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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-10-16
THE EEN TARIFF Law.
Democratic Charges Refutsd.

Among the admirable series of cam
paign documents which the Republican
Congressional Committee has issued :or
this campaign, one which has just ap-
peared affords a complete and excl
lent analysis of the Mckinley bill. 1t
deals especially with the dangerous and
wholly unfounded charge that;the effect
of the new tariff will be a general Use
of prices. 1t explains the plan embodied
in the Mckinley bill, showing the meth
cd and purpose of its construction and
pointing out the conditions that have
prompted each and every increased duty.
The following are extracts from the DE
ument which are well worthy of perusal
and careful study:
REMARKABLE FREE LIST.
The Republican party has enacted the
Mckinley bill after ten months Of pro-
found investigation and elaborate de-
bate. 1t undertakes to say that wiser,
braver, fairer revenue bill has never
been provided in all the history of the
Republic! 1t undertakes to say that
under the operation of this new
tariff the American people will pay a
smaller proportion Of the expenses of
the Government than ever before. This
conclusion will be forced upon any fair
minded man who takes the trouble to
examine its provisions.
In the first place, a large portion of
the internal revenue taxation on tobac-
CO has been remitted, and all those an
noying special licenses for the sale of
tobacco have been abolished. The Amer
lean farmer and retailer are as free to-
day to sell their tobacco as their wheat.
In the next place, practically all direct
taxation, except the internal revenue
taxes on whisky and tobacco, have been
remitted to the people. This has been
done by means of remarkable enlarge
ment of the free list. 1t is practically
true to say that everything the like of
which is not or cannot be largely pro-
duced in this country has been placed
on the free list. A duty on this class of
articles is a revenue duty and is paid by
the consumer. In this respect it differs
entirely from protective duty, which is
often wholly and always largely paid by
the importer. By its additions to the
free list, then, the Republican party has
left in the peoples pockets a sum which
last year amounted to more than
s65, 100000, and has opened our ports to
merchandise-upon which the American
consumer has heretofore been paying a
tax-which was last year imported to
the value of $685., 100000. This is near
ly so per cent of the total importation,
and is 10 per cent. greater than the face
importation provided in the Mills bill.
When it is considered that among the
foreign products transferred by the Re-
publican party from the dutiable list to
the free list are such universally used
articles as sugar, molasses, needles, dried
currants, round or split straw-matting,
sisal grass and manila for use in the
manufacture of binding twine; braids,
seeds, hemp, turpentine and jute, the
Importance of this legislation may be ap
preciated.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-10-16
"HOME RULE" PARTY IN OHIO.

HUME RULE HARI1 IN OHlO,
Urbana Citizen.
With the vivid experience of some
nine months of Campbell's administra-
ton before them, the people of Ohio
can not go astrsy as to the record of
the 'home rule" party. 1t is for that
rule which represents largest outlays,
greatest increase of taxation and in
debtedness and least benefit to every
city and county from the Lake to the
River. It is characterized By incom-
potency, recreancy and chicanory, by
partisanship gone mad and BY the
elevation to power of the worst gang Of
boodlers, tricksters and spendthrifts that
ever were in power in any Northern
State. The Independent voter who
would endorse Campbell, Hawkins and
Norton would swallow without COM
Function or hesitation Cal. Brice, Dave
Hill and Jubal A. Early, speculation,
demagogism and corruption Of every
degree. If he is honest in hi. desire
for good government he may safely
challenge the records of the entire
history Of the State for so conspicious
and disgraceful an example of misrule
as that of the present day.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-10-16

DEMOCRATIC reader do you know
that prior to the "War of the South"
James Buchanan was President and
elected by the Democratic party, and
that the tariff law then in force, was
on Democratic principles of "a Tariff
for revenue" only. Almost free trade.
And do you further know what President
Buchahan said in his message to Con-
gress as to the financial prosperity of
the country? If not-here it is: ain
the midst of unsurpassed plenty In all
the productions and in all the elements
of national wealth we find our manu-
facturies suspended, our public works
retarded, our private enterprises of
different kinds abandoned, and thous-
ands of useful laborers thrown out of
employment and reduced to want" Do
you want that condition to returnY If
you do, then continue to vote the Dem
ocratic ticket.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-10-16
GREAT PROTECTION FOR FARMERS

GREAT PROTECTION FOR FARMERS.
The lies that are being told about the
tin-plate schedule are fair sample of
the weapons employed against the bill
throughout. 1t is alleged, for instance,
that the increased wooden and linen
duties will inevitably raise prices upon
the consumer. Now, it is plai1 that they
can have that effect, if they have it at
all, only upon those varieties of goods on
which increased duties have been i'm
posed. Those varieties are only the
finer grades, such as persons of large
incomes will use. The duties have not
been raised, but lowered instead, upon
the ordinary grades such as are in
common use, and the prices of these
can not possibly go up, because the
market of them is already in the pos
session of American manufacturers.
The effort Of this bill in all its depart
ments is to recover -t,l our people
markets that they have lost, and to
obtain for them new markets into
which they have not hitherto sought an
entrance. The duties on iron ore, pig
iron, scrap iron, and scrap steel, and all
the various forms of bar iron, have been
retained as they are in the present tarlir'
except that they have been slightly
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-10-16
VIGOROUS LEE.

1t has been well said that the vita
principle grows weak when isolated
The man who cares for nobody and fol
whom nobody cares, has nothing to live
for that will pay for the trouble Of keep
ing body and soul together. You must
have heap of embers to make a glow
ing fire. Scatter them apart, and they
become dim and cold. So to have 4
brisk, vigorous life you must have 8
group Of lives to keep each other warm,
as it were-to afford each other mutual
encouragement and confidence and sup
port. If you wish to live the life Of a
man, and not that of a fungus, be social
be brotherly, be charitable, be sympa-
thetic, and labor earnestly for the good
of your kind.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-10-16
EUPEPSY.

This is what you ought to have, in fact
you must have it, to fully enjoy life
Thousands are searching for it daily, and
mourning because they find it not; thOus
ands upon thousands Of dollars are spent
annually by our people in the hope that
they may attain this boon: and yet it may
be had by all. We guarantee that Electric
Bitters, if used according to directions
and the use persisted in, will bring you
good digestion and GUST the demon dys-
pepsia and install instead eupepsy We
recommend Electric Bitters for dyspepsia
and all diseases of liver stomach and kid
neys. Sold at SOC and 81 per bottle by
Patterson 4 Sons, druggists.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-10-16
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK
THURSDAYS NEWS.


General Wheeler. of Alabama, says
the tariff bill is unconstitutional.
Governor Campbell says no reply tC
Reemelin's letter is called for.
Peter Funk, a farmer, Is kicked to
death by his horse in Doylestown, Ohio
An old farmer near Portsmouth plows
up $4,000 worth of Spanish gold coin.
The Comte de Paris receives distin-
guished honors from the Loyal Legion
in Washington.
There will be no more paroles granted
from the Ohio Penitentiary until after
the election.
The net profits of the Western Union
Telegraph Company for the past year
were 81 ,094,6S
Colonel W. P. Orr has been nominated
for Congress by the Republicans Of the
Fourth Ohio District.
Important sections of the Indiana
Democratic election law have been de-
clared unconstitutional.
John Wagner and John Mullins are
killed by falling derrick in stone
quarry at Peninsula, o.
An attempt was made Monday night
to assassinate x-COngressman c. r.
Breckenridge at Center Ridge, Ark.
A corrected list of the casualties by
the explosion of the Dupont powder
mills, Wilmington, Del, gives eleven
killed and twenty injured.
William Sprague, Jr., son of Kate
Chase, and grandson of Salmon P. Chase,
was found dead In his room at Seattle,
Wash, suffocated by chloroform.
An analysis of the Mckinley bill in
convenient form for readers is to be
issued as a campaign document by the
Republican Congressional Committee.
Rube Burrows, the noted train robber
and ottlaw, was shot and killed at
Linden, Ala, at o'clock Wednesday
morning, after escaping from his guards
In the Jail at that place.
Descendants Of the Pottawatomie
Indians want 100000 from the Gov
ernment for what was a part of their
reservation-now the very heart of
Chicago, Cook county, Ill.
FRIDAYS NEWS.
La Grippe has reappeared at Burling-
ton, Iowa.
The President received great ovation
at Ottumwa, Ia, yesterday.
Ex-President Hayes denounces the
alleged tariff interview with him as
fraud.
Jerry Arnold was cut in two by a
freight train an the Kentucky Central
near Latonia.
No decision has been reached by the
President in the matter of special
session Of Congress.
Prof. Alexander Graham Bell III ges
Congress to enact law forbidding the
marriage of deaf mutes.
VIM. Slack accidentally shoots Alfred
Allen at Felicity, o., with didn't-knOw-
it was loaded revolver.
Governor Campbell protests to Ohio
managers against further
abuse of the parole power.
Sister Catherine Miss Kate Dre1eD
will erect near Andalusia, Pa, a convent
to prepare girls for work among Indians.
Nelson trots mile in 2:114, and
Hal Pointer PAGES in 2:094, the latter
the fastest time ever made In America,
at Terre Haute.
THE Secretary of the Treasury has
given notice that four and a-half bonds
will be redeemed on presentation, with
interest to August 81, 1891.
Chairman Hahn, Of the Republican
Committee, positively announces that
Secretary Blaine has promised to come
to Ohio and make two speeches.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-10-16

OF the Democratic General Assembly
which convened in special session Tues
day, for the purpose of purifying politics,
the present Democratic Adjutant Gen
eral Hawkins said:
"It will go down to history as the
most unsatisfactory official body that
ever met in the State House. 4
The majority of its acts are either in
different or very bad. 1t has
insisted on doing things that will damn
it for all time to come. 1t
will be distinguished as having spent
thousands of dollars on useless expendi-
lures, for having cowardly
forsaken its German allies,
for dealing in a weak and uncertain
way with the canals, and for
accepting from boodlers a goodly sum
of money, for having among
its members some of the smallest and
cheapest rascals that ever got into
politics-men who saw no good in any
measure unless they could discover S.
greenback wrapped up in it."
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-10-16

DESCRIBING the changes going on In
theology, the Ando7er Reoie,D for tn,
current month says that in the past the
ology attempted chiefly to establish be.
lief, so that reasons enough shall appear
to keep the people from relinquishing
their faith in Christianity and the Bible
bat theology now is attempting to dis
cover the relations Of Christianity tc
life, so that its powor shall proceed un-
hindered to its intended results. Under
the old methods its object WAS to keep
men from losing their faith. Under the
new method its object is to give faith
its redeeming power in life"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-10-16

THE Republicans Of the Third Con-
gress District, Pa, have now a good
chance to secure the election of man
of their own faith to fill the late Hon.
Samuel J. Randall's place. Hon. Richard
Vaux, the present Incumbent has con-
sented to run as an independent can
didate against McAleer, the regular
Democratic nominee, and Republican
ought to be able to slip in between the
two.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-10-16

CONGRESS, at its last session, made a
good record to present to the people of
the country for their approval. 1t gave
them a protective tariff, sound silver
currency and plenty Of it, liberal pen
sion law, two new States, strengthened
navy and harbor defenses, and other
acts of beneficial legislation too numer-
Gus to mention. All the Democrats did
was to oppose every good measure
adopted or laid over.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-10-16
A SCRAP OF PAPER SAVES HER
LIFE.

1t was just an ordinary scrap of wrap
ping paper, but it saved her life She was
in the last stages of consumption; told by
physicians that she was incurable and
could live only short time; she weighed
less than seventy pounds. On piece of
wrapping paper she read of DR.. Kings
New Discovery, and got sample bottle;
it helped her; she bought large bottle;
it helped her more; bought another and
grew better fast; continued its use and is
now strong, healthy, plump, weighing 14O
pounds. For further information send
stamp to w. II. Cole, druggist, Fort Smith.
Trial bottles of this wonderful Discovery
free at PattersOn's drug store.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-10-16

"OH, what a charming plantf' ex-
claimed visitor, and his hostess re-
piled;
"Yes, it belongs to the begonia fam
ily."
"Why, no, mamma" said the young
est daughter, "it belongs to the Brown
family, and they lent it to us for the
evening"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-10-16

THE annual report of the Comptroller
of the Currency will show that the
National Banks have increased 296
during the year ending with September
30-the largest number for a single
year since 1865, when so many States
banks took out charters for National
institutions. The capital of the new
banks is more than s30,000,000, and the
chief growth of the banks was in the
Northwest and Southwest.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-10-16
MOSES TuRK, of Gainesville, Ga, cuy

MOSES TURK, of Gainesville, Ga, cut
a popular tree that measured Al feet in
diameter at the stump and 3 feet in
diameter 60 feet from the butt. 1t
made six stocks, Is feet long, clear of
knots and windShakes. Every cut had
to be split before it could be hauled ex-
cept the lap cut. 1t made 1870 feet
of square lumber, for which firm paid
81 per 100. Counting two years for
every circle in the stump the tree was
S64 years old. 1t took two yoke of oxen
to turn over one-half of the butt cut and
three yoke to pull one-third of it out.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-10-16

THIS country is not only an immense
unity, but is made up Of great many
units representing innumerable and
diversified interests. A tariff, therefore,
to be of any practical national signifl-
canoe, must necessarily be compromise
as between these often conflicting in
terests. The Democrats can not Under
stand this. Their comprehension is too
small for subject so large.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-10-16

For months the free trade organs
have hooted at the idea that the tariff
on flour, meat, eggs, and vegetables
could affect the prices of these articles,
as we export largely of them and import
little. Now they say the tariff is re-
sponsible for the increase in piece.
Which time did they liei
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-10-16
FREE SUGAR.

For the reduction of the revenues the
Mills bill relied chiefly on free wool, the
Mckinley bill on free sugar. This cir
cumstance admirably illustrates the diff
ference in spirit and purpose between
the two measures. We consume 600,-
100000 pounds of wool annually and we
can produce the whole of it. We do not
need to go abroad for a single fiber. We
consume 1,423, 900 tons of sugar, and we
can produce only 226,0OO tons, not 90
per cent. of our demand. Now, the Re-
publican policy is to protect wool, (which
we can and do produce, so as hold our
market for our own producers, and to
encourage wool-growing and wool man
ufacturing; and, on the other hand, free
ly admit sugar, which we are not large
ly producing, so as to put it into the
coffee-cups of our own people at the low
est possible price. The Democratic policy
is to admit wool free, thus drawing the
semi-savage Oolgrowers of Asia and
South America into competition with
our farmers, to the inevitable destruc
ton of our wool industry, and to tax SUI
gar. The Republican policy proposes to
send no more money out of the country
than is absolutely necessary. The Dem
ocratic policy proposes to send out as
much as possible, and needlessly to tax
the American consumer as well. With
wool on the free list every advantage is
handed over to the foreign producer,
and with a duty on sugar every hard
ship is imposed upon the American con-
sumner. With wool protected every ad-
vantage i, held for the American produ-
Ger, and with sugar free every advan
tage is left to the American consumer.
1t is especially to be noted that in this
opening of our ports to the sugar of the
world we have freed the people from all
danger of having to pay tribute to
trust The sugar that comes in, up to
No. 16, is white, excellent sugar, fit
for table use anywhere. The people are
therefore beyond the reach of any COM
bination of refiners.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-10-16

President Harrison was among the
veterans of his old brigade yesterday at
Galesburg, ILL.,, and addressed them in
an eloquent and feeling manner. He
also laid the corner stone of college
building. In the evening he proceeded
on his journey, and at late hour ar
rived at Burlington, Ia, where the night
was spent.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-10-16

The London Iron and Coal Trades Re
view says of the Mckinley bfll that ID
''is framed IN complete defiance Of the
wishes and interests Of foreign conn
tries." and it hopes 30 see the measure
disappear ''in the operation known as
the slaughter of the innocents.'
II has been ascertainejl that grave robhsrs
have been ut work foI some time. and have
carriod away several bodies from the Brother
hood cemetery, MI Holly. n. }. II Is believed
that the bodies are being stolen for the dis
sectins room. The cemetery Is now being
guarded In the uigEt time
One-third of the goods imported tneo
Mexico go from the United States, and
two-thirds of those exported come here.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-10-16

IT will now be in order for Democratic
organs to laboriously explain to their
readers that the big crowds and the
enthusiastic cheers that greeted the
President at every stopping place on
his Western trip are evidences that the
country is disgusted with the Admins
tration and the work of Congress and
tired of Republican rule.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-10-16
ProtectIon-Its Object and Results.

Protection-Its Object and Results
From a symposium In The Voice OF
Sept. IS we take the following on Pro
lection. by Edward H. Ammidown:
The object of Protection is TO develop
and diversity our industries, and there
by not only to provide occupation ts
every variety of talent, but home mar.
ket for every product which the bound
less natural resources Of the country can
supply. The greater the diversity of Our
industries and the larger their output
the more beneficial they are to our peo-
pie Of all classes and the lower the coS
Of production. The irresistible law Of
competition will level down prices &c
consumers to tho lowest scale at which
any product can be afforded with the
same average profits that attend other
pursuits.
Protective legislation looks TO the en-
ploylnent of labor at rates fitting the
dignity of American citizenship. II
looks to the creation and maintenance
of home market for the products oa
the soil, free. from charges for long
transportation and from the uncertain
ties of distant markets.
The census and the national bureau OF
statistics prove that 1t has accomplished
these purposes: that the people hsre
been employed at liberal wages. and the
products of the soil have been provided
with home market Notwithstanding
the vast area of our farms and the num-
bers employed on them, which are as
least double those engaged IN any other
form of industry. our agricultural prod
ucts are substantially consumed at home,
at prices which are ON the average fUs
the whole country higher than arc re-
ceived by the farmers of any other part
of the world.
This result Is secured by the develop
ment Of American industries under Pro
lection
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-10-16
DRS FRANCE & OTTMAN.

Formerly of New York, now of the
France Medical and Surgical Institute,
Columbus, Ohio, by request of many
friends and patients, have decided to visit
st. Clairsville, Thursday, Octo. 16. Con-
sultation and examination free and strict
ly confidential in the private parlors Of
the american House, east of school house,
from A. NJ. to 6 P. NJ, one day only.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-10-16

The Democratic party is not pointing
with pride to its Congressional leaders
or to its millionaire bosses, or to its
record of things accomplished, but it
has its alarms about personal liberty
and its theories about the tariff
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-10-16

TIE Democracy has been bowling for
four or five years that the tariff question
"must be settled" Now they are howl
ing because it is settled. They can not
be satisfied on the tariff question, what
ever is done.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-10-16

GOVERNOR CAMPBELL has been at the
head of our State government about
nine months, and he nnds himself COM
PEELED to call an extra session Of the
Legislature to get rid of the dishonest
men whom he has appointed to office.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-10-16

The first trial of the Australian secret
ballot system in Covingten, KY, resulted
In Republican victory for the first
time in twenty years. This is a
hint of what honest methods will do in
Southern elections.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-10-16

AT his season of the year people can
not be too careful about keeping their
bowels regular. Bilious and malarial
diseases are brought on by allowing the
bowels to become torpid. An occasional
dose OF st. Patrick's Pills is all that would
be required and might prevent serious
sickness. For sale by J. b. Hoge, Drug
gist. 1912 it.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-10-16
BeItltnttt GttrntttrlP.
THURSDAY, OCT. IS, 1880.

GOVERNOR CAMPRILL he's heard the
Republican cry "turn the raseals out, "
and summoned the Legislature TO help
him do it,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-10-16

CURIOUS visitor, who has just entered
the study of busy literary man: "Ah,
yes, the world is always interested in the
way that writers livel Pray tell me
now when do you feel best?'
Writer: "When ] am alone. Good
morning"