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Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-07-12
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The hat shown above smade of tinted
mull-pale blue, green, sulphur or pink
Ito go with a costume. The brim is
formed of bias layers of the null drawn
on wires, which are bent to give it its
shape. The high net crown is covered
with wide bias scarf of the null, which
is shirred several times across the back
in front it is pleated, and the upper part
is bent down to cover the top to the back
edge. Three ribbon straps with bows
ornament the crown. --Harpe.'s Basar
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-07-12

News comes from Berlin that sixteen
young men of the university, some of
them Americans, some English and some
Scotch, have formed themselves into an
international total abstinence society.
An American, J. Warren Forbes, of New
Mexico, is president. Professor Bunge's
pamphlet, "Die Alkohol Frage, is their
hand book Of temperance doctrine.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-07-12
Garden Hats.

The white lace hat shown here has a
net crown covered with white muslin,
and wide brim made of double layer
of bias muslin shirred and drawn up five
times on wire and shaped by bending the
wires. The brim is yelled with frill of
deep cream lace. The crown is covered
with similar lace, and some full shell
frills of it are mounted against the front,
with bow of pink and olive ribbon at
the center.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-07-12

The Russian Nihilists lately arranged
to release the author. Observation-Disclosures,
who has been in prison in Astrachan for
thirty-six years on account of writing
two novels displeasing to the censor.
His mental and physical condition was
such that fight was impossible.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-07-12

It is proposed to raise 500, 900 for an
American church building in Berlin. A
Number of $1,000 subscriptions have al
ready been secured, and pews are to be
offered to American colleges and other
institutions at $1,000 each the free
use of their graduates.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-07-12

During last winter some two dozen
shipwreckea crews were rescued from
death by the officers and men of the life
saving stations on the Cape Cod coast.
Not single man of all these crews has
perished- Nearly half million dollars
worth of property has also been saved.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-07-12

No Harvard medical student, asserts
the Detroit Free Press, is declared sup"
in his perfesh until he can cut off leg
without drawing drop of blood. The
man who owns the leg must also wake
up as from sweet slumber, and so far
forget himself as to try and scratch the
missing member.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-07-12

The most youthful bank president in
this country, if not in the world, is j.
NJ. Bailey, Jr., who has recently been
made President of the Minnehaha Ma
tional Bank, at Sioux Falls, Dakota. He
is an Illinois boy, barely out of his teens,
and has already shown capability as a
financier.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-07-12

The largest amount ofmoney any man
ever made by his pen in one year, face
tiously remarks the New York Graphic,
can be put down to an Hlinoisan named
Caruthers. He cleared over $3.50, 600.
His pen had million pigs in it,
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-07-12

It was fortunate in the case of triplets
born lately in Pekin, China, that they
were girls. Had they been all boys,
under the laws of the Empire they would
have been beheaded, as there is tradi-
ton that one of three such children will
invade and attempt to overthrow the
Government,
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-07-12

The total receipts of the American
Home Missionary Society from 1902 to
1887 were $11, 5s6, sol, and the total re-
ceipts of the "a societies were 500, 019,-
3OS.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-07-12
Lacks an important Element.

Bishop dining with the familyl--''so
you wouldn't like to be a Bishop,
Bobby, when yon grow up"
Robby--'sI'd like to well enough, but
as everybody says take after mas side
of the family, don't s'pose I'll ever be
fat enough for q Bishop s''--Ne~ York
Sun.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-07-12
MISS.

In India the finest grades of cigars can
be bought for half a cent apiece, and
cigars are considered rather an expensive
luxury at that.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-07-12

The decorations of the late Emperor
William, which have been handed over
to Emperor Frederick, filled large case
with ten drawers and thirty-two separate
boxes,
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-07-12

Sew people have any idea of the
amount of money taken i'll by the auto
matte weighing machines which one sees
in the corridors of the hotels and other
public places" says the Philadelphia
Times. "They are opened every week,
and the coin is found in a canvass bag
attached to the machine. The act of
unscrewing this bag to take it out has
the effect of automatically closing it, SO
that no one but the proper person caa get
at any of the contents. 1t is said that
these machines generally average profit
OF from $50 to $25 month in this city,
and the machine at the Broad Street
Station has been known to pay as high
as 500 for the same time. The company
owning the machines pay certain per
centage for the privilege Of placing them
in prominent places
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-07-12

The amount OF liquors consumed for eleven
years in the United States, from 1860 to 1871
lost TO the consumer was 80, $50 .6l, s0l Ii
put in wagons--ten barrels to the wagon
they would extend A, 500 miles, nearly twice
around the earth, or half way to the moon,
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-08-18
SOLDIERS FOR REFORM. =
Vigorous Language Used by q League Of
Old UInlOu Veterana.

A League Of Old Union Soldiers has
been formed in Indiana, and has
adopted and published an address to
the people which is remarkable for the
vigorous language in which it de-
nounces extension Commissioner Dud-
ley and the attempt of the Republican
leaders to array the Union veterans
against the Democratic candidates.
The address expresses sympathy with
the working-man everywhere, and
earnestly hopes that "the crushing
hand of monopoly will be stayed by de-
feating the monopolists' pet, Ben Har-
rison, for the great Office Of President.
1--WE recognize in him." says the ad-
dress, "the enemy of the laboring-men
and the friend of the Chinese or cheap
labor, which his vote in the Senate of
| the United States assisted in bringing
and keeping in our land, and for this
and his other expression against the
labor element we deem him wholly un-
fit to occupy the Presidential chair"
1t warmly indorses Cleveland and
Thurman, and, "believing that all the
varied interests of the country will be
best subserved, we imploringly ask all
soldiers to aid us in their election to
the exalted Office of President and Vice.
President" The "blatant" Ingalls, and
the 'pagan god' Ingersoll are caustic-
ally referred to, and the address closes
with the eloquently expressed hope
that the prasent camna1un will MT m vi
result in the reelection of Mr.. Cleve.
land, "but that it will forever over
throw the party of hate, sectionalism
and monopoly, that all sections of this
great country can join hands in one
common brotherhood of peace on earth,
good will to men," Good for the
League of Old Soldiers. May their
numbers multiply for the good of the
country.-St. Louis Republic.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-08-18
GENERAL CHANTS VIEWS.
The Opinion Of n Distinguished Repub-
!ican Tariff Reformer.

with n tax upon liquors of all
said an eminent revenue reformer,
"and by wise adjustment OF the tariff
Diich wiH PIT a tag only on those articles
Dhtch We could dispense With, known as
lurnries, and those which we use moro
OF than we produce, revenue enough
may be raised. after few years Of
peace and consequent reduction Of In
debtedness. to fule.! az. our obligations;
o farther reduction Of expense in ad-
dition TO q reduction OF interest and
per cent. may be relied on to make this
practical. Reuenue reform, ifI means
this, has my hearty support"
The name OF the Revenue reformer
who said this was Ulysses Simpson
Grant and he said it in his second
message, December 5, 1870. Why Is
he not denounced as "a British free
trader" for itp
Again in his third annual message
he recommended that careful esti-
mate be made of the existing surplus
and that in re-adjusting the tariff the
surplus be reduced $50 as to afford
the greatest relief to the greatest num-
ber." In his fourth annual message
he spoke of the war taxes as "a vex-
atious burden on any people," In his
fifth message, he recommended ga re-
vision and codifcation OF the tariff
laws" In his sixth message he urged
that the introduction free of duty OF
dyes, chemicals and such woods as we
do not produce would stimulate manu-
facture, and therefore be a benefit to
home production.
In his seventh annual message he
recommended for the free-list "those
articles which enter into manufactures
of all sorts" "All duty paid upon
such articles" he said, "goes directly
to the cost of the article when manu-
factured here and must be paid for by
the consumer. These duties not only
come from the consumers at home but act
as a protection to foreign manufactur.
ers Of the same completed articles in
our own and distant markets"
Neither Cleveland, Carlisle, Mills
Morrison nor any revenue reformer Oh
the Democratic side has said any thing
stronger than this.
Why then do the believers in free
whisky and embargo refrain from de-
nouncing Ulysses Simpson Grant,
| ST. Louis ReDnblic
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-08-18

The reader will be surprised to OBJ
serve that the highest average rate
was in 1918 and the lowest in 1915,
although there interviewed no import
ant change in the law, and that the
rate for 1878 was ten times as high as
for 1915. Washington never lived to
see the tariff average as high as 20 per
cent.-half the rate left by the Mills
bill--though the year before he died,
1898, shaved it pretty close. 1t was
not until 1878, when the Government
was "a years old, and was in the midst
OF war, that the average rate reached
the point proposed in the Mills bill.
1t has passed that point in only thirty
three OF the ninety-nine years of our
National life, and twenty-one of these
have been under the present tariff.
The average rate collected in 1887 has
been exceeded but thirteen times in our
history, and eight Of these were be-
fore the war. The highest series OF
rates collected for any term OF seven
years was from 1894 to 1880, inclusive.
1t actually averaged for the seven years
more than 52 per cent. Numerous
other interesting comparisons will oc-
cur to the student.
So much for the general average
rate collected on all dutiable goods.
Now let us tabulate rs best We can
briefly the history of the rates enacted
on certain selected articles of common
use. This is herculean task, for the
reason that there are two kinds o.
tariff taxes specific asd nd valorem
A specific tax OF duty IL so much OF
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-08-18
IN A TIGHT PLACE
How VIII Sherman, ingalls, Co. p,s.
pose of tho Mills Bill

How VIII sherman, ingalls, q Co. Dis.
pose of tho Mills Bnl.
Now that the Mills bill is out of ths
House of Representatives, the upper.
most question in the public mind is,
what will the Senate do with itp There
is a popular impression that the Sem
ate will do nothing-that the bill will
be referred to the appropriate Senate
committee, and that 1t will be allowed
to sleep there until this Congress ad-
journs. And yet there is no reason
why the Senate should pursue such a
course. There is no precedent for 1t.
If the Senate pursued this course it
would be the first time in the history
Of the country for the Senate to refuse
consideration OF q revenue measure
passed by the immediate representa-.
tives of the people. Looking at 1t in
the light of party expediency, it would
be better for the Republican Senate to
take up the Mills bill and defeat it by
a square vote than to smother it in a
committee room. And yet il the bill
is taken up and put upon Its passage
bneF0 lS IL ClduCo lOi luo SolnS JilFOuBn
an event that would be singularly
fatal to the hopes of Republican sue
cess in the national election. So 1t is
the Republican majority in the Senate
finds itself in dilemma. To take
action on the Mills bill is fatal; not to
do SO is equally fatal. And yet the
condition of the public finances does
not justify trifling with this important
measure. The Treasury is gerged
with revenues, compelling the Secre-
tary to go into the markets and buy
bonds not due at an ever-increasing
rate of premium. Something must be
done by the Republican majority in the
Senate to relieve this condition OF af-
fairs, or the party to which the major
ity belongs will be held justly respon-
sible for the failure. 1.-THE Republican
Senators can not come up to the full
measure of the great occasion which
has been met so honestly and cour-
ageously by the Democrats in the low
er House then the people Of this ooun-
try will have no possible pretext for
restoring the Republican party to pow
er--H Paul Globe.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-08-18

the pound. yard, gallon, barrel, or
bushel, etc. An nd valorem duty is 30
much on the dollars worth. How
can we compare thesep How can
we compare a tax OF 10 cents
yard, under one tariff, with o tax
Of 20 per cent. on the cost price, under
another TARIFF II we knew the for
eign cost Of tho cloth taxed 10 cents
yard we could do 10, but 1t Is only
within recent years that the Govern
mcnt has told US that-or even In
structed its custom.house officers to
find 1t out. To confuse matters still
more, the present tariff often levies
both kinds OF duties on the same arti-
Gle. Thus, on one OF the six classes
into which women's and children's
dress goods are divided, the tax is six
cents square yard (specific) and 30
per cent. (ad valorem). But this Is not
the oldest nor the most confusing feat
ure about it, for il the goods weigh
over four ounces per square yard tho
tax is levied in still different way,
and instead OF six or eight cents yard
it is 80 cents n pound, plus the 35 per
cent. If past tariffs were 50 intricate
as the present one our TASK would in
deed be hopeless. But in all tariffs
there are clauses stating what the taxes
shall be on all articles OF the several
great classes "not otherwise provided
for In. o. p.). Into these n. O. p. clauses
are dumped the articles of each great
class which the Taxpayers couldn't
think OF or were afraid they couldn't
with sufficient accuracy describe in
their proper places. The taxes they
laid on these were of necessity simple
and usually nd valorem, and furnish u
key to the mind of the legislator. If
he laid a tax Of 20 per cent. on cottons
an. o. p" you may well guess that he
thought he was putting about an aver
age of 20 per cent. on the cottons he
did provide for. In the following table
occasionally make this use Of the n.
o. p. classes, but always with the let
| ters attached:
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-08-18
The Only Rational Plan.

The Republican platform. which
makes thinly-disguised appeal on be-
half of free whisky, makes an open
one for free alcohol used in the arts.
The rational objection to free alcohol
used for this purpose is not one Of
principle but Of practice. 1t would be
we'll to make such alcohol free if that
could safely be done. But it would
deluge the country with that free
whisky which the Republicans admire.
1t would be impossible to confine the
reduction within the limits proposed.
Under pretense of making alcohol for
the arts, every Illicit still, and some
that are not so classed, would manu-
facture liquor for drink. The result
would be food of cheap whisky
thrown upon the market. Yes, there
is no doubt about it; looked at in
every light the Republican plan Of
revenue reduction makes for free
whisky. The only sensible plan that
has been offered or can be offered is
the Democratic plan of reducing taxes
on the necessaries of life.-Boston
Globe.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-08-18
SANITARY PLUMBING.
Gross Ignorance Displayed by DesSgni
Architects Everywhere.

Gross Ignorance Displayed by DESIGNING
Architects Everywhere.
Several prominent writer's of the day
call earnest and emphatic attention in
the columns of popular magazines,
scientific and trade papers, to the gross
ignorance of the plainest principles of
house drainage on the part of designing
architects, in the construction of mod
ern buildings. Whether the fault arises
from ignorance or negligence, or
whether the architect is hampered by
instructions from the owner, he is
equally to blame in accepting as
finished job a house into which sewer
gas can find it's way. St. Louis has
such favorable site for tirst-class
public sewers, and such u superb
system already built, that the cases
are comparatively rare in which
sewer gas can find its way into DWELL
ings. But in city built upon level
plain. where the danger is far greater.
the precautions taken are far more
ample and far more efficient. There
are stone front residences in st. Louis
so-N'sJ "iASASih WIZ WuotC PlPC lCttuluk
from the sink to the sewer has not even
an 'S' trap between the two places,
to say nothing OF u proper system of
ventilation, which is the only means
outside of the use OF chemicals for per-
feet protection.
Leading physicians say that their
practice warrants the assertion, that
the class of diseases known as malarial
Is ON the increase, and that the type is
rapidly becoming more pronounced.
However this may be, the public have
u right to demand from architects,
builders and house owners the fullest
protection tho resources OF modern
knowledge and modern science Gun
furnish. An incompetent architect or
plumber is u deadly foe to the com-
munity. Slows aad HarlOare
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-08-18

take of $129, 9,oo0,o 900 OF taxation. and
thereby chcapen clothes and the neces-
saries Of life; or shall 1t keep clothes
high, levy absurd taxes and give us all
free whiskyp
Mr.. Lovejoy has seen the point and
has profited by It. There are many
who are following in the same path.
There is an incongruity in the free
whisky-dear-clothes doctrine which the
people do not seem to relish. Detroit
Free Press.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-08-18

The figures marked with a are the
average rates collected on the next
years imports. All others are the
rates embodied in the law.
The history of the wool tariff needs
to be elaborated a little. Down to 1924
wool was free and cotton was taxed.
Then wool was divided into two class
es, according to value, and if valued at
less than 10 cents a pound the tax was
10 per cent, otherwise 20, and after
wards 80. In 1928 the tax on high
grade wool was enormously increased.
For eight years it remained at four
cents a pound and 40 per cent, and
then the compromise tariff began to re-
duce it a little. The maximum figures
/ have given from 1928 to 1842 are the
highest that could possibly be collected
under the complex law, and doubtless
far higher than the average actually
collected, though that was probably SO
per cent. In 1882 low-grade wool was
again made free, and has never since
been heavily taxed. Wool is now
(since 1869 divided into three classes,
clothing" combing" and "car-
pet," and they paid last year 55 per
cent, 43 per cent. and 25 per cent. re-
spectively.
The first tariff was the lightest. It
was gradually raised until the war of
1872 broke out, and then it was
doubled at a stroke. The genuine high
protective system was adopted in 1916,
under the influence of Calhoun, who
bitterly regretted it. Webster was a
free trader when the tariff was raised
in 1924, but faced about and helped to
raise it again in 1928. This was called
the Tariff of Abominations, because the
free traders tried to kill it by loading it
down with denominations, but to their
great surprise it passed with all its sins
upon it. 1t almost led to war, and did
lead to the compromise tariff Of 1888,
which proposed a gradual horizontal
reduction. In 1842 the Wings raised
the tariff; in 1846 the Democrats re-
duced it; in 1857 the new Republican
party had got control of the Lower
House and with Democratic help re-
duced the tariff again to the lowest
point reached since 1916. Four years
later they adopted the Morrill,, or war
tariff, and gradually raised it until 1867;
its EXTREMIST features being adopted
after the war was over. In 1872 they
passed horizontal reduction of 10 per
cent, which they repealed two years
later. In 1882 they appointed a tariff
commission, and it recommended u re-
duction which would have left the aver
age rate about 80 per cent. on dutiable
goods. On the Sd of March, 1888, they
passed law which reduced some du-
ties and raised others, among them, as
will b. seen by the table, those on
glass and earthenware, but leaving the
general average about the same. All
subsequent reduction bills have failed
to pass the lower House until Saturday,
July 81. 1883, when the Mills bill, free
ing wool, lumber and some other things.
and calculated to reduce the average
rate on dutiable imports to forty per
cent, was passed by u vote OF 1852 to
149.-Henyy j. Philpot.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-08-18
SHORT TARIFF HISTORY.
A Complete Historical Review of All Acts
Relating to the Subject.

In answer to numerous inquiries
propose to compile the shortest pos
sible complete history of the American
tariff system. The first tariff was
passed the 4th of July, 1889, the last
one the Sd of March, 1888. Including
these two there have been fifty-five
tariff acts passed in ninety-nine years.
Most of them did not make radical
changes in the tariff. The tariffs
usually considered the most important
by historians were passed as follows,
and they have all been named, also, as
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-08-18

The Democratic House has sent
to the Republican Senate bill forfeit
ing so, 100000 acres of unearned land
grants. The Senate repudiated this
measure and passed one returning to
the Government about 5000, 900 acres.
And yet the Republican party is in IA
vor OF preserving the National domain
frsm land-grapbers. Platforms are
curious things, -NashUiIle .ASSsric0,a
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-08-18
MAKE YOUR SELECTION.

Which Say Ye Shall BE the Policy OF Our
Government?
When you buy a coat, hat, pair
of socks, dishes for your table, knives
and forks, window glass, salt, lumber,
nails. hardware of any kind, tools, i'm
plements OF husbandry. or any other
of the ten thousand manufactured ar
ticles that you must have, or any ar
ticle that has been transported on
steel rails, you pay q heavy tax, a
small part Of which goes into the Gov
ernment Treasury while the rest goes
into the pockets Of men who grow rich
by taxing all the rest Of the people.
If you are unwise enough to drink
whisky you pay tax on that, too, but
every cent Of it goes to support the
Government.
The revenues OF the Government are
greater than are needed.
The President and his party propose
to reduce or remove those taxes which
you pay partly to the Government and
partly to favored class OF rich men
on the common necessaries of life, so
that your earnings may go further.
your family may live better and you
may put more money away for q time
OF need.
The Republican party until recently
proposed the same thing. Now it pro-
poses instead to make the taxes on the
common necessaries OF life still higher,
giving the rich monopolist still larg-
er proportion Of what you pay, and il
that doesn't cut down the Government
revenues enough, to abolish the tax on
whisky.
Which of these two shall be the pol
ICY OF the Government That is the
question which you will help to decide
by your vote in November. On which
side will you cast your ballotp-M Y.
Commercial Advertiser.