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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-10-08
Protection In.ures Pro,peritv

Our country's steady and recognized
advancement through the development
Of all natural resources within reach. il
essential to the acquisition of that stand.
ing among nations without which nc
! government can long be maintained
/ This progress and development is posi-
bic only so long as employment is fur
mshed to every man at wages by which
he can earn enough to properly feed and
clothe his family and still have some
thing to lay aside for the time when age
compels him to give place to younger
blood and stronger muscle.
The worlds history assures us that
power cannot be secured or independ-
ence maintained by the nation that fails
to accord more consideration to the in
terests of its citizens than to the people of
other nations; for citizens of a rising ma
ton, like the members of an immature
( family, must be defended against in
novations by those who stand ready to
reap what they have not sown, to profit
by keeping others in dependence upon
them for such things as necessity or
preference may indicate.
This is the object and result of pro-
lection. Practiced by every household,
incorporated into every village charter,
affirmed in the constitution of every
commonwealth, the right-the solemn
duty-to look first after the welfare of
ones own, stood unchallenged through
the ages until the modern "reformer'
haoroT, 70 - III H.
discrimination against outsiders when
extending commercial privileges by law.
One of the statutory rights of the
American citizen, old as the Government
itself, is to have such taxes as are laid
for purposes of revenue purposely 80 ad-
Justed as to give him better chance
than any foreign rival to gain profit from
the business of his country. In return
for this he stands ready to discharge jury
duty, to defend the country in time of
war, and TO add the proceeds of his in
dustry and economy to the general pros
perity in time of peace.
AS result of this equitable arrange
ment the worlds greatest Republic, in
the single century of its existence, has
forged to the front rank of nations
with an internal commerce that exceeds
in tonnage and value the world wide
trade of the naughty mistress of the
seas. One by one the great industries of
the Old World are overshadowed by
those here made strong by the fostering
hand of domestic protection; while
wages have been kept up and prices
forced down in the only legitimate way
competition between employers, the
ingenuity and intelligence of workmen,
and skill and energy in bringing to the
support of these the unparalleled re-
sources, farms, forests and mines.
Every attempt to improve upon this
condition by discarding the economic
policy under which it has been attained
is to stultify history, ignore past expert
ence, and to bring down chaos AID dis
aster upon every industry now con-
tributing to the comfort and support of
our people, and the power and influence
of our country. All such attempts are
repudiated by American voters when
ever the proposition is placed squarely
before them.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-10-08
CHURCH DIRECTORY.

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-Rev r. Alex
Inder, pastor. Public worship every Sabbath
morning AID evening; Sabbath school $50 a. m.
young peoples society of Christian endeayOr, Mon.
day evenings; general prayer meeting, Wednesday
evening. Strangers welcome to all services.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH-Rev
Ezra Hingeley, pastor. sabbath preaching, II
4. m. Z p. m; young peoples meeting, Monday
evenings; general prayer meeting, Wednesday eve
nings; Sabbath school > 30 pm. Strangers cor
daily invited to all services.
UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-Rev.
Thomas Balph, pastor. Sabbath school, 10 a. IN.
public worship, IL a. M; weekly prayer meeting,
Friday p. m; monthly prayer meeting, last Satur
day of each month, p. m; wOman'S missionary
society, 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 N. E. CHURCH-Rev. Albert March
pastor. Sunday service, 1920 a. M; p. M; Sab
bath school, 80 p. m; weekly prayer meeting,
Thursday evenings. Strangers welcome.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-10-08
Preys Upon Public Misfortune.

The Democratic party lives on public
misfortune. During the war every
Union defeat increased Democratic
votes, while the shouts which welcomed
Sheridan's victories in the Shenandoah
valley ushered in the overwhelming
triumph of Abraham Lincoln. 1t is
just SO in times of peace. When the
Nation goes down the Democratic party
goes up and gains. Distress is its meat
and National calamity its harvest. The
suffering of millions gives it hope. The
closing of factories and mills and mines
thrills the Democratic heart with the
prospect of fat Offices to be gained. Last
year crops were bad. Accordingly, the
Democrats themselves were astonished
at the magnitude of their victories in
the Congressional elections. But this
year crops are not bad, and national
prosperity does not mean Democratic
victory.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-10-08
The Country is All Right.
louisville Post. Dem.1

Is it not time for calamity journals to
stop filling the minds of the people with
clap-trap? Why depreciate ones coun-
try? Why cry down every industry,
new and old, because it is fostered by a
system which they do not approve
Why say it is impossible to make tin in
America, when it is being made every
day, and when there are numbers of new
plants now in process of construction
Why attempt to make people believe
they are victims of oppression and mis-
rule when the statistics show that while
the per capita wealth of the country was
only $513 IN 1860, it was $3.50 in 1870,
$S7O in 1880, and nearly 81 900 in 1S90i
No other nation, known to either
ancient or modern history, has shown
such rapid progress. No other nation
on the globe affords such opportunities
for the poor to rise alike in the social
and financial scale
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-10-08

yard, or less than the duty; and Brus
sells carpet, dutiable at A cents a square
yard and 40 per cent, or
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-10-08

THE affections, however warm, will
grow cold, and the desires, however
strong, will decline, unless their CORE
spending actions are performed. The
best intentions in the world, without eff
fort, will produce nothing,and will them
selves die away. So the hand without
the heart can never continue operative.
The expression of affection where none
exists must die upon the lips. Compul-
sion may produce momentary pressure,
but, as soon as it is removed, reaction
takes place. Industry flags as soon as
the motive is removed. Self-sacrilice
becomes impossible where love is not
Heroism without enthusiasm is una
chieyable.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-10-08

If we lay heavy plate perforated
here and there on the top of flower
pot, we shall see the rising plant making
steady efforts to send its shoots through
the apertures; but what pallid, weakly,
sickly things the shoots are! It's much
the same with a mind that is over
weighted with books or with what is
called "exact" knowledge of any kind,
if the knowledge is impaired in reck-
less or one sided fashion.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-10-08
Prices Prior to 1860.

The Cincinnati Post is printing series
of tariff letters from General Gros
venor on part of the Republicans
Judge Blandin, of Cleveland, for the
Democrats. and Hon. John Seitz, Of
Tiffin, for Seitz and the Pefferites
In a recent article General Gros-
venor gave some account of his per.
sonal experience as a boy on Southern
Ohio farm, which very likely tallies
with the experience of many other boys
of that period all over the State. In
this day Of evil prophecy and furious as
sault on the protective tariff, it is well
to recall that period. 1t may be added
also that neither Judge Blandin nor Mr..
Seitz has as yet attempted to deny the
Generals statements nor to answer his
conundrum In the article referred to
he says:
During the Democratic tariff, known as
the Walker tariff, it is within my personal
observation that wheat sold for thirty
cents a bushel in Ohio. | have seen the
product of my fathers own little farm
hauled thirty-five miles in wagons and
sold at forty cents bushel. In exchange
for it l have stood by and seen barrel of
salt sold at 50; yard of calico for twenty
five cents; yard of muslin for thirty cents,
and everything else that we used in the
family at the same ratio. Coming down
to much later period, while engaged as a
clerk in a country store, | bought thou
sands of eggs at two and three cents per
dozen; chickens at six cents apiece. just
before the war sheep sold in this country
and all over Ohio, good sheep, for fifty
cents apiece. Pork sold, in those good old
days, for one and one-half to two and
one-half cents per pound for the dead
hog, and butter at six cents a pound, and
there was no sale at all for fruit and
vegetables and berries Flour under the
Walker tariff in 1916, sold for from 81 90 to
81. so per 100 lbs. Under the Walker tariff
these were the standard prices, and we
paid twenty-five cents a yard for calico.
We paid for cheap wool hat from 50 so to
S4.00 Every species of manufacture of
iron was in the same proportion. The
same was true of shoes and boots, and of
all the commodities that entered into the
uses of the household The farm products
of those days sold, on an average, for about
33 to 45 per cent. of what they sell for now.
Will my distinguished friend from Cuya-
hoga take his facile pencil and figure out
how many times $4,000, ,000, 900 the pro-
ducers in the country lost during the prev
alence of Democratic free trade, as COM
pared with the prices for which they have
sold their commodities since 1861, and the
Inauguration of a system of protective
tariff in this countryS
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-10-08
A. GeneraI sherdian Once Said.

Free Trader Mills, in his speech at
Mansfield last Saturday, laid it down as
fundamental proposition that the
Democrat is always right" Well, that
depends on which Democrat he means.
Grover Cleveland is right on the silver
question, Charles A. Dana on the tariff
and Henry Watterson on the income
tax, but the only Democrat who is
always right is the dead Democrat. He
dropped out before his party started on
its forty years wandering in the political
wilderness. ss.-[Cincinnat Times-Star.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-10-08

MUCH of the unwritten history of life's
grief and woe, many faded, sad and
weary lives. much of the discord and i'll
feeling that split families asunder, have
their sources in a selfish, grasping and
distrustful spirit entering into and poi
soning the springs of affection, which
would otherwise flow over the earth in
streams of purity and sweetness for the
refreshment and happiness of mankind.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-10-08
The Tin Can Liar Answered.

81 was in Chicago yesterday for a
few hours as l passed through from
Iowa." said Major Mckinley in the
course of his speech at Van Vert last
Friday. ''The largest tin can establish
ment in the world is that of Norton
Brothers, No. 36 to 46 River street, Chi
cago, Ill. They knew the interest 1
had taken in this tin question. They
knew the increased tariff had put upon
tin, and this letter was sent to me as l
was getting on the train last night:
CHICAGO, Ill, September "a.
Hon. William Mckinley, Jr.
Dear Sir-We have shipped within the
past ten days more than one hundred car
loads of No. 2 and one hundred car loads of
Nos. and cans, such as are used by can
ming factories-No. 2 for corn and No. 8 for
tomatoes. The prices have in no cases ex-
ceeded s. Is per hundred for No. 2, and
50 90 for No. 3. In September, 1890, we
were selling the same cans exactly, or
rather the same kinds and sizes and
quality, at s3.15 and S3.75 per hun
dred for No. 2, aud S4 and S4.25
for No. 8. These were the regular
market prices of them here and in the East,
and if these facts are of service to you, you
are at liberty to use our name as au-
thority Yours truly
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-10-08

Governor CampbelIs speech at Sidney
shows that he is much mixed on the free
coinage questions; that is he does not, in
his individual. private opinion agree
with the silver plank in the Ohio Demo
cratic platform, but as the nominee OF
that party, he is willing to chance it.. y
An individual. divided with himself in
opinion, like a house divided against
itself, is bound to take tumble, and a
big one, too Warren Chronicle.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-10-08
DELMONT COUNTY DIRECTORY

Common Pleas Judge John B. briggs.
Probate ,Judge-,JameS f. Tallman.
Clerk of COurtS-Henry Nj. Davies.
Sheriff-NiadiSOn 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. +. Boyd
CommissiOners-MilesR II. Hart, John G. Israel,
w. S. Mechem.
Infirmary Directors William Lodge, president;
John A. Clark, clerk; B. NJ. LOpeT, auditor.
Superintendent Infirmary John SidebOttOm,
East Richland.
Superintendent Children's Home-Peter Giffin,
GAINESVILLE.
School Examiners-JameS Duncan, Bridgeport; :;
s. C. Murphy, Belmont I. p. Harris SomertOn-
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-10-08
Farmer, TariT Sure EnouebI

The following table shows the duty on
agricultural products under the McKin-
ley tariff law. Not single article of
farm produce which can be raised in the
United States in quantity sufficient TO
supply the home market, failed to re-
ceive protection in this law. II is, in
fact. the only distinct farmers tariff law
ever enacted upon all the articles which
Ohio farmers produce in large quantities,
an increased protection has been given.
But you will understand this fully after
a careful perusal and study of the fol-
lowing table:
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-10-08
a yard. The tariff is not a tax.

was offered at
46 cents
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-10-08
MASONIC DIRECTORY.

BELMON LODGE, No. IS, F. & A. M.-Meets
every Wednesday night, on or before full moon.
j. B. MEYER, Sec'y. f. ID. BAILEY, w. NJ.
ST CLAIRSVILLE CHAPTER, No. II, Royal
Arch MdsOns-Stated cOnvocatiOnS first Friday OF
each month. =
j. B. MEYER, Rec. +. ID. BAILEY, ii. Ill.
BELMONT COUNCIL, No 81, r. d S. NJ
Meets second Tuesday of each month.
J. B. MEYER, Sec'y. j. B. RYAN, L. l. NJ.
HOPE COMMANDER, No. &c. K. T.-Stated
eOnelaves, first Tuesday of each month.
j. b. MEYER Sec'v j. r. RYAN, E. G..
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-10-08

Bounty on Ameri-
can sugar. None I1sla2c D lb
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-10-08

Notwithstanding the fattering out
look this year, experience has often
demonstrated that the Republicans of
Ohio have never vote to spare The
illustrious services of Major Mckinley
demand of his party an increased ma
jority, double that of last year. To do
this will require gain of four votes
to the precinct the State over. This can
be done, and ought to be done, but it
will only be accomplished by the cordial
cooperation of every Republican in
Ohio.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-10-08
MOTION BROTHERs.

$50 if we never produced tin plate, -
continued Major Mckinley, ''you have
not suffered from that increase of duty.
Why, you can buy three tin cups a
nickel today here in Van Vert. Three
for nickel Last year when l was
running for Congress they were running
around my district trying to sell tin
cups at 25 cents apiece, saying I had in
creased the price in my bill. The cam
paign prevaricator is now out of an oc-
cupation. We are dealing with exper-
ience now. You know what you pay
for things; you know you were told to
buy last year, as things were going up.
Those who bought were fooled"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-10-08
ST. CLATRSVILLE DIVISION.

All trains daily except Sunday. Alltrains make
close connection at st. Clairsville Junction with
trains running East for Baltimore, Washington,
Philadelphia and New York, and with trains run
ming West for Columbus, Cincinnati, Chicago, and
all points West.
For further information call ON b. & O. ticket
agents, or address .. T. MeCarty, Asst Gen. Pass
Agent, Cincinnati, Ohio; L. L. Allen, Asst Gen.
Pass Agent, Chicago, Ill.
J. I. 0DELL, C. o. SCULI,
Gen1 Manager. Gen1 Pass Agent.
EDW. DICKINSON. Gen. Sup't
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-10-08

1t has been a cardinal part of the free
trade doctrine that the protective tariff
destroyed our commerce with other ma
tions. As usual the facts are the other
way. In the seven months ending July
81, 1890, our total exports of domestic
merchandise were
s44O O42 O24
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-10-08

The Democratic campaign in Ohio is a
campaign of apology and trickery-of
flake games and fake speeches" 1t is
characteristic of the chief candidate of
that party and deserves the condemna-
ton of every honest man.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-10-08

Mexico has free and unlimited silver
coinage, the same as the Ohio Demo
cratic platform declares in favor of.
With ten dollar United States green
back or National bank note you can buy
in Mexico $3.50 of the silver coin of that
country. Do the sensible people of Ohio
favor such a policy for the United
States? 1t passes belief that any voter
of any party would want to make such
a difference in favor of any kind of our
circulating medium as against any other
kind.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-10-08
S5.656,000.
E2SSszz

This shows an increase of So, 766, 600
devoted to employing American labor,
stimulating the demand for American
wool, and dispensing prosperity through
the channels of American domestic
trade.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-10-08

"a fair days wages for a fair days
work. is the essence of the protective
policy, the policy of Major Mckinley
and of every other Republican candi-
date. To this Mr.. Campbell responds
that we must have cheaper goods and less
wages, and the logical end of cheapness
is nothing, or distress, and degradation
for American working1nen. On which
will YOU voter
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-10-08

Ar New York ....... 5 % 10 80 -. -. / 10
*Trains run daily. tDaily except Sunday. tDaily
except Monday.
Accom-. train leaves Columbus at 80 m daily,
except Sunday; Newark 8 Is M arrive GAINESVILLE
6 80 p m, Cambridge so m
Columbus & Sandusky Accom- leaves Columbus
"a 20 a m; arrives Sandusky IL 80 pm.
Sleeping and Dining Cars on all Through Trains.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-10-08

The Boston Herald Dem) refers tc
Mr.. Campbell's Sidney speech under the
suggestive head 'Overmatched," and
says: 1t may be that the telegraphic alb
stract of Governor Campbell's speech at
Sidney does injustice to the arguments
advanced by him in support of the free
coinage plank which the Buckeye Dem
ocrats SO foolishly inserted in their plat
form. But if we can judge of his effort
by the sample given US, it was very in
effective.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-10-08

Pullman Siee ping Cars are run on Nos.
Sff and 342, and ParlOr Cars on Nos 337
and 33s between Pittsburgh and Cleveland
via Yellow Creek and Alliance. Nos. 336 and
$40 connect at Rochester with trains on Erie
Il Pittsburgh Div. for New Castle, Erie, and
intermediate stations, and with trains on
Pittsburgh, Youngstown & Ashtabula Div.
for Youngstown, Niles, Warren, Ashtabula
and intermediate stations.
NOs.335, ,337. $40 and go connect at Bayard
to and from Canal Dover, New Philadelphia
and stations on Tuscarawas Branch.
JOSEPH WOOD, E A FORD,
General Manager. General Passenger Agent
&2-9L-H PITTSBURGH, PENN'A.
For time cards, rates offare, through tickets
baggage checks, and further Information re-
paTdinp the running of trains applV to any
Agent of the pennsylvania Lines'
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-10-08

THE man who does not complain
makes more friends than the man who
always has grievance. The dead mar
tyr is the only kind that is ever canon
lied
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-10-08
SATURDAY..

Now that thrifty people are beginning
to buy carpets for the fall and winter,
the free trade crocodile overhows the
Nile with his tears about the wicked
protective tax on carpets, and yet the
other day ingram carpets, on which the
duty was 10 cents square yard and 40
per cent. ad valorem, or
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-10-08

OPPORTUNITY is the flower of Time;
and, as the stalk may remain when the
flower is cut off, so time may remain
with us when opportunity is gone
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-10-08
CHOICE EXCERPTS.

THE good Samaritan didn't stop TO find
out what street the wounded Jew lived
on, nor who his father was, before he
helped him.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-10-08

All the signs point to a decisive Re-
publican victory in Ohio this year. 1t
looks like the Republicans would beat
the life out of the Campbell -Brice ag-
gregation on either National or State
issues
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-10-08

This means that in July. 1891, the
tariff put $246, ,75S that would otherwise
have gone abroad, into the pockets of
American makers of woolen knit goods.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-10-08

THESE fve-the peevish, the niggard,
the dissatisfied, the suspicious, and those
who live upon others means-are for
ever unhappy.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-10-08

THERE is popular fallacy that, while
we can help what we do or omit doing,
we cannot help what we think. Yet
thought lies at the foundation of action,
and no structure of just deeds can ever
be safely built unless the substratum of
Just thought be sound and firm.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-10-08

EVERY man has something to with
making public sentiment, and public
sentiment is the power that gives to
government its life.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-10-08

MORE than talent, more than beauty,
more than wealth, sometimes more than
wisdom, good manners are the best let
ters of introduction, and the firmest ce-
ment of friendship.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-10-08

A lot of shelf-worn Democratic Gov
ernors will be placed on Uncle SANS
bargain counter after the elections this
fall. Among them will be included the
executives of Ohio, Iowa and New
York.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-10-08

WHATEVER upholds mans self-re-
spect inclines him to self-imprOvement,
and to appreciate fully his good points
goes a long way in helping him to cure
his faults.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-10-08

Governor Fosters first term cost the
people of Ohio but s4,s7S,60S, because
the State Government was capably and
honorably administered. Campbell ia
not done until next January. but SO far
his administration mas cost the Ohio t.y
payers ST, 5,2O5 or $4,000,
SGT in excess of what Fosters cost
How long do the people OF Ohio propos,
to tolerate such fnanciering as that:
Only until they can get chance to vote
for Mckinley on Tuesday, Nov. 3.