Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 13, Petersburg, Pike County, 9 August 1895 — Page 3

WAGES AND TARIFFS. Immense Adnntage of the IVUson Lsw to Workingmen. A contemporary, whose distinction is the number of things it don’t know, notes the revival in the manufacture of pottery in this country, at East Livcr- •• pool, in Ohio. The potteries have been * idle since the passage of the Gorman tariff until this week, it says, when three-fourths of them started up on full tune, and the rest are running part of the time. Anxious to forestall any credit that might be claimed by the democrats that this revival is due to democratic legislation, it informs its readers that it is not, but that that legislation gaveTt its black eye. The pottery men, it says, give as the/rue reason that, “in order to rene\/-opefa-tions at all, and prevent their factories _ from remaining indefinitely idle, they were compelled to cut prices to the level of those of those of imported goods under the new reduced tariff.” This shows, says our contemporary, how friendly the democratic revenue reformers are to the American workingman. We are of one opinion with our contemporary in its last statement. The American workingmen, who vastly exceed in numbers the manufacturers of pottery, will certainly not regret the reduction of the cost of their pottery. But the really interesting part of this confused jumble of statement and deduction, is the reason assigned by the pottery men for resuming. They have been compelled to reduce the price of their wares to a point where they could compete with the foreign imported ware, increased in cost by the duty imposed. The average ad valorem tariff on their products under McKinleyism was GO per cent., which was reduced by the present act to 35 per cent, making a reduction of a little over 41 per cent Under the present law the cost of every S100 worth of pottery imported is increased $35 by the tax, making its cost §133. The pottery men, if our contemporary is not giving us another piece of misinformation, admit that, for every S10D worth of their ware, they add this $35 of protection so as to bring their price up to the level of that of their competitors; lix4 other words, the potter}’ manufacturers thus admit that they are taking, as they have taken, to themselves the entire benefit of the protection afforded. Apropos of this, and illustrating the “paralyzing effect” of the latest tariff act, we have the case of. a Trenton, N. J., pottery which, on January 10, 1891, three months after the passage of the McKinley act, proposed to its employes a reduction of 33}£ per cent of their wages. The men went on a strike, which lasted until April 30 that year, when a reduction of 23 per cent, was accepted, but was followed ou May 14 by a fuirthe? reduction of 7 per cent. On June 10 of this year, the same firm, under this “black-eye” tariff, increased the wages of its employes from 10 to 40 per cent. The effect, then, of the reduction in the tariff is only to reduce the profit of the employers and increase wages, while the effect of the McKinley act was to increase the profits and decrease wages. We agree that the comparison does show “how friendly the democratic tariff reformers are to the American workingmen.* —St. Ppfil Globe.

THE TARIFF AS AN ISSUE. An Experiment That Would Brins Disaster on the Country, As the Times has heretofore indicated, the reopenin'? of the tariff agitation would be % most dangerous experiment at this time, or even next year. The country has gone through a severe strain, the result of the McKinley law folly, and during the months whicli have elapsed since the repeal of that measure returning prosperity has encountered a good many difficulties. But the work has been finally accomplished. To reopen the question now or in the near future would instantly spread alarm throughout the country, drive capital back into concealment, dethrone confidence in the safety of investments and minimize industrial operations. To invoke such a condition upon the people of this country .would be a crime equal “to high treason. It would plunge thousands of industrious people into idleness, despair and ‘ruin. But, viewing the matter from the standpoint of practical politics, the democrats would not suffer from such a contest. It would be those who aim to restore the excessive taxation, the blighting economic system, that would be smitten hip and thigh. The democrats don't invite a contest on such conditions, but if it comes they will meet the foes of the people with such force and vigor that the folly wiH never be repeated. —Kansas Ci^r Times. -—Some of the republican leaders and papers cannot get over their astonishment at the return of good times while a democratic administration is 6tiU in power. They have argued out the whole question to their own satisfaction in the past and have shown conclusively that such state of affairs is simply impossible, and now they distrust the evidence of their eyes. - But industrial conditions are by no means dependent on political organizations, though they may be more or less affected by these, and we are in for a period of prosperity just now whatever party holds the reins of government at Washington.—Providence Journal. -This country grew rich under the McKinley law *for awhile, and the fact deceived those who knew no better. But the people are now beginning to understand tbat the country in- - creased in wealth not because of protection, but in spite of it. They seo that the one billion dollars taken annually from the earnings of the people to enrich the trusts and favorites was a draft upon the bone and sinew * of labor. They understand now that this money serves as a fund by which earners may buy comforts for their families, and thus increase the volume of business among tradesmen.—Kansas City Times.

M KIN LEY'S POSITION. A Matter of Dense Uncertainty Among Republicans. M!<sjfinley has a good deal of positive strength and also a good deal of positive weakness. The friends of a prohibitive tariff justly look to him as their champion. They know that he and his bill cannot be divorced, that his candidature would mean McKinleyism, and that his election wonld insuro them the support of the executive office for another extremely protective law. , But the number who desire this is much smaller than it was in 1888 and 1890. The McKinley bill was a disappointment in several ways. It disappointed the politicians by turning vast numbers of them out of office. It disappointed the workingmen because it was followed by general reductions In wages 'and no increase. It disappointed many of the mahufacturers themselves by failure to give them the advantages expected and also by stimulating production to a point that was followed by a break in prices. Finally, it f ailed to yield revenue epough to support the extravagant scale of expenditure inaugurated by the Fiftyfirst congress, leaving a deficit of seventy million dollars in the last fiscal year of its operation. For these and other reasons many republicans wish to eliminate the tariff. Besides, however willing others may be to make thejtariff the dominant issue, the free silver men are to be reckoned with. They insist that there shall be a free silver platform and a free silver candidate, or they will not remain in the j party, but have a candidate of their own. This indifference is in its nature J irreconcilable in any other way than the conversion of one’s party to the views of the other. Mr. O'ConneU’s suggestion that a man be nominated pledged not to veto a silver bill will not satisfy either faction. No one knows where Gov. McKinley stands on the currency. If they knew his present position, they would not know where lie would be next year. He has been on all sides of the question. He (would not be-^atisfactory either to silvcrites or sounoSjnoncy men without! much more explicit statements than it has been possible to get from him! so far. The chairman of the republican national committee, Mr. Carter, who is a free silver man, is opposed to McKinley. The latter is said to desire an early convention, to be held in May, so as to allow five months'debate on the tariff.—Louisville Courier-Jour-nal. ___ the Wool duties. Barbarous McKinley Taxation Will Nov Be Resumed. The suggestion of Senator Dubois that “the restoration of wool to the dutiable list is the thing in which the west is most interested,” and that this should be done likewise as a revenue measure is not received with enthusiasm by the New York Tribune. That journal reminds the western senator that wool duties cannot be restored without a| restoration of the McKinley taxes on woolen manufactures, and that this is likely to prove a difficult task, Nbt only difficult but impossible for two: years to come, with the senate constituted as it will be and with President Cleveland in the white house. The attempt to increase revenue by raising the taxes on the clothing of the people will not be successful at present, if ever again.

There are economic as well as poj litical reasons for this. The short experience we have had with free wool has proved it to he for the advantage alike of the growers-of wool, the manufacturers and the people. We are getting more clothing, better clothing and cheaper Olothing—with excellence and durability as the test. The price of ciomestic wool is advancing at the same time with the wages of woolen mill operatives. This very practical object lesson will not be lost on the people. The political shepherds of Ohio will not be able to “pull the wool oVer their eyes” again, especially as they remember that the price of wool declined forty per cent, during the four years of the McKinley la\f. The McKinley taxes of forty-four per cent, on wools and ninety-eight per cent, upon woolen goods were among the most barbarous taxes ever imposed. They will not be reenacted —N. Y. World. NOTES AND COMMENTS. -H—Mr. McKinley, as a doctor of laws, should not be called in if the tariff law ever needs another prescription.—St. Louis Republic. —|—There is more than a reasonable ground for suspicion that the McKinley boom was overworked by interested parties with sinister objects.— Chicago Chronicle. -Under % high protective tariff we manufacture for the United States; under alow tariff we manufacture for the world. Which is the better?— Florida Times-Union. -Is Gov. KcKinley of Ohio a Jonah? In his management of the financial affairs of the state of Ohio the treasury has a deficit of two million dollars, and the tax rate is not sufficient to make it good.—Birmingham Herald. --The price of wool is increasing, but not by the aid of bounties, protection and artificial nourishment. The increase is based on the industrial demand from new woolen miUs in all parts of the country. That is the democratic tariff policy, which creates a better demand and a higher price for raw materials by taking off the duty. —Chicago Chronicle. -The ^report of general contentment and ^prosperity comes from the west as well as the east, and yet the New York Tribune persists in having the tariff laws gone over again by McKinley tinkers. It is apparent from” this fool policy that Whitelaw Reid does not intend to’ take chances with anoiiher landslide by running for the vice presidency. Secretary Lemont has been west to see for himself. Mr. Reid sits down and from his prejudices' evolves statements to please those prejudices.—Detroit Free Press.

FARM AND GARDEN. WIDE-TIRED WAGONS. Conditions In Which They Cnn Always Bo Used to Advantage. A prominent manufacturing' concern has instituted a series of experiments lately to find out the conditions under which the broad and narrow-tired wheels could be used to advantage. In the experiment to ascertain the difference in draft between wide and narrow tire upon grass sod, the figures arrived at were: Weight of wagon and load.....4,900 pounds Drift to start load with 1 Hr inch tire, cutting into sod 1V4 Inches deep.1,389 pounds Draft to move at dead pull. (BO pounds Draft to start turns load on good, hard roads......v. 850 pounds Draft to draw load on good, hard roads... 380 pounds Draft wtth tire 3 Inches wide on same sod.. .1,200 pounds Draft to move load at dead pullsame sod...... 881 pounds Draft to start load wtth 3-lnch tiro on bard road<. . W0 pounds Draft to move at a dead pull on hard roads...... 350 pounds Draft at a dead pull on hard pave* menu.I. KB pounds Another, experiment was with fourinch and one-and-one-half-inch tires respectively on block pavement, good, hard, sandy road, good, level, gravel road, and in each soft and deep mud. The conclusions arrived at by the committee were: 1. On hard roads, block pavements and other permanent and substantial roads, there .is no argument, so far as actual draft is concerned, in favor of the wide tired, the effect being rather against the wide tire. 2. In their effect upon hard roads, the wide tire have the advantage, and that^this benefit is-not sufficiently, appreciated bjT turnpike and macadam road companies. 3. In soft mud, slush, and under similar circumstances, under which even th# wide tire cuts in, the advantage is against the wide tire and in favor of the narrow. 4. On soft sod and soft ground, where the wide tire does not cut in, and the narrow does, the advantage is on the side of the wide tire. 5. In loading a team, a draft of 650 pounds steadily applied is as much as should be expected for a day's work, and that on soft sod this raav mean, when a dead pull has to be taken, au increase ip the draft of 1,200 pounds. 6. The difference in the latter case between the regular draft of 650 pounds and the increase of 1,200 pounds is equivalent to an addition of 4,980 pounds to the load. 7. Or, in other words, the draft of the load being 650 pourds may be considered as equivalent to a load of 4,980 pounds, and the difference from the steady draft of the load in fair motion, and that of the same load started at a dead pull, is equivalent to doubling the load. The committee closed their report with: “We advocate wide tire for farms, and narrow tire for good roads and pavements.” Experiments at the Utah experiment station demonstrated that a given load on l^-inch tire drew 41.6 per cent, heavier than when on a 3-inch tire, the draft being on a fairly stiff gra^s sod; on a moist but hard road the 13ainch tire drew 12.7 per cent, heavie? than the 3-inch.

TOO MUCH PRUNING. How Thousands of Fruit Trees Are Bn. ined Every Year. The very best judgment must be used in pruning trees. There is too much pruning, and yet pruning is often necessary. The injuries to fruit trees and the losses to fruit growers from vicious and altogether unnecessary pruning cannot be estimated. The popular idea that trees must be pruned in order that they should exist, and especially if fruit bearing trees, so that they should bear fruit, is one of the most persistent of all prejudices. He is looked upon as a careless fruit grower who neglects to visit his orchard at least once during the year, armed with knife and chisel, saw and ax, and to strew the ground with twigs and branches is deemed evidence of skillful treatment by those who, like the operator, are ignorant of the laws which govern vegetable growth. Some years ago there was on the grounds of an experimental station a pear orchard which was planted and maintained for the especial purpose of illustrating the best methods of management for the production cf fruit. They were all standard trees, and at the time of planting were deprived qf nearly all the growths of the previous year; they looked very much like walking canes After the summer growth was matured some of the shoots were cut back in order to establish a proper disposition of branches. From that time they were untouched by the pruning knife. They commenced to bear the fourth year after planting and continued to yield heavy crops of fine fruit until it became necessary to remove them.—. Farmer's Voice. Beet Thkt Make Bad Honey. “Lovers of the product of the busy bee will find it a wise precaution to have their honey tested as to its purity before they eat it, or use it in a culinary way.”» Prof. Remington gave a warning something like this at a recent meeting of pharmacists, and at the same time told of a German who was extensively engaged in bee culture, and who had his apiary close to a sugar refinery. A lot of rank molasses was accessible to the bees, and they gorged themselves on it. The result was their honey was equally rank, and unfit for use. On another occasion the bees fed on blooming digitalis, and their honey proved to be poisonous. Natural honey, therefore, is liable to vary very much, and occasionally, when it looks best and is sweetest, it may be loaded with poison. Unscrupulous bee-farmers are accustomed to forcing their bees to increase their output by feeding them sweetened water. The honey, of course, is scarcely fit for use.—Philadelphia Record. Ropy cream is the result of an imperfect physical condition of the cows. i

PREPARING FOR WINTER. t'Md Is the Real Source of the flavor mi Dairy rrodacU > The dairyman who wants good butter next winter should not miss to grow a bountiful crop of carrots and parsnips, says the Sew York Times. The excellence of the Jersey cows is unquestionably due to the parsnips which are fed to them, and for which the soil and climate of the Channel islands are so well adapted. These roots are wholly free from any objectionable quality, and confer a sweetness and aromatic flavor on the butter which are gained by no other food. It is as reasonable to believe that the fopd is the source of the flavor of the butter as it is that of the flavor of the flesh of an animal. And this, notwithstanding the avowed belief of a number of scientific persons—or persons who claim to be scientific—to the contrary. It is alleged by these persons that it is the individuality of the cow that gives the flavor to the butter. Common people know better, and no amount of scientific allegation will make them believe that when a cow cats garlic in the pasture or cabbages or turnips in the stable, it is the individuality of the animal and not the strongly-flavored food that contributes the special taste and ^ color to the milk and butter. And so it is the food to which the Jersey cow has been used for hundreds of years, and by which the milk and butter have been gradually increased until the large product from the food and the ability to consume a large quantity of the richest food have been fixed on the race and have become an essential characteristic of it. It is true that the Jersey cow possesses an individuality of her own, but this is a consequence and not an intrinsic natural ability; it is not an active, but a passive, characteristic, and nothing more nor less than a result of long training and education, fixed by breeding. Any other cow has the same possibility if the same means are taken to form it and perpetuate the distinct character. And every dairyman should so manage his herd as to develop and fix this improved condition. MILK JAR COVERS. A New Device Which Is a Ventilator of Unusual Merit. A ventila ting yet fireproof cover for dishes containing edibles has been invented by an Englishman and shown in a recent number of the London Invention. The patent consists principally of a frame work made in various

•VENTILATING COVER FOR MILK PAILS. shapes and sizes to fit different vessels used. The invention is urged as particularly applicable for use in dairies for covering pans containing milk or utensils from which customers are served. The arrangement represented by Fig. 1 consists of a wood or metal rim of such size and shape as to fit closely upon the top of the pan, and over this frame is stretched a covering of wire gauze, pr other suitable material capable of keeping out flies and dust without retarding proper ventilation or access of air to the contents. In the center o^ the cover or frame is fixed a second rim, forming an opening through which the milk may be served and which, when not in u*se for that purpose, may be closed by a hinged lid. The idea is applicable to pitchers, bowls, jam pots and all like vessels. Where the Trouble Comes In. Better roads are desired and advocated by everybody. The farmer needs them to go to and from his markets; the man of leisure and means wants them because they are pleasant to drive over. The wheelmen want them that their runs and exercise shall be taken under the most favorable conditions. There is no protest against them from any quarter. Everyone who uses a turnpike or the common dirt roads of the state is willing—completely and entirely willing—that somebody else shall pay for the improvement. Here is the place where the shoe begins to pinch. The farmers are, perhaps, more nearly concerned than any other class in the community, but allege they already pay an undue proportion of the taxes, and, therefore, are unwilling to saddle themselves with the expense of building better ro^ds for the benefit of others.—Farm and Home.

Concerning the First Calf. When a heifer is as pood as three years old, before her first calf is dropped, and the sire is a well-bred and fully-matured animal, the calf is not to be despised, but in the case of a two-year-old heifer the situation is altogether altered, and only under exceptional circumstances should her first calf be reared. Such an animal, as a rule, lacks size and constitution, and in nine cases out of every ten is sadly deficient in flesh and hair. Its destination should, therefore, be the shambles, and when it is well fattened its mother pays her way better than is possible under any other system.—N. Y. World. __ The great enemy of the currant is the currant worm, but with care to spray in pood season it is easy to keep it in subjection. Mulchinp is beneficial to currants, and they do best in rich soil. Sweet cream should be churned at a lower temperature than sour cream. About 50 deprees is proper.—Farmers’ Voice.

Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gor*t Report

-—Circulation of Currency: In 1600 the world had in-circulation £20,000,000 gold. £102,000,000 silver, and no paper; in 1890 there were £840,000,000gold£801, 000.000 silverand £771.000,000 of paper money—a total of £2,402.000,000 —or nearly 812,000.000.000. This includes the money of Europe, the United States, and the colonies of Great Britain, France and Spain. No account is taken of the worthless currency of the South American states. la August. The most charming Summer Resorts, of which there are over three hundred choice locations, are to be found in Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota and the Peninsula of Michigan, along the lines of the Qncago, Milwaukee & St. Paul R’y. Neazfyall are located on or near lakes which have not been fished out. These resorts are easily reached by railway and range in variety from the “full dress for dinner'’ to the flannel-shirt costume for every meal. SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER. The finest shooting grounds in the Northwest are on and tributary to the lines of the Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul R’y. The crop of Prairie Chickens promises to be exceptionally good this year; also Ducks and Geese. In Northern Wisconsin and the Peninsula of Michigan splendid deer shooting is to be had. The Game laws were changed in several of the Western States this year. Full information furnished free. Address Geo. H. Heafforo. General Passenger and Ticket Agent, Chicago, 111. Still DissATisFicn.r-The man who sighs for Live happy diiy W hen a barefoot boy he ran. Is the same old boy who used to say: “I wisht 1 was a man.” —Philadelphia Record. WEtEAT, 48 Bl'SHELS; RYE, 60 BU. Those are good yields, btit a lot of farmers have had them this year. You can have them in 1896 by sowing Salzer's Red Cross of*the Xoyth Winter Wheat, Monster Rye and Grasses. Sow now! John A. Salzer Seed Co., La "Crosse, Wis., send catalogue and samples of above free, if you send this noticJ^o them. [k] The end of a novel (compressed by the editor owing to lack of space* “ . . Ottokar took a small brandy, theu his hat, his departure, besides no notice of his pursuers, meantime a revolver out of his pocket, and lastly his own life.”—Deutsche Lesc hallo. Do You Desire to Adopt a Child? Address the International Children’s Home Society. 234 La Salle St., Chicago, Illinois, Rev. Dr. Frank M. Gregg, General Manager. Such a child as you may desire, of any age, will be sent you on ninety days’ trial. Flowers distilled, though they with winter meet, lose but tlieir show; their substance still lives sweet.—Shakespeare. Hall's Catarrh Cure % Is taken internally. Price 7oc. It is only the finite that has wrought and suffered ; the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose.—Emerson. T He—“I’ve been watehiug for a chance to kiss you for the last ten minutes.” She— “You must be near-sighted.’ —Life.

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