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THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 1G. 1892.
SECOND PART.
PAGES 9 TO 16
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LOTS OWES LOST
To the Liberals in England
by Eemoyals of Yoters
From Their Cottages.
LAWS TO BE OYEBHAULED
So That Hereafter Things Will Be
Favorable to the People.
TlIE BATTLE OYER VIVISECTION
Eecoming Vivid in Its Intensity and the
Epithets Tsed.
THE INTERESTING KEWS FROM EUROPE
TUT CABLE TO THE DISFATCn.1
Loxrxnr, Oct. 15. Copyrij7il. Readers
of The Dispatch have been prepared
lor news of the Tory victory in Cir
encester and the consequent reduction of
Mr. Gladstone's parliamentary majority to
Sh. The Xiberal defeat was entirely due to
a variety of local causes which have been
sufficiently explained in this correspond
ence, but the result will strengthen the
great determination to reform the electoral
laws at the earliest convenient moment.
The register of voters upon which Ciren
cester was fought was compiled in July,
1891, and a large number ot agricultural
laborers, nearly all Liberals, who have
shifted residences since then, found them
selves disfranchised simply because they
had moved from one cottage to another.
About 200 such removals have taken place
since the general election, and that alone
would practically account for the Tory vic
tory. Anew register -was compiled last
July, but it will not come into operation
until the first of January next. The sys
tem is admittedly so bad tbat the Govern
ment will probably receive some Tory help
in reforming it
Gladstone to Lecture Pretty Soon.
Mr. Gladstone has found time to prepare
a lecture on mediseval universities, and will
deliver it at Oxford on the 21th inst. He
will arrive at Oxford on the 22d, reside at
his beloved university until the 2otn, and
then come to London to take part in a series
of Cabinet councils at which the legislative
procramme of the Government in the
coming session will have to be settled.
The Ministers are already agreed, how
ever, that the session shall commence the
middle of January, several weeks earlier
than is customary, and that the three chief
measures to be submitted to Parliament
shall provide for home rule for Ireland,
disestablishment of the alien English
Church in Wales, and reform of the laws
relating to Parliamentary elections. Other
bills will be introduced, but the three
measures mentioned, together with supply
and the various topics which invariably
turn up for discussion outside of the Gov
ernment programme will almost certainly
" Tiffice to occupy the whole time of the
tsion.
How the Grand Old 3fan Is Progressing.
The grand old man continues to enjoy
Excellent health, but he will spend at least
vie month of the winter in Southern
Europe. It is estimated that since his re
turn to power Mr. Gladstone's correspond
ence, which has always been large, has in
creased four-fold, and his secretaries can
scarcely cope with it The proportion of
purely abusive letters is much larger than
when Mr. Gladstone was a private citizen,
while, curiously enough, the number of
presents sent by enthusiastic admirers has
decreased.
The latest gift which the Grand Old Man
has received came to hand the other day
per parcels post from a Scottish working
man, in the shape of a handsome walking
stick made of hickory, "cut by your humble
servant from wood growing on the estate of
the late Eight Honorable Mr. Macdonald,
Prime 31inister of Canada," with a handle
of Highland elm. The worthr workman
further explained that his forefathers were
true and stanch Liberals, which one can
yell believe, and he expressed the hope
that tbe stick might long support Mr.
Gladstone "in slashing Goschen and Bal
four out of the House of Commons."
THE VIVISECTION BATTLE
fluking Eminent Authorities Call IjicIi
Other Ugly Ttaxnes.
tBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.!
London, Oct 15. The battle over vivi
section, begun at the Church Congress, is
becoming terrific in its intensity. Epithets
that usually lead to blows are being freely
exchanged in the printed correspondence of
the Tunes and elsewhere. To-day the four
great leaders of the medical profession, Sir
Andrew Clarke, James Paget, Samuel
Wilks and George Humphrey, write a joint
note to the Turin declaring that they will
say nothing more about the subject in pub
lic print, for these terse reasons:
"Firstly After full consideration we are
satisfied that the scientific aspect of this
question cannot receive adequate and just
treatment in tbe columns of a newspaper.
Secondly, because it is hardly possible for
us to name any progress of importance in
medicine, surgery or midwifery, which has
not been due to or promoted by this method
of inquiry."
HALF A HILLIOK B0LL&B3
To He Git en Up l Paris for a Ztfcrainoth
Slion Telescope.
TBI CABLE TO THE DISPATCH. 1
London, Oct, 15. Paris has practically
decided that the big toy with -which she
will amuse the world at the exhibition of
1900 will be the greatest of all telescopes.
The idea was suggested some time ago, but
was abandoned on account of the difficul
ties involved. But this is to be a reflect
ing telescope, which is easier to make,
there being only one great concave
mirror, just under ten feet in diameter, to
fashion, instead of the polishing of the four
surfaces involved in making two lenses,
and practical telescope makers have under
taken to make the great spyglass, which
will have a tube more than 100 feet long
and as large as the Yendome column.
It will cost at least 500.000. and it ! mm
to bring the moon near enough to s;e ob
jects no larger than the towers of Brooklyn
bridge.
BUFFALO BILL'S H0BSES SOLD,
Bat They T.rlng Such Loir Prlocs That the
Colonel Get Angrj.
tBT CABLE TO THKDISrATCrt.1
London, Oct 15. The surest way to lose
a friend is to Bell him a horse. Buffalo Bill
sailed for America to-day with a shipload
of English shillings, but before leaving he
auctioned of! all his horses which
hate been used in tbe "Wild
"West show. There was no guarantee
of "sound and kind" with the beast', and
their temper was seriously questioned by
purchasers, even at the " auction block.
Colonel Cody got disgusted at the suspicions
or the bidders and tbe smallnessot bids,
and expressed his feelings. There was a
retort, and one ot the bidders was ejected
by the irate Colonel's order.
CHANGE OF PUBLIC TASTE.
legitimate Opera Houses In London Being
Transformed Into Music Halls Audi
ences TVant to Smoke and Get Their
Cloves In the Theaters.
BY CABLE TO THE DISPATCH 3
IiONDOX, Oct. 1& That a significant
chance is taking place in the appetite for
public amusement was shown this week by
applications tor a change in licenses which
would permit the transformation of tbe
Eoyal English Opera House and the new
Olympic and new Sadlers Wells theaters
into music halls.
Sir Augustus Harris explained to the
Licensing Committee in the case of the
Eoyal Opera House that he desired per
mission for his audience to smoke, which a
theatrical license would not permit. In
both theaters and music halls liquor is sold
in the lobhies, but not in tbe auditorium.
The question of smoke is an interesting one
to the dramatic profession.
Mr. Irving told the Licensing Committee
that some ot the finest artists would be uu-,
able to play where smoking was allowed.
He also made the interesting observation
that while "Henry VIIL" created a thirst
for soda water only, an enormous amount of
brandy and soda was always consumed by
the audience when "The Bells" were on the
boards.
This new question of the thirst-producing
powers of different styles of drama was
not pursued as far as a curious public might
wish. There was ample evidence in the
lone series of bearings on licenses that
there is a marked decadence just now in the
popular support of standard drama in Lon
don and a corresponding increase in the
passion for variety or music hall entertain
ment. These are hard times in London, and the
differences in cost have more to do with it
than a change of taste.
THE LATEST FRAUD
In the Line of Bogus Rcal Estate Swindles
American and British Authorities to
Co Operate In Order to TTeed Ont the
Beats, M'lio Are Prosperous.
tBT CABLE TO T1IE DISPATCH.!
London, Oct. 15. The unclaimed En
glish estate fraud has taken a new phase,
and the American Legation and the officials
of the Chancery Court are overwhelmed
with inquiries on the subject from America.
The latest scheme is the cleverest yet.
The victim receives a letter signed
by one Felix Howard, informing
him tbat a suit which has been prosecuted
without fee or expense by the writer has
proved successful. .The person addressed
is one of the beneficiaries under the decis
ion, and he will receive official notification
from a court attache within 90 days or so.
No money or other compensation is asked
by the writer of the letter.
A few days later the victim receives an
imposing document from the "Dominion
Bureau, 451 Eighth avenue, New York,"
in which one Joseph Leger writes that he is"
commanded to inform the addressee of the
success ot the suit in which he is named as
a party. The only thine necessary to sain
ing possession of his share of the property
is that he shall send the writer (35 for the
usual court fees, eta Mr. Leger encloses
the official decision headed "The Supreme
Court of Chancery," and signed by "De
Longue, Chancellor," and sealed with a big,
gold seal. There is another stamp with the'
certification by "G. W. Eawllns, Tax
Assessor."
Judging by the number of inquiries re
ceived, Joseph Leger must have gone into
the scheme on a most wholesale scale. The
English authorities propose to co-operate
with the American police, if possible, and
punish the rascal
LIVERPOOL BEHIND THE TIMES.
Southampton Gets Ahead of Her Rival in
a Good Steamship Landing.
tBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.
London, Oct 15. The anxiety of Liver
pool people "to do something" before
they have actually lost the Atlan
tic passenger trade has been appreciably
quickened this week by the an
nouncement that the first Inman liner
will arrive at Southampton the first week
in March, although the new dock will not
be completed much under a year, but the
Atlantic steamers will be able to run along
side the Empress' dock, and passengers
will enjoy the luxury of stepping from the
ship into a special tiain in waiting.
Liverpool has taken no action yet, but
there has been and continues to be a pro
digious amount of talk. The only fact in
regard to which unanimous decision has
been arrived at is that the existing arrange
ments at the landing stage are a disgrace to
the port, but opinion is divided upon the
merits of these three plans for remedying
the evil, first, the erection of a final stage
at the north end; second, the filling in of
the Victoria dock and using the site as a
depot for American passengers, with a deep
water landing pier; third, the construction
of a deep-water dock, with hotel, customs
depot, and railway terminus at Tranmere
Light, on the Cheshire side of the Mersey.
The indications are that the Victoria dock
scheme will ultimately be adopted, and
meanwhile tne arrangements at the landing
stage are to be improved.
CLAIMED BY THE BRITISH.
An American Gets So Fopular That the
English Want Him.
BY CABLE TO THE DISPATCII.
London, Oct 15. The English papers
are printing paragraphs alleged to be com
plimentary about Henry White, Secretary
ot the American Legation, whose impres
sive figure among the pallbearers at the
Tennyson obsequies drew attention to the
man who surely deserves his reputation of
being the most popular American in Lon
don. The compliments of the past day or
two uaye ueeu wen luienuonea, Dut some
ot them have taken a form which has quite
horrified their subject
Thus the Evening News winds up a para
graph with the remark: "Mr. White has
resided in London for so long a period as to
have lost many American characteristics."
Now, according to the English spirit of
self-satisfaction, that was a very sweet
thing to say about Mr. White. It is quite
true of the American Secretary of Legation
that none knew him but to love him, but
anybody who met him for the first time
within an hour after he had read the lines
mentioned would have gained a wrong im
pression of his disposition, which is really
gentle, calm and urbane.
PB0V0KED BY A CB0SS.
The Friends of Kenan Provoked Because
of the Pantheon's Emblem.
IBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH. 1
London, Oct 15. The friends of Eenan
are much exercised because his body will,
after all, lie under the cross, the emblem
which he despised. "When the Pantheon
was "secularized" at the time of Victor
Hugo's death it was expected that the great
cross which surmounts the dome wonld be
pulled down. It still stands out bravely
against the sky, because no money is avail
able for its demolition, which would cost
14,000.
Some free-thinkers ot frugal minds have
suggested that its arms ralzht be lopped on,
and that it might then do duty as an enorm
ous flagstaff. The architect has reported
that this wonld cost almost as much. To
seek a direct appropriation for the purpose
would involve a terrific controversy, 10 now
the Auti-Clerioals Club is considering a
private subscription to rata funds for the
removal of the obnoxious emblem.
THE LAW BOLDLY DEFIED
By a Deputy at Carmaux Only a Tmctt
Trace There While the Soldiers Remain
The Company as Firm as Those Nearer
Home.
tBT CABLE TO TBI DISPATCH. J
London, Oct. 13. The strike at Car
maux continues to be the foremost subject
in the public affairs of France. There have
been some interesting changes in the situa
tion this week. The Government has t
last cone through the form at least of for
bidding the unlawful patrols of the
strikers and their intimidation of workmen.
The issue has been more sharply defined by
the offer of the mining company to give the
city annually a sum larae enoueh to ade
quately compensate its Mayor. The com
pany, of course, persists in its refusal to re
employ Mayor Calrignao, whose discharge
on account of absence from work caused the
strike.
The Marquis Deholages, who for three
years has represented the district in the
Chamber of Deputies, and who is the man
ager ot the Carmaux mines, has resigned as
deputy, as he expresses it, to help solve the
present conflict. It is well understood that
the Carmaux situation will be the first sub
ject to come up before the Chamber when
it assemDies on tne 18th. It is in this con
nection that the socialistic uprising will
Beet to mase itsen leiu
The Government has nominally, at least,
taken position on the side of law and order.
Not much can be said for its executive
policy, however. Socialistic Deputies and
their followers openly insult and defy the
troops at Carmaux. Deputy Baudin, Haunt
ing his Deputy's scarf twice yesterday,
forced his way with his followers through
the lines of soldiers whero he was forbidden
to go. To an officer who was about to ride
him down he shouted: "I hare my revol
ver, and the first man who touches me I
will blow out his brains."
SOCIALISTS TO PAEADE AGAIH.
Home Secretary Asqulth Committed by His
Past Iiecord Against Interference.
London, Oct 15. The Workmen's Club
and Socialistic societies which figured in
the Trafalgar square riots of five years ago,
will reassert their right to hold public
meetings there by a monster demonstration
Sunday, November 13, with which it is pre
sumed the Government will not interfere.
No official intimation has been made by
the Home Office that the demonstration
will not be permitted, and the presumption
that the Home Secretary will not act is
based on his assailing the late Government
for preventing thfe meeting. The danger
for Mr. Asquith and the Government is that
the first demonstration on Sunday will give
rise to others on week days, when shops and
warehouses are open, and may lead at some
unexpected moment to some wild mob of
starving wretches, thieves and loafers once
again wrecking and looting from Pall Mall
to Hyde Park.
The leaders threatening the demonstra
tions are the old set Hyndman, Bernard,
Shaw and Graham Wallls, trade unionists;
Tom Mann and Ben Tillet Shaw and
Wallis say if the Home Secretary prohibits
the meeting they, as delegates of the Lon
don Fabian Society, which embraces all of
the philosophic and respectable Socialism
here, will withdraw; but Hvndman and the
great majority of the workmen's clubs' dele
gates insist upon defying any Government
prohibition. They have been rather em
barrassed by receiving intimation from
Several Germanese-French socialist clubs
notoriously of anarchist character, that they
will join their ranks on the occasion. Two
of the most noted Socislists, John Burnt,
M. P., and New Hardie, M. P., hold aloof
from the demonstration, fearing that it will
embarrass the Government and lead to
dangerous rioting.
PATJPEB IMHI3BAHTS FBWEB,
And England Is So Pleased She May See
the Law Enforced.
tBT CABLI TO THE DISPATCH.
London, Oct 15. The Board of Trade
returns show that the action of the United
Slates authorities completely stopped the
immigration of aliens into this country
from Hamburg en route to America during
tbe month of September, while the cholera
regulations of the local Government board
reduced thi number of arrivals intending to
settle in England to 56, compared with 2,235
dnring the corresponding month last year.
The publication of these figures has
greatly strengthened the movement for the
total prohibition of immigration of pauper
aliens, or, failing that, its more stringent
regulation.
SOME DRAWBACKS OF E0YALTY.
France Will Be Miffed if the Spanish Queen
Acts as a German Godmother.
Madeid, Oct 15. In compliance with
the request of Emperor William, Queen
Begent Christina hag consented to stand as
godmother to the daughter born a short
time ago to the imperial house of Ger
many. El Gldbo , of this city, savs the Queen
Eegent's acceptance of Emperor William's
invitation is calculated to create coldness
with France and will. prove prejudicial to
the conclusion of the projected treaty be
tween Spain and that country.
SHIF-BTJILDIHG STATISTICS
That Show American Built Vessels Have
the Shortest Lives.
1BT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.
London, Oct 15. Perhaps one of the
causes of the declination in ship building
is indicated in a statement made this week
by Robert Thompson, President of the
Northeast Coast Engineers and Ship Build
ers. The average life of an American built
ship, he said, was 18 years, while French
ships last 20 years, Dutch 22, German 25,
British 2G and Italian 27.
The average death rate of tbe world's
shipping is about 4 per cent and the birth
rate 5 per cent
ABYIHINO TO FEED THE AEHY.
How the German Government Proposes to
t Increase the Revenue.
Berlin, Oct 13. The Berlin Dost, in an
inspired article, announces tbat the duty on
tobacco will be raised from 85 marks to 115
marks; tbat the duty of beer will be
doubled; that the duty on spirits will be
raised from 60 to 55 marks; that Bourse
transactions will be taxed 30 per cent, and
that it is proposed to provide the money re
quired to carry out tbe military bill by im
posing a tax on home-grown tobacco.
G ood Men Who Have Gone Wrong.
IBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.
London, Oct 15. The advocates of dis
establishment are calling attention to
summary made up by a newspaper reader
of the number of clergymen who have ap
peared in court as defendants the past year
in the kingdom. These are the figures:
Breach of promises, 14; cruelty to animals,
18: bankrupts, 121; assaults, 109; various
other charges, 96; and 12 more committed
suicide.
TARIFF FOR CANADA.
What the McKinley Lawof Our North
ern Neighbor Has Done for It.
FEOM A LAND OF DESOLATION
la the Seventies It Has Grown to Cne of
Greatness and Eiche
HOW PROTECTION WAS INTRODUCED
inOBEXSPOXDKNCI OF THE DISPATCH.
Hamilton, Onx., Oct 13. The Bepub
lican party of the United States in the
present Presidental campaign does not need
to go outside of its own bailiwick to find
shining examples of the good that its pro
nounced doctrine of protection has done,
but at this time it is not out of place to ob
serve what this same doctrine, and its prac
tice, have done for your nearest neighbor
ing nation.
Although one of the dependencies of free
trade England, Canada is not a free trade
country, only in a restricted sense, and if
the business men, manufacturers, farmers
and artisans within its borders continue to
be the dominating forces in provincial poli
tics the policy of the Dominion Governmeat
will ever be that declared by Et Hoc Sir
John Macdonald, the late Premier, of "Pro
tection to native industries."
No Change of Policy In Sight,
It is only during the past 14 years that
Canada has bad the opportunity of fairly
testing the efficacy of this doctrine, but the
results attained have been such that a radi
cal change tvill not be made without a
struggle, unless, perchance, some prototype
of your Democratic party shall declare the
doctrine of protection to be "a fraud and
unconstitutional" and elect a sufficient num
ber of legislators to afterwards legalize that
declaration.
There is a feeliug of fear throughout the
Dominion that such a state of affairs as
stated above may result when a change ot
(.Government occurs. This more than all
else tends to prevent a proper expansion to
trade which a permanently assured Govern
mental policy of protection would permit.
Prior to 1878 ihe tariff duties on imports
to the Dominion were only nominal, and
under the policy then in vogue Canada was
fast outstripped in commercial lines of
activity by its more highly protected neigh
bor, the United States. For some time be
fore 1878 the commercial and Industrial de
pression in the Provinces was very pro
nounoed. During the years 1873-4 and 1875
tbe Canadian merchants and manufacturers
had imported freely from abroadas well
as exporting largely at the same time.
The Balance on the Wrong Side.
The whole volume of trade in 1870 aggre
gated fully $148,000,000, while in each ot
the three years, 1873, '74 and '75, it aver
aged $212,000,000 per year. The increase of
imports over exports during these three
years was in the proportion ot 30 to 14,
showing quite forcibly that the balance was
on the wrong side. With so large a volume
there was of course great activity, but trade
in all lines was overdone and the inevitable
reaction followed with very disastrous con
sequences to many firms and enterprises.
What made matters worse for Canadian
manufacturers at that period was that under
the low customs tariff of 15 to 17 per
cent on imports. United States and
other manufacturers were making
Canada a dumping ground for their surplus
products which they sold here at lower.
prices than at home. Cotton goods, hard
ware, boots and shoes, and a great variety
of other manufactures came in across the
border, or the sea, at prices which, even
when the duty was added, were so low as
to glut the limited markets and at tbe same
time very seriously embarrass the Canadian
producer.
Closed Down Canadian Factories.
This state 'of things, while implying a
certain advantage to the consumer in the
shape of low prices, as free traders in the
United States as well as Canada contend,
was so serious that Canadian factories were
left but one alternative that of closing
down. The proprietors of these abandoned
factories began to think the matter over
and they were not long in finding where the
fault lay. They found that what some of
their countrymen bad been pleased to call
"free trade" was not free trade at all.
"We are," they said, "handicapped by a
low tariff on American goods coming into
this country to compete with ours, while if
we attempt to return the compliment by
sending our products to the United States
we are met at the forty-fifth degree of lati
tude with a tariff double the average ot
ours, which effectually shuts us out Give
us a chance to exist, either by reciprocity
of tariffs or other means, and we are not
afraid to compete, but against such uneven
and illegitimate competition nnder the pre
vailing system we have no prospect of ever
being able to succeed."
Mere speculation and philosophizing as
to causes of existing conditions brought no
railed Trade continued to languish. Ex
ports declined from an average of ?87, 000,
000 in value in the years 1872, 1873 and 1874
to $78,000,000 annually in the years 1875,
1876 and 1877. Imports decreased during
the same years from an average of $122, 000,-
wu to iiw,uuu,uuv annually.
Sir John Macdonald to the Front.
In the annual Speech from the Throne
in 1877 there was a paragraph deploring tbe
stagnation of trade, but it contained no
suggestion as to a remedy. Sir John Mac
donald. then prominent in financial politics.
but who was destined to later become one
of the most eminent exponents of a new
policy for Canada, saw a remedy, and he
did not hesitate topropose it, which he did
in the annual session of the Dominion Par
liament in that year. In a motion which
he offered it was
Resolved, That this House regrets that
Excellency, the Governor General, has
been advised to recommend to Pariiameal
measure lor tne reaajustmentortno tai
wnicn wouia not oniy aia to aiienatejrne
stagnation in business deplored In tbe ra.
clans Speecn from tueTlirone.but also aforu
encouragement and protection to the sM-ug-gllns
manufactures and industries, asKrell
as tne agricultural products or tne coi
This resolution brought the matter;
lnently before the country, and
dis-sOn-Idin
cossion soon became general. At
tario Manufacturers' Conventi
October of 1877, a declaration wi
de in
favor of "A national policy of
otection
to home production as tbe permai
; policy
of the Dominion." The Domi
i .Hoard
of Trade, which assembled early
Ihe follow-
lnic year, agreed unanimously
son a reso
lution which, in view of the nfn-political
character of tbe body, is significant of the
interest generally felt at thatftime in the
unfortunate condition of many branches of
Canadian manufacture. Tne text of that
resolution was as follows: f
A Call for Protection.
Besolved, That while ln.the estimation of
this Board the preseat-tiHffof 17X percent
Is fair and reasonable, yet In the event of Its
being found neoEssary to Increase the duties
for revenue ptfposes, tbat this Board would
respectfully reanest the Government to con
sider thelndustrlal development of the
country lsf any readjustment of the tariff.
At tbaf time the Hon. Alexander Mac-'
kenzlejfras Premier and Sir Bichard Cart
right, Finance Minister of the Canadian
Government Toll pleas of the distracted
manufacturers these officials turned a deaf
ear. Sir John Macdonald naturally
became the leader of the opposition party.
vrhisjb Jook for it .watchword Its leader's
declaration. "Protection to Native Indus.
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CHAIRMAN
the implied undei standing that it would, if
given the opportunity, so alter the tariff as
to protect the home manufacturer, the oppo
sition, or conservative party, under Mac
donald's brilliant leadership, waged a rig
orous campaign during the summer
of 1878, and so well was their
work done tbat at the election in
September the Liberal partT was
defeated and Sir John and his party re
placed in power. Among the first acts of
the new Government was a readjustment of
the tariff along the lines of the party's
platform. Sir Leonard Lilley, who was
chosen Financial Minister ot Sir John Mao-
donald's new administration, became tbe
McKinley of tbe new Government He
framed what is known as the "Lilley tariff,"
which raised the 17 per cent duties, as- a
rule, to 20 per cent, and put the duties on
certain articles as high as 25 and 30 per
cent, some readjustments having been made
by succeeding Financial Ministers.
The McKinley Law of Canada.
Under this law raw materials, such as
cotton, wool and waste, undressed hemp,
jute butts and cloth and raw silk plaits are
admitted free of duty. Iron wire, steel
rails, steel tor tires, files, skates, rigging,
eta, beams lor vessels and anchors, are also
on the iree list The duty on pig iron is
$4 50 per ton; on bar iron and boiler plate,
$13; rolled and sheet iron, 12J4 per ceut;
engines and machinery, 30 and 35 per cent;
boiler and other tubes, various.
The results of the adoption of a high tariff
have been but a fulfillment of a prophecy
made by Sir John Macdonald in a memora
ble debate in the Dominion Parliament in
the session of February-March, 1878. At
that session the Conservative members so
rattled Sir Eichard Cartright, Finance Min
ister that he moved that the speaker vacate
the chair. Sir John Macdonald moved an
amendment to Mr. Cartright's resolution to
this effect:
-That the Speaker do not leave the chair,
b'ut that this-House Is of 'the "opinion that
the welfare ot Canada requires the adoption ,
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CARTER IS PREPARED TO MAKE TELVGS LIVELY.
ota national policy which, by a Judicious
readjustment of the tariff, will benefit and
foster the agricultural, the miuinjr. the mumi
facturlni and qtheriuterestsoftne Domin
ion; that such a policy will retain In Canada
thousands of our tellow countrymen, now
obliged to expatriate tuemselves la search
of employment denied them at home: will
restore prosperity to our struggling indus
tries, now so satlly depressed; will prevent
Canada from being made a sacrifice market;
will enoourage and develop an active inter-
Srovinctal trade, and moving (as it ou?ht to
o) in the direction ot a reciprocity of tar
iffs with our neighbors, so far as the varied
lnteiests of Canada may demand, will tend
to produce for this country, eventually, a
reciprocity of trade.
The Effect ol the Policy.
Thus foreshadowed the impetus given to
trade by this policy has been wonderful, so
much so tbat the eminent Premier's esti
mate was not overdrawn. In the past 12 or
14 years millions of money has been inves
ted in machinery and buildings tor fac
tories. Their success has been all that
could be desired or expected and
the volume of business transacted shows'
tbat the management has been judicious.
Towns in all parts of the Dominion have
taken on a fresh spirit In such towns as
this enterprising one of Hamilton, with its
50,000 inhabitants, foundries, tanneries,
mills, breweries, glass works and machine
shops operated only intermittently prior to
1878,but under the protection of the national
policy establishments tor making cotton
fabrics, hosiery, hats, cordage, knitted
goods, eta, were added to the industries
and sewing machine factories, clothing
houses, merchandising establishments of all
kinds; stove foundries, tobacco factories,
machine shops and manufacture of hard
ware in great variety laid their foundations
or.extended their borders"on a liberal scale.
Tne same may be said of any of the towns in
the manufacturing districts."
Figures to Show for It.
To get down to figures one might note
"ihafoutwof the- 26 .cotton mills in the
Dominion 20 have 'been put in operation
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ALWAYS LEAD
THOSE FOLLOW WHO
AND COME IN AND PARTAKE OF IT
OUR $10
COUCH-.
They are beauties.
OUR TERMS ARE THE EASIEST,
OUR PRICES ARE THE LOWEST,
. OUR GOODS THE MOST RELIABLE.
Call and partake of the bargain feast
since. 1879. Of the 43 tweed factories,
flannel and knitting mills, 33 have been
established within the same period. In
1870 tbe bank deposits in the banks of the
Dominion amounted to $50,700,000. In
1890 they had increased to 5132,200,000, to
which might be added nearly a million more
in the savings and loan,postoffice savings and
other savings institutions. In 1890 there
was $8,049,158 worth of iron imported for
use in the varied manufacturing industries.
In the same year $4,473,088 worth of steel
was imported for the same purpose. The
total aggregate foreign trade of the Domin
ion for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890,
was $218,607,000, of which the imports
amounted to $121,858,000 and exports
$90,749,000. The dutiable imports con
stituted 70 per cent ot the total imports,
the total customs duties collected being
$24,014,000, an average of 27 percent The
United States and Great Britain furnished
nearly all of the imports. To be exact the
United States' quota was $52,292,000 and
that of Great Britain $43,390,000. The fig
ures for subsequent years are not yet avail
able, but there is every assurance from
those in a position to know that the in
crease on all lines has been as marked dur
ing the past 18 months as for any two years
previous.
What the Country Is To-Day.
That the business interests of the Domin
ion are prosperous can be recognized by any
observ&nt traveler. The only deterrent is a
fear, as already noted, that a change of gov
ernment will bring about a change of pol
icy. The Monetary Tones, a very influential
and conservative publication of its class,
thus summarizes its observations upon the
effect of the national policy, or "Lilley
tariff" as it is commonly called:
Tbe national policy was a hold stroke, in
some respects a necessary one, and it ha3
many enthusiastic defenders, notwithstand
ing that it taxes coat and breadstuff. Its
effects in building up manufacturing cen
ters, suc,b an Montreal, Cornwall, Peterboro,
Toronto, -Hamilton, Gate and others, have
This 1st onr $15 Chamber Salt.
It has no equal and is so con
ceded. See it.
SEE OUR
$30 PAELOR SUITS.
been marked and the Improvement of our
textile and yarions ktnus of metal, wood
and other manufactures has been extraor
dinary. The Finance Department of the Domin
ion has just issued a report showing the re
turns of the loan companies for the year
1891. These institutions are the farmer's
savings banks. From them he is enabled to
borrow money on real estate mortgage, and
the financial condition of the farmer is no
more clearly shown than by tbe condition
of these companies, as shown in their re
ports to the Government
The People Are Saving Money..
Thus in the year for which the most
recent report is issued it is found that the
loan companies received $24,764,000 front
their depositors and returned $23,987,000 to
them. The receipts from depositors was
$261,000 in excess of the previous year,
while tbey borrowed $625,000 less than in
1890. Tbe patrons of these companies paid
in principal and interest on these loans the
sum of $22,384,000, being an increase of
$1,845,000 over the previous year, which
sum substantially represents tbe improved
conditions of the farmers. The farmer
who pays up his interest and principal, it
is plain, has been making money.
Other figures just issued from official
sources present evidence of growing pros
perity in commercial lines. The exports
from the Dominion in the month of August,
1892, show a net increase in value of $3,289,
038 over those of August, 1891. The net
increase in July, 1892, was $1,418,411, so
that the total increase of exports in the first
two months of the present fiscal year was
$4,707,449. The increase in value of agri
cultural exports alone in Aurust, 1892, was
$974,816, and live stock and their products,
$903,613, figures showing that Canadian
farmers are not suffering seriously from a
' "robber tariff 1" Jomr L. Gatjs-
UPRIGHT FIAJTO, 8175.
Square Piano, S123. Organ, 300.
A splendid 7K octave, uprlgnt piano, used
but a short time, for $175. An excellent
square piano, in pood condition, only $113,
and one of the finest parlor organ", with
three sots of reeds, for $50.
J. iT. HopPMATfjr ft Co.,
537 Smtthfleld street.
Reduced Rates for Columbus Day Via
Pennsylvania Railroad.
In order that people may take advantage
of the coming holiday and the celebration
of Columbus Day, the Pennsylvania Ball
road will sell excursion tickets at a rate
of two cents a mile from all stations on the
main line and branches, to be good goins
Oetober20and21and returning October 21
The Best in tho Land.
We proclaim onr clothing for men of the
highest quality. The only thing tliat's cheap
are tho prices, which aro 'way down below
competition.
P. C. C. C, Clothiers, cor. Grant and Dia
mond streets.
EXPOSITION Black Patti, the musical
wonder of the age, tho colored phenome
non, afternoon and evening.
The horse goods and harness department
nt Solomon & Rnben'a will be a revelation
to fittsbursers as to what constitutes a first
class stock of tbe above lines. Read to
day's ad.
iTXE Carpets this week.
Inzer's ad. on second poe.
Bead Groom-
EXPOSITION Black Patti, the marvelous
colored songstress, the peerless African
queen of song, all weex.
The ladies will be delighted with Solomon
& Ruben's Cloak announcement.
Fixe Carpets this week.
inger's ad. on second page.
Bead Groets-
EXPOSITION Black Patti, the slngina
bird of two continents, every afternoon
and evening.
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The stamr savings bank, as In
Solomon &.&uben, will be a gre
jieao. to-aaysau.
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Ingrain Carpets as low
as 25c.
Tapestry Carpets 50c,
65c, 75c $l-
Remnants at less than
cost.
Largest line of Rugs in
the city.
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