Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 48, Decatur, Adams County, 17 February 1893 — Page 6

©he senwrrat DKCATL'U, IND. «• •.yx^Nzxzv/’\zszx •> N. BIAOKBURN, ■ - - Prnr.s'llit. jso3 February. ism Su Mo Tu We Th Fr 8a e••1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 ® ® « ® e ® © © ®| ® ® SIZE THIS WORLD UP AND FIND OUT WHAT THE PEOPLE ARE DOING. An Indiana Farmer Tortured tor Ills Money — Mr. Blaine's Will - Robbed by Hlghwm men—Child Drowned - Democrats Likely to Oppose Judge Jackson’s Confirmation. JUDGE JACKSON. Democrats Will Likely; Oppose Ills Confl rniation. The Senate Judiciary Committee, in a brief session, has decided to report favorably the nomination of Judge Howell B. Jackson to bo one of the associate judges of the Supremo Court of the United States. When the nomination camo up the Democrats entered a formal protest to its consideration, and under the rules. the matter went over until the next meeting of the committee. The Republican members in the meantime decided that they would brook no further delay, inasmuch as there were no charges of any kind, and the determination was reached that the nomination should be acted upon now. When the committee met the Democratic members stated that they would no longer oppose the report to the Senate, but intimated that they reserved the right, to take such steps as they-saw fit, when the question of confirmation came before the Senate itself. The committee will make a favorable report on the nomination at the nest executive session, and if there bo any serious Democratic opposition it will then have the opportunity to make itself manifest It is understood that the Republicans will vote as a unit for confirmation. Home Rule for Ireland. Mr. Gladstone introduced his home rule bill in the British House of Commons. He spoke in a clear, resonant voice and with great feeling, and closed his great speech of masterly eloquence and power in reviewing the record of broken promisee made by the enemies of home rule and the treachery following the act of union and the promise of equal laws and commercial equality. It had been boasted that Irishmen would , take their places in the cabinet, but he knew of but one —the Duke of Wellington—who was an Irishman. Ireland’s Representative to-day were four-fifths of them desirous of self-gov-ernment, but the opposition had no re- , spect for such a majority. Self-govern-ment could only work through the laws of representation and the persistent voice of the Irish people in returning such great home majorities meant something. Child Drowned. The 5-year-ola daughter of Mr. Neal Weaver was drowned in the St Mary’s river, at Fort Wayne, Ind. The little girl was playing on the river i bank in the rear of her home. The bank i which is ten feet above the water is cov- 1 ered with ice. On this ice she lost her ’ footing and slipped. Almost in an in- < stant she was plunged into the water, I The frantic mother and tier sister, Miss I Mary Carroll, screamed for assistance. None came and the little girl sank beneath the water dead. In two hours the body was found near where the little girl was last seen. Race Horse in Court. Suit was filed in the Common Pleas Court at Cleveland by Dr. Morgan S. Sales against the Cleveland Driving Park Association for 8110,000 damages. Dr. Sales is the owner of the horse, Temple Bar, that was expelled, together with the owner and driver, for alleged crooked racing on the Cleveland tracks in 1891. Dr. Sales denounces the expulsion as unjust, and bases his claim for damages on the ground that he has not been able to speed the horse, reduce his record or earn any money with him. Robbed by Highwaymen. William Brooks, a milkman, while driving along Giddings avenue, Cleveland, in the central part of the city, was held up by two highwaymen and ordered to hand over his money. He refused and one of the robbers shot him in the side. They then took what I money he had, an insignificent sum, and made good their escape. It is feared that Brooks’ wound may prove fatal. Beaten Almost to Death. Charles Jante, a German farmer, living north of Valparaiso, Ind., was visited by masked men the other night and beaten into insensibility. Jante would not reveal the hiding place of a large sum of money, and though tortured with red hot irons, refused to divulge the secret He is now in a critical condition. « - - , . Mr. Blaine's Will. The will of the late James G. Blaine was presented for probate at Augusta, Maine. It was executed in Washington, D. Q, Saturday. Jan. 7, 1893, twenty days before his death. His estate is left to his wife and she is named as executrix. Norvln Green Dead. Dr- Norvin Green, president of the Western Union Telegraph company, died at his residence in Louisville, Kv. Public Printer Stein Re-Appointed. Charles Stein has been appointed public primer of Indiana for a second term by the Printing Board, composed erf the Governor, State Auditor, and State Secretary. He had no opposition. After the Hoopskirts. Assemblyman Smith of Erie County, has introduced a bill 46 the Legislature prohibiting the sale, loan or wearing of hoopskirts or crinoline within the State of New York. An Avalanche of Snow. A special from Ourav. Colorado, says: Word has just readied here that four men have met death In a terrific snow slide on the Virginius road and Hanging Rock i etween here and Porters. One, team got oil the road and three other teams were assisting in pulling it up when a slide came and carried all of them over a steep canon til Instant death. Tho<e lost were Hank Metcalf, ~ foreman -of Ashenfelter's freighting outfit; John Swain," Martin White, and another man. whose name has not been learned, teamsters under Metcalf. A rescuing party has gone out, but cannot

reach the buried men. as three larg avalanche* of snow have come down be tween Ouray and Hanging Rock, am •Jjo road is blocked. CRUSHED IN A QUARRY. Ten Mon Killed at Rutland. Vt. The worst disaster in the history o Rutland County, Vermont, took place a West Rutland recently, when at lens ten men were killed by the falling in of t wall In the old Sheldon quarry. Th< real cause of tlie accident Is not known though the recent heavy rain is supposed to bo responsible for it. As soon as the accident happened th< electric danger signal was rung in atth< company’s office and the mills and worl everwbore stopped at once. All th< doctors in Rutland wore called by telo phone and responded quickly. Scoresol men were also sent down in the quarry. People from the neighborhood soon began to arrive and the vicinity of the qbarry was crowded. In the crowd were many of the relatives of the killed or Injured men and they were frantic . witli grief. Many of the women tried to rush down into the quarry, but were prevented from doing so by tlie more cool-headed people, who took extra precautions to prevent accidents. The quarry is just north of a big sawing mill of the Vermont Marble Company, and is know as the Sheldon covered quarry, or quarry No. 3. It was opened by Sheldon and Slauson in 1868, but last year was leased by the Vermont Marble Company, which has run it since. Depth and surface considered, it is the largest quarry in the world. The accident was near the extreme end of the quarry, far under tlie hill. The killed arid some of the injured were buried under tons *of rock, and tlie work of rescue was necessarily difficult, but scores of men, in charge of competent bosses, went at it with a will. ROASTED ALIVE. Forty-Four Insane Patients Burned to a * Crisp. Dover (N. H.) special: The County Insane Asylum, four miles from here, was burned and forty-four lives were lost- When Watchman William Chevey made his 10 o’clock trip into the insane asylum, he found the fire coming out of the cellj occupied by Annie Lufmatin, and gave the alarm. William Driscell. the keeper, with his family, lived in the buildings, and he at once broke the locks off the fifty-four cells and tried to get the inmates out, and then he got bis wife ana two children out, neither of whom were dressed. Os the forty eight inmates only four escaped. They were William Twombiy, Rose Sanderson, William Davey, and Frank Donsbon. The latter walked two miles in a blinding snowstorm, with only his shin on, to William Horne’s house, where he was taken care of. The building was of wood, 135x36 feet, two stories high, with a big yard on each side. It was built twenty years ago and had fifty cells. One woman escaped to the yard, but was burned to death there. The building cost 815,000. The main building, in which was over 100 of the county poor, caught fire, but was saved by the heroic efforts of the inmates, who carried pails of water and extinguished the flames, although many were burned in so doing. The Dover fire department was summoned, but owing to the distance, the blinding snowstorm and the icy roads, it took ninetyfive minutes for the department to get there. It was too late to be of service. The smoking ruins show the charred bodies still lying on their beds. How the building caught fire is a mystery. A TRIPLE ALLIANCE. The United States, Russia, and France Strike Hands. A triple alliance between the United States, Russia, and France—such is the international co.mbination of forces for mutual benefit aud defense, which has been secretly pending for six years, and which, unknown to either the diplomatic or political world at large culminated in an Executive Session of the United States Senate a few days ago. This is the first public announcement of the weighty meaning which lay behind the seemingly unimportant and formal announcement that “the extradition treaty with Russia has been ratified.” That was the sum total of the announcement which was given to the .public. But ratification of this treaty meant an epoch in the history of this country. It meant that the century will (close with what Prince Gortschakoff, the great Russian chancellor, once described as “necessary for the universal equilibrium of nations”—namely, an alliance between the United States, Bussia and France. APPALLING SCENES. The Legislative Committee Discovers Poverty and Contagion In Chicago Chicago’s sweat shops are undergoing an investigation by a joint committee of the Legislature. Appalling scenes of poverty, disease, and filth were met with by the committee. At 257 Polk street twelve persons of all ages were found at work in a room 10x7 feet, and lying on a pile of rags in one cori tier were three children sick with I measles. The girls employed here made $1.50 to 82 a week, and boys from 82 to S 3. At 125 Ewing street, known as Poverty Flats, every room was found tobe a sweaters’ den. Four and five persons were found to be living and working in rooms eight by ten f<*£t. Some of the gMs by hard work could make no more than 15 cents 1 a day. Twenty-six persons were found working in a room 32x38 feet over a stable at 237 Maxwell street In none of these places was there any ventilation and the air was so foul that the investigators could stay but a few moments, Preparing for a Strike. That there is discontent among the union employes of the Pennsylvania system, and that a strike is imminent is a fact and it is well known to the officials, despite their assertions that all is serene. The men bitterly denounce the company for indiscrimlnatly dismissing union men. There have been alleged causes for all discharges, but according to the statement of the employes the railroad officials have made their employment a burden to brotherhood men, and when they coinplain they are given their discharge and non-union men employed. It is understood that sentiment strongly favors a strike and meetings have teen held all along the lines. News of the meetings reached the ears of the officials and it was thought test to cease receiving freight until the matter blows over. Meanwhile the company is displacing union men with “scabs” and is distrib uting men atdiflerentpointsalong thellm acquainting them with the duties tba will devolve upon them in the event of i strike. Riol at Wheeling. Whefilifig (\Y. Va.) special: Strikln; electric railway employes and theli friends made an assault.'upon the crew: of cars at the railway company’s house just opposite tliecity limits in Marshal county. The rioting was kept up fc nearly an- hour, and three of the era of the company were. terrlbb beaten, two of them perhaps fatally . The wounded are: W. H. Tucker, sup erintendent; Henry Hartmer, a motor 1 man, and 11. S. Newton, the company' electrician. Newton and Hartman ar both hurt- Internally, caused by mei

jumping on tlioiu, and hnve many e- cuts and bruises an t4ielr head* and id bodies. Stones, clubs, and revolvers were freely used by the mob which numbered about ono hundred. Moro trouble is expected. A Sloop with t’lniminen on Board Is Ix>«t. jf Vancouver (11 C.) special: The sloop H Cornelius, which left Cadbora Bay early st in December with forty-five Chinamen a on board destined tor California, has not m been heard from since. She was owned j, by three men connected with smuggling, d Shortly after the Cornelius left Cadbora Bay there was a succession of severe io gales, ono ol which, it Is feared, sealed io the fate of tho cargo and crow. Tho k sloop was but thirty feet long. 10 1 ). lliin Arison From the Dead. >f Cleveland special: Two thousand f- members in this city of tho American Fraternal Circle, a defunct seven years <• dividend order, have been notified that they would receive 90 per cent, of tho i- amount paid in by thorn. Tho notifiesHon came from Baltimore, where the or's der was broken up by a suit brought bv p the Baltimore division. It Is said that R tho circle had SBOO,OOO ou band at tho 0 time of demise. Town of Lykens Almost Burned* Tlie town of Lykens in Crawford • Countv. Ohio, was about destroyed by - fire. Tho Odd Fellows and Knights of s Pythias halls and ail tlie large halls in , town wore burned. Tho loss will aggret gate about 830,000, about half being covi. ered bv insurance. During tho firo e Henry Moore ar.d Fred Vollmer were - seriously burned by oxplosfonsof gasoline e and powder. Both may die from their 1 injuries. j A Disgraced Divine. t A special from Genesso, N. Y.. says: t, The grand jury has found two indictments against tho Rev. Charles Flaherty of St Patrick's Church, Mount Morris, the first on tho charge of rape, ana the second on the charge of criminal inter- • course on the person of Mary Sweeney of Mount Morris, a girl under 16 years r of age. He Is confined in the county , jail in default of bail. » **• 11 ■ . British Bark Honresfeld Burned. j London special: The British bark t Honresfeld, Captain Shaw, from Livers pool August 12, for San Francisco, was burned December 20 in latitude 8 north. > longitude 116 west Tho British ship t Stronsa, Captain Brooks, from San • Francisco December 3, for Queenstown, rescued the crew of the Honresfeld and - landed them at Valparaiso. Babe Smothered In Winter Wraps. Mr. and Mrs. Martin Mock, who live [ ten miles north of Logansport, Ind., went to that city, and going to a dry goods ! store unwrapped their 2-months-old ' baby, which had been snugly bundled up before leaving home. The parents were horrified to find thochild cold in death.it having been smothered soon after leav- ' ing home. — Springer Says So. Congressman Springer of Illinois, has ' telegraphed a friend at Dallas. Toxas, as - follows: “Judge Walter Q. Gresham of Illinois, has been tendered the office of Secretary of State by President-elect Cleveland and he has accepted.” They Escaped. Rapid City (S. D.) special:' Ithas been discovered that Ed Calkinsand a.cowboy named Hathaway, who were reported killed by the Indians, left the dugout at the camp with Contractor Humphrey to go to the beef herd and escaped. Women Afflicted with Glanders. Miss Cynthia Desher and Miss Barley, living near Lincoln, Neb., are afflicted with glanders, which they canght from a pony. The disease was communicated through wounds on the fingers and arms 1 of the young women. - _ » Brother and Sister Drowned. Albert and Ellen Hodgeson, brother and sister, aged 12 and 8 years respectively, were drowned while coasting on the river at Rock Island. 111., their sled going into an airhole. Both bodies were recovered. Fanners In a Bad Role. Detectives have captured the men who i broke into the depot at Argyle, 111., a ' week ago and stole a large amount of i goods. They proved to be two farmers of that section. Kings and Lacey bj name. i 1 . , Confederate General Dying. I Gen. G. T. Beauregara is very ill at ■ his residence in New Orleans, and, while : there seems to be no immediate cause I for alarm, it is said that the soldier cannot survive his present illness. Death of Professor Wood. > Prof. Arthur T. Woods, mechanical engineer of the New York Railroad : ! Gazette, which journal he represented f in the West, died at Chicago after a f brief illness. " . .. ■ Many Lives Lost. ‘ Madrid special: A dispatch from CorI runa states that the Anchor Line steamer, Trinacria. struck the rocks, and thirty j persons were drowned by the-slnkfng cf 3 the steamer. Sultan’s Troops Routed. ’ „Tangiers special: In a recent fight with the rebels the Sultan's troops were I routed. The Sultan 'is collecting 'bis t forces to avenge his defeat THE MARKETS. s j CHICAGO. . Cattle—Common to Prime. .... J 3.25 ®AM I Hogs—Skipping Grades 3.50 ft 5.50 0 Sheep—Fair to Choice 3.0) @5.25 ) Wheat—No. 2 Spring 74 @ .76 Coen—No. 2 42 @ .43 Oats—No. 2 31 .32 It r E—No. 2 .62 .M B»iteb—Choice Creamery 27’/£@l -28J4 Eggs—Fresh 31 @ .32 Potatoes—New. per bn 75 <3l .86 0 INDIANAPOLIS. . Cattle—Shipping....:-..... 3.25 ® 6.50 , Hogs—Choice Light 3.f.0 @ 8,25 “ ■ Sheep—Common to Prime t’.OO & ; i Wheat-No. 2 Red MH . I Cons—No.’2 White 41 @ .42 „ i Oats—No. 2 White MJi y i ST. LOUIS. u Cattle. 3.00 a? 5.00 S . Hoi s 3.00 @B.OO „ : Wheat—No. 2 Itcd....f. (u @ .70 " Coen—No. 2 41 @ .42 d I Oats-No. 2 .31 @ .31 H t ; BXE—No. 2..: ' .53 @ .66 a I CINCINNATI. u : Cattle 3.00 ® 6.25 r | hogs 3.<w cS s.oo I. I Sheep.. s.oo @ 6.50 „ I ’ Cobs—No. 2 .’ 42 @ .43 11 I Oats—No. 2 Mixed e > ItXE—No. 2 AU, & .61 I- ' DETROIT. 18 ; Cattle 3.00 @4.75 >■ I Hous 3.1.0 @ 7.50 r. I sheep 3.00 @ 4.50 ~ I Wheat—No. 2 Red 74 @ .73 ” I COBS—No. 2 Yellow ■. .. .44 @ .46 i>- Oats—No. 2 White 38 @ .39 ie I TOLEDO. .. Wheat—No. 2 72 @ .73 Copy—No. 2 White 4»’4@ ,<4H a . Oaij—No. 2 White 36*4@ .W’i* Hit 64 @ .06 I BUFFALO. . Cattle—Common to Prime 3.00 @ 6.25 Boos—Best Grades 4.00 @ s.r.o ig Wheat—No. 1 Hard 81 @ .82 lr I No. 2 Red 77 @ .78 , u I MILWAUKEE. ” - Wheat—No. 2 Spring C6’4@ .675 J o. Coen—No. 3 42 @ .<3 II Oath-No. 2 White 34!4@ MH r Rye -No. 1 co @ .62 ' .ItAhLEY No. 2 62 @ .64 h- ' PoI’K-Mchh...; 19.00 @19.60 le : _ , NEW YORK. Cattle, 3.60 @ 6.03 '’ iH00h..., 3.00 @8.50 P - Sheep t'.oo @ 6.75 r- Wheat -No. 2 Red. .83 i Cobs No. 2 55 @ .66 ” j Oaih-M I xed Western ss @ .40 i Butteb—Best 26 @ .32 :u PoBK-N'ew Mess 18.2* @lS.7*

I TO REVISE TIIK TARIFF s ' ’ THE TARIFF OF 1846 SHOULD BE THE BASIS. . Hon. William M. Springer Gives Some } Valuable Suggestions -The Complicated ( . Situation Into Which Reciprocity Dickers , wild Sugar Hountles Have Led Us. I, — " How It Can Bo Done. Id the North American Review for i February, the Hon. William JM. • Springer, Chairman of tho House 1 Ways and Means Committee, gives ) some valuable suggestions as to how to revise the tariff. He thinks that the principles which governed tho construction of the Walker tariff of 1 1846 should furnish tho basis upon ' which the tariff may now bo revised; 1 because “a measure based upon such J principles has already stood the test of time;" and because “tho principles upon which It Is founded arc those which have received the emotion of tho Democratic party in the past, 1 and, jf adhered to in the future, will make the pathway to tariff revision easy and the remedy for existing evils complete.” He quotes the following extract from Walker’s report to show what the principles were: “In suggesting improvements in tho revenue laws, tho following principles have been adopted: “1. That no more money should bo collected than is necessary for the wants of the government economically administered. “2. That no dutyshould be imposed on any article above the lowest rate which will yield the largest amount of revenue. “3. That, below such rate, discrimination may be made, descending in the scale of duties; or, for imperative reasons, the article may be placed in the list of those free from all duty. “4. That the maximum revenue duty should bo imposed on luxuries. “a. That all maximums, and all specific duties, should be abolished, and ad valorem duties substituted in their place—care being taken to guard against fraudulent invoices and un-der-valuation, and to assess the duty upon the actual market value. “6. That the duty should be so imposed as to operate as equally as possible throughout the Union, discriminating neither for nor against! any class or section.” Mr. Springer then shows that “the substance of these propositions has been iterated and reiterated in Democratic platforms and conventions from that time to the present.” He quotes statistics which show that from 1850 to 1860, under the low tariffs of 1846 and 1857, population increased 50 per cent., imports 199, exports 254, miles of railroad 512, manufacturing establishments from 123,000 in 1850 to 140,433 in 1860; capital employed in manufactures, 87 per cent. “But the important, of all the propositions,” says Mr. Springer, “is that all specific duties should be abolished and ad valorem duties substituted in their place. ” This rule was adhered to in the Walker tariff, which does not contain one item which imposed a specific duty, or a duty levied upon the pound or quantity, but the duty was always imposed upon the article according to its value. This is the distinctive feature of the Walker tariff,as compared with all other tariff laws passed in tjiis country. “In view of the early revision of the tariff laws of this country, special consideration should be given to the fifth proposition laid down by Mr. Walker, namely, that all specific duties should be abolished and ad valorem duties substituted in place. “Mr. Walker, in his report to Congress in 1845, demonstrated clearly that the operation of specific duties discriminates against the poor and in favor of the r.ch. He said that, if direct taxes were made specific, they would be intolerable. ‘Thus,’ said he, ‘if an annual tax of 830 was assessed on all houses, without respect to their actual value, making the owner of the humble tenement or cabin pay a tax of 830, and the owner of a costly mansion a tax of but 830 on their respective houses, it would differ only in degree, but not in principle, from the same -unvarying specific duty on cheap as on fine articles.’ He held that, if any discrimination should be made, it should be the reverse of the specific duty. He further said: ‘The tax upon the actual value is the must equal and can only be accomplished by ad valorem duties.’ “The truth of these statements is clearly demonstrated by reference to some of the compound ad valorem and specific duties contained in the McKinley act.” Mr. Springer then shows that under the McKinley act woolen shawls imported in 1892 paid an average duty of 138.63 per cent., while champagnes paid but 57,29 per cent. “Thus,” ho says, “by the device of specific duties, as embraced in the McKinley act, champagne, the greatest of luxuries, pays less than half the rate, according to its value, which is imposed upon the cheapwoolenshawis which the poor women of the country must wear to protect them from the chilling blasts of winter. “No such rates as these could have ever been passed In a tariff bill which provided upon its face for ad valorem rates. They are only possible by a combination of ad valorem and specific duties, or by specific duties alone. The actual amount of the tax as compared with the value of the article upon which it Is placed, is con ealed. The McKinley act is a combination of such cunningly devised rates. To construct a bill of that kind requires extraordinary skill and utter disregard of all principles of justice and even of common honesty. The McKinley act contains 32,000 words; the Walker act contained less than 6,000 words. The injustice and inequalities of the McKinley act are apparent at a glance, when the rates applied to actual impoitations." , ■ McKinley’* Foreign Competitor. 4Whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. Canadi in protect. onists, not to be outdone by their friends in the United States, have placed upon their statute books a measure that almost riyals in absurd feat ii es our own McKinley bill, which taxes the ends of cables which pro! rude on our soil, chickens hatched a few feet across our I o der line by care-ess hens that do nut take the trouble to distinguish between ■ ' I 1 *’-

i 8 their own and foreign countries, and calves dropped in foreign territory by stray cows. Consider, ng the size and > population of their country, and its greater dependence upon foreign countries, Canada has duties that, " Judged by our own standard, are be--1 fitting our next door neighbor. Its * administrative features, although not so ridiculous as those of the McKinley bill, yet contain much dry r humor. . Mr. Louis F. Tost is ono of the j lecturers of tho National Single-Tax 4 Lecture Bureau. His singlo-tux r friends in Canada had arranged a t, series of meetings for him there, and j he was on his way to fulfill engagef' ments when the Canadian customs i officers stopped him. He had with ; him to illustrate his lectures a few i yards of cloth containing diagrams, ■j consisting of different colored lines, i squares, and circles. The officers i camo to the conclusion that these f diagrams wore paintings or drawings. and that the artists of Canada would I be left unprotected from tlie pauper i labor of the United States if a duty ; were not collected on the diagrams. Mr. Post paid tlie duty, and will , have one object lesson for the Cana- , dians not down in his cadvass. Hawaiian Annxation. In tho year 1875 a treaty of reciprocity, so called, was made between the United States and his Majesty the King of the Hawaiian Islands, the principal feature of which was the admission of Hawaiian sugar free of duty to this country. As the islands could not produce more than one tenth of the sugar imported by us. the remission of the duty to them exclusively was equivalent to a bounty of two cents per pound on all they could produce. The sugar industry became very, flourishing and passed into the hands of a few rich people In San Frauclscd. They managed to send us from 200.000,000 to 250,000,000 pounds per year. In 1889 our importations from Hawaii were 243,000,000 pounds. Tlie bounty to the producers for that year was nearly 85,000,000. There was constant complaint among the people of the Pacific coast during all this time that they got their sugar no cheaper than before, but that on tfie contrary they were required to pay the market price of the East plus the freight charges for all that they : used. This was not the only complaint The Eastern refiners (before the days of the Sugar Trust) alleged, and no doubt truly, that Mr. Spreckels was enabled to lay down sugafs in the Mississippi Valley in unfair competition with them, since he got his raw sugar at 2 cents per pound less than they were required to pay. All this was quiet natural. Mr. Spreckels was not in the sugar business for the fun of the thing. If the Government had created a situation by which he could make a lot of money, he would have been a fool not to avail himself of it. It would be useless now to discuss the wisdom or unwisdom of the Treaty of 1875. Other considerations than those of sugar-planting entered into it. For better pr for worse, the treaty ran along until the McKinley tariff was passed.' The repeal of the duties on raw sugar put the Hawaiian Islands once more on the same footing as other foreign countries. Their bounty was cut off. To stop a regular income of four to five millions of dollars from a little group of islands, or rather from a small coterie in that group, is a serious matter. Something was sure to happen in consequence, and something has happened. There has been a “revolution.” The “Queen of the Sandwich Islands” has been overthrown. Tyranny is in the dust. The people (about 50,000 natives and 3,000 Americans and Europeans) have asserted the sacred right of self-government. There are ■ nearly as many Chinese coolies, called “contract laborers,” on the islands as there are of the native Hawaiian stock. Os course these have had nothing to do with the revolution, nor, lor that matter, have the natives. The upheaval is in the American quarter altogether. It is a revolution on a strictly cash basis. When the McKinley tatiff put raw sugar on the free-trade list it gave a bounty of two cents per pound to the producers of sugar in the United States. This was sufficient to revolutionize the Hawaiian Islands any day. The sugar-planters want that bounty. They have a delegation, or an embassy, or whatever it may be calk’d, en route to Washington City now to place the sovereignty of the kingdom at our disposal and the sugar bounty at their disposal. It is as plainly a private speculation as was the attempted annexation of Santo Domingo during Grant’s administration. Although the affair has come about suddenly, it is not likely to be disposed of suddenly. Certain belated patiiots, whose prime has been passed in the nation’s cal.ow period, are for asserting Manifest Destiny and the Monroe Doctrine and showing up our new navy, and making the American eagle scream. This is to be expected, of course, but the nation ought to be now beyond the perils of infancy, and really is so unless cast unexpectedly into a predicament from whii li 'there is no easy escape. Happily the annexation of foreign territory, as was shown in the cases of San Domingo and St. Thomas, requires time and gives abundant opportunity for reflection. It would be as presumptuous to pronounce hasty judgment against annexation as for it, and we 1 are for from saying' that the ’ proposal ought not to be entertained. i We insist, however, that the project is prima facie a private speculation on the part of a few sugar-planters who have found their bounty sudden- 1 1 ly cut off and who want to havb it re- ' newed. Uncle Sam has enough to do ' taking care of his own pensioners, I ! without running over seas in search of new ones. Moreover, the chances . are that we shall stop paying sugar bount es to our own people before any treaty of annexation can secure a two-thirds majority of the Senate. r : -i—A Protectlonkt Dll« nma. r A protection and subsidy organ of , this city finds it elf occasionally at j ojlds with one or the other of its - tenets. For example, it recently undertook, in the interest of subi sidles, to show that “we export tins ished. products for sale beneath the r very shadow of England's free-trade B factories.” x i It printed a table which shows that

I during the ten months ending Oct. - 31 a number of our protected atUcles I bad been exported to England, some i for consumption and some for reexportation to South America. Tho I value of these exportations eggro- ' gated nearly 814,000,000. Tho Ameri I lean manufacturer!! of tho articles j are so afraid of English and other foreign Competition in our own markets that they have purchased heavy protective duties of flic Republican party. And yet they can compete with the Englishmen at homo, where the tax is against them to the amount of tho freight charges at least. If they can undersoil Englishmen in England and also in South America after paying freight from New York to Liverpool and again from Liverpool to South American ports, why do they need protection at home? Tho organ ought to drop ono of Its tenets. If it proves that our manufacturers can compete with foreigners in foreign countries, it shows that we can maintain an ocean carrying trade, but It also proves not only that the protection war on commerce is hurtful to the manufacturers, but that our manufac uronurio not need protection at all.—New -Ifork World. What Free W«<6 Wilf Do. Mr. Edward D. ijßßfaEyaulkner, Page & Co., a firm interested in domestic fact tiring as any mcrcantikWouse in the United States, begins, in the American Wool and Cotton Reporter of January 19th, a series of articles on the subject of woolen goods and tariff revision. He presupposes that the manufacturers will soon have absolutely free wool and in general free raw materials. He says that: “The addition to ‘our supplies of perhaps 400 varieties of raw stock, virtually prohibited from our market for many years, introduces into the condition of manufacture a new and serious educational problem. I fear that many manufacturers do not fully realize even now how much improvement and economy is to be accomplished by making their goods from a mixture of the stocks most exactly suited to the qualities the goods are to possess instead of from the makeshifts which our meager market has hitherto afforded. I have been shown, in an English manufacturer’s wool-house, a mixture or blend of no less than fourteen distinct and different varieties of wool, from which is made a simple woolen fabric, in which, at home, no more than two or three qualities are used. Each of these fourteen varieties are found to lend some desirable peculiarity to the fabric, perceptible only in the finished piece, or else to economize its cost; and I was told that the blend used has been substantially the same for nearly thirty years. The goods manufactured from it were perceptibly superior in selling qualities to our own, and were produced at less cost for wool than would be warranted by the difference between the American and foreign quotations for similar grades.” Yet he says: “It is the opinion of many observers that no change that is likely to occur will In the long run affect the wool and woolen industries more unfavorably than have the tariffs of 1864 to 1890.” Mr. Page thus enumerates several elements of cost of manufacture in which our manufacturers are at a disadvantage as compared with foreign manufacturers. These Include, as mentioned above, lack of experience In blending all kinds of wools, higher costs of buildings, and higher rates of Interest. As to the element of labor cost he says: “It will be observed that 1 have .not enumerated a difference In labor cost as one of the disadvantages under which American manufacturers suffer. In this respect lam disposed to agree with the opinion of eminent manufacturers when fresh from an actual experience of competition with the so-called ‘paupor labor of abroad,’ and I quote from the Bulletin of the National Association of Wool Manufacturers, Vol. 1., p. 45 (1866): American manufacturers admit that it is not so much the low rate of wages in England against which they have to contend as the low rates of interest, which permit the control of large capital and the most advantageous use of machinery. It is not that there may not be special instances where labor of certain kinds is, perhaps, extravagantly paid in our mills, but I have observed that, generally speaking: “1. The highest paid labor is the cheapest. “2. Nations that have the lowest paid labor are forced, as a rule, to protect themselves against those who pay higher wages. “3. Higher paid labor, being the most intelligent, protects its wages against the competition of less intelligent and less highly paid labor by superior Inventiveness and superior ability in handling machinery. “It is perhaps unfortunate that no unbiased or scientific comparison of American with foreign labor-efficien-cy has ever been made; but in unprotected industries we seem to be as well able to compete now with the foreigner as we could expect; and our experience under the revenue tariff 1857-1861 was that we could compete, notwithstanding a similar difference in wages to that which now prevails. I have very little question but aftef our industries have adjusted themselves to new conditions, the superior skill and intelligence of American, manufacturers and workmen will maintain the supremacy of our Industries in the future as it has in the past “So far as the rate of wages is con-, cerned it is dependent upon the relations existing between the amount of work to be done and the number of workmen qualified to do it If the ’new tariff gives more work and the number of workmen does not increase, it will assuredly raise wages.” I Such articles are eminently sound and practical. They may give but little assistance to the new administration, but they will itoculcate a broad and liberal spirit among the manufacturers themselves, that will greatly hasten that readjustment to new conditions which will not only insure success but will toon make us the greatest manufacturers, as We are, already, the greatest consumers , of woolens. • /A *

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