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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-16
New Series, Vol. 81, No 16
"THE TARIFF Is A TAX"

The parody below was clipped from
the New York Tribune by a former res
ident of this place, and sent to one Of
our citizens with the recommendation
that it be printed in the Gazette:
Sweet April-time had come at last,
As DER the continent there passed
A Bill Mckinley hating man,
Who murmured, as the month began,
Sugar.
His face was sad, it made him i'll
To think of Bill McKinley's bill;
He fiercely fought it once, but now
He whispered, as he wiped his brow,
Sugar.
"Hip, hip, hurrah!' his ears did greet
From those who take their coffee sweet;
Delight on all their faces shone,
But from his lips escaped the grOan,
Sugar
"Oh, stay" the Godkin said, "and rest
Thy head upon this free trade breast;"
A wink slow twisted up his eye,
But still he answered with sigh,
Sugar.
Try no protection schemes" said Mills,
Protection me with anguish fills,
Protection measures are but vile,"
The youth observed, with sickly smile,
Sugar
Beware of Bill McKinley's bill
Beware that sum of every ILL.,"
Thus Cleveland begged in tones dismayed;
A voice replied, far down the grade,
Sugar.
That evening, as the Golden crowd
A Against Mckinley thundered loud,
The youth compelled them all to quit,
lie did it with word, to wit,
Sugar.
stranger to his hobby bound,
Ialf- buried in chagrin was found,
Ind, firmly sticking in his throat,
Vas found that sweet, that single note,
"Sugar!"
here, in the consomme so cool,
lie posed first of April fool,
While, sounding all the country DER,
voice came, like the oceans roar,
Sugar.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-16
NO HOLD HERE.

Murat Halstead.
John Most has reappeared. He de-
livered at Pittsburgh an Grafton ovel
the dead body of Joseph Frick, whose
body was decorated with red scarfs and
flowers, while red flag was displayed.
All this was in the name of labor" "
Herr Most talked like PETER and Simp-
son, and the rest of the money power.
Most thought the massacre in New
Orleans the work of capitalists, and
spoke of 'the murder of dozen harm
less men in the coke regions" Now
these harmless men were very ignorant
foreigners put forward to do mischief.
They were rioting, burning and destroy
ing, and utterly needless, and are reckless
until fired upon. Then those who were
using them for incendiary purposes
rushed to the front to make martyrs of
them. Most closed his remarks with:
"Hail the day when anarchy shall have
full sway" But the probability is the
country will be able to get along without
passing through an experience of the
full sway of anarchy. The sort of
anarchy Most talks of is not the product
of this continent and the tyrants will
continue to interfere with its develop
ment
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-16
TIN PLATE MILLS.

|
Boston Commercial Bulletin.
One of the most thorough and effectual
refutations of the absolute falsehoods of
the free trade press is now going on in
the progress already made in this country
in the establishment of tin-plate manu-
factories under the protection of the
Mckinley bill.
The New York Times especially was
one of the most violent opponents of a
tariff on tin and ridiculed the idea of
establishing tin-plate industry in this
country. In remarkable article on the
subject, November 10, the Times stated
that the american tin-plate liar" was
dead. The article also states: "There
never was anything whatever in those
Pittsburgh stories of tin plate factories.
Nobody eUer thought Of inoestiag q dollar
in tin.plote factory anyaohere in this
country. The Times has repeatedly stated
this fact" sc.
Now it would appear from present
results that the Times was in error
respecting the death of the "great
American tin-plate liar" and that there
is no trouble at present in locating him.
Tin-plate factories have been already
begun at Demmler, ten miles from
Pittsburgh. Factories have been started
In Chicago by the Norton Bros, and
samples of the plates made and dis
tributed among Chicago merchants. In
St: Louis, the st. Louis Stamping Co.
Will have machinery in operation July
capable of turning out 400 to 500 boxes.
Half million dollars is invested in a
factory which will turn out $500 boxes
weekly at Brooklyn.
A Baltimore company has invested
100000 in machinery for a tin-plate
mill. But why go onl The news
columns Of the daily papers show that
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-16

A SINGLE steamship which arrived at
New York last week had 1,600 italian
immigrants on board, the largest number
ever brought by one vessel. Something
more than a massacre of murderers in
New Orleans is evidently required to
decrease the flood of Italian immigration
pouring into this country, and it is to be
hoped that the new immigration law
just gone into effect will furnish the
needed check.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-16
HE WON THE BOOBY PRIZE.

Speaking of progressive euchre, a
Texas editor says: sit is an abominable,
damnable practice. 1t is the curse and
blight of society, blast and mildew to
young men, canker worm in defiance,
a soul l-destroying sin is this horrible, de-
tested, deplorable, outlawed gambling.
1t must, like moles and bats hide itself;
lie down in dark corners; lie up In the
day and prowl at night; cover itself with
the cloak of secrecy; love darkness rath-
er than light, because its deeds are evil;
it is twin brother to theft, near rel
ative to robbery and cousin to burgla-
ry, fit only for the society of devils, and
none but his slaves will indulge in it,"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-16
BPlntnttt Chronicle.
THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1891.
A CENSUS COMPARISON.

4 CENSUS COMPARISON.
According to the census returns Ohio
exchanged places with Illinois in the
rank of States, still a comparison of the
two States by counties is interesting.
A bulletin just issued shows that
twenty eight rural counties of Ohio had
fewer inhabitants in 1890 than in 1880.
Illinois, although by tremendous strides
| she overshot her older sister in the ag-
gregate of population, finds that thirty
counties within her borders have de-
creased in population in the last ten
years. Chicago alone furnished the
great gain. The Northwestern States
too met with losses. Fifteen counties of
Michigan lost ground, while Wisconsin
numbers seven counties with declining
population and Minnesota one county
less. Iowa lost in twenty-seven counties,
Missouri in ten, Kansas in eleven, South
Dakota in six and North Dakota in
four. All these States have been
alleged to be booming and even this
does not disprove the statement.
AS was shown in The CHRONICLE
several months ago, a decrease in rural
population by no means denotes
decline in agricultural production. The
introduction of improved machinery
places manual labor less in demand.
Such being true, day laborers who form
erly depended upon farm work, have
entered other branches of industry and
have gone to swell the urban population
of the country. More land is cultivated
now than ever before, but it is done by
machinery, at saving of manual labor
and much expense. Such condition
places the farmers, even under low
prices, upon firm if slow road to the
accumulation of wealth.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-16
MERIT WINS

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New Discovery for Consumption, DIR.
Kings New Life Pills, Bucklen's Arnica
Salve and Electric Bitters, and have never
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We do not hesitate to guarantee them
every time, and we stand ready to refund
the purchase price, if satisfactory results
do not follow their use. These remedies
have won their great popularity purely
on their merits. Patterson & Sons.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-16
UUSRAND AND WIFE

Have more than once been saved by the
timely use of Kemp's Balsam for the
throat and lungs, after all other remedies
have been tried in vain; the Balsam stops
decay of the lungs and cures influenza
and acute and chronic coughs; there is no
other medicine in the world that acts so
promptly, certain that none does its work
so thoroughly as Kemp's Balsam; ;all drug
gists sell it; large bottles soc and 81. 20 1
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-16
A SAFE INVESTMENT

Is one which is guaranteed to bring you
satisfactory results, or in case of failure a
return of purchase price. On this safe
plan you can buy from our advertised
druggist bottle of DIR. Kings New Dis
covery for Consumption. 1t is guaran-
teed to bring relief in every case, when
usedfor any affection of throat, lungs or
chest, such as consumption, Inflammation
of lungs, bronchitis, asthma, whooping
cough, Group, etc. 1t is pleasant and
agreeable to taste, perfectly safe, and can
always be depended upon. Trial bottles
free at Pattersons' drug store.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-16
A FEW DON'Ts FOR BUILDER:

A FEW DON'IS FOR BUILDERS.
Don't attempt to vie with rich
neighbors.
Don't sacrifice comfort OF health to
appearances.
Don't build at ALL Buy someone else's
house.
Don't copy from any other house in
the vicinity.
Don't have gingerbread work upon or
in the house.
Don't have living rooms situated on
the shady side.
Don't make small rooms in order to
have many of them.
Don't allow poor work or shams of
any kind in its construction.
Don't follow any plan which would
not allow of enlargement by additions.
Don't build the house or furnish it out
of harmony with your circumstances.
Don't forget that perfect ventilation
and plenty of sunshine are as necessary
as shelter.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-16

THE liquor interests in Ohio declare
that Governor Campbell has proved
himself a traitor That settles it. If
the brewers and saloon-keepers have
gone back on our dromedary Governor
his chances of reelection are not worth
mentioning. Without their support no
Democratic candidate in Ohio in recent
years ever stood any show of success.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-16

VERY often the only thing settled by
an argument between two persons is
that neither knows what he is talking
about.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-16
Established in 1913.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.

PRESBYTERLAN CHURCH-Rsv. r. Alex
ander, pastor. Public worship every Sabbatl
morning and evening; Sabbath school $50 a. IN.
young peoples society Of Christian endeayor, Mon
Gay evenings; general prayer meeting, Mednesda.
evening. Strangers welcome to all services
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH-Rey
Ezra Hingeley, pastor. Sabbath preaching, l.
B. m; p. m; young peoples meeting, Monday
evenings; general prayer meeting, "Wednesday eve
n ngs; Sabbath s:hoOl 2:S0 pm. strangers cor
daily invited 10 all services.
UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-Rev
Thomas Balph, pastor. sabbath school, 10 a: m
public worship, II a. m; weekly prayer meeting
Friday p. m; monthly prayer meeting, last Satur
day Of each month, p. m; wOmans missionary
,cicty, last Saturday Of each month, p. m. dis
trict PRAYER meetings first Tuesdays, Wednesdays
Thursdays and Saturdays each month, p. m.
young women's prayer meeting, second SATURDAY
each month at the parsonage, p. m
AFRICAN NM.E.CHURCH-Rev e. Albert March
pastor. Sunday service, 10 q. m; p m; SAB
bath school, 2:30 p. m; weekly prayer meeting,
Thursday evenings. Strangers welcome.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-16

Col. CHARLES E. GRoCE, of Circle
vile, has announced himself as a
candidate for the position of member
of the State Board of Public Works, as
a Republican.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-16
,aa5a 400 a.11oNs Of blood are filtered

1,445, 400 GALLONS of blood are filtered
by the kidneys every year. How can they
stand this prodigious strain? Thousands
die yearly from some form of kidney
disease. Is there any warning given?
Yes: that stitch in the back, that pain in
the side and hundreds of other symptoms
cry out against neglect: The kidney
poison coursing through the veins, robs
the system of vigor and strength: Take
warning then and before it is too late
use swamp Root" positive guaranteed
remedy for kidney disease. Sold by
Druggists.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-16
SATURDAY S NEWS.

Big American dealers are purchasing
Canadian cattle, crushing out small
Canadian exporters.
Rev. Joseph Cook was taken suddenly
i'll at Fort Scott, Kas., while delivering a
sermon. Throat troubles and la grippe.
The wedding of Charles Heiser, of
Bloomington, Ind, was interrupted by
his arrest on the charge of seduction
preferred by another woman.
A mob of masked men broke into the
Jail at Kenton, o., took out Bales, the
murderer of policemen Harper, and
hanged him to the limb of tree.
Louis Bulling, sentenced to hang on
the 18th of this month for wife murder,
from the jail at Savann ah, No.,
by cutting the bars of his cell.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-16
THE SILVER QUESTION.

Harper's Weekly.
The silver question is not an "aca.
demic" question, nor question in the
air. 1t is an immediate and pressing
issue, as is shown by the fact that it is
breaking up the old parties. "Free
silver" prevailed in the Senate by Re-
publican votes, and its chief champions
are of both parties. 1t was for some
time doubtful whether Congress con-
trolled by the party opposed to free
silver would not pass free coinage bill,
and the disaster was avoided only by the
utmost activity. The Importance of the
subject can not be deprecated. And as
questions are not made subsidiary by
calling them so, the silver question,
which is really the question of sound
currency, will be inevitably one of the
primary issues in the election of next
year. In the present situation it will be
impossible to concentrate public atten-
tion exclusively upon the issue of 1888,
because the silver legislation of the late
Congress, the demonstrated power of
the free silver party, the votes and
declarations of Democratic members of
Congress and party leaders, and the
party reception of Mr.. Cleveland's letter
have raised the question whether the
success of the Democratic party in the
Presidential election would lead to free
silver coinage. The silence of the plat
form would not answer the question.
1t can be answered only by distinct
declaration.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-16
RATES OF ADVERTISING.
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.
THURSDAYS NEWS.

The President has issued his animal
benring Sea proclamation against the
unlawful catching of seal.
A. j. Morris, the last survivor of tbe
Fort Minis massacre, died Tuesday. al
his home in Alabama, aged 100 years.
Several of the American flags raised
over school-houses in Elkhart county.
Ino., have been torn down and burned.
The Ohio State Board of Pardons rs-
leased on parole sixteen prisoners, nearly
all OF whom were serving terms for
crimes of high grade.
Pennsylvania coal operators and
miners are so far apart on the eight-hour-
day question that there is a probability
OF a strike of the $4,000 miners May i.
The Kentucky Constitutional Con-
vention decided in favor of continuing
the State capital at Frankfort, unless
the next Legislature, by a o-thirds
vote, shall decide to move it.
The New York Board of Trade has
petltloned the State Legislature to urge
upon the President and Congress the
Importance of immediate action looking
to the better protection of that city and
Brooklyn from attack by sea.
FRIDAYS NEWS.
Secretary of War Proctor is Thought
TO be the most available man to succeed
U. S. Senator Edmunds.
The strength of the Farmers Alliance
in West Virginia is put at 1000 votes.
seventeen per cent. of the total.
Evidences of wholesale fraud in the
recent elections has been discovered in
two Democratic wards in Cleveland, O.
Benjamin Horton, retired dry goods
merchant, of Brooklyn, committed sui
eide to escape his sufferings from grip.
Mrs. John Oliver, living near Martins
vile, Ind, committed suicide on account
of the shame of sixteen -year-old
daughter.
Fire destroyed the Cincinnati Union
'toek-yards Thursday night 1t burned
over ten acres of shielded ground, and
he loss is put at sI50,O00.
Mrs. Andrew Doll, of Herman, Neb..
Who had been discharged from an asylum
Is cured, killed her two young children
md then committed suicide.
Samuel Gompers, President of the
American Federation of Labor, SAYS
hat the labor organizations of the
Whole country will support the miners
their demand for an eight-hour day.
Over four thousand immigrants land
d at New York Thursday, of which
1ore than half were Italians. Over
wo hundred are considered unfit to be
omitted to the country, and must be
eturned.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-16

Free traders admit that our cotton
goods and leather goods are cheaper and
better than the same productions of
European countries. But the poor mans
furniture and manufactures of wood?
Foreigners seem to like it and think it is
cheap:
Wood manufacturers exports average,
five years QSS5 to 1882, $22, ,347, ,285. In
1890, $28,257,7S Increase, 26 per cent.
AS matter of fact, all manufactures
of wood are cheaper and better in the
United States than elsewhere.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-16
TARIFF PICTURES.

new 1Ork PfeSS.
A few days ago The Press called atten-
tion to the great decline in the cost of
plate glass to the consumer since the
manufacture has been firmly established
at home. This will bring the facts more
graphically before our readers:
Prices of domestic plate glass in 1873
and 1890: 1873 $3.50 per square foot,
average. 1S90-85 cents per square foot,
average.
How can free traders answer such a
fact as this? Does any one believe that
the price would have been as low if
English manufacturers had enjoyed the
monopoly in this country?
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-16
MASONIC DIRECTORY.

BELMONT LODGE, No. 1s, F. d A. M.-Meets
every Wednesday night, on or before full moon.
j. B. MEYER Sec'y FL. BAILEY, W. NJ
ST, CLAlRSVILLE CHAPTER, No. II, Royal
Arch Masons.-Stated convocations first Friday Of
each month. -
j. b. MEYER, Rec. I'D. BAILEY, II. H.
BELMONT COUNCIL, No 81, r. d S. M
Meets second Tuesday of each month
j. B. MEYER, Sec'y j. B. RYAN, I. /. NJ.
HOPE COMMANDER, No 26, <. T.-Stated
oonclayes, first Tuesday Of each month.
j. B. MEYER Secv j. B. RYAN, T. u.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-16

VICTORY FOR THE AMERICAN TARIFF.
New York Mail and Express.
AS first announced in our special
cable dispatches yesterday, there is
every reason to expect that the German
prohibition of American meat products
will be removed at once. Negotiations
to this end have been going on for some
time, as our readers know, but, until the
enactment of the new Tariff bill and
Meat Inspection bill, our diplomats in
France and Germany were at a disad-
vantage. The passage of these bills
changed the face of affairs. The Meat
Inspection act made it certain that our
products should be absolutely healthful,
and the retaliatOry clauses of the Tariff
act gave to the President the power to
shut out from our ports the products of
any nations that Disseminated unrea-
sonably and unjustly against our goods.
Armed with these weapons, our Min
listers to France and to Germany have
been negotiating for six months past
with better prospect of success.
1t was very significant fact that a
short time ago the Koln Gazette, an in
fluential newspaper that had always
opposed the introduction of our meat |
products into Germany, changed front
and took the position that since food in
Germany is dear, and since our new laws
insure the healthfulness of our exports |
of pork and other meats, it is now the
duty of the German Government to
admit them.
Great credit is due to Minister Phelps,
as well as to the wise action of our Con-
gress and the Administration, for his
management of the negotiations. His
firmness, his vigilance, and his never
failing tact have contributed largely to
the result that is now in sight.
A similar result may soon be expected
in France, where negotiations have also
been in progress. The efforts of Minister
Reid to this end have been unremitting,
and success is pretty sure before long to
crown his exertions.
1t is great triumph for American
legislation and American diplomacy,
and all our people, without distinction
of party, should and will rejoice in it,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-16

Is not the Ohio Legislature lingering
too long in the lap of spring?
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-16
DELMoNT COUNTY DIRECTORY

Common Pleas Judge John B. briggs.
Probate Judge-James +. Tallman.
Clerk Of COurts-Henry NJ. Davies.
Sheriff-Madison NJ. Scott.
Auditor-JOseph A. Henderson
Treasurer-Frank B. Archer.
Prosecuting Attorney-Jesse w. HOllingworth.
RecOrder-John NJ Beckett
Surveyor-Chalkley Dawson.
COrOner-A. NJ. X. Boyd.
Commissioners-Miles X. Hart, John c. Israel,
W. S. Mechem.
Iniirmary Directors-William Lodge, president;
John A. Clark clerk; B. NJ. Loper, auditor.
Superintendent Infirmary john Sidebottom,
East Richland.
Superintendent Children's Home-Peter Giffin,
Barnesyille.
School Examiners-James Duncan, Bridgeport;
s. C. Murphy Belmont T. p. Harris SOmertOn.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-16
B1JCKLEN'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 L. Sons. ly.
William Wallace, Postmaster of In
dianapolis, brother of General Lew
Wallace, and President Harrison's first
law partner, died Thursday.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-16

the Mckinley Tariff on tin did start and
has started this whole industry in the
United States, which was scarcely
known here before.
Indeed, these facts, if they do not put
the journals which were such violent
opponents of Protection of this indus
try in the position of Instructors and
oppoSers of American manufacturers,
show what deliberate Misrepresentation
and disregard of truth and progress may
come out of pure partisanship.