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GORDON EXPLAINS.
The Georgia Governor IL Sorry That He
Ever Advocated BoycottinR.

The Georgia Governor IL Sorry That He
Ever Advocated Boycotting.
When the Atlanta Constitution, long
the organ Of the New South" what
ever that means, and Governor Gordon,
who had always been regarded as a con-
servatiye man with strong National in
stincts, came out in advocacy Of the
boycott 1t certainly looked as if the old
race Of fire-eaters was far from extinct.
The Constitution entered upon its self
assumed leadership of great uprising
against National supervision of Con-
gressional elections with evident salts
faction, and Governor Gordon seemed
TO enjoy the prospect of Furnishing
Northern trade for the high crime and
grave misdemeanor of passing Federal
election bill But to their great sur
prise hardly anybody enlisted under
their banner. With remarkable una
nimity the Southern press secuted the
idea, some turning it into ridicule,
others dismissing it with sneer, and
hardly any Of them taking kindly to 1t.
The Constitution had said so much that
1t could not face about, but the Gov
ernor. having made only one speech and
su omitted to one interview, Vas not so
bad of. In a long COMMUNICATION to
the New York Herald, he undertakes TO
explain away his boycottish utterances
and eliminate the singer from them.
There is no little significance in this
anxiety of the Governor of Georgia to
disavow boycotting. 1t shows how gen.
eral is its reputation by those who
were expected to indorse and promote
it If Northern goods were effectually
barred out of the South the priyations
of that section would soon be as great
as they were during the war. Southern
coai and iron interests have been some
what developed, but the manufact ire of
the thousand and one comforts of life,
especially of those things used in the
household, has hardly begun at the
South As one Southern newspaper put
it il the editor of the Constitution
should boycott all the household effects
now in his home there would not be
enough left TO fill cigar box. The
trade club. swung so Justify BIZ the
leading journal of Georgia and By. the
Governor OF the State, turns ont to be
less substantial than the stated article
of the stage or the tissue paper which is
the raw material Of Democratic suprem-
scy at the South.
Governor Gordon shows no little inge-
nuity as a erawfish. Nothing was
further from his thoughts, he. assures
"a tkan to kindle thy fame of sectional
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THE POLITICAL FIELD.

HWith j. s Clarkson in control Of
the Republican Congressional commit
tee, we shall have Napoleonic cam
paign--N. Y. Mail and Express.
e The only gag rule" in the Senate
is practiced by an insolent and reckless
partisan minority that is choking legis-
lation TO death--Chicsgo Journal
u The tone of the English newspa-
pers toward Mr.. Blaine's Behring sea
argument is almost sufficiently con-
temptuous to prove that Mr.. Blaine was
right-Chicago Tribune
H Yes. the ''force bill" Is force bill
in the sense in which the bankruptcy
bill is a bankruptcy bill The latter Is
q bill TO break up fraudulent bankrupt
CT, you KNOWN. Y. Press
9 The Republican party, we believe.
would much prefer to see the present
session held open until the 1st OF No
vember than to have tie elections bill
or any other vitality important measure
sacrificed or postponed for the sake OK
an early adjournment --Dstroit Tsi4
bune.
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A FREE TRADE BOOMERANG.

The Free Trade Press Still Trying to Con-
vince the Farmers That "the Tariff is q
Ta1"-Thcir Figures shown Up-How the
Farmer Profits In Turn by Reason of the
Tariff on HIS Products.
The free trade, Cobdenite and Mug
wump papers are enthusiastically copy
ing and spreading broadcast what pre-
tends to be. and we doubt not truth
fully, an abstract from the accounts of
an Arkansas storekeeper with one of his
former customers, running from Janu-
airy 90 to October "a, 1887, inclusive
amounting to s1O1.5O. with figures oppo-
site to each entry claiming to be the
amount which such charges were in
creased by import duties. This assumed
imitation of prices aggregates $50. so. In
other words our contemporaries claim
that what cost the farmer SOL 80 would
have been bought for So. 20 if the tariff
had not existed. We copy the claim Of
the demonstrative capacity or the same
from that eminent free trade journal,
Henry Georges Standard. Of July 10th,
as follows:
The Buffalo Courier says that some
time ago Senator James X. Jones asked
C. R. p. Breckenridge, of the House
Ways and Means Committee, to prepare
for W. L. Terry, of Little Rock, a state
ment of the amount Of tariff duties on q
bill of goods bought by representa-
tive farmer. In reply Mr.. Breckenridge
furnished an exhibit based on actual
transactions between R NJ. Knox, a
merchant of Pine Bluff, Ark, and ID. w.
Branch, farmer who bought the goods.
Mr.. Breckenridge explains that this is
calculated upon the basis of copy from
the books of Mr.. Knox. and upon the
rate of taxes actually paid upon Compel
ing articles at the ports as provided by
law" The bill as it appears in Mr..
Knox's books is subjoined.
Our space will not permit full pre-
sentation of this farmers purchases for
nearly year. and we must confine our
selves to abstracts as follows:
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FIGURES THAT TALK.
Ths Purchasing Power OF Money In Eu.
rope and the United states.

Ths Purchasing Power OF Money In Eu-
rope and the United states.
When free trader is cornered by
positive facts, conclusively showing
that the higher rate of wages in the
United States is due to protection, and
that to cut down this would necessarily
reduce wages. he lodges by declaring
that the purchasing power" Of the
smaller sum would be equal to that Of
the present larger one; that if the En-
glish workman receives three shillings
(73 cents) day and the American L5O,
the former will buy as much in England
as the latter in this country. This is
very neat but the trouble is that it is
false. This has been proved by some
recent investigations of the Wisconsin
State Bureau of Labor and Industrial
Statistics. 1t has prepared table
showing the relative percentages Of
bread, meat, pork and butter that can
be bought for the wages received for
ten hours work in Wisconsin and in
several European cities:
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hate. He dearly loves tho North, and
he deprecates the passage of the Ma
tional election bill because 1t would
tend to retard the unification of the
country. Whstever he may have said
when he was red headed" here is his
afterthought reflection upon the pend
ing bill:
Such unnecessary ana hostile legislation
would lead to confusion, estrangement and in.
terruptions Of that needful commercial inter
course so potential in drawing the sections
closer and closer together in the last twenty.
five years.
This remark resembles the buster Of
his original boycott speech much as .
zephyr resembles a blizzard. Both are
wind, but their contrast in degree is
greater than their resemblance in kind.
IL General Gordon will only profit
permanently by the foolish break he
made in trying to follow tie lead of the
Atlanta Constitution he may regain the
position he held in the esteem of the
people North and South.-Chicago Inter
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had done, and, as he listened, raked
sand into little heap with his toes.
Then he spoke, pointing to the little
heap. There is your tribe to-day" he
said. Then he lifted his heel and
stamped the heap fat. There is your
tribe before three moons are gone.
Nothing is left of it You drove me
away; will have no more 10 do with
You; but when you are being killed think
of my words"
The messengers went. Three months
afterwards / heard that the whole COM
1munity had been wiped out by an Impi
of raiding Pondos.
When was at length ready to start
upon my expedition 1 went TO old
Indaha-zimbi TO say goodbye to him,
and was rather surprised to find him
engaged in rolling up medicine, asse-
gals and other sundries in his blankets.
Goodbye, Indaba-zimbi,n / said, II
am going TO trek NORTH
'sYes, Macumazahn,s he answered,
with his head on one side; '.and so am 1
II want TO see that country. We will
60 together
"Will weI' said; swat till you are
asked, you old humbug.D
You had better ask me, then,
Mscunazahn, for if you don't you will
never come back alive. Now that the
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Cost. TarIff

Our readers will especially note the
last entry, wherein the boy gets his hat
for cents less than the duty. would
have been on the same il imported. AS
to nails, on which the import duty is
per pound by the tariff of 1888, which
will be in force until further leglsla-
ton, the duties are: X cents ard s
cents for cut; cents and 4 cents for
wrought, according to size. Such nails
are now selling at aK cents per pound
at Wholesale, at or about half the i'm
port duty, retailing by the single pound
at cents, while calico, excellent in
and elsewhere at 5 cents per yard.
or about the import duty on the
same. Doubtless the same principle
would be found on examination to per-
meate largely, if not entirely. the whole
list and il time permitted We would
gladly investigate. We would be glad
If any Of our readers would do this
whether of protective or free trade pro-
clivities, confident that If of the fosner
school they would emerge from the in
vestigstion more confirmed in their
faith than ever, and of the latter that
they would be convinced that their
would-be leaders were in this matter
trying to impose on their credulity.
That our Buffalo contemporary and
its co-workers should have selected a
long winded book account in section
of the country almost as secluded as Mr..
Nasby's Confederate Cross Roads is sus-
picious, and is strongly suggestive of
Deacon Bascom's essays on political
economy, written about thirty years
ago.
Possibly We may have been guilty of
discourtesy in giving such publicity as
the foregoing to what might have been
intended as confidential communica-
ton to farmers only" as emphatically
displayed in its head lines with capital
letters, for farmers only to read. /" but
our earnest desire that farmers should
not only read but study 1t, must be our
apology.
It is possible that II the opposite side
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-09-12
FRIGHTENED DEMOCRATS.
The Situation In Georgia Not Altogether
Pleasing to the Mossbacks.

The Situation In Georgia Not Altogether
| Pleasing to the Mossbscks-
There is evidence that the situation
in Georgia is not altogether pleasing to
the Democracy. 1t is not the State
ticket of that party. however, which Is
lin danger. Democratic power in the
State is so strongly fortified by fraud
land buttressed by bulldozing that it is
not likely to be shaken seriously by any
political cataclysm of the next half
dozen years. The only peril which pre-.
sents itself is in the canvass for Con.
gressmen. This peril is so real and so
imminent that the Atlanta Constitution
warns the Democrats that the "Repub.
lican National Committee 10 hard as
work directing its guns on more than
one Of the Democratic nominees in this
State" and appeals to its political
friends to 'stand by the party"
The cause for this alarm may readily
be pointed out In most of the Congress
sional nominating conventions of the
Democracy in Georgia this year the
members of the Farmers Alliance van
pushed the Bourbon section of the par
ty. and put their own candidates in the
field. The feeling between the factions
is so strong and the differences in opin-
ion on many of the issues which the Al
lance has injected into the canvass are
so vital that a split in some of the dis
tricts has been looked for. II the
Straightouts do not put up nominees Of
their own the assumption is that many
of them will remain away from the
polls, and thus make it possible for the
Repu blicans, in one or two districts, to
step in and win.
Thus the Georgia Bourbon papers are
justified in declaring that the party line
is weak in few important points. The
situation. it may be said, Is somewhat
new in the politics of the State. This
year there will be two parties at least
in the Congressional canvass in Georgia,
and in one or two districts perhaps
three. Heretofore in recent years there
has virtually been but one party in
many of the Congressional districts.
Time after time Democrats were elecscd
with no opposition. This year, how
ever, the conditions are changed. The
muster which the Republicans made in
few districts in 1883, under the slim
illus of the Presidential canvass, proves
that the policy of systematic repression
which has been Practical against them
for dozen years past has neither weak.
ened their numbers nor altogether
crushed their spirit As fate has made
Republican chances in 1890 more favor.
able than they have been in any recent
election year, the cause Of the Bourbon
fright at the outlook may readily be
understood. st Louis Globe Democrat.
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ing. which means plenty of meat and
cengenial occupation, but Indaba-zimbi
weuld express no opinion. saw him
retire to little fire that he had Lit for
himself and &c through some mysterious
performances with bones and clay
mixed with ashes, which were watched
with the greatest interest by the other
Kaffi-s. At length he rose. and, coming
forward, informed me that it was all
right, and that did well to go and hunt
the elephants, as should get plenty Of
ivory; but he advised me to go on foot.
said should do nothing of the sort,
but meant to ride. am wiser now; that
was the first and last time that ever
attempted to hunt elephants on horse
back.
Accordingly we started at dawn, I, In
daba-zimbi and three men; the rest I
left with the wagons. was on horseback,
and SO was my driver, a good rider and a
skillful shot for Kaffir, but Indaba-
zimbi and the others walked. From dawn
till midday we followed the trail of the
herd, which was as plain as high road.
Then we off-saddled to let the horses
rest and feed, and about three o'clock
started on again. Another hour or so
passed, and still there was no sign of
elephants. Evidently the herd had
travelled fast and far, and began to
think that we should have to give it up
when suddenly 1 caught sight of a
brown mass moving through the thorn
trees on the side of slope about quar-
ter of mile away. My heart seemed to
jump into my mouth. Where is the
hunter who has not felt like this at the
sight of his fist elephant? l called a
halt, and then, the wind being right,
we set to work to stalk the bull. Very
quietly rode down the hither side of the
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-09-12

This idea of an extensive domestic
market for the surplus product Of the
soil is of the first consequence is of
all things, that which most effectuany
conduces to fiourishing state Of agri-
culture" ITO secure such a market
there is no other expedient than to pro-
mote manufacturing establishments !"
SIT is the interest of a community. with
a view to eventual and permanent
economy, to encourage the growth Of
manufactures In National view, a
temporary enhancement of price must
always be we'll compensated by per
manent reduction of Alexander
Hamilton.
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Our Foreign Trade.

Our foreign trade for the past fiscal
year, ended june S0th. reached the
highest point ever attaineds amour ting
to S1.G47, 1872. O14 in salue. as against
81, 4s7, 5S3, OF during the fiscal year 1889,
an increase of $3.50. 65S, eS7. The imports
amounted to STS9. $50, s55, being an in
crease Of s44, 2O4, 2O3 over last year The
greater portion of this increase occurred
in the following articles, named in the
order of magnitude of Increase Sugar
and nolasses,> coffee, silk, raw and
manufactures of, India rubber and gut
tapercha, crude, manufacturer of cotton,
vegetables and fruits. There was de-
cline in value of imports of wool, hides
and skins, and iron and steel and manu-
facturers of. 81
Our exports of merchandise amounted
to ss57 SIG, 159, being an increase of
Sis, Asa, 7s4 over last year, and sos, $780,
304 more than our imports. OF the in
crease in exports. s13, 100, 974 was in raw
cotton; $50, 54643 in breadstugs; $751;
234, SIS in provisions, and S14, 9O1, 49S in
cattle, sheep and hogs The amount in
pounds of cotton exported was, 9, All. :
ToS, SIS, being the largest quantity
shipped out of the county in any one
fiscal year in the history of such ex-
ports. ~
Our exports of gold and silver during
the fiscal year amounted to $50, 129. 2O2;
our imports of the same to s34, 900, GAG,
an excess of exports over imports of
SIT, 226,25 During the last fiscal year
the excess of exports over imports of
the same was S67, 67s. ago.
The year brought an increase in the
volume of immigration, the number of
immigrants being 451. 219 against AIS, GIG
for the fiscal year 1889. This increase
was wholly of class that it is the least
desirable to have an accession Of From
Italy, there was an increase Of over %, =
94S; from Austria-Hungary. 2a,004; from
Russia and Poland, 1921. France, Great
Britain and Ireland there was a decrease
of 80, S16; from Sweden and Norway, u
S24, and from Germany, 1852
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Heaven smiled upon and gave US
liberty and independence. The same
providence has blessed US with the
means of National independence and
National defence. If we omit or refuse
to use the gifts which he has extended
to US, we deserve not the continuance
Of his blessing. He has filed our
mountains and our plains with minerals
with lead, iron and copper-and given
us climate and soil for the growing Of
hemp and wool. These being the great
materials of our National defense, they
ought to have extended to them
adequate and fair protection, that our
manufacturers and laborers may be
placed in fair competition with those
of Europe, and that We may have with
in our country supply Of these leading
and i'm portant articles so essential to
war."-Andrew jackson.
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OF course no honest free trader will
for moment deny If the hypothesis of
his school is correct that every dollar
of import duty increases by like figure
the price of every similar article,
whether of domestic or foreign produc-
ton, and it must follow that the value
of the farmers credits noted above was
increased to a larger extent than his
debts The prices we use above are
taken from the National report of those
current in Arkansas in 1881 and the
tariff duties from the act of juno so,
1888, which is law until further legisla-
finn
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CHAPTER Ill

make no apology to myself, or to
anybody who may happen to read this
narrative in future, for having set out
the manner OF my meeting with Indaba-
,zimbi; first because it was curious, and
secondly, because he takes some hand in
the subsequent events. If that old man
was humbug, he was a very clever one.
What amount of truth there was in his
pretensions of supernatural powers it is
not for me TO determine, though l may
have my own opinion on the subject.
But there was no mistake as to the ex-
traordinary influence he exercised over
his fellow natives. Also he got quite
round nv poor father. At first the old
gentleman declined to have him at the
station, for he had a great horror of
these Kaffir wizards or witch-fnders.
But Indaba-zimbt persuaded himthat he
was anxious to investigate the truths of
Christianity and challenged him to dis
cussion. The argument lasted for two
years-to the time of my father death,
indeed. At the conclusion of each stage
Inda5a-zimbi would remark, in the
words OF the Roman Governor: almost
me to become Christian, but he never
quite became one-indeed, l do not
think he ever meant to. 1t was to him
that nv father addressed his Letters to
Native Doubter This work, which,
unfortunately, remains in manuscript,
is full Of wise saws and learned in
stances. 1t ought to be published to
gether with a precis of the doubter's an
5swers, which were verbal.
So the talk went on. If my father
had lived believe it would be going on
now, for beth the disputants were quite
inexhaustible. Meanwhile Indaba-zimbi
was allowed to live in the station
-on condition that he practised nc witch
craft, which my father firmly believed
to be vile of the DEVILS. He said that
he would not, but for all that there was
never an OK lost, or a sudden death, but
he was consulted by those interested.
When he had been with US year q
-deputation came to him from the tribe
he had left asking him to return.
Things had not gone we'll with them
since he went away, they said, and now
the chief, his enemy, was dead Old
Indaba-zimbi listened to them till they
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-09-12
TIE STRANGE STORY
or
Allan Quatamain's Wife
By n. RIDER HAGGARD,
AUTHOR OF "SHE,' "KISG SoLosroS's
MINES JESS "CLEo-
PATRA," Ere.
AN AFRICAN ROMANCE.
CHAPTER n-CoNTINUED.

CHAPTER IL-CoNTINUKD.
"Greater or not, thou dog, he shall
die" he cried, land so shalt thou If
thou singest his praises so loudly"
said nothing, but thinking it proba-
bic that Indaba-zimbi had shared the
fate of his enemy, went to look. But
could see nothing of him; and at length,
being thoroughly chilled with the wet,
started back to my wagon to get change
of clothes. On reaching it was rather
surprised to see a strange Kaffir seated
.on the driving box wrapped up in a
blanket.
"Hullo! come out of that" said.
The figure on the box slowly unrolle1
the blanket, and with great deliberation
took pinch of snuff.
at was good freight, white man.
was It not?'' said Indaba-zimbl, in his
high, cracked voice. ''But he never had
"a chance against me, poor boy. He
knew nothing about it. See, white man,
what comes of presumption in the
young. 1t is sad, very sad, but made
the flashes fly, didn't I?''
you old humbug,' l said, unless
you are careful you will soon learn what
comes of presumption in the old, for
your chief is after you with an assegai,
and it will take all your magic to dodge
that"
'Now, you don't say so. )" said Indaba-
zzimbi, clambering off the wagon with
rapidly; land all because of this
wretched upstart There's gratitude
for you, white man. Iexpose him, and
they want to kill me. Well, 1 thank you
for the hint. We shall meet again be-
fore long And he was gone like shot,
and not too soon, for just then some
men came up to the wagon.
On the following morning 1 started
homeward. The first face l saw on ar
irving at the station was that of Indaba-
.zimbi.
SLOW do you do, MacumazahnI" he
said, holding his head on one side and
nodding his white lock. 81 hear you
are Christians here, and want to try a
new religion. Mine must be bad one,
seeing that my people wanted to kill
me for exposing an impostor."
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A snsg for Free Traders.

There is one protection proposition
that our free trade friends have not been
able to demolish. 1t is found in the
following paragraph in speech made
by Senator Morrill, in the Senate on
July 80: II do not know of an article
that has received tariff protection for a
series of years that is not now sold for
a much less price than 1t was before it
was protected" This little sentence Of
thirty-four words contains statement
which the Democratic writer's have tried
in vain to disprove with columns Of free
trade argument The facts are against
them and they are invariably compelled
to give 1t up