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:«• — ®he Jtemorrat DECATUB, IND. ». 4. <7 —~ yt BfeACOUBM, - - - PQBLTHWtK L ■ j I , ~ For Pre«l<l®nt» GROVER CLEVELAND, OF NEW TORE, For Vice Prethlent* AELAI H STEVENSON, OF ILLINOIS. Harrison may not admit that he Is whipped, but he must confess that he is clearly outclassed. Chairman Carter is sitting out on the back steps crying Cleveland’s letter is a fatal blow to his ambition. Had Cleveland's ejection been in doubt his magnificent letter of acceptance would have insured him a victory. If your Uncle Benjamin thinks that silence gives consent he must be immensely tickled with the letter of Mr. Blaine. I — Effective protests against combines, trusts, and other iniquities of protection can only be made effectively at the polls. Commissioner Peck’s labor report was not worth the money the Repub■fi licans paid for it. It is about as important as an exploded firecracker. As long as Foraker ceased talking Republicanism Ohio was regarded as a safe Republican State. If he keeps on it will soon be on the doubtful list. “Young men to the front!” cries the high-tariff Inter Ocean. The young man who goes to the front for the tariff dishonesty will eventually find himself behind. There may be ten thousand arguments for a high tariff and ten thousand more for double taxation; but nothing can cover up the wrong upon which both are based. Blocks-of-Five Dudley offers to bet that the Democatic majority in Indiana will not exceed 20,000. Dudley always was a modest sort of a man in his claims. That was a thrilling race between Gov. McKinley and the sheriff at Elwood, Ind., but the Governor got there in time to open the new tin plate works before the sheriff could close them. Blaine Is going to spend the winter in Washington. He will take a good deal of pleasure in watching Harrison arrange his worldly affairs for a return to Indianapolis after March 4. The number of persons employed under the McKinley bill under $5 a week amounted last year to 46,792 in the protected industries of the single State of Massachusetts. The figures are official and direct from the records. It won’t do for Mr. Blaine to plead that he was “paired off” at the recent Maine election. If this new Tangle of pairing off at election is to become popular the Republicans will soon find themselves without a Reed quorum to pass even a pension bill. The speech delivered at Carroll by Gov. Boies in opening the lowa campaign shows the temper of the Western Democrats. They are in for a fight to a finish with the force bill and McKinley bill plutocracy, and under such leaders as Boies rallying them behind Cleveland, they are moving on Harrison's works. Mr. Harrison’s letter was about three times as long as Mr. Cleveland's, but there is more in the following sentence of the ex-President's letter than there is in the whole of the President's: “My record as a public servant leaves no excuse for misunderstanding my beliefs and position on the questions which are . now presented to the voters of the land for their decision.” The Massachusetts Report on Manufactures shows a less increase In product for 1891 over 1890 than ■over 1889. In the highly protected carpet and woolen industry the percentage of the. “industry product” paid in wages in 1891 showed a reduction from former years. In all industries there was an increase in the number of persons employed at wages of under $5 a week, and they now amount to over 46,000 in that b bne State. The Chicago Times devotes a large amount of its space to a long list of foreign ministers and consuls whe are coming home to help pull Mr. Harrison through. There is no doubl that, when the President’s army o:

office holders, headed by his Cabinet, got fa|rly in motion they will make a strong fight, even as Sullivan made against Corbett, to protect their stomachs. The Republican organs are pretending to see something ominous in the fact that Hill mentioned Cleveland's name but once in his speech. How much more ominous Is the fact that Blaine did not mention Harrison’s name in his letter even once, and tliat Reed has made a dozen speecnos without once referring to ills party's candidate, either directly or indirectly. e— 1,11,1 11 1 ■■"■■■■ The returns for August show that our exports of breadstuffs fell off $7,750,000 as compared with the same month last year. Another fact for farmers to consider is that the price of wheat in August of this year averaged only 84 cents a bushel, as against $1.06 in August, 1891. Here is a lessened demand and a falling off of more than 20 per cent in price, in spite of the McKinley bill that was to bring prosperity to the farmers. The largest vote ever cast in tht State of Maine was polled at the recent election. Compared with the next largest polling—the Presidential election of 1888—the Republican loss was 6,149; Democratic gain, 4,592; Prohibition gain, 1,090; Labor gain, 316. The Populists polled 3,005 votes. The net Democratic gain was 10,741. When one studies these figures he can well understand the anxiety of the Republican managers to have Mr. Blaine, whom President Harrison kicked out of office, go on the stump and say a few words for the national ticket. Miserable failure attended President Harrison’s attempt to make political capital by bulldozing feeble powers, and he now proposes a new illustration of his jingo policy by sending ships of war to Venezuela on the slim pretense that “American interests” are endangered. It is also hinted by organs friendly to the President that he proposes to rebuke Great Britain and make that nation change its policy. All this would be laughable were it not for the fact that it is humiliating for the people of this country to have other nations sneering at the effort of demagogues to secure political power by such means. The Republicans are now claiming that Mr. Harrison ought to be re-elected on the tariff issue because the report of the New York Bank Superintendent shows an annual increase of the savings bank deposits in New York since the passage of the McKinleyt the volume of savings deposits is due to the McKinley bill, then the measure has had a very injurious effect, for the annual increase of savings deposits in New York before the enactment of that bill was greater by several millions than it has been since. The Republicans would better confine themselves to the tin plate, pearl buttons, maple sugar and wildcat bank issues. Republican editors requi re a gone deal of space to say there is nothing in Cleveland’s letter. The Albany Express, one of his most bitter enemies, takes one and one-half columns; the Columbus Dispatch has one and onefourth colums; the New York Advertiser—a guerrilla sheet—devotes one and one-half columns to the proposition that Cleveland’s letter is not worth answering. The Brooklyn Standard-Union, Murat Halstead’s paper, has two columns of fine type. The Philadelphia Ledger uses threefourths of a column of fine type assuring its readers that the candidate of Democracy indulges In nothing but platitudes and apologies. The Ledger’s columns are very long. The same article would make nearly oi quite two columns in the Chicage Herald. All the rest of the partisan crew are equally prolix—and inconsistent. From which, we may judge, Mr. Cleveland is proved to have written a very excellent letter. Full official returns from Maine show that the Republicans polled 67,870 votes and the Democrats 55,390; Republican plurality, 12,480. Four years ago the Republicans polled 79,398, and the Democrats 61,350; Republican plurality, 18,058. The Republican vote fell off this year 11,528/ and the Democratic 5,960. In other words, the Republican loss was 14.51 per cent, of their vote in 1888, and the Democratic loss 9.51 per cent, of theirs. Republicans affeetto regard the slump in Maine ol no consequence, but a similar loss in pivotal States will be fatal to them in November. Applying the propertion to the New York vote for President in 1888, it will give Cleveland , over 19,000 plurality. A similar loss would make Indiana Democratic, bj , over 10,000, New Hampshire Democratic by 144, and Ohio Democratic by 2,275. The same ratio of loss s would nearly annihilate the Republi t can majority in Illinois. It is verj > evident that, if the Republicans . maintain the pace that they have sei b in Maine and Vermont, -Mr. Harrisor f is beaten.

■ ALL FOR CLEVELAND. I — ————— ’ NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CLUBS r HEAR HIM. The Fx.Pronldsnt Tell* n Vint Throne In tho Acn temy ol Miulo Iho Principle* Which Underlie Ul» Campaign-Other 1 Proceedings. Grover Nobly. It was a mammoth Cleveland meeting, t the quadrennial convention of Democratic clubs that mot in th > Academy of Music, in Now York, The great gather- , Ing cheered tho mention of the ex-l’res--1 Ident’s name in a manner which showed that tho ebullition of enthusiasm came 5 from the heart. A street parade of co- >’ loesal proportions preceded the oon- | vention, and then the throngs surged toward tho grevt objective point —the I Academy of Music. The delegates t were in possession of 4,000 badges, and f the wearers represented every State in the Union. This Insignia of Democracy ' was not worn by people who wear a b badge for the badge's sake, but by men . who possessed votes all wool and a yard wide, and knew exactly what they 1 were going to do with them. In the Academy stage and galleiies glowed with the national colors, from ' which seemed to radiate a gentle beni- - son to the enthusiastic thousands that , crowded the building as no player folk i have ever been able to Induce them to I' do. From each side of the stage en- • trance portraits of Cleveland and Ste- | ven son loosed down on the multitude, while the Ninth Regiment Band added its mite to the enthusiasm which seemed to bubble from audience and speakers.

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President Chauncey Black called the convention to order. He spoke briefly regarding the issues of the campaign and then introduced ex-President Cleveland. Mr. Cleveland was received with prolonged cheering. He eaid: Mr. Cleveland's Speech. Mr. President and gentlemen, It affords me especial pleasure to extend to you on this occasion a hearty welcome. As a citizen of this proud municipality I am glad to assure yon that our hospitality is always open and generous. In behalf of a community distinguished for its Americanism and toleration In all matters of belief and judgment, I know I may extend a eordial greeting to those who here represent political thoughtfulness and sincerity. As an unyielding and consistent believer in Democratic principles, I trust I need not hesitate to pledge to the representatives of organized Democracy the good-will and fraternal sympathy of this Democratic city. Ydnr meeting is the council of war which precedes a decisive battle, and your deliberation i should be the preparations for stern conflict. All your weapons and all your equipments are soon to be tested. Yon have organized and labored and you have watched and planned to insure your readiness for the final engagement now near at hand. This, then, is no holiday assemblage, but an Impressive convocation in furtherance of the designs and purposes for the accomplishment of which you and those you represent are banded together. These designs and purposes, as declared by your association, are: The preservation of the constitution of the United States, the autonomy of the States, local self-government and freedom of election, opposition to the Imposition of taxes beyond the necessities of the government economically administered, and the promotion of economy in all branches of the public service. These professions embody the purest patriotism and the loftiest aspirations of American citizenship. Though at all times they should suggest to us the strongest obligation to political effort, their motive force, as Incentives to political activity and watchfulness, should be irresistible at a time when the constitution is held in light esteem as against the accomplishment of selfish purposes; when State boundaries are hardly a barrier to centralized power, and when local self-govern-ment and freedom of elections are the scoff of partisanship. Those who subscribe to the creed of this association and make any claim to sincerity can hardly excuse themselves lor lack of effort at a time when the necessities of the Government economically administered have but little relation to the taxation of the people and when extravagance in the public service has become a contagious plague. To those who hope for better things this convention of Democratic clubs is a bright promise of reform. Unorganized good intentions and idle patriotic aspirations cannot successfully contend for mastery with the compact forces of private interests and greed, nor is the organization always the most useful which has the widest extent. The real benefit of political organization is found in its nearness to the people and in the directness of Its action. Os course, harmony and unity of purpose are absolutely essential. In this view your assembling together is most Important, in so far as it promotes this harmony and unity by conference and a con--1 sideration of methods, and in so far as It in- . spires that zeal and enthusiasm which will ■ make more effective your work at home. I Therefore I am sure that I can say nothing ' better in taking my leave of you than to wish that your convention may be a most profitable and encouraging one, and that at Its conclusion you may resume your places in your home organizations newly inspired to determined and zealous effort in the cause of true Democracy. Organization of the Convention. The general business of the convention was then entered upon. Chauncey Black and Lawrence Gardiner were re-elected President and Secretary for the, ensuing year, and Governor Boswell P, Flower, was appointed Treasurer. Sentiment or Hie Resolutions. The resolutions adopted warn the American people of the danger which menaces their common liberties in the manifest purpose of the managers of the monopoly party to debauch the suffrage and to purchase another lease of the Presidency, and anI other majority in Congress, and, ul- . tlmately, to take permanent possession of the federal government, through the provisions of an unconstitutional and > partisan force bill, designed by corrupt and unscrupulous conspirators and In--1 domed by Ben amin Harrison and a Republican convention of officeholders and , monopolists. They also denounce as un-American and unconstitutional the ’ pillage of the people for the benefit "oi ‘ the few by unjust tax laws; the squandering of the people’s money In 1 profligate expenditures, in subsidies and j In jobs, and demand a return to lowei ® ■ ..

aud more equal taxation, mor. frugal expenditures and purer government, which can bo accomplished only by the election of Cleveland and Stevenson. Wearer’* Tai. or Woe. Hon. W. Y. Atkinson, Chairman of tho Demo?ratlc Executive Committee of Georgia, says, In reply to the published address of Gen. Weaver and various special telegrams which have been sent out from Georgia by Mrs. Lease, that they do great injustice, not only to the Demooiata but to tho people of the State. He says: “According to his own admission, Gen. Weaver received a respectful hearing at Waycross and Columbus. At Albany his speech was listened to by several hundred people, and no effort whatever was made to prevent him from speaking. A prominent negro of that place, at the conclusion of Weaver's speech, took tho stand to refute what he had said, and bitterly attacked Weaver and the third party. Weaver was so Indignant that a negro shonld attempt to answer him that he immediately left the platform. Tho only possible foundation for the greatly exaggerated egg story spread broadcast by Gen. Weaver and Mrs. Lease is that a small boy in the open-air audience at Macon threw an egg, and he was promptly arrested and punished for it." McKinley'* Unfortunate Foot. Major McKinley answers to the description of the man who “never opened his mouth without putting his foot in it." In his Philadelphia speech the Governor said: “If Congress should happen to be Democratic, then I want Benjamin Harrison President. He believes in sound

money, and will veto any Democratic bill to corrupt and debase the currency of the United States." This is the same Major McKinley who was a year or two ago denouncing Grover Cleveland for- his ppposition to the free coinage of silver and intimating to the silver men how much better the Republican party had treated them. The President Harrison whom he desires to be re-elected in order that he may veto any Democratic bill for debasing the currency is the same who signed the Sherman bill for Increasing the output of paper representatives of debased silver dollars. Major McKinley followed the utterance already quoted with this brilliant generalization: “Free trade and debased money go hand in hand.” Os course, then England, which figures in all the Major’s speeches as the frightful example of- a free-trade nation, is also the victim of debased money. But it happens, unfortunately for the verity of this dictum, that England is of all nations the most inflexible in hostility to any currency scheme which endangers the highest value of its money. The Major’s speeches would be more influential it his contempt of facts were not so obvious. But an advocate of high protection has to ignore facts. ■ J? Michigan QWpiocrato Nominate. The Democratic State Convention to nominate a candidate for Justice of the Supreme Court to succeed Chief Justice Morse, an elector-at-large for the western district of Michigan and a member of the State Board of Education, convened in Lansing. Chairman Campau, of the State Central Committee, called the convention to order and made a brief speech, predicting the election of the Democratic State and Legislative tickets and seven Democratic electors from the State. Upon assuming the chairmanship Governor Winans also spoke feelingly of the debt of gratitude he owed the party of his choice, and expressed a fear that he would never be able to repay the interest. Judge William Newton, of Flint, was nominated by C. R. Whitman, of Ann Arbor, and supported by Mark W. Stevens, of Flint, and others. J. H. Kinnane, of Kalamazoo, named William G. Howard of that city for the office. A call of the counties resulted in Newton’s nomination on the first ballot. The nomination was then made unanimous. John Power, of Escanaba, was nominated by acclamation for elector-at-large for the Western District, and David E. Hoskins, of Jackson, was in like manner nominated for member of the State Board of Education. They Are Thinking. Our Republican friends are worrying because there is a significant lack of noise in the current campaign. It puzzles them and created unpleasant forebodings. They miss the brass bands, the long processions of horse and foot, 1 the ringing cheers, the shouts of defiance, the showy uniforms, the wavering lines of light, the flags, the banners and the transparencies with their gems of political wit or wisdom. Why is this thus? is a conundrum to them. The question is not a difficult one. The people are not hurrahing this campaign. They are thinking. The day of election is not far off, yet there is a marked absence in that turbulence and excitement that have grown traditional, and thus far the campaign, has . been the quietest within the memory of man. Business has not been disturbed and confidence is unimpaired. Mr Harrison professes to i see nothing in this to alarm, but his i shrewder friends, who have nothing to ’ look after but the course of political i events, realize what It means. Menace not educated in political matters under I the band wagon method of campaigning. ■ They cannot shout and acquire knowl-

edge at the same time. Noiav is not conducive to successful mi ntal investigation. Otherwise school children would ba favored with constant orchestral music and philosophers could evolve tholr grandest theories in a boiler yard. The lehs tho people shout the more they think, and the more they think the more emphatic will be tho vote by which they declare against tho existing order of things. They declared their opinion upon national questions two years ago and tho feeling then manifested against tho multiplied evils of MoKinloyism has been greatly intensified through lessons of bitter experience and a broader knowledge of the great econonjjp problem. Urailmm for Cleve!»n<l. Judge Grisham is one of tho few men wearing tho Republican label during recent years who have succeeded in retaining the respect and confidence of all the people. The fact that he can no longer consent to remain identified with the party of plutocracy will determine many who have been hesitating.—St. Louis Republic. Judge Gresham has authorised the announcement that he will vote for Cleveland, and it is probable that before the campaign is over he will make some speeches in his behalf. If Harrison had any chances of carrying Indiana thia would end them, and it will boa great help to the Democrats of Illinois. —Qulnoy Herald. Judge Gresham comes to the Democratic party because he believes In tariff reform, a cause once supported by the Republican party, until It passed under th > control of men who demand a government that can bo used to advance

their private financial Interests.—Toledo Bee. Judge Gbesham Is a very influential man and his example will be followed by thousands who have desired to make the change, but who have been held back by various associations and party traditions.—lllinois State Register. The fact that such a man as Judge Gresham has gone in the direction they were looking will settle the question in favor of tariff reform and Grover Cleveland. —Louisville Courier-Journal. The announcement that Judge Gresham will vote for Cleveland, which can be relied on as true, will be worth many votes to the Democrats, especially in Indiana.—Louisville Courier-Journal. ’ Whebe Judge Gresham leads a multitude of his old comrades in arms and his friends and associates in civil life, hitherto Republicans, will be glad to follow;—Grand Rapids Democrat. And Judge Gresham is another notable Instance of a distinguished lawyer who has retired from criminal practice. —Milwaukee Journal. Walter Q. Gbesham from this time forth will be quoted as a tariff-reformer. —Cedar Rapids Gazette. Cleveland’s Letter. Mb. Cleveland has carried the flag of his party to the front. If he be right his letter challenges the existence, of the Republican party as advocating policies that are a menace to the prosperity of the country. It is a bold, frank, and well-considered utterance, worthy of the past statesmanship of the republic. It is a call to every Democrat who believes in Democracy to take his place in the ranks and stay there until the battle shall have been won in November. —Philadelphia Record. Like all his previous public writings and utterances, Grover Cleveland’s letter of acceptance of this, the third Democratic presidential nomination tendered him, is vigorous, virile, and sound in every way. It is the utterance of a man unused to circumlocution and temporizing, and whose habit it is to walk in the straight path of his honest convictions. —St. Paul Globe. Mb. Cleveland’s letter of acceptance will meet a hearty response from every intelligent and patriotic citizen who desires to see capable, honest, and constitutional administration of the government in the interest of the whole people, for whom it was framed and established, and not for the benefit of a favored few at the expense of the many.—Rochester Union and Advertiser. The letter contains bristling points that will be remembered long after election. Sentences and thoughts which he gives to the country will inspire the Democratic speakers and furnish material for intelligent newspaper discussion. Mr. Cleveland’s* letter will make him a, still stronger candidate for the suffrages of the American people.— Toledo Bee. Within a compass not equaling a third of the space occupied by Mr. Harrison’s letter Mr. Cleveland has treated every question of interest and importance before the American people in a comprehensive manner, which renders his letter one of the most notable state papers in the history of American politics.—Kansas City Star. The organs are hard to please. For some time they have grumbled because Mr. Cleveland did not write a Jetter, and now that it is published they are as inconsolable as though Mr. Blaine had Indited another epistle of the kind that recently got mixed In the Maine election.—Milwaukee Journal. Joins Grover’s Ranks. Ex-Attorney General Wayne MacVeagh has written a letter to John W. CarteY, Secretary of the Massachusetts Reform Club, In which ho announces that he will vote for Grover Cleveland. ; A • '■ ■ - 'V ■ ' ' .■'•J,'--

M’KINLEY VINDICATED A TRANSACTION IN WHICH THE FOREIGNER PAID THE TAX. ■ I uaa ill i / The To art Hutton Infant Kxplrox—Protection Ploturot-A WnU-rnpor Truul— Tho Ovorlnstd Foreigner-Labor ComtulMloner Peek Repudiated—Shooks Hie Audiences. Hnmplo MuKlnloylsm. Proprietor (to salesman in largo wholesale house iu Lon lon) —Did that Chicago merchant tall this morning? Salesman—Yes, and loit a big order With us. Ho will coll again to-morrow to got his bill and to settle his account after wo have deducted tho duty which wo will have to pay to get bls goods through the custom house. Ho suys you always pay this tax for him. Frojfrktor—Oh, yos; wo must keep his trade. Have you inode out his bill yet? Salesman — Yts; two bookkeepers have bean at work ou it. Hero is the account: Amount. Duty. 10,GOA yards alpaca, IT inches wide, at sH cents IWO Duty at T cents per square yard mid vi per couL foes ZO.VOO yards corduroy, 97 Inches wide, at lUM aeuts 3,900 Duty at Ucents ver square yard and 9V per cent 9,700 10.VW yuids astraklimi, M Inches wide, nt <4 cents 3,400 Duty nt 49)4 cents per pound, 99 o>. to rmil, and uu per cent 10,900 W.noo yards oottou vulvot, 99 < inches wide, at l:i cents 3,900 Duty st 14 ueuts per square yard nnd 90 per ueut 3,Cb9 3,am yards silk striped cotton (Italian), Vi inches wide, nt hiUj cents «,043 Duty ft io cents p<r bquaro ~ yr- rd unit per cent 0,079 $90,090 $93,593 90,090 Duty Icsn amount of ti 11.... $9,905 Pro; r.etor ( Liling his lip)—Blast that 'McKinley b ill Are you certain there is no mistake? Salesman —Tite duties are compli- ! catod, but tho bookkeepers verified every item by means of the lust United States > Senate Report on Rates of Duty. Proprietor—lt’s an outrage for a rich 1 nation like the United States to collect , its taxes over bore. Wo wore poor enough on this side of the wat.r before the McKinley bill readied out after our last few crumbs. If this trade keeps up I must lower your salaries against tho end of the year, for it all conies out of tho laborers In the end. It is no wonder all Europe is groaning since 1890. Salesman—But suroly you are not going to pay this duty? It would be batter to burn your gooda rather than to pay this merchant $3,000 to take them. . Proprietor—Yes, yes, I know. But wo daio not do or say anything against American protection just now. If we did tho Americans would be told that British gold was being used to compel them to adopt free trade, and that would only convince th > foolish voters there that they were benefited by protection, and make them cling to it all the longer. Here is my check for $2,905. Glvo It to him and tell him we will always be glad to havo his patronage, though we would naturally prefer that ho take goods that will leave a balance In our favor after we have paid tho duties. ProiccUon Pfctur s. The Carnegie Company to pay its workmen "the difference in wages,” is protcoted from $8.82 to $156.80 per ton on steel billets. The actual price that it pays its workmen ranges from $1.65 to $1.95 per ton, on billets protected by a duty of $20.16. It has certified to Congress that it wants and will collect the protection of $20.16 and pay it to its workmen, in addition to paying them foreign wages. But It actually hands them only sl.S's per ton; steals $18.21 pays no foreign wages, and gets its labor free of cost. Andrew Carnegie recelved $5,000 per day as his share of this thoft from the wages of tho workers of the mills, and his partners received as much more, but they wore not satisfied. To steal more of this trust fund of $20.16 belonging to their workmen, of which they are but tho trustees, they reduced the pittance paid of $1.95 per ton, increased the hours of labor, and hired 3CO mercenaries to shoot down tho workmen who forcibly resisted any further theft from “tho difference in wages” belonging to them. What is true of the protected Carnegie mills js true of every protected mill. The employer has absolute pauper labor,supported by public contributions, and hl.s profit mainly comes from what ho steals from tho fund paid by the people for their support.— T. E. Wilson. Mr. MoKlnli-y Should Explain. The lessening volume of our agricultural exports requires an explanation from McKinley. The August returns chow a diminution In exports of breadstuffs of $7,750,000, as compared with the same month last year. Moreover, tho prloo of wheat a . oraged in August of this year only 84 cents a bushel, as I against 106 in August, 1891. Now, Mo- I Kinley irs assured the farmers of the; West that their great sales and high prices of lost year were directly due to the benign methods of taxing money out of tho foreigners’ pockets and into theirs. But his law is still in force, and the question arises why it does not continue to perform its beneficent functions. We hope it will not b'e answered ; that better harvests in Europe have Blackened the demand, for that would soem to imply that the McKinley bill do s not, as claimed for it, override all natural laws, nnd would also call to mind the fact that last year there was an extraordinary demand for our agricultural produ ts. This would have fallen out to the profit of the Western farmer in any case.—New York Evening Poet. Pvnrl Button Infant Expires. Every pearl button used in Missouri has three cents of McKinley tax on it for every cent of actual cost. And in face of this wo have the following: “Chicago, Sept. 16, —Ignatz Zoisler, Secretary of the Pearl Button Factory, filed a bill in the Superior Court to-day asking a receiver for the corporation, which was organized last March, with a capital of SIO,OOO fully paid up. Zeislcr represents thut the manu’aoturing of pearl buttons is an industry practically impossible in this country.” This comes just nine days after the letter of acceptance in which Harrison wrote: “Another industry that has been practically created by the McKinley bill is the making of pearl buttons. Few articles coming from abroad were so distinctly the product of starvation wages.” We believe that the convicts at Joliet engaged in making McKinley pearl buttons are reasonably well fed. This being the case, why doos thio McKinley "industry” go into the hands of a receiver?—St, Louts Republic, Hl» UnVlamnl Opinion. The Tribune says that “candid and fair-minded mon must-jeeognize the general soundness of justice Miller's judgment; he was a man of fine discrimination. " Well, Justlce Miller declared, in one of his most famous opinions, that—"To lay with one hand the power of the Government op Mie property of a citizen and with the other bestow it upon favored individuals to aid private enterprise and build up private fortunes

is none tho toss roooery oo »u»o is ■ done under tho forms of law and is I called taxation. This is not leg elat'oa.l It is a decree under legislative forme. -1 Nor Is it taxation. Beyond n cavil there can bo no lawful taxation which is not I laid for public puriosos." This is tho Democratic doctrine proclaimo I by a Republican .Justice whose judlo al conscious.) was above his par- I ttsanshlp.—Now York World, Hept. 45, 1892. ' ' Ament . "There Is no honorable and permanent I nnd au cessful place for any parly in a J America that anneals td the prejudice L« and the passion and tho Ignorance of, tho people, and basei its claims upon the failures of the people ihemseivea.. That has been the history of the Democratic lenders for thirty years. Their arsenal and their armament has been tho pro Hollon of failure of Republican measures and Republican politics. —Governor McKinley. And for once the Governor did not tell his hearers that the United Btates is now taxing the foreigner. As to the other part of his assertion we are willing to watt until November to see if the grand jury of the people will not bring an Indictment against Republican measures In accordance with the claims of Democrats. Tho people may be slow l to perceive causes, but “you can’t fool all of the people all tho time." Wall Paper Trust. The new wall paper trust has gained control of all but two important factories nnd has advanced prices. It is said that It will close several factories* to keep production down to the “needs" of the people. It will be remembered that the wall paper pool kept prices ly high so that the people would not) over-supply themselves with this article. Wall paper that sold for 40 cents per roll in 1886, just before the pool went to pieces, sold afterward for less than 10! cents. Some of the concerns in the pool mode profits of 200 per cent. They wish to return to these good old times,! and are aided by McKinley to the extent of a 25 per cent, duty, though our exports are as groat as our imports, and the changing fashions and styles make both small, and a protective duty unnecessary, except in oases of extreme prices and profits. McKlnlov Shock* Hl* Audlentwa. The New York Tribune says: "Governor McKinley's speech In PhiladelChla had a fairly electrical effect upon is great audience. Veteran polltlcans assert that there has not been an equally enthusiastic assemblage in Philadelphia since war time." Thia is as it should be. The same enthusiasm prevailed in Vermont when the Major was there a few weeks ago. These electrical shocks appear to stimulate thought, a::d this is what makes Demoornts, as witness the result of the Vermont election. There is hope for Ohio now, that He Governor returning to put in the most of his time shocking his people, by telling them that they are so well off, because, through what is called the McKinley dispensation, their taxes are being paid by the poor foreigner. J Stocking*. Under tho law which was repealed by the passage of the McKinley act the tariff tax on ordinary stockings was 40 per cent. The McKinley act has made the tax. according to value, 54.59 per cent, 70.41 per cent, 69.57 per cent and 58.99 per cent In 1891 the people of this country bought foreign stockings that cost on the other side $3,380,724. The tariff tax on them was $2,349,196, so that for $3,380,724 worth of stocking the importers paid $5,729,920, and those who wore the stockings 'paid this enhanced price and the profits of the wholesaler and retailer reckoned on the whole. This Is what the McKinley law has done for the wearer of stockings.—New York World. Peek Repudiated. The Philadifiphla Telegraph la a Republican paper. It ought to know a good thing when it sees it, for it certainly knows a bad thing when It sees it and is not afraid to say so. Tho Telegraph says: “Peck has made a mess for himself, and the sequel abundantly confirms the observations originally made in these columns concerning his ridiculous document. It was utterly unworthy of attention on the patt of any intelligent man, and the Republican National Committee made a blunder little less than a crime in taking it up as a first-class campaign document. It looks very much as though Peck was likely to turn out the Rlehard In the present instance."— Utica Observer." Twin Safe Trust. Eleven safe companies, with an aggregate capital of between s’,(ioo,ouo and $6,000,0(10, have formed themselves into a trust. The combination will havo “friendly relations" with the Her-ring-Hall-Marvin Company, and these two great companies will practically control the safe manufacturing business of the country. One of the objects of this trust is to give “stability to prices." One way this Is to be done is by closing six of the factories. No importations arc likely to disturb the “stability of prices" because U duty of 45 per cent, intervenes. McKinley’* Free Lt*t. A correspondent who describes himself 83 “Orer on the Fence" asks us io publish a list of tho principal articles on the free list of the bill spared by Major Wm. McKinley, of Ohio, and the business syndicate for which he works. Here is the list: Snails, uncut diamonds, catgut, acorns, dragon’s blood, leeches, divi-dlvi, birds, bladders and turtles. ® The “pauper labor’’ of Europe is also free, but the Major left it off of his list. If our friend is thinking of descending from the fence we can show him the best place to alight in.—New York World. AlcKlnlcy Comvllipcnt* Philadelphian*. Major McKinley raid a great compliment to the intelligence of Philadelphians whin ho there Ihe other evening. He said not a word about the foreigner paying the tariff tax. I his Is a significant and serious omission to tho Democrats, who may yet have to do their campaign work If the Ma or makes this omission permanent. Perhaps he has been reflecting on the result of tho Vermont election since he explained to tho Green Mountain boys his beneficent si hemo tor fleecing foreigners. SINCE silk plush has gone out of fashion tho silk mills in Bradford, England, and in Bridgeport, Conn., have stopped making it. It doesn't pay to make goods for which there are no buyers. But President Harrison made a great mistake in attributing to McKinley a result for which Miss Morlimsey is solely responsible. It often happens that great men stumble when they descend from generalities to particulars. Mr. Harrison Would have been wise if, liko Mr., Peck, he h d burned his particulars.—Philadelphia Record. The Over-Tiixelt Foreigner. r Protectionists are rejoicing over the Industrial distress in parts of Europa due to the McKinley bill. This is like kicking a man after he has fallen. The poor foreigners were already over-taxed to sustain their royal families and their immense standing armies before Mo* Kinley called upon them to pay oui taxes. It is not surprising that there U poverty and distress in Europe. 1