Hope Republican, Volume 1, Number 6, Hope, Bartholomew County, 2 June 1892 — Page 3

■CURRENT COMMENTInteresting Disqusions of Timely Topics. ' John Jarrett Makes Gomparlsoft of ( Wages-Farm Uegislat ion— Hon I IJilUon Congres—Other Matters. Congressman Tom L. Johnson, of Cleveland, O., is bragging about his performance in getting Henry George’s “Protection or Free Trade” into the Congressional Record and in distributing it under the Congressional frank. In a letter which he is sending to some of his friends he says: “Prom now on, so long as the funds last, these books will go out at the rate of 10,000 copies per day. Three hundred thousand copies have been already ordered and further subscriptions are rapidly coming in. As the books are sent out under Congressman’s franks, the Democrat or single tax propagandist who gets a bundle has a ready means of sending to his protection acquaintances the most effective and interesting of iree-trade arguments by merely writing the address and mailing the document. The price of the book is one cent.” The reason this precious argument for free trade and public confiscation of all land is sold for one cent is that it was printed at the peoples’ expense at the Government Printing Office. The exact language of Johnson’s circular letter is given in order to show the indecent exultation manifested over the successful trick played on the people. It will be seen that the Democratic party is made the propagandist for the whole wild, communistic, exploded theory of Henry George. Republicans can well afford to lend every assistance to Congressman Johnson’s efforts to advertise the character of the work he and his fellow Democrats have done. FREE TRADE VS. PROTECTION. JohnqJarrett Makes a Comparison of the Wages in Kngland and United States. , New York Special to Pittsburg Dispatch. SJ Hon. John Jarrett, United States Insul to Birmingham, England, arfled last evening on the steamer Ity of New York. He told a reBjsfcrter to-dtiy that he had tendered Is resignation on account of the ill- ■ |ess 6f his wife, after a stay in Eng- ■' Ind of nearly three years. I While in Birmingham studied Ihe condition of the wage earners Is compared with those in this country. lie also visited Wales, his na- : Stive country, and posted himself pbout the tin factories and their relation to the new tin factories started Bin this country. “I returned home I more of a protectionist than ever.” | he added. “In 1860 I came to this I country a free trader, but I soon saw I the advantages that the workingmen would reap by protection.” “How do the wages of the English workingmen compare with those in this country?” “There has been but little change in the ‘black district’ of England in forty years. The ‘black district’ comprises the iron- foundries and collieries. Skilled labor is paid less in England than formerly. " In 1860 free trade existed in this country as well as in England. Skilled laborers in the Staffordshire district, where the highest prices are paid, were then given 12 shillings. I expect the price per ton will soon be 6 shillings and 6 pence. “Now, that is the English history of free trade and what it has done for the skilled laborer. In juxtaposition look at our country. In 1860 we paid puddlers $3.50 per ton, or about 14 shillings, and now they receive $6.60 per ton. “Protection raised the wages in this country and free trade lowered them in England. The most obtuse can see how the two systems work. I belong to the trades union, and I believe that it has done a great deal for the workingman. With the aid of protection it has enabled the workingman to get good wages. “In Birmingham there are tradesunions, but they cannot force good wages. Take the building industry, for instance, in that city. Bricklayers receive only 18 cents an hour and hod carriers 15 cents. Outside of the city, in the suburbs, where the trades-union has little effect, brick-layers get only 14 cents an hour. In this country brick-layers receive, I think, about 45 or 50 cents an hour. Even the blindest freetrader can catch a glimpse of something to disturb his theoretical platitudes in the above statements.” Mr. Jarrett said the wage-earners’ tariff, since it had gone into effect here, completely destroyed the manu facture of buttons at Birmingham. “The shells they had imported,” he continued, “to make buttons, they had to export, and I authenticated the invoices of shells instead of buttons. The wage-earners’ tariff has also paralyzed the tin industry in Wales I never saw such a deplorable condition in tin factories, and about one-half have closed down. The manufacturers say that if the

Denjocrats do not win this fall and repeal the tariff, they will be compelled, in self-defeugc,'to start tin factories in this country. “The recent election in Rhode Island was a great disappointment to the free-traders in England, and now many of them doubt whether the Democrats will be able to elect a President next fall. The papers in England openly advocate the Democratic party, ’ and one in Birmingham came out for Grover Cleveland, expressing the wish that he might be nominated and elected President. The Cobden Club is doing all it can to proselyte in this country, and its members do not try to conceal the fact. Material aid will, no doubt, be given the Democrats in the coming campaign. “One significant fact to show the fallacy of the free traders in their assertion that protection means ruination to the farmers is the overtures and promises of the Cobdenites to the English farmers. They are trying to raise the spirits of the farmers is the overtures and promises of the Cobdenites to the English farmers. They are trying to raise the spirits of the farmers by promising them aid of some kind. Now, the truth is, free trade has completely ruined the farming industry iu England, and thousands of acres of good farming lands have been turned out to pasture cattle. Twenty-five years ago in that country some 2,000,000 hands were employed in farming, and now there are only 1,000,000, “These are cold facts that no freetrader can controvert. The farmers there, in truth, are raising the cry of ‘free trade’, which is in reality, protection. They have arrived at a point where a crisis is imminent, and they have to do something.” In regard to skilled laborers in England, Mr. Jarrett said that mechanical appliances had helped them some, and they made more than they did many years ago. He cited as an instance chair-makers, who used to do all the work by hand. Now they have machinery and can turn out so many more chairs per day, and consequently get more. But their pay was not equal to the pay in this country. Since the Democrats are asking for instances where wages have been advanced'and prices lowered under the McKinley tariff, they are referred to the following statement of Alfred Dolge, of Doigeville, Herkim er county, N, Y., the largest manufacturer of felts in the world, and who now has 700 hands at work in his factory: Our friends of the free trade press had a good deal to say last year because I told you that on account of the McKinley bill I could increase your wages about 124 per cent, and reduce the hours of labor to nine and a half. They pretended, with an impudence thst is sublime, that I was getting 40 per cent, more for the felt we make, and was making an extra profit of over $500,000 per year because of the McKinley bill, the raise in wages of 12£ per cent, was not near enough and I should have given you much more. All of you know that we do not get one cent more than we did before for the goods which we have made since the passage of the McKinley bill. On the contrary, the prices of some of our goods have been lowered. And with ail that I find myself in a position where I can raise the wages of some of you felt makers another 10 per cent, this year because of this verv McKinley bill. How is this? our friends, the freetraders, will ask. Let me tell you how it is. Because we have a basis to work upon; we are no longer at the mercy of the importer of foreign felts. We can keep our machinery going the year around and know that our competitor can not sell any cheaper than we can unless he has superior methods of making felts. If protection prevails, if we have a period of rest from agitation so that we can conduct our. business on the basis of its present adjustment to tariff laws, I believe that the hours of work can be reduced within a year or two to nine per day. I think you will agree with me that this can be safely done after the experiment and the experience of this year. THE REAL BILLION CONGRESS. It Is the Present Democratic One, Which Howled so Long for Economy, Washington Special: When the McKinley tariff bill was before the House, a couple of years ago or less, the Democrats declared that the increased duties it imposed upon certain articles which it was by the Republicans desired to protect in our own country would result in an increase of incomes. It was history repeating itself in the matter of Republican wisdom to hear Mr. McMillin, of Tennessee, and other Democrats in the House, on Wednesday and Thursday last, in their speeches, lecturing the Democrats against extravagance, declare that the adoption of the last tariff law had reduced the incomes of the Government so as to require rigid economy. They not only inveighed against the, work of

this Democratic House in the matter' of appropriations, which have already far exceeded those of the “billiou dollar Contrress, but they warned the majority that unless a stop wks put to extravagant appropriations, laws would be passed pledging the Government to make expenditures which it would not have the money to meet, It was a remarkable scene, seldom paralleled in past Congresses. Randall was the only man who, from the Democratic side, lifted his voice up against the extravagance. Holman has never been an economist except in name. It is true that the increase of duties upon certain articles which are being made now in this country would operate to make the present tariff a larger source of revenue than the old law, barring the free sugar clause, which lopped off threequarters of a hundred millions in a single lump, if the imports had continued as they had in years gone by, but no sooner did we impose the increased duties than the English and other manufacturers who had been furnishing those imports had their attention called to the fact that the articles were to be manufactured in this country, and some of them moved their factories over here, while the others began to see other markets, being unable to overcome the difference in price of selling made by the increased duties. The imports began to drop off, till now our imports consist most largely of luxuries or articles which we cannot produce. Except through the exchange offered by reciprocity our trade for foreign countries is not what it was. We are producing our own goods of consumption. But it was wholesome to note the admissions as to revenues which the Democrats in the House had to make last week in order to impress their side that there was too much extravagance. They were compelled to call attention to that fact that under the present tariff law we did not have the steady impour of an enormous surplus, which could be waisted ad libitum; that there must be statesmanship, economy. The Democrats in this Congress have all had to admit that they have distanced the “extravagance” of the last Congress and it is amusing to see the leaders lecturing the lesser lights of their party for the edification of the party at large upon "‘economy” after the horse had been stolen and the barn given away. FARM LEGISLATION. Walla Walla (Wash.) Union Journal. Democratic and Alliance orators and papers do not call attention to some of the Republican legislation which has proven beneficial to the farmers. Here are some of the things they omit when discussing and cursing the Republican party; The Homestead act, secured by Republicans over Democratic votes and vetoes, giving to the settlers of the West and North . estover 1.000,000 farms and 132,000,000 acres. The agricultural colleges and stations, including 52 farm schools and colleges, 54 agricultural experimant stations, and 26 farmer’s institutes. The National Cabinet Department of Agriculture, devoted to the interests of the American farmers both at home and abroad. The home markets for diversified and profitable agriculture provided by protected manufactures in every city in the Union; an increase of factory families and farm product consumers amounting to over 1,000,000 since 1880. The foreign market for farm products, secured by Republican reciprocity and Government meat inspection. in five European states and in most of the States and Islands of Latin America. The National Interstate Commerce act regulating railways; for prevention of railway discrimination and combination, and securing of fair transportion and privileges. The Republican Anti-Trust law, which in one year has caused the disolution of the whisky and oil trusts, and is likely to lead to the suppression of the twine and sugar trusts. The oleomargarine legislation; the proposed lard, pure food and antioption bills, for the protection of farm products against fraudulent competition and speculation. The enlargement of the free import list from 18 per cent, in 1857 to 53 per cent, in 1891-2, and the saving of $100,000,000 in unnecessary revenue taxes on sugar, coffee, tea. molasses and binder twine. The almost trebling of the exports of breadstuffs. under the McKinley tariff, during the year just closed, and a general decline in the cost of all manufactured necessaries. The decrease of Canadian imports of farm products; the establishment of sugar-beet, flax and hemp culture and manufacture, the encouragement of irrigation and timber culture, and the developement of waterways for the cheapening of trims-, portation. It is seldom that anybody falls down on ice. Our hardest tumbles generally come when we think we are safe.

1 INDIAtfACONDENSED- ’ Shelbyville has a now bank. Richmond will have a press club. Petty burglars are plundering Hunole. Red men have organized a lodge at M uncle. The mayor of Goshen i4 making war on the bicycle. Incendiaries burned a school house near Sellersburg; loss $1,000. John Staggs, general merchant of Walton, lost $8,000 by lire. Adam Zwicklo, of Anderson, owns a horse that is developing a pair of horns. The Valparaiso city council has raised liquor licenses from $50 to $350 per year. Newton Greene killed a pelican on the farm of Congressman Cooper, near Bloomfield. Miss Amelia Calvert, aged elgteen, of Trafalgar, committed suicide by swallowing arsenic. The Burdette organ and piano factory, of Erie, Pa., is'to be removed to Mancie, It employs 325 hands. George, aged seven, son of Frank L. Jackson, of New Albany, accidentally swallowed a fragment of a peanut shell. It longed in his throat, and he died. Finley Anson, of Union township,Huntington county, had forty head of blooded sheep killed by dogs. The township will be compelled te pay the loss. Ed Blnncy, while splitting logs with giant powder at Greensburg, was dangerously injured by the premature discharge of a blast. He will lose the sight of both eyes. Bert Gorman, Panhandle ticket seller at Anderson, took a fifty-dollar confederate bill from a stranger, giving change in good money. Gorman thought it was a gold certificate. An ill-tempered dog, trotting along after a milk wagon at Anderson, attacked Grace, aged seven, daughter of Mr. B. F. King, dangerously biting her face and disfiguring her for life. PA “gold-brick” was found on the farm of W. L. Berryman, clerk of Tipton county, audit is supposed to have been placed there by the same swindlers who defrauded G. W. Sweigert, of South Bend out Of *7,000. A petition is circulating in Daviess county for the paroling of Bazil Ledgerwood, who confessed his complicity in the attempted destruction of the court house and was sentenced to seventeen years’ imprisonment. During the temporary absence of her husband, Mrs. Isaac J. Gallimore, of New Albany, abandoned three little children, and taking her babe, loft for parts unknown. The deserted husband consigned the remainder of the brood to an orphanasylum. The Pierceton Record has been success fully managed by Mrs. G. Smith for the past two years. She does the editorial and reportorial work, and recently she purchased the real estate on which the office is located from the profits of the past year Robberies of dental offices at Kokomo and other points indicate that thieves are making a specialty of purloining teeth, gold and silver and other articles, including costly instruments, and that thoy are evidently in collusion with some dental supply house. Tlie Greeucastle anti-saloon element is moving for an ordinance requiring the saloons to be open to public view during business hours. An ordinance is already in force requiring the removal of screens during hours when sales of liquor are forbidden by law. A total collapse has taken place in the affairs of the co-operative coat mining company of Evansville. Upward of $33,000 is said to have been expended, with only incomplete works worth about *12,000 to show for the expenditure. The office expenses were $200 per month, although no coal had been mined. A number of miners have filed Ileus against the company, and altogether the outlook Is disastrous. Several yeass ago, when the old Ft. Wayne Medical College disbanded, 350old diplomas were thrown away as waste, They were afterward taken by unknown parties and it is these old diplomas which are now being sold in Germany. In no other way do they affect the medical department of Taylor University, which succeeded the old college, save that it is a great annoyance to the trustees, McDonald & Wells’s circus, which is showing in Indiana towns, is in hard lines. Near the Illinois border, fire partially destroyed the tout, caused by the fall of a large gasoline lamp. The show then jumped to Sullivan, where it was struck by the flood, and where a constable seized the effects and acted as doorkeeper. This I was the result of a capias served upon the [ management for money with which to pay [ the band and hotel bills. A revolting story reached Anderson | late Thursday afternoon, of a brutal out- I rage committed upon three young women of good families living in Groeu township, Madison county. A few evenings ago the young women were taken out riding, and when in a lonely part of the contry an assault was attempted, revolvers being used to frighten the girls. They made a heroic light and two of them baffled their assailants, but the third was badly injured. The story was not told till’Thursday, and the whole community is ablaze with indignation. The names of the young men as given, are Charles and Othello Huffmen and Orlando Zion. All three fleef,but officers are in pursuit. Patents were issued on the 24th-to Indiana Inventors as follows: P. II. Botof, Utica, attachment for harvesters; L. Chalfaut, Alexandria, scaffold; J. B. Cleaveland, Indianapolis, wirs stretcher

aud tension do,’ice, and fence wire'and wire fence; C. Coates and VV. R. Helton, Terre Ilanto, oil burner; Da Shane. South Bend, plow; B. O., Urn Russel - villo, grain door for cars: Eliza Kirn in, Indianapolis, pessary; J. VV'. Nowhouse?, Ir’lanapolis, trolley for electric railways: J. G. Whittier, Attica, reclining rocking . chair. , Two important innovations have been made at the Northern Prison by Warden French. One is a letter box, in which private notes may be addressed to the Warden on any complaint or personal communication the prisoners desire to make; the other is the privilege of conversing for two hours every evening with prisoners in adjoining cells. Included in this Is the privilege of playing musical in» strumeuts. This rule has developed some remarkably fine musicians. One is a violinist, formerly a member of the Theodore Thomas orchestra. At English, John J. Patterson, a telegraph operator, and Miss Bello Ghehcn successfully eluded the espionage of tho bride's folks and were married. The .chief objection to Mr. Patterson lay in the fact that be was a comparative stranger. It was a case of love at first sight. The mother of the bride kept up a strict survoiiance, remaining in the room when Patterson callin' The bride, however, understood telegraphy, and while they sat with “mamma” between them, ho ticked oil upon his lady’s hand tho impressions which he wished conveyed, and she responded in a similar way. In this way the arrangements for the elopement were made and were carried to happy denouement. Lcn Morris, of Marion, twice attempted to establish a saloon at Fainnouut, and one week ago the town arose an masse and lie was compelled to hasten his flight,, while his goods wore packed and shipped to Marion by the crowd which bade Mm, not stand upon tho order of bis going.. About 1 o’clock Monday morning’ bo sneaked back with a wagon load of whisky and beer, but as bo was unloading his presence was discovered, the fire alarm was sounded, and he was arrested forcarrying concealed weapons. No one going upon his bond, he was rushed away to jail. After his departure tho frenzied people raided gliis salofin with axes and other implements of destruction, his stock of liquors was emptied into the, gutter and the saloon was wrecked. Morris loses about five hundred dollars by his venture. South Bend can’t get over its astonishment that George W. Swygart, a man of large experience and an old minor, should have been swindled out of $7,000 by the “gold brick” dodge. A baiplsitmo, welldressed stranger, giving bis name as Cartwright, and‘claiming to be a ifepliew whom Mr. Swygart had not seen since lip' was four years old, Introduced himself to Swygart. He showed a familiarity of incidents and dates, and was a welcome guest to Mr. Swygarl’s homo. Then ho laid plans by which Mr. Swygart was induced to invest in two “gold bricks” which an Indian was bolding. Thou a second party came upon the scene. Ho introduced himself as J. C. Taylor, an inspector of Philadelphia, Pa., and Swygart readily entered into a contract by which lie iwas to divide the profits with his nephew after lie had realized the 57.0;,o purchase money The Indian and l be “gold bricks ’ were found in the woods onemile from South Bend, and the deal was quickly consumatod. After returning tothe city, the pretended nephew suddenly disappeared; so did Mr Taylor, and Mr Swygart then discovered the trick which had been played. THE MARKETS. Indianapoi.u. Miy3i. till AH Quotations for ilidluuapali* wliuu nut spjtn.Li OliATN. , . Wheat —No. 3 red, 8 c; No. 3 red. 83c; wagon wheat, 86c. Corn—No.J white, 48c; No.2 while, 45cwiiite mixed, -12c; No. 3 white, 4Xqo44e No. 3 yellow, 42c; No, 3 yellow, 4l>gcf No! 3 mixed, 43c; No. 3 mixed, 4 c: ear, 38c. Oats—No. 2 white, 31c; No. 3 white. 31cNo. 3 mixed, 3014 c; rejected, 37c. flay— timothy, chbice, 813.50; No. 1. $11.75; No. 3, *9.50; No. 1 prairie,88.00; No’ 3, $6.50; mixed hay, *7.50; clover, *8.50. Bran, $12.50 per ton. Wit e :it. Corn. Oats. itye. Chicago 3 r’ll 81 44 30 Cincinnati 3 rM 89 40, 33 8C St. Louis 3 1-’<1 W ‘,3 as Vo New Vorli.... s r'rt 95 51 . 3, si llall.lniore 9- 51 li, 37 .4 Philadelphia. 3 r’dapp 50 1 3> Clover Toledo 91 4j 31 wo' 1 ' Detroit 1 wli s0>4 45 31 Minneapolis.. So J j CA.TTL.tC. Export grades $4 35«i)4 tii Good to choice shippers ... 3 8 fa) 1 15 Fair to medium shippers 3 75 Common shippers '... 3 85.5.3 3. Feeders, good to choice 3 i n,13 35. Stockers, common to good 3 50,«3 00 Good to choice heifers 3 50iw-l op Fair to medium heifers 3 7.7;i.’l 30 Common, thin heifers 3 3 (ct'3 65. Good to choice cows 3 35.0,3 75, Fair to medium cows 3 65 Hi ip, Common old cows 1 35 «3 Veals, common to good 3 ou«* .-4) Bulls, cummon to medium— 3 00@3 50 Bulls, good to choice 3 75 « 3 75 Milkers, good to choice 30OnwtOuo Milkers, common to medium.. l5oo@25oo HOGS. Heavy packing and shipping. S4 65@4 75, Eights 4 50,it4 > Mixed 4 ( 75 Heavy roughs 3 35(g)3 pp8HJCE1-. Good to choice oo@; 7,, 1* air to medium 3 0 (tf i 75. Common to medium 2 101114 pi .Lambs, good to choice 0 O0(ws pq MISCELL AXEO PS. Eggs, 1 c; butter, good country, llMig 13c; feathers, 35c; beeswax, 35@40c: wool, 30(g33c; unwashed, 22c; hens, 10c; turkeys 13c; clover seed, $6.lK,'@,i.5D.