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The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-08-10
THEY DESIRE RECIPROCITY.
Our Successful Reciprocity Negotiations
Have stirred Up British Jealousy.


Have stirred Up British Jealousy.
The wonderful success of the reciproc.
ity policy of the United States has
not failed to invite the jealousy of
Great Britain. 1t must be admitted,
too, that for that jealousy there is am
pie reason. The control of their own
market already threatened by the very
nations whose manufacturing interests
England wished to master, British man
ufacturers now find themselves de-
prived of the few neutral markets re-
naming open TO them by this policy,
participa ton in the benefits of which
their free trade system has rendered i'm
possible. The prevailing sentiment in
England on the reciprocity question is
well shown by comments like this one
from the Liverpool Mercury:
For months the foreign office has been en-
deavorng with all its force and diplomatic skill
10 obtain the renewal on better terms OF the ex.
piring commercial treaties Result-Hu Fail
ure all round. Nobody will have anything TO
say to us, because we have nothing TO Offer
them. The motto do III dEs prevails in all the
commercial departments of all the European
| foreign offices. We have no duties 10 take or
We can make none of our markets freer 10 the
foreigner than they are. For our benefit and not
for theirs we have invited them 10 sell what
ever we wished to buy without let or hindrance.
They, therefore bitten by what Lord Salisbury
himself admits to be a fallacy, blankly decline
to make any concession
Besides the picture which it gives Of
the rage felt by Englishmen because of
their folly in stripping themselves of
the weapons necessary for success in
commercial warfare, there is another
statement in this paragraph which is
worthy of remark. 1t is the confession
that it was:
For our (Engands) benefit. not for theirs,
that we have invited them to sell whatever we
wished to buy, without let or hindrance.
When England adopted free trade in
1916, she did it not for any sentimental
reasons of reducing commerce to a
beautiful lovefeast between the ma
tons. 1t was done for hard business
reasons British manufacturers, after
hundreds of years of rigorous protec-
ton, felt themselves able to do the
manufacturing of the world; all they
wanted was open markets, and those
open markets were to be secured by the
adoption of free trade by other coun-
tries. Now that her example has not
been followed and that free trade has
been repudiated by all nations, England
commences to squirm, for she sees her
own supremacy waning. Protection
reinforced by reciprocity is the recog-
nized commercial policy of the day.
The American Cobdenite is hopelessly
in the minority
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-08-10

Remember that the best friend, the
best ntdant is your mother. Have
no friend with whom she is not ac-
quainted. Make her interested in what
you are doing, and if the trials of her
life are many just remember that to
gain sympathy you must giveit. Make
yourself your mothers companion and
friend, and then she will be yours
Do nothing that you conceal from
her. and never believe for u min
ute that when you have really
made her understand, she will
not care for what interests you; moth
er isn't so very much older than you,
after all; it hasn't been such long
time since she enjoyed just what you
do, since life seemed as full of bright
ness as does yours, since she made rs
many inquiries and tried to think out
as many problems as you do; and when
once you two can meet on this common
ground, be sure that you will have no
body who will as thoroughly sym.
pathize with you as your mother
brakes Magazine.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-08-10
FOR GIRLS AND BOYS.
IN NlNETY-THREE.

This is my hirthdsy-I'm most a man;
Exactly eight
I'm growing up, says my Uncle Van,
At an awful rate.
But can't know everything quite clear
Not quite, says he
Before my birthday comes round next year,
In Ninety Three.
What makes the noon grow thin and long
Like paper boatg
How It'd they get the canary's song
In his little throatg
Why hasn't the butterfly something to dor
Or why has the bee?
What will become OF Ninety Two
III Ninety Three'
I'm always thinking and wondering
As hard as can;
But there isn't much good in questioning
My Uncle Van.
For he only says, with funny look,
l shall probably see
II keep on growing and mind my book
In Ninety Three.
It's long ahead till fellows nine,
When he only eight
But the days keep passing, rain or shine.
And ] can wait.
For all these puzzles, that seem so queer
Just now to me.
III understand by another year.
In Ninety Three.
Kate Putnam Osgood, in ST. Nicholas.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-08-10
How "the Mckinley Law Injurers Its
Promoters"

Promoters"
American and foreign free traders
predicted that the Mckinley law would
injure only the American people. If
the building of hundreds of new indus
tries and the attraction of millions of
the worlds capital to our shores be an
injury, then the predictions made have
come true. But as general PROPOSE
ton the world over, national prosperity
is not looked upon as national calam'
ity, but as national blessing.
The following comments from the To
ronto Globe of the 21st ult., on how
our present prosperity is attracting the
Canadian people here is rich illustra.
ton of the way the new tariff lis in.
juring it's promoters"
No one disputes the fact Of the enormous
exodus from French Canada this spring, 1t is
equally certain that swarms are leaving On
tario and the Maritime provinces According
to all accounts the United States consuls in On
tario are doing "land office business" in the
way of issuing certificates to pass settlers
effects across the line, while railroad men say
that the number of gripsack emigrants who do
not require certificates is unusually large.
Of course it goes without saying that
the promoters" of the present tariff
will be glad to see thousands of just
such evils visiting this country.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-08-10
but she was so like the flowers herself,
do want to bury one with her.

but she was so like the flowers herself,
do want to bury one with her.
when / carried some white rose
buds she said: Baby had her mission;
her going has taken all dread of death
from grandma. and / do not think
death can be a terror to the children
while they remember baby; but want
them to remember her with flower in
her hand
when | went away she said: 4
thank you, and thank God, how good
He is,
A silence fell once more, but this
time it seemed as if the clouds had
lifted, and as if the world was pleas.
ant place, after all; yet it was only the
good news that the light of Gods love
had cheered and comforted that poor
widowed mothers bereaved heart
Anna A. Preston, in Christian at Work.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-08-10
FOR SUNDAY READING.
THE GOOD MAN.

The good mans steps are led Alright,
The Lord doth in His way delight,
Established from old
He shall not perish, though he fall,
The LORD. who ruleth over all,
Doth with His hand uphold,
row am old, who young have been
fet naye not the righteous seen
Forsaken in distress;
Nor have His children begged their bread
But ever by His care been fed,
Who feeds the fatherless.
All day he dealeth graciously,
He lendeth in his charity,
His seed is ever blessed
Depart from evil and do well,
And IN the land forever dwell,
Where God doth give thee rest.
He doth delight in justice take,
And never doth His saints forsake.
But keepeth them in love.
When He the wicked shall destroy,
The saints shall evermore enjoy
Their heritage above.
The law Of God is in his heart,
Nor shall his steps from Him depart,
Though troubles still increase.
Then mark the perfect, day by day,
Behold the upright in his way,
His latter end is peace.
Edward A. Collier, in N. Y Observer
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-08-10
CHOICE EXTRACTS.

1t is little troubles that wear the
heart out. 1t is easier to throw
bombshell mile than a feather-even
with artillery. Standard
Whatever touches the nerves of
motive, whatever shifts mans moral
position, is mightier than steam, or
caloric, or lightning. Chaplin.
Gods benefits come not alone, but
one is pledge of another. A drop of
dew from Heaven is prognostic of a
gracious shower, which nothing can
dry but ingratitude.-
The record kept in Heaven is not a
record of how much you have won and
gathered from the world, but of what
you have given to the world and done
for the world.-United Presbyterian.
That there is an unseen world, an
ideal world, a world of possibilities,
can not be questioned by thoughtful
! minds Who can doubt of it save such
as are perfectly satisfied with them
selves, who ask for nothing more than
they have, aspire to nothing more than
they are?-O. b. rockingham.
knowledge of the Divine will is
valuable, but for its true end to be
reached there must be a willingness to
obey it. 1t is only thus that it will be
kept in mind. Forgetfulness of God
and His commands is pretty sure to ac-
company an indisposition to obedience.
christian Inquirer
| Be assured that there is little to be
known here, much to be borne, some.
thing to be done. What you are and
what your life means you do not know.
You must be content with twilight, ex
cept when contrast with the darkness
makes the twilight seem, as it really is
in comparison, blaze of Eght-Na.
! tional Methodist
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-08-10

Colombia, with 50l .733 square miles
of territory and 3,s7S,6OO people. vi
whom 22O. 900 are uncivilized Indians, is
one of the undeveloped countries ot
South America. The main products are
coffee, hides ivory, nuts, cocCs and
bark Colombia abounds in mines of
all kinds, emeralds, opals and other
precious stones, besides marbles and
mineral salts ar,sfound in certain DIS
tricts. Last year the United States
took from Colombia ST,509.OlI of her
coffee and other exports, and sold to II II
S3,349.64s worth of brcadAtuffS, provis-
: ions and other articles.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-08-10
SuperiOr knOwlPdrc.

Frank and Hal had been to a concert
at which they had heard very fine
violinist. On their way home, Hal
said:
81 tell you that man made that violin
hum, didn't he?"
To which Frank responded contempt
uously:
"Why Hal, that wasn't any r,o'jp:
that was fdds !"-lIarper's Young
People.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-08-10
A DREADFUL ENEMY.
An Afternoon In Fairy-Land Drove Him
Entirely Away.

An Afternoon In Fairy-Land Drove Him
Entirely Away.
''Oh, dear." said Maisie.
What is the matter?" asked Big Sis
ter
Il don't know what to do" answered
Maisie; and she sighed SO hard that she
blew little bug off the flower she was
holding. and he tumbled and tumbled,
until he had to fly to save himself; and
then he went home and told about the
terrible wind which had nearly blown
him away.
Big Sister closed her book.
There are your paper dolls"
I'm tired Of them"
And your china dolls"
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-08-10

The strait of Magellan was pa SSci
by Fernando de Magelhaens magellan,
Portuguese. on November u. l52J.
He gave the Pacific o,can lis name cu
account of It's calmnesS. Magellan COM
olctcd the first voyage round the wof.d
with a feet Of discovery fitted out sy
che emperor, Char, l., but Sas !l.l.s4i
al la3l
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-08-10
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I,ss 0, a,n Sm Of 10, Sa''d ef san That uas n
H,s, R.rr~ Ts,y period -dht fDt t,'tiss "rs touif
~sS~ssshf @ ''t.' Nov i" 70 'a''f ''d|' "'
SAfcK,.,ty Ts,E hat AZ sSo,d 70 ssy il ard ds~PHs
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The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-08-10

INPoRTs free of duty, - per cent. of
the total; imports dutiab!e, II per cent.
of total. Such is the story for tho
twelve months OF our foreign trade
en.iiny May 81.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-08-10
SHORT TARIFF SERMONS.
Protection and Patriotism.

Aside from the fact of its material
benefits, the higher wages and greater
prosperity which it always brings, pro-
lection deserves the support of Ameri-
can citizens because it is pre-eminently
an American policy.
The great statesmen of our country,
irrespective of party, jefferson as well
as Washington and Hamilton, Jackson
as well as Clay and Webster, have all
believed in protection, not only because
as wise men they saw the need of it, but
also because it emphasized and exalted
that true American spirit of which al
We're equally enthusiastic opponents.
Free trade has nothing to offer us but
what is foreign.
1t wishes us to buy foreign goods and
import them in foreign ships. 1t holds
out to us the prospect of foreign mar
kets, and thinks no trade good but for
eign trade. The very idea is foreign,
imported from Great Britain, and its
foothold has been secured in this coun-
try largely through the employment OF
foreign emissaries.
Protection thinks that so far as
markets, laborers, industries, products,
ships, trade are concerned, in the
words of an American poet, There's nc
place like home"
1t wishes it understood that Ameri'
can products are good enough for the
American people.
1t thinks that the free traders claim
that American laborerS are not skillful
enough to manufacture as well as the
half-starved laborers of Europe is O
sneer at the intelligence OF American
manhood.
And above all other things, it empha-
sizes the fact that there is an American
standard of wages and of living, and
that our national life and high grade OF
our country's citizenship depend on
that standards perpetuation.
The impartial man, therefore, who
weighs both sides Of the question can.
not but conclude that protection is the
more patriotic policy, ana as such, more
worthy of a patriots support. For with
the great mass of mankind patriotism
still continues to be regarded as 6
noble feeling, despite the contempt o.
the philosopher" or the sneers of the
mugwufnp.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-08-10

II MAY interest the free trade major
ity of the house of representatives, who
have passed the bill placing binding
Irvine on the free list. to know that the
cordage manufacturers of Great Britain
are taking active steps looking to tho
formation of trust to control the out
put of rope and Irvine. This trust is to
be known as the British Rope Makers
Federation, and it will no doubt DO
only too glad to contribute literally to
the campaign expenses of the free trade
party, for past favors received as well
as for others expected in the future.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-08-10
Significant Facts.

During the three years ending March
81, 1889, the last three years of Cleve-
lands administration, our aggregate
imports amounted to s., 1870, 35S, 9l0; ey-
ports to 81, 159, S4S, $50, and balance of
trade s9,66l, 459. During the three years
ending March 81, 1892, the first three
years of Harrison's administration, our
aggregate imports amounted to s2,44O,-
05S, S2S, exports to Ss,721, PSI, 1875, and
balance of trade in our favor to $751;
1877, 367. or an annual average of 1913, 1872
ass. This is the difference between a
period in viii CHI commerce is stimulated
and business confidence increased by
the knowledge that the party in control
of the government is committed to the
policy of protection, and one in which
commerce is retarded and confidence
shattered because the party in power
favors the suicidal economic system Of
free trade
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-08-10
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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-23

frst-class navy to defend it. protect it
and make it available for any proper and
prompt execution of our naval system OF
defense, both for our seaboard, for the
Mississippi and for the Great Lakes.
No system of naval defense for this pur-
pose will ever be effective without the
construction and control of the Nicaragua
canal; the canal cannot be secured from
occupation or destruction save By strong
navy, SO that, if we ever build the
Nicaragua canal, we shall be obilged
to have a strong navy. To allow the
canal to be built without providing for its
ample defense against hostile occupation
or destruction would be an insane policy
of national defense. To destroy it to de-
fend ourselves would be an act of barbar-
ism; to permit its construction means the
turning of both our tanks unless we
strongly control and use the canal as the
indispensable link in a proper system of
naval, coast and frontier defense. includ-
ing the Pacific and Atlantic seaboard, the
Mississippi and the Great Lakes. In our
judgment the Nicaragua canal is sure to
be built, and when it is once built we shall
control and protect it. and in order to do
this we shall be obliged to create a first
class navy and maintain it.
There are only two logical courses to
pursue. viz, either to prevent the building
of the Nicaragua canal, or, if built, to
adopt it IS part of our system of national
and naval coast defense. 1t will then be-
come our business to create far larger
and stronger navy than we have at pres
ent and keep it in tirst-class condition. If
the canal is built and we do not make it
part of our system of naval and coast de-
Tense We are far weaker than we are today;
to discourage its construction would be to
deny to the Pacific coast all hope of future
growth and development, and SO when
this new worlds waterway is built we
shall be obliged to defend the ditch and
keep it open; not to trust to our power to
fill it up on an emergency.
To improve the whole naval line of de-
Tense of the United States, to develop the
Pacific coast, the Nicaragua canal is indis-
pensable, and with its construction and
control a irst-class navy viii become
necessary. With no Nicaragua canal
there will be no great development for
the Pacific coast and no possible way of
quickly reinforcing our naval right
hand from our naval left hand, and
vice versa. We shall be caught as We
were in the case of Chile at gross disad-
vantage, for had Chile been strong
power willing to force fight out of us,
every one of our Pacific coast cities would
have been bombarded into submission be-
fore we could have reinforced our navy
in the Pacific from the Atlantic seaboard.
Without the canal the Pacific coast can
neither be effectively defended nor quickly
developed; with the canal comes the
necessity of navy great enough to make
the canal an impregnable part of our sys-
tGm of naval and coast defenses.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-23
A CHANGE OF FRONT.

After months of painful silence the
Telegraph has at last deigned to discuss
the candidacy of Mr.. J. H. Lewis for the
governorship. 1t is evident that it no
longer regards the nomination of Mr..
Lewis by the Democrats as among the
things impossible, and in view of the fact
that it will probably be compelled to sup
port him, it attempts to prepare the way
by mild defense of the slated candidate
and his idiosy ncrasies.
This is wonderful change of front on the
part of the Telegraph, which has hereto
fore all but excluded the name of Mr.,
Lewis from its columns. Is it not posi-
bic that this change was brought about by
the recent contest over the confirmation
of Comptroller Carson? That contest was
a well defined struggle between Boss Gil
man and the little bosses. 1t is well
known that Boss Gilman was able to win
only by the assistance of Mr.. Lewis, who
at the last moment urged his friends to
cease their opposition to Mr.. Carson's
confirmation.
Is the Teiegrdph's new love for Mr.. Lewis
the result of bargain of which the assist
ance rendered to Boss Gilman and Mr..
Carson is the other side? 1t may not be.
but it looks much as if it were.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-23
THE STATE PRESS.

sedro Press: "Ho3. John L Wilson, the hight
ing congressman from the state OF Washington,
is gaining reputation for pugilistic skill that
threatens to rival that of his semi-namesaks,
John l. sullivan"
Port Angeles Tribune: "The Republican party
has majority of the voters in Claliam county
The Democrats admit that this is Republican
county. but they hope to hocus-pocus matters
and to work dissensions so as to elect portion
of their ticket this fall. Republicans should
canvass the merits of men for the various omcss
and select the best, then unite and elect the
ticket from top to bottom
Mestport World: "sIs this protection, that
great Republican. Nelson Bennett, wired Presi-
dent Harrison last week when the United States
steamer Mohicsn was sent fro Seattle to the
British dry dock at Esquimauit, notwithstand-
ing the fact that there was good dry DOCK In
American waters, just twelve miles from Seat
tle While Harrison probably did not know
anything OF the Kind had been done. yet he Will
have to suffer for it, for not vote will he get
from the eight delegates from this state at tho
national Republican convention, if Nelson Ben
nett can help IL. For Nelson owns an interest
in the American dock Won know"
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-23
OUR NAVAL POWER.

In 1850 the navy of the United States
stood sixth in importance among the
navies of the world, but by 1886 we had
fallen to be the nineteenth naval power,
for in that year the navies of the world
ranked as follows: Great Britain, France,
Italy, Russia, Germany, Spain, Austria,
China. Japan, Holland, Sweden and Nor
way, Turkey, Denmark. Greece, Brazil,
Argentine, Chile, Portugal, United States,
Peru and Mexico.
BY 1898 it is estimated that we shall
stand seventh on the list when our present
vessels are completed. Then the roll will
run Great Britain, France, Italy, Russia,
Germany, Spain. the United Stairs. The
committee of the House estimates that
nine more battle ships and thirty torpedo
boats will put US ahead of Germany and
Spain, and fifth on the list, or one point
ahead of our rank in 1860.
Our navy in 1898 will consist of four
armored battle ships, three armored cruis-
ers. five iron double-turret monitors and
an armored defense ram; we shall have
sixteen unarmored steel cruisers, eight
gunboats. To these must be added the
Vesuvius. $50 tons and twenty-one and
one-half knots, with her three tubes for
throwing gun cotton; and the torpedo
boats Cushing, No. ., and Stiletto. Thir-
teen old monitors and thirty-sIx wooden
vessels and tugs will complete the list.
The present House of Representatives,
We notice with regret, is not disposed TO
add to our lighting strength on the ocean
When the Nicaragua canal is built we shall
be compelled to become strong naval
power, if We expect to control that water
way as England controls the Suez canal.
If we do control that waterway we
shall be obliged to defend it. OF course, it
would be easy to obstruct it in event of
war, but its obstruction would be an out
rage upon the commercial convenience
and advantage of the world. We cannot
afford not 10 control it; if We control it We
must be prepared TO defend it against oc-
cupation or destruction. To defend our
TANKS by destroying or permanently oh
structing the navigation of one of
the great waterways of the world
would bs clumsy and bar5ar-
ian method of defense; it would
he as absurd as it would be for England 10
destroy or permanently obstruct the Suex
canal in order to defend India in event of
war with one Of the great powers of
Europe. She would defend and protect
the canal by her navy. not destroy or long
obstract the canal TO screen India. So
the United States is bound to control the
Nicaragua canal when constructed, for its
control will be essential to the
proper naval defense OF our Atlaa-
tic and Pacific seaboard Only
by building the canal and keeping it open
can We slip quickly our own ships from
the Atlantic TO the Pacific and vice versa
and If the Nicaragua canal is ever hui.t
We shall perIoEce be obliged to maintain