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The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-10-05
The Good Old Times.

Despite all the talk about the hard
ships of the farmer, he is king COM
pared to his father or grandfather.
If he doubts, let him hunt up the old
gentleman's day book of forty years ago
and note the prices then.
bushel of wheat would buy q of a
barrel of salt; it will now buy two bar
rels.
A bushel of com would buy TX
pounds of sugar; to-day it will buy l2&
pounds
Ten pounds of butter bought S3M
yards of cotton cloth then; now it pur-
chases 4Sh yards
Ten pounds of cheese were worth 25
pounds of nails; the cheese now pays
for "a pounds of nails.
A pound of washed wool grown ten
years before the war would buy Is of a
barrel of salt 5-6 pounds of sugar, 8
a-3 yards Of cotton cloth or 10 pounds
of nails. To-day his own pound of
wool will pay for y of barrel of salt
s pounds of sugar, 81 yards of cotton
cloth and - pounds of nails.
These figures are based on New York
City prices. But as matter of fact he
never realized anything like those prices
In his local market.
Freights were high, and when the
cost of bringing produce to the New
York market was deducted from New
York prices for farm produce, and the
cost of bringing the merchandise from
New York to the village store at which
he traded was added to the price of
what he bought, the average farmer
was really not more than half as well
off ten years before the war as our fig
ures would indicate.
For instance, in 1857 it cost 2514 cents
to bring bushel of wheat by the
cheapest roIte from Chicago to New
York; in 1891 it cost less than six cents.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-10-05
A PERNlCIOUS CUSTOM.
An Exaggerated Form OF Hospitality and
Its Terrible Results.

An exaggerated rOrm OF hospitality ana
It's Terrible Results.
The treating habit" is an exclu-
sively American custom, not existing in
any other country. AS . recent writer
says: at is hospitable vice, vice Of
kings, but vice just the same. that
has become dangerous as we'll as an
expensive nuisance" 1t is an exagger.
ated form OF hospitality, hypertro-
ply of good-fellowship. Just why q
man should consider it incum bent upon
him to take friend into the nearest
saloon and purchase drink of liquor
for him, as though he were an object
of charity no one can tell. And it is
equally unexplainable why the person
treated should deem it incumbent upon
himself to Immediately insist upon in
turn treating his friend, for probably
neither really desire the second drink,
and only imbibe it from an utterly mis-
taken sense of what is due under the
laws of hospitality.
1t is not too much to say that the
seless treating habit is responsible for
the greater part of the drunkenness in
this country. 1t is responsible for
starting thousands every year upon the
road to intemperance. A young man
naturally seeks the association of his
fellows Of evenings, when he is at
leisure. One insists upon having a
drink" and will take no refusal. The
victim yields, and, Of course, feels it
incumbent upon him to treat in his
turn. He thus becomes accustomed to
an occasional drink-and they become
far more frequent as time goes on. The
fearful evil of all alcoholic drinks is
that they create in the physical system
what is commonly described as the
drink thirst" 1t is a diseased con-
dition of the body in which there is an
unnatural craving for stimulus which
can only be allayed by more drink.
Thousands of men have INDUCED in
drinking as an occasional" habit I'M
til they found that they had this crav-
ing for alcohol fixed upon them. The
drink habit then becomes a per-
nanency. And when this happens, not
one in thousand but follows the same
road and arrives, sooner or later, at the
inevitable end-a drunkard's grave
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-10-05
An Inventor Honored.

Miss Cynthia NJ. Westover, who some
years ago invented an improved cart for
carrying earth out of mines and tun.
nels, has recently been noticed by the
French society of inventors. They have
made her an honorary member and
awarded her first-class diploma and a
gold medal. Miss Westovers mother
died when she was three years old, and
she became the constant companion OF
her father, who was geologist, mine
owner and prospector. She shared his
camp and mining life, and picked mp q
varied education and graduated from
the state Univ, rsity of Colorado.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-10-05

Surrounded by these conditions life
on the farm was hard indeed. Calico
and Kentucky jean had to do for Sun.
day garments, and an OK cart in which
to ride to church was the height Of
style
Luxuries for the table were almost
unknown; johnny-cake and salt pork
was princely diet
Those were days of hard times, when
the farmer Graded his grain and raked
and bound it by hand.
He toiled early and late, saved and
scrimped, and received less return for
week of hardest toll than the farmer
in 1899 receives for a single days
pleasant ride on a moving machine or
self-binder.
Let us have no more of such good
old times. American Economist.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-10-05
CLUB FIGURES.
They Show a Rapid Advance Along the
Road to Success.

They Show a Rapid Advance Along the
Road to Success.
May Wright Sewall, of Indianapolis,
discusses the National Federation OF
clubs in the Arena. The idea, she says,
originated in 1888 with the general
officers of the woman's council. The
following year, Sorosis issued invita-
tions for a convention of clubs to cele-
brate it's twenty-frst birthday ami
versary. About fifty clubs in the United
States sent delegates. The question
here took definite shape, and meeting
for organization was held in New York
in April, 1890, eighteen states being
represented. The first biennial meeting
held in Chicago in May, brought to-
gether representatives from nearly 200
clubs in thirty-two states. Most of these
women were of the conservative"
home-staying class, who have never
been identified with public movements.
Years of experience and development
are illustrated in the club life OF New
York. Sorosis, the first woman's club,
the Ladies' New York club and the
Womans Press club have altogether 600
members. Besides these are many
minor clubs, with art, music, philan-
thropy or social interests for their OBJ
ject. The working women OF New
York have twenty-four clubs, with
800 members, with club-rooms, Ii
braries, etc. The New England club,
of Boston, was organized about the
same time as Sorosis, and Julia Warde
Howe has been its president for twen-
ty-one years. To the efforts of this
club are due the horticultural school
for women, woman's educational and
industrial union, and various similar
organizations. The agitation for tho
Latin school for girls, the school suf-
frage law and the appointment of wom-
en- on school committees originated
with this club, which is noted also for
its literary work and social influence.
Boston is now city of club women, it
being the fashion whenever two or
three are gathered together for any
purpose to form club.
The New Century club, of Philadel.
phid, Oil "a VIC CSheShhAoA
exhibition, owns one of the finest club
houses in the country. Men are admit
ted to associate membership, but can
not vote. The Philadelphia womens
clubs are legion. The club idea was
slow in gaining a foothold in the south,
but it is now making rapid develop
ment. Georgia leads in number, while
New Orleans has the largest and most
influential club, with well.appointed
club house. Many of the southern clubs
are composed of both men and women.
Womens clubs are still in their in
fancy, according to the Arena writers.
who tell us they are destined to be an
ally of the higher education, to BE-
schools Of philosophy and agents Of
philanthropy. The clubs Of the future,
Mrs. Livermore thinks, will be COM
posed of both men and women, drawn
together by mutual respect and similar
tastes. Together they will study polit-
ical economy, municipal government.
scientific charity, compulsory and uni.
versal education, the labor question,
and the other social problems that even
now are crowding aside purely aesthetic
topics
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-10-05

If the free trade tariff of 1916 was the
best tariff our country has had, why
was it necessary, during the period that
this measure was in force, to open soup
houses for the relief of the poor in every
ward in New York City?
If the object of free trade is to in.
crease importations, and so says Senator
Mills, how are the wUrkingmen in Amer
lean factories going to be benefited by iti
If it is proper course for a city like
Birmingham, Ala, to raise fund OF
800, 900 in order to induce cotton mill
to establish itself at that place, is it not
inconsistent for the same city to oppose
protection, which alone makes the es.
tablishment of such mills possible?
Was Abraham Lincoln thief when
he signed the Morrill, tariff bill?
Is it not strange that England, a
country that never yet has lost an op.
portunity to slight our citizens or at.
tempt to bully our government, should
desire us to adopt free trade merely be-
cause we are not prospecting as fast as
our British cousins would like to see us
prosper, although we have already
beaten them in all their most cherished
fields Of industry?
Can the free traders pose as patriots
when their ticket is composed of two
men, both of whom hired substitutes.
and one of whom stumped his state to
show that Lincoln was fraud and the
war a failure?
If the Mills bill was farmers meas
ure, why did it abolish or greatly re.
duce the duties on nearly all the far
mers products, in the face of protests
and petitions from agricultural so
cieties all over the Union?
If reciprocity is step Sin the direc-
ton of free trade" how can it also be a
scheme to untax foreigners only?' Is
| free trade a scheme to untax foreign
| ers only?"
Who is more worthy the support OF
our laws, the importer who benefits
foreign capitalists and laborers, or the
manufacturer who gives employment
to our own citizens and causes money
to circulate among our own people?
II Mr. Charles Il. Peck, who, in his
official capacity as commissioner OF
labor of the State of New York, re-
ported that wages averaged higher for
the year after than for the year before
the passage Of the Mckinley tariff, is a
bold, bad prevaricator, utterly devoid
of intelligence and honesty, as the
mugwump and democratic papers make
him out to be since his report appeared
if he is all this, why did the ''honest, VI
patriotic" ''lofty-minded" Cleveland
appoint him to the Office he now holdsf
Is the democratic superintendent OF
the New York state banking depart
ment liar and traitor, too, because
he reported an extraordinary increase
in savings bank deposits since the Nc.
Kinley tariff took effect?
Why is it that the mugwump grows
Respondent in proportion as the pros
perity of American workingmen in
| creases?
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-10-05
FACTS AND FINDINGS.

THE Free church OF Scotland has 6S3
ministers, all of whom are abstainers,
and total membership Of nearly $4,000
teetotallers.
In London there is an increasingly
large number Of inquests over young
women whose death is clearly due to
alcoholic excess.
IT is said that league has been
formed among the students of the Uni.
versity of Pennsylvania TO do away
with wines at class banquets.
The breweries Of the District Of Co.
lumbia. for the year ending May I.
1892, sold 1884, barrels of beer, an in
crease of 17,04s barrels over 1891.
THAT a majority of the Presbyterian
churches use unfermentcd wine at
communions was declared to be fact
by the temperance committee Of the
Presbyterian general assembly at
Portland, Ore.
A Swiss JOURNALIST ascribes the &C.
centricities of Kaiser William to his
fondness for champagne suppers, and
quotes Greek proverb to the effect
that 'the wine-press is fountain OF
insanity"
THE "blind-pigger" is what they call
up in North Dakota the sneaking fell
low who goes around, in defiance Of
the prohibition law, with his jugs and
bottles of whisky, to the general de-
moralization of farm hands and other
workmen who, otherwise, would be-
have themselves and be good citizens.
A STRONG total abstinence movement
is in progress in the western provinces OF
Russia. In St. Petersburg there is said
to be an abstinence society with six
hNndred members. No less than eight
tea houses have been established in the
most important parts of the city, and
an inebriate asylum is also contem-
plated.
The money now paid to the liquor
saloons of New York and Brooklyn
every twenty months equals the cost Of
the nine years struggle for American
independence, save the small amount
since paid in pensions-the money cost
of these saloons being more than five
times that of the revolutionary war
and SIS, 900 more than were the
combined annual expenditures of both
parties in that contest
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-10-05

About year ago the youngest
daughters, Caroline and Harriet,
finished the law course at the univer-
sity, and are now associated with their
mother and sister. The firm is busy
one and each member does her part.
The junior members are not very active
as yet, but following the precedent OF
mother and sister, they will have their
opportunities. They are also pretty
girls at whom one looks gladly twice.
The firm now includes the names OF
Kate Pier, Kate H. Pier, Caroline Pier,
and HarrietPier, and its members are
demonstrating most clearly that they
are qualified to rank with men in the
learned and honored profession of law
Laura G. Smith, in Ladies' Home Jour
nal
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-10-05
ALASKA LIQUOR.
Counterfeit Whisky Sold to the Ignorant
Indians.

Inu1Ans.
The Indians of Alaska are orderly
and peaceable when sober, but when
drunk their brutality and indecency are
said to be almost beyond conception.
The traffic in liquor practically rem.
ders futile the work of the missionary.
In this connection it may not be out
of place to append the statement Of
barkeeper in leading Seattle hotel,
recently published in daily paper. 1t
gives an idea of the villainous com.
pounds that beings, calling themselves
men, furnish to those commonly, but
enormously, thought to be their infe.
riors. He is reported as saying:
"You have heard Of that whisky they
send to the Alaska Indians, haven't
you? Well, can't show You any such
stuff here, but l can give you my word
that it's cheap to make and profitable
to sell. l once worked for a wholesale
house that distilled such whisky for
the Indians, and the process is quite
simple. You buy the coloring matter
"a tasteless, thick, brown liquid-a
little of which will give the right tint
" good deal of water or alcohol. In
addition to this color the whisky is
made up of alcohol, glycerine, and per.
haps little curacao to improve the
flavor. You can make it right in the
shop, and no time at all is required to
age it. The cost should judge, is
about one dollar a gallon; the dealer
gets say two dollars and fifty cents for
it. and the Indians pay ten dollars.
The business is profitable At the
mining camps this kind Of whisky is
sometimes sold. If a man only keeps
the ingredients on hand he can make
it up for himself and save money
Washington Temperance Magazine.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-10-05
IN WOMAN'S BEHALF.
WOMANHOOD.

BY this We hold--no man is wholly great
Or sc, or just, or good
Who will not dare his all TO reinstate
Earth's trampled womanhood
Each village hath lis martyrs, every street
Some house that is he'll:
Some woman's heart, celestial, pure and sweet
Breaks with each passing bell.
There are deep wrongs, too infinite for words,
Man dare not hive revealed,
And. in our mid,, insane, barbaric hordes,
Who make tic law their shield.
Rise, Then, o womanl grasp the mighty pen
By ms, ir..,ion driven;
Scatter the sophistries OF blinded men
With voices fresh from Heaven
-Woman's Journal
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-10-05
He Couldn't DO Either.

The late Bishop Doare, of New
Jersey, was strongly opposed to prohi-
bition, and his sideboard was lined
with brandy, wine, etc. On one &C.
casion Rev. Mr. Perkins. of the Sons of
Temperance, dined with the bishop,
who, pouring out glass of wine, de-
sired him to drink with him.
Cant do it, bishop. Wine Is Q
mocker.'"
Take a glass Of brandy, then"
mo. Strong drink is raging"
BY this time the bishop, becoming ex.
cited, remarked to Mr.. Perkins: you'll
pass the decanter to the gentleman next
to you"
mo, bishop, I can't do that. Woe
unto him that putteth the bottle to his
neighbours lips Press
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-10-05

Does protection favor Especial inter-
ests?" Is it merely scheme to tax"
the masses for the benefit of the
favored few?' Is it really robbery
of the plain people" by the ''monopo-
list manufacturers" protected by our
tariff?
If it is, then indeed is the faith of the
protectionist very poor one, nor can
there be the least justification for such
system of extortion.
But ask the importer, alien as he is in
his business and too often alien, too, in
citizenship-ask him, as he laughs in
his sleeve and pockets the enormous
profits reaped by stimulating foreign
industries and giving employment to
foreign workingmen, whether protec-
ton or free trade favors especial inter-
estS."
Ask the capitalists and men with
fixed incomes, interested only in having
things Cheap" no matter who suffers,
if free trade favors no special inter
ests."
Ask the free raw material manufac-
turer, won over by selfish considera-
tons of individual advantage, whether
protection really only helps special
interests"
Ask these men, and then admire and
commend the righteous Indignation
with which they all oppose protection
for no other reason than because il IA
vors special interests"
Protection is too broad, too liberal,
too national system to favor any
special interest" in the free trade
sense of the term. 1t protects Ameri-
can labor anywhere and everywhere,
on farm and field, in forest and mine,
on ship and in factory.
But if to stimulate American indus
try, give motive to American enterprise,
and to American wealth and advocate
American doctrines and support for our
own citizens against the world-if that
Is favoring special interests, then, in
deed, does protection do so.
And We glory in it.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-10-05
SHORT TARIFF SERMONS.


Democratic Hnndicaps.
1--WE are handicapped by the general
prosperity of the country"
That was the despairing comment of
a prominent democratic chieftain upon
the report of the democratic labor COM
missioner Of New York.
1t reflects pretty accurately the sem
timents of the democratic managers
generally. Their stock in trade is ca
lamity. Prosperity is to them what
paris green is to potato bug-they
shrivel, shrink and die by its touch.
Handicapped by prosperity! Yes, in
deed, you are, democrats; and here is
brief outline of the weights you must
carry:
1. The report of the bureau of Stats
tics, showing, instead of strangled COM
merce, a foreign trade for 1892 larger
than ever before in our history; an ex-
port trade for the same year amounting
for the first time to billion dollars;
an import trade more than half of
which is absolutely free of duty, and
lower average tariff rate than under
the old law.
2. The report of the senate commit
tee showing that the average price of
214 articles of general consumption has
declined under the new tariff O64 of l
per cent. by one method of comparison,
l.S per cent by another, while in the
same time agricultural products have
advanced 1928 per cent, and general
wages have advanced 0.75 of per cent.
8. The report of Labor Commissioner
Peck, mentioned above, showing that in
the Empire State there was an increase
in the amount of wages paid during the
first year of the Mckinley tariff of
S6,377, 925 over the year before; that
production increased $31, 1915, 100, and
the average yearly earnings of employees
increased S2S. II in the same time, while
2s5,O0O individual employees had their
wages raised, and strikes were lao less
numerous.
| 4. The report of the democratic SUI
perintendent of the banking depart
ment of New York state, showing that
deposits in savings banks on July 1,
1892, had increased $50, 1882, 5l6.35 over
the deposits on January 1, 1889, while
the number of depositors has increased
from 1852, 1852 to 1856, 1873 in the same
time.
Here are four weights, one for each
leg of the democratic mule, to hamper
him in his hopeless race for the presi
Dental stakes. What show the ridicu
lous beast is making of himself, to be
sure.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-10-05
from the American Economist
l1HE TARIFF ! NOT .AsTAz!
THE POOR GIRLS Dress
\ wool and Cotton Dreas Goods.)

Lot wsek ws SAowsf her he we,kingmas MAJ not taxed
On Aa sont tishlG. The muvshss t,srnhd abosx per-
forms Lille duty /e, Ah daEghh,t S,eSs m no less true
qrptythiy he bys EUoypI,eAs"ht ~aAts dtmeasf,sit,
he rite, abiHrhy9 G,oyv Chpeiasf1 Tariff Tar TAss,y
Do not Jo,gtf that The d,sH i.s the bill ef sale and fem.
pthp ,oef Of TIE truth Of sHss say spsn 10 issefass
iS his e6fr.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-10-05
Another Mckinley Industry.

Scarcely a day passes that the news
papers do not chronicle some new til.
umph for the Mckinley tariff. The
latest fact which has been brought to
light regarding the working of the new
tariff law refers to the industry Of
down quilt making. Before the Nc
Kinley bill passed, 9S per cent of the
down quilts purchased in this country
were made in England. There was
only one manufacturer of these quilts
in the United States, and according to
a correspondent of the Rochester Demo-
crat and Chronicle, they cost $50 for the
finer and s12 for the cheaper grade.
Now, however, and under the stimulus
given to the industry by increased pro-
lection, there are six manufacturers Of
down quilts in this country, and 1000
persons are employed in the industry,
which is rapidly becoming quite an i'm
portant one And prices? Well, quilts
that formerly cost $50 now cost ST.,
while the s12 quilts have fallen 10 SO.
There is that in the history of the Nc
Kinley down quilt industry which will
bring tears of sorrow to the eyes OF the
| free trade "reformer."
In 1890 our imports of barley were
II, 1882, 545 bushels In 1891 imports fell
to 5,O7S,73S bushels, and they would
have been less but for the great rush of
barley from Canada in September be-
fore the new tariff passed. But the fis-
cal year ending June 80, 1892, was who'll
ly under the Mckinley law, and what
was the result? Simply that we i'm
ported only 3, 146, S37 bushels, decrease
Of s,1s6, 20s bushels, which represents
the increased market of homegrown
barley. Is this benefit OF an injury
to American farmers?
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1892-01-28
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