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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-08-29
CHRONICLES OF 1soa.
by JULIAN WE'RE.


Chapter XXV-In tchich the Writer dis
courses upon the Surplus, Deficit and
Trcdsurcrs.
1. Now aforetime Goliath of Gath, who
is called Cleveland. aud all the Philis-
tines made a mighty hullabaloo about the
surplus. And as the sound died away in
a distant echo the Philistine administra-
tion added sixty millions more to the sur
plus. Howbelt, instead of giving Uncle
Samuel the benefit of the interest the
sixty millions were straightway deposit
ted among a few favorite banks without
any interest whatever. But the people
saw with very much plninness that the
Philistines were robbing the nation. and
could not be trusted with anything, and
SO were they turned out and the Israeli
ties ruled the land from Dan and even
unto Beersbeba, which being translated
signifleth from Maine to California,
9 And when the promising Philistines
had departed and the true Israeltes were
come into power the sixty millions were
straightway invested in the purchase Of
bonds, whereby the nation saved much
interest
8 Then did the Philistines, who cry
hot one day and cold the next, shout that
thence would be "a deficit; moreover the
tipplate liar was In the land, aud lie went
up and Gown the country and deceived
very much innocent folk who were easily
gulled. !.
A. SO the Philistines took possession OF
the House. and played night and day and
laid around loose until they spent forty
millions more than the Israelites. How
belt, they spent the money. freely. that
they might create "a real deficit in the
national treasury and reimpose the duty
on sugar.
g. Nevertheless, Uncle Sam Is so ex-
cceding rich that the spendthrifts did not
succeed i'm making him bankrupt.
6 But, poor old Arkansas have they
cleaned out, leaving not continental OF
the school fund aud the full treasury left
by the Israelites when they yielded up
their Offices TO the thieves and robbers
who wero put in their places by the Phil
isiiaes.
Z. Listen, ye we'll meaning but deluded
rank aud file OF the Philisiine free traders,
give ear Qor yc have ,ach two big oncs)
We festive un- American Mugwumps. Dur
ing all the rule OF the carpet baggers aud
the colored officers Of the Souta not one
cent was ever stolen by State treasurer.
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THE TARIFF BUILT TT
THE TOWN OF HOMESTEAD THE
RESULT or PROTECTION.

A System That Enables workmen to
Earn from ss 10 SiA per Day Needs No
Further Recomm eud ation--such Wages
Unheard Of In Free Trade England.
According to SO good Democratic
authority as the New York World. the
four or five thousand workmen in the
Carnegie mills havo been earning on the
average between $15 and geo week.
But there are only 825 skilled workmen
whose wages are affected by the pro-
posed changes in the schedule, and these
men have been earning immensely more
than that. An official statement of the
wages paid ut Homestead shows that in
the slabbing mill a heater has been earn
ing $0.37 day; q screwman, $6.Sl day;
heaters helper, $4.53 day; and roll
engineers, roll tablemen and shearmen,
$500 day. In the plate mill wages
are upon even higher level. Rollers
get $9.81 q day; screwmen, $7.66; table
men, $6.65; the first shearman, $500;
heaters helper, $40, and heater Sl4.66
day. We submit that wages running
from 80 to el4 o day do not represent
poverty" and if the governor were not
more anxious to make political point
than to convey truthful impression he
would not so describe the situation.
Talk of poverty; here is the New York
Worlds description of Homestead:
"The town is about thirteen years old.
It has been built, not by the Carnegies,
but tho Carnegies' workmen. Most of
the residences in Homestead are owned
by their tenants. There are no tense-
ment houses, no fats and no novels.
Each house has its plot Of ground in
front and rear. The town has its opera
house, schools, churches and halls for
the various social organizations to which
the young people belong. 1t has electric
light, good sidewalks, very fair streets
and, best of all, an intelligent, progress
i've and peaceable class of citizens"
Our Democratic friends are very insist
ent that the tariff is responsible for the
Homestead troubles. Will any of them
tell us how they escape the conclusion
that the tariff is responsible for the crea-
ton of such towns as Homestead, with
thrifty population living in houses which
they own, with an absence of tenements
or novels, and with workmen receiving
as high wages as fourteen dollars dayf
And would any Of them like to print an
accurate description Of any of the Brit
ish towns devoted to like industries and
place it side by side with The Worlds
description of Homestead? If they can
point us to single iron manufacturing
town in England where such wages and
such comfort prevail as at Homestead
we will concede that the protective tariff
is not an advantage to American wage
earners Boston Journal.
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AOl-A-l.

With apologies TO Sam Devere.)
I'll sing you a song OF n candidate
Who halls from the far famed sucker State.
He aspires TO fill position high,
And hc Is known TO his neighbors as Adl-a-i.
Adl-a-i.
A very remarkable spokesman he,
Who welded glittering snickersnco
He chopped off heads day after day
And howlcd for moro, did Adelay.
Adelay.
lie was entirely too busy 90 go 10 War,
He had no desire 10 spill his gore.
No good In the fighting he was able 10 see.
"It all Is failure" said Adolcc.
Adclcc.
lie yelled for Imitation and money Of rags:
A Grcepiacker bold was His Illinois Jags.
"Thc cheapest dollar can possibly grow
Is none too cheap" said Adelo.
Adclo.
Some men ut Chicago had heard OF him:
They pulled him out Of obscurity dim,
And struck the Democrats totally dumb
BY nominating our Adclum.
Adelum.
lie is big man In bloomington;
Ills ncighbors think he'll make great run,
But he'll fall In tho soup with q terrible
splosh,
He will in November. will Adelosh.
Adclosh,
B'Gosh,
VIII Adeiosh.
buffalo Express.
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CHICAGo's WATER SUPPLY.

Perhaps enough attention has not
been given-too much certainly cannot
be-to the report on typhoid in Chicago.
The fact that, within year, there have
been twenty thousand cases, of which
about ten per cent. have proved fatal, is
one of awful significance, particularly
in the worlds fair city.
The average cost of a typhoid fever
case which ends in recovery, counting
time and wages lost as well as doctors
and nurses bill, is perhaps $500. Eigh-
teen thousand cases at $500 each thus
cost Chicago's citizens 30, 600, 600 in actual
money, to say nothing of the suffering
and sorrow caused by them. What the
loss to the community was by the 1000
deaths no one can ever estimate. 1t
must be very heavy, however, as typhoid
is most apt to attack healthy people be-
tween the ages of 10 and 30 years.
Take, however, the statutory damage
limit Of 5000 fixed by many states, not
as the measure of life's value, but as
a convenient basis of computation; the
1900 deaths at this rate were equal to a
money loss Of at least $4,000, 900, again
not counting the mental and moral loss
at all.
Some Of these 10000 cases may have
been imported. Most certainly could
not have been. To balance the imports
we can easily imagine Chicago sending
away an equal number of people with
the germs of typhoid in their systems to
other cities.
Chicago can borrow money on per
cent. bonds. The Sl9, ,000, 900 loss which
typhoid caused last year would pay the
interest on the almost inconceivably
enormous sum of $500, 100000. Rather
than permit this annual slaughter, Chi
cago could well afford to spend this en-
tire sum for pure water supply but
" course the best system humanity pos
sible would not cost anywhere near
50 much. The Hennepin Canal could
be dug with a single years typhoid
loss; the deep water canal to the Allan
tic for two or three years total. After
these and the pure water supply had
been provided for there would be, In a
few years, saving enough to build the
finest libraries, art galleries, museums
and universities in the world, and to fill
them all with the finest pictures, pro-
iessors aud what not. Chicago could
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-08-29
FROM BOURBON HEADQUARTERS.

Will the calamity howlers who go
about with Grape on their hats and
swathing the dark lanterns with which
they look for the man who's had his
wages raised by Bill McKinley's bilr'
kindly open the slide long enough to let
the light fall on the report of the New
York Labor Commissioner issued Satur-
day evening? Albany is the very head
quarters of Bourbonism but Commits
sioner Peck, Democrat as he Is, has pre-
pared first class campaign figures for
the Republicans.
The period covered by investigation
includes the year Immediately prior to
the enactment of the Mckinley bill,
and the year Immediately following its
becoming law. That is, the data upon
which the report has been made was
for the year commencing Sept. /, 1889,
up to and including the 3ist of August,
1890, and the year commencing Sept. 1,
1890, up to and including the 3lst Of
August, 1891.
1t appears that there was a net in
crease in wages of $6,377 ,025.09 in the
year 1891 as compared with 1890, and a
net increase Of production of $31 ,315.-
130.6S in the year Of 1891 over that of
1890. A simple analysis of this further
demonstrates the interesting fact that
of the 81 industries covered. II per
cent. show On increase either of
wages or product, or both, and that
there were no less than S9,717 instances
of individual increases of wages
during the same year. While the in
dustries are but 81 in number. the total
trades represented amount to 1921 and
give employment to 2S5, 900 workingmen
and women. OF the 81 industries in
cluded. rs per cent. show an in
creased average yearly earning in the
year 1891, while the total average in
crease of yearly earnings of the 2S5, 200
employees was s23.11. The average in
crease of yearly earnings of the employees
in the trades showing an increase was
$43.96 in 1891 as compared with 1890.
These returns, it will be noted, show
quite as decided an advance in the work
mans prosperity as was exhibited by the
report of Senator Aldrich's committee
to the Senate. That was non-partisan
finding, this is a Democratic acknow-
Judgement; the people, and more especi-
ally the great Republican mass Of them,
have every reason to be satisfied.
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f,d residences, spacious and attractive
suburbs, shady streets and breezy httts.
Its Revolutionary memories haunt he
0ntiQudru the absolutely uneQudtted
Narra0dnsctt Bay at its feet charms the
artist and the sportsman, and its shores
proridc recreation ground and summer
homes for thousands OF the citizens OF
Nc,o England.
%. Providence has the most cul-
turcd and Intelligent people OF any ctty
In the country; Is a prominent literary,
artistic and musical centre. Its mdnt-
featuring establishments demand the
highest skilled labor, consequently ITS
uorktng classes are exceptionally tntettt-
gent.
20. Providence has rs public schools,
acith ZSI instructors.
2T. Providence expcnds annually
$<7z 90s. .0e for teachers salar -
20. Providence Is the seae Of Broirn
UnirersitU
20. Providence has III churches
80. Providence has IS2 miles OF
streets; e. are pared, ie0 Macdddmizcd
aud 10 are unbutlt. Its streets are the
finest and cIednest In the country.
81. Providence has a mortality
rate OF I9.ys, a marriage rate OF 2@.oh u
birth rate OF s927.
81. Providence has q staunch Re
publican paper achose grotth has no
parallel In the history Of journalism; /;
tohose progress has been the journalistic
sensation Of Neio England; lohtch Is ac-
knowlcdged eueryicterc as the home paper
THE PROVIDENCE NEWS.
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make itself memorable among cities by
what it wastes on typhoid.
There are cities which should heed
Chicagos fate and profit by it. PRovI-
DEFcE will soon be enjoying its "fall
fever" season, when typhoid and enteric
diseases more or less severe will bring
doctors bills and enforce lost time when
they do not hang Grape on the door.
Our Pawtuxet water is not so bad as
Chicago's yet, but it will probably never
be better than it is, and it is
likely to grow much worse.
Like Chicago, PROVIDENCE could
better afford to bring pure water from
almost any distance and at almost any
cost than suffer the money loss which
impure water entails.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-08-29

THE Union Printer doesn't like the
New York Board of Arbitration, which
it says sis holdover body removable at
any time by the stock operator who os-
cillates in the chair of ID. B. Hill" and
that its controlling force is "rat
printer, editor and Democratic states
man queer isn't IL, how often the com
bination turns up nowadaysD" It is
queer. We've noticed it in RHODE
ISLAND. But the worst thing about the
Board is that II is n. &.
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THE AUTOCRAT.

To-day Oliver Wendell Holmes, the
autocrat of the breakfast table, is So
years old and every American who re-
joices in every evidence of his country's
mental and moral, as well as material,
advancement will wish him Joy in the
occasion.
To the autocrat we would unhesita-
tingly apply the adjective genial" had
it not been spoiled by indiscriminate
newspaper application to ginmill keep
ers, pugilists and the like. II is a SER
ious offence against the language to
lower word 10 that ii is not available
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4. ". LADD CO..
Early Fall
Openings! !!

We shall shortly be in the
midst of them. and already
preliminary displays in one
department and another fill
the room vacated by the last
OF the summer bargains.
These early. exhibits of
novelties are seasonable, and
they are interesting, for they
suggest the wealth of good
things to come.
This week it is Jackets
the very first of the fall
models. Our advance line
comprises an especially at
tractive lot Of Clay diagonals.
80 and "a inches length, me-
dunn weight.
BY the way, fur capes are
desirable these cool autumn
evenings. We have opened
a fine line of Monkeys.
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THE remark of a morning paper that
yesterday was long day to Lizze Bor-
den because she had ''no sewing or other
womanly occupation to divert her mind"
indicates curious estimate of feminine
capacity for being diverted. The
writer would better send Miss Borden
a new 'tatting" design or some "com.
menced" embroidery TO enable her TO
forget that she is accused of murder.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-08-29

DoN DICKINSON is spending Sunday at
Gray Gables helping Cleveland corcoct
message to placate the anti-snappers.
If the effort is successful it will rank as
such a triumph of letter-writing that
Grover could well afford to let it stand
as his epistolary valedictory. It Injuries
the effect when one tries to go beyond
the ne plus ultra.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-08-29

The Democrats seem to be giving up
New York, but the Republicans are
guarding against 'possum tactics in that
state just the same.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-08-29

President Harrison has appointed
more good, able men to judicial posi-
tions than any president In the country's
history. On this point the entire nation
Is agreed. d.--Baltimore American.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-08-29

We all admit that Grover Is good
sort of a man fora Mugwump, bat he is
absurdly pompous In his manner and
stupid in his cgotism for one Of bis con-
tracted, narrow gauged ideas Of states
manship. All he knows is free trade,
and his fame as a free trader is not due
in any degree to originality in present.
ing the time honored issue OF in the in
vention OF measures or arguments, but
entirely to his stubborn attachment 10
the idea that has fastened itself upon
him.--Topska lKan.l CAPITAL
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-08-29

Is it for fondness for medical men
and general regard for their welfare
that DIR. o. w. Holmes let's the small
boys of Beverly steal the green apples
from his lawn?
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-08-29

If cholera comes or If it does not-for
constant typhoid is worse than occa-
sional cholera-Drink no Pd,cfucet
,cater uhich has not been boiled.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-08-29

WHEN the Sullivan fight is over, fools
will subside and sensible folks resume
possession of their wits. At present
the country is gone daft over the big
animal.
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WE'VE wasted our mysteries over the

WE'VE wasted our Mysteries over the
irreverence of Chicago in proposing to
bring out the Oberammergau passion
play as a side show to the Worlds Fair,
since it now appears that the people
of Oberammergau never had the re-
motest intention of coming to this coun-
try.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-08-29

1T is unkind of "Gen" Stevenson to
describe the tariff as the "all-important
issue of the campaign" Has he for
gotten his Uncle Charles "Force"
bill?
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-08-29

THE Chicago Inter-Ocean says that
after the Pulitzer Tammany corruption
fund has been distributed among 1.-THE
ignorant Western farmers" Republi-
cans will hold few jubilation meetings.
Nothing has promised more positive
good to the Republican cause in years.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-08-29

1T was pretty gloomy weather down
the bay yesterday, but, as one of the
Dutch character comedians remarks
tunefully, Sunshine will co-ome
again."
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-08-29

TAMMANY might raise an enormous
fund to enlighten the ignorant West if
it could sell autographs from Gray GA
bles at nickel apiece.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-08-29

A DEMOCRATIC paper in Spokane,
WASH, says the party ticket means
"Cleve, Steve and Vic" They seem to
be on particularly intimate terms with
England's queen, those free trade pro-
Britishers.
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sixty tin plate works in Wales have
been closed since the Mckinley law
went into effect, and 10000 men are out
of employment. If, as free traders
claim, no tin plate is made in this coun-
try, mankind must have come to a
pretty general agreement to stop tin
plate using.
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democratic National Platform. 1852. ]

Cleveland is tho candidate Of the
mugwump assassins Of the regular De-
mocracy Of New York.-Charles r. De
Freest, Secretary Democratic State Com
mittoe, New York.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-08-29

QUEEN VICTORIA is going to try to
encourage total abstinence in the High
lands. 1t will be pretty difficult
undertaking.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-08-29

CHOLERA is no respector of persons;
it's latest victim is the body physician of
the White Gear.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-08-29

JOHN L. SULLIVAN went to church
yesterday. Did your
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STATESMEN WHO WOULD BE RE
PUBLICANs IF ALIVE.

AMEs MADISON There is no subject
which can enter with greater force into
the deliberations Of Congress than con-
sideration of the means to preserve and
promote the manufactures which have
sprung into existence and attained an un-
paraIied maturity throughout the United
States during the period OF the European
warsn
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six OF A kINDl
Tho Destruction OF Protection tho Sole
Aim OF the Democratic Party.


/.
From the Confederate constitutional
Congress shall have power to lay and
collect taxes, duties and excise for reve-
nue. only, but no duties or taxes
on importations from foreign nations
shall be laid to promote or foster any
branch Of industry.
II.
lspeech of Senator McDufie. Of South Caro-
lina.l
In free competition for the market
Of the United States the wages Of man.
ufacturing labor in the northern states
must be reduced at least as low as the
wages of labor in England. The natural
price Of the manufacturing labor Of the
northern states is precisely the same as
the manufacturing labor of England,
and not cent more.
III.
tSpeoch Of Congressman LOWS, Of Alabnma.1
The average price Of farm labor in
the southern states Is not moro than
twenty-five cents q day; in the north,
fifty cents day. But for the operation
of the tariff laws this state Of things
would have been reversed.
Nv.
fSouthern Confederate Committee to Lord John
Russell.l
The principal cause which led the
southern states to secede from the north
ern was not slavery, but the high prices
which, for the sake of protection, tho
south was obliged to pay for manufac-
tured goods.
v.
tJohn Quincy Adams Report Of House Com
mittec on Manufactures.
The interest Of the south in identified
with that Of the foreign rival and COM
petitor Of the northern manufacturer,
and against him and for his ruin the
southern planter and British manufac-
turer are colleagued.
VI.
democratic National Platform, 1892
We declare it to be a fundamental
principle of the Democratic party that
the federal government has no constitu-
tional power to enforce and collect tariff
duties except for the purpose Of revenue
only.-New York Press.
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rTEAM BOILER.

Nlty tlcfk OUlCc,
City Hall, Aug. 20. 1892
Notice is hereby given that the board OF Aldermen
will I've In sesson In their chamber In the Civ Hall
on THURSDAY, Set. 1852, at O'Clock J.. NJ
when All persons interested In the petition OF Walter
Hughes Co, TO locate n steam Boiler near Man
ton avenue bridge, may appear and be heard
BY order OF the Board Of Aldermen,
WILLIAM u. CLARKE. City Clerk.
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TO LET
POWER.

Over streets about 55xs0, lighted on three sides,
with power. water steam heat, etc. Freight eleva-
tor. Also two good ONCE rooms on second floor.
Apply to J. A a II. A REID. cor. Dyer and Pine
streets.
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(ro BE coNTINUEp.)

10000 yards OF borders, ali widths and quail ties.
worth from 70 2oc per yard lie. per yard 70 close.
y. H. CADY. sos High street.
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Yet, tell the news In Gath and publish 1t
In the streets OF Askelon, since the South
ern Phiiistine lords have come into power
oy0r two millions have been stolen by
their State treasurers. How Is that for
high, old Democratic honestly Yea, IL Is
too high. aud the Republicans have not
attained unto II.
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IN the State of Rhode Island
the NEWS stands second in
circulation. first in Influence
and Representative character