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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-11-20
THREE THOUSAND OUT.
Great Strike of Trainmen on the Lehigh
Valley SYSTEM

Wilkesbarre, Pa, November 19.-The
great strike of the trainmen on the
Lehigh Valley road is on. It is estimated
that 5000 men have struck and this
division is pretty throughly tied up.
Only mail trains were permitted to run
today and people here beginning to
realize that this may be one of the great
est struggles inIyears. There have already
been reports of attempts to extinguish
or destroy switchflights. The men claim
that the management have not bept an
agreement made in July.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-11-20
THE WEATHER.
Threatening Snow or Rain.

Boston, November 19.-Local forecast
for New England for Saturday: Threat
ening, with light rain or snow flurries,
followed by clearing; slight change in
temperature; westerly winds.
Washington, November 19.-For New
England for Monday: Generally fair;
possibly light local SHOWS in the northern
portions; west winds, increasing in force;
slightly colder Monday night.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-11-20
Weather Observations.

The following are the observations for
the Agricultural Department Weather
Bureau for yesterday, Nov. 10. taken
at s p. NJ. 10th meridian time. the OBJ
servations for each station being siven in
this order: Temperature. direction of
the wind, state of the weather:
Boston, 38o. n, cloudy; New York 400
W, clear; Philadelphia. $50. SW c,aar.. ao
Washington, 260, NV. clear; Albanv t 40
calm, clear; Buffalo, 320, W, cloudy.' N ne' ;
troit, 3O", W, fair; Chicago 305 NV w
clear; ST. Paul, Soo, SW. cloudy. 81 Wv W.
cent 26o, sW, cloudy; Huron. Dal- al aeo ip-
W, clear; Bismarck, $50, W, fair. .iacl DI
sonville, 660, NV, cloudy. '"eA-
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-11-20
FIVE HUNDRED in DANGER,
1t Was the National Line Helvetia and She
Was Rescued at Last

1t Was the National Line Helvetia and She
Was Rescued at Last
London November 2O-A dispatch from
Milford confirms the report of the
steamer Killarney's captain that it was
the National line steamer Helvetia he
tried to take in tow, ten miles from Mil
ford, Saturday. The Helvetia's signals
of distress were answered eventually by
the government stug Storm Cock, which
took her in tow and brought her to Mil
ford Haven. There she lies at anchor
with 500 steerage passengers aboard.
A sail reported wrecked off Sand End,
Banffshire, Friday night, was probably
the steamer Moray. She had crew of
fifteen, all of who are supposed to be
lost.
A forty ton crane used in completing
the harbor at Tynemouth, was blown
down last night and the harbor works
damaged to the extent of 10000 pounds
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-11-20
THE TARIFF BILL.
Mr.. Wilson Says the Republicans May
See 1t November 27.

Washington, November 19.-Chairman
Wilson, of the ways and means commit
tee, this evening authorized the state
ment that he would call the full commit
tee together November 27th, unless some
thing now unforeseen should prevent.
The tariff bill, upon which the Demo-
Gratis have been working, will then be
laid before the Republicans.
Maine Pensions.
Washington. November 1S-The follow
ing Maine pensions have been granted
today:
Inerease-James Cavender, Lewiston,
Androscoggin; Leonard G. Harmon.
Bonny Eagle, Cumberland.
Original, widows, etc.-FrancesF r. Will
bur, Skowhegan, Somerset.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-11-20

San Francisco, November 19.-Today's
Call says: If United States Minister
Willis insists upon the reinstatement of
the Queen Liluokalani she will be
deported from the islands and the
chances are that the.exequator of Presi-
dent Cleveland's envoy will be cancelled
and he returned to this country as per-
soma non ssgrata.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-11-20
Borrowing q Hole.

"Lend me hole,' is not unusual re-
quest from one commuter to another as
they come into New York by rail. 1t
means that he who has preferred the re-
quest has forgotten his communication tick
ct and begs that his companion have a
hole punched in his own on the negligent
ones account. 1t is courtesy constantly
exchanged by commuters on Railways
New York Sun.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-11-20
Local Weather Report.

Portland, Me-, November 19.-The local
signal office records as to the weather,
the following:
ga. m.-Barometer. 39.035; thermome-
ter, Bio; dew point, %; humidity, 6s;
wind, w; velocity, /; weather, cloudy.
Sp. m.-Barometer, 29.935; thermome-
ter. 800 dew point, 27; humidity, 10:
wind, 0; velocity, l; weather. cloudy.
The mean daily thermometer, 80; max
imum thermometer, $50; minimum ther-
mometer, 26.5; maximum Velocity Of
wind. 70, SW; total precipitation. 90
inch.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-11-20

The cruiser Columbiason her ot,s, o;o,
trial Saturday averaged d. 81 knato oa oihGdal 81,
contract called for 81 knots and 'IJs. ~. Inc
cess earns the Cramps $3.50. .oeO T,e, Tme ex e.
caused by the entrance of water ;nta ,toa pc
port enigne somewhat reduced tha iaieo the
otherwise the ss knots racord Momfd Spesn;
have been made "ouio.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-11-20

Biddeford, November l9.-Burglars
early this morning broke into Fries dye
house, Saco, and stole clothing and other
articles. An old coat belonging to one
of the burglars, was found on the floor.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-11-20
NEW ADVERTISEMENT.
7 j. r. Libby. \
Towel Day Extraordinary!

Towel Day Extraordinary!
Did you ever see the tide rise in
the Bay of Fundy?
We're having Bay of Fundy
tide-rising in our Invoice room lust
now.
Our Morning Bargain Sale and
3 o'clock afternoon sale consoIi-
dated into one grand all day sale of
Towels. The Towels will be found
on the Special Bargain Counter and
in the House Furnishing Depart
ment.
We enter fully
Ten Thousand Towels into this
great sale today.
Our big show window and two
outside show cases will give you a
hint this morning of the quality
of the
Towel-day Sale Extraordinary.
A great Importer who is going
out of this branch of the business
Gave our buyer chance to close
out some great lots at
Prices never before heard of in
the Towel World.
Either the Importer was desperate to sell.
or our buyer has mislaid his Golden rule that
day, for such Towels at such prices never be-
fore mater allied here.]
And Monday will be
Towel Day galore here.
The active and ornamental
Drum Major heading the process
sion is vast mass of
All Linen Huckabuck Towels,
Spacious in length, breadth and
thickness.
Sop up the water like sponge.
When you take one in your wet
hands it absorbs the moisture like
1ottlnS paper.
Should be 20c, is - 12c.
I5c-These are Pure Linen Satin
Damask Towels,
[generous size. knotted fringe, double
row of open work, rainbow borders some
red. blue, yellow. pink and all white.
The body of the Towel is embellished
With DarnaSk hgureS flowers. fruit
ferns, thistles, &C.. Sci
Good for stand covers, chair tides
Is well as Towels, Is cents
~
25c-We just wish you could see
them. Damask designs of all
manner of growing things.
Land things that never grew save in the
idealized imagination of an artist.]
Knotted Fringe, 46 inches
long, q inches wide.
Mote these dimensions
Colored borders six inches
deep in countless colors.
Vastly helpful in giving tone
to room.
You'd say they were SO cts.
but you'd be mistaken, only 25
cts.
See them in the show case.
**#
G9c-Old Honesty.
Best Of Irish Linen that is put
into towels.
Heavy, soft, great affinity for
moisture.
46 inches long, % 1-2 inches
wide.
This Towel is precisely the grade
sold by us and other dealers as a
bargain at so cents.
Splendid for the bath.
For dry friction, for massage,
Space is too expensive to tell of
the Turkish Bath Towels at 25 cts.
[almost as big as the Turkish Empire.l
Fine Satin Damask Towels at
50c., 60c., 75c. and upward.
You cannot spend an hour more
entertainingly than in investigating
these Towels.
Examining them does not put you
under the slightest obligation to buy.
The buying and selling will take
care of itself.
Towel Day will be an epoch in
Mondays trade building.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-11-20

Fishing Boats by the Score and Many
Staunch Sea Going Vessels Battered to
Pieces-In Many Cases, None of the
Crew Lived to Tell the Tale-National
Liner Helvetia With Five Hundred
Emigrants Towed to Port.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-03-22
Justice and Charity.

There is a great deal Of ambiguity
about these two words justice and
chsrity-sn ambiguity such that persons
who entirely agree about the facts and
substances, that lie back Of the words
are often found to wage war with each
other because of q misunderstanding;
and on the other hand, persons who do
not agree ct all about the facts are, by
mere verbal legerdemaiB, forced into an
entsngling and meaningless alliance.
It is very important that the world
should come to an understanding as to
what justice veritably is, and as to what
charity is, and I venture to suggest that
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-03-22
A Plea For Union.

EDITOR ADvoCATE:-TnRt combined,
concentrated, conscienceless, centralized
and Incorporated capital" has, in times
past, triumphed in almost every contest
with the people, is owing to the fact that
it was combined and united, while the
lsboring men were not. Surely the toll
era will profit by this lesson, and before
another national campaign begins will
also unite their forces.
In opening the eyes of the people to
their political needs, our strongest forces,
next the press and the public speaker
If, indeed, even these may be excepted
are the various organizations which OPP
pose the present economic policy Of the
government But the number Of these
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-03-22
Who Owns America

Asyndicate Of English capitalists has pur-
chased $1,000 acres of land in Shady Valley,
few miles east of Bristol, Tenn, for $780,,
900. The tract is very rich in iron ore and
manganese. Furnaces viii be established
aud a railroad built to the mines.-New
York Journal of Finance, March 8.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-03-22

organizations and their independence
from one another are sources Of weak
ness. Besides the labor unions, there
are the Citizens Alliance, the Industrial
Legion, the Guiding Star, the United
Order Of Antl-monopoly, and perhaps
other orders that entertain similar ideas
and seek to secure the adoption Of the
same political principles.
What one order has accomplished, what
particular end it desires to attain at the
present time, is imperfectly known, or
wholly unknown to members Of the
other societies. When two or more
orders exist in country, both or all are
weak. There is a continual friction.
There is danger Of having factions who
will fight each other in conventions and
at the polls. Another point must be
considered. The workers are poor. They
cannot afford to belong to several Of the
reform orders. Nor is it in keeping with
their views on economy to pay as many
sets of state and national officers as there
are different organizations when one set
could do all the work.
In view Of these facts it is evident that
in the interests of our country and Of the
republican government entrusted to our
keeping steps should be taken at once to
unite all the orders that seek to change
public policy with regard to the great
questions Of land, labor, transportation
and finance.
Nothing will please our foes more than
the subdivision Of our forces into de-
tschments. unconnected, isolated, il not
actually warning. Nothing will grieve
them more than the immediate union Of
all reform elements into one invincible
phalRnx. The one course means long
and losing light with plutocracy; the
other speedy victory.
Let the head officers get together. Let
each set initiate all the others into their
order. Let them compare the several
aims, objects and principles Of the
orders. Let them eliminate unimpor-
tant details, and even modify minor
principles slightly. Then let all mem
bers of the several organizations be made
members of the new union by vote Of
their highest legislative body. Let us
sacrifice some Of our fsvorite whims and
hobbies if need be for the sake Of home
and country and principle.
j. @. RUPPENTHAI, JR.,
County Foreman U. o. A M. ofRussell
County.
Lucas, Kss., March 13, 1893.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-03-22

We agree to say justice when we mean
the settled right Of things and THAI we
say charity when we mean q sort Of ten
tative, unsettled and speculative right of
things.
What we call charity to-day, we are
likely to call justice tomorrow, az the
world moves on.
There is sense in which it is true that
it is only for chsrity's sake that the
strong yield anything whatever to the
weak; it is only charity that makes hu-
man society anything other than merely
mechanical or brutal. But Of course
this is somewhat expanded sense Of the
word charity, and Is apt to lead US into
the antiquities that we are to bewareof
It is, perhaps, doing less violence to
the common use of words to say that
justice is the root and spring Of charity
that it is justice alone that makes So
ciety possible, and that the crying need
Of the hour is not more charity, but more
justice. The meaning Of the cry that is
sounding in the streets to-day, the de-
msnd for Christian justice, and the
scornful repudistion of all that goes by
the name OF chsrity-the meaning is,
that the rights in issue are not to be re-
gsrded as vsporous things Of cloudland,
requiring for their proof some new tip
toe stretch Of our endeaVor to spell out
the order Of the universe and to discern
the law Of God-but that the rights
claimed are well-settled rights-rights
which it takes no seer or prophet to un-
derstand and no saint to allow. The de-
msnd is that we shall actually guarantee
and defend those rights which everybody
admits-which those who live in the
day-befors- yesterday honestly suppose to
be duly guaranteed and defended, but
which, as matter Of fact, have been OBJ
scured and neglected In the din and con-
fusion incident to the remsking Of the
world under the gosd and spur of cleo
tricity and steam.
We must first have the old justice be-
fore we can go on into the new. Though
it be true that the charity Of to-day is to
be the justice Of tomorrow, yet we can
not live by the justice of tomorrow. We
must live to-day by the light Of to day.
And the best way to realize in due time
higher kind of justice is not by vague
and sentimental strivings after an ideal
excellence, but by practical loyalty to the
right and duty that are plainly set be-
fore us.
Let us first make it true of America
that here the law is no respecter of per-
sons, and that there is equal opportunity
i for every man to earn living-before we
give our strength to weaving cobweb
plans about the more remotely possible
felicities of the kingdom of heaven. The
kingdom will come best in that way.-C.
F., in The Dawn.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-03-22

decrease the taxation Of the unimproved
quarter sections.
On the contrary, to exempt all personal
property and improvements would re-
duee the taxation on the improved quar-.
tors and would put the unimproved ol
landlord pieces of ground on the same
basis as the others.
The difference in the valuation and
taxation Of the different pieces Of prop
erty because OF the difference in the
value Of the improvements is hardly as
great as one would expect to find, and il
is possible that the Vernon township as.
SCISSOR has not been quite as industrious
in prosecuting his brother farmers FOL
improving their property as the Law
would allow. Still there is some in
equality left, and the entire exemption
Of personal property and improvements
would save the owners and workers oi
the quarter sections and the eighty acre
tracts from 50 to 81 each. Also it would
save a farmer the necessity Of running
his wheat off just before March l to es
cape taxation.
1t is as a means Of paying nstiona
taxes, however, that the single tax would
be more far-rsRching in it's effects. The
United States constitution provides that
no direct taxes shall be collected from
the various states except in proportion
to the population. Suppose this were
done and the amount Rpportioned tC
district 48 should be raised that way.
Multiplying the male inhabitants ovel
the age Of twenty-one by five gives ui
100, the probable population.
Six dollars is about the amount pei
capita raised annually by custom duties
and internal revenue. So we multiply
100 by six and get at the total amount
to be raised from the district, $500. This
gives SO centsto quarter section. Thil
would give the half sections tax o
66 cents and the eigh ty acre tracts q tax Of
1611s cents and would fall on theowners o
land as owners, not as users; the rem
fund Of the landlord being taxed, not thu
production Of the lsborer. The saving
to the farmers would be immensely
greater than this, as they all pay man!
times more than their per capita proper
ton from the increase Of prices due tx
indirect taxation. The conclusion
arrive at is that the single tax applied a.
fiscal measure for collection Of all taxes
local, state and national, would work
decided saving to the working farmers
would not injure the tenants, would no
destroy the land values, but would re
duce somewhat the profit that come
from simple ownership.
1t would be better than an income tsl
and better than an inheritance tax. 0
the income tax the objection may b.
urged that a man can always conceal tn
amount Of his income. OF the inherit
ance tax it seems like a proposition t.
plunder a mans estate when he is dea'
because we were unable to prevent hin
from plundering the community durinI
his lifetime.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-03-22
AN OBJECT LESSON IN TAXATION.
BY QUINCY A. GLASS.

quarter sections IN the dlsCrlcC, all JILL
able. The land is what is known as
divide and second bottom. The portion
nearest the city being the highest and
somewhat less productive is equal in
value to that portion further west be-
cause Of it's nearer location to town.
Consequently, for the purposes OF this
article, all the land in the district will be
considered Of equal value OF the
twenty-nine quarter sections, thirteen are
owned by non-residents Of the district.
These are mostly unimproved, having
much less upon them in the way OF
buildings, fruit, shrubbery, ETC., than
those owned by residents. By the as
SCISSORS census there are thirty-two male
citizens over twenty. one years Of age, of
whom nineteen appear on the records as
land owners.
The largest tract owned and fRrmed by
q resident is $50 acres, and the largest
amount Of land owned by any non-resi-
dent in one body is 800 acres. There are
four tracts Of this size in the district.
There appears by the records to be four
teen mortgages in the district, OF which
twelve are held against homes and two
against the unimproved quarter sections
Of non-residents. There are fifteen
quarter sections rented out, and eleven
men in the district who are tenants, or,
as we prefer to say, renters. The men
owning mortgaged homes are really
tenants, paying ground rent and own
ing their improvements. In some cases
where the mortgages are very heavy
they can hardly be said to own anything
more than an equity in the improve
ments,
The real estate assessment Of the dis
trict in $21,270 and the total real
estate taxes amount to $S93.21, The per-
sonal property of the district is assessed
at Sl318 and the personal taxes are
S54.98. There is also for 1892 q railroad
tax Of $701.77. The highest tax paid on
any full quarter section in the district is
on the southwest 1s Of section 26 (this
quarter is as remote from town % any in
the district) and amounts to $39.3l. The
most valuable land in the district nRtu-
rally is the northwest 4 Of section 70.
This is the only land in the district
which lies in the first bottom Of the Wal
nut river, is near to town and is taxed
$3.50.
As low a rate of tax as any in the DIS
trict is on the west 4 northeast a Of
section "a, which pays IL "a or at the rate
Of 22-69 per quarter section, and is grass
land only and entirely unimproved.
The eighty acre farms, having moro inn
provements in proportion to the acreage,
pay higher rates Of tax. Twenty dollars
each or $40 per quarter section being
very near the average. OF the personal
property taxpayers, nine live in the dis
trict, three are non. resident. The thir-
teenth is the telephone company, coming
in with tax of II cents. OF the per
sonal property taxes 80 per cent. is paid
by one resident Of the district The non
resident owners Of three half sections
paying less personal tax than the one
resident and owner OF one quarter sec
tion.
Presumably he has been engaged in
the reprehensible practice Of making his
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-10-27

There has been much Assurances
that the bill will
abundant CALL $8S having been
within weeks speculation stocks
and would have expanded
of industries Stocks gained during Der
the aggregate for railroads with sales
recevershp for the Union Pacific has been
that the other selling
already that general the likely happen has been
discounted Wheat has risen helped by
and better nothing
lifted collapse by Petroleum has
been advanced and Brazil spectators
commandments increase the value
there not good Renewals maturing
ing house certificates have
that merchants asking
commercial Indebtedness still The
treasury xc remark it's gold surplus having fallen
799 Imports far behind last the
bond unusually large internal
receipts decrease heavily The Of the
brought pptabe change This shrinkage
here than in other branches
slight
mills which recently have while
number reported operation condition of the
Gates plainly that few working at their full capacity The reduction
has been the
The caution of
enabled that industry work into safe position but while the stock
dealers unquestionably low orders received enough
fully the shops operation Some improvement
the Silks textiles and knit goods situation
changed the demand small In wooens
orders and the number employed
mills closing work. and the sales wool the
chief pounds against
There has been buying the the
mills started the rolls
the English Market but the home market condition
would not have tried Metal working Industries
usually rails but deliveries of September
900 tons which not fifth Of the capacity Of the works. The
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-10-27
Gov. Altgeld.

The Governor of Illinois has the world humanity
in it, good which will tell follow After pardonng the
imprisoned life for anarh companions Of the murdered ou
has with documentary pamphlet explaining the awn
the crime committed against the victims plutoatc magy
Though the three set free have though
the suicide rendered his accountant the
by the pust the
the world unspeakable good.
SO wonderful the
shall repubsh all the pamphlet the occupy
columns for four
We the only editor the state who defended
the time of their -and feel uban
~ fully half the editors with that the entire Chi
the people,
awful, awful, unspeakable bunder.
DO the Governor Illinois,
history which will be related and thousand
We knew those fifteen agowithi
their unhOy death-and nothing
Them Parsons and Fielding gentlemen holaryand honor
able citizens.