Pike County Democrat, Volume 29, Number 18, Petersburg, Pike County, 9 September 1898 — Page 3

DISASTER FOLLOWS. w Vte Fro tee t It* Plam Impedes Pntf ma ui Cripples America* Kadastrp. Now, more than at any other time, the weakness of onr commercial policy is made evident. Colonies and protective tariffs do not work well together. The French colonies are a fair sample pf what this system will bring forth. The French management of Tonquin has been on protective tariff lines, and the result has been the stagnation of (the life and business of the colony. The success that England has with her many colonies comes very largely from the course she pursues with her tariffs. The fullest liberty is allowed to commerce, and the result is that the commerce and manufactures of England have been able to hold their own, in comparison with other gold standard nations. If there ever was a time when a free trade policy would be of benefit to the United States, it is now. The settlement of the Philippine question will be influenced vcny greatly by the course ae intend to pursue there. If we are to allow all nations to trade there without restraint and without fines for so doing, most of them will be very ’willing to see this country the master of the situation. If we are to erect a tariff wall there we may expect some very vigorous opposition from several of the European governments most interested. Greed and grab is not a policy that commends itself to our neighbors scrovs the water, except when it Is practiced by themselves. That policy hangs like a millstone about the neck of America. It will be found impeding onr progress at every step. It cannot be thrown off no matter how heavy it becomes, for the republican party is in power, and that party is committed body and soul to the policy named. E\ery treaty entered into

must take cognizance of that fact. Every trust and every “protected” interest in the country will from this tiine on have its agents busy watching the progress of events in the settlement of the great questions growing out of the war. As the protective policy is really a policy that these same •‘protected” interests have developed and foisted on the country, we may expect that tha smart lawyers whom they are able to employ will be eminently successful in having all treaties and regulations fixed to suit their interests, without regard to the interests of the rest of the country. The sugar trust, whose influence was so potent in the framing of the last tariff on sugars, and which was able to raise the price to consumers some SO per cent., as a result of that tariff may certainly be looked to to take a hand in settling the questions of our relation with Cuba. That devastated country should have the freest tariffs possible to enable It to rise from its ashes, but we cannot expect that a generous policy will be followed. What, open the markets of the United States to free Cuban sugar? What can we expect of the trust? The policy is a disastrous one, ao far as present business and present prosperity are concerned, but the working out of the present republican policy in relation to these new possessions is likely to bring the protective tariff scheme into bold relief and show tip the iniquity of it. The people will have an object lesson that will not fail to impress them. If we do. not mistake the intelligence of the American people, the time is not far distant when they will turn down the whole policy with the party that •spouses it. Xay. more; the time is not far distant when no party will dare make a protective policy an issue In an election. It is one of the errors that nations are slow to outgrow, but once oqtgrown will be east aside for*ver- H. P. THURSTON.

PRESS COMMENTS. -It looks as if the war might be • hotter issue than the republicans will care to handle.—Binghamton (N. Y.) Leader. —Secretary of War Alger is getting a “round robin’* from the people which promises a big dish of erow>Chicago Dispatch. -When next Mr. McKinley selects a secretary of war he should tight shy of anyone for the place who has only Mark Hanna s indorsement to recommend him.—St. Louis Republic. ——The first mistake was made by President McKinley when he placed at the head of the war department a political soldier whose political record, llkn his army, record, in more notable for self-seeking than for better char-acteristics.—-Cleveland Plain Dealer. --Alger’s bide has been penetrated. Ee has began to write explanatory letter* to show how his subordinates.and the soldiers themselves were to blame for the failures, privations and mortality, more terrible than Spanish bullets, which have followed our armies from the moment they fell under the charge of the war department,—Philadelphia Rcqord. ^ -The American people have arrived at the conclusion that personal politics governed Mr. Alger's appointments and conduct of the war; that their army was exposed to unnecessary hardships because the military preparations and leadership of the Santiago campaign were both an bad nnd inadequate as the motives which governed them.—St. Louis BepubUe. -The people generally did not Know Alger, but they had confidence in MeKinley. They did not believe that the president’s choice for n secretary of war would be an utter incompetent, mid they had faith that the president would get rid of such s secretary as aoon ns this incompetence was proved. They were mistaken. The awful experience of our troops fat thin war under Alger will have to be “ * ■* volunteer ..ilj

CAN STATE MAKE VALUE? Hum Law Cam Omljr Have Id Liu tuitions ta Effect Upon Supply mad Oemaad. Homan, law cannot change the law of supply and demand, but is can limit the supply, as by a protective tariff, copyright of patent-right law, or increase the demand, as by a law patting the whole demand for money upon gold alone. Instead of upon silver and gold as before, or the same law may both increase the demand and lessen the supply, as by a declaration of war, which diminishes the number of producers and enlarges the amount of consumption; in all of these ways does law create value, as truly as a man creates value who changes wool into a garment. The laws of nation after nation demonetizing silver and placing the whole demand for money upon gold have enhanced the value of gold and lessened the value of silver, until now it takes 40 ounces of silver, instead of 16 under bimentallism, to equal in value one ounce of gold. The closing of the Indian mints alone caused an immediate fall in silver (as rated in gold) nearly SO per cent. On the other hanch the passage of the Sherman law in 1890, though far from a free coinage law, caused an immediate advance in silver <in terms of gold) to $1.21 per ounce, or within eight cents of the ratio sixteen to one; and it can bo easily demonstrated, both from experience and reason, that the passage of a law by thfc United States for thp free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at the ratio of sixteen to one would immediately so increase the value of silver and lessen the value of gold that 16 ounces of silver and one of gold would be of equal value as bullion. This would result, in accord with the law of supply and demand, by taking from gold and putting upon either silver or gold (and therefore, upon silver so long as it remained cheaper) the demand of the commerce of this people for money, which is equal to or greater than that of all the rest of the

world. These arguments are not new. They were advanced by our great leader in his unparalleled campaign and were never answered except by such fallacious assumptions as “state cannot create value." and if democrats admit such assumption they admit away our whole contention. In the strictest sense only God creates value, but in the sense in which man creates value the state can. for what is a state but the organization and united energies and capacities of all its citizens? . PROSPECTS OF DEMOCRATS Thiaza Are Laoktag IIright for Free •liver Throoghoot the Middle WeU. In Illinois the republican party ia split wide open. Its members are quarreling about the AUen bill, the schemes of Gov. Tanner to defeat Senator Cullom and elect himself to the United States senate in 1901, the condition of the state treasury in consequence of the candidacy of the deputy treasurer for two terms to be treasurer for what would be virtually a third term, the quarrels of local candidates in nearly every legislativ*- district, and other troubles too numerous to mention. The republicans who voted for McKinley in 1S96, on the bimetallism platform. now see their error and will vote for the democrats. In Wisconsin the success of the “doodle book” campaign in the renomination of Gov. Scofield and the prospects of a silent bolt by at least onethird of the republican Toters illustrate republican harmony in that state. The silver forces are spjendidly organized. In Michigan the open war made by Gov. Pingree on Senator Burrows. the aspirations of Pingree for a hrenomination and to be elected senator, while Ajger has designs to retire from the war department and to be 1 elected senator, are political conditions illustrating republican “harmony” in the state. Michigan, always a silver state, will swiug into the democratic column without a doubt. In Iowa and Minnesota the conditions are substantially the same. There is internal war in the republican party from center to circumference. The cause of gold monometallism has split the party everywhere in the central west. '

In Indian the republican situation is so bad that it could be hardly worse. The leaders know and acknowledge the fact. There will be a gjiiirof several democratic congressmen on the financial issue. A democratic legislature will be elected and United Statea Senator Turpie will be chosen for another term. With all the facts in view the rosy description of republican prospects in | the west attributed to the secretary of the republican congressional com- j mittec is subject to large abatements In tbe brilliancy of its coloring. The west will send a largely increased silver delegation to< congress this year and will give an enormous democratic electoral vote in 1900. -The Dingleyites show no better capacity in tariff and revenue management in the future than they have shown in the past 4 hey will be in danger of reviving the ariff ns the great issue before the people of the United St ate*. Bogus “experts.** who are now building arithmetical temples on wnr foundations will find their structures tumbling. Wnr taxes will be tolerated for some time after tbe war—long enough to close up the war account. Then there will have to be a revision, such ns Dingley & Co. have shown themselves not qualified to make. Public notice cannot be diverted from this important subject for the note whom m

HEROES OF WAR. . From the Chicago Times-Herald. The feeling of admiration for heroes o| | war seems to be innate in the human heart, ■ and is brought to the surface as the opportu* i nity and object presents itself. , Among those who proved their herotsm I during our Civil War was A. Schiffeneder,

of 161 Sedgwick Street, Chicago. He is&nAustrian by birth, came to America tt the age of twenty, and became an American | citisen. He waa living at Milwaukee when the call for volunteers came

fVd he "TO*** promptly enlisted in Company A, of the Twentv-sixth Wisconsin Volunteers.. In the Army of the Potomac he saw much fightintr, campaigning :n the Shenandoah > alley. In the first day s fighting at the battle of _a_ m wnttml Gettysburg, Schitfeneder received a wound in the right side, which afterward caused him mueS trouble. With a portion of hit regiment he was captured and imprisoned at Bell Island and Andersonville, and afterward exchanged. He returned to his regiment, which was transferred to the army ofGeneral Sherman, and marched with min through Georgia to the sea. * ' In tfiis campaign Mr. Schitfeneder a old wound began to trouble him and he was sent to the hospital and then home. He had also contracted catarrh of the stomach and found no relief for years. *‘I happened to read an account of Dr. Williams Pink Pitts for Pale People about a year ago,** he said, “and thought that they might be good for my trouble. I concluded to try them. I bought one box and began to take them according to directions, 'fhev gave me great relief. After finishing that box 1 bought another, and when I had taken the pilla I felt that I was cured. I recovered my appetite and ate heartily. I can testify to the good the pills did me. Mr. Schiffenede. is a prominent Grand Army man in Chicago, whither he mcved years ago with, his family*

ROTES ELECTRICAL. The Riesengebirgfc or Giant mono* tains of Germany, are to be covered with a network of electric railways!. The first telephone was constructed In 1877, between Boston and Somerville. a distance of three miles. The longest span of telegraph wire in the world is in India, over the Rivet Kistna. It is over 6,000 feet in length. The United States have about 900,000 telephones in ose; Germany. 140,000; k England, 73,000; France, 35.000; Switzerland, 30,000. A German chemist passes a current of electricity through new wines and liquors, and thus, in a few hours, ira- } parts to them the properties naturally derived from age. Telephoning from Manchester to Brussels, via London and Calais, ha& been tried with great success. The distance is over 600 m‘!e«. An electric light that will be risible at a distance of 48 miles is to be established at Cape Grisnex, on the French coast, opposite Dover. It will be of 3,000.000 candle-power. The Hawaiian t rolley lines will probably be controlled* by Buffalo (N. Y.) capitalists, connected with the Buffalo Railway compasy, which is after the Honolulu franchises. One of the features in a recent electrical exhibition was a church lighted entirely by tube* of soft, white phosr ; phoreseence in the roof. To make the ! show even more true to the conditions j it simulated, there were pews with | hymn books and a real organ, upon 1 which a prelude and an offertory were i played at each session. A company has been formed in Berj Jin, Germany, with a capital ,pf $1,000,- : 000, to operate an electric trolley line, ! and also a telephone exchange, in Rio de Janeiro. This is in line with the well-known policy of the Germans. I who have secured practical control of the commercial developments of the ! South American and Central American states.

THE UNITED KINGDOM. The British empire embrace# 10,000 | islands. The loftiest cliff on the ccast of England is Beachv head, the height ol which is 564 feet. About 40,000 people without homes ; are nightly sheltered in the common j lodging houses ol London. It is claimed for Xetley hospital that j It is the longest building in England, j being nearly a quarter of a mile long. Great Britain’s volunteer force of 240,000 is maintained at a cost of on* der $4,000,000 a year—less than $20 a head. England holds the honor of having first formed societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals, and of having first legislated for its punishment. The guarantee fund for the Paris exposition of 1900 amounts to $45,000,000. The balance will be defrayed by state and eity. At an aristocratic restaurant in London no woman is permitted to occupy I a seat at Table, after four o’clock is the afternoon, until she has taken off her hat. Gout is rarely known among the working classes of Ireland. Their immunity from this complaint is thought to be due to the fact that their food consists largely of potatoes. In 1869 London bad a death rate ot 34 and Munich of 149 per 100,000 from typhoid fever. In 1893 the death rate from this cause was 14 in London and only three per 100.000 in Munich—a saving in Munich alone ot over 809 lives a year, thanks to the introduction of good water. PLANTS AND ANIMALS. Of British birds the cuckoo lays the smallest egg in proportion to its aim. A first-rate collection of insects cos

WHIR OF THE WHEEL. The skating1 record has at last been surpassed by the bicycle, the latter now being the fastest man-power means of traveling. The German war office has forbidden all active soldiers to start in races with the hnmbler ^civilians, only allowing purely military races. J. S. White and G. Sutherland have won the half, one, five and ten miles amateur, and the one, five and ten miles professional championships of New Zealand, respectively. The adjusting cone of thehead should be tight at all times, otherwise there will be a rattle and every part of the frame will suffer because ol the vibration caused by a loose head. If the oil hole cover becomes lost the opening should be wound with tire tape. Otherwise dust will collect in the bearings, and as this is a simple and easy means of keeping it out, it should be remembered. Bicyclers will appreciate a new toedip. which is hinged to the side ol the pedal and has extensions on the front and rear, which spring the clip into place as soon as touched by the foot, the pedal being always balanced for use either side up. Am amazing bicycle feat is credited to a sergeant in a British regiment. Riding atgreat speed on his wheel across a battlefield, he leaned over, without moderating his pace, and lifted a wounded soldier by the waistband, whom he threw across his handle-bars, and carried safely into camp. An English writer, in some bints on touring, advises wheelmen to visit the continent in early summer, or in autumn, and not in July or August, and m Scotchman says that September is a dry and sunny month, mild yet bracing, in most parts of the British islands.

SOME LATE INVENTIONS ♦ - Rowlocks in English boats are being made with ball be arings, the oar being pivoted on a bolt, which carries conbs to engage the balls in cups in the socket attached to the boat. Gloves can be stretched while drying by using aoew device formed of a sin* gle piece of spring wire bent to the shape of the hand and inserted in the glove to distend the interior. Dropsy treated free by Dr. H. H. Green’s Sons, of Atlanta, Ga. The greatest dropsy specialists in the world. Bead their advei* tieement ia another column of this paper. A Gentle Hint.—He—“It’s reported that we’re engaged.” She—“Well, I’m not to blame for the fact that it is only a report/' —Brooklyn Life. A Dose in Time Saves Nine of- Hale’s Honey of Horehound and Tar for Coughs. Pike’s Toothache Drops Cure in one minutes People hunt up their own kind just as naturally as water seeks its own level.— Washington (la.) Democrat. I believe Piso’s Cure for Consumption saved my boy’s life last summer.—Mrs. Allie Douglass, LeRoy, Mich., Oct. 20, ’91. If you loaf around a store or office a great deal, remember that you are not welcome. —Atchison Globe. To Core a Cold la One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.. All druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 25c. To please a man find out what he wants— what he needs is of Elinor importance.— Ram’s Horn. Haifa Cat* rrh Care Is a Constitutional Cure. Price 75c. A horse with a docked tail must feel like a neigh-bob.—L. A. W. Bulletin.

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