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Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-10-06
THE GREATEST ISSUE.
QUESTIONS FOR THE ENEMIES
OF AMERICAN PROTECTION.
u Is on That Question That We Must
Stand or FaIi-Can any of Your Demo
cratic Friends Give a Satisfactory
Answer to These puestionst

| The American Economist occasion
ally asks few questions. The last
installment is as follows:
If free trade and slavery did not go
! hand-in. hand, why was John c. Cal
houn protectionest until he became
the representative of the slave power?
! If trusts are due to the tariff, what
was the cause of the anthracite coal
| trust?
: If the American laborers are so eff
cieut that they do not need protection,
| why do free traders doubt their ability
to make tin PLATE?
If Cleveland is not demagogue, why
does he misrepresent the condition of
our country in order to gain partisan
! advantage?
If the Mills bill was not a sectional
measure, why did it leave the duties
on southern products unchanged while
/ abolishing or greatly reducing the
! duties on the products of the north?
If the result of free trade is to in
crease importation of competing
articles, why will it not correspond,
: ingly discourage their manufacture in
! this country?
If invention is not stimulated by pro
lection, why did it always progress
more rapidly in protective than free
trade policy?
| II free trade is productive of hard
| times, why were there hard times in
every free trade era our country has
had?
If ''cheapness' is desirable, why do
the people of other lands where
''cheapness" rules flock to this coun-
try?
If protection is un-Democratic, why
was jefferson protectionist?
If it prevents us from exporting why
are our exports greater than ever be-
/ fore?
If free trade would benefit labor,
why We're free traders from Adam
Smith to Bonamy Price and Perry all
opposed to shorter hours in Il working
day?
If reciprocity is sham" why is it
detested by Great Britain?
If free raw materials are the ne
cessity, why did free traders repeal tho
duty on cotton ties and retain it OIL
hoop iron?
If wages are regulated by demand
for and supply of labor, how will the
destruction of American industries
raise them?
If mugwumps are not un-American,
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-10-06
OUR ST. LOUIS LETTER.
The Death of Bsndmaster Gilmore
Fair Week and Its Special Attrac-
tions-Crowded Theaters.

Inc Dehth OF bhnumhstor Slimore-
Fair Week and Its Special Attrac-
tions-Crowded Theaters.
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 3, 92.-The death of
Gilmore was felt like personal be-
reavement by the people of st. Louis.
He was doubtless one of the greatest
bandmasters of the world. No other
musical director has ever tried to take
with him on tour band of the size
he had at the exposition. There are
l01 men in it, every one of them mu-
sicians who command large salaries.
The band will remain with the expo
rected by Sergeant Charles w. Freud
envoll, who has been leading with
Gilmore for sixteen years. The organ
ization has been such a financial as
well as musical success that it will
probably not break up, and the chances
are that it will supply the exposition
music next year, as contracted for by
the late Col. Gilmore.
The great week of the fall festivities
draws near. The city is crowded with
visitors, and the scenes on the streets
on the nights of the illumination are
most interesting. Every Thursday here
after till October 20, the principal streets
will be made brilliant with the long
rows of lights, and the beautiful
pictures in electric flame Saturday
night, Oct. /, the Yelled Prophet and his
setinue will arrive by boat, and
escorted by the military of the
city will march to the EXPOSE
ton and parade through the aisles.
The following Tuesday night
the Prophet will appear on
the streets with his famous tableaux
parade. The subject to be illustrated
by score or more of floats, each one
of which. carries generally from five to-
dozen figures in costumes, Is yet
mystery. 1t is never made known till
the day of the parade. The st Louis
fair, the biggest thing of the kind in
the West, will open Oct 3 and last till
the end of that week. The Thursday
of this week is always declared half
holiday in the city and the gate regis
tiers show invariably that more than a
hundred thousand people go out to the
grounds on that day. From now till
the last of October the railroads will
make rates of extraordinary cheapness
into the city.
The seven principal theatres CT the
city have suspended their free lists,
and the pass system will not be re-
sumed till about the end of the month
Every one of them is crowded nightly
from gallery to dress-circle, and in
those where there is some very popu-
lar play the sign ''standing-room
only" is hung up before the curtain
rises There is always a great scram-
BILE among the companies to get booked
in st. Louis for the last week in Sept,
and the first one in Oct, and they are
willing to offer the theatres high
premiums for the privilege. None but
the very best of companies can afford
to pay the theatres the rates they>de-
mand for these weeks, and the result
is one much to the advantage of the
stranger who drops into town about
that time.
( Learn the character of your foods and
combine yOur own rat OnS
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-10-06
The Force Bill.

There are Republicans who are in
some doubt as to the kind of legislation
needed to secure an honest ballot in the
South and stop the prostitution of cleo
ton laws and machinery in that sec
ton. They are ready to listen to any
honest argument or suggestion in re-
gard to this matter, but ii
may as welt be understood at
once that they will yield nothing
to the bullying spirit and insolent
falsehOods of the Democratic platform
in its denunciations of the Force
bill. Plantation manners have
been squelched in Congress and it is
about time the bullying insolence of
slavery should be omitted from the
Democratic platforms. The ex-rebels
have suffered enough by this time to
know that the North is not TO be
bullied and that no cause is to be
helped in this country by Democratic
curses and falsehoods. National Bulle-
tin.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-10-06
IN FREE TRADE JAPAN
WHERE ABLE BODIED MEN EARN
90 CENTS A WEEK,
And Where Women Slave for Twenty
Four Cents a week--Lahor is One OF
the Minor Considerations In All Free
Trade Centers-In America the Chief.

The British minister at Toxic, in an
interesting report reviewing the prog,
ress of Japan in establishing home "a
duStries, suggests that, at the present
rate of progress, 1.-The japanese will
after time hold their own with their
instructors. and without any assist
ance of protective tariff shut i'm
porters out of their markets" We are
told that "since 1886 the amount of yarn
annually produced in Japan has in
creased nearly sevcnfold. During this
period--fr IN 1856 to 1S90-the impor-
tation of yarn increased steadily for a
time. Home consumption and demand
for export to China encouraged the
supply up to 1883, when the imports
were nearly double those of two years
before. In 1890 the impOrtations had
fallen off by one-third, while the home
productions had steadily increased. 1t
is natural to suppose that this decline
in imports is Immediately connected
with the growth of native manufact-
urers.
Further on, however. Minister Fraser
lets in food of light on the secret of
Japanese ability to cope with the for
cign manufacturers. 1t is simply the
low rate of wages that prevails in
Japan. Minister Fraser describes as
the advantages enjoyed by the Japan
csc mill owner the fact that "he can
keep his machinery going through the
whole twcnty-four hours, while he pays
in wages the low rates of eight pence
a day to men and from two pence to
five pence to women" The equivalent
in American money is sixteen cents a
day for men and from four to ten cents
Il day for women. If the mill opera
tivcs in Japan work six days in the
week the women receive from twenty
four cents to sixty cents week, and
the mon receive ninety-siX cents a
week.
IT should be remembered that these
figures are given in an official report
from the official British representative
in Japan to his home government, and
are no doubt the result of careful in
quiry and accurate information. If
American manufacturers should pay
their employees the Japanese free trade
wages of from twenty-four cents to
uincty-siN cents week there is no
doubt that they could get along with
cut fear Of British competition. But
American manufacturers have no desire
to pay and American employees have no
desire to receive the free trade wages
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-10-06

Business is alive to a great coming
event, and in the hurlyburly of its
preparations for the Columbian Expo
sition in 1898, too much is already seen
on the streets of fanciful or amusing
nature, both superficial and CATCH
penny. There has been observed a void
in the line of the strictly useful, COM
bining Herewith instructive object les
sons and the beautiful in art. Books
there may be by the score, but the ex-
perience of the Centennial Exposition at
Philadelphia shows that the mass of
these were mere trifles and unservice-
able. The horde of visitors were ever
at loss for handy pocket guide of
official stamp, not only reliable, but
pleasing and always fit to keep. Just
what is wanted of this unique kind
has happily already made Its appear
ance, and we have before US 1.-THE
Official Portfolio of the Worlds Column
bian Exposition" illustrated from
water color drawings.
This Portfolio is a rare and beautiful
exponent of the main architectural
features of the Great Exposition at Chi
cago in 1893. The fourteen magnificent
structures are faithfully exhibited,i
while the Bird s-eye View gives real
istic glance at the lay of the grounds
with their principal buildings, lagoons,
etc. The illustrations are exact
reproductions, in water color effects, of
the original drawings, made especially
for this purpose from the official plans,
by Americas best known water color
artist, Charles Graham. The pictures
therefore are not only official, but they
are genuine works of art, and COM
petent critics pronounce them to be
equal to the finest productions of a
similar kind of the famous art ccnters
of Europe.
1t is simply wonderful how such per-
lection in art accompanied by full de-
scriptive matter, can be served to the
Great Public in so cheap and handy a
form. But, copy of this exception
ally fine production will be sent to any
address upon receipt of 10 cents in pos
tage stamps by The Charles A. Vog sler
Co., Baltimore, Md.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-10-06
either of Great Britain or japan.

eltler OF treat Britain or Japan.
This report of Minister Fraser is of
great Interest and Importance for
another reason. At the present rate
of progress the twcnty-four-cents-a
week factory labor of Japan will soon
produce more than enough for the Jap
ancse demand. Should the protective
tarltf be broken down in the United
states the American market would be
most convenient and accessible for the
products Japanese acknowledgements
a-week labor, and the quick and intel
ligent Japanese would be sure not to
miss the opportunity. 1t should
not be forgotten thai European
competition is not the only com
petition against which it is necessary to
protect American industries. There is
vast field Of cheap labor in Asia that
is rapidly acquiring civilized arts and
that is rapidly preparing to enter any
Western market that may be thrown
open to the world. In Asia labor
counts as a minor expense in manu-
featuring; here. in America. it is the
principal expense.
Free trade would ultimately and
logically mean the degradation of
American labor to the Asiatic level
New York Press.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-10-06
Short Tariff Sermon.

Protection benefits every man,
woman and child in the country.
There are no unprotected trades.
Those so-called, the building trades
for example, have absolutely prohibi.
tive protection.
You cannot import ce lars or houses
to drive the mason or carpenter out of
employment.
Tariff protection is intended merely
to do for glass blowers and wool growers
what nature has done for the mason
and the carpenter,
But even in tariff protection all tho
other classes are interested
For whom does 1t protect?
The farmer, the manufacturer and
the mill hand may be more directly
benefited, yet the good results of our
protective tariff reach all.
Where would the lawyer and doct, I
get their generous fees if clients and
patients were out Of work or received
free-trade wages?
Where would the merchant, the
clerk, the bookkeeper, the stenos-
rapher, the type writer and even the
Office boy make l.v Lg if there we q
no customers with well-filIed purses?
And if the professional man or mer-
chant could not build or rent the
roomy home or store or office, whe g
would the mason, the carpenter and
the painter get his 81 and So per day?
How would the engineer, the fire.
man, the conductor and the brakeman
fare if no money could hc afforded for
passenger transportation?
How would free trade journals thrive
without prosperous advertisers and
numerous buycrsP
/ And yet they tell us that only about
per cent of our labor and industry is
I protected. The % per cent, they saw,
is taxed to protect the 3 per cent. But
they are just % per cent out of the
| way.
Protection protects and it protects
us a,l.-American Economist.
Only native or naturaiizet. eitizeps
are permitted TO work on the streets Of
| New Bedford, Mass.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-10-06
SPOKEN IN JEST.

Does your new dress fit you we'll
Clara?" "Oh, splendidlyl ! can hardly
move or breathe in it. F"
''And where's Old Bill Johnson"
"He's here" Gle was running for
congress twelve years ago, What's he
dong now?" "Still runnin'I"
Little Boy saw you kiss sis, and
If you don't give me- ten cents I'll tell.
Young Man-Herc's the dime. Little
Boy-ThanIs! That makes 50 I've
made this season.
'What are you doing?" asked the
convict of the reporter who was writ
ing up the peuitentiary. m taking
notes" "Humph! That's what
brought me here. "
He--I thought it was the younger
daughter that was married? She-She
was at that the, but she generously
agreed to trade ages with her sister.
1t was awfuily good of her, wasn't it.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-10-06
SOUL OF A GUITAR.
The Instrument Proves Valuable In
Its Demise.

The instrument Proves Valuable In
Its Demise.
VioIins made by the great artist OF
Cremona have been sometimes bought
at fabulous prices, but it is rare that
an old guitar becomes almost as val
liable as a genuine Stradivarius. NJ.
Uhlmann, a native of Luxembourg;
domicied in Paris, has, however, i'll
herited from 4 deceased uncle rather
diIapidated guitar, which has proved
to him the source OF q small fortune.
The uncle was an itinerant singer, and
NJ. Uhlmann, wishing, no doubt, TO
keep up the family connection with
the fine arts, was in the habit of going
round wine shops with his inherited
instrument, with which he accom-
panied himself as he intoned popular
ditties. One evenings semi-inebriated
person, who abhored music OF every
kind, snatched the old guitar out of
its ownsr's hands and cracked it on
his-the artist s-cranium.
NJ. Uhlmann was assisted by the
police in the unequal encounter and
the drunkard WIS carried off TO the
station house. So, too, was the brok-
ell guitar, as a piece di conviction
against the unmusiCal aggressor. A
police official, while examining the
damaged instrument, noticed that in
its interior there was roll OF papers,
These, being pulled out, were dis
covered to be stock certificates worth
f4SO. The scrip was handed over to
NJ. Uhlmann, as 1t had belonged to
his uncle. The wandering minstrel
from Luxembourgws.s so overjoyed at
his good for une that he withdrew
the charge OF assault against his
aggressor, following up his act OF
magnanimity by inviting the latter to
sip refreshments with him at the
nearest tavern.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-10-06
August
Flower

81 am happy to state to you and
to suffering humanity, that my wife
has used your wonderful remedy,
August Flower, for sick headache
and palpitation of the heart, with
satisfactory results. For several years
she has been a great sufferer, has
been under the treatment of eminent
physicians in this city and Boston,
and found little relief. She was in
duced to try August Flower, which,
gave immediate relief. We cannot
say to much for it." L. G. Frost,
Springfield, Mass. @,
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-10-06
Short Tariff Sermon.

Free trade and poverty are Siamese
twins.
In free trade England there were
l,3lI,lOi paupers, exclusive of lunatics
and Migrants in the year 1s9O-9l.
They included persons of all ages
There were 3l5.457 under l6 years of
age, or about three in every hundred of
the total population of similar age.
Between 10 and 80 wears, there were
59l, 796, or about four to every hum
dred of same age.
Eight in each hundred of those be.
tween go and 50 years, or 90, $50 in all.
are paupers.
Over So years, twenty-six out OF
every hundred, or more than one in
four, depend on public charity, OF
whom the total amounts to 343. SO.
These are the estimates made ny
Gen. Booth of the Salvation army in
his recently issued book, "Pauperism,
a Picture"
While strength and health last. the
sturdy Briton, as rule, bears IN
somehow, no matter how low his
wages, against the burdens of his
miserable free trade existence.
But when old age draws near he is
forced to the poorhouse to end his
days.
Here are Gen. Booths own pathetic
/ comments on the sad facts he set,
1 forth:
odd age fares hardly in our times. .
I Life runs more intensely than i,
4 did, and the old tend to be thrown
/ out"
The community gains by this, but
the old suffer-
! They suffer beyond any measure OF
.ctual incapacity, for the fact that o
n.nn IS cd Is often in itself enough tc
'eoar him from obtaining work. and il
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-10-06
HE FOUGHT.
A Story OF Vershagln. the Russian
Painter.

PAINTER.
Vershagin, the Russian painter, hap
pened to be in small town which
was besieged by large force OF Tur-
comans. The little Russian garrison
was in danger OF being overwhelmed
10y the enemy. Although not connect
ed with the army, Vershagin seized a
'musket and laid out many pictures
que looking Turcoman, whom he
would much rather have painted.
He distinguished himself in the sorties
made on the enemy for the reason, as
he put it, that he didn't care to be
left behind. The Russians managed
to hold out until reinforce
ments arrived. Some time afterwards
Gen. kaufman called on the artist
and told him that the car had given
him the cross OF st. George. "What
do | want with the st. George cross?"
That is neither here no there. The
cross is here and you must take it"
Vershagin refused to accept the cross,
and Gen. kaufman, taking out his
penknife, cut slit into the breast of
Vershagin's coat and fastened the
cross on his breast. There, you have
ruin d my only coat" said the artist
There was no help for it; he had
to accept the decoration He said
II WAS. n fwarniug tn him never
again to give up the brush Tor the
,musket.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-10-06
Free Trade" Defined.

Properly understood, the term free
trade means not the abolition of all
tariffs, but that import trade shall be
free of taxes levied to protect home in
dustry. Such taxes as imports can
easily bear and still monopolize the
American market are said to be inn
posed for revenue only. Thus large
revenues may be raised by taxing i'm
ports, and yet there will be condi-
ton of free trade" that is of trade
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-10-06
Democrats Never Resign ANYTHING

Chairman Harrity will not resign
his office as Secretary of the State of
Pennsylvania while running Mr. CIeve-
lands campaign. Chairman Harrity
holds the best paying office in the
State of Pennsylvania with one excep-
ton, and is besides president of the
Equitable Trust company of Philadel-
phia. Senator Quay, who once held
the same office, resigned it before UNI
dertaking the management of another
campaign. Chairman Carter promptly
resigned his Office of commissioner of
the land office upon accepting the
Craftsmanship of the National Republi-
can committee. Joseph II. Manley of
Maine resigned the postmastership at
Augusta, Maine, before even accepting
position for the campaign on the ma
tional executive committee.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-10-06
Holman.

Holman, the economist, is fairly
beaten by the record of expenditure of
congress. lie whines in cNtenuation
that the increase over the app op,ia
tions by the Fifty-first Congress are
due to legislation by that Congress.
He means the pension legislation, nota-
bly, the dependent pension bill. But
no attempt has been made by the
Democratic House tn repeal that legis.
lation. They had not the courage AZ
the same time it is safe to say that
there will be no future increase of ex-
penditurcs made necessary by pension
legialation enacted by this Congress-.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-10-06

why do they sheer at the American
flag?
If British workingmen were bene-
flied by free trade, why did Cardinal
Manning speak of the world of
wealth and the world of want" as
typified in the condition of the Eng.
fish people?
If patriotism means love of country,
why is it not patriotic to support the
products and industries of ones own
country before all others?
If the decline of American shipping
Is not due to the want of protection,
why did it always advance until pro.
lection was withdrawn?
II the Democrats are not reaffirming
the confederate constitution, why did
they make that document the pattern
for their free trade platform?
If the mission OF the United States is
to produce cotton and wheat at low
prices" how comes 1t that we are the
greatest of manufacturing nations?
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-10-06
Every mans definition of happiness is a
description Of the life of his neighbor.
Excursion Rates South.

The Chicago a. Eastern Illinois railroad
will sell excursion tickets Sept. q and Oct,
Is, 1892, at the low rate of one fare for the
round trip, TO numerous points to the
Southeast, South and Southwest
For full particulars, maps, time tables,
or any information, apply to G. W. Humph-
rev. Northern Passenger Agent, 40 East
Third street, st. Paul MINI, 10 City Tick
q oiice, 20l Clark street, Chicago, to any
Agent G, & +. !. railroad, or to Charles L.
stone. General Passenger Agent. room AIS
First National Rank building, Chicago
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-10-06

free from protective, defensive or dis
eliminated taxes adjusted to benefit
home industries.
Free trade thus means simply trade
free from protective, but not from
revenue taxes The Democratic de-
mand is not TO destroy the tariff alto
gether, but to adjust it SO it will not
protect home industries, but merely
raise revenue and not interfere with
the control of the American market by
foreign manufacturers.