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The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-01-25
THE WORLDS VERDICT.

The drops of water slung across the camel's back
Had leaked, and all the day upon the desert sands
The water. drop bydrop. had fallen. till at last
The skins were well-nighd drained, and that which
still remained
When gathered in the cup of gold mace fewer
drops
Than there were Jewels bordering the goblet's
The brother pilgrims. who together sought the
OF holy Airs martyred Sons. at Maggrib. saw
The ruin which the day had brought unto their
lives.
And each one looked the other steadfast in tbs
Each saw the shadow of the wings of Azrael.
Yet for n moment neither spoke. save in low
And th,n the elder whispered. Brother, drink.
and peace and life be thine"
The other answered. GOD In God.
1t is the Prophets will-drink thou"
Until I'll Maria. and they laid them down to rest;
The cup between, and each held out his hand to
push
The goblet with its precious drops of life away.
1t was FL 6hadda when they walked. The burn
Had been on high four hours. and within that
time
Had dried the water up. When this the brothers
They bowed in prayer, and rising loosed their
beasts,
And bade them wander where they would. Then,
sick and faint.
They laid them down again, and in their dreams
of thirst
Tho cup o'ertiowel with crystal water, which each
gave
Unto his brother.
When again the red sun set
They passed into the Garden of the Faithful
Ones
Mkt LAY a caravan passed. by that spot, and saw
The brothers lying with their han,s stretched out
as Though
To grasp the golden cup, each still in deaths en-
brace,
And one long .beardci sheik, whose hair was
white with aye.
Picked. up the cup, noted the studding genus and
sighed.
Questioning the greed by which man was made TO
give
Up life. and all life held. for one small bit of
gold.
And then the caravan passed on again.
-klavel Scott Mines, in Harper's Weekly.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-01-25
Strange scene in Spain.

The day after the tobacco factory in Mad
rid was burned 10000 women invaded the
palace courtyard and Queen Christine gave
orders that a delegation should be allowed
to come to her. It was a strange sight. says
an eye witness, to see these cigarieres, with
their shawls crossed on their hips and their
red fouIard handkerchiefs on their heads,
mounting the staircase of Charles v-never
before SO invaded. They brought with them
a little boy about the age Ct the young king.
who, mounted on the shoulder of his mother,
lisped out a little speech to the queen.
Queen Christine, much touched, took the
little fellow On her knee and kissed him
several times. Tho queen promised help,
and in the meantime gave $1,000 to the
cigarieres.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-01-25

closely it is watched by the thirty nations
within the treaty on the other side of the
sea. They realize its fitness to the needs of
our land, and approve, with a grateful pride,
the additions made to the great structure of
humanity SO nobly erected by themselves.
The last ten years lave been notably free
from devastating wars IN other countries
which might have called for our aid; but
Us showing how promptly such aid can be
rendered l may quote one example.
During the troubles among the Austrian
states in the winter of 1886, a circular call
went out from the International committee
of Geneva, Switzerland, the working corps
of which held the hospital relief for the
sick and wounded in the Balkan mountains,
that the patients were suffering beyond
their power to relieve; that the cold on the
mountains was intense; their supplies had
given out; and Ia for procuring more
entirely exhausted. This appeal was at
once published; the first response was to
this effect:
The people of Now Albany, across the
river from louisville. who had been terribly
swept by the floods of 1SS3-1SS4, and each
time assisted by the agents of the Red
Cross, having read the appeal, telegraphed
to myself as president of the Red Cross, the
sum of five hundred dollars $500 fer the
use of the suffering soldiers in the Balkan
mountains: this dispatch was that day
cabled to the international OF
Geneva, and by them telegraphed to their
corps at the front; and word came back to
me that in less than forty-eight hours the
poor cold, benumbed, hungry and perish
ing victims of war. far away on the noun
tain COASTS of the Black sea. were nesting
under blankets and partaking of food pur-
chased with the grateful gift of that com
paratively little town hidden away on the
banks of the Ohio.
l name this single instance as an indica-
ton of the promptness with which the fla
cilities of this world wide organization en-
ables it to act, and lest / weary my readers
allow me to conclude with a quotation from
u yet unpublished article of my own, for
which liberty l beg the kind grace of the
publisher should 1t meet his eye.
'sIhe work of the Red Cross in this coun-
try has thus far been rather a test than 9TH
erwisa of its efficiency, usefulness and pos
sibilities, and so fully has it met, n even
surpassed all early expectations, that any
limited description like the present seems
rather an annoyance, ns leaving the subject
where its best interests should commences;
and although in our land we may never
have need of its protecting arm on the
fields of htsman warfare, il ia enough for us
to know that we have needed ii, as no
words can tell. Only the lonely graves. tho
desolnse homes, the widowed faces grown
wan and old before their time, tho orphans
who have lacked II father's love and care.
can tell what it would have been to Us only
one generation ago, and although ii may
not be true, hat what has happened may
happen again, il Ia true that the best pro-
vision against possible misfortune is tho
duty OF q government towards its peopl
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and, the duty of a people towards each
other, CLARA BARTON,
President Am. Nat. Red Cross.
False Teeth and Long Life.

Very few people realize how much the
dentist has done for mankind, says the st.
Louis Post Dispatch. To mention one
thing only, the perfection to which the
manufacture OF false teeth has been carried
has practically abolished old age-that is,
old age in the sense I used to know it. You
sea none of the mumbling, helpless old
men and women that you formerly did.
This is not because people do not attain the
age their parents and grandparents reached,
but because the dentist has prevented some
of the most unpleasant consequences Of
advancing years. Men of seventy no longer
look or feel old. because they are not de-
prived of nourishing food at the time they
need it most. Estimates have been made
showing that the average length of life has
been increased from four to six years by
the general use Of false teeth,
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-01-25

N REMEMBER-Ths includes everything in our store; fine kid shes of all
dscipions;N Mise and ChdrensD Dress and School Shoes;a kinds of felt hoes and
sippemo IN whchthe discount is great It's necessity for you to buy shoes; is
necessity for us to sell hem.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-01-25

to the treaty, that our great woes and dis
asters would not lie in the track of human
warfare alone, Blu that the elements would
wage us wars more relentless than men;
that pes~tilence, floods, fires, docs and
famine would call for relief or their vic
Tins, and while organizing for the one, the
other was included, and granted by the in-
te%rnational ongre abroad.
This ''civil' branch, or service in nation
al calamities, is known among other ma
tions as the american amendment"
While no actual call to aid in relief OF
wars has come to US in our nine years under
the treaty. the Red Cross has taken its
place and performed services on twelve
fields of national disaster, and while re-
garded with grateful kindness by the people
Of our own country so far as understood by
them, it is instructive to know with what
interest its new work is observed, and how
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-01-25

For Rates, Maps. Time Tables or special lnfor-
nation apply to any agent Of the Northern Pacific
Il. H.. or Ito
ohAS. 8. FEE
A. ID. EDGAR, Gen'l Pass. and r. Agt,
General Agent, ST PAUL, MINI.
Cor. Main & Grand sts.. Helena. Mont.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-09-17

THE expert statistician, L. L. Will
son, gives the census statistics of
twenty-eight States on protected sheep
and unprotected hogs. These statistics
deeply concern the wool growers and
farmers of Ohio, because they tell a
story that all the campaign liars of the
z. o. p. cannot down. According to
the census Of 1850 there were 21,OOO,OOO
unprotected sheep in twenty-eight
states of the United States, while in
1889 there were only 1Z529,S5 This
shows what protection has done for
mutton and wool, at time when our
population WAS rapidly increasing.
Now take the statistics on hogs. Hogs
are not protected by a tariff, at least
not the four legged hogs. In 1850 there
Were 29,459307 hogs in these
twenty eight states quoted, while
in 1889 there were 40,6S419t hogs
in these same twenty-eight states. In
1870 there were 4 G2S ,635 sheep ia Ohio,
while in 1899, with the high tariff in
full swing, there were only 3,943,5S9
sheep, loss Of about one million. In
1870 there were 1,728,96S hogs in Ohio,
while in 1883 there were 2Gl1,O Ola.
These statistics are very interesting
reading for Republican farmers to
ponder over. They need no comment.
Shoot the robber tariff.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-09-17

ONE of the chaps imported to Ohio
from bleeding Kansas to enlighten us
is Ex-Governor Humphrey. He came
to deny the tale of WOO that the Farm
ers' Alliance orators are telling US. On
Saturday he was announced to speak at
Ti1lin, in Mobiles Grand Opera house.
A brass band played furiously in front
of the Opera House, and hundreds of
highly mortgaged farmers, who are al
ways in town Saturday afternoon, listen.
ed to the music, but when the hour for
the Kansas orator to crate arrived there
was only twenty persons in the house,
and tbeKansas Elk Governor refused to
vent his venom. A dispatch to the
Sunday Enquirer says: "The night
meeting was almost as conspicuous a
failure as the afternoon fasco. There
were just 105 persons in the hal, ,includ-
ing the speaker. A prohibition audi
ence on an adjoining corner, addressed
by Hon. A. G. Wolfenbarger of Kansas,
numbered nearly JOO."
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-09-17

THE Republican party has favored GER
tain interests and sections by a tariff and
the Democrats only propose 10 do the
same thing for other parties and locations.
There is no evidence that less appropTia'
tons would be made by one than the other.
Canton Peoples Forum.
The above is entirely incorrect and
an unfair statement. A paper devoted
to reform in the tariff and to remedial
measures for the benefit Of the masses,
as against special classes, ought to be
very careful and tell the truth. Let the
record speak. The 4G,h Congress was
Democratic il the lower House, where
all appropriation bills must originate;
the 47th Congress was Republican IN
both branches, and the 48th Congress
was Democratic. The aggregate ap-
prOpriations by the 47th Congress
(Rep) exceeded the 4Gth Congress
(Dem) by the enormous SUN of Sl2l,-
631,552 and the appropriations Of the
47th Congress (Rep) exceeded the
48th Congress (Dem) by the
still greater sum of. S2lO, ,760
The 5Oth Congress was Democratic in
the lower House, while the 5lst Con-
gress (the last one) was Republican in
both branches. The appropriations of
the last Republican Congress, over the
last Democratic Congress aggregate the
enormous sum of nearly S550,000,OC0,
or over S5OOOO0,OOO in excess Of the en-
tire appropriations Of the Democratic
Congress.
Not only did the last Republican
Congress exhaust the entire revenues of
the government, but it also robbed the
U. S. Treasury of Sl12,OOOOO0 of sur
plus money, left there by Grover CleVe-
land. This is the record. Why does
the Peoples Forum try to deceive its
readers in this reckless manner. If it
is inspired by patriotic motives and a
love of the common veal it will pitch
in and help the Democratic party clean
out the robbers of our substance.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-09-17

MCKINLEY voted for the free and un-
limited coinage of silver when the Bland.
Allison bill was in Congress. Mckinley
can't deny the testimony of the Congress
sional Record,-Mansfleld Shield.
You evidently do not know the
Major. Why he denied last year that
he voted against the service pension
bill, even after the NEws-D DEMOCRAT
published the Congressional Record,
giving his vote against it. And the g,
o. p. organs here in this section deliber-
ately lied about it all through the cam.
paign. The Major solemnIy promised
to appoint soldier postmaster at Mas
sillon, but Clem Russell got the office
Just the same. He committed himself
in the presence of number Of soldiers
TO a soldier for postmaster at Younga-
town, but he appointed a civilian just
the same. 1t was the same way In
Louisville, Navarro, Canal Fulton and
other places. This is record evidence.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-09-17
A RADICAL RRFoRMER.
He Would Treat the Authors Of Robbie
Tariffs as Criminals.


tAmbrose Blerce in San Francisco ExamlnerI
have long regarded the question of
Protection VS.. Free Trade as not proper.
~ q political but a moral one. To me the
ProtectioniSt Is not a hereto to be re-
claimed, but criminal to be restrained.
III could have my way, they should all
go trooping into the penitentiaries as
fast as enough penitentiaries to con-
tain them could be built by their labor
And right nimbly they would be ex-
pected to work In ediflcation of those
mansions of the unblest.
Why not? In respect of what is the
man who infllcts upon an indubitable
damage to be balanced by pr0ble-
matte advantage better than any other
roguep wish to purchase something
in Europe, something which l need
or conceive myself to need. He claps
on a duty which makes the article cost
me more than 1t otherwise would. That
in an injury to me, direct and immedi-
ate; there is no question of that-he
comedies it. Look at him how you will,
the Protectionist is merely rogue in
disguise. And his disguise is so very
thin aud scant that the law hath yet
another hold on him: he is liable TO
arrest for indecent exposure of chsrac-
ter.
The foregoing views are very pre-
cious to me, for, 80 far as know, they
are mine in monopoly. Nobody shares
them, not even the members of the
Golden Club and the reckless disburs-
ers of "British gold" During the re.
cent Presidential canvass the difference
between the two political parties, as
nearly as l could figure it, was about
~ per cent. Senator Sanford figures
it now at considerably less. Every
DC BODY wants frofectiOn either s essential d6nd
OF incidental L am sorry my, gG0dt 200
truth is the king ' Of Virtues, M e al and d. if /
were dictator, should put you all in
the penitentiary.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-09-17
HEART FAILURE,
The Warnings Are Plain-Beware

No hour passes that some one does not drop dead
OF Heart Failure. The first symptoms OF this fatal
disease may be slight, BUT DO NOT PAIL TO HEED
1BEM IF you VALUE YOUR LIFE,
nervous weak, weary feeling, giddiness SWIM
ming OF head, strangs, faint feelings, trembling,
sinking sensation, GOODNESS OF feet and legs uter-
Ing or palpltaton OF heart feeling Of apprehension
anxiety, drowsiness daytimes, seepie sness nights.
Neglect OF these symptoms Will result In HEART
FAILURE, SPAsMs OR NEURALGIA or THE HEART
OR DEATH.
DIR. Greene's Nervurn, when the first symp-
toms appear, It viii prevent all danger from heart
failure. 10 is purely vegetable and harmless, and
its use offers the ONLY SURE HOPE or CURING THIS
TERRIBLE DISEASE AND AvEGrSG THE FATAL
RESULT. Druggists sell It for SLOO.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-09-17

MCKINLEY travels about the State
telling his hearers that "since 1873 we
have put IN circulation four hundred
and ten millions of silver dollars" "
Sherman, on the contrary, tells us that
Gin spite of every effort of successive
Secretaries of the Treasury they (the
silver dollars) could be kept in circula-.
ton only to the extent OF fifty to sixty
millions" If Sherman and Mckinley
should happen to address the same
crowd somewhere, it might embarrass
the average rural rooster to know who
was telling the truth.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-09-17
WORKING THE xoUNesTowNM MIL
LIONAIRES,
[Vrom the Youngstown vlnoHatorI

The corruption boodlers who are an.
noying and begging liberal-handed
ley fupd-to elect him and the other
felIow-should understand that the
men they seek to plunder are not as
great fools now as they were year
ago. Their money was wasted and
their fa7orite defeated, aud another
sacrifice of their liberal gifts in a more
reckless and illegal crusade, is not de-
sirable oTprotitRbie this year. Mckin-
ley is getting to be too expensive a
statesman TO be annually boosted into
office. His craftsmanship is too ex-
pensive for it's value. In short, his i'm
position upon them is wearisome.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-09-17

THE Sunday Herald copies an article
from the Cadiz Republican denying
that there is any such person as Colonel
Conway in Cadiz. We have taken
steps to ascertain whether our report
on the Cadiz gentleman is correct We
obtained our information from Mr..
McGregor, of Pittsburg, who recently
visited Cadiz and claimed to have talk
ed with Colonel Conway. If the name
10 spelled wrong or the rank is given as
Colonel instead of Captain, this would
be reason why the Cadiz Republican
would make preyaricating denial.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-09-17

scowled and w. X. Miller's face assum-
ed painful glow of disgust when Bur-
rows fred his fearful phillipics against
McKinley's debased and debasing rec
ord on the silver question.
Now what was the Rep. committee
about that they did not post Burrows
on the recordp
The Burrows meeting was a success
as an oratorial effort, but the exceeding
thinness of the argument ought to do
the Democrats much good.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-09-17
THE TARIFF AS ALL1EDTo TRUSTS
AND PUBLIC ROBBERY.

The Hon. ohm i. Monnot contrib
utes q valuable article to the Plain
Dealer on trusts. 1t proves that the
robber tariff has been the guardian of
trusts, and that this guardianship Is
still in forceful existence. We quote
from Mr.. Monnot's article touching the
effect of the tariff on wages:
Second, so far as the laborers are
concerned. What has been the effect
of the dutyP In 1870 the average an
Dual wages paid to the laborers in the
iron and steel industries of all kinds,
was a454.26. During the year 1870 the
tariff on rails was doubled. After ten
years of this high tariff, the average
according to the census reports of
1880, was only S3935l, a decline of
S60.75 or 1875 per cent, and in 1884, &C
cording to Bradstreet, there was a
further decline Of 20 per cent, making a
total Of declines since 1870 of 3315 per
cent. And yet this steel rail monopoly,
this association of eleven companies
made close corporation by paying so
much money per ton into jackpot, and
in 1875 they paid one Of their num-
ber, the Vulcan Steel Rolling mill Of
st. Lo1is, $4,000 for stopping work
and disoharging their hands so as to
restrict the production and thus keep
up prices, while the tariff had been
growing all this time more and more
protective"
"In lSSOthe whole wages paid by the
American railmakers amounted Ia only
1888 per ton for every ton Of rails pro.
duced in that year. And, as have said
before, rails were selling for $27 per ton
in 1885, when the railmakers combined
and forbed prices up to $40 per ton at
the beginning Of 1887, an advance Of
slS per ton, claiming that it was for the
benefit Of their woTkmen. But did the
combination increase the wages of their
workmen? After having advanced the
price of rails Sl3 per ton did they i'll
crease their wages penny? No they
did not. If they did anything at all
they gave them further reduction in
wages. But the combination increased
their profits to the amount of S13 per
ton under the preteuse that the prices
were raieed for the benefit of their la.
borers, while the Edgar Thompson Steel
Works Of Pittsburg, one of the largest
Of this kind in the
United States, paid their laborers dur
ing the year 1887 only SlO9 per tom
Mr.. Monnot then quotes from Carroll !
D. Wright, Commissioner of Labor who |
in his preliminary report on the "cost |
)f the production Of pig iron, steel rails,
3tc, issued July /, 1890, on page %,
says that the cost of labor to produce a
,on Of steel rails in the Uuited States 10
,nly Sl54, aud S1.95 per ton in Great
Britain. That is, the laborers in the
iteel rail mills of the United States re-
,eiYe ii cents less per ton for their labor
luder protection than the English la
)orer under free trade. And the same
put tariff of $3.50 per ton
N steel rails to protect the great steel
rust, simply and solely to rob the peo-
lie. Ponder the above facts and stats
les well. They have more value than
rec dinners and free railroad rides and
rec tin plates, contributed by the trust
harks TO help elect Doodle statesmen
0 offices of honor and profit.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-09-17

the robber tariff was born, Peters car
ried the same identical district by a
majority of 14,3lS. In other words a
district with about 5000 Republican
majority was lost by 1922 on the tariff
issue alone, and our Mckinley made
the issue and the disaster. And now
Peters is to stump Ohio. He ought to
be an enthusiastic cuss on the tariff.
Pass him around, with the statistics.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-09-17

THE Evening Reps silly talk about
Mills being afraid to meet Mckinley in
debate will fool no one The Congress
sional Record shows that Mckinley
never dared to open his mouth in any
debate in Congress, except to close the
debate, and then cali the previous ques-
ton, so as to allow no reply. Mckinley
has neither record nor reputation as a
dphafar
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-09-17

THE fact that the Kansas league of
Republican clubs has declared for the
free and unlimited coinage Of silver
proves that our Mckinley was in line
with his party when he voted in Con-
gress for the free and unlimited coin
age of what he now denouncas as the
80 cent silver dollar. Funny, isn't It?
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-09-17

THE Carrollton correspondent who
sends US the report OF the Mckinley
failure at Carrollton, says ina private
note: "The above is straight and you
can depend on it. Nick. is very unpop-
ular here, and he will lose from 20 to 80
votes in this township"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-09-17

READ the very excellent article in
this issue on the sugar tariff. Repubh-
cans in search of the truth would do
well 30 read it carefully, II Is by a
highly educated Canton gentleman,
who is q free lance in politics, but who
is against Mckinley this time.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-09-17

SIMON EvERTs, his four Sons and
three s0n.in-laws, OF Adams Co., eight
votes in one school district and hereto
fore stalwart Republicans, tell the
West Union Defender that this year
they viii vote for Gov. Campbell. They
recently heard Mckinley on the tin
tariff ana the 50 cent dollar.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-09-17

MATTERS are somJre and owlish for
the g. 0. p. up in Trumbuli Go. The
Columbus Post says: On one street in
a small village, are four men who voted
sthe Republican ticket last year who say
they will vote for Governor Campbell
and the whole Democratic state ticket
next November.