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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-10-07
The American People AIs Growing
 Sensible, -

A presidential year was al' ways looked upon by nearly the whole people as sure in dicaion of a very dull year; there was no reason why it should be so, but the people imagined it, and that made 1t so. Many people imagine them selves sick, aud they go to the doctor and he gives them bread pills after looking into their case; they go home, imagine themselves we'll, and they are we'll. This is all in the imag- ination.
 Now people are beginning to ina zine that as much business can be done presidential years as other years if they pay the same attention to business.
 We will do $25,0OO more business this year than we did any year since we have been in business; we will make more this year in proportion than we did last year, although we are sell ling cheaper. Why? Because our increased business enables us to buy in larger quantities, thus saving all freight charges. TEe parlor suit you bought from us last year can be pur- chased now for 20 per cent less; the same is true of our magnificent line of chamber suits; we are going to stick to our resolution and make the Waterbury Furniture Go the cheapest first class house in New England; this is worth living for.
 The sales on our Stoves and Ranges are increasing at a rapid 1ate. Our Carpet de partment was a grand success from the start This is because everything we handle must be right.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-10-07
Cholera Suspect in New York.

NEW YORK, Oct 7.-Dr. Koerter of 2S3 East S5th street at late hour last night reported supposed case of cholera to the police of the 85th street station. The patient is James Finley, 27 years old l, of 229 East Both street. The case is being invez tisated by the Health Board.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-10-07
So the Maxim savs.

Mrs. Keedick (praising young Mir. Adlet to her daughter)-He doesn't smoke, drink or swear. He's good boy and would be true to you.
 Miss Keedick Shaking her head)- He's too good to be true, mamma Truth
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-10-07
A ThouShtfuI Boy.

Mother When you play marbles, why in the world do you get down on your knees and drag yourself over the ground?
 Little,Son-'Cause IT don't want to wear out my shoes.-Good News.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-10-07
The Peek Case Again Postponed.

ALBANY, Oct. 7.AJustice Cute again
 postponed his decision in the Peck cass,, in which the Commissioner of Labor is charged with having destroyed public documents, until Oct. IS. The proceed ings were over the demurrer filed by Mir. Peck'g counsel.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-10-07
And He Might Never Recover.

Professor Qecturing on galvanism)- )- What would be the effect, Mir. Broken, if you should hold a quantity of gold in one hand and silver in the other?
 Broken-I should experience de. cided shock.-Boston Globe.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-10-07
Motion md Emotion.

''I am always moved by the sound of music," said young Phlathead as the clock struck eleven.
 Let me play something for you. said Miss Uplate with sudden eager ness.--Chicago News.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-10-07
s $12.

It is not aften that merchant com menses the season with mark-down sale, but we carried over about TOO Winter Suite: our RIGHTLY MADE kind, suits we sold for S15, SI6, SIS, Sac, $a2, you can have your pick for $Ia. Every size at present s3 to A, every color black to light gray and brown. We have few suits that sold for less, now $8. We have opened our immense stock of fall suits and prefer to give our customers a pig benefit rather than mix last seasons suits with new. If you want a suit for service now is your chance. You wont find the style bad for every body says our clothing is about one season ahead of the ordinary kind in style.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-10-07
Our Fall Opening Takes Place on Wednesday and
 Thursday,

Programme For Wednesday Afternoon
 2:3O to 5. 1 March, Remembrance of Hei- delberg. 2 Overture, Poet and Peasant. 8 Waltz, Spirit of Love. 4 Gavotte, The Lovers Dresm. .5 Selection from the opera Mariana. 6 Schottische, La Fee de Champs Elysee. ' Clarionet Solo, Second Air and Variation by B. s.
 Thornton, performed by F.
 H. Blake. 8 Polka, Idyl. g GalOp de Concert, Bald da
 Bald Dort
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-10-28
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Spooner'a Position In 1890.

From John G. Spooner's Speech, deliv-
cred at Milwaukee, Oct. 3, 1890.
There is ONE ISSUE in our state
campaign which ovERsHADOwS ALL OTHER
ISSUES. 1t excites not only the interest of
the people of Wisconsin, but it has excited
the interest of the people of the whole coun-
try. This campaign on this one issue is
unique in the history of parties in our
LAW The REPUBLICAN PARTY
being in the majority is doubtless techni-
cally CHARGEABLE WITH THE RESPONSIBLE
TY OF ITS PASSAGE, and THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY NEVER WAS, IS NOT NOW, AND
NEVER WILL BE A COWARD IN THE
FACE OF RESPONSIBILITY"
II say for myself that since this agitation
began l have not seen the day when /
thought with all the objections which were
urged against the law, HAVE NOT SEEN
THE DAY WHEN THOUGHT THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY OR ANY OTHER PATRIOTIC PARTY
COULD ABANDON UPON ANY DEMAND
IT'S ESSENTIAL AND FUNDAMENTAL
PRINCIPLES. Now, I PLANT
MYSELF FIRMLY AND STRONGLY UPON THE
PLATFORM OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY UPON
THAT SUBJECT. Now what is this
platform? It places upon our flag, NOT TO
STAY THERE SIMPLY FOR THIS CAMPAIGN,
BUT TO STAY THERE IN ALL CAMPAIGNS
so LONG AS THE PARTY LIVES, THE
LITTLE SCHOOL HOUSE. Whoever
they are wherever they come from, THE
REPUBLICAN PARTY HAS GIVEN CHAL-
LENGE TO MORTAL COMBAT AND IT
WILL STAND BY THE LITTLE SCHOOL HOUSE.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-10-28

Mr.. Babcock, the Republican can
didate for congress from the Third
district, is a member of the lumber
combine which recently advanced the
price of all grades of lumber. Upon
his nomination The Adams County
Press, one of the leading Republican
papers of the district said:
"The great pine lumber combine
candidate was nominated by the Re-
publican congressional convention for
this district, at Madison last week."
"The Republican party must purify
itself of pools and trusts or the country
will purify itself of the Republican
party"
If The Democrat judges Alright the
temper and tone of the people, the
country will soon purify itself of the
party which has fallen from its once
high estate and become the defender
of class legislation, by which it is
made possible to form all sorts of
trusts and combines, to the great in
jury of the people. If voters are sat-
istied with the present condition OF
affairs in this regard, they should vote
for Mr.. Babcock. If they are not sat-
istied they should cast their ballots for
Hon. A. II. krouskop.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-10-28

1t is the bounden duty OF every
citizen who believes in the business OF
the Democratic position in regard to
the reduction of tariff taxation, to
work increasingly for the triumph OF
the cause at the coming election.
Editor Merrill Of the Prairie du-
G lien Courier, in the last issue OF his
paper well and truly says:
Every Democrat should be on the
alert from now until election day. DO
not let single voter stay away from
the polls for any reason whatever, un-
less it be for serious illness. 1t is the
most important presidential election
that has ever been held in the history
Of the country. The great question
involved is whether this is a govern
ment for the whole people or for a
privileged class Of few individuals
who already control the wealth OF
the country, wealth accumulated
through the aid of the government by
Republican legislation; and still they
cry for more. The Democratic party
is opposed to furtherance Of such a
system Of injustice and robbery of the
people and demands reform in that
direction"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-10-28

The following extract is taken from
an address by the Democratic con-
gressional committee to the voters of
the Third district:
"Mr. Babcock is a beneficiary of the
protective tart If, he being a large
owner of pine lands, and a lumber
manufacturer upon which there is a
tariff of from S1.00 to $3.50 per thous-
and feet, according to kind and finish.
Does he pay his labor in and about his
mills more than he would pay if there
was nos protection for him? No; he
hires his labor paying therefore no
more than he is obliged to pay by
reason of the law of supply and de-
mand, just as cheaply as he can poss-
IDLY get it. So it is with all these pro-
tected Industries, and, if they cannot
get American labor at prices to suit,
they hire Canadian or other foreign
labor. This view is emphasized by the
condition in the great iron and coal
regions in Pennsylvania, where nine
tenths of all labor is the cheap for
eign or "pauper" labor. which has
driven out genuine American labor;
and yet while these iron kings and
coal barons are clamoring for protec-
ton to American labor they wax fat
and rich upon the earnings of this
same pauper labor, which they SO much
decry."
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-10-28
Personal Liberty.

"The assurance to the people of the ut
most individual liberty consistent with
peace and good order is a cardinal principle
of our government. This gives no sanction
to vexatious sumptuary laws which I'M
necessarily interfere with such habits and
customs of our people as are not offensive
to just moral sense and are not inconsist-
ent with good citizenship and the public
welfare. The same principle requires that
the line between subjects which are prop
erly within governmental control and those
which are more fittingly left to parental
regulation should be carefully kept in view.
An enforced education, wisely deemed a
proper preparation for citizenship, should
not involve the impairment of wholesome
parental authority nor do violence to the
household conscience. Paternalism in gov
eminent finds no approval in the creed of
of Democracy. 1t is symptom of misrule,
whether it is manifested in unauthorized
gifts or by an unwarranted control of per-
sonal and family affairs. From Mr..
Cleveland's Letter of Acceptance. Sept. 26,
1892
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-10-28

search the history of extortion in vain
for its shameful counterpart.
For each dollar that the United
States treasury in twenty years re-
ceiyed as duty on steel rails, the people
paid to American rail makers S11.2O.
How long would party that took
$11.2O of the peoples money for
every dollar it used for state pur-
poses remain in power in Wisconsin.
We talk of the yearly cost to the
English people of the Royal Family,
and fiatter ourselves that we Amer
leans are free from such burdens; yet
the people paid in the one item of
steel rails, over and above what they
could have bought the same rails for,
and which went directly into the peck
cts of the steel rail ring,-not cent
of it into the L. S. treasury,-has been
each year for sixteen years sum
more than double what the Royal
Family costs the people Of Great
Britain
The extortion which the people paid
! to rail makers in 1891 was one humid
red and twenty-six times as much
as all the money in the savings
banks in the state of Wisconsin!
1t would pay the entire state, county
and municipal debt Of Wisconsin, with
a million dollars to spare!
1t is a sum two and half times as
great as the government Of the state
in all its branches has cost the tax
payers in any two years since Wis
| consin became state.
1t is five times the amount Of pen
sions paid to Wisconsin soldiers in
1890
In the past tWenty-one years the
tax on steel rails has held our people
fast while the steel rail ring took from
them sum greater than the treasury
at Washington has ever had in gold
| in it's vaults since the foundation OF
the government. And if you want to
know when your treasury had in it's
vaults the most gold, it was the third
year Of Grover Cleveland's administra-
ton.
Now, why did steel rails fall in
price during the last twenty years?
Protectionists stoutly claim that the
tariff tax caused it. Don't be misled
The price fell here because it fell
abroad; and after it fell abroad the
| discovery of the Bessemer process OF
reducing ores is the secret Of reduced
cost. And in 1870 the patent expired
and the monopoly was split wide open
permitting any one to manufact-
ure steel rails.
Remember that high taxes on lum-
| Der, iron and steel means more hours
and days toll to buy the same amount
that could be bought with less tax.
And last year we paid to the Royal
Family of Rail Makers $11 100000
more than they would have cost with
out the tax. A dollar means days
work for some one; seven dollars ton
| tax on steel rails means seven days
work for some one; $11 100000 means
eleven million days work more forced
from the life Of American labor. AT
$3.50 per day it means the toll of
| twenty-five thousand laborers full
working year! And. for what? Did
the value toiled for reach the peoples
treasury? Not at all! BY a law die
tated to Congress by greedy monop-
olists the results Of toll were pressed
into the already full pockets of the
tariff tax pets!
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-10-28
Strike and Lockout Losses.

The annual report for 1897 cS Es5
bureau of Industrial statistics Of psln
sylvania has just been issued from .he
department of internal affairs. The losses
by strikes at various places are given as
follows: Braddock Wire mill employees,
$4,000; employers, 100000; Jefferson
township coal miners, $143, 200; employ
ers, 1874 900; Hilldale coal miners, $780,
$50; employers, $1,725; Monongahela
City coal miners, 81 900, 900; employers,
$1,OOO,0OO; Pittsburg stonemasons, 1901, :
600; employers, $1O2, 1000; plumbers, $780,
500; employers, 100000; timers, $44,-
575; employers, $4,000; stonecutters,
s142,56O; employers, $72, 900; plasterers,
$79,7OO; employers, $40, 900; house paint
ers, $153,000; employers, $3.50; hod
carriers, $150,000; employers, 100000;
carpenters, $702,250; employers, $685.
600; Sharpsburg Rolling mill, $50, 900;
employers, $4,000; Scott Haven coal
miners, $4,000; employers, $4,000; AL
leghany county coal miners, 500, 600;
employers, $4,000. The river coal min
ers' strike and one in the east for wages
due were the only ones that succeeded
out of total of 60.
''1n the factory inspectors report it is
shown that in 92S workshops inspected
1859 men. u, 1888 women and 2O,693
children between the ages of twelve and
sixteen are employed"
The above is from The American Manu-
facturer, prominent protectionist trade
paper of PTtsburg. The losses here
given foot up s., III $40 for the employers
and $2,9S4 ,235 for the employees, total
of $5,096,2O5.
Such is protection for labor" in Penn.
sylvania under McKinleyism.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-10-28
Snecimen Cases.

S. H.Clifford, New Cassel, Wis, was
troubled with Neuralgia and Rheuma-
tism, his stomach was disordered, his
Liver was affected to an alarming
degree, appetite fell away, and he was
terribly reduced in flesh and strength.
Three bottles of Electric Ritters cured
him.
Edward Shepherd, Harrisburg, ILL.,,
had a running sore on his leg Of
eight years standing. Used three
bottles of Electric Bitters, and seven
boxes of Bucklen's Arnica Salve, and
his leg is sound and well. John
Speaker, Catawba, O., had five large
Fever sores on his leg; doctors said
he was incurable. One bottle Electric
Bitters and one box Bucklen's Arnica
Salve cured him entirely. Sold by w.
81. Prideaux.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-10-28
a RennhIican Admissinn.

Everybody admits that the wages Of Ia
Dor by the day are higher in America than
in Europe. Why they are SO is generally
understood by all who are not fooled by
the shallow protectionist talk about "for-
eign pauper labor" Even protection pa
pers sometimes give the true explanation
when they are not discussing the tariff.
Thus the New York Tribune printed the
following statement:
ut is acknowledged by foreign manu-
facturers and railroad men who have Wis
tied this country and carefully examined
affairs here that the higher efficacy Of
labor secured by higher wages here to q
great extent counterbalances the difference
in wages paid"
That is the whole truth of the matter;
our labor is paid more because it produces
more. Not ony does this apply to rail-
road labor, where there can be no question
of competition from foreign pauper Ia
bor," but it applies in an equal degree to
the great protected industries of our coun-
try.
1t was shown by United States Labor
Commissioner Carroll D. Wright, in his
fifth annual report, that the wages of rail-
road employees in this country and in Eng
land are as follows: In England-Engi-
neers and drivers, $457 a year; firemen,
s285; passenger and freight guards, $3O7;
shunters (switchmen), 1896; signalmen,
S254. In Acknowledgements and engine
men, s1,O07; firemen, 1862 conductors,
1924; switchmen, s41; fagmen. 1854.
Notwithstanding this difference in wages
by the year it is we'll established fact that
our railroads pay less wages per ton of
freight hauled and per passenger carried
than English railroads pay. This apparent
anomaly is accounted for by the fact that
English roads employ about twice as many
operatives as American roads,
American labor is the cheapest labor in
the world because it is the most efficient
labor.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-10-28

Mr.. Krouskop, the democratic can
didate for congress from this district
has never held office. He was the
unanimous choice of the delegates to
the democratic congressional conven-
ton He is in full accord with the
democratic party opon on the great
questions of the hour. His election
should be ratified at the polls.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-10-28

The Republican convention, held at
Dodgeville on last Saturday, nomina-
ted Thomas H. Cody, of Highland,
as candidate for member of assembly.
The names Of the senatorial delegates
are given elsewhere in this paper.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-10-28

The issue Of issues is class legislation,
of which the protective tariff is the most
conspicuous example. 1t is the parent
of intimidation and bribery, of plutoc-
racy and pauperism. Tho force bill is
only a means to an end, and the end is
the establishment and maintenance Of
an aristocracy of wealth.-St. Louis
POst-D iSnatch
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-10-28

The advance in the price of many
of the necessaries of life is brought
about in consequence of unncces-
sary and unjust tariff taxation, and
through trusts and combinations whose
existence depend upon such taxation.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-10-28
The Platform Declaration Against the
Force Bill.


One of the most forcible deliverances in
the Democratic platform is the resolution
relating co the Republican menace to
bring the election machinery of the sew
eral states under the control of the fed
eral government. AS the Republicans in
Minneapolis proclaimed their purpose to
continue their attempts to enact the force
bill into law, the Democrats have met the
issue thus made with equal alacrity and
decisiveness. In doing SO they were re-
minded that a no less distinguished Re-
publican than Senator Teller, of Colorado,
denounced the force bill as 1.-The most in
famous measure" ever introduced in con-
gress. They were also reminded that this
measure encountered the opposition Of
other distinguished Republicans, includ-
ing Senators Washburn of Minnesota,
Plumb of Kansas, Stewart of Nevada, and
Cameron and Quay of Pennsylvania.
This attempt to put all the machinery of
the elections under the control of federal
power is an attack upon the very founda-
ton of free government in this country.
II successful, it would confer upon the
party in possession of the government q
potent means Of perpetuating its rule in
spite Of the popular will. The Democratic
party seeks no such power for itself, and it
would not tolerate the exercise of such
dangerous power by any other party
Philadelphia Record.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-02-26
The Secret of a Good Memory

Whatever may be said in regard to train
ing the memory, it must be remembered
that memory is not, as used to be sup
posed, an independent faculty of the mind
that in some Mysterious way may be direct
ly strengthened by exercise, as the black
smith strengthens his arm, but that men,
ory as retAntive is due to the Elasticity of
nerve substance and to the property Of
nerve centers by which they retain in
growth their functional notifications, and
that recollection depends upon physiolog
ical conditions such as the cerebral circula-
ton and the proper functioning of nerve
cells; moreover, that a complete act of rec
objection is a complex process involving
comparison, inference, and the like.
Hence, whatever in general is conducive
to vigorous health, and whatever tends to
habits of clear and orderly thinking, such
conditions will aid recollection. And what
ever is detrimental to the normal function
ing of the nerve cells-fatigue, intense
emotion or the like-and whatever blinds
the judgment, will hinder recollection. In
short, all psychological beatitudes are on
the head of him who has good health, sane
emotions and trained power of attention.
But no amount of study, nor all the pre-
scriptions of mnemonic doctors, except so
far as they train attention, can atone for
an8mia of body or lack OF the power of at
tention.-Professor w. II. Burnham in
ScribDer;S