Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 37, Number 3, Jasper, Dubois County, 28 September 1894 — Page 3

WEEKLY COURIER.

C DOAXIC, J?ubUHhar. INDIANA SUMMER FRIENDS. We met at the bench; It wai morning, and bright As tho morning itself was her haicl eye's llht. I tow cd und she imilud, ami we chatted awhile, And the whole day took on tho sweet look of er smile. She w gowned to perfection I notlco such thlngk And her sleeves could give angola n point as to WllIgH, Airy chiffon sho wore, ami most ravishing (hour. That finished nor toilette and quite finished you. Her feet were encased In mos beautiful boots, Appropriate Hill to her elegant suits. Jn canvas or mtln or simply In tan, Those small feet wore meant for tho conquest of man. Whatever she did was done simply and well: Mic boated, iho danced, und sho lllrted don't toll! Hut on each occnslon sho shone Uko a star, And men homed near, tho great moths that they arc. And sometimes she r.ang with a lilting so gay That you thought of tho lark In tho green r.nglbh May, And sometimes sbo played, and her hands oa the keys Juit swept o'er your heart strings like wind through tho trees. She was kind to tho children; the reckless mnall boy "Was her captlvo; and flow at her bidding with joy. And iho'cl tell tho weo tots fairy stories galore. TbouKh, retentions as tyrants, they clamored for more. And this daintiest girl to the old and the sad Had a message of cheer that made weary hearts plad. he was never too hurried to lend them a hand. And thu secret of comfort was hers at command. Hut the summer Is wanlni:; we go back to town. And Inends of the summer, ere leaves shall be brown We will almost be strangers; our ways lie apart. And l b bold this raro maiden a dream In my heart - Elizabeth Clilsholm. In Harper's Unzar. K was hanging on the ragged edge of ruin, and he knew it. He had alw ays 1 i v e d high, but XL Ül nail irone airainst him Uli iiu um. everybody, including tho club. In the morning the directors met, and then camo expulsion and social disgrace, which meant ruin to his cherished scheme of a marriage which would place him on his feet and give him whathe most desired. lie thought of all this as he walked up the club steps, and ho went straight to the card room, where he knew ho would find a game. It was his only chance, but he was dead game and a good, smooth player. The game was poker and the stakes were as high ns a cnt's back, but he wanted quick notion, for he knew that he had to make a "killing" to-night or the game was up with him. He bail no dmiculty in getting a seat at the game. ItcBidos standing i high in Ids profession he ranked as a social leader, made so by great au-1 dacltj-, backed by talent and much

policy. The game as played at the club was n gentleman s game that is, one's check went as money, and such a thing as a player doing a dishonorable, net was not even contemplated. He knew this, so lie drew his check for the chips handed him, though he knew equally as well it would be dishonored if presented; hut he was desperate tonight and had determined that no such event should happen at any hazard. He played carefully and coolly, as he did everything, for ho had always looked on life asa game, and as nature had denlt him ;i good hnnd he hud lived "on velvet" and had succeeded in getting most of the good things that came in his way. There were six around the table when he took a hand, but the game soon grew too hot for two, so they dropped out. after dropping their money, and the game went on. It was getting late and he was deep in the hole, but he sat quietly and waited. He had determined when ho first entered tho game to draw only one check. lie hud three out now and still losing, but h had not lost his head. He drank only what tho others drank tmtil they changed off to champagne; then ho stuck to his brandy and soda and took but little of that They wero all forced into a jack pot and it had been sweetened until it was enough to ffo broke on. The cards were run again ami he picked up three kings, with the seven and eight as side cards: but he looked sad and thoughtful, for he was an artist and his face was no index to his thoughts. The play passed around to hhn. "No," he yawned, "I can't open It." He knew that the time had come to make a "killing." The player opposite him opened tho play for what it was worth, aud then the man on his right quickly ran out Ills stack and raised it for as much more on the outside, for there was no limit to this game hut the ceiling. Itwnshis.say next, but he stopped just a moment, for ho saw by accident, or otherwise, three acen in that hand ahead of him, and he know his kings wero beat to go on; but it was only a moment ho hesitated and then saw the raise. Hut his face was ghastly pale. The other two ulavers also saw the

raise; so all stayed In, anil tho specttors around tho tublu knew that someone was going to get hurt. From the draw it could he seen there wero no wenry hands out. lie drew one card and looked like a man who was drawing to a ''bobtail Hush," for Ii know his business and did not propose to give his hand away. Then ho turned quickly to notice the player on his right. He, too, had drawn one can't bd tho face, Unshed with drink, it dicatod plainly to hit keen eyes that to had filled the hand which, with a laugh, hu laid faco downwards upon tho table. Ho knew that his hand was worthless against tho hand of this drunken player.

There was hut one thing to do, and Ho aud he did it coolly and deliberately. simply picked up a discard dropped it upon the hand lying f'tce j downwards on the table, and then ho made a swell bet, so big that it looked I mighty like a bluff, The two other players fingered their chips nervously and tried to set; In that face a reflection of his lnnd. Was be drawing to a "Kobcrt." two pairs, three, a straight or a Hush? Hut they saw nothing there but a look of quiet sadness not too sad, but just sad enough to lead them to believe that ho was endeavoring to appear cheerful under most trying circumstances. The drunken player saw nothing. The player opposite him was playing on his employer's money and having lost his head with his money was desperate. He had too much in that game to lose now, so without waiting for tho betting to be up to him he saw the bet on three queens. The player on his left was rich, but he'knew the value of money, for he had worked to make it; and he hesitated. He saw the pale face of tho clerk whq.su trembling hands could hardly hold the cards; ho knew that he had him beat. He only glanced at the player opposite him. for no one can tell what a drunken player will do in this game, where all depends on judgment and coolness. Then he looked at the face of the man who had made this nervy bet, but he could see nothing there. Was he working a bluff or not? Was that one card the card he needed, or had he missed it? Then lie sized up his own hand, and he felt that lie had him bent to go on unless he had filled on that one-card draw; so he saw the bet on a Hush. For a moment nothing could be heard in the room except the heavy breathing of the players, men mo man who made this nervv bet slowly spread out his hand on the table. Th.vv thouirht be was blulilmr. hut wi.w mist-iUi.n. II lind eaiirrht tbrt'olirbt and filled his band and made a 'killinir." for the man on his riirht. with tbi ace full, held six cards, and his hind was "dead " tt.. to ,m ...nnin.Unl of tbo .n..t tr T,i, lltlit't;.! J k v. iv iv pttw j." one more chance to win something ! back, for in this world asked nor did he give. ho neither I ,. . , ...... i 1. , jie siuppuu umy iuh); ciiuuu iu assure those who crowded around the table of his belief in the innocence of his friend who held the six cards, and that it must have been a mistake of the J EL 3 TlII'ltK WAS HCT OXn T1I1N0 TO 1)0, AND UK 1)1 IT. neaier s; aim u me uum "". sobered by his loss and the suspicion 1 4 .1 A n I. .... n 1. 1 til f .1 t vi resting upon him, he expressed his re - e expressed nis re- , , . , 11111. 1 .1 Krt-tstl.at he had overlooked ,is ha id Then ho quietly walked from the room, passing me oar i where n crown of young candidates for remorse were begging for a Inst drink before the club closed for the night, and he smiled a smile of contempt. lie went straight to his apartments, drew a chair before the lire and began to think. It. lie was saved, but at what a price! Never before had he done a dishonorable act, and now he was a common cheat at cards. No gentleman would be dishonorable, whatever might be his vices, and he prided himself on his honor and his family. He thought over his past life, but he could not recall a single instance where he had done an unselfish or generous act. He was honorable not only because he was a gentleman, but also because he thought honesty the best policy, and temperate, to a certain extent, for the same reason; but that was all that could be said of him. He had lived for himself, and himself alone. He thought of the talents nature bad lu.tntfid noon hi in. and how he had debased them; of his early ambition for an education, and his college career, and of the honors he had taken aud how little they had pro II ted him: of his life in Paris ami a night nt Monte Carlo when, having lost his all, ho walked from the roulette table out on the stone balcony and watched the rippling waves of the blue Mediterranean at his feet. He could now hear the whiz?, of the roulette ball and the cry of the croupier to make your hot while tho ball rolled. From this his thoughts wandered back to his home and the girl he used to love in her simple frock, and ho unllcd it was the sroo smile that

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was upon his faco when lio pasfted the bar. In contrast to this simple g Irl Le thought of the queen he now worshipped in her beautiful home; und ho wondered how ho could ever have loved the other. Then lie thought of the clerk who sat opposite him in the game- :i giod friend of his and how the monef ho hud just won would save him; but ho felt no pity for the man he had robbed by fowling Iiis hand. Such a poker player deserved none in ids eyes. Hut he wished to lead a new lifo and do Rood, and help others beside himself, ami wipe away this stain on his honor; and surely now would bo a food time to start. The pule face of the clerk came before his eyes and then the face of the girl he hoped to

marry; and ho thought how much her wealth and her father's inlluenco would help him. lie saw no reason why he should not marry her now, for the money he had won to-night would AND SO TlinV FOUND IHM. snve him and give him all he desired, but he could see nothing but the face of the clerk ruined, but dead game to the last. And the only way he could save him and save his honor was to give up the inonev he had won by such a trick. He got up and walked to the window and pulled back the heavy curtains. It was almost day. The newsboys j were calling tho papers in the street i below. The first electric car Hashed i down the street and passed away in the distance, and still he stood and I thought. I Slowly the sun appeared above the j housetops and a new day had begun Then he turned from the window. ' He had decided. lie was tired, awfully tired, and he , seated himself at the center table and looked at his white, drawn face in the i cheval glass opposite. had lived too fast, and had gone the pace that kills, but until to-night , he had been honorable. He poured out a drink from a decan ter on the hülfet and waited for tho reaction to come; but the liquor seemed to have no effect. .Such a life like his was not worth living. With the new day he should begin a new life, and he took from his pockets the money and cheeks he had just won and put them in a package and carefully sealed it. He started to write a name upon it, but the pen fell from his hand. He had often suffered from remorse before, but the pain that suddenly shot through his heart keener than a knife was not remorse. It was a physical pain! He staggered to his feet and started to the room where his servant slept, hut stopped. Alone he had lived and alone he would die. Why should he call anyone to help him now? Would it not be better to die to-day than to face the morrow with its uncertainties? He had enjoyed all the pleasure,' of this world, why now live to suffer its hardships? Let the new life begin at once, and he turned back to the table and grasped the pen that had fallen from his hand. And so they found him. with the pen still clutched in the long, tapering , ,illfrP. i,.,t i.... . " l f had so often deftly dealt ;.. ' ' 1 UHU til- IlllUl'li Uli; liUMV. V. .... j lur, v,,iIc ,lis fac0 was a .vllil0 , . ,Mfliri.f(4r it u...s , .. , . ,. ,,. ; giwritius III uiv nv in true mvi Illustrated American. Slie Wroto In Her Sleep. A most remarkable case of somnambulism is reported ten miles north of Hedalia. Mo. Miss Susie Sterlin, daughter of a wealthy fanner of Pettis county, has been taking music lessons from .Miss Mary Wiley, of Seda11a. The term having expired, the teacher visited her pupil to secure her attendance for another year. Miss Sterlin's parents were absent from home, and when they returned they gave their consent to the arrangement. About midnight Mrs. .Sterlin heard her duughter leaving the house an unusual circumstance. Mr. Sterlin was apprised and followed the young lady. He was astounded at hearing her call her brother to wake and mail a letter she had. Investigation disclosed that Miss Sterlin was sound asleep, but she had in her possession a very intelligible letter that she had written while asleep and addressed to her teacher, apprising her of her having gained the consent of ji,.. IlIui Mrs. Sterlin to continue liemusical studies. I'oik.'t IMillnxopliJ". That marriage is a lottery cannot be an old saw, for it never has been a favorite with the joiners. The self-made man shows 'prentice work, hut the rolling stone evidently was produced by a journeyman. Common sense is the steam engine of mental mechanics, talent the electric motor and genius the theory of perpetual motion. Iva Vc Field's Wash ington. XKVFOüxni..NH Is without reptiles. No snake, frog, toad or lizard has ver been Been there-

RAILROADS AND THE PEOPLE.

An Kirrllcnt Aililrm by l'rrsldeBt -M. K IiiKH of tlu Hilf Four, on Tltelr Hla tlona, tint Oihi to tha Other. On the occasion of tho recent oponlng of tin: new and magnificent terminal station of tho Missouri Pacific & Iron Mountain, tho Wabash, thu Louisville & Nashville, the Haitimore & (mlo noutnwestern ana tue llig Four at St Louis, begun five years atfo, President M. L. Ingalls, of tho lllg Four, delivered an address on the "Jiecessity for Hotter Feeling lletween tht Hallways and the People." After ret lowing brielly the history of the ef fort which had had its fruition in, as he declared, "tho best, the most urtistic, tbc most commodious of any rail way station in thu world," and congratulating the people of St. Louis on its completion, President Ingalls paid a just tribute to Dr. 'iaussig, president of the 'terminal association, to whoso efforts a large part of the success of tho new Ntrticturu is due. He then referred to tho phenomenal growth of the railroads in this .country during the past sixty years, and claimed tho unparalleled development and prosperity of this country during that time was ita direct result and that its future de pended upon tho success of its transportation facilities. "That tho railways should prosper," he said, "Ib to the interest of every man, woman and child in this great country of ours, no matter what his calling or business. To attain this success there must be better feeling between the railways and tho people, between the railways and their employes." Referring to tho recent strike as "the greatest, the most causeless and the most unsuccessful" m the history of strikes and questioning what con ditions made it possible that "a few wortlüess demagogues" could iuduce such a large number of railway em ployes to neglect their interest and forget the loyalty due the companies, the speaker asked what was the cause of the great dissatisfaction? As managers it behooves them to consider the question carefully and endeavor to find a solution, for somewhere there was an answer. The great strike was not without its lessons, one of which was that "no strike can succeed which has no real ground of grievance and which public opinion does not support" Continuing, President Ingalls said: 'Hut out of it the wise men should seek for the cause of the evil and its euro, if the system of iirotlt-sharlBif auioni? employes could be adopted. I have always believed that it would bo a euro for these ovlls; hut beforu this can bo successfully adopted wo must secure tho proilt. We ought also to establish, a system of pensions tor those disabled in tho service, aud for annuities for thoae who have been worn out serving their corporatioas. Thcro must nlso bo u hotter feeling built up between tho railways and the communities they serve. The situation is much improved now and it is not as fashionable as it used to be for newspapers and publio bodies to abuse railways aud their management, but there are many states and communities to-day where there exists a feeling of great hostility towards railway corporations. This Is unfortunate, and It is the duty of railway managers and of statesmen to discover wherein lies tho trouble and endeavor to curu it. To-day more than ono-ilf th of all the railways In the country are in the hands of receivers, and nearly ono-lifth of all tho investment In railways is unproductive. This represents a capital of over two thousand millions of dollars. And yot you will find people preaching a crusailo to-day through tho ballot box against railway property and Its management. You will lind all manner of tlreats of hostile legislation. Taxes in every state and city are being increased almost beyond endurance, and yet these very communities depend for their existence nnd their futuro prosperity upon tho railways which they would destroy. This must be cured In some manner. Tho railway managers themselves artj responsible In many casus and to u great extent for this trouble. They havo managed their railways arbitrarily; they hate endeavored to maintain that they wero private corioratlons and could not be conti JlleU by the public, but that day has gone by. Tho wise manager to-day has accepted the situation; ho fully realizes that a railway corporation Is not a private partnership; it is a great public Institution with public duties to erform and with responsibility to the public nnd subject In certain Mays to public control. Even the lntcr-tato commerce law, which was bitterly oppo-cd by the great majority of the railway maniiKors, has been accepted: they all believe It has come to stay and that it will take the plnco of the disjointed legislation of the different states, aud out of it future good to tho business communities and to tho railways can be obtained. "Wo must have certain reforms, and railway managers must work these out subject to law and legislation. It seems to bo thu consensus of opinion that tho Interstate commerce law rhould bo amended, amended so as to legalize contracts between railways, so as to bring this vast Interest of our country under the protection as well as the burden of the law. Our system of freight rates must be changed. We cannot raie the rates on the great products which sro exjKtrted and which have to bo carried long distances, for they will cot boar higher rates of transportation, but a terminal charge thould bo exacted on till freights, as it is In England. Ono cent a hundred iounds terminal charge would tiol bo felt by tho great mass of the people, but It would bring prosperity and comfort to tho railway owners and employes and would enablo them to better servo tho communities w hich aro their patrons. "Tho system of running passengor trains and of making passenger fares must b changed We haul a Pullman or Wagner car. weighing tlfty tons with twenty-live passenger tlfty miles an hour and charge the tame rate per mlto to tho passenger occupying tho same that wo do to tho ono occupying a coach that weighs twenty-live tons and carries llfty people at a apcad of thlrty-llvo miles an hour. Tho railways should own. cither by contract or lease, their own sleeping cant; they should soli their tickets at one rate, good on limited trains, and this ticket should furnish sleeping and parlor car accommodations, and thoy should sell a ticket ut another rato on their slow trains, which should furnish merely seat accommodations. "Kinally. a better state of feeling between employes und tho management, Utween business communities and the management, should be built up by association, by nn accommodating spirit on tho part of each. I pledge you tobight thu riilwuvi to work to this cud." PICKED AND SORTED. Tm:i:s are now felled in some places by electricity. It takes a snail exactly fourteen days und live hours to travel a mile. O.nt. pound of sheep's wool is capablo of producing one yard of cloth. Tmi most ancient coins arc of electrtim, fourpartsof gold one of silver. Ovi:it seven thousand men have been sheltered nt one time beneath the branches of the banyan tree. Tm: Gould brothers paid twentyflvo thousand dollars for the Vigilant, but the boat originally cost omi hundred thousand dollar.

THE SUGAR SCANDAL.

tM the I'eopln Jtulge a to Ytlmre tu Illume Kent. .Self-righteous republicans? put on a look of horror when discussing the sugar scandal. "The Idea that a trust should attempt to dictutu legislation in tho United States senate! N Hat is going to become of usV It's awfulj" lhit what bus caused the present scandal? Is it because the democrats arc in the majority in both houses and are willing to sell out to tho great sugar trust? No, the democrats In the house aru unwilling to give any protection to the trust and only five or six democratic senators are ready to help it. Is it then because thesu senators arc holding out for higher rates of protection than the trust has enjoyed under republican rule? No, this is not the reason. It is not claimed even by republican senators that there is more protection to sugar in the proposed schedule than in the McKinley bill. In fact, it contains smaller discriminating duties on refined sugars thun any republican bill ever passed. The plain truth is that for the first time in thirty years the sugar trust is balked. Heretofore St could, by promises of liberal contributions in cIomj states (such us was Khode Island in 189:', where senator Aldrich was up for re-election), secure favorable terms in thequietof the committee room. There being no "squealing" by any republican in the house or senate the unholy bargain was ratified without any grni'.t public scandal. The great majority of the democrats, even in the senate, being unwilling to sanction any deal, Ukj struggle of the trust for protection lies been forced into the open. Hence tho scandal. It ill becomes Senators Aldrich, Sherman, Allison, Hoar and others, who have been the tools of the trusts for twenty vears, to mock at the democrats. Onlv a few of the demo crats are even tempted by what caused the fall of all republicans. The majority of the democrats in congress aro neither protectionists nor hypocrites; the majority of the republicans but we leave it to others to judge than. It. W. II. A PROTECTION PET. The Amount of Hoodlo Divided by the Sugir Trnt. In 1891 the sugar trust paid iU-udcnds of 10,500,000 on a nominal capital of 7:i.0OO,000. The entire plant could be constructed for 15,000,000. This was under the McKinley law, which protected refined sugar and gave no revenue on raw sugar to the treasury. The McKinley law was purely a trust measure, with no effort to raise revenue. Its whole effect was to enable the trust to pay 110 per cent, a year on the actual investment. It is reported that several ollicials of the trust receive more than 100,000 apiece in salaries. Sugar has been manufactured in America successfully since 1791 a hundred years. The trust was organized in 1SS7. The republicans under Harrison found a highly profitable industry and a monopoly. rrcy gave the monopoly free raw magcial, a protective diitj' of GO een on the 100 pounds and annual divth ,ndsof 1 10 per cent.. bcsde the rich profits represented by princely salaries and millions laid away in the surplus fund. This was MeKinleyism and it illustrates protection. No care for the treasury, none for the wages of workingmen, none for the commerce of the country. The whole sugar provision of the .McKinley law consisted in bounties taken in one form or another from the people nnd given to private individuals. It is as plain as dny that no government can be honest as long as protection is the object of its revenue law St. Louis Republic. WHAT WAS GAINED. Articles That Are Made Free Under the Tariff 1UII. Among the salvages from the Wilson bill in the compromise finally passed nothing is more satisfactory than the additions to the free list. To untax a necessary of life or nn essential to industry is to a lford complete relief from artificial burdens. It leaves no sophisticated questions as to whether the foreigner or importer, the merchant or the consumer pays the tax. A free list is tariff reform completed. The following are the more important additions made in the new bill: binding twine. Sulphate of copper. Copper ore aud bars. CopiH'ras. Cotton ties. Fresh ilsh. Iluttcrs' fur and plush. Flax, tow, hemp. Cod oil. 1'etrnleiim, crudo and refined. Nickel ores, l'alntlngs. Drawings, sketches. Nursery stock. Farming Implements. Cotton gins. Salt. Ivory unmanufactured. Hurr stones. Kpsotn and mineral Timber and lumber, salts. Wool. These articles are nil taxed in the McKinley law. The total decrease in duties under the new law, on the basis of the importations in 1S!)H, has been estimated at 02,407,000. ltut this docs not by any means represent the entire saving to the people. The greatest tax under a high tariff is that which the mine owners and manufacturers are able to e.vact by reason of the restraint upon competition. The saving to consumers will be more than 02,000,000. N. Y. World. A GREAT TASK. The IHnirulty of Overcoming the Cnnie. queiiern of Thirty Yearn tf Itohbery. The consequences of nearly thirty years of robber by protected monopolists are not easily overcome. The democratic party has a great and serious task. It hns undertaken to reform the tariff and to turn back the principle of tariff legislation to the right method, the method that prevailed in framing the Walker tariff and the tariff of 1857. ltut It is met on tho threshold of its reform work by a gigantic combination of interests that havo been built up by the republicans, who have taxed the people to enrich monopolists In consideration of generous contributions to campaign funds. . ft is a hard task, but the democratic party Is making an effort to reform abuses. The puoule have determined

to be rid of tho odious system which wrings millions of dollars from them through tariff taxes for tho benefit of millionaires, and the democratic party is pledged to help them. If there is too much resistance there may bo more destruction than was contoifiplated. Carnegie, with his pocket bulging with the loot that had been stolen for him by the republican party, was tho wisest protectionist of them all when he advised his accomplices to accept the Wilson hill. , There are men calling themselvet democrats who hold and practice republican principles, but the heart and mind of the party are right and tha struggle against the system of protection, which is a struggle for larger human liberty and less gpverninental paternalism, will be carried on by tho democracy of the country. The repub

lican party is thu servant and slave of monopolists. It is built on ill gained wealth. The dmooratie party is tho partj of the people and it will redeem its pledge to break down MeKinleyism. It may be obliged to go slow, but it will go in the right direction. Y. World. ' Don't Forget tint Traitors. The future policy of the democratic party is clear. It must not only continue its battle with republican trusts it must also drive out of its own ranks till traitors. It must show no mercy to the Gormans, Hrices, Smiths and Murphys who arc in the employ of the trusts. The time, has passed when we could hope for anything good from these democratic musqucraders. Drum them out of the party that they havo disgraced. Pursue them to their political deatn. They have sold their honor for a mess of trust pottage; let them enjoy their pottage in peace free from the cares of state. Every democrat in every state, misrepresented in congress by one of theso trust pap-suckers, should make a vow to leave no stone unturned that will make the political paths of these traitors harder. Fill their places with honest democrats and the party will merit and receive the approval of a tax-ridden people. 11 W. il. Km of Wugo Reduction. The Iron Age, a trade organ which is partial to high protection said on August 0, that "the tendency of wares, in sympathy with the tendency of prices for the past throe years, is downward. The movement is resisted by all the means available to those who are obliged to work for others, but its force is irresistible. Themost formidable strikes known In our industrial history have been undertaken in tho hope of restoring past .schedules, but they have either been successful in only a slight degree, or they have proved inglorious failures." Undoubtedly tho future historian will write of the McKinley era as one of wage reductions, formidable strikes and inglorious failures, but it was not expected that any protectionist organ would confess to to the truth before the election of ISO I. New Tin I'late 31111ft. Since the passage of .the tariff bill, with its large reduction of the duty on tin plate, the impending investment of large sums of money in new tin plate factories has been announced in press dispatches from Pittsburgh and elsewhere. The reduction which cuts the duty in two does not appear to havo "dealt a staggering blow" to those who already have invested or who desire to invest capital in such factories. The duty under tho tariff which the McKinley net superseded was 1 cent a pound; this was increased by the McKinley law to 2 1-5 cents a pound: tho duty under the new tariff is 1 1-5 cents. The addition of 1 1-5 cents to the old duty by the McKinley tariff has cost thc people of the thiitod States moro than 617,000,000 in the increased cost of imported tin plate. Jf. V. Times. A Trannpnrent JUuff. It was a very transparent bluff that Gorman and llrice resorted to whett they offered the house Conferees free sugar. They knew that the easiest way to secure what they wanted for the sugar trust was to dufetit the bill and leave the McKinley law in force. They knew that a provision for free sugar would do this. The house conferees were not deceived, but insisted that (Sorman should make a poll of the senate and see whether a majority would stand by the free sugar clause before they accepted it. This Gorman could not do, and so the house conferees refused to swallow the halt. Oaklaud County (Mich.) Tost. On With the Huttlr. "The campaign for honest tariff reform will go on," says the Indianapolis News (Ind.). "This nation was not launched on its mighty career to die in a hole. The American ideals of freedom, equality and justice are Imperishable, and they will be realized. The Gormans, and Hrices, and .Smiths will have their little day, nnd the whole corrupt and ignoble brood of law-buyers nnd law-sellers may do their worst, but the people ill triumph." The Ctinllrngft of The Trout. The sugar trust has thrown down the gauntlet of defiance before the people. Thu people will accept the challenge. This means that the trusts, hnving openly shown themselves inimical to the Interests of the country, must be made to feel the power of the people and to how to tho will of the people. There cannot be two musters in this land; the people must rtilo alone; no combination can usurp their authority. Hosten Tost. A rmterllnn Object I.cmoii. What an object lesson in protection! The tariff-begotten, turijr-mtrtured sugar trust takes tho millions which the protective tariff has enabled it to extort as a tribute from the people and ucs them to defeat tho legislation which the .people have demanded by bribing the peoples' ropresontutiveil It will always be so as long as we have class legislation In aid of private interests. Oakland County (Mich.) Tost ThryqTno !t, If Senator Gorman hasn't self-respect enough to get out of the democratic party the democrats of Maryland ought to have self-respect enough (o put him out-Oakland County Pout.