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Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-06-18
A Sample of Free-Trade Nonsense.


In it's report of the banquet of the
Tariff League, in New York, the New
York World gave the duties on the ar
ticles used at the dinner and worn by
the guests. The Anglomaniac press re-
ceived this feature of the report with so
much favor that it has since been going
the rounds. In regard to the hose worn
by Major Mckinley, and other articles
of his apparel, it gave the duty as fol-
lows:
Duty. Tax
/ pair socks, cotton. 81 doz and 40 p. G. $02l
Every man, unless ne is seeking Con-
gress or office on the "no-socks" plan of
Jerry Simpson, knows that good quail
ity of mems hose can be purchased for
25 cents pair, and a fair article for
even less sum, so that the price abroad
would be 4 cents pair, according to the
free-trade theory that the duty is added
to the foreign price. But, as matter
of fact, the great part of tho hosiery
worn by the American people is made in
the United States in abundance, and
never was so cheap as now, when we are
independent of the foreign maker so far
as the common grades are concerned
The next item mentioned by the World
was:
Dutys INK
shirt p. G. S0.55
Very good laundered shirts, made in
the United States, are retailed for 81
each, showing that the duty has nothing
whatever to do with the price.
1 suit clothing, .4914c lb. and cope S1449
Very good suits of clothes can be pur-
chased in any considerable town in the
older States for SO, and more clothes
costing SIS and less suit are worn than
there are that cost more than that figure.
Consequently the duty has nothing to do
with the cost of such American-made
clothing The duty is paid by those who
think that American goods are not good
enough for their wear.
Duty. Tax
watch. ........................25 p C. SIS
About every one in this country, eX-
cept the people who write the free-trade
chatter of the Anglomaniac papers,
knows that the watch-makers of the
United States can compete successfully
in any market, and that watches are as
cheap and probably cheaper here than
in any other country. A few weeks ago
jeremiah Head, of Middlesborough,
England, read paper, after visit to
this country, in which he said in regard
to watches:
off you think exaggerate, let me ask
you to compare the manufacture of
watches, as it existed in England twenty
years ago, with the same as it exists in
Waltham to day. All materials, labor,
prestige and experience were in our
favor, and we ought to have retained the
trade. Nevertheless, English consumers
are to-day buying American watches in
large quantities, and better ones for the
money, than can be made here"
The American Anglomaniac editor
never comes across such complimentary
statements as the above, or, if he does,
he never publishes them: yet he never
fails to assail an American industry
which comes in competition with one in
Great Britain. If he had lived in the
time of the revolution he would have
been Tory and bushwhacked the Con-
tinental my.-IndiGaGpoIis Journal.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-06-18
0nbs ANn eNns.

Tn dull season on the great lakes
has forced rates down to an unprece-
dent6d level. Wheat is now carried
from Chicago to Buffalo, 500 miles by
water and 500 in an air line, for one
cent d bnshel, while the lighter grains
are proportionatcly lower For cheap
transportation this is probably without
a parallel.
WHILE tearing down the walls of an
old house in the village of Deutsch-
Redingen, near the Luxembourg boun-
Diary, the Workmen found the corpses of
a German officer and private in full
uniform. The bodies were wonderfully
well pre- served 1t is supposed the men
were murdered during the Franco
PruSSan war.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-06-18
Source of the south,s Prosp.ri =.


The ST Louis Republic thinks it has
found ground for criticism in the impli-
cation of some of President Harrison's
Southern speeches that the Industrial
progress of the South was largely due to
the Republican party "The truth is, !"
says the Republic, "that Southern indus
tries owe the Republican party abso-
lutely nothing The Southern manu-
facture of iron, cotton, ETC., was.possi-
bly, in greater volume and certainly in
more prosperous condition in 1860 than
at the close of the reconstruction era of
Republican misrule 1t admits that
some progress was made after Demo-
cratic State governments were re estab-
lished in the South, but says: at was
not until Cleyeland's administration
demonstrated that the South was back
in the Union that the real era OF indus
trial development began there This
is absurdly false. The South owes all
its modern progress directly or indi-
rectly to the Republican party. Sup
pose the Repub lean party had never
been formed and that the old Demo-
cratic regime and slavery had continued,
where would the South be to day? Or,
suppose that, slavery being abolished,
the Democratic policy of free trade had
prevailed instead Of the Republican
policy of protection, where would the
South be? 1t is not necessary to pro-
duce statistics to show thu wonderful
contrast between the South of 1860 and
that of 1890 That period embraces all
the progress the South has made, and it
is period of Republican rule and Re-
publican policy, except the short adj
ADMINISTRATION of CLEVELAND during which
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-06-18
Getting Neptune Down Fine.

An apparatus for measuring the mean
level Of the sea has lately been invented
at Marseilles 1t is based On the prin-
ciple that when liquid wave traverses
capillary tube or porous partition
its amplitude diminishes, and it is re.
tarded in its phases without the mean
level Of the wave changing.
1t consists of glass tube, the lower
end Of which communicates by flexible
pipe with plunger which is lowered
beneath the lowest water level There
are two cells in the plunger, the lower
being filled with sand and open to the
sea, the result being that the column Of
water in the tube rises and falls very
little with the tides, and the mean sea
can be read from q graduated scale.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-06-18
sAYs CORRESPONDENT of the BOSTON

SAYS a correspondent of the Boston
Transcript: Henry Ware, Jr., of Cam
bridge, once told me story of young
man in the ministry who, in converse
ton with one of the elders in the faith,
allowed that he did not believe in the
devil. Not believe in the deyiln said
the elder: why you are an atheist
Now, if in addition to the regular three
persons in the Godhead we are to have
fourth person. /, for my part, greatly
prefer the Virgin Mary to the devil.
But perhaps it is because am man.
Mother Eve, we know, preferred the
DEVIL
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-06-18
Pretty strong

Pretty strong
reasons for trying DIR. Sage's
Catarrh Remedy. In the first
place, it cures your catarrh-
no matter how bad your case,
or of how long standing. 1t
doesn't simply palliate = it
fures. If you believe it, SO
much the better. There's
nothing more to be said.
You get it for SO cents, from
all druggists.
But perhaps you won't be-
lieve it. Then there's another
reason for trying it. Show
that you can't be cured, and
you'll get $500. It's a plain
business offer. The makers
of DR.. Sage's Remedy will
pay you that amount if they
can't cure you. They know
that they can you think
that they can't. If they're
wrong, you get the cash. If
you're wrong, you're rid Of
Catarrh,
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-06-18

THE New York Times shows that we
export ten times as much oatmeal as we
import, and then finds fault that the
duty makes the foreign oatmeal higher.
But there is no law requiring an Ameri-
can citizen to buy foreign oatmeal, and
so long as there Is more than enough
made for home consumption there is nc
need OF IL.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-06-18

The story of the heir to the British
throne travelling about his FIXTURE king
dom with gambling layout as an inn
pQrtant part of his personal baggage is
proof positive to the majority Of Ameri-
can readers that the British monarchy
is in a bad way and that we did not get
out from under it any too soon for the
good of our moral character.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-06-18

THE hottest region on earth is on the
southwestern coast of Persia, where
Persia borders the gulf of the same
name. For forty consecutive days dur
ing the months of July and August the
thermometer has been found not to fall
lower than 100 degrees Fahrenheit night
or day.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-06-18

PARNELL, If one may believe the Bos-
ton Globes correspondent, loved and
sought in marriage Providence girl
twenty years ago: but her stern father,
millionaire by the way. would not ap-
prove of the match, as the sutton was
without calling. The Irishman's affec-
ton was reciprocated, and the separa-
'tion brought sorrow to two hearts.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-06-18
German
Syrup

" We are SIX In faaza.
AFarmer &C lily. We live III d
r<,o.. 49,. place whore we ara
A ~ subject to violent
Says: Colds cid Lang
Troubles. r have
used German Syrup for six years
successfully for Sore Throat, Cough,
Cold, Hoarseness, Pains in the
Chest and Lungs, and splitting -up
Of Blood. I have tried many differ
ent kinds of cough Syrups in my
time, but Let me say to anyone want
ing such a medicine Germam Syrup
is the best. That has been my cx-
pericnce. If you use II oace, you
will go back to it whenever ycn
need it. It gives total relief and Ii
quick cure My advice to every
one suffering with Lung Troublesis
Try il. You will soon be con-
WINGED. In all the families where
your German Syrup
Is used we have no John
trouble with the r-,.u-
Lungs at all. 1t is H
the medicine for this 49,.
country. .
&C. GREEN. Sole Man'fr. WsOdbury.NI
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-06-18
Cleveland.

Total. .. s747, 800 195I Total 1885, $3.50, 1857
The increase shown by these figures is
$11S, 431, 662. In view of these cold hard
facts the less Mr.. Cleveland pirates about
economy" the better. -Rochester Post
Express (Iud,)
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-06-18
powstfal NAdIelfIa flsIdsnlIr 80.

Georgia Melons, 4 observed the phv-
stefan, rapidly mixing the proper remedy,
"are generally wholesome, my boy, but
you must not eat them too freely at the
beginning of the season
This must have been home groan
melon, doctor walled the unhappy boy
lying doubled up on the lounge.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-06-18
when He would right.

Yabsley There's no need of lighting
in this age of the world. TIC a man
should call me liar would simply look
down upon him with pity.
Mudge-1f he was small enough for
me to look down upon, / think should
hit him in the neck once, anyhow
Indianapolis Journal.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-06-18
Mr.. CIeyeland,s H,ndsiyht.

In his speech at Buffalo. Mr.. Cleve-
land said: 81 believe the most threat
ening danger which to- day stands in the
way of the safety of our Government
and the happiness of our people is reck-
less and wicked extravaganza in our pub
lie expenditures. 1t is pity he did
not think when so he was President At
that time he signed appropriation bills
with a reckless hand. Here is COM
anic
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-06-18

M. EIFFEL. the daring civil engineer
who conceived the tower in Paris which
bears his name, lives on the Jungfrau,
In the Swiss Alps. He has just obtained
permission to build railroad up the
mountain to his very dwelling.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-06-18

Eagle OUGHT TO be more considerate OF
Its party brethren whose supply Oh ar
gument and assertion has run low, and
who are not ingenious In producing new
material "a high tariff is for the bene-
fit of all American industries" just So
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-06-18

THE Democratic Boston Globe fero-
ciously asserts @that glorious achieve
ments of the Democratic party make up
the greater part of the history of this
most glorious of republics. But it
carefully refrains from mentioning a
single one of the Democracy's great
achievements.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-06-18

THE New York World says that athe
attempt to make Mr.. Cleveland the
special champion of public economy Ii
ridiculous. That journal rarely crowds
so much fact into so few words
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-06-18
BEEcHAM's PILLS cure sick-Headache.

WHAT a pity it is that Mr.. Depew, the
eminent New Yorker, had to travel ali
the way to Galena, ILL.,, to find Grant
monument to fit his speech.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-06-18

A. H. PRIEST. Druggist. shelbyville,
Ind, says: Halls Catarrh Cure gives the
best of satisfaction. Can get plenty of
testimonials, as it cures everyone who takes
it," Druggists sell it, T5c.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-06-18
ONE ENJOYS
catarrh.


Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly ON the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys-
tenn effectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup Of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro-
duced, pleasing to the taste and ac-
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in Soc
and 81 bottles by all leading drug
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. Do not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA F7C SYRUP co.
SAN FRANCISCO. CAL.
LOUISVILLE. Ky. NEW YORK. M
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-06-18

No Time for Grammatical Criticism.
1t is very inelegant to end a sentence
with a proposition, but 1t is also unwise
to say SO to your employer when he asks
in vivid tones:
what in 6lazes did you do that for?"
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-06-18

"ONE to-day is worth ten to- morrowa /.
Asplendid rule for housekeepers to WORK ~
especially II they use SAPOITO, Postnogs,
anything before cleanliness S-.1
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-06-18

EVERY man will sooner or later meet
the man who will knock the chip off his
shoulder.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-06-18

FTTS.-AH FIes stopped free by DIR. Hline's CSreas
Nerve RestOrer. No Fits after first days use Mar.
yelous Treatise and $500 trial bottle free to
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-06-18

MEN like to be coaxed, and women
know how to coax. What proiteth q
woman to scold.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-06-18
The hottest region on earth is or

BEST, easiest to use and cheapest. Piso's
Remedy for Catarrh. By druggists. soc.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-06-18
When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria,
When she was Child, she cried for Castoria,
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria,

ACCORDING to the census Philadelphia
is the greatest manufacturing city of
the union, leading all other cities in the
value of its products by $58,000,00
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-06-18

II afhicted with Sore Eyes, use DR.. Isaac
Thonpsons Eye Water. Druggists sell it. $50.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-06-18

Testimony from England Concerning It's
Effects Conformation OF Britain's views
from Germany-A sample a the Nom
sense Uttered by Free Trade Organs.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-03-18
statna,r for the People.

Statues of fine Carrara marble are
choice and elegant additions to any room.
For those whose means do not admit of
such expensive decorations are the plaster
casts of the art stores, which may be pro-
tected by enameling or painted in ivory
tints. Nearly all of the choicest bits of
statuary such as the Winged Mercury,
the Venus de Milo, and all the well
known figures of ancient gods and god
desses are to be had in plaster, and are
often excellent limitations of the marbles,
and very gratifying to the lover of artis-
tic forms. With careful usage they will
be ornamental for long time. Bass
reliefs in plaster, hung against plush.
felt or plain silk panels, are effective and
artistlc.-New York Ledger.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-03-18
A HOPEFUL MOVEMENT.

The remarkable movement that is 60
threatening like a mountain avalanche to
sweep everything before it, has within it
some. things that ought to De hailed with
JOY by every lover of government of
the people and by the people. While
containing much that is rude and
visionary it is pregnant with much that
is good and salutary. 1t sounds solemn
warning to political ''bossism," the
curse of American politics. 1t warns
the corrupt tools of corrupt political sys-
TENS that the time of their perdition is
at hand Where the movement spreads
the old political parties are put upon
their good manners. We have already
seen them bow the knee in presence
of this rising sun. The public servants
of the people are beginning to learn that
they are servants and not lords, and that
as such they must answer to their mas
tiers for their public conduct. The mas
ses are beginning to pay more attention
to men and less to mere politics, to put
more faith in honesty and less in parti
sanship.
All this is promising and healthy and
hopeful, and deserves the encouragement
of every man who loves his country bet
ter than his party; and so far as the
movement tends to purify the foul
stream of American politics and retrieve
the masses from the pernicious control
of political posses it has our hearty sym
pathy and support. Rabid partisan
papers of either stripe will abuse and
ridicule and misrepresent in proportion
as the movement effects their local polit-
ical supremacy, but the fact will still
remain, unaffected by all that may be
said, that the movement is exerting a
powerful influence in shaping public
opinion. There may be danger ahead
but this danger does not lie so much in
ill-digested and impracticable notions
about finance as in playing into the
hands of willy partisans who have no use
for them further than what their votes
may bring. The stability and useful
ness of the movement depends upon it's
steering clear of trucking demogogues
and professional politicians; once within
their clutches and under their control
the party will degenerate into the de-
graded tail of a dishonored kite.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-03-18
Is Disease a Punishment.

The following advertisement, published
by prominent western patent medicine
house would indicate that they regard
disease as punishment for sim
'sDo you wish to know the quickest
way to cure severe cold? We will tell
you. To cure cold quickly, it must be
treated before the cold has become
settled in the system. This can always be
done if you choose to, as nature in her
kindness to man gives timely warning
and plainly tells you in natures way,
that as punishment for some indiscre-
ton, you are to be afflicted with a cold
unless you choose to ward it off by
prompt action. The first symptoms of a
cold, in most cases, is dry, loud cough
and sneezing. The cough is soon followed
by a profuse watery expectoration and
the sneezing by profuse watery dis
charge from the nose. In severe cases
there is thin white coating on the
tongue. What to do? It is only necessary
to take Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
in double doses every hour. That will
greatly lessen the severity of the cold
and in most cases W IL effectually count
eract it, and cure what would have been
severe cold within one or two days
time. Try it and be convinced. y SO
cent bottles for sale by SnIpes & Kiners-
ley, druggists.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-03-18
THE ANTELOPE CHARTER BILL.

Referring to the communication in
another column, signed ''Piper H. in
quiring as to the fate of the Antelope
charter bill, we have only to say that
the bill was introduced in the senate by
Senator Hilton, and passed that body,
we believe on the 5th day of February,
leaving plenty of time for it to come up
in its regular order in the house before
the close of the session. Or if there had
not been sufficient time for the bill to
come up in its regular order our repre-
sentatives could have almost at any time
called it up, if they had been so dis
posed. We say this from the knowl-
edge that such bills seldom meet with
any opposition except it should come
from the representatives of the district
from whence the bill also comes. This
much is certain, the Antelope charter
bill was never heard of after it passed
the senate and went to the house. Our
delegation took special lessons in the
art of killing charter bills and we sup
pose they tried their prentice hands on
the Antelope bill before attacking it's
bigger brother from The Dalles If the
good people of Antelope must suffer two
years longer the lack of school house
facilities befitting the Importance of the
settlement, and the social disorders Incl
dent to the unrestrained license, they
have the comfort of knowing that their
cherished charter bill suffered no hnger-
ing death at the hands of inexperienced
quacks, but was tenderly laid away be-
meath the daisies by the skillful fingers
of accomplished artists. If this answer
is not satisfactory to "Piper H. we
suggest that he correspond with the
Hon. G.. w. Johnston, of Dufur, tc
whose fostering care the bill was com
mitted after it passed the senate. Mean
while the columns of this journal are
open and treatise by that gentleman
and Senator Hilton, on "What we know
about killing charter bills" would be in
teresting and acceptable to its man,
readers.