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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-08-24
Home and Foreign Market.

The free-traders hold out great
allurements of gaining the access to
the markets of the world for our
wooden manufactures if we will con.
sent to remove the protective duty on
wool. If they are so anxious to get
into foreign markets the best way to
go about it would be to follow the ex-
ample of other nations Of promoting
their manufactures, and make a re-
bate on exported wooden manufact-
ures equal to the duty on wool. This
would accomplish the desired result
without destroying our own flOcks
and herds. But to common-sense
people it would seem that before start
ing of on q chase for the elusive
markets of the world" we take care
of our own home market. We i'm
ported last year $16,S51,3 $40 worth Of
raw wool, and ga, 235, 243 worth Of
manufactured wool-$6O, $50, 613 in all.
which in quality and value greatly ex-
ceeds any trade we can hope to estab-
fish abroad. If, instead of sending
that $50, 586.6l3 across the seas last
year. We had paid it to our people, the
country would have been much richer
and times vastly better. - National
Tribune C.. A. R.).
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-08-24
Facts for Working.Men.

Iwould not have an idle man or IN
idle mill or an idle spindle in this
country if by holding exclusively the
American market We could keep them
employed and running. Every yard of
cloth imported here makes a demand
for one yard less of American fabrica.
ton. Every ton of steel imported
diminishes that much of home produc-
ton. Every blow struck on the other
side upon an article which comes here
in competition with like articles pro-
duced here makes the demand for one
blow less at home. Every days labor
upon the foreign products sent to the
United States takes one days labor
from American working-men. l would
give the days labor to our own first,
last and all the time, and that policy
which fails in this is opposed to Amer
lean interests. To secure this Is the
great purpose of q protective tariff.
Free trade says give it to the foreign
workman if ours will not perform it at
the same price and accept the same
wages; the working-men say no, and
justly and Indignantly resent this at
tempted degradation Of their labor, this
blow at their Independence and man
hood.-From Congressman AcKinlsy's
Speech
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-08-24

ment of the case will show that there
IL an element of doubt, in fact several
doubts. Here are few of them: IF
we can defeat the Republican party
this year. by drawing from its ranks
enough Jealous temperance men to
enable the saloon party to triumph;
and if the Republican party becomes
SO cowed that it refuses even to kick
and straightway gives up the ghost;
and If its members prove to be devoid
of human nature, and conclude to kiss
the hand that smOte them; and If
woman suffrage does not prove to be
an old man of the mountain on our
shoulders; and if a majority of the peo-
pie suddenly become Indifferent to the
tariff. currency, immigration. labor.
land and other questions. about which
they now care more than they
do for any thing else; or ii We are able
to make the supporters of both sides
believe we favor their views; and i
enough of these antagonistic elements
can be welded together under our lead
ership to constitute majority party.
we will surely win. And then, and in
that case, if our legislators are uni
formly wise. and our officers Jealous
and efficient; and il no new set OF
misguided enthusiasts, rejected office
seekers. cranks and marplots are led
by our success to follow our example,
and break our party to pieces, in Or
der to use its fragments in the building
of another, before We shall have done
our perfect work, we will wipe the sa-
looms from the face of the earth-as
soon as we can. and every thing will be
lovely-with us on top"
Let me add another idea. So long
as you weaken the Republican party
sufficiently to keep the saloon party in
power, you perpetuate the evils that
flow from the dram-selling business,
and every day of every year unsaved
victims pass into eternity, new ones
taking their places. And if, in spite of
your predictions, the Republican party
declines to die, and the Prohibition
Woman-Suffrage party remains ''pow-
erful for evil, but pOwerless for good"
will not your hearts ache when you re-
member that the dreadful consequences
of your mistakes have been and are be-
ing borne mainly by the innocent and
suffering who had no control in the
matter? This is not merely a game
of politics for pastiIne." The stakes
are the bodies. minds and souls of men,
women and children -multitudes of
whom are absolutely helpless, and, this
being the case. is it not best to secure
each campaign the certain tangible
good that is then attainabie rather
than to risk every thing upon guesses
as to future possibilities?
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-08-24
THE LovEJoY EPISODE.
A Fine Sample Of Democratic DuPlieit.
Chicanery and Hypocrisy.

A Fine Sample of Democratic Duplieity,
Chicanery and Hypocrisy.
Our Democratic friends appear to
be extracting considerable satisfaction
out of the reports that the sons or
other younger relatives of two or
three Of the former anti-slavery lead
ers have left their old party friends
and gone over to the Democracy. One
of the Bourbon papers, in referring to
the detection of the son of William
Lloyd Garrison and the son of Owen
LOvejOy. makes the astounding OBJ
Notwithstanding. that is to say,
when coming from Democratic jour-
nal-that "there is something of the
old spirit here" meaning that the
sons, in joining the Democratic party,
display some of the fearless, humane
and progressive spirit for which their
fathers were famed.
But is it not rather odd for the
Democrats to commend the esprit :"
which they fancy that the present
Garrison and Lovejoy typify? These
young men are, probably. honest and
conscientious in allying themselves
with the Democracy. At least no
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-08-24
Purpose Of the Tariff.

It is claimed that the tariff increases
the selling price and makes cOmmod-
tiles dearer to the consumers, wis
bear the burden of it all; but let us see
how this is. The purpose of the tariE
was to foster manufacturing in this
country, so that by home competition
the price of the commodities would be
reduced to the minimum with labor
literally paid. 1t has not only cheap
ened every thing it has touched, but
has increased the wages Of Izsor.
That it has made these thiEss PC.
sible there is no good reason to doubt.
The "tax on the laboring man" is
more of fiction than truth. when the
blessings of home competition are
recognized. But this same 60 ls6oring
man" has another neutrality-suspicious.
wages. If there were but one pro-
Queer ard he the only consumer, his
wages would little concern him as an
element entering into the cost of pro-
duction, for what he paid for articles
he would receive in wages, and the
cost of living and the price of labor
would remain relative. But were there
two consumers and one producer, the
latter would have the advantage of re-
ceiving wages for supplying two while
at the expense of supporting but one.
That is the condition of labor in this
country to-day. but the Mills bill will
open our ports to foreign producers
who will receive good share o: tbs
wages that should go to the American
laborer.-Chicago Current (lmd.).
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-08-24

a.ErAacan has questioned the purity
% their motives in this action. But
it is pertinent to ask: When did the
Democracy begin to admire the
esprit" for which the elder Garrison
and Lovejoy stood? Was it admira-
ton for Garrison which prompted the
Democratic mob to drag him through
the streets of Boston with a rope
around his neck, with the intention of
hanging him from lamp-post on a
thoroughfare sufficiently prominent to
allow the people of the whole city to
get a view of his body as it
dangled in the air? Was it affection
for Lovejoy or Lovejoy's cause which
led the Democrats to threaten Con-
gresham Owen Lovejoy with death.
and to murder his brother Elisha in
Alton?
OF course the Democracy, in all its
partisan relations with the sons of con-
spicuous anti-slavery men or Repub-
licans, has been guilty of the most con-
temptible sort of duplicity, chicanery
and hypocrisy. When the Massachu-
sets Democrats gave the Gubernatorial
nomination to Charles F. Andrew, son
of the old Bay States great war Gov
ernor, a year ago, they knew he would
not be elected. and did not desire him
to be elected. The Democrats this
year, in nominating Owen Lovejoy for
Congress in the Seventh Illinois dis
trict, are aware that the district is
now represented by a Republican, that
its normal Republican majority is
1000 or 5000, and that Lovejoy has no
more chance Of election in it than he
has of becoming Sultan of Turkey.
Owen Loyejoy is used this year. as
Charles F. Andrew was used year
ago, as a decoy duck, so to speak. to
allure to the Democracy. by the influ-
ence of an illustrious name, other
members of the organization to which
the fathers of these men belonged, so
as to strengthen the party in future
canvasses. If the Illinois Democrats
who have nominated Lovsjoy, and the
Bourbon journals throughout the coun-
try which are just now so lavish in his
praise, ever for a moment imagined
that he possessed any OF the ''oid
spirit which animated his father or
his uncle, they would shun him az they
would a pestilence.-S. Loui. jlass.
Democrat.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-08-24

took a. pistol from his pocket. Then ne
saw it was not q wild beast. 1t was .
man, an immortal man, a man in Gods
own image; and the poor wretch crawled
up to the feet of the individual and asked
for strong drink, and the invalid took his
flask from his pocket and gave the poor
wretch something to drink, and then I'M
der the stimulus he rose up and gave his
history. He had been a merchant in Glas-
Cow, Scotland. He had gone down under
the power Of strong drink until he was so
reduced in poverty that he was lying in
boat just of the beach. "Why," said the
invalid, II knew q merchant in Glasgow
once"-a merchant by such and such q
name. And the poor wretch Strengthened
himself and said: II am that man." ''Let
him that thinksth he standeth take heed
lest he fall"
Again, 1 remark that the senior brother
of my text stands for the spirit of envy
and jealousy. The senior brother thought
that all the honor they did to the returned
brother was wrong to him. He said: 81
have stayed at home and l ought to have
had the ring and l ought to have had the
banquet and ought to have had the gar
lands" Alas for this spirit of envy and
jealousy coming down through the ages.
Cain aud Abel, Esau and Jacob, Saul and
David, Haman and Mordecai, Othello and
Iago, Orlando and Angelica, Calisula and
Torquatrs, Caesar and Pompey, Columbus
and the Spanish courtiers, Cambyses and
the brother he slew because he was bet
ter marksman, DiOnysius and Philoxenius,
whom he slew because he was better
singer.
Jealousy among painters. Closterman
and Godfrey Kneeler, Hudson and Rey.
nolds, Francia, anxious to see picture Of
Raphael, Raphael sends him . picture.
Francis, seeing it, falls in 1t Of Jealousy
from which 10 dies. Jealousy among
authors. How seldom contemporaries
speak Of each other. xsnophon and Plato
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-08-24
THE REQ saNpANA.
LAR; ..7okd a. Foil

(Air: Hold "a. Fof.-l
Hc! 70 voters, see the symbols
Waving IN the sky;
Requirements now are coming
Victory Is nigh.
Look not on the old baudana
When it's colored red;
But support our Nations banner.
II is far ahead
See the motley crowd advancing,
Grover leading on.
Mighty men their ranks Deserving
All their hopes are gone.
Look not on the old bandana
When it's painted red;
'Ts the symbol Of oppression.
Take the Flag instead.
Bee our glorious banner waving.
Hear our speakers voice!
In our leaders name we'll triumph,
Then we'll all rejoice.
Look not on the old bsndana
Which IL colored red:
IT'S the symbol OF secession,
Raise the Flag instead.
Thousands have deserted Grover
And his hungry crew,
Always longing for An ONCE
Nothing else will do.
Look not on the old bandana
Whom it's colored red:
But admire our Nations banner,
Thurman's rag wen shed.
Growers broken every promise,
Made all matters worse:
Wen reduce that awful surplus
From his frame and purse.
Look not on the old bandana
When IT'S colored red;
Bless and cheer our Nations banner,
1t is far ahead.
Fierce and long the campaign RACES,
But our victory's near;
All support our noble leaders,
Cheer, ye voters, cheer!
Look not on the old bandana
While it's colored red;
IT'S . product Of old England,
Cheer the Flag instead.
~ r Tribune.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-08-24
HOW TO BE HAPPY.

Making Life Pleasant by Taking ThingA
by Their smooth Handles.
The great desire of mankind in gen.
eral is to prosper and become rich.
Some go at life as though they thought
people should be thankful for their
presence. Their seeming Importance
generally terminates in a downfall at
an early period. and they find their
level in disappointed existence. Others
manfully persevere. taking hold Of
things continually as they appear to
block up the way Of progress under.
standingly. and finally come out often
ahead of their most sanguine expecta-
lions. Life is made up Of "ups and
DOWNS" and the sooner we learn to
realize the fact that to enrich our
selves We must not trample on the
rights given US. but must store up
every faculty and power OF mind and
body to be used judiciously in working
out the wealth that is in store for as.
the more certain of our success. II
we maltreat associates, or strive to
gain our ends by dish0nOrable means,
we must sooner or later expect to be
rewarded accordingly. Truly. life is
in a great measure what We make it.
There are some things we may win
with violence; others, and these are
far more precious. can only become
ours by moderation. patience. cheer
fulness and self-restraint. Some per.
sons think to make their way through
the difficulties of life as Hannibal is
said to have done across the Alps, BY
pouring vinegar upon them-a very
unlikely process, indeed. There is q
better way-the taking Of things BY
their smooth handles; thus they may
yield US their aid. if not their secret
to enrich US, and We shall be better
and wiser, if not also stronger and
richer men.-F0rm and Fireside.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-08-24
CLEvELAND'S TYRANNY.
How the Mills Bill Got Its Slim Majori
In the House.

In the House.
1t is of little consequence that the
Mills bill passed by the small majority
of thirteen votes. which is deemed by
many bad omen. But it is of the
greatest Importance that this majority
was secured by degree of Presiden-
tial influence and intimidation that
was scandalous and in violation of the
spirit of our institutions. Here is a
strong-willed, ambitious, pachyderma-
tous President who has openly sought
to win a reelection on the free-trade
tissue, and who has openly used the
whole power and influence of his i'm
mense patronage to force Democratic
members to support the Mills bill. A
few Democratic members had the
courage to stand by their protection
ist convictions and to represent the in
terest of their constituents. But such
courage and fidelity to duty are as ex-
ceptional as they are admirable.
There is abundant evidence that
enough Democratic merz bers voted
for the Mills bill against their convic-
tons to have defeated it. had they
acted more bravely. One of these CO
creed Democratic Congressman. Mr..
James Z. Campbell, of Ohio. has come
to see the folly and the wrong he
committed in yielding to Presidential
pressure II have" said he last
week. "a premonition that We have
made bad job of it. You see. sit
on the floor of the House right in the
center of the Democratic members of
the Committee of WAYS and Means. l
have been telling them for months
that it was fatal error to put wool
on the free list and to make such a
small reduction of the duty on sugar.
1 can go to the map and put my thumb
on all the territory in the United States
that produces sugar, while there is
not a county in the country that does
not grow wool Idon't understand how
otherwise long-headed men on our
side of the House have been demand
ing free wool as the great panacea of
tariff reform. do not expect to see
more than four or five Democratic
members returned to the next House
from my State"
Democratic Congressman Campbell
has heard from his constituents and
frankly admits that" am not cam
didate tor reelection, and do not be-
lieve that l could be reelected" and
sees and confesses that If this bill
means any thing it means long step
toward free trade, because it has put
many of our leading productions di-
rectly on the free list"
There are, undoubtedly. score of
Democratic Congressman who feel ex-
actly in the same way and who regret
the imperious party necessities grow
ing out of the Cleveland campaign for
reelection that crowded them into a
reluctant support of the Mills bill. Mr..
Campbell has simply found out that
his prospects of reelection have been
destroyed by the vote that he was
weak and foolish enough to cast,
against his convictions. Many other
Democratic Congressman have the
same opinion of the Mills bill that he
now acknowledges, but can control
| denomination and reelection through
Federal patronage, having large Dem
ocratic majOrities to work on. But
Mr.. Campbell has told the truth, and
his utterances are important on that
account-N. Y. Mail and Express.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-08-24

D@Protection to home industries I
regard a. the most important plank in
any platform after 1.-THE Union must and
shal b preserved. "-Ulysses 8. 0soaA
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-08-24

has been many store that had more goods
in the show windows than inside on the
shelves.
The self-righteOus man of the text
stood at the corner Of the house huggin2
himself in admiration. We hear a great
deal in our day about the higher life.
Now there are two kinds Of higher-life
men. The one are admirable and the other
are most repulsive. The one kind of
higher-life man is very lenient in his criti-
cism Of others. does not bore prayer meet
ings to death with long harangues, does
not talk q great deal about himself, but
much about Christ and Heaven, gets kind.
lier and more gentle and more useful until
one day his soul spreads q wing and he
flies away to eternal rest, and every body
mOurns his departure. The other higher
life man goes around with . Bible con-
spicuously under his arm, goes from
church to church, . sort Of general evan
gelist, is q nuisance to his own pastor
when he is at home, and . nuisance to
other pastors when he is away from home:
runs up to some man RAO is counting out a
roll of bank bills, or running up a diffi-
cult line of figures, and asks him
how his soul is; makes religion q
dose Of Pecacuanha; standing in a
religious meeting making an address,
he has a patronizing way, as though ordi-
nary Christians were clear away down be-
low him, 80 he had to talk at the top Of his
voice in order to make them hear, but at
the same time encouraging them to hope
on; that by climbing many years they
may after while come up within sight Of
the place whore he stands! / tell you
plainly that . roaring, registering, bounc-
ing sinner 10 not 20 rspulsive to me - that
highsr-lile malformation. The tsrmer may
sspsns; tAs lsss never gsta over his phari.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-08-24
An invincible Wit and punste,

An invincible Wit and punster
asked the captain Of craft. loaded
with boards, how he managed to ga
dinner ON the passage. why" n.
piled the skipper. ''we always cook
aboard" Cook . board. do your
rejoined the wag; ''then ! SEQ yea
have been we'll supplied With pseUb
sions this trip. ct Ill eveptA"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-03-30


Nothing more strikingly illustrates
English impudence towards this country
than the attempt to treat it as missionary
ground for its Free Trade propagandism.
1t is said by those who have the data on
which to base their statement, that Eng
land sent more than II 900, 900 Free Trade
documents into the United States last year.
They were invitations for Americans TO
destroy their home markets, TO cheaper
the price Of their own labor. machinery,
and lands. and TO carry our great States
back TO that provincial condition, which
has long been the ideal wish Of British
statesmen and American toadies and
dudes. Not only has this vast flood OF
British documents been poured in upon
US, but there are conclusive reasons for
the belief that these Free Trade missionary
efforts take the shape of substituting and
controlling newspapers in some of oui
larger cities.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-03-30
A SOUTHERN BOOM
The Reasons Which Kept an Augusta
Man From Investing.

"A person who has lived all his life among
the White Mountains, should he travel
abroad, would doubtless journey to some
small hill in another part of the country for
the purpose of seeing beautiful sunset,
was the remark made by shrewd capitalist
to the Journal man the other day.
Its just so in investments People that
can't see any opportunity to put out their
money in promoting industries about home
where they are acquainted, will be sure to
perceive in some South sea bubble a
chance to make fortune rapidly, leaving to
foreign or strange capitalists the grand
opportunities which have laid before their
eyes unoticed.
Not long since heard of a scheme in a
distant State where untold wealth awaited the
| investor. A town was being built up as if in
control of the fairies. Coal, iron and gold
were all about, only waiting the magic wand
of capital to bring them forth. Shares were
| sold here in Maine for IS each, and many
were buying them. l thought | would visit
| tLls new Ll-DoIdbO, anu dSSoidihSi. oAu so
| hadn't been in town more than fifteen min
utes before | was introduced to one of the
principal men of the place, who greeted me
with true Southern hospitality Well, We
drove all over that place. We visited the
coal mine, or what was soon to be a coal mine
so the engineer in charge told me Nature
he said is true TO her colors, and there is no
the slightest doubt but what there is one Of
the finest veins of coal in the country pas
sing right through that mountain Right oyel
yonder, was a boundless supply of the bes
quality of iron of which now have worthless
pyrites as samples.
Il think it must have been my guardian
angel that saved me from this veritable Col
onel Sellers. But | came through the or
deal though before parting my host,in mos
conf lential manner, offered me shares fo
Sl.75 of the same sort as certain Main.
gentlemen had paid So 90 for. Considerable
building had been done, but in cheap slip
shod manner and good share of il was pu
under way just before great auction sale OF
house lots which took place several months
since. 1t was noticeable fact tina
since this booming sale took place
nothing had been done on these houses ant
they stood there half completed. They hav,
a newspaper there and it is an easy matter t.
guess who owns the establishment editor ant
all"
$50 you didn't invest any money ?" queriet
the scribe.
IL am happy to say that did not but
came terribly near doing So"