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VOL. XIII.
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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,