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Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-09-29

One OF the addresses delivered during
the progress OF the three great meet
ings held Tuesday that will bear the
careful study of interested republicans,
is the admirable address of President
Patton. He reviews the work already
accomplished by the League clubs and
points out the advantages to be secured
by continuance of the work. 1t is a
paper that may be read and re-read
with profit.
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-09-29
OUR SHARE OF TAXES.

The Amount Kent Couny Wsn Pay 70
the State.
The clerk OF the board of superyls-
ors has received from the auditor gen.
eral statement Of tue amount Of
state tax apportoned 10 Kent county
nnder tue various acts of tho legislS-
ture. The several amounts. are as fol-
lows:
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-09-29

Members Of the Young Mems Lycsum
pleasantly surprised George V. SD
clair at his residence on Central ave
nue. Tuesday evening. About thirty
eve friends assembled 20 help him eel
citrate BIS 2ist birthday and zee him
pleasantly started a mas estate.
The head0nsrters Of the democratic
county committee are vel supPhed
with literature designed q prove that
The tariff = tai ard q tell she farm
ers Why thsy shonld vote fer "Cleve
and steve.
The republican county COMMITTEES
~ s0on have = quantity - Etho-
graphs ~ psrty leaders, ehach W. be
dIssrlha led.
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-09-29

IN the heat Of "impsssioned elo-
queneo" men sometimes say things
which CRATE harshly on the ears OF
their listeners. but the average listener
has learned to take the average cam
paign tEunder at its true worth. In
this campaign there is no justification
for the use OF billingsgate. The prin-
ciples involved are too weighty to be
weakened by Indulgence in personal
venom leveled at the regularly nom-
mated candidates OF the opposition.
The principles of democracy are bad
enough TO exhaust every source Of
vehement denunciatlon and ridicule.
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-09-29

ANOTHER evidence of the continued
growth of Grand Rapids is TO be found
in her school enrolment as compared
with last year. This is perhaps the
most reliable criterion by which the
prosperity OF city may be Judged.
The city schools have just begun and
tho total enrolment SO far shows q
large increase over the corresponding
time last year. There is no other city
IN the state that shows the growth and
prosperity that Grand Rapids does.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-07-20
Projection Unconstitutional. >,

1t is one of the seemingly constitu-
tional Affections of the Democratic party
organization that whenever i. is unable
to defeat any policy of government to
which it is opposed it pronornces the
same unconstitutional. The Democ-
racy has pronounced protection "uncon-
stitutioral" in the tariff plank adopted
at Chicago. The Democrats declared
that the abolition of slavery was "un-
constitutional. Nevertheless slavery
was abolished. If there had been Demo-
Gratis during the Revolution they would
have declared separation from the
mother country unconstitutional, al
though no constitution was in existence
until the war for independence was over.
When it is remembered that the first
law signed by Washington as President
had for its object the raising of revenues
and the building up of industries by pro-
lection, the absurdity of the claim in
the Democratic platform is evident.
New York Press.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-07-20
The PennsyIvania Labor Trouble.

The iron and steel industries Of the
whole American nation are practically
suspended to-day. Forty thousand
workingmen have laid down their in
struments of toll and the fires of 620
mills have gone out. The women and
children dependent upon this army of
workingmen swell the whole number to
quarter of q million souls who have
relinquishcc even tho prospect OF gain
ing the food they necd for their bodies
tomorrow. And all this is to protect
256 OF their fellow laborers from a
change in the method Of computing their
earnings.
No reduction of wages was even
threatened with the lew scale propos ed
by the mill-owners. Only the remote
possibility of reduction was condi-
toned upon tho market for steel billets
dropping to S23 instead of S25.
Is there another government among
men where such sympathy has created
such perfect bonds of union among the
classes who labor as in America, with
her freedom and her institutions pro-
tected by republican form of govern
ment?
One glance at the awful condition of
English labor, at the suffering of tie
working classes under Russian despot-
ism, at the poverty and degradation of
Southern Europe, and then back again
to the scenes of American industry,
where labor and capital meet on equal
grounds and with equal independence,
and the American workingman can
thank God for the Republican party and
its principles of protection fer American
ndustrieS.-Mail and Express.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-07-20
FIGURES FOR FARMERS.
HOW THE M'KiNLEY LAW BENZ
FITS ACRICULTURlSTS
The Demagogic Efforts of Democratic
Newspapers to Turn the Homestead
strike Into IA Free-Trade Argument IS
Complete Failure.
Facts and Figures.

The organs of the party which Is now
before the country as the champion OF
the British or free-trade tariff theory
never cease their reiteration OF the as
| sertion that the Nc hinley tariff law has
not helped the farmer. A few official
figures will show how false that assump-
ton is.
BY the old law, the duty on imported
horses was 20 per cent. OF their value
AS horses were appraised much below
their real value, say from $50 to ) o, the
duty was not su llclent To check tho i'm
port of Canadian and Mexican horses.
The Mckinley law made the duty $50 u
head for all horses valued at less than
$3.50. and 30 per cent. al vllorem for
those OF that value. What has been the
result? During 1887. under the old law,
the value of horses imported was $2,0j2,-
$40, while during 1891, under the
Mckinley law, it was $l,073,S7y. That
is, the advance of the duty kept out of
our markets million dollars worth of
Canadian horses in 1891 an made room
for home raised horses to thai amount
The duty on cattle was raised To $40 per
head. The result has been that the inn
pOrtation fell from Sz0o,9(9 under the
old law, in 1889, to S12,S57 under the
Mckinley law, in 1891. The old duty on
barley was 10 cents bushel, but it was
raised TO 30 cents. The result has been
that the importation OF barley has fallen
from S6,2jS, 297 in 1889 TO ST. ,6Sl, 542 in
1891. That is, the keeping out of for
eign barley in 1891 made market for
A 1900, 900 bushels OF home raised barley,
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-07-20
Free Trade and the StecI-W orlxers

Steel billetS have been selling at
$22. 80 per ton That is equivalentfto a
cent and tenth pound. The duty on
imported steel costing more than a cent
a pound is half a cent pound or $40 on
a ton. That is quite sufficient TO pro-
tect the Ameri can against the COMPETE
ton OF the foreign manufacturer.
Being well aware of these facts, Mr..
Carnegie's workmen say: You have a
protection OF SO ton and you also
have the protection OF ocean and rail-
road freights. Beiuy thus effectually
sheltered from English, French, German.
and Belgian competition, you can afford
to pay us the old wages. 1t is not fair to
charge the consumer SO and pocket the
the proceeds yourselves, as our Demo-
cratic statesmen tell us you are doing.
We want our share.
The reply of the company is: "We adj
nit that we are not troubled by our for
eign rivals, but you lose sight of the
fact that domestic competition has driv-
en- down prices so much that the con-
sumer is not charged nearly all OF that
ten dollars extra you speak of. The
American steel he buys does not cost
him the foreign price with ten dollars q
ton added, but only three or four dollars
ton above the foreign price. More
steel Is being made in this country than
there are purchasers for. Many estab-
lishments. being in immediate need of
money, put their product on the market
at cut rates and have forced down prices.
There will be no change for the better
till some OF these competing concerns
go to smash or shut down, and the in
creased demand clears the market Of
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-07-20

to fill the unexpired term Of Attorney
General Daniel, and at the State cleo
ton OF that year, when the Republican
party OF Virginia was too demoralized
to put ticket In the field, was elected
Attorney General without opposition.
receiving 100,9S2 votes.
He attracted general attention by tho
bitterness OF some of his speeches dur
ing the Presidential campaign OF 1880.
On one occasion, after quoting from
Gariields Toledo speech of the preced-
ing year the passage in reference to the
terms on which the Republican candi-
cate for the President was willing to
grasp any rebels hand across any
chasm, however small" General Field
cried out:
You can never expect to clasp the
hand OF General Garfield IL he should be
elected thes President. for you could
never make the required admission, be-
cause we OF Virginia fought the war
upon conviction of right and in obedi-
ence To the requirements OF the State,
and had no admission to make incon-
sistent Herewith. We killed a great
many Yankees duriug the war, and /
wish we had killed twice as many more,
enough to have given us the victory and
our cause success.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-07-20

A Richmond dispatch says: The NOM
ination of James G.. Field for Vice Pres
ident by the Peoples Party Convention
was a surprise throughout Virginia.
While he had been mentioned for the
position, it was believed here that his
chances would be killed by the aspira-
tons of Col. Robert Beverly, one of the
delegates from Virginia, who went to
Omaha fully determined TO capture the
Vice Presidency IL il came to the South
General" Field was born i'm Walnut,
Culpeper County, Va, on Feb. "a, 1926.
He traces his ancestry back to tho
Fields from whom are descended also
the four famous brothers, David Dudley,
Stephen j., Cyrus w and Henry NJ.
Field. After attending a classical
school for time, he became teacher
but in 1S48 joined the train of the Argo-
nauts, and for two years lived in Cali
fornia. In 1850 he was elected one of
the secretaries Of the convention that
framed the first Constitution of that
State. He returned to Virginia in the
same year, and in 1852 was admitted to
the bar, where he achieved considerable
distinction. From 1860 to 1865 he
served as attorney for the Com
monwealth in his native county,
Culpeper. He was also in active
service during the war, holding the rank
Of Brigadier General in the Confeder-
ate army, and losing a leg at the battle
of Slaughter's Mountain. In August,
1877. he was appointed by Gov. kemper
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-07-20

NEW YORK PRESS: There is only
one party in American politics capa-
bic Of deliberate calculation as to the
amount of partisan capital to be
made from the shocking events at
Homestead. The same element in
the Democracy that took advantage
Of every disaster to the Union cause
during the rebellion to denounce the
war as failure and attack the gov
eminent that was nobly trying to re-
unite the shattered nation is now
pointing gleefully to the bloody col
lision on the banks of the Monon-
gahela and declaring that it was
brought about by the system OF pro-
lection to American industries. The
malignant assaults of the I'M Ameri-
can faction will meet with the same
results now that they did thirty
years ago. In spite Of traitors at the
rear and hostile armies at the front
the nation put down the rebellion
and indicated the cause of union
and freedom. So, in the present
campaign, the protective system will
triumph over the falsehoods and vim
dictive hatred Of the advocates of
Confederate free trade. The charge
that protection is the cause of the
labor troubles at Homestead, freely
made by free-trade demagogues and
Democratic organs Of a certain class.
is absurdly false. 1t is true that in
one sense protection has made such
troubles possible. But for protection
there would be no strikes in the iron
and steel industry, for there would be
no such industry in America. But
to hold protection responsible for the
outbreak of passion and lawlessness
at Homestead is sheer folly, as none
know better than the INSCRIPTIONS
agitators that make the claim. In
dustrial disturbances, contests in
some form between organized labor
and capital, have always occurred
where great industries existed. So
long as human nature remains what
it is they will continue to occur. For
troubles of this kind impartial arbi-
tration is the best, as il is often the
only just remedy. If both parties
had consented to arbitrate their diff
ferences the terrible scenes of
Wednesday would never have taken
place.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-07-20
-Chlcago Inter Ocean.

which was bought abroad in 1889. Eggs
were free under the old law, but duty
of 2 cents a dozen was imposed hy the
present. With no duty $2,O71 GA worth
of eggs came into our markets from
Canada in 1889, but only $3.50, 497 worth
when the duty was applied. The duty
on hay was increased from So TO "a per
ton, and the result has been that the
importation has fallen from 81, 1873, 1872
worth in 1889 to $451 1922 in 1891. The
duty on flaxseed and linseed was in
creased from 20 to 30 cents a bushel.
During 1889, with the lower duty, ST.
49,, 736 worth of these articles were inn
ported, while only $3.50, 4t9 worth came
into the country in 1891 under the
higher Mckinley duty. This list might
be extended, but these items tell the
story. That the good results of higher
protection for the American farmer may
be clearly presented to the eye and
mind, let the above official figures be
grouped as follows:
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-07-20

surplus stocks. Thor prices will adj
vance and wages can go up. Or Inn
provements and economies may be I'm :
troduced in the manufacture which will
enable better wages to be paid though
the price of the product does not adj
vance" This, in effect, is the reply of
the employer to his men.
There is no question that domestic
competition has forced prices down till
steel sells for six dollars ton below
the protection of the tariff rate, or for
only about four dollars more than IL
does in Europe. But assuming that AT
price OF $22.50 per ton the steel manu-
facturers could afford to continue pay
ing the old wages, and that the work.
men are justified in fighting against a
cut, who is ready TO assert that the
former could continue To pay the old
wages If the protective duties were re-
pealed, and steel costing SIS n ton in
England were sent here by the shipload
to compete with Pennsylvania steel? II
the American manufacturers had to ask
20 per cent. less than they do now in
order TO meet foreign competition, how
long could they keep on paying present
wages?
1t is clear that domestic competition
nus gone 30 lur IndJ III III uocS HOO JUSTLY
cut in wages it is on the verge of
doing so. Evidently the result of
foreign competition, il it were given free
scope, would be IL heavy reduction in
wages. And in view of the stubborn
ness with which steel manufacturers re-
fuse to keep on paying old wages when
they get but $22. 90 ton for their steel,
it is easy to see how fixed their deter
mination would be not 10 pay the pres
ent wages if they got but about SIS u
ton.
If the present fight over a compare
lively small reduction is so serious in
its nature, imagine the gravity of the
situation when the removal of protection
demanded by a Democratic platform
called imperatively for much heavier
reduction. And if small reduction in
the wages of a few thousand men in one
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-07-20

UNDER the Cleveland administra-
tion the United States public land
laws were virtually nullifled and
Western immigration greatly checked.
During the entire administration only
A, 443 land patents on agricultural
lands were issued, while during the
Harrison administration 231, 607 have
been issued. These patents are to
individuals and represent actual set
Elements. The Democratic platform
approves the paralyzing policy pur-
sued during the Cleveland admins
tration and says, ave pledge our
selves to continue this policy" 1t is a
policy that is distinctly hostile to the
development Of the West.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-07-20

INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL; The cour-
age of those calamityites at Omaha,
who spent the Fourth of July in de-
claring that the country is on the
ragged edge of starvation, when Kan
sas wheat-growers were calling for
help to take care OF their great har-
vest, and the volume of business and
industry was never so large, is OF the
quality which the bull possessed
when he attacked the locomotive.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-07-20

MAIL AND EXPRESS: Democratic
newspapers are endeavoring to make
political capital out Of the fact that
Mr.. Carnegie is a Republican, but
what this has to do with the Presi-
Dental contest it is difficult to under
stand. Mr.. Carnegie says he is pro-
tectionist and Republican. He has
had difficulties with his workmen,
but employers of labor in free-trade
England recently have had several
lockouts, and it is but a few years
ago that William l.. Scott, the &C
knowledged leader Of Cleveland's
forces, had protracted contest with
tens Of thousands Of his coal miners.
Mr.. Scott was a free-trader and a
Cleveland man, and was really one of
the active managers Of Cleveland's
campaign. Democratic newspapers
which are attacking the Republican
ticket because of the Carnegie diff
Guilty must have short memories or
think their readers have forgotten
the history Of the events Of the past
few years. Mr.. Scott and Mr.. Car
negie, as employers Of men, had their
own business interests to care for.
If Mr.. Carnegie violates the law he
can be punished and the same law
that will punish him for its violation
also promises him security in the pos
session and control Of his property,
and provides for the safety of his en-
plOyeS.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-07-20

PRESIDENT HARRISON has been
strenuous in his efforts TO secure for
the colored voter the same treatment
that is accorded TO the white voter,
and the Democratic press is to-day
making those efforts the occasion of
attacks on the Republican party. If
every colored voter in the Northern
States, where his franchise can be ex-
ercised without danger, will cast his
vote for the benefit Of his race it will
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-07-20
What VIII the south DO?

Under protection the iron industries
of the South, which has great natural
advantages in the proximity Of ore, coal
and fluxing material. are developing so
rapidly that they threaten to revolution
ize the iron trade of the country.
Under reciprocity the demand for cot
ton, which is the great agricultural crop
of the South but which has recently been
a glut in the market, has enormously in
creased.
Look at this table:
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-07-20

THE st. Louis Globe-Democrat
treats as absurd the suggestion that
Massachusetts,, Ohio and Iowa should
DE placed on the list of doubtful
States 1t says the fact is that "the
Republicans have much better
chance of carrying West Virginia
and North Carolina than the Demo-
Gratis have Of carrying any Of the
three States mentioned" But how
about the Republican chances of
having West Virginia and North
Carolina counted for them even if
they carried them?
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-07-20

IN accepting his nomination IN
1884, Mr.. Cleveland said that, to
make suffrage free and interrupted,
no means would be more effective
than an amendment to the constitu-
ton disqualifying the President from
reelection Yet Mr.. Cleveland ac-
copied a second nomination in 1888,
and third in 1892. An ounce OF
example is worth ton Of precept.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-07-20

THE Democratic candidate for Vice
President pleads that his greenback
record and his war record were made
so long ago that they ought to be for
gotten. The prayer for oblivion is a
very common Democratic petition.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-07-20

HARPERs WEEKLY takes this
cheerful view OF the situation from
the Democratic standpoint: ut is a
happy fortune that voters who hold
Mr.. Clcveland's Jews have in him "a
candidate altogether acceptable"
This seems all very nice. But, un-
fortunately for Mr. Cleveland, there
are not enough voters Of his way Of
thinking to make him President.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-07-20

result in the reelection of President
Harrison, who can be relied upon to
do Justice TO all citizens, regardless
of their color, in Northern and South
ern States alike. This is lesson
which it will be well for colored
voters in the doubtful States to bear
i'm mind
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-07-20
Imported in Imported in

: Thus it appears that the increased
duties of the Mckinley law have re-
duced the value Of those half-dozen ar
ticles purchased abroad from 5,911,-
164 to S4,619. 006, or 81 1892, 1873, which is
over 20 per cent. VIII anybody assert
that a market which is broadened SILL
292, 600 is of no value to the American
farmer
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-07-20

THE Kansas City Times says that
mo man is as big as his party" What
occasion had that paper for making
so cruel a reflection on Grover Cleve-
land and the other leaders of the De-
mOcracy?
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-07-20

SOME Western Democrats will need
mighty long-legged pants by the time
they successfully straddle the party's
silver plank.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-07-20

ATTENTION is again called to the
fact that the first plank adopted by
the Chicago Convention by way Of a
platform was a bit of timber from the
old Confederate constitution.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-07-20

trade causes so great a commotion,
imagine the effect of great cut first in
the millions of men engaged in all the
protected industries in the United States;
and second in that of the multitudes of
men employed in building trades, ira IS
portation, and other businesses. The
Homestead mill trouble would be as a
molehill to Mount Vesuvius in an erup-
tion.-Chicago Tribune.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-07-20

THE Democratic organs are over
doing the "force bill" racket. They
can't scare even themselves, to say
nothing Of frightening the country.
Even if there were a force bill this
hysterical shrieking would soon
make farce bill out Of it.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-07-20

CANDIDATE CLEvELAND's war rec
ord and Candidate Stevenson's war
record are exactly alike, except that
Mr.. Cleveland sent substitute.