Democratic Press, Volume 1, Number 49, Decatur, Adams County, 19 September 1895 — Page 2

ATLANTA'S BIG SHOW. MARVELOUS BEAUTY OF THE SOUTHERN EXPOSITION. Its Future Now Depends Upon the Public-President Cleveland Touched the Button to Put the Wheels in Motion —A Superb Exhibition. All the World Represente ' The Atlanta Exposition is a reality. Ou ■ Wednesday, at 32k» p. m.. President ■ Cleveland, at Gray Gables, touched the I button, and as quickly as the current I could fly from the coast of Massachusetts i to the inland metropolis of Georgia the i buzz of machinery was heard, and the ; South’s great show was open full speed. lake all great enterprises of this kind, the Atlanta Exposition was not in a complete condition on its opening day. The finishing touches will have to be put on many buildings and much of the exhibits were not in place. But this is not discouraging to the promoters of the exposition. They do not expect to be in good running shape until Oct. 10. The exposition’s future depends upon the public. Atlanta brains, and pluck, and energy, and perseverance have done their best. The money of the citizens of the stirring Southern city has been invested in the enterprise without stint and without hope of profit. The universal desire is to better bring to the attention of the United States, to the attention of the world, the advantages of the "New South," its manifold resources, its enterprising business men. and its hospitable people. The highly trained labor of the most advanced countries of the globe is to contribute its best endeavors to the show.

DUNRAVEN —“I won’t glay with yon any more.”

France, Germany, Russia. England, and Italy have sent their best products in liberal grts and in the sciences. The fertile South has emptied the choicest fruits of its fields and hills and factories inro the exposition. The highest types of agricultural products possible to the rich lands of the Southern States are here in attractive arrangement. The products of the South's factories are heaped in abundance in the buddings. The groat resources of mine and forest show the vast possibilities of this section. The countries of South America will be most creditably represented. There is no doubt that one of the cardinal purposes of the exposition, the opening up of better trade relations between the South and the South and Central American countriej, will be realized as a result of the cnierprise. • <dur gtty government P9t f*scuts its riches ifa manner that wljl arouse the pltHotTc pride of very loyal American. — — ' Eclipses New Orleans. k The exhibition at Atlanta will completely eclipse that given at New Orleans with its dearth of facilities of all kinds. Not withstanding the government helped it more than a million and a half of dollars. 1 the latter was an unsuccessful local fair. That at Atlanta will represent all parts of the country, though naturally and appropriately it will be largely devoted to an exposition of the progress which the South has made since the war and of its resources not yet fully developed. A peculiarly interesting feature of it will be the section devoted to the negro. For the first time the colored people will have their own building and will show the world what they can do in the arts and industries and how much they have accomplished in the upbuilding of the South. Indeed, Atlanta lias everything in its favor— a united people working harmoniously together, ambition, public spirit, business enterprise, and local patriotism. Miniature World’s Fair. The Atlanta Exposition will be a World's Fair only on a reduced scale. Those who visited and admired the White City in Jackson Park cannot fail to find pleasure in a h>k from the entrance gate in Piedmont Park. The Midway of the World's Fair is reproduced. It is not of the same magnitude. Some attractions are to be seen not on exhibit in Chicago and many of the old Midway features are missing on Atlanta's th r- -ighfare of nations. Over

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•?0O CW.* arrived from the Flowery? Kimftl-uif iWey <Jre ca cxhibifk>n dari in the Chinese Village. They tffre .w much ay&mished as were the early seeiers after the sights, who paid a quarter to get inside the gates. The scenic railway is doing business right along, and a second edition of the ' Ferris wheel is turning around with carI loads of people. It is not nearly as large |as the original. The streets of Cairo is I an attraction, with its camels, donkeys, and dancing girls. Shooting the chutes can be enjoyed, with all the accessories to be had at Coney Island, Atlantic City, or 63d street in Chicago. A r<«»f garden will be constructed on the top of the Forestry Building, and an enterprising theatrical manager of Atlanta has built a theater on the Midway, where vaudeville shows of a high order will be given. The Mexican i Village, with its bull tights, the Illusion j Hall, and a dozen other attractions will tempt the dollars out of visitors’ pockets. At the east end of the Midway life in I the South before the war is depicted by a troupe of colored people. A rude theater j has been const meted of wood of historical . interest. It was first cut in ISIS on Piedmont Park, where the exposition buildings are erected. A house was built ’ from it, which remained in the park until Gen. Sherman took possession of the country. Gen. Sherman destroyed the buildings and used the lumber in the breastworks he built at Atlanta. At the close of the war the lumber was purchased by Henry IT. Smith, an Atlanta cotton merchant. The lumber has been used in six buildings before being put in the present negro theater and has every evidence of hard usage. There will be a continuous Georgia barbecue on the grounds and life in the mining camps in California in 1549 will be depicted true to life. Electric cars from the business center of Atlanta run to'the

mam <-uinun.-v of the exposition. At the entrance is the Administration Building and just east of it the Fire Department House, where several companies and apparatus will stay during the exposition, History of the Fair? Now that the exposition has thrown open its gates to visitors from all parts of the world the story of the conception of the enterprise will he road with interest. In a recent conversation on the subject Editor Clark How ell, who has been one i of the hardest workers for the success of the undertaking in Atlanta, said: “On the morning of the 17th of December. 1893. only two months after the closing of the World’s Fair. Colonel William A. Hemphill suggested to me iu casual conversation that Atlanta ougti jnaugurjte some movement whirl; would act as an antidptQ for the hard times from which the w)p>!<£<-iuiiurv wns !ufivli n £. 4 "H’.mieree* tq the suggestion that something must be done. 'I do not know,’ said he, and then, suddenly stopping: ‘I have it; let's hare an exposition!' whereupon he developed the idea that the best way to meet the general depression was by launching au undertaking which would bring our people together and give them something to do while others were talking about disaster and depression.” Mr. Howell then told how the people were inspired with the exposition idea, of the business men's meeting when the first active steps were taken, the appointment of a general subcommittee and the determination to raise a preliminary fund of at least .S’Ji»>.<>!*>. Continuinc. ho said: "But it was necessary that there should be some distinctive central idea, around which the ex;H>sition should be built. It would not do to go before the world that Atlanta was getting up an exposition with the sole idea of stemming the tide of depression. Out of the discussion was evolved the keynote on which the music of the whole movement was based. It was that the exposition should have as its leading purpose the establishment of closer trade relations lu tweon the United States and the Central and South American republics. The suggestion met the immediate approval of the industrial and commercial centers. "The $200,000 n< eded as a preliminary fund had been pledged in cash subscriptions in less than a week, even the newsboys and the children contributing their mites, the city appropriating $75,000, the additional 8125.'»»> being raised in personal subscriptions. Tv this the county added $75,000 in work, and when the Leg-

islafrjre met tje >»1! wing* fall ft pave s2i£ouo racking th* aggregate subscriptions froni the ciH, the £ta<* and the county $3(>4b00.” ’ I { After inferring to the work of permanj ent organization, when it was found that | the movement had assumed such magnitude that it had even then far surpassed the most liberal expectations or hopes of j its founders. Mr. Howell continued: •’The story of the fight for congressional recog- ■ nition and of the government’s appropriai tion of S2OO,(X>O is too long to tell at this * time, but suffice to say that we got it, • and from that moment the success of the j movement was assured, and the enteri price, already beyond the hounds of our j most sanguine expectations, doubled in scope at pneq. Commissioners were sent j to every State in the Union, to every | South and Central American republic and to every European country. FYom April, I IS'.H, for nine months, these cominissioii- | ers traversed every part of the globe exi plaining the purposes of the exposition and inviting the participation of the world. Every State in the Union appoint- | ed commissioners, as did many Euroj pean countries, and almost every South I and Central American republic. The plans and specifications of Jhe JniUdinra I were approved in the eany part of the present year. Three hundred thousand dollars in bonds, guaranteed by the gate receipts, were issued, on w hich cash was promptly advanced, so that the exposition soon found itself in possession of ample funds with which to push the work of construction. The movement has progressed without a hitch from that day to this and the result will be seen by the more than 2,000,000 visitors who are expected this lull.” WILL NOT EXECUTE THEM. Chinese Refuse to Punish Murderers of Missionaries. Advices from Foo-Choo, China, say ' that the Chinese refuse to execute mur- | derers inq>li<-at.sl in the massacre of misj sionaries unless they are assured that j with the execution of the mon accused ' all other demands shall cense. The work | of the British and American joint commission is therefore stopped. Without the presence of a foreign fleet no punishment for the massacre is probable. Thu vegetarians are relying on ofiicial sympathy t<> begin again seizing and torturing Christians. The Chinese officials at Ku Cheng are proving obstinate,over the results of the inquiry into the outrages upon missionaries and are unwilling to sentence, the guilty. They offer one life for each European who was killed and no more. HE’S READY TO RETIRE. General Schofield's Farewell a Notable Event. The officials of the War Department, at the direction of Secretary Lamont, made preparations for the farewell to Lieut. Gen. Schofield, commanding the army, on the 29th of September, the six-ty-fourth anniversary of his birth. It had long boon proposed to make his leavetaking a notable one. many officers, both In the army and navy, personally presenting the retiring old warrior with some token of the friendship and esteem they fee) for him. Personally Gen. Schofield lias made a popular commanding officer of the army. He puts on no frills with those who are brought into social or business intercourse with him. His door has always been open to those who desire to call upon him in his office in the War Department. and while he is dignified and bual-ness-like in his dealings, yet his manner is at once courteous and even cordial to those who have even but a slight acquaintance with him. With Gon. Schofield’s retirement the title "lieutenant general of the army* dies. He has only held this official title a > 'Wf - * /li > LIEUT. HEN. SCHOFIELD. since February last, when ho was nominated to it by the President in accordance with an act passed by the last Congress. His former title was "major general commanding the army." His successor will hold that rank and title until Congress, if it chooses, creates him lieutenant general. The examination of William E. Brockway. "king of counterfeiters,” was continued before United States Commissioner Romaine. in Jersey City. The commissioner decided that a prima facie case had been made out against Brockaway and held him to the United States grand jury. A popular actress announces that she will soon begin a starring tour in "The Queen of Liars." Will her leading man be Tom Ochiltree, Eli Perkins or Joe Mulhatton?

■ ori: foWgn trabe. i f r > ___ 4. —— VALUE OF I* ARTS DURING THE LAST FISCAL YEAR. I Returns Indicate that the Reduction ' of the Tariff Has Stimulated Importationa—Republican Press l.ndeavoring to Fool the Farmer, Our Foreign Trail® Last Year, The total value of imports during the last fiscal year was $731,957,875, against 654,994.622 the previous year, an increase of $76,963,253. In view of the great Industrial depression which prevailed last year the value of imports was large, it having been exceeded only five times in the history of the country. On the other hand, the value of domestic exports was $793,397.5u0, aguinst sß>r>,2d4.d47. Notwithstanding the large increase in imports and decrease in exports, the latter exceeded the fonner by $61,440,015. The exports of last year have been exceeded eight times in our history, and once—ta 1892-by oyej In view of tlie fact that for ten months of the last fiscal year the imports came in under the new tariff law a comparison of some of the principal items with the same for the year before will be of interest. Os art works, which were put on the free list by the new law, we imported to the value of $3,843,097 last year, against $1,724,394 the year before. Os chemicals, drugs and dyes, the duties on which were materially reduced, we Imported $43,552,569 worth, against $37,553,170 the year before. Os cotton goods we imported $.’>.195,338. against $22,346,547 the year before. <lf earthen, stone and china ware, 8.956,034, against $6,879,437. Os iron and steel. $23,037,237, against $21,314,489. Os leather and manufactures thefeof, 51.3.819,019. against $9,416,145. <»n all these goods the duties were considerably reduct'd. But while there was a decided increase in the Importation of all these articles, the duties ou which were moderately reduced, there was also an increase in imports of goods which were free under the old law and still run ain free. Thus there was an increase from $90,314,676 to $90,129,326 in coffee, from $16,786,152 to $26,122.954 in hides and skins others than furs and from $15,162,333 to $18,477,067 iu unmanufactured ntbl»er and gutta percha. And. again, there was a decrease in the importation of some articles the duties on which were reduced. For example, from $18,954,771 to $17,239,905 in fruits, including nuts; front $6,696.8115 to 52.44J8.584 in lead and manufactures thereof and from $18,154,073 to $17,813,554 in wool and manufactures thereof. The imports of sugar and molasses tell from $126.911191 to $76,499,302. This decrease of more than $50,000,000 was due in part to the enormous importations in anticipation of the 40 per cent, duty, and in part, and principally; to thejrreat fall in the foreign price of raw sugars. The value of wool, which was put on the free list, increased-from $6,107,438 to $25,556,421. and the value of woolen goods, the duties on which were reduced about one-half, increased from $19,391,850 to $.">6,542,391. But the increase iu these articles, as in the ease of others the duties on which were considerably reduced, was In no small measure due to restriction of imports in 1894 in anticipation of lower duties. On the whole the returns indicate that the reduction of the tariff has stimulated importations. Fooling the Farmer. Believing that the farmers will continue to swallow the kind of high tariff rubbish whi.a has so long been doled out to them by partisan organs, the Re- ' publican press is picturing the ruin wrought to the farming industry by the ' deadly Wilson tariff. Glee fully pointing to the Increased importations of farm products from Canada during the past year, these papers claim that the American farmer has been injured to the extent of ail the goods imported, and that for this reason the farmers who in 1892 broke away from protection and elected a tariff reform administration. will next year return to their idol, McKinieyism. Unfortunately for the prospects of Republican support by the farmers, the same papers which find fault because of increased imports of farm products also insist that the American consumer has not been in the least benefited by the reduced tariff. For instance, the New lork Press complains that although the imports of hay from Canada have increased, the price of hay is not lower, but is really higher than under the McKinley tariff. The same, it says, is true of eggs, of which the imports have increased, while prices have not fallen. And the Press might have added wool, which has advanced from two to three cents per pound under the Wiison tariff; wheat, beef and other staple crops. The intelligent farmer who is told that he is being ruined by foreign products will naturally ask: “How can I be injured so long as prices of my crops have not gone down? What difference does it make to me whether one ton or 1.000.000 tons of hay are imported, if the price has gone up, as the protectionists claim it has? If eggs have not been cheapened by the competition of Canadian eggs, then I can’t complain. ■Wheat has advanced nearly 20 cents per bushel since the Wilson tariff took effect, and the price of beef has also gone up, in spite of lower duties. There Is no law to prevent me taking advantage of these higher prices, and you bet I'm not going to stop seiiing things just because jiebple along the northern bor-,; der fibd it pay»<t> buy some, things in Canada. Haven't these fool Republican papers sense enough to see that if. as they tell us. prices have not gone down, but in many cases have advanc-

ed Mirrie tariff, thaf is •..flier foMis? ®'e k“ ow that we i bilving m»ufa<flred goods cheaper beiLverHluties, and that ortl I stable crops have gone up. Vote against ! the tariff which has brought about this I state of affairs? Not much!" The Political Opportunity. I Tim re is but one report from all the . industrial and business centers. It is to : the effect of increased activity in ev- : ery branch of production and higher prices. The increase in wages keeps ' pace with the increased prices of products. iu some departments of the ‘ iron industry orders from buyers are refused. The mills have more than they j can do. The signs of greatest prosperity are in the industries of superior i magnitude in which the investments of | capital are immense, and in «hich, when growth commences, it is perma- ; nent. There is no interruption to the general and continuous rC[>ort of im- • provement in all the branches of trade, : commerce and Industry. The universal ’ revival has visited all parts of the coUn. try alike. The markets, the workshops ; and the farms all have felt the effects I visi^on^ jvhere has the favorable business and iudus--1 trial reaction been greater than in the , agricultural States at the West and South. It has affected the wheat belt, the corn belt and the cotton belt with I equally helpful influences. The great producing States are receiving the greatest benefit j With these fruits of Democratic pol- | ley actually visible there can be no successful argument for disturbing the slti uation The Democratic policy at this i time should be that of awaiting opporI tunities, seeking every available api proach to methods by which the freeI dom of commerce shall be established I ami by which a return can be effected ’ to the traditional Democratic financial policy. The Government should never I interfere, except as necessity dictates, ! with the business, industries or cur- ■ rency of the country. The present era of revived prosperity illustrates this principle. Guarding Against Prosperity. The New York Tribune, the organ of ■ Whitelaw Reid, late Republican candlI date for the Vice Presidency, is one of j the most partisan high tariff papers in I America, and cannot be suspected of j trying to east ridicule on protection, i In a recent issue that paper published an interview with Mr. John Saline Smith, a prominent New York lawyer and member of the Republican State Committee, who said; "I do not think there is any room to question our suc- | cess in next year’s campaign, if we can > only hold on to our present chances,” Asked what he meant. Mr. Smith replied: “I have just returned from a trip to the West. I was iu Indiana, Illinois. and Minnesota, and the crop outlook there is almost marvelous. . . . If nothing interferes to injure that part which is yet outstanding, it Will be a great year indeed,',and the danger to be guarded against will be that of an overflowing prosperity, wherein the Issue born of the last two years way be forgotten/’ Here is a frank confession by a prom- , inent Republican politician that lie rei gards prosperity as a danger to be I guanledagainst.forfearthatthe people j will not again return to office a party pledged to a revival of the tariff issue and a restoration qf the high.duties of I McKinieyism. Could there be clearer evidence of the calamity-liowling.ruin-i predicting sentiment which animates i the Republicans, than this fear of good times? Do the business men. farmers and workingmen want an administration which dejieuds on hard times as a ' reason for turning out the party under I which Republicans confess we are I threatened with “overflowing prosperity?” Increases of Wages Multiply, f Unfortunately for the , poor protec- ' tlonists ami calamity howlers, rejwrts of revival of industry and increases iu ■ wages continue to come in. Last week article' incorporating a ; large hat manufacturing company were 1 filed at Orange. N. J., and this business promises ,to be lively in rhe Oranges. At Norristown, Pa., on Tuesday last, woolen mills employing 300 hands rais- 1 ed wages lu per cent, the increase to begin on Monday next, and the Pltts- > burg and Youghioghenj- Gas-Coal Company advanced wages yesterday. At I Great Barrington. Mass., a dispadch states, the Everett woolen mills, which • have been idle over a year, will start i up this month employing 300 hands. The Maryland Steel Company, at Sparrow's Point, will to-morrow increase the wages of 700 employes: the Increase for many of the men will be 10 jier cent and for others a restoration of the rate before the bard times caused a reduction. These are some of the hundreds of "knockdown” arguments In reply to protectionists, which are increasing almost daily. The “free-trade” Wilson j tariff, which those theorists so blatantly asserted was to ruin industry and beggar wage-earners, continues and will continue to grow in popular favor. An ounce of fact is better than a ton of theory.—New York Herald, Aug. 2. A Room in Copper. Against the protests of the protected interests the Wilson tariff reduced the | duty on copper, exposing our infant copper industry (which dates back less than two hundred years) to the competition of the pauper copper of the rest of the world. The high tariffltes wept over the ruin of another industry and prepared to witness the closing of our copper mines and smelting works. Strange to say, the predicted ruin has not yet appeared. On the contrary, the copper interests are enjoying a business boom unexampled in their history. The enormous consumption by the trolley lines and other electrical developments has created such a demand for copper that the production has had to be great-

1 1v jicreAed to dtainlLin the supply »• tliFsan# time «ir exporns of h:iVc n at'ied Iflgii water mark, i vitas to I"’H ottr heaviest exports dug! iug any one year were 56,4531(2 •wtinds. In the fiscal year IS'iA, during i eleven months of which the Wilson :ar. | iff was in force, we exported 14C.ia<>.' ' 060 pounds. And this is the kind << • . ruin the Democratic miff policy Lis l brought ou our copper industries. Showing Their True Colors. I Tariff reformers have always conI tended that the theory of protyetkm wag I opposed to all foreign trade, and that , if its advocates were consistent they would entirely abolish international commerce by enacting a prohibitory I tariff. But the McKinleyites have been i ashamed of the conclusion to which' i their logic unerringly pointed, and nave i protested that they were anxious to extend our foreign trade. So while one j set of high tariff orators was clamoring fora law which would keep the fori eigner out of our markets, another set i were contriving so-balled “reciprocity laws” for the purp—e of bulldozing tlie foreigner into trading yitb us. The laTlure of ’‘reciprocity” as a means of opening up foreign markets was so evident under the McKinley tariff that the trade-hating wing of the Republican party is coming to the front and boldly declaring for a policy of total exclusion of foreign goods. In a letter published in the American Wool and Cotton Reporter, Judge William Lawrence, President of the National Woolgrowers' Association, tells what the wool duties are to be if the protectionlsts are allowed to make a new tariff. Not satisfied with the old McKinley duties, the wool-growers* will demand 12 cents a pound on class one ! wools, 14 cents on class two, "with an ! annual increase of at least threefourths of a cent a pound until the duty shall be prohibitory.” And he ; adds: "Protective duties are only val- ! uable as they keep out foreign goodi i All the foreign products should be ex eluded. Why hoi;” That is thetrne position of the believers iu die Chinese policy of trade exclusion. Judge Lawrence deserves credit for boldly stating the real principles of pr<>tectf«i. even though his views are worthy only of a barbarian. If the rest of the McKinleyites will be ! equally frank there will be no mistake I as to the issue between Democrats and j Republicans in the next campaign. When the people are plainly asked to decide between a policy of free and extended commerce with all the world, and one of Chinese-like trade exclusion, there enn be no doubt as to their answer. In 1892 an overwhelming majority voted against the doctrine of trade restriction. A still greater majority will overthrow the party which ' advocates trade prohibition. Lower Tariff RcdnceS Trust Profits* I The operations of the Sr.csr Trust under the Wilson tariff, as set forth in | the report of Willett & Gray, the well- ' known sugar statisticians, show that J during the first six months of this year the trust made a not profit of $3,000.1000. This is said to be the poorest i showing made in any six months of the ! trust’s history, and the report makes i it clear that the German granulated sugar. which was al,out 3fl cents per pound cheaper than the' American, has lieen used to a considerable extent by i fruit caiiuers and'preservers. > This decrease in sugar Trust nrotits \ s proof of the wisdom of the Wilson | tariff in reducing the protection ou repined sugars. Had the trust no tariff i advantage over foreign refiners the competition in refined sugar would have still further beciefited the American ; people by reduced pri vs. Sugar can i be refined cheaper in this country than ; in any part of the world, but it will be ■ dearer than in other countries so long as the Sugar Trust is protecied in ?s monopoly by even a small duty. Chancreil Their Tune. A few months ago all the Republican papers were crying: “Revise the tar • : and "Walt until Congress meets; we’ll show you how to. make a tariff of enough revenue tq support the Government!" And all the while column editorials kept appearing telling just h w the wonderfully wise Republicans would fix up the schedules and bring back prosperity to a famishing people. Well, we’ve waited; and we've s n prosperity come immediately and : ipresslvely. We haven't had to wait for a Republican schedule or a Republic a policy. The new tariff and Deinocra’ic rule have so revived the industries of the country that the Republicans havelost all their thunder. They’ve had to change their tune. The cry has now become: “Mend it or end It!” Ami in time this will give way to an awful silence on the part of the advoe;i "s of McKinieyism. The people will tl en Like a hand, and set to mending and ending some of the wild vagaries >f the Republican spell binders.—Philadelphia Record. Lower Duties; More Revenue. An unanswerable argument again-’-further tariff tinkering and against the schemes of the McKinley propagandist, schemes of the McKinley propagandists, who threaten new tariff agitation as tlie issue In the next Presidential cami>aign, is found In the folio-'-ing brief and sound review: “This increase shows that the new tariff, with its reduced duties, willyield the government more revenue " than did the McKinley tariff with its high and almost prohibitive duties. Some ‘protection’ journals are clamoring for higher tariff rates, alleging that sueh rates would increase revenue. But ~ it is now evident that a return to Mc-e Kinley duties an imports, wepld not ins , crease, but would decrease, the revenue, and consequently would 'crippl? the tretsury."—Union, Atlantic City. N. J.