The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1870-05-26

HE GREAT AMERICAN SHOVEL. A story
is told of these worthless (Schenck and Cakes
Ames) that probably illustrates this protec-
ton business better than anything else. Gen
cral Schenck's idea of equalizing protection
is to lug into the protected list as much
Western produce as he can This would be
very well il he could only find some process
whereby to enhance the price of our great
staples, as wheat. corn, Bacon beef, etc
But as he cannot, he goes Us far AS possible
in that direction, and is fierce on flax.
hemp, and for ute--h he is tremendous
ON lutte, While getting up his bill and ag-
%ravatmg the real prohibitonisls as much as
we free traders do-tor they pronounce him
50 ignorant as not TO know that real practical
protection mean cheap labor and cheap ma
1erial-l say while getting up his bill he
called upon the Hon. Cakes Ames to help
him put up the duty on lutte Ames positive
ly declined.
This Oakes Ames is one of the members of
Congress who votes money directly into his
own pockets, for he is al the head of one of
The heaviest iron manufactures in the Unit
ed States. He makes shovels, and while he
votes with the other hungry hounds for a
heavy duty on the manufactured shovel, he
Keeps down the duty on the raw material,
which raw material is scrap-iron.
II want you to help me on ute,n cried
ScAenck.
Nov lool, here, srhenck," responded
AmeS, "don't you see that if you go on pro-
tecting everything, you destroy protection"
mo, don't" responded Schenck
''Well, You Just do. We must have cheap
material and cheap labor, and if we don't
get these, we have no protection. Now You
put up material on us, and you put up labor
by adding to the cost of living, don't you
seq
II see" responded the chairman of ways
and means, 'that in your selfish greed, pro-
lection isa good thing so long as you make
money by it, and not so good when any one
else has n chance
But that Is not protection; we want to
protect the manufacturers Ames-''There
- no sense in attempting to protect material.
1t is skilled labor that has to be built up
Now, how could make the great American
shovel at profit if scrap-iron were put up
ON me ~
You will not help me on lutte a'' asked
Schenck
NO, won't, because
You will not ~
"No, won'tm
Then IN be id ii don't go for 4 duty
on scrap-ron'"
''Schcnck, you are not serious? %
"NeNer more 50, oaky, in my life; am
going to stick you on the scrap-iron, so look
out for The Great American Shovelm
And sure enough the new bill puts up
scrap-iron, and the Honorable Ames is stand
ing on his head, which, by the by, is about rs
natural and safe position rs old Shoyes
could assume. [Donn Piatt.
John Deal, who was executed at READING.
Pa, on Friday last for the murder of Richard
Harlow, infused a deal of novelty into the
ceremony of his final taking off by declaring,
unlike most murderers, that he feared to en-
Ter the presence Of his Maker with the sin for
which he was doomed upon his head He
confessed that he had been n horse-thief, an
outrager of women and q murderer The
crime for which he suffered death was com
mitted near Lcesport on the 9Th of last
October. Two days before that time he left
Pennsylvania Eastern Penitentiary, where he
had Just served out Il three years term of
imprisonment His victim was a poor, de-
rrcpid yagrant, and the murder the result of
Il drunken quarrel. Deal did not deny the
killing but claimed that he did it in defend
ing himself from Harlow, who, with pistol
IN ms hand, Wasthreatening to shoot him when
he struck the fatal blow. On the morning of
the execution the sacrament was administer
ed to him by his spiritual adviser At this
time he was almost Frustrated, and it was
feared that he would be unable to walk to
the gallows. He was a perfect picture of
utter despair and fear The determination
TO die like man." which he had before re-
peatedly expressed seemed to have been
usurped by u mental agony that was almost
9ickening to witness. AS he approached the
scatfold he almost staggered, giving evidence
of great nervous prostration. He made a
brief incoherent speech, coufessing the crime,
concluding with the sentence: II don't fear
death or the devil, but do fear God" He
then kissed the crucifix; the black cap was
pulled over his face, and at signal from the
sheriff the body of the culprit was suspended
from the beam above. The body, after hang
ing for nearly half an hour, was cut down,
when it was found that the neck was not
broken, and that the man had died from
strangulation.