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Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1891-11-11
Boies on Demonstration.

The unit Of value in the United
States is not gold dollar, or q silver
dollar, or a paper dollar. It is q
bushel of wheat. Something to cal
is the prime article Of necessity, the
prime standard Of value. Take il
away and gold, silver, all other articles
whether real wealth or tokens Of
wealth, are valueless.
Remembering this, let us see what
is the present condition of the wealth
lest States of the world-the food pro.
ducing States Of the Mississippi
Valley. Governor Boies of Iowa sug'
gested it very strongly in his speech Of
September IL. In reply to Senator
Allison, he says:
If you will carefully study census
bulletin No. 104, issued from the
Department of the Interior under date
of August %, 1891, you will find that
the average per cent. ofgain per capita
as shown by the assessed valuation Of
property in the United States during
the last ten years. shows an increase
of 1901 per cent. per capita in the
wealth Of all the people Of the United
States if you will follow out the in
quiry you will find that the averagt
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and when just tax is once paid it be-
comes a part of the public revenue.
on which no private person can estab-
lish claim except by rendering
public service. The so-called "draw-
back" is, therefore, purely bounty,
and bounty on the use of foreign
wool. resulting in encouraging the
use of foreign wool in preference to
domestic in all wooden goods made for
export.
Mr.. McKinley's theory is that this
is necessary to enable our woollen
manufacturers to compete for foreign
trade-that is to say. to sell cheaper
to foreigners. Suppose that the
Treasury pays them drawback" or
bounty of % cents on yard of ex-
ported clothi Then they can sell
this yard % cents cheaper in Brazil
than in Ohio, and thus get the Brazil
ian trade. But why should they not
get the same drawback on all cloth
sold in Ohio, so that they could get
the Ohio trade too? This is an i'm
portant question, and the Mckinley
bill has answered it. 1t does not allow
Ohio people to buy their cloth or
carpets except from our protected
carpet trusts and the other manufac-
turers' combines, while the Brazilians
have other markets to buy in.
So, while bounty is paid on South
American wool used in making carpets
for South Americans they sell more
wool and get cheaper carpets, while
the people of Ohio sell less wool and
pay much more for their carpets than
South Americans pay for the same
goods made by the very same people
by Mr.. McKinley's friends, the pro-
tected carpet trusts.
But Mr.. Mckinley is doing his
best. Perhaps the people of Ohio
ought not to hold him responsible for
congenital numbness of skull.-Ex.
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One Of the very nice points Of the
Mckinley bill is developed by the
drawback" now being paid from the
Treasury to carpet manufacturers on
exported carpets. If they use Ohio
wool in making these carpets for ex-
port, they get no drawback at all, but
on all foreign woods used the Treasury
refunds them 80 per cent. of the tax.
The drawback" thus becomes purely
bounty on the use Of foreign woods
in preference to American in making
carpets and all other woolens for ex-
port. This is discrimination, and a
most unjust one. 1t is argued that
the manufacturers are only getting
their own money back, but this Is a
fallacy. When they are taxed, it is
presumed that they justly owe the
amount Of tax to the Government,
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Mr.. President, 50 far as / know the
sentiment of that Western country il
is not especially hungering for tariff
legislation.
Shoddy and Cotton.

In Philadelphia the owners of wool
en- mills have organized club com.
mitted to defence of the Mckinley
bill.
This bill protects these mill-owners
from foreign competition. This pro-
lection enables them to lower the
grade of their products and at the
same time to advance their prices.
The Dry Goods Economist has had
an expert examine some of the call
wool" goods made by these same
Philadelphia protectionists. Here is
the result;
"This firm has sold in large quanti'
ties this season worsted fabric weigh.
ing twenty-five to twenty-three ounces
varying in prices from a piece dyed
solid black at $3.50 to fancy weaves
from $l.62a to those contained silk
twist at S1.75. The fabric is compos
ed of a worsted warp made from de-
laine wool, which entirely composos
the face of the cloth and constitutes
% per cent. of its weight. The filling
makes the balance of 70 per cent, and
is entirely cotton and shoddy, in the
proportion of 92s per cent. cotton and
~ per cent. shoddy.
1--WE have also before us finer
fabric of the same order in fancy
trousering selling at $2.42a, to all
appearances solid worsted fabric,
both face and back. An examination
however, proves these appearances are
deceptive. The fabric is of class
known as a filing cord stripe, having
slight mixture of silk twist between
the cords. The worsted is of three
eighths and delaine stock, yet every
alternate pick of filling cord and
black warp. Thus we have cloth
which everyone but an expert would
call an all wool worsted cloth, yet
contains 81 per cent of cotton and 70
per cent. of worsted."
No wonder these men want protec
ton, but they are no more entitled ia
it than are the makers of counterfeit
money.-B Boston Herald.
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McKinley's Cheap Nails.

In his speech at Ada, Mr.. McKin-
ley takes tho reduction on the price
Of nails to show that high tariff taxa
ton cheapens the price of the article
on which it is though in the
same speech he processes himself proud
of the fact that free trade in raw sug-
ar made an immediate reduction of
40 per cent in the retail price of Ia
BILE sugar.
Leaving the inconsistency to speak
for itself, it is perfectly true that nails
are cheaper now than when, thirty
years ago, the Republican party be-
gan to levy high taxes-and they are
cheaper in spite Of high taxes.
AS machinery brings prices down
the Republican party does its best to
tax them up.
1t succeeds very often. Sometimes
progress, invention, the genius of mod
ern plenty-producing civilization gets
the better of it, as they will altogeth-
er at last.
In spite of high taxes the prices of
nails and of many other articles are
cheaper now than when, thirty years
ago, the high tariff was levied. Civ
ilization has developed inventions for
the production Of plenty, and plenty
has increased through these inventions
in spite of the most determined at.
tempts of the Republican party to cut
off supply and create artificial search
ty. In the case of nails there has
been a series Of inventions. Thirty
years ago no one ever dreamed of
making a nail out Of drawn wire, yet
now the invention for making wire
nails is bringing them into use every
where. 1t has made the production
of nails easier and cheaper. 1t has
displaced hand workers and supplied
their places with machines. And to
protect these machines from the COM
petition of other machines to hold
up the prices brought down by ma
chine production, the Mckinley bill
has increased the taxes on all Compel
ing machine-made goods.
The rule of McKinleyism is that.
"the greater the progress of civiliza-
ton, and the greater the plenty pro-
duced by invention, the greater is the
necessity for increasing taxes to shut
off supply and to keep prices from
falling by producing artificial search
ty."-Ex.
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Robbing the Poor.

American papers in the past few
days have contained an Associated
Press dispatch from London, carefully
reviewing the effect of the Mckinley
bill upon British manufacturers, and
nothing could confirm more fully than
this review the charges which tariff re-
formers have always made against
that bill. The whole matter may be
summed up in the single sentence
"The cheaper grades are effectua)ly
shut out of the American markets. u
This is the story all along the line.
Cheaper grades of cutlery are shut
out, but the higher-priced articles are
little affected" The same is true OF
woollens. 1.-THE class of Leeds goods
the tariff keeps out is the cheap grades
the poor bought" so also as to linens
and textile goods generally. While
ordinary buyers are paying the in
creased cost Of tin-plate, we read that
"tin-plate is still sold freely to the
Standard Oil Company, which pays
little duty on tin.plate, getting SO
per cent. refund on the tin cans it ex-
ports"
This is the old story as to the work
ing of a protective tariff. 1t concerns
itself chiefly with articles the great
masses Of the people are compelled to
buy. and gives little heed to the
luxurious grades which richer people
are able to indulge in. It's authors
knew full well that for one man who
can buy Leeds broadcloth one hundred
men must content themselves with the
common, cheaper woollen or so-called
woollen. Hence we read that it is
"the cheap grades the poor bought"
that are kept out by the higher rates
of the Mckinley bill. The poor are
the many, the rich are the few. The
tax-gatherer knows where his profits
lie. For the laboring man his neces-
sary clothing is higher in price or
inferior in quality. He must work
more days to clothe himself and
family in comfortable woollen goods,
or he and they must face the rigors of
winter and take the chances of health
and disease In "shoddy" or bogus wool
lens; but the wearer Of broadcloth is
little. if at all, affected by the bill.
The workingman who roofs his cot
tage with imported tin-plate-and he
can get no other-pays his two and
two-tenths cents per pound tariff upon
it !; and the Government refunds moth.
ing to him. The great Standard Oil
Company exports its oil in tin cans on
which the Government refunds to il
80 per cent of this tax, not only dis.
eliminating in its favor, but enabling
it by this provision to furnish ligh,
cheaper to foreigners than to our
own people.-W. i. w.
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The Logical Result of Freedom.

1 have nc knowledge of trade.
There is not a socialist who cannot
shut my mouth and my understanding
by strings of facts that seem to prove
the wisdom of tariffs. But my faith
in freedom of trade, as rule; returns
always. If the Creator has made
oranges, coffee and pineapples in Cuba
and refused to make them in Massach-
usetts l cannot see why we should put
a fine on the Cubans for bringing them
to us-a fine so heavy as to enable
Massachusetts men to build costly
glass Conservatives under which to
coax these poor plants to ripen under
our hard skies, and thus discourage
the poor planter from sending them
to gladden. the very cottages here.
We punish the planter there and the
consumer here for adding these benefits
to life.-Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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or yard more than New England
will give in an ordinary year.
With tariff laws which thus deprive
its breadstuffs of their purchasing
power, Iowa and the West must grow
poorer. If billions of dollars of fctic-
tious wealth were printed, this would
not affect the exchange value of West
ern real wealth as long as Western
breadstufis are demonetized by laws
passed TO enrich favored class of
money dealers and Plutocrats in the
Northeast. The west is already the
wealthiest part of the world, but its
wealth is deprived of its exchange
value, and all that is taken from it is
given TO the money-dealers who con-
tribute to Republican high tariff cam.
paign funds.-Ex.
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Wednesday. Nov. IL. 1891.
Elections.

The recent State elections have re-
suited very satisfactory to Democrats
They carried all their OWE States anc
in addition elected Democratic gov
ernor for Massachusetts,, elected a gov
ernor and State officers of Iowa, ano
carried the State of New York by over
10000 plurality.
The Republicans received but TO-
900 plurality in Ohio. In the Fiji
congressional district, of this State
the Republicans elected the Congress
man to fiji vacancy. The Democrat
would have done better in Ohio il
they had not advocated the free coin
age Of silver.
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increase of wealth during the time was
lin Maine, $3.50 per cent. I; in New
York, 20.65 per cent. in New Hamp.
shire, 41.36 per cent. Pennsylvania,
25.45 per cent. Vermont, 1903 per
cent. and in Iowa your own State,
1876 per cent.
You will see that in The principal
manufacturing States of this Union
the average increase Of wealth is from
ten times to more than forty times the
average increase of your own people,
Notwithstanding your State is new
one, in which the natural increase in
the value of real estate has been vastly
greater than any Of the manufacturing
States.
Senator Allison certainly will not
attempt to explain this great discrep-
ancy between the accumulations Of the
Northeast and those of Iowa but
does it not explain itself on the very
briefest consideration of underlying
principles
Iowa IS one Of the richest States in
the world in real wealth-in bread
stuffs and food products, on which de-
pend the value of all other articles Of
wealth whatever. Let us take the
single bushel of wheat as the unit Of
this real wealth.
1t has real value to its producer
in proportion to his need of it. This
we may leave out of count, because it
may be inestimable. Under some
circumstances-when starving, for
instance-a bushel of wheat might
have for its holder real value greater
than that of all the rest of the wealth
of the world.
1t has an exchange value of what
it will bring in exchange in the market
where wheat is most needed.
Say this exchange value is 81 a
bushel in money or three yards CT
wooden cloth. Whatever it is, it is
what a bushel of wheat will bring in
exchange. Now think of the bushel
of wheat as money and see the effect
Of demonetizing it.
1t will bring three yards of cloth in
Europe, where wheat exchanges for
its full face value, but in New England
it will bring only one yard under a
law which taxes out the European
products receivable in exchange.
The bushel of wheat is here depriv-
ed of two-thirds of its exchange value
or purchasing power New England
gets it for one yard of cloth and makes
the exchange value of two yards
on the trade.
Under this arrangement the more
wheat Iowa raises the less it brings in
exchange, for New England will only
produce limited amount of cloth or
other manufactured goods. When
the limit is reached it shuts down its
mills.
AS result of this Iowa cannot
end or exchange it, what. A
bushel of wheat worth 81 or three
yards of cloth will be almost as much
out of circulation as the note of
wildcat bank until there is a famine in
Europe. Then if Europe will give
four yards for the Iowa bushel of
wheat Iowa can trade with Europe in
spite of the tariff. For even if two
yards out of the four paid by Europe
are taken away at the custom house
as they are-the Iowa bushel will
still bring in two yards over the tariff,
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Detroit Markets.

The following quotations are copied
from the Detroit Free Press:
Apples, $500 to S2.75 per bushel.
Butter, lsc 70 SOC per pound.
Live fowls, &C to Sc per pound.
Live turkeys. Sc to DC per pound.
Eggs, zoe to 21c per pound.
Flour per barrel. S4.75 to S5.75.
Hay baled, $1,000 to S12.5O per ton.
Oats per bushel. 32c to 33c.
Onions per bushel, 50 go to 500.
Pork. 1915 to $500 per Dbl.
Potatoes per bushel, 25c to SOC.
Wheat, sO.o3 to S0.9s per bushel.
The above quotations are mostly OF q
wholesale nature. The price at retail
stores Is higher.
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the dearest market and to buy in
the cheapest, it will make not only
New England but all Europe
tributary to the ploughman of the
Mississippi Valley.
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Royal Baking Powder
Has no Equal.

The Royal Baking Powder will make sweee lighter hneAavored
and wholesome bread and cake than other eavenng
agent higher strength and therefore goes further in work and
economical All government and scientific tests to show
this Royal Baking Powder eavenng absolutely without
equal
RUSH MEDICAL COLLEGE, CHICAGO.
GAS the result of my tests find the Royal
Baking Powder superior to all the others in every
respect. 1t is entirely free from all adulteration
and unwholesome impurty, and in baking it
gives off greater volume of leavening gas than
any other powder 1t is therefore not only the
purest but also the strongest powder with which
I am acquainted
"WALTER S. HAINEs, M. d." Pref Of Chemistry.
CHICAGO COLLEGE OF PHARMACY.
"The Royal Baking Powder, which tests the highest
in strength is free from lime, alum lime phosphates
other authorizations Its superlave purity the entire
wholesomeness Of its ingredients, the scientific
in which they combined, together with its much
greater strength make the Royal unquestionaby supe:
rior to any other baking powder.
"H D. GARRISON" fgf Of Chemistry.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-04-02
NUMBER 6.
LOOKS LIKE WAR.
Italy Displeased at the New ORE
leans Investigation.
Her Minister at Washington Recalled
and Americans in Rome Reported
Held as Hostages.
suRrRIsE Ar rnE cAPIrAL.

WASHINGTON, April baron Fava
has presented To the state department
his recall by the Italian government,
and has demanded his passports The
department is greatly surprised, be-
cause ii was wholly unexpected ana
because the investigation into the New
Orleans matter is not completed
The reason for the recall is tho
king of Italy is dissatisfied with the
progress of adjustment between the
two countries in regard TO the New Or
leans massacre.
This action can be construed in no
other way than open hostility on the
part of the Italian government to tbs
United States, with which 1t has here.
totore been on friendly terms.
II is reported that eighteen American
citizens have been seized and imprison.
ed in Rome, to be held as hostages.
Secretary Blaine has just been seen,
and absolutely refuses to say one word.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-04-02
Coughing

is Natures effort to expel foreign sub
L stances from the bronchial passages.
Frequently, this causes Inflammation
and the need of an anodyne. No other
expectorant or anodyne is equal to
Ayers Cherry PectOraI. 1t assists
Nature in ejecting the mucous, allays
irritation, induces repose, and is the
most popular of all cough cures.
"Of the many preparations before the
public for the cure of colds, coughs,
bronchitis, and kindred diseases, there
is none, within the ige of my expert
ence, so reliable as Ayers Cherry Pee
tOral. For years | was subject to colds,
followed by terrible coughs. About four
years ago, when so afflicted, / was adj
vised to try Ayers Cherry Pectoral and
TO lay all other remedies aside. l did
so, and within a week was we'll of my
cold and cough. Since then | have
always kept this preparation in the
house, and feel comparatively secure"
= Mrs. l.. l.. Brown, Denmark, Miss.
ga few years ago I took a severe cold
which affected my lungs. / had ter
.ible cough, and passed night after
night without sleep. The doctors gave
me up. / tried Ayers Cherry Pectoral,
which relieved my lungs, induced sleep,
and afforded the rest necessary for the
recovery of my strength. BY the con-
tinual use of the PectOral, permanent
cure was effected. Horace Fairbrother,
EOckjnpham VT
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-04-02
MILLloNAlRes INDICTED.

Mr.. Depew and His Fellow Directors
Held Responsible for the Tunnel Ae-
cident.
NEW YORK, April l. - The grand
Jury has, after weeks investigation
into the recent disaster in the Fourth
avenue tunnel, indicted the following
directors of the New York, New Haven
& Hartford Railroad Company for mis-
demeanor:
Charles c Clark. president; Z. NJ Reed, vice
president, both of New York city. Wilson @.
Hunt, T.. II. Trowbridge New Haven: w D.
V. Bishop ST.. OF Bridgeport: Henry G. Robert
son. Hartford; Joseph Park. New York city;
Henry 5. Lee. Springfield; Chauncey NJ. De-
pew, william Rockefeller. New York Nathan
lei Wheeler Bridgeport, and Leverett S.
BFainard. Hartford.
The indictment recites that on Feb
ruary 20, while Charles p. Clark was
the president and director of the COM
pany, and the above named were direc-
tors of the company, they ordered the
use of stoves in the cars of the COM
pany against the law; that
ON that day in collision
between two trains of The com
pany il the Fourth avenue tunnel, tie
stoves communicated fire to the cars
and caused the death of one or more
persons who were passengers ON the
company's cars. The indictment states
that the law distinctly forbids the use
of stoves upon railway trains within
the boundaries of this state, and that
the persons named above are therefore
guilty of a misdemeanor
The announcement of the indictment
did not cause much surprise, because
the coroner's jury held the direc-
tors responsible for the fatalities of
the collision on February 20. The lowest
penalty for the offense for which the Of
ficials are indicted is 81 fine and the
highest $500 fine and one years impris-
onment in the penitentiary. Warrants
for the indicted officials will be issued,
but it is probable that the bail bonds
given them before the coroner will be
accepted and continued.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-04-02

EDMlN bOOIh+ pcFlOu Ol i've
or six weeks more and time had
been secured for tour of
twenty-seven weeks next season,
more than one-half of which was to
have been filled by Mr.. Booth individu-
ally. The sudden death of Lawrence
Barrett cut short the present season
and Mr. Booth determined to end his
career on the stage with the present
week.
1t is understood that Mr.. Booth will
retire to his place in Massachusetts,
next week His plans for the future
are not matured, but no doubt
Is expressed in theatrical circles of
the great actors sincere intention
of withdrawing permanently from the
stage he refused to discuss the matter
further than to say he has decided to
retire for good. His friends say that
Mr., Booths health and spirits have
been greatly affected by the death
of Barrett and his physicians
fear that he may suffer another
severe attack of melancholia. He has
been extremely taciturn for the past
week and some of his performances
have been gone through with that
moody, distracted bearing noticeable in
bis acting few years ago.
The company which MIR. Booth has
beaded will not be disbanded. il is I'M
stood. but under the management
of Miss Minna X Gale, the leading
lady, will continue on the road with
Miss Gale as the star. Mr.. Boothwant-
ed to retire at the end of last weeks
engagement at the Broadway theater,
but was prevailed upon by friends to
defer his purpose until the conclusion of
the New York season. Mr. Booths
health is badly broken. He has been
falling for over a year, and even his
warmest admirers have been reluctantly
forced to admit that his stage work
now is not what it used to be when he
hopes that he might again be fred with
ambition, and he probably would be
were his friend Barrett not stricken
down.
Edwin Booth was born November 10, 1893 on
his fathers farm n Maryland From his
school days he displayed taste and aptitude
for histrionc effort. While at school it is
said Mr.. Booth and John :. Clarke
iuaugurated an entertainment in which
Booth recited from Richard III" Mac
beth. " Hamlet" and "Juius Caesar Between
the recitatons both young men BACKED up
their faces and sung negro melodies From
this arose the story that Mr. Booth
once Gang as the end man in q
minstrel show. Mr.. Booth first ap-
peared professionally as Lord TresseI in
nh - Z,