Ea 5 i wii EE Aa ve £he Centre Democrat, Carl Schurs, The lett 'r of Mr, Carl Schurz, an- nou ging bis position in the political contest now going on in this country, MORE CONVERTS. A Large Number of Floppers in Different Sections of the Country. Frederick C. Cannon is the Pre dent of the F.C. Cannon munutaciur- ing company of New Haven, Coun. The company makes elevator and earviage lamps. The compuny is one of the largest manufacturers of car. riage lamps in the country, Mr. «Caonon is vow and has been for a wember of the Young Men's Frablons Club, He is, to use his own words, “a dyed-in-the-wool Re publican,” but has not been an active ene- This year he will vote for Cleve- land. Mr. Canoon.says: “I think Cleveland has been actuated by boo- est : | think he has made » few mistakes. but I shall vote tor him. The Republican party bas back on its past record. Some of its leaders in the past said that the sanfl needed revision; now, for the eake of political buncombe, they say otherwise. They say in their plat- form that the tax should be taken off whieky and t+hacco, and refuse to re- duce ihe tariff on necessaries.” About the manufacture of carriage lamps Mr. Cannop said: “I find thst upon n-a:ly vverything J use there is stax. On tin there is a duty of = centand haifa pound. On copper it in the same. All the copper we use ia th: finer grades of our work we ure obliged to get abroad. Most of the glass we import, They don't make the quality of glass here we want. The duty on glass is even higher. Admit these articles free of duty aud I can compete with England which bas been but which is not so much mow underselling us as in Capada I can sell cheapes here and elsewhere I find that cheaper goods always cre- ate greater demands, We now have busy and dull seasons. Give us the raw material free of duty and we will have work continually. Each man will have more work and each man more pay. Less than two years ago I found that I had to give up compe- tition with England for the Canadian trode. England getting her material free as she did could undersell me, 8s I was compelled to pay forty five per cent, ‘loiy, “I believe in a tariff for revenne ovly. but I don't care to get this | right away. Let the tariff be re duced gradually year by year and =e can all adapt oprselves to the changes | easily. Though the Mills bill doesn't | exactly suit me, it is a step in the right direction. I want an equaliza tion of the tariff if that isa posability. My men understand this aimost as well as I do, and they are tariff re formers too.” Walter Rutherford, of Frauk'in N. Y., a law student; joined the Hariscn club, was made a member of the ecutive committee and was invited address the clab. While prep his speech be changed his ni d is now out for Cleveland. Dispatches to the Indianapols Se tinel announce t following sions to Cleveland and tar ff r Thomas Fisher and John Mah: mers, near Paoli, Ind, F. M. § ker and hi iw, of Way Ind., and Jacob Walker, of Grecncas tle, Ind Hon, Richard M. Morris, ex superinnendent of Shelby count who has been voting ting the Rp liean ticket for many years, has de clared in favor of Cleveland and tarifl reform. Calvin Butler, the head mil- ler in Herring’s mill, at Sheibysill an old-time Republican, wili vote for Cleveland. At Cleveland, Ohio. J. P. Dawley, a well known Republican «i 0 ney, addressed a Democratic meeting | behalf of reform, and while d.elaring that he bad not changed his said that he refused to step ba kwar with his party, declaring his nese to ride to the front in a driven hy Grove Ceveland. ex $ i \iry he canver- ra COUNLY ) \ #i:0Q | i » wi line rio Dr. E ward Bockman, a prominent Norwegian nhyician of 8t, Pav’, and one of ihe best posted Seandinsvian sfudent« of politieal economy in Min. nesota. has announced his intestion of supporting Cleveland and Thurman, He says: I an in hearty svopathy with the Democratic demand fo lower taxes sud the pledges made by that pariy In M nnesota to strive fo then Dr. Boek mn \ publican, and is at present on the of Governor McGill, He is a man of influence and his nanly stand for tl cause of tax reform and honest or ernment will attract widespread a tention, leon Becker, of Glastonbury. Cono. a member of the Democratic Sate Committees and an enterprising cobtost manufacturer visited the ional Democratic headquarters M nday. He says that the el vite of Conneticut eet Tor Cleveland and Tharmen sod that the Democtats are endeavoring, with strong hopes of success, to elect four Congressmen instend of the three whom #0 have wow. In Hartford and New Haven ® the German and Swedish i TL 4 n has long been 16 v § on’ will surely be Sumscring for the Cexmur Dio. | CRAT, at $1.00 per year, ge | eciorn] | in erimi ~ught to be carefully read by his Re- publican friends. Mr, Schurz writes [from a point of advantage, Hei fur {enough away to permit of the weaken: Ling of his political prejudices and to | fimier the erkindling of his patriotism, What he says is of particular moment | to the people of Pennsylvania, whose | interests are in nowise threatened by the moderate measure of tariff reform put forward by the Democrats, He perceives that the oroanizetion of trusts has given a sudden education to the public mind by showing the dangerous possibilities of excessive protective duties, If tariff reform shall be rejected in the temperate and prudent shape proposed in Mr. Cleve- land's message, tending to strengthen rather than endanger the manufactur. ing industries, Mr. Schurz predicts . that “it will come & little later in the | shape of an angry reaction, thresaien- | ing such les and confusion as are in- cident to sudden, violent and sweep- ing changes of system.” No tariff bill intended to make any considerable reduction of the revenue has ever been pro in Congress which touches so lightly upon the in- dustrial interests of Pennsylvania as the Mill's bill. It contemplates build: ing us up by the remission of taxes on raw material more thao it would pull us down by all o her proposed changes. A serious consideration of the situa- tion io the light of our own special interest ought to bring thousands of conservative voters to the support of the Democratic position, Mr. Schurz’s letter should be wide- ly circulated in every pat of the country. | | ——- I —— The Sugar Trust, | The Press insists that the Sugar | Trust is a Democratic instituticn in | the face of the fact that the Trust is | the creature of the Protective Tariff [ts genealogy would read about this way: The Slavery Issue begat the Grand Old Party; the Grand Old | | Party begat War Taxes; War Taxes | | bogat the High Tariff; High Tariff'| begat Monopoly and Monopoly begat the Sagar Trust. The Trusts, every one of them, trace their pat sroity to the same source. There is no Demo- { eratic blood in them, and there is no Democratic solicitude for their con tinuance, The assertion that the Sugar Trust is of Democratic origio is like the ex ploded lie making the Democratic party responsible for the Standard Oil Trust. The basis of the sccusa- t'on lies in the fact that as sugar im- ports yield a heavy revenue to the Government without largely increas- ing the burden of the taxpayer by exasperating incidental taxation for the tencfit of favored individuals, the Democratic party hesitates to reduce tariff taxation at that point, where taxation is least objectionable The fault of the sugartax which red by either the House lariff b the ex won afforded to refiner Trust is built ms duties « or ai} i § i is 10 Rive The irot ii upon the prohi fined IRLETIA ¢ tax on the refin it : n m Oi 3 i Lee r member homas lee &Co., wo in. Mr. Les not long since “aoon’’ meets for the {tion In of pr Bat Mr. Lee failed to impart to them his peculiar views on the sub t of smuggling. Perhaps if he had lightened them in that regard they would have continued to sttend his lectaies, but as he had nothing start lrg to communicate to them they re- fused to materialize afier the first meeting. Mr. Lee imported the other day 20,000 pounds of Canadian woo!, put up in bales, The vigilans inspectdrs of customs suspecting that there was “something rotten in Denmark.” cone ded to examine the bales of wool | on rippidg the.a open they fouud neenled within toem 8 number Thisis a clear ease vg, and Mr. Lee has subject 1 fine of 35,000, imprison Fhomas ¢ iT i 3 nerchantes, Philadelpt en ie : arm e same perso who had his employes hold ing at his pl of FOO" receiving » Ac business 8 0! instru cnowledge of the beauties ) te. ion. 1 4 fr Ol of i blankets, IgE N te : Bisel 10a i ment for two years aud a forfeiture of | consignment valued at | his entire £4000, This Mr. Les is the idententical Thomas Lee who was one of the se. tive promoters of the Republican Nats | “business” weetiog held in P ile | Lh A udu {conutry and Mexico, and It clearly phia the other day, called “to spes out in unmutakable tones in favor of the American spstem of protection.” He is one of the loudest howlers against President Cleveland's tariff reform Her. oie: hen Cp 7 a practl plication of the prinei~ of free a in his own business. | violation 4 f much are the advocates ° the people through the of ap Baneomswriis ERE a0 bo lad for #100 The ld-Time Ripubliean Party. Tv hiv 1ariff speiches Mr, Blaine Arrays the names af Democraticsts toss men who more than a ba f century ago voted fn favor of moderate pro- tertive duties on manufsctuiel im- pores. Bat he tukes care not to men- tion the names of Wiliinm f1 Seward, Charles Sumuver, Henry Wilson and other ieaders of the Republican party who voted in 1857 to reduce the Brit- ish free-trade 1arfl of 1846, Every time Mr. Blaine denounces the tariff of 1846 he deliberately muligis the memories and impoaches the patriot ism and good sense of the founders of the Republican party. The Republican party, whose lead- ers and statesmen aided in reducing the tariff of 1846, was a very different organization from that which goes at present under the same vpame. Lin coln, Seward Chase, Bumoer, Wilson, David Davie, Wilmot and the other great organizers of the Republican party would never have been seen traversing the country to apologize for and defend the tariff-bred trusts and monopolies that are plundering Ibe people in the name of Protection to American Industry. Now that the statesmen who guided the councils of the Republican party io the days of its greatness are gone, the control of the organization hss fa‘len into the bands of Blaine and other creatures of Monopoly, who dare to insult the American people by telling them that the trusts are privat: affairs with which peither President Cleveland por any other individual has any par- ticular right to interjere. There is not recorded in political history a more striking contrast than that between the Republican party of the present and the Republican party of 1846, r— A — The Disstans and protection The Record recently refered to the Messrs. Disston, of this city, as selling their sa«s, ete., in Canada aod Europe {ousaion of tariff theories, but from a be goes to the extreme of committi o of tke tariff] of the i of their works are sold at Tur DENOCHAT SAN inadvance, es eas | F . aid bo much cheaper than the same products home, A Rochester house addressed the Messrs, Disston one the subject, specially re ferring to trowels, to which they ans wer that the charge is false, and We aflirm that we get a be ter price for trowles that we export than those sold at home and this willapply to a great many of our goods, The answer of the Messrs, Disston i8 not frank; indeed, it is evasive as to the morrow of the dispute. The vital question is whether they charge Amer ican consumers from 20 to 25 per cent. more for their products, or any considerable portion thereof, they charge to foreign purchasers ter cost of freight, insurance expenses of shipment. If they are extortionate in the upon American coosumers; if they do not, they have been wrongfully accused. And how do they apswer? Instead of arswering frankly that they 1o not ! against American evade the is a y i they inh fiat mi sUCa Gisrimina make O1 purchasers, the by an answer % at th R Say (hn He mn ere ¥ sue fa Wel £ Bis : prices al home Ru ap iv (ax HORST . : x i 4 v 2 1 30T As ref Bs : t, in regard (0 sO ire Ive As poss els, {ar Esgle Pass dozen, exslusive of freight cls of thesame classand mat laid d n Pi Negras, 8. Another item: Agate ir ware cannot be t for ry snvwhere'in the United States at bet. ter than 8s per cent. discount. N. we can buy the sme articles from the same houses at 60 per cent. dis unt. The list is the same in both cases, These are not the only arti 11 ® bought store cost as about 86 Our shov welt ~ ) R1 pe g Ja! 18 rid down dras : LS ner aozen. bough delive e¢ cles, an additional 20 per eent. discount, ! y ; showing that the manufacturers could sell in hone markels in competition with 1 th 1 roducers. These figures gre only ) partial list known to the hardware trade can be bought from American manusacturers for export choaper than they can for home consampetion. Hoping will answer your purpose, we remain, Very braly yours, A. J. LaxpNER & Bro, The foregoing letter is not from a politician who is luteresied in the dis ¢ outside firms that has American shovels and the Dhisston saws for sale boath inthis establishes the fact that the Messrs, Disston evade rather than deny that important lines of their goodsare sold for the foreign markets 20 per cent cheaper than the same articles are wold to home purchasers. In other words ~the Messrs. Disston ean profiiably. manufactare for the foreign Or | tors, and twenty-lwo cents 1 than 110 reach an agreement In P.| {AID Diseton’s saws can be bought with | Every article | this | quired protectin to build it up, bo ; ih energy and skill trinmphed over the energy snd skill of Earope sud now they seek foreign markets in | open competition with foreign manu | frcturers, and they employ the tariff | taxes on thie products merely to make double the profits feom Ameri- | sun purchasers that they make from foreign costomers. In this case, ns in! many othercases of alleged protection it is simply po tection to foreign pore | chasers nnd an extortionate tax upon Ameriesn purchaseas. Of course, the Messrs. D sston simply do what oll | other business men do—that is 10 get the best prices for their products thar can be obtaived in the markers open | to them: but they should pot claim as legitimate protection to American in- | dustry what is simply a protection to foreign consumers and an extra tax upon home consumers. The plain Foglish of the case is that the foreign | carpenter or other mecanic using the | Disston saws or tools, pays 20 per cent, | or so lees for them. even afier the cost | of shipment, than the American car peater or other mechanic using such | tools, pays for them in the city where | the tools are made Is this legitimate protection to American ineustry? If it is, then the great authors of the pro- tective system strangely misunder- | stood it. — A The Chicago Strike. Cuicaao, Oct. 9.—The two great street car systems of the West and North sides are now tied up. The strike on the West side began this morning 8s soon as the last night car was rue ioto the barns, For a time Inst night it seemed as if this new | complication could be avoided aod the original strike settled amicably, but the peace negotiations, which were conducted in Mayor Poche's private office, failed, because the compspy and the men could not agree on tha subject of wages, President Yerkes opened the cone firence with an offer to correct the present system of hours as far as possible, An agreement was reached on this point, but when the wage Lak up Lhe Laken men in ive Of question was sisted upon twenty { hour for i ] i of West side car men was waiting per 2! noobs three os twenty rij grip er, per hour for U and A flered twenty and twenty. men it ie car men. Mr. Yerkes « cents for horse car men for grip ca strikers refused to make sion, and after much argument the up. A itee N LO one cents r Any Conces- conference broke comn i learn the result, and when the failure ! » and other | do. | IreXaclions | Was rep their chairman said a strike » rdered and hurried away A committee of the sirikers waited mayor early in the evening | special detect | gue {ed by the ni : i exeen : : {started from the Larrabee and case yesterday | ! ] pany 's barns, I were a det the st: two-thirds the iy, ae west division vesidence districts of the ¢ con ng in the aggregate fully 600,000 soule, are practically i ol reschio pt by foot, On the North Side the effort to ac commod ate the residents of the ex treme n at 7 o'clock this morning, cars » ue be ng | limits | barns. As was the they were sent out in a solid line, pro. ceded by a patrol wagon with offi cers and with a detail of ten nding oneach car. Very few of the public, however, availed themselves of the pportanity to get dows town, and on tHe return trip there were bot two | passengers to twelve cars. The non deseript vehicles, on the other hand, | did a thriviog business while the side walks were packed with people ene | couraged by the beautiful weather to walk to their places of business, Here and there a cry of ‘scab’ or “Shame” was heard as the cars went by, but the hostile demonstrations wore neither numerous or geoerslly participated in. The North Side strikers began to congregate in the vie clnity of the barn soon after daylight and when the news was received that the men on the West Side had gone out there was ; and Sher demain of stoaeon, : 4 $A Li tl earrving of passengers are totally {nl mot Clpated, (wus reported that Mavor Reche had | Side commilitee was at rtherly sections was resumed ZAV } +3 { juries, from in- adequaw the work, aud must eon. inne 10 he so while the suke lasts. tutormaiion trom all of the territory covered by the strike is to the effect that the strikers sre perfectly under control and thet ni ou hresk at Any At 11 o'clock it aunin sent for Mr. Yerkes with the vi wool inducing him to subant tle dispute to arbitration The Wis: that bour in sesslon at Seaman» ball awating a re- sponse from Mr, Yerkes wo the pro position seut io at 4 o'clock this morn - ling. This afternoon obstruciions were placed on the tracks in a number of places and at Gaifie'd avenue and Orchard #ireet such uw crowd gath- ered that the police were ordered 10 charge und ose their clubs freely on men und women suffering a'iker Three men were carghtspikiog the 1ailoard were locked up, A car driven by Buperintendert | Nugel was attacked by a mob to. night and Nagel was hit with a brick. He and his conductor drew pistols but wire quickly disarmed by t e p lice and a geners] riotaverted. — a —— A sensation was caosd in Utica seversl days ago hy the appearance in the Observer, publ shed in that city, of a leiter from Ex SBorgeon General William H Watson, who was on Governor Cornell's staff, in which he renounced Harrison and came out for Cleveland, Dr. Watson was the tried and trusted friend, the ardent political adherent and for more than thirty years the physician of Roscoe Conk ling. The letter is based on one re. ceived from George C. Gorham, who says thet it is a positive fact that, in theevent of Harrison's elaction, Blaine will be Secretary of Sate, — A A— SHREWD Pennsyivania manufactur. ers contribute fat to Mr. Quay’s fry- ing-pan much more willingly since it has been shown to them that Repub. lear 1 means the wiping the Knights of Labor organization a: trial RCOrRY t of aflnirs, —— Pa, October § wen ake: the 1. was also arrested comotive al time AO } the same sum — a — A Dratal Assault, Se a dom Horn, Vy. { assaulted by Max Westheim a salesman, wha boarded with Horn Westivimer knocked he gir! dowa, kicked her and inflicted ivternal in which is now lying in a precarious condition West. heimer at once fled o the mountains where he was captured snd is now | in cus ody. a { 4 Lv yi 1 i i morning $114 — A —— A loan of $5,000,000 has beex prac. | cally negotinted in England toward | the completion of the great tunvel on | der the Hudson river at New York City. Since May, 1873, when the company was incorporated, about $2» 000,000 has been ¢ for tunnel work. It is nwwin tone, aod the abont tis Now York Api | sort ol Joct, | indecd ALMOST EVERYBODY SBWEARS. Carel as Expressions Which Ave Really In vocations of the Deity Bad Taste, When wo come to think of it, almost everyy body swears, Not a downright, up and up, out ang ont swear, to be sure, but some sort of un makeshift for an oath falls now and then from slmost everybody's lips. There are times when what are popularly known us V'euss words” seers the only thing to fill ine bill-the masculine bill, that is. Many oaths have kowt their original signif- leaneo and evil virility, and survive merely as more or less innocent expletives for the relief of feminine feelings, How many of the women who a dozen tims a day ex- claim, “O dear!” or “0 dear me!” stop to think—or would kuow if they did think— that these careless exprewions are invoes tions of the Deity? “0 dear!” comes from the Italian, “O Dio!” meaning “0 God!” and “O dear me!” from “0 Dio mio!” “0 my God” while “I yum!” quite a common expression among New England country folk, both male and female, is doubtless a eccrruption of “1 vow to Him!” There be those who say that “Dear suz!"—a favorite old fashioned feminine expletive means, or once meant, “Dear Jesus!” and who does not know that “Gracious!” and “Goodpess!™ mean “Gracious God! and “Eternal Good- ness” if they mean anything! The rustic evades the oath with his “1 swan!” “By mighty and similar expres sions, which serve as a safety valve, without ~1t0 bis thinking—violating the decalogue. Yet “I swan!” can be traced to “1 swear to One,” and “By mighty,” of course, means “By the Almighty.” That atrocious bucolie concatenation, “l snum!” defies definition, but who can doubt that it originally means something it ought not to meant My good and devout oid grandfather, who would as soon have taken a life as the name of his God in vain, would have been borri- fied to bear that bis semi-corasionsl “Zounds!” was but an abbreviation of “God's wounds!” while his brother, who in emergent moments was given to shouting “death, sir!” would have been equally scandalized to know be was swearing by “His (Christ's) death,” While there can be little question that Fwearing was resorted to in the first instance to emphasize men's meaning, there can be no { question that the promiscuous pro- fasity of today utterly defeats its own ob- t emphasizes nothing but the speaker's lack of meaning and of taste. Remonstrate with any habitual swearer, and he will say be “menus nothing by it.” But, if be doesn’t, by © t only the deca- ties of 1 nstantly violate n but the Mary sensi hose about Boston Peculiaritios of the Jail Bird. rated rd is fe ryer of | He mn nature n talmoes it . rim satis 4 » Filled the Yold. nd, # { the Richelieu hotel, ‘ ever regis amirned a room Ho is | deserving, and is a great favor he ladies, who be delights %o honor rue chivalry born of his Kentucky nd education. The other evening a y of ladies and gentlemen were dining in cafe of the hotel and John was intro- ito them, One of the young ladies had k and tan d ber, and remarkably solicitous for the nine's comfort, in ry paved utiful black £ with 1+ WAS ul him o 1 Joh oung lady sweetly. \e H “Wi Ys i bad Bag vOodn a young lady friend once who called me | Pog.” “How was thal I” inquired the young lady. “Oh,” sald John with a smile, “she ono the pog dog that she loved wore in the world 1 was ine wd to Lice on sho was in sorrow for I semad to G1 the gg void in t heart, and sie oslled we Pag lor i Patbet Tv, at i” ing Ind agrood that it was vary, very, ~ Chicago ownea Aa viking el wl 5d Ca + #tOrY jos rl patholo Herald, ea a Wownrtn as Dramatists “Why de it, Mr. Bovclcanit, that so fow worn have sebdeved sucess ae dramatist ™ “Hecanse icy have not the power of ine vention, It ir lo intellect-as in almost | everything coo fn thie world that the male | being is creative. And then the woman has not the Jogio of events or the mechanism of
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