Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1894 — Page 1

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Death of Sqnire Clark McColly. The venerable Squire Clark MeColly, whose sickness has been severa! times mentioned in these columns, died at his home in Union tp., last Wednesday evening, Sept. 12th, at the age of 76 years, 5 months and 18 days. He was born in Clark Co , Ohio. Was married March 10, 1842, in Miami Co., that state, to Mary Hance, who still survives him, and with whom he spent over 52 years of 'happy married life Thirteen children were born to them, six sons and seven daughters, and of v hom five sons and four 'laughters are still living. He had long been an si dent of Jasper county, and previous to coming here, lived a good many years in Delaware Co. The funeral was held last Friday, fit the residence, Rev. W. R. Nowels conducting the religious services. He was buried according to the ancient and solemn funeral rites of the Free Masons, of which order he has Jong been a member. Prairie Lodge, Of Rjensaplaer attended the funeral in a body.

The Democratic Sentinel.

i Chambers proved a positive failure. For the opening meeting of the campaign, that of the .Republicans Friday of last week was a fizzle. Senator .Tones, of Nevada, has annou iced that he will no lon ~er affiliate with the Republican party. The tax derived from incomes will lessen tne burdens of Re toiling millions about $30,000,000 per year. Joint discussions may be arranged between. Senator Zimmerman 4 and Dr. Hatch, candidates for cons gress. A very promiuent Republican of Rensselaer, as an excuse for Smi* ley N. Cnambers’ failure, says “no man can speak to empty benches.” ♦ •» It would require $25,000,000,000 to meet the expenditures proposed by the Populists. Let us see. Wiiat is the value of the United States? When a member of the Indiana legislature Dr. Hatch, repub’ican candidate for congress, voted for the salary grab’ which passed that body, tne Logansport .Jou.nal to the contrary uotwithst nding.

The Republican contains not one word, good, bad or .ndifferenb concerning its meeting opening the republican campaign in Jasper county. Such treatment of the great Chambers is exceedingly shabby. Smiley N. Chambers started out with the bald declaration that the Democratic party lacked in ability to conduct the affairs of this t ov* ernment successfully, but offered no proofs to back it. Is it any wonder he fizzled? In k order, we presume, to add importance so the connection of Dr. Hatch with the ‘salary grab’ 1 igislature, the Loganspoyt Journal gave out that Mr. Zimmeiman was a member of the same bod/, which is not true. Mr. Z. was a member of the senate and took a leading part in securing the enacts ment of the school book law and other reform measures. One advantage of taking Ayer’s Sarsaparilla to purify the blood is that you need not infringe upon your hours of labor nor deny your_ etrlf any food that agre:-;s with you. In a word, you are not compelled to starve or loaf, while taking it. These ate recommendations worth considering. A legal voter in Indiana must have been a resident of the state s. x months before election, of the townsnip sixty days and the precinct thirty days. If Le moves from one township to another after September sth, or from one precinct to another after October sth, he will be deprived of his vote at the election November 6th. Speaker Crisp declared, in his givat speech at Atlanta, that the present congress had redeemed most of the paity pledges, “While we have not done all we hoped to do.” he said, “>ve have done more in the past year to redress the wrongs of the people; we have done more for their relief than was ever don by any party in the same length of time in any country under the sun.

“These arc bold words, yet 1 hold myself at all times i-eady to defend them. Coming into power at a time of panic, when business was a a standstill, when labor was unl- - when our treasury was empty, with courage and fidelity we entered upon a struggle with the enemies of the people. We emerged from that struggle victorious in this: “We have repealed lie McKin-, lev law. “We hive greatly reduced taxation, “We have made living cheaper, “We have made all money taxable. “We have taxed surplus 1 comes. ‘We have reduced public expend-

itures and , “We havedeclared undyinghos- j tility to all trusts and monopolies, i organized for the oppressio. of the j people. i “On this foundation we ‘build j our house;’ on these issues we go before the people. For them we have ‘fought the good fight;’ to them we have kept the faith, and of them we have no fear.”

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VALENTINE ZIMMERMAN.

A Sketch of His Work es Senator in the Session of 1887-8. The elements of leadership are native And inborn. Many ot the great characters in history sprang from the so-called common people. Of our own country’s history it is especially true that many of the names which brighten its pages and furnish inspiration to youth, were at one time borne by bumble tradesmen or mechanics. AnJ it is one of the crowning glories of American citizenship, that to all is tin Load to honor and distinction equally open, and so it happens, that with every emergency, there comes a man apparen*ly designed for the duties he is called on to perform. Ex-state Senator Zimmerman, the present candidate for congress in this district, is distinctively a leader. In his liabits of thought, he is original, methodical, thoro’. Never hasty in forming his judge ment or in adopting his ccurse of action. However his convictions ouce formed, he follows them to the en<; with rare courage, pluck and determination. His natural ability reinforced by a wide knowledge of men. and familiarity with legislative affairs, fit him in an eminent degree for the duties of a congressman, and the people of the district will act very wisely in carefully considering his qualifications.

As state senator he wasted no time on old wornrut and discarded issues. )n the contrary he supplied not onlv new issues, but the inspiration which earned them to a triumphant success. He was impressed by a belief in the doctrine that the str. ngth of the government de/ended largely upon the diffusion of right knowledge among the people. He observed that while education was in theory free and equal to all alike, there was a large and constantly increasing class of children practically debarred of all school advantages because of the exorbitantly high prices of books, and the inability of parents to supply them. The cause was soon located in the existence of the school book trust, a monster of dangerous proportions, which had grown great at the ex p«nse of the school children of the state. Nothing had impeded its growth or power until in the legislative session of 1887 Mr. Zimmerman introduced his now historic resolution calling public attend tion to the evil. This was the first blow, but it was a staggering one. This resolution was lollowed by a bill providing for the publication of school text books by authority of the state, and to be sold at nominal cost.

Thus did the people of the state obtain the first general knowledge of the wrong long practiced upon them. Immediately there arose such a universal cry for relief that in .1888 the democratic party in state convention pledged itself to destroy the combine, and the life or death of this trust became the paramount issue in Indiana politics. Everyone knows the result. At the next session of the legislature the popular school book lav was enacted, and Mr Zimmerman had the pleasure of seeing the people reap the full fruits of his work. The beneficial results from this reform, especially to those of limited means and large family of school children, are bevond calculation; a "tel if Mr Zimmerman had done nothing else, this one act'mti les him to|Jthe rank of a r.ubiic benefactor. This is but a single i.istanc ■ illustrating his bent of mind, ami his act.ve sympathy with the great common peopl in their uneaual contest ' itli the combined power of capital. As danger grows more threatening, vigilance should increase, f,r it is now, as ever, Die price of liberty. Unless we mis- . dge public sentiment the people | wiligsee in Valentine Zimmerman, ' it Rochester, a friend of real frec- | iom, a man devoted to their own | best interests, and will elect him jj»y a majority commensurate with | ability and wortn.

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‘A FIRM AD KNC "i TO CORRECT PRINCI ÜBS.”

“DEMOCRATIC TIMES."

rhe Country Is Entering Upon an Em of Unexampled Prosperity And the Occupation of the Calamity Howler Is Gone. Republican Papers and Republican leaders Acknowledge That the Advent of Good Times Has Come Through the Enactment of the New Tariff—Factories Resume Operations In all Directions and Give Steady Employment to Labor. The Banks Let Loose of Their Hoarded Treasure and Business Everywhere Begins to Boom—Democratic Times at Hand. Republican orators and Republican papers have had a great deal to say in the past year about “Democratic times,” though all the 'While the country was suffering from the effects of Republican legislation. This talk has suddenly ceased. The reason is not hard to discover. At last the Democrats in congress, after a long and desperate struggle against the Republican obstructionists, have sucoeeded in placing genuine Democratic legislation on the national statute books. The consequent benefits were instantly discernible, Business, which had so long groaned and sickened under the blighting influence of laws enaoted by Rephblican congresses for the benefit of the protected barons, the trusts, the combines and the grasping corporations, Immediately began to revive; wheels in the factories began to revolve; wage differences between employer and employe were quickly adjusted and the toiling masses not only resumed work but also realized an additional benefit in the increased purchasing power of their wages given by the reduced tariff duties. The revival of business and industry in the past 80 days is really phenomenal. Factory towns are manifesting their old activity, merchants are pushing their trade and the banks are already putting into circulation the jnonoy which has so long been idle in th<4r vaults. Democratic timfe' have come sure enough.

Depew’s Testimony.

And they have come to stay. Business men recognize it, mechanics and laboring men recognize it, farmers recognize it; yes, even the Republican politicians who have been doing nothing but howl “calamity” for two years recognize it and are ceasing their dismal croakings. Kore is Chaunoey Depew, who has himself interviewed in Europe on the situation. Depew says: The settlement of the tariff question is the beginning of a new era of prosperity. There is no end of idle money which will now seek active employment. In less than two years the panic of 1898-94 will be forgotten. Mines, furnaces, mills and factories will be In full operation, railroads will be conveying profitable traffic and the movement of internal commerce and the free circulation of currency or the equivalent in business and wages will certainly increase the demand for everything produced upon the farm or elsewhere. We are ripe for a long period of prosperity in business, good wages and full employment for labor.

However, this testimony of Depew wasn’t necessary to inform the people of the United States that times were better since the passage of the tariff bill, nor to convince them that we were, as a nation—thanks to the wisdom of Democratic legislation—about to enter on an era of unexampled and genuine prosperity; a prosperity which, being founded on right principles, is bound to enduro. The telegraphic columns of tho papers are full of it. Every day the telegraph brings news of the resumption of operations by big factories, the establishment of new industries and the improved condition of trade. The St. Louis GlobeDemocrat, one of the ablest as well as one of the most intensely partisan Republican papers in the land, says of the situation: Two or three months hence the improvement in business will be so marked and so persistent that the croakers of today will be confounded and humiliated. Partisan capital cannot be made out of the gloomy vaticinations which emanate from certain Republican journals and statesmen at this time. The Improvement In Indiana. In Indiana the improved business situation is most marked. The Indianapolis Journal, intensely Republican, contains daily testimony to the improved condition of trade. In its weekly review of the situation in Indianapolis are found these statements, among others: The Rockwood Manufacturing company reports business improving. This week it shipped a sawmill to Hayti, one of the West India islands, one to Kentucky, one to Tennessee and two to Missouri. It also made a large shipment of pulleys to the Pratt & Whitney company, Hartford, Conn. All the departments are running full time, and the company is especially busy in its foundry, having just booked several large orders for gray iron castings. Love Brothers, proprietors of the Indiana cottbn mill, are preparing to increase their production by putting in 100 more looms. Although the caimers of fruit and vegetables will not put up two-thirds as many goods this season as last owing to the drought whieh cut off crops, they are just now pushing business, giving employment to some 1,500 men and women. The manufacturers of bicycles are much surprised that their business is keeping up so well. Usually all are shut down in August and September, but now they are running with fair forces. The Hoosier woolen mills are running.. They have orders to keep them busy the next five weeks, and hope before that time to have orders to keep them running in tt\eir present manner for a longer time. Furniture dealers report an improved inquiry for new goods and, as one of them puts it, can begin to see a little clear sky. President Bennett of the Indianapolis Stove company says the works are now fairly busy and the company is well satisfied With, the results of its business in Align**. ' V'’ l|£night & Jillson say they have no reason to complain of their business. The representatives of threshers and engines In this otty, of which tfeere are »

numoer, are just closing meir Business year, and find to their surprise that fully as many engines and thrashers have been sold this year as in the year ending Aug. 81, 1893. The Diamond plateglass factory at Elwood has started up the remainiug departments of the plant, and it is now running at full capacity. At Muncie Muring, Hart & Co., windowglassmakers, started with 250 hands Sunday night; Ball Bros, started started Monday night with 850 hands and all the greenglass factories with full forces. At Greenfield the Samuel R. Wells and the Columbia windowglass works have resumed, giving employment to 800 hands.

At Anderson the Riverview Farm Implement company of Brantford, Ont., has secured a location and broken ground for its factory. It will employ 200 hands. Pittsburg capitalists have oompleted arrangements for establishing at Andorson a tinplate factory to employ 600 hands. The wire nail factory at Anderson is working night and day, employing 600 hands. All the windowglass factories start up on the 20th and every faotory in Anderson will then be running. • At Anderson the Anderson iron and bolt works resumed operations last week with its old force of 250 men. At Noblosville the American Carbon works were uwardod a contract for 1,000,000 carbons for the Milwaukee oleotric company and not only employed all of its old foroe without reduction of wages but will have to employ more men. At Cicero the Modos company glass works resumed last week with 276 men Sind no out in wages. A Philadelphia dispatch to the Republican Indianapolis Journal says: There was a general resumption in the glass business in South Jersey today, and by Wednesday there will hardly be mi idle glass factory at Millville, Clayton, Willlamstowu, Glassboro, Malaga, Bridgeton and Woodbury. All the factories weut Into full blast. The coming season promises to be the best for years in the glass trade, and the outlook for continuer! work throughout the season is excellent.. The work is being started on a very satisfactory basis to all. Most of the larger factories have orders now on their books to run throughout the year. Money Again Moving. Not only is there a boom in tho manufacturing business, but all kinds of trade is flourishing and the bank statements are daily bearing testimony to tho trade revival. The Evansville Courier, in an able editorial roview of the situation, says: The Courier a few days ago showed that in thwwool schedule alone the people were relieved by the bill of $141,000,000 a year which lias heretofore been taken from their pockets and given to the woolen manufacturers. This is the largest item of saving in the bill but it is doubly effective localise while free wool reduces the burdens of the people to that extent it also takes from the arch of protection its keystone. All business men of the countiy fully appreciate tills fact. They under-

stand that the long reign of protection is nearing an end and that the most ordinary business prudence requires of them that they adopt their future business policy to the new conditions inaugurated by the new law. It is a significant proof of this statement that the loans inode by the banks of the country were larger in extent last week than during the same week of 1892. This result is a most gratifying surprise. No . one doubted that there would be marked improvement over the same week of last year, but that it should surpass the same week of 1892, eight months before tho panic Bet in, exceeds the expectations of those who were the most sanguine in forecasting the immediate results of the enactment of tiie new tariff law. There is a gain of nearly $90,000,000 in the loans and discounts of lust week as compared with the same date in 1893, and a gain of nearly S3,(XX),(XX) as compared with the same date in 1892. The figures as shown by the last statement of the banks in the New York Clearing House association showed a total of loans and discounts to the amount of $489,879,‘.W0. The figures for the corresponding date in 1893 were $400,169,800 while those for 1892 were $487,101,700. The only year Hinee 1884 in which the loans and discounts have exceeded $400,000,000 was in 1889, so that as a result of the new tariff law the total loans and discounts at the date of tiie latest statement of the New York clearing house is the largest that the country has known since 1884, Of course this increase in the loans and discounts argues that there must also have been an increase in the deposits and the same statement shows that the deposits were larger at the beginning of September, 1894, than at the beginning of the same month during any of the past 10 years. The increase over deposits of a year ago is $212,000,000 and over 1892 is $76,000,000.

Axminlster* For England. Another feature of the business revival worthy of consideration, is tho rapid increase of foreign trade which had been so discouraged and depressed through the malign influences of the McKinley bill. Touching on this is the following special dispatch from the Indianapolis Journal: From reports received at the state department it appears that tho United States has at least turned the tables on England and is now shipping to that country carpets to the value of nearly 4500,000 annually. To make the case still stronger, it is stated that these carpets are the famous Axministers, supposed heretofore to be produced in perfection only in England, and the trade is steadily increasing. “These Democratic Times.** The country has fallen on “Democratic times” sure enough. And witliin 30 days the rejoicing thereat will be loud and general. The greatest growth ever known by the business and manufacturing interests of the United States was from 1850 to 1860, under a socalled free trade tariff. With the dawn of another period of reasonable tariffs has already’ come the assurance of great prosperity. That wo aro on the threshold of good times no one who gives a moment’s thought to the subject can doubt. Capital and industry are now convinced that McKinleyism is forever dead and, free from the protection slavery that has so long hampered their efforts, they are now to bring about that uniyersftl prosperity to, which the unlimited resources, and the inexhaustible energy of this country entitles it. ‘>Demooratic times” are at hand.

Why?

If Democrats caused the hard times why in bloomin’ blazes don’t times continue to grow worse instead of better?— Anderson Democrat.

COSTS LESS TO LIVE.

Under tho Now Democratic Tariff ? Legislation. All the Necessaries of Life Reduced In Price. f The Genial Advertiser Knocks Ont tho Arguments of the Able Republican Editor—Advertising Columns of Republican Papers Prove the Falsity of the Claims Made In the Editorial Columns. John W'anamaker Knocks tho Bottom Out of All Republican Theories—Merehants Elsewhere Show the Benefits to the People of Reduced Tariff Hates. Tiie able Republican editor is having a hard time of it these days trying to make his editorial oolumns “consist" with his advertising columns. Tho aforesaid able editor is engaged in a frantio and futile effort to prove that tiie repeal of the McKinley law and tho enactment of a Democratic tariff law is going to lead tho country to tho domuition bowwows and that the laboring man is about to bo driven to übsoluto starvation. But the gonial advertiser is discounting the efforts of the worried editor by announcing prices away below what they worn under the McKinley tariff. Everything almost that tho laborer is forced to buy is cheaper. The advertiser tolls him so, torsoly and in display type. And these are arguments which the able Republican editor cannot overcome.

John Wunaniakor, who was poßtmastor general under Harrison—having bought the position by giving $600,000 to the Dudley blocks-of-flve fund in 1888—sot the ball a-rolling in Philadelphia, and tho columns of tho daily papers in all the large cities of tho country are now filled with similar advertisements. The Effect In Ind),uni. Tho Indianapolis Journal lias been one of the foremost papers in the country to preuch the doctrine of "protection for protection's sake,” but its advertising oolumns are daily refuting its “protection” assertions. The Sunday Journal’s “display pages” are a splendid testimonial to the service which the new tariff is doing for the people who buy thingH. Hero are a few extracts from Sunday’s Journal: Nicoll. the tailor, advertises:

"REJOICE—BE ULADI” THE HOUR OF YOUII SALVATION FROM EXORBITANT PRICKS 18 AT HAND, THE WILSON BILL DID IT. Did it ever occur to you that with the advent of FREE WOOL you get the best imported fabrics for the same price you have formerly paid for domestic fabrics!' Do you realize that you can have a suit made to your measure for as little as sls and $lB from materials wliioh heretofore were offered at S2O and s2sl' And tho Kuhn Tailoring company also bears testimony to tho odvantugo secured by clothing buyers from tho now tariff law us follows: Tho continued tariff agitation lias made it possible for us to buy woolens at such prices that we are now aide to make suits at S2O and $25, which, previous to this season, we could not sell at less than SBO or SBS. Merchants in other linos also bear willing testimony to the lessened cost of living under the now tariff, but the following by the Pettis Dry Goods company will bo sufficient for illustration: NEW TARIFF TRADING Means trailing on tiie basis of the new tariff schedule. That’s tho kind of trailing we did lost week. Our customers liked it, too. Nothing sensational, mind you, but good substantial reductions on goods already affected and on goods that will lie affected sooner or latter by the new tariff. Our customers get the benefit NOW. No matter whether the change takes place Sept. 1 or June 1, all the goods in our store are marked down to the new tariff basis now. SEE HOW BENEFICIAL NEW TARIFF THADINO IS.

JOHN WANAMAKEB'S STORY. Take* Whole l‘ago* to Tell of Reduction. In Price*. But if the Indianapolis Journal is worried by its advertisers, what must be the agony of the Republican editors in Philadelphia, whero John Wanamaker is taking whole pages to tell tho people what a benefit the new tariff bill is to them. Here are a few statements from Wanamaker’s advertisements: In new wool dress goods, cheviots imported to sell.at $1.50 and $2 per yard are reduced to 50 cents; cashmere and cheviot plaids imported to sell at $1.50 and $2.90 down to 75 cents. All-wool sacking goes from 50 cents to 87>£ per yard; sail cloth from 75 to 60 cents; French and worsted serges from $1.25 to $1; Bengalines from $1.50 to $1; silkflgured tamlses and batistes from $1.50 to 75 cents. Broad cloth, in all colors, is cut from $3 to $1.50. Women’s wash dresses, in duck, pique and the like, that have ranged from $3 to $lO, are put down to a uniform price of $2, and a vest goes witli each suit. All silk satins drop according to price as follows: $1 per yard cut to 75 cents; $1.25 cut to 90 cents; $1.50 cut to $1.20; $2 cut to $1.40; $3 cut to $2.25; $3,50 cut to $2.05. On silks the cuts average higher, ranging from 33 to 50 per cent off all along the line. Wanamaker sells everything. In shoes the reductions are as heavy as in fabrics. Women’s calf Oxford ties go from $2 to $1.30. Infants’ shoes go from $1 to 50 cents. High cut Borneo slippers, in all sizes and colors, are reduced from $3 to $1.50. On linens of all kinds the average drop is 20 per cent. On ribbons it is 40 per cent On carpets it is 30 per cent. On silk curtains it is over 50 per cent. On children’s clothing it is 40 per cent. Wall papers go all to pieces, being from 80 per, cent in higher grades to 60 in the lower ones. Men’s clothing goes down 25 to 80 per oent, and youths’ clothing still lower. In Chicago. The Chicago papersj are also filled with, announcements of reductions in prices

due to the new tariff aot. The Tribune, the Republican organ, contains in the Sunday issue almost vertisements of this ohavaoter: Bchlesinger & Mayer start with a page devoted to showing the redaction in dry goods, using this display line as a heading to the list of prioes: FREER, TARIFF PRICES, BY WHICH MANY REDUCTIONS ARE MADE. In Chicago, too, the grooers are telling of cut prioes due to the lower tariff rates. For instanoe, C. Jevne & Co. announce sharp cuts in prioes with thte preliminary statement: IMPORTING DIRECT, WE ARB FIRST I* THE FIELD TO GIVE OCR TRADE THE IIENEFIT OF THE REDUCTIONS IN THE TARIFF. And adds among other things i The change in the tariff enables us to make a REDUCTION In every kind of Imported cheese. All the Chicago papers fairly bristle with similar statements. And the story of Philadelphia, Indianapolis and Chicago is the story of every other oity in the country. In each one prioes on the MKOKSBARIKB of life—the things whioh everybody must have—are reduced sharply os the result of the enactment of the Democratic tariff law. It Is the Proof of the Pudding. Tariff roform is “a condition and not a theory” that oonfronts the people of the United States. During the long strugglo against the trust-breeding mo-nopoly-sustaining system of protection, Democrats have been tolling their neighbors that lower tariffs meant oheaper necessaries of life. The merchants of the land are now demonstrating the truth of Democratic theories by marking lower prioes on their goods. Tiie tariff is a tax and a Democratic congress has reduced the tax. Tho people are getting the benefit. Democracy is vindicated.

STORY OF THE PENSIONS.

Wliat a Demooratio Administration BM Done For the Soldiers. United States Pension Agent Spenoer for Indiana, upon the request of H. 0. Bell, deputy commissioner of pensions, forwarded to that gentleman a statement showing the number of new names added to the pension rolls at the Indianapolis agonoy sinoe March 4, 1898, when the Democratic party came into power, and also the number of pensioners who have been reduced in rate or whose names have been dropped from the rolls in Indiana smce that time. These reports show that 8,902 now names have been added to the rolls in this state, and but 105 have been reduced in rate, and but 82 dropped from the rolls. Bo it will be seen that less than one in each county has been dropped, while an average of 42 new names in each county has been placed upon the rolls and an average of less than two, in each county hasbeen rednoed in rate. When it is remembered that there are over 08,000 pensioners residing in the state of Indiana it will be seen how clearly these figures show that the pensioners of Indiana have not been mistreated by the administration. The total dropped and reduced are 247, distributed through 72 oountios.

TARIFF REDUCTIONS.

Some of the Neoeuarlea of Life Oheapened to the Container*. A few of the necessaries of life upon which material reductions have been made by the now tariff bill are as follows: Heady made clothing 87 per oent Cloak* and dolman* 88 “ “ Pearl buttons 41 •• “ Matolie* ; 41 " “ ’ Men’* gloves ' 48 “ Huoctaoles ' ,7, 88 “ “ Slate* 83 “ “ Bariron ' 41) » “ Wire nails 88 “ “ Hooplron 84 “ “ Axles ',vf ' 85 " !• Hammers j - * 83 “ Iron pipe _ 88 “ « Chairs 86 “ “ Zinc 7" 42 “ “ Clocks ‘lr ■ 44 » >■ Oilcloths -T,, 87 “ ” (Stockinns I K • 80 “ “ Knit fabrics ' 78 •* “ Blankets 71 “ " Wool hats a 70 “ “ Cotton dress goods t- 64 “ ** Plushes 68 “ “ Common carpets 60 to 63 per cent Matting 72 •’ M Colors and dyes 88 “ “ Calomel J jj I 28 “ " Sulphur ‘ j 21 “ “ Earthenware ti £ 46 “ “ Bottles j 26 “ “ Woolen yarns 88 *» “ Castor oil 66 “ •• White lead • 60 “ “ Cement 60 •* " Saws and flies . 9- 27 to 60 per cent Cutlery 26 to 68 r ‘ “ Wheels 60 “ “ Brooms 60 “ » Tin plates 46 “ “

WANAMAKER’S TESTIMONY.

The Democratic Tariff Reduce* the Cost of Bed Blankets. “Four hundred pairs handsome allwool couch, bed or wrapper blankets, precisely like them regularly $5 up to a week ago; our price $2.76 the pair.”—Advertisement by John Wanamaker, Harrison’s postmaster general, in Philadelphia Times.

Oh, Sugar!

Here are the current prices of sugar in Indianapolis under the Republican (McKinley) tariff in September, 1898, and under the Democratic tariff in September, 1893: „ , Sept. 1883. Sept. 1884. Hard sugars 6?i@7)4 6U@6j) Confectioners’ ’’A’’ ,

Benefits the Woolgrowers.

The McKinley tariff placed a high tax on wool. Because of this tax the manufacture of woolen goods was restricted, the demand for home grown wool was lessened and the price of wool fell to. tha lowest point in years. Wool has increased 4 cents per pound since; the passage of the Wilson bill—Dogansporfc Pharos.

Against the Income Tax.

Hon. C. W- Fairbanks is very rich, and it is understood that the income tax of the new tariff bill does not meet with his approval.—Daviess County Demo* crat. ■

Not a Good Populist Year.

The Populist vote is falling off sail only in theaouth, but also in the eegh andwest^Bkis llo(l a good PoptOla^

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