: emm—— Not a Benefit but an Injury. There are about & gi millions of ‘people employed in gainful oc- SE in the Uniled States. Of these eighteen millions of workers less than oné-sixth are smployed by capital protected by the tar ff. The other five-sixths are employed in industries which the tariff does not, cannot, and is notintended to bene- fit. While all the eighteen millions of workers pay the tariff taxes five times over in the enhanced cost of articles of food and c'othing, of househo'd goods and utensils, of imp'ements cf labor, of house rent, of almost every h ng they use or consume, no: one of ther gets any actual benefit therefrom, for the capitalist not on'y takes ail of the tariff enhanced price of his products, but actualy forces his laborers to accept less woges than they former- | ly received at the peril oflosing their | employment to cheaper laborers whom he imports from 1oreign coun~ ‘brutes. 1 have often seen their veins out like cords and the hor- ses gasping at every start, Ladies are sometimes very without knowing it, and m'ght save the hor- ses a great deal by oceasionallg walk- ing a bl-ck or so.” standin Sixty Thousand New _ Pensions, The report of General Black, the commissioner of pensions, shows that there were added to the pension rolls during the past year 60,252 names’an, increase that is the largest of any in the history of the ueion bureau, There are now 4562 577 pensioners on the rolls, who received last vear 878,- 775,862, an excess over the amonnt paid duricg the year preceding of $5, 308 220.- The dishursement of these pensions cost $3,262,524, making the total expenses of the government for the pension service 882,038 386, The total expenditures for vhe year were $267,924,801, #0 that not less than 31 per cent. of the entire outlay of the tries. . Itis pretended by advocates of a | high tariff that the workers in. the | industries controlled by protected | capital get better wages than those employed in other industries, this is not true. Statistics gathered by various labor bureaus show that | the workers in what are called the | “protected industries” get lower wa- | ges on the average than those em- | ployed in 0 her industries: This fact | disposes not only of the assertion that | the tariff benefits labor employed in i : ] But federal government was for pensions, I'he report also shows that while Pres- ident Cleveland has signed 1,369 spe- cial pension acts, he bas vetoed 191, ‘rom the number of votoes there struck in the back and badly bust, The Wheelingmen then armed them- selves with their guns and opened fire, aud a" the first volley killed a very stable keeper named Staubbs, The Wheeling men fled, but were afierward captured, aud are now in the Washington jail. The feelin against them is very strong, an threats of lynching are freely made. Sr —— A — ns ii. Advertising, People who think that an adver tisement of three months’ standing is going to make them rich make a mistake. Advertising is like eating. If you want to be healthy you must eat regularly, as meat to-day will not serve you to-morrow. To be well and hearty, eat at every meal time—to be prosperous in busivess, adverise reg ularly. Stop the ome, acd you starve and die. Stop the other avd your business takes consumpiion and “dies also. Spasmodic advertising is like having a “feast aud a famine” —more never satisfactory. To take out your eardm dull times is like killing your horse becsuse he is alittle lame. It is in dull times should be deducted 17, which were in | the interest of claimants whose allow. | ances would have been cut down by the proposed law. In the majority of the cases the vetoed acts were based | on claims which the pension bureau | had rejected prior to July 1, 1875, so that the bills were simply efforts to get, { through legislation, allowances that the most advertising should be done, and it is in dull times that advertis- ing is the most effective, as more no tice is taken of printers’ ink than st any other time.— Builder and Wood Worker. A — Prairie Fires in Dakots famine thau feast, as a rule—and is THEY ARE ALL BROKE. UP, Lownpox, Sept. 5—That there are very serious troubles aneot the management of the Metr politan police is certain, but the police is not to know for some time yet the details of the disagreements in a most imporiant branck of the governmoant of the greatest city in the world. One thing, however, is well known-—that Sir Charles War ren, the chief commissioner, has, by his tyrannical conduct, disgust ed the force under him almost to a verge of mutinity aud provoked the resignation of some of the best men composing it. One would think that in a sery- ice which should be above all things prac ical there won'd be a system of promotion by merit which would result in piacing at the head of the police a trained man: versed in all departments of the complicated sysiem, fertile of | resource through long experience {and prompt to cope with any emergency that could arise. Such {an idea would never occur to the true Briton, There must needs be a chief of aristocratic connec ions, witha tit ular prefix to his name, a martinet | from the army wish strong theories {to make his most intelligent sub tance between themselves and his nobility. The genuine Frglish man would say that such a position must be filled by a gentleman : that about pipe clay and a determination ordinates appreciate the awful dis- | the “protected industries,” but refutes | ! the i of Me. Blaine that the 1ar- | bad been r: jected by previous admin- iff benefits the workers in the uopro- | miratong. - 0 | - aitic Bb Nolob a . "1a man who was once as they ars, | tected indus ries. One of the falacies | THE EXOLUSION BILL PASSES sdmands ol Mog great damage in | yng 4 is just possible that this is ot those who advocate a high tariff is | |«dmunds and McPherson counties. | $e : | The fire ba ; [the truth that certain industries could n't ex- | The Vote on the Measure 37 Yeas | 1 be re bas burned a sirip tweoly-| 1, paraphrase a quotation,.} ist if the people were not overtaxed | to 3 Nays. | five miles long and three miles wide. # | Aneaseey, Dak , Sept. 8.— Reports | Ar | : . { the rank and file would respect om points west of here state that | ¢ woultl pot Jospeh gran reporter, ~~ "Some of them die of sunstroke, but heart-di ! : : | though you should bray an English: for the protection of capital. | BIH) ay iglishif instance, they say that if capital in- vested in iron, steel, woolen and cot- ton manufactures could not exist. History disproves the assertion, All of those manufactures were established under the low tariff of 1846 and sue. cessfully conducted alter its passage | until the breakiog out of the civil war. The late President Gar field declared in a speech in congress that agriculture and manu factures had increased their products 50 per cent. during the decade be- period. been since. In fact it plain enough that such prosperty as we now have has been reached by the energy, en- terprise and thrift of American peo- ple, not because but in spite of the high tariff taxation. It would un- doubtedly be far greater and much | more general if the onerous burden of unopecessary tariff taxation had been r moved years ago, Take the leather and shoe industry for example. The tariff on leather and on boots and on shoes is not pro- tective. It is a twenty per cent. ta.iff. Since theduty on hides has been taken off the tanners have pros- vered as they never prospered before. The shoe industry, also, has increased very greatly in productivity and thousands of men are employed in shoe factories to-day against the hun- dreds that formerly labored in those industries, American leather and American shoes are now sold largely in foreign markets, the value of our exports of leather and its manufactures last year haviog been $10,400,000. Before the duty was taken off hides American leather and American shoes | were hardly to be seen in any foreign market, Carpenters, bricklayers, masons, blacksmiths, tailors, butchers, bakers and other tradesmen who help to pay the tariff tax laid for the beae- fit of the capitalist are benefitted as greatly by the unprotected leather and shoe industries as by the few in- dustries conducted by the protected capitalists, Mr. Blaine's statement is, therefore, incorrect as 8 matter of fact. —— A —— A Life-Sustaining Drink for Horses. “What is that white staff in the water I’ said one of the passenger on | which embraces the change from an- | one of the Brooklyn street cars, as the Lorses were stopped to drink out | Were Edmund Burk and Daniel 0. | threequartens of an hour late, the gath. of the pails of water. “That's oatmeal which we mix with the water,” said the conductor, to whom the question was addressed, “Oatmeal! What has come over the officers of the corporation? Have they joined the Bociety for the Pre veation of cruelty Ww Animals.” “It's not that,” said the couductor. “It's economy.” “Economy,” exclaimed a passen- r. ‘Why, yer. Don’t you know that nothing sustaing life better than cat meal sod water. Soldiers can make longer marches than when drinking water or beer alone. The cot pany save m i the ani ostmenl POL di polis “Is it sunstroke that kills so horses,” said the New York nd For i bh | received.” tween 1850 and 1860 under a low | tariff and that the country never was |... ined these words: quite as prosperous than daring that | The building trade for in- | stance, was quite as prosperous before | the high tarifl was evacted as it has | Wasnixnaros, Sept. 7.—In the Sen- | ate to-day the Chinese exclusion bill | | was taken up and pending its dis | cussion a message from the President | was laid before the Benate enclosing | {copies of two telegrams from Mr. { Denby, United States minister to | Pekin, the first dajed September 5, in these words: “Believe treaty has been rejected. | Have demanded from the foreign office positive information some day's since. No information has : | The second, dated September 6, “The treaty postponed for a further consideration,” After the reading of the message the discussion of the bill proceeded, Senator Mitchell insisting upon the propriety of passing the bill, even ifit | were an administration measure. Senator Gorman moved that the bill and the President's message be re ferred to the committee on foreign re- lations. The vole resulted: yeas 17, nays 19; no quorum. A second vote resulted in the defeat of Senator Gor man’s motion and the was then passed: yeas 37, vays 3. The nega tive votes were Messrs, drown, Hoa and Wilson, Henator Sherman did | pot vote. Senator Blair then to reconsider the vote by whic bill was passed, A lengthy then ensued at the cl Senator Teller moved to lay | table. Seaatsr Bla’ ion consider the pays 11; no quorum. Senats asked leave to withdraw his but Senator Sherman o' jocied eral more votes were taken but time there was lack of =» gquoram 8 finally the scnate adjourned Monday, leaving the bill passed, bu a motion to reconsider its passage pending. ] : ] 3 3 ! ! 3 : : bi i i HOVE : : 4 11 Vole rests ~ vA : Hut WHAT WAS DONE IN THR HOUSE Friday the entire afternoon ses gion of the house was taken up in dis | cussing the retaliation bill. It was | finally agreed that a vote should be | taken at 4 o'clock Saturday. At the | evening session a number of private | pension bills were passed. C— a — Two Great Irtshanen, The two greatest Irishmen who ap- | peared in public life in the eventful period from 1775 to 1845, a period | ! | cient to modern industrial condi fons, Connell. Not only the two greatest ! Irishmen, but they the two most ac- complished orators in Great Britain daring that time. Burke's keen io- tellect saw through the error of coms mercial restrictions even before Adam Smith, and Smith said of him that he understood the true principles of com- merce better than any living man. O'Counel said that protection was robbery, and ia bis magnificent denun- ciation seked the tories, “If protec tion is such a good thing for the peo le, why are Irish laborers starveing?” Fhrough the corn law repeal agita he was one of the strongest supporters of Richard Cobden. a i a ts — A Bloody Riot. Pa, ! 7 About {Cal.; New London navy yard, New { navy yard, Washington, D. C. Laencral V. D. Geoner, who was to that place by the bolting, | A large nomber of farmers lost their entire crops and their farm buildings, while others were able to protect their grain by ploughing furrows and fight- | ing the fire. The fire is not yet vader control, but the worst is over. I A— The Nation's Navy Yards ] The names and locations of the navy yards in the United States are 1s follows: Charlestown navy yard, Jrooklyn navy yard N. Y.; Gosport pavy yard, Norfolk, Va; Kittery navy | | yard, Kittery, Me.; League Island | hich § , f 5 3 iwhich is assy ring erty | navy yard, Philadelphia, Pa; Mare HCH IS not assanng to property Island mavy yard, San Francisco, | Pensacola navy Washington London, Conn: vard, Pensacold, Fla: i y 2 A Kick Against Mahone, The Republicans of the Second | district, to-day nominated George HH. Bowyden for Congress. The main jo- | terest was intheappoiotment of a Pres tdential elector Bom this district, the { contest being between George A. Mar tin, who was elected by the Mahone faction of the Republican State con vention held Petersburg last May and spe Mnt« f r wi Adler an “ wing Of the party. contest the “nN adisurnment of the cone slay E3roner’s s Ipporters nveation and the cox elegation who had { admission by the regu ar ’ number, held a sud indorsed General Groner and nominated Sandy Wil red Sherrill of Elizabeth minty, for Congress in opposition & “0 Mr Bowden, rf iH In ol F 4 fig » fife Rt THI REMAN PASSES THROUGH. The Local Democrats Mase a Chanee. te Look at Him. I money ate for the vice presidency Thurman tic can. Ale did with his party, passed this eit nt together last even. ing on fast line in special car No. 302, of the Lake Erie and Western railroad; en route for his Ohlo home. He was ac. | companied by the gentlemen who started with him last week with New York city | and Newark, N. J..a8 the points. When the patty passed thesugh i Altoona eastward it did so on Atlantic express, Quite a crowd awaited the arrival of the train, and as it was about ering did not decrease in numbers, The train was beliind thine for the reason that the special cor was equipped witha Miller coupler amd some trouble wis had in keeping it connected with that of the Pullman ahead which was of a different pattern, When it did arrive it was quickly boarded Ly persons anxious te see the venerable gentleman and the ear in which he and his party were seated was quickly filled with people. These were tintrodueed to Mr, Thurman by 11. T. Grevy, esq. who was a passenger on the train, and handshaking was tn order, The crowd outside not ¢ able to seo into the car as well Ai Sentunl, 1 hm madned Tor County Chadrman Dunphy a Si, Geo, F. Fresh. of the Altoona , to Judge Th he platform of the car. One | Sir Charles Warren {gain the respect and obedience of | his men { miliarity in any way subversive of {caught {ant Commissioner Monroe, a very jable officer, has felt obliged 10 re | sign, Mahone elactor | objeetive | his snobbery frome Still, if | possessed the necessary tact and sense he could (snob im a mortar i would not depart ’ | oe | without encouragiag f: t cou lag i- | has yunishments | rictions that discipline: Instead of this. he goaded them by petty and unnecessary they have ai This state of things not, might be surmised, add to their | efficiency, and their duties are per- formed in a perfunctory manner | Ic bat revo! as owners. Several daring burglaries ave occurred recently and the perpetrators have not vet been Some of the best detec. tives have left the force and! Assist- much: to the regret of | acquatnted with the work- | ing of police systems No | one expects that anarchy will | ensue or that the efficiency of the | for itl not be i the taxi are Laviog their by a suffer ENJOY those the Ww restored, but ayers proud of i dominced i ’ : civil protectors lordship they must expeet some trifling annoyance for ing such a loxury -— Fighting » Tras, Chartesroxy 8 C.—The far mers of the Stale are mak. | ing 8 bard fight against the bagging | |trust. No eotton is received st any | of the ports unless packed in jute bag ging, and those who have to sell their | | eotton to the factory and shippers at {the seaport are, therefore, absolutely {at the mercy of the trust. Fortun Istely, howevar, quite a number of | {cotton mills have been established in [this State law which exempts pew { manufacturers from taxation for ten years. Tie grangers of Oconee [county met a day or two ago and sent a commitles-to interview the Presi. dent of a cotton mill in that vicinity. |The outcome of the interview was that the mills agreed to buy the oot ton with any kiad of covering except | boards, | The mulls in that part of the State { use perhaps 20,000 bales of cotton a | year, and «bo uld they all come into the arrangement the situation will be considerably improved, at least from | the graogers point of view. There | are 28 cotton mills in the State, which | ase perhaps 100,000 bales of cotton | per annum, so — ———- Denth of a Prominess Marmen, SALT LAKE Cry, Sept. 1. <Geaneral Horace 8, Eldridge, supesintendent of Zion sCooperative Merenntile institu. tion, which does a business of 85.000 000 annually, died yesterday aged 72 years. He was appointed brigadiergoneral of militia in 1860 by Brigham Young; was amember of the territorial legislature in 1586 and has held many other county and territorial offices. He joined the Mormon church fifty 4Wo years ago, and bas ever since been a staunch adherent of the faith, He amassed considernble wealth during his Jong business career and owned much real estate snd live stock throughout the territory. He lad five wives, three of whom, together with a large posterity, motets their loss, - Exottemont at Zuaritan Loxnox, Sept. 7.--A dispatch from director of ——— xT 12a he Larges t, Cheapest and Best per in the County. (0 we (prem (3) 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. EO ia * | No man can afford to be with- out a county paper DOLI.OR The Democ ed in reach of all.
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