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The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1891-05-06

kept humble little shop on Washins~
ton street. The girl came to this coun.
try in her fifth year with her pares,>>
and early developed considerable nu.
steal talent Prominent Boston people
whose attention she attracted by sing
ing at local concerts, combined to send
her to Milan, Italy, to obtain a thor.
ough musical training, and she had the
great honor Of securing an engagement
at the famous La Scala Operation
after making her debut She then re-
turned to the United States and sang to
crowded houses in the principal Amer
loan cities Returning to Europe she
was engaged at the Paris Opefa. al
later &ent TO Lisbon. Here the ex-Ee-
gent, Dom Fernando, was first charmed
with her singing. and later fell despe--
ately in love with her. He married her
and had the title of Countess d Edla con,
ferred upon her in 1869.
A few months after her marriage an
event occurred which left in her hands
the decision of the question of peace or
war between two great Nations. al
though she did not know that such
would be the result The Spanish Gen.
eral Prim. then Dictator Of Spain. went
to Lisbon to offer the crown of that
country. recently forcibly taken from
he brow of Queen Isabella, to Dom
Fernando. The newly created Countess
wanted to be a queen. but the proud
Spaniard would only make her
Duchess and. as her husband stood by
her, he threw away his chance and the
throne Of Spain was offered to Prince
Leopold of Hohenzollern. a nephew OF
King William. of Prussia Napoleon
Ill. objected to this and the Franco
German war was the result.
Dom Fernando died few years ago
and the Countess now resides on his
estate in Portugal in a castle fitted up
in the old feudal style.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1891-05-06
THE SLANDERED DAY.

Tiseacres shake their heads and say
That Fridays An unlucky day.
And superstitio2's creed has taught
Schemes then commenced will come to naught
While woe awaits the life Of man
On this Euchslandered day began:
Let's look and see
What says recorded history.
On Friday first the pilgrim host
Assembled on New Ensland's coast
And on that day the entire band
On Plymouth rock trod freedoms land,
Which was the first foundation stone
From which has freedoms temple grown;
And you'll agree
It's rare good luck that we are free.
On Friday Traitor Arnold's crime
Was brought to light in ''niclS OF time"
For now it's plainly to be seen
It saved US from the might have been"
And by the fortune Of that day
Mayhap we write it ~. S. A."
Yet, confess,
That Friday did not Arnold bless.
On Friday Washington was born;
All. that was an suspicious morn
That ushered in the day that gave
To US our patriot pure and brave.
The first in war. the first In peace"
Whose fame will with the years increase
No harm Was done
When Friday gave Us Washington.
These stubborn facts will prove at once
Old superstition is a Ounce.
And that, despite the chronic cranks,
We owe to Friday many thanks,
For we folks in America
Have been quite lucky on that day;
These truths are named
To make its slanderers feel ashamed
p. G. Fossett, In Golden Days.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1891-05-06

No S4renAer - Protective Principles
Removal Of Duties. Only When 1t is.Ao
OcR AdvantsGe.
Free-trade talk: about the Brazilian
reciprocity treaty's- involving a sur-en-
derrof the protective principle is psre
deDagogy. Not am article is allowed
to come in free from Brazil which,was
noS free under already existing pro-
teetive legislation A duty on these
articles would: be- q duty for revenue
IN other words. a fteetrade tariff. In
stead of the .treatEs being a concession
20 free-trade. it iSopposed to it, widen
ing. as it does, the distance between our
present method. Of levying duties and
the revenue only method advocated by
free-trsders.
In consistently carrying QUE its pro-
tectivs. policy, the United States gov
ernmsnt woke upt to the fact that it was.
granting tocertain nations privileges i'm
our markets. which had for them \
money value, while like concessions,
were, denied to the staple products
of other countries On ths>Other hand
Our. people were receiving no special
favors Of any kind in tie markets Of
these favored nations. Our government
was confident that they could be in
duced 10 consent to pay for tho privi>
leges they enjoyed by granting to us
similar privileges in their markets
The correctness of this view has already
been demonstrated by the Brazilian
treaty, which makes q wide breach in
the Brazilian tariff wall for the entry Of
American products exclusively.
''Ah, but how Inconsistent" exclaims
the reformer. ''for protectionists, who
have just been strengthening our own
tariff walls, to attempt to break down
the tariffs of other countries" This
also is demagOgy. One Of the argu-
ments of protectionists is that tariffs
hurt the foreign manufacturers, against
whose products they are framed Free
traders hold that the nations levying
import duties are the ones injured. Pro-
lection says that the removal of duties
from any nati2a's staple products bene-
fits that nation iAost 81 all Free t. lie
sees in this removal only benefits for
the nation which removes the duty. Is
IL nOt, tnerc1orc, d part VI INC poiicy VI
protection, which has regard to the in
terests of our own people first of all, to
try to gain from foreigners that which
it has always held to be advantageous?
Have we not always argued that for
eigners would profit by the abolition of
our tariff on their products? How,
then, are we inconsistent in applying
the same reasoning to ourselves in the
case of foreign tariffs levied ON our
products? The Brazilian treaty is sim
ply the outcome of enlightened protec-
ton carried to it's logical conclusion
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1891-05-06
The South and Protection.

The Chattanooga banquet, in celebra-
ton of the establishment of the basic
process of manufacturing steel and the
successful manufacture of tin plate
from this steel, is furnishing much food
for thought among students of political
economy and masters of political sci
ence. 1t is related that at the great
dinner, Maj Mckinley, who had been
called ont for speech, turning to Mr..
A. NJ. Shook, an ardent southern demo-
crat and general manager of the new
enterprise, asked him in reference to
the exhibits of native tin plate which
were present at the board: Can you
make steel permanently, and can tin
plate be made permanently at Chatta-
nooga, or from the Chattanooga prod.
uct? To which this honest southern
gentleman and business man replied:
''We can unless there is adverse icgisla-
ton"
Whence can such adverse Legislation:
ome except from the democratic party.
to which the south seems welded with
vise-like grip? Surely not from the re-
publican party, whose favorable pro-
lection legislation has given the south
its power to blossom with furnaces and
factories and regain in peaceful pur-
suits the prosperity it lost when tempt
ing fate in war.
While the republican policy is making
gardens out of the waste places of the
south, the southern representatives in
congress arc voting steadfastly for free
trade. The senators of Tennessee,
whose furnace fires could never light
the skies under tariff policy allowing
raw materials to enter this country duty
free, vote steadily for free trade They
either misrepresent their constituencies
or else their constituents misrepresent
themselves. The experience of north
ern guests at the Chattanooga banquet,
as expressed in various forms. is that
the leading democrats in the south en-
gagged in manufacturing are all protec-
tionists at heart, anxious to maintain
the Mckinley bill as law, eager to
know and see and hear its author,
ready to do him honor as the champion
of a great principle, and frank to avow
in public that protection is the source
of all their prosperity.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1891-05-06
WITH BULLET AND BAYONEr.

post two days when the captain in COM
mand took fifty OF the men for what he
called a reconnaissance up one of the
passes to the north of us, and at the
same time sent twenty-five men on an
other FOOLS errand to the east We had
been put there simply and solely to
prevent the enemy from coming down
the pass right at our door. and enter
ing the valley. What was beyond us
did not matter. There was muttering
among the men as they were marched
out. each carrying twenty live rounds
of ammunition. and they called '.fare-
well'' to the twenty-five of US left be-
mind. Half an hour after they had
passed ont of sight we heard sharp
firing to the north and east, and not a
single man ever returned to us. They
were ambushed in the defiles and
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1891-05-06

TIA runners~ and a<the sergeant hooked
ut and saH what had been dDne he
grizzly saiE 1t
well. we shall have few dAys less
to live
While VIZ were at breakfast the' guns
opened fire with solid shot. They were
only forty rods away, and vet the
gunnery MAS so poor that the first nine
shots were thrown away. When they
began to strike, however, we realized
tha damage they might inflict The
stones were but little harder than sand
stone, and while too heavy to be hurled
down. they faxed and crumbled under
the impact. We manned the portfolios
and fired at the embrasures, and in this
way we checked, though we could not
silence, the fire. They got the guns
trained on one particul>r spot. and be-
fore night came we knew that they
could breach us in two days more.
AS darkness closed in their fire was sus-
pended They could see the progress
they had made, and there was NO need
Of hurry.
We had with us native-bOrn Yankee,
who had fought under almost every
flag, and taken the oath of allegiance
to four or five governments, and early
in the evening we noticed him over
hauling the pile of poles we had
dragged in for firewood. He at length
selected out four or five, which had all
the spring of American hickory. and
then unfolded his idea to the sergeant
1t was simple enough, but no one but a
Yankee would have ever thought Of it.
We first laid five short poles on the
ground and pinned them fast. Then.
three feet in rear of them we elevated
five other short poles about two feet
from the ground on crotches. When
the end of long pole was put over one
of these and rested against the one
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1891-05-06
"TariR Reform Was Good Enough 10 Be-
gin With"

tariff Reform Was Good Enough 10 Be
gin With"
Here is candid confession from the
Standard:
1--WE are glad. then, that Mr..
German has, at this early day, un-
masked the movement against Mr.. Mills,
and made free trade the issue. Mr..
Mills is free trader. and he has the
courage to say so. That is what every
man in the democratic party ought to
be. There is no room in this country
for two protectionist parties. Now that
the issue has been raised it must be
fought out, and the democratic party
will achieve no more victories until it
takes the right position. Tariff reform
was good enough to begin with. but no
petty questions of percentages is going
to enable the democratic party to hold
those of its voters VIII will be attracted
to the new third party. Let the fight
come on the speakership. and let the
men who desire democratic success for
its own sake open their eyes to the fact,
already apparent to free traders, that
the time has come when the only hope
of democratic victory lies in an open,
aggressive campaign for free trade"
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1891-05-06
FRUITS m The m,uncyLAw..

Instances Of TIE impetus olvena - Home
Manufacturing.
The most.pronornced instance Of the
effect of tie Mckinley law IN opening
up American manufactures, Is sts, case
Ct the Botlsney woolen mills,at Passaic,
3. j. WHARF not a, brick had been laid
1t the time. of the passage of the famous
tariff measure, there, now lies = stretch
of twenty acres of buildings buzzing
with manufacturing activity. Over
$4,000, 900 have already been invested in
the greet plant, there. are 600 looms
singing the song OF protection to Ameri-
can industries. while 10000 spindles
already keep time TO the glad tidings.
But this is.only the beginning. 1t Is
the boast, as we'll as the intention ef
the proprietors, to make this plant the
largest of it's kind in the world, and
this within the space of two years
The products of the mills are fine Hen
rietta cloth and fancy cloth for dress
goods. The number of hands employed
is already 1.2OO. and the proprietors
promise that within five years tho mills
will give employment to 5000 hands.
Within two years there will BE- 5000
spindles in operation. The largest
mills in the world are said to have only
&C. 900.
The growth of the cotton lace curtain
mandatory of Anderson, Churchill &
Co. at Patchogue within the last four TO
six months is another instance of the
effect of the Mckinley law. The firm
in that time have imported some $40, 900
worth of machinery for their mills for
the manufacture of what are known as
Nottingham lace curtains. Employ
ment has already been given to from
$50 to 200 hands This industry has all
started up since the Mckinley law was
passed.
The press has already given an &C.
count Of the silk plush manufacturing
industry established at Bridgeport,
Conn.,, by Sir Titus Salt. who has been
steadily importing machinery for the
mills since the bill became a law. The
industry is growing daily.
Out in Utica the Globe wooden mills
have been brought into existence for
the manufacture of wooden and worsted
yarn. Already some 5000 worth of
machinery have come through this port
to be put up in these mills.
Four or five miles out of Utica the
Clark mills stand as monument to the
efficacy of the new tariff law, these
mills being for the manufacture of silk
plush. Large quantities of machinery
to put these mills in operation have
been imported here within the last six
months.
Out at Greenville, n. J., the effect of
the Mckinley law has been made visi-
BILE by the Linge Manufacturing Com
pany, which has imported 500, 900 worth
of machinery since the bill was signed
by the president. The mills are en-
gagged in manufacturing cotton thread
and spool cotton. Already large bust
ness is being done, and employment is
given to from 800 to 400 people, and yet
the industry is in its very infancy.
At Paterson, n. j., the new law has
given a great impetus to the cotton
braid and linen thread industries. Jute
and flax machinery are being imported
every week under the stimulus of the
new tariff, while increased employment
and activity all along the line are a
daily tribute to the bene6cence of the
Mckinley law.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1891-05-06

on the ground, we had what would
have been spring board, if there had
been any board about it. We then
nailed borrowers to the other ends of
the poles, made ropes fast to bend 'em
down, and we had principle made use
of in war sixteen hundred years ago.
Now, then, pull down the end of the
pole, place stone on the pan and let
go, and the spring sends the stone fly
ing sky high, to come down with a
crash on somebody's head. In an hour
we had the five ready and playing
away, there being plenty of broken
stone in the fort for ammunition. There
was spring enough to the pole to throw
five-pound stone sixty rods, and we
heard sounds to prove that we drove
the enemy from dozen different posi-
tions during the night.
The guns opened on us early in the
morning, and then funny thing took
place. 1t may seem almost absurd to
you, but I'm giving you only what was
officially reported when say that with
our five spring guns, as you might call
'em, we actually drove the gunners out
of that redoubt and silenced their fire.
After little practice we could get just
the right spring to send the stone soar
ing away like a bomb, to fall upon
their uncovered heads. A jagged stone.
weighing from one to five pounds, and
falling from a height of fifty or sixty
feet, is not to be despiseG. They tried
to get shelter over them, but with
our musketry fire at the embrasures,
and our rocks dropping from above,
they had to desert the redoubt. Wher-
ever we found body of the enemy
sheltered by rock or thicket to fire on
us we trained our Yankee inventions
on them, and they had to withdraw.
After the failure of the artillery to
breach the walls the Afghans sat down
to starve us out. The idea was to wear
us out as well, and a fire of musketry
was maintained day and night. They
probably didn't expect to do any great
harm by.this fire, but they knew it
would keep us on the alert and annoy
and irritate. 1t did have that effect.
and they harassed us further by threats
Of assault. We on our part kept them
lodging with our missiles, and l have
no doubt we wounded good many of
them in that way. They couldn't make
out what sort of guns we had which
fired without noise and threw rocks in
stead of iron or lead, and this puzzle
was what prevented them from carry
ing our walls by assault.
For thirty-siN long days and nights
we were cooped up in that fort, not
suffering for food and drink, but prey
to constant anxiety, and then the sec
ond main column came up from the
coast and sent us relief. In the fight in
the pass below the fort over three hun
dred natives were killed, and of the
dozen captured alive every man of
them expressed a desire to see our
strange guns before being disposed of
as prisoners were. They were brought
inside and permitted to inspect them,
and their curiosity was unbounded.
Poor devils. They were backed against
the wall, not twenty feet away. and
shot to death even as their faces still
expressed wonder and astOnishment.-
n, Y, Sun.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1891-05-06
Not Exactly Disposed of.

Brown-What became of that girl OF
yours, who used to cost you so much
money?
Hughes-She's married now.
Il suppose you are fusher, now that
you have gotten rid of her."
"Wel, you see, didn't exactly get
rid of her. She's my wife now
Light.
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Mr.. MILLS says, you can't sell abroad
unless you buy abroad" Mr.. Mckinley
said at Providence that during the last
fifteen years we have sold $4,000, 900, 900
more than we have bought abroad.
This is not the first time that market
truths have killed free trade maximS
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1891-05-06
About the Size Of 1t.

Smith-It wouldn't do any good tn
give women their rights They wouldn't
vote.
Brown-Why not?
Smith-Why, there wouldn't be onc
of them who would acknowledge She
was old enough to vote.-Harvard Laus-
noon.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1891-05-06

Minister Pleni.
potentiary Of the
United States to
Brazil, halls tro2
Illinois. where,
IN Knox County.
on March I, lS43
he first saw the
light
Mr.Conger was
educated at Lom-
bard University,
graduatingin the
class of 1862; en-
listed at once as
q private in Com.
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A. woNpemen CAREER.

u BesHA ,Tailor's. Dangaess Who Mar1aDo
. Prince and Played - . Throne.
The.Countess i.Edla u the widow a
Dom fernando the late Regent
Of Portugal. WHO. was . Prince of Saxe-
Cohmg before. he married the heir To
the Portuguese throne. She is a wo,aan
with . remarkable history. which has q
peculiar interest tOS Americans. The
Countess was once Miss Elise Hensler.
of. Boston, whose father, q Swiss aailorA
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1891-05-06
Mental Photographs.

He latter marriage)-What? You
have no fortune? You said over and
over again that you were afraid some
one would marry you for your money.
She-Yes, ard you said over and over
again that you would be happy with mo
If I hadn't a cent. Well, l haven't q
cent.-N. Y. Weekly.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1891-05-06
BESIEGED BY AFGHANS.
A Yankees Strange But Success
full Mode Of Warfare.

) a soldier under
two Cover n
ments l have
fought Sepoys,
Beers, Hottep-
tots, MaWis,
Indian S, Ma
lays and civil
lied white men,
ut for real,
downright fe-
rocity an d
logged perse-
yerance l give
I he medal to
the AfChanS.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1891-05-06
The Tariff on Tin-Plate.

From Mckinley'S Worcester Speech
Among other things we put into that
new tariff law was an increase of duty
of LILO of cent per pound upon every
pound of tin-plate that is brought into
the United States. Why should we not
manufacture it at home? What is it
made Of? Why. 81 per cent. of a piece
of tin-plate is the sheet steel out of
which it is made, and per cent. of it is
the tin coating. Ninety-seven per cent.
of it we make here now; make it as
good as it can be made anywhere in the
world. Not pound of it could have
been made but for this great protective
tariff. that encouraged it in its infancy
and its manhood.
l was in Tennessee ten days ago, in
that busy and Industrious city of Chat
tanOoga. l was there on the occasion
when they were celebrating for the
first time the successful manufacture in
the south of basic steel from their
ores and from their coal, and around
that banqueting table were seate d
400 gentlemen, southerners and north
erners, and on that elegant banquet
ing table for one of the courses every
guest had lin plate made out of their
basic steel and coated with the tin ores
that came from the Black Hills, made in
American shops in the city Of St Louis
by American workingmen, and it was
as good as it could have been made any
where in the world.
Why, you have only got to give us a
chance; we never had it on tin-plate; we
have got it now, and there is no demo-
cratic majority that can be elected in
the next ten years will dare repeal it.
1t is here, my fellow citizens, and it is
here to stay: and, mark my prediction,
made here in your city months away
from political campaign, that inside
of>two years you will have a cheaper
tin made in American mills than you
have now, and before long it will be
cheaper than you have ever enjoyed in
the 100 years of American history.
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DESPITE complaints of those who al
ways look on the dark side of things,
our country is progressing even in the
matter of getting ont of debt. In the
twenty years since 1870 the federal debt
has been reduced from 81. $50, 0OO. 900 to
S9SS. OOO, 900. The state debts have been
reduced from S352, 900, 600 to S152. OO0, 900.
County debts have been reduced from
$751;, OOO, 900 to Sis. 900, 600. In the mean
time our population has increased from
IS. 600, 600 to g., 900. 900, so that the per
capita Indebtedness, including that of
municipalities, is only sas, against
nearly SO twenty years ago. During
this time 1000, 900 homes have been Sc
cured by the economical and industri-
Gus, and hundreds of millions of dollars
have accumulated in savings banks.
How much of this economic progress is
shared by eaca one is serious question
which every man and woman should
ask themselves
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1891-05-06
EDWIN hURD CONGER.

Portrait and Life History Of Our New
Minister to Brazil.
Hon. Edwin Hurd Conger, our newly.
Amounted Enyox Extraordinary and