Pike County Democrat, Volume 27, Number 6, Petersburg, Pike County, 19 June 1896 — Page 7

AN OBJECT LESSON. Hi SstebU Iunm* |a Expoita of A bmi'V oa Muatantom. Despite all the discouragements and Setbacks which our foreign trade has recently suffered from jingoism and tariff-tinkering iu congress and from the disorders of our national currency, the retufts of the bureau of statistics show that oar exports of domestic manufactured products are uow greater than in any period of American history. - This is an object lesson for the whole nation, but especially for its millions of wage-earners. The returns for February last give as the value of our manufactured exports $17,265,164, and for the first two months of this year a total of nearly §36,000,030. If this rate is continued till next December the year 1896 will be memorable as by far the most prosperous year on record for the sale of the products of American labor in foreign markets These exports in no year under the McKinley tariff quite ' touched fl84.000,000. In the first year of the Wilson tariff's full operation they exceeded §200,000,,000. And now they promise in 1896 to go above $215,000.000!

It cannot be said that this increased sale of American manufactured prod* nets to the outside world is spasmodic. The growth in this important branch of our export trade, has been decided and steady ever since the Wilson tariff went fully Into effect The official figures show that while for the ei.'ht months ended with February, le93, the percentage of exports of manufactured articles to the whole body of our exports was’ 21.26, for the eight months ended with February last it rose to the gratifying and unrivaled figures of 24.41. The increase now reported by the government indicates a total export for the present year 20 per cent, larger than was ever attained under the McK'nley law and reciprocity, and from 30 to 40 per cent. larger than under previous high republican tariffs. It is exceedingly important that extraordinary efforts should now be made to develop the export trade in our domestic factory .products. Recent events have demonstrated that in not a few classes of goods our manufacturers are able to compete with the foreigner in the neutral markets of the world. Whatever is done to extend this trade creates a new demand for American labor and directly enhances Its Talue and its earnings. Nothing rn the past .has done more to deprive wage-earners of remunerative and steady employment than the strangulation of our export trade by high tariff restrictions and prohibitory duties laid upon imports. Even half a century ago our “infant industries” (as they were then catted) Were immensely stimulated and developed by the lowering of tariff rates and by free raw materials accorded by the famous Walker “free trade tariff of 1840,” Under that low tariff, our home manufacturers, as all authorities agree, were not “swamped;” but, as the historian Schouler says, “on the contrary they grew and prospered, for that best of all bounties was afforded them, raw materials unburdened by taxation, and the widest possible market with the universe.” And it gave a long quietus to tariff agitation, while it furnished the treasury a large surplus of revenue for many years. Even so high a protectionist authority as Mr. Blame. in his "Twenty Years of Congress.” referring to the tariff question in 1832, says: “The principles embodied in the tariff of 14*6 seemed for the time to be so entirely vindicated and approved that resistance to it ceased, not only among the people, but-among the protective economists, and even among the manufacturers to a large extent. So general was this acquiescence that in l'/6» protective tariff was not suggested or even hinted by any one of the three political parties which presented presidential candidates” The marked and unparalleled increase in our exports of manufactures which the monthly returns of the govment’^ statistics now show tq be in progress under the Wilson law ,s an invincible proof that our industries will not be-swamped by that tariff, but will eventually (other, things being equal) do very much better than they ever did under any republican tariff. The country will very soon see—if it does not already see—that republican tariff-tink-ering is not needed to advance the welfare of the manufacturers, bht is really a menace to their industries.

The scarred but starry nag ox tarin reform, surviving the storm of its many Ion}? battles, will float proudly in the coming campaign. It will announce that by the victory it achieved in 1!S9J the intolerable burdens of taxation for the benefit of ••protected” monopolies have been greatly reduced, our ports have been opened wider than ever before toadmit foreign products inde^pensable for the development of our domestic industries and the comfort of the people, and free wool and better clothing secured U> the shivering millions of America. Hut nodeyice that can be inscribed oo its shining folds will elicit more applause from the nation than that which signifies that it has carved a way beyond the seas by 'which the products of American mechanics and workingmen have already gained new and profitable conquests ic the most distant markets of the world. The facts answer os yvi*h a broadside of artillery all the flimsy objections of partisan republicans to the Wilson law. And if the standard beaters, who carried the banner of tariff reform in its first i conflicts now rally and unite in an aggressive Jacksonian campaign they will find the people with them in the fi^ht.— N. Y. lierald. l'n<l<»abt*4ty. Almost if not quite every protected industry in the qounlry is now controlled by a trust, pool or some other form of monopoly. McKinley** nomination will mean that the republican party intends to demand more subsidies for - these lawless conspiracies against the gmhlic welfare. —Kxchaura.

WILSON TARIFF VINDICATED. Official Statistic* An Very D»m**lng t% Republican Calamity BowIcch. The last monthly report of the bureau of statistics is very damaging1 to the calculations of those republican leaders who are counting upon winning the next presidential and congressional elections on the tariff issue. It clearly refutes their chaim that the new tariff is detrimental to the industries of the country and obstructive to its foreign commerce The report shows that for the last nine months, ending with the month of March of this year, the exports of domestic produce exceeded those of the previous nine months by 851,000,000; and the imports of foreign goods for the same period showed a gain of j S72,100,00a The exports for the last nine months also exceeded the imports for the same period by $8,000,000. The statistician who can derive anything in the new tariff detrimental to industry of commerce from theses fig we s must hove ingenuity enough to demonstrate that two and two do pot make

four. It is true that the revenues of the governmental the last 12 months have not covered its expenses. - This, however, is not due to any miscalculation j by the authors of the new tariff act. It is attributable solely to the decision | of the supreme court preventing the ■ collection of the iucome tax. The provision for that tax was a part of the new tariff scheme, and its i expected income was included in the estimate of revenue to be derived from the measure. Had the income tax been collected, there is no doubt that the revenues of the government would now be exceeding its expenditures. The annulment of this feature of the new tariff act could not reasonably have been anticipated, because a similar income tax had been collected by the government for a number of years without a question of its constitutionality. Possibly such exhibits of the working of the Wilson tariff as this bureau report gives may yet have the effect of checking'McKinley*# progress towards the presidential nomination of h:s party. Under his leadership, and with his unsntisfactory record on the currency, the tariff would have to be made the paramount issue, and the popular choice would be between the act not in force and a return to McKinley high protection, which the people so signally condemned in 1892. Evidently the republican opponents of McKinley have derived encouragement from some quarter within the last few days, and ,perhaps this official showing of the operations of the new tariff may have had something to do with it—At laots Journal. WHAT^MR. HAhN SAYS. McKinley’s Friend Tells a Reporter That the ftnslnes* Outlook Is I-uroursgtng. William M. Hahn, republican national committeeman for Ohio, is a McKinley boomer and a professional calamity howler. He has been busy for the past year in trying -udereate a publie sentiment in favor oN^he protection major by circulating stories of Wilson tariff ruin and free trade hard times. On that platform his efforts for McKinley have met with considerable success. a,nd he feels that he can now lay aside his mourner's mask and admit that business is really pfetty prosperous. While in New York city a few day?* ago he was interviewed for a leading * protection newspaper and said: "The business, outlook in Ohio ^encouraging. I have just bought p large farm near Mansfield, in that state, and am going to put sheep on it and raise wooL Manufacturing is booming, too. I- am interested in a" pump concern - dn Mansfield and we can't till our orders.” This is what Mr. liahn. the sheep-grower and manufacturer, says. Quite different from the doleful accounts of the condition of the iron working and wool industries spread abroad by M^. Hahn, the agent of McKinley. One - Mr. Hahn insists that* times are bad and everybody is being ruined by low taxes and increased trade. The other Mr. Hahn thinks'that it will pay him to raises sheep, while his pump factor}* is so 1 uw that it can pot till orders. Which Mr. Hahn is right?]

TRUST PROFITS Their roMibUUW of lnrr«it«e Illu'tr.ited In the Me«-1 Pool. According to au estimate printed in the leading1 protectionist organ of New York, steel billets can noiv be produced for a little over Jil a ton. When the steel trust takes a ton of steel n,t this cost and turns it into armor- plate for the government the estimated cost to the public treasury is $550 a ton. while for cannon i^is §1.000 a ton. The trust also sells steel rails’ in Japan cheaper than in this country, to meet English competition there. These figures and facts suggest the i extent of the profits which the trust extort from the public treasury in ad-° dition to the millions its lawless combination enables it to take fairly from private consumers. Its members are notoriously active ! in politics. They are' among the largest contributors to campaign funds. ; They are always ready to assert what they suppose to be the right of their money to control the country. When their possibilities of profits under the existing system are so great i it is not to be wondered that they fine ! it easy to secure money for their compaign contributions. n!or is it strange that they should be willing to give | them. They can afford to pay heavily to prevent the enforcement of laws intended to put an end to the trust sy» tern of plundering the public.—N. Y. World. __ Vow Tariff Help* Labor. We are selling an increase of $60, 000.000 worth of manufactured goods to foreigner^, under the operation of the present law taking the taa off raw material with prospects of itii further increase. The labor expendec in producing these goods is an oddi tion to the ordioary employment tl workingmen. This is a matter which it is worth while to consider from the labor* standpoint. —Philadelphia Boo cr4*

GOOD SUBSOIL PLOW. «•* to Moke One Which Does Perfectly Satisfactory Work. The following description of a homemade subsoil plow said to do perfectly satisfactory work when made strong enough is condensed from the Country Gentleman: Some 18 months ago I had occasion to visit a brother gardener in the western part of the county late in the fall, j and found him using a home-made subj soiler that exactly met my ideas of I what such a tool should accomplish, i It was a straight beam of hard wood | three by four inches in size and about i sin feet long, supported with an ordi- ; nary plow-wheel at each end, and carryj ing on either side between the wheels a stiff steel shank, which in turn carried a steel wedge-shaped shoe. The shank I _

of each shoe was a piece of mowings machine cutter-bar, about five-eighths of an inch thick and three or four wide. They were attached at the upper end by a bolt, one being on each side, and about two feet apart, and a slanting brace made of wagon tire was boated to the shank about a third of the way from the bottom and to the beam some IS inches ahead. The shoe was a piece of inch-steel about three inches wide, and in a finished condition about seven inches long, the back three inches being full size and the front drawn down to a tapering chisel-edge with a slight inclination down just sufficient to make it draw into the soil and rest upon the wheels. A clevis and handles attached like cultivator handles completed the outfit. At the time I saw the plow work there had been a prolonged drought, and it was being used in an undrained, heavy clay loam, and it did its work perfectly, with a not very heavy team drawing it. The surface plowing was nine inches, nud the subsoiler went seven inches lower, making a total nf 16 inches. I

could not find any lumps bigger Hhan a butternut. The entire iron work of the outfit was made by ti country blacksmith, and the Cost was quite small in proportion to the usefulness of the tool. Fig. 1 shows the plow as my friend had got it up. He had a hook clevis, and changed from one ploiv to the other every time round. The subsoiler ran as. steady as a mud sled, keeping'right down to its work without any exertion on the part of the driver. Its only weak point was the sid*» strain on the shank, which, having only a three-inch bearing against the beam and a 20-inch leverage, was liable to he bent sidewise and run either nearer or farther from its partner than was. best to insure equality of work. As height of beam is necessary to clear furfows with the double tree, this fault can only be remedied by putting jinoth^r and shorter beam below, bolting each shank to each. I give a drawing. Fig. 2. showing the construction after such a ulan.

A wcmo -"OUT TURKEYS. Wb/ If .Wu farmer* Should RaiK More of Them. There are not nearly as many turkeys grown as there should be. There is never a year that turkeys are not niort profitable than hogs, for they always bring a good price in the markets, ami the supply is rarely etjual to the de , maud. f ; • The bronze turkey is the favorite wit! - iveost breeders, as it grows to a large -ize. and is about the hardiest of all the varieties. The o’nlv rival it lias that amounts to much in the west is the white variety, which is growing in favor 1 because of its beautiful appearance w hen dressed, and the fine quality o! the meat. It does not grow as large as j the bronze turkey, at the same ige, bu; | is preferred by m&ny consumers, an ’ they are often willing to pay something extra to g%t one. Young turkeys (poults is the proper name ) are somewhat tender at first, and must be carefully looked after for the i tirst few weeks of their lives, and kept ; from being exposed to rains or earl . [ morning dews. They should be fed for the first few | days on bread dampened (not soaked) ' in sweet milk. With this may be given i cottage cheese made in the same man | ne.r as for the table, but with less sail 1 and more pepper in it.' After they get startet^ind begin to show the red cor* rugaf^s about the neck (•‘shooting the rwWtlos is called), they may be allowed perfect freedom, and they wil' , roam widely, searching for insects, j whiehrft iheir favorite food.—Farm and ; FireiWe. , j . % ‘ Separate Trough* for Touag Stock. It is not a great undertaking topro- | ride pi small trough in some convenient 1 lx,rMk'' *lfrt' they can eat their soaked > cor^^bd milk unmolested by old»r ! stock. They learn at an early age tc { visit their sideboard and their appreciation of its contents increases daily, j As time goes on they will become more dependent upon their side ration, until, as you go the round with the feed buckets, you are reminded Miat you have another regular lot on jTiur feed loll. By the time they are ten or twelve weeks old you have them weaned with but 1 ittle nmemony. They have become so attacdv to their feed trough that they miss their mother but lit tie, and the sow wiM have reduced in the flow •f milk, making weaning a very simple matter.—Pacific Rural Press.

COST OF PATENTS. A caveat may be filed is Canada just as in the United States, the entire expense being1 $20. A Spanish patent covers Spain and all the Spanish colonies that are not held by insurgents. In Russia a patent may be taken out, at the- pleasure of the patentee, for three, five or ten years. A German patent must be worked in that country within three years from Its date or it becomes xoid. Ahy new or original design for the printing of silk, cotton, woolen or other fabrics may be patented. All patents are issued in the name and under the seal Of the United States and of the patent officfc. All patents are assignable by law," and an interest in a patent may be assigned as easily as the whole. The cost of an application for a British patent is $50, whileh includes government tax and all h^pen9?8- i The fee in design cases for three years and six months is ten dollars, for 6even years $15, for 14 years $&?. A new and useful shape or configuration of an article of manufacture entitles the inventor to patent right. All specifications ahd claims must be signed by the investor and attested by the signatures of ttao witnesses. Any new or useful improvement upon a machine, manufacture or device not previously known may be patented. -HhIN THE STATES. On a farm 12 miles from Lititz, Pan the custom still prevails of carrying grain to the mill slung over the right shoulder of a horse, with a big stone on the left side to balanceit. It is more costly to beat a mule than to beat a wife in Clay county, Mo. A man there was fined $3-5 for beating liis mule, and another map, for thrashing his wife, got off with a fine of three dollars. ‘ A bounty of one cent is paid for each squirrel tail in Spokane eounty. Wash. One man recently brought to the commissioner 1,334 tails aijd another 1,056. The squirrels there art? playing havoc with the crops. ! >.~A seven-acre tract at muck on All Gottshall’s farm in Harrison township, near Logansport, Ind.,j has-jbeen burning for more than a year, &nd even the recent heavy rains hav^ failed to extinguish the fire, Holes have been burned to a depth of eight or! ten feet. The tract is a perfect honeycomb and the ground is almost ruined.

POINTS ABOUT fCLOTHES. Black petticoats arc made of taffeta silk, alpaca. sateen an<| moreen. A plain black satin Iduchesse is the most fashionable .material for a black silk costume. / Stiffly starched/whitfe petticoats are no longer iconsra^red sgo°d form for anj’ occasion. i The underclothing Worn in traveling depends entirely ppon where one is going. Heavy winker flannels are not too warm for an ocean trip. Suede kid gloves ate always preferred for evening wepr, and are also worn for day occasions, though the glace kid is preferrep for the latter use. For a nice wpoien gown for all occasions have a black mohair or finelvtwilled serge. Then kvear different colored crush collars of velvet or ribbon with it.—Ladies’ IJome Journal. FOR THE HOME DRESSMAKER. Never gore both sides of the widths of a thin cotton gowni Steam the rain spotsj on your velvet cape and brush up the pile with a whisk while holding the wrong side of the material over a steaming tea-kettle. When a petticoat pushes toward the front it shows that ijt has fullness there which ought to be in the back, and it may also mean that the back of the skirt is too long. 1 To take the creases opt of your black silk skirt either dip <fach piece in a bath of naphtha (remembering always that naphtha is very explosive) and, hang out-of-doors to dry. or lay a wet sheet on the right side| of the silk,, end iron until dry. I'nfortunately, this latter method 13 aut ;to remove the glovaTHE MARKETS.

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