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This testimony II not that Of . Free
Trader. 1t ID not that Of . Democrat or
Tariff Reformer. Il i tho testimony of .
Protectionlst of tho Protectionists. These
6gures-whether correct or incorrect-are
the figures given in confidence to tho pro-
tected woollen manufacturers Of New
England g one reason why the present
duties on wool should b maintained;
that they may get their American
wool cheaper than they coald get II
undsr free trade and cheaper than
they could import their foreign wool
without duty.
How long will tho Republican farm
ers of the West refuse to look such facts
- these squarely in the face and investi-
gate for themselves this subject Of the
wool bunco? Do tho Republican farmers
want to be swindledi Do they wish to
be buncoed? Have they no manhood !?
All that any tariff reformer. al that any
free trader asks Of any Republican farmer
- simply that he will for himself lnvesti-
gate this wool swindle. and that, for him.
self only. he will decide tho question
after m investigation.
Ii this asking too much ? Are the Re-
publican farmers of this country SO sunk
In political superstition that when their
leaders boldly proclaim the swlndls by
which their votes arc obtained. they
will continue to shut their eyes and re-
fuse to listen oven to those who ask them
simply to investigate for themselves?
The tariff duty on raw wool imported
into the United States never added one
cent to tho total value Of tho wool clip.
from 1924 to tho present hour. No farmer
ever received one cent more for I'll the
wool hs ever sold In al his Life bscauas Of
any forsikn duty. Why should hof How
caa any duty on tho foreign product add
one cent to the price that no gsts7
Protection IL Of two kinds; genuine and
counterfeit. A tariff duty does not nsc-
essarily protect. A tari6 duty may DO
genuine protection; it may b counterfeit
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-07-31

protection. A duty Of 90 per pound
on foreign cotton would not add one dol
lar to the total value Of the whole cotton
crop Of the United States. for the reason
that 100000 cotton planters cannot
combine and fix tho selling price. A duty
Of 90 per pound upon foreign wool would
not add ono cent to tho to-
tai value Of the whole wool clip
OF the United States for the same reason
that 100000 sheep owners OF the
United States cannot combine to fix the
selling price for wool. The market price
10 determined by the competition Of the
American producer. The competition Of
10. 900 will brin. tho price IS low Is the
competition Of 10000. oo0-to the nar-
rowest profit above the cost.
A duty protects only under two condi-
tions first. where all in the same business
can combine and fix the selling price;
second. where the domestic production il
SO small that the foreign prices, plus
duty. make the market prices and the
domestic production does not affect it.
Under any other circumstances . duty
is levied for counterfeit protection only.
and to humbug the man in whose favor
it il said to be put on to buy his vote.
1t il this distinction between genuine
and counterfeit protection which the
Republican farmers do not understand.
The Home Market Club secs tho dan
ger. Take Oh tho duty on wool aud the
Protection bunco becomes apparent. The
farmer will Immediately knock on the
protection on cloth. He will understand
that he has been swindled all these years:
that the tariff duty on raw wool has been
levied to DECREASEthep price OF his wool.
and he will have his revenge on the men
who swindled him. Samson may sleep in
Delilah's lap for . long time. but when he
il awakened at last he will be very angry.
II he ever gets his strength again. woe TO
those men who have fooled him.
And to prevent this revolt BY tho manu-
facturers in their own interests, what
argument has tho Home Market Club to
Offer to them? Here il ID. Let M print
il over again:
It u > mistaken idea with many
manufacturers that foreign prices Of
wool arc necessarily lower than
homo prices under Protection. They
average higher. They would be
much higher but Tor Q large and
certain domestic supply. Tho fol-
lowing table - instructive:
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To those with brains 10 read between
the lines tho Home Market Club says:
"Gentle m en- - Protection hes
driven down tho price Of wool In the
United States from 1 TO 3 cents
lower than I'm any other market any
where else In the world. You get
the wool you manufacture from to
8 cents cheaper, and II you would
remove tho duties on wool. unless
You pay that 4 to o cents moro per
pound you will. mot be able to get
any wool. We have fooled tho
American farmer into believing that
you pay him ~ cents . pound
more for his grease wool, and SO
cents per pound moro for his
secured wool than the foreign mar
kot price, when tho f0roign price ID
nearly that much higher than tho
American. We have fooled him conn
pletely. II you take tho tariff on
wool, tho price Of his wool will ad-
vance. Whenever We have re-
duced the tariff on wool the price has
advanced here In this country. You
know this. With this wool bunco
We drive the Republican farmers to
vote for your Protection and the
genuine protection or all other In
dustries. AL that we can give tho
farmer In payment ID this counter
felt protection, granted freely to any
body who wants Il. But, gentlemen,
II you take away tho bandage from
tho farmers eyes, down viii tumble
tho whole Protection WALL"
Every Democrat and every tariff re-
former should send to the Home Market
Club. Of Boston, for this pamphlet. II it
cannot be obtained. every Democratic
State Committee should republican il and
scatter it broadcast from ono end of the
land to tho other. Every Republican
farmer should have copy put under his
nose. and he should be challenged ia
read it and vote again for Protection.
Turn TO the report OF the Treasury Bureau
OF statistics for 1890. During that year VI
imported the following clothing and combine
woods, and these were tho prices paid abroad
the buyer paying tho duty, which In some
cases exceeded the foreign cost:
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-07-31

II Il be true, as the Protectionist af1irms,
that the foreign seller Is as generous as this
shows him to be, that he Is not only willing
to give away his products but to pay us TO
accept them, Protection certainly offers us IN
easy way not only to become the richest M.
tion on earth but to absorb all the riches or
other nations.
II may be that the foreigner only pays the
duty where the duties do not quite amount
to the sum that he receives, as In items IKE
the following:
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THE sPAH1sH-AMERrcAN BuHoo.

Reciprocity Is bunco. 1t assumes that No
pay Spanish-American countries In gold or
silver when we do not pay In merchandise
that all trade Is barter. The report or tho
Bureau OF Statistics OF the Treasury TOR 1890
sits down heavily on Mr.. Blaine's reciprocity
fgures with the following Official statements
OF our actual imports and exports.
THE UNITED STATES IN ACCOUNT WIRE
Esvope. Imports from Erpoytsse
Merchandise e449. ss7, 2ce e6ss. 7s6. SGT
Gold and silver ...... 6.7s5.722 so. 225. esl
America.
Merchandise. 23s. 374. $50 I32. sSs, OSs
Gold and silver........ 23.l69.826 6,l65, 670
Page % and 64-lOO.
And for twenty years past the statement ID
the same We send more gold and merchan-
disc to Europe than we receive. We receive
from Spanish-Amer1ca more gold and mer.
chandise than we send.
Foreign trade Is an exchange OF credits
through banks In sealed letters.
Europe pays us for el25, OO0, 900 worth Or
our exports OF farm products In Spanish
American bills OF exchange, with which We
pay for our Spanish-American importA Eue
rope gets these Spanish-American bills In
payment for European min goods. with them
buys our farm products, and We take them to
buy coffee, rubber and other tropical prod
ucts.
Mr.. Blaine wishes TO deprive our American
farmers Of these Spanish-American bills. II
our protected mill-owners send to Spanish
America their mill goods In payment tor our
imports, and Europe loses this Spanish
American trade, Europe win not have tho
bills TO buy our farm products.
Reciprocity simply transfers tho payment
for our South American imports from Amer.
lean farm labor to American mill labor.
As bunco-steerer Mr.. Blaine Is gigantic
success.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-07-31
AFRAup At EVERY POINT.

The wool bunco Is fraud rom every point
OF view. Protection Injuries instead OF stimu-
lating production. J. r. Dodge, the Protec-
ZIONIST statistictan Of the Agricultural De-
partment. furnishes the following figures OF
our production TO show that the tartfr legisla-
tion OF 1868 and the increased protection Of
1884 knocked Protection galley west:
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-07-31

The annual report OF the Chief Of the Bureau
OF Statistics Of the Treasury Department for
1890 has just been issued. 1t contains de-
tailed report OF each item imported into the
United states, with the foreign cost, tho
amount which the American purchaser paid
Tor II, and TO this Is appended the duty or
amount which the Protectionists say the for
eign seller contributes to the United states
Government for the privilege or selling In this
market. Here are some Of the items:
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THE TARIFF Is NOT A TAX.
The Foreigner Gladly Pays the
Duty to Get Our Trade.
NO TAXES NEED BIZ IMPOSED By con.
GREss UPON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE,

European Nations Stand Ready to Pay
All Our Expenses, Roth National,
State, Local and Individual They
viii Make This Country Dumping
Ground for All Their Wealth, Giving
Il to Us, Unless We Prevent such o
Disaster.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-07-31
war on THE FARMER.
Driven to tho Last Ditch BY the
Mill-OWncrs.
FARMING no LONGER PAYS IN THE
UNITED STATES.

Condition, Not . Theory, Now Con-
fronting the American FArm0r-What
Shall Be Done with His Surplus II
He Nay Not Exchange Il for Mill
Products aud Compete with MILL
OWneFD4
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-07-31

TO the Amsyteoa IarAsv.
II You win take fve minutes to read and
twenty Ave minutes 20 think over few facts
you win never regret the use Of the half
hour.
The increase In the value OF our farms be-
tween 1850 and 1860 was as fellows:
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-07-31

It all, the farmers for o share OF It. II the
mill-owners gain It AL, tho 1897, 486 farmers
must abandon their land and flnd other work.
The tax IL not levied to keep out the for
eigner. He cannot come here, except a. an
Immigrant. and then he Is welcomed. He
sends nothing here except In payment for our
farm surplus, because we have nothing else
to SELL We have nothing else to buy with
that is, generally speaking. Our farm sur
plus ranges from - to 81 per cent. OF all
we have to sell or buy with. What he sends
here must be bought and paid for In our
farm products, what we send abroad must be
bought and paid for in his manufactured
products No money is or can be used In In
ternational trade and commerce. Gold and
silver. exported or imported. are merely
s-products of mines-and there are not
enough In all the world TO buy one years ex-
ports and imports OF the world.
Q. The business question IS: "Shall our
1885,, 4S5 farmers be permitted to supply
their countrymen yearly with mill products
worth s4l5, OOO. 900 labroad) by an exchange
OF our surplus farm products for them, or
shall they be taxed out Of the business to pro-
tect the lz.50O mill owners from their COM
Petition"
This question 1t Is for you to decide. II Is .
night between the farmer and the halloween.
Nobody else Is particularly interested IN It or
cares worry much which wins-except that by
giving the mill-owner absolute control and by
destroying the competition prices viii DO In.
creased.
The tariff y simply tar upon the pay
ment you receive for the 30 per cent OF the
products OF your farms which must be sold
abroad What else can It bef The protec-
tive part OF It Ii simply for tho protection OF
American mills against the competition OF
like goods received In exchange for tho Amer.
lean farm oarpluA You may hare lost money
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-10-01
OBERLlN,

Rev. B. Fay Mills, lie evangelist, is ex-
pected to begin work in Oberlin, under
the united auspices of the churches, about
the middle of October. Persons in
the rear part Of the churches often fail to
hear the text or the chapter and verse
where 1t is found, on account of the
preacher beginning to speak before the
audience becomes fairly settled in their
seats after the singing, especially when
the audience is large. A delay Of half a
minute would in most cases relieve the
difficulty. .... The director of the Con-
servatory has made arrangements with
Fraulein Emery, of Leipsic, Germany, to
give series Of piano recitals in the col
lege chapel, on the evening Of September
20 30 and October 1st at $50 o'clock. E.
The home contest of the Oberlin College
Oratorical Association, will be held on
Friday evening, Of next week. There are
fiye speakers: G. B. Fireslone, G. S. Cal
lender, F. W. Gurney, G. A. Lawrence
and l. C. Chase. There are two essayists,
who do not appear In public.-News.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-10-01
The Cleveland Cadets.

Some time since Company B Of the 9Th
Regiment ON. G. under command of
Capt Whitney now stationed at Cleve-
land, were invited by Mr., Floris @. Will
liams, residing two miles north of this
place, to come out and spend the day at
some convenient season. Wednesday,
September oath was the day set apart and
by the morning train twenty-five Of the
company under command of Capt. Whit
ney arrived and were conveyed to the
premises in conveyances by C. D. Foote
Through the kindness of Mr.. E. e. Hustled
we were conveyed to the scene of action
arriving about half past fone O'Clock, just
as the boys In blue had returned from the
morning target shoot. Attwo o'clock the
soldiers and invited guests sat down to a
splendid repast specially prepared for the
occasion by Mr.. John Robinson which
ample justice was done TO II after which q
half hour was devoted to singing by the
quartet Of the company. At three o'clock
they repaired TO the target grounds where
the shooting was resumed with their
breech loading rifles, which q very fair
score was made. The following named
gentlemen from town were invited to take
hand and the score is given which shows
an excellent record, Score;
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MEDINA.

Franc Simmons Of Litchfeld has been
appointed court stenographer for Medina
county. She has been taking the pro-
ceedings Of the trials that have been In
progress during the past session., 49,.
Condemnation suits were commenced In
Probate court Wednesday evening by the
Akron q Chicago Junction road against 90
land owners in Westfeld, Harrisville and
Homer townships TO appropriate lands for
railroad purposes. Preliminary hearing
will be had Tuesday. Sept. &c.. Some
person entered the County Auditors Office
in the Court House Saturday evening
between six and seven o'clock and took
about IS in money that was kept in box
In one Of the desks. Entrance was gained
through the side door In the hall way. It
is evident that the thief was quite familiar
with the premises. Nothing else was dis
turbed except the drawer where the
money box was Kept. 80. Court has been
engaged so far this week in the trial and
disposition of criminal cases. Ida Nichols
OF Spencer who plead guilty 10 charge Of
sending threatening letters to her father
A. d. Garrett, was fined $25 and COSTS. .
A horrifying and sickening accident oc.
cured on the G. L. & W. near the Lafay.
ette crossing Sunday afternoon. j. g
Hallway, new brakeman, who was
making his initial trip, was thrown from
a car and instantly killed-Gazette.
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Broke Jail.

Some time during last Wednesday Dight
the county jail was a scene Of a whole
sale delivery, every prisoner In the institu-
tion escaping with the exception Of two,
who preferred TO stay behind. There
were eight prisoners who made their es-
cape, six Of whom were pcnitentiary cases
Daniel Wilson, charged with furnishing
prisoners with tools to break jail about
three weeks ago. Edward Gibbons,
charged with shooting with intent to kill.
Gale Moore, colored, has penchant for
playing the mouth organ. Held for petit
larceny. Edward Holdship, charged with
grand larceny. Harry H. Barnard, charg
ed with grand larceny. Charles Williams.
burglary. ]. @. Smith, burglary. The
sheriff offers liberal reward for the ar
rest Of any OF the above or any in
formation that will lead to their arrest.
Holdship and Barnard we've placed in the
jail Tuesday morning, having been arrest.
ed at Marion, Ind, and brought here
The jail has been condemned by every
grand jury for the last fifteen years, aud
was generally known to be most rickeiy
affair. Some friend Of the prisoners pass
ed the tools 10 them through the windows,
and they sawed through the floor Of the
upper corrider, and then sawed the
iron grating In the lower, corrider,
and from these through the
iron bars Of the windows. A
high board fence was placed around the
windows some years ago by the commits.
sioners for some reason, and this enabled
the escaped prisoners TO work without In
terferance from the outside.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-10-01
PERSONAL MENTION.


Mrs. Mary E. Biggs lett for Omaha,
Neb., last week.
]. II. Dickson has been selected as
counsel for the p, A. & W. Ry.
Rev. VIC. Dawson is attending Con-
ference at Bucyrus this week.
Wells Sears, Of Cleveland, spentsunday
in town.
Mrs. W. W. Ross, who has been spend
ing some time with her brother, d. {.
Houghton, returned 10 her home in FIRE.
mont Saturday.
W. r. Starr and family have returned
from Mackinac Island.
B. F. Fessenden and wife, of North Fair
field, visited his brother, l. F. Fessenden
over Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. Vanamburgh, returned
to Stanford, N. Y. Monday morning, after
spending three months very pleasantly as
the guests Of Mr.. L. Winchel.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Kirk, left Tues
day for California to be absent three
months.
Mr.. and Mrs. 7. G. Yale, have returne d
from Connecticut.
Mrs. j. L. Smith, Of Delaware, o., and
Mrs. Samuel Earnest, Of Attica, o., are
visiting their father Mr.. VIM. Rininger.
Mr.. and Mrs Taylor, of Cleveland, were
the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. S. Mallory
Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. w. Cone, of Waterbury
c., are the guests Of F. w. Bennett on
Prospect street this week.
QRey Bennett has secured position with
the Eleciral Supply Company in Cleye.
land.
G. D. Starbird, Post Master at New
London, was In town Monday.
WE. Whitney has removed to Lodi
Miss May Nichols is visiting friends in
Cardington, Ohio.
Mr., and Mrs. w. Ford and daughter
Ella Disbro Of Holton, Mich. are visiting
friends in this vicinity.
Grant Watts spent Sunday in Elyria,
John Gammell Of Talmadge, O., spent
Sunday In town.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. W. Harmon spent
Sunday In Oak Harbor.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. W. Harvey now occupy
a suite OF rooms in the American House.
Assistant Cashier w. Cushion has been
on the sick list for the past week, but is
now able to be at his post Of duty.
Geo. E. Townsend left town Monday for
a trip through Kentucky.
Q. p. Ellis will leave for Cleveland Oct.
8 to accept Of position with oviatt Bros.
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The Best Yet.

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HOmeseeker's Excursions.

viii leave Chicago and Milwaukee via
the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul Rail
way, for points in Northern Iowa. Min
nesota, North Dakota, South Dakota
Qncluding the great Sioux Reservation,
Montana, Colorado, Kansas and Ne.
braska, on September 9th, and Esd, and
October 14th, 1890.
Rates for these Excursions will be about
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VIII be good tor return within thirty days
from date of sale.
For further Information, apply 10 iany
Coupon Ticket Agent in the United States
or Canada, tn A. v. III. Carpenter, Gen.
eral Passenger Agent, Chicogo, Ill, or to
W. A McWblnney, Trav Pass. Agt. G. NJ.
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Another Fraud ATTEMPTED.

Monday afternoon stranger appeared
at the cheese Office Of Laundon, Windeck.
or Il Co. and presented two written orders
for money to @. W. Arner, who has charge
Of the books Of that department Of the
business. One order read as follows:
PENFrELD., y. sEPr. 20, 80.
LAUxDoN, WNDECKKR & Co.,
WELLINGTON,
Pay my hired man thirty-five dollars.
CHARLES JONES
The other was for thirty dollars and
signed by r. Jones. The Jones brothers
operate cheese factories In Penheld in the
interest Of Laundon, Windccker q Co. Of
this place, Mr.. Amer took the orders and
examined them carefully and then inform
ed the presenter that It was against the
rules Of the firm to recognize orders pre-
sented to them by strangers unless they
were identified. The stranger requested
Mr.. Aner TO hand the orders to him and
he would go out and get some one TO come
IN and identify him, but he has not yet
returned. In short time Mr.. Arner
made up his mind that the signatures to
the orders had been forged and decided to
haye the stranger placed under arrest, but
before he could procure the services
Of an officer he had skipped the
town. A lively chase was In.
dulged In by Marshal Williams mn
til near dark with the expectation of over
taking the iorger but he outgeneraled the
officer and got away. About one year ago
two orders for the same amounts were
cashed by this firm and g. W. Crosler &
Co., but this time both orders were pre-
sented to Laundon, Windecker & Co, but
Il did not work.
LATER.
Two strangers were placed under arrest
Tuesday afternoon near Polk, who are sup
posed to be interested in the scheme and
will have hearing soon as the parties
can get ready.