Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 18, Number 29, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 7 January 1888 — Page 4

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•I'HE MAIL.

A 1'AI'ER

FOR THE

PEOPLE.

P. S. VVESTFALL,

KD1TOR AND PROPRIETOR HUHSOH1PTION I'KICK. $2.00 A EAR.

PUBLICATION OFFICE,

J"os. 20 and 22 Houth Fifth Street, Printing House Square.

TKHItK HAUTE, JAN. 7, 1888

CoNoitnss has resumed its sessions and its endless talk about reducing the surplus The mail, object will be to make •capital for the coining campaign.

THONK "near Mr. Bluino" are again asserting that the man from Maine will not be a candidate in 1888. Now let us know what the man from Maine has to .say about it himself.

THKKK

TIIK

is sauerkraut and sauerkraut.

The Germans well know the difference and those of Philadelphia import theirs from the old country. Fifty hogsheads came over recently in a single invoice.

late Mrs. John Jacob Astor be

queathed some $200,000 to religious, benevolent and educational institutions. It is wealth thus used that does grand things for the civilization of the world.

Tin: high protection newspapers are determined to have the Democrats freetraders. But there is no free-trade in merely equalizing the tariff and eliminating its iniquities. Calling a thing a block doesn't necessarily make it a block.

Mit. (Jr-AiisroNK predicts peace in Kurope until Spring because it is too •Hold to light now. But It was never too cold for Napoleon to fight witness his midwinter inarch into the heart of Russia. Fortunately

there

west

(V.

are no Napoleons

in these modern days.

SOMK who share the opinion that Mr. Blaine will not lie a candidate next year think that the Republicans will look

of Ohio for their candidate. Senator Allison, to their minds, is the most promising in sight. Does this mean that the man from Maine has pooled his force with the man from Iowa?

TIIK English papers aro full of praise -of President Cleveland's free trade sentiments. Thoy always have had a warm side for Mr. Cleveland, but the fact will hardly be to his advantage in tlio next -campaign. Tho avorage American is much given to distrusting John Bull's admiration for the United .States.

SKNATOU SAWYKH,

ol' Wisconsin, who

has been very much of a Blaine in, now announces that he will be for some other candidate, since he does not think Mr. Blaine is any longer available. He is at a loss, however, as to who tho candidate should be. Well, tho woods aro full of Republicans who would make good candidates. Nearly every state has one.

(1HICSSMAN

ITT,

of Illinois, dOCS

not see much sense in the policy of planting trees in Dakota and Nebraska while keeping Canadian lumber out of the country by a high tariff and thus necessitating the rapid destruction of our own forests. lie is for lowering the duty •on lumber, while

other

SKNATOI: SHKU.MAN

Republicans go

farther and would put lumber on the free list.

MIL, BI.AINK

was one of the f00 Ameri

cans who attended the jubilee services of Pope Leo in St. Peters, at l«nne. As the Plumed Knight does not intend to run for the Presidency again, he could not. have had the Irish vote in mind. Doubtless he was a mere looker-on in Rome. And this suggests that Prt sident 'levelaud sent tho Pope a tine present. The honors appear to be about even.

made a strong pro

mentation of the protective side of tho JaritV question in his speech of Wednesday. l.ike Blaine, he favors the repeal of the tobacco tax and advances his original idea of repealing the duty on sugar «nd giving the Southern planters a Ixninty to even up their loss. Senator

Voorhees, in his reply to Sherman, demanded lower duties on iron, steel, coal, lumber and the liko before untaxing beer and tooaeeo.

TIII.KK

is a good deal of force in the

argument tliiit a protective t-arifl aids '•trusts," and combinations to keep up prices by preventing competition with foreign products. But aside from all .such reasoning why should not such corrupt liubinations be made unlawful and ie uui^hed as against the interests of tbe people? There is probably law oiiwiigh on the subject already existing so prevent -ueh outrageous monopolies if it were only enforced.

\i i!'!' ulk appears now to Vie the order of tho day and some interesting and important facts are beitrj brought out. It i-~ shown th-.'.t the present tariff on nianv articles ranges from to lot) per oent.. while the wages paid to workingmen amount to only about Is per cent, of the value of manufactured articles. On the theory that the laritT Is for the mirp-'^eoi protecting the American la borer, it N suggested that a taritf of 30 cent, ought to be abundantly sufficient. since it would amount to more than the entire cost of the labor emploved in American mi IN and factories.

T:!r immigration to the United States lias not b«-en so great after all during the j»ast ve.ir as was promised at the outset. It has been a iiitie less than .Vi0,000, against for But it was quite «r*nongh, and in respe-t^i: of quality, rather too much. It should be sifted more carefully hereaft r. As to nationalities. 79,-jh-0 came from England and W alps,

Sf4'i**

K'ITERRE

THE proposition to investigate some of the "trust" monopolies of the country with the view of ascertaining their relations to the tariff, is one that Congress cannot act upon with too much vigor. The theory of a protective taril! is that domestic competition will keep prices down to the lowest point of profit, but this cannot be the case when domestic manufacturers combine together for the very purpose of stifling such competition. It is high time that somebody were taking these "trust" builders in hand. whiM

probable that such a scheme will sue ceed. It would be an outrage to keep Dakota out any longer, and Washington and Montana might perhaps be admitted as States without serious objection. But Utah cannot come into the Union until she is permanently rid of her ugly pack of polygamy. The sentiment of this country is fully made upon that subject and if the Democrats try to get the Territory in in its present shape they will have the biggest kind of afighton hand.

DISCISSION of the Mormon problem continues and is likely to continue until it shall be disposed of in some practical and eflective manner. Such a disposition would probably be made by the adoption of Senator Dolph's proposed amendment to the national constitution which provides that Congress shall have power to legislate on the subject of marriage and divorce in all the States and Territories and that neither bigamy nor polygamy shall be premitted within the United States. The adoption of this amendment would place the whole subject of polygamy in the control of Congress and that body could abolish it oven though Utah were within the Union as a State. This is the most radical mersure against the Mormon iniquity that has yet been proposed.

TIIK pluck of Manager Locke, of the National Opera company, is something to be admired. Hard as he has found it to make the receipts carry the expenses of his large company of 2"0 members, he announces that he has full faith in the ultimate outcome of his enterprise, that of establishing grand opera in English. The undertaking is one that should commend itself to all lovers of music in this country and should receive the cordial support of the press, and yet it has been the fashion of the correspondents, as Mr. Locke complains, to gather up all kinds of sensational and unfavorable gossip about the company and spread it broadcast over the land. The effort was loaded down last season with some expensive follies, but these have since been trimmed away and the finest class of inusieal works are presented in a worthy manner. It is to be hoped that the enterprise will meet such appreciation and encouragement as will make it a permanent success.

HAUTE

000 from Ireland, 20,000 from Scotland, _A GRAND SHO WINO. 106,000 from Germany, 76,000 from Nor- The Des Moines Register knocks silly way, Sweden and Denmark, wLile Italy the idea, often repeated, that prohibition sent us 42,000 and Russia 24,000. So far is inimical to the business interests of as these foreigners have come to make town. Des Moines has a population permanent homes with us and will be 50,000 and not one saloon in the place industrious citizens, they are heartily Yet during tho year 1887 four and a half welcome. But it is to be feared that a million dollars were spent for public good many are not of that kind. A and private impi'ovements 85r resiproper law for restricting, or rather for dences and thirty-one business blocks sifting the elements of our foreign im- and factories were erected, and the commigration ought to be passed at the merce of the city amounted to $60,QUO, present session of Congress.

IT is announced in a semi-official way possible in this country that the Democrats propose to admit four new States during the present ses- %'•.YEAR'S BUSINESS. sion of Congress, namely, Dakota, Utah, The year of 1887 was a prosperous one Montana and Washington. It is hardly

TIIK death of Mrs. John Jacob Astor has brought to public notice the fact that the Astor family observe some such rule of precedence as prevails among royalty. For instance, there is but one "Mrs. Astor," the other Mrs. As tors being required to use initials or the first name of their husband on their cards. It is a family great in wealth and ability to keep the wealth in the family. While there have been and are now, no doubt, members of the family who are to be credited with charity or loving disposi- causes amounted tion, yet the aristocracy of wealth over- these figures do not measure the to shadows all else. Tne discipline that loss inflicted by these industrial disorrequires the rule referred to shows that ders, as there are many incidental tnin the idea of inheritage, the submission juries to business not covered by the to the ono who has the handing down of items given. One hundred millions the wealth to the younger generations, would probably be under rather than all else is made secondary. It is wealth above the grand aggregate of the losses and a name. There have been Ameri- entailed. *. can families and will be more of them Mr. Powaeriy has well said thatstrikes whose distinction is such that the area barbarous and terribly expensh thought of wealth in connection with way of adjusting the rights of capital the name is instinctively vnlgai and labor.

was being floated from Nova Scotia to

its enormous battering power, to^ed by

the swell of the sea, would have been the

sufUeient to send any ship to the bottom

000. Before the prohibition law went into force there were sixty or seventy saloons dealing out death and damnation to their victims. Their places are now filled with stores and business enterprises which give employment to hundreds of people and supply the comforts and luxuries of life to the Community instead of misery and crime.

If that is the way prohibition kills a town, the Register thinks every saloon town in the country might well pray for that kind of death. It is a wonderful showing certainly and ono which, a few years ago, would not have been thought

for the

The volume of general business trans acted throughout the country was very large, ths clearing houses returning an aggregate of exchanges of 51 billions of dollars, a gain of about four percent, over 1886. The number of failures was not quite so large as in 1886, but the liabilities were $53,000,000 greater, an increase of nearly 50 per cent. This lesult was probably due in part to the speculative tendency in certain sections of the country and to the "comers" in wheat, coffee, pork, and other commodites.

The currency circulation of the country has been increased about $80,000,000 since July 1, and $130,000,000 in the last year and a half, a fact which has been favorable to trade and which will be still further aided if Congress shall cut down the excessive revenues of the goverment and pour millions of money locked up in the Treasury into tho channels of business.

Presidential years are not very favorable to business, involving as they do so much political excitement and uncertainly, and we may be glad indeed if 1888 shall

make as

°yf

reau of

His

The most significant part of Mr. Wright's report is that which shows the enormous losses caused by these labor disturbances. The loss of wages by employes amounted to about $52,000,000 in the strikes and to $8,000,000 in the lockouts. The loss to employers from both to $34,000,000. But

It is foolish

•.,/ —I .. to waste time and money in such proAN anomalous thing iir the history of digal expenditure. It is a heavy tax ocean navigation was the losing recently upon the labor of the country which of a giant lumber raft in the Atlantic, could as well and better be saved than not far from New York. The raft was

not.

nearly 600 feet long and was made up of commonsense method of arbitration that immense saw-logs bound together and will determine the

an(j

New York in tow of a steamer. Encoun- force. tering a heavy storm the monster broke rrr sfrom the steamer and was carried out to 1R -4 TIO^ n( sea. For a few days it was the terror of Chicago the case le navigators on both sides of the ocean, as

in short order. Fortunately the monster work so hard that few gir are a apjnnirs to have gone to pieces amid the stand tho nervous stram buifctings of the waves, a steamer sent answer of the manager is a, out in search of the raft having found pany pay» as good wages as are *7 the sea covered with logs, and these

were not in the line of ocean steamships. £irls

The danger Is therefore probably over

from this instance of ocean log-rafting

SATURDAY

country generally speaking. The

:iiMarl Vhii«1f was V2 724

amount of new railroad built was 12,24 miles, or half enough to girdle the earth, making a total mileage in the United States of 150,750 miles. Many miles of this new road runs through new and undeveloped sections of the country and will not become renumerative for years to come. In view of this fact it is not likely that the year on which we have entered will witness any such activity^in railway building as the last one did.

good a record as that

latest

STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS. Tho light which Mr. Carroll D. Wri Commissioner of the United States Bu

Labor, is throwing Upon indus

trial questions by the carefully gathered statistics of that Department, is likely to be productive of substantial good.

report covers the matter of

strikes and lockouts in this country for tho six years ending with 1886. During the period named tliere were some 4000 strikes involving 22,300 factories, mills, railroads and mines and 1,319,000 workmen. The lockouts in round numbers involved 2,200establishmentsand 160,000 employes. Of the strikes 46 percent were successful, 13 per cent, partially so, and 36 per cent, were failures. Of tho lockouts 26 per cent, succeeded, 0 per cent, succeeded in part and 60 per cent, failed. By far the greater part of the strikes was for increase of wages, 42 per cent, being for that cause.

and unnecessary

What is needed is some practical

rights

of employers

employes by reason rather than by

*or diRcussion. a

the

service is me cien a

female

employes lecomp y.

paid barely

living wages an reqrn

®f _f• .,

re^eive

from

®ee'

cient to

and the enterprise will hardly be re- soul and body toget er. pea ted. Had the monster remained in- Phone

8 ar

clothe them decen an

comPany

tact and drifted into the line of ocean million a year ou icago travel, it would have constituted a seri- fits in its business. Tha is ous peril to navigation, bothtby reason poor girls who have to ma "J* of its terrific power and its semi-sub-

*!f'®

some way, are gr^nddo^

mergence, which would hare rendered of starvation in order to add to tbe p«its discoverv difficult. Until captured

fits of a

or located it would have been a terror to dividends of millionaire stockholders. the stoutest-heartsd navigators. There is quite too much of this sort of

to the point

giganUc monopoly and swell the

EVEISTIN MATL.

thing going on. It is a kind of heartless rapacity that should be made odious and be frowned upon by an indignant public sentiment. It will not do to say that labor must be paid only such a pittance as the desperate struggle for work makes the laborer willing to accept. The man or woman who has nothing to do will take anything rather than starve, but that is no excuse for paying wages that will barely keep the wolf from the door. Overwork and underpay is one of the curses of the times. The fierce competition for money getting by those who control the avenues of employment makes them callous to the rights of those upon whose labor their success depends, and the grinding process goes on until tbe wages paid are often shamefully in adequate to the services demanded. Fair pay for honest work should be the rule even though the cost of some things be made a trifle more to the user.

CHURCH FAIRS.

The Adventists—that is, one branch of them—are counting on the end of the world in this year of gracc. The other branch hold that the end is near at hand, but decline to fix any particular date, remembering the luck of Miller and other prophets whose predictions were not fulfilled. ,'

One of tbe remarkable arguments, however,by which the Adventists support their faith is that Babylon, meaning the Christian church, has already fallen, and after this the end is near at hand. In proof that the church has become the denounced Babylon of Holj7 Writ, they cite the numerous moneymaking shifts and devices of the modern churches, by which the temple is defiled with auction sales, lotteries, broom drills, etcetera.

Doubtless the interpretation which the Adventists put upon these proceedings of the church is too severe. The church has not become a fallen Babylon, but is a groat and growing power for good in the world. Yet the churches might well abandon somo of the popular modern methods of money-getting. They are disreputable and unbecoming and serve to bring the cause of religion into reproach. The money thus obtained costs more than it is worth. There are heart-burnings and jealousies almost invariably connected with such affairs. As one brother recently expressed it, "A church fair is far from beinga means of grace." The members themselves are not improved by these doings and a bad impression is made by them upon the outside world. Money enough to run the churches, and to build them, too, can be obtained without resorting to such artifices. Let the religious people abandon these unbecoming methods of getting ip the shekels.

MEN OF MANY MILLIONS.

Armour, the packing king, is worth $50,000,000. 4* Mackay and Fair are said to be worth $50,000,000 each. 7

Editor Abell is Said to have made $15,000,000 out of the Baltimore Sun. The revenue Claus Spreckels derives from sugar has been as high as $18,000 a day.

Lucky Baldwin's wealth is estimated at-$20,000,000 and his income at a million a year.

Weightman, the Philadelphia chemist owns $20,000,uu0, -made money out of quinine and mortgages.

Carmegie, of Pittsburg, is worth $20,000,000 and pays his foreman a salary equal to that of the President of the United States.

Leland Stanford, once thought he was doing wsll vVhen he made $1,500 a year out of lawyer's fees. Now he is worth from $50,000,000 to §100,000,000.

Isaiah Williamson, of Philadelphia, the richtest bachelor in tbe United States, made $&),000,000 out of dry goods, and has an income of $1,500,000 annually to dispose of.~V.

Rockafelier, the coai oil Baron, is worth $70,000,000 and as it is a poor standard oil stock which doesn't pay more ban ten per cent, his income must be a half a million a month at least.

Do not be deceived. If you want to know how to cut perfect fitting garments (no trying on) call at the National Garment Cutting rooms on south Sixth street (Savings Bank building). You cannot afford to buy any of the so-ealled systems or charts that are upon the market. There is but one system, and that tho National Garment Cutter that cuts every garment worn by men, women and children. The most effective drapery can be cut by any one thiit can read figures. Our school is open every day. Call and investigate. Instruction free.

You are now about to^select a suit of clothes for winter. At one place you can find a pattern to suit but not a tailor at another the tailor is good enough but tbe stock isn't up to the mark. If you want to be thoroughly satisfied, with a splendid stock, including the finest imported and domestic woolens, and a tailor who can fit you ierfectly, go to Phil. Schloss, corner Main and Fifth streets.

A man may suffer without sinning, but cannot sin without suffering, lo suffer that cold to run into consumption would be a sin and cause suffering, but Warner's Log Cabin Cough apd Consumption Remedy will do what its name indicates, every time. It is a certain cure.

Quart of Uondrjr Blu® Tree,

lb any woman sending her address daring January. Diamond Laundry Bluing seus at ten cents a package, each packate making one quart of the best bluing. One package, as sample, free to any woman applying this month to Ttolls, Richardson fe Co., Proprietors, Btrlington, Vt.

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Soft Finish German

Damask Towels,

Size 21x45 in. Handsome some Broohe Borders.

r,V"'20c eacl

A Real Bargain.

"Bailie Chief!' Who in Trinipli

The King Leaders We Stand'

Hobergr's

18 pieces

German Soft Finish Bleached Dnmask Exquisite patterns, •width 62 and 72 in.

79c and 94c

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$10,000

Here's: Ours How3De^Do.

A Real Surprise Party. Come and see the Goods. "r

1,000 pieces Crash Toweling at 3£, 4, 5, 7, 8 and 10 centsi

500 pes' Turkey Eed Damasks at 19, 22, 25, H6, 50 and 58c

2,000 Dozen Towels,

At 4c, 5c,'So 10c, 13c, 15c each.*£.\f,

100 dozen 50 pieces 100 dozen

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per yd worth $1., $1.20.

German Handloom Genuine Barnsly

Damask Toweling Buck Towels,

Soft finish, fine goods, reg- Wi'.'.iont color, ular price, 16c at steo 22x45^

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Positively Cheap. Decided Value.

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6 largeTSuek Towels, for 1.00.

25 pieces fTg 15 pieces

Fine Bleached Table 4% Genuine Barnsly Cream Damask, extra heavy |t-(. Damasks, handsomest new patterns, patterns ever shown width 02 in. TV1-' and 72 in. wide.

50c

Worth 75c.

Great Sale of Marseilles and Honey Comb Spreads, Muslins and ^Sheetings at. New York Wholesale Prices.

Great Sale Opens Monday Morning:, Jan. !)tli

Hobefg, Root&

Jobbers and Retailers. Nos. 518 and 520 Wabash Ave*

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To rCommence Monday Morning

Sweeping Bargains Linens of almost every kind representing the largest manufacturers of Ireland, Scotland, France and Germany. A display that'll dwarf into insignificance any of the kind ever attempted in Terre Haute. Housekeepers, Hotel, Restaurant and Boarding House Keepers remember this.

Worth of Housekeeping Gooci§

Extra shelf space taken to display this enormous stock.

8-4 Bleached Table Damasks and Napkins to match, the most magnificient Table Linens ever shown, Patterns decidedly new. Genuine Barnslay Cream Damasks, widths from 58 to 72 inches. Half Bleached Damasks, German Soft Finish Bleached Damasks, Hand-loom Damasks, Irish Damasks, Turkey Red Damasks of almost any quality and design. Table Sets with and without fringe, Lunch Cloths, Napkins in wholesale quantities, cream and white and with fancy borders, Doyles' Fringed Table Cloths, etc., and Towels, well ^",1 you'll wonder "whats up" when you learn our prices.

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msm Positiviy worth j'^. a|,s per vd worth 73 and 90c.

250 White Honey Comb Quilts, at 59(feaclif