Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 15 September 1888 — Page 2

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I)R. JOHN HYDE.

••Free Immigration of Chinese would be advantageous as furnishing a class of cheap and eflielent laborers. Senator Thurmun In United States senate I111H71I.

"We the capitalists can control the workingman only so long as lie eats up to day what he earns to-morrow."—W. L. Scott, Mr. Cleveland's political manager.

"It may be for your Interests that he (Mr. Cleveland 1 should win, but any expression o£ En gllsli sympathy would!irobably hurt Ills prospects."

London Saturday Review, August 25, 1888, page 212, second eo'umn.

The honest confession of Henry Watterson in the Forum is good for his soul if not for his party: "1 should be entitled to 110 respect or credit ir I pretended that there Is either a ralr vote or count of the vast overflow of black voters In states where there Is a negro majority, or that, In the nature of things at present, there can be. There was not lyiien the ballot-box was guarded by federal bayonets. There Is not now."

THE 7 PER CENT. FALLACY.

General Harrison punctured the 7 per cent, fallacy when he said: Do not allow any one to persuade you that this great contest as to our tariff policy Is one between schedules. It Is not a iiuestlon of 7 per cent reduct Inn. it is a (iiiestlon between wtde-apart principles. The principle of protection: the Intelligent recognition In the framing of our tarllf laws, of the duty to protect our American Industries and italn the American scale of wages by adequate discriminating duties. 011 the one hand, and 011 the other, a denial of the constitutional right to make our customs duties protective. 011 the assertion or the doctrine that free competition with lorelgn products Is the Ideal condition to which all our legislation should tend.

WHAT HARRISON THINKS.

"I think our worklngmen will wake up to the fact that reduction In their wage.s, which every candid advocate of free trade or revenue reform admits must come with the adoption or Ills theories a reduction variously estimated at rrom 10 "to 25 per cent. Is poorly compensated by the cheap coat he Is promised. This bull-tn-tlie-Chlna-sliop sort of work that our Democratic friends want to make of the tarltT will not do."

i- In nn address made in Chicngo in 5- March of this year he said: "1 am one of those unlnstructed political economists that have an Impression that some things may lie too cheap that lean not tlnd myself In lull sympathy with tills demand for cheaper coats, which seem to me necessarily to Involve a cheaper man and woman under the coat. I believe it Is true to day that we have many things In this funTryiimt, too cheap, because whenever It

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Is proved that the man or woman who produces i) any article cannot get a decent living out of It, then tt Is too cheap."

$£ "l would rather be William O'Brien In Tullamore Jail, a martyr cf free speech, than the Lord 'A- Lieutenant of Ireland In Dublin Castle. "I Ueneral 1 Harrison. In 1877. at the Esmonde and O'Connor reception, Indianapolis.

Ktigllslt Interest in the Result. The electioneering campaign In America ought to lie most Interesting to the English people for historical, political, philosophical and economic reasons. The main question at issue is English free trade against the continental system of protection. The Republic Is on trial. l»ood, conservative government, under Cleveland. Is op•"'posed by the rule and ruin iarty of Blaine, whose friends nominated Harrison, and who would certainly be the secretary of state under a Harrison administration. Thus the American people are directly Involved In the contest through their

pockets, which will be affected by the tariff, and their future, which would be seriously Influenced by the restoration to power of such a lire-brand as Blaine, with hts horje-rule sympathies and antlranarfian policy. The American electlou Is infinitely more Important to Englishmen than their own internal politics Just at this Juncture, and they should observe every phase of the campaign closely and understanding^. It Is from this

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view that the copious dispatches to the

Sunday Times are cabled. The result of the American election will help to decide many Important Issues in Great Brltain.-[London Sunday Times, July 15,1888.

Republican victory, the prospects of which grow brighter every day, can be imperiled only by lack or unity in council or by acrimonious contest over men. The issue of protection Is incalculably stronger and greater than any man, for It concerns the prosperity of the present and generations yet to come. Were it possible for every voter of the Bepubllc to see for himself the condition and recompense of labor In Europe, the party of free trade In the United States would not receive the support of one wage-worker between the two oceans. It may not be directly In our power as philanthropists to elevate the European laborer, but It will be a lasting stigma upon our statesmanship If we permit the American laborer to be forced down to the European level. And In the end the rewards of labor everywhere will be advanced if we steadily refuse to lower the standard at home.

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The Kxpress does not undertake to return rejocted manuscript. No communication will be published unless the full name and place of residence of the writer Is furnished, not necessarily for publication, but a guarantee of good faith.

Yours with sincerity, James G. Blaine.

workiDgman

should hear John

Jarrett at the wigwam to-night.

The Brookshire serial now running in the Gazette is said to evince great labor. It's a pity it isn't the same story told by that gentleman at the wigwam the other night.

And still there is doubt as to whether the street car company or the city authorities are responsible for the care of Main street. One thing is sure: the street car company doesn't care but goes ahead on its own responsibility.

The Crawfordsville Journal is impertinent: Does Mr. Voerhees still think the Pennsylvania farmers act wisely In supporting representatives for congress who vote steadily for protection It was thus lie expressed himself in the senate a few years ago.

The Dispatch receives just about half of the Issues of the Laporte papers. What's the matter -[Michigan City Dispatch.

Our good Democratic friend should be satisfied with half. Let him feel what we have felt and swear as we have sworn before he begins asking such questions.

Now comes Mr. Briggs, of the Putnam Democrat who wants information: A rice trust has been formed for the purpose of controlling the entire rice product of the South. If a protective tariff tariff leads to trusts, why was not rice put upon the free list? And If free trade is a protection against trusts, why is the coffee trust the most formidable combination In this country to-day? Will some political economic please reconcile these remarkable Incongruities.

It would seem to be wholly out of place for Senator Payne to rise in his place to defend himself, his son, or his son-in-law, as to any connection with the Standard Oil company. He may, perhaps, be aole to prove that they have no shares of stock of that company in their pockets, but all the world knows that father, son and Bon-in-law owe all their prominence to the base use of Standard oil money.

He Is especially better qualified for this work than James T. Johnston, who knows nothing and cares nothing about political economy, who asserts there Is no surplus and therefore no necessity for tax reduction, and who Is going about over the district bellowing about the war, presumably as an excuse for maintaining war taxes twenty-three years after the war closed, and who Is demanding the defeat of the Democrats on the ground that they are rebels. He Is unable to see or unwilling to admit that his competitor, Elijah V. Brookshire, being less than 10 years old when the war closed, Is as guiltless of any war record as he himself Is of a Mexican war record, and as they both are of any revolutionary war record.

Gazette.

We are pleased to 'see this sort of fight on James T. Johnston, made in behalf of young Brookshire who devotes half his time to defending the Cleveland administration as a friend of the soldiers. We would like to see more of it. It will be votes for Johnston, whom the soldiers know, in the ballot box in November.

I'm a Prohibitionist. I used to take fortyseven drinks a day but now 1 only take forty drinks a day."

Yes. but how does that make you a tee-tota-ler?" Just the same as a man Is a free trader who favors a reduction of taxes from 47 down to 40 per cent. Do you see?"

We find this in the New Albany Ledger, a Democratic newspaper that has been opposed to the Carlisle-Mills lead in its party. It is a poor effort to hide the free trade purposes of these leaders, but using the illustration of the Ledger, suppose the man drank nothing but beer and 0 glasses a day? Wouldn't he then be a teetotaler? The Mills bill puts on the free list articles that last year paid 870,(XX),000 revenue. Isn't it a free trade bill as to those articles? llow would the New Al bany Ledger like it if glass, such as manufactured at New Albany, was one of the articles on the free list? We believe it would not be reconciled to the 7 per cent, talk of the rice protected and sugar protected industries.

THE C0BDEN CLUB.

The Democracy would gladly escape the stigma of being associated in purpose with the Cobden club, the British free trade organization. In 1880 the London Times said: "How free trade will come some day to the Vnlted States must be left to the Cobden club and to Its twelve cabinet ministers In their unofficial capacity to decide. It Is to the new world that the club Is qliletly looking as the most likely sphere for Its vigorous foreign policy. It has done what it can for Europe and Is now turning Its eyes westward and bracing Itself for the struggle which Is to come. So it will go on until reason has destroyed protection In the great stronghold I'nlted Slates] In which It has Intrenched itself. We Intend to break down the protecting system In the I'nlted States and to substitute the British system. That done, our victory Is complete and final."

In 1SS4 the club was much encouraged by the step taken in the Cleveland campaign toward free trade. In July of that year a committee of the club reported as follows:

Your committee continues to allord till the as­

sistance in their pAwer to those who are laboring In the free trade cause in foreign countries. In America In the course of political events there Is great promise. The result of the turning of public attention In this direction is seen In the fact that revenue reform Is becoming a leading question in the presidential contest and Is on the winning side.

The promise of 1884 was not nearly so plain as in 1888. The surplus bugaboo gave the American friends of the Cobden club great courage and they hoped by assiduously playing upon the alarm of the people to make a stealthy move on the protective system of this country, as they hardly dared do in 1884. As showing the close alliance of the Democratic party as now led we give the following names of American members of the club: Thomas P. Bayard, Wilmington, Del., Mr. Cleveland's secretary of state also John G. Carlisle, Covington, Ky., Mr. Cleveland's speaker of the fiftieth congress also L. Q. C. Lamarj Oxford, Miss., Mr. Cleveland's late secretary of the interior and now a judge of the Supreme court of the United States by the grace of Grover Cleveland also Jacob Schoenhoff, late skirt manufacturer of New York, now Grover Cleveland's "roving consul also Henry George, Frank Hurd, W. R. Morrison, Henry Watterson and David A. Wells.

Every workingman should hear John Jarrett at the wigwam to-night.

VOICE OF 1LE PEOPLE

Mr. Koyse to the Gazette.

To the Editor of the Exorexs: S ir: In my little speech the other night before the Your'g Men's Republican club I tried to make the point that the Mills bill Is sectional and intended to be most favorable to the South. To do that I willed attention to the fact that the Mills bill admitted hoop Iron, to be used as cotton ties, free, while other hoop Iron used by the people generally had a liberal duty. The Gazette takes exception to this. Let us look at the record. The present tarllf law Is: "On hoop, band, scroll or other Iron eight inches or less in width, not thinner than No. 10 wire gage, lc per lb., and thinner than NO. 10 and not thinner than No. 20 wire gage, l.U-lOc per lb." The Mills bill loaves the tarllf lc on the flrst item and reduces 1-10 cent oa the second item. The present tariff: "On Iron or steel cotton ties or hoops for baling purposes not thinner than No. 20 wire gages Is 35 per cent, ad valorem." The Mills bill puts cotton ties on the free list, using the same language In their dlscrlption. That is hoop Iron less than No. 20 wire gage used on the farmer's palls, washtubs, barrels, etc., must, under the Mills bill, pay 1 cent and 1 1-10 cent per pound duty, while the same sized hoop iron used on the Southern cotton bale Is admitted free. I further called attention to the fact that a very high duty is retained by the Mills bill, though slightly reduced, on sugar and rice, on the former 2 to 2Vfe cent per pound, e*ual perhaps to 60 to 80 per cent, ad valorem, and on the latter, when cleaned, 2 cents per pound, a reduction of only J4 cent per pound, equal perhaps to 90 to 1U0 per cent, ad valorem. On the other hand the Mills bill removes the duty entirely from wool, meats, poultry, eggs, vegetables, aud many other articles of Northern production that come In direct competition with Canada, while a general cut is made on articles most largely manufactured In the Northern states.

Many other features of the bill might be cited, but I submit the above are sufficient to sustain the point.

Then to show the shallowness of the pretense that the Mills bill makes only a reduction ol 7 per cent, on the tariff, I called attention to the fact that there are three classes of Imported goods: First, Articles of general use among the people, which can not be successfully produced in this country second. Articles of luxury not made In this country third, Articles that can be successfully produced by American labor. The first class, Including coffee, tea, etc., Is now free and the Mills bill makes no change. The second class luxuries used mostly by the rich, bear a heavy duty under the present tariff and produce a large amount of revenue, and the Mills bill makes very few changes In it, but reserves its fire for the third class, American products by American labor. Here the great reduction is made, and it will be seen at once, that while one ef the two classes of dutiable goods and many articles In the other remain unchanged, and the duty largely Increased In some cases, it would take a pretty large cut on the duties on the products of American labor to make the average 7 per cent. As an liiftance of Increase of duty I called attention to the prosposed duty on steel slabs and billets, which I said was raised from 45 per cent, to G8 per cent. The Gazette thinks lean not prove that. Let us see. The duty now Is 45 per cent, ad valorum. In aM such cases the rating Is on Invoice value In the foreign country, and not on the value here. But the Gazette says that as the present tariff Is a duty of 45 percent, on steel slabs, etc., when valued at 4 cents a pound or less, that Is $80 per ton and 45 per cent Is $30 per ton duty, while the Mills bill makes the duty §11 per ton. A splendid showing truly, bnt for the words "or less" following the 4 cents. If valued at 4 cents per pound the school boy can answer It will be $80 per ton. but valued at $16 per ton, which Is the average value placed on steel slabs In England and Belgium, whence they are Imported another story is told. Forty-live per cent, on $16 Is $7.20, which Is the present duty on a ton on steel slabs, Instead of $36, while the Mills bill places the duty at $11 per ton. equal to 68% per cent- ad valorem. I submit, candid reader, whether Democrat or Republican, have I not proved It?

I. H. C. ROYSE.

TERRE HAUTE, September 14.

84 vs. 108.

To the Editor of the Express: S ir: In a recent issue of the Gazette a correspondent has something to say about the number of personal pronouns used In the letters of acceptance of General Harrison and President Cleveland, and maintains that the former uses the greater number. The writer says, by actual count tills result is obtained: In Harrison's letter may be found: 1,14 me, 3 my, 12. In Cleveland's letter: 1,16 me, 2 my. 6. The Informant concludes, therefore, that all that has been said about the president losing sight of everyone else and continually finding himself in his talks end writings is the worst kind of bosh. Why Is It not plausible from the tollowlng (which is taken by actual and careful count), that Daniel, or some other confidential advisor, has whispered Into his excellency's ears that the big "I" and little "you" of his state papers must be droppod, and the president has concluded that by discarding the personal pronoun in the singular number and substituting It in the plural, all would be right. Here Is the count: Harrison's letter: 1,16 my. 12 me, 4, our, 42 we, 10 total. 84. Cleveland's letter: 1,7 my, 6 me, 2 our, 67 we, 26 total, 108.

C. O. D.

"That settles It," said the cook, as she dropped an egg In'o the coffee.

"Send one dollar and learn how to get fat." He sent his dollar, and received a card directing him to "go to the soap factory,"

Cleopatra—"Just listen at that music across the street. I think It sounds sweeter at that dlstan than nearer, don't you?"

Anthony—"Yes, and a fellow don't have to put up a cent, either." Bogler—"I see that Johnson has gone Into the drug business again. Its one of the curiosities of human nature that people will not take warning by disaster."

Mrs. Bogler—"On the same principle, I suppose, that so many widows get married."

He—"I saw Jobson's daughter on the street last night Why. two years ago she was a mere child, and now she's as tall as her mother. Its astonishing how rapid she Is growing."

She—"You mean how rapidly. I suppose." He—"No, I don't."

First Sport—"Here's a great story called 'The Gambler's Wife.' Shows how the old man played short-cards until bis wife starved almost to death, and all that sort of business."

Second Sport—"She was no gambler's wife. She was a 'sucker's' wife."

Coroner—"You were present when the deceased met his death?" Witness—"Yes, sir. He was standing at the telephone and said, 'Give me the Union deppo, please,' when there was a crash and he fell to the floor. When we picked him up he was dead. I think the wire was struck by lightning." "Coroner—"You are sure he said deppo'

Witness—"^ulte sure." Verdict-"Died by the visitation of God."

THE TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS, SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 15,1888.

A WORD OR TWO TO THE FARMER.

The New York Press has been called upon by no less than six readers to reply to-that foot-in-the-grave old chestnut about the farmer being taxed 95 per cent, on his flannel shirt, 57 pent, on his coat, etc. Incredible as it may seem to intelligent people, the Democi-atic national committee is insulting the intelligence of the farmers of this state by circulating this exploded relic of free trade argument:

Under this tarllf the farmer rises in the morning, puts on his common flannel shirt taxed 95 per cent his coat taxed 57 per cent. shoes 35 per cent., and hat taxed 92 per cent takes the water from a bucket taxed 35 per cent., and washes his face and hands in a tin bowl taxed 85 per cent dries them on a cheap cotton towel taxed 45 per cent

He sits down to his humble meal and eats from a plate taxed 50 per cent, with a knlf and fork taxed 35 per cent drinks his coffee with sugar taxed 68 per cent. seasons his food with salt taxed 69 per cent pepper taxed 61 per cent

He looks around on his wife and children, all taxed in the same way takes a chew of tobacco taxed 199 per cent., or lights a cigar taxed 118 per cent And, sir, even the sunlight from heaven that pours into his humble dwelling must come through window glass taxed 59 per cent, and yet he thinks he lives in the freest government under heaven.

Then he starts to work puts a bridle taxed 35 per cent, on his horse, takes his horse that has been shod—the nails used in shoeing being taxed 52 per cent., driven by a hammer taxed 20 per cent.—and hitches him to a plow taxed 45 per cent, with chains taxed 58 per cent., and after the day's labor is closed and his family are all around, he reads a chapter from his bible taxed,25 per cent., and kneels to God on an humble carpet taxed 5l per cent. and then he rests hts weary Umbs on a sheet taxed 45 per cent., and covers himself with a blanket that has paid 104 per cent

Even the broom with which his good wife sweeps the floor is taxed 35 per cent., and the cooking vessels used In preparing the husband's frugal meals are taxed 42 per cent., and the soda used to lighten his bread 59 per cent She sits down to her sewing machine with a needle taxed 25 per cent, and a spool of thread taxed 74 per cent, to make a calico dress taxed 58 per cent or if she wishes to knit a warm pair of socks to protect her husband and children from the bitter cold she uses yarn ixed 120 per cent.

The object of this shallow circular, says the Press, is to make the farmer believe the free trade theory enunciated by Grover Cleveland that the price of the domestic product is increased by exactly the amount of the duty.

Here is the practical outcome of the concentrated wisdom of the national committee. A common flannel shirt costs in England 39. Gd., or 84 cents. The cost here would therefore be nearly double, or $1.68. The actual price is $1

A common suit of clothes cost in England 30a., or 7.50. The cost here, therefore, would be $12.50. The actual costs is ST.50, same as in England. An allwool §10 suit such as that exhibited by Major McKinley costs just £2, or $10 in London.

In England common boots cost Gs ($1.50) and fair ones 10s. ($2.50). Instead of costing one-third more here the price iB $1.25 for well-made brogans and $2.50 for fair boots.

A 3s. 6d. (84 cents) hat inEogland can be bought here for $1, and it does not cost nearly 82, as asserted.

A tin bowl costing ]0d, or 20 cents, in England can be got here for about the same price, or at most 25 cents. On the other hand, kitchen utensils as a whole are cheaper in this country than in England, our ingenuity in making such articles being greater»than it is in England.

A cheap cotton towel in this tax ridden land, quality for quality, costs iess here than in England. The Press can prove this to the satisfaction of all Democratic liars.

The lie about thread is a stale and unprofitable one. Here is what the Grafton linen mills, who have places on both sides of the Atlantic, say on this subject: "We sell a large proportion of the product of our mills at Grafton, Mass., at prices that are as low absolutely as prices obtained in Britain for similar qualities made at our mills in Johnstone, Scotland." Wages here are 100 per cent, higher.

All knit goods are cheaper here than in England, especially jerseys such as women wear. So are the commoner grades of stockings and socks.

American farming implements of all kinds are exported and sold in competition with English. They are better, more ingeniously made, more durable and cheaper than the farming implements of any country in the world.

American cutlery is imported by and sold in England. Does not this prove that the price is not higher than English cutlery? Pottery and window glass cost one-third what they did when we depended on England to manufacture these articles for us. The difference in the price to-day is not the duty.

Sugar is a Democratic industry, and rice "taxed" 102 per cent, is carefully ignored. The Republicans repealed half the internal tax on tobacco in 1883, and would have repealed the balance last session only Speaker Carlisle refused to recognize Judge Kelley for this purpose. What folly therefore, to talk about 199 per cent, on chewing tobacso. In free trade England the workman pays 1,200 per cent, on his tobacco.

Blankets vary in cost here from $1 to $5 a pair. The retail price in England is practically the same, and the blankets compare favorably that is, a pair of $5 blankets here would cost about £1, its equivalent in England. The government, in a recent purchase of blankets made abroad, discovered that the difference in the price was only 30 cents a pair.

A calico dress can be bought in this country as low as cents per yard, a sum equivalent to the duty. If the price is increased by the amount of the duty, calico dresses cost nothing in England. And yet the people go ragged. The fact is they cost more in England than here. And this is true of all staple cotton goods. A stuff dress can be bought here as low as 10 cents, and the duty is 17 cents. Thus on th® theory that the duty is a "tax," in England these dresses are given away and 7 cents a yard bonus for taking them.

An example even more astoni thing is found in the fact that while chloroform i6 subject to a duty of 50 cents a pound, the domestic article is selling in this country for 35 cents a pound, or actually for 15 cents a pound less than the duty!

Turning to hardware we find the present price of steel rails in this country is $33 a ton. The duty is $17 and the freight $2.50, together making $19.50, the tax on imported rails. This deducted from £53 leaves $13.50, which should be the British price of steel rails, if the president's theory is correct. But the British price is, in fact, $20 instead of $13.50.

Further, the steel rail industry in this country was built up under a duty of $28 a ton. In 1885 steel rails were sold here for $27, just one dollar less than the original duty.

Take another illustration. The price of cut nails in Philadelphia is $2.00 for a keg of 100 pounds. The duty on cut nails is $1.25. If the above proposition be correct, cut nails should be bought in Europe 75 cents a keg. In fact, they cannot be bought anywhere on earth for less than $1.50 a keg.

Again, cut nails have been sold in this country as low as $1.85 a keg of 100 pounds, while the duty was $1.50 a keg. Thus, according to the Democratic circular, cut nails must then have been purchasable in Europe for 35 cents a keg.

Three-ply carpets are sold in England

at 2s. 6d., or 62% cents perjyard. Add 50 per cent, "taxes" to this and the price would be 93% cents per yard. Yet you can buy better and more artistic carpets at Dobson's or Sloane's for 62J£ cents per yard than you can for the same money in England.

And so it is with every article of gen eral consumption which the masses of the people buy. As for the cost of the Bible, the Democrats who get up suoh literature as the above are not likely to pay that tax. Bibles are plentiful and cheap. The Press will not answer these back number questions again this campaign, so those interested will please paste this in their scrap books and stop sending the circular to the Press. We are too busy grappling with live issues to dip into ancient history and answer statements which on their face presuppose the farmers of the country to be fools.

They are not, but know more about this question than the free traders who try to instruct them.

PROTESTS AGAINST HILL

Harsh Criticism of the Action of the New York Democrats.

The renomination of Governor Hill has fallen flat among the New York City Democrats. This morning Democrats had but little to say on the subject.

The Herald says: The expected has happened at Buffalo. Mr. Hill has forced his nomination against as strong an opposition as an ambitious politician ever encourtered. The convention was on the whole dull and apathetic and entirely without interest. Mr. Hill had acquired possession of the machine, and it was sullenly obedient to his dictum. Mr. Hill, as we have repeatedly warned him, assumes a grave and serious responsibility. Mr. Hill was bent on having his own way, and in order to do so has assumed a risk which no loyal man afford to take. He is now bound to carry the state not for himself but for Cleveland. The eyes of the whole Democratic party are fixed upon New York. This is the pivotal point in the campaign—the bat-tle-ground where the hottest fight in the campaign will take place. To win for himself and lose for Cleveland would be an unpardonable crime. It is not worth while to elect Hill by the sacrifice of the presidential ticket on the other hand it would have been the wiser course to sacrifice his personal ambition for a time in order to secure the success of the party.

The Times: Prom such uncleanliness as the New York Democracy put upon itBelf at Buffalo yesterday there is but one purification—the fires of defeat. In nominating Hill for governor the Democratic convention did not merely touch the pitch and pass by with soiled garments it went bodily down into the pool of defilement and wallowed. For the first time in its history the party intrusted the task of choosing its candidate to its basest members. The action of the convention was determined in advance by retail rum sellers, gamblers, and political vagabonds, and its proceedings were visibly guided by men 'of evil repute whom Governor Hill reckons among his confidential advisers and agents. Every move was made with the most painstaking regularity. No precedents were violated, no traditions set aside, no ground for a bolt was offered to those whom strict party usage controls, and only decency, honesty, and the opinions of respectable men were ignored. When a great party thus plays the fool it behooves the community to take prompt measures to make it a small party, a minority party, impotent to do the harm it plans. This is the task set before the Republicans of New York, and in performing it they will have the aid in campaign effort and in votes of the Independents and of a great number, of Democrats of character and standing who are disgusted with Hill's nomination.

WHEN IS A MAN TOO OLD TO MARRY

It Is Never to Late to Mend, as Sliown ly Some Examples in England.

"When is a man too old to marry?" is quite as interesting as the question: "When is a girl too young?" I must leave to physiologists to discuss how far the chances of life are shortened when December weds May, and expects in May anything more than a nurse, though, in passing, I may observe that I have noticed several such marriages in which the funeral followed suspiciously close to the wedding, writes some one in the London Echo. Without going back to the time when "Jared lived 162 years and begat Enoch" there are several instances on record of modern patriarchs who became proud and happy fathers at the time when they should be thinking about shuffling off this mortal coil.

There was that stout Salopian, old Parr, for example, who married at 80, and had to do penance in Alderbury Church for an intrigue with Catherine Milton, when he was a sprightly masher of 105 summers. If Lord Lyttleton is to be believed Parr had a rival in the Vale of Festiniog, in the person of an old Wei sh farmer, who when he died had 800 lineal descendants, and whose youngest son was 81 years younger than his eldest. I fancy this man must have been of the same family as a certain Alderman Hookes, of Conway, who is described in his epitaph as the forty-first child of his father, and himself the father of twentyseven children. Happily for themselves these people lived long before the days of Dr. Drysdale.

My own impression is that the Welsh border is the paradise of old men, the grand old man being the most conspicuous among many. Some years ago I spent Sunday in the very next parish to Hawarden. I dined with a middle aged man whose sons were fast growing to manhood and then walked over to his father's house to take tea. The venerable old gentleman, who wore a headgear something like Oliver Goldsmith's, was nursing an infant 2 or 3 years old on his knee. "Is that your youngest?" I asked of my middle aged friend. "Oh, dear, no," he repiied "that is my little brother."

The Latest in Gymnastics.

If you have an love for physical exercise try the following: The cheapest and simplest gymnasium in the world— one that will exercise every bone and muscle in the body—is aflat piece of steel notched on one side, fitting tightly into a wooden frame, and after being greased on both sides with a bacon-rind, rubbed into a stick of wood laid lengthwise on a sawbuck.—[Mauch Chunk Gazette.

Jay Gonld's Gift to a Church.

The only gift, so far as known, that Jay Gould ever made to a church hangs in the belfry of the little wooden church at Roxbury, N. Y. It is a

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toned bell which cost Mr. Gould $2,000. The villagers are very prou 3 of the gift, and they still point out to visitors a weather-beaten farm house about four miles from town where Mr. Gould was born.—[Washington Post.

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A foolish young man of La Cygne, Went and planted a Boston baked bygne Then he said, with a frown "Why. baked beans are brown. But this one Is coming up grygne."

A lively brush—the hunted fox's. The longest gloves cover the round of the shoulder.

An aristocratic gun club is something new in Boston. Rail birds are numerous and fat on the Connecticut coast.

A mountain in Colorado has been named Mount Sheridan. Snobism is the latest word which France has borrowed from England.

Large numbers of fowls were killed by the intense heat at Gait, Cal., last month.

Savannah is now the largest cotton port in the United States, and Norfolk second.

The French propose to send pigeon messages from ship to ship upon the broad seas.

A Butte, Cal., man who began farming on rented land ten years ago has this year $61,000 worth of wheat to sell.

Viscount Cranbrook, lord president of the English council, prides himself on never having through his long life read a novel.

There will be a beauty show at Spa, Belgium. Entries must be between 20 and 30 years of age, and show a certificate of good character.

A tract of land containing 1,000,000 acres in Aroostook county, Me., has been sold for $1,000,000. The deed recorded contains 25,000 words.

The island of La Costi, on the Florida coast, is being set out with cocoanut trees so rapidly that it will soon be one immense cocoanut grove.

The chief reason for Moltke's resignation, expressed in his letter to Emperor William, is that "at my great age I am no longer able to mount a horse."

Mrs. Thurman has never had a photograph taken. But her husband has recently had several pen pictures made of him which were not at all flattering.

John W. Breckinridge, youngest son of Vice President Breckinridge, is the Democratic candidate for prosecuting attorney of Merced county California.

The Princess Beatrice raises a number of Angora rabbits, whose silky fleece is sheared twice a year for knitting, antl makes the exquisite wool known by that name.

Cattle are so cheap in Nevada that the present season will prove a very unprofitable one for stock raisers. Beef is selling at 5 to 5) 'z cents a pound, with few buyers.

The prince of Wales distinguished himself at Homburg not long ago by drinking fourteen glasses of spring water before breakfast. This is supposed to show that the prince had drank nothing the night before.

Mr. Robert Browning, his many disciples will be glad to know, has recovered health and strength by a summer in the Austrian Ryrol. He will henceforth make his palace in Venice his headquarters.

An absent-minded Albany clergyman having forgotten his appointment to attend a funeral, a neighboring cooper, who is gifted with the power of prayer, was called in and performed the function of the minister.

Paris Industre, without question the most elegant illustrated paper in the world, is to publish an English edition, and the International News company, of New York, has the exclusive agency for the United States.

Essex county, Massachusetts, has two very aged residents. One is Mrs. Ellen Creeden Lynch, of Salem, who has just celebrated her 104th birthday. The other is Charles King, of Middleton, who is in his 107 th year.

A correspondent of the Liverpool Mercury says that he heard some cornet playing from a phonograph which had been repeated more than a thousand times, and all the notes were as clear and distinct as ever.

Three years ago a wealthy New Yorker established the custom of tipping his waitress at Block Island, and now the girl detailed to wait on his table is the one who has the best record for the proceeding year.

Louis, king of Portugal, is seldom to be seen without a cigar, and he converses fluently in English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, German, and Swedish. He is pleasant, and tells ever so many anecdotes.

Louis Blum, a Cincinnati tailor, is under examination to determine his sanity. His particular delusion is that he is wanted to serve as vice president. The desire for office is quite a common weakness among Ohio men.

Governor Luce, of Michigan, is said to be the first governor of that state who has lived within his salary. As this salary is but 81,000 a year Governor Luce has certainly demonstrated the right to be called an economical man.

The Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools now numbers 1,220 establishments, scattered throughout the world. There are 11,712 brothers and 1,670 schools, with 307,387 pupils, besides many colleges and boarding schools.

Fownes, the o'd guard of Colonel Delancey Kane's first coach, now a horse dealer in London, was lately summoned to court for cruelty to two horses. He was driving them in a coach team with badly chafed shoulders. He was fined £4 lis.

Enoch Pratt, who gave Baltimore, Md., a free library, has just celebrated his 81st birthday. Mr. Pratt gave property worth $250,000 and his check for $850,000 to the city, and agreed to give $50,000 a year to the support of the library.

The county court house at Pittsburg, Pa., cost nearly $3,000,000. The tower rises to a height of 420 feet. It has a bridge over which the prisoners pnes between the court rooms and the jail, which is modeled after the famous "Bridge of Sighs" in Venice.

The oldest woman's club in the United States is the Woman's Physiological institute, of Boston. Forty-one years ago it was organized with the purpose of promoting the more perfect health of woman. There is one surviving charter member, a Mrs. Hobbs, and Bhe is 80 years old.

The Russian czarina, though nearly 40 years of age, has still a girlish appearance her sparkling eyes and her joyful smile, her elastic figure, her graceful and yet natural movements, as she shows them when dancing, all combine to impress her with that stamp of youthfulness rare to her time of life.

Mre. Marie P. Evans, one of the claimants of the estate of the late Myra Clark Gaines, declares that never, so long as she lives, will she compromise the case. So the famous suit, which has dragged through a large portion of this century, will be continued in the next, or at least until nothing is left for the lawyers to squabble over.

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