Hope Republican, Volume 1, Number 23, Hope, Bartholomew County, 29 September 1892 — Page 2

HOPE REPUBLICAN. Rt Carter & Son. HOPE INDIANA E”— . ii ■»■ It is a chilling thought that coal is dear and will be still dearer. Parrots are only ten cents apiece fa Central America. There is no apology for a man looking after his own profanity in that portion of the vineyard. There are eight sudden deaths among men to one among women. St always does take a woman an in - excusably long time to get ready to go any place. One notices at the summer hotels that it isn’t the girls who talk loud enough to be heard from the tennis grounds to the bowling alleys who have a crowd of young men about them. New Jersey real estate rates high" er than that of any other State in the Union, and it is noteworthy in this connection that road reform has made greater progress there than in any other part of the country. The Olympic Club, of New Orleans, has recently furnished a considerable quantity of stuff called news for the papers of the country. It is a sad commentary on the boasted moral and religious intelligence of enr people that there should be a demand upon the newspapers to give their readers every detail that takes place hi these dens of moral leprosy. With the newspapers filling column after column of their issues with these nauseating incidents to be road in the homes of the most intelligent class, is it to be wondered at that the church makes faint progress jE enlightening and ennobling humanity ? Sport for sport’s sake is eminently proper, but prize fighting has long since passed the dead lino of amusement fer amusement's sake. There is no element of sport in prize fighting. Sport is incompatible with hideousness, and the inhuman brutalities of the prize ring are mildly termed hideous. Sport as a profession is no longer termed sport. It becomes a rendezvous of the most degraded class of gamblers and blacklegs- If wo would rid ourselves of this cancerous growth we must wupopalarize it. This is easily ac" oamplished, and if we hope to retain the consciousness of our own manhood wa should begin now.

Thf. telegraph bus erred, Whittier is not dead. What was hurried at Amesbury was not he. The fate «f mortality has indeed overtaken life body. Ilia flesh —that frail and perishable environment of him —has ki truth come to the limit of its vitality, and passing the boundary of existence, must henceforth be counted among the results of decay. This is all that has happened in what the wires have told us. that “Whittier is dead.” For the poet himself has not died. The vocabulary of the world, vast as it is, has in it no word of death for him. He has been translated. He has been lifted and borne up beyond our sight. He has been assigned a new residence, and now ornaments a nobler sphere, Deathiias broken the mask that gave him presentation to our gaze, and the beauty that was behind it has bo come invisible. Whittier has at last received the supreme suffrage and is now an immortal. Thk famous speeches of men on tbe battle field or the bed of death are often exaggerated, under rigid examination they are apt to lose in Acridity of rhetoric. They generally gain in terseness. Oambroonne'a rep.y at Waterloo to the summons to surrender is famous in point. And now the exact words used by Maj. Anderson, of the National Guard of Tennessee, when the miners threatened him with death if he d.d not surrender his troops, prove to be simply these: “Rats; pmu rowdies 1” There is not much verbiage in this bit of alliteration; and the speech is not as poetioa! as the Imaginative, “Promise to mark my grave that my wife and children may find it;” but it served his purpose, for it was eminently iatclfigii’.c.

TOPICS OP THESE TIMES. TWO KINDS OF TARIFF. GOVERNOR MCKINLEY. Put the tariff upon the thing you don’t produce, and who fixes the price to you? Who pays the tariff on sugar? We produce eight per cent, of the sugar we consume. We collected $56,000,000 annually in taxes upon sugar; who paid that tax? Why, it depends upon who fixed the price. Did the American producer of sugar fix the price? He produced 8 per cent, of all we consumed; ha controlled about 8 per cent, of this market. Did he fix the price, or did the producers who controlled 92 per cent, fix the price to the consumer upon sugar? He did, because there was no competition at home to regulate. Now, let me illustrate the difference; A tariff upon that pitcher is 55 per cent. Every dollar’s worth of that kind of goods that comes from Europe puts into the public treasury 55 cents; every $100 puts in $55 every thousand dollars $550. That is a Republican protective tariff. The tariff was put there not alone for revenue, but for the building up of the pottery industry in the United States. [Applause.] The Democratic party, having no other consideration in view than revenue, would make the tariff 15 per cent, on that kind of ware instead of 55 per cent. Then every ship that came in would bring a cargo of this kind of ware from abroad. Fifteen per cent would encourage this foreign importation and you would put more money into the Federal Treasury with 15 per cent, than with 55 per cent., but while you are doing that every ship load would take the place of that much produced in the United States and would drive thousands and thousands of workingmen from employment that are now employed by this industry in the United States. You are putting out the fires in your own factories and workshops and taking away from the workingmen of this country the employment which he enjoys to-day. Which do you like best? [Applause.] REPUBLICANS ARMED % From the Arsenal of the Democratic Platform. Whitelaw Reid. Our enemies have made our cam - paign for us. Hold them to their own deliberately avowed principles. We go to the people claiming that the Republicans have given the country a clean, honorable, business like and highly successful administration, that a change without cause is a business injury to every citizen, and that there is no occasion for a change. The Democrats want the country to have an immediate and absolute change. They want to repeal the McKinley tariff at once. They denounce a protective tariff of any sort or description; refuse to let tariff legislation have the slightest reference to the defense of the American workingmen’s wages; declare that Washington and Madison, and even Andrew Jackson, didn’t understand the Constitution, and that nobody but themselves and Jefferson Davis ever did; denounce everything but a pure tariff for revenue only as unconstitutional, want to get rid of our reciprocity, and demand a return to wildcat banking. Hold them to their doctrine. Never have they rushed so plainly and palpably upon their fate since the memorable week in 1864, when their declaration that the war for the Union was a failure was instantly answered by the victorious thunders of Sherman’s guns from Atlanta, and the triumphant cheers of Sheridan’s troops from the valley. Let us rise up and go forward. They have been blinded again to their own destruction, and are delivered into our hands. GOOD OLD DEMOCRATIC TIMES. Indianapolis Journal The South Bend Tribune mentions the case of an old carpenter in that city who, on the 8th of May, 1858, did a day's work for one of the local merchants and also bought some goods of him. The bill for thegodos was as follows: 9 yards calico, 12*4 c .. fl.13 9 yards lawn, 12y*c 1.13 8 lbs. coffee-sugar, 1.00 12 lbs, 8d nails, 7c &4 Total $4.10 The carpenter got $1.50 for his day’s work, deducting which from the bill left him in debt to the merchant $2.60. This was in good old Democratic times’ under a tariff for revenue only. If the transaction had taken place on May 8. 1892. under Republican protection, the carpenter would have received, instead of $1.50, $3 for his labor, and his purchases would have cost him $1.52 instead of $4.10. Instead of coming out $2 in debt he would have had his goods and $1.48 in cash. THE WILDCAT WAULING. The Southern Democratic press is enthusiastic in advocating the plank of their platform which advocates the repeal of the 10 per cent, tax on State banks. The Atlanta Constitu-

tioa thinks that if -we “repeal this tax aud any community in our State thas has men of honor and integrity can, under proper regulation, issue bills thas will serve as currency just as well as national bank bills or gold or silver. If a man wants to use his money in New York or Chicago ho takes this local currency to the bank and buys exchange on those places. Their bills are not a legal tender. You need not take them unless you know they are good.” This is a bolder advocacy of the old wild-cat banking system than has yet been seen during the campaign. Under the old system men of honor and integrity could, aud many did issue bills that would serve as currency. A great many men of honor and without integrity did the same thing. A few of the latter kind would serve to discredit the whole issue of their State or city in neighboring money centers. Even that was good only for a few miles from the place of its issue. By taking it into the next State one would have to discount it and pocket a loss. ‘Detectors” containing elaborate lists of the different banks of issue and the rates of discount on their bills at different places had to be carefully studied by every man doing business. Note-shavers made the money that business men lost by these discounts. A man who had good money would often not be able to get the face value of it, and often the failure of a bank, organized especially to issue currency, would leave no one responsible to pay the taco value. The Constitution is frank in advocating this bad and dangerous old system and knows it would be the natural result of the repeal of the State bank tax. Here is the hope it extends: What do they lend money on when they take' our 6 per cent, bonds at sixty and seventy cents on the dollar?" Don’t they lend it on the faith and good credit of the borrower? Then why can’t we bank on our own faith and credit, and get rid of this outrageous toil. There is but one thing in the way and it is this tax of 10 per cent, on currency'. The fact that your six per cent, bonds brings only “sixty and seventy cents on the dollar” is pretty good evidence of the condition a currency issued on your own “faith and credit” would soon get into. United States Government bonds bearing 2 per cent, interest sell in the market at par —dollar for dollar, Under the present banking system those bonds stand pledged aud held for the circulation of the national banks. No one ever lost a dollar or had to discount a dollar of national bank notes. THE DEMOCRATIC POSITION ON SILVER. The Texas Democratic platform contains the following plank: “While we yield to the wisdom of a majority of the National Democracy in making the reduction of revenue taxation to the necessities of the Government economically administered, the paramount, leading issue of this campaign, upon the policy that it is safest to make the struggle to secure one reform at a time, we nevertheless proclaim our adherence to the principle, justice and necessity of a free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio heretofore provided by law, and shall continue to contend for it. We therefore commend our Senators and Representatives for their faithful efforts to promote the success of this measure and pledge that they shall so continue.” The St. Louis Republic remonstrates with those Texas Democrats who claim that this plank is in antagonism with the plank of the National Democratic platform. The Republic maintains that “to dissent from the silver plank adopted at Houston is to dissent from the Democratic policy declared in the platform adopted at Chicago.” The felicitous method by which Colonel Jones, editor of the Republic has brought into agreement the contrarieties of the national platform and the sentiments of the masses of the party as shown in their State platforms, is shown in the following style of the quotation he makes from the national platform: “We hold to the use of both gold and silver as the standard money of the country, and to the coinage of both gold and silver without discrimination against either metal or charge for mintage, but the dollar unit of coinage of both metals must be of equal intrinsic and exchangeable va.ue to be adjusted by international agreement, or by such safeguards of legislation as shall insure the maintenance of the parity of the two metals and the equal power of every dollar at all times in the market and in the payment of debts. ” This is the kind of arrangement Colonel Jones sought to work into the Democratic platform for a tariff plank. Seeing how beautifully it operates under his skillful guidanceon the silver question, he may well say to the enemies who defeated his tariff plank, “ I told you so.” The Neal substitute can only bo interpreted in one way, and that for free trade. His could be used in oue way

and in other sections in a different way, just as this silver plank can. A New York Democratic newspaper, for instance, (if there is such a tiling left) could print in plain type the part of the silver plank that Colonel Jones has italicised and, beginning with the BUT, could italicize the last section, which is put in to make the minds of the Eastern Democrats east-. Thus the platform can be differently interpreted to suit the different sections, but must always be interpreted the same, as it indicates the dishonesty of the Democratic party. A DEADLY BLOW AT LABOR. The leaders of Democrac y are now as truly engaged in an effort to overthrow the American system of government, so far as it relates to the encouragement and protection of labor, as was the Southern Democracy while it was attempting to destroy American institutions. The protective system has been so long in operation in this country that it may properly be regarded as the American system. Under it the nation has grown great, wealthy and prosperous. There is no land under the sun where labor brings as much comfort and where laborers have so many happy homes. Under the most recent rearrangement of the tariff, a Republican measure from first to last, these conditions of labor have been still further Improved, prices are coming down, wages are increasing, aud production is multiplying in a most gratifying degree. The Peck report proves all this for the great Stale of New York by statistics which cannot bo denied. What is true for the first. State in the Union must be true for all the rest. The New York condition may be called the first returns from the working of the McKinley tariff. And this testimony in its lavor and its praise is Democratic testimony. The business of the country is rapidly arranging itself under the new conditions, and it is found that the promise of full employment for labor at good wages was never before so good; that industrial enterprises were never before so rapidly developing, and that under the reciprocity feature of the new law the trade of the country is receiving such an impetus as has been unknown for many years. These conditions result from the development of the American system of promoting trade and manufacturing enterprises, and lifting labor above the pauper level to the happiest condition which it has ever known in any land, while there is sure promise of still better things in the near future. This is the system which the Democratic leaders are united to destroy. In fact, they are crying out that the destruction of this system is their solefissue in the present compaiarn. To replace its pleasant and solid realities they offer laboring men, and tho farming interests of the country nothing but a theory of free trade. Worse still, what they offer is an untried theory here. It has never been a matter of practice in this land. This nation has become mighty and prosperous beyond any other nation under the protective system, being the only first class power in the world that is paying its way. And the Democracy is attempting to persuade labor to turn away from the system which has produced this condition, and adopt in its place a system which in all other lands has degraded labor and sunk it to the level of pauperism. Do American workmen desire to risk a change? Will they vote to exchange the certainties of the present system for a hollow and deceitful theory? WATTERSON'S EMOTIONS. Louisvillo Courier-Journal (Dem.) Let every true Democrat fall in line, and all along the column let the banners wave and the song be “ down with the robber tariff ! ” Down with the robber tariff in the East. Down with the robber tariff in the North. Down with the robber tariff in the West. Down with tho robber tariff in the South. Down with the thieving duties at the custom houses ; down with the swindling reciprocity treaties ; down with the cant about the wage earners ; down with the fraud that taxes make wealth ; down witli all the fallacies of protection, aud up with the starry flag of the Union, Free Trade aud Sailors’ Rights! The Finest Railway Station. It will probably surprise most people to learn that the finest railway station in the world is in India, in Bombay, which cost $1,500,000 and took ten years to build. The finest in Europe will be, when completed, the new central station at Frankfort-on-the-Main. A very costly statkw. is also to be erected by the North Brjtish'Compauy at its Edinburg terminus. Water works are to be constructed in Naperville at a cost of $100,000.

STEEL PRODUCTION. How Xhia Industry Has Grown Duping the Last Decade. A preliminary report has been Issued from the censu&office on the production of steel in this country which was prepared by Or. William M. bweet special agent, under the direction of Mr. Frank R. Williams, chief of the division of manufactures. According to the figures presented In this report the total production of steel in the United States during the year ended June 30, 1890, was 4,165,926 tons of 2,000 pounds, as compared with 1,145711 tons produced during the year ended May 31, 1880. an increase of 3,621,215 tons, or 290 percent. In the ten years from 1880 to 1890 the production of Bessemer steel ingots and direct castings has increased from 976,208 tons to 3,788,472 tons, open hearth steel from 84,302 tons to 504.351 tons and crucible steel from 76,201 tons to 85,536 tons. No Clapp-Griillths or Robert-Bessemor steel was made iu the census year 1880, as there were no works in existence in this country at that time. During the year ended June 80, 1890, the production of Clapp Griffiths st ol in the United States was 83,963 tons and the production of Robert-Bossomer steel was 4,503 tons. The United States now loads all other countries in the manufacture of Bessemer steel rails, the output during the year ended June 30, 1890, 'amounting to 2.036,654 tons, an increase of 1,295,179 tons over the production of the year ended May 31, 1880 In the manufacture of basic steel this country has made a promising beginning, the production of this kind of steel during tho year ended June 30, 1890, amounting to 62,173 tons. During 1SS0 fourteen States contained steel making establishraente, and steel was produced in that year in each of these States except Rhode Island and Maryland. In 1890 steelworks wore located iu nineteen States, and' fftoel was made iu that year in each of these States except Kentucky, Missouri and Virginia. Pennsylvania continues to occupy the position of the loading producer of steel in the United States, producing 57 per cent of the total production in 1880 and 62 per sent in 1890. Illinois was second in rank in both years and Ohio was ihird. The Tramp with Consumption. I was at my uncle’s, near Niagara Falls, ia Canada, says tho New York Sun man. and had hardly, arrived when ho said: “Now, nevvy, you’ll be wandering around more or less, and 1 want to caution you about ai old ran I took up as an eslr.vy the other week. He’s down ir. the lot where tho gravel pit is, and just as sure us you give him a show he’ll bo the death of you. 1 saw Urn knock a cow off her feet at one bang, and 1 wouldn’t go into the lot for $56, Next 4ay I skirted the fences and found the old chap ready for business. I didn’t give him an opening.however, but somebody else did. I was stanliu tho barn, with uncle, when he suddenly' exclaimed: “Great Joseph' but there’s a tramp la the gravel pit lot! The ram will smash him to pulp in ten minutes'.” lie shouted, waved his hat. and shouted again, but the tramp was a quarter of a mile away, and walking with his head down. Tho ram was lying down in the pit. and the yelling brought him out. Wo saw him scramble up tho bank, and my uneie gasped out: “Git a boss hitched up to go for tho undertaker, for that tr,.mp won’t balive two minutes later. He was though. Tho ram cams at him on an angle, and he cavight .-fight of the animal when about tea rods o-I. He wheeled to the right, stool still, and tho ram got with ten fe.it and then saild through the air on a straight line to strike him. Next instant the tramp had him by tiio horns, and with a twist and a jerk iroko his neck with a snap. Ho tarried to bo sure that the ram was (teal, and then camo on, climbed tho fence, and said to vis: “Gentleman you see before you a man who has beer, unfortunate. t have consumption, and am hardly able to stand. I want to got to a milder climate as soon as possible. George William Curtis, In tho ••Editor’s Easy Chair” in Harper’s Magazine for December pleads fora Christmas rational enjoyment rj He says: ; “Let Christmas stand for pleasure, and for the reason that it Is especially the Christian day. Then Christianity drops her woda and Thon the whole world takds up smiles the refrain, “ ‘Religion neverwas designed To make our pleasures less.’ “If we were to fancy a wholly Ohrlstianized world, it would bo a world inspired by tho spirit of Christmas—a Vright, friendly, benefice, go:: ft roue, jympathetic, mutually helpful world. A man who is habitually mean, selfish, narrow, is a man without Christmas ia his soul.” At the foot of the lately inaugurated monument to Pcstalozii, at Yverdon.ia Inscribed on one sum. “I lived like a beggar, to show beggars how they ought to lire as man.”