Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1888 — Page 2

MEMORY'S PICTURE. M ace her now, the fairert thin* - J That ever mocked min’* picturing, I picture her m one that drew A aide life's curtain and looked through The mlato of all life’* mystery, At one look* on the open tea. The eoft white eyes of wonderment That touting looked you through and throunh; The sweet arched mouth, a bow not bent, That sent love’* arrow* awift and true. Thai tweet arched mputh 1 The Orient Hath not such pearl* in all her it ore*; Not all her atored sploe-aet shore* Hath fragrance such aa It hath spent. I picture her aa one who knew , How rare l* truth to be untrue; Aa one who knew the awful sign Oi death, of life, of the divine Sweet pity of all loves, all hates Beneath the Iron-footed fates. I picture her aa seeking peace. And olive leaves and vine-set land; While strife stood by on either hand, And rung the team like rosaries, 1 pictured her-in passing rhyme. As of yet not a part of these, A woman born above h*r time, A woman waiting in her place. With patient pity on her face, Her face, her earnest youthful faoe; Her young face so uncommon wise— The tender love-light in her eyea, Two stars oi heaven out of place. Two stars that aang as stars of gold, Their silent eloquence of song, In skies of glory and of gold, Where God In purple passed atoug; That patient youthful faoe of hera That Won a thousand worshippers! i That silent, pleading face, among Ten thousand faces just the one That I shall love when all is done. And life lies by a harp unstrung. —Daughters of America.

WHAT JOHN FOUND.

Recess wais neirly over. The boys and girls gathered in ‘he playground outside of the log school-house, but no play was going on. Most of the boys had their books in their hands, and were poring over them as if to make up for all the idle time of their lives; the girls sat on the wood pile, whispering and looking at th < boys with a kind of awe. The school-house was built just outside of a mountain village in North Carolina. The boys were dressed in butternut, or blue cloth, the girls in a kind of linsef, all of which their mothers had spun and woven. - Outside of the fence was a gang of little negroes wh om the white children ordered about with an air of authority, for, poor as they were, their fathers were ail slave owners. There was a row of shiny black faces at the top of the fence.

“G -rryl Look at Mas’ Willi I tink he get it” '‘Pshaw! Glotig, yods Victory! Our Mas’ Bob’s twist as good a scholar. See how he’s pokin’ into dat book.” The others volunteered no opinions but shouted: “Hooray! Which of ye gwine to be desojer? Mas’ Bob Bavier he gwine! Cunnepßob Sevier! Hooray!” Never had there been SUch a day known in Uncle Job’s school. Bob Sevier, a fair, thin boy, with round blue eyes, sat on the steps, turning over the leaves of his “Historse Sacre.” He knew every word and line; but he turned leaf after leaf with his cold, shaking fingers.

When the little negroes shouted for “Cnnnel Bob!” he felt a lump in his throat choking him. If he should not win! Bob had always been head boy in the school, but during the last month he had worked harder than ever. The cause was this: J udge Peters, who was now congressman from this district, had paid a visit to the village a few weeks before, and had dropped into the s hool one morning and made the boys a little speech. ‘ It was a pupil here,” he said. “There is the very desk at which I eat. Uncle Job taught me pretty much all I kuow. My father could not afford to send me to college, and I anr sure neither can your lathers afford to send you there. But I want to give some boy here a chance such as I did not have. I have the appointment of a cadet to West Point, and I prooose instead of giving it to some rich man’s son, that the boy in this school who passes the beet examination a month from now shall have it” This was the speech. It made the boys as wild as if he had pat fire into their brains. Not a boy there who did not see himself a colonel in full regimentals, preceded by a brass band, riding np the street of the village in triumph. They fell to studying, most of them for the first time in their livee. They never had done anything bnt lounge about tire sunny, hilly highland hamlet, list ening to the interminable stories of the hunter?, who came in with peltry, or 1 “sisty out” with the little negroes, v John Fremoy, the shabbiest of them all, eat apart from the other boys with his sister Louise. “Noifct Lon, jpst hear me this page,” and he began: “ ‘Charlemagne, otherwise Charles the Great, was the son of Pepin the Skort. the ftret of the Carlovihgian—Car lovingian’—oh,what comes next?” 4 “ ‘Dynasty,’'” prompted Lou. “And what’A the meaning ofdynasty,’ I’d like to know? Such rubbish! I don’t naderstawi a word of itl There’s no use Lett’s eyes filled mid the tears rolled down her flushed cheeks; but John only at his jaws a little firmer, and fixed

his dark eyes on the (round. They were honest, kind eyes, bat doll; very different from Bob 8e trier’s, which glowed ’ike lamps. ,

“I might as well give np, Lon. Unele Job saye patience and hard work will take any boy through. Bat there’s a difference in bays. . Now, Bob Sevier don’t work half as hard over his books as 1 do;, but just look at him. 1 reckon he coaid, go over the Car.ovingiaaß, or any other Yingian,like a trottin’ horse.” “Oh, yes, I reckon he could,” groaned Lou. “But only think oi West Point, Jack! Yon’d be a gentleman and a soldier, and sep the world. An’ es you don’t get it, why, then ” “Then Uncle Bill will set me to plowing in the fall. He said only this morning he’d wasted enough money on oar schoolin’, and you and I be to go to work to earn our salt.”

John took up the book and went at the lesson with a desperate energy, while Lon sat crying silently. The children were orphans and lived with their uncle, a farmer, on Mount Craggy. He was wretchedly poor, like all the other mountaineers, and waa, beside, a coarse, hard-natured man. The school-bell rang. “It’s coming now,” said John, as he got up and shut the book. “You’re powerful on ’rithmetic, Johnny, mind that. Jest yon keep up,” eagerly whispered Lou, running along beside him.

The boys crowded into the hot little school-room, and the girls followed, excepting Lon, who hung back,and finally went to the woodpile again. She knew she should not be missed, and she could not bear to hear John’s examination. The poor little girl had but one friend in the world, her brother. She sat down, her hands shaking as if in a chill. “He’ll fail—l know he’ll fail!” she said, looking up to the sky and talking out loud. “I can’t stand it! Oh, Heavenly Father! I can’t!” As with most southern children, “Heavenly Father” was very real to Lou. Then she began to pray, fast and hard, to this far-away Friend in the sky to help John.

“Oh, dear, only get him over the Latin, and them Vingianß! He’ll manage the arithmetic himself.” She sat there an hour or more, hear ing only a droning voice now and then from the open window. At last there was a hash. Uncle Job was going to give his decision. The little negroes crowded up to the schoolhouse steps.

Lon stood up aud threw her calico sun bonnet off her head. She did not know what she did. She was stifling with sudden and terrible heat. Her strained eyes were on the door. Presently she heard Uncle Job’s voice in a few brief words. But she did not catch them. They Bounded to her like: “John has won—John Fremoy.” Suddenly there was a cheer inside. Then the negroes took it up. “Bob Sevier! Cunnel Bob! Hooray for Bob!” Lon sat down and covered her face with her hands. Her brother came to ■ her in a moment. “Get up and come along home,” he said, roughly.

She caught his arm and patted it. “Don’t you mind it, Johnny,” she said. “Yot kin do lots of things Bob ’Sevier knows nothin’ about,” she cried, fiercely. “No, Bob won it f*ir,” he said, sturr - dily. “I m a dunce; I didn’t deserve it; that’a the worst of it” His face was colorless, even to the lipe7TjutTm showed his disappointment in no other way. . J udge Peters came to the village the next, day, heard the report of the examination sent for Sevier, and promised him the appointment He then went out to the farm which ne owned,near to Caleb Fremoy’s,John’s uncle. The boy crept over, toward night, to catch a glimpse of the great man who might have made him happy for life, but had not done it. He hang miserably about the place nntil evening, and then set out homeward.

Coming to the edge of Craggy Creek, just where it turned from the mountain, he sat down on the bank, and pat his hot feet into the water. To morrow he was to be set to (flowing with the negroes. “It’s all yer fit for,” his ancle said. “Ye’d a chance for West Point, an’ ye didn’t take it. So ye ken kennel with the darkeys tor the rest of yer life. I’ll feed ye no more.” John sat moodily flinging pebbles into the wsrter, untfl dusk came on, and an owl began to hoot. Buddenly the hoy stood up, trembling with excitement, holding a stone in hia hand np to the light. It shone with a brilliant luster, like a great drop of dew in the morning eon.* As

■he moved it, it flashed a blood red star in hiß dirty.palm. John ’had heard of the rubv which had once been found in the next gorge. “It was worth thousands of dollars!” he sobbed rather than spoke. “I heard Jadge Peters tell my ancle there was a corundum on hia farm, and a ruby ia a kind of corundum. I am rich for life.” He sat down breathleea, carefully rubbing tlie brilliant Jump in his hand, as Aladdin might have done hia lamp. What waa West Point to this? Money,

beautiful houses a glimpse of the world, an easy, happy life for hinu&f and Lou. “Poor Lon! I was so cron to her today! I’ll go and tell her.” ' Then he stopped aa if some one bad struck him. The ruby was not his; he was on Judge Peter’s land. , The boy eat down again, and for one whole boor the tempter strove with him. If there was one quality strong and dominant in John Fremoy, it was his honesty; bat this was a temptation each as seldom comes in the way of any man.

The next morning Jndge Peters was mounting his horse to go into the village, when a boy came across the yard. He walked quickly aa if driven from behind. The jndge waited, one foot in the stirrup. As long as John Fremoy lived he remembered, like a sudden, terrible picture, the glaring light of the little mtiddy yard,the staring negro boy holding the horse, the portly, kind-looking old man awaiting his approach. When John reached the Judge he stopped and was silent. He had his little speech all ready, but his tongue was stiff and his throat parched. “Well, my boy, what is its” asked the Judge, kindly. John thrust oat his hand.

“A ruby, sir. It’s worth a great many thousand dollars. I found it on yonr land.” Judge Peters took the stone and examined it eagerly; then he turned to John, and looked at him as curiously. “Why didn’t you keepit, if it is worth so much?” “I had a mind to, but it’s yours.” He turned away. “Stop, my boy! Who are you?” “John Fremoy, sir.” “Oho! Uncle Job spoke of you to me. Yon are uncommonly quick at figures, eh?” •

“If I am, I’m a dunce at everything else. If I had not been I might have gone to West Point.” “Ye-es,” looking very thoughtfully at John. “Very well, F emoy, I’m very much pleased with youj/honeßty. Good morning!” And the./Judge rode abruptly away. J He rode directlyJo Uncle Job’s house, and was eloseteefywith him for an hour. The next day pfe village was electrified by hearing J udge Peters was going to take Jobp Fremoy to Annapolis to pass an examination in the engineer’s departqj&nt of the Naval Academy, and that liDU was to he put to school in Raleigh by the" samp kind friend. * * * * * * * Jonh Fremoy is now a middle-aged man, ranking high in his profession. He met Judge Peters about a year ago, at his sister’s hqjase, for Lou married a planter in Virginia, and is a happy wife And mother. “I have oftenpd wondered, judge,” ha

said, “Why you befriended me as you did. I certainly was a dunce as far as Latin was concerned, and I am not at all sure if I am accurate about the Carlovingian dynasty yet.” “Honesty is a rarer quality than good scholarship, and more useful in the world, Fremoy.” “And another question. Is not that the rnby I found, which you wear on your watch-chain?” “Yes.’ “May I look closely at it?” The judge hesitated, then laughed, and gave it to him. “ Why, it is only colored quartz!” exclaimed Fremov. “Yes, but it is more valuable to me than any jewel, for it gave me an honest man for a friend.” - -

Some Scientific Facts.

It is a peculiarity of the emotions of fear or wonder that they relax the muscles of the lower part of the face and cause the dropping of the jaw. Few people carry the head erect; that is to say, perfectly balanced on the end of the spine, like the end of a walkingstick. It is always'ieaned to one side or the other. There is a class of people who have a carious habit of taking hold of the chin as if it were a door-knob. Sometimes they make a motion as if they were pulling an imaginary beard. The origin of the habits of crossing the legs and of nursing the knee—the last an entirely snperflnons task in this country, where habits are so accessible —is lost in the hoary mists oi antiquity. Persons nowadays receive their friends with open arms. The primitive animals received thens with open jaws, because they had originally regarded all other beings either as enemies or articles of diet

How Katie’s Father Said Grace.

~ >; ; ■ Boston Commonwealth. A South End little girl was talking sapper,with a playmate a few evenings ago. After the paterfamilias had “said grace” with due solemnity the little hostess tamed to her guest and asked: “Does your papa aay grace at sapper, Katie?” “No,” replied Katie, with a charming candor, “bat he says something else.” This answer, of course, aroused the interest of the elder persons. “What doc.s'he say?” was asked the little visitor. - “Good Lord, what a supper!” was the calm response. The chapel in which Wesley preached for nearly half a century waa rest fitly bought in at auction for £4,500. Fit to kill—corsets. v

SHERMAN’S MANIFESTO.

The Able Senator Makes an Unan■weraole Reply To the Free Trade Metaage of President Cleveland—The Farmer Should be Protected as Iftll aa the Arnun-A Clear and Logical Statement of the Republican Position. Mr. Sherman’s resolution to refer President Cleveland’s message to the finance committee came up in the Benate, Wednesday, and the author spoke at length qpon it. His effort was the Republioah answer to the message. After referring to its extraordinary character and the dealings hitherto with the Treasury surplus, by the reduction or repeal of taxes without any cry of alarm being raised, he criticised the President and party for failing to do anything to relieve the country of the burden inveighed against it- They had the power now, and a power neglected was often as great a crime as a power usurped. An artificial scare could not be made to cover faults and defects of the administration. He denounced the administration for not reducing the surplus by purchasing bonds. Conjmning he said: The country had two distinct systems of taxation, one upon the American production of spirits, tobarco and beer, and the other upon Imported goods, the products of foreign nations. If the object sought was only to avoid the accumulation of surplua, the easy, natural and logical course was to repeal, or largely to reduce Internal revenue. But the President proposed to continue these taxes, without dimunltion.so that he might strike a more effective blow at the taxes now resting upon foreign productions. It was of these latter that he had used the epithets "vicious, inequitable and illogical.'’ It was at the tariff laws that the President aud Secretary of the Treasury aimed their epithets and arguments—the surplus revenue being the mere pretext or occasion. It was the protective industrial policy builtUp by the Republican p-.rty that they would break down. The President’s mes-age,fairly construed, was a severe indictment of all engaged in manufactures—a sweeping accusation against the policy of proieetiou as supported by the great mass of his countrymen and recommended by his most illustrious predecessor®. 11 showed that he favored a public policy which would leave American manufac'urer and workman to the hard, sharp and grinding competition of the capital and labor of the world. Proceeding to details, Mr Sheiman said that during the fiscal year ending June 31, 18-7, the tota. value of foreign importations was $683,000,-000-$-38,000,000 of that amount being free of duty; so. that, as to over one-third of all articles of foreign production consumed in this country there was absolute free trade. They were mainly such articl-s as, by reason of climate, oould not be produced here, and did not come into competiton with domestic industry. With that kind of free trade he was in hearty sympathy. He would extend it to every article oi common use, the growth or pr<>dnction of which in the United States was not profitable. It was exactly the opposite policy that was proposed by the President and by the school to which the President belonged. They sought to place taxes upon articles now free, such as coffee, in order that a greater reduction might be made on articles that did not come into competition with home industry. After deducting the free list the value of imported goods last year was $150,000.000, on which duties were levied. Should there be a uniform rate of duty on the goods? No; but there should be a careful discrimination and classification of rates, depending upon the nature snd quality of the goods, upon who were to be the consumers, and upon the effect which the rates proposed would have UDon domestic' industries Therefore, articles of voluntary use, luxury and ornament, or appetite not in common use among the people and which are purchased almost exclusively by the wealthy,, should bear a higher rate of taxation—the highest rate collectible without excluding them ,»r inducing smuggling. This was foundeji upon the admitted maxim of politick! economy, that taxes should be assess* d upon those best able to pay. ’ This applies to wines. >liquors and cigars (supposed to he superior in flavor to the domestic articles), and to silks satins broadcloths, innumerable articles oi,dress ornament, ;to porcelain, Btatuary, paintings, glassware and the like. As to all these arflclks, the price was a matter of ihdiffeience to ttye consumer, and the, rate of duty wa&yery much like.tbeepriee fixed toy the manufacturer—that is n* as inuch as coulib be got. This was the policy of the present tariff, and it had operated even better than had been hoped. The value of such articles.imported was not less than $1 .f),000,000, and du(h» conee_t&l Dat less than $60,000,00j, nearly oup~l»alt a; the.-whole amount collected r !rJA It certainly could not be .raid of these duties that they "imposed a burden upon those who consumed domestic products as Wall as upon those who consumed imported' arfßßetjpj {usfqKj the President’s language), On the Contrary,theke duties had imposed the chief burdehs of the taxation upon articles of voluntary luxury, and still incited American artists and mechanics to compete in those branches of industry with the skilled artists of Europe and Asia. In this way remarkable progress had been made in these expensive productions: and porcelain, tableware ornaments, decorative furniture and a multitude of other articles of taste and luxury, the work of American mechanics, had been brought with in the means of great masses of the American people To reduce the duty on these foreign luxuries would be to trausmit the burden of taxation from those who now bore it willingly to the shoulders of the people. Another class of duties was on articles of fowl and animals. Of these the valne imported the last fiscal year was 5U2.000.01X) and the duty paid On them ‘568,000.000, Of those urns the sugar, rice and fruit im. ported were valued at $9 ,000.000 and paid a duty of .6 .000,000. or more than nine-tenths of all the taxes levied on food and animals. Tnese articles entered into the consumption of every family in the United Sfates. If the object was to reduce surplus revenue, what better mode, he asked, could be suggested than to repeal one half of t-'e duty on suga- and thus directly relieve the people from ¥a5,25:i,000 of taxes on articles in most general use and now bearing a tax of 82 per cent.? No such suggestion was made by the President or the Seer, tary of the Treasury, and he (Mr. Sherman) did not care to’ explore the reasons-TorTheir silence. He be lieved in prutectingall home industries,without respect to section or to the place or manner of on the farm or in the workshop; but if protection was not the object of the law, and if surplus revenue was the great evil to he dealt with, why not give relief to the people by a reduction of the tax on sugar? The effort to produce sugar in the United States in quantities at ah approaching the demand had failed, though prot-eted by the highest tariff rat-s. Still, in view of the hopeful prosper sol producing sugar from beets and sorghum cane, as well as from sugar eane, he would not eripole that industry by reducing p otective duties, except oy giving the producers of domestic sugar a bounty equal to the reduction of duty on the Imported article But it was not of thg duties on food that the President complained aa "vicious, inequitable and illogical source of taxation,” The duties of which he cc mplaiued were those for the benefit of manufacturers; and be urged an especially "radical reduction of the duties imposed on raw materials used in manufactures, or their free importation.” The great body of erode articles imported which entered into the processes of domestic indue trv, to the value of $lO6, 00,000. were now free of duty. Every imported article of that class was so unless it competed directly with the development of American resources. Duties averaging 32 per cent were now levied upon such imported articles, valued at $9,000,100, and which yielded a revenue of $19,500,000. The chief of them were agricultural products—wool, flax, hemp and other textile fabrics; hops, bristles and seeds, valued at $35,003,000 and yielding a revenue of $10,000,000 or less than 33 per cent. The remainier was chiefly metals, on ore in pigs, coai and marble, of valneofs2J.sOO,OOo and yielding $9.250.009. These imports come into 'direct c mpet'tion with the prodnetionsof nearly t»o million American farmers and of hundreds of thousands of laboring men. This moderate protection grren to the labor and capital employed In min ing and agricultural industries was the favorite point of assault by the President and all freetraders, upon the protective policy. It was the citadel of the system. The whole depended upon the principle that it was wise to live by tariff laws.- to all forms of American labor, the degree of protection or advantage wbicn the imposition oi duties on similar foreign productions necessarily gave. That had been true in the beginning of the Government and had been recommended by every President from Wasnington to Polk, The same role had been applied for the farmer, the miner and furnace owner as well as the manufacturer; and whenever die rule was departed from, the whole system would fall,and properly so. The principle of protection demanded equality of benefits and burdens. The object ta, protection to labor, not to capital. No reason could be given why wool should be made free, and woolen goods protected. If there

must be cheap wool there moat' be cheap woolens; and If the labor of the farmer inprodueiug the wool was not protected against undue competition with Australia or Bueno* Ayres, then that of the cloth maker should not be protected against cdtapetition with the looms of Manchester or Lyon*. If there were low dutle* on iron ore there would have to be low duties on iron and steel in all its forms. The farmer performed as valuable labor as the artisan, add the rights of every producer should have equal and Just consideration without fear or favor. And yet the President had selected that class of

productions under the name of "raw materials” for destruction, and had especially selected wool as an article not to be protected. His whole *r gument rested upon the allegation that the price of wool was increased to the extent of the duty, and that, but for the duty, the merchant could buy this wool cheaper In South America and Australia. This argument was fallacious because the destruction of the wool industry in the United States would at ones advanee the priee of wool In foreign markers. But even If the argument were true, it would apply to all domestic productions and to all manufactures. Wool was the completed art cle of the farmer, just aa cloth was of the manufacturer, and as the coat was of the tailor,and the objection that the duty on wool raised the price to the consumer applied as well (If true) to the duty on cloth and onevery article on the tariff list. The all-sufficient answer was that the duty encouraged the pro duetlon of wool, the manufacture of cloth int o) the infinite variety of articles produced by American labor competing with foreign labor. Tnfs diversity of production inured to the benefit of all classes'of the people alike, and was the secret of the enormous growth, power and wealth of the Republic. It had always seemed to him that the most narrow and selfish notion advanced In respect to tariff laws (aud to which the President now lent his name) was that made on behalf of advanced industries, now supported by duties greater than those on raw materials, that they must be allowed to purchase thefr raw materials In the cheapest markets of the world; that the mineral treasures of every State and Territory mflst be left undeveloped In order that these advanced Industries may have cheap raw materials. He regarded the home production of raw materials es of even more importance than manufactures. There was but one rule which had to be applied to all industries impar tially: and that whs to givete all forms of American labor which have to compete with such foreign labor that fair and reasonable advantage and protection which would give the American producer the home market for home products. Turning from raw materials to manufactured, Mr Sherman said that the imports not on the free list and not classed by him as luxuries or raw materials, amounted in value to $ >18,000,000, and paid $84,000,000 in duties. These importations came into direct competition with domestic manufactures,which bad been mainly built up by the encouragement of tariff laws. Scarcely any of them had existed in the United States when the Constitution was framed. Since then they had flourished or foundered by the changing rates of the revenue laws. A careful revision of rates was made by the Tariff Commission of 1882. All | branches of domestic industry had become adapted to these rates. It wss this system which was denounced by the President as ‘ ‘vicious, inequitable and illogical.” That denunciation was aimed at the principle of protection. All the industrial classes of the population were directly interested In that principle. The farmers and mechanics had long since learned to look beyond the uarrow view taken Of their interests by the President. They looked at It from a higher plane. The benefits of the protection permeated hrough the whole eommunity and extended to the remotest parts of the country, but were most apparent in the immediate neighborhood of manufacturing Industries. T"e President assumed that the duty on imported articles was added to the price of similar articles of home production: but such was not the faet. In the absence of domestic competition. the importer fixed his Own price and added the duty and expenses to the cost; but, at the first sign of American competition, the price was reduced; gnd often ip a stagnant market, goods were sold at far less than the original cost and duty. As a rule, imported goods competing with American goods were sold In the American market cheaner than in the Euronean market (duties added.) In the great body of articles fermerly imported, the manufacturer was well established, and Under domestic competition, the price was.reduced to figures approaching European rates. In some articles America comreted with Europe in the markets of the world. And this process was now going on. Home competition wherever it got a foothold reduced prices and lessened importation. One most remarkable example of that was in the prodnc'ion of glassware., pottery and China-ware which had become established industries in this country. He quoted Mr. Dudley. lHte consul General at Liver- ; pool, to the effect that there is not a single man- : ufactured commodity that is not cheaper to-day •iu the United states under the protective system than it was in 1860 under free trade, and that nine-tfnthß of the manufactured commodities used by American farmers (including clothing, household goods, furniture, implements of husbandry, tools, etc.) are ns cheap in this country a» they are in England arid, in some instance* 1 cheaper. The fact that the large, importations ( were now made of manufactures Of iron, steel, cotton, wool, wood, leather, china aud glasswaVe was evidenoe that the duty on certain grades of these goods was not beyond the revenue standard,; If/the present systems Were maintained, i American home industries could;, and would, compote with European productions, in articles essenflal to human life and comfort. As to the mm fieut’s assertion that, moriethan 4 003 articles Weyti-subject to tariff duties, that Mr. Sherman anWt, -was a gross, but common exaggeration. CHC would agree with the President, however, in saving that if pit a careful examination, it should appear thatany dutv oh any article could, ,mdi?pensed wifli. without detriment to American industry.if should be done;' and that if any article now payljiW'twxes could not be manufactured here, it shod d he placed on the free IfsU The object of the tariff-laws was to encourage; home matmfaelhjes fneompet'itioh with forekiSK rivals, aa Weil as-£o shpitre ft' leverifle, and fnre't bese laws should be as permanent as pojfflP ble. consistent with the needs of the Government. American citizens were emouraged to irivest their money in expensive machinery and buildings: buttbty had noespecialprivileges.no monopoly. All the world might, in thiscountry, enter into competition with them, The President. however, seemed to think that they were public enemies. To eha e awav a successful manufacturer by a change of duties was to legislate for the foreigner and against the American citizen. The most important benefits conferred by the tariffs was that they net -only diversifiedAmerican industries, but secured to the laborer employed in manufactures Higher wages and bettersurroundings and advanmges than were enjoyed by laborers in similar employments anvwhere in the world. The treatment of th s question by the Pr* sident was a delusion and a snare The President assumed that the cost of living(esuecially of food and clothing) was higher i" the United States than in Europe. That was not true. Food of every kiud (exce.pt sugar) was cheaper here than inanv market in Europe. The clothing worn by workingmen (including blankets) was sold here at as low prices as in London or Liverpool. The quantity and quality of food of laboring men were confessedly better and greater here than in Pnrone. and the' rate of wages was from 53 to 1< 0 per cent, higher here. The President did not dispute these points, but appealed to the manufacturer (who had been represented as a robber, a conspirator and extortioner) not to redtfee the workingmen's wages,, but to pay more out of surplus profits—profits very often found on the wrong side of the ledger. What workingcan did not feel that this was sheer evasion of the inevitable result of an effort to reduce his wages by inviting a close competition with pauper labor? The' Workingman would have to share the fate of his employer and divide with him the loss. The question was one purely of wages. If wages were not greater here than in England. France and Belgium (America’s chief competitors), this country could, no douht now compete with all the world in all metallic and textile fabrics. But would It be wise to pursue a policy that would aompel the reduction of wage* to the general standard in Europe? The Republican party had declared it to be the duty of the National government not only to levy enough duties on imported merchandise to support the Government but to levy those duties so as to secure to laboring men employed in manufactures such wages as would enable them to support, malatain and educate properly their wives and children. Whatever might be said of other rations, protection to home Industries (as embodied iq the tariff laws) was the best for this country, arid' lie (for one) proposed tc maintain it. even against the advice of the President. In eoDC’nsion. he said: “We do not appreciate as we ought the commanding position now held by the United States among the nations of the world. “Our fathers won the freedom of the ocean and proclaimed the doctrine of continental exemption from European aggressions. We in our day have tested the strength of the Union. We have abolished slavery; we have established the principles on which our currency and pubi: faith are founded, so as toconunand the respect and approval of the civilized world. We are now united in bonds growing strength, and I trust, in perpetual union. We have built up oar industries by a policy founded upon the highest patriotism. Its success is marked by the general wealth and prosperity of our people. By taxing them it seeks to benefit, and extends its benefits impartially to every industry and to every section It gives employment to the la-' borer in every field. It concentrates in our own land, and among onr own people, agriculture, eommerce and manufactures, making each support the other, and all contributing to the wealth and jrandenr of the Republic These great depths of industry are not now divided by section lines, bntaro interwoven like the veins, arteries and muscles of the human bodv. What we want now Is the cultivation of the sentiment of patriotism, in intense love of country, a feeling of national pride. Every American, whether

native or naturalised, ought to feel that this his country to wnish he owes allegiance, dutjfl and pride. Th# President (any President) in h*H elevated seeinaion, approached only by flattered and office-seekers, should regard the interest*and honor of his country, its development and proed perity, and the- employment and happinesa ofl his countryman, as higher far than the interest* of foreigners or the development of their prod ducts. It is to the Senate only that I have Id right to appeal The best we can do for ms ad kind la to do th# best for our country. ‘Ood country’s welfare is our first coneern, and Wh<d promotes that best, proves his duty.’ ■ “The Home Missionary is the best missionary! Th# light of our example w# give to foreign nad tfons; duty we owe to our own. What hlghed duty can there tie than to be watchful of the ltd terests, and to protect and fqster and diversifd the industries of the American people?" H

GRAND ARMY BOYS.

There are seventy-six G. A. R., I in' Kentucky. I The National Home at Leav » I Kan., cost 1250,000. I Quantrelle, the guerrilla le, I born at Canal Dover, Ohio. A" fl The American soldier is 1 clothed of any soldier in the vi fl The soldiers’ Home for n I Washington had, Bept. 30, 99 , -fl Gilbert Head, of Danforth, ,1 sioned veteran of the war of J be 100 vears old Feb. 9, 1888. : I The Dspartment of Massach I A. R , reports the sum of $5 fl expended in charity last year., fl The life and services of Maj I George H. Thomas are being ■ book form by Colonel Don Piej I Senator Palmer, of Michigai I sist the posts in Detroit in bui I A. R. hall to the amount of $1 I General W. T. Sherman, it it I not talk politics, usually smop I chunky cigar, and wears a sh The Post of Concordia, K| | the rifle used by Boston Corb> fl he gave John Wilkes Booth t, I dose of lead. I Thirty eight thousand and twt I seven dollars and seventy cents was exj pended by the Grand Army in Pennsylvania last year. The Senate Committee on Pension! consists of Senators Davis, Blair, Sawyer Paddock, Quay, Wilson of Maryland Turpie and Blodgett. The fair recently given by John M Bell Post and Corps at Washington Court House, Ohio, resulted in an addi tion of $428 t 3 the relief fund. The State Soldiers’ Home at Erie,Pa, is full, and arrangements are being made to increase the capacity so as tc admit double the present number of in mates.

Wool Here and There.

Philadelphia Ledger. Naturally, with its great diversity o soil and climate, there are vast areas 0 this country which arc admirabl; adapted to sheep raising, and w hethei or not this industry shall become ar important-part of the agricultural pur suit depends upon whether it oan b( made and kept our farmers. That question inevitably involves the other one' of the cotnpefi tion of foreign countries. —~

Sheep are raised in almost all conn tries, but in few others to the same extent as in those distant colonies of Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand, where, last year, the number of thfke/animals owned was 84,622,172. In the latter colony sheep raising was not begun, until 1848, but in 1886, so ’greatly had the industry grown, the contained 16,677,455 animals iyielding fleece. a ID the game year, m the two colonies there were clipped-upwards of 400,000,000 pounds of wool, which was valued at $85,00 ,000. Of the 1,819,182 bales o this “raw material” imported by Great Britain in 1886.1,139,842 bales, or nearly three-fourths of the whole,were taken from Australia and New Zealand. The Induslry mfhOFe countries may be said to be only at the beginning, as yet. Their population, spread over an area of 3,(91,087 square miles, is less than the present population of Penn-f sylvania, that has an area of only a little more than 45 000 square miles. Austral! < and New Zealand are threatening competitors with our own farmers in our markets as sellers of wool, and that fact is not of a kind to encourage the placing of wool on the free list at his ttime.

A California Sermon.

Christian Advocate. A correspondent from Tuscarora, Nevada, sends ns an account of a sermo'n he heard in California from an illiterate preacher of an obscure denomination;. Abraham’s sacrifice of Isaac was hie subject, and he dwelt particularly on the pathetic features of the narratives The changes were rung on the grief of Abraham at offering “his son, his only son.” “As they,were cornin’ to the place Isaac says, ‘My father,’ an’ Abraham says, ‘Here am I, my eon,’ an’ Isaac says, ‘Behold the wood an! the fire’ ” (at this point the old preacher choked witn the excess of his feelingßand wag forced to begin again)—“ ‘Behold the wood an’ the fire, but whar is the critter?’ ”

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