&he Centre Bemoreat, Farmer Blossom Convinced The f llow. g inerview in the Cin cinnat' knquires with Farmer Bl » sn shows how protection doesn’ pro- toot: Farme ' Blossom hed shown me over Mis half s-cuon of well tilhd Jaod, We had partaken of a good country dinner and were in a sitting room en- ogiog our cigars, when he said with a sigh: Free trade is going to ruin us poor farmers, What free trade? Why. the Milis bill, Have you read i? No. «Then how do you make oat that in rs trade? Why, the papers say so, What pauper ? ths R publican papers and the Re p "io stacesmen, to, En? [ 8: thai you have some very watunhl - hooks here in your library Fen ing 01+ this subject—census re I* os Preastiry reports, reports on com- mere, nthe tariff alse Now, sup- Pp + we out them toa little practical we When did we ever have fre te a vou oll it in this country? Oh, ir. quently. Bat who? Well, 1 can't say, but I've heard 4. Bat hearing is not always belivy- ing, vspecially when a demagogue i- wvirg to fool you out of your v te Then vou ean’ tell when we hd iro tewde in \his country? No TUE VERDICT OF HISTORY, Never. Th- pearest we ever cume to is was wn 1789, when all interstate turiffs were abolished and all ou foreign goods were reduced 1 a memioal fiyore. What do you sop pose was the result? Why, the country suffered— was mined, On the contrary, it took its first stvp '‘orward, and io twenty years hadi sbat doubled in population sani quadrap'-d in wealth, When did we Bave suc» tariff laws a8 are conlem plated by the Chicago platform? - J not know, In 1808. pose was the result! Wiiv, the country prospered more rapidly than ever, Let us torn over a fow pages in the ho k «nd see. In 1808 tariff duties were made probioitory and commerce it with the world shut off, just as the Chi- | eago platfirm contemplates. There was a floancial and commercial col Fapee, there was ruin and everywhere. In 1809 the prohibiory wariff wa: repealed and a tar’ ff about one-fifcsh as bigh as we have at pres ent was snacted, What followed? You may tell me. The notion again moved ff cn a career of prosperity. In 1512 the tariff of 1809 was doabled, and the war cot off imp rtaticns and exp rts. gions We had a home market as iu 1808. What was the result? I never read that part of bistry 3 : ’ : Hard times prevailed, bai ks sos pended end there was distress cvery where. In 1816 the protection doec- tors took a hand snd undertook to eure the patient by framing the first proteceive tarifi, raising the taxes somewhat higher than in 1812. What de you suppose followed? . Better times. Times grew worse; there was still greater depreswon of trade. In 1818 the doctors gave the patient another dase of protection, increased the tariff tax all around, and then wha ? I am sure I do not know. The year of 1819 was one of uni- versal disaster. The country moved slowly snd laboriously. In 1824 more tariff was put on, and there was no improvement. higher tariff tax was put on and times grew a little harder. In 1832 the country changed doctors and a nart of the tariff tax was wiped out. What followed ? Wo on and tell me. TRADE REVIVAL Or 1833, Business immediately revived, In 1832 the tax was lowered again and prosperity increased. By the year 1837 the United States treasury was overflowing, and the sarplas was di- wided amund among the states. An area of wild speculation followed the distribution, the land bubble was Blown op so large that it burst, and = panic ensued, the effects of which lasted for nearly two yesrs Then Caings started to move off sm thly until 1542, when the protection doc Ewrs again get bold of the country, sud (ho famous tariff of that year was enacted. Can you tell me what : was sIways io favor of the (aril w€ "82. Tu built up the country, Mistry d wn't say #0, On the cunt yy, in 1843 the depression was tariffs | And what do you sup- | d'saster In 1828 a will | with giaut strides. Commerce in- oremed st a marvelous rate. Manu- factures were imbued with a new life. Agriculture was prosperous to a de- gree hitherto avkuown, and the poli- ev of lowering the tariff’ tax to pre- vent tke accumulation of a sarplus was pursued. In 1857 a panic super- indeed by land speculations, ensued, but before 1858 its effects had passed away, and up to 1860 agriculture, manufactures and commerce were on the high tide of prosperity, and we successfully rivalled Englad io maritime greatness. In 1861, to meet the exigencies of the war, tarifl taxes were raised substantially to the pro- tective basis of 1842. Ju 1864 these taxes were raised fifty per cent. and in 1867 they were raised again, al. [ though the war was over. In 1883, funler the pretence of a reduction, [they were again increased to their present standard. Since the war the millionaire has grown, while the great agricu'tural interest has stood still. Strikes of workingmen against | oppression have convolsed the land. In 1873 a financial cyclone swept the country and impoverished countless | numbers of people. Tramps filled the | land from ocean to ocean, and laws | against tramps were enacted, The | panic of 1873 lasted until 1879, and { the suffering among our people was {equal to overcrowded Europe, Un. {employed workingmen was the rule { for seven years, un: the protected few | demandes more (ax as the remedy, while they imported foreign psupers in foreign ship- to take the place of | American work ngmen who refused to accept starvation wages in a land [that should be a land of plenty, if {tax burdens were justly distributed How do you like the picture of the tariff of "42 multiplied by at least two? | DOESN'T KNOW WHAT HE WANTS, I had no idea that all that was in that book. Read it carefully. Oaly the out. line has been given, You satd that vou always believed in the tariff of 18427 Yes. It is all the protection anybody | needs in this country, Yes, What was the average i under the law of 1842? I cannot tell yon, | Hand me that volume on the for 'eign commerce of the United States, {by Mr. Nimmo. Let us look down this column oo page 29, and we find it to be thirty-five per cent. and a | fraction, Yes, that's the figure, tariff’ tax | have come in contact { and Yes. Aud bave $5,000 yourself ? Yes Then you have made $25,000 in twenty-five years out of your $30 000 tarm ? That appears to besbout the size of it, HASN'T GOT RICH. You haven't grown rich farming for a quar er of a century under a high and burdens swe tariff tax ? Cer aivly net. And yet you began forty-five years ago with as much or more capital than auy of the millionaires who have be- come rich under the opera ion of this vicious tax system, misoamed ‘protec- tion’ which takes from the many to give to the few Do you know how many—-r rather how few-——men own or control half the wealth of this country ; who came into ownership or contiol of it under this same vicious tax system ? I have no idea. | sow a curious compilaiim the other day, and here it is: Our total wealth of all kinds is estimated at £45,000,000,000. There are five American citizens with private for tunes averaging £50 000,000 each, 50 with £10,000.000, 100 with £5 000,000, 200 with £3 000,000, 500 with £1,000. 000 and 1,000 with $500,000. Io other words, 1,855 persons own $3. 000,000,000, or more than twice as much ss all the actual money in the country. A less number of men, not to exceed 1,000-—railway magnates, princely bankers snd heads of vast protected corporasions—have absolute control, equivalent almost to actual ownership of £25. 000000 000 more. Les than 8 000 men controlling $28. 000,000,000 of the $45,000,000 000 of wealth in the country. May I ask you a question ? Proceed, Mr. Bicssom. | the public for twenty two years | wot until Mr. Conkling had been dead | i : Mr. Conkling snd Mr, Blaine, Avcusta, Me. Sept. 25, — Under the heading “Mr. Couking ana Mr, Blaine,” the Kennebeck Journal will to-morrow publi-h the following in- terview with Mr. Blaloe: A representitive of thispaper called on Mr, Blaine at bis revidence yester day to ak if he desired to say auy- thing in answer to the recently pubs. lished letter attributed to the late Senator Conkling, Mr. Blaine's re ply was as {illows: Nothing could in duce we to enter int a controversy over Mr, Conkling’s grave, our joint service in Congres—some sixteen years in »ll-—we had some ex asperating coutroversier, but I never spoke or wrote a word concerning bin except politically, and now that he is dead my lips are sealed r ga'nst every form of crivcism or unkind Express sion, no matier what may be the im- prudence or injustice of any of his surviviog friends. Oar reporter ask d Mr. Blaive if he had noticed that doubt bad heen expressed in several papers as tv Mr Conkling being the author of the pub lished letter. Mr. Blaine replied that, of course he knew nothing about that point, but it was a great sarprise to him that such a letter should have been written by Mr. Conkling. The dnte shows that the letter was writien Just six dsys ufter the close of an ex asperating personal debate with Mr. Chokling, and if Mr. Conkling had intended to say anything of the kind he would have been apt to say it theo, | and not immediately afterward in a private letter, which was not given 10 and several mouths, The whole affair was not in accordance with Mr, Cookling's habitual courage in debate. When asked if be knew anything of Crandall | or Haddock, Mr. Blaige replied that Are any of these millionaires farm. | he had never seen either of them, and ers? - Ne'ra one. Some of them are ranchers, but they only hold their | debate with Mr, Conkling in | 1866. ranches as tributary provinces, Just so. The farmer doesn’ t+ v | exeept on the occasion of his personal | seem | his mind with the fact, so as bad never beard the name of either April, 10 to have got under the right wing of | member accurate ¥, his serong impres- the protection bird. its beak with 1 claws, ——A—— Why Mr. Tharber is for Cleveland Francis B. Thurber, a been dismissed from 1 3 i He seems to | sion was that they were both officers in New York under the Earollment act during the he service wr misconduct in office, wholesale grocer of New York, who | #ay about the charge that be had made supported Blaine four years eg I canvot sce thet the Mills bil wish | the war, , says: | money out of the recruiting funds in He replied that be might ouly reduces the aversge from 48 per with equal truth be charged that he cent, to 42 per cent, can be considered a free trade measure. You are willing to stand by that sort of a tariff’? i Ofecouorse, You don’t regard it as free trade? | No,sir, | You wouldn't want to see it any higher that's tax enough, isn't it? That's the tarifl of "42, and it is | high enough for me—it's highenough for anybody. You say that the Mills bill is free | trade? Yes, most emphatically. Why ? { Pecanse that is what it is called, Do you know what the average amount of tatifl tax it provides for ? No. Only forty-two per cent from what | 'it i= pow. i | What! Yes, sir; forty-two per cent. or | | seven per cent, more than the tariff of "42, which is so satisfactory to you. Well, I declare! Haven't you been humbugged into the belief that the Mills bill means | free trade ? | It looks that way. | What do you think about it now, | with these facts from your own library | presented to you in an off-band way? | I have about come to the conclu- {sion that the Mills bill is a pretty good thing, and would hava been better if it had cut still deeper, Why, it's an outrage for party papers and | leaders to lie so outrageously about a | matter which is so plain when ope looks at it in a sensible way, NOT A MILLIONAIRE. Mr. Blossom, this is a nice farm of yours © what are your 3520 acres worth st a veoture ? I guess | would find no trouble in jelling it for $30,000-~1t cost me over half that without the present improve- ments, How loug bas it been worth $30. 000 ? Twenty-five years at least, Have yon owned it long ? Yes, for thirty vears. How much bas it yielded you dur. ing the last twenty-five years ? I couldn't tell you, How much money have you in bank and at interest now ? Perhaps £5,000 all told, Do you owe any Hig ? i my growiog crops and the stock 1 shal] sell would pay my taxes ud qare up all my accounts, J nk. { duction ; am not 8 free trader. | believe that fairly | bad made money by robbing the wails I or by piracy on the high seas, The reporter asked if the whole | industries which have grown up onder | business of the recruiting scandal had bigh tariff conditions should not be ex- | bot been fully investigated in Maive. | posed to such sudden or 100 great re pledgd | more thoroughly or more persistently | themselves in 1884 to reform thetariff investigated than the recruiting scan and the dals which grew up in this State the | but both patties and reduce the surplus, have done nothing but obstruct. | did not support Mr. Cleveland before i G good President, and entitied to have four years more in which to de. is Never, sald Mr. Blaine, was a subject | Demociats have been trying in good last year of the war in conncciion | faith to do #0, while the Republicans | with the filling of town quotas by what were kno nas paper credits It was investigated by special com did oot like some of his sects while | mittees of two Legislatures aod final overnor of this State; but I think, | ly std most searct ingly by a public ] . : . : | on the whole, he bas made a safe and commission composed of three promi were | pent gentlemen, two of whom ineot lawyers, and the : € 1 5 | velop and try the tariff p icy he bas tinguished officer of the late war, One | marked out, There were Republicans | of the lawyers was a Democrat of the who predicted the country would be | most pronounced type There is not ruined before he was elected, bat jt [8 word of evidence or even a sugges has not been rvined can party is making a mistake in try ing through misstatements and pre Democratic ticket, Sl — — Killed by 8 Woman, Bax Axtoxto, Tex. Sept. 24. The notorious “Lone Highwayman,” who has been a terror to travelers for years, has been killed by Mrs. Lizzie Hay, at her home on the head prong of Rio Sabinal, Bandero Sous. Mrs. Ha told the story of the killing as fol- lows Last Monday morning I was sit. ting in my room, when suddenly a masked man appeard 0a the front gal lery. I told him to leave or I'd fin him. He laughed and ssid: “You're a plucky woman, bat I'll have what I want out of this house or burn it down over your head.” By this time I had a needle-gun and he had entered. | drew it down on him within Sghtesn inches of his heart, but it pped, and he said: “I'll kill you!” at the same time uciog a long keen bladed knife, and aimed at my throat. I warded off the blow, bat the next time be struck the end of the koife stuck in my forehead, making an ug | gash At thesame | reversed the onda of the gun and struex him over (he head, felling him to the floor, and be fore he could rise | had reversed the gan and pulled the me it fired, the bullet taks in hie right side. He ga ‘tolled out on The Republi. | tion or hint in any eneof the three re. | ports that he had any more connec tion with the mater than had Mr. Judice to win a political advaatage. | Conkling or his uowie friend who This makes me feel that the weight of | publishes this letter and attributes it evidence is in favor of supporting the | Ww the dead statesman, CL —— A] —— THE QUESTION OF THE HOUR Lesy a Tarif Tax Epoh Poles, Huns and Talinns, To Ove Ferrow-WorkMen: The following paper was read, preamble printed and distributed throughout the United States at a recent meeting of Machinery Constructors’ Assembly No. 12, Knights of Labor, hoping thereby to gain your hearty co~opera- Won in the movement : Master WorkMAN Axp Brora ERs: It seems to me that labor socie- ties are treating lightly a quesion that is of the greatest importance to them. They boldly claim that the two great Jotitionl parties, so-called, are but the creatures of railroads, monopolies and trusts, and have no real, genuine regard for the laboring mao, and yet they Bhtiendly wait, without agitation or discussion, for them to consider what to-day should be the greatest of great questions to us who bave to labor for existence—I mean the “emigrant question.” It is time for some one to move in the elton ud why hat, we? Let us n the agitation, and perhaps, it may be taken up by others and movement become demand i It should Daring | Though he had not charged | re- | war, and that both bad | hird adis | and resolutions adopted and ordered | mans, Irish, Scotch, and English keep cotir tendes full 10 overflowing, while (the Poles, Huns, Ttalinos, ete. bave wo degraded voskilled labor that few ‘ure willing to shure it with them, be. jog unable to sabsist on the wages, (nol heving learned tv exist aud be happy vn a plece of black bread and ah ouion, | Tuis, indeed, the burping question of tle day, and our legisla ors st Washingt n should so consider it, If, instead of spending fifty-one days in [trying to give us & cheap suit of ime to this question, it woull have been better for us, But let no more {ime be wasted, | mighty shout that it will b+ hesed in | Washington, aud the las-makers be forced 10 legislate dire tly for ue, PREAMBLE Wiaekeas, [tis becoming «vidon | that, no matter how prosperous we are us a pation, or how much business our manufaciurers have, the lavoring CannoL receive the patursl benefiis {arising from such a condition, owing to the undue competition of lubr; and, { Wuereas, The army of unemploy. td is growing larger aod lar, er aod [the competition keener, labor is fast {losing its independence, and men are {surely becoming serfs 10 capital : and, | Whereas, Uuoskilled lsbor is be {coming degraded by reason of the in {flux of Poles, Huus and Ital ans into {our country ; and, | Waergas, This state of affuirs will | continue 80 or grow worse as long as | we permit unlimited and free imwi | gration ; therefore be it | ResorLvep, That a copy of this | preamble and resolution be forwarded [to the National Bosrd, with a re ues {to draft a bill makiog it solawiul for Ligiants to land im this country | without paying a per capita tax, said [tax 10 be bigh enough to practically | prohibit the Poles, Huns and Ihe sa'd bill Ww be presented | gress, itabhans, t v — li Typewriter Girls Not «Past. A well-known lawyer adver ypewriter. That same | forty girls called at his none of them wanted the pos | they left the place lat in high dudgeon, | The man came up here and said he ! could not understand the girls at all. | Mr. Blaive was theo asked by oar |. leading | represcatative if he had anything to | f i Some of them called me insulung” said the councelor, “Others declared {1 was no gentleman, A few said they {| would report me to the police, whil {others threatened to send | brothers or geotlemen friends areun ito settle with me. I declare 1 did nothing wrong, and | am mystified.” ‘Just repest your conversation.” I [a d to the lawyer, He did, and | { found that he asked every girl who {called if she was “fast,” The poor fellow meat “rapid” But he cut | the die, and the girls took him at his | 3 | word. He secured a good writer after LH called attention to his mistake. | Typewriters are a moral set, and they rank higher than most of the profes It requires a gis { common education to become an ex. | pert : —-—— A PRIN CER ON TARIFFRE FORM: At Twentysecond and Diamond last night the Progressive i fions, rl i 8lreetls | Democratic Club bad a grand open | lug of their Wigwam and a parade by the members. Thomas I. Roach presided at the megting and speeches were made by Emanuel Furth, G. W Ward, George Coance, of the Record, oue of the best talkers in the Typo graphical Union, and Thomas Jacobs, of Jersey City. Mr. Chaore spcke of the frauds that had been perpetrated by the Republican party towards la. bor organizatiovs under the cloak of protection and cited some cases, ju- cludiog the Bethlehem Iron Works, who after persuadiog their employes to leave the socicties be said they promised them bul a nominal redus- tion of their wages avd reduced them 43 per cent. Continuing, Mr, Chance said. “When the Kensington weavers some years ago were starving, the mang: factorers shut down their looms rather than submit to the demands of the men, but afterwards engaged New England weavers upon the same terms ny asked by their former em- ployes. George Towns referred to a sight that be saw in Staffordshire, of women making chains, but one has not to go er than Pennsylvania to see delicate girls making nails and barbed-wire for avaricious Batefitaren who will not pay men for men's work. Sugar trusts closed refioeries and raised so- gar two cents per pound to enrich themselves. Trusts always cause ar clothes, they had given one-half the | Let us raise such a! Cone | their | of more than | - An ATidavit Appenrs, Knighis of Labor Lodge 100 a few weeks ngn through its Seerctare, Ei- wia ¥. Gwld, made application for (1h 81.000 reward offor.d by the In- | Hianmpntic Journal for proof that Gon. {eral Harrison ever said, as was tieely [Churged, that $1 au day was wes (enough fr a workingman, S sue {ments were lurnisbe! with the de | mand, but the Journal ivs sed upoo [nfl tavits ty (hecffe st The f Howing Meow # trust sorihy member of organ {1zed labor remdiog at Brightwood, Lud. was (furnished the Jourial to | might; Stare of ludiavs, Marion county. John G. Bwariz, being duly sworn, testifies ander onth that he was ems | ployed by the Cleveland, Columbus, (Cincivnatt sod Todinoapolis Rail- {way in July, 1577: that be wept on (strike on the day (hat the strike took | place, on or about Jaly 18, 1877, for [an jucrease in wages: tha he was pres {ent at the con'erence meting in the { 01d Council chamber held durisg the | period thet said strike lasted. with Ben Harrison, A. G. Porterand ot her [ Promwivent eivzans, wi bh reference to the sirike; that be bh ard Benjamin | Harrison say thet the siurikers were | law breskirs, aod assuch were n 8 entitled w auy symyathy whatever from the public; that the said Benja- {min Harrison [now a Presidents] can. {didate | further ssid thet “the men [Ought (0 turn to their work; that the railroads could vot afford 10 pay Higher wage 8; that WHpes was [wovagh, aod that $1 per day was enough for any workingmen: that he | himself could live on that amount; and that Benjamin Horrison further said taatif the men did not return to work the milina should be broaght into service and the men forced to re turn to work, the i Jonas G. Bwanrz Subscribed and sworn to before mac, this 25th day of Beptember, 188%, Josepa T. Faxxixg, Notary Pablie, Steam Heat for Cars, The Peonsylvania Railrosp compa- ny has bees coodueii some very interesting experiments a: its Altoooa shops lo deter.ine the efficiency of steam a8 a mediam for heating cars Several trains were fitted up with the apparatus of diff rent systems, but so far no system has met all the require- | ments a8 a perfect car heater. When | the sg tation sgaiost the use of stoves |in cars was raised a year ago the company fitted up a train of five cars {and made a thorough trial of the principal of steam beating. The re- salt was that while the temperature in {a train composed of two or three cars could be raised to the desired degree | nz ~- in a short space of time, it was with |d ficalty maintained. Ina train of {five cars it was impossible to raise | the temperature to a moderate beat | by using 380 pounds of steam per { hour, the last car being uncomforta bly cold. It is desired to find a meth d thet will successfully warm aoy nnmber of cars in a reasonable time | and sistain the temperature, Jt is to | this end that the Peonsylvenia com- | pany is experimenting. If the result | should be favorable the new arrapge- | me introauced on all | the lines for at least one year, zs all the cars and engines would have 10 be fitted up anew ut could not be — a] —— THE MUSICALSNAKE., I the year 1864 a Confederate sol- dier from one of the Louisiana regi- ments came home with one of the young men and spent bis furlough at Vioeland. The soldier had a rettlesnake about two feet long which he carried in an inside pocket of his shirt. The soldier would whistle to the snake “Dixie,” “Bounie Bloe Flag,” and other popular war tunes, which always had a noticeable effect on the little spake. [He used the root of some kind of herb as a charm and acircle made on the floor or ground with the root the saake would not dare attempt to cross. One day while out in the field after fodder for his horse the soldier the «make in his hat and pot it upon the fence, first ruooning his root around the brim of the hat so that the soake could not crawl out, but there pull of wind and blew the fence, and the influence of being removed, the snake widow, fom ho thing t ¢ that he was beautifully tattooed with different colored inks. The name of the snake was Dick, the initials of the had! [1 kik a ota Fond ¥ En ¥ J Fy . wi, 4
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