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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-23
THE UBIQUITOUS TARIFF.
President Harrisons Defense of Higl
Protection and Plutocracy.

President Harrison's Defense of High
Protection and Plutocracy.
The only reason, says President
Harrison, why manufactures and min
ing developed moro rapidly in Now
England and Pennsylvania than in the
South was slavery.
This Is the remark OF very SUPER
fetal observer. Why did not slavery
continue to exist in She Northern
StatesP Simply because 1t was not
profitable. The agricultural resources
of New England did not compare to
those of the West and South, hence
profitable employment for slave labor
could not be found and the slaves
were sold South.
Then the tariff was established; n
system by which the Western and
Southern States, chiefly devoted to
farming and from natural causes,
were taxed to build up the mills of
New England and the mines of Penn
sylvania.
Thus established under the false
plea of protection to infant industries,
the modern plutocracy has grown
more Unsuitable with each passing dec
ade, and 1t successfully resists every
attempt to curtail its enormous privi-
leges.
AS far as the West and South are
concerned, the tariff gives them no
protection from New England and
Pennsylvania. Alabama iron meets
Pennsylvania iron in the Louisville
market. The mills of Augusta meet
the products of the mills of Lowell in
Memphis, in st. Louis, in Chicago,
with no protection whatever. If
there is any virtue in protection 1t
should be applied now between the
States; if ever the infants OF New En-
gland needed protection from compe-
tition with Old England, our mills and
factories need protection from compe-
tition with the long-established mills
and factories of the East. This is the
test which demonstrates the insincerity
of the advocates of the tariff
The question in this sense may not
be sectional; but it is worse than Sec
Uioudi, lOE ~ lS Couufdfy w 1io opiiio vi
liberty The battle now waging against
the policy of restriction is battle of
freedom, and
"Freedom's battle, once begun,
Baqueathed from bleeding sire TO son,
Though baflied oft, is ever won."
The tariff builds up classes and class
distinctions it taxes the poor for the
benefit of the rich; it makes the rich
more arrogant, more domineering,
more dangerous. 1t degrades the poor;
destroys hope in their hearts; stiles
all their aspirations, and it establishes
false wage system that is little bet
ter than slavery.
Down with the war tariff Louis
vile Courier-Journal.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-23
A HALF CENTURY SINCE.

THE daguerreotype was invented in
France fifty years ago.
FIFTY years since was established the
first commercial college in America, Com
er's College, of Boston.
THE population of the United States was
only 1861, ,420 fifty years ago. The census
cost the Government 1888, ,427
FIFTY years ago the Cherokee Indians
were removed from Georgia and placed
west OF the Mississippi river.
IT is fifty years since law was enacted
against dueling in the District of Columbia.
1t grew out of the Cilley-Graves duel
ONE THOUSAND reformed drunkards
marched in procession at the first ami
versary of the Washington Society fifty
years ago.
HALF century ago Frederick Douglass,
the famous negro orator, journalist and
politician, escaped from slavery at Balti-
more, Md.
FIFTY years ago Joseph A. Adams, for the
first time, made use of the idea now en-
bodied IN the art of electrotyping by repro
ducing from wood-cuts.
IT is half a century ago since the first
power loom for weaving carpets was set In
motion by Il. B. Bigelow, OF Boston. Ten
yards day was its original capacity.
FIFTY years have transpired since the
first wheat was shipped from Chicago,
amounting to seventy-eight bushels. 1t
was sent eastward by the lakes 70 Buffalo.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-23
TRAINING WILD BIRDS.
How 1t Can be Done without Caging the
Feathercd Beauties.

Feathercd Beauties.
Some years ago lived with my fam
lily in suburb, home whore birds of
many species abounded. The house
was surrounded with forest trees, and
the birds built nests and reared their
young unmolested. My daughter, who
was then a girl of ten years, took spec
ial enjoyment in feeding the birds by
casting out crumbs from the table.
She never frightened them, but always
moved slowly, and manifested great
gentleness and kindness toward them.
BY the walk from the front door to the
street was an evergreen bush. In this
a pair of rSbins built their nest about
four feet from the ground. BY this
nest daily passed and repassed, talk
ing care not to disturb the bird which
was Matching out her young. Many
times day my daughter approached
the nest, but cautiously avoided dis
turbiug the bird. So familiar had her
presence become that the robin would
sit on her nest till almost touched by
my daughters hand. When the young
were hatched, then her delight was
unbounded. and she began to feed them
crumbs from the table and worms
which she searched for in the yard and
garden. Between the care OF the par
ent birds and, that of my daughter,
the nestlings fattened and grew with
rapidity. Soon the little ones recog-
nized my daughters presence, and
opened wide their voracious mouths
for the dainty BITS she had provided
for them. When they were full-aedged
and ready to leave the nest they sub
mitted to being handled and caressed
without resistnnces and would follow
her around the yarH as chickens follow
the mother hen. If the pair, there
were two of them, were up in the trees,
she would call, '.Robie! Robie. Robie!'
and they would fly to her as read
lily as chickens. Not only would they
follow my daughter, but they soon be-
came attached to me, and would often
come at my call and perch on my hand
or knees. and swallow the earthworms
whicn had dug for them. They con-
tinued with us on terms of perfect
friendship for about six weeks. Cold
weather came on, and they left for
warmer cline and we saw them no
ID. Butler, in the Swiss
Cross.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-23
SENATORS CAN'T LIVE
On the Salary of Their ONCE and Main
tain the Dignity Which Their Position
Demands.

On the Salary of Their ONCE and Main
tain the Dignity which Their Position
Demands.
WASHINGTON, March Ex-senator Chace,
OF Rhode Island, in his eclination, says
that the salary attached TO his office Is in
sufficient, and there Is disposition among
the members Of the upper branch of tho
United States Congress to test the feelings
of the people on a proposition for an in
crease from $1,000, which the Senators
now receive, to double that amount, or
$40 900. Senator Platt, of Connecticut,
says: 81 know 1t is charged that the Sem
ate of the United States is composed large
ly of rich men, to whom salary is of no
object. To some extent it may be true
that there are Senators to whom
the salary is very little object, but
there are Senators here who have
nothing to live upon except their salaries,
and who are paid less for the services
which they render than they would be
paid In any other walk or occupation of
life for similar services, and very much
less. In addition TO that, Senators have a
great many expenses which their position
necessarily entails, aud the result is that
there are Senators who have no income
behind their salaries, who are obliged to
live in pinched and very unpleasant
way in the city of Washington"
Mr.. Morrill, asked the Senator from Con-
necticut If he was not aware that no man
can come here with his family and rent u
decent house and live without spending
twice the amount of his salary? Mr. Platt
in his reply said: "I may as well say it
as any one, because / think | am as poor
n man as there is in the Senate. l have
been made most painfully aware of the in =
ability of Senator of tho United States to
live in the city Of Washington in any thing
like the style and with any thing like
the comforts we have at home, and
which other people have in Washing
ton, who, perhaps, are entitled to the same
social position that we are and we entitled
to the same social position that they are.
We are put at q disadvantage which we
feel every day Of our lives; and there are
Senators here who will echo what say,
knowing it to be true. "Now, l do not
complain of it for myself. 1 can remedy
it for myself if l choose to do so. If
do not choose to endure the privation-for
1 use that word-which Senator of the
United States who is compelled to live on
his salary must endure, can remedy that
by resigning my place and going home to
my constituents and allowing them to
send somebody here who has an income
which he can devote to living in WASH
ington. think that it is quite time that
some plain words were spoken on this
subject, and have taken this occasion to
speak them"
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-23
Extraordinary License.

at seems to me-" remarked one OF our
citizens the other day, ''that physicians are
allowed extraordinary license in the man.
ner in which they juggle with the welfare
of their patients"
snow here is DR.. - who was attending
Mr.. - up to the time of his death, and II
he treated him for one thing he treated him
for dozen different disorders. First the
doctor said pneumonia was the trouble; !;
then it was consumption. Then the patient
was dosed for heart trouble, and so on un-
til Just before he died it was ascertained
that disease of the kidneys was the real
trouble, and that which had been at nrst
treated as pneumonia, consumption, neart
disease etc. were but the symptoms OF
kidney disease
"But then it was too late.
"Thls is only one case in hundred, and
am beginning to lose faith in the doctors
altogether. In fact haven't had any need
for their services since i began to keep
Warmers Safe Cure in my house, little
over three years ago. Whenever l feel
little out of sorts i take few doses OF 1t,
confident that the source of all diseases is
in the kidneys, which know Warmers Safe
Cure will keep IN good order, and will Grad
icate any disease that may be lurking there.
Had Mr.. - followed Il similar course,
have no doubt that he would be alive to-day;
but of course all people don't think alike.
some thing is certain, however, ana that
Is the doctors are allowed u little too much
freedom in the way they have OF pretending
to know that which they really know noun
ing about. If they don't know what IS the
real trouble with the patient, they should
admit it and not go on and experiment at
the cost of the patients life"
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-23
CORPSE FOUND SWINGING.
Bullets, Cartridges, Percussion Caps and
Powder Show That He Was Prepared For

Bullets, Cartridges, Percussion Caps and
Powder Show That He Was Prepared For
Death.
WHEELING, w. VA, March 1S-A hor-
rible discovery was made yesterday morn
ing upon the farm of Samuel Hewitt in
Rich Hill Township, Greene County.
While neighbor of Mr.. Hewitt was pass
ing through n small piece of woods he saw
the body of a man swinging from limb
of tree. Making close examination,
he found that the mans face and
skull had been crushed out of all human
semblance, as though beaten with q
heavy hammer Tied to a small limb close
to the corpse was an old-fashioned horse
pistol. Justice l. c. Barker impaneled a
jury, and the body was cut down. In tho
pockets were found six half-ounce DULLES S,
several musket cartridges some percus-
sion caps and n small paper of powder,
but nothing by means of which identifica-
tion could bo established. The man was
apparently young, was well dressed and
about five feet six inches tall
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-23
Keep the Children's Faith.

Mothers, don't destroy your chill
dren's faith in you by not keeping
your promises to them, no matter how
trihing they may seem. The simple
childish faith they place in you should
be reason, il there was no other, for
keeping the promises once made. The
child may doubt every one else but will
believe the mother. A child's faith is
involuntary, born of weakness and
conscious dependence, and his mother
is his law and gospel. But let "a child
once distrust the word of his mother,
and he loses forever his simple child
ish faith. II is u shock that the tender
sensibilities never reco yer from, and
often cruel disillusion that makes
him ultimately perhaps a cynic.-De-
troit Tribune,
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-23
CURRENT COMMENT.

- Windom's Treasury manage.
,nent will have millions in it for the
Blaine gang.-St Louis Republic.
by "sheer, bold gratuitles" the
Republicans propose to put the surplus
into desuetude that shall not be in
cuous-Louisville Courier-J Journal.
Grover Cleveland surrendered
the scepter of authority with as pure
u heart and as clean hands as did
George Washington. Paul Globe.
The past four years of Demo
cratic rule will often be recalled in the
near future for the happy days OF
prosperity and peace. = Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
General Tracy, the Secretary OF
the Navy, is not man of large nau-
tical experience, his training resem-
bling that of the gallant officer Slr
Joseph Porter, X. c. B.-Detroit Free
Press.
Some of our contemporaries who
indulged in bitter abuse of President
Cleveland throughout his term of Of
flee are now admitting his excellent
qualities. They may consider this
gracious, but it is really an evidence
of their injustice and unfairness,
proving their utterances to have been
maliciously false as well as abusive
Pittsburgh Post.
1t is reported upon seemingly
good authority that Secretary of War
Redfeld Proctor has not been outside
of Vermont since July A, 1864, at which
time he went over into New Hamp-
shire to attend celebration at West
Swanzey. 1t is also reported that for
forty years Mr.. Proctor has laundered
his whiskers with Yankee Shawn soap.
Chicago News.
1t seems that there are only four
millionaires in the new Cabinet
Blaine, Window, Wanamaker and
Proctor. The millionaires are large
and important element in our popula-
ton, and as they elected Harrison
President, their modesty in demand
ing only half the seats in his Cabinet
can not be too much commended.
uldndpolio oohtihoi'
Summing up President Cleve-
lands Administration the st. Louis
Republic says: Better than all, he
forced the administration OF the full
equality in the Union OF the prescribed
States and people of the former South
ern Confederacy. The work that
Abraham Lincoln would have done;
that Andrew johnson was impeached
for Attempting; that no Republican
President after Lihcoln's death and
Johnson's impeachment had the cour-
age to attempt, he did us matter of
course; and-it is mournful thing to
say, but it is better not to leave 1t un-
said-he was. as a matter OF course,
defeated ior doing IT,"
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-23
MISCELLANEOUS.

In China people in easy circum-
stances buy their collins long before
they need them, and exhibit them as
ornamental pieces of furniture.
A reputable author says that the
skull of John Theach. known as
"Blackbeard." the Virginia pirate of
171S, is in the possession Of q Virginia
family in the form of a silver-trimmed
drinking-cup.
An eight-year-old boy whose super
abundant animal spirits require an oc-
casional check was looking at some of
photographs of his mother which had
just been sent home. There were two
views. and the youngster was very de-
cidcd in his preference for one over
the other. "Why do you prefer thatp"
asked his mother. Because" said he,
"in the other one you look as If you
meant t."-Boston Transcript.
One of the advantages in farmers
owning their land, is that they are far
more disposed to set out trees of all
kinds, fruit. shade and ornamental, as
well as all kinds of small fruits and
plants. So long as u farmer is only
renter, as rule there is very little dis
position to pay much attention to crops
OF this kind, but owning the land it is
only in exceptional cases where more
or less attention will not be paid to
fruit growing.
Sam Wah Kee, Boston Chinaman
of wealth and influence and husband OF
one of the two Chinese women at the
Hub, lately celebrated the birth of his
son and heir by giving a banquet to 700
OF his countrymen. He entertained
his guests at his house and store with
tea and Celestial delicacies, which a
Chinese caterer furnished to the tune
of So plate. The youthful Kee has
been named Ames Hart, after the
Governor of the State and the newly
elected mayor of the city.
An instance of presence of mind
approaching to the horrible occurred
recently in the Grand Theater, Glas-
gov. Miss Rose Lee, while singing a
love song, saw "hyman" fall head
foremost from the flies to the stage, a
distance of twenty-five feet. She not
only continued her song. but moved
forward to the front of the stage in or
der that the calcium light which was
directed upon her might not reveal the
form of the dead man to the audience.
Most of you know that aqua pura is
often an expensive item in the prescrip-
ton which the druggist obligingly fills.
A doctor of my acquaintance has way
of saving his patients money in this
matter, which strikes me as very
original. When he wrote out a pre-
scription for me the other day l re-
marked to him that medicine was Il
very expensive luxury. He astonished
me by asking in return: "Have you
paid your water tax?" "Yes," said 1.
Have you plenty of water?" "Yes."
"Then will give you the prescription
dry and it will cost you three cents
instead of seventy-fve cents" And !
found the doctor was right.-Pitts-
burgh Dispatch.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-23
THE TOILER'S CURSE.
Protcctionism the Most Implacab1e Il
stroyer of the Producer.

Protcctionism the Most Implacable De-
stroycr of the Producer.
There is no subject of public thought
in this country, nor in this world,
that touches so directly and intimate
ly the interest, welfare, happiness of
the man who gets his living by labor
as the subject called protectionism-a
tariff for tribute.
1t is the most serious, the most vital
question of the working-man's eX-
istence; for it involves the problem of
his living at all.
1t is system that has persistently
reduced, and is reducing with an en-
ergy merciless and irresistible, the
share of the wealth produced by his
toll which he may call his own. The
method of this reduction is the dis
tinguishing character which recon-
mends the system to its advocates. II
is it's nature, that can no more be
changed than the laws of God can be
changed, to make the rich richer and
the poor poorer. 1t is a plan of tax
alton. not laid on the wealth or in
come of the taxpayer, but on his
necessities.
These are in the ratio of the number
of persons he must provide for. 1t
compels the man with a large family
to pay more than the man with u small
family. If the living of the latter
costs $3.50 a year, it takes $50 from his
income, and transfers the greater part
of it to the unearned gains of the pro.
tected monopolist. If the living OF
the former costs 500 a year, it takes
800 from his income and gives most
of it to the protected monopolist. II
each of these toilers earns 800 a year,
one of them has $3.50 left, if he has the
faculty OF saving it, while the other is
800 behind. AS the average earn
ings of the wage-workers of this
country amount to only $3.50 a year,
there are a great many of them be-
bind-reduced to the condition of
tramps or the state of semi-pauperism
that depends in part on public charity.
This is not speculation; it is a con-
uiuioi Vi idboi piidg pIoUCCuloHioHi htiS
produced and is continually pro-
ducing. 1t is steadily increasing
the distance between Dives and Laza-
rus. 1t is creating and perpetuating
in this land of alleged liberty
nobility-the most detest-
able of all forms of aristocracy-and
a vast social substratum Of pauperism
and serfdom.
This is its natural, its inevitable
fruit. Every intelligent man, who has
studiously observed its operation dur
ing the last quarter OF century,
knows that this is true-knows that
the greatest curse, the most deadly
enemy, the most implacable destroyer
Of the man who gets his living by his
own toll, is this greatest invention of
the devil-protectionism.
When will the toiler learn this
supreme truthp-Chicago Globe.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-23

Edison has invented an apparatus
to be attached to locomotive, that will
do away with the detestable steam
whistle and render even the engine bell
unnecessary. 1t will shout "breaks"
when they are necessary, yell "clear
the track! at crossings and cry out the
names of stations. But it will never
perfect its work unless it can in some
way startle the conscience OF the pas
senger who tries to monopolize two
whole seats in car.-TeXas Siftings.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-23
Woman Jumps From the Filth Story.

NEW YORK, March 1S.-Mrs. Helena
Brader, aged forty-fve, jumped from the
fifth STORY window of the fiat" house, 1903
East Eighty-ninth street and was killed.
Her husband, who was wounded during
the war. died recently at the Soldiers
Home in Virginia. Mrs. Brader brooded
over her bereavement and her mind be-
came unsettled.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-23
Quite the Reverse.

Mrs. Billings-John, / had such a
funny dream last night. 1t seemed to
me it was my wedding day, but the
bridegroom wasn't you. He was "a
man never had seen before-a tall,
fne-looking--
Mr.. Billus ,(who is short and
dumpy-I'll be hanged If i can SEQ
any thing funny in that dream,
Maria!-Chicago Tribune.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-23
Nobody to Blame for Mud Run.

PITTSBURGH, PA, March 1S.-Ths tpial
of the railroad men charged with criminal
negligence in causing the accident at Mud
Run by which sixty-one lives were lost
last October ended in the acquittal of En-
gineer Harry Cook, who ran into the train
ahead, and his hagman, James Hannigan.
The public condemn the jurles.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-23
Honeymoon Sadly Ended.

BELLEFoNTArNE, o., March 1s.-Patrick
Mcdonald, of Gallon, aged about thirty
five years, was killed by falling between
tho cars on an east bound freight-tran on
the c., c., c. g. ]. railroad. His body was
dragged for mile and was literally torn
to pieces, his arms and legs and entrails
being strewn along the track for that dis
tance. He was married two weeks ago.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-23
Fatal Fight About a Woman.

BIRMINGHAM, ALA, March 1S,-At Bes-
semer, yesterday morning, Dennis Dorsey
was shot and killed by u. A. James. The
two men were employed at the ling mill,
and had been paying attention to the
same woman. They engaged in q quarrel
about the woman, which ended in fight,
and James drew pistol and shot Dorsey
dead. James was arrested.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-23
Starved Himself 10 Death.

SACRAMENTO, CAL, March 1s.-Harry
Holmes, who has been held to answer for
criminal assault was found dead in his
cell yesterday morning. He had starved
himself to death, having refused food for
two weeks. On Thursday and Friday ply
sicians pumped nourishment into Holmes
stomach, but it failed to give any strength,
and he wasted away to skeleton.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-23
Fashion seems to rule in politi,
ME TOO.

-Fashion seems to rule in politics
as well as in the social world. The
Dudley plan has already become estab-
lished as part OF the new Administra
tion. A Republican Congressman
elect has appointed committee of five
to distribute the patronage in his dis.
trlct. Albany IN. Y.) Argus.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-23

Mamma Ito Edie, aged three and
one-half years, just home from her first
morning at the kindergarten); "Well,
Edie. how did you like itP" Edie; 81
didn't like it a bit. The teacher put
me on chair, and told me to sit
here for the present And l sat
ind sat, and she never gave me the
Dresent.n
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-23

Lady (who has just discovered that
she has been sitting on newly-painted
seat) )-Oh, dear, there's all the paint
como off on to my dress. Painter
Mover mind; it don't matter. NJ n. l
can soon paint the seat again.