SULLIVAN DLISFE REPUBLICAN. W. M. CHENEY. Publisher. VOL. XIII. in bankruptcy he'll novor Sink ivho puts his trust in printers' iult Native whites born of nativo parents form fifty-two per cent, of our Na tional voting strength. The city of Chicago is erecting an electric light plant of its own, and proposes to light itself; Florida has a smaller valuation than most of tho Southern States, being es timated at only $30,938,309. Up to the end of last year Philadel phia s new city hall had cost $15,699,- 96-4.67, and it is not quite finished yet. The trolley reigns in Philadelphia, but with not such murderous sway, apparently, as in Brooklyn. Tho last horso car in Philadelphia has been re tired. In tho Chicogo parks no ono is obliged to keep off the grass until tho grass is worn off tho ground. Then people aro kept off till it grows back again. Tho Jsew Vork Mail and Express ex claims; "Having harnessed Niagara, Yonkeo ingenuity may some day use the Bocky Mountains to fill in the Yo wcniitc Valley, preparatory to cutting it up into building lots." A writer iu tho Popular Science Monthly thinks that some children lie habitually because thoy are suffer ing from disorders of mind o'£ body, or both, "which radically interfere with tho transmission of conceptions and perceptions." An unusual nuirbcr of agents from Western and Southern States aro sta tioned iu New York City this year for the purpose of inducing immigrants to settle iu tho States wbiuh they rep resent. Even Wisconsiu and Califor nia aro desirous of attracting new comers. Great Britain shows an annual de crease iu crime, aud prisons aro being closed accordingly, but in Franco crimes of nil kinds havo increased during tuo last fifty years at a ratio of 130 per cent. The number of crimiuals from sixteen to twenty-ono years of ago has increased by 217 per cent. Singularly enough, muses tho Chi cago Times-Herald, tho editor of tho men's department of tho women's edition of the St. Paul (Minn.) Dis patch heads her column "Tho Lords of Creation, ' and thero is nothing in her text to show a traco of irony. Tho name of this droll now woman is Bmith—Mrs. F. T. Smith. Out of ninety-five candidates, who had secured appointments to West Point Militnry Academy for tho com ing yenr, but forty-nine succeeded in passing tho mental examination, scarcely more than half; and yet, marvels tho New Orleans Picayune, they aro tnlking of raising tho stand ard of tho examinations for admis sion. Tho present examinations are only in tho rudiments of education, tmt require a very perfect mastery of these. Tho last session of tho Illinois Leg islature so amended tho act concerning dependent children that every train ing school for boys is to get $lO a month from tho county for every boy committed to its chargo, whether tho County Board has agreed to it or not. As thero is a profit for the schools of 85 on every boy, the training sohools have agents out gathering in depend ent bayp, and as the definition in the act as to what constitutes a "depend ent boy" is very vague, thoy aro gath ing in a good crop. The county au thorities have resolved to take tho matter to the courts. Tho Supreme Court of Louisiana lias decided that a child of tender years cannot be guilty of contributory negligence so as to be in part respon sible for any accident or injury that it might suffer. A three-year-old child had boen injured by a street oar, nnd a verdict had been given against tho railway company iu the lower court. Tho oompnny appealed and pressed Swjuoint, raised in tho lowei court, A}fiie ohild was in the way of tho Jf by its own negligence and there fore responsible for its own injury. Tho Supreme Court ruled that such n child could not bo negligent and tho railway company could not be excusod for any lack of caro or watcbfuluoss on tho part of its employes on that ground. Suoh employes are bound to use extraordinary care and watchful ness whenever there aro incapable persons in tho vicinity of tho railway, nnd if they do not the company must Buffer. This decision is good senso uh Veil as good law, THE SMOKE* Dovu-winged against (i tender; turquoise »ky I Tho white smoke flits; or through tho lam bent air Quivers to failing violet spirals fair; Or shifts to gray, eurlo.l upward heavily. It rises In strong, twistod columns high From grimy fuunels, flecked with fitful flare- Or through the planks of creaking bridgos bare It sifts a sinuous way to trail and die. The still, vast skies are background for its strife; 'Tislikoman's yearning, mounting from man's pain, Seeking tho tranquil Heavens, waveringly; Earth's coaselcss clash and clangor glvo it life; 'Tis like mini's prnyors, that rise from toil and strain, Trail, and are lost, in God's immensity. —Hannah Parker Kimball, in Seribncr. THOSE CHARMING FRIENDS. UT of a confused medley of voices I heard in a half-sti fled whisper : "Mother, look who is sitting be hind you ; it's Reg gie Clive, I'm posi- My curiosity outran my manners.} I turned. "Miss Endcot!"l exclaimed. "It's not three hours sinco I arrived in Nice, and my circle of acquaintances being very small, to meet a friend is a pleas ant surprise. Miss Endcot blushed, prettily, if forcedly. "Now, Mr. Clive, your chafling me. Why, mother and 1 have not been hero a week, yet wo havo made most charming friends upon tho strength of your mutual acquaintance. "Indeed!" I replied. "Aro they still nt Nice?" "Oh, yes, but not at this hotel." "Their names?" "Tho Cointesse d'Angiero and her friend—Madame Fieuvre." "Tho Comtesse d'Angiore!" I re peated. "Of course I met her once or twice in London soon after her mar riage to tho Comte. A slim woman, with fair hair, aquiline nose and laughing blue eyes. Oh, yes, I remem ber her well." Miss Endcot laughed merrily. "Fashions change, Mr. Clive," sho said, holding up ono linger playfully, "and tho color of women's hair and even tho shape of women's noses are apt to chango with them, aren't they, mother? But lot mo warn you, Mr. Clive, not to inquire after tho Comte d'Angiore. Ho is dead. Tho Comtesse makes e. most charming^widow, don't she, mother?" Something in tho last sentence exas perated me. The Briton in mo resent ed tho allusion to tho charms of tho widow so directly upon the announce ment of the poor Comic's dent a, and, moreover, it contained an insinuation that within the meshes of those charms I might easily becomo entangled. Now, it was less than a year sinco Miss Iris Maypel and her pseudo auntie had so nearly ensnared ine into their marriage trap, nml women of uncer tain social status no longer attracted me. I felt that Mrs. nnd Miss End cot, with all tho former's American isms and all tho latter's smartness and banter were more agreeable and emi nently safer companions than Iris Maypel A: Co. So impressed was I with that truth that I gallantly stuck to tho Endcots all that evening for fear of meeting tho Comtesso and being carried oft' by her. Tho next morning found mo in the camo mood, though how much tho long tete-a-tete I had enjoyed with Bertba Endcot overnight contributed to it I know not. Anyway, I proposed a ramble, aud was not dissatisfied to hear that Mrs. Endcot contemplated sitting in tho veranda with a novel. Bertha and I thereupon started for a scramble to tho heights at tho back of tho town. As we loft tho hotel a telegram was put into my hand. Now, telegrams at homo are too common even to destroy your lethar gy, but telegrams received in a Conti nental town within twenty-four hours of your arrival, of which you have ap prised nobody, are apt to startle yon. Bertha saw my surprise aud began to chaff me. I opened tho telegram and read: "I.and A. are at Nice. Beware!" • I never knew how long it took mo to recover myself aud laugh at tho warning I had received, but I kuow that Bertha Eudcot and I wore well out from tho town and at loast three hundred feet above tho sea level. I apologized profusely for my ab sence of mind. "Oh, don't apologize," replied Bertha. "If she cannot bo with you, she should at least bo entitled to oc cupy your thoughts for an hour or so." "You're wrong, Miss Bertha," I re turned. "And bore's the proof." I handed her the telegram. "You're as puzzled as I was at first," I added, notiug tho contraction ot her eyebrows. "And as it is no secret, but only a story against myself, I will explain it." I thought I heard a sigh of relief as sho returned tho telogrum. "This must como from my old friend Bob Pallant," I continued, "since no br.dv but lie—at least, nobody in Lon dcu—knows my probable whereabouts. I have been wandering now for six months and all on accouut of the 1. und A. he mentions." Bertha nodded, but did not inter rupt. "Tho I. stands for Iris—Miss Iris Maypol—and A. for Auntio. It hap pened a year ago. Bob Fallant and I were both in love with Iris, who was in Loudon ostensibly for the b ene^t of the season and in chargo of her aunt. Well, she gavo the preference LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1895. to Bob, who, after actually proposing to her applied to a private! detedtive agency, asking ad to her charaoter and the social position of her people; He got the character, as rosy a one as could be painted, and it was settled that he should ask her to marry him. It happened that I called—by invita tion—at the flat occupied by Iris and her clmpcrolioj and was shown into the conservatory by the servants Then camo the denouement: Iris; in ignor ance of tny presence, came into the conservatory with her chapeiond and in a loud voice let me into thoir secrets, which may bo summed up in a few words. Iris was an adventuress in search of % husband. Tho ehaper ono was no relation, but employed— paid—by Iris to introduce her to so ciety and a likely husband. The de tective to whom Bob had applied for the character was Iris's cousin, Nor ton Scrubbs; hence the rosiness of the character." "And these two women are in this town 1" exclaimed Bertha. "Bob Pallant's information is usu ally correct, and I'm not disposed to doubt it. You see, he was so savage at having been done by those people that he vowed vengeance, and as he couldn't attack tho woman he swore he would be the undoing of that de tective agent—Norton Scrubbs. And Bob Fallant is generally equal to hia word." "Suppose you meet those people here?" "I shall cut them, of course." "But, but you admitted that—that you loved—lris—once!" My heart gave a great leap of de light. Bertha's words, the suppressed eagerness of her tone, the faltering in her sentence, all pointed to ono end. Ono long tete-a-tete of tho previous evening, though it had been chiefly concerned about bygone incidents— the sort which grow dearer as they grow older—had left its mark, I glanced quickly in her direction, but her face was averted, and only a very flushed neck and a very red little ear were visible. They were enough. "Miss Bertha," I replied, impres sive! y, "some people grow both old and wife all of a leap. I'm one of them. Tho love of a foolish boy is how fur below tho level of that of a sensible man? What relation does the love-sickness of youth bear to tho hcnrt-acho of manhood? And oven assuming that I had never been duped to tho extent that Iris Maypel duped me, even assuming—" 1 don't know how long I should have talked or Bertha would have listened had sho not interrupted mo. "Look!" sho said. "Hero como the Comtesse d'Angiero and Madame Fieuvre. How jolly! won't thov be surprised to see you! oh, it is fun. I'm so glad we came this way." I looked in tho direction indicated ncd saw— I could scarcely bolievol saw aright then, but now, when I recall the scene —tho long, wooded avenue with its pinky-blossomed rose hedges, tho waving palms, the bushy eucalyptus, tho clumps of odorous orange trees with their pretty white blooms inter sprinklud with golden fruit—it is dif ficult to realize now that tho prim lit tle figure in widowed garb of Parisian daintiness quiokly approaching us was Iris Maypel, anil the elderly com panion was "Auntie" of London fame. But they were. I had no time to plan an action. No sooner was I assured that my eyes were still in n:>rmal condition than we mot and Bertha was saying in an ecstatic tone--- "My dear Comtess, see who 1 havo brought you!" Tho Comtesso extended her hand, while the most dubious smile I ever beheld grow on her face. I obeyed my impulse. "This is not an unexpected pleas ure," I said, politely, "since Miss Berthn has intimated your presence in Nice, Madame la Comtesso." I pur posely emphasized the title. "Never theless, it is a pleastiro to renew an acquaintance hero so pleasantly ma tured in London. M. lo Contte, I trust, is well and—" It was said with intent. Having started witli a lie I menuj toact it out. I broke off suddenly, for two reasons. Bertha tugged vigorously at my coat sleove. and Iris alias the Comtesse, burst into a most realistio'fit of weep ing. 1 expect tho excitement of the moment aided her. I apologized in tones soicontrito that I startled my self with, my ap parent sincerity, and Iris j and her cbaperone bade us adieu. ' As wo returned I listened Ber tha's merited rebuke for haying for gotten her warning anent thojComte's death, but I listened in vain. ■ln fact, so engrossed was she in thought that it was only when I had thrico asked a question that sho replied. "To what stage of iatimaoy have you aud tho Comtesso' reached?" I asked for the third time. "Why do you ask?" Bertha re plied evasively. "Because 1 am moro than unxious to know." "Mother and I mother at Monaco." "Yes?" I replied encouragingly. "I ought not to tell yon anything moro." "Oh, then thero is something more to t?H? Did you visit tho Casino at Monte Carlo?" "Once." •"You resisted tho temptation of a second visit?" "We obeyed instruction?. Seo here, Mr. Clive, this is in contidenoe. Father, as you know, was unable to accompany us this trip, but ho gave us carte blanche togo whither we liked and to stay where wo 111: 1-- with one proviso. Ho declared if we went fooling around the gaming tables nt Monte Carlo he would never lose sight of us again. S3 it was on con dition that we paid but one visit to tho Casino that wo were allowed this European t-ip," "It was a fortunate provision, per haps, for you* mother appears to hate imbibed the infatuation for 'methods' and 'systems.'" "Yes, that is the Comtesse d'An giere's doing;" "The Comtesse getables?" "With the most consistent gdod luck. She takes mother's money and plays with it. There, I oughtn't to have let on about that, but I know you'll not give me away, Mr. Clive. You see, the Comtesse begged mother to trust he* with a pound just to try her luck—for the Comtesse goes to tho tables every day—and she won. Then mother trusted her with two pounds, then five, ten and twenty, al ways winning. Now—" "Pleaso goon," I said, as Bertha paused. "There can be no harm in telling you the rest, Mr. Ciive. Mother has raised every possible penny—pawned her jewels even—and to-morrow tho Comtosse is going to play with the lot. There, don't look as if I were to blame. I've argued and protested, but where's tho use? The Comtesse wins every time." Sho had; but would sho win this time? The stake was high. Would she play with it? That was tho ques tion. Was the whole thing a scheme —a common confidence trick—to get hold of the American dollars and bolt with them? It goes against the grain to expose a woman, however deserving she may be. I concluded to give Iris a chance, and wrote a short letter stating that I would keep her identity a secret if she would return Mrs. Endcot her money and leave Nice early tho next morning. Omitting either condition, I declared I would hold her up to rid icule and scorn. I left the noto with the porter at the hotel where Iris was staying, and then walked away to ponder alone upon fate, coincidences and tho like. I found a solitary seat upon a stone boulder, with only the'dreariness of somo attempted excavations, which had ended in a failure, to greet my eyes or impingo upon my thoughts. I sr.t there and smoked, and mental ly surveved my entire world, from London to Nice, from Bob Pallant to Norton Scrubbs, ironi Iris to Bertha. Suddenly, without warning, a figure stood besido mo aud said, inquiringly : "Reggio Clive!" The silence of his approach and the aggressiveness of his bearing startled me. However, I admitted my name. "You wroto a letter to-day to if friend of mine, tho Comtesso d'An giere," continued tho man. "You aro mistaken," I replied. "Mere cavilling!" ho s*id, with a sneer. "You wrote, then, to Miss Iris Maypel." "If that is more truly her name, yes." "You threatoned her." I stood up. Tho man's bluntness of speech and scowling brow looked ominous. "Call it that, if you will," I replied. "I tried to do her a good turn, and to save her from herself." "Bah! Mere quibbling! You threatened to expose her if sho failod to return certain money to that bumptious old Americau woman or to leave Nice iu tho morning. Isn't that a threat?" "Call it so if you like," I returned. "Coward!" he yelled. "Thank you," I said. "If yon will give me your card I shall kuow better to whom 1 am indellted to that pseu donym." "Hound!" he said. "If you want to know, my name's Norton Scrubbs, which, until your villainous iriend, Pallant—whom I'll bo on level terms with yet—ruined it, was a flourishing name in London. Ah ! you shrink, do you? Hero's something that'll make you shrink into a still narrower com pass." He pulled a revolvor from his poc ket, aud cocked it. I showed as bold a face as I could muster. "Don't forget that you'll have to answer for this," I said. His hoarse laugh echoed all around, and intensified the utter desolation of the place. "Answer!" ho sai.l. "To whom shall I answer?" To these stones? To the night? To whom, 1 repent? There's not a soul within ear shot, and not likely to be this side of morning." I realized tho truth of his bluster. Tho day had diod suddenly, and tho mists wero growing uncomfortably dense. "Come!" continued Scrubbs, "we'll strike a bargain, you and I. Swear— and mind you stick to it—that you will leave Nice to-night aud not return or communicate with any oue in this town for three months from this moment! The alternative is—" He explained the unfinished sen tence with an emphasized movement of the pistol. I am not a brave mau, yet I am not an abject ooward. I had a deoided objection at that moment to bo hurled into eternity and leave Bertha behind. In tho few available seconds allowed me for consideration twenty methods of attack anc? defense presented them selves and wero rojectod. Then, all at once, my muscles actod involuntarily. I sprang at my opponent and gripped him somewhere in the region of tho throat. The 'attack was sheer folly. He was twice my weight, possessed twice my strength, and learned in every art and irick connected with the free-fight and 'the knock-down blow. I thought on my foolishness as I lay prone upon tho dirt and blinked up timorously nt Scrubbs's revolver, which looked right down my throat as I gasped for breath. "Now, you houud !" he said, "will you come to terms now or will you take a dose of lead?" The reply startled mo quite as much as did Scrubbs. It was the pop of n pistol, the whirr of a *hot ni)4 Uio cry t>f n wounded man as Scrubbs fell forward right across my legs. I disengaged myself aud sprang to my feet 'just as Bertha Endcot sprang from behind a pile of loose stones and stood before me. "I winged him, didn't I?" she asked, breathlessly. "The coward I Perhaps the neit time he dubs my mother a bumptious old Woman he'll remomber that an American girl can shoot," Bertha had put a bullet into his leg, and the shot cost her mother a few thousand pounds, for Iris and her ehaperono had left Nice—with Mrs. Endcot's money—before we managed to get the wounded man back to his hotel. • Soon after Bertha consented to bo mine.—lllustrated Bits. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. In Budapest, Hungary, they have put tho trolley wires underground. It is proposed to do away with tho smoke nuisance in Pittsburg, Penn., by erecting a mammoth electric plant outside the city. California diamonds are found in all the colors, from a brilliant white to a clear black, together with rose, pink, yellow, blue nnd green. A chemist advises that canned fruit be opened an hour or two before it is used. It becomes richer after tho ox ygen of the air has been retored to it. A fire was recently started in a Bos ton store by allowing an incandescent lamp to remain for a few minutes on a pile of cotton cloth in the packing room. Beautiful specimens of tho anchor ite, or tourmaline, have been found iu Maine and elsewhere in New England. This gem is said also to havo been found in North Carolina. A uso for compressed air in tho foundry in addition to cranes nnd hoists, which aro being introduced everywhere, is in providing a sand blast for the cleaning of castings. A railroad train was recently stopped near Rheims, France, by tho number of caterpillars that fell on tho railway. The rails grew too pasty and slippery for tho wheels to adherj until cinders wero thrown on them. Tho German Government has offered a prizo of 8750 for a system by which "tho indications of the compass-card of a ship's compass shall be automatic ally transmitted to another location in the ship in such a manner that tho ship may be steered." Tho receut nlanning mortality among the French soldiers in tho gar rison at Vitre, whioh wns first ascribed to the uso of damaged earned fruit from tho United States, turned out to bo tetanus or ccrebro-spinal fever re sulting from overcrowding. Professor Max Mnller asks for money to photograph the inscriptions of the Kutho Daw, in Bnrinah, a col lection of over seven hundred temples, ench containing a white marble slab on which part of tho Tripitaka, tho great Buddhitit Bible, is engraved. A nautical bio.vlo has been invented by a Spaniard. Tho machine is com posed of two cases of steel, which 6i?rvo as floats aud are connected by cross bnr-». In the space between tbo two, and near the stern, is a paddle-wheel operated by pedals something like a bicycle. Tho speed is about six miles an hour. An "Easy Tiling" for T!rs Solomon. Tho Police Departmeut may be a little shy when it comes to trailing lost goats, but when pigeons are in volved there is a member of tho force who possesses all the shrewd attributes of Solomon of old. It is like this! Ou Friday Adolph Greuboldt, No. 1417 California avenue, owned 8100 worth of "homer" pigeons, and tho next morning they were not. Oilioera Wieneka anil lleauey, of tho Attrill street station, were placed on the trail. It lead yester lay first to a Chi nese lnuudrj', and thou to tho resi dence of Stephen Spitza, where tho birds wero found. Mr. Spitza was positivo the birds wero his. So was Grenboldt. "This is tho easiest thing I havo struck for a long time," said Ofliccr Heanoy. Then, ho opened the coop, turned the pigeons loose, watched them cir clo once in the air, and then start off. "Now," said this later-day Solomon, turning to Mr. Greuboldt, "if those birds are yours, they will be homo be fore you are." And they were. Ono of the stolen birds has tho 750-mile record from a point in Mississippi to Chicago, win ning the first prize last year. In all fourteen of the stolen birds have boon recovered.—Chicago Tribune. A Survivor ot Waterloo. Baillot, the oldest of the three French survivors of tho battle of Waterloo, lives at Carisey, in the De partment of tho Yonne, where he was born in 1793. Excepting his deaf ness, he is still in as good health as ever, and is full of anecdotes of the campaigning days in Germany. He was struck with the sabre of an Eng lish dragoon at Waterloo, but it failed to cut through his shako, which was sttiffod with brushes, piaies of bread anil many other articles.—New York Sun. It (iot the Jury. Justice Vaughan Williams telle many a good story, but tho following is one of his best from tho benoh. A counsel for tho defense only put one question to alt the witnesses called for the othor side, and it was; "Have you an umbrella?" Invariably tho answer was "Yes." Even the policeman had an umbrella. The counsel then said : "This is very suspicious; overy wit ness has an umbrella;" and the jury acquitted tho prisoner without look ing round, —Household Words. Terms--- SI.OO in Advance ; 51.25 after Three Month*. THE JIAMMV'KI 1 l?ili ON THE WALL, There is a wide difference between theory and practice. Conceit may pass for wisdom nntil put to tho test. Brazen self-assertion and flamboyant declamation no longer characterize Democratic councils. With bulging eyeballs they read upon the wall of THE "NICK OF TOIL." HOW IT IS OPPRESSED IJY THE "IRON HEEL OF CAPITAL." One of Grover Cleveland's Idiotic Plirascs Ridiculed by "The Sun" —The Frenzied Rhetoric of the Populist Loader Incited Labor Against Capital—Proven a Liar by Later Events. 'lt is pleasing and instructive to watoh what Mr. Cleveland calls tho "iron heel of capital" impinging ou the "neck of toil." For several week? now, at almost overy industrial center in tho country employers of labor have been raising tho wages of their men. They havo been doing it freely and unsolicited, under no sort of pres sure from organized labor, and of their own volition merely. Tho rea son is that business has revivod, that the commercial outlook is full of en couragement, and that being able to improve wages they prefer to do so. Under like conditions the American employer has always done the samo thing. The oonverso of this proposition would appear to bo that labor, when evil times overtake employers, shonl.l of its own initiativo roduco wages. That is to say, labor should rocognizo the true nature of its rolation to cap ital as promptly and as rationally as capital recognizes its relations and its obligation to labor. This is not n popular viow of the subject, but it is common sense; and although labor does not admit tho fact, it is tho prin ciple whioh determines tbo docroaso in wages precisely fis under other aud opposite conditions it oporatesto raiso wages. When Mr. Clovoland started out to experiment with tbo tariff, aud there by plugged every manufacturing in dustry in the United States iuto such uncertainty that busiuoss could no longer bo carriod ou with conlideuoo or safety, the wage scale dcoliuod in every direotiou and coasel entirely in many. Every demagoguo aud overy anarohistio nowspapcr iu tho Country took tho matter up. It wai too good a chnuoo to mi«s. Tlio oppressors of labor were closing thoir mills or out ting down tho wago scalo with tho merciless avarice that always marks the attitude of capital toward labor. Had not Mr. Cleveland called atten tion to tho "scenes that wore being enacted at Homestead" iu the name of capital, aud was it not a fitting timo for every friend of toil to rally against the encroachments anl extor tions of the rich? Thou there sprea I over tho wholo United States one vait tornado ot freuzied rhetoric au 1 un reasoning denunciation whereof tlia eohoes iliod away only last spring. Aud now tho objonts of it all, or at least thoso who hive survived thj abuse and tho injury he.ipol upon them, nro euiergiug into tho clears 1 air and resuming work with cheerful ness and amiability, aud raising wages right nnd left wherover tho oppor tunity offers. —Now York Suu. industry and Idleness, Is# 112 J j. Protection. Freo Trade. Who Organized It 1 "There is no more tnlk of tho 'army of the unemployed.' " —Now York World. Of course there is not. Tho Con gressional free traders have been con signed to oblivion. Thero never would have been any talk of tho "army of tho unemployed" bad they always re mained there. NO. 46. their free trade temple a message of startling significance. It is a sen tence of doom. This Democratic ad ministration will go down to his tory ns the mo3t successful nrehitect of rain. New York Mail and Ex press. History of Our Debt. During the twenty-seven years of Republican administration \?hich af forded protection to American labor nnd industries, from 1866 to 1892, tha interest bearing debt of tho United States was decreased by 31,747,301,- 878, the account standing as follows at tho two periods: Interest Tear. boavinj? debt. 1800 if 2,332,381,206' 131)2 £85,021), 330 Decrease under protection.. .#1,747,301,878 During the recent two years of a free trado administration the interest bearing debt of the United States in creased from 8085,037,000 in 18911 up to $716,202,060 on June 30,1893. The increase during theso two years was 8131,104,730, the account standing as follows: Interest Year. bearing debt 1895 5710.202.0Gf : 181)3 585,037,33? Increase under free trade $131,164,731 During the twenty-seven years of protection the average annual decreaso in tho interest bearing debfc of tho country was $01,714,884. Duringtho last two years of freo Irado adminis tration the average annual increase in the interest bearing debt of tho United States was §05,582,365. Hero stands the record: INTEBEBT BEAIIINO I>EU Protection period, twenty-seven years. Av-mvieannual decrease. ....,¥01,711,831 l<'re:> trade period, two years. Average annual increase .... . ..$03,532,333 As the New York Times says, this is "unquestionably a good showing"— bat not for the free trade party. The "Itobfosr Harms" A?ain. Wo see nothing printed nowadays against those rascally "robbei barons" who, a fe\r years ago, wore describe I by the freo trade papers as existing merely for tho pleasure of putting down tho valuo of labor and robbing a wage earner of all that ho possessed. Speaking of recent increases in wages, ono of tho muggiest of mugsvump papers, tho Spriugtiel I (Mm.) Ke pnblican has this to say: "In all casos, we believe, tha in crease has been granted voluntarily, and it constitutes tho most remarkable record of the kind ever known in our industrial history." The manufacturers and othor gen tlemen who have recently been "vol untarily" adding to the inconio of their employes uro tho very sauio men who, in 1892, were described in a blackguardly way by this very same and other mugwump and free-trade sheets as tho "robber barons" whoso very oxistenco oven was a curso to tho United States. Now that the "rob ber barons" aro "voluntarily" increas ing wages, these same scurrilous sheets regard their action as "tho most re markable record of tho kind ever known iuour industrial history." But when wages wcro adviucjl in 1312 they could only say that tho emyloyes ha I "i-oVur baron" as. t'nir em ployers. Oaly Six Billions Lost. The business record of tho United States, under tho early periods ol the MoKiuley and Gorman taritl's, is indi cated by tho bank olearings. Those, as comptlod by Bradstreet's, were ior periods of ten mouths under each tariff, as follows: HANK CXKAIUXOS. September 1 to June 30.—. Month. 1804-95. 189J-DI. September. $3,483,727, t93 $4,1)30,533,441 October 4,228,257,55) 5,705.081),U1S Novembor.. 4,103,494,201 5,330,201,035 1) ;oe:uber . . 4,249,218.0 )3 4,752,840,004 January 4.301,874,053 4,81)0,037,605 February 3,331,015,513 3,894,929,5111 March..... . 4,'108,4)0,193 4,153,809,257 April 4,232,322,999 4,734,207,025 May 4,839,189,327 4,735,045,348 J uue 4.331,785,081 4,812.806,88J Totals $41,275,951,494 647,421,785.174 During tho lirst ton months of the McTvinlfly tariff tho aggregate of bank clearings iu tho United States was over six billion dollars groater than during the tirst ten months' operation of tho Gormau tariff. Thij repre sents an avorago of $00i),000,000 a month more busiuess transacted dar ing tho MoKiuley tariff poriod than at present,
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