Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 15, Decatur, Adams County, 1 July 1892 — Page 6

DECATUR, IND. ■. >LACKTItTRN, ■ - - Pminn. PLEASURE AND PROFIT WILL BE FOUND IN READING OUR NEWS SUMMARY. Speedy Justice Meted Oat to a Confessed Criminal--A Desperate Fight—Catholic Knights to Have Signs and Pma-words— Campbell Chosen—Shocked by Lightning. . Tippecanoe lleroeM Honored* Lafayette (Ind.) special: Under auaplces of the Tippecanoe Memorial Association, 5,000 people met on the battlefield of Tippecanoe to strew flowers on the graves of thirty-seven men who fell on that battlefield under the leadership of General William H. Harrison, on November 7, 1811. They have lain there elghty-ono years, and this is the first honor shown them, apart from the record of thelrdaringin national history. The Tippecanoe Memorial Association has been formed for the purpose of securing an appropriation from Congress for the erection of a monument to the memory of these heroes. General M. D. Manson, of Crawfordsville, was the principal orator of the day. A Desperate Fight. A correspondent at Monteveideo sends additional details of the fighting at Riverla, near Santa Anna. It appears that a force of 450 insurgents attacked the 300 federal troops there, but were repulsed after a desperate fight. Rebel Chief Vargas was killed in the midst of the fight The subordinate rebel officers rallied their men, however, and the government troops were finally forced back into the town, where they now are entrenched. There seems to be little doubt that the whole province is in a state of revolt Provisions are getting scarce and should the present state of affairs continue there will be ‘great suffering throughout Matto Grosso. Homan Catholic Knights. Toronto (Ont) special: At a session of the Roman Catholic Union of the Knights of St John a resolution was adopted instructing the Supreme Board of Trustees to draw up a system of signs and pass-words. The adoption of such a code has long been under discussion, but was opposed by the clergy. A petition, however, was recently circulated and upon its presentation to Archbishop Walsh, supreme spiritual adviser of the order, was approved by him, he stating in a letter that such a code might be adopted provided such pass-words and signs be made known to the competent ecclesiastical authority if asked for. Speedy Justice. Max Clerget, aged 18, who had Just pleaded guilty of criminal assault upon Sarah Divine, was shot and killed in the General Sessions Court at New York by the girl’s brother, Edward Divine. The murderer was promptly arrested. Sarah Divine was Clerget’s sister-in-law. The outrage was committed June 18, at 530 East Fifteenth street Clerget was arrested on the same day. Judge Martine was trying another case when Clerget was brought to the bar to plead to the indictment against him. The prisoner pleaded guilty and was being led away when Divine rushed forward and shot him dead. , Death from Ossification. John Nofsinger, for many years a resident of Wabash County, Ind., died re- ■ cently. About eight years ago the joints in his limbs began to stiffen and, almost before he was aware of the nature of the malady, he was a helpless cripple. The stiffening process gradually crept up into his back, and for over four years every bone in his body, excepting in his arms, has been completely stiff. Until the last week his mental faculties were as keen as ever. Incendiarism In Galesburg. The residence of G. D. Crocker of Galesburg, HI., was destroyed by an incendiary fire. Bed quilts had been wrapped around the lightning-rod, saturated with oil, and set on fire. The hired girl escaped in her night clothes. Mr. Crocker is a popular local grocer, and there is no clue to the scoundrels who did the deed. The loss is about $3,000. Investigating tlie Harrisburg Accident. The Pennsylvania Railway officials are still investigating the Harrisburg accident At the office at the General Manager it was said that a number of conflicting statements had been made by the employes and that until they were investigated no official statement regarding the cause of the accident could be made. Strangled by a Peanut. A 3-year-old daughter of J. Newton of Benwood, W. Va., while eating peanuts coughed and a peanut kernel lodged in her wind-pipe. She strangled, and was carried to a physician, who undertook the operation of tracheotomy, but while ft was in progress the little one died. 8900,000 for Whisky. W. P. Mattingly, a distiller of Owensboro, Ky., has completed the largest sale of whisky ever made. It involves the transfer of 30,000 barrels of whisky, and the amount paid by the purchasers, Bensberg & Co., wholesale liquor dealers of St. Louis, is $900,000. Shocked by Lightning. At Boston two electric cars in widely separate parts of the city were struck either by lightning or by the motor current through burned out insulation, and several passengers were hurt in the rush to escape. Campbell Chosen. William J. Campbell of Chicago, has been chosen chairman of the Republican National Committee. Clarkson declined to be a candidate again. Duel In the Streets. At Walkerville, Hl., Frank Painter and Perry Johnson engaged in a street duel with revolvers. Fifteen shots were fired. Painter was slightly wounded and Johnson fatally injured by a shot in the abdomen. A Ball Player Killed. While playing ball at Philadelphia, Robert Shiffler was struck on the temple by a ball, from the effects of which he died. Wreck at Valparaiso. A wreck occurred on the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago railroad, at Valparaiso, Ind., caused by a defective Pail. Charles Miller, the fireman, was Instantly killed, and the engineer and a half dozen passengers were seriously injured. A score of other passengers •scaped with slight injuries. The train was mdde up oi a combine tlon postal and smoking car, three coaches and two sleepers. The smoking department was well filled and the train had on board 103 souls, many of them prominent personages. When the engine struck the gondolas it rolled down the bank, leaving the tender, across the

1* •-W" and alnnst completely demolished. The sleepers remained on the track. T ho contact with the tender knocked the roof off the first car and those occupying the smoker wore thrown Into a swamp with the car on the brink of a llftoon-foot embankment The train was running forty miles an hour and the escape of the passengers Is miraculous. KIGHT PEOPLE KILLED. A Frightful Wreck on the Pennsylvania Railroad. A special from Harrisburg, Pa., dated the 25th Inst, says: A terrible wreck and destruction of life occurred at 12:15 this morning. The western express train No. 9 was divided into two sections. The first section was stopped at the Dock Street crossing, In this city, on a block, and soon after it had started the engine of the second ssctlon which seemed to be running fast, ran Into the Glen Eyere, a sleeping coach, occupied by the Westinghouse family. The engine and several cars of the second section ran into the cars of the first section and from two to fivo persons In the latter were killed and from thirty to forty injured. It is reported that none of the Westinghouse people were seriously injuied. Among those killed was Richard Adams, a furniture dealer of this city. He had gone to Philadelphia with his wife, who remained in that city. City Passenger Agent Timmons was in the first section and sustained injuries about the head and hands, but crawled out of an opening made in the wreck. As he was making his escape he stumbled on a woman who seemed to be dead. The cries of the wounded were heartrending and came-from several cars in the froaf section. Five dead men were lying at the dead house of the Pennsylvania railway company at 2 o’clock a. m. and several of those taken to the Harrisburg Hospital are reported to have died. Several dead people are still in the wreck. The doors of the hospital were locked as soon as the injured were inside and the authorities refused to give out names. The same was done at the dead house. A THIEVE’S BURROW Unearthed By a Fanner Ln Union County, Ohio. Marysville (Ohio) Special.— The announcement comes to this place of the discovery of a cave on a farm belonging to James F. Hunter, about eight miles from here. It is supposed to have been occupied by the famous Wilson gang of horse thieves, who infested Western Ohio and Eastern Indiana in 1879. The cave, upon examination, was found to be 135 yards long. About ninety-five yards from the entrance the cave is seyenty-five feet wide, and in this part there are thirty stalls, supposed to have been used for horsea All through the cave can be found bones and skulls of horsea There was one human skull found. It is supposed to be the skull of Buck Wilson, the leader of the gang, who was wounded by Charles Stevens, a member of a party of men who started from New Bremen, Ohio, April, 1879, in pursuit of the gang. The cave has two entrancea Both are hidden by brush. The discovery of the cave was made by Hunter and a farm hand of his, who commenced to clear out the woods in which the entrance of the cave was found. The Storm Rages. Special dispatches from the northwest show that the storms of the last few days have been general and Jthat much damage has been done. In Chicago the water has fallen in torrents accompanied by blinding flashes of lightning and ear-splitting peals of thunder. The lightning struck a number of buildings. Luckily no one was killed bat a number were injured. A dispatch from Staughton, Wis., says the dam at that place is weakening and will probably go out entailing enormous loss. The Chicago and Northwestern bridge at Cherry Valley was washed out and the town is flooded. A tornado at Cuba City destroyed every business house in that town. Other towns in Wisconsin were completely ruined by tornadoes, but owing to telegraph communication being cutoff particulars cannot be had. Bellgerant Females. A terrible fight occurred on West Knight street, Brazil, Ind., betweenJMrs. Bagley, Miss Annie Jennings and Mrs. Gross, wife of Charles Gross, a policeman of that city. Mrs. Gross accused her husband of associating with the other women named. She secured a large club, went to Bagley’s residence and proceeded to clean out the house. Mrs. Bagley procured a revolver and fired two shots at her antagonist, the last one just grazing Mrs. Gross’s right ear. Then Mrs. Bagley secured a fence palling, and with the assistance of Miss Jennings, succeeded in knocking Mrs. Gross down. They continued to pound her until she was almost dead. She is in a critical condition. •- Blown to Atoms. Lachute (Quebec) special: Three men were blown to atoms and one boy was seriously injured at the Brownsburg cartridge factory by an explosion, which occurred in a building set apart from the factory for the purpose of loading detonators. The building was blown to atoms. Richard Burke was blown through the door and was the only one who got out of the building alive. Those killed are: Jas. Kearnes of Montreal; Win. Gunn of North Maisonueuve; John Curren. foreman. The explosion was distinctly heard at this place, which is four miles from the scene of the accident The Government Rewards Mrs. Martha White for Heroic* Services. >• Senator Alton of Washington, has received from the Secretary of the Treasury a magnificent gold medal to be transmitted.to Mrs. Martha White of Washington, for rescuing three shipwrecked sailors of the British ship Ferdale. Engraved around the face of the medal are the words “In testimony of heroic deeds in rescuing three men from drowning.” On the reverse side of the medal is the inscription “United States of America, act of Congress, June 20, 1874.” Judge Gresham Will AccepC Omaha special: It comes from prominent local members of the People's Party that C. 11. Pirtle, Secretary of the Nebraska Independent State Central Committee received a telegram from Henry Vincent, editor ,of the Non-Conformist at Indianapolis, in which it was stated that Judge Walter Q. Gresham had declared that he would accept if it were tendered him a nomination for the Presidency at the bands of the People’s Party if allowed to stand on the platform promulgated at the conference of labor and industrial organizations at 8L Louis. The Western League About to Go to Pieces. The Western Base-ball League is in danger of going to pieces. The recent meeting of the National League magnates In New York was held to consider the affairs of the Western League. The minor organization had failed to pay its dues and was given until July 1 to do so. It is not thought the money will be forth- ! coming and’the National League clubs are preparing to gobble up all the West- . ern League's good players. Louisville Is

after Clausen, the Columbus pitcher, and othera Belch Smoke and Flame, San Diogo (Cal.) special: Two prospoctors while on an expedition In the Santa Clara Valley near Alamo, Lowor California, noticed two peaks alternately spouting smoko and flames nt short intervals. An eruption, accompanied by rumbling sounds and an occasional quiver of the ground, followed. They stopped long enough to satisfy themselves that two veritable volcanoes had opened. Later travelers confirm the report of volcanoes but say they are not as active as at nrst Th. Wsba.li Indulge. In a Disastrous Wreck. Mexico (Mo.) special: A loose truck on one of tho cars on the east-bound Wabash fast freight train caused a wreck about a mile and a half west of this city. Eight cars of wheat and three empty oil cars went into the creek. Tho train was loaded with grain, meat, California fruit, and one car of laflcy horses. Two horses were killed and several hurt J. W. Duncan of Chillicothe, Mo,, was badly hurt O'Brien** Ultimatum. It has been learned that Major Clift of Chattanooga, attorney for M. J. O’Brien, the defaulting treasurer of the Catholic Knights of America, has been in Cincinnati and offered to settle at fifty cents on tho dollar, payment to bo made semi-annually fora period of seven years. Tho attorney stated that this offer is the best ono that O'Brien can make. Tho proposition is being considered and chances are that it will be accepted. Fatal Runaway. A team belonging to John Todd ran away from East Main street, Millersburg, Ohio, and dashed down the crowded thoroughfare at a mad .rate, and meeting a top carriage, driven by Mrs. Samuel McKee of Mechanic Township, dashed into it, literally tearing it to pieces. Mrs. McKee was thrown to the paved street and received a cut across the head six inches long, which, with other Injuries, will prove fatal. Accident In a Tunnel. As a Lincoln avenue grip car with two trailers was passing through the La Salle street tunnel, Chicago, it jumped the track and crashed against the side walls. Three men who were jammed between the cars and the stone wall. William E. Peters was badly injured and may die. An unknown man had both arms crushed. J. R. Robinson was painfully, but it is thought not seriously injured. A Pinkerton Man Shoot* at the Cleveland Strikers. Pinkerton men and the striking employes of East Cleveland, Ohio, came into collision the other night In the row that ensued, Edward Eldred, a Pinkerton man residing in Chicago, is said to have drawn his revolver and shot into the crowd. The bullet passed through the coat of a motorman. The Pinkerton man fled. Poisoned Ice Cream. The family of John Zelter, the wealthy coal operator of Knightsville, Ind., are dangerously ill at their homes from tho effects of poison from eating ice cream. Rev. Dawson, pastor of the Knightsville M. E. Church, and Miss Cartwright of Richmond, also partook of the cream while being entertained at the Zelter house, and are iIL Want Protection. The Irish executive has applied tor a thousand metropolitan policemen for special service In Ireland to handle local disturbances as sanguinary, almost unprecedented riots are expected to take place in Tralee, Limerick, Cork and all over the southwest The late attack on Tim Healy is merely a sample of what is expected. A Siamese Prince. Prince Pim of Slam, who is studying naval matters in the Danish Navy, has arrived at New York incognito on the Hecla, shipping as the ship’s fourth officer. The Prince will be the guest of Isaac Smith, the Siamese representative in this country. He will go to Chicago to arrange for the Danish naval display at the fair. The Pope's Encyclical Letter. His holiness, the pope, has almost finished an encyclical letter addressed tc the bishops of Italy, Spain and America. With regard to the centenary of Columbus the letter will attribute the discovery of America to divine inspiration and will use that as an argument for the canonization of the renowned navigator. An Old Temperance Law. Representative Davis of Kansas,claims to have discovered a law upon the old statute books of Illinois prohibiting the sale oi liquors within two miles of a county fair. If there exists such a law temperance advocates have only to enforce it to prevent the sale of liquor at the big fair. Fatal Ending of a Feud. The long standing feud between what is known as the McManus and Welch factions in San Francisco culminated recently in a personal encounter in which Cornelius McManus was shot and killed tiy Jack Welch, who was fatally stabbed by McManus. Burned to Death. The Commercial Hotel at Sanger, Cal., was destroyed by fire. Six of the guests were burned to death and a number of others injured. THE MARKETS. CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime f. 1.50 @ 6.00 Hogs—Shipping Grades 3.50 <4 6.26 Sheep—Fair to Choice 4.00 (4 6.00 Wheat—No. 2 Spring7B (4 .79 Coen—No. 2, new fiOJ4@ .51)4 Oats—No. 2. 31 (4 .32 Rye—No. 2.74 <4 .70 Butter—Choice Creamerylß <4 .19 Cheese—Foil Cream, flatso9 @ .0954 Egos—Fresh...l3 (4 .14 Potatoes—Choice old. per bn.. .33 @ .46 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 3.25 @ 4.50 Hogs—Choice Light 3.50 <4 5.00 Sheep—Common to Prime 3.00 (4 6.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red.s6)4(4 .87)4 Cobn—No. 1 White 51 bj® .52)4 Oats—No. 2 White .37)6(4 .38)4 ST. LOUIS. Cattle... 3.00 <45.00 Hogs 3.50 <4 6.00 Wheat—No. 2 Redso & .81 Cobs—No. 2 .43 @ .44 Oats—No. 2....... .31 <4 .32 Bye-No. 279 @ .81 CINCINNATI. Cattle,. 3.00 @4.60 Hoge 3.00 @5.25 Sheep 100 @ *.so Wheat—No. 2 Red .87 & .89 Cobn—No. 2 48 (4 M OATS—No. 2 Mixed.. 315 & .36 DETROIT. Cattle 3.00 @4.60 Hogs 3.00 @4.75 Sheep 3.00 a 6.76 Wheat—No. 2 Red. 92 @ .93 CORN—No. 2 Yellow Js3‘4@ .6*-, Oats—No. 2 White4o @ .41 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2. .86 @ Jl7 Corn—No. 2 White4B @ .50 Oats— No. 2 White 34)4(4 .35)4 ClovYb Seed 6.33 @5.45 BUFFALO. Beef Cattle—Com. to Prime.. 4.00 @ «.oo Hoos—Beat Grades 4.00 @6.50 Wheat—No. 1 Hardto @ .91 CORN—No. 2...64 @ .55 ' MILWAUKEE. Wheat—Nd. 2 Spring .77 @ .79 CORN—No. 348 (4 .47 Oats—No. 3 White 33!4@ .34)4 Rye—No. 1. 79 @ .si Barley—Nd. ». . ,5« @ .58 Pobk—Mess... 10.50 @ll.OO NEW YORK. Cattle 3.60 @5.00 , Hogs 3.00 @ 6.75 <' Sheep...., 4.60 @B.OO Wheat—No. 2 Red.M @ .93 Cobn—No. 2 69 @ .80 Oats—Mixed Western34 @ .88 Butter—Creamery..!........... .15 @ .20 Poax—old Mess.lo.oo 010,75

I I A 111 I 1 j l jFj 1 Ii v J N aj , MOTIVES OF THIS NEW BUNKC I ♦ GAME EXPOSED. I Wholesale Cut In Wages In the ProteetM Iron and Steel Industry — Tariff* en< • Prices Go Up, While Wages Go DownMonopolies and Millionaires, The Reolproolty Fake. United States—Hollo! hellos South America—Hello! U. B.—ls that you, South America? 8. A,— What do you want? U. B.—This is United States. YOl know, wo put a reciprocity clause !nt< what we call tho McKinley bill, that wt passed here last fall? 8. A.—Yes, I hoard you did. U. B.—Well, that clause authorlzot the President to put duties on tea, oof' fee, augar, molasses and hides. 8. A.—Arn’t you mistaken? I thought your constitution gave your Congresi full and exclusive power to lay and collect taxes, duties, etc. U. B.—Yob, so it does, but I haven’t time now to discuss a constitution more than a hundred years old and made tc suit different times. As I was going to say, the President can put a duty of J cents per pound on your coffee, 1| cents per pound on your hides, and *2 cents per pound on your sugar; if, In his opinion, you unduly tax the goods Imported Into your countries from the United States. It is to learn what you intend to do in regard to this matter that 1 called you up. 8. A. —Well now, I'll tell you frankly, Jim Bl U. B.—Please mention no names. B.' A.—l beg your pardon, but this Is what I think: It your President wishes to*put a tax on these articles—all of which are now on your free list—and your people don’t object to paying it, I don’t see why we should. As to what kind of duties we should have, I think we can decide for ourselves without any foreign interference. U. 8. —Os course we don’t wish to Interfere, but don't you understand that if we tax our imports of these articles from your countries and not from other countries, you will lose some of your trade up here? 8. A.—Oh, yes, of course we might lose a little with you, but we would gain about as much with other countries. If you tax raw hides and increase their cost to you, your manufacturers will make fewer gloves, shoes, etc., but Europe will make more; so If you tax sugar as you have been doing, your canners and preservers will do less business and Europe will do more in this line. I see clearly that while such a<x>licy might injure us a little it would harm you much more—so much more that I can’t think you would be so foolish as to adopt It, but only intend It for a bluff. No; we don’t care to swap any tariffs this year. U. B.—But wait a little; don’t talk quite so loudly. After I shall have explained a few things you may take quite a different view. 8. A.—Well, go on. U. 8. —You see we, have had a high protective tariff here for thirty years. S. A.—Yes, I know that’s what you call it. I agree, though, that it’s high. U. B.—Well, the Republican party that made this tariff has been telling the farmers and laborers that it was to help them by giving them home markets, high wages, etc. 8. A.—You didn't have to give reasons to your manufacturers, I guess. They didn’t object to a policy that would give them exclusive ownership of your "home markets" and U. 8. — Please wait until I am through. As I was going to say, the farmers, who expected everything of protection, became spendthrifts, and, because nearly half of itheir farms were mortgaged, and because farms east of the Mississippi River have lost half of their value, during the last fifteen years, they got -it into their heads that “protection” was to blame for all their extravagance and foolishness. The same kind of an absurd idea was taking possession of the wage-earners, who, because they have to do more work or see their wages reduced nearly every year, began to think that protection was at fault, though it was explained to them that it was due to over-produc-tion, excessive competition, etc. Well, anyway, by 1890, when McKinley was revising the tariff, a few of us saw clearly that the protection system could not stand much longer, unless it was again repaired, with a view to helping the tanner. It was for this purpose that I—that is, we— hit upon this scheme of reciprocity to open markets In your countries for our farm products. 8. A.—Yes, I see; but you don’t expect to find markets for farm products down here? We are in the farming business ourselves, and unless your farmers look well to their laurels they will soon lose some of their in Central America and the West Indies, where we are already selling flour and other agricultural products. It is implements of agriculture rather than products of agriculture that we want. It is strange you did not think of this before you promised the farmers to find new markets for them down here. U. B.—lt Is unnecessary to east reflections like this upon our intelligence. When politics is running high here, and the tide is going against ns, we must devise some expedient to turn it. We can’t always do what is best or promise what is likely to be fulfilled. 8. A. —Oh, yes, I begin to understand; your reciprocity was only a piece of “Jingoism" to catch the farmers’ votes and keep the Republican party in power. U. s.—Nd, not exactly that; but I don’t care to stop to explain everything now. I desire only to give you a few tips so that you will not take matters so seriously, and jump on reciprocity as if it were intended for a sound economic doctrine, instead of a political scheme. This was the mistake made by most of the leaders-of Republicanism here when the scheme was first broached. For instance, Senator Dolph said "The cause of protection Is being betrayed;” Senator Hale and Tom Reed ridiculed the plan; Major McKinley called it a “Blaine fad,” and objected to having It jinserted In his tariff bill; the American Economist, our great organ of protection, ridiculed the idea of “trying to revise this defunct and obsolete system of discrimminations; and this, too, In order that we make the effort to sell packed meats to meat-packers and breadstuffs to the exporters of grain.” I could mention dozens of other Republicans who made fools of themselves by not thinking twice before they spoke. They .are all sorry now that they were so premature. It is is amusing now to hear McKinley talking for “protection and reciprocity;” and to read in the American Economist that “reciprocity is the handmt*l of protection. ” The truth is that they recognize that Senator Hale spoke the truth when he said, “The reciprocity feature Is the part of the measure (McKinley tariff) which has floated the whole act . . - and kept It from being swamped.” Now you understand our predicament. We must make the farmers believe that we really expected that reciprocity would open up. new markets for them abroad. 8. A.But isn’ti the scheme a sad commentary on ynur “home market Doesn’t i» admit that proteotion'ean’t make horn* markets? U. 8.1 don’t care to discuss theories now when we are confronted by conditions. But will you not try to help us out Ltf revising your tariff schedules a • <

opened’markets > it has been the means of inducing countries to permit our agricultural products to enter their market under less duty? It matters but little to us that these same markets want manufactured and 1 not agricultural products. Please make some change so that we can announce that “reciprocity treaties" have been made, and that wo can continue to Im- ' port sugar, coffee, and hides free. 8. A.—We will consider your case; hut another objection occurs to me just now. Isn’t such a policy of discrimination contrary to tho policy adopted long ' ago by your own snd several other American republics, which Is opposed to “entangling alliances" with countries? U. B.—Bosh! That’s an exploded Idea 1 up here, except with a few Democrats wno have had but little practical experience in state and foreign affairs for over thirty years. 8. A.—Wo may be able to accommodate you a little, as you have for years had some of our most Important exports on your free list; and, besides, we don't j core to be boycotted by yourcountry. Wo do, however, think that you should have adapted your reciprocity to fit countries that want agricultural products and that have a large commerce. Our peoSlo down here don’t trade much anyow. The whole of South America ’ takes less than *2 per cent, of your agricultural products, while Great Britain alone takes 60 per cent. Reciprocity i with us may help some of your manufacturers In the same way that “protec- 1 tlon” has helped them, but it can’t help ; your farmers and I should think they would soon see through your little game; though if you Insist we shall Canada—Hello! hollo! Is this United < States? U. 8. —Yes, yes, and I am certain I am talking to Canada; she always puts In when not wanted and gives me a cold chill. Please state your business. ,C. —I called you up to learn what kind of a reciprocity treaty you Intend to j make with us. U. B.—We are not considering any I ragtarocity treaty with you, and we are n<ft~tfertain that we shall do so. We do 1 not care to dicker with you. C.—But our 5,000,000 people purchase as much of you as the other 51,000,000 i people on the Western hemisphere, and ’ we are the only country that buys more ; from you than we sell to you. For the ! last forty years you have had a balance ! of trade in your favor of over $250,000,- | 000, while the balance of trade against you with these other 51,000,000 people was over $1,000,000,000. U. B.—Really, Canada, I don’t care to talk with you now. I would have to explain too many things. I will only say that the farmers of New York State, so far as I can learn, don’t want free trade with you even “in spots," such as reciprocity would give, and you know New York is a doubtful State. Goodday. •■BIC Labor War Imminent.** Last week we heard of a big combine composed of Carnegie, Phipps <fc Co., the Homestead Works, and several other big steel mills. It needed no prophet to foretell the reduction of wages now promised. Give a set of organized manufacturers, especially tariff-pro-tected ones, a monopoly of any product and of the labor of the producers as well, and they may be counted upon to depress the price of labor and enhance the price of goods to the full extent of their power. The extent and explanation of these reductions Is given in the New York Times of June 10, 1892, as follows: A WHOLESALE CUT IN WAGES. While the hlgh-tariff statesmen are talking glibly at Minneapolis about wages and the protected workingman, the Republican and high-tariff manufacturers of Iron and steel are conspiring to make a great deal of trouble for them and to enliven the approaching campaign with a great contest for a sharp reduction of the wages of their employes. The story was told In the high-tariff Philadelphia Press on Monday last, under the headlines, “Big Labor War Imminent—lron Manufacturers Will Make a Wholesale Cut In Wages—Reductions to Vary from 15 to 50 Per Cent. —Workers in a Crippled Condition for a Fight.” The Press explained that the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers was very soon to be confronted by “a very startling proposition,” involving “the largest reduction ever asked for by the manufacturers.” It continued as follows: “The proposition comes to the association through the Mahoning and Shenango Valley Iron Manufacturers’ Association, which comprises the great establishments of Brown,Bonnell & Co., the Mahoning Valley Iron Company, Cartwright, McCurdy & Co., Youngstown Rolling Mill Company, Buhl Iron Company, Trumbull Iron Company, and all the other mills in Cleveland and St. Louis. ’’ It then set forth the reductions demanded, saying that “the very first item is an indication of the wholesale slaughter in wages asked for by the manufacturers.” This Is a reduction from $5.50 to $4.50 per ton for puddling, with additional reductions to be caused by an Increase of the quantity of work required. Said the Press: “The great slaughter comes on the guide, ten-inch, hoop, and cotton-tie mills. Where the rollers, heaters, toughers, and catchers now make $5.88 per ton, they are asked to accept $4.20, and on grades where they now make $5.13 they are asked to be satisfied with $4." This does not appear to have been foreseen by McKinley and his associates when they largely Increased tho duty on cotton ties. The price for rolling pipe 1 iron in sheet and jobbing mills is fixed at $2.50 per ton, Instead of $3.40. The Press closed its review of the proposed reductions with the following remarks: “The workers will be brought face to face with a stern determination on the part of the manufacturers to force an acceptance of their scale this year, which, If they succeed, practicallymeans the permanent crippling of the Amalgamated Association. The manufacturers are said to be a unit In their determination to accept nothing less than they propose, and, as a consequence, one of the bitterest struggles that have taken place In • Iron circles in years is just beginning to dawn." The Iron Age of the9th Inst, confirms these assertions and publishes the full scale of reductions proposed. Says this authority: “JJarge reductions have been matle in nearly every department. We are advised that manufacturers at the above places (the Mahoning and Shenango Valleys and Cleveland district) have a thorough understanding among themselves, and that this scale is la the nature of an ultimatum from them from which they will not recede. ” The Pittsburg manufactures have not yet formulated the reductions which they will demand, but the Iron Age reports that trouble has arisen “at' the Homestead Steel Works of Carnegie, Phipps & Co." “It is understood that the reason for this Is that the flrm have made large reductions in the scale, which the men are not willing to accept. ” The changes proposed by Mr. Carnegie and his associates “mean a clear reduction of about 17 per cent, to every man who works by tonnage. In addition to this, other large reductions are made,'ln some cases over 25 percent." The workmen have been told that they

U There are several gentlemen in Min--1 neapolis who should not overlook this news. One of them Is Mr. H. W. Oliver, chairman of the convention’s sub-com-mittee on the tariff, who reported to the Iron and stool manufacturers after the passage of the McKinley bill that tho rates In tho new iron and steel schedule j "wore those proposed by the manufacturers themselves. “ Another is ex- ! Speaker Reed, who declared that tho had “obtained just what they wanted," and who said ut Buffalo on Oct. 15, 1890: “They ask mo whether I consider the McKinley bill just to the poor. Well, I should say so. A bill which has for Its object tho aiding of the poor by raising their wages, it seems to mo, is a just one." Mr. McKinley himself should meditate upon the great reductions now demanded by the iron manufacturers of his own State. Perhaps the convention can be induced to say something in its platform about the impending conflict between the manufacturers and their workmen. Now Sanitary Ware Trust. When McKinley raised the duties on sanitary pottery ware from 55 to 65 and 70 per cent, by putting duties on packing cases, the seven manufacturers at Trepton, with one at East Liverpool, Ohio, and one In Baltimore, practically had a trust, though each firm owned Its own factory. Since duties were Increased the manufacturers, some of whom have made millions in a few years, cut wages about 15 per cent, after a long strike against a reduction of 10 to 40 per cent. This method of doing business by “understandings" or “agreements" Is not entirely satisfactory to the manufacturers, and on May 28 five of the big manufacturers at Trenton incorporated in one company with a capital of $3,000,000. Those in the - combine are the Empire Pottery, Enterprise Pottery, Delaware Pottery, Equitable Pottery, and Crescent Pottery. Column advertisements of the stock of this new trust In-New York papers, say “these five companies manufacture and sell about 75 per cent, of the entire output of the famous sanitary plumbing ware made in this country. The earnings for 1891 will pay the dividends on the preferred stock (8 per cent.), and over 16 per cent on the common stock, after' providing for the expense of management. The venders express the belief that the economies and Improved system in the conduct of business that can be put in operation by the proposed combination of these companies will still further increase the net earnings." The men who had their wages reduced In 1891 must relish this kind of talk. Consumers who are acquainted with the “economies of trusts" will expect soon to receive another “revised" price list of sanitary ware, similar to the one April, 1891, advancing the price of gß>ds. These same manufacturers also announced that “the manufacture ot these goods requires skilled labor of the highest grade. ” It might be supposed from this declaration that these highly skilled laborers were receiving unusually high wages. In 1883, the Bureau of Labor of New Jersey collected accurate statistics of the earnings of workmen In a representative pottery In Trenton. They are as follows: Average Workmen. weekly earnings. Hollow ware pressersslo.3B Dish makers 16.35 Flat pressers. 12.18 Handlers 9.13 Jiggerers 17.10 Turners. 12.19 The commissioner said “many of these workmen are among the most rapid operators in Trenton." Many of the workmen have submitted to several reductions since 1883, making great inroads Into their princely salaries. The “economies and Improved system" of this new trust may be counted on to close down at least one of these potteries, or in some other way to throw out one-fifth of these men. The dependence ot wages upon tariffs is demonstrated with remarkable clearness in this industry. While duties have been going up wages have been going down. It is the object of a protective tariff, as explained in the Minneapolis platform, to levy duties on imported articles equal to the difference in wages at home and abroad.' The duties on pottery not only cover this difference, but, in some kinds of ware, they are two or three times the total labor Cost of making such ware in Trenton. Monopolies and Millionaires. The New York Tribune has published a list of 4,095 millionaires in the United States to show that the majority of them have not made their wealth in protected industries. It, however, finds that 1,175 of these have removed themselves thus far from the poor-house largely by the aid of “protection.” After omissions are supplied, which good judges say are numerous, It will probably be found that there are 5,000 of these tariff beneficiaries, tax-evaders, and land sharks among us. Supposing that they will average $4,000,000 apiece, these few> men, less than 1-100 of 1 per cent of our population, then own $20,000,000;000, or over 30 per cent, of our total wealth, which according to otir last census was $63,548,000,000. It is entirely reasonable that 100,000 more personscan be found whose total accumulations will add $20,000,000,000 more, making fully 50 per cent, of our total wealth In the hands of 1-6 of 1 per cent, of our population. It is quite probable that 1 per cent of our population owns 80 per cent., and perhaps 90 per cent., of all our wealth, and the gap between the rich and the pioor Is growing wider and more threatening every day. Read in any part of this list and you will be convinced that the sources of every one of these fortunes have been In monopoly of some kind. The greatest monopoly, if the Tribune’s data are correct, Is that of land in different forms —lots, farms, mines, etc. This appears to have made more than one-half of our millionaires. The second is undoubtedly that from tariff taxation, giving a few of our manufacturers the monopoly of our markets, a monopoly they have made doubly secure by means of trusts in nearly every protected industry. Other and less objectionable monopolies come from patent and copy rights, government contracts, etc. The most striking feature of these millionaire producing monopolies Is that they are nearly all the direct results of tariff taxation, or they can be removed by dlrec-t taxation that shall neither take from the poor to give the rich nor leave any person in possession of what he has not earned. The New York World, speaking of the Republican party, as portrayed in its recent platform, says: “It reiterates Ite Creposterous claim that the country has een made prosperous by . taxation—which Is equivalent to saying that It crops grow In spite of frosts, frost is good for cropK The argument put forward in defense of the McKinley tariff by Andrew Carnegie, that “It possesses free-trade features to a greater extent than protective ones, ’’ Is Intended for English use onlf. On this side of tho water the tariff le defended for other reasons. A DiBPATTH from Guayqull, Ecuador, says that Marie Juneau, a French woman, has given birth to seven perfectly formed Md healthy babies.

An Eloquent Arrnlrnraont of RexmblH Fraud and Hypocrisy. ■ Hon. Wm. L. Wileon, of West fl glnia, on being presented as permafl Chairman of the National DemuoM Convention, said: H GENTLEMEN or THE (’ON VENTIOH: I tfl you most heartily for this honor. I snslM lo meet the duties of the high position to you call me with tho spirit of fnlrnossfl equolltv that Is Democracy. This obnß tlon has a high and patriotic work to perfß We owe much to our party; we owe rnoß our country. The mission of tho I>< party Is to tight for the under dog. partv is out of power wo may bo sure tnW au under dog to fight for, and that the uH dog Is generally the American people, VM that party Is out of power we may bo surejl some party 1s In control of our Oovermfl that represents a section and not the wB country; that stands for a class and nofl whole people. ■ Never was this truth brought home tfl more defiantly than by the recent oonvelß at Minneapolis. We are not deceived M tfl temper, wo are not in doubt as to the ptufl of our opponents. Having taxed Us for yB without excuse and without mercy they B propose to disarm us of further power to tfl their exactions. Republican success In this A palgn, whether we look to the party plStfß the party candidates, or the utterances oM party leaders, moans that tho people are ■ stripped of their franchise through In order that they may be stripped of IB substance through tariff bills. ■ Free government la self-government. TB is no self-government where tho peopfl not control their own elections and levy fl own taxes. When either of those rightfl taken away or diminished, a breach is mfl not In the outer defenses, but in the ettadfl our freedom. For years wo have been (tfl gllng to recover our lost right of tsß ourselves, and now wo are t.hreatefl with the loss of the greater right of govenfl ourselves. The lose of the one follows in fl essary succession the lose of tho other. WM you confer on government the power of deafl out wealth you unchain every evil that ■ prey upon and eventually destroy frees stltutlons—excessive taxation, class tfl tlon. bllllon-dollar Congresses, a oonfl civil service, a debauched bal box, and purchased elections. In every qfl palgn the privilege of taxing the people wuß bartered for contributions to corrupt thefl the polls. After every victory there will 11 new McKinley bill to repay those contrlß tlons, with usury, out of taxes wrung fronfl people. For every self-governing people tB can be no more momentous question than fl of (taxation. It Is the question, as Mr. Bfl truly said, around which all the great bafl of freedom have been fought. It Is the qfl tlon out of which grow all the issues of fl eminent. Until we settle this quest! wisely, permanently, justly, we build all otl reforms on a foundation of sand. I We and the great party we represent are I day for tariff reform because It is tho ol gateway to genuine democratic governmfl The distinguished leader who presided o| the Republican convention boasted thktl does not know what tariff reform Is. Lbdi hope, with that charity that endurethß things, and belleveth all things, that hfl fully as Ignorant as he vaunts himself t«fl Unfortunately the people are not so Ignofl of the meaning ot protection; at lei of the protection which is doled out I them in the bill that bears his nan They see that meaning written laa to-day In a prostrated agriculture, In shackled commerce, in stricken Industries, the compulsory Idleness of labor, in law-mi wealth. In the discontent of the workingn and the despair of the fanner. They know hard experience that protection as a system taxation is but the old crafty scheme by wh the rich compel the poor to pay the expenses government. They know by hard experlei that protection as a system of tribute la I the old crafty scheme by which the power taxation of the people is made the prlvi property of a few of the people. Tariff reform means to readjust this syst of taxation and to purge away this systey tribute. It means that we hare not real# the goal of perfect freedom so long as any cl sen Is forced by law to pay tribute to any ot citizen and until our taxes are proportioned the ability and duty of the taxpayer rat than to his Ignorance, his weakness and 1 patience. Governor McKinley further char that the Democratic party believes in taxi ourselves. I am afraid, gentlemen, we mt admit this charge. What right or excuse ha we for taxing anybody else? With a contlm for a country, with freedom and Intelligence the instruments for its development, we sta disgraced in the eyes of mankind If we can n and If we do not support our own govemmei We can thr.tr that support on other peoj only by beggary or by force. If we use the 0 we are a pauper nation; If we use the other are a pirate nation. The Democratic party does not intend th we should be either. No more does it into that they shall falsely call It taxing otheap* pie to .transfer the expenses of gover meat from the possessions of those w own the property of the country to t belMes . and backs of those who do t work of the country. It believes that fit gallty is the essential virtue of free acw nxent. It believes that taxes should be llflh to public needs, and be levied by the plain's of justice and equality. But, gentlemen, we are confronted with I new cry in this campaign. The Republic* party,says Governor McKinley, now stands f< protection and reciprocity. He was for pn tection alone when he framed, his bill in U House, or rather permitted Ita bcnoflclarleJ frame It for him, and firmly resisted all of the statesman from Maine to annex ret proolty to it. No wonder that he favors tt reciprocity added by the Senate. You may ei plore the pages of burlesque literature f< anything more supremely ludicrous than tl so-called reclnrocitv of the McKinley bill.

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is not reciprocity at all. It la retaliation, anti worst of all, retaliation on onr own people. I punishes American citlrens for the necessltle or the follies of other peoples. It says to i few small countries south of us: "If you ar forced by your necessities or led by your fol lies to make bread higher and scarcer b your people, we will make shoes and suga higher and scarcer to our people." And now w are told that reciprocity is to be their battle cry. Already we are regaled with pictures 0 Beniamin Harrison clad in armor and goinj forth to battle for reciprocity on the plumei steed. Simple Simon fishing for whales in hli mother’s rain-barrel, and in great triumpl capturing an occasional wiggle-waggle, Is th only true, realistic picture of the reciprocity o the McKinley bill. We are for the protection that protects, am for the reclprocltv that reciprocates. Wo an in favor of protecting every man In the enjoy ment of the fruit of nis labor, diminished onl; by his proper contribution to the support o the Government, and we are for that real reel procity, not through dickering diplomacy am Presidential proclamations, but by laws o Congress, .that removes all unnecessary ob staoles between the American producer am the markets he is obliged to seek for his prod nets. --— But, gentlemen, I must not keep you fron the work that is before you. Let us take u] that work as brothers, as patriots, as Demo crats. It is not for me, gentlemen, the impartia servant of you all, to attempt to foreshadow what your choice shall be or ought to be, It the selection of our candidates. You will make that selection under a deep sense o: responsibility to the people you represent anti to your country. One thing only I venture U say: Whoever may be your chosen leader It this campaign, no telegram will flash acroSl the sea from the castle of absentee tariff lordi to congratulate him. But from the home ol labor, from the fireside of the toiler, from thi hearts of all those who love justice anti equity, who wish and Intend that our match' less heritage of freedom shall be the commonwealth of all our people and the commoi opportunity of all our youth, will come ut prayers for his success and recruits for th< great Democratic host that must strike dowr the beast of sectionalism and the moloch oi monopoly, before you can have ever again a people's government run by a people's faithful representatives. Kleptomania Caused by a Fall. A curious case of kleptomania is reported from Milan, Italy. A rich Russian had been thrown off his horse and landed on his head. He was confined to his bed for a long time, but was finally pronounced cured. He was all right bodily, but immedi* ately commenced stealing the Jewelry of his brother and sisters. There seems to be no help by the common doctors’ practice, and the patient has to look for a dure in a private asylum for the deranged. ■ ■ • 6 '.Th .■? -l-T ■