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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-09-01

factoriee-two in this country, eight on
the continent Of Europe and three In
Great Britain. Concerning the total
cost of rails in this country he said:
"The department has been positively
informed re alive to the cost Of making
steel rails in several OF the very largest
establishments in the United States,
and there Is no shadow of doubt in the
mind Of the writer that in these estab-
lishments the actual cost OF standard
steel is and has been for some time
within a few cents of $22 per ton at tho
works."
He found that the lowest cost OF pro-
ducing steel rails in England was about
SIS. This, then. is difference of 81,
to compare with the $13.44 duty on
ton of steel rails as left by the Mckinley
bill.
In computing the cost Of the labor,
Mr.. Wright followed the ore step by
step through every process of manufact-
ure up to the finished rail. adding the
labor cost Of producing the materials to
the labor cost Of each change.
His results put in tabular form are as
follows:
Labor cost in this country. 81 .597
Labor cost In Great Britain. ............. 78l7
Labor cost on the continent: .:..:....... s.1o3
Difference In favor of Great Britatn...... $3.50
Difference In favor Of the oontinent...... 9.4es
Mckinley duty on steel rails. ............. 1910
1t will be seen that tho duty is nearly
four times "the difference between
wages abroad and at home, aud that 1t
even exceeds the entire labor cost in
this country.
A duty equal to the difference be-
tween wages" would be less than 81 per
ton. by the admission Of Mr.. Harrison's
own Commissioner Of Labor. The i'm
position Of duty of 1884 enables the
manufacturers in this country to main
tain their unlawful trust combination.
by means of which the uniform ring
price Of $50 per ton has been exacted
throughout the last eighteen months in
spite Of notable reduction Of the cost
OF their raw MATERIAL
The duty Is annually putting about
ST., 100000 into the Golfers Of this COM
bine. Abolish the duty on steel rails
and on raw materials and we would
make as many rails here as we now do,
or more, because more railroads would
be built if rails we're cheaper. But it
will not do to talk this way much or we
will be denounced as free traders, and
of course that would hurt our feelings
and upset all our plans to make re-
tiOnal tariff
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-09-01
equal 10 the Difference" 2,

The platform Of the Republican party,
adopted at Minneapolis, contains the
following:
We believe that on all imports COM
ing into competition with the products
Of American labor there should be levied
duties equal to the difference between
wages abroad and at home"
That Is to say, the duties should be
equal to the difference between the cost
Of the labor used in making product
here and the cost Of the labor used in
manufacturing the similar and COM
Ipettng produotin aforeign county.
Mr.. Carroll d. Wright, Commissioner
Of Labor. madea report in February,
1891. on the cost OF producing different
products In different countries. One Of
the products was steel rails.
Mr. Wright had returns from thirteen
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-09-01

Syrup

eve are six in fam
AFarmer at lily. We live in a
Edoa rax.. place where we are
Hoo''' e~o' subject to violent
Says: Colds and Lung
Troubles. i have
used German Syrup for six years
successfully for Sore Throat, Cough,
Cold, Hoarseness, Pains in the
Chest and Lungs, and spitting-up
of Blood. have tried many differ
ent kinds of cough Syrups in my
time, but let me say to anyone want
ing such medicine-German Syrup
is the best. That has been my ex-
perience. If you use it once, you
will go back to it whenever you
need it. 1t gives total relief and is
a quick cure. My advice to every
one suffering with Lung Troublesis
Try it. You will soon be con-
WINGED. In all the families where
your German Syrup
is used we have no J, John
trouble with the r-.,Lu,
Lungs at all. It is
the medicine for this ,.,..
country. q
G. G. GREEN.Sole Man'fr. Woodbury.NL
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-09-01
THE REASON WHY,
Young Men Prefer Married Women
For Good Cause,

A prominent young and wealthy
club man, who was making himself
talked about his attentions to a
pretty matron, was taken to task for
it by one of those censors in woman s
garb who think it their business to
pry into every ones affairs. Very
frankly and honestly he replied to the
question why he didn't devote himself
to some young girl, instead of vast
ing his time as we'll as getting himself
talked about by being seen constantly
with married woman.
81 admire all women" said he with
little bow on the cross-examina ton,
"but l am not marrying man, con-
sequently I cannot pay any single
woman the attention l would like to
without herself, her family and the
world at large Immediately jumping
to the conclusion that I was on the
verge of a proposal. Now, with
married women that is all changed.
They know exactly what my at
tentions are worth and we can have
gay times without anyone thinking
there is anything out of the way in it
unless, indeed, they are interested as
you are in my reputation, helaughed,
"but seriously, even laying aside this
selfish view of the case that I have
just given, young married women are,
OF course, out of the matrimonial
race, and knowing this they enjoy q
little of the reflected triumph of their
girlhood and make most delightful
companions, entering heartily into the
spirit of the thing without thinking a
man dead in love with them as an
unmarried woman would be sure to
do" -Philadelphia Times.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-09-01
How to Take a Sweat.

People who take camphor, ipecacu-
ana and half q dozen kinds of teas to
provoke perspiration are grossly in
sulting their internal organisms. If q
man wants to sweat, there is no bet
ter way than to wrap himself up in a
blanket and drink half a pint OF the
hottest water he can swallow. Nor is
there any fear that it will provoke
nausea. Warm water will generally
nauseate, but hot water never, and in
fever, where perspiration is desirable,
if pint of water will not induce it, the
case is almost hopeless,-New York
Journal.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-09-01
A KENTUCKY newspaper denlores II

A KENTUCKY newspaper deplores the
decadence OF county court day, day
that used to be an event in the life of
the commonwealth. The county seat
was crowded when court convened,
the jockey and horse-swapper did a
thriving business and gamblers and
fakirs were in their glory, but sump-
tuary laws and restrictive ordinances
have done away with all that, the
dime museum features OF the day have
been driven intosback alleys and thus
another institution of primitive civil
ization has fallen into desuetude.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-09-01

THE extent to which civilization has
been carried into Africa is indicated
by the fact that the Zulu singers who
are now interesting London have
seventy-seven English songs in their
repertoire, and are particularly fond OF
rendering "Bid Me Discourse" and
"Annie Laurie" 1t may be, however,
that, like the wild men from Borneo
and Circassian girls of the dime muse
ums, these dark-skinned artists are
native products OF Great Britain or
Ireland.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-09-01
Prof. Cookies saltpeter Remedy,

Dissolve one tablespoonful of salt.
peter IN a pail of water. A pint pour.
ed around each hill of cucumber OF
squashes is very good for the plants
and very bad for the bugs, both striped
and black, which burrow at night in
the earth about the plants. Cut
worms are also said to dissolve like
earth treated with saltpeter. This is
remedy which would certainly be
very useful to the plants, and ifas is
claimed, it destroys or keeps away
insect marauders, it will prove most
valuable. This saltpeter solution is
useful to any plant which is attacked
by insects which at any time burrow
in the ground. 1t does not appear to
be wholly certain, however, that it is
as efficacious an insecticide as could
be wished.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-09-01
x.larie. and Duttes,

Hell think we need not worry
about the future. ! am now getting
81, 600 year as second assistant sub
editor Of the Daily Blower.
She-Yes but you are killing your
self doing two mems work.
He-I know; but before long may
be promoted, and then I'll get IS. 900
for doing one mans work; and. II ]
have patience l will eventually reach
position whore ] will get %. 900 for
doing nothing at ell New York
Weekly
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-09-01
TARIFF AND WAGES.
HOW PROTECTION WORKS THE
WORklNGMAN.
Chief of Tariff Frauds-Cuttinx Wisdom
Teeth-Wages Here and There-Ry the
Graco of Mckinley tho Trusts Advance
Prices.
Wages Here and There.

< To the Editor Of the PEOPLES Column:
\ A correspondent in the Globe wishes to
know the wages here and in England or
Europe. Mr.. NJ, of Haverhill, Mass.
thinks the wages are based on the living
account Of people, and to certain ex-
tent he is right, but not always. Labor
organizations have fully as much to do
With the rate Of wages. For illustra-
ton: In Manchester shoe cutters get
1880 per week for doing the same work
that cutters in Lynn get SIT per week
for. Yet they live as we'll and rent is az
high as in Lynn. Lynn has it's labor
organizations in the shoe trade, while
they have none. We work faster and
longer hours per week in the United
States than the workmen, in England,
but as most work is done by the piece,
In giving the rate of wages here and in
the old country 1t should he stated how
much each receives by the piece. Here
Is a table from Mr. j. Schoenhof, for
merly Consul at Tunstall, showing the
daily wages, and the wages rer yard, In
cotton mill operatives in three countries:
Wages
Daily per 100
In Switzerland and Germany II 70 ~ 60
In T Gnfsae States 80 to s1 .ss 80 30
This table shows that % the he apaup Ell;
labor" of Europe is not SO cheap to the
man who buys it and sells its products
IS American labor is
The average labor cost of producing
apair of shoes in Massachusetts, whore
the shoe laborer gets the highest wages
t. the United States, Is IS per cent,
while in England it averages IS per
cent. Yet the daily average wages
show in Lynn, Brockton, Haverhill,
etc, 81; in England, 81. Here is good
illustration Of the above: A shoe packer
IN America gets from So to SIP per week;
. In Halifax and other large shoe towns
In England he will get IS to 81 per
week. Here he will pack from ~ to 20
60-pair cases., while over there he only
packs from to II cases per day. An
English shoe-cutter informed me re-
Gently that forty pair day was fair
days work in the old country, yet here
twice that number is not days work.
Boston Globe.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-09-01
Refuses to Yield,

INDIANAPOLIS, Specialize sensational
DEVELOPMENT in the Iron Hall difficulty
TO-DAY was the refusal of Supreme
Cashier Davis, who has Just
returned from Philadelphia to sur
render his books to the finance COM
mittee ofthe order for inspection. The at
torneys and officers Of the Iron Hall have
returned from Philadelphia and the re-
ceivership suit will be re-opened to-mor-
row. The appointment OF receiver for
the Iron Hall by Judge Taylor is now o
foregone conclusion.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-09-01
Teu-Tale Wage Reducti

Out of the 438 wage reductions in pro-
tected industries printed in the New
York World, the greatest number that
occur in any one State is ITO, which, Of
course, is credited to Pennsylvania.
Next in order come New York with 81;
New Jersey. 80; Massachusetts, 49,;
Ohio, rs; Indiana, 10; Illinois, Is; Con-
nectcut, IL; Rhode Island, Z; Tennes-
see, 6; Montana, 6; Missouri, S; Mary
land and Michigan, each;. Minnesota,
kentucky, Wyoming, Alabama, and
Arkansas, each: Iowa, West Virginia,
Kansas, Nebraska, Texas, and Della
ware, 2 each, and II more States and
Territories l each. This summary
shows at once what States receive the
most protection and the inevitable re-
suits Of such protection. Not only are
wages higher in the unprotected indus
tries but there are fewer wage reductions
and strikes in them. 1t is facts like
these that make protectionists scratch
their heads and think.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-09-01

AT Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, the
Herald has been run by Alexander
Lawson for the past SO years. And
the old man clings to the editorial tri-
pod as vigorously as ever and gets
quite mad when visitors wonder how
anybody could consent to live for half
as many months in the country when
the opportunities for drowning ones
self is so handy.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-09-01

A SCIENTIFIC exchange says that "a
process for distilling brandy from
bananas has been invented by DR..
Pringle of jamaica" Was not the
banana skin dangerous enough to
footing before? And could not Jamaica
have been satisfied with her prime
article OF rum? Really, this seems to
be crowding the mourners.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-09-01

DE- CoBAN, the Belfast member who
was expelled from Parliament year
ago, is attending revival meetings, as
an exhorter, in New York and Brook
lyn. He asserts his innocence of the
charges that made him flee his coun-
try, and says he will soon ask Parlia-
ment to reopen his case.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-09-01
A PreCautiOn.

Daughter; "Shall we invite DR..
Bigfee to the reception2"
Mother: 81 think we'd better not,
he's SO absent minded. He might
charge it in the BILL
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-09-01
Chief of Tariff Frauds,

There are several other bigger frauds
when amounts are considered that are
being worked on the American people
than the tin plate fraud; but this one Is
pre-eminent when the percentage Of
frauds to the dollar is taken into &C.
count. It matters but little from what
point Of view the subject is approached.
The consumer is losing from Sl5, 900 900
to $780, 1000 year, with no compen-
sation at present and no hopes of any in
the future. The American workingman
is getting the benefit from the small tin
plate, or rather tin coating, estab lish-
ments that are temporarily located
here: because the only labor that re-
ceives moro than ordinary day wages is
imported. The capitalist who invests
in this business is likely to lose money
because the high price Of steel or
black" sheets (due to the duty) pre-
vents the prosperity Of the industry
here until we can import plates tree Of
duty or can roll them Here as cheaply as
they are rolled in Europe. Even the
politicians will find that this industry
has done them more harm than good-it
is said that some Of them are already
sorry that they staked SO much on it
and made such glowing promi ses.
1uo dOu, 1uOuaS u. DunClnR SAlQ IN
Congress June 16, 1892: The tin-plate
industry, as now developed and put on
record, is finishing step for Welsh con-
signments Of cold rolled, picked, and
annealed steel plates. 1t is adding to
this Welsh material rs cents of Welsh
labor, through the use Of Welsh ma
chinery, for each box of tin plate. 1t is
simply putting on coat OF paint on the
finished product, with Australian paint
and Welsh brush and by a Welsh
painter. Up to date, with but few ex-
ceptions, the tin-plate industry OF this
country has but one Ingredient in its
composition that is truly American, viz,
domestic atmosphere. And this is the
reason why, in the burning of the fac
tory over at Philadelphia belonging to
the N. u G. Taylor Company, there was
not on entire destruction and loss be-
cause the atmosphere was rescued"
If any one thinks that American tin
plate. SO called, is made from American
black sheets, let him read the evidence
presented by the Hon. Benjamin F.
Shively in the House on June Is. Mr..
Shively had prepared for him by the
Chief of the Bureau OF Statistics state
ments showing the imports Of iron and
stool sheets, such.as are commonly used
for making tin and terne plate. It
should be remembered that these plates
constitute about nine-tenths OF the
weight and also nine-tenths Of the value
of tin and terne plates. The statistics
Of imports were as follows:
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-09-01

that the Carnegie Company will never
again recognize the Amalgamated AS
ISOLATION or any other labor organiza-
ton" in the Homestead mill. Thus far
the New York Tribune has not de-
plored this speech Of Mr.. Friok. With
Frick practicing what Whitelaw Reid
has been preaching for so many years
it does begin to look as If the tariff
barons are inaugurating an organized
attack on union labor.-Peoria Herald.
Mr.. HARRISON should get Carnegie
to manage his campaign. Carnegie
could tell the workingmen all about
the beauties Of Republican protection.
Atlanta Constitution.
Use for Dead Tigers.
Consul DENLY for Peking China
reports that in 1882 from one port
Ichang. there were exported IL, 600
pounds OF tigers bones. For use as
fertilizers-the only use intelligent
people seem to have for dead tigers
these boDes might be worth $3.50 yet
they were entered at a value of So. 600.
even when the price was governed by
the 'pauper labor of China They
are to be used as medicine. From
them there will be made tonic, I"
which the Chinese invalid believes
will impart to him some of the tigers
strength and fierceness. For the
same 'medicinar' reason 5000
pounds of 'old deers' horn" were
Vailed at 81. 700. Many of us who
are filled with disgust at the folly of
such absurd beliefs are now keeping
up old customs and habits that are
almost as absurd and expensive in
the light of modern progress as this
tiger bone tonic!
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-09-01

81; 1 1:ss ,.s'5,:ss
March 81, 1882. i:s5 o.ss7.7o3 5, c@ ,os7
Commenting upon this table Mr..
Shively said: Every pound OF black
plates noted in this table is Of the proper
gauge and general character for tin and
terne plates. The plates noted are
ready to receive the coat of tin or tin
and lead The normal Importation and
consumption Of these plates prior to the
passage Of the act OF 1890 is shown by
the statistics for the fiscal years of 1889
and 1890, respectively. For COMPARE
son the product Of American" tin plate
as reported by the special agent Of the
Treasury Department has been given
in the last column. Previous to the
quarter ending Sept. 30, 1891, tin and
terne plate was not made here in COM
mercial quantities, though 1t is evident
from the imports of black sheets just
previous to this time that preparations
were being made to establish this now
famous American" industry.
Mr.. Shively says, these statistics, all
American production Of tin and terne
plate for the three quarters ending
March 81, was 5,24O, $3.50 pounds, while
the Importation of black plates for the
same period was 5,41S,552 pounds.
Moreover it must be remembered that
the 1855, 582 pounds of black sheets i'm.
ported during the fiscal year ending June
20, 1891, remain unaccounted for. As is
shown by the importations for 1882 and
1890, the consumption Of imported black
plates in this country prior to the pas
sage OF the act Of 1890 did not average
over 5000 pounds per annum. Small
amounts Of these plates have been for
years used in the manufacture of signs
and few other articles. It is perfectly
apparent that the bulk OF the 1,3S3,582
pounds was imported for other purposes.
The real fact is that from the time the
act of 1890 went on the statute book to
March 81, 1892, there was imported into
the United States 6,75e, IA pounds of
black plates, and there was made $780,
800 pounds Of what the Treasury De-
partment construes to be tin and terne
plate produced in the United States, SO
that after making ample allowance for
all the imported black plates consumed
In this country for other purposes, we
have left over J, 100000 pounds to coat
with tin and return to the Treasury De-
partment at the end Of the present quar-
ter as tin plate produced in the United
States.'
This, then, is the kind of an industry
that protection is trying to domesticate
and put on exhibition here. The animals
in Barnum's circus are as much Ameri-
can as Is this industry and far more USE
full for exhibition purposes.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-09-01

HOODS PILLS are the best family cathar
tic. gentle and effective. Try II box. Only 2J
cents.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-05-24
COMMITTEE MEETING.

The democratic central Committee
for the criminal circuit composed Of
the Fifteenth judicial circuit AMI the
county of johnson, met at Higgins.
vile. No., My 18th.
Tae convention t, nominate a cln-
did.t for judge of the criminal court
of the Fifteenth judicial circuit and
the county of Johnson, was called to
meet at Higginsville, No.. at 10
o'clock a.. M, June 8, 1892.
The couIties are entitled to the fol-
lowing representation
Petit, county. Ii delegates.
johnson county, Is delegates.
Saline county, Is del. gates.
Lafayette county, Is delegates.
The committee recommended tn At
the various counties send their dele
gates to the convention without prox-
les, and those present Cast the full
vote of their county.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-05-24

The Chairman stated that the
democratic party was dead, but did
not know it. The republicans will
fad it a Lively corpse in November.
Capt. Kinney moved that if the
candidates for constable had no friends
to place them in nomination. they be
allowed to nominate themselves.
Mr.. H.stain thought hi, election
to the Craftsmanship the butt end of \
joke. 1t was the opinion Of demo-
Gratis thatthe whole thing was joke.
There were very few colored vo-
tiers 10 the audience last night. The
colored troops are not fighting as
nobly for republican principles as in
days of yore.
All of the Wards except the first
reported the names ofdelegates in ten
minutes. In the first ward there
were too many statesmen. There
were thirty-six nominations and each
man voted for himself. Ii took that
ward just an hour to complete its ar
duOus work.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-05-24
REAL ESTATE TRAN FERS.

George Heard to W. N. Luster,
.Jef:ey's sub division of lots l and 2,
East Sedaiia, lot 10 Price, $500.
Vim Lander to Joseph Upton, the
west half of the northeast quarter OF
scion Z, township A, range %.
Pic 1925.
jas. Upton and wife to Joseph
Upton, Jr., the west half of the
Northeast quarter of Sc ,tion Z. town
shin A, range %. Price, 5000.
w. s. Homesley and wife to
Hugh McCormik, lot ) and the
north halt of lot 4. block 1, Smith &
Cotten's sixth addition. Price, 81 500.
Hugh Mccormick to Nancy j.
Hnrmesley, lot 3, and the north half
o. lot 4, Smith Il Cotton's sixth ad-
dition. Consideration. 81, 800.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-05-24
AN ENTERTAINMENT.

A number OF young ladies of East
Ssdalia gave an enjoyable entertain
ment at the rea ling room Oh Friday
night at the corner of Third an d
Montgomery streets The following
.xc-!leDt programme furnished the
evenings entertainment /: Song, My
Red Rose recitation. Freddie Her.
bolt recitation. Hannah Shea; song,
Alice V. and Annie R.; reci-
tstion, Fora Lister; rerita ion, Yer.
gle Cameron; hoop drill. six girls;
reci alton, Mabel Spraugler; recita-
ton NJ bel NJ 'Kenzie; sing Flora L
a.d Annie r.; recit,tion. Bertha
jump; recitation. Myrtle Spraugler,
recitation, Claude Mercer; recits-
i'm. Hattie Jump; dialogue. four
girls; recitation, Emma Russell /;
recitation, Freddie Herb 1t; recita-
ton, Florence West; recitation, EN-
ma Ross; recitation, Goldie Star;
recitation. Helen Spicer; recitation,
Halle B.r:boux recitation, Geneva
Rick man. Song by all.