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The Republican journal., 1886-09-02

savings in Maine for the two periods show
that in January, 1861, the people had less
than million and half in bank, while in
January, 1886, the people had over thirty
six millions in bank
During this period it must be remembered
that the increase of population in the nine
States has been about thirty-fve per cent,
while the increase of deposits in Savings
Banks has been at the rate of eight hun
dred per cent.
1t must be remembered that seventy-fve
per cent of this vast sum belongs to the wage
workers. The vast number of depositors
may be inferred from the fact that in Maine,
where the aggregate population is less than
seven hundred thousand, the thirty six mil
lions of deposits are divided between
10000 persons, showing that about one
in six of the total population is depositor
and that the average to each is about three
hundred and twenty dollars.
The figures with which we are dealing
have been confined to the nine States named
because in 1861 the manufacturing done
in this country was mainly confined
to those States. But the thou
sand millions of savings by the workers
within their borders become still more signiti-
cant, an economic fact, when we remember
that since 1861 the great body of Northwestern
tive Tariff have in turn developed an enormous
aggregation of manufacturing industries.
Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin,
are no longer devoted to agriculture solely,
but have mass of manufacturing industries
larger in aggI egate value than all the Manu-
features in all the States of the Union on the
day Mr.. Lincoln was first inaugurated,
And yet another comparison may be made
still more embarrassing to the Free
Trade doctrrnaires and more difficult
for them to answer. While the American
workmen in nine states working under pro-
tective tariff, have over thousand millions
of dollars in savings banks, the vastly greater
mass of working men in England, Ireland,
Scotland and Wales, the whole United King
dom, all working under free trade have less
than four hundred millions of dollars in the
aggregate both in Savings Banks and Postal
Banks. These figures and these dollars are
the most persuasive of arguments and the
conclusion they teach is so plain that the
running man may read.
THE LABOR QUESTION.
The leading feature in the industrial field
of 1885 and 1856 is the discomfort among the
men who earn their bread by skilled and by
unskilled labor. Uneasiness and uncertain
ty are found on all sides; there are wise
aims among many and with not few there is
aimlessness with its inevitable result of dis
appointment and encouragement. The man
who could by any prescription remove this
discomfort and at once restore harmony and
happiness would be philosopher, patriot and
statesman. The man who processes to be
able to do it will generally prove to be a
compound of empiricisrn and ignorance. But
in the end, perhaps by toilsome paths, with
many blunders and some wrongs,no one need
The Republican journal., 1886-09-02

Democratic members supported the Free
Trade side of the question; but a small mi
nority, uniting with the Republicans, found
themselves able to defeat the measure. There
upon the Democratic papers quite generally
throughout the country denounced the recu-
SAINTS as unfaithful to the creed of their party,
and the journal in New York which is said to
reflect the views of the National Administra-
ton gave formal notice to all Democrats,
North and South, who lean towards the policy
of Protection, that they must revise their
opinions or leave the party, because with
their views they can find no sympathy in
Democratic ranks and no standing room on
Democratic platforms.
These leading facts indicate that the policy
of Protection versus Free trade, is ar issue
shaped and determined no longer by sectional
preference but has become general and
misunderstanding distinct, well marked
line of division between the Republican and
Democratic parties. | do not recall these
facts as preparatory to an analytic discussion
of the Protective system, but with the view of
applying them to certain current movements
and current events.
The hostility of the Democratic party
to Protection has entailed upon the
country vast loss and has in many ways OBJ
structed the progress and development of GER
1873 and the contemporaneous qualification of
the Southern vote, the Democratic party
has, with the exception of a single Congress,
held control of the House of Representatives.
The power to originate Revenue Bills has
been exclusively in their hands and they
have used it to the confusion, the detrlment,
in many instances to the destruction of
new enterprises throughout the Union.
Confidence once shaken is hard to restore
and the schemes of improvement which
have been abandoned within the past ten
years on account of the uncertainty
of our Revenue Laws constantly menaced by
the Democratic party in Congress would have
caused prosperity and happiness in many
communities which have felt the discouraging
influence of dull times.
The Democratic party is constantly using
the comparative dizziness in business, which
their own course in Congress for twelve
years has largely developed, as an argument
against the Policy of Protection. But it is
worth while to compare the condition of the
country in this year of grace with its condi-
ton the year before the Republicans succeed
ed in enacting their first Protective Tariff.
In the nine States which still dothe larger
amount of manufacturing for the country and
which did it nearly all quarter of century
ago, it is interesting and instructive to COM
pare their financial conditions at the begin
ming of 1861 and at the beg inning of 1886. The
States referred to are the six of New England,
with New York, New Jersey and Penn
sylvania. In 1861 the country pre-
scented condition brought about by nearly
an entire generation of Free Trade, and the
aggregate amount which the people had ac-
cumulated in their Savings Banks during
that long period was less than one hundred
and sixty millions of dollars. In the same
Sfafaa on tho frat dpu of IannarY 1896. the
The Republican journal., 1886-09-02
HON. JAMES G. BLAINE'S SPEECH
DELIVERED AT A
Republican Mass Meeting
at Sebago Lake,
TUESDAY, AUGUST Gath.
at Sebago Lake,
DELIVERED AT A

Fellow Citizens:
new Administration of the National gov
eminent is usually unvexed in its first year
except by the opportunities and the disap-
pointments of its own supporters. The
people at large give small heed for the time
to public affairs and the discussion of politi-
cal issues is left as a somewhat perfunctory
task to opposing partisans in Congress This
season of apparent Indifference is caused in
part by the natural ebb of the tide which
flowed so high in the preceding national cleo
ton and in part also by the American in
stinct of fair play which demands that
the party freshly installed may have free
opportunity and full time to lay OUT its ground
and mature its measures. This period of
popular inaction is thus not only advantage
GUS for rest, but it prepares those who are the
ultimate arbters in all matters of public con-
Germ to give patient hearing to fair argument
when the time arrives for popular discussion.
The approaching election of governor, of
four representatives to new Congress,
and a legislature that shall choose
senator of the United States,
revives the interest in political top
les in Maine and subjects to inquiry
the various issues which separate our people
into distinct political parties. Have the old
differences between the Republican and Dem
ocratic organizations been adjusted. or have
they grown more palpable and more pro-
nounced? Are the questions over which the
Republicans and the Democrats have waged
long contest to be now Abandoned? Is lltiga-
ton in the court Of public opinion to be dis
continued and a settlement effected by enter
ing s'nelther party on the Peoples docket?
Or, on the other hand, do the American people
just now begin to see with clearer vision the
aims and intentions, the methods and the meas
ures of each party land are they waking to anew
and more earnest struggle over policies that
are irreconcilable, over measures that are in
herently and inevitably in conflict? Let US
inquire of these things in spirit of candor!
The TARIFF Policy.
1t is in the first place especially worthy of
observation that in the history of industrial
questions no party in time of peace has ever
been more united in support of policy than
is the Republican in support of Protective
Tariff to-day. At the late session of Congress
designed to first weaken and ultimately des-
troy the Protective policy, was resisted by 80
compact an organization of the Republican
members that single vote from New York
and two or three votes from Minnesota were all
that broke the absolute unanimity of the Party.
And this was rendered still more striking by
the fact that the organs of Republican opin.
ion in New York and Minnesota declare that
these exceptional votes were adverse to the
wishes of a large majority of those who
elected the dissenting members.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1886-04-24
LABOR NOTES.

The switchmen of the Baltimore
and Ohio r. R., at Chicago, struck
yesterday week. They demanded
the discharge of eight non.union
men, which demand the company
refused to grant. 1t appears that
the eight worked during the strike
Of 1881. This action is worse than
Gould does. The Lake Shore
switchmen followed suit for a SIM
liar reason.
The N. o. States doubts the
ability of Mr.. Powderly to control
Knights of Labor. There is no
ubt about it. He can't. When
ne ordered work resumed after the
famous conference with Gould his
order vas not obeyed generally,
and the few who did obey, quit
work very soon. Mr.. Powderly is
an able and apparently fair man =.
What can he do with the material
he has to work with?
In the Third Avenue street car
strike in New York, an officer of
the Empire Protective Association
said ''if the Third Avenue Co.,
did not give in, within forty-eight
hours, there would be general
tie up Of all the horse car lines in
the city ; if this did not succeed
the movement would be extended
to Brooklyn; then to Philadelphia
aud the other cities of the United
States.'' He said "THIS COULD
BE DONE IN TWO DAYS."
Is not labor getting a little dan
gerous.
In q public speech at Kansas
City. Mr.. Barry of Saginaw, Mich.
member Of the general executive
board Of the Knights of Labor,
thigh authority On April Is, said
"tbat the present strike had set
tied into = contest between the
Knights Of Labor and Jay Gould,
and they proposed to put forth
svesy energy within the orders
power 70 bring the magnate TO
|erms cycn 10 tho interruption of
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1886-04-24
Miraculous Escape,

W. w. Reeds, druggist, of Win.
chester, Ind, writes: lone of my
customers, Mrs. Louisa Pike, Bar
tonia, Randolph Co., Ind, was a
long sufferer with Consumption,
and was given up to die by
her physicians. She heard
Of DR.. Kings New Discovery
Tor Consumption, and began buy
ing it of me. In six months time
she walked to the city, a distance
of six miles, and is so much i'm
proved she has quit using it. She
feels she owes her life to it."
Free Trail Bottles at Mcclellan
Bros & Coltharp's.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1886-04-24
Saved His Life.

Mr.. D. 1. Wilcoxson, of Horse
Cave, Ky, says he was, for many
years, afflicted with Phthisic also
Dialects; the pains were almost un.
endurable and would sometimes al.
most throw him into commissions
He tried Electric Bitters and got re-
lief from first bottle and after taking
SIX bottles, was entirely cured and
had gained in flesh eighteenpounds.
Says he positively belives he
would have died, had it not been
for the relief afforded by Electric
Bitters. Sold at fifty cents a bottle
by Mcclellan Bros & Coltharp
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1886-04-24

The new card of Messrs. Stone
l. Murphy, appears in this issue OF
the TINES. The steady increase OF
the business of ills able firm has
compelled the opening of an office
in Monroe. Capt. Stone is well
and favorably known through the
whole country, between here and
Monroe, and Mr.. Murphy's rapidly
increasing acquaintance, will soon
make him well known through the
same section. Litigants who fail
to get him on their side, are learn
ing of his ability to their sorrow.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1886-04-24
NOTICE.

We hereby give notice that we will
at the next session of the General
Assembly of Louisiana, have a bill
introduced, exempting our landed
property on Islands Nos. 100 and
lO1 from special levee taxation.
Jos. WITHEROw,
w. II. EDRINGToN.
Milliken's Bend. La, April 10, 'S6.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1886-04-24
PROCEEDINGS OF THE SCHOOL
BOARD.

TALLULAH, La. April 10, 1886.
The Board met in regular session
the following members being pres.
ent, to-wit: w. H. Harvey Presi.
dent pro tenn, W. B. King, Sol
FriedJ j. Erwin and A. C. Monette
Absent: S.B. Mcclellan.
The minutes of the last meeting
were read and adopted.
Mr.. Slack appeared before the
Board to explain the relation &C.,
of certain lands belonging TO the
School Board, whereupon, on mo-
ton of A. G. Monettc, seconded by
S. Fried, the following resolution
was adopted to-wit:
Be 1t resolred by the Board Of
School Directors Of the Parish o.
Madison, That whereas this Board
has received information that there
are tracts of land belonging to the
schools of this Parish, which are
now held by parties from whom no
revenue is derived and other tracts
for which legal proceedings mus,
be instituted.
Therefore be it resolved that A.
L. Slack be and he is hereby en-
ployed to examine into and report
to this Board the list status of the
school lands now owned, and which
should be under the control of this
Board, and that said Slack upon so
reporting be allowed a reasonable
compens alton for his said services
to be hereafter ascertained.
Be it further resolved that said
Slack, with the assistance of the
District Attorney, Jos. E. Rams lell,
be authorized to bring all necessary
suits for the recovery ofsuch lands
as are now held by other parties,
belonging to this Board and as q
compensation for what services
the said Attorneys shall render
they shall receive 20 per cent of
the amount, or value of the land or
value thereof for which judgment
may be recovered, provided said
Attorneys shall receive no cOmpen-
sation except in the event of sue
cess, and provided further that all
necessary costs be furnished by the
Board.
On motion of s. Fried, seconded
by A. C. Monette, it was ordered
that colored schools be located at
Waverly, and on A. X. Montgom-
ery's plantation IN Ward No. 6
same to continue for the term of
five months, and teachers were as
signed to the same.
The Treasurer's report for the
first quarter ending April Sd 1886.
was submitted, same showing .
balance due the School Fund of
81, O44, 78.
The Secretary reported that Mr..
Rutland had placed to the credit of
the School Fund the sum of $l72.-
o..
The Superintendent was author
lied to close the public schools the
last Friday, the 25th of June.
The Board ordered that regular
meetings be held on Fridays, in
stead of Mondays, as heretofore.
Sundry bills for school supplies
and fuel were allowed, and the
Board adjourned to meet on the
first Friday, the I'd day of July.
w. H. HARVEY,
President pro tenn.
A. c. MoNErTE, Secretary.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1886-04-24
SUCCESSION NOTICE.
State Of Louisiana, Parish Of Madison
9th District Court.

Estate of the Minors, No. 243,
Minnie, Lulie and Eliza Lucas ] Probate
Whereas. Hugh r. Lucas has presented
to said Court his annual &C ,ouuts as
Tutor to Minors of said succession, to-
gether with his petition praying that
said accounts be approved, confirmed
and homologated,
quired to show cause, il any they have,
within ten days from date hereof, why
the prayer of the petitioner should not
be granted.
WITNESS the Honorable E. ].
Delony, Judge Of said Court. and the
Official seal thereof, this 18th day Of
April, A. d. 1886.
M. DAWSON, Clerk.
A true copy attest; F. NJ. DAWSON,
Clerk.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1886-04-24
SHERIFF SALE.
state OF Louisiana, Parish OF Madison
8th Judicial District Court.
JNo. B. LALLASDE,
VS.. No. 593.
GEO. T. IRRELEVANT
SHERIFF SALE.

~ AO' i . NI~E' ANA
BY virtue of a writ of seizure and
sale, to me directed from the Hon.
orable Eighth Judicial District Court
for the Parish of Madison aforesaid,
in the above entitled cause, / will
proceed to sell, at public auction,
at the door of the Court House in
the town of Tallulah, in Madison
Parish, Louisiana, on the 3rd Sat-
urday, the
18th day Of May, A. D. 1885,
between the hours prescribed by
law, all the right title and interest
of Geo. T. Trezevant in and to the
following described property to-
wit: Twenty mules, seized in the
above suit.
Terms of Sale.-To the highest
bidder for cash, without appraise-
ment.
II. B. HOLMES. Sheriff.
Sheriffs Office, Tallulah, La, 18th
April, 1886.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1886-04-24

1t is said that President Cleve-
land will be married in June to
Miss Folsom, the daugh ter of a
former law partner. Maybe she
will put some new ideas into his
head. 1t is to be hoped so, for the
old stock he has on hand is pretty
we'll shop worn.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1886-04-24

The Helena, Ark, water prophet
Mr.. Miles, now sets May 3, as the
date for the highest water, unless
a levee breaks. He has it all fig
ured out.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1886-04-24

Last Wednesday week ago, a
cyclone passed through parts OF
Dakota, Iowa and Minnesota. Over
seventy-five lives were lost. The
towns of St. Cloud, Sank. Rapids,
Burlington, No, and Coon Rapids
Iowa were badly injured.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1886-04-24
Bucklen's Arnica Salve.

THE BEST SALvE in the world fol
Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers. Salt
Rheum, Fever Sores, letter, Chapped
Hands, Chilbains, Corns, and all Skin
Eruptions, and positively cures Piles
or no pay required: 1t is guaranteed &c
give perfect satisfaction, or money re.
funded. Price % cents per box.
For SALE By NJ cClellan Bros &
Coltharp.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1886-04-24

No stock, bonds, notes, contracts and
similar obligations of this company,
shall be bindieg and of of force and eff
| feet against the Company,
unless signed by the President, counter
signed by the Secretary, and stamped
with the seal of the company.
ARTICLE VII.
This act of Incorporation may be
changed modified, or otherwise altered
or said company may be dissolved.
with the assent of two-thirds in amount
of the capital stock thereof, at any gen.
eral meeting conven ed for such purpose,
fter three months notice given in the
principal or official newspaper publish
ed in the Parish of Madison, Louisiana.
ARTICLE VIII.
Books of subscription may be opened
bv any one of the said Incorporators
within ninety days from the date hereof,
at the dOmicile of the company, and
said Corporation shall be authorized to
commence business when so much as
Fifteen Thousand dollars ISIS. 600, shall
have been subscribed, and fifty per
centum thereof paid in, and said Cor
poration sh al have the right to receive
in payment for such subscriptions to it's
Capital Stock, Real or Personal prop
erty, or work done.
ARTICLE TX.
Whenever this Company shall be
dissolved either by limitation or from
any other cause, its affairs shall be
liquidated under the superintendent
of two stockholders. to be appointed by
the board of stockholders. for that pur-
regulations as said Board of Stockhold-
ers shall impose at the time of their
selection and appointment.
ARTICLE X.
GEO. G. WADDrLL, GEO. A. WADDILL
and T. G.. BEDFORD have been selected
and named as the first Board of Direct
ors of said Company and shall serve as
such until the first day of June, A. d.,
1886, or un til their successors shall have
been elected.
Thus done and passed at Tallulah, in
the Parish of Madison, State Of Louisi-
ana, in presence of F. L. Maxwell, and
w. II d. McF arland, competent witnesses
who sign with said parties and me, said
Clerk and Ex-Officio Notary on the day
and date first herein written after due
reading hereof.
Witnesses:
F. L. MAXWELL,
w. III. MCFARLAND.
~. H. d. BowMAR,
49, 4. d. FARRAR,
! LIS. GEO. G. WADDILL,
~ ALT. B. PITTMAN,
GEO. A. WADDILL,
w. F. SMITH,
~ #. NJ. DAWSON, Clerk District
I LIS. Court. and tx -Officio Notary
~ Public.
A true copy attest: F. NJ. DAWSON,
Clerk and Ex-O fficio Recorder.
April IL. 1886.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1886-04-24

Some of the North Louisiana pa
pers don't appear to have had
enough of the Satanic Co., and yet
it is hard matter to punish swim
dler.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1886-04-24

the Commerce OF tne country IL
necessary"
Just think over this diabolical
proposition. Is wolf more saw
age9
Some one, last week, in an ar
ticle published in some paper,
stated that in marked contrast to
the trouble on the Gould lines, was
the state of affairs among the New
England manufactures, where
everything was lovely, and no
striking was going on. Now for
the facts:
CLINTON, MASS, April 10
Twenty Overs of the Bigelow mills
who were mobbed yesterday were
shipped to their homes in northern
New York this morning. They
were thoroughly frightened, and
refused to return to the mill under
| any circumstances.
GARDINER, Mass, April 16. One
hun dred and seventy winders in
the rattan works of Haywood Bros.
Il Co., are out on a strike, which
throws about 800 persons out of
employment.
HARTFORD, Conn, April 16.-
Two hundred weavers employed
by the Broad Brook Wooden Mills
struck work to-day for an advance
in wages of 10 per cent.
PROVIDENCE, R. l., April 10Th
Yesterday 113 weavers of the
Peacedale Manufacturing Co.,
struck against 10 per cent reduction
in wages.
NORWICH, COM, April 16.-The
striking weavers at the Baltic mill
have returned to their looms at
their former wages. The striking
mill spinners have left town, but
new help is being engaged.
That's how lovely it was in New
England.
The Knights of Labor have a
label that is put on goods. Do you
know why? 1t is for the purpose
of compelling the employers to en-
ploy Knights. 1t comes in handy,
also, in boycotting.
1t is proposed to boycott Gould
by ordering merchants and manu-
facturers not to ship by his lines.
In commenting on the strike of
the employees of the Third Ave
Railroad Co., New York, the
World says: While perfectly
right in seeking better pay for their
fellows, they went too far in de-
handing that six men whom they
do not like should be discharged
from the company's service, and
driven out to suffer with their fam
lilies. They had no right while
claiming for themselves the liberty
to act as free men, to deny to 9TH
ers the same privilege. While
exercising their undoubted privi-
lege TO regulate their own business,
they had no right to undertake to
dictate how the business of the
corporation they serve should be
conducted.
The World is a good friend of
Labor.
A New York dispatch announced
early this week that the Knights of
Labor proposed to boycott the
Western Union Telegraph Co.,
wherever competing line existed.
The order claims to disapprove of
boycotting.
An attempt was made Thursday
week, by two men, to assassinate
one of the militia Sentinels in East
St. Louis.
Mr.. Hoxie's butcher was threat
enen with the boycott unless he
ceased TO furnish Mr.. Hoxie meat.
He declined to cease.
Two sentinels were fired on in
East St. Louis Tuesday. OF course
no knight of Labor would DO such
a thing.
The Bishop of Madrid was shot
by priest last Sunday while as
cen ding the steps of the Cathedral.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1886-04-24

The Bishop of Madrid was shot
by a priest last Sunday while as
cen ding the steps of the Cathedral.
The wounds proved fatal.