Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 12, Decatur, Adams County, 12 June 1891 — Page 6

She - - - Pubmsheb. CAUGHT FROM THE WIRE THE CHARGES AGAINST THE ITATA NOT FORMIDABLE. A Grip Car Wrecked—lndictment Against Gibson Quashed—A Kentucky Ljuciiinp; —lmprisoned in a Tunnel. & “LOAN IAGENCY.” The Latest Scheme of the Lottery Ites. Baton Rouge (La.) special: The Louisiana Lottery Company, in its'efforts to secure the new lease of life, having failed to win the support of the farmers through arguments, is applying that potent factor, boodle, in the hope of inducing the tiller of the soil to rally to the banner of the gamblers. The latest dodge gotten up by John A. Morris and his henchmen to bring voters into the fold of the lottery is a* farmers’ “Loan Agency.” A bureau has been organized in New Orleans to supply money to the farmers at the unheard-of low rate of 1 per cent., principal and interest payable ■at the end of twenty years. The whole State has been flooded with flaming posters and circulars announcing that this friend of the farmers will supply the needy with cash without any security whatever, beyond a note from the borrower, agreeing to repay the money at the expiration of twenty years at 1 per cent, interest per annum. Thus far they have met with but little success, as both the State and Parish Farmers’ Alliance'have adopted amendments to their constitutions prohibiting the members of the order from supporting the lottery under penalty of expulsion. The antilotteryites have exposed the villainous scheme to debauch the voters of the State and hope to checkmate Morris’ keno gang in their boodle campaign. THE ITATA. The Charges Against Her Not Formidable so Far as the United States Is Concerned. Washington special: Nothing is known in official circles here of the reported secreting of arms’by the Itata before her-: surrender to Admiral McCann. It is assumed from Admiral McCann’s reports to the Navy Department that the insurgents have been acting in good faith throughout, but in any event arms and ammunition will cut a smaller figure in the legal proceedings than was at first supposed, and even if some of them have been landed in Chili it is doubtful if this government has reason to complain. The libel against Itata rests entirely upon her record while in the United States waters and in the harbor of San Diego. It is charged that while in that harbor she did or was about to do certain acts in violation to the neutrality laws. According to the advices already received, the arms she carried were not taken aboard at San Diego ortho United States, and therefore she might have landed them in ChilJ.. without complaint so far as the present libel is concerned. A Grip Car Wrecked. While a Wabash avenue grip train was crossing the Illinois Central Railroad tracks at Sixteenth street, Chicago, an Illinois Central train which had been standing a snort distance from the street car tracks suddenly backed down' crushing into the last ear of the train and lamost completely wrecking it. The twenty passengers in the ear, half of • whom were women, miraculously escaped unhurt. The accident was caused through the gates at the crossing being raised before the grip train was clear of the Illinois Central train. The engineer of the Illinois Central says he got the, signal to back down, but no one else seems to have seen the signal. A Kentucky Lynching. At Wickliffe, Ky., Evan Shelby, charged with the murder of Mrs. Sallie Moore, was taken from the jail by a mob of 100 unknown men and hung. The jailer resisted and was roughly handed. Shelby fought desperately and badly hurt several of the mob. He was prac- ? dead before they got him out. The V murder was committed in 1887 near Woodville, a village near Wickliffe, just across from Cairo, 111. Shelby had been sentenced for fife but got a new trial from the Court of Appeals. The mob % said they had previously hung Mart Shelby, under indictment as accessory. / Imprisoned In aTunneL San f’rancisco special: An immense cave-in occurred at the Waterloo mine, severely injuring two men and either crushing or imprisoning a third. Ed Moran and Tom Eister, who were in tire main tunnel, first heard ominous cracking among the timbers overhead and called to James McGowan, who was wheeling orc into a chute further in. A moment more and the timbers crushed together, letting down a great mass of earth. Moran and Eister were hurled against the side of the tunnel. They managed to crawly to the outside, but nothing is known of McGowan. Indictment Quashed. Judge Blodgett quashed the federal indictment against George J. Gibson, the ex-secretary of the whisky trust, who is held for trial on the charge of trying to bribe Government Guager DeWar to blow up Shufeldt’s brewery at Chicago. The judge held that Jthe federal statutes did not cover the crime, which was one to be answered for in the State courts. Lost His Leg. Dr. J. 11. Ford lost his right leg below the knee at Wabash, Ind., by being struck by train No. 43 on tho Wabash, by catching his foot in the rail. Dr. Ford is 43 years old, and division surgeon of the Wabash and chief surgeon of the Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan. He has a wife and two children. Beheaded by a Train. An unknown man was struck by a train on the P. & W. Railway at Pine Creek, Pa.J arid instantly killed. His head was served from his body. From letters found in his pockets it is supposed that he came front New Castle. Jews Fleeing. Jewish emigrants from Russia continue to arrive in Germany in large numbers. Hundreds of them have just arrived at Charlottenburg in a most pitiable condition. Most of them are actually starving. ■a t EASTERN OCCURRENCES. The "For” ballot case was decided by the Supreme Court of Connecticut in favor of Morris, the Democratic candidate for Governor. It is claimed that this fives Morris the seat Twenty-three pauper immigrants were returned to Europe by the Federal Authorities at New York. M One of the largest lumber companies In the country has been formed at Tonawanda, N. Y. It is backed by New York capitalists, quoted at 86.000,000. The name is -the Tonawonds Lumber

and Raw Mill Company. Offices of the company are located at Bay City, Mich., Tonawanda, and Lockport, N. Y. Mat returns to the Pennsylvania State Board of Agriculture give a promising crop outlook, especially with respect to wheat, which will be above the average for the past twenty years. Dry weather affected hay and eats somewhat. There will be an average crop of apples. Live stock reports indicate that the stock is hardly up to the average condition. John You, an inmate of the County Hospital at Reading, Mass., deliberately starved himself to death. Hejvent without food for twenty-seven days. A story comes from New York that it is quite likely that President Harrison will see his way clear to calling Robert Lincoln into his Cabinet. Some surprise bas beem felt that Mr. Lincoln should have written to certain Chicago gentlemen stating in effect that he had no time at his command to spend in creating any interest in Great Britain in the World’s Fair. There is little doubt that he did communicate in some such way with persons in authority. Ephraim Young, President of the Mil-ward-Cliff Cracker Company, Philadelphia, was arrested charged with conspiracy with Frank Brenton, Secretary of the cracker company, and Francis W. Kennedy, President of the the wrecked Spring Garden Bank, in unlawfully issuing notes of the company last winter to the extentof about 835,000. ■ ■ ■ ■■■ - - '¥l * WESTERN HAPPENINGS. A St. Paul sensation is a shouting scrape between Mrs. Cresson and Miss Gibson, originating from the alleged undue attentions paid bV the husband of the former to the latter. Mrs. Cresson espied her husband on the streetengaged In conversation with Miss Gibson. Her husband caught sight of her and made for home. Mrs. Cresson followed and madly rushed upon the young lady, at the same time firing the pistol. The shot missed its mark. The lady was disarmed, and in the confusion Miss Gibson made a hasty exit. The husband is a chief engineer on the Omaha Railroad. A peculiar disease has become epidemic in Indianapolis. It is of a neuralgic nature and consists of the swelling of the face, generally one side. The enlargement increases till the face presents a norribly distorted appearance. The swelling remains for two or three weeks. There are now a large number of cases in the city. Parson Jerry Holmes and Parson George Vancil, the Southern Illinois counterfeiters, were sentenced to the penitentiary, the former for three years, the latter for one year. Rev. Jerry stood trial. Rev. George entered a plea of guilty. Don A. Salyer, Superintendent of the Valparaiso, Indiana, Water Works, was dangerously assaulted in his office by William Turner, a plumber. Turner claims that he went to the office to demand a settlement, and that Salyer attacked him. A letter from Monterey brings the information that extensive preparations have been started by the Monterey and Gulf Railroad and the people of that city for a mammoth exhibit at the World’s Fair. It will comprise woods, precious metals, fabrics, pottery, etc. Will Thorne, high roller in society at Lansing and Saginaw Mich., whose father is a prominent lawyer at the former place, was sentenced to. lonia for two years for forgery. He has been holding levees with admiringgirl friends in jail. His father in pleading his case claimed his son was insane from cigarette smoking. At Tombstone, Ariz., word was received of the killing of Frank Cathew by Apache Indians near Arizpe, Sonora. It is believed the Indians will make for Southern Arizona. Ranchers have been notified, and are determined to exterminate this band of Apaches. James Mitchell went to the house of Marion Townsend, six miles west of Mount Vernon, Ind., and fired two loads of buckshot at him, nine of which took effect in legs, arms, and breast. Townsend got a Winchester rifle and fired two shots at Mitchell, killing him instantly. Townsend is not dangerously injured. SOUTHERN INCIDENTS. As a result of Sam Jones’ recent revival in Houston, Texas, a law and order league was organized by 1,500 citizens. A dispatch from Paris, Tex., says: The Wichita Indians, with whom a commission is now treating, have decided that they will not accept the proposition to take 160 acres each in allotment and sell the balance of their land at 50 cents per acre. They will make a counterproposition to sell all their lands at 81.50 per acre and endeavor either to establish their claim upon the lands now occupied by the Cheyennes and Arapahoes or, failing in that, to purchase homes among the Choctaws and Chickasaws, where they think they will be more free from interruption. The unveiling of the white statue of a Confederate soldier surmounting a monument at Jacksbn, Miss., attracted an immense throng of visitors to witness the ceremonies incident thereto, and all passed off without a single unpropitious circumstance. Gov. Lowrey’s tribute to Jefferson Davis especially went to the hearts of the veterans. The next annual session of the United Confederate Veterans will be held in New Orleans, June 8, 1892. • > A lioness in Grant Park, at Atlanta, Ga., attacked Supt Mosteler and Inman Bell, a little boy whom the Superintendent was showing through the animals' quarters, and the man and child were both badly clawed bv the beast. Piggott, the Texas rancher, was arraigned at Truro, N. S., and acquitted of the charge of embezzlement for which he was wanted in the United States. . At New Orleans a shooting affray occurred between George W. Dupree, one of the editors and proprietors of the Daily States, and Dr. Oiliphant, the President of the Board of Health. The trouble grew out of the States’ criticisms of the corrupt deal of certain members of the Board of Health in the new slaughter-house matter. This caused Olliphant to send Mr. Dupree a note denouncing him as a liar and a coward and a traducer. Mr. Dupree went to the office of the Board of Health, and, confronting Dr. Olljphant with this letter, commanded him to step outside. Immediately the firing commenced, but none of the bullets took effect. THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. During its term the United States Supreme Court disposed of 617 cases. This breaks the record; The largest number of cases ever disposed of by the court heretofore in one session is 476. A lively quarrel has been going on in Washington military circles for several weeks. After the battle of Wounded Knee an order was issued to the effect that the members of the Ninth Cavalry should be assigned to duty at Fort Myer as a recognition of their valor in the SioUx campaign. In the selection of his staff for Fort Myer, it is alleged, Col. Guy Henry, the commanding officer, tg-

i 1 i j . " Bored Captain Wright, a volunteer officer, and promoted men who were below him ml rang because they were West Point cadets. Captain Wright, instead of going to Fort Myer with the troop, was sent to New York as a recruiting officer. The Comptroller of the Currency has authorized the Chemical National Bank of St Louis to begin business with a capital stock of 8500,000. and the Citizens’ National Bank of Decatur, 111., capital 8100,00 U POLITICAL PORRIDGE. At the city election held in Galveston, Texas, R. L. Fulton was re-elected Mayor for the sixth consecutive term, making a period of twelve years’ continuous service. He defeated W. H. Nichols, who during Cleveland’s Administration was doorkeeper of the House of Representatives, by about one thousand votes. iThe convention of the People’s party •of lowa *vas held at Des Moines, and organization was effected with J. E. Anderson, of Winnebago County, Chairman; Si T. F. Wilds, of Page County, Secretary, and Crawford Davis, of Davis County, Reading Clerk. The usual Committees on permanent organization, credentials, and platform were appointed by districts, and the following ticket was nominated: Governor, A. J. Westfall, of Woodbury County: Lieutenant Governor, W. S. Scott, of ‘Appanoose County; Railway Commissioner, D. F. Rogers, of Dallas County; Superintendent of Public Instruction, C. W. Bean, of Buena Vista County; Supreme Judge, T. F. "Willis, Os Page County. Friends of Mr. Mills, who are looking after his interests in the contest for Speakership, say that he expects to be elected to the Senate as the successor to Horace Chilton, who was recently appointed by Gov. Hogg, of Texas, to fill out the unexpired term of Senator Senator Reagan, Mr. Mills feels that his success in his Senatorial aspirations will depend largely upon his success in the race for the Speakership. FOREIGN GOSSIP. Queen Victoria has decided that the Duke of Fife’s daughter (the recently born granddaughter of the Prince of Wales) is only entitled to rank as the daughter of a duke and not as a princess of the blood royal. A man and wife and their child were found dead in their squalid rooms at Kentish Town, a suburb of Loudon, England. All three of the bodies bore wounds inflicted with a knife. From the appearance of the bodies, and from other circumstances, the police think that the man first cut the throats of his wife and child and then committed suicide. The reason for the crime is not known, but it is supposed that poverty and the fear of starvation led to the tragedy. M. Verein, a prominent broker, was declared on the Paris bourse to be a defaulter to the amount of 81,000,000. The announcement created a profound sensation. Archbishop Croke, in an interview at Dublin, Ireland, stated that the project of settling Irish troubles by forming a union of the factions under the leadership of John Dillon was strongly advocated by many of the Irish members of Parliament. The Archbishop said that Mr. O'Brien favored Justin McCarthy as the party’s leader. FRESH AND NEWSY. AT'Round Mountain, Ala., three years ago, Buck Whit, a prominent farmer, married Edges’ daughter, running away with her. as her parents objected. Since then bad feeling has existed. The other night Whit, while drunk, went to Edges’ house and tried to break in, saying he was going to whip Edge. The latter came out with his shot-gun and shot Whit, who died next day. Sib John Macdonald, Premier of the Dominion, is dead. He never rallied from unconsciousness and passed quietly away. Lady Macdonald sat by her dying husband’s side, and the members of Sir John’s family were called to the side of the death bed. But no sign came from the dying man. So he lay until the end, when Dr. Powell, his hand on the patient’s pulse, looked up and said with quavering voice: “The end has come. He has passed aWay Without a single struggle. R. G. Dun’s weekly review says: Trade Is not very active, but almost everywhere hopeful. Failures at Boston have made shoe manufacturers cautious. Hides are easy, dry goods quiet, and wool sales moderate. The exposures or official and banking misconduct at Philadelphia tend to make business Inactive, and no life is seen in iron; woo] is dull, though some concessions are made by Western holders. At Pittsburg a rise in iron is prevented by the reopening of some Mahoning and Shenango furnaces, and preparations of others: window glass is fairly active but flint is dull. At Cleveland iron is in more demand; trade is good in drygoods, hardware and groceries, and dull in shoes. Some activity is noted at Cincinnati in clothing.and at Detroit trade is up to that of last year in volume, though the late season has made the wool movement slower than o usual. Throughout the West and South the fine crop prospects give encouragement, almost the only complaint coming from New Orleans of drought in the adjoining region. In the Northeast continuous rains have made the prospects unsurpassed. MARKET REPORTS. CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to prime ... 83.50 @ 6.50 Hogs— Shipping grades 4.25 @ 4.60 Sheep.... 4.75 @5.50 Wheat—No. 2 Bed l.co @ 101 Corn—No. 2 .58*4$ .5934 Oats-No. 2 44,’ 2 @ Bye—No. 2 86 @ .87 Butter—Choice Creamery 17U(<® .18 Cheese—Full Cream, flats 0836@ .09 Eggs—Freeh .15 @ .16 Potatoes—Western, per bu 1.05 @ LlO INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 3.50 @ 5.75 Hogs—Choice light 3.00 @ 4.55 Sheep—Common to prime 4.00 @ 4.75 Wheat—No. 2 Bed 1.01 & LOip Corn—No. 1 White .56 @ .57W Oats—No. 2 White 44 4454 ST. LOUIS. Cattle .* .. 5.10 @ 6.10 H0g5...... 4.50 @1.60 Wheat—No. 2 Bed 99 @ 100 Corn—No. 2 54 @ .55 Oats—No. 2. Barley—lowa .69 (<j 71 CINCINNATI. Cattle.. 3.50 @ 5.50 Hogs 3.50 @ 4.75 Sheep 3.75 @ 4.75 Wheat—No 2 Bed 1.02 @ LOS Corn-No. 2 57J$i<a .58 Oats—No. 2 Mixed. 47 @ .43 DETROIT. Cattle. 3.00 @ 5.25 Hogs 3.00 @ 4.85 Sheep.... 3.00 @ 5.25 Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.05 @ 1.0516 Corn—No. 2 Yellow 57 & .58 Oats—No. 2 White 47 @ .47W TOLEDO. Wheat 1.04 @ 1.05 Corn—Cash 57 @ .57U Oats—No. 1 White.... 45 & .46 Clover Seed 4.15 & 4.20 EAST LIBERTY Cattle—Common to Prime .... 4.00 @ 6.00 Hogs—Light 4.00 & 4.90 Sheep—Medium 4.25 & 5.15 Lambs 4.75 @ 6.00 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring 1.00 @l.Ol Corn—No. 3 59 @ .60 Oats—No. 2 White 49 @ .50 Rye—No. 1 8736© .63 Barley—No. 2..., 72 @ .7314 Pork—Mess 10.80 @ILOO NEW YORK. Cattle, 4.50 @ 6.10 Hogs 4.30 ® 5.35 Sheep 4.00 @ 5.75 Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.09 & Corn—No. '2 .♦ 64 @ .65 Oats—Mixed Western 47 @ .53 Butter—Creamery 14 @ .19 £ggs—Western 17U@ .18 Pork—New Mess..../ 12.00 @12.50

FOR A FOREIGYMARKET | ■ -3.8 ' ■ VIEWS OF A LARGE EXPORTING MERCHANT. American Resources and American Commerce Ready to Contest the Foreign Market—Protection an Obstruction—Export Trade Hurt by the Tariff. Mr. Ulysses D. Eddy, a member of one of the largest exporting firms of New York City, shows in The Forum that the i prophecy of Richard Cobden, the mer- ! chant statesman of England, is about to ■ be fulfilled. Cobden warned his coun- I trymen more than fifty years ago that a : nation was growing up on the North i American continent which, through the ; unequaled natural resources of its land and the intense energy of its people, would supplant England in the primacy of the world’s commerce. Our exports of manufactured products are as yet far behind those of England. Last year our total exports amounted to nearly 900,000,006, of which only somewhat over 150,000,000 were manufactures. On the other hand, the exports of Great Britain amounted to more than 1,500,000,000, of v.’hich more than 1,600,000.000 were manufactured goods, the product of British factories. There are signs, however, that our country is awakening to the fact that there are possibilities of an enormous com-| merce with the 1,300,000,000 outside of 1 their own boundaries. Americans are ’ turning their attention to the markets of these vast populations, more than 1,000,000 of whom are not actively engaged in manufacturing. There are signs that we are about to enter upon a friendly warfare for the possession of those vast markets, and there are elements of strength in the American character that will make victory probable. The vividly energetic character of the people, educated in activity by a commerce unobstructed over a continental area, gives promise of a momentum hard to resist. The American celerity of thought and tendency to prompt action, the spontaneous ingenuity in adapting means to ends, in seizing every new discovery and elaborating it for the uses of man with bewildering swiftness, all make for continuous and rapid progress. The present great development of our commerce and its extension in foreign countries are not looked upon by Mr. Eddy as the outcome of protection. On the contrary, in stating the disadvantages under which we have hitherto labored, he says: “For many years we have not only' failed to fight for foreign trade, but we have defended ourselves behind tariff fortifications against the attacks of other nations.” This view of a shrewd, practical merchant, who has minutely studied the markets of the entire world and has sold goods in them for years, effectually disposes of the .absurd pretension of Senator Aldrich that protection promotes foreign trada Mr. Eddy indorses reciprocity, but only as a temporary step: “in beginning the campaign for the world’s trade, we first throw up outworks around neutral markets in the shape of reciprocity treaties.” There will come, however, a great advance upon the timid policy of reciprocity. “After operating for a time in the shelter of the reciprocity breast-; works, our people may discover that these breastworks hamper rather than help them in a further advance. They will learn how much the enemy fears them, and, gathering couragejwill move out into the open field of tHe neutral markets. The struggle there will be a severe one, but it is difficult to see how, with our resources, we can fail of ultimate success.” There are great and promising markets awaiting us in foreign countries, if we will but cast off our' tariff shackles. “ The new commonwealth of Australia, the greatest oonsum? ing nation in the world in proportion to population, has always preferred quality to cheapness, and is one of our best customers. Whenever our people are ready to admit her wool duty free, we ‘San rest •> assured that she will grant a generous trade equivalent. British South Africa has long bought many goods from the United States, but asks free entry for her wool before she will grant us favors. Her ports are the gateways to the great African gold fields and diaanond mine& Her railways are pushing for the heart of Africa, and already reach long distances from the coast ” Such are the views of a man who is selling American manufactures all over the world, who knows the wants of those markets, and what Americans can sell in them. Hon. William J. Coombs, M. C., who is the head of the great exporting firm of which Mr. Eddy is a member, has pointed out how our exporting trade is crippled by the tariff in making it difficult for ships which take away our manufactures and farm products to get return cargoes in foreign lands. In an address before the New York Reform Club, of which he is a leading member, Mr. Coombs said, nearly two years ago: “In order to run ships, either sail or steam, at a profit, there are two things that are certainly necessary, viz., outward cargoes and return cargoes. * * The owner of a vessel who charters it for a voyage to Buenos Ayres or the Cape colonies does so with no expectation of getting a return cargo to this port, but calculates upon taking one from ; there to Europe. If he wishes to return | to this country he must, except under t unusual circumstar ces, come .back in ballast. His rate of charter is fixed upon this basis. * * Our house has repeatedly within the present year chartered vessels in foreign ports to come to this country in ballast in order to take away merchandise for which we had orders. At the present moment we have six such charters pending. This not only involves long delays but enormously increases cost, and for both reasons puts us at a great disadvantage in comparison with-our European rivals. ” The Price of Beef. Some extremely silly McKinleyites have pretended to see in the increased price of beef another of the many “benefieieneies” of the McKinley tariff law. * But men who seek for facts rather than political illusions know that the poor yield of food crops last year is the cause of the higher price. A confirmation of this tact is pointed out by the Rural NewYorker as follows: “A good illustration of the shortage of cattle foods in the country is given in the prices paid for by the products of rice manufacturing. A year ago rice polish sold at 813 to 814 per ton with rice-bran at 87 to 88. The polish now sells at 822 and the bran at 817 in the New Orleans market.” Farmers who bought corn last winter to feed their cattle will not be deceived by this “I-told you-so” of the protectionists, when they say the McKinley law has raised the price of beef. By the way, the McKinley law was not going to raise? the price, we are told, of a single necessary of life. And by the way again, the McKinleyites always tell the farmer that the high duties on manufactured products always lower prices, and thus help the farmer; then they face about and tell him tljate-the higher duties on farm products prices of these and thus help the’taTmer again. When the guilty of such absurdities, blowing hot and cold with the same breath, need they wonder that the farmer is losing faith in their sincerity, and is coming more and more to look upon protection as the cheap humhug that it is? If protection re-

d«ee« the price of nails and axes, the farmer cannot be brought to believe that it raises the price of beef and corn. How Many Are Protected? In 1886 the Secretary of the Treasury, the late Daniel Manning, in preparing his annual report applied to three of the most skillful and expert statisticians in the Government service for an estimate of the num- ! ber of people in the United States engaged in gainful occupations, grouping separately those subject to foreign competition and those who are not. These three specialists were Worthington C. Ford, Chief of the Bureau of Statistics of the State Department: E. B. Elliott, United States Government Actuary: and Prof. Simon Newcomb, Superintendent of the Nautical Almanac, published by the Navy Department. The result of their calculations, separately conducted, was that the number of persons in any way subject to foreign competition, were statecFas follows, with their percentage to the entire number engaged in gainful occupations: Per Number. Cant. By Ford 827,184 4.70 By Elliott 825,000 4.75 By Newcomb 905,000 5.20 Averages 852.390 4.88 The percentages given are, each based upon a slightly different estimate of the the total number of workers. Stating the result in the rough, then, we may say that about 850,003 of our people are directly interested in protection, and that 95 per cent., or nineteen out of twenty, have no interest whatever in it. Whenever the protectionists try, therefore, to persuade these nineteen men that they will be ruined, unless they tax themselves for the benefit of the twentieth man, they are guilty of an absurdity which ought to move an owi to mirth. These figures, given forth with the authority of the men best fitted to speak on the subject, should give the farmer some light on the venerable “home market theory,” If nineteen farmers were asked by some twentieth man to tax themselves for his good, and he in return would buy all his corn, flour, vegetables and meat from them, they would laugh him out of the country. They would say at once that a one-man-power home market was far too small to be of any value to nineteen thrifty farmers, and certainly such atmai ket was not worth taxing themselves for—they would even give it up entirely rather than tax themselves. Yet it is on precisely such a flimsy basis as this that the protectionists rest their case. They ask the nineteen to pay higher prices for what the one makes, and then he will return the favor by buying from them—but of course at current market rates. A New-Fangled Protection Theory. The protectionists profess to hate theories and theorists, but they are now so badly rattled that they have become great theorists themselves, and some of their new theories are amusing ehouglßOne of their latest is that we must put a high tariff on foreign gooas, not in order to keep those goods out of the country, but in order that we may buy all the more of them. Senator Aldrich put forth this theory at the great protection banquet in New York, and already the high tariff organs are taking to it as a restful variation upon the old familiar theory of keeping up a high tariff in order to shut out foreign goods. The Boston Boot and Shoe. Recorder has so much confidence in the new theory that it even,ventures to apply it to Mexico. as follows: “We know from our own experience that just in proportion as our industries develop we have the means for buying more foreign goods, and we find that our -imports are greater per capita after thirty years protection than they were previous to 1861 with a low tariff. Tfie same will be true of Mexico. They have a tariff that is excessively high on many articles, but it is operating to develop industries there, and in addition to this is the steadily growing demand from this country for the tropical products which Mexico has in such abundance. Tho Mexican people must therefore gain rapidly in wealth, and their imports from other countries will increase in proportion. ” This means that Mexico must keep up a high tariff in order to become rich enough to buy our goods, and yet the Recorder wants reciprocity with that country—i. e., wants Mexico to lower its duties on our goods, in order that we may sell more there. What a base jewel of inconsistency' Against this new-fangled theory the great and only McKinley himself must be quoted. In his speech introducing his high-tariff bill he said: “There is not a member of the Committee of Ways and Means, there is not a member of the minority of that committee, there is not a member of the House on cither side, who does not know that the very instant that you have increased the duties to a fair protective point, putting them above the highest revenue point, that very instant you diminish importations, and to that extent diminish the revenue- Nobody can well dispute this proposition. ” Certainly not; you are right for once! Who Gets Protection’s Plums? Robert P. Porter, our Superintendent of the Census, who ought to have some knowledge of statistics, has assured the farmers that they get more benefit from protection than any other class. How any man could make such a statement in view of the enormous fortunes aecumlated in protected industries, cannot be explained except upon the the theory of willful and wanton purpose to deceive. Farmers themselves know very well that they have not been made prosperous by protection. National Lecturer Willitts, who was the Alliance candidate for Governor of Kansas last year, has recently shown that he is under no delusion as to the condition of the farming class. He cites the following figures to show how the farmers have fallen behind in the struggle for existence: “Our last census shows that the farm mortgaged indebtedness of Kansas is 8199,000,000, and of Michigan 8130,000,000. To pay the interest on the mortgaged indebtedness in the wheat-grow-ing State of Michigan requires 450,554 bushels more wheat than the State produces. lowa has 8199,000,000 mortgaged indebtedness—a sum equal to slo4~for every man, woman* and child in the State. “In the last year the farmers in Kansas have lost their homes at the rate of 500 jier week, and all the desirable public land is now in the hands of railroads or of aliens. “In 1850 the farmers owned 70 per cent of the wealth of this conntry; in 1860 they owned 50 per cent.; in 1880 they owned 33 per cent.: in 1890 they own less than 25 per cent. ” Don’t Want Our Eggs. The protection comedy is becoming highly amusing. Last year McKinley put a duty of 5 cents a dozen on eggs—a duty aimed mainly at the pauper-laid eggs of Canada; and now it is announced that Canadian farmers want a duty on American eggs. During the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890, Canada imported 659,051 dozen of eggs, valued at 891,773. Os these eggs the United States supplied 625,166 dozen, valued at 889,444. It would add greatly to the mirth of the melancholy to get the Canadian farmers to give their reasons for wanting a duty on our eggs, get similar ‘reasons’ from McKinley for his 5-cent duty

on Canada’s eggs, and then print these side by side. TIN PLATE PROMISES. THE INFANT INDUSTRY OF THE M’KINLEYITES. Brilliant Fromises and How They Have Been Kept—Four Tin Plate Mills—What the Tin Plate Tax Will Cost—Figures and Facts to Consider. The large and brilliant promises of the McKinleyites last year as to the rapid development of our infhnt tinplate industry have not been realized. What those promises were may be seen by the following extract from the speech of Congressman Bunting, a prominent canner of New York State, at the recent meeting of the National Canned Goods Packers' Association at C hicago. In speaking of the canners' hearing before McKinley's committee in March, 1890, Mr. Bunting said: “Our unanswerable arguments were offset by the most flattering predictions and promises concerning the future of domestic tin plate. The Chairman of the committee |Mr. McKinley] ventured the assertion that before the law went into effect, July 1, 1891, American tin plate could be bought cheaper than the foreign plate was then selling, and that in the interim the consumers of plate could buy the foreign article as cheaply as ever. Mr. Bayne, a member of the committee, professed himself entirely willing to take orders for future delivery on that basis. Mr. Bayne lost his tem»per in an effort to that within thirty days after the passage of the bill, forty factories on a basis of millions each in capitalization would be undermining the Welshman at his favorite pursuit of making tin plate. The predict’on of Senator Allison that thirty reputable firms engaged in the iron industry would within thirty days put up tinning stacks and manufacture tin plate was flung at us for our composure. ” Now, how have these fine promises been kept? The Metal Worker, a prominent trade journal, entirely in sympathy with the effort to build up the infant tin-plate industry by the high McKinley duty, has just collected all the information available as to the new tin-plate works; and all it can find, which are actually engaged in making plates, are just four, with four others in course of erection. Os one of the most pretentious concerns now making tin-plates—-that of Norton Brothers, in Chicago,— the Metal Worker says: “It will take considerable time for them to develop their tin-plate plant to a sufficient extent to meet their own requirements.” It is learned from a different source that another of the four mills, ex-Con-gressman Niedringhaus' St. Louis Stamping Company, does not offer any plates for sale, the entire output being used by Niedringhaus in his own establishment and in sending specimens around to Republican banquets and conventions and to the offices of high tariff newspapers. Meantime, what- is all this tin plate noise costing the country? Our entire imports , last year were 674.000,000 pounds, valued at 820,746,000, or 3 1-10 cents per pound, and paying a duty of 86.746,000. The McKinley duty on the same quantity next year will amount to 814,822,000. But our imports this year will be considerably above 800,000,000 pounds, and the McKinley duty on an equal Quantity imported after July 1 will amount to 817,600,000. A high tariff paper, the Boston Commercial Bulletin, calculates that it will require 280 mills, with a capital of from 84,500,000 to 85,000,000, to make all our tin plates. The consumers are therefore to be compelled to tax themselves 817,000,000 a year in order that a few capitalists may find a place to invest 85,000,00a Are we not to pay too much for our tin whistle? Soap-Bark for Cleaning. There are very few women who understand how to use soap-bark. It is the very best cleaning material in use. Nothing else cleans a black silk or black woolen dross so satisfactorily. Five cents’ worth will clean an entire dross. It may be purchased at any druggist’s in the city or country, being commonly used by all tailors in cleaning sentiemen’s clothes. It may be used to clean almost any dark cloth, but it possesses color enough in itself to be liable to stain a delicate color. To prepare soap-bark for cleaning, pour about a quart of boiling wafer over 5 cents’ worth of the bark. Let it boil gently for two hours and at the end of the time strain it through a piece of cheese cloth. Put the liquor in a clean pail. Have ready a smooth board of suitable size, and have the dress to be cleaned already ripped, shaken and brushed free from dust. Lay each piece of cloth one after another on the board, and sponge it thoroughly on both sides, rubbing carefully any specially soiled spots. After all the-cloth is sponged, fill a large tub'full of cold water, and rinse each piece of the goods up and down in it, one at a time, so asto remove thoroughly the soap-bark. Wring the pieces through the wringer, lay them in a heavy, clean clothes-basket, and when all are rinsed and wrung out, begin pressing the first that were rolled up. Iron them on the wrong side, if woolen cloth, till they are dry or nearly so; then hang them on a clothes-horse to air for at least twelve hours. The cloth should hang in a place free from dust, and when it is put away it will look like new. If the dress to be cleaned is silk,’ after thoroughly sponging it in the soapbark, lay it on a clean board and sponge it off with clear, cold water on both sides. Wipe off all the excess of moisture you can. Pin the smaller pieces of silk on a sheet, and hang the sheet outdoors in a shady place, where no sun can reach it, or throw the sheet over the clothes-horse. It will need a "slight pressing on the wrong side when it is made up to make it perfectly smooth. — New York Tribune. Getting Neptune Down Fine. An apparatus for measuring the mean level of the sea has lately been invented at Marseilles. It is based on the principle that when a liquid wave traverses a capillary tube or a porous partition its amplitude diminishes, and it is retarded in its phases without the mean level of the wave changing. It consists of a glass tube, the lower end of which communicates by a flexible pipe with a plunger which is lowered beneath the lowest water level. There are two cells in the plunger, the lower being filled with sand and open to the sea, the result being that the column of water in the tube rises and falls very little with the tides, and the mean sea can be read from a graduated scale. A Pennsylvania fanner tells In the Rural New Yorker his experience of higher prices under the McKinley law. He gives the following case: “Before the McKinley bill was a law, I had some spouting put up at eight cents per foot, complete. Now, under the McKinley protection I had a similar; job done, and was compelled to pay ten cents per foot, besides the wages of an extra hand. This shows plainly that for every cent of tariff the manufacturer adds ten cents for profits, and the laborer gets nothing. ” If it be true that protection lowers prices, why do the manufacturers always shout so lustily for “more?” Men like to be coaxed, and women know how to coax. What profiteth » woman to scold. .4,

the domixiojbereft; PASSING AWAY OF SIR JOHN MACDONALD/ At the Zenith ot His Fame When the Summons Came—Brief Retrospect of Hie Long Public Life—Champion of Monarchy and Federation and Chief Figure in < ena ljen Politics. It is veity long since any other man held a place so peculiar in the affairs of any country as Sir John A. Macdonald has won for himself in the affairs of the Dominion of Canada. There is not, nor has there been in modern times, a man in the United States whose demise could seriously disarrange the settled policy of the country. No such man now lives in England. The political obscuration =of Bismarck did not disarrange the policy of Germany. There is no man now living in France whose death would cause a jar or a pause in the motion of the political machinery of the country. But the death of Sir John will leave the Tories of the Dominion without a leader. While his life was devoted to the service of Canada, he was for many years one of the foremost men in the British Empire, distinguished above his fellows in those vast colonies of Britain that girdle the earth. To look back over the great retrospect of Sir John A. Macdonald's long public life is to review the whole history of greater Canada. He was a native Scotchman, but he became identified with the affairs of British North America before the patriot war, commencing the practice of law in Kingston in 1836, in his 21st year. He was active in political life from this time. He was first elected to the Parliament.of Upper Canada more than forty-seven years ago. He was chosen for Kingston, for which ■ Hi SIR JOHN A. MACDONALD. city he sat in Parliament at the close of his brilliant career. Sir John became a member of the Cabinet of Canada (then, comprising Ontario and Quebec) early in 1847, as Commissioner of Crown Lands. He served nntil 1850. He was again a Cabinet officer from 1854 to 1858, as Attorney General. He first became Premier in 1858, and laid firmly the foundation of his subsequent great fame. In 1862 he was Minister of Militia, and his Government suffered defeat on the. militia bill of thait year. For two years he was tho leader of the Opposition, but did not endeavor to embarrass the Ministry, which was trying to administer the affairs of Canada on the policy of the double majority, or governing both Ontario and Quebec by its own preponderance of representatives in the House. This effort was a complete failure. In May, 1863, John A. Macdonald moved in the House a vote of want of confidence in a powerful and logical speech, ever since remembered in Canadian history, and regarded as one of the greatest of his life The" vote carried, and from this day Macdonald's conspicuous leadership in Canadian politics was recognized everywhere. lt> was not until the following year that he again took a Cabinet office and became the acknowledged leader<o£ the effort for the' consolidation of all British North America into the Dominion. He was a'■ delegate to the convention on Prince Edward's Island in 1864, where the union was first projected, and the leader in the second conference, at Quebec, later in the year. He was chairman of the London colonial conference of 18667, and remained in Europe until the passage of tho imperial act for the consolidation of the North American provinces. He returned to the new world and was at once intrusted with tho work of forming the first government of the great northern Anglo-Saxon nationality of which he had dreamed from his first s entry into public life, and to which he had devoted many years. He became Premier of the new confederation, and was knighted by the Queen. From 1867 to the present time ho has been the grandest figure of the Canadian nation. With the exception of a few years in the early seventies he has continued the Premier of the greatest dependency of the British Crown, which he did so much to make great and so nearly independent Canada has grown in domain, in population, in wealth and in influence during all the years of Sir John’.s preponderance in her affairs. She extends from ocean to ocean and from the lakes £o the frozen sea. The great railroad enterprise which was the occasion of his only retirement from public life has become a marked success and one of the chief glories of his long administration. He had but just triumphed in his last appeal to the people of the Dominion and been again trusted with the government. The glamour of his name and his achievements were the great bulwarks of the Conservative party in all its appeals to the Dominion plebiscite. He was deemed the founder of the party and the father of Canadian union, and to many electors it seemed littie short of treason to vote against Sir John’s retention in power. The majority of the people of the Dominion seemed to be Liberals, but while they voted^/.th their party in the local elections, they willingly voted for the continuance in power at Ottawa of man who has been gratefully called the creator of Canada. He was at the very zenith of his great fame whenfthe summons came. He had not found the semi-sovereign republic which he created ungrateful, for the incense of the approval of the people came still fresh upon his senses from their last opportunity to express it. The greatest Canadian has foueht his last fight; his remarable career is at an end. All Canada sincerely mourns. Partisanship is forgotten. At this visitation of death, a nation is ip tears. As the sweet singer who wears the laurel of the empire has said.of another one gone before: Fallen at length, That tower of strength; That stood four square To all the winds that blew. Wales Not of Good Character. In court at Pittsburg, Pa., on application of Johnnie Staley, well known In every sporting center, for a transfer of liquor and hotel license, the court objected because he was given somewhat to gambling. Staley’s attorney remarked: “I desire to call your Honor’s attention* to the fact that the Prince of Walesgambles a little.” “Well, I don’t consider him of good character. He could not get a license in this court,” replied’ the Judge.