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Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-08-30
Lucky Boston.

Boston (Mass.) Record, July s.
The latest of fortunes favOrites to re-
Ceive large sum Of money from very
small investment are Messrs. Moore,
Spaulding & Co., the well-known whole
sale dealers in millinery goods at II and
10 Summer street Messrs. Moore, Spauld
ing & Co, held onc-twcntieth of ticket
go 443, which drew the first capital prize
of $780, 600 in the June drawing of The
Louisiana State Lottery. When question
ed about their good fortune by Record
reporter, member of the firm, illus
tratng his well.known character for
modesty, said that he did not care
to talk about it, but the reporter
learned that on Friday last Mr.. Spaulding
received from Adams Express Co., draft
on the Maverick bank for Sl5, 900 which
had been promptly forwarded upon re.
ceipt of the winning ticket at New
Orleans. The firm it is said have from
time to time made small investments of
this kind but never had quite such good
luck as in the present case, when they
have found themselves among the num-
Der who. purchasing tickets through the
New England agency, have received over
$75, 900 in cash within month.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-08-30
A Heroic Woman,

There has been fine example of
woman's heroism this season in the
town of Caribou. The heroine de-
serves Howell's title, 'The Lady of the
Aroo took" with all the nobility ex-
pressed in that much abused word. G.
ID. King and his wife live in the deep
solitude of the forest, thirteen miles
from any town, with their nearest
neighbor eight miles away. Mr.. King
cut his foot badly recently, and the
following day his need of medical aid
was so pressing that his wife started
for Caribou, Equipped with pair of
snow shoes, in case the crust should
fail, and hauling her child on sled,
she walked the entire thirteen miles,
six being through painless forest.
She seemed none the worse for her
long walk, and the necessary aid was
at once sent to her husband.-Spring-
feld Republican.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-08-30
The Democratic Campaign Manager.

Chicago Journal.
Calvin S. Brice, the Chairman of the
Democratic Campaign Committee, was a
poor country lawyer at Lima. Ohio,
twelve or fifteen years ago. He worked
his way into railroad ventures, wrecking
and recognizing railroad companies,
forming inside construction rings to build
railroads and selling them out at enor-
nous profits, and practicing other arts OF
the kind. by which his present wealth
was created He is now worth $40, 000,.
900. He is the Ohio Jay Gould. He re-
tains fictitious residence at the country
village where he developed from village
attorney into manipulation of railroad
properly, while his actual home is Fifth
avenue palace in New York City, and his
business Office is IN Wall street. He was
one of the orignators Of the ''sand-bag"
plot to build the Nickel.Plate parallel
railroad, which destroyed half the value
of the Southern Michigan, running thou
sands who held its stock. aud compelling
the Vanderbilts to buy the new line in
order to save their road from entire
wreck. Columbus Il. Cummings, of
Chicago Gas Trust notoriety, was one of
Brice's associates in this gigantic specula.
ton, which resulted in the schemers
putting millions If Vanderbilts money
into their individual pockets. The con-
struction of the Nickel Plate was an
equal damage 20 the public creating not
a competitor but disturbing element in
transportation, which, by cuts, Jumps
and other tricks in rates. unsettled the
conditions OF all traffic depending upon
stability of freight casts for success. Mr..
Brce is monopolist of the rankest kind.
being a stakeholder in every ring. scheme
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-08-30
SIT Takes Time"


There are thousands of factories in this
country which would have to shut down
IL the Mills bill were to become law,
and before the campaign closes every
voter in all that class of factories will
understand at least that part of the
Presidential issue which bears on him.
self. To cast vote for the ticket which
could not triumph without resulting in
lockout would be madness. All the
Doodle, foreign and domestic, which
could be raked together would be Il poor
recompense for such calamity as that.
The tariff, as general issue, is hard 20
understand, but when it comes down to
practical application 1t is the simplest Of
all political questions, and comes the
nearest home to the voters own pocket
and tireside. Such campaign as the
one now unfolding is bound to be q
growth on its Republican side 1t takes
time tor the people to get their bearings
and find out the nature and extent Of
issue at stake. 1t is not to be expected
that much interest will be felt in an
economic question unless it has home
application, direct or indirect. A great
moral issue, like anti.slayery. appeals at
once to the better nature, and enlists the
public sympathy, but it does not follow
that in the end it will be more enthusing
than an industrial issue Eighteen hun.
dred and sixty was wonderful campaign,
but so was 1910, which, like 1888, turned
on the tariff, Before November came the
country was all ablaze with intense inter-
est in the result Herein. as well as in
the headship Of the tickets of then and
now, there promises to be h striking
similarity. ...ss .u.a
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-08-30
"MonopOlyo and MoOnshine.


The Globe, in its editorial columns re-
Gently, renewed the monopoly" cry in
an attempted discussion of the free wool
question This cry has been often shown
to have no bearing whatever on our
American protective system. Those who
claim that O tariff on manufactures
creates monopoly either do not know
the meaning of the word with which they
are frightened or they hope by its use to
brighten others more ignorant than them.
selves. 1t is absurd to talk, as the Globe
does about the duty on wooden goods be-
ing defended by "a huge monopoly, con.
trolling not less than 500, DOC, 900 of cap
ital and welding an enormous political
power which sis Interested in main
tanning the taxes because they protect the
ring from legitimate competition and
enable ii to charge extortionate rates"
In the first place, there is not and there
cannot be any monopoly in the manufac-
ture of wooden cloth in this country. We
have in operation nearly 1000 wooden
mills, according to the last census, There
is nothing in the tariff law or any law,
except the law of supply and demand to
prevent there being 1000, 900. There is
not even a wooden trust" And there is
no serious talk or prospect Of such a
thing. 1t is not possible TO form and
maintain trust in line of product like
wooden cloth, which requires for its man
ufacture no other capital or material or
machinery than can be furnished at any
time, anywhere in any abundance.
In the second place protection does not
enable the wool manufacturers ito charge
extortiopate prices" 1t has exactly the
contrary effect When there was little
protection, and therefore little production
at home, our people were at the mercy of
the foreign mill owner. BY the stimulus
and encouragement of the protective
policy American factories have been es-
tablished, machines invented skilled labor
developed, until at length we have come
to produce fully onesixth of all the
wooden goods consumed in the civilized
world. One consequence of this is that
prices to the consumer have been steadily
declining. Year after year, decade after
decade. under the operation of the wool
taxes" the war tariff, the huge mon
opoly." etc, etc, the people have had to
pay less and less for their clothes and bed
ding. A single instance, out of multi
tude that might be cited, will serve to ex-
pose the arrant folly of the sort of talk
in which, for lack of something better,
free traders are wont to indulge. The
books of commission house in Boston,
which has been in business for something
like half a century show that grade Of
blankets costing S2,l94 at wholesale in
1850. under revenue only tariff of ID
per cent, can be bought in 1888. under q
tariff of IS per cent and Il cents a pound
added for 81 62l.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-08-30
The Wool Duty.

Philadelphia Press.
In five years of low duties and low
prices combined the country has lost one
eighth of its sheep Five years of free
wool will cut OFF from third to half
Of its fiocks. No one can gain by such a
change. English belief in President
Cleveland's free trade has already dis
counted the repeal Of our duty on wool
Were the duty repealed, and it will not
be until the next appeal is taken to the
polls, the price of wool in the market of
the world. the wilderness to which Mr..
Mills sends us to seek men dressed in
free WOOL would rise. and the price of
wool in our inland market, where the
American farmer sells it, would fall He
would be handicapped by high railroad
freights in reaching the manufacturer
and his rival wool-grower under the
Southern Cross and the British colonial
flag would be helped by cheap ocean
frcights This will not pay Consumer
and producer will lose alike The worlds
supply of wool can not be cut down by
our own share. third or fourth on the list
of great wool growers, without an ad-
vance in wool and wooden goods. Rail
road freights will deprive our farmer of
this advance. He will lose a crop which
in new States paves the way for Costlier
and more profitable crops, and in older
States supplements them. We have had
for one decade, 1850 to 1860, something
like free wool, and in that decade our
focks stood still. Under protection they
have increased enormously. This is the
issue before the land. 1t can continue a
policy under which it has diversified
farming, and, therefore. made it safe and
profitable, and at the same time made
wooden clothing cheap, or il can return
to policy under which, while wool is
dear, it does not pay the American farm.
er to raise it, We do not fear vote on
this issue which the Democratic party has
raised and by which it will fall
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-08-30
Soldiers OF the Nation.
o;tumwa Courier. -

Ottumwa Courier. q '...
There is about two years difference be-
tween the ages of Harrison and Cleveland,
the former being the elder. Harrison
had wife and two young children when
he went into the army. Cleveland was
twenty-five and unmarried. but he was u
copperhead, and he stayed at home and
enlisted in the crowd that fired in the
rear. Hence we have Vermont copper
head and British tory at the court of
St James in the .porson of Minister
Phelps. We have an eXrebel general on
the supreme bench. named by Cleveland
We have confederates and Copperheads
high in Office everywhere and we have an
old New England Democrat who was al
most yenomous Copperhead. named for
Chief Justice of the United States. Tell
us, please. why it is that naming two
Justices Of the United States Supreme
Couat, Mr.. Cleveland could not at least
name one who was loyal during the re-
bcilion. Amid all this trampling upon
the old flag by rebel borders, amid the
great cry of patriotic devotion, when hus-
bands, fathers, sons, and brothers, bid
adeu to the loved ones at home, to risk
their lives for the honor and maintenance
for the flag against the black rebellion Of
slavery, Clcyeland, cold, selfish, dead to
patriotism and honor, with no one de.
pending upon him, would not lift a hand
or even lend his voice and sympathy in
defense OF the nation. On the other
hand Harrison meets with Gov. Morton
in the dark hours when treason almost
overran Indiana, severed the ties of Hus-
band and father and led the boys to the
front and into the jaws of death to whip
rebellion.
Is it possible that one loyal soldier
shall stand by Cleveland against Har-
rISOn.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-08-30
lSdN-Thc Same N0M-lSSS.

From the Harrison Almanac ls1.-Utica Herald.
WHO WILL VOTE THE VAN buren, TICKET?
All who wish to have property of every
description reduced to one half or one
third its former value.
All who wish to see the price of labor
reduced to a level with that paid in
Europe.
All who wish to have the son of man
without property remain poor forever.
All such as prefer the interests of the
Office holders to the interests of the
people.
WHO WILL VOTE THE HARRISON TICKET
All who wish for an Improvement in
the financial and business condition Of
the country.
All who wish to have property stand
at its fair value, and labor receive its just
recompense.
All who believe that the condition of
our workingmen has been better than
that of the 'orkingmen of Europe, and
who wish to have it remain SO.
All such as prefer the interest of the
people to that of the office-holders.
For Van Buren," substitute Cleveland
and the extract fits the present campaign
without need of further cmcndation
The Cleveland ticket of to- day stands for
what the Van Buren, ticket of 1910 stood.
The Harrison ticket of to-day stands for
what the Harrison ticket of 1910 stood.
Van came forth from the contest a
used up man. Cleveland will come
forth from this contest ready to be filed
away with the opponent of his competi'
tors grandfather.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-08-30
MY WALK TO CHURCH.

Breathing the summer scented air
Along the bowery mountain way,
II scrve NV rinrch n mile awav.
Below, the glorious river lies
A bright, broad breasted, sylvan sea-
Fair ne The hills OF GaliIee.
Young flowers are In my path. i hear
Music of unrecorded tone.
Its nuIscs modnlate INV own,
The shadow on the meadows breast
Is not more calm than my repose
As, step by step, am the guest
OF every living thing that grows
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-08-30
Cooking Vegetables.

All cooks understand the different
effects produced by soft and hard water
in cooking meat and vegetables. Peas
and beans cooked in hard water contain
ing lime Of gypsum, will not boil tender,
because these substances harden vegeta.
BILE caseine Many vegetables, as onions.
boil nearly tasteless in soft water, be.
cause all the flavor is boiled out The
addition of salt often checks this. as in
the case of onions, causing the vegetables
to retain the peculiar flavoring principles,
besides such nutritious matter as might
be lost in soft water. For extracting the
juice of meat to make a broth or soup.
soft water, unsalted and cold at first, is
best, for it much more readily penetrates
the tissue; but for boiling where the
juice should be retained hard water or
soft water sailed is preferable. and the
meat should be put in while the water is
boiling so as to seal up the pores at once.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-08-30
and corporation that he could invade " lth
he mower Of money He ia prObahly as

and corporation that he could invade With
the power OF money He 10 probably as
deep in the coal and railroad ring opera
tons as ''Bilr' Scott himself The bulk
of his wealth has been made within the
last ten years. so that his profits have
averaged not less than $1,000, 600 a year
What greedy profits on the production
and transportation of the 'necessaries of
life" must have been made by the rings"
trusts" and syndicatcs to which he be.
longs in order that, in ten years, he might
hayc fortune Of $40, 900. 900! He is the
man who is to control the Democratic
campaign, appealing to laboring men for
votes, asking anti.monopoly support,
denoucing ''robbcr taxes" and begging
the poor for their assistance at the ballot
box.
Western Republicans refused to make
Chauncy NJ. Depew their Presidential
candidate because he was railroad Off.
cial. Look at the contrast. The Demo-
Gratis have placed their entire campaign
in control of ring of millionaire mono
polists, coal barons, railroad barons, irOs
barons and credit ombilier SPECTATORS in
railroad construction. There never was
so colossal and grotesque an experiment
attempted in American politics. 1t will
be an egregious failure.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-08-30
what is q Protective Tariff !"

Omaha Republican.
1t is tariff upon foreign imports so
adjusted as to secure the necessary revc
nue. and iudiciously imposed upon those
foreign products the like of which are
produced at home. 1t imposes the duty
upon the competing foreign product, it
makes it bear the burden or duty, and, as
far as possible, luXuries only excepted
permits the non competing foreign pro-
duct to come in free of duty. Articles
of common use, comfort and necessity,
which we cannot produce, it sends to the
people free from Custom-house eXactioUs.
1t says to our foreign competitor, if you
want to bring your merchandise here.
your farm products, your coal and iron
ore, your wool, your salt, your pottery
your glass. your cOttOns and woolens,
and sell alongside of our producers, we
will make your product pay for the privi-
lege of doing it. 1t makes the competing
foreign article carry the burden, draw
the load, supply the revenue; and, in
performing this essential office, it en-
courages, at the same time, our own in
dpstrics and protects our own people in
their chosen employments. This is what
the Republican party is fighting for
There is no conflict Of interests between
the several classes of producers and con-
sumers in the United States. That which
benefits one benefits all The farmer, the
manufacturer. the laborer, the tradesman,
the producer. and the consumer, all have
common interest in the maintenance of a
protective tariff The establishment of a
furnace or factory or mill in any neigh
borhood has the effect at once to enhance
the value of all property for miles sur
rounding it. The farmer has better and
nearer market for his produce. The
an increased trade. The carpenter is in
greater demand he is called upon to
build more houses. Every branch of
trade, every avenue of labor will feel
instantly the energizing influence Of a
new industry.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-08-30
Didn't Mean Free Trade.

lhlhdelphla lfess.
Discomfort and open rebellion against
the mad assault upon American interests
are manifest in every ncighborhoOd where
a factory chimney p!crccs the sky and
wherever man has pcoplcd the hills with
sheep or planted the valleys with grain.
The uprising against the conspiracy
which prefers Mr. Clcvcland's free trade
message to the Declaration of Indcpend-
cnt as a Fourth of July document gains
fresh recruits every day, and unless some.
thing is done to check it, the Democracy
is doomed to overwhelming and humilia.
ting defeat. In this supreme crisis the
old tactics of the old party do not fail ii.
The old, familiar whine, pcevish. fretful,
and babyish, goes forth again: I'VE
didn't mean it. Let bygoncs be bygones."
Mr. WattersOn goes to Harlem to make it;
Mr. Carlisle and Mr.. Mills pipe it out in
tremuous treblcs in Tammany Hall;
President Cleveland, in pondcrous tones
more gruntlul than whining, drones it
forth in n solemn letter. We didn't
mean it, Let bygoncS be bygOncs And.
taking the key from these ferYcnt but
timid dodgers and apOlogss, the free
trade organs all over the land peep and
pipe in voices trembling with terror: I'VE
didn't mean it, Let bygones be bygones.
What brave politics, Having issued the
challenge. chosen the groand, selected
weapons, and named its seconds. this
brave, fat party of Jefferson, Jackson.
Grover Cleveland and free trade pauses
on its way to the battlefield, and with its
knees knocking together in terror, pitcous-
ly whines: didn't mean it. Let by
cones be bygoncs." The plea has be-
come threadbare; it has been accepted too
often, and this time it will be rejected.
1t will never win either mercy or pity
again until it issues from the graves Of
dead parties where the Democracy itself
lies among the unhonored bygoneS, with
the word Coward" inscribed upon its
coffin.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-08-30
Farmers Land Excursions.

On Aug, 14th and 2Sth, Sept. 18th and
25th, Oct. 9th and 25d. Nov 9th aud Goth
and Dec. 4th and 18th the Wabash
Western Ry. will sell land excursion
tickets at the low rate of one fare for the
round trip to the following points: Jack
son, Tenn. Aberdeen, Artesia and Jack
son, Miss; Chronicle, Ala; Hammond
Lake Charles, Jennings, La. These tick.
cts are good for 60 days from date OF
sale and allows the holder stop-over priv.
leges both going and returning, Farmers,
capitalists and others wishing to locate in
any of the Southern States will always
find it to their advantage to take the
popular and cheap Wabash Route.
For full information call on or address
w. G. Martin, T. p. A.. Des Moines, la.
L. M. Martin, Gen'l Agent, Des Moines, la.
Miss Jennie Hannum, who recently at.
tended Eliotts Business College, Bur
lington, Iowa, has secured good position
at Ft Madison, Iowa
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-08-30
FIVE CHEAP HARVEST EXCURSIONS
Rare Chance to View tIse Wonderful
Crops of the West, Southwest
and Northwest,

The most abundant ever known. Come
and see for yourself. The Great Rock
Island Route offers you the inducements
of lowest rates, and delightful journey
in its unrivalled palace cars.
Dates of excursions: Leave Chicago
August 81, September II and %. and
October and % QSSS), for Kansas. Ne
braska, Northwestern Iowa, Minnesota
and Dakota.
Rate: One fare for the round trip.
Tickets first class and good 30 days for
return passage. Improve this opportu-
nifty. You may never have another in a
season so bourtiful. Be sure your tickets
read via the Great Rock Island Route.
which has its own lines to principal
points in all these States.
For rates and full particulars, address
VIM. Hickey, Passenger Agent, Daven-
port. Iowa. or E. A. HOlbrook, G. I. &
p. A., Chicago, Ills.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-08-30
womnn's Figure, Real and Ideal.

To get some comparison between the
idea of woman's figure as the Greek
sculptor chiseled it and as the mod
ern Chicago dressmaker and cloak
maker regard it, one cannot do better
than compare the proportions of the
Medicean Venus with those of the
professional models who exhibit fine
goods for the sellers at the wholesale
and retail stores. The Venus is ) feet
5 inches in height, measures nearly Is
inches about the waist, "a inches about
the bust and Al inches about the hips.
The upper arm measures IL inches and
the wrist 6. From the base of the
skull to the waist is between ii and
Is inches, and from shoulder to Shout
der is Is inches. The approved d.
mansions for q cloak or dress model
as employed in most of the large city
houses do not differ from the Venus
greatly as regards height. Short wo-
men and tall women are needed in the
retail stores, but a wholesale house
exhibiting samples to buyer will re-
quire = woman of about feet ) to
display its choicest good to advantage.
Her other measurements will be about
as follows: Waist % inches, or some
times 81; bust, 80 inches, or OCCASION
ally 81; hip measure, from As to AZ
inches; upper arm measure, IL inches;
distance from base OF skull to waist
16l inches, and from shoulder to Shout
der, 49, inches. The modern meas
ure approximates the Greek measure
much more closely than it would have
done twenty years ago. Sixty years
ago there would have been very lite
comparison possible between the two.
Where the dressmaking model differs
from the statuesque model the diverg-
ence can be traced accurately to the
corset shape, which makes the waist
rather smaller, the bust and hip con-
siderably larger than they ought to be.
1t is the corset also which makes
the waist too long. Lack of suili-
Gent amount of muscular exercise is
responsible probably for the missing
two inches in arm girth and the mis-
sing inch and half in shout er width.
The professional models are, as a rule,
among the most symmetrical women
seen in the city as to measurements
not specified, and these respects ap-
proximate the Greek very nearly.