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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-04-17
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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-02-02
That Sheltering Umbrella.

Nothing funnier has appeared since
the election than President Harrison's
remark that protection has failed be-
cause the wageearner has refused to
share his shelter with the manufacturer;
he would not even walk under the same
umbrella"
Considering that the operatives in the
protected industries do not constitute
more than one-twentieth of the working
population, the assumption that their
action decided the election is quite anus
ing in itself. But when the mind pic
lures the strikers at Homestead, nine
tenths of whom were paid less than two
dollars day, refusing to share Their
shelter" with Andrew Carnegie, who had
pulled out more than 81 900, 900 year III
profits the comicality suggests its OWL
cartoon.
Mr.. Harrison perhaps failed to notice
the fact that 81 ,250000 was contributed
to his campaign fund by the protected
millionaires of Pennsylvania alone tt
preserve the tariff which they had paic
for and made.
Does the president really think thi;
payment was pure philanthropy to en-
able the paternal plutocrats to hold al
umbrella over the wage earners?-New
York World.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-02-02

After a seven years courtship George
Bailey, well to do farmer, and Esther
Bailey, his cousin, have made two at
tempts to get married in Norwich, Pa,
within two weeks, and the wedding is
off. The ceremony was to have been
performed Wednesday of last week, and
large number of guests were present.
Suddenly the prospective bride disap-
peared and was found locked in her
room. To her parents appeals to come
out she only replied, 4m too nervous!
I'm too nervous! It'll have to beput off!
Nothing would do but a postponement
to Monday. Monday came and the bride
was over her nervousness and ready with
the guests. But now the bridegroom did
not come. Instead he sent this message
"Im not nervous. On the contrary, I've
got nerve enough to postpone this wed
ding indefinitely" And it was post
poned. Philadelphia Record.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-02-02

The protectionist organs are trying to
make political capital cut of the fact
that some of the English farmers are
calling for "a restoration of the corn laws.
If consistency We're characteristic OF
the protectionist party in the United
States, it would be a difficult task for
party that had just been arguing that
everything English was necessarily bad
for this country to urge this selfish
clamor of the English landlords as an
argument in favor of protection here.
The English corn laws were passed III
the interest of the landed aristocracy of
England, just as our tariff laws were
passed for the benefit of the moneyed
aristocracy here England needs more
food than her scanty territory can yield
to feed her people. Hence "A tariff on
imported grain would give the English
land owners a monopoly. The United
States raises millions of bushels of grain
yearly in excess of the amount our own
people can consume. A tariff on grain
can, therefore, benefit the American
farmer in no possible way.
1t is the American manufacturer that
stands in the same relation to a protect
i've tariff that the English landlord does.
Each is benefited by shutting out com
petition by means of protective tariffs.
The same selfish greed is the motive in
each case. In each case the moneyed
class-the few-demand that the labor
ing masses shall be forced to pay more
for the necessaries of life-for food in
England, for clothing in America-in or
der that the plutocrats may enjoy greater
profits.
The blacklist page in English history
is the record of the suffering entailed
upon England by the corn laws. There
is not the slightest possibility of their
restoration. If there could be, the reac-
ton would be as quick and powerful as
that which followed on the heels of Nc
Kinleyism.- Oakland Post.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-02-02

To understand the extreme excitement
which the Panama inquiry produces IN
France we must recollect that it involves
the whole question of the fitness of the
sovereign power to exercise its functions.
The dispute among Frenchmen-the
radical dispute which underlies all 9TH
ers-is whether universal suffrage, un-
controlled and unguided either by a
monarch, Caesar or a class, Is compe-
tent to create for itself sovereign pow
er. That it has created one in the as
sembly is not questioned. That body
can, in practice, dismiss the president
did do it in NJ. Grevy's case; can compel
any minister or cabinet to resign; can
nominate their successors and can pass
any law whatever that it thinks is de-
sirable for France. Its action is not
arrested by any veto, and it is not liable
to penal dissolution without the consent
of that half of itself which is called the
senate, consent which it might be very
difficult to extort. Indeed the chamber
itself must often be consulted, for it
must pass the budget before a dissolu-
tion can be safe, and the budget is often
delayed to the very expiration of the
Legal term.
The assembly is in fact sovereign, and
if the assembly-that is, the senators
and deputies taken together-are proved
to have been bribable, or to have toler-
ated bribery, the deduction is painfully
obvious. Universal suffrage has failed
to elect an honest sovereign power
London Saturday Review.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-02-02

Kansas city men who did not vote in
1890 and the late election are to be
sued by the city to test IA peculiar law.
The charter provides that voters who do
not vote at the general city election
every two years shall be charged with a
poll tax of $3.50 each. The registration
books of the city show that there were
several thousand voters who did not ex-
ercise their right of franchise last spring.
At $3.50 each these men owe the city a
large amount, and as that sum or any
part of it would come very handy just
now the city counselor has taken the
first step toward collectingit it. The money
so collected goes into the sanitary fund,
but it benefits the city departments, as
money that would otherwise be taken
from the revenue fund for other purposes
is appropriated for sanitary purposes.
Half of the best known business men
and manufacturers, professional men
and capitalists, those who have large
property interests, will find their names
on the list of delinquents. The men who
are mostly directly interested in a finan-
cial way in the government of the city
are the men who seem to take no part in
politics and neglect to vote.-Cor. Chi
cago News Record.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-02-02
THE WAY TO RAISE WAGES.
Remove the Taxes from Raw Materials,
and They VIII Raise Themselves.

Remove the Taxes from Raw Materials,
and They VIII Raise Themselves
The Philadelphia Manufacturer OF
Dec. 3, one of the most fanatical OF pro
tectionist sheets, said:
''The low prices for cotton during the
past wear have been hard upon the plant
ers, but of huge benefit to spinners and
consumers. The cotton mills in this
country have had season of high pros
peritv, and this has been shared by work
ing people and by purchasers OF the
fabrics. The recent voluntary advance
of wages in certain New England cotton
mills was one of the results OF the low
prices of the staple"
This would have been rank heresy be-
fore Nov. Stree trade, Golden club
talk. Does The Manufacturer forget
that about the only genuine wage ad-
vance made during the first two years
and two months of Mckinley rule and
reported by The American Economist in
its list of twenty eight alleged wage ad-
yances credited to Mckinley was the
81 per cent. Increased to u since cleo
tom advance in the cotton mills of Fall
us, what free traders told us all along,
til. this advance was due to cheap raw
material-cotton-a not to Mckinley.
Well, perhaps free traders have been
talking straight" all the time, and the
right way to raise wages is to remove
taxes ON raw materials, and by and by
wages will raise themselves.
a IN
cotton goods manufacturers to lower the
price of their goods and to advance
wages, why would not free and cheaI
sugar and tin plate soon compel canning
establishments to lower prices and in
crease wages? And why wouldn't free
and cheap coal and iron ores soon lower
prices and advance wages in our whole
iron and steel industry? And VIII,
wouldn't free and cheap lumber sooi
reduce the cost of houses while at th'
same time, increasing the pay of house
smiths? And why wouldn't free ant
cheap foreign wool soon give us cheal
clothes and increase the wages OF on
poorly paid textile workers?
Perhaps, after all, this is the common
sense way of raising wages and of lower
ing prices. 1t would indeed be strang
if McKinley's plan of taxing ourselve
into prosperity should be found to hav
had exactly the opposite effect, yet that
the way it looks. Anyhow the peopl
themselves have decided to take the OF
posite tack. If we can have our wage
raised and at the same time get cheape
food, clothing and house, our lot will b
happy one, and we will feel grateful
the party that dropped onto" th1
method of inducing prosperity to Wis
our homes.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-02-02

The new series of Columbian
stamps are the subject of much ad-
verse criticism since their sale began,
and it must be said their designer
was very negligent in many important
details. On the one-cent stamp Col
umbus is spelled Columbus. He is
represented as sighting land, and ap-
pears as man with clean shaven
face. On the two.cent stamp the
landing of the party is shown. This
occurred one day after the land was
sighted. but Christopher is found
sporting a handsome bunch of whis
kers and a nobby mustache. Now
how he raised such a fine crop with
in twenty four hours is something
the designers should explain, There
are a number Of young men in Ameri
ca who would give a great deal tc
possess that secret.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-02-02

Since there is no longer any conceal
ment necessary with regard to the sew
erance of Mr.. Labouchere's connection
with The Daily News l may mention
that the price paid for his share in the
newspaper was 500, 900. When he first
became connected with htheproprietorship
of the paper, more than five and twenty
years ago, he paid the representatives of
the outgoing or deceased shareholder
Ell 900 for the holding of which he has
now received a sum more than sufficient
to start morning newspaper of his own.
Nothing is yet known as to his inten-
tons, but it is regarded as by no means
impossible that, in conjunction with Sir
Charles Dixie, who has long wished to
own or have an interest in daily paper,
some plan may be adopted by which the
advanced or disaffected radicals, as dis
tinguished from the ministerialists, will
have an organ of their own.-Leeds Mer-
cury
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-02-02

Mrs. Corneha NJ. Thomas, of St.
Paul, is under arrest charged with hav-
ing stolen $1,000 from her sister, Mrs.
Mary D. Phillips, of Seattle, Wash. The
circumstances preceding the arrest are
peculiar. Mrs. Phillips was in st. Paul
recently. She returned to Seattle and
while en- route dreamed that Cornelia
Thomas had abstracted 81 900 of So, 400
which she had in the lining of her dress,
A search revealed the amount $1,000
short. Mrs. Phillips returned at once
to st. Paul. Mrs. Thomas was searched
and part of the stolen money found on
her. The stolen bills were sewed into a
belt worn next to her skin by Mrs.
Thomas. Minneapolis Journal.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-02-02
FREELAND, PA, JANUARY 80, 1898.

Two important bills have passed
the house at Harrisburg, and it is
very likely that both will go through
the senate and receive the governors
signature. One establishes the days
of the November and February elec
tions as legal half holidays from II
o'clock noon, and the other provides for
the election of township road supervi-
sors for term of three years. THERE'S
also another bill before the house to
elect tax collectors for three years,
and it is said there arc good chances
of it being passed.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-02-02

A VERY, very funny story is told in
the dispatches from Washington re-
garding the appointment of a success
sor to Justice Lamar, who died last
week. The Office is worth $4,000 a
year, and man can hold it while he
lives and behaves himself. Where
the idea originated is not known, but
it is suggested that President Harri-
son should resign from Office, and
upon Vice President Morton taking
the chair he would appoint Harrison
to the vacant associate judgeship.
A very nice arrangement that would
be, but ii savors entirely too much Of
European style to be commended by
Americans. Why Harrison cannot
step back into private life like his
predecessors and stay there until he
is called for again is something
strange. The supreme court was
not constituted as a last resort fol
eX. presidents.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-02-02

The proposition to allow the peo-
pie of New Yolk city and surrounding
districts to vote upon the question of
consolidation has been revived in New
York's state Legislature. 1t is thought
there will be less opposition to the
scheme than at any previous time, as
many Of the politicians of the outlying
districts are in favor Of it. The city
of New York would go almost unani-
mously for the movement, and it is
certain to be carried if the legislature
grants permission to vote upon the
proposition. New York would then
consist of the present city, Kings
county including Brooklyn, Richmond
county, West Chester, Long Island
city, Newton, Flushing, Jamaica, and
parts of East Chester, Pelham anC
Hampstead, and would have popu
lation that could not be overtakel
by Chicago in the next hundred years
The smile of Tammany's tiger will b
broad one then.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-02-02

The books, 'Protection or Free
Trade" which are advertised in an
other column, are still in demand.
Before the last election nearly 400
copies were given away free at this
Office, the majority of them going in
to the hands of Democrats. 1t was
thought there would be no more call
for them after that, but they are still
going, sixty-three having been taken
out since election day. Democrats
now seem to have no further use for
tariff lierature, as less than dozen
copies were taken by men of that
party. Republicans, however, want
ed to find out the cause of the
avalanche, and thought they could
not learn it better than by reading
Georges book If there are any
more who are in the dark as to "why
it was done" we can supply them
with Protection or Free Trade"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-02-02

1t is reported that new electric lamp
is on the market, one that will be rival
to the Edison incandescent without in
fringing the patents covered by that
illumination which now fills all avail
able space The new lamp is the prop
erty of the Westinghouse company, that
intends to push it vigorously. Any new
electric lamp must avoid making use of
any of the apparatus described in the
following specifications covered by the
Edison patents-namely, "a combina-
ton consisting Of a carbon burner in
Elementary form, glass inclosing lamp
chamber, which is one entire piece Of
glass, and from which, in order to com
plete the lamp, the air is entirely ex
hausted, and platinum wires leading
through the glass to the filament of car
bon, the glass being sealed by fusiol
around the carbon wires so as to maxi
an absolute complete vacuum chamber.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-02-02
Watch for Commander Leary.

Governor Brown sent request to
Commander Leary to be in Annapolis,
Jan. 8, and receive from the gov
ernor the watch that was voted to Com
mander Leary by the Maryland legisla-
ture for his conduct at Samoa. The
watch is a handsome gold chronometer
With the chain attached it cost $800
Commander Leary is now stationed at
Portsmouth. Va.-Baltimore Sun.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-02-02

Representative OFerrall, of Virginia,
tells the Baltimore Sun Dem.): 81 am
earnestly i'll favor of an extra session of
congress and think it should be called as
early as possible, The abolition of the
duty on tin plate alone would more than
save to the country the entire cost of the
session"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-02-02

The name of n. II. Downs still lives,
although he has been dead many years:
His Elixir for the cure of coughs and
colds has already outlved him a quarter
of a century, and is still growing in ia
vor with the public. Sold by DR.. Schil-
cher.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-02-02

It is hoped that the Massachusetts ex-
pertinent at Matching bicephalous trout
will produce fish that will be just twice
as apt to bite as the ordinary trout.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-02-02

Gladstone is direct descendant on his
mothers side from King Robert Bruce
of Scotland. He is therefore descended
from royal family as old as that whence
Queen Victoria draws her blood
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-02-02
Some Special Things
In Furniture.
Groceries & Provisions.

6r0CerieS d PROVISIONS.
Flour, 81 10.
Chop, S1.10 and S1.15.
Bran, 80 cents.
Bologna, s cents.
Cheese, n. Y, ID cents.
Tub butter, 2S cents
Is pounds sugar S1.D0.
pounds Lima beans, % cents.
5 pounds currants, 25 cents.
5 pounds raisins, 25 cents.
6 bars LenoX soap, 20 cents.
6 bars Octagon soap, % cents.
3 packages pearline, 10 cents.
Best coal oil, u cents.
Vinegar, cider, Is cents gal.
Cider, 20 cents a gallon.
Syrup, No. l, 80 cents gal.
No. | mince meat, 10 cents.
3 pounds macaroni % cents.
3 quarts beans. 25 cents.
6 pounds oat meal, 25 cents.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-02-02

A farmer at Millersburg, Ind, expert
enced Neal Dow's peculiarly contrary
luck last week. He was boring for Wa
ter and struck 4-foot vein of good coal
at depth of only seventy-five feet.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-02-02

The advocates of opening the grounds
and buildings of the Worlds fair on
Sunday propose to move on those who
are opposed to it by new tactics. They
now claim in a resolution which has
been laid before the national house of
representatives that the congressional
act Of Aug. 8, 1892, is unconstitutional.
The claim is based upon that clause of
the United States constitution which de-
clares that congress shall make no laws
respecting an establishment Of religion
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
They say that closing the exposition
buildings on Sunday will be making a
law respecting an establishment of re-
hgion.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-02-02

1t seems certain that before another
decade it will not be very uncommon for
railway trains to travel 100 miles an
hour. On several occasions trains have
already gone at the rate of ninety miles
an hour for a short distance. A locomo-
tive on road between New York and
Philadelphia recently made seventy-fve
miles in seventy-fve minutes on slip
perry track, with the wind dead ahead.
Considerable time was lost besides in
waiting for other trains, so that the en-
gineer was obliged to go slow over q
part of the road. The fastest miles in
this remarkable journey were made in
forty seconds-two-thirds of minute.
The engine was of the compound pattern
and drew after it four parlor coaches.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-02-02
& ARES WEDICINE

All druggists sellit at 500 and 81 90 package II
you cannot get tsend your address for free sample
Lanes Family Medicine moves the bowels each
day. In order to be healthy thsisneeessaTy Address,
ORATOR Il. WOODWARD, Leroy, N. Y.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-02-02

hypothesis, so that when we in our sesquipeda
liam jargon describe an Australian skull a
microcephalic phenozygous, tapeino-doicho
cephalic, prognathic. platyrhine, hypselopala-
tine, leptostaphyline, doichuranic, chamepro-
sopic and microseme we are no nearer to the
formulation OF any philosophio concept Of the
general principles which have led to the as
sumption of these characters by the Uranium
In question.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-06-29

Arrest of q Georgian Who Had Charge Of
Three Churches and an Illicit Distillery.

ATLANTA, Ca. June 2s.-United States
Commissioner CASTOR has bound over for
trial on n charge of moonshining the Rev.
DR.. Barrett. OF Banks county. Mr. Barrett
had charge of three Baptist churches and
one illicit disti.lery. With characteristic
patience and respect the revenue officers
who went to Barrett's place to arrest him
last week. refrsined from executing their
commission when they found him engaged
with his religious work. They allowed
him TO fulfill bis engagements and preach
on Saturday and Sunday. When he was
through it was suggested that be had bet
ter come TO Atlanta and give the courts Q
sample of his eloquence. The reverend
gentieman's still was found secreted IN q
corntield, ana three gallons of fresh block
ade corn was discovered In his house.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-06-29
HERE'S BLIND JUSTICE.
No Indictments In the Bush Lynching and
the Grand Jury Finally Let OF.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
DECATUR. Ill, June 2S.-The end of the
Sam Bush negro lynching case. temporar-
lily. at least. was reached to-day, when the
grand jury, failing to find indictments
against anybody, was discharged by
by Judge Vail. The jury had agreed yes
terday to return forty three bills. but after
the indictments were drawn up a recon-
alteration OF the vote was had and no
agreement conld be reached. After that
thejury split on the question of Wholesale
indictments. The conservative members
would agree only to holding the principals
eight in all. There Will be no special grand
jury. Judge Veil has concluded to iar the
September grand jury take up the case.
The action of the Jury occasions no sur
price. 1t is generally conceded that In case
indictments were returned no one would
be convicted.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-06-29
P0PULISTS In NEED OF AID.
Farmers Who Raised Little Wheat but Plenty
of Politics Want Help from the Legislature.

TOPEKA, Kan. June 2S.-There is de-
mand Tor o special session Of the Legisla-
ture. 1t comes from the west and the
provocstion is the crop failure and the me-
cessity of an appropriation to buy seed for
farmers who have no surplus grain from
last year or money to buy o supply for
seeding this full and next spring. There
are said to be twsnty-seven counties in
this State which will not produce sufficient
wheat this year for bread and seed for the
population, and the farmers are so poor
that the most of them must have aid from
some source. Governor Lewelling is op-
posed to a special session. He thinks the
people could better afford To raise q fund
by private subscription than 70 pay extra
taxes to defray the expenses of q special
seesiOp.