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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-11
THE MEANING OF FREE TRADE.

W.-What, then, is free trade!
Ans-Free trade taken literally, means trade
free from taxation or limitation OF any kind.
No such condition OF things ex sts among civ
ilized nations. England. generally called a
free-trade country, derives one-fourrh OF its
revenue from duties upon imports In this
country when intelligent men speak OF free
trade they mean tariff JOr rerenHs only after
the English fashion.
W.-What are the objections to this kind OF
tariff for The United States:
Ans-They are numerous. In the hrst place,
its effects upon our prosperity would De oppo-
te to those of a protective tariff. 1t would
check and diminish our industries, reduce
wages, impoverish the Nation, and in the end
fail to yield adequate revenue for the Gov
eminent 1t would soon require o large sx-
port OF precious metals, and bring about Ma
tional bankruptcy. The nearest approach to
such a tariff in this country was the Walker
tariff. VIII ca prevailed from 1916 10 1851. Its
effects were delayed for awhile by various re-
markable circumstances-thed discovery OF gold
in California, the Mexican wa-, the failure OF
European crops and extensive European wars
but as soon as the influence OF these ceased
the people were plunged into universal dis
tress. aad the Government was unable to raise
even a trifiing SUN Of money, except at runous
rates OF interest.
NOT A GOOD SYSTEM FOR ENGLAND.
W-How does tt happen that t1r!B for rers-
nue. only is good for England, and not for US!
Ans.-It is not by any means sure that It is
good for England. Many of her working-men
and others deny it. The number OF these is
increasing. One OF item. speaking of free
trade has recently said: Can not the present
un 10 the work of the last: Because
;he fathers have eaten sour grapes. must the
teeth be forever On edge!"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-11
Will Support Harrison.

The Congregational ministers of
Chicago, at a recent meeting, dis
cussed the temperance question, and
their sentiments Were uniformly in
favor of supporting the Republican
candidates at the coming election as
the best way of promoting temperance.
DR.. Little said that the Third party
movement was an injury to the tenn
perance cause because it obscured the
moral issue by dragging it into poll
tics. Prof. Fisk declared that he
should not vote for General Fisk. DIR.
Goodwin said that intemperance was a
part of the sin of the world that could
only be cured by the Gospel. 1t would
be long time before he would vote,
eUen indirectly, to put the Democratic
party in power, for he remembered
too vividly the great war struggle and
the part the Democratic party had in
it. Prohibition should not mean the
prohibition of the Republican party
from power. One of the divines put
the comparison between Harrison and
Cleveland very aptly when he said
''Of the two men who can be elected,
one Is a temperance man and a
Christian, honored and respected in
the church of which he is a member
the other is not a temperance man and
not Christian; which shall we elect?'
aurora (Hl.) Beacon.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-11

readily be spared for the cause of good
government The money raised in this
way can be supplemented to any ex-
| tent by checks from New York, and at
any time The result is fund sufi-
clent TO support settlers, no matter
how numerous they may be and how
suddenly they may come, from over the
border in Kentucky or from the farther
off Eastern cities.
Already. under the practical direc-
ton of Arthur P. German and Will
lam II. Barnum, there have been
small but well-marked emigrations
into Indiana from Philadelphia and
Baltimore. These gentlemen are not
fresh enough to the business to hesitate
at any thing if their cause should be
desperate at the end, and nobody will
say that they will not find Calvin S.
Brice an apt pupil. Rice and Sheerin.
too, are as slick as any of the poll
ticians on the Democratic committee,
and they can be depended upon. Small
colonies are quietly going out from the
East. Along the Ohio there will be
the most activity naturally, for Ken
lucky bids fair to raise 100000 by the
small subscription method for use in
the southern counties alone. Fort
Wayne, which gives Democratic ma
jority OF $500 to 1000. according as
the requirements are, is to be made
if possible, q profitable field to work
in. Such country districts as Dubois
County, where the population is three
quarters Democratic, are also looked
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-11
Song OF Calvin Brice.

How dear to my heart is the vote OF
old Texas, old Texas that nothing can
swerve from our side, old Texas that's
solid and sure for the party though the
enemy come like a fast flowing tide;
old Texas, where shot-guns discuss
public questions, and where the six
shooter speaks up sharp and quick,
where they monuments raise to the
late Colonel Bowie, and voting is apt
to make niggers quite sick! That old
solid Texas, that certain old Texas.
that moss-covered Texas where Bour-
bons are thick!
New York and New Jersey, they're
gone from us surely, and so has Con-
necticut faded away; Indiana for us is
a snare and delusion, and the rest OF
the North, it was always astray; but
there's Texas, old Texas, down there
in the corner, and with heart over
flowing to thee will | sing, as ponder
and fancy with fond recollectiOns, and
think in November what comfort
you'll bring! That solid old Texas.
that moss-grown old Texas, that dead
sure old Texas, Democracy's king!-N
Y. Tribune.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-11
San Francisco Post.
MESSAGE:


~The Mills bill repeals the duty on
wool but puts sheep-dip" on the free
list. Sheep-dip is preparation to de-
stroy ticks on sheep. When the farm
er's fiocks are destroyed, as they would
be by free wool, he would have no use
for sheep-dip. The "ticks" would go
with the sheep. The free-traders are
too generous us.-lndianapolis Journal.
S"Students of maxims and not of
the markets is the concise character
ization General Harrison gives in his
letter to those who teach that the i'm
port duty upon foreign goods sold in
our markets is paid by the consumer,
and the domestic competing articles
correspondence enhanced in price. 1t
Is the neatest thing said or written
thus far in the campaign of intellect. !"
Ohio State Journal.
@The law now in force prohibit
ing the Importation of foreign labor
ers under contracts of service to be
performed here received my cordial
support in the Senate, and such
amendments as may be found neces-
sary effectively to deliver our working
men and women from this most
inequitable form of competition will
have my sincere advocacy.-Generat
Rarrison'S Letter of Acceptance.
E@-The plain fact is that Mr.. Cleve-
land worked as hard as he could for
his own denomination and used all the
influences at his command to obtain it.
There was no National crisis demand
ing it; there was no popular desire for
it; he had done nothing whatsoever to
earn it. He didn't eat his own words
out of Difference to the opinions of
millions of his countrymen; but be-
cause he wanted to hang on to the
Presidency and its emoluments.-
Rochester Post-Erpress (Ind. Dena.).
s@Said Democratic working-man
in New York the other day: Il would
rather pay one cent more for din
ner pail and establish an industry
worth thirty million dollars annually
to this Nation than continue to support
Ou0 bilOQSdnu Ii
making tin plate, when that number
or Americans want employment The
argument is sound. 1t is sound from
the working-man's standpoint espec-
tally, and it is sound from the stand
point of every intelligent American
citizen.
h%General Harrison's letter of ac-
ceptance is the utterance of patriot
and statesman. 1t commends itself to
the judgment and patriotism of the
people. 1t enunciates the true prin-
ciples upon which the greatness of the
Nation is founded. 1t is in accord with
the highest aspirations of the Repub-
lie. 1t inspires American enthusiasm.
1t viii, we are convinced, be approved
on the 9th of November by the verdict
of the people of the United States in
favor of Harrison and Morton and pro-
lection to American industries, citi-
zens and homes Irish Rortd.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-11
NUTS FOR GROVER.
Though He sIay Try Hard, He Won't He
Able to Crack Them.

Though He aIay Try Hard, He Won't Bs
Able to Crack Them.
In his letter OF acceptance President
Cleveland said: 81 suppose it is need
less to explain that all these duties and
assessments ara added to the price of
the articles upor which they are
levied and thus become tax upon all
those who buy these articles for use
and consumption.
If this is so, will the President Or
some of his free-trade colleagues ex-
plain why it is that under free-tra1e
tariff steel rails sold for S137 ton. and
are now selling for $32, the duty being
SIT ton?
Why it was under a free-trade tariff
pig-iron cost $34.S5, and has sold re-
Gently for $lS, after paying, as the
President says, duty tax of Sc. 20?
Why a ream of paper that sold
under free trade for $16 can now be
bought for 81. so, the duty being % per
cent?
Why under free trade an English
china tea set cost S., while just now as
good an American set, which, accord
ing to the President, is taxed the rate
of duty-60 per cent.-can now be had
for $50?
Why dozen files under free trade
cost 81, and are now selling for 81. 80
after paying a duty OF 30 cents a
dozen?
Why carpets that sold for S1.40 a
yard before a protective tax of II
cents a square yard and 80 per cent
called the industry into existence, are
now selling for 95 cents a yard?
Several of these industries are liter
ally created by the protective tariff;
yet the products are selling at present
for much less than they sold for before
the protective tax was put on. And
yet we are told by the President that a
protective tariff is heavy burden
upon the people. Buffalo Commercial
AdUertiSer.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-11
A DOODLE CAMPAIGN.
How the Democratic Machine Expects
Carry the Hoosier State.

How the Democratic Machine Expects to
Carry the Hoosier State.
William II. Barnum and Calvin S.
cratic National Committee, have been
known to admit lately-merely for the
sake of argument, of course-that
Grover Cleveland is beaten in New
York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
Then they have hast.ned to look tre-
mendously wise and say: Republic
ans can talk all they please about car
rying Indiana for Harrison. We know
how Indiana is going; Indiana is going
for Cleveland at the right time" All
of which means that Committeeman
Sheerin and james Fl. Rice, both
Hoosiers from indianapolis, have not
been at the West Twenty-ninth street
headquarters for nothing during all
these weeks; and that the plans for
colonizing Indiana and carrying it for
Cleveland at the last moment by a
lavish use of money are already pref
ty well laid. Rice is supposed to be
at work with Ben Lefevre assigning
Democratic orators to the stump in
different parts of the country. His
work is finer, though, and, added to
that of Mr.. Sheerin, has been very ef-
ficient. John E. Lamb, a Hoosier
from Terre Haute, is also supposed to
have had sly hand in the game. He
is a lawyer by profession and not much
OF any thing by practice, except a
most obedient factotum to Dan Voor-
hees- He is as well off in New York
as anywhere.
The National Democratic Commit
tee, with its tariff reform" resources
and its Federal resources, can not run
short of funds for any needs, legiti-
mate or illegitimate; but it proposes to
raise all it is able to get, just the same,
In ways hitherto uncommon. There is
great activity in the contribution busi-
ness at present, for example, in Ken
lucky. Missouri and Kansas. Letters
and solicitors are representing in
these three States that there is great
danger of losing Indiana to the Repub-
hcans. In Kentucky and Missouri, ii
Is urged the Democrats are Indifferent
" strong, and. In Kansas hopelessly
weak. Contributions of small sums
no matter if they run down from five
dollars to fifty cents-can therefore
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-11
A FLATTERINa RECORD.
What the Republican Parry Has Done
for the Nation.

What the Republican Parry Has Done
for the Nation.
1t subdued Rebellion and saved the
Union.
1t conquered war and established
peace.
1t gave freedom to q race and free
ballot to all men.
II was patriotic enough to create a
debt TO carry on war and honest
enough to make provision to pay that
debt.
1t made liberty universal throughout
the States and the flag honored
throughout the world.
1t made treason odious and loyalty
the badge of respected citizenship.
1t has dignified labor and secured its
rightful reward by protective tariff
laws.
1t raised tho Nation from bank
ruptcy and secured for pubic credit
the faith of the financial world.
1t made persons and property and
freedom of thought and expression
secure in every part of the land.
1t has practically given each citizen
a free home by securing the public
domain from the monopoly of capital.
1t has, by u rigid supervision of cor
porate franchise, made transportation
cheap, safe and rapid for persons and
property.
1t has. by wise economies and just
laws. reduced the public debt and the
interest upon it.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-11
DEMOCRATIC FORGERY.
aow Cleveland and His Machine Propose
to Beat General Harrison.

ffOpOSe
to Beat General Harrison.
While the lie that General Harrison
said "a dollar day was enough for
working-men" is effectually killed for
the present. we learn the Democrats
are trying to revive it by asserting
that proof of the fact will be produced
''when the proper time comes" The
proper time is understood to be a day
or two before the election. and the
plan to embrace the publication of
false and perhaps forged affidavits to
the alleged fact when it will be too late
to take any steps to refute them or
punish the rascals who put them out
This would be quite in keeping with
Democratic tactics and with the spirit
thus far shown in the campaign. Dem
ocratic liars and mud-slingers have
made rapid progress since the cam
paign opened, but we expect to see
still more remarkable developments of
meanuess and mendacity before it is
ended. The Democracy of this State
are desperate, and will stop at nothing
to avert the defeat now plainly i'm
pending. The absolute inyulnerabil-
ity of General Harrison's character
and record enrages them, and his
growing strength with the people will
drive them to expedients entirely out
side of the pale of respectable politics,
in the hope of rescuing a lost cause.
Whatever can be done in this direction
by the corrupt use of money, and the
worst acts of the worst school of pol
itics, will be done. As an indication
of the latter, and in the line of this
affidavit bus mess, Senator Voorhees, is
reported as having said a few days
ago that evid ence would soon be pro-
duced establishing General Harrison's
active connection with the Know-Noth-
ing movement. 1t is proper to say
here and now that if such pretended
evidence is produced it will be an un-
mitigated lie, and should consign its
trainers and forgers to place in the
penitentiary. Another Indication of
the Democratic plan of campaign is
the statement recently made by one of
them to a commercial traveller, that
1--WE intend to carry the State if We
have to pay twenty-five dollars a vote
to do it." We have no doubt that they
intend this very thing, and that they
do expect to carry the State by such
methods as those indicated, supple
mented by the free use of money. But
we do not think they will succeed.
Corruption, rascality and lying may
be potent weapons within certain linn
itations, but they are not strong
enough to counteract great popular
movement or to reverse a plainly fore
shadowed majority in a gpeat State
like Indiana. This is the peoples
year, and we have an abiding faith
that General Harrison's reputation
and the Republican cause will be safe
in their hands, in spite of the desper-
ate efforts of corrupt politicians.
Nevertheless, the knowledge that such
schemes are being concocted should
cause Republicans to be more than
ever on the alert and redouble their
efforts for success.-IndianapoIis Jour-
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-11
WONDERFUL MEDICINE.
A Patent Nostrum Maker Who Alwa
Lights on His Feet.

A Patent Nostrum Maker Who Always
Lights on His Feet.
81 have been looking up some of
your testimonials" said the reporter,
as he walked into the Office of the
Wild American Vitalizer and Vigor of
Life, 'and find that you are frauds;
your testimonials are manufactured ="
"Neverf' said the great Doctor
Ketchum, ''never; every testimonial
can be substantiated, and supported
by affidavit"
But" persisted the Investigator,
''here is one signed by George II. ALL
away, of Berlin, Ohio; now that man
is dead; / have visited Berlin; / saw
his grave; 1 read the inscription on
his tombstone; he died on the 23d of
August, 1879"
Ibid you open the grave?" asked
the Doctor.
"Of course not" was the indignant
reply.
s'Then, SIR" exclaimed the gSeat
Doctor Ketchum, triumphantly, ''your
investigation stopped short OF the
wonderful truth. Because, you OBJ
serve, the man George Allaway died
before taking our Wild American vi
talizer and Vigor of Life. You saw
that he died on the 23d of August,
1879; now note that he testifies, on the
honor of living man, that he was
completely restored on the 23d OF
August, 1880; after taking six bottles
of our Wild American Vitalizer and
Vigor of Life. What you saw was an
empty grave, and your investigation
and this interview with us, will be of
incalculabIe value in our advertising
department. Take half a dozen bot
ties home with you for nothing" And
the crushed reporter, saying that that
seemed to be what was principally the
matter with him, took them on the
principle that a chestnut was better
than a seoop.-Burdette, i1 Brooklyn
Eagle.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-11
AMERICAN SURGEONS.
They are Ahead of the World i'm Ingenuity
and Practical Ability.

and Practical Ability.
In regard to the medical education
of American physicians compared with
those of Europe, / have been struck
forcibly by the fact that our students
seem to be more practical and better
able to grasp and develop ideas than
those of European countries. Es-
pecially in the operative courses, in
Vienna, have noticed that the Ameri-
can students performed their work
more neatly and thoroughly and with
greater dispatch than the compare
lively slow-going Continental mem
bers of the class, and that while those
from this country had possibly had
but three years course of study be-
fore graduation, yet they were more
than the equals of the German students
of six years standing. / think this
difference is due to the more practical
and thorough methods of teaching in
vogue in this country, and believe il
to be but a question of time when, in.
stead of US going to Europe, the Conti-
mental physicians will be anxious to.
avail themselves of the facilities Of
fered in the United States. The pres
ent superiority of foreign over Ameri-
can medical institutions lies in the
fact that all their expenses are sus-
talned by the Government, but if there
were a tendency upon the part of the
wealthy to endow our schools, what
ever doubt there may be as to cOmpar-
ative merit would soon be set at rest.
Regarding surgery, one OF Won
Bergmann's assistants, man known
throughout the world by his con-
nection with the case of the Crown
Prince, has told me, in the course of
conversation. that he had considered
the American surgeon ahead of the
world in ingenuity, practical ability
and in operative technique.-St. Louis
EL0bp- De1nOcrHf
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-11

to for grand results when the final
word is given. Two weeks ago it
seemed doubtful whether the last and
hardest effort of the Democratic man.
ayers would be in Michigan or Indiana.
Now it is certain that, while there will
be no lack of tariff-reform money
and endeavor in General Alger's State,
the finest and most unscrupulous work
will be put in General Harrison's State,
N J. Press.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-11

R~General Harrison has, since his
nomination, made speeches enough to
fill an eight-mo volume of 600 pages,
and still the crowds are fiOcking to
Indianapolis, and are growing more
enthusiastic every day. Nothing like
it has ever before been witnessed. Ii
Harrison's votes were all allowed to be
cast and honestly counted in all the
States of the Union he would be elect
ed President by a larger popular ma
jority than was ever cast for a Presi-
Dental candidate. = Chscay0 Inter
Oce01l
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-11

~Cleveland's contribution of S1C,-
600 to the Democratic campaign fund
is bad enough from every point OF
view; but it is not so Internationally
disgraceful as was the proceeding by
which Governor Hill raised S15, ,000
for a like purpose in the last canvass
at the expense of contractor who
was indebted to him for official favors.
ST. Louis Globe -DemocTGk
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-11

@The only Hebrew daily paper in
America is the Jea0ish Gazette and
Necs, published at New York and Chi
cago. It has heretofore been inclined
to favor the Democratic party but is
now supporting Harrison and Morton.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-11
The Cleveland Chart.

Mr.. Cleveland's chances of re-elec-
ton, as modelled after Mr.. Atkinson's
statistical charts, would seem to be
about thus:
Before his free-trade message:
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-11
CURRENT COMMENT.

RJThe solid South has no terrors
when confronted by solid North, and
that is the situation of affairs in the year
of our Lord 1SSS.-Ft. IVaype Gazette.
syThe point of the Presidents
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-11
At the time OF denomination:
'rison's nomination:

AT the time Of Harrison's nomination.:
On the publication OF his retaliation message:
On the publication Of his letter OF acceptance:
To-day: Well the Press foreman
can not find rule short enough OF
slim enough to show just what Mr..
Cleveland's chances of reelection are
to-day--A 7. Press.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-09-22

Atlantic cable, are usually constructed of
seven small copper wires wound together SO
as TO form ono conductor and covered with
a heavy coating of composition insulation,
largely composed of rubber and paralline,
around which other and larger iron or steel
wires are wound, protected on the surface by
other and stll heavier wires although some
have another coating outside tho wires. The
shore ends are about two and ono-half inches
IN diameter and the mid ocean sections from
an inch to an inch and half.
Up to this date they have been made with
but one conductor in each cable except n Sec
ton Of the Commercial companys running
from RoCkport, Mass, 10 Cape Canso, N. s.
The action OF the static or earth currents is
so great IN the bottom OF the sea that 1t is
doubtful ii two conductors could be worked
in a single cable. and they are too expensive
to warrant taking any chances with in the
way of experiments, as it is generally con-
coded that they will carry but little battery,
what is technically known as thirty volts
being the limit upon a cable circuit This is
less current than is required TO feed single
arc electric light, and an ordinary arc cir
cult would feed all of the Atlantic cables
and leave a large surplus - New YORK
World.