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ness for fun or to kill time. Just so long
as it pays will they keep at it, and thereby
give employment to labor. But when it
ceases to pay they will be very quick to quit
and no sane man can blame them Strike off
the tariff, and one of two things remains for
them to do: to cut down the wages of their
employees, or to close up business. The Re-
publican party is unwilling that either should
be done. Neither is it in favor of monopo-
lies. The wealth of America has become so
great that just so soon as a monopoly" be-
gins to pay fabulous profits it ceases to be
a monopoly, for the reason that other CAPT.
talists are quick to embark in the same line
When certain industry begins to realize a
profit of 100 per cent" there are millions
of money ready to engage in the same enter
prise This is a free country. There are no
privileged classes. Competition and trade
are open to all Americans alike
But in some things we are properly and
reasonably exclusive We want every Amer
lean to live better than does the citizen of
the same class in any other country. Thus
far this state of affairs has obtained, and
America is the attractive focus for all who
would better their condition. Hundreds of
thousands cross the Atlantic westward to
work with their hands. Not one reverses
the order. America is the poor mans para
disc, and the Republican party is pledged to
maintain all these great advantages. In the
work to accomplish this there will I'M
doubtedly be some mistakes But as a
whole it will be we'll done, and in the end
the wisdom will be apparent to ALL as itnow
is to great majority of the unprej JUDGED
people OF the country.
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THE SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

THE utter hopelessness of expecting anything
like pure government at the hands of the Dem
ocratic party is being demonstrated in New
York in the most effective manner, for it is evil
dent that they will take very good care not to
put such an intractable and respectable man as
Cleveland in the front against Louis Globe
Democrat
THE people of some counties claim that they
are TOO poor" TO support a school themselves or
TO support one in part. This is nonsense. If
they cannot support school they should never
have had county organization. There is not a
community In Kentucky which could not have a
school if that community is willing and really
anxious to have one.-Louisville COurler-J Journal.
THE only man who will ever have Tilden's in
fuence for the presidency will be Samuel j. Til
den. Just as soon as any other man is nOmi-
mated he loses his interest in politics and lapses
into a sage. Governor Buffers prospects are,
therefore, not SO bright they might be. His
candidacy is likely to DC good deal more Csc
rious" for him than for any body else,-New York
Tribune.
WHAT we aim at and what we hope to live to
see is the complete seculariZation of the State i'll
all things and the enjoyment OF perfect liberty
OF conscience in religious belief and practice
We condemn any and every attempt to prejudice
one sect against another, and look upon such at
rempts in politics as wholly pernicious and
pregnant with mlschlef.-Cincinnati Commercial
Gazette.
our currency system will never be soundly
based until all notes under five dollars are dis
pensed with. 1t would be all the better if there
were ne notes issued under twenty dollars, and
the friends of sound currency should work for
that. There would be room and need then for a
currency of gold and silver in the retail trans
actions of business. and gold and silver is the
only permanently safe aud healthy currency
for that sphere of trade.-Louisville CONNER
cial.
WE can best promote our foreign trade by fol-
lowing the example of Madagascar in our gem
eral commercial policy-far better than by any
treaty dickering While there is nothing, or next
to nothing, to be gained by a treaty with NADIA
Rascar, there are good reasons of more than one
kind why we should firmly and with rs much re-
spect as international courtesy demands, decline
Tfa haxya IN liar oil wi hn Of Eia
island where slavery is still surviving relic of
barbarism.-Ch Times.
THERE is no occasion for frantic lamentation
over the result. Chicago is too prosperous to be
seriously affected, and the people have become
so accustomed to dirty streets, ribad scenes,
and uncleaD government generally that they
will probably bear up under a continuation of
these conditions with the serenity that goes
with fat paunches, plethoric purses, and protita-
BILE business They may weary some day of
demagogsm and bad government, and then
there will be a landslde.-Chicago Tribune.
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Hon. EMERY G. sroRRs, the distinguished
orator, in an address to the voters of Chi
cago urging the defeat of Carter Harrison
for mayor, said:
1--WE have reached an epoch in our history
be assured of it, We are confronting a very
great, very grave question. tits question
partly economic and partly moral. 1t is a
question which politicians for many years
have been industriously lodging and seeking
to evade and avoid 1t is question, like all
other questions of that character, which God
in His Infinite wisdom has so arranged that
they cannot be perpetually lodged; that they
must some day or other be settled; and that
they never in all this world can be settled
until they are settled right. Applause
There is no use of trying to get rid of the
question of regulating the saloons any
longer. Little dextrous plstform-writers
may leave those questions out of platforms,
but you don't get them out Of the hearts of
the people. The old Wing party left slavery
out of its platform when there was nothing
but slavery IN the politics of the nation; and
the people of the country left the Wing party
out of their calculations and to die the death
shat knew no waking"
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in their horror to the darkest deeds of the
slave passage. They are crowded into cham
bers without air or sunshine, they lie on
beds OF filth and rags, they are without food
for days together, and they are denied all
that makes health, not to speak of comfort,
possible. Their life is one long tale of woe.
The sufferings OF the children, es-
pecially the little girls may we'll goad wise
men into fury. Children with bright eyes
never see anything that is pure or lovely,
their little ears are filled with cursing.
Every avenue to their soul is choked with
unutterable filth More than five-and-twen-
ty thousand people in Dundee live in single
rooms, with nearly four persons to the
ROOM"
Porter's picture was not overdrawn, and
what is true of Dundee is equally true of
scores of other towns and cities throughout
the United Kingdom. 1t would be difficult
to find a parallel in America. And in addi-
ton, it may be repeated that Hon. Isaac Jen-
kinson, of the Richmond Palladium, indorses
Mr.. Porter's statements as to the condition
of Scottish workingmen from his own per
sonal and official observation and investiga-
tons when United States consul to Glas-
gow MIR. Porter tells the truth, and it is the
truth that hurts the freetraders.
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ABOUT PEOPLE.

"THE memory ofour deceased brother. George
Washington" was toast at the dinner of
Pennsylvania Masonic lodge the other day, and
Brother Robert E. Pattison," the Governor of
the Commonwealth, responded to it over glass
OF cold water
HERBERT SPENCER is very punctual man. In
his boarding-house the ladies set their watches
by his comings and goings. Once in a great
while Mr. Spencer smokes part of cigarette
but he does not like to have much tobacco smoke
around him.
PSYCHOLOGISTS say that the "Eenty, meenty.
NINETY, no." and "Eny, meeny, mony, mike"
which children used for counting in some of
their games, and which ere commonly consid-
cred gbberish are in reality the sole survival of
the language spoken by the earliest inhabitants
of the British Isles.
WENDELL PHILLIPs's library is furnished with
a rich neutra-tinted rug on the floor, a capacious
old sofa with faded plush cushions, two we'll
worn arm-chairs of carved mahogany, an elabo-
rately carved table laden with books and manu-
scripts busts of Elizabeth Fry and Theodore
Parker on the mantel, and opposite them one of
John Brown.
IN person, the new treasurer, Albert Wyman,
is slightly above the medium height, well formed,
and apparently about fty-fve years of age, his
iron-gray hair and beard adding to his attrac-
tiveness. Personally, he is genial gentleman
much esteemed by all who know him, his subor-
dinates speaking of bin only In terms of the
highest regard.
THE sword worn by John Hampden during the
civil war IN England mas just peen sold at auc-
ton In London for nIty-eight guneas 1t is a
long rapier with cross nit and scroll guard, and
was In the possession OF the Hampton family
until 1861 when IL was sofa win other effects
OF John Hampden' hheal descendant OF lis
original owner.
WILLIAM H. WHEELER, the professor OF history
at faie Coliege' VINO was incapacitated last win
Ter py LJury 10 Ihe spine' caused by fall on the
Ice again taxes MS position but In very en-
feeoled condition. AT present he is able to hear
only the regular recitations' omitting the op'
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janitor remained wondering that this Mr. Glad
stone-or whatever mis- name is-shoud insist
upon going in that way against orders.
NILE. LIMA BRAUN, at whose villa at Baden
Baden Prince Gortchakoff died, will sue the
sons of the late ex-Chancellor for the $4,000
marks per year which her guest had promised
her. 1t is now said that the sons had hard work
to prevent their father from fulfilling his fire.
quently given promise to marry the woman,
who had com pletely fascinated him ever since
the Berlin Congress.
MIR. ROBERT COLT, who has been appointed
secretary to Mr.. Samuel Benjamin, the United
States minister to Persia, is a member of the
Harvard class OF 1888, and son of Rev Joshua
Colt, OF Lawrence, who has recently accepted
the position of secretary of the Home Mission
Society. These two gentlemen start on their
travels April 8, and expect to reach their desti-
nation In sixty days, the last 100 miles Of the
journey from the Caspian sea to Teheran being
accomplished on horseback.
TAKAsIvI-BAKIN, Japanese novelist, intro
duced so many personages in his novels that in
order not to get his characters inextricably
mixed it was his habit to surround himself with
number of tiny dolls, appropriately attired
and named after his heroes and heroines. When
he had tied a couple together he knew that he
had married them. When he shut them in q
box he remembered them dead and buried.
When he had put them in a corner of his cham
Der he could see they had gone on a journey.
CHRISTINE NILSSON says of Colonel Mapleson
this awful thing, which the New York Tribune,
that abhors the Miracle play, reprints: 81 can
forgive certain wickedness in young men, but
when committed by old men like Maplcson.
they become objectionable sins. His poor wife
is left at home. while he travels over America
with Mrs. =, and nobody seems to know their
relations or enter a protest. Mr.. Mapeson g
head is bald from debauohery and excuses. He
is tyrant and despot, who has no regard what.
ever for truth or Justice"
PRIVATE letters from London state that Mr.,
Gladstone is visibly failing. He no longer shows
the interchangeable interest In matters going ON in
the House around him which has for so many
years been the amazement alike of his friends
and his foes, and on more than one occasion of
late he has shown symptoms of being positively
bored-a thing without precedent in his career.
Those who are best informed as to his condition
and his views seem to be pretty unanimously of
the opinion that he will hand over the reins at
an early date to Lord Harrington and seek re-
pose in the upper house.
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SOUTHERN MANUFACTURES.
The Present and Future of the Cotton In
dustry of Georgia.

dustry of Georgia.
Gath's Talk with General j. b. Gordon.
Ibid you see a statement in the newspa-
pers that the cotton manufacture in the
South had reached such proportion that
Northern cotton-spinners were applying to
the railroads for lower freights in order to
equalize the more economical manufacture
of the South?'
eyes, l saw it. In my judgment it is alto
gether premature. The cotton manufacture
is quite an infantile industry in the Southern
States. All that we can manufacture in all
our mills | should suppose would make but a
very slight impression on the markets of con-
sumption. There are two places in the South
where the cotton manufacture is pretty
we'll trenched-Augusta and Columbus
There are also mills in Atlanta and Macon
and at some other points; yet the aggregate
of manufacture must be very small-certain-
ly it cannot make impression enough to
exasperate the Northern mills. Yet 1 think
it wise that the Southern people should not
be carried away by any newspaper articles on
this subject. We have good hopes of the
cotton manufacture in the South, but to cry
out about our work at this period is wholly
premature. We require to go through Pc
Rod of probation and labor before we shall
reach any such great results as the Northern
newspapers predict"
''You have very good white labor for the
cotton mills in Georgia" ''71s4f
"Oh, yes it is great thing for our poor
people and our women, who have not hereto
fore had any occupation which would bring
them ready money. Women spend their
money for things which multiply production
and refine life. Men spend their money for
this (he held up his cigar but do not want
our people to think everything is acquired at
once l hope l have got over the period of
boastfulness. Now, in spirit of frank con-
fesson. will tell you that nearly all the di-
recting labor, the intelligent genius in our
Southern cotton-mills, has come from the
North. 1t is not worth while to lose our
heads in anticipating results which will
come about, perhaps after considerable ex-
neriancen
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has been the feeling of the working men
of the party, those who contributed
to that success, and it will be a qualification
to them that at last, though OH laggard feet,
justice has overtaken the Estate in the ap-
pointment of one of its native sons to rep
resentative position in the councils of the
administration.
The exigencies of the occasion are such, we
presume, as to make it essential that Judge
Gresham shall at once proceed to Washing
ton and enter upon the duties OF his new po-
sition and this he will do upon the close of
the term of court now in session at Evans
willie
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Hon WAITER Q. GRESHAM, United States
Judge for this district, has been appointed
Postmaster-general, to succeed the late Tim
othy 0. Howe, and has notified the President
of his acceptance OF the honor. Judge Gresh-
am is a native of Indiana, studied and prac-
ticed law in his native town of Corydon, and
in New Albany, and from the latter place
entered the military service in the war of the
rebellion. He served in the army with
marked distinction, being mustered out
with severe wound and the rank of major
general. He was appointed by President
Grant to the district judgeship upon the
death of the late David Mcdonald. 1t has
been well known to his more intimate
friends for some time that he was by no
means at ease in his judicial position, and
that it was his desire to enter more active
political life an opportunity which this APP
pointmsnt affords. 1t has seemed that Indi-
ana has rested under cloud during fhe past
two years. because of the fact that its Repub-
licans, in their gallant and determined cam
1aign of 1880, bore the entire brunt of the
national contest and made the existence OF
Republican administration possible, This
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of men in this country;
Av'ge earn


Total average per
man per week. 81 Is 10 $500 $3.50
This is more favorable showing than the
lcts concerning the English factories will
justify, for about three-fourths of the opera
tives there receive but $3.50 and $8.14
week, which is below the given average. The
unskilled hands in these potteries make
from 81 to S. week. The only fair
method of comparing wages is to take the
same department OF work in each country.
For example, plate-makers in England aver
age $3.50 week; in the United States $50. 80
English dlsh-makers make 1862; Americans
S19.43. English cup-makers, 1892; Ameri-
ans, $19.67 And so on through the list
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A Government of the People.

Last Sunday cabinet chief died without
even his chief or fellow cabinet officers real
izipg that such thing was at all probable in
the near future. At the same time the man
at the head of that all important department.
OF the government, the Treasury of the
United States is seriously sick, mentally and
physically. And yet matters move right
along. The moral is that our people are ca
pable of self-government. The difference
between this and some other nations is that
they are not capable of selfgovernment
While our people remain as they are. or i'm
prove upon it as they will, our institutions
are safe in their hands,
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What Will XIII Protection.

All the homilies in favor of free trade; all
the influence of English example and En-
glish gold will not prove half so effectual in
causing revulsion of feeling on the subject
OF protective tariff as would the action of
our large manufacturing establishments that
work and go to a foreign shore, a land of
free trade, to buy labor in a non-protected
market and import it here for the purpose Of
lowering prices by competition, in defiance
OF the classes who had voted them protec-
ton. II the hen that lays the golden egg of
protection is slaughtered it will be by those
lie. -
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FREE TRADE journals are quick to discount
the inevitable influence of Mr.. Robert p
Porter's letters to the New York Tribune.
They seek to impress their readers with the
idea that he is mean enough to give his let
tiers false color for political reasons. These
papers have not been slow to denounce his
statements as unreliable, if not absolutely
untruthful, and that, too without the shad-
ow of a foundation on which to rest their
charges. The unprecedented reader must rec
ognize in them the expressions of a candid
man impressed by the scenes about him.
A man of his reputation would not
dare to misrepresent in matters
so easy of access. That he does not do so has
been proved repeatedly. His picture OF the
miserable condition Of the people of Dundee
was graphic, and caused general comment
That it was a true one has been Endorsed by
writer in the Peoples Journal, of Dundee,
as follows:
81 nave just been reading a description of
Dundee by the American reporter. 1t is
enough to make every Scottish man blush
for shame. 1t is not bit exaggerated. 1t
UNDERSTANDS the renl condition of thousands
of the people. 1t is dissertation of the word
home to call the abode of the drunkard by
that ballowed name. The women and tine
children suffer wrongs i'll these dens equal
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STATE EXCHANGE TABLE.
The Defeat of the Appropriation Bill.

Kokomo Gazette.
Why was the appropriation bill held bae1f
Why was motion made to reconsider the
bill? Simply for the purpose of accomplish
might the party howl Republican response
blllty with some shadow of credence, had not
the bill already passed both houses in time
Tor the Governors signature. What shame
iul proceeding it was! The Democrats will
be called upon to explain their course to the
people during next campaign. 1t cannot
without means of support. The infamy lies
at the door of the Democratic party, and the
people will so record it. The party is Left
without paliaton or excuse for its course,
and the State is left in a deplorable condi-
ton,
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Cause for General Relief.

All OF Lafayette will be ready to give
sigh of relief when the now famous and
long-drawn out SANDER suit has finally drawn
to a close. Our fond hopes are that the end
is near; that its bitter contests heartburn
ings, worriment and work. its somewhat
mysterious testimony cruel thrusts and all,
are about over. Its lesson will certainly be
beneficial, or at least it ought for it is cost
ing enough in every way 1t has occasioned
bruises that time cannot heal-memories of
some of the experiences will never fade.
Silence about the case after it's ending will
be the nearest to forgetting it all, and all of
its influences
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The Coming Newspaper.
New York Graphic.

Complaints are now made that many news
papers give too much reading matter, or
rather too little fact in too many words; too
much verbosity and fine print; too much tax
ing the eye to its utmost power of vision to
read what is printed. People are dismayed
at the amount put before them in the morn
ing to read. 1t is predicted that the news
papers of 1900 will be smaller than they are
to-day, OF larger type, fewer words and more
idea and fact to the line.
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Mr.. w. B. SoMERyILLE, of the Mutual
ISOLATION was cut off from the use OF the
wires of that company was because it did not
pay its bills. That alleged news association
now forwards its so-called reports by the
Baltimore and Ohio WIRE and by what is tech
nically known as grapevine"
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why the Mail Was Two Hours Late.
ro IN. 0. Southcrncr.

Tarboro IN. o. Southcrner.
The mail, Monday, was two hours late.
Cause, the regular train had to wait for Jay
Gould. Jay Gould is an American potent
ate before whom the minor railroad mag.
mates bend the suppliant knee. Thousands
of people were waiting for their midday
mail, but they were not to be considered
when the owner of 5000 miles of railroad
asked for rapid transportation. There Wa
nothing urgent
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BY JNo. C. NEW s. son.
THURSDAY, APRIL ), 1888.

ADEL1NA PATTI is being sued by the widow
teacher, for lessons given in New York city
in 1856 when the diva was only thirteen
years of age. The defense to the suit is that
Adelina was minor, and not responsible for
any engagements made for her by her father.
The amount involved is 81, 600.
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A Tariff to Benefit the Laborer.
Madison Courier

A tariff to benefit the American laborer
the American farmer, the American manu-
facturer and the American consumer is the
kind of a tariff we are in favor of To so
adjust import duties to cover all the points
is difficult task, but the last Republican
Congress has shown disposition to do it.
and has succeeded in effecting considerable
improvement in that direction. The Democ-
racy resolve against any effort in this direc-
ton. They want tariff for revenue only"
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II is not necessary to build up Arguments
Of words in defense of the tariff. A COM
America is enough. The following table
shows the wages received by workmen in
English potteries and the rates paid the
same class of men in this country;
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And They Keep At 1t.

MuulBOn OOurltr.
The object of politics, according to the
Democratic mind in Indiana, is to get office
Ito get Office at all hazards regardless of the
interests of the people, the cost to the tax
payer, the injustice worked upon the blind,
the deaf, the insane. Office Office, offieei
Shame upon such partyl