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
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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 <BQS)
J "|0%;1 'OJS N-!
t AA-m. 000 shicjed' (r% —-*rnt
! ;JH Pirab x
r 1 y36 3 PIMA
- - > 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<w
tho cheapest kind of foreign labor,
not American labor. Tho procluat of
such faotories must be kept out of tho
Uuited States nuless upon tho pay
ment of such a tariff as will its
cost equal to that of the American
product made at homo by Amurieau
lubor. '
I'ro:»i<cv, Xot PerloruiaiirM.
If you waut fair plav all round,
economy at tho White Hou-o and in
tho halls of Congross and general
prosperity everywhere, then you want
what wo be'ievo tho l)emo?rats as a
party ure trying to attain.—X. Y,
llorald, .Tuuo -8, 18!tJ.
.Ttiduin;,' by published reports of
Mr. Cleveland's wealth, thero may
havo boon "ocouotny nt the NVhito
Flouse." itixt how did "th> 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.