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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-03-31

States Indian agent, wrote to the commissioner
of Indian affairs:
az have the honor to inform you that there
has been delivered at this agency, under con-
pounds of bacon, which decline to receive be-
cause the bacon is not marketable
This bacon had received the inspection Of
the inspector of the Indian Office in the city Of
Chicago Ii had been passed by him and had
been shipped by rail to Rushville, in Nebraska
and then transported TO the Indian agency.
Capt Penney says:
tit 10 old bacon, rancid and musty and not
clear sides.' The bacon is, in nv opinion
unfit for food at present and will soon be rot
ten and good for nothing"
have no copy Of the contract under which
this bacon was furnished, but 1 cannot believe
that it was ever intended that such bacon
should be furnished for food. Please instruct
me at your earliest convenience e. to what you
desire done with the bacon.
Thereupon the commissioner OF Indian af-
fairs telegraphed him November II. 1881:
Bacon furnished by J. o. Armour Of Chicago
and not yet paid for. Hold entire quantity
subject to further orders. Contractor will be
required to remove il and furnish bacon ND to
contract requirements in lieu thereof
Then there followed quite q considerable cor
respondence. telegraphiug. &c, and some time
in December the army officer, Capt Penney,
was relieved and Capt lie Roy Brown OF the
eleventh infantry was sent to take his place
He took up the correspondence, and in view of
the fact that there was no bacon on hand and
that the Indians needed bacon supply he
asked that n. 900 pounds Of good bacon Be ssnt
to him for issue 10 these Indiana
THE PRINCIPAL oBoUxp FoR coxPxArxr
Now. mark IL. the principal ground for COM
plant BY the Sioux, and, 10 my opinion, one
Of the main causes Of the Indian ousbreak in
the Sioux nation Of list winter year ago, was
not only because Of the insufficient food that
had been furnished 70 them, but the char
acter Of the food that had been furnished
them. Captain Brown makes application for
5000 pounds Of good bacon One Hundred sad
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-03-31

An ARMY OFFICER ACTING AZ An AGENT mr.
cIINEs TO ACCEPT BACON WHICH HE CONSIDERS
rSFTT FOR USE, ALrHouoH ORDERED TO DO so
mo DEBATE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-03-31

Is Onrr wanted for two 3ssory bricks on K st. bet.
18th nd sosh =. must go. Apply az nSS,ssra
The Globe-republican., 1892-11-25
ENEMIES OF THE PUBLIC.

At Adams, Mass, before an audience
Of twelve thousand people. who were
present at the dedication of the new mill
of the Berkshire Cotton company, Gov
ernor Mckinley said: "What do you
think of the leaders of party that 60
about discouraging American indus
tries? I call them enemies of the pub
lic."
w. B. Plunkett, the treasurer of the
Berkshire Cotton company, said:
these two mills would never have
been built were it not for the Mckinley
law. Our goods take the place of those
which were formerly imported. When
the new mill starts up, We shall turn out
5000. 900 yards of cloth every year. We
will then employ over 1000 men. There
is not a pound Of material in this whole
5000, 900 yards of cloth but what Is
raised in the United States. The prin-
cipal item Of expense is the labor. The
mems wages average over 50 per week.
The new mill is supplied with machin-
cry made in this country. It is built
with American capital and labor and the
whole thing is American to the back
bone.
The Globe-republican., 1892-11-25
AFARMER'S tariffs THIS,

What The M'Kinley Law Has Done
For Agriculture.
l. It has saved to the American
farmer home market for his barley,
worth over $4,000, 900 yearly.
2. It has saved to the American
farmer home market for his tobacco,
worth 100000 yearly.
3. 1t has saved to the American
farmer home market for his potatoes,
amounting to 81, 100000 yearly
4. It has saved to the American
poultry raiser homo market for his
eggs, amounting to $1,7O0,OOO yearly.
5. 1t has saved to the American
fruit grower a home market for his
raisins, his prunes, nuts and other
fruits, worth $5,25O.O00 a year.
6. It has saved the American wool
grower from utter ruin by protecting
him from disastrous competition
with foreign Scent wool, keeping the
price of American wool at an average
of 3O.5 cents per pound by comparison
with an average of 1877 cents per pound,
as shown by quotations of similar grades
at corresponding dates in Philadelphia
and London. Difference in favor of
the protected American wool grower
1853 cents per pound.
The Globe-republican., 1892-11-25

PROBABLY there is not another
question that is sent to the newspa-
pers so often as the one asking for a
statement of the relative importance
of Chicago as port of navigation.
1t is officially answered in the Gov
eminent report on the internal COM
merce of the United States for 1890.
The vessel tonnage entering and
clearing at Chicago is about one-half
of that which enters and clears at
London, the latter being the princi-
pal port of the world. 1t is nearly
two-thirds as great as the total Liv-
erpool tonnage, and greatly exceeds
that Of any other port in the United
Kingdom. It nearly equals the total
tonnage arriving and clearing at New
York in the foreign trade, and ex-
ceeds the combined tonnage entering
and clearing in the foreign trade at
the ports of Boston, Baltimore, Phil.
adelphia, and San Francisco. 1t
nearly equals the total tonnage in the
foreign trade at Hamburg, which i
the chief among the German ports,
and exceeds by large margin the
foreign tonnage at Antwerp. If the
coastwise tonnage of New York were
added to its foreign tonnage, that
port would probably dispute the Sec
ond place with Liverpool on the list
of world ports, Hamburg would oc-
cupy the fourth position, and there is
every reason to believe that the fifth
and sixth positions would fall to Chi
cago and Buffalo.
The Globe-republican., 1892-11-25

The conviction of a Philadelphia
lady and her agents of cruelty to an
finals in docking" horses tail ought
to be sufficient warning to the fools
everywhere who think they can i'm
prove on the work of the Creator.
The cruelty is not alone in the tor
ture the animal endures in the dock
ing" process, by which portion Of
the bone is removed and certain mus
cles rendered useless; it is to be found
also in the suffering of the animals
from flies, mosquitoes and other in
sects from which it can free itself
only by the use of the tail. But the
S. P. e. A. ought to take note also of
the outrageous cruelty involved in
the check rein, which forces the
horse to hold his head in an unnat-
ura! position and to suffer accord
ingly.
The Globe-republican., 1892-11-25
THE ANTI-AMERICAN PARTY.

From the Kansas City, Mo-, journal.
The republican party has been aptly
called the American party, because il
favors the policy which is building up
American industry and establishing
American independence. For similar
reason the democratic party may be
called the anti-American party; it op-
poses and is endeavoring to overthrow
this policy. Its hostility is especially
pronounced this year; the framing of
the anti-tariff plank in the national
platform was given over to mon under
the guidance of leader who openly
avowed that "war of determination"
was to be waged against all protected
industries. The democratic policy in
the present campaign, therefore, is more
than usually hostile to home enterprise
and home labor, and is consequently en-
titled to be regarded as most conspicu-
ously anti-American.
1t is not from the platform utterances
alone that democracy's unpatriotic poll
cy is to be determined, either. The
columns of the democratic press continu-
ally effervesce with hatred of tho
methods by which industrial progress
is successfully stimulated. Nothing
creates more genuine joy among dem
ocratic editors than the failure of pro-
tected establishment. And no effort is
made to conceal the exultation; it is
open and shameless. The failure of a
pearl button factory is gladly hailed by
every Bourbon paper in the country,
and it is great day for democracy
when a tin plate plant goes down. The
wreck of useful enterprises of this char
acter, instead of awakening the regret
that every genuine American ought to
feel,is gloated over with ghoulish delight.
No foreign enemy of the United States
could be more gratified at such disas-
ters than these partisan editors. If
this is not anti-Americanism it is some
thing that possesses all the anti-American
ear-marks, and is fully as bad or worse.
An eminent democrat remarked re-
Gently that the democratic party was
handicapped this year by the prosperity
of the country. What an admission to
make! Could there be O more frank
confession that democracy is opposed
to national progress and success?
Some years ago the democratic party
essayed to overthrow the government
by force of arms. It's anti-American
disposition was then plainly apparent.
Since then the country has been gener-
Gus enough to credit it with patriotic
motives. But it's policy this year shows
it to be the same old anti American par
ty it was in the COS, though not quite
SO belligerent. 1t is still cherishing the
principles of the old confederate con-
stitution and trying to chain them
about the feet Of American progress.
The Globe-republican., 1892-11-25

ANENT the objection of the Prus-
sian Reichstag to appropriating more
money for war materials bumptious
young Emperor William asserts him.
self as follows: Il will give up the
educational bill if necessary, but I
will never withdraw the military
bill" Just little more in this strain
from Willie and it is likely that the
option Of giving up" and withdraw
ing" will be taken from him. The
Germans are conservative, but when
they are aroused that army and the
Hohenzollern barnacle with it will be
swept aside to make room for the
despised educational bill and some
other things.
The Globe-republican., 1892-11-25

THE chief difficulty in the way OF
appointing poet laureate to succeed
TennysOn appears to be that the three
or four bards who would appear at all
respectable in the dead singers man.
tie are strongly tainted with social
ism. Were it not for Swinburne's Of
ten and fiercely expressed scorn to the
pomp and trappings of royalty he
would succeed to the Office as of an
inheritance. Tennyson began his
poetic life inspired with something
Of the same scorn. But it was long,
long ago, that he wrote and believed:
Howe'er it be. it seems to me
IT'S only noble to be good.
Kind hearts are more than coronets,
And simple faith than Norman blood
All that sort of thing had been for
given when he was made Lord Ten.
nyson. And even Swinburne's Songs
Before Sunrise" might be overlooked,
but it would hardly do to favor with
the smiles of royalty the man who
advised the assassination of the Car.
William Norris, Of Earthly Paradise"
fame, is another great poet, but he is
also a socialist. And so faithful Sir
Edwin Arnolds stands a pretty good
chance for the honor. His lyrical
feet are lame, his rhymes are bad
and his blank verse monotOnous. But
then poor Pye was poet laureate of
whom Byron says that he would rath-
er err with Pope than shine with
Pye, and so was Colley Cibber, hero
OF the Dunciad. The list IL not al
made up of TennysonA
The Globe-republican., 1892-11-25
1.-THE FOREIGNER DOES NOT PAY
THE TAX"

From the American Economist
The Evening Post heads as above it's
extracts from a reply of the New Eng
land Tariff Reform league to the Home
Market c.ub-said league trying to
prove that foreigners do not pay the
customs duties on tin. Both the Post
and the Boston tariff Performers" seem
to be oblivious of one fact; but it is one
among 80 many that they cannot we'll
remember al, and so try TO forget or
ignore all.
The fact is that from January to
March, 1891, the price of steel, coke
finish, &c tin plate in Wales ranged
from 16 shillings and pence to 10
shillings, but for the same months in
1892 from IL shillings to IL shillings
and 9 pence, the WEIGH makers reducing
their price the amount of the Mckinley
duty in operation in the latter period.
Poor memory is sometimes very conven-
ient-to q free trader.
More tin-plate works in Baltimore
and Chicago are being planned.
The Globe-republican., 1892-11-25

One Of the papers published in
London has adopted the plan of dis
playing from its building three times
each day the signals which tell what
kind of weather is predicted by the
meteorological bureau. Also it keeps
on hand in the Office supply of cards
which may be had for the asking by
persons who do not know what the
signals mean but want to understand
them. The average Londoner who
goes past that Office has only to look
up in order to tell whether or not it
is advisable to carry an umbrella, and
the only fault in the arrangement
consists in the fact that he has al
ready left home when he sees the sig
nal.
The Globe-republican., 1892-11-25

portions Of soup were dealt out from
Stewart's soup Kitchen" in tho rear of
the great store, corner Reade street
and Broadway. At the rooms on Duane
street for the relief Of the poor on the
same day they gave food to 2.256. In
the Sixth Ward alone 5000 persons
were fed by charity on Saturday, Jan
nary IL. And this is only one day in
one ward. Meanwhile scenes of a like
nature a1e being enacted all over the
city. A procession of several thousand
persons kept marching about the streets
yesterday, with flags and banners which
bore such inscriptions as "Hunger is q
Sharp Thorn" 'Tne Last Resourse,"
''Live and Let Live I'VE Want Work."
etc. Such are the scenes that are being
enacted before our eyes, while the CRY
OF hard times reaches Us from every
part of the country. The making of
roads is stopped, factories are closed.
and houses and ships are no longer
being built. Factory hands, road
makers, carpenters, brick layers and
laborers are idle. Paralysis is rapidly
embracing every pursuit in the country.
The cause of all this stoppage of circu-
lation is to be found in the steady out
flow of gold to pay foreign laborers for
the cloth, the shoes, tho iron, and the
other things that could be produced by
American labor, but which cannot be so
produced under our present revenue
system. If it be not stopped (ths dem
ocratic revenue only tariff SYSTEM We
shall see tens Of thousands of men every
where crying, ''Give me work. Only
give me work. Make your own terms.
My wife and my children have nothing
to eat"
No such distress as is told Of BY
Horace Greeley in the above extract
ever was felt in this country under pro-
lection. Wages are now so per cent
higher than then and employment far
more constant
The Globe-republican., 1892-11-25

A HULKING piece Of humanity has
been sent to Jail in San Francisco for
three months for choking his foster
mother, woman Of seventy years.
The novelty of his defense, that he
was merely caressing the old lady and
that her strangling was but Incl
dental to the exuberance of his
affection, might have touched some
hearts. Few old ladies have to ap-
peal to the police to keep from being
petted to death.
The Globe-republican., 1892-11-25

A TACOMA man went down to
Philadelphia with a wad of money
and double-action gun. Yet he was
robbed and drugged and arrested and
poisoned inside of twenty-four hours.
What with its tricky financial insti-
buttons and footpads the ancient city
Of .brotherly love is gaining an unen-
visible reputation. Unsophisticated
Western men should beware and fight
shy Of Philadelphia when good Sum
day School Samaritans lie in wait to
take in" the stranger.
The Globe-republican., 1892-11-25

Done give MP and say there is no help for
Catarrh, Hay Fever and Cold in head, since
thousands testify that Ely's cream Balm has
entirely cured them.
I Have been bothered with catarrh for
about twenty years; had lost sense of
smell entirely and l had almost lost my
hearing. NJ eyes were getting SO dim had
to get some one to thread my needle. Now
l have my hearing as well as l ever had. and
! can see to thread as fine a needle as l ever
did, my sense of smell seems to be improv-
ing all the time. l think there IS nothing
like Ely's Cream Balm for Catarrh.-Mrs.
E. E. Grimes, Rendrill, Perry Co., o.
Apply Balm into each nostriI. 1t is Quick
~ Absorbed. Gives Rsiief ~ once. Price
so cents at Druggists or By mail.
ELY BROTHERS. IS Warren St., New
York.
The Globe-republican., 1892-11-25

Corn sold in Atchison in 1871 at 40
cents. It required 300 to 325 bushels
to pay for a wagon. In 1892 it takes
less than half as much corn to pay for
a better wagon. In 1871 wheat sold
for 80 to IS cents. 1t required from
14O to $50 bushels to buy q wagon. In
1892 ninety bushels of wheat at 60 cents
pays for better wagon. In 1871 it re-
quired fifteen bushels of corn to pay for
q key of nails. In 1892 six and one
quarter bushels Of corn buys q key of
better nails. In 1876, when barb wire
was first made, it took sixty-two bushels
of corn to buy 100 pounds Of wire. 1t
takes only seven and one-half bushels to
buy 100 pounds of better wire to-day.
The Globe-republican., 1892-11-25

A YOUNG, wealthy and popular
New Yorker was killed at a fox hunt
held not far from that city. His
horse, while taking a board fence,
caught his foot in a barbed wire that
ran above, and fell upon his rider,
killing him almost instantly. The
fox hunt is good old English pas
time that would not be en- regle if it
were not accompanied by death
now and then.
The Globe-republican., 1892-11-25
THE POOR MANS BLANKET.

It Costs Less Than The Total
Amount Of the Mckinley Tax.
A pair of blankets weighing six pounds
and four ounces can be bought in the
American market for 1915, or 60 cents
per pound. The custom house duty
or tariff on such blankets is ga cents
per pound.
And Mr.. Grover Cleveland, remarks
the New York Advertiser, says that
when the poor workingman buys a pair
of these blankets the robber tariff COM
pels him to pay to the robber baron of
an American manufacturer as an extra
profit the amount of the duty, viz, 62s
cents per pound over and above the
regular profit and tho cost of manu-
featuring.
The question arises, What is his reg
ular profit and what does it cost him to
make the blankets?
In case the blankets are of English
manufacture, Mr.. Cleveland says that
the poor man has been mulcted 624
cents per pound, or $3.50 on the blan-
kets he has purchased, for the benefit
VI UAO OuAICO 00oV00 tI0oSuIys
In any event, according to Mr..
Cleveland and his party, the poor work
ingman, in paying 1915 for pair of
blankets, has been robbed of $3.50,
which has gene either to swell the prof
its of the robber baron of a manufac-
turer or has been paid into the United
States treasury.
The blankets have cost him $3.50
more than they would have cost him if
it had not been for the protective tariff,
according TO Mr.. Cleveland and his
associates. 1.-THE consumer pays the
tax" they insist.
It may be that the poor workingman
himself cannot understand how it hap
pens that in an expenditure of 1915
for his blankets he has paid $3.50 more
than they would have been compelled
to pay if there had been no protective
tariff; but Mr.. Cleveland says that it is
so and his party swears to what he says,
and that settles it.
And this is only one of great many
just such instances which might be
cited as going to show that the free
traders cannot reconcile their theory
with the facts.
The Globe-republican., 1892-11-25
German
Syrup /.

My acquaintance with Boschee's
GermanSyrupwa made about four
teen years ago. I contracted a cold
which resulted in a hoarseness and
cough which disabled ME from fill
ing my pulpit for a number of Sab
baths. After trying a physician,
without obtaining relief I saw the
advertisement of your remedy and
obtained bottle. Ireceived quick
and permanent help. I never hest
tate to tell my experience. Rev. w.
II. Haggerty, Martinsville, N. J. q
The Globe-republican., 1892-11-25

THERE is something in obstinacy
which differs from every other pas
sion. Whenever it fails it never re-
covers, but either breaks like iron or
crumbles sulkily away, like frac-
tured arch. Most other passions have
their periods of fatigue and rest,
their sufferings and their cure, but
obstinacy has no resource, and the
first wound is mortal.
The Globe-republican., 1892-11-25
CHEAP RATES FOR A WINTER TRIP
Via SANTA FE ROUTE

Via SANTA FEE ROUTE
To Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Califor-
Ella, Utah and Old Mexico, are offered by
the Santa Fe.
Tickets now ON sale good until June LIST,
with sufficient transit limit in each direction
to enable passengers to stop OF at all points
en- route. List of des. nations includes Cor
pus Christi, Ell Paso, Galveston, Houston,
Me1ico. noaterey. Phoenix, Prescott, Sal i.
tillo, San Luis Potosi. Las Vegas Hot
Springs, Grand Canon of the Colorado, Los
Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Salt
Lake and Portlaud
New Mexico 10 noted as having ono Of the
most equable climates in the world. sudden
changes being almost wholly unknown. II
il q mest desirable place, either for the busi-
ness man. pleasure seeker, or the invalid,
while it u the haven for tho immigrant. No
portion of the United States can compare
With tho fertile valleys of its rivers, ana in
tho productions of the field, the market gar.
den, the orchard and tho vineyard.
For full particulars regarding the country,
rates. stopovera, ETC., etc, call On or address
nearest Santa Fe agent, or
Gao. T. NICHOLSON.
g. p. d T. A.,
W. ]. BLAcK, Topeka, Kansas.
A. G. p. 4 T.. A. If.
The Globe-republican., 1892-11-25

AS THE spirit of the age is unques-
tionably one of fairness, it follows
that martyr stands far more chance
OF public support and sympathy than
an autOcrat; and that the surest way
to create popularity for man is to
persecute him. The presumption is
always, and generally with justice,
against the prosecutors. Persecution
OF whatever kind is at once blunder
and a crime.
The Globe-republican., 1892-11-25

betaken himself from the matrimonial
market and is safe in the sacred cir
Gle of domesticity. 1t is also a de-
light to know that Mrs. BabcOck
learned to love him for himself alone,
as she had been accused by rivals of
actuation by a mercenary motive
quite to be condemned.
The Globe-republican., 1892-11-25
A Tremendous Runs,.A1

u IfemO000US Hu0lleAD
In the system Is produced by q disorderly
liver. Bile gets into the blood and gives q
saffron tinge to the countenance and eyeballs
sick headache sensue, the digestive organs are
thrown out OF gear, the bowels become costive.
there are pains through the right eide and
shoulder blade. the breath grows sour and the
tongue furred dizziness is frequent, especially
on rising suddenly. This state OF affairs can
not exist unless the disturbance were q serious
one. Yet it is easily remediable with Hos
letters Stomach Bitters. which relieves every
symptom of biliousness and indigestion, and
promotes q regular action Of the DO Wels and IS
auxiliary Of appetite and sleep. The Bitters is
. superb specific for malarial and kidney trou.
Bile. rheumatism and debility. wineglassful
thrice DAY.
The Globe-republican., 1892-11-25

LIZZIE BORDEN is believed to be in
sane because she alternately smiles
and weeps. The fates forfend! Is
this a conspiracy to incarcerate as
deranged all of our vast female citi-
zenship except soured spinsters and
Anticipated matrOns? Out with the
woman that cannot smile and weep a
dozen times in as many minutes.
The Globe-republican., 1892-11-25

THE grandson of Dom Pedro has
brOoded over an ambition to secure
the Brazilian throne until he has be-
come bowling lunatic straitjacketed
in a padded cell. Meanwhile the
throne is in the garrett, and the dust
of passing seasons settles upon it
fearless of being disturbed.
The Globe-republican., 1892-11-25
FREE-TRADE AND FREE SOUP.
From the New York Tribune, January, 1855.

From the New York Tribune, January, 1855
On Saturday We spent an hour there
(Orange aud Chatham streets, where
charity gave dinners to the poor at the
hour of high tide. We have [ ever seen
anything like it before. Upwards Of a
thousand people we're fed with . plate
OF soup. q piece Of bread and . piece Of
meat. on tho premises, and in al moro
than 1000. On the same day 1130
The Globe-republican., 1892-11-25

Soup, soap, and salvation" is the
alliterative motto of a Baltimore
mission. the inference is that hunger
and dirt are unconquerable enemies
of salvation.