Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1890 — Page 3

LIKE KILKENNY CATS.

TRUSTS AND COMBINATIONS DEVOUR 'EACH OTHER. The Oilcloth Men Want to Renew Their “Ajreement”-Gi*ound Down i.y Other Trusts They Tarn Upon the Consumer — Trusts as the Outcome of Protection. Protected manufacturers make common cause with each other, and stand shoulder to shoulder before the Ways and Means ■Committee at Washington, fighting for their common welfare. This is not the •case in their business relations, in their xl&ily course of trade. In the business world one trust feeds upon another, just as the big fishes in the sea feed upon the small fish. An example of this is seen in the Linseed Oil Trust and the combination of oil-cloth manufacturers. During the hearings before the McKinley committee last winter, Mr. G. IV. Blabon, of Phila•delphia, a representative of the oil-cloth and linoleum manufacturers, made this .statement: “Linseed oil has advanced largely within the last eighteen months, and white lead also. That is the, result •of cpmbinations and trusts. ” Also: “We rgot along very nicely, however, and made a fair return in profits until this late advance in the prices of oil and white lead.” Hero Mr. McMillin, of Tennessee, asked; “Was that advance caused by trusts?” to which Mr. Blabon answered, •“Yes; trusts that have come to stay.” This looked very bad; it looked as if the linseed oil trust and the white lead trust wore preying upon a number of firms which were struggling each separately with its hard conditions. It now turns out that this was not the case at all. Those who were being preyed upon •were also In a combination to prey upon their consumers. Not long p,go a prominent Philadelphia (paper printed the following piece of mews: “Since the agreement among the ■oil-doth manufacturers for the regulation of trade and prices came to an end ■some time ago, it is said that there has J>een very active fighting for business on all hands, with heavy cutting of rates. To stop this practice prominent manufacturers have recently been considering numerous expedients, and it has been suggested that an oil-cloth clearing--house be formed. The idea is that this -body should be controlled by a board of •directors, appointed by the manufacturers, who would receive and concentrate information on the state of trade, and -fix prices with the consent of a majority of manufacturers.” This paper went on ■to state that prominent manufacturers, among whom was this same G. W. Blabon, were “anxious to adopt some plan of harmony.” Their old agreement for tho “regulation of trade and prices,” which was tin force at the very time when Blabon was before the committee, had evidently proved more profitable to them than the •cutting of rates; and hence the determination to have some more “harmony.” Mr. Blabon’s tale before the McKinley •committee was calculated to excite pity. Between the upper and the nether millstones of two grinding monopolies like •the Linseed Oil Trust and the White Lead Trust he had a claim upon tho sympathies of all those who take the side •of the weak and oppressed against the strong ones who would ride rough-shod •over them. But now that it is seen that Mr. Blabon himself was adopting the same trust methods to get higher prices •out of tho consumers, who cau waste sympathy on him? But it is not alone in trusts that this system of greed reigns in trade. Trusts (Protect themselves; and in order to do this the individual members of a trust are loyal to one another, to some extent •at least, and they stick together so far •as pressure "tan be brought to bear to enforce their regulations. We have seen •how trusts treat each other, and if we are to believe the protectionist papers, the same system of general hoggishness prevails as between individuals in trade. On this subject the New York Journal •of Commerce says: “In this country, above -all others, tho , greed that is envious of another’s success will insist upon sharing in the spoils.” And from this fact it •draws the conclusion that American manufacturers have suffered more from •home than from foreign competition. The difference between American and foreign manufacturers is thus stated: “In •some foreign lands a man may discover a good thing, out of which he is reaping a very large profit, and if he is quiet and •unobtrusive may keep the business to •himself for a long time until he has acquired an ample fortune. But in this •country the noople like the greedy birds, and if one picks up more than can -be swallowed at once the rest of tho flock seek to force a division of the mouthtful.”

Commenting upon this the New York Dry Goods Economist , another protectionist paper, says; “We have more than ■once commented upon this same mekm■choly fact. Where ideas are not protected by patents and sometimes where they are, outside rivals invade a neighbor’s territory without compunction, and the result very often is a cut-throat comipotition which is fatal to both. If a man ■develops a bright idea he should have the benefit of it. There should bo a •courtesy in the trade that supplemented ■statutory limitations. ” All will conceive the point made here, that manufacturers have a right to their inventions and improvements. A habit •of infringing on the rights of others is, however, only a natural outgrowth of •our protective tariff system. Our manufacturers have been thoroughly schooled in the protectionist notion that they have a right to prey upon people in other forms of industry. What wonder, then, that they turn around and prey upon ■each other? What wonder, too, that this -system of preying upon each other should go on until they eall a halt and “pool their issues?” In other words, they form a trust, agreeing to prey upon each •other no more, but to unite in a common scheme for preying upon the consumer alone. Is not this the natural outcome of protection? The, Government gives some •men the right to sell to others at an artificially increased price. This increased price becomes like swill in the trough—the hungry pigs crowd around it and the biggest and strongest fight the weakest ones away, then fight among themselves till peace becomes a necessity ■again in order to satisfy their hunger. That sharp rivalry of trade which we •call competition is necessary; competition is the life of trade. Protection, 'however, tends directly' to defeat competition. True, it may stimulate competition for a time; but the false notion •hat it engenders, that the protected individuals have a moral right to the home market with exemption from competition, and have a moral right thus to charge the community increased price* .for their products, leads the end to

the defeat of the very ends that tho pro tectionlsjts claim to have in view. Protection ends logically in trusts, for self interest is the law which rules in trade and must rule. The function of govern ment is simply to keep this self-interest within the bounds of justice—that is, to prevent one man from pushing the pursuit of his self-interest to the point where the next man’s just and lawful interest is infringed upon. But if the Government itself takes* a hand for tho very opposite purpose of giving some men the right to do just that thing, It is the most natural thing in tho world that such men should combine and stifle competition when competition has rendered their power to trespass upon the rights of others less effective and profitable than it was before. That trusts are thus the natural outcome of protection has been seen and acknowledged by the President of the sugar trust, who said last winter: “The great cry of one of the great parties is for protection—that is, they cry for it loudly during campaigns. But when we proceed to give ourselves some protection a howl is raised. Thoy demand protection for the industries. When an industry protects itself it is said that it is illegal.” Hence it comes to pass that protection has made our country a land of trusts as no other land is, and the great activity during the past several months is a striking commentary on McKinley’s famous saying: “We want no return to cheap times in our own country.” McKinley Is beating the bush in behalf of the trusts, and they are simply getting ready to bay their game.

SAYS WE ARE FOOLS.

CONFESSION OF OUR STEELRAIL BARON. “Trlumpliant Democracy” in Scotland— What He Thinks of Americans—An Interesting: Tariff Lesson. Mr. Andrew Carnegie, our protected millionaire stool rail baron, has been talking to the Scotch and tolling them what public-spirited and energetic people we Americans are. On Sept. 8 he spoke at Dundee, Scotland, and said among other things: “In the republic there ia. a feeling that every man lives, first for tho state, and second for himself, and if he doesn’t feel so his fellow citizens have mo objection to lead him to the right path. A man who would stand up and attempt to obstruct a great public improvement—oh! lie would not be tolerated. Public sentiment would condemn him. The way of the would-be extortioner is hard in America." A - Let us try that by one example. We have a duty of sl7 a ton on steel rails. It has been recently ascertained through official sources that the total cost of a ton of steel rails in this country is $26.24. During tho first half of this year tho average selling price was somewhat above $34 a ton —let us say a profit of $8 a ton. Now, it was stated in a high protectionist organ in July that Mr. Andrew Carnegie and his several firms had made during tho first six months of the year about 325,000 tons of steel rails. The profits are thus seeu to have been $2,600,000. That sum Is no* at present so much duo to the high duty as it would have been some years ago, for prices in England ranged in the first half of this year from $lO to sl6 higher than two years ago, owing to temperary conditions now passing away; prices in the United States being higher also than two years ago. But the $2,600,000 profits of Carnegie and his associates for six months in 1890 were only partially a tariff profit. It is true that the great gains which have made him a fifty-five millionaire were duo in large part to the high duty on steel rails. Anybody who looks at the prices in Great Britain and the United States for the past ten or twenty years can see that as plain as day. A table of these prices has been prepared by tho protectionists themselves., This table shows a difference of $33.08 a ton in 1880 in favor of the English; in 1885, a difference of $4.39; in 1887, however, this difference had again risen to $18.3$ a ton. The precise difference in the cost of steel rails by reason of tho tariff lias been accurately and carefully estimated by A. Wells, the foremost statistician of America. Ho estimates that the additional cost to this country of steel during the ten years from 1878 to 1888 in ponsequence of the tariff was $140,000,000. If it had not 'been for the tariff precisely tho same would have been saved to our railroads, and thereby to some extent saved to tho people in cheaper freight and passenger rates. If railroads had been permitted to buy their rails at the normal price, and to save thereby $140,000,000, would not this have been “a great public improvement?” “A man who would stand up and attempt to obstruct a great public improvement. ” Why, that is Carnegie himself! And yet he is “tolerated;” public sentiment does not condemn him; and the way of the tariff extortioner is not hard. What Carnegie thinks of us, in view of our high tariff folly, has recently come to light. Not long ago he dined with a small party of Englishmen in London; and in this small and select circle he is reported to have said that “the Americans are great; fools to maintain a war tariff in order to make a few smart men like him millionaires.” About the same time one of his party organs printed a singular piece of news. This was the Chicago Tribune, which has grown so restive and unmanageable under what it terms “McKinleyism. It says: “Andrew Carnegie, one of the king bees of the Republican party, who is a strong believer in protection, because he is one of the favored few who derive benefit therefrom, has locked out his employes at Beaver Falls, Pa., because they wanted increased wages. ”

Wages Already Aftected.

The plea made for the McKinley hightariff bill is that it is necessary to help labor. The wages of labor must bo made higher, although thirty years of protection have failed to yield satisfactory results in the direction of increasing viages. So we now have the McKinley bill for the benefit of labor. The first effect of the bill has already been reported. In the city of Buffalo, N. Y., there is a manufacturer who uses a certain fabric in the manufacture of his goods. This fabric is bought in New York from a commission merchant who imperts iit from England. The Buffalb manufacturer got this cloth heretofore at 68 cents a yard. This cost was made up as follows: English manufacturers price, 30 cents per yard; duty (equivalent to 110 per cent.), 33. cents; profits and expenses for handling, 5 cents. This was a high duty, but not high enough tp satisfy Maj. McKinley; hence he makes the duty in his “domestic bill”

140 per cent, to protect American labor Now note the swift result The Now York commission merchant informed the Buffalo manufacturer that he would have to add nine cents a yard to the price of the fabric in order to cover the Increased duty, expecting and fearing that ho would thereby lose a customer. But the Buffalo manufacturer promptly accepted the situation. The • New York merchant expressed* surprise that the manufacturer could so soon accommodate himself to the enlarged expense. In reply to this the Buffalo man writes as follows to the merchant: “You were somewhat surprised that wo could afford to pay the additional nine cents a yard for cloth, but I prepared our work people for it, and to-day, by making a cut equal to ten per cent, on their wages all around, I have covered the amount qnd turned them all Into good, sound Democrats. That, I take it, is as good as a Yankee could do.” That Is where the McKinley bill draws Its first blood from labor.

ATTENTION, FARMERS.

The Narrowing of tho Farmers’ Foreign Markets. The London correspondent of the New York Times has sent to that paper a piece of information of the utmost importance to our farmers. He says: “For one thing, it has already made it certain that Europe will take no interest in the Chicago exhibition and will practi cally be unrepresented there. EVen more important is the impulse ft has given here to consolidate capital in an energetic effort to immediately push railways throughout tho Indian and Russian wheat belts and thus render the European market independent of American grain supplies. ” “It.” What is “it?” Why, tho McKinley bill. It is not necessary for European governments to pass retaliatory laws in order to show us how “McKinleyism” operates toward restricting the foreign markets of our farmers. The natural play of the laws of trado will of itself teach us that lesson. Many of those laws are as plain as AB C. Here is one that governs tho farmer in alibis buying and soiling: The farmer who sells his grain or live stock in Smithvillo is not likely to go to Jonesvillo to got his clothing and family supplies, and if ho goes there at all, it will only be because Jonesville offers him theso articles at lower prices. The same law rules in inter national trade. If we refuse to buy what the English offer us in the line Of manufactured products, the only thing left for England to do is to find another market in which to sell. Very good. She finds that market and her ships go there laden with what we have refused. What then? Are those ships going to sail empty to us in order to tako away our farm products and manufactures? By no means, unless we offer an extra inducement for them to do so. What inducement? There can be only ono—lower prices. It is as clear as day that only by underbidding the “pauper labor of the world” can our farmers hold their foreign market, provided McKinleyism is to hold sway This Is by no means an idle dream. It is a well-known fact that our farmers under the existing tariff laws are losing thoir foreign markets. Mr. Blaine himself has performed a valuable service to tho country in pointing out how tho market for agricultural products is growing narrower. The official figures of the Treasury Department are conclusive proof of tho fact., On page 55 of the Report on Commerce and Navigation for 1889 is a tablo which ought to bo seen and studied by every farmer. This tablo gives the relative quantity of wheat and flour bought by England from each country for a series of years. Comparing 1880 and 1878 we got very striking results. The total consumption of England in 1880 and 1888 was supplied principally by Russia, British India, and the United States in tho following proportions: 1880. 1888, Per ct. Per qt. Russia 4.33 29.22 British India 4.72 11.01 United States 65.42 36.69 These figures show what is going on now. It is certain that the McKinley bill will make them still more unfavorable to us.

Black List of Tariff Trusts.

An excellent little book on the tariff question, by N. H. Chamberlain, has recently been published by DeWolfe, Fisko & Co., of Boston. It is written in the formed a story, in which a manufacturer, who has been ruined by tliedariff, argues with his protectionist workmen and others against our existing revenue laws: It deals in hard facts rather than in theories. The author prints the following interesting table of tariff trusts: r§ Name op trust. “’SSLS’® o a a 4!* !aa ><9o « ® SL o 2 -3-2 h g .J. 38, SJ& a, < ch Salt trust 50 $33 $25 Earthenware trust 56 36 40 Bessemer-steel trust 84 46 9 Plow-steel trest 45 33 29 General steel trust 45 33 29 Nall trust 45 33 22 General Iron trust 45 33 25 Copper trust 24 22 22 Zinc trust 52 28 25 Tin trust 32 24 21 Lead trust 74 43 65 Glass trust 55 36 45 Soap trust 20 19 8 Linseed-oil trust 54 35 5 Kubber-shoe trust 25 20 24 Envelope trust 25 20 11 Paper-bas trust 35 26 15 Cordage trust 25 20 12 Average S3O | $24

Acknowledging the Corn.

Tariff reformers have been saying all the time that McKinley’s high-tariff jugglery was simply a game for politics. They did not expect that this would be admitted in any protectionist papcis; but the Washington correspondent of the Now York Tribune has said as much in the columns of that high-tariff organ. When the bill was endangered by the wrangle over the binder twine and sugar duties, and it seemed possible that the bill would be “hung* up” by what he called “political bushwhackers,” he wrotp a letter to his paper to say that the passage of the bill had become “a political necessity.” Of course it was! Else where will the “fat” come from in 1892? The recent squabble around the door of the conference committee’s room at Washington recalls Henry George’s famous remark, that the making of a tariff bill is like throwing a banana into a cage of monkeys.*

HUSTLING HOOSTERS.

WHAT THEY’VE BEEN DOING FOR A WHOLE WEEK. A Big Libel Suit— Sent to the Ten—By the Morphine Route—Attempted Assassination—A Big Bond—Not to Get Booster Bas—Died of Lock-Jaw—Stood on the Deadly Platform—Killed in a Kuna win Buncoed a Business Man—Disappearance of a Sweet Sixteen—Highwaymen Jailed—Crushed to Death, Etc. —Simon Yandes has given $30,000 to Wabash College, —Thomas Saborton,of Evansville, was found dead in bed. —German anniversary attracted big crowds at Evansville. —Soldiers’ reunions aro prevalent throughout tho State. —O. E. Lawrence was mysteriously drowned at Michigan City. —Mrs. Mary Baiiey, of Attica, fell into a cellar and was fatally injured. Fred Poschen, an Inmate of the poor house at Valparaiso, hanged himself, —A passenger train on the Motion ran into an open switch and was derailed. —Mrs. Ed Doody publicly whipped Mrs. Kidney in Indianapolis. Jealousy. —Alexander Lane, the slayer of Al Hoover, has been arrested at Lebanon. —Carelessness and fog caused a serious collide on the C., W. & H. noai Linwood. —Fred Sachen, Valparaiso, preferred death to the poor-house and hanged himself. —Mixed schools after a week’s trial are to bo done away with at Crawfordsville. —E. &T. H. excursion train jumped the track near Hazleton. Narrow escape. —John Hancock Craig, Danville, Is the biggest man in the world. Weighs 600 pounds. —Real estate agent, Al. Brpwn, was acquitted at Laporte of a charge of embezzlement. —Edward Colvin, a child of 3 years, swallowed concentrated lye at Attica, with fatal effect. —President Wright, of tho Cambridge City Council, was struck by a train and seriously injured. —Tho funeral of ex-State Senator Carpenter was one of the largest ever l\eld in Shelby County. —Five horses at Annapolis, afflicted* with glanders, have been killed by tho State Veterinarian. —W. H. Schrieber, who robbed the Columbus Bank, was arrested in Detroit and made to disgorge. —Robert Burton stood on the platform of a fast mail train while going through Washington. He’ll die., —John Cunningham, of Harrison County, sold the apples on his orchard of’3oo trees for $1,600. —Mrs..Michael Ronan was instantly killed at Ronan by tho collision of a runaway team with her buggy. —Tho dry-kiln of the Eagle Sash and Door Company at Goshen was burned. Loss, $2,000; no insurance.

—Stephen Sterkoy, a teamster of Marshall, was caught under his overturned wagon and crushed to death. —Quimley King was caught by a falling tree ho had chopped down at Bloomingsburg, and fatally crushed. —Whito Caps notified Fred L. Weil, of English, to either sober up or leave the county. Ho left the county. —The widow of the late Vom Heilman, Evansville, has qualified as executrix of the estate. Bond, $1,500,000. —Throe smart residents of Danville refused to answer census inquiries. They’ve been over to the United States Court. —Harvey H’. Weed, of Fayette County, was seized with a hemorrhago of the lungs while at work in a field, arid death ensued. —Grandmother Hawn, one of the oldest and best know pioneer women of Northern Indiana, died near Rochester, aged 94, —Hon. John V. Bentz was thrown from his horse at English, and the animal stepped on his face and then fell upon him. —Michael McCarthy, of Muncie, preferred his church to a Protestant sweetheart and at the last moment refused to marry her. —A grand reunion of ex-soldlers was held at New Albany, and Governor Hovey and General Gresham were the honored guests. —Large headed postmaster at Brazil bought ton dollars’ worth of stamps from two tramps for 87. The stamps, oi course, had been stolen. —Quire Kardos, former treasurer of the Sick Benefit Society at South Bend refused to turn over the cash to his successor. Suit has been brought. —Deputy Marshal George N. Bird, of Frankfort, attempted to take Arthur Palmer to jail for alleged horse stealing. Palmer shot the Marshal dead. —The authorities have been unable to find Martin Schaffer, the murderer of Edward Lowry, at Walton, and it is supposed that he has fled the State.

—Mr. and Mrs. Ed Dalryinple, of Elkhart, two years ago were divorced. One day recently they met and engaged in a hand to hand struggle over the possession of their little daughter. —Mrs. Henry McCann, of Muncie, smashed with bowlders the windows of the saloon of John Weisse because hel>d sold her husband liquor contrary to her orders. —Burglars worked Union City. They bored through a panel in the rear door of Kerr’s hardware store and reached through and unlocked the door. They carried off about fifty Wade & Butcher and Wirth razors, a lot of Woostenholm pocket cutlery and a lot of Roger’s sil-ver-ware.

—Oscar Watson, Cass Dowden and Grant l'Winnoy, the juvenile highwaymen cl Muiii'k have heen,bound over to court. —The las? work of the Morgan County Grand Jury was-to return twenty indictments for the violation of the liquor laws. —The barn of Luther Wild, at Marion, was burned with tho grain and agricultural implements therein. Loss, $2,000; Insurance, s4oo. —A man atCrawfordsvllle hung another man in effigy on the court-house corner because of a grudge he held against him for over twenty years. —Alfred Lashley. an aged citizen of Contervillp, was pulled from his horse and terribly beaten by Walter Commons. lie will sue for damages. —A crazy man, apparently about 35 years old, was found oli Abner Rudd's farm, about a mile north of Colfax. Ho says that his name Is Rider. —Andrew McMullen’s house, at Montpelier, caught lire from a defective flue, and was damaged about S2OO, with no Insurance. —James M. Everly, of Terre Haute, was sentenced to six years in tho -penitentiary for criminally assaulting Clara B. Voncleave, an Insane woman. Tho assault occurred last May. —Joseph Slinoy, near Lagro, has sued Louis Gauss, a saloon keeper, for $2,000. Complainant alleges that Gauss sold his son liquor, which caused the latter to drown himself In the Wabash.

—A tramp appeared at tho barn of Jas. Taylor, near Ladoga, and asked permission to sleep in the barn. This was refused, and a moment later tho tramp fell dead from apoplexy. —One Wall, a brakeman from Mount Carmel, 111., was attacked and seriously stabbed at Princeton by friends of Lizzie Turpen and Ida Brookins, young girls whom he had attemped tQ abduct. —Thomas Hart, President of the Window Glass Manufacturers’ Association, was seriously burned about the face and hands by a natural gas explosion, at tho Maring-Hart Glass Works, at Muncle. —Ed. Rile, white, ami Jimmie Dylon, colored, both about the age of 13, became involved in a quarrel In Charlesi ton, when the Rile boy struck his adversary in the temple with a stone, crushing, tho skull. —Frank Kookon, a teamster, of Decatur, was unloading a saw log, when it happened to roll on him, mashing his left leg in a horrible manner. He lingered in great distress and died a few hours afterward. —Arthur, tho 10-yoar-old son of .1. H. Curran, of Logansport, died from the effects of an injury received while playing with some companions at school. Hq ran against the corner of a seat and ruptured his bowels. —Frank Darting, of Brazil, has brought a live-thousand-dollar suit against tho Evansville and Indianapolis Railroad for damages sustained by an assault made upon him by fellow-passengers November 22. —Socrates Darremeyor became insane from religious excitement while driving from Fulton County to his homo near Winamac. He upset his buggy, throw his clothing into a ditch and was found wandering about Jn the woods. —At Aiifora Thomas Curnyan attempted to assassinate “Rip” Sickles, a local bully, shooting at him in a saloon. The ball missed its aim, however, and entered the breast of one Tim Dernagan. Curnyan fired again, inflicting a wound in Sickles’ breast and gave him another in the back as they clinched. Sickles got hold of the weapon In tho struggle and clubbed his assailant almost todeath with it. All three are dangerously Injured.

—Five hundred men working on the natural gas pipe line from Howard County, Indiana, to Chicago, have beep called off, and work suspended. It is said that the Indiana Natural Gas Company which was to pipe gas to the State line for the trust, will abandon the idea of supplying the fluid to consumers in Chicago, and dispose of it to towns along the line. The immediate cause of the suspension of operations was the hostile attitude of Chicago authorities toward the gas trust. —The prisoners in the county Jail at Marion, set fire to their mattresses. The night watch discovered smoke issuing from the windows and gave the alarm. The fire was extinguished after several prisoners had been nearly suffocated. The supposition is that the lire was started in the expectation that the doors would be opened and a delivery effected. Ed. Robeson and Newton Leach, who started the blaze, will be prosecuted for arson as soon as their present terms have expired. —A boiler explosion in a tile mill at Deedsville, a small town north of Peru, killed Charles Deeds, a young man, his head being blown into fragments, besides seriously injuring George Abbott and Elijah Shoemaker, other employes. The building was completely wrecked, and fragments of the boiler were found three squares away. Deeds was'sitting near the boiler at the time of the explosion. The other two men and Richard Robbins, engineer and owner, was some distance away. Robbins was unhurt. The cause is not known, as only a few minutes prior to the accident the gauges showed ample water. The explosion was heard for miles. —Frank L. Scfrit, city editor of the Washington Gazette, criticized the brutality of Marshal Cavanaugh. The latter then attacked Sefrit and beat him iu a frightful manner. * —David C. Reede was found dead in his room at the residence of his mother, in Liberty. ( A coroner’s inquest found that the deceased came to his death by sulphate of morphine, self-administered, with suicidal intent. It is alleged the cause of the suicide was disappointment f n love.

HONORS TO GERMANIA.

CF.RM AN-AMERICAN DAY IN MILWAUKEE. Thouianil* of Man Parade —Tl»e Star* and strip** in tile Procession—Gov. Hoard, of Wlsoonsim Deliver* an Address Great Day for German-Aineriraus. fMilwaukee dispatch.] Everywhere conspicuous in the German Day parade to-day was the American flag. The historical and industrial display in the parade was the grandest ever seen in Milwaukee, representing as It did the work of many months of preparation and the expenditure of thousands of dollars. The schools were closed all day and business generally was suspended this afternoon. There were 5,000 men in line. The procession was an hour in passing the Plankinton House, where it was reviewed by Gov. Hoard and a number of prominent gentlemen. Following flie parade, a Mfimian festival was celebrated at National Park, where Gov. Hoard, Mayor Peck, and other gentlemen delivered addresses. The first speaker was Pawl Beehtner, the President of the day. After reviewing the achievements of the Germans in America, both in peace and war, from the settlement of Germantown to tho present time, the speakor said:

Thousands have cemented the tie which btnda «* to till* laud with thilr Uvea’ blood, and for thl* aleue could the Oerumn-American point with right and nride to hi* citizenship. lint the Gemmn-Ainerioan ha* ta en an active part in the historical, social, and industrial development of ihi*. hi* beloved country, aud it 1* for that that we this day celebrate. Wo re.oice that the pa r t taken by Qerman-Amprfcans baa been »o great. Truly ha* it I men said by our great fellow-citiron, Carl HcHtrrz, that the portion of the Uermau-American who ha* left hi* native laud to seek a home in tlila our glNriou* land of liberty is like the youth who leit, tho mother to seek a bride. I* he le*»* worthy of the bride Imcaußu ho still loves tho mother, or would he lie worthy of the bride if ho did not retain his love for Vhe mother '/ TruJv we have every reason ami right to comnleinorato this day of tho first landing of those of ohr race upon these shores, as a day iu commemoration or the part taken by us in the development of this uuuntry. as a’ day of rejoicing that that part is so great. Mayor Peck followed Mr. Beehtner, and said It appeared to luim as a high honor that on the occasion of the first celebration of the (jorman-American Day in Milwaukee lie should bo Mayor of this great city. In concluding lie-said: As the beautiful summer groom of our foroits Is gradually, Bllently, imperceptibly being merged Into iho golden yellow of au Lunin, so all over broad Wisconsin the peoples of the various countries of Europe who have settled among Its are gradually but. surely anil peacefully as the days aud years pass by. becoming merged Into one great, grand nationality, nobler end better than any of them could ever lie singly. lam sure that tho day is not far distant when wo shall be a homogeneous pinole—great, tiitolU€ool, eduoated and free—marching In tho van of tie nations of the earth. After fourteen bands had united iu playing tho “Star-Spangled Banner” Gov. Hoard was introduced and he was received with eliecrs. The Governor said: Fellow citizens, it is eminently moot anil proper for a peoplo whose name and antecedents have i*een so closely identified with American history as have those of tho German iwonle to commemorate that Identity with imposing ceromouiei, as you are doing to-day. I congratulate vou above all things, on the fact that you do this not ns Germans alone hut as Gurmau-Americans. It ,|s your identity with American history and the triiiniphsi of Gorman genius and valor In bobalf of American destiny that give to this hour and occasion such Impressive significance.. It Is what we are to be, not what we have been, that widens the! pathway of true rtmowu. The German Immigrant meets with no prejuilloe or discrimination In law or sentiment. He is iuvittd to the table of American bin-sings and told to help himself. All that is asked of him is that lie should become an American citizen in tho same broad, liberal sense he has been welcomed. He finds hero a nation which has for its foundation u grand system of free Schools, from which emanates a free aud enlightened exercise of religious worship, a free exercise of tho ballot, and, finally, Ihe creation of fr.*e men. These are what are rolled American institutions. All that is usked of any man is that he shall take bold with the rest anil help sustain those institutions so that they may afford other men, in the future, that same protection and development they have afforded him. To tho credit of the Gorman people be it, said, they have nobly responded to this demand. The great and constant necessity of republican society is the making of honest and intelligent citizens. This is a republic. That moans that it is a partnership; Government. Every partner should know something- cf the history and lost of the concern, anil what it means to bo a partner in it. One of the first things to be learned in American citizenship i» to think and accept for yourself, let i o man dictate to you how you shall vpto. It.ought to be the proud boast of every man, “I am my own master, and hence au American. The next thing to he learned anil acquired is courage In civil affairs. The American ciciz n must be a man of courage in Iho exorcise of bin convictions. Wo must learn to cull 1 vote truo independence of character. 1 It is said that “God and a woman hate a cowivrd/’ aud It Is. well toremember that the. Goddess of Liberty, is represented as a wom'an. Here we-.iriust learn political and social tolerations We ace a nation of mixed races, and we must (Strlve to live in jieaco and harmony with each other. Vteare all stones ip the iroat temple of Mborty. Wo must grow broad-minded and broad-hi arted toward each other. Political or cgligioua intolerance should have no. place iu the true American heart. If I, ari a man of one political and religions faith, cannot moot any wi ight of opposing ideas on the tamo plane of common sympathy for a common country, I have not yet learned to bo an. American citizen. , One of the greatest hindrances to the growth aim expansion of American civilization is the spirit of political intolerance. It in. the curse of the Houthern States and of many Northern communities. Wherever found it ill the outgrowth of ignorance and superstition. Hhow me any community where tho people are religiously or politically Intolerant and I will show you one where the school-house does not flourish. lam proud of the patriotic demonstration you have mode to-day a* GeruiauAmerlcans. In common with oil other citizens you have no other hope but an American hope ; no other destiny than au American destiny. Let us draw increased devotion anil patriotism from those whose achievements on American soil have addod luster aud renown to the wellhonored name of German-Aiuericau.

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A Dakota farmer this season raised by irrigation 400 bushels of potatoes per acre, of the best quality. The letter carriers and postoffioe clerks of New York and vicinity have started an eight-hour movement. Russian calculations of the population of China place it at 382,000,000, and the annual increase at 4,000,000. * A wei.i.-to-ix) farmer of Brooks County, Georgia, 52 years of age, took his first ride on a railroad last week. OvKtt 3,0C0 bolts, eight inches long, were used in the construction of the St. Clair tunnel every twenty-four hours. Accouding to the recent census of Switzerland the republic contains 1,700,000 Protestants, 1,200,000 Catholics, 8,300 Jews and 10,000 nOn-roligious persons. Face massage, at 35 a treatment, is popular at Newport. .The Indianapolis .Sentinel thinks that is a much cheaper rate than John L. Sullivan lisod to command. Moscow, Idaho, believes it lias discoved genuine lire opa|s in tlie pocket of an old porous lava formation. Hitherto, on this continent, they have been found only in Mexico. Poisti.and has taken the Oregon export salmon trade away trom Astoria, witli the result that Americans, instead of Canadians, get tl.ecarrying trade. A hare and curious animal—a lizard known to science as Phrynosotne plan- ■ icops—has been received in Paris from South Ainoriba. It is completely’covered with wart-like points, and when frightened it flattens itself out oa tho ground, bristling with points.