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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-08-29
Increased Farm Product Values.

Farmers will be able to get more thar
ten cents buShel for their potatoes
this year. Last year it was the pro-
tective tariff that forced the prices
down, so the free-trade papers argue!
Wonder how they'll explain the rise
this year. Corn fraction higher" is
an almost every day market bulletin.
Have any Democrats taken notice that
this is in spite of the ''robber tariff be-
ing the same as it was last year? I'm.
less something happens very soon the
Democratic argument that tariff hurts
the farmer by increasing the price o:
things he is compelled to buy and de-
creasing the prices Of what he has to
sell will lose its force. Producers are
beginning to realize that over-produo-
ton mad more to do with prices last
year than the tariff had. There has
been, as Senator Morrill, said recently:
"A glut of misinformati, IN dissent
mated on the subject and . coneealment
of the fact that prices of farm products
are depressed throughout the worlds
The politicians who have been making
capital out of this depression will nov
begin to reap the whirlwipd-.Do
Moinss Register.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-08-29

shows that during the period from 1s41
aged $4,000, 900 bushels. while for the
period from 1881 to 1885 the annual
yield only averaged 10000, 900 bushels.
The annual value Of the gram crops for
the first period was STA, 800, 900, while
for the last period the annual value had
fallen to e5l, 700, 900, decline of SO per
cent
Although he finds that the supply Of
horned cattle has increased IA natural
result of land going out of tillage into
grass, yet even this does not bring mp
the deficiency, and he says:
The combined value of grain and meat
produced yearly IL less now than 1t was
forty years ago, but rent and taxes have in
creased IS per cent, thus causing the margin
In favor of the farmers to diminish in an
alarming degree.
And after giving table sustaining
this statement
Thus the farmers margin Is now only half
what it was In the earlier years of the pres
emit reign, being reduced to IL shillings an
acre, against Is shillings in 1887 40.
In the face of this concurrent testi-
mony, coming from two widely diver
gent points of view, can we doubt that
Great Britian's attempt to secure cheap
ly-fed labor that she might make cheap
goods has resulted in disaster to her
agricultural interests?
And may we not be justified when the
American free trader points to de-
pressed agriculture here as a result of
the tariff in pointing him to this state
of depression in British agriculture,
and asking him if he finds it any better
in free trade country?
With her limited area for crops and
her dence population, her manufactures
and commerce have now become of more
importance to her than is her agricult-
ure s .r....i lf
We are situated differently. We fall
about $3.50. COCO short of producing
each year the goods we consume. We
send thousands of miles for these goods,
and then send our breadstuffs thousands
of miles away in search of market
The true National policy would seem to
be, in our case, to make these goods in
our own midst, and to sell the bread
stuffs here to the men engaged in pro-
ducing the goods
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-08-29
CURRENT COMMENT.

The Democratic party is party
of false pretenses. During the last
TWEEN ty- five years there has never been
. campaign when it did not seek to win
by pretending to believe what it did not,
or by promising to do what it knew it
could not or would not do if it had the
Iower. Leader. ....
UWe have been making new States
SO fast lately that the Secretary of War
has decided to curtail the National sa-
Lutte to twenty-one guns, instead of one
gun for each State. The new States
will all go Republican just the. same,
however, and that is really the point OF
importance.-St. Louis Globe Democrat.
eB He may never be President, in
fact it is not at all likely that he will
ever again be a candidate, but in future
history, when partisan prejudice shall
have died away, among the brightest
names in Americas page, and occupy
ing no mean place in the galaxy, will
be found the name of James G. Blaine.
Peoria Transcript. ........
Democratic newspapers which are
quarreling with Republicans for
'squandering the surplus in paying
pensions" forget how much was
squandered from 1861 to 1865 in keep
ing the now Democratic States from de-
stroying the Republic. If they would
read up on history they would be more
modest.-Chicago Inter Ocean. ..
HT The fact that the Georgia Repub-
licsns have decided not to put State
ticket in the field because Of the impos-
sibility Of obtaining free vote and
fair count shows the necessity of a Fed
eral election bill so that when members
of Congress or a President is to be voted
for these Republicans may vote without
hindrance and be sure that their votes
will be honestly counted.-Toledo CO.,
Blade.
wWe do not think that in this boy.
colt proposition the Atlanta Constitu.
ton represents any great or even ap
preciable portion of the sober and deep
seated sentiment of the South. Public
opinion, that is the public opinion
which is worth regarding and which is
a country's inspiration at serious crises,
does not rush forward with exacerbat-
ing remedies to correct anticipated
wrongs that may never materialize.-
n. o. Times-Democrat (Dem.).
wWhen mugwump papers get tired
denouncing the National election bill
as "a grossly partisan measure" they
turn round and try to score Republic
ans by showing how easy it will be for
the Democratic party to obtain impor.
tant advantages under it. They fail
to note that one argument offsets the
other. The fact is the measure is non
partisan and would not work to the ad.
vantage of either party except in SO far
as fair elections might do so.-Indian
apolis journal.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-08-29

city and county that at and just before cleo
tion time Democrats are privileged 70 commit
almost any acts they please, no matter how
outrageous or disorderly, which may tend to
intimidate Republican votes from the polls
answered in the affirmative. 81 dc not
believe that every sort of outrage
would be tolerated, but I believe that
so far as intimidating niggers would be
concerned that would be winked at by
the authorities" The view taken of
these outrages by Democrat of higher
social standing is shown by the reply of
the counsel for Mr.. Morgan to the ques-
ton which he thought was preferable,
the triumph of Republication or the
partial or total suppression of negro suf-
frage. His answer was: 81 think that
any, thing like wholesale ballot-box
stuff1ng or fraud in elections is almost IL
not quite as greatly to be deplored as
Republican rule would be-"
The Seventh South Carolina distric.
has 80, s93 colored voters, all Republic
ans, and 1895 white ones, nearly all
Democrats. Yet this district has been
represented by Democratic Congress
man for years 1t was done by cheating
in registration. by the intimidation Of
voters. and by refusing to count for the
Republican candidate votes put in the
wrong box. There is separate box for
each Office, and their position is shifted
from time to time to confuse illiterate
voters. Every attempt to show them
which was the right box for Congress-
man was discouraged by the managers
of election, all of whom were Demo
Gratis. One of the latter said: 1.-THE
position of the boxes was changed to
carry out the spirit of the law and test
the intelligence of the voters" This
was nothing more nor less than playing
confidence game with the colored men.
In the Second (Fla.) district evil
dence given by Democrats shows the
stealing Of ballot boxes and registry
lists in Republican precincts prior to
election, so that no votes might be cast,
and the stealing of ballot-boxes after
election when they contained too many
Republican votes. One of the inspect
ors-a Democrat, Of course-from whose
custody ballot-box was taken before
the votes had been canvassed, who is
also the editor of paper, testified that
he made no mention of this interesting
item Of news. Why he let il go I'M
noticed he could not say. The policy
of this individual, who was a better
Democrat than newspaper man, has
doubtless been that of Southern jour
nails generally. II they told the news
twenty cases Of ballot-box stealing
would be reported where one ia now.
1t is desirable that these perform
ances should end, at least when the
choice of members of the National
House is concerned. 1t is not likely,
judging from the outcry that the South
is making on the subject, that they
would occur with Federal supervision
of the polls. Southern gentlemen
would drop their eccentric methods
when the National Government had
some one watching them. The expert
ment will be tried, and it will be seen
whether the stealing of bailot-boxes
will be of so frequent occurrence hence
forth.-Chicago Tribune.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-08-29
WORK, NOT CHEAPNEsS.

How Free Trade and Cheapness Work In
Observation-Disclosures at Good Wages
Better Than Idleness and Low Prices.
One of the ablest and most eminent
of the British fair traders Is Sir Ed
ward Sullivan. His trenchant words
pierce the sophistries of free trade
like an Ithuriel's spear. Here is an ex-
tract from one OF his latest publications:
After forty years experience of one sided
free trade. the condition of labor in the
United Kingdom Is very alarming; many In
dustries have died out or removed to other
countries; in nearly every industry English
labor Is undersold by foreign labor; In most
industries four days Is now considered
weeks work.
Employment, not cheapness, Is the main
spring OF National prosperity and content
ment. The way to make q nation happy and
prosperous Is to give everybody an
opportunity OF being employed. The
idea OF supplying population of
over 100000 with every thing at a
lower price than they can produce 10, Is
probably the most preposterous nonsense
that ever entered the human mind This Is
actually what free trade pretends to do; We
are attempting to supply ourselves with
every thing cheaper than we can produce
it In other words, we place before our
workers cheap food, but put 1t out of their
power to earn the money to buy IL.
Free trade means untaxed foreign compe-
tition. Foreign competition means compe-
tition in chespness; competition in cheap
ness means competition in cheap labor;
competition in cheap labor means competi-
tion in flesh and blood; and competition in
flesh and blood Is slavery. Excessive COM
petition Is the greatest curse that can be
imposed on a working community. The
unrestricted competition of the whole world
is rapidly making the conditions of En-
glish labor Impossible. Cheap clothing and
cheap food are of no value if human labor
Is cheaper still. Excessive cheapness Is Of
no value to the community without employ
ment. Employment means eheapness.
These who have employment can buy.
Those who have not employment can not
buy. Free trade means cheapness TO
the rich, the idlers, those with fixed incomes;
but longer hours, lower wages, harder work
to the workers. The workers are twenty to
one to the idlers. and therefore free trade
sacrifices the interests of the nineteen to the
interests of the one.
Five shiIlrngs spent on the produce of En-
glish labor benefits the working class more
than fifty shillings spent on the produce of
foreign labor Internal production and in
ternal consumption are the only proofs Of
National prosperity. The first and para
mount duty of every Government is to en-
courage conditions under which every ons
can ind employment.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-08-29

great traveller in his youth. but some six
or seven years before this date had mar
ried lady who was half Spaniard-a
Papist my father called her. can re-
member her well. She was small and
very pretty, with rounded figure, large
black eyes and glittering teeth. She
spoke English with curious accent. /
suppose that must have been a funny
child to look at, and l know that my
hair stood up on my head then as it
does now, for / still, have sketch of my
self that my mother made of me, in
which this popularity is strongly marked.
On this occasion of the Christmas tree
remember that Mrs. Carson turned to o
tall, foreign-looking gentleman who
stood beside her, and, tapping him af-
fectionately on the shoulder with her
gold eyeglasses, said:
Look, cousin-look at that droll lit
tie boy with the big brown eyes; his
hair is like a--what you call him?-
scrubbing bush. Oh, what droll little
,boyr'l .s..
The tall gentleman pulled at his mus
tache, and, taking Mrs. Carson's hand in
his, began TO smooth my hair down with
it till heard her whisper:
leave my hans 60, cousin. Thomas
is looking hke--nke the thunder
storm
Thomas was the name of Mr.. Carson,
her husband.
After that bid myself as well as I
could behinA chair, for was shy, and
watched littas Stella Carson, who was
the squire's only child, giving the chill
dren presents OF the tree. She was
dressed as Father Christmas, with some
soft white stuf Rsuad her lovely little
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-08-29
Spread of Profession.

Protective tariff sentiments are ex-
tending and chrystalizing by leaps and
bounds in many parts of the world The
French people are felicitating them.
selves that in couple Of years more all
their outstanding and Objectionable
trade treaties will expire by limitation.
when they will make only such arrange
ments with other nations as will leave
themselves free to enforce their ideas OF
protection to their own industries to
suit themselves. China is doing SINH
larry by increasing her import duty up.
on cotton goods, opium, etc;
Spain is moving in the same
direction; Germany imposes high
protective duties; Servia is heading of
the dishonesty of importers by declining
to accept their valuations of imports ex-
cept under the inspection of her own
customs appraisers, and, as we have
heretofore shown, even in England q
strong party is being formed looking to
a protective financial system. We all
know how it is in Canada and the United
States. 1t is to be observed that when
ever allusion is made to this fast and
wide-spreading sentiment in favor OF
tariff protection, the information is pro-
mulgated that British traders and
manufacturers protest" against proposed
changes These protests do not retard
the movement, and Britain will soon
have to join the procession
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-08-29
ELECTION FRAUDS.
How the Democrats of the South Steal
Congressional Seats.

The speech Of Congressman Mason Of
this city in favor of the passage of the
National election bill contains some In
teresting extracts from the testimony,
as yet unpublished. taken in some of
districts, which will give an idea of the
evils which the so-called force bill is
intended to do away with.
The evidence in the case Of the Sec
ond Mississippi district. where General
Chalmers contested the seat of Mr..
Morgan, made this showing of facts:
The constitution OF partisan election boards
having no members other than Democrats.
The appointment in many cases of parties on
such boards to represent the Republicans who,
by reason of ignorance and illiteracy, were not
competent and suitable men,"
The unlawful removal OF ballot-boxes from
the polling places and from the view Of the
United States supervisors.
The illegal erasure from the registration list
OF duly qualified and registrated voters, and the
refusal to permit them 10 vote.
The stealing Of ballot-boxes.
It showed also that at one precinct
twenty or thirty shots were fired into
the colored voters. That had dis
couraging influence on the casting of
ballots for Republican candidates. The
night before the election in the city of
Jackson, which is in the Seventh dis
trict it was suggested that it would
be good thing to drag a cannon
through that part of the town where
the colored voters lived and fire it off
occasionally, ''to bluff the negroes of
and keep them away from the polls"
This was done. The windows of sever
al houses were smashed, the occupants
notified they would be killed If they
tried 70 vote. and in some instances
shots were fired into the houses. These
demonstrations had the desired effect.
1t was also sworn that deputy sheriff,
an alderman of Jackson, suggested thatit
would be good idea to take a certain
colored man, who was leader among
his people, down into the swamp and
tie him to tree. A witness, . police
man Of jackson, being asked il the rea-
son he did not interfere to stop the riot
Gus denominations election eve was
because Of u general understanding among
Democratic city and county onicials in this
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-08-29

literary executor. Among them / found
two manuscripts, of which the following
is one. The other is simply a record OF
events in which Mr.. Quatermain was
not personally concerned-aZ Zulu novel,
the story of which was told to him by
the hero many years after the tragedy
had occurred. But with this we have
nothing to do at present.
I have often thought "(Mr. Quater-
mains manuscript begins) that / would
set down on paper the events connected
with my marriage and the loss OF my
most dear wife. Many years have now
passed since that event, and to some ex-
tent time has softened the old grief,
though Heaven knows it is still keen
enough. On two or three occasions /
have even begun the record. Once /
gave it up because the writing Of 1t de-
pressed me beyond bearing, once be-
cause was suddenly called away upon
a journey, and the third time because a
Kafir boy found my manuscript con-
venient for lighting the kitchen fire.
But now that am at leisure here in
England / will make fourth attempt.
II succeed, the story may serve to in
terest some one in after years when ]
am dead and gone. 1t is wild tale
enough, and suggests some curious re-
Elections.
l am the son of missionary. My
father was originally curate in charge Of
a small parish in 0xfordshire. He had
already been some years married to my
dear mother when he went there, and he
had four children, of whom l was the
youngest. remember family the place
where we lived. 1t was an ancient long
gray house, facing the road. There was
very large tree of some sort in the gar
den. 1t was hollow, and we children
used to play about inside of it and knock
knots of wood from the rough bark. We all
slept in kind of attic, and my mother
always came up and kissed US when we
were in bed. l used to wake up and see
her bending over me, a candle in her
hand. There was curious kind of pole
projecting from the wall over my bed.
Once was dreadfully frightened be-
cause my eldest brother made me hang
to it by my hands. This is all remem-
ber about our old home. It has been
pulled down long ago, or would jour
ney there to see it.
A little further down the road was a
large house with big iron gates to it, and
on the top of the gate pillars set two
stone lions, which were so hideous that
was afraid OF them. One could see the
house by peeping through the bars of
the gates. 1t was gloomy-looking
place, with a tail yew hedge around it;
but in the summertime some flowers
grew round the sun-dial in the grass
plat. This house was called the Hail,
and Squire Carson lived there. One
,Christmas-it must have been the Christ
mas before my father emigrated, or l
should not remember tive children
went to a Christmas tree at the Hall.
There was great party there, and foot
men wearing rcd waiStcoats stood at the
door. In the dining-room, which was
paneled with black oak, was the Christ
mas tree. Squire Carson stood in front
of it. lie was a tall, dark man, very
quiet in his manners, and he wore a
bunch of Gals on his waistcoat. We
used to think him old, but as matter
of fact he was then not more than forty.
He had been, as 1 atterward learned, a
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-08-29
fro BE Continued

SOUTH AMERICAN fire-fiies have been
called living diamonds. In the same part
of the world is also found pale gray or
particularly disagreeable-lookins moth
which may be called living lantern.
Kept inclosed in box for twenty-four
hours it will be found when the box Is
opened that the body of the moth is Civ
ing forth sufficient light to enable one
to read plainly any ordinary type. A
number Of glass-fronted boxes contain
ing these moths-Fulgaris canternaria
naturalists call them when placed
around the room afford nearly as much
light as so many wax csndles.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-08-29

This is little different result from
that reached by our contemporary. We
may not be warranted in assuming that
the price would have remained at Sc per
keg, but we maintain that our reason
ing is far nearer correct than our con-
temporary's. We might add that the
production this year is expected to ex-
coed 5000. 600 kegs and the price is still
going down.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-08-29

While the Tariff bill was under dis
cussion in the Senate the other day the
tin-plate schedule being under consid-
Grafton, Senator Hiscock expressed the
belief that there was no item in the bill
that more clearly illustrated the policy
of the Republican party and the prin-
ciples of protection than the tin-plate
item. The increase of duty on the
plate had received the unanimous vote
of the Republican representatives in
the House, and that those representa-
tives were almost without exception
from agricultural districts. The North
ern Democratic representatives who
voted against it came, on the other
hand, from large cities and not from
agricultural districts
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-08-29
THE STRANGE STORY
or
Allan Quatermain'SW Wife
BY II. RIDER HAGGARD,
AUTHOR OF "SHE," "KING SoLoMos's
MINES" "JEss," "CLEo-
FATRA," ETC.
AN AFRICAN ROMANCE.
4 gN oHArrHar

L MAY be remem-
bered that in the
last pages of his
diary, written just
before his death,
Allan Quatermain
makes allusien to
his long-dead wife,
stating that he has
written of her fully
elsewhere.
When his death
was known his pa
pers were handed
to myself as his
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-08-29

The abandoned farms of New
England have been sung in verse. re-
counted in newspapers, acclaimed about
on the stump and been made the
theme Of authors, lecturers and poets
Now a matter-of-facs collector OF statis-
tics presents official figures which show
that Maine had SIS ST more acres under
cultivation in 1888 than in 1870; New
Hampshire, 1S9. 800; Vermont, 5SsTl;
Massachusetts, 200, 99S. and Rhode
Island, "a, $50. This is abandonment to
some purpose.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-08-29
AGRICULTURE IN ENGLAND.

How 1t Has Become Depressed and Ruined
By Her Free Trade Policy-Britlsh Testi-
mony of Both Protectionists and Free
Traders "A Home Market Always the