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Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-08-09
A Democratic Judge Bolts Cleveland.

Judge John Handley, of Lackawana
county, Pa. has announced that he can
not support Cleveland in the coming
campaign. The judge says
1T is no secret that have declared my
inability to follow Mr.. Cleveland in his
free trade fallacy, lie has overstepped
the line of Democracy and very many
lifelong Democrats cannot 90 with him.
! am still Democrat, but il seems to be
the veriest folly for any thinking man to
take the position the President has on
the tariff question. Protection is abso-
iutely necessary with our sparse popula.
ton, which could be put into the single
State of Texas without crowdng it even
as much as Germany is crowded. With
our vast, undeveloped resources, with
our immense acreage of the public domain
unoccupicd and unimproved, it is folly TO
talk of free trade. When we shall have
reached a population of four or five hun
dred millions, free trade may do no harm
| am with Mr.. Randall in this fight Like
all men who conceive themselves men of
destiny, Cleveland thinks he can run
counter TO the genius of the age in which
be lives, but in his case the fatal step is
taken. think the Republican ticket
will be elected"
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-08-09
Why We Don't Love England.


Great Britain has ruined every country
in the world which she has persuaded, or
forced into free trade Her commercial
treaties, cozened cut of Portugal, Spain
and Turkey, destroyed the industries of
each of those countries, and made them
poor. Her cheap goods crushed out the
ancient household manufactures of the
Indian empire, which she oyerran, and
left millions of the conquered people
with the bare subsistence of rice and
water. A British army of invasion forced
China to admit into her territory the
opium which British merchants could
market only in that empire, and forced
the entry through the custom Houses of
China of British merchandise at the de-
structive duty of two per cent al valorem.
1t was the massacre of the industry of a
magnificent and venerable empire, and of
countless thousands of poor Chinese men,
women and children. These cheap goods
pirates in like manner covered Japan
with the guns of their warships, and com
PEELED her to receive the flimsy products
of Birmingham, Manchester and Sheffield
at the uniform duty of five per cent ad
valorem. That is free trade, and it is
strangling the life ont of helpless Japan.
The experience of Ireland is too well
known to need special mention here.
England, indeed, is the commercial
pirate of the world She Is now strainng
her utmost to rob the United States of its
industries and get control of our market.
If she succeeds every working man and
working woman in this country will be
brought to comparative poverty. You
can't help losing the high wages you now
receive. If you retain any work at all
against the competition of the pauper
paid labor of England, you will be com.
PEELED by that competition to accept as
wages precisely that pauper pay
Then perhaps you will love England
more than you do now.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-08-09
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Some Facts About Wool.

| New York Tribune.
A young Republican who now regrets
that he did not keep the Tribune further
back than May TO- asks much informa.
ton in regard to the imports and domestic
supplies of wool which has been fully
given repeatedly. He may rely upon 1t
that his Democratic neighbors will fill
him full of transformation, during the
coming campaign. if he does not take the
trouble to fortify himself by reading and
remembering or preserving the facts
The home production of wool has
varied in late years from 260 to $50 mil
lion pounds. The quantity imported has
in no year reached 121 million pounds
and the quantity taken by the market has
in no year reached ID million pounds
The Democrat who states that only one.
fourteenth of the wool consumed is of
home production is simply lying. The
number of kinds" of wool imported not
even the ablest and oldest customs officer
can state. because the Custom House
recognizes but three classes, and no re-
port is made of wool other than of these
three classes. When duties are so low
that wool-growing becomes Improbable,
the price of wool here is spasmodic; at
times it is scarce and high. That is why
the manufacturer is cheated who thinks
he can get cheaper material under free
trade. Then the temporary lifting of
prices and the low duties invite flood
of foreign wool, until more has been i'm
ported than can be sold, and the price
declines uhnaturally. That is why the
wool grower is cheated if he believes he
can get higher prices for wool under low
than under protective duties. In that
state of things the market is at the mercy
of foreigners, and they put up the price
whenever the manufacturer is buying, or
put it down whenever it is necessary to
cripple the American wool grower, at
their convenience.
The number Of sheep" has not fallen
off "since the tariff of 1860 was enacted,
as a Democrat asserts. The census of
1860 showed 81, All ,27j, and the census
of 1880 showed IS, 1920 The number
has declined since the duty on wool was
reduced in 1888, because the large imports
at low prices and duties haye made wool
growing in many States nearly or quite
The Democratic remedy is
to take off the rest of the duty, and there
are some Democrats who pretend that it
will increase the number of sheep. But
those who have any intelligence know
that it is not true.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-08-09
The Republican Party and Taxation
Topeka Commonwealth.

A good many Democratic newspapers
quote the tariff plank of the Republican
convention in 1868, which declares that
lit is due to the labor of the nation that
taxation should be equalized and reduced
rs rapidly as the national faith will per
nit" and pretend that the party has
violated its pledge to "cqualize and re-
duce taxation" They 70 before the
country claiming that the Democratic
party is the party of low taxation, and
that the Republican party favors high
taxation. What arc the real facts as to
the carrying ont of the pledge made in
1868 and the position of the Republican
party on the question at this time?
In 1868 the government collected S355,-
5j2, 1907 from the customs and internal
revenue, while the imports in that year
were only 1885,, 436, 40
In 1894 the imports had nearly doubled,
being 1861, G07, sos, and the internal bust.
ness of the country had treblcd, yet the
amount collected ny taxes customs and
internal revenue had diminished to S316.
653, 562 GA decline in taxation of 1873, =
sos, $3.50, in spite of The enormous
growth of the country in business, popu-
latiOn and wealth
ternal revenue taxes from every article
except whisky and tobacco.
The Republican party placed tea and
coffee on the free list, and tea and coffee
are the poor mans drinks.
The Republican party removed every
food product not grown in this country
from the tariff list to the free list.
In the twenty years that have elapsed
r;, ln a. 80 a.,
| party has held possession of the govern.
meut but eight years. In those eight
| years it reduced the revenue. and added
largely to the free list. In the twelve
| years that the Democratic party held a
working majority in the House of Repre-.
| SentativcS not single revenue reduction
measure passed that body where all
| revenue measures must originate.
In the past fourteen years the Republi
cans held majority but two years
from 1881 to 1888 In those two years
the only revenue reduction law that has
been seen since the Democratic tidal
wave of 1874 was passed by Republic.
can Congress and signed by a Republican
| President
In 1868 nearly every article of import
was subject to Il duty, and the average
tariff on the value of the imports for that
year was AZ, 50 per cent.
In 1887 the customs duties collected
were but BLOB per cent on the value OF
the imports.
On this record the Republican party
goes before the country. On this record
it appeals to such voters as wish to see
the revenue of the government reduced.
The Republican party. if placed in con
troll of the government, will have the
courage to reduce the revenue, and the
judgment to reduce it in such amount
and in such quarters that it will neither
| cripple the government nor injure the
industries of the country.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-08-09
She Was an Expert.

And ISM my dear little girl afraid to
become the wife OF ii poor MANI asked
Harry ST. Claia of Mabel Nageon the
other night after they had gone through
the bliss of u betrothal.
Afraid? Oh, Harry" she said, re.
proachfully.
But remember. darling, that | cannot
keep servants for you, and that we will
have to live in n very plain and simple
way for the first few years.
AS though | cared for that" she re-
Piled with the ring of true love and true
womanbood in her tone. why, my
dear old boy, you don't know what a
famous housckeeper | am, and if you
think don't know how to cook, you are
greatly mistaken"
Now" she went on gleefully, ''let me
tell you what can do; can dust beauti-
fully. and know how to make the love.
liest dust-rag holders; and | can make
oh, the incest cream tarts, and the most
beautiful angel-cak Know about house
keeping. Afraid to become the wife Of
poor man! You foolish old boy"
And Harry thought the matter over
carefully on his way home, and didn' t
know but that he had made fool of him
SELF after all.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-08-09

more than doubled the size OF debts and
taxes. Never did any Government bring
such a calamity upon its own people in
peace. AS the people knew that the
Democratic Administration had brought
this upon them their rational recourse
was to put it out OF power. II was not
wild enthusiasm, nor personal dedication.
but self preservation and rational determ-
nation.
As to the log cabin and hard cider fea.
lures of the campaign. they arose upon
Democratic public mans contemptuous
fling at General Harrison's small estate
and plainuess of living. His remark was
in substance that instead of the Presi-
dency, log cabin and a barrel of hard
cider were enough for him. In those
days the Democracy was slaye-holdng
aristocracy, and such filings al men living
in the ranks of the common people were
in character. But the people took it up
and made the log cabin and the hanging
coonskin, and the other decorations and
the barrel of hard cider conspicuous en-
blems in that wonderful election cam
paign. The cider was only figure The
peoples determination needed no artif.
Cinl Slimulant
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-08-09
Poor Show for the First One.

In the early days, Kline's ranch in
southwestern Colorado, was a famous
stopping place for the stage coaches, and
there was always goodly land some
what diversified assemblagc of travellers
around the firesidc every evening. One
evening tourist who had been devoting
the summer to trout fishing in the Cimar-
ron, was telling some pretty good sized
fish stories to long haired frontiersman,
who. while listening, was evidently study
ing how he might see the tourist and
raise him" on the size Of his yarn. The
frontiersman shifted his quid Of tobacco
to the other and said:
well, mister. them was pretty good
sized trout you caught; but Lord We
should ha' been with me mp at the mouth
of the Columby, in Oregon. Why, we
used to ketch salmon there every mornin'
that would run all the way from ninety
to hundred and fifty pounds"
For moment the tourist was silent;
then looking sadly at the triumphant
frontierSman, he said:
My friend, | don't doubt your story
in the least. On the contrary believe it
fully and implicitly. will only remark
that my experience has taught me that -
Colorado the man who tells the first story
has darned poor show.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-08-09
Brace Up, ENGLAND.
Iowa State Reg ster
The London News, getting alarmed at

Iowa State Register
The London News, getting alarmed at
the outlook. says:
"Clcveland will find Harrison much
more formidable antagonist than the
English have been led to believe.
1t is understood that this warning is
put out for the benefit of Mr.. Cleveland's
English constituents. The President has
his hands full in making II double cam.
paign. He is not only running for Presi-
dent in this country but in England, too,
and it would not do to neglect his Eng
fish friends VINO are taking such per-
sonal interest in his canvas. II is pos
sble that the English Democrats had
oyereStimated the strength of their candi
date and expected him to have a walk
over. If so the warning of the London
News will open their eyes. 1t is evident
that those Englishmen must stir them
selves and not trust to general sympathy
on their side Of the water to take the
place of votes on this side. 1t will have
to be conceded that the splendid run Mr..
Cleveland is making in England has n
tendency to make his admirers there think
that he has dead sure thing of it. 1t
must be difficult where hardly voice is
raised in protest, to imagine that there
are places where voters are saying hard
things-even the truth-about England S
dear Grover. But unwelcome as the
news is, this English journal is forced to
believe it, and SO it raises the warning
voice. SO it will be expected that the
battle will go forward now with renewed
vigor. Every English agent of the Cob
den Club is expected to be at his post.
Every English manufacturer who loves
cheap labor, will please report for duty
at once. Every Brtisher who admires
an American administration that is
American only in name, will proceed to
put in his hardest ticks for Cleveland,
Bayard and all the rest of the Anglo
maniacs. The English will please to
make no mistake. They and Mr.. Cleve
land have indeed very formidable
antagonist, and he has arranged to lay
them all out in November.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-08-09
The Purpose Understood.

Philadelphia North American.
Whatever obscurity of language may
be resorted to by Mr. Cleveland 10 con-
ceal the set purpose of his party, the
desertion of Democrats to Harrison will
sufficiently interpret the meaning put
upon his message and the Mills bill. We
direct attention to the fact that every
Democrat who declares for Harrison ex.
plicitly says that he cannot iudorsc the
message or the Mills bill, that he is for
protection with the Republicans against
free trade with the Democrats. Similarly,
Republicans who declare for Cleveland
do so on the open avowal that they are
for the free trade demanded by Mr.. Cleve-
land and against IA protective tariff any
how. In the face of these declarations
nothing that Mr.. Cleveland can say will
have the slightest effect upon the exodus
from his party The dcserters under.
stand the question fully as well as the
President himself
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-08-09
FIVE CHEAPHARvEsT EXCURSIONS
Rare Chance TO Wow the 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 a delightful journey
in its unrivalled palace cars. 49,.
Dates of excursions: Leave Chicago
August 81, September II and %, and
October 8 and % 0SSS), for Kansas. Ne
braska, Northwestern Iowa. Minnesota
and Dakota.
Rate: One fare for the round trip.
Tickets first class and good 80 days for
return passage Improve this opportu-
nifty. You may never have another in a
season so DouEtiful. 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. T. s;
Z. A. Chicago, His.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-08-09
A VAIN QUEST.

We started one morn, my love and I,
On journey brave and bold;
Twas to find the end of rainbow,
And the buried bag of gold
But the,clouds rolled b. from the summer sky,
And the radiant bow grew dim
And we lost the wav where the treasure lay,
Near the sunsets golden rim.
The twilight fell like a curtain
Pinned with the evening star,
And we saw in the shining heavens
The new moons golden car.
And we said, as our hands clasped fondly,
"Wbat though we found no goldi
Our love is a richer treasure
Than the rainbow's sack can hold"
And years, with their joys and sorrowA
Have passed since we lost the way
To the beautiful buried treasure
At the end of the raipbow raw; "'
But love has been true aud tender,
And life has been rich and sweet,
And VIC still clasp hands with the olden Joy
That made our day complete
ID. II. Jordan, 10 century.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-08-09

An Australian family of freaks has Just been
brought to England, consisting of four
children, the youngest of whom Is eight years
Old. 1--WE feet eleven inches in height, and
weighs lS0 pounds.
II was Cincinnati girl we believe, who
told her dress maker to put on her new silk
one OF those telescOped trains about which
she had read SO much.
young woman on her way home from
church in Mentone, Ind, the other night, was
caught in thunder shower and struck by
lightning. 1t Is reported that though terribly
frightened she managed to reach home. On
examination she found that the fluid had
bent two Of the harpins on her head and
actually melted one, but the skin was not
abraidcd. and she was not injured particle
Dark colored India silks and pOngces are
liked for hot weather travelling gowns.
Striped flannel tennis blazers with hats to
match are worn by lady players in the coun-
try.
when woman is trying to write letter
on half sheet of paper much may be said on
both sides.
the national colors red, white and blue, ar
tistIcally intermingled.
Large white embroidered muslin collars
shown on imported dresses.
Blouse waists with yoke and short sleeves
which leave the arms free for swimming, are
best liked for bathing suits.
A great many women buy umbrellas for
their handles, and the more unique and con-
spIcuons they are the better they like them.
Taii0r-made parasOls to match gown and
bonnet are among the last suggestions of the
enemy-of which good dressers will beware.
Nainsoak dressing jackets are short and
jaunty. They are profusely trimmed with
Yalenciennes lace, or adorned with fine EN-.
brOidery.
A young lady named Take seems to open q
great many letters belonging to other people.
She Is perfectly honest about 1t, however,
and writes on the envelopes, Opened by
Miss Take"
A child lately born near Maysville. Ky, ac.
cordlng to a dispatch from that place, has no
arms, but protuberance extending few
inches from each shoulder and terminating In
the fingers, Its legs are very short aud turn
backwards.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-08-09

introduce the well known Diamond 10
Line and the st. Louis and ST. Paul Packet
company Steamers built expressly for pas.
senger transit and fitted up for this especial
purpose with elegance and every possible
convenience. The boats selected for
through traffic are the Pittsburg. st. Paul,
Mary Morton and Sidney. They leave from
foot of Washington avenue. while the eIe-
giant passenger packets. War Eagle and
Gem City. 20 only to Keokuk, from foot of
Olive street All of them are staunch and
reliable river craft, differed by the most
thorough going seamen afioat, skillful
and experienced. One of these boats will
leave ST. Louis every Monday. Wednesday
and Friday at o'clock p IN for St.
Paul and all points North. the Keokuk
packets going daily. BY thus con
centrating these six boats into one line.
the company are enabled to give the
public far better, more efficient service
than could be done were the same boats
under separate commands and con-
trolled by divers interests. IT is needless
to enlarge upon the pleasures and comfort
of river steamboat travelling. Our older
readers recall with the kindIiest feelings
of memory the palmy days of river travel,
when the passengers speedily became ac-
quainted and the boat assumed more the
appearance of drawing room in some
CITY mansion than a chance concourse of
strangers. The table and cuisine of these
river boats are proverbial. and the service
of these six steamers IS no exception. All
the heat. dust and discomforts of railway
travel are avoided. good bed is secured,
and separate room can be had by the
timid and overly nice Children under
five years are carried free. and those be.
tween five and twelve years half rates if
accompanied by an adult. The rates by
boat, compared to the all rail routes,
reduce the cost of travel by steamer al
most 10 excursion rates. The boats CON
meet with all the dverging lines of rail
way that reach to all points in the great
Northwest and the traveller and tourist
commences his land journey as fresh as
when he left his home. Hundreds of our
citizens arc taking advantage of the ar
engagements made by the Diamond 10
Line and thousands more will follow
their example as the heated term closes
down upon us. Full details can be had
at the office of the company. Isaac p
Lusk is general agent of the line at St
Louis. office on the wharfboat. Fred A.
Bill is general passenger agent at Du-
buque. Ia, and X. A. Snowdon. at st.
Paul, MINI. Gazette.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-08-09
Farmers Land Excursions.

On Aug. 14th and 2Sth, Sept. 18th and
Goth, Oct. 9th and 23d. Nov. 9th and Goth
aud 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 privi-
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. r. p. A.. Des Moines, la.
L. NJ Martin, Gen'l Agent, Des Moines, Ia
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-08-09

"What in the world has happened TO y0n
since the last time saw your" asked one lady
of another when they met on the street the
other day; 81 can't understand it. Then you
were pale, haggard and low-spiritcd. and re-
member you said that you hardly cared
whether you lived or died. To-day you look
ever so much younger and it is very evident
from your beaning face that your low spirits
have taken flight Eyes, indeed" was the
reply; land shall tell you what drove them
away? 1t was DR.. PierCe's FavOrite Prescrip-
ton. ! was martyr to functional sderange.
ment until began taking the Prescription.
Now am as well as ever was In my life.
No woman who suffers as did, ought to let
an hour pass before procuring this wonderful
remedy"
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-08-09
Republican Platform Condensed.

FL onest civil service.
A dequate Navy and Coast defenses.
r ebel flags not to be surrendered.
| Ireland has our generous sympathy.
S liver. gold and greeDbacks for money.
o pposition to trusts and combinations
n o foreign contract labor.
A merican industry TO be protected.
N o polygamy in Utah. e..
ID akota and other Territories to be ad-
mitted. .,
NJ orality, temperance and free schools
0 ur soldiers to have liberal pensions.
r lights of Americans to be maintained.
7 odyism to England abolished
o ur fish for American fishermen.
N OF only free ballot but fair count
for all. F..