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Evening journal., 1888-08-24

practically free while ON no raw material
so used is the duty above ten per cent.
Therefore all this demand for free raw
materials in order TO enable our producers
TO complete for the foreign markets is, as
Major Mckinley said at Atlanta, sheer
hypocrisy
Another excellent point made is the fact
that so bong as we do not control the home
market we need not concern ourselves
about foreign markets The solid man Of
business prefers TO sell as near home as
he can, and the man who has all he can
do to supply the home market for his
wsres never troubles himself about other
markets. The American policy lies in
getting control Of the home market for
such products as we can furnish. And
that * the true policy Of a country which
has its abundant resources to develop IN
competition with older countries and
fifty per cent cheaper labor. We
shall command the foreign markets
when we can undersell competing nations.
and as we have practically free raw ma
terials for all products for export, there
must be some other bar TO our successful
competition for foreign markets That
bar is our wage rate, which is on an av.
erage over sixty per cent greater than
the best rate abroad SO far as Belgium,
Holland, Italy and Germany are concerned,
our wage rate is double and often more
than double that Of those other countries.
How can we compete with such countries
for the foreign marketsY Only by seal.
ing down wages to their level, and that
is in fact what such men as Mills, Col
quit and that ilk propose TO effect They
are the advocates Of cheap labor, be
ing relics of the old robber oligarchy
which held that capital should own its
iahnr
Evening journal., 1888-08-24
An interview with BismarcI,.

When l entered the apartment Bis
marck was half leaning. half sitting ON a
huge desk, clad in the fatigue dress of a
general, and as magnificent a picture OF
sturdy manhood as it has ever been my
good fortune to see. His stalwart ply
sique, broad shoulders, mighty chest,
slim waist and straight legs might have
been the envy of the youngest officer Of
the guard. Though nearly four score
years, he had recently trained his weight
down from 260 to $50 pounds. Twas pre-
scented after the conventional fashion, and
the prince drew himself up. bowed and at
1nce relaxed again into his easy position
against the desk. One Of his attendants
said to him quietly in German that / was
the American correspondent who had
written asking for an interview, and in
an instant wave of hilarious good nao
ture swept over the chancellor's face. A
dozen wrinkles spread over his cheeks
from the corners of his mustache, and his
big gray eyes stared at me, under the
busiest eyebrows | ever saw, with the
highest degree Of jollity, amusement, and,
am sorry to say, derision, Imaginable
woman with such expressive eyes could
win heart sick anchorite. The infection
of bis laughter is irresistible, and the
pantomime would have been plain to a
blind man. Without saying a word he
gave me to understand that my PROPOSE
tons were SO preposterous as to be ludi-
crOus.
Then the secretary, to whom had been
introduced, came in, and we talked for
some time. The Princes English is as
perfect as that Of any American ever
knew, and, Of course, he made the con-
versation himself. Whenever spoke OF
such a thing as the Brunswick succession.
the Battenberg marriage, Bulgaria, OF any
Of the subjects then agitating Europe, he
would laugh again, and twist and talk
around ON American subjects. was there
perhaps twenty minutes in all, but before
| left he dashed my hopes. as far as news
paper enterprise is concerned, by saying
quietly that he must follow the custom
that is universal in Europe by requesting
me to consider every word of the talk as
absolutely confidential. There was nothing
in it in the slightest degree verging on
confidence, of course, and not word that
could not with propriety be published, If
it We're considered of sufficient Importance,
but the charm Of his manner was so great,
and his good nature and friendliness SO
manifest, that felt that nothing on earth
could ever tempt me to reveal what had
been said. After a weeks recogitation l
came TO the conclusion that nothing what
ever had been said, and then my opinion of
the diplomatic corps of Bismarck advanced
even more.-Blakely Halls Letter
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MAYOR HARRINGV0N has issued n call
to-day, which appears in another column
of this impression, Tor public meeting at
the Board of Trade rooms, at Seventh
and Market streets. tomorrow morning
at II o'clock, for the purpose of providing
means for the victims of Tuesday night S
tornado. The task Of providing for these
people is too great for the Associated
Charities or a committee appointed by
that body It requires the support of the
entire community. The mayor has taken
the right course, and we trust that the
meeting viii be crowded. A large and
responsible committee is to be selected TO
take charge Of the contributions, aud all
collections will be turned into a
common treasury. A subscription list
has been opened to-day at the EVENING
JOURNAL Office and We shall turn over
daily to the proposed committee every
dollar brought TO us AS we have said
yesterday, the ordinarily woll-to-do citi-
zen of Wilmington can readily afford TO
give FIVE dollars to this cause.
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wANAMAKER's.
PHILApnnPHrA. Friday. Anru.

PHILADELPHIA. Friday, August "A. 1888.
The size of Blanket and
the kind of it count in camp
ing. Generous, firm, soft
Blankets to roll up in or to
tumble on. 5 lbs, S..
We are selling at 81 the
pair all wool 72x84 inch
Blankets that have never be-
fore been less than S.. Only.
sample.
Near women's Waiting Room.
Coffee-colored water. You
can make it clear as crystal.
Glass Filters, 75c; Jewett Fill
tiers, with cooler, S.. S., So,
and 5000. If decorated, SOC
extra.
Basement, northwest OF centre.
Books that make you forget
the weather; new Books as
last as they come out. Any
proper Book is here, or well
get it.
More than $50 titles in the
Keystone Library. Very likely
your favorite author is among
them. Ioc. A marvel of
cheapness.
Near Thirteenth street entrance.
Before the Fall rush COM
mences is the best time to get
Lace Curtains cleaned. Well
send for and return them if you
say the word.
Upholstery section, second hoer, north Of Tran
sept.
JOIN WANAMAKER.
Evening journal., 1888-08-24
TARIFF TALK.

Mr.. George William Curtis of Harper's
Weeldy. truly says chat the discussion Of
the tariff question in Congress is so in
volved and intricate that il only per
plexes the public mind We hold that
there is no necessity for discussing the
question in such confusing way, and
that there are broad underlying princi-
pies which, If kent in mind, make the
problem perfectly easy and comprehen-
sive. We wish our readers TO note how
plain workingman, who reads rs he
runs puts the whole tariff question in SO
plain and simple a light that il carries
more conviction than a whole volume Of
Congressional debates. This condensa-
tion Of the tariff argument in a nutshell
is made by a Congleton weaver in the
Macclesdeld ENG Courier He says
Every Trade Unionist should logically
be fair trader lprOtectionistl-fO fair
trade is simply an enormous extension Of
unionst principles-it means a union
which will include the whole of the indus
tries of the cOuntry-agricultu as we'll
as others-nnd il means union which
will draw the Irish people closer to us,
for have every reason 60 believe that
the primary object of the Irish party is
To obtain protection for their industries
IN conclusion | wish TO impress upon
workingmen that IL Is their duty 20 study
this question for themselves aud think it
out. l. for one. have no fear Of the ro-
suit, and when England's workers per
ceiye that free trade policy means longer
hours and less money they viii hurl down
the rotten idol and adopt the sensible
course Of seeing that as far as possible
their labor is employed, which win enable
them to pay a half-penny moro for their
loaf If necessary thus bring prosperity
TO the agricultural population, which, in
turn viii enable them TO become better
customers for the productions from the
looms
That is the solution Of the whole mat
ter, and the answer TO all the sophistry Of
the free traders. We deny that the preva-
lence of protection requires the working
man to pay a half-penny more for his
loaf, or his hat, or his suit of clothes than
he would under free trade But it may
readily be granted that even if he had to
do this, the argument for protection
would be overwhelming. For. as this
clear. headed English worlSingman says.
he win have steady employment and
wages bettered 20 degree which will
make the additional half-penny Of no
consequence. And the free traders plea
addressed to the farmers is also as com
pletely answered in this admirable little
condensation Of the protection idea The
more people there are TO buy food nc good
prices the better off will the farmers be,
ana the better able TO "bccome customers
for the productions ofthe looms This is
truth which, though it may not yet be
apparent TO al the farmers of this couu-
TRY, is rapidly learned by those who are
So fortunate as to have industrial centers
located among them
Evening journal., 1888-08-24
wELL-kNowN PERSONS.
GEORGE p. Pu1LLips.
No. $40 Tatnall st


George Eliot received $4,000 for
"Romoa.
Edna Proctor is visiting the poet Whit.
tier in his Maine retreat.
Harriet Beecher Stowe cleared $40 600
ON Uncle Tom Cabin.
Mrs. Ole Bull and her daughter are
spending the summer in Norway.
Miss Annie Whitney. the sculptor. Is
spending the summer ON her farm i'm
Vermont.
Mrs Eliza CARVER is the first woman
pohtian Of South Carolina to take the
stump.
Mrs. U. S. Grant viii attend the open
ing of the Centennial Exposition at Col
umbus, o.
The Princess Imperial Of Brazil has ere
ated Coquelin, the actor. Officer Of The
Order Of theRose.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox wears white
bathing suit trimmed with blue braid
and pink stockings
Queen Victoria has decided to imnort
a number of Indian servant for her per
sonal establishment.
Mrs Grossman, Edwin Booths only
daughter, is petite, with pale sweet face
and child-like manner.
Princess Waldemar Of Denmark is
under the instruction of the Danish
paintef, Franz Henningsen.
Nine PATHS castle in Wales will be
sold because its fair owner has been rob
bed right and left by her neighbors.
Lillian Whiting viii read an article on
The Art and Ethics of Journalism
before the American Social Science Asso.
citation in September,
Evening journal., 1888-08-24

New York Herald
Our dispatches from various plnces to-
day show that the great storm Of Tues
day night. Of which the Herald gave
timely and emphatic warning, was one of
the severcst August cyclones ON record
Originating in the tropics, II steadily
entered Louisiana from the Gulf on Sun
day night and by eight p. m Monday its
centre, or vortex, had progressed to the
vicinity Of Memphis, Tenn From mem
phis It's central track, marked chiefly by
heavy precipitation, described agrand
curve Of almost nine hundred miles to
the neighborhood of New York. The dis
tance was covered by the vortex in
twenty-four hours. during most Of which
time the gyrating body Of the cyclone was
five hundred miles in diameter and was
making rapid transit at n very rare pro
gressiye velocity of over fifty miles an
hour.
The Heralds forecasts and forewarn-
ings of Tuesday morning stated that the
cyclone would probably" advance north
ward along the western slope of the AL
leghanies. and continue TO produce heavy
precipitation, with local wind storms of
dangerous force, and masters of vessels
we're cautioned to be con the outlook for
thick weather and transforms off the Jer-
sey and New England coasts Our fore
casts of the storm added It's centre S
approach to the Atlantic coast Is likely
To occur between the Jersey and Upper
England coasts. These forecasts and
warnings were strikingly fulfilled, as the
vortex of the hurricane moved eastward
on Tuesday night over this coast upon n
line about half way between philadel-
phia and New York.
Evening journal., 1888-08-24

the record Of a young but exceedingly apt
and fair-minded legislator. 1t ought TO
be sufficient to return him again to the
Legislature; but OUT very instructive
and interesting Georgetown letter of this
date indicates that Mr. McCabe's re-elec.
ton is not thought Of. On the contrary
an entirely inexperienced young man is
bound TO have his turn. The helpers
Of other campaigns must have their
turn" no matter what becomes Of the
public interest. II is this scnsoless policy
which is running mad in Delaware that
is at the bottom Of all eur crude and fool
ish and often dishonest legislation. In
politics the party BOSSES never recognize
"a good man when they see him" In
deed they usually look for man who is
not so very good
Evening journal., 1888-08-24
ITEMS oE INTEREST

A man Of small calibre is the greatest
bore.
Butcher, Painter, 406 Shipley street.
In the swim-The shark.
Leonard Heiss the Tailor, 4 E. Third.
The average hotel clerk knows almost
everything, but he can't tell why a woman
will persist in asking what time the i
o'clock train leaves.
Corsets made to order. Good fit guar
anteed. Mrs. ]. r. Ward, 603 Shipley st.
Trunks and Bags at Yerger's, 4O7 Ship
ley street.
Transplanting teeth has been revived.
1t was done twenty five OF thirty years
ago in very rare cases.
Butcher, Sign Painter, 4O6 Shipley st.
Manzanita has gone wrong and has
been thrown out of training.
Riding Saddles and Brides at Fl. Yer
gers, 4O7 Shipley street
Gliding on glass, 4O6 Shipley street.
Jack, the winner Of the Rochester
$4,000 race, wore tips
DR. f. c. Honeywell, 703 Market street.
Teeth extracted, rs cents; with gas, Sc
cents. Good teeth So. so a set the best IS.
Show Cards, Rucher, 400 ShipIey st.
The master car builders have decided
that If railway cars are to be heated bv
steam the pressure should be very low.
Evening journal., 1888-08-24

THE meeting of Council last evening
brought TO the attention of the commun-
ity the fact that that body had not
yet settled with Mr. Dennis Kane, who
entered upon the Office of assessor and
collector Of taxes for the Southern Dis
trict Of Wilmington in 1881 and held the
same for two terms or six years Dur
ing that time Mr. Kane collected over
$1,000 600 Of public money and carried
hundreds Of tax accounts for two or
three years at time. Councils com
mittee found this remarkable account
correct but the whole matter shows lam
entable oarelessnesson the part of SINH
Tar committees in the past The tax ac-
counts should be settled up yearly and
specific reports from each collection
should be annually published in thenews-
papers of the city
Evening journal., 1888-08-24

quantity Of money for the firm or corpor-
alton that win go to work and build a
dry dock right here in Chester" The
Marine Journal of New York, last Satur-
day, says: '1he dry docks in Philadel-
phia and Wilmington are all occupied
and will be for some time to come. On
this account the British ship Sapphire
was compelled to leave this port for New
York for repairs. There viii be some
long-headed man with few spare dol
lars, who will observe this golden oppor-
tunity some day embrace it, dig the
hole, put it in good shape, open out for
business and then rake in the shekels.
Evening journal., 1888-08-24
The nm Would BE Loss.

Los Angeles Hotel Clerk Would YOU
like a room, siry'
Consumptiye Arrival "Yes. sir; what
are your termsy'
Eight dollars day. I"
Eight dollars dayY'
Yes, sir; win You have rooms on the
north or south side of the houseg The
north side rooms are cold and damp, and
people who have lung trouble don't live
SO long there as they do on the south
side.
Eight dollars a day, heyi Well, give
me a room ON the extreme north I'm
figuring on cutting down expenses. ~
I4ttsOufg Iress.
Two men named Longman end Wallops
are running a school on the Pacific
Coast. Longman probably teaches the
girls and Wallops the boys.
Evening journal., 1888-08-24

Now into the water
Doth fashions daughter
Each morning plunge IN her dainty dress,
With IFS scarlet trimming,
For half hours swimming;
Oh, she ia q vision of lOyeincss.
with little WEIGHING
And deal Of giggling
She ventures out past the nndertow;
Then growing holder,
Ne soon behold her
Like a dolphin dive TO the depths below.
Like Amphritite,
OR Aphrodite
When up from the waves Of the sea she rose.
A moment after
With screams OF laughter,
The maid 70 the surface csmes and blows.
When ends her swimming,
With pleasure trimming,
The strand she reaches and wrings her hnir
Der her shoulders falling,
To the mind recalling
The ncreids and mermaids fair
Let rivals hate her,
Let prudcs berate her;
''lis the fable OF the fox and fruit.
What half SO neat is,
What half SO sweet r.,
As q shapely girl in a bathing suitl
boston Courier.
Evening journal., 1888-08-24

garden. There are now SOC, 900 trees and
shrubs in 1t. and it has many miles Of
drives. both through the trees and along
the ocean. -
l came across the continent by the
Union and Central Pacific railroads, and l
never realized before the immense amount
of waste land contained in Uncle Sans
big farm. After one leaves Nebraska
one travels for days through desert
waste of sage brush and alkali plains.
The country is absolutely barren. You
may go thousand miles without seeing
tree, and the Rocky mountains are the
ugliest mountains / have ever seen.
Along this route they have few trees to
speak of, and some of the finest scenery
on the route is that near Sacramento.
Coming down the Sierras are the noted
snow sheds, which cost Leland Stanford
and company about 100000 There
are miles Of them, and passing through
them is, as Mark Twain said of the rail
road between Monte Carlo and Nice. plike
riding through flute and looking out of
the holes" Some of the scenery here is
very fine, and after passing Emigrant
Gap one can see the American river, run
ming like a thread of silver $500 feet
below. At one place the train runs along
a narrow track cut from the edge of a
vertical cliff 900 feet high, and in pass
ing through California you ride for mile,
through the vineyards which have made
the California wines SO noted.
~
In this journey one begins to appreciate
what an undertaking it was to come over
land to California in wagons and to
wonder that more did not die on the way
Now the trains both on the Union Pacific
and the Central Pacific are as fine as any
in the world. and you sleep twelve hours
every night without trouble. The trip
over the mountains comprises several
days of travel in high attitudes, and the
air is very rare and very dry. At Sher-
Evening journal., 1888-08-24

MUSIC PAVILION, GOLDEN GATE PARK.
man, w. T., lady in the car in which I
Travelled tainted from the rarity of the
air. Sherman is the second highest rail
road station on tho continent, and IL
is mile and half above the sea. If you
could put five Washington monuments,
one on top of the other, the aluminium top
of the last one would be Just a little
above the altitude of Sherman, and Den
yer is, think, more than a mile above
the sea. The highest railroad station on
the continent is on the Denver and Rio
Grande road. Il has an elevation of TO-
ESQ feet, and still higher railroad stations
exist in SOnth America.
The only game now seen in O trip across
the continent is the jack rabbit and the
antelope. Antelopes are few and far be-
tween and the only one saw was a tame
one kept at one of the stations. You see
now and then prairie dog in the desert,
and few ragged greasy Indians beg from
you at the station. l saw several squaws
with papooses who were willing to show
their babies for so much a head. The
cowboys were numerous in Wyoming ter
ritory, and they might be seen on their
horses from the train windows. They
were always riding on the gallop, and /
have yet to see horse walking in the
west. If the habitations Of the cowboy
country are any indications Of the COM
fort of its people, there is much more
prose than poetry in raising stock. The
houses along the whole line from Chey-
enne to Ogden were Of the rudest descrip-
ton, and they had neither tree nor grass
to relieve the burning rays of the glaring
sun.
Here in San Francisco il is cool and
pleasant. l wore heavy winter over
coat last night and felt comfortable in it.
Ladies wear sealskin sacques here the
year around, and you may see heavy fur
cloaks here on the street at noon
HENRY STEPHENS.
Evening journal., 1888-08-24

The Fiftieth Congress started ia with
the grim determination to wipe out the
over-burdening surplus. Both political
parties recognized this necessity, and
they took the same means to accomplish
il. Both advocated tariff reduction. but
on different lines, and with an opposite
ultimate result Now there is sudden
revelation. There is no surplus and the
weeks Of preparation and debate over
the Mills bill win all come to naught.
Then the Fisheries treaty claimed the
Senate's attention, and il was attacked
and supported until both people and
Congress became wearied Finally &c
was laid aside by party vote and now
Congress is waiting for the Senate
tariff bill More time will be consumed
in fruitless debate. In all probability il
will pass the Senate and by that time
Congress viii find it necessary 60 adjourn.
The Presidential campaign must be
looked after. Both parties viii have put
themselves on record and have manufac-
tured enough political capital ON which
70 run the campaign It is certainly a
long winded Congress and its legislation
barron Of good results
Evening journal., 1888-08-24

THE wheelmen have just cause Of
complaint in the exoctions Of the turn
pike companies. A bicycle does no more
harm to roadbed than a footman. and
the attempt 10 collect toll from il is a
clear case Of extortion. The turnpike
companies whose franchises cover roads
leading into this city. are surely making
enough money out Of the teams that must
go over the roads daily to do away with
the necessity of imposing upon the wheel.
men When a company charges four
cents for a single horse for the stretch OF
road between this city and Newport,
about two miles and half, it ought to
be making money.
Evening journal., 1888-08-24

The people Of Baltimore hundred, Sus-
sex county, have been creditably repre-
scented in the General Assembly Of the
state for the last four years by Hon
William Z. McCabe He came as near
representing the whole people without re
gard to party affiliations as Legislators
hnd il possible to do He is a Democrat,
OF course, but his interest in the state
has ever been greater than that in his
party. His usefulness was also recog-
mixed in the last session OF
zhe Legislature by his associates,
who elected him speaker This is
Evening journal., 1888-08-24

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has sent a
message to Congress condemning the
Senate's rejection Of the Fisheries treaty
In substance, he advocates a policy Of re-
faliation on Canada. by aunulling the
railroad privileges Of the Canadian Pacific
railroad Heretofore this corporation has
been permitted TO ship merchandise
across the country in bond, re-entering
the United States free Of duty Where a
policy Of retaliation Of this character viii
end it is hard TO predict, but the chances
are that it win be to our interest.
Evening journal., 1888-08-24
nIts From the .chester rimes.

George Keezey, formerly engineer for
the Hanley Hose Company, yesterday
moved his family from Graham street
this city. TO Wilmington. where he has
been working at mas trade as !. macliliis,
for several months past.
Chester ought TO have men with capital
enough and spunk enough TO invest il,
who conid be led TO see that there is any
Evening journal., 1888-08-24
FRIDAY. AUGUST "a. 1883.

THERE is locked in bank to-day over
S245. 900 to the credit of the city, which
was collected from the taxpayers during
July This amount of money it is ex-
pected will run the city for seven months
TT longer. It is great deal Of money to
be drawn from the local circulation and
locked up for six months or more. Would
it not be practicable to make two collec-
lions in year and thus reduce the stress
on the circulation that is now annually
put upon it by the July collectionss