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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-07-20
CHRONICLES OF 1904.
By JULIAN WERE.
Chapter VIII.-Homestedd.

1. And it came to pass that all the
Philistines aud the half tribe of Mug
wump wept sore. and fell upon each
Others necks, sobbing very sobbingly;
for they were broken uD In business, be
cause when Oates went TO Homestead, 10,
there were no political oates for the free
traders; and the free traders wept freely.
Q. Behold, the duty OH steel had been
lowered by the Mckinley bill; therefore
the free traders could steal no thunder be-
cause of any increased duty on steel.
3. Moreover, they learned with much
swiftness that Protective Tariff had
built up Homestead; yea, had free trade
prevailed, 10, it had not been.
4. And as the free traders heard Of the
beautiful homes of the wage-earners at
Homestead, there was much weeping and
wailing and gnashing of teeth among
uu-American Philistines and Mugwumps.
5. For they said, there is death In our
political pie. Why DO these Homesteaders
receive big pay instead OF starvation
wagesp Is it that Providence has
brought this mean thing about to expose
the depths of the humbugerv of tariff re-
form ? Behold, had Protection held the
sun in one hand and the rain in the other.
this fair goddess who blesseth American
industry could hardly have raised bigger
crop for the glory of n protective tariff.
q. Nay, even when we imagined our
selves a mighty agricultural district,
needing gentle cultivation, along comes
this Homestead instrument for harrow
ing up our fondest hopes. Even when
we thought to beat, aud looked for load
OF sweet free trade beets, 10 they quickly
turned up tons of protective turnips
Moreover, the protectionists cabba yed all
the cabbage heads, ourselves among the
little undeveloped ones which never came
TO a head. just like all our fond hopes.
Z. Howbeit when we heard that the
Carnegie Company held mortgages. for
&42, 900 on their laborers' homes, aud we
thought to manufacture a drop OF pollti-
cal capital out OF the fact, then were our
mouths shut for we soon learned that
the laborers had deposited in the com
panys hands $4,000, for which they
were receiving 6 per cent. interest.
8. And there was great rejoicing among
the Harrison of the tribe of Benjamin.
And they killed the fatted calf aud sew
eral more of the half tribe OF Mugwump.
And they jubilated, saying, we do defy
the tons OF Pinkertons; for the Pinkertons
are not our kind of pinks.
o. So the lsraelites lighted thei r politi
cal rockets, and made merry at the eX-
pense of the free traders.
10. And when Senator Palmer tried to
palm off his candle diped for CREASED
lightning and made himself the butt Of
the Israeites by butting against Home
stead and protection, the protectionists
said, let this blower from Illinois noise
around, he cannot blow Us up with mere
wind, and he hath none Of the powder OF
truth on his side.
IL. Aud the NEWS sent out the news of
the glad tidngs; aud there were added to
the protectionists daily such as were saved
from the Stuffed Prophet aud the Dagon
Next Chronicle, "The Gentle shot
(,uurl
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GROVER A VICTIM.
All Democrats Arc Anxious TO be Per
secuted" similarly.

All Democrats Are Anxious to be "Per-
secuted" similarly.
A correspondent writes to ask why
The Recorder does not include in its list
Of the Victims Of Republican Oppres-
sion" Grover Cleveland? Our corre-
spondent calls attention to the fact that
for the first time in its history, as q
party, the Democracy has chosen one
man as its standard bearer for q third
term.
In answer to our correspondent we de-
sire to say that the idiocy of the Demo
cratic party in regard to the presidency
and the nomination to the first Office in
the gift OF the people is something with
which we have no concern.
But the second proposition of our cor
respondent demands an answer.
We have refrained from placing Mr..
Cleveland in the list Of the "victims of
Republican Oppression" rs matter Of
political charity. We do not wish to
add to the grave burden of political
calamity that oppresses him at the pres
ent time. He has Hill and Dana and
Croker and Tammany and the great
Mugwump load to carry, and 1t is enough
for any man.
The Republican party prosecuted him
in the past. It robbed him, according
to his own plaintive story, as poor
farmers boy. 1t cheated him as poor
law clerk, and in his adopted city Of
Buffalo it pursued him with all its tariff
''iniquities" 80 remorselessly that he be-
came sheriff and mayor, and finally
the governor of the Empire State, and,
last of all, the president Of the United
States.
For the benefit Of the tariff barons II
fieeced him to such an extent that he
has become millionaire, or very near
to the millionaire mark. II has put the
fees and the retainers Of the millionaire
barons in the green bag of his law firm.
It has given him handsome mansion
among the Jersey pine trees. 1T has
given him q townhouse in the choicest
and most aristocratic section Of the first
Of American cities. II has given him
home on the shores of Buzzard's bay.
This victim of Republican oppression
has home in three states, and he made
while he was president good sized for
tune out Of real estate speculation at
the capital of the nation. There is not
a Democrat in the land who is not dy-
ing to be prosecuted" in the same way.
Mr.. Cleveland, according to Mr.. Dana,
weighs more than three hundred. He
has to his bank credit more than one
thousand dollars for every pound of
mental and physical avoirdupois. I. is
a great record.
AS q victim Of oppression he wears the
biggest "belt' in the country. He is
first-class specimen Of the outrageous
policy Of ''robbing the many for the
benefit Of the few" Look at him and
say If we are not right. IL he had not
been robbed" what a magnificent fig
ure he would be!-New York Recorder.
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raiment is as the lilies of the field, and she
stands on the curb and takes in all the
fun. About one in ten has q young man
10 talk to, and the other nine know where
nine young fellows ara at work who Will
be available for escort later in the day or
evening.
There are aristocratic summer girls,
too, who try very hard not to be interest
ed in a street parade, don't you know,
and make most miserable failure OF IL.
There are gay old girls with angular
elbows and green parasols, little girls
who haven't forgotten how TO run, and
girls all the way between. II you didn't
see 'em this morning. walt till next time
and make sure Of 'em.
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Our Democratic friends are giving
themselves deal of unnecessary worry
over Chairman Carter's views on the
silver question. The Woonsocket Eren-
ing Call is good enough to commiserate
the Republican party on its blunder in
the choice of man whose opposition
to honest money is we'll remembered by
those who recall the speeches he made
as the representative from Montana dur
ing the currency fights of 1S9O-9l."
The Cali means well, but 1S90-91 was
before its day. and it has been sadly mis-
informed. An independent paper
likes nothing better than to correct the
errors into which it may fall through
inadvertence, and the NEWS accordingly
takes great pleasure in enabling the Cal
to set itself right with its readers. Mr..
Carter was member of the committee
ON coinage, weights and measures in the
Fifty-first Congress, and his views on
the silver question are therefore mat
ter of public record. He took radical
ground against free coinage, assuring
Speaker Reed before his committee ap-
pointment that he would vote against
free silver bill.
"There will be tremendous reac-
tion," he said, against free silver one
Of these days and the people of my Sec
ton will thank me for the course have
pursued. There is great deal of hum
bug about free silver, and believe that
the best interests, even of Montana, are
to be served by the opposition of her
representatives in Congress to any prop
osition looking to free coinage" Mr..
Carter's course was once sagacious and
bold. He ssw the right course and he
had the strength of will to hold it, de-
spite local pressure. Mr.. Carter is all
right on silver. 1t seems to us the Can
owes him an apology.
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The Advantages Of Providence.


4. Providence is one Of the capitals
Of Rhode Island.
2. Providence is the second city In
population In Neio England.
q Providence contained $4,000
lnhdbitants In 1890 and Is groufng cery
4 Providence has rs public schools,
Utth <sI Instructors.
b. Providence expends annually
$s7I, ,9os. 0e for teachers salaries.
a Providence has an assessed pdt-
uatton on tts school property Of $L.sI4,SD.
z. Provfden nce has q school p0puld-
tj0n of se,S6s, and B,545 pupils enrolled.
=. Providence has 67s pupils er-
rolled In tts prtudte schools.
D. Ppovidence is the seat Of BrotDn
UnfUersttn
10. Providence has an assessed val-
uotton ON Its property of $l46, ,9oI.S4o.
II. Providence Is q city of bedtttf-
fsll rcstdences spacious and attractive
salburbs, shady streets and breezy hills.
II Revolutionary memories haunt the
antiQudrv. the absolutely unequdlled
NasTuSnmsets Bay at Its feet charms the
orttst and the sportsman.
A. Providence has the most cut-
tured and Intelligent people of any city
~ the country; Is a prominent literary,
ortistSc and musical centre.
18. Providence has ISs miles of
strcets; 80 are paced, Is0 Mdcdddmtsed
and 10 are tnbuilt. Its streets are the
finest and ctedncst In the country.
A.. Providence has a mortality
rate Of 1915, a marriage rate of as.on a
birth rate Of s9.s7.
Is. Providence has III churches.
10. Providence has the best street
railroad system of any city in the cottn-
trH
IL. Providence leads In the jc,Delry
shdn1lfdcturc. It is the centre. mart and
port ot 1c cotton and tooolen industry of
Rhode Island and of portions of Connec-
ticsSt and Massachusetts. It has tcfthfn
fts field the biggest and finest stationary
cszQtssS works, rubber factories, fertile
nslils, 1le scorks and tool tDorks In the
scorld.
10. Providence has by far the finest
retail stores In the East, bar Boston and
Nesc York.
ia Providence is In direct commu-
sstcdttom sctth all points, north, south,
east and Dcst. Itts the natural port OF
the tssstt trade for 0u NeaO England.
20. Providence has a much larger
amount of banking capital than any city
of its stsc IN the scortd.
II. Providence has stdunch Re
publican paper ichose grosUth has no
porallel ~ the history of journalism;
sDAose progress has been the journalistic
sensation of Ncto England; sDhtch Is ac-
JsWetSlsdgcd everyeChere as the home paper
THE PROVIDENCE NEWS.
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Absolutely CnassaIlable.

President Harrison is absolutely i'm
pregnable to personal attack. There Is
not an open Joint in his armor at any
point. His stainless life, his personal
probity, his exalted character and his
high conceptions Of public duty battle
and silepce all structures that might be
directed against him as man and % n
candidate. His conspicuous purity, fit
ness aud ability are recognized on all
sides. BY the universal testimony he
has discharged the obligations of the
presidency with the most conscientious
fidelity, and his Democratic antagonists
concede that, personally, he is absolute.
ly unsss~'isble. - Philadelphia Press.
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average n per cent. greater In this
country than In Great Britain.

average n per cent. greater In this
country than in Great Britain.
The showing Is significant and en-
phatic. What man can look upon the
two pictures presented and fail to
wonder at the sublime audacity of the
party which asks this country to for
sake the policy under which it has
fourished SO signally. Increasing wages
and decreasing cost Of necessaries as
opposed to their direct opposites are the
contrasts brought to view. The Ameri-
can workingman receives more and
pays out less where his fellow abroad
receives less and pays out more.
Protection has signally vindicated it.
self. The lies of the past two years are
broadly branded in the forehead. The
party of patriotism and prosperity can
go forward, confident of the ver-
dict of intelligent men in the approach
ing campaign.
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a regular Calamity shoutcr.

Doubtless Stevenson is in harmony
with the principles OF the Peoples party.
lie used to be Greenbacker and calam-
ity shouter. Probably on national is
sues he still stands ON about the same
ground as PETER. Weaver and the rest
Of the third party lesders.-St. Louis
Globe Democrat.
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CITY ADvERTIsE
THE CITY or PROVIDENCE.
CHAPTER oCCcI.

CHAPTER CCCCL
An Ordinance in Amendment of Chapter CcCxcvI.
of the Ordinances Entitled An Ordinance
Directing the City Solicitor to Examine Deeds
aud Titles Of Land Purchased by the City"
[Approved July i2. 1902
IL l. ordained by the City Council Of the City OF
Providence as follows
Section 1. Chapter CcCxCyt. Of the ordinances
approved July 4, 1892. is hereby amended "a 10
read as follows, VIZ:
Section l. The city solicitor IL hereby directed 20
examine the deeds aud titles OF all lands hereafter
purchased by the City O, Providence wherein a Zee
n 10 be vested in saif city, and 10 furnish the city
auditor with certificates of said examination.
section 2. The city auditor shall not issue his
warrant for the ru-rhs~r money for any iand here
after purchased said city until he has received
n certificate that the deeds and titles thereto ara
satisfactory to the city solicitor. unless otherwise
ordered By the city council
not apply in the ~ deeds given for the purposs
of granting an easement 10 the city, such AZ TO-
highway OF sewer purposes or the like. aud ali
such deeds shall be accepted by the city auditor
upon certificate of the city solicitor that the sans
are duly executed and are satisfactory 10 the city
solicitor"
WILLIAM 4. CLARKE.
jy2o-3t Sny Clerk.
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Ir the Queen were to send for the
Duke of Devonshire, instead of Mr..
Gladstone, that worthy gentleman would
be exposed to needless modification.
In the present state of British politics a
coalition ministry is practically an inn
possibility. ,.
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GEORGE FREDDIE WILLIAMS gets aw-
fully worked mp when reminded of his
brother heelers and ballot box suffers.
He should read carefully the story of
Dog Tray and purchase bottle of Mrs.
Winslows soothing syrup.
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ANTI-sNAPPERs MUST STAND.

The Tammany Mugwump notification
meeting in Madison Square Garden to-
night is Of especial interest as bringing
ont in broad relief the triumph of the
tiger and the crushing of the dandelion.
Ex-Mayor Grace's anti-snappers have
been said by Mr.. Grace himself and by
his immediate friends and following to
number 10000 staunch Democrats do
they get any reserved seats in the APP
portionment of places at the " services"
so called? Bet'ch'er life, as Mayor
Grant would say, not one.
The Democratic State committee, regu-
lar, has 75 bits of pasteboard the Tam
many district committees have rs; the
notifying and national committees have
100; distinguished Democrats of other
States have 200; the Tammany
committee OF 100 has 100; Cleve
has 25; Steve has 25; Jersey
men have 90; Connecticut men
have 80; Brooklyn men have so; the
Voorhies Democracy gets 25 and the
County Democracy 25. Everybody, in
short, is looked out for but just the
anti-snappers; they are in the soup and
founder conspicuously.
1t was too bad of Cleve to dump them
when they had served his purpose; but
such is Democratic politics, and to do
him justice, he couldn't help himself,
probably.
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THE Springfield Republican denies
that it favors free trade. After assist
ing the free traders to scatter their fire.
brands and death for years, isn't IT
trife late in the day to inform the pub
lie that it was all in sport.
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THE World IL getting lots of comfort
these days out of the election of 1850.
Well. IL was rather funny for their side,
but it's an exceedingly dead issue now.
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The House needs missionaries to teach
1t common honesty, after which patriot
ism and public spirit could very appro-
priately be incuIcated.
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In spite Of our wretched condition due
TO the tariff, 50,1sa immigrants from
England and Wales, where under
FREQ trade all is blessed, came here last
year. Why?
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PAUL DANA has refused to be one of
the Committee of One Hundred to re-
ceive Cleve and Steve in New York to-
day. Paul's stomach is more sensitive
than his fathers; he firmly declines
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-07-20

THE House Of Representatives COM
mands Chicago to close the fair on Sun
day, which Is very costly as well as
unwise provision, and refuses to appro-
PIRATE one cent for it's maintenance.
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tion that McKinleyism and reciprocity
are deadly policies.
"CERrArN sUBJEcrs."

At Gray Gables Mr.. Adlai Stevenson
said to the Herald correspondent: IL
am always glad to see newspaper men.
only must warn You there are certain
subjects upon which / cannot speak
with propriety."
Evidently there are If too curious
reporter were to ask Adlai whether he
thought the war failure in 1854,
whether he was Knight of the Golden
Circle during the war, whether he was
a Greenbacker some years ago and is a
free silver man now, to any and all of
these queries Mr.. Stevenson would find
it wise to answer, THAT, sir, is one of
those certain subjects upon which /
cannot speak with propriety."
Apparently because upon these sub
jects he has not been accustomed to
think or act with propriety.
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FOR PRESIDENT.
BENJAMIN HARRISON
or INDIANA.
e FOR VICE PRESIDENT.
W'HITELAW REID
OF NEW YORK.

THE cost Of living goes down, wages
20 up. This is the unanimous finding
Of tho Senate committee, Republicans
and Democrats alike.
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SOME PROOFS OF THE PUDDING.

SOME PROOFS OF THE PUDDING.
It will be many months before the full
effects of the Republican policy of reci-
procity will be felt by the business CON-
munity and before the wage earners
will realize that increased markets mean
greater competition for labor and higher
wages az a result of that compe-
tition. But the facts are rapidly COM
ing to hand which, without exception
point to success for reciprocity which
even the trainers of that policy could
not conceive. The " sham policy which
the Democrats so loudly denounced in
their platform is giving no end of
trouble now that the figures are begin
ming to tell their own story. They won
one election on false cries against the
Mckinley bill, but before another cleo
tion takes place they are likely to dis
cover that their predictions in re-
gard to reciprocity will prove as un-
grounded as did their cry in 1890 against
Mckinley.
To illustrate: We have reciprocity
with Cuba providing for the free entry
of breadstuffs. The statistics for May,
just issued, show the following figures
for the months of May, 1891, and 1892
and the five months ending May 81,
1901 and 1892:
Bills. Flour. Value.
May, lspi.............,..., t.o16 e2o217
For Ave months ending
MMsyy MMsy f. 1872 1897 sst.si st:sf ,sSssssc sSsssc
Reciprocity with Cuba began Jan. 4,
1892. and the five months noted compare
that period with 1891 when we had no
reciprocity. The figures show that in
the single month of May, 1892, under
reciprocity, we exported as much -four
as during the whole five months of 1891
without reciprocity, while the actual in
crease during the reciprocity period is
over $50 per cent. No "sham" about
that.
We began reciprocity with Germany
on February 1st. In the four months
ending May 81, the following figures
show the exports OF corn |:
Bushels Value.
81, isei ,.....'...... ooo,eoS poa.s7e
Four months ending May
VI. INfttssss see. ...s.s b,Hl,oso t,Nd,11O
The following figures apply 20 wheat
Bushels. Value.
-Four months ending May
si, 1891 :. -. .,.,..,,... iae.Sss iSS.p5o
81, 1897. ...........'..,..'. 2,ico,eso a.eoLeso
Bbls. Flour. Value.
81, 1901 .s...s..... .s... $50 p,5s3
Four months ending nay
81, 1Se...... ...s.....s. 3l,ou f05.506
In the exports of these three articles
Of breadstuffs. corn, wheat and -four.
the totals in value compare as follows
-Four months without reciprocity ..........s b5spos
Pour months With riciprocity ........... IiOi,eo6
An increase ~ "os per cent.
No sham about that. Democrats will
need TO note some Of the above facts be.
fore long and cease to repeat the asser.
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The Recorder says to-night's "key-
note" will be c fiat. The Recorder is
sharp, not a bad pitch for an organ.
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Are you going out or town for the
summer?
Keep your eye on Providence.
Have the NEWS sent to your ad.
dress, changed as often as desired,
for 90 cents q month.
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THE GIRL.

She was in evidence this morning, the
girl was, on Weybosset street aud still
more on Westminster street, when the
Pythians went by. The girl
Feels 80 awful jolly when the band begins to
For she: goi an ear for music, she could listen all
and she thronged the sidewalk.
the window of the stores and the
collonnade Of the Arcade, almost to the
boys.
And she was worth looking at. The
parade. fine as 1t was, wasn't In It by
who cares to look at lot Of men when
the girl is around?
Why the girl does, of course. Which
accounts for many things.
The girl Is of many kinds. First and
foremost, when Westminster street Is
considered. is the shop girl. She Is
slender, because she has to work pretty
hard, and trifle pale. because she has to
stay indoors, but she Is straight rs an
arrow and she comes to the door without
hat on, so that You can see her cluster
ing curls and the faint tinge of last Sun
days Rocky Point sunburn on the back
of her pretty neck. Sometimes she has n
black dress on, but oftner IL Is light and
ry with frills and frivols. CDo you
know. girls, in England the nasty mean
things OF shopkeepers make their girls
wear black all the time. Isn't il
horrldi And In Brooklyn. too, one store.)
Put a PRovIDENCE girl. as aforesaid,
comes out to the light OF day thing of
grace and beauty which you could wish
were more often visable; and she says
why, you couldn't tell 'em from real
soldiers IL they didn't hold their heads
so:" aud every uniformed knight In sight
and hearing braces up like q drill sergeant
till he forgets all about 10 again.
Then there's the summer girl, often
auite Young. usually plumper than the
shop girl. aud with n neck three shades
redder behind She has a straw hat on
and half the time q braided pigtail of
brown hair falling down her back. Her
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In the State of Rhode island
the NEWS stands second in
circulation. first in Influence
and representative character.
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THE NEWS" TURN NOW.

They say Chairman Carter looks like a
Yankee Doodle Boston Herald.
A good tune to beat the British allies