Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 20, Decatur, Adams County, 5 August 1892 — Page 2

Che democrat DBOATUR, IND. y, maotbubn, • • • FOIL OF FRESH FACE. WILL RELATING TO PEOPLE AND THINGS OF THE WORLD. *t Looku Blue lor the Homestead Striker* —Terrible Accident on I lie Big Four Sond—Special Session of the Michigan Legislature -Fell Irion an Engine. BACK BONE BROKEN. Looks Blue for the Homestead Strikers. I A special from Homestead, dated the 3rd Inst., says: Homestead striking latcel workers are considerably agitated io-nighL They have satisfied themselves lof the correctness of Superintendent (Potter’s statement that a number of former employes returned to work toalay. This evidence of weakening on the (part of the men who have loudly proclaimed their loyalty to the Amalgamated Association worries the members of that organization and to-night the streets i»re filled with strikers discussing the situation with much animation. Provost Mechling fearing that the break Sn the ranks of the strikers would lead o trouble, doubled the guard around the hnill and in the streets adjacent thereto. That the back bone of the strikers has been broken, is acknowledged by every one save the members of the advisory committee and the more radical unionists. To-night Super Ifnteudent Potter said to a United Press •reporter: “Altogether sixty of our forlmer employes have returned to work and we have been informed that many more will make application for their old places. Twenty-seven of our old men (came in to-day. Twenty-four of them (found their old places still open, but the ethers, lam sorry to say, were disappointed. But while they cannot step Into the positions they gave up a month •go, these men will be given work. 1 ((eel very sorry for the majority of the strikers who were led into the present by those in whom they had such implicit confidence, but when we announced that none of our new men would be discharged to make room for those strikers who refused to return to work within the time specified, we meant exactly what we said. We got In over 100 cots to-day and nearly as many men arrived from distant points. we expect fully 100 men 'from the East This will give us in the (neighborhood of 1,500 workmen, many of whom are skilled mechanics. We trill, after to-morrow, relax our efforts to secure workmen, in order to give our (former employes who were led into this trouble innocently an opportunity to get jback. Naturally we prefer them to (green hands. There is no longer any doubt about it the Amalgamated AssociaEon has lost the fight, and from this me the Carnegie Steel Company will joperate its Homestead plant with non--union men.” ra’ 4 ’ Grand Army Encampment. Washington special: Secretary Ellins, after much hesitation, has decided to allow the White House lot to be used lor reunions of arthy corps during (he encampment week. Shelter tents will ibe erected, but no sleeping quarters. It 19 proposed to utilize the Sons of Veterans as guards, orderlies and escorts of honor at the reunion. The organization will hold its reunion in Washington simultaneously with the encampment and will camp south of the State department Arrangements have been perfected by which a temporary hospital will be erected where veterans taken ,111 during the encampment will be cared Jar without expense. i ’ r ~ , Wrecked and Burned. The west-bound freight No. 65, on the Four road was running at the rate of twenty miles an hour at Cold Springs, near Springfield. Ohio, when a truck broke and thirteen cars, loaded, were piled in indescribable confusion, completely blocking the track. Four of the cars were loaded with naptha, which caught fire, and the entire wreck was burned, illuminating the country for miles around. The loss is estimated at $75,000 or over. Four persons were burned fatally and others badly. The Mafia Again. ' New Orleans special: The police here attach no importance whatever to the letter written to the chief stating that Judge Marr is in the hands of the Mafia and is being hold for ransom. The chief believes the letter is from a crank and is endeavoring to ascertain the party who wrote it Public opinion is reconciled to the belief that tho judge was drowned. An Earthquake Shakes Switzerland. Eastern Switzerland was visited by an earthquake which created consternation. The people were aroused from their Bleep and several small buildings were seriously shaken up. No other damage than the smashing of several thousand window panes however, is reported. Three Children Burned to Death. The house of Robert Dorncy, colored, of Live Oak Plantation, La., was burned and three children, aged 3 months, 2 years, 6 years were burned to death. The mother and father were at church. A lamp explosion is supposed to have been the cause. Special Section of the Michigan Legislature Governor Winans has issued a proclamation convening the Legislature of 'Michigan in special session August sth, lor the purpose of re-arranging the senate districts and apportioning anew the representatives among the counties and districts. Fell from An Engine. U David Pletcher, son of ex-Marshall 45 ©avid Pletcher of Canton, Ohio, and a fireman on the Fort Wayne road, was seriously injured by falling from the train at Perrysville, Ohio. The Charleston at San FraMcixee. The United States cruiser Charleston "has arrived in port at San Francisco from Puget Sound. She will sail from there tn a few days unJer sealed brders, presumably to Peru. (■y — BraaiVa Jtaprewntativfll. The Commissioners appointed by the Republic of Brazil to represent that country at the World’s Fair have arrived at Now York by the steamer La Touraine. i” Eighty Fersoa. Injured. At Ruell. near St Germain, France, a temporary theater collapsed. About seven hundred people were In the structure, and •f these eighty were Injured by the fall, hut no person was killed, the theater hud been hastllly constructed without sufficient •treugth In the supports. Frost at Fort AsMnabolne. Signal office reports from Fort Assinabolne state that there was a frost in that vicinity Wednesday night, ilia thermometer sinking to 30. and. it is thought vegetatioii has been killed. The cold wave Is going throughout British Columbia and 1> teoviug eastward. * M -

DEATH VF an AKRON A UT. Edward Kobe Falls 9,000 Feet and la Driven Inta the Earth. Five thousand people at Inver Grove, just south of BL Paul, were the horrified spectators Bunday afternoon of a terrible fail to death of Prof. Hobe, the aeronaut Before the ascent he expressed the belief that he would never descend alive, as he had a presentiment. Whoa the balloon reached the usual altitude Kobe could be seen tugging at the val' <’ cord, which would not work. Before he could manipulate It the balloon was at least 3,004 feet above the earth. He cut loose llieiparachute and shot rapidly earthward, but the parachute did not expand, and the unfortunate aeronaut fell like a shot toward the grouhd, alighting upon tho edge of a slough of the river’s brink. 80 great war. tho force of the ftll that ho was driven into the soft grouhd to a depth of ton feet and instantly killed. It required the work iff an hour to roach the body, and death hud ’occurred long before , JAY GOULD IN IDAHO. The Little Wizard Enjoying Himself fishlag for Trout. Jay Gould and party are still enjoying Idaho’s health-giving climate nnd fishing. The magnates were run up to Tikure, on the branch line leading front Shoshone and Ketchum, and side-tracked. There is a fine trout stream near by, and Mr. Gould was soon whipping it with good results. The party’s tent is a marvel of luxury, being fitted up in style befitting a prince. Each day a special car arrives from the coast, containing all the delicacies The Gould party will remain in Idaho a week or two yet and then will move, but In what direction has not yet been decided. COUNTING THE COST. Twelve Lives Have Been Sacrificed and a Million Dollars Dissipated. Thursday ended thj first month of the lockout in Homestead. The cost in money, ns nearly as it can be told, is not less than a million dollars Os this the workers in Homestead and Pittsburg have lost not less than $250,000. The company has lost In the neighborhood of S4OJ,OJO, and it has cost the State about as much as that to furnish the necessary military protection. Besides the money loss there have seen twelve human beings sacrificed. More than seventy persons have been wounded. MANGLED IN A WRECK. Trains Carrying Union Stock - Yards Switchmen Collide. Two sections of a Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul excursion train chartered Sunday by the Union Stock-Yards switchmen of Chicago, to take them to Milwaukee, collided in the Union Depot there, and as a result one man is dead and eight so badly injured that most of them are pot expected to live The collision was caused by a switchman sending the train in on the wrong track. Six Persons Drowned. A pleasure yacht containing four ladies, a little girl, three white men. and an Indian, while on the way from Cape Croker was caught by the squall half a mile from Wiarton, Ont, and capsized. John Dawe put out from the shore in a rowboat and succeeded in rescuing the Indian and two of the white men. who were hanging to the upturned yacht The others, George Steven and wife, of Chesley; Steven’s two sisters, of Guelph; and Mrs. L Currie and daughter, of Wiarton, were drowned and their bodies have not yet been recovered. To Boise Johnston Island. The departure from Honolulu of the British cruiser Champion to seise Johnston Island has occasioned interest in Ban Francisco, where the Americans who claim Its ownership belong. That it is American property which the Champion is about to take possession of there can be no doubt A Washington dispatch says the State Department has gatheredMlear proof of American title to the island which the British new wish to grab and use as a relay station for their proposed cable from Honolulu tc New Zealand. Hanged by Masked Men. At Oaks Crossing, a few miles below Dal- 1 ton, Go., Lee McDaniels, colored, while en route to jail was taken from bls guards by a mob of thirty masked men and hanged in full view of passengers on a train and people on the highway. His crime was an attempted assault on Clemmie Woods, a young white lady. McDaniels had just served a five-years' sentence In a convict camp for a like offense. Chinese Tired of Extortion. The Canadian Pacific Company’s steamship Empress of India brings news of a serious insurrection in Fatshan, China, caused by the extortions of the Chinese customs officers. It seems that customs officials have recently been Imposing fresh exactions from time to time until the capacity of the people became exhausted and a general anti-customs war Was declared. American Killed by an Avalanche. A dispatch from Interlaken, Switzerland, states that an American named R. Ribbons has been killed by the fall of an avalanche from the upper Grlndenwald glazier. The fall of an avalanche in that vicinity is a frequent spectacle, but seldom attended by danger unless the spectator is foolhardy. Shiras Is Confirmed. The Senate has confirmed the nomination of George Shiras, of Pennsylvania, to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Many Die In the East. New York reports ninety-four deaths from heat Friday, and Philadelphia twentyeight The hiercury has fallen at both cities. MARKET QUOTATIONS. „ CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime $3.50 0 SM Hogs—Shipping Grades 3.50 & Sheep—Fair to Choice 4.00 <8 4.00 Wheat—No. 4 Spring 77 0 .W Corn—No. 2, new 40 kt, M Oats-No. 2 30 0 .31 Rte-No. 2 co 0 .68 Butter—Choice Creamery 21 0 .22 Cheese—Full Cream 09 0 .10 Eggs—Fresh 15 0 .14 Potatoes—New, per bbl l.so 0 W „ INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 3.2* 0 5.00 Hogs—Choice bight 3.150 0 4.00 Sheep—Common to Prime 3.QQ @4.50 Wheat—No. 2 Red. » 0 .74)4 CORN—No. 1 White 51 0 .53 Oats-No. 2 White 33 0 .35 „ ST. LOUIS. Cattle s.co 0 5.00 Hogs 3.50 0 g.oo Wheat—No. 2 Red 77)40 .78)4 Corn—No. 2 47 0 .48 Oatb-»No. 2 30 0 .32 Rte—No. 2..... oo 0 .62 „ CINCINNATI .Cattle 3.00 0 4.50 Hogs . 3,00 0 6.00 ■SWKKP • —.-.... C.. .T B.o<r 0 5.25 ’ Wheat-No. 2 Red 74 0 .77 Corn-No. 2 m, 0 .52 Oats-No. 2 Mixed ... M 0 .35 „ DETROIT. Cattle 3.00 0 4.50 Hogs ■ . 3.00 0 4.00 SHEEP.. 3.00 @4.75 Wheat—No. 2 Red 79 0 .8(1 Corn—No. 2 Yellow 18’40 .49)4 Oats—No. 2 White .as 0 „ Toledo, W HEAT—No. 2 78)40 .79)4 Corn—No. 2 White.... .49 @ .50 Oats—No. 2 White 30’60 .31)4 l._ „ BUFFALO. Cattle—Common to Prime.... 4,00 0 6.00 Hogs—Best Grades 4,00 0 0.50 Wheat—No. 1 Hard , 89’40 .90’4 Goa.s—No. 2... ... .52 0 .53 MILWAUKEE. W HEAT—No. 2 Sprisu 7A @ .77 Corn—No. 3 , .47 @ .49 Oats—No. 2 White./"'.'.’’’.’.*.’*.; ■■ '.33S@ .8454 Rte—No. 1 .47 @ ,6:» Barley-No. 2 @ .58 porx-Mchr: n.oo 011.40 NEW YORK. Cattle., xoo 0 5.50 HOUB „ . . . 3,0 6.110 Sheep.. 3,50 @ (j,ou Wheat—No. 2Red .84 0 ,85 Cohn—No. 2 oil @ .60 Oats—MJxed Western # @ • .37 Butter—t’reiuuery 22 <«• .23 I’obk—Old Moss 01IW>

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ACCEPTS THE CHARGE characteristic speech by MR. CLEVELAND. He Accepts the Presidential Nomination by tho Demooremy—Sound on the HatWrm- Gen. Stevenson Also Acoepte and Vromlses to Do HU Duty. (Speech by Mr. Cleveland. la reply t® the formal notification by the National Committee In Naw York, Grover Cleveland said: Ms. Chairman and Gentlemen: The message yon drliver from the National nomocracy arouses within me emotions which would be •well nigh overwhelmlr.g If I did not recognise here assembled tho representatives of a great party who must sha; e with me the responsibility your mission invites. 1 find much relief in the reflection that I have been aelooSed merely to stand for the principles and purpox’* to which my party in pledged and for the enforcement and supremacy of which all who have any right to claim Democratic fellowship must constantly and persistently labor. • Our part responsibility ta Indfled great. We assume a n.oiuentous obligation to our countrymen when. In return for their trust and confidence, we promise them a rectification of their wrongs and a better realisation of tin' advantages which are due to them under oui free and beneficent Institutions. But If our responsibility is great our party is strong. It ta strong in Its sympathy with the needs of the people, in its Insistence upon the exercise of governmental powers strictly within the constitutional permission tho people have granted and in its willingness to risk its life and hope upon the people’s intelligence and patriotism. Never has a great party, intent upon the promotion of right and justice, had better incentive for effort than ta now presented ’to us. Turning our eyes to the plain people of the land, -we see them burdened as consumers with a tariff system that unjustly and relentlessly demands' from them tn the purchase of the necessaries and comforts of life an amount scarcely met by the wages of hard and steady toil, while the exactions thus wrung from them build up and increase the fortunes of those for whose benefit this injustice ta perpetrated. We see the farmer listening to a delusive story that fills his mind with visions of advantage, while his pocket 1s robbed by the itealthy hand of high protection. Our workingmen are still told the tale, oft repeated in spite of Its demonstrated falsity, that the existing protective tariff ta a boon to them and that under its beneficent operation their wages must increase, while as they listen scenes are enacted in the very abiding place of high protection that mock the hopes of toil and attest the tender mercy the workingman

CAUGHT AT LAST! Slb ; To many Ben the chair haw offered: In vain to them the office proffered: Bat at the last he’s hit on Carter, Who aays: “Yea, Ben, I’ll he your starter.” —New York World.

, receives from those made selfish and sordid by unjust governmental favoritism. 1 We oppose earnestly and stubbornly the 1 theory upon which our opponents seek to > justify and uphold existing tariff laws. We need not base our attack upon questions of constitutional permission or legislative power. ■ We denounce this theory upon the highest . possible grounds when we contend that in present conditions its operation is unjust, and that laws enacted in accordance with it 1 are Inequitable and unfair. Ours is not a destructive! party. W e are not at enemlty with tho rights of any of our citizens. All are our countrymen. We are not recklessly heedless of any American Interests, nor wfil we abandon our regard for them; but, invoking the love of fairness and justice , 1 which belongs to true Americanism and upon which onr constitution rests, we Insist that no plan of tariff legislation shall be tolerated I which has for Its object and purpose a forced contribution from the earnings and Income of the mass of our citizens to swell directly the accumulations of a favored few; nor will we 1 permit a pretended solicitude for American ; labor or any other specious pretext of benevolent care for others to blind tbe eyes of the people to the selfish schemes of those who seek, through the aid of unequal tariff laws, to gain unearned and unreasonable advantage at the expense of their fellows. We have also assumed, in our covenant with those whose support we invite, the duties of 1 opposing to the death another avowed scheme , ot our adversaries, which, under the guise of protecting suffrage, covers, but does not con- ’ ceal, a design thereby to perpetuate tbe power 1 of a party afraid to trust its continuance to l the untrammeled and intelligent votes of the American people. We are pledged to resist the legislation in--1 tended to complete this scheme, because wc have not forgotten the saturnalia of theft and brutal control which followed another Federal regulation of State suffrage, because we know tbit the managera of a party which did not scrapie to rob the people ot a President would 1 not hesitate to use the macliinery created by , such legislation to revive corrupt Instrumentalities for partisan purposes, because an at--1 tempt to enforce such legislation would re- . kindle animosities, ruin peace, and destroy the hopefulness tbat now reigns, because such an attempt would replace prosperous activity with discouragement and dread throughout a | large section of our country, and menace 1 everywhere in the land the rights reserved to I the states and to the people which underlie , , the safeguards of American liberty. I shall not attempt to specify at this time other objects and aims of Democratic endeavor which add Inspiration to our mission. True to its history and Its creed, our party will respond to the wants of the people within safe lines and guided by enlightened statesman--1 ship. To the troubled and impatient within our membership wo commend continued, unswerving MHsglanoo to tbe party whose principles in all times past have been found sufficient for them and whoso aggregate wisdom and patriotism, their experience teaches, can always be trusted. In a tone ot partisanship which befits the occasion, let me say to you as equal partners in the cas>z>algn upon which we to-day enter that the personal fortunes of those to whom you have intrusted your banners arc only Important as they are related to tho fate of the principles they represent and to the party which leads. I cannot, therefore, forbear reminding you and all those attached to the Democratic party, or supporting the principles which we profess, that defeat in the Impending campaijm, followed by the consummation of the leguutive sehemes our opponents contemplate, and accompanied by such other Incidents of their success as might more firmly fix their power, would present a most discouraging outlook for future Democratic supremacy and for the accomplishment of the objects we have at heart. Moreover, every sincere Democrat must believe that the Interests of hta country are deeply involved In the victory of our party in tbe struggle that awaits us. Thus patriotic solicitude exalts the hope of partisanship, and should intensify our determination to win success. Thia success can only be achieved by systematic and intelligent effort on tbe part of all enlisted in our cause. Let us tell the people plainly and honestly what we believe and how we propose to serve the interests of the entire country, and then let ns, after the manner of true Democracy, rely upon the thoughtfulness sad patriotism of our fellow-countrymen. It only remains for me to say to yon, in advance of a more formal response to your message, that J obey the command of my party and confidently anticipate that an intelligent and earnest presentation of pur cause will Insure a popular indorsement of the action of tbe body yon represent. Gen. Stevenson Accepts. General Stevenson in responding to the official notification of his nomination spoke as follows: Mr. chairman and gentlemen of the Committee: I can not too earnestly express my appreciation of the bonor conferred upon me by the great delegated assembly which you officially represent. To have been selected by the National Democratic Convention as Its candidate for high office ta a distinction of wblob any citizen might well be proud. I would do violence to your feelings, sir, should I fall to express my gratitude for the courteous terms in which you have advised me of the result of tho deliberations of the convention. Distrusting my capacity fully to meet the expectations of those who have honored mo by their confidence I accept the nomination so generously tendered. Should the action of the ilbleago convention receive the approval of the people I shall to tbe beet ot my humble ability discharge with fidelity the duties of the Imiwrtanttrust confided ininc. Reference has been made in terms of som-

— rmmdation to the Demtwratl* admlniahw torn. Identified te some moarere In an tm* branch of the public service with that edrntnletratlon, lam gratified to know that It has In so marktd adegree received the indoreement of the heniooratlc party In Its national convention. I sin jpereuaded that intelligent •UWfiwlon, et the loanee Involved in the pond- *“« ®2fit**t Political supremacy will reault ln **«*?n[ »• the party which stands for honoot methode In government, economy in public oxnendtturea, and relief to the people from the biurten of unjust taxation. lam not unmindful, Mr. Chairman, of the grave responsibilities which attach to the grert•offioo for which I have been named. I may be pardoned for quoting In this connection tho words of the honored patriot, Thomae A. Hendricks [oheerel when officially informed that he had been deslgnat od by his party for the vloe-presidonoy In 18S4. He said: I know tliat sometimes it is understood that this particular office does not tuvolve much responsibility, and as s general rule that Is so. But sometimes It comes to represent very great responsibilities; and it mar be so in the near future. The two parties tn the Honate being so nearly evenly divided the Vice President may have to decide upon questions of law by tho exercise of a casting r ote. The responsibility would then become very great. It would not then be the responsibility of representing a district or a State. It w ould be the responsibility of representing the whole country. And that vote when thus cast should be in obedience to the just expectations and requirement of the »eoi>le of the United States.” Should It please my country men to call me o this office tho high appreciation of its dignity and of its responsii'Hties as expressed in the utterances and Illustrated in the lire of the eminent statesman whom I have mentioned will be a light to my own pathway. In the contest upon which we now enter we make no appeal to the passions, but to the sober judgment of the people. We believe that the welfare of the tolling millions of our countrymen is bound up In the success the Democratic party. Recent occurrences in a neighboring State have sadlv . mphaslxed the fact that a high protective tariff affords no protection. and tends in no wav to better the condition of those who earn their bread by dally toll. Believing the right of every voter to cast his ballot unawed by power, the Democratic party will steadily Oppose all legislation which threatens to Imperil that right by the Interposition of federal bayonets at the polls. In a more formal manner 'liereafter, Mr. Chairman, I will indicat 'd by letter my aocepvanoe of the nomination tendered me by tite National Democratic Convention, and will give expires ton to my views touching the important questions enunci ited in Its platform. Hoosiers Alter HarrisonHarrison’s manage i s all over the country are in a disturbed state of mind, but in Indiana they are positively panic-stricken. It will be remembered that Millionaire McDonald,

the electric light man of Fort Wayne, Ind., headed a big Blaine crowd from the Hoosier State, who made a gallant fight tor the Plumed Knight at Minneapolis,,contending to the very end that Harrison could never carry his own State. They went home disgusted, and seem bent on making good their doleful prophecy. McDonald and bis friend, ex-Congressman J. B. White, have led a revolt, and the most frantic efforts of the President's friends have failed to check its course. Harry G. Hanna, a prominent lawyer and influential Blaine Republican, has resigned his membership of the State Central Committee, because he cannot conscientiously support Harrison. Chairman Gaudy, chairman of that committee, went post haste to the seat of treason to patch up peace, but his presence only added fuel to the flames, and a majority of the Allen CountyRepublican Committee, including its chairman, resigned. The feeling against Harrison is so strong at Fort Wayne that the business and professional element say they will ostracize any one accepting the county chairmanship thus made vacant , White, who served in the Fiftieth Congress as a Republican, will stump the State for Cleveland, and the German vote, which before supported Harrison, is largely against him. The disappointed Blaine men openly declare that they will get even with Harrison for his gag-law methods at Minneapolis by electing the Republican State ticket and beating the National ticket. Here is another ugly nail for the President’s political coffin. He cannot afford to lose Indiana, yet it seems impossible for him to carry it. Dudley is not to manipulate the blocks this year, tfie secret ballot cheeks the course of corruption. Harrison has made enemies, the Blaineites are after him, and Hoosierdom is in the hands of his foes. —Detroit Free Press. ■ Splitting tile Northwe«t. The majority against the Republicans in Minnesota in 1890 was 56,00 u. Allowing the most extravagant claims of Republicanism, that majority is not less than 25,000 or 30,C00 to-day. What folly it would be for such a ma-' jority, by dividing its force, to let the Republican minority capture and count the electoral vote of the State! The anti-Republican majority consists of Democrats and People’s party men. Upon some points they are not agreed. But they are agreed in their hostility to McKtaleyism—the ofie overshadowing issue <®#he campaign—and they are of one riimd in their conviction that the supreme duty at present is to oust the Republican party and all that it stands for from power in the nation. This they can accomplish by fusion upon a mixed electoral ticket. They can elect such a ticket, while neither side can elect a ticket of its own. Fusion is manifestly the dictate of policy and patriotism, and there is little doubt that a fusion will be made. . ' A'closely similar state of thingsexists in Kansas, Nebraska and the two Dakotas, and in all these States successful fusion is now deemed probable.—New York World. The charge that Mr. Stevenson was a member of the Sons of Liberty during the war is an exploded cartridge. It wa? originally fired during the Congressional campaigns In the ’7os when Mr. Stevenson carried the strong Republican district of which McLean County was the center. The people, who may best be supposed to know the truth, repudiated it then, and their verdict will stand.—St. Louis Republic. TgF. banners and U»nsparenoies of Cleveland and Steven*oo * r ® flying all over New York, and there can be no mistake about the popular feeling in regard to the ticket. The bosses will be sick and sore for a little while, perhaps, but is time advances will realize more and more clearly the fooli&bners of fighting against the inevitable.> u=? Ki . :, ±

NEW TRUSTS FORMING. TO RAISE PRICES AND CHEAPEN LABOR. •The Now York Tribune la Badly Battled— A Free-Trade Boaro-MoKlnley Bill Talk —Steel Rails for India—Boree D.lUOoratlo Doctrine. A Season of Combines. The Iron Age of July 14, 1892, probably on the strength of the report ot a House committee on trusts, said: “Contrary to the promisee usually held out in the organization of trusts, that Increased profits were to be derived from economies introduced rather than from any advance In prices, an inquiry into actual results snows that almost universally an advance Is made whenever the butdness is sufficiently consolidated to warrent such a courae. The principal reaaon is that so many decrepit or otherwise unprofitable concerns are necessarily closed and withdrawn from conipetitioii." « This conclusian may be news to the New York Tribune and other high-pro-tectionist papers that have been saying with Andrew Carnegie, “the public may regard trusts or combinations with serene confidence,’’ but it is an old story to tariff-reformers wiio have been studying trusts for several years, iteallzing, then, that trusts mean higher prices, closed mills, less work, and therefore lower wages, it is with forebodings that we read in this same journal of the formation in one week of several gigantic trusts in the highly protected iron industry. It is announced that the Michigan Car Company, the Peninsular Car Company, the Detroit Car-Wheel Company, the Michigan Forge and Iron Company, and the Detroit Pipe and Foundry Company have merged their interests, and will henceforth be known as the Michigan-Peninsular Car Company. Tho Michigan Car Company and the Peninsular Car Company are tho largest manufacturers of freight cars in the world, and the capacity of the combined companies will be 100 cars per day. The prospectus of this new and promising trust has occupied two columns in . each of tho leading metropolitan papers for a week. It says the company will begin business the Ist of September with $8,000,000 capital; that the profits of the individual companies for the last four years and nine months have amounted to $4,334,295.97; that present profits are at the rate of $1,100,000; that this will, “after paying the interest upon the bonds—B per cent, upon the preferred stock ($5,000,000), 12 per oent. on the common stock, and carrying SBO,OOO to the surplus fund —leave 14 per cent, applicable to further dividends upon the common stock.” It is also estimated that the consolidation will result in an annual saving of more than SIOO,OOO. Protected by a 45 per cent, tariff, and with several protectionist members of Congress on its Board of Directors, who understand how to manipulate both tariffs and trusts, a brilliant future may be predicted for this new star in the McKinley firmament. It is now in order for protectionist papers to begin to tell us that freight cars are not an article of daily consumption with common people, and that if prices are advanced the difference will come out of the pockets of rich railroad corporations or will be cheerfully paid by foreigners who ship goods over oar railroads. Another consolidation mentioned in the Iron Age is that of the Enterprise Iron Works and the Youngstown Iron and Steel Company, both of Youngstown, Ohio, with a capital of $1,500,009 These firms have been sharp competitors and it is expected that prices will be better sustained and profits greatly increased by this deal, which virtually includes several other iron mills with identical interests, and which is expected soon to include four or five companies that are expected to join the “Union Iron and Steel Company.” Other similar but smaller consolidations are mentioned to gladden the author of the McKinley bill who hates cheapness, and thinks it unamerican. The Tribune I« “Battled.” The New York Tribune is doing strange things lately. It undoubtedly thinks itself Republican to the backbone, but it is publishing some good Democratic doctrine. It had a column interview the other day from the Hon. Frank Hurd, of Toledo, Ohio, on the Chicago tariff plank. Perhaps the Tribune imagines that that plank doesn't mean what it says; that the Democrats of the country did not intend to discard “protection” so abruptly and so completely; and that by ventilating the views of the more radical Democrats it can turn public sentiment against this Democratic declaration on protection. If so, it never made a greater mistake. It has never given its readers as wholesome economic food as It is now giving them while it is laboring under this delusion. Mr. Hurd approves of the Chicago tariff plank, which declares Republican protection to be a fraud, and thinks it goes none too far. Asked about incidental protection, he said: “I do not see where there is any distinction between protection and incidental protection. If the former is declared a fraud, that Includes the latter. The best way I can give yon an idea of this is by telling you what Sam Cox once said in private conversation. He said that when a man came to rob you of SSO, which ho knew that you had in your pocket, if he should, incidentally, at the same time, relieve you of your watch and any other valuables that you might have, he did not see but that the latter was just as much robbery as the ’ormer. ’’ Mr. Hurd thinks “tho wealth and power of Great Britain aie directly due to her system of taxation and methods of free trade.” The more intelligent portion of the Tribune’s readers will soon learn to like this kind of food, and will demand more of it, -even if they have to subscribe for Democratic papers to get it. Free Trade Scare. A few years ago when the Republicans were certain that protection was a benefit to the wage earner, and Democrats were not certain that it was not a benefit, the ory of “frei trade,” “Cobdenlte,” eto., may have had considerable effect upon the unthinking mind. But the campaign of education that has been on since the tariff message of 1887, has paused a great change in the opinion of the people, and especially in those of the working people, whose wages, during the last few years, particularly in the protected industries, have been reduced often. They begin to realize what the Democratic press has been telling them —that protection in no way benefits labor, but on the contrary, as a rule makes less work in many industries and | therefore causes lower wages. The New Yorker Tribune, American Economist and other high tariff papers, have yet to learn of this change in public sentiment, and are still attempting to frighten the people away from Democracy by this old bugaboo cry. It might be well for these protection maniacs to reflect that in three of the, four platforms thus far presented to the American voter, no sanction whatever is given to the protective theory. The Democrats, the Prohibitionists and thiK laborers and farmers have discarded forever this old humbug which has mortgaged farms, redueed wages and robbed consumers to produce the pro-', ■

teotive mlllfonaWi who now alone form the backbone of tho protectionist Republican party. MoKlatey lUII Talk. The Republloano tell us that tho Mo hinloy hili'is doing its own talking. Yes, that’* *O| it’s talking very loudly all over tho country, and has largo audiences everywhere. At Homestead, Pa., there are 4,000 in the audience, which has been entertained between taiko by fireworks from Winchesters and by drums aud fifes and bayonets in tho 1 hands of tho State militia. These men 1 did not leave tholr work because they ! were offered higher wages—far from It. i They are willing to accept considerably leas wages If they can return to work as union men. But the Carnegl]* Steel I Company, itaelf a combination* of a half-dozen of the largest steel mills in this country, does not believe that employes have tho same right to organize that employer* have, and has concluded to exterminate the Amalgamated Association, which alone has kept wages above the starvation point in tho iron and steel industry. There is also an audience of 3,000 at the Cceur d'Alene mines in Idaho, who struck against a reduction of wages last April. The talk here ha« also been accompanied by shot and shell. Then there's 400 in tho audience at the Eureka Iron and Steel Mills at Wyandotte, Mick, now on strike because the manufacturers refuse 1 to pay tho old scale or to employ union men. These are but a few of the people now listening to the tariff talk of the McKinley bill. Steel Kalla for India. We find in the Indiana Sentinel a curious story about an American manu- ■ facturer’s offer to soli steel rails in Ini dia. It is asserted that one Shepherd, a ; Colonel in the British army, now engaged in constructing a railroad in i India, received, bids for the supply of I rails from manufacturers in England I and hi America. “The lowest,” says I the Sentinel, “was from Andrew Carnegie, at $22.50 for seventy-pound steel ! laid down in India.” The Sentinel also says: “The chieT engineer of one of the largest English railway syndicates, who is now in this city, confirms the above in full." The ring price of steel rails at the mill in this country, as fixed and maintained for the last year by the steel rail combination, is S3O per ton. According to this story, Mr. Carnegie offered to sell such rails, with freight charges paid to a port in India, for $22.50. It is well known that Trust combinations frequently sell their goods abroad at prices lower than the prices exacted at home, but we are not inclined to accept this story without additional testimony. We presume the Sentinel has seen Col. Shepherd’s letter, of which it speaks. We suggest that the publication of it and the testimony of the English engineer would set forth in a convincing way the history of a very significant and intereating transaction.—New York Times. A Shoddy Challenge. Sentor Vest said in his speech on the Springer free wool bill that the firm of F. Muhlhauser & Co., manufacturers of shoddies at Cleveland, Ohio, were the largest shoddy manufacturers in the world, and that shoddy is made from many kinds of vile materials. This firm, perhaps to advertise its greatness, makes an offer in the American Economist of July 15 to wager SIO,OOO with Senator Vest—not that the Senator was mistaken as to the size of their mills or as to the kind of material used, but that they can produce shoddy that the Senator cannot tell from wool. Not being an expert, the Senator will probably not accept the challenge and attempt to beat this company at its own game. This challenge, however, serves to illustrate the great progress that is being made, under the McKinley administration, in the manufacture of shoddy. The manufacturers are confident that they can make this imitation oogus wool so nearly like the genuine article that no one, not even a United States Senator, can detect the difference. The one is shoddy, however, and is a fraud and a deception upon the American people by .the, authority of McKinley. Thl* I* Democratic Doctrine. Andrew Carnegie In Triumphant Democracy: Far be it from mh to retard the marph o( the world toward the free and unrestricted exchange of commodities, When, the democracy obtains sway throughout the earth the nations will become friends and brothers, instead of being, as now, the prey of the monarchical , and aristocratic ruling classes, and always warring with each other; standing armies and warships will be of the past, and men will then begin to destroy custom houses as relics ot a barbarous, monarchical age, not altogether from the low plane of economic gain or Joss, but strongly impelled thereto from tbe higher standpoint of the brotherhood of man. All restrictions upon the products of other lands will then seem unworthy of any member of the race, and the dawn of that day will have come when Man to man the world o’er Shall brothers be and a’ that. 4 Conundrum. The last Iron Age contains a letter from Belgium on American hardware in Belgium. appears that we supply nearly all kjjqds 6f hardware in that market, and in many kinds of goods, such as hay forks, lawn mowers, mincing and ineat-cbopplng machines, scythes and pilstones, ice-cream freezers, typewriters, axes, ,i looks, wrenches, etc. America take*, the lead. Now here is a conundrum for McKinley and the makers of the Republican platform. If our manufacturers of hardware can pay high wages here and ship goods to compete with those mMe in Europe, where wages are very low, why is a 45 per cent, duty needed op these goods to cover the difference qf wages so that the hardware maniifacturers of Europe will not drive our manufacturers out of our own markets? , $> The Carnegie Steel Company authorities say that ls all of the men in all of their mills strike, it will be an easy matter to get mefi to fill their places. Perhaps this is so, but what a reflection on McKinley's measure, which was to provide work-for ajl at high wages! There must be a screw loose somewhere when 15,000 or 2t>,0(10. men in the highly protected Iron industry are so anxidus to get work that they wiU underbld other Ironworkers But perhaps it is due to dull times, which have caused the weekly production otpig iron to decline over 4,000 tons elncq June J, and, of course, McKinley be held responsible for everything';.' The IromAge. ot July 14, says that “ Pennsylvania i-prebably surpasses all other Staten A ’ ’ <lh the extent and expense of, her riot, duty since the civil war.” It-may be ; pertinent to recall here thatWgh.i’protectioii" began during the civil war and that Pennsylvania has probably enjoyed more of this McKinley panacea than any other one State. Possibly there in ew* connection between these facts, r Mb. FBl*®- testified that the Carnegie Company would probably have to go Into bankruptcy if.wages were not reduced. As the protective tax on steel covers all the pay-roll this is equivalent to saying that tho American steel I n to wages ai >ll*'

DEBATE THE TARIFF. M’KINLEY, WARNER AND ST. JOHN AT MADISON, WIS. Henry Wetterxon Compelled t»> Be A been: on Aooount of SloknoM, and Hl» Plnoo Taken by the TarUr-Reform Advoonteof Now York. All Throe Talked. Madison, Wls., special}: Ten thousand persons gathered at the lakeside to hear the McKinley-Warner joint debate Friday afternoon. A message arrived In the morning that Henry Watterson* would be unable to take part in the debate, and W. C. Warner, of the Naw York Tariff Reform Club, who is stumping the State for the Democratic committee, took his place. Mr. Warner spoke first. Ho defined Democracy as being “Equal rights toall, and special privileges to none.” The great question which had been raised y the adoption of the Democratic platform at Chicago, and) which the people were to settle, was “Whether you could tax. a nation into prosperity,” anti on this question he would ohietiy dwell. The' whole system of a protective tariff, is founded on wrong and injustice. The' system was instituted because wo arc a product of the feudal ages, a relic of the barbarous ages of the past. It was simply a means to compel the common people to bear the burdens which the rich should bear, If McKinley was rightly reported to havfi said that the people do not know whether they are taxed $1 or $1,000,000 by an Indirect) system, what, then, is the use of making such a fuss about it? If tho place of collecting these taxes wore only moved nearer home, there would boa revolution not excelled by that of Watt Tyler in England years ago. It is only the ignorance of the common people which allows tho present system to exist. The Democrats propose to put the revenue taxes just as high as possible upon the things the wealthy use and as low as possible upon what tho poor use. As a result of the McKinley bill we now have a Democratic majority in Congress of 150 (almost as much as the tariff on seal plush). ■ This is simply a forecast of the mighty avalanche which will descend upon tiie Republicans next November. The aim of the Democrats, bo said, was free trade. Governor McKinley hold the vast audience till supper time. Said he: “What is tariff reform, anyway? Who can tell? Cleveland said several years ago that he knew nothing about the tariff. In his Madison Garden speech he told his auditors naught to show that time had brought enlightenment to his mind. And the 150 majority in Congress, what definition has it given to the term tariff reform? It has passed a bill to untax wool for the sole benefit of the New England manufacturer and the injury of all fanners, while leaving the duty on all woolen articles that man Is counted on to wear. Yes, and it has passed a bill to lift the tariff on cotton ties for the benefit of the South, while the almost identical iron bands used in many other callings still have upon them the old duty. This is tariff reform. This is the economic policy of the Democratic party, and it might better be called no policy st all, tor it obviously represents no system and can produce no uniform result for good or The speaker then dwelt on the subject of taxation. “This country,” he declared, “must raise $400,000,000 taxes annually to defray the expenses of the administration. We must obtain from some source or another $1,000,000 every twenty-four hours. There are only two ways possible—by levying a direct tax upon the people or an import duty on the products of foreign nations. The nation must adopt one or the other. ” The speaker then dwelt on the disadvantage of the direct tax system and quoted Jefferson and Madison as earnest opponents of it in time of peace. Ir, closing, he said that the United States had thirty years of protection, and the country has improved its financial position so that it is unrivaled among the nations, and $200,900,000 of the public debt has been ] aid. Thirty years ago 95 per cent, of the hardware of the country was of English make, but now 95 per cent, is American. The tariff or free trade has nothing to do with strikes or lockouts, tt has nothing to do with differences betweenemployer and employe. Gov. St. John spoke in behalf of theProhibition party. BOLD CRIME OF THE DALTONS They Enter a Bank in Broad Daylight and Carry Off All the Money. The ■boldest robbery of the notorious Daltons was committed at El Reno, Oklahoma, at about 10:30 Wednesday morning. At that hour people passing along the street were startled by screams for help coming from the Bank of El Reno. The screams were from Mrs. S. W. Sawyer, wife of the President of the bank, who had just been held up by two robbers, who had also robbed the bank of $10,500. At 10:30 a stranger entered the bank, stepped up to the cashier’s window and made an inquiry about some town lots, and then stepped to a desk and Commenced, writing. In a moment another stranger stepped to the cashier's desk, and presenting a revolver at Mrs. Sawyer’s head, demanded • that she hand out all the money in the bank. The woman was so frightened that she-, could not move, but the robber threatened to shoot if she did not act quickly, and in a dazed way she went to the vault and handed to him all tho packages of bills in the vault safe and what was in the daily change drawer, aggregating about $lO,5(10, and less than SIOO of it was in silver. The man who was writiug at the desk turned quickly and grabbed the money as Mrs. Sawyer handed it. through the wicket and disappeared out of the door, the one holding the revolver following quickly. Mrs. Sawyer screamed several times and fall over in a swoon. The robbers mounted horsesthat were standing at the edge of the pavement unhitched and rode out Rock Island avenue as fast as their horses could go. Mrs. Sawyer was the only person present in- the bank, the President, her husband, being absent in: Oklahoma. HO arrived home about. thirty minutes after. robbery. The robbery is believed to be the work of the Daltons on account of the ruannerof itr. execution. • HAS COST A MILLION. KtilinaU of Lomm by the' Great Honte•tead Strike. The great lock-out at Homestead isone month old, and has already cost over $1J)00,000, besides the sacrifice «f a. half-score of human lives and seriousinjuries to many times that number. Ot the loss in cash the military has cost In round figures $320,000, the workmen have lost in wages SIBO,OOO, apd the Carnegie Company has lost and spent as much more in getting newsworkmen. The workmen at Beaver Falls, Duquesne, and the Union mills in Pittnburg have Jost about SIOO,OOO in wages by their, sympathy strike, and the firm is out $190,001 by tile Idlenessof these plants. Added to this will bjn the county expenses for deputy sheriffs