SULLIVAN JHHH REPUBLICAN. W. M, CHENEY, Publisher. VOL. XIV. Russia is going to spend 10,000,000 roubles a year for forty ye'-ro on a system of local railroads. In Cleveland, Ohio, they have a machine for unloading coal cars, whioh will empty a car in just four minutes. The other day it unloaded forty-fivo cars in three hours. Statistics aver that siuco bicycling has become a popular pastime, the rubber trade, in consequence, has risen probably $5,000,000 within tho last eighteen months. Besides the coal yet to be brought to the surfaco in Europo and America, it is estimated that there are in Japau workable seams containing 700,000,000 tons, equal in commercial value to Australian coal. The programme of shipbuilding for the French Navv promises great ac tivity. Forty-eight vessels are to be completed by the end of 1895 and twelve are to be begun in IS96—viz: one ironclad, four cruisers of different classes, one gunboat, four torpedo boats, one torpedo-boat destroyer, and one despatch- boat. Xeill, or Cream, the prisoner who was executed in England three years ago, according to a recent statement of the Chaplain of Holloway Prison, had murdered beyond a doubt no less than thirty-five women. He was the most proficient Bible student ever ad mitted to the jail, being able to repeat half the Bible from memory. The enormous extent of the forests, and also of the lumber industries, of tho Northwest is indicated by the fact that this seaso;: Washington will make f-hipments of lumber aggregating 400,000,000 feet, Oregon 150,000,000 feet, and British Columbia 40,000,003 leet. And there is no danger of the supply running short, dsclsvtca the New York Sun. John Bull can be generally f»:r Mhen he tries to be, but the New York Advertiser notes that he cannot help but show just a little natural sensitive ness at being constrained to look else where for a dictionary of his own lan guage. "Strange," the London Liter ary World exclaims in speaking of the Standard Dictionary, "that the Queen's English should find its chief autocrats in the country of the Presi dent." A political situation that is probab ly unique developed in the little town of Acree, near Albany, Ky,, a short time ago. It was the anuual election of municipal officers, relates the New York Sun, and there were forty-two voters on tho list. When the ballot ing took place it was found that only one of the forty-two voters was prop erly registered. That one was tho candidate for Mo- /: Ho cast tho only ballot at thi; and duly elected himself and a Board of Alder men. Several expert engineers connooted with the Franklin Institute have de clared that the recent trial of electric locomotives at Nantasket Bench, Mass., clearly proves the superiority of this system over steam for ■short hauls. A epeed of sixty miles an hour has betn attolined in the tests. A maximum Kjj«?ed of fifty miles an hour can, it is 'thought, be readily developed, or a locomotive can pull 12,000 tons at the rate of thirty miles an hour. The sys tem has been in operation near Bos ton for some months. * It his been said the Turkish Empire is based upon no Nationality; it is marked by no unity ; it is careless to administer justice and powerless to preserve peace; it. rose out of cruel religious conquest; it survived on the plunder of old civilization; it ba=> made the garden j-pot of other ages a place of desolation ; it is a barrier be tween the East and the West, a stum bling block in the way of progress, nnd a menace to the peace of Europe. No more time should be lost in getting rid of it, says a thinker who thinks Nations can be wiped out whenever they do not progress in his way. Henry Miller and Charles Lux, cattlemen, of San Francisco, confess to owning more than fourteen million acres of land in three States of the Union. This makes an estate equal in to the States of New Hampshire, lohusetts, Rhode Island and Con cut together. It is half the size ew York and three times the size w Jersey. It is about the size it Virginia and an eighth tho en •a of California. It is as large ece with the lonian Isles, of !?yron wrote. It is four times en of Alsace-Lorraine, over nice and Germany fought. Mo smaller than Ireland -go again as Switzerland. THE HEART'S SONQ. The sky bends blue above tic Antl sins the sweetest birds; Hero's home and ono to love us, And gentle deeds and words. But stormy be the skies or clear, ( The heart keeps singing all the year. Our pathway blooms with roses That woo us on the way And every evening closes A peaceful, perfect day. But thorn or roses, while lovo is near The heart keeps singing all the year! -F. L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution. THE CAPTAIN'S STORY. - APTAIN harry Beaufort was a i j tall, handsome, Vmiddle-aged man, r 11l traveled for a ' ??• leading Chicago JYy<ißnfs fir™. In response j to a request for a I Pi story to while away pT? f*" ISvV time as we »112 A traveled from Vin f' * .|\ cennes to Cincin !!»■ ■■ 9 nati, hot-aid: "As I'm going to stop off at my home this trip, I believe I'll tell you about my little Yankee prisoner. Let me see" —retrospectively—"it was in Novem ber, 1863, when our brigado—the old Stonewall brigade—was lying below Winchester, Va., momentarily expect ing an attack from the Federals. We were a ragged set, I tell yon. Half of the brigade was coatless and hundreds were shoeless, and all of us were hungry. One night I was put on guard in a little hollow facing the Yankee front. The glado was sur rounded on three sides by low hills covered with underbrush, with an opening directly at my front of sev eral hundred yards. Immediately surrounding my position there was a growth of low bushes, so thick that it seemed almost impossible for a man to penetrate it. In my rear all was clear of growth of any sort, so you can seo that I was not likely to be surrounded and captured if I kept my eyes open. Well, I had been standing there per haps an hour when I heard a thrashing and crashing in the bushes at my left. It seemed to me so much like the sort of a racket that an old cow, tangled in the brush, would make, that I paid little attention to it, until a heavier crash thau common, fol lowed by 'Confound the brush !' in ac cents of annoyance, attracted my at tention to a point about thirty feet away, and while looking, expecting to see the draggled gray make-believo Uniform of one of my regiment, I waß astonished to see the blue uniform of a Yankee emerging from the brush. "Tho fellow, who had not yet seon me, was little more than a boy (I was only eighteen years old myself at the time) and a pale-faced, fair-haired boy at that. 'Halt! Drop that gun and otand where you are, Yank !' I or dered. I needn't have told him to drop his gun, for he was so much as tonished that he dropped it involun tarily. 'Well, I'll be blamed ! You're a Johnny Reb, ain't you? What are you doing here?' were a few of tho questions he rattled off in his surprise. 'Yes, I'm a Johnny Rob, Yank, and I'm on guard here,' said I, as I ad vanced and picked up his gun. 'And you're my prisoner,' I added. " 'That's just my luck,' said he. 'I might have known I would get lost iu theso blamed Virginia hills. I wouldn't give a ten-acre farm on an Indiana prairie for ten miles square of this wooden country.' " 'Ought to have stayed there,' said I. 'But you won't get back soon, Yank, for you'ro bound for Libby Prison in short metre.' "'Libby Prison! I hope not! But I say, Johnny, got any grub? I'm blamed near starved. I've wandered about trying to confiscate something to eat ever since 3 o'clock, and to tell you the truth I'm too hungry and tired to talk.' " 'That's nothing,' said I. 'l've gone three days without anything to eat except green corn, and that on tho 'ear. But I'll toll you what I'll do, Ive got a hunk of corn bread in my giub bag over there under that little tree. You can have half of that.' " 'Thanks, Johnny. I'll do the same for you some day,' coolly said said the little Yank, and without any more ado off' he hustled and got tho grub. "The fellow was hungry and no mis take. He lit into the chunk of corn bread liko a hungry wolf, and while I stood looking at him and laughing at his efforts to get a four-inch section of core pone into a two-inch mouth, I'll be blamed if he didn't gobble down the whole mess, crumbs and all. I saw it going, but I couldn't stop it to save me, aud I don't really believe I would have done it if I could,hungry as 1 myself was. "But you should have seen that Yank's face alter he had got away with my rations. 'Blame my riggin',' said he, 'if I haven't gone and swallowed the whole of it. I'm mighty sorry, Johnny, but—' " 'Oh, never mind,' said I, for it was plain that the half-starved fellow had not been really conscious of his abuse of my hospitality, and although I was mad enough to give him a good licking my sense of the ridiculous pre ponderated and I couldn't help laugh ing to save my life. The whole affair had been so confoundedly ridiculous that I laid down my gun and actually rolled over and over until uiy sides fairly ached. "The little Yankee looked at mo a minute or two, and then the comical side of the affair suddenly struck lnin, too, and the next minute both of us were laughing liko schoolboys. "When both of us had laughed un t 1 we were completely exhausted wo t,.»t down together under tho little tree and had a long talk. Ho belonged to uu ludiautt reguaeut ru.l besu ,u LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1895. the service about six month;. He ss.ld his parents were living near Brown - Held, Ind., on a prairie farm, and spoke of his father and mother in terms of the greatest affection. He had a little sister—Jennio—two years old, whom I saw that the boy fairly worshiped. There had been three other children, but they were all dead. "Before tho war I had a number of friends in Indiana, and I spoke of them, ono or two of whom I found were known to my prisoner. Of course I told my story—of how, with thirty five other schoolboys, I had left school before I was seventeen and had joined the Confederate Army, and of tho many battles we had been in. There were at that time but seven of tho thirty-five left alive. "Well, to make a long story short, we had not talked an hour before we felt wo had known each other a life time. It saddened me to think of that jolly, fun-loving face in Libby or some other of our prisons, with their neces sarily short fare and miserable quar ters. Somehow I thought I could see that boy's mother appealing to me with her eyes to save her boy from prison. "It may have been some hypnotic or clairvoyant force or somo psychio power unknown to me, but, however that may be. I determined to do the best I could to get my little Yankee out of trouble. I had scarcely come to this determination when the relief guard camo up. The officer merely asked me where I got my prisoner,and when I told him he ordered me to take him to camp and turn him over. Our fellows were allowed considerable li cense, aud I took advantage of the fa<jt by going back with my prisoner with out any other escort. It was very dark in eamp, and I had no trouble in es caping observation with mv compan ion and getting into my tent. . " 'I suppose I'm a goner, Johnny,' said my little Yank, after we stretched out on a blanket. "'We'll see,' said I. 'Stay right here and don't move till I get back.' Aud then I slipped out of the tent and managed to hook several pieces of corn bread, ono of which I ate in short order. Then we lay down again and talked in a low tone of voice until Tthought it might be about 2 o'clock in the morning. Then I again stole out, and after a little scrutiny man aged to get possession of an old gray hat and jacket. These I ordered my little Yank to don, leaving his blue cap and blouse on the ground. Then when all was quiet I led him out, and by a dark glen which ran close up to camp I got him safely down into tho biush-covered glade where I had cap tured him. An hour later, by creep ing and crawling, wo had dodged tlio pickets and were out of reach. v> I," 'Now, Yank.' said I, 'we part hero. There, a littio to your right, is your picket line. Be careful that they don't shoot you for a rebel. Good-by.' And back I went, getting Gafely into camp before day. "The next morning we went into the fight, and my Yankee prisoner was forgotten by the other guardsmen. "That was tho last I saw or heard of my little Yankee prisoner during tho war. Twenty years after, or in 1883, I was traveling then, as now, out of Chicago, in Illinois and Indiana, and one summer evening I was sitting in a store in oueof the small country villages in Indiana, in company with perhaps fifteen or twenty others, most of whom had been in the army. Stories and jokes were told over pipes, and we were all in good cheer. When it came my turn I thought of my littio Yankee, and told tho story just as I have given it to you. Ono of the list eners, a tall, broad-shouldered, sandy haired giant, listened so intently that I saw that at least one of my hearers was interested, and when I concluded the big fellow arose and took Watson aside. Watson was the storekeeper. They talked excitedly for perhaps a quarter of an hour before they cjme back, when Watson said: 'Captain, I've been thinking about that order. I don't need the goods now, but I'll tell yon what I'll do. If you'll stop, say within sixty days, and give me a day or two's notice I'll give you a good big order. What do you say?' "Consulting my book I found that six weeks from that time I would be in days' time with nothing special to do. I told Watson that I could not reach him sixty days hence, but would be able to clo so just six weeks from that day. "'That will do nicely, Captain; don't forget the date.' "I was not apt to do so, as Watson's 'big orders' meant big sales, and bo it was agreed. "On the day agreed upon, I drove up to Watson's store, whioh I found full of people, among whom were many men who looked as if they might have been seasoned veterans at one time. I had shaken hands with Wat son and one or two of his friends whom I recognized, when I heard some say: •''Here he is now!' Not thinking tho remark had any reference to my self. I paid no attention until 'Give us yer paw, comrade,' sounded in my ear. "Turning, I stood face to face with the big beorded giant who had list ened so intently to my story on that nirrht six weeks before. By his side stood u l'air-faced, fair-haired, blue eyed man of thirty-five or thirty-seven years. The young man looked me over from head to foot, then back to my face again, as if looking for some point of identification, until his intent • ijgan to annoy me, but a minute later his eyes brightened and his face lit up with a smile of pleasure. " 'Don't know me, do you?' smV ' " 'No, I don't believe 1 ever saw you before, yet'—as a smile lit up his face 'yet—there's something about you seetus familiar.' " 'Didn't think you would forget your Yankee prisoner—the one who eat up votir 'rub (Uj.su u'.'ttj Win- VU'bU'f iu 'o3.' " 'What I' I ejaculated, and then it all became olear. There was the same sunny smile, the same laughing eyes, but the man before me was almost middle-aged, bearded and stalwart, whereas my prisoner had been bnt a stripling of a boy. I forgot the years which bad elapsed, but that all came to me in a flash, and there before me, twenty years after it had occurred, stood my quondam Yankee prisoner. •'Two hours later we were trotting up a long avenue of oottonwoods to wards a beautiful white mansion, em bowered in vines. As we rode up to the broad veranda wliich faced the avenue the hall door opened and a sweet-faced, motherly old lady, accom panied by a beautiful, fair-haired,blue eyed young woman, stepped out. The elder lady stood at the head of the steps, and as I advanced she placed her hands upon my shoulders and, bending forward, kissed me on the forehead. " 'God bless you, my son!' she said, while the tears streamed down her cheeks. 'I have prayed to see this day.' The younger woman pressed my hand gratefully, but my eyes were moist and I could scarcely see her. "I remained that night, and it was difficult to get away even the next day, but business demanded my attention. I promised to visit my friends fre quently, and did so every time I could get a day off. But here's my stopping-place, and there's my wife and mother-in-law and babies. Yes, that fair-haired, blue-eyed woman is my wife. "You havo guessed it. She was Jeannie Northup, and that sweet-faced old lady is our mother."—Chicago News. Trip to a Fixed Star. There is a perpetual fascination about the stars and the immense dis tances at which they lie from one an other and from us. To demonstrate the vast distance of Centauri from this planet a popular scientist gives the following illustration in Answers: "We sball suppose that some wealthy directors, for want of outlet for their energy and capital, construct a rail way to Centauri. We shall neglect, for tho present, the engineering diffi culties—a mere detail—and suppose them overcome and the railway open for traffic. Wo shall go further, and suppose that the directors have found tho construction of such a railway to have been peculiarly easy, and that the proprietors of intersteller space had not been exorbitant in their terms for the right of way. "Therefore, with a view to encourago traffic, the directors had made the fare exceedingly moderave", viz., Srst elass at one penny per 100 miles. De siring to take advantage of these facilities, a gentleman, by way of pro viding himself with small change for tho journey, buys up the National debt of Britain and a few other coun tries, and, presenting himself at the office, demands a first-class single to Centauri. "For this he tenders in payment the scrip of the British National debt, which just covers tho cost of his ticket, but at this time tbe National debt from little wars has been run up $5,501),000,000. "Having taken his seat it occurs to him to ask : , " 'At what rate do you travel?' " 'Sixty miles an hour, sir, includ ing stoppages,' is the answer. " 'Then when shall wo reach Cen tauri?' " 'ln 48,663,000 years, sir!'" A Grasshopper ltaid. "I remember that during grasshop per time I was near the corner of Sev enth and Delaware and watched the approach of the insects from tho West. I remember distinctly that it was in tho afternoon. At first I noticed quite a number between myself and tho sun. It was not long, however, before they seemed to come in clouds. The sun became darkened exactly as though a thunder storm were coming up. They were flying perhaps 400 or 500 feet high. It must have been less than an hour when the town was liter ally covered with grasshoppers, and in less than a day there was not a green thing to be seen anywhere. A great many people dug trenches in their yards, in the bottom of which they had piled paper and kindling wood. After sweeping hundreds of the pests into these trenches they were burned up. In walking along the streets one would crush hoppers under his feet. They went as they had come —almost in a moment. I suppose it was go or starve. They had eaten everything in sight, and, as a conse quence, thought it best to seek other fields."—Kansas City Journal. l Indian Babies us Souvenirs. A Harbor Springs (Mich.) resort lady saw a little papoose, which she thought so cute that she offered the mother a big sum of money for it. As the squaw had a large supply at home, she let it go, and since then the re soriers have heen pestering the life out of tho natives by trying to buy their papooses to take home as sou venirs. The squaws think it's only a clever schemo to exterminate their race, and they are hiding the little redskins in every conceivable plaoe. Minneapolis (Minn.) Journal. <£ualillcatioits ol Loudon Footmen. Obe of the greatest essentials with regard to the recommendation of a London footman is not only his height, but the size and form of bis leg*. To unit the needs of those who have not been gifted with a well-formed leg, livery makers now supply artificial ealves, which pad out the leg to a re spectable size. A pair of these pads cost about five shillings. They are stated to be also iu request among cy clist* who utv sensitive of their deft cit ney iu respect of imputing calves,-. CbiuttgO Tiui'.'s Uvrrtkt, THE MERRY SIDE OK LIFE. STORIES THAT ABB TOLD BY THE FUNNY KEN OF THE PAESS. Cried Wolf In Vain —A Discerning Friend Homeopathic Compar ing Notes—Conscious Guilt, Ktc. Mv wife smollo.l fire for twenty years Each night when she awoke; But when at last we had one, did Not even smell the smoke. —Judge. A DISCERNING FRTEND. The Artist—"How do you like it?" The Friend—"Best work you ever did. What does it represent?"—Lile. COMPARING NOTES. "What a lot of people there were at the Wortleburys last week—and yet how dull it was 1" "Yes, dear. But it was much brighter after you left." —Punch. CONSCIOUS GUILT. Wallace—"How did you feel tho first time you got into a barber's ohair for a shave ?" Ferry—"To tell the truth abont, I felt like a bare faced fraud."—Cincin nati Enquirer. HOMEOPATHIC. Mowler—"l see some philosopher says that tho way to cure yourself of a love affair is to run away. Do you believe it?" Cynicus—"Certainly—if you run away with tho girl."—Truth. nER CHIEF FAL'LT. "By Jove, I left my pocketbook un der my pillow 1" "Oh, well, your servant is honest, isn't she?" •That's just it—she'll take it right up to my wife!" —Chicago Record. HELPING EACH OTHER. Mr. Cawker—"l admire tlie'helpful spirit the Wilberforce boys display. They aro always doing whit they can for each other." Mr. Cuinso—"What they have done lately ?" Mr. Cawker—"John has become a dentist, while James has established a candy factory."—Life. i# rROFIT IN HOTELS. Clerk—"No. 45 says that he had tho best dinner here that ho ha 3 had for four years." Hotel Keeper—"Good ! Charge him a quarter extra." "And No. 54 says it was the worst he ever saw." "So? Make his bill half a dollar more for kicking."—lndianapolis Journal. A FRIENDLY DISPOSITION. "I can count on your sympathy in in this campaigu, can't I?" said tho candidate. "Y—yes." "That means, "of course, that you will voto for me?" "N—no. I don't go so fur ez that. I won't do no more'n jes promise sym pathy ; an' I'm bouu ter say I think yer goin' ter need it."—Washington Star. nF. HAD SCRUPLE?. It was during the last visitation of Mr. turkeytrod's mother-in-law to Mrs. Turkeytrod tßat tho old lady was taken down sick, and the family physician had to be called in. "It is a very serious case, Mr. Turkeytrod," was the doctor's edict; "she must bo sent to a warmer cli mate." Mr. Turkeytrod eolomuly retired to the woodshed and caino in with an axe. "You hit her, doctor," said he ; "I don't just like to do it."—New York Mail and Express. HER TENDER HEART. It was tho woman who will stop a horse car twice inside of twenty feet to keep from walking the small extra distance au 1 who will let a man with both arms full ol bundles stand up rather than move over half a foot to let him sit down. 'The doctor says that we ifiust boil our water," she said to her frieud. "Yes," was the reply. "Isn't much trouble." "So. But 1 hate to do it. It does seem Mich a horrible death for those poor little microbes and tJj-'ngs!"— Detroit Free Press. HE WAS WARNED. "Mr. Clinker," said the thrillingly beautiful heroine of this tale, as she titrne I her head and looked straight iuto the eyes of tho young man, who was sitting as close to her ou thj sofa as it wis possible to get, "there are some things which even a girl of my— er—advancement will not easily brook. Wuen you first euterelthia room, half an hour ago, yon bowed formally as you shook hands, did not dre:»m of calling me by my first name, and wheii you sat down, you took a chair which was at a conventional dis tance away. You had not—" "But, my dear Miss Springer—" ~Don't interrupt me, sir. You had not been here ten minutes before your chair was six feet nearer where I sat. In another five minutes you oalled me dear. Shortly afterwards you deliberately sat down ou the sofa next to me. It was then that you at tempted to take my hand. You need not deny it. You knowj it is too true. And now, sir—" "Hear me. I—" "And now, sir," repeated the young girl, her slight form trembling with emotion, her eyes blazing, her whole atttitude expressive of thedeopest con cern, "I want you to distinctly under itand that if you should no far forget yourself as to attempt to kiss me, you In mu at V9BV ywr. peril I"—Harper's 1 Weekly, Terms—tl.oo in Advance; 51.25 after Three Montha, Made a Miserable Failure. It has been announced on what maj be considered very good authority that the Democrats will not bi'ng tariff dis cussion into the next campaign, and that no effort will be made to-eithei increase or lower rates nor to make any changes whatever in that direc tion to increase the revenues of the country. Mr. Wilson says he. is fully satisfied with the working of the law as it is and declares that it has done all that was expected of it. In the face of tho fact that it was promised that tho "markets of tho world" would be opened to the Ameri can producer, exports have continually decreased. The American working man was assured that he would have more work to do, but notwithstanding all the talk that is made about in creased wages and returning industrial activity during the present season, there has been but a partial recovery from almost total stagnation and threatened starvation, and there is no prospect or possibility of a restoration of former prosperity until the legisla tion enacted by tho Democratic Con gress shall bo either greatly modified or wholly wiped out. The Democrats when they ha.l fin ished tho Gorman monstrosity, said they had only made a start in the di rection aimed at and that the work of putting the oountry on a free trade basis wag only begun. They promised that it would be pursuod to tho end. Why is it that they have backed down if it is not for the rea«on that they are convinced that their entire scheme has been proven a failure. The people need no further enlight enment, for they have had the sub ject put betore them in a never to be forgotten object lesson. Mr. Wilson may be satisfied with the result, but the votes cast at the elections of tho past year show that the consensus of public opinion is against him. Democrats will drop the tariff sub ject because they have awakened to a realization of the fact that it is too much for them. Their rooession from their former purposes is a confession that they have ma le a miserablo fail ure of the whole business.—Kansas City Journal. The Man Who Sees No Harm iu Free Trade. How to Itaise Revenue. It is reported from Washington that the Commissioner of Internal Revenue under instructions from the President is preparing to recommend an increase of taxes upon beer and tobacco aud the imposition of new taxes on otkor articles in tho shape of stamp taxes with tho endeavor to procure in this manner an increase of the revenue?. There should be a positive refusal on the part of tho new Republican Con gress to nuthorize any new revenue excepting by the enlargement of tho tariff duties by restoring tho repealed MoKinloy duties upon wool and manu factures thereof. The coming session of Congress will be guilty of tho be trayal of a trust confided to it by the people if it shall consent at Mr. Cleveland's dictation to an imposition of another dollar of direct taxation on the industries of this Nation. If tho President will not agree to an advance of the customs duties he should be resisted by Congress to the bitter end, for there is no reason why President Cleveland should be permitted to have his way in opposition to the will of the people who elected the present Congress, because the Nation desiicd to repudiate him and all that he stands for.—Theodore Justice. Good Views to Endorje. In many a business there has bean an awakening, but in no business has there appeared the safe prosperity that existed after the passage of the Mo- Kinloy tariff bill. Since the Wilson bill was passed there has not been a single new in lustry introduced from a foreign country into this country. That is a mark of prosperity that the Wilson bill is powerless to place upon this oountry. It was an accomplished object of the MoKinley bill. Was there a single indnstry driven from the jountry by tho McKinley bill ? No. On the other hand, the Wilson bill has driven the plush business from the city of Bridgeport and elsewhere. The plush bussness is only one of many ex pelled by Wilson bill ciroumstances. One of the planks adopted by the next National Republican Convention must be a plank endorsing the tariff views of Governor McKinley. —Brook lyn (N. Y.) Times. The Funny Free Trader.'. Steel rails recently advanced about $6 per ton at one jump. Suoh an ad vance, had it occurred under the Mo- Kinley law, would have furnished the free-trade editors with texts for num berless columns of editorials on "tho iniquities of protection," "tariff rob bery. "monopoly," etc., eto. But now, in tho opinions of these sapient editors, the advance of prices is only an indication of "reviving business." It is real funny.—Loa Augeies (C»l.) Times. NO. 9. FACTS THEY FORGET. FREE TRAOE EDITORS FAIIi TO TELL FAR3IKRS THE NEWS. Sell $139,000,000 Less of Agrlonl tural Products Than in 1892 A Wonderful Capture of th< Markets of tlie World. While tho freo trade papers have been drawing particular attention to an increaso in the foreign trade of 25 different industries, saying nothing about a deorease in the exports of 41 other manufacturing industries, they have been equally reticent upon the subject of our exports of agricultural products. As these constitute mora than half of our total exports, they are far too important to bo over looked. In fact the true workings of any tariff law cannot bo fairly exam ined if such an omission be allowed. Adopting the same system of compari son as tho free traders instituted in' regard to tho exports of 25 industries, we give the comparative exports of agricultural products for each month of the present calendar year and the corresponding months of 1894. We supplement this with the values of ag ricultural exports during each month of 1892, the year when our best pro tective tariff was in undisturbed opera tion : Ell-OIITS OP AGItICTTLTPHAI. PHODrcT3. Months. 1891. 1895. 1892. Jan 465,113,673 $61,842,001 $82,086,171 Fob 47,281,299 39,191.388 69,356.634 March.. 48.582,509 43.457.731 63,037,589 April... 43.512,870 43,2-16.918 56.608,413 May.... 39,017,312 39,685,843 50,796,346 June... 35,487.617 31,245.891 44,947,620 July... 32,267,012 32,123,333 41,851,670 August. 33,623,543 30,553,181 51,707,570 Totals.. $349,835,895 $321,379,289 $460,393,053 This comparison shows that the ex ports of all agricultural products this year, to August 31, were almost $28,- 500,000 less than in 1894 and over $139,000,000 less than in 1892. Ameri can farmers havo captured 30 per cent, loss of the markets of the world this year than they possessed in 1892. Another noticeable fact is that our farm exports last August wore loss than half as much as in last January. During eight months of this year wo havo lost over 831,000,000 of trade in our agricultural products with the markets of tho woild, trxdo that wo secured to the extent of $61,842,000 in January of this year, and trade that we secured to the extent of $82,000,- 000 in January of the great protection year of 1892. If tho ratio of loss this year, over $7,500,000 a month, should continue till tho end of 1895, then by the end of December next wo will hardly be exporting any agricultural products at all. Now let us follow the free trade idea of comparisons a little further, lotting agricultural products tako tho place of manufactures, and wo show the proportion and percentago of tho former to our total exports of mer chandise from 1889 to 1595: Fiscal Total exports Agricultural Products year, of merchandise. Value of. Porcent. 1839. . 1730,282,609 $532,141,4 72.87 1890. .. 845,293,828 629,820.808 74.51 1891.... 872,270,289 642,751,314 73.69 1892.... 1.015,732,011 799.328,232 78.09 1893.... 831,030,785 615.352.95U 74.05 1894. .. 869,204,937 628,363,038 72.28 1895. . 793,397,890 553,215,317 69.68 *1895 . 459,359,704 321,276,333 65.65 * Eight months, January 1 to August 81, 1895. In 1892, under undisturbed protec tion, the products of the farm repre sented 78.09 per oent. of our total ex ports. For tho 1895 fiscal year they were 9 per cent, less, and tho propor tion for eight mouths of tho 1895 cal endar year is 13.01 per cent. less. Farmers are making a most remarka ole capture of tho markets of the world. Tho results of tho Democratic tariff indicate that it must havo been designed for the express purpose of lujuring tho farmer and of benefiting eome of the manufacturers by increas ing their trade in the markets of tho world. It looks like a monopoly meas ure, framed to benefit tho few at tho expense of the many and, remarkable to relate, the few comprise some of the "Robber Barons," those enemies that the free traders pretended—be fore election—that they wanted to de stroy and root out hip and thigh, whose very existence was an eyesore because their success in their Ameri can business was a hindrance to the success of foreigners. But tho freo traders are now struggling to show how the very tariff law which they passed has been of benefit to the "Robber- Barons," while they entirely ignore the hundreds of millious ol dollars ol destruction that they havo wrought upon the poor deluded farmers. A lesson lor the Manufacturer* \ Girl l'nlr-»l<n lSieycle Tire. A -;lrl or Or.m I I Mi ••>.. »m-« |W»ti>nt «l ii nnv tir- for ■ ■■>' -In . It is thn nrntle tlrv>, wit'a ;t tr-iov • atoti-vl Kimvalah Is i% tnnthor t»r,lt is i tf.l »•> •>' «•»•»•'« miro durablo tUau the lluary ru'>ow tir>*.
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