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*
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