Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1892 — Protection He Reeduced Prices In Canada [ARTICLE]

Protection He Reeduced Prices In Canada

An interrating discassion' is taking, place in Canada as to tho variation in the prices of cotton and woolen good* under the protective tariff. The inquiry : seems to show that so far frqm prices having increased'owing to the additional duties that were imposed twelve years | ago, they have deeadedly fallen off. It j is stated that many articles which Ls to be imported in 1878, not being maids | in the country, are now regularly ar»4 ! extensively manufactured; for Canadian prints, white cottons, horse blankets and woolen shawls. The prices of these in 1878 Were respectively twelve 1 cents per yard, ten cents per yard, two | dollars and five dollars. At the present : time they are les3 by 25 per cent., and [ the same remark applies to snch cotton, good as shirtings and gray cottons, and equally so to many woolens. It is interesting to recall that when a committee Of the Dominion house of commons in 1874 was inquiring into the question at the flooding of the Canadian market by American goods, to the detriment of Canadian manufacturers and with the ultimate result of raising the price to the consumer, it reported as follows: ■ - “The almost uniform testimony before your committee was to the effect that an increased Protection to manufacturers will not necessarily increase the cost of the manufactured article so the consumer, and in the opinion of yotit committee the witnesses have made ajjk a very strong case in support of tam view. If, therefore, Canadian in be relieved from the pressure of sachet' due competition as that referred toft the first paragraph of this report the defect will be that the manufacturing establishments will be worked to their full capacity, and the cost of production and the consequent cost to the consumed Will be proportionately reduced.”—lxdtdon Car. Manchester (Eng.) Courier.

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A leopard recently killed lu Ben*al is credited with having destroyed 114 persons. The reoent murder cf young Bob Ford, the assassin of Jesse James, will cause no sympathy to be felt for him. It is a gbod riddance all around. Me deservedfio die a dog’s death. Soys very singular things happen fln Prohibition States. For iustanco • couple of fishermen in Portland harbor, Maine, hooked what they supposed to be a lobster pot, and wete greatly surprised to pull up a bag containing 6C full pints of jrkisky. It is seldom that fishermen eatch bait in this way. Fourteen livls lost by an explosion at Mare navy yard; twenty lives lost by the explosion of a steam* •Up at Blaye, France; $1,000,000 worth of property destroyed by the burning of wharves at Baltimore, is the record of three days recently. Between land and sea and war and peace these are very doubtful times to us poor worms of the earth. Ttas Pope has decided to send an important exhibit to the Columbian Fair. This is said to be the first titne the Vatican has so honored an Exposition. In the display, no doubt, will be early maps and documents relating to the Western world; which are now iu the Vatican archives, and which will be very appropriate exhibits for a fair commemorating the discovery of America. ■ ‘ " T* * The current queen of the operatic stage in Paris is a promoted kitchen maid who was discovered in a suburban inn. It is fortunate the announcement can be made now when one can have the doors and windows open. It would be embarrassing to have all the kitchen maids in the land trying their voices after cold weather sets in. The match box is used as a means •f match making, as appears from the confession of a girl whjo works in the Akron match factory. She says the girls who pack matbhes have cor-

wjK)ndenta att c)ver tlie country, secured by placing notes in the ruatch boxes. . Matches made in this styjg are not the same kind as are popularly supposed to be made in heaven. They are of a more sulphurous variety. . All the cranks do not live in the —Urnied* States. For instance; du rect your gaze toward England, where the Jacobite League, whose object it is to restore the house of Stuart — descendants of Charles I.—is said to Have ovgr J f7ooo‘avowed members, including a representative in the House of Lords —Lord Ashburnham. The House of Stuart will be restored in England about the time the first King of New Jersey is crowned. Connecticut’s divorce record for 1891 was 460 separations by legal process. This is, however, a decrease from the record of ISB9, when 536 marriages were annulled. Since 1860 the number of .persons divorced in the nutmeg State exceeds 26,000, the actual number of divorces being 16,167. The court records show that at least two-thirds of the petitioners are women. The statistics as to causes are said to be wholly* unreliable, the real ground rarely being disclosed—a condition of things not confined to Connecticut.

Emin Pasha bas helped to discover the Switzerland of Africa. His latest explorations, described in the Sun recently, together with those of Stanley, show that spurs of the great Abyssinian highlands extend far. eoutbwest, and, gradually uplifted to greater heights between Victoria Nyanza and the two western Nile w O lakes, become a system of mountains and peaks, less extensive than those of Abyssinia, but surpassed in height -"only by Kilima-Njaro. Jhere, under the tropical sun, are perpetually snow crowned summits', great ipe rivers rivalling some of the Alpine glaciers, and at least one volcaaoe in a state of eruption, the only region active volcanoes have been found with glaciers except in Alaska ind South Polar lands. Th\s |ls a new wonderland. Whyuper says Jit will be a hundred years yet before 'the Himalayas are tboroeghly explored; hat a few years more wfU see ,a railroad extooded to Victoria |za, and it 1b certain that nxrcstatbeers will not then long delay to try •now climbing hi Central AMoa. Maw York Sun.