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The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-12-23
A NEW SCHEME.
BV Which Trade UniOnIst Propose to
Bring Corporations to Time.


A movement has been started in
Cincinnati, Ohio. which is causing quite
stir among the wage earners and
business men of the country when the
details are made public, The scheme
is being discussed quietely and details
are being gathered by leading trade
unionists and no one but trusted MEM
bers of organized labor have been adj
mitted to the conclave. The prOmot-
ers did not meet with much encQur-
agement Mt first, but tho idea has
steadily gained ground and now hun
dreds of workinglnen are among its
supporters, eager for chance to give
it a trial. The movement is designed
to prevent repetition of the disasters
which followed closely upon the lock.
out at Homestead. the Buffalo railroad
strike and the miners strikes in Idaho
1t is proposed when strike becomes
necessary and is precipitated by un'
ionists a general order shall be pro.
mulgated calling upon every union
man In the country to Withhold from
circulation all funds that he may poss
ess or control, so as to cause string.
ency in the money market and thus
compel the business men of the United
States to bring such pressure to beai
upon the corporation having a strike
on its hands that it will be forced Il
yield to the demands Of its employe:
or show disposition to settle the diff
culties between them. This plar
when put in operation will be fal
reaching. and the effect, it is claimed
will be felt in every branch of trade
throughout the land.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-12-23

governments decreed to abandon gold
and to accept silver us standard cur.
rencyP In 1852. when the production
of silver was increased so largely in a
short time several nations were afra id
of a depreciation of gold. Influenced
by this fear, the Netherlands aband.
oned its gold standard and adopted
silver rs Its standard instead. Now
the very contrary is taking place. "
The correspondent urges that silver
has not been mined to a point where
the production has increased SO
rapidly as did that of gold in early
years of California and Austl allan
mining, He concludes; "If all coun-
tries at once forbade the use of cotton
for cloths, would not the price of cot
ton at once declineP So long as the
principle countries, say, England
France, Germany, the United States,
and Austria continue to buy or coin
gold at fixed price the price of gold
cannot decline, even if the production
were to increase tenfold. If, on the
other hand. the above named countries
decreed to accept the silver standard
and all the banks and minis of these
countries began to buy and coin silver
ut, say, the former price of about 81 20
per ounce, and to sell gold, the price
of silver would undoubtedly rise at
once, and all the produced silver would
flow into consumption, while the price
of gold would greatly decline, because
there was no longer an artificial
market for gold. Would it not be far
better to coin both gold aud silver at Il
fixed ratio us beforeP Undoubtedly, it
is the only way to insure stability in
exchange and the free flow of trade.
Industry, agriculture, and trade would
then improve and flourish again,
Another Englishman says: "Gold is
MS much too high as silver is too low,
but the former is not realized, us there
are no daily quotation of it, as is the
case with silver. maintain that sill
yer has not deprecated any more, and
in some cases not rs much, as other
commodities which are paid for in
gold or notes, based on IL gold re-
dempton Gold has been so exalted
in value that it can purchase, roughly
speaking, double the amount of mer-
chandise. produce, cotton, silver, cop
per, iron and commodities than for
merly, Trade, therefore, languishes,
houses fall. nations default, incomes
diminish. bankers Magazine, Nov
ember, 1892.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-12-23

factory both III matter and manner,
and It's references to the tariff are es-
pecially disappointing and unstates-
manlike. Beginning with the unwar-
ranted assumption that "the present
tariff, constructed upon the lines of
protection, is to be repealed, and that
there is to be substituted for it, II tariff
law constructed solely with reference
to revenue. Mr.. Harrison appears to in
innate that general process of wage
reduction is at hand, and that frequent
and threatening parades of American
workmen may be expected in our
streets. When his political opponents
precipitated equally gloomy forecasts
upon their horoscopes, previous to
election, they were justly character
lied as calamity howlers.
If, as President Harrison would have
us believe, legislation like unto the
Mckinley bill has been the sole cause
of present differences between the
social condition of the masses of peO-
pie in the United States and in Europe,
what shall we say of our boosted pub
lie school system and our much Wanted
free institutions and equality of oppor-
tunlty for all children born upon
American soilP If naught but the
Ohio idea of protection stands between
us and degradation to the level OF Pol
ish and Hungarian rioters, then the
Magma Charta and Declaration Of In
dependence were shams, and the cour-
age and resolution of our forefathers
from the landing Mt Plymouth Rock to
the latest achievements of pioneer set
tiers in the great west, have been i'll
judged and Improbable.
But we believe President Harrison
is as much mistaken in his gloomy an
ticipations of the future, as he is in
ascribing his defeat in the recent cleo
ton to the strained relations between
the employees and the employers of our
great manufacturing establishments" "
The revolt against McKinleyism was
not confined to manufacturing centers.
1t was very noteworthy in the counties
of Knox, Logan, Rchland, Seneca and
Stark, in Ohio. These are all wool
growing counties. Columbus Delwano
lives in Knox, Judge Lawrence IN
Logan, Senator Sherman in Richland,
Hon. Charles Foster in Seneca and
William Mckinley in Stark
We regret that in his last annual
message previous to retirement, Mr..
Harrison should not have risen to the
level of his opportunity and left Il
document that might have been re-
membered as statesmanlike attempt
to prescribe that conservative middle
course of action which is now Desired
by the great majority of Intelligent
American people.-The Investor.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-12-23
SILVER AND GOLD.
Silver has Been Deprecated by Law
While Gold has Been Exalted.

In a recent issue the London Econ
omist remarked that the actual price
of silver was obtained by an artificial
market, and that it would be well to
close that market which the unwise
legislation Of the United States has
opened. A correspondent of the same
journal combating this same argument
asks: "But what do you think would
become of the price Of gold. if all the
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-12-23


in the California legislature met last
Friday and agreed to stand as a unit
for the person the majority of the
eight decide upon for the United
States senate, They hold the balance
of power, and may secure n United
States senator.
The tale of n rejected sutton killing
his sweetheart is getting somewhat
old by reason of its much repetition.
Is is indeed pitable that man can
get the idea there are but two people
in the world--the object of his affec-
tons and himself, 'Twere betterh had
he never been born.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-12-23

Screen doors, screen doors, for sale by
the CHICAGO LUMBER COMPANY.
Buy the Aermotor, Eclipse and Per-
kins wind mills at Ennis Il Walkers.
Ennis & Walker are unloading II car
load Of, LNBClle, Fish Bios. and Balm
wagons.
The Chicago Lumber company has the
best and cheapest screen doors on the
market. $3.50
Any catalogue prices met and express
saved by attending Wittcshofer's cash
inventory sale.
Dry salt 10 cents per h., smoked ba-
con from II to II ~ cents per pound,
Swarts a. Penn.
Pocket kniycs-the best 80 cent knife
ever offered to the public. Call at the
GOOdl0nd Hardware company and see
for yourself.
Ennis & Walker wish to inform the
farmers of Sherman county that they
are handling the genuine Glldden wire
made At DeKNlb, Ill,
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-12-23

The point of Postmaster-general
Wanamaker's report is that every
thing the government owns or operates
decreases in expense and increases in
Observation-Disclosures.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-12-23
The Presidents Message.

The last annual message of Presi-
dent Harrison previous to his retire
meut from Office is somewhat unsatis-
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-12-23

Bill Higgins might have been
pretty decent sort Of fellow if he had
been called William all his life.-Iola
Register.
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GROVER CLEVELAND.

II am to name the typical American,
the man who loves and believes in his
country beyond everything else, the man
who, determining once in what direc-
tion his duty leads, cannot be swerved
from the path-the man who Is dogged-
ly persistent in what he believes to be
rlght-the man who thinks not Of self,
but Of his country and its needs, / would
name GROVER CLEVELAND. What he has
accomplished is the very highest attri-
butte to the possibilities Of American
citizenship. A country lawyer in the
city Of Buffalo. he shed lustre upon the
high profession which he had chosen.
As the mayor of his native city he pre-
sented as his record clean and econom-
icai administration. Coming into the
highest position Of the land without
previous experience and without scarce
ly precedent to guide him in the con-
ditions which surrounded him, he won
the affection Of his party and command
ed tho respect and admiration of his
opponents. I find myself in one Of the
pro,ldest positions of my life in being
permitted to present to you GROVER
CLEVELAND as the typical American
ChaunceY NJ. Depew. in 1890.
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Just give tho high tariffites rope
enough and they will hang themselves.
The American Economist goes on to
say:
Those free-trade attorneys, who are
accustomed to exalt ''cheapness" as the
goal which every nation should strive to
reach, equally point to the revenue tariff
period of 1S46-lS60 as one in which all
things were pre-eminentlY Cheap" And
tits true that in that period many
articles could be bought at low prices,
owing to the fact that wages were ex-
tremely low and labor correspondingly
degraded. Yet it is a fact that not one
article can be named to which we have
continuous and adequate protection that
is not cheaper to-day than it was then.
Let us take, Tor instance. the two articles
OF pig irOu and cut nails, and compare
their prices during the FREQ trade period
with those ruling to day:
Here follows list Of prices Of pig iron
and cut nails from 1s47 to 1850 and from
1873 to 1891. The ave, age priceis cheap
er of course under protection QS78 to
1891 than under free trade (lS47 to 1868,
But 1t Is interesting to note by the tables
given that the prica Of pig iron declined
under fourteen years Of free trade $3O.2E
per ton to s22.75, or $3.50 while it only
declined II cents during fourteen years
Of protection from $l7.63 to $l7.52
Cut nails. according to the Economics
table. under fourteen years OF free trade
declined from 81 so to 1913, or $1.37.
while under protection they declined
only Is cents in the same length Of time
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A congressional committee arrived at
Homestead Tuesday to investigate the
trouble between the Carnegie company
and their mon. At Pittsburg the same
evening the committee put FRIcK, the
manager of the company, on the stand.
The examination brought out many new
features, the dispatches state. and the
most interesting feature was when
FRIcK declined to state what the cost of
production in the mills was. He said it
was not fair question. No, we suppose
not. A congress that boosts the tariff
clear out Of sight at the instigation Of
the Carnegie company has no right TO
know what the profits of the company
are.
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Gen. Snowden, manding the Penn

Gen. SnOwden, com manding the Penn
sylyania state militia, understands hi
business. you bet. The strikers a
Homestead wanted to give the troops
formal reception, brass bands, bouquets.
speeches and the freedom of the city ana
all that. Snowder politely declined tho
honor. He refused to recognize the
amalgamated association on any other
authority except the governor of Penn
sylyania. Said it would be a queer
thing if the militia OF Pennsy lyania had
to be received anywhere in the state.
He told the advisory committee that the
proper way to cooperate with the troops
was to behave themselves and if they
were anxious to show their allegiance to
state authorityto show it to the sheriff.
Snowden seems to be a brick.
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This homcly talk was made to 4OG.
iron and steel workers at Homestead by
JOHN LuCKEY, the burgess OF the borough
and worker in the Carnegie mill. The
big opera-house rang with cheers from
the throats of ANDREW CARNEGIE's men:
Il Travelled through Arkansas last sum
mer on my vacation. They don't take
much care OF their cattle out there. The
herds are big and the grazing ranges arc
bigger. A calf suckies Its mother from
birth and keeps on sucking until long
after the time when it should shift for
itself. The consequence is that the calf
hasn't learned TO look out for itself and
hasn't learned to eat grass, and when
separated from the COW it weakens and
dies.
Il saw d bull calf, big and strong. a
yearlingin fact, trying to get its nOurish-
ment from the mother. The COW was
dry. The yearliDg could scarcely get Il
drop of milk. He kept hunching and
hnhching, and finally. wien he found he
couldn't get his meal, he turned and
butted his mother and nearly ripped the
entrails out OF her with his horns. That's
a common Occ urence out there, they told
me, but 1t set me to thinking, ana it
struck me us a very forcibla illustration
OF our position as workmen in the
Carnegie mills and voters OF the Repub.
lican ticket to day.
We have Dnrtured and protected and
fOstered our infant industries in this
country until away past the time when
they should have been weaned At last,
when we have been MIXED dry and there
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In the campaign of 1883 the 6. o. p
organs set upa great bogie man tc
frighten northern voters from support,
ing CLEVELAND. They said that if he
was elected every rebel veteran would be
granted a pension ana that the whole
country would be turned over to the
management of those who tried to
destroy it. Now, as in 1887, they are
building Free Trade" bogie man to
scare voters into sustaining the monopo-
lies which contribute so heavily toward
Republican campaign funds. But it
won't work. The voters OF this country
will turn the lights on the free trade
bogie man as they did on the bloody
shirt bogie man.
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CLEVELAND is no snob; YOU can always
bet on that. He has set his foot down
on tile organizing OF Frances Cleveland
clubs and has just refused photo OF
baby RUTH that the Atlanta Ma.) Journal
wanted for publication. No man has a
more charming wife and, we suppose tho
baby averages well, but like the sensible
man he is, lie shields both as much as
possible from notoriety.
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That every employer has right to
run his business without interference 80
long as he obeys the laws of the land is
Democratic doctrine.
That every employer may discharge
his workmen, hire in their places whom
he pleases and fix his own price for such
services, and that the discharged work.
men have no right to dictate who shall
take their places or who shall not, is
more Democratic doctrine.
But, says the ST. Paul Globe, the Re-
publican papers are making too free use
OF such good Democratic law. They are
estopped from claiming the benefits of a
law springing from conditions which
have ceased to exist because of the en-
actment of laws by the party which
these papers uphold. This law was
based on the equality of the conditions
Of the contracting parties. The master
was as subject to the law of competition
as was his servant. The law of demand
and supply was unobstructed. The
state had not entered on scheme Of
socialistic interference with that law.
Now, however, the party which is the
pride Of these able papers has declared
that all the people must aid in the es-
tablishment Of certain manufactures,
primarily that these industries may be
built up, and secondarilY that the work
men in them may receive higher rate
of compensation with increasing extern
sions for years. The whole people have
contributed of their substance to both
objects. To certain extent the people
are joint proprietors with the managers,
and they, in taking the largess Of the
masses, have assumed certain obligations
to the people and to their workmen.
The latter have acquired certain definite
rights in these works and to employment
in them. So the conditions under which
! the law rose have changed, and it is elo-
mentary that when the reason Of the law
ceases the law fails.
To be consistent with themselves and
the paternalistic policy they advocate,
these papers should sustain the claims OF
the workmen and demand that the com
mon law be amended SO as to oblige the
CARNEGIEs to whack up with their men.
Let ue haye'Republican laws for Repub.
lican conditions, and wait until we gel
back to the Democratic ground for the
enforcement Of Democratic laws.
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AREpUBLICAN OPINION.

Chicago Tribune, Rop.:-For exposing
this monstrous robbery Of the people and
calling frequent attention thereto the
servile dog journals of the trusts and
combines denounce the Tribune as a
"free trader" But they would do their
masters more service if they could salts
sactorily explain to the public how it is
necessary to levy an average Of Al per
cent. duties to protect" labor which
receives in wages over British pay only
One-tenth Of Al per cent. They should
tell their readers who get the other
nine-tenths.
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THE EKIAIBALL GRAPHIC
CI.ATE II. TINAN.
Official Paper Of the City and County
A safe Man.

Grorer Cleresand gare tie country fair
business administration. He had not a IT.
tie back bone in transacting business Of a
pubic nature II tsto 1is credit that a
great many cfM bosses soere against his
nomindtion. The Democratic bosses soere
arhipped This is not good gear for Dos.
ses in either party. n aoould not be can.
did to fail 10 say that Clereland secured the
confidence of The large iarestors tn matters
;,.:ss:ing to finance and ordinary business
administration Sioux City journal.
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The Democratic executive committee
had meeting in Mitchell week ago
to day and named Thursday. Sept. I, as
the date Of the Democratic state convsn-
zion.
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wHERECLEyELAND STANDS.

In his great tariff message OF 1887,
President CLEVELAND made this an
nouncement: Tariff taxation must be
extensively continued as the source of
the governments income, and ina re-
adjustment Of our tariff the interests Of
American labor engaged in manufacture
should be carefully considered. as we'll
as the preservation of our manufacture
ers. 1t may be called protection. or by
any other name, but relief from the
hardships and dangers Of our present
tariff laws should be devised with espec-
ial precaution against imperiling the
existence of our manufacturing in
terests.
1T is also said that the increase in the
price Of domestic manufacturers result
ing from the present tariff is necessary
in order that higher wages may be paid
to our workingmen employed in manu-
factories than are paid for what is called
the pauper labor Of Europe. All will
acknowledge the force of an argument
which envolves the welfare and liberal
compensation of our laboring people.
Our labor is honorable in the eyes Of
every American citizen; and as it lies at
the foundation of our development and
progress, it is entitled, without affecta-
tiOn or hypocrisy, to the utmost regard.
The standard of our laborers' lives
should not he measured by that of any
other country less favored, and they are
entitled to their full share Of all our ad-
yantages.
"Our progress toward wise conclu-
sion will not be improved by dwelling
upon the theories Of protection and free
trade. This savors too much OF bandy-
ing epithets. II is a condition which
cOnfronts us-not theory. Relief from
this condition may involve q slight re-
duction Of the advantages which we
award our home productions, but the
entire withdrawal of such advantages
should not be contemplated. The qnes-
tion of free trade is absolutely irrele-
want; and the persistent claim made in
certain quarters, that all efforts to re-
lieye the people from unjust AID un-
necessary taxation are schemes OF So
called free traders is mischieyious and far
removed from any consideration for the
public good. y y These things can
and should be done with safety to all
our industries without danger to the
opportunity for remunerative labor
which our workingmen need, and with
Senefit to them and all our people, by
cheapening their means Of subsistence
and increasing the measure of their
comforts.