Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 June 1892 — Page 5

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 29, 1892 TWELVE PAEGS.

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OFFICERS. President Will E. itrawn, Montpelier, Ind. First Vioe-preaideot ItoLert N. Aloultou, Winu-rsviHe, lud. ecoud Vice-president Miss Sue C Parker, Kalona, I. Recording Secretary Mrs. Dora Older, Adrian, Mich. Corresponding Secretary Mies Emma I Merker, Linery, 111. Treasurer Mise Mary J. Krlley, Campbellstown, O. Executive Committee Alonzo Finley Jacobe. (Jreeucavtle, Ind.; Torrenee M. Jackson, New Lancaster, Ind.; W. S.Kokeudotfer. Montevallft, Mo. ; J. C. McDanal J. Medina, Teen.; lira. J. P. Barnes, liruootoo Aldis. XV. Ye, OBJECTS. Fee. 2 of Article 1 of Constitution TLe object of iLe Howard Literary Club Is to encourage pure literature.strenglhea morality, establish sociability, increase a desire for mind improvement and literary attainment and to txtend the work of reformation. MEMBERSHIP. F-e. 1 of Article 2 of Conatitntion All persons of food moral character who are Interested in the object of this organization ml are wwlicj to work in accordant therewitli are elisribl to membership. We most cordially invite every one truly and ureoinproaiisiniy interested in our objeots to join our c.uh. Letters c4 inquiry should be addressed the i Lorrt-sponiliB jr .Secretary with stamp. The Howard L terary Las neither salaried cflicrra nor contributors, and depend wholly upon its merit ami principles for success. Members only are entitled to the rare benefit of our book catalogue. All letters lor publication must be carefully written on one suie of the paper only, accompanied by the writer s reai name and addret-s, as well a the noni de plume, and plainly addressed to the editor, C G. Stewart. JL.NTiNKL otiice, Indianapolis, Ind. Member in renewiiK subscription for THE Fe.MJNEL wll pl-ae he sure to send $1 t the Ilowani Literary 'treasurer, as the cnb is allowed a small commissiou. Due credit and prompt action guaranteed. A W A K fc. "Gnu" Slakes an Urgent Appeal to Fill Ilia PIIowat.d Frifnps Are we retrozrading? From the appearance of our pae lately, something is the matter For the last month, yes, I reicht Fay since the year 1S'.2 came in, the paire has not been up to the standard of what it should be; part of the tinio only three or four column, and I don't believe I can cite a singe week in W2 timt the pae has been tiled. I don't Hive to find fun t, but it is evident that tome of us are not doing our duty. I will admit that I have nut been eo prompt in writing as I miht have been, but then there arp members of the club in good standing whoe names have not vrntced the pagw in eighteen months, and a number of them in the past year. It may be that they have a valid excuse, but then it do seem as though they certainly could find tin e to w rite, even if but a few lines, and let us know that they are still in the right. It is a fact that a number have Mood by the pae xnaiitiilly and they are to ho complimented for it. There has been quite a lare cumber of additions to the club during the past year and it seems ai if a majority of the old men bers are rittinc back and thinking timt the new member wiii keen up the page, widen, they will tvt without ome encouragement from the -o.d auard." Come, let as be up and doin;r, and extend a helping hand aud a word of encouraeiiient to the new member, and I am sure it w ill he p vou and aid to stimulate them to pre- on. In reviewing thefilesof The Sentinel for the pant venr I rnl a largo number have been absent, and it was my intention to make a tall f..r all of them, but it would take too much time ami spacw to name all of them, so 1 desist, but will make inquiry e- - v -Je'--,' MRS. DORA OLDER. for a few, and suifst that "Detective" be sent out on th hunt of them. The first ones I wouul ask him to bring back to trie poge are the three sisters. "Honnie Vaianthi," "Beatrice" and "Eva.iue," and then while he in in the boutb, he cou-d find "Nobody's Darting," "Virginia Sunbeam," "Ismay," "Elk" and "Ideli." Then on his western trip he might try and find that noble, brave, "Rambling Jerry," and chaxe him back to tue fort, and then there ie "Al." "Regna See." "Cliff Ii&e," "Evergreen" and "Washington" to bring in; then on his return trip he could look after "Dr. Fmitbson," "Iowa Blush" and "Buy Kate." In the eastern ttates I know of but two that seem to need h is assistance in getting back; they are "Farmer Boy" and "Rhoda." Coming nearer home I could mention a number, but will only point out a few for him to look after: "City Chap." "Little Quaker," "U. B. Still "Murill," "Ida H," "Wi!mina.""Lu!ala Cornelia," "Rompin Rose," Thoughtful Elton" and "Florence Nightingale." "Polioch," I for one was glad to see you reinlist under the banner of "Honor, Love,

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Vyuanty, IOr W juu hviius so uuuui ui K J bringina' me into the H. L. C. y r As to the badges, I am glad that we will ' ''soon be able to produce them. I think J that ther are essential to every organiza

tion ot this kind, and trust that every member will procure one. I see that the matter of the reunion has been touched on by our president and also by the chairman of the executive committee. I think that this should be a matter l?r the president and executive commit

tee to sett'e. Let them name the place and time and then 1ft as many of the members a tend as possible. "Ga"0." Portland, Ind., Juno 22.

a try club. "Ann Pas" Suggests Something New Among- Otlr Good Thoughts. Dear II. L. C. Friends If we hold our hands and do not try to work we can never accomplish, anything. Just eo if we do not use our pens it matters not what our thoughts are. If we do not write them ou paper for others to read they can nerer benefit any one. 1 do not know as I can write anything that will benefit any one, bat 1 will try. Let us have a try company in our club and our page will be tilled each week with good, interesting letters. I write under a "Teat disadvantage, but where there is a will there's a way. O'ir president is doinor all he can for the benefit of the club, and we, as members, ehould aid him in everyway we can. I am glad we are to have a new bad?e. I imagine they are beautiful. I have sent in an order for one and hope others will send in immediately that the club may receive this extra discount. We fchouid feet very grateful to Mr. Jacobs for the interest he baa taken in securing us a baJe. "aint src." "Hamlet" ha given us this subject for discu.-winn : "Can we be Christians and kneel at fashion's flittering shrine at the sa:re time?" I nay no. When we are truly converted to (Jod we hate what we oiK-e loved and love what we once hated. Whn we put on Christ we ehould put off, I will f.iv, the foolish fashions of the world. We cannot nerve two masters. Those who arc wakintr in the footsteps of Jesus have higher and nobler ti.iri to think of than the fashions of this world. Dear friends, I have not strength to write na I would like to do on this subject, but I will be pleased to read letters on the page written by many of th members upon this subject. "Hawkeye." please let us hear from you. I will Bay here to my dear friends who have written me personal letters and have received no repty, please excuse me. Much of the time 1 am not able to write at all, but will anawer ail as I have strength to do M). Here is "Vida" with a nice little letter. A welcome to you and I hope you will write again soon. "Camilla," your tetter concernins virtue is grand, "ii. Ebba," "Urandma," Love." "Wilt in," "Mary of Champaign" and all obi members please come and ucnitt in lib in up the pace. I have but little to say concerning the reunion as I cannot attend, but hope it will be held where there will be a large attendance, and may all have an enjoyable time while there is the wish of "Ac nt Sle." Kalona, I,, Box 4, June 21. THE POWHR OF MIND. "Maud Staple's" Uj.iDdr to "a Mote ef Warning." Dear II. L. C. Friends Since some expressions made in ray previous article concerning "the power of mind" have given rise to references and comments by Brother W.W. Stockwell which he terms "A Note cf Warning," I feel called upon to make a brief reply at least, that all may understand more f ully my position, which is not taken without careful and deep search concerning this subject. Being by nature progressive, I have not greatly cultivated conservatism, but surely possess my Biiare of incredulity until a thing is weli proven as substantially true, for theevolvemeut of truth only is my desire. Relieving that truth. r esi-ting facts of life, are broad as the universe and deep as eternity, and of this we a e constantly imbii ing little by little and unfolding and developing in greater attainments and possibilities proportionate to our efforts. I do not know how this "note of warning" strikes you, but in a.1 due respect and kindness to our brother 1 can but say, to me, the string on which be sounds this note does not seem keyed to the pitch of clear logic, but c horded only to a heartfelt sympathy for a suffering friend's disappointment, in which feeling we all partake in some degree. I would not criticise unkindly, neither would I argue for the sole purpose of car rying a contested point. Such roads sel dom lead to a conviction of truth. Simply a desire to convince to one's opinion should give place to a more earn est desire to Cod truth as it is. And to find this we must rise to the fact that mere opinions are not truths, though often serving to establish belief for or against the truth. Let us go carefully over the ground of our brother's argument as it stands. He cites us to a letter containing two statements. One a case cured by Christian science treatment, and the other disappointment in trying the same method,' showing as strong evidence for as against its practicability. The question arises can we best judge of anything by watching the failure qr success of the practitioner? Though I should make ru an r failures in my efforts to solve the problems of mathematics, would it prove ' the fallibility of the .science of numbers? Or ould not few cuei of &

successful prove to vour mind its exactness and reliability?" Would yon not clearly see that an understanding of and exact compliance with the law or rule governing each problem is absolutely necessary to success? All science ia just as varying: in its principles as that of mathematics, and that of mind with all its law of exactness is no doubt not as yet fully understood by many practitioners. "We see our brother's objection only on the line of disappointment, which would be no new encounter for invalids, many of whom have known this aa their almost constant companion for years. Even this friend of his savs: "I have tried everything." Then, of course, disappointment was met with in everything. Now would Brother Stockweil send this "note of warning" along all these lines and advise doing nothing lest one meet, as did this friend, disappointment in them all? Is there any known method of healing employed today that has not its failures, or any known profession or occupation wherein no error or disappointment is found? Most assuredly not. Then is it the part of justice to single out any one of them and condemn it on this ground, when it has also authenticated cases of success? Let us be impartial alike to all. piving credit where it is due, and view all failure with equal criticism, knowing as we do that it is a well-eslablinhed fact that where one fai s another may succeed, and that thoe schooled in physics do not comprehend in the same degree all its laws in relation to healing. Why should we demand more at the hands of a metaphysician who is trying to evolve the law of life on a higher piane of thought? Most assuredly I was actuated by th best motives in calling attention to this widely spreading method of healing, knowing of several well authenticated cases thus restored that were even pronounced incurable by the medical profession. I think that Christian science healing when understood is. clearly seen to be an observance and demonstration of law, and a dear realization or understanding of such law canno: be attained in a few months or years by most of us. With heart's desire for the good of all, and trusting that I have not, said aught that wiil offend. I only add in conclusion the hope that amid the clouds of prejudice and opposition to all new innovations may be seen the bow of promise for man's higher spiritual attainment and the mitigation of human sulfering. Yours for truth. -Macd Mahle." V. S. Oh, yes, let us all comply with our president's request and order our badges now. I au quite anxious for mine. , M. M. BADGES AND REUNIONS.

Suggest'. ds from One of the Members of tho Missouri club. Members All After carefully reading the letter of our nioHt worthy president in the last issue of The Sentinel, the duty to need the demands or wishes portrayed in it was mögt vividly presented, Have we all read the article in question? If not, this being the Sabbath, most of ua can enjoy a few leisure moments. May they be spent doing good. Surely if they are spent reading our president's letter, with a determination to do our Lest, much good must of necessity accrue. Ürothers end sieters, you see the situation in which our president finds hin. Beif. He wishes to place a snuu little sum in our treasury and it is not in his power to gratify his most ardent wish without the aid of the members. Friends, let all who poaeibly can send their b'idgo money immediately to l're-ddent Strawn that he may be enabled to order the 100 badges and thereby procure the reduction. Surely, considering the metal with which the badges are to he made, and by comparing it with badges of other organizations, we can find no fault with the quality and price. Friends, please respond. Your otticers have been laboring hard in behalf of tha badges. Will you not repay them by ordering ono of these, beautiful badges? All their labor has b-en in the interest of the club. If they can serve it in some way they are richly remunerated. No individual can possibly be profited one penny. It is all for the Howard Literary; therefore, remember. 1 think the idea of sending an application blank with each copy of the constitution ia a good one. Let all w ho receive them remember they are precious. Eech one peDt out by the secretary should count one member. Are they not profitable? Therefore, aiao remember this. The time is here when we should begin preparations. for the reunion. I think we should have one, although I cannot attend. It will be a very busy time for us ruralists while the reunion ia being held. No enjoyment coula be greater than to enjoy a meeting with, those held bo dear. Let all attend who can. The time and place is immaterial to me. 1 think that should be when and where the greater number can attend. Brothers and sisters, send your preference to our executive committee chairman at once. How pleasant it is to min'ld and commingle with congenial minds. Associations of such a type are as "bread cast upon the waters" destined to bring lasting good. I have often heard the question asked, not only of the II. L. C, What good will it do me to connect myself with this or that organization? Friends, this question is indeed a misfit. Kind frienda. the immaculate predestinations did not place us here simply as the recipient of the gifts of God and our fellowman. but rather to accomplish the most possible good. Here, then, instead of asking what good we will receive from joining the H. L. C, let us ask what good can we do by joining the Howard literary. And after so doing Btudy carefully its principles and then you will readily see the scope if you only will embark. To better the condition of society and thereby better the state of humanity, we must educate ourselves up to the standard God would have us occupy.' May we continue to do what we can in this direction. May we work as we never have worked before and adhere strictly to duty's call. With this, my feeble "mite," I am most deeply yours in the bonds of the Howard literary. "Comet." Montevallo. Mo., Jun 19, 1892. Victim or Mob. NASHVILLE, Jans 27. At Shelby ville.Tenn., today a mob went to the jail and forcibly securing the keys, took the wife murderer, Willlam Bates of Koweeville, from his eell and banged bim to a tree in the court house yard. Bates died protesting his innocenoe. Fates was lynohed within fifty feet of the prison. 'Iwo hundred men dragged him from hie cell. Lest Friday Mrs. Bates was found in her garden with her throat eat. Her husband waa arrested and there was such strong proof ef his guilt that the people concluded to lynch him. Asrael, tho Angel of Death, Hovers nearsr ns, sometimes, than we are aware. It Is safer far when wa are u a wall to suspect bis propinquity than to Ignore the possibility of bis neareis. Caution is a trait in which the majority of mankinds eonntltutiODallr lacking. The prooenes to disregard a "slight cold" is particularly striking. This minor ailment is, howerer, a predecessor of la grippe, a malady which when (Sereloped of the most fatal character, as mortuary ttatintica attest. After a chill, or when the premonitory symptoms of infloenra such as anersins; aod thiverlue. snsoeeded by feverisbnes and dryne of the kin are - ercep'ible, Immediate recourse should te bid to llostettsr's Htomsch Kitten, s genial accelerator ot the biond's o rculetion, which diflus-s so agreeable, healthful warmth through the system induotire of perspiration, by means of wbicb the complaint is expelled through the pores sol lu further lendeoey counteracted. Wonderfully fJWoioui too is the Bitters for malaria, constipation, lusr srnplaint, rheumatism and fctdosy trouble. A wtosfliul.l bsfora rstiilDj lad-os he alth-yUlllnf tlesp,

M'KINLEY BILL ANALYZED.

THE PRIZE ESSAY FROM THE COLLEGES OF INDIANA. Chorlss Bf. Leslls of Hanover the gneesssf al Contestant for Jad Haid win's Liberal Priio The Essay a Towerfnl Dissertation n a Blost Important Subject. Last February Judge D. P. Baldwin of Logansport offered a prize of $100 for tho "beat essay written by any student in actual attendance, not less than two terms, and a member of any Indiana college during the year 1S91, upon the following subject: 'The Merits and Defects of the McKinley Bill" Under the terms of the contest the students of each college had their essays passed upon by a committee of that college, and from those submitted two were choaen to be presented to the final judges, who were the professors of political economy at Harvard college. Of the judges of award, Prof. Taussig was charman. This committee of judges unanimously awarded tbe prize to Charles M. Leslie of Hanover college. None of the judges knew the names or colleges of the contestants. Mr. Leslie's essay was as follows: The McKinley tariff bill naturally divides itself into three practically independent sections in order of importance, as follows tbe protection clause, the reciprocity clause and the bounty clause. But before we examine tbe characteristic section of the bill we will discuss briefly tbe reciprocity clause and the article concerning the bounty on sugar. We have one familiar and prominent example in our past history we may do well to notice in the hope that it may throw some light on the operation and effect of the present reciprocity treaties. In 18Ö4 Lord Klgin negotiated a treaty with the United States securing a free exchange between our country and Canada of tbe principal articles of commerce and a settlement ot the long disputed fishery question. Now, what was the etfect of thid Canadian reciprocity? If an increase in exchange, an increase in the commerce between the two countries, and a balance of trade in favor of the United States is advantageous, it wns certainly a great stroke of policy for the interests of our country. From 1S54 to ISM, when the treaty was repealed, the value of commerce increased from about $0,000.(X)0 to?l."'.),L'02,G15, and throughout the entire period the bnlaoce of trade was in favor of the United States. The result of the repeal is more than equally significant. Instead of the balance being in favor of the United States, there was so great a change that in 1S73 there was a balance in favor of Canada against the United States of $01,875.1 00. In view ot such facts as these we cannot help but wonder why a measure securing such advantages to our trade, widening our commercial field, and quickening our industries should bo repealed in accordance to a special request of our government, liut there is another side to the question to be considered, another horn to the dilemma the diplomatic controversies constantly involved in all reciprocity treaties. During tho twelve years of the treaty, scarcely a twelvemonth was free from eome petty violation of its provisions. Some local dispute almost constantly claimed the attention of our diplomats. Local collisions between the fishermen, which, if not rising into importance, were often annoying and troublesome. Tradesmen and fishermen are not diplomatists, and as long as their disputes and disagreements must be settled by our foreign ministers, they are the cause of constant bickerings and frictions between the representatives of the two nations. It was these troubles that proved fatal to the Canadian treatjvand will iuat as certainly defeat our present treaties. The lteciproclty Treaties. Under the provisions of the McKinley bill treaties have been signed with sevoral of the southern powers of the western hemisphere to the effect in peneral that in return for the removal of all duty on sugar, tea, coflee molasses and hides our manufactured and other articles will be admitted on like terms by those countries. The result of these treaties is as might have been predicted. Although it has been but little more than a half year since the treaty w as signed with Cuba, yet we are already involved in a diplomatic controversy. Why not abolish this constant cause of dispute and ill feeling? Is it necessary that we must pay euch a price for tbe free exchange of our respective wares? Kemove the wall entirely, let nature take her course aud we will have no more unfriendly discussions and petty quarrels as to the exact size and form of the breach made by our reciprocity clauses. Put let us dismiss the diplomatic objection and consider reciprocity in its actual workings. In what direction does it effect a change? What line of trade does it benefit? Vhen we come to consider the "condition" clopely we find that we have advanced but little from the old position. Tho advance is forward rather than in a new direction. It is nothing more or less than another protection for the manufacturer. It is simply adding protection to protection. We now not only protect him against the foreign competitor, but by a special arrangement we provide him with a new market for his wares in which be enjoys a particular privilege. It is not a market for our manufacturers we stand in most need of. Of all our exports more than 75 per cent are agricultural products. Our foreign trade must depend on the markets of those countries that do not, and not on those that do, produce these articles at home in sufficient quantities to supply their own wants. We should enlarge'! markets for nil products as far as practicable and not lock up our agricultural producta while opening wider the channels for the export of manufactures. Tbe benefit to the farmer of free trade with southern agricultural countries is practically nothing.. If reciprocity ia beneficial with one country and in some articles, there is no reason why it should not be profitable in all articles and with all countries, especially with those that can and are anxious to consume our surplus agricultural products. The interest ot the manufacturer is beyond a question southward, while that of the agriculturist points eastward to the crowded populations of Europe. Under the provisions of the present reciprocity law the markets of the manufacturer are opened while those of the farmer aro closed. While desiring to do everything possible to secure good markets for all classes it seems the grossest inconsistency tö aJd a double protection to one class and at tbestme time to make no attempt to ameliorate the depressed condition of another more important industry. However, it may be argued that the bounty on sugar is beneficial to our agricultural population. To a small portion for a short timt, it probably is, although many of those directly interested argue that it does not. Put let us look more thoroughly at the provision. In order to compensate the sugar producers for the removal of tho duty, a bounty is paid directly from the U. M. treasury for every pound of sugar produced in the United States. According to the most recent estimates the sugar bounty for the past year will be approximately $10.000,000. Tiit iuxi ll

to be paid annually to this favored class from the monev collected by taxes from the whole people. I can see no reason why such a measure would not come under the late decision of Justice Miller. He stated as a fundamental principle of law that: "To lav with one hand the power of the government on the property of a citizen, and with the other bestow it on favored individuals to aid in private undertakings and to build up private enterprises, is none ths less robbery, because it is done under the forma of law and ia called taxation. Peyond a cavil there can be no lawful tax that ia not laid for a public purpose." Ths Sogar Itnantj. The act of the McKinley bill eranting a premium on sugar can only escape thisdecision by a subterfuge of law that a public necessity exists to abolish tho former revenue while continuing to tax the people to compensate the southern planter and refiner for its removal. The sugar bounty can only be legalized by the assumption that a public necessity exi6t to produce sugar within our boundaries, notwitnsianding tbe fact that we can obtain our sugar at a smaller expense in exchange for our surplus agricultural products. If there is no euch necessity land I think there are iew who will claim there is) the present payment of a bounty from our treasury is the bestowal of private property "on favored individuals to buid up private enterprises and ii none the less robbery because done under the form of law." It is but natural that this artificial form of government protection will lad to a perpetual contest between the different interests cf society. When any one class is in distress it will not hesitate to call on the treasury for relief. The agriculturalist, taxed today to sustain manufactures, tomorrow will ask for a reversal of the rule. Tho threat interests of the country will assume hostile attitudes toward each other. They will he involved in constant conflict. Cur legislative halls will be turned into veritable battlefields, on which the agents of different industries will contest for the poils of tbe treasury. Committee rooms wiil echo with the voices of those seeking the government largess. It has begun by the government subsidizing the industries ; it w ill end by these industries bribing congress. Put the third suction of the bill in our discussion, although first by a long interval in importance, is that involving the great economic question the tariff. The object of the section is plain and unmistakable and has been rightly specified by its chief exponent, the chairman of the committee on srays and means, when be eaid it was a measure to secure "protection with incidental revenue." It attempts to establish many branches of industry without regard to our natural adaptations for them and without any consideration of the obstruction to other lines of trade that mint follow any interference with the natural laws of exchange. -The avowed purpose is to tax every foreign product, crude or manufactured, that is or can be produced in this country without any consideration of the etXect of such a tax on other classes of industry. When the natural conditions and the genius of our people have led them to omit certain things and to do certain others, it approaches them with this proposition: Tax yourself on a certain article of necessity and our money kings will produce this article here for the earno. price you paid for it before you imponed this additional tax. The work ought to be done here even if its establishment costs twice or thrice as much as its benefits wiil amount to. Tbereiore in our treatment of this sabject we are not concerned with the principle of tariff for revenue with incidental protection. .This id a question of an entirely dii.erent nature from that involved in the present discussion. Pefore advancing to a consideration of the actual results and consequences to our foreign and internal trade arising from the operation of the bill during the past year, let us establish some general principles with which to compare our observations. What is tbe real object of exchange? It is certainly the mutual benefit of the parties interested. It is profit both to him who sella and to him who buys. Without exchange each must live and work for himsoif alone. If eome form of obstruction ehould suddenly stop nil trade between individuals, civilization would be impossible. Life would scarcely be worth the living. On the other hand, as exchange has tended toward the greateet freedom, civilization and prosperity have advanced in tbe Fame ratio toward the highest possible development. All this is clearly manifest between individuals. The exchange of nations is only tbe 6ura of the:-e exchanges between man and man. and is therefore governed by the same general law. Now if both nations are benefited by a free exchange (and if they are not the exchange will soon stop), it is ce-tainty wrong to hamper it with legislation. An interchange of articles should not be restricted to any particular country. Commerce knows no boundaries. No parallels of either latitude or longitude mark its limits. "It speaks a various language." Mr. Plaine well said in lSüO, "The highest duty of the United States is to enlarge its foreign trade." With this principle in view, that our best interests are realized by an increased commerce, let us ascertain if possible if the McKinley bill has been productive of good or bad effects. What the Iteports Sliow. From the consular reports of November and December, 18'.) I, and January and February, 1S'J2, I have taken the following statistics, showing the decrease in the imports from several of the most important European consular districts: DKCBKaSB IX IS'Jl as COMPARKO WITU PHKCIDISa TB4R Leeds 8 648, 467 00 France S.261.U31 OU Berlin 5,M6,".;6 0-1 Glasgow.. 1,71'J,61 00 lluddersfleld 4' per cent. In almost every inBUmce these changes have been attributed by the U. S. consuls to the McKinley tariff bill. What is the interpretation of this unprecedented decrease in our commerce? In the light of the economic principle that we have just laid down, it is that our people are deprived of the profits of an exchange of commodities amounting to more than $16,000,000. The champions of protection are early attaining their desire "thafthia country may be independent of all others." In less than a decade if the annual decrease continues in the same ratio, a single ocean steamer might easily accommodate our commerce with the entire European continent. Another important fact is that this decrease has taken place during a year most propitious to our foreign trade. While the United States has enjoyed an almost unparalleled harvest, Europe has been driven to the point of starvation by a widespread famine. This peculiar coincidence would naturally indicate an unusually large exchange of our cereals for the various products of our eastern neighbors. Put the actual facts are in direct opposition to the hypothesis. Our trade shows a marked decline, and why? Simply because as long as we absolutely exclude the products of foreign industry and pr a premium for the 6ame wares made within the boundaries of our own country, jost so loDgwill those people engaged in these industries be unable to relieve us of our surplus of agricultural products. Let us stop to observe how subtle this matter is. Its effects reach out in two directions. With ono hand it checks a free exchange and thereby robs the people of the natural profits of trade, while with the.other it r Children Cry for

eeizes upon their property, acquired in other ways, totfupport the producers of those articles, for the manufacture of which we have none of the natural adaptions While the smoke of burnir.? corn, sacrificed simply because it will not pay for transportation, rises from the impoverished home of our western faru:er, you find the fires extinguished and tho wheels motionless in many an European factory. Why deprive these suffering people of the mutual advantages of an interchange of their rt-enective products? Remove the stifling obstruction, "a tarill lor protection with incidental revenue," and they will at once make each other comfortable and happy. However, it ha been held by many protectionists that the advance in duties, as provided in our present tariff bill, is oniy an incident to this decline in our foreign trade, while other causes really produce the undenirable eüect. In reference to these eva-ive arguments I submit the following table takji from the report of the Austrian consul : KXPOBTS KKOM AläTHIA TO TH3 UNITED ITATKS. li". I'M. Free of d-ity 3,. ,; ; .;i $ T.T-.i.m Iteduced duty i,i'i7 ;'.4 hci.' Adranccd duty 6, us l'. 753 3,41 T.i'j This simple statement needs but little fcluciiiatiou. Wbile tr-.e trada in articles free of duty ha-i more than doubled iteelf within a year, that in goods with the increased duty haa auuk to almost one-half of its former vaiue. I can 6ee no reason to doubt any longer that the operation of the McKinley bill is tending toward a rapid reduction in the exchange of all those articles that it directly affects. If the long accepted principle that "exchange benefits both buyer and seller" is true, if tbe greatest duty of our country is to enlarge the area of our foreign trade, then the McKinley tarilT bill, acting in direct opposition tö this fundamental principle, is in the greatest degree detrimental to the more important industries of our country. Have We Deen Compensated? Das there been any compensation for this loss of foreign trade? Has there been an increase in internal commerce eullicieut to neutralize the evil effects in international exchange? Have the increased duties been able to raise up new industries sufficient to supply these products at the same cost and consume those products that would be exchanged for the dutiable goods? These are questions often answered in the affirmative by protectionists, without any attempt at verification. Hut on closer inspection these affirmations are found to be on very ill terms with experience, figures and facts. In Bradstrett'n weekly review of the business situation from September, 18'J1, to February, lSyj. I lind more than two-thirds of the artic es begin with statements similar to the following: "The general business situation throughout the country has as yet shown no signs of improvement." In the review of Oct. '2i we read the following: "Great activity was anticipated as the fruit of bountiful harvests, but tbe outcome does not meet expectations, and the buying power of the people seems to be exhausted." In that of Jao. fJ: "The prophets were all wrong eix months ago. With the great crops looming in August whose size were underestimated by the most extravagant prediction, a boom in trade eeemed certain. Prices were to improve, trade to revive and speculation to run rampant. None of these things came. There has been no boom. Prediction has been w rong at every etage." While in the article that has just coma to hand I notice the following etatoment: "Cotton has dropped during the pant week to the lowest price ever known sinco IS 19, and it is perhaps fair to say that it is questionable whether the ü cents per pound quoted in 184'.) meant less than 7 cents per pound quoted today. While nature with lavish and bountiful band has filled our granaries to overllowinr, yes, has even gone further than this: she haa withheld her usual store from our "ki icro88 the sea," and yet our trade is duli and our agriculturist realizes no higher prices for the bountiful reward of his labors. . Why' this seeming contradiction of the law of supply and demand? Legislation has defe . ted natural law. It profits the farmer nothing to garner t!i. most abundant harvest if the govern deprives him of the privilege that ratiiM intended him to enjov to oxciiting-J.t ior the product of his fellowman. The necessities of society demand that this perversion of the powers of government ahould bo boiihed. Put this is not all. The tola! number of busine. l.-t.lurv in tH 1'uitt-d Stales iltiring the pi?t etr is f':!ly lj per cent, larg.-r than in lv.)0, while the grand total of liabilities is ti.e largest since the threatened panic of 1884. However, the mot remarkable and interesting feature in reference to our present discussion is the fact that an unusually large per cent, of thee failures have been in New England and the manufacturing states. This, to mauy who accept the popular belief, that the highest tariff is productive of the greatest good to the manufacturer, seems peculiarly puzzling. Yet it is not difficult to discover the cause. The McKinley bill transfers a large number of articles in a crude or partiy manufactured condition, absolutely essential in the process of manufacture from the free to the dutiable list. Any branch of industry that will pay 10 per cent, profit on the capital invested will attract capital and will be at onco established. Put now add a tax on the raw material that wiil amount to 10 per ceut. of the finished product and you have at a single stroke swept all profit, and the industry is ruined. This is what has befallen many of our New England industries. Hew A boat Inter State ProtectionV An active competition is epnncing up in the West and South against which New England can htve no protection. Proximity to materials, saving the cost of a double transportation, give southern and western manufacturers a marked advantage. This is a condition that is not in the power of New England to alter. She cannot bring her raw materials from Texas or the West, and transport them back again and compete successfully with the southern or western producer. In skilled labor she undoubtedly excels, but in the coat of her crude materials, she is at a marked disadvantage, for on these she is now ruinously taxed. Kemove the duty on iron ore, which now costs the New England manufacturer $7 per ton, and it can be delivered in New England from Canada at the expense of $4 per ton, which is about as low as the best Pessemer ores can be obtained at English furnaces. Coke could also be obtained as cheap as in the meet favored districts in the United States. Lower tbe tr.riff so that sho may procure her materials on the same terms with her rivals, and she will again regain her once prosperous condition. The increased duties of the McKinley bill are to New England as "a pebble in the shoe of a runner," keeping him painfully ia the second place, when, if relieved, he could lead the field without a struggle. A tariff that taxes raw materials caunot be a protection to manufacturers. The last question concerning the ability of our home producers to furnish us with these articles without an advance in price needs but a brief inspection. A brief review of prices is a sufficient answer. In a list of 112 articles, representing twenty-four departments, comprising1 those on which the increase of tariff was greatest, the counter price has advanced from 10 to ö per cent. These articles were those in most common use and the quotations are taken from a verified etatement of various New York and Boston firms. These plain statements Pltchcr'o Cactorla.

speak for themselves and need no further illustration. Home market!" Thee words have been chanted long en 1 loud bv the sup-

; porters of the McKinley bill and the.r ; would fain have us believe that a high tari;f wiil so increase our manufacturing interests that they will soon b able to consume all our surplus grain and other products of the farm. At first eight one may be inclined to credit this as a proper dogma of belief. Put this credulity if only through ignorance of the true meaning of the etatemi'i t. Th United Mates ! now producta "'ii.ooo.tKK) bushels of I wheat. Tl.r-e. huudred and twenty milj lion bushel." will amp y euppiy the home ! demand. 1 l.isA, iil I aw a surplus of 10.I OOO.oo."). l or i-.fi . onsiimptii n of this prodigious anif-.i.t our "infant industries." the ollfiring of protection, must employ at least ö,0.'0.0( 0 people. If they do not, finding no market, either foreign or domestic production must stop and the wheat producers go without any market, 'iheir curplus will h ive no value. The' will ceasti buying manufactured articles and mariufacturicH will be stricken with paralysis. Hi- 1 rMun- rys" TaMacy. "The foreign importer pays the duty" is another l'a orite statement cf the author of the present taritl bill, with which he has Ion j clouded the understanding of an uncommonly inte ligent yet equally credulous people. A recent decision has shown the utter fohjj and falsity of the mystic words. Not ion; since Mr. Wanamaker. having iinrmted a quantity of dutiable goods, claimed that he was overcharged at the custom bouse. He brought suit for refiate and the U. S. courts decided in favor of the plaintiff, refunding $10.000 to Mr. Wanamaker. If the foreign seller pays the duty w hy was it not refunded to him? Apparently the courts are convinced that the consumer pays tht tax. When the people have learned to question these stale ;nets of the priests of protection, when they are able to apply to them the test of experience and facts, theu the priests will lose their cunning and thir words will no longer entrance unsuspicious ears. When we shall have removed all possible obstructions to the mutual service of nations, when we have granted the rizht to the people of all lands to send to our markets what we desire, and to buy in our market that surplus we cannot use. "then will the ships that pass between this land and that be like the shuttle of the loom, weaving, ths web of concord among the nations." In the renewed discussion of this subject it hns become conspicuously manifest that men are taking positions leading to nothing higher than political wrangling. Men accustomed to trust each other in every vocation of life, when the question ot tariff arises charge each other with every form of insincerity and fraud. They take sides too eagerly and apparently think more of triumphing over their opponents than of the progress of discovery or the interests of truth. I c.in see no reason for this intimate connection of party with the question ot tariff. It is nothing more or less than a practical business question, a question of finance pure and simple. "It is a condition and not a theory." In this essay I have attempted to analyze this "condition," to discuss it on its real merits enfranchised of lotU "protectionist paralogisms" and "frea trade 6ophisms" in order that I might apply to it such plain economic tests ra would iender clear and unmistakable some of the prominent defects and incon sistencies of the present system of "protection and incidental revenue." Will be found an excellent remedy for sick headache. Carter's Little Liver Pills. Thousands of letters from people who have used them prove this fact. Try them. 'Mrs Winsiows uih!n( NyrnpM Has been used over Fifty Years by millions of mothers for their children while Teething, with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the Gums, allays Faiu, cures Wind Colic and is the beet remedy for Diarrhoea, Sold by druggists in every part of the world. ö cents a bottle. 0 I ii I.ntterr Olj til L.-.W. In view of tho contradictory rumors cir-c;il?tt-t rc'ardmü vim intentions of tht Louisiana Mte lottery Company and in r'h r to accurately answer numerous in.'.iii i'. a rcprest nt.it: ve of t he I inuB-Dfm-. . , ye-.ter-iay interviewed Mr. Paul ConIE 1. the prf si. lent of t!i com; any, with, ti.o iu!! eipret-rfd l."dow. Ke..;rttr Mr. Conrad, it was assorted poire wt-fk p.o in th Northern newspapers, no t the statement has 6ince been revived receiitlv. thai the company is about to r.'ir.ove to .Nicaragua, and there, under a government franchise, open up the business on a grander scale than ever. Pre6i'ient Conrad I have heard something of this, but there is no foundation for it. Tho company has officially stated that it bows to the decision of the supreme court and will respect the laws. Reporter Then have you no plans of future action? President Conrad I cannot state tht case more strongly than was done at the time the company decided not to attempt to obtain a renewal of its charter. I can only repeat that the company will continue in business until the expiration of its present charter and then ceas to exist, I cannot understand, after all that has been said, why there ßhould be any confusion in the public mind about the matter. Keporttr Have you anv objection to my stating thin as a finality for the satis faction of the public? President Conrad None whatever. Pepotter Some of the Eastern papers, Mr. Conrad, persistently assert that tho lottery company continues to use the U. S. mails in the prosecution of its business; will you kindly tell me if that is true? President Conrad It is utterly untrue. We are obeying the law in its letter and spirit, and our agents everywhere are instructed to obey it. We are using the express companies only in our business, and in all our circulars are printed instructions to all persons dealing with us to avoid tht mails. Timit-lkmocrati New Orleans, (La.), June 1. Wliea Baby was aiok, we (eve bar Oaetorta. When !e waa a Ct aid, she erted for Oaseorie. Wsasn abe beosme Mine, ehe etu-f to Oaeeorlek Wissel ab bad CS-Vlron. she rare ttma OeMtork, fTATE OF INDIANA, M AUION COCNTY, S3; "inthe Superior Court of Marlon County, ia tbe State of Indiana. I.iJsMsT ts. loree Mit. No. 4:.5ii. Complaint. DiTorre. Be it known. That on tbe 4th dsy of Jone, H9J, tho adore nnmcd pl.-iintift. I t hrr attorney, tiis l la tbfloificeof the rlerkof t!ie furrii.r Court of Marion County, in the State .of Indiana, brr complaint axainM ths above ramd dirtmJant, and the sail piai utiit having also tiled in said Hera's ofTss ths arh'iaTit of acomi-etent xrun, showing that sail defendant, lieoiro May, in not a r si. lent of the Stat of Indiana, anil that siid action li for divorce, and that said defendant ' a rrn ssrr party thereto, and whereas ssid pla ntift' harinff by indorsement on sr.id cit) Uint required said defendant to appear in said court and ausser or demnr thereto, on the 5th day of September, ls'.'2 Now, tVrof.re, r ord.T of sail court, said defendaut Insi above t ame i hereby notified of the fij iigand pendency ul f-1 1 cimpiaint against him, - nd thut i ii e be npn ar mi l answer or demnr thereto, at tii catling of atd -ue on the ",th day of Septem ber, 1 . , lii'i-air.c Ifi'i" the tint judicial day of storm of siüd i-.it.r. t be beun and held at the etiurt houie in t!i fit r .-f ! u j tannpoli, .n the first Monday in sep. riebet .' !.!. na id complaint and tha Pi.iltcr and things tl-ere. contained and alleged, wiil be heard and determined in his abvnce. JOHN R, WlbSoy, Clerk. Aires & Jones, Attorneys lor rialotifT.