Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 33, Number 20, Jasper, Dubois County, 30 January 1891 — Page 3

WEEKLY COURIER

C. DOA3TJB, PnWUtlwri JASN. INDIAKA. A MB OF SCHEME IiS. a plot TbM aewnw nappuy for All OcmoTnod. ICK CHANNIX(I WHH MUXions to in h r r y Miss ticrtrmle Jones. Very naturalfor Gertrude w r pretty and her father w rich. Furthermore, Gertrude wiw not averse t o Jack's desires. TCothingstrange alsmt that US Dick wwi hand some anil she had always de tected the name of Jones. Rut there wwi an obstacle a pompous, unyielding, gray-headed ob stacle in the shape of Judge .Jones, who Mon.lniH.Hl Jimiinioii and strongly dis approved or. jjick xor ueing just poor enough to exhaust Ins resources upon dress and cigarettes. Entreaties, no.v suasions, even tears hatt been launched I"""" "l" j,r.lM...n..del, and now ingenuity came creeping , in to see wliat it count do, backed by love s hitherto ineffectual power. "Vnin people are always eniel," pouted Clertrnde, "and papa is horribly vain for all hi long-lieMlel way of look iuj: nt things." "Vnin!" quoth Dick: "why, hc'slmld headed and ver nfty, if a day." Oh; you don't know hiin. Thew old widowei! 1--I wottldn't marry One if there wasn't, a laehel6r left in the world i should aay not," ami Diek delicate ly imprinted hw views ipon Gertrude' lijis. ".SO he wouldn't object to lniing Considered a masher yet?. dl, then - if e could make him think that some woman was m love with him, and get him toeomnnt Minneir dou't you see?' nut iiorirwie count nanny see as 'W hy he'd d or nay any thing sillyret liimieir nubuel, pcrlmp. and then knowinff trouble himself perhaps be d have a little charity for us." (Jertrude ltegan to see a little as in a plass, darkly. 'Of course," continued Dick, "the lady, whoever she is, would not lie in the fpkc, and if he made any bold adrancc " "Oil I just Iwheve papa would do any th-taff he thought he wait making an bnipression." "U oil don't you see? She'd trip up his l leels so Iwrd. tliat when k came niuwn. he might feel lmmiliated eaourh to say 'bleas you my children. Gertrude saw clearly now: she would tMU't. , .. l 1 i l -a ti nin. nrnnc, b umneu ouumuiMB seem "iJicK, you're a genius." All nneonscious of these tender nlottin ITS aitlim.t. 1nmiuif n nnana .Tiwlua .Hnes-m Ins librarv was unearth tag a faded photograph from a dusty corner of Ida desk. Ho looked at it at v tentively. ' Toor little girl," lie said, apostrophizing the aweet, youthful face that thus peered at him from out the depths of years. "I didn't know I'd kept you so long. You were very fond of me onee. and I've always had a doubt as to wnctner I did right to let you go. Won 2er if you CVer married!" Une fine day the Judge sat in his office wnnKiing bus brow over a letter written i a ueiicate feminine hand. Jle laid it ami smiled; lie took it up and frowned again. Then he read it over once more: ''Beau sm:-At the rik of seeming over bold i Tcnttire to correKHHl. The many limes j-otir uave ioi lowed ae uon the atrwt, or recoil in upon m Ml sat by my window at "orlc. art not unknown to me. How could I reaaitt blind! Yet I should never have a ml to areas you. but for the dollcate tribute you -csa aaixpectdly befltowwl I feel, there11)111 ray imprwsiofi of yor motive are y ujiionnueii, I will Bot believe you tobein ' Ke, ana await your arrival with emotions hv-ioo uccp for words. Your la hope, A mint A PHirrs." i no judge again laid thct letter down, ; . a or two across ilic floor and wnatod his chest. "Singular," he said at Inst "It boats we world. The Widow l'hippe the "DID YOU WKIT THAT?" mp little thing-p.s.s-h!-it must be a wijn h? took P note-shook his MiX 1,18 ju,1 eommuning with fK,,tT,Ut,oan wJM reolve, SwiS 'l8.1 rAm ot J.U. beat a buck, smued like a lawyer verdict, and aallied

wllV r"1 w Horn aa tippet WtUdOW blind. MwUr fu.l. ....-.!..

S2l.J?fclniUy lM U,v "tiou of Mr. PhW .lUiiery store, ami hugged nr shiver lliiwa3r apprehensive .W-Uwr 11' gdg by-no-l shipping lU!'oklHifrMa4l-.h-u? W11.". th" '-WsifoH, la. Ok! lck,l)lk! if any thing does happen I just know I shall die." After thia awful iHvmuu., -i.t Jut Iwd-fcidn lit. I 1 . fintheHllow,. v " When .1 inlge J ones projected lib iUkJy shadow upon the floor f m. ih.i.. shop, lie wtw a thin, sweet-faced little woman sewing by the window. ami one else nrvMsnt. lf ..1,1 behind him, ahuttlmr out th mm... shadow disappeared, leaving the' judge in wiu Hmmt or a Chesterfieldian bow. Hut when the widow l.it,i smile Uowly ehauged into a stare, for it was really his first pood look at her face. He fell baek stniiimerW l,..if himaelf: AinintaAiiiintft thought the name nd h fauiillnr Kimd, bntl didn't know you had ever :narripl." Tiie widow had rhwn and Kkwl tatiiifr, but spparently more with rebutment than surprii!. She picked tip an open letter and handed it In Mm saying "I received this b lrmil tli Injf, and I think my lone noRition hern. if not the memory of old times, should prewrve me from insult. Did you write that, sir?" It was aiwief but fervid dw?larllon of admiration, in a scrawling matKiuline hand. HI,.i 8,vnwl l.vi,;.f 0. lV all M-H.IW1- T ,1'uln'f Tt i - v -- ji vi perhaps you know something of this. n aiso came nv ma . anil rw..ll l had no idea you were Aminta Lovegood or I should have made myself known to you before." I he widow glanced at the other letter, saw iier own name at the foot, and bmt into tears. "How could you think it of me?" she cried, "I knew you, but I never should have intruded." 'Of cowm good irracious! AHiat fools we both are! It's some mistake, or na rrlias it's a sell." Th wrath overftowefl instantly. "A sell. On mo! If if I knew who the rascal was, I'd I'd -but there, there, Am'mtal Don't mind it. AVho knows'.' l'erhans it's a lm-ky move, after all--else I mightn't have known you." An, Dick, tiertrude could you see the dawning effect of your audacious clap-trap, would you noHremble rather than lanh.' Moonlight in the park at the foot ol the avenue. Here Dick and Gertrude, meeting like two conspirators, compare notes. 4I can't imagine what has come over papa," says she. "He s had a perpetual gnn uixm hi face ever since that day Oh, Dick!" She clutched his arm sonTHK JUDOK Ari'KAREI). vulsirely. "Suppose those horrid let) ters have brought about a a" She could not finish, but Dick com pleted the idea. "Match, eh? No, that can't lie but I don't understand the way the game runs myself. Little l'hippsey wu singing away when I paused her win dow this afternoon. Never heard her at it before. There ought to be no end of a row between 'em, but h-s-s-h! As I live, here he comes, with a lady on his arm. Let's run for it." Too lstc. Hound a sharp bend of the shrubbery the judge had appeared, and with him a woman, ure enough. More than that, her arm was snugly within his; he was fondling her hand; he looked altogether absorbed and lover-like. Hut Gertrude rose to the occasion. Her fear for Dick and herself sank beneath a rising anger at the sight of her father thus compromising himself perhaps disgracefully. Nearer they drew they raised their heads. Gertrude saw the judge and Mrs. Phipps; the judge saw his daughter and Mr. Channing. JJoth couples fairly caught no escape. Dick felt complete ly paralyzed. "Well, papa," said Gertrude, with a degree of surprise quite ironical, "1 never expected to see you making lore to a milliner" "Not another wonl, child." Hie judge did not seem to notice Diok. "This lady and I were great friendi long licfore you ware born." Dick began to recover. "Indeed!" Gortrudc'T emphasis wai more marked than piecing. "And we've about concluded to make up and try it over again eh, Atlanta?'1 Dick felt that uv was himself again. "Allow me to congratulate you, sir," he said, briskly. "Gertrude and I wish you uotn joy; yes wo uo, uerty. Aim now can you not do the same by us? Wo thought you oiuy Wanted the chance to show you had a heart, and and w gave it to you' "How? Then those letters" "We plead guilty, sir, but with tha best of intenttoHs. Had no idea though, that it would turn out so nicely all round, but as it has won't you ba generous and eotnplete the circle? Here we are!" "Aminta," said the Judge, "shall I tell them to lie happy? Of courseWell then bless you my nhildreu."

Yaukac Made. u

AN OMINOUS YEAH.

b W ia KermiltHt. Tha record of the Uepuhlioaa party for im i one that the jiarty would Khdly expunge fnjm iu tutmla. It eowmencw wth the dlcUtor4itp of Speaker Read iu the Xalional House ef Kepw-MfnUtives, and elosea with a deaperato and insane effort in the Senat to impoMt upon a free people tiayot rule at elections. The proceedings of tlie Kepublican majority in Congretw have lieen uhameteriaed liy usurpation of tlie moat reckless deM-ription, disregard for the choice of the people by unseating legally elected Senators and Representatives, shameless extravagance to the extent of seriously em barrassing the Treasury, the passage of a win outlawing importers, and the in famous tariff bill, wkkm hit caused sneli diauatroua disturbances in the cnanneis of bliKiness, the exposure of frauds in Government department, the attempt to place the force bill, the sub sidy bill and a highly dangerous iiuan eiai bill on tlie statute books. 'l lie year 1890 is also memorable for the grand uprising of the American people on the fourth of, November, which almost annihilated the Hepublie an party, and taught iwlitical despera does mat mere was a power unsafe to defy. Q.-ay, l'latt, McKinley, Heed and an tne iKses that strutted so insolent ly an t confidently on the political board, for the first ten months of the year, are now objects of contempt and derision. In American politics, there fore, it may m seen that 1SW was moat notaoie year. The McKinley tar iff law has had the immediate effect of increasing prices and cutting down wages, of stimulating the creation of truats and adding to the long list of business failures. The close of the year found the hecretary of the Treasury in a dazed condition of mind as to the out come of the financial situation, and He publican financiers in Congress tinker ing with a bill that is likely to compli eats the situation still more. It was, indeed, a very ominous year for the party and Administration that entered upon it with such confidence and iu higl spirits. Albany Argus. JINGO JUGGLERY. The IItHrbltiff Kteinent la the Repabllehh Tufty An Oregon friend of Mr. Blaine is quoted as saying, by authority, that tlie .secretary "IS not advocating rcciproci ty for a Presidonttal boom, but only for the good of the country." This alleged confidant of, the Maine poll ticiaif s ambitions adds that "Spain and bpanish-spuaking countries annually consume 4,000,000 Imrrels of flour not produced in their countries, the duty on wmcii is $5. so a iwrrel. This may not have any political bear ing, but it sounds remarkably like the sentiment of that letter about a "single bushel of wheat or a single barrel of pork," which beyond question was powerful political factor in the contest between "the Man from Maine" and his ambitious and bumptious rival, exCzar Heed. The Iltaine spokesman concludes hy saying that "the United States could furnish every one of those barrels of flour, if they got the chance. You can put it down that lilaine won't run in 1892." This is a clear ease of "lionsequitur." To attempt to oonstruct so strong a platform for Itlainc for the mere purpoe of announcing that he won't stand on it would be a sort of nonsense in which astute politicians do sot indulge. Tf the Republican platform for 'fS is going to be the lilaine platform of partial free trade through optional reciprocity, it is hard to see how any other than lilaine himself can stand upon it. President Harrison clearly could not without an absolute surrender to his Cabinet officer. If the President should make that surrender, he would surely auenate ine iUCKiniey elements as represented by the declaration of the officers and organs of the Protective Tariff League and the Manufacturers' Club. With respect to principles, as well as with regard to invisible candidates,1 the condition of the Itepublican party is one of seemingly hopeless discord and disorder. X. Y Star. THE RESULT OF OPPRESSION. The OHtcniHr of a Tyrannical AfrrrllfHM Kiactlnn. Syiiteai ef The Farmers' Alliance is the product of indignation and despair indignation at the merciless exactions imposed on the agricultural interest by the Republican party and despair that the other great National party would ever be able to obtain the supremacy and right the wrongs perpetrated by its powerful adversary. That this indignation was originally well founded is beyond question. It is doubtful if the all-important industry of agriculture was ever subjected in any country, except, perhaps, in feudal France just before the Revolution, to so many crushing burdens as the Repub lican party heaped upon it in this. It is also beyond question that the despair of the Democratic party ever coming into power was also originally well founded. Those who organized the Alliance saw nothing between them and eternal spoliation but the unaided strength of the fanner. Since this vista was presented times have altered. The policy of the Republican party has been changed only to intensify it, and the indignation which was originally justified by that policy has now more justification than ever. The relief that party pretends to give Is merely illusory; the burden basin reality been grievously augmented, and the hypoerisy which seeks to sugar over the suicradded wrong is a fresh motive for new detestation. Itut 'on the other skle of the picture there has been a genuine and decided change. There is no room now for despair as to Democratic supremacy and the permaneftcc of that supremacy. The Republican party has had its day and must go. The exigency which called it into existence is long over. The great perty of the future in this country is the Democratic party, and no oppressed popular interest ever looked le that txirty ui vaia. x. wotmu

THfe HLUIUUKAIIU H- -j, Mf(t rr tan l'tMtwaUMtt t h-uhU Mr. lidnmttd, of Vermont, Is the geatlemaa ho mi recently showed his sincere regard for the welfare of the country by securing two eenta a pound im maple sugar from the Treasury for the sap-boHen of that State. Mr. Hoar, of Massachusetts, is a Senator who during a long legislative experience ha never failed to use all the power of hia Intel lect to serve the ends of the Ncrtheaatern "Commune of Capital." Mr. Chandler, of New Hampshire, is as aulwervlent a tool of plutocraey as is Mr. Hoar, and he has moreover a record in connection with the worst period of job! fry in the navy which has fixed hia mmm-rI

Matus so that no one is at all in doubt coiu.erning it. These hree men constitute tlie triumvirate which i attempting to eoeree the .Senate into passing the Darenort force bill, under which elections are to be controlled by District of Columbia, returning lioards, backed by Iwyoueta. Itehind this bill ia "the American Protective Tariff League," the association of monopolist organized to furnish the fat fund of and to, control money and supply through Federal legislation. It is because of this demand for the bill that .Messrs. Hoar, Chaudler and Kdmunds are so determined on its passage. A strong sentiment has grown up in the West against Northeastern control of money, and the agricultural States of the South sympathize with it, while in the South from year to year there ia growing up a stronger competition in manufactured goods' with tlie Northcast. The result of this, if not checked, will be more and cheaper goods in the market and more money to buy them with. The tariff prevents the agricultural States from buying ouUide the country, and the plutocratic States of the Northeast have in so much a monopoly, Hut the tariff can not be used to prerent Georgia. Alabama and Tennessee from manufacturing their own cotton and other raw materials in cowpetition with the plutocratic States. The only method by which this "overproduction," a the Northeastern trusts call every thing which cheapens the necessaries of life, can be prevented is by reviving the old sectional quarrel on the line of a manufactured race issue. The plutocratic radicals are attempting to do that for the South, while at the same time they are trying to keep money and supply controlled against tlie west. W hen every thing else fails them, when the Ve4 rises in a tre mendous revolt against them, it only .makes them the more desperate and tlie more determined on returning Itoard and bayonet Only through such means can plutocracy maintain the control it has usurped over a free people. St Louis Keptiblic NOTES AND OPINIONS. The pudding-head leaders, who have brought the Republican party to its present forlorn condition, don t know any tiling anu uon't want to learn any tiling. Louisville Courier-Journal. Speaker Reed's remark that this is a time for patriots to keep their mouths shut, taken in connection with his impressive silence since the elec tions, leads to the inference that he eon siders himself a model patriot. Uoeton Herald. The first result on wages that has occurred since the McKinley hill be came a law, in this locality, seems to be a reduction of ten per cent in our largest steel works. As the McKinley bill has advanced the price of most of the necessaries and comforts of life from ten to twenty per cent, is the re duction in wages of ten per cent in tlie nature of compensation? Pitts burgh Post It looks very ranch as if President Harrison and Secretary lilaine were at tempting to imitate the policy of the third (and last) Napoleon, who sought to amuse the French with outside ques tions because the internal situation had become intolerable. Rut have these statesmen forgotten the National hamilititiou and calamities which followed the Napoleonic policy? Philadelphia limes. In the defeat of tlie force hill the Democrats in the United States Senate mve earned the gratitude of tlie ooun try, and the people will look with equanimity on the crocodile tears shed by3Ir. Hoar and his allies. Not even the flood of oratory favoring legislation for the benefit of silver-mine owners will lessen the feeling of rejoicing at the escape from the intended basis for further investments by Dudley ia blocks of five. Chicago Times. "The Federal elections bill is dead," says the New York Age (Rep.), organ of the negroes. "It has gone to keep company with the Federal educa tion bill. Hie Republican partv has broken faith with the voters of the country upon two or three measures upon which it won the elections of 1836. The best interests of the A fro-Amer icans have lccn cut to pieces in the House of their friends. The treachery oitiiojiayes administration has been repeated under the Harrison administration." Kenny' Moem. Harrison by the aid of his officeholders triumphed in the organization of the Indiana Republican Sfato Committee, and His "boom" for re-slection is now well started in the Hoosier State. Ry wnai means tuts virtuous statesman hopes to accomplish his renomhtation is revealed by this remark, credited to a member of the committee who is heart and soul for the Presklent: "You all know that we carried the election by the use of boodle in 1888, end that we" lost it in 180 because it could not lie used to advantage ami because of the new Australian election law. We must have a chairman who is smart enough to get around that law, nnd it intuit be got rid of somehow," And the State so prolific in Dudleys, which gave it electoral vote to Garfield for Dorsey's -soap ' ami was won xor Harrison with Dudley's "blocks of five," gave to Har rison ns a ndus Aelietes one John R. (lowdy, who, it is to He hoped, is "swart enough" io violate law and steal a State. --Chienja Timet.

HC WILL VrXAR NO SOCKS. AIMiluAlaMI fW'tMLM A 4lt HI Hi ell t yna Hum. e a w TfrTTTr--. v 0J t wfTrB ww mmaP .terry Whiiibh' "Yh ThmIo Pmr-

Owe of the favorite lines of "argument" adopted by the defenders of the McKinley law in the campaign laat fail ww to point out that tJe free Jktt wm larger in it than in any tariff alneu the war, 4Yhen the opponent, of protection ridiculed this boaated free )kt by quoting its provisions for free "aooras," "ansafetkla " "aahee," "beeswax," etc., the MeKmleyiten were wroth and claimed that this was hut another attempt by the "Itritisk free traders" to mislead the people by disguising from them "the strong point.'' of the McKinley law. No one expeeted that after the elec tion was over a leading proteouoit Mt per would umteruiKe to snow what a narrow ami unsatisfying thing McKinley's free lint is; but the Manufacturer, the organ of the Pennsylvania Manu facturers' Club, has just done precisely that serrkie to tlie country, lion. Jerry Simpson, the Farmers' Alliance Congressman -elect from Kan sas, wears no stockings, ami a Jersey City manufacturer sent him several pairs, whkrii were sent back with the following letter: Sir: Our forefathers refused to drink tea because It was taxed per eent., and held a ts party la RoHon to get rid of the tutf I hav Just nnlhed Hxurlnic up the tax upon thote Moekln.!g and I Had that tt amount to TO per oat. I will wear no oeks till the tu Is taken off. Tlie manufacturer proceeds to comment upon this letter to show the difficulties which the Congressman-elect will encounter if he seeks to be consistent and will use no tariff-taxwl articles; and it must lie confessed that tlie high protection organ does this iu a way which would make tlie uninformed reader suppose that tlie following extract was taken from a "free trade" journal: As thf-re la a henry duty upon soap, no doubt the Kansas statesman flndA a pretext for positively declining to un that article. In such matters, howevf r, It In likely tht he find hi natural Inclinations rlltinit In nicely with hia free trade prejudice, lint, if he la indeed goliiif to try to live up to hi principles it Is difficult to perceive how bo Is going to live at all. Nearly every article of elothliK and the great mass of ankles of food are subject to duties; and, therefore, Uis theory ought to con Site htm ritfidly to ue of materials that are upon the fre list. The attempt of th Honorable Jerry to liva within tne boundaries of the free list would excite universal Interest and curiosity. He would, of oourse, clothe himself with "hid, raw or tincured," with "asbcal" triininin, perhap, and his diet would rantce from "noonis," "aconite" and "aoaafrtrda" to "ott-eake," "caoutchouc," "verdUtris" and "yams." The Kanat CongaeMuiian Is going to be a particularly entertaining object of consideration If he shall try to be consistent. The Manufacturer should be congratulated for showing up the limited character of tlie McKinley free liht If the "Hon. Jerry" will foUow its sug gestion that it should be consistent and will dress himself up in "hides, raw or tincured," with "asbestos" trimmings, he will become, in this John the Rapst garb, a preaelier of "free trade" such ns this country has never seen. Ihe h&asejS Congressman-elect thus rigged out in the precarious habiliments of Mehinley's free list, would not need to utter one word against our high tariff laws; his very appearance would have all tlie eloquence of a "voice of one crying in the wilderness." A PLATE-GLASS TRUST. The AMterleM MaHHfiM-tHrrrn of Phttet! Meet and Ketse I'rtees A Hlffhlr rreteetea in Him try iet Msre Tariff rap Oreet l'rolts of the IndustryThe KaglHtH Take a Hand. On tlie day after Christmas the New York Tribune, tlie champion high tariff organ of the country, printed the fol lowing dispatch from Pittsburgh, Pa.: A meeting of the manufacturer and Job hers or the plate-glass trade will be held in this elty la the near future. At the recent ew York meeting it was decided to advance prices W per cent., but since then Western men have made a stand for a 3S per rent, ad Vanee. The avowed intention of the f rider nal combination Is to keep platexlase prices at the hiftheet Htcure possible, and at the HHie time keep It low enough to shut oat all When trusts are" formed tlie menu facturers who go into them usually put lorwartl some such excuse as "ruinous competition," ami sometimes they call it "cut-throat competition." Before tlie i ays ami Means Committee at Wash iukwti tney pieau i or protection upon tlie ground that it will bring about competition; but when competition has be gun to do its work they suddenly disover that competition is tlie very thing tnat tney do not want; hence they must "get rid of competition," and so a trust is formed. Rut the plate-glass manufacturers are the last men that should complain of excessive competition and low profits. There are only nine or ten factories in this country which make plate-glass; and there is usually an understanding among these as to their price lists. This combination, how ever, was not so strong as to prevent some of the manufactur ers ami dealers from cutting prices, lie nee at the New York meeting re ferred to steps were taken to make the eombinatkm more solkl. The New York Oil, Paint and Drmr Reporter, which is also an oriran of the glass trade, printed an editorial on the subject of the New York meeting, in which it said: "On Saturday last the dealers of this cltr and Boston met at the Metronolitan Hotel and held a prolonged session with cIomxI doors. At the end of the meeting it waa announced that tee combination had neen tea. serially strengthened by the exaction of renewed pledges to maintain the agreed prices." This paper furthermore described tlie plate-glass market as "in liettcr shams than ever before," there being an active demand, and "stocks in all hands low." These low stocks can not, however, be replenished by importation, as tlie Me-; hi n ley duties are nlmost prohibitory. ami the Reporter points out further that "no relief ean be looked for from the other side, as prices there have been advanced of late, and tlie import cost is altogether too high to encourage importations." The protectionists are fond of point ing to the plate-glass industry, as one of tlie best illustrations of the wisdom of our high tariff nolksv. Ther noint out how the industry haw! to atruerrl for a foothold here in its Infancy, how

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tkmn under seats. protection from M to At first sight this looks 111m ease for the protectkmiets; hut further facts used to lie told to its "true inwardness." The small qusatky sf plate-glass that came iaW tne eowntry for the ftseal year ended June M, imo, was admitted, according to the treasury reports, at M.M eents per square foot Xow if we calculate the total eut of our 96.9M.M0 feet of home manufactured glass, (the amoeat claimed by the protectionists ns our annual output), at. this price we and that it would havn been S.215,0. lint the price of the glass mean featured in this country ranged, according to protectionist authority, from to 99 cents a foot The average of these two figures would be TTKi hut putting the average still lower, say 75 eentc, the wholesale price of this glass was US,-, 7&0,000. In otlter words, we paid Sll,pfl.H.00 more for it in the home market than if we had bought it from the foreign manufacturers at the average price prevailing in 1490. The full sigaifieanee of these figure can lie seen by taking the ease of the Httsburgh Plate Glass Company. In their advertisement fat tlie latest number of The Manufacturer ami Builder they claim to have a "capacity of 900,000 square feet monthly." This would be 3.1M.O0 feet in a year, which, at 75 cents a foot, would bring 98,&i4,000. If the same quantity were bought at SS.2 cents per square foot tlie foreign price as above given, tlie total eost would have been $1,035,333, or a net tariff difference of S1,S14,708 for the American consumer to Karl j- last year there was a esse in Pittsburgh in which one of tlie men interested in this company testified that it cleared 34 & percent on its capital in, 1SS9. About the same time a representative of this company went to England to negotiate with an Kngiish syndicate, with a view to uniting the nine plate-glass factories of this country. The Kngiish had already gotten wind of the great tariff spoils our glass men were making, for it was announced at the same time that an English eotnpany had begun the erection of a factory at Irwin, a town near Pittsburgh, Pa. Tlie high protection given tlie plateglass men under the old law had become almost prohibitory even before McKinley began to turn his tariff mill. Tlie last Kngiish firm doing business ia New York close up its establish men: in that city several years ago, ami our importations of plain polished plateglass are now less than one million dol lars' worth a year. Yet MeKinlibr strengthened the practical monopoly enjoyed by our manufacturers by rais ing the duty on the smallest sixe of , lass from three cents per foot to five eents an advance which was not asked for by tlie manufacturers themselves, so far as the official published reports show. The duty on tlie largest sizes of plate glass is 50 cents a foot which is eqinal, according to the official figures used hy the Senate, to 141. 4X per eent ad valorem. Additional protection is now given the manufacturers by the new customs law, which allows nothing for broken glass. The McKinleyites did all they eould to smooth the way for trusts, and trusts are now springing into life with a rapidity which ought to he very gratifying to MoKmley, who believes that "eheap merchandise means ebeap : TO PUT IN YOUR HAT. Mew MeKlnley Increased the I Hi Ilea mm Weet Mete. Tlie McKinley duties on wool hats show a sharp increase upon the old rates. Tlie duties in both the old law ami In the present law are so-called comjiouml duties; that is, there cific duty of so much per pound and aa ad valorem duty in addition. Thus on hats rained at SO eents a pound or less the old duty was ten cents a pound and 85 per cent ad valorem the compound duty being equal to an ad valorem duty of OS per cent The corresponding McKinley duty k 16K eents per pound and SO per cent, the two duties here heinr equivalent to an ad valorem duty of ft per cent Hats of the next class are those valued at more than so and not more than 4 eents a pound- The old duty on this grade was equivalent to S per cent ami the McKinley duty 99. The next grade of hats ander the eht law was those valued at between 4 and 80 cents a pound. Tlie McKinley law makes this class stop at &0 eents and adds a class covering those between S ami 0 cents per pound. Thus under tlie old law hats in the class between 40 and &0 bore an equivalent ad valorem duty of 71 per cent, ami under the McKinley law the equivalent ml valorem k 101 per eent On hats worth between &0 ami 00 eents the equivalent in the eld law was 08 per cent; in tlie MoKkdey law it is 112 per cent j The next class in both laws extends from 00 to HQ cents a pound the ad valorem equivalent being 72 per cent. and the McKinley ad valorem 100 per cent Tlie last class in both laws covers hats valued at above 80 eents a pound. Tlie old tariff levied a daty here which was equal to 99 per cent; .and McKinley made only a slight advance in thk highest class of hats, his equivalent ad valorem being 71 per cent Having gotten above the range of the poorer class of buyers he saw no good reason for increasing tlie duty very much. 'I lie equivalent ml valorem duties here given are obtained by com bin ing the ikhiihI dtaty and the ad valorem rate ami calculating them upon the value of hats imported. Very few wool hats. wwever, were imported under the old law, the rates under it being almost prohibitory; but under tlie MeKinley law importation may be expected to cease entirely. Tlie American manufacturers had a practical monopoly before, ami MeKinley gives them a comSlete monojioly. Shall we not now ave a wool hat trust? The MeKinley law increases the already high protection given to our manufacturers of calico prints hut calicoes are not demanded in the same quantities thk year as last year, and at amount of preUetioa nHtias wiU avai

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