WILSON'S VIEWS. THE GREAT WEST VIRGINIA LEADER'S FROM HISTORY == PROTEC TIONISTS APPEAL TO FEAR MM KIN- LESSON LEY BILL WORSE THAN THE TAKIFR | OF ABOMINATIONS, The strongest appeal which the pro- tectionist organs and speakers make. is to the fears of the manufacturers and the laborers in so-called protected industries. They frequently succeed in convincing them that Democratic policies would ob- literate our manufacturing industries, and send us all back to the tillage of the soil, making us abject dependents upon other Nations for all but the product of agriculture. I'his is so unspeakably absurd, when we consider the advantages we have asa manufacturing peopl2, in our cheaper food, more intelligent and better paid labor, our enterprise and our leadership in the invention and use of labor saving must constantly machinery, that one marvel at its aceeptance by intelligent men, But those who cannot or will not its absurdity as an argument may be con- vinced if they will study, a little, our history and experience in dealing with protective tarifls. 800 We began to make protective tariffs in | 1816, and it was not the wiser among | our manufacturers that called for such legislation. tion, delivered at years ago, said, in the very men who had built up that manu- facturing town, that the Lowell, Mass., many England were never friends of a high tarifl policy. presence of the | sagzacious men | who established the macufactures of New | | tucky, $1.63 in Illinois and $1.77 in Hon, Amasa Walker, at one time a | member of Congress from Massachusetts, aud a well-known writer on economic subjects, said l personal hat it within re that when protective was proposed in 1516 the leading manufact: Island, including Mr. of cotton spinn was Knowle our tariff ' deliberate room of on their number, came to he ur us conclusion that they had ‘rather be let alone.” Their industries had naturall well, and they desired no laterference from the Government. But as usual the clamor of less far- sighted men and the desire of politicians to become a special providence, super- God's own provideuce, grown u grown ceding vailed. Protection does, began, and, as it ever away this healthy self-re. \iance, and immediately s ciaries to crying for more help. The protective tariff of 1816 gave way to the higher tariff of 1820; that in turn to the still higher tariff of 1824, and a yet higher one in 1523, growing in its rates and its “*abominations” until it embroiled the country almost in civil took or Ki pro- I ts own momen- 1 aibitioa. disappointed $8 agitators t it never has stability and what turned in adopted a 13 see WAS the the Dem crati Every representative of New England, 137 one did not vote, voted against the Walker tariff of 1846, and prophesied disastrous consequences to New Eagland manufacturers fiom its passage. That tariff was about 25 per cent. the average of dutiable goods as against quite 60 per ceat. under the McKinley bill. In 11 years every New Eagland representative voted for a 20 per cent. reduction of the tariff of 1846, and two-thirds of these representatives voted for the tariff of 1857, which made a reduction of per cent. bringing down the average rates to less than 19 per ceat.; and so well contented were the manufacturers of that section with those rates that when the Morrill bill of 1861 took the first step backward toward precection their representative in Con- gress declared that they asked no ine crease of protection. Hon. Alexander Rice, of Massachusetts, said in the House: “The manufacturer asks no ad- ditional protection.” Jobn Sherman, professing to urge the bill in the intes est of the farmer, admitted ‘‘the manu facturers have asked over and over aynin to be let alone.” Mr. Morrill himself has since said that the tariff of 1561 ‘‘was not asked and but coldly wel- comed by manufacturers.” Semator R. M. T. Hunter, ol Virginia, patron of the bill of 18567, said: **Havo any of the manufacturers come bere to explain or to ask for new duties! Is it not notori- ous that, if we were to leave it to the wanufacturers of New Eagland them. selves, to the manufacturers of hard. wane, textile fabrics, ete., there would be a large majority against any change! Do we not know that the woolen manu. facture dates its revival from the tariff of 1857, which altered the duties on wool” Furthermore, the census of the Uaited Btates shows that both agriculture and manufactures graw and prospered during the period from 1546 to 1861 as they never prospered in any like period in our history. Mills were bullt, forges and furnaces established, and, but for the coming on of our Civil War, aad the necessity for an increased revenue to be gotten quickly, without regard to the fis eal policy by which it was gathered, wo should never have departed from a reve- oue (ariff system. War tariffs followed one another, and, since the return of peace, the old road has been traveled over again. The manu. facturers who in 1816 were yros by their own efforts and ask nothing of Government, haying o ip pe protection, became us for and yet higher tarik: until dey pushed result when, we and ¢ revenue tariff, opposite direct wao syd pe on gr 25 | lowest | cotton manu | American weavers operate | many but two or three. | they have in hand than any others in t | James i al —— OO 55358 the country to the verge of civil commo- tion. So, likewise, the industries that were content and prosperous under the low revenue, or, as they now call it, the free trade law of 1857, and asked noth- ing, having been ‘‘protected” against their will, immediately lost all self.reli- ance and have vexed our ears ever since for higher protection. In the ove era we went headlong une til the ‘‘tariff of abominations” pro- duced its own overthrow and opened the way for a more enlightened and just system of taxation. In the other era we have reached the McKinley bill, far more a class and ro- nopoly bill than the ‘‘tariff of abomi nations.” Out of its enormities we hope to see a revolution in public senti. ment that will lead to a saner and juster scheme of 1mpost duties, under which agriculture, manufactures and commerce may all grow with stable and healthy vigor, and the expanding markets for our products secure to labor steadier employment, better wages, and, what is far greater, more personal indepen lence, for it is the chief wrong of protectibn that its aim and its result are to make the laboring man a dependent on the capitalist. WwW. L. WiLsox. Facts for Workingmen to Consider. It has been repeate lly pointed out the rate of wages pad to workingmen does not determine the labor cost of produs. tion. Every employer understands this An active, intelligent and c man at high wages is more economical than a stupid buagler. We are indebted notant ipeient Mr. Everett, in a Fourth of July ora- | to ex Consul Jacob Schoeahof for an il lustration of this fact draws from the figures of Mr. Porter's census of 1503, He points out that common laborers in coal mining get $1.26 in Tennessee, $1.47 in West Virginia, $1.56 in Ken. Ohio per day. But the cost of labor per ton is almost in an inverse ratio, being where the day rank highest: For Tennessee, 52 cents; Weat Virginia, 80 ce K Illinois, 69 cents, an i Ohio This is in harmony rates nts; entucky, 70 coats; his own observation and wcturing cov { ¢ of ten years, and extendin England and the Unit 8X looms each, while the number operated in England is three to four, and ia Ger- American work men turn out more product of whatever he We also have the testimony of G. Blaine to the same effect, in world, | his report on the cotton industry in 15851. | because he is more efficient. The American workman is paid mos The E ne “es | lish workman is paid next best, because {3 ne comes second in efficiency. The | German is third, and the Fiji Islander is { than manu | notwithstanging the ' last of all Protection in Germany does not make wages lower than in England any more i it makes wages in America tha in Eaglaad., Our produ tured at a cheaper labor of hizhe is are coat, high rate wages, than they can be produced for in an) ier count the world, Our go into the markets world and sell goods ywer than ] : iacturers, They hire A% hey of 100, ngmen the difference would they make a pro workmen pinety-ni not K as cheapls ne cases out y the wor they sell for J between what in an open market for them in a prote two men are looking things being equal, th work for the lowest wages When two employers are one workingman, the employer offering the highest wages wots the man.” This is truism so simple that all can under stand it, There is free trade in labor. HO04s and what taey X ted market. **When f i who gets the 1 yoking | The only persons excluded are Chicese, | and they come from the most highly pro- tecled country in the world. These are plain facts that ought to be carefully considered by every working. man who has been laboring wuader the | delusion that protection will increase his ! | | ! i wages. The man who controls the sale of the product reaps the reward. The workman offers his labor in competition with all the world but China, The manufacwurer offers his product in a market from which competition has been excluded for his benefit. Who bas the best of it?! Who ean command the benefits of McKinleyism? Working- men, can youl-Utica (N. Y.) Observer. The Loss to the Farmer. The exports of farm products continue to fall off, notwithstanding the McKin- ley law, and it would be gratifying if the statesmen who have been *‘poiating out” to the farmer the walue to him of reciprocity should undertake the ex- planation of the present condition of things. The following table shows the export of agricultural articles for September, 16801, compared with September, 1802; Articles, 1491, Corn tush.) S08 014 Oats bush.) ....oonee ae 002 Oatmeal (pounds, ... 77.60 1.858 787 Ryo (bush). .oooe ooo 1TRIST 8, 1681.587 Wheat (bush)... ..10,081 80 10,404,174 This falling off is very serious. It means, so far as the farmers are con. cerned, that Republican reciprocity is the merest sham. The decline has been #0 great that the total exports of some articles for three mopths ending Septem- ber 30th have been decressod is follows: 1992, . 6.005.541 1492, 1,580, 258 104,015 Articles, Corn (bush). vais. 0 (bush) .oouniiie. ARRAN heat (bush)... .. 51,700,796 The value of the total exports of all breadstufs was only hall as great in Sep- tember this year #3 in ths same month Inst year, while for the three months ending September 30th the values were more than $26,000,000 less in 1592 than in 1891, Besides exporting loss the farmer re. soives Jess for what ho sends abroad, as is shown by the following table of Sep. tember prices. PCOS, ws 181, $0.69 43 0,05 Articles, Corn (bush)... Oats (bush.),,.... Oatmeal (pounds). Rye (bush.)...cooieie 0.54 Wheat (Buse) ceicerscsssssse 1.03 This shows partly what the McKinley law is doing for the farmer. It also adds to his cost of living. If he likes it he will vote for Harrison; otherwise he will vote for Cleveland, —New York World. sana e mm———————— General Sickles Defends Cleveland, On the 5th of October, 1588, in the Opera House at Utica, with President Cleveland's record fresh in his and in the public mind, General Daniel E, Sie. kies spoke the brave and just words of the candidate of his party for President: “Now as to President Cleveland's record in behalf of the soldiers, [hey charge that he has vetoed a goo 1 many pension bills, So he has, | read his views, Iam a soldie my soldiers. Had I been Pre Congress had passed such bills have soldiers, I should have of them, too, frauds and shams, and under me, Any rightminded sworn to discharge his duty, would signed these vetoes as President © land did.” Goneral President pension bills and sad aave eve. Sickles, 0 . record regar « 4 think the Cleveland's He. publicans should hang their heads in of such a record.” the World bas land's shame in the presence What that record shown. Under Cle vs tion there were 192.1 allowed, An exces allowances und is istration. During Gene tion of the Pension land there $254,738,0 Was al over the Arthur adn President fray its expense he sai while ir Circuit Court RADY man 8 propel ute, it ought 10 tak holds taken 30 per cen it should take from more {or the Lenelit © st th him uad i to } anism Har mit that it is just erty of the humbiest unless Government ils ¢ 1 purposcs Low Wages in Protecled Mills. It is undisputed that wages are higher | in unprotected than in protected fmdus. tries, Carpenters, masons, and printers belong to the best paid class of workers, is a logical outcome of a tariff that fos ters combines. It is but natural protected manufacturers organized their consolidated power to dictate terns to their employes. thea lower wages and unusually harsh treatment of labor in the mills of pro. tectad monopolists, is found in the fact, explained at length by Andrew Carnegie, that the officers of great corporations deal at long range with their empioyes, do not come into daily contact with them, and lack that sympathy which would often prevent strikes, Hence it is that workers in protected mines and mills constitute our worst paid, most in. secure and therefore dangerous elasses, —— — Mra, Laxorny's new play, “The Queen of Manoa,” gives her an ex- cellent chance to show her new gowns and her diamonds, and, as usual, her merit will be measured by the yard and the carat. Mr. Wickwine—Here Is something you ought to read-an article on WAYS & Woman can save money. Mrs Wickwire — Does It say anything about her remaining single? — indian: apolis Journal. a. A QUEER circumstance about some poetry is that while it may have plenty of feet It has no soul. Phila delphia Times E A MAX who had an untenanted house at the end of the street was ao customed to refer to it as last bul not leased. — Binghamton Leader, ” engineers | This is not an accident, but | that | to | take advantage of a high tariff by ad. | vancing or sustaining prices, should use | | Another reason for | MAST FED Pronk. There is a good nut ¢ rop in many parts | of the country this year, In early times when woods were plentiful than | now, many farmers let their pigs pick up | much of their living in the woods. They | became quite fut when frost loosened the burs of nuts. Pigs fed thus sweetest and best pork. corn feeding to give req the fat. Thi for two reasons. more made the it needed some | ued firmness to ! pork go farther did not fry away 80 | lit was not # made the It much in the pan 80 good | } ’ $ i Lie { nut-fd to eal as 1 pork.~ Boston ( | you ur plea | dog after them and allowing him to rush them into the milk yard, exhausted and excited, is a practice that will cost each | year from ten to twenty-five pounds of butter for every cow milked, Drive the | cows leisurely to and from the pasture. If you are in a hurry let the driver make double quick time when he is going to and from the field not a ccompanied by the cows. The throwing of stones, sticks or other missiles should be forbidden, und the operation of milking should be done and with but talking. the cow make a misstep or switch little rapidly Should ir no fly-time don't her, Ir or more santly during speak 80 sharply as to startie many herds there are often one { cows which only a certain member of the vermifuge, and it is n¢ cause long experien § has shown ths r later if intestinal an exception to a8 nec - or cattle, itestioal parasites, nd prevents When hogs they get con iniense Ae exclusive inily at the time of . has i with mud, acts like splashed i blister and takes the col i body, The « bot wash ith ye ROZZ.C ana irom bh cover an ver is first {ore stream that leather n ol . In : alowed to Low ’ JULHO very ciose 10 = it, and rain or When lodged be put soft water should be used. should light there in the glasses, the bulbs in pi cluded-—say a cupboard main five or six weeks, and ro leveloped and the swelling bud and spike startin i inured Q The water should not be changed, but led up occasionally, and a small lump of charcoal kept at the bottom. From the time the Bower begins to show, the sore light and air given the batter, some cool ace where when the sts are well gq freely t be gradua.ly ) INFLUENCE OF OATS AXD BRAN ON MILK It is quite well understood that the quantity of food consumed influences the yield of milk and that certain foods and grasses the color of butter. | Numerous ¢ Xperiments exhibit results to prove that an increase of the same ration will increase a cows milk yield, but not the quality of that yield, By a few jt is believed that the quality of the milk | can changed very perceptibly by changing rations. Others maintain that the quality of milk depends solely, or al. most 80, on the icdividual animal, some giving rich milk, others a poorer article, At the Colorado Station experiments were made with four cows, for the pur- pose of testing the comparative effects of wheat bran and oat chop (that is, ground oats) on the fat of milk, For | the first period the ration morning, noon and evening was two pounds of oat chop | and all the alfalfa hay they would eat | and all the water desired, but with no | other food. For the second period clear | wheat bran {containing no shorts) was | substituted for the oat chop. From a study of the tabulation it ap. pears that the quality of the milk was | quite perceptibly lofluenced by the change of food given these cows. In each case the wheat bran produced the | best result in the production of fat in the | milk; there is also evidence extant that bran causes a better flow of milk than | oats, While the cows gained in weight | on the oat chop, each lost a few pounds | on the bran mation. The difference in | either case could have been caused by the difference in water drank ui a single time.~New York World. i : TREAT THE COWS KINDLY, i Cows are naturally of the etadas dis. | position of any four legged animal upon the farm, and should be treated kindly and not abused by the milkers influence be aod drivers, The practice of sending » | | (amily can “milk. This indicates very plainly that some one is d tempered, and understands the cow's disposition. A box located at some zccessible point | Id contain at al of If salt is fed is one 1 week, supply (Oss Cc then gorge themselves, causing of the Milk not He applied to the teats to digestive org power required in milk but most certainly add yhiained, and in cold the sore, weather and nature and i orneq. y will become « Loernis p A0TmANG ing ha hould be Brass ting of tie " rrules at the tips of the horns lessen the langer but do not prevent the the Tr ry e great val- talks produced ev y r f 4) reason of § to their owners. qf differ. hey may have pal reason for the great in opinion which farmers expross io to the usefulness of the stalks for he fact that the rea stalks varies g is found in th 10s Some lots are clean and bright, Other lots are and damaged by exposure to the sun and s as to be and innutri liflerence in unpaiatabic here s of stalks been that r, will furni { food wil h they will thrive, and man i the like The wich cattie spon whi who husks his worn early and pu slalks will turn t or in stacks which ¢ rain, will have some valus. ble material which to supplement his crops of bay and grain. Americar Dsiryman. under « 3} i ver, | with FARM AXD GARDEN NOTES. Transplanting two or three times helps in the formation of fibrous roots. In growing berries for market the best results are secured with a rich soil. Generally in transplanting it is best to set the plants down to the first leaf, By keeping different kinds of stock the pastures will not become patchy. To keep a flock making » profit re- juires careful selection and close culling. Mulching newly set trees during hot, dry weather often saves them from dying. Allowing them to grow too thick is one cause of failure in growing root crops. Are your stables so arranged that the norses could be rescued easily in case of fire? Clear the barnyard well of stones and sticks before you turn the horses out for a romp. The real friend of the farmer is he that teaches him to be contented, industrious and frugal. A man does not take good care of a horse should not have the pleasure of owning one, If you can sell dircct to the consumer youean put the middieman’s profit in your own pocket. Many farmers wear out fifty dollar’ worth of horse flesh trying to save buy- ing a ten dollar plow, Breed the best to the best and you can count on something for your trouble, Otherwise you take great risks. Sweet whey is worth seven cents per 100 pounds as pig and all food. This is seven cents more than sour whey fis worth. Corn fodder, put in shocks and left in the field during a good part of the fall and winter, loses from one-third to one. half of its feeding value, Powdered chalk given in soft food is, ‘n many cies, a good remedy for scours in hens, Give pleaty of food with oats on wheat and but little grain, There are some advatages in growing 1 Harvesting Apples on the Canadian Border, The harvest season for apples begins late in summer in many places, but alorg the Canadian border Beptember is early enough, and most owners wait even later, The apples here, says a letter from Fan- pington, Me,, to the New York Post, are paturally winter apples, and they are picked to supply the late markets. Ap- ple.pickers arm themselves with a stout musiin bag, which they slin their ght Every apple must be from the tree, breaking it off so that the is left All bruised and thorned” rejected nfit go nlo red g Gyer g overt inGaer. carefully shoulders, and a |i wooden pic ked em on. apples ure ne for packing. A dozen pickers one orchard, and soon bring the in quantities, ins and golden fru When they Lt Lo the ONK way : owner beg hat kind visible, rows dsome in the egus. Often mand double grades, and the the better will ul inferio wy Mm is oniy a little smaller fruit nt | % pre Ke ave slight and all of those with all fancy fruit counts in will often take Kr Craily Known the applies wit! Joo Ne ored appearance, even the ir (ree the green ones, int ir oy yy 109 good to cor tht tance stanee to animais, jmbied into t are t IL much ns become one of the the mi greatest depth ever attained, The sour twenty worid. re Lian The highest inhabited 1 Peru, above the sea level, is al Galera, wh & Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Soller Children of Both Had Eczema In Its Worst Form Physicians 4/ter Failed, Hood's Sarsaparilila Perfectly Cured, bY Impure seems no cure oy when Hood's DASA DAr for it expels the fou irom the blood. est ! Jiseased skin to fresh, thy Read the followin (rods Sarsaparills market iren » Form of Eczema We Te neither of them succeded in curing lief At apurilia and in a perfectly Worst r wy Ligne, but them or even In g net naan inst we tried Homd's month both ol) cured, Ven Hood's Sarsaparilla ax a standard family medicine be without it Mu and Mas 1412 Avenue, Altoons Hood's Pills cure liver fis, constipation, bid rasnees, Jaundice, ok handache, Indigestion i" ORKILMER'S CRs bad thr } ans in thst ow Te nr WT ymmend i not rR, and wou M. M. Soa Pa ~eoond MY Kidney, Liver and Bladder Cure. Rheumatism, Lum Bhfin Jatuta or hack. brick dust 1a urine, irritat L inflame gravel, WIOErRtion OF oatarrh of bladder. Disordered Liver. I biIous. headache, EE pa Impure B Borofuia, malaris. gen’| Wise SHIVA, gg on fed ee ee vd At Draggiets, 50¢, Sine, $1.00 Sime, “lnvalide’ Gude to Mealth “tres. Osnsuitation fren Dn. Kita & Co., Iusanawrox, N. ¥. cash crops, such a timothy and wheat, which may be turned into money with out the intervention of the feeding coms. But it takes & good fo thuees yandily without ising
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