Pike County Democrat, Volume 31, Number 4, Petersburg, Pike County, 1 June 1900 — Page 3

■nsn Items of Information on Matters of r Interest to the General Public. mi SPOTS IN REPUBLIC*! LEGISLATION Meet At Protection on Famine latere* t»—V*lamecf Trade la Shrink* Ing — Ohio Repnhllrana Reins Dropped hjr the Administration— Ho Sympathy tor the Boer*. [Special Correspondence.] There are strong signs that the high protective tariff party in Germany is going to fight a series of pitch battles with the German manufacturers over the question o* American markets and American imports. The protective tariff party in Germany is composed almost exclusively of the farmers,- who cannot stand the intense competition and low prices of American farm produets. The prices of German farm lands have been forced to a high point, and the German tenant farmers are rackrented as badly as ever they are in Ireland. Naturally the landlord ale- % ment don’t want their rents lowered, which will be the inevitable result if American fanners are given free trade with Germany. On the other hand, the German manufacturers want cheap food products from the United States, so they can sell their excellent manufactures in their constantly growing markets all over the world. But this situation in Germany is to be taken advantage of by the protected interests in the United States at the expense of the farming interests of this country. Already there are signs that the entire textile interests of this country will unite in a demand for a still higher tariff against foreign goods. For instance, there are now within the United States enough knit goods factories to supply the entire American demand for knit goods with nine months’ work. Instead of trying to seek a foreign market for surplus products, these concerns will strive to monopolize the American market by raising still higher the tariff wall against foreign knit goods.

The profits of knit goods are enormous, and the knit goods combine, which is practically a trust in its effects, is making millions of dollars for its owners. The labor cost in a pair of stockings, knit by machinery, is less than one cent, yet the manufacturers make a profit of ten cents on each pair of stockings retailing at 25 cents. The retail dealer makes the next ten cents, and the balance is charged up to raw material, interest, insurance, deterioration of plant, freight charges and the miscellaneous items of large businesses. This new tariff programme which has a hundred ramifications is to be kept quiet until after the next presidential election. If McKinley wins, these protectionist interests will know they have the apostle of protection in the white house to further their aims. <* The enormous foreign market for American agricultural products, fcy far the principal material of American export trade, is to be still further ruthlessly sacrificed in the interests of these vast trade monopolies. Shrlikagt la Trade. The shrinkage in the volume of trade within the United States is already so marked and1 perceptible as to give grave concern to the administra««fe,tion. Its pet statisticians are burdening the newspapers with columns of figures regarding the growth of American export business. But they neglect the fact that the domestic exchanges of the United States are more than 20 times the volume .of the entire foreign trade of this country. During the past 30 days the shrinkage in domestic exchanges is more than three times the volume of our foreign exchanges for the 6ame period. All signs indicate that this shrinkage will increase, and as it increases prosperity, even of the trust variety, will disappear.

Republicans Going Down. What is the matter with the administration congressional supporters? In Ohio five republican congressmen have thus far been defeated for renominaj lion—Brown, Weaver, Iyhrand, Phillips and Kerr have been thrown overboard. Shaft uc and Bromwelf'* are marked for slaughter, and the hoary Grosvenor had to promise on. bended knees that he would retuire at the end of the next term, to secure his renomination. Such is the reward for faithfulness to a president who claims fro^f* his supporters undying fealty, but who gives nothing in return. As a matter of fact it is well recognized among republicans in congress that there is not a single bright spot in their legislative career during this congress which entitles them to the gratitude of their constituen ts. It is in an endeavor to save the next house from the democrats that the republicans in so many districts have Ifeen compelled *to present new men to their outraged constituencies, knowing that the men who voted for the Porto Rican infamy, and who stand for such outrageous species of lobbied legislation as the Hanna sliip subsidy bill, would be apt to lose their districts to the democrats, no matter how strongly they have been held by the republicans in the past. What is true in Ohio is true in many another state. All signs point to a democratic house to be elected next November, with a larger democratic majority than any in 20 years. The popular wave which will sweep Bryan into the white house will sweep the republicans out of power, not only in the house and senate, but in srtates hitherto so rockriveted in their renuhlicaaism as to be /

considered not ena lighting ground. La the coming election. TreatMcst of tke Boors. The Boer envoys now in Washington are giving emphasis to the pro-British attitude of the administration and the pro-Boer sentiment of the people. They are a fine sturdy trio of brawn and intellect. W esse Is. one of the three, is a farmer and ranchman, who, according to old residents of Washington, looks, acts and talks like Abraham Lincoln. At the enormous Grand opera bouse meeting gn the night of the 20th. he made a short, simple, pathetic speech, not over ten minutes in length, which fairly took his audience off their feet. There were other able and notable speakers, among them Congressman William Sulzer, Congressman John J. Lentz, Congressman Champ Clark, Senator Wellington, Senator Mason and Bourke Cockran. Not a single administration senator, congressman or sympathizer could be induced to speak in behalf of the Boers, although wide and urgent invitations were sent to them all, from the president down, with every assurance that the meeting would be non-partisan in its character, as it was in fact. Not a word was said in hostility to the administration. Ijut it was noticeable that the most prolonged and vigorous applause of the evening was given when Senator Wellington declared the Filipinos were entitled to their independence as much as were the Boers. The audience demonstrated their sympathies for the Boers by contributing in a few minutes about $i,00Q to the tloer Red Cro^s fund. This was in addition to several thousand dollars which had already been raised here on the announcement of the coming of the Boer envoys. ADOLPH PATTERSON. PRAISE FOR BRYAH. The Democratic Leader la No Quitter and Remain* True to Hta Political Fnlth. The New York Sun. in a generous moment i pays the following tribute to William J. Bryan: “The Bryan of 1900 stands before the people as a man with the boldness of honest convictions. The sincerity and courage of such an attitude are admirable, however deplorable the convictions may be. He is not a quitter. The American people hate a quitter; we have had the testimony of Hon. Samuel Fessenden that the Almighty hates a quitter, too.

“Mr. Bryan has resisted to the present time all the efforts oi the timeservers to make him an accomplice in the suppression of the main issue which bore him upward to the commanding position he occupies in his party's councils. He is using his unequaled power to hold the democracy to its declared creed, notwithstanding the temptations of supposed expediency. “It is a somewhat curious circumstance that Mr. Bryan should prove to be more stalwart for free silver than Mr. Cleveland was for tariff reform. “Indeed, Bryan is showing in 1900 that he really possesses the moral stamina and unyielding adherence to principle which the mugwumps of ten or a dozen years ago thought they had discovered and chiefly admired in their idealized prophet. “In the case of Mr. Bryan the. part of honesty is likewise the part of political wisdom. He has been urged to alienate several millions of voters for the sake of pleasing a few hundreds of thousands.** The Cat Let Loom. Mark Hanna, according to the New York Herald, says that four years ago we were practically a hermit nation, isolated from all world forcgs that promote industry, trade and commerce. The statement is absurd. We invite Mr. Hanna to the contemplation of the reports of our trade. He adds that our manufacturing capabilities and facilities were beyond our own needs. That is what the trusts think. Competition forces prices down, so they combine, close up several factories, choke down production.

and then, in the scarcity thus produced and made possible in part by the tariff that protects them from world competition, raise the prices. Mr. Hanna adds that the home demand was enormous, but that manufacture *for home demand does not add to general wealth. Is it so? Then it seems to us the Hon. Mark has let a very large cat out of the bag. With our high protective tariff we hand over our home markets to our home manufacturers. The market thus at their mercy is simply plucked by them. It adds to their special wealth, witness Carnegie and Frick, with their yearly millions of profits. But their enrichment, according to Mr. Hanna, is at the expense of the rest of the country.—Indianapolis Sentinel. ——The president and the party in congress must keep full faith with the people, redeem all pledges susceptible of fulfillment, anu root out all scandals wherever existing. In November next they will be called to an account of their stewardship, and it behooves them to be ready for the summons. They must show a record of performances rather than of promises, particularly as full responsibility is upon the party. It has the president and both houses of congress, and the opposition is without power'to block legislation.—Philadelphia Ledger. -The insular policy of ‘the administration is understood to meet the approval of the continental monarchies. If there was no other argument against it the argument that monarchies favor it will curse it forever with the liberty-loving people who dwell between the great oceans on the North American continent.—Toledo Blade.

The motive which hoe begun a new period of antartic exploration is very evident and definite indeed. The sup* ply of right whales has practically given out In the north, owing to the over demand caused by the high price of whalebone. The oil, to be sure, is not worth nearly so much as in the palmy days of New Bedford and her •tardy whalers, by reason of the cheap production of its rival, petroleum. But the bone is sold at five dollars per pound, and a right whale may have In his capacious jaws a whole ton of the precious commodity. With each animal furnishing a small fortune for seafaring man, it is not surprising in these days of harpoon guns and steamships that the Arctic ocean has been plundered of its whale wealth. So whalers are turning their attention to the waste of unexplored waters. Ross thought he found right whales In 1842, but Borchgrevink and his eontemporaries failed to come up with them.—Scribner’s. The Kata Daw. Prof. Max Muller, of Oxford, in a recent lecture, called attention to the largest book in the world, the wonderful Kuth Daw. It consists of 729 parta in the shape of white marble plates, covered with inscriptions, each plate built with a temple of brick. It is found near the old priest city of Mandalay, in Burmah, and this temple city of more than TOO pagodas virtually makes up this monster book—the religious codex of the Buddhists. 6 It is written in Pali- Bather strange'to say, it is not an ancient production, but its preparation was prompted by the Buddhistic party of this century. * It was erected in 1857 by the command of Mindomin, the second of the last kings of Burmah.—Home Journal. ^ i A Swell Dreaaer. Prince Albert of Thurn and Taxis is spending on clothes the fortune accumulated by his ancestors while they held the monopoly of the post as hereditary grand postmasters of the Holy Roman empire. He wears a new suit perfumed with attar of roses, every day, spending $15,000 annually on his tailor, who keeps 20 workmen constantly at work for him. He puts on a new necktie three times a day and uses up 200 pairs of boots a year. He spends $1,000 a year on cigarettes, and $75,000 on sports. The prince is 30 years of age and married to an Austrian archduchess.—N. Y. Sun.

Mach tm a Name. Western Man (looking at a sailing :raft)—What holds the sail out straight? New York Friend—It is held taut by the gaff and the boom. That * heavy piece of timber at the bottom is called the boom. When the wind is fair, the boom swings out and stays there; but if the wind should suddenly change, it might swing back with terrific force and knock everybody overboard. Western Man—Ah! I see now why it is called a boom. We have booms in the west, you know.—N. Y. Weekly. Fuslaliei by Providence. Boston Teacher—We will now take up the study of the senses. Why has the Creator furnished ns with eyes? Boston Pupil (aged four)—To enable os to see. “And what office is filled by the nose?” “It was given to man so that he might smell and thus guard against the inhalation of unhealthy odors." “Why were we favored with ears?" “To hold spectacles in place.”—Cleveland Leader.. Woau’i Way. “You women,” said he, in the peculiarly exasperating way a man has of saying those two words, “you women buy bargain things because they are cheap." “We do not,” said she. “We buy cheep things because they are bargains." The distinction was almost too subtle for the blundering masculine intellect, but it was there.—Indianapolis Journal. - Never. Neat—Come, now, you’ve been a milkman. I» it true that they water their milk? Bo vis—Not that I know of. I never did; that’s all I can say. I occasionally milked the water I delivered to my customers; bnt I never watered the milk. —Boston Transcript. They All Do It. Bingo (anxiously)—You haven’t got an opening in your business for my boy, have you? Kingley—Why, I thought he was in your office? f Bingo—He was, but I had to discharge him.—Philadelphia Press.

impenneai. Old Doctor—What are those white objects I see in the distance, dear? Hiss Pert—Those are signs advertistncr tout nrofession. sir. “Ah I I thought they might be tomb* stones.” “So they are”—N. Y. Times. Ob Maaarr*. When a man’s wife comes in and moot him, razor in hand, with his face full ol lather, and asks him: “Are yon sharing?” it is a provoking thing for him to answer: “No, Pm blacking the store,” but it is human nature ao to reply.— Tammany Times. How He Lost It “That waa a beautiful umbrella you carried last week. What bas beoomeol it?" “Jones recognised it.”—Chicago Post Amte-Mortem Wtoh. Physician—You have only a few min* tttes to live. Hare you any last wish? Patient—I wish I had engaged an* other doctor.—Yalefiecord.

RELATING TO THEATERS. Wiesbaden harbors a woman who hat been a prompter in a theater for SO years. The electrophone appears to be rapidly coming into favor in England. Already there are many places in the leading thoroughfares of Condon where one can enter, and by the payment of a small fee, be switched on for a quarter of an hour to any of the principal theaters, music halls, etc. Greece and Spain intend to establish national theaters. King George has promised to provide the money for the Greek theater, at Athens, and is drawing np the regulations for it. The Spanish minister of fine arts proposes to encourage a national theater at Madrid by having the state offer $40,300 a year in prizes for pThys, operas and zarzuelas. fi Mrs. Fiske’s season of 34 weeks in “Becky Sharpe” ended in Philadelphia May 5. She played 15 weeks in New York and visited ten other cities. The tour was enormously successful, the gToas receipts aggregating more than $300,000. Mrs. Fiske’s next tour will begin in October. FOR THE SUPERSTITIOUS. To pin bad luck drive a rusty nail in the front doorstep. Never let the moon shine on fresh meat; it brings bad luck. If you are walking or riding along and see a mist rising from the ground It Is a sign of the presence of spirits. If yon meet a stranger in the road you must turn round, make a cross* mark and sBghtly change your direction for good luck. From Baby Is the High Chair to grandma in the rocker Grain-O is good for the whole family. It is the long-desired substitute for coffee. Never upsets the nerves or injures the digestion. Made from pure grains it is a food in itself. Has the taste and appearance of the best coffee at 1 the price. It ia a genuine and scientific article and is come to stay. It makes for health and strength. Ask your grocer for Grain-O. AMiag Color. ,i Larry—Do you renumber our ould tomcat thot wud run if a kitten looked at him? Will, he kin lick th’ hould alley by himself now. Denny—Phwat brought about th’ chance? “Wae toied a grane ribbon aroun’ his nick.”—Chicago Evening News.

Do Tour Feet Ache uadi Burn? Shake into your shoes, Allen’s Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet. It makes tight or New Shoes Feel Easy. Cams Corns, Itching, Swollen, Hot, Callous, Smarting, Sore and Sweating Feet. All Druggists and Shoe Stores sell it, Sc. Sample sent FREE. Address, Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. Pussy Willows, Perhaps. Mr. Homewood—Are you doing any gap dening this spring? MR Wilkinsburg—I have made a beginning. I planted a cat under a peach tree yesterday evening.—Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph. To Care a Cold la Oae Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund money if it tails to cure- 25c. Comedian—“They laughed very heartily at my jokes to-night.” Critic—Ah, yes. Any old humor passes for good humor if the audience happens to be in good humor for laughing.”—Buffalo News. Toa W1JU Never Kami what good ink is unless you use Carter’s. It costs no more than poor ink. All dealers. Love may laugh at locksmiths, but then, later on, not inirequently, ao dees the wolf at the door.—Puck, Louis F. Waibel, Ph. G., St. Louis, Mo., wrote: I have recommended Teethina when the doctors gave up the child and it cured at :>nce. No woman should think of marrying until she acquires a forgiving disposition.—Chicago Daily News. Sweat and fruit acids will hot discolor You can’t expect a bag of wind to stand up straight.—Ram s Horn. „

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W# offer One Hundred Do m Reward for any cue of Catarrh that oj.aibe cured by HaiTe Catarrh Cure. R J. Cheney 4 Ok, Props.,' Viledo, O. We, the underagned, hare mown F. J. Cheney lor the la*tl5 yean, an <. elieve his perfectly honorable in all boa: it.'rn transactions and financially able to ci u ry oat any obligations made by their firm West 4 Truax, Wholesale D; i gists, Toledo, 0: Walding, Kinnan 4 Marti'.., Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Core Is takci internally, acting directly upon the blood ; nd mucous surfaces of the system. Price Tic. per bottle. Sold by all Lr^gista. I tstimoniala free. Hall's Fhmily Pills are the I ait. The Drsfgl ■tarn w* »#■•*&. There is a druggist in one of le suburban districts who advertises: “The doctor prescribes; Wia ; :ecute." Such advertising cannot lai; i Co appeal to those who desire to be exec. t *d.—Boston Journal. In the Lake Gowu t ry of Northern Illinois, Wiscci a, Minnesota and Michigan, there ari inndreds of the most charming Summer li t torts awaiting the amval of thousand of from the South and East. Among the list of near by j licet are Fox Lake, Delavan. Lauderdale Waukesha, Oconomowoc, Palmyra, The Cells at Kilbourn, Elkhart and Madison, vhile a little further off are Minocqua, Stu* Lake, Fronten&c, White Bear, MinnetcrJ a and Marquette on Lake Superior. ‘ For pamphlet of “Summ ; r Homes for MOO,” or for cony of our haa d lomeiyillus. tratedSummer book, entitled ‘ in The Lake agent or Country," apply to nearest tic ;et a address with four cents in past ige, Geo. H. Qnlte a Toot. Forty-five trumpeters a:\N mpany the king of Abyssinia wherever It goes. Here is one manat least who dbesu t have to toot his own horn to be heard of.—f an Franciscc Bulletin. Remember that Glenn’s S ilphur Soap Eresents all the adv&ntatis of sulphur sths. Try it. 4 * Hill’s Hair and Whisker d>j ?, Black or Brown, 50c. The Proper Te r .a. The Maid—Marriage is pi-cr lotion. The Bachelor—You mea.i. commotion, don’t you?—Chicago Evening News. Piso’s Cure for Consumptico is an infallible medicine for coughs anc c olds.—N. W. Samuel, Ocean Grove, N. J.. Feb. 17,1900 AU that a man hath will he >ften give for something that another m&a hath.—Ally Sloper.

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