FKEELAND TRIBUNE. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY THOS. A. BUCKLEY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. TERMS, - - SI.OO PER YEAR. FREELAND, PA., JULY 25, 1892. DEMOCRATIC TICKET. NATIONAL. President, Grover Cleveland New York Vice President, Adiai E. Stevenson Illinois STATE. Judge of Supreme Court, Christopher Heydrick Venango County Congressmen-at-Large, George A11en.... Erie County U'homus P. Merritt Ilerks County He denounce protection us a fraud, a robbery of the great majority of the Ameri can people for the benefit of the few. — DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM. Until September 1, Irtic, subscriptions will be received by the THIBUNE at the rate of SI.OO per year, strictly in advance. Present sub scribers, by paying any existing arrearages and SI.OO, can avail themselves of the advan tages to be derived from this offer. After September 1 the TRIBUNE will be $1.(50 per year, strictly in advance. Sunday Closing of tho World's Fair. Whence springs that hard, dry, nar row meaness in so-called Christians which exerts itself to repel rather than attract people to a religious form of life? It is tlie still rampant bigotry of the Pu ritan fathers, we presume, nurtured and fed by their unprogressive progeny. Certainly it seems as though a certain element takes every opportunity to as sert itself over the less agressive citizens of the country, and seeks in every way to not only make religion compulsory, but to force it into public questions where it has no place. The most un pleasant recent instance of this is in the persistent crusade that has been carried on by fanatics, with the object in view of closing the world's fair at Chicago on Sunday. A limp and hypocritical con gress lias supported the absurd demand by passing a bill, and all Europe will soon be laughing at us for our ridiculous and deformed ideas of religious conduct. Aside from the gross injustice of this offensive action, the result of it is going to be so disastrous that one would fancy even narrow-minded bigots would recog nize it and strive to avoid it. The inno cent and instructive entertainment thai fair would provide on Sunday, as well as on week days, is sufficient argument to all reasonable persons that it should not be closed, but heavy-headed and hyster ical professional religion workers, the men who advertise themselves as being possessed of abundant heavenly virtues, will not even discuss the situation, and refuse point blank to consider that clos ing the fair means an enormous increasi in the immorality of the crowds assem hied in Chicago, who will only too gladlj avail themselves of the innumerable methods of enjoying themselves thai will be offered them. There will he three times the drink ing, three times the sacrilege, three times the actual infamy accomplished in Chicago on Sunday with the fair clos ed than if it is open. But the fanatical mob cares nothing about this. In its hard, uncompromising, aggravating way it shrieks: "Close that fair!" Accord ingly, the fair is closed, and the satisfied horde triumphs over the vanquished liberals, not knowing, or, if knowing, not caring, that the devil is delighted with their victory. We had thought better of congress in this matter. It is another case of nerve less men lying down like poltroons to win votes. Not one-fourth of the house of representatives could honestly vote in favor of the Sunday closing of tin fair; but when a few hundred voters control things in tlicir various districts, and when those few hundred voters may perchance be cut on the stripe ol Elliot Shepard, your Congressman gives a shiver, buttons his coat tightly over his conscience and votes against his con victions. It was politics, not religious sentiment, that carried the Sunday clos ing bill through the house. It is had enough for sensible people to have to listen to the worst sort of balder dash relative to the Sunday closing of the exposition in our national senate, but that wo must listen to it from the lips of such notorious corrupters of public morals as Matt Quay is an insult to the plain common sense of the public That a man who liaß been openly brand ed with malfeasance in office, with such political actions as lead logically to bribery and the worst abuses of ballot corruption, and with long continued identification with the worst that his party could achieve, to such an extent that the reputable papers of his political faith have openly denounced him, and many of the leaders of his party been forced to ignore his presence in the party; that such a man as this should have the effrontery to stand before the American people as the champion of pure morals is almost too monstrous for belief. Apjiearing as Quay does as the sena torial spokesman for the Sunday closing movement, we do not hesitate to voice what we believe to be the opinion of the greater part of our readers and of the non-partisan public as well, that this man (loos not stand there as the dis interested champion of the Sabbatarians, [ but as the very-much-interested attorney I of the whiskey ring of Chicago, the members of which will be made million aires if they can compass the closing of the fair on Sundays, and thereby drive a very large proportion of the visiting influx of humanity to the saloons and beer gardens. This is the crowd that Quay has trained with heretofore, and we should be more than astounded to have reason to believe that he had changed his bedfellows at this late day.—A'. Y. Topic. Degenerated Journalism. That portion of the Republican press which claims to represent at all times the party's position upon national ques tions, has certainly taken a queer and humiliating stand in the Homestead trouble. With but few exceptionsjthese organs are arrayed in a solid phalanx against the demands of the laboring class and organised labor in general. They make no attempt to conceal their true feelings, and their editorials and perverted news statements constitute very good evidence that the power of Republican monopolists is becoming greater every day. Corporations were never so bold and law-defying as at present, and their au thority is indeed menacing when a few iron kings can pull a string and twist in to line every Republican sheet, from the New York Tribune and Philadelphia Press down to the little G. O. P. country weeklies. Newspapers that a few months ago were in heartfelt sympathy with the cause of the lower classes are now the mouth-pieces of Carnegia. The editors dare not speak as they would wish, but stand like a troop of muzzled automatons waiting to shriek and shout as they are ordered by Republican politi cians. It is not a very edifying spectacle to witness, and when people read their comments on Homestead their opinions of the freedom of the press will be con •iderably lessened. In justice, liow ■ver, to a few Republican journals it nust be said they have acted honorably, the llazleton Sentinel being especially noteworthy in the exceptions. Its ed itor, while disclaiming for the party all responsibility for the trouble, has at. tacked the monopolists from every point ind deserves commendation for his fear less course. Now He Want* Lalior'it Vote*. When Whitelaw Reid was rebuilding Ipliir Farm, his country home, he in serted the following advertisement in his paper, the New York Tribune: WANTED.— Stonemasons who can cut and set; ttrst-class mechanics only need ap ply; wages $a per day. Call on masons' fore man, Ophlr Farm, near White Plains, N. Y. At the time this advertisment appear ed the regular wages of stonemasons were $4.50 a day. Reid is not in the habit of paying regular wages, however, when he can get his work done for less. So he followed out the same plan as he loes in his newspaper business, and iried to employ men at "rat" rates. It is all very well for the vice presidential candidate to declare his friendship for the laboring classes at this interesting stage of the game, but history is against him and shows that he.is an active de fender of the principle that the rich man shall increase his property by re lucing as far as possible the wages of his employes. Such a man is not fitted to be vice president of the United States and cannot possibly command the votes of the masses. .Semi-Monthly Pay. The West End Coal Company has posted the following notice, says the Shickshinny Democrat: A large majority of the employes of the West End Coal Company having ex pressed a preference for a monthly pay instead of a two week's pay, as has here tofore been the custom, the company will pay monthly. A tine set of employes these must he, if the company's notice contains the truth. Why don't they express a pre ference for annual payments at once? Are they incapable of handling the mis erable pittance they have been receiving every two weeks, or is this "large ma jority" phrase only a bluft to cow the men? Eet miners everywhere properly demand a semi-monthly payment and they will get it. A FEW more copies of Henry George's great book, "Protection or Free Trade," may be hail at the TRIBUNE ollice. Our supply is again nearly exhausted, but the hooks are gone where they will do the most good. Republicans who do not wish to read a plain, unvarnished and and impartial review of the subject are cautioned against using the book for any purpose. Only those who are willing to see the protection theory as it really is can derive any benefit from its pages. There is not one dull line in it from cover to cover. Call and get one before it is too late. WILL KENNEDY, editor of the Boulder Aye, is a candidate for governor of Montana on the people's ticket. Ilis prospects of election are said to be very good, and we certainly wish him success, as he is a straightout free trader and one of the leading single tax men of the west. ON another page to-day is a lengthy article from a free silver editor, who pre sents his arguments in a new and enter taining form for the iieople of the east. ANOTHER COPPER TRUST. Producers lluve Agreed to Restrict Pro duction After July 1. The New York Daily Commercial Bul letin of June 16 says: "After a long pe riod of negotiation the producers of cop per in Europe and the United States have arrived at an agreement to restrict production after July 1 next. The Ameri can producers have agreed to restrict their exports of copper to Europe, in con tideration for which the Spanish produ cers have pledged themselves to cut down their production 5 per cent. The object of this agreement is of course to bring about a higher level of prices." Whether or not the producers can suc cessfully hold together to put prices back where they were during the exist ence of the great copper combine in 1888-9, it is certain that there has been left for them a duty of cents per pound, which was about all McKinley could do to invite another copper trust to repeat the outrage perpetrated in 1889 upon the American people. It will be remembered that in 1889 the copper trust sold American copper so much cheaper in Europe that it was reimported and Bold at a profit here after paying a duty of four cents per pound, and from April to August, 1889, the foroign price never exceeded eight cents and the domestic price was never less than twelve cents. But for the duty no Buch difference could have existed and the effects of the French syndicate upon our industries would have been as slight as they were upon Europe an industries. The effect of high prices for raw ma terials of any kind is farreaching and disastrous. How the consumers of cop per were affected by the high prices, of 1888 is described by James Powell, presi dent of the Union Brass company, of Cincinnati, in The Engineering and Mining Journal of Jan. 19, 1I&9: "When the syndicate began brass workers all over the country were fully employed at good wages, and while the demand for goods may not have been kept up at all times with the same vigor, yet the price of the raw material was such as to afford a living profit to the copper producer only. "Tho consumption of brass goods for steam, water and gas has fallen off from 25 to 40 per cent., with no immediate prospect of an improvement The ma nipulations of tho combine have been tho most disastrous calamity for tho generul copper consuming industries of this country that has ever befallen them." As evidence that the American end of this "agreement" is made in good faith, it is reported from Marquette, Mich., that a general strike is imminent at the great Calumet and Hecla copper mine. The company instead of acknowledging openly that they intend to restrict pro duction by closing the mine, announce that they will discharge all employees who are members of the Knights of Labor or of any other labor organization. They know that this will not only pre cipitate a long struggle that will restrict production, but it will give them an op portunity to utilize cheap "scab" labor when they are ready to resume opera tions, and perhaps to starvo some of tho strikers into accepting lower wages. Henry George on Indirect Taxation. In Henry George's "Protection or Free Trade," which is just now being exten sively circulated by members of con gress, the author thus clearly shows how oppressively indirect taxes—and especially tariff taxes—bear upon the poor, while tho rich almost entirely es cape; "A still more important objection to indirect taxation is that when im posed on articles of general use (and it is only from such articles that large revenues can be had) it bears with fai greater weight on the poor than on the rich. Since such taxation falls on peo ple not according to what they have but according to what they consume, it is the heaviest on those whose consumption is largest in proportion to their meuns. "As much sugar is needed to sweeten a cup of tea for a working girl as for the richest lady in the land, but the propor tion of their means which a tax on sugar compels each to contribute to the govern ment in the caso of tho one is much greater than in the case of tho other. So it is with all taxes that increase the cost of articles of general consumption. They bear far more heavily on married men than on bachelors; on those who have children than on those who have none; on those barely able to support their families than on those whose in comes leave them a largo surplus. "If tho millionaire chooses to live closely he need pay no more of these indirect taxes than tho mechanic. 1 have known at least two millionaires possessed not of one, but of from six to ten millions each—who paid little more of such taxes than ordinary day la borers. " Tlie Knormlty of Tariff Taxation. I repeat what I have said before, that tho people of this country never waked up to the enormity of tho tariff taxation proposed by the Republican party until the McKinley bill was put before them and explained section by section. Mr. J McKinley for the first time put in cold ; type tho moaning of his party from tho j beginning, and that was to exclude from | this country all products which came in i competition with anything raised or pro duced in the United States, to huild a j Chinese wall around this country com j mercially, to decrease imports (as I shall J show before the conclusion of my re- J marks they have done), to increase the J free list upon tropical fruits and luxu [ lies and the little frills of commerce, but upon the absolute necessaries of life, whether in chathing or in food, to ex clude tliem from this country in order, ] as the senator from Vermont (Mr. Mor j rill), the father of the tariff in this conn ! try, has declared, to make a market for the agriculturists at homo and not abroad. I shall have something to say i about that before 1 conclude, when 1 touch upon this new humbug of reci ■ procity, which day by (lay is being de veloped, and which I hope the senator from Maine will have a chance to dis cuss in every township in this country, ; as he threatened he would do some ' months ago.— Senator Vest. TIN PLATE WORKERS' WAGES. They Must lie Iletlueed A.tunl.htng Greed of the Manufacturers. The great American manufacturers of tin plate are showing their hands sooner than was expected, even by the greatest skeptics of "protection." It was an nounced from Pittsburg, June 17, that— "At the conference between the tin plate manufacturers and the scale com mittee of the Amalgamated association this afternoon, the latter were astounded at a call for a reduction of wages of the most highly skilled Wusses of workmen in the tin plate and sheet iron industries. "This call for a reduction is in the face of the assertion of the manufac turers that the tariff put on tin plate by the Fiftieth congress was necessary in order that good wages might be paid American workmen." Think of it! Wages to be reduced so soon in this great "infant" industry. The foreigners, imported by Niedring haus and others to work in an "Amer ican" industry at "American" wages, are asked to accept lower wages. This ought to be the straw that will break "protection's" back, but perhaps the matter can be patched up by the man ufacturers who are never backward in coming forward with excuses for lower wages. This same dispatch says that "David B. Oliver, C. Zug, J. H. Laugh lin and other leading manufacturers urged the acceptance of the manufac turers scale on account, they said, of the depressed condition of the iron trade," just as if iron was not also heav ily "protected" and therefore entitled to be in a "booming" condition. It was only on June 2 that the "Asso ciation of Iron and Steel Manufactur ers," the "Tinned Plate Manufacturers' association" and the National Associa tion of Galvanized Sheet Iron Manufac turers" held meetings on the same day, in the same room, and elected the same secretary. Those who know anything about the matter know that the duty on tin plate has been kept up and raised to benefit not the tin plate makers, who have never before existed, but the sheet iron and steel men, both of whom have been making enormous profits out of the duty on tin plate, which has kept up the price of steel sheets and of galvanized iron for roofing purposes. It was not strange, then, that they met together and formed this three headed trust, or monster. The iron and steel manufac turers agreed to reduce wages in their lines an average of 15 or 20 per cent. It was generally believed that the tin plate men would not dare to exercise their united power to reduce wages, at least until after election, or certainly until the tin plate bill had been discussed in congross; but their greed and their "gaul" has exceeded the expectations of the most sanguine. These "McKinleyized" and "trusted" industries consider it their especial privi lege to worry wage earners and con sumers. What do they care for the feel ings or sentiments of the people? They announced on June 2, 1892, "that prices will not be touched on in any way." And yet The Iron Ago of June 10 says that the prices of sheet iron have been advanced and that the prices of galvan ized iron are firmer, and in a few in stances higher. Hutmnker. Done with Protection. At a mass meeting of the Cloth Hat and Capmakers' union in New York on June 15, over 700 men, representing twenty-six out of the thirty shops in the city, discussed the grievance of wago re ductions. It was said that during the last year several reductions in their wages at different times have made a total reduction of 70 per cent., and that during the past four months of the year the best men have been unable to earn more than six dollars a week. They wili make an effort to get wages back above starvation point. Pitiable as is the lot of these men, it is no worse thun that of hatmakers elsc whero in this country since the McKin ley bill came their way. A fow years ago the hat factories of Bloomfiold, Wat sossing and East Orange, N. J., were prosperous and gave steady employment to hundreds of hands, nearly all of whom voted for "protection." The almost pro hibitive duty on hatters' raw materials has caused the business to dwindle, un til now no mill in Bloomfield is running on full time, and many of the employees have sought work in other businesses. The hatters, being intelligent men, have become enthusiastic tariff reformers and are preparing to form a Cleveland club. A Nut for McKinley to Crack. Mr. McKinley made his notorious old tariff speech over again at the Minne apolis convention. He is still pretending that the foreigner pays the tariff taxes and that protection simply taxes "the products of other nations" instead of the products of our own. Mr. McKinley, however, has never answered the ques tion put to him by The World over and over again: Why is it if the foreigners pay the tariff taxes that the Fifty-first congress was content with spending a billion dollars? Why did it not lavish more of the foreigners' money on the pooplo of this country? Why did it not wring a more splendid sum out of the manufacturers and merchants of Eurojio for the payment of the government's ex penses and the Republican party's ex travagance? How can Mr. McKinley ex cuse this self restraint, which still leaves some of the public burdens to be borne by Americans? Will he not answer the question now that he has repeated the proposition? Moreover, he might tell the country why he even refrained from raising enough to muko up the deficiency caused by the extravagance of the con gress in which he was the leader on the floor of the house of representatives.— New York World. What college crew would attempt to win a boat race with half of their oars { men rowing in one direction and the other half in the other direction? And | yet we expect to securo commerce by | putting bounties on shipping to encour age trade while we have taxes and du- I ties on imports and shipping to restrict trade. Verily -somo of our statesmen are | lulling at their boot straps and wonder ■lV wrfiv tiiHV don't lift themselves. tali] Ready Paj. Groceries and. Provisions: Flour $2.45 Chop 1.10 22 pounds granulated sugar 1.00 12 cans tomatoes, A No. 1 1.00 5 pounds raisins 25 All Kinds of Meats Are Advancing. DPresita. Truck and "V eg-etaloles Every week at lowest market price. IDry Goods: Challies, best, cents per yd. Some dress goods reduced from 50 to 25 cents. Scotch ginghams, worth 35 cents, sell for 20 cents. "\*7"all Paper: Thousands of different patterns 5 cents double roll up to any price wanted. Carpets and. Oil OlotkLs: Carpets, 17 cents per yard. I carry the largest stock in this town. IF'-u.rrritu.re: Anything and everything. Good lounges for $5.00. (i round-back chairs for $3.00. Black hair walnut parlor suit, $20.50. 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 Poctwear: We arc 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. 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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 he astonished, and the man will also he astonished at the low cost of anything and everything he will buy of JOHN SMITH, mRKBECK r B R R E 'E c L K AND. Geo. Chestnut, 91 Centre Street, Freeland. JOB PRINTING OF ALL KINDS DONE AT THE TRIBUNE OFFICE. CLEVELAND „u HARRISON ? That is the question which troubles the politicians, but the man or woman who is looking for the cheapest place to buy good boots ami shoes will be satisfied by calling at our store, where a complete stock is always on j exhibition. Our low prices will surprise you. YOUR CHOICE Is unlimited when you call to examine the | magnificent line of dry goodH on our counters. Everything is new—the voryhit*Bt in the mar ket.. All we request of our patrons is that they ins|>cct the stock ami compare prices. We know they will agree with us in saying that this is the place to buy. 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