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The Forrest City times., 1891-08-21
WHY SUPERIOR SHIPS?
MORE INCONSISTENCY or
 PROTECTlONISTS.

Wealth Then and NOw-Contract Labor
 War to Be waged Against the Importa-
 tion Of Tin-Piate Workers - Another
 Trust tAnnounced-Minor Points on Tarin
 Reform.
 It must make the protectfonists sad to know that the steamship Majestic has crossed the ocean between England and the United States in five days eighteen hours and eight minutes. Of course no protectionist can see with satisfactio n any improvement that brings us into close relations with Europe. Why, in Europe they sell goods cheap, and wicked Americans have been known to go over and wear back the cheap clothes made by the pauper laborers of Europe, thus defrauding American manufac- turers of the natural right to fleece every creature that wears clothes
 It was Pennsylvania political econ omist that discovered the peculiar evils of sailing the ocean blue. Trade with foreign countries should be discouraged he thinks, because, among other things, you can do nothing worse to man than make of him a saltwater sailor. Fast ships, Lighthouses ard all the conven- fences and safeguards of ocean travel should be neglected if our protectionist friends are right Above all things, why dredge rivers and harbors. especial ly harbors? If the protectionists were consistent they would produce bar across every harbor now carrying water deep enough to admit any ship bigger than those engaged in our coasting trade "Oh," say the protectionists, we are willing to send our goods to foreign countries, but we are not willing to re- ceive theirs"
 "What. says the astonished tariff re- goods to Europeans?" v
 @Not at all," says the protectionist; "We'll take gold in payment"
 "But gold must be carried in ships?" says the reformer.
 "To be sure; and as the ships must come back they can bring the go d."
 "What, enough for ballast? Why, they could not find so much in all Europe, and besides, if they could, what would we do with it? We as a nation could not afford to buy diamonds, for example, with all our products; that would be ex- changing necessities for luxuries, and gold is luxury inst as diamonds are" !"
 But we can coin the gold into money" says the protectionist, "and be- sides Europe would make payment by means of bills of exchange"
 "You couldn't have bills of exchange without indebtedness both ways, and if we buy nothing of Europe we shall owe nothing to Europeans There's nothing left for you but to take metal, and after you have coined it into dollars it's only effect would be to raise the price of home commodities in the home market. It would not flow back to Europe in ac- cOrdance with the laws of trade, for your prOhibitive tariff would have made trade impossible
The Forrest City times., 1891-08-21
HE ATE THEM ALL
A colored Man Got Away With SIX
 Dozen Eggs.

A coiored Man Got Away With SIX
 Dozen Eggs.
 We have here a negro man. Nose Hudson, about 50 years of age, weight 200 pounds, who has frequent ly boasted of the number of eggs he could eat. He was standing around the store of L. J. Everet someone asked him if he felt like eating any eggs. He replied that he was not hungry, but that he would like to have few dozen if someone would furnish them. An agent for patent churn dash, Ira Gooch, asked him how many he could eat. He said if he was hungry he could eat seven dozen. Well" said Mir. Gooch. If you will eat six dozen will pay for them" "All right" said Nose Git the eggs" but as the preparations were begun he begged for little time to let the three quarts of buttermilk which he had just drank settle. Al II o'clock A. NJ, to the surprise of all, he got back from his house, and as he came up he said he was now ready for the eggs. He said he must cook them in his own way, which was agreed to. The time which he must eat them was fixed at 15 minutes, and the cooking began. A little lard was put into the oven, and heated quite hot, and eighteen eggs were put in. He did not allow the oven to be put on the fire after the eggs were in 1t, but would stir them about minute and pour into an other vessel. This was repeated until six dozen were cooked, and the eating began. He first began with a spoon, but, fearing lest 1t would take him over time, he actually drank them from the vessel, and in eight minutes he had the job completed -Dallas Naua
The Forrest City times., 1891-08-21
Judge Lawrence and Thoma, Dolan.

We hope that while Judge Lawrence is filling the Republican papers of Ohio with dissertations on wool, he will not overlook the following remarks of Mir. Thomas Dolan ill letter written on the 21th ult..
 "lt is an interesting fact, deserving much emphasis of statement, that the prices of wool are lower now than they were one year ago This decline was distinctly promised by protectonists during the discussion which accompan jed the framing of the Mckinley tariff"
 There are two large and powerful high tariff associations in this country, and Mir Dolan is the president of one of them. Judge Lawrence asserts that he wrote the wool schedule of the Mckinley tariff, and he tells the wool growers of Ohio that the price of their wool would now be higher if the Eastern manu- lecturers had not "conspired" to buy foreign wool in order that the price of Ohio and Michigan wool might decline and that the new tariff might thus suffer in the estimation of Ohio and Michigan farmers Another reason which he gives is that the new tariff is not strictly enforced, because there are traitors in the custom houses Mir. Dolan's club asserts that the new wool schedules were made by com mittee of it's members, thus permitting the inference that Judge Lawrence did not do the work. The design of the Pennsylvania protectIonists appears to have been to reduce the price of Ohio wool by increasing the duties, and every- body knows that Judge Lawrence's pur- pose was to increase the price of the same wool by increasing the duties. Judge Lawrence should speedily assure his friends in Ohio that hc Is not one of "the protectionists" who ~distinctlJ promised the decline"
The Forrest City times., 1891-08-21
CONTRACT LABOR.
The New Fight of the Amalgamsted As- sociation of Steel and Iron Workers

sociation of Steel and Iron Workers
 Labor unions are peculiarly unpopu- lar among protected manufacturers. Several of the most important protected industries have for years been waging an annual war with view to resisting the demands of labor unions. One of the most powerful unions is the Amal- gamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers These men treat with their employers as one hostile power treats with another. There are conferences lasting for days, many discussions, de. mands of all sorts, finally compromise, sometimes preceded by shotguns It must be remembered meanwhile that protection is always demanded in order that the American workingmec may have high wages There seems an in consistency here, but good many steel and iron workers go on supporting the policy of high protective tariff.
 Just now, however. the Amalgama tod Association has other fish to fry. The association is making ready to wage war against the importation of foreign tin plate workers. Their first move will be an attempt to checkmate ex-Congress- man Niedringhaus, who Is interested in mills in St Louis. They say that, al- though he was one of the most enthusi- astic supporters of the Mckinley bill, he has nevertheless gone back on the spirit of protection and secured ruling from Superintendent Owens, of the Treasury Department, to the effect that the alien contract law does not prohibit engag ing under contract or agreement skilled workmen in foreign countries to perform labor in the United States, in or upon any new industry not at present estAb. lished in the United States; provided, that skilled labor for that purpose can not be otherwise obtained.
 The association takes the ground that there are sufficient skilled workmen in tin plate manufacturing already in this country to meet all demands. In proof of this they have been gathering infor- nation as to their number and experl- ence. In one iron mill in Pittsburg there were found enough foreign born and trained Welsh tin rollers to man three tin plate mills They say that 1t is surprising what large number of practical tin plate men are to be found in the iron mills in this country, and that by their proper disposition others could be rapidly trained and broken in.
 Here, then, Is new aspect of the protection question. Why import labor if we have it at home? The contract labor law was passed in order to please workingmen, who said protection was right but 1t should be given directly to labor as well as indirectly through cap ital But the moment there is a loop hole of escape protected manufac turers evade the intent of the law
The Forrest City times., 1891-08-21
SECRET MARRiAoeo.
q Government Pseetoss lnAssostly De.
 sponsible for Tlsam ln Wssh1n stou.

sponsible for Thsm ]. ws.hlnst sto..
 Not infrequently . lead pencil in- scription across an entry in the rnarri- age license books in the office of the District Court reads: Please do not use this." At first squint such re- quest has about 1t an air of mystery which would naturally lead the news gatherer to investigate. But after . while he understands the whole thing at a glance.
 Among the many thousand men and women employed in one capacity CT another by the many departments of the government are formed acquaint. anceships which ultimately find com plete satisfaction only at the altar. ex- plains the Washington Post. The government has confidential agent who disregards all civil service rules, never asks for salary, and never ex- poets pension. He is better ac- quainted with employees everywhere than any head of department and he is responsible for much of the trouble which arises now and then, though he does everything in good part If 1t was not for this miserable little rascal, She might forever copy many miles of manifold dandle the typewriter. or manipulate the counting machine, and he might forever know nothing of the real joys of life beyond drawing his salary nad 'drinking soft drinks at night ir a drug store. But the con- fidential agent Cupid. intervenes, and the first Thing he knows he is confront. ing Clers Meigs who as he hands him the licsnse, says: Il congratulate you. lave been married myself"
 Then comes the rub. The large number cf employees results in govern ment being spelled with very large G in Washington. The government is supposed to be run on business princi- pies. ard as marriage, by long custom which has no excuse in reason. fre- Quently incapacitates one of the parties from serving the government longer the couple. who are generally not we'll off in the worlds goods, prefer to keep their marriage secret from the gov ernment so that their combined salar- ies may be used in giving them Il com fortable home. Again the groom req sons; The chief will say, Here is a young man who is well enough off to marry. reckon when the time comes 10 raise salaries we will have to add to the salary of him who is not we'll enough of to marry"
 Hence the desire for secrecy. This is only one of the terrors which sur round the marriage of government employees, but it is curious commen- tary on the growth of officialism in this country.
The Forrest City times., 1891-08-21
An Object Lesson.

Porter's paper is telling as many fairy stories about the tariff as it's editor told about the census. But here is one that 1t can put in its pipe and smoke Wa have no tin worth speaking of in this country, but we have grand supplies of lead. It costs . good deal to move American pig-lead to Canada. But in consequence of your idiotic tariff Ameri- can pig-lead costs the consumer in this country $4. 40 to $A45, while it can be bought in Montreal at $3. 60 to 8. 75.
 Funny, is 1t not?-Cincinn En0,ttrer
The Forrest City times., 1891-08-21
THE QUIET HOUSE,

Al mothers won and weary,
 With cares which never cease. With never time for pleasure,
 With days that have no peace. With little hands to hinder,
 With feeble steps to guard. With tasks that he unfinished,
 Deem not your lot to hard. 1know house where childish things Are hidden out of sight Where never sound of little feet
 Is heard from morn till night No tiny hands that fast undo,
 That pull things all awry- No baby hurts to pity As quiet days go by. The house is all in order,
 And free from tiresome noise No moments of coniusion-
 No scattered, broken toys; And the children's little garments Are never soiled or torn, But are laid away for ever
 Just as they last were worn. And she, the sad-eycd mother, .. What would she give 10 day To feel your cares and burdens
 To walk your weary wayl An happicst on all this earth
 Could she again but see The rooms all strewn with playthings, And the children round her kne-.
The Forrest City times., 1891-08-21
WEALTH THEN AND NOW.
What Would Washington Have Though {
 of Mir. Carnegie's Millions?

of Mir. Carnegie's Millions?
 Ex-Senator Ingalls,, who seems to have learned a good many things since his fall, declared upon recent occasion, when speaking at prohibition meeting near New York: "Ninety years ago in this country the richest man was George Washington, our first President. The estimated amount of his wealth aggre- gated about $500, ,000. It is safe to say to-day that scores of men have an- nual incomes that largely exceed that of the richest man in the country ninety years ago. One man at whose touch everything seems to turn to gold has a monthly revenue larger than General Washington's total wealth. At that time, ninety years ago, there was not a millionaire, tramp, or a pauper in the country. Most of this great transfor- nation occurred within the last forty years. To the great mass of the people life is but hopeless toll that prevents them from seeing wife and children by daylight and leaves them an old age of hopeless mendicancy."
 Mir Ingalls probably over estimated the first Presidents real wealth, but whether he did or not the figures that accompany this estimate are interesting Would Washington ever have signed that first tariff bill had he known that the tariff, under the name of protection to American labor, would be used in the next century to make millionaires by the score? What would Washington have thought of Andrew Carnegie rolling in wealth acquired by means of the enor- nous tariff on steel rails and various forms Of iron and at the same time waging an annual war over wages with the powerful union whose labor pro- duces these very manufactures?
The Forrest City times., 1891-08-21
A RARE DISEASE.
Disclosed by n Post Mortem Ex- animation of a HospltaiPatient

A post mortem examination was made in the case of Mary Smith. who died in the Pennsylvania hospital. Dr. Scott's examination showed that the woman had died from the very rare disease known as malignant pus- tule or wool sorters' disease.
 The disease Is so rare that only one other case is remembered in this city by physicians. The woman was brought into the hospital with pustule on the inside of the left arm just below the elbow. The pustule was about the size of penny and the been covered by hand. Treatment was applied, and the woman seemed 10 be doing very well. Later, the pa tient began to sink rapidly, and in spite of stimulants, died.
 Dr. Scott placed some of the organ isms from the pastule under the mic roscope, and they showed very dis tincty the shape which the organisms Tn malignant pustules take. As thio IS q case of great interest to medical science, more minute examination of the organisms will be made.
 Mir. Roberts Theory and Practice of Medicine says of the disease Ma lignant pustule Is specific disease conveyed by contagion mainly from sheep and oxen, but also from horses In th Hse animals,t isknown under the name of splenic fever. The poison is transmitted either directly or indirectly, but almost invaribly from the dead carcass, rarely, if ever, from the living animal All parts of the dead body are capable of convey ing the disease. The contagion is usually transmitted by direct inocu- lation, the matter being brought in some way into contact with an abraded or wounded surface. Phil adelphia Press.
The Forrest City times., 1891-08-21
What the Farmers of Minnesota Think
 of the Timed Plate Duty.

The case against the duty on tin plate is admirably summed up by the Mime sota journal Farm, Stock, and Home No one ever denied, it says, that we could import block tin and skilled labor and make tin plates in this country. The only question was whether it paid to do so. That it did not pay was proved by the fact that we did not go into the busi- ness. It was cheaper to import tin plate than to make it. Hence, if we are to make 1t now, it must be sold at higher price than formerly. But it asks;
 "Is that matter for rejoicing? No, unless some compensation to the buyers and consumers of tinware accompanies the advance. No such accompanying compensation is possible. Making tin in this country cannot raise the price of farm products, because at the utmost it will not take the products of over three average Western agricultural counties to feed all the help that will be employed in the tin-plate industry. It will cause no increase in the price of labor, for it is confessed that the labor must be import ed: but if it is not, the quantity employed will be too small to affect the labor mar ket It follows, then, that all the re- joicing about tin is because tin dinner pails, fruit cans, etc, are to be higher
 
 priced"
 The article goes on to declare that if the Welsh manufacturers can make tin more cheaply than it can be made in this country, and .wtll pay our farmers as much for wheat and meat as the lat ter's own tin-making countrymen will pay, then it is an outrage on our farmers to make them buy the home made tin. 1" The sentiment that is attached to the idea of the home mar ket may be glorious. but in the opinion of this journal, aas business or common sense it may be idiotic. It might be glorious to grow oranges in Minnesota at cost of 50 cents Apfece, but itis better on the whole to get them for cents from Florida or Cuba. The sentiment might be tolerable if it worked both ways--if 1t compelled pay ment to the farmer of higher prices for all he sells when 1t exacted higher prices for all he buys; @but the old thing doesn t work that way, has not worked that way, never will work that way. "--Ne,e York Evclainp Post.
The Forrest City times., 1891-08-21
The Largest rclcscoue.

The new equatorial telescope re- cently mounted in Paris has its tube bent at a right angle and the image of the sky formed by the object glass is reflected to the eye of the observer. IL is the largest of the kind in the world, its optical powers being very fine and the images of the planets re- markedly distinct
The Forrest City times., 1891-08-21
\ Vatua ble Rats Nest.

A Cincinnati lady has a rats nest valued at S525. The nest was com- posed of bank bills to that amount, which the rodents had torn into small fragments. She was advised to make an affidavit to the fact and forward it. together with her very valuable rat domicile, to the treasury department at Washington.
The Forrest City times., 1891-08-21
A athsr- Board Syndicate.

An English syndicate. has purchases ! practically all the leather board faeto. ries in the Eastern States. Tho pur- chase includes the plant of the Harwood Manufacturing Company at Leominster, Mass, with it's opera-ch chair factory, also the Moncan Manufacturing Com pany of Kennebec, the Leather Board Company of Boston, and the plant of Clegg < Fisher of Lawrence. The local managers gre to remain in charge. - Ncte York is0les
The Forrest City times., 1891-08-21
Swallows suppiant Carrier Pigeons. A- Ia ~1,,

All iuterstlnk ucNouAt hoS AntcAy op- peared of an experiment made in tho north of France in the training of swallows as carriers and in testing the swallows SO trained by competition with carrier pigeons. A brood of young swallows having been taken from their nest in the caves of house, were first trained to fly from the ground to the nest; then by gradual iy increasing stages, from Ronbsix to f.ile, and finally from Ronbaix to Paris, distance of 140 miles. When this had been successfully accomplish. ed, a race was arranged over the latter course between the swallows and some trained carrier pigeons, with the result that the swallows game in winners by three quarters of hour. The sue kcess of the experiment seems to reveal kreat possibilities for the future of this nethod of rapid communication
 Land and Water.
The Forrest City times., 1891-08-21
Awkward Enough.

Brobson--You look all broken up old man. Whats the matter?
 Craik-I called on Miss Pruyn the other night and no sooner had en- tered the parlor than her mother ap- peared and demanded to know my in- tentions.
 Brobson = That must have been rather embarrassing.
 Craik--Yes but that was not the worst Just as the old lady finished speaking Miss Pruyn shouted down the stairs: ''MapmA mamma be isu't the 6ne!r--New York Sun
The Forrest City times., 1891-08-21
They Must Have . Subsis,v.

The Mckinley newspapers continue to tell their readers that bar tin could n ot
 now De produced at the California mine if there had not been inserted in the Mckinley act paragraph imposing duty on imported bar tin two years hence. To them every part of that act Ia sacred, and no one but aan enemy of Ais countrvs can question the wisdom of
The Forrest City times., 1891-08-21

They took away their nice fruit and their cake and the play thing that the little ones used to bring to sdhool.
 One of these bullies was tho particu- lar terror of Tommy, because he had seen him trip up poor little Willy Carter, peacefully hopping along on his stilts, and run away with the
The Forrest City times., 1891-08-21

"Oh, sister, wait for mel" Tommy begged, making what speed his small, fat legs would let him. But cruel Bessie rolled along lon Tommy's tMcycle) and would not turn. Hope he does comel' said Bessie, "serve vnn r,ohf i'
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-03-17

him on higher plane, would come to
the defense of his murderous country
men, and invoke the sacred name of God
in connection with another vendetta.
Uncle Sam has borne with wonderous
patience the villanous pranks OF these
red handed ,rascals, and it will be a good
day for this country when he takes by
the ear such men as the editor OF lie Cod
Italia and all his sympathizing COM
patriots, and leading them to the edge OF
the Atlantic and dumps the whole infer
nal outfit into it. Italians are welcome
here if they are willing to conform to the
common decencies of social and national
life but we want none of that class
which the vigor of the present govern
ment has driven from Italy, and which
has clothed with horror the names OF
the Vendetta and Malta.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-03-17
gOW THE "VENDETTA," SHOULD
BE USED.

1t makes ones blood boil to read the
following from an editorial in LIE Cod
Italia, an Italian paper published in the
CITY of New York. The writer refers to
the recent tragedy in New Orleans
Without words we want satisfaction in
full and complete. If the minister at
Washington has not at this hour made
his word good, 100000 of the Italians
residing in the United States will know
how to do. If the massacre that we
have witnessed in this free republic Is
allowed to go unpunished we Will De
nounce it as an assassination. Oul
word is quickly pledged. We never re
pent. Vendetta.
The newspaper invites to mass meet
ing whoever has heart that beats II
his bosom, and the article continues;
In this moment of persecution through
malignity, wrath and hate, we ought I
remember that we are all Italians, an
as such we invite El Progresso and L
I,olonbo to unite with us at gran
mass meeting. Colleagues, be quick
ioin hands, as we are ready as allie
with YOU. In this supreme hour OF or
yindication let us be united in the nam
of God. Death to the assassins.
And thus another Italian, whose edl
ton and social standing should plas