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Peculiar Feature.

Another peculiar feature appears to have
been injected into the Republican canvass
Sneak thieves are operating around ths
State, interior and Postsofice Departments,
stealing private letters, extracts from which
afterwards appear in certain Republican
newspapers, notably. the is~'-' ork Trib-
i..s.e, as = oasis for assaults on the Admins
tration. Here are some facts unearthed by
the TINES Washington correspondent. Some
DAYS ago General Dickinson dis
covered that package Of letters, among
which were letters from his wife, his young
child and his brother, A. d. Dickinson, OF
New York, had been stolen from his Office
desk Two days after the robbery, extracts
from someo Of these letters. showing on their
face that they were from private communi-
cations, were published in the New York
Tribune Only recently First Assistant
P0stmaster-General Stevenson was away
from his Office. lie returned 10 hnd that
ms desk had been rifled Of number Of
business and private letters. A little later
some OF these letters appeared in the New
Terk 1iltus.
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Not AN Unseen influence.

There are great many people in a mud
dle-headed sonditiOu about the tariff, owing
to the necessity of maintaining for cam
paign purposes that it enables the manu-
facturer both to pay high wages and to
charge low prices. There is probably no
body who Is more muddled on the whole
question than Senator Hoar, who has Just
been doing some ''voicing" in the New
York Tribune. in which he has delivered
himself of the following sapient opinion:
Neither is it true that the tariff increases
the burden upon the necessaries of life to
working people. Not more than Is or 90 per
cent. of all the articles which u well-to-do
Worklng-man requires for use in his family
consists of articles on which there is any
duty at all, and of large part of that per
cent. the pvsce of the article is as cheap in
this country as it is abroad, so that the tar
if does not increase it at all, while the
wages Of the worlSing-men in consequence
Of the tariff are from 40 to 100 per cent
higher
"The working people of America will
easily be made to see these things-indeed,
they see them now-and the Presidents
letter will be regarded by them as a feeble
attempt TO Inislcad them"
Now, if 50 per cent. of the articles consumed
by the bulk Of the population are not touched
by the tariff, and the cost of the remaining
20 per cent. is not raised by the tariff, how
in the name OF common sense does the tariff
enable the manufacturer to put up the
wages of worlling-men in this country from
80 to 100 per cent. over those paid to work
ing-men abroad. The tariff is not, SAYS the
New York Post, an unseen influence, like
spiritual regeneration, or a tonic, like acid
phosphates, to be taken internally. 1t does
manufacturer good by enabling him to
get higher prices for his wares, and his own
story is that, because he gets higher prices
for his wares, he is enabled to pay higher
wages. But if Senator Hoar be right,
where do the higher wages come from! Not
from the price, because that is about the
same here as abroad. Is it possible that we
are in the prcsenSe of a miracle? Were
these tariff verses recited at the tariff con-
vention in this city four years ago really a
hymnl
Protection, oh Protection, the joyful sound
proclaim
TIL each remotest alton has heard the Tariff
name.
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LIE ZOE MAMs ERIENp.
Tie Republican Party Claims to BE, Bu
l. 30? Tacts say No.


The Republican party 10 posing before the
country as the especial friend and champion
Of the poor man. It's advocacy of the con-
tinuatIon Of the war taxes Is based largely
on the assertion that the protection
furnished by the tariff inures to the benefit
OF the laboring classes here, and it points
10 its defense Of these tax schedules as an
other evidence Of the discrimination it al
ways makes in favor OF the American wage
earners. There was q time when these
same statesmen who are today opposing
any reduction in the burdens that weigh
upon the taxpayers had the power in their
own hands TO lcgislate for the common peo-
pic, and the history or those days does not
bear out the claim they now make as the
unsclfsh friends of the working masses of
this country
The record OF their legislative action in
the matter Of reducing taxation does not go
back beyond the memory Of men who are
voters to-day. II is short enough, too, but
the few facts IL contains are sufficient to
show that the drift of Republican enact
ments in thc way Of lcssening the imposts
generally tended to make the rich richer,
even though the laboring had to be
further oppressed to gain that end. Let US
sec, says the New York GrdYhic, if the his
tory Of their efforts in this direction will
sustain their claims as tlse champion of the
wage-earners. When the taxes were to be
reduced did the Republican legislators favor
the poor man or tho rich man.
The stamp tax on bank checks was abol-
ished, and that certainly did not put any
thing In the pocket Of the ordinary citizen.
The income tax was wiped out, but for men
who were dependent on their daily labor
that meant no relief. The tax on manu-
facturers, on railroad corporations and on
express companies went the same way, and
no unprejudiced man can deny but all this
legislation was directly in the interest Of
that part Of the community who were best
able TO bear the burden of the taxes that
the war had brought upon the Nation. More
than all this. Now that the time has ar
rived for the presentation of a measure
which grants needed relief TO all the coun-
try-rich and poor alil1e-by giving to the
people chance to purchase their goods
without paying any added TAX Of forty-seven
per cent. 10 the mOnOpOlist, the Republican
party ranges itself on tho side of the pro-
tccted barons and makes the air ring with
the cry that the Democratic party is en-
deavOring TO ruin the country for the bene-
fit Of free-tradc England. That is about
their only argument they present against
the passage Of n measure that would enable
the toiling millions Of this laud 20 obtain the
neccssaries Of everyday life at a cheaper
rate than they now can be procured. Fort
unatcly, the solution of thus great question
- in the hands Of men who read and think
and do their own voting
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DEPEW TWADDLE
He UnblushiDgly N1srepresents English
Sentiment for Partisan Purposes.

He UnblushiDgly BTisrepresents English
Sentiment for Partisan Purposes.
Mr.. Chauncey N. Depew ON his return
from Europe lost no time in reassuming
that role of mendecity which seems to
come so naturally to politicians Of his kid
ney.
When interviewed on the subject of the in
terest taken by the British people in our
present political contest Mr.. Depew said:
"The general opinion in Great Britain is
that ali the Demo crats are free traders in
the English sens6. and they can not under
stand what tar iff reformer is.n He also
said that Mr.. CleVelands election was looked
upon as decisive of the triumph of absolute
free trade in this country.
Now 1t IS entirely too great tax on the
creduhty OF either American or British in
telhgent public opinion that it should for a
moment accept these statements of the
gentleman from New York as containing
even the semblance of truth. The English
people are not the fools that he thus, with
Etter recklessness of existing facts, repro
sents them to be. On the contrary, they
are capable of seeing, and actually do see,
the American situation, just as clearly and
Just as perspieaciously as Mr.. Depew him.
self, If he only honestly viii to do so.
For sure and perfect evidence Of the
truth Of this averment one has only to
turn, says the Chicago Ne1rs, 10 the ed
itorials of any British journal Take, for
instance, that in the London Economist of
the lst inst, which is as clear and candid
presentment of the American political
situation as it is possible to indite. Here is a
specimen paragraph in allusior to the Mills
bill: 1T is a tariff which would tend to free
the trade of the United States from some
Of the disabilities under which it now
labors, and to free the people from some
portion of the needlessly heavy taxation to
which they are now subjected But it is
protectionist tariff all the protection
ist In spirit as well as in effect"
Another paragraph of the editorial says:
"The election will turn upon the tariff
question, which, put plainly, is the ques-
tion whether it is better for the country
that the taxation should be taken off drink
or that raw materials for manufacture
should be admitted free of duty and the cost
of some important articles of general con-
sumption reduced"
In the face of such expressions as these,
so absolutely contradictory of Mr.. Depew's
statements of English opinions on our poll
tics, is it not asking too much of US, Mr..
Depew, to assent to your not only wholly
unsupported but expressly disproved dictum
that the whole British people are set of
consummate assesl
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CHURCHES

d AfsrtSr.- rrCuctinT every SUNDAY evening
ID ut O'Clock. ut the courthouse. SUNDAY
aphOul ut ~ o'clock. u. u. Prayer meeting
"Wednesday evening uf each week, over store ut
Hyerley. DARK N ttuuyuu. Rev W. y. Cain,
Pastor. Nr-idcnCc ou North walnut street
sTtAN.-PrCuchiuV every sunday az
~ tIo'Clock. a. ui., and t..O p. m, hy Elder
W. H. Emhr,y. Prayer meeting every We'd
ncsdny night sunday 'chuulut 10 UOciuyk %. ui.
every sunday
n rTErHOplST EP1SCOPAi--Scryiccs every
AfL SUNDAY Ut N .uu BE-. W. uut l.il y. u. sum
Ify aphuH pNprY sunday 900 lnu. m. Prayer
meeting ptprt "wednesday evening ut t.ii.
-tIIue. BEL invited. 70. -NNuIV-uN, Pastor. .
nUE-UH IElttA AN.-Sort ices every sunday ut
\ 10 70. m. end ..n b. m. sunday school at
.Iuu. m. l;Ey. NCEIUpN, Pastor.
CATHOLIC CHURCH - Services uu End
SUNDAY of pNDry month 100 -nlrlOCks hall, ut
lu.Uu u. tu. lbV. uIrruU Pl tor.
nERNAy Baptist UWEritREN-'lu rpE-
" ulrr 4crtIo at IiYuulu, iitrhtr county.
the -ecoud nud fourth sundays tu each month.
Nt Forrest school house un thr SECOND SUNDAY (:
Cedar t'r,,.. ..nulI huu-, uu thr tnirI sunday.
~ tF IidHrt -nuHh"rv b., smith Uud Nthtr
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u tn. rrnn Trn.Ic-

In his ic.tcr ~ acceptance Mr.. Cleveland
dccl res that the nemocruts have entered
upon no crusade of free traSa' because they
seek 10 revise the tariff duties 50 a. 20 re-
duce taxation on The ncCcssarics OF life.
He vindicates the Mills bill rs a reform pro
dictcd upon the utmost care Cor established
industries and enterprises and n jealous re-
gard for the interests OF American labor.
For these assertions, says the New York
World. the President Is charged with insin-
ccrity and deception by tho Republican poll
ticiaus, who characterize the President as
a free trader and the Mills bill as FREQ
trade measure.
Yet the absurdity OF this characterization
is shown by no less prominent an authority
than Senator John sherman. who insists
that it is ridiculous TO pretend that mere
lowering Of tariff duties is ia any sense 70
bc regarded "a free trade. Mr.. Sherman
says,
Every law imposing a duty on imported
goods is necessarily a restraint on trade, II
imposes a burden upon thc purchase aud
sale Of imported goods, and tends 20 pre-
vent their importation. The expression a
frec-traie tariff involves an absurdlty.
Frce traie implies trade without rcstric'
zion. while any 'arir IS q restriction on
trade A duty OF 10 peF oegt is g limitation
a. trade as well as a duty Of iC0 pcg cont,
AND they dller only m degree. So tbs
phrase "a protect "a tariG may be applied
30 every bill imposing G-,''e9 on imported
goods.n
How can tho Mills bin be frcc-trade
measure when it differs from tho Trcsen,
war tariff only as an average duty cf f2 pcI
cent differs from an average duty OF 81 ncI
cent, ard simply extends an already con
siderable free hstl
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WHAT 90 THEY WANT2

The Republican Party Simply an OBJ
struction to the Ends of Good Govern
ment.
What do the Republicans of the Senate
want with regard to the TARIFF They re-
ject the Mills bill, but they apparently have
LothiEg to offer in its place. They are
simply party Of obstruction, as they were
in connection with the fisheries treaty,
which they rejected without Offering any
thing to take its place-so leaving the
American fisherman totally at the mercy of
Canadians and venturing not the slightest
proposition for his rights or the honor of
the flag.
What do they wants Very evidently they
don't want any just Democratic measuro.
because that would help the Democratic
party in this campaign. Pat they have no
measure to take is place.. They can't agree
one WITH another as to what ought to be
done They are united only as TO the mat,
ter Oh what ought not 10 be done Weeks have
elapsed since the Mills bill was presented
Tor theln respectful consideration. and they
are as much in the dark as they were at the
beginning OF their reflections. os course
tue Congresss is but slGh. tax on tho great
!. = slic, but there is no real necessity for a
perpetual Congress. Why don't they do
what they want 10 do. if they know what
that IS, and so permit Congress to adJournf
The Republican party is the party of cow
ards, says the New York Graphic. Its lead
ers have been put in a hole through the
courage of President Cleveland, and they
don't know how to climb out of it. The Re-
publican Senate is as to Its majority body
Of obstruction. 1t is the American Lords
against the American Commons. 1t is stu
pid, willful aud malicious, and it lives for
last year rather than for this and the next
year. What do the majority Of the Senate
wants They do not dare to say they are
against reform Of the war tariff The Dem
ocratic House has declared for reform, but
they viii not accept its policy Of reforma-
ton. and at the same time they have no pol
icy of their own.
It seems unreasonable The dog in the
manger may not have been so utterly bad a
dog after all, because he may have had q
human criterion 70 go BY.
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Onr Cnnmrrclnl RlrnI.

The outcry Of the Republican leaders that
the Democratic party is playing into the
hands Of England frightcns no one Every
sensible and intelligent man in the Republic
knows the statement is false and malicious.
England ia 5000 miles away. There IL an
ocean between US. The records and tradi-
tions Of more than a generation are against
any feeling of sympathy with England in
commercial pursuits. There has always
bocn competition between the two coun-
tries. There always will be. As matters
now stand, England drives us Oft our own
territory. and actually does our carrying on
the sea. But for the tariff this could not Le.
That IL may not continue, the Democratic
party is resolved that the causes which have
led To 10 shall cease t1 exist.
The Central and South American States
lie Just away from our own doors. They
ought to trade with US We ought to sup
ply them with every thing they need.
These States are our natural customers,
and the only reason they buy from En-
gland instead Of us is owing 70 our
monstrous and iniquitous tariff laws.
England sells thirteen dollars worth OF her
cotton goods to those States where we sell
one. She comes TO US for her raw cotton,
takes il at her own price, manufactures il,
and with 10 drives our merchants out Of Cen
trial aud South America.
These things should certainly arouse the
business interests Of which we hear so
much
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But They Are Not SO Easily frightened.

But They Are Not so Easily Frightened.
A specimen Of the unfair way in which
the Republican managers are trying TO
frightcn American workmen by the free
trade bugaboo is furnished just now, says
ths New York Times, ia the neighboring
State OF New Jersey. The cut in prices of
wallpaper consequent on the efforts Of
manufacturers to form paper pool has re-
suited in closing up q number of small
factories, and the Republicans are attribu-
ting this to the preliminary effect Of the
Mills bill. even before il has become q law.
The imaginary spectacle or hordes of for
cigu pauper block cutters. competing with
free American labor, is heldup 10 the work
ing-Iael, ana they are urged 10 Vote the
Republican ticket as their only houe of sal
walton. As a matter of fact, as the Repub-
llcan leaders very well know, the Mills bill
proposes no reduction in the duties on wall
paper.
The tariff is left where the Republican
Congress- fixed 1t years ago, at twenty-five
per cent. ad valorem. which affords all the
protection which the manufacturers
nave asked fcp. These constant saisrei,re-
seutations Of the intent and purpose of tariff
reform legislation on the part Of Republic
ans. from Mr. Harrison. their nominal lead
er, down 20 the ward politicians, lglll fan
Of their object. The American working
man reads aud he has intelligence enough
TO realize the difference between a modified
tariT which cheapens the articles necessary
10 his con- fort and free trade, which would
bring him ints actual Sonipe ition with for
eign labor. New Jersey VIII never DC capt
ured bv such swindling method IS this.
Chicago Yesrs. The Senatc's tariff policy
is another of those things witch no fellow
can fad cut.
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Foraker has the gall to toll the farmers
that tariff has given them ''better price for
their lands and their crops and "less cost
for practically all they may have occasion to
buy" No man with conscience, says the
Cleveland PfGia Dealer, would tell lie like
this even TO gain the Presidency.
Here arc the highest prices paid in New
York for the principal farm products in
1850 flow tariff and 1856 (bigh tariff. Let
the farmers study this table and ask them
selves how they are benefited by the mo
nopolv tariff:
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A sample.

q, - --Ss~V ,.le Republican candidate
1overnoT OF Indiana. IS running on his
war record-'' Here is what a competent
military authority said on the SUBJECT while
the iightin was actively gong on:
Headquarters Military Division Of the
Mississippi, in the Field, near Atlanta,
Ga, July =. 1884. Colonel James Hardie,
lnspector-Ceacral. Washington, D. c.: /
have your disp2lch of yesterday. =
wish to pas on record this, my emphatic
opinion, that it is al act OF injustice TO
officers who stand by their posts in the way
OF danger to neglect them and advance
such rs General HovcY, who left Us in the
MIDST Of b1lets to go to the rear in search
OF personal advancement. II tho roar be
thsl1ost Ct henor, then we had better all
change front o1 Washington.
VT. SHERMAx,
Major General Commanding.
That is why Harrison is sad these days.
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l,ow and Then.

Robert p Porter just now is the chief ex-
pouEder in New York of the war-tariff
gospel, and In that capacity denounces
the Mills bill as the sum Of all villainies,
because it proposes TO reduce the war tariff.
Fivcyears ago Mr.. Porter was n member of
the tariff commission. and in that capacity
signed his namc to the following:
early in its deliberations the commits
sion became CONVINCED that Substantial re-
ducti0n Of tariff duties 9 demanded, not by a
mere indiscriminatc popular clamor, but by
the best conservative opinion of the country,
including that which has in former times
been most strenuous for the preservation Of
our National Industrial dcfcnscs. Such a
reduction Of the existing tariff the commits
sion regards not only as q due recognition
Of public sentiment and measure of justice
20 tAo consumers, lat one cOndUcirc 70 thc
gsacrdl industrial prosperity, and which,
though - nay oc ttmporalils inronvenient,
irH DC ultimately Hcfctgi 10 uie special inter
i-is affected ~ siich reduction.
Entertaining thcsc vIews, the commission
has sought TO present scheme OF tariff
duties in which substantial reduction should
be the distinguishing feature. The average
reduction in rates, including that from the
enlargement Of the free list and the abolition
Of the duties on charges and commissions,
~ which the commission has aimed, is not
less on the average than twenty per cent,
and II is tho opinion Of the commission thai
the reduction viii reach twenty-five per
cent
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An Easy Nut. WHOM Crack Itq

Will somebody please tell us. asks the
Louisville Covr,rr-Jowudi, what this meansi
Here are SflO,Gi3,5o3 worth Of foreign mer-
Cbandisc imported m 1851, belonging TO the
category Of which the tariff barons and
their gospclloFs are so drcadfully afraid
that they added TO their cost az ports Of
entry 41l0 per cent. Of the said cost, before
permitting the "wags carrcrs" to buy and
use them. Very useful articles were those;
clothes and clothing FOR men and women,
blankets, medicines, mechanical and farm
ing implements, and, in a word, the very
classes Of merchandise which people are
bound to have at any price They added 10
the cost of those tlJlG;3r3 worth OF NOR
chaudisc S2it,.2, ,.0JGj before they could go
into use, making ttc cost thar much higher
in first hands on this sdC-tlat is, $CCJ,osj,-
Sl2.Cj instead Of ,45o.esl,5Q3.
Then the gospClc and barons tell US
that addition OF e3iI.333.3CJ % 10 the cost Of
buy 10, and also makes cheaper the home
product OF the same classes. And Chat is
what We wan o,u'linel by somebody. Why
IS that $1ltoaUulJ added 90 tEc cost Of the
goods, except t9 us .Se 10 dcarcr 90 tAC con
sumer, aud also to keep mp high prices on
American goods 10 the consumers? And
yet they keep on telling US that the high
tariff really makes things cheaper. What
a fraud is IL, then, 10 jc sure. Rise up,
somebody, and solve the riddle: How does
the increase OF the cost of things 10 per
cent. make them cheaper to buyers, or
cheaper other articles Of exactly the same
classl
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President cleveland aud the Union Vet


II would seem incredible, in view Of the
official statements on the question, that
any attack should DO made on President
Cleveland for the manner IN which Union
veterans have been treated by his admins
tration. Tho single fact that more special
pensions acts became laws since Agrch 4,
1855, than during any previous Gdministra-
ton, numbering l.sjo for three years and
a half of Democratic government, against
2,O0l for twenty-fCur years Of Republican
rule, should be sufficient to set at rest the
caluTnnies which have bccIi h"aped upon
the President b. Clam agents and pension
sharks, whose EctaTiops business has been
peraiyzcd by tho lnCcrrup'ibis, fra aad
honorable administration Of the Pension
~'-''-.. l. ucncrui B.acz. il has also been
shown. saws 4. Albany argus, that Of tho
19l special pension acts ye.s,,---a oI Slr Clevc-
land. a LARGE proportion were objccte1 10
because thcv ravc thc claimants less than
they were entitled 20 under the general
law, On the groundof dcsortion, because tho
cases were before the regular cfice, tecSnss
they were duplicates or because Of the
abandonment OF sou5 By their fathers ard
tho resumption Of claims in tEen only
when they became applicants for pensions,
In no last sncs Of veto has The President
failed TO furnish incontroverti0le reasons
Tor his action.
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1850. 1886.
LON I1riG. Hinh Ihrf1

son the free list in lsGO
And the cost of the dutiabie article that,
the farmer buys is enhanced AZ cents on
every dollar by the tariff.
Doesn't Governor Foraker lie scandalour,-,
ly when he tells the farmer that the high
tariff benefits hint