Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-10-15
A Modes. secretary and His Grafton.
IClermont Courier.


Claude Meeker is the private secretary
of Governor Campbell, and in addition
10 all the letters he has to write and all
he has to answer, he goes out occasion
ally to make speech for the Governor,
whom he is exceedingly anxious should
retain his post in order that he (Meekerl
may still have a billet In a recent
speech Meeker, who is not any meeker'n
Moses, made the following quotation
from a letter written by the wife of a
Democratic statesman of Ohio, the lady
being in New York on shopping excur-
sion. The quotation runs.
Il have just sent you TELEGRAM
instead of my bill, which is really more
Mr.. McKinley's than mine. l have run
against him in my shopping, in British
cloths in Canadian furs, in French bon
nets and in Italian wares. No matter, one
must pay the taxes or go without. Why,
will you believe it? Furs are 60 per cent.
higher than this time last year Add that
TO a sealskin wrap and see where it will
land you''
This Of true) is sad news for the farm
ers' wives. Everybody knows that as
soon as farmers wife arrives in town,
and has her eggs counted and her butter
weighed, that she Immediately inquiries
the price of furs, of imported cloth,
French bonnets and Italian bric-a-brac.
If the merchant doesn't happen to have
any of these goods in stock, he suggests
that two dozen eggs will bring six pounds
of sugar, and that pound of her butter
will buy eight yards of fair calico, or
five yards of good, or four yards of the
best, or three yards of muslin, but un-
happily the goods are of domestic manu-
facture, made by American workmen,
who for some singular reason or other
imagine they have right to live, which
they could not very well do had not tn ,
Mckinley bill closed the gates on the
foreign markets in order to create a
market for our own productions. He
tells the farmers wife that quite num-
ber of American ladies look real sweet
in American bonnets, and that SO far as
fur is concerned, he can manage to keep
warm himself, and keep his children
warm with such goods as are produced
right here at home free of duty, the
truest and best of free trade. For the
rest he is quite satisfied to do without
Italian notions. pays his clerks every
Saturday night with dollars worth 100
cents each, and is as happy as a big
American sunfower Then the farmers
wife sells him her eggs and butter and
departs happily homeward with enough
sugar to sweeten her existence, and
enough bright, pretty and comfortable
American fabrics to sweeten her features
and warm her heart. Shoppers who
have decided penchant for foreign no
tions generally have the money to in
dulge their fancy. If they have it not
they can be just as happy without the
indulgence, look just as well, and feel
just as comfortable. Or, in a nut shell,
the high prices of foreign luxuries needn't
bother Americans. We make our
money at home. We are going to ex-
change it at home for such things as are
needful to our comfort, and thereby
keep it at home, and thus some of Uncle
Sans growing family will always
have it.
The law requires that a "cross mark"
Zone or more) shall be made on every
kangaroo ballot that is voted. Doubt
less good many very cross marks will be
made. But the madder men get the
more determined they will be to vote and
'be hanged" to it, and the thing now to
do is to accept the inevitable and thor
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