Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-06-04
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Here is another effective illustration
Of the manner in which the Mckinley
tariff works. Borax is free raw pia-
terial il ever there was one. About
4, 500 tons a year are used in Chis coun-
try in packing meats aEi in making
soap and other cleansing compounds.
When it is imported, 1t comes in the
form of boracic acid, on which there is
a duty of cents pound.
All the bOrax in the United States is
found west of the Rocky Mountains,
and nine-tenths of it is controlled by
one man, E. NJ. SMITH, of California,
who is said to have threatened the hand
full of small producers that he will drive
them out Of the business il they cut
his prices. AS most of the American
borax is dug out Of the ground in con-
dition ready for use, the labor protect
ed" by the duty is that Of the Chinese
whom Mr. SMITH employs to gather it.
He charges for it from seven to nine
cents pound as he happens to Feel, and
consumers are at liberty TO pay his price
or go without it.
Under natural circumstances the
American borax is cheaper than foreign,
as the latter is obtained in Italy, there
crystalized taken to England, refined,
and then sent to this country, but with
out the duty Mr.. SMITH would not have
things quite so entirely his own way.
THE Blaine Harrison fight is for
blood, HARBISoN'S men are first on the
ground at Minneapolis, and the first
guns OF their campaign are shooting
poisoned bullets. They have already
gone beyond the point Of possible recon-
Citation with QUAY, PLATT and For
AKEE. 1t was, in fact, necessary for
them to do so, for they must well know,
as also do many others, that PLATT and
his associates intend to give no quarter,
Democrats will have q good deal of fun
this week and next.
To THE HEALTH AUTHORITIES.
Wheeling should not ignore the fact
that smallpox has made its appearance
in this portion of the Ohio valley, and
that we have no place in Wheeling in
which to sequester smallpox patients
should the disease make its appearance
here.
That we are imminently liable at any
time TO such a visitation will be inferred
from the report of one of the mail agents
on an Ohio River Railroad train, given
in another column, as to the number Of
cases noticed by him in towns along the
road. In fact the Ohio River train au-
thoritieS will not take passengers from
certain points where the disease has
gained a foothold
The Chief Of Police has done his duty
In inStrueting his deputies to keep a
sharp lookout for cases of smallpox; and
the City Board of Health last night
made provision against contamination
through passenger and freight traffic
between Wheeling and infected points.
They should be equally prompt in at
once providing place where smallpox
patients may be taken with safety
should any appear in the city.
ONLY those who were counted in the
census of lS5O-4s years aegean have
any personal recollection of the war,
which is not a consoling reflection for
the bloody-shirt editors of the Repub-
liean party. In 1850 we were %, OOO. 900
but one-thgrd Of the population of to-
day. oflthese 100000 more than
half hg.Se died. Really, therefore, but
abOE(u,OOO, 600 of the o., OOO, 900 Amer
iel hs of to-day, or less than one sixth
y have any personal recollection Of
treat Civil War.
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