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DOWN ON The IRISH.

Harrison's Views Frankly Expressed MT q
Meeting Twelve Years Ago.
So much attention has been paid by
Republican papers to an apparent dis
crepancy as to dates in statement
made by William Condor, ST., of
Bloomington, Ill, concerning speech
once delivered here by Ben Harrison.
of Indiana. that Mr.. Condor has been
moved to make himself clear, and he
does so by the following affidavit, which
explains itself:
civilian Condor, ST.. being first duly sworn,
deposes and says that he is q gram and grocery
merchant residing in Bloomington, H.; that
on an afternoon few days before the Novem-
Der election in the year 1876 he attended Re-
publican meeting at Duriey Hall in said city of
Bloomington, H.; that sa meeting was ad-
dressed by benjamin Harris on, the present
that speech at the Durley Hall Ben Harrison
praised ths bravery and patriotism OF the diff
ferene races of this country, except the Irish
and as Harrison was quitting that portion of
his address an old entleman. with an Irish ac-
cent asked: How about the Irish, and where
were Meaoher Sheridan. Shields, Mulligan
and the. othersr that the crowd Missed the
old uentleman was put out; that Ben Harrison
said in answer TO the question:: It IL easy
to know that mans race; you all know
what they are; II 1t were not for them We
would not need half our penitentiarfess which
are almost full OF them; they arc only good TO
shovel dirt and grade railroads, for which they
receive more than they are worth, az they are
NO acquisition 70 the American people. Amant
further says these words .from Harrison were
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Official Labor Statistics.

In 1883 Carroll d. Wright. chief OF
the Massachusetts, Labor Bureau, con-
Quoted a searching investigation OF
the question of wages in Massachu-
sett, the results of which he gave to
the world in series of elaborate
tables contained in his annual report
for 1884. Mr. Wright is an accepted
authority the world over in this field
of investigation. From his tables nine
leading industries, with which tariff
legislation has most busted itself since
1880 are selected, and the wages paid
in each under the low and high tariffs
of 1860 ald 1880 respectively, are conn
pared as follows:
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INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

Notes and Suggestions Of Interest to In
ventors and Working Men.
Working under the union schedule
of hours it takes the average tailor
four and a half days to make q COM
plete suit of clothes.
Paris proposes to erect workmen's
tenement houses on the Peabody plan.
The buildings have already been be-
gun and the work will be pushed rapid
~. They will have seven stories, di-
vided into homes of three rooms each.
and the annual rent will be fifty dol
lars.
In England the manufacture of in
grain carpets by steam power in un-
dertaken, but by very few carpet-mak-
ers, the expense of manufacturing by
the hand loom being so much cheaper.
Of course, the process is slower, but
the difference in cost more than makes
up for the loss of time.
Mechanical and inventive geniuses
are turning their attention to the
"drop-a-nickel in-the slot" devices.
One Of the latest of these projects for
gathering in pennies is an automatic
perfumery machine. Drop penny in
to it and spray of perfume for the
handkerchief springs forth. One man
is working at q machine which will
discharge a cigar, cut and lighted, on
the receipt of nickel.
Business tact and shrewdness are
necessary to the successful manage
ment of a clearinghouse anywhere,
but especially so in large city. A
clearinghouse keeper in New York
recently hit upon q plan of avoiding
troublesome complaints and facilitat-
ing bargains. He arranges matters 30
that the male guests transact all their
business with his wife, while the fe-
male guests have to settle with him
self.
Taking the building trades all
around and striking a general average
of brick-layers, carpenters, plasterers.
painters. ETC.. wages in this city aver
aged about 1926 in 1858, about s. in
1868, about $3.50 to S. in 1873, and
about So in the present year. The
best-paid trades are the brick-layers,
plasterers, plumbers and gas-ftters,
who average 1920 day. and the
worst-paid highly-skilled labor Is
painting. - Chicago Nea0s.
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How shs ussd Her Husband Aftsr EIoPin9
with M HIred MAN.
After two or three days Of weary
search 8 Canadian named Williams,
living near ST Thomas. located his
clipping wife here III Detroit She had
run away with the hired man, and they
we're boarding with family on
Champlain street An officer went
with the husband to interview the
faithless one, rather expecting trouble.
but there was none. The visitors were
ushered into the sitting-room. and the
wife rose up and calmly asked:
Who did you wish to see, gentle
menP''
MARY, I've come for you'll" replied
the husband. why did you run away
from me and the childrenp Where's
that scoundreI ora Petepn
..Maryp Maryp Haven't you made
mistake, sirp" she queried.
Come, Mary, none Of that he an
swered. You've got to go back with
me-
..Sir, what means this languageP"
she demanded Officer, did you bring
this man here to insult MOP"
HE says you are his wife.
.sOf course she is!''
Ellis wife! I never SET eyes on him
before! He is either drunk or crazy"
mot my wifer' he shouted. Haven't
we lived together eighteen yearsP Didn't
you and Pete skip from home ten days
agoP Haven't you got two children
waiting for you to come backp And
haven't come to waltz you home and
pound Pete within an inch of his life?'
81 must demand your protection,
she said to the officer. This has gone
too far already. The man must be
crazy!'
81 want her arrested" said the hus-
band.
TRY it at your peril!' she replied.
my husband will demand ample sat
isfaction for this outraged"
.sYou must be mistaken" said the
officer.
mo, hain't!''
..But I guess you are. and we will
co.
ssYour name and the number OF your
badge, please?" asked the woman, and
when they were given she wrote them
down and bowed the officer out. The
husband went, too, but vigorously con-
tended that no mistake had been made.
Two hours later he returned to the
house to make another effort, but the
wife had disappeared, leaving behind
her note which read:
ITO the Police-P Please use the old
man gently. He is very soft on top of
the head. Yours truly Pete and L.
Detroit Free Press.
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although the fight lasted from noon
until eight o'clock IN the evening.
The first Improvement In the method
Of firing the piece was the wheel Jock.
which came in the sixteenth century.
This consisted Of 8 steel wheel with
rachets working against flint The
wheel. being released BY moving the
trigger, revolved rapidly and struck
sparks of fire from the flint, thus ig-I
hitting the powder The wheel-lock
was considered wonderful invention.
but no long time elapsed after It be-
came common before it was superseded
by the flint-lock, the construction Of
which is so we'll known to most read.
ers as to need no description.
Many pistols Of curious patterns and
workmanship are found both with
wheel and flint locks. perhaps the most
interesting specimens being the daggs,
used in Italy and the south of Europe.
These queer weapons were constructed
wholly OF iron, were consequently very
heavy, and had the handles turned al
most at right angles to the barrel.
They made tremendous report, but
aside from that and the danger OF
bursting they were worth little as Of
fensive or defensive weapons.
It is commonly supposed that the
breech loader is an invention OF very
recent years, but nothing is further
from the truth, some of the earliest
hand firearms ever made being breech
leaders. A hunting arquebus belong
ing to Henry VIII. is still preserved in
the tower of London, the system being
nearly identical with that of q favorite
modern rifle, and not one modern plan
of breech loading is known that was
not at one time or another foreshad-
owed in these ancient weapons. The
German breech leaders were, however,
the best. Many of the early pistols
were also breech leaders, some of
them being on the drop-down system.
that is to say, the barrel turning down
on a pivot to admit of receiving the
charge. The men of our day look to
Colt as the inventor of the revolver,
but strange as it may seem revolvers
were used hundreds of years before
Colt was born. Troy IN. ~ Times.
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These figures show that the only
material increase of wages following
an increase of the tariff was in cottons,
and that probably attributable to self
protective organization on the part of
the mill hands. As for the other nine
industries wages actually fell in seven
of them. and an average increase of
100 per cent. in the rate of duties was
followed by a decrease of IS cents in
the average weekly wages of the whole
ten.
How much more of the wage-earn-
er's pay was absorbed in the increased
cost of articles consumed by him it is
difficult to compute with accuracy.
But if he studies Mr.. Wright's table
with an eye to the low wages paid in
protected Germany as compared with
low tariff England, he will plainly see
that labor can not get rich by increas-
ing the taxes that labor has to pay
st. Louis Post Dispatch.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-10-04

The following case shows how
scarlet fever poison is distributed. A
little girl, eight years old, living &
Fortress Monroe. was attacked with
scarlet fever. For a long time no
possible source Of contagion could b
discovered; but at last the ATTENDING
physician learned that one Of the house
servants had nursed case OF scarlet
fever in distint city just about . year
before. After the case terminated aha
packed some Of her things, Including
some garments then worn, In d trunk
and left the place. A year later She
had the trunk sent to her. opened Il
and took out the contents, The little
girl being present and handling tia
things. Very soon after the latter was
attacked. as stated, by scarlet fever
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-10-04
THE WAGES QUESTION.


why Labor Can Not Get Hich by Incrsas.
ing Its Burdens.
The leader of the Republican cam
paign has announced that the tar.n
question is merely q question OF Wnel-
er American labor shall receive nlgn
or low wages. 81 will moi" he saio.
ststop to argue the question upon any
other basis. Then taking Massacnu-
sets as the most conspicuous example
of the benefits of protection TO labor,
he proceeded to compare her labor
situation. not with that cf Germany or
some other high-tariff country. but
with that of ..free-trade England. In
order to make the comparison as favor
able as possible to the protection the
ory he ignored his own report as Sec
Rotary OF State, wherein he showed
that the apparently larger pay in Mas
sachusetts was due to its superior eff
ficiency as compared with the pay and
efficiency of labor in England, and in
stead tried to figure out the benefits of
protection from a juggling contrast of
the savings-banks returns.
Now it happens that Mr.. Carroll D.
Wright, the highest Massachusetts, au-
thority on labor statistics, investigated
this very question of the effects of the
tariff on wages in Massachusetts, in
1883, and as Chief of the Massachu-
sets Bureau of Labor embodied in his
report for 1884 a series of elaborate
tables showing the wages paid in
ninety different industries during nine
different periods from 1860 to 1880.
In 1860 we were working under the low
tariff of 1876; in 1880 under the highest
tariff we ever had. Yet here is what
Mr.. Wright's tables show about pro-
lection and wages in ten leading indus
tries of Massachusetts, in 1860 as COM
pared with 1880:
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-10-04

AN English housekeeper recently
found vacancy and five bottles at
water where there had been four dozen
bottles OF champagne, and, looking
further, found that two hundred bottles
OF claret, three or four dozen OF sherry,
one hundred and twelve bottles of port
and q large quantity OF other liquor
had been taken and empty bottles left
In their place. Seventy empty bottles
were found In closet back Of the
buffers bedroom. The butler, when
arraigned in court, admitted that he
had helped to make way with the
liquor. but alleged that the other
servants had drunk 1t, too, and was
very sure that every drop Of ID had
been drunk in the house. He resented
the imputation that some might have
been sold.
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NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Ticket
HARR-son AND noRron,

The three RS once more!-M p.
Star.
The Republican party is only
one of "Reminiscences. It is behind the
age. 1t lives to retard the progress
and growth of the country by keeping
it in narrow channels. Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
The absolute duty of limiting
the rate of tariff charges to the neces-
stiles of frugal and economical adj
ministration of the Government seems
to be perfectly plain. President Cleue-
lands Letter of Acceptance.
1t is said that the leading Re-
publicans in New York are betting
heavily on Harrison. This means
that various enthusiastic Democrats
will be richer after the result is an
nounced. atlanta Constitutions.
We still hear from Thurman oc-
casionally, but Levi P. Morton has not
bad a word to say since he withdrew
from the directory of the Canadian Pa
cific and shaved off his English
whiskers. ST. Louis Post Dispatch.
little Chinese served too soon,
little lie and q Little dirt,
A little Blaine and q bloody shirt
A little whisky free of tax,
Dear blankets, clothing, wool and fax,
A heavy tax on workin y-men-
These are the things to boost in Ben.
-DdnUiile Press.
a real Venetian gondola has
lately been imported into Boston. The
cost in Venice was $500 and the duty
was Sill, which, of course, was added
to the price, making the gondola cost
to the American consumer" SAIL. be-
sides freight and charges. OF course
this Sill duty on gondolas is necessary
in order to protect the American gon-
dola industry against the pauper gon-
Siolas of Venice. Boston Globe.
After twenty-eight years OF high
taxation to /" foster American indus
tries y the farmers still furnish Is per
cent. of all our exports and the manu-
facturers only twenty per cent. And
the price of the farmers products is
ieveled down in the old world market,
while all he buys is enhanced In cost by
taxes to heap up surplus for the pol
ft;cians to spend. No wonder the
grangcrs are kicking N 7. World
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followed with applause and that af1ans tnen
left the hall Aniant says that he mentioned
Harrison's speech and the circumstances that
very evening to his ne1ghbors, and that he fre-
quently thereafter mentioned the same IN dis
cusstng politics with his friends long before
Ben Harrison was nominated for President
Afiiant says he has paid 10 much attention to
Harrison's speech because, among other rea-
sons Harrison was then prominent Republic
an, having been beaten Tor Governor of Indi-
ana but . short while before. Af1ant further
swears that after Harrison's nomination for
Precedent afnant for short while thought
Harrison made his speech against the Irish but
eight years ago. instead OF twelve years ago,
this inaccurate Impression arising from the
fact that af1ant had SO often mentioned Harri-
sons speech that the words were as fresh in
his memory as Q recent event Afiant swears
that in the letter which he wrote to Golden, Col.
and which was afterward published in the
papers, he never said any thing about the num-
Der of Irishmen In any place who would vote
for or against Ben Harrison for President
but that various numbers were added to his let
ter, as published by various papers, by report
ers or editors whom af1ant does not even
know. Affiant swears he was the first to have
the inaccuracy about the date OF Harrison's
speech corrected which correction appeared in
the bulletin before any Of the Republican
papers began the controversy about Harrison's
speech. Afiant says, in conclusion, that he Is
neither offlce-holder nor offlce-seeker.
WILLIAM CONDOR, SR.
Subscribed and sworn to before me, this
20th day of September, A. D. 1888
ID. s. PEARSON, Notary Public
Other affidavits are made by Michael
F. Purcell, John A. Wilson. Robert
Saunders and A. G. Greed, all we'll
known and respected in this COM
munity, who swear they attended the
Durley-hall meeting in 1876 and re-
member the words of Harrison and
the scene substantially as Mr.. Condor
has given them. John McCann, James
d. Mellinger, John Morgan, and q.
o. Andrus are among others who
were then present at Durley hall and
may be quoted as substantiating the
above sworn testimony. To '.1nake it
more binding" as it were, the Bulletin
here publishes several affidavits of per-
sons who recall Mr.. Condon's men,
tioning the Durley-hall incident to
them on various occasions and before
the Republican candidate was thought
of as very much of a possibility
Bloomington (IU.) Letter.
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WHAT HARRISON SAID.
Indianapolis knights of Labor Defy BE,
jamin's Right-Hand Man.


jamin's Right-Hand Man.
E. F. Gould. secretary of District
Assembly LOG, Knights of Labor, has
transmitted letter to John G. New in
which the writer calls attention to the
fact that Mr.. New has declared that
''any one making affidavit that Har-
rison said that dollar a day is enough
for any laboring-man would he ar
rested for perjury" He then cites the
evidence which has heretofore been
submitted, but in order that the pro-
prietor of the Journal may have no
reason to doubt that such an affidavit
has been made, he incloses one made
by John G. Schwartz, and asks Mr..
New to make the inclosed the basis of
Schwartz arrest. Schwartz is a new
witness to Harrison's language, and
his affidavit reads as follows:
State of Indiana Marion County-John g.
Schwartz, being duly sworn, testifles under
oath that he was employed by the Cleveland,
Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis railway in
July, 1877; that he went on strike on the
day the strike took place, on or about July 1a,
1877, for an increase in wages; that he was pres
ent at the conference meeting where Benjamin
Harrison, Albert g. Porter and other promi-
nent citizens spoke with reference to the strike;
that he heard Harrison say that they (the
strikers) were law-breakers, and as such were
not entitled to any sympathy whatever from
the public; that the said Harrison, now q Presf
Dental candidate, further said that the men
ought to return to their work; that the rail-
roads could not afford to pay higher wages;
that the wages were enough, and that on dol.
lar per day is enough for any working man;
that he himself could live on that amount; and
that Benjamin Harrison further said that if the
men did not return to work the militia should
be brought into service and the men forced to
return to work. JOHN g. SCHWARTZ
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 18th
day OF September, 1888.
JOSEPH T. TANNING, Notary Public.
Schwartz is perfectly willing to be
arrested at the instigation of New, and
the affidavit was made tor the express
purpose of seeing if New was in
earnest in declaring that any person
making such an affidavit would be ar
rested. The affiant is a carpenter here
and is worthy citizen. -Iadiassapolis
Letter
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Nasal Voices. Catarrh and False
Teeth"

A prominent English woman says the
American women all have high, shrill, nasal
voices and false teeth.
Americans don't like the constant twit-
ting they get about this nasal twang, and
yet it is a fact caused by our dry stimula-
ting atmosphere, and the universal pres
ence Of catarrhal difficulties.
But why should so many of our women
have false teethi
That is more of poser to the English. It
is quite impossible to account for it except
on the theory Of deranged stomach action
caused by imprudence in eating and by
want OF regular exercise.
Both conditions are unnatural.
Catarrhal troubles everywhere prevail
and end in cough and consumption, which
are promoted by mal-nutrition induced by
deranged stomach action. The condition
Is q modern one, one unknown to our an.
cestors who prevented the catarrh, cold,
cough and consumption by abundant and
regular use Of what Is now known as
Warmers Log Cabin cough and consump-
ton remedy and Log Cabin sarsaparilla,
two old-fashioned standard remedies
handed down from our ancestors, and now
exclusively put forth under the strongest
guarantees Of purity and efficacy by the
world-famed makers Of Warmers safe
cure. These two remedies plentifully used
as the fall and winter seasons advance, to
gether with an occasional use of Warmers
Log Cabin rose cream, 10 strengthen and
protect the nasal membranes, give q posi-
tive assurance Of freedom, both from e.
tarrh and those dreadful and il neglected,
inevitable consequences, pneumonia, lung
troubles and consumption, which so gener.
ally and fatally prevail among our people.
Comrade Eli Fisher, Of Salem, Henry Co,
Iowa, served four years in the late war and
contracted q disease called consumption by
the doctors. He had frequent hemorrhages.
After using Warmers Log Cabin cough and
consumption remedy, he says, under date OF
Jan. 18th, 1888: 81 do not bleed at the
lungs any more, my cough does not bother
me, and do not have any more smotherina
spells" Warmers Log Cabin rose cream
cured his wife Of catarrh and she is sssound
and well.'
OF course we do not like to have our
women called nose takers and false teeth
owners, but these conditions can be readily
overcome In the manner indicated
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II Maintains Its Place.

Author Ito Publisher Well, how
about my bookpn Does it maintain its
place in literature?
Publisher don't know any thing
about that, but know it holds its own
pretty well on my shelves. I haven't
been able to get rid of any but comp1i-
mentary copies thus far. TEXAS Sli-
ssgs.
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The Democratic party

The Democratic party is the
party of the plain people. Its mission
is to govern for the general welfare.
Its cornerstone is that the humblest
citizen is entitled to the same liberty
and the same protection as the most
exalted 1t therefore, wants all the
plain people, without regard to race
or color. to endure forever, that it may
preserve free government, and that It
may strike down every monopoly or
other powerful engine of despotism
and oppression = Euansuille Courier.
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Eeekiy HTges.

1t is the constitutional right Of
every American citizen, in Office or
out, to subscribe to what he darn
pleases, and the more Democratic
oficeholders that send in their mites
to Mr.. Charles J. Canda. treasurer. 10
West Twenty-ninth street, the mer-
rier.-M r San.
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The largest pleasure ground in tho
United States, and one Of the largest
in the, world, is Fairmount Park, Philar
delphia, which contains 2.7a5 acres.