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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-13
NEARLY WIPED OUT.
How Democratic Extravaganza Has
Settled the Surplus Question.

Senator Thurman, in one OF his
rambling and Senile speeches., said:
"You have in the Treasury of the United
States more than hundred million dollars,
utterly idle, for not one dollar OF which has the
Government any use, but which IS Kept out OF
the pockets of the people, who might use 1t in
their business and to their great advantage
and prosperity. Now. the Democratic party
Say that ought not to be, and say So"
This is a repetition of the Hendricks
talkin 1854 The actual surplus in the
Treasury, according to the public debt
statement of August l, is Sl06.349,5 $50.
On the 1st of August, 1897, it was 49,
69S, 594 Every dollar of this might
have been applied to the reduction of
the public debt if the Administration
had so desired. and in about two years
every dollar of it will have to be so
applied, and very large amount in
addition. 1t i'll becomes Mr.. Thurman
to arraign the Republican party on ac-
count of the surplus in the Treasury.
True. the Republican party made the
laws and provided the machinery
by which the Government obtains
its revenue, but if the Demo-
cratic party had done its duty there
would be no surplus in the Treasury.
1t has neglected National interests and
ignored the plain requirements of the
law in order to create surplus TO be
used as campaign argument. 1t
wanted to use the surplus as breast
work from behind which to attack the
protective tariff, and therefore the
surplus has been nursed and ooddled as
a Democratic necessity. But, from
present appearances, Democratic nurs-
ing can not greatly prolong the ex-
istence of the surplus. Democratic
incompetence and extravaganza are
likely to wipe it out. An Associated
Press dispatch from Washington states
that the Government expenditures for
the current year will exceed those of
Vast year by S64, 054, 730, and will come
within $17, 794,00 of absorbing the en-
tire revenues of the current year. In
other words. the surplus revenue of the
current year will only be $17.794,O00
Another year or two of Democratic
administration would make an end OF
the surplus. indianapolis journal.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-13
The Bandana Fizzie.

What has become of the Thurman
bandana? Why has it ceased to wave?
What is in the wind now that the ban
dana is not futtering in the breeze?
Just before and just after the nomina-
ton of Thurman that red pOcket-hand-
kerchief, the memorial of snutfy and
sneezing days, was houted everywhere.
Now it has disappeared from the ex-
terror of political clubs, it is no longer
drawn out of thousands of Democratic
pockets and waved as the sign of vic
tory. Why this mysterious disappear
ance? All at once thousands OF Demo-
cratic voices are dumb about that ban
dana. The reports come in that every
body who has made investments in
that particular article is ''stuck. The
manufacturer can't work off his bales
of goods. The wholesale dealer can't
find market The retail dealers are
counting the bandana as so much dead
stock. Even the street gamins are
wont to say: We're awfully stuck on
them red things" Did it occur to the
manufacturer that the bloody-loOking
flags he was piling up meant non-pro-
lection to American industries. The
red color was ominous. Itwas fetch
that did not work. Instead Of the
charm and the illusion, it was a dis
illusion. Somehow it worked as sort
of eye-opene-. When people got their
ayes open they did not want the ban
dana If that is not the true explana-
ton there Is still room for a more sat-
is<actory one.-Sdn francisco Bulletin.
l@Civil-Service reform in Chicago
seems to be principally efficient in
squeezing campaign subscriptions out
9f postal clerks and carriers.--Pitts-
6xrgh Dispatch
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-13

York, over both American and Canadian rails,
be suspended, when il has no relation whatev-
er 10 The fishery question?
why should the large traffic between Que
bee and Montreal on the one hand and Port
land on the other, by which Portland becomes
the winter ro-t OF Canada, be summary
sto 4 ed at the capr ce OF the President be-
Cause q bis chagr.n over the course OF an In
GeJendeut bu., IS he considers, refractory Sen
ate: Is il the design CT the President 10 make
the fishery question cd Gus by embarrassing
cOmTle-cia; relations and commercial exchange
along ;h-ee thousand miles OF frontier, and
10 iufiict upon American communities neeo-
less, vexatious and a perilous confusion OF
trade!
If Congress VIII give him the enactments
VII Oh he asks he W II give them retaliation
until they cry hold. enough, and viii allow
him TO settle the fishery question N the pre-
else manner which the Senate now contempt
uously rejects. Or, after all, fellow-citlzens,
is not the Presidents position mere political
device 10 divert the attention OF the American
reo;le from his free-trade message and FROM
the Mills tarln bill. Is not buster on the fish
cries to be tie plan OF the campaign for the
Demo Graf larty: Are not permits for BRAY
ado to be issued by the political agents OF the
Administration, marked on the back, Good till
after the first Tuesday in November: We
have cur partisan differences at home and set
lie IneIn on our own Sol III OUT own "ay' ou'
towards all foreign powers on the globe we
should present one united, ind visible Ameri-
can Republic. But this was Eot done. The
treaty was launched as a Democratic partisan
measure, rather than a patriotic American
measure; and the London papers have been
following their usual vocation OF eulog iZing the
Democracy and abusing the Republ cans with
greatly increased vituperation against the Re-
publican party ever since it was found that the
Senate was bent on main tanning the National
dignity
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CURRENT COMMENT.


s@~With President Cleveland, Great
Britain knows where she is.-UiaSgOU
(ScotIand) HsraId.
g1SThe name of the rebel Brooks"
attached to the stars and stripes is an
insult to the American Aag.-AarOra
(U.) Beacon.
gy~Mr. Cleveland has taken his
stand on free trade. And on
that broad question Mr.. Cleveland's
candidature naturally and necessarily
carries English sympathy.-Loado~
Globe.
BS~Caesar had mis- BrUtus, Charles
the First his Cromwell, and Grover
Cleveland his Calvin Brice. And just
think how Caesar and Charles the First
would have pitied Cleyelaud had they
known Philadelphia Proas.
@~Free trade means scarcity OF
work, low wages and CTeE-crOwded
almshouse5. Protection mes7s the re-
verse. The working people viil soon
be called to choose between TIA two
Labor Herald.
FHe (Cleveland) is terror 10 i
poor soldiers widow after Il pension
of $12 month; but when it comes to
the distribution of $4,000 900 of the
public money to please the politi-
clans he is not on deck.-R0cheSter
Post Express (Ind. Dem.).
M%A Montana exchange says:
President Cleveland will make nc
changes in his cabinet after the It'll
of March next" He won't have to.
The whirligig of a few short months
will remove all that responsibility
from his shoulders.-St. Paul Pioneer
Press.
hTDemocrats admit that Dakota is
entitled to Statehood, butt don't
vote Democratic, you know. The En-
glish Parliament admits that home
rule for Ireland is just, but-under
home rule the Irish would make their
own laws. Do you Minneapolis
Tribune.
Referring to General Harri-
SUI , 0DCSCIltS, OAlttll 1iAct1 III NC
the Republicans have Il candidate who
knows how to help his party. The
Democratic boss does Cleveland in
justice. The latter is probably help
ing his party as much by his silence
as General Harrison is by his speeches.
indianapolis Journal.
81 George Alfred Townsend, in 3
recent letter 10 the Democratic Gin.
cinnati Enquirer, gives long inter-
view with Dunlap, the New York
halter. Among other things, Mr..
Dunlap said: II work seven hundred
hands. At the last election | set in for
Grover Cleveland, and used my best
influences with my men to accomplish
his election. Now. l don't think he
will get a vote out Of the establish
mept -
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-13
The Horse and the Ass.

1t was a carewOrn beast of burden,
who had long but narrow pasture on
the highway, and he looked over the
fence and addressed a well-fed horse
in a rich meadow: MY equine friend,
open the bars and let me in, and l will
assist you in lowering the surplus"
"A surplus does not worry me as
much as a deficit WOULD" remarked
the horse, as he slowed away some
clover.
but look at this blessed law of corr-
petition, and how it would equaliae
the burden of mastication, remarked
the stranger.
There is no competition about it. ="
remarked the horse; II am in the
meadow and you are i'll the road"
But" remarked the stranger.
don't you think few more feeders
would stimulate business?"
Without doubt when the feed got
short" slyly remarked the horse.
''Well. but this fence was only q
war measure, and now We are at peace.
why not take it down." and the
stranger sighed.
The fence works tip top aEl the
feed gets taller every year. so jog
along, my friend"
And the stranger picked another
thistle in the road and moved along.
He was free-trade ass with ears like
pair of cavalry boot-lsgA-Atbans
On II Journal
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-13
CIeveIand's Craftsmanship.

Veto a private pension bill grant
ing few dollars month to Union
veteran, Have the war record of the
poor devil searched infinitely to dis
cover any fawst Magnify the small
est objections. Never give him the
benefit of doubt! Save a few thou
sand dollars year to the American
people. Allow a river and harbor
bill appropriating money for trout
streams, log runways, private creeks
and stagnant bayous, to become lawl
Carefully avoid all reference to the ex-
travagant and corrupt features OF the
bill! Allow it to become law with
nut word or comment Waste a large
.,rcportion of so, 100000 during the
coming year to the American people!
This contrast illustrates the recent pol
icy of our retrenchment ana reform
President-Al5any OK Z Express
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ton. That's the kind of a 'bigot"

ton. That's the kind of "bigot''
he is.
But what kind of bigot IS Grover
Cleveland? Paint his party and you
have him too. He is Democrat; was
born Democrat; will die a Democrat.
He was a Democrat when Democ-
racy meant human slavery. He
was a Democrat when Democ-
racy meant, in the language of Judge
fancy, that black man had no
rights which white man was bound to
respect" He was a Democrat when
Democracy meant the slave pen, the
whipping post and the auction blocks.
He is Democrat who is without any
part whatever in any of the glorious
achievements of his day and generation.
The Union was saved without him.
! Our armies were raised without him.
Our battles were fought without him.
Slavery was abolished without him.
| Secession was shot to death without
him. Suffrage was made universal
without him. The grand systems of
! finances that have made orr country
the wonder and admiration of the
world were all conceived and executed
without him. Recall if you can the
worst days and the lowest depths aud
most infamous practices of Democracy,
and then paint you man who has
lived through it all, been part of it all,
| and in sympathy with it all, and you
| have Grover Cleveland as he entered
upon his Administration. From then
until now he has been himself the
Democratic party. He has ruled it
with a rod of iron. He has led it
| whittier he would. He has not al
lowed it to have any will inconsistent
with his own.
Cleveland has done more to stir up
spirit of sectiOnalism than any other
man who has figured in the politics of
this country since Appomattox. Every
body had settled down to the con-
clusion that the Union side had
triumphed and that the war was settled
1 according to the terms prescribed in
, the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fiji
/ teenth amendments, and that these
provisions must be in good faith, &C
cepted and upheld. But how stands
the case to-day. Let me answer by
reading you a few extracts from re-
cent utterance5 of representative
Southern men. They show clearly
that the mind of that people has been
turned back to where it was during
the war with respect to the right of
the doctrine of secession, and that we
are to have another spell of the
Haunting of that heresy in our
faces But consider further how
there is no longer denial or
apology for multiplying and trampling
under foot the constitutional amend
ment5 comforting suffrage on black
men. For years, ever since 1875, this
work. has been going on, but not until
Cleveland's Administration Las there
been an open avowal and attempted
! justification of it.
In the language of Senator Voorhees,,
let us hope and pray that God Almighty
may avert such a calmity to this land
as the reelection of Grover Cleveland.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-13
THE FISHERY MESSAGE.

Mr.. Blaine Pitilessly Exposes the Presi-
dents Latest stump Speech.
Hon. James G. Blaine delivered his
second public address on the political
issues of the day at Lewiston. Me. He
spoke with unusual precision and
vigor about Cleveland's fishery mes
sage, saying among other things:
"Idid not happen to have an opportunity of
readingI The full text OF President Cleveland's
message on the fisheries subject until this
morning, and, with all due respect to the Chief
Executive of the Nation, must say that con
steering all the circum stances, it is the most
extraord nary document that ever was sent
from the White House to the Capitol Here
are the main facts of the issue between Cana la
and the United States or pe-hars, TO speak
mere exactly. between Great Britain and the
United States in respect to the fisheries Il
was our belief. and still is. that after the art
cles Of the treaty OF Washington relating
20 the fisheries had expired the Ca
madam Government behaved in an IN
neigheorly, unseemly and unjust manner
towards our fishermen in refusing them
rights which they had , enjoyed py
long prescription. In order to bring the
Government Of the Dominion to just appre-
citation of the subject Congress authorized the
President, in 1887, TO sdopt at his discretion a
policy OF suitable retaliation. directing, among
other things, that whenever and so long as
American vessels were deprived Ui CONNER
cial privileges in the ports OF Canada Canadian
vessels should be deprived of like privileges in
the ports of the United States. This, If may
indulge in appropriate slang, was a genuine
tit-for-tst policy, in which the punishment was
admirably fitted TO the crime. President
Cleveland declined to enforce the policy and
allowed outrage after outrage upon ogr fishing
vessels 10 go unredressed. He was be?t upon
some form OF negotiation with England,
even against the express wish and will OF the
United States Senate and in defiance OF .he
large share in the treaty making power which
the constitution assigns TO the Senate. Final
ly. without the consent Of the Senate and prs,.s
tically against its protest the President .s-
ganized a commission to frame a treaty that
should settle all points of dispute He taus
gave what WIS never intended by the cons;itu.
tion-a partisan side Of an international dis
eussion. Il was never designed by the foun-
ders of our Government that intercourse Nth
foreign nations should be conducted by Repab-
licans or by Democrats, or by Wings or by
Federalists. II should only be by the NaSor
es a whole.
why should the railways of the United
States that annually transport fifty millions o.
Canadian goods in transit be deprived OF the:l
business and endure large loss on account Of
ssaddsn within Of the President. Why should
<he transit from Detroit TO Buffalo and New
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-13
THE TWO CANDIDATES.
A Suggestive Extract from Governor For
aker's Richmond (Ind.) Speech.

A suggestive Extract from OoFeInor L Or
aker's Richmond (Ind.) Speech.
Let me say to all who want to know
who Harrison is: Think Of the Repub-
lican party. Think of its patriotism,
is heroism, its sacrifices; think of its
humanity, its morality and its match
less craftsmanship. Think of its great
leaders-of Lincoln. Seward, Chase,
Sumner, Morton, Thaddeus Stevens,
Grant, Garfield and Blaine. Recall
their exalted characters, their learn
ing, their culture and refinement, their
great powers of intellect, their love of
liberty and their zeal for human
equality. Remember what they and
their party have done to preserve Ma
tional unity. maintain inviolate our
National honor, and to promote human
welfare. Fill your mind with this
splendid chapter of our history, and
then conceive of man who has been
one of the prominent controlling
factors and chief inspirations in it all,
and you have Benjamin Harrison.
Such a man needs no other or further
eulogy; for when you say OF him that
he is typical of all the broad humanity,
noble generosity, devoted Christianity,
unflinching patriotism, soldierly hero
ism, and unexampled magnanimity
that the Republican party has dis
played. you have accorded him the
highest virtues he can possibly possess.
All this can be said of Benjamin Har-
rison truthfuliy and without exaggera-
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It will be noticed that the wages

II will be noticed that the wages
earned by working people in the coun-
fries enumerated above are very low
As compared with the earnings OF
artisans engaged in the same indus
tries in the United States. The highest
paid worker in Austria is the carpen-
ter and joiner, S.. 10; in Belgium the
printer. 5.94; in France the printer,
&c. "a; in Germany the printer, $500;
In Great Britain the plumber, $3.50;
in Netherlands the tailor, IS, the prin-
fer. plumber, cooper, carpenter, brick
layer and blacksmith coming next at
$3.50; in Switzerland the printer.
E6.77, and in the United States the
bricklayer, $40 to S24; the plasterer,
BIS to $27, and the printer, SIS to S1o
per week.
This table is of peculiar value just
snow to the American working-man,
not only because it shows his standard
pf wages as compared with the foreign
Standard, but because it points out the
occupations that are the best paid in
and it is worthy of observation
that, with hardly any variation.
kt is the workmen in trades
that are Independent OF or pro-
tected from foreign competition that
always receive the greatest cOmpensa-
ton. That is, so the printer in the
United States must set up his type here
tonight so that his paper can be issued
here tomorrow morning, no foreign
article can compete with it. The leaky
barrel is not sent to Europe to be
newly hoped, and the cooper is thus
protected. The broken-down cart or
wagon needs the service of the black
smith on the spot. The plasterer is
from Europe, neither are the bricks of
our houses laid in Europe to bother
and lower the wages of all these worthy
workers, and they are therefore pro-
tected by a law that can not be
evaded-the law OF nature.
The free-traders of the Carlisle school
have appropriated these samples of alb
solutely protected trades to their own
base use. and call attention to the fact
that there is no duty on stone walls, no
duty on brick houses, no duty on plas-
tered houses, etc, and therefore these
traders are not protected; and, because
they are not protected, they flourish.
The argument is very lame one, and
refutes itself. Pittsburgh Dispatch.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-13
The IRON INDUSTRY.
Do Protected Steel Rails Increase the
Farmers Freight Rates

Do Protected Steel Rails Increase the
Farmers Freight Rates
1t will be unnecessary to dllate upon
this argument of the free-trader fur
ther than to give some statistics.
England has reveled in free trade, so
called, for many decades. She manu-
features steel rails and sells them for
about two-thirds the price of them
here. She pays her laborers who
make them less than one-haf paid to
the la5orerS engaged in their manu-
facture here. The railroads purchas-
ing their cheap English rails pay their
cheap English employees on their rail-
ways about one-third the wages paid
to the same class of employees upon our
railways.
The free-trade argument would under
these conditions have the farmer reap
rich benefit from all this cheapness;
but such is not the case. Statistics
show that railway freight charges in
England are about double what they
are in the United States.
tables showing comparative wages
in iron manufactures, and upon rail-
ways. in the United States and En-
gland, have heretofore been given in
previous pages. and but one other viii
be here added, giving the rate OF
wages in the large steel rail manu-
factory on the sea coast in Cumber-
land, EGG, and the one at Joliet, H.:
E,nol5nd .ToLtss
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A VIVID CONTRAST.
Judge Humans and Prince Bismarck's
Remarks on Protection.

hcularhS On ETolectioh'
Judge Thurman is now a very old
man, and so is Prince Bismarck. The
Inter Ocean will reproduce a passage
from q recent speech of each of these
old men. Says the Judge:
No, my friends, Of all the humbugs by which
men were attempted TO be deceived this hum
bug of the laboring man being benefited by
h gh protective tariff is the greatest 1 ever
heard of. All but says some one, il enables
the manufacturer in this country to pay higher
wages to his laboring men, and therefore is a
benefit to them. My fr ends. did you ever
know any manufacturer that paid higher wages
to his hands because OF an increase OF the tar
III: II you did you have met with something
have never seen. There is a man named Bar
mum in this country, great Snowman a mar
who has gathered together in his show more
curiosties than perhaps can be found in any
other single place on the face OF the earth, out
among all his curiosities he has never found
such a curiosity as the manufacturer who paid
higher wages to his hands because OF a raise in
the tariff
1t is submitted, in all courtesy, that
this passage is in a vein of senility
or buffoonery. Let us hear Prince
Bismarck speak:
THE success of the United States in mate
rial development is the most illuStrlouS OF
modern time. The American Nation has not
only successfully borne and suppressed the
most gigantic and expensive war of all history,
but Immediately after d'sbanded Its army,
found work for all its soldiers and marines,
paid OF most OF its debt, given labor and homes
to all the unemployed OF Europe as fast as
they could arrive within the territory, and still
by system CT taxation 50 indirect as not to be
perceived, much less felt. Because it IS my
deliberate judgment that the prosperity of
America is mainly dus TO its system OF protect
i've laws, urge that Germany has now reached
that point where it is necessary to initiate the
tarlf system OF the United States"
Mark how the German statesman
appeals to the fact, to History teach
ing by experience" and how the
American who lays claim to states
manship appeals. as an Anarchist
might, to the instincts of a mob.
But Judge Thurman was not speaking
to a mob; he was speaking directly to
a gathering of thoughtful citizens Of
Ohio, and indirectly to the people of
the United States. 1t is more charita-
BILE to suppose that he was ignorant OF
his subject than that he INDUCED in
malicious or senile demagogy. Chtca-
90 Inter Ocean.