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Wichita eagle., 1888-06-10

business is clean and dainty. 1t leaves
no trade mark on body or soul. The Ia
dies of the old and historic families Of
Johnstown are not dressed as are these
working girls. Silk, lace and solid jew
elry are the rIIle with them. Cotton
dresses denote either larger uses at home
for earnings. or less wages by reason Of
less skill and quicl1ness. Handsomely
dressed. literally fed, well housed, well
comoanioned and wei guarded, these
beautiful girls make superb flower gar
den out of Johnstown's streets, filing
them with life, color and grace.
Where will they be year after the
downward steps of free trade have been
taken? To smash the tariff will surely
smash the glove and mitten business OF
Fulton county; closing its tanneries,
mills, shops and dye works; driving all
those girls back to their fathers farms;
cutting off the cash income Of every
mother, grandmother and aunt in the
farnhouses of a neighborhood circle
twenty five miles in diameter; damaging
CT driving out of business every merchant
and every trade and calling supple
mentary to this hive Of industry.
What detestable act such destruction
of industries would bel How Eischievous
is the legislation that would take from
daughters and mothers the wages that
make the lives of the aged comfortable
and free, and enable the girls to live and
dress like American queens, which they
arei-New York Sun (Dem.)
Wichita eagle., 1888-06-10
Referring to the Cat.

Many words, phrases and savings refer
to the cat. This name is applied to several
things besides the felis. It means a short,
stumpy boat (Whittington's cat was a
cat boat, q nine pronged lash and tackle.
used to hoist the anchor on board ships
The "cat head" is the beam to which the
anchor is hoisted, the cat boat a rope used
near it. A ''cat's nose" is a cold north
east wind; eats paws" are furries on
the water caused by the wind. and a
''cat skin" q larger patch. There is a
Hungarian proverb that a cat does not die
in the water, hence It's paws disturb the
surface. Certain ropes ON board ship are
named ''cat fall, "'cat tail, " "catharpir, =
and "cats' paw" is also kinl1 in a rope
There is the 'cat hook. the ''cat block. I"
and weak tea is called "cat lap" and a
short sleep ''cat nap" A hole in the
ships quarter, through which hawsers
pass, is a "cat hole" and the French ap-
ply the same name to the ''lubber hole" in
the top. S. Bassett in Globe-D Demo
GRAFT
Wichita eagle., 1888-06-10
Doves as Military Messengers.

1t seems likely that carrier pigeons win
play an important part in the next great
European war. The French minister of
war has just given orders for the organi-
cation OF the many carrier pigeon stations
throughout the country unon a more sat
iSfactory footing, and considerable i'm
portpnce is attached to the perfectinc Of
these arrangements. In addition To fifteen
of these stations, there are in yarious
parts of France 800 pigeon flvinC societies
owning among them 150,e00 ''homers >
Each OF these societies has a military or
ganization, and in case of war all the
pigeons belonging TO them would be at
the service Of the intelligence depart
ment.
Germany possesses about the same
number Of carrier pigeon stations. and
there are $50 societies, with so. GOO pigeons.
In Italy pigeons are actually in use for
conveying dispatches between the war
Office il Rome and the Sarrisons in Sicily
and Sardinia. Russia is too Geld for the
carrier pigeons. The only birds which
bring tidings of battle in Russia are tbs
buzZards.-New York Star
Wichita eagle., 1888-06-10
GOOD OLD FREE TRADE,
When Calico Was 81 Yard and Pound
of Sugar Cost Q Pound of Butter.


A lady Of Providence, R. l., the wife of
a retired admiral, furnishes the following
statement to The New York Press in re-
gard to prices in the days of English free
trade with the United States:
Forty years ago. when | was young
lady, remember what prices we had to
pay for the things we wore and the cloth
we used. We paid 81 yard for French
calico, and it was considered then quite a
dressy article for young ladies to wear,
too. We bought English cambria for
seventy-fve cents yard, and l well re-
member that when we were hemming our
handkerchiefs we used to break our
needles by the dozen, there was so much
lime in the goods. But we had to take
what the English and French would send
US, and we had to pay for it pretty much
whatever they were disposed to ask for it.
It seems to me very strange that any one
who has lived long enough to be able to
compare those times with these should be
free trader.
Those were the days, also, when the
farmer had very little market for his pro-
duce. 1t took two dozen eggs or pound
of butter to buy pound of sugar, and
tea and coffee were too expensive to be in
dulged in by those who had mortgages
upon their farms One calico dress year
was the extreme Of indulgence by the
farmers wife; the family depended for
clothing upon the labor of her hands in
spinning and weaving wool and fax.
No farmer kept larger number of sheep
than was needed to supply the family
wool and mutton, for there was abso-
lutely no market for wool. In those days
wheat brought Is cents bushel, corn 80
cents and oats 90 to % cents, the sole
market for the latter being the canal.
Those were the days of free trade. There
were no great manufacturing cities to
consume the products Of the farm and
the only salable crop was wheat which
could be exported. England had a mo-
nopoly of our trade, and there was no in
ducement to the capitalist to invest in
manufactures, or to inventive genius to
devise labor saving machinery.
Wichita eagle., 1888-06-10
RESULT OF DEMOCRATIC RULE.
Financial Standing Of the Government
in 1860.

HAiAShSiaA Summing VI too S1sCHfik0cAt
in 1860.
Frequent inquiries are now being made
as to the financial standing Of the govern.
ment and the rate of interest on govern
ment loans In 1860, when the Republican
party came into power and Democracy
rule was broken The answer is best
given in a speech by Hon William D.
Kelley. That part relating to the tinan-
cial standing Of the government and tee
rate of interest demanded by banks and
capitalists On loans to the government is
here given:
The government itself was without
means and without credit Toward the
close of the year it advertised for loan
of $4,000. 000 Forty bids were made.
-Four were made at different rates by the
Farmers Bank, of Lancaster. Pa, a bank
at the home of the then president of the
United States, and which was in suspen-
sion, but while it would not redeem dol
lar of its paper. proposed to lend the gov
eminent $35, 600 at the modest rate Of s,
1-2, and 10 per cent. interest in gold.
No foreign house or institution showed
its willingness to invest any capital in the
loans Of the United States in that pros.
porous year, 1860, and the rates of inter-
est at which offers were made range from
per cent. in gold to Sc per cent Here
is statement Of the several bids, from
The Philadelphia Press, Dec. 20, 1860:
Wichita eagle., 1888-06-10
Something to Think About.

Some thoughtful, conscientious mem
bers of the Democratic party, who by ex-
perience and observation are protection
lists, have been inclined to accept the free
trade tendencies of the present admins
tratioH because they come from the
highest Democratic sources. Perhaps
some young men who have not yet voted
are inclined to accept the free trade doc
trine on the ground that it is espoused by
a great party, and therefore cannot be so
utterly destructive Of American interests
as Republicans assert it to be.
Let US remind these conservative men,
old and young, of the history of the Dem
ocratic party. That party, while it has
at all times included in its membership
many able, conscientious citizens, has
been from its birth the party of nullifi
cation, negation, obstruction O. retro
gression. 1t has been harmless only when
no great issues were pending or when it
has been out of power. 1t defended
slavery and fought in its defense. 1t pro-
posed notification fifty years ago. based
on the same free trade heresy which
bids fair to destroy the Democracy
today. When successfully notification
was overthrown, slavery defeated and
the doctrine of secession overcome. the
Democracy still chung to its obstructive
tactics. 1t opposed bitterly and earnestly
the resumption of specie payments. From
its ranks wero recruited the rag money
party or greenbackers, the silver infa-
tionists, the opponents Of the national
banking system, the safest and best sys-
TEN that human wisdom ever devised.
All these things were wrong, and yet
they had the support of the Democracy.
Resolutions were adopted at state and ma
tional Democratic conventions, attended
by men of prominence, intelligence and
integrity, lending aid and encouragement
to these obstructive tactics and refusing
to condemn and oppose them. The De-
mocracy was wrong then. 1t is wrong in
its free trade attitude now. That
attitude is based upon the demands
of the solid south, the original
home of free trade, of nullifca-
ton, Of slavery and secession; the same
south which when it organized the so
called Confederate" government fixed in
its constitution fundamental provision
forever forbidding the levying of tariff
upon imported goods.
Can conscientious, progressive Demo
Gratis who have voted with the party
when it was right, continue to vote with
it when it is wrong? Can young men. en-
tering upon public life, find anything in
the record Of such q party that arouses
their enthusiasm, awakens their ambition,
or invites their support?-Albany Jour
mol
Wichita eagle., 1888-06-10
Original Idea of Common Schools

Are free schools maintained by the
public and for the public, a New Eng
land idea or invention, or shall we say
that the idea was Dutch or English?
Motley holds to Dutch origin He
says that the patriarch of the Nassau
family, as early as 1890, urged the estab
hshment of a system Of common schools
in the United Netherlands. bis advice
was that according to the example of
the pope and the Jesuits. there should be
free schools where children Of quality as
well as of poor families, for very small
sum, can be christianity educated The
institution thus recommended according
to Sumner and Motley was transported
by English Pilgrims from Leyden to
Massachusetts," Again Motley says Of
Holland in 1908, lit was land where
every child went to school" Motley gives
no authorities or details.-James d. But
Ter in Magazine OF American History.
Wichita eagle., 1888-06-10
What a Tariff for Revenue Means.

J. The St. Louis Lumberman, journal
specially devoted to the lumber interests
of the west and south. states, succinctIy
and accurately. the consequences of a
tariff for revenue only" in these words:
l. Such facility for Importation of for
sign goods at shade lower prices than
will give profit to American manufacturers
as will result in the reduction of wages to
American labor.
2. Such a lessening Of the demand for
American labor in the mechanical arts. in
commerce. in the various branches of
manufacture as shall force tens of thou
sands of men now employed in them into
agricultural pursuits; thus forcing the
increased output OF farms to seek for
eign market, in which they Will have to
compete with the cheap labor Of Russia
and Hungary, and the still cheaper labor
of Eastern India, for disposal of nine
tenths of their volume.
g. Such total possession Of the Ameri-
can market Of foreign manufactures as
may favor tho formation of foreign
trusts" which will destroy competition.
4. Such general adversely in the United
States as may make its home market only
more valuable than that of Spain or Por-
tugal, as its area is larger.
Wichita eagle., 1888-06-10
VOICE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Manufacturing Democrats Revolt at Fres
Trade and VIII Vote AGAINST 1t,

Manufacturing Democrats Revolt at free
Trade and VIII Vote Against 1t.
As hassbeen well known for some time
the Democracy of this state are not in &C
cord on the question of the tariff. Not a
few Democrats are extensive manufac.
turers, and have prospered in business
under the laws Of tariff protection. Since
the Democratic party come out practically
for free trade there has been no little
curiosity on the part of the public to learn
what political position would be taken by
members of their party engaged in certain
lines of manufacturing. Your correspond
ent has proof which no one will question
that the tariff issue has already begun TO
sow the seeds of dissension in the Demo-
cratic ranks in New Hampshire. This proof
comes from men of the highest executive
and business character. Mr.. Charles A.
Busiel, of Laconia. wealthy hosiery
manufacturer and gentleman high in
the councils of the Democratic party, has
stated DO your representative that he shall
not vote for the reelection of Cleveland
on platform emboiying the views of the
presidents tariff message and of the Mills
bin in congress. Mr.. Busiel Is n member
of the Democratic state committee and
one of the executive committee of ten.
and has long been regarded as one Of the
ablest managers IN hfs party. He is also
director of the Boston, Concord and
Montreal railroad and president of the
Lake Shore corporation, which will soon
break ground for line from the Weirs or
IiltOn to Alton bay.
Mr.. John T., Charles a. Bushels brother,
n ifo. long Democrat and partner with
him in the hosiery business, will not only
refuse to support Cleveland for reelection
but is writing and publishing articles ad-
vocating the continuance of the present
laes governing the tariff on everything
entering into not only wooden but cotton
manufacturing. The detection Of such
men as the Busiel brothers will produce
a decided sensation In the Democratic
party, and it is very probable that they
viii not be alone among the Democratic
manufacturers in this state in assuming
their present political position. Person
ally these gentlemen are very popular and
influential, and are widely known in con-
nection with their extensive business and
political relations.-Telegraphic Dispatch
from Concord.
Wichita eagle., 1888-06-10
Stick q Pin Here, Voters

If the Republican party is to win this
fall it can afford to make no mistake in
the choice of candidate. 1t has to make
its fight upon pure principle and By q
demonstration that its candidate ard its
platform are better for the interests of
the American people than the candidate
and the platform opposed to it. It will
require the vote of every man who has a
drop of Republican blood in his veins to
elect the candidate chosen at Chicago
Iowa State Register.
Wichita eagle., 1888-06-10
ANOTHER INDUSTRY IN DANGER

Free Trade Means Death to the Glove
Trade Of Fulton County, n. Y.
Johnstown and Gloversville, in New
York. are the seat of an immense glove
and nlitten manufacture. 1t supports a
branch railroad several banks, many
merchants, and very many supplementary
industries.
The gloves and mittens, comprising
every kind worn by women and men, are
cut into shapes in shops. Previously the
skins and pelts of which they are made
are tanned. dressed and dyed. The glove
and mitten parts are sewed partly by ma.
chinery in shops, principally by the hands
of women.
After the house work is done in nearly
every home in Johnstown and Gloversville,
and on every farm for miles and miles
around, women, old and young, ''sew on
leather" as it is phrased. The aggregate
Of earnings from this sewing of gloves
and mittens is immense. it buys luxu-
ries, furnishes independence and gives
SECURE life to thousands of women and
children.
The sight Of the streets Of Johnstown
On pleasant evenings after shop time is
exceptionally interesting. Many of the
Eris In the glove factories are among the
h.ndsomest women in America Their
Wichita eagle., 1888-06-10
An Extremely Poor Excuse.

George William Curtis, who presided at
the meeting of the New York Civil Service
Reform association. in his speech fell back
upon the old and now time worn method
of excusing Mr.. Cleveland for his failure
to carry out the reform pledges made pre-
vious to his election and Inauguration
That excuse is that he has not received
the support of his party. These reform
ers might have known, and doubt less did
know before Mr.. Cleveland's election. that
no efforts in the direction of civil service
reform would receive any more support
from his party than it would be compelled
to give.-Philadelph Press q
Wichita eagle., 1888-06-10
The Place to Settle II.

The denomination of Mr.. Cleveland
means that the question Of maintaining
our tariff system must be decided at the
polls. The campaign will not, therefore,
be like that of 1884, conflict between
persons, but test of the strength of prin-
eiples- This in itself will be q great pub
lie gain. Evening Bulletin.
Wichita eagle., 1888-06-10
: An AMUSING Dilemma

It is really one of the most amusing
and anomalous situations in politics that
has ever been known when a party is
unanimous for candidate whom they do
not like and whom nine-tenths Of its
members would like to see thrown over
board into the deep sea if they had any
body TO take his place. This is the atti-
tude of the Democratic party today toward
Mr.. Cleveland. 1t is a case of party
being led about by the nose, dependent
and elpless.-National Republican
Wichita eagle., 1888-06-10
The Nineteenth Certurr.

We live in different world from that
Of our fathers. No other race has ever
known It's Ike IL has witnessed trans
formations SURPRISING the greatest CT
miracles Il has seen cities spring up OF
the p-airies and become magnificent cen
tiers of business and population IN less
thzn score Of years Il has seen one
q the greatest cities OF the world. tie
rival % tie oldest and grzndest oeafc-s
OF foreign wealth, rise IL is might at
the ocean gateway CT the Empire state.
What viii ths TEeltsesh century sees-
Albany Journal
Wichita eagle., 1888-06-10
Birds of 2 Feather.

The president has an amazing capacity
for finding fellows who were blatant cop
perheads during the war to sit In judy
ment on questions which they are no more
ct to decide than JEFF Davis, unless they
have totally changed their opinions. We
can see no good in any such insults to
men who struggled with Lincoln and
Grant when fellows like Fuller were abus-
ing northern men who were loyal and
swapping at the backs of the Union SOL
diers IN the feld-Lincoln (Neb) News.
Wichita eagle., 1888-06-10
VERY AprOpo<.

AsheTille, \. c.. gets public building
by the appropriation bill becoming 6 Law
By lapse Of time through the presidents
failure 70 sign It. IS he neither signed
nor vetoed It, AshevilIe gets the building
and he gets the credit. This is for Bun
combe, Of which county Asheville Is the
capital. indianapolis Journal
Wichita eagle., 1888-06-10
Cnbroken Record of BIuntIers,

The position of the Democratic party
upon the tariff question at this time is not
unlike that held by the party on the
slavery and secession issues in the year
1860. The Democratic leaders now, as
then, both north and south. seem to be
deaf to the voice or reason, and so intoler-
ant and devoid of charity that they will
not brook opposition by any member of
the party to the peculiar views of the ex-
tremists upon that question. but seem
determined to make the support of the
Mills bill the test of party fealty.-San
Antonio Express, Dem
Wichita eagle., 1888-06-10
An Overwhelming Majority.

vote of the farmers in New England and
Eastern New York on the Mills bill, with
this result; Dat of ASA returns from
legal voters, Z, $50 were against the bill
and 242 in its favor. Maine went four to
one; New Hampshire, thirty to one: Yer
mont, twenty to one; Massachusetts,,
twelve to one; Rhode Island, seven to
one; Connecticut, seven to one, and New
York, nine to one.
Wichita eagle., 1888-06-10
Slow Gling up appears to be favored By
numerous writer's on enslage-
The flask In Torn Away.

There is no longer any pretense IN any
quarter. so far as We can ascertain. that
Mr.. Cleveland is Owl service reforner.
The masquerade is over Il is no transient
injury that the reform has received from
this paltering and final betrayal on the
part OF IT'S former friends But 1t Is a
great thing that the reign of can't and
hypocrisy Is ended and that the party
which has accomplished practically all
that has ever been accomplished for civil
service reform can at last meet face 70
face. and under circumstances which viii
not permit the issue 20 be obserr-d, TIC
party Of the spoiis Boston Advertiser
Wichita eagle., 1888-06-10
An Cuscrupulous Political Machine.

The prompt and effective manner in
which the administration has defeated
those Democratic candidates for congress
who were opposed to free trade is another
proof of the hypocrisy Of the civil service
reform pretensions Of President Cleveland.
This country never saw more unscrupu-
lous political machine than the Democratic
party has made of our national govern
Tnent-Cleveland Leader.
Wichita eagle., 1888-06-10
a Successful Failure.

Our esteemed Mugwump contemporary.
The Boston Herald. ccnpiacently remarks
that Mr.. Cleveland has done well except
as civil reformer." which Is large and
comprehensive reservation with q fence
around it. It recalls tho big footed girl
who tried TO put Cfnderells's slipper on
and gleefully exclaimed: I've got it On
all but the heel."-Philadelphia Press.
Wichita eagle., 1888-06-10
Cleveland Abandoned as n Eeforrner.

There were q large number Of votes
given to Mr.. Cleveland four years ago that
he has done much to ALLEVIATE. If the cleo
ton to come were to be decided upon his
civil service record much of the enthusi-
asm that was in the independent support
before accorded him would be missing
and there are not few men who were Q
part of this who would decline to repeat
their action.-Boston Herald (Mugwunp).
Wichita eagle., 1888-06-10
The WhirIigig OF T{rne.

The MugwuInps during President Ceve-
lands first term of Office devoted most of
their time to complimenting him; the
second year to criticising him; the third
year to distrusting him. and the fourth
year to dsnning him-with faint praise.
He has been the most pretentious hypo-
critic the prolific Democratic party has ever
bCed.-Albany journal.
Wichita eagle., 1888-06-10
As He Pleases.

care you fond of the theatrei" be said,
as they were passing the Bijou.
Yes, very fond"
Shall we &C into the Biiouf'
Let it Bijou please" was the reply
New York Sun.
Wichita eagle., 1888-06-10

Buchanan could not coeree q state. bit
Cleveland can coerce the whole Demo
cratic party into nominating him -PhNa-
delphia Inquirer.
Wichita eagle., 1888-06-10
A Powerful Fnpirs

Harlem Teacher-Tomny Trz6dles nav
ten Us what the greatest empire in the
world is
Tommy Traddles captain OF his ninel-
Fugerson: he's de creates. enpire.-New
York Sun
Wichita eagle., 1888-06-10
The City of Glasgow,

Glasgow will soon be the second city OF
the United Kingdom Its boundaries are
to be extended so as to include number
Of popuioUs suburban towns. and IL is e.
timated that it viii then have populs.
ton of nearly 800. 000.-Chicago Tribune.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-11-13
General News.

THE Gayoso departs this evening at 8
o'clock for Tiptonville.
The Henry DuBus, with tow of coal, is
due here EN- route south.
The Cherokee, at latest accounts, was still
aground opposite Ashport, fifty miles above
here.
THE City of Monroe is announced to leave
here this evening at o'clock for Cairo and
st. Louis.
PILors report six feet Of water from Cairo
toSt. Louis, the shoalest places being Allen
and Kinney Points
TIE Jos. Williams, with an immense tow
OF coal, passed here yesterday morning on
her way TO New Orleans.
THE Arkansas City, Of the Anchor Line,
leaves here this morning at 10 o'clock for
Vicksburg and Natchez.
OWING TO the present rise the Anchor Line
boats have abandoned their bargcs, and can
now take full cargoes aboard.
THE Eugene arrived from Arkansas River
yesterday morning with DOB bales of cotton,
5i3 slcks of cotton seed and lot of misccl.
laneOus freight
ThE Granite State under command OF
Capt Don A. Mari, leaves here this evening
at D o'clock for Cairo, Evansville, Louisville
and Cincinnati
CAPT. RAPE Hicks, former well known
local stenmboatman, is now located at Mar
shall, Tex, whe,e he is engaged in the ice
and coal business.
The Kate Adams for Arkansas City, James
Lee for Friars Point, Rosa Lee for Osceola,
and the Coahuma for Point Pleasant all
went out yesterday with big cargOos.