Democratic Press, Volume 2, Number 66, Decatur, Adams County, 16 January 1896 — Page 6

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AN ••IMPREGNABLE" TARIFF. The Washington correspondent of a Chicago Republican organ •*)’• that the tuoMt of Dlnflej’a cuuimittwtueu Crown down the suggestion that $30,tn<.r<> rweuue be raUed by doubling the beer tax. "They »aj' that while reveuuea could undoubtedly be raiwl quickly and abundantly by Internal taxation, to do co would render the Gorman tariff Impregnable.” Indeed! This is an admission that the people will not stand a nwtoration of McKinley duties unless u]»>n the pretext that higher duties arc neces■ary in order to raise revenue. If more revenue is not needed the new law is impregnable. And if more is needed •nd it can be raised otherwise than from imports still the new tariff la Im pregnable. This explains why the protectoes and their attorneys in Washings >n Insist that more revenue Is absolutely indispensable and that it must be raised by tariff taxes of the protective sort and In no other way. This Is complimentary to the new tariff and the reverse of complimentary to the McKinley tariff. But what do these laritfltes for private revenue mainly think of the intelligence of the Am. rican {tropic? Do they think that people who an- sharp enough to prefer paying $100,(MW,000 for public revenue to paving $3<MUMMi.Csst, one-third for public and two-thirds for private revenue. are so dull as not to know that the plan of paying for public revenue only ta entirely practicable? If so they are much mistaken. The people know that taxation for revenue •nly is entirely practicable, even if the protectees do not admit it And they •ls<> know' that no more taxes of any kind are necessary or are likely to be •nless in the unlikely event of war. And they know still further that If more revenue Is needed at all It is needed Immediately, that it can be obtained Immediately and without additional expense- for colic-ting by Increasing the tax on beer, and that it cannot be had immediately by imposing duties to Increase the pricea of their clothing. If Mr. Dingley’s committee has nothing better to offer than the McKinley wool pchedule and double prices for clothing the people will understand the matter perfectly and Improve the opportunity to.express their opinion of the Republican policy of forcing McKinley-! isr.i back upon the country when they jo to the polls next November. They will cause it to be understood that the new tariff is impregnable in so far as it Is x departure from the McKinley system of licensed robbery. Wants Free Refined Sugar. The wicked Cobden Club is at it again. Its dark designs against American industry are once more exhibited, this time In an assault on the very eita- i del of protection. As everybody knows the only safeguard for our infant industries Is the Protective Tariff League. ‘ an organization of kind-hearted, unselfish. noble-minded citizens, who purely cut of love for their fellow-men devote a great deal of money to teaching the i people that high taxes are a blessing •nd increased commerce an evil. The •tories published in Democratic papers io the effect that the la-ague is a gang ©f selfish boodlers, who are engaged tn fooling the public so that they can get rich through tariff legislation, are not believed—by those who do not know- the facts. To aid in Its good work of loving mankind the League publishes an organ called the American Economist, probably because its editors know nothing of political economy. This paper is devoted to the expression of trade-hating •entinient; was an ardent defender of the late McKinley tariff, and urgently advocates Its restoration. So learned •nd logical was its exposition of trade prohibition doctrines that the secret •mlssaries of the Cobden Club determined to destroy it at all hazards. A plot was formed nml several tons of yellow British gold Imported for the purpose of corrupting the honest men Who stood as a bulwark between the American people and the opportunity to purchase cheaper and better goods. The villainous scheme of the bold, bad Oobdenites seems to have beeu ©nly too successful. For in its issue of November 21lth. the Economist renounces McKinleyisiu as applied to an Important Industry, and declares in favor of free trade in refined sugar. “Free refined sugar, and protection for domestic beet sugar, will kill the sugar trust. The sugar trust is a public nuiounce. an excresence abhorrent to free Americanism." Clearly tills is the work of British •old. Else how would a staunch protection paper be found advocating free trade in anything? Are our great sugar refineries to be subjected to the competition of the foreign refiners? Must the highly paid (In the minds of Republican orators) workmen employed by the protected sugar trust, have their wages cut down by free trade In sugar? If free sugar will kill the sugar trust, would not free rails kill the steel rail combine, or free glass the window glass trust ? That an organ of the Chinese policy of prohibiting foreign trade should favor free refined sugar is ridiculous. There are only two explanations possible. Ono is that the organ has been bribed by foreign gold. The other is that its editor has discovered the truth ©f the Democratic claim that free trade in the products controlled by trusts, wifi kill those monopolies. In tather case It is evident that protec-

tion is Mug wounded In the bouse of | Its friends. Break Ins the Eleventh Vummsndment All good Americans are familiar with ths ten comandments. which contain the mural law as It was delivered to Moses. It Is true that these commandmenu are often violated, the one, •Thou ahalt uot steal." being openly broken by protective tariff laws, which take the products of the people’s labor and give them to monopolies and trusts. But although the principles of common morality are thus denied by protection, it Is generally believed that the responsibility rests wholly with the men and party which make the laws It is time that it should be distinctly understood that there is another commandment. equally binding with that J quoted above. It Is not found In the Mosaic law, but is Inherent In the nal ture of things, and reads: "Thou shalt ; not allow thyself to be stolen from." That men should refuse to allow others i to rob them, la ns necessary to the as- ' MH-latlon of mankind in orderly civilized society as that they themselves should uot steal. A manly assertion of the Individual's right to bis own property is a duty which <-annot Justly be ignored, if it is wrong for one man or set of men to steal, it Is also wrong for other men to allow them to steal. The highest Judicial authority, the Supreme Court of the United States, has asserted that: "To lay with one hand the power of the government on the property of the citizen, and with the other to bestow It upon favored individuals t» aid private enterprises and build up private fortunes. Is none the less robbery because it Is done under the forms of law and is called taxa Hon." That this is true no fair-minded citizen will deny. It follows that the whole system of tariff taxation for protection’s sake: that is. for the purpose of aiding private enterprises or Industries. Is robbery, pure and simple. The duty of every honorable man Is ' therefore plain. He must resist the ag-’ gression on his rights, must refuse ta' I allow others to steal from him. and must join In wiping from the statute book every vestige of protective laws which make private gain out of public, loss. It is not enough that good men should not steal the property of others., They must insist that others should no longer steal from them, and that the great abomination of wholesale stealing under the forms of law. should be completely done away with. By so doing they will keep the eleventh commandment Paying; for Dead Horeee. On the last day of last year the troas ury department had a disagreeable reminder of an unfortunate venture made' by the United States some thirty-odd years ago. Among the bonds that fell due, prin-1 cipal and interest, on the first of Jan,; uary was a total of (3,680,000 of the principal sum issued in aid of the following railroads: Central Pacific Railroad $1,000,000 Kansas Pacific Railway Company, late Union I’aeific Railway, eastern division 1,440,0(10 Central branch. Union Pacific Railroad Company, late Atchison and Pike's Peak Railroad Company, assignee of the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad Company 640,U00 These rot ds were to have made good their Indebtedness to the government, but they have not done so. Tills Is but small part of the grand total, which Is over $125,000,000. But Uncle Sam has to pay it. There are, notwithstanding ' this lesson, persons in the United i States who believe it entirely proper for the government, which is a pauper, ' because it subsists only on the taxes I rung from the people, to encourage ' private enterprises with its credit, with ! substantial land donations, and In any | other way that adventurers may suggest Among the various schemes con- I template<l by persons ready to raid the ; national treasury is a contribution to | the Nicaragua canal scheme for the benefit of Warner Miller and politicians of his class. We may expect Just such legislation at the present Congress in behalf of the Nicaragua canal scheme as the Congress of 1862 and 1864 during the war jieriod. when the distress of the country was great, made In behalf of the selfish scoundrels who manipulated the Pacifies. From n Business Standpoint. So dan.aging to all trade would be another general tariff discussion that many expressions of anxiety on the subject have reached the Dry Goods Economist from both sides of the Atlantic. Unless, however, the logic of the situation and the signs of the times are equally at fault, nothing so disturbing as a new tariff will be seriously proposed by this Congress. In the first place there Is not time. It takes many months to formulate a new law and talk it through to an agreement in both houses, ami .nontlis more must elapso before it can be put into operation; and Just now tin- groat necessity is for a speedy increase in the revenues. Again, such a tariff law as would alone satisfy Republican traditions and make it worth their political while to give business a year's paralysis would probably be too highly protective to have tbe desired effect on the revenues, in which case It could never get by the President.—Dry Goods Econo. mist. J. B. Moons, of Brussels, vU'* spent $200,000 in collecting stamps.

LONDON’S WAR SCARE GERMANY AND ENGLAND MAY FIGHT. Croat Britain Active In Military Preparation* Feeling Against Germany Gains Intensity Emperor Decllnca to RrvosnUe English Nnyeralnty. Crisis In African Affaire. Ixtndon is for tear. Jingoism, hysterical In Its fierce intensity, has taken possession »f the populace, and nothing will satisfy them but the immediate shedding of German blood. At least this is the tenor of late Ixmdon cablegrams and newspaper editorials. The same rash cries that startled and thrilled the excited Parisians in WTO are awakening the echoes of the murky and fog-enshrouded metropolis. The hoarse shouts are but a paraphrase of the impetuous Gallic yells, "On to Berlin." Tory newspapers of the ultra-con-servative stripe are to blame for this menacing tumult. For days they have been

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fuisomely extolling he buccaneering exploits of Jameson against the Boers. Tlie rimes has fatuously stated in a double•aded leading article that the “march *'iP remain a glorious tradition for the Anglo-Saxon race,” while the St. James' Sazvtte says it relieves to a certain extant the dark odium attaching to Majuba Hill. But the principal cause of the excite©ent is a dispatch from Berlin that the »> - - — —

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German emperor has declared, in no ambiguous phrases, that he will no longer recognize the treaty of 1884, tints expressing an intent to dash aside the British claim of snz<-rainty over the South African republic. Hardly had this news been published ivhen the Globe issued an extra edition xnnouneing under "scare headlines” that urgent and extreme activity prevailed in the war office and in tho naval dockyards, tnd adding the following startling tidings: “A dispatch received from the military amp at Aldershot says that the general >e!ief, almost backed by proof, prevails there that the authorities are considering the mobilizing of the army reserves and part of the militia. Tlie men employed in the ordnance stores are all very busy." This announcement simply intensified

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the ’nflanied condition of the popul.-ir mind; and John Bull, ns represented In the average pot-valiant Londoner, shouted in raucous tones his utter detestation and ‘ defiajice of the German ruler and bis army. The activity in diplomatic circles hn* seldom been equaled, a correspondent says. It Is feared if the dispatches announcing the bellicose intention of Em-

1 peror William be true that Europe will be In a blase in a few -lays. But there must be no doubt touching th* attitude of the Salisbury government. It will most assuredly tight for tbe maintenance of the treaty, and no diplomatic argument w ill bo potent enough to swerve it from that stern determination. Already Sir Frank Lascelles, the British ambassador, has boen i -uand of ths Imperial Gorman minister of state, \ -a Biebersteln, an explanation touching these astounding reports affecting the attitude of the kaiser. This demand is expected to counteract in a measure the querulous note of the Berlin government in regard to the bush whacking operations of Cecil Rhodes and his ministers In South Africa. Emperor William's Defiance. Emperor William's declaration to Dr. W. J. Myds. Secretary of State for the Transvaal, that he would not recognise any claim of suzerainty over tbe Boer republic, coining as it doos so soon after the note to President Krueger congratulating him on the defeat of the English invaders under the lead of Dr. Jameson, is particularly offensive to British pride. Great Britain boldly annexed the Irons vaal to Gape Colony in 1877, at a time

I when the republic was in difficulty with I the native Africans. Although the annexation was said to be in response to a : request from residents in the Transvaal, the Boers soon rebelled against British rule. By the treaty of 1884 the independence of the South African republic was recognized in all matters relating to internal affairs. But Great Britain retained a suzerainty over the country, and it was through her ministers that all foreign negotiations of the republic were to be conducted. In the eyes of the British, therefore. Em peror William is overstepping the bounds of courtesy in presuming to communicate with the Government of the Transvaal at aH. except through the ministers of her majesty's government. W iliam's declaration that he will recognize no suzerainty over the Transvaal, which tbe British claim by virtue of treaty, is an added insult that cannot be passed over without I a serious humiliation to tbe pride of Great | Britain. The sitnation ia complicated, too. by the nn - ttled condition of affairs in South Africa, from whence trustworthy information is exceedingly meager. Cecil Rhodes has resigned the premiership of Cape ColI ony. but the reason for the action is not I yet apparent. < Ince before, when there was an intimation of interference from the home government with the action of ! the chartered company in conducting a i v -rof aggression against the Matabeles. ; Rhodes, in threat, suggested die possibili :ty of a British South African republic in--1 dependent of Great Britain. It is highly I improbable that Jameson's raid into tbe ] Transvaal was made without tbe knowh j edge and connivance of Rhodes. Focalb!y that uncrowned king of South Africa hopes for an early realization of hie dn ams of federation, and ba* resigned in order that be may not be hampered by official responsibilities.

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— Os course, we want to fight with the st of the boys, but we shall not be meas--1 ured for a brass-mounted suit before | spring. Uncle Sam will not permit bull fights in t! - entry, but he isn't averse to taking a hand, if necessary, in a John Bull fight I elsewhere. The London Globe thinks “the Monroe doctrine is dead.” Well, we're keeping

i it yet, and no one will be permitted to jump on the corpse. After nil, do we really ne-ed a war? Isn't our supply of colonels large enough? Tlie last revolution in Colombia is said to have cost the citizens of that country $4 apiece. Dirt cheap! Why, an ordinary : Fourth of July celebration in this country costs a fellow more than that

CRISP FORMS OF THOUGHT. aeessa*amnema»mess"mamn^asaasaa —, * | a SOLOMON AND TUPPER TWISTED TO SUIT A MODERN TRADE. The Wisdom of the Wages and the W It of the Masses. Even the Work of the Missionaries, Arc Grist In the Mill— They Are Poached I poo by Authors and Advrrtisera. Whether Solomon Invented all bls proverbs or gathered them from many wource* with a nicer sense of permanent worth than Mr. Tupper exercised in bis later compendium H and ever will be an upon question. Solomon's copyright ran out long before Tupper's time, and both are now poached upon with impunity by all classes, from authors to advertisers. But. taken by themselves, proverbs well repay careful Study. Students of ethnology find in the proverbs of the different races th.- clearest proofs of their real characteristics, for they are the shrewdest and yet moat Intimate expressions of their daily life. Judged by the comparison of these homely sayiugs It will be found that all nations are of one kindred, possessing common needs, common aspirations, and seeking similar reliefs from toil and labor. On the dustiest shelves of our libraries may be found collection* of all the proverbs of the different nations, quite a large proportion of the work having resulted from the interest which missionaries have taken in their earnest studies of the uncivilized peoples whom they seek to Instruct That the shrewd saying* of the Scotch or the bright hits of the Irish should be carefully collected gives little cause for surprise; but a collection of Abyssinian proverbs, of those of the Tamil language, of Icelandic lore, of the Sanscrit, South Sea Island. Chinese, atid Hottentot Solomons does excite curiosity. The missionaries nave found it a pleasant as well as a profitable task. It delves deep into the idioms of the language, tells with unerring accuracy the mental tendency of the people, and by introducing the foreigner into the inner thought of both home and trade shows him the real life of those who adopt them as everyday expressions. It is inq>ossible to road the well-collated proverbs of the Chinese without realizing that a home life exists in that Bowery kingdom which rivals that of many more civilised countries. No Solomon, no descendant of Abraham, could eclipse the trade proverbs of the Chinese. They touch on trade with a keenness and thoroughness which proves them to be masters in that school. Tbe baser life of the Hottentot, the loose morals of the fellah, the independent spirit of the Briton, are all crystallized in their national proverbs. In England and many other countries it was formerly very usual for a tradesman to select some proverb as hi* motto, and thus post his principles plainly over his shop door. It remained, nowever. for an American house to appropriate the proverbs of the world en masse, and use them for their own advancement. New Yorkers who ride on the elevated roads, or people who in less favored localities still jog along in the slow street cars, are familiar with the blue and white proverbs which proclaim the merit* of Sapoiio to the world.' Every omnibus in London and. almost every “tram car” in England is similarly adorned. They made their first appearance on the Broadway omnibuses, were gathered out of over 4,000 pages of the world's collections. and twisted to suit the case. Many of them are beyond easy recognition in their now dross, many are entirely originel, but these are also printed between inverted eommat, which lends a glamour of antiquity to them. To-day we are told that over 2O.<W of these blue cards are displayed in public conveyances carrying over ioOO.OOu passengers daily. Condensed thought generally requires padding to make it intelligible to the masses, just as the stomach of the horse must be distended with hay to make the oats digest readily; but with proverbs it is quite otherwise. Their popularity is only reached becauv they have passel muster as being clear to every mind. They tell their story with a directness and brevity which pleases the public, as the dictionary did the old Scotch woman—‘"They air braw stories," she said, “birt unco’ short.” Turned to tell the practical story of Sapoiio. they often acquire new interest. Who roads the advice, “Be patient and yon will have patient children,” without an innate respect for the advice which follows, not to fret over house cleaning, but do it easily with Sapoiio? And who can repress a smile when the Rapolionic artist pictures the patient father and the impatient twins defying the pr verb? But the mother will lie back

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sooner if she follow the advice. Our familiar “The pot calls the kettle black" takes a new interest in its Italian form. The pot says to the pan, "Keep off or you’ll smutch me.” The universal toll of the world finds expression in the Catalan phrase, "Where wilt thou go, Ox, that thou wilt not plough?" Almost nil nations possess a proverb which declares that “if you forbid a fool a thing, that he will do,” and with confidence in the good will of the public the advertiser of Sajiolio puts it in this form: "Forbid a fool a thing and that he will do.” So we say for variety: “Don’t use Sapolio—but then you’re not n fool.” "A touch of nature which makes all the world akin” springs out of the quaint thought that "A needle, though naked itself, clothes others.” Who can hear it once and ever gee a needle without recalling it? Who fails to recognize the picture it suggests of 'he nid given to the poor by the poor, and of the help which is everywber gained from the humblest of assistants? Slang never can be confounded with proverbial phrases. It seems universal, but it is merely a local form used to express a transient but popular idea. Years ago, when a general rush at hotel keeping resulted in many failures, the slang ran: “He's a very good man, but he can't keep a hotel.” All such phrns«« are local and temporary. They do not survive—lndeed, rarely possess merit enough to reach a second year without evident decline in i popularity. We have nsticed that none of the advertisements of Sapolio make I ase of slang, and probably for this reason. Rstwrally many sf the bent proverbs

used In this connection rotate to honso, bold cleanliness, and all the original on«a are framed to that eud, "Dirt in ik« house build* the highway lu le-ggary,** di-M-rvt-s rvoiguitloti, despite its origlo, lliuisehuld sayings. In the sense us fuuro walled building*, full of furniture, are quite lacking In many Eastern tungueo. We believe that no rtiferonee tv clean housekeeping can lie found In the Koran or even in the Bible, rxi-ept that us th* woman who swept tbe bouse to tlmj lost coin. Shak*(H‘*ro rather slights ,),• snbject, but whether because It was not deemisl important in that intellectual but dirty age or because hr sosrol to grander things, we will not discuss, but the Eng. laud vs to-day well say* of home, "Tho cleaner ’tie the < , osirr ’tis,” and our Ameri*

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can advertiser improves the opportunity to add that humble home* made bright with Sapoiio are better than tawdry palaces. Alas, for the thoughtlessness ~f the man who forgot to ask whether his bride used Sapoiio. The Si-otch proverb records his car i: “Ye bar tied a knot wl* your tongue j« winno loose wi' yonr teeth.” Coyotes and Cattle. A novel scheme for saving hi* cattle from the droves of coyotes that infest the region Ins been hit upon by a rancher of Glen Rock. Wash. He luta placed twllrt on the necks of a grot number of cattle in bis herds, and tbe result has been to scare the coyotes away. In the two months since he belled his herds he has not lost a single animal, while previously his 100 averaged at least one steer a day. Coyotes are becoming more of a ]>efft every season In many parts of Washington and Oregon, despite all the efforts of tbe cattlemen and farmers to exterminate them. Thousands of dollars are spent every year n waging war on the lu-asts, but with little result. Polson availed for a time, tuft now the coyotes refuse to touch tbe poisoned carcasses of steers strewn about for their consumption. Tbe only way of killing them is by shooting them, and this is a feeble and wholly inadequate means. Occasionally tbe residents of a district combine and bare a grand round-up hunt, driving the coyotes toward tbe center of a einle and slaughtering them there, and this is the only means of appreciably thinning them out occasionally. In some regions the ]>aeks of gray wolves are as numerous and troublesome as the coyotes. The coyotes are particularly adept chicken thieves, and. Indeed, ara a general pest around the farm yards. A Great Financier. An old negro down in Georgia was lately telling something of bis condition as a property holder, and seemed quite pleased that he was so well off. He said: “Ise bought sum ole marster 30 acres er grouu', en Ise got all dot under cultivation 'cep* *bout 40 acres, en I bought de groun* for $75. Dat's all paid off, ‘cep’ 'bout SO3. Den I bought me er mule fur SSO. en I gin mah notes fur dat. But I swapped de mule off fer a steer, en de ole tool steer he goes an’ gets stuck in er bog an fo’ I fines 'lm dat steer he Je’s up en died dab, sab. Still en all, Ise got de notes on de mule er ninnin' yet, en dcy’s tnos’ly paid up ’cep' 'bout $45, en am glttin' Tong monst'ous well, I thinks, fur dese yar hard times. Ole marso. he say. es 1 keep on lak dis I gwan to be er rich man fo’ de m'Henlmum come—whatsmever dat is, sail—en he say. furder, he did, dat am slch er mon st 'ous good flamseer dat I <>ter be sawtail mix up, some way. wld de nasblnul debt. But den Ise got «r---nuff to ten ter dout foolin’ ’long wld other folkses depts.” Thought. Thought of any kind, to be valuable, must be conservative—that Is, it must hold with a firm grasp all the truth that the past has handed down. It must accept humbly and reverently that which tlie wisdom of the ages has stored up, and so thoroughly incorporate it that it may form its very bono and muscle. Only thus can it acquire stability or permanence. At the same time It must be expansive, ft must have the power of growth, it must be hospitable to new truths and frosh thoughts, willing to pursue Inqulrieo, to attack difficulties, to solve knotty problems. Thus only can it Uand down to posterity something worthy of Its acceptance, and pay to the future Ui« debt It owes to rhe past. His Memory’s Use. The Philadelphia Timos tells a pathetic story of poor, patient little Ned, who hail been kept after school again and again to learn a simple stanza which all the rest of the class bad mastered. At last he broke down and sobbed. “I can't do It, Miss Gray; I Just can’t do It. Father bays it's because I have such a poor ” “A poor what, Ned?” “You know what it is,* a glimmer of light flickering in his face; “the thing you forget with.” No Doubt About Her Menniqg. “Cheer up, old man. A woman's ‘No’ often means Tes,' you know.” “But she didn't say 'No.' When I asked her if she would marry mo she said, ‘I will, I don't think.' I didn't even get treated with respect.”—la* dianapolis Journal.