Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1892 — Page 4

SljeJleittotrfltitgetrtmel RENSSELAER, INDIANA. 3. W. McEWEN, - - - Publishes.

Wisdom and wealth are often acquired, but seldom inherited. Drunkeness may be a disease, but its victims seem more willing to pay for the symptoms than for a doctor. Many a man who thinks he can’t afford to buy a 10-cent bunch of flowers for liis wife will pay that amount for a “weed” without a regret. A very liberal paper of New Orleans announces jubilantly that ‘’everything goes” in that city. Correct. Even the lottery is getting ready to go. The art of forgetting is the hardest to learn where it is most in request. It is the happy past that makes a happy present, and together they give pledge of a happy future —a threefold cord not easily broken. The proprietors of the late Standard, published at Jacksonville, Ela., sank nearly $35,000 in the paper in the twenty months of its existence. A town where a newspaper can succeed in spending so much money in so short a time cannot be altogether dead. The time is likely coming when express cars loaded with their millions of value will be made of something stronger than inch boards, and built on purpose for ease of entrance and exit. Express companies have lost enough during the past ten years to have built cars burglar proof. “A tear,” says an exchange, “is composed of water, minute proportions of salt, soda, phosphate of lime, phosphate of soda and mucus, and when seen under the microscope after evaporation looks like a very small fish bone.” Young men who have been on a tear will recognize the fidelity of this description—barring the water. There is a bill before Congress to authorize a postmaster to throw an edition of a newspaper out of the mails if he finds anything in it that he regards as “indecent.” It is doubtful if the time has come yet for running the press of this country under the censorship of postmasters or any other class of officials. Bills for that purpose cannot be killed too quickly or too dead. Oscar Wilde, now posing as a playwright in London, appeared before the curtain of the St. James Theater in response to a call, with a filthy cigarette in his paw. He made • driveling speech, meantime whiffing his cigarette. If an American backwoodsman had been guilty of this ineffable piece of coarseness in London, the high society over there would have attributed it to our vulgar civil izaiion. The decision of the Supreme Court in the cases of Fielden and Schwab disposes of the points raised by Gen. Butler, and rules that the proceedings in the Appellate Court were consistent with due process of law, and founded on “a wise public policy.” The points raised by General Butler were strongly presented; but the argument of Attorney General Hunt so dearly presented the law and the precedents in Illinois, that the opinion of lawyers at the time was that the Supreme Court could not rule otherwise than it did. The decision is of importance, because it is of general application to criminal cases.

According to foreign papers, the queen of England receives £385,000 sterling annually from the British Treasury; the‘Empress Frederick of Germany, her oldest daughter, £8,000; the Prince of Wales, £40,000; the Princess of Wales, £10,000; the Duke of Edinburgh, £25,000; Princess Christian, £6,000; Princess Louise, the marchioness of Lome, £6,000; the Duke of Connaught, £25,000; the Duchess of Albany, £6,000; the Princess Henry of Battenberg, £6,©00; the children of the Prince of Wales, £36,000; the Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, of the Cambridge line, £3,000; the Duke of Cambridge, £12,000; and the Princess of Teck, £5,000. What truth can there be in the rumor that Sarah Bernhardt, the divine Sarah, is soon to hide her geuius in the cloister? Is it the shadow of a coming event or the figment of an ingenious advance agent’s brain? Probably the latter. With her consuming love for the world, the flesh and —so forth —it is not at all likely that she would immure herself in a nunnery. Not, at least, while there exist countries wherein annual farewell tours result in showers of gold. This world of ours contains too many pleasures which a woman of Sarah’s luxurious tastes could not readily renounce. She could not shoot buzzards nor command applause nor maintain a menagerie' in a nunnery, and it is unlikely that she will give up the world unless the world gives her up first. , * Dr. Ctrus Edson, of the New York Board Of Health, informs the readers of the North American Review that the people of the United States live altogether too fast.' He points out the not by any means obscure fact that we have developed brain and nerve forces at the expense of bodily powers, and that the only by which we can successfully Oppose the encroachments of disease and early decay under the mooeygvttjng- and money-spending pres•nre of the tones is to take plenty of

exercise in the open air He espe- 1 cially urges that the habit of strengthening the physical powers be acquired in youth under systematic training, until to take exercise daily in the open air becomes as natural to the bodily functions as any other life-sustainfng motion. This is excellent advice, and being followed would no doubt dispel many of the ills and diseases of whieh civilized, society is the victim. It is well, of course, that extra mental and nervous exertion should be met with increased physical endurance, which may be cultivated easily enough if will directs. We are inclined, however, to except to one of the findings of the Doctor, presented inferentially rather than argumentatively, and that is as to the influence of newspaper reading toward the derangement of the nervous system. He assumes that the women of a past generation were stronger, healthier, and longer live), because, as one of many reasons, they did not have a morning paper with horrible stories of crime and disaster to affect their sensibilities and agitate their nerves, tiring them out, as a lady declared to him, “exactly as a shopping trip will tire me.” Of the numerous charges the newspaper has been compelled to admit or repel, this, it seems to us, is altogether the most Quixotic. It is not necessary to deny that newspapers do publish matter the reading of which is calculated to disturb the equilibrium of certain organisms, and we can imagine depression or even hysteria being the result of an attentive perusal of the criminal columns of the daily press; but until Dr. Edson can persuade us that the libraries of fifty, a hundred, a thousand years ago were free of pamphlets, periodicals, books, etc., other than tended to produce a sweet religious calm of spirit and purity of mind, we shall except to his latest proposition.

Increased immigration to the United States is almost certain to result from the distressing condition of affairs that now exists throughout Europe. Recent events in Vienna and Berlin and some of the other capitals of the continent show that the failure of last year's crops and the consequent poverty and scarcity of food is by no means confined to Russia. From all parts of the old world the cry for bread is heard, and the answers to that cry that have been sent from this country have served to turn the eyes of the people toward this land of plenty and to start a movement among them to leave the scenes of their present suffering in quest of new homes in the far West. Many of the unfortunate people have already friends and relatives here who are comfortably settled on farms of their own in the West, and these have been urging them to follow their example and come to this country. They have done more than that. They have sent prepaid orders on the railroads and steamship companies to their friends to bring them here. The number of these that have been sent this last winter is known to be far in excess of those transmitted in previous years, and the railroads, knowing this, are anticipating a much larger second-class business than usual. Among the new arrivals there will doubtless be many industrious, frugal, thrifty people who will make desirable and useful citizens wherever they may go. There Is danger, though, tbat In the large numbers that are preparing to come there will be very many who will be the reverse of desirable. Their coming will go but to increase the amount of poverty and of crime which already exists to an alarming extent in many of the large cities of this country. For the industrious, thrifty

settler this country has always had an open door and a warm welcome, and there is no likelihood that these will be withdrawn now; but for the shiftless, the lazy and the lawless no place is left. The country is already too full to receive them. Another danger that threatens from this fresh influx of foreigners is the introduction of infections and contagiotis diseases. Want and famine always carry disease, pestilence, death in their train. Many of the immigrants may have already contracted disease before embarking for this country, but it may not have developed far enough to have become apparent, and it may not be discovered until after they have landed on these shores. It becomes the commissioners of Immigration at the various landing places to be doubly watchful, and see that the laws of this land, which are intended to prevent the coming of those who will be a burden or a menace to the people, are rigidly' enforced. Any remissness on their part may be disastrous in its consequence.

Doing Her Share.

A poor woman applied to the lady in charge of a charitable association. “Have you a husband?” inquired the lady. “Yes’m,” answered the woman, “but he’s poorly and can’t make a living.” “How many children have you?” “Thirteen, mum.” “Thirteen!” replied the lady, with surprise. “Yes’m, thirteen.” “You must have had some twins? “No’m,” the woman replied, innocently, “there ain’t no twins. I thought I was doing my share with one at a time.”—Texas Siftings.

An Explanation.

She—Everything good and beautiful comes from New York. He (from Boston) —Ah, tiat explains, then, why it is so disagreeable to the visitor who has to endure what remains.—Columbus Post.

A Royal Editor.

The first Russian newspaper was published in-1703. Peter the Great took a personal part in Its editorial composition and in correcting pnofs.

VICE, DEATH, SILVER.

FEATURES OF COLORADO'S NEW MINING TOWN. ■Every-Day Sight* and Scene* In Creede, the Latest Mecca of the Prospector and Gambler—A Mushroom Town JBullt Over a Creek. Creede and Jlmtown. Creede is a typical Western town, without a government, writes a correspondent. The silver finds are certainly here, not to the extent that Colorado real estate men would have one believe, but at the same time >n paying quantities. There are far richer mines in the State, hut being older and hotter developed the credulous could not be induced to flock in numbers sufficient to line the pockets of the Denver and Pueblo real estate dealers, who must either abandon their business or build a city. They chose the latter, aud they have succeeded. There are two towns, Creede and Jimtown, the latter the outgrowth of the former, and much the larger of the two. Take two great hills and place them 100 feet apart, with a swift creek running between, wfth no attention paid to straight lines, and you have the site of the famous

VIEW OF CREEDE, COLORADO'S NEWEST MINING CAMP.

Creede. Build in that space three rows of buildings, such as there are here, two against each high wall and one over the creek bed, and you have manufactured to order the city built by speculators, remembering that the buildings, as a rule, are mere shacks, 6ucb as any mining camp can show. The town is three-quarters of a mile long, running into Jimtown, where the gulch broadens somewhat, although not wide enough to be called a valley. Here 5,000 people, coming and going, are gathered, half of whom are engaged in business, while the other half are speculators, visitors, gamblers, and sure-tliing men. The nar-e row streets, some of them being not more than fifteen feet wide, are thronged with men, teams, and burros, leaving but small space for the idler who would sec. The sound of the carpenters’ hammer and saw resembles, at a little distance, the fusillade of small arms, and still the cry is for more lumber. Hotels are numerous, there being nearly one hundred. It does not, however, take much for a hotel, as a plain board shanty, sixteen feet square, with a blanket for a door, is dignified with the name “Palace Hotel.” Until a short time ago the hotels were similar to this one, although many of them were made larger. In all, the sleeping-room held from twenty to sixty cots, the use of which was granted the tenderfoot at $1 each a night, with blankets furnished, or without blankets only 50 cents. The Pullman Company has also hotel business, leaving on the side-track from three to ten sleepers, In which the anxious speculator could find a lied on pay-

CREEDE AVENUE.

ment of 81, providing he could catch the conductor in time to pay in his money and secure his ticket. The “restaurants” are even more numerous than the hotels, for we are all on the European plan here. A small sheet-iron stove, a board for a table, two dozen dishes, a male cook who. cowboy style, wears a broad-brim hat

PICTURES OF LATE LEADING EVENTS.

and carries a pipe in his mouth, constitute a restaurant, the general ordeV, tbree times a day, being ham or bacon and eggs with plenty of frozen potatoes on the side, epoked in whatever style the victim may desire, provided confines his order to boiled or fried. ' What has made Creede famous? There has been a find of silver-bear-ing ore easily washed and in sufficient quantities to bring good returns. There are, at present, four producers, working, outside and in, but 300 men at $3 a day each, or $1 less than is paid in other mines. As soon as the necessary tramways and shutes are completed so that the ore can be loaded direct from the mines into the cars 100 of these will be laid off, as there will be no further use for the teams and burros, excepting such as may be necessary to haul lumber. The most sanguine prospector does not anticipate more than four times the present number of producing mines, so tbat when that number is reached there cannot be 1,000 miners employed. Without government, without regulations, and with but poor judgment the builders of Creede, in their haste to grow rich, are preparing the way for sickness and disaster that will before July next fill the papers with

dispatches almost equaling those following the Johnstown flood. From the upper end of Creede to the school section below Jimtawn the bed of Willow Creek has been encroached upon until it is a mere ditch not more than five feet wide in places. This creek is a rapid-flowing mountain stream fed from a dozen gulches, on the sides of which is now more than a foot of snow. Nearly all the course

of this stream in Creede is covered by buildings, and much of it is in the same condition in Jimtown. The principal hotel, Just opened, with a hundred rooms, is built in the bed of the creek, with the foundations resting on two feet of ice. To protect this building from the waters a breakwater of logs has been built, resting on the ice aud filled with rock, leaving a channel of not more than six feet. In Jimtown the business portion of the city is also built over the creek, which crosses the main street diagonally, there taking its own width. This place is a ford, no bridges having yet been erected, the' watci almost leaching to a wagoned. There are twenty places where a jam is likely to occur when the June rains set-in and when the snow melts. The probable results, appailingasthey may be, are recognized, but no one takes the initiative in guarding against this danger. A jam of four feet aDd its breakage would ssweep away every house in the two towns, except those perched up on the side of the mountain. This danger is not an imaginary one, as the sites of the two towns havs, each spring, with no obstructions, been covered with water enough to swim a horse, having a current sufficient to sweep a mile down great bowlders which are accepted as witnesses of the torrent’s force. Ordinary spring rains will unquestionably cause the loss of life as well as the destruction

CREEDE'S CLIFF, JIMTOWN.

of property. A cloud-burst, such as are so often seen In the mountains, would send down a roaring, seething wall of water that would sweep the two towns from the face of the earth, and hundreds of graves would be marked “unknown,” containing the bruised and battered forms of the victims of man’s greed and their own lust after wealth. The State author-

CREEDE’S COURT HOUSE.

ities already recognize this danger, and are considering means to avoid it. The daily dispatches from this camp announce the hundreds daily arriving, but say nothing of the nearly equal number departing. There are two reasons why so many leave after remaining from two to six days. It takes but twenty-four hours usually to discover that, instead of being a second Leadville, Creede is destined to become a fair little mining camp of possibly 2,000 people. Second, a week’s stay means death to many who may have heart trouble, or are predisposed to that disease. Creede has an altitude of 9,000 feet, and is so situated in a narrow gulch that the sun reaches it but about two hours each day. Jimtown has the sun fully seven hours, but otherwise is the same as the town which gives name to the entire camp. Many who visit this camp and are disappointed will remain in Colorado, which is a good State. This accounts for the united effort of the Colorado papers to boom Creede, hoping to catch some of the returning wave.

The Art of "Putting Things."

Some years ago a young man went to New York in search cf employment and fortune. He carried liis own trunk to a lodging house because he could not afford the expense of a hired carrier. His honest face and speech won for him his landlady’s consent to a week’s living on tick. So far good. Now, then, for the bold plunge. He went to the offices of several leading newspapers and invested his last quarter in an advertisement thus worded: “I want something to do and must have it in twenty-four hours. Address, .‘Push,’ this office.” In a little while he had received about three hundred answers to his unique demand for employment. One business man wrote: “Call at nine o’clock to-morrow morning and I may give you a chance to see how vigorously you can ‘push.’” The tone of that reply pleased our adventurer, and at the appointed hour he presented himself at the writer’s office. The result was a trial engagement, which has continued until this time, The young advertiser is now the confidential man of the house, having proved that “push” is his dominant characteristic.

OHIO’S FAIR BUILDING.

Its Designers Believe It Will Be UnUke That of Any Other State Building. The style of architecture of the Ohio Building is distinctive and much unlike that of any of the State buildings. The original idea was to have the building constructed of material furnished gratis by contractors and thus make it in itself an exhibit of the building materials of the. State. However, the contractors were slow in taking the matter up, and so many obstacles stood in the way that it was determined to build it of wood. The estimated cost is about $35,000. It will contain a reception-room, offices for the Director General of the State, assistants, etc. It is to be a place where Ohio people can meet and feel at home. While the building will not cost as much as some of

OHIO STATE BUILDING.

the other State buildings it will, it is claimed, be equally attractive. The decorative features are line. The large circular portico, with its heavy columns over the main entrance and the bay windows on the opposite ends of the building are attractive features. The building is to be two stories, the lower one being of more than the ordinary height.

THE SHODDY INDUSTRY.

ITS PHENOMENAL GROWTH UNDER HIGH TARIFFS. Example Better than Argument In the Matter of Tariff Taxes—American v*. Foreign Labor—Trust Economies—Sample Prices Under McKlnleylgin. Shoddy and the Censns. Under the high tariffs on wool and woolen goods since 1860 the growth of the shoddy industry has been phenomenal. Shoddy is a comprehensive term, and in common parlance includes all the various wool substitutes used in manufacturing, except cotton, cows’ hair. etc. There are two classes of shoddies: ' The first is made from the waste pieces of woolen goods left over in the manufacture of ready-made clothing, and known in the trade as new shoddy; and the second from old woolen rags collected from the ash barrels and refuse heaps of our large cities, called old shoddy; but, like other industries, the Shoddy industry has grown to such an extent that there have been added new terms to describe the products which formerly went undef the general name of “shoddy." Chief among these are “extracts," which are made from mixed cotton and woolen goods by the application of an acid-: which eats out the cotton, leaving the woolen fibers intact, though much im- ! paired. At the same time extracts are j subdivided into two classes: First, those 1 made from waste pieces of cloth not in 1 use, just as new shoddies are produced; ! and second from old mixed rags picked ! up from all possible places. So great have been the improvements ! in machinery used for working up shod- I dies and extracts that they are now used ! In all classes of woolen goods, and are j bo disguised as to be detected with =roat difficulty.

The growth of the shoddy industry cannot be better shown than by a comparison of the census figures since 1860. The following table shows the number of establishments, the capital invested, the number of workmen employed, and the value of the products during each census year: Estiblishs ments, Workmen,- Product, Census. No. Capital. No. value. 1860 30 6133 £>oo 291 $4u2,590 1870 56 815,9=0 632 1,763,592 1880 73 1,165,100 1,282 4,983.615 1390 94 9.268,011 From a product of $402,590 in 1860 this industry has increased until, according to the census of 1890, the prodobt is $9,208,011, or an increase of 2,187 per cent. Though the growth of the woolen Industry as a whole, including the shoddy ! industry, has been considerable since 1860 it has not been in proportion to the grotvth of the 'shoddy industry. In 1860 tho value of the woolen goods produced in the United States was $65,596,- | 864; in 1890, according to the last I census, the value of the woolen goods ! was $338,231,109, showing an increase sin'ce 1860 of only 415 per cent. Nothing will show better the great | growth of the shoddy industry and its i present extent than the figures from the ! census of 1890. In the following table 1b shown for each of the large woolen products the amount of wool used, and the amount of shoddies, extracts, cotton, hair, and other substitutes for wool: Kind of Wool used, Substitutes, 1? c. goods. pounds. pounds. sub. Woolen g00d>....185,347,914 93,64J,388 34.7 Worsted goods... 97,701.474 7,574.264 7 2 i Felt goods 6,729,083 4,2,1,344 38.4 ! Wool bats 4,537,953 453,931 9.1 < arpets 50,687,8-6 5,054,011 8.2 Knit goods 21,669,393 37,206,934 63.2 Total.. 372,> 73,713 154,130,891 29.0 Total 1680 396,192,229 106,499,952 20.1 The consumption of wool in 1890 in-ereased-25.8 per cent, over the consump-tion-in 1880, while the consumption of shoddy in lSOlHncreased 44.7 per cent, over the consumption in 1880. No wonder that when President Cleveland advocated,in his famous message the putting of wool on/the free list so as to build up the industry the shoddy men got out a protest declaring that by free wool “our business would be ruined and we and those dependent upon us would Buffer. There is only one way to avoid this loss to ourselves and that is by .the defeat of the candidate of the Free Trade party, Grover Cleveland. We have determined in the coming election to support the candidates of the Protection party, Harrison and Morton. Their election we consider to be indispensable to the maintenance of our business. ” Free wool would be the death of Bhoddy.

American vs. Foreign Labor.

Our labor tlio cheapest labor in the world.—J. B. Sargent’s opinion. The following extract from the speech of J. B. Sargent, one of the largest manufacturers of hardware in the United States, at the hardware dinner, shows that our labor is cheaper than that of Europe. Mr. Sargent has traveled around the world several times and knows what he is talking about. The applause which greeted every statement he made shows that the hardware manufacturers agree with his conclusions: “In agricultural tools and implements, at least, we take half the I trade of the foreign counties outside of Europe, and in all kinds of edge tools we take half the trade of South America and of Asia. But, gentlemen, my time is more than gone, and I will bring my remarks to a, close by saying that with the manufactures of this country in their present condition, with our machinery, with our unrivalled help, with our skilled mechanics, and with you, | gentlemen of the hardware nnd mercan-1 tile branches, there is no reason why ! we should not only hold our own in our I own country, but take a large part of the trade of all the world. The American manufacturer, with the American mechanic, has never seemed to realize his own strength, or the strength of his trade. We have, as I have always said, the most willing, the most energetic, and the most ambitious ; workers, workmen and mechanics, any- I where to be found. Although our wages In this country—the earnings of men per day —are very much more than those of any other country, and •especially of the countries on the continent, who are our competitors, and although they earn so much more per day, still their labor j to the manufacturer is cheaper than i that of laborers in other countries. In ! other words, the labor cost of almost any article of American hardware man-' ufacture is less than the labor cost of the same article in any other country. The fear which so many of us have had of the pauper labor of England Is a matter unworthy of consideration. The pauper labor of England in the manufacture of hardware, as compared with our labor, may be compared with the cheap farm labor of India, j where that class of labor is paid 10 cents i per day, as compared with our Western , farm labor inthe raising or waeat. With land as plenty and as cheap, with millions of acres which are not used in India, but that are roamed over by wild' beasts, with land in plenty and with labor at 10 ! cents per day (ch ap labor in the usual i acceptance of the term), still in this country we can produce wheat more cheaply than they can in India, and yet | we pay $1 per day for the labor. In i other words, the 10 cents per day labor j in India, under all the conditions that they have there, is not so cheap in the product obtained as is the $1 per day j labor of our Western farmers, and so if | we will only take courage and go, out before the world with our industries, > with our machinery, with our intelli- j gence, and with our mercantile ability !

we can conquer the world in industrial pursuits. When I look upon this intelligent, this energetic, this ambitious company, it seems strange that any one shoiild think that the industry and business ability of any other nation on the globe can compete with us in a free field and In a fair flgnt. I have only to add that I know that you, gentlemen, of the hardware trade, you manufacturers and merchants, will carefully consider the question that must come before you—of the greater freedom of trade; the question of placing ourselves with our raw materials on an equal footing with the manufacturers of England. Whenever we do that we can-certainly take care of ourselves in any quarter of the globe.

Trust Economies.

i We have been trying to find in the | current reports of the trade journals some evidence as so the changes made in prices when the manufacturers in a large industry lose the advantages derived from those “economies” which a trust or similar combination enables : them to practice. Everybody has heard ;of these “economies.” Everybody has been told by the trust makers that they , reduce the cost of production and the selling price of the products. Many have been surprised when they saw : prices considerably increased as soon as , combined manufacturers were able to ! enjoy the “economies.” It appears also j that prices suffer a serious decline when ; manufacturers who have been in comi bination are no longer assisted by tho j “economies." The facts are curiously !at variance with the trust makers’ j doctrine. j The combination of the manufacture ! ers of steel beams was dissolved some i weeks ago. While these manufacturers j enjoyed the saving caused by the “econj emies” the price of steel beams was 3 1-10 cents per pound at the mill, or $69.44 per long ton. A few days ago 2,000 tons were sold in Chicago at the price of 21 cents, delivered. Other sales at even lower prices have been reported, as follows: “It is stated that one large contract, 5,000 tons, for season’s delivery, has been placed with a leading architectural works in this city [New York] at 2 cents, Pittsburg mill. ” —The Iron Age, Feb. 11, 1892. “In the beam trade the only item of news of the week is the report that contracts for 5,000 tons have been placed in Boston at 2 1-10 cents, delivered.”—The Iron Age, March 3, 1892. The price of barbed wire, as fixed by the barbed wire trust, was, at Pittsburg, on Jan. 28, just before the dissolution of this combination, $2.55 for painted and $3.05 for galvanized. On March 3, about one month after the dissolution of the trust, tho prices at the same place were $2.25 and $2.65, and corresponding reductions had been made at other points. The changes caused by the loss of the trust “economies* may be set forth as follows: With Without “econo- “econo- Deoline, inie«.“ mies.” per cent. Steel beams $t9.44 $44.80 35 Barbed wire, painted... 2.55 2.25 11 Barbed wire, galvanized 3.05 2.65 13 These figures will tax the ingenuity of the professional advocates of trustism. Immediately after the great advantages due to the practice of combination “economies” were withdrawn, the price of steel beams did not rise. It fell 35 per cent. And in the case of barbed wire there was a decline of 13 per cent. The trust’s professors should overhaul and revise their chief doctrine. —New York Times.

An Example of Tariff Taxes.

As an example is always better than an argument, I will present to the reader an actual transaction under the McKinley bill, which has been furnished me through the kindness of a friend in New York. He says, under date of Feb. 17; “I received a shipment this week from Manchester containing a number of cases of dress goods, mostly all wool, and some woolen and worsted cloths, also some cotton warp dress goods. Entered value, $2,631; packing is accountable for sl9 of this, the value of the cloth being $2,612. I paid $2,621.05 duty. Of course the consumers, the public at large, will eventually pay this." Let us study this concrete example for a moment. We see that cloth and dress goods of the value of $2,612 cost the. importer $5,233.06, which sum he mutft get back from the consumers of the goods, with his profits upon the transaction. 2. The goods imported are among the necessaries of our country and climate, and not the mere luxuries of those who are rich and extravagant. 3. The farmer or the laborer buys these goods for his wife and children, and believes, when he puts down on the store counter a dollar of his that he is getting a dollar’s worth of goods, when, in fact, he Is paying more than half of the money for the tax and the profits of the tax of several middlemen that have been secretly wrapped up in the goods. * 4. These goods are also largely made In this country. They would not be Imported unless they could be sold here for cost and tax, and a iair profit on both. Except for the tax, we could buy them for the cost and a fair profit on it. The tariff tax which the Government mixes with them before it allows them to pass into the clothing of the people thus more than doubles their cost, and at the same time Increases by a like amount the price which similar homemade goods can be sold to the people. This last is the purpose for which it is levied. 5. The labor cost of producing these goods in this country is not more than 20 per cent, greater than the labor cost in Manchester, and but for a tariff on wool that actually depresses the value of our native wool but increases the cost of the foreign wools needed for mingling with our native grades to make these goods, the cost of material would be the same in both countries. 5. Let the farmer and - laborer now sit down and figure to his satisfaction if he can why a law of Congress should be made to compel him to give two bushels of wheat or two days of his labor for the same quantity of necessary goods that he could but for such a loss procure with less than one bushel of his wheat, or less than one day of his labor.—Congressman W. L. Wilson, in St. Louis Republic.

Cleveland on the Campaign's Issues.

Ex-Bresident Cleveland expressed his views about national politics. “All evidence,” said the ex-President, “of what the people want and what they expect of the party would seem clearly to indicate that the tariff reform must be the issue if we are to go into a winning fight. My idea has been that a general bill would be the best method, but I am willing to defer to those who are on the ground and have the battle in Congress-to fight. I hope the Springer free-wool bill will pass, and am also in favor of any other measures which will lighten the burden of taxation now resting on the people. In fact I favor any measure in the direction of genuine tariff reform. As to the prospects of the Democratic party’s ultimate success, I have but one opinion. If the party is true to itself, true to its principles and fulfills its pledges to the people, it cannot fail." As a rule, men who think a great deal do not think much of each other.