Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1892 — Page 5

PRICES OF TIN PLATE.

HOW MR. CRONEMEYER JUGGLES FIGURES. He Tries to Show that Tin Plate Pries Have Not Gjvally Advanced—Tariff* and Exports—Coffee Is Taxed—Effect ol the Wool Duty. Cronemeycr’s Compilation. Some days ago we notieed the simultaneous publication in sevoral hightariff journals of some remarks about the price of tin plate said to have been made by William C. Cronemeyer, who was for some years Secretary of tiio American Tinned Plate Association, and is netj ih-t President rt th: J'alted States Irofi and “in Plate Manufacturing Company. Alir. Cronemeyer has for years been familiar with statistics relating to tin plate', and tho assertions ascribed to him were so far from the truth that we were unwilling to believe that he made them. It now appears, however, that these statements concerning prices were made by Mr. Cronomeyer in a letter written by him cn Feb. 8 and real at the recent convention of the Western Packers’ Canned Goods Association. They were as follows: "Two years ago the duty was only 1 cent per pound, or SI.OB per box, and a box of coke tin plate cost in New York $5,20; to-day tho duty is 2 2-10 cents per pound, or $2.37 per box, and the price of coke [tin plate] in New York is $5.35 per box; increase in duty $1.30 per box, increase in price only 15 cents per box.” This has been going tho rounds of the high-tariff press. The Chicago Inter Ocean published it with tho custoihary comments, forgetting that it had published only six weeks earlier in its own trade reports a table of prices which showed that tho price of tin plate in February, 1890, “two years ago,” had' been only $4:50, instead of $5.20. The Tariff League’s Bulletin, or American Economist, brought it out for the benefitof the 2,000 journals to which it supplies McKinleyism in stereotyped plates. In many places it served as a text for learned discourses in journals that do not look to the Bulletin for all their high-tariff essays. The Portland Oregonian appears to have relied upon a treacherous memory, lor it surpassed Cronemeyer in the following assertion: “Two years ago the duty was only 1 cent a pound. Now the duty is 2 2-10 cents; yet the price is no higher. ”

The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle quoted the assertions of Cronemeyer’ s letter, and remarked that “this trifling increase is not perceptible to the consumer or tho retail grooer, and is but an insignificant item to the canning trade.” We might point to dozens of papers which have asked their readers to believe this story about the price of tin plate “two years ago.” The truth is that the price tor the month of February, 1890, was $4.50, and that the price declined in the following three months. In May, 1890, it fell to $4.35, and from that point, immediately after the passage of the McKinley bill in the House, it began to rise. The price when Cronemeyer wrote his letter, $5.35, was $1 per box higher than the price paid just before the passage of the bill in the House, and 85 cents higher than the price in February, 1890. No one is more familiar with the history of prices in the tin-plate trade than Mr. Cronemeyer has been for some years. It is announced that this same William C. Cronemeyer has been appointed by the Tin Plate Manufacturers’ Association a member of a committee of two persons which is to “have full charge of the matter of an exhibit at the Republican convention at Minneapolis.” Mr. Cronemeyer, as Secretary of the American Tinned Plate Association, had “full charge” of an exhibition of tin plate In Pittsl*urg, in September, 1889. While conducting that exhibition he published and distributed a circular in which he and his association said: “To counteract and offset the selfish greed of these importers is the aim of the American Tinned Plate Association, and for that purpose it has erected this plant to awaken the interest of the public and to demonstrate that tin plates can be made here as well as anywhere in the world. And it is a fact, and we can prove it by figures, that they can be made here and sold with profit at present selling prices. ” What were those prices? The Iron Age shows that tin plate was selling here then at $4.30 per box, and that the price had not been higher in any of the preceding months of that year. This price was within five or ten cents of the lowest on record. It was lower than the prico of tin plate when the higher duty was demanded by Cronemeyer and his associates from the McKinley Ways and Means Committee. But even at those figures it was possible, Cronemeyer and his association said, to make tin plate here and sell It at a profit under the old duty of 1 cent a pouna. At the Minneapolis convention Cronemeyer should resurrect and explain the circular of 1889, but before the date of that convention he should withdraw the deliberate misstatements in his letter of Feb. 8, 1892. Cronemeyer professes to despise a “tin-plate liar.”—Now York Times.

Effect of the Wool Duty on Sheep Growing.

“Who has been benefited by the tariff reduction on wool in the last thirty years?”” The above question is being asked in “protective” journals, and we suppose is asked in good faith. The high tariff was first put on wool in 1867. It remained until 1883, when there was a very slight reduction, which was more than made up by the McKinley bill in 1890. It is not at all improbable that the organs of high taxes are ignorant on this point, ther ;fore wa take pleasure in correcting them. In connection with their statement of an alleged reduction of thirty years’ standing th > organs present the following figures as to flocks: 1875. 1691. Decrease. New England... 1,440,000 1,105,000 335,000 Middle .-tates.. 3.959,200 2,881,900 1,678,300 Wes era states. The Tribune has frequently pointed out—even as early as ten years ago—that the number of sheep in Indiana fell off several hundred thousand from 1870 to 1880, during our highest tariff on wool. But the editor who calls the last thirty years of our wool tariff a “reduction” shows ignorance of the subject.—Bockville (Ind.) Tribune.

Coffee Taxed.

The proclamation of the President imposing the duties fixed by the “reciprocity” section of the McKinley tariff, which was foreshadowed by the notice given on Jan. 8 last, has been issued, to take effect immediately. It applies to the products of Colombia, Hayti, and Venezuela only. It is the belief of the merchants interested that it will seriously affect our trade with these countries. The only products really affected are coffee and hides, on which duties of 3 and 31j cents per pound respectively are imposed. Our imports of these articles from the above countries amounted to 815,295,628 of coffee and $1,690,204 of hides in 1891, or 15.9 and 6 per cent, respectively of the total imports. Venezuela coffee is unlike that of any other country and generally commands a higher price In the United States than in England. The only effects of this will be to compel the American consumers of coffee to pay the duty. No good results are possible from this use of the “reciprocity club.” Its only Affect will be to engender hatred against

us. In fact, It Is probable that tho President would never have exercised his authority to Impose these duties had not the exigencies of politics made It necessary. But. why select these insignificant countries? Could not the reason advanced for not including the Argentine and Uruguay in the list, to the effect that their present poverty and financial distress precluded any arrangement with them, be stretched to apply to Venezuela, Hayti and Colombia also? The very fact that these countries have not been included will have the effect of still further increasing the prejudice against us. It will be hard to find any justifleatiop whatever for this new restriction of trade.' *

Tariffs and Exports.

The advocates of a high tariff have been doing their best to show that our export trade has not decreased since tho enactment of the McKinley tariff law. Their object is, of c ourse, to prove that a high taiiff on imported goods received in payment for exported goods does not cut down export trade. The returns of our export trade for the seven months ending* with Jan. 31 last, as compared with the same months last year, is a complete proof that hi jh tariffs do decrease exports. Our exports have been as follows: 1831, 1892, Products of— Seven months. Seven months. Agriculture $107,991,959 $513,531, <69 Mining 12,930,830 12,024,258 Forest 16,971,213 13,492,013 .fisheries 4,039,391 3,733,871 Manufactures 97,188,098 98,101,074 Miscellaneous 1,914,869 2,412,849 Total $311,102,310 $643,343;857 Total excopt of agriculture $133,110,331 $120,754,566 Bread,tiff* $ 67,634,073 $198,546,034 Agriculture except breadstuff* $340,357,896 $220,042,255

To be sura there has bean a large Increase in the sum total cf reports, but this increase has been made up entirely of wheat and other breadstuffs. In fact, the total exports of all other goods other than products of agriculture have decreased over four and a half millions. At the same time all agricultural products other than breadstufs have fallen off over twenty miliionf. It will be seen, therefore, that the only increase has been in breadstuffs, and since European crops were largely a failure in 1891 not even a total prolibition of imports could have prevented the starving people of Europe from buying our^breadstuffs. As a matter of fact, therefore, these figures are a complete refutation of the claim that a high tariff does not injuriously offset our expert trade. Pets on Men-of-i War. On board a man-of-war there are usually several pets. TJieir presence is not frowned upon by the authorities, for the life of a sai or is monotonus, and a harmless diversion is welcome to both officers and. men. Some one of these pets is usually a favorite, and is recogiized by all, from the captain to the apprentice boy, as the ship’s maskot, says the New York News. The (cruiser Baltimore has for her mascot, i goat. When was put in commission he was duly entered on the ship’s papers as “'William Goat.” He is an old salt, having been brought up in Uncle Sam’s navy from a kid. The first cutter is the only boat in which he will allow himself to he taken ashore. He listens to the service every Sunday morning in a[i exemplary manner. The Richmond kad at one time a hog for a mascot. He used to take a bath every morniig, and always presented an attractive exterior. His favorite amusement was to pace the deck half the night with the precision of an officer of the watch. When he got almost too fat to move he was allowed to die a natural death. His shipmates would have regarded it as cannibalism to send him to the cook’s coppers. As for eating a rasher Of what they took price In, They’d as soon think cf eatnig The pan it was fried in| Monkeys are common on board ships serving in tropical and semi-tropical waters. The Yorktown, the Yantlc and some other ships carry mastiffs. Many carry cats, and Cape pigeons are pets with the vessels on the Pacific statioi^ The*Chicago, the flagship of the White Squadron, now in South American waters, has a pet parrot. It has hut one grave fault for a sea-going bird. It has learned several words of command, and can imitate the voice of nearly every officer ou board. Its delight is to yell out when the men are at dinner, “All the first cutters”—accompanying the words with an excellent imitation of the boatswain’s pipe—and send the crew tumbling up from below. When the Thetis was in the Arctic she had a seal for a pet, but soon tired of it. All it would do was to eat sejen meals a day, bathe in a tub and lie on its side on the deck to be scratched and petted. All attempts to make a learned seal of it were utter failures.

Prices for Human Flesh.

The story of the Austrian missionaries who recently escaped from Khartoum, as published in the London Graphic, is one of extraordinary interest. They confirm the report that Khartoum has been practically laid waste by the Mahdists and that Omdurman, adopted as the seat of government, has now a population of 120,000. Onfy a few years ago it was a mere straggling village; now it extends for over six miles along the west coast of the Nile. Among its more ambitious public buildings art the palace of theKnalifa, the mosque, the Mahdi's mausoleum, the barracks of the Jehadieh, and the slave market. Omdurman is not the only slave market in the Soudan. According to Father Ohrwalder, one of the escaped captives, there are important markets also at El Fasher and Beni Shangul. These, however, are not so much markets as collecting and sorting stations, and the trade transacted is strictly wholesale. Thence the pick of these human chattels are sent to Omdurman, where no time is lost in offering them for sale. The market is a large stone building, situated in the busiest) portion of the town. It has a raised veranda, and an inclosed open space in front. The dealers assemble in groups on the veranda, where, reclining on straw mats, they smoke their nargilelis and drink their coffee. The prices of slaves vary according to the purposes for which they are required. Able-bodied men bring from S2O to $25, young boys from $5 to $7.50, women suitable for domestic service from sls to s2oi The highest prices are paid for young and pretty girls varying from 10 to 16 years of age.—Frank Leslie’s Weekly. ft Less than 800 persons own half the soil of Ireland. •

SOME RECENT EVENTS.

OTSEGO’S FAIR FORTY.

HOW MICHIGAN WOMEN BUILT A LIBRARY. Having Exhausted All Commercial Means, and Being: Still In Arrears, They Resort to Schemes Picturesque and Unique and Square the Account. Woman's Way.

CCORDING to \Jg \ Otsego, Mich.,cori * resnondenceinthe | Chicago Tribune, »' the town of Otse-

go the other night took a step in putting on metropolitan airs. Por some time past there have been intimations that Otsego is not the slow-going, every-day town through which travelers pass and forget. Up to date whatever heights tho town has reached is due to the unique energies of the women. The climax of these energies was reached when the forty women who went into schemes a short time ago to raise money to pay for the library building that is Just completed met their husbands, sisters, cousins, and neighbors in the town hall and told them how each did her work. To go back to the beginning. A year ago the women of Otsego concluded to build a library building, where they could go and read or get bohks to take home. Their husbands and brothers took the newspapers, and were contented with that channel of information. The women of Otsego are credited with being a little more literary in their tastes than the women of any other town of its size. It is said that most of them write for the papers and magazines and paint and sing, while a few of them are linguists. The town contains 2,000 people. It has two big paper mills, a chair factory, and is 150 miles from Ann Arbor; within an hour’s run of Kalamazoo, and about the same distance from Grand Rapids. It has more rich men who do nothing for their town than any two-thousand town in the West. The women moved to the front and raised the money to build a pretty

LAIMES LIBRARY AT OTSEGO.

$2,000 structure which is known as the Ladies’ Library Association of Otsego. The money, or the big end of it, was raised by various methods. There were socials, and dances, and festivals, and concerts, and lawn parties, and church committees, and citizens’ committees, and so on until nearly enough was in bank to pay for the little building which is now complete and furnished, but which as yet has not a volume in it. All this was done by the efforts of Otsego women. Of course (?) some of the money was paid by the men folks. When the last of the furnishings of the L. L. A. were put in the asso-

MRS. N. W. MILLS.

of the members, unmarried, and out of their teens, were in the store of Mr. Mills, whose wile, by the way, is

President of the Libnry Association, and they were talkin; about the arrears of S4O. Mr. Mils has probably heard as much about he Library Association as any mai in town, and being of a sunny tmperament he said to the two ladiesreferred to that he guessed the society would have to raise the residue of noney- by organizing kissing societies. One of the ladies aked him how

much he would give to every woman who would kiss him for the library fund. Mills said he would give five cents for each osculation. The offer was not cold before two lips were puckered before him, and he' came to time and paid in his nickel. “Next” responded]

the woman who lyid/been kissed, and her friend with lips aglow, received an impression and a nickel and backed out, This sort of; news travels faster than electric currents In less than an hour it was all over town. The man who owns [the two paper mills in Otsego is a Mr. Bardeen. He

is oneof the millionaires of the place. As soon as he heard what Mills was doing he raised him. with the amendment that Mills was doing it for advertising his store, and that he, Bardeen, would pay 50 cents to every woman who would come to the paper factory and be kissed by him. The tide was turned from Mills’ store Bardeen’s factory. Mills put up the cry of “foul” on the ground that Bardeen was a citizen of Kalamazoo, but Bardeen’s money overcame the cry. In all probability Bardeen would have soon contributed, as per agreement, the necessary

formed him that he had better confine his kisses to Kalamazoo society. Then several of the women of the city came down to business. Mrs. Mills, Mrs. H. L. Miller, Mrs. P. W. Travis, Miss Maggie White. Miss Hattie Mitchell, Mrs. George Easton, Miss Alice Creyant, Mrs. C. IV. Edsell, Mrs. A. D. Baker, Mrs. C. E. Drew, Mrs. Frank Lindsey, and Miss Matie Beard said they would be so many of a party of forty to raise $1 each to pay off the last indebtedness on the building. Forty Otsego women reported for duty and went to work, and each

sociation found that theylacked just s4otocancil all obligati o n s. But where were they to get it? They had planned and carried out ev,cr y sc h qgn e known td the ingenuity of the sex. One day two

earned her dollar, and the jubilee the j&sb other night was for {s£'•> (PgjF the purpose of giv- / A\ ing each one of the forty an opportunity _ 7 of telling to the audience her experience in making a jQ dollar. Some of 1 ■ these schemes were*®*- H n mim.br.

unique. Miss Maggie Smith, Secretary of the association and editor of the Otsego Union, bandaged the arm of a young law student who had been stabbed with a pair of shears. She

NISS MAGGIE SMITH.

WASHING A WAGON.

amount had not a protest come up from Kalamazoo, to which were added several protests from Otsego. Some of the young men of this place saw their sweethearts going to the paper factory, and it is said they in-

MRS. P. W. TRAVIS.

described her treatment and thd effect.

Mrs. Mills, wife of the merchant who kissed at 5 cents per kiss, took a mop and step-ladder and washed win«dows at 20 cents a window. Mrs. P. W. Travis, Treasurer, and Mrs. H. L. Miller hired a hand-organ and stood on the corners, one playing while the other pafesed the tin cup, the collections ranging from a penny up to ten cents. Their success would have been quicker if the organ had not been one of the “Annie Rooney” vintage.

Miss Hattie Mitchell made her dollar splitting kindling wood. Mrs. George Easton blacked boots. Miss Creyant sold a spring poem to the editor for a dollar. She probably had harder work than any of her sisters. Mrs. Edsell and Mrs. Baker sold shoe strings and doughnuts from house to house, and Miss Beard, dressed as an Irish peasant girl, sold green emblems on the streets on St. Patrick's Day. Miss Smith also went out as a beggar, and Mrs. Drew and Mrs. Lindsey “played the organ,” also, on the*back streets. Mrs. Miller put the trimmings on a coffin. A bevy of young ladies went around doing odd jobs, one washing a milk wagon in the oldfashioned way, while two others went to the hotel to sew buttons on the clothes of any travelers whose raiment needed anything of the kind. One pulled a splinter out of a commercial drummer’s finger, for which he paid sl. These experiences were all vividly related by the ladies at an entertainment in the town hall, when all Otsego and many from Kalamazoo and other surrounding towns were present. The Otsego women have given many valuable pointers to their sisters throughout; the country, and, it is possible that the church festival oyster may now go into innocuous desuetude, while more unique if not pleasing methods are employed to entice the slippery dime.

TRIUMPH OF ENGINEERING.

Magnificent New Railroad ItrlUgo Over the Peco* River, In Texan. The great high bridge of the Southern Pacific Railroad over the Pecos River, near Shumla. Texas, is now practically completed, the work yet to be done being the driving of'ubout two thousand rivets. It is the third highest bridge in the world, and is by several feet the highest in the United States, being twenty-six feet higher than the great ICinzua viaduct on the New York, Lake Erie and Western Railway. The Pecos bridge, or via-

BRIDCE OVER THE PECOS RIVER.

duct, is 2,180 feet long and 1128 feet above the surface of the stream. It consists of forty-eight spans in nil. They ate nearly all iron-plate girders, alternately thirty-live feet land sixtyfive feet long. In the center of the bridge, immediately above the bed of the river, is a cantilever span 185 feet long. The high structure is supported by towers, which rest upon stone ledges or rock piers. The dimension of the towers at their base is 35 by 100 feet, but they narrow dowii to 10 by 85 feet at the top. The lightness of the structure gives it a spider-web appearance, but it is • pronounced by practical engineers and railroad men as being one of the most substantial bridges in the country. The flooring is twenty-one feet wide, giving room for a single track and two marrow footways. The bridge was thoroughly tested as the work progressed, and it Is daimed the short spans will carry two and a half tons to the lineal foot, and the longer ones two tons to the lineal foot.

THE GIFT OF $2,600,000.

John I>. Rockefeller and the University of Chicago, Professor R. Harper, President of the University of Chicago, has been guaranteed $5,000,000 by wealthy Baptists. Of these John D. Rockefeller has given what most people would regard as his full share, in a magnificent donation of $2,000,000. The last million was recently delivered. Mr. Rockefeller is president of the largest corporation in the world, namely, the Standard Oil Trust. 110

JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER.

is one of the wealthiest men in the United States, although still young in the years of middle life and a poor man not many years ago. His res ( - dence, which is in New York, is under the observation of one of a corps of private policemen every moment of the day and night, to protect him from the attention of “cranks.” He is an earnest member of the Baptist denomination, and gives liberally to struggling churches belonging to it. ' There is a horse on a farm in South Dakota which has eight feet; otherwise it is perfectly formed in every respect. Not until the fetlock joint is reached in the descent from the shoulder to the foot is there any difference between this borse and any other.

GROVER TALKS TARIFF.

A ROUSING SPEECH BY THE EX-PRESIDENT. An Immense Meeting: at Providence Addressed by Cleveland—He Advises the Democrats to Keep Up the Fight for Reform—lroquois Banquet. Cleveland's Address. The democratlo big half of the Rhode Island campaign reached the climax at Providenoe when the thousands of the citizens and visitors gathered in the great opera house to hear words of wisdom from the lips of ex-President Grover Cleveland. Mr. Cleveland spoke as follows: Mr Fellow Citizens: I have found It Impo-s.blo to decline the invltution yon sent'm> to meot hove to-day the Pemocraey of Rhode Island. I have c: me to look In the faCJS of tho men who have been given the place of honor In advance of tlio vast army wuich moves toward the decisive battlellold of next November. I have not come to point tho way to con-olat;on In case of your defout. but 1 bavu cone to sharj the enthusiasm which p-esagrs victory. I have not come to . ondolo with you upon the difficulties which confront you, huttosug;est that they will only ndd to the glory of your triumph. I huve come to remind you that (lie intrenchments of spoils and patronngo cannot avail against the valor and determination of rights: that corruption and bribery cannot smother und destroy the aroused conscience of our countrymen, and that splondld achievements await those who bravely, hcnostly and stubbornly tight In the people’s c< mo. Let tis not for a moment miss tho Inspiration of those words. “tho people’s cuuse.” Thoy signify tho defense of tho rights of every man, rich or poor. In every cornor of our land, who by virtue of simple American

GROVER. CLEVELAND.

manhood leys claim to the promises of our free government, and they mean tho promotion of tho welfuro und happiness of the humblest American citizen who confidingly Invokes the protection of tho Just and equal laws Tho covenant of our Democratic faith, as I understand it, exacts constant efforts In tills cuuse, atfd Its betrayal 1 coneetvo to ho a crime against tho creod of truo Democracy, Those who opposo tariff reform doludo themselves If they suppose It rests wholly upon appeals to selllsli considerations and the promise of advantage, right or wrong, or that our only hope of winning doponds upon arousing unlmostty between different Intorosts among our people. While wo do not propose that those whose welfare we champion shall he blind to the advantages accruing to them from our plan of tariff reform, and, while we ure determined that tho advantages shall not, ho surrendered to the lilanlshments of groud and avarice, we still claim nothing that lias not underlying It moral sentiment and consideration of equity and good conscience. A Winning Fight. llecans ! our case rests upon auch foundations, sordtdness and s Ulshnoss cannot dostroy It. The tight for justice und right Is a clean and comforting ono; and, because the American pooplo love justice und right, ours must bo a winning light. “Tho government of the Union Is a government of the people; It emanutes from them; Its powers are granted by thorn, and are to lie exercised directly on them and for tlielr IhjuoilL” This Is not tho language of a political platform. It Is a declaration of tno highest. court In the laud, whose mandates all must obey and whoi-o definitions all partisans must accept. In tho light of this exposition of the duty the Government owes to the people, the Democratic party claims that when, through Federal taxation, burdens are laid upon the dally life of tho people not necessary for Ih.t Government’s economical administration, and Intended, whatever bo the pretext, to enrich a few ut the expense of tho many, the governmental compuct Is violated. A distinguished Justice of tho Supremo Court, with no Democratic affiliations, beloved and respected when living by ovary American, and since bis death universally lamented, has characterized such n proceeding as “none the less a ri bbery bocuujio It Is done under the forms of law and Is called taxation "

The Democratic purty still champions the cause which defeat could not induce It to surrender, which no success short of complete accomplishment can tempt It to neglect. Its position has teen from (he first frunkly and fairly stated, and no one can honestly be misled concerning It. We Invite the strictest scrutiny of our conduct in dealing With this subject, and wo Insist that our courso has been op< n, fulr, and consistent. I believe this U not now soberly denied In any quarter. Our opponents, too. huvn a record on this question. Those who still adhere to the doctrine that an important function of the government Is especially to aid them In their business, those who seo In the consumers of our land forced contributors to artificial bonetlts permitted by vovormental favoritism, those who seo In our workingmen only the tools with which their shops and manufactories are to ho supplied at tho cheapest possible cost, and those who believe taclr Is no morul question Involved In the tariff luxation of the poople, are probably familiar with this record and abundantly satisfied with It. It may, however, bo. profli ably reviewed by those who believe that our consumers are entitled to be treated Justly and lioucsily by the government. and that tho worklnrman should bo allowed to feel In bis bumble home, as bo supplies his family's dally needs, that his earnings u.re not unjustly extorted from him for the b'neflt. of tha favored benoflclarlei of unfair tax laws. Claims of tho Protectionists. This, then, is the ic -ord: When we began the conte t for tariff icf >rm It was said by our Itepubl cxn opp incuts, in the face of our avosal- and acts, that wo were determined on free tinje. A long advance was made In their Insincerity und impudence when they accused us of acting in the tnteiosti of foreigners, and when they tnorj than hinted that we had been bought wltii British gold. Those who distrusted the effectiveness of these senseless upp< a s Insulted the liile'llrenrc of < ur people by claiming Ibn', an Increase In the c >,t < f aitielo* to ths enn timer Caused by tho tariff was not u tax p i d by him. but that It was paid by foreigners who sent their goods to our markets Sectional prejudice was invoked in lhe most outrageous manner. and people of the North were asked to condemn the measure of tariff roform proposed by ui I e a use members of Congress from the (South had supp ntrd it. These are fair samples ot tho argument* submitted to tho American people in the presidential campaign 1888. It will bj observed tb*t the purpo*e of these amazing deliverances was to defeat entirely any reform In tho tariff, though It had been enacted at a time when the expense of a tremendous war justified tbe exaction of tribute of the same people which In time of peace became a grievous burden, thou ;h it had congested tho federal treasury with a wor-e than usel >s.s surplus, Inviting reckless public waste and extravagance, and though in many of lls features the only purpose of Its continuation was the bargaining It permitted for party support There were these, however, in the rauks of our opponent* .v h i recognized tbe fact thut we had so aroused popular attention to the evils and Injustice of such a tariff that it might not be stf> to rely for success ufon a bald opposition to i s reforms. Tho e were the grave and sedate Republican statesmen who declare.! that they never, never could consent to subserve-the interes's cf England at the expense of their o*n country, as tlie wicked Democrats proposed to c : o, and that the 7 felt constrained to Insist upon a tariff, protective to the po nt of piobibttlon. betause they devo.ediy loved our worklng-

men and were determined that their employment should .be constant, and that their wages should never sink to the disgusting level or the pauper labor of Europe. but that. In view of the fact that the war, in which the tariff then existing orig.nated. had been closed for more than twenty years, and In view of the further fact that the public treasury was overburdened. they were willing .to readjust the tariff If it could only be done by its friends Instead of “rebel brigadiers. ” I will not refer to all the means by which our opponents succeeded in that contest Suffice It to say they gained complete possession of the Government in every branch and the tariff was reformed by its alleged friends. All must admit, however, that either this was not done by the people’s friends or that the effort In their behalf badly miscarried or was ungratefully remembered, for a few weeks thereafter a a relegation to private lifo among those occupying seats In Congioss who had been active In reforming tho tariff occurred, which amounted to a political revolution. Thoso victims claimed that our voters failed t ► Indorse their roform of the tariff because they did not understand it It Is quite i robable, however.i that if they did not, understand It they felt It and that, because It made them uncomfortable, they emphatically said such a result was not what they wanted. At any rate, the consumer lias found life harder since this reform than before, and If there Is a workingman anywhere who has had his wages increased by virtue of Its operation, ho has not made himself known. Plenty of mills and factories have been closed, thousands of men have loit their employment, and wo dally hoar of reduced wages, but the benefit * promised from roform. and Iti advantage to tho poople who really nee 1 relief are not apparent. The provision It contains, permit lug reciprocity of trade In certain cases, depending on the action of tho President, Is an ndmls-lon, as far as It goes, against the thoory upon which this roform Is predicated, s nd It lamely limps In the direction of freer commercial cliHtiges. If “hypocrisy Is the homage, vice pays for virtue,” reciprocity may be called the homage prohibitory protection payH to gonulno tariff reform, The workingmen who have been deceived hr the prom se of higher wages and better employ meat, and who now const intly fear tlio closing of mnnufac orles and tho loss of work, ought certainly to be no longer csjoloJ liy a patty whoso performance has so clearly given the He to Its professions. The consumer who bus trusted to a reformation of the tariff by Its friends, now that ho feels the Increased burden of taxation In his hqnio, ought to lto'c in another direction for relief. Will Stick to the Tariff. If iho Democratic party does not glvo ft the Suite of lthode Island during the present session of Congross the fioarawmatoilalsihj noods. It will be because a liepublican Senate or executive thwarts Its design. At any rute, uothlng shall divert us fr im our purpo»o to reform the turllf in this regard, as woll as many other/, he the time of Its arcdrnpllshment nearer remote. It would doubtless please our adversaries If we could bo ullurod from our watch and guard ovor the cause of tariff roform to certain other objects, thus forfeiting the people's trust .and confidence, Tho National Democracy will hardly gratify this wish and turn Its hack upon tho people’s cause to wander after falso and unsteady lights In the wilderness of double danger. Our opponents must In the coming national canvass, settle accounts with us on the Issue of tariff roform. It will not do for them to say to us that this Is an old and determined contention. Tho ton commandments aro thousands of yearn old, but, tliey and the doctrines of tariff roform will bs taught and preached until mankind and tho Republican party shall heed tho Injunction. “Thou slialt not steal.” As I leave you lot me say t > you that your cause deserves success. Let me express the hope that the close of your canvass will bring you no rogrotson account of activity relaxed or opportunities lost Demonstrate to your peoplo the morlti of your cause and trust them Abovo all things, banish every personul fooling of discontent and let every personal consideration be merged In a determination, pervading your ranks everywhere, to win a victory With a cause so Just and with activity, vigilance, harmony and determination on the part of Hhodo Island's stanch Democracy, I bollove you will uot fall. >

IROQUOIS CLUB BANQUET.

In-Jofl'drson’s Honor—Also to tlio Glory of Clevolaml. The Iroquois Club dined at Chicago the other night in tho big, flower-docked dining-room of Ihe Palmer House in honor of the l'39th anniversary of tho birth of Thomas Jefferson, Then, having honored the day puffleiently by olinking glasses to tho memory of that sound old Democrat, the party put in the rest of tho evening llstoulng to the praises of another good Democrat, Grover Cleveland by name. It was properly not a Jefferson dinn r, although Thomas Jefferson's name had the place of honor in tho list of toasts, and nearly everybody who spoke said something about that modest old gentleman who hitched his horse to a fence and went up to speak lilh inauguration speech. But Jefferson was dead a long time, and grass was growing around his grave before the oldest man whoso whiskers swept the table at the Palmer House was born, and, in fact, he xvas only a foil behind which the Iroquois Club might elect another hero who is very much in the flesh. It wus a Cleveland banquet all through. At the hea l of the toast list was printed one of Mr. Cleveland's sayings: “The nation’s strength is in her people. Tlio nation’s piosperity is In their prosperity. Tho nation’s glory is in the equality of her justice. The nation's perpetuity is in the patriotism of all her people.” The speakers were all Cleveland men, and most of them have been marked in their thtek-and-tkin advocacy of the ex-Presldont.

Miscellaneous. Notes.

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