FREELMD TRIBUNE. Published Every Thursday Afternoon -BY TIIOS. A. BUOKLEV, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. TERMS, - - SI.OO PER YEAR. Entered at the Freeland Postoffice as Second Class Matter. FREELAND, PA , MAY 19, 1892. DEMOCRATIC TICKET. STATE. Judge of Bupreme Court, Christopher Hoydrick Veuango County Congressmen-at-Large, George Allen Erie County Thomas P. Merrltt Berks County Tub postoffice department has at last come to ttie conclusion to drop the letter "h" in burg. Heretofore the department insisted that all towns ending with "burg" should he spelled "burgh," and in issuing cancelling stamps, money orders, etc., invariable use the final "h." Now the "h" will have to go. THE expression "And should it be deemed expedient to come to the great West" is the way the states with favorite sons have of hedging. It means that Indiana prefers Gray to Palmer, Illinois Palmer to Boies, lowa Boies to Carlisle, and so on. But it does not in any way indicate that any Western state lias wavered in its allegiance to Cleveland. THE conventions of Wisconsin and Michigan instructed for Cleveland with a whoop and knocked out the silver fail with lusty blow, much to the disgust of the free coinage men of both parties. It looks now as though Cleveland would capture the delegations of all the Northwestern states, and that, like Wisconsin nnd Michigan, the platforms adopted by their conventions will declare for tariff reform and sound money. THE Newsdealer says it is not at I all pleased with the way the Progress adopts of ignoring Hill's candidacy. I So far as we can discern the Progress is not troubling itself about Hill or any other Democrat's candidacy. Editor Fowler, like a good Republi can, is doing what he can for the suc cess of Harrison and Quay, and sayß he has enough to do without trying to run the Democratic party. The Newsdealer seems to be at the bottom of the wrong tree. THERE is some quiet talk in politi cal circles regarding the expediency of nominating John Reynolds again for congress as a sort of a compromise candidate for the coming McGinty- Hines fight. There is scarcely any thing that would be more gratifying to the Republicans of the twelfth district, and it would insure Shonk's re-election by probably a greater majority than ho received in 1890. The next congressman from Luzerne should be a Democrat in every sense of the word, and not a gentlemen of leisure who wants the position for the sake of seeing "Hon." before his name. If the battle between Senator Ilines nnd Recorder McGinty becomes too fierce and demands a compromise can diilnte, then let the friends of Col. T. R. Martin bo heard from. THE idea of having the people at large to vote directly upon such ques tions as the tariff, tinanco and the like is a very good one, and it would be an incentive to study the subjects more thoroughly than is now done. The people are powerless to remove the prohibitions and restrictions which a handful of congressmen plac ed upon the trade of this nation two years ago, and even if they are sue cessfulnext fall in electing a president and lower house that is in sympathy with the movement for free commerce the senate is still there, filled with decayed politicians and pompous millionaires who never miss an oppor tunity to show their aversion to every progressive idea. With a direct vote the people could repudiate and ban ish McKinleyism and its effects. THE New York World advocates the imposition of an income tax and makes strong argument in its favor, as a fair measure, to equalize the burdens of government The income tax has good points and is no more objection able than many other devices for ob taining the support of the individual for the benefit of the government, but it is one of the easiest methods to that could he advocated. ! There are hundreds of ways by which men could evade paying any taxes under that system. Again, tho man who owned a thousand acres of val uable land and held it out of use for speculative purposes would be ex empted, because no one could prove he had an income from the property. As a tax (hat would be fair and just to all there is none yet brought forth that can compare with a tax upon the value of land. The earth was created for the benefit of humanity, nnd those who claim to own it should pay to the government in proportion ty the value of what they possess. The Chine.® Exclusion Act. Instead of conveying to congress his reasons for signing the Chinese exclusion act, President Harrison has given them in a letter to Dr. Baldwin, secretary of the Methodist Book Concern. Officials of ecclesiastical institutionns are not the usual channels through which the Presi dent of the United States communes with the public upon important affairs. It appears, however, that this letter to Dr. Baldwin was of a private character, in answer to a letter in which the reverend correspondent of President Harrison had indignantly denounced the exclusion act as "an outrage." Whatever may have been the terms of private apology of President Harrison for having signed this act, it is certain that the measure has incensed not only the diplomatic representatives of the Chinese Empire in Washington, but also several influential religious bodies, who fear that the effect of the measure will be to make the position of American missionaries and merchants extremely precarious in China. The representa tives of China will have to await the in structions of their government in regard to this new complication; but it is not improbable that in consequence of these instructions, they will demand their passports and leave forever a land in which their countrymen are so inhospit ably treated. The notion of war with China over this complication is well nigh preposter ous. Yet the authors of this act cannot have been wholly unmindful of its effect upon the security of American mission ary establishments in China, and upon the future of the trade relations of the United States with that country. The American missionaries, who have pene trated the interior of China to preach Christianity to the heathen, are hated quite as much by the Chinese population as are the coolies in our own land. En terprising American merchants and com mercial travelers visiting the treaty ports of China will be apt to find their position anything but comfortable when engaged in strenuous competition with European rivals. Trade, it is true, takes as a rule little account of political considerations; but it would be strange if this Chinese exclusion act, in adding fresh fuel to race hatred, should not seriously disturb our commercial relations with the Celestial Empire. It would be strange too, if the English, German, French and Russian merchants in China should not eagerly avail themselves of the opportunity to promote their own trade by playing upon Chinese hostility to this country. It would be a great mistake to imagine that the indignation of the Chinese government over the exclusion act has its motive in sympathy for the coolies who immigrate to the United States. The pride of the Celestials has been deeply wounded by a measure which subjects Chinamen of every degree to the most humiliating tests when they make a visit, whether of business or pleasure, to this country. What more natural, then, than that the Chinese government should better its instruc tions, and banish American merchants and missionaries in a body from its terri tory? So far from manifesting any indignation over Buch barbarism, the American people could regard it only as the legitimate consequence of their own violation of treaty stipulations. In the situation created by this Chinese exclu sion act the most that should be ex pected is that the government of China may be so wise, tolerant and forbearing as not to imitate the example set by the government of the United States.— Record. Cleveland His I'urty'n Choice. The Philadelphia Ledger comments as follows upon the Democratic political situation: If it he any consolation for Democrats, it is true to say that relative ly they are not so badly off as they were three months ago. While Mr. Cleveland remains the popular choice of his party, his nomination is menaced by ex pediency rather than by antagonism. Reviewing the proceedings of the various Democratic conventions, taking the con census of the party press, no impartial man would dispute that the weight of evidence as regards the preferences of his party, is with the candidacy of Mr. Cleveland. Whether he be nominated or not, the numerical strength of the Hillites and his active opponents will be inconsiderable. The one problem which may give concern relative to the nominee will be Mr. Cleveland's availability in connec tion with the division in his party in New York. So far as personal fitness is considered, popularity, courage of opinion, high and firm purpose, devo tion to conviction, impatience with temporizing, alignment with the best and most consistent principles of Demo cratic creed, Mr. Cleveland admittedly has no peer in his party. Senator Hill, who is responsible for i the present demoralization in the party, I lias not the faintest hopes of nomination, i He has plunged the Democracy into discord in order to gratify his ill-favored ambition, and is justly held as a mar plot. The indications continue that Mr. Cleveland will receive the nomination and that the platform will be such as he can consistently subscribe to. He would not accept the nomination otherwise. Should the nomination go to another candidate, it will, in all probability, go to one favored by Mr. Cleveland's friends, for they will dominate the con vention, whether or not they choose him standard-bearer. Governor Russell, Governor Pattison, ex-Governor Camp bell, Senator Palmer, ex-Secretary Whit ney, all are on record as favoring Mr. and Governor Boise, of lowa, is likewise a man after the Cleveland model, honest-minded and clean-handed. The Unpatriotic Pension I.lKt. The people of this country, whether they are Democrats or Republicans, do not object to paying liberally for the saving of the Union. It is startling, of course, to be told that wo pay more to the survivors of a war that ended twenty seven years ago than any European power pays for the maintenance of its living and effective army, but there is not a patriotic citzen who would not have the nation abundantly generous. There is no penuriousness, no failure to recog nize the merit of the old soldiers nor to appreciate the great service they render ed, in criticism of recent pension legisla- j tion. This pension legislation is not priinarly for the old soldier. It is for the pension ' shark, the pension attorney and the poli tician. It is for the "pull" that waste- J ful extravagance will give these people! on the patriotic sentiments of the coun try. It is for the purpose of helping charlatans into power by playing falsely upon the very best sentiments of the human heart. There is no legislation on the statute book so soiled with cor ruption, so tainted with the meanest of human vices, as the pension laws. In years that have passed since the ! end of the war many of the old soldiers have died, but the pension disbursements ! have increased from $13,400,000 in 18G0 ! to $134,000,000 appropriated for next year, while the list has grown from 127,- ! 000 to 076,000 pensioners. According to I Congressman Tucker we seem to have ' just entered upon our career of pension 1 extravagance. Bad as the past and pres-' ent is, the future is worse. There were 089,000 survivors of the war on June 30, 1891—13,000 more than the pensioners on the rolls. There were j 880,000 dead soldiers not represented by widows or dependent relatives. This made nearly 1,570,000 persons entitled to be placed on the rolls. Of these 928,- 000 had made application. Upon this basis Mr. Tucker estimates that at the end of three years $281,000,000 will be annually required to pay the pensions. This is an enormous list—so extrava gant that patriotism and gratitude can have little relation to it. Much of it is pure plunder for political purposes. It is more than ten times the pension list of Great Britain or France, and more than twenty times that of Germany. It is time that this evil should be re formed. In justice to the honest pen sioners, to the deserving old soldiers, to the real widows and orphans of the de fenders of the Union, in order that the memory of the Republic's heroes shall not be maligned by association with tie Republic's plunderers, and for the cause of good government itself, the Demo cratic majority in congress Bhould gain the courage to deal honeßtly with this sub ject and to put into it the sharp-edged knife of economy. Bring down the pension list to honest figures and make a pension synonymous with honorable and patriotic service. This is one of the chief duties of the hour.— N. T. World. of the Ragpickers' "La Mere Maupy,"the owner of "Cite Maupy," a famous colony of Paris rag pickers, was an odd character among many. Her husband, whose right hand she had been for thirty years past, aid ing him in tho sometimes difficult task of keeping the "biffins" in order, died a few weeks ago and, the ragpickers not conducting themselves with proper re | spect at his fwnoral, "La Mere Maupy"' gave them notice to qnit, one and all. Her occupation gone, "La Mere Maupy" tired of life and committed suicide a few days ago by asphyxiation. In her will she indicated that her funeral should be a civil ceremony purely, and that no chiffonniers should be allowed to follow her coffin to the grave.—Pall Mall Gazette. British Columbism for Independence. The Hon. Wilfrid Laurier has declared for independence. Had he done so long ago he would not have to count defeat after defeat. The only possible solution of our political existence is nationhood, and until it comes we are merely para sites, who are treated as such abject creatures deserve to be. We are no bodies upon the map of the world.— Vancouver (B. C.) World. Leproay In Spain. Consternation exists in several Span ish villages in consequence of the great increase of leprosy. In the town of Gata there are so many lepers that a separate hospital is to be built for them. There are eight families in Benidorm that the other residents fear to associate with even for the transaction of busi ness. Every member of the eight fam ilies is a leper.—Yankee Blade. Did On. of HI. Wive. Go Shopping? Among the bills that came into the till of an Augusta dry goods store re cently was one issued by the Deseret National bank, of Salt Lake City, and Ixire the signature of Brigham Young. It was of the issue of 1872, yet looked quite crisp and fresh.—Bangor (Me.) Commercial. Coming Sprouts. It makes the small boy sad to see the apple tree budding in the garden. It is a reminder of coining sprouts.—Bing inunton Republican. BRITISH FREE TRADE DESPERATE CONDITION OF GREAT BRITAIN IN 1840. Popular Error on the Subject In the United Stated—Why the Rich Grew Richer and the Poor Poorer—Rapid Im provement Under an Improved Syntem. A very common but utterly erroneous idea prevails in this country that Great Britain only gave up the system tech nically called protection when by means of this system she had attained condi tions of great prosperity and a substan tial commanding position in manufac tures and commerce. The very reverse is true. The pro tective system was given up by Great Britain under the pressure of pauperism and bankruptcy in which it culminated in the years immediately preceding 1842, when Sir Robert Peel presented and carried his first great mersure for tho reform of the British tariff. The origin of customs in England was in the time of Edward I. Thence forward duties were added and multi plied, each rate being devoted to a spe cific purpose until in 1784 as many as fifteen separate duties were levied upon the same article. In 1787 William Pitt carried through an act of consolidation without reducing the number of articles taxed. This measure left 1,200 articles subject to duty, and in order to bring the act into force 8,000 resolutions were required in the house of commons. In 1797, however, the laws relating to cus toms filled six large folio volumes un provided with an index. The great subsequent wars rendered nugatory all Pitt's efforts to relieve commerce. Be tween 1797 and 1815 000 additional acts were passed, and in fifty-three years of the reign of George 111 the total number of acts relating to duties on imports wus 1,300. At length taxes became so nu merous that nothing was left untaxed. Even premiums offered for the sugges tion of fresh subjects for taxation failed to stimulate invention. In 1824, under the lead of Huskis son, several of the crude materials neces sary to British industry had been put into the free list, of which the most im ; portent was wool. This change had ; worked great benefit to both wool grower and manufacturer; the price of I domestic wool advanced, while the manufacturer was enabled to reduce the ; cost of goods through the opportunity ! given him by freedom from taxation on imported wool to buy, sort and mix his I wool in the most effective manner. The first decisive step in tariff reform | was brought about in 1840 by the ap pointment of a parliamentary committee at the instance of Mr. Joseph Hume. The condition of the country was then desperate. The most concise account I of the case is given in Noble's "Fiscal ; Legislation of Great Britain," but all authorities—Liberal and Tory alike— i are substantially at an agreement upon 1 this point. It is written that "every in | terest in tho country was alike de : pressed; in the manufacturing district ! mills and workshops were closed and property daily depreciated in value; in I the seaports shipping was laid up useless in harbor; agricultural laborers were eking out a miserable existence upon I starvation wages and parochial relief; | the revenue was insufficient to meet the national expenditure; the country was brought to the verge of national and uni versal bankruptcy. "The protective system, which was supported with a view to rendering the country independent of the foreign sources of supply, and thiji, it was hoped, fostering the growth of a home trade, had most effectually destroyed that trade by reducing the entire popu lation to beggary, destitution and want. The masses of the population were un able to procure food, and had conse quently nothing to spend upon British manufactures. Part of the burden of taxation rested either upon necessary articles of food or else upon articles which were necessary component ma terials in British industry." At that very time when the protective system culminated in the desperate con ditions of Great Britain in 1840 it will be observed that it was at the end of a period of profound peace, which had lasted over twenty-five years, in which the personal wealth of tho upper classes in Great Britain had become immense. When presenting his first measure of the tariff reform Sir Robert Peel re marked, after stating the deficit and the financial difficulties to be met: "You will bear in mind that this is no casual and occasional difficulty. You will bear in mind that there are indications among all the upper classes of society of in creased comfort and enjoyment, of in creased prosperity and wealth, and that concurrently with these indications there exists a mighty evil which has been growing up for the last seven years and which you are now called upon to meet." This evil was the increasing poverty and destitution of the great mass of the working people. The rem edy was sought in a redistribution of the burden of taxation. The tariff then covered 1,200 separate subjects of taxa tion, of which seventeen yielded 94 per cent, of the revenue—the rest were petty obstructions to commerce imposed for the purpose of protection with inciden tal revenue. That purpose was not, however, avowed in these exact terms at that time, as it has lately in this coun try by the advocates of McKinleyism. In tho Bret measure Sir Robert Peel wholly abated or reduced the duty upon a consistent plan on 750 articles, and also caused an income tax of seven pence on the pound to be put upon classified incomes, which is a fraction less than 3 per cent., ull incomes below £l5O being exempt. From this income tax he anticipated a revenue of £3,770,- 000 in the first year. It yielded £5,100,- 000, conclusively proving that under the previous syßtem while the poor had been rapidly reduced to pauperism the rich had become richer. Like causes produce like effects. Un der the pretext of protection to the miners of this country, and especially of Pennsylvania, a duty lias long boon maintained upon the import of foreign iron ores; it is now seventy-five cents a ton, which is precisely equal to the labor cost of producing a ton of iron ore in Pennsylvania—according to the sworn statements of tho iron masters of Penn sylvania, by whom its iron mines are worked. The result of this system in the last census year—a year of the great est activity known—was that 4,410 iron miners and workmen secured an income of $259 each, amounting in all to $1,141,- 239. There are iron masters in the state of Pennsylvania whose single incomes in a single year have exceeded the whole sum earned by the protected iron miners. The effect of the first measure of tariff reform in Great Britain, that of 1842, was not immediately jierceptible, the evil effect of the previous conditions be ing very deep seated; but before 1845 tho beneficial influence upon every bbanch of industry, agriculture, manu factures and commerce alike had be come so manifest that little opjiosition was met to Peel's second great act of tariff reform of 1845, by which 430 arti cles, consisting of the crude and partly manufactured materials which entered into the processes of domestic industry, were put on the free list, the duties on the lessening number of dutiable im ports being at the same time reduced and adjusted to those new conditions. In 1848 the Irish famine forced the abate ment of all taxes on food by orders in council, subsequently followed by the repeal of the corn law. In 1847 Sir Robert Peel left office, but the immense benefits to every branch of British industry rendered it a comparar tively easy matter to bring the tariff substantially to its present condition in 1853, coupled with the repeal of the navi gation laws under the lead of Mr. Glad stone. Since that date the people of the United States have been forbidden by their own acts to compete with Great Britain in the construction and use of ocean steamships, while the commercial supremacy of the latter is insured by freedom from all restrictions and by virtue of the protection which is given by the exemption from taxation on all the materials used in construction and in the subsistence of the vessels.—Edward Atkinson in New York Times. SOME M'KINLEY BILL ACCOUNTS. Wgc Reduced, Factoriev Closed arid Men Thrown Out of Work. | Credit these to McKinley. They are ' a few of the items on one side of the ac ! count of the "bravest and wisest of tar | iff measures," the "trust killing tariff," ;as the New York Tribune calls it. This bill, that does not sustain a "higher rate of profits, but a higher rate of wages," as Professor Gunton told the Republic an club, of New York, a few days ago. These are some of the items for the week ending April 15, 1892. When some loyal Republican has filled out the other side of the account, so that it will not look too one sided, we will continue our side: April B—By a strike of 200 girls and boys in the Dolphin Jute mills at Pater son, N. J. The Press says "the boys have been getting $2.50 and the girls $2 a week" in this protected industry. April B—By reduction of wages of puddlers at Mcllvane & Sons' Plate mill, Reading, Pa., from $3.75 to $3.50 per ton, and the announcement that next week Seifert's two rolling mills, employ ing 300 hands, five miles below Reading, will close down indefinitely. April B—By the determination of the Furniture and Cabinet Manufacturers' association to keep their factories closed until the strikers give up their fight for eight hours. April B—By exactions of the rice trust which led a committee of rice mer chants at New Orleans to take steps to build a rice mill to circumvent the trust. April 9—By consolidation of the six cottonseed oil mills of Georgia into the Georgia Cotton Oil company. The American Cotton Oil company owns 120 mills; for the purpose of economy those in each state are being merged iuto separate corporations. All of the trust mills are now reorganised nnder state charters except those in South Carolina. April 10—By notice of general reduc tion of wages in all the furnaces at Newcastle, Pa. After April 17 the turn men will be reduced fifteen cents, the day laborers ten cents and the iron men three-fourths cent per pound. This will give the turn men $1.75 and the laborers $1.35 per day. April 10—By closing down of the Dol phin Jute mill at Paterson, N. J., l>e cause of the inordinate request of the boys for $3 and of the girls for $2.50 per week. April 10—By strike of 200 electric light men in New York. April 10—By strike of twenty helpers at the Phoenix silk mill, Paterson, N. J. April 10—By tho announcement in The Tribune that Claus Spreckels cleared $5,000,000 when he sold his Philadelphia sugar refinery to the trust, giving the latter complete control of refined sugar east of the Rockies. April 11—By a big marble trust which The Tribune announces is being formed in Georgia "to unite ull the marble pro prietorships in the country so that the output as well as the prices can be regu lated." The duty on marble averaged about 50 per cent, under this "trust kill ing tariff." April 13—By strike of workmen at the Monitor Iron works at Sing Sing. April 14—By the announcement that tho whisky trust, whose total earnings for the year ending March 81, 1892, were |1,728,827, is to wipe out all opposition by a temporary reduction of prices. April 14—By the formation of a trust composed of the thirty typo founders in the United States. April 14—By the closing of the Spreck els enormous sugar refinery by the sugar trust so as to decrease production and maintain trust prices. April 15—By the completion of the Diamond match trust, it having bought the Lebanon Match company, of Phila delphia, for $125,000. This was the last company to surrender to the trust. The retail dealers in Philadelphia, upon ad vices from wholesalers, at once advanced the price of matches fifty cents per gross. Will Ready Pay. Flo " r cl ">p . Br an Oam 11c per lb Cal. bain 8c " " Shoulder 7^ c •> •• English wall nuts 10c " " Mixed nuts 10e " " Hazle nuts Chestnuts 10e " qt Hickory nuts 8c " " Pea nuts 5 C " " Buckwheat flour, 25 lbs for 00c 1 quart peas s t . 1 quart beans 8c 1 pound hurley 5c 1 can sardines 5c 2 dozen boxes matches 25c 1 piece sand soap 5c 4 pounds currants 25c 300 clothes pins 25c 3 pounds good raisins 25c 4 pounds raisins.., 25c 1 pound coffee 20 and 23c 1 pound good tea 25c 5 pounds soda biscuits 25c 5 sticks stove polish 25c 3 pounds mixed cakes 25c 3 pounds coffee cakes 25c 5 pounds best sugar 25c ti pound.- row n sugar 23c 5 pounds lima beans. 25c 3 rounds bologna 24c 3 cans lime 25c 3 boxes axle grease 25c 3 dozen pickles 25c 2 quarts baking molasses 25c 2 quarts best syrup 25c 3 quarts cheap syrup 25c 3 pounds corn starch 25c 3 pounds bird seed. 25c 6 pounds oat meal 25c 6 pounds oat flakes 25c 1 pound hops 25c 2 packages ivorine (witli spoon in).. ,25c Muffs for 40c up to any price you want; all have been reduc ed to cost. All wool blankets have been reduced to wholesale price. Ladies' and children's coats for half price. Drop in and get some of those bargains. J. C. BERNER. Washington House, 11 Walnut Street, above Centre. A. Goeppert, 'Prop. The best of Whiskies, Wines, Gin and Cigars. Good stabling attached. ARNOLD & KRELL'S Beer and Porter Always on Tap. Whereto Find Him! Patrick Carey has removed from the Ameri can hotel to John McShea's block, 95 and R7 Centre Street, where he can be found with u full line of Medical Wines, Gin, Brandies, Hum, Old Kye and Borbon Whiskey. Any person who is dry and wants a cold, fresh, large schooner of beer will be satisfied by culling at Carey's. Good Accommodation For All. SIX DIFFERENT KINDS OF REEK ON TAP. 1 CURE THAT ' ii Cold ii | | AND STOP THAT I | Cough, ii >N. H. Downs' Elixir 11 ! WILL DO IT. || I Price, 25c., 60c., and SI.OO per bottle.| I | Warranted. Sold everywhere. | | ! MSS7, 10HSSOH * LOU, Fnpi., Burlington, Vt. | | Sold at Schilcher's Drug Store. I J. P. MCDONALD, SOUTH AND CEHIRI STREETS. Our big- stores are filled and piled high up from cellar to loft with BRAND NEW GOODS FOR SPRING AND SUMMER. We cannot pretend to name all the handsome things we have to offer you. Here are spring and summer Dress Goods AND A MAGNIFICENT LINK OF OTHER DRY GOODS. BOOTS and SHOES. In this department we have everything that could bo asked for in the footwear . line, and the low prices we sell our goods V at will certainly astonish you. 1 Your special attention is called to the stock of FURNITCJRE Wo aro offering for salo. x Our waroroom is filled with the choicest styles of ♦ parlor and bedroom suits, and everything else in the furniture business. About everything that you need is here, and at rock-bottom prices, too. We sell strietly-for cash, ami have no higli rents to pay, therefore our prices are lar below any others. Call in, examine our large stock and be convinced that we can give you satisfaction in every respect. J. P. McDonald. 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