cakes. She made some and carried them round to those whom she thought (would buy, and obtained many orders. Her time is now fully occupied in making brown bread and cream cakes and delivering them. By autumn she will have money enough to go to school besides paying expenses. ' The liquor law is successfully evaded by Groenberry Williams, who has a farm, portions of which lie in Sumner, Macon and Trousdale Counties, Tennessee. Esch patron is blindfolded, told to “’step to the right, then march to the j rear, then by the left flank,” etc. When |

he is asked what county he is in, of course he is unable to answer. The desired quantity of liquor is given to him, the money is received,, the man is led back to the point he started from, and the bandage removed from his eyes. Under such circumstances no witness can testify in what county he bought his liquor. Several attempts have been made to convict Williams of selling liquor without a license, but all of them have failed. One of the most famous figures of speech is that of “coining a joke,” but we know of only one instance in which the joke was actually coined— that is, struck upon a graven die, and issued from a legal mint. The fact is historical, and is as follows: In the year 1679 the Danes advanced with a large force upon Hamburg, but after a siege of considerable duration, seeing but little hope of ultimate success, they finally withdrew and marched back. Thereupon the Hamburgers caused a medal to be struck in commemoration of the event. On one side of the numismatic curipsity was the inscription: “The King of Denmark came before Hamburg. What he gained by it will be seen on the other side.” On the other side there was a total blank. While delivering his oration at the unveiling of the Greeley statue Chauncey M. Depew was interrupted by a noisy brass band belonging to the Italian procession coming down Park Row. Mr. Depew paused once or twice to give the band a chance to quit, but it didn’t quit, and the speaker again took up the thread of his remarks. It was at a point where he was extolling the simple virtues of Horace Greeley, and lifting his voice above the band he finished his sentence to the eflect that Greeley was a man cast in a noble mould, who hated all manner of evil, political or otherwise. Just here the band got too much for him, and recognizing that he was “not in it” for the moment, Mr. Depew dropped his voice and said to those near him on the platform: “And I’ll bet money he hated brass bands like pizen 1” One day a silk grower saw that some ants with a sweet tooth for his silkworms had climbed one of his mulberry trees and attacked and thrown the worms to the ground, where they were hurriedly carried away by the carriers. Wanting to put a stop to the theft, the grower encircled the trunk of the tree with a ring of bird lime, which for four days proved an impassable barrier. >By the fifth the emergency had developed an engineer—an ant with a big grain of sand in her jaws deposited it in the lime, and then descended. After ten minutes every ant climbing the tree carried her grain of sand. Half an hour’s work proved sufficient to make the bridge span the entire circle of lime, prove large enough to yield passage to four ants walking abreast. The owner had not the heart to destroy their work, and as a reward for their skill abandoned the. tree to them. We have seen ants on an expedition, when interrupted by a stream, form a pontoon bridge of workers hitched one to another, over whose backs the army had passed dry shod. The passage made, the pontooners separated, any with many ineffectual efforts regained the shore as best they could. # No ••FiiMMin’” That Day. While eating lunch the other day in a well-known case a friend dropped in, and, seating himself beside me, related what he had experienced while spending a two-months’ vacation in visiting the Southern States. Among other things he said that one fine sunny day he and three or four others were sitting on a bench on the shady side of a railroad depot in Tennessee waiting for the train. Out on the platform was piled a lot of cotton, and to the left of us sat three men, in the center sat two, and three others were on our right. Just why those men should sit there in the sun, each group talking by itself and apparently oblivious to the presence of the others, excited my curiosity, and by and by, as a negro drayman backed up after a couple of barrels of salt, I asked him to explain. “I kin tell yo’, fur shore,” he promptly replied. “Dat crowd on de left is de Browns—ole man an’ two boys. Dat crowd on de right is de Jacksbns. ole man an’ two boys. Dem air chaps in de center is named Cook and Parsons.” “But why do they sit there?” “Dey dun has to, sah.” “Why, yo’ see, de Browns an’ de Jacksons is inimies, an’ dey shoot on sight. Bet yo’ life each one of ’em has a gun on his hip!” “And the others?” “Dey is sort o’ neutral. If a fuss begun dey might hang by de Browns, or dey might go over to de Jacksons. Nobody can’t tell. If dey was away dere’d be some right smart fussin’ mighty quick, but dey hole de balance of power, an’ as long as dey stay dq odder folks won’t fuss.” “How long have they been here?” “Since dis mawnin, sah, but I reckon dere’s gwine to be a break-up party soon. Dere goes de Brown party now. I reckoned dey’d be fust to cave in. Well, dat eande up de fussin’ till next time, an’ it won’t be any use for yo’ to hang around heah any longer.”—Brooklyn Citizen. The Flrat German Hellgolander. In the very hour in which the German Emperor performed the historic act of taking possession of Heligoland, the wife of a poor cobbler there gave birth to a boy (says the Leipziger Zeitung.) According to the AngloGerman Agreement, this boy, being bom under German rale, was the first recruit from the island won for the German army. As soon as the event became known, several Berlin visitors issued an appeal, which was couched in terms both serious and humorous, for “the first German recruit from Heligoland.” The members of the committee headed the list with contributions of twenty marks each, and then circulated it amongst the other visitors to the island, who on that significant day were equally willing and liberal. Before sunset the parents of the “first German recruit” were most agreeably surprised by a present of a nice little sum in grateful recognition of such well-merited patriotism. — Pall Mall Gazette.

LIKE KILKENNY CATS. TRUSTS AND COMBINATIONS DEVOUR EACH OTHER. — * The Oilcloth Men Want to Renew Their “Agreement”—Ground Down by Other Trusts They Turn Upon the Consumer— Trusts as the Outcome es Protection. t Protected manufacturers make common cause with each other, and stand shoulder to shoulder before the Ways and- Means Committee at Washington, fighting for their Common welfare. This is not the case in their business relations, in their daily course of trade. In the business world one trust feeds upon another, just as the big fishes in the sea feed upon the small fish. An example of this is seen in the Linseed Oil Trust and the combination of oil-cloth manufacturers. During the hearings befcfre the committee last winter, Mt. G. W. Blabon, of Philadelphia, a representative of the oil-cloth and linoleum manufacturers, made this statement: “Linseed oil has advanced largely within the last eighteen months, and white lead also. That is the result of combinations and trusts. ” Also: “We got along very nicely, however, and made a fair return in profits until this late advance in the prices of dfl and white lead.”, Here Mr. McMillin, *of Tennessee, asked; “Was that advance caused by trusts?” to which Mr. Blabon answered, “Yes; trusts that have come to stay.” This looked very bad; Jt looked as if the linseed oil trust and the white lead trust were preying upon a number of firms which were struggling each separately with its hard conditions. It now turns out that this was not tie case at all. Those who wore being preyed upon were also in a combination to prey upon their consumers. Not long ago a prominent Philadelphia paper printed the following piece of news: “Since the agreement among the oil-cloth manufacturers for the regulation of trade and prices came to an end some time ago, it is said that there has been very active fighting for business on all hands, with heavy cutting of rates. To stop this practice prominent manufacturers have recently been considering numerous expedients, and it has been suggested that an oil-cloth clearinghouse be formed. The idea is that this body should be controlled by a board of directors, appointed by the manufacturers, who would receive and concentrate information on the state of trade, and fix prices with the consent of a majority of manufacturers.” This paper went on to state that prominent. manufacturers, among whom was this same G. W. Blabon, were “anxious to adopt some plan of harmony.” Their old agreement for the “regulation of trade and prices,” which was in force at the very time when Blabon was before the committee, had evidently proved more profitable to them than the cutting of rates; and hence the dsterminationfto have some more “harmony.” Mr. Blabon's tale before the McKinley committee was calculated to excite pity. Between the u n ner and the nether millstones of two 'nding monopolies like the Linseed Oil. Trust and the White Lead Trust the had a claim upon the sympathies of all those who take the side of the weak and oppressed against the strong ones who would ride rough-shod over them. But now that it is seen that Mr. Blabon himself was adopting the same trust methods to get higher prices out of the consumers, who can waste sympathy on him? But it is not alone in trusts that this system of greed reigns in trade. Trusts protect themselves; and in order to do this the individual members of a trust are loyal to one another, to some extent at least, and they stick together so far as pressure can be brought to bear to ■enforce their regulations. We have seen how trusts treat each other, and if we are to believe the protectionist papers, the same system of general hoggishness prevails as between individuals in trade. On this subject the New York Journal of Commerce says: “In this country, above all others, the greed that is envious of another’s success will insist upon sharing in the spoils.” And from this fact it draws the conclusion that American manufacturers have suffered more from home than from foreign competition. The' difference between American and foreign manufacturers is thus stated: “In some foreign lands a man may discover a good thing, out of which he is reaping a very large profit, and if he is quiet and unobtrusive may keep the business to himself for a long time until he has acquired an ample fortune. But in this country the ne.ople. are like the greedy birds, and if one picks up more than can be swallowed at once the rest of the flock seek to force a division of the mouthful. ” Commenting upon this the New York Dry Goods Economist, another protectionist paper, says; “We have more than once commented upon this same melancholy fact. Where ideas are not protected by patents and sometimes where they are, outside rivals invade a neighbor's territory without Compunction, and the result very often is a cut-throat competition which is fatal to both. If a man develops a bright idea he should have the benefit of it. There should be a courtesy in the that supplemented statutory limitations.” All will conceive the point made here, that manufacturers have a right io their inventions and improvements. A habit of infringing on the rights of others is. however, only a natural outgrowth of our protective tariff systgm. Our manufacturers have been thoroughly schooled in the protectionist notion that they have a right to prey upon people in other forms of industry. What wonder, then, that they turn around and prey upon each other? What wonder, too, that this system of preying upon each other should go on until they call a halt and “pool their issues?” In other words, they form a trust, agreeing to prey upon each other no more, but to unite in a common scheme for preying upon the consumer alone. Ifi not this the natural outcome of protection? The Government gives some men the right to sell to others at an artificially increased price. This increased price becomes like swill In the trough—the hungry pigs crowd around it and the biggest and strongest fight the weakest ones away, then fight among themselves till peace becomes a necessity again in order to satisfy their hunger. ? That sharp rivalry of trade which we? call competition is necessary; tion. is the life of trade. Protection, however, tends directly to defeat competition. True, it may stimulate competition for a time; but the false notion that it engenders, that the protected indiv'duals have a moral right to the home market with from competition, and have a moral right thus to charge the community increased prices for their products, leads in the end to the defeat of the very ends that the pro tectionists claim to have in view. Protection ends logically in trusts, for self interest Is the law which rules in trade aud must rtilo. The function of govern meut is simply to keep this self-interest within tho bounds of justice—that is, to prevent one man from pushing the pursuit of his self-interest to the point where the next man’s just and lawful interest is infringed upon. But if the Government itself takes a hand for the very opposite purpose of giving some men the right to do just that thing, it is the most natural thing in the world that tsuch men should combine and stifle competition when competition has rendered their power to trespass upon the rights

of others less effective and profitable than it was before. That trusts are thus the natural outcome of protection has been seen and acknowledged by the President of the sugar trust, who said last winter: “The great cry of or? of the great parties is for protection--that is, they cry for it loudly during campaigns. But when we proceed to give ourselves some protection a howl is -aised. They demand protection for the industries. When an industry protects itself it is said that it is illegal. ” Hence it comes to pass that protection has made our country land of trusts as no other land is, and the great activity during the past several month’ is a striking commentary on McKinley’s famous laying: “We want no return to cheap times in our own country.” McKinley is beating the bush in behalf of the trusts, and they a e simply getting ready to bay their gam<. SAYS WE ARE FOOLS. CONFESSION OF OUR' STEEIsRAIL BARON. “Triumphant Democracy” in Scotland— What He Thinks of Americans—An Interesting Tariff Lesson. < Mr. Andrew Carnegie, our protected millionaire steel rail baron, has been talking to the Scotch and telling them what public-spirited and energetic people we Americans are On Sept. 8 fie spoke at Dundee, Scotland, and said among other things: “In the republic there is a feeling that every man lives, first for the state, and second for himself, and if he doesn’t feel so his fellow citizens have no objection to lead him to the right path. A man who would stand up and attempt to obstruct a great public improvement—oh! he would not be tolerated. Public sentiment would condemn him. The way of the would-be extortioner is hard in Ameri :a.” Let us try that by one example. We have a duty of sl7 a ton on steel rails. It has been recently ascertained through official sources that thfe sotal cost of a ton of steel rails in this country is $26.24. During the, sis-st half of this year the average selling price wassomewhat above $34 astqn —let us say a irofit of $8 a ton. Now, it was stated in a high protectionist organ in July that Mr. Andrew Carnegie and his several firms had made during the first six mouths of the year about 325,000 tons of steel rails. The profits are thus seen to have been $2,600,000.. That sum is not at present so much due to the high duty .as it would have been some years ago. for prices in En«gland ranged in the first half of this year from $lO to sl6 higher than two years ago, owing to temporary conditions now passing away; prices in ’ the United States being higher also than two years ago. But the $2,600,000 profits of Carnegie and his associates for six months in 1890 were only partially a ta riff profit. It is true that the great pains which have made him a fifty-five millionaire were due in large part to the high duty on steel rails. Anybody vho looks at the prices in Great Britain and the United States for the past ten or twenty years can see 1 that as plain as day. A table of these prices has. been prepared by the protectionists th mselves. This table shows a difference of $33.08 a ton in 1880 in favor of the English; in 1885, a difference of $4.39; in’ 1887, however, this difference had again risen to $18.38 a ton. The precise difference in the cost of steel rails by reason of the tariff has been accurately and carefully estimated by • David A, Wells, the fort most statistician of America. He estimates that the additional cost to this couiu.ry of steel during the ten years froi i 1878 to 1888 in consequence of the t&r I was $140,000,000. If it had not been for the tariff precisely the same would have been saved to our railroads, and thereby to some extent saved to the people in cheaper freight and pas-on ger rates. If railroads had been p< emitted to buy their rails at the norm! price, and to save thereby $140,000,000. would not this have been “a great publi • improvement?” “A man who would stand up and attempt to obstruct a great public improvement.” Why, that is Carnegie himself! And yet he is “toleratec;’ public sentirnent’does not Condemn him; and the way of the tariff extort oner is not hard. What Carnegie thinks of us, in view of our high tariff folly, ha recently come to light, Not long ago hfi dined with a small party-of Englishmen in London; and in this small and select circle he is reported to have said thai “the Americans are great fools to mail, tain a war tariff in order to make a feu smart men like him millionaires.” About the same time one of his party organs printed a singular piece of news. This was the Chicago Tribune, which has grown so restive am unmanageable under what it terms “MbKinleyism. It says: “Andrew Carnegie, one of the king bees of the Republican ;party,' who is a strong believer in prote< tion, because he is one of the favored ew who derive benefit therefrom, has locked out his employes at Beaver Falls,’ l’a., because they wanted increased wages ' Reaping the Tariff Fruit. The Eastern and Western coal agents have held meetings in hew York for the purpose of increasing tfiO price of coal and decreasing the pr > luction during October, j Last year the output for October was 3,712,000 tons; but the combine think that, in order to sustain the higher prices, they musi now 1 mit the production of coal. Accordingly they “fixed” the output for October at 3,500,000 tons. The combine consents to put-that quantity upon the market, which is less by 212,000 tons than the quantity mined in the same month last year. The combine also lay# its governing hand upon the prices These are advanced to figures rang ig from 10 to 40 cents a ton. If we estimate the advance at only 20 cents a ton the combine will thus make a net increase.of $700,000 on the production for the single month of October. It is more likely to be sl,000,000.

Here then is the same did story of combinations to extort larg r gains from the people by limiting prodiastion and raising prices. It is a Republican doctrine—a dotrine on paper—that ' here protection sustains a combination the duties should be lowered or withdrawr, Hon. Julius C. Burrows, of Michigan, stated that doctrine in his speech on the McKinley bill last May. He,said: “When an industry in the United States has been built u p under the fostering care of the Government, and then the beneficiaries there< f. feeling the effect of domestic compe ition, combine to prevent the resultant benefit to the people, I would say to all Such, if you will not permit free and un - cstrained competition at* home, you shall encounter the competition of the world.” But. alas, on the san<f page, Mr. Burrows defends protect oh on the very ground that “cheaper productions” are not to be sought for. lie said: “Into this race for cheapness, the Republican party does not propose to enter;” which is but a re-echo of N sKinley’s famous saying, “We want no return to cheap times in our own count ry.” » Tho United States I cnate refused to make a slight reduction in tho duty on coal upon tho pretende 1 ground that the mining industry could tot bear It. The Senators seem to asst me that the coal men are too weak to >ta>nd alone. But they are strong enougl to combine and lift $700,000 out of tl c pockets of the

people in a single month, thus realizing the beautiful ideal of Maj. McKinley, that dear prices are to be preferred tc cheap ones. How long, anyway, are the people going to allow this tomfoolery to go on’ How long are they going to be ground down by trusts, and then vote forth« party that legislates for trusts? ATTENTION, FARMERS. The Narrowing of the Fanners' Foreign Markets. The London correspondent of the New York Times has sent to that paper a 1 piece of information of the utmost importance to our farmers. He says; “For one thing, it has already made it certain that Europe will take no interest in the Chicago exhibition and will practi cally be unrepresented there. Even more important is the impulse it has given here to consolidate capital in an energetic effort to immediately push railways throughout the Indian and Russian wheat belts and thus render the European market independent of American grain supplies.” “It.” What is “it?” Why, the McKinley bill. It is not necessary for European gov I ernments to pass retaliatory laws in or- | der to show us how “McKinleyism” op- | erates toward restricting the foreign markets of our farmers. The natural play of the laws of trade will of itseli teach us that lesson. Many of those laws are as plain as AB C. Here is one that governs the farmer in all his buying and selling: The farmer who sells his grain or live stock in Smithville is not likely to go to Jonesville to get his clothing and family supplies, and if he goes there at all. it will only be because Jonesville offers him these articles at lower prices. The same law rules in inter national trade. If we refuse to buy what the English offer us in the line of manufactured products, the only thing left for England to do is to find another market in which to Sell. Very good. She finds that market -nd her ships go there laden with wfi.at we have refused. What then? Are those ships going to sail empty to us in order to take away our farm products and manufactures? By no means, unless we offer £n extra inducement for them to do so. What inducement? There can be only one—lower prices. It is as clear as day that only by underbidding the “pauper labor of the world” can our farmers hold their foreign market, provided McKinleyism is to hold sway This is by no means an idle dream. It is a well-known fact that our farmers under the existing tariff laws are losing their foreign markets. Mr. Blaine himself has performed a valuable service to the country in pointing out how the market for agricultural products is growing narrower. The official figures of the Treasury Department are conclusive proof of the fact. On page 55 of the Report on Commerce and Navigation for 1889 is a table which ought to be seen and studied by every farmer. This table gives the relative quantity of wheat and flour bought by England from each country' for a series of years. Comparing 1880 and 1878 we get very striking results. The total consumptiotf of England in 1880 and 1888 was supplied principally by Russia, British India, and the United States in the following proportions: 1880. 1888. Per ct. Per ct. Russia 4.33 29.22 British India 4.72 11.01 United States.?:6s.42 36.69 These figures show what is going on now. It is certain that the McKinley bill will make them still more unfavorable to us. , i Wages Already Affected. The plea made for the McKinley hightariff bill is that it is necessary to help labor. The wages of labor must be made higher, although thirty years of protection have failed to yield satisfactory results in the direction of increasing wages. So we now have the McKinley bill for the benefit of labor. The first effect of the bill has already been reported. In the city of Buffalo, N. Y., there is a manufacturer who uses a certain fabric in the manufacture of his goods. This fabric is bought in New York from a commission merchant who imports it from England. The Buffalo manufacturer got this cloth heretofore at 68 cents a yard. This cost was made up as follows: English manufacturer’s price, 30 cents per yard; duty (equivalent to 110 per cent.), 33 cents; profits and expenses for handling, 5 cents. This was a high duty, but not high enough to satisfy Maj. McKinley; hence he makes the duty in his “domestic bill” 140 per cent., to protect American labor. Now note the swift result. The New, York commission merchant informedlthe Buffalo manufacturer that he would have to add nine cents a yard to the price of the fabric in order to cover the increased duty, expecting and fearing that he would thereby lose a customer. But the Buffalo manufacturer promptly accepted the situation. The ’New York merchant expressed surprise that the manufacturejrCould so soon accommodate himself to the enlarged expense. In reply to this the Buffalo man writes as follows to the merchant: “You were somewhat surprised that we could afford to pay the additional nine cents a yard for cloth, but I prepared our work people for it, and to-day, by making a cut equal to ten per cent, on their wages all around, I have covered the amount and turned them all into good, sound Democrats. That, I take it, is as good as a Yankee could do.” That is where the McKinley bill draws its first bipod from labor. Black List of Tariff Trusts. An excellent little book on the tariff question, by N. H. Chamberlain, ha>s recently been published by DeWolfe, Fiske & Co., of Boston. It is written in the form of a story, in which a manufacturer, who has been ruined by the tariff, argues with his protectionist workmen and others against our existing revenue laws: It deals in hard facts rather than in theories. The author prints the following interesting table of tariff trusts: * ~ ssg> 8* !.£§ ' r ~ 5 S a ® “ma M 2 3 P S O Jofl Nameo -r::vsr. sc jsh “ io a-j 'Hisses _£_Sj H Salt trust...” ~ 50 $33 525 Earthenware trust;. 56 36 40 Bessemer-steel trust 84 46 9 Plow-steel trust 45 33 29 General steel trust 45 33 29 Nail trust 45 33 22 General iron trust 45 33 25 Copper tru5t........ 24 22 22 Zinc trust 52 28 25 Tin trust 32 24 21 Lead trust... 74 43 65 Glass trust 55 36 45 Soap trust 25 19 8 Linseed-oil trust 54 35 5 Rubber-shoe trust 25 20 24 Envelope trust 25 20 11 Paper-bat! trust 35 26 15 Cordage trust 25 20 12 Average. -I, .. S3O *24_ The recent squabble around the door of the confcrenco committee’s room at Washington recalls Henry George’s famous remark, that the making of a tariff bill is like throwing a banana into a cage of monkeys. The evening of life brings with it its own tamps.

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