Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 17, Petersburg, Pike County, 6 September 1895 — Page 7

TURNS FROM PROTECTION. Iwtnlls la Sick of High Tariffs—Now Booth Walea Has Voted for Freer Trade Than Mow Estate In Any Country. The New York Evening1 Post of July IS contains an interesting editorial on “Free Trade in Australia.** It says in Pftrt: „ “Students of political development ! have always found abundant material . in the history of the Australian colo- ; nies. Nowhere has there been a greater j abundance of experimental legislation, j nor a better opportunity to compare its results. The colonies afford a sufficient basis of comparison in the substantial homogeneity'of their population and In the common origin of their < institutions and their law. * The neighboring colonies of Victoria and New South Wales have especially furnished material for economic parallels, and the contest between protectionists and free traders have nowhere been more spirited or more continuous. Up to a recent date New South Wales stood upon the whole for free trade, Victoria for protection. At present Victoria is reducing protective duties in a drastic manner, while the situation in New South Wales has become interesting in the highest degree. \ “Owing to a combination of circumstances which it is not necessary to particularize, the cause of protection has of late years made considerable progress in that colony. But this progress was of an artificial nature, and its chief result appears to have been to cause such a reaction in favor of free trade as promises toextend that principle farther than it is carried in any country in the world. The budget offered by Mr. G. II. Reed, the premier and treasurer of New South Wales, proposed to abolish at once the protective duties imposed by the late government of Sir George Dibbs, and to abolish gradually, but within six ygars, all other customs duties except those on stimulants and narcotics. This involved an immediate loss of revenue amounting to £550,000 which was to be • made good by reducing expenditures by £200,000, by a land tax of a penny in the pound, estimated to produce £400,000, and an income tax of sixpence in the pound, which was to bring £10$,000. The bills embodying this scheme “Srere carried triumphantly through the legislative assembly; but the upper house threw out the laud and income tax by an overwhelming majority. Upon the issue thus raised Mr. Reid hai appealed to the country, and it is encouraging to hear that Mr. Reid has just defeated Sir Henry Parkes in Sydney, and there is good reason to believe that he will resume oflice with an overwhelming majority behind

nun. “The opposition to Mr. Reid’s policy comes from several sources. Just as •we found it in this country, the sugar industry causes the most trouble. The production of sugar has hitherto been protected by a high import duty, and the producers have enjoyed very great profits. They are united under the leadership of a great refining company, and their influence appears to be nearly as formidable as that encountered by our revenue reformers in last year’s struggle in the senate. There is opposition, too, on the part of the extS*erae advocates of land taxation, who think that Mr. Reid’s scheme does not go far enough, as well as on the part of the land owners, who think it goes too far. In fact, the tax is a very moderate one, amounting to as much as £40 only in the case of about 1,600 estates, and if the land owners were enlightened enough, they would consider that the vakie of their property would increase under free trade" as it did in England, j “Opposition has also appeared from another quarter. The federation of the Australian colonies has for some time engaged the attention of a number of ambitious politicians, among whom are to be found some leading protectionists like Sir George Dibbs. But it seems to be understood, and is, in fact, openly declared, that if free trade is to prevail in New South Wales, it will put an end to the federation schemes. It is very frankly admitted in Victoria, where Mr. Reid’s budget has been studied with as much interest as in New South Wales, that if its proposals are adopted Sydney will become one of the great ports of the British empire. It will be the great central market of Australia, and will draw to itself the commerce of the ports that are hampered with protective duties. It is true that the manufactures of Victoria would obtain free admission into New South Wales, but only in competition with the free trade prices of the manufactures of the world. Under the baneful influences of such increased commerce as free trade will cause, it appears to be felt that the cause of protection must decline

throughout Australia. ine otner colonies will be compelled to throw down their customs barriers unless they wish to see themselves distanced, and when confronted with the alternative of protection or prosperity, will, however reluctantly, choose the latter. This may delay the federation of the Australian colonies, but it will hasten their admission to the federation of the world.” - Object Lesson foe Farmers. Farmers have a tariff object lesson very easy to learn when they buy binding twine this year to bind their immense crops of wheat and oats. Last year it was retailed here at from 9 to 10 cents per pound; this season it is being sold at from 4% to 6 cents. Last season the McKinley tariff was in force, to-day it is admitted free under the Wilson bill. And, strange to say, not a twine factory in the country has been cloved up, but all are rubbing on full time and at higher wages than were paid two years ago.—Wayne (Neb.) Democrat. Trad* Reviving. Every indication points to a heavier Volume of trade this fall than has been known for several years. In many respects the conditions resemble those of 1879 after the restoration of specie payment and the awakening from the long business depression that succeeded the panic of 1873.—Chicago Times-Heraid.

AMERICAN BEEF. Tfe* M cKinley Bill Was Ke«poaalMs far the Lom of a Market. American farmers who And that they are not receiving aa high prices for their beef as they think they should, will bb interested to learn that the McKinley tariff was the cause for the loss of a considerable market for American beef. Previous to 1893 the moderate French tariff on cattle and meat did not prevent the importation of those products of the American farmer. But the passage of the McKinley bill, with its heavy, almost prohibitory, duties on French manufactures so irritated the people of France that the spirit of retaliation made it possible to greatly increase the tariff on cattle and meat. By the French tariffs adopted in 1893 the expense of importing cattle was raised so high that importation practically ceased.' The cost of bringing a single head of beef into Paris from the United States amounted in some instances to more than S2d The result was the loss of the French market to the American farmer. This action on the part of France is instructive as showing conclusively that protection is an arbitrary, injurious and mutually destructive policy, and that if its idiotic principles were carried out by all countries the result would be a war of tariffs which would be harmful to ail the world. Americans who thiuk that protection is a good thing for the United States, but who loudly complain when Germany shuts our pork out of that country,. France refuses to buy our beef, or Greece prohibits the importation of our oil, are very inconsistent. They ought to know that if we declare that we will not buy of other nations we may be sure that those countries will refuse to buy from us. And according to the protectionist notions international commerce would cease, for each country would prohibit the purchase of foreign goods. Fortunately the loss and injury caused by such protective tariffs as already exist are so evident that enlightened sentiment everywhere declares in favor of their repeal, and their entire abolition is only a question of advancing civilization.

PROTECTION SWINDLE, A Fraudulent Vretense—Prohibitive Duties Yield No Keveaup. • The New York Press insists that in • order to secure more revenues the country must return to the McKinley tariff. At the same time that trade-hating organ demands the imposition of duties sufficiently high to “keep American markets for our own goods,” and asserts that under democratic rule “our markets have been handed over to foreigners ” It does not appear that the Press understands the real nature of the protec* | tion swindle which it advocates; for in j favoring a tariff high enough to shut out i* reign goods and keep our markets for ourselves, it loses sight of its | claim that a Jiigh tariff is necessary in order to raise large revenues. If it is sound public policy to keep out foreign goods by a prohibitive wall, how is it possible to obtain any revenue from duties on goods? On the other hand, if foreign products come in in spite of duties of from 50 to 120 per cent, how is the home producer benefited? If foreign goods are sold instead of those manufactured at home, it does not matter that their price may be increased by added customs duties, so long as they take the place of domestic products. The short-sighted manufacturer wants protection so that it will prevent outside competition, will not be satisfied with anything less than the total exclusion of foreign goods. But if a tariff is constructed on those lines how will it yield large revenues? It must be apparent to every intelligent citizen that the two reasons which the Press gives for returning to McKinleyism, directly contradict each other. A high tariff either excludes foreign goods, in which case no revenue is derived, or else it admits them to our markets. It cannot prevent competition and at tl^e same time provide for public expenses. It is either a barrier to commerce or a fraudulent pretense to benefit our home industries. In either case it is an exploded superstition. B. W. H. A WORN OUT CREED.

Victoria Moving f or Tariff Reform and f reer Trade. The news that Victoria is making a^ step forward in free trade and proposes to admit many articles free of customs duty will be good news to American manufacturers. Among the articles pvt on the free list of Victoria’s new tariff are: American miners’ gum boots, carpets and felt druggets, India-rubber gloves and skin rubbers, cotton twine, wooden buckets, many articles of iron hollowware, staves (roughly dressed, but not shaped,) hickory (rough and unbent,) elm hubs, sycamore, parts of pneumatic tires, breast drills and bucket-ears and preparations of invalids’ and infants’ foods. A reduction also is proposed by both the Victorian government and the tariff board on the duty of nearly every article in the present tariff law, and the government proposes to raise more revenue by a duty of IS shillings or $3.75 per gallon on spirits. Victoria has long been conspicuous for her high tariffs and blind attachment to “protectionism.” But apparently she has learned the folly o! this “worn out fiscal creed” of despotic restriction and repression, which in practice has everywhere worked so disastrously to commerce. It seems evident that “protectionism” is dying out in Austrwba.—N. Y. Herald. Slip of the Types. “Protection raises wages,” wrote the protective tariff liar. But the intelligent compositor set it up “protection razes wages,” and his free trade friends congratulated the editor on his eclipse into truthfulness. Poor Prospect. The prospect for the calamity howlers grows gloomier every !Uy, and the I dawn of an era of prosperity through* out the country means sure death i« , these narasites.—Detroit Free Pres* j

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE. —Raspberry Costard.—This is mads by dissolving- one pound of white snjar in three gills of berry juice and mixing erith ii one pint of boiling cream. Stir until quite thick snd serve in custard glasses.—Orange Judd Farmer. —Cracker Croquettes. — Give ns a little dish in which to use up the I rokep pieces of stale crackers; put them into a bowl, eover with milk, let them soak until soft. Now this most be a rather thick paste; add the yolks of fwo eggs, and a little salt and grated rind of a lemon. Form into cylinder shaped croquettes; dip first in egg, then in bread crumbs, and fry as or* dinary croquettes.—Western Rural. —Pulled Chicken.—Take one or two chickens, cut off the legs, rumps and wings. Egg and bread crumb, them, snd broil them over a clear fire a light b»own. Pull the flesh frem the remaining part into little flakes. Have one-half cupful of boiling cream thickened with a little butter and flour, the gravy that came from the chicken when roasted, a seasoning of stilt and a little nutmeg. Put in the pulled chicken and toss it over the fire. Then put it into the center of a dish with the back on it and the legs and wings around it. A squeeze of a lemon added the last thing, and the peel of onefourth of a lemon minced fine and added to the pulled chicken is an improvement.—Boston Budget. —Preserved Watermelon „ Rinds.— Cut the riods in long pieces two inches wide. Remove the green outside rind, also any of the soft part of the melon. Cut in small squares and let them stand in strong alum water two or three hours, then in fresh water one hour. Make a sirup, using one pound of sugar to every pound of rinds and enough water to moisten it. When it boils put in the rinds and cook them until they look clear, or about one hour. Take out the melon and boil the sirup down thicfl. J ust before it is done add one lemon to every three pounds of sugar j’ou have used. The lemon should be sliced and all the seeds removed. Then return the rinds to the sirup, allow it to boil a minute or two, pour into glass jars and seal.—

Farm and Fireside^ —A Delicious Russian Dish.—Macedoine a la Russe, a dish fit for the gods, is something like a fruit salad. Peel and slice thinly three oranges and put them in a china mold. Scatter over these a layer of single grapes, wiped thoroughly dry; then a handful of fresh berries, intermixed with finely shredded almonds and small pieces of pineapple; cover these with another layer of grapes, hedged in with slices of oranges, so that the top as at the bottom of the Macedoine, they are the first. Melt two gills of gelatine in a pint of water; add a wineglassful ol liquor, a tumbler of sirup of sugar, a liquor glass of anisette and two tablespoons of kummel. Take a small handful of Russian violets (petals) and throw them into this mixture; pour it over the fruit and put the mold in crushed ice until set. When ready to serve garnish with Russian violets.— Detroit Free Press. MALARIA AND WATER. Precautions Necessary for the Preservation of Health. The most recent scientific authorities are of the opinion that malaria is a water-horn disease. In vast malarial districts it is not the air which the inhabitants breathe, but the water they drink which brings on the much dreaded malarial fever. That is the case in some sections of the land has been clearly proved by the immunity from such families as depended on filtered rain water and not on the wells of the country. It has also been noted that horses and other animals brought into certain sections of the country thrived well so long as they were housed and drank from the cistern supply of the barns, but sickened and died when left to wander in the fields and drink from brooks and pools. If this should be clearly proven it might be possible to stamp out one of the greatest evils of iife in some sections of the country. It is not a difficult, matter to collect the rain water in a clean cistern. It should be passed through a filtering medium that is frequently renewed, as it is now known that a filter too long in use becomes one of the most effective means of contaminating the water it is intended to” purify. The filter that is clogged up with impurities is far worse than none at all, and this is the condition of a great many cistern filters. As an extra precaution, even the cistern water ou£ht to be boiled, poured in a clean earthen jar and cooled in a pure atmosphere. The ice formed from contaminated water is almost as objectionable as the unfrozen water itself, as a large number of bacteria are undisturbed by frost. Such a jar of boiled water should be daily renewed, as if it is left standing any length of time it will sopn take on the same objectionable features as the water of the country.—N. Y. Tribune.

Cleaning Kitchen Woodwork. A housekeeper with half a century’* experience says that cleaning kitchen tables and sinks with soap is a great mistake. It disintegrates the fiber of the wood and turns it yellow. She says that very hot water and borax, or very hot water alone with plenty of strength will give the very best results. This is all very true, provided one uses cheap soaps made of chemicals and all sorts of abominations, but home-made soap, which should abound in every wellregulated kitchen, will not produce this effect; and the work is much more easily and quickly done than with simple hot water and scrubbing. One of the points of grace in women’s work is to have learned to do things easily as well as to do them thoroughly. A woman might, with much more profit, occasionally buy a new table than to mULr her strength and life out cleaning the old-one, when by a. little knowledge of science and chemistry she could neutralise the grease and wash off the compound of oil and alkali with a few dashes of boiling water.—N. Y. Lodger.

FARM AND GARDEN. GOOD FOR EVERYBODY. Hm Employment of Convict Labor In the Ball (I Ins of Bond*. Two subjects have been occupying public attention quite largely recent* ly. They may be considered by some as closely related. At all events North Carolina and several other states have managed to unite them in a way that hits led to the solution of the problems involved in both. One of these questions Is that of good country roads. It has been occupying public attention from Maine to California, and with one voice the people have declared in favor of securing such roads at almost any cost. The reign of the bicycle is here, and that of the horseless carriage is believed to be coming, but good roads are an absolute necessity to the maintenance of both. The other question referred to is that of convict labor. State legislatures, in the great majority of cases, yielding to the public clamor, have declared in no equivocal way that the product of the penitentiaries must not be placed in the market to compete with free labor, nor can it be used as an instrument wherewith to beat down the wages of the industrious and law-abiding workman. How to observe these laws and yet prevent the penal institutions of the country from becoming a drain on the resources of the taxpayers is something prison authorities everywhere have been trying to find out. Some states have hit upon the plan of making the convicts provide what is universally wanted in the way of good roads, thus keeping them profitably employed without taking the bread out of the months of any who are dependent upon their day's labor for their sustenance.

A bulletin has been issued by the department^ agriculture telling of recent experiments made in the 6haployment of convict labor in road building in the states indicated. North Carolina, New York, Delaware and California have all tried the plan and all report it to be a success. In North Carolina the cost of maintaining the convicts while thus employed has been 24 cents for each convict per diem, while their labor has been worth from 50 to ”5 cents a day. The general health of the convicts has improved since they were first employed on the roads. The warden of the state prison at Auburn, N. Y., heartily indorses the plan and estimates the cost of road making with convict labor at $800 a mile. In California the execution of the plan has been found to be good for the convicts, good for the roads and good for anybody who has occasion to use them.— Chicago Evening Post. TREES ALONG ROADS. Ill eh way Adornment Ii Sore to Follow Highway Improvement. New interest seems to be centering about the good-roads movement. Probably this is due in some measure to the fact that bicycles are coming more and more into use. It is only a question of time until every public thoroughfare of any importance will be constructed, first, with a view to making it passable for bicycles and rubber-tired carriages, which are being introduced in every part of the country. Already, in some cities, more capital is invested in bicycles than in carriages or wagons, and the young men and women of the country are taking , unto themselves wheels.

Another thing which will hare considerable influence on the roads of the country is the branching out of the electric lines. These electric railways, which in a few years will connect the important towns of the country, will carry a great deal of the farmers’ produce iuto the towns, so that there will not then be the same occasion for heavy traffic that there is now. Anyone _ who has traveled abroad knows the pleasure which comes to the wheelman, as he travels over the compact and evenly constructed roads of England and the continent. While they are immeasurably behind us in everything which pertains to agriculture, they do have splendid roads. You know the German people as a nation are very thrifty. TJiey don’t allow much waste in any quarter. Along their public highways are planted different varieties of fruit trees—pears, apples, plums, etc.— grown in one or two rows on each side of the road. Bow beautiful those roads are! The trees produce shade, which takes away that glitter and glare, as well as softens the heat, which make our gravel roads very disagreeable to travel on during the hot months. In many quarters pf our country maple or walnuts have been planted for miles along the public roads, and how welcome such a stretch of road is to the traveler, and how inviting it must be to the hot and weary horse. If it were only for the shade, trees should be planted along every main highway. But wherever we can combine utility with beauty and comfort we should do it; so why not plant the more thrifty fruit frees along our public roads?— Farm and Fireside.

UmMtone as Top Dressing. Limestone was formerly regarded as one of the best rocks for top dressing and it has been exclusively used for such purposes; it has, however, proved very unsatisfactory in the long run, and in many parts of the country lime* atone macadamized rocids are being taken up and reconstr ucted of more satisfactory materials. The rock wears easily into an impalpable powder when dry and forms a sticky paste when wet. Hard limestone makes an excellent roadbed but should never be used for surface dressing. Ther is a temptation to use limestone for such purposes because they are easily broken and pack readily on account of their friability, but they wear out with equal readiness and soon req uire repairing. —John C. Brannar, State Geologist, Arkansas.

Highest of all in Leavening Power*—Late* U. 5. Gov*l Report i

—Twelve members of Lord Salisbury’s cabinet are directors in from one to fonr commercial companies each, according to the Investor’s Review, which seven are free from entanglement Mr. Arthur Balfour is one of the latter, but his brother Gerald, the new chief secretary for Ireland, is director in no less than seven companies of a speculative character. A Syndicate of Monsters. Here are the names of the abominable trio that compose it hated and abhorred1 by man and womankind - dyspepsia, biliousness and constipation. What is the most successful way to attack and squelch these united monsters? Take Hostetler's Stomach Bitters. and they will pull up atakes and make tracks for parts unknown, leaving no trace behind. The Bitters also exterminates malaria, rheumatic and kidney trouble and nervous ailment. She—“It can never be. All I can promise you is a mere acquaintanceship.’1 He“Then accept my offer of marriage. It will drift into mere acquaintanceship fast enough.”—Indianapolis J ouraaL Skinny Sufferers Saved. Tobacco users as a rule are away below normal weight because tobaroo destroys digestion and causes nerve irritation that saps brain power and vitality. You can get a quick, guaranteed relief by the use of No-To-Bae, and then if you don't like your freedom and improved physical condition you can learn the use of tobaoco over again, just like the first time. No-To-Bac sold under Siarantee to cure by Druggists everywhere. ook free. Ad. Sterling Remedy Co., New York City or Chicago.

UA fit husband for my daughter! Why, in the first place, she is half a head taller than you.” ‘‘Well, sir, I don't expect to bo so short after 1 am married.'’—Life. Cheap Excursion* to the WestBountiful harvests are reported from all sections of the west and northwest, and an ■ exceptionally favorable opportunity for home seekers and those desiring a change of location is offered by the series of lowrate excursions which have been arranged by the North-Western Line. Tickets for these excursions,yrith favorable timelimits, will be sold on August 29, September 10 and 24 to points in Northern Wisconsin, Michigan, Northwestern Iowa, Western Minnesota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming. Utah and a large number of other points. For full information apply to agents of connecting lines, or address \y. B. Kniskern. General Passenger and Ticket Agent Chicago & North-Western R’y, Chicago, I1L After physicians had given me up, I was saved by Piso's Cure.—Ralph Erieq, Williamsport, Pa., Nov. 22,1S93. Host—“Never shall I forget the time when I first drew this sword.” Chorusi— “When was that!” Hoat—“At a raffle.”— Firefly. Hall’s Catarrh Cura Is taken internally Price 75c. Some men lose their nerve when they go to a dentist’s, and others wish that they hadn’t any to lose.—Texas Sittings. Those who for the first time are to become mothers should use “Mother’s Friend.” Much suffering will be saved. Sold by druggists. An inference.—“Accidents will happen!” *What have you donel” v j

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of Consumption is stopped short by Dr. > Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. If you haven’t waited beyond reason, there’s complete recovery and cure. Although by many believed to be incurable, there is the evidence of hundreds of living witnesses to the fact that, in all \ its earlier stages, cont, sutnption is a curable ^disease. Not every “case, but a large percentage of cases, and Pwe believe, fully 98 per cent, are cured

Dy L/T. nerces uoiaen xaeaicai discovery, even after the disease has progressed so far as to induce related bleedings from the lungs, severe lingering cough with copious expectoration (including tubercular matter), great loss of flesh and extreme emaciation and weakness.

Although she had a gift, as people said, A generous gift of song from Nature free* Her dear papa with rage fell nearly dead At finding each short lesson cost a V. ' - Pittsburgh Dispatch, “Costs back t come back!” be cried in grta& “My daughter! oh, my daughter!”' But she sat hid behind her sleeves, And hopelessly he sought her. -Philadelphia Press. A Golden Harvest Is now assured to the farmers of the Weak and Northwest, and in order that the people of the more Eastern States may see and realize the magnificent crop conditions which prevail along its lines, the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul R’y has arranged a 1 series of three (3) Harvest Excursions for Augusts, September 10 and 34, for which round trip excursion tickets (good for return on auy Friday from September 18 to October 11 inclusive) will be sold to various points in the West, Northwest and Southwest at thu low rate of about One Fare. , For further particulars apply to the nearest coupon ticket agent or address Geo. H. Heafford. Gon't. Passenger Agent, Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul R'y, Chicago. * H*—“A fellow called me a donkey the other dav.” She—“Didn’t you feel like kicking him t*’—Detroit Free Press.1 Ignorance is less removed from the truth than prejudice—Diderot.

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