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The Somerset reporter., 1888-08-02
Tho Voice of England.

However our Democratic friends may
deny that President Cleveland is in favor
of free trade, the people of England have
a different idea of it, if the papers repre-
sent the feeling and belief there. We
quote from few of them.
1t may be taken for granted that the
President has not acted without previous
w consulting the leaders of the Demo
cratic party and securing their approval,
and they have taken up again the old free
trade policy of the South Carolina poiti-
clans, unconected with what, in the jar
gon of American politics, was called the
sectional question. London Sdtuday
Rcrifir.
President Cleveland may say to others
and think what he chooses, but he has
precipitated the inevitable struggle be
tween rec Trade and Protection in tn,
United States, and that is tantamount tt
saying that he is on the side of free trade
-Gidsgo,o Hcraid.
The stone now set rolling will not stoI
until it has broken the idol of Protection
in pieces - LondOn DdHg AerS
Mr.. Cleveland has taken his stand OF
free trade. -LOndon Globe.
The London Spectator says Grove
Cleveland has done more to advance The
cause of free trade than any other prime
minister of England has ever done.
The Somerset reporter., 1888-08-02
Swelling The Republican Ranks

There are indications that many Somer-
set men who have heretofore acted with
the democratic party aud voted the demo
cratic ticket are coming into the repuhli
can party and will this fall be found yot-
ing the republican ticket They do not
say much about 1t, dp unt advertise the
fact but they Do not relish the situation
President Cleveland ha> forced the party
into and will leave the sinking ship.
This i not confined 10 any one town or
class of men, although the feeling Of
dissatisfaction IS more apparent among
farmers than any other elas>. This is not
To be wondered at a. their interests are
savagely attacked by the Mills bill and
they naturally resent il. The only won
der i that any farmer in Maine can vote
the democratic ticket in view OF the
attempt ma Il by that party in Congress
to damage his business.
\ well known Augusta republican has
returned from an extended trip through
Somerset county. During his absence,
he tells the Portland Press, he met at
least twelve farmers who had been demo
urat, aud they all informed him that they
were now protectionists and should vote
for Harrison and Morton. In one of the
towns above Skowhegau farmer who is
known Is one Of the most intelligent and
progressive filters II the soil in that COun-
IS aud worth n handsome property, said :
I've always been a democrat; my father
wa~ a democrat before me and all my
The Somerset reporter., 1888-08-02
CORRESPONDENTS.
m adlson.

Our correspondent writes This place
WAS visited by heavy shower Tuesday
night " hieh was very much needed
KEY e $ Wilder. wife aud visitors.
are visiting friends in Strone
Annie NJ Robbins is spending a short
vacation at X. C. Gray's She will soon
return To Waltham.
\ little child of Nj Ehen Whitney fell
from the piazza recently ffacturing the
arm below the elbow. lie is now doing
well.
Raspberrics are quite plenty.
Rev Mr.. Wiggin baptized two ladies
Sunday \. VI. and received four into the
church connection,
The new mill was shut down for re-
pairs Saturday.
The Dinsmore reunion i TO be in
Aroostook County some time during the
month of September. Half fare on the
railroads.
The brick makers have completed their
first kiln OF brick and have made good
start on the second one. They will make
this season 500. 900 bricks and will finish
the job about the middle OF September.
The Somerset reporter., 1888-08-02

our Democratic friends have much to
say about revenue reform as though they
had a patent on the business when as a
matter of fact the Republican party in
1853 revised the tarti In the direction Of
true reform of the revenue and the Dem
ocratic party has a. yet accomplished
nothing Congressman Morrison at
tempted it by his horizontal bill in lssj
and succeeded in reforming himself out
of Congress. his democratic constituents
even going back on him. The pre-
sent Democratic House evidently thinks
it has reformed the revenue by the pas
sage of the Mills bill but the effect Of
this would be to increase instead of dim
Irish the revenue by increasing importa-
tion- and at the SAME time turn the bal
lance of the trade against us by increaS-
ing the consumption of foreign made
goods and decreasing that Of American
made goods The Senate now proposes
to pass a bill that shall revise the details
and correct inequalities that may exist on
custom duties unon the broad basis of
protection and encouragement of Ameri
can production and American labor. This
will be revenue reform in the true sense,
The Somerset reporter., 1888-08-02
Anson.

Marcellus Steward of Savannah ia.
who has been visiting his father in this
village during the past week has returned
South.
Thomas Gray, Esq an old resident of
this village, died quite suddenly Wednes-
day. Mr.. Gray has been in declining
health for some time, but his death was
not expected so soon. He was ~ years
of age. Funeral was held Friday.
Ben Hilton informs us that Shropshire
sheep and ponies are in good demand.
Ben makes specially of good stock and
it isn't strange that he finds ready sale
for them be they ponies or be they NUT
ton.
There will be a grand opening of the
West Somerset Agricultural Society 5
park Tuesday and Wednesday, August u
and -. This society has just completed
the new fence around the park and made
many improvements on the grounds, such
as cleaning, grading. etc. Several new
stalls have been put up for the conven-
fence of the trottng horses. 1t is graft
flying to know that the society is once
more on its feet ready for business.
The Somerset reporter., 1888-08-02

Mr.. Blaine will arrive at his home,
Augusta, after his long absence abroad,
Friday evening August 10th, at 7.l5, and
his friends there will give him rousing
welcome. Arrangements have been made
for special trains from various points,
ineludiag oss from Skowhegan. The
fars WI BE- low, el.00 for the round trip,
~ ~ tssse many Of the friends and
snnlrsgs Of NJ. Blaine in Somerset
o6an1g VII n6hs arrangements to have
~ spaaav vi Ssprsssatsd. We are not
,innneuGn aeoeshL tseia uill - rna ON
1Ssssse ~ hst prsssa,e oae will
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The Somerset reporter., 1888-08-02
Brighton
Our correspondent writes /;

Our correspondent writes;
The recent notice given by David Foss
forbiddng all persons to pick berries on
his premises has excited considerable
comment. 1t appears that the notice was
given for the purpose of keeping the
neighbors of blue-berry mountain which
he owns. Many claim the right TO pick
berries on any wild land, and 1t is pro-
bable that some of them will stand him a
trial II he wishes.
Miss Hattie Decker has closed her
school In Kingsbury. This was her first
attempt at teachinug and has proven her
ability TO rank high as teacher.
Miss Issie Farrin Is visiting al ST. Al
bans.
+. T. Farrin has been making improve
ments upon the Interior of the Wesserrun-
sett House.
Fred Hayden Is 1t work In Coruvills.
The Somerset reporter., 1888-08-02
A Crew Of mon Injured by a Prema-
ture Blast.

Wednesday Of last week an accident
occurred at the quarries of the Maine
Granite and Improvement Company at
Norridgewock. In blasting out large
sheet of stone a mistake was made, the
special instructions of forman Reed, who
was necessarily absent, having been par
TALLY carried out The blast came before
it was expected. Fred Tobey ha large
part of his clothing stripped from his
body, his face badly burned, one of his
hips injured and spliuters of stone were
thrown into his body. Nathan futile got
about the same injuries, save to his eyes,
which were not hurt. A large stone upon
which A. Morrow was at work, was
turned completely us side down and he
was thrown 10 or 20 feet but strange to
say, fell upon such favorable spot as to
receive slight injuries. Several other
members Of the crew got badly shaken.
The most serious injury was done TO the
eyes of Mr.. Tobey, but his physician
hopes by skillful treatment 70 save them.
The Somerset reporter., 1888-08-02
CoYnvllle

The home of Mr.. j. W. Hobart Of
Cornsille came near being destroyed by
fire Saturday last, Mr.. Hobart was away
from home and his hired man at the mill.
Miss Savage who was there with Mrs.
Hobart ran for the neighbors. While
she was ne Mrs. Hobart got water aud
ladders ready aud the neighbors when
they arrived saved the building by hard
work. The fire caught on the roof of the
l. and its discovery and extingnishmenl
saved one of the fines. sets of farm build
ings in Cornyille and about loo tons OF
haE
The Somerset reporter., 1888-08-02
College Professors and the Tariff.


1t is evident in Wateryile that not all
the Professors of Political Economy are
caught by the plausibiity of Free Trade
theory. Prof Small put into the hands
of his classes during the last term
pamphlet containing a summary of the
protectionist case, by friend of the
policy, and summary of the Free Trade
argument by believer in that doctrine.
Then he devoted two weeks to the dis
cussion of our American tariff policy.
From the printed report of the Trustees
we quote his statement: The view
which have taught is /. Free Trade is
a theory which would apply were the
world political and industrial Utopia; it
il even now wise national policy in GER
tain instances. . A tariff for protection
is simple, just and effective eXpedient
for developing the industries and re-
sources of countries richly and variously
endowed by nature. 3. The United States
is such a country, and the weightiest po-
litical and social As well as economic con-
sideratons urge the duty of tariff self
defence. /. While Protection, to be efss
fectual, must be as inyariable as possible,
it is always competent for legislators to
reform the tariff by removal or alteration
of obsolete and unnecessary provisions.
The influence of this instruction is
somewhat remarkable, The last gradua-
ting class at Colby numbered twenty
three. In the last number of the Oracle,
issued Just before commencement, the
class reported themselves as follows on
the tariff question REFORM /; "Rev-
enue Only" Limited Protection" 3;
"Protection," Is.
The Somerset reporter., 1888-08-02
PjttS0etd

DR. W. W Cushman of Pressure Isle,
was united in marriage on Sunday, July
18th, to Miss Ida NJ. Holmes, Of Pittstield.
The ceremony was performed at the
residence Of the brides father by Rev. 6.
W. Hinckley. The presents were num-
erous. The bride has been one of the
most successful school teachers of Pitts
field for several years and is at present
one of the experimenting Schoo
Committee. The happy couple left on
the morning train for short bridal tour
The Somerset reporter., 1888-08-02
Concord.

The Lowell brothers, three of them, are
home from California where they have
been, for a number Of years, engaged in
sheep hushandry Wilmont, Lexus, and
Harrison with his wife and son. Daniel
went away with them but found a resting
place in the far away state. The boys
will stay few months then they propose
to return. aud ii is rnmored that their
father and brother John will accompany
Them
The Somerset reporter., 1888-08-02

The mother Of usgeed aud Leonard
Forbes Is dangerously i'll
Mr.. and Mrs Sidney Walker were Ia
Skowhegan Tuesday and Wednesday Of
this week
Al Martk with An excellent company
gave an enter Ia inmeul stthe WeSserunsett
hall last Thursday evening ll- old
friends gave him q crowded house.
Mr.. Osgood Forbes Is ut home after an
absence Of several weeks
The Somerset reporter., 1888-08-02
Southern Policy.

There is scarcely doubt but that
President Cleveland was forced or in
duced to take the position he has taken
on the tariff question, by the leaders in
the southern states. One of the leading
principles of the Southern confederacy,
and one that did not die with the lost
cause, was free trade. The rulers of the
South hated the tariff because it gave
power to the people of the northern
States through building up their in
dustries.
General Dick Taylor Lieutenant Gen
eral of the Confederacy writes in letter
to friend which has been published.
We made two great mistakes. Had we
avoided them we should have conquered
YOU. The first was that we did not sub
stantially destroy the protective features
of the tariff In the winter session of 1871
and lS5S, by an act which provided a
rapid sliding scale to free trade We
could have passed such a law and held it
tight on YOU till il closed the furnaces,
workshops, wooden and cotton mills, aud
steel and bar-irun works of the whole
U ~ y
men over the praIies and Territories
When the war was ready for you, you
would not have been ready for the war.
You could not have armed and equipped
and put into the field large army or
built a large navy. You would have been
without supplies, machinery and work
men, ard you would have been without
money and credit.
Whatever of sentiment there may be
opposed to the stubborn fact, it still re-
mains fact, that the rulers of the South
would be glad to humillate the people OF
the North, and what movement could be
more effective in this direction than
Strengthening the industries and sacrificing
the business prosperity of the great Nortl
and West. This, according to Dick
| TAYLOR they should have done before the
war and this, it is evident with the aid OF
President Cleveland, they propose to dc
now by inaugurating the free trade
Regime.
But it is big job and there are severa
things that stand in the way of its ac
complishment The first one is the Re
publican Senate, and the second is the
great Republican party backed by the
| American people.
The Somerset reporter., 1888-08-02
eeoub,ioan County Convention.

The Republicans Of Somerset County "iIi meet
wednesday, Aug. 18th, 1855, at 10 o'clock a. NJ.
Tor the purpose of nominating the following Of
hcers to be supported at the September election
VIZ. SENATOR Clerk Of Court county Attorney,
Iudgr oI Probate, Register Of Probate, Sherit,
County Commissioner and County Treasurer Also
To choose County Committee and to transact such
other business AS may properly come before me
Convention,
An voters in Somerset County, without regard to
,,,st nautical alliances who believe in thu living
principles OF the Republican party and VINO PnT
arc cordially invited to take part in the selection
OF delegates to this convention.
The basis of representation viii be one delegate
for each town and plantation. one delegate for
every TWENTY-FIVE votes cast for Governor BOWEL
in Iss5. with an additional delegate Tor a fraction
OF IL votes so cast. ON this basis the various
towns and plantations will he entitled To representa-
ton in The Convention by delegates follows
The Somerset reporter., 1888-08-02
ST. Adams.

The hay haryesters are nearly done aud
an average crop of nice hay has beer
stored with but little damaged.
our enterprising trader, T. b. Seekins
Esq, is talking of building a large and
commodious store for his increasing
trade, with all the modern Improvements
+. {. Buker Esq, mas sold his yaluabl,
brood mare to j f. Parkhurst Of Bangor
for IA fancy price also nice Jersey COW
There are some good ones still left il
town awaiting purchasers.
Several of our citizens went to Dexter
Saturday, and took in the circus ant
report an average show in the most Of il
features
The Somerset reporter., 1888-08-02
MeKCaF

Mr. and Mrs. Frank b. Moshur and
family of Oakland have been visiting at
{ IL Girdler's for few weeks. Their
oldest son is graduate of Nichols Latin
School at Lewiston. He will enter the
Theological school there the last of
August.
Mr.. Girdler will build him a new stable
and shed and will fix the ell of his house
all over new this fall. Wells & Kelley
will do the work.
The Somerset reporter., 1888-08-02
PatmyYd.

When William Philbrook was pitching
some hay with hay fork the horse start
ed before Mr.. Philbrook WAS ready carry
ing him to the top of the barn then
stopped, holding him there as long as
it was possible for him to cling then drop
ping to the floor beneath. Mr.. Philbrook
received very few injuries none of which
will prove fatal.
The Somerset reporter., 1888-08-02

An exchange justites the President for
his large number of pension vetoes by
saying that they are few unworthy
cases among large number of worthy
ones. 1t is strange thing if hundreds of
unworthy cases can successfully run the
gauntlet of the House and Senate and
that President Cleveland is SO much bet
ter informed than both branches of Con-
gress can be-
The Somerset reporter., 1888-08-02

Hon. Frederic Robe, Master of the
State Grange, issues an order advising
the various oranges OF Patrons of Hus
bandry to hold memorial services in honor
of their recently deceased National
Grange Master, the late Put Darden of
Mississippi. These services to be held in
some regular meeting in August.
The Somerset reporter., 1888-08-02
East M ADDISON.

Wesserunsett Lodge No. $50, East
Madison, will hold the drawing of their
silk quilt Wednesday evening August <,
at their lodge rooms. After the drawing
refreshments will be served at the hall
for those who wish, at reasonable price.
\ good entertainment will be furnished.
All are cordially invited
The Somerset reporter., 1888-08-02
EdIncott's English Blankets

CORRESPONDENT has sent to the Press
the following communication
Did Secretary of War Endicott give a
contract for a lot of blankets to an
English manufacturer for the reason that
they could be bought at lower figure
than the same quality of blanket could be
manufactured in American Stalwart
Secretary Endcott recently bought
about 5000 blankets for the United States
Army from English manufacturers and
got them for something like thirty cents
apiece less than he could have got them
of American make. The tariff on the
blankets is about thirty cents each, and
as the Government could import free of
duty the Secretary of War saved the sum
of $500 by giving an order for blankets
for American soldiers to British manu-
facturerS. -PhHd. Press.
The Somerset reporter., 1888-08-02

Just previous to the enactment of the
Tariff of 1912 Thomas Benton wrote in
his great book Thirty Years Review, +"
as follows: Never were the Golfers and
the credit of the Treasury-not even In
the last year of the war with Great Brit
ian QSlT-at lower ebb or more pitia-
BILE point than at presint. deficit of
Sl4, ZOO, 900 in the Treasury-a total ina
bility to borrow either at home or abroad
the loan of Sl2,00O,0O0 authorized the
year before-T ieasury notes below par
81 500, 600 Of protested demands a rev.
enue from imports inadequate and de-
creasing; such was the condition OF the
Treasury" The Democratic program
carried out to its legitimate result would
reduce the country to this deplorable con-
ditiOn again.
The Somerset reporter., 1888-08-02
The County Convention.

our Republican friends in the several
towns will observe that the Republican
County Convention will be held the 18th
inst. The date was fixed before the
Portland meeting was announced, but it
has been thought best not to change
the date. Beside the convention proper
which will occupy the forenoon, there
will be addresses by able speakers in the
afternoon and evening. We hope our
friends will turn out in force and let the
first meeting in Somerset be good one,
worthy of the party aud Of The county.
The Somerset reporter., 1888-08-02
REPUBLICAN CAUCUS !

The Republicans of Skowhegan are requested to
meet at Engine Hall on Wednesday Aug. sth, ISIS
at O'Clock p. NJ. for the purpose OF choosing as
deleg ates to ate nd the Republican county con.
yeuiion to be held in Sko~hegan, Aug. 18th.
Per order OF Republican town Committee.
Skowhegan, Aug. a, 1883.
The Somerset reporter., 1888-08-02
Most Perfect 0ders
Messengers Notice.


SOMERSET 50. COURT OF INSOLVENCY.
In the case of Charles N Ames, Insolyelt
Debtor.
This is TO give notice that on the 18th day Of
July, A. D., 1883, warrant in Insolvency was
issued out of the Court of Insolvency Tor
said County OF Somerset, against the estate OF
said Charles n. Ames of Madison, adj
judged TO be an insovent debtor, on petition of
said debtor, which petition was fled on the
18th day of July A. D., 1888, to which date inter
est on claims is TO be computed. That the
payment OF any debts to or by said debtor,
and the transfer and delivery OF any property by
him are forbidden by law. That meeting OF
the creditors OF said debtor to prove their debts
and choose one or more assignees Of his estate, will
be held at Court of Insolvency to be holden at the
Probate Court Room, in said Skowhegan, on the
3lst day OF July, A. ID. lSSS, at one O'Clock in
the afternoon
Given under my hand the date first above
written.
ZENAS VAUGHAN
Sheriff az Messenger of said Court of Insoly
ency. 2W31
The Somerset reporter., 1888-08-02

Democratic papers gloat over the an
nouncement OF Mr.. A. l.. Goss of Auburn
that he cannot longer Sustain Republican
protection, and approvingly quote him as
saving that free trade the freer the better,
is what he wants. Our Democratic
friends are wrathy when called free trad
ers, but the way they snap up any express
sion of Republican in favor of it indi-
Gates that they believe in it and would adj
yocate it If they dared to.
The Somerset reporter., 1888-08-02

Attorney General Baker, County At
tornsy Appleton, Lewis A. Barker, Esq,
and y. H. Glllin, Esq, are At Portland,
where the Arguments 10 the Stsin-C rom-
we'll case win BE- made before the full
bsnch The Arguments will probably be
mads to-day. and settlement Of the case
aryived OF this week.
The Somerset reporter., 1888-08-02
REPUBLICAN CAUCUS !

The Republicans OF C0rnyille are requeste
To meet at the town house at six o clock IN tn
afternoon OF August sixth 10 choose six de,
gates to the County Convention, aud to appoiIi
u town Committee for the ensuing term.
Per Order
Rnnuhlican TnWn COMMITTEE
The Somerset reporter., 1888-08-02

With the introduction of a tariff bill
and the consequent discussion in the Sen
ate there is no prospect of adj ournment
of Congress until after September LIST.
The Somerset reporter., 1888-08-02

An enthusiastic Republican flag raising
took place at Auburn Friday evening,
Gen. John L. Swift of Massachusetts, was
the principal speaker