Hope Republican, Volume 1, Number 4, Hope, Bartholomew County, 19 May 1892 — Page 3

COMMENT.Subjects Political of Interest to Every Intelligent Reader Tho Southern Alliance—Tin Plate—The Outlook, and Many Other Timely Topics. AN OBJECT LESSON. La Grange Standard. The following table shows the changes in valuation of Indiana property by the new tax law: Old. New. Assessed val of lands,.. .*311.443,093 *430,628,648 Imp. on lands 69,540,300 80,045,835 Total....» - ,*380,983,098 $530,56*,483 Assessed val of lots *73,828,821 *139,9*0,734 Imp. on lots 97,896,861 126,489,642 Total ..*170,718,772 *266,470,376 Val- personal property. ..*231.170,256 *288,686,353 Tal. railroads. 69,662,666 160,809,575 Grand total val **52,634,802 *1.246,454,777 In round numbers the increase of grand total is $400,000,000. This increase is distributed as follows; Upon farms, %, or *150,000,000 Upon town property. 14, •or tiSi.uuo.65o Opon railroads, y i or Upon personal property, H, or fMjOWtOOO The Governor of Rhode Island receives a salary of $1,000 a year. The Democrat* raised a corruption fund ef $100,000 to elect a man to that office. The free traders are desperate. TARIFF PICTURES. New fork Press. This is the way imported carpetings are coming down under the alleged “tax" of the McKinley bill. Average price of imported carpetings for Feb. 1891. $2.31 per square yarct™ A"w5rageT"import price of the carpetings imported in February, 1892 $1.82 per square yard.

THE TIN-PLATE OUTPUT. Boston Advertiser. Statistics gathered by Mr. Albert Clark, secretary of the Home Market Club of this city, in regard to the output of tin plate shows that from the works now in operation there is a weekly output of 40,000 boxes, while an additional 10,000 boxes will be furnished by factories now nearly completed. This includes a product of 150 boxes a day from the works at Piqua, Ohio, about the existence of which there has been so much doubt thrown by the free trade press. The 50,000 boxes which will shortly be put upon the market each week is more than two-thirds of our requirement, and it would seem that with the growth that is likely to follow success in the business the native supply within a few years ought to be sufficient for our needs. Everything would indicate this, and nothing but the abolishing of the protective tariff is likely to prevent it. Already the output is sufficient to reduce the price. THE SOUTHERN ALLIANCEIndianapolis Journal. The action of the leaders of the Southern Farmers’ Alliance at the meeting of the officers in the Southern States, at Birmingham, Ala., Wednesday, is entitled to more t|ian passing notice at the present time. The third party managers have been declaring in Washington and elsewhere, in interviews, that the third party element is so strong in the Alliance in North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama and one or two Other Southern States that the People’s party electoral ticket will carry them. The Alliance press in the South makes such claims. For the purpose of committing the Southern Alliance to the People’s party scheme Polk and Macune called a meeting of the officers of all the Southern State Alliances. They called the meeting because.they were confident they oould insure an indorsement of the third party scheme. There was a full attendance, and after an extended debate the third party proposition was voted down. The vote was close but sufficiently emphatic to show that the Alliance Democracy •in the South is not marching with full ranks into the camp of the third party managers. The address is also suggestive, stating, by way of caution, that the organization cannot be used to promote the interests of any political party. Members can do as they please, but the Alliance cannat be turned into a party machine. Its members may do as those in Kansas have done, .namely, adjourn The Alliance meetings and reassemble as secret People's party elutes, but the leaders cannot lift up the third party standard in the r£fnks of the Alliance. In other words, the officers and executive committees of the Southern State Alliances have repudiated the action of the leaders frbo entered the St. .Louis combination at tae late meeting of odd* and ends. This action shows that the majority of the officers and leaders of the Southern Alliance are deto stand by the Democratic ■party and to keep the organization out of tie Polk, Weaver and Macune conspiracy to Uad it into the third party. Tb*. <Ptermination is commended to ‘p ' consideration of those who balony* forna «’ organizations

in the North which the Weavers, the Simpsons are attempting to capture for the People’s party. Let these people understand that if they join the political organization of Simpson, Weaver and Polk they will not find the Southern Alliance in that camp. A FABLE OF THE FACTIONS. A Lion named Grover and a Bear named Dave seized upon a Kid at the same moment and fought fiercely for his possession. When they had fearfully lacerated and ripped each other up the back and were faint from the Factional Fight, they lay down faint from fatigue. A Fox, who had gone round them several times at a distance, saw them both stretched on the ground and the Kid untouched in the middle, ran in between .them and seizing the Kid walked off with it in his vest pocket. The Lion and the Bear saw him, but not being able to get up, said: “Woe betide us, that we should have fought and belabored ourselves only to give the snap away to a Fox.” Moral —The name of the Pox was “Some Good Western Man;”

WHY FLORIDA REPUBLICANS FAIL TO VOTE. Florida is a Republican State, but it is represented in Congress by two Democratic Senators and the same number of Democratic Representatives, while it has given since 1880 four Democratic votes in the Electoral College. A large majority of the Republicans in Florida are colored men who were given freedom and suffrage by the Republican party, and most of these colored Republican voters are concentrated in a few counties. How the State is made Democratic is shown by the following figures, giving the vote in four counties in 1884and 1890; 1884. 1890 Dem. Rep, Dem. Rep. Leon 834 2,198 1.286 60 Duval 1,889 3,367 1,805 284 Marlen 1,094 1,168 1,126 365 Escambia 1,806 1,861 1,461 102 Total 5,623 8.584 5,598 711 Ik 1884 the Republican vote in these counties was 8,584, and the Republican majority was 2,961. In 1890 the Republican vote was 711, and the Democratic vote within twen-ty-five as large as it was in 1884,giving a Democratic majority of 4,887. No one pretends that the Republicans were not as strong in these counties in 1890 as they were in 1884. Democrats from Florida will tell you: “Oh, these niggers didn’t care to vote.” And that is true. No one in the North would care to vote if the penalty was a load of buckshot from behind some tree, or a band of men at night taking the voter out of his cabin, administering a hundred or more lashes and then putting a torch to the cabin! But some one will say: “The Republicans are in the majority. Why do thev submit to this?” The answer is: “fiecause they are poor, unarmed and unorganized, while the Democrats are armed and organized. ” What do Northern Republicans say to it? PROTECTION BENEFITS FARMERS The fallowing comparison between former and present agricultural conditions shows how superior those of the present are, and vindicates the wisdom of our early Statesmen, who, at a time when the farmer citizens of the young Republic had to exchange a wagon load ©f farm produce for a pair of boots so directed the course of legislation as to realize at the close of the nineteenth century the conditions here pictured. Prices of Things Farmers SelL Increase. 1816 1890 Per Amt ct Wheat, per bushel $0.44 $1.05 80.61 140 Oats, per bushel 0.15 0.44 0.29 183 Corn, per bushel 0.20 0.52 0.32 160 Butter,per pound 0.12 0.24 0.12 100 Cows, per head. 15.00 40.00 25.00 166 Hay, per ton 5.00 10.001 5.00 100 Labor, per man | 8.00 20.00 12.00 150 Average increase ... 141 Prices of Things Farmers Buy. Increase. 1810 1890 Per Amt ct. Nails, per 100lbs $12.00 $2.00$1000 83 Broadcloths,yard 16.00 3.75 1225 76 Blankets, pair 15.00 4.00 1100 78 Cotton cloth, yard 0.30 0.06 Q 24 80 Calico 0.35 74 Salt, per barrel 6.00 0.50 5.50 01 Average deerrase 79% Purchasing Power of Farm Products. 1816. 1890. 100 bushels of wheat would bfly pounds of nails 350 5,280 100 bushels of corn would buy vards of cloth 1J4 14 100 oounds of butter would buy blankets 1 6 1 cow would buy yards of cotton cloth 50 666 1 ton of hay would buy yards of calico 20 182 1 month of farm labor would buy barrels of salt VA 40 THE PEOPLE WANT IT* The people of the United States, broad and large, gave a generous welcome to the Reciprocity scheme from the moment that it appeared in Congress, and no measure of the present Administration has received more hearty public support than this. Influences ephemerally .potential in the Republican party were arrayed

against it, but all this disappeared i when expressions in its favor came I pouring in during the summer and early fall of 1890 from boards of trade and commerce, from district and State conventions, and indeed from all the places where the people gathered together to discuss and commend the Reciprocity plan. Attempts were made in certain quarters to show that the Reciprocity plan was opposed to and interfered with the great doctrine of protection to American labor to which the Republican party is fully committed; but all this disappeared when it was seen by the people that what was comprehended in the scheme was an increased trade with countries that produce articles which we can not produce, which articles we can purchase with the products of our farms and mines and manufactories, which our southern sister nations need and which they can not produce. Reciprocity of this kind is in fact an aid to Protection and broadens the field of the American laborer by opening new markets for his products to be paid for in articles which can never compete with his labor. The people all understand this, and they made their voice heard and their wishes known here and in the Chamber at the other end of the Capitol, and, except in the Democratic party, open opposition was downed and no further hostile note was heard.

THE TIN-PLATE INFANT. Indianapolis Journal. Yesterday afternoon a Journal reporter strolled into the wholesale hardware bouse of Hanson, Van Camp & Co., and meetingD. C. Bergenthal, long connected with that house, the conversation turned on tin plate. The reporter, with a desire to draw Mr. Bergenthal out, was inclined to be derogatory in his remarks concerning the Americanmade article. “So far as our experience has gone,” said Mr. Bergenthal, “the trade generally prefers the American product.” “How is that?” “On account of its malleable qualities, being pliable and easily worked. At the same price they will, as a rule, take the American product. No American manufacturers thus far are able to supply all kinds of tinplate in sufficient quantity to meet the demand. In some lines, how: ever, they can at the present time supply any reasonable demand. This applies for the most part to terne or roofing plates, which are used in great quantity. Still, American manufacturers, new as the industry is, are making a fair quantity of bright tin-plate, and we are buying it right along. We get considerable tin-plate from Anderson, in this State, a great deal from Pittsburg, and we have had some from Cleveland. The Anderson mill is a small affair compared with the Piftsburg plant, which has a capacity to turn out one thousand boxes a week.” “How many tin-plate factories are theye now in the United States?” “There are more than twenty tinplate mills in this country already. This competition has already brought the price down as low as it was before the duty went into effect. This has doubtless been due to American ingenuity in new devices in manufacturing, which has cheapened the cost of making. Foreign plate tin will, before long, be a thing of the past. All the information we have on that subject looks to that end. 1 do not think all the tin-plate manufacturing in the United States will be done by American capital. English manufacturers are coming here now and looking about preparatory to going into the business, as this is the Nation that uses more tin-plate than any country on earth. We nave no trouble at all in getting our orders filled for tin-plate. The quality is excellent, as is every manufacture of steel and iron. There is great inquiry among the tinners for American tin-plate; the interest is strong, being a combination of patriot fcm and pecuniary interest.”

STILL THEY COME. The McKinley law continues to act as an efficient agent in bringing about the importation of industries. The additional duty which it imposes on satines, foulards, and the finer grade of cottons has had the natural effect. A huge mill for the manufacture of these goods is to be erected in Adams, Mass. The capital of thS new manufactory will be $1,000,000, and it will give employment at American wages to 800 persons. The new enterprise will create a profitable home market for the American sea island cotton. It is one more illustration of the tendency of a wisely framed tariff to develop home manufactures along new lines. The Consul at St. Etienne, France reports that a large manufacturer of ribbons, and one of gloves are looking for sites in the United States, and that they expect to build factories and give employment in the aggregate to upwards of 950 persons. The McKinley tariff is getting in its work. By the end of the year it will have resulted in the employment of not fewer than 38,000 persons in new lines of industry in this country.

HIS FIRST AND LAST SPECULATION 1 A Man Who Gambled In Stocks nod Did Not Know It. New York Tribune. “I never speculate,’’ said a man who has acquired a fair share of this world’s goods, and who enjoys them as much, perhaps, as any other man similarly situated. “And yet I made my first real start on a speculation. I won at it and quit ahead of the game, as gamblers say. I have kept ahead of that game ever since. “It was out in California that I was led into my speculation. It was in the days when mining stocks went up into the sky like rockets and came down like the sticks, just as certain men wanted them to. I went out there to make my fortune, but some way it would not make. I really believe in luck, for I did have the worst possible kind of luck, and then of a sudden —but we will come to that later on.

“Have you ever heard of the man who was so poor that he always earned his breakfast, ate It; earned his dinner, ate it; earned l}is supper, ate it; and then slept where it didn't cost anything? Well, I was a good deal poorer than that man, for I ate my breakfast apd then earned it. It was demoralizing, you may be sure. But I happened to meet a man in San Francisco who was making a big stir out there in those days. He wu throwing stocks wherever he pleased, and that meant everywhere. The Way that man made money took every*; one's breath away. For some reason he took an interest in me—perhaps it was because I could not make a cent where he could make millions, “ ‘Yaung man,’ he said to me one day, ‘do yon want to make some money?’ “I thought I did. I thought It so emphatically that I impressed him with my earnestness. “ ‘Well’ he said, ‘give me $100 and I’ll fix it for you so you can make something.’ * “A hundred dollars!’I said. If I had $100 I’d get out of the country. I haven’t 100 cents. ’ “ ‘You haven’t, eh? Then I'll lend it to you.’ “ ‘1 can never pay you,’ I said. “ ‘Yes you can. You can pay me some day. Just sign a note for it. Business is business, you knqw. Then go away and don't ask$ny questions. Just keep Still till I get ready to talk.’ “1 went away, ng richer, no poorer, save my name, which Wasp’t .worth anything to anybody, was at the end of a note for $100. “I did not know much about stocks and I did not care much about them. I only know that there was a madness in the San Francisco market a few days later. Some stocks Ijwent up and some went down. The stocks went up out of sight. Then a hurricane struck the whole market and blew it away. “A few days later 1 met my friend. “ ‘O, by the way,’ he said T have a note of yours in my pocket.’ “ ‘Yes,’ I gulped, feeling the qtring of my heart tighten, ‘but I can’t pay yon now. 1 warned you—' “Nevermind about that now,’he paid. ‘Here’s your note. Now I’m going to give it back to you on one pondition —that you promise me to txever speculate again. ’ ‘T made him the promise. “‘Young man,’he said th en i ‘y° u have been in the biggest hell’s game that ever was played in this market. You haVe won. I knew you would wip. That’s why I let you try it. But, young man,’ and be raised his hand, pointing eloquently with his finger, ‘you never in the world could have won if you hadn’t been on the inside. That is why I made you promise.’ “Then he looked at a memorandum, wrojte me out a check which made me speechless and sent me away. I do not to this day know what is the process of gambling in stocks.”

Coming to America to Study. August* Chronicle. Wc know that every year many Americans go abroad to study, but we scarcely appreciate the strength of the current setting this way. An examination of recent university catalogues shows that practically every civilired nation in the world is represented by students now in America. In a single great institution, the University of Pennsylvania there are students from twenty-eight foreign countries. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology alone shows students of eighteen nationalities; seventeen are represented in the University of California; fifteen in both Harvard and Yale; fourteen at Cornell and Michigan; ten at Princeton; nine at Lehigh, and two each in Brown and Wesleyan. Even remote countries like Japan send many students here, Yale having this year seven Japanese students, the University of Pennsylvania six, Cornell five, Harvard four, and many other colleges one or two. Oup excellent professional courses are the attraction to most oi these foreigners, the University of Pennsylvania medical and dental schools to-day seventy-five foreign rtndenis, ihie% Bbroceaa*-

MISOBIXkMfcODS Rvi<w. The Gulf of Mexico has risen over one foot since 1351, It cost $3,500,000 to dean the streets of Boston lust year. You can’t learn too much, but you can half learn too much. —[Texas Sifting. The doors to William Vanderbilt's new marble house at Newport will cost $60,000. Workmen unearthed a mastodon’s tooth in Cincinnati the other day, while digging a cellar. A late fad among womankind is a gold band-ring for the thumb of the left hand. It is of Grecian origin. The skin of the whale is thicker than that of any animal. In some places it reaches a thickness of several inches. The circulation of the leading foreign papers, with the exception of the art and fashion Journals, is steadily decreasing in this country. A family named Peterson,of Plainfield, N. J., has the hereditary deformity of five fingers and a thumb on each hand and six toes on each foot. A new universal language is on the principle of numbering. Every word is numbered. For example: “I write to know,” would be 10, 72, 35676. A German inventor is reported to have devised an ingenious camera for taking photographs of the internal organs of human beings and beasts. A New York man tried to get the Legislature of his State to pass a! bill providing for the death penalty for owners of dogs whose bite caused death.

San Francisco has an earthquakeproof hotel. It is constructed of iron and in the form of two hollow square one within the other, arranged so as to brace each other. There are more bee-hives in the United States, where there are 2,800, 000, than in any other country. Greece, famous for Its love of honey, has only thirty thousand hive*. Some of the African tribes pull their fingers till the joints “crack" as a form of salutation, and one tribe has the curious fashion of showing friendship by standing back to back. “An apartment is so convenient,” said Mrs. Trotter. “WbM jtou see any one coming to oall that you don't want to see all you have tb do is to walk down stairs while they come up in an elevator.”—[New York Sum He never takes the papers, for “ibey’re dull as all creation,” And, besides, he’s “up” with everythin? that goes: That’s why the train has left him when he gallops to the station, And hi u friends are dead a year be 'he knbws! He never takes the papers, for he isn never In the news and the sensations of the That’s why they’ve put Ills business hands of a receiver And his creditors are hauling him awa A man in Hagei stown, Me., 1 egg that; was lai 1 by a Plyn rock hen which h is clearly dt upon its shell the imprint and h of a foreign piece of money date 1822 and the word “coi tion” can easily be deciphered. The remarkable birds of Ma are described in the new volt the “Proceedings of the T States National Museum.” ] spring season of the year thou of prairie larks there salute tl by bursting all together into a did explosion of song, pourin their rich, strong voices from little height and perch, singing all their might. They sing tL and at night joyously hail the a A farmer in Manchester, M. reflecting sorrowfully upon the \ im that “honesty is the best poll Several years age, in order to * paying some debts, he conveyeu farm, worth $4,000, to his wife. \ wife died recently, and acoordinl law the property goes to her f children, the widower’s right of/ er excepted. The children ref/ reconvey the farm to their fall A remarkable during qualities of the dagij is to be found in the old at Waterford, Conn. In stone that marks the gravi man who died more than fc ago her portrait is inlaid, with a movable metal shie. picture is almost as perfect it was taken. The statues of the twelve a are set up in the court of Kii hanzin, the ruler of Dahomey in bis annual religious celebr is supposed to sacrifice at least human victims. The father -S present King some years a ceived a number of the C priests at his court, and the favor in his eyes by teachi people the duty of submiasioi King. They induced the L destroy some of the indecent f in the capital. When the. about to go away the King s ‘ them; “I have received you whave even demolished the f you think immoral, and in , now insist that you shall shoi your God to set up in their pi They extricated themselves fro difficulty by sending for stat the twelve apostles, whloh we. ■up in Dahomey and are still the'