FREELAND TRIBUNE. PUBLISHED EVERT MONDAY AND THURBDAY. TLLOFF. A. BUCKLEY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. SUBSCRIPTION KATES. One Year Bl 50 Bix Mont lis 75 Four Months— 50 Two Months 25 Subscribers are requested to watch the date following- the name on the labels of their papers. By referring to this they can tell at a glance how they stand on the books in this office. For instance: Orover Cleveland 28June03 means that Qrover is paid up to June 28,1808. By keeping the figures In advance of the pres ent date subscribers will save both themselves and the publisher much trouble und auuoy- Subscribers who allow themselves to fall in arrears will be called upon or notified twice, and, if payment does not follow within one month thereafter, collection will be mude in the manner provided by law. FREEHAND, PA., JANUARY 23, 1893. Keport on the Keadiug Combine. The committee appointed by congress to investigate the Heading combination did its work quicker and more fully than the majoritiy of congressional in vestigating committees. In the house of representatives on Thursday the report was made. The committee has held many hearings and taken thousands of pages of testimony since last July, when it was appointed. It is a very exhaus tive document and has receieved the unanimous signature of all the members of the committee. The report gives an exhaustive review of how the anthracite coal lands were acquired by railroad corporations until all of them are now so controlled. In mentioning the various corporations that are interested in coal lands or in the combination, the committee notes that the New Jersey Central does not appear to have any contract or agreement with the Reading road, but it asserts that while it has not been able to develop any direct arrangemens between trans portation companies by which the latter are obliged to fix and determine the out put and price of anthracite coal, there is no necessity for a written stipulation to determine the existence of such a com bination. There I* a Combination. The report states that a combination has been found, that conclusion being based on the fact that coal transporta tion and producing companies hold monthly meetings together, at which no minutes are kept, but at which the monthly output and price of coal is de termined. These companies act in con cert, and if a colliery owner should re fuse to limit his output to that fixed by the combination, he is forced into line by the railroads withholding from him the cars necessary to transport the ex cess of the output. These monthly out puts, as regulated by the combination of transportation and producing companies, explain why the annual output is ten millions of tons less than the capacity of the mines. This reduction, the report says, is brought about, not by the coal producers, but by the transportation companies who control them. The operators who are not in the combina tion are at the mercy of the rate-makers. On this point the report states that of thirty-four individual operators on the line of the Reading railroad prior to 1892, five have been compelled to retire from business. Coal Price* Have Advanced. The committee finds that an advance in coal used by housekeepers of from $1.25 to $1.35 a ton has been made. This, the report states, makes it clear that the combination has a monopoly, and, while not impugning the motives of the gentlemen in the enterprise, it says: "The public are the sullerers; the price of an article of universal necessity is very much increased, ami the power of a common carrier deriving its franchise from the public is used and misused to that end." Control of the Coal Output. The report says that the anthracite coal region comprises an area of about 477 square miles in the state of Pennsyl vania, penetrated by the following tide water railroad lines: The New York, I.ake Erie & Western; New York, Susquehanna & Western; Delaware, Lackawanna & Western; New York, Ontario & Western; Central Rail road of New Jersey; Lehigh Valley Railroad; Pennsylvania Railroad; Phila delphia & Reading Railroad. The capacity of the anthracite col lieries is estimated at about 50,(J(I0,000 tons annually. The actual output is about 41,000,000 tons. Fully 05 per cent, of the anthracite coal output is now di rectly and indirectly controlled by the railroad companies, and the tendency is toward the entire absorption of the coal fields and the collieries by the common carriers. The lease of the Lehigh Val ley and New Jersey Central roads by the Reading is spoken of and the report says: Heiuling the DOlll limtinj; Factor. "By this arrangement the Philadel phia & Heading controls at least 40 per cent, of the anthracite coal going to tidewater and becomes an important and dominating factor in determining not only the output, but the price of the product." The startling fact is commented upon, that, notwithstanding coal can be hand- led with less labor and transported with less cost and risk than almost any other class of freight, the freight charges are tacitly and apparently solidly agreed upon by all of the coal-carrying roads, nearly double the rate for wheat or cot ton. This excess over just and reason able rates of transportation constitutes an available fund by which railroads are enabled to crush out the competition of independent coal producers, using for that purpose their own mines for those owned by affiliated companies. The committee is not prepared to give an an opinion as to the liability of the roads investigated to punishment under the provissions of the anti-trust law, but feels justified in saying that the facts disclosed merits the fullest consid eration of the law officers of the govern ment. Six Itecominemliitioiifl. The amendments to the interstate commerce law which this committee re commenee are as follows: "First, exempt from prosecution par ties called as witnesses, so that when called to testify they cannot be excused on the ground that they might incrimi nate themselves; second, provide for the indictment and punishment of railroad corporations who violate the law; third, make it an offense punishable by law for witnesses to refuse to testify; fourth, provide that testimony before the inter state commerce commission be taken in writing and be preserved as part of the records; fifth, provide that when action of the commission is brought into court for review the same shall be tried on the evidence adduced before the com mission, except when the parties could i not have reasonably anticipated the ma terality of any proposed new evidence; sixth, amend the act so as to define the meaning of the word "line" in the long and short haul clause by providing that when connecting lines by any arrange ment transport freight for a longdistance at named rate, no less number of lines shall transport the same freight for a short distance at a greater rate." Theße changes, the committee believes, would liaye a tendency to weaken the injurious effect of the existing monopoly, and that in time private enterprise might possibly be built up again. Everybody Can Correct Them. One of the most famous literary men in the United States, a gentleman who writes habitually elegant and forceful English, bringing to the reader's counte nance a smile or a tear at will, habitual ly makes in conversation the most vil lainous and atrocious errors of grammar and pronunciation. It is because of the influence of corrupt early associations that he did not try to get rid of and does not try to this day, more shame to him. His parents undoubtedly said "them pa pers" instead of "those papers," and he does the same. If a cultivated foreigner were to meet him and converse with him awhile, what would he not be justified in writing about American literary men when he went back home? Next summer the country will be full of the finest specimens of humanity from Europe, representing the culture of the ages, come to visit the World's fair. Will the citizen of the grandest country the sun ever shone upon cause them to think we are a nation of igno ramuses by making constantly such slips as "there ain't nobody," "1 didn't see nobody," etc.. instead of saying "there is nobody." "I didn't see any body," and ' I know nobody?" Stop us ing two negatives. Are the women with diamonds and the man with a gold watch chain going to persistently use "them" where they should use "those," and say "them cars" and "them books," instead of "those cars" and "those books?" Nay, more. Shall we pose as an Eng lish speaking nation that habitually usee "jist" for "just," "sich" for "such," "git" for "get" and "right away" when we mean "at once?" Shall we let these foreigners know that there are Ameri cans, and plenty of tliem—Americans educated in our public schools—who think it sounds stuck up and pedantic to use the best language they know therefore they drop into the vulgar idiom and mispronunciation with which the foreigner from Africa and from Europe liave corrupted our common lingo? For the sake of our country and the memory of George Washington, nol Do not let them know it. Therefore start in now, early in 1893, and talk English. Don't say "The boys is going to school" or "people says." "The boyß are going to school" and "people say." Stop giving us these de formed, crippled monstrosities of lan guage. After twenty-five yearß of knocking at the government gates at Washington the women who would vote nave scored a second point. The first was to have their case regularly referred to a special sen ate committee. The second is that Sen ator Warren, of the select committee on woman suffrage, has reported to the senate a joint resolution to amend the United States constitution so that the right of citizenship shall not be denied or abridged on account of sex, and that congress shall have power to enforce the prohibition. Now, when both honses of congress pass Senator Warren's bill and tho president signs it, and then it is rati fied by thirty-three of the forty-four states In the Union, that amendment will become part of the United States constitution. In case of hard cold nothing will re lieve the breathing so quickly as to rub Arnica & Oil Liniment on the chest. Sold by Dr. Schilcher. All those who have used Baxter's Mandrake Bitters speak very strongly in their piaise. Twenty-five cents per bottle. Sold by Dr. Schilcher. THE BOOM IN SHODDY. IT IS DUE TO THE DOMINATION OF THE M'KINLEY BILL. The Tariff Having Put a Tax on Wool, the Manufacturer In Order to Keep Down the Prices of His Products Adul terates with Old Clothes Ground Up. Evidence is coming thick and fast from all quarters that the shoddy in dustry is experiencing an unprecedented boom. Readers of The American Wool and Cotton Reporter cannot but have noticed the notes on new shoddy mills, additions to old ones, etc. Here is one from that journal of Oct. 10, 1892: "James Bowers' Sons, Chester, Pa., manufacturers of all wool shoddies, re port business with them as very good. They have been obliged to run some de partments np to 9 o'clock evenings to keep up with their orders. The firm have now in process of erection a new addition to meet the growing demands of their trade. This building will be 80 by 50 feet." Here is another under date of Oct. 27: "Messrs. T. H. Gray & Co., manufac turers of and dealers in wool shoddies, factory located at Hyde Park, Mass., have completed a large addition, the di mensions of which are 75 by 45 feet, and are now running with increased facili ties for extracting, dyeing and manufac turing all grades of wool shoddies and extracts. This is in addition to the reg ular shoddy business which they have carried on for the past twenty years." This same journal, in speaking of the importations, says: "In cloths there has been a notable in crease over last year, while the amount of rags, shoddy, wastes, etc., has nearly doubled, the total amount of this kind of stuff brought in for the eight months being over 208,771 pounds, against only 118,780 pounds last year, an increase of nearly 100 per cent." The shoddy column in this journal testifies, as it has done for more than a year, to the brisk demand lor shoddies, woolen rags, new clips, extracts, wool wasto, cotton waste, etc. Advertise ments of twenty-seven different shoddy manufacturers and dealers appear on this page. On another page is a descrip tion of an exhibit of wools, hairs, shod dies, etc., at the mechanics' fair in Bos ton. Here are two extracts from it: "In the corner of the building where this exhibit is railed off are fifty-seven different samples of cotton and wool, each of which is different in some mate rial aspect from every other. Here is shown nearly every kind of fleece—the cheap and much used shoddy and the hair of the cow and the goat, which are all used in the weaving of fabrics for human wear. "There is camel hair from Russia and quantities of goat hair and cow hair so treated that it does not look like the original article, but it is all in a state of preparation on the way to manufacture. It has some sort of fiber, some length which enabled it to be woven in with wool, and so it helps to add body to the fabric. But the shoddy is the most sug gestive. Here is something of which it is said truly that it is 'all wool,' but it has no fiber at all. It is old white blankets and white wool fabrics of other sorts all picked to pieces till it is per fectly comminuted, and it lies up light and fluffy, ready to be mixed with the fiber of wool and so woven into cloth. There are collections of these wool ex tracts, as they are called, each of which is true to the test of being all wool, but none of which has any fiber to enable it to hold together of itself. Such is the stuff which is largely used in some of the mills, even to the extent of 40 per cent., as the agent of one of the promi nent mills has said." A short time ago this same journal, which, by the way, is a protectionist pa per, said on the subject of adulteration of goods: "There is some complaint made by clothiers that the quality of the goods now being made by the domestic mills jis not up to the old standard. The com plaint is not alone with the manufactur ing clothier, but is made also by the re tail dealer; even some of the well known standard makes are put down as falling short of their old standard. No doubt some of the trade will remember that one of the leading clothiers in this city came out with a letter some two years ago in which it was stated that as a re sult of the McKinley bill prices would either be higher or else the product of the mills protected would deteriorate. Almost immediately following the pas sage of the bill prices were advanced, but in many cases they did not hold, as public sentiment was strongly against a wholesale advance. "When many of the prices returned to their old figures and business became more settled, manufacturers commenced to make a poorer fabric, yet claim it was the same thing, and held to the old price, This practice must have proved profit able, at least for the time being, as it was continued and carried further, BO ! that today the trade complains. To the eye many of the oloths appear fully up to the Btandard, and it is only after they are doing service for the consumer that the deception is discovered." The New York Times of Oct. 30 says editorially: Governor Russell, of Massachusetts, has supplied some striking facts with special reference to the substitutes for wool. Every one knows that the dura bility of woolen cloth is due to the pecu- I liar fiber of wool, a fiber that is not only j very strong to resist strain, but which |by a curious arrangement of minute barbs will so lock and combine as to make a cloth that will, if well woven of good wool, last almost indefinitely. Now the McKinley tariff having put a very heavy tax on wool, the manufacturer, in order to keep down the prices of his prod uct, uses a great variety of adulterants or substitutes, chiefly the former in clothing and the latter in carpets. The adulterants are generally in the nature of "shoddy," or old woolen cloth ground np, or "noils," which are the short fibers left by the carding out of the long fibers, ftooe of them gives way strength to the fabric, but trill rapidly disappear in I wear. I Governor Russell showed from the sta tistics of manufacturers how the making 1 of these adulterants has come to be a I regular business openly followed and steadily increasing. Thus the shoddy es tablishments in the United States in creased from 98 in 1890 to 134 in 1891, and the capital from $4,091,207 to $6,000,- 000. Here was an increase of nearly one balf in the investment of capital in this strange business in one year under the stimulating influence of the McKinley tariff. The process has been going on for ten years, and during all that time had advanced, but the greatest advance was within the last year. In that year —the climax of McKinleyism—we have the following amazing totals of various substances used to make fabrics of "wool:" Shoddy, mnngo, cto 81,620,261 pounds Animal hair 16,865,764 pounds Cotton 75,000.000 pounds These figures are eloquent. They show the real nature of the pretended "protec tion" to the workinginan. It is "shoddy." The Result Explained. The election of 1890 distinctly and em phatically bespeaks the condemnation of the McKinley tariff law by the Ameri can people. The verdict of 1890 is again pronounced and judgment is affirmed in every particular. The McKinley bill was doomed from the day it waseuacted into law. So long as a trace of McKinleyism remains in the tariff laws, so long will the tariff be a political issue. The Democrats have to thank Major McKinley for his serv ices to the Democratic party. To Mc- Kinley perhaps more than to any other one man is due the thorough under standing of the tariff question by the American people. History has not yet recorded an instance wherein the people knowingly and patiently rested long un der the burden of unnecessary taxation. Even the French peasantry, degraded and oppressed by centuries of the domi nation of the clergy and the nobility, finally revolted, drove away the customs officers who stood at the gateway of every town to collect taxes from every person bringing his wares to the market place. The people finally awoke to the fact that famine and want were caused by the preveution of the free interchange of products through these customs offi cers. The French revolution resulted. England for years endured tariff laws under protest, but when famine brought the people face to face with the fact that the tax luws were responsible for the famine not only tlw) corn laws, but all protective laws were stricken from the statutes. Doubtless this response of the English parliament in 1846 to the urgent demands of the people averted an Eng lish revolution. In this country the tariff question lias been fought out again and again. High tariff has never given the people satisfac tion. It has always brought opposition, which lias ceased only when tariff has been reduced. In 1856 the tariff had teased to bean issue, and then it was I lower than it had been Bince 1824. The rates had been reduced in 1833, and again in 1842, and the result was that perhaps for the firßt time in the history of tho ' country the tariff was satisfactory to all to such an extent that no political party referred to it in the national platform. This indicates that a moderate tariff graded to the needs of the government is the policy to pursue if the question is to be permanently settled. The McKin ley bill awoke such a storm of opposi tion as to indicate that the people will never consent to endure a high tariff. McKinley centered the assaults of the Democrats upon the tariff and brought about a condemnation of the high tariff policy far more emphatic than would he pronounced upon the tariff of 1883. Cleveland wrote the tariff message of 1887. The response of the Republicans was the McKinley tariff law. The people did the rest. The position taken by Cleveland is approved most emphat ically, not only by his party hut over whelmingly by the people of the whole country. The position taken by the Mc- Kinley Republicans is approved by tho party, but utterly repudiated in all sec tions of the country by the people. Mc- Kinleyism has weakened the Republican party in every state in the Union. Mc- Kinleyism is a thing of the past in American politics.—Utica Observer. Cumpulgn Method** Contracted. It is very fortunate that the means adopted by the two parties in the con duct of the campaign should have con formed to their respective ends. The aim of the Democratic party was to benefit the whole people of the country by relieving industry of hampering bur dens, but this aim appealed to the whole people, and no one class had a special interest in it such as could be made the basis of an appeal for money to carry on ihe campaign. There were of course the usual and inevitable ambitions of 1 ! office seekers, but these were engaged in ' I local conflicts, and left little to spare ' : for the exigencies of the general canvass. ! I On the other hand, the Republican i contention in behalf of the hampering j °f all traffic and industry for the en richment of a few favored persons made a campaign of corruption absolutely in l evitable. The managers had no diffi culty iu making out a list of the men whose interest it was to supply them with money in quantities large enough to stifle the popular protest against the methods by which that money had been acquired. The newspaper owned and edited by the Republican candidate for the vice presidency saved them all trouble beforehand by compiling a list i of such persons, a list of which the pnr | pose was so evident that it became known at once as the "Fat Friers' i Guide." | It was because these men had private interests dependent upon legislation and opposed to the public interest that they were expected to contribute largely to the fund of their party. Of course this situation made inevi table a campaign of corruption. While : the Democratic managers could not ha ve ; carried on such a campaign if they , would, the Republican managers could not have avoided it if they would.—New 1 York Times. M'KINLEY SWAMPED, t HE NAPOLEON OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY OVERTAKEN BY DEFEAT. Victory for Free Trutle Won by the Fair et Fight Ever Seen in a Presidential Caille—Harrisou Beaten ltecause He Represented the Protection Doctrine. Major McKinley has prided himself as being the Napoleon of the Republican party. Election day was the Waterloo for McKinley and McKinleyism. Noth ing cold save McKinley from the ditch digged for him, Roberly, silently and re morselessly, by the people who pay the taxes, and who believe that revenue is a tax, and a tax for anything but the honest expense of government is an un warranted hardship. In that ditch Mc- Kinley will probably he left by the party he has brought to such disastrous defeat. If the party is to survive it will have to choose new leaders and return to its older and better faith. McKinleyism is dead.—Chicago News-Record (Ind.). Now perhaps we may hear more truth and less humbug about McKinley prices and McKinley wages, American tin, Peck's statistics, Frick's Democracy and British gold.—Buffalo Courier (Dem.). The victory has been won by the fair est fighting ever seen in any presidential battle. From start to finish the strug gle has been free from personalities. Mr. Harrison is beaten simply because he was a representative of Republican doc trine in its ictensest form. It is not a personal but a political rejection. This defeat should leave no sting and excite no resentment. Two lines of policy were distinctly defined during the campaign, and the verdict is given with a clear un derstanding of the merits of the case. We rejoice that tho decision has fallen on the side of tariff reform.—New York Herald (Ind.). What are the causes of this defeat of the Republican party? One does not need to go far to seek them. It has not yet recovered from the popular preju dice against the McKinley bill which two years ago, just after its enactment, rose like a deluge and swept away the Republican majority in congress which had enacted it.—St. Paul Pioneer Press (Dem.). The people of the United States have declared in favor of the Democratic can didate, and presumably of Democratic principles, and so the United States is to have an era of free trade for at least two years and possibly four. All good citizens, no matter how much they de plore the result,will bow to the public ver dict, but we venture to make this predic tion—that if this country shall have four years of free trade or of tariff for reve nue only there will not be another Democratic victory for half a century.— San Francisco Chronicle (Rep.). McKinleyism, the force bill, bread and butter politicians, civil service abuse, pension frauds, billion dollar ex travagance, jingo foreign policy, nepo tism—these are a few of the products of Republican misrule that were over whelmingly repudiated and rebuked at the polls yesterday. The American peo [ pie can be trusted to correct abuses in its government.—St. Paul Globe (Dem.). The quietest presidential campaign known closed with the heaviest vote ever cast. The people had made up their minds to vote and knew exactly what they were going to vote for. They had been thinking for four years, and did not need the stimulus of fireworks displays and the beating of drums to awaken them to the importance of voting accord ing to their convictions.—Cleveland Plain Dealer (Dem.). The labor vote is largely foreign and ignorant of the extent of its prosperity. It has been misled by demagogues and has revolted against the best conditions it has ever known. Its mistake will be seen when the prosperity on which labor lias thrived as never before receives the inevitable shock through legislation based on the platform on which Cleve land is elected. A majority of the vot ers have decided to put their labor on an equality with that of the cheap labor of the countries of the old world.—Port land Oregonian (Rep.). Tariff Reform Tliat In Within Reach. It has been suggested that an extra session of the Fifty-third congress should he summoned on the 4th of March next, in order to inaugurate with as little de ; lay as possible the economic reforms de manded by the people in the elections of Tuesday. There are substantial reasons why a new congress should meet on the 4th of March following its election, in stead of waiting for more than a year to carry out the mandate of the country. But let the existing senate, on the meeting of congress next month, take up and pass the neglected tariff reform ] hills of the house that are now lying in its finance committee. These measures —among the rest the hill to make wool j free and to reduce the duties on woolens and to restore the old duty on tin plate— j would, if passed, go far toward satisfy ing the wishes of the country until the ! new congress could enact a more com | prehensive measure of tariff reform. | Had the senate been capable of com j prehending the meaning of the popular verdict of IH9O, its Republican majority would have promptly seized the oppor tunity to remove the most glaring iniqui ties of the McKinley tariff. But instead of giving the least consideration to the house tariff bills, the senate stowed them away as passed in the pigeonholes of its committee on finance. This indecent disregard of the will of the people, as ] expressed by their representatives, has been terribly avenged upon the Repub lican party in the elections of 1892. ( Though utterly deaf to the voice of | 1890, it is hardly possible that the Re publican senate will prove callous to a second rebuke, compared with which the former was but as a gentle whisper of admonition. In the few brief months that remain of their power the Repub licans in the senate could do much to rehabilitate themselves and their party with the people by passing the house , tariff bills. Will they have the courage of the occasion?— Philadelphia Record. i o • •<? 1 • CURE THAT ii Cold !! I , AND STOP THAT 11 j; Cough, il iiN. H. Downs' Elixir' 1 i! WILL DO IT. || I j Price, 23c., 50c., and SI.OO per bottle.l I I | Warranted. Sold everywhere. I | j . HSHS7, JOHItSOH & lOr.D, Props., Sstlinsten, VI. I | ! 1 Sold tit Schilcher's l)ni" St..rp, ' It Curea Colds, CoughsJJore Throat, Cronp. Influen' zu. Whooping Cough, Bronchitis and Asthma. A certain cure Tor Consumption in first stages, and a sure relief in advanced stages. Use at once. 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