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The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1890-07-24

ward, has reached Winchester, in the
Valley of Virginia, and whereas it is rea-
sonable to conclude that said railroad
will be continued in its prolongation and
adhere to line through our Valley
counties, therefore, be it
ResoIUed, That this meeting of the
people of the southwestern part of Au-
gusta county have learned to form very
high opinion of the advantages which
would accrue to them through the eX-
tension of the Cumberland Valley rail
road up the Valley and along the wes-
tern side Of Augusta county, and that
in the resources for profitable develop
ment, the possession of vast mineral
and the finest of agricultural lands and
forest wealth, our section presents most
inviting field for new railroad enterprise
Res0JUed, That a committee of ten be
| appointed to confer with the representa-
tives or committees of meetings which
may be held in our and sister counties to
cooperate with this meeting, and the
committee now appointed to advance
| the objects herein set forth.
ResOIUed, That having clothed the
committee herein provided for with full
powers to conduct this project to a con
| summation looking to full and free co
| operation by all the communities which
may be interested in the several counties
| of the Valley, we invoke the earnest eff
| forts of said committee in this behalf moi
doubling the liberal and appreciativt
spirit in which our proceedings will bt
received by the authorities of the Cum
berand Valley Railroad Company.
Resozoe9, That report of the pro
ceedings of this meeting be forwarded
to the President of the Cumberland Val
ley Railroad Company at Chambershurg
Pennsylvania, and that copies also b.
furnished the Staunton papers for pub
LEGATION, and that the papers of the Val
ley of Virginia be requested to copy tn
same.
The following committee on bushes
was appointed Capt E. A. Fulcher,
S. McCorllle, J. w. Mish, j. H, Bowman
w. w. Sproul, J. Alex. Bumgardner, d
S. Condor, j. Frank Clemmer, J. R. Nc
Cutchan and M. G. Kerr
On motion of John S. McCorkle, vot
of thanks was rendered Col. ]. G. Shields
Mr.. Heber Kerr and Capt. James Bum
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-06-19
PROTECTION.vs. FREE TRADE
IN AUSTRALIA

Fortnightly Review.
Opposite fiscal policies have long beer
pursued in the two chief Australian
colonies of Victoria and New South
Wales, which are inhabited by the same
race, and whose territory is contiguous.
The former has adhered steadily for the
last twelve years to rigorous protective
policy, while the latter has adopted fol
very much longer period the policy OF
free trade.
Protection and free trade have now
been tested side by side as an economic
experiment for many years. With her
enormous area, well nigh four times as
large as that of Victoria; with her vast
mineral wealth in gold, silver, coal, iron,
copper, and tin; her cornflelds and i'm
mense tracts of PASTORAL lands and tim
ber; with finer climate, a larger sea-
board, and the grandest harbor in the
world, the natural resources of New
South Wales are almost immeasurably
greater than those of Victoria. And
yet, strange to say, the little protectionist
colony is ahead of the gigantic free trade
colony in nearly every reSpect-a striking
confirmation of the evidence of hun
dred chambers of commerce in favor of
protection. At the present time En-
gland stands alone a free trader in a
ring of empires and republics protected
by stringent tariffs; but her Australian
colonies are now compelled to fall in
with the fashion of fencing themselves
round with fiscal defenses. South Au-
stralia, which had previously suffered
from great depression of trade and
financial embarrassment, has recently
followed the example of Victoria, her
sister colony, and since her adoption of
protectionist policy there has been
such marked revival of business and
increased prosperity that she has now
surplus of 100000.
To sum up, the protective colony is
ahead in agriculture, ahead in viticul
ture, ahead in growth of population,
ahead in railway development, ahead in
banking, ahead in large manufactures
and in the number of workmen employed,
ahead in enterprise and capital, ahead in
general prosperity and progress, and
finally, although behind in mineral and
pastoral wealth, its artisans and peas
antry-in word its entire proletariat-
the bone and sinew of country, are
porous in the world.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-06-19
Daniel Webster and Protection.

In a speech delivered July 25, 1876
the last tariff speech and probably the
most elaborate tariff speech he ever
made-Mr. Webster, after discussing the
great benefits of Protective Tariff, said:
"The interest of every laboring COM
munity requires diversity of occupa-
tions, pursuits and objects of industry.
The more that diversity is multiplied or
extended the better. To diversity en-
ployment is to increase employment and
to enhance wages. And, sir, take this
great truth, place it on the title page Of
every book of political economy intended
for the use of the government, put it In
every farmers almanac, let it be the
heading of the column in every me-
chanic's magazine, proclaim It every
where, and make it a proverb. that
where there is work for the hands Of
men there will be work for their teeth
Where there is employment there
viii be bread. 1t is great blessing to
the poor to have cheap food, but greater
than that, prior to that, and of still
higher value, is the blessing of being
able to buy food by honest and respect
able employment. Employment feeds
and clothes and instructs. Employment
gives health, sobriety and morals. Con-
slant employment and well paid labor
produce in a country like ours general
prosperity, content and cheerfulness-
Thus happy have we seen the country.
Thus happy may we long continue to
see it"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-06-19
ENGLISH VIEW OF TARIFF Bill

ENGLISH VIEW OF TARIFF BILL
No better proof is wanted of the prob
able effect of the Mckinley Tariff bill on
English and American industries than
the remarks of Charles Vincent, Member
of the English Parliament for Central
Sheffield, in that body on June 9. Mr..
Vincent called attention to the passage
of the Mckinley bill by the House of
Representatives at Washington, wherein
were provided enhanced prohibitory
duties on cutlery, tin plates, iron hoops
and other articles of British export"
He then asked wide cable report)
whether the English Government, hav-
ing regard for the disastrous effect
which the Senate's approval must have
upon Sheffield, the Midlands, South
Wales and Belfast, would adhere to their
views that the free import system of the
United Kingdom precluded an instruct
ion to the British Minister at Washing
ton to represent to the United States
Government the injury that such legisla-
tiOn would do to the industry of a
friendly power which in 1889 gave a
free market to e95,000,000 worth of
competing American goods.
1t is evident from this report of Mr..
Vincent's Parliamentary inquiry that at
least one Englishmam realizes that the
Mckinley bill has been framed for the
fostering of American interests, and that
English interests will suffer thereby.
Before such testimony it is only anti
Americans and English sympathizers
who can oppose the principle on which
the Mckinley bill has been drafted.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-06-19
IN NEW ENGLAND.

FARMING IN NEW ENGLAND.
For long time the alleged decadence
of agriculture in the New England States
has been favorite theme with the Dem
ocrats and Mugwumps.
The free traders have kept up per-
petual hysterical cackling over the fact
that in certain sections of Vermont
farms were to be had for a song, and
they have raised up their voice and cried
aloud over the mischief which the tariff,
in some mysterious way, was supposed
to have played with the descendants of
the Puritans who still tried to stick to
the old farms.
But the tables of the reports of the
Commissioner of Agriculture showing
the cultivated acreage in New England
for the years from 1870 to 1888, utterly
disprove their theory that agriculture in
these States is going to rack and ruin.
These tables show that during the
period of eighteen years following 1870
the increase in the number of acres
under cultivation in New England was
very great.
In Maine, for example, the total num-
ber of acres titled in 1870 was ], 1,261 ,S74.
In 1888 it had grown to 1,5SO,451 an in
crease of 318,277 acres.
In New Hampshire the increase in the
area of cultivated lands was 139,690
acres. In Vermont-the State from
which the free traders would have us
believe agriculture is swiftly dying out
the increase in the number of acres
cultivated was 1921.
In Massachusetts it was 200, 1888 acres.
In little Rhode Island it was 27,750
acres. In steady-going Connecticut it
was 279,319 acres.
Altogether, the whole increase in the
cultivated area in New England between
1870 and 1888 was 1924 ,604 acres. The
increase in the number of milch COWS in
the same section for the same period was
144,368.
The authority of these tables is indis-
putable. The facts they present knock
the free trade doctrines about New En-
gland farming into smithereens.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-06-19
Established in 1S1 8.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.

PRESBYTERI4N CHURCH-Rey. II. Alex
ander pastor Public worship every Sabbath
morning and evening; Sabbath school 9:30 a. m.
Young peoples society of Christian endeavor, Mon
day evenings: general prayer meeting "Wednesday
evening. Strangers welcome to all services
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH-Rey.
J. H. HOilingshead, pastor. Sabbath preaching, II
4 m-: p. m; young peoples meeting, Monday
evenings; general prayer meeting, Thursday eve
lings; mems meeting Friday evenings; Sabbath
school 80 pm Strangers cordially invited TO all
ervices.
UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-Rev.
Thomas Bslph pastor. Sabbath school, 10 a. m.
public Worship IL a. m; weekly prayer meeting,
Friday p. m. monthly prayer meeting, last Satur-
day Of each month, p. m; woman ) missionary
Ieiety last Saturday Of each month, p: IN. dis
tIiet PRAYER meetings. first Tuesdays, Wednesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays each month, p. m
young w0men's prayer meeting, second Saturday
each month at the parsonage, p IN.
AFRICANM. E. .CHURCH-Rey. J. NJ. Wilkes,
pastor. Sunday service, 1890 a. IN; p. m-; Sab
bath school, 2:3O p. m.; weekly prayer meeting,
Thursday evenings. Strangers welcome.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-06-19
THE FARMERS ALLIANCE
AND POLITICS.

Cleveland Leader.
The efforts that are being put forth in
this and many of the Western States tO
induce the Farmers Alliance to act as a
political body are purely selfish and have
in view the aggrandizement of some
clique or party rather than the benefit OF
the farmer or the advancement in
strength and influence of this organiza-
ton. The members of the Alliance may
as well set this down as certainty and
act upon it. They may profitably fol
low the example of the Farmers Alliance
of North Dakota, which, after full con-
sideration of all that was said concerping
the matter, recently, decided to act in
dividually and not as political organi-
zation This was wise and will doubtless
result in increasing the strength and
extending the influence of the Alliance
in that State.
The proper field for such an order is
educational and cooperative. 1t can do
GliC IdllhCl fooCly huolO Sooi oy hCOPihS
him acquainted with Improvements In
the methods of production, changes in
markets, and the like than by becoming
a political body. Glass parties are never
successful for any length of time and
rarely benefit the class so organized.
The wave of labor agitation that swept
over the country few years ago resulted
in lifting some second-rate demagogues
and agitators into Congress and the
State Legislatures, but labor was not
benefited one whit thereby. The labor
Congressman and legislators more fire.
quently sold out their constituents, and
as often showed themselves dead to the
true interests of labor as did the repre-
sentatives of "the capitalists" in the
same body. 1t will be the same way
with the farmers if they listen to the
demagogues who have now started out
with the avowed purpose of 'fooling"
them. They will find in the end that
the demagogues will get the kernels and
the husks will be left for the farmer.
The Farmers Alliance has nothing to
gain and everything to lose by tinkering
with politics, and its leaders ought to see
the danger and steer clear of it.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-06-19
DAYS OF THE WEEK.

The words which designate the days
By which the week is told,
Are monumental to the praise
OF deitieS of old:
What follows with this simple aim
To demonstrate in rhyme the same:
Sunday, the day that takes the lead
OF all the days that run,
In Scandinavian myth, we read,
Was sacred to the sun;
In his applause the Suns S-day rose,
And from the Sun's-day Sunday flows.
Monday before goddess bows,
As by the same myths claimed,
In honor of the Suns fair spouse
This second day was named
Thus down to us the record hands,
And from the Moon s-day Monday stands.
Tuesday, the fourth and sixth days like,
From Teuton mold appears;
In ZiewS, the god of war, We strike
The imprint this name bears;
To him this day was homage due,
And out of Ziewes' day Tuesday grew.
Wednesday commentaries the god
OF Northern Europe'S gods;
Before the great all-Father'S rod
Must yield all other rods;
Wooden, his name, through whose renOwn,
From "Wednesday comes Wednesday down.
Thursday, to Sweeden'S Thor We trace
The German DOnar loud;
This son of Wooden had his place
Behind the thunder-clOund;
l.,x ba Iax
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-06-19

In no event can the growth Of large
fortunes be laid to the charge of the pro-
tective policy. Protection has proved 9
distributor of great sums Of money; not
an agency for amassing it in the hands
of the few. The records Of our savings
banks and building associations can be
appealed to in support of this statement
The benefit of Protection goes first and
last to the men who earn their bread in
the sweat of their faces. The auspicious
and momentous result is that never be-
fore in the history of the world has COM
fort been enjoyed. education acquired
and independence secured by so large q
proportion of the total population as in
the United States of America.-James
IL Rlaine
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-06-19

CONGRESS has dealt literally with the
veterans. The bill reported from the
Conference Committee last week adds
about s5O,OOO,OOO to the present pension
roll, and the next annual pension appro-
priation will be fully $l50,000,000.
Dependent parents, the disabled, the
widows of all soldiers and their orphans
are included in the bill. The service
pension feature is omitted. The classes
named above should, of course, take
precedence in pension matters. With
the contemplated decrease of fifty OF
sixty millions in the revenues and the
heavy increase in the ordinary expenses
of the Government, the time does not
seem to have come for general service
pension.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-06-19

slowly drawing off her gloves, when he
dashed in pale, wrathful.
"What does this mean? Where have
you been?"
If he thought to confront her in a
falsehood he was mistaken.
She flushed crimson, but answered
promptly: 81 have been to Exeter Hall.
Have committed an objectionable sin?''
"YOu have done the next thing to it.
Who is that man with whom you dared
to go? Do you know that You have run
the risk of losing your character-you, a
married woman, going to place of
public entertainment with man who is
almost stranger to you? Edith, have
you any idea of what you have dOne?"
She turned her face, pale enough
now, to him.
"Harry, have you any idea what you
have done? Night after night l have
stayed here by myself until l wonder
did not run away and go home. l beg
ged you to stay, or let me go sometimes
not always you laughed at me-
And then, when found some one who
paid me the attention you should have
done, you talk to me in this way? 1 will
tell you honestly, the gentleman who
took me is very dear to me. Hove himl
Therel And if you won't be good to
he willr'
Forrest stood dumbfounded.
"Great Godl Edith, do you know what
you say? Oh, Edith-wife Are you
mad, that you dare speak such awful
words? You love himp'
He staggered to a chair, pale as death.
This, then, was the end of all.
For a moment Edith kept her ground;
then her lips began to quiver and her
eyes filled with tears; then she went to
him and knelt beside him.
"Harryl Harry darling! L do love him,
but not as 1 do you. He is my brother
Phil, Harry, the one you never saw. He
came here several weeks ago, and we
planned it all to-tO make you love me
more, dear"
And the lesson had its effect, for Har-
ry Forrest remembers what agony of
mind he suffered when he feared the
worst. And he realizes that it might
have been as he feared.-BOStOn Globe.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-06-19

THE one hundred importers who rush
ed down to Washington the other day to
attack the Mckinley bill in the Senate
loudly proclaimed that they represented
s500,000,0O0 of capital, or $5,000,0O0 for
each of the one hundred. When that
amount of money invested in importing
goods that ought to be made in the
United States tries to shape tariff bill
the free trade cry about "robber barons"
seems to lose its force.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-06-19
HER "MONEY-MAKERS."

"Come out and see my money makers, -
said a lady living in the country the 9th
er day, to lady from the city who was
visiting her. "These," she said, as they
came to large and well-appointe1
hen house, "are my Church hens;' all
that make out of them above expenses
is devoted to religious objects. The
geese you see down there on the pond
are my poor and needy geese They
cost little OF nothing, and the profits are
applied to relief of the poor and needy.
Away down beyond that wood L keep a
drove of hogs, dress hogs call them,
because l buy my dresses. frocks you
say, suppose, out of what make
from them. Those Alderney cows are
my 'theater and opera cows L saw
four Wagner operas out of the profits of
them last winter. You see that bed of
strawberries? Well, we don't call them
strawberries, but 'shOeberries,' for l buy
all the children's shoes and my own, too,
out of the income get from them.
These and many other little money
making schemes l manage myself with
out troubling my husband, who works
very hard in the city for small salary.
Consequently we have a great many
comforts and luxuries that we couldn't
otherwise have. And L thoroughly en-
Joy the work, too"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-06-19
THEBUILDING UP POFROMANISM

w. Z. III. Leckey in Forum.
soon convinced myself that popular
Catholicism, as it exists in Southern Eu-
rope, and as it has existed through a
long course of centuries, is as literally
polytheistic and idolatrous as any form
of paganism, though it has many beau
ties, and though much of its very min
gled influence has been for good.
Hobbies had struck the keynote in a
passage of profound truth as well as ad-
mirable beauty:
sIf man consider the original of this
great ecclesiastical dominion, he will
perceive that that the Papacy is no 9TH
er than the ghost of the deceased Ro-
man Empire, sitting crowned upon the
grave thereof"
Few evolutions in history, indeed, can
be more clearly traced than the success
i've stages through which Rome, by a
gradual and very natural process, OBJ
tanned the primacy of Christendom.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-06-19
WILL YOU SHUTTLE FACTORIES?

WILL YOU SHUTTLE FACTORIES?
New York Sun.
This eloquent and pathetic passage
formed the peroratiOn of speech de-
livered in Philadelphia the other even
ing by that distinguished free trader,
the Hon. W. C. P. Breckinridge,o of Ken
lucky: 81 see some humble home where
a God-fearing bread winner is begin
ming to get old; gray hairs have gather
ed about an honest forehead, the joints
of the bones of the fingers are getting
stiff; the morning has been bleak and
the day has been shady, and the fire is
out of the furnace and the lips are 81
lent, and he comes there to home
where there is scarcely a handful of fire
and still les. - eat, and some bright
girl, IA or Is years of age, with the
bloom of youth on her cheeks and the
beauty of intellect in her eye, has been
thinking and praying all day, and she
comes and gives her young life to the
starving family who 60 in the morning
to the factory And l bowed my head
and vowed to God that l would keep
such girls from the shop and send them
to school" When Mr.. Breckenridge
bowed his head and vowed to God, did
it occur to him to ask himself what
would happen to the family, girl and all,
if through his efforts the factory should
be forced to shut down.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-06-19

THE Democrats of the Sixth Kentucky,
Dis.after prolonged struggle, nominated
William Worth DickersOn for Congress
to fill the vacancy caused by the promo
tion of Mr. Carlisle to the U. S. Senate
He may fill the seat of Carlisle but he
can not take his place.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-06-19

THE watermelon crop of the South is
stated to amount to S10,000,000. And
yet some of the Southerners pretend
that they think it possible to induce a
voluntary immigration of the colored
people to Africal
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-06-19
Killed While Cutting Gra...

LOUISVILLE, KY, June 16.-At Marys-
vile. Ind. twenty miles north of Jeffer-
sonville, at 8 p. m. Saturday, William
E. Stoner. aged IS. a married man and
father of a large family, was killed by a
bolt of lightning. Stoner and his little
sons were in field cutting grass for the
cattle when Stoner was struck. Ths
boys were in another part Of the. field
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-06-19
BUCKLEN'S ARNICA SALVE.

The best Salve in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever
Sores, letter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains,
Corns and all Skin Eruptions, and posi-
lively cures Piles, or no pay required. 1t
is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction
or money refunded. Price, % cents per
box. For sale by Patterson & Sons. ly.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-06-19

A LECTURER upon the rhinoceros pre-
faced his discourse with, 81 must beg
you to give me your undivided atten-
ton; indeed, it is absolutely impossible
that you could form true idea of the
hideous animal of which we are about
to speak unless you keep your eyes fixed
on mep
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-06-19

THE real estate decennial appraise-
ment made this year will not appear on
the tax duplicate until the June assess
ment 1891. Taxes this year will be paid
under the old appraisement and assess
meDt
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-06-19

DURING the first month after the
passage of the act classifying worSteds
made of wool as wooden goods, the i'm
portations of worsted decreased $704, 200.
This means that hereafter the wool for
making these goods will be produced in
the United States, and that American
labor will receive the wages for manu-
featuring them. What the free traders
are pleased to call the "wage fund" of
the nation has been increased at least
half million dollars in one month by
this act of protective legislation.