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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-07-29

In 1888 Lord Clare said of the con-
dition of Ireland: There is not
civilized nation on the face of the habi-
table globe which had advanced in Gull
tivating, in agriculture and in manu-
features with the same rnpidity in tho
same period as had Ireland" Such
statement was made seventeen years
before England got possession of Ire
land What is the Ireland of to-day
after nearly a century of British tariff
legislation? She has not a manufacture
ing industry worthy of the name, her
people forced to depend solely upon tho
soil for subsistence, and periodically
dependent upon the worlds charity to
keep them from starvation, and her
population reduced to half what it was
before she came under the accursed
system.
The late Mr.. Parnell. whose farsee-
ing craftsmanship and political sagac-
itv brought this country from utter
hopelessness to the very verge of tho
liberty it had sought so long and vainly.
keenly realized the vital necessity of
protection to Irelands well being. Said
he, as reported in the weekly edition
the Dublin Freeman's Journal of Au-
gust %, 1885:
This question Of the protection OF the indus
tries OF Ireland is one OF vital Importance for
the nation. We have to consider the interest OF
the artisans of the towns and OF the laborers in
the country, and rs have already stated. IL Is
nv firm belief that II will be impossible for US
to keep this great portion OF the laboring classes
at home and in comfort without protection TO
Irish industries 1t is @ problem which re-
quires the utmost exertiOn on all our parts to
solve.
The life Of Irellnd is dependent upon the pres
eryation of her bone and sinew. Our population
has diminished at the rate Of a million decsce
during the past forty years it is time that that
should be put a stop to- and that it should 20
possible for the labOrers, tine artisans and me-
chanics of Ireland to live, thrive and prosper i't
home.
The one great unanswered and u1n-
answerable question in American poll
tics is: Why are Irish-Americans found
for the most part in the ranks OF the
free trade party, which is fighting En-
glands battle to-day as really as Irish
men have done for centuries in Il
British army?
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-07-29

rior into four distinct cribs SHAY
feet each, with capacity of about $50
bushels.
The floor joists, extending on either
side. form 8 feet wide platforms upon
which four chutes operate. two on either
side. These platforms are approached
by stairs as shown in the cut.
Mr. Bradley claims that his corn
crib is absolutely rat proof. Beneath
its floor are hog shelters, and hogs and
rats. like oil and - alter, are hostile prop
critics. i0'-
On either side of this corn crib are
hog pens 2Ox3O feet. A hot feed room
costaining a cauldron and a glucose
tank is annexed to it, but for the sake
of showing details, it is not shown in
the cut. A good well is not more than
dozen feet distant, affording facilities
in watering as the crib platforms do in
feeding.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-07-29
AN AMERICAN GIRL
of the Olden nav.

She took the Quaker town By storm.
Her eyes, her tiny feet. her form,
Were perfect $50 the gallauts said),
And those poor officers she led
A sorry life twelve months at least
She was the belle Of fete and feast
9 The envy of all other girls.
Before her shrine knelt dukes ana ears
And countless lords, and I've heard tell
ct may be true) prince as well
While she. Queen Anne, they called her then,
Smiled II the homage OF the men
And smiled as sweetly on them all
made one subaltern at ball
So Happy that he lost his way
In going home. and found next day
He'd walked into the Yankee lines.)
So fair was she my pen declines
To do full justice TO her grace.
And brave Of heart as fair Of face
.(Ah, those we're fine old stirring daysD
And hearken, no slight part she plays
" history, if truth were told
One letter, worth its weight in gold,
She sent TO Washington, who said
On confldenceD that he who wed
Her had 10 be as brave a man
AS ever lived. None other can"
Quoth Washington. "I'I see to that"
I don I know what the fates were at
But suddenly we heard, one day,
She Fad eloped with Matthew Gray
Can honest, well-bred man rs he,
But poor as anyone could bel,
And when she came 10 town again,
Queen Anne. alas, had ceased TO reign.
The dignitaries all had fed
And Washington was there instead
She might have been ''her lsdyship,"
But. no, she let her chances slip
And led a simple, homely life,
Best known as Matthew Gray's wife"
-Flavel Scott Mines, in Leslie's Weekly.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-07-29

forces, mad a protracted contest with
tens of thousands of his coal miners.
Mr.. Scott was a free trader and a
Cleveland man, and was really one OF
the active managers of Cleveland's cam
paign. Democratic newspapers which
are attacking the republican ticket be-
cause of the Carnegie difficulty must
have short memories or think their
readers have forgotten the history OF
the events of the past few years
Mr.. Scott and Mr.. Carnegie, as en-
ployers of men, had their own business
interests to care for. If Mr.. Carnegie
violates the law he can be punished,
and the same law that will punish him
for its violation also promises him secu-
rity in the possession and control of
his property and provides for the safety
of his employes.-N. Y. Mail and Elk
TOrnSG
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-07-29
TIDY UP THE FARM.
Work That Requires But Little Time and
Pays Well.

Pays Well.
In travelling through the country,
when a tidy-looiling farm is passed,
with fences in good order, buildings
looking neat and trim, trees trimmed
and clean. we know the resident is a
person who takes pride and interest in
his farming, and that it pays him to do
it. 1t takes but a few days each year
to keep the brush cut away from the
fences, to nail up a board here and
there that may have beconie loosened,
to keep the fences up straight, with no
weak places to tempt stock to press
through into the owners or neighbors'
fields of grain or grass, 70 put the inn
plements under shelter when not in use,
to pick up boards lying about the barn
and house. to trim the fruit trees and
cut out all dead or dying branches, to
NOW the lawn at least once each year.
to arrange ali gates so that they viii
freely swing on their hinges, to have a
well-kept garden, a good supply of
small fruit, the pump in good working
order. good supply OF dry wood under
shelter, TO keep the roadsideS moved
and bushes cut down, to keep the cut
let of expensive underdrains OPEN. to
clean ont all open bitches, to look after
the stock frequently. All these things
take but little time, and they increase
the cash value Of the farm. If you
have, in the past, neglected these
things. resolve that you will reform.
and that strangers, in passing your
door, may at least mentally say: "A
good farmer resides there Possibly
it will not allow as many leisure hours
at the corner grocery, but others will
take your place there, and you are add
ing 20 the worth of your earthly posses
sions, and TO your standing as man. -
American Agriculturist-
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-07-29

and for "our established domestic in
dustries," which, that platform de-
clared, SHOULD not be endangered by a
reduction and correction of the bur-
dens of taxation" All such soft words
are thrown to the wind, and instead
we have a fat-footed declaration in
favor of tariff for revenue only. Upon
that issue the republicans will sweep
the country. The action of the conven-
ton on the tariff question is, in the Ian
guage of the street, dead give-away,
and foreshadows beyond doubt the
defeat of the democracy.-Indianapolis
Journal
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-07-29
IAGRICUETURALHlNTS.
IMPROVED CORN CRIB.
Superior in Excellence and Utility to
Other Buildings.

Superior In Excellence and Utility 70
Other Buildings.
Mr.. Horace Bradley, than whom
there is no better authority on agricul-
tural matters in Scott county Ia, was
caller at the Prairie Farmer office few
days since asking space in which to de-
scribe his corn crib. We have had an
engraving made of the building and
herewith present it.
Mr.. Bradley has seen one or two cuts
of corn cribs, and, as he expressed it, is
satisfied that his own is, superior IN
excellence and utility to any of them.
His corn crib has a width of 20 feet and
length of 80 feet. with depth of II
feet, elevated above the ground some
5 feet and approached on either end by
an inclined plane driveway. The driv-
ing area is ~ feet wide allowing feet
cribs on either side. At right angles
to this driving area, in the exact CEN
ter, is a narrow pathway, feet in
width, leading to door opening upon
the feeding platforms on either side
of the crib, thus separating the inte-
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-07-29
THE TROUBLE AT HOMESTEAD.
Democrats Making Political Capital of
Business Matters.

Business Matters.
The news from Homestead, Pa, Of
the loss of life through a collision be-
tween the detectives and the locked-out
workmen is distressing. Everybody
will regret that good couns els could
not have prevailed so as to have brought
about a settlement of the difference
without bloodshed.
OF course democratic newspapers are
endeavoring to make political capital
out of the fact that Mr.. Carnegie is a
republican, but what this has to do with
the presidential contest it is difficult to
understand. Mr.. Carnegie says he is a
protectionist and a republican. He
has had difficulties with his workmen,
but employers of labor in free trade
England recently have had several
great lockouts, and it is but a few
years ago that William L. Scott, the
acknowledged leader of Cleveland's
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-07-29
Higher Wages for Agricultural Labor IN
Manufacturing sections.

A report just issued by the secretary
of agriculture relative to the compensar
ton of laborers on farms in different
sections of the United States, draws an
interesting comparison between tho
wages of such laborers in sections e1-
clusively devoted to agriculture and
those in which manufacturing indus
tries have also been established From
this report we learn that the average
monthly wages of farm labor at the
present time are as follows:
AVERAGE MONTHLY WAGES OF FARM LABOR
Sections. WYss:
Eastern States. ~
Western states .----. -.------ 10000 :. Q.
Southern States IL %
We have eliminated the Pacific states
from this comparison because of alb
normal conditions, such as the extreme
scarcity of labor, existing in those COM
monwealths Considering the sections
given in our table, we find that wages
are highest in the Eastern states, which
are essentially manufacturing conmu-
mites. Continuing through the Middle
and Western states, wages gradually
fall. being lowest in the south, the Sec
ton most uiSlllltLAE a. ~
same result is shown in the comparison
between wages in individual states:
states. Wages
Massachusetts p 20.
Rhode Island = W
Iowa. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS % -
Minnesota. = 70
South Carolina Il -
From the figures given we readily per
ceive that wages of farm laborers are
higher or lower. according as the sec
ton of the country in question Is TOre
or less a manufacturing section. This is
natural consequence of placing the
farm and the factory together, for the
market developed by the latter for the
products of the former not only results
In higher prices for those products, but
also. and through those higher prices, IN
higher wages for the wOrkingmen pro-
Gucing them Thus we have another
demonstration of the beneficent effect
on agriculture of our protective policy
THERE is n somewhat general idea in
this country that the Mckinley tariff
bill will be repealed before long. or at
ali events be so much modified that the
sting will be taken out nf those clauses
most obiectionabls-to British manufac-
turers; and it is for this reason that the
| hopes of the democrats for the approach
| ing presidential election are so largely
] shared in this cOuntry.-London En'
| gjneering, April 5
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-07-29

and out until its lower end is within
FIVE inches of the bottom OF the furrow
and close TO the side of the land. This
will turn under anything it can bend.
in such way that the moldboard will
entirely hide it with earth before it
can rise. 1t should be firmly bolted to
the beam of strong pillow. Even
bushes can be plowed under by using
an extra heavy pillow and three horses.
"A. J. Simpson, in n. L. Homestead.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-07-29

lT is cheaper for each farmer to pay
one hundred dollars out of his pocket
to secure perfect roads than to be com
PEELED to, buy and support an extra
horse or two 20 draw loads over roads
thakare almost useless In winteE.s go
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-07-29

81 say" said the old subscriber,
what has become of the man who
used to get up all those presidential
tickets that would be sure TO win for
your paper?' I'VE had to give him a
vacation" replied the editor. Hes
been taken with a lucid interval -
Washington Star.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-07-29
a USEFUL HOOK.

Simple Device for Flowing Under Tall
Growths of Crops.
For Flowing under tall growths of all
crops, including corn stOver, cow peas
and clover, know of nothing so easy
to use as heavy hook such as shown
in illustration. II should extend down
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-07-29

The substitute was adopted by vote
of 564 to 342. By this decisive vote,
therefore, the democratic party, in ma
tional convention assembled, has de-
clared that it will not tolerate a tariff
which aims to give American industries
even incidental protection. 1t repudi-
ates the idea that tariff reform shall be
prosecuted according Ito the dictates
of justice" 1t rejects suggestion that
duties may be levied Or foreign prod
nets equal to the difference between
the cost of labor here and abroad. In
short, it repudiates every suggestion of
protection for American industry, and
comes out squareiy and unequivocally
for tariff for revenue only. This is the
most advanced position the democratic
party has ever taken on the tariff
question, and is the elimination of
progressive free trade.
The nomination of Mr.. Cleveland, the
most prominent advocate of free trade,
on this platform makes a distinct issue
on the tariff question. 1t is an issue
which the republican party will wei
come right gladly. 1t means that in
The ensuing campaign there can be no
democratic Incorporating behind tar
If REFORM with kind words for Amer
lean labor, which. the platform of 1sSs
said. should in no event be neglected. y
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-07-29

When man gets out his pocket
book, how his children gather around
him.-Atchison Globe.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-07-29

CANADA ships lambs and sheep into
our markets and makes money after
paying the duty.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-07-29

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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-07-29

EeS05htiOn A0Op'e1 0y
the COnUeHtiOn.
We denounCe repub-
llican protection as a
fraud on the labor of
the great majority of
the American people
I for the benefit of the
few. We declare il to
be a fundamental prln-
lciple of the democratic
party that the federal
government has no con-
IstitutiOnal power to
impose and collect tar
IN duties, except for
the purpose OF revenue
only, and we demand
that the collection OF
such taxes shall be lin
tied TO the necessities
of the government
W. hen honestly and
economically admins
tered
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-07-29
Resolution RepOFfed ~
the COMMITTEES.

adopted:
Resolution Reported bVI
the COMMITTEES.
We reiterate the Oft
repeated doctrines Of
the democratic party
that the necessity Of
government is the only
Justification for taxa
ton, and whenever a
tax is unnecessary il Is
uniustifia bic; that
W h en- custOm-hoGSe
taxation is levied upon
articles of any kind
produced in this cOun-
try the difference be.
tween the cost of labor
here and labor abroad,
when such u difference
exists, fully measures
any possible benefits TO
labor, and the enOr-
nous additional impoSi-
ton OF the existing tar
il falls with crushing
force upon our farmers
and workingmen, and
for the mere advantage
OF the few whom IL en-.
riches, exactS from Ia
Dor q grossly unjust
share OF the expense Of
government, and we
demand such a revision
OF the tariff laws as
will remove their mi
Quitous inequalities,
tighten their oppres-
sion, and put them on
a constitutional and
equitable basis, but in
making reduction in
taxes il is not proposed
TO injure any domestic
industries, but rather
to promote their
healthy growth. From
the foundation OF this
government taxes col
lected at the custom
house have been the
chief source Of federal
revenue. Such they
must continue 10 be.
Moreover, many indus
tries have come TO rely
on legislation for sue
cessful continuance. so
that any change Of law
must be at every step
regardful of the labor
and capital thus in
volved. The process OF
reform must be sub
ject, in the execution
Of this plan, 70 the die
tates of justice.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-07-29

reported by the committee and rejected
by the convention and the substitute
adODtp1.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-01-01
The Western Rural.

There are number of excellent
agricultural and farm papers published
in this country but above all and be-
yond all stands the Western Rural in its
many sidedness. It contains all that
is excellent in the merely agriculture
routine of crop and stock raising and
the domestic departments, and in this
respect is abreast of the best of its kind.
In addition to these 1t has many other
departments that have become of vital
Importance to the farmer and at the
head OF these new features in an agricul-
tural journal, is the Rural's department
of Political Economy, Government
and Popular Education. These are
what every agricultural paper will
have to embrace in the future, but the
Western Rural at present stands almost
solitary and alone occupying these
fields that have been sadly neglected
in the reading and education of the
farmer. They have in fact been SO
entirely neglected that the farmer has
become cipher in government and
political importance. And through this
criminal ignorance and neglect he has
been robbed to the verge Of poverty.
The Rural has made a manful struggle
to reform all this and deserves the
support of the entire farming class. 1t
is also the largest weekly farm paper in
the country. Published by Milton
George at $3.50 per year, Chicago, I'LL.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-01-01
war With Chilli.

The plutocratic press are carefully egging
the public mind towards war with Chill.
If such result could be brought about the
Jew bankers OF Wall street and Thread
needle would offer any amount Of credit
money for interest bearing U. 8. bouds, and
take another turn round the necks of the
American people. A thousand million
loan would not cost these money vampires
penny. They would take bonds and
order the U. s. government 10 draw on
them, and as Uncle Sam pays no tariff on
his imported goods they would fill his
orders for cheap English goods. and pay
for them with checks to British manufac-
turers, shippers and jobbers, and scarcely
miss the money from their bank safes till it
was back again. Their tramp ships would
land goods anywhere in the world for us.
Altogether il they could get the United
States pushed into mock war with the half
civilized little nation on the Pacific coast
and thousand million more of debt piled
up on the people of this country, they no
doubt would feel happy. Ifthe truth could
be got at there is no doubt it would turn out
that these piratlcal vampires, the money
ring of Eogland, have been at the bottom Of
all the trouble with Chill. The same in
famous money ring were the principal con-
spirators in promoting the Southern States
rebellion.
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A give Paper for 1--we People.

The National Econom ist, published at
Washington, D. c., is the greatest economic
weekly published in America. and the man.
agement has perfected arrangements for ad-
ding to what it now is, all the features Of the
greatest newspaper without increasing the
subscription price. A special holiday offer
of 80 cents for single subscriptions or 80
cents for clubs Of five or more for one year,
1.-THE regular price is Sl.00.) This offer will
stand till the 18th of January and no
longer. The Economist will give a news
summary Of everything worth knowing in
the way Of general news. 1t will give no
space 10 base ball, foot ball, sculling
matches, prize fights, billiard matches. horse
races, or gossip and scandals; but will coll
lect all the general news of the day, such as
intelligent readers should be in possession Of.
The paper will be enlarged from IS 10 "a
pages during Congress and whenever the
news Of the week may require. The Econ
omist is taking the place in this contest be-
tween the plutocraey and the people that
Greeley's Weekly Tribune did in the ffties
when the contest ragged between the people
and slave aristocracy. Every dweller in
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only till the 18th Of January.
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Fourth Glass Post Masters.


QOknmuulC@tcus
The State convention Of 4ih class post
masters was held in the post Office building
at Annapolis, on Tuesday last. Most of the
counties were represented. Som'l. HANDLE.
ton, Of Rising Sun, was elected chairman,
Percival Mullinkin, Trap, Talbot Co.,
secretary and J. G. Davis, Pomona, Kent
Co., treasurer. The most important bnsi-
ness of the meeting being the election of
delegates to the National convention to be
held in Washington, Jan. 14ih there were
six elected. Those elected from the Eastern
Shore were from Cecil, Kent and Talbot
counties and those from the Western, Balsi-
more, Frederick and St. Mary's. Numerous
resolutions we're passed. House Bill I0757
already introduced was fully discussed by
sections and with one or two exceptions was
fvlly agreed upon. A resolution endorsing
the United Sales Mail as the staunch and
true friend Of the postmasters was unan-
imously passed ; also one thanking the press
in general which had favorably noticed the
move.