Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 33, Number 21, Jasper, Dubois County, 6 February 1891 — Page 3

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WEEKLY COURIER. C. DOAXK, Publiahar.

IKDIAHA, ..COMPANY H OOMINQi" Bowl your l warrx shrine ju lute we dViiOH, ibn bourn f nun aellar to Aitie iu OOWHMrt.lM. , Cram t e4 P the WhMU a WuHdH, Mlkkr them whirl, awl wklr awl wall, "Colaajr sends; Hal, u dust In every roes, Pet the stoma Hying, grold the chlldreu. rest the eat In the WMr lylug. Hap two reatleea by aaad Oit the window drumming, Every wloJow must tie Haas. Company Is swalng!' Leave no oajeet m the Immm lu condition normal, Make the very cradle hk ITlm, and ti, awl format. At the ovii worth your fa, Have the tove juat "feooadng." -Fix u" aowethliHf "goed to eat," Company JseowlnK!" Cram the engine, keep up stwsw, Keep the wheel a-humming. Scrub and scour, awl bake awl stew, Cowpauy in ooadag!" Later till a ''nervowH" pulse In your head Is arumming, Till you ache from head to feet, Company is waning:" When year icneeta arrive It will Make their pleasure double To perceive you put yourself Tu a world of trouble. Then, although you feel ytw've deae More than you were able, Fall not to apologize For your limine and table. This Is hospitality That the wheels be humming. Hist and comfort banished when "Company Is coming !" Martha G. Hperbeck, la Good Houaekeepteg, HIS FEMALE RELATIVES. How Jim Was Curod of Scattering Hi? Affections. ELL, that's all right," said the b r akeman, as he took a large chew from slab of black p 1 u g tobacco. "If a man wants to monkey with that kind of thing he can do it, but for me 1 ain't in It. See? Ever .since Jim Itittler got so balled ap through bavin' too many of 'em, I've considered that I was let oorw entirely, uein- as .urn was my side-partner, you might say. at the time, of courxj I had the whole story straight from him. You've heard it often enough, I reckon, so I don't need ter " The dispatcher and the agent said mat, they Knew .urn timer, uuv uiey had never heard the story. "ay, that's funny. I thought wrylxxly alwrnt the road knew it. The general superintendent heard it, and Jim wsi exacting every day for along time to have a dance on the carpet. You ourht to get Jim himself to tell it, and if lie ever gets transferred back to this division you jest ask him how all his female relatives' is gettin' along. He'll ketch right on and probably give you tin vhoV story. 'Well, if you know Jim. there isn't no UMirt my Miyin' muck, about him. He wa as popular and as well-liked as any of the boys that was brakin' on this etrision at that time. But you probably couldn't tell, no more V I can, why the girls was so struck on him, for he wt'n't particularly good-lookin', and he didn't put on any great amount of do either. Ilowever, he was a pretty gfnxl single-hand talker, and probably that was what counted. My, but he w -as a lightning-striker with the women! Why, sir, I have seen him cut right in and ji'ht naturally walk off with the conliding affections of some young creature before you or I or any other man would have managed to get introjoosd to her. And for the number of Vint Well, I hope to croak, if there wasn't one at every stop along the lino, i ,4 a - Villi A ll and in the big places, two or three and in the city, oh Lord! there they "BAW YOUR LEO OFF," BAYS TOM. as thick! Hie bovs was all onto It and they used to say that if we laid ap a siding right out m the desert, all the Indian squaws would be around asw for Jim Rlttler. Everybody p-"ieu to think that he waa a very lucky fellow, bat I always suspicion ed that It . . -. wungs wouiu gat uaueu up some it you keep putting on wore trains, you have to keep changin' the envdule, and the first you know the imng is too complicated to manage, and ;,hl-'u "'ere are wreoks. Now, that's wie way it waa with Jh. "Do you remeralntr mlwmt. fwn man) Ho, when Thlrte wu ditflW est

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Of course the newt wtnt nil down the lin., iiml ,.V4.rr HUtiou vow wHtld mm Mm; girl wringiit' her handii iw MKin aiMut Jim. Xaturally ny Uild thvm fat how it wa-tbat Jim waVt hurt hiu1i. Uut wm, kt.u. traekwl at the howdtal. And what do you think? -why, every one of theia UHMHuiii girls hIIowhI tltey would go right ihwn to the -eity for to iiush hlia. They waa unaulmoiwly of the ida that if they didn't poor Jim wouldn't have no win to take care of himfor, of course, there wtum't one of them that aunpieioneil the exUtiie of the other, ami Jim, he always made a point of ttfllin Vm all how he was an offun and alone in the world. "Hut we Matured 'cm all leastwise I did them that stoke to me that the Slaters of Hope, who was "running the hoiitttl then, would take good care of Jim, and they needn't worry. Still there wa some of 'em that wawi't satisfied, and they allowed they would go down anyway, jest to vUrft him. When I got in from the run that night, I went around to see Jim myself, and I told him to be on the look-out, or he'd get jacked up. Hut he was feelin' pretty perky ami said he reckoned it was all right that he had put up a kind of a schedule they could all run on, and there wa' n't no danger of any thing happening. "Tom llixby was sittin' by the bed at the time, aud when Jim spoke, he winks at Tom, and Tom he grins. You know Tom he tiM'd to be newsbutcher on Nineteen, and now he'd runnin' a store in the city. Well, he's lieen jammed up in a collision some time liefore, and was now alrout recoveredonly lame, so that he went slumpin' along like a Hat-wheeler. To give him something to do, the skstcrs had put him in charge of the door, to show visitors in and around. " 'I've told Tom about it,' says Jim to me, 'and if one of them cornea while another is here, he will keep her lisck by sayin' that they are flxin' to dissect me or something like that.' " 'Saw your leg off,' says Tom, grinnin' some more, " 'And we have, got it all put up alxmt the different degrees of relationship,' Jim goes on, -winkin' ag'in. Hut I didn't understand the signals, and I told him so. "The Histers of Hope has a rule,' aays he, 'that a man can't have no ladies vhdt him. unlet they are akin to him.' " 'Well,' says I, 'much as I know about this hospital, I never heard no such rule as that-' ' 'Tom told ine,' says Jim. "And Tom, ha hpoke up perfectly solemn ami said: 'That's right, what he says. I ought to know, being as I am door-keeper, and havo to turn the gals away every day.' " 'We've got a reg Jar list,' Jim says. of just how many will go of each kind of relation, because it wouldn't do for a man to have nineteen sisters, or twentythree cousins, or any thing like that, for fear the public would ketch on. See?' " 'The first lot will bo sisters,' saya Tom very quick; 'and then cornea cous ins, and sisters-in-law, and then aunt, and " 'That'll lw enough,' says Jim. " 'Hut if it ain't, Tom goea on, grin nin' like he had just stuck a jaw-hawk er vith an armful of priae trackages, 'there is plenty of other kinds of female relatives; wives and mothers course those ain't available more than onct and great-aunts, aud grandin&thers, ami mothers-in-law And daughters, says I, joinin' in, 'cause I thought it was just a kind of srame to keep Jim's spirit up; and Jim he laughed and was very chipper about it. "Then I come away. l?ut I heard aft erwards how the scheme turned out. "You see Tom wasputtin' the thing up on Jim. There wasn't no rule about lady visitors like what he said, but he had made it up jest to put Jim in the hole. "Pretty soon the girls begun to come first those that lived in the city, and afterwards those from the country and Tom would take 'em confidentially into the waiting-room and tell 'era how glad Jim would be, only they must pretend to Iks some relative of his, else the sisters wouldn't let 'em in. Of course they was all willin' enough and when thev came to where Jim was, he would introjooce tnem to any oi uie. oiiei- "i Hope that was about, as nis cousins or sisters or what relation was down for that number on the list. 1 have an idea that them Sisters of Hope ninsthavc lwen thinkin' that Jim's ancestry run a long way Imck. for him to scare up such a nailln' line lot of female relatives on such short notice. "Well, as I vas snyin, the scheme that Tom put up was this: As each girl came uown, alter seem .nm, ne stop 'cm, and, talyn' 'em to one side. would toll how . I im liau saui a iov u tiiee tinmrs auoui tnem. aim . A. 1 ..1 .1 ,.-r. .1 Ullll lial iMien Hoping uiey wouiu wmv, 1 V . . i .i. i .1 - lnoii lie wouiu a&K ii im-j tbie that there was a new rule, and visiting relatives could only come on certain .1...... ,..,.1 ut .w.ftnln linitrs. One WHV allairrecd to como back to see .nm v exactly the same time on the same day "And Jim, of course, he was never auspiciontng nothing no more'n a man comin' round a curve in a cut with a wild train bearin' down on him. "Well, come the day that Tom had set, the girls began to arrive some of 'em ahead of the schedule. The butcher takes 'em into the waitin-room, grinnin like only a butcher can grin, and tells 'cm that Jim will be ready to see em in a minute. When he thinks they are all in-some dozen or fifteen there was altogether Tom calls out: '.Step this way, ladles, please!' and leads 'em off all in a line upstairs. "Now it jest so happened that there was quite a crowd aromid Ji's he1' There was a couple of the Sisters of Hope and the assistant surgeon of the line, Doc What's-his-Namc'.' i iotx

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pectedto call ngain-for Jim would be j annum irom smau-pu.w nu.e v very lonesome. Of course they all al- loses fourteen thousand, to be accounted i..r.i 4... ,. i,i T.,..r, nhl them 1 fur Itvtlie right way m which vaccination

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gt about ami Jim H wu givia' 'am auutti of his remarkable expertaiKieti oa ih roai for h wmld ll again nay man I tvr knew - ami the audience waa getim' properly excited - wke a all of a MHtdt'M Tout )oom up, pwlliti' that train of girls ah wig behind him, " 'Here's your female relative, Jim,' aa ealltt out "Say, bat it must have ba a sight! There waa Jim, with no ehanea to jump for his life. There waa the Sisters of Hop ami the other around tha bed, who had already been quit uneasy about the surpriwn' numlter of Jim's female relative, and now waa paralyaed to see 'em all at onct. Am! there waa the girls themselves O Lord! Fuat they looks at Tarn to see what ae means; then they stare at ona another, beginnin' to take it in, and then they all unanimously glares at poor Jim, who was lyin' still in the bed utterly flabbergasted. "And the silence was so thlek and hard that you couldn't have got through it with a rotary. "At last one of the Sisters of Hop spoke up ami says: 'Why, it's, quite a family reunion yous do be bavin' today, Mr. Itittler.' " 'Yes,' says Jim, very faint, like a

kid that expect to git belted. " ' hat!' says the doctor, 'are all these here ladies relatives of yourn?' and he begun a-squintin' down the line. "lIF.KB'8 YOUR FKMAI.R KKI.ATIVBS, JIM Some was short and some tall, some fat and some lean, ami one was red-headed. 'Really,' he says, 'it is a very remark able family likeness, Are thev all sis ters'' " 'Four sisters, answers Tom liixby confeulttn a piece, of paper which he held up to look at 'plainer: nve cousins, three sisters-in-law, two aunts and a mother, mother-in-law, and great aunt, if needed.' , - "Hv this time Jim was beginnin' to get his wind again, and he puts his hand out towards the nearest girl, and says: 'Howdy do, Sister Emma? I am glad to see you.' And to the next one 'How are you, Cousin Mary 'and was gom on down the line, thinkin Denial that he coukl make each one of 'em Iwlieve that all the others was real relatives. Hut it wouldn't work before he had gone any distance, one of his 'sisters' points to another 'sister' right alongside of her, and says, in loud voice: 'Jim Rittler, who ie this person? I insist upon knowinV The other answers back, ami they all begins to talk at onct. Some of 'em turns on Jim, and I tll you they give it to him raw; but most of 'em keeps right on jawin' at one another. At last the doctor and the sisters had to interfere. They rounded "em up and led 'era away down-stairs. Even when they came out in the street, there was two that very nearly had a fight, and they kept a-goln on, as long as any of 'cm was together. "The moment the girls was out of the way, Jim he began to look for Torn Hixby,but the news-butcher had jest naturally slid off, aud lefore Jim waa able to get about, he had left the hospital for good. "After that Jim was hardly ever at rest for the joshin' he got about his female relatives. The very next time I went up to see him, two of the doctors that was passin' along stopped to ask why his mother had never thought to introduce his sisters to one another when they was little, and how it happened that his great-aunt was such a bloomin' young woman and every thing like that. It's my idea that the scrape kinder had a good effect on Jim, leastwise to the extent that he is now i trvin' to centralize his affections on one : . . .... ... ... ii girl, instead ot uissemmaiin- tnem au along the line. And I shouldn't be surprised if Iwfore long that one girl and Jim was to " "There's Seventeen' whistle!" cried j tjt0 afreI,t; fche is on time for once, 4 and thev all sprang up and went out oa ' .. . . x 1 !.. t? tlie piationn. uugu ayiur, u ou Francisco Argonaut. AlxiHt Vaccination. Disbelievers in vaccination for smallpox should consider the .statements just made to the French Academy of Medicine bv Dr. Houardel. While liermany loses , ----- 1 Imnrlrnil ami til TMrsOnS tKr , wii " . is enforced in Germany, and by the care lessness of the Frenchmen. In 1mm, .litn t'iilnitlan was not obliiratoo in After vaccina' Fiv,w." -" tion was enforced the mortality fell in 1S74 to :i.iK) per 100,000, and in 18S to 0.041). At the present time the mortality from this cause in France is fortythree per 100,000 IMHKhterft' Iowrrle. With regard to the question: "Ought our daughtera to be dowered?" the an is easy, declare tlie Pittsburgh swer titctviteh. Thev should be uowereu with cheerful disposition, cultivation of the affections, and a training whlali enHblfw them to do their work in life bravely and well. Daughters so dowered will be worth more to themselves and thf.se related to them than any amount of money in bank or bonded securities. If we have brave, bright and useful women, the question whctlier they have any monejr or aot sinks iato utter LBftlgailaaaee.

FASHION LETTER.

WeIUn fr KwritHC sHt Kmwtwwr We MyHofc t'ttwk ItrwMii, KM". (iHtetial Xew York OernmpoMtettee. Notwithstanding the wondrowa ar ray of faney wool fabrkw, novelties in curled quadrille, wdintered, checked. plakitMl, striiNMl ami shot fabric, importent maiatain that their largest spring bales will be made among the finer woolens, the Henrtett, Yigognm, Imlia ami Freneh cashmeres, ami krht, smooth-faeel clothv A favorite combination will 1ms very fine ladies' cloth ami dntp de mm, the cloth for the round skirt, ami the silk for the Ixxliee ami skirt-brewlthii attached to it at the laek. Ribbons are used oa many cos tumes wltere tltasa breadths meet. In stead of revers or panels; the ribbons. starting from the beh, are carried down the skirt terminating at unequal engths in 1mws without ends, in the shape of cocards or rosettes. The spring e 1 o a k dresses will fit the figure even more snugly than tliose of tlie winter, being fitted ami worn very frequently over a plain silk dress bodice, m a d e with but little trimming a n d fitted like a glove. These tailor-made dresses are extremely elegant i n appearance and are preferably made in the fawn, tan, sil ver aud biscuit shades. H r aid i n g in deep points, silk cord appliques in very deep Vandyke designs, and gout coruings with eolored cord beside the cold, of a deeper shade than the cloak fabrics, ire favored trimmings. Pretty little gowns for quiet dinners are made of silk-warn Henrietta ciotn in dainty eolors of turquois blue, al raond, roe, tan, nun's gray and straw berry, trimmed with mttiftt cMJfi Flowing sleeves, frills, rose meltings ami aeeordion rtlaits are made of the M0vttUn, which matches the Henri etta cloth in color, or else forms an effective contrast. Spanish jackets, real or simulated, by an outline of gal loon or embroidery, are as iKpular a ever. Velvet is tlie preferred fabric for all the small fancy jackets and the ater coats, but there are also very dressy and becoming creations in lace nml .Tfajii cloth, and there art? close cuirass bodiees draped with laee tore sent bio either Spanish or Russian jack ets. The sleeves of the corsage snow a mixture of lace with the waist material; ami rain fringes are also used with similar effect on close Ikkuccs. will t a ami irotv. cream ami ruet hmwB. and aorieot and blue and ail Ter-eolored Venetian, eloths will be much asei together for new walking-dresses, for example: with the Wice and part of the skirt of gray or ilgnt "tiger" cloth, what represents the underskirt will be of white cloth with araba esque oraanng of the color. The vest, with its decorations, will match this skirt, and the sleeves, with very long close lower parts, and nautton-leg up pers, will show a combination of the two fabrics, the braiding nearly cover ing the tight portion of the sleeve. Velvet sleeves on silk or wool gowns are till very fashionable. Some of the tailor gowns for the taring are in rather pronounced colors, deep cnetian red, brilliant Iloman blue and green made up with Spanish yellow ladles cloth being among the models. The yellow portions in the last-men tioned gpwns are overlaid with green and gold passe in enteric lmnds. Dahlia' colored costumes have sleeves of black passemen terie over dahlia silk foundations, with passemcti' terie rovers and Medici collar. Vienna cloth Connctnaras are stiU popular wraps, for these cloaks have received many changes and are great improvements upon the original garments. Some have spreading Hungarian hoods that cover the shoulders, the hoods lined with velvet and the collar above and fronts decorated with richest galloon trimmings. Irish poplin will be restored to favor ami plain French skirts of this fabric will be worn with Louis Quinze coat of striped and matelasse satins or with William Tell redtngotea, with coat-tall Imcks that reach to the skirt-hem. Dove-gray costumes in this style are very recherche, with accessories in the shape of shoes, bonnet, gloves, chsAe laine Img and card case made of softest, finest undressed gray kid. lteau lli'iimmel coats of rich velvet, striped with pale-toned satin, brocaded with small flower clusters, are worn above skirt of victoria silk, very heavily repped faille silk or sheath klrts of OreeL-draned crcttt 4t cMa

MILLIONS AND BILLIONS.

niwaat . Waaarmaa WssasiM Ttw Cw . .Ir.TJ h Wiirhwra ami MUlUma fur llw-IH-reet Tuu W1M C'ret ta W4IH.ini.lr. Are we to have a blllleaaira? W a4ready have by far the richest men the world. We have one man worth 150,- j 000,00 ami a ehareh oorporatiou worth; the same amount. We have five persona worth each 1100,000,000 or mora. We have nine persons and eatatea worth each SM.MO.OQO or more, and six worth 40,000,000 or more. Why should we not have also a billionaire? Shall we not have one? Such are the queatkms which Thorn li. Shea rm an dlseusfees in the Forum mag azine for January, ami his anawer tliat the billionaire ia certain to eotne If Hur present system of indirect taxation eontinues In force long enough. A mil lionaire now worth f-UW,008,00 has hut to sit still and invest his interest judiciously, ami In leas than forty years we will have a new wonder of the worm billionaire. Mr. Shearman showed in the same magazine for November, 1, that the total wealth of the country averaged alKHit f 1,000 per head of the population. On this basis lie shows In the current number of tlie Forum that the present distribution of wealth in the United States is as follows: Kiel) MMST.M&.Wo Middle 7 ., Working llBWa l!,eajeoo The wealth proilueed in 1800 is esti mated, according to the census returns of 1S60, at altout $13,000,000. About four per cent, of this must be allowed for repairs and replacement; ami after this deduction is made the net product oj wealth for 1840 was distributed approxi mately as follows: iMa fg.,wi tJmjtmjm n,,wrt tm .imjmfiH Leaving taxation out of tlie account. the ISO. 000 rich families can save about two-thirds of their income, while the rest of the families ean not save more than about one-fifth of theirs. Hut our taxes are mainly levied, not upon prop erty owned, but upon money spenL About seven-eighths of our taxes are indirect. Even kcal taxation upon banks, mortgages, merchandise ami houses, which is usually reckoned as direct taxation, is in reality indirect. since these taxes are shifted back upon the final real tax-payer the workerand consumer. I he tariff tax is of course the most familiar form of indirect taxa tion, but it ia not tlie only indirect tc Mr. Shearman estimates that all th. inuirecv isxaiiou hihmi spewee vcrages about 15 per cent. This would make the tax bunlen borne by tlie S0 rich families, which spend only onethird of their income, 5,000,00 for 1&00; and that of the other families. which spend four-fifths of theirs, S6,000,000. Mr. Shearman estimates that about one-third of tlie whole amount pakl in taxes by rich and poor goes not to the Government but to a small seetion of tlie richest class. In thkt way about 400,000,000 is restored to this class for the 9i05,S00,frM which it pays in taxes. The annual savings of the two great elaeses woakl therefore he aa follows: AXXUAI. SAVIXOHt OF TMK MO. Natural tmriit Jyfe,S,ega Deduct taxes, t ymjmjm Add proMte frow. tax cyateHi........ tee w,0S1 171,090,080 Total ...$0.l7avWaWW0 ANNUAL SAVIXOS OF OTMKR CI.ASRS. Natural Mvlnae U,,iM9 Induct taxes, ete. frojmj&t Ni t savin i Mjmjm The gain here of the wealthy class over other classes is enough to equal in thirty years, if jdaced at S per cenL compound interest, the present total wealth of the country. Such are the results of indirect taxa tion. How would the two claasea stand If a system of direct taxation were introduced? Mr. Shearman thinks that under such a system a tax of one anil one-fifth per cent, on all property at its full value would be sufficient. Tlie burden borne by each class would there fore be as follows: m.ct rich would iwy. Hmjmjm 12,K),00O other would pav , J5O,06 From these figures Mr. Shearman eoneludes that a system of direct taxation would result in au annual saving to the middle and working1 classes of $730,000,000 for all time; and this is only a part of tlie salient benefit from tlie direct system. The workings of tlie two systems may be illustrated by taking the ease of a man worth $10,000,000. Under the present system he would not pay more than $15,000 a year, while at tlie same time living in princely style. Hut if he is one of the protected classes, if he owns mines or factories, the tariff taxes and other indirect taxes will often bring him as much as $100,000 a year from tlie pockets of other people. Now how would this pampered millionare fare under a system of direct taxes? He would pay $190,000 a year, and would levy no tribute upon poorer peo ple. If the present system, therefore, is to continue, the coming of the billionaire is a certainty; ami with him will come, on the other hand, a million paupers. The question is, will the present system continue? Mr. Sherman isconfident that it will not The Republicans have made the permanent expenses of the Government so great that a deficit of $M), 000, 000 ia a thine of the near future. Moreover, no system of tariff taxation can lie devised which will yield sufii cient revenue without re -imposing the tax on sugar. Itut no political party will hazard such a step after the people have learned the blessings of cheap sugar. Sugar waa put upon the free list by tlie Republicans in order to save the tariff; but free sugar is going to work in precisely the opposite direction. The people will learn through it, sever before, that the tariff is a tax, and they will thus be led to demand the aliolition of other duties. ; The late elections have already doomed toe tax on raw wool, and toe growers have threatened that the tax on woolen etoth will have to share the same fata. Ulaiae pat forward reelprodur aa a

I fwoelty, too, ia gota to work m Ok (contrary dlraetloa ami. The paapU

WUJ pgndHy -e that att aahurgeti tea wrtk ail the world I a good thk j iamwrj "7" ' b enlarged in Soatli A mertca. Thas there arc many aiatM at early downfall of pcectk. Meaty fore are at work to imdermme ae system, and as the reign of the extortioner passes away h condition will vanish which toad to make the UUl tonsil-. The abolition of tarifC taxation, aad other form of Indirect taxes, wttl prevent the ulng of the billionaire. ANOTHER TARIFF TRUST. Tm Kmh MawniartMrera KtleMlii Tk4l True In nrrfwr t Kaf TN-THrtMHM nM-aKlMlejriiMN Um Hreeer Trwrf. The Koston Commercial liulletht, a high tariff organ, priats the following piece of news: A lric MauiiMT K KM) MaNiiKKrr m rhlladelpSIa, I'm., kirn orgaMlaed braaea t the Xntloiiul SoapManafaeturac' AMoeilloa. M. M. Kaveaa we elet4 lr4iint, IVlur Iley vice-preeldeat, aad WilliaM Hamlltoa eeretr aad treaearer. The territory eTerel by the new branch we Mxea I'enneyivanta. eaec oc we jauecneMtea, New Jwey. west of the New irk Aitton'a d(trfet, and tlie States of Delaware and Mary land. lha aasociation here referred to what is known as the soap truaL The soap makers are but another of the vast number of industries whieh are making ha,te to form trust in order to "get rid of competition" and enter into the full enjoyment of the spoils which the tariff makes poaetbla, Ihe McKinley duty on eaatile soap is IK cents per pound, on fancy aad toilet soaps 15 cents per pound, and on all other kinds it ia 0 per cent, ad valorem. Some prominent Republicans teaeh tlie doctrine that in eases where combinations are formed for checking competition or for raising prices the protecting duty should be revised in order to invite competition from abroad. This is the doctrine heard only from the stump; it never appears in practical form on the floors of Congress. The Republican leaders wilfully shut their eyes to the fact that ia every department of industry trusts are springing up, ami that this jiernicious tendency toward consolidation has never bee a more active than during the paat six months. Trusts were sprouting up rapidly even while the McKinley bill was still under discussion; but since the passage of this bill, with all ita joba ami deals the trust-making' industry has leaped forward with unexampled vigor. Trust come so rapidly that it is scarcely possible to keep a record of them. Some Republican journals are fearful lest these trusts will "undermine the who protective system." Hat these journals are clearly not in harmoay with the spirit and purposes of the MeKluleyites. The purpote of the MeKialey law waa to raise prices and thas give the manufacturers higher profits. If this was not the purpose ot the law, then there should have been no object in passing it; and RepaeliaaB leaders, like McKinley himself, ware doing' a very iaconaisteat aad aeedieM thing when they we up aad down the eoantry ia the recent vaaapaiara making speeches against eheajmeas, MaKhv ley himself said ia Ms speeofc on Ma kU last May ia the Hoaae of tirea: "We want so return to timea ia oar own country," and he argued that "where nierenandiae is cheapest men are poorest. It being thus a sound KemilMkaH tottrine that cheapness is bad amldeaniess Is to be preferred, how can Repub-lieea newspapers ami statesmen eooib4ently lift up their voices against tmats? Major McKinley says that a cheap country "is not the kind our lathers builded. Furthermore, it s not the kind their sons mean to maintain." Now trusta are the most potent agencies imaginable for realising the ideal here set forth by McKinley; and if that ideal of a dear country be accepted by the Republicans it is folly for them to denouaee trusts. 1 ne presi dent of the sugar trust takaa this view. He says: "The great cry of one of the great parties is for protection; that is, they cry for it loudly during campaigns. But when we proceed to give ourselves some protection a howl is raised. They demand protection for the industries. When an industry protect itself It to sakl that it is illegal." The sugar trust waa making 90 per cent, on watored capital when this was said: but what good Republicans can objeet to that? The trust at any rate was a bleasinfr to the country In giving us sugar whiea was neither "cheap" nor "nasty." "Blwlm -yf rrotaetlen." When protectionists seek to convince people that protection is a good thing they usually try to show ow it haa lowered the price of goods. Hat now that the Republicans have discovered that "clteap and nasty go together," that cheapness is a "curse," that it ia the fetich of the British free trader and that a cheap coat makes n cheap man, the organs ot protection are adopting a new way to show the beauties of protection. The high tariff llilladelphia Press prints a news article under the caption "Blessings of iTotectkm," in which tlie following sentences occur: A. Ftanatcan A Brother are Mtfcrited taat tHtfllne If look I hk Hp. Poatde-reeled yams, a little liner Krade than Kray yarns, have advancl over M per cent., and the dealer w now beglnnla; to run after the arerJames Leeea, of the Ashland Mllle, nua faeturers of woolen end warHed. seat Kentucky Jeans and aheddyjeaaa were-fl4sg up, and all the higher elate wool geode are advancing. Carter k Lord, maaafaetarer ot MaaVete and yarn. hM the balnee proeaeeta were good. Conadeaee f restefed aad the prleea of nil kind of etoek are rating Higher. Yet this paper sakl some time after the election, "there is no more talk of rising prices on account of the MeKialey act or any thing eke." Whit H Ceeta. A Missouri farmer figures it out thai whan corn is SO eents a bushel, it eoMa SK cents of corn value to make a threeeent pound of hog for which under Republicanism there is no market bat "the Home Market" So it is in fiaa sarcasm of the "Home Market" ad vies, "feed your spare earn to fsttoa year pork" that he says: "Fifty-seat eons aad three-cant hogs is awd to Letter."

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