FREELAND TRIBUNE. PUBLISHED KVKItY MONDAY AND THUKSDAY AFTERNOONS. TIIOS. A. BUCKLEY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. TERMS, - - SI.OO PER YEAR. FREELAND, PA., JUNE 27, 1892. DEMOCRATIC TICKET. NATIONAL. President, Cleveland New York Vice President, E. Stevenson Illinois ■P Judge of Supreme Court, BRstopher Heydriek Venango County Congreesmeii-ut-Lurge, HBirge Allen Erie County ■hiiinos P. Merrltt llerks County by the THIUCNE at the rate of sl,llO strictly In advance. Present, sub by paying any existing arrearages can avail themselves of the advan- be derived from this offer. After 1 the THIBCNE will be $1.50 per in advance. Cleveland ami Stevenson, two great national parties have their preliminary work of the —that of nominating candi president and vice president, a contrast may be seen in the and the result of their work? JPin the one hand we find those who met at Minneapolis acting, not according to the wishes of the voters of the party, but for the Bole advancement of one man to whom they owe their lease of political life. Their nominee for vice president was not selected because Whitelaw Ifeid is a good Republican, but for the purpose of strengthening their ticket in a certain state and hoping, through him, they might have free ac cess again to the money bags of the monopolists. At Chicago the Democrats nominated Grover Cleveland in answer to the demand of the Democrats of the United •States, lie was not the most available candidate. The delegation from bis own state fought him until the ballot was taken, and they then, like loyal Demo crats, assisted with their cheers in mak ing the nomination unanimous. Cleve land is handicapped by the fact that lie was once beaten, but Cleveland iB still the greatest exponent of modern Democracy and therefore be was placed on the ticket by his party. Adali E. Stevenson is not the strongest man that could be chosen for vice presi dent, if the question of states and elec toral votes were allowed consideration. He cannot command monopolists to disgorge hundreds of thousands of dollars like bis opponent. He is from a strong Kepublican state, but these questions have no weight in Demo cratic gatherings. Cleveland and Stevenson are Demo crats. They have Democratic principles, Democratic views, Democratic ideas, and, like Democrats who deserve to hear the honorable title of Democrat, they are never afraid to lead the rank and file upon any question to which the party is or should he committed. Furthermore, they stand upon the most complete and straight-forward platform ever adopted by any party. It says what it means, and it means every word the document contains. There is no straddle, no evasion, but straight Democratic principles which may he understood by every citizen who reads it. Democrats deserve to win next November, and they will win. Three Clianees Now. This year, in considering probabilities, the Democratic party lias three chances to win where it had one chance four years ago. In the first place its chances of carry ing New York are greater than they were in 1888. If it succeeds in this and in carrying the states that were Demo cratic in 1888, and if Indiana also goes Democratic, as it is quite sure to go, the Democratic candidate will receive 226 electoral votes, or 3 more than a majority. In the second place, if New York goes Kepublican its lost 36 votes may he made up from Illinois, Kansas. Neb raska, Wisconsin and lowa. These states cast 67 electoral votes, and they went Democratic or at least anti-Re publican in 1800. They have in Con gress 20 Democratic, 14 Republican and 7 Farmers' Alliance Representa tives. Moreover, from 4 to 6 votes are expected from Michigan, (dearly New York is not this year, as it was in 1888, the only fighting ground for 36 electoral votes. In the third place, these five states and Minnesota, with its 9 electoral votes, may be carried by the Farmers' Alliance. Giving New York to the Re publicans the electoral vote would then stand as follows: Democrats, 190; Re publicans, 179; Farmers' Alliance, 75. As the necessary majority of the elec toral college is 223, such a division of the vote would throw the election into present house of representatives, and the Democratic candidate would be chosen by a largo majority of the states voting as units,—lF. Y. World. WOMEN should have a vote in the presidential election to decide whether ' Ruth Cleveland or Baby McKco will jtdorn the White Ilooae. JTN PLATE HISTORY, I J THE DIVERSIFIED USES TO WHICH IT IS APPLIED. Ifa V M MI Fooil Wrapper—How tho MeKlnley Tariff Is Injuring the Tariff Industry—What Tin l'late Is and Huw It Is Manufactured. Tin plates slnoe the tariff discussion concerning them have become an item of publio Interest. There seems to bo a surprising ignorance on the part of the people concerning their manufacture, the diversified uses to which they are applied, as well as to the qualities which make them important in the economy of living. Briefly stated, tin plates are iron or steel sheets cut to a convenient size plated with tin; in other words, Iron or steel plates painted on both sides with a tin coating. Ninety per cent, of all the tin plates consnmed in the world are made in Wales. For 170 years that little coun try has defied all competition in their manufacture. Added to a thorough knowledge of the practical features of the trude, the Welsh manufacturers have proved great inventors in bringing into use labor saving und material saving machinery. As Iron and tin constitute the entire bulk of and 90 per cent, of the cntiro oost of tin plates, their price and fluctu ation are the history of the tin produc tion of the world and the sheet Bteel in dustry. Owing to the scarcity of tin, prices advanced from 1864, when it was £B7 per ton, to £159 in 1892. There was nearly as marked an advanco in iron during the same jieriod. This sent the price of tin plates up to 265. per box. In 1878 tin reached the exceedingly low price of £52 10s. per ton. Iron reached a correspondingly low price, Philadel phia pig being quoted in 1876 at #10.60, as against SSB in 1872. The cheapness of those ingredients lowered the price of tin plates to 12s. lj£d. Since that date tho decline in plates has been in strict keeping with the price of iron and tin down to Juno, 1800, when speculation incident to the McKinley tariff on tin plates set in. The cheapness of tin plates, together with their durability for certain uses, and their adaptability as wrappers for hermetically sealed canned food has greatly stimulated their importation. In 1850 the importation was only 500.000 boxes; now it has reached over 0,000,000 boxes. Our natural increase in con sumption of plates sinco 1887 amounts to 500,000 boxes each year. This increase is directly traceable to the development of the canning industry, which now con sumes more than 3,500,000 boxes yearly. These cans or wrapiiers for canned produce are made up with a large per centage of tin for soldering, as the sol der needs to he strong and noncorrosivo. From 15,000 to 18,000 tons of pig tin are required for tills purpose annually. Tho canning industry would never have develiqied to its present status hail it not had tho advantage of cheap tin plates. Glass was found to be too ex pensive and the matter of its breakage too extensive to prove economical as a wrapper for a food product. Tin cans wero found to he as wholesome as gloss, proof against breakage anil less than one-third the cost of the glass jars. Under tho stimulus of these cheaji 1 wrappers mado from tin plates the can ning industry has made wonderful de velopment, and being a direct evolution of agriculture has stimulated a class of intensive farming in tho older settled | portions of the country which has not only rescued fanners from an actual retrogression, but has mado their farms romuuorotive. One million acres of land are now under exclusive cultivation for these canneries. As a farmer on au average devotes from eight to ten acres of his farm to this class of culture, it is shown that 100,000 farmers, or 500,000 people, are Interested in the cultivation, growing and picking of these fruits anil vegetables which these can wrappers convoy to the consumers of the country. It was under these encouraging con ditions of the canning industry, and the advantages thus created by a home market for tho farmers' produce, that the supposed prohibitive duty of 1890 on tin plates was inflicted. Put forth us a protection pure and simple to a few sheet roofing men in order to drive out a conqietiiig article, tho law utterly ignored the canning industry, which, unable to substitute galvanized iron or sheet steel for tin plates in its manufacture of hermetically sealod food products, hence had no alter native hut to pay the enhanced price or go put of the business. Reports from all sections of tho coun try indicate clearly the effects of this ar bitrary interference on tho part of the government with an established indus try. Letters received from over 100 concerns, both caunors and manufactur ers of tinware, and of all political shades, and scattered from Maine to California, sot forth in most emphatic terms the injury of the increased duty on tin plates to thotr business. The policy of spoliation, however, has been perfectly vindicated. The sheet iron mills have been able to advance the pricceof their products according to pro gramme, and American consumers of tin plats* have Imen taxed $21,000,000 to create au industry which up to date has supplied us with less than twenty-two hours' consumpilon of American plates made of 90 per cent, imported material and by imported mechanics. THOMAS L. BUNTI.NO, Pros. Nat'l Canned Goods Association. "Vrotection or Vree Trad©?" Aak your congressman for a copy of "Protection or Free Trade?" by Henry George, ft is one of the best works on the subject, and as it has been quoted entire by si* of the leading Democrats In the house, it is now being franked to all parts of the United States and will coat yon only the penny you puy for the gostal card on which to send your ad- A WESTERN FARMER KICKS. Too Much Tariff the Cause of H is Dls •atlsfaotion. X have been farming for about thirty three yeara and have livedjn three statea. It has been truly a hard road to travel. This is no fancy question. The fanner has in large measure been compelled to eat dirt and go naked. Wealth hoe in creased forty times as much in Vermont as in lowa during the past ten years. Kansas farm mortgages are by the cen sus $283,000,000. This is not simply a question for farm ers, but for all business men. On ques tions of tariff and finance the interests of all of the people in the west and south and nine-tenths of the people of the east are identical. But unfortunately for the country un der radical rule about one-tenth of the people of one small section (the north east) have controlled our national legis lation for the past thirty years. The manufacturer and the capitalist have readily been enabled to amass mil lions, and millionaires are becoming quite common in the northeast, while the bulk of the people there, and all the people in the west and south, save the office holder and pensioner, have become "hewers of wood and drawers of water" for the New England nabobs. And year by year they continue (un wisely, I think) to put the screws to us a little tighter, until they have nearly broken the camel's back; have nearly killed the goose that lays the golden egg, not seeming to be conscious that by crushing agriculture and impoverishing whole sections of the country they de stroy our ability to pay and thereby re duce their own revenues, and eventually will produce such a revolt from their dominion as will bring themselves down in financial ruin, if not (which God for bid) in open rebellion and bloodshed. When the pendulum is forced too far in one direction it will swing too far in the other. For all this and much more we have not enumerated we hold accountable the party of professedly high moral ideas, which would legislate other men into morality; "for they say and do not; for they bind heavy burdens and grievous to 1)6 borne, and lay them on men's shoulders, but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers"— the party which has lived these many years on sectionalism, by fomenting bit ter feelings, race prejudice and wars; the party which rejoices in the manu facture or parading of tales of horror to keep up prejudice and bitterness, whose chief stock in trade is hate or the en couragement of hate; the party which was instrumental in lilerating the negro slaves, which we confess was one good thing they did for the white race, but which managed by the bitterness and prejudice engendered by the war virtual ly to enslave nine-tenths of the white men of the country; the party which by a long course of oppressive legisla tion robs and plunders the i>eople under the guise of law; the party which ! would, by returning boards and force | bills, endeavor to i>erpetuate this pillage ' and tyranny on a peace loving and law abiding people. I Ido not mean that there are not indi vidual good men and many of them in the Republican party, but I do think that the rank und file, those who are not getting the boodle, allow themselves to be wonderfully hoodwinked. Let us look at one prominent item of this robbery. The tariff has yielded a revenue for the last ten years of from $122,000,000 to $139,000,000 per a mum. Of course this comes off the people, but the consump tion of home manufactures is about five times as much as of imported goods, which yields a bonus of near $700,000,000 annually to the manufacturers, off the people too. But this does not go into the treasury, but into protected i>ockets. This enormous burden of $800,000,000 annually which the people liavo to pay for this radical blessing is not half of | the damage. Protection destroys our ability to pay; it in large measure pro hibits exchange of our products with foreign countries, cuts off the demand for our surplus corn, wheat, cotton, meat, etc., and breaks tho price of our , whole product. For instance if wo raise one-tenth more grain than we need to consume, that surplus on our market will break down the price of the whole crop, whereas if Euroie could exchange freely with us tho whole crop would bear a good price. No wonder fanning and every other industry in our farming districts is prostrated. The wonder is the whole agricultural portion (most all of our country) is not broke.—St. Louis Republic. Our Tilt Plate Infunt. While congress was being urged to enact the increased duty on tinned plate every sponsor in and out of that body for the industry thus promised to he created set July 1, 1891—the date when the new rate was to take effect—as that before which United States manufac turers would be supplying our entire ' home consumption. So far was this from the truth that, in fact, at the date named not a single sheet of tinned plate | had been made here by any concern even pretending to be on a commercial basis —that is, ready to supply to any sub stantial extent orders from tlio trade. As this date approached tlie treasury department, Boeing BO near at hand the total collapse of the McKinley prophe cies—in Bpito of the liberality of the law, which permitted American untlnned (or block) plates ready for stamping to lie counted aa tinned plates—took the dea i perate step of ruling that "import | ed" black plates, if dipjied here, though in "imported" tin, might be counted as I "American" tinned plate. This gave a boom to the anomalous American indus try of coating Imported plate with im , ported tin by imported labor. Such is the BO called tin plate indus try which, under the MclCinley bill, con ceived in the tinned plate lies of Crono meyer, has been born under treasury midwifery, and is now the infant to which, as an American industry, have i.lready beon issued fraudulent natural isation papers. FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF Riuuimoirauiiis'R.! For the year ending June 0, 18112. Thomas J. Moore, tax collector. DR. To amount of duplicate $2474 78 Supplemental tux 711 18 Total $2550 06 CR. Am'nt returned to county com missioners 222 47 Exonerations 109 12) Paid treasurer 1800 oo Collector's commission 108 47 Amount due from collector... . 250 96 Adam Saehs, treasurer, in account with Freeland Borough School District. DK. Balance on hand last year $ 447 91 Received from state appropriation 515 80 Received from Ex-Tax Collector Doudt 05 00 Received from unseated land 122 4:1 Received from Thos. J. Moore, collector 1800 00 Loan from Citizens' Hank 250 00 Loan from James Huff 800 00 S4IXII 65 CR. Amount paid on labor, saluries, etc., as fol lows: John Smith, secretary, salary.. .$ 50 tXI Auditors 12 00 Weil & Stehling 21 12 James & Williams, concrete side walk 88 77 Prorct, publishing and print , Ing 15 75 J. 11. /iegler, work 24 75 TRIBUNE, publishing and print , big 18 00 James firillith, fencing school ground 145 45 " John C. Reich, work 24 75 l'uii ick Median, curbing and gutters 50 37 Fox & Winters, puinting 48 00 Wm. Williamson, supplies 182 54 John Brelsford, painting 55 00 Isaac Davis, work 0 25 John M. Cunnius, lumber and work 90 Patrick Welch, work 14 27 Mrs. llrennan, cleaning 42 00 Citizens' Hank, interest 1 25 Wm. Wat kins 14 20 H. F. 11 ute, labor 2 00 American Book Concern, sup plies 82 70 Butler & Co., supplies ti 72 John Smith, district institute.... 1 08 Adam Sachs, county institute... 500 John Smith, " " ... 500 Four teachers, " " ... 40 (XI Purchase of two lots 850 00 John Smith, express and postage 405 Daniel Paubert, work 2 00 Freeland Water Company 2 75 J. D. Hayes, insurance 05 02 Adam Sachs, coal and hauling.. Oil 00 Ferry A- Christy, stationery so Touchers' saluries 1715 00 Paid Citizens' Hunk 250 00 Amount due treasurer $ 16 72 LIABILITIES. Due Adam Saehs, treasurer's commission $ K) .*l7 Adam Sachs, overpaid account.*.. 10 72 James Mull', loan 800 00 John Smith, salary 1801-02 50 00 Making and recording deed and search 8 25 Ceo. T. Hrown, month's salury.... 05 00 Auditors, 1892. 12 00 RESOURCES. Due from Collector Moore $250 no Due from Ex-Collector Doudt 15 22 $ 200 29 Libabilities In excess of resources $ 700 05 We, the undersigned, auditors of Freeland Ilorough, being duly sworn according to law, doth say that the foregoing statement of the Freeland School District is true and correct, so far as the Accounts presented to us. PHILIP GKRITZ, J JOHN 8K1.1., -Auditors. EVAN WOODKING, 1 Financial Statement OF FOSTER TOOISEIF SCHOOL IIST'CT. For the year ending Juno 0,18U2. Louis Beehtlotf, collector of school tax, in account with Foster Township. DR. To amount of regular duplicate $11,974 44 Supplemental tax 441 21 Dog tax 227 OH 1 Total $12,652 75 CR. By amount of rebatcmcnts on SIHKX), paid within 60 days, at 5 jer cent $ 300 00 Commissioners' abatements... 104 05 Abatements l'or errors in as sessments 107 54 Dog tax refunded, exonera tions, <•!<• .• 57 00 Seated hind tax returned to commissioners 628 55 Unseated laud tax returned to commissioners 181 22 Exonerations of school tax 1010 19 Paid treasurer in 11 ret. 60 days.. 6000 00 Paid treasurer after tlrst 60 days 8376 00 Collector's commission 224 :i6 Due from collector 464 24 Geo. Meneely, treasurer, in account with Foster Township School District. DR. To amount received from cx-tre&BUrer.s 798 42 Amount of state appropriation 2512 90 Amount of election rent 42 00 Tuition from Ha/.le Township 58 00 Lewis Beehtlotf, collector 9275 U0 From G. L. Halsey, attorney for account of Jacob Fox 476 24 C. A. Johnson, J. P., tines 2 50 G. L. Ilalsey, unseated lands 155 29 Tuition from Butler Township 12 00 $12,422 25 CR. By teachers' salaries $9450 00 Fuel and contingencies 887 05 Cleaning school houses 86 00 County institute 211 75 Night school 150 00 Building and repairing 1866 12 Secretary's salary 180 (X) Interest on loan 00 00 Attorney's salury 00 (X) Auditors' salary 9 (X) Treasurer's commission 258 60 Amount due township 242 83 We, the undersigned, auditors of Foster Township, being duly sworn according to law, do certify that the foregoing is a correct state ment of the financial condition of Foster Town ship School District, according to the accounts presented to us by the directors of said district. ALFRED WIDDICK, I FRANK DKVKR, J-Auditors. PATRICK FERRY, ) WM. WEHRMANN, German Practical Watchmaker. Centre Street, Five Points. The cheapest and best repair ing store in town. All watch repairing guaranteed for one \ years. New watches for sale, j Jewelry repaired on short notice. Give me a call. All kinds of watches and clocks repaired. KNGI.ISH, SWISS AND AMKKJCAN WATCHES. Complicated and fine work on watches a specialty. teliil lead) Paj. Q-xoceries and DE=rotrisiorLS: Flour $2.40 Chop 1,00 22 pounds granulated sugar 1.00 12 cans tomatoes, A No. 1 1.00 5 pounds raisins 25 All Kinds of Meats Are Advancing. IFresib. Triads: and. "N7" Ggetables Every week at lowest market price. IDry Gi-cods: Challies, best, 41 cents per yd. Some dress goods reduced from 50 to 25 cents. Scotch ginghams, worth 35 cents, sell for 20 cents. "■Wall Paper: Thousands of different patterns 5 cents double roll up to any price wanted. Carpets and. Oil Clotlrs: Carpets, 17 cents per yard. I carry the largest stock in this town. Ptirniture: Anything and everything. Good lounges for $5.00. ii round-back chairs for $3.00. Black hair walnut parlor suit, $29.50. Xjad.ies* Summer Coats Are reduced from $3.75 to $2.50. Some as low as 75 cents. Stra-w Hats: 30 per cent, less than last year. Some at one-half price. Slroes and. Footwear: We are headquarters. Every pair guaranteed. Ladies' walking shoes for 75 cents; worth $1.25. I can save you money on any thing you may need, if only 5 cents worth. Call and see our equipped store, We have ela borate rooms from cellar to third floor, National cash regis ter, Lippy's money carrier sys tem, computing scales, the finest in the world, and six men to wait on you. Yours truly, J. C. BERNER. Washington House, 11 Walnut Street, above Centre. A. Goepperl, Prop. The best of Whiskies, Wines, Gin ami Cigars. Good stabling attached. ARNOLD & KRELL'S Beer and Porter Always on Tap. Where to Find Him! Patrick Carey has removed from the Ameri can hotel to John McShea's block, 95 and 97 Centre Street, where he can be found with n full line of Medical Wines, Gin, Brandies, Rum, Old Rye and Dorbon Whiskey. Any person who is dry and wants a cold, fresh, large schooner of beer will be satisfied by calling at Carey's. Good Accommodation For All. SIX DIFFERENT KINDS OF BEER ON TAP. ' I CUKE THAT ! j i| Cold |! II AND STOP THAT 11 ii Cough, ii i >N. H. Downs' Elixir Jj I! WILL DO IT. | II | j Price, 25c., 50c., and SI.OO per bottle.| | j | Warranted. Sold everywhere. I | I . SIHB7, JOHOTOH k LOU), Prop!., Bulllgtm, TI. | | i Sold at Schilchcr's Drug Store. "THE NEW YORK." ARE^TH^ Mrs. B. Grimes, Milliner and Dressmaker, CENTRE STREET, BELOW FRONT. WHAT TO WEAR! WHERE TO GET IT! Two important questions that trouble young men, old men, big boys and little boys. We will answer your queries most satisfactorily. We have ready-made clothing to suit men and boys—all styles and all sizes, and everything is just from the manufacturer—as new as new can be. Our stock of gents' furnishing goods— including collars, cuffs and a handsome line of neck wear—is certainly worth examining. Then we have BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, GAPS, ETC., in such great varieties that no man need leave our es tablishment without a perfect tit. We can rig a man out from the crown of his head to the soles of his feet in such fine style that his friends will be astonished, and the man will also be astonished at the low cost of anything and everything he will buy of JOHN SMITH, birkbeck FKnd. JOB PRINTING OF ALL KINDS DONE AT THE TRIBUNE OFFICE. CLEVELAND „ R HARRISON ? That, is the question which troubles the iM))iticiaiis, but the man or woman who is looking for the cheapest place to buy Rood hoots and shoes will be satisfied by culling at our store, where a complete stock is always on exhibition. Our low prices will surprise you. YOUR CHOICE Is unlimited when you call to examine the magnificent line of dry goods on our counters. Everything is new the very latest in the mar ket. All we request of our patrons is that they Insjß'ct the stock and compare prices. We know they will agree with us in saying that this is the place to buy. SUPPORT THE IAN Who will offer you the best bargains in car pet* and furniture. Considering the amount and variety of goods we carry it will he to your interest to call upon us when you need any thing in this line. We can provide you with a single chair or couip a palace with furniture of any kind, so don t be backward in ascertaining our llgurcs. There are none lower in this county. About everything that you need is here, and at rock-bottom prices, too. We sell strictly for cash, and have no high rents to nay, then-fore our prices are far lielow any others. Call in, examine our large stock and tie convinced that we can give you satisfaction in every respect. J. P. McDonald. Report of the Condition OF THE CITIZENS' Bank of Freeland, of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, at the close of business May 31, 1888. RESOURCES. Cash on hand $ 23,008 47 Checks and other cash items 5,217 4:s Due from banks and bankers 87,1113 2# Loans ami discounts 04,555 511 Investment securities 51, Sift 51 Real estate, furniture and fixtures... 1,001 07 Overdraft* 1,0*7 im Current expenses and taxes paid 40 54 Miscellaneous anets 12 Til f175,378 80 LIABILITIES. Capital stock puid in $ 50,000 00 Surplus fund I,(Nil) no Undivided protits 1,117 ;JO Deposits subject to check-.. 120,487 1)4 Due to banks and bankers. 2,408 17 Dividends unpaid 1; m Miscellaneous liabilities ... 320 48 A report in detail of above securities lias been made to C 11. Krumbhuar, superinten dent of banking. BTATK OF I'KNNSY I.VA NIA, I COUNTY OF I.U'/KLTNK, 1 I, It. It. Davis, easliier of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear that the abo\e state ment is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. it. u. Da vis, Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me this ninth day of June, 1802. JOIIN I). HAY EG, Notary Public. 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