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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-10-20
A Wonderful Growth.
THE CENSUS STATISTICS ON THE TEX
TILE INDUSTRIES.

WASHINGTON, ID. c., Oct. 16.-The
Census bureau to-day made public sta
tistics of the textile industries for the
United States as whole, 1t appears
from the tables presented in this bulle-
TN that the increase of silk manuiac
ture since 1880 has been the most strik-
ing, beng 1925 per cent in the value
of its products, that of the cotton man.
ufacture ranking second, 80 81 per cent.
and that of wool manufacture being
20. SO per cent The relative rank in i'm
portance of these industries, however,
is reversed, wool manufacturers in all
its branches including all descriptions
of hosiery and knit goods, standing
first, with gross products valued at
1887, 768, 524; cotton manufacture
second, with products valued at S267,-
9S1, 724, and silk manufacture third,
with products valued at S87 298, 454,
The actual increase in value of products
was $40, $40, GIL in wool, S75, 1892, OLA in
cotton and SIG, 265, 400 in silk. These
combined industries yielded a product
in the present census year worth S693,
04S,7 02 as compared with a product in
1880 of $500. $40, O6S, an increase in ten
years of 1892, 673. 654, which, from any
point of view. it is stated, is without
parallel in any country, 1t is proper
to state in this connection, says the
bulletin, that there were 24S establish
ments engaged in dyeing and finishing
textiles separate and apart from estab-
lishments which dye and finish their
own products. These establishments
had an invested capital of $40. 270,579,
employing 20,267 hands aud paying
S9,717,011 in wages. The value added
to product of the textile factories by
these establishments amounted to S28,
900, $50, a decrease of IS, 396, 500 as
with the sum of $50, 297. APO added
value in 1880. This decrease is explain
ed by the very great reduction in the
cost of dying and finishing through i'm
proved methods. equal to fully % per
cent
The following percentage Of increase
are noted: Number of establishments,
{. 50: capital invested. S1.51; number Of
hands employed (not including officers
and clerks in cotton Industry. $50;
amount of wages paid (not including
wages paid officers and clerks in cotton
Industry, GAIL; cost of materials, 81,
%; value of product, IS 81.
The increase in the amount Of wages
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-10-20

OF labor here make no greater profits
than those of the Old World. Compe-
tliioD is active. and no industry is long
allowed 70 return unusual profits. This
spirit of competition, is sure to level
down profits Of employers. is the safe
guard and the promoter of high wages
for the employed. Stimulated by Pro-
lection it strives to set every man at
work, and it completes for labor as well
as for profits. The demand for work
ingmen advance their wages, and so
long as enterprise is encouraged and
protected against foreign interference,
so long will it continue to demand
LABOR, and thereby sustain wages. We
assert without fear of contradiction that
Protection is necessary to sustain our
nigh standard OF wages.
Free trade would check and throttle
our industries, discourage enterprise,
and workingmen must surely go beg
ging for work; their wages decline, and
become insufficient for the support of
their families, and poverty and distress
take the place of comfort and prosper
ity. WOrkiDgmen have, then, the
greatest interest in the result of the
pending discussion between Protection
and Free Trade. Protection is their
only safe guard for the present, and OF
their hopes for the future.
Under protection, wages have in
creased. For proof. contrast the wages
paid for all kinds of work from 1916 TO
1861 under a partial revenue tariff with
the wages paid today under protective
tariff. We can well remember in the
iifties when we worked at hard labor
on the farm, by the day at 81! cents,
moved for 624 cents per day and cradle
from three to four acres of oats or bar
ley for IS cents; common laborers who
helped to put it into the barn would get
80 cents per day. Carpenters worked
for S100 per day and blacksmiths set
horse shoes for 81 cents.
In many industries wages are double
what they were then. Protection Gre
ates and sustains variety of important
industries which otherwise could not
exist here, it diversifies the occupation
of our people, and thus afford fields for
their different qualities and talent. 1t
also prevents to many persons from
crowdlng into a few industries. /:
cheapens the price of the things protec
ed by encouraging competition among
those engaged in producing them. II
creates a demand for skilled labor,
which in turn, calls for an increase in
all kinds of labor. 1t stimulates inven-
ton and fosters the mechanical arts
that goods may be produced cheaper.
Free Trade and high wages in Americs
is an impossibilitY. In short Protec
ton keeps labor in demand, enhances
wages, encourages manufacture. anC
guarantees the highest possible pros
perity. j. A. CURTIS.
Patch Grove Wis.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-10-20
Protection and Pearl Buttons


The following letter from Mrs. Eva
NJ. Anderson to John p Lewis, explains
itself The button referred to is in the
possession of Mr.. Lewis, and he will
gladly show it to all who may desire
to examine it.
MANITowoc, Wis, Oct. l6, '92.
Mr.. JOHN P. LEWIS.
The enclosed pearl button was made
at pearl button factory located in this
city. | saw it done, and know that it
is genuine. The gentlemen here are
wearing them attached to their watch
chain-'.I mean the gentlemen who be-
lieve in protection to American indus
tries"
The foreman of the factory told me he
came here from Austria ignorant of the
language. ana any other business, than
button making. Picking up the fresh
water shells here and making buttons
by hand lathe. be managed to earn a
bare subsistence. and even to do that
his wife had 10 get whatever work she
could dc. They lived in this way for
several wears, until after the passage of
the Mckinley bill, when some of the
men here who have the means, estab-
lished this business and employed him
as foreman. He has about forty en-
ployees under him all of whom but one,
he taught their business. Besides
there, the sorting and sewing on cards
are all done outside One girl earned
enough in this way to give her course
at Business College.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-10-20
Washington Letter.
From our Regular Correspondent
Washington Oct. II,

Washington Oct II, '92.
The shadow is upon the White House;
it may come tomorrow, next week, or
next month, but all hope that it can be
ayerted has been given up, and all that
is lett for the presd dent and his family
is to make Mrs. Harrison as comfort
able as possible and to bear with
Christian resignation and fortitude the
affection which the Unsuitable wisdom
of Divine Providence has put upon
them. and Mrs. Harrison, in the full
knowledge of her condition, IS setting
them a most worthy example. One OF
Mrs. Harrison's lungs is entirely gone
but in spite of her great and growing
weakness she continues cheerful and
exerts herself constantly to cheer her
husband and children. Constant
watchfulness and suspense have had a
very bad effect upon the president
nerves and he is far from being well,
although he strives to bear up under
his great trouble. He is constantly re-
ceiving evidences of the deep sympathy
felt for him and his BY all classes Of his
fellow citizens, and from none is it
more sincere than from his political
opponents.
4 gentleman from West Virginia in.
forms me that careful canvass of that
state has been made by the republicans
and that it shows conclusiyely that the
state is republican by a safe majority,
and that the republicans are determined
MOTTO allow themselves to be cheated
out of the state as they were when Gen.
Golf ran for governor few years ago.
The news from Tennessee is not SO
good. The third party in that state
threatens to collapse, as it has done IN
some of the other southern states, con
sequently the prospects Of the republi
cans carrying the state are not so good
is it appeared several weeks ago, al.
though it is believed that there is still
a fighting chance.
at is just as much larceny to steal 6
political right rs it is to steal private
property. said Attorney-General Miller
in his argument before the supreme
court against the constiutionality d
that democratic steal known rs Mich
gan electoral law. Referring to til,
democratic argument that the cas-,
was political and therefore ont of tho
jurisdiction of the courts. the Attorney
General pcrtinenly said: 4 hold i
to be one Of the most hopeful signs o
the times that the courts are either
arousing or being aroused 10 the tao
that if ,he rights Of the people Of tn,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-10-20

GEN. EDWARD S. BRAGG, one of the
leading democrats and most widely
known men in Wisconsin. spoke to a
large audience in the City Hall last
Saturday night. TO those who have
heard of or know Gen. Bragg, bis effort
was great disappointment. He spoke
in a dispassionate manner. and i'm
pressed his audiende with the idea that
he was not equal to the occasion. He
is anything but the robust, fiery man
that many expected to see and his re-
marks caused but little enthusiasm !;
in fact the audience rarely gave APP
plause except at the anecdotes. He
made fewer points in his address than
we ever heard made in one of similar
length. Not q question did ne touch
but he left his audience at sea upon it
and he made no conclusive argument.
He evidently has never read or at least
has never prodted by the reading of
Proverb, 27-2. Let another man praise
thee and not thine own mouth; stran
ger, and not thine own lips. His audi
ence had right to expect something
much better than usual from man
who has spent eighty years in con-
gress, and is quite likely to 60 to the U.
S. Senate if the next legislature is DEM
ocratic, and who served as envoy,
extraordinary and minister plenipoten-
tiary to Mexico under Cleveland at
$500 per year. He ought to be a
man of ability as well as political ex-
perience. vet be made very ordinary
effort The great difficulty is he is in
the same fix that all other democratic
orators in Wisconsin are. when they
came before an intelligent audience be
had no case and he knew it.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-10-20
Protection and Labor
For the HERALD.


The democratic press and free traders
today assert that protection mas no
effect on the price of labor. Let us
examine the question in light of expert
ence, and see how much truth there is
in the assertion. The power to buy
depends upon what one receives. The
wages the laboring man earns limits
his capacity to purchase. The wages
received always depends upon his en-
ployment. Ii he is employed, he earns
wages; if he has no employment, he
earns no wages. If all are employed
who are able to work, the people can
buy; if, on the other hand, they are not
all employed, then business is poor, to
the extent that our people are not en-
ployed. The power to buy, depends
upon the wages our people earn, and
the amount of wages they earn upon
their employment, and the employment
upon the extent and number of our
industrial pursuits. The more runner
Gus and general our industrial pursuits
the more people will be employed, and
more wages earned. Protection tends
10 contribute to the increase OF indus
trial pursuits, and no one can deny but
what it does-then it is not an injury
but benefit to all. No civilized nation
ever has been or ever will be prosperous
and great without diversified industries.
Labor produces wealth, and wealth
gives power The Protective Tariff
has built thousands of mills and added
millions of dollars of capital to our
industrial pursuit, so that our manu-
featured commodities have run up from
81, 800, 100000. in 1860 to SlI ZOO, 900,
600 in 1892.
The man who works for wages-is
more than all others benefited by Pro-
lection, and, therefore, most intel ested
in maintaining and perfecting it. If
we compare the mental and physical
condition, modes of civilization, social
surroundings, their evelation in the
scale of civilization, it is manifest that
the widest distinction will be found to
exist between the workingmen of this
and other countries of the world. Here
we find the pre-eminent advantage of
our American protective policy. 1t
protects the workman and his family
1t saves them from degradation and
distress. 1t makes the family relation.
in all its attractiyeness, possible. 1t
elevates the wives and children of the
workingmen 1t affords to children
leisure for early education, and thus
opens up to them endless opportunities.
American workingmen who have never
contrasted their condition with that of
their competitors under low wages and
insufficient work abroad, cannot, and
do not, realize the perils OF free trade.
Free traders assert that q few manu-
facturers are the only ones benefited By
protection. AS class, the EMPLOYERS
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-10-20
Magazines.
ST. NICHOLAS.

The three-page poem by John {
Whittier, which will appear in the N
Vember st. Nicholas Magazine, COZ
memorates the visit of party of youi
girls to the poets home. It contaE
the following lines. which have a pecI
liar significance now that the good Qua
ker poet has passed away:
II would not IL could repeat
life which still is good and sweet;
keep In age, as in my prime,
not uncheerful step with time,
And, grateful for all blessings sent,
go the common way, content
10 make no new experiment.
On easy terms with law and fate,
For what must be I calmly wait,
And trust the path 1 cannot see,-
That God is good suficeth me-
And when at last upon life's play
The curtain falls, 1 only pray
That hope may lose itself in truth,
And age in Heavens immortal youth
And all our loves and longing prove
The fOretaste of diviner lOverf
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-10-20
MEOTICE TO CREDITORS-oF GoDFRrED TIM
EW

AEOTICE TO CREDITORs-oF GoDFRIED TIM
80 MERMANs, Deceased
State of Wis consin Grant County, Sc. County
Court in and for said County.
In the matter of the estate of Cfodfried Tim
mermans, deceased.
Letters of administration in sail matter having
been issued to John Lougbotham, of the town Of
Paris, on motion of Ed. NJ. Lowry, Attorney, it Is
ordered that from this date until and including
the 18th day of April, A. d. 1898 be, and the same
hereby is allowed and limited. for the creditors of
the said Godfried TimmermaGs. deceased, to ak
hibit and present to this Court. their claims and
demands against said deceased, for examination
and allowance: that such claims and demands
will be received by said Court at the Court House.
in the city of Lancaster, in said County, at each
term thereof within said time, and said Court will
examine and adjust the same, at the Special terms
thereof to be begun and held at said Court House.
on the third Tuesdays of February md April A.
d. 1898; and notice of all which shall be given, By
the publication of this order under the above cap
ton, for Four successive weeks, in the Grant
County HERALD, weekly newspaper published at
the City of Lancaster, in said County the first
such publication to be within fifteen days from
this date.
Dated October Is, 1892
55-3s BY the Court,
GEO. b. CARTER,
County Judge
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-10-20
Organized the Rubber Trust.

NEW YORK, Oct. 1S.-A meeting of
the directors of the United States Rub
Der Company, organized under the
state of New Jersey with capital of
$50, 900, 900, was held Saturday at the
office of the company, 16 William
street, and the permanent organiza-
ton was completed by the election of
a board of directors
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-10-20
New Advertisements
- STATE-GUSLAcH.

2
State of Wisconsin, County Court of Grant
County-In Probate.
Notice is hereby given, that at { special term of
the County COnrt, to be held in FOR said County
at the Court House in the City of Lancaster, in
said County, on the 3D. Tuesday of November A.
d. 1892 being the 18th day of November, 1892 at
the hour of one O'Clock in the afternoon, the fol-
lowing matter will be heard and considered
The application of Charles Gundlach and Thomas
Watson to admit to probate the last will and tesla
ment of Anna +. Gundlach, late of the town of
Clifton III said County, deceased:
By order of the Court,
35-37 GEO. b. CARTER,
Dated Oct, 18th, 1892. County Judge.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-10-20

THE democrats in Minnesota have
made dicker with the Peoples party
by which the democrats are to vote for
the state officers on the peoples ticket
The democratic party is wont to brag
about its principles, but when 1t comes
to making a bargain to gain votes priu-
ciple has take back seat.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-10-20

GEN. BRAGG states that wool under
protection policy "has fallen from s.
cents per ID. to Is or Is cents per lb =
The last congress evidently wanted to
take off the present duty on wool This
was probably to make it high in price.
They want TO take the duty of other
things to make them low. The demo-
cratic idea of tariff just now seems to be
a queer one.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-10-20
Uholera Reoord at Hamburg.

HAMBURG, Oct. 1s.-The authorities
report six new cases of cholera and one
death from the disease here Sunday.
According to the official figures there
have been 1862 cases of cholera and
1855 deaths, since the outbreak of the
plague in Hamburg.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-10-20

NALESMEN WANTED TO TRAVEL in sur
~ rounding districts, by team or otherwise
soliciting orders on commission from retail
dealers for rubber boots and shoes to be Skinned
direct from factory. Those already travelling with
another line of goods could make this a valuable
addition to their business. Address stating mar
dculars and references, Colchester Rubber Co.
Colchester, Conn.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-10-20

Gen. Bragg states that "a linen suit
in the Bermuda Islands costs S15 and
in New York S45." This being SO, it
represents the difference in the price of
labor in the Bermudas or some other
country and the United States Labor
ers in seeking home do not stop in
Bermuda or those other countries.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-10-20

The democratic speakers seem to be
perfectly willing from their talk that
''infant' industries are entitled to pro-
lection. Then why are they kicking
about the tariff on tinplale and pearl
buttonsP Aren't they infant industries?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-10-20

WILL some one please tell us why
Dist. Attorney 7. L. ClearY, put the
perjury case against Victor Frank into
the hands of Mr.. Blanchard. Was it
because he knew it was a hopeless case
and because he did not wish to tarnish
his reputation by loosiug it? The ice
is thin. step easy. THIN, did we say,
yea, you will find in November that you
have been trying to walk upon the wat
ers.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-10-20

SINCE there will be two voting places
in Lancaster next election dav, each
voter will DO well to determine what
precinct he is in before attempting to
vote. The line dividing the city is
Mapel street which runs east and west
along the north side of the court house
square. The line dividing the town
runs east and west between the towns
of North and South Lancaster. This
line is plainly marked part of the way
by the road running east and west past
the farms of Messrs Delos Abrams and
w. j. Mccoy. The voting places will
be in the city hall for the south pre-
cinct. and in the Clark building near
the post Office for the north precincts.
Keep this in mind.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-10-20
Our Ticket.

0 GOV. Peck may tear,
But what do you think we care;
We'd very much sooner
Have John c. SpoOner
Sit in the Governors chair.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-10-20

ANYONE who reads democratic state
news viii very readily discover that
John c. Spooner is making an inter-
esting campaign. Gov, Peck has re-
Gently become very dignitied and has
taken refuge behind the mark that it
is beneath the dignity of governor to
enter into an active campaign This
is a very convenient mark in Cover
nor's case and may fool few OF those
who do not know him The true rea-
son is, he can't take the stump any
more than he can take poison without
killing himself. Spooner does not have
t. make a campaign by proxy;
Gov. Peck does: in fact hasu't he been
governor by proxy
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-10-20

CHAs. J.. HARPER, EDITOR AND PRoP'R.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-10-20

THE Supreme court of the United
States announced its opinion, Monday,
Oct. II, upholding the Miner election
law of Michigan under which presiden-
tial electors are to be chosen by districts
instead of by the whole state, as is done
in all other states. This opinion up
holds the Judgment of the Michigan
Supreme court. The act is held to be
invalid, in one unimportant detail--so
far as it conflicts with the act of con-
gress of 1887 relating to the time of
meeting of the electors. The opinion
was rendered BY Chief Justice Fuller.
GIN. BRAGG says democracy is in
the air this fall. That's right General.
and its pretty high up too, so high that
it is not likely to light in this state this
fall Surely it is very much like this
tie down, floating about without any
definite principles in view The sole
object is TO get votes, and for this pur-
pose il lodges out in every direction,
snatching for per cent. Government
votes in Minnesota, silver votes in the
silver states and free state bank votes
in every state that wants that kind of
bank. 1t is very true that democracy
comes high this year and it can't light
very well for it has no definite princi-
pies to light upon
SINCE there will be two voting places
= In.nn.tr.. 49, nl.n.i.,, L.. 81
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-10-20

Catered at the Post 0fce In Lancaster. w.
az secOhd elGss matter.
The Portland daily press., 1892-05-03
SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT.
BEFORE JUDGE WALTON.

BEFORE JUDGE WALTON.
The following divorces have been decreed
during the present term:
Alonzo A. Doughty VS.. Lizzie A. Doughty.
Cause desertion.
Jennie Gordon VS.. Andrew R. Gordon. Cause
desertion. Custody of minor child to mother.
Annie L. Strout VS.. Greenleaf A. Strout.
Cause cruel treatment.
Albert L. Bowden VS.. Grace M. Bowden.
Cause adultery.
Charles o. Woodbury. VS.. Lizzie NJ Woodbury.
Cause desertion. Custody of minor child to
father.
Sadie E. Leighton, alias Sadie E. Bradley VS..
Herbert Q. Bradley, alias R. Thomas Goodwin,
Marriage annulled.
Alice A. Patterson VS.. Frank E. Patterson
Cause desertion.
Jennie NJ. Jose VS.. Edward G. jose Cause
intoxication: Care of minor child to mother
Herbert F. Todd VS.. Harriet A. Todd. Cause
desertion.
Melissa Gooding VS.. Joseph Gooding Cause
deSertion.
Adele NJ. Libby VS.. Walter NJ. Libby. Cause
cruel treatment
Florence A. Perley VS.. Alvin H. Perley.
Cause cruel treatment. Care of minor child to
mother.
Betsey M. Hodg1ins vs. Whitman Hodgkins
Cause intoxication and cruel treatment
Joseph W. Newcomb VS.. Maggie D. Newcomb
Cause intoxication.
Laura E. Crosby VS.. Horace B. Crosby. Cause,
cruel treatment.
Cause deSertion.
The Portland daily press., 1892-05-03
Workroona Sale.

Today the last opportunity will be
afforded to purchase those excellent
hand made garments at the store under
the Falmouth Hotel. The garments have
been made with the greatest care by
women who need the money the clothes
represent. No better bargains for the
same number of dollars can be secured
in any store in Portland, and as a rule,
not as good. We hope the public will
show to these ladies who have done SO
much to provide poor women with work
that their labors are appreciated.