Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1890 — Page 6

UP AND DOWN. _ ' - ' ’■* ■ * We’re up to-day on fortune’s kin And free from every sorrow, But in the wheel of pood and ill AU«ay he changed to morrow. We're up and down as time flies om—- . Now ease, now hardest labor— No millionaire can sa r ely frown Upon his lowly neighbor. Niches take wings—the m an of wealth May meet with sudden losses, While he whose only store is health May ride behind his horses. Then do not slight the toiling poor. For labor n’er disgraces. And ttaouglr jwrfortune seems secure Some day you may change places God help us all—we'er poor at BestDependent on rtwh other** Though crowned with ease or sort distressed Weak man is still man’s brother Then when on fortune s top we stand. No ill or state attending. Let. us extend a helping hand To those about descending. —Francis S. Smith, New York Weekly.

A FUNNY BOY.

Hooraw!" cried Ted, from the sitting;* room doorway. “Hip, hip —” “Dear me!" said Ted’s mamma, frjm her sewing chair at the window. She glanced at the clock! Tt wanted ten minutes of five, and so il would be ten minutes more than seven whole hours before Independence Day came in. . Then she looked at Teddy in the doorway, a little boy with crimson cheeks and damp, ciirlcy hair, and a wide, straw hat in his hand, “Dear me,” she said again, only it didn’t sound a bit cross this time, “aren't you beginning rather early Teddy? You might save your noise for to-morrow, dear.” “I’ll make enough more then. Iguess 1 will,” laughed Ted. “And O iuam : ma, we’re just going to give this Fourth the jollies told seudmff you ever saw!’, , “Not with guns or cannon. Teddy?” Mrs. Iv t'f* inquired, anxiously. "NoV said Ted, “though I'd just like to have something louder than fire-crackers to shoot o(T. lint tins ..tea’tnoLc. You know the South District boys stumped us to beat ’em on a bonfire, and they’re going to build theirs on Deacon Bradley's hill, and we’re going to build ours on Ballard's— " ——— “Mr. Ballard's,” corrected mamma, with a smile. • ——- ——-—— - “Mr. Ballard’s.” said Ted. rattling on again, “and they’ll both be right in plain sight and Uncle VVinky Bell is going to say whi -h is the biggest: and whichever is. the others have got to treat ’em on lemonade and peanuts. And wo know ours'll be. because we've been hunting and hunting all the dry stuff then 1 is in Bal Mr. Ballard’s woods: and we've got some old pine stumps all split up splendid for n fire! Oh, 1 know ours’ll be tho best! We’ro going to light it at just 'zactly twelve o’clock. Won’t you get up and see it. mamma? It’ll be as big as— as a meeting house, I wouldn’t wonder.” Then Mamma Ives laughed. “Til see about it.” said she. And then she told Teddy he had better eat his supsupper and go right to bed. if lie wanted to be np in season. Teddy answered promptly, “Yes, mamma,” but-he lingered as long as possible over his bowl of broad and milk, and even then it wasn't, quite sundown when he went bouueing upstairs, to tumble into his own white nest of a bed.

Aud then he couldn't go to sleep of course he couldn’t because tho red glow of the setting sun..fell on his bedroom wall, and made him think of tho bonfire; and tho bonfire made him tfiink of peanuts and lemonade, and of how much money it would take to buy the treat, in case their side should get whipped, as of course it wouldn't; and ho hoped that there would be silver enough left in his bank to buy a dozen packs of 1 lire crackers, if no more, and wondered bow it would sound to throw fire. when it got well to blazing. — And when he had got back to the bonfire again, lying there with his blue eyes propped wide open, a voice came straight to his cars through the open w imlow.' .... "" Teddy knew the voice. It belonged to Mrs. Cates, who had run over to borrow-axup oLyeast: .amL.it. ...wak so. shrill and earnest that Teddy couldn't help hearing every Word. ••It's a dreadful pity, the boys couldn't turn their work to some account now. ain’t it? Here they've been a-scourin' the woods for dear life to get stufT for a tire, haulin’ slabs an’ everything from the mill ’mongst the rest, jest for the sake o' scein' it burn up in a heap; tin' there’s poor old Aunt Penny Peters sufferin’, its you may say. for wood to burn little by little ill her stove, senco Uncle Jackson got his leg broke. That heap o' -stu ff won 1 d.Ljat.jUer.jail.xuaunar,..'.'. Then Mrs. Cates took her cup of yeast and went home, with her apron over her head; ahd Teddy shut his eyes tight and tried to go to sleep. But dear me! it was worse than ever, i The more he tried to go to sleep) the more he couldn't go, and the more he tried not to think of the bonfire, the more he thought of it. and of Aunt Penny reters, and Uncle Jackson Peters’ broken leg, and how he always shared his cherries with them, and let them go in his field after strawberries, no matter how . much they trampled the grass. Oh dear! the twilight grew deej>er and deeper, until Teddy couldn't make - out the Jmnehes of- parrsie= on the wall paper; apd still he tossed and tumbled. *‘l wish Mrs. Cates didn’t come j over, here, ’relse she didn't talk so j loud, 'relse I didn’t hear her,” he I complained at last "But I guess— l —guess —l—” * And then mamma was 1 gently calling: “Get up, Teddy, dear, or you’tl-be late. It is almost twelve o’clock.” He was wide awake and out of bed in a minute, and dressed in another one or two; but somehow Mamma Ives couldn’t help, seeing that there wasn’t half the sparkle there ought to have been in her bey’s eyes. “What’s the matter, dear,” she asked, “are you sick?” * “Oh, no, mamma." - “You don’t feel well. Teddy?” “Yes’m I do, mamma, ** Ted answer-’ ed; “honest, true.” And *ban out of the front door, be

went, and away up the road toward th< bonfire, that wasn’t a bonfire y&h A merry 1 little group was g itherci round it, and when Teddy was almos there his quick eyes caught the glean of a match “through the dark ness - “Oh waitr’ he panted v brtmthlessly a moment l iter. “Boys -I want fit tel you something, boys. Don't you know how Uncle .Jackson us*d to give ir cherries last summer when he mi-dt have sold’em, and let us pick straw berries and: everything? And now hit leg’s broke, Sti they have:,'! got anv _ wood, ami--" ‘ The match went out. It was Winnj Barnutn who held it. and he faced. Ted,- ; dv in the darkness. “Oh. come, now,” he said, “ym don't never mean fbr us to give Unck Jack our bonfire! Cat’s foot! jud think how the South’ District bovs'd crow when we had to treat Vm! (it ’long. Ted Ives! Give me anothci match, somebody!” “Oh. don't!” cried Teddy, his voict fairly trembled with eagerness. Ti • treat ’em out of my bank money ant | the gold dollar gram’pa gave me - nU iof ’em, and all of us. too. »And we’ll j beftt 'em. anyway, because- their bon j fire'll be goiid iri two or three minut es Y ami oura’ll last all tarmmee. -0-boyw. ] lets! All that're on nty side come oven > this log.” Two came, after an instant’s hesitiI tion. t'hnrley Tt-tie and Davy Goodhue, ; and then Bert Mollis; arid arguments • began to fly thick and fast. “I'll tell you!” cried Teddy, at last, t and his eyes flashed, if you could huv? ! seen them. “I s’pose you know wh( made FouTttr o’ :July, don’t you? I’ll just tell you that you wouldn’t -liavs caught Thoma s Jefferson and John Ad, ams and and Mr. Hancock and Pari riek Somebody and -and Stonewall Jackson and George Washington doing such a mean caper as to burn all this j nice wood for fun. when a poor old lady like Aunt Penny needed every switch of it. So.” Then you could see Ted’s eyes flash. Because at that, instant a tongue o; flame leaped up from the crown of Deacon Bradley’s hill. The South District boys had sot their lire, and in a moment it' was light as day alt m round. "‘Ours would be bigger than that, 1 know,” grumbled Win. “Lot's fire up, boys; come ahead!” They all looked at Ted. His hat was off, his hair all tumbled, his checks flushed scarlet; and somehow every boy’s heart there began to warm. Something got into their eyes, too, bul it was a loud, clear, ringing shout thal -went up all the same. “Hurrah! hurrah! Hurrah for Ted! Down with the bonfire—down to Aunt Penny’s, boys! - ’ —p~ ——- So down to Aunt Penny's that great heap went by armfuls and by cartfuls: and how glad Aunt Penny was of it. you must try arid think for yourselves. This is what Winny Barnum told his mother when everything was over with: “She a’most cried—she did: and wo just fairly cheered and hollered. And { that Teddy Ives used every mite of his money to buy peanuts anil lemonade, ! though we didn’t want him to, arid he | needn’t have anyway, because Uncle j Wftiky said our fire wjis worth a dozen ;of the othgryone; and so did lots of folks, But he said he Would, because he’d said ho would. lie’s an awful funny* hoy. Maybe its because he’s always lived in the city. Anyway, he’s funny, and I guess that’s the reason.” Now', I don’t believe that made a bit of difference—do you? Teddy himself would have laughed at the idea. He laughed as it was, the | next rooming, whenqn:imma, having heard the story of the bonfire that dian’t' bum, from somebody besides Teddy, gave him a loving kiss, and told him she was proud of her hoy. “Why you, needn’t to be,” he ! said, opening his eyes very wide, j “It was worth more than forty bon ; fires to hear Aunt Penny thank us—all wTisn - 1 moir ! bit more than Twas the rest, mamma—- ! not one bit!” I But somehow I can’t help feeling j that the world would be all the bettoi ‘ for a good many more" funny bbys like Ted Ives.—Ada Carleton Stoddard, I:: Youth’s Companion." Pcail Little Sister. A knot of while . silk ribbon, which • looked as though it had seen much service, flapped drearily from the.belli knob of an East-side tenement yester- ■ day, says the New York Mail and Ex- ! press. .-. It was the symbol of bereavement. It mutely recorded the fact that an- ! other child, too weak to koop up a further struggle with life, had folded its ] little hands and ceased to know either ; weakness or pain. Busy crowds surged “ttr-awd—fro past -nvhcrc-th-o-kttot--of-ribl|on hung without noticing it at all. Similair kinds ofL-pihhftq are too common in the tenement-house-district at this season to attract attention. But a little group of children stood around the door regarding the badge of death with some Curiosity. For them it had a local interest, so tq speak, for they had known the dead j child. Presently they were joined by another little tot, who came from within the tenement. < She was received with an amount of respect that indicated’ that she was some way important The cause ol her importance was soon made known. SBeTuar "scarcely reached the steps I leading into Qje house when she siddressed the other children with all the dignity she could command: “You girls musn't stand on these steps.” she said, “but I can, because I’ve got a little dead sister up-stairs and you girl’s an’t” The other children drew away silently and respectfully. They recognized the superior claims pf the tot who had a “little dead sister upstairs,” and no one disputed them.

Not the Same Thing.

C. —Did I understand you to say that Kilrain was going to join the church? D. —No, I didn’t say that precisely. What I did say was that from now on he would be regarded as an ex-' pounder.-r-Texas Siftings.

INDIANAPOLIS LETTER.

I.VDIA.NAPOLT3, Qet. 2.—Mingling with the gossips a day or two ago we fell to discussing the attitude of the two parties on the pension question. It Was agreed by all that the old soldiers in this State could readily turn the election whichever way they debited. They can maintain the present Democratic supremacy in the Congressional delegation or they can reverse it. Now which will they do? In no State of the Union are the bid soldiers so unanimously in favor of a service pension as in Indiana. The Democrats in their platform say, “We are in favor, as we always have been, of a just and liberal pension system.” It would be interesting just now to the old soldiers to know just what the Democrats deem a just and liberal pension sys> tein. They fail to tell in their platform. Nothiqg is left, therefore, but to go back to history and see what Democrats have done in the past. They should be judged by their record, and on (hat should stand or fall. They declare that they have always been in favor of a liberal pension system. If so it ought to be shown by their votes in Congress. There is not a single, general pension measure now on the statute books that was passed by Democratic votes. It is true that some Democrats have voted for nearly all of these measures, but in nearly every ease more Democrats have voted against than for. On the other hand every general pension measure that is now a law received the unanimous support of the Republicans in Congress and was passed by them. Let us look at the record as it stands on a few of these measures: The Arrears of Pension Bill—passed Jan. 19, 1879. Democrats for the bi 11.... ....... 48 Democrats against the bi 11...... 61 Republicans for the bill 110 Republicans against the bill None The Widows’ Pension Bil} —passed Feb, 2, 1886 (increasing widows’ pension from $8 to sl2 per month); Democrats for the bill 80 Democrats against the bill 66 Republicans for the bill 118 Republicans against the bill.. ~ None The Amputation Bill—passed Aug. -4,1886. Democrats for the bill.. 75 Democrats against the bill 51 Republicans for the bi 11........ 91 Republicans against the bill.. .. None The Widows’ Arrears Bill (giving arrears of pension from the death of their husband) passed the Senate by the following vote: Democrats for the bi 11.......... 1 Democrats against the bill „ 20 Republicans for the bi 11........ 22 Republicans against the bill.. .. None The Disability Pension Bill—(Gives pensions to all disabled soldiers and to dependent parents and children.) Democrats for the bi 11......... 28 Democrats against the bi 11...... 56 Republicans for the bi 11.... .. . . 117 Republicans against the hill None On the return of this bill from the Senate with certain amendments the Democrats filibustered to prevent its consideration and pursued the same tacties when the report was made by the conferenee’eommittee. So it may be said that on its final passage the Democrats solidly opposed it. n The Prisoners of War Bill—(gives pension for term of imprisonment of all who were prisoners of war for thirty days or more.) Democrats for the bi 11.......... 24 Democrats against the bi 11,..... 76 Republicans for the bill 119 Republicans against the bill None The Democrats voted three to one against the bill, arid as it lacked five votes of the necessary two thirds it was defeated. Judged by this record the Danroc'ra'U(VT(7e'a^UnDm'ftl7t,y is riot very large. They make great professions and talk very loudly and largely when before their constituents or in their conventions but when it comes to voting for liberal pension measures thev are always found wanting. What arrant hypocriey it was in them to stand up in the hulls of Congress and fight, the disability bill for the alleged reason that it did not give as much as they desired it to. When money was being appropriated for the improvement of rivers and harbors no membrib"of Congress ever thought of voting against the bill on its final passage because it did not appropriate as much money as he thought it ought to. Had the Democrats been honestly in favor of liberal pension measures they would have supported the disability bill on its final passage with hearty -good-tvtM. rmd then they might have claimed with some justice that the bill did not go as far aa they desired it should. This one measure alone adds to the pension disbursments about $35,000,000 annually. This is a pretty liberal addition to the amounts paid out to the old veterans and yet the Democratic members of Congress, those from Indiana included, endeavored to defeat it. Now let us take the Republican declaration in regard to pensions in contrast to that of the Democrats, remembering the record of the Republicans as shown above. At their last State convention the Republicans declared as follows;—— We heartily approve the action of Republicans in Congress in makirig generous provision for him who has borne the battle, and his widow and his orphans. A wise liberality far surpassing any similar action by other nations gives to the defenders of the union and those dependent upon them, at least one hundred and fifty millions of dollars annually. Of this vast amount over fifteen millions will be disbursed in the State of Indiana each year bringing needed relief to thousands of patriotic homes and stimulating business by largely increasing the volume of money circulating among our people. ' ' . ‘ ' . As against all Democratic promises and pretenses, we proudly recall the fact that all important pension legis-

lation has been placed on the statute books by Republicans; and against constant Democratic opposition they have steadily maintained a revenue system adequate to meet its demands. Nor has it been the habit of Republican Presidents to sneer at or veto laws adding to the comfort of those who mainlainedthe integrity pf the Union, and gave to the; Nation one flag of honor and authority. In justice to the union soldiers and sailors we urge the passage bf the: service pensionbill. It will be seen that the Republicans not only endorse all that has been done, hut declare that they are in favor of going still farther, and specifically state in the last clause to what extent they are in favor of more liberal measures. Let the soldiers of Indiana contrast the declarations of the two parties and their records and then decide to which party their allegiance should be given. Nicodemus.

THEY KNOW A GOOD THING.

Illustrated London News. We observp that the American Senate has passed the shipping bounties bills. We may thus expect to see, in the course of a few years, a revolution in the American mercantile marine, and its former depressed condition will soon be a thing to be wondered at. Hundreds of vessels will promptly avail themselves of the liberal scale of bounties and subsidies provided in the bills, and one of the most serious obstacles to a thriving export trade will be thus removed. Apart from every other consideration it will be a “crowning glory” for the present administration to have revived and put on its legs a flagging American industry, to have provided new and remunerative employment for thousands of citizens and to have added enormously to the commercial prosperity of the country by the creation of an extensive export trade. There will be a revival of the American ship-building industry , consequent on the application of the principle of protection to the only trade in the country to which it has been steadfastly denied for many years. European nations have built up their mercantile marine by an extensive system of bounties and subsidies, and it will soon be shown that the United States can also create a powerful merchant marine by the application of similar methods. When the American flag flics on every sea, as it shortly will do, it will be but justice to admit that the Republican party has rendered good service to the nation in combating and vanquishing the popular prejudice against subsidies.

INSTRUCTIONS TO VOTERS.

Ist You must get your ballots of the polling clerks in the election room. 2d. If you want to vote a straight ticket, stamp the square to the left of the name of the party for whose candidates you wish to vote. If you do not wish to vote a straight ticket, then do not stamp the square to the left of the name of your party, but stamp the square to the left of the name of each candidate for whom you desire to vote on whatever list of candidates it may be. — 3d. Do not mutilateyour ballot or mark it either by scratching a name off or writing one on. or in any other way except -by the stamping on the square or squares, as before mentioned. Otherwise the ballot will not be counted. 4th. After stamping your ballots and before leavingthe booth, fold them seperately so that the face of them can not be seen and so that the initial letters of the names of the polling clerks on tho backs thereof can be seem—Then-hand your ballots to the inspector the stamp to the polling clerk, and leave the room sth. If you are physically unable to stamp your ballots or can not read English, so inform the polling clerks and tell them how you wish to vote, and they will stamp your ballots for you, but the voter and clerks should not permit any other person to hear or see how the ballots are stamped. 6th. If you should accidentally, or by mistake, deface, mutilate or spoil your ballot, return it to the poll clerks and get a new ballot.

THE McKINLEY BILL.

What It Is, What It Seeks to Accomplish, How It Will Affect the Revenues. In accordance with its pledge the, Republican party has passed what is called the McKinley bill, a comparison of which with the Mills bill reveals at once ths economic difference between the two parties. The Republican bill places a duty on wool, tbe Democratic bill plaoes wool on the free list. The Republican hill places a protective duty on all animals, vegetables, barley, hemp, tobacco, fiax and all products of the soil, upon cotton goods, woolen goods, crockery, glassware, iron, steel, hardware and cutlery. The Democratic bill places vegetables on tho free list, leaves but a revenue duty on all animals, on barley and tobacco; moves toward a revenue duty on cot- <> tons, woolens, crockery, glassware, iron, steel, hardware and cutlery. The Republican bill places sugar on the free list; the Democratic bill places the duty on sugar at 65 per cent. It will be seen that these measures are most marvelously unlike. It is not accident or chance. It is because one bill favors the protection of American agriculture, manufactures and labor, and the other bill opposes this policy. The trusts will be even more bitterly opposed to the Republicans in next month’s election than they were in ’BB. The people love the Republicans for the enemies they make.

SILVER BILL AND TARIFF BILL.

The present Congress has been a most industrious body of men. A vast ftfriount of labor has been performed by each house. Two measures have been matured which are of greater importance to the people of the United States than any legislation for the last twenty years. I allude to the silver bill and the tariff bill. The silver bill has not effected the complete remonetization of silver, but ills an important step in the right direction. The gold standard means perpetual contraction ctf the world’s money, which is disastrous in the highest degree. The gold standard has compelled every man to pay in dearer money than the money pf the contract, because the value of money, like everything else having value, depends upon the law of supply and demand. The supply of gold is necessarily a diminishing one, because the mines do not furnish enough more than to keep good the stock of money on hand. It is all absorbed in the arts and by wear and loss in the use of coin. The demand for money is rapidly increasing with the growth of population and business. With the use of gold aldrieTtße supply remaingstationary, continued contraction is inevitable. The purchase of four and a half million ounces of silver per month, and the [jissuance of legal tender money therefor, adds between six t and seven millions annually to the supply of money, which has a strong tendency to prevent contraction. This amount may not be sufficient to meet the demand, but it is a great gain. It has already enhanced the price of farm products and all other commodities, and will in the near future, be a great stimulant to enterprise and add enormously to the wealth and properity of the country. No other-financial legislation has been equally beneficial in the history of this country. The tariff bill will immensely benefit the United .States by securing home markets for our people. Our foreign markets is only about 8 per cent, of our home market, and must necessarily decrease in the future, particularly for farrix products. While Great Britain pretends to be a free country, her colonies, over sixty in number, are thoroughly protected by tariffs or “orders in council” against the products of the L T nited States. We must, perhaps, except India. But India is practically under military control, and her governing council excludes our products from that country. The island of Great Britain is protected against our tobacco by a tariff averaging 700 per cent.,and from spirits produced in this country by a tariffalmoStas high. Great Britain raises by her tariff over one hundred millions of revenue. The reason why she has no tariff on her manufactured goods at present is because no country is now prepared to compete with her in that line. All Ather countries have tariff-walls that exclude all our products which their necessities do not compel them to buy. If, therefore, we have a market it must be in the United States, not elsewhere. Besides, the efforts made by England. France and Germany to populate South America, Africa and other countries will soon enable Europe to

obtain a full supply of farm products without purchasing any from the United States. The farm laborers from Southern Europe will produce in the new fields to which they are emigrating by the millions the products needed cheaper by far than the laborers of this country. In less than ten years Europe will be independent of the United States, so far as agricultural products are concerned, and the farmers orihls country will bedepenttenf wholly upon home markets. The bill which has just passed will increase manufacturing at home and largely increase our home market. Within the last ten years fourteen millions of consumers have been added to that market in the United States, and during the next twenty years we shall gain from thirty-five to forty million more. It is the manifest policy of this Republic to secure and preserve for ourown peoplethe greatand grbw--1 ing market we have at home, allowing the poorly paid inhabitants of South America, Africa, Russia and India the privilege of competing among themselves for the European market, the possession of which under present circumstances can do nothing but degrade those who compete. Whatever is exported from this country must bear the impress of the inventive genius of our own free and prosperous people The superiority of our wares is already attracting attention. The time is not far distant when the surplus of our manufactures will purchase all the commodities we can not produce at home. We will then compete with England, France and Germany in the larger and more intellectual field of human industry—a competition which will elevate and enrich the nation and not impoverish or degrade those who direct and those who labor. Our people court intellectual rivalry, but avoid servile competition. '

WM. M. STEWART.

The Lonuou riuuiiciai limes admits that American “forces outsit e competitors to cut down expenses to the bone.” Without protection we should have to cut ours to the bone, and it would have to be as it is there, to the bone of labor, which represents ninety per cent, of the cost of production. Here is another free-trade admission. The New York Times favors international copyright because it •Would relieve American authors from unfair competition.” Precisely; ana pray tell us why the B&me rule should not be applied to those who work with their hands. I

AN UNPRECEDENTED RECORD.

Indianapolis Journal. To mention all of the useful legislation of the first session of the present Congress would take more space than is necessary to show that it has been the most laborious and effective Congress in a quarter of a century. Nevertheless, those who are called upon to defend their approval of the work of the Congress just closing its first session can name the following as among the measures of national importance which it has given the form of law: The bill revising the tariff. The customs administrative bill. The disability pension bill. The anti-trußt bill. The anti-lottery bill. The meat inspection bill. The land grant forfeiture bill. The original package bill. The. Sherman silver bill. Nine measures, all of first importance and all demanded by the mass of the intelligent people of the Nation.as essential to the development and prosperity of the country. Moreover, all of these measures were designed by Republicans and carried through in the face of the most persistent opposition. The party which elects a Congress which has made such a record challenges the attention of the country. Such a party is very naturally slandered and assailed by itß enemies because it has the capacity to do things, but it receives the cordial support of the intelligence of the country. It is a party which, while it can “point with pride” to the past, can claim by its achievements to be gratified with . its present power and position. The g. o. p. was never a grander s power than it is to-day.

Three Things Tom Reed Did.

Albion W. Tourgee In Chicago Inter-Ocean. 1. Thomas B. Reed discovered -and utilized the ‘‘Visible Majority.” 2. By means of this the Republican majority, which was hidden by Democratic fraud in several districts of the South, became effective, and the iniquity of Democratic methods became visible to the naked eye, _ 3. Thomas B. Reed, on his own personal responsibility, first of all the official representatives of the .Republican party, proclaimed himself in favor of wholly separating National from State elections, and choosing Repre. sentatives in Congress and electors for President and Vico President at elections held by National officials acting under National laws. These three things constitute the most important extension ancT application of Republican principles since the enactment of the reconstruction measures of 1867. Fair Trade, tho English protection journal, having been asked to join in the foolish protest against the McKinley bill, replied: ; "Why should fair-tradors protest against a country like the United Suites doing very much what we are urging we should do ourselves in our own interest? True, the United States is doing what we advocate rather more savagely than we propose—still the object is to protect the home market, and make the country self-sufficing for itself. Isn’t that our object too?”

Once in a while a free-trade advocate makes a fatal admission. The New York Herald, speaking of reciproerty with Americtn nations, says the benefit to our farmers will not be ‘ ‘by new markets for their grain and other products,” but "by the greater prosperity of the manufacturing operations which will result from a wider market for American manufactures.” That is to say, the more people we "gsfngy flrfflan ufactu rim*. the ustter market for our farm products. How, then, can it benefit our farmers to import from Europe goods we can make here? Senator Sanders, of Montana, gave the long and shorlrof the tariff ques - tion in opposing Senator Plumb’s motion to reduce the duty on lead ore from 1£ to } cents a pound, He said that what the American miners ask is to be saved from contact with the peons of Mexico—laborers who build no homes, seek no civilization,'live on the cheapest and most spontaneous products of nature, and content themselves with the pittance paid to them as wages. The amendment was reject** ed. Mr. Plumb was the only Republican who voted for it, and he does not act much like a Republican. Reciprocity may now die regarded as. one of the accepted doctrines of the Re publican party, the majority in both branches of Congress having indorsed it by a practically unanimous vote. It will come very handy in the next Presidential election, and the Democrats may as well prepare to lose a great many votes because of their pronounced hostility to it.—Globe-Democrat. The yield of grain this year is estimated to be about 20 per cent, smaller than usual. From this cause the passage of the silver bill and the good prospect of the tariff bill, prices have advanced over those of a year ago from 84 cents to sl.ll on wheat, or about 32 per cent.; from 43 oents toss} cents on corn, or 29 per cent., and from 261 cents to 44 cents on oats, or 69 per cent. It was observed by Speeker Reed the other day that whenever there is, anything to do the Republicans do it; aud now he can point to the passage of the new tariff.' bill as a striking confirmation of his statement: Speeker Reed is coming West to make some speeches in the doubtful districts. Of all living statesmen, he is probably the one best fitted to stimulate Republican enthusiasm and make the Democrats realize that life is anything but ah empty dream.