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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-06-04
RECIPROCITY.

In the recently published annual report
Of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company
we find this statement by President Gould
The reciprocity treaties that have been en-.
tered into with the various countries to which
the steamers of the company run will un-
doubleday prove of great value, and it Is the
sincere belief of the managers that the time is
not far off when the owners of the property will
begin to reap the benefit OF their investment.
The Pacific Mail Steamship Company
here bears testimony to the benefits accru-
ing to its business from reciprocity, which
our Democratic friends term ''the Blaine
humbug." The president Of the Pacific
Mail finds that this "humbug" has opened
new markets in Central and South Amer
lea and the West Indies to American ship
pers, has increased our exports to the
Southern ports reached by the company.
and has therefore increased the freight
and passenger traffic Of the company's
steamships.
The increased exports to Cuba and other
islands of the West Indies have necessi-
tated the employment Of additional steam
ers by the Ward line
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1865. These averages are all raised by tn
high pay of the Pacific coast, where $29. 4S
was paid in 1866, SIS IL in 1879, and s2425
in 1892. The Middle states and Western,
which have the great bulk of white farm
labor. had an average Of $16.H in 1866, OF
$12.5l in 1870, and 1851 in 1892 These
statistics of Mr.. Dodge show that farm
labor is almost as well paid in money as
in 1866. and in the goods money buys -
receiving nearly twice what it did then.
These figures completely refute the
claim that farm labor has suffered
during the thirty years of protection; on
the contrary. it has gained. The great
body of labor is better paid in the value
received than ever before. Mr.. Dodge
says Of the pay without board:
The present rate OF $3.50 per annum for labor
OF the Caucasian race can scarcely be APP
preached by any country, unless Australia. An
average OF other countries cannot be authorita-
lively stated, but current estimates have been
frequently quoted about rs follows: Great
Britain. $50; France, &l25; Holland. 800; Ger
many. 800; Russia, $50: Italy. $50: India, $50.
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FARM WAGES.

Mr.. J. r. Dodge, statistician of the de-
partment of agriculture, has recently pub
lished summary of his inquiries into the
wages Of farm labor during the last twen-
ty-six years. In Woodstown. n. j., and
in Butler county. Ohio, private accounts
show that s. per month with board was
paid in $50. In Massachusetts. Sl2. IS was
paid. By 1866, Ohio and New Jersey farm
laborers were receiving sI3.65 and $iS.eS
and those in Massachusetts, $3.50. In this
period of the highest wages for farm labor
in this country workers were paid in cur
rency and st time when all supplies were
high. Clothing was twice as high as now.
So was everything made of iron. In gem
eral it is an understatement TO say that
the purchasing power of a dollar in 1866
was half that of dollar today. In 1866
the average pay through this country for
farm labor with board was sl7.45 a month,
or if the South be excluded it was s2i.2 -
These wages steadily fell until 1879, when
they were $40 43, or, excluding the South,
Sl64I. The wages at the South were at
this time $. 40, or as low as in the North
in 1870. For the rest of the country the
average was still nearly twice that of that
period.
From 1879 wages steadily rose until iso2.
This year they are sl25i for the country.
or SIS. - excluding the South. Reckoning
the change in prices and purchasing
power, the efficiency and value OF these
wages TO the worker is nearly twice and
certainly one-haf larger than the wages of
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Olympia Tribune.


7. " Eddy has filed with the superior court a
petition for a decree of divorce from his wife,
Alice A. Eddy, charging her, the defendant,
with desertion. The complaint by Mr. Eddy
sets forth that the plaintiff and defendant were
married in the city of Winona. Mum, on March
%, 1883. That they lived together continuously
until about August, 1Sss. That on or about that
date the defendant, without any just cause or
provocation whatever, deserted and abandoned
plaintiff at the city of Watertown, 8. d., then
territory of Dakotal, in which city the plaintiff
and defendant then resided. That defendant (his
wife) without any just cause or provocation, has
continuously, since on or about August l, 1888,
lived separate and apart from plaintiff That
the defendant did so desert and abandon plant
If as aforesaid, and has continuously lived sep
arate and apart, without the consent, contrary
to the expressed wishes, and against the protest
of the plaintiff. The plaintiff states that during
all the time OF their marriage, and prior to the
desertion by defendant, the plaintiff furnished
good, comfortable home, and all the comforts
and neeessaries of life. That during all of said
time plaintiff treated the defendant IN q kind,
conslderate and husband like manner. That
there is now living, of the issue of said mar
riage, one child, a son, named John Gerald
Eddy, aged years. Wherefore plaintiff de-
mands Judgment against the defendant, that
the bonds of matrimony be dissolved, vacated
and set aside absolutely, and that each be re-
leased srom the obligations thereof
The Irish inforner lie Caron is seriously I'LL I'm
london
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-06-04
SEATTLE. SATURDAY.. JUNE 4.
THE MINNEAPOLIS CONVENTION.

Our dispatches from Minneapolis make
It clear that the opposition to the renom-
ination Of President Harrison have con-
centrated upon Mr.. Blaine as their can
didate. Mr.. Blaine himself is prob
ably sincere in his statement that he does
not desire the nomination, nevertheless
he is not responsible for the revival of his
name by those who are opposed to Harri-
son, and has neither the power nor the
right to control their action. His letter
of remuneration for months gave the
presidents friends a clear field to secure
a majority of the convention for his
denomination and they have not neglected
their opportunity. 1t is not Mr.. Blaine's
fault that his name is again prominent.
There was no reason why Mr.. Blaine
should not have been candidate from
the start; for Webster was an open
candidate for the Wing nomination
in 1852 against President Fillmore, al
though Webster was his secretary of state.
Mr.. Blaine did get out of the way for Mr..
Harrison, and If at this eleventh hour any
Of the delegates throw up their hats for
Mr.. Blaine, it Is utterly unjust for the
friends OF Mr.. Harrison to charge Mr..
Blaine with ''treachery."
Mr.. Blaine has done all that he could do
and had right to do; has done more than
most men would have consented to do tor
Mr.. Harrison. and as matter of personal
dignity Mr.. Blaine's duty to him
self is to let the convention
reach a decision without further
word from him. Governor Seymour, of
New York. entered the Democratic ma
tional convention of 1868 for the expressly
avowed purpose of nominating Salmon P.
Chase and was finally nominated himself,
but nobody called him traitor"
The reckless language Of the friends of
Mr.. Harrison may 30 embitter the opposi-
ton that even If Mr.. Blaine shall not be
nominated 1t might become prudent poll
tics to nominate another than Mr.. Harri-
son. It is quite possible that even if
Blame refused to accept nomination Mr..
Harrison could not be safely nominated.
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Colonel Howard Vincent, an English
advocate of ditferential duties in favor of
English colonies, writes the London Times:
Under the Mckinley tariff in the last eighteen
months no fewer than 127 new factories have
been established and ffty-three old ones ex-
banded. Four well-known English textile
firms have moved the whole or a portion Of
their plant across the Atlantic, and many OF the
most skilled hands from the tin plate mills in
South Wales have emigrated. With such re-
suits, attended by the notable increase in the
American export trade, contrasting with the
continuous decline in British exports and the
daily diminishing employment for English,
Welsh and Scotch artisans, the hope is small, If
not nil, OF the early reduction of the tariff,
which has further secured in many markets an
advantage for American over British goods I'M
der the reciprocity clause. The labor corre-
spondents will soon have a more rueful tale to
tell than the tdleness at the present time of
1900 skilled workers in only nineteen trade
unions, comprising 252, 900 workers.
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awaited until he got without the convention
halls before voicing his sentiments. His charges
OF boodling are decidedly ill-timed and giving
evidence Of coming from badly diseased, ian
extremely prejudiced mind.
The sedro Press says: "George Hazard. secre-
tary Of the Democratic state central COMMITTEES,
after the convention in Vancouver telegraphed
Senator David B. Hill, OF New York, that the
Washington delegates were instructed for the
Tammany Hall king. When the report reached
the ears OF the Democracy great was the wrath
OF the unterri6eds. and they came near firing
Hazard bodily from his position. Hazard may
have made blunder-shat is expected OF any
Democrat-but the Democracy certainly treat
him with undeserved disrespect However
eccentric Hazard may be, to him Is due the
little success that has attended the Democrats.
and in thus treating him the Democracy shows
its base ingratitude."
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-06-04

The Democracy in congress has de-
nounced the increased duty placed on
cotton ties by the Mckinley tariff, claim
ing that it would ruin the planters.
The old tariff on the cotton ties made of
iron was IS per cent, which was equiva-
lent to $11 to $12 per ton. Previous to the
taking effect Of the new tariff the lowest
price at which these ties had ever been
sold was 21S cents per pound. The Nc
Kinley tariff increased the duty to $3.50
per ton, and today cotton ties made of
steel and far superior to any iron tie ever
imported, are being sold by American
manufacturers at cents per pound, or %
per cent. lower than the iron ties had ever
sold previous to the passage Of the Nc
Kinley tariff. A. r. Whitney, of Whitney
& Co., New York city, whose firm is
now selling cotton ties at cents pound,
say that "there are now $1,000 tons made
here which were formerly imported, and
the price is lower than it ever has been be-
fore. When cotton ties were entirely un-
protected the price was as high as cents
per pound. Under the IS per cent. duty it
was 21s cents, and now, under what was
called an excessive duty, the price is only
cents per pound, and a better article is
produced than ever before. So, instead Of
running the Southern planters. this part of
the Mckinley law has reduced the cost to
them of a necessity, established an Amer
lean industry and given employment to
American workmen."
The result of increasing the duty nearly
800 per cent on cotton ties made of iron
is that cotton ties made of steel are selling
at 20 per cent lower values within eight
cen months after the passage Of the Nc
Kinley tariff. The South is now making
and selling cotton ties cheaper than they
have ever been sold in the United States,
and they are aiding in building up their
home markets by the employment of
American labor to make the ties and pro-
duce the raw materials from and by which
the ties are made. And vet the Cleveland
"free trade" startling continues to repeat:
"The tariff is tax
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-06-04
CLEvELAND's WEAKNESS.

If Cleveland IL nominated the Tammany
Democracy will labor for his defeat. Tam
many intended under John Kelly to beat
Cleveland in 1884. and he only escaped by
q scratch; Tsmmany beat him in New
York in 1883, and it has turned down"
Cleveland and its friends ever since at
every opportunity. 1t would not be good
politics" probably, to nominate Hill, and
it certainly would not be ''good politics"
to nominate Cleveland. On the subject Of
the tariff Cleveland is at variance with the
Democratic protectionists of the Tilden-
Randall school in New York state, and
on the subject of the currency he is 1t
variance with the Democracy in every
state of the West, the Northwest and the
Pacific coast, save Wisconsin. Minnesota
and Nebraska. He is strongly opposed in
West Virginia and North Carolina.
We do not forget that Chauncey Depew
in 1889 said that the Democrats Twill re-
nominate Grover Cleveland beyond a
doubt for president in 1892" but in our
judgment Mr.. Depew misjudges popular
sentiment, as New York city politicians
almost invariably do in national politics.
John Adams, beaten for reelection in
$500. never reappeared again in national
politics; John Quincy Adams, beaten for
reelection in 1928, was not renominated
in 1882, although he was sturdy states
man of but IS years; Martin Van Buren,.
beaten for reelection in 1910, was beaten
for denomination in 1874 and 1S43 in the
Democratic national convention. There
is no instance in the history of the
country where a president, beaten for re-
election, has been again selected as the
party national standard bearer.
There is nothing about Cleveland that
should make him an exception to the rule.
He is not only president defeated for re-
election, but is held responsible for the
defeat of his party in 1888 through his OBJ
durate determination to handicap it with
the load of the Mills bill. Today he has
gone clean beyond the Mills bill and is an
advocate of the absolute free trade policy
of which Mills has become the ablest
evangelist in the Democratic party. Cleve-
lands advocacy Of this 'frec trade" policy
lost the Democracy Rhode Island in April
last and would be likely to lose him New
York and Connecticut in November next.
Without the disaffection of Tammany
Cleveland, as free trader, would not be
strong candidate in New York: with its
disaffection he is certainly weak where he
needs to be strong. for the state of New
York Is sure to be the decisive place Of
battle.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-06-04

amendments. nullified the provisions
Of the constitution of 1857 that were incon-
constitutional convention has been held
since 1857 because none was necessary.
The ratification of the two great amend
ments to the federal constitution. the
fourteenth and fifteenth, practically
purged the Oregon constitution of 1857 OF
its anti-negro suffrage Democratic pro-
visions, and negroes and Chinese who are
citizens have always voted in Oregon since
the PRONUNCIATION of the fifteenth amend
ment in March, 1870.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-06-04

Through the efforts Of Mr.. Blaine the
United States has secured to its farmers,
manufacturers and merchants markets of
almost incalculable value in the West
Indies, Central and South America, Ger
many, France. Belgium. Italy and Austria
markets which it was possible to acquire
under protection, but which could not
have been secured under Great Britain 8
revenue only" tariff; for free trade in
wolves revenue duties on non-competitive
articles like coffee, sugar, etc., which,
under protection, are admitted free of
duty, and thereby give to the Southern
producers free markets in return for which
reciprocal concessions are demanded.
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THE SUNDAY POsT-INTELLIGEN

Special features Of the SUNDAY Posr-INrRLLr.
cENcER, out tomorrow. will be:
CAMPING Our. By Frederic Remington, the
great artist. illustrated.
PouLTRY-RAIsINa. By Bill Nye. With hand
some pictures.
THE FOLLY OF WAR By Camille Flammarion.
WORLDS FAIR STArUARY With drawings of
the groups in the government building.
MAKING BIO TELESCOPES. Visit to Alvan
Clark's Factory. illustrated.
The COMING YACHT RACES illustrated.
The FIELD OF GETrYsBvRe. By John A.
Cockerill.
THE KING OF BRASS A Story Of Africa BY
Roger Easement
The FOUNDING OF WASHINGTON. By Hon. A.
A. Denny. With portrait.
FASHION ARTICLES Fob MEN AND WoNxN
Illustrated.
The SUNDAY PosT-1NrELLraENcRR il for sale
everywhere. Price cents.
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ROSES OF JUNE.

Irvine not for me those crimson queens OF
bloom
That make Damascus gardens delight;
Wreathe not the royal blossoms that perfume
The star-bright spaces of Egg ptian night
Nor yet the italian rose that garlanded
The brow of Petrarch's Laura, nor the flowers
That warred In merry England-whits and
red
Till Joys head dropped and Sorrow knelled the
hours.
But pluck from yonder hedge-row in the field
AS pure as sweet, as delica as fair
The dearest boon these days of Junetime yield,
The pale wild-rose that Sylvia loves to wear
Clinton ScolLurd
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The people of Spokane are surprised to learn
that the Great Northern is not going to begin a
rate war. Jim Hills answers to questions
about his policy were very unsatisfactory to the
people Of the Falls City. He was going to give
them terminal rates; now they are to have
relative" rates, but not until the road is COM
pleted to the Coast
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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.

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in various cities and towns of the North
west nor TO postmasters, who are in all
cases authorized to take subscriptions for
the Daily, Sunday and Weekly Posr-Is-
rELLiGKNcER.
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THE UNROPED ARENA.

Frank B. Wrestling has summoned a meeting
OF young Republicans between the ages of IS
and % (both inclusive) to meet at the Hotel
Northern Monday evening, June 6, at 7:S0, to
form permanent organization.
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Mr.. and Mrs s. r. prentiss and their children
Miss Prentiss and J. w Prentiss, are at the Raj
nier hotel. Mr.. Prentiss, who has been resi-.
dent OF san Francisco fer the last ten years, is
now with his family on his way back TO his old
home at Bangor 1.-THE last time ! visited Se-
attic, said he, 'was ten years ago, and as l re-
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Mr.. and Mrs n. Capen, of Bloomington, Ill.
are at the Rainier hotel, and will sail for
Alaska on Monday. Mr.. Capen has been in the
banking business at Bloomington for q score Of
years.
party from Iowa il at the Northern hotel.
The members are Mr.. and Mrs. J. B. Moore, OF
Cedar Rapids, and Mr.. and Mrs. @. W. Burnside,
of Odebolt
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Mr.. and Mrs Fl. J. willing. Miss Willing,
Mark Willing, Miss E. Skinner aud Miss f.
Skinner, of Chicago. arrived at the Rainier
hotel yesterday. They are on their way to
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-04-01

different colors. which gives q beautiful
result and then covering the center with a
rug. The Turkish idea of having the floor
inlaid in marble is being introduced he Q.
The effect ia rather cold, to be sure, but
rich rugs can remove this effect to great ex-
tent. Mr.. Strauss, formerly minister to
Turkey. has both his Turkish and his Greek
room inlAid in this style. Rugs are most
expensive Injuries. One car pay for one
measuring only eight by eleven, two or
three thousand dollars. These are Per-
sian, generally, and very antique, which
brings the price up. Mrs. Stokes has some
in her house that have only two counter
parts in this country. The American
Smyrna rugs are very much cheaper
and very handsome effects can be produced
with the best Of them. Good substantial
rugs can be made from Kensington art
squares of ingram woven INTO a regular
pattern and tbs ends fringed. A practical
suggestion to keep rugs in place is to sand-
paper the hoor underneath, but many peo-
ple would hesitate before %diefguring it in
this way.
Moat of the country houses have polished
floors, strevn with rugs. Many quaint eff
fects are noticeable in them-ths rough
ceiling, for instance, which rises straight to
tho roof, in tho pailor only, with all the
beams left unfinished and showing the en-
tire construction. The parlor of Miss Jane
Keith's cottage in the Catskills il quite
unique. A balcony runs around the room,
connected By q small staircase on either
side Of the rough stone chimney. From
the balcony. over tine balustrade, eastern
rugs hang at intervals. The floor is pol
ished, and has a rug here and there. The
high wainscoting.
COnyriRht.