SULLIVAN .JM&» REPUBLICAN. W. M. CHENEY. Publisher. VOL. XIII. Tho Baltic Canal is tho outoomo ol a project formnlatod 500 years ago. When the Siberian Railway is com plete ono can go from London to Japan in sixteen days, and girdle tho earth in about forty. in their jubilant delight in their fine crops Western Kansas and Nebraska are already proffering to send "relief" to tho effete East. The mortality among cattle at sea, resulting from cruelty, want of water, etc., was formerly stated at sixteen per cent., whilo at the prosent time it is one per cent. "Health," said Miss Arnold in Bos ton, to the Chauncey Hall kindergar ten graduates, "is tho first requisite of success. Tho 'new' woman has none of the old-fashioned belief in nerves and notions. A colored man and a Chinese woman wore married in Lawrence County, South Dakota, a few days ago. The ClerV of tho Court had serious doubts as i. ' ether they were a good legal matel and postponod granting the necessary licenso until he was fully satisfied that 6uoh a union was not forbidden. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch says this year will go into history as bicycle year. The growth of tho wheel's popularity has been so amazing that it seems as if all tho world had suddenly discovered that tho wheel is a good thing and is trying to got on ono as soon ns fiossiblo. Tho roads are alive with cyclers. Tho factories cannot meet tho demand. Tho supply of tubing is exhausted. Economy in small things is tho rule of life among tho poor of France. In this country wo waste enough iu a week in tlio woy of food to supply a French family for a month. They uti lize crumbs nnd scraps and bits of food which we seemingly regard with disdain, and all of which is perfectly healthful and suited for food. It is no wonder to the San Francisco Chron icle that under such conditions that tho people of France havo more avail able property and wealth than any people in tho world. Tho common cotton tail rabbit ap pears to bo continually pushing its way northward and replacing tho Northern hare. Mr. Bangs finds that tho latter is rare in Massachusetts, has almost wholly disappeared from maty parts of New Hampshiro, though it still abounds in Maine, New Bruns wick and Nova Scotia. Ho accounts for tho 3pread of tho cotton tail to tho northward as tho result of the de struction of tho pino and spruco for ests which are replaced by a scrubby second growth of shrubs. "Tho hare goes into the coniferous forosts and the cotton tail comes in with the sec ond growth." Tho new impulse latoly given to gold mining has brought new life into towns and abandonod oatnps.in tiio West. Ono of the most notablo of those resurreotions— revival does not accurately describo tho situa tion is in the caso of the camp of Florence, Idaho. In 18G1 this camp had a population of 30,001) people, with banks, saloons, hotels and every thing that goes to the making of a city. It was a plaeer camp, and gold WHS plentiful as gravel, while it lastod. But it didn't last long, and in those bonanza days miners would not stay to work quartz. So the population deserted Florence as quickly as it came, nnd for many years tho town was absolutely deserted, nnd ns much a ruin as ancient Carthage. Recently soveral good quartz lodges have been discovered at tho old camp, and Flor ence is building up again. Sheep farmers, tho world ovor, have been very busy during tho last thirty five years. In that period the St. Louis Star-Sayings estimates that tho increuse has beeu ton-fold in the Argentine, nino-fold in Australia nnd five-fold in South Africa and the United States. At the commencement of tho Civil War tho clip was two pounds per head of our population ; now it is five. New sources aro also being openod up to us daily by now railroads, and clothing should go down in price at a very brisk rate. Purts even of Asia aro now sending wool westward. Tho Afghan "doomchee" —a sheep with a tail tho heighth of the animal and as broad as its hind quarters, furnishes good wool, ns also do some of the Persian nud Thibet sheep, but India, China nud Burmese sheep cannot do so. The sheep thero grow hair instead of wool, and another peculiarity they potsc-si is thnt no one ever saw a purely whit) native shoep in India or Burmah. OLADNESS. A warmth of gold, all gttmmor stored, The gulden rod gives up; And flllod from springtime's scantier hoard Shines tho swoet buttercup; And from the singing of the breeze And low. sweet sound of rain, The little brook learns melodies To sing them back again. Forgotten all tho oloudy sky Of dark days overcast; For flowor-hoarts let gloom go by, But hold tho sunshine fast. And, all year long, the little burn, Though wintry boughs be wet, l'ieks out the happy days to loam— The sad ones to forgot. —Charles B. Going, in Bt. Nicholas. THE BICYCLE'S STORY. SAM a bicycle. Not such as, swept along by the full tide of power, the conqueror leads to crimson glory and undying fame, but a plain, ordinary— no, not as "ordin ary," but a safety >• —bicycle for hiro. True, I am in a good state of repair and am ns comfortable as my keepers can mako me, but I am not decked in ribbons and nurtured in commodious quarters and ridden only by the aris tocracy over smooth pavements and for short distauces. I never even had such luck when I first camo from the factory. I thought I was going to fall into that good for tuue, but u man took me on trial— that is to say, he took me on tho in stalment <plun and tried to pay tor me, but oouldn't, and was forced to return me at tho end of a month, and then I was only good enough togo among the hireliugs, and there I have stayed ever since. Goodness me, how long it sccme sinco I got the first wrench to my steel ribs and had my framo skinned ngainst a tree box ! I was born a combination wheel— that is, you can take out my spinal column, and then I can bo ridden by a lady, not iu bloomers, nnd thank my stars no bloomers havo ever yet en veloped me in their folds. That timo tho man had mo on trial, I think it was my most uncomfortable experience, for he was green at the business and so was I, and the rosult was that both of us got bumps innu merable, and though he came out of it with a twisted knee and sprained ankle and a barked nose and a lame arm and a hurt back and a blaok eye with a fow other incidental oasnalties, I was noth ing to brag of myself. That's why when ho had to give mo up they put mo on tho hireling list. Cut I was experienced and that was something. A bicycle has a good deal to learn when it first loavos tho factory. People who camo to hire wheels looked a little shy at mo as I stood quietly iu my rack and then passed mo by, but not for long. My keepers put n new coat cf enamel on me and other wise put mo in shape, and thereafter I became quite pojiular. Riders who had me out for a spin when they re turned would say thoy didn't know why it was, but I seemed to bo more intelligent than other wheels they had tried, and I was not half as liablo to make a sudden swervo and bang into a wagon in tho street or into a gate post or over a bank, or to do any one of the forty dozen other things a bicy cle is likely to do when tho rider is least expecting it. Of course, I know this mysolf and was constantly striving to please, just as auy other public servant is, for hadn't I had enough of bang and batter with that instalment plan party? I guess yes, and I am sure a properly regulated bicycle knows when it has had enough. Sometimes, though, I couldn't help beiug a little frisky. Once I romem ber an athletio sort of a fellow took mo out and for six mortal hours he pedaloi me all over every road 'in the suburbs, rough and smooth, and al most drove every bit of breath out of my tires. I submitted because I couldn't well do otherwise, but tho time of my rovenge was at hand. He was pumping me along abit ofpleasant country road whore tho shade would have been very grateful tD mo if he had only run along slowly, when he caught np with a pretty girl on an awfully ornamental wheel. I could hear him laugh withachuckle at his luck, and ho sailed alouside of her and began talking. Of course, he had no business to, but bicyclists that way are not so extremely formal, and she talked back to him, and it wasn't long until ho was entirely absorbed iu tho girl, and was leaving all the rest of tho matter to mo. Then I pricked up my ears and got ready, ami all at onoe, when we camo to a good place, 1 took a header into a ditch, the girl screamed, tko man swore, and I lay over on my side helpless, but happy. He and I rode home iu a passing pie wagon, the girl disappeared, and it cost him $7 for repairs. Alt kinds of people hired me, and with most of them I could do very well. Nover, though, with u fat wo man. There was ouo of theso that thought she could roduce her flesh by riding, and she lit right down on me the first time she came into my place. How I regretted that I had not been born a man's machine, when she settled herself firmly in my saddle, and began paddling like a duck in the water. After that every day she came after me, and I began to feel my bur den was more than I could bear. But there was another woman—ah, me, what a delight it was togo flying with her. She was a dainty little croature, light as a fairy and strong as wire, and she knew whero all the prettiest places were, and there we went together, and she drew pictures LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1895. of sylvan scones while I leaned np against a tree and watched ber by the hoar. Ono day a handsomo young fellow wheeled by, and they nodded pleasantly, she blushing a bit, and ho smiling. Several days after that they oame to my plaoe together, and she took me away with her for throe days. That was a delight to me, for we went far off by easy stages, and the young man oi his own wheel—a beauty it was, too— went with us. Thore were othors iu tho party, but my interest was in theso two, and I paid no heed to what the others did or where they went. Tho third day, as wo went bowling homeward, my lady appeared to bo ill at ease, and there were times when if I had not had all my wits about mo wo would surely have gone off the road and over the bank into whatever may liavo been below to have received us. The young man was never far off, but ho was not as ho had been, and after wondering nearly all day what could have hap pened, I remembered to have Been them the night beforo on tho piazza, where I loaned up against tho wall. I wan feeling tho need of rest and did not pay much attention to them, but I remembered that they were quarrelling (ono of thoso lovers' quar rels, you know) and she was an inde pendent little body, quite equal to cope with any man. I knew this and so let it pass and took my rest quite oblivious to my surroundings or theirs. What really happened I don't know, but it must havo been more serious than I suspected, for our homeward trip was anything but pleasant. Then 1 didn't see him any more, though she and I took many little af ternoon and morning spins together. I say I did not see him any moro—l mean, for some time. That was sev eral weeks later. Wo had gone into quite a remote section, whoro there was excellent sketching ground, and she had loft mo by a fence and clamb erod across a stony field among tho crags overhanging a stream. I sup pose she had been gone an hour when I heard her.scroam, and a minute or two Inter a man's voico shouting. No answer came to it, and presently his head showed above tho rooks and ho came tearing my way. He looked dreadfully frightened, and when ho saw mo ho said "Thank God!" with a sincerity that seemod like a prayer, and swinging me out into tho road he sent mo along at a speed I thought was not in me. By degrocs I began to un derstand that my ludy was hurt insomo way and ho was going for help, for ho was the young man my young lady ad mired most, and it was his faco I Lad 6cen in her sketches—eveu more 'of them than beforo wo had gono on that three d " '--•' j pome home in a quarr when I knew what was expected of me to get tho young man where help was, I braced myself to do my best, and I think I added greatly to his speed by my prompt response to his efforts. He didn't know that a dumb wheel knew anything, but I am sure my lady would have known, for wo were such good friondsand 1 had nover given her a moment's pain iu all my life. Well, after five miles of a run we reached a physician's office in a little villago and tho young man hurried tho doctor in to a carriago nud back again wo wont, he riding away, telling tho doctor whoro to coruo. I won't say what kind of timo we made, but I think wo did that iivo miles in ten minute.*, though, being excited at the moment, I may be exaggerating. In any event the young man got back quite a time be foro the doctor did, and when he camo he found me loaning against the locks and my lady's head resting on the youug man's arm. Sho was as whito as a lilly, 'vith a little line of blood rnnning down from under a handker chief tho young man had tiod about her head, and when the doctor camo sho fainted, though she was conscious when tho young inau and I got bacte. The doe tor immediately went about fixing hor so he could carry her to a better place among those rocks, and as he workod over her I heard tho young man telling him how ho had been fishing in the stream below, and how he had seen her on the crags above, where a stone loosend undo her foot, throwing her over into tho water, where she struck a glancing blow upon a rock, which cut her temple. The water was not deep, but stunned as she was, she would have drowned if ho had not beeu there to rescue her, and ho had bound up her hoad and rashed away on me for tho help that was needed. The doctor laughed softly us the young man was telling all this to him, and he looked at him rather quoorly,- I thought, for u physician to do in time of such awful danger, for my lady looked like she was dead, she was that white. "Is she your wife?" asked tho doc tor, still smiling. "Oh, no," replied tho young mau, blushing furiously. "I thought it hadn't gone quite that far," said the doctor, and ho laughed so that tho young man got mad, and began to eay words at the doctor. "That's all right," laughod tho doc tor again. "I liko to see your inter est in her. She will bo your wife sotno day or I'm no judge of signs. Holp me to put her in tho carriage. I think by the time wo get her to my 0 will bo suffioieutly recovered to homo." Going back, tho young rain wheeled right along behind the c irringoas if it all depended ou him. I don't tbink I ever saw so young a mau that had quarrelled with a girl take so much in terest in her. He even forgot me ut the doctor's office, and they had to send out for me tho next day. Hut my ladv was all right, and euough glory for both of us. Postcript—Didn't I begin this by Haying that I wu* u bioycle for hire? 1 wish to correct that. My lady and the young man came into my placa to- day, and she put her prettv white hand on mo and patted mo as if I wero very dear to her, and she told tho man in ohargo of the place to send mo up to her house and send tho bill along. "My husband will pay it," she said, and the young man smiled radiantly on her, and, giving mo a sounding slap on the saddle, remarked: "Old fel low, you're aoorker." I don't know what that is, but 1 guess I must be it, for ho would hardly tell a fib in the presenoe of my lady.—Detroit Free Press. Oklahoma's Dog Killer, Down in Oklahoma they have many queer ways and queer things. The way they dispose of outlawed dogs would cause a citizen of Kansas City, who is ueed to the comparatively peaceful ways Of tho dog catcher and his noose and profanity, a shook. They havo neither wagoD nor nooso in Oklahoma oities, but they have few stray ours whioh havo forfoitcd their right to live be cause they havo no niastor. Not long ago a Kansas City man stood on ono of the prinoipal streets of a bustling town, looking np and down and figuring on the tablet of his mind a future great city, when up tho street ho heard tho roport of a gun and saw a crowd of people run in every direction. "All!" ho thought, "a tragedy. What luck." For your ordinary peaceful citizen likes nothing better than the stimulus of a shook of that kind when in a country with a reputa tion for dosperate deads and men. Standing in the street was a small man holding a smoking shotgun, and writhing upon tho ground was a big yellow dog. Auother shot and tho dog was dead. Thou the crowd swarmed iu, aud the man with the gun wormed his way out, followed by a crowd of adoring small boys. It was tho city dog catcher. No noose nud long torture for dogs in that town. The city executioner just loads up his gun and goes out and cancels a dog or two, and then collects a salary from the to'wn.---Kansas City Star. Learn lo Listen. If tho reader will listen to any heated debate, he will almost certainly find that neither of the disputants is making tho slightest effort to recog nize the foroo of his opponent's argu ments ; but each is only watching for something in the other's words that he can criticise, some weak spot that ho can assail. That sort of thing may be all very well for soldiers on tho field of battle, or for lawyer* before the bar, but it is altogether unworthy of intelligent mon in discussing tho eternal verities. Every man should rcalizo that as his own knowledge of spiritual truth is necessarily imper fect, it is altogether likely that ho can learn some thing from tho man who differs from him most radically, and that it is far better to learn what ho can from that man than to wasto time and mako sacrifice of good-fellowship by aimless controversy. That seems a very simple proposition, and yet all the bitter controversies and religions persecutions of tho past, and all tho doctrinal disputes of tho present arc duo to the failuro of men generally to seo the truth that each can ioaru something from the other, but that no man can convince another ugainst his will. It is not the most fiuent talker, not the most plausible debater who gives tho greatest proof ot intelligence, but tho man who is always ready to listen and to learn. —New York Witness. Thumping Through Scan. Something entirely new in vessel propulsion has been patonted by Lor enzo Julia Y. Ping, a Spanish captain. Two propellers are employed, ono at each sido of the keel, the propeller having tho same weight as the water to be displaced, and beiug forced out ward by steam power and returned by tho pressure of the water in its roar. Tho propeller is a hollow cylinder, moving in a stuffing box through open ings at each sido of, and so as not to interfere with, the rudder tho majoi portion of the propeller when in its inner position being exposed and ac cessible from the interior of the ves sel. In front of each stuffing box is 112 steam cylinder, the piston hoad ana propeller being oonuected by a rod, and steam being admitted only to tho front of the piston hoad to forco the propeller outward. Tho propeller ie designed to have a very easy motion, with no tecdency cither to riso 01 lower, thus roducing tho friction to a minimum, and all of the propelliug mechanism is so located to bo roadilj accessible in case repairs are needed; Too Much Thistle. Western farmers find that individual attempts at fighting tho Russian thistlo avail nothing, because the plague grows again faster than tho in dividual farmer cau find time to hoe it down, so they all unite as often as convenient to have "hoeing bees" in designated localities. Tho details ol operations aro settled by tho town councils, ovoryono iu tho neighbor hood takes a day off to fight thistles, and in this way it is possiblo to make at least some stand against tho per severing plague and to keep some «ec tions fairly ireo for other than thistle crops. Some day science will find th< thistlo useful and then it will immedia taly beoomo delicate, difficult to raise and scare*. Taught Many Schools. William Mark Brooks, of Norway, is now iu the sixty-eighth year of hit age, and claims that he has taughl more sohools than any other man io Maine. In the 114 sohools he ha* taught ho has whipped 115 pupils He says bo doe" not believo iu pan ishment, except iu extreme cases.— YuguHa (Ale.) Juiuu'ii, I THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE. BTOBZES THAT ASK TOLD BT THB FUNNY MEN OF THB FBBSS. The Rose From Her Hair—llls Busi ness—No IjOnzer Aristocratic— Talking Shop, Etc., Etc. She gave him tho rose from hor hair; He had called aud was going away; Sho gave him tho rose, but shu did not sup post! Ho would keep it forever aud uye. Yet the dead rose was carefully kept: As ho was too true to her, far! For tho rose that sho gavo hlui found an odorous gravH In his other girl's potpourri Jar. —Washington Post. Ms BUSINESS. "You ought to see that fellow striko a balance." "I suppose he's a bookkeeper?" "No, he's a professional juggler."— Detroit Freo Press. OBLITERATED. Probbs—"So you were in the J.owa cyclone. At what point did tho storm leavo the town?" Dobbs—"lt didn't loave the town took it along."—Truth. NO LONOER ARISTOCRATIC. Sayles—"You're surely not going to have Mrs. Naylor arrested I Don't you remember that sho had klepto mania last winter?" Thredd—"Yes; but her husband has failed since thou."—Puck. MIGHT BF. DIS ".RACED. Young Wife-"What! You think of joining the army? Horrors!" Husband (tendorly) "Aro you afraid I'll got killed?" Young Wife—"N-o; I'm afraid you'll ruu."'—New York Weekly. HE HAD HIS DOCBT3. Ziggsby—"l thiuk a man is a toward who would strike a woman, iou't you?" I'erksby—"Well, I don't know. No coward would dure to strike my mother-iu-law."—Brooklyn Eagle. NOT AN ENCOURAGING EXAMPLE. "(live me the man who sings at his work," quoted the citizen who believes all he reads. "Well," rejoinod tho skeptic. "I'm not so suro about it. You know the mosquito does that.Washington Star. TALK [NO 81101*. "Ismy proposal acaeptod ?" he asked of the daughter of the naval construc tor. "It is reoeived and lilod," sho re sponded, "but I expressly reserve tho right to reject any or all bids."— Judge. EASILY KXJ'LAINT.D. "I wonder what makes these but tons burst off so?" Dora petulantly ex clnimed. David looked at hor tight-fitting dress. "Force of habit, probably," he said after a thoughtful pause.— Hockland Tribune. HEIt METHOD. " Mrs. Brown never sits up to wait lor her husband?" "Mo?" "So. When the expects him to bo out late, sho rotires early, sets tho alarm at 3 o'clock, nnd gets up, re freshed nnd reproachful.''—Life. DIDN'T I'HASE HIM. ' '.'id you think you can stand the arduous duties of a variety actor? You know in our play wo find occasion to throw you down a thirty-foot flight of stairs iuto a barrel of rain water." "J thiuk I can btund it," said the hungry man."l was a tax collector for three year?. "--Tit-Bits. THE REASON WHY. New Parson—"Which do yon like best, Willie, your day school or your Siinday-Bchool?'' • Willie—".My Sunday school." New Parson—"l am glad to hear that. Why do you liko your Sunday school the best?" Willie—"Because it is only onoc a week." TWO VARIETIES IN ONE. Bass—"And of which variety is your wife, the clinging vine or tho self-assertive?" Cass—"A little of both. When sho wants a new dress or a new bonnet sho generally begins in tho oliuging-vine rule; if that doesn't bring the money, then she chaugoß to the self-assertive; n,ud—well—sho invoriably gets tho dress or tho bonnet."—Boston Tran script. Tilli BLUI"K WORKED. At 7 o'clock in the morning two duellists, who aro to tight to the doath at a placo in the suburbs, uet at tho ticket office of tho railway station. "Give mo a return ticket, as uaual," snys the first duellist to the olerk, in a terrible tone aud with a ferocious twist oi his moustache. "I—l say, do you always buy rotnrn tickets?" stammered his opponent. "Always." "Then I apologize."—Tit-Bits. DEVICES OP THE MILKMAN. "I declare!" Mrs. Wiggin exolaimed, pouring a light bluo stream ont of tho pitcher, "if tho milk doesn't grow poorer every day ! What shall we do with the milkman?" Mr. Wiggin sawed gloomily at his moat. "I suppose there's no way out of it," hegrumblod; "I'll have to pay his bill." And the next morning they had real milk for breakfast.—Hockland Tri bune. Terms—sl.oo in Advance; 11.25 after Three Month*. Factories Under Free Trade. The census statistics of tho United States have inado ns familiar with the manner in which factories in the United States have iuoroasol in num ber aad grown in extent during our uninterrupted periods of protection. In 1870 wo had 252,148 different manufacturing establishments; in 1890 wo had 335,415 manufacturing estab lishments in the United States, an in crease of more than 100,000 establish ments within twenty years. This was the direct result of the polioy of pro tection. Let us see what liappous un der tho polioy of free trade. Taking the number of factories in the leading industries in tho United Kingdom, such as the textilos, cottons, woolens, shoddy, flax and hemp, silk and elastic manufactures we give tho total number of factories in that coun try in the years 1874 anl 1800 as fol lows : NUMBEU or FACTOLLIES IS THE UNITED KINGDOM. 1374. 1890. Textile 7.2A4 7,1 D) (J.)ttou 2,(555 2,53H Woolen 1,800 1,793 Shoddy 125 125 Flax and hemp 510 463 Silk 81S 023 Elastiu 90 51 It will be noticad that there were 104 fewer textile manufacturing estab lishments in tho United Kingdom iu 1890 than there were in 1874; there were 117 less cotton factories; there were seven less woolen factoiies; there were fifty-eight less flax and hemp factorios; there wero 195 less silk fac tories; there wero thirty-six less elastic factorios. The faliiug off in tho number of these manufacturing establishments in the United Kingdom occurred during a policy of free trade. It will bo notice 1 iu the foregoing list that, there has been no decrease in tho number of shoddy factories in the United Kingdom. Shoddy holds its own uuder free trade. Is it well for us to maintain shoddy interests and diminish our textile trades, our cotton, woolen aud silk factories, as is done uuder a polioy of freo trade? Is it not better for us to stick to tho policy of protection th-it gave us on increase of over 100,000 manufactur ing establishments during a period of twenty years? Study the free tralo facts and there will bo no hesitation iu giviug an answer. A XL inuineat to free Tm-Jc, AVliat Protection 1).»\ An industry that has beeu estab lished in this country directly through the enactment of tho McKiuley tariff is that of making condensed milk. Tho Anglo-Swiss Company, for in stance, has its factories iu Switzer land, in Englaud and iu tho Unitod States, omploying some 1:100 workmen in all three countries. For Inbor of similar quality tho American receives 111 per cent, more money than tho average rate of wages paid to the Swiss worker, and 131 per ceut. more than the average paid to the Englishman. Without protection to the American condensed milk business the American wage-earner will be likely to have a reduction of about 100 per cent, iu his earnings, or the factories would bo closed and the entire wotk be conduct ed again in Europe. Work for Forci.m Fardorle*. We bought almost twice ns m'ic'.i cotton cloth last Maroh ns we did iu Marob, 1894, nnd, during tho niue months ending March 31, 1805, we bought over 36,030,001 square yards, as compared with purchases of 2 - 000 squaro yards during tho corre sponding nino months n year earlier. Too "Serious," by Jove. If we again attain what we lost thirty vears ago, the power to oom pete with her for tho carrying trade of the world, it will bo an extremely serious matter for "Britishinterests." —New York Times. Yes. It would be very "serious," you know. So "serious," by Jove, that the New York Times opposes tho encouragement of American shipbuild ing by subsidies as it is eucouraged in England, you know, preferring that We buy their seoond-hand old tubs, whioh would always keep us at the end of the processiou, by Jove, and pre vent anything so shocking from hap pening ; that would be an extremely "serious matter," you know, for "British interests." NO. 44. FfiAUD EXPOSED. THE MASK TORN FROM TUB PACKS OK FREE TRADERS. Quibbles and Evasions Are Favorite Democratic Arguments—Boston and New York Editors AVlio Fa vor Fiction Rather Than Fact- Visionary Elaborations Burst Like Pricked Hubbies. Under the above misleading head line the Boston Herald had a very long article in its issue of Juno 17. Wo append some of its assertions and our comments thereon. First we quote: "The system of protection is askod for the reason that those living inn conntry find, for one or more of a va riety of reasons, that they cannot manufacture and sell a given article at as low u price as a similar imported articlo can bo sold for." This is very true, sir; but protec tionists 3eek to establish and foster home industries for the common ben efit of the entire people. It is not en tirely a question of price, as your statement would indicate. The indus try well established, competition cheapens the product. "The intention of the protective system is to imposo a sufficiently high tax upon the imported articlo as, added to its cost and the profit of tko producer, will make it Bell in the market of the protected country at a price sufficiently high to justify tho protected domestic manufacturer ia placing his own wares iu the saino market iu competition with the im ported goods." Tho display of candor horo is all right, but it might very properly have been said that the protective sys tem docs not operate as a "high tax" and thot protection is accorded be oauso the interests of labor demand it as well as thoso of the actual "pro ducer," competition, as wo have said, chocking exhorbitant prices. "Sometimes the protection tux hns been raised so high as to mako impor tation and a subsequent profitable sale impossible to the foreign manufactur er, thus giving the market completely to the domestic producer." Tho assertion here made is in direct conflict with the freo trade assump tion that the American producer adds the tarifl rate to what might be a fair price for his goods. sJow, if ha does this, cannot the "foreign manufactur er" sell his wares and fabrics in this market as well as the home producer? "But it should be obvious that tho inevitable result of a tax of this kind is to inorease the cost of goods to their purchasers, whoever they may be, an increase which in a country like the United States, where there are a large number of liberal purchasers, may easily amount to hundreds of millions of dollars a year." It should not be "obvious," for it is not so. The "inevitable result" has been to lower the cost of goods to tho purchaseis whether in the money price, or in the cost as measured by tho exchange of products. This is a mat ter of fact, which in the caso of iron manufacturers, cotton, woolens and other goods can be determined by comparing the prices before and after protection went into effect. "Thup, taking the country as n whole, every gain that is secured to its protected industries is obtained by the sacrifice of just so much taken from the unprotected industries, and, as the system is artificial aud is necessarily an interference with trade, besides be ing exceedingly expensive iu applica tion, its result is not merely au arbi trary subtraction of the wealth of a certain part of tho community for tho benefit of another part, luit induces what may bo termed the loss of fric tion—a loss which affects all interests alike,both protected and unprotected." "Taking the conntry as a whole,"it will be found that the "unprotected industries" profit by the home market which tho protected industries proviso for them. Heuce, the producers of goods on the free list are as zealous protectionists as auy others. The Her ald here evideutly refers not to a tariff for protection but to such a mongrel monstrosity as we now have, and whicu tho President of the United States re fused to sign. It is under the Gormau tariff that such "unprotected indus tries" as the raising of wool and lum ber are "sacrificed." It is the policy of the party that the Boston lieralj represents the many produc ers for the benefit of a few manufac turers. This is in liue with the scheme of the Evening Post, of New York, which would rob tho lumber produc ers to enrich the furuituro manufac turers. But we ure proud to say thai manufacturers, as 11 rule, are not in sympathy with auy mi oh narrow mind ed, selfish policy. There are some, it is true, who oro free traders from mo tives of individual greed. The true protectionist is a liberal minded Amer ican, anxious to see prosperity extend to alt sections of the country and.to all its Industrie?. That Breach in the Wall. r
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