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by the injection of all manner of irrel-
event matter into the discussion. Mr..
Hoar, of Massachusetts,, for instance,
has offered resolution calling on one
Of the government departments to fur
nish a table of the rate Of wages paid
all over the world. His idea evident
ly is that the low wages in European
countries and the comparatively high
wages in the United States are the re-
suits respectively of free trade and pro-
lection. This theory was unfairly and
unscrupulously advanced in the last
national campaign by the Republican
orators who declared that the effect of
revenue tariff would be to reduce the
workingmen of this country to the
"pauper" condition of their brethren
abroad. 1t was the plea and appeal of
the lowest form Of demagogism. The
rate of wages paid here or abroad is
no evidence whatever in regard to the
prosperity or-the non prosperity of the
workingman. The purchasing power
of the wages is the real test and stand
ard. If a mechanic is compelled to
pay two dollars in New York for what
he can buy in London or Paris for one
dollar, it is manifestly Of no advantage
to him that his wages are double what
is paid there. Mr.. Hoar knows this
very well, and it is cause for regret
that statesman of his ability and
character should descend to the level OF
political charlatans in discussing a
question of this magnitude and impor-
tance.-New York Herald.
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Protection and Fres Trg0e.

Congressman Lord furnishes the APP
proximate figures, obtained from the
Superintendent Of the Census, Of the
nations wealth in the year 1880. These
figures, which are still subject to minor
revision, show the total assessed valua-
ton to be s16,S97, 135,5c7. In 1870,
the total assessed valuation, shown by
the census returns, was Sl4,17S,986,732.
The true valuation, ss shown by the
came returns, was t30,06S,51S,5O7. If
the ratio of true valuation to assessed
valuation has not been changed, and
there is no good reason for assuming
that it has been, the true valuation in
1880 must have been not far from $780,
100000, 900.
This makes the case for the protec-
tionists even votle than the showing
we presented few days since, upon
the basis of figures given by the BAL
ance Sheet of the world" In that
showing, the wealth of the country in
1880 was assumed to be e39,009,0O0,-
600, and the gain in the protection de-
cade from 1870 to 1880 about twenty
four per cent, against gain in the
free trade decade, from 1850 to 1860,
Of 1875 per cent. The figures now
given show that the gain in the pro.
lection decade from 1870 to 1880 was
only about twenty per cent. instead
Of twenty-four. The actual gain
during the protection decade has been
a little less than s6,OOO,000,O0O, against
s9,000,000,000 and over in the free
trade decade from 1850 to 1860.-De.
troit Free Press.
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Some Fruits Of Republicanism.

An article in the Brooklyn Eagle re-
lates the reputation acts committed by
the Republican party; speaks of the
manner they used the public money to
carry elections; tells how they stole
the Presidency in 1876, and how the
leaders of the party praised the star
routes thieves last year, and then says /:
Every crime was condoned as long as its
preparation promised to strengthen the Re
publican party. Thousands of business men
were driven through bankruptcy to desper-
alton and death, but the Republican party
was strengthened. Open, undisguised rob-
berry was countenanced, provided portion
of the plumber was devoted to strengthening
the Republican party. A deadly blow was
struck at the purity of the ballot, and the
assassins of liberty were promptly awarded
by lucrative positions under the government.
What wonder, then, that mind constituted
like Guiteau's should be driven to the con-
illusions at which he arrived? He saw Bris-
tow and Henderson consigned to obscurity
for faithful services to the country because
such services fnjuriously affected the Repub-
lican party He saw the men prominent in
the administration foisted upon the people in
the interests of the Republican party. lie
saw Mr.. Dorsey Toasted and toasted by the
heightened Republicans of the Union League,
and openly complmcnted by the vice-Prcsi-
dent of the United States for his success in
carrying Indiana 'with-laughter.' He saw,
too, that the crimes of these men had resulted
in disaster and death to thousands and in last.
ing disgrace to the nation, but they had
been screened from punishment because they
had helped the Republican party. He saw,
too, that the Republican party was again in
great danger Of disruption on account of the
disagreement between the stalwarts and the
President, and he naturally reasoned that, il
the greater blunderers who had served the
Republican party at so great n sacrifice Of
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A New Vice.

The recent medical discovery Of in
jccting morphine into the system by
small tube has led to new and horri-
bic habit, which threatens English
speaking people with moral disasters
equal to those that have invaded the
opium-smoking Mongolians. In some
respects it is more terrible than alco-
holism or dipsomania, for, whereas the
alcohol habit, as is proved, may be
cured, morphiomania is pronounced well
nigh incurable. BY degrees the victim
yields to its fascination until he pricks
the skin dozen times Il day with the
tiny syringe that inhicts such horrible
punishment. A recent writer in Lon
don Truth has described its agreeable
but fatal beginning, its PROCESS and hor-
rible ending:
The operation is almost painless; the imme-
diate effects pleasant. A delicious languor
supervenes. Happy thoughts, bright imagin-
ings fill the mind. Some see beautiful Wis
ions others feel only a pervading sensation
of comfort and well-being. On a few, the
effect of morphia is to excite to some Intellect
ual effort if effort that can be called which is
pure delight, glorious feeling of untrammel-
ed power, of uncrippled exercise of the high
est faculties. 1t is as though the mind had
suddenly developed wings. But at the very
height of the enchantment the influence of
the morphia begins to subside. The glory
fades. The wings trail, and the feet that are
their sorry substitute becomes weighted as
with lead. As with the workers, so with the
dreamers. The visions are obscured The
sensation of comfort gives place 10 one of dis
comfort, irritation, even pain. The mental
vision that had just now looked through
rosy mist sees al things as through Grape
veil or November fog. Can it be wondered
at that the dose il renewed, that the poison is
absorbed again, that the intervals become
shorter and shorter between the reign Of the
potent drug? And the end? The punish
ment is terrible indeed. BY degrees it
becomes darkened Hideous Authorizations
seize upon it. Self-control is lost. lmbe-
cility overtakes the weak. Madness threatens
the strong.
The last and penal stages Of the
habit will serve to illustrate, graphic
ally and menacingly, the dangers sur
rounding this new form of human
weakness. Nor does the fate Of the
victim end the woeful tale. The vice
has not lived long enough to mark flu
ture generations with an hereditary
faint but that it will bequcath to
the prosperity of those who indulge in
it, some dark, dismal wretchedness,
there can be no manner of doubt
Detroit Free Press.
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No Protection for the LabOrer.
From the Detroit Evening New

From the Detroit Evening News.
A dispatch from Joliet, ILL.,, gives al
account of strike of the laborers EN-
ployed in the Joliet steel works in con
sequence of an order by the superin,
tendent that the wages of the laborer;
be reduced to 12t cents per hour
When we consider that laborers can
only make eight or nine hours per day
during the winter, it will be seen that
the wages are not very high-s6 &c
1915 per week A laborer with q
wife and three to ten children can not
get rich very fast OH such wages, and
it is natural that the laborers should
protest against such "pauper" wages
After paying say $3.50 per week fol
rent and 81 per week for fuel, he has
from $3.50 to 1926 per week for food
clothing and the education Of his child
rem. Say he had only three children
which we think is below the average
and suppose he has steady employment
and loses no time by sickness or bad
weather, he has at the best only So
cents per week for each person after
paying for rent and fuel. The lot Of
this laborer is no doubt hard, but tne
wages offered by the Joliet steel works
is an average Of wages paid by similar
corporations in other parts of the
country. And what are the laborers
going to do about it? IF they do not
choose to accept the wages offered, there
are others who will. Laborers are
coming to this country every day
to compete with those already here,
and the law of supply and demand
keeps the wages down. The proprie-
tors Of the Joliet steel works know that
they can import all the laborers they
want free Of duty. Protectionists have
been careful to secure free trade in la
borers in order that they might bring
our laborers into competition with all
the world. The owners Of the steel
works are protected against foreign
competition by duty of S2S per ton
on steel rails, but the laborer has to
compete with the so,called "pauper"
labor of Europe, Asia and Africa.
The laborer is compelled to sell his
labor in market where the utmost
competition is allowed and invited, and
has to spend his wages in a market
controlled by tariffs and monopolies.
The laborer has TO pay higher prices
for his rent, fuel, clothes and many ar
ticles of food on account of the tariff,
while he receives absolutely no protec-
ton in the labor market.
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The Rnsrnmmnn Murder.

In regard to the recent murder OF
Forbes, at Roscommon, by r. E.
Titus, there are conflicting opinion, in
regard to the guilt or innocence of the
party accused, and there is something
in the statement that aside from the
ante-mortem statement Of Forbes. there
is no direct testimony as to who did
the shooting, no living peson having
witnessed it, and the prosecution will
have to rely upon circumstantial evil
dence alone to secure q conviction, but
unless we are misinformed there are
circumstances as strong as those in the
celebrated Webster Parkman case of
many years ago, which lacked entirely
the anti-mortem statement, and yet no
man questioned the correctness Of the
conclusions which the jury reached
Bay City Call.
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The Republicans Beginning Very Badly.


The manner in which the committees
Of the House are made need not sur
prise those who have considered the
manner in which the Speaker himself
was made. He has followed the law
of his creation, that is all. Compare
the organization Of this House by Mr..
Cameron's Speaker with the organiza-
tons under the austere Kerr or the
vigilant and incorruptible Randall !!
They arranged their committees so as
to check jobbery, and save the public
money; and they accomplished their
purpose. The measures Of the lobby
were strangled as fast as they appear
ed and before Mr.. Randall had been
at the head of the Appropriations Com
mittee for one session and Speaker for
two sessions, the lobby itself had ceased
to struggle and taken itself off, to re-
appear only with Keifer, with Secor
Robson for his sponsor
Keifer has made no mistakes. He
has framed his committees so rs to re-
verse completely the policy of Kerr
and Randall. Retrcnchment, economy,
careful revision Of the executive esti-
mates, can have no place in programme
which is to be wrought out by Keifer.
Almost every one Of the committees
seems to have been made up with a
distinct view to extravaganza, if not
to corruption. The purpose is dis
closed not merely in the assignments
of the members of the majority party,
but in the studied misplacing Of the
ablest and most trusted men of the
minoiity--the only men to whom the
country looks with real confidence for
the defeat of vicious legislation Mr.
Randall, for instance, would have been
a terror to his old enemy Of the lobby
had Mr.. Robson seen fit to name him
rs the first Democratic member on the
Appropriations. But the lobby is to
meet with no terrors in this House, and
Mr.. Randall is crowded upon the Ways
and Means with two other Pennsylvan.
ians to keep him company, while Hewitt
can hardly be discovered at all, and
the tireless, sleepless, logged, unap-
proachablo Holman, whom Speaker
Randall in his time singled out to de-
fcnd the avenues to the Treasury as
Chairman of the Committee on Appro.
priations, is sunk clean out of sight in
some odd corner, where it is hoped he
will never be heard from.
Certainly nobody will be able to
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alcd win the resnectye clerks Of each of thc conn
ties of AIpena. Uscoda and Montmorency. in the
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Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1882-01-04

Even the tariff men are beginning
to see that something will have to be
done towards revising the revenue laws.
They want to compromise the matter
so that they can retain as much of the
present revenue law as possible. The
protective tariff as it now stands is a
good thing for them. The whole
country pays them a tribute for the
privilege Of buying wooden goods,
crockery ware, iron, and other alb
sclutely necessary articles.
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When Howe VIII be Seryip.able.

Ex-senator Howe is not personally
disreputable, but he has no claim upon
the public. lie will not be of the
slightest value in the postoffice until
the time comes TO use the immense army
of the employees of the postofice in set
ting up delegates to the next Republi-
can National Convention. Then the
efficacy of Mr.. Howe will fully appear.
We would have been very glad to see
the President place the Postal Depart
ment in thoroughly competent hands.
lie has seen fit to select third termsr.
Cincinnati Commercial.
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The Secretary Of State estimates the
number Of acre, sowed to wheat in
this State, last year, 81 1,834,529. The
wheat is reported in good condition, at
the time the report was make last
month. The yield Of corn for 1881,
is estimated at 20,230,000 bushels.
The Secretary's estimates can be re-
lied on, we think, as far as they 60,
but, as we have often ahown, they are
an underestimate, at leaet as far ~ this
county il concerned.
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question Refers intentions, or perhaps
we ought to say, the intentions of those
who have him in charge. There is no
installing either the purpose or the
character of his work and no one can
deny that the new Republican Congress
has begunits career rs badly as possible.
1t is not by such means that the conf
dence of the country can be retained,
and the election of 1884 made the oc-
casion of new and durable Republican
success.
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Guitteau has been removed from hi

Guitteau has been removed from his
position among the counsel in the
court room, and placed in the prison
ers's dock. He still continues to make
himself an annoyance by his inter
ruptions. OF late a large number of
insanity experts have been on the wit
ness stand and testified that after con-
siderable examination of the assassin,
they believe him to be sane.
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curative character absolute, as the writer
can personally testify, both from experience
and observation.
Among the many readers OF the Review
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camille Review. 643
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Catskill, Dec. 81, 1880.

Messrs. Ely Bros, Druggists,
Owcgo, n. Y: have suffered for
many years from chronic Catarrh and
tried great number Of remedies
without any permanent relief; but
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Therefore take pleasure in recon-
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s. NJ. GREEN, Book-keeper,
Office N. Y, Catskill & Athens Steam
boat Co. Price 50 cents.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1882-01-04

President Arthur is carrying out the
late President Garfeld's policy. He
is appointing his friends to all vacant
Offices. No Garfield Republican need
apply.
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Pay Your Taxes.

Notice hereby given, that will be in my office
during the month of December for the purpose Of
ceving taxes the State and County Roll for ISL
and on all taxes paid during the month of December
fee OF per cent will be added 10 the original
tax and on all taxes remaining unpaid the first
Of January, 1882 fee Of four per cent will be added
s. WEsTROPE,
slows City Treasurer.
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". S. George, editor Of the Lansing
Republican, and for a number of years
State printer, died at Lansing on the
9th Of December, aged 90 years.
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Wednesday,, Jan. 4, 1882.

The Presidents career as q civil SER
vice reformer may be said to have
olosed.-New York Tribune.
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IL. X. Of Il.

For Cholera, Cholera Morbus, Diarrhpa,
Dysentery, Cramps and Pains in the Stom-
ach, there is nothing equals Bcebe's King
Of Pain. Price only 25 cents. Sold by all
druggists. 540y1.
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The Rate OF Wages.

There is a disposition on the part of
the high tariff advocates in Congress to
confuse the question of revenue reform
, 1882-08-19

strsct ove5 NJ. Creek st "a, P INT, aHi
=ow =. has he,a 50 Gs-id,i b. th- ColariL
Tas P-orle ..siag N ,hst vicinity al. be
sra:iEel .; t!.is reP,rt-
We t'Iuz Nr. Winans, n oh!e-ting To
.he expeuss 0! furnishing tales Tor rsPo.t-
ers OF newspapers. Hss wholly consistent
With lAe attitude ne has sssuuari a chair
pan II The Firs:c5 Co. ~: ~. II tie City
Cazncil = = esmmenea economy, /, : JUS.
IS recesss-y 70 je-i, with - 81 as $500.
Z, ur.at to he aimed in his views. He
viii aiasvs have lie hslpof the STATESMAN.
Nr Fletcher produced {. ''s9g law reso-
iuti n regarding the r'gSts @: the press n
TIE meetings a tie CRY Council, but he
ca.la rot Ji-soyer any ct5sEs willing to say
t5st they ver, ai-sij oi having the.r acts
known t. t-e pahGc, anu tie resolution
vent 10 grasS-