Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 19 September 1888 — Page 2

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The National Ticket.

FOR PRESIDENT,

BKNJAMIN HARBISON, of Indiana.

VICK PRESIDENT,

LEVI P. MORTON, of New York. ELKCTOIIS-AT-I.ARGK, JAMKH M. SHACKELFORD, of Vanderberg,

THOMAS 11. NELSON, ol Vigo.

EIGHTH DISTRICT ELECTORS.

JOHN C. CHANEY, of Sullivan. The State Ticket.

GOVERNOR

ALVIN P. HOVEY, of Posey.

LIKUT.-OOVERNOR

IKA J. CHASE, of Hendricks.

.IUDOES OF SUPREME COURT

1st District—SILAS D. COKKKY, of Clay. 2d District -.JOHN BERKSHIRE, of Jennings. 4th District -WALTER OLDS, of Whitley.

rSECHKTAHy OF STATE

CHARLKS K. (iRIKKIN, or Lake.

AUDITOR OK STATE

BRUCE CARR. of Orange.

TREASURER OF STATE

JULIUS A. LKMCKK, of Vanderbiirg.

ATrORNET-GKNKRAL,

LEWIS T. MICHENER, of Shelby.

SUI'I'KHINTKNDKNT OP I'lTHMC INSTRUCTION,

HAKVKY M. LA KOLLKTTE, of Boone.

HKKHtTKR OF SUPREME COURT,

JOHN L. (iRIKKlTHS, of Marlon.

CONGRESSMAN,

JAMES T. JOHNSTON, of Parke.

JOINT REPRESENTATIVE.

WILLIAM WELLS, or Vermillion. Comity Ticket.

STATE SENATOR.

KRANCIS V. HICHOWSKY.

REPRESENTATIVES.

WILLIAM 11. BKRRY. MARION McQUlLKIN.

PUOSECUTINO ATTORNEY,

JAMES E. PIETY.

TREASURER,

FRANKLIN C. FISBKCK.

SHERIFF,

RKNONI T. DEBAUN.

COMMISSIONERS,

1st DlHtrlct—LEVI DICKEItSON. 2d District—LOUIS FINKBINER. ltd District-S. S. HENDERSON.

SURVEYOR,

FRANK TUTTLE.

CORONER,

DR. JOHN HYDE.

Republican victory, the prospects of which grow brighter every day, am 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 conccms the prosperity of the present and generations yet to come. Were It possible for every voter or the Republic to see for himself the condition and recompense of labor in Europe, the party of rree 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 its philanthropists to elevate the European laborer, but It will be a lasting stigma upon our statesmanship If we penult 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.

Yours with sincerity, James (t. Blaine.

"We the capitalists can control the workingman only so long as he 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) should win, but any expression of En gllsh sympathy wonldjprobably hurt his prospects."

Loudon Saturday Review, August 25, 1888, page U12, second co'umn.

I jet's nil go to Paris.

What onused the Uazette to take the back truck on the Main street pavement? Wasn't the take-otT what it was expected to be?

Mr. Cleveland says he never

said

Baid

that

he "believed in free trade as he believed in the Protestant religion." But Mr. Cleveland has been making arguments that justilied the opinion that he could have

it without being inconsistent.

Will anyone please explain why it is that there are no "John Lamb TaritT clubs" in Terre llaute as there were four years ago. Why, in fact, are there no Democratic tarilT clubs nt all here? Were Voorhees and Lamb playing a trick with the voters then when they were advocating protection?

There is this difference between the Street Car company and the city council: One shrewdly carries out its programme of imposition on the people, while the other naturally blunders into doing so. However, the suffering people do not care about any such nice distinction as this when the injurious result just the same.

There is a rumor that the faro banks have been called on for an extra contribution to defray the expenses of the demonstration for Mills, who is to talk to the people here about the "robber tariff," "reform," etc. The faro banks have signilied a willingness to respond if they are allowed to distribute their business cards among the audience.

Chairman liriee rode out to Chicago on his private car and rode back again, lie came West to see about capturing Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, perhaps Illinois. The New York Sun, speaking of his trip, said he had gone to tind the bag of gold where the rainbow touches the earth, and gave him a name that will stick—"The Rainbow Chaser."

Indianapolis has opened to the public her new union depot, but

Berves

notice

that it is now the "Union Station." It may be for Indianapolis, but not for people of Tare-llote, at least not until the lndianopolis people get to be Frenchy enough to know that, while it is true that depot does not mean a passenger station, it is also true that Terre llaute is not Terry

Hut, Terry Haute or "Terry" anything. We stand our high Terre, which, by the way, is not the Latin "Terra," from which mistake much of the misapprehension and consequent mispronunciation arises.

A gentleman of the city tells a good story illustrating that the consumer does not pay the tariff. Some years ago our city council passed an ordinance requiring all huckters to pay a license as a matter of protection to the city merchants. A huckter sold his load of melons for $4 and on his return gave his wife S3. She asked for the other dollar. He explained that he paid the import duty with it. "But," she asked, "I thought that fell on the consumer?" No doubt some of our free trade theorists could juggle with the figures so as to convince that wife that the "robber tariff" was paid by the consumer but we doubt it.

The Gazette has lugged in Carnegie again and says he made his wealth "when the protective tariff on steel rails was $17 a ton and he was making individually as half owner of the Edgar Thompson mill $5,COO a day. The protective tariff merely protected him and swelled his profits." Of course the Gazette knows that the Mills bill as it passed the house fixes the duty at $17 a ton that the Mills committee at one time had the rate fixed at $11 a ton but at the behest of Democrats engaged in the industry restored the duty to $17. Accepting what the Gazette says about the "robber tariff" as to steel rails to be true will it please explain why it is that Mr. Mills moved to retain the duty at the figure fixed in the present law?

In a short speech at Columbus, Monday, Mr. Thurman said: It was over one hundred years ago that Thomas Jelferson declared the principles that wiped slavery from our fair land. To-day there Is not awhlte slave in the domain of Christianity. Why? It was due to Democratic principles. The shackles were stricken from all slaves In that memorable year of 1770. It Is true we had bliick slavery, but it had to go. It wiis the Inevliable result of the principles espoused by Jelferson and embodied in the declaration of Independence. You can not name one good cause in the last hundred years that hits not been fostered by the Democratic piirty.

There is a sublimity of party prejudice in this of which the Allen G. Thurman of ten years ago would never have been guilty. When he undertakes to give the Democratic party credit for the abolition of slavery we are forced to believe that he has been remonstrated with by the party managers for his reference to the colored man'as "a prolific animal' and is trying to "hedge."

The Prohibition third party is on the wane. In 188G it cast its largest vote and the professional politicians who were engineering the movement to their own advantage looked forward to much individual importance in 1888, the presidential year. The returns so far however, have been sadly depressing for them. St. John's lack of a visible means of support except by outside (Democratic) aid, and Brooks' declaration of hatred for the loyal North has caused many staunch Prohibitionists to see the use that has been made of their adherence to what they supposed was a practical movement, and they are quick to abandon the party. Notwithstanding the unusual exertion to pile up in the state elections this year an aggregate of votes that would be encouraging in the presidential canvass, the fact is the party has fallen short of the vote of 1884, and much below the vote of 1886. In New York, where the Prohibition vote has done the most injury to the cause of temperance, as well as to the Republican party, the open and disgraceful alliance of the saloons with Hill and the Democratic party has caused a stampede of Republican Prohibitionists back to the ranks of the only party that has ever done anything toward temperance in the way of legislation.

STILL ON THE RUN.

The Democrats have retraced their steps until they have passed the free trade ground they so boldly assumed last winter and this spring and are now beginning to abandon the position where Mr. Cleveland placed them when he said:

I suppose that It Is needless to explain that all these duties and assessments are added to the price of the articles upon which they are levied.

I suppose, too, it Is well understood that

the effect or tills tarlft taxation Is not limited to the consumers of Imported articles, but that the duties Imposed upon such articles permit a corresponding Increase In price to be laid upon domestic productions of the same kind.

This has been the favorite standpoint from which the "tariff reformers" have made their argument. Indeed, some of our local speakers have dwelled upon it altogether. The facts, however, have been too overwhelming, and the "reformers" are again on the run. When Mr. Mills told the workingman that he must work twenty days at a dollar a day to pay for a suit of woolen clothing, because the tariff added 100 per cent, to its cost, Mr. McKinley produced a suit of woolen clothing purchased from the store of a Democratic member with a receipted bill for $10. The theory theorizes all right but the fact is against it, and so we have come to that point where the New York Times, always a "tariff-reform" advocate, and which went to Cleveland's support for that reason, now says:

Nobody teaches that the full amount of the duty Is added to the price of the protected domestic product

Rainbow-Chaser Brice sent the following to his Democratic friends in Maine several days after the election in that state:

Accept my congratulations on the glorious result of your campaign. It will inspire our friends with contidence and strengthen them In the preliminary battles which remain to be fought elsewhere ami which need all our forces.

This cue was recognized by the Democratic press and an effort has since been made to made it appear that the Republicans did not gain a victory in Maine.

Of course, no one expected the state to go Democratic, but inasmuch as the national committee sent Speakers and money freely into that state inasmuch as the federal officeholders there worked as never before in politics and, as never before, for the Democratic candidates, and the still further fact that four years ago Mr. Blaine was the candidate for president, all candid observers too looked for a Republican plurality less than 10,000. The Democrats confidently expected such a result. The New York World's representative at Augusta, after consultation with the managers there, sent the following, which appeared in the World the morning of the election:

The Democrats have made a splendid fight, and if victory does not crown their efforts they will at least make a serious inroad Into the Republican majority. Their canvass has been by all odds the best they have made for many years, and ex-Gov-ernor Plalsted said to-day that the outlook for success Is as good

as

it

was

In 1880. The

Democrats will be satisfied if they can reduce the Republican plurality to 10.000.

THE CARNEGIE LIE.

Congressman Scott, of Philadelphia, In a speech In congress stated on the authority of Andrew Carnegie himself that his (Carnegie's) Income for one year from the Edgar Thompson st'-sl works, which Is only one of seven mills of which he owns a part or whole, was $1,500,000. This statement has not been denied and presumably can not be denied.—rfiazotte.

The statement hai been denied and Mr. Scott was forced to retract it but of course that does not prevent th Gazette saying the above. There was no more sensational incident of the tariff debate in the house, none that was given more space in the' newspaper reports, than this one when the $1,500,000 lie was exploded. Yet here is a would be oracle and reservoir of information unaware of the fact or purposely avoiding it.

Mr. Carnegie wrote a letter denying that he said anything of the kind saying that no steel mill in the country made anything like one-third of that amount. Mr. Kelley read the letter in the house and Scott, who owns more pluck-me stores, has employed more private police and is in more free trade, standard oil and anthriicite coal combinations than any man in Pennsylvania, was forced to admit that he "might have been mistaken." All accounts of the scene were that the miserable libeler presented a spectacle that earned for him the contempt of those present.

We don't doubt that the Gazette will continue to repeat the story, but we are surprised to find a man of Mr. John G. Williams' standing making use of it. He, apparently did not believe in it, and caught at a stray item that inadvertently found a place in

THE EXPRESS

to

bolster up a weak point, an act much more in the line of Wall street pettifogging than the style of argument one would expect from a gentleman whose ability calls for a higher order of reasoning.

KU-KLUX,

Our southern friends insist that there is no politics in the frequent killing of negroes by armed bands of white men but will they please explain why it is that in the campaign months of a presidential year the massacres far outnumber those of any other year? During the past few weeks there have been almost daily reports like the following of yesterday:

Opelousas, La., September 17.—Yesterday morning at Vllle Platoe Prairie, a crowd of armed men went to the house of two negroes named Jean Pierre Salet and Dldeur and after leading them a short distance away riddled them with buckshot, killing them both instantly. The killing Is supposed to have been brought about by Incendiary language recently used by these two negroes. The affair created Intense excitement In the neighborhood where it occurred.

We thank thee, writer of that dispatch, for the word "supposed." In less than a week eleven negroes in Mississippi were as brutally killed for some "supposed" trivial cause. The truth is that the colored people in these communities have begun "talking politics" and have been evincing an interest in the forthcoming election. These massacres are intended to intimidate them and to prevent the necessity of wholesale slaughter on election day as was formerly the way of keeping the south solid. Election day massacres could not be attributed to "incendiary language." The new method, while securing the same result, is intended to deceive the people of the north.

A few days after the Arkansas election a dispatch from a town in that state said that a colored man had been sent to jail for 230 days for "cohabitation," adding, laconically, that he had been active in the political campaign. Think of it! In the land where every white male aristocrat was raised in the belief that for himself with colored women and among slaves cohabitation was right and proper. This colored man was sent to jail because he had been asserting his political rights, nothing else.

C- (. 1.

A son-set—t win boys.

High livers—pate de fole gras.

Bound to win—a high jump for stakes.

Always "the same"—the old toiler's order. The common sailor ami the common hog often see hard times berore the mast.

The man who "never opens his mouth without putting his foot in It" Is the one who Is liable to bite off more than he can chew.

A Nebraska man, who fed a boy Into a threshing machine, was promptly lynched by the infuriated farmers, wno didn't believe In thrashing a boy In that way.

Recently, a fellow was arrested In Ohio for firing on a train from a thicket, while another man, who fired on the engine from Columbus, was permitted to go unmolested. "I think It's harder for a woman to get over a real love affair than anything else," pensively remarked Mrs. Browne, who had just finished "The Quick or the Dead." "How about a wire fence?" brutally asked Browne.

Minnie—"So you are engaged to little Shortlelgh, after all. Why you told me once that you had rejected htm once en account of his size."

Mamie—"Yes. but he plead so I finally accepts! him." Minnie—"On account of his sighs?"

THE TERKE HAUTE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 19,1888.

VOICE OF THE PEOPLE

A Democratic Orator's Falsehoods. To the Editor of the Express: Sir: A few days ago the tiazette published an editorial under the caption, "A Republican Orator's Falsehoods," and a return of the compliment may not be out of place.

Because Colonel Hallowell made a trilling mistake while discussing the sugar duty in his recent speech, the Gazette calls him "An unmitigated scamp who can tell a falsehood without blushing." Let us see now, whether E. V. Brookshlre can tell a deliberate falsehood while gracefully rubbing his long legs and rolling his treacherous eyes, and not feel called upon to blush once during an the interesting performance.

Mr. Brookshlre, In his siieech here, said—and this part of the piece he spoke the Gazette published: "Sugar is taxed by the Mills bill H&c per pound, and the farmer who uses 200 pounds a year could save at most but $3 a year, by having the proposed tax remitted." But the Mills bill says thus: "All sugars above No. 13, and not above 16, 2 20-llkj cents per pound." and what does this Imply? It means what Senator Beck said while denouncing this same sugar duty in February. 1883- His words then were: "Recollect that the sugar from No. 13 to No. 16 are the table sugars of this country. All the lower grades go to the refiners." They are the grades between the dirty Muscovadoes, not fit for use till purified, and the high priced white sugars. On these the duty Is higher. Mr. Mills proposes to reduce the duty on family sugars HO per cent, or to 2.2 cents per pound. But Sir. Brookshlre, after having his fling at Colonel Hallowell, was able to enact the part of Annanlas without fatal results to himself, or even blushing. He told the farmers the most they could save on 200 pounds of sugar If It came In free Instead of paying the proposed Mills tax. would be $3, a claim which presupposes a reduction on family sugars of more than 45 per cent., or more than twice as much as the reduction actually proposed. Mr. Brookshlre could not have blundered lgnorantly, for he told us he had the Mills bill with him. Is he, then, "an unmitigated scamp," a man who will lie with the deliberate Intention of misleading his hearers? And does he go trotting around through the Eighth district telllngthls lie to farmers two or three times a day? will the Gazette enlighten us on this point

Then, again, to disgrace his own country and place in stronger light the sad condition of our merchant marine, he told us that flour Is $30 per barrel In South America, but that so great Is the depressing effect of our tariff laws upon foreign commerce that Americans can not find any profit in supplying that demand for flour, even at the enormous price offered. But all the eastern coast of South America is open to the world, while the western coast Is all open to the surplus wheat supplies of Oregon, California and Chill, and for anyone to insinuate that flour Is $30 per barrel within reach of tide water in that country is to lie deliberately and with malice aforethought At Quito and LaPaz flour may be $30 per barrel, but the steamer that can carry a cargo of Hour hundreds of miles Inland, over mountains thousands of feet high, that a mule can scarcely climb, has not yet been Invented. If Mr, Brookshlre is elected, perhaps he will encourage the building of such ships. With their advent It is to be hoped that flour will fall In price at Interior points In South America.

Mr. Brookshlre also told us- but this the Gazette does not publish—that fifty four steamers ply between our Atlantic ports and Europe, only four of which fly the American flag and that we are distanced out of sight In this business, mainly

because

of our robber tariff on lumber. There

are two reasons, both of them tolerably good ones, why this young "economist" must be mistaken. The first Is, that these great steamers are built of Iron.and steel, and a tariff on lumber would iiffect them, Injuriously, about as much as does the duty on brick. The second Is, that ship timber and planning are as free from duty as are tea and coffee. The very woods, logs and round timber, "shlp'ftlmber and planking," are In the free list of our tariff law. About the tariff on lumber he also repeated a falsehood that has been told thousands of times, told till even many Republicans believe it. It Is that the tariff on common sawed lumber is $2 per 1,000 feet. But the words of the law are these: "Sawed boards, planks, deals (pine lumber) and other lumber of hemlock, whltewood (poplar), sycamore and basswooa, $1 per 1,000 feet, board measure." Mahoglny, furniture woods in the rough, railroad ties, etc., are all free. But our orator is dissatisfied because redwood comes Into the country without duty and he finds in that fact another proof that the robber tariff favors the rich at the expense of the poor. Let me whisper something to Mr. Brookshlre that may ease his mind on the subject of redwood—We get It from California.

This candidate for congress also knows all about salt. Ue tell us that salt Is so plentiful In this country that Senator Hale saw workmen mining it out of the side of a mountain In Louisiana where they could dig It out with picks In great blocks. But it happens that there Is not a mountain or even a considerable hill In all that state, and though Louisiana does have one of the finest deposits of salt In the world, it Is under ground on a low island In the middle of a swamp. Then he proceeds to enlighten us on the subject of jute, and about this he seems to know nearly as much as the editor of the Gazette, who told us a few days ago that It Is made of flax. He asks: "Does anybody in lhe Dnlted States grow jute? No." But the commissioners of Immigration of Lonisla'ia and Mississippi never tire of telling Northern men how much they can make by settling in their slates and engaging In the cultivation of cotton, sugar rice and jute, and it Is a fact that what was pronounced the best jute ever seen in the United States was raised in Mississippi. Yet, If we are to believe the Gazette, Mr. Brookshlre Is "a student who speaks out of the abundance of his knowledge."

And if he was mistaken about sugar, salt and ships, about flour, lumber, jute and red-wood, he may redeem himself by showing how carefully he has read up on the subject of tiu. He Is just about to speak now, "out of the abundance of his knowledge" therefore hear him and be enlightened. He asks, "Is there a tin mine In the United States" He puts this question with scornful emphasis and then replies, "You know there is not" Yet, somehow, many people believe that there is more tin in Dacota than| there ever was In Cornwall and Banca put together and Professor Forbes. United States geologist, tells us that the tin mines of Montana are the richest on the face of the earth, and that we have enough of that metal to supply the world for ages and less than three weeks ago Dakota papers announced that the first successful cast of tin from native ores had just been made.

And this Is the Gazette's "able economist" who knows so much, and for whom "Jim Johnston is no match." It is, Indeed, to be hoped that he Is not, and If Ignorance that would disgrace a school boy, is creditable to a man who thinks himself (lualilied to go to congress, Brookshlre ought to win on his merits.

Mr, Brookshlre further proved thet he speiiks with the confidence of thorough knowledge by asserting for himself and endorsing the statement of Senator Voorhees to the effect that whi S35C000,C30 have been taken from the taxes the rich used to pay, not a cent has been removed from the burdens of the poor, and this is one of the staple lies the party always keep In stock and this young statesman with a bad memory told us before he goi done speaking that quinine Is so much cheaper than It was before the tariff on it was repealed that we now use a million pounds of it annually, and though this statement may surprise the druggists, it must be that the poor don't use quinine, though the fact Is, that the quinine tax was repealed on the express pretense that the burdens of the suffering poor must be lightened. And though every Democratic orator tells us. over and over again, not a cent has been lifted from the burden of labor yet from only three articles, coffee, tea and Sandwich Islands sugar, faxes that last year, under the old rates of duty would have amounted to $27,126,('68 have been taken off by Republicans and any one who will examine the free tist of our tariff law, will find that In the more than $234,000,000 of Importations that pald.no duty last year, the poor were as directly Interested as I he rich, or as they were In the repeal of the stamp tax on matches. But Mr Brookshlre knows that not a cent has ever been lifted fnom the burden of labor.

Mr. Brookshlre tried to prove that the course of his party on the tariff has been consistent, has always been about what It is now. In proof of tills he read from time to time as his memory railed him, and among the rest from a Mr. Duncan, of Ohio, a good Democrat who made a speech on tills subject in congress In 1844. This gentleman defined the position of his party on the subject or protection in these words: "We are willing that the manufacturers shall have protection to the amount or revenue that an economical administration of government requires, but no more." Mr. Brookshlre summoned this gentleman Into court as an important witness on his side but If the policy outlined in those few words was Democratic doctrine to-day. there could be no dls: ute between the two parties on the subject of the tariff. Taking out the Internal revenue, and the purely revenue part of the sugar tax, and our manufacturers now don't get the amount of protection the Democrats of 1844 were willing to give to home Industries, by more than $165,OOO.OllO, or fully one-half ttie necessary expenses of this government, and the essence of the dispute today Is over an attempt on the part or the Democrats to take a good part of the remaining half away. Mr. Du-can's plan of incidental protection, honestly carried out, would have offered more protection than Republicans are asking. Mr. Brookshlre. as a lawyer, ought to be smart enough not to bring witnesses forward who seive no purpose except to give his whole case away.

The truth about this speech seems to be that It was written wttu a pair of shears, and out of the material us its compiler found it Impossible to make a consistent whole. Its piebald patchwork, cut out of reports, newspapers, speeches, etc., though It Indicates commendable industry, and perseverance under difficulties, does not warrant even the Gazette in calling him an "economist." or in saying that "he is a student who has mastered his subject, and speaks out of the abundance of his kn wlrdge." C.

Tkkrb Haute,September 17.

Time for Action.

Minister—"I hope you are- a good little boy, Bobby, and always

miDd

your

father?" Bobby—"Ves, sir, I always do what he tells me to when he begins to call me Robert."—[New York Sun.

UNHAPPY FREE TRADE ENGLAND.

"Gath" in Cincinnati Enquirer: I met here Mr. T. C. Crawford, whose name is well known to all newspaper readers as having been in Europe for the New York World during the past two years. He came home on the ship with Mr. Blaine, and wrote all the reliable interviews with Mr. Blaine, except one. He wrote the Florence interview, in which Blaine emphasized his refusal to be nominated among the other candidates at Chicago. When I was in Europe last summer Mr. Crawford obtained for me facilities to go to the naval review and other places. I had a running talk with him about general things abroad. Said I: "Do you find the English anxious on the subject of doing our trade and breaking down the tariff?" "I should think so. But the Englishman is a singular being in his understanding of the United States. For a nation so well set up in their own selfesteem as they are, especially in the self-esteem of their superior knowledge, they are the most incapable race alive to understand our institutions. They thought that when Cleveland issued that message or proclamation it was the end of the matter that immediately the tariffs would all come off, and they would come in and occupy the land. They were mystified and mortified when it was explained to them that the president could not either make or break any law that his message was a mere recommendation. 'Oh wfell,' they said on hearing this, 'of course those manufacturing states will have to cpme in. They may resist him by force a while, but he is the ruler, and has expressed the policy, it can not be'very long.'" "Are the British doing well under free trade?" "They may be able to show- you some statistics to that effect, but to the naked eye and from what you hear by the ear, they are the most unhappy beings to day on the globe with respect to their trade. As prominent a man as they have in the country told me that they could not stand for their free trade policy more than live years 1 nger unless some other nation or nations enlarged their market. They still insist that their doctrine is the correct one, provided all the world would adopt it. But every nation on the continent is living under a tariff, and then pouring the goods made by tariff into England to be sold. The United States is doing the same. We 6end no end of things over there, and they have to go in under the law free of duty. Then the British colonies have put up tariffs against British goods, and are manufacturing for themselves. The consequence is that they are struck everywhere. A grower of potatoes, vegetables, and market produce in the interior of England told me that the French would land their apricots, grapes, and garden vegetables in London and sell them cheaper than he could raise them. He said that his hot-houses and wall vines, etc., were valueless to him. The Belgians are selling them railroad engines. The nation they fear the most is the German, which nas a very high tariff and is pouring into England from Chemnitz hosiery and all sorts of woolen and cotton goods. It is a notorious fact that the Americans who go over there are changing their orders from England to Germany, where, with a tariff they are manufacturing cheaper than the English with free trade. It has been only recently that the Americans have looked into the manufactures of the continent, and when they get over there they seldom return to Great Britain. There is variety in design and accommodation to existing fashions among the continentals which the British are too slow to come to. You see that Germany extened tis territory after the wars with France and Prussia, and the German cities began to grow rapidly. The government of Bismarck considered that is was the first duty of a government to set its people to work. So they expended their tariffs, gave protection to their mechanics, supervised the whole system of industry, and they have made Germany an alert, live nation. That is the nation the British fear the Germans can make bridges and railroad iron and many other things cheaper than the English, though the one has a tariff and the other has not. That feeling of anxiety Is universal through the British islands. There is a party growing rapidly into prominence called Free Trade party, which means nothing but a reciprocal tariff party, or indeed a tariff party. It represents, in my opinion, to-day the majority sentiment of England." "Did you look into the alleged poverty in England?" "I did, and just before I came away. I have been in every country of Europe except Spain and Russia. I have been from half a dozen to a dozen times through Holland, France, Belgium, Switzerland and Italy. There is no nation in Europe with the amount of pauperism that you find in England, In the city of London at this moment there are 100,000 persons in the almshouses there are 300,000 unemployed men in London. One of the greatest industries in that kingdom is the pawn shop. One of our secretaries of legation told me that upon the house he has, which is no very expensive house, the poor rate or poor tax alone, for the support of paupers, is 32 guineas a year, or about $100. This is merelv to support the poor of his parish. It iB equivalent to nearly the full taxes on a similar house in one of our great cities."

This Year's '-Harvest Moon."

The harvest moon of 1888 is the full moon due to-day. The harvest moon is so called because it rises from night to night after the full more nearly after sunset than any other full moon in the year, and hence is particularly helpful to farmers in securing their late crops. As many of the crops are backward this season the arrival of the harvest moon almost simultaneously with the vernal equinox is opportune for agricultural operations.

Quarreling: Witli His Food.

Sheriff (to condemned man)—We are all ready, my poor fellow. Have you anything to say before we go out?

Condemned Man—N—no, nothing special but I've eaten better breakfasts than I had this morning.

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ANew York critic says that the stage villain is better played than he was a few years ago.

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One eye may be wisely directed to the renovation of the'87 overcoat.

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THE XKLANCHOLY DAYS-HAVE OOXK. 'Kah for the autumn returning! 'Bah for the bright-colored trees! 'Bah for the season when learning *iij.

On youth that is cussed doth seize! 'Bah for the cool autumn breezes! 'Bah for those crossing the sea! There's naught In the fall that displeases, 'Bah »nd a tiger for me. —[New York Sun. In the fall, a glossier luster comes upon the rammer suit Bussei shoes and skirts of flannel fade away in disrepute. In the fall, the young man sadly gazes on the fash-ion-plate Last spring's overcoat must cover faded splendor out of date. —[Puck.

Savannah has four Chinese voters. An ossified man in Reading has finger nails afoot long.

The toes of ladies' boots are being made pointy again. A short preliminary play in England is called a "curtain raiser."

The wanton destruction of pines in the Adriondacks is pitiable. Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine, has purchased an overcoat. This is a sure sign of an early and hard winter.

Recent experiments in England are held to be favorable to the use of locomotives for towing boat9 on canals.

An artesian well sunk under the salt waters of New York Bay, on the Jersey side, produces pure fresh water in abundance.

Teacher (rhetoric class)—Miss Purplebloom, you may express the thought "Necessity is the mother of invention" in different words. Miss Purplebloom— Invention is the daughter of necessity.—

Life. It is said that Dr. Margaret Crumpton, who has just been elected a delegate from Pittsburg to the Pennsylvania Medical Society, is the first woman in the United States to receive such a com mission.

Farmer—Hi, there! Can't you see that sign—"No fishing on these grounds?" Colored Fisherman—Co'se I kin see the sign. I'se cullid, bo6s, but I ain't so ignerant as to fish on no groun's. I'm tishin' in de crick!

At Denison, Tex., a negro took laughing gas before having a tooth pulled and astonished the dentist by leaping from the chair through the window, carrying sash and all to the pavement twenty feet below, yet, strange to say, was only a little shaken when he came to himself.

Mother Hubbard, it has been decided, had a saintly origin. She is identified with St. Hubert, the patron of dogs and the chase, who is represented in along robe, a veritable Mother Hubbard gown, and who successfully appealed to the imagination of the story teller.

Missionary Beach, of China, claims to have succeeded in representing the Chinese spoken language by a system of clear and simple phonetic symbols, fashioned after the Pitman style. It is said that an educated foreigner can learn the system in from two to five hours, and a bright Chinaman in ten hours.

The great demand by the Yale stu dents for bits of the old Yale fence, which has been taken away, has given to Yankee shrewdness a chance to assert itself, and a thriving trade is likely to be done among students and graduates in views of the campus framed in wood taken from the historic fence.

Professor Brooks, of Geneva, New York, says that the new comet discovered by himself and Professor Barnard, about a week ago, is apparently moving almost directly toward the earth. Observations by Professor Brooks on Wednesday morning revealed that the comet is growing brighter and longer. It is in the morning sky.

John P. Townsend, in his address on savings banks in the United States, stated that the average expense of savings bank management in thirteen states is less than one-third of 1 per cent., the average interest paid is nearly 4 per cent. in the six New England states the average is greater than 4 per cent-., in Vermont it was I,er cent., and in Rhode Island 4 7-10 per cent, was paid in 1887.

The dentist of the queen of Italy is a little, pale-faced, dark-haired American, Chamberlain by name. He has a reverential admiration for the goodness and loveliness of his royal patient. Talking about teeth, Mr. Chamberlain says that he doesn't think that they will disappear as mankind grows less carniverous and indulges more in cooked food but he admits that the higher one goes in the grade of civilization and culture the worse the teeth seem to grow.

A young Socialist of London, Robert Harding by name, has devised a plan whereby he can make public speeches in spite of the police. He goes to a central spot, or square, and fastens himself to a tree or an iron post by a chain and padlock. A friend carries the key away and Robert begins his address. When the police come to arrest him they have so much difficulty in unchaining him that he can make considerable of a speech before they carry him off.

The collection of postage stamps recently exhibited in Boston is said to be worth nearly 81CO,OC3. There were in the collection single stamps valued at $100 each, and several groups of six were placed at SI,COO each. That the prices were not all fancy was shown by the offer of $80 from a dealer for a blue envelope on which was a small stamp marked Bremen. One group, consisting of four government stamped envelopes now obsolete, was appraised at $400.

The question has suddenly been flung into the midst of the British politics whether "Mr. Gladstone speaks with a provincial accent." Several varieties of accent are attributed to him, but the Under of the discussion concludes that "the general testimony of those most able to judge seems to be that Mr. Gladstone has a strong accent, which causes his speech to differ from that of those among whom he lias moved throughout life, but that it is not Lancashire, and not Scotch."

On Blizzard Monday young George Cosine, of Hicksville, I., found a beautiful girl, face downward, in the snow. She was moaning in great distress.^ Mr. CoBine took the young woman up in his arms and canied her to the nearest pharmacy, where she found stimulants and extra wraps. Mr. Cosine's interest went further—he hired a sled and escorted the lonely maiden to her home. Rewarding him, the rescued lady, Miss Mary McEwen, has become his wife. The wedding took place on Sunday evening of this week.

A writer in the American Field tells a story of a quail hunt he enjoyed while lying in bed with three broken ribs to keep him there. His house was on a farm in a quail county in Michigan. Getting very discontented with lying in bed so long, he got his mother to wheel the bed close to an open window. Then he got his gun loaded, and waited till he heard a quail whistle in the cornfield not far away. He answered the call and brought a small flock (it was September) into the yard. He took them sitting on the ground, of course, and killed two. As the result of a half days'hunting in this way he killed

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