"PUBLICAN NEWS ITEM CHABLES L. WING, Editor. Published Every Thursday Alternoon tfy The Sullivan Publishing Co. At the County Beat of Sullivan County. LAPORTE, PA. VV C. MASON, Presitten. THOS. J. INOHAM, See'}- & TITUS. Entered at the Poet Ofltoe at Laporte, AH second-class mail matter. REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET. For Supreme Court Justice. • li'UN P. KLKIN, of Indiana County. For Presidentiaf Electors. I".lectors at Large—Robert Piteairn, Allegheny; Levi G. McCalley, Chester. REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET. For President Judge. iloN. E. M. DUNHAM, of Laporte. For Member of Assembly. Dli. M. E. HERRMANN, For Sheriff. FRANK W. I'.UCK. For Congress E. W. SAMUELS. WHERE TARIFF IS A TAX. In Froe Trnde tircat Urltnln It In In deed H Itul'dCKß. The British tariff system differs from tht; American tariff system in one im portant particular. In Great Britain they impose duties "foT' revenue only" :<n at tides not produced at home. In :lte United States we derive the greater ;>art of our customs revenue from du iies on articles the like of which are :he products of domestic industries, j i .' American system is called protec tion. The British system is called free trade. This difference is brought into jiroin- I iciiee by the new British budget, with its increase of twopence in the tax on tea. bringing the total tax up to eight pence. or about 10 cents per pound. We take from the Boston Herald some British commercial statistics showing the effect upon consumers of this in creased tax. Their annual consump tion of tea per capita is over six pounds, while the American per capita consumption is less than one pound. Last year the British imports of tea amounted to the enormous total of litil,(Us,4o4 pounds, of which it is esti mate! that 2, r »5,300,000 pounds were consumed by the British people. One significant fact of the situation described is that the English people cannot escape the tax by raising their own tea. They must import their fa voiite beverage or get along without it. In the United States, on the other band, tariffs are levied upon articles which can be produced in our own country, with the result that they are produced so abundantly that the price i- rtually lowered In consequence of the duties placed upon fheni. Tlieo !\l ■ Hy, the tariff is a tax; practical ly. ;? is a tax reducer. More than thift, iti.Hal opportunities are credited 112. - the benefit of wage earners and to th. immense enlargement of nation al and individual wealth. Vii itever may be the comparative ]" - of the two systems In England it i i certainly well for the United States to refrain from taxing non < ( ; e:itive articles like tea and to « !• other countries for the privi i; ■ ii-.' bringing their competitive ar tsi : into our markets. This is the It'-p-.iblic.in policy. It is not the Item o taiic policy. THE LOW PRICE ERA. An l.\ \ini»le Was Kuriilwlied DurlnK Clt-veinutl'w l.axt Term. \Ye have only togo back to the last a ':oinistrntion of President Cleveland fti:- an example of the truth of Secre tar :'haw's proposition. The tariff sin siting bill knocked business sky ward. Mills closed. Only a portion of 11:-- - ople found employment. Prices we t down. Of course they did. for who was there to purchase? 1 fties not every one remember the fr ' soup houses for the starving nitil tit; <■.; who could not get employment? What was the use of a butcher shop «ii .'t'lislng meats at a reduced price w' n the laborer without work did not have the price? It was tantalising for liiitl to be told that he could pv.r < so a loaf of bread for a cent or t- o Irs than In good times, for in good tifi-- she would have had •"> cents i li!.-, pocket to pit for a loaf, bill now if bread was selling for a penny lie could not procure it. That is what Secretary Shaw wished tilt workingmen of Wilmington to un do:- tand. If they are till at work at a fair wage they have the price of bread and meat in their pockets, and if the price is higher than in troublous time ; they should remember that it is the farmer who is prospering with them, an 'he farm and the mill arc neees s: ■ it) each other it' there Is to be go.t--i':;l prosperity.—Philadelphia 111 quirer. THE EXPECTED HAPPENED. (iovcrnor CiiiiimiiiM llroke Faith Y» itfli ltc»2>ul»li<»n!iN lowa. The Cedar Ilapids Republican is rt-:: in the opinion that ingoing to the Chicago convention and "breaking loosi with about the worst concjcilon of i "as that he has yet devised" Gov ernor Cummins broke faith with the lie publicans of lowa. That is precisely what happened, precisely what might have been ex peetod. Although int.rally bound hard mid fast by the vote or ail overwhelm in; majority in the convention which si 1.-cted him as one of the delegates ; t large, and although he pledged him self to stand with both fo -t right 111 the middle of the platform ami no', to teetering oti its edgSs, Cummins dls ;:\rded Hit" Instructions anil broke ■i \»ord by working with all Ills miulit niul main for the incorporation ! o!' his tariff tinkering and wide open ' reciprocity heresies into the national Republican platform. lowa Republicans made a mistake when they permitted Cummins to niis ; represent them at Chicago. He should i have been kept at home. lie probably 1 will be next time. Wmit Nothing Better. The question of upholding the great American advance In the new depar ture of the last eight years will count with thoughtful minds. Hut it is prac tically embraced in the Roosevelt issue and need not be particularly differenti ated. The two issues cover the fight ing ground, and Republicans want nothing better.—Philadelphia Tress. Yl'l*e Modification. There will come modification- t>f the tariff just as rapidly as conditions sug gest that modification is wisdom, but the task of defining changes will be left to the Republican party, under the operation of whose policy America has been so magnificently uplifted and transformed.— Baltimore American. Some Fiffnres by an Ofllclal of the Depart iu«'ut of Affrtaulture —I n crcuNf of Farm Value* From IJuilri iiiK <>ood lloariM. "The American people have reason to appreciate the fact that the good roads question appears at last to lie taking on a thoroughly practical aspect, with promise of great benefit to every per son living in this country," said an offi cial of the department of agriculture to a representative of the Washington Star recently. "Every foreigner coming to this coun try is amazed on the one hand at our general progressiveness and enterprise and utterly disgusted on the other hand at our almost total lack of good roads and our almost utter want of ap preciation of the advantages of prop erly improved highways. As a result of tliis our deplorable roads have at tained a worldwide renown, which greatly detracts from our reputation of being an exceptionally enlightened and progressive people. •'The willing submission of the Amer ican people to the needless and burden some condition of our country roads is a remarkable circumstance. Careful study of this matter seems to indicate that this is wholly due to lack of knowledge and appreciation of the comparative benefits of improved road ways over bad ones and the ease and low cost by which the best of roads may be secured. "It Is wholly inconsistent with the •haracteristic enterprise of Americans that they should willingly submit to the continuous and needless losses due to lack of good roads, especially when these losses are so great in a few years as to equal the cost of building the finest roads in the world throughout the entire country. This remarkable fact can only be accounted for as the result of our deplorable ignorance of the comparative economies, comforts and pleasures of good and bad roads. "It is conservatively estimated by government officials that we are need lessly losing or wasting over $000,000,- 000 each year because of our bad roads, making a mud tax of over 000.000 for every working day in the year and an individual tax of nearly $S each year for every person in tills country. "This estimate Is for the direct mon ey loss and takes no account of the in cidental disadvantages, discomforts and inconveniences of bad roads, which would probably exceed the di rect moneyed loss. Besides this, the increased values of farms reached by good roads would amount to an enor mous sum. In New York and other states this increase in selling values lias equaled from to SIOO an acre in many cases. "An increase of only $8 an acre on the estimate of 040,000,000 acres for the country would amount to sonie thing like $5,000,000,000, or more than -.'Hough to build the best and finest main roads in the world about 1,000,- 1.(10 miles throughout the entire coun try several times over, and by recently developed methods in road building the best roads can be built for a cost which should not exceed an average of $2,000 a mile. The interest on this sum of ifHt.ooo.iHKi ;■ t -1 per cent would build all the mainly traveled roads in the country in less than ten years at a cost of only 40 per cent of the increased farm value. "From this it appears that we would receive benefits from improving our main roads in the increase of farm val ues alone equal to two and- oue-lialf fold, or 'JoO per cent of their cost. "A direct saving of $000,000,000 a 1 year, figured at -I per cent 'nte-est, j would carry a c 0.,. of ,vi'.' ',*s'oo j This is over six times, or 0 > per cent. !of the ne-.-eß.sary cosh; of the main I roads for the entire country. I "if the indirect comforts, benefits I and savings will equal the direct sav ! log we will have another item of :*(!0O,- ! I too,ooo. This makes the totai benefits ' from good main roads equal to sonte : thing like .*:!0.000,000,000. or fifteen times their cost. The interest from this sum at 7 per cent would pay the | cost of building the finest and best ! main roads in the world throughout i the entire country each and every year. "These benefits are so enormous that it Is difficult to rightly comprehend ; them without making some compari sons. The benefits of $.".0,000,000,000, for instance, are nearly a hundred times the amount of the cost of the Spanish war and certainly appear to make this the greatest economic ques tion before this country at the present time." John D. Reese's Big Store# Bank Block, Dushore, henna, i ——M——*— ' rxmmam*<n»—mn«i—»iwni»ti.iinii ii nr«»W'v:af«:?:V- y/rj.-.- - -fof"-' ~r j TRUNKS TR(JNF)S- 1 Have a splendid assortment of trunks and if you are c- nU-mp:atirg a trip anywhere this ' iimmer, nnw i ; .'your opportunity as we ha\£ them in all sizes and prices, ;tr«d it will be. to your interest to look at cu: assortmeii i| : belore buying elsewhere, baause you will find they are b; ans to you. % Good Leather Suit Casa. just the .k ; nd you need in ti ivel.nir, have them from $2.00 upward. Also I ind Satchels; having them ii prices to suit every one. T< < scopes 80c upward. H 1 DO YOU NEED A HAMMOCK? We can save you money and give you the prettiest hammock yen wouleg | wish to see as we have then from SI.OO ; I SUMMER NECK WE/H<. Have a pretty assortment o f turnovers, collars and stocks. Now is a goi d tin-o L> * | come in and see them. Hiving them from ioc, *>oc TO 75c apiece. - | i Matchless savings in hajdsome underskirts. If you C:MI use another pretty underskirt or two, d< nt allow saving oppitunity togo unimproved. Every garment fine and perfectly made, just the kind you want. (»»>< o • muslin skirts with flounces limed in rows lengthwise, ins M'tion, tucks and milled edged. Having them in a 4 prices to tit your purse. Have a complete line in Dress 1. -oods, and now is the time to call and inspect them, as| they are all marked down, tf.d see the bargain Counter as it means bargains to you. | Carrying complete line i 1 Dry Goods, Millinery, Shoes, Crockery, Carpets, l\ugs, Oilcloths, Curtains ancj Groceries. Will buy Spring Chickens every Wednesday. John D. Reese r's Big j 1 112 ■' / DTJSHOBE • W WRITE FCR PRICES "Get the Habit" of sending to us or better stii of coming to oor store and buy your supplies. d)e 3ell Eventing. You can't ask us for anything we don't keep or know where to get QUICK. The Price is Right. The Goods Right. We don't luve a large store, but always tilled with good bright, clean Merchandise—Not old stock. 1 hat's why we are always busy. We are car load buyers and car load sellers. Try us, you w ill come again as others do. A. P. WIELAND CO. General Merchants, PRO gristmill' M ItTORIDIMIOITT. IP A. Carpets, Carpets. We have the largest line of Carpets shown in Sulli van County; at. any price you want, any color, any patern, any grade, at any price, in any quantity you want. Aattings Aattings Some of the greatest bargains in Mattings you ever saw shown in this or any other town. All grades and all prices. Don't forget that we also carry the largest stock of FURNITURE in this section of country. Molcombe CTLaaer, Fornifare 5" Undertaking DUSHORE, PA. TELEPHONE. FIRST NATIONAL BANK HUGIIESVILXjB, CAPITAL STOCK, SSO 000 Dc WTT BODINE, President C. WILLIAM WODDBOP, Vice Pres. W. C. FBONTZ, Cashier. SURPLUS AND NET PROFITS, DIRECTORS: $50,000 I Z I . DeWitt Bodine, C. Wm. Woddrop, Poter Roller, Transacts a General _ „. _ . Jeremiah Kelley, "William Frontz, W. C. Frontz, Banking Business. J ' . •ij- u James K. Boak, John C. Laird, E.P. Brenholtz, Accounts o! Individ- ' i jri ci- IPeter Frontz, John P. Lake, Daniel H.Poust, uals and Firms Sohc- ' . j John Bull. 'ed. | uiin t Tobntro Spit and Saoko Your i.ir? Away. kHSSs™ I To Cure a Cold in One Day I strong, *ll druppl«i«, wtoorJl. Cure truarau- I _ • ' »* » , « v? ™ I Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. r?£ // °» w J*y I BANNER SALVE I Seven Million boxes sold In past 12 months. ThLs Signature, » OX « *SC. j v the moat healing ealvo in the world. 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We oiler this unequaled | from all sections of the countv , I npet- and the NKWS ITEM 45$ 5 and political news you want to j II together one year lor j rend. This with Tri week v« at 112 $ 1..') 01 *sl* : 'The REPUBLICAN NEWS ITEM ] and Tri- Weekly 112 aMB mrr * ptihw vie■ ■■■ JL i. 1-1 Ha. £j> ■)-» * ' k, a* i • \ ' ' In every city there is one best. $ | If you want to keep in touch | | p'.iper, and in Williamsport ' "''h the Kepublican party 9 'j j t the Gazette and Bulletin. . | organization and be informed | i It is the most important, pro- ? "" :l " r,!l ' transfers or ' gressive and widely circulated jj le.'al matters in general that '' paper in that cily. The first | transpires at the county seat I to hold the fort journalistically. | you nin -t necessarily take the g Order of the News Item. | x ' I' l ' s III' M- | THE NEW YORK WORLD THRICE-A-WEEK EDITION. ' On y 1.50: Clubbed with the News Hem, 1 year. Foley's Kidney Cure fOLEYMIOMMAR makes kidneys snd bladder right. 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