Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 14, Decatur, Adams County, 24 June 1892 — Page 2

TOPICS OF THE TIMES. A CHOICE SELECTION OF INTERESTING ITEMS. Oemment* »»<l Critictom* Bused Upon the Happening* of the »•»-Historical and News Notos. Toe natural antipathy a boy has to getting rid of superfluous dirt would not lie overcome if he were allowed to bathe in rose water that cost several dollars a gallon. Nothing is more odious than that Insensibility which wrafis a man up in himself and his own concerns, and prevents his being moved with cither the joys or sorrows of another. After having partaken of it in a restaurant a man is apt to think that the “short” in strawberry shortcake is put in the wrong place. It opght to qualify the strawberries, not the cake., Staying up late nights is not the fun it is cracked up to be. You are having more fun than anybody in the world if you can go to bed every night at 9 o’clock, and fall asleep the moment your head strikes the pillow. According to the list of millionaires which the New York Tribune is publishing most of the New York gentlemen in easy circumstances made their money by marrying a rich girl or by choosing a wealthy father. Every girl is more or less snippy between the ages of fourteen and seventeen. It is only considered an •ffense for a girl to be snippy after she is seventeen. Girls who are at all sensible recover from it by that time.

Flowers are the prettiest things In the world, but somehow they don’t seem so pretty when you see a girl absent-mindedly putting one in her mouth. Under every petal in a flower there are concealed dozens of little green bugs. A well-known mustard manufacturer who is immensely rich was once—so the story goes—asked how it was possible for him to have amassed a fortune out of such a trifling article as mustard. “Ah,” he aaid, with a knowing wink, “it’s not the quantity of mustard people eat; it’s what they leave on their plates!” If some fortune teller will try the plan of telling a man where he can find a five dollar bill to-mo r row, instead of prophesying that he will be worth five thousand dollars in forty years from now, she will have a row of men a mile long waiting to have their palms examined. The people do not believe in the good fortune that is a thousand years off. If there be a pleasure on earth which angels cannot enjoy, and which they might almost envy man the possession of, it is the power of relieving distress. If there be a pain which devils might pity man for enduring, it is the death-bed reflection that we have possessed the power of doing good, but that we have abused and perverted it to purposes of ill.

The modern church is a school of the most comprehensive kind. In a Hartford church a reformed jyimbler gave object lessons in swindling by marked cards, fraudulent dealing in faro, manipulation of the roulette wheel, etc. Os course, the exhibition was intended “as a warning,” but it is bv no means certain that it will be taken as such by all the boys who were present. The heavens themselves run continually round; the world is never still; the sun travels to the east and to the west; the moon is ever changing in its course; the stars and planets have their constant motions; the air we breathe is continually agitated by the wind, and the waters never cease to ebb and flow; doubtless for the purpose of their conversation, and to teach us that we should ever be in action. Marriage may be a failure in San Francisco, and it may not, but it is interesting to note that comparatively few people are making the experiment During last year there were only 3,286 marriages in the city, less than elewen to the thousand of“ the city’s population. The rate in London is mpbe than eighteen per thousand- "/What it 18’in the various cities and fjtatrj of.the Union is not recorded accurately.

It transpires that the managers of at least one great Chicago office building have adonted the cheerful rule that their tenants shall have no shorthand work dbne save by a firm which the managers select; that they shall get their office towels of a certain other firm selected by the managers ■and shall have their signs painted by a third firm of the managers’ choosing. It is, of course, entirely a question to be, settled by the esteemed managers and their equally esteemed tenants among themselves but its settlement will be observed with some Interest, as it seems to be a rather 0 further application of the Russian principle than has hitheretobecn attempted i'fi this country. o it \ . People who attach a mystjc value to the number seven predict that the U.nited States will their case in the Behring Sea controversy. They point out that.seven arbitrators are to be appointed, that the arbitration treaty was ratified May ", 1892, that the first meeting of the board of 'arbitration will occur on Sept. ", 1892, that all documents, etc., must be

presented Nov. 7, 1892, and that the printed argfments must be delivered Dec. 7, 1892. A corre spondent has thought it important to telegraph from Washington to Chicago that the superstitious think this concourse of sevens augurs well for the United States. But why it should augur any better for one party to the controversy than for the other the superstitious do not explain. It will take another dispatch from the national capital to clear up that point.

A woman has come to the aid of the derided servant girls. She writes to the North American Review in defense of a much-abused class and gives evidence that she knows something of her subject. But it is unfortunate that a woman’s weakness in the logical statement mars the defense offered for an undoubted evil. There is truth in the statement that servants are growing more independent, showy, and idle every year. They wear better clothes, diamonds, and larger watches than their mistresses. They affect bunches of gay flowers in corsages not remarkable /or their neatness. They have become omnivorous readers of trashy novels and frequenters Os singingschools and prayer-meetings. Men may crawl into unmade beds while the hired girl flirts with the policeman or notes the flight of time by the aid of a costly ticker. Yet it seems illogical to assert that Bridget does all these things because she sees her •mistress do ■them. Not cverv mistress is addicted to the habits complained of in the servant. The parlor and the kitchen are not so near as to make all bad examples dangerous to her who must work that she may pay her jeweler's bills and have credit at the milliner’s. Nor are all mistresses so careless of their duties as to place stumbling blocks in the way of their domestics. Certain habits come as natural to the scullion as to the petted favorite of fortune. Why should not the Martha, cumbered with much serving, think of love and beaux? What is there in her nature that makes it wrong to anticipate her own parlor and tireside? She is as much a daughter of Eve as her employer. She knows something of the doctrine that promises much in another world to those possessing little in this. But her human nature makes it diflflcult for her to deal entirely in futures. If the defender of domestics would look at her subject in a broader view she would not seek to excuse failings under a plea that they arise from bad examples. She would rather inculate those principles of economy which have been recognized by the sterner sex as basis for success in life. She might learn from an eminent Chicago preacher that the possession of “temperance, frugality, and simplicity of tastes” would open the road to fortune for all who are now wearing their life away in a fruitless effort to be at the top. Then gold watches would not be worn in the kitchen, and bodices would be adorned with stitches rather than jewelry, and the lives of American housekeepers made more endurable. And Bridget would some day be rich when she had given full play to her new virtues.'

How Tippoo Sahib Died Fighting. Mr. H. G. Keene has found in the diary of his late father an interesting description of the storming of Seringapatam, at which he was present, on May 4, 1799. Capt Keene, who was a nephew of Gen. Harris, then Commander in Chief, seems to have gather from prisoners full details of the last moments of our once redoubtable enemy Tippoo Sahib. In his entries, which have been forwarded for publication in the Calcutta Review, he says: “Tippoo sat at his dinner till one of his servants told him that the English were coming, and they presently appeared. This was the head of the left hand column. He sent off a servant to the palace to bring up the troops, seized his rifle, and shot one of the first three who came on in front. Another was killed by a shot from the bastion behind. The third still advancing, Tippoo cried out, “These are devils; two are killed and the third comes on!” He fled only to find himself hemmed in between the two columns. “He fought bravely. When he fell wounded an officer was alxiut to say who he was. Tippoo frowned and put his fingers to his lips. He then made a blow at a Sergeant and cut into the barrel of his firelock; the Sergeant killed him with his bayonet, and the body was soon covered by the slain.” It has been said that the success of the assault was necessary to the existence of the besieging army under Gen. Band, and Capt. Keene’s diary confirms this—London News.

The Latest Triumph of Aluminum, People who are condemned by an unkindly fate to wear false noses or ears have their burden somewhat 1 ightengd by the lightness of ahi mi. num. That highly serviceable metal is now used, it is said, in the manufacture of artificial substitutes for lost or deficient members,chiefly of the facial equipment of the human form divine. It is even asserted that so completely is a loss of that kind made good by the attachment of the aluminum nose, ear, or portion thereof that the owner becomes in time almost unconscious of the artificial element in his make-up. As for detection by casual observers, it is practically out of the question unless they have been preyiously admitted to thg. secret. This will becomfortingfneWs for prize-fighters who have# been irregularly dealt with in the ■Ting, not to speak of the great number of people who encounter such mishaps in a lawful and reputable manner. No wonder the devil is cross; he has such a hell of a,place to live in.

THE NEXT PRESIDENT. HE WILL BB NOMINATED IN CHICAuO JUNE 21. Complete Arrangement* Mode for the Greateat Gathering in the Party’* Entire Hletory and in the Grandest Amphitheater Ever Coni true tod for the Purpose. All Is Now Ready. Chicago correspondence: Where the elephant and the kangaroo of Barnum’s own and only are wont to caper for a week each year during Chicago’s most torrid weather the Democratic lion and the striped tiger will sportively engage during the merry month of June this year of grace. In a wigwam 250x456 feet, built on the plan of the Roman amphitheater, located on Michigan avenue, between Madison and Washington streets, will the grand carnival of politicians be held, and here will be named the next quadriennial tenant of the White House at Washington. Just how Chicago came to be chosen as the place of holding the National Democratic Convention of 1892 Is matter of dispute. Some sav it was Chicago's great railway and hotel facilities, and the fact that she knew by long and varied experience how to care for gigantic enterprises of this sort that turned the scale. Some cities, like men, are born great, and others have greatness thrust upon them. Chicago enjoys both conditions, the capture of the Democratic convention being a striking Instance of the latter. But the local Democracy, after It had won Its prize, did not know what to do with It. The old Exposition building, famous for its national conventions and especially notable as the place in which was named, the successful standardbearer in 1884, as well as the defeated knight from Bar Harbor In that same eventful year, had been ordered razed to the ground, and its destruction would be complete before convention time. But the convention was coming and had to be arranged for. A number of prominent Democrats got together, and the result was the appointment of a committee of arrangements, with Judge John P. Altgeld as Chairman; James C. Strain, Secretary; and A. F. Seeberger, Treasurer. The committee was nonplused at the outset to know what to do for a hall. The Auditorium was considered, but that would not do. A Chicago convention means that not less than 20,000 people demand accommodation. An esti-

7 JOHN P. ALTGELD. mated expenditure in remodeling the Auditorium would result In providing only 8,000 seats. All the other cities had agreed to furnish sittings for not less than 15,000. The Auditorium was declared out of the question. So the Committee of Arrangements determined to build a hall for the especial accommodation of the convention which should Beat not less than 20,000 people. The Finance Committee at once set about devising ways and means for meeting the expenses of the convention. How well the committee has succeeded Is indicated by the fact that of Jhe $50,000 necessary to cover the expenses over $45,275 is secured aifti the sale of seats will secuie every dollar needed. How the Convention Will Be Held. The wigwam, which promises to be historic for its connection with the success and growth of the Democratic party, has a frontage on Michigan aveof 456 feet. Its depth is 250 feet, or a total ground size of 114,000 square feet The building will be sixty feet high,well lighted and ventilated. The interior is one'vast amphitheater. The arena or pit will be seated with 840 armchairs, and here the delegates will sit. They will face the west or Michigan avenue side. Directly In front of them is the platform where will sit the Chairman and officers of the convention. Directly in front of the Chair will sit the official stenographers, and, flanking the Chair on either side will be the press representatives, 175 on each side—3so in all. Directly back of the Chair will be seats for 300 special guests, and rising above these will be private boxes two tiers high. Surrounding the pit or arena seats will gradually rise in amphitheatrical form to the walls. There will be 12,000 seats, divided into four sections, and divided by broad, commodious aisles. Encircling the entire interior, the upper tiers of private boxes on the west forming a portion of it, will be an immense gallery, with a seating capacity of 5,000. The gallery is fourteen feet high at the front, and rises to a height of eighteen feet in the rear. A large room directly under the platform In the rear of the Chairman’s desk will be fitted up for use of the Western Union and Postal Telegraph companies, and at both ends will be commodious rooms, one for the use of the Western Associated Press, the other for the United Press. Altogether there will be 19,400 chairs in the great wigwam and fifty boxes. The cost of the building, exclusive of decorating and lighting, will be $23,500.

Some Prominent Figures. The personnel of the convention will be such as to inspire the utmost'eonfidence of the National Democracy. The Thurman bandana will be missing and the clean-cut features of Hendricks will not grace the wigwam, but historic figures will not be lacking. Instead of J.. Sterling Morton, Nebraska will have Its Democracy vouched for by Gov. Boyd; lowa will proudly and eloquently offer DEMOCRATIC .Wlowlm FOB 1892. Horace Boies to the nation; Wisconsin with her splendid achievements will pledge herself anew in the faith of Cleveland; and Illinois, anxious to do better, will agree to reform if Palmer I Is placed at the head of the ticket. With such a showing the Northwest can truthfully lay claim to having sown the seeds of tariff reform upon fruitful, soil, and the South may concede the presidency to this section. While the Bast has been quarreling over the flesh pots the Mississippi valley has made rapid strides In the cause of denio-racy, and if the Car-lisle-Mills-Watterson people divide the South, thereby crippling Mr. Cleveland, the chances are that Gov. Boles or Senator Palmer will be the presidential nominee. Clayton E. Crafts, who is one of the Illinois delegates at large, may be permanent chairman of the na-

tidnal convention. His selection would be a graceful compliment to the West, and his only competitors so far as known are Patrick Collins and Senator Voorhees. Mb. Crafts, though, is reihoved somewhat from entangling tnllances because, In his advocacy of Gen. Pqlmer, he has refrained from antagonizing Senator' Gorman, Mr. Cleveland, or Gov. Boies. Be is ea tilled that Gen. Palmer can only be nominated as a compromise candidate, and should he be chairman of the convention Gen. Adlai E. Stevenson will act in a like capacity for the Illinois delegation. Having, been Assistant Postmaster General under Mr. Cleveland, and cherishing profound admiration for the ex-President, Gen. Stevenson will

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not put any obstacles in the way of that gentleman's nomination, yet he is under obligations to support Gen. Palmer should it be deemed advisable to take a Western candidate. In any Democratic convention Gen. Stevenson will have weight, and he will certainly bo in the confidence of the Cleveland managers, among whom will be ex-Becre-tary William F. Vilas, ex-Postmaster General Don M. Dickinson, ex-Secre-tary of State Thomas F. Bayard, Gen. Edward S. Bragg, and Attorney General William U. Hensel of Pennsylvania. These men doubtless lack the cunning of Senator Hill, Richard Croker, William Sheehan and Ed Murphy of New York, and the political foresight of Arthur P. Gorman, but they wield sufficient influence in the nation to inake Mr. Cleveland the formidable candidate he is. They were associated with Mr. Cleveland, and If they cannot have their way about it they will be around when the prizes are being drawn in the convention. They would nominate Mr. Cleveland regardless of New York, and they may do It, unless the Hill people offer a substitute, Mr. Hill will hardly make peace on any such terms, and although his fighting force is numerically weak a dozen delegates like Gov. Flower, Ed Murphy, Gen. Sickles, Gen. Slocum, and exCongressman John R. Fellows, Mr. Croker, the Tammany leader, Congressman Bourke Cochran, Mayor Hugh Grant, Perry Belmont, Delancey Nichol, Lieut. Gov. Sheehan, George Raines and Brewer Ehret can play havoc as bulls in the china shop. They Will really determine the action of the convention, provided Mr. Cleveland does not have two-thirds of the delegates t<s begin .with. Practical politicians as they all are, Senator Hill made no mistake when he designated them and saw to it that Mr. Cleveland’s confidants were included in the list of alternates solely. Among these alternates are Manton Marble and Mayor Alfred C. Chapin of Brooklyn. To Mr. Cleveland they would gladly give their votes, but they have none to give. On the other hand, ex-Senator Thomas F. Grady, who bolted Mr. Cleveland's nomination in 1884 and took the stump for Gen. But- i ler, is a Hill alternate, together with i Congressman Amos J. Cummings. < The anti-Cleveland New-Yorkers will i be offset somewhat by Pennsylvania, <

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the delegation from which State will be led by State Senator George Robs, W. U. Hensel, for many years Chairman of the State Committee and now Attorney General of the Commonwealth; William M. Singerly, the owner and editor of the Philadelphia Record, and Senator Henry Alvin Hall. Should the opportunity arise these gentlemen, who will be in touch with ex-Postmaster Harrity of Philadelphia, a thick-and-thin Cleveland adherent, might present the name of Gov. Pattiqon. That will be only in the event, though, that there is an outside demand for Gov. Pattison. Otherwise, they will remain true to Mr. Cleveland. Wisconsin occupies the same position in regard to Senator Vilas, who, with his partner, J. H. Knight, Gen. E. 8. Bragg and E. 0. Wall, Chairman of the Democratic State Committee, make up the delegates at large from that State. Col. Vilas considers Mr. Cleveland the strongest candidate before the people, and until the West is given a chance it looks as though Wisconsin would have the cooperation of Illinois. Add Michigan, with Don Dickinson, to this combination; Indiana, with Senator Voorhees, Editor Morss, John Lamb and ex-Chair-man Jewell, of the State Committee; Minnesota, with Michael Doran and his colleagues; Missouri, with Col. Jones, of the St. Louis Republic, and M. L. Clardy, with Fred W, Lehman in the background, to the Cleveland column, and Tammany may conclude to consider the advisability of getting into the band wagon. To the galaxy of noted characters, New England will contribute Gen. Patrick Collins, Gov. Wm. E. Russbll, and E. C. Benedict, one of the heaviest gas trust stockholders. Oregon has instructed for Gov. Pennoyer for President, and among the Cleveland men from Kansas will be ex-Governor Glick, W. C. Jones, Chairman ot the Democratic State Committee, and Tully Bcott, who was a Land Connnlosioner*under Q\eveland. Lewis Baker and P. B. Winston will co-operate with National Conuni*-

~ ,J IJAIII ,1^1 1; , .HU, L .A teeman Doran, of Minnesota*, and Got. Reynolds and Congressman Casey will second the efforts of ex-Becretary Bayard for Delaware. lowa intrusts the Boles candidacy to Senator Shields of Dubuque, Editor J. F. Duncombe of Fort Dodge, and ex-Unlted States Marshal Campbell of Fairfield, who will be assisted by Messrs. Fullen and Hunter, of the State Committee. Congressman Hayes, and others. Senator Daniel qnd ex-Congressman Goode, of Virginia, will help out the Hill boomers, and Henry Watterson et al. the candidacy of Senator Carlisle. Arrangement* at the Hotel*. In accordance with time-honored custom the headquarters of the national committee will be at the Palmer House.

It is stated by Manager Bourne that more than twenty State headquarters will also be located there. The New York delegation will establish its headquarters at the Auditorium, where it has engaged the parlor floor entire. The Hill men will also have headquarters at the Aaditorium. The delegates chosen at the Syracuse convention to the number of SCO have secured quarters at the Grand Pacific; the Minnesota delegation and friends to the number of fifty; Missouri, forty; Mississippi, thirty; Nebraska, twenty-flvef Arkansas, twenty-five; Montana, twelve; Wyoming, twelve; District of Columbia, fifteen. The Great Northern, with a capacity . 1 ..uO EXPOSITION BUILDING, CONVENTION HALL OF ’B4. for 1,500 guests, has secured the Cleveland Cltn> of Buffalo, numbering 300. McCoy’s Hotel will take care of the Hawkeye Club of Des Moines, numbering 250, the Boles Club of lowa, 30 strong, 50 Cleveland men from Syracuse, the Pittsburg Randall Club, numbering 100, the Milwaukee Jefferson Club, numbering 50, John Bolan’s party from Rochester, N. Y., of 30, and fully 200 members of Tammany. The Thur-man-Chib of Columbus, 100, the-Erie County Democracy, 250, and 100 members of the Randall Club of Pittsburg will’be entertained at Gore’s Hotel. The Sherman has already arranged for 300 Ohio men and 80 from Pennsylvania, and the Kings County delegation will stop there. The German-American Club of Indianapolis, numbering 125, will put up at Burke’s Hotel. The Victoria will entertain the Hendricks Clubs of Indl-

ana, and the Indiana delegation will have its headquarters there. At the Tremont the Calumet Club of Baltimore, numbering 200; the Sam Randall Club of Philadelphia, 300; and the Joel Parker Association of Newark, N. J., 200, will take up their headquarters. From the present outlook Mr. Cleveland will enter the National Democratic Convention with considerably more than the two-thirds vote necessary to a choice already committed to him. Journalistic Flights. The Chicago Herald has taken to soaring. Though it has no means of knowing anything about the matter, It gives in its issue of June 1, 66,627,842,237,075,266 as the number of human beings who have lived upon the earth since the beginning of time. When we consider the fact that about 150,000 persons are born every day, the units, tens and hundreds in the above big number are curiously learned. From all we know of the earth’s population since the “historic period,” the Herald’s number is only from five to ten million times tor large. Again, it says, “to bury this vast number the whole landed surface of the globe, every inch of it. would have to be dug over 120 times.” The smallest knowledge of mensuration shows this statement, too, to 'be a hundred-fold absurdity. The surface of the earth would hold <that big number even without being dug over once. In the same issue, the population of Japan is given as 237,000,000, or six times larger than it actually is. fcut in its issue of June 2, it Indulges in verbal pyrotechnics In an editorial article in which we find the words, fulvld, cataphractic, cretinous, dissentaneous, llpiclty, dlstomatic, and nihility.—Pullman Journal

—- - ■ A. COMMERCIAL CURSE. THE TARIFF WALLS BETWEEN US AND CANADA. Trade with Our Neighbor I* a* Effectually Impaired a* Though She Were Situated In the South Sea-TarlffTruat* and Tramp*. A* a Wall Between IT*. • That there is as little use for tariff walls between the United States and Canada as between different States, should be evident to all who think on the question. If tariff walls around each <ff our States would be unmitigated evils —as they certainly would bo—those between us and Canada would naturally fall Into the same catagory. The more numerous the tariff walls, and the smaller tne territory and population Inclosed by each, the greater will be the injury done. Thus the United States is surrounded by a tariff wall so high and obnoxious that if built around each of the fifty subdivisions, It would within a few years, renfler much of our territory and many of our States uninhabitable, and leave us in a most miserable condition. As it is, wo call ourselves prosperous in spite of the great obstruction to commerce that surrounds us. Canada having a much smaller population than the JJnited States, naturally suffers more from her tariff wall, though it is not so high as ours. The following portions of a letter in the Standard, of New York, for June 1, 1892, contains suggestions for us as well as for Canadians. It was written by Mr. W. A. Douglass, of Toronto, Canada:

“Canada Is about as compact as a whip-lash—much length, little width. I da not refer to her acreage, but to her settlements. It is the men and women that make a country, hot the superficies. She is a settlement of provinces, stretching across the continent like beads on a string. To the north there is a vast extent of Arctic waste, from which there Is no possible danger of an inundation of cheap goods, but to the south lies the richest country on the face of the earth, with which she might enjoy a trade laden with wealth and fraught with benefits; but from the dreaded inundation of American goods she carefully guards herself with a barbed wire fence, bristling with taxes. In fact, It is a doubly built fence, one-half supported In a neighborly way by the United States to keep the Canadian farmer or lumberman from carrying his goods to the best market, and then the Canadian government maintains a picket line to spoil him of a largo part of his returns as he tries to bring them home. “Here we have one of the most remarkable phenomena the world has ever witnessed—two nations, similar in language, in historical origin, in political institutions, In literary tastes, in every way so similar that the traveler may pass from one country to the other without detecting any more difference than he finds between two contiguous States, and yet, so far as trade is concerned, they are as widely separated as though they were on opposite sides of the planet. A bushel of wheat is conveyed from New York to Liverpool, three thousand miles, for five cents; td carry the same bushel one foot from Maine to New Brunswick, across an invisible line, costs fifteen cents. Geographically, as God placed thejn, Maine and New Brunswick lie contiguous. Commercially, as men place them, they are ten thousand miles apart. “A line, an invisible line, purely imaginary, some 4,000 or 5.000> miles long, all length, no width, is marked across this continent, cutting it in twain That boundary Is dotted with a picket line of watchmen, lynx-eyed by day and sleepless by night; » guarding the people of the two nations, lest, like foolish sheep, in their weakness for abundance, they should stray to a more fertile pasture, to a richer supply, to satisfy their manifold wants. “ ‘The Canadian will Inundate us and beget a slaughter market,’ says the American. ‘The American will inundate us and beget a slaughter market,’ says the Canadian, and in mutual dread they try to guard themselves as a herdsman would herd his cattle. No wonder we call the Indians barbarians and savages! They don’t know enough to have a protective tariff. We bow down to a theory that teaches that men have not sense enough to be trusted to-buy their dry goods and groceries whprever their common sense would guide them; that abundance is a curse; that trade is a mutual fraud; that the practical man must not be trusted to his own judgment, but must be fenced in lest he commit commercial suicide. “Hence Canadian commerce, instead, of developing naturally, is developing as' a fish grows in a water pipe. British Columbia, by her sea route, has admirable access to California, and between these two countries there should be an immense trade; but we impose huge penalties both ways to prevent this intercourse, and then we saddle the country with an enormous debt to build a railway across the continent, and develop a trade in another and less advantageous direction. Wo try to separate the contiguous and to unite the distant; but nature laughs at our puerile imbecilities. What a curse is freedom! The Chinaman beats his tom-toms to scare away the devil, and we tax ourselves to scare away trade. “Between Ontario and New York;, between the Eastern provinces and the New England States, between Manitoba and Minnesota or Dakota there would be, if free, enormous trade, mutually advantageous; but the tyranny of our superstitions, what calamities it inflicts! “Every large city has its soup kitchen, its almshouses, its increasing race of paupers. The mortgage sales of the Ontario loan companies alone range somewhere nearly one thousand annually, the increase of chattel mortgages during the last few years has beeirphenomenal, the debt of the General Government Increases about seven millions yearly, and now amounts to upward of $230,000,000. “Os course, there Is great dissatisfaction with the farmers, ground between the ‘national policy’ and the McKihloy bill, with the workmen subjected to the Intensified competition of an emigration policy that floods the labor market, while his wealthy employer is protected with a government manipulated by a band of protected manufacturers. “Why such disastrous results In this country isMot hard to see. The rich are aided to combine, the poor are com- ( pelled to compete. , j “Her commercial policy could.not be more contradictory. To build railways | she has saddled herself with a heavy ' debt. Then to stop the conveyance of ! the goods she burdens herself with a ; huge debt. The building of the Cana- ! dian Pacific Bailway cost tne country [ upward of a hundred million dollars, i and then when goods are brought into the country, either frota Asia or Europe, a special penalty is imposed, in the shape of heavy duties, to prevent their landing in this country, so that : goods from China can be conveyed to i and sold In England much cheaper than they can bo 80 in Toronto. The’faiK ' way Is thus mode more advantageous to foreign countries than to our own. We do not sacrifice our wife’s relations with the generosity of Artemus Ward, but I we sacrifice ourselves. Build a huge ; ral-way and then forbid the landing »f

men brick of our statesmanship. ” ' C' "--r-— Tariff’, Tm»ta «n<t Tramp*. The June Supplement of the Now York World, edited by-Hon. John Do Witt Warner, Is made up of “one hundred samples” of tariff trusts, under the heading, “Conspiracies to Crush Competition, Restrict Product, Raise Prices and Lower Wages." These trusts embrace most of the articles 041 which we have effective tariff duties. Among the officers of these trusts will be found hundreds of names published In the New York Tribune’s list,of millionaires, thus in part, at least, answering thaj Tribune's question as to whether or not: the tariff makes millionaires. Wy quote the following from Mr. Warner’s preface to those articles: “Trusts are a consequence of human selfishness working under the now conditions of industrial development. Not all of them are consequences of the tariff any more than all crime Is a re- > suit of drink. It Is just as plain, however, that' our tariff promotes trusts as that drunkenness breeds crime. “For, In any industry whoso product our Government ‘protects’ by a tariff upon similar articles made abroad, it is In the power of home manufacturers to extort from our people the full tariff rate as a bonus for their own pbeketa; whereas if it were not for the tariff no combine would ‘work’ unless it included the whole world. As to a protected industry, therefore, the tariff makes it as much easier to form trusts than it would otherwise be, as it Is easier successfully to combine the few manufacturers of a single nation than it is to get and keep together In {harmony many times as many manufacturers scattered all over the world:

“Monopoly once secured, tile results are: “First. These combines, covering as they do many great branches of protected manufacture, and affecting many others, raise the price of manufactured goods, so that the consumer gets less for the same amount of money. It is generally the case also that a large proportion of the concerns which have combined together are those which cannot manufacture the manufactured goods as economically as th* others. The ordinary course has been to pay such a certain price for remaining idle, leaving all of the product to be made at manufactories which can it most cheaply, while instead of returning this benefit In cheaper goods to tbs public and to wage-earners in other industries, the combine keeps up the price, not merely to afford exorbitant profit to the plants kepi at work, but ta pay to the idle manufactories the bonus agreed upon for their remaining non-prodiictive. “Second—The object of a trust combine is to make large profits on a limited product. If successful, therefore, the members of a trust make up, by the high rate of their profits, what they lose by the smallness of their sales, and they are, therefore, just as well off as though, by selling goods more cheaply, they made larger sales. It, is the amount of goods to be manufactured, and not the profit that the employer Is to make out of each item, that, determines the demand for labor and the wages he must pay. A trust combine In a protected Industry is, therefore, an arrangement by which, government keeping out foreign competition, our manufacturers take advantage of this fact, and, making our people, pay enough more for the few goods they are able to buy, keep profits as large as they would have been for sales at more reasonable price, while employing less labor and at lower wages "than otherwise. Trusts, therefore, enable manufacturers to make the most money by employing the least labor. “Third. The more closely organized the combine of employers in any one industry, the better able are they to conquer their laborers in disputes as to,wagesor hours. Os course employers oould organize for this purpose even though not for the other. Late experience, how-ever-has shtjni, as might/ have been expected, that combines, originally formed to increase the price of goods, or restrict production, have been the most frequent foundation of a combine ' successfully to cope with labor organizations. “Below are given one hundred samples of tariff trusts, selected from the myriad in existence. Three things are so general that they may be considered as universal incidents of a tariff trust —the arbitrary, crushing out of competition, reduction of the supply of the product, so as to secure the highest prices that will not destroy the demand, and the reduction of wages— Vgth as a consequence of the' reduction pro'-' duced and to limit demand for labor and the advantage which employbrs, leagued in a trust combine, enjoy in dealing with workingmen dependent upon their earnings in the different localities throughout the country, whence they and their families cannot move without hardship. Again, it must not be imagined that the writer considers all trusts as equally criminal on the part of those who engage In them. Indeed, in. many of the cases given below the particular trust in question Is • the resort to which the manufacturers in the line of industry Involved have been driven in self-protection “against other trusts either in the manufactures which are their raw materials, or In those to which their own product is marketed." ’

lx Henry George’s Protection or Free Trade, which is just now being extensively circulated by members of Congress, the author thus clearly shows how oppressively indirect taxes—and .especially tariff taxes—bear upon the poor, while the rich almost entirely escape: “A still more important objection to indirect taxation is that when imposed on articles of general use (and it is only from such articles that large revenues can be had) it bears with far greater weight on the poor than on. the rich. Since such taxation falls on people not according to what they have, but according to what they consume, it is the heaviest on those whose consumption is largest in proportion to their means. As much sugar is needed to sweeten a cup ot tea for a workinggirl as for the richest lady in the land, but the proportion of their means which a tax on sugar compels each to contribute to the Government is in the case of the one much greater than in the case of the other. So it is with all taxes that increase the cost of articles of general consumption. They bear fan more heavily on married men than on bachelors; on those who have children than on those who have none; on those barely able to Support their families than on those whose inpomes leave them a large surplus. If the millionaire chooses to live closely tranced pay no more of these indirect taxes than the mechanic. I have known at least two millionaires—possessed not of one, but of from six to ton millions.each —who paid little more of such taxes than ordinary day laborers." ■' TlinVlx Enough. 1 Insurance statistics show that only one person in 10,000 ever attains the age of 100 years. I want a sofa, as I want a friend, upon which I can repose familiarly. If you can’t have intimate terms and freedom with one and the other, they are of no good. To know, and not be able to perform, - is doubly unfortunate. • ' .