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VOL, Vl, ' M'ARSHFIELD, OREGON, THURSDAY,SEPTEMBER ii, 1884.
NO. 37
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COAST :-4ifc MAIL.
Miscellaneous
Tim tuitlurnlRiinl having bought
MlSflFED
IVollt Nti-col, ,1Iiii-h!i(Io!I, Oregon,
Solicit ii 0 iiillmiitnco of tho libornl patronage extended in tlio past.
Largo IniplovtiiiKiitM arc being Hindu and Hir stock heavily iiicreanoil.
I'tiio ii ttsH. i?liom tt-nlet, l'liloiilMrtlicliifi1, I'erfiiiiU'rien.Trtiiwit, Sponge,
C iunl'1, llrmbes, IMrtln Mill l'liney C mullet, Notions mid l nncy ;oods of nil kind.
'I he Ut nwortntrni of Picture 1 mines In tliu loiinty, nil sfc niul nt nil price, kept In nock
or inula to cme nt short iiollie.
Pull nnil complete lino of Paints, Oils, ViunWies, (ilass nnil Puny of ilia piiiotl qwility.
I'.ilnle rs' niul tllti' miterlnU of cveiy description constmtlly on liniul
Am nrmnelitu to Import HiioukIi Nt Orient, illr. el fiom ChIh, the finest bmndi nf llavntn
(li;ir mhI ToImcoo, Umg nequnlnUiw with If ndinc tntmccoliHts In New Oikjim will enable
mo to secure tlio finest Kol nt the lowet jiiIcm. 'I lie local Ir.nle will lm uippllnl nt liU-ml rntix.
All goods nt wholeinlij n well nt retail C'oiivtomlaicv fiom iicicliljoriiijt country solloite.1,
I'. .1. 4JOB.ls:, lriilctor.
N. n.-Prescriptions nnd Family Recipes carefully compounded. sen
GREAT REDUCTION IN PRICES
. - AT Tin:
XL NT CASH STME
-ON ACCOUNT OF
IDieif3Ql-u.tiprL of Oopstxto.ersli.lp
'SJ M t - -i 9 it , ft .it
tfarCM.L ANl HUH FOIt YOVHHKIV.jb3
AVe nrti selling CLOTIItNll AT cmiJATLY JlKilJCKI) UATKS.
And woluuo also determined to null anything tliitt the ieoplo npeil
in our lino nt tho LOWImST I'ltlOHH. t
.(iy , JfimveriiTjcr, oil,lYvltl;,AH. to Ik contlntmlly niliUnt; to our
,Mofcl1nntrtffat wirhaVrVnlw ,
JWSrVIUOHS DOWN TO TUB l.OWKST NOTCH".
JuhI ilnip in niul try to foiiiprul'ionil our' priiun, tun! you wlll'iiotiro
tlmtntt iictlvo troth) In ithwiytt conducted on' the Kiimll-prolltM plan.
'tVirfin vfdwiiiK 4nr ImmuiiMo ntoek of UUV OOOIW, C'LOTHINO,
J.ADIHS mid U1:NTLKMI:N'H FUItNIKIIINO GOODM, HOOTS and
SHOr.S, HATS and CAl'S, OIL CLOTHING and UrilllKIt qOOD.l,
a full aeiMirtmuitt. of I.ndion' and Clilldron'H CLOAKS mid DOLMANS,
(ilUM'KUlKH, I'itOVlSIONS, T9nACC0, CKfAHS, WW. A .ivnd
I.HJt'OUS, OltOCKKUY.OLASSWAHH, PAINTS and OILS, and other
niticlfh too luimuroiiH- to mention, tlio univornul uxelamatlon U, What
a rrfoct idoro nnd what elicnp goodM)
uB J. LAN1)0 & SON, Proprietors.
BAY II
jyTai'sbfLeld, Oregon,
Henry Sengstacken, - - - Proprietor
ni:,i.Kli
X)rug-s
OtuyHci, Tphacco .npd Clean, Slatlom-ry and Fancy 'IVilutArtleloH, Pivj Wiuou
1 nnil liiiincira for Mcdluuinl ue,
Trefccriptl'iim Hklllftilly coniMiutiilcd Ajti'nt for-YllH. Fan;o & Oo' KxprcuH.
N. Jl.f-T'hu lhnpinit'itv Unit: Storo mil continue under the kuiiio iiianncuicnt
and (iwncrithlti an liyrutofbro. Ortlcro left at cither Mloro nlll receive jirontpt
attention. IILMtY SKXc.STAOKKN.
BAYVIE
CliEMMEWSEN
,f'uwr beer; ale anb porter,
WirOLKHALK Ni) KKTAIL.
'itM'ATi VA' &VPMK& WITH Wlti CHOICEST MlAMiS OF
WINES. LIQUiORS AND CIGARS.
THE
PIONEER MARKETS,
MAitauncM? & KMi'Jiu: Cjtv.
II. P, W1UTNKY, PuovttiCTOM.
JV tod supply of
MUTTON, - M CANNKp.
liUU. JHB, ,()OOI)S.
rdrcia lYtdSSRMrxrit. etc?
'tt.MisTuifi.ul.oC Jt i
SALI MEATSANDVEUtlflbLtb
, 4jClAHUyn3tonaj VQWfl
i);lioiioHiuk ttf'ti
OUOOXIHIIUIH.
ANP
LOGGING GAMPS
HUMMED AT SHOUT JfOTWR.
Spring Mattress!
MitWl'Iont!
1 ' -4- ) j ) 1 -
T AM NOW rANUAOTUN
X and Htillliitf AtfiV nhftp, ut tho shiji
yiird, tjio cheapoiit ind hent HpritiK unit
troHh for tlio prii'o over put 'upon ,thm
market. It vqiijhlitcy h(iviiIIi, li'lit'
iiuhh, durnlillltr, idmpilclty ami uilupt
uliilitytol.wjHf hILMikU mid dhjiuti
hIoiih, and wtiH awardud tho llnib vro
iiiliimnttltulnHtiOrt'Kon btaU) fair. r
Itvialliiiricu. s0 1 wholPriulu, Mr$Q
ileforo huylnityotir nuata-iw, tuctiihto
Jiiltiu, which la tledilmUy tlw phottpeut
tti-lldo of tho kind on tho hay. , , a
JalO OKO. liAVlfl,
Advertisements,
fiom JK (', II OOLDEN llin
DIG STO
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STORE
Medicines, Chemicals.
Jraints, Oils,
OK., ,
& CO.
11. L. AGERS,
Gonoral Blacksmith
ANI " (
r ISTick e Plater,
4 " Front street; north of Postoffice,
, 'MAusiiniai).
rproBsnsitouiNa anq uvkrVtiuno
Sffia99ffi.ti
,sJ"
in the lilacktinllliini; lino executed ut short
for jikUl.t'l tlnc tU ,re, otc . i niitko n pc-
ehlly or tlmt hutliu'it Mid Mil ptvhnml to trails
fui 111 Inferior or )mlf totnput tiihle cutlery, cle..
Into hindoilib nnd servlccnhlii hrtlclet.tli.il arc
ulwnyt htlnht and netcr mvil tcoitrini;
Onleiv from the country tollcltcil Mid prompt
ly nttcmlid to. pu33 K. I ACji:US.
OAVIII YOUNO. ifKNHV IIUIIKN
SODA WATER
voik:s,s
sCdt'ii'v of Thli'tl umlyO, i$i'oof n
II U I) JIN & TOUJN, ProprletorH.
ODA, SARSAPARILLA, GINGEh
A'li, K'fJJiSFsJI'lJRIOR QUXlJTY,
' Coinliinlly oa Imnd nnd for mIo.
iv Orders from the country promptly
filled. AiMietstiordcivittt ViM4ilificW Soda
FOR Sj3lX.3S.S
miDB'INO LOT 15AST OK Tlli
' t ' iluncii "rooms nuu.uiNas,
Front street, M.rlifieh.
Aunly la A, M. uAyi V''.'
A, M. UKAWi yiu;,
Attoriu.7 at Law, Marthlrwd.
J MO
NECESSARIES OP .LIFE;,
How tife Tariff Hon Reduced the Cost
of Cotton nnd Woolen Good") De
cline In the Price of Ulankets, Dress
Goods and Cottoni - Halls Cheaper
Here Than in Any Other Country in
the WorldrCost of ClothinK Work
Itigmcn. (H P. Portr-r , ihc Phllndclpl.h J're.
When In HohWii n fow wockrt ago I
had a Iomk and IiiIihchIIii convorKntlon
with llio Hon. John L. Haycn, who for
jnany yearn linn been at the head of tho
national liBHOelaflon of wool tnanufaclur
Ota. Probably no 1111111 ban had ho much
to do during tho JuhI 20 yuura with that
part of tarlir lo((iHhition rolnthiK to tho
miintitnejmii of wool. An lutlinato
frlomUof Siitiator Motriii, Uhy aided
malnrlally In forming tho banlH of tliu
woolen Hcheduh) which for nearly a
ipiarturof acoiitiiry,han been (ho law.
HaycH, an wllT bo" rt'inombori'd, was
president of tho tarilF conunlHsioiti' nnd
also did ofTcctlro work in neeurinj? tho
P.IHH.1K0 of tho act of 1HB3. A woll pro
Kurvod man, now advanced in yoaro, ho
rcHlilon in a charming Iiouho nurrotind
ed with a duo Kardon, ' Cninhrldgo.
Though in tho nttclouM of Hurvnnl col
h'KO, ho and bin hoiih tllffor front tho
"Kutillo bunuitH of I larvnrd" on ucononi
Ic mutton. IlayoH ix a thoroughgoing
hollo ver lit thowVmerlcan protective mj-h-tern.
At a htlo meeting of tho IJoatou llh
cral club HuycHwaf called upon to reply
to a nuiiilfor of HpeechcH in favor of frco
tradt), which hail been delivered hy Gen.
Whlkor, Cliarlc Franciti Adamo, Jr.,
rtniiT'rdffuSHor Sumnor. Tho Hpecch of
HuyoH iHHitid tohavo lwen a liiaHterly
0110, Ho Hitccceded in oxjionintf tho f.tl
laciim of the fret trade ripoakcrH, oik'c
hilly PiofwHor Sutnnor, and in placing
thy quuftloii of freo trado vorauH protec
tion In ItH true liglit.
Ho took tho ground that tho homo
inarkotM aro the buno of our commorcial
odlflctf, and foreign trado, iftthutTntlon.il
wklll duulopi itnolf, ofttt bo liuilt on
nuch a lusbt, hut tbo proccun can nover
bo rooricd )ccumot excepting tlio great
work of creation, tomething wat nuvor
yot created out of nothing.
It wan, however, on tho moro practical
iiHjioct of tho tarilF quuation that I talked
with I layer).
A rilACllCAI. MCW OV TIIU TAUIIT.
"There ia 11 foiHtint rotteiatlon," I
nald, "auioug freo-traderH fn regard to
tho reduction of tho dutlcH on tho ho
called iiccoHMarieH of IIo. It i urged
that there arc) a great many of thcHQ
licccmsaricH that Nhottld bu added to tho
fice. list j Do you kuow of any?"
IlnyeH replied. "1 do not hesitate to
rtiy that with tho most careful study,
timlor uxcojitiuitul opportunities, I know
of 110 Important uttlclo which could bo
added to tho frco lint without violating
tho rule of tho now ropuhlicin platform,
which may lo taken nt tho last oxpros
niondf tho protective nontimcnt of tho
conhtry. Tho reduction of tho revenue
it to bo eirectetl by Hitch luuthodHiiHwill
relievo the tnxpayoia without injuring
tho laborer in tho great productive in
tereate of the country."
"What do you tiudoriUaud ia meant by
tho nciorwarloHoflifo?"
"That Ih an exceedingly dillieult (piea
tion," K.tid Ifacfl. "Tlio ovidehco of
neccHMity Ib unlvemil ihiinand. It will
inuhtdo the product of the Iron manufac
ture, for wo all know this Ih dontined for
materials anil nrtlcIcH or ohHoIuto nee
OHitiiy underlain and instrumenlH of la
bor, preparation, cooking of .food, con
rdrticuon and deronso. In tlio litanufau
turoof cotton tho pnuluctioti of fabrics
of luxury is too itiHlgnificant to lie men
tioned. Itgxhiof product ia tho mate
rial foe tliSliieeotwury inner atiparcl of
tqvory iiiaii,.woiiiaiiaiul child in the laud,
Thuwmilen manufacture of this country,
though capable of pioducltig cotumodi-
tlcri of tho highcrd luxury, is alinout fully
absorbed in the production for tho
nuiHHea. Nino-tonlhH 6f all card wool
fabrlca aro made direct for tho i Daily
made clothing otttablishmbntB, by means
of which mu'Ht of tho laboring people
and all ;oya aro mippllod with woolen
garmentH.
"Tho mauufactttro of flaunola, blank
ota and ordinary knit goods pure noc-o-'MifU'Mi
of llfo occupies! fnsj of tbo
otlfulrinil1tf engaged inwoVkltig tip card
ed Wool, Tho drofct goodn manufactured
are almpKuxolttHivoly fi)r, thq lpllllon,
women of, io fa-ihlpjmblo elass supply
lig tlit'iiiHohim mainly through,- Fjcnch
ituporlatiouti. Tho vnut car-uit manufac
ture of I'hlladelphia, larger than in any
city ofjlfurppq, baa lot ''hiuf "uccupatlon
In futulHhiug curtieta for tho mont mod-1
est bunion," This Hiiflluiuutly uhowa
that, tiNldo from food, the iioct-atiurloa of
life coinprlso thoho artieloa manufaftur
ed by thothroo gieatoat industries iron
aniLHteol, cotton and wool.
UUt fNKlU,HSAllli;afcllKKISrVKll AUltOAl).
W JIb luidtJa fiict'thiif tho ast? Lull; of
tho productions of these huliidtrlca aru
Hold In this country hh cheaply nil they
are In froodrado KnglandV"
"&'on;:U WihnMy wUKHio law that
the gioa'CHt cheapening of prices iy tjip
establishment of juitlopnl industry in'ux-
Ibited In commodities of the highest
Hqeosslty. Wo seo in tho Iron uiantifau
turo that the article of nails, the com
modity of most Unlveisal use produced
hy that imliiHtry, liaa declined, through
domestic production, from $0 per 100
pounds in 1840, to (3 50 In 1801, and
2 40 In 188.'!, a cheaper rato than pre
vnlls nuiny country in tho world, nnd
enabling tin to cxort In competition
with Kngland and AtiHtrnli.i to South
America, while wo Ktind our nail-work
ing uiRchlncn oven to I-'ngland itnuif."
"In thin id no titio hi tbo cotton iudun-
try?"
"UiupicMtlonably; wo hco thin illun
tratcd In our cotton manufacture by tbo
reduction of tho price of sheeting from
.'10 ecntn in 181 1 to M ccntn In lai.'l ; of
print of 23.07 coiitu in 1820 to U.15 in
181,'i and 0 cenU in 188.1."
"Will you llltiHtralo tho name law in
regard to tiio woolen or wornted Indus
try?"
In the wornted manufacture it in illus
traloil by tbo reduction of dclainen, or a
fabric corroHpoudiug to it, a domestic
commodity consumed by our people in
tho ratio of nearly two yardn for each
Individual of our population, from .'SO
cunts in 1835 to 20.00 ccntn in 1800, and
11.22 in 1882. In tho woolen industry
wo hco thin law demonstrated by tho
fact that tho greatest reduction of prices
has been in goods of universal consump
tion, such an flannels, ordinary knit
goods, low and medium cloth, and ready-made
clothing, tho goods, in fact, tho
demand for which, proceeding from bo
many millions of pur -eoplc, Hiistainn
the vast scale of production with ltn re
sulting economics."
ltUni'OTION in twi: cost
OP IILANKnTH
'Can yon givo mo
any iittemcnt
showing tho reduction of the prices on
blankets, which I nm informed arc an
cheap bore ah In Kngland, though tho
free-trader nover tires of talking aliout
00 or cent tax on hlanketn?"
"Yes j 1 have a MaUmient here fur
nished hy John and James Dobson of
Philadelphia showing tho average prices
for the varioun gradcH of blankets dur
ing tbo yearn 1800 and 18S3:
1800-12, (2 CO, $2 25, $3 50, 3 75, 5,
7 50, (8, 10, $13.
188.1! 25, $1 80, 1 024, 2 33, f.t 20,
iS 75, 50, 5 CO, 7 25, $8 50.
"The abovo includes tlio entire line of
blankets from the lowest to the bent
grades jier pnir,"standard make, of w hat
aro known as plain Norway blanketn,
Tho figures show n decline of 30 icr
cent to 00 per cent lu favor of tho pro
tective system over the for-rovenuo-
only or fiee-trade nyntcm that prevailed
prior to 1801. Tho wool used in tlio
manufacture of theso blankets in about
(I per cent below tho average prico in
IRfirt
"1 lave other woolon goods declined in
tho naino ratio?"
"Yes; coarso woolon cloths, particu
larly thoso ubciI for blaukctn, have had
the s.imo rulntivo declino. Thoeo worth
in 1800 $1 50 per yard aro sold to-day for
80 cents to 1."
And yet tho woolen industry of tho
United Staten payn. 100 per cent moro
wagon to its employes than is paid in
England.
Accompanied by Hayea I nutdo a por
Honal examination nt a typical woolen
goods establishment In Boston. We ex
amined the pricea.of thu whole range of
goodn, namely, roady-mado clothing,
adapted to till classes of ciifitomern. Tho
propriotorn of the establishment visited
informed us that clothing was from 30
to -10 per cent cheaper now than at tho
period of lowest pticea In 1800, in tho
lowest and cheapest goods thu reduction
of prico lwing considerably greater than
thin rate. Our iniptiry was addressed
principally to tho lowest-priced goods
those Httpplyiug tho barest necessities of
llfo in apparel.
nUADV-MAIli: CI,OTlltXQ CJIKArai 1IKIIK
TUAX IX l:.SOIi-VNI).
Twenty-flvo thousand pahft of men's
w Inter trousers, mado of goods weighing
1 1 ounces per yard, wore being mado, to
bo Kohl at tho prico of $1 50 per pair.
Strictly all-wool completo suits woro
hold ut $5 50 per nttit. Good heavy win
tor full suits at $6 CO and 7 50. Winter
overcoats of satinet, at f2 each. The
prices of good pud substantial garments,
miillciunt to supply a workingmnn for a
year, woro us followa :
A.h.iiulsoniQ lull for best or Sunday wear.jio 00
Working suit,. ,,.,,.., ,,..,.,..,,, 7 00
lixtrn pair of trousers a 00
Oterco.it ..,,.....,..., 500.
$14 00
A woikiijan earning $2 n day can thus
obtain hfn clothing for u year by the la
bor of tw o w cokn, lo can do ne bettor
than thin in Kngland. I have priced
Jujudroda of worklngnion'a nuits and
toqod ltoihiug j lit to w'oar for lesa than
$10 or f 12. Tho commoncBt corduroy
trbuBoro cost in Jalgland 2 50, while
boot or Bhooa aro njoro oxjiousivothoro
than In this t'ountryl
1 found that llayea took a lively In
terest in tlio now south, and eHiweially
in tlio Industrial duvolopmont of that
section. In reply to w question as to
hpwa reduction of thq tariff would affect
rohytlvoly Ihe- oivitcd;n, .western and
southern ttites, Ilaycs replied :
ntr.KfTit.'ni:TiurH.oi'uH or tioumioNisjf,
"It ia notprobnblo that oven a radical
jiib.u4lon of, eonimojlitios of gonoral con
sumption wonld coinplotely iinnlhlhito
tint industries producing thoui in tho
present great manufacturing centers of
tho ojdor slaton, for the vaBt capital in
oated would not tjulnuU to iU comploto
extinguishment. Tho industries in tho
older Htatoa would Hvo, niul barely llvo,
but only by reducing tho wagon of their
workmen to European ratcn, a reduction
which they could almost force upon tho
largo manufacturing populalionn ur
rounding Uiopo ostabbshmontn having
no other resotirccn than employment in
tho factory or forgo. In tho newer
HtntCH) which have to attract labor, and
where it in dearer on nccount of tho
cheapness of land, no nuch reduction in
tho wagon of labor in possible. The
older states, with their large capital,
complete establishments and skilled la
bor, might for a time resist a foreign
competition, under which tho more poor
ly endowed states must inevitably suc
cumb. In my opinion tho new south,
just finding compensation for emancipa
tion In Ha hopeful industries, would fall
back into tho slough of bournoniflin.
Tlio agricultural states of tho west must
give tip their fond hoieH of a homo mar
ket through more diversifying industries
and be content with still sending their
produce abroad, though in increasing
competition with thu expanding grain
fieldn of India, iluesia and upper
Egypt."
While on thin oubject I will present
Homo figures obtained from the Pacific
mills, tho largest mills for producing
womcn'B dress goods in the United
States, showing the average net prices
obtained for w orslcd goods for a period
of six months ending
May 31, 187a 20.0O ccnu per yard.
May 31, 1877... ...... ..16,82 cents per yard.
May 31, ifSSo 15-43 cents pr yard.
May 31, i83i, 14.52 cents per yard.
May 31, 1882 , 11.22 cents per yard.
Since 1882 tho goodn made have been
of higher quality than the above, and
tho prices obtained have average! a
little more, though really a little lower
in proportion to cost.
These factn in regard to our woolen
industry confute effectually the falfc
statements circulated by those opposed
to American industry and American la
bor, to tho effect that the masses of the
people of thin country are compelled to
pay as a tax the duty not only on im
lortcd goodn to the government, but an
equivalent amount in increased cost to
tho American manufacturer for goods
made at home. It is also a curious fact
that whilo the cost of the raw material,
both in the iron and woolen industry is
higher here than in Great Uritain, by
tho time tho product assumes its most
highly manufactured condition in tho
former industry in cutlery, farming im
plements, machinery, etc.. and in the
latter industry in ready-made clothing
tho coat to tho consumer lu thh country
is but slightly, it an, in excess of tho
cost in free-trade Great Britain.
Tlio democrats who assembled nt
Chicago to nominato a candidate for the
presidency shamelessly trifled witli the
leading issue now before tho country.
That is to say, thoy placed a tariff plank
in their platform winch was worded so
"artfully artlessly" that to-day leading
democratic newspapers aro disputing in
regard to its meaning ! Of course the
committee- which reported tho plank
;md tho convention which unanimously
adopted it were well aware that it eould
bo interpreted in several ways. It was
prepared with that object in view. Too
cowardly to Bpoak out plainly and with
out circumlocution or reserve, the con
vention resorted to jugglo of words.
Tho intention of tho machine- that ran it
w as not to exhibit but to hide democra
cy's iiosition on tho tariff question, a
question hi which every voter in the
country in vitally interested. Cleve
land ia a conspicuously weak candidate
nnd is growing weaker ovory day. But
oven if ho possessed great personal
strength ho could make littlo headway
with such a iieculiarly -well-developed
millstone-as thin tariff plunk about his
neck. Tho. republican, plnnk is square
ly for tho protection of American indus
tries and tlio American workingmnn.
Ho who runs may Tead that in it. Sut
this democratic tariff plank, democrats
themsolves being judges, in pcrhapa a
political fifteen puzzle Is perhaps for
free trade, in porhnps for protection. A
party that would deliberately promul
gate such a sham upon such an isstto
has no right to expect tlio confidence of
voters who favir frankness and fair
dealing. It is iood rulo to mistrust a
party that misti ists its own principles.
It is folly to Bay that ono party ia all
pure, and tho otlior all vicious. Most
of tlio voters in each party want good
government. It a candidate is put up
by U10 people, as Blaine was in an ex
traordinary degree, wo may bo certain
that thoy boliovo him honest atul com
petent. But there la no such ovidenco
of tho people's boliof, when a conven
tion is controlled by trickery and rings.
Tlio withholding of Tilden'H lotter on
abled tools to put up Olovolatnh Tho
result shows the wisdom of trusting tho
people. Cleveland provos tolmi moat
unw orthy inau, who consents to accept
n nomination at the hands of dishonest
blllciala us a reward for shloldlnjr tiioin
from punlshmont. Blaino1 proves to bo
ti 'statesman whoso Ideas win political
opponents by tho thousands, and of
whom the purest and moat honored 01
his associates in congress for 'mauy
yoara moil like Dawes and Hoar.
Hitwleynnd Kelly doolaru tlmt (bote
is not In public life to-daV it man whoso
public and private character Iuib boon J
moro miro. It is a aulllclent proof qf,tliu'
olngttlar worth of his chitrnetor that,
Mpiteofa dolugo of defamation which
would ilrowti almost any oinormun, no 1
grows stronger: with the poopld daily.
SOON FAREWELL!
Summer's coing, going fast,
Soon It will be over, patted;
Soon the busy hum of bees.
Soon the green of grass nnd trees,
Soon thcjjlint of clew and shower.
All, all like n happy dream,
To our saddened ijcarts will seem.
Soon well ake to find them past,
When thj skies nrc overcast,
And the leaden clouds arc spread;
When the leaves green, golden, red,
All have left the parent trees,
I-cft them lonely, gaunt and hare,
Shivering In the frosty air.
Summer s going, going fast,
Its gay hours will soon be past.
We are loth to let it go.
For Ihe chilly wind must blow,
Hill nnd dale wear shroud of snow,
re ft comes again with flowers,
Iiirds and tied und sunny hour.
And with throb of bitter pain,
"Though the summer come again,
Can it bring," some sad heart cries,
"K'cn with oil Its gorgeous skies,
One locd voice, ono smile we knew?
No. These w ilh all the passing throng
Of this summer's joys belong.
Every hour that swiftly flies,
Htcry (lower lhat withers, dies.
Seems to say to them, good-byf
All that's sweet must soonest die.
Though the summer will return,
Their sad hearts repeat in pain,
"This one can ne'er come again."
-Julia A. Venn til tn Muicuri Kcfullican.
The Tariff No. 2.
irrom the New York Tribune.
The Morrison hill has a history. In
the elections of 1S82 a great many demo
cratic candidates pretended to be "tariff
reformers" not free traders, nor tariff-for-rovenuo
men, but only "reformers."
They falsely asserted that no revision
of a useful sort had been or would bo
made by republicans. But these men,
when elected on these false pretennen,
elected, as speaker, Carlisle, a well
known Kentucky free trader, and his
election was hailed by all freo traders as
a triumph. Ho organized a frco trado
committee, appointed, an ita chairman,
Morrison of Illinois, a well-known free
trader, and declared that tho chief duty
of congress was to cut down the tariff.
Morrison introduced a bill to that end ;
his committee approved it, with some
changes, and it was then submitted to a
democratic caucus. All tho free traders
in the caucus supported the measure,
and it was resolved that it was the duty
of the democratic part' to pass a mea
sure of that nature. As has been shown,
152 democrats voted for tho bill at tlio
end, and only 41 voted for various rca
sons against it.
The essence of this lull was to cut
down one-fifth tho charge made when
foreign producers sought to sell their
goods in this market. There were many
tricks to confuse and to deceive, but, as
to nearly all products, this was tlio
purport of tho hill. In order to defend
our lahor, it had been required that
goods mado hy tho 50 cent labor of Eu
rope, if sold here, should pay certain
amounts for tho privilego of entering
this market. Tho Morrison bill provid
ed thai where $1 per ton had been paid
tho charge should be only 80 cents;
w hero 5 cents a pound had been paid,
tho chargo Bhould be only 4 cents; and
where 50 cents per pound and 40 per
cent had been paid, the chargo in future
should bo 40 cents per pound and 32 per
cent. This was declared by Dorsheimer,
tho eloquent democratic member from
Now York, a "first, firm step toward
frco trado," and all tlio other frco
traders advocated it as only a beginning
of tlio chaugo widch thoy meant to
make.
The effect of this bill can bo under
stood if wo remember that tlio tariff had
just been revised with, intent to make
tlio duties just enough, and not more
thaii enough, to put our labor on equal
tonus in competition with iil-paiil foreign
labor. "With great caro and labor a
commission of men, skilled in different
Industries, had devised a plan to that
ond, and, where congress thought tho
commission had erred in proposing too
high duties, it enacted lower duties.
Ileuco it must be supposed that the
balanco was as nearly level as men of
great skill could mako it. If thoy found
that cheap British labor could offer for
sale hero bar iron at two cents a pound,
or $2 per 100 pounds, whereas like iron
made by our jaboricost $2 80 cents per
100 poumjSj lioy fixed, tlio charge to bo
paid by foreign bar iron nt 80 conts iter
100 pounds; 'so that it Bhould have no
advuntago in our market. If they found
lhat window-glass could bo made hero,
with u decent living for the workors, at
$1 50 per 100 pounds, nnd that foreign
glass, mado by Cheap labor, could bo
offered hero at 13, they ilxod tho chargo
for tho privilege of conilug into our
market at $1 60 per 100 pounds. This
was the general intont of tho tariff as it
stood.
Tocutoffono-flfthof tho $1 50 paid
by foreign glass of a certain kind, then,
w'ould give tho foreigner tin advantago
of 30 conts on ovory 100 pouuds over the
homo producer, provided tho adjust
ment was correct before, and wages
woro not changed. But the maker could
Dot got sand or othor inatorials any
cheaper than lieforo. Consequently ho
must pay SO cents per 100 iouiida less
for making glass, or continue to -run at
U loss, or ntop wOrk. --To cut off ono-
fifthofthoSO cents1 paid by 11 kind of
Iron, iu like manner, meant tor tuko 10
cotita pOr 100 ponuds from tho cost of
materials, from profits, or from wages.
Hat this was proposed at u timo w hen
prices wore very low- nnd ludufetrles
much depressed. Many inines hau clos
ed, the minors being unwilling to work
for less. Few mines wero yielding
profits. Tho chance of gelling cheaper
materials was slender. The manufac
turers gcnorally had been working on
exceedingly narrow profits, or no profits.
Tho saving of 30 cents per 100 pounds
on glass, or 10 cents per 100 pounds on
Iron, from profits of thq manufacturer at
that time, was plainly iiot possible. Tlio
bill, therefore, meant (o tako tho SO
cents or tho 10 cents from tho wages of
labor. And so it was of a great number
of industries. If tho duties had been
rightly adjusted beforo, to equalize for
eign with homo products and the com
mission of experts and congress had
tried to so adjust them then, at a timo
when works wero running without
profits, cutting offduiieflmeant cutting
down wages, or the stoppago of tho
mines and mills, tho furnaces and tho
factories, by the purehaso of foreign
goods at less than tho cost of goods
made at homo.
That wan tho meaning of the Morrison
bill. Had it been . offered .at a time
when manufacturers -woro getting good
profits, tho reduction might havo been
taken from tho profits. But it was off
ered at a timo when the reduction must
have come from tho wages of labor, or
tho works must have stopped.
A great many works did stop in ex
pectation of its passage. A great many
more did not dare make contracts for tho
future witli a prospect that loss would
result if the bill should pass. Tho dis
aster to industry was great and general,
and wo have not yet recovered from it.
Yet the very man wlio offered this bill
to cut down tho wages of labor, Morrison,
was the chairman of tho committee in
tho democratic convention who reported
the platform on which Cleveland is
now running.
The Party for Young' Men.
A great army of new voters' will cast
their first ballots for president this fall.
Nine-tenths of them are young men who
havo to make their own way irutlio
world, witli brains and industry far their
capital. The older men who havo saved
something have an advantage; it mat
ters lens to them whether a day's work
brings good wages or poor. But the
young man. who has to start at the foot
of the ladder how is ho to climb, it tho
wages of labor aro to be cut down to his
cost of living? ,
The question whether American or
British -wages shall prevail Jiere, there
fore, is a moro Vital ono to tho young
men than to anybody else. British
wages do not oven fill the stomach, and
leave nothing for tbo pocket or tho
savings bank. American wages enablo
the thrifty and capable man to support
a family decently, and to put aside
something for tho children'or for a timo
of misfortune. British t wages, at tho
best, keep a sturdy worker hovering on
the border between independence and
scrvitudo; the first sickness, or loss of
employment, or otlier disaster that
comes, is apt to leave him quito at tho
mercy of employers, and he falls into
the ranks of tho helpless and, hopeless
(oilers. Thoso who want to try British
wages in this country ought to liavo
their pockets woll linqd first.
British wages coino. wjttb., British, freo
trade. Tho main object of that system
is to produce cheaply enough, to, under
sell all the world and that means to get
more work lor less wages than other peo
plo. Tho system suite, thq .ruling classes
in a country where tlio millions, liavo
littlo part iu tlio government. -It does
not suit tliis country, whew tho worker
is also a ruler. Hencb tho American
system protects tlio workor, so that ho
may remain as far as possible indepen
dent, and free to cast hia vote as ho
pleases, and to put his work whore ho
pleases. It is tho American system of
protection tliat gives the young man tho
chanco to make Ids first savjngs, oven
though times abroad arobrd, and tho
manufacturers of maay couatric) aro
struggling to undersoil., wa .and, to got
tho utmost possibloi.iout&ol. their work
men. ' iwdr' k? '
British freo trado,. fftjtlm democratic
policy. Wboro that party;darca to tell
what it wants, it squjuty opposes tlio
protocti,vo theory. Biitjfc does not dro in
this stato, andtborcforaat eyory election
for 25 years it luia raised clojer about
somotning oiso, uucn. prepopuoit to re
gard as "tho main isauo It wanted to
savo the nnion" in 18Q0, ant) i,t wanted
poaco" 181V1: it was excited about "no-
gro suffrage" iu 1803 and,aboiit "carjiot
baggors" in 187-, H wanted "reform"
in 1870, and "ft cl,ftnga hi 180 but all
tho timo itfoughtf for British freo trado,
iiiid whenever it could get's) majority In
the houso attempted,, ,gnce to tear
down tho protoc4vfl,yijt;eiM, aa t did
lastwintoi t
Tho American, policy, of protection
was established And h been, maintain
ed by republican vpttp, and that party
makes no BttQmp,ti.,11cJUeat aaybody
abouj 4isi jUA(entioni J Hujasjto d-
hmU tlioystom, wtuc luu. glvf work
ing iwph) a fnln chwe, aa4 gjuicked
the, country, Ihorefoff tite fw-tra4e
boltoratt) to Cleveland ttaek'tiW do
not duro to- toll I to truth bU4 W siow, m
thoy did six: months" ago,
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