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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-12-29
DRIFT OF OPINION.

1The president remarks: "We hav
tariff reform before u.s." He should
have emphasized also The fact that ''all
prosperity seems to be behind US. -
Chicago Inter Ocean.
H- BY some queer fatality whenever
a democratic congress has undertaken
to revise the tariff it has happened
shortly afterward that soup houses
have been established in most OF the
large cities Tribune.
B-Why are democratic papers pro-
testing that the Wilson bill is pro-
tective measure? Didn't the Chicago
platform declare protection to be
fraud and sham," as well as uncon-
stitutional?-Toledo Blade.
NM Mr.. Cleveland, since he crawled
out on that diplomatic branch after
Queen Lii, must have a strong feeling
of sympathy for the man near SPRING
field, o., who sawed off the limb be-
tween himself and the tree He was q
coon hunter. too. - Chicago Times
(Dem.).
sB"The democratic statesmen at
Washington are now trying to per-
suade themselves that they are not 60
ing to damage the industries of this
country after all But the people will
not be as easily convinced of this as
the congressmen.-IowaS State Register.
sSThe Wilson tariff bill is not
tariff modelled for revenue only, accord
ing to the pledge of the party platform
1t is a hObbling protective tariff-a
thing of shreds and patches. Every
day we hear of a new protective patch
added to the bill in response to the
pressure of some favored interest, in
utter disregard of the fact that the like
protection given by republicans had
b cen formally denounced as a robbery
of the people--Boston Traveller.
8-The changing of the duty on tin
plate from specific to ad valorem seems
to have proved heavy blow at a new
industry. even for the democratic ma
iority of the ways and means commit
tee. Can the latest shifting back to
specific duty be attributed to the fact
that some of the tin plate mills are in
Indiana and New Jersey, states which
the democratic party cannot do with
out in national OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Leader.
sE-If we are to lower the duties and
open our ports of entry to vastly in
creased amount of foreign goods, the
imported fabrics must take the place of
American goods, unless our wage
earners will submit to reduction of
wages that will put them on the level
of the workingmen OF Europe. If they
will not submit to such reduction, but
prefer to seek employment upon the
farm or become the owners and tiliers
of the soil, then the manufacturer must
close his shop. 1t is life or death
struggle that the people are now wit
Messing at Washington--N. Y. Mail
and Express
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-12-29

Years day at the White homestead,
and the cousins were saying as they sat
around the large open fireplace N the
old long kitchen now used as dining
room as the night closed in:
do you remember this reunion? and
that reunion?" and Is the details of
former frolics were recounted the large
room resounded with peals of laughter.
In little hush Aunt Susanna, who
was nearly ninety. said: II can re-
member New Years eve nearly two
hundred years ago"
''Oh, Aunt Susanna" What MEM
ory!' How can that be?"
''0h. have heard so many old-time
stories that seem to recall events ever
since my grandmother was girl"
'-Oh, tell US the very oldest story you
can think of. Aunt Susanna" they all
clamored. and the lovely old gentle
woman told it after the manner follow
&ne.
twill do you young people who are so
fond of taking your ease no harm to
hear how your ancestors roughed it
when the country was new.
My grandparents moved from Mans
field to Dublin, \. a., when my mother
was twelve years old. 1t was in the
early spring, and the family walked
the whole distance, carrying their few
effects and implements in their arms
~or upon their backs.
Arrived at their destination in the
shadow of Mount Monadnoc, they
speedily built a log house over a large
fiat rock at the foot of an abrupt ledge
chat not only formed one side of the
house, but with the help of few care
fully adjusted stones made natural
fireplace and chimney with hearth
stone that served as 4 floor to their one
room- At first they were very home
sick, but as the season advanced they
all with the exception of my mother
became wonted.
The great gruesome mountain was
from the first terror 10 her. and she
was never able TO overcome her dread
of IL. AS the days grew short and cold
iIa the autumn, her homesickness in
creased and all the resources available
were brought in play TO divert Susanna.
or Zanna. as she was calico. She had
daily lessons in spinning. wearing.
knitting and sewing. Every day she
learned by heart a portion of Scripture
and psalm, and she had lessons from
Che few books they had brought, for
my grandfather was well educated for
those times and highly prized his few
<zolumes of history and poetry.
The early winter was very cold, but
no snow fell and game was scarce, SO
that for d time the family were re-
sluced to diet of roasted potatoes and
salt and johnny-cake. IF only we
could xiii bear" the father would
ssH There are fat bears on the
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-12-29
THE AUTOCRATIO PRESIDENT.
Despotic Methods Adopted by Mr.. Cleve-
land.

Despotic Methods Adopted by Mr.. Cleve-
land.
Democracy is supposed to be govern
ment by the people. But thereohas
never been anything more closely ap-
preaching monarchy or autocracy than
there is in this country to-day under
so-called democratic government The
president tells his party what he wants
to have done. Sometimes he does not
tell, but orders the thing done just
the same. In the Hawaiian case he
orders war on friendly power without
even a hint to congress In the matter
of an income tax he decides beforehand
what the committee and the house
ought to do. though the committee has
not yet reached any decision. and an
nounces to the people that congress is
going to do something which the peo-
ple's representatives never yet have con-
sidered, or decided to have done
These are the manners of the auto
crat One hardly knows how to recon
cile such performances with American
laws or customs, except on the broad
ground that there is one man greater
than the party in power, and greater
than the people. 1t would seem that
Mr.. Cleveland thinks himself such a
man. He is profoundly impressed with
the idea that the democratic party
would not have succeeded in the election
of 1892 but for his personal popularity,
and the confidence of the American
people in his character. Hence it is
that he treats congress with contempt,
as no other American president
ever has done, and treats his party
with contempt, and assumes the atti-
tude of a dictator. 1t may as well be
! admitted, as dictators go, that Presi-
dent Cleveland would make very fair
specimen. He is right sometimes, and
then we all have occasion to compi
ment him on his resolution, his dogged
persistency, and his utter disregard for
what seems to be the prevalent public
opinion. Also he is wrong some times,
and then his partisans have to admit
that he is the most mulish and most
obstinately wrong-headed man who
ever sat in the chair of Washington.
He does not know how to pay even a
decent respect to public opinion, or
the elections of last month would have
modified his views to remarkable ex-
tent His only idea is to force through
his own notions, right or wrong, with
out the slightest regard for the temper
of the voters or to the interests of the
country.
If the government of this country
were to be despoGism it might be bet
ter to have the president czar or
sultan than somebody else. He is not
exactly an ideal ruler, and does not ex-
actly meet American conceptions of
government, and it is possible that the
people might imagine him British
pro-consul rather than an American
| president. But the trouble is that this
nation still has its lingering notions of
self-government 1t fancies that it can
determine even better than President
Cleveland, or any other man, what its
policy ought to be, either as to Hawaii,
or as to the defense of American indus
tries. The struggle between the would
be dictator and the people of the
United States is one which men of all
parties may watch with great interest.
IN. Y. Tribune.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-12-29
REPORT ON THE WILSON BILL.
A Weak Defense of Disastrous Demo
cratic Methods

A weak Defense OF DfDastrous DemO-
cratic Methods
The democratic majority of the COM.
mittee on ways and means has made
public long and labored defense OF
the Wilson bill and a eulogy of free
trade. The report admits that the bill
in question is not free-trade measure,
nor up to the standard of the popular
demand OF !se2. It says that 'it no
more processes to be purged of all pro-
lection than to be free of all error in
its complex and manifold details" The
committee excuses "the continuance
of duties that carry with them more or
less protection" on the ground that
great interests do exist whose exist
ence and prosperity 1t is no part of our
reform either to imperil or curtail."
Chairman Wilson and his colleagues
make it plain, however, that free trade
is their goal and the present bill merely
a halfway house. They say that ITEM
perate reform is safest" They wish it
to be understood that if the next con-
gress is democratic duties will be cut 9
little more and farther step taken to-
wards free trade If a democratic
president and congress by any means
should be elected in 1896 another step
will be taken. As each of those steps will
be accompanied by another trimming of
wages, the workingmen ought to see the
impolicy of keeping the democratic par
ty in power during the rest of this CEN
tury. If they do. wages will be clear
down to the European basis.
AS the report defends the gradual re-
duction of the sugar bounty it is evil
dent that the committee has decided
finally that il will not raise any revenue
by duty on raw sugar, running coun-
ter in this respect to the wishes of the
president and the secretary of the
treasury. AS it has been determined
not to put duty on sugar, the proba-
bility of the imposition of general in
come tax is increased.
Speaking of the reductions in GUS
toms revenue which the passage of the
Wilson bill will cause. the committee
says that the shrinkage viii be only
temporary, and that there will be such
an enlargement of imports ''as rapidly
to make up any apparent loss of rev.
enue caused by these reductions" 1t Is
expected then that imports Will be In
creased about two hundred millions,
and that foreign goods of about that
value will crowd out American made
goods This may help the revenues of
the government but not the American
wage-earners who will be thrown out of
work. That excess of foreign goods,
moreover. will not be paid for by in
creased expectations of American prod
ucts. In order to pay for them the
United States will be drained of its
gold and silver.
The committee makes a weak and
brief defense of its substitution of ad
valorem for specific duties. All the
merchants of the country have con-
demned the former. and have given the
reasons why they condemn them The
only answer of the committee is that
there need be mo fear of any of the
wrongs and abuses anticipated Chi
cago Tribune.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-12-29
"a HAPPY NEW YEAR."

Tho earth may be clad in a mantle OF snow.
It Is the fair season when hearts warmest
glow;
When sweetly is ringing. in tones fresh and
clear,
The glad salutstion: "a Happy New Year"
TO the year that has flown, like friend that
was true
With lingering fondness we've hidden adieu;
And behind us are left all the scenes, sad or
dear,
while before US lies smiling a Happy New
Year.
From neighbor TO neiehbor we catch the re-
frain,
As toyously back It is waited again:
And hearts that are sorrowing brighten and
cheer,
When they kindly are greeted with: Happy
New Year"
How pleasing the thought as the months gent
ly glide,
That the privilege blessed to none is denied
Tho meagef his 7ortion and lowly mis- sphere
Cfhelping TO make this Happy New Year.
For small acts of kindness that fall by the
way,
A beauty can add TO the summers bright day;
And language of tenderness soft on the ear,
With love iilumiue the Happy New Year.
o Father OF Light, from Thy mansions on high,
On Thy children look down with compassionate
eye
Oh, keep in Thy favor our loved ones so dear.
and grant TO Thy children a Happy New Year.
The Worker.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-12-29

looked down; the cabin was full of
smoke; as it cleared. Zanna was the
first to whisper: He is dead!"
"Yes, he is dead, oh moon," said 'Bial,
going to the window. 81 take pleasure
in making haste to tell you, for even
you can see no further than your light
Shines"
"You must not, 'Bial," began Zanna,
but silent Aaron said: ut has proved
'Bial was not wicked. The moonlight
did show me the bear and had he not
been talking to the old moon should
not have gone to the window to get q
better look at it."
YES" said Zanna, but it was the
Lord after all, and it has proved to me
that He is just as able to care for us
away off up here as He was when we
were at our old homeland never will
doubt Him again"
Now we must off with his hide"
said 'Bial "Isn't it shaggy? We will
cover a settle for mother and Zanna
with it."
While they were excitedly getting
their knives ready, they heard their
fathers step, and never were there
three prouder children than the three
who opened the cabin-door and exhibit
ted their big game. The bears coat
was carefully tanned and was for many
years used for a great variety of pur-
poses-for wrap as warm, if not as
stylish, as the ones you girls now
wear-for a rug and a bed-covering
long after Abial and Aaron were both
dead.
Abial died at eighteen. He had poet
SOUL" grandmother always said. when
speaking of him. Aaron was killed in
the war of the revolution.
The family moved back to Massachu-
sets, and Zanna could never be per
suaded to 60 back in sight of Mount
Monadnoc, for a day even. although
she lived to be an old woman. She
profited, however. by that early ex-
perience, and her motto in all times of
emergency was always: THE Lord
will provide. Annie A. Preston, in
Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-12-29

1.-THE mother bears do that" said
Abial, shut the father bears sometimes
90 out on fine days when there is no
snow for shem to burrow under. Their
habit Is to curl up in some snug place
and allow the snow to drift over them.
He must be tired waiting for snow, and
the smell of those potato skins was too
much for him and he thought he would
come out and get bite for himself Go
up in the loft. Zanna!"
Poor thing! Do you think we ought
to make way with him, 'Bial7 The In
dians. even, dislike to kill bears"
"rhey make it right by apologizing
and excusing themselves; we can do as
much as that There, go up, Zanna;
and Aaron, you 10 too. will open the
door and put some johnnycake down
near the fire to make a savory SMELL"
The bear came slowly, shifting like .
large hog. Perhaps he thought the
freight shining from the cabin-door
was sunshine, for he quickened his
pace, and as he shifted the warm air
grunted with satisfaction, and was not
long in entering the door standing in
vitingly open.
The three children looked down at
him through the cracks of the hewed
Saddle floor of the loft as he walked
about on the great fat, warm rock,
winked and blinked at the fire and lay
down and stretched himself and rolled
over in enjoyment of the genial warmth.
He took no notice when the door was
closed, but continued to show his in
tense enjoyment OF the situation.
"You are 2, beautiful animal, Mr..
Bear" said Abial, "and am very sorry
to be so situated as to be obliged to
kill you. Ipray you to excuse memo
Indian could say more. l am veTy
thankful on our own accoant, and no
white man could say less. All ready,
take aiml-fire!-I can't pull the old
thing off; put your finger back of mine,
Aaron"
Bangl went the old fusee. They
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-12-29

Dor't ye see some dream-like faces thro'
misty veil o tears,
Visions O. the friends departed that have van
ished with the years,
Don't yc stand upon the threshold when Time
ores wide the door,
Sort O. iistenin' an a longin' fer the friends
thet'c gone sforef
Don't ye hear arrange voices callin' through the
darkness ar the Storm
DON'T We lopg TO see the sunshine and the
brightness o. the mornf
Don't there come TO you strange mem ries O.
the summers long ago
An the faces o. the lassies an the lads ye used
&c know;
Don't We wonder where they're Twin. Tom an
Mollie, Jack an Nell;
IfOid Time has touched 'em lightly an they're
all a-doin well:
Don't We think that you'd be willir' to go hack
for thirty years.
Be again laughin' schoolboy, with school
boys hopes and fears;
Hear the medder larks a-singin' an the gurglin'
o. the brook,
With yer lifetime all afore ye spread out like
an open book'
Don't ye pity any feller that's so perfect in his
mind
That he's no regrets or sorrows for the years
he's left behindi
Don't il kind o. seem duty that feller owes
toGod,
TO look back along the pathway where his
fslt'rin' feet have trodf
Chicago Dispatch
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-12-29
DIR. Meyer viii he Tried Again.

New YORK, Dec. 22.-Dr. Henry C. f.
Meyer will have to be tried again for
the poisoning of Gustave Baum The
report of the sanity experts on the con-
dition of Juror Low, whose mind be-
came derapged, shows that the juror
will not be able to officiate again The
entire jury has been discharged The
case will come up again at the January
term of the cOurt
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-12-29
A Voice from the Gallery.

ROME, Dec. 22.-After the policy OF
the new ministry had been announced
yesterday in the chamber of deputies,
a workman named Angloetti, from the
gallery, cried: This is a regular
African kraal." A scene of commotion
followed, during which he was re-
moved from the gallery by the police.
wildly shouting, thieves" robbers, "
down with the pillagers, death to
the public thieves"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-12-29
Col Jones VIII Remain.

Kansas, who is enlisted in the marshal
ship fight in that state, had given it
out that he would leave to-day for
home, but the news comes that DIR.
Neely, of Leavenworth, and others in
terested in the same contest are expect
ed at any hour, and this being the case
Col Jones took quarters for another
week. Somehow the impression is
abroad that this fight is to be decided
during the recess.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-12-29
Rev. DIR. Miner Going to Chicago.

TOPEKA, Kan, Dec. 22.-Rev. d. c.
Milner, president of the Kansas State
Temperance union, has accepted call
to become pastor of the Armour mis-
sion in Chicago. This is one of the
largest missions in the United States,
being founded by Mr.. p. ID. Armour,
and adjoining the great Armour insti-
tute. Rev. Miner has been prominent
in church and reform work in Kansas
and has for several years had special
supervision of the enforcement of the
prohibitory liquor law.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-12-29
A Runaway Train.

PITTsBURG, Kan, Dec. GA Frisco
switching crew allowed two cars load
ed with zinc to get away from them,
and they crashed into Kansas City,
Fort Scott & Memphis freight train
which was crossing the Frisco track at
this place. Several cars were demol-
ished and the track was ohstructed for
some time
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-12-29
No JeWeiry for Her.

Mrs. Muchley--And what did you get
New Years, my dear?
Mrs. Little (sadly)-An early break
fast for Mr.. Little, who spent the day
calling on other ladies' - jewelers.
Weekly.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-12-29

The rumored withdrawal of the
Frisco and Atchison from the Western
Passenger association is denied by
Chairman Caldwell
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-12-29

The English Court eff Queens Bench
has decided the suit of Chilli against the
Royal Mail Steamship Co. for SSs silver
bars against the republic
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-12-29

There will be no republican fiji
clustering against the Wilson bill The
bill will hurt the country, and for this
reason the republicans will endeavor
by all legitimate means to defeat it,
but its passage will make republican
victory in 1894 and 1896 easy and over
whelming. AS partisans the republic
ans have no occasion to quarrel with
these conditions Louis Globe
Democrat
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-12-29

The Lehigh Valley men are prepar
ing for another strike.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-07-06
Straw Hats, latest styles,
lowest prices, at Watkins's.
No Kickers There.

l hope to 60 to realms above, when
l lie down to die; hope that choirs,
all clad in white, will greet my wonder
ing eye. I know that I'll be filled
with joy, in regions free from care, for
angels tell me in my sleep, there are
no kickers there.
Though rugged be the jasper pave,
no soul will dare complain; though
sunlight shines the ages through, no
spirits call for rain; though crowns be
half size too small, no seraphs tear
there hair, and all is joy above, be-
cause there are no kickers there.
The music may be out of tune, no
one will hold his ears; the robes may
not be tailor made, there'll be no
means and tears; the sandals may be
often worn, none asks a better pair,
for, glory to the Lord of Hosts! there
are no kickers there.
And when the celestial council call
for paving on the street, the man who
gets the contract may work onward
swift and fleet; no spirits will injunc-
tons bring, nor cranks or croakers
swear; the realms above are free from
chumps, there are no kickers there.
Then take me from this vale of tears,
where cranks come to the front, where
men who never work or toll still lie
around and grunt; I long to wear
celestial robes and climb the golden
stair, for we'll 1 know that in those
lands there are no kickers there.-Er-
change.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-07-06
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