SULLIVAN JBF&I REPUBLICAN.
W. M, CHENEY, Publisher.
VOL. XIII.
Tho National debt of Great Britain
amounts to rather more than SIOO for
each inhabitant.
Out of the 200,000 people in Santi
ago, Chile, only 250 speak English,
but th.'y manage to suppoit au Eng
lish nevp.iper, liuown as the Chilean
Times,
Since the United States Government
was organized less than nino hundred
people liavo served as Unitod States
Senators, while of theso more than two
hundred had previously been mem
bers of the House of Representatives.
The Melbourno (Australia) Argus
says that the total amount of the pub
lic and private debts owing to Great
Britain by tho seven Australian col
onies is $1,575,000,000, and that tho
amount of interest paid last year was
$03,750,000.
Tho English Government in India
collects about $35,000,000 a year from
the sale of opium. This is an inter
esting fact iu connection with tho
pyschology of recent arguments by
English statesmen that the moderate
consumption of opium is good for tho
health and morals.
When the new motor carriages come
into uso tho horse will receive another
setback. It looks very much as if
science were on the point of inventing
£tir long useful equine servant com-
out of sight. "If ever ani
mal would be justified in kicking, it
is tho horse," exclaims the Columbus
Enquirer-Sun.
Professor Wiley says that "ono of
grandest discoveries of modern sci
ence" is tho agency of microbes iu en
abling plants to absorb from the air
the nitrogen which is the chief factor
in their growth. The theory was first
suggested by Pasteur, and it is thought
to be fully confirmed by tho researches
of independent investigators. If it doos
not deceive expectation it will com
pletely revolutionize agriculture. To
increnso the growth of plants it will
only bo necessary to feed their roots
with water containing tho proper mi
crobes.
Au idea of tho extraordinary ex
pansion in telegraph an 1 telephone
traffic is suggested iu some figures ou
the single item of poles. During tho
> last five yeais ono Connecticut dealer
alone has shipped 150,000 poles to
the various lines ho has constructed.
Ono leading telephone company has
tuken from liim over 100 carloads for
ordinary lines, as well us 7000 "sticks"
for long-distanco lines. For telegraph
liues tho demunil is also continuous.
Ono telegraph company has made a
contract for this year for a minimum
supply of 10,000 poles. Tho poles
mngo iu length from thirty to eighty
feet, averaging from forty to sixty
feet. A gang of fifty men will build
one mile of liuo iu ailuy.
The recent increase in transporta
tion facilities in American cities is
really phenomenal. According to re
liable statistics there aro now in tho
Uuited States 13,588 miles of street
railroad trucks. The classification as
to motive power is exceedingly sug
gestive. Of the abovo number of miles
of street railways iu operation, 10,303
have electrical power, or about seven
ty-six per ceut. of tho whole, 1014
havo horse power, 632 havo cable
power, uud 079 havo miscellaneous
means of locomotiou. Thoro are 4 (,-
•175 cars regularly run. Tho capital
stock and funded indebtedness amount
to $1,300,000,000, making an average
of $05,000 per milo of traok. It is
evident that tho Auiericau public pre
fers riding to walking, aud requires
the most ruput means of transporta
tion available. This is uu electrical
age.
Luily Henry Somerset vroilictn uhiu
ing tlentiniea fur women iu the twcn
ticth century, uii l tbu forecast i« nu
uplifting' ojie, the New Ytirk Tribuuo
mlniit*, whether it nwnit» fulfilment ur
nut. Kho think* thoy will wiu their
highest luuri'ln in tbu HpUure uf ffjy.
urumeut, IUIII that muuy ol tbu grunt
atftteuuioli o»«l ilipluuintutH «>f tbu fn
turo will be wouuu. My their exolu
«iuu from thcuo functions hitherto it
iu her upiuiuii that tbo wurhl bun hut
ii great ileal, untl tbut public affair*
wuulil hn*e gone uu uiuuh butter >1
the LIMI taken • bftinl iu tlieui. "It
luuy bo true," fti*ert« tbo Tribune.
"A J;I*U«1 muuy aiateituieu urn nuil ilollrj,
nu tluubt, ami have alway, been nu.
They need, ninl alwayn will, n re
iufuretun , u» of wl»Jom, nu 1 perh*|>-
they urn to reeeivii it fruiu wom«0, m
Aifam ruoeive'l it frum live, neeoiu
|Hiiiing ft well-kuuwu nu I IIIII.IIOMIIIIII
itj>|>lt<. lint not hi UK can e. rluiulv IN
know uf tbe future, ■tin »li*u n ii
llli|iulunle<l wtill tbu In * I ftHvbll'i
VIMUU like thai wbieli l.«>ly L|eur>
VmU uj'wb i|."
THE OIFTS.
Life, thou wast rich with promises;
What dost thou give?
What precious boon hast thou to show anil
say,
"Take this and live?"
For wlioli tho glory lay on far, blue hills,
Ou rocks anil trees,
Thou salil'st, "Tho beauty ot tho coming
years
Bohold In those;"
Or when tho air was full of rushing winds
Or rain's soft symphony,
Thou salil'st, "Those utter great, mysterious
things
That are to b?."
Now give! Olvo lovo, perhaps. But, "No,"
Life said;
"Though Love must bo
And Lovo Is fair—ay, wondrous fair is
Love—
'Tis not thee."
Then Fame! OU Life, since thou deniest me
Love,
Let me have Fume!
Sweet were tho voice of praising multi
tude
That spoke my name.
Lo, the grand pity in the face of Life!
"Hut few there aro
(Alas, how very few!) who climb that
bight
Lofty and far."
Still Joy is left for me. "Child, dost thou
know
How Joy is brief ?
None may the birthright of the race forego,
And that is Grief."
Not Lovo, nor Fumo, nor Joy! What gift is
loft
Worthy to take ?
Not ono; nj single one! Life, get thee
gone!
Lot my heart break.
Life smiled a noble smile. "Tho host of all
To all I give-
Duty and Use! These are tho gifts I bring.
Take these, and live!"
—Virginia C. Gardiner, in ludependeut.
THE WIDOW'S MITE.
DV MARY E. MITCHELL.
T is such a little
igjrfS thing that it seems
hardly worth the
HMj writing, yet it is
HMH one of tho little
EM things that make
vjjfll us glad. Besides,
" "HI " true.
-jT :/I—Mrs. Redd stood
over k° r
Hi,/1 waß wash-day. All
i *(-'] •|| hflEfj days except Sun
days wero genor
ally wash-days at
-tho Redds*.
Totty had just backed up to havo
lier frock pinned together—sho hail
burst of all tho buttous. Mrs. Itedd
wiped her hands ou her aprou aul
fumbled with a big pin.
"There! I can't do auything with
it, my hands are so soft with the
water. Run along! I guess you'll
hold together somehow!" Sho gave
her daughter's fat little body a gentle
push.
"Let mo pin it, Totty," said an an
gular woman who appeared at the
open door with a shawl ovar her head.
"Good moruing, Mrs. Conaut," said
Totty's mother. "Yov'vo got your
clothes out early."
''l haven't got many to-day. I guess
that'll do, Totty." Sho wove a pin in
and out at the back of the little girl's
aprou, and bestowed a kiss on the
back of her plump neck.
"Sit, down, wou't you, Mrs. Co
naut?" invited Mrs. Redd, hospitably
wipiu% off a chair-seat with a corner
of her aprou.
"Thank you, but I can't stop. I
just ran iu to ask you if you'd hoard
about the minister."
"Good land, no! I hope there isn't
anything wrong about him!" Mrs.
Redd stopped scrubbing.
"Well, there is, though. He is in a
peek of trouble. It seem* ho had a
lot of money in Portland bank, aud
it's go 110 and delimited, or something
of that kind—l don't know just what
they call it. Anyway, ho every
cent, and it's what ho was going to
educate his children with. Thoohurcli
had to cut down his salary this year
on account of hard times, so he's
pretty bad off.''
"You don't toll lue! How'd you
kuow about it?"
"I was up there washing yesterday,
aud Letty told mo. She's got to leavo
when her month's up, for they cau't
afford hirel help now. Mrs. Day
looked white as u sheet, but tho minis
ter was real caliu. Letty said that
when the news oomo it was awful.
Mrs. Day took ou, but the minister
chirked her up all the time.
" ' Tain't as if we wero separated,'
IUVS lie,' 'we can bear it together.'
" 'But the ehildreu I' says she.
" 'They'll have to lie all the bright
er und better,' Nays he. 'lt may be the
best thing for thrm to have to utrug-
Ijle.' Thou ho smiled, though Letty
i-aid In- looked kind of toary about
tho eyes. Well, I'm sorry for him !"
"rto'lu 1," taid Mrs. Itedd, ■washing
the water aguiu vigorously. ".Mortal
sorry! The minister's a good man,
and with those eight young ones tu
bring up uu I Mrs. Day's bid health,
it'll go hard. I uever shall forget
»hut he did for IUU wholi Redd Was
taken."
"l,iuiiU Tbere'ii my htiabiitiil, mil
me I VVbitt lit tbo wiirlil'*
b<< homo tor wt IIIIM hour? Well, KOlHl
morning I" utnl Mr#, t'ouuut went
away iu u hurry.
Mr*. Koilil went ou witb her wurk.
Hhu Ii111• 11•'>I her wishing uu I huu;{ the
I'lutliu* out iu tti«* frmli hreeao. Mb"
ntH'le in nt hi r liltlu hull*', ninl hi I
t lie frugal ilium r ru ly fur IIM raven
nil* ehiJ'lreii who emtio from »eb'»il
ninl piny to.l uvuur it. Hut nbe li lit
nil witb nu ftlmiruetetl «ir, «» if Iter
mill I were fur n«*«y,
WLeu bcr Uvlsy vfft* JUUU luufu
LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1895.
scattered—tho older children gone
back to school, the little ones safe in
the back yard—and tho after-dinner
work was out of the way, Mrs. Redd
repaired to tho living-room, and de
liberately sat herself down to think.
Sho sat a long time, her hands fold
ed in her lap, hor faco twisted in
varying emotions. Finally sho arose
decisively, and went to her bare little
bedroom.
She put on her best gowii, a black
cashmere, thin and old, but neat as
brushing and careful mending could
make it; then, with roveront fingers,
she took out her Sunday bonnet. It
was a straw of antique shape, and ite
few limp bows of rusty crape bespoke
her widowhood.
Sho went out tho front door, lock
ing it after her and putting the key in
her pocket.
"Mammy 1 mammy! Wliero you
doin'?" shouted Totty'n sturdy little
lungs.
"Nevermind, mammy's baby! Stay
iu the yard and be a good girl.
Mammy'll bo back pretty soon."
Tho soft summer sky was very bluo
overhead, the air was full of sweet
scents and sounds, and the afternoou
sunshine lay golden on tho dusty road
as Mrs. Redd went up tho hill to tho
minister's.
Tho minister sat in his study. TIo
had been trying to writo his sormou,
but somehow the words would not
come. Ho was late about tho sermon
this week. It had been pushed off
from day today in a very unusual
manner until Friday afternoon. So
the minister had shut himself up, and
was vainly endeavoring to bring his
mind to boar on a severely doctrinal
discourse.
But ho had so much elso to think of!
At last, with a Bigh, he laid his gray
head down on tho desk bofore him
and gave himself up to his trouble.
110 though of the bright hopos that
had vanished with his savings; ho
thought of tho lettor he had sont that
morning. This was tho hardest blow
of all—tho letter that told his son
Eric that he could not have auothcr
year in college. Eric, who was to havo
been his best message to tho world !
Eric, who led his classes, and whoso
ambition was to bo a minister "like
father!"
Ho thought of his tired wife's face,
and of the many little ones to bring
up aud fittingly educate, and his heart
fuiled him.
So the minister's mind wandered
farther and farther from tho argu
ments of his sermon, and his tired
head lay still on his outstretched arm.
The afternoon sun, gotting well
toward tho west, stole in, sending
shafts of dusty light through tho
shaded room.
The sounds of children's voicos,
shrill and happy in out-of-door froo
dom, fioated iu nt tho opon window.
Tho blank sheets of paper lay on the
desk, waiting for tho sormon that
would not be written. Suddenly the
tho study door opened.
"I'm so sorry to disturb you, John,"
said Mrs. Day, laying a gentle bund
on tho bowed head, "but there's a
woman hero who says she must see
you."
"Is that you, Mary?" said tho min
ister, straightening up and resuming
his pen with a busy air. "Well, who
is it, dear?"
"It's Mrs. Redd, tho washerwoman
who lives in tho Hollow. Yon remem
ber her husband was killed at the mill
last year. I hate to interrupt you so,
but sho said she must see you."
"Never mind, wife. Send hor in."
The minister gave a little sigh. He
felt that the world was full of vexing
troubles, aud that ho must help bear
them all. Even the smallest burden
seemo.l too heavy to add to his own.
Iu came Mrs. Redd—a smill black
figure which seemed to shrink into the
shadows, and which timidly seatod it
self on tho odge of the most uueom
fortablo chair iu the room.
"Good afternoon, Mrs. ltodd. You
must liuve had u warm walk up tho
bill," Hiiiil the minister.
"Well, sir, it wns atritlo warm. But
I didn't fool it nuy to spouk of, aud
it's first-rato drying woathor."
Thou cnsuod a lout; silence, in which
Mrs. ltodd nervously worked the fin
gers of her black cottoa gloves, and
the minister wished that ahe would
eoino to the poiut.
"Are you aud your little ones all
well, Mrs. ltodd?" inquired the min
ister.
"Oh yes, sir. There's nothing the
matter with us. Anyway, nothing to
trouble you about, Hir." Again the
couvcrsatiou flawed.
"What can 1 do for you, my good
woman?" said the minister, as ho
thought of tho unwritten pages on
his desk.
"Well, sir, I don't know juik how
to get at it. You're always doing for
us —1 slia'u't over forget what you did
for mu when Kedd died. I feel dread
ful about tho trouble that has come
on you."
Tho minister wiucod just a little.
It was a subject ho was uot anxious to
converse upon. Hut ho answered
cheerily:
"It was very kind of you to coiuu
all this way to briugnio vour sympathy,
Mrs. ltodd."
"There's something else I waut to
say, sir, If you wou't take oflouco at
my living so bold. ( know what hard
t •... are, and not to have auy money
or know where your next meal is 00m
in,{ from. Hut I'm llsed comfortable
lor tho summer with tho childreu
shocd aud hatted new, aud work rej'lar
in las much as 1 em take 111. I've
>t a little xutu iu the bauk that I've
laid by, aud I'd be glad if you'd l>e so
l.iud as to use it—if you'll esou to 111
tor mentioning it. it's a matter of
si lor aeven dollars," added Mrs. 1..1,
with pride 111 this evidence of her
thrill and careful saving.
".My good woman!" exclaimed the
miuistor. "Do you mean that you
eoiuo to 1110 to oiler ino your hard •
earned taviu"*?"
"O, sir, I hope you ain't mad at too
liberty I took 1 I should be rorve'n
willing that you used it I thought it
might kind of help you over a tight
place."
Tho minister rose from his chair
and gently, almost reverently, took
Mrs. Redd's hand with its big, flap
ping glove, in his.
"Mrs. Redd—" aud his voice shook
a bit. "Mrs. Redd, I cau't find words
in which to thank you. You havo
done me more good than I can tell
you. I don't need to take your mon
ey, but from of my heart I
thank you."
Mrs. Reed looked u littlo disap
pointed.
"I hope, sir, you dou't think mo
forward in offering it to you? You
might take it aud nover feel beholden
to mo at all."
"My dear friend," said the min
ister, "you have given mo more than
money to-day. I promise you if I
ever do need what you so lovingly
offer I will come to you. But oven if I
nover have to take your dollars, rest
assured that you havo brought mo to
day moro than you can possibly
know."
Mrs. Redd went down tho hill a
very happy woman. It was good,
after all, to know that the money was
still hers. "Against sickness, or
broken lege, or such things," sho said
to herself, thinking of her rough-and
tumble little ones. Even tho minister
could not quite know what a sacrifice
tho offer had involved.
Then he had called her his dear
friend! "And he knows ho can como
to mo for it any time," sho said to
herself. This last thought gave hor a
pleasing sense of protectorship. On
tho strength of these delightful reflec
tions Mrs. Redd went into the corner
grocery aud indulged iu throe whole
cents' worth of peppermint drops for
the children.
Then sho went home to hor bubios.
Meanwhilo tho minister had torn up
his doctrinal sormon, aud had gouo to
work with fresh paper and fresh heart.
He wroto steadily us one inspired,
aud when his wifo camo to call him to
sitppor, Bhe was surprised uud glad
dened by the bright face which gro3t
ed her.
It was a good sermou that the min
ister preachod to his people the noxt
Sunday, and these wero the words of
his text:
"But us touching brotherly love
ye need not that I write unto you,
for ye yourselves are taught of God to
love ono another."
Not one of alt his hearers guessod
who preached that sermon to the min
ister. They dnl not know that the
littlo washermoinan, iuu shabby straw
bonnet, who sat iu u corner pew and
tried to keep within decent bounds
tho spirits of fivo restless, fat, perspir
ing ohildren, hud auythiug to do with
it. And as for Mrs. Redd, such a
thing never oceured to her.
"It's just liko the goad inau ho is,"
she thought, rescuing Totty from a
sleepy full to the floor.
"I'm dreadful glad he feels ho can
cull on mo any time for that money."
—Youth's Compauion.
Maine Supplies the World's Spools.
Practically all the wood used iu
making spools for thread in this
country au l Great Britain is cut in
Maine forests, but s > great is the
uuiouut of lumber required euoh your
for tho making of these seemingly in
significant articles that SI line will not
be able to supply the raw material
much longer. The spools are made of
birch wood, uud tho birch of the
Maine forests is the best for the pur
pose. More than two uiilliou feet of
lumber is shipoed to Scotland every
your for tho use of the great throu I
manufactories there, and almost us
niuoh is supplied to domestic manu
facturers. Tho business begun iu
Maine twenty-live years ago, and land
that was cut over at that time is now
well covered with young tree*, but not
for twenty-live jours more will this
timber bo fit to cut. Birch timber is
becomiug scarce, and it will not be
many yours before thread makers will
have to look elsewhere than to Muiuo
for their spool wood. While it takes
fifty years for birch forests to renew
themselves, the crop is considered a
profitable one.—New York Sun.
Makinx Sliot in Water.
Tho uliot waking trade has a legend
which recite* that bauk iu tho days
wheu giiun wore «hot otT by ii«hte>l
matches ami wero nwivclod tt> supports
because thoy woro too big aud clumsy
t>> bo lifted to tho ihouldur, an,l when
all abut wan molded as bullets aro to
day, HOIUO workiuou were fastening an
iron grating to tho w ill of a castle.
Thoy had out out tho holo iu th>
Htouo, aud, after plaun { tin iron in
tho hole, |> juroil aouio loa I iu to hold
tho iron iu place, just as they tlo to
day. Some of tho loa I Oinpul an I
rau over tho edge of th'i wall iut > tli i
moat below. Soon afterward tli • at
teutiou of tho Holdier.i wai attracted
to tho load in tho clear wator, au I.
dipping it out, thoy found that tho
motal iu falliug froiu the height ha I
become c'toliulos. After that those
aoldiora ma le thoir bullet* by sprink
ling moiled loa I over tlu castle wall
into tho wateri of thy moa\ Hard
ware,
A l'retty Ki|»ttriHiKul.
A eork that u lou#er tltat> it is
broad tlo*U npou ILL atouiaoli, MO to
upeak; how can wo utaku it float upon
iU head?
I'lace ouo on cud upon » table au I
around it plaej sis other*. Neiie
thorn all together an I plungo them
under wator, *1 at to molnteii thoiu
completely. Then romov.t ymr hand
ail I lot thoiu t ike tlluir own position
111 tho water, when y-»u will llud that
thoy will aland upright, n. if »npport<
lug viuu another I'liia it UHHUIM tli >
walor that poll iraU<« tli" cork* l>>
Pi;illljri!» will Mak<* tlit.iij elm/ to-
I'la .
ELI PERKINS EXPOSES.
INVESTIGATES SOME REPORTED
WAGE RESTORATIONS.
Finds'tho Published Statements Are
Mostly Made Out of Whole Cloth
—Erroneous, and Purposely Mis
leading— Business Dull and Wanes
Not Restored to McKlnley Rates.
Eli Perkins has returned from a
visit among the potters, gloss men and
iron men. When asked about the
recent advance in wages ho said:
I found that some glass, pottery
and iron establishments whioh olosod
down in 1892 or dropped wages 25
per cent, have started up again, but
none with the wages of 1892. In all
the potteries wagos were cnt 12} per
cent, by the Wilson bill and I found
no instance whero they had been res
tored. On account of the demand for
structural iron for building purposes
many of theso iion mills were at work.
In several cases where I havo road in
frco trade newspapers about wages
being advanced I have written notes
to the proprietors to get the truth.
Tho other day I saw this notice sont
out by tho Free Trade Reform Club:
WFLSON BILL PROSPERITY.
BELLAIRE, Ohio, July 16.—The
Chelsea China Works, which have
been closed for six months, resumed
operations to-day, giving 500 people
work.
So I wrote to the Chelsea Company,
asking these questions:
1. How much havo potters' wagos deolined
on account of tho Wilson bill lowering the
tariff?
2. Why did your pottery stop?
3. How much lower wages will you pay
now under tho Wilson bill than under tho
McKinley bill?
4. Has the Wilson bill benefited American
potteries or hurt them?
5. Would you have closed down at all If
tho McKinley bill had continued right
along?
This is tho reply:
CHELSEA CHINA COMPANY, I
NEW CUMIIP.HI.ANI>, W. VA. , July 22, 1893. (
Melville I). I.melon, Esq.:
DoirSir—Yours of tho 20tli duly received
anil I will endeavor to answer your ques
tions
1. Wages of potters have decreased 12'<
per cent, since tho Wilson bill lias gone lntc
effect.
2. The statement from Bellaire is erron
eous. We have not been closed down for
six months. 'Tls true wo havo been only
workiug half timo, but wo would have beeu
working full time hud the Wilson bill not
lowered the tariff. We were ablo to keep
running in part on account of the superior
line we havo boon manufacturing. The
trade for staples was taken completely from
Us by foreign manufacturers.
!). We do not expect to make any reduction
in wanes at tho present time further than
already been made.
. 4. The Wilson bill lias not bonefltcd
American potters. The reports from buyers
are that they are tilled up with English
good*. They say we cau buy English goods
cheaper than we can American and cau have
them laid down at our doors for loss freight,
both in Mississippi towns and in the West.
5. Our pottery would have been in full
operation for the past six months had tho
McKinley bill beeu iu effect. Very truly
yours,
CHELSEA CHINA COMPANY,
DANIEL TAYLOII, General Maua/cr.
I'erO. H.
When all tho freo trade papers pub
litilicrf a dispatch from Ea.st Liverpool,
saying wages Lad beeu uilvauced in tho
great Knowlos pottery aud u boom in
business was on, I wrote to that pot
tery for tho facts. Back cutuo thin
note:
Tun Kvj.vi.r. <. TAYLOII .t KNOWLES CO.,
Potters.
EAST LIVKHI'OOI.. Ohio, U. H. A. I
July 20, 18SJ5. )
Melville D. Landon. Esq.;
ltnplyiug to your favor of tho 25th instant.;
There is ii ) •'boom" in the crockery trade
hare, and we see none in sinht. The resump
tion referred t i simply U>e ins that, whereas
nearly all the pottc ries closed, as they in
variably do about July ). for from one to
two or three weeks, they have, as they also
invariably have done, rc.-utned operations.
Tho American price-list has been changed
to correspond with the English list, so that
dealers may know exactly how to eoaiparo
American and English prices when a com
parison is necessary.
Iu answer to your question, we answer
We dropped wages ill nearly all departments
12' j per cent, nftcr the passage of tho Wilson
bill. Our china works have been running
about four-lift hsdurlug this year. Our grau
ite works have been riinuiitK about half time
this your. As we understand it, about all
potteries in the t'ulted States lire affected in
substantially tho sain" way. Hespcctufully,
Til* KNOWI.KS, TAVI.OU A KNOWLES CO.
"I asked the glass men iu Indiana,"
Haiti Mr. Ferkiue, "what tho Wilson
bill had done for them ami they in
variably auswered:
" 'lt lias killed glass factories out
side of tho belt and wo uro run
ning with lower to compote with
Europe.'
"Summed up, tho business situa
tion," said Mr. l'erktns, "is about like
this: The Wilson bill threw millions
of men out of work when tho country
Wgau to import forcigu stt I)'. But now
tho Wilson bill is about doue with.
Tho Senate and llousoare Hepuhlioau.
In a littlo while we will have a Ho
publicau l'resideiit and tho old tariff
which uiudo us prosperous for 30 youri
will cotue. It will bo a tariff for
revenue and incidental protection.
Tho manufacturer* know it and are
discounting it. They discounted the
Wilsou bill and dropped wages iu
IH'J'2, before Cleveland oatue iu, aud
they will start their mills and put up
wages before the Republican Presi
dent comes iu. The muuviUoturore
are simply lookiu;; ahead."
A Tulat to Remember.
While our free trade friends u*
plu.ning their feathers over what they
choose to oall an increase iu wages, let
thom bear iu miud thai it is not au
lucreaeo of wage*, but a restoration uf
wage*; and there is one point in tlii*
Connection that should But U of »?•
looked, and thai la that la moat ease*,
the restoration hat bean only partial.
In but few canoe where the wages of
will handa hare been raised are they
as high aa lite* were ia ISM. l>ou I
forget this. —Oaieite, Trenton. M, J.
\nti<''..iiii'iii*t* any Hint w bat «:anafla
tUftla I* uoI • lIHK'li a t'abinet mailer
Terms—sl.oo in Advance; 51.25 after Three Months.
EXPORTS.
Value of Articles Produced by labor
In the United States and Sold In
"the Markets of the World" Dur
ing the Two Fiscal Years Kndlnjc
June SO:
169*4, 1895
nl n
i € 975'000.0Q0.
<950.000,000 * fts O.OOO,OQO
$ 8i5, 000,000 S f125.0Q0.000
il 000,-000.000- S 800 ,000,000
ts&szess.-* ■
775.000.000 i 775.000.000 |M
! 0 cold year jar Hp
$ 750.000.000' j|_750,00o l oao
Uniledy.aU? lobar
t 7 25.000.0Q0 M 725.000,00P Ml
i* H ttic markets oj jfljl
I 700,000.000 % 700,000,000 IWI
, ttw world" H
i 615,000,000 |_£7S I OOO [ OOO_JM|
$650, 000,000' /!Li£sis®£i£££l^B
§<35.000,000' ||j62J^OOO l OO£rJ^H
t 600 ',000,000 9 600, 000, quo' Ml
p 575,000,000 i S7S'ooo,ooo' |M|
tSSO,ooo,ooo HI f> 5'50,000,000
ill 525,000,000 H Vs?s,000,000' IBM
t 500,000,000 ■ t 500,000,000 Ml
~i li j i T® o nicmtlis under,
VrVt McKintoj-ovd
TOonljt s tinder Ihe ten rmmlhf, under
Kinley lonjj the Gorman loriff
K s i r\ lr
IMPORTS.
Value of Articles Marketed In the
United States, But t'roduced by
Labor ;ln Foreign Countries, In
stead of by Labor In the United
States. During tho Two Fiscal
Years Kndliig June 30:
IB9H 1335
nu -A
t7sC,QQof<>o 1750,000,000' I
f725;000,/yo M
Poreijn products EH
WKinj it Vao hot ifM
< 700,000, W) $ 700,000,090 ggl
JOT Umt»dMc>EJ RH
lobor m our owrt SX
#J2li 000,006 I I [±6 5,000,000 [IB |
Kqttis worVsls H
skS~o,ocQ,oo'o . fH,so,oct>,ooo MBB
|6T7,nj.oi7—» m
000,000 Bj 1} (,75,000,000 |K|l
<£03,000,000 H fUOOjOOOjOOotiU,
$575,000,000 *576 ,000,000 if-Sj
1 i
112, 550,000,000 ££« S 550,000,000 Jctl
ill -si
$525,000,000 »S2 5,000,000 (g|
$500,000,000 $ 1500,000,000
i , . . monlhs under
»Die IfteKinley—and
BALAXE OF TU\l)L',
Diilitnee of Trade In Kavor of the
United States l>nrliijs the Two
Fiscal Years Kudlug .lune :i(>:
^ 1695
I 225.000.0 00 112 2?f,000,000
< iOo.oCO.acn _{■ t aOO,OOO. goo
< cs.oos.ri'.i PJ j. 1 '? ,000,000
$ i »o. poo.eon $ i%0,00*,0n0
i nvooo.ooo laß $J j
i i00.000,0e0 |_L
< fTt.eoo.ooo 1 1iiPof, i oo
jM is
]■ 112 m.i'i't
ITU .Li* tumk. Umkf
V 1 AkK xlts|-a«sf
Kmtlii u»|«r iv . .. J ,
> * '
) leuis of Intetesl Pawnbroker's
iMM
NO. 50.
DOWN ON DEMOCRATS.
Bitter Assaults Upon the Sugar Pro
ducers of Louisiana.
In no instance has the dishonesty of
the present Administration been more
barefaced than in its dealings with
our sugar producers. When the Mo-
Kinley tariff was passed in 1890 the
Louisiana crop of that year was 180,-
000 tons. Under the protection then
offered by Congress the sugar output
of that one State almost doubled, in
creasing to 350,000 tons for the 1894
crop, whioh was cultivated, grown and
harvested on the faith that tho laws of
Congress would be executed and that
the honesty ..' tho American Govern
ment would not be impeached. It is
the same in the case of our beet sugar
product, which reached only 3000
tons in 1890 and 30,000 tons in 1894,
the phenomenal advanco being made
sclely through tho Government's
promise of protection.
Tho hardship experienced, more
particularly by the individval planters
and manufacturers of Louisiana, has
at length forced upon them the belief
that the political party to which they
have hitherto belonged is as dishonest
as it is incompetent. First of all, the
leaders of that party in Congress en
deavored to repudiate tho payment of
the just claims of tho sugar growers
and producers. It was duo chiefly,
however, to their political opponents
that Congress insisted upon appro
priating the sum of 35,000,000 where
with to partially meet their demands.
More than half a year has elapsed
sinco thnt money was appropriated.
It has not yet been paid, and obstacle
after obstaclo has been presented by
the Democratic officials to prevent its
payment. Every delay and subter
fugo that could suggest itself has been
practiced so as to defraud tho sugar
producers, who have overcome every
opposition and successfully met every
argument used against ther . For a
yeur past statesmen, fihaiijiers, law
yers and Treasury experts have dis
cussed the payment of this just claim,
and all havo failed in successfully op
posing it. Finally the Democratic
ofHcials in Washington wero com
pelled to formulate regulations for its
settlement. All details for payment
were arranged and tho date was an
nounced, September ?, when the
money should be handed over.
Thus the hopes of the sugar pro
ducers were once more buoyed up. It
seemed that the payment of tho
bounty was inevitable; that there was
no escapo from it. Cut tho confiding
people of Louisiana did not know tho
depth of Democratic official degrada
tion. An entirely new obstacle was
suddenly set before them, nnd it now
looks as if the grandest period of
prosperity that was ever enjoyed by
[Louisiana will terininntc with the im
poverishment of her people and a
chock to her progress that cannot be
overcome within a decade. Scores of
tho sugar planters of that Stato havo
already been wrecked and ruined;
others had tided over their troubles
by obtaining advances and extensions
of credit, owing to tho promise made
by Congress that the bounty should
be paid them.
But now one official sets himself tip
to overrule the action of Congress;
and thoso sugar produoers who wero
being helped temporarily by banks
and capitalists must, many of them,
succumb to tho ruin aud wreckage
that had previously overwhelmed their
neighbors and friends. Not only is it
tho sugar producers of Louisiana who
are injured, but every other industry
in tho Stato is diroctly utTectod by tho
prosperity of tho sugar people. Tho
treachery of the free-trade party and
of the free-trade officials, step by step,
throughout this ontiro transaction
with Louisiana will, uud can, never bo
sufficiently exposed.
The Interest ol the Farmer.
In 1828 tho House Committoe on
Manufactures advanced the reason for
plucing a duty ou spirits made from
grain and on molasses. It was
claimed that lurgo quantities of for
eign molasses were imported and used
to make molasses ruiu, and that this
was a competitor ot our houie-ina do
whisky made from domestic grown
grain. Dot another ground ou which
tho duties on spirits und on uialassen
wero levied was that our gram-grow
ing farmers iu tho interior wero then
without transportation facilities aud
sntlered for a onrket for their grain,
aud that foreign spirits aud molasses
rum lessened this market at tho do
mestic' distilleries. Tho rouort of tin
committee said:
"It is the interest, an 1 solely tho
interest, of the farmer who grows tho
grain from which spirits uro distilled
which render* it a subject at all
worthy the eonsi ler.ition o! Congress,
us oouueete I with tho protection of
tho iudustry aud substantial interests
of the country."
Silas Wright, of Now York, tlmu
whom there was uo Democrat more
able, who was a member of the com
mittee this report, and Mr.
Heutou. also, .poke fot the increase of
the duty on foreign spirits au I luola*
»e\ »ud it o.irrie 1
There is uo esoipe from the conclu
sion that duties ou agricultural prod
ucts were then levied t«>r protection
nnd not for revenue only. That was
the policy of trt»o Democracy. Th«»
"tariff for revenue ouh " idea t» an up
•tart, a scheme of shjrsters.
IouIIH; It* Owu * 'I.
Imports of foreign m v.!'.!«•» m
the tlsoal jrear ju»tel t>ed a n »»ute I t »
f74l,7t'J,*taud ei|» >rls a-yrejuto I
$s 11 J, the t-s><i-«s of esporis
I'oui' only .fSI.Wld.S7ii, as aguuit
$317,1 |.I,UAO in the previous »ear. It
was not a'oao the duutni-hed quanti
ties of •ur | r iduels ci I'ltw thai
produce 111. re«nlt, i»ul the low prices
-I S* t lh»»a. Vt w t oftj Herald,