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Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-08-11
A Mckinley Democrat.

About week ago Governor Mckinley, Of
Ohio. received by express y big pocket.knife,
the first made by tho CRtiarangus Cutlery
Com uny, whose factory at Little Falls, n. Y.
was op"ned as result OF the increased pro-
lection 10 the cutlery industry afforded by the
Mckinley law. With the knife came the toi-
lowing letter:
81 yo ed the Democratic ticket for nearly
thirty years, but a drive through New ENGLAND
In the year $780, past idle Gu lery factories in
bridgeport. N ,ugatuck. Union City and Tor.
indus ries Of Lakevlll-. Northfeld, Thomas
on and Sheiburne Falls, convinced me OF tbs,
error Of my ways
81 found Old friends, who were good me-
chanics in our line. driven, by the cheap
Dutch knives, which were on sale In every
city and hamlet through which passed. out
of sroltable employment. and seeking work as
common laborers, ,iltcn diggers and coal
he.lyers. Grass grow around many OF the
doors o. tie facteries.
"piss n. through the towns I heard Bill
Mckinley aid the Mckinley bin talked OF on
every SIDE was first convicted. then con-
verted, aud, like Saul OF Tarsus. the scales
fed from my eyes and saw the PARTIES con-
lending over American Industries in theIr
true light.
"Thanksr to your efforts. the Mckinley law
was nacted, and hard times in our line OF lu-
dnstry are past. Trade is good, wages are
good, our little town has nearly doubled It's
population in two years. and We behave t
will double again in two years more.
'.Hopingin the near future TO address you
at.the Executive Mansion, WASHINGTON, D. G.,
instead of Columbus, o; We remain. yours
J. .. +. CHAMPLIN.
For Cattaraugus Cutlery Co.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-08-11
This Barber Believed in Protection.

Not long ago Was In the city of Plainfl Id
N. j., a city OF 10, 600 Inhabitants and rapidly
becoming d fashionable suburb OF New York.
I strolled into q barber shop. i always like to
.as Masn me Darper He knoWs everytb,ng
[Lnughter.] SO asked him how things were
coming on i'm Plainheld. He said things were
bad enough in Plainfleld. I asked him what
was the matter With P}ainfl Id
"Wen. said he, t'tl1ese New York Foosters
don't help town much" asked him what
he meant. why" said be, 81 mean these
fellows doing business in The City Of New YORK.
They buy what they need and get shnved be-
fore they start home, and just roost In Plain
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-08-11

Within the last sight months have Travelled
extensively through the States Of New York
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Hi.
|nois. Wisconsin, iowa, Kansas and Nebraska.
In conversation with hnndredssofs farmers and
business men In each one Of these States ]
have lelrned that the verdict fs nearly unant-
|mbusi that hind has been increasing In value
steadily for nearly two years past.
In Kansast vlsited twenty counties. The
people / met have assured me that land vial
|to-day briuK from IS 10 So. mora per acre than
tit would TWO yenrs ago. The statements
made in Nebraska have been 70 the same effect
lin Iowa tie Improvement Ia PRICE is sthl
higher. In the vicinity Of Atlantic City was
|assured by trustworthy men that farming
Hands are fully SIS an mere higher than they
were in 1883, and that sales are much more
readily made, at those advanced prices, than
They were two. years ago at the very low
|pFfces OF that date.
but tho increased Is not 30 great per acre.
$50 large ss In Illinois. ~
In Ohio. after visiting thirty Of her counties.
b am able to state that farming lands In that
state have risen In value between SIS and SIS
per acre within two years. The tone OF the
Ohio farmers has entirely changed within that
short period. They have ceased to be de-
spondent and are now full OF courage and
hope. s :. s.
proYeinont is not as great as IN the West,..yet
ihere Is decided change Tor the better in
these two States also. From my personal OBJ
seryation, am able 10 stats that times are
more promising, and that thera is prosperity
il storefor mon Who TIL the son. --k q. H01s,
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-08-11
WHAT vas Predseled

~ - HsaIf
Iepeak my unfeigned
convictions when I say
i believe there Is no
|tntorestin tho country
who will receive 30
much benefit from the
repeal OF the Corn Laws;
|aS the farm tenant In.
|torest In this county
Richard Golden. 1874.
+ ON the last ocoasion
on Witch ] spoke ON
,thiesubjeots ! was AM
swered BY the Right
Hon. gentleman. the
Prosfdent6f the Board
81 Trade, Mr.. Gladstone,
WHO accused the Free.
TRADERS OF WHnting to-
throw poor land out of
cultivation altogether.
and throw the other
land out Of tiliago into
pasture. I hope the
Anti Corn Law league
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-08-11
IRISH INDUSTRIES.
How Great Britain Succeeded in De.
stroying Them.
Prohibitory Duties Were Levied ON irish
Goods Sent to England. While English
Goods Were Admitted Into Ireland Free
at Very Low Rate.

For a time befor. the act Of union between
Great Britain and Ireland, In 1900, the latt +
country enjoyed the advantages OF protec-
tive tariff, and Irish industry expanded and
fourished erandsy. But after the union vii b
England, Ireland came within the influence OF
the selfish system of Cobdenism, with sought
the adv ncemeN OF british manufactures
even at the cost Of the total destruction OF tn
Industries of other countries. England
sister island, and 'hi~ is how she did it.:
She levied ~ higher tariff on goods sent
from LELAND TO her than Ireland was PRIV
LEGGED to levy on English goods entering
Irish ports, as the following table will show:
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-08-11

+ -.
Pass the Tariff as re-
ported by the commit
tee and you palsy thet
nation. Pass II. and
where will you any
longer find occupants
tor your costly piles OF
stores and dwelling
houses7 Pass 1t, and
who will be exempt
from its grinding ope-
ration?
The poorer classes.
especially, must feel
Its effect in paying an
additional price for
|everyartfcleof clothing
they and their families
wear, and every mouth
full they eat or drink.
save cold water; and to
Lthnt will thay ere l0nD
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-08-11
REAL H'KIILEY PRICES.
Cost Of Living Has FalIen-Wages Hav
Risen Under the Mckinley TariM.

OF course you remember the great cam paign
OF lying in 1890, when the Democratic hire
lings from one end OF the land TO tho other
proclaimed lbeginning before the ink of the
Presidents signature to the new Tariff WAS
yet dry that prices OF manufactures, were
s. mounting skyward" because of the "
measure. They enlisted the services of un-
scrnpulo1s tradesmen. Mh Tor thu sase of
temporary gain no less than for political effec.
exacted from their customers he excessive
prices made possible by the Democratic :" Nc
Kinl y Rrices'' huliabaloo. Aud peddiers were
wen hired 10 go abon' Offering tinware and
other household u en-iIs 1T ANXIOUS prices,
with Instructions TO say that snch prices were
made necessary by he /" Mckinley bill. :" ht,
election, occurring l.ss than d month after tn,
new Aoasure took effect, allowed tho people
no opportunity o discover the II tn before
voting, and tn" result was the great triumph
lot lying and he 81 IN OF the present Fien
Irade maj ority to the lower House Of Con-
|grpss.
w en-, after election, the people began to
learn that prices, Inste4d Of t,eing higher, were
ACTUALLY lower, Ms Il rule, than bef ,rs the new
Tariff, the Free Traders Popped the prices
|qu; elton and took another tack. They started
In asserting that wares were falling. and have
kept up their assertions TO this eli ct inces-
sanity down to the present writfn 8. In ~ COM
|sldered themselves sHfe from conviction here,
because OF tn. known difficulty Of gathering
wages statistics for the whole county. But
this lie, also, has now feen run to earth.
The Senate COMMITTEES, appointed soon after
the passage OF the II K.n!ey measure, to In
y-stigate its effects on prices ant WAGES, have
i1s' reported tn, following results:
During the t,Oenty- eight months from jane /,
1889. to Sept /, 1891 ftte act took effect Oct 6,
1897. the Average retatl prices Of tsoertyone art
ces Of common consumption among the people
declined "a per cent ,ol.oleSate pricss Of thesnae
articles declined .33 per ct7t; pro- es Of agricak
|t,n'al products advanced 1867 per cent, and
aDnges Advanced on tie auernge rs PER cent.
TINS is he result obtainea and unanimously
accepted b. Senator'S Aldrich, li>on, Hiscock
and Jones, for the Republicans; Senators "a r
ris and CARL ,le, for the Democrats. The dee
tails OF the investigation were conducted ny
Carroll ID. With. Commissioner OF thu De-
partnent Of Labor at w shington, D. c.; Gen.
Francis A. Walker. Professor Henry G. Adams.
Ed ward Atkinson, Professor Edmund J.
James, and William Grosvenor. or the As.
|-istants. the first is independent on the Tariff
question; the next three are Free Traders
and the, last tSo are Proteetionists. Al are
men OF unquestioned probity aud OF wo Id
wide reputation as economists and Stats
ticians.
With their seal upon this latest condemns.
ton OF the Mckinley prices and wages liar. h
ought not to show his head again In thii
generation.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-08-11

on = peneraI. anrvAv
we beltold cnItivation
extended 4 the arts fio,a-
rishing. the Face 81 the
cnnntry irnnruyefi. orr
sneonle fnlly and profit
ahlr e1r,nloyed the
n,lhlic cou1lten ance eX-
hihitin . trann,,ilitv.
co,,ten ut and hap
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-08-11
A Deadly Parallel from History.

The Tariff OF 1890 was by no means the
first in our history to prove tho utter nnre-
liability of Free Trade predictions Of evils to
come upon the country under Its operation.
old Free Trade friend. the New York Eeenis.g
Post. of July, 1924, relative to the famous
Protective Tariff act of that year. We place
beside it he simple statement OF the facts re-
veaisd by eight years actual experiences under
that Tariff, as mad by Henry Clay In y speech
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-08-11

1t is very evident that the farmer, the car
renter and people generally who use hand
saws, are not Tariff taxed, Is cents dozen
the duty on imported fiies) on the files they
buy to keep their tools in order. Good Amer
lean 4119s-inch files, made by American work
insmen at American rates OF wnges. are adver-
tised in the trade papers for 81 cents dozen
less than Grover Cleveiand's alleged tax on
them s2ajss
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-08-11
Irish goods English
tn poofla

In 1888 Lord Glare said OF the condition oil
Ireland: "There is not civilized nation on
the face OF the habitable globe which had adj
vanced in cultiva'ing, in agriculture and in
manufactures with the same rapidlty in the
same period rs had Ireland Sueh statemen,
was made seventeen years before England got
possession of Ireland. What is the Ireland OF
to-day after nearly century OF British tariff
LEGISLATION? She has not manufacturing in
dustry worthy OF the name, her people forced
to depend solely upon the soil for su sis,-
ence, and periodically dependent upon the
worlds charity to keep them from starvation.
and her population reduced to half what il
was before she came under the accurseel
system.
The late Mr. Parnell, whose farssaing states-
manshlp and political saSacity brought his
country from utter hopelessness to the very
verge OF the liberty it mad sought so long and
Valniy, keeDly realiZed the vital necessity oil
proiec'i ion TO lreand's we'll being. Said he, MS
reported in the weekly edition OF the Dublin
F''etnaan's Journal of August 22l, 1885:
This question oil the protect on of the in
dustries OF Ireland is one OF vital Importance
for the nation. We have to consider the inter-
est OF the artisans OF the towns and OF the
laborers in the country, and. as have already
Stated, Il is my firm belief that it will be I'M
possible for us to keep this great portion of the
]aboring classes ut home and in comfort with
out protection to Irish industries. 1t pro-
Diem which requires the utmost eXertion on
all our parts TO solve.
1.-THE life OF Ireland is dependent upon the
preservation OF her bone and sinew. Our
population has diminished at the rate Of a
million q decade ,!uting tho past forty years
1t is time that that should be put q stop to,
and That 1t shou be possible for the laborers,
tn" artisans and mechanics of Ireland to Iiv,,,
thrive and prosper 1T home."
The one great unanswered and unanswera-
Die question in American politics is: Why arc
Irish Americans fOund for thu .ronsf. ma rt
IN tho ranks Of the Free Trade party, which
IS lighting Engand's battle to-day as really as
lrishmen have done for centuries in the Brit
1sh army2
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-08-11
Purchasing Power Of Farm Produce.

To tell a farmer that his products have gone
up or down In price does not mean much to
him Ill he knows whether the things he has
TO buy have gone up or down IN the u,aantime.
He is most interested in how much the things
he needs, his protuce, or, what is the same
thing. the money he rece yes for it, will buy.
Below is tAblr showing how much more OF
I 9 standard necessaries given qu.nti'y OF
wha. he raises will exchange tor at current
market prices in 1892, after thirty years OF
purchase under free trade tariff in 1850:
Refined Stand'd Cotton Cut
Salt. sugar, prints, clOti. nails
barrels lbs. yards yards lbR
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-08-11
Refined Stand'd Cotton Cut
Salt, sugar. prints, clotn. nails h
-- = ! "a = = = = :
i! L So s ZIG ss rs rs s SIS sss
Que bushef corn
L f 81 Il, s SIS 81 IS ;sss
Ten lbs butter a&s4s
would buy: . 81
Ia Ia I - Is Is ;s z 1sss SIS Sc
Ten lbs cheese
would buy: III
vim l85O..... a 3. 20 0.85 - l50S ZoW
In lS92........... l0 90.0Q 16.B 3O.W AW
One lb. medium 49,
washed wool
would buy: . - III
In 1885,. 10 - DO g5s. S6z 0H WU
In 1892. IL 0.SU@Ie6t4 l2.W ZzGV

It is just possible that our farmers do not
appreciate the blessings Protection has show
cred down and is continuing to shower down
upon them. and that they want to return TO
the system under which they had to almost
give their stuff away for want OF 9 home mar-
ket for it-but Ne don't believe that they are
40 stupid.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-08-11
FARM LABOR INTERESTED.
Higher Wages For Agricultural Labor int
Manufn curing Sections.

A report justissued by the Secretary of As-
rlculture, relative to compensation OF labor
ers on farms in different sections OF the United]
States, draws nm interesting comparison be-
tween the wi:@es of such aGorers in sections
exclusively devoted TO .;tgricultnre and those
in which n1annfac uring Industries have also
been established. From this report we learn
that the average monthly wages of farm labor
Ut tie present time are as follows:
Average Monthly Wages of Farm Labor.
sections. Mages
Eastern States. ss6 Al
Middle States. ..........,...........23 al
"esteiu eti'' 226l
Southern States. IL So
We l,'lreeiinin:s'ed the Pacific States from
tn comparison because OF abnormal con.
dIf1ons, such as he extreme scarcity OF labor,
existing iH those common.7eaNhs Consitler-
Ing the srciioDss given in our table we fEd that
Wages are highest in che Eastern States, which
are essentially manufacturing communities.
Continuing through The Middle and West
erH States. wages gradually taH being loves,
H. IN" South, the section most disfinetly agri-
cultural. The same result is shown in the
COMPARISON between wages in Individual
States:
States. Wages
MAS .$29 20
Rhode Island .................. rs 90
MIN espa...... 26 90
south Carolfna- ........................1 II. so
From the figures given we readily. perceva
tina. wages OF iarm lnborers arc higher or
lower, accofdin. us thesection Of tho country
In Question is IA re or sesss, manufacturing
section. This is a natural consequence oil
pl cling tho farm aud the factory together, for
the market developed by the later for the
products OF he former not only results in
higher lAricns for those products. hut also, and
through those higher prices, in higher wages
for the workingmen producing them. Thus
We have another dem nstration OF the ben, e :
cent effect on agriculture of our Protective
policy.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-08-11
Farms Increasing in Value.

This ought to be:a warning to rybody
'laoe no reliance on Free Trade prophesies.
The Portland daily press., 1892-02-01

After graduating from Fryeburg Aca-
DENY, Mr.. McKeen made teaching pro-
fession, teaching school in the winter
and carrying on his farm in the summer
season, following this course until he
had completed twenty-one terms of
school Mr.. McKeen has been super
visor of the Fryeburg schools for six
years and is almost as well known in
the educational circles of Maine as In
the agricultural At the recent meeting
of the Maine Pedagogical Society he de-
livered an address upon the desirability
of teaching the science Of agriculture in
the public schools.
AS farmer MIR. McKeen has had long
experience. His farm at West Fryeburg
has about forty acres of upland, forty OF
intervale and fifty of wood and timber;
and it's state of cultivation attestS the
ability of it's owner. Mr.. McKeen has
always been a practical farmer, his
speciality having been dairying and he
has upon his farm good herd of tho
roughbred Jerseys. For several years
he conducted an agricultural depart
ment in the Oxford Democrat which
was made of great practical value, each
paper containing valuable articles from
his own pen on the different branches of
farming. For four years Mr.. McKeen
was secretary of the West Oxford Agri-
cultural Society and has always been
prominent in the local agricultural in
terests of the county. As member OF
the order of Patrons of Husbandry, Mr..
McKeen has been a prominent and etici-
ent worker. Four years ago Fryeburg
Grange was established with eighteen
charter members and Mr.. McKeen as
master. Largely through his own per-
sonal popularity and interest in the
order this grange now ranks as the
second largest grange in the State-an
almost unprecedented growth. Mr..
McKeen is also county deputy of the
State Grange for Oxford county.
With the work of the board of agri-
culture Mr.. McKeen is very familiar,
having been a member for four years,
the last of which he has been its presi-
dent. During his term of service on the
board thus far, Nh. McKeen has been
one of its most active and influential
members, and has given special attention
to institute work. During the past year
he has spoken at Institutes in ten cOun-
ties, treating upon practical and pro-
ST6SSlf6 SluJCCuS, dlil III 1OOO oPOfAO eso
even more Institutes than in 1891. The
volumes ON the agriculture of Maine for
the past two years contain addresses be-
fore these Institutes by MI McKeen upon
such subjects as Business Farming
'.Stock Breeding as aSouree of Fertility
and 'Importance of Specialties in Farm
ing" which take rank with the best es-
says to be found in these volumes Aside
from his work in connection with our
Maine Institutes, Mr.. McKeen has assist
ed in the work of the New Hampshire
Board of Agriculture at farmers insti-
tutes in that state. In the several hear
ings before the last legislature in behalf
of increased appropriations for the agri-
cultural department. of the state and for
enlarged institute work, Mr.. McKeen
took most active and effectual part,
no person working harder or accomplish
ing more than did he in this direction.
The Portland daily press., 1892-02-01

The aealth, growth and development
Of children and animals were years ago
supposed to be influenced by the moon.
If the sign was right at the time Of
birth they would be well formed and in
tellectual, but if it was wrong there
was no telling what sort of creatures
they would become Every worthless
fellow, every dog, roofing hog, fence
jumping COW Or kicking horse was be-
ieved to have been born under an unfa-
vorable phase Of the queen of night.
Queer people, or those who were OF
hateful disposition, were children of the
dark moon, with the sign below the
hsart. Commercial Gazette.
The Portland daily press., 1892-02-01
MAGAZINE NOTICES.

The always perplexing labor question
receives first attention in The Popular
Science Monthly of February. In an
article entitled Personal Liberty, by Ed
ward Atkinson and Edward T. Cabot,
are given the decisions of the courts con-
cerning restrictions on hours and modes
of labor, regulations of the method OF
payment, etc. In The Story OF Strange
Land, President Jordan, of Stanford
University, tells how the hot springs and
lava cliffs of Yellowstone Park were
formed. and how fishes have come into
it's lakes and streams. Mr.. Carroll ID.
Wright treats of Urban Population, in
his series of Lessons from the Census.
Mr.. Daniel Spillane has an interesting,
fully illustrated article on The Piano
forte, giving the history of it's develop
ment out of the harp. Another Illustra-
ted article is on Stills and Stilt-walklng,
by NJ. Guyot-Daubes, describing what
has been very useful means of locomo-
ton in certain parts OF France. There is
a suggestive paper on Electricity in Re-
lation to Science, by Prof. William
Crookes. In Recent Oceanic Causeways,
NJ. f. Blanchard gives a survey of re-
markable changes that have taken place
in the land and the seas. A Sketch and
Portrait are given of William Edward
The Portland daily press., 1892-02-01
TO THE UNATTAlNABLE.
BY E. NEsBIT.

Dear. how many the songs bring to you
Woven of drean-stuffs, pleasure and pain,
All the songs Of my life sing to you,
And you hear and answer again.
Though no rnyme do your dear lips say to me,
Yet my poet, sweet songs you bring;
When you smile, then the angels play to me
Tunes to the silent songs you sing.
All my soul goes forth in a song to you,
All my deeds for your sake are done,
All my iaure1s and bays belong to you,
In your name are my battles won.
Just by living you make my life dear TO me,
Though your lips never speak my name;
'Tis your hands that in dreams appear to me,
Bringing me all that l ask of fame.
What though here you are wholly lost to me,
Though you never will know or see,
Though life's pain be this worshiper's cost to me
Am not richer than great kings be?
Have not you, in the holiest heart OF me
You In the eyes which see you alone?
Shall mot rise to your soul, which is part OF me
Till you shall meet me and know your own?