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The Worthington advance., 1892-08-11
REAL N:KINLRY PRICES,
Cost Of Living Has Fallen-Wages Have
Risen Under tho Mckinley Tariff.

OF course you remember the great campaign
OF lying In 1890, when the Democratic hire
lings from one end Of the land to tho other
Presidents signature to the new Tariff was
yet dry that prices OF manufactures were
g mounting skyward" because of the new
measure. They enlisted the services Of un.
scrupulous tradesmen, who. for tho sake Of
temporary gain no less than for political effect.
exacted from their customers the excessive
prices made possible by the Democratic Nc
Kinley prices" hullabaloo. And peddlers were
even hired to 60 about Offering tinware and
other household utensils at fabulous prices,
With instructions to say that such prices were
made necessary by the Mckinley BILL" The
election, occurring less than a N onth after the
new measure took effect, allowed the people
no opportunity TO discover the tr.th before
voting, and tho result was the great trium phi
OF lying and the election OF the present Free
Trade majority to the lower House Of Con-
lgress.
Wien, after election, the people began to
learn that prices, instead OF being higher, were
actually lower, Us Il rule. than before the new
Tariff, the Free Traders dropped the prices
question and took another tack. They started
in asserting that wages were falling. and have
kept up their assertions to this eff ct inces-
sanity down to the present writin-. They coz
sldered themselves safe from conviction here,
because of tho known difficulty OF gathering
wages statistics for the whole county. But
tuls lie, also, mas now ceen run 10 ea.tn.
| = The Senate Committee, appointed soon after
the passage OF the Mckinley measur~, to in.
vestigate its effects on prices an: wages, have
just reported the following results:
| During the trenty-eight months from June 1,
1889, to Sept l, 1891 (ihe act took effect Oct. 6,
189O) the Average retail prices Of t,oentyone arti
ces Of common consumption among the people
declined GA per cent; ,choesate prices of thesanee
articles declined 33 per- cent; prices Of ag,'ic,t-
t,Tal products advanced 1867 per cent, ano
ecages advanced on the Average rs per- cent.
This is the result obtained and unanimously
accepted by Senators Aldrich, alison, Hiscock
and Jones, for the Republicans Senators Har.
ris and Carlisle, for the Democrats. The de.
tails Of the investigation were conducted by
Carroll D. Wright, Commissioner OF tho De-
partment OF Labor at Washington, D. c.; Gen
Francis A. Walker, Professor Henry G. Adams
Edward Atkinson, Professor Edmund j
James, and William Grosvonor. OF the As
(-istants. tho first is independent on the Tariff
question; the next three are Free Traders
and the last two arc Protectionists. All arr
men OF unquestioned probity and Of world
wide reputation as economists and statis
tieians.
With their seal upon this latest condemna
ton of the Mckinley prices and wages liar, b
ought not to show his head az ain in thi
generation.
The Worthington advance., 1892-08-11
IRISH INDUSTRIES.
bow Great Britain Succeeded in De-
stroying Them.
Prohibitory Duties We're Levied on Irisl,
Goods Sent to England. While English
Goods Were Admitted Int Ireland Free
OF At q Vsry Low Rate.

For a time before tho act Of union between
Great Britain aud Ireland, in 1900. the later
tive tariff, and Irish industry expanded and
1ourished graudly. But after the union with
England, Ireland came within the influence OF
the seash system Of Cobdenism, which sought
the advancement OF British manpfactures
even at the cost OF the total destruction OF the
Industries OF other countries. England
set to work to deliberately ruin those Of her
sister island, and this is how she did it.:
Sho lowed a higher tariff on goods sent
from Ireland TO her than Ireland was priv.
LEGGED to levy on English goods entering
Irish ports, a. the following table will show:
Irish goods English
The Worthington advance., 1892-08-11
Domestic Goods Better than Ever Before

In domestic production there never before
we're employed as much skill and as great
amount OF brain power US during the past
season. The result Is shown in the goods on
the market, which, in many instances are quite
|equal to the best of their grade produced
from foreign looms. In every Iins tho best
assortments are shown, and in nothing is any
OF them wanting, except In tho matter OF do
sign in certain lines OF fancy goods, which, In
foreign manufacturer, do not in all cases pre-.
sent that snartness and newness OF design and
pattern so characteristic in foreign goods.
Even in these there is seen n marked advance
on those OF last season, and taken altogether
domestic dress goods are a great crsdit to
American produc'ion.-The Dry Goods Econo.
mist Tariff "Kefo'na," May 28, 1892.
The Worthington advance., 1892-08-11
What .vds Predicted,

Ispeak my unfeigned
convictions when l say
II believe there is no
interest in the country
who will receive so
much benefit from the
repeal OF the Corn Laws
as the farm tenant in.
terest in this country
Richard Golden. 1874.
On the last occasion
on which I spoke on
this subject, I was an.
swered by the Right
Hon. gentleman. the
President Of the Board
of Trade. Mr.. Gladstone.
who accused the Free
TRADERS of wanting to
throw poor land out OF
cultivation altogether,
and throw the other
land out Of tillage into
pasture. I hope the
Anti-Corn Law League
viii! not again be re-.
proached by any such
|design.-ReAGd Golden,
~.
The Worthington advance., 1892-08-11
Purchasing Power Of Farm Produce.

To tell a farmer that his products have gone
up or down In price does not mean much to
him till he knows whether the things he has
to buy have gone up or down in the meantime.
He Is most interested In how much the things
he needs, his produce, or, what is the same
thing. the money he receives for it, will buy.
Below is Il table showing how much moro OF
necessaries given quantity OF
what he raises will exchange for at current
market prices In 1892, after thirty years Of
purchase under free trade tariff in 1850:
Refined Stand'd Cotton Cut
Salt. sugar, prints, cloth. nails
barrelk lbs yards yards lbs
The Worthington advance., 1892-08-11
This Barber Believed in Protection.

Not long ago was In tho city Of Plainf~ld
N. j., city OF 10000 Inhabitants and rapid,
becoming fashionable suburb OF New York
strolled into barber shop. always like tt
talk with tho barber. He knows everything
and has cheerful way Of letting 20 of it
[Laughter.] So ask ed him how things were
coming on In Plainfleld.. He said things were
bad enough in Plainfleld. asked him wha
was tho matter With Plainti"ld.
don't help town much" asked him whai
|he meant. 'Why," said he. II mean thest
fellows doing business In the City Of New York
They buy what they need and get shaved be.
fore they start home. and just roost in PLATA.
The Worthington advance., 1892-08-11
Golden as a Prophet.
What Cone TO Pass.


The depreciation in
land values has in the
last IA years alone
been, says the Presi-
dent Of the Surveyors g
Institution:
In 13 county divisions
OF England. over 50 per
cent. : In IA over 40 per
cent. F.; in SO, over 80 per
cent; in SO over 20 per
cent; In II over 10 per
cont; while tenants
will not in many dis.
tricts take farms rent
free. and the agricul.
tural returns show that
In 20 years two million
acres OF land, three.
fourths Of which car.
rted wheat, have been
thrown out of arabic
cultivation, and 80, ,OOO
agricultural laborers,
mostly heads of. large
families, thereby de.
priveJ OF rural employ,
have swollen the labor
competition II the
towns.
The Worthington advance., 1892-08-11
Irish goods

1n 1883 Lord Clare said OF the condition OF
ireland: "There is not a civilized nation on
vanced in cultlvasing, In agriculture and in
manufactures with the same rapidity in the
same period as had Ireland" Such statement
Was made seventeen years before Eng land got
possession of ireland. What Is the ireland OF
to-day after nearly IL century Of British tariff
legislation? She has not manufacturing in
dustry worthy OF the name, her people forced
to depend solely upon the soil for sui sst-
once. and periodically dependent upon the
worlds charity to keep them from starvation,
and her population reduced to half what it
was before she came under the accursed
system.
Tho late Mr.. Parnell, whose farseeing states
manship and political sasacity brought his
country from utter hopeessnsss to the very
verge Of the liberty it had sought so long aud
vainiy, keenly rcalizod the vital necessity Of
protection TO Ireland's we'll being Said he, as
reported in the weekly edition OF the Dublin
F'etman's Journal of August 22d, 1856:
Thls question OF the protect on OF tho in
0ustrles OF Ireland is ono OF vital importance
for the nation. We have to consider the inter-
est OF the artisans OF tho towns and OF the
leborers in the country, and, as have already
stated, it is my firm belief that it will be i'm
possible Tor US to keep this great portion Of tho
Iaberlng classes at home and in comfort with
out protection 10 Irish Industries. 1t is pro.
blem which requires the utmost exertion on
oil our parts to solve.
'Tbe life OF Ireland is dependent upon the
preservation OF her bone and sinew. Our
population has diminished at the rate OF IA
million decade during the past forty years
1t is time that that should be put atop to,
and that it should be possible for the laborers,
the artisans and mechanics Of ireland to live.
thrive and prosper ut home"
lie one great unanswered and unanswera-
pie question in American politics is: Why are
1rish-Amercans found for tho most part
In the ranks Of the Frea Trade party, which
y fighting Engand's battle to-day as really as
lrishmen have done for centuries in tho Brit
ish army2
The Worthington advance., 1892-08-11
A Deadly Parallel from History.

The Tariff OF 1890 was by no means the
first in our history to prove the utter unre.
liability OF Free Trade predictions of evils to
come upon the country under its operation.
Here. for instance, is q quotation from our
old Free Trade friend, the New York Evenin9
Post, of July, 1924, relative to the famous
Protective Tariff act OF that year. We place
beside it the simple statement OF the facts re.
vealed by eight years actual experience under
that Tariff, as made by Henry Clay in speech
The Worthington advance., 1892-08-11


Pass the Tariff as re.
ported by the com nit
tee and you palsy the
nation. Pass it. and
where will you any
longer find occupants
for your costly piles OF
stores and dwelling
houses7 Pass 1t, and
who will be exempt
from its grinding ope-
ration?
The poorer classes,
Especially, must feel
its effect IN paying an
additional price 1Or
every article Of Qfclothing
they and their families
wear, and every mouth
full they eat or drink.
save cold water; and TO
that will they ere long
be reduced.-Nt,U York
Evening Post. July, 1924.
This ought to b. Il '
MA "a M roll, IN 4
The Worthington advance., 1892-08-11

1t is just possible that our farmers do not
appreciate the blessings Protection has show
cred down and is continuing to shower down
upon them, and that they want TO return to
the system under which they had to almost
give their stuff away for want Of home mar
ket for it-but w don't believe that they are
lao stupid.
The Worthington advance., 1892-08-11

|aeld:" (Laughter.1 And 40 crawled out a
THAT Democratic barber's chair made up my
mind to do everything could by vote and by
|epeech to prevent tho Democratic party from
converting the people Of tho United States
into English roosters, doing business in Lon
don and merely sleeping in the United States.
Congressman D0lliUer.
The Worthington advance., 1892-08-11

On q general survey
we behold cultivation
extended; the arts f1ou-
rishing; the face OF the
country improved; our
people fully and profit.
ably employed ; the
public countenance ex-
hibiting tranquility,
coutentment and hap
piness; its public dob,
OF two wars nearly re.
deemed; and. to crown
all. the public treasury
OverfiOwing. 1.-THE term
OF seven years wero to
be selected OF the great.
est prosperity which
this people has enjoyed
since the establish mon
OF their present Consti.
tuition, it would be OK.
actly that period OF
seven years which i'm.
mediately followed the
passage Of the Tariff OF
1s24.-Henry Clay, speech
IN the Senate, 1882.
arning to everybody to
eo Trade DrODlleSieS.
The Worthington advance., 1892-08-11
FARM LABOR INTERESTED.
Higher Wages For Agricultural Labor il
Misunderstanding Seciiona.

Mnhu10ctuflnX Sections
"A report just issued by the Secretary of Ag-
rlculture, relative to compensation OF labor
ers on farms in different sections OF the United
States, draws an interesting com pnrison be-
tween the wages Of such laborers in sections
exclusively devoted TO agriculture, and those
IN which manufacturing Industries have also
been tabished. From this report we learn
et the present time are as follows:
Auerage Monthly Wages Of Farm, Labor.
Eastern States. .$26 Is
Middle States. ..........,,,....... 90 3e3
mestern states. ........................... 2261
We havo eliminated the Pacific States from
this comparison because Of abnormal con.
oltlons. such as the extreme scarcity of labor
existing In those commonwealths. Consider
ing the sections given In our table, we find that
wages are highest in the Eastern States, which
are essentially manufacturing communities.
Continuing through tho Middle and West
ern States, wages gradually tall. being lowest
IN the south, the section most distinctly agri-
cultural. The same result is shown in the
comparison between wages in individual
q, stasee: Wages.
Aassachueetts... ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 500 70
Rhode Island. ................... 70 90
.............. 26 20
1o"sA SaIoln6.. IL. 80
From the figures given We readily perceive
that wages OF farm laborers arc higher or
lower. according as the section Of the country
IN question 10 more or less a manufacturing
section. This is q natural consequences Of
placing the farm and tho factory together. for
the market developed by tho latter tor the
products OF the former not only results in
higher prices for those products Tut also, and
through those higher prices, in higher wages
tor the Workingmen producing them. Thus
u fhoHl lAvo ~. -
cent effect on agriculture Of our Protective
policy.
The Worthington advance., 1892-08-11

It Is very evident that tho farmer the car.
penter and people generally y " who use hand. hand,
(the duty on imported files) on the f1les they
buy to Keep their tools in order. Good Amer
ican 411I@-inoh files. made by American work.
ingmen at American rates OF wages. are adver-
tised in the trade papers for ~ cents dozen
less than Grover Cleveland's alleged tax on
them.
The Worthington advance., 1892-08-11
Farms Increasing in Value.

This ought to b. a warning to everybody I
place no reliance on Free Trade prophesies,
The Worthington advance., 1892-08-11

II
~ pamphlet entitled "Amerjcan Tariffs from Ply.
mouth Rock to Mckinley; which will be sent to ad
dress for ten 00) cents Address WILBUR r. WAKE
NAN, Genl Sec'y. American Protective Tariff LsageA
I36 West "a n, New York.
The Worthington advance., 1892-08-11
A PATRIOTIC WORK

NOV IN PRESS.-"The American Wool In.
~ dustry." by Hon. VIM. Lawrence President The
Ohio Wool Grove. s. Associate the and
reliable pamphlet ever ublished. showing the benefits
featuring This pamphlet will be sent any address foe
ak t6) cents Address Wilbur F. Wakeman, General
Secretary American Protective Tariff Lacquer l3s Wast
Twenty third street, New York, =.
The times., 1892-04-29
Literary Notes.
THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY.

lhE AlIANl1C MONIHL1.
Mr.. Scudder should be congratulated on
his success in obtaining for The atlantic
the brilliant correspondence of Ralph Waldo
Emerson and Thoreau, which occupies the
first place in the issue for the month of May.
The letters are edited by Mr.. f. b. San
born, of Concord, and they give characteris-
tic glimpses of the life, physical, mental and
spiritual. of the two friends during the
dial" PERIOD as the editor calls tin other
words, ls43. A fit companion-p piece to these
letters is the Roman Journals of Severn, the
friend of Keats, which give quite thrilling
picture of the events preceding the fall of
Papal Rome. These papers are edited by
William Sharp. Apropos of Rome, Harriet
Walters Preston and Louise Dodge contrib
ute the first of series of articles on "Pri-
vate Life in Ancient Rome," and Mr.. Craw-
ford continues his Italian serial, "Don Or
sino." Two unsigned articles will attract
attention for their cleverness, the first being
"A Plea for Seriousness, the second, 'The
Staying of the Gerrymander," a keen thrust
at this political monster, complete strong
number of this standard magazine.
Houghton, Miffln q Co., Publishers, Bos-
ton, Mass.
The times., 1892-04-29
Make a Place for the Boys.

What can boy do, and where can a boy stay,
II he always is told to get out of the ways
He cannot sit here and he must not stand there
The cushions that cover that fine rocking chair
Were nut there, OF course, TO be seen and ad-
mired;
And boy has no business TO ever get tired.
The beautiful rosies and flowers that bloom
On the floor of that darkened and delicate room,
Are not made to walk on, at least not by boys
The house is no place. anyway for their noise.
Yet boys must walk somewhere and what II
their feet,
Sent out of our houses sent into the street,
Should step round the corner and pause at the
door
Where other boys feet have paused often be-
fore;
Should pass through the gateway of glttering
light,
Where jokes that are merry and songs that are
bright
Ring out a warm welcome with fiattering voice,
And temptingly say, Here's a place for the
boysyn
All what if they shouldG What if your boy or
mine
Should cross DER the threshold that marks out
the line
'Twixt virtue and vice, 'twixt pureness and sin,
And leave all his innocent boyhood withinS
o! what If they should, because you and l.
While the days and the months and the years
hurried by
Are too busy with cares and with lifes fieeting
joys,
To make round our hearthstones place for the
boysS
There's place for the boys. They will find it
somewhere;
And If our own homes are too daintily fair
For the touch of their fingers, the tread of their
feet,
They'll find it, and find it, alas in the street.
Mid the gildings OF SIN and the glitter of vice.
And with heartaches and longings we pay dear
price,
For the getting of gain that our lifetime en-
ploys,
If we fail in providing place for the boys.
"A place for the boyS-dear mother pray,
AS cares settle down round our short earthly
way,
Don't let us forget by our kind, loving deeds
To show we remember their pleasures and
needs.
Though our souls may be vexed with the prob
lens of life,
And worn with besetments and toiling and
strife,
Our hearts will keep younger-your tired heart
and mine
five give them place in their innermost
shrine;
And to lifes last hour twill be one of our Joys
That we kept small corner, "a place for the
boys.
The times., 1892-04-29
THE DEATH RECORD.

HENRY w. DERBY, well-known publish.
er and founder of the Cincinnati Enquirer,
at Columbus, o.
General ALBERT G. EDWARDS, at st.
Louis.
WILLIAM HENRY DIXON, well-known
railroad man, at st. Paul.
General EDWIN p. GOODRICH, at Boston.
Major General Sir LEwIG PELLY, at
London.
Grand Duchess FREDERICK WILHEL-
NINA, sister of Emperor William Ii, at
Berlin.
EUGENE H. CowLEs, son of the late Ed
win Cowles of the Cleveland Leader, at
FL Paso, Tex.
Rev. j. HOWARD DIXON, ID. d., promi-
nent Presbyterian, at st. Louis.
JAMES III. MANDEvILLE, well-known law
yer of Washington.
Colonel j. NJ. REID, an old citizen of
Keokuk, Ia.
Professor FRANZ LEITZ, the nestor of
German surgeons at Munich.
HENRY BEADMAN BRYANT, of Bryant g.
Stratton's Business college, at Chicago.
THOMAS TURNDULL, noted builder of
steamships, at Whitby, England.
CHARLES REED, one of the counsel for
Guiteau, at Baltimore.
LOUIS VAIL, prominent German citizen
Of Chicago.
WILLIAM BRADFORD. the famous artist
on arctic scenery, at New York.
Colonel RICHARD BDDLE ERWIN, New
York journalist.
Mrs. SARAH RANDOLPH, granddaughter
of Thomas jefferson, at Baltimore.
WurtAu ACTOR brother of the lat0
John Jacob Astor, In Paris.
The times., 1892-04-29
Pronounced Hopeless Yet Saved.

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husband was advised TO get DR.. Kings New
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store
The times., 1892-04-29
THE PANsY.

for May is seasonabe number. The nota-
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the English Literature paper-"John Mil.
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The stories are, bright, as the Pdnsy stories
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throughout such as will attract attention
Way Stations" by Pansy, and "Little
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The times., 1892-04-29
Ornamental Shade Trees.

Hard or soft maple. Having had sixteer
years experience in setting trees, with the
best of results, l am prepared to furnish all
who wish trees at very short notice, trees
that aOtu liUe, too. Do not have person
set your trees unless he understands the
business, as it is expensive on your part
Give in your order early for Arbor Day, and
will see that you are all supplied. just
notice the trees around third ward school,
house that set last spring. Address
GEORGE +. MARTIN,
u Box 395, OWossO.
The times., 1892-04-29
Bold Work of TramDs.

CHATTANOOGA, April 26.-Two tramps
ATTEMPTED in broad daylight on the streets
of Dayton to assault a young lady, but her
cries brought aid and the wretches were
arrested. At night fifty of the best men in
the town started for the lookup, intending
to administer 100 lashes to each of the vii
lains, but were foiled The police heard
of the coming crowd and took the prison.
ers to the county Jail. Letters found in
the pockets of the prisoners bore the
names of r.. l.. Jankins and Samuel West.
erwedge
The times., 1892-04-29
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