Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 36, Number 50, Jasper, Dubois County, 24 August 1894 — Page 3

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C DOANK, Publlwher. GASPED. INDIAN ' IIIHTV roars ago there was a grand brick house, standi ii 'i tlie in ids t of H sweet old garantust sites of the famous Richmond hill. It had once been the residence of a noble family, hut it was at that time only a celebrated school for young ladies. The house itself was a plain, substantial hriclc one, and there were plenty in the vicinity that in uvery point excelled it; but nowhere was there u garden of greater loveliness than its high brick walls shut in. This was especially so in the mornings and evcningK, when the alleys and tint hazel walks ami the woodbine arbors were full of groups of beautiful young Knglish girls girls with Howing brown hair and eyes as blue and clear as heaven, anil faces innocent and fresh as if each face had been made out of a rose. Hut even where all are beautiful, some one will be found loveliest of all, and Laura Falconer was the acknowledged belle of .the upper class. She was nineteen years of age. hut she still lingered at Mine. .Mere's school, partly because it had been her only home for live years and partly because her guardian considered it to be tin: best place for her until she was twenty-one, when 'she would receive her fortune and become her own mistress. ,s'o Laura remained at madame's, studying a little, but btlll having a much larger amount of liberty than th.it L'rnnted to the other pupils. This liberty permitted her to shop with proper escort and also to pay frequent visits to acquaintances resulent in Richmond and Loudon. On one of these excursions she had met Kniest Trelawny. and it is of this gentleman she is so confidentially talKing to her chief friend, as they walk in the Ion eilest part of the garden together. "I am so glad. Clara, that we met him this afternoon; 1 wanted you so much to see Kniest. Is he not handhome?" "1 never saw such eyes. Laura! And figure! And his stylish dress! Oh, I think he is so grand and so well, so mysterious-looking, as if he were n poet or something." "And then his conversation, Clara! He talks as I never heard any one else talk so romantie, dear!" "Oh, I think you must be a very huppy girl, Laura! I often wish I had some one to love me as Earnest loves you." Laura sighed and looked up sentimentally. "You have a father and mother, Clara. I am quite alone. Ernest says that is one reason he at lirst felt as if he must love me." "What would Mine. Mere say?"' "Madame must not know for the world, Clara. She would write to my guardian. Oh, Clara, I am going to tell you a great secret! Ernest and I have determined to run away to Gretna Green and get married." "Oli-h-h-h! Laura, how dare you? Madame will be sure to lind it out. Hie never looks as if she knew things, hut she always does. When are you going?" "To-night. Ernest will be waiting with a carriage at the end of the garden wall. I have bribed cook to leave the kitchen door unlocked, and I shall go through her room and down the back stairs." Thus, until the nine o'clock bell rang, the two girls talked over and over the I II AVK HAP A OttKAM, PKAU OIIIL. same subjcctaml never found it wonrifcome, and when they bade each other a good night in the long corridor it was a very meaning one. They wero both greatly impressed with the romance of the situation, nod timid little Clara envied, and admired her friend, und could not sleep for listening for the roll of a carriage and the parting signal which Laura had agreed to make on her friend's door as she passed it. Then Laura made her few preparations and sat down in the moonlight to wait for the hour. She thought of all her favorite heroines who hud enacted a similar part, and tried to feel s they were asserted to have felt. "Ilnlf-pastelevenl" Shu rose and laid her bonnet and mantle ready, but, in spite of her romantic situation, she was really chilled and unhappy and conscious oi a most unnatural depression of spirits. lust then the door opened softly, and Madame Mere, with a candle lu

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er hand, entered thu room. She was a very small, slight woman, with a grave, lovable face and a pair of wonderful eyes. In their culm, clear light lay the secret of her power over the lifty girls whom hhu ruled absolutely with a g!ance or a smile. She came gliding in more like a spirit than a woman, and putting the light down, said: "Laura, I have had h dream, dcur girl-a dreadful dream and I am afraid. Let me stay here with you." .So she sat down and began in a low, trembling voice to tell of Laura's dead mother; of her pure lofty womanhood, and of her love ol her child. Laura scarcely heard her; the time was going faster, it was close upon midnight, she must make an effort at once. So, during a moment's pause, she said: "Will madame try to sleep now?" "Yes, 1 will put out the liglit, end we will both try." "First, will madame permit me to go to Clara's room? 1 have left my things there. 1 shall not disturb anyone." In a moment madame's attitude changed; her eyes scintillated with light: all the caressing tenderness and sorrow of her voice and manner were gone. She was like an accusing spirit. "Down on your knees, false girl, whom no memory of mother's love could soften! Down on your knees, and let your prayers strengthen the hands of those good angels who are lighting your evil genius this very moment! Pray as those should pray whose purity and honor, whose very life and salvation hung upon a villain's word!" And, drawing the girl down beside her, she watched out with her

those dangerous midnight hours. At - o'clock Laura was left to weep out alone her shame and her disappointment. Madame had kissed and forgiven and comforted her with .such comfort as was possible; hut youth takes hardly the breaking of its idols, and it was bitter and humiliating to hear that this handsome Ernest was better known to the police courts than to the noble houses he talked about, and yet that she had chosen his society and had been willing to become his wife. Madame had notspared her; she had spoken plainly of a gambler's wife and of a thief's home of shames and horrors Laura trembled to recall adding: "I had willingly kept you ignorant of such things, for the knowledge of them takes the lirst bloom of purity from a good girl's heart; but, alas, Laura, if you will go forbidden roads, you must at least be warned of the sin and the sorrows that haunt them." Laura was ill many days afterward. Madame had indeed forgiven her, but it was hard to forgive herself, and for a long time even a passing memory of her first lover brought a tingling blush of shame to her cheeks and a sickening sense of disgrace and fright to tier heart. It was ten years after this event, and Laura, with her two daughters, was driving slowly across Cannock chase. The pretty children sat on cither side of her, aud she drove the ponies slowly, often stopping to let the little girls alight and pull a bluebell or a handful of buttercups. During one of these stoppages, as she sat, with n smile on her handsome face, watching the happy little ones, some one, coming from behind, touched her rudely on the arm. She turned and snw a man in grimmy leather clothing, with an evil, cruel face, at her side. Supposing him to he one of the men employed in her husband's iron works, who had been discharged or who wanted help, she said: "Well, what is it, sir?" The man answered curtly: "Laura!" Then Laura looked steudily into the dirty imbrutcd face. And in spite of soot and scars and bruises, she knew it. "Mr. Trelawny, why do " "ISosh! My name is 1H11 Yates. You fooled nie once, my- lady, but you will pay me for it now. I've been lagged since then scut across for seven years only got hack six months since. Glad I have found yon, for I won't work any more now.. Come, I want fiver to start with." "A fiver''"' "Yes; a live-pound note." "I shall not give you a penny." "Then 1 shall. take one of them little girls the youngest is the prettiest" "For God's sake, don't go near my children! I will give you the money." "1 prefer the money, it will save me the trouble of selling the child to the mere gypsies." Laura hastily counted out the sum; there was seven shillings more in her purse, ami toe villain sum: "I'll take the change, too. Minll I lift the children into the phaeton?" "Don't touch them! Don't look at them! Oh, go away! Go away!" "Go away, indeed! You were glad enough once to come to me. I have your letters yet. It would he a sweet "thing to show them to your husband." "You had better murder mc." "I have half a mind to; but it suits me better to keep you for my banker. He-here next week with five pounds saven shillings, and every week after, until further notice, or else J will steal your child and send them letters to your line husband." Then, with a threatening scowl and the shake of a clenched list in her face, he went away, taking with him nil tho joy and peace out of poor Laura's life. She now lived in constant terror, and such a dreadful change came so rapidly over the once happy, handsome woman that her husband was exceedingly nn.viou., both for her health and her reason, What did she do with the unusually large sums of money she asked him for? Why did she go out riding alone? Why would she not suffer her children to leave their own grounds? Why could she not sleep at night? Why was her once even, sunny temper become so Irritable? Why did she search his face so eagerly every night? These andtwe.ntj other anxious, suspicious questions passed through his mind continually, but he hoped that by ignoring tho change it would disappear.

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and one day, after ti miserable months, he was sent, 'or from thu works in huste. Laura was raving and shrieking In the wildest paroxysm ol brain ft vor. "Where are the children? Savo them from that man! Henry, plcusu take him five pounds no, he wants ten pounds now, and 1 can't get it!" In such piteous, moaning ejaculations she revealed the .secret terror that was killing her. Hut perfect love easts out fear and jealousy, and Laura's husband did her no injustice. Tenderly lie nursed thu poor, shattered wife and mother back to life again, though it was an almost hopeless task with that nameless horror ever beside her. One night, when she was a little stronger, he led her on to talk of the past, und ho was so loving aud so pitiful that In a floodof lifegiving tears she poured out to him the whole miserable story. Then thu burden fell from her life, and she dropped happily into the first sweet, healthy sleep she had had for nearly u year. .She never asked again for her tormentor; she only knew that he ha) disappeared from South Staffordshire, and joy and peace came back to her heart and home. Hut one day, after the lapse of four years, she received a dirty, anonymous letter full of threats and insolent demands for money. This time she went at onee to her husband with the trouble. "Don't be frightened, Laura," lu answered. "I know the fellow. He is one of a gang of four who have just come to Sackett village. He will be in jail before to-morrow night. This time he shall not escape my vengeance." He had scarcely when a couple of finished speaking men ran up to the bouse, erymg: "Measter! Measter! Here be mitt's height slewered away Winand there's a 'crowning in!'" The iron master leaped to his feet and was soon following the evil messengers to the village. He knew that Sackett was all undermined with pits and workings, and it was possible the whole village was in danger. The disaster was right in the center of it. anil he was not long in reaching the grca' Till! JIASTI'.i: I.OOKK ÜI.ANKLY. yawning chasm, where the earth had given a way and down which two cot tages, with their inhabitants had gone. As soon as the master a pnesired the pitnu-n and ironmen gathered round him, though all knew that succor of help was perfectly hopeless. "Where is Uuin'by?" "Here 1 be, measter." "What mine was under this?" "Dimmitt's, measter, worked oui." "Is it deep?" "Six hundred feet." "Dry or wet?" "Deep water." The master looked blankly at the black abyss. "It's the third 'crowning iu,' i' my time. T'last were in to Cavill's mine. Six decent families went down at midnight; they were dashed to bits on t' rocks at bottom. "Do you know who lived in these two cottages?" "One were empty, thank God. Four strange lads that worked i' Saekett's mine, had t'other; they nobbut worked there a week, they wor glad U ('et shut on them at end of it." "Do 3 on know their names?'' "I know, measter," said Michael Haine, the iblicar.. "for they owe me for a week's beer and 'bacon the score is set. iig'n' John Todd, Tim Illach and Hill Yntto." "'Hill Yates?' Are you sure :' 'Sure to certain of that name, measter. for be said he wor come special to get upddes wi' you." Then the ironmaster turned thought fully home, and a he kissed his wife said: "Hill Yates is deal, Laura. My vengeance has been taken from mc by lliiu to whom vengeance belongeth. You may rest snfely now, darling." "Hut. oh, Henry, what a destiny might have been mine!" "Don't say 'destiny,' Luurn. thu choices are our destiny. .Nothing u ours that our choice have not made ours." 'This is a true story, and I tell it tc . , m .-.111. manv thousands oi young gin wuu just as much earnestness as Laura told it to her daughters, to snow mem tnai clandestine love affairs are always highly dangerous; for a p.ission that is cradled in deceit is pretty sure tfi end in sin or shame orsorrow. Amelia K. Harr, In X. Y. Ledger. Kind Hearted Maiden (fishing foi a stray penny in her purse) "1 r,upnose, vou poor blind people feel your misfortune licenly." lllind Mendicant "Yes. Indeed. The Lord only knows how 1 miss the pleasure of being able to look into the beautiful facts of the handsome and lovely ladies who are kind enough-todonnte." Kind Hearted Maiden (fish ing out, a quarter) "Here, poor fellow, take this. I'm sure you are deserving." Arkitnsuw Thomas Cat Lulu H. George, a wall paper designer In New York, drew a Chinese pattern which proved so, popular that 1)00,000 rolls of the paper have been old.

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FIGHT. Mr. Wllaon'a Clnelng Word In Tariff (Mrwiricli-. Upon the aeeopUnco of the senate tariff bill by tho house on Monday. August 13, Mr. William L. Wilson, chairman of the ways and means com mittee, spoke briefly upon tho pussaga of the hill as follows: "Mr. Speaker. I have made tho motion which I have bent to the olerk'n (lenk, not on my own responsibility or from my own volition, but as the official oa-an of the caucus of my soctoteson this side of tho bouse and by their di rection. I shall ay very little myself on thin occasion In advocacy of the motion, und I shull be sincere and frank lu what I shall auumlt tu this houe. I do not pretcud ttiut 1 urn gratified ut tho outcome of this prolonged controversy. I don't pretend that up to the very last moment I had not cherished the hopo und the fullh thut we should reach unothcr and a better und a more satisfactory conclusion oi thin conflict between tho two houses of tho Americnn eonrcss. I had hoped und believed until there seemed to be no ground ncarcly for hopo und belief thut In auch n content ihU houbO. backed by the American peo ple and enthusiastically sustained by tho democratic party, would be ublo to achieve some honorable compromise between ttio two houses which we could have accepted nor from u sense of duty, but Ith a eine of satisfac tion und n feeling that wo hud responded to the mandates of the American people. Hut, Mr. Speaker, wc huvo simply realized In this great fight the fact so well stated by the great leader of the turlff reform light, in Great Ilrltaln that when tho teoplo Uuvo gained a victory ut the poll they must have a further stund-up and knock-down right with their own representative. And wo have reullzod, If nothing else, the salutary lesson of tha Intreuchment of tho protective hystom in this country under thirty years of clastt legislation until the mere matter of tariff schedules la a mutter of lnslgnlfloance, and the great Ques tion presents Itself, is this to be a government by u self-taxing people or a government by trusts and monopolies! Applause on the dem ocratic slde.1 It we have taken out of this ilKht no other lesson than that It has been to ua u great, un Inspiring and valuable lesson. If wc have not been able to get all that the inundates of the people told us to get, all thut the high enthusiasm of the people expected us to Ket, we have brought this dangerous fact face to face with American freemen, and wo have made some breach in the protective system through which the hosta ot American freemen will continue to march. (Applause on tho democratic side. ' My attention has necessarily been ao conconunntly und ho steudily directed to their demerits thut It would require tome experience to learn what the merits are. (Luughter and applause. 1 Hut whatever the measure of shortcoming of this bill in Its present torm-wbat-ever bo its demerits in mere schedules-thls I do know, that It is better than the McKinley bill. (Luud applause on the democratic slde.l This I do know, thut In a part of It It does af ford some relief to the taxpayer of this coun try und docH clip tho wing of the gigantic moiiopollc that are now oppressing them and bloeltitig legislation. "Take even thoso portions of tlftj bill over which this contest between tho two houses bus been waged; tuke Iron ore and coal upon which we huve confronted, und to n certain extent unsuccessfully confronted, the great railroad syndicates of the country; yet wo have reduced them both nonrly 50 per cent, below the McKinley bill. Applause. J Tuke the sugar schedule, over which tho greatest of all tho contests between tho two houses has been wnted Vicious as it may be, burdensome to the peclo as it may be, favorable to the trust us it may, it is less vicious, loss favorablu to the trust, less burdensome to the peoplo than is the McKinley law, under whloh this trust has grown so great as to overshadow with It power the American peoplo. Applause. "If for no other reason, then, those who believe that when they cannot take the full atep which they desire, when they cannot do that which the people commissioned them to do, they must take the best they can and step as fur as they can, may find some Justlflcmtlon for an unhesitating choice between the two bills." Mr. Hudson (pop.) of Kansas-I should like to usk the gentleman whether he Uas Investigated fully o us to be able to stuto definitely that thlf Mil ss amended by the senate will furnish suuicient tevenue to meet the entire expenses ot the government) Mr. Wilson That is a question, which no man, perhaps, certainly not I, can answer in definite language. Hut I have no difficulty whatever in saying teat when tho schedules ot the bill with tho senate amendments get into normal operation it will produce sufficient and more than suflclent revenue for the support or the government "I should add to the answer that perhaps in the beginning the bill will not produce as much revenue us will result from it later on under its ordinary working, because, I am informed, whether It be truo or not, I don't know, that the sugar trust, in anticipation of the passage ot the bill, has imported about $110,000, UOO worth, or, It has been said, even In excess ot that Quantity, of raw sugar." Mr. Hudson Will the passago or thU bill, in your judgment, save tho country from tho further issue of bonfläf" Mr. Wilson- I think I huve already cdvored that Question In my previous answer, it r may be In the first few months of the operation of the bill, because of this great accumulation ut raw sugar to which I have Just referred, that the revenue of tho government will not be sufilclcnt to meet tho expenditures of the government, but it Is my belief, in View of the" large uinoutit of Imported poods in bond and nlso In view of the fact that Hero will be larger importations when the tariff rates are detlnltcly known and fixed, that If the necessity does not exist to-day It will not exist after the' passago ol this bill? Mr. Dingley (Me.) -Will the gentU'iwm pardon me Just on that point? I understand him to fay thut tho Migar trust hasulroudy Imported J100.0o0.000 worth of sugar. If o. inasmuch as only $10I.WO.K) worth of sujar was Imported last yeur, will not all tho revenue that wo get from sugar under the operation ot this bill for the lirst year bo mUslngf Mr. Wilson - I did not intend to five the figures that ilOJ.OOO.OOO of raw sugar hud been imported. I stated that I had boeu Informed the sugar trust had Imported that amount, und I have ev.. :..ard It stated that It was lu oxcess of that amount. It has been put at 443,OU0 tons by gentlemen who pretond to know. Mr. Heard (dem.) of Missouri I It not true that whatever may be this bonus to the sugar trust in view ot the passage of thU law. would not the trust reap a still larger bonus under tho operation of the McKinley law if that were still left in force! Mr. Wilson-They would not do so Immediately, but under the operation of that law from year to year thoy would certainly reap a larger sum, "Mr. Speaker, in answer to all of thec questions I have simply to say that Under tho rulo Just adopted by tho houso lmmeAiatelr following thu passage of this bill wo propose to present nnd pass a bill putting sugar on tho free list. Tho question Is now raised as ,t,o whether this Is a government of tho American people for tho A mcrlcnn peoplo or a government of the sugar trust for tho benctlt of the sugar trust. And this houso will show tho people, I doubt not. what its position Is on that qucs tlon. nnd the senate will show tho people its tMisltlon. I will reserve the residue of ruy time-' . OPINIONS OF SENATORS. Views of Itrprrsmtatlre on the runsage of the Kennte Hill. "I have nlwnys maintained that only the enato bill could paus nnd the house has s,hown wisdom In accenting the situation." Kdward Murphy I was for a tariff bill, nnd although the son ate bill docs not meet fully the. demands of the party, It la a substantial measure of reform." William I), llynum. Tho houso could have secured mnnyconcctalu they had not demanded things which could not under any clrcumstanccsi have been granted, uur conrerrecs nave oeen uiumeu for not deserting the agreement rhn'de among democratic senators ns to what could be conceded, but there is ho lustlco tn this." J, K. Joncm.

N'S RADICAL VIEWS. Tli Ih'iuurrs lo Should lli m Fri'e Trade the Ohio t'rvti Trailer. I 'arty u !; Fellow-tlemoc rats, on what isMie unihc arc wc to tro 1h' I ;1. . . ii- the coming election? fore the people tn , . . A Is it still to he tan - it riiiiiirii ' Wi i ,, v, w -ulated bill thut is 1 liitil mi aw limn itir titv v in - . the only thing no "v Utur'1 through as what we m ca h arl,r r.u' form' Or are wc to a sk , to bu asim given power in order th, ''t wo may reform our own tariff reform ' ?,f,'( to tln ..:min:il.ri, In that w to defeat. The only hope i. nrfci.ttlt !i ml it tn.f i it t viki!i 111 fhf. to raise banner of free trade. If the domocratt e l)arty docs not .stand in opposition to th u l'ro toctive idea it stands for nothing. A"'J it must be swept aside by some pa ' y that does not voice the deinoonw !c principle, if thu democratic party 1 s to live it must cast all protectionists out of its ranks. There is no room in it for a moderate protectionist, or n local protectionist, or any other kind of a protectionist. Masquerading as tariir-veform democrats, they can only bring the democratic party into contempt and defeat. One protectionist party is enough. Thut place Is already filled by the republican party. Let the democrats who cannot stand free trade go there, and let us assist them to go. The- country wants n free-trade party party, und so long us protectionists control democratic policy and dictate democratic tnrilfi schedules, the rapidly growing body of free traders who care little for political names and much for political principles wili refuse to join ourranUs or fol low our lead. And why should they? Whv should the people, whom the last election showed were conscious of the robbery of the tarilT, and who have become more and more conscious every day since then, put further trust in the sincerity of a party that can produce nothing better than the Wilson hill, and then not even stand up to that. The schoolmaster is indeed abroad. nnd such an economic education of the masses is going on as never before, lty its bounty on sugar the McKinley bill proved even to protectionists that a protective duty was the equivalent of a bounty. The ilson bill tenderly caring for trusts is furnishing to honest protectionists nnother great object lesson, which the republican papers are busy in explaining to them tlie lesson that protection is never in the interests of the workman, but always in the interests of the monopolist. These papers are teaching wiser than they know. In showing up the iniquityof the sugar trust they are showing the iniquity of the steel-rail trust. In showing the injustice and wrong of protecting democratic sugar growers und coal barons they are showing the wrong of protecting u republican steel-rail pool, si wall paper trust and u combination of glass manufacturers. The honest protectionist who has already begun to doubt, will, now that his friends thus show him the evils of protection, begin to believe that the t'hieago platform was right when it declared protection to be u fraud. The republican protest against the Wilson bill is doing free trade work; in the republican camp. McKinley, in his pro tection run mad, did more to educate the people on free trade lines than nil the free trade organizations in the country: nnd McKinley' work is now being completed by the republican press. Free trade; hy should we fear to nnuounce if.' i racte is civilization. The wider trade extends, the faster and the higher the advance of human progress. Civilized men must trade. Without trade we should be savages. Whv not, then, trade freely? A man's right to the fruit of his toil is not com plete without the freedom to exchange it. To abridge that freedom is to limit that right. To hamper exchange. whether by a customs duty or a toll gate, is. to that extent, to deny the right of property the right of each man to his own earnings. If trade be good, free trade must be good. "Free!" The magic of that word has cheered the philosopher and inspired the poet. It has ever been the watchword of those who stood for right against ... - wrmiL'. it mis ever surren me neun of the masses. Why should those who proclaim the equality of human rights fear free trade. It is not an enemy to drend. but n friend to welcome. Tom L. .loh son to the Iroquois Club of Chi cago. WOULD NOT HELP THEM. Fiillun- of DrinoeriiU to AIJtit the Tariff Docs Nol Help Kr-ptihliriini. Failure to pass a tariff bill during the present session of congress would not help the republican party in tne least. The people would plainly see the cause of the failure. They would see that turllT reform such as they de maniled in MJ was defeated by the- re puhlie.it ns. aided by u little band of assistants sitting on the democratic side of the senate chamber. All but nine or ten democratic senators arc willing nnd anxious to give the country tariff reform on the lines laid down hi the democratic platform of 18i, The renublicans in ti Ixnly and a few democratic renegades have destroyed the consistency of the bill as it passed the house. They have Imported into it. "outniireous' discriminations and violations of principle." They say with Kenegade (iormun, that the ma jority must accept these utterly hide lensllm importations ami viin.ni; prm ciplos nnd pledges, or the McKinley law shall stand intact. This is no secret. The people under stand it ncrfeelly, nnd they are not go imr over to the nartv which, with the nid of a few republican emissaries in the democratic camp, prevents the accomplishment of the reform which thoy imperi lively demanded in 1MÖ. They uro not going to punish the democrats for not doing- what tho republicans nnd their assistants made it Impossible to do. In istio the protectees, including not only the sugar trust but many other odloiiH combinations for the practice of extortion, dominated the repudliean party and dictated the monstrous scheme of kgnlizcd robbery embodied in the McKtnlcy bill. They made tho

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even thev hail tln itnmiiliiu,. in maud. nan mo itnouuencc to ile Tho people miw um! understood all this and they expressed their opinion f n ...im. . i- .... t. ..v., wa t nun li liiiciiiii iiu.t i'iiiiiiiiimin hi in.ni ; . ... kr i ISttt. They have not ciiancu tneir minds, as will be seen in due time. The same malign influences prevail now, absolutely in the republican party nun to a uiiuten extent among men who call themselves democrats. The republicans of both houses, faithfully serving the combinations formed for purposes of spoliation, have fought every reform provision of the Wilson bill with the obstinacy of paid attorneys or men who arc themselves beneficiaries of the spoliation system. They and their coadjutors on the democratic side of the chamber have kent the country waiting for months while they 'luve been applying themselves to tlm ta sir of emasculating the Wil.son bill ant I converting a measure of reform into " measure of spoliation. Tho people understand this. Thej have in. 't changed their minds. They do not lLe tobe roblnrd any more than they did wo or four years ago. They prefer not , as they did then, the party which is lea.st uclcr the domination of organized robben, not the party which is wholly tinner tint evil domination, and which is largely represented in eongrcss by mer.n -ho hare been enriched by that sysfm-of lioR-nsed rollhery which has been olcruted1 only because its parents hue givusi it tb false name of protection That party rests under a poptiJar condemnation which wJll be none thr less severe- if it shall succeed, wfth. the aid of the Gorman nnd Hill renegade, in defeating the reform which- the present congress and administration! have been commanded by the people- tv effect. That pairty of organized anil licensed plunder has fallen never mor to rise. Chicago Herald. GOLDEN WORDS. KrTiw from rri-ldrnt Clcvrlund'n IttPH to Clinlriimii WlWon. livery true democrat and every sincere tarnt reiormcr Knows unit un hill, in its present form and as it will ic submitted to the conference, falls ar short of the consummation for which we have long labored, for which we have suiTered defeat without dis couragement, which in its anticipation gave us a rallying cry iu our day of rmmph,and which in its promise of ac complishment is so interwoven with democratic pledges and democratic success that our abandonment of the cause or the principles upon which it rests means party perfidy and party dishonor. It must be admitted that no tariff measure can accord with democratic principles and promises or bear a genu ine democratic image that docs not provide for free raw materials. In these circumstances it may well excite our wonder that democrats arcwilling to depart from this the most democratic of all tariff principles, and that the inconsistent absurdity of such n proposed departure should be emphasized by the suggestion that the wool of the farmer be put on the free lbdj and the protection of tariff taxation le placed around the iron ore and coal of corporations and capitalists. It is quite apparent that this question of free raw material does not admit of adjustmdnt on any middle ground, since their subjection to any rate of tariff taxation, great or small, is alike violative of democratic principle and democratic faith. In the conclusions of the- conferences touching the numerous items which will be considered the people are not afraid that their interests will be neglected. They know that the general result, so far as they arc concerned. will be to place home necessaries and comforts more easily within their reach and to insure better und surer compensation to those who toil. The democracy of the land plead i , m .1 . . I -t . most earnestly ior tne speeoy completion of tariff legislation which their representatives have undertaken; but they demand not less earnestly that no stress of necessity shall tempt llio.se they trust to the abandonment of democrhtic principle. llyixH'rltlriit Mnti-h Milker. There are many surprises in this world, and one thing thut seems to be the most productive o them Is the pro tective tariff system. Last fall we witnessed President, Harber, of 'the Diamond Match Co. in Washington begging the ways and means committee to allow the old tariff on matcjies to re main. Now it is reported that the company has decided to equip a factory in Liverpool with American match pnuchinerv.with which the foreigners can not compete, according to the ofllcers the Diamond company. If this last of statement is truo why sliould tne United States government give the Diamond Match Co., a protective tariff duty on matches? Wiwxlen and Willow ware. S'riiittiM-int ArrrHfwnrts. The house Is fresh from the people. A good part of the senate is a reminiscence. The senate says to the people's representatives: "You must tuke our bill or there shall bono tariff legislation," nnd this on a matter that the constitution declares the house shall have the sole power of originating. There is no intent of free anil fair conference here of a compromise of differences, it is autocratic dictation of the most arrogant and offensive character. It violates not only the plainest principles of legislative courtesy, but is at war with the spirit of the consti tution. l'lttsburgh Post Ucmittlteiiii Stand V Trut. There are thirty-live democrats in the United .States senate who stand for tariff reform. There are nine democrats who are traitors to their party and to the people. The nine traitors would not have the power to put out niokle in the treasury of a thieving tariff trust were it not for the fact that thirty-eight republican senators stand in solid phalanx in defense of tho trusts. Yet the republican press is trying to make party capital out of th Situation. Chicago Herald.