Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-11-21
TALKS ON THE TARIFF.

WHAT SECURES THE HOME MARKET.
New York Press.
Iron and steel manufacturers in Glas-
Cow tell the London correspondent of
the Boston Herald that for the past
two years or so their trade with the
United States has been steadily increas-
ing, and for the past nine months it has
been practically dead. When asked for
their opinion as to the cause of this Sc
rious change in once fourishing bust
ness, they said:
We have no longer any export trade
with you in iron and steel for the rea-
son that your iron and steel industries
in the United States have developed to
an extent which has made it possible
for you to manufacture at so low rate
that it is no longer profitable for us to
enter into competition with you. And
this, you will understand, has been done
in spite of your tariff tax; it has been
done by the increasing competition be-
tween your manufacturers and by the
opening up of new deposits of coal and
iron ore.
The Boston Journal notices that these
Scotch iron masters admit what is
strenuously denied by ''tariff reformers"
on this side of the Atlantic, that sin
creasing competition" among our Amer
lean manufacturers operates to force
down prices until foreigners are unable
to undersell us in our markets. Better
than that, esteemed Journal, we partly
undersell them in theirs, and are doing
more of it every year. If all this is
done in spite of 'tariff tax" then the
tariff tax is tax that isn't tax, eh?
And be it also noticed that the home
market isn't ours when our prices are
high; it is ours when prices come down
COURTSHIP IN JAPAN.
Young Japanese girls are as nature has
MAZE them, and very sweet they are, too,
in their quaint dresses, showing their
plump chests and rounded arms. Pages
could be written about their charms
What dear, dainty little dolls they are!
Such white teeth, rosy lips, and coy
smiles! Who shall describe them? And
what next? A kiss perhaps. Not over
here. Oh, neverl They never do. They
don't know how, actually, don't know
how, and even peasant girls are closely
guarded.
Fancy young man in cotton kimono
and wooden clogs stealing chance to
walk with his best girl under the bloom
ing cherry trees, explaining the constel-
lations and quoting sentimental poetry;
telling her that he chung upon her eye
lids, that "her voice was like temple
gong, in fact, that he loved but her alone,
and then making her several formal
bows at the door of her fathers straw
thatched hut as they parted in the moon
light. Can any American lover stretch
his imagination enough to believe in a
sweetheart not kissing those pretty lips,
paint and all, by sort OF natural Sc
lection?"
IT'S melancholy fact, but Japanese
has no such impulse. No lover courts
his mistress with sweetest, persuasive
Kisses" No mother kisses her baby as
cuddles it against her bosom. Parting
husband presses the hand of his wife and
bends his forehead to the mats in sad
farewell. Our salutations run through
the crescendo of bow, handshake, kiss
and kiss. can't explain the difference
in grade between the last two, but eve
rybody knows. But in Japan the ex-
preston of regard is regulated by the
number and length of the salaams.
GENERAL CAssIUs NJ. CLAY, the late
Colonel Goodloe's great uncle, has rec
ord with the knife which is noteworthy
even for Kentuckian. He had three
personal encounters before the war in
which knives were used, and in each
case he succeeded in killing his oppo-
nent. A fourth victim he cut almost to
pieces, but the man was stitched up and
recovered. A few years ago he killed a
negro who had insulted him, again u.s.
ing the knife. Governor Warmoth, of
Louisiana, saved his life in New Orleans
few years ago by vivisecting with a
knife a man who attempted to assassin
ate him.