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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-03-09
Wool and the Revenue.

That troublesome question about the
revenue remains. The Democrats do
not get rid of it by shutting their eyes,
nor by asserting that large increase of
revenue would follow reduction of du
ties. This, if true, means that imports
would increase; if duties of so per cent
on wooden goods yield $35,000,0 900, the
imports must more than double in or
der to get an increased revenue from
duties of less than 40 per cent. The
goods now imported, costing $40 900, 900,
are reckoned to represent 10000, 900
pounds of wool in the raw state. In or
der to get larger revenue from duties
Of less than 40 per cent. the imports
must be great enough to supplant $780,
900, 900 worth of goods and 100000, 600
pounds of raw wool, which should be
produced in this country. Nor is that
all. The duties on raw wool yield
Sc, 500, 900. To avoid decrease of reve-
nue. the imports of goods must be in
creased enough to yield Sal 100000,
which with duties averaging less than
40 per cent. would require the importa-
ton of goods costing in foreign ports at
least $4,000, 900. These goods would
represent consumption of 40, 000, 900
pounds of raw wool, or 100000, 900
pounds more than the present imports
represent. Neither growers nor manu-
facturers will consent to such increased
competition. Because the Democrats
dare not propose it, they are in trouble
about the revenue.
Wooden clothing costs less than half
what 1T cost In this country years ago.
but the consumption per capita has not
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-03-09

A SHORT time ago young Emperor
William wrote IN the visitors book at
Munich in Latin, "The supreme law of
the land is the kings will" little later
at the BTandenburg banquet he shout
ed, Him who bars my way [ viii dash
TO pieces" and the other day he deliv-
cred a defiant harangue to the effect
that those who don't like his style OF
governing should shake the dust Of the
Fatherland from their feet and 60 else
where. Suppose that the friends of
constitutional government should meet
IN Berlin one Of these days, as such
friends have been known TO do on more
than one occasion heretofore, and re-
solve that I'VE, the people Of Germany,
in order TO establish justice, insure do
mesdc tranquility and secure the bless
Ings Of liberty TO our posterlty, do or
dain and establish a republican form
Of government, etc. 1t is conceivable
that the persons shaking the dust of
Germany from their feet might include
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-03-09
hypnotism in Belgium.

The first land which has undertaken
the legal regulation Of the practice of
hypnotism is Belgium. A few days ago
the legislature adopted law, which, in
all probability, will serve as a model for
legislative action OF other countries. It
declares that anyone who exhibits pub.
licly person hypnotized by himself or
others will be punished by
Imprisonment ranging from two
weeks to six months and be
fined from s. to 5000; that anyone
not in possession Of physicians diplo-
ma who hypnotizes a person under 20
years of age, or not in the full possession
of his faculties, will be punished by i'm
prisonment and fine, whether the sub
ject be exhibited or not; and that anyone
who allows hypnotized person to sign
a document or other paper, whatever
its nature, with the object of fraud, will
be punished by Imprisonment. The
same penalty threatens person
who attempts to use a document signed
by one while hypnotized. The people
of Belgium have welcomed the adop-
ton of the new law.-BerLin Letter.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-03-09
Bound TO Obey Orders.

Dr.. Batty luke. the eminent Edin-
burgh psychologist, had a laughable
experience the other day. a Scotch
laborer was engaged IN the grounds of
the Doctors asylum, near Edinburgh,
and had received instructions TO pay no
attention W hatever to the remarks of
the patients who noticed him. Some
time after, Dr. luke, looking at the
progress of the work, mildly suggested
an alteration. The workman dug
stolidIy on and never lifted his head.
The Doctor raised his voice; the man
dug theoretically. The Doctor threat
ened, stormed, and finally Numbered
out: "Do you know who | am ?''
The son of the soil Strengthened his
back, looked at HIM for a minute, and,
shaking his head sorrowfully, ex-
claimed: "Puir, deleerious cratur,
Pm sorry for ye - and went on calmly
with his work.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-03-09

THE Canadian Parliament is called
upon to increase the appropriation for
the support of lepers. We have news
of two leper colonies in the British
American provinces, one of them as
far west as Victoria, on the Pacific, the
other as far east as New Brunswick, on
the Atlantic. There are at this time
half dozen lepers in the Victoria
lazaretto; there are twenty-five in the
New Brunswick lazaretto. We believe
that all of those in the former are
Cinnamon, but there are Canadians in
the other. The dread disease does not
increase to an alarming degree in either
place, but new cases of it turn up from
time to time. We had two cases of
leprosy last year In the United States
both of them Cinnamon who had come
here from Canada, and who were sent
back there. 1t is a thing of which
there will always be danger as long as
Cinnamon can worm their way into this
country
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-03-09

TIE present Chinese exclusion law is
not working we'll. In San Francisco
last week thirty-three Cinnamon failed
to appear for trial before the United
States commissioner. and their bonds of
ST, 800 each were forfeited. Within the
last two or three months 173 such cases
have been defauIted, making the hand
some sum of $3.50, 800 due the govern
ment But not one dollar of those
bonds can be collected, and the China
men and their bondsmen are learning
TO regard the law as huge farce.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-03-09

Mn. BLACKBURN, of Helena, who has
been on visit to st. Louis, told a re-
porter Of the Globe-Democrat that the
present winter has been the most re-
markable one experienced IN Montana
since the state was settled. There has
been no snowfall except two light fur
ries, which melted away in few hours.
Usually there is snow enough to kill
many cattle, and sometimes the loss is
very serious, but Mr.. Blackburn had not
heard Of the death Of a gingle head of
stock from the weather this winter
From observations of twenty years in
Montana be believes that the season is
changing. and that the snow comes lat
er than formerly.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-03-09

THE eagerness with which humanity
purchases phantom fortune has been
fttingly illustrated by the resent rush
for Creole, Col. 1t almost equals in
magnitude and turbulency the rush for
California in the days of %, and the
scenes Of olden times are being repro
duced with yigor that promises start
ling reading at no distant date. The
pity Of it is that there is so little foun-
dation Tor the congregation of gold
hunters there, and that so many will
leave the place poorer than when they
went there
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-03-09

TIE spirited people of Connecticut
don't propose to be left out of the
Worlds Fair because the legislature
failed to make an appropriation. The
governor called convention, which met
at Hartford February %. and appointed
I board Of commissioners, who will i'm
medistely proceed to raise the neces-
s,arv funds
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-03-09

GIDEON MARSH has turned up again.
this time in Brazil. If this is really and
truly he, some of the officers should
get move on themselves and take him
before he gets any further away. the
story Of what he knows about official
malfeasance in Pennsylvania, and the
tale of his wanderings would make in
teresting reading.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-03-09

VIE police of Vienna have stopped
the Nolkspresse from distributing food
to the poor on the ground that the as
semblages constitute public danger.
The suppression of Tolstoi IS another
indication of the imperial idea that the
danger Of letting the people get we'll
fed and risky is one to be avoided at all
!,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-03-09

HOWEVER inconyenient, from a gov
eminent point Of view. may be the
number of assertions from our army
and the difficulty of obtaining recruits
for the British military forces, it is very
significant of the social and industrial
progress OF that age that the conditions
of q soldiers life are less alluring than
fhev we're
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-03-09

THERE is famine in Southern Mexico, in
Western Russia, in Northeastern China,
N the Indian Presidency of Bombay
and in several parts of Northern AFRICA.
There ought not to be famine, or fam
fishing people in any country of the
world IN this Nineteenth Century.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-03-09
Canada's Trade Coming Our Way.

OTTAWA, Feb. 19.-The exports Of the
United States to Canada for the year
1891 are shown in the trade tables just
issued by the minister of customs.
Perhaps no better way of showing how
the United States is pushing Great Brit
ain in this important market can be
found than by giving the official table Of
the value of goods imported by Canada
from Great Britain and the United
States during the last eighteen years,
as follows
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-03-09

WHILE our cities are becoming more
and more unnaturally congested, farm
ers in Western Safes assert that it was
never so difficult to obtain agricultural
laborers. Farmers in Iowa and Illinois
offer SIS to 500 month, with board
yet hear that there are $4,000 men lack
ing work in Chicago.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-03-09

THERE is as much sincerity in the de-
sire expressed by congressman to get
rid Of their power for patronage as
there is in the rich mans wall that
wealth Is a burden, and that poverty is
essential to happiness.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-03-09

the boastful young Emperor himself.
Between despotism on the one hand
and anarchism on the other, the Ger
man people are being forced on in the
direction of republic whether they
wish it or not. The affairs of the en-
pire appear to be nearing the crisis very
foC
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-03-09

PRESIDENTIAL candidates in Guatemala
are dealt with in a summary manner by
the existing chief executive. He puts
them out of the way instead of merely
using his appointes to obtain votes for
him. We are more refined in our
~, atb15S
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-03-09
The Manner in Which the Tariff Lowers
Prices.

Prices.
To THE EDITOR OF THE TRIBUNE. Sir
In the Weekly Tribune Of December 90.
1891, L. G. HOrr says: ''He also knows
that in little while American ingenuity.
ETC., etc, will produce and sell cheaper to
the final consumers than had the industry
never been established in this country.
He knows that these things Will follow be-
cause exactly such things have followed
IN many hundred of instances" Will Mr..
Horr please name twenty or thirty of these
instances in which the consumers are now
getting products cheaper than they could
getthem from abroad. if we had free trade :?
And also say why such products should
not now be admitted free, if we are now
underSeIling the foreign articles at their
cost of production abroad? | am strong
DrOtectlOnlSt and hope your answer may
silence some carping fools. Yours re-
Spectfully, EDWIN S. COLLAMER.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Dec. rs, 1891.
Mr.. Collamer calls upon me to name
twenty or thirty articles which consum-
ers are buying at a cheaper price than
they can buy them abroad, and asks if
we are now underselling the foreigners,
why should not all such articles be put
on the free list That, again, is precisely
the manner in which a free trader al
ways states the case. | am surprised
that good proteCtiOniSt could have
been deceived by free trade Juggling of
words and induced to ask the question
in that form.
Let me repeat once more Ct am glad
to do it) jVst what protectionists do
claim. We claim that when we have
the materials in this country out of
which to produce any given article
economically, or when we can get such
materials as cheaply as the foreign
manufacturer can, and when, owing to
the cheap labor of the Old World,
which gives the foreign manufacturer
an advantage N cheap production, that
particular article has never been pro-
duced in this country, in such case,
understand, we claim that by placing a
duty on the imported article, at such a
rate rs will make up for the difference
in the cost of labor and give our home
producers an advantage in our home
markets, then, by the levying of such q
duty, the industry will be built up in
the United States and this protection
always results in the production
and sale of the article at a
price lower than it was selling
at when we levied the duty, and in all
probability lower than it would then be
selling at had we produced none of that
article in this country. Is not that a
definite proposition? Is it in any way
hard to comprehend? Is it true? That
proposition does not for d moment claim
that the foreign producers will not also
cheaper their price for the same article.
If we cheaper the goods for our own
consumers, the result Is that the price
is cheapened all over the world. THAT
fact is not TO be urged against the pro-
tective system, but should be named to
its credit.
| two
thirty articles which are selling at 8
lower price than they were when the
duty was levied, and which have been
constantly growing cheaper and
cheaper, notwithstanding the duty :?
Certainly l can. Here is the list:
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-03-09
Tariff Illustra atoms.

Since the Mckinley tariff passed
Henry Graham, d manufacturer of pearl
buttons, Newark, \. j., has invented
process Of decorating, in consequence
of which the former price of
S125 per gross
for large decorated buttons has been
reduced to $50 per gross
eNHxN
for an equally desirable domestic but
ton. What tax the tariff has proved
itself in this case to be sure
General Francis A. Walker, free trade
political economist, admits that protec-
ton gradually increases wages in the
protected Industries, but says that the
farmer pays the increase. How do the
facts bear out that assertion? Here are
two facts that do not:
The English laporer consumes only
SAP
worth of our agricultural produce per
capita annually; the American laborer
$4,000
nAA
per capita. OF course, the Englishman
consumes more from somewhere, but
he doesn't get it from here. The figures
show who is the American farmers
best customer. Is it likely that to shut
up Americas protected factories and
reduce the American wageworker's ca
pa city to consume would enable the
Britisher to become as good consumer
and to take his place?
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-03-09

AN etiquette authority says: ga WELL
bred girl nowadays doesn't loIlop. %
The almost-forgotten word means to
move heavily, or lounge around.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-03-09
THE ISSUES OF THE DAY.
GOODS WHICH HAVE BEEN
CHEAPENED BY PROTECTION.

CRnada's Trade Coming Our WaE-WooI
and Revenue-Shoddy Emports-Rome
Record for I89l-Pertinent Suggestions
for the SOuth-1Ilustration
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-03-09
Imports of Shoddy,

If one wishes to see a practical illus
tration Of the effect Of an increased
duty on shoddy imports, let him glance
over these fioures.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-03-09

certainty can. here is the llSt:
Steel rails. Paper,
Cut nails, both steel Paper and wood pulp,
and iron, Starch,
Wire nails, Salt
wire, Soda ash,
Cotton ties Plate glass.
Bar iron, Common window glass,
Cutlery, GoDlets,
Hoes, Glass lars,
Shovels. Tea cups and saucers,
Axes, Plates
Scythes. Bowls,
Cotton cloth, Earthenware
Calico, HorseShoes,
Ginghams, HorsenalIs,
Thread Hats and caps,
Yarn, MittenS.
Flannels and blan- Pitchforks,
keJs. Curtains,
Underwear, CARPETS,
Silks and ribbons, Tapestry,
Stockings, And many others
Shoes,
I could readily double this list from
memory. The price these articles used
to bring and the price they are selling
at now are q matter of memory also
with me. will defy any free trader
to name single article, not luxury,
which we are. manufacturing in this
country, and is protected by duty,
which has not been cheapened in the
same way. ] mean, of course, any arti-
Gle that we have been producing for q
length of time sufficient to get our fac
tories we'll in hand. My first PROPOSE
ton is true beyond all question. 1t is
not a question Of theory, but a simple
question of fact. The facts are all on
my side of the case.
Now comes the second question:
Would this cheapening process have
been the same had we never produced
the articles in this country? [ answer,
No. Why not? For many reasons.
a. The supply of such goods would
L IL j..
to keep prices up. Any increase in the
goods by creatinga sharper competition.
(2.) So long as no such articles were
produced in this country American in
genuity. system and funds would not
and could not be utilized IN perfecting
machinery and inventing new methods
Of production. g. More than that,
the history Of the past proves the cor
rectness of my position.
Now comes the last question Of Mr..
Collamer: eff we are now underselling
the foreign producers Of those articles,
why not put them on the free list ?"
The reason is that we do not claim to
be able to produce protected goods as
cheaply as they can be produced in the
Old World. So long as Americans pay
more than twice as much per day for
we must protect our manufacturers
against foreign cheap labor, or else re-
duce the pay of our workers to level
with the wages paid in the Old World,
or else shut up our shops and go out Of
the manufacturing business altogether.
The free traders say, "Of course, shut
up the shops" The protectionists say,
mo, keep them open and keep them
running" If we shut them up our
own people will be thrown out of en-
ployment. Our consumers will be in
the power Of foreign producers. The
supply will be diminished, the price of
the goods will again be advanced, and
the ruin of this country will surely fol-
low.
The first object of protection is not to
make the price of goods high or low.
The first object is to put American
manufacturers in such a position that
they can do business prosperously, pay
the high wages customary in this coun-
try and hold the home market in the
United States against the foreign manu-
facturers who pay low wages. 1t is just
as necessary to keep the duty on steel
rails when they are selling tor $50 ton
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-03-09

worth of our agricultural produce pei
capita annually; the American laborel
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-06-16


Wheat Easier and Corn Easy-ExceedingI
Light Inspections.
On Change yesterday wheat and oats
were easier, and corn easy. There were
inspected in four carloads of wheat, six of
were as follows:
Wheat-No. 9 red. s2c; No. red. 200;
Corn-No. 1 white, sic; No. 2 white. Soc;
white mixed, 49c: No. white, 49G50c.
latter for one color; No. yellow. 41c;
No. yellow, 46c: No. mixed. 4ic; No.
mixed, soc; ear, 4Sc.
Oats-No. 2 white. S5lsc; No. white.
54lac: No. 2 mixed. 32lz C: rejected, 2s03Oc.
Hny-TimOthy, choice, $3.50; NO. l.. SE2;
No. 2. s10.25; No. 1 prairie. S.; No. 2, $3.50;
mixed hay. g.; clover, IS.
Bran, I'll per ton.
POULTRY AND OTHER PRODUCE
Ponltry-Hens. Sc - fb: young chickens.
12dl4c II ID; turkeys, fat, choice hens. 12c
q 10 and &c for fancy young toms; ducks,
&c ID; geese. $3.50 for choice.
Eggs-shippers paying l2c.
Butter-( hoice country. grass butter, 10c;
common. case; creamery retailing from
store at PC.
Cheese-New York full cream, 13014c;
skins. SAFE II ID. tJobbing prices)
Feathers ;, geese. S5c ~ Id; mixed
Beeswax-Dark. S5c: yellow. 400 (selling
price,; dealers pay lsa zoe.
WoOl-Merchanrs can now afford to pay
for the new clip fine merino 16c. with one
third discount on bucks feeces: coarse
woe, la lec; Medium. zoe: black, bury.
colts. chotfy and broken, l5'017c.
HIDES. 3GiioIr. Etc.
Hides-Hide market dull and declining.
No. green hides. 3l2c: No. = green hides.
Che; No. l q. 3. hides, 44c; No. q. 5.
hides. Size; No. 1 tallow. 4c; No. 2 tallow.
Size.
Horse Hides-s29o.50
Tallnw-No. !. 44c; No. 2 Sac.
Grease-White. 2'4c; yellow. &c; brown,
pisc.
Bones-Dry. s12alS ~ ton.
PRODUCE. FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
Cherries-s6 for two-bushel stand.
New potatoes. $3.50 per brL.
New peas. 81 II bu; new beans, Sl25
y bu.
Cucumbers-35c p doz.
Apples--Fancy, IS T. barrel.
Caulfiower. $3.50 p doz.
New Vegetables - Tomatoes. S275 ~
bushel crate; onions, 12l2c - dOz; lettuce.
Sc; broccoli. sl.s5 to brl; radishes, 12l2c 81
dOZ.
Cabbage-MobiIe. $3.50 per crate.
Peaohes-One- half bn crate. S1.50.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ID bu.
Currants-s22 s62.5O4 - bu.
Oranges-Messinas 1ulI box, 81. $50 4. so:
bait box. s2.5O02.75; CALIFORNIA;. S4250
Lemons-Choice. $3.50 ~ box; fancy,
S4.25Q450
Bananas-Sl42 - bunch according to
size and quality.
Pineapples-s2625O y doz.: small. 81. so
41.55-
Potatoes-Indiana, SIC u bu from car.
Michigan. from store. 6jc
OnionszYellow. $3.50 T. brI, 6. 40 ~ bn.
Cider-Duffy pure. 81 per trade brI.
Oliver Bros. sand refined. s55Oa5.75 ~ hrl:
half bris. sS.25oS.50; Carson's New York
pure, $3.50 - brl: half brls. 81 so
Maple Sugar-S5 ID boxes. 901Oc; in
bricks, &C.