Hope Republican, Volume 1, Number 10, Hope, Bartholomew County, 7 July 1892 — Page 2

HOPE REPUBLICAN. By Carter & Son. HOPE - - INDIANA A LEOPARD recently killed in Bengal is credited with having destroyed 154 persons. The recent murder of young Bob Ford, the assassin of Jesse James, will cause no sympathy to be felt for him. It is a good riddance all around. He deserved to die a dog’s death. Fourteen lives lost by an explosion at Mare Island navy yard; twenty lives lost by the explosion of a steam' ship ’at Blaye, France; $1,000,000 worth of property destroyed by the burning of wharves at Baltimore, is the record of three days recently. Between land and sea and war and peace these are very doubtful times to us poor worms of the earth. Connecticut’s divorce record for 1891 was 460 separations by legal process. This is, however, a decrease from the record of 1889, when 636 marriages were annulled. Since 1860 the number of persons divorced in the nutmeg State exceeds 26,000, the actual number of divorces being 16,167. The court records show that at least two-thirds of the petitioners are women. The statistics us to causes are said to be wholly unreliable, the real ground rarely being disclosed — a condition of things not confined to Connecticut. Some very singular things happen in Prohibition States. For instance a couple of fishermen in Portland harbor, Maine, hooked what they supposed to be a lobster pot, and were greatly surprised to pull up a bag containing 60 full pints of whisky. It is seldom that fishermen catch bait in this way. The Pope has decided to send an important exhibit to the Columbian Fair. This is said to be the first time the Vatican has so honored an Exposition. In the display, no doubt, will be early maps and documents relating to the Western world, which are now in the Vatican arch ives, and which will be very appro priate exhibits for a fair commemorating the discovery of America. The current queen of the operatic stage in Paris is a promoted kitchen maid who was discovered in a suburban inn. It is fortunate the announcement can be made now when one can have the doors and windows open. It would be embarrassing to have all the kitchen maids in the land trying their voices after cold weather sets in. The match box is used as a means »f match making, as appears from the confession of a girl who works in the Akron match factory. She says the girls who pack matches have correspondents all over the country, secured by placing notes in the match boxes. Matches made in this style are not the same kind as are popularly supposed to be made in heaven. They are of a more sulphurous variety. 1 Emin Pasha has helped to discover the Switzerland of Africa. His latest explorations, described in the Sun recently, together with those of Stanley, show that spurs of the great Abyssinian highlands extend far southwest, and, gradually uplifted to greater heights between Victoria Nyauza and the two western Nile lakes, become a system of mountains and peaks, less extensive than those of Abyssinia, but surpassed in height only by Kiliraa-Njaro. There, under the tropical sun, are perpetually snow crowned summits, great ice rivers rivalling some of the Alpine glaciers, and at least one volcanoe in a state of eruption, the only region where active volcanoes have been found with glaciers except in Alaska and South Polar lauds. This is a new wonderland, Whymper says it will be a hundred years yet before the Himalayas are thoroughly explored; but a few years more will see a railroad extended to Victoria Nyan . za, and it is certain that mountaineers will not then long delay to try snow climbing in Central Africa. — New York Sun.

' CURRENT COMMENT McKinley on Protection—Strong Presentation of the DoctrineArguments and Conclusions that Cannot Ho Refuted—Oortotis Achievement*. uf the Party of Progresii, Chicago Kepublicans ratified the MSEBoapolis nomination* on Monday night o; last week. Cev. McKinley wm the principal «peakcr. After warmly eulogU-ng the President, bo said: Now, if protective tariff* are such a burden upon the American paople, there should be some way of aacertainiog it. But is it a burden? Has it increased our State debts? Th«y have been diminished over 15 per cent, in the last ten years. Have protective tariffs increased our National debt? It has been diminished so that two-thirds of our great National debt has been paid off under the revenues gathered into the treasury by the protective tariff. “Ah, but,” they say, “your protective tariff keeps us out of a foreign market.” If there is anything that the Democratic heart delights to speak about it is something foreign, something abroad. I don’t know how you feel about it, but for me and mine there is no place like home. Protective tariffs keep us out of the foreign markets? Now the tariff law has been in operation eighteen months, and in the last twelve months we have sent abroad more American products than we have sent abroad in any twelve months since the beginning of the Federal Government. They call the Fifty-first Congress a billion dollar Congress, Why, it is a two billion dollar Congress, for under the legislation of the Fifty-first Congress our domestic trade has been $1,000,000,000, and our foreign trade added to it makes it within $100,000 of $2,000,000,000. That expresses the result of the legislation of the Fifty-first Congress. Ah, but they say what they want is “free raw material.” Why, we never had anything but raw material in the good old Democratic days. Under a Democratic revenue tariff the coal and iron ore which God Almighty put into our hills and mountains were permitted to sleep. Raw material under the magic hand of protection is no longer raw. Then they want things cheaper. Things were never as cheap as they are to-day. With the exception of pearl buttons there is not anything upon which the tariff was increased by the law of 1890 that is higher now than it was then. In most instances it is lower now than then. The truth about it is that the new tariff law was very much misunderstood and very much prevaricated about. A wholesale merchant in the city of Cincinnati told me last spring, as illustrating the misunderstanding about this new tariff law, that a retail merchant came into his store nine days before the law went into operation, and bought up every sewing needle he had in his store. The merchant was anxious to know why po had bought a stock that would last him for fourteen years in his retail business. He answered the wholesale merchant that he had done it in anticipation of the increased tariff under the new law upon sewing needles. “Why,” said the wholesale merchant, “what is true is that the new law puts sewing needles on the free list; took the tariff off.” That was true. W T e found that we could not make sewing needles in the United States. We found that we could not make them, after a trial—it was not profitable to make them—and so, following the principle upon which the bill was con structed, we put sewing needles on the free list. Now that retail merchant will never believe in the party that deceived him. He won’t sell a needle for thirteen years over his counter that he will not recall the demagogue who went about telling him that he must lay in a supply of everything in anticipation of high tariff under the new law. He has (had the truth pricked into him. So that bill was misunderstood all along the line. It is charged that it created the tin plate lie, but it is just as true that the operation of that law has extracted the tin plate lie. But, my fellow citizens, as you discover, I have a convention voice tonight. I have been shouting so much in Minneapolis that I am in no condition of voice to-night to speak as I would like to speak to this vast audience of Chicago Republicans. [A voice; “You are all right; go on.”] TOUCHING FREE RAW MATERIAL. They say ‘ ‘if we only had free raw material we could go abroad and capture the world’s markets.” Well, put into this new tariff law a provision that provides that any citizen of the United States can go into any country of the world, can buy any raw material he wants and bring it into his factory and make it up into the finished product and then take it back to the custom house of New York, or Philadelphia, or Boston, or Chicago, and enter it for the export trade, and the government refunds 1 to him 99 per cent, of the tariff he

paid upon his raw nmn-nm. -mra is within 1 per cent, of free trade onraw material. Now, If he wants to go into the world's markets and capture them with free raw material we have given him within 1 per cent, of free raw material. Now, they say this new tariff law is prohibitive. There is freer trade under it than under any tariff law since the beginning of the government. More than 50 per cent, of all we import under that law is free. About 44 per cent is dutiable, and that yon won’t find in any tariff law since the first one. So that wo have freer, and wider, and broader trade under this new law than under any former tariff law. That law was made upon a principle, and that principle was that everything that we .icuM not produce in the United Slate* should come in free, and everything that we could not grow on our soil, everything we could not take from our mines, everything that we could not make in our shops profitably, and were compelled to go abroad and buy, every such product was put upon the free list by the tariff law of 1890, and everything that wc could produce, and proposed to produce, and in which foreign product competed with ours, we put a tariff upon such product. We said to the manufacturer of any such product, “If you want to enter the United States and sell in competition with the American citizen side by side with him in the markets of the United States, we propose that you must come in upon equal conditions with him. You must pay into the public treasury so much per ton, so much per yard, so much per pound for the privilege of entering this market. CLINCHING HIS POINTS. Why isn’t that right? [Voices, “It is right.”] Let any citizen of the United States, let any workingman, let any manufacturer, let the trader tell me, let the farmer tell me why that principle is not right. Here is the best market in the world; here are 60,000,000 of people who buy more than any 60,000,000 people on the face of the earth. Here are 60,000.000 of people who consume more than any other 60,000,000 upon the face of the earth, and they spend more money because they have more money to spend than any other 60,000,0U0 upon the face of the earth. And they have more mony to spend because under our system of encouraging, and protecting, and fostering American industries we are enabled to pay the highest rewards tor labor, higher than are paid any where else on the face of the earth. Tell me why the foreigner should be permitted to come in here untaxed and sell in open competition with the American producer. He contributes not one dollar for the benefit of this government; he contributes notone dollar either in war or in peace for the maintenance of the honor, and the dignity, and the glory of this Republic; you can’t reach him. Who built up this beautiful city of Chicago? Who made these thousands and tens of thousands of miles of beautiful streets? Who built your boulevards? Who erected your great public school houses? Who built your public institutions and maintains them? You did it and you voluntarily forced yourselves to do it. The foreigner has done nothing of that sort, and yet he wants to come in here under the lead of the Democratic party and enjoy equally with you this splendid market in the United States. Our policy bids him halt et the custom house and tells him that before he can enter he must step up to the captain’s desk and settle. Oh, but they say that you pay the tax in this country; you the consumer; the foreigner does not pay it. If the foreigner does not pay any part of this tax, my country men, tell me why the foreign governments are so bitterly opposed to protective tariffs in the United States. If we pay it then they don’t pay it, and if they don’t pay it then it is no hindrance to them coming into this market. I will tell you the kind of tariff that the American consumer does pay, and if you don't remember anything else that I have said here to-night, carry this home with y ou, that the Democratic revenue tariff is always paid by the consumer. And why? Because the Democratic revenue tariff to a great extent is put upon foreign products that do not compete witji American products, like tea, and coffee, and sugar, and spices, and drugs. The products that we cannot produce in this country are the products which, under a Democratic revenue tariff, would be taxed for public revenues. Put a tariff on an article that we cannot produce in the country and who pays the tax? We do. We pay the tax. Why do we pay the tax? Because there is no competition at home to fixer regul ate or determine the price. The price is fixed by the foreigner because he has got no competition here, and the price to the American consumer is the price in London and in Liverpool, with the American tariff added, which you and I pay. But with a protective tariff when we have reached the point of successful

production and are able to produce enough for 6ur own consumption, then competition at bogie fixes and determines and regulates the price to the American consumer, and if the foreigner would get' in here ha must yield up that tariff fot the privilege of possessing this market. You can’t get away from that. We have cheapened everything to the American consumer by a protective tariff, but we have done it by domestic competition. Pteo trade cheapens products by cheapening the men who make thepa. Protection cheapens products by encouraging the best activity and the greatest energies, and the best genius and invention of the American people. Free trade cheapens the article by cheapening the artisan. Protection cheapens the, article by elevating the artisan so that you get the best brawn, aud the best brain, and the best skill of the artisan. Free trade in this country? I will tell you when we will be ready for free trade. When the nations of the world bring their conditions up to ours. Whenever the nations of the world will bring their labor up to our high standing, we will meet them in the neutral markets of the world, and it will be the survival of the fittest. But we give them notice, here and now, and let it ring out through this country, into every workshop, and home, and fireside of the land, let them understand it now that we will never bring our condition down to theirs. “anp boing its own talking.” They were going to destroy this tariff. In 1890 they carried the House by two-thirds majority. The tariff law was then four weeks old; it was too young to speak for itself. It is eighteen months old to-day and is doing its own talking. And they have not got the power to destroy a line of it; they are shooting paper wads through it and apologizing for doing that. They are attacking il by piecemeal, then informing the public that they need not be alarmed; but while they are attacking it in the House by piecemeal, it can never succeed, because there is a Senate which is Republican, and a President who is Republican—grand man that he is—who will stop any injury to the law. They have got three items past the house; there are three thousand items in the bill. At three items a year it would take a thousand years. What do you think of tariff referm, anyhow? Who knows what it means? There is not a Democrat in Chicago who can tell what tariff reform means. Nobody knows, and we are getting in a situation where nobody cares. They can’t touch one side ot that law in a thousand years. And why? Because you can always trust the people of this country to vote for themselves. That bill is an American bill. Every line of it breathes patriotism. Every page and paragraph is dedicated to American enterprise and American genius, and consecrated to the American boy and the American girl. It gives them wldSr opportunities than can be' had under any Other system mxdpr the sUn. Cardinal Manning, tfro ago, writing to a London magazine, of free trade: He says it does two things: it creates aq irresponsible wealth Whiqh stagnates the starvation wages fit the labor market. He says, "here in London and in England we have tVo worlds always standing face to face —the world ot wealth and the world of want; the world of wealth sayiho in its heart, ‘I sit as queen over all the toilers and traitors,” and the world ot want not knowing what may be on tho morrow.’” There is an indictment against the free-trade system, not from a partisan, not from a Republican or a DdtoOcrat, but one who has studied the situaj tion and tho condition of the wdrtf' ingmen of England. Do we want to transfer that condition to t)ie United States? I say no. Now ihy fellowcitizens, I have talked too long. [Cries of “No, no.”] Talk about the Republican party, there is not a mao is this country who is not proud that there is a Republican party. Thera is not a page of Republican history that has been made since 1860 that any patriot in this country would have effaced from our statute books if he could. No one who Ihves hia race would strike it from the volume ot political history. And that party only thirty-six years old, occupies to-day the advance post—the raosi advanced post of any in the annals of political civilization. And that party will continue its onward march; that party will continue its achievements and its conquests until our flag—the flag of the j stars —shall be the unquestioned symbol of sovereignty at home and American honor abroad —until the labor of the United States shall be secure from the degrading competition from abroad, until there shall not be an enemy to an honest dollar in the United States. Am} it will go on, my fellow citizens, until i free ballot shall be enjoyed by every citizen, secured to him under the law, and by the law, and for the law, an« until the American ballot box shal be as sacred as the American horns

THE FAIS SEX. I The New York School ot Desig !or Women is to have on exhibit a( !he Fair the designs for Brussels, table linen, stained glass, embroidery, calico, and laces. Mrs. Langtry made a promising turf debut winning about S10.000 on aer colt Milford. The Jersey Lily gathers in the shekels, whether it is jn the turf or behind the footlights, md is one of the shrewdest women in the in the world. It is less than thirty years since the first great woman’s college was founded, and there are now 40,000

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girls studying in the different colleges, and several thousand more have graduated are distinguishing themselves by good work in the various departments of art, literature, and science. The common school children of Athens are taught ancient and modern Greek, French, a&d sometimes English. Their “readers” are tin classics of their own country, while they are still children they at*', familiar with Homer, Xenophon Herodotas, and the dramatists Their nursery tales are the myths o Hellenic literature. Advertisement writing is a comparatively new occupation for women and one in which she promises to excel. From 5 to 10 cents a line is paid for work done by the piece, but in large houses, where a regular advertiser is employed, the salary is from $1,500 to $2,000 a year. Fortunate is the woman who has knack at rhyming or can draw illustrations for her “ads.” Antoinette Sterling, the American singer, who is now much interested in London temperance work, attributes the perfect health she enjoys to tho fact of being an abstainer from stimulating beverages. She has never been ill, never had any pains and aches, is the proud mother of healthy and happy children, but she is much stouter than an American would care to be.

The English marriage settlement, which seems a rude interruption to the poesy of betrothal days, is a wise provision for the sterner necessities of practical life. By its conditions, neither adversity nor extravagance, gambling nor bankruptcy, differences nor estrangements, can affect the wife’s settlement. It is inviolate from creditor’s and can not be reclaimed by the husband. Many engagements are hopelessly shipwrecked on this rock of the marriage portion, however, and many a fair English maiden is left fancy free because of the dreaded interview between exacting fathers and impecunious suitors. A new form of summer diversion is promised us, the idea of which is copied and elaborated from the gypsy 'saravan. The caravan or perambv Mug house is built somewhat ou the order of a house boat, and is drawn by strong dray horses. By a clever arrangement the dining table is made to disappear under the door when not in use, aud apianette, a typewriter and a stove for cooking as well us heating, are included among the comforts provided. To admirers of nature’s rest and quiet the nomadic life has possibilities for health and happiness as well as the charm of novelty. About the granite pedestal of the bronze presented to the King and Queen of Denmark pn the occasion of their golden wedding is a row of bas-relief portraits of the fifty-one children and grandchildren of the bouse. The most remarkable thing about the group is that out of the Sifty-one descendants only one is dead the Duke of Clarence, hew women can count upon their fiftieth anniversary a family of fifty living descendants, numbering among them a daughter who is an Empress, a son who is a King, and another daughter who will be a Queen when Victoria is gathered to her fathers.