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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-04
Innocence Abroad.

Dana, of the n Y Sun, who is giving
Cleveland left-handed support, evil
IDENTIFY believes that the man now rum
ming the machine-Colonel Briefs q
'.fool engineer" He says:
You are new in politics. Colonel Brice,
and the Sun has seen a good deal Of that
sort of thing. We hope, therefore, that
you will not be offended if we venture
to give you q grandfatherly hint.
The latest advices concerning your ex-
petition of conquest in the Northwest
are from Chicago. They are TO the eff
feet that the prospects of Democratic
success in Illinois have been portrayed
in such brilliant colors by the represent
atives of the Democratic State organiza-
ton that you enthusiastically promised
on behalf of the National Campaign
Committee, to put money and effort in
to the canvass there.
We can readily believe the report, for
you had hardly crossed the Alleghanies
before you sent back the cheering lntelli-
gence that the gaudiest of Democratic
Iainbows in Michigan. Minnesota, and
s;iinois were already visible 10 your eyec,
while the heavens were rather bright
over Wisconsin.
Now that you have reached Chicago,
we understand lnaG the RAINBOW spans
Iowa, which gave Mr.. Blaine a r1ajority
of 10000 over the combined Cleveland
and Butler vote four years ago.
What we desire to suggest for your
information and protection IS this:
Wherever the rainbow chase leads you,
you will hear the same story from the
local bosses.
If you had gone into Maine six
weeks ago you would have heard it there
If you should pass on into Nebraska
now, after having satisfied yourself that
Democratic chances were good in Iowa,
you would be greeted with encourag lng
reports as to the probability of overcom-
ing the Republican plurality of $4,000
in 1884
If you should next advertise your in
tention to hunt Kansas for rainbows, the
Democratic politicians Of that State
would fill your ears with tales Of hope
and promise, Notwithstanding the Re-
publican plurality Of $4,000 four years
ago.
If sou should come East again to
Pennsylvania. no doubt the $4,000 ma
Jurlty OF Blaine over Cleveland would
melt away like the mists of the morning
under the promise of financial aid from
the National Committee.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-04
SOME HARD FACTS.

What the Tariff Docs for Prices and Wages.
Democrats, from the President down,
sre still repeating their dismal yarn
about the duty being added to the cost
of articles upon which there is q tariff
The facts are that local competition often
oats down the prices of goods in this
country to the European figures, but at
the same time wages are kept up The
representative Of large and well-known
rubber mandatory states that the aver
age weekly wages paid by their concern
in 1860 was $3.50. and in 1887 $11.45, an
increase of over 100 per cent. and that
the same goods that brought them net in
1860 IS 2-10 cents in 1887 brought but AZ
336, 1000 cents; or, in other words, that
they received in 1860 substantially 81 per
cent. more for their product than in 1887
which shows that while the tariff has pro-
tected the labor of the workingman and
increased his wages more than 100 per
cent, competition has brought down the
prices of the goods as above stated.
he also said that considerable por-
lion of the village in which their factory
located is owned by the working mer and
women in their employ, the high wages
that they have received enabling them, in
large number of instances, to purchase
homes for themselves; and further. that
while the result of the business showed
fair returns on the nominal capital stock
of the company, if all the money which
they employed in their business bad been
put out at an annual interest at the
moderate rate Of 5 per cent, the result
would have been greater gain than they
showed, making it evident that the inter.
ests of the laborers are carefully consi-
dered rather than the accumulation of
tho largest possible gains.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-04

ABOUT as clear an answer as we have
lately seen to Che new hedging dodge and
quibbling of the democrats as to the
tariff since the Oregon election, is the
following from the Springfield (Mass.)
Union.
"A tariff for revenue only is free trade.
No one understands that free trade means
essentially that no duty at all be levied
on any imports. That for convenience
As called extreme free trade or absolute
free trade. But free trade against which
protectionists contend is tariff that is
not protective. It is not correct to say
that manufacturer enjoys some pro
lection if the tariff is SO low as to give
the foreign competitor an advantage
For instance, if an article costs ten cent.
TO manufacture it in England and bring
it to our market, and the same article
costs twenty cents to manufacture andput
on the market here, tariff of five cents
on that article affords no protection what
eVer-i5 is free trade to all inteDts and
purposes, so far as the issue between
free trade and protection is concerned.
In the case supposed, it would require g
tariff Of ten cents to enable the home
manufacturer TO compete with the
foreigner on the merits of his goods, and
he would still have to share the market
with him unless his goods were superior,
or unless he could reduce the wages OF
his employees or otherwise lower the cost
of his goods so as to undersell the foreign
competitor. These simple and plain
truths are ignored or thrust out of sight
by the advocates of the Mills bill, who
talk about the protection it leaves in the
tariff"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-04
Is Protection Robbery?

From Gen. Harrison's talk to the Iro.
quois County Qll.) Republican Club: Our
Democratic friends say that protective
tariff is robbery. You see this written
at the head of campaign tracts circuiat-
ed by their committees. You hear it
said in the public speeches of their lead
ers. You have not once, l think, IN the
campaign heard any Democratic speaker
admit that even low protective tariff
was desirable. Those who, like Mr..
Randall, have in former campaigns been
used to allay the apprehension Of our
working people by talking protection
have been silenced On the other hand,
the Republican party declares, by its
platform and by It's speakers, that pro-
tective tariff is wise and necessary.
There is the issue, make your ownchoice.
If you approve by your votes the doc
trine that a protective tariff is public
robbery you will expect your representa-
tives to stop this public robbery, and if
they be faithful they will do it-not z
per cent. of it. but all Of it, So that l
beg you all to recollect that you will vote
this fall for or against the principle of
protection. You are invited to feast
of cheapness. You are promised foreign
made goods at low prices, and domestic
competing goods, if they are made, at
the same low rates. But do not forget
that the spectre of lower wages will also
attend the feast. Inevitably, as certain
as the night follows the day, the adop-
ton of this policy means lower wages.
Choose, then, but do not forget that this
cheapening process may be pushed so
far as to involve the cheapening of hui
man life and the loss Of human happi-
ness.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-04
Cleveland as a Reformer.

The New York Mail and Express states
eight reasons which go to show that
Grover Cleveland is mistaken in suRpos-
ing himself to be civil service reformer.
They are as follows:
l. The collection of assessments for the
Widow McGinnis' pig.
2. The clearing out of all the Republi-
can Office holders in Indiana.
8. The refusal to remove District At
torney Benton of Missouri because he
made Democratic speeches. The removal
of District Attorney Stone of Pennsyl-
vania because he made Republican
speeches.
Z The turning over of Vermont patron
age to B. B. Smalley, Internal Revenue
Collector, and Hiram Atkins, Superin-
tendent of public buildings.
5. The turning over of the machine in
this State to Daniel Magone, Collector of
the Port.
6. The appointment of Higgins, Morris
Thomas, and Rasin to responsible places,
as reward of dishonorable political serv-
ices.
T. Standing by German in his debauch-
cry of Maryland politics.
s. Helping along local contest in this
| city by money contribution.
Of course this does not exhaust the
reasons. Eight times eight more of
equal force might be offered, but the list
is sufficient to justify any one, who is
| a good Judge of morals, in saying that
| ''the man who is guilty of them is no
more a reformer than the impenitent
thief was Christian"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-04
GEMS OF THOUGHT.

Novelty gives immeasurablenese to
fear, and fills the early time of all changes
with phamtoms Of the future"
What nagnifying of her misery might
not young creature get into who welded
her fresh hopes to old secrets!-George
Elliot.
He that would reckon up all the acct
dents preferments depend upor, may as
well undertake TO count the sands or sum
up nfnitely.-South.
"Those who are weary of life, and yet
are most unwilling to die, are those who
have lived to no purpose-Who have
rather breathed than lived"
The little have seen OF the world and
know of the history Of mankind teaches
me TO look upon the errors of others in
sorrow, not in anger-Longfellow
"Wrong- doing is a road that may
open fair, but il leads to trouble and
danger. Well-doing, however rough and
thorny at first, surely leads to pleasant
places"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-04
TIE PLAIN TRUTH.
The Mills Bill Reduces the Average Rat
of Duty on Dutiable Goods
1885 Per Cent.

DIR. Mills claims that his tariff bill
which passed the House of Representa-
tives reduces the average rate Of duty or
dutiable goods from 47.10 per cent. in
the fiscal year 1887 to 49, per cent, g
reduction, as he says. of 461 per cent.
and this he says is not free trade. Ger
tainly it is not; but does Mr.. Mills tell
the whole truth? Emphatically he does
not Here are the proofs. We chal-
lenge the successful contradiction by
free traders of the figures we now pre-
sent:
when Mr. Mills says that his bill re.
duces the average rate of duty on dutis-
bic goods only 4 81 per cent he intends TO
deceive his hearers. The truth is that
4 81 is simply the difference between
All per cent, The average rate of duiv
collected on all dutiable goods in 1887,
and AZ. 40 per cent, which Mr. Mills say.
is the average rate OF duty in the dnii;
bic list of his bill. The TOTAL revenue
derived from imported dutiable goods
in the fiscal year 1897, on which irnror-
tations Mr. Mills bases his calcuiat. ons
was 1912, 032, 424. If. as Mr. Nils said.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-04
Growers kindergarten.

Chauncey NJ Depew. at a reception
given him by the New York Union
League Club in speaking of the tariff,
said:
President Cleveland says in his letter
to the Democratic clubs that he has es-
tablished a kindergarten in this country
laughter for the education of plain
people in the industrial and economical
theories, and from my knowledge of
twenty years of the members of the I'm
ion League Club, we are the plainest OF
the lot. Laughter The schoolmaster
is abroad llaughterl; maybe he will find
his way home. Great laughter But
looking at this matter, and reading Mr..
Cleveland's speech, his letter of accept
ance, reading the combination from his
first message which precipitated this
question; his letter of acceptance which
explained it [laughter]; his instructions
to the Democratic clubs which enforced
it laughter every time mounting high
er in the notes which sing of the protec-
ton of the American home. notwith-
standing the theories and the practices
of message and of letter and of Mills
BILL L am reminded of that good man up
in Peekskill, who, when the jury began
to inquire how he murdered his wife,
found that it was with the frame of a
picture that hung above their bed, on
which was worked in worsted God
Bless Our Home" Roars of laughter I
Mr.. Depew then discussed the powers of
the President of the United States, and
declared that he is the greatest autocrat
in the world. He also referred to the
disfranchisement of the colored people
in the south. and closed by saying that
until the negro vote is recognized that
vote should not be taken into considera-
ton in apportioning representation or
in the count that goes to make up the
total that elects the President of the
United States.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-04
,,u not
~ sIuuu.N

uO not iIup..uS
State campaigners in Illinois or else
where any deliberate intention to i'm
pose ON your inexperlence, or to acquire
by dishonest representations share of
Mr.. Cleveland's $4,000, of which you
are practically the custodian and dis
burser This exaggerated confidence in
local possibilities is due partly to the
weakness of human nature, partly to the
fallacious belief that such talk Is the in
dispensable certificate of party loyalty,
and partly to not unnatural desire TO
magnify the Importance and increase the
power of the local machine. Every
seasoned campaigner takes these things
into account; but. Of course, if China
man merely goes forth to hunt rainbows,
he can fiIld them arching themselves in
every direction, and ret;culating the
whole blue armament.
Nor do we mean. Colonel, to discour-
age a cheerful and hopeful habit of look
ing at things. 1t was well enough, for
example, to bind your Campaign Text
Book in vivid green, instead of in blue
or black, or ashes of roses. Be cheerful
and hopeful, by all means; but don't let
these prismatic banners in the PARKWAY
skies divert your attention from the fact
that the battle of the campaign must be
fought in New York. and that there is
hard fighting ahead, right here upon the
main battlefield.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-04
THE GERMAN HARVEST.
A Large Import of Cereals Will be Required
to Supply the Deficiency

Large Import of Cereals Will be Required
to Supply the Deficiency
BERLIN, Sept. 29.-The failure of the
harvest in Germany is attracting serious
attention. There is poor crop, both of
cereals and potatoes. The price of
bread if rapidly rising. Since 1887 rye
has advanced AZ marks and wheat 81
marks. In soma districts bakers
have raised the price OF bread
ten pfennings Der pound.
Herr Richter, in All article in the Liberal
Zeitung, calculates that Germany will re-
quire thirteen million hectolitres TO meet
the deficiency. Tho people, he says,
must therefore demand an Immediate
diniuution of the duty on the cereal
imports. The progressists intend
30 actively agitate the question.
The official press contends that duties
have slight influence, compared with ma
tural causes, on the course of prices and
that instability in the agrarian legislation
Of the em pire would lead to worse results
than an occasional rise in bread values.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-04
The Dinner Pals Tell the Story.

State Senator Commodore p Vedder
has just returned from a European trip
He was greatly impressed with what he
saw there. Said he: England seems to
grow poorer every day and her woe is
largely to be ascribed to free trade. The
manufacturers are free traders; but
learned that the people who have to work
are for protection. The farms of Eng
land are in a bad condition. | saw
scores of them overgrown with weeds.
Free trade is running the agricultural in
terests, and there were twenty farmers
on the ship which | came over in. Farm
laborers earn shilling day in Eng
land, and it IS not surprising that they
are anxious to emigrate. Taxes are in
finisely higher there than here, and food
bread and meat-are much higher. In
France | found men working for franc
a day GO cents. and in Florence I saw
100 Italian cigar makers working at Is
cents day. Their food consisted of
rye bread and cheap sour wine. In
Germany, where they have a protective
tariff, the condition of the laboring peo-
pie is considerably improved. One bright
fellow whom | met there put the case in
a very significant way. Said he: If you
look at the dinner-pails in England and
at the dinner-pais in America, you will
see the difference between the two coun-
tries. Your American workingmen have
dinner-palls of two compartments, indi-
eating that they have variety of food
Our dinner-pails have but one compart-
ment, and our workingmen are glad
enough to get one kind of food. There
is strong protection sentiment grow
ing among the working classes of Eng
land. '-Nelo York Tribune
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-04
FREDERICK'S DIARY.
1t is Liable to Involve Germany in FIR,

1t is Liable to Involve Germany in Trouble.
BERLIN, Sept. 29.-Aithough notice Of
action has been entered in the Berlin
iandgerlcht or court OF the first instance
against the editor of Deutsche Rundschau,
lucicIai authorities have not vet decided
upon the exact course Of prosecution
Ihe public prosecutor has not settled
upon what clause in the pena! code to
proceed under, and tie minister of
justice is In quaIdary as 10 whom to
prosecute. The manager of the Deutsche
hunGschau has surrendered the name of
herr GsHeken, of Hamburg, as that of
the person whom he obtained the diary
of Emperor Frederick.
Herr Gefenkea has. been q professor at
otrasourg,and represented the Hanz towns
LOT several years in Berlin, where he be-
came known to Frederick. Afterwards
ne was the Hanzatic resident N Lon
con and became a frequent contribu
tor to the English papers and magazines.
Ii the trial threatens to reveal the
original source, Prince Bismarck
may hesitate about proceeding. Prince
Bismarck is known TO suspect the Eng
lish court as the source OF publication,
hence the language of his statement is
directed against that court
The Berlin Post says: Even at the risk
of damaging tie memory of Frederick BY
laying bare his lamentabie weakness that
the interests OF the empire required the
disclosures that the crown prince, far
from being an active promoter of German
unity formed most serious obstacle to it.
The Borsen Courier, an organ of the
liberalists, better represents the genuine
puSlic feeling here in saying: SIT ex-
cites lively establishment 10 see the press
a2sail Emperor Frederick with such
scant respect. The emperor must be re-
volted at the conduct of the people who
are trying to please him By reviling his
father. Those who are throwing dirt
upon the memory of Frederick,
must judge William IL meanly if they
suppose that their criticisms excite IN
him anything but losthing and contempt"
1t is significant fact that the comments
OF the press concurrent with the tenor of
private discussion do not question the
authenticity OF the diary. The reasons
that Prince Bismarck advances against
its genuineness are felt to be insincere,
and are completely ignored outside of the
official world.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-04

The Comm srcieI Travellers Harrison
and Morton Protective Legion of the
State of New York, with headquarters at
Rochester, mas Issued an address to the
commercial statesmen, setting forth the
reason why the league believes it to the
advantage of all statesmen to stand with
the Republican party. The club was or
ganized six weeks ago and has member
ship of 200, all statesmen, from different
parts of the state. The address deals
with the question Of free trade as espec-
ally affecting commercial men, and de-
nounces the Mills bill as intended to kill
the business of the commercial traveller
The address IS signed by some of the
best known statesmen on the road.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-04

STATISTICS are not often matters OF IN
terest; but some lists of prices are in
structive and solve intricate problems IN
financial legislation. The free traders
claim that their policy would cheaper
the necessaries of life. This is certainly
not true as to articles on which no Gus
tom duties are collected. Coffee, on
which there is no duty. has been greatly
increased in price within few months
past, by foreign rings or trusts, which
have obtained control of the entire coffee
product in the markets of the world.
This ring or trust, it Is said. has its head
quarters at Hamburg, and it has cleared
SO, 100000 in profits, the amount being
collected from the breakfast ables of the
coffee consuming portion of the civilized
world. The coal ring, or trust, dealing
in the free-trade article of hard coal, has
advanced the price for this necessary of
life to higher level than that at which
it has stood for many years. These in
stances show how false is the free trade
allegation that the trusts or rings could
not exist without the tariff and that it
increases the cost Of the necessaries OF
life.
A few of the necessaries of life are in
Guided In the following table, showing
the difference in cost under the Demo
cratic free-trade tariff of 1857, which
prevailed in 1860. and under the Re.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-04
FIGHTING THE FARMERS
A Democratic Conspiracy Against Wool Grow
erS

Democratic conspiracy Against Wool Grow
erS.
The New York Sun, one of the most
prominent democratic newspapers in the
country made a telling point against the
free trade schemers, when it declared that
every other interest was conciliated in
order that the democratic representative
might be solicited for the assault upon
the duty on wool. "Free WOOL" in the
language of the Sur, twas regarded as
the king post of the new tariff roof under
which the country was to live, until free
trade had envelopei every other indus
try" Sheep busbandry is distributed
ever the entire nation. This is one great
industry in which every section shares
or can share alike. The authors of the
Mills bill calculated that if they could
this year repeal the tariff on wool, they
would have no difficulty next year in in
ducing the farmers of the country TO act
with them in removing the duty from