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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-02-22

RERDELL, one of the star route ras.
Gals on trial at Washington for con
spiracy to defraud the Government,
has withdrawn his plea OF not guilty
and entered a plea of guilty. He now
makes clean breast of it, telling all
he knows about the great plunder, and
the crowd of Republican rascals who
have been pluckihg the Government
goose and furnishing soap" to their
party for the purpose of carrying cleo
lions, are trembling in their boots,
fearing that the day of their doom has
at length arrived. 1t begins to look
as though they had been dealing in
futures y that are likely to give them
trouble.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-02-22

ALL governments derive their just
powers from the consent of the gov
erned, and one of the. first objects Of
government is to protect the weak
against the aggressions ofthe strong,
to protect society from the wrongs,
outrages and expressions of evil doefs.
While capital monopolizes labor and
by means of tariff and money cOmbi-
nations robs labor of its just reward !,
can it he said that government is serv-
ing the end of its creation? When
the $500, ,OOO,0 900 tariff tax paid to the
government is but moiety of the
burden imposed upon the producing
people in, order to satisfy the lapacious
greed of the monopolists, is it nottime
for the people to consider whether they
are not nursing a viper that when they
least dream may sting them ? If theI
monopolists have the power to create
panics and TO intimidate and contro
the peoples representatives, the soon
er the country is rid Of them the bet
ter. They cannot be throttled a da,
too soon. 80. -.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-02-22
wINDHAM.

Correspondence.
PR. Higley has sold his farmof 1O3
acres to A. J. Ward, of Tuscarawas
county, for 1900.
VIM. Allen has bought house and
six acres of land of Dea. S. Palmer
consideration $500.
Elmer Mason has bargained with II.
s. Fox for village lot.
Several young men from CARROTS
vile held Union Temperance meet
ing at the NJ. e. Church last Sunday
evening. They are earnest workers in
good cause.
I notice in communication from
Columbus correspondent to the Rep
DEM, in issue of 7th inst, that the
writer of it was considerably exercised
because those in the Legislature who
represent Prohibition constituents are
| voting with the Democrats upon al
most every measure that pertains to
the temperance question. He says the
Prohibitionists might as well under
stand, now as ever, that if they
enpect to coerce the Republicans by
such methods they are grandly mista-
ken. Well. now, we are right glad to
know that the Democrats are willing
to cast their votes for Prohibition.
Talk is cheap, but when we come to
the, ballot box every vote counts one,
and I don't know as we are obliged to
ask man, when he votes. whether he
is Republican, Democrat or Prohi-
bitionist. We want the right kind OF
voting, and if the Republicans will not
cast their votes for Prohibition, and il
we can have prohibition by the Demo
Gratis, of course we will be "hand and
glove" with them on that vital ques
ton which is now agitating the public
mind. I believe it was the State of
North Carolina that voted, about one
year ago, to provide for prohibitory
law, the Democrats voting for and the
Republicans against the measure.
think most of our temperance law.
that have been passed in this State
were passed merely to pacify the tenn.
perance people. Not much credit can
be given to either party. am aware
that the Republicans claim theirs Is
the temperance party. remember
hearing my father say calling 8
sleeps head it's tail did not make il
so" PRoHIBITIONIsT.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-02-22
Rritish Capital.-

According to The English Stats
there is plethora of money In Eng
land. The money put away, quite idle,
seeking an investment, is supposed to
be something like 1000, ,000, 900, or
neatly three years of the revenue.
Old stockings and tea pots" are gorg-
ed, and will not hold an additional
sovereign. The trouble with those
who have the money, and want to in
vest it safely, is that all the sound Sc.
curities have been taken up, and can
only be. bought at large advance, and
4 per cent. Investments are apparently
unprocurable. For the last four years
there has been in England an era of
retrenchment. If people could not
earn money by curtailing their expens-
es, they seem to have made both ends
meet, with a trifie ever to their credit.
The total accommodations made up by
small amounts is, then, enormous.
During this period of saving your En-
glishman has been suspicious. The
condition OF Europe has not been com
Portable. Even now it is questionable
whether continental matters are more
placid in character. There has been
such an outcry about poorinvestments
made in land that something has hap.
pened in England which is quite alb
normal of its kind. With increased
capital begging an investment, land in
certain parts of England has absolute
ly lessened in price. In the southern
and eastern counties, where there are
large. expanses of good agricultural
land, and no great cities near them
property can be had for ready money
at reduction of twenty per cent. OF
normal prices.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-02-22

THE privileged monopolists, fearing
that they will be unable to hold on to
the power they haveso long enjoyed
ofsfeecing the people, are resorting to
their old time tactics of threatening
the couHtry with a panic unless their
demands are needed by the peoples
Representatives., and already are heard
the mutterings of the threatened storm
in the shutting down of few large
iron mills because of alleged inability
to earn profit ON their investment,
and few others made assign ments,
giving the same reason, and they ex-
pect Congress to place the whole coun-
try under contribution 10 keep them
on their feet. But they are playing Q
game of bluff to frighten Congress in
to increasing the duties on the com
modities which come into competition
with their productions, or to leave the
present extravagant duties untouched
AS an exchange suggests, it La little
remarkable that the assignments were
all made to some member of the firm
or company, and that no one can pur
chase any of the obligations of TIN
companies at a discount of even {
fraction of cent. 1t is bold schem
they are playing. The tactics the mo
nopolists employ are expensive, bu
they. know they can soon recompens
themselves by the increased price
they will be able to obtain for thei
products. The suspension of worl
chiefly harms the working man. Tn
manufacturers lose nothing but tn
profits of few weeks business. It
. time for the people to renew their feal
ty to the principles of Jefferson an
f Jackson-liberty and equality, one an
y -Iinseperable. arr .e .s-s, saiET
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-02-22
A Long Ticket.

The State ticket to be elected in Ohio
this year will be the longest voted for
at any election since the adoption OF
the present constitution. 1t will con-
tain the names of eleven candidates
for the following offices
Governor; j.,
Lieutenant Governor;
Auditor of State;
Treasurer of State;
Attorney General;
School Commissioner
Clerk of the Supreme Court;
Member of Board of Public Works !;
Three Supreme Court Judges.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-02-22

sure the folks are at home next time.
And now comes lady who proposes
to dispose of fly traps and fly poisons.
She claims that flies are great benefit
to the human race, and ought to live
and be cared for. For several years
she has been devising and completing
an apparatus with which the flies can
be diapered. Patent applied for.
Feb. 10. 1888. Fl.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-02-22

THE Bellefontaine Examiner came
TO us last week enlarged by the addi
ton of four columns, and otherwise
much improved. Brother Hubbard is
worthy Of the success which this ina
provement indicates, for he gives his
readers wide awake and fearless
Democratic paper, which should emit.
tie him to the liberal patronage of the
Democracy of Logan county.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-02-22

THE prosecutors OF Gen. Fitz John
Porter find but little comfort among
the people of Minnesota, especially
those who have seen service in the ar
my of the Potomac. A testimonial
thanking Gen. Grant for his able vim
dication of his much-traduced COM
rade, circulated at the capitol yester-
day, received the signatures of nearly
all those to whom it was presented,
and every soldier who served with
Porter and was conversant with the
facts in the case, signed it with the
greatest alacrity. This is simply u
straw showing which way the wind
blows. Among the signatures was
Senator-elect Sabin.--[St. Paul Globe.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-02-22

THE protectionists, the monopolists
and the corruptionists are band OF
brothers. They will unite and they
will do everything they can to flank
the people on the tariff question. They
will threaten the people with the sub
stitution of what the people think is a
more oppressive system of taxation
(but more oppressive system of tax
alton was never devised). They will
take advantage of the prejudices of the
people when they can make them serve
their ends. They will squander the
public money on every pretextin order
to show the need of protective tariff
to raise more.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-02-22
Free wraae Iourna,a.

The leading Free Trade journals of
the United States are acknowledged
representative newspapers of the Re
publican party. They are owned by
Republican party leaders and office
holders, and advocate abolition of. all
tariff; N. Y. Times, n. Y. Evening
Post, N. Y. Nation, Chicago Tribune,
Springfield Repulli ,an. They, OF
course, have large following of minor
papers of their party, but these are the
leaders.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-02-22

u THE number of lives lost by the
BrAidwood, ILL.,, mine disaster by latest
accounts, is fixed at seventy-four.
a5 THE trains on the railroads through
out the country are getting to run more
regularly than for several days past.
THE Youngstown authorities have
concluded to put their prisoners to
work OH the streets. A good idea.
70 THE failure of Ohio, Pennsylvania,
and w. Virginia Wool Growers Asso-
citation, at Steubenville, is announced.
liabilities, $4,000.
: THE floods have about subsidized yet
the, amount Of damage caused thereby
4 has not yet been aseertained, but it is
; immense. ic $3.50
1T is estimated that one hundred
thousand people were thrown out of
employment in tile Ohio valley on ac-
= count of the late floods.
-n3 Bun ten days more remain of the
present Congress, and pretty lively
work will have to be done to pass
I. tariff bill before the close of the session.
10 THE Government Clerks at Wash.
ington are in distress over a bill intro
duced in Congress to compel them to
work eight hours day instead of six.
4u IT was not free trade that caused the
I, panic of 1873. The present high tariff
was then ia full force, but 1t was pow
erless to avert the great calamity.
THE Cleveland Herald has surrel-
. dered to the demands of mammon,
and announced its intention to issue
(. Sunday morning edition.
TELEGRAMs from Chicago Saturday
+, evening announce the failure of the
G. heavy iron firm of John w. Ayers
Sons, with liabilities estimated at ST.
600 600.
THE train on the Bee Line Railroad
= which left Cleveland at 7:l5 Friday
morning, ran off the track near Crest
line. and was ditched, killing three
persons and injuring eight others.
AT four O'Clock last Thursday morn
ing the Ohio river had reached its
highest stage, when it stood at sixty
six feet and four inches, being a foot
higher than ever before known at Gin
cinnati.
% AT Wallingford, Conn.,, February
18th, Willie Meyer, Willie Howe, and
Alice Franks were killed, and Alice
Mottram seriously injured, by a sleigh
d. being struck by locomotive.
Is A WARRINGTON special of the 18th
says: The Signal Office warns people
in the Lower Mississippi to prepare
for disastrous floods during the coming
week. The river is rising from Cairo
to Memphis. The Ohio will rise slight.
ly from Wheeling down.
Four small children of Michael Nc
Donald at Brockett, Texas, were burn
ed in their beds from the explosion OF
a lamp, on the night of the 18th inst.
The lamp had been left burning by
the mother for the return of four
daughters from ball.
THE revenue derived by the Gov
ernment from the tariff tax is not paid
by the people according to their wealth
or ability, but according to their ne
cessities, and it is but moiety of what
labor has to pay under the oppressive
system, the large majority of which
goes into the Golfers of the monopolists
e yclept "infant industries
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-02-22

THERE is some excitement in Bull
skin tp.. in Fayette county, Pa, over
the alleged discovery of silver mine.
or silver ore. on the farm of Jerry
Stouffer. The ore lies in five different
veins, within three feet-all about
thirty feet above the large vein of
Limestone,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-02-22

The funeral of Daniel r. Tilden,
Jr., son of Judge Tilden, of Cleveland,
took place at the residence of his sis
ter, Mrs. M. t. Burritt, No 965 Ken.
nard street, at two O'Clock Friday ..af-
ternoon, and was attended by many
warm friends of. the deceased, who
was thirty-two years of age at his
death. " ~ -re
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-02-22
TIE sOs medalIionists of the Chicag

THE 306 medallionists of the Chicago
convention begin to display more brass
than was supposed to enter into the
composition OF the symbol of i'm periaI-
ism which they wear. They now say
Grant is the only man who can unite
the fragments of the party. They are
in ecstacies about the shallow trick
which involves free trade with Mexico
and vitalizes a high-tariff " protectiopn
meeting in New York city, Ameri-
can Register. ~ ~,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-02-22

WASHINGTON was surveyor, and
therefore did anything according to
Gunter, who stood first in this occupa-
ton. Adams. Jefferson, Madison, and
Monroe were born rich enough. An
drew Jackson was a briefiess and pen
niless lawyer when he came, in early
manhood, to Tennessee. Then he was
a horse-racer and cock-fghter of no
mean pretensions. VanBuren was a
Dutch farmer boy. said, by malicious
people, to have been the son of Aaron
Burr. Harrison was of gentle blood,
and though elected President because
he was supposed to live in " log cab
in,n he never knew aught of poverty.
Tyler was reared and educated a Vir-
ginia gentleman, inheriting fame and
fortune. Taylor was raw country
BOBBY, who won his way into West
Point and through Mexico to tine
Presidency. Fillmore was an educated
gentleman, as were Pierce and Bu-
chapan. Lincoln was rail- and side
splitter. He used to rail at Douglas
Andrew johnson was, at 81, an litter,
ate tailor in little mountain village
of East Tennessee. Grant was tan
| ner and cartman of wood at st. Louis,
and poker player among the Digger
Injuns. 1t is said that Hayes was a
Uriah Keep, Garfield a canal hoy, and
Arthur pedagogue. And then COM
ing down among governors Cleye-
land sold newspapers the governor OF
Kansas drove oxen; the governor Of
| Texas was like Mahone's Riddlsbergel
stage dryer; the governor of Califor.
mia was a sailor, and afterwards swept
out q store in Oroville for his board
A. T. Stewart taught school and sold
tape by the pennyworth; Frederick
Gebhardt's father picked up junk il
the streets of New York; Jay GeulG
] sold mouse traps Jim Keene kept s
livery stable, and Uncle Rufus Hatch
was locomotive fireman.-[Ameriea1
Register.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-02-22
TARIFF TALK.
Common Sense from one of the
Largest Iron Masters In
the Country.

On the 5th inst, Hon. s. s. Cox,
represented that his colleague, Hon.
Abram S. Hewitt, was unable to atttnd
the session of the House on account of
sickness, and obtained leave to have
printed in the Congressional Record
the following letter received from that
gentleman:
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-02-22

THE Tariff Commission reported in
favor of reducing duties 20 per cent.on
all average, and President Arthur in his
annual message recommended revis-
ion of the tariff and a reduction of
duties, and yet the Republican leaders
arc claiming that it is the wicked
Democrats that are threatening to raise
ned with the "infant industries. of
the country. That is all senseless
twaddIe.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-02-22

In an article on the tariff, the New
York World gives the following table
of the rates of duty or tax that will
have to be paid upon the articles nam
ed should the report of the Committee
on Ways and Means be adopted as re.
ported. The article is directed to the
Vermont farmers, but the figures are
as applicable and interesting to Ohio
people as to Vermonters.
TAXES ON A VERMONT KITCHEN.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-02-22


If the money taken out of the pock-
cts of Vermont farmers by these duties
went into the Federal Treasury, the
taxation might be more patiently en-
dured. But the money which might
otherwise be expended for the educa-
ton or amusement of the children of
the Vermont farmer, for little clark"
in New York, or for light and learning
in a hundred ways, is by the tariff 81.
phoned out of the Vermonter's pocket
into the pockets of lot of manufac-
turing nabobs in Boston or Philadel-
phia. Peter the farmer is robbed to
buy pictures and carriages for Paul the
manufacturer.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-02-22
PERSONAL INTERESTS.

do not think that have any right
to advocate my personal interests OH
the floor of Congress except so far as
they are coincident with the interests
of my constituents and the whole
people. [ represent district teeming
with industries, the basis and raw ma
terial of which is iron in some form or
other. My constituents want cheap
iron, therefore, and in this respect their
interests are in harmony with the in
terests OF the whole people. The ex-
periences which [ have gained as an
iron master should, therefore, be de-
voted to pointing out how iron may be
made cheap If the people think tnat
there is an honest effort on ths part of
the iron interest to respond to Just de-
mands and TO advocate obvious re-
forms they will not be disposed to
press for reductions of duty which
would involve embarrassment to the
business or cutting down of the wages
of labor. The people understand that
the iron business cannot exist in this
country with wages at their present
level without cOuntervailing duties
sufficient to make up for the difference
in the wages paid here aud abroad.
But they will object, and very proper
Ay, w GlC A1POSLCLOh vi "
are simply prohibitory and which have
no effect whatever in putting up the
wages of labor, but simply add to the
cost of iron to the consumer, and pro-
duce loss to the community for which
there is no compensation whatever. I
therefore urge upon the representatives
OF the iron interests upon the floor OF
the House not to seek to raise duties.
but diligently to find out every item
which con be made free, or upon which
duty may be reduced without injury to
business, and not be deceived by the
outcry which proceeds from the iron
masters who have works located in
unfavorable positions, and whose final
extinction from domestic competition
is only question of time.
have had to abandon such works
myself and expect to abandon more of
them, and / should be ashamed as an
iron master and as Representative to
ask the people of this country to in
demnify me against my folly or against
the inevitable and healthy progress of
the age. Sincerely yours,
ABRAM 5. HEWITT.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-02-22
The Press TOR $3.50 q Year
tss GdoGnce. 4.

u THE number of lives lost by the
Braidwood, ILL.,, mine disaster by latest
accounts, is fixed at seventy-four.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-02-22

1T is estimated that one hundred
thousand people were thrown out of
employment in tile Ohio valley on ac-
count of the late floods.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-02-22

go THE failure of Ohio, Pennsylvania,
and w. Virginia Wool Growers Asso-
: citation, at Steubenville, is announced.
liabilities. S3O,0 600.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-02-22

Feb. 10. 1888.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-04-01
Wednesday,, the Eleventh Day Of
April, A. ID. 1883,
Sheriff's Sale.
JOHN MOWER, Plaintiff,

The Shoe Fly Mining and Smelling,
Company, Benjamin G. Levy,ThOs.
j. Taylor and the Shoe Fly No. 2
Mine, Defendants.
Under and by virtue Of an order of sale issued
out Of the District Court of the Sixth Judicial
District Of the State of Nevada, in and for
Eureka County, on the 10th day Of March, A.
D. 1883, and to me directed and delivered for
Judgment rendered in said Court on the 18th
day Of March, 1888, in favor of John McIver,
plaintiff, against The Shoe Fly Mining and
Smelling Company. Benjamin @. Levy, Thos.
]. Taylor and the Shoe Fly No, Q Mine. defend.
sixty-nine dollars lawful money of the United
States, damages, and ($sO) eighty dollars costs
and 81 one dollar accruing costs.
And by virtue of said order of sale I have on
this day levied upon the following described
to wit:
That certain mine, mining claim and lode
known as and called the Shoe Fly No. 2 mine,
situated near the southeast end Of Ruby Hin,
Eureka Mining District, Eureka County, State
OF Nevsda, for which the patent of the United
States was issued to the said Thos. j. Taylor
on or about May "a. A. D. 1877.
Public notice Ia hereby given that on
Tuesday, the Tenth Day of April,
A. d. 1883,
Between the hours Of Q O'Clock A. NJ. n s
O'Clock P. NJ, TO wit: Alta O'Clock N. of said day
I will sell all the right, title. claim and interest
OF the said defendants, The Shoe Ely Mining
and smelling Company, Benjamin O. Levy.
Ihos.J Taylor and the Shoe Fly No. 2 mine
in and to the above described real property, ct
the front door of the Courthouse, at the town
OF Eureka, county Of Eureka and State Of Ne
vada, at public auction for cash in hand to the
highest and best bidder to satisfy said execu-
t!cn and costs.
W. II. SWEENEY. Sheriff.
By j. N. HILL, Under Sheriff.
DAv. E. BAILY, ALEXANDER WILSON and FITz.
GERALD Il BEATTY, Attorneys for Plaintiff.
Eureka. New, March 10, A. D. 1883. mh2otd