Pike County Democrat, Volume 27, Number 13, Petersburg, Pike County, 7 August 1896 — Page 7

r PROTECTION DEFEATED. P«opU> tfc* Melto* tojrtta Doctrine of Door floods and Bo* ■Cirletod Trod*. A general election for members of linment for the Dominion of Canada held on June 23. The two great political parties of the country were divided on the tariff question, the tories, or conservatives defending the protection policy which they had forced on the people 18 years ago, and the liberals advocating a reduction of duties and the adoption of a purely revenue tariff system. The sectarian school question and other minor issues of recent origin were also discussed, hut the tariff was the great national issue The conservatives appealed to the electors for support on the ground that protection had built np new in* dustries, had increased wages, and had given the farmers larger home mar-; beta. They claimed that a high tariff was necessary in order to protect Canadian workers and farmers against the cheap labor products of the United States, and urged a continuance of the policy of trade exclusion. Admitting their responsibility for the tariff legis- j lation of the past 19 years the Canadian I McKinleyites asserted that the condi- j tion of trade and industry proved that high taxes had brought prosperity, and for that reason they looked confi- j dently for a popular verdict in their I favor. The liberals have fought protection ever since its establishment in 1678. j They denied that the people of Canada j could be made prosperous by high r taxes. In answer to the claims of the conservatives they showed that since the protective system went into opera- j tion public burdens had greatly in- ! creased; trade and manufacturing had undergone prolonged depression: the ] agricultural industries had languished | and the people had grown poorer than under a low tariff. The alleged benefit j to labor was proven to be a sham by the faet that ainoe protection was i adopted nearly 1,000,000 Canadians had been forced to emigrate to the United States in search of employment. The natural course of trade with this country was obstructed by the tariff wall, and the Canadian consumers were forced to pay higher prices for inferior goods in order to benefit a few domestic manufacturing concerns. Heavy taxes On sugar, cotton, iron and steel,

glass, coni ape etc., stimulated the erection of some mills and factories for the production of those articles, but instead of lower prices resulting ' from domestic competition each nod every one of those protected industries formed trusts which raised prices and restricted production. The farmers were the greatest sufferers and many districts were depopulated by the failure of the men who cultivated the soil to make a living. An effective liberal Campaign argument was the question: ‘‘Has protection made you rich?” which met the voters’ eye on every page of the liberal newspapers, was posted en fences and barns, and was Mattered broadcast on hand bills. t The result of the election wap an'; overwhelming victory for the party or low tariffs, and an emphatic defeat for the lory protectionists. In spite of attempts to create prejudice against the liberals by representing them as the friends of the hated Yankees, and fegainst all the , influence of the pro* tooted trusts and railway monopolies which had been enriched by the party in power, the Canadian people elected 111 liberal members of parliament and 83 conservatives, x The present government will be forced to resign at once, and Hon. Wilfred Laurier, an outspoken free trader, will become premier. W bidder Graham. > f TAXES ARE TOO HIGH. S TcMlfney to KtlrsmcMM That Should Hf t booked at Once. The protectionists say they want sore protection so that the tariff will yield enough revenue for, the expenses of the government' They forget that there was a much better and easier way of making receipts and expenditures balance. This was the cutting down of the extravagant appropriations from the figures set by the billion dollar congress of 1890, and which the subsequent democratic congress reduced a little but not enough. If the republicans had been sincere in their professions of a desire to have a tariff which will give abundant revenues, they should have refused to appropriate millions of dollars for useless and corrupt purposes Reduction of expenses, and not increased customs receipts, was the sure aud simple remedy for the treasury deficit.

It is time for the American people, , without regard to party or theories of * taxation, to earnestly protest against any increase in the public burdens National, sate and municipal taxes are already far tod high, and the tendency has steadily been in the direction 0 of greater extravagance and ne w armies of tax eaters. Salaries of public officials hare been advancing all along the line, though money has a greatly increased purchasing power, and buys twice as much of most kinds of goods as it did SO years ago. The wealthereators of 8te country are supporting far too many office holding parasites, who give little or no return to the men who pay the taxes f Taxes mean work- Over 91,000,000,•00, goes every year to pay expenses of the municipal, state and national governments A large part of this immense sum is practically wasted. The labor which goes to produce this billion dollars' worth of wealth is so much poorer by every dollar for which it does not receive a fall equivalent Is it any wonder that the people can- ' not buy back as much goods as they produce, when so much of their products is taken to support non-pro-duoersf It is unfortunately true that politi--Isos of all parties are inclined to favor big appropriations But the center of the evil lies in the protectionist theory that tariff taxes are paid by the foreliner, and that, anyway, extravagance in spending public funds will justify higher duties on goods the people buy from other countries, ■very eitisen who thinks he is already

paying |m — against McXlnieyism and its threat! of more taxation. Greater economy and less taxes are what the 70,000,000 Americans really need. NOTHING AGAINST TRUSTS. Why the St Loots Convention Failed to Taekls Then®. The American people, irrespective of party, believe that if th^y are poor in the midst of plenty it is because they are robbed of the products of their labor. Chief among the agencies which rob them are the great trusts and monopolies which control the manufacture of nearly all the commodities consumed by the masaea The question of breaking down these combines which oppress the people sre of the foremost issues of the day. Relief from trust exactions, and the abolition of the power of monopolies to make fortunes out of the poor, is earnestly demanded by practically every American citisen. Tet the platform of the republican national convention is absolutely silent on the subject of vjwets. Not one word of condemnation for ,'feose conspiracies against the people was inserted in the declaration of principles given to the country, nor did one of the many speakers who addressed the convention refer to the dangerous combinations which are sapping the nation's pros* j perity. There /were plenty of wild | charges against the democratic party, j and plenty of buncombe promises of high taxation prosperity. But no one dared to denounce the robber monopolies Why this strange si ence? Why did the organization of the office seekers which calls itself the party of the people, say nothing against trusts, those enemies of the people? Th6 answer is easy. It was because the trusts will livd and thrive by reason of high protection. Because the delegates at SU Louis were t he agent! of the trusts and monopolists and did not dare to lift their voices against their masters. Nearly .every trust in the United States fj2as ito origin in protection. r ie trusts contribute to republican campaign funds for the sake of buying more favors from congress. The party of McKinley is the party of monopolies and nothing more. Every man who is tired of being robbed by trusts should this year vote against their candidate. Anti-Trust. A MIGHTY POOR SHOW. The Protection Proce««ton Hu Rtorted«bttt the Crowd Doe* Mot Follow. The advance agent of the great republican circus is loudly proclaiming that his three-tent show will be filled with various kinds of prosperity, especially for the farmer. With his distinguished predecesor the late P. T. Barnum, McKinley evidently thinks that “the people like to be humbugged,” and is doing his best to fool them into voting for his high tariff mono-hippie aggregation, i

Unfortunately for the unio snowman ; his circus was on view for a pood many years, and the people found out that it [is a monumental fraud. The stale I jokes of the “tariff is-not-a-fcax” ■ clowns no longer amuse their hearers, I and the somersault turned by the men who claim that protection puts prices up and also makes them fall are so clumsy as to be painful. The alleged __ savage animals labeled “British Free Trafce,” and “Foreign i‘super Labor,” are known to be stuffed with sawdust, and the sacred “home market” cow is S a clumsy contrivance of pasteboard and straw. The pink lemonade which McKinley calls “high wages for labor” is made of one lemon rind to one hogs* head of water, sweetened with invisible sugar. The ring performance is very bad, the only diversion being the attempt of Maj. Mum to .straddle two financial horses going in opposite directions. In spite of the cries “Walk up. walk up and see the great magician j extract good times from high tariff j pumpkins.” the crowd is not running 1 to the McKinley tent. Everybody who* I saw the show in the years from 1890 to 1894 says that it is not worth the price of admission. W. Three of a Kind. While the republicans are engaged in getting up alliterative campaign cries they should not ignore* the Mej Kin ley law panic of 1893 and the terriI ble poverty which followed. “Protecj Sion, Panics and Pauperism” is a terse and truthful statement of canse and ' effect In view of the million more of idle men thrown out of employment while the tariff of 1890 was in force, a good platform on which to appeal to the American workingmen would be “Taxes, Trusts and Tramps." For the farmers the high-taxation shouters can try “McKinley, Monopoly and More Mortgagea” Any of these mottoes would correctly describe the republican policy, whereas the use of the words “Protection and Prosperity” is a humbug and a fraud. Protection is only another name for heavier tax hardens on the masses, and no people ever became prosperous through high, j taxes—Exchange.

Following m BUmimI Poor Hotter. A Nebraska farmer who had lost a calf went in search of the runaway and found it with some stray ateera. He tried to drive it home but the foot* ish calf ran after one of the steers and went galloping over the prairie. Tired, hot and dnsty the farmer stopped and shook his fist at the calf, shooting: “Keep on then, darn you, yonTl soon find what kind of a blamed motbei you’ve took np with.” The foolish farmers and workingmen who are run* ning after McKinley may not listen to reason about the desert into which the high tariff prophet is leading them, but if they keep on they wilCmighty soon find what kind of a blamed mother they are following. No Fats* Precsassa. Every vote for McKinley will oonnt In favor of more taxes in time of peace; of high tariff walla against foreign commerce; of duties on raw materials now free for onr factories, and of dear* er necessities and comforts for1' the ■Msaas pf the Amerienn people. Ham* bug premises of prosperity should blind no voter to the real issue in g>« KMiiny cam saiga.

AGRICULTURAL HINTS, A SECURE COOLER. Bow to Coaiitract o Dairy B»frl(«ratoi Satisfactory to Ewry Way. The essential for a good refrigeratoi Is dry air and a low and even temperature. If the ice box is placed right there will be: a constant circulation oi air in the cooler that will keep it dry and cold when iced. The shelves in our cooler are under the ice box and here butter and ice occupy one end of the room. Between the ice box and the aide of the room is a space of ten inches and here the box is but eight inches

SECURE MILK COOLER. deep, as shown in the cat. Of coarse th< Ice box mast have a tight metal floor, sloped to carry away the water through a pipe soldered in at one corner. Th< other side of the ice box extends U within ten inches of the ceiling. The curfent of air is indicated by the ar rcws. This permits the cold air to droj down behind the shelves and pass ovei the butter. If it becomes warm it rise.' to the ceiling, finds its way into the ic< box and, after being chilled, again de scends. To prevent the., ice falling over the eight-inch side there should be sonic slats arranged so as to throw any drip beck into the pan. To regulate the temperature hang, a ten-inch board ir such a way that the ice box may be closed, or partly closed, to retard circulation, Our refrigerator has an improvement rarely seen— it is lighted The window consists of two sashes, with a dead air space between.—D. F. Clark, Buttermaker for the Williams burg Creamery, in Farm Journal.

PRIVATE CUSTOMERS. Why Mrs. Rock wood Prefer* Their Trad* to Store Business. 1 have heard complaints from some who have tried furnishing butter to private customers. ^They say their customers are overparticular and given t« fault finding. In short, that it is more trouble to cater to their tastes than the butter is worth. In all piy experience I have not had the least trouble in this respect. Our customers all understand that if ai any time a crock of butter does not suit they are expected to return it at our expense and it will be replaced by another. , I think it is no more than right that a person paying such a price for butter should get what they want, and I have found none who are any more exacting than I should be under the circumstances. I* may have been particularly fortunate in obtaining unusually desirable customers, but certainly there is no fault pr complaint. In our correspondence year after year, I have ever received most courteous treatment from both men and women. There has been nothing which would indicate the difference,, socially speaking, between the wealthy patron and the poor farmer’s wife, who supplies them with their dairy butter. We take great pains to make the butter look neat, and, although butter in a crock does not appear to the eye in the way that printed butter does, some difference is discernible even there. It is the practice of some butter-makers to tie bits of old muslin over the butter. Thte is altogether too suggestive of its former period of usefulness to please the fastidious person. It is better to buy parchment paper, which comes cut in circles to fit the different sizes of crocks, for this purpose. Pack the crock full to overflowing, then with a piece of wire cut off the butter directly at the top edge of the crock. Remove the surplus, place a circle of the parchment over it and smooth down and see how neat it looks. In summer sprinkle a layer of fine aslt over the top to prevent the heat from melting the butter and Boiling the paper. We buy new light yellow paper to tie over the outside and think it looks much better than old newspapers. The name and address was formerly written on an express tag and tied to the crock, but our express agent favors writing it upon the top with pen and ink, as the tags are liable to get torn off in transit. Always give full weight, and a little more if imything. When you arc getting a big price for butter yon can afford to be generous.—Mrs. E. E Roekwood, in Farmers* Review.

ORCHARD AND GARDEN. A moss-covered tree cannot remain healthy. It is a mistake to set fruit trees in the garden. Moss on a tree affords a hiding place for insects. An application, of whitewash is good to remove moss. As soon as the apples begin to fall from the trees it will be a good plan to turn the hogs into the orchard. With raspberries and blackberries all canes that grow outside the direct line of the rows should be treated as weeds. A good rule in pruning is to cut all dead or disabled wood and every branch that starts out whe^e it la not wanted as soon as seen. The growing canes of raspberries and blackberries do better if they are kept from becoming too tall, as they are usually incli ned to do. Trees should be so pruned while young that the necessity for cutting oft large limbo frill be avoided.—St. Louie fiepubliu.

SNAPS. idea hew much I suffer from the infernal heat.” , Rev. Mr. Wilgus (mildly)—“In anticipation ?”—Indianapolis Journal. Her Father—“Has my daughter given you any encouragement, sir?” Suitor— “Well, she said you were always a very generous parent.”—Philadelphia Amer* lean. Mamma—**I think the baby is growing very fast, don’t you?” Papa— “Decidedly. I thought he weighed three pounds more at four o’clock this morning than he did at two.”—Truth. Fortunate Awkwardness.—He—“ ’Pon my soul, Miss Amy, I never proposed to a giH before!” She—“I believe you; and, for your own sake, I’ll see that you never do it again!”—Brooklyn Life. When a man is struck by Cupid’s dart he trembles like the balloon sleeves of the bicycle girl; it is only when he is passed by by the little hunter that he is as self-possessed as a well-starched four-ply collar.—Boston Transcript. Fuddy—“But don’t you think that Bender is a terrible bigot?” Duddy— “Bigot? No, indeed. What put that into your head? I never knew Bender to disagree with me either in, religion or politics. Why, he’s the fairest man going.”—Boston Transcript. Old Friend—“Are you making a success at your profession ?” Dr. Carbola*o (throat specialist)—“Oh, yes. It' was uphill work at first, but, in the language of the poet, those who “came to cough remained to spray.”—Indian-’ apolis Journal. He—“I am going to pay you the highest compliment a man can pay a woman.” She—“This is so suddeiv” He— “I know it, but I came away without my pocket book—can you lend me a dollar until to-morrow?”—N. Y. World. The Dear Girls.—“Now, Kitty, let there be no secrets between dearest friepds. What was your first thought after you accepted Harold Lawler?” “Honest Injun?” “Of course.” “Well, then, my first thought was that now he could never marry you.”—Detroit Free Press.

THE SWORD AND GUN. Senator George L. Shoup, of Idaho, was formerly one of the most noted Indian fighters in the army of the west. Okrika, on the Old Calabar river, having objected to British misrule, is the latest spot on the west coast of Africa against which a “punitive” expedition has been sent. . The widowed queen of Naples is the only female knight of the Russian Order rf St. George, an honor conferred sole* ly for exceptional gallantry under fire. At Willets Point, N. Y., there has just l»een mounted a ten-inch gun which ♦hrows a 475-pound projectile a distance' cf six miles. At each discharge 250 pounds of powder arc used. One hundred and four out of a possible 105 was made et a rifle match at Ilford by a volunteer of the East Surrey, England, regiment recently.- The score was 34 for seven shots at 200 yards, 35 at 500 yards and 35 at 600 yards. This is believed to be a world’s record. - Some of Great Britain’s latest guns will be employed for the first time during the autumn campaign in the Soudan. They carry a-highly-explouive shell ten miles and each shell is capable of disabling 200 of the enemy. These guns have such a rapid fire capacity that before the first shell bursts three others are on their way in the same direction. Germany is fast turning ont its older generals, 32 having been forced to retire within a year, which beats the record. The average age of a brigade commander is 53 years, to 57 in the French army, where the average age of all ranks is higher than in the German. No German brigadier is more than 56, while 30 French brigadiers are over 61. German cavalry colonels average 48 years four months, only seven being over 52, ■while the French officers in the same anny average 52 years five months, 53 colonels being over 52. FUR AND FEATHER. The otter is the favorite animal pet among the Chinese* The titanosaur, an extinct animal which formerly lived in the bad lands, Was 65 feet in length and stood about 33 feet in height..

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THE GREAT NURSERIES. Mow. Rockport, HU.—Visited by Got. Column, Kx-S«e’y Agri. ud Um HorU Id.. Jodi* Millar. **Oh, how insignificant all mvfifty years of nursery business seems, all combined, when oor:pared with this stupendous establishment, where they count by millions,” said Judge Miller, that veteran horticulturist, as he, in company with the writer, were being driven to the various departments of this vast nursery. In mi experience of over forty years we do not remember to have passed through an establishment where so large a number of hands were employed whose duties were so thoroughly systemised, and where business capacity of a higher order was manifested. It is not in the soil of every farm that one finds qualities essential to the growth of the different kinds of Nursery stock, hence it has devolved upon these gentlemen, who were born to the N ursery * ry business, to select from among the hills and valleys of the two Pikes such portions as are adapted to their purposes. But in this very fact of selection of soil, we see their exceeding care for the future success of their stock. ititutions than the Stark Nurseries, am burely no better or more>representatlve men than the proprietors. The business is 'growing on their hands as it deserves to grow. They have a system of 40,000 acres of comLerciai test orchards located in great fruit mercial test orchards located in great growing regions. The canvassing force is being increased, 5,000 fine outfits ready. Stark Nurseries always have room for more active workers' because they have millions of Stark trees to sell.—Colman’s Rural World. Straxgbr—“Is there a law In this town against selling liquor on Sunday?” Old Resident—“Yes; but don't let that worry ou, my friend; there's no law against buyit.”—Roxbury Gasette. Fits stopped free and permanently cured. No fits after first dey’s use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. Free $3 trial bottle & treatise. Dr. Kune, 938 Arch st. Pfcdla ,Pa. Fair Ihdicatio:*.—“Does Miss GushIngton’s father look with favor on your suit?” “1 think so; he always lets me pay for the drinks.”—Detroit Free Press. ~

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