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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-03-09

CHICAGO, March S.-The nesting on Mon
day of the chairman OF the grievances com
lnittes Is looked forward TO with great
anxiety, both by the Burlington ofhciFls
and brotherhood officers. Upon the out
come of this meeting depends the future
able excuse be found for it on any Wesiaru
road, the bro herhOOd men viii probably be
ca led out. It is believed by many that every
western road is liable, under a strict neu-
trail ty concession, TO have its men taken ont
by Tuesday morning.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-03-09

A leaQuB QuS5tLGa II AF5E+s44 " OF I'd
Just now, is Christian science. Not long
ago the council passed an ordinance
compelling all Christian scientists to pay
a license Of $500 yearly. Dr. and Mrs.
Josiah Walker declined to pay the tax
and have closed up shop until they can
obtain legsI advice as TO the validity Of
the ordinance requiring them to pay the
$500 per year. Nothing has been
said" they say. ''about four or i've
s'olairvoyant'' Offices that have been In
operation In the city for years, where
you get your fortune told for dollar
and Glove powders" for 50 a paper. to
Essv nothing Of the sIittie pills. that
make ene's eyes look bright mrs
/ WsIker has q dangerously signed Petlllon
In circulation. 20 have the ordinance
repealed.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-08-29
Held over Iepubl:eans.


One of the most serious drawbacks to
the smooth operation OF the civil service
law has been the malingering paPtisanship
of Republican employees. who, kept in their
places by liberal willingness to test the
merits of the new system, have not done
their duty with heartiness The manage
ment of the postoffice in this city. for ex-
ample. WAS at the outstart much enbar
rassed by a lack of that esprit de corps
which is essential to IA proper service. Tho
old employees had not been chosen under
civil service rules, and represented in
their own persons the consuminate flower
of the sp0ils system. President Cleye-
land makes it apparent in his late mes
sage to congress that this unpleasant fea-
ture III tho working of the law has not es-
capped his observation. He says: Those
responsible for the administration of the
government IN its executive branches
have been and still are often annoyed and
ir1ftated by the disloyalty to the service
of employees who remain in places as the
beneicialies and the relics and reminders
of the vicious system of appointment
which civil service reform was intended
to displace. Officials whose intense par
tisanship has led them to forget that they
are the servants of the whole people, in
stead of one-half, would do well to read
over and thoughfully digest this presiden-
tial utterance. PHI Liladelphia Record.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-08-29


Let us ask The World if n tariff Ijili
that puts over hundred articles on tho
free list and reduces tho duty by 30 per
cent. ON the articles that are ifotatncd can
honestly be called 40 per cent. tariff rc-
duction billy Let us ask another ques-
tion; Cannot bill that puts 100 articles
on the free list be called, in part at least,
free trado measures- Albany journal.
a. Tho Mills bill does not .fedtice tho
duty by 40 per cent" 1t reduces it only
10 per cent, or per cent. less than tho
Republicans proposed to reduce it in 1852.
~ Any bill that does not tax everything
imported is ''in part ut least a free trade
measure. All our thrills have had n FREQ
list. That in the MilIs bill simply adds a
few necessities to tho long free list which
is a part of the prezent Republican tariff
law. But a tariff which levies duties
averaging 40 per cent on two or three
thousand articles, including protty much
everything manufactured in this country
which claims Or needs protection, can be
called FREQ trade measure only by those
who use language falsely. with intent to
dcceiye.-New York World.
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The rarlE 81 r:.trarnganee.

The Republican papers continue to fur
nish arguments against the election of
the Republican candidate for president.
1t Is claimed for Gen. Harrison that he
was the first senator to introduce 4 de-
pendent pension bill, like tic one which
Mr. Cleveland vetoed. and the IndianaPo-
lis journal publishes such paragraphs as
this: .sIf the dependent pension bill had
become ca law, it would have reduced,
perhaps absorbed the treasury surplns,
and thus removed strong argument in
favor of free trade. Grover didn't want
that" Elect Harrison. and the surplus
will be wiped out '-il less than no time
such is the cry with which the ReYub
lean party goes to tho taxpayers OF IL
country. New York Post.
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Annexation. "a si,nniv l9rcc Trade;

Senator Blair is ut his propositions
again. Now, lie wants tho president to
open negotiations with Great Britain. the
main object of which shall be TO settle all
differences relating TO Canada by 'spoliti=
cal union;r that is. annexation. Our
opinion is that we might as we'll wait for
such . proposition to come from the other
side. but from the point of view of Senay
tor Blair and largo part of tho party 10
which he belongs we see severnl serious
objections to his scheme. Inthc first place.
1t would result in absolute FREQ trade be-
tween tho present states and Canada II
that would be destructive to tho interests
of these states or any of them now it
would bo equally so then, and they iaay
naturally bo expected to object. Then it
would settle the fisheries question by TINT
Infamous plan of admitting tho vessels of
Maine and Massachusetts, to all privileges
In Canadian ports III return for the ad-
mission of Canadian fish. to our markets
free of duty, and ne have heard that that
would inevitably destroy tho Maine and
Massachusetts fisheries. What will Port
land and Gloucester have to say to such
proposition2 Besides, Mr.. Blair SHOULD
remember that Canada is fairly infested
nth Jesuits. and to his mind theEb is Al5
more fearful wild fowl tllan your Jesuit,
Would he talSo those dangerous creatures
into the Union?-New York Times.
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Geoa 1yorl. Of tne Lnrnr rnners.

Signs multiply that the Republicans
cannot work the free tTade racket among
the worllingmenp this year, as they did in
1880. One of the most noteworthy is the
statement By The indianapolis Labor Sig
nal s'that tho master workman of the State
Assembly of the Knights of Labor In In
diana, becoming convinced that the best
interests of the laboring men demand that
the Federal tariff tax be taken from the
necessai'ieS of life and placed upon the
luxuries, has taken the stump in opposi-
tion to high tariff, free whisky and Ben
Harrison" Another is the fact that the
committee of laboring men who bore to
Mr.. Porter the resolutions adopted at last
weeks meeting, urging him not to become
the Republican candidate for governor,
consisted of twenty-five men, who have
hitherto been Republicans, but Will vote
against the Republican candidate for
president next November. Most signif-
cant of all is the fast growing circulation
of paper like Tho Labor Signal which
breaches sound doctrine regarding the
tariff to readers who are almost exclu-
sively workingmen. A good sample OF
the work it is doing is this: Capt. Silas
Z. Miller, of Louisville, who is organizing
what he calls ''the Central Protective
Tariff League of kentucky" has
been talking about the benefits OF
the tariff to the laborer, and boast
IItS bllilUs Hu6E6dS III GSls5luln CuTuefS
in woolen mills get only seventy five
cents n day. he pays his $4 Thereupon
The Labor Signal turns to page 403 of tho
first annual report of the United States
commissioner of labor containing table
of the wages paid in Capt. Miller's factory,
from which it appears that of his twenty
ono carders seventeen are paid only &C
cents day, and the other four but $l.75.
Moreover, it says, ''here in indianapolis
one wooden mill pays its carders only IS
cents a day, another AZ cents, a third from
59 cents to 81" The conclusion of the
whole matteris, that capt. Miller need
not journey to Belgium to hunt for starva-
tion wages. Hc only has to take walk
up to his own factory" 1t is new ex-
perience for the men who 'get practically
tho sole benefit of the tariff laws" to find
that the laboring men have newspapers
which are thus showing the hypocrisy of
the cant about the tariff being main
tanned in the interest of the working
men. New York Post.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-08-29
An InsuIt 10 1r.sh-.AmcrIcnns.

If there are any Irish-Arlericans who
feel inclined to support the Republican
ticket because the Republican party an
! nounces itself as the friend CT Ireland and
votes to tax Irish fax, they should take
the trouble to find out how they are re-
garded by their new allies. Here, for in
stance, is what The New York Mail and
Express, the personal organ of tho Van
derbilts and of Chauncey II. Depew, says
ON the subject:
"Our liberal and wealthy Republicans
viii do well to keep watch of this natural
a1ld spontaneous uprising of our Irish
american fellow citizens and to aid the
litter effectually. And it is far more
economical to help such movement carly
in the campaign than to delay until old
partisan associations have obtained con-
tr0l of this class of voters. He gives ten
times whd gives quickly"
is not that a neat little compliment to
the Irish voters? 1t is 'sfar more econom-
icalp to buy them now than later. on a
rising markell They must be secured
quickly" or ''old partisan associations"
will obtain control and the price will go
up. What a delicate VanderbiIsian way
of expressing esteem!
"Our liberal and wealthy Republicans
That doubtless includes Sir John Rose,
the partner of levi p. Morton in the Lon
don banking house of Morton & Rose. II
S2SSsAtss INC oilt4SL e1OIAs - IAOI al 10 DC
distributed by the emissaries of the Cob
den club.
If Irishmen do not resent the dull, vul-
gar insult of the ni1lionaires who have
captured the control OF the Republican
party, VIC mistake their character. We
knew that an organization represented by
Stephen B. EIkins, John Jarrett, tho
Standard Oil company, JAY Gould, Will
lam K Vanderbilt, YYhitelaw Reid and
Levi p Morton, was certain to make a
money fight, biit we did not suppose the
tactics would be displayed so early or SO
shamelessiy.
We have no doubt that the vanderbiIts
Irish vote. but we fancy they will have
an unpleasant surprise when they try to
get the votes for tho money.-San Fran
cisco Examiner.
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n, Rep,,l,iican Tsetreaa.


The Republicans In the senate have de-
cided to report tariff bill Senator Nit
chell, of Oregon. thought that the proper
way would be 10 wait Tor the voice Of the
people in November His colleagues have
decided that they have already heard the
voice of the people. and that tho voice
means that taxation must be reduced.
1t is interesting TO note that the pro-
posed bill is direct Reputation of the
Chicago platform. That remarkable doc
unient called for the repeal of tho internal
revenue taxes on tobacco and on alcohol
used in the arts. for such q revision of the
tariff rs would tend % check imports of
articles produced by our people, and for
the entire repeal of internal taxes rather
than the surrender of any part of our
lrctectire system. -,
The senate bill proposes 10 make a 80
per cent. cut in sugar. Is not the sugar
duty amy par" of our protective sys-
tern2 What do the people of Watson
vile and the Potrere think about it,
Why do not the Republican senators
give us bill based on the Chicago plat
form so that the country may know what
it is voting 1boutl Simply because they
do not dare. Ifthey shonld formulate 4
measure making whisky free and check
ing imports ions 81 raising the taxes on
the necessaries of LIE hey would h6
hooted OF the stump when tlicy came b6-
fore the people
There never was so ignominious an in-
stance of an army with banners nnrching
up hill and then marching down agniil.
From the time when Mr.. Mckinley IN his
clear, manly voice, read his wonderful
platform to the breathless thousands at
Chicago. the whole Republican party has
been busy apologiziug for it. No
Republican journal with any pre-
tension to independent Judgment sup
ports It. It has been laid away ia
the lumber room. and but for the deter-
mination of the Democrats to keep it he
fore the public mind It would be for
gotten.
Tho Chicago platform was first repudi-
ated by public opinion; it has now been
repudiated by the Republican senate. md
tho next to disown it will be tho Republi-
can candidate Then. having ne plat form
upon which to vote for Mr.. Harrison. his
friends viii have TO vote for him solely
upon his pro.Cliinese record. Sam Fran
cisco Examiner.
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.,Dear HcaYer. Dop.t Tail,,,, :,

If Gen. Harrison goes on making
speeches to everybody who pulls lis latci
string there VIII be reason to doubt
whether he has heard of Senator Quayb
advice 20 Governor Beaver:
In Pennsylvania onca there ran
A candidate MINED Beaver
He was n good game legged man,
With the SIibernatoriai fevcri
A paTno eyed manager he had,
a model he OF managers
Whose face and neck sun burned as red
As any scarlet tanngsT's,
This game eyed manager oslco wrote
To him OF the game leg .ynik
This very diplomatic aotc, !.
'.De1r Beaver 10 not talk;n
New York World
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-08-29
A aIiId Rurcl,ari:

Tho New York Post, In referring to the
Republican managers statement that
there should be no Burcllard in this cam
Paign, say5 it is one of the things @casicr
said than done" Our contemporary then
refers TO the following extract from a let
ter written by Bishop john H Vincent:
Il did MT go to Ellenville to talk politics,
therefore the uncertainty about my posi-
ton among those who heard NE am
not a third party man Being a true
prohibitionist and anti -Romanist, 1 am q
Republican"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-08-29
The 1nalana 1saekset.

Ex-Governor Porter's declinntion in ad-
vance of the nomination for governor of
Indiana has thrown the whole Republican
programme in that state into dire con
fusion. The following explanation of
Mr.. Porter's course In the matter is from
The Cincinnati Enquirer:
Almost year ago the governor stated
that he was not seeking political prefer
ment, and he would not under any circum-
stances accept the gubermatorial nomina-
tion should Gen. Harrison be chosen as
the nominee of his party either for presi-
dent or vice president. This was printed
in The Enquirer at tho time. For years
there has been nothing in common be-
tween Portes. and Harrison, or between
the friends of either. Indeed, there. has
been bitter enmity.
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Excuse the question, but win You ten 1

EAGu56 Tue QuHSllOll3 -DllG Will you Ten
me how much you are possessed of nowI
Ihaveny wife, of course, and fiyechil-
dfen. and the house and lot, but there is a
mort gage ON the latter for nearly $500.
is that ell?. How does that coma about2
Well. the firm cut our wages 10 per
cent. last winter, and we went on strike,
but there weresso many of us that 1t was
hopeless Some of us tried to hold out.
and that is the way came to mort gage
the homo for a little ready money.
Your skill and labor, at q fair estimate,
was equal to $20.o of capital at 6 per
cent, was it not2
OF course It was.
Now show me what return the tariff
has brought you. good artisan.
| don't understand you
Why. Grabs 10000 cash has grown
into millions, thanks to the tarifT-but the
Important thing Is, what has been the In
come on your SEQ. .000 worth of skill and
labor2 Has tariff taxation multiplied it
by 500 or 800, or 100, or even by 10 ia the
last twenty yearsl
Well, I'm just about as we'll OF now as
| was in 1916, except as to the mortgage
and the fact that / am not as capable of
working as Twas then
Your capital has been impaired Mi
around. and your income is inyisibleI
am AFRAID that such Is the case.
1t has taken all your earnings to de-
Gently feed, ciothe and educate your fam
lily and pay the taSes2
just about.
And on every dollars worth of the nee
essaries of life yOTl have been purchasing
all this time you have been paying an
average of ~ per cent. of tariff tax. This
enricheS not the consumer, but the privi-
legged class. who pocket the increased
profit. They tell me Mr.. Grab. of your
firm, has an income of $4,000 day2
That is n fact, no doubt.
That's nearly. So, ,G00,0 net profit a
year. OF his employees how many of them
do not receive over 1866 year2
a good many Thousand. but they are
not skilled laborers.
And yet Mr.. Grabs profits for q year
are equal to the total earnings of 5000
of his employees That is where protec-
tion counts. How much tariff did your
employers pay ON the iaborers they i'm
ported to take your places when you were
unwilling to stand reduction?
Nothing; there is no tariff ON labor. 1t
is admitted free.
Exactly. and therein lies the advantage
of tho protected manufacturers. What
ever they manufacture is protected by
tariff taxation. But labor is admitted
free. There is no tariff duty-no tax ca
it. The lnboring man must face the
widest competition to sell his labor in the
market, and then pay the tariff taxation
on all the necesseries he purchases. And
yet the tariff barons try to make him be-
lieve that he is being protected while he
is being taxed in the direction of the poor
house. Since we have free trade in labor,
we ought to have lower taxes on ife's
necessities. Don't you think so?
Well. yes, do.
You ought to understand your own e1-.
peTience.-W. A. Taylor in Cincinnati En-
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The nest TIer can ofsr.

Tho Knoxville Journal, the foremost
vances to the front with the most original
argument yet made on behalf of the free
whisky plank of the Chicago platform.
Considering that scores oflives have been
sacrificed in the moonlight whisky region
in the attempt to enforce the revenue
laws on Illicit distillers. Tho Journal holds
that the abolition of the tax would be in
the interest of saving human ifel-Buf-
falo Courier.
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Resigned?-Mny. Tley,ve Cot TO ne,

On receiving delegation from Howard
county, Ind, Gen. Harrison remarked
that he took the demonstration as an evil
dence that the action OF tho Republican
convention has been accepted with res
ignation" by Republicans. If there is any
word which accurately describes the size,
weight, height, color and general charac-
teristics of the emotion with which Re-
publicans accepted the action of the Chi
cago convention it is resignation Gen.
Harrison is peculiarly happy in his choice
of words.-St. Louis Post Dispatch.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-08-29
SOLID Repubilcan ArIrnmenr.I

The Lord reigneth: let the earth re-,
ioice; let the multffndes of the isles bs
glad Clouds and darkness are round
about him; righteousness and indement
are the foundation of his throne
The workers viii find out quickly that
Alr. Quay campaigns for business. not for
sentiment, and that there viii beno vast
ing of words where other and more solid
arguments may be applfed.-New York
Mal and Express rep.
During the past season two fsst4Iis, iis5s:.,
g. ". and =. c. Peckhara, have found
that wasps rememberthe locality of fileff
nests for niDety-ix hours
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-08-29

Governor Alger has figured out The cleo
tion. There ere no doubtful states The
Republicans will sweep New York, New
Jersey, Connecticut and Indiana Let's
see; Alger is the man who said he would
be nominated on the third ballot. God
always gives man something. He gave
Alger noney.-Kansas City Times.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-08-29
Yerr scnsfl.lc. -.

Senator Cabs rro2ositioa to hunt mr.,
certain alleged assets of the late Coufed-
crate states vas nearly unanimously re-
Sected by The senate yesterday. Only
the senator from FIorida advocated tie
scheme, while it was opposed by others
from all sections of the countrv. rerard-
less Of politics There Is a sensible dis
position to letthe Late Confederacy drop
out Of sight.-New York World.
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He e nIic,,ty Scar nicht.

Our postmaster general objects to the
proposed reduction in letter postage By
the Republicans because he says that the
increased expenses of tho postoffice de-
partment would be bornc by the poor peo-
pie of the country instead of the wealthy
and business men who writc letters.-
Atlanta Constitution.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-08-29
- It Away 90. ForaIser.

Ger. Palmer, Of Illinois, a dfstfnguishei
ex-Republican and Union soldier, has de.
ivered ret hot Democratic speeeh 81
Illinois, and Gen. Chalmers. q distid.
guished ex-Democrat and Confederate s5l
der, made lively Republican speech ii
Arkansas. Isn't It about time to fold an
the frzyed and breeze battered bloody
shirt and lay it on the sheIf9-St. Louis
t-Dispatch.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-08-29

Ex-Governor; Porter; of Indiana, has
staggered the Republicans of his state by
refusing to be their candidate for COVER
nor. They had counted on his candidacy
to strengthen Harrison 1t is not be-
Iieved that Harrison can carry Indiana
without Porter on tbs state ttcket.-Izzll
rrtirsI 6saSssAsi
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-08-29

The home market is.not due in the re-
motest degree to the tariff. It was larger
proportionately in 1900. under the lowest
duties of the century. than it is today
The protected" industries sill include, as
they always have included, an insignifi-
can't fraction of tho workers of the coun-
try, and that fraction the worst paid
San Francisco Exa1niner.
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a Humbue Exposed.

President Cleveland on Tuesday vetoed
a bill providing pension fer man who,
upon being captured by the rebels, joined
the Confederate army and served nine
months therein. And yet we have been
told that one great object which the De-
mocracy has in view is to secure pensions
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-08-29
Our rcn,octatio Chiet ,Jus.icc.

FuIler's confirmation as chief Justice.
with about one-third of the Republican
senator's voting for him, indicates that,
fora Democratic lawyer with war record
in politics and long record behind him
at the bar, his career must have been a
remarkably straight and unassailable one.
st. Louis Post Dispatch.
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The business column eSon-poiItscaI.

a special dispiatch from Fan River
The Tribune says; The close of tf.s
week finds the print cloth market entirety
clear of spot goods. and production for
August all sold ahsad within fifteen piece
weekly. while the production for Septeui
Der is also yyeIl disposed of, and GOO
of the year" Whatg In the face Of fhe
passage of the free trade Mills bill in
the house, and with odds on the rs-elec-
ton of Our fires trade" president? That
buttons -quinine reporter must be in F.lI
River making game OF the Tribune
New York Post.
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A wound Time Cannot Heal.

BouIanger is recovering from his wound
in the neck, but he will never recover
from the stab of tho man who called him
tho Foraker of France.-Ch Chicago Herald.