Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-04-12


tiOn to its:duties, or if the worthy secretary
has advanced too far beyond tho three
score and ten " allotted to man, to possess
the activity required by his position, it is
no derogatiOn to character in either case
to say it would be we'll for them to resign.
Without personal preferences of any
kind, we must all desire to see the board
of public charities rendered as efficient as
possible. Yours very truly,
PHILIP G. GARRETT.
Philadelphia, April II, 1888.
A Protective Christian.
Washington American Register.
Hon. John G. Blanchard, of Michigan,
made speech which every workingmaa
in the country should read. Blanchard is
a lumber dealer. He said I" am high
tariff on lumber, but low tariff on salt,
copper, iron, wool, cotton, leather, glass,
etc. l will tell you why own timber
lands and sell stumpages; besides Ioperate
largely myself, and this tariff puts mouey
into my pocket. get So por 1000 more
for my boards. have just sold 5000, 600
of lumber for $165O per 1000 mill run !;
pretty good price. Voices That's So;
that's 500 Well, think 60, too. But
for tho tariff should not have got SO
much by 50 a thousand. Now, 50
thousand on 5000, 900 is just $4,000.
That is the difference to me in one opera
tion between high tariff and FREQ lumber.
am for high tariff on lumber, am. This
blessed tariff, they tell us, is all for the
benefit of our American laborer. What
do you suppose did with the $4,000 =?
Divided it among my workmen Not a
bit of it put it into my old calfskin
NJ l;.S IT, T
the only protecteH American laborer !!
Wages depend on supply and demand, my
friends, aud not on tariff taxes. When you
see two men after one boss, wages are low
but when you see two bosses after
one man, wages are high and
that is tie whole of 1.-THE theory
principle and practice. l am for
high tariff on lumber; eau you doubt
it? And in this can prove to you; that
I am Christian. The good book tells us
that he that provideth not for his own
household hath denied tho faith and is
worse than an infidel. Now, I provide for
my own household, do, for l am in favor
of high tariff on lumber. Therefore am
a Christian, aud expect to go to heaven,
politically. But you farmers who have
houses, barns, sheds, pigpens and fences
| to build, what are you? 1ntidels, every
one of yOu-'wOrse than infidels' you
provide not for your households, but for
mine Now, if you won't be Christians
and provide for your own households, just
keep right on voting the Republican ticket
and 60 to-Hades."
Railroad Matters.
The Connecticut House of Representa-
tives yesterday, by vote of $50 to 81,
passed a bill prohibitiug.the railroad COM
pauies i'll that state from discrimination in
freights by charging more for a short
haul of freights than for 4 long haul 8;
"that is, railroad company cannot
charge 4 higher rate for carrying freight
from New York to Hartford or any other
point on it's route than is charged for the
same class Of freight from New York to
Boston,"
The directors of tho Baltimore s. Ohio
| railroad company at meeting yesterday
| in Baltimore, declared semi-annual divi.
dend of per cent. on the stock of the
main stem and tho Washington branch.
1t was stated that " tho result of the
financial half year shows, after the pay
ment of the dividend, surplus of more
than S70O, 900 to be added to the surplus
fund, which is not represented by stock
nor bonds, and which fund now amounts
to upwards of $4,000, 000."
Two Little Girls sad Deaths.
Near Mif1lin, May Hershberger and
Anna Fisher, aged about eight years each,
were on their way home from school, and
had to cross a creek. By the side of the
creek stood an old stone barn, a tumble
down, deserted building. As the little
girls were in the middle of the stream,
stepping from stone to stone, the side of
tho old barn foil outward, and the heavy
stones covered and crushed them, killing
them instantly. A small boy who witness
cd the accident, gave the alarm, and men
soon hurried to the spot. Some of the
stones were SO large that it required two
men to lift them. The dead bodies of the
little ones were taken homo, and will be
taken to tho grave yard in Que hearse.
May Hershberger was the daughter of the
late DR.. Hershberger, and Anna Fisher
the daughter of DR.. A. J. Fisher.