SULLIVAN REPUBLICAN. W. M. CHENEY, Publisher. VOL. XIV live million dollars are spent each year in England on the game of foot ball. Since the MannlicLer gun came into use the ratio is four killed to one wounded—just the opposite to what it formerly wa?. Victoria for the last year or manifested an iaclination to affairs of her own Govern ih to the disgust of her stor. remarks the New Orleans t the New York specula gh out of British bond '•it.o war scare to pay ■ expenses of the ■ns'Club has de i charity means a oart of some peo >lo should help the .io doctors generally d of the stick. J that the large gold jg several thousands of gingham County, Virginia, ily been investigated by ex ohat the average of the ores much better percentage of gold either the South African or Crip- Creek districts. According to William E. Curtis, New York City is alarmed at the pos sibility that Chicago may capture most of the trade with the South if the proposed Chicago and Southern States exposition is held next fall. A counter demonstration is therefore being planned in Gotham. This will take the form of a monster parade of the blue and the gray. Negotiations to secure cheap excursion rates over all railroads for the masses and passes for merchants, producers, shippers, bunkers and leading Grand Army of the Republic men in the South and West are being made. By these means it is expected that a big crowd can be secured and the Chicago project nulli fied or at least prevented from accom plishing all its promoters antioapc. In a recent address before the Lib eral Club, of Buffalo, Hon. Carroll D. Wright, United States Labor Commis sioner, made some interesting state ments regardiupr the wealth ami prog ress of the South. The strip of terri tory stretching from Pennsylvania to Alabama, Mr. Wright said, contained foity times the coal accessible to economic produstion and distribution that was contained in Great Britain before a pick was struck. He esti mated that the production of cotton in the South is double what it was be fore the war; in twenty years the manufacture of pig iron has increased 1000 per cent., the railroad mileage is 150 per cent, greater now than in 18S0, and the passenger traffic 500 per oent. greater, and the freight tons moved 400 per cent, larger. He says that since 1880 the Southern railroads have more than doubled their earnings, the banking capital has increased in like proportion, and the money spent in the support of schools has also been doubled. . ! In 1894 there were in the United States 12,731 mercantile failures. The number increased last year to 13,013, 2.2 per cent, more than tho number for tho previous year. The per cent, of failures during 1895 was 1.23 as compared with 1.21 for 1894 and 1.50 for 1893. Tho percentage of assets was fifty-five in 1895, as against fifty tiiree per cent, in 1894 and sixty-five in 1893. Bradstrcet's, commenting on these figures, says that the "in crease in business failures in 1895 con trasted with 1891 amounts to only 292, for which gains tho Western, Northwestern and Middle States aro responsible, they having been respec tively 133, seventy-seven and sixty ■ four. While tho increase in the total number of business failures in the Western States was apparently large —-about eleven per cent. —tho in crease in total liabilities of failing traders did not amount to more than seven per cent., from which it may be perceived that commercial and indus trial embarrassments in that region were largely among smaller concerns. It will be seen from the figures given above, observes the Atlanta Journal, tnat the number of failures in tho South last year was much less than tho number for 1894. The increaso in the number for the whole country was 292, but the increase in the Northern «nd Western States was 472. There fore, the South shows a decrease o. 182 in the number of mercantile fail ure! last year. Thia spoaks remurka ably "well for our part of the country and i* another proof that the South < ndured the panic better and came out from it with less injury than any other section. FEBRUARY TWENTY-3 ECJNC, Pale is the February sky, And brief the day-time's .vinny hours; The wind-swept forest seems to sigh For the sweet months of birds and flowers. ret hath no mouth a prouder day, Not even when the summer broo.ls O'er meadows in their fresh array Or autumu tints the glowing woods. For this chill season*ncw again Brings, in its annual round, the morn, When, greatest of the sons of men, The immortal Washington wo* born. WASHINGTON ANA. Episodes In the Mle of the Father of His Country. ALMOST A BBITISH JACK TAB. The Washington family held the theories of primogeniture, which the Virginian gentry haa brought from old England, and George as a younger son had his own nay to make in the world. At fourteen George was shy and awkward, but big and strong. People began life early in those days, and the Widow Washington suggested to Laurence, her stepson and the head of the house, to see if his father-in-law, Colonel Fairfax, couldn't suggest some thing for George. Fairfax and Laurence Washington agreed that the British Navy was the place for a strong lad with the mili tary instinct, and to the British Navy he might have gone, and become the enemy rather than the deliverer of his country. Just about this time Tom Fairfax, Colonel Fairfax's son, fell on H. M. S. Harwich, during a fight with a French squadron commanded by M.de Bour donaye on the coast of India This was 1745, the year of the "risiDg" in Scotland, Tom Fairfax was only twenty-one, and the pet of the Washington and Fairfax families. Mrs. Washington then began to think that the navy was not quite the place for her George. Her brother, Joseph Ball, also wrote to dissuade her, saying that the boy would better be apprenticed to a trade than sent before the mast, where he might be "pressed" from one ship to another, "cut and beaten like a negro," and where promotion could only be obtained by influence. It was at this juncture that the oixtli Lord Fairfax, whether crossed in love or for whatever reason, came to live in Virginia, and, as a distant relative of the family, took an interest in George and solved the question of his future by making the boy his sur veyor, friend and companion. The pleasure shown by the old cour tier in the young lad'p society bids one think that George must have had an old head on young shculders. AS A COLONEL. In 1700 Captain George Mercer wrote to a friend a description of tho personal appearance of "Colonel Qeorge Washington, late Commander of the Virginia Provincial troops," which ran as follows: "He may be described as being straight as an Indian, measuring six feet two inches in his stocking?, and weighing 175 pounds. His frame is padded with well develojied muscles, indicating great strength. His bones and joints are large, as aro his feet and hands. He is wide shouldered, but has not a deep or round chest; IF neat waisted, but is broad across the hips, and has rather long legs and arms.- His head is well shaped, though not large, but is gracefully poised on a superb neok. A largo and straight, rather than a prominent nose, blue-gray penetrating eyes, which are widely separated, and overhung by a heavy brow. His face is long rather than broad, with high/ round cheek bones, and terminates in a good firm chin. He has a clear though rather a colorless pale skin, whioh burns with the sun. A pleasing, benevolent though a commanding Countenance, dark brown hair, which he wears in a queue. His mouth is large and generally firmly closed, but which from time to time discloses Eome defective teeth. His features are regular and placed with all the muscles of his face under perfect con trol, though flexible, and expressive of deep feeling when moved by emotions. In conversation he looks you full in the face, is deliberate, deferential and engaging. His voice is agreeable rather than strong. His demeanor at all times composed and dignified. His movements and gestures are graceful, his walk ma jestic, and he is a splendid horseman." HIS LOVE AFFAIR 3. It was fated that Washington, like Napoleon, was to bo tho victim of more than one disappointment in love. Every ono knows how attentive he was to'Mury PliilliDse, of the good, old Westchester family'whose house is now the City Hall of Yonkers, during a stay in New York, but there was a Virginian love affair considerably ear lier. His first love was the charming Sal ly Carv, one of that aristocratic Vir ginia family of Carys, of which Mrs. Burton Harrison (Constance Gary) is in our day a member. To her ho wrote love poems, anonymous, printed in the Virginia Garette, and other love poems, not anonymous, sent to her in manuscript. These rhymes de scribed his "poor, restless heart, piero'd by Cupid's dart," and made use of the other rhymes of "dove," "love, ft aud "above," not unfamiliar iu every ago. With her, too, he danoed at the festival* oA St. Tamma ny, the titular saint of rae Colonies. But Mis* Cary would not listen to the suit of the long-logged frontiers man, and married instead his dearest friend and wood* companion, George William Fairfax, aud went to live at Belvoir, the Fairfax seat. When pret ty Sally Fairfax died in England, i years afUrwatd, btr Virginian fa«ir« j LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1896. OEOUUE WASHINGTON—FIYE HISTORICAL rORIRAIT». Central picture, portrait l>y Gilbert Stnnrt. 1. Original study by Peale. 2. Mount Vernon portrait by Peale. 3. Portrait by Trumbull. 4. Portrait by Joseph Wright. found some of Washington's love let ters, and these have been kept unpub lished ever since. Until the war, however, Mr?. Sally and her husband continued to live in the Colonies. Five years after Wash ington's courtship of her, when ho had become famous in frontier warfare, he met at Mr. CbamberlaynoV house on the Pamuukey River, the Widow Custie, whom he afterward married. Of course, tho Belvoir ladies sow a great deal of the mistress of Mount Vernon, and Virginia gossip, which takes the harmless form of tradition, has it that Mistress Martha Washing ton never forgave Mistress Sally Fair fax for having been her husband's first sweetheart. She was intensely human, was Mistress Martha. HIS STEPCHILDREN. Like Napoleon, Washington had two stepchildren, » uoy nnd a girl, an 3, as in Napoleon's case, tho love between him and them was as close and warm as it he had been their father in the flesh. As Eugene de Beauharnais became Napoleon's aid, young John Parke Custis served Washington in a like ca pacity. At the siego of Yorktown young Custis contracted camp fever, and died of it, at the ago of twenty seven. Young as he was, ho left a widow, Eleanor Calvert, a descendant of Lord Baltimore; a son,. George Washington Parke Custis, a baby daughter, Nellie, who, with tho boy, was adopted by Washington, and two elder daughters, Eliza and Martha, who beoame the wives of Thomas Law and Thomas Peter. Four children by a father of twenty-seven was not an extraordinary record in those days. Washington's other stepchild died even younger than the young Custis. whoso death at Yorktown saddened the hour of victory. She was named Mart'ha for her mother, and .died young, in 1?73. It thus happened that, after the war's close left some opportunity for domestio life, Washington had about him no young people except his adopt ed grandchildren, G. W. P. and Nelly Custis. And the girl was easily his favorite. Nelly Custis was a girl of singular grace and beauty, and would not have needed tho high position of her family to support her position as a belle in Virginia. Her face was mobile and expressive rather than regular, and, alone among the ladies of her day, her portraits show her as a girl liko those of to-day. She was thoroughly mod ern in appearance. She married Lau rence Lewis, Washington's favorite nephew. It may be noted, as a rather odd fact, that Martha Custie, Mrs. Wash ington's granddaughter, named her three daughters Columbia, Americs and Britannia Wellington. HIS CURIOUS FALSE TEEM. The peculiarly square and clumsy look of Washington's jaw in the Stuart portrait and other late piotures of him makes him look very unlike the slight faced and rather handsome man shown in his earlier portraits. This carious appearance was due to his false teeth. The science of dentistry id only a" hundred years old, and at the first false teeth were not only very sive but extremely imporfect. The first dentist who ever practiced iu America was Le Mair, a visitor with the French army iu the Revolution, though before that time jewelers had made a few sets of false teeth, and, of course, physicians had extracted mol ars whose usefulness was outlived. Washington's teeth were made by John Greenwood, of New York, the first American dentist, who carved a complete set of teeth out of sea-horse ivory in 1700. The work of rnakiug the teeth occupied a long time, and they were fastened into the moutb, not by tho familiar prinoiple of auc tion, but by a complicated and ingeni ous arrangement of springs and bands of steel, whioh partly filled the mouth and made the lips bulge out, particu larly tho lower one. Tho prooesses of dentistry improv ing somewhat, Greenwood made an other r.et of teeth for Washington in 1795, and the portraits of him painted after that year show rather leas of tho grim appearanoe about tbo Hps whioh characterizes the most familiar por trait of tho tlrat President, though in some of bis poitraiU ho is represent ed as he looked—with no teeth at all in his mouth. A WEALTHY MAS. | It it ccmetimei tail that Wutiiog- ton was in his day the richest'Amer ican. It would bo difficult to prove this, and doubtless the statement is an exaggeration, such us the common country tale that Washington could "stand and jump twenty-two feet." It is needless to say that no suoh record of his prowess in this line has oome down to us. It used also to be said that Washing ton had once thrown a dollar aoross the Potomac. Mr. Evarts's witty com ment that "a dollar would go farther in those days, you know," is well re membered. Washington was not, however, the man to throw away a dollar. Ho was preoise, careful and methodical. In youth he was, and expected to remain, compartively poor as he was a younger son, and the family followed tho Eng lish cutoms of pr'mogeniture— BO far, at least, as concerned the family estate, Mount Vernon, which was loft to Lau renoe Washington. Lawrence died in 1752, and his infant daughter shortly afterward, leaving the estate to George. His marriage with the wealthy widow of John Parke Custis brought him more wealth, aud his investments in Western lands were also shrewd and profitable. But, though an exact and capable business man, Washington was no nig gard. He entertained lavishly. It was by his advice that the largest room iu the Whito House was designed for a state dining-room. Washington never occupied the house, aud his suc cessors have found the room muoh too large, even for state dinners. The dining-room in Mount Vernon, de signed by Washington, is also much the largest iu tho house. It is generally known that Washing ton received no pay for his rervioes in tho Revolution. Congress voted him SSOO a month, but he never accepted it, charging only his actual expenses. AN' UNWILLING PRESIDENT. Human nature seems sometimes per versely to prefer in pnblio office the unwilling to the willing servant. As regards the Presidency, the reply of his contemporaries to mauy au able man from Webster down has been: "Oh, he wants it too much!'' It is probable that Washington was, of all our Presidents, the most unwill ing to take the office. "Heaven knows," he wrote to Benjamin Har rison, "that no event can be less de sired by me" than the nomination. To Benjamin Lincoln: "I most heartily wish the choice to whioh you allude may not fall on me." He con ceived himself however, "constrained to acoept" by his "desire to reconcile contending parties so far as in' me lies." To Samuel Hanson he wrote: "The first wish of my soul is to spend the evening of my days as a private citi zen on my farm." And this was true. He could gain no greater fame by ap pearing iu civil life, ho loved the open-air lifo of a country gentlemau, and ho had a plain, strong man's wholesome contempt for the lawyer like quibbles and squabbles of legisla tures, of whioh he had already had enough sad experience. "Integrity and firmness," he wrote to Henry Knox, "are all I can promise." He kept hi* promise and more. For, besides integrity and firmness, he brought to the task oommon sense. A President needs " nothing more than these. TAST MASTER tN MASONRY. George Washington was at one time tho Grand Master of Alexandria Lodge No. 22, F. and A. M., which is now known by his name as Washing ton Lodge ; and his chamber clook is still preserved in its rooms, with his bands forever pointing to twenty min utes past 10, which was tho time at whioh, ou Deoember 14, 1799, Wash ington died at Mount Vernon. Other interesting relios of Washing ton as a Mason are the apron and sash whioh he wore when he laid the south east cornerstone of the Federal Capi tol in 1793. These insignia, whioh are kept sealed behind glass to esoape the relic hunters, were embroidered by the hands of the Marquise de I*- fayette,"the "Fairly Fair," the wife of the magnanimous French officer who took auoh iuterest in the American cause. It may be addo.l that "fairly fair" in thin connection didn't mean exactly what it would now, but was in tended to be doubly emphatic. Here, in the lodge rooms in Alexan dria, are also exhibited by the Masons lof to-day other Washington relics, most interesting of which perhaps are 1 the field compasses he useu in survey- I ing. But a far greater store of leli'o* wa* dettroyed utterly ia the fire whioh burned out the headquarters ol the lodge in 1811, including a number of liistorio flags, several portraits and the bier and military saddle of Wash ington, which were either burned or stolen. j LAST SCENE OF ALL. Mr. Qeorge Tioknor, who wrote "The History of Spanish Literature" and "Life of Prescott," remembered distinstly the death of Washington. He says in his diary: "There never was a more striking or spontaneous tribnto paid toman than was paid in Boston when the news came af Washington's death." It was on December 14, 1799, a lit tle before noon, and Mr. Tioknor says: "I often heard persons sAy at the time that one could know how far the news bad spread, by the closing of the shops. Each man, when ho beard that Washington was dead, shut his store, as a mutter of course, without consul tation, and in two hours all business was stopped. "My father came home and could not speak, he was so overcome. My mother was alarmed to see biro in such a state, till he recovered enough to tell her the sad news. For some time every one, even the children, wore crape on the arm. No boy could go into the street without it.l wore it, though only eight years old." WASHINGTON'S CABIN HOME. Ills Humble Abode While Surveying the Wilderness for Lord Fairfax. Sunshine aud storm have been at work upon it for generations, and yet there are few buildings that attract the admirers of Washington that'havo more of interest in them than the de caying cabin, which stands alone in an old pasture field a half mile from Berivville, in the beautiful Shenan doah Valley of Virginia. The old cabin was the home of Washington when hs was a surveyor. Ho came here direct from tho mater nal roof to begin tho arduous and, at that time, dangerous work of survey ing tbo lands of Thomas, Lord Fair fax, who owned all tho northern part of Virginia under the King's patent; tho work was arduous bccauso of the physical aspect of the country, then a dense wilderness, and dangerous be cause of the character of tho inhabi tants, who were principally Indians or A HEIIO'S HUMBLE HOME. scarcely lean wild trappers or squatters upou his Lordship's domain. Wash ington had been 6elocted by the old nobleman because of bis belief in tho youth's ability to cope with these ele ments, and the young surveyor left his home on tho banks of the Potomac early in 1748, just after the comple tion of his sixteenth year, his only companion being Qeorge William Fairfax, nephew of old Lord Thomas. Whether these boys ereoted tho build ing or found it already in place his tory does not state, but well-aathenti oated tradition says that they built it themselves. That they used it for an o3ice, kept their instruments there and slept in tho upper room, there is ample proof. Here, during all the summer of 1748, when not actively engaged in the field, they were busy with their office work or in defining bounds for the settlers. .The old hut has, in the memory of the present generation, done duty as a "milk house"for farmers. Of the dense copse of tree* whioh Howe says shaded the sprang, only a tall and sturdy elm remains. On a hill not far away is "Soldier's ltest," another log cabin—itself of historic interest' also, for in it lived Daniel Morgan, the rough teamster who afterward be ■catne Washington's right hand in the War for Independence—Morgan, the hero of Quebeo and Saratoga, aud the man who destroyed Tarleton at tho Cowpeni and checked tho tide of British victories. Morgan was a con spicuous figure in all the rough-and tumble fights that gavo the little town of Berryvillo tho name of Battletown, by whioh it was known for 100 years, and after these encounters ho would go and sit on the rooks down by the old Washington cabin while his wife would bathe his bruised and cut head in tho cooling waters of the spring, and bind up his bloody woimds. It seems almost a pity that thia old oabin should be allowed to crumble away in tho Virginia pasture field where it has stood for 145 years. The great elm tree looks as if it was good for a thousand years yet, while th« rook aud (be spring will be tbero foi evermore, but auu aud wiud and rain have made sad ravage* in tbo hut that sheltered the youthful Washington. The preseut owner of tho cabin is Q. O. Calmes, of Berryville.—New York Tribune. More Ur.tiintl lor Euloijr. All liall to ifri-al Oeorift* WxnlitoiitJUj Let's follow iu his never wnt uor eouldu Ibe Ao .\oe>9 ssaaia'. —Washington SIM. Terms---81.00 in Advance; 51.25 after Three Months. xiiAT tyuysss cHAiy. ' . JWcfatTaVJl _ (F^feSoiinCTieS end ;TTI or k^tedTin'ths maum Soo/ioff •V;^-/*' ty: : '?S&:i•/;'Pound* :.; v.V;'. V..;.*. Pounds: •"?o}Ujds'; v.;:.• *•/• : Pounds ... . --»-- - ~ * fistol'jiear.tnjinyJufteljQ ; , , mr ..' w iii'ls--. . '6OOW V »' ! .tV:,'Bo^^.^v' : / ; i v-. : ■... Pounds ■.'■ •■,•'.Pounds' Pounds '. Pou<•'■'■ DISASTER? POOH! POOH! BUSINESS MEN ARE CONFIDENT THEIR INTERESTS ARE SAKE. Their Faith Pinned to Prospect of a Republican Administration Which Will Correct the Evils Wrought by the Gorman-Wilson Blunder—A "Good Times" Myth. Immediately after tho election of President Cleveland, on November 11, 1892, the above headlines appeared in a Democratic paper, tho New York Sun. But was it so? We know only too well how business men fared during 1893 and 1894. For 1895, Dun's Revie.v, January 4, gave tho aggregato liabilities of trada failures at $173,196,050 against $172,- 992,850 in 1894, and tho average per failure at $13,124 against $12,458 in 1894. This does not look as if tha time had yet arrived to pooh pooh tha disaster of a Democratic Administra tion, especially as tho failures grew greater toward tho end of tho year, Duu's Review RBying that they showed "a heavy increase, sixty-six per cent., in liabi'ities of manufacturing failures for tho past quarter." Tho totals for the year wero: MASUFACTOBINO PATLURKH. Sod ion. <- Liabilities. . 1894. 1895. Now England £10.499,01 1 $10,538,731 Middle 20,41.V.1 12 83,014,442 Mouth '.'.800.311 7,130.100 Houtliwfst 1,311.387 1,077.50") Ontral 11.425,671 17,410,007 West ... 4.610,057 2,02,1.407 Tactile.. :1,300.740 1,483,731 Total *67,333,775 $73,920,073 An increase of $0,533,298 ia tho liabilities of manufacturing concerns that failed last year does not permit us to pooh pooh disaster, especially when we recollect that tho Democrats wiped out all the weak concerns in 1893, immediately after they assumed control of tho Administration. That was their first job aud they did it to the queen's taste. Now they are going for the larger and moro solid concerns. This is all that is left for them to work upou. It is the big Republican States that they are after now, "In seven States the iucreaeo iu manufacturing failures for the year was $18,570,580, or 02.0 per cent.," says Dun's, Review. Noto the seven: The Seven. 1895. 1831. Now York .(25.985,159 $17,934,643 New Jersov 2.402,001 1.872,072 Connecticut 1,701,110 886,828 llhode Island 2.800.511 599,015 Ohio 4,458.815 3.338,893 Michtsau 2.410,771 1,023,93.3 Illinois 8,333,479 3,981,270 Total, sevon States. ? 18,218,448 *29,637,802 How New York, New Jersey, Con necticut and Illinois are being pun ished forgoing Republican since 1592 I Tho lumber aud mining men of Michi gan aro feeling tho lash, and Ohio is being whipped up for itsbaok sliding. This is part of tho "campaign of edu cation." Duu's Review says: "Tho excess of manufacturing fail ures is found within a very narrow district. More than tho entire in crease appears in New York, $5,000,- 000; Illinois, $4,300,000; Rhode Isl aud, $2,300,000; Connecticut, $890,- 000; New Jersey, $000,000; Ohio, $1,100,000, and Michigan, $1,400,000. A few other States show a small in crease, but the rest a decrease. In theso seveu States tho increaso is no lets than $18,570,586, or 02.0 per cent, over last year. Pooh, Pooh, the Disaster? Not yet. Dun's Review says: "Tho progress toward better things, whioh seemed assured during part of the year, liaH not been sustained. "Rarely has there been if situation so complicated, aud the uoar future is difficult to forecast." It is gettiug worse. There was nu increase of $7,785,000 in the lialiilitiis of manufacturing failures during the last half of 1895 over and above the amount of liabilities iu the last half of 1894, Judgini: by the records of failures published from day to diy there are still more of the strong con cerus going under. Dun's Review tinted the reason veiy clearly : "Men actually believed that the country, with part of its working force unemployed, and with wages considerably below those paid before the panic, was noing to consume more largely than it ever had in the most prosperous years. Tho coniequonce was a marked increaiod in the number of manufacturing failure* as soon as the excess of production bogan to ap pear." Aud what about all that talk of "higher wages," "returning prosper ity, " "greater activity in tho fae toiie»," "increased demand for goods," "fcoo I times," thai every Demooratio paper in the country wa* falaely re porting during 1995? Ananias aud Happhira must hang their bead* with *bam« an 1 blttth very modesty NO. 20. fit having bail the eftrontery to poso as masters iu the art of falsifying. But .Democratic editors wero unknown then. p "Pooh, Pooh, Disaster? Not yet. Not till next November. Then, with the certainty of a Republican Administra tion, will business men be "confident that their interests are secure." The Longer Tills Is, the More Kohl Use?. Total Value of WOOLEN GOOO? Bradford Fnglanct sJid Shipped Uthe United States, (CiWtitr Hun , 160 M ami S "W/* c U nj;.o,io Slipped' 3 f ooft,ooo * -j ; A ijoott.oca Shicp.'l :' 7 I si; - jEl.aiJjSn tss.Sd.:' d| i If /, ijm i .ig;. j1.f100.000 Shipped ■iM ■-• 'f^j 1 Houidotta hor.de; g H||i employed in (and 1 -B fflf laid off from) otir~ W■, " 'Mk Qrnericott Woolen (j B&) HiillSjliVe Diab Otad#) G c 7^ sjB9S thfrmoinsttrl. ._J McIiISLEY TARIFF TOO LOW. Won't Afford Protection Asulnsfc Competition From tho Orient. Thoso who havo expressed tho opin ion that tho McKinlcy tariff rates of duties were too high, and would never bo restored, aro evidently not alive to tho economic uud industrial develop ments that are now occurring in dif ferent parts of tho world, most parti cularly in Asia. Instead of their facing too high, wo believe that, within very few years, it will bo found that tha McKinlcv tarilt rates arc far too low to oflord protection to American labor and to Amcricau industries in suc'i lines as may bo brought into direct competition with tho products of tha labor or ludii, China or Japan. - ■ Tho United States will not stand alone in this respect. Goods made by Or ental labor will find their way into every market in Europe aud Australia. They will supplant tho Europoan and our own goods in South Awt'can markets. The groat liivo of Europoan industry will be removed to Asia un less some effective international com bination may bo brought about that can check tho movement that has al ready originated in tho Orient. Instead of any tendency to lower tariffs hero or in Europe, wo see before us indica tions of tho necessity for distinctly higher tariffs, in soaio respects, thaui havo ever yet been en'iotod iu thi3 or any other country of tho civilized world. The general tond«noy of the masses of our peoplo is not t-> diligent fore thought. Thero are some among us however, who recognize tho impend ing industrial revolution and are pre paring for it by the establishment of faotories iu the Orient. A\ liilo tho capital thero invested will be Ameri can capital, it will bo subject to tho laws of other countries uud will b» utilized iu furnishing omplovmont f Demo crats as a party" suc:eol in "iryinj to attain general prosperity?'' Coiijrjwutia llarlmw'i Idea. Tii) UepuUliuin policy is, mi l al ways has been, to raa'ie tho Govern ment self-sustaining by lovying ade quate tariff ilutian to produce sufll eieut revenue, and at the same time to protect American industries and American labor.—Hoa. Charles S. Ilartreau, M. C.. of Montana.