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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-08-08
NOTES ON THE CUSTOMS TAR
=; 1EF QUESTION. r,s -.r.
Are the Farmers Injured by a
Protective Tariff?

The Democratic party, in their set speeches
in Congress, stump halangues prior to cleo
tions, newspaper editorials, and campaign doc
umenis. endeayor TO deceive the agricultural
populations into the belief that they are op
pressed by the operation of protective tariff,
in that it reduces the prices of their own pro-
duets and enhances the cost of all goods they
require to purchase. But every intelligent
farmer knows that he not only gets better
prices for his products now than he ever did
under allow tariff experience, and that he can
purchase iron and steel and wood tools and
agrcultural implements in improved form
and make and at cheaper rates now than he
could prior to 1861, the dividing year between
low and high tariffs. The Chicago Evening
Journal recently stated that in an interview
with the manager Of the largest manufactory
of the North west-that of Messrs. Furst &
Bradley-he said:
SIT is Impossible to compare the price Of
plows in 1857. 1858, 1859, and 1860, with the
price during the last five. years. There is no
more resemblance between plow of those
years and now than there is between daylight
and darkness. A plow, such as we sell now
would then have cost 100 per cent. more to
manufacture than it costs now with such IA
cilities as we then had. AS general rule the
prices of agricultural implements are nearly
the same as before the war, but the goods
now sold are worth 100 per cent. more. They
are of better quality. more convenient, will
last longer, are better adapted to the wants OF
the farm, and are in every respect cheaper
than the goods sold before the war;"
The farmer profits largely by cheapened
transportation, and the reduction of rates
naturally follows a reduction of the cost of
rails. In, 1852 no steel rails were made in this
country; they came from England, and cost
$500 per ton. A duty of one cent per pound
was put upon steel rails, and under this pro-
lection steel rail factories were established in
this country. The result is indicated by the
following reduction In prices
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-08-08
Grains 0fGOId.

Attention to little things Is the econ
Omy of virtue.
loves words are written on rose
leaves, but with tears.
A good word for q bad one Is worth
much and costs little.
That of which proud people are often
the prOudest Is their pride.
Hope may bud under clouds, but II
blows only in sunshine.
The more honesty man has, the
less he affects the air of saint.
IL you wish to pronounce an Impair
tial Judgment, accept no favor.
Juggling with ourselves is the first
step In almost every wickedness.
Don't tell unlikely Or silly stories,
even IL you know them to be true.
II you must speak upon difficult
point, be the last speaker, II you can.
Those who are honest ''as the best
policy" are halt way to being rogues.
We are ruined, not by what we real
ly want, but by what we think we
want.
One Is never conscientious during
action; only the lOOker-On has con-
science.
Dignity Is expensive, and without
other good qualities, II Is not partlcu-
larly profitable.
"When shall be mani" Is the Po-
etry of childhood; "When / was
youngw the poetry of old age.
Many beat about the wall with a
hammer, fsncying at every blow that
they hit the nail on the head.
Tolerance comes with age. l see no
fault committed that / myself could
not have committed some time or 9TH
er.
Hate IL an active, envy passive
pleasure; 1t need not surprise Us, there
lore, to see how quickly envy becomes
hate.
In good society We are required to
do obllging things to one another; In
genteel society we are required only to
say them.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-08-08

| the greater popularity or charm of hi:
work, hut by the answering fidelity
OF his life. Bryant's fame as poet Wa:
made half a century before he died
and the additions to his earlier verse,
while they did not lessen, did not ma
terially increase, his reputation. But
the mark so early made WAS never
effected, either by himself or others.
Younger men grew by his side int0
great and Just fame. But what Shelley
says ofslOve Is as true of renown:
''True love in this differs from gold and clay,
That to devide is not TO take away"
The tone of Bryant remained, and re
mained distinct, individual, and un-
mistakable. Nature, as he said in
'ThanatOpsis,' speaks''a various Ian
gusge" to her lovers. But what she
said to him was plainly spoken and
clearly heard and perfectly repeated.
Hisart Was exquisite. II was absO-
lHtely unsuspected, but 1t served its
truest purpose, for it removed every
obstruction to full and complete deliv-
cry of his message.
He was reserved In manner, and In
no sense magnetic or responsive.
Lowell, In the "Fields for Critics" gail
ly puts into the sparkling rhyme the
general impression Of the man and his
character, and DIR. Bellows comedies
''the snow" that seemed to invest
him. There was something in his
manner of the New England hills
among which he was bOrn-a little
stern and bleak and dry, although
suffused with the tender and scentless
sDIaudOr of the white laurel solemn
with primeval pines, and musical with
the organ sOughs of the wind through
their branches. But this reserve was
not fOrbidding, and there Was always
kindness with all the dryness OF his
manner. Indeed, his manner was on
ly expressive Of that Independence
which largely made him what he was.
He stood quietly and firmly on his
own feet. His opinions were his own
conclusions, and he made no cOmpro-
mises to save his reputation for csnsis-
tency, or to secure Immunity from
criticism, or TO retain the sympathy OF
associates. He, too, was one OF the
men who are able to go alone, and who
can say No. The cobwebs of sOphistry
which the spiders of fear and ambition
in u Thousand forms spin around the
plain path Uf duty, to conceal or to de.
ter, he 50 unconscisusly and surely
crushed away that at last 1t came to be
understood that his course would be
not what his party expected or what
miscalled consistency required, but
simply what seemed to him to be the
right course.-EDrTOR's EASY CHAIR,
Harper's Magazine for August.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-08-08
The VeracitY of Vision.

The colonel, a rigid martinez, is sit
ting Ut the window of his room, when
looking out he sees captain crossing
the barrack-yard towards the gate.
Looking at him closely, he is shocked
to observe that, the rules and regula-
tons to the contrary, the captain does
not carry sword.
"Captain, he calls from the window;
Hi, Captain; step up to my room for
mOILent, will your"
The captain Obeys promptly, borroWs
sword of the officer of the guard, the
guard room being at the foot of the
stairs, and presents himself to the
colonel who is somewhat surprised tosee
the sword in its place, and having to
invent some pretext for calling his
subordinate back, says with some con-
fusion, II beg your pardon, captain,
but really 1've forgotten what it was
wanted to speak to you about. How
ever, it can't have been anything very
important; it'll keep. Good morning.
The captain salutes, departs, returns
the sword to It's owner, and is making
of across the barrcak-yard, when he
again comes within the range of the
cOlonel's vision. t
The colonel rubs his eyes, stares;
says softly to himself, How In thund-
or is this? Dem it,::he hasn't sword
to his waist" then calls aloud, "Cap-
tain! Ho, captain, one moment, please
The captain returns, borrows the
sword again, mounts the stairs and
enters the cOlonel's presence. His
commanding officer stares at him in
tently; he has sword, he sees 1t, be
hears IL clank.
Captain" he stammers, growing
very hot, "it's deuced ridiculous, you
know, but--ha! ha! I'D just remember
ed what wanted to say TO you, and now
-hs! ha!-a's gone out my head again!
Funny, isn't il? Hn! hal ha! Losing
my memoroy. Never mind. Pll
think OF it and write you. Good morn
ing"
The captain salutes, departs, returns
the sword to its owner and makes for
the gate. AS he crUsses the barrack-
yard the colonel calls his wife TO his
side and says: "See that officer out
Ihere?'
"Yes."
"Has he got a sword on?"
The cOlOnel's wife adjusts her eye
glass upon him, scans him keenly and
says: He hash't taste of sword"
The e-colOnel-That's just where you
fool yOursell! lie has.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-08-08
Live Agents Wanted

To sell DR.. Ghase's Recipes; or information
for Everybody, in every county in the Uni-
ted States and Canadas. ENLARGED by the
publisher to 648 pages. 1t contains over 2OOO
household recipes and is suited to all classes
and conditions of society. A wonderful
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Agents more than double their money Ad-
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Arbor, Michigan. 1872 1871
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-08-08

Trains leaving Columbus at &C p m and
8 Is q 10, run daily.
Through Chicago Express leaves Columbus
daily except Sunday as 40 p N, with sleeps
Ing cars attached and arrives In Chicago at
The.Pan Handle Route is the shortest,
quickest and most comfortable Route TO all
points In Missouri Arkansas. Texas, KansaA,
Colorado and the Western States and Territo>
ries. .i.sllr
This is the Route by which You make the
fewesk change es Of cars, obtain the lowest rates
on Household Goods, Live Stock, DC. and 2Uo
poun Is of Baggage Free, on Every Colonist
Ticket. 80
ANY information about time Of trains, CON-
nections. Lands In the West, price OF Single
Round Trip or Colonist's Tickets. DC. cheer
fulfy furnished by calling uy on or addressing
JOS. n BELLg1LLE, Ticket and Emigration
Agent, Wheeling, W Va, or w. l.. 0BRIEN,
Columbus, o. .
Rates always as low as the lowest:
ID w CALDWELL. WLUBRIEN,
GenI Manager. Gen Pass 4 Tkt Agt,
COLUMBUS, OHIO.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-08-08

These are the customs tariff safeguards Of
the farmer against heavy importations of ag-
ricultural products from Canada and other
agricultural portions of the American conti-
nent. At the time the tariff was increased in
1851 extensive preparations were being made
in Baltimore to import -four from France on a
large scale, to compete with our own home
product. The apprehension of duty on
-four prevented the scheme from being car
ried into operation.
Just here it will be well to expose one of
the fallacies of the free trade doctors. They
claim that the tariff increases the price to the
extent of the duty, not only of the imported
article, but Of all American products of like
kind as those taxed. The author of the
wood tariff takes this position. CSpeech Of
April 9, pamphlet edition, page o. Does the
farmer believe the statement? Does the im
position Of 20 per cent. duty on the value of
a horse or hog, or any number of those ami
mails, from Canada, add 20 per cent. to the
value Of the entire stock Of horses or hogs in
the United States? 1t would be fine thing
for the stock raisers if such were the fact.
Again, does the farmer find that the payment
of twenty cents per bushel on wheat brought
from Canada adds twenty cents more to the
value and price of all the wheat in all our
great domain Or is it fact that the pay
ment of four cents per pound duty or Nova
Scotia butter raises the price Of the entire
product of the United States four cents pc,
pound? The dairymen of New York and
other States might wish it were so; but its
realization has never yet been reached or
even approached. Not only this: but if these
importations have any perceptible effect upon
market prices il is to lower rather than raise
them, on account of the increased supply.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-08-08

Sixteen cases Of yellow fever were
reported at New Orleans, Saturday.
Four deaths occurred Ia twenty -four
hours. Two persons have died Of the
disease at Fernsndlans, Florida. A
rigid quarantine Is being enforced In
most Southern ports.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-08-08

S15 to SIG per dozen, at which time foreign
producers, finding they could make no mon
ey at those rates, abandoned the American
market. Home rivalry subsequently, reduced
the prices to S13, then to gil, again to $40,
and now to So and less per dozen, and Amer
ican axes are largely supplying the English
and other foreign markets. Recently the
Sheffield Telegraph said: "The steel Of an
American ak is so superior to that of an Eng
lish ak that no pioneer who understands his
business will ever carry any other with him
into the forests" There is no class more di-
rectly and largely benefited by the protect
i've tariff than our thrifty farmers.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-08-08
MASONIC DIRECTORY, 1877

fy "wednesday night on or preceding the full
moon. JAMES BRYAN. W. d.
JESSE B. MEYER, Secy.
st. OiairsvflIe Chapter. No. II Royal Arch
hasons, meets ist Friday night each month.
GEO. p. BUAGARNER, b. p.
JESSIE B. NEYER, Sec'y.
Belmont Council, & and g. n, meets on ths
6 ecs nd tuesday night of every month.
hr.-r1 H. &. BuAGARNER. 9. II.
Ed. BAILY, Rec.
Hone Oomuandery No. Is Of Knights Temp.
rs. "a essts IN the nrst Tuesday night Of svefy
month. Y. w. CAnnsoA~As u. ~
\. D. BAILEY. Rec.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-08-08
Are Imported Agricultural Pro-
ducts Subject to Duty.

Certainly they are. Our customs tariff pro-
vides as carefully for the farmer in this re-
spect as for any other class of producers. The
tariff is as follows:
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-08-08
Pittsburgh, Cincinnati &
St. Louis r. n.
PAN HANDLE ROUTE.

IAN HANDI4E IsOU1Es
Time Table East and West.
MAY IL, 1873.
Trains leave the Paadle Depot, foot Of Flew
enth street, Wheeling. w. Va, near Public
landing, daily except Sunday. Columbus time.
as follows:
GOING last.
Leave ThrO' Ex. Fast Line Mixed Fl.
Wheeling --.... o. m AFpm 8 p m
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-08-08

following reduction In prices :
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1878-08-28
.Ir looks as though General

-IT looks as though General
Grant would be the next candidate
of the Republican party for the
Presidential Office. 1t looks as
though the great Democratic party
had been murdered by the foreign
snakes it has nurtured in its bosom.
1t looks as though Ben Butler might
be the candidate of very formida-
BILE labor organization-strong
enough to contest the Presidential
office. 1t looks as though the Ma
,ional Greenback party might sweep
the republic in opposition to national
banks and corporations and in favor
Of paper money. 1t looks as though
the third election Of General Grant
might be the beginning of a new
departure, and that there might fol-
low strong military government
under which the people would be-
come familiar with the idea of a
standing army.-Ex.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1878-08-28
The Government Not a Person.

w. E. johnson, the night watch
man at the Mint, who was arrested
on a charge of grand larceny, in TAX
ing an unstamped silver quarter from
the premises, was yesterday dis
charged from custody by Judge Saw
yer upon demurrer made to the COM
plant. In drawing an indictment
for grand larceny it is necessary to
aver that the property was stolen
"from another" Demurrer was
made to the indictment upon the
ground that though the term "anoth-
er person" is not used in the stat
utes the "person" is inferred or un-
derstood; that the Government is
not a person, and therefore no lar
ceny had been committed. After
hearing the argument Judge Sawyer
decided the objection to be we'll
taken, and ordered the prisoner re-
leased.-S. II. Call.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1878-08-28

Death on Every Side.

The London Lancet is constantly
finding out something or other to
make people nervous. Some time
ago it showed that the consequence of
getting ones head shompooed at q
BARRIERS was an attack of typhoid
fever; 50 people gave up being sham
pooed, especially the people with
bald heads. Then it discovered that
every house was filled with sewer
gas, and that we were going to be
poisoned. Then there was poison in
the milk, and that was banished
from the table. Next the Lancet
discovered that couple glasses of
wine day were fatal to the consti-
tuition, and it followed this up by
announcing that the water of Lon
don was very dangerous, 80 that at
the present moment it has left moth
ing whatever to drink. Then it
clearly proved that jam tarts were
bad for the health, but most
people who have tried them in suffi-
cient quantities had found that out
before. The reason assigned by the
Lancet was that the jam in the tart
was doctored. Having thus de-
prived us of the two chief articles of
sustenance, jam tart and milk, the
Lancet wishes US to leave off wear
ing clean linen. 1t says that the
laundresses live in "infected" places,
and that we run the risk of catching
smallpox and scarlet fever from the
clothes they bring home. The same
thing is true of tailors; so that the
only really safe course now open to
us is to go without food and cloth
ing. In this condition we must not
go indoors for shelter, for fear of
sewer-gas.l Never was a Christian
people reduced to a more miserable
plight. Is it not just possible that
what we want in the present day is
little less science and a little more
common sense2
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1878-08-28
NEUTRALITY IN POLITICS.

The Eureka Leader does not be-
lieve in non-partisan Senator, and
is evidently of the opinion that the
Democrats cannot be expected to in
dorse Republican. In its issue of
the 23d instant it says:
We observe among some of our
State exchanges, the suggestion that
the campaign this fall be carried on
by the Republicans in non-partisan
spirit, to the end that Senator may
be elected to succeed Mr.. Jones who
will be wholly broad and national
in his ideas, and, owing faith and
fidelity to no party, can and will oc-
cupy higher plane in national poll
tics than can any man elected by
either party as the representative Of
that party. These suggestions we
deem illusory and deceptive. The
dream of Utopia has ever been but
a dream and ever will be. The gold
en- era in politics, "When none are
for party, and all are for the State"
has never yet dawned upon the world,
and we need not expect in our day.
Political parties are the representa-
tives of political ideas, useful or
harmful to the State or nation as
those ideas may be just and wise or
the contrary. And every party must
and will, so long as it is true to
itself and the country, be earnest and
aggressive in the maintenance of its
principles. Nothing was ever ac-
complished by halfway measures.
The Republican party have been the
life of the nation for the past eight
cen years. Without it, and its earn
est front opposed to the enemies of
the nation, the United States would
be to-day thing of the past. Its
period of usefulness is not ended,
and will not be while aspiration for
human right, liberty and national
progress has place in and among
men. Why, then, should we now
abate aught of our principles, lower
our standard and our sails in the
vain hope that we may realize some
vague, vain objectl We believe in
nothing of the kind.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1878-08-28
few adhercnts of General

-THE few adhercnts of General
Connor at this end of the State should
carefully read and ponder the follow
ing extract from an article in the
Eureka Sentinel:
We are rejoiced to know that har.
mony has been restored among our
Republican friends. Connor and
Wren have compromised. The lat
ter takes ten of the delegates to tine
State Convention from this county
and the former five. Both sides
claim a triumph. Wren gets the
big end of the delegation, while
,Connor has played lucky to get any
at all. He was without money, and
it seemed almost certain that be
was to be distanced in the primaries.
To get shut out here would leave
him without standing in the Conven-
ton. Major Wallace is a Beacons-
field in politics. Fearing defeat in
the primaries he had recourse to
diplomacy. Hence the compromise.
He now Bserts that Connor will 90
into the Convention with more votes
than any other named candidate.
He 10 promised forty from the West,
Which, with the Nye delegation and
the FIVE from Eureka, will give him
about % votes. No other aspirant
for Governor can muster as many on
the first ballot. and when the drop
ping Of favorites shall be in order. it
10 contended that the Generals aqui-
sitions will give him the baggage.
II these estimates and speculations
be correct, it would appear that our
friend Wren had got the worst of
things. The glittering bait of ten to
tive held out by Major Beaconsfleld
was eagerly gulped by p. P. Glad
stone. We are surprised and morti-
fied at this because we were wont to
view Colonel Gladstone as one of
the leading diplomats of the age.
we bow in humiliation over Colonel
Gladstone's defeat, while lifting our
hat in admiration of the splendid
diplomatic attachments Of Major
Reaconsfeld, ~7''F
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1878-08-28

THE New York Tribune re-
Gently published an article giving an
account of what it terms claims
against the General Government on
account of losses during the war Of
the Rebellion. The amount is placed
at some $322,OOo,O00. We presume
the larger portion of these claims,
says the San Francisco Call, are in
the hands of spectators, who believe
the time will come when by combina-
tion they can pass them through
Congress.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1878-08-28
SutrO's First Winning.

After nearly ten years of constant
drain upon the resources of himself
and friends, Mr.. Sutro has at last be-
gun to turn the tide the other way.
He has about concluded a contract
with the Julia Mining Company, by
which the tunnel is to be practically
tested. A drift fifteen hundred feet
long, is to be run from it to connect
with the Julia shaft, and the object,
we presume, is both to explore the
ground and provide cheaper meth
cd of extracting the thousands of
tons Of low grade ore that the Julia
Company have developed. The Tun-
mel Company are to receive 800, 1000
for running the drift, and have sold
to the Mining Company the right to
any ore bodies, ledges, ETC., that may
be encountered within the lines of
the Tunnel grant. The work is to
be begun at once and will be prose-
cuted from both ends; it is thought
the whole can be run by December.
II is believed in some quarters that
the disposal by the Tunnel Company
of their rights to the east ledge
ground under the Tunnel Act, to the
Julia Company, will have the effect
of heading off any claim of the west
ledgers to the ground within the lin
its of the grant. With the Tunnel
title in their pockets the Julia folks
can hold the east ledge against any
and all corners, unless the west ledge
groupings can be traced directly to
it-snd that will be pretty hard
thing to dos. F. Stock Report,
23d.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1878-08-28

-CoLoNEL JERRY MOORE, of
Elko, who is candidate for Lieu
tenant Governor on the Republican
ticket, is showing considerable
strength in the eastern part of the
State. The Tybo Sun, of re-
cent date, thus indorses him: "Uncle
Jerry Moore is the coming man. He
is Of the people, for the people, and
with the people on every proposition
anti-monopoly to the backbone, and
has the sturdy manhood to express
his opinion regardless Of fear or
favor" It strikes us that that is
about the kind Of timber that is
wanted.