Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1894 — Page 2

THE REPUBLICAN. X. Ma&bhall, Editor. !J I . if""*' *~~~ f : - , ■ XT* INDIANA

“Wheresoever the body is,thither will the eagles be gathered together.” The Viking ship has been “dry flocked” at the Field Columbian Museum and will remain there as a permanent attpactmh" collected from various sources of internal revenue the sum of $161,000,000, the bulk of this vast aggregate being from liquor and tobacco. Great Britain gets an annual average of tb0ut5135,000,066 frqm taxing liquor fcnd tobacco. The beet sugar crop of Europe for 1894 is estimated at over 5,000, - )00 tons, against 4,000,000 tons last fear, but it can not be imported freely under the present tariff. S-reat Britain and the Continent will >nly consume about 2,300,000 tons. Hence there is a large surplus, which speculators will endeavor to control.

Chicago has been inaptly called the “Garden City,” but could with more propriety be designated as the “Switching City.” As a “way sta lion” it stands at the head of tin. fist. No less than 6,000 cars are daily transferred from one line of railway to another in the city limits. Ninety thousand miles of railroad center in Chicago and 1,350 trains '.cave and arrive every twenty-four hours.

Hong Kong, generally classed as a Chinese city, is located upon Hong Kong island, one-half mile off the coast of China. It is eighty miles Irom Canton arid is a British crown colony, entirely independent of the Chinese empire, and in no way involved in the present war between that country and Japan. The island of Hong Kong contains 221,441 inhabitants, only about 4 per cent, being white. The name “Sample Room” for an establishment where intoxicating beverages are dispensed was for a time thought to be very “fetching.” Later on the words “casino” and “case” did duty with the old time cognomen, “saloon,” when it became necessary to designate such a place of business. The latest verbal evolution in this line is “Thirst Parlor,” and a Pittsburg sa’Toonatic” claims the honor of being the pioneer in the use of the innovation,

Prof. Wiggins, the Canadian weather-prophet, has evolved a new theory of the “creation.” He is now convinced that man originally came from Mars on a comet. He also thinks the “serpent” that bamboozled Mother Eve was a comet. TtT lacTj" the professor appeari tcT Jiave comets bad. He also stated in the same interview, in which his pomet theories were made public, telegraph wires are the causepf the great droughts of our latter davs.

■ The steamer Bieler, from New {fork, passed through the Manchester ship canal, Oct. 10, with a general cargo for that new English port. This ship will load from Manchester with a cargo adapted to the South American trade and will shortly sail for that continent, thence proceed again to New York. The time will doubtless come when it will be a common thing for sea-going vessels to load at Chicago and unload at Manchester and other interior English ports. Progress in transportation in the future is more likely to take the form of improved waterways and canals than of fl.yi ng machines.

Government report for October indicates a yield of 13.1 bushels of wheat per acre in the United States for 1894. The total yield will reach 435,000,000 bushels. India’s average is now estimated at 8 per cent, less than in 1893. Chili and Argentine wheat prospects are good. France claims the largest crop in twenty years. Germany’s crop of wheat and rye is about average. Austria’s prop is excellent. The Roumanian jvheat crop is only 77 per cent, of j-hat of last year. authorities ptate that because of the amount of jvheat that is being fed to stock, the will be rapidly depleted, and predict better prices. Time, and a little money should secure the conservative investor a |>andsome gain. ' A Brooklyn dead beat struck a »ew scheme the other day and real. ped handsomely. He worked the fity with his new “racket,” which {onsisted in issuing bogus orders for leats at various theaters. He gave the name of Emerson and claimed to

■)e a theatrical manager. He obtained consignments of various kinds of merchandise on the strength of his claims, which he made good by presenting any doubting dealer with “complimentaries” for himself and family. Hundreds of the bogus tickets have been presented to the doorkeepers of the Park, Bijou and Star theaters in Brooklyn, and the “returns” are not yet believed to be all in. . Mr. Emerson is still at large and is doubtless enjoying the illgotten spoils, and also the very practical joke that he worked on so many good people. S:?. T ». »

A credulous public have been asked to believe a variety of ghost stories in times past, but few,of the yarns have drawn on the superstition of the human race, as strongly as that sent out from Bgrtholemew county r eently. Near Grammer,five years ago, a man hung himself in a -barn, and the story goes that his apparition has been carrying on in a way regardless of the feelings of the mules that are stabled under the roof from which we departed to the unknown. —Alleged mystic letters have been found upon the bodies of the unfortunate hybrids, the hair presumably having been removed by the unseen visitor, leaving a mark like a brand from a red hot iron. No reasonable explanation has been offered. It's a mighty low down ghost that will pull hair from a mule.

“Most” who has attained Uotoriety in this country outside of politics endeavors to profit by it bv going on the stage. Johan “Most,” the boss anarchist, of New York, is determined ta realize on his questionable fame in this way. His debut at the Thalia theater, New Yo! k, was a financial success, but the same can not be said of his dramatic abilities. Engineer James Root, of Hinckley fame, has also entered on a theatrical career, and will illustrate »his celebrated run in a a meloedrama entitled “A Ride for Life,” which will be placed on the boardi with all tie acce s iries of a locomotive and stage-fire necessary to make it a seeming reality. Madeline Pollard appears to have failed in her ambition to realize a substantial reward for her very unenviable notoriety, as it was announced some time since that she had about aba - doned the project because of the very vigorous opposition exhibited- by owners of opera houses, no less|than by influential members of the theatrical profession.

POTATOES HIS ONLY WEAPONS.

How a Humorous Kentucky Dominie Brought the Code Into Ridicule. Lexington (Ky.) Transcript. One way of combating an evil practice is to make it ridiculous, It was by this means that dueling was stopped in a certain district in Kentucky some forty years ago. At that time a traveling —preacher named Bowman, a strong, muscular man, was conducting a series of religious meetings in Kentucky. At one of them a well known desperate character created a disturbance, and. being publicly rebuked by Bowman, sent him a challenge to sigh t.

The preacher’s first thought was to treat the matter with silent contempt. Then he reflected that dueling was all too common in that region, and he decided to accept the challenge. As the challenged party, Bowman had the choice of weapons. He selected a half bushel of large Irish potatoes, and stipulated that his opponent must stand fifteen paces distant, and that only one potato at a time should be taken from the measure. The desperado was furious, but Bowman insisted upon his rights cs the challenged party, and threatened to denounce the fellow as a coward if he made further objections. Seeing no way out of the scrape, the desperado at last consented. The contest took place on the outskirts of the town, and almostliverybody in the place turned out to see the fun. The seconds arranged the two men in position, bv the side of each being a half bushel measure filled with good-sized potatoes. Bowman threw the first one. It struck his opponent in a central spot and fell in pieces. A shout of delight vent up from the crowd, which flurried the desperado, and nis potato flew wide of the mark. Bowman watched his chance and every time his opponeut stooped for a potato another one hit him in the side, leaving a wet spot on his clothes and then scattering on all sides. The fellow was hit in this way five times; and then the.sixth potato struck hirp in the short ribs, and he, lav on the grass doubled up with pain and groaning * Enough ” The bystanders went wild with delight, but Mr. Bowman looked very sober. The desperado was taken home and put to bed,and there he stayed for more than a week. And when he appeared again he was greeted with so many jokes that life, was almost a burden to him. That •was the end of dueling in that region. - \

CALLED OFF.

Frantic Democrats Appeal, to Congressman Wilson. They Want Him to Stop His Fool Speeches at Swell English Dinners. V A Washington special, Sept. 29, says: The dreadful faux pas of Chairman Wilson in accepting the invitation to the dinner of the London Chamber of Commerce worries the Democratic Congressional committee -tnoru-than- its officers are willing to confess. The shrewd politicians at the head of the com mitten fm3 it difficult to comprehend how a man of any political experience in Mr. Wilson’s position could have been induced to go to such a place, and, having once been drawn into the compromising situation, they do not comprehend how he could have made such an utterly imbecile speech, filled as it was with abuse of the institutions of his own country, throwing himself open to the jibes and jeers of his British hosts when he endeavored to persuade them that the success of the free-trade propaganda in the United States would not ultimately work for the advantage of British producers. The Republican committee is filled with delight. Nothing has yet been done with regard to circulating the speech, although the press dispatches are sufficient in themselves to form the basis of a formidable campaign document, but before the close of the campaign millions of copies of the speech will be sent through the country, together with graphic accounts of the dinner at which it was spoken. Chairman Babcock has sent over to London for copies of all the British papers containing reports of the dinner, and as soon as these arrive the committee will set about the preparation of a campaign document, which it is believed will have tremendous effect in showing 1 the true animus of the British interest in the free-trade movement in this country, and in exhibiting to the American people how completely the chairman <sf the Ways and Means committee |yas been made the dupe of the shretfd English businessmen, whose divine favor he has attempted to curry.

A delegation from Mr. Wilson’s district happens to be in Washington. Among them are Alexander Cohen, the chairman of the Republican committee of Berkeley county, and other prominent Republicans. They have had a long talk with Chairman Babcock, and the report they gave him of the situation in the Charleston district was in the highest degree encouraging. They believe that Wilson will be defeated. Mr. Cohen said this afternoon that not only was he confident of Wilson’s defeat, but he should not be surprised if a great many votes were cast against-him by-members of his own party. When asked whether he had seen the London speech Mr. Cohen replied: “Yes, I saw it in the papers this morning, and we shall make the most of it; but, he added, “we will trot have to do much about it. The speech talks for itself.” The Democratic leaders have sent word to Wilson begging him to make no more speeches while abroad. One dispatch to this effect was signed by Senator Faulkner, it is -said. The West Virginia chairman of the Congressional committee believes that Wilson will have to make a great many speeches on this side before he can counteract the effect of the London demonstration.

AN ADDRESS By Judge Win. Lawrence, President Ohio Wool Growers, at Semi-An-nual Convention Held in Columbus, Sept. 5, 1804. Gentlemen of the Ohio Wool Growers’ Association: The wool growers of the United States are now threatened with new and alarming conditions which threaten the substantial destruction of American sheep husbandry and vast injury to all agricultura'- and other pursuits. - , WOOL PROTECTION FOR SEVENTY-EIGHT YEARS. Prior to 1816 the conditions were such that sheep husbandry did not require the aid of a protective tariff. The act of Congress in 1816 laid a protective duty on wool, and for

New York Press.

Napoleon, the night before the battle of Rivoli, found an exhausted sentinel asleep. Taking his gun, the great commander stood guard until the grenadier awoke, v*hen, as he handed the poor fellow his rnusket, he said: “You’ve had a hard narefi. I was awake and did your duty. Somebody must watch, for a moment’s inattention now may prove f»tai "

more than seventy-eight years in continuous succession duties on the importation of foreign wool, more or less protective, were continued until the GorroanAariff act took effect on the 28th of August and placed wool on the free list. This ruinous blow at the wool industry was struck without any petition from any American citizen asking for it. THE SILENT CONSPIRATORS. It is a remarkable fact, too, that in the Senate, supposed to be conservative, no member ventured to give any reasbn for this monstrous scheme to annihilate capital invested i in sheep husbandry on the faith of , the continuance of a policy which jdiadAurvived. all political changes-for I more than tiiree-quarters of a century. And this outrage upon the agricultural classes could have been averted by two so-called Populist members of the Senate, who voted for it, although representing woolgrowing (States. In all our political history, certainly up to President Cleveland’s free-wool message of December 6, 1887, the Democratic party, the old Whig party and the Republican party all adhered to the policy of protection for wool. TARIFF OF 1890— WHY SUFFICIENT^.Congress passed the McKinley protective tariff act of October 1, 1890. It gave generally and wisely ample protection for all American industries and especially for all agricultural interests except wool and mutton. The bill first reported proposed for the wool industry a degree of protection much better than that of the protective tariff act of 1883. The author of the bill —our own illustrious McKinley —intended that it should give what the Republican national platform of 1888 promised, “full and adequate protection for the wool industry.” But a small yet active minority of the wool manufacturers of the New England States and of the Eastern cities, aided by a portion of the press under the false pretense of friendship for the general policy of protection, succeeded in effecting such reduction in wool duties and changes in the wool schedule of the bill as to strip it of the “adequate protection” needed by the wool industry and demanded "By' the wool growers. The law, while nominally giving a duty of 11 cents per pound on merino unwashed wool, is iD practical effect only equal to 6 cents on Ohio washed merino, as against foreign competing Australian wool. This is admitted by the eminent wool importers and free wool advocates, Mauger & Avery, of New York. This is by no means “adequate protection.” On thirdclass coarse wool the more effective specific duties of the bill, as proposed by Mr. McKinley, were cut out by the power and influence of an active small minority of the manufacturers, and the duty adopted of 32 per cent, ad valorem was utterly insufficient. Then came ~(l) th&.-vast increase ofsheep in Australia, and (2) the purpose of the foreign wool growers to ruin the American wool industry, and the result was that the raw wool imports entered for consumption increased from 109,902,105 pounds in the fiscal year 1890 to 175,636,041 pounds in 1893. The raw wool imports entered for consumption in 1893 were as follows:

<l> O ” • 3 -j O g A'h » '5 © n, S p, »a 5 » o 1 § i£ § S| 5 O 3-* Cl O 58 O fc o n > First... 35.403.011 *6,555,1140 *3,911.349 18.51 c Second. 7 036,439 1,535.812 846.284 21:82c Third.. 133,197,581 10,312,237 3,389,646 7.75 c Totals . 175.636.011 *18,403,689 *8.147,219 *16.02 ♦Average The result was that the price of domestic wool declined below’ that prevailing before the tariff of 1890. not because of the tariff, but in spite of it. But it is equally true that the price of Ohio merino was 6 cents per pound more than it would have been with free wool. Much of the third-class wool, which came in at an average price of 7.7 c per pound, was made into clothing, thus supplanting our American wool to the extent of the imports and reducing the price on all that we had for sale. WOOL GROWERS AND OTHER FARMERS INDIGNANT—THE RESULT IN ELECTIONS. A million of wool growers and other farmers were justly indignant at the course pursued by the little

STILL ON GUARD.

but powerful lobby of manufacturers and their allies, including the amiable and able Frank P. Bennett, one of the most effective of the lobby against wool growers, wielding his personal influence with members of Congress and the power of his Boston American Wool and Cotton Reporter. The manufacturers, as the report of their national association in 1891 shows, secured ample protection for themselves, but an equal measure of protection for wool was defeated by the agencies stated. Then came the election/ $f 1892, and unfortunately too many of the aggrieved wool growers and other farmers either supported or by their non-action indirectly aided the election of Cleveland, and his Congress united in only one common object—free wool. This ruinous result was not because of wool protection or of protection according to any industry, but because of the inadequate protection given to wool growers and possibly some other industries. These remarks are made necessary by the continued attacks by the Boston Wool Reporter and other like organs of the pianufacturers against the policy of adequate wool protection. (See Reporter of August 30). — And now we have free wool-made possible by the “party perfidy and dishonor” of the little but powerful faction of wool manufacturers and their allies. These manufacturers can now re - pent.at their leisure, and such of the wool growers and other farmers as contributed to the election of a free wool Congress now see and feel the ruinous effects of their folly.

WHAT THE WOOL GROWERS DEMAND. Henceforth woolgrowers will demand such sufficient and gradually annually increasing duties on wool and sheep as will speedily increase our flocks until they shall reach 110,000,000 or more sheep, sufficient, if now in existence, to supply all needed wool and mutton required for consumption in the United States. And when the supply shall thus be made sufficient, the duties should be such as to exclude all foreign wools and all foreign woolen goods. To this end we invoke the cordial, fraternal, united action alike of woolgrowers, wool manufacturers and all the American people. I commend to the free wool manufacturers a question similar, to that of President Cleveland in his Wilson letter: “How can you face the people after indulging in the outrageous discrimination and violation of principle of securing ample protection for wool manufacturers!) but inadequate protection for wool growers?”

WHY FREE WOOL? And now why is free wool thrust upon us? The dignified Senators whose fiat made the Gorman law failed to tell us why. Their silence is a confession that-free wool cannot be justified, or that its objects are such that if made known they will meet with detestation. We may properly judge of the purpose by the probable effects. There are several purposes: First —It is a conspiracy, not only to give cheaper wool, but to still further reduce the already ruinous low prices of cereals and other farm products of the Northern and Western agricultural States. Second— Free wool is a deep-laid scheme with the ultimate purpose of destroying all protective duties, and of securing absolute free trade. The Gorman tariff bill of August 28 reduces nearly all protective duties of the McKinley law and starts the free trade ball in motion with free wool. Mr. Wilson, who imported the tariff bill in the House, which, as modified in the Senate, became a law, declared in the House, August 14, “there will be no let up in the fight” for a tariff for revenue only. On the 16th of August, Mr. Mills referring to the Gorman monstrosity, said: “We do not at all accept this as a final settlement of the question of tariff .reform. We intend to . sweep the streets of the enemy, and take everything from them. . . . The bill does not reflect the sentiment of 1,000 people of the United States.” The ultra free-traders hope that when wool is made free the woolgrowers will be humbugged with the idea that they have no further interest in protection, and that they will thus be alienated from the protective policy and join the free-trade, crusade against wool manufacturing and all other American industries.

Third —A third purpose of the Gorman law is by adequate protection for wool manufacturers, and with free wool to permanently secure the wool manufacturing industry to the Atlantic coast and New England States. It is a monstrous sectional conspiracy against the infant, but growing manufacturing industry of the Western and interior States. FALSE PRETENSES. Fourth President Cleveland’s Secretary of the Treasury, in his annual report of December, 1886, urged free wool to give our citizens the “boon of untaxed clothing.” To this there are at least three sufficient answers: * 1. The Gorman bill repudiates the false pretense. It imposes a duty of 48.82 per cent, on woolen manufactures, estimated on the basis of imports for 1893 (Boston Wool Reporter, Aug, 23.). If untaxed cloth J ing be a boon, woolen goods should be five as well as wool. • 2. If it were true, as it is not, that free wool would give cheaper clothing, this would be no boon under the Gorman law. The McKinley law gave free sugar. The Gor-

man law removes the so-called tariff tax from wool, but transfers five tinalsnits alleged burden to sugar. The tariff on wool in 1893 was 18,147,219. The tariff on sugar williim pose a burden of more than 140,000000 annually on American consumers. Free wool as a permanent policy would substantially destroy the American wool industry. With the supply of wool thus reduced, and the sheep of Australia, South Africa and Argentine, in immense flocks in a few hands, they and importers having thus a monopoly, will not just now, but soon, put up the price. Foreigners will reap the benefit. 3. The.delusivejcryJ&uaised -in,.fag r vor of free wool and free trade — that the tariff is a tax. Suppose this were true. Does any sane man expect the National government can: • be administered without revenues? The largest part of our revenues has always been collected by tariff duties. These are paid by importers for the privilege of selling in this country. When the duties are laid upon articles that can be produced both here and in foreign countries, the foreigner, in order to secure a of our market, reduces the price of his commodities and thus either pays all or a part of the tax. WHAT SHALL WOOL GROWERS Dp? This is now the important question. With free wool the price of wool will be so low —until our flocks shall be vastly reduced in numbers —that wool growing can not be made to pay the fair cost of capital invested and labor required in this industry. FREE WOOL PRICES WILL RUIN OUR WOOL INDUSTRY. This must be evident from the custom house value of the wools imported in the fiscal year 1893. Merino wools 18.51 cents per pound,the long combing coarse wools 21.82 cents, and the coarse third-class wools 7.75 cent. —The freight and other charges from the place of export to Boston did not exceed 1 cent per pound. Thus the Boston cost for merino was 19 cents, coarse combing 23 cents, and the third class 1 less than 9 cents. But the merino was chiefly Australasian unwashed but “skirted,” shrinking less than 50 per cent, in scouring, while Ohio washed will shrink all of 50 per cent.; and the Australian skirted, though not equal in fiber with the Ohio merino, yet will sell for more than Ohio washed by from 2 to 3 cents per pound. The coarse combing wool was of the best class, chiefly washed. The third class wool was chiefly unwashed, but shrinking in scouring probably less than 50 per cent. The farm value of wool in Ohio is about 3 cents per pound less than the Boston price, the difference consisting oT6O cents per 100 pounds car load lots freight, and 2.40 cents for profit of the local wool buyers, overestimates of shrinkage an<FEaster wool dealers’ commission and expenses. American wool growers cannot compete with these prices.

WILL WOOL ADVANCE IN PRICE. But will not wool advance? The wool consumption of the fiscal year 1893 in the United States was 619,000,000; that for the year ended June 30, 1894, only 474,000,000. This was a result of the financial panic of 1893, followed by the prostration of all industries and reduced incomes. The merchants and people are short of woolen goods and woolen clothings These conditions will makenn increased demand, and with our flocks already reduced foreign wool growers will probably take advantage of the situation to advance the prices a little, but not to any considerable extent until free wool has completed its work of destruction of American flocks.

Can We Speak Without a Tongue?

Family Magaziue. Can we speak without a tbngue? Prof. Huxley says yes. Persons suffering from cancer frequently lose their tongues and discover that they can not only talk as well as formerly, but also that their sense of taste is not impaired. The letters d and t are the only ones which, as a rule, those deprived of their tongues find any difficulty in pronouncing properly, and such letters are frequently turned into f’s, p's, v’s, th’s. Many instances are on record of the speaking powers of tongueless persons. In 484, A. D., sixty Christian confessors had their tongues cut out by order of Hunneric, but in a short time some of them went out preaching again. Pope Leo 111 is said to have suffered similar mutilation and to have regained his speech. Sir John Malcolm tells of one Zal Kahn, who had his tongue cut out, and who recovered his speech enough to tell the physician how it happened. Margaret Cutting was examined before the Royal Society of England in 1742. She had not a vestige of tongue remaining, and yet “discoursed as fluently and as well as others.” The tongue actually appears unnecessary to the development of speech. Pierre Ladoux, of Qnebec, owns a performing bear of more than ordinary sagacity. The animal, tired of being chained, pulled out the staple with its teeth and escaped to the street. Seeing a policeman approaching, the bear at once stood on its hind legs and turned his back, pretending to be a man in a long ulster coat. '•*" A German journalist who visited Bismarck recently says that the exChancellor has aged very much in the last few months. He eats with difficulty, can hardly hold himself erect, and speaks paly in a tone so low that it is hard to understand him.