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The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1891-08-27

He who has made time his friend,
will have little to fear from his enc
mics; but he that has made it his en-
envy, will have little to hope from his
friends.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1891-08-27

If we exhaust our income in schemes
of ambition, we shall purchase disap-
pointlnent; if in law, vexation; if in
luxury, disease.
The Forrest City times., 1891-10-09
Buying Out Competi,ors.

some years ago prominent Ameri. can manufacturer of screws made a con tract with the Hon. Joseph Chamber lain. of Manchester, England to pay him the sum of S3o, 900 for keeping out of the American market High prices in the protected home market were so important to this American firm that they were willing to pay hard cash to have this protection's precious market all to themselves
 This odd freak of protectonism has just been repeated in Germany In that country there is duty of S6 10 ton on steel rails, and the manufacturers have a trust which keeps up prices quite after the American fashion. But one thing disturbed the highetaritf antics of the German rail trust It was Belgian competition, But now peace reigns; the trust has paid the Belgian ral-makers $50, 900 to keep out of Germany
 Protection manufacturers are queer lot, always so miserably poor, always about to be ruined by foreign compet- tion, and yet they can go deep into their pockets to buy off their rivals.
The Forrest City times., 1891-10-09
Rich and Poor Under NcKinleyism

The figures of the Government show that the goods now coming in from Europe are, in many lines. high-priced goods, while the common and cheaper grades of goods are being excluded by the high tariff. For 0 ampe, the car pets imported in the cal year 1890 came in at an average value of Sl.l6 q yard The treasury report shows that the average value for tue gscaI year ended June 30, 1891, was S2. 0S a yard
 But the report gives still more ia- teresting insight into tho workings of the Mckinley duty. One part gives an extended comparison of the imports for the nine months from October 1890, to June 30, 1891, with these of the same months in the previous year The Me Kinley tariff went into effect Oct 6. last year, and the imports of carpets from Oct. 1 to June 30 were valued at $2. a yard
 The same thing is hown in cotton cloth That which came in under nine months of the Mckinley law was valued at 131a cents yard as against Il a-5 cents for the cores pending nine months under the old law.
 As the tariff is increased the poor are shut out from buying foreign goods; but the rich keep on buying them.
The Forrest City times., 1891-10-09
WHY WOOL LOW.
The Rural New-Yorker on Wool Prices
 The Curse of Shoddy.

The Rural Yorker on Wool Prices
 The Curse of Shoddy.
 The Rural New Yorker one of the most prominent agricultural papers in the United States, has undertaken to explain the low prices of wool, and it does SO in such way as to show that it has no sympathy with McKipley's hum bug protection to wool-growers
 This journal attributes low prices here partly to the fact that prices are lower In the outside markets But this can have nothing to do with the case, since, as pointed out by important trade journals, the kinds of Australian wool which our manufacturers have been buy ing In the London market have been fully as high this year as last. Owing to our high tariff our manufacturers can not afford to buy any foreign wool which contains much grease or dirt. They are shut up to the limited class of wools which shrink very little in wash ing and securing, and this particular kind of wool has kept up in price in London. Landed here with the highFr Mckinley duty added it has actually cost our manufacturers more than last year. The lower price of wool abroad can, thel lefore, have no effect in re- ducing prices here.
 The true explanation of the declining prices of wool is to be found in the fol- lowing further remarks by the Rural New Yorker:
 The great increase in the use Of shod- dy, the principal ingredient in which consists of wooden rags of ali sorts from all parts of the world, has also had depressing effect on the price of wool. While the new tariff raised the duty on shoddy fabrics to 300 per cent for the benefit of the manufacturers, it left the duty on wool en rags unchanged-at 10 cents per pound
 Tn 1870 there were imported 5l2, 192 pounds of the refuse; in 1880, 1.3SS.233; in 1890, s,622, 209; and since the Mckin- ley tariff went into effect the increase has been enormous. It is reasonably estimated that II per cent of the woolen fabrics now sold in the country consist of materials that are not wool, and the amount of adulteration is constantly in creasing. Moreover, manufacturers in- sist that they must have a certain proportion of foreign wools to mix with domestic wools in order to manufacture fabrics to the best advantage.
 "1onseQuently, when tney pay neaVy duties on imported wools, they are com pellei either to reduce the wages of labor to increase the price of their prod ucts, or to pay less for home grown wool, in order to reimburse themselves for the tariff charges, and they say that they have always found easier to lower the price of their raw material than to cut down the wages of their workmen or increase the price of their cloths. Hence the prices of domestic wools have gone down in spite oI the increase of duties that was designed to put them up"
The Forrest City times., 1891-10-09
THAT TARIFF SCOOP"
What It Costs to Make Glass Fruit Jars
 Labor Gets Left.

The reading public has recently been interested in the story of how New Jersey manufacturer of fruit jars made clean gain of S20o,000 through the action of the fruit jar trust in putting up prices to take advantage of the great fruit crop.
 Gov. Campbell recently made some allusion to the great profits realized by the manufacturer of those jars, and his assertions were met by them with indig- nant protests. As the outside public naturally can know very little about the manufacture of fruit jars the manufac- turers can put forth any kind of claims, and nobody unfamiliar with the glass industry can detect the imposition.
 But the men who work In the glass factories know as much about the in- dustry as the manufacturers themselves, and one Of these, William j, Dillon, who is Secretary of the American Fllnt-Glass Workers Union, has just made public a statement of great importance on the subject This statame 1t gives the cost of production, and 1t should prove of in- terest to the many housewives who were plundedred this year by the trust.
 Mir. Dillon says the cost of making a dozen quart g ass fruit jars Is 5a cents, making very liberal allowances for labor, materiai, clerical hire, interest on in vestment. etc. Of this sum labor gets 10 cents dozen. The manufacturer sells what cost him S6.24 gross for Sl gross. Then the middleman gets a slice for handling the goods, and, finally, the retailer sells off the jars for Sl3 20 a gross, or S1 10 a dozen.
 What Mir. Dillon cannot understand is why the workingman should receive but S1 20 for h share of gross, whi { the manufacturer gets g 76 over and above interest, and why the manutaet- urer should have put the price ap s2 g gross since the Mckinley bill was passed and rocketed tho entire adv ance, thus giving labor none of the benefits of in creased protection.
 The American Flint-Glass Workers Union lobbied for the Mckinley bill, bu 1t is now getting it's eyes open as tC the true inwardness of protection. Tn, workers see that it means higher profits for manufacturers, but nothing of thu kind for labor
The Forrest City times., 1891-10-09
WASHINGTON.

The trouble with Chilli appears to be quieting down.
 The net balance in the Treasury amounts to S41, ,7s9, ,6a0.
 Secretary Halford is painfully but not dangerously ill.
 The annual report of the Governor of Alaska has been received by the Secre- tary of the Interior.
 Orders have been sent to the revenue steamer Rush to return to Behring's Sea and keep lookout for poachers.
 The Commissioner of Indian Affairs has submitted his sixteenth annual report to the Secretary of the Interior.
 There is rumor that the United States Government will demand indemnity from Spain for outrages committed in the Caro- line Islands,
 Reciprocity negotiations with Canada have been postponed.
 Active negotiations are in progress, looking to reciprocity between the United States and Mexico.
 The first payment of sugar bounty duty under the recent enactment has been paid. The amount was $6, 800.
 It is rumored that Secretary Blaine will not return to the Cabinet, on account of President Harrison's iingoism in for eign affairs.
 Treasury Department statements show that there was net increase of $2a, $50, ,903 in circulation during the month of Sep tember and net decrease of $l1, ,506, ,l15 in money and bullion in the Treasury during the same period.
 Four and half per cent. bonds are no longer available as security for national bank circulation.
 It is denied at the Bureau of American Republics that there are any political disturbances in Guatemala or elsewhere in Central America.
 President Harrison will not make his appointments until after the November election.
 The administration has become sus- picious that Egan is stirring up trouble in Chilli for personal reasons of his own.
 Pension Commissioner Raum demands the dismissal of three Pension Bureau employees.
 The importation of gold is to be encour- agsd by the adoption of regulations at the New York Assay Office which will be favorable to importers.
 Interior Department clerks have been notified that they must not apply for promotion. Large deposits of foreign gold are being made at the United States Assay Office in New York.
The Forrest City times., 1891-10-09
MAY GO TO FRED GRANT.
HE IS LIKELY TO BEcoMs SECRETARY OF WAR.
G1ls Name Presented so che Rresideue by ministcr Lincoln--Other News
 from Che National Capltals

WASHINGTON, Oct GA gentleman known throughout tho west, who re- gently returned from an extensive tour of continental Europe, said to . cor respondent to-day that it was moro than likely that Col. Fred Grant, at present minister to the court of Vienna, would be seriously considered to suc- cced Secretary Proctor as Secretary of War.
 "lt is my impression" said he. ''that the suggestion has been conveyed to President Harrison first by Minister Robert T. Lincoln. At least Mir. Lin coln talked to me about Fred Grant during n call which recently made upon him at London. The subject was precipitatcd by my suggesting to Minister Lincoln that he could be Sec rotary Proctor's successor if he wanted the place. The minister replied that he could have had the position some time ago if he had desired it, but that he had never wanted to be Secretay of War for the pri .cipal reason that he did not want to live in Washington. He preferred greater liberties than were given a member of the cabinet. and sad that he presumed he had got all of the honor that there was in tho office and that he could find itttle pleasure in further services in that direction.
 sMinistcr Lincoln then asked me why 1t would not be a good thing to appoint Fred Grant Secretary of War. He said that the son of our recent great war hero and President was we'll versed in military affairs and would find the office conrcnial and no doubt fill it with great credit.
 "A short time after this happened to be in Vienna and called on Minister Grant. During our conversation | discovered he would be very glad to re urn to the United States if he had something to do, and finally he frank ly told me that he would very much like to be Secretary of Wnr and asked what thought of the suggestion of hi name replied that New York already had one cabinet officer, Col Grant replied that New York had as much population as almost any other two States in the union and was mora largely interested in the war portfolio than any other section of the country; the fact that there was already one member of the cabinet from that State should not operate to keep out the selection of another"
 Gentlemen who have recently talked with President Harrison say that he has somehow or other got hold of the namc ot Grant and it has been turned around in his mind, whether favorably is not known. 1t is altogether proba ble that Fred Grant has been both in formally and formally presented to President Harrison for the war port folio and that Minister Lincoln waH the first to mention it.
The Forrest City times., 1891-10-09
MURDER or A DAKOTA JUSTICE
Robert Woods of Kast Grand Rerks
 KilIcl by Unknown Robbers.

Robert WO0ds Of kast Graud rot2s
 Killcl by Unknown Robbers.
 GRAND FORKS. N. h.. Oct. c. 6.--Robcrt Woods, justice of the peace of East Grand Forks. was found at e:4s this morning lying in the street crossing Demersc avenue. near the office of the East Grand Forks Courier, with n bull let in his head. 1t had entered just below tho right eye. Woods had left his room to procure doctor for sick room mate At 2:30 a. m.
 An officer standing at the corner of Demcrsc avenue bridge heard shot. summoned assistance and the dying man was taken to the city hall. Dr. Erwin of this city was summoned. Woods was unconscious, remaining so until death occurred At9 o'clock this forenoon.
 X new revolver belonging to Woods was found lying by his side with every cham Der undischarged. He had cvi- dent,y drawn the revolver m sclf-de- fense, but it was dropped before he had time to shoot His watch was gonc and two s2o gold pieces taken from his right pantaloons pocket A roll of bills, city orders and other valuable papers were found in his vest pocket undisturbed
 Tracks of two men on the frosty sidewalk showed the direction the as sassins had taken. but nothing else is known of them Coroner Shcphard of Crookston was summoned and will hold an inquest Monday morning Ut East Grand Forks.
The Forrest City times., 1891-10-09
TELEGRArHuc nREvuTIEs,

An unknown man robbed the express car on New York Central train near Little Falls, N. ", of sl,ooo and escaped.
 Because he was refused his wages, wm. Mantz, a drunken farm hand, assaulted James Bassiord and his wife, near Chi cago. Bassford will die; the woman may recover.
 Sam Jones and Sam Small have been or dered before the Grand Jury at Rome, Ga. They are wanted to prove the charges of corruption, made a few days ago, or to shut up.
 Wm. D. Foulke of Indiana read paper before the National Civil-Se rvice Reform League at Buffalo, N. Y., in favor of abol- ishing secret sessions of the United States Senate.
 Three persons were killed and seven wounded in wreck near Kent, O., on the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad, caused by disobedience of or ders by freight conductor.
 big washout is reported on the Santa Fe near Purcell, I. T.
 The Arkansas Burning Board has added Il large amount to the shortage of ex- Treasurer Woodruff, which his hondsmen will have to pay, in addition to tho $6a, 900 paid in February
The Forrest City times., 1891-10-09
More Land ee nse Opsned.

KiN0FIsHER. c. T.. Oct 6--The Free prcss of this city issued an extra to- day announcing the glad news that the work of sllotting the Cheyenne anu Arapahoc Indian lands west of this city will 20 on Sept a0 Secretary Noble issued m order to cease the work of allotmcnts for the reason that the appropriation had bean exhauAted. This morning telegram was received from Secretary Noble stating that tho Rllotting agents had been ordered to proceed with the work.
 The department at Washington is kceping pacs with the agents in the tield and only few days will clapse, after the work hero is completed. be- forc tho lands can be declared open to homsstead settlement The Cheyenne ana Arapahoe reservations arc four times as large as the territory recently opened in Western Oklahoma and thu rush for them. it is expe-tcd. will sur pass anything yet witnessed.
The Forrest City times., 1891-10-09
Who Is Paving the Tin Plate Taxs

McKinley's tin plate tax is getting in it's work. A late number of the Iron Ages prominent protection trade paper
 gives the market quotations in New York and the cable report from London In the same time Bessemer steel plates
 known to tho trade as ZIG coke finish, ' which is one of the most wide y used grades, are quoted at $5. 75 a box in New York and 13s. Cd. to t3s 9d. in London
 The English figures arc equal to about oS.aa Thus the Mckinley duty Is keep inc the price in New York S2. 50 a box higher than in England of this differ- snee &a. 37 is the duty on box of plates.
 Meanwhile there is no immediate pros poet that our much heralded political tin-plnte mills are going to cause de- cline In prices, as was promised so pro
 fuseiy. On tho contrary, prices are tending upward So tho English will pontinue b buy tin-plAtes 1t ss. s5 box.
The Forrest City times., 1891-10-09
EP1TOME OF THE WEEK.
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY FOR
 BUSY MEN.
Condensed Photographic Reports of the Important Events of the Past Week
 All Over the World.
FOREIGN.

Chilli still maintains that she has the right to arrest persons as they enter or leave the American Legation, but no at tempt to enforce the claim is being made | at present.
 Facts regarding the suicide of Lydia | Miller, London actress, have been sup pressed by the Coroner in charge of the | case. The popular belief is that this has been done because Prince Albert Victor was the girls lover. | Advces from China are that serious | trouble is likely to break out on account of riots.
 The Berlin correspondent of the New | York Herald cables that Queen Victoria and the Czar acted in concert in inviting the French fleet to visit their respective countries, the object being to impress the Kaiser whose bellicose remarks have alarmed his grandmother. | Mir Gladstone, speaking at Newcastle, criticised the high-tariff policy of the | United States.
 | The Pope is said to be deeply affected l by the action of certain pilgrims at Vic tor Emmanuels tomb in Rome.
 Gladstone outlined the policy of the
 Liberal party at a great meeting in New
 castle.
 | General Boulanger's funeral was held
 in Brussels. It was purely civil cere-
 mony.
 It is said that 25,00O,00O persons are
 unable to pay taxes in Russia, which will cause budget deficit of f12,c00000.
 Dynamite bombs were exploded in a
 tunnel in Austria shortly before train
 was due with Emperor Francis Joseph
 The great National Liberal Federation Congress was formally opened in New
 castle. Morley, in his speech, gave stab
 at the House of Lords. | General Boulanger shot and killed him. | self on the tomb of Mme. de Bonnemain
 in Brussels. She was his mistress up
 to the time of her death, last July, and grief over her is said to be the sole cause
 of General Boulanger's death. Starving peasants in Russia threaten
 a revolution unless they are given food. l Sixty thousand people attended low
 mass celebrated by the Pope in St. Peter's.
The Forrest City times., 1891-10-09
ANOTHER BANK BROKEN.

Hun on shc PhiilpsburG (pa-l
 Concern Causes ls to Close Up.
 PHupsBuRe. Pa. Oct 7.-The Philipshurg bank closed its doors to- day. announcing that on account of tho continued demand from the depos- itors it was deemed best to suspend payment and go into liquidation. The cashier stated that he firmly believed all depositors would be paid in full. philipsbnrg is only short distance from Cleartield and Houtxdale. Ever since the Clearfield bank closed and the Houtzdale bank closed the Philips burg institution has experienced an unprecedented run.
 The miners and their friends first took alarm from reports from Houtz- dale and began m open onslaught on the local bank. gathering there in limo and steadily drawing their deposits of $500 to Sl, ,oo0 without a word of comment from either side. The bank stood this pressure easily and paid out thousands within the last three bank Ing days
 Then the heavy depositors took fright and began a quiet checking of their balances. which resulted in the announcement to-day.
The Forrest City times., 1891-10-09

It is estimated that the output Of sor- ghum sugar in Kansas and beet sugar in Nebraska, Utah and California will reach
 fully 27 900 900 pounds the present season.
 The Government bounty is 2 cents per
 pound.
 Sites for the exhibits of England and
 Germany at the Worlds Fair were award- ed
 O'Neill Ryan of St. louis made a stir-
 ring speech at the opening session of the
 Irish National League in Chicago.
 One thousand residents and 5 900 float
 ers' are in the vicinity of the new town
 of Chandler in the Sac and Fox reserva-
 tion.
 resolution asking Congress to repeal
 the silver bullion purchase act was passed
 by the New York Chamber of Commerce. John Morrissey was given a verdict at
 Kankakee for $l3,0 900 against the Illinois Central Railway for the loss of his feet in an accident. Students in favor of secret societies
 who is opposed to secret societies, in an
 Exeter (N. H. Academy. Octavus Cohen, a newspaper man, spoke on 1.-The Real New South; What It Ought to Be-" at the opening of the
 Southern Interstate Exposition at Ra- leigh, N. c.
 Bill Patterson, leader of the riotous Ar-
 kansas cotton pickers, was taken
 from his captors and riddled with bullets by a mob, and it is rumored that nine
 more of the rioters have been similarly dealt with.
 An official report of the electrocution of four men at Sing Sing, July 7th, shows that the current was turned on three | times with all and four times with one victim. The conclusion reached is that the contact was too brief, although it is claimed that death was painless. Over 400 delegates representing 150 Democratic clubs in Pennsylvania met at Pittsburg.
 Ex-Senator Norwood of Georgia pro- poses a new plan for banking, in which he advances scheme similar to the sub treasury bill. Sheldon M. Brooks, an express messen- ger on the Chicago and Alton, accident ally shot himself while alone fin his car, l and will probably die. Willie Hotchner, aged l3, stole g $50 from his father in Denver, Colo, and was
 captured at Denton, Tex, with all but $60 of the money.
The Forrest City times., 1891-10-09
Protection's Profits.

The protectonsts always deny indig- nantly that our protected manufacturers and mine-owners make undue profits out of the tariff. The following from the Baltimore Manufacturers Record. a prominent protectionist trade paper, will throw some light on the subject:
 "lron-ore mining in the Lake Superior region must yield extraordinarily large profits The Lake Angeline Company, par value of the stock Sa5, pays d monthly dividend of g a share nearly 100 per cent year The Champion Iron Company's stock, par S25, is quoted at Ss7. 50. The Chandler Company. par $25, is quoted at S37@39 The Jackson Company, par S25, with 800 bid for 1t The Take Superior, par Se5, with S5l bd The Lake Angeline, par $25, with $13a.50 bid."
 Companies whose stocks are selling at such figures are making fortunes out of the tariff, and they need protection" no longer
 IN Pittsburg We have had more fail ures since the passage of the Mckinley bill than was over known in the history of the city. This undue stimulation creates undue competition During the past three weeks we have had large glass and iron failure Where is all the milk and honey promised us uEon the passage of the Mckinley bill? We are anxiously looking for it.--Nationai Glass Budget Qabor organl
 
 IN 1868. when high protective tariff had ju t been put on wool in order to en- courage wool growing, there were 2,- 50l,o00 sheep in Iowa In 1890, after twcnty-two years of protection, and after the population of the State had insreasei m re than threefold, the number of heep had fallen off to 475,- 0oc--a loss of moro than two m llion sheep. The population of the State has increa cd threefold, the sheep have de- creased four hfths,