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.
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