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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-09-24

Her company is evidently a strong one.
The names Of its members give promise
Of its excellence. John -. Gilbert "a
nous as an eccentric comedian, and Joe
Cawthorn one Of the best OF actors IN
his line, are prominent. Maurice Darcy,
Clyden Stevens, Louis NJ Carpenter
Rachel Deane Olive Gates, Fannie y.
Jacobs and others give valuable aid 10
the entertainments. The critics through
out the country are bestowing unusual
praise upon Patti Rosa and her Perform
ances, and her appearance at the Theatre
will assuredly give genuine pleasure.
Dolly Warden" Will be played FRIDAY
night and at the Saturday matinee, and
Miss Dixie" Saturday night.
AT the Academy.
Charles r. Ellis presents Count Cas-
per" at the Mozart Academy tomorrow
evening. 1t is a pretty, clean and dellsht-
full comedy, and Van Dusen. In the New
York Telegram. speaks as follows about
the attraction:
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-09-14
Business and Politics.
New York Advertiser.1

Governor Mckinley was right when
he attributed unusual significance to
the ''notice" posted by the Bell Brothers
on the closed doors of their pottery in
Findlay, O., which runs as follows:
These works will today close, to remain
closed until such time as the Democratic
party will promise not to meddle with ex-
listing tariff laws.
The Bell Brothers are exceptionally
successful business men. They are
young, active. wide awake and indus
trious. They went to Findlay few
years ago with comparatively small
capital outside their natural energy,
skill and correct business methods, to
take advantage Of the cheap fuel fur
nished by the natural gas so abundant
in that city.
They worked hard, as men who sue
ceed usually do, employed good work
men, kept up with the progress in de-
velopment in their line of business, and
watched the markets with the keen,
alert vigilance of frst-class business
men, and prospered most satisfactorily.
They furnished employment to large
force of men. women and boys, and
soon acquired splendid reputation for
honest dealing and the solid value of
their product.
They came near being worthy of
characterize ton as ''model citizens"
They would have been entirely worthy
if they had taken more interest in poll
tics. No American acquits himself of his
whole duty who is not interested in
politics. No people are worthy of or
can maintain the rights that a republic
is intended to secure who do not take
deep interest in politics. The only
thing that can destroy republic is the
Indifference of its citizens to political
affairs
But for this very reason the act of
the Bell Brothers in posting the notice
quoted by Governor Mckinley has un-
usual significance. They had no par
tisan end in view. They We're not at
tempting to use their argument to Sc
cure the success of political party.
They simply told the truth and fur
nished an object lesson of the highest
value. The pottery industry would
have been almost unknown to the
United States if Protection had not en-
abled men like the Bell Brothers to pay
good wages and at the same time COM
pete with British manufacturers And
as it is with this industry so it is with
! manufacturing in a hundred different
lines.
Will the Democratic party heed the
lesson?
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-09-14
RETRIBUTlON.

How well remember last fall at the raHy,
/ marched in the line wild the workin'
min, sure,
And felt just as proud as king at be-
houlding
The fall of the rich and the rise of the
poor.
Sure that's what they tould me was mint
by the victh'ry,
And no wonder that was elated at that,
AS sthepped to the music just like an
ould soger
And wore big roosther on the top O.
my hat.
1 invied the boss wild his riches and COM
forts.
No share of the profits I'd git if again
voted to kape up the tariff that only
PROTECTED the bosses and burdened the
min.
All, sure I'll get aven now wild you, my
honeys.
I'll vote just as sure as my name it is
Pat,
For Grover, and thin, at the ratification,
I'll wear big roosther on the top O. my
l done it, bad luck to the day. an the
hour,
I'd like to recall that same vote If 1
COulu,
And once agan hear the ould sthame whis-
tie soundn'
That called me to work whin the times
they were good.
The boss he looks worried, the foreman Is
sour,
The ould mills deserted and gloomy at
that,
And all have lift of the share of the glory
Is the ould battered roosther l wore on
my hat
mustered up courage one day to sphake
And ask him how long we'd be idle. You
The mill had been closed for q fortnight,
and loafin'
! Wild not cint comm was tellin' on me.
He sez to me, "Pat, you an will both
suffer-
Me bizness is crippled, me credit is fiat,
But If yez git hungry, yez KNOW" he said
/ slyly,
"Yez can ate the ould roosther yez wore
on your hat"
So there's the houl story, and none can
deny it,
The truth must be tould though tho
| hivens should fall.
We made q misthtake in defatin' the party
That gave us protection, good money and
all
In four years from now yez talk till you're
spachless,
An'argify until you're as gray as a rat
But If that same party again is triumphant,
The devila roosther yez'll see on my hat.
&C. G. H. in Bloomington Paragraph.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-09-14
Do Not BE Deceived.

Wages .are going down in this coun-
try chiefly because the business of tariff
revision has been entrusted to the
Democratic party, which has pledged
itself to remove every shred of pro
lection from the tariff law The coun.
try is now discounting this pledge. No
merchant will buy goods made with dear
labor, if he considers fair the prospect
that within brief period he may buy
goods made with cheap labor. The
process of assimilating wages in this
country to wages in Europe has begun,
and unless there shall be assurance that
Congress will let the tariff alone 1T will
continue. No manufacturer can help
himself. Labor-cost is the main cost of
production, and it is idle to expect an
employer to compete with rivals whose
labor-cost is less than his own. OF
course the Democrats will be glad TO
persuade the wage-earners that the
fault is with the employers, just as Mr.,
Cleveland was eager to induce the
country to believe that the silver pur-
chases produced the hard times; but no
workingman need be deceived uaAsss he
Is willing to be deceived.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-09-14
Let Him Trust to His Own.

The Republican newspapers. which
for several weeks past have considered
1t their patriotic duty ito strengthen
the hands of the President" will not
unlikely find that they have been chief
ly successful in weakening themselves.
At any rate there is no longer occasion
to help him ''out of his hole" 1t is in
deed queer business for Republican
journal to devote its efforts to strength
ening the hands of President who is
using his strength and his hands to
drive the knife deep into the vitals Of
the Republican party and of the great
principles for which it stands. Better
leave him to the tender mercies of his
own party friends and the mugwumps
who are always engaged with him in
fighting American interests and pros
perity. Mr.. Cleveland is first of all
free trader. When he has persuaded
Congress to sweep the silver purchases
out of the way, his energies will doubt
less be concentrated upon an attempt
to overthrow the tariff for which the
Republican party contended last fall
and to break down and to destroy the
industries of the country that are con-
ductel under the encouragement of the
tariff. Because of the certainty that he
will engage in this wrecker's work hun
dreds of mills have closed their doors,
tens of thousands of workingmen are
idle, and blight and paralysis have
stricken the business of the Nation.
The responsibility for all the harm that
has been done-for all the ruin that has
been wrought lies directly at the door
of Grover Cleveland, who in 1888, began
the present relentless war upon the men
who direct our great industries That
he should desire to persuade the people
that the injury has been done by sill
yer law prepared and passed by Repub-
licans is comprehensive, but why Re-
publican newspapers should continue
any longer, whecher Intentionally or
unintentionally, to help him so to shift
the blame for the consequences of mis-
own action, and should clear the way
for him to begin to play havoc with the
industries of the Nation is not plainly
manifest. There is no danger of his dong
anything that will really benefit the
country. Let him trust to his own.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-09-14
No "Hoking'' Methods should Apply.

The only pension law that has been
passed by the Ue,.oora.s since 1860 is
the Mexican wa. esr vice tension. Every
survivor of tina, wai. or his surviving
widow recei''es . pens on under its
provisions. he majority of the Mexi
can soldiers we g from sae South, hence
n majority OF the ponsioners are South
srn men, and as many of them were in
the Confe derate Army. the anomaly
is presented of men who were in the
rebel army receiving peLsions from the
Unite1 States Government! Not for
wounds and disabilities received in the
Mexican war, but service pension,
which is not conditioned on wounds,
disability OF incapacity to make liv-
ing; simply the condition of having
borne arms for the country. The total
lumber now receiving this Mexican
war service pension is 1928 soldiers
and 1882 widows. Thousands of the
former were in the rebel army as pri-
Yates or officers. Among tie widows
are to be found those of number of
noted rebel generals. The National
Tribune gives the following partial
lis::
The widow of Maj. Gen. George E..
Pickett, who commanded division in
the rebel army.
The widow of Maj. Gen. Gideon j.
Pillow, who commanded u division in
the rebel army.
The widow of Lieut.. Gen. A. P. Hill,
who commanded one of the three corps
Of Lees army.
The widow of Maj. Gen. James r.
Chalmers, who commanded q division
OF cavalry under Forrest.
The widow of Lieut. Gen. "Stone-
wall" jackson, Lees ablest lieutenant.
The widow of Maj. Gen. Dabney H.
Maury. who was dismissed for going
over to the enemy" and commanded g
corps in the rebel army.
The widow of Commodore Sidney
Smith Lee, who was dismissed for the
same reason. and became a commodore
in the rebel navy.
The widow of Maj. Gen. Samue
Cooper, who left the adjutant-generalcJ
of the United States army to become
sdjutant general of the Southern Con
federacy.
Suppose that Secretary Hoke Smitl
were to apply his choking" methods Il
the men on the Mexican war pension
list and eliminate therefrom all tina
some people may claim are able t.
maintain themselves. Why shoult
choking" 90 by favor?
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-09-14

The Republican party in National
Convention last year made the follow
ing declaration: 1.-The American people,
from tradition and interest, favor BIZ
metallism, and the Republican party
demands the use of both gold and silver
as standard money" The State plat
form adopted in Columbus last June in
dorses and reaffirms the platform of
principles adopted by the National Con-
vention and contains the following ad-
ditional declaration )n the financial
question: "We favor honest money, com
posed of gold, silver and paper, main
tanned at equal value, and under Ma
tional and not State regulation. The
financial honor of the country must be
maintained and its credit preserved
unimpaired." Such was the position of
the Republican party one year ago, such
is its position today, and such it will
remain, because in that position it is
eternally right and entitled to the sup
por. of every honest man. 1t has not
changed and it has no idea of changing
1t never has favored the demonstration
OF silver, it does not now favor it, and
it never will favor it,
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-09-14
"The Lower Classes"


William C. Whitney, formerly Secre-
tary of the Navy and chief buglemah
of the present Cleveland administration,
always sp eaks sneeringly of the clover
classes;" the New York Evening Post
(edited by English free-traders) thinks
a dollar day is enough for the same
class, and the sloppy and sensational
New York World tells American work
ers that rice is good enough for them.
Rice is the food of the pauper- paid
labor in China and Russia, and should
be good enough for American laborers.
Here is what Mr. Cleveland's organ
says:
''The pressure of hard times should
render more popular the cheap, but
nourishing. diet of rice. There are
many ways in which rice can be cooke
to render it palatable and nutritious.
1t is popular among the Russian peas
ants, while millions of Turks and Chi
nese depend upon it as their chief arti-
Gle of diet.
The people to whom this is addressed
should turn to the New York World of
year ago aud read the glowing prom
ises that were then made of the pros
perity which would come with Cleve-
land and The Change The American
workman has plenty of time now to re-
feet on the fool he made of him self
when he listened last year to Demo
cratic pretensions. Fortunately he also
has remedy at hand this year.
Every thinking man knows that the
main cause of the present hard times is
the dread of change of the tariff
policy of the Government. No one
man has contributed SO much to bring
ing about the depression in business as
Lawrence 7. Neal, the Democratic can
didate for Governor 1t was Neal who
was the author of the unwise and dan
gerous tariff plank of the last Demo
cratic convention, declaring protect
i've tariff unconstitutional, bitterly de-
nouncing the Mckinley protective tariff
law, and promising its repeal in case OF
Democra tic victory. He was not
prompted to do this by the sentiment of
his own State, by patriotic devotion to
country, or principle, or any other high
or laudable motive. He simply urged
his amendment to the platform to en-
barrass Mr.. Cleveland and his friends
and because he hoped the more easily
to defeat Cleveland for denomination,
or failing in that, to see him buried al
the rolls. He supported another candi.
date, and is not now lnor ever has been,
the Presidents frivad.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-09-14
VOTED FOR A CHANGE.

The husband went home with a manner
austere
And visage o'sprend with frown.
Said his wife. you are home rather early,
my dear?"
And he answered, "The mill has shut
down"
said,
AS she held up her face for kiss.
And he swore big oath and he answered,
~ did,
But it wasn't change such as this"
New York Press
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-09-14

Ulysses M. Greene, who was a MEM
Der of the Sixty-fourth O. V. l., has
been suspended from the pension roll.
Here is part of what he says of his
services.
II served more than four years in the
late war, or from the beginning of
James Buchanan's Democratic rebellion
against the United States Government,
till April 12, 1866. was in the follow
ing battles: Shiloh, siege of Corinth,
Perryville, Stone River, Hoover's Gap,
Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Rocky
Face Ridge and Resaca, besides skir-
mishes by the dozen. Twas shot through
the right thigh at Missionary Ridge. 1
had three ribs broken by piece of
shell at Resaca, Ga, and the lower por-
tion of the calf of my left leg torn off.
was never off duty day in the whole
four years, except when wounded as
above stated. / was honorably dis
charged from the service"
William Glass, blind veteran Of
Logan, who lost his sight as result of
his service in the Uaion army, has had
his pension cut in two by the Hok Q
Smith regime at Washington. Of this
transaction The Republican Gazette
says: 'Mr. Glass was good soldier.
He served with credit and did his duty
faithfully and we'll. Now in his declin-
ing years, with the world shut from
his sight, with no income to save him
and his devoted wife from the cold
charity of the world, save the bounty
of the Government he risked his life to
save, he is turned out with pittance
to wander in darkness and to die in
want. Such is the love of the Cleveland
administration for the old soldier"
1t hat been discovered that the notices
/ Of suspension of pensions sent out by
the Democratic Pension Office are
signed Screen B. Raum, Commis.
! sioner." Mr.. Raum was the late Re.
publican Commissioner, and the object
undoubtedly is to convey to veterans the
impression that Raum is suspending the
pensions. This is despicable, but in per
feet keeping with the tactics of th'
Hoke Smith party.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-09-14
.Provide Against the Possibility"


Here Is the pension plank of the Re
publican National platform Of 1888. 1t
was written by the Hon. William Nc
Kinley, Governor of Ohio, who was
chairman. of the Committee on Resolu-
tions. twas readopted by the Nation
al Convention of 1892, and is today
everywhere the doctrine and fervent
belief Of the grand old Republican
party:
The gratitude of the Nation to the
defenders of the Union can not be meas
ured b. laws. The legislation Of Con-
gress should conform to the pledge
made by loyal people, and be so en-
larged and extended as 20 provide
who honorably wore the Federal uni
form should become the inmate of an
almshouse, or dependent upon private
charity. In the presence of an over
flowing Treasury, 1t would be public
scandal to do less for those whose valor-
GUS service preserved the Government.
We denounce the hostile spirit of Presi-
dent Cleveland in his numerous vetoes
of measures for pension relief, and the
action Of the Democratic House of Rep
resentatives in refusing even a consid-
Grafton of general pension legislation.
This is as true today as ever, and
voices the sentiments of all patriots as
positively now as it did then. Contrast
their position with that of Grover
Cleveland. Hoke Smith and the other
bitter enemies of the Union soldier now
in power! The question is not merely
question Of recognition and recon-
pense to those veterans, nor matter as
to who they alone may vote for. 1t
has become question as to which party
in this country its patriotic citizens as
body should belong to. The present
Administration has no use for the coun-
trys defenders; it prefers its worst
enemies at home and abroad
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-09-14

More than ten millions of our people
are directly and Indirectly engaged in
the business of manufacturing and
three times that nnmber are closely
connected with it and interested in its
prosperity. The threat of tariff changes
made by the Democracy, by which all
barriers against the influx of the pro-
ductions OF cheap foreign labor are
to be thrown down, keeps all that vast
army in suspense as to what the future
is to be, and no permanent betterment
of affairs viii come until the worst is
known. There is no necessity for any
change, and there ough to be no change.
The election of William Mckinley. as
governor of Ohio, this fall, will have a
great effect in relieving the present dis
tressed condition of the country. The
tariff is at the bottom of our present
trouble, and while President Cleveland
can net ignore it, as his party is firmly
committed to it, he in his message
reiegated it for the future and not i'm.
mediate consideration. But an over
whelming expression from the voters
OF Ohio in favor of protection would
give encouragement to the indus trial
world and assure them of support.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-09-14
Vote the Republican Ticket.

The Republican party has always
stood for protection to American indus
tries and American workingmen against
unfair competition with the pauper Ia
Dor of Europe. 1t stands for honest
money, giving to silver full legal tender
power. but ever keeping in view the
full face value and stability of our cur
recy. 1t stands for the right of every
citizen, white or black, to cast one vote,
and have that vote counted as cast. 1t
believes that the Constitution of the
United States means the same in Mis-
sissippi that it does in Ohio. 1t believes
in just and fair pensions granted with
the liberality that this Nation can
60 we'll afford, and, rs party. it pro
tests against the unfair unpatriotic
and ungrateful attitude of the present
Democratic Administration toward eX-
Union soldiers. 1t welcomes the de-
serving and industrious poor of foreign
nations, but it opposes the vicious and
criminal and convict laborer, or his
wares, from whatever country or cline
they may come. 1t is the patriotic
party, and should have the support of
ever pau lotlS |illLSi.
The Iowa Republican State platform
describes the situation perfectly in the
following truthful and pertinent allega,
tions. Let al men read AMI reflect:
"Not an allegation made by the
Democratic party as to the Mckinley
law or reciprocity, not claim of the
vaunted good results of Democratic
success has come true, but in the with
holding of the pensions of Union sol
diers, in business paralyzed, in mills
and manufactures closed, in suspended
banks, in bankrupted firms, in the dis
tress of farmers. in the growing multi
tude of tramps, in falling wages of
thousands of working people discharged
from employment, in the monetary
stringency, in the prevailing hard times
and public distress, are the fulfillment
of what Republicans predicted with the
historic warrant as to the known capac-
ity of the Democratic party to distress
and affiict the American people,"
This is year in which every believer
in protective tariff can do effective
missionary work. He has only to cite
| his free trade neighbor to the existing
state of affairs, though there has as
yet been only a threat of reducing the
tariff to revenue" basis. The very first
persons affected were the wage-earners
and their families. Then came the
farmers, the manufacturers, the Iner.
chants, and finally distress and trouble
pervaded all classes Of society.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-09-14

If the Republicans of Ohio, New
York and other States which hold cleo
tions this fall, will vote as we think
they will there will soon be an end to
business depression. There will be a
revival of confidence such as will cause
he masses of working people to rejoice.
\ ig Republican majorities will be notice
4 the Democrats to keep hands off the
"a riff. They will not dare to carry
their platform declarations into effect,
but will be quick to read the warning.
Nsy year new Congress will be elect
pdi and free trade in the guise of a reve-
apI tariff, viii receive its death blow.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-09-14

The Democracy promised the work
ingmen cheaper goods, constant EN-
ployment, higher wages, shorter hours
of labor and general prosperity, if the
Democrats could get control of the Gov
ernment. Well, they got it, They have
been in full possession and power for
more than five months. And what is
the consequence? All their rose-colored
promises have proved delusive except
ing the shorter hours of labor Indeed,
the hours Of labor have been so much
shortened that hundreds of thousands
of the deluded workingmen have no la
Dor at all Are they going to be fooled
again this year?