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KHKK.-IT, Pa.
v. t-cii Cr.:--n uirvft. next Goor to lriuliiiit
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Dr.. P. F. MIAFFER,
tiiV;KIAS AM erP.'.EOV,
.-.-KUJ'KT, Pa.,
. tLs pf.fe?:nAl sei u ue ciuaeiii
- w :i v.ui.y oJice lit At (luur to
JJi IL s. KBIilELL,
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2V;-...- AXD SCRUKOX,
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f"- - w 1 -v irauou. Oii.ce ou Hain Kreel,
I J. S. M MILLEX,
viitc! ;.--;: ar.cuiioi! to tle pn-BerTatio of
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Oils! Oils!
5U: 1i.tJ Oi! Coie;bt. of Piluburcb, Pa,
--i.-,-!. ;r-(.l-T o: liAaiAi-iunufc ior lae
isT.e u-fce ttse tnott brauJa vl
I'kmiraiingtfc Lubricating Oils
Naphtha and Gasoline,
rr.t..e f-on Petroleum. . ,,ilexkg
FF.0DUCT OF PETROLEUM.
y! the moat uniformly
Satisfactory Oils
1" THE
-American larket,
A for oi-v Tra-l- for Sr-merset and Tidalty
zri-iieJ hy
cook rrrnrrs
rtSU.s Kx.iKR,
BoMAASTT, Pa.
i-.yr
5 FRAHKUH STREET.
JOHNSTOWN SUPPLY HOUSE.
JOHN H. WATERS &BR0.
PLUMBERS,
AZ2 CIS TaTTSLI
.V DOeMAiished in oor new building.
'. tin fi.!y nay. t the ueMrraua-ed tut
. '-J--'" ui e.-m IVttOTyivaoia.
. - pert;niii i0 picmtiins;. Steam
-tw cmed in ioca.
aforarly. pve cartM anention to
'aLf 'AM At' H,'T TLR KF.A1IXJ b
former eforu jn tti line eubrai-e
t JfiArsel buildings ia Uit county, with
h. U,e ct-pplt r.TTARniEVr we ca.tt a rail
v'?JI?ut',Tr"nd laiher Beiuur. Siea aad
ba ML. f - :ve-' Lu'iriratocs, 8teaia
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VOL. XLI. NO.
- THE -
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF
Somerset, Penn'a.
CAPITAL
SURPLUS
$50,000.
SS.OCO.
-O-
DEPOSITS RCCCIVEOIN LARCC AM 0 SMALL
" AMOUNTS. PAYABLE ON DEMAND.
ACCOUNTS Or M Eft CM ANTS FARMERS,
STOCK DEALERS, AND OTHERS SOLICITED.
-DISCOUNTS DAILY. -
BOARD OF DIRECTORS :
LaRc M. Hicss. W. H. Millis,
Javbs L. Pvgh, Chas. H. Fieukb,
Joh K. Scott, Gro. E. Ectlx,
Edwakd Scru, : :
Valestisb IIat, : :
Harvey M. Rtr.Ki.EY,
: : Pkesidkxt
Vic Pbbsiiiext
: : : Cashikb.
The funis nil Bpcuritiea of this tRB
are securely protectexl in a celebrated Cor
liss Burplar-proor t-aie. ine only ale
made absolutely Burglar-proof.
Somerset County Rational Ban
Of Somerset, Pa.
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EftAbHthtd, 1877. Orna'zed as I Kitioia!, 1390.
CAPITAL, $50,000.
Chas. J. Harrison, Pres't
Vm. H. Koontz, Vice Pres't.
Milton J. Pritts, Cashier.
Directors:
Sirfl Pnyd-r,
Jii!i ppeci.l.
J. l.n H. Miv-det,
Jo-.t h B. 1'iViA,
Wm. EndsSey.
J.-ma M I'uoi,
Jv,hn SiuiT..
Hamsur t-nyder,
Nufcli a. in-.er,
Jerome Eturv,
-tti "B. Ftarri-on.
CufVraoers ot this -:,t ws!i r-c-eire tSe roost
lpjerai trvauneat oonsittent with sale banaing.
Parties wi-hicr to send money eart or west can
b acoummuated by dralt lor any amooiii.
r- T-s1nnhlr secitrvd bT one of I)ie-
b...l tCcleurauJ Bates, with most approved time
lock.
CoilecUoTis made in all parts of the Catted
Siau- Cliariri-!- mJeraie.
Anoounu and LKiiosiis solicted. mara
FANCY
WORK.
Some Great Bargains in
IRISH POINT LUNCH
AND TRAY CLOTHS
BongLt ik-Iow cost of transportation
we are selline at pn-at bargains white
and colored JWdljrd Cord Table Cov
ers, stamped ready fr workinp. Sing
ed Canton Flannel Table and Cush
ion Covers, Sinpel Plush Cushion
Vivr. Hartrarran Art Cloth Table
and Cushion Covers, all stamped
with Newest Itesisrns ; Hero-stitched
Hot Biscuit and lioll Napkins. A
renv and larpe line of heui-etitcbed
Tray and Carving Cloths front GOcta
Stamped Hem-stitched Scarfa from 35cU
.. .. r ' 1
nn. lih e t overa irora ou cts. ut. a.
full line of Figured
INDIA SILKS,
All New I'auerns and Colorings. Also,
Figured Plush,
2i and r-T inches wide, in beautiful Color
and lesV: s. Art j-atin t-:t:ares for the
Centrai I overs and Cu-Lion Covers.
"Wabaii IsTetting",
inches wije, M cents per yard, in Pink,
t. t-ii I- x-r?i
iii.ie, Uiive ana leiiow. int.
THING for irrspine Mantlaa and
lioors. and for lrap;ng Over
D-arieries. A new liue of
IIt-ad-re?"t!t. Irorc iV up.
Vi;t or.r Tahie I.irien. Towel. Napkins,
Muslin, Sheeting and Linen Department, by
all means.
41 FIFTH AVENTE, Pittsburgh, Ta.
h B,
GENUINE
India Silks.
A large collcctioa of fine ones,
23 inches wi-Ie,
50 CENTS.
Send if yoa want any. It's just
as much to your interest to Luy aa
ours to sell, vLen there is a
chance to pet such handsome
riilXTED IN'DLV SILI stylish
patterns and color combinations
at these prices.
More ieoplo are buying PLAIN
FINE SOLID 13 LACK INDIAS
Ieople that are not in mourning
than ever before, not only for
Etreet and house, but for
Traveling: Dresses.
"We offor as extraordinary, 50
pieces Tlain Black Indias,
21 1 Yiic, - 50 cents.
21 Ma Yiile, 65 cents.
Values beyond anything here
tofore fold.
HOME
TOD
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Boggs & Buhl,
115, 117, 119 and 121 Fe-irui
ALLEGHENY, Pd.
13.
Good News!
Ko one, who is irfiling to adopt the right
course, oeed be long afflicted with boils, car.
buttcle. pimples, or other cutaneous erun
tious. Tuese are the result! of Nature's ef
forts to expel poisonous and cBete Biatter
Iron tlie bloo-1. aud show pbtinly that the
system is rkMmg rtnelf through the sain of
iuiHirities which K was the k-p;imate work
c tlie liver and kidneys to remove. To re
store these organs to llielr prprr functions,
A jet's harsapuilla fc the niediciue required.
That uo other l-hmdunticr can n-inparo
with it, thousands teufy who have suued
Freedom
from the tyrann, of depraved blood by the
use of this medicine.
" F nine years 1 was afflicted with a skin
disease that did not yield to any remedy
until a friend advised me to try A ver's Sansa
parilla. With tlie use of this medicine the
complaint disapieared. It t my belief tltat
no other blood medicine could Lave effected
so rapid and complete a cure. Andres
D. Garcia. C. Victoria, Tainau!iis. Mi-xico.
My face, for years, was covered with pim
ples and humors, for which I could flud no
remedy till I bepin to lake Ayer's Saria
rilla. Three bottles of tliu frreat Llnod
eine effected a thorough cure. I eouBJeiuly
recommrad It to all suffennir from sinul
trou'jlts." M. Parker, Concord, Vk
Ayer's
Sarsaparilla,
rnerAcin r.r
US. J. C. A TEE & CO., LoTreli, TCizz.
fcuid br IriiiUu. Worth iii !-::. o-
Knepper
o ' "n
a reiuei
have the pleasure of annou-jcing
the arrival of Fall and W inter
Goods, all selected with great
care in which quality has not
been sacrificed for cheapness.
Clothing and
Overcoats.
3iiceet and Cheapest.
DRY
T
GOODS.
Eancy and Staple Dress Goods of
all class from Silk, Warp, Hen
riettas down to Calicoes, all of
very choice designs, yet moderate
cost.
Just unloaded a handsome stock of
Carpets, Rugs, Oil Cloths, etc.,
for Fall Season, at close margins,
which means close prices.
We take pains to keep up a fine line
ofGents' Furnishings, Ilats, Caps,
etc., and a great variety of Un
derwear of nearly every descrip
tion. Don't fail to inquire of ns for
Trunks, Valises, Feathers.
Cork Shavings,
or anything yon may need.
"We ask you for your trade this
season, leeunsr conudent ot our
ability to serve yoa with the very
best at lowest prices,
Respectfully,
KNEPPER & FERNER,
One Door North of rostoCice.
FIUfT ME ID TIKI CI.
121 & 123 Fourth. Ave,
PITTSBURGH, PA.
Capital - - .
FTJX.1L, P-AJLD.
Undivided Profits f 130,000.
INSURES TITLE TO REAL ESTATE-
Authorized to act as
Exftntor, AtmlnintraUr, tiaardlao,
Tratee, Assignee, Kecelver, it.
DEALS IX
RELIABLE INVESTMENT SECURITIES.
Rents boxes in its Superior Vaults from
(5.00 per annum upwards.
Receives deposits and loans on mort
gages and approved collaterals.
JOHN B. JACKSON, - President
JAMES J. PONNELL, Vke President,
a B. McVAY. - Secretary and Ties
omer
SOMERSET, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1892.
S'S LETTER
OF ACCEPTASCE
All the Political Issues of the
Day Discussed by the
President.
BENEFITS OF PROTECTION PROVED,
Statistics Produced to Show the
Danger of a Free Trade Policy.
IDEAS ABOUT FREE SILVER
Blaine Praised for His Successful
Reciprocity Schemes.
What the Chief Executive Says
of the Federal Elections BUI.
How Industries of All Kinds Have Been
Fostered, and How the McKinley Bill
Ha Aided the Firmer Growth of the
Tin Pltte Manufacturers a Few Words
About Civil Service, Public Schools,
Our Relations With Foreign Powers,
and Other National Affair.
WAsniNGTOx, Sept. 5. President Har
rison's letter accepting a renorr.ination as
the IU?pubiican cunoiJate for President
was made public to-day .
It is as follows :
Washikotox, Sept. 3,
Hon. William MeKMty, Jr., and Otiicrt,
CommiUte, etc-
Oextlemes: I now avail mynelf of
the firat period of relief from public do-
ties to respond to tLe notification which
you brought to me cn Jane 20, of my
nomination for the office of the President
of the United States by the Republican
National Convention recently held at
Minneapolis.
I accept the Domination and am grate
ful for the approval expreasei by the
Convention of the acta of the administra
tion. I bavt endeavored without waver
ing on w eariness, so fur as the direction
of public affairs was committed to me, to
carry out the pledges made to the reople
ia If the politics of the adminis
ration have not been distinctively and
pmgresstvely Aneriean and Republican
politics, the fault hai not been in the
purpose but in the execution.
A CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.
I shall steak frankly of the legislation
of Conjreas and of the work of the exec
utive departments, for the credit of any
successes that have been attained is in
such "measure due toothers Senators
and Representatives, and to the efficient
heads of the several executive depart
ments that I may do so witbout im
propriety. A vote of want of confidence
is asked by onr adversaries, and this chal
lenge to a review of what has been done
we promptly and gladly accept.
The great work of the Fifty-first Con
gress has been su! jotted to the revision
of a Democratic House of Represents
tives and the acts of the executive de
partment to its scrutiny and its investi
gation.
A Democratic National administration
was succeeded by a Republican adminis
tration, and the freshness of the events'
gives unusual facilities for fair compari
son and judgment. There has seldom
been a time, I think, when a change
from the declared policies of the Repub
lican to the declared policies of the Dera
ocratic party involved such serious results
to tlie business interests of the country,
A brief review of what has been done
and of what the Democratic party pro
poses to undo will justify this opinion.
THE XATiOXAL CVBBE.NCV.
The Republican party d'irinzihe civil
w ar devised a national currency, consist
ing of United States notes, issued and re
deemable by the government, and of na
tional bank notes based upon the secur
ity of United States bonds. A tax was
levied upon the issues of State banks and
the intended result, thai all such issues
should be withdrawn, was realized.
There are men among cs now who nev
er saw a .State bank note. The notes fur
nished directly or indirectly by the Uni
ted States have been the only and the
safe and acceptable paper currency of the
people.
Bank failures have brought no fright,
delay or los3 to the bill-holders. The
uote of an insolvent bank is as good and
as current as a treasury nots for the
credit of the United States is .behind it.
Our money is all national money I
might almost say international, for these
bills sre not only equally and indiscrim
inately accepted at par in all the States,
but in some foreign cocntriea.
The Democratic party if intrusted
with the control of the government, is
now pledged to rep-'al the tax on State
bank Lues with a view to putting into
circulation again, under such diverse leg
islation arf the States may adopt, a flood
of local bank issues. Only those who,
in the years before the war experienced
the incovenience and losses attendant
upon the use of such money, can appre
ciate what a return to that system in
volves.
DATS 07 AXXJKTT.
The denomination of a bill was then
often no indication of its value. The
bank director of yesterday was not ft
safe guide to-day as to credit or values.
Merchants depositing several times dur
ing the day, lest the hour of bank clos
ing should show a depreciation of the
money taken in the morning. The trav
eler could not use in ft journey to the
East the Leues of the most solvent banks
of the West; and in consequence ft mon
ey changer's office was the familiar
neighbor of the ticket office and the
lunch counter. The farmer and the la
borer found the money received for their
products or their labor depreciate when
they came to make the:r purchases, and
the whole business of the country was
hindered and burdened.
Changes may become necessary, but a
national system of currency safe and
acceptable throughout the whole conn
try is the good fruit of bitter experience,
and I am sure our people will not con
sent to the reactionary proposal made by
the Democratic party,
era ocxax tkape. j
Few subjects have elicited more dis- I
cussion or excited more general interest
than that of ft recovery by the United
States of its appropriate share of the
rOU ill
ESTABLISHED 1827.
ocean carrying trade. This subject touch
es not only our pockets, but our national
pride. Practically all the freights for
transporting to Europe the enormous an
nual supply of provisions furnished by
this country, and for the large return of
manufactured products, have for many
yeais been paid to foreign ship-owners.
Thousands of immigrants annually seek
ing homes under our fiag have been de
nied the sight of it until they entered
Sandy Hook, while increasing thous
ands of American citizens bent on lie ra
pes n travel have each year stepped into
a foreign jurisdiction at the New York
docks. The merchandise balance of
trade, which the Treasury books show,
is largely reduced by the annual tribute
which we psy for freight and passage
monies.
The great ships the factest upon the
sea which are now ia peace profitin
by our trade are, in ft secondary sense,
war ships of their respective govern
ments and in time of war would, undt-r
existing contracts with those govern
meets, speedily take on the guns for
which their decks are already prepared
and enter with terrible efficiency upon
the work of destroying cur commerce.
The undisputed fact is that the great
steamship lines of Europe were built up
and are now in part s-jetained by direct
or indirect government aid the latter
taking the form of liberal pay for carry
ing the mails, or of an annual bonus giv
en in consideration of agreements to con
struct the ships so as to adopt them fur
carrying an armament and to turn them
over to the government on demand up
on specified terms. i
STEAMSHIP St BSIDES.
It is plain to every intelligent Ameri
can that if the United States would have
such lines, a similar policy must be enter
ed upon. The Fifty-tirst Congress enacted
such a law and under Us beneficent influ
ence sixteen American steamships of an
aggregate tonnage of 07,400 tons and cost
ing (7,400,000 have been built or con
tracted to be built In American ship
yarus. in addition to this, it is tow
practically certain that we shall soon
have, under the American ilag, one of the
finest steamship lines sailing out of New
York for any European port.
This contract will result in the con
struction in American yards of four new
passenger steamships of 10,000 tons each,
citing about ?S,000,030, and will aJ-1 to
our naval reserve sis steamsliipe, the
tistett upon the sea. A special interest
has been takes by me in the establish
ment of lines from our South Atlantic
and Gulf ports; and, though my expec
tations have not yet been realized, atten
tion has been called to the advantages
possessed by these ports, and whe-. their
people ere more fully alive to their inter
ests I do cot doubt that they will be able
to secure the capital needed to enable
them to profit by their great natural ad
vantages. The Democratic party has found no
place in its platform for any reference to
this subject and has shown its hostility
to the general policy by refusing to ex
pend an appropriation made during the
last administration for ocean Imai! con
tracts with American lines. The patri
otic people, the workmen in our 6hops,
the capitalists seeking new enterprise?,
must decide whether the great ships
owned by Americans which have sought
American registry shall again humbly
ask ft place in the English naval service ;
the great ships now on the designers' ta
bles go to foreign shops for construction
and the United States lose the now
brightening opportunity cf recovering a
place commensurate with its wealth, the
skill of its constructors and the courage
of its sailors, in the carrying trade of all
the seas.
VEXEF1TS OK RECirSOCITT.
Another related measure, as furnish
ing an increased open traffic for our
ships, and of great and permanent bene
fit to the farmers and manufacturers as
well, is the reciprocity policy declared
by Section 3 of the Tariff act of island
now in practical operation with five of
the nations of Central and South Ameri
ca, San Domingo, the Spanish and Brit
ish West India Islands, and with Ger
many and Austria, under special trade
arrangements with each.
The removal of the duty upon sugar
and the continuance of coffee and tea
upon the free list, while giving great re
lief to our people by cheapening articles
used increasingly in every household,
was also of such enormous advantage to
the countries exporting these articles, as
to suggest that in consideration thereof a
reciprocal favor should be shown in their
tariffto articles exported by us to their
markets.
GREAT CREDIT 1C"E T- BLAIXE.
Great credit is due to Mr. Blaine for
the vigor with which he pressed this
view upon the country. Wo Lave only
begun to realize the benefit of these trade
arrangements. The work of creating
new agencies and of adapting our goods
to new markets has neceasan-y tuaen
time, and the refulis already obtained
are such, I am sure, as to establish ia
popular favor the policy of reciprocal
trade, based upon the free importation
ofsuch articles sj do not injuriously
compete with the products of our own
farms, mines or factories, ia exchange
for the free or favored introduction of
our products into other countries.
The obvious efficiency of this policy.
in increasing the foreign trade of the
United States, at once attracted the
alarmed attention of European trade
journals and boards of trade. The Brit
ish Board of trade has presented to that
government memorial asking for the
appointment of a commission to consider
the best means of counteracting what is
called u The commercUl crusade of the
United States." At ft meeting held in
March last of the Associated Chambers
of Commerce of Great Britain, the presi
dent reported that the exports from
Great Britain to the Latin American
countries during the last year had de
creased $23,750,000 and that this was not
due to temporary causes, but directly to
the reciprocity policy of the United
States. Germany and France have also
shown their startled appreciation of the
fact that a new and vigorous contestant
has appeared in the battle of the mar-1
kets and has already secured important
advantages.
WHY TBADE IXCEEASED.
The most convincing evidence of the
tremendous commercial strength of our
position is found in the fact that Great
BriUin and Spain have found it necessa
ry to make reciprocal trale agreements
with as for their West India colonies, and
that Germany and Austria have given
us important concessions in exchange for
the continued free importation of their
beet sugar. A few details only as to the
increase of our trade can be given here.
Taking all the countries with which
arrangements have been made our trade
to June 30, IS!2, has increased 23. 7S per
cent. With Brazil the increase was near
ly U per cent.; with Cub3, during the
first ten months, our exports inc eased
Jj,702,lG3, or per cent, and with
Torto Rico, f ;a0,053, or 34 per cent. The
liberal participation of our farmers in
the benefits of this policy is shown in tlie
follow ing report from our Consul General
at Havana under date of July 20 last:
"During the first half year of Dl Ha
vana received 140,050 bags of flour from
Spain and other ports of the island about
an equal amount, or approximately 20,
112 Lags.
' During the same period Havana te
ceived 13,97tj bags of American fiour and
other porta approximately an equal
amount, making about 2S.00O bags.
"But for the first half of this year, Spain
has sent less than 1000 bags to the whole
Uiand and the United States has sent to
Havana alone MS, 17 hagi and alnmt au
equal amount to other ports of the isl
and, making approximately 317,000 for
the first half of lSt'2."
Tartly by reason of the reciprocal
trade agreement, but more largely by
reason of the removal of the sanitary re
strictions upun American pork, our ex
port of pork products to Germany in
creased during the ten months ending
June 30 last f2J5,074, or about 32 per
cent.
The Urulth Trnd J-mmtil, of Ijondon,
in ft recent issue, speaking of the increase
of American coal exports and of the fall
ing off of the English coal exports to Cu
ba, says :
"It is another case of American compe
tition. The United States now supply
Cuba with about 150,000 tons of ccal an
nually, and there is every proejct of
this trade increasing as the forests of the
bland become exhausted and the use cf
steam machinery on the sugar estates is
developed. Alabama coal especially is
securing a reputation in the SpauL-h
West Indies, aDd the river and rail im
provements of the Southern States wiii
undoubtedly create an important guif
trade. TLe new reciprocity policy by
which the United Sutjs are enabled to
import Cuban sugar will, of course, assist
the American coal exporter even more
effectively than the new lines of railway.
KEMlM'BATS FRIGHTENED.
The Iemocratic platform promises a
repeal of the taril law containing this
provision, and especially denounces a5 a
sham reciprocity" that secti .a of the
law under which these trade arrange
ments have been made. If no other is
sue were involved in the campaign this
alone would give it momentous import
ance. Are the farmers of the great grain
grow ing states willing to surrender these
new, large and increasing markets for
their surplus ? Are we to have nothing
in exchange for the free importation cf
sugar and coffee, and at the same time to
destroy the sujar plantcs of the South
and the beet sugar industry of the North
west and of the FaciSc coast, or ara we
to have the taxed sugar and corfee which
tariff f-jr revenue only" necessarily in
volves, with the added loss of the new
markets which have been opened?
As I Lave shown, our commercial ri
vals in Europe do not regard this reci
procity policy as a "sham" but as a seri
ous threat to a trade? p opremacy they
have long enjoyed. They would rejoice,
and, if prudence did not restrain, would
illuminate their depressed manufacturing
cities over the news that the United
States had abandoned its system of pro
tection and reciprocity. They see very
clearly that a restriction of American
production and trade and a correspond
ing increase of European production and
trade would fallow, and I will not be
lieve that what is so plain to them can
be hidden from our own people.
PROTECTION FAVORED.
The declaration of the platform in fa
vor of the "American doctrine of protec
tion meets my mort hearty approval.
The convention did not adopt ft sched
ule, but a principle that is to control ail
tariff schedules. There may be differen
ces cf opinion among protectionists as to
the rate upon particular articles necetsa-
ry to effect an equalization between wa
ges abroad and at home. In some not
remote national campaigns, the issue has
been, or, more correctly, has been made
to appear to be between a high and
low protective tariff both parties ex
pressing some solicitous regard for the
wages of our working people and fr the
prosperity of our domestic industries.
But, under more courageous Ie&deT-
ship, tlie Democratic patty has now
practically declared that, if given power,
it will enact a tarifflaw without any re
gard to its effect opoa wages or upon the
capital invested in our great industries.
The majority report cf the common plat
form to the Democratic National Con
vention, at Chicago, conUined this
clause :
That when custom house taxation is
levied upon articles of any hind produc
ed in this country, the difference be
tween the cost of labor here and labor
abroad, when euch difference existt,
fully measures any possible benc-tits to
labor and the enormous additional impo
sitions of the existing tariff fall with
crushing force upon our farmers and
workingmen.
DEMOCRATS ADMIT IT.
Here we have a distinct admission of
the Republican contention that Auien
can wotkmen are advantaged by ft tariff
rate equal to the difference between
home and foreign wages, and ft declara
tion only against the alleged "additional
impositions" of the existing tariff law.
Again, this majority report further de-
dared :
But in making a reduction in taxes, it
is not proposed to injure any domestic
Industrie, but rather to promote their
healthy growth. Moreover, many indus
tries have come to rely upon legislation
for successful continuance, so that any
change of law must beat every step re
gardful of the labor and the capital thus
involved."
Here we have an admission that many
of our industries depend upon protective
duties "for their successful continuance"
and a declaration that tariff chaoges
should be regardful of the workmen in
such industries and of the invested capital.
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DAXGEKS OF FRER TRADE.
The overwhelming rejection of these
propositions, which had before received
the sanction of Democratic National Con
ventions, was not more indicative of the
new and more courageous leadership to
which the party has now committed its
elf than the substitute which was adopt
ed. This substitute declares that pro
tective duties are unconstitutional high
protection, low protection all unconsti
tutional. A Democratic Congress holding this
view cannot enact, nor ft Democratic
President approve any tariff schedule,
the purpose or effect of which is to limit
importations or to give any advantage to
an American workman or producer. A
bounty might, I judge, be given to the
importer under this view of the Consti
tution, in order to increase importations,
and so the revenue for "revenue only
is the limitation.
Reciprocity, of course, falls under this
denunciation, for its objact and effect are
not revenue, but the promotion tt com
mercial exchanges, the profits of which
go wholly i our producers. This destruc
tive, un-American doctrine was not held
or taught by tie historic lemocralic
statesmen whose fame as American pa
triots ha3 reached tins generation, cer
tainly not by Jefferson or Jackson.
This mad crusade against American
shops, the Litter epithet applied to
American manufacturers, the persistent
disbelief of every report of the opening
of a tin-plate mill or of an increase of our
foreign trade by reciprocity are as sur
prising as they are discreditable.
There is not a thoughtful business man
in the country who does not know that
the enactment into law of the declara
tion of the Chicago convention upon the
subject of the tariff w ould at once piungo
the country into a business convulsion
such as it ha) never seen ; and there ia
not a thoughtful workingman who dies
not know that it would at once enor
mously reduce the amount of of work to
be done in this country by the increase
of importations that would follow and
necessitate a reduction of his w ages to the
European standard.
If anyone suggests that this radical
policy will not be executed if the Demo
cratic rarty attains power, what shall be
thought of a party that is thus capable
of trifling with great interests? The
threat ofsuch legislation would be only
less hurtful than the fact. A distinguish
ed Democrat rightly described this move
ment as a challen-e to the protected in
dustries to a fight of extermination, and
another sucn rightly expressed the logic
of the situation when he interpreted the
Chicago platform to be tn invitation t
ail Democrats holding even the most
moderate protection views to g o into the
Republican party.
K.VIST1XO TARIFF LAWS.
And now a few words in regard to the
existing tarifflaw. We are, fortunately,
able to judge of its influence upon pro
duction and prices by the market reports.
The Jay of the prophet of calamity has
been succeeded by that of the trade re
porter. An examination into the effect
of the law upon the prices f protected
products an d of the cos, af such articles
as enter into the livicgof people of small
means has been made by a Senate com
mittee, composed of leading Senators of
both parties, with the aid of the best sta
tisticians and the report cigned by all the
members of the committee has been giv
en to the puhl:c. No such wide and care
ful inquiry has ever before been made.
There facts appear from the report :
First. The cost of articles entering in
to the use of those earning less than one
thousand dollars per annum has decrees
ed up to May, l".r2, 3.4 percent., ahile in
farm products there Las been an increase
ia prices, owing, in part, to an increased
foreign demand and the opening of new
markets. In Eng'and, during the same
period, the cot of living increased 1.4
percent Tested by their power to pur
chase articles of necesMty, the earnings
of our working people hsve never been
as great as they are now.
Second. There has been an average
advance in the rate o! wages of .75 of one
per cent.
Third. There has been an advance ia
tlie price cf all farm products of l?.67per
cent and ol all cereals 33.53 per cent.
COK0BuRATEJ BY A DEMOCRAT.
The ninth annual report of the Chief of
the Bureau of Labor Stat istics of the state
of New York, a Dem ocratic officer, very
recently u-saed, strongly corroborate as
to that State, the facts found by the Sen
ate committee. His extended inquiry
shows thai in the year immediately fol
lowing the passage of the tariff act of
ISiiO, the aj; regale sura paid in wages in
that State was $-5,377,02 in excess, and
the aggregate production $.11,315,139 in
excess cf the prece ling year.
In view of this showing of an increase
in wagos, of a reduction in the cost of ar
ticles of common neces.ty, ana of ft
marked advance in the prices of agricult
ural products, it is plain that this tariff
Law has not imposed burdens, but has
conferred benefits, upon the farmer and
the workiegman.
Some special effects of the act should
be noticed. It was a courageous attempt
to rid our people of ft long maintained
foreign monopoly in the production i
tin plate, pearl buttons, silk plash, lin
ens, lace, etc Once or twice in our his
tory the production of tin plate had been
attempted and prices obtained by the
Welsh makers would have ekahied
our makers to produce it at a
pro St. But the Welsh makers at once
cut prices to ft point that drove the
American beginners out of the business;
and, when this was accomplished, again
made their own prices.
TUB T1X I'iSTE 1XDISTKV.
A correspondent of the IwUulrinl W'jriJ,
the official organ of the Welsh tin plate
workers, published at Swansea, in the is
sue of June 10, K'2, advised a new trial
of these methods. He says :
"Do not be deceived. The victory of
the Republicans at the polls means the
rentention of the McKinley bill, and
means the rapidly accruiug lose of the SO
per cent, of the export American trade.
Had there been no Democratic victory in
the spread of the tin plate manufact
ure in the United States would have been
both rapid and bona fide. It is not too
late to do something ti reduce the price
f p'.afes. Put them down to lis per
boxoflC 14x20, full weight basis. Let
the workmen take half pay for ft few
months aud turn out more. Then let the
masters forego profit fjrthesunij time."
And again that paper aavs : "It ia
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clearly the interest of both (employer
and workmen) to produce tin plates, tariff
or no tariff, at a price that will drive all
competitors from the field."
But, in spite of the doubts raised by
the election of IS JO aed of the machi
nations of foreign producers to main
tain their monopoly, the tin plate in
dustry has been established in the United
States and the alliance between the
Wehh producers and the Democratic par
ty for its destruction will not succeed.
THE OFFICIAL RETl'K.NS.
The official returns to the Treasury De
partment of the production of tin and
tin plates in the United Suites during
the last fiscal year show total product
ion of 13,240,530 pounds and a compari
son of the first quarter, 126,922 pounds
with the last, S,0u0,000 pounds, show the
rapid development of the industry. Over
5,000,000 pounds during the last quarter
were made from American black plates
the remainder from foreign plates. Mr.
Ayer, the Treasury agent in charge, esti
mates as the result of careful inquiry,
the the production of the current year
will be l.Onu.OOO pounds and that by the
end of the year our production will be at
the rate of 200,000,000 pounds perannum.
Another industry that has been practi
cally created by the McKinley bill is the
making of pearl buttons. Few articles
coming to us from abroad were so dis
tinctly the product of starvation waes.
But, without unduly extending this
letter, I cannot follow in detail the influ
ences of the tariff law of 1SX It Las
transplanted several important industries
and established them here and has re
ived or enlarged ail others. The act
gives to the miners protection against
foreign silver-bearing lead ores, the f;ee
introduction of which threatened the
great mining industries of the liocky
Mountain States ; and to the wool grow
ers protection for their fleeces and flocks,
which has saved them from a further
and disastrous decline.
The House of Representatives, at its
last session, passed bills placing these
ores and wool upon the free list. The
people cf the West will know how de
structive to their prosperity these meas
ures would be. This tariff law has given
employment to many thousands of A mer
can mea and women, and will each year
give employment to increasing thousands.
Its repeal woul-l throw thousands out cf
employment and give work to others only
at reduced wages.
APPEALS OF FREE TBADK!--..
The appeals of the free traders to tht
workingman are largely addressed to his
prejudices or to his passions, and not in
frequently are pronouncedly communis
tic The new Democratic leadership
rages at the employer, and seeks to com-
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- . , ., , i effective response. .Many times I have
are not just and considerate, and that!. . :,, . , , ,
' I had occasion to say the laws and elec-
capital sometimes take too lar-e a share -.- .t , i , . r - i
r a i timi inetnrM!. item .ne.l til i!nf;iir a.l-
of the profits.
I do not see that these evils will be
ameliorated by a free trade policy, the
firt necessarv effect of which is severe
age cut, and the second a larg- diminu
tion of the aggregate amount of work to I
be done in this country. If the injustice j
of his employer tetrpts the workman to
strike buck, Le should be very sure Lis j
blow d-esnot fail upon his own head, or !
upon Lis wife and chilJren. The work
men in our great industries. asaUiv,
are remarkably intelligent and are lowers
of home and country. They may by
roused bv injustice, or hat t-ems to
them to bo such, or be led for the mo- '
mei't by others into acts of passion, but !
they will settle the tai iff contest iu the j
calm li;:ht of their ..ovemtier firesides
and with sole reference to the prosjurity !
of the country of which they are citizens !
and of the homes they have founded for j
their wives and children.
No intelligent alvca'e of a protect
ive tariff iljiius it is able, of itself to
maintain a uniform rate of wage with
out re-gard to fluctuations in tne supply
of an-.l demand for the products of labor.
But it is confidently claimed that protect
ive duties strong'y tend to hold up waes,
and are the only barrier against ft reduc
tion to the European scale.
INTEitESTS OF THE SOl'TII.
The Southern States have had a liber
al participation ia the benefits of the
tariff law,' and, tbrourti their representa
tives have generaliy opposed the protec
tion policy, I rejoice that their sugar, rice
coal, ores, iron, fruits, cotton clothes and t
other products have not been left to the
fate which the votes cf their represenU
tivea would have brought upon them.
Ia the construction of the Nicaragua Ca
nal, in the new trade with South and
Central America, in the establishment of
American steamship line?, these States
have also special interest, and all these
interests will not alays consent to be
without representation at Washington.
Shrewdly, but not quite fairly, our ad
versaries speak only of the ict reaped da
ties imposed u- on tin, fearl buttons and
ether articles by the McKinley bill, and
omit altogether any reference to the great
and Leiieiicial enlargement of the free
list.
I'uring the la-t fiscal year (0,775
worth of merchandise, or 55.:!" per ccat,
of our total importation, came in free
(the largest percentrge in our history ; ;
while in l-W the per cent of free impor
tations was only 24 42 per cent.
The placing cf sugar upon the free list
has saved to the consumer ia duties in
fifteen months, af.er paying the bounties
provided for, 7,000,0oa This relief has
been substantially felt in every house
hold, upon every Saturday 'a purchase of
the wotkingman.
MAKE KTS OF THE WORLD.
One of the favorite arguments ag liiist
ft protective tariff is thai it shuts us out
from a participation in what is called
with swelling emphasis, "The markets of
the world." If this view is not ft false
one, how does it happen that our com
mercial com petitors are not ab'e to bear
with more serenity our supposed surrend
er to them of the "markets of the
world?" and how djs it happen that
the partial loss of our market closes for
eign tin-plate mills at.d plush factories
that still have other markets ?
Oar natural advantages, our protective
tariff and the reciprocity policy, makes it
possible fur as to have ft large participa
tion in the "markets of the world," with
out opening our own to ft competition
that would destroy the comfort and inde
pendence of oar people.
Bl-JIETALLISM.
The resolution of the convention in fa
vor of bi-metaliism declares, I think, the
true and necessary conditions of ft move-
ment that hax, upon these iiaea, my cor
dial adherence and support. I am thor
oughly convinced that the free coinage of
silver at such a ratio to gold as will main
tain the equality ia their commercial
aw vt the two coined dollars, would
conduce to the prosperity of all the great
producing and commercial nations of the
world.
The one es-nti! condition ia that
these dollars shall have and retain an
equal acceptability aud value in ail com
mercial transactions. They are cot only
ft medium cf exchange, but a measure of
values; and, when two unequal measures
are called ia law by the same, commerce
is unsettled and confused, and the un
wary and ignorant are cheated. Dollars
of unequal commercial value will not cir
culate together. The better dollar is
withdrawn and becomes merchandise.
The true interest of all our people and
especially of the farmers and working
people, who cannot closely observed the
money market, is that every dollar, paper
or coin, issued or authorized by the gov
ernment shall at ail times and in ail
its uses be the exact equivalent, not only
in debt paying, but in purchasing power,
of any other dollar.
I am quite sure that if we should no
act upon this sul ject ia-Icjivndent'y of
other nations, we would greatly promote
their interests and injure our own. The
monetery conditions in Europe within
the last two years have, I think, ten-led
very much to develop ft sentiment in fa
vor of larger u? of silver, and I was
much pleased and encouraged by the
cordiality, promptness and unanimity
with which the invitation of this govern
ment lor an mternatiooai conlerenctt
upon this subject was accepted by all
powers. We may not only hope fc-r bat
expect highly beneticiai results from this
conference, which will now soon assem
ble. When the result of the conference
is known, we shall then be able intelli
gently to re-adjust our financial legisla
tion to any w conditions.
THE ELECTION SYSTEMS.
Ia my last annual message to Congress.
I said: "I must yet entertain the hot. e
that it is possible t secure a Cai n, patri
otic consideration of such constitutional
or statutory changes as may be necessary
to secure the choice of the officers of the
government to the people by fair appor
tionments and free elections. I believe
it would be possible to constitute a com
miseion, nonpartisan in its membership
and composed of patriotic and w ise and
impartial men, to whom a consi.leratiou
of the questions of the evils connected
with our election systems and methoos
be committed w ith a good prospect of
securing unanimity in some plan for re
moving or mitigating those evils.
The Constitution would permit the se
lection of the commission to bo vested in
the Supreme Court, if that method would
give the best guaranty of impartiality.
This commission sho'd be charged ith
the duty of inquiring into the whole sub
ject of the law of elections as related to
the choice of oihcersof the National rov
ercment, with a view to securing to
every elector a free and .uuicolested ex-erci-e
of the suffrage and es near an ap
proach to an eqiaiity cf vaiue in each
ballot cast as is attainable.
The demand that the limitations of
su:rra0 shall be fuund in the law, and
only there, is a just demand, and no just
man sbouid resent or resist it.
THE AUlitM.t ELElTIoX.
It seemed to me that aa appeal to our
people to consider the question of read
justing our legislation upon absolutely
f fitr. non-riariiiuri Iinea ni-.iht lm.! tiii
vantages to the party making them,
would some time be used to perpetuate
in power a faction of a party against the
wiiiofthe majority of the people. Of
this we stem to have an illustration in
the receut State election in Alabani.
Tliere was no Republican ticket iu the
field. Tlie contt was Utacen while
Democrats. The Kolh party say they
were refused the representation guaran
teed by law upon tt.e election boards,
and that when the corrta, by mandamus,
attempted t ) right this wrong, an appeal
that could not be Lear 1 unt.l after the
election made the rits iieffec!ual. l!ji-lot-boxes
were thrown cut for aiiegf-d ir
regiiiarities or destmye I ; and it is as.-rt-ed
on behalf cf one-lialf, at least, of the
white Vetera of A!alauia lht the oiiicers)
to whom certificates have been given
were not honestly elected. There U no
security for the personal or nobtiial
rights of any man in acrmmcn'ty hete
I an. o'.iier rata ia deprived of his p--:soa-
ai rights.
The power of the Stales over the que
tion of qualification of electors is ample
to protect them against the dangers of an
ignorant or depravel suffrage, and the
demand that every man found to be
qualified under the law shail be ma.!e
secure in the rijht to coat a free balle t
and to have that ballot honestly couuted
cann:.t Le ahated.
FoSFUEK AND RoXEMT BALLoTS,
Our oil Pepublican battle cry, "a free
ballot and a fair count," comes back to u-
not only froTi Alabama bat from other
Mates, and from men who. differing wita
unwidely in opinions, luive come to se.
that parties aa-i political debate are but
uvx-kery if, when the dehite is en-led
the judg-u-.tnt of hoa-jt ci.ijiritl-'s h to
b nv?rsl by ba'bit box f.-a i U and
tally sheets manipulations ia thi inter-;
'f the party or party fartlon in piwer.
Thesv ne political movea?nts iat;i
States, and the recent decisions ofam",
of ths "tAte eot.-ts agi'nsl unfair appor
tionment laws, enciura.-r tlie h pt; that
the arbitrary aa-l pirti-an tirction Iaw
an 1 pract: -s which h tve p--Vrtile-l tn ir
b eo.-r;--! by tlie it Via !a i ma lo
eq-ul i I n m p.rtm t n 1 t i eljction-t
fr.-i arid lion? -I.
The It-r ub! ic.ta party would r-j ice at
such a ,-!u'i-ir;, as a hea'tay an 1 patriot
ic local senthn-.'ni 13 the bt x-suraace of
free an 1 honest election?. 1 shall siia
urg upon Cou-ess that provisions be
male for th? sppiint nent of a n m
partisaa corn n.;oa to coai.l t the sub
ject of ap.yj.-ti ia 11-uts ai 1 elections in
their relati-.a tjtho t'j ic; of Federal
otli-xrs.
( 1VIL EKV1 E SYSTEM.
The civil service system has been ex
tended and the law enforced with vigor
and impartiality. There has been no
partisan j'izg'ing with the law in any cf
the departments or bureaus as had be
fore happened, but appointments to the
c!ass!.!ed service have been made impar
tially from the eligible lists. Thesj stern
now in force in all the departments h. -
for the first time placed promotions
strictly upon the basis of merit, as ascer
tained by a daily recorJ.and tlie efficien
cy of the f jrce thereby greatly increased.
The approval so heartily given by the
convention to all lhs. airenciea which
contribute to the edocation of the chil
dren of tlie land was worthily bestowed
and meets my hearty approval, as Joe
also the declaration as to liberty of
thought and conscience, and the separa
tion of Church and State, The safety cf
the Itepubtic ia an intelligent citiaenship
and the increa-ed interest manifested in
the States in education, the cheerful nexs
with which the necessary taxus are paid
by all classes, and the renewed interest
manifested by the children in the nation
t'onwiurd" on fourth pop.