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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-02-25

the same and in many instances adj
vanced. This is the best possible an
swer TO all free-trade notions and ideas.
Thirty years ago we did not manufacture
steel rails, and when we began and the
duty on steel rails was made SIS a ton,
they ere selling at $50 ton Since
then, n : only has the price been reduced
from 500 to $50 per ton, but we have
successfully established steel rail plants
throughout the country No one can be
found who would believe that If we had
not protected the steel rail industry the
price would have been reduced To what
it is at present. Take the case
of wire nails. Up to 1888 they
were not manufactured in this
country 10 any extent aud they sold for
50 keg. In that year a protective
duty was placed on wire nails, and last
year, in the short space of seven years,
the American product reached 200, 900
kegs, and they have sold as low as -. IS
per kcg
A comparison II prices la 1870 and in
1850 will show that nearly every manu-
featured article that the farmer, me-
chanic and wage-Carner have To buy was
on an average Of p 10 30 per cent.
cheaper In 1880 than In 1870 Statist cs
will also show that since 1870 farm prod
uctS and price of labor have advanced.
Never in the history OF this country
would "A days labor buy as many com
forts as to-day.
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only enables us to build up our home
nufactories, increase home consump-
ton, and thereby home markets, but In
the long run, through home competition.
the prices OF manufactured products are
reduced. Free trade could never accom-
plish these results.
Free trade might enable us TO compete
In the worlds market In agricultural
products, but we would have to reduce
the price in order To compete with the
cheap labor OF India, Egypt and Russia.
In doing this we would largely raise the
price OF the manufactured products that
we bought abroad. Free trade would
make the farmer of the United States
compete with the farmers of Europe,
many of whom are now his present Gus
toners. With proper protection and
home competition, we can so firmly es-
tablish our manufacturing industries and
reduce the price of manufactured arti-
cles that we can In time compete success
fully with Europe In the markets of the
world. When this time arrives we may
declare for free trade, as England did,
and il may be TO our interest 10 do SO.
We want no free trade that does not
,ome logically through protection, and
we surely do not want IL until we can
compete successfully in the markets Of
the world with other countries; and il
that time never comes, the United States
will never want free trade.
Experience and statistics show in the
United States that American manufac-
tured articles under protection have con-
stantly in the aggregate been reduced in
price, while articles on the free list have
for the most part, as TO price, remained
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-02-25
Domestic Trade ani Home Market.

From Secretary Windows last s2ecch.
One or two comparisons will convey
some idea OF our stupendous internal
commerce. The TONNAGE which passed
through the Detroit River alone during
the 23i days of navigation in 1889 eX-
ceeded bv =, 46s, 1T tons the entire Brit
ish and foreign tonnage which entered
and cleared at London and Liverpool
that year in the foreign and coastwise
trade.
The freight which passed through the
ST. Mary's Falls Canal i'm 1890 exceeded
by 2,257, $40 tons the entire tonnage Of
all nations which passed through the
Suez Canal in 1889.
The freight carried on railroads of
the United states IN 1890 exceeded by
over $4,000, 900 tons the aggregate car
ried on all the railroads of the United
Kingdom, Germany, France and Russia
i'm 1882.
Commodities are interchanged among
our own people with greater facility and
at cheaper rates. distance being consid.
cred, than in any other country on earth.
The increase of national wealth and
prosperity, largely due 20 this system OF
protection to our home markets and do
nestle trade, and To the generous devel-
OpmcnJ OF tneSe luStfumentalltleS OF
commerce. has become the marvel OF the
world. Take a few comparisons. based
upon the United States census of 1850.
and upon figures furnished by Mr. Null
hall, the English statstician.
In manufactures we exceeded Great
Britain in 1850 by 81, $40, $50, 1871, France
by So, ll5, 900, 900, and Germany by ST.
3O5, 900, 900.
In products of agriculture we excelled
Great Britain by 81, 425, 600, 900, France
by S625, 0G0, 900, and Germany by S925,-
900, 900.
Our earnings or income for 1880 from
commerce, agriculture, mining, manu-
features, the carrying trade and bank
ing exceeded those OF Great Britain from
the same sources by II, $50, 900, OUU,
France by 80, 305, 900, 0)0, and Germany
by 2,775, coo, 600.
Our increase Of wealth from 1870 TO
1880, as compared with that of other
nations. was:
Cnlteu othtcss.s. $1,000, ISL fy3
treat britnin.. ........-.......... 5,2JJO)JOO
FRANCE. .......................... l,4l5,OJlOO
In 1880 our home markets consumed
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irregularity are not infrequent. II the
corrections were duly made it would be
found that the percentage OF manufact-
ured exports at the present time is not
less than 40 per cent OF the whole, as
contrasted with l4.43 per cent in
1850. The variety, as well as the
quantity, of these manufactured
exports, indicates the success with
which our people are competing for
the trade of the world under the shield
of protection for our own labor. In the
list of these exports will be found prod
ucts OF the most protected, as well as of
the least protected, industries finest
workmanship in iron and steel, and the
simplest constructions of wood. A revit W
OF the nations 10 which these exports are
shipped shows that no nation is too re-
mote, or too highly skilled in manufact-
urcs, fer us to wage successful competi-
ton " in articles made from protect
ed mat with highly-protected labor.
Thu irce trade argument--based upon
the alleged incompatibiity of high pro-
lection and foreign trade-like so many
others, falls to the ground when exposed
TO the test of facts.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-02-25

And IL this statement were made up cor
rectly the percentage of manufactures
would show still more striking gain;
for many important articles OF export
have been included among agricultural
products which should have been in
cluded with manufactures. There is no
good reason why cotton cloth should be
called manufacture-that does not
apply equally well TO flour; and, while
the former is includeds with manufact-
ures, the latter is placed among agricul-
tural products Other instances of this
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-02-25
HOME COMPETITION.
IL Serves to Increase Wages and Lower
Prices.

The Republican party claims that
home competition under protection is
the surest means not only Of establish
ing our manufacturing industries but in
the long run the safest TO reduce the
price of manufactured articles. In the
United States there are now 800, 900
manufacturing establishments, all in
competition. They employ more than
5000, 900 of people, who receive i'm
wages 81, 900, 600, 900 annually. The re-
suit is now and has been, under this
competition, that prices have been great
lv reduced This is all the competition
we want or can stand. III there we're no
protection we could not stand foreign
competition. Home competition and
home consumption tend to a gradual but
healthful reduction of prices OF products.
while foreign competition is destructive
Nsf both the prices OF labor and American
>.ioiAiucts Free trade would destroy or
ktly impair our manufacturing in
kts and home markets, while the
= of articles admitted free would
fn the same or increase. Protection,
IA of being tax or burden. as
"a by the Democratic party, not
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-02-25
Wool Growers necomIng Prosperous.

The adverse tariff legislation OF 1888
arrested the deve iopment OF our wool
growing industry. and started it on the
decline which has since continued The
triumph Of protection in the Presiden-
tial election OF lSSS, which gave the as
surance that the errors in the wool
schedule of the tariff Of 1888 would be
corrected, as has actually been done by
the Mckinley bill, started wool-growing
on an upward course again. The latest
issue from the Department of Agricul-
ture brings the gratifying intelligence TO
farmers that "the increased interest
in sheep and wool. noted year ago,
has been continued and this has been
probably the most profitable branch Of
our stock industry during the year."
and that "the decline in wool produc-
ton. which began with the slaughter OF
OF flocks In 1SSI-s5 |. g., after the adj
verse tariE of 1883 went into effectl, has
been checked, the aggregate clip for
1890 fall of 1889 and spring of 1900 be-
ing estimated at a7G, 900, 900 pounds an
increase of 10000 pounds over the
previous season." Protection, and not
free wool, was the remedy for declining
wool production.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-02-25

about SIC. 90. 90, 900 wofk TN OF our own
products, an a<ount equtl to the entire
accumulated walth OF Spain, three
times the increas~of Wealth In Great
Britain for ten yeah, and seven times
the increase Of France for the same
period. Our home markets that year
absorbed five times as much of our man
ufactured products as Great Britain ex-
ported Of hers to all the markets OF the
world
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protection and Foreign Trade.

Foreign traders will never cease pro-
claiming that we can not hope To export
manufactured goods, so long as the pro-
tective policy is maintained. Yet IL is
evident from the reports Of the Bureau
of Statistics that exports OF manufac-
turei articles are increasing more rapid
ly than the exports of agricultural prod
ucts, or raw materials, The percentage
in each of our total exports was in
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-02-25

THE dolphin is said to be the fastest
swimmer in the seas it has been OBJ
served to dart through the waters at a
rate decidedly greater than twenty
miles an hour, and ii is often seen
swimming round and round vcssel
which is sailing at its highest speed.
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IspeciaI correspondence.

"KING KALI OF the Sandwich ISL
ands, hasn't seen happy day since
shorn of most of his kingly powers, aud
he died as much of broken heart as
anything else. The drop from throne
to everyday life nearly always knocks
out the troopers.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-02-25

THE largest room in the world under
one roof and uHbroken by pillars is at
ST. Petersburg. 1t is 620 feet long by
100 in breadth.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-02-25

The man who missed his footing must
have had his boots stolen.
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Recent Naval Progre IS.

The New York Engineering Nclcs says
that "less than ten years ago IL was gem
orally supposed, at home and in Europe,
that IL the United States could build the
lighter armored class of war ships il
would yet have to GO abroad for the
armaments Of these ships; and the fact
was that Our manufacturers then lacked
both the plant and experience required
for making heavy armor plate and guns
OF the modern types. But both deficien-
cleS have been well and rapidly overcome.
Our new ships arr fully equal and some
OF them superior to their European pro-
totypcs; American firms are already
equipped 10 turn ont the heavy armor
plate, and now we hear from England
that our guns are tho best I'm the word n
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-02-25
MICHIGAN nAPPENl
INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATX
OCCURRED. ~

An Interesting Summary OF the More I'm \
portant Doings OF Our Seighbors-wed-
dings and Deaths-Crinsss, Casualties
and General Nows Notes
MIcmGAN's POPULATION ny COUNTIES.
THE Census Office announced the pop
nlation Of Michigan by counties as fol-
lows.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-02-25
A Mex nicy Industry.

The reaction from the Triumph of
Lying" seems to be at hand. We hear
no more from tn "reformer" the cry
about Mckinley prices, but instead
news items like the following are begin
ming TO gladden. the workingman's heart:
"Thc plate-glass factory now being
constructed at Irwin. Pa, Is 20 be one
OF the largest plants of the kind i'm
America. Over GOO men will be en-
Dloyed, and, while the capitalists will
give no figures regarding cost, the out
lay will amount to over $1,000, 900. A
leading New York banker is behind tho
enterprise, which Is 10 he known as the
Pennsylvania Plate Glass Company"
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1891-07-02
The Female College.

1t has already been announced In
these columns that the Henderson Fe-
male college has been rented by Mrs.
Phillips and her sister Miss Buford' OF
Brunswick county, Va, and Will DC
opened by them early in September.
The Lawrenceville Gazette, published
at the home of these ladies', publishes
what the GOLD LEAF said about the
matter and makes this comment:
The ladies mentioned have wide
and Justly earned reputation as educa.
tors. They are both fully abreast OF
times in their chosen profession, and
will build up the school they propose to
establish, and make it one OF which
II anderson may feel proud.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1891-07-02
Truth.

The value of a newspaper to the adj
vertiser is in direct proportion to the
esteem in which it is held by the sub
scribers. Publishers who are building
up circulation by giving away copies
may take a pointer from this. The
shrewd advertiser considers the quality
as well as the quantity of circulation.
The Ink Ficnd.
Judging from this STANDARD, which is
the correct one, the GOLD LEAF may
justly be regarded good advertising
medium. In its circulation it has both
quantity and quality. Its readers are
intelligent and appreciative, and as a
general thing are reasonably well-to-do
comfortable, good livers-a class
whose trade is worth having.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1891-07-02
AGOOD SELECTION.
Peter N. Wilson Chosen as Executive
Commissioner of the Worlds Fair.

Peter N. Wilson Chosen as Executive
Commissioner of the Worlds Fair.
From the Raleigh State Chronicle of
a late issue we take the following:
Mr.. Peter M. Wilson has been chosen
by the State board of commissioners of
the Worlds Fair as executive commits
sioner, or manager of the North Caro-
lima exhibit. Under the law he as
sumes the entire responsibility for our
State exhibit and he will, of course, be
aided by an executive committee to be
constituted later on and by Secretary
T. K. Bruner, whose zeal in the work
is known of all his acquaintance.
The Chronicle rejoices in the selec-
ton made, and believes that the board
could have found no better man in the
State, yea in the whole South, for the
performance of the duties.
The selection of Mr.. Wilson will be
a source of much satisfaction to the
great crowd of enthusiastic Carolinians
who are demanding that the great re-
sources with which our State is blest
be made known to the world. Endowed
with distinguished taste for such mat
tiers and with boundless information,
Mr.. Wilson is the man who can exhibit
our products and natural resources to
the best advantage, even better than
has been done before, since he has a
State appropriation to back him up in
his efforts. 1t is compliment to the
aggressive town from which he halls
and to the enterprises in which his
labors are engaged.
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RATES OF ADVERTISING.

Transient advertisements to be published
one month and under must be paid for in
advance. All advertising for a shorter time
than three months is considered transient
advertising. Accounts rendered quarterly
for all advertisements published for longer
period OF time
Local advertisements, to appear among
reading matter under heading OF Business
Notices. will be charged 10 cents per line for
first insertion, and cents per line for each
insertion thereafter.
Legal advertisements. such as administra-
tors and executors notices. commissioners
and trustees sales. summons to non resi-
dents &c, will be charged for at legal rates,
except when they exceed certain limit of
space in which case we reserve the right to
fix our own price. All such business must
Se PAID FOR IN ADVANCE. The charge
Is very small and we cannot afford to take
risks or walt the pleasure Of persons to pay.
Obituary notices, resolutions of respect,
etc, will be charged for at the rate of one
ent a word and the cash must accompany
the manuscript. In cases where friends and
patrons of the paper are concerned, no
charge will be made for the first ten lines
about 70 wOrds-or articles not exceeding
that in length.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1891-07-02
You can find the best Lime at Hardee's
store, opposite R. & G. Depot.
Personal.

The many friends of Col. E. Taylor
are pleased to see him back again and
the improved condition of his health is
a source of qualification to them. For
the past IA years he has been troubled
at times from the effects of severe
wound received in the army and it
finally became necessary to undergo a
surgical operetion. This was success
fully performed by DR.. Mcclure, o
Richmond, and for eight weeks the
Colonel was virtually strapped to his
bed. While his sufferings were in
tense men of his mould bear pain as
heroically as they braved danger in the
thick of the fight in times of war, and
we trust he is now in a fair way to
permanent recovery. Of a genial dis
position, as gallant in civil life as he
was brave in battle, Col. Taylor counts
his friends by his acquaintance and
with one accord they hope to see him
well and sound in limb as he is in head
and heart.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1891-07-02
DEEP IN LOVE.
A Bows Unique Love Letter.

The most unique, fervent and delicious
love letter We have had the pleasure OF
reading since the days when we used to
be in that kind OF business ourself, came
under our notice few days ago. The
boy who wrote it is about 10 years old,
and the girl is presumably in the same
neighborhood. With promise not to
call any names, We have been permitted
to print the charming missive. Here it is:
s'DEAR EMMA love you and l wish
you would write to me / love you and |
wish I could kiss you. Emma, you look
SO rosy. love you, don't you love me?
| wish you would write to me. | guess
you love me. don't care if you don't,
l will write to you anyway. l want you
to write to me and if you have no lead
pencil / will give You one and sOmepaper.
am SO glad that you love me. Emma,
did you tell that boy that lives beside
your house that you was going to slap
my nose? Emma, could not help but
cry when that boy told me. Emma,
thought you thought more of me. l have
given you about twenty-fi cents worth
OF candy, and you don't treat me well,
besides give you some gum"
There is no doubt about the condition
OF that boy. He is in love. He may be
only 10 years old, but ii he lives to be
100 he will never be any more in love
than he was when he penciled this letter.
Go to Parker's drug store to getcooled
Off,
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1891-07-02
Our Ringwood Letter.
RINGwoOp. N. c.. June 30. 1891

RINGwooD, N. c., June 30, 1891.
EDITOR GOLD LEAF:-Have re-
turned from short stay at Morehead :;
large crowds; hotels full to overlooking;
the sailing and fishing and surf bathing
much enjoyed by all and the sessions
Of the Teachers Assembly edifying
and instructive.
The celebrated DIR. Talmage on
Tuesday night delivered lecture to
thousands who anticipated much pleas
ure from the same. His subject was
''Big Blunders,'' and his advice ''find
out what you are fit for and stick to it's
was presented in apt illustrations and
some of his descriptions were pointed
and his eloquence grand, yet on the
whole as lecturer he is striking ex-
empliication, as he said, that a
preacher should stick to his subject and
not attempt to do anything else. He
failed to come up to the high standard
of expectation and none of els vast au-
dience felt what they anticipated. In
fact, all heard speak of it were disap-
pointed, arguing that Rev: Geo. w.
Sanderlin, State Auditor, far surpassed
him in eloquence, force and power.
Though there is no doubt of DR.. Tai
mage's great learning and as preacher
he stands among the foremost of the
land and is mighty instrument for
good.
Crop prospects are imoroving daily,
though cotton Is smaller than ever
known at this season. Tobacco is but
tonipg, yet the crop bids fair for an
average.
''Children's Day. in the NJ. P.
church in town yesterday was a most
interesting occasion. The church was
beautifully decorated and the young
folks acted their part with credit to
themselves and their faithful instructors.
One of the largest crowds that had as
sembled for years was present to wit
ness the same. 500 was realized for
missionary purposes.
There is considerable sickness and
some deaths.
Cadet Henry Avent, son of that
clever gentleman, T. V. Avent, was
in town to-day. Henry is attending
the Davis School and is far advanced
for his age.
No local news of interest to note, so
pardon, sc. When sickness abates and
anything Of interest turns up you will
hear again from G.. E. M.
How does the following strike you
for correspondent:
''There is man in our town, and
he is wondrous wise :; whene'er he
writes the printer man, he dotteth all
his is. And when he's dotted all OF
them, with great sang .troid and ease,
he punctuates each paragraph, and
crosses all his It's. Upon one side alone
he writes, and never rolls his leaves ;
and from the man of ink smile, and
mark 'insert'' receives. And when
question he doth ask Caught wisely
he had been) he doth the goodly penny
stamp, for postage back. put in
Med. Age.
This does not fit me, does it?
[Our devil says &c. E. NJ" must
be little more particular about dot
ting his is and crossing his is, and
then use little bigger piece Of paper
before the above will At his easel
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1891-07-02
Trustees Sale.

By virtue of the power conferred upon
me by deed in trust duly executed to me
on the first day of September, 1887. by w.
Ii. Smoot and wife, which Is duly regis
tered in Vance county, North Carolina, In
Deed Book No. ., page $40, / shall, on the
TWENTIETH DAY OF JULY, 1891, sell
at public auction, to the highest bidder for
cash, at the court house door, in the town
of Henderson. said county, the following
real property. to-wit: That lot Of ground
situate on Garnett street, in said town Of
Henderson, adjoining the lands Of the
Raleigh & CASTOR X. X. Co., Claude Hun
ter, and others, having front OF eighty
two feet on Garrett street, and depth Of
one hundred and eleven feet, running back
to said railroad property the same Inn
proved by that valuable three-stOry
birck factory, occupied by said w. H.
SmOOt as a prize house. Sale made to sat-
isfy the debt secured in the trust. Refer
ence to which deed Is made for more par
ticular description.
This 18th June, 1891.
VIM. II. S. BURGWYN,
Trustee