Free Trade in Cheap Labor If Me. Crenshaw will use a little common xense his chservations on the emigrant ques ion will lead him to very differentana opposite conclusions than those he has started. Mr. Cren- shaw thinks the American system of protection is vindicated by the fact that European emigrants are so de- praved sud so degenerate in compari- son with American workingmen. Does he know that these European paupers come entirely, or almost en- tirely, from those countries that prac- tice the same beneficial system and have done so longer even than this country? The poorest and most des. titate come from Italy, Hungary, Austra, Germany. Poland, Norway and Sweden. All of these nations practice ‘ protection.” It isa favor- ite argument with members of the Kelley sehool to point to the fact that all nations save one have adopted the system of protetion, On the other hand who are the best class of emi- grants that come here? | mean those off and best able to take care of themselves. The free trade English, If Mr. Crenshaw will open his eyes wide enough be will see that, of all countries, that ove alone which 1s op- posed to the so-called American sys- tem furnishes the best citizens to this country and, in proportion to its pop- ulation, the least number of pauper Smigants Of course, I here exclude the Irish, for reasons I shall present- ly state. This, then, entirely knocks out Mr. Crenshaw's conclusions, The sight of the miserable beings wwho are dum into this country every week should Jead this gentle moan a little further in his reflections than the tariff question. The fact is, ‘the tariff has nothing at all to do with it, The cause arises from a vastly different system, which Professor Leckle, Herbert Spencer and Henry George have thrown some light upon. If Mr. Crenshaw points to the Irish 1 funorupilous means ts oontrol all the { products of the entire country, | Workingmen will look with suspic ‘Thay 're Afcaid of Grover; That's What's the Natler. a ion on candidates chosen (na conven. | t i * x ¥ [tion presided over by Pacific Railroad | jobbers, members of the infamous Credit Mobilier—Messrs. Thurston, of Nebraska, and Estee, of California. They will think twice before voting for a man nominated by the Republi can party who has been publicly ae cused [see Eveniny Telograph last week] of violating the laws of his country by importing cheap contract labor. They will bardly place their interests with the party that must stoop to the meanest falsehoods to help out their cause, and who pub- lish for truth stories such as “that the workingmen of Bradford, England, are wearing Clevéland badges,” when us a matter of fact not one Eoglish workman in a thousand knows who Mr. Cleveland is. Yours truly, Times. Artur Krnox. IB AI——— he Wages Of England. We suppose nobody will be startled by the statement > Mr. Blaine that the workingmen of the United States receive higher wages than the work- ingmen of England. We believe this to be true. And we believe it would continue to be true were the conditions reversed with Eogland enforcing a high tariff and the United States with a tariff only on impoated spirits, to- bacco and the like. Bat how does Mr. Blaine explain this differcoce in wages now! While Secretary of the State under Garfield Mr. Blaine said: “Undoubtedly the inequalities in the wages of English and American operatives are more than equalized by the greater efficien- cy of the latter and their hours of Ia- bor.” Taking him st his word the English workingmen are better off relatively than the American workingmen. To get more money for his labor than the Eoglish worker the American opera- as psupers emigrating from a free trade country I reply that Irish pov- erty has no more to do with free trade | than had that of the French Hugue- nots during the religious persecution. I would refer to Ireland's condition | during England's high protective pe. riod and contrast that period with the resent. I would also commend to is notice the speeches of the great Daniel O'Conoell, who demanded for | Ireland free trade and denounced | protection as “a system of robbery: robbery of the poor by the rich,” Let me ask Mr. Crenshow if he can | explain on any theory he bas formed | from his observations why, if protec- tion benefits labor, a stream of emi- gration bas for the last fifty years been steadily flowing from protected Ger- | many to free trade Eogland? Itis a fact that thousands of Germans an noally emigrate from Germany to- England. If he answers, as the pro verbial Yankee, by asking another «question, viz: why Englichme n come Yo this country, I reply that the rea gon i8 principally attributable to the fact that while England contains only 58,000 square miles and cantains 30.« 000,000 of people, America with an area of 4,000,000 square miles, con. | tains only 60,000,000 of people; - that is, where America has but 15 the square mile England supports 500! The State of Pennsylvania contains 45,000 saare miles, about one-fourth less than Eogland. Does any sane man suppose that this State could begin to support 22,000,000 of people | in the same condition Eogland sup- | ports hare; under the present protec. tive system? Sir, the statement that protection as advocated by the Republican party | keeps the standard cf wages is, in the popular language, the most palpable | rot. If labor is so highly remunerat- | ed, why does this country have more labor troubles than the whole of Ea rope put together? Why all this dis- content among workiogmen? What mean the numerous lock-outs, strikes and riots? Why do the Carnegies find it necessary to employ the Pinkertons to guard their mills because they choose 10 employ European work: men! Why are the highly protected Pennsylvania miners reduced in con- dition as to make them objects of so much | pity that a leadiog pictorial journal found it a profitable under taking to publish scenes of the huts sod hovels in which the poor wretch- es are doomed to exist? Have American workin lost their brains to be gulled longer by such “arguments” as teem inthe daily ress! Protection from the pauper r of Europe when thousands these paupers are landed here every week to contest with American labor on its own soill And when those who offer these “arguments,” such as that great “philanthropist,” Mr. Carnegie, employ this very pauper labor at pau- per wages (0 the exclusion of Amer- Jeans! Bat, sir, who are they who mostly beg and plead and threaten for the maintenance of these duties? Are they distioguished for learn ing? No. or statesmanship? Well, hardly. For philanthropy? Not quite. For patriotism! Not altogether, Who are they? Monopolists' land Somber, sisters of frnte, railroad olitieal huckst corrup- tiowits, nts coal ron on blew! Ganlds, Bazes, Stanfords, ngersolis, Caregin? These are at the head and front of the whole fraud; po McCoys. | yesterday at { was approached by three | manded his and opening fire on the trio { told an old miner there that | enemies, of | to revert 10 his son, P. H. Sheridan, Grover Cleveland is a plain, inof- | fensive citizen, ns everybody Kkoows | Yet be Las succeeded in inspiring the | Republican leaders at Washington with profound dread of his superiority and prowess asa politician, Jammedi- ately upon the adjournment of the Chicago Convention the Republican leaders in Congress resolved that they would make no attempt to pass a Tariff bill in the Senate, but would £0 to the country on their high-tariff, free-whiskey platform. As their lead: ing organ, the New York Tribune, declared, the passage of a Senate bill “mearly for buncombe” would be worse than a waste of time. But np- ou an intimation that President Cleve Congress in case of an adjournment without au effort on the part of the Senate to reduce the surplus revenues there was a sudden change of front. A caucus of Republizan ON was bastily sammoned, and in spite of the protests of a few cmemies of “bun- combe,” it was resolved that the Sen. ate should amuse the country by go- ing through the motions of “consider- ing a Tariff bill. A mere vague ru- mor that President Cleveland was watching them recalled the Republi- can leaders in Congress to a sense of the responsibility they were condeavor- ing to evade. ow, it is intimated that the Presi- dent is withholding bis letter of ac- ceptance in order to review the Tariff billof the Senate Finance Committee when it shall be introduced. Upon the strength of this rumor it is gsven out in one of the Washington corres- pondence of ove organs that the Re- publican politicians have again taken alarm. They are afraid, it issaid, to give the President ‘a splendid oppor- tunity to attack the special features” of the bill with his “skill sophistry,” and 50 the tariff baotling of the Re. tive must do better work and work | longer, according to Mr. Blaine. ‘We neither affirm nor deny Mr. Blaine’s | proposition. The people can readily determine for themselves what his as sertionsare worth, — A A— A Kentucky Battle N——— ] Hatfields and Me Coys at it Again, There is trouble again in Pikecoun ty Kentucky between the Hatfields Frank Phillips, the sheriff of Pike county, who made the | { former arrests, and whose desds made him famous, seems to be the coveted | | prize of the West Virginians, who | seem destined to get his scalp. trials of the Hatfields were ie: for | Pikeville. Last week | Phillips was out through the country | scouring witnesses ete, and when in the neighborhood of Betera, the seene of the former bloody The { encounter, men, claimed to be detectives and who sarrender. Pally plied by whipping out his TE revolver | el the belt off one Alexander, well kn iw here, and secured his three revolvir | No one was hurt io the melee. | | retreated minus their hats, wea etc. The next day returned with nine recruits in search of ’h and his body guard, and the Virginians were again repu Sunday the Hatfield squad, 10 number of sixty, passed the wont Betera creek, and Captain Hath he Lis better leave as there was going to In trouble. Shortly afterwards he beard | the skirmish between the Hatfield and McCoys, the latter being fourty five strong and lying in wait for their After the battle it was dis covered that three of the Hatfields were killed and two wounded, while three of the McCoys were slightly wounded, The end is not yet, but the Kentuckians have the best of them, inasmuch as hy are thoroughly or- ganized snd well armed. - — A—— Sheridan's Will, ines Practically All the Generals Property Left to Hie Widow. The will of the late General Bheri- dan, dated May 23, 15588, was to-da admitted to probate. He left to his wife one-third of all his personal pro- Jens, the same in liew of dower. To re. Kate Sheridan (bis mother, since deceased) he left the Ohio homestead, io fee simple. All the restof his prop erty he leaves to his wife, M. Y Sher idan, and Linden Kent (his attoraey) in trust, to recover rents, ete, for the maiotenance and education of his | four children, and if more than is nes. esenry, the excess to be paid to his wife. As ench of his children shall reach the of 21 years the trustees shall nesion to sch child {ts share in the estate, He gives (he care and guardianship of bis children to his wife, and names the trustees also as executrix and executor, The petiticn states that his personal estate consists of $2,721 money; 88, 000 stocks, etc; 85,000 swords, ete,; $3,000 household furniture: 8600 horse and and 8500 in the house at Nanquitt; and the indebredness is not more than 81,200, Letters testas mentary were granted Mr, Bheridan, Colonel Sheridan Fowl iow West | | | little while longer in committee be land would eallan extra session of publican Senators isto be nursed a | him.” i Boys Who Suconad. tH 5 Td OF two hove sith the 8Avan. Plage and equally good trai i, | Ore | il gaeced in Jife while the other, | { without being bad, “never amout to i | any thing ,” as the saying goes. Pers { baps the following aneddote will ex. | plain something of the disparty in re sults, A nurseyman left home for a few day on a busines trip. It wre rainy wheather, and not a season for ales, but a customer did arrive from a dis- tance, tied up hishorse, and went into kitchen, where two boys were crack- ing nuts, “Is Mr. Barnes at home?” he asked “No” saint Joe, the eldist, hawmer- ing at a nut “When wil he be back?” “Dunno. Mebte not for a week.” The youngest boy, Jim, promptly jumped vp and followed the irritated strange out of doors, ‘The men are not here.” he said, in a bright ane cour.ious manner, “bat I can show you the stock.” The stranger was concilisted, and followed Jim through the nursery, ex- aminiog the trees, and left his order, “You have sold the largest bill of the season, Jim,’ said his father, greatly pleased, on bis retorn. A few years afterward, those two boys were left by their father's death with but three handred dollars apiece Joe bought an acre or two near home aod althotugh he worked hard, he i still a poor discontented man, Jim bought so emigrat’s tickets to Colorado, hired out as a cattle-driver for a couple of years, and with his wages bougot land at $1.25 an acre, built himself a house and married. To-day is beards are numbered by the thousand, his land has Been cut up in town lote, and hells one of the A om men of theCentennial States. “I might have done like Jim,” said Joe, resemtfull, “if ¥'d only though in time. There's as good stuff in me ! THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT! Joe was right. He nad the same stuff | cause of a wholesome fear of Grover. The American people may well con- | gratulate themselves upon having for | their Chief Magistrate a man of whose | | vigilance and courage the agents and | representatives of Monopoly confess their dread. Bat in the present in- | { stance their fears were exaggerated. | The Senate bill from all indications, | { will be so feeble and ill-conditioned a | | thing as to be utterly unworthy the | prowess of the valiant champion of | Tariff reform in the office of President of the United Simes,— Record. C— A] ——— The Free Trade Ory. [here are, we believe, a score or iwe of prominent people in the United States who hold stated meetings sod Lrade fraukly confess, for ourselves, that d the shaping of the revesus f a pow witlement, and desir « ablish it at the start on the sible system, we would favor Bat any man is a camer who fancies that aller { providing for the expen oV¥erumeut DY duties on 1m i e+ maintained for a i an be overthrown by ve, nivel free trade and direct ihwtituted in its stead. No a« a sound head will, in our | opose aovibiog for this coun derived chiefly | The only real | issue in congress is | whether the excessive rates establish- | ed under a heavy dent created by the | wa, anid now prodocing an excess of | advocate the doctrines of free We ifwe | ’ ¢ theory. cy TE cen a Yoie | “ CUsLivs service, revenue On DOw at | revenue of over one hundred millions |! per annum, shall be modified so as to | bring the tagation down to the cur-| rent needs of the trasury, i If the proposed modification of the | tariff menaced and of the great mao- | ufscturiug interests of the country, | we would sound the alarm as, quickiy as any one. But the that it does this is a falsehood made out of whole cloth, and those who started the the ery know that their assertion is altogether untrue. Many who are echoing that ery are not so well in formed and are really disturbed list there shall be some plan afoot to in. terfere with these prosperous todas. tries. We stated some time ago that the present tariff averaged for the year 1557 just 47.10 per cent. on all dutiable imports, and that the pro posed Mills tariff, on the same reck- oning, would pring this average down to about 404 per cent, As the duties only averaged 18] per cent. When the war broke out, and the average from 1830 to 1862, a period of thirty-two years, was oal 31,42, or about 31} per cent, it is easy to sce that the Mille bill, with its 40 per cent, is still a very high rate of taxation, with po suggestion of free trade in ity and ample protec. tion for every manufacturer in the country, The highest range of the old protective taritl, so dear to the dis- cipies of the Carey school, was 55 cent, and we heard Mr. Carey say, io one of his most earnest pleas in be half of protection, that oe cent, for an infant industry and 25 por cont. after a few yoars of progress was all that nn AM GEer ought to de slre, hint shall be thought of » man who asserts that a 10} per cont tariil is wn attempt to establish free tendo, simply beeause It follows an sud Mr. Kest, oan bond of $2,500, «i men who are endeavoring by the most { quick, wide-awake | gift of nature. — Golden Days. [among them pot | ars toe in him, bot it was not developed. The eneragy which | causes & boy to act promptly and ! boldly in an emergency is partly nat- ural, but it ean be incoleated by par- ents, and it is worth more than suy i — A—— A Collision at Sea. | It Results In The Loss Of Mismy Lives. | | New Yomx, August 36—The | | steamship Weildlaod, Captain Albers | from Hamburg August 5 via Havre, | with merchandise and 113 cabid and | 45) steerage passengers, arrived to-day | { snd reports that on August 34, thirty | miles sonth of Sable Island, at noon saw the Danish steemer Tiogvalla, from Copenhagan for New York, with signals of distress. The Tiogvalla had collided at 4 o'clock that morn. ] ing with the steemer Geer, of the same ioe, from New York, August 1] for Copenhngan. The Geiser sank in about minuils, and fonrteen passengers and sevensern of toe ere w, Captain Maller, are Senenty-{wo passengers and H five saved {thirty-three of the crew were Jost The steemer Wieldlane brought 455 passenger from the Tiegvalla and those saved from the Geiser to New York. The Tingvalla will endeavor to to reach Halifax, N. 8 The following are the names of the fotrteen passengers saved from the (Geizer's Cabin: Mrs Hilda Linda, | from New York, steerage; Johann | Larsin and Alfred Anderson, form New York; Eenz. Aoderson. Philadel- | shin; Fred. I.. Hanson, Perth Amboy N. J. Christopher Eliassor, Chicago; John Fenwald, Hudson, Wis: Pater | Fohanson and Anders G. Peterson, St. Paul, Mion. Anders Wailes Min neapolist ; Johanna G. Fashan and Johaon A. Geeith, Joo Mountain, Mich.; Lanrity Romerdehl, Lans- ing, Mich,; Paul Paclyn, Inu Wond, Mich. The steamer Geizer left this port on August 11 bound for Stellen. The Tiogvalla was on her way to this city. A very heavy sea ant a dense fog were experienced through the night and early on the morning of August 14 it is said an object could not be distinguished fifty feet away by reason of fog. Stories difier as 0 where the libeility lies if not dae wholly to fog and the heavy sea, put the Thingvalla struck the Geizer on the starboard side amidship. The boats quickly receeded and within five min vite the Geizer sank. The crow of the Thingvalla did all the could to save the Geizer's crew and passengers whild still in doubt wheather the was nob dangerously dis. tothe heavy soa only were saved. No other near at the time. The Wieland, on her way to this nt, was a handrod miles away. At 1'30 o'clock on the morning of the 14th, the Wieland was sighted. Signs of distress were made by the Thieg- valla and the transfer of the passon~ an. The sea was then very , but no mishap ocourred in the transfor of passengers. The officers of the company were unable to give the list of those lost. Among the saved Ritusngets there is only one woman, She is Mes, Hilda Finda, of Cinclonath. Her two little children, who were going to Sweden with her, were lost. Me, Linda was not with his family. Most of the | Gelzor's wors western T he Largest, Cheapest and Best Paper in the County. The Democrat is bound to be abreat of the times and will constantly and con- sistently advocate what believes to be in the inters ests of the people. QAR Pte 0 Q No man can afford to be with- out a county paper and at ONE DOLLOR The Democrat is plac- ed in reach of all. excessive war tarill’ averagiog 47.40 A people.
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