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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-09-14
THE IRON INDUSTRY.

- Protected Steel Rails Increase tAo
Farmers Freight Rates:
1t will be unnecessary to dilate upon
this argument Of the free-trader fur.
Their 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 VINO
make them less than one-half paid to
the laborers 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
a 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 win
be here added. giving the rate Of
wages in the large steel rail manu-
factory on the sea coast in Cumber.
land, Eng, and the one at Joliet, Ill.s
Eun,Sn6 LoI.et
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-09-14

II the gums, as frequently happens
after illness. become very sore, a gar
gle Of myrrh In . little water is to be
commended, and as this has q good.
wholesome odor one need not mind
using it.
TO make sealing-wax for fruit cans.
take eight ounces of resin. two ounces
gum shellac and half ounce Of bees
wax. Melt all together. This viii
make quantity and may be melted
for use when wanted.
For bunions and corns, Cannabis
indicus and glycerine. equal parts,
painted on the bunion or corn, bound
around with Canton flannel, adding
few drops Of the liquid to the flannel
where it comes in contact with the af-
fected parts, will soon restore to health.
There is scarcely an ache to which
children are subject so hard to bear
and SO difficult to cure as earache. A
remedy which never fails is a pinch of
black pepper gathered up in bit OF
cotton batting wet in sweet oil and in
serted in the ear. 1t will give imme-
diate relief.
Mint Sauce.-Take some tender
punches of mint, wash all sand or grit
from them in several clear waters;
then remove the stems and chop the
leaves fine in the best cider vinegar,
adding sugar. The sauce should be as
thick as horseradish sauce, and it is
best to put it in little dishes by each
plate.
To cure felon, fill tumbler with
equal parts of fine salt and ice; mix
well. Sink the finger in the center,
and allow it to remain until it is nearly
frozen and numb, then withdraw it, and
when sensation is restored renew the
operation four or FIVE times, when it
will be found the disease is destroyed.
This must be done before pus is formed.
Pineapple Shortcake.-Prepare the
shortcake as for Strawberries, and an
hour or two in advance chop or pick up
the pineapple very fine. and cover it
thickly with sugar to draw out the juice.
When the cakes are done. butter them
and covered with prepared pineapple.
Place it in the oven few minutes for
the juice to soften the crust, and it will
be ready to serve.
Baked Apple Pudding. -Fill three
quart earthen dish with pared and
quartered apples; sprinkle on these one
cup of sugar, a little cinnamon, fresh
butter the size Of a small egg. and one
half cup of water; cover and bake thirty
minutes. Roll a piece of chopped paste
into a strip about two inches wide that
will reach around the pudding dish; roll
the remainder to cover the dish. Take
the pudding dish from the oven, slip
the strip OF paste between the apple and
the dish and put on the top crust; re-
turn to the oven and bake one hour.
Serve with creamy sauce.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-09-14
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 snuffy and
sneezing days, was fouted 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 of his bales
of goods. The wholesale dealer cant
find a 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
nags he was piling up meant non-pro-
lection to American industries. The
red color was omin0us. 1t was fetch
that did not work. Instead Of the
charm and the illusion, it was a dis
illusion. Somehow it worked as q sort
of eye-opene-. When people got their
ayes open they did not want the ban
dana II that is not the true explana-
ton there Is still room for q more sat-
is.actory one.-San francisco Bulletin.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-09-14
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 flaws! Magnify the small
est objections! Never give him the
benefit of doubt! Save few thou
sand dollars a 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 a law!
Carefully avoid all reference to the ex-
travagant and corrupt features Of the
bill! Allow it to become a Law with
out l or comment! Waste large
rrcr IN of $22.OOO.0OO during the
coming year to the American people'
This contrast illustrates the recent pol
icy Of our retrenchment ana reform
President-A.bany OK ~ Express
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NEARLY WIPED OUT.
How Democratic Extravaganza II;
Settled the Surplus Question.

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 q hunirei million dollars,
utterly idle, Tor not one dollar "t which has the
Government any use, but 3 eept out OF
the pockets Of the people, vino might use 1t IN
their business and to their great advantage
and prosperity. Now. the Democratic party
sa, that ought not to be, and say So"
This is a repetition of the Hendricks
talkin 1884. The actual surplus in the
Treasury. according to the public debt
statement of August l, is $lO6, $40. 5S5.
On the 1st of August, 1887, it was 49,.
69S, 1914. 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 ill 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 II 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 20 be
used as a campaign argument It
wanted to use the surplus as breast
work from behind which to attack the
protective tariff, and therefore the
surplus has been nursed and coddled ss
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, $50. and will come
within $17, $4,000 of absorbing the en-
tire revenues of the current year. In
other words. the surplus revenue Of the
current year will only be ST.. 794, Goo
Another year or two Of Democratic
administration would make an end of
the surplus.-Inl!iaadpOtis Journal.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-09-14
iNDlsPUTAeLE LOGIC.

John F. Finerty Tells Why 1rish-Ameri-
cans Can Not support Cleveland.
Every Irish-American voter. no mat
ter what party he belongs to, knows
well that England, her press and every
influence she has on the continent. OPP
posed the election, of Blaine in 1884;
this fact alone should be enough to
cast a doubt on either the patriotism
or common sense of every Irishnan
that voted for Cleveland. There is,
however. this exculpating point for
the Irishmen who voted for Cieve-
land, namely, that neither from his
address to the people after his nomi-
nation in 1885, nor from the platform of
the party by whom he was elected. could
it be proved that either he or his party
were fully in favor of free trade or a
reduction of the tariff. The
Instantaneous who voted for Cleve-
land in 1882, and. who did SO under the
impression that neither he nor his
party desired to interfere with the
tariff or TO gradually bring about free
trade. can have no excuse for voting
for Cleveland this time. fer he and his
party have come out boldly against
the tariff. Every prophecy that was
made in 1884 as TO the reasons for
which Cleveland was nominated, as to
English influence having been RAM
pant in the land, as to the attempt En-
gland and her mugwump allies were
making to break down the tariff and
thereby benefit England, have been
fulfilled to the letter. England is
against the election of Harrison now
for the same reasons as those for
which she was against the election of
Blaine four years ago, and no Irish
American can now have any excuse
for voting Tor Cleveland, no matter
what excuses he might have had in
1884. Chicago Citizen.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-09-14
CURRENT COMMENT.

REWith President Cleveland, Grea.
Britain knows where she is.-Giasy0v
(Scotlaad) Herald.
E%The name of the rebel 90 Brooks"
attached to the stars and stripes is an
insult to the American fiag.--iarora
QH.) Beacon.
HYMr. Cleveland has taken his
stand on free trade. And on
that broad question Mr.. Cleveland's 8.
candidature naturally and necessarily
carries English sympathy.-London
Globe.
N~Cesar had his Brutus, Charles
the First his Cromwell. and Grover
Cleveland his Calvin Brioc. And just
think how Caesar and Charles the First
would have pi.ied Cleveland had they
knOwn.-PaiiGdeipa Press.
ES~Free trade means scarcity Of
work, low wages and Cwe:.crOwded
almshouses. Protection mean. the re-
verse. The working people viii soon
be called to choose between tire two
Labor Herald.
SS>He (Cleveland) is a terror to !
poor soldiers widow after "a pension
of $12 a'month; but when it comes to
the distribution of $22.000,O00 of the
public money to please the politi-
clans he is not on deck.-Roctestcr
Post Express (Ind. Dem.).
MA 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 few short months
will remove all that responsibility
from his shoulders.-St. Paul Pioneer
Press. 1"es
H%DemOcrats 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 see?-W;nneapoiis
Tribune.
DReferring to General Harri-
SUI . SpCcCilcSs OuttAEiudu OilCC ostyS
the Republicans have candidate who
knows how to. help his party. The
Democratic boss does Cleveland in
justice. The latter is probably help
ing his party rs much by his silence
as General Harrison is by his speeches.
Indianapolis Journal.
wGeorge Alfred Townsend. in
recent letter to the Democratic Gin
cinnati Enquirer. gives long inter.
view with Dunlap, the New York
halter. Among other things, Mr..
Dunlap said: Il 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 q vote out of the establish
ment."
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-09-14
WAGES OF LABOR.
Figures That Are Of Peculiar valuO "a
Free-Trnde Working Men.

Figures That Are Of Peculiar Value to
free-Trade workinE.Men.
When the State Department began
Its work of collecting statistics as to
the rate OF wages and cost of living in
Europe, IS compared with those in the
United States, MIR. Secretary Bayard
and his subordinates had little idea of
what favor they were comforting
upon the advocates OF protection gem
orally and Republican editors in par
SECULAR. The figures are always sug-
gostive as showing the vast difference
in favor Of the protected working-men
Of the United States, and afford about
the best possible argument against the
change in our system proposed by the
Democratic party.
The following table of the rates Of
weekly wages paid in Europe and in
the United States in 1884 is condensed
from the report of the Secretary of
State on the estate of labor in Europe"
derived from facts reported by the
United States COnsuls:
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-09-14
1t will be noticed that the wages

1t will be noticed that the wages
earned by working psople in the coun-
tries 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, IS. 10; in Belgium the
printer, 1874; in France the printer,
e6.64; in Germany the printer, IS. O9;
In Great Britain the plumber, $3.50;
in Netherlands the tailor, s, the prin-
ter. plumber. cooper. carpenter. brick
aayer and blacksmith coming next at
$3.50; in Switzerland the printer.
&677, and in the United States the
bricklayer, $50 to $24; the plasterer,
eaS to $27. and the printer, $l3 to $lS
per week.
This table is of peculiar value just
now to the American working-man.
not only because it shows his standard
of wages as compared with the foreign
Standard, but because it points out the
occupations that are tho best paid in
The different countries of the world;
and 1t is worthy of observation
that with hardly any variation.
it is the workmen in trades
that are independent of or pro-
tected from foreign competition that
elways receive the greatest compensa-
tion. That is, SO the printer in the
Omitted States must set up his type here
tonight SO that his paper can be issued
here tomorrow morning, no foreign
prticle 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
not confronted with plastered houses
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 law that can not be
evaded--the law of nature.
The free-traders of the Carlisle school
have appropriated these samples of abb
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.
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FRUITS OF PROJECTIONS.


MAyyossao eiroWth az the Country Under
. Protective Policy.
The mention Of few facts win show
the marvellous growth Of the country
under the fostering care of the pro-
tective policy. Last year the Western
States manufactured nearly as much as
the Uhole country did in 1860. The
Southern States now make ten per cent.
more pig-iron than was made in the
United States the year before the war.
When Fort Sumter was fired on the
entire exports of the United States
from the formation Of the Government
had been $1,000. 600, 900. Since then
they havo amounted o$14, 900. 00O, 600.
When Abraham Lincoln was inaugu-
rated the first time, the manufactures
in the United States amounted to ST.
800. 600. 600. To-day they amount to
1000. co., 900.
Twenty-one years ago no steel rails
were manufactured in this country.
Two years ago 1.764. 900 tons were pro-
duced. The result of manufacturing
our own steel rails instead of depend
ing upon England for them is
that they are much cheaper than
they were when We had to i'm
port them from England. Cheap
rails have enabled US to increase our
railroads from $4,000 miles to 135. 900
miles. This increase in railroads has
reduced the cost Of transportation to
less than half what it was in England.
We could 60 on giving column after
column of statistics showing the bene-
fits that have been showered on the
country by a policy for which Grover
Cleveland and his fellow free-traders
would substitute policy that would
impede the grand march of progress
we have been making ever since the
barriers erected by protection have
warded off foreign competition.
II the low tariff OF 1857 had re-
manned in force during the last thirty
one years would the West to-day DO
dotted with mills and factories of all
kinds? Would the South be develop
ing her natural resources in a way
that promises to make her the richest
portion of the Union if Southern
votes. supplemented by the free-trade
votes here in the North, do not blight
the fair prospect that opens up before
her.
With all the fair fruits Of protection
spread out before us we are asked to
accept the policy Of free trade, pol
icy which, if adopted in these closing
years of the century, will bring in its
train the suffering and misery it has
always caused whenever it has been
adopted. World.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-09-14
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
cage, saying among other things:
"Idid not happen TO have an opportunity Of
reading The full text OF President Cleveland's
mesaage 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 Circumstances. 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 Ia
and the United States, or perhars, to SPEAK
more exactly. between Great Britain and the
United States IN respect to the fisheries. II
was our belief and still is. that after the art!-
cles Of the treaty OF Washington relating
10 the fisheries had expired the Ca
madam Government behaved in an un-
neighborly unseemly and unjust manner
towards our fishermen in refusing them
rights which they had enjoyed oy
long prescription. In order to bring the
Government Of the Dominion to just appre-
citation Of the subject Congress authorized the
President, in 1881, to adopt ct his discretion a
policy OF suitable retoltati0Q, directing, among
other things. that whenever and 80 long as
American vessels were deprived Of CONNER
cial privileges in the ports Of Canada Canadian
vessels should b. deprived Of like privileges in
The ports Of the United States This, II may
indulge in appropriate slang. was . genuine
tit-for-tst policy, In which the punishment was
admirably fitted 70 the crime. President
Cleveland declined to enforce the policy and
allowed outrage after outrage upon or fishing
vessels to 20 unredressed He was beHs upon
some form Of negotiation With England.
even against the express wish and viii OF the
United States Senate and in defiance of ,he
large share in the tresty-making power which
the constitution ASSIGNS 70 the Senate. Final
y. without the consent OF the Senate and prxs-
tically against its protest. the President -
CANNED commission to frame treaty that
should settle all points Of Dispute. He taas
gave what Was never intended BY the eonstitu-
tion-a partisan side Of IN international dis-
cussion. Il Vas never Designed by the foun-
ders Of our Government that intercourse yith
foreign nations shovld be conducted BY ReSub-
licans or BY Democrats, or by Wings or by
Federslists. II should only be by the Notion
as Q Wnole.
why should the railways Of the Unsted
States that annually transport fifty millions OF
Canadian goods In transit - deprived Of their
business ed endure . large loss on account Of
Q sudden WAlm Of the PRESIDENT Why should
~ transit rom Dosrott = Buffalo aad New
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-09-14
n. That's the kind of a "bigot"

q
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 q Democrat.
He was Democrat when Democ-
racy meant human slavery. He
was Democrat when Democ-
racy meant. in the language of Judge
fancy, "that black man had no
rights which a white man was bound to
respect" He was 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 OHr 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 a 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
| n 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
according to the terms prescribed in
,, the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fiji
tenth 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 few extracts from re-
cent utterances 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
ments 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 calmity to this land
as the reelection of Grover Cleveland.