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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-02-26
MIR. PORTER's EXPOSURE OF FREE TRADE
TO ths Editor Of The Tribune.

TO TIE Editor OF The Trt0ane.
SIR: TRIBUNE readers now have definite
and trustworthy information regarding the wages and
condition Of the laboring classes in Great Britain and
Won were fortunate in obtaining the services OF as
tiugushed member Of the late Tariff Commission the
Hon. Robert F. Porter to report the true condition OF
things among the working classes In the large maj uao
turing districts Just time when an effort Deins
made TO benefit English workshops by running many OF
our own these labor Investigations are opportune aud
appreciated by your readers If the abOrer wepald
wellfed. contented and happy under Free Trade the
American people should know It, as many believe that
majority OF working classes OF both sexes are only
enduring an existence from the force OF circumstances
earning pittance compared with the wages paid
for the same kind Of work in the Uried States For
some reason thousands away from Free Trade and
starvation and prefer to live where protective policy
insurcs work at good wages.
Protection has brought this country wonderful pros
perty 10 nation upon the face CT the earth 30 respects
honest labor AID pays price for u as the United
States Many of Onr largest wOoen co ton, brass ana
irsn mills have grown from small beginnings and gone
forward under the strong hand Of Protection
without which they could not have succeeded against
foreign cheap labor competition. At the same tine,
mechanics and workingmen have had employment IA
these mills equally protected under the same tariu'
many Of whom Investments in real estate savings
banks and United states bonds.
England wants cheap food for her poorly PAID aoor
ers and wishes TO pay for in manufactured goods nos
I'm gold Every do lar paid for imported MANUFACTURED
goods that can be pro iuced at home Is JUST
40 much taken from orr workingmen 10 ieed
and cloths foreigners in their foreign homea
The gst OF the whole matter IT, t1at Eng aud looking
after her interest this country not afer ours FRO
fessOrs Sumner OF Yale; Perry, or Williams anu Few
other Free Trade theorists, peerlng through brlthn
spectacle cannot that working people are gek-
orally prOsp rO1s aud exhibit no UNDUE hste 90
to country holding out Free Trade attractions they
ignore the fact that there are millions III TINS country
who day grae ful Tor me ptoccuhg go WI "a
our Government gives to al. and which mas been so
wisely designed best mode OF encoura ng oil the
Industries winch 20 make up the life and prosperity OF
| anallJD. -. W. '" "'hS'~'
MiddletoicH, Conn.,, Feb. 10, 1858.
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pride himself on tie particle which preceded his namo
and paraded 1t on every occasion; DO you Know" ne
family dates from tbe Crusades One OF my ancestors
acconpanied tho Emperor Barbarossa--' "On tho
piano % asked the other.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-02-26
INDUSTRIAL ENGLAND.
NV ROBERT p. PORTER, MEMBER OF THE hAiA
TARIFF COMMISSION.
XIII.
x,>rCr rctI AND AMERICAN WOOlLEN rANAN-

ENGLISH AND AMEhlChN
RIES COMPARED.
lfhoA 81 LEEDS, England, JAN 70.
In my letter from Halifax L presented a ~.
of facts showing the decline OF the u"uo 90 ths
80 am now able TO give the population OF the
80 Oreat woollen towns and the two great worsted
to,vns Of tbe Empire. for trhee periods during tine
nineteenth century which figures bear ont wna'
90. .oid in tbe Halifax letter. In 1881 Halifax
va, At II, zenith, and it should be borne in MIND
that soon after this Bradford changed from all
goods to cotton warp and began its career OF pros
perty Csee first letter from Bradford, No lol, anu
increased its population from about 1900 In 1881
10 1s3 600 in 1881 Here is the table;
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LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
THE FIRE ALARM CONTROVERSY.
MIR. o,CoNNoR Is SURE HE HAS CLINcHED THOSE
COFFIN NAILS.

THE FIRE ALARM CONTROVERSY.
MR.. o'CoNNoR Is SURE HE HAS CLNcHED THOSE
COFFIN NAILS.
TO The Editor Of The Tribune.
SIR: | have verv short answer to the
sounding brass of Mr. Collins letter in your Issue OF
February 81 In regard to tho invention OF the Fire
Alarm He says; without doubt, the conception was
original with DIR. Claiming; but an des is not nven-
tion" Certainly not but idea which gets patent
is invention, 10 it not, Mr. Cofini And DR.. Claiming,
in conjunction with the assisting mechancian, Farmer,
has patent for the Fire Alarm has he not, Mr. Conf
How them as Of the paentees Of the invention and
the admitted originator OF the idea, 1t be denied thai
DR.. Claiming ia the inventor
without doubt" says Mr.. Coffin "the conception
was original with DR.. Claiming" Then, why did mol
Mr. Coffin say so IN his dishonest book, instead OF put
ting forward Mr. Farmer the sole originator Of the
Invention Now after the lantern OF Dogenes has been
flashed upon him. and he appears at the end OF lane Oh
light, trying to convey another mans nghts 10 Ms
brothern-law he tardily admits In newspaper letter
that Dr. Claiming had the rifns share IN the invenj
ton Of originating the whole conception of and IKE
the br liant advocate he H. puts Mr. Farmer In tnS
position Of merely carrying into execution concep"n
which not in any respect his own MI -
His abored attempt to make out that the FIRE harM
systen in use is not Dr. Channings Is unworthy OF
notice. Mr.. Farmer himself describes as Or Onanj
nngs beautiful systs which ought TO tb cTSs
effort introduce the system In Boston In 1873 IN
which Mr. Farmer was concerned anu "hlcn M. NoniA
says had satisfactory results, was an entire 1aiure
In fact, the system only became success when Dr'
Claiming took hold OF It, - - ,,
will not take the trouble to follow Mt Colin toroug4
the tangled web Of impressions preyafcauons AM
msstatements or which bis article IL woven MS answer
to my letter makes 1t proper for DE- C1annipg hnssn
to deal with him. aud leave him TO tue iate 10 nss
vted. There IL only remark wish to make. INC
patent the Fire Alarm was, OF course iss9ea uPod
application. This application was made Dy Cnannina
and Farmer 1t was accompanied by the sworn state1
ments as to invention, OF Charming and Farmer UPoH
It was Issued the patent to Claiming and Farmer IN tna
light Of this fact Of their Oipt action eaye IT, IKE '
Coffin Tor the public decide whether or not no
has alsifed history in naming Mr. Farmer "a the soe
inventor OF the Fire Alarm. Tue "a Is show even on
Mr. COfn's statement Of them. that Mr. Farmer so IaI
from being the sole inventor was not even prhcipa'
bat only an accessory. Very respectfully, o.o-
Washington, d. O., Feb %, 1883. W. d. OCoNNok
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to pay thirteen millions? If we are COM
PEELED to repudiate millions and millions of
the debt, we need not hesitate to say that we
draw the line at the Riddleberger bill. There
is great temptation to let it all slide but
we resist it. We will pay the twenty millions
promised in that settlement"
That is precisely the platform and propo-
siton of the Readjuster party respecting the
payment of the State deot In view Of the
Dispatches official pronunciamento of the
purposes of the triumphant Funders, the
only thing which those who have denounced
Malone and "Mahonisn" have succeeded in
contributing to is the assassination of free
ballot in Virginia, the murder OF half
dozen cUlored men in the streets of Danville,
and the intimidation of scores of thousands
of legal voters. We wish them much joy of
the fruits of the great victory.
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THE USUAL CRY OF CORRUPTION,

The cry of excessive use of money in the
late elections in New York and Massachu-
sets will hardly be believed. 1t is always
the custom to make such charges against the
Republican party when it triumphs That
the Republican vote in Massachusetts was
largely increased seems to be the only ground
for the charge of corruption. That Buffers
vote was 1900 greater than last year is
equally good proof that he employed thou
sands of dollars in buying votes Neither
fact in itself, proves any such thing, and
some other proof must be adduced or the
charge fails. If the unsupported allegation
is good in one instance, it certainly is equally
good in the other. As to New York, the New
York Herald says:
1--WE have taken pains to make some in
quiry about this subject as regards New
York, and have satisfied ourselves that in the
present instance the reproaches of the defeat
ed party are untrue-for the conclusive rea-
son that the Republican politicians did not
have the money to spend. There never was
a New York election in which their endeav-
orS to collect money met with so Scanty re-
Spouse. The State and city governments
both were IN Democratic control, and the
federal officers were guarded against politi-
cal assessments by the stringent civilfser-
vice statute passed at the, l@-t session of Con-
gress. The very sn III amount OF the volun-
tary contr'sGLon of these last, as compared
with 4o5 sums squeezed out of them in pre-
yiJus years, bears witness to the compulsory
nature of the pressure formerly exercised
by the collectors and now lifted by law.
Till within a few days before the close
of the canvass the Republican State
committee did not have funds enough col
lected or subscribed to pay its printing and
postage and hotel bills. n The Demo
cratic managers collected and spent far more
than the Republicans in this years canvass.
The levies made by the Tammany Wiskinskie
alone on local Democratic office-holders and
candidates were much larger than all the Re-
publican receipts"
The truth of the situation is that the best
class Of citizens in those two States had be-
come heartily sick of Democratic rule, and
by their presence at the polls testified a
healthy interest in politics. The tide has
turned, and the people of the whole coun-
try have had enough of sham Democratic re-
form. New Yorks 200, 900 Democratic ma
iority of 1882 is gone Next year the State
will go Republican, and that, too, without
the corrupt use of dollar
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A UNIQUE DELIvERANCE.

Attention is called to the altogether
unique resolutions passed by the Democrats
of Copiah county, Mississippi. The calm
impudence of public meeting that can pass
a resolution advising fellow citizens to 9esst
from participating in county politics, on
peril of their lives, belongs to an age of bar
barism, and could be found nowhere but in
Democratic stronghold and i'll the bullying
South. Bloodshed and violence are
resorted to as readily there as
is friendly argument in the
North. The purpose of Southern Democrats
is no longer disguised. They insist on "a
solid South" and "a white MAINS govern
ment," and profess to be ready to fight for
these ends. The law-abiding people Of this
section of the Union will read with interest,
not to say indignation, the Copiah county
resolutions. The end is becoming more and
still more apparent, and it is growing palmer
that the honest and peaceable majority must
unite in defense OF common interests
and the welfare of common citizenship.
Apathy now means increased trouble in the
future. The issue is being forced and it is
becoming imperative that the North be made
solid in behalf of a free ballot and political
liberty. The programmed slaughter at Dan
vile is of the same piece with the resolutions
in Copiah county. The purpose is the same
all over the South. This question will have
to be met next year.
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A BOLD FILIBUSTER.
A CHILEAN Colonel's Plan to Overthrow KaIa-
kaua and Seize Hawaii.

Denver Republican
A month or so ago conductor on the Bur-
lington q Missouri River road was APP
preached in Denver by a man who intro
duced himself as Colonel Calderon, of the
Gillian army The Colonel asked him to Join
in a scheme by which they could make for
tune in few years. The scheme was simply
the capture of the Sandwich Islands and
rearing a vigorous young republic on an eff
fete monarchy. The conductor did not &C.
cept the Colonels proposition, and after
ward gave the whole scheme away to
friend, and it received some mention in the
press at the time. The Colonel told the rail-
road man where the scheme originated.
He said that in the CHILEAN army there
were about 300 men like himself who had
grown tired of the service, after the country
had been thoroughly plundered. They were
all under Admiral Lynch, and formed close
corporation, which was feared on account of
its recklessness and respected for the bravery
its members displayed at all times. The
booty which they captured they were al
lowed to retain, and they had everything
their own way until the war virtually ended,
and the soldiers were put on police duty or
to fighting Indians They were all Ameri-
cans or Frenchmen, and Colonel Calderon
intimated that he was with them as COM
mander. One day, in Lima about q score of
the chief officers of this contingent were
called together for a consultation at a dinner
given by one OF the most adventurous spirits,
and, after the blood of the men had been set
to boiling with wine, a scheme was unfolded
which met with the most enthusiastic indorse-
ment At the secret banquet the scheme
was fully discussed. There were men there
who had been with Walker and with the
revolutonists in Cuba and they dellberated
carefully. 1t was decided that should
the descent on the islands be made
solely by the men of the CHILEAN army, the
movement would have a national aspect, and
other nations might compel Chill to protect
Kalakaua from its own troops ltwas there
fore determined to send agents to the United
States, England, Germany and France to in
terest adventurous soldiers, and make the
movement international. The King could
not muster 1000 men. He had no army be-
yond body-guard OF $50 men, and no navy
but poorly-armed yacht There are only
5000 natives and about 10000 foreigners, in
Guiding 1000 Chinese. There are no arsen-
ais or manufacturers of arms, and the for
eigners would welcome change if their
property rights were respected. The entire
revenue of the islands collected by the gov
eminent amount to less than 81 GOO 900. A
small armed vessel with 500 men will be
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where an official has the use of a government
carriage, do his sisters, his cousins his aunts,
his wife, and all of his wife's relations. Sheri-
dams love of good hOrsefesh Is proyerbial. He
loves fine animal, but the average cab-horse
does not thrill him much"
SECRETARY FoLGER has pleasant office in
Washington, looking out upon Pennsylvania av-
enue and the Capitol. 1t is furnished in walnut
and dark-red leather The Secretary sits in a
cane-seated chair, with enormous waste
basket at his side. One small table, covered
with blue cloth, is used exclusively for signing
official papers on. In this work Mr.. Folger
Yields cork pen-holder and steel stub pen,
while an assistant at his side applies the blot
ting pad. The walls of the room are adorned
with large portraits Of Alexander Hamilton, the
first Secretary of the Treasury, and Salmon P,
Chase, the wartime Secretary.
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In noticinga visit of several persons to
Purdue University yesterday, the Courier of
last evening said:
'sThe visit afforded these gentlemen a long
coveted opportunity to observe the practical
workings of the institution under the
efficient management of President Smart
They came unheralded, but found the uni
versity running like clock-work in all its
departments, and after a close and critical
examination of its practical methods of in
structon will go home with better appre-
citation of its special aims. Purdue Univer-
sity is the child of the State but is just
now experiencing most remarkable mani
festation of parental tenderness, having been
left by the late General Assembly without a
dollar tits cold day to be left as a waif
on anybodys doorstep. The situation is
serious, and we can but regard the editorial
visitation above noted, as most opportune."
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have but superficial practical knowledge Of
the properties of the city, and none at all,
comparatively, OF the people But it viii be
to the last degree dangerous to have the
breach widen until rates are thrown to the
winds. Sagacious men want to pay fair
price for good article, and it will be for the
interest of company and customer alike if
there can be such an amelioration of an iron
clad system as to restore proper business
principles and confidence in the conduct of
underMritino
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murder.

GEORGIA has convict who is regarded as
an ornament, not only to his profession. but
to the State Owing to tangle in red tape
he could not be admitted to the penitentiary
Immediately upon his arrival at Atlanta.
When he was ahoutto be locked up in the
guard-house during the interval he protested,
and said if the officers would let him off he
would be on hand in the morning. The
sheriff who bad escorted him to town
vouched for him as man of his word, and
he was thereupon turned loose Next morn
ing he appeared according to promise, and
was introduced to prison life and striped
clothes, AS an explanation of this honora-
BILE conduct it may be worth while to mem
ton that this Southern gentleman had mere
ly killed man and had unfortunately been
convicted.
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$4,000 Reward!
Description

John Wilkes Booth,
who as5assnated the President on the evening
of April II, 1865
Height 5 feet eight inches; weight 100
pounds; compact built; hair, jet black. inclined
10 curl, medium length, parted behind; eyes
black, and dark heavy eye brOws; wears large
seal ring on little finger; when talking lnclnes
his head forwards looks down.
Description of the Person who Attempted to AS
sasslnate Hon. W. H Seward, Secretary OF
State.
Height, six feet one inch; hair, black, thick,
full and straight; no beard or appearance of
beard, cheeks red on jaws; face moderately full;
twenty-five or twenty-three years of age; eyes,
brows not heavy bnt dark; face not large but
rather round; complexion healthy; nose straight
and well formed, medium size; mouth small;
lips thin, upper lip protruded when he talked;
chin pointed and prominent; head medium size:
neck short, of medium length; hands soft and
small; fingers tapering; shows no signs of hard
labor; broad shoulders; taper waist straight
figure; strong looking man; manner not gem
tlemanly, but vulgar; 0vercoa6 double-breas ed,
color mixed, of pink and gray Spots smal-Woro
a sack oVercoat, pockets inside, and one on
breast, with lapels or flaps; pants, black COM
mon stuff; new heavy boots: voice small and
thin, inclined to tenor.
The Common Council OF Washington, D. c..
and conviction of these assassins, in addition to
which will pay $4,000. l.. c. BAKER,
Colonel and Agent of the War Department.
Baker was the efficient and powerful chief
of the government secret service during the
war. The assassin described as having at
tempted to take the life of Secretary Seward,
was Harold. A brother of Baker commanded
the detachment of cavalry which discovered
Booth in the barn, and guarded his body
after he had been shot by Sergeant Boston
COrbett
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THE latest from Mr.. Tilden up to the
hour of going to press is from "a proni en-
Democratic congressman" to H. ehect that
he is as ''near dead as nan can be to en-
title him to keev out of the grave. He is fed
with = sroou like helpless baby, and he
does not pretend to attend to any business.
He refers every body to his man of business,
Andy Green. If money is asked for politics,
charity or religion, the matter goes to
Green" This, of course is a campaign lie
and the Journal will cheerfully make the
daily correction tomorrow
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JOURNAL, THURSDAY,

clan who made the post-mOrtem examination of
the supposed victim of the assassns, reported to
him that the death WAS caused by linger-
ing consumption, aud that the slight
violence he had suffered had
no connection with it. The prosecuting attor-
ney. then young, ambitions, and with little prac-
tice, persuaded the physician, who was an ire
sponslble quacR, not to make the result public,
ana Immediately drew up the papers charging
the prisoners with murder in the first degree.
Lately he has been moved by remorse, and in
order to expiate the wrong in some measure,
made confession to the Governor of the State,
and asked that the prisoners be set az liberty.
This has been done. and the two men who have
served fifteen years more than would have been
their sentence on the charge of hOuse-breaking,
have gone West to grow up. Justice will scarce
ly be complete unless the lawyer voluntarily
goes to the penitentiary for eighteen years him
self,
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THE journal is in receipt of a letter from ]. W.
Clark, of Arlington, Rush county, who is now in
Archer, Fla, giving the thermometric range daily
from Oct. 8 to Nov. 8, showing a range of from
"a to 65 degrees for the month. The month is
usually pleasant, with little rain. Archer is
forty-two miles east of Cedar Keys, on the
Transit railroad to jacksonville. Cedar Keys
furnishes most of America and Europe with
lead,pencIl wood. The country is rapidly being
settled by Northern emigrants. DR.. viii. s.
Clark, formerly OF this city, is with his father at
Archer and is much improved in health.
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THE few-very few-Miss Nancys in the
North who affected to believe that the
"honor' of the State of Virginia in the
matter of paying its debt was in the hands
of the party known as the "Funders" and
that it would be incomparably better for the
Reodjuster party to be defeated in the cleo
ton, even if had to be at the cost OF murder
and intimidation, may have their eyes opened
by reading the following paragraph from the
Richmond Dispatch, the chief 'Funder' or
gan in the Old Dominion. 1t says:
'The whole story is that Virginia must
disown (if you like the word) responsibility
for West Virginias third, though it is legal
ly her debt, and good deal of it morally
hers. She must also repudiate Cor disown)
fifteen or more millions of the two-thirds
she took to herself-if for no other reason
because the people have twice solemnly de-
cided at the ballot-box that they will not pay
the whole, and there is no constitutional
way that we know of to make a State pay
her debts. Well, now, men and brethren,
what is the difference morally between re-
using to pay twenty millions and refusing
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HERE is significant paragraph from the

HERE is significant paragraph from the
Memphis Avalanche:
Owing to the cloudy political skies in the
North, the Avalanche wlthdraws its South
ern candidate for vice-pfesideDt. The indi-
cations of a storm are SO unmistakabe that
it is deemed prudent to put him under shell
ter for the present, where he will be pre-
served for a more suspicious OCCASION"
The Virginia murder, and the rising de-
termination of the people of the North that
political murder must 60 is the CLOUD" that
induces the Avalanche TO put its Southern
candidate under shelter temporarily.
But we give notice to the Avalanche that
there will never come in free America that
''auspicious OCCASION when the people
will put into the presidential office candi-
dates running upon platform of blood and
murder.