Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 23, Petersburg, Pike County, 18 October 1895 — Page 3

THE REPUBLICAN PROGRAMME. ( >A»a« of the Protectionists for Raising the Revenue. I The Washington correspondent of the t’hicajro Tribune is authority for the announcement thjat the republican leaders have practically agreed upon their financial programme for the coming session of congress. “The idea of more revenue through a revenue tariff on wool, with the Allison notes for emergencies, will be the republican financial scheme,” says this correspondent. Whether he has learned this directly from the republicans or by making a survey of the situation on his own account, very likely he is right. The republican leaders may not have come to a distinct understanding yet, but logically they cannot vote to increase the revenue without at the same time voting to protect somebody. Just now the wool growers are t^ne most clamorous of all the late republican proteges, and naturally their demands will be the first considered. Other producers of raw materials, such as coal and iron ore. are still protected to some extent, and there will be a certain degree of plausibility in the claim that the farmers who grow wool are as niuch entitled to protection as the cap italists who are concerned in the production of other raw materials. „r But the republicans cannot well rote to increase the duties on wool without at the same time voting to increase the duties on woolen goods. The woolen manufacturers must have I core protection if the price of their raw material is to be increased by protective duties. The republicans always have legislated upon this principle and they always must adhere to it, not only for the sake of consistency, but also in order to retain the support of their most valuable allies, the munu- j laeturers.

\\ hen they increase the duties on * manufactures of wool in order to compensate for the duties imposed on the raw material they will mlmit that the j effect of a duty, or, at reast, the intended effect, is to raise the price of j the article on which it is laid. They ! admit that a duty on wool is intended to raise the price of wool. They must, j then, admit that an increase in the duties on woolen goods is intended to increase the price of those goods. Otherwise raising those duties would . not compensate at all for the duties laid oh wool. Are the republicans prepared to admit that they wish to in- I crease the prices of all woolen goods? I What do they think consumers will j have to say to that? They must make j the admission, aud the democrats are ! willing that they should. As for the “Allison notes,” it will be ; necessary to issue securities of some kind if the government needs thirty } inilliou dollars more 1 revenue, as the ! republicans claim, and if no more rev- \ enue is to be provided except from j wool. No duties whieh the republic- j ans will dare propose on wool and woolens would provide more than half that sum. It is estimated that tins republican programme has been ilpreed upon on the assumption that the administration will not take the responsibility of recommending any plan for raising more revenue. “The administration,” w«j are told, “would like the revenue without the responsibility.” If the republican programme is wholly contingent upon this assumption we may rest assured that it will never be entered upon. President Cleveland has never yet hesitated to recommend any measure that he deemed necessary or of great importance and there is no reason to think that he is going to show the political white feather at this lata day. If he thinks there is a real need for more revenue he will not hesitate to say so or to let congress know that what he wants is revenue and enough of it, and not tariff protection for the Ohio shepherds oi anybody else.—Chicago Chronicle.

WHEAT EXPORTS. Improving Conditions Under the Wilson Law. A high tariff contemporary claims that Europe bought more “high-priced wheat from us under the McKinley law than low-priced wheat under the Wilson law.” Yes, it did in 1832 because of crop shortages that year and the year before in Europe. Crop damages were so great that some of the European countries suspended their duties on grain and otherwise favored by legislation the import of American wheat. But McKinleyism couldn’t help our farmers after that. Not only did our wheat exports fall off in 1893 over forty million bushels, but the price per bushel fell twenty per cent. Instead of recovering the lost ground in the next year of McKinleyism, wheat continued to fall in price. Not until "the Wilson bill had taken effect was any improvement perceptible. The average export price of No. 3 red wheat has been higher this year than at any time since Europe’s crop shortage in 1892. The average for the year has also been higher than during the corresponding period of last year under the McKinley bill. »jj When we compare quantities we find that up to the 1st of August about two million tlu*ee hundred thousand bushels more were exported than during the corresponding period of last year. Our crop shortage this year in winter wheat cut down exports considably until the spring wheat crop was harvested, but since the middle of September they have exceeded last year’s exports. We are ahead now of 1894 and are likely to make gains every week for several months over the year 1893 as well as last year. Wheat is higher now than it was a year ago and as high as it was in October, 1893. There is this difference, however. While the tendency of the market two years ago was downward it is now upward.—St Louis Republic. -Delusive comparisons of our trade daring the panic year and the one that followed it are well enough for organs of monopoly, but they are unworthy of Anyone who aspires to he a statesman. —Louisville Courier*Journal

NOT SO RUINOUS. rallaetoiu Predictloes of Republican* Bn* (trdins the Iron Tmdo. The prediction of the ruin of onr industries that was to follow the passage of the Wilson bill are still fresh in the minds of the people. Even their authors hare not forgotten them, though they ore praying for some “sweet oblivious antidote” that will remove them from the memory of others. The iron trade has long been regarded as a sort of barometer indicating the state of general business. It furnishes the implements of production to such an extent that it must be virtually affected by either an increase or decrease of activity in productive industries. The statistics of the business are carefully collected and published, the Iron Age being a leading authority. On March 1, 1892, the Iron Age reported the weekly production of American furnaces to be 193,902 tons of iron. This was the largest production ever attained up to that date. It was high-water mark under the McKinley bill or any previous tariff bill. It was uever equaled in any subsequent week before the repeal of the McKinley act. On August 1, 1894, *the beginning of the last month of the life of the “bill of abomination,” the weekly production of the furnaces was 115,113 tons. On August 28 the new tariff bill became a law. On September 1, 1894, the weekly capacity of the furnaces had risen to 151, llrftans. A year later, on September 1, 1895, the weekly output had risen to 194,029. This is not a large increase over the greatest previous production, but it is an increase. It is a new high-water mark, established under a tariff law which, however imperfect from the standpoint of tariff reform, was condemned everywhere in protection circles as a free trade measure and as certain to ruin our industries. Against these reckless and unfounded predictions, which we denounced at the time they were made, we have the satisfaction of setting the testimony of a protection author that the “barometer of trade” now registers a higher figure’ than it ever did before.—Louisville Courier-Journal.

SADDENED BY PROSPERITY. Republicans Distressed by Improved liuslo ness Conditions. The improvement in the finances of the country and in the general condition of business has disclosed the existence of a painful state of mind among the editors of certain republican papers. The announcement that the receipts of the treasury for the month will exceed the disbursements causes them deep distress. The estimate that the continuous deficit of the past two years will hereafter be replaced by a steadily increasing surplus is received by them with every indication of genuine sorrow. They try not to believe it. They even go so far as to argue that it must be a mistake. The}’ accuse the treasury department of withholding. payments, ■? of starving the government service, of juggling with the transaction of public business, of seeking to force a balance for the purpose of influencing the elections. What kind of Americans arc these w%ose hearts are saddened at the evidences of their country’s prosperity? What kind of patriotism is it which carries partisanship to such an extreme? Above all, where is the intelligence in acting the part of a mere calamity howler in a country in which prosperity is inevitable?—N. Y. World. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. -In the language ot the yachtsmen the McKinley boom shows signs of buckling—Chicago Chronicle. -Mr. Reed hasn’t been consulted in the proposed withdrawal of Harrison in favor of McKinlej*.—St. Paul Globe.

——If this title of prosperity keeps on rising,what will our republican friends have to talk about in the campaign of 189G?—Philadelphia Record. -Latest returns from the anxious bench are to the effect that Gen. Harrison is still on the lookout for that “great emergency.”—Grand Rapids Democrat. 0 -The republicans could talk with a good deal more assurance of the beauties of protection if McKinley were not such an embarrassing fact — Indianapolis News. -A few republicans attribute the return of prosperity to the republican congress that hasn’t met yet No wonder the lunatic asylums are crowded. —Anderson (Ind.) Democrat -Now that Tom Reed has had an engine company in Kentucky named after him, it is time for Gen. Harrisou and Maj. McKinley to do something noticeable quick.—Boston Globe. -Mr. Harrison wishes it distinctly understood that while he is not and will not be a candidate for the presidency, he must not be understood as recommending either Mr. McKinley or Brer Reed.—N. Y. Journal. -With the new tariff law producing sufficient revenue, it looks as if the next republican congress will not be troubled with the question that seamed to worry Senator Sherman the other day about the relief of the United States treasury.—Utica (N. Y.) Observer. -The south is in clover. Cotton and tobacco are bringing higher prices than for years. Correspondingly the demand for free coinage is abating. It will get so low after awhile that Tom Reed and Napoleon McKinley may be able to muster courage to tell how they stand.—Pittsburgh Post. -The republican national committee is shy forty thousand dollars and will locate the convention in the city that subscribes the amount. That scheme failing, possibly -Andrew Carnegie or some other manufacturer who has made millions out of the protection policy of the republican party and is planning to make more m the event of the return of McKinleyism might be induced to put it up.—Kansas City Star.

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE, —Yellow Cake.—One cop of granulated sugar, one-half cup butter, yolks of fire eggs, one-half cup of milk, two and one-naif cups of flour, one teaspoon of baking power, flavor.—Womankind. —Green Corn Griddle Cakes.—Six ears of green corn grated, stir in two eggs, one pint of milk, one pint of flour, two tablespoonfuIs of melted butter, a little salt, one teaspoonful of baking powder. Heat well and bake on a hot griddle.—Prairie Farmer. —Plum Porridge. — Take one-half pint of milk, add six raisins, and allow to cook for five minutes. Then take one tablespoonful of corn starch and moisten it with two tablespoonfuis of milk. Turn this quickly into the half pint of milk and stir back and forth until it thickens. Then cook for one minute and add one tabiespoonful of sugar.—Boston Budget. Soft Corn Bread.—Take one cupful of corn meal, the whites of two eggs, a tabiespoonful each of salt and sugar, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one cupful of boiled hominy or rice, and two cupfuls of milk. Scald the meal with a cupful of boiling water, add the hominy, milk and other ingredients, with a tablespoonful of melted butter, and bake in a pudding dish.—Good Housekeeping. —French Mustard.—Slice up an onion in a bowl; cover with good vinegar; leave two or three days; pour off vinegar into a basin; put into it on"e teaspoonful pepper, one of salt, one tablespoonful b^own sugar, and mustard enough to thicken; smooth the mustard for vinegar as you would flour for gravy; mix all together; set on the stove and stir until it boils, then remove and use it cold.—Farmer's Voice. —Peach Custard Pie.—Line a deep plate with rich crust. Then pare, stone and halve your peaches; lay them around in the lined plate, strew over them a half cup of sugar and a little cinnamon; beat one egg, a tablespoonful of sugar, and a heaping teaspoon of flour together smoothly, or until free from lumps, add one cupful of milk and pour the whole over the peaches and bake nicely.—Home. —Pickled Lily.—Chop very fine one peck of green tomatoes, two small heads of cabbage, three green peppers, four onions, six large cucumbers; put all in a large stone jar, and sprinkle over it a teacupful of salt, and let it stand over night. In the morning drain and scald in one quart df vinegar and two quarts of water; takeout with a skimmer and drain in a sieve; make a sirup of three quarts of vinegar and four pounds of sugar, and let all boil together for thirty minutes. Put up in glass or stone jars,—Prairie Farmer

HOUSEHOLD MYTHS. Th»7 Are Departing From the Modern Housewife’s Miutl. One one the household myths depart, to keep company with the leg-end of the apple shooting- and the fountain of perpetual youth. A very convenient myth of this class was the belief in “growing- pains.” The mother used it as the sufficient explanation of certain twinges and nips of pain which assailed her sons and daughters, and she invariably conveyed the idea that they were an inseparable concomitant of ■ the physical expansion and accretion that is the youth's most absorbing ambition. Now comes along one of the close-looking, anatyzing, statistical doctors of the period and puts the convenient consolation to flight. He insists that growth is natural and has no pains; but he finds, that pains come from overexertion of the muscles, as children will overuse them when entering enthusiastically into their games. If in the \ leg elevating and rubbing it will soon bring about what the old doctors ealled a “determination” of healthy blood to the part, which restores the overwrought tissue and gives swift relief. Those pains should not be neglected or overlooked, for children often have the beginnings of rheumatism, although it is generally regarded as a disease of age—that timely care from a skillful man may cure; and 1 nearly all fevers have “pains in the bones” as one of their preliminary stages, so that while “growing pains” as a distinct disorder are gone parents should not be indifferent to the sufferings of adolescence, but should take the “stitch in time.”—N. Y. Independent.

Table and Chair. The art journals and home magazines are full of suggestions for novelties in decorated chairs, footstools and fancy tables. I would respctfully submit a set of three pieces finished as follows: Get them of white pine and finish with a coat of wood filling and white varnish. Have the work well done, so that the grain is well brought out and the surface smooth. Now, paint upon each piece of furniture delicate sprays of hop vine with clusters of green hops. Do not attempt an “all-over” pattern, but upon the chair represent the vine as climbing up the chair, running across the seat and up two or three posts of the back with leaves and clusters of hops falling over the board at the- top. A bunch of the sprays might be massed on top pf the table with leaves and tendrils falling upon the sides and perhaps twining around one or two legs, and a heavy-clustered vine might be represented as thrown across one corner of the three-legged stool. Such a set of furniture would be cool-looking and pretty for a young girl’s bed-room, and would not be inharmonious with blue, white or yellow furnishings.— Toledo Blade. The Rival Beauties. Dear Girl—I wouldn’t go down ill a •oal mine for the world. Rival Belle—It’s nothing. I went down in one once. Dear Girl—I know I’d get all black and look like a fright. Rival Belle—I spent an hour in one, and none of the party tpoke of any change in my appearance when we came out. Dear Girl—But you are a very pronounced brunette, yon know.—N. Y Weekly* /

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