Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1884 — Page 2

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NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Reeord of the Week. EASTERN. Jesse Carter (colored) was hanged at J*lttsburgh for twin*: accessory to a murder Be prayed and sunc on the scaffold, and asserted his innoceace. Near Miss Nivison’s Children’s Sanittartnm, at Bammonton, N. J., was found buried the remains of twenty-one children, incased in iwde pine boxes. Recently the ■death-rate it the institutiaa, which is a purely charitable one, has been excessive, the manageress ascribing* to the use«f Irish ■moss as food. The discovery caused much ■excitement, and the positions of the bodies Bhowed Slat but a hasty interment was given the little victims. Mr. Austin Oorbin, who ■acts as Treasurer for the institution, says he knows little of its management. Henry C. Work, the popular songwriter, died at Hartford, Cona. Courtney failed to materialize at Oak Point, N. Y., for his ra« with Ross, the latter rowing over the three-mile course (with turn) in 23:59*4The death is announced of Gen. •James Watson Webb, who made a national reputation as editor of the Courier and Enquirer, of New York. The schooner Fanny Fern was run ■down off Gleueester, Mass., by an outward•bound coal-oarrying steamer, and four of tihe crew were drowned. At Chappaqua, N. Y.. Miss Gabrielle •Greeley’s horse ran away, breaking her right ■shoulder aad injuring her internally.

WESTERN.

The Knights of Pythias (uniformed rank) prize drill at Indianapolis, open te the world, was won by the Lafayette (Ind.) Division. Capt. Mitchell,: of the same division, got the special prize for best commander. “Excelsior.’’ Kiralfy Brothers’ latest •spectacular production, continues t« draw crowded bouses to McVicker’s Theater., Chicago, nightly. The pir.ee consists entirely of ballet and pantomime, and is mounted in a lavish manner. Hundreds of people are em* ployed upon the stage, an I their -clever manipulation, the bright costumes, said the quick transformation of scenes, serve to make a brilliant and dazzling performance. It will hold, the stage at this theater far several weeks to-come. In Detroit, Mrs. Laura Schulz was found in her night-dress on the sidewalk with ■her throat cut, but still living. Her husband was detained for two hours, and released for lack of evidence against him. She ronevered consciousness and held a long private interview with ‘her husband, showing that the -case was on© of attempted suicideon account of family, troubles. Lieutenant Rice, an army Quartermaster, walked off a car platform near Mexico, Missouri, while in a somnambulistic •condition, and was instantly killed. Mrs. Long, of Princeton, Fn, who murdered a lad :named Whittemore because be knew of her guilty intimacy with his father, bos entered a iplea qf guilty, and been sentenced, to State Prison^for life. Gen. H. B. Bearce, a well-known mining man, was fatally shot by Samuel Derry, near Leadvllle, Gol. The Cincinnati N&ws-JournaTM staff have been discharged and the paper discontinued. The Sun, started by the Enquirer, takes its place. Twenty-four members of the Salvation Army were arrested at Cleveland, Ohio, for disturbing the peace, kept in the cooler -all night, .and fined in the morning, Judge Hutchins, in passing sentence, saying the Salvation Army had.become a nuisance, and, like all. nuisances, must.be abated.

SOUTHERN.

Mrs. "Wieseman, tthe wife of a Watertown (Wfe.) maerchant,. after living happily ■with her ihusband for forty years, hanged herself without any known reason. Col. T-emHuford, of Kentucky, who killed Judge Elliott, was ireturned to the Central Lunatic Asylum at Louisville. He escaped from ithat place a year ago. He presented a pitiable spectacle, and probably will not live long. It is understood -that the Directors of the Louisville and Nashville Road have been requested ito resign, in order that leading stockholders may he given the work of reorganization. Ed Eli and Wiilliam Freesrant, both ;negroes, were hanged for murder at Clinton, La., and Orangeburg, 6.>C., respectively. William Shotwell, of Harrison, Ark.. was caught la rthe aat .of firing a store, .and is believed do have caused several recent t Mazes. a reward of $1,600 was paid for his -detection, and bellies in joiLto avert a lynching. j Charles Goldstein,, ,a defaulting merchant of Selma, AUa., w.as arrested at Quebec •on Acapias issued by the Superior Court, for wlebtfl due in New Yfork. As he had engaged passage for Europe, he,offered a satisfactory jamounttln cash to settle, *nd was released. The State Supreme Goiwrt has declared that the Tennessee statute making .the keeping of a gamtaluag-house ,a felony is constitutional.

POLITICAL.

At ift meeting of the delegates from Che Territories jin attendance at the National Bepublican iGonvention, it was resolved to pness.on the Committee on Kesolutions and Ib# eoruvestion <the desirability of a dedaratlom in favor of appointing: citizen* of the various USerritories to the Federal ofßce* therein, W. K. Meade and G. H. Ourajr trill represent Arizona in the National Democratic Convention, They %avo been instructed for the old ticket Mr. Tilden lias been interviewed as to his intentions in referent® to correspondence with the Democratic National Conven. tieo. He refused to say anything: about his Intentions. He had several times denoted Ms position, he said, and bad nothing more |o oomsanoicate at presentThs Vermont Democrats in conven-

tion at Montpelier nominated candidates for State officers as follows: Governor, L. W. Eedington; Lieutenant-Governor, N. P. Bowman; Stats Treasurer, Henry Gillet; Secretary of State, H. F. Brigham. The following were elected delegatcs-at-large to the National Democratic Convention: B. B. Smalley, John C. Burke, Amos Aldrich, and Frank H. Bas com. They are not Instructed, but are for Tilden if he accepts. „ The Democrats of the Fifth Pennsylvania District have nominated Paris Halde man for Congress. The Alabama Democrats nominated Gov. O’Neal for another term and Secretary of State Phelan and M. C. Burke for Auditor. They completed their ticket by nominating T. C. McClellan for Attorney General and S. Palmer for State Superintendent of Schools. Congressman Wilkins was renominated by the Democrats of the Fifteenth Ohio District.

WASHINGTON.

The House Committee on Elections recommend that the various contestants and the members whose seats were contested, no matter what the result, be allowed sums varying from 83,540 to SI,OOO each. Gen. O. E. Babcock, who was Gen. Grant's Private Secretary, Col. Levi P. Luckey, who was his assistant at the time, •and wbo has been his chief clerk, and B. P. Sutler, a resident of Washington, were drowned off the <coast of Florida, where they were superintending the construction of a lighthouse. The Comptroller of the Currency has authorized the Union National Bankof Cleveland, Ohio, to begin business with a capital •of 81,000,000. The following is a recapitulation of the national -debt statement issued on the 2d last.: Interest-bearing debt— Four and one-half per cents $ 550,000.000.00 Four per cents 737.660,55*'.ui Three per oents.. 2i2.M94,000.t0 Refunding certificates 29i.100.00 Navy pension fond. 14,000,000.09 Total interest-bearing debt.. .$1,244,845,650.00 Matureddebt. $ 12,578,275.26 Debt bearing no interest— Legal-tender notes 846,739.481.00 Certificates of deposit 1i,050,00y.00 Gold and silver certificates 216,1 12,531.60 Fractional currency 6,981.379.31 Total without Interest $ 580,883,21 1.;.i Total debt (principal) $1,838,:.07,136.57 Total Interest. 10,328,993.52 Total cash In treasury 389,368.637.49 Debt, less cash in Treasury...'.... 1,459,267,482 co Decrease during May 4.762.24L20 Decrease of debt since June 30, 1881. „„ 91.823,714.88 Current liabilities— Interest due and unpaid $ 1,499,532.15 Debt on which interest has ceased 12.578,275. 26 Interest thereon. 320,818.75 Gold and silver certificates 216,112,351.00 Cask balance available. 147,817,660.33 Total $ 389,368,637.49 Available assets— Cash m Treasury... $ 389.368,637.49 Bonds issued to Pacific Railway Companies, interest payable by United States— Principal outstanding $ 64,623,512.00 Interest accrued, not yet paid.... 1,015,5j,.80 Interest paid by United States.... 61,160.798.82 Interest repaid by companies— By transportation service $ 18,120,320.12 By cash payments, 6 per cent, n:t earnings. , 665,198.87 Balance Interest paid by United States.. 42.385,2'9.°3 It is now thought probable that Congress will not adjourn before the Ist of August.

MISCELLANEOUS. At the meeting of the General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church, at St. Louis, it was decided to take ho action on the subject of musical instruments in the church. The anti-organist section of tho meeting protested against this, and a meeting has been held at which it has been decided to nail a convention of anti-organ congregations at Xenia, Ohio, when tho question of seceding from the present organization will be discussed. The value of the prodace exported from New York last week was $5,254,000. Bradstreet’s Commercial Agency reports a general improvement in business throughout the country, being the first ga'n In .trade noted since the panic among the Wall street speculators. For the year ended March 31 there were deposited In New Hampshire savings banks $43,008,000. The tax on the banks this year amounts to $415,000. At the Cathedral in Cincinnati, one evening last week, William Patterson arrived In* coach with Ella Keating to be married. Anna Flynn, with whom Patterson had been living, was lying in wait, and when Patter, eon stepped out of the coach she tore off his cravat and otherwise assaulted him. The warn an was arrested. The clergy refusod to solemnize the marriage. The Baltimore and Ohio Road took a large party of newspaper correspondents from Chicago to Washington in twenty-three hours, making the last forty-four miles in lees than a minute to the mile. When nearing the Ohio River six miles were run in four ■aiautea. Four children of Alexander Carroll, living in the vicinity of Ottawa, Ont., perished by the destruction of their home by lightning. At Sherbrooke, P. Q., Calista Bell, aged 19; Joseph Cesrtermer, aged 15; and Octave Hupe, aged 18, were drowned while bathing. A Galling schooner was wrecked in Trinity Bay, N. F„ and the crew of thirteen perished. Over 200 depositors of the Penn Bank of Pittsburgh have brought suit against the officers and directors for the full payment of their claims. The Postal Telegraph and Cable Company has formed an alliance with the Bankers and Merchants' lines, and tho joint control of 55,003 miles of wire will be vested in representatives of both lines.

FOREIGN.

Oscar Wilde, the Anglo-Irish aesthete and patron of the sunflower, was married to Miss Lloyd, the daughter of a Dublin lawyer. The evangelical Christians of India acd the Irish Protestants have earnestly petitioned Moody and Sankey to conduct evangelical services in those countries. Prince Bismarck, while stopping nt a hotel In Friodrichsruhe, was Jeered aud irooted by the crowd until he grow wild with rage and sent for the police. Mr. Gladstone’s rest I during the Whitsuntide holidays has greatly benefited bis health. He appears now to be in better

health and spirits than he has been for years. He spent his vacation week in woodchopping and riding. The race for the Grand Prize of Paris was won by the Duke 6f Castriess’ colt Petit Due. The Lambkin came in second. A fire in Liverpool destroyed 3,000 bales of cotton in Zerega’s warehouse. The aquarium in Bishop’s Gate, London, with several lions and bears, was also burned. The new treaty between France and Annam has been signed. A customs system similar to that in Cochin-China is re-estab-lished.

EATER NEWS ITEMS.

Five men were killed during an election riot at Mtedspell, Hungary. The riots were general throughout Hungary, and many were wounded. What was represented as a complete copy of the agreement between England and France on the Egyptian question was published in a London journal. England is to advance to the Khedive £B,ouo,ioJ at 4 per cent, per annum; all the powers are to be represented In the new control; the British garrison is to remain three and one-half years, and the Sultan is to send 15,000 men to pacify the rebels in the Soudan. Gen. Abe Buford, of Kentucky, killed himself with a revolver at the resldeuce of a nephew in Danville, Ind., because of financial misfortunes and the insanity of his brother. Two children in Milwaukee, in endeavoring to hide from their playmates, sprang into a chest with a spring lock. Before their place of concealment was discovered one had died, and the other was saved only by the greatest exertion. It is announced that Archbishop Ryan, of St. Louis, is to take charge of the archdiocese of Philadel h a, as successor to the late Archbishop Wood. Henry G. Vennor, the Canada weather prophet, died at Montreal, agod 44. Upon application of the United States Trust Company, Judge Horace Russell and Theodore Houston were, at New York, appointed re eivers of tin West Shore Road. These appointments were made on proceedings to foreclose a mortaage, made in 1881, to secure the issue of $50,000,000 5 per cent, bonds. Stephen W. Dorsey has published another letter concerning the star-route trial. It is addressed to the Springer Investigating Committee, and characterizes the evidence given by ex-Attorney General MaoVeagh and ex-Postmaster General James as picturesque falsehoods and miserable fabrications. He states it as his belief that one star-route contractor had to pay large sums of money to the “ Bliss-lirewster crowd” to protect him in a care where he was honestly entitled to protection. Sheets of water from the clouds poured down upon Springfield, Vt., for three hours, the creek swelling to great proportions and rushing in difierent channels through the town, sweeping everything before them. The people fled in terror. In some places the seething waters made gullies twenty-five feet deep, and the total loss will reach sr>o,000. While the storm was in progress wind wrecked a barn, killing William Parker and family, and injuring Bella Spaulding. In the almshouse at Erie, Pa.. Jacob Pesch suddenly rushed to the highest part of the structure, jumped off, falling 100 feet, and was instantly killed. Five Italians were walking along the line of the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Road, near Leetsdale, Pa., when a freight train approached. They crossed to the other track, where two of them were Instantly killed and a ihird mortally injured by an express train. One of the victims was thrown Into the crossarms of a telegraph pole, and was dead when taken down. Noah Haynes Swayne, ex-Justice of the Supreme Court of the United State- 1 , died In New York City last week, aged 80 years. In the Senate, June 9, Mr. Plumb reported favorably a bill to give California 5 per cent, of the proceeds of public land sales in that State. Mr. Beck offered a resolution direct ng the Judiciary Commiltee to make a report on the bill providing for the general rem ivat of j olitical disabilities. The Mexicau war pe n-ion bill was taken np, and s veral amendment- were tabled, but tin-1 action on the measure was deferred. In the House, Mr. Golf introduced a bill to reSe 1 all internal revenue taxes on tobacco, and tr. Dingley presented a measure to amend the na lonal banking law. B lls were passed to authorize the construction of bri lees ac oss the V, ill mette River, and to place Newport News on an equal footing with other customs poris as to dutiable goods. In comm ttee of the wto'e, debate on the river and harbor bill was finished.

THE MARKET

„ NEW YORK Beeves $7.00 @B.OO Hogs 5.00 @ 6.00 Flour—Extra 6.25 @6.75 Wheat —No. 2 Chicago 95 @ .96 No. 2 Red 1.02 @ 1.01 Coen—No. 2 02 @ .63 Oats—White 40 <3 .44 Poke—Mesa 17.50 @IB.OO CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice to Prime Steers. 6.50 @ 7.25 Fair to Good 6.00 @ 6.50 Butchers’ 5.00 @ 5.5# Hogs 5.25 @ 5.75 Flour—Fancy White Winter Ex 5.25 @ 6.75 Good to Olioice Spring... 4.50 @ 5.2* Wheat—No. 2St ring 90 @ .91 No. 2 Red Winter 96 @ .98 Corn—No. 2 54 50 ,cx>in Oats—No. 2 S 3 & .34 Rye—No. 2 62 (<* .631 s Barley—No. 2. 63 & .64 B otter—Choice Creamery 18 @ .19 Fine Dairy 14 @ .15 Cheese—Full Cream 11 & .12 Bidmmed Fiat 06 & .06 Eggs—Freeh 13 <@ .14 Potatoes—Peachblows 37 @ .40 Pork—Mess 18.50 @19.00 Lard as @ .0854 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Red 95 @ .96 Corn—No. 2 85 @ .57 Oats—No. 2 35 @ .37 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 88 @ .80 Corn—No. 2 ; 55 @ .56 Oats—No. 2 31 @ .33 Barley—No. 2 r>B @ .60 Pork —Mess 19.00 @19.25 Lard 8.00 @ 8.2> ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red 97 @1 .98 Corn—Mixed. 62 @ .53 Oats—No. 2 si @ .33 Rye 61 @ .03 Pork—Mess 16.50 @17.00 CINCINNATI. Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.00 @1.02 Corn 67 @ .58 Oats—Mixed ,33 @ .34 Pork—Mess 17.76 i« 18.25 Lard 07 .08 DETROIT. Flour 5.50 @7.00' Wheat—No. 1 White . 1.05 @1.0054 Corn—Mixed 55 .68 Oats —No. 2 Mixed 37 @ .33 Pork—Mess 19.50 @20.00 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red 94 @ .96 Corn—Mixed 60 @ .62 Oats —Mixed 32 @ .34 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Best 5.75 @6.25 Fair. 6.25 <m «.oo Common 3.60 @ 4.00 Hogs 6.25 @6.75 Sheep.,,.., 4.00 @4.50

SENATE AND HOUSE.

Proceedings of the Federal Congress Boiled Down. On June 3, the Senate passed bills granting to letter-carriers an annual leave of absence for fifteen days, giving a pension of SSO per month to the widow of Gen. Jndson Kilpatrick, providing for the sale of the Fort Hayes and the Kickapoo Reservations in Kansas, firing the membership of tbe Dakota Legislature at twenty-four Councilmen and forty-right Representatives, limiting the cost of the public buildings at Leavenworth to SIOO,OOO, and authorizing the bridging of the Missouri at Rulo aad at Leavenworth. After passing stxtvtwo bills the Senate adjourned to Friday. The House passed a bill to prevent the unlawful occupancy of public lands. When the bill to forfeit the Oregon Central land grant came np an amendment to confine the forfeiture to unearned lands was lost. A vote on the passage of the bill showed the lack of a quorum. There was no session of tbe Senate on the 4tb Inst. In the House, Mr. Hopkins, of Pennsylvania. from the Committee on Public Buildings, submitted a report on the charges of corruption or collusion In regard to the selection of a site for a public building at Brooklyn, N. Y. The report says; “Every opportunity was offered for introduction of evidence to sustain tbe charges, and we unhesitatingly report that there has not been produced bes re us a scintilla of evidence which in the slightest degree reflects upon tbe Integrity of the Secretary ot the Treasury, nponthe Supervising Architect, or upon other officers of the Government." The report was recommitted with authority to send a sub-committee to Brooklyn to take testimony. The Oregon Ceutral land-grant forfeiture bill was passed—yeas 138, nays 26. Tbe Senate’s amendments were non-concurred in to the bill establishing a Bureau of Labor Statistics. Mr. Henley, of California, then called np the hill forfeiting lands g'anted to the California and Oregon Railroad Company, except such lands as were granted for that portion of the road which was completed before the Ist of July, 1880. After remarks by Mr. Cobb, of Indiana, In support of the bill, a vote was taken on its passage. It stood—yeas 123, nays 15, showing no quorum present. The House of Representatives on June 5 passed bills to forfeit the land grant of the California and Oregon Road; to bridge the Cumberland River at Nashville and the Missouri at Leavenworth; and to repeal a land grant to the Iron Mountain Road from Pilot Knob to Helena. There was no session of the Senate. Mr. Culbertson’s bill limiting the jurisdiction of the United States Circuit Courts and regulating the removal of cases to the Federal Courts passed the House on June 7. The bill provi 'es that the minimum jurisdiction of the Circuit Court shall be $2,090 Instead of S6OO, and makes members of corporations doing business in a State citizens of that State tor all judicial purposes. The right of removal of causes to the Federal Courts is limited to defendants. The House also passed a bill forfeiting the unearned land grant of the Atlantic and Pacific Road. Adverse reports were made on the bill to repeal the cbil-service act. The Hou?e discussed at considerable length resolutions offered by Mr. Nelson, of Minnesota, reserving the agricultural public lands for bona fide settlers. Mr. Holman offered an amendment extending the scope of Mr. Nelson’b resolutions. Daring the debate on this measure the fact developed that there was not a quorum present, and an adjournment'was carried. The Senate was not in session.

Hints About Letter-Writing.

As Mrs. Glass said of hare soup, “First catch ydfir hare,” in writing a letter first have-something to say. Life j is too busy, in these hurried days, for I time to be wasted in the platitudes even i of politeness. A letter should have a real cause—some social or friendly duty to discharge, some business question to ask or answer, some opinions to interchange, or tidings to communicate. Then, having a good reason for writing, comes the secondary question of how to do it. Most of the transient fashions for colored or decorated paper are unsafe. Eccentricity is unwise. If a person could afford to give up life to the pursuit of fashion, she might succeed in following its caprices successfully; but, for people who have something else to do than to catch every whim of a moment, and pursue it just far enough, and not too far, the safest stationary is good, white paper, with envelopes to match—stationery thick enough not to reveal its secrets to outside readers—and of that good style which is insured by plainness. Simplicity is the one thing that cannot be ridiculous. Then, as to ink —to use good black iuk almost amounts to a social duty. Who has not felt that he would have foregone a letter rather than weary over pale pages in some blind handwriting, no matter how eloquent those pages might be ? And speaking of eloquence—the temptation tc be eloquent is another foe to epistolary success. If people only would write simply, and say that they have pleasant memories of this or that, instead of telling us that “beautiful pictures are inscribed on the tablets of their memory,” or that “their recollection surrounds the past with an aureole of glory,” we should be grateful. Above all, why should a person who is not a Quaker, who has gone tranquilly through a letter speaking of “you” and “yours,” suddenly, at the end, become “Thine Truly” ? We remember a letter once written in the yeri table crisis of a life, which utterly failed to move the stony heart to which it was addressed, because, all : through, it was an amusing mixture of i you and thee—“ You know how long and deeply I have loved thee, ” for in--1 stance—and for this reason the hardI hearted receiver was able to put it cru- ' elly into the waste basket, coolly saying, “No one who really felt could mix up things in that wav.” This brings us back to our text that simplicity in letter-writing is the secret of su -cess, and that the slightest touch | of affectation or sentimentality is as , fatal to a letter as to a person.— Youth’s Companion. An old minister in Ohio seemed rather opposed to an educated ministry. ; Said he: “Why, my brethering, every young man who is going to preach thinks he must be off to some college and study a lot of Greek and Latin. AH nonsense! All wrong! What did ; Peter and Paul know about Greek? i Why, not a wor !, my brethering. No! Peter and preached in the plain old i English, and so’ll I."— Christian at Work. “What sort of drinking water do you have in Austin,” asked a stranger, of Huddle. “First rate. If you put in whisky enough, it will make as good a toddy as any water I ever drank,” was Huddle’s candid reply.— Texas Siftings. Bella asks: “What is the best thing to feed a parrot on?” If the parrot belonged to us we’d feed it on Paris-green or arsenic. —Harrisburg Telegraph. New York has a newly formed Sunday Society to promote observance of the day.

FARMERS AND THE TARIFF.

H*w the Protective System Affects the Agricultural Interests of the ■" Country. Ths Homs Market Cry a Humbug and a Delusion. The following are extracts from the speech of Congressman Thomas J. Wood, of Indiana, during the debate on the Morrison bill: Protection compels the farmers, numeriioally ths greatest class of consumers, to pay high prices for all they buy,while they are compelled to sell the products of the farm at free trade prices. The protective tariff establishes the price of manufactured artioles at home, but fails to establish a price for wheat and beef. That is fixed in the free trade markets of the world. Farmers buy under protection and sell under free trade. High protection makes high prices for imported goods. If tbe domestic manufacturer sold his goods cheaper than the imported artlole they would exclude the latter from our mark- ts. The home manufacturer will not compete with the Importer, because It is against his Interests to do so. He wants enough of the imported article to come into our markets re pay the high duties and establish prices. That is the index for the home product. The prioes of domestic manufactured goods will not be fixed by home competition under high protection. We can have competition among domestic manufacturers only by enacting a prohibitory tariff to exclude Imports altogether or have no tariff at all. The manufacturers do not want a high prohibitory tariff nor free trade. They want a high protective tariff that admits foreign goods to our markets on payment of high duties, and they take the price of the importer, after duties are paid, for their price. Here is an example: The Government received about $30,000,0)0 of revenue from the import of manufactured woolens last year. The home product amounted to four times the Imported article, or about $200,000,000. The average duty on woolens Is about 85 per cent, ad valorem. Tbe importer paid the Government thirty millions In duties, charged it to tbe selling price of his toods, and our people purchased them aad paid the duties; but when the people purchased the two hundred millions of the home-manufactured article they paid no less price for it than they did for the imported article. If the people could buy the home product cheaper, would they buy the imported articled Certainly not. There is I no difference in the prices of the imported and domestic article. Tbe farmers and other consumers pa/ 65 per cent, on two hundred millions of the domestic product which goes to the benefit of the manufacturer. This tribute given and none returned brln.s periodical distress to the farmer, and he is met with the sneering query, “If you have anything to sell, can not you get a good prioe for it?” He has sold his products to the minimum, and has saved little or nothing from tho prices received, for the reason that the tariff has robbed him, silently robbed him, at the end of a series of years. He has sold at Liverpool prices Instead of the promised high prioes of the home market. No class of men work harder and save less than tbe average farmer. We are told that the farmers have prospered under protection. They have prospered in one w ay, and that is in the increased value of their farm lauds, j which came by crowded set lements and Shipping facilities. Value their lands at SSO per acre, count cost of labor, fencing, farming implements burdened with protection prioes in all their parts keeping workhorses, and they can not raise wheat for less than 80 cents £er bushel and corn for less than 39 cents. I agree that Western farms show evidence of prosperity; but how many years of patient toil do they represent? You must go back forty or fifty years for a beginning on these farms. If protection has made good • farms, It has been slow indeed. A man | works forty years from daylight to darkness j upon bis farm, makes himself a hard taskI master, and, if he is economical in his living, ! before he dies he can build a barn worth SBOO 1 and a house worth $1,500 to $2,000. Yes, farms look prosperous by a lifetime of toil I and close ecouomy. Tell me this is tbe fruit of a protective tar- ! iff. No; that yields him exceeding bitter 1 fruit.' All the farmer wears and uses In his business from bis pocket-knife to a tin pan is fdreed up to double its value by tariff law, while he sells his farm products at home and abroad for prices fixed by competition in Europe. Talk to the farmers about pauper labor! They are forced to sell their wheat at Liverpool, If they sell at all, and there they qome In direct competition with tho pauper labor of the Baltic, where only $lB per year is paid for farm labor, and a worse competition with the labor of Egypt. Why tbe anxiety to protect manufacturing industries, many of them over fifty years old and worth millions of dollars, from the pauper labor of Europe, while you see the large body of agriculturists, on whom the prosperity of the country depends, selling the products of their labor in competition with the poorest of all pauper labor, the unskilled labor of Egypt?

The promise of protection is a home market for farm products. That is a humbug. The American people can not and never will consume the produots of the American farms. To do that you must Import twenty million people and put them in the factories and workshops. Then a worse result would follow on the other side—overproduction of manufactured articles. In 1880 the American people only consumed 64 per cent, of the farm products. I heard a Western farmer say: “Why, see for yourself. Take the surplus of six great farm States, then count the number of people protected and their employes, and each one of them would have to oat six barrels of flour per day, a ton of beef, one tbousand pounds of bacon, ohew a hogshead of tobacco, and drink twenty gallons of Kentucky whisky.” It is nonsense. They advise less farmers. That would not Increase consumption and would not lessen production materially, as improved farm machinery takes the plaoe of men on the farm. The home market for farm produots goes farther away every year. In 1800 the farmers raised $170,000,000 in whoat, and exported $4,070,764, or 2*4 per cent, of tho product. In 1870, high-protective tariff year, they produced $550,000,000 in wheat, and exported $47,171,229, or 14 per cent, of the product, in 1880, same tariff, they produoed $426,000,000 in wheat, and exported $190,546,805, or 86 por cent, of the total product. The export of pork will average $70,000,000 annually sinoe 1870, excepting the time of the French and Herman interdiction. Tho export of beef and beef cattle exceeds this during the same years. There was also a large export of corn aDd provisions. Farm products overstock the borne markets more and more every year, though protection has been on trial for nearly thirty years to fulfill the great promise of a home market for the products of the farm. It is a failure. The splendid soil of the Great West and South will always produce a large surplus. The seasons never fail to bring ft from mother eai th. What shall we do with iff I answer, sell it in the markets of the world and bring the gold and products of other countries homo. Gold is enduring wealth. It is unlike the exchange of commodities that soon perish Protection is the great barrier to the world's markets for our agricultural and manufactured produots. The people of other countries will not trade with us if we make trade expensive to them by payment of high duties. The Government can not enact laws making international commerce expensive to foreign peonies and then ask them to bby of us what wo have to sell but not buy of them unless they first pay high duties for the privilege of selling goods in our markets. The trouble is we treat the rest of the world unfairly. We want free trade when we sell our products to othor countries, but have high protection against the people of other countries selling to us. Many countries have retaliated and others are doing so. The French aud German exclusion of American pork, a great farm product, was only retaliation. I admonish the farmers to vote for their own interest upon this important question, for tho foreign markets in American cereals and meats Is threatened by

> our high protective policy against tho commerce of the world. When tbe open markets of the world are closed to the American farmer, what will he do with hia surplus? England, our greatest foreign market, is encouraging wheat-raising in India, where twelve bushels to the acre can be produced by the crudest farming, and in 1881 and 1882 she received from India, nearly 40,000,000 bushels of wheat, against 75,000,000 from America. Do our farmers know how important tho foreign markets are to them? Over $600,000,000 worth of American farm products are sold in foreign markets annually. Break down this great market by continuing your protective policy, and where will this $600,* 000,000 surplus go? As I have said, the commercial traders of other countries will not permit America to build up a great tradewith them in agricultural products whea America closes her ports to their trade by high protective duties, and heavily taxes our people to do it that a favored class may prosper. The farmer is told that there is a tariff upon farm products, but how does that bene-’ fit him? Not any. Why? Will farm products in any considerable quantities be shipped to the United States when onr own farmers; produce more than they want and have a. large surplus to sell in the world’s markets? When our farmers raise grain and provisions, and sell them in the open markets of tho world against all competition, will the agricultural products of other oountries come toAmerica? It is very plain that the tariff duties levied upon farm products is no benefit, to the farmer and may just as well be taken from the list. Without foreign markets; wheat will rot In tbe stack and provisions go ■to waste. Farmers are advised by the protectionists to quit farming; only produce enough for home consumption. Then the laboring people would bear the burdens of dear bread and meat. That policy would lessen production, but what kind of a policy: is that? Lessen the business of farmers to increase other Industries! Cramp one great industry for the benefit of another is strange advice indeed. Prosperity* will net result that way. New England wants her cotton-mills protected, but extends no protection to the Western flouring-milL. Pennsylvania insists on high protection for iron and steel, but cares, not for Western wheat flour and meats, and she could not give protection if she would. If it were possible to compel New England and Pennsylvania to pay a duty of 60 to 100 per oentupon every barrel of flour and every dollar's worth of Western hams and beef, butter and cheese she oonsumed it would even up the tariff and be fair; but Congressmen oould not sleep until it had removed such duties, for all New England would be in Washington before twenty-four hours. Yet New; England receives, by a law of Congress, a. tribute of 50 to 100 per cent, from the West-, ern farmer upon her manufactured products,! and holds on with the grip of death. It i - not fair. It is not right.

Randall Under His Own Vine and FigTree.

If Mr. Randall fails to make friends, and perpetuate his political influence* among his own immediate constituency* we would respectfuUy inquire where heexpects to make a lodgment. Mr. Randall’s entire district is within the limits of the city of Philadelphia. Ail the wards comprising that district are more or less Democratic. One of ihosewards at the last Congressional election gave Mr. Randall nearly 900 majority, and yet we find the Democratic Executive Committee t>f that ward at ameeting last week passing the following resolutions: Resolved, That we express our unqualified, opposition to the present system of tariff taxation as an unjust and oppressive burden., put upon the labor and living of the people, while fostering monopolies and raising unnecessary surplus revenue to be a temptation to corrupt aud extravagant expenditure. Resolved , That the true Democratic dootrlne upon this subject is that the Government ought not, and has no right to, tax the people one dollar more than is necessary to raise the revenue necessary to conduct its affairs; that there is no constitutional warrant for a tariff levied for any other purpose, and that every dollar levied in exoess of the necessities of the public expense is an. unjust and illegal exaction. Resolved, That we are opposed to removing the tax on whisky and tobaoco, and believe that the surplus should be reduced by removing the tax on the necessaries of life and raw materials, so as to give American labor a fair chanoe to compete in manufactured products In the markets of the world,' and we are, therefore, opposed to the tariff plank of the Allentown platform as a trimming evasion, and, so far as it means any-' thing, as being antagonistic to the principles we have declared. Resolved, That we believe an immediate reform of the tariff is alike demanded by common sense and common honesty, and we deplore and deprecate all acts resulting in a further continuance of tbe burdens and injustice of our present system of tariff taxa-, tion as wrongful to the country aqd antagon- 1 lstie to tbe principles of the Democratic* party, and a betrayal of the cause of the people to monopoly and oppression. Be it remembered’now that these are> not the words of some remote agricultural community uttering a warning; voice to those Democrats in Congress who are following the leadership of high protective Republicans in tariff' robberies, but they come frqm the* Democrats of the largest manufacturing city in the country, and are evidently intended for the man who novr represents them, or rather misrepresents them, in Congress, viz., Samuel J. Randall.— Exchange.

A Democrat of the Old School.

How many votes do you think a. Democrat would get if he went back to his State and said that he had vote'd for a measure that would keep Democrats out of office, and would keep Republicans in ? He would not get a, vote, and he would not deserve to. The only reform that is proper and possible is a total change of men and measures—a change from top to bottom. Let them all go. They have been in long: enough. There is nothing on earth that corrupts men like possession of power. It is nonsense—the whole thing. The elections were not so much a Democratic victory as they were a Republican defeat. The people are* not in love with the Democrats, and they are disgusted with the Republi-’ cans. The Democrats will come into* power, if they are prudent, in 1884. We must not put obstructions in theway of cleaning out the whole thing; I am for a clean sweep; lam for house-, cleaning from garret to cellar; I am for cleaning out the old rats in the Treasury,*who know where the choicecheeses are, and where the best hidingplaces are. The water must be turned on, and the Democratic President must take a big broom and clear the whole platter. That is practical sense; that is a necessity. —Speech by Senator Williams 0/ Kentucky. General Long street’s faith, as a. Confederate, that “the white people shonld govern the country,” was exceedingly obnoxious to the Republican party. How do they like his renewed profession of the same faith from the sacred shelter of the party lines ?