M'KLXLKY )j:olleky. AMAZING EXHIBITION BY THi AU THOR OF THE TARIFF BILL. Atrrlitt'iii: n , ! MiuiieaMt1l (ititli rrlnu Which I'ut I.ltllr !cn I'v tu Ho Knocked 1 n What the Inrumoua i Tariff 1111! Horn in Artiinl I'metler. The tariff coi.troversy Iih provoked a great many tlmll lliinic, but tho moot amazing exhibition cf mingled drollery nd effrontery thut linn marked it whs reserved, m it, huld have boon, for tho distinguished author of the McKinley bill, and the place chot-en for the exhi bition was, as it ought to hote been, tho Republican national convention of 1M3. We mean the wonderful body that met at Minneapolis and nominated Harrison and Reid. Major McKinley was mado chairman of it, and this was another ex ample of titneos. The presidential con test U to be fought on the tariff ques tion, very largely, and it wa ii5erfect accordance with all the proprieties that the most conspicuous exetitplar of n policy which takes three out of every ten drops of productive sweat on a farmer's brow and tsitm them over to the favored manufacturing eliiss should preside over the deliberations of an as semblage called to indorse this sweat taxing system. Of course Major McKinley said some thing about the protective tariff policy. He was expected to, and be did. And this is what, anions other things, be said: "The Democratic party believes tn di rect taxation; that U, in taxing our selves; but we do not elieve in that principle so long a we can find any body else to tax. We propose to raise our money to pay public expenses by taxing the products of other nations rather than by taxing the products of our own people. '" The mianing of this statement, as ex plained by similar iv rtious in his other speeches, is that our protective tariff force outside nations to pay our tux-. and tiausfer from vi- shoulder to theirs the bur h- i cf p.' . the esjx'n.- of our government. U : lis were true, then the Fr'ir.-h ir Votive tariff on American grain con;; Is o.ir vet-ni grain raisers to help M.p; rt the French government, and lie wr.-iunn p-ou-otiv-tariff ou Atuerican lur:.: enables the German emp-irf to c !'.. t taxes in Mis souri and Ill;ii L,."- year we collect ed $219,5011.1; i-i duties oa iuip:-l goods. Major McKinley pretends that this money came or.t of the pockets of foreign nations, but he knows l?tter. He knows that it was added to the price of the$$45,0ik.(H worth of foreiju goods we imported, increasing the price just that much and compelling our jx?ople to pay $1,061,300,000 tor the fS13,(Nio.0.iij worth of foreign goods, so that the 319, 500,000 came out of their pockets in the end. When the McKinley bill reduced the duties on sugar the author of it asserted that this reduction relieved the people of $54,000,000 a year in Uses, and in his Ohio canvass speeches lost year he pleaded this relief as a claim on the gratitude of the jeople. He did not say, as he might, that a Republican tar iff had been for twenty-five years taxing the people f54.000.O00 a year on one of the necessaries of life, when the govern ment bad no use for the money; he con tented himself with telling them that they ought to be thankful to the party for its magnanimity in consenting to rob them no longer. But if what he taid iu Ohio was true, how could that be true which he said at Minneapolis? If the sugar duties had been taking fM.000.ooo a year from our own jeople, how can he have tbe effrontery to assert that the other protective duties are not paid by the same people? But this h tot the worst of it If the McKinley tariff did nothing more than collect the government revenue from the people, it would not be so offensive and oppressive. But it does a great deal more. It forces the people not only to supply their government with revenues, but to supply the favored manufactur ers with revenues alto. We imported and consumed last year f45,OOO,000 worth of foreign goods, paying on them 1218,500,000 iu duties to the public treas ury; but iu the same time we consumed three times that value cf protected home manufactures, paying thereon three times f210,5(K).0ou to the favored class eugaged in making them. Tbe very re lief of the people from sugar duties to the amount of $.4.M),000 a year was in this way annulled by the increased du ties on other necessaries of life. In fact the favored manufacturers got tho $54,000,000. nr.l aa much more besides, and every dollar it came out of the pockets of our own people. St. Louis Republic A I'-lc tomio nf I'lurklng. In Pennsylvania the roblier ta:fT brings a rich booty ir.to the Carnegie establishments, and th workmen, iu whose name 'the tariff was demanded, aatnrally want a lv.rge a share rf tho 'ooodle as they cm get. But the tariff harons object, f rt. be'-ausv they waut it all themselves and second, because, as they have iuf..-r n:i;il!y admitted, if u iair share le paid to the workmen it vould make their wr.ges out of all rea son too high so high indeed as to at tract general ctteutlm to the little game joing on at Il me;,teid. The game is .lot the K'hi!k'V prenk of "two pluck ing one," but tho $ riuiis business of .ne plucking GOvki.OOO. Lynchlmrj Virginian. renmylvr.!n I Not "Sure." But the gre;:t crate of Pennsylvania, with its thirty -two electoral votes, 1m--xmies an object of intern interest with its 250 idle mil's and from Oi),0:w to 75, 'H0 anxious Won; iu;;t!ien disgusted at a ,ham prot-'tioTi of labor. That state .rave liarrison a plurality of TU.458 over Cleveland in bi.1 it is by no means certain that these li;;ure will not lm more than overcome this year by the lamentable failure of the Republican party to fulfill its proi iiuM as to wages under nrotection. Bo.-toti GloJ. ONE YEAR OK TARIFF. Soma 1 Vt hlrli Make I'artlt-nlarly Interesting Heading. The first year of the complete ojiera tion of the McKfliley tariff ended with a net cah lmluuce in the treasury of less than half what ir'waf a yvnr ago, with tlm net gold In flhe trwisury f:3.325,35S less thnn it was n yi ifr ago, and with the imports for the first eleven monthi of the year $10,000,000 lt-. Tho depletion of the treasury and the ex ports of gold have gone lnd in hand with shackled trade and prohibitory duties. The receipts from custom tluties, es timated by Secretary Fosrtr last No vember at 1W,000,000. have reached during the year only f lTJ.SSa.OW. while the receipt from all source, estimated at fW2,00O.0QJ have yielded only fU53, 655.064, The expenditures have beeu vigorously held down, but they have ex ceeded the estimates by $ 7.000,000 and have reached '44.113,049. without count ing any payments to the sinking f and. The surplus for the year, estimated last November at f24,0O0,00O, is less than jfl.OOO.OOO. The bonded debt, which was $010,529, 120 a year ago, ha been reduced to 195,029,830 by the redemption of a part of the 4' per cent, bonds, but tho re demption money has lieen taken out of the savings of previous years and has reduced the net cosh balance to the low est point it has tonched in many years. The amount today is f20.002.3TT". where a year ago it was fVt.Mt3.lHN, This net cash balance can only le made available in good money by settiug off the worn out fractional silver and the bank de jHwiU against the balances of disbursing officers as their only security. The su'osidiary silver in the treasury is $14,224,714. aud the general deposits in national banks are jW.H.liw. The free gold, which was $l30.74i.;trt only six months ago. is now fll4.ii52.AHi, and a Jioo.ooo.noo is the sum which has s -erally lneti considered as set aside for the security of the legal teudtr iioVs. only !4.3t2.3i'.!i remains UKn which to rest the inverted apex of the broadening pyramid of silver notes issued unier the act of lfsto. The issues of these not" have now reached $101. 712,071. and as the silver bullion which has been piling up in the treasury is useless for their re demption, the government has only 11 lr cent, of their value in gold with which to redeem them. The accumula tions of silver iu coin and bullion have reached the amount of f U.OSl.161. ex-cet-diuz the entire stock of gold by more than AlOO.OOO.iXm. The imports and exerts for the entire twelve months of the fiscal year will not be available for some two weeks, but the figures for eleven months indicated a shrinkage iu spite of the growth of the country, which bodes no good to the future of foreign trade. The exports have been large because of the short crops in Europe, aud this should have brought gold by the mil lions to our shores; but exports of gold continue and nothing but tbe enormous exports of breadstuff appear to have availed to avert the calamities which the billion dollar congress and tbe Mc Kinley tariff legislation invitod upon the country. Philadelphia Record. Bow Protection A.Tecta the Farmer. What is tho cause of the scarcity iu the west, and south? More currency proportionately is needed in these rural communities than in the east because there all payments are made in cash, while here the great majority of debts are paid by back checks. And yet they cannot keep their currency. It is all drained toward K ew York or some other city. The reason is that what is usually called tbe "balance of trade" is against these communities. They buy more than they sell and have to pay the dif ference iu cash. If a man has a wheat crop or a cottoa crop to sell ho finds no difficulty in getting cash for it. All tho marketable products will command cash, but if it takes all that the cotton crop or wheat crop fetches to pay the fertilizer bill, the bill for shoes, cloth ing, blankets aud ironware in the city, no cash comes back to the farm. Balti more Sun. rten Win Carry Out tbe Ileal. President Harrison has withdrawn the nomination of Dr. W. D. Crum as post master at Charleston from tbe files of the senate. This probably means that the president will wait until after the senate adjourns, when he will issue a commission to Dr. Crum without the consent and approval of the senate. As we understand it, had the senate refused to confirm CruiuV uppoiutuieut the pres ident could not have reappointed him during the recess of the senate, but now that be has withdrawn the npt'iutment he will be in a position to carry out his part of the Minneapolis bargain. But we shall see what we shall see. Charles ton News aud Courier. lining- Its lun Talking. "The McKinley 1 rill is doing its own talking," said the author of that in famous measure at Minneapolis, and "the McKinley bill is doing its .own talking" have harped, parrotlike,' the Republican editors all along the lino about sis times e.vh issue since. Yen, 'the McKinley bill is doing its own talk ing" at Homestead. The Imkuu of can nou and the crack of Winchef-ter rifles in the bauds of the Pinkerton Hessians at Hotnteod was the "McKinley bill doing its own talking." It "talkel" there so that not alone McKinley but the workingmen coald understand it. 1 Oskaloosaiio.) Time. The Turin Mut Me Chansed. But for the immense export of Ameri can grain, which was caused by the short croos in Uu.-jdn ami olli.r F.nroia-uu , ... . couiitne, grain would lx cheaper in this tvmntry than cotton. That is, wheat and other cereals would be lower than ever before known. As the crops of Europe are not likely to fail again thU year tho tariff system must be changed, or the north and west will suffer as tho south is suffering from the low price of cotton. Vicksburg Com-ticrclal. DESPOILED APARTMENT HOUSES. After an Active farcer .lliu Wullnre Tame tn C.rlrr. James Wallace, alius John .Seatilan. alius James Parker, alias Karrell. Schneider, O'Hrien, etc., has taught the New York J police a thing or two. For n year past cer tainly, ntid much longer probably, In- lias been driving about the city hi n st vlish rig, entering "Hats" (apartment houses) with skeleton keys tn broad daylight anil carrying ult plunder In a very quiet and gentle manly way. And so far at least (20, ouo worth of miss ing proierty has been traced to his deft Anger. Ha whs nn ex convict, too, well married mid liv ing with his wife's folks in pretty good style, when he was brought iu Superintendent JAVFS WAt.t.ACK. Hyruesreivgnilteil him st once, ami so to avoid a double ilnse of Siuii Sing lie owned up and named the places where he had pawned his plunder. A vast nnd tnicellaneous pile was soon col lected, and every victim of sneak thievery in the city was invited to call, pick out and prove up on his owu, The result was aome whnt comical. Wallace is a fl tie illustration of what ap pearances will doforaman in a city. He is tall and fine looking, with a very gentle manly oddress. So when he drove up to an apartment house nnd entered with his private key ns if he lived there, no one questioned him, and ho was only caught by necideiit.. As might have been sur mised, he admitted that ho lost 1.11 the money in gambling. The I'lurky INOlu-a.led Man. "I was one of n party of eight once held i up by a lone highwayman, Mid P. .1. Martin, a bridge contractor, to a St. Ixi;:. j reporter the other day. "I was traveling . by stage iu .Montana. The party consisted j of two army oihVrrs, a specul'itnr. f car miners and mvself. The stase had lieen held up pr i-tty frutpietitly, so we all went fixed lor trouble. Kvery man had a hrace of six -hooters, and we were just ai l.in to have the mail agents tackle us. At lent we talked that way. We commented very unfavorably upon men who yielded to the demands of the freebooters without a strug gle, and promised them a warm time if I they tackled us. "One man had little to say. He whs the speculator, a redheaded man with a squint. Finally one of the army ollieers asked him what he would do if therobliers attacked us, aud he replied that he did not kiaiw. As we swung around a sharp bend in t In road the stage pulled up with a jerk, the driver threw up his hands und almost be fore we ki;ew it we Mere looking into the barrel of a Winchester. Well, sir, that lone robber marched us out and stood us up in line with our hands above our heads. Then he threw each man a small sack and made him pull it over his head. We all complied but one. The redheaded specu lator pulled his gun and shot the bandit so full of holes that he died before he could touch the ground. Then he climbed up, knocked the driver off tbe box and drove the stage into tbe next station with the most crestfallen lot of braggarts aboard that ever wore guns and neglected to use them." Has Led an Eay Life. The famous white horse that cut such a figure in the Cronin trial was almost ruined for everyday purposes by the pub lic curiosity, but has obtained a specula tive value and will probably end his days In a circus or sideshow. Mr. Dinan, the liveryman who owned him, has died since the trial, and Mrs. Dinan, being obliged to sell everything, has very reluctantly pcrted with the old white horse. TBE CROXIX WHITE HORSE. It was this horse the assassins used on their midnight trip to Lake View, May 4, when they concealed the corpse of tbe murdered Dr. Cronin, and hundreds of people have since visited the stable to see him. Strange to say, however, no one wanted to hire him, and he has lived a life of honorable retirement. He is sixteen years old and id splendid condition. It is an odd illustration of human nature that while no one wants to ride after this horse thousands will pay a trifle just to look at him. Strange Stories About Animal. Here are some animal yarm that are just gaining currency: A colt with cloven hoofs was born on a farm near Allentown, Pa. A lion in a country circus showing at Norristown, Pa., bit off the tail of his neighbor, the tiger. A Houston county (Ga.) man has a sow six years old that has lieen the mother of 172 pigs and now has a litter of eleven. Tho best cow owned by William Stillwagon, at Schoenersville. Pa., ate forty rakes of soap that Mrs. Stillwagon had made and had ?t out to dry. Half an hour laterthe cow was found with a stream of froth pouring from her mouth, aud she wassuffocatt-d. A man at Burlington, X. C, has a dog and a calr that have formed a strange attachment, lately the dog has been given bread as a diet, and as soon as he gets his ration he hunts up the calf and gives it the bread, which the calf eats and seems to relish. When the calf is fed the dog receives a share of the meal or bran. The only ex planation for this attachment is that tbey have been kept in tbe mine stall for sbaie time. Milking tho Money I I. v. A young man in Xew Castle, Del., having inherited s,(l or 10.noo, astonished his neigh hi. is by spending fci.lim in three weeks and starting olf with another i'1,000 in hi pocket. He bought among other thingi iwn bicycles at il.M each, a diamond ring for I'iT.V cit-'bt suit of clothes mill several l.X'-mile tickets on various railway lines. In addition to all this he hired a box for the summer at an opera house in Phila delphia, A woman was recently arraigned before the magistrate tn Liverpool for the iOth time. She was fined ten shilling and coets, or ten days' imprisonment. ;.. "A woman best understands a woman's ills." Thousands of women have been benefited by Mrs. Tinkham's ad vice, and cured by her remedies after all other treatment had failed. Lydia E. PinkhanVs Vegetable Compound has been more mcccss:t:l in cur ing; rc:r.;oC Crri l..;r.ts than any rcr.ir. Vf'.: i.r.own. T i ' I rf 3STO"W "WIS JDO SHILIEI Large profts to "Dealers" may yield, But iu a coutest with Deeiillg S 'Grea t Wonder She's not worth a cent in the lield. They said she had beaten the DEERINGi And in "smiles" their pleasure revealed : xut at a jerseytown larra in contest We drove them right out of the field. The crain was iust readv for The laud was not hilly or rough But oue round of the field they were cutting Convinced them she'd gotten enoush. 8o they jmlled the poor thing to a corner. ..II'. M lt . .1 , , W , y e smiiea at tneir jacK ot AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS ID. "W. KITCHEK BEIM1 CLOTflll Al LARGEST ASS ESext, .Sic IVewest and Mv,t Price; mul to prove atasfactcon is our I!E4!cavor The best value for Money is to buy your Clothing, Hats, Shirts, Neckwear, Trunks and Valises of Q IE- iMZ-A-IIHIR,, ) Corner ofj Main and Centre Streets, BLOOMSBURG, PA. Largest Clothing and J. R.Smith & Co. MILTON, Pa., DKALKH8 IN PIANOS, By the followlns wcll ktown makers i Cliickcrins;, Knnbc, "Weber, Hallct & Davis. Can also furnieh any of the cheaper makes at manufact urers' prices. Do not buy a piano before getting our prices. Catalsgue and Price Lists On application. Imrvpst ; sound pluck )UT MIA . -THE Comes to the front with the AND MAKING AND FITTING .'.OF THE.-. TO QR&ER. Hat House in Columbia THOMAS GORREY Plans and Estimates on a kinds of buildings. Repairiiu, and carpenter work promptly attended to. ' Dealer in Builder's Supplic:. Inside Hardwood finishes 4 specialty. Persons of limited mpnno ,t,. . . 1 j desire to build can pay part and secure balance by mortgage PATENTS. f'nvfltl nnd Trnila Marti Ahlntii,, . t'Hi'nt biifilijt'cn ciiiHlucifil for Mh'uKimtL irrs ".04 oritovKP K jMorrnsiTKTHE p. v ,..T F.NT IlKKK K. IV, limn mi i,ln.,.. . 1 AT- tiimlniiw rtlrpct, h'nop can Iranxii. ! inn,!, '.V'! t)f!H III ll'SS time MIL I ,11 U'H Cost thun ti!,,Z . i,w,l, fp,im U ,.vlitn,'l.,n UtS l(- N'lid modi'l. drawing or photo, win, ,!., Inn. We advise If patentable or n.'t tuS , Chnnre. Our fee nt ilne till patent W ',., rJ, A honk. "How todhtaln r.itents." vM'h ,,,,; pneea toiu-tiial clients In j our Slnle. t, ,. ,!. lowu, sent lice. .Mldrens f. A. HNOW CO.. Wiislilntrto'i 1) (opposite l s. l-atent oilio) ' As they pushed and they pulled, and they twisted To get the thing up on its truck. At last they got ready aud started And, 05 slowly they lower the bars We turn from that poor vanquished Kinder And "we smile" as we contemplate ours. There she is, just as proud as a peacock ; She works like a charm in the wheat, And all rivals who challenge the "PEERING'' Must sooner or later reteat. So in buying a Binder for service, Euy the one that is proven the best And remember "The Decrhq Sled Hinder" Has never yet failed in a test. TH1W OMR. U 1 VI HOUSE SEEDS HAT ORTMENT S.vlisii, litnvcNf i TEMG MADE and Montour Counties
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