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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-07-20

MRS. HARRIET STRONG of Whittier,
CAL, last year raised 100000 plumes of
the beautiful pampas grass used in dec
grafton, and sold them nearly all. One
million will adorn the buildings of the
Worlds Fair, and she exported $50 900
to Europe. Mrs. Strong is said to be
the first person to grow these pampas
plumes extensively in North America.
Formerly they all came from South
America.
The above is from the Cleveland
World, champion of the infant industry
business, after the Mckinley high tariff
stripe. And now will the World stste
on just which page of the Mckinley
high tariff volume is found the protec-
tion imposed on pampas plumes9 The
truth is, that pampas plume growing is
not the only infant industry that would
be thriving in this country, were it not
for the parasites of trusts and monop-
olies fastened upon them all, under the
guise of Mckinley protection.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-07-20
A STIRRING APPEAL.

An Old Time Republican Discusses the
Crisis Brought Upon the Country by
over a Quarter of Century OF Republi-
can Misrule.
EDITOR DEMOCRAT: The great ado
which the Republican papers of the
state make regarding the approaching
campaign, would be provoking, consio-
ering the damning record of their
financial sins and the stern rebuke
which the people gave them last No
vember, If it were not even more ludi-
crous and laughable than aggravating
The party reminds me of the boy, who
has just received an unmerciful thrash
ing, but furiously shakes his fist at his
victorious adversary, while still wiping
his bleeding face and splitting out the
teeth knocked loose in the struggle.
The most refreshing part of the bonn
bastic articles filling their columns is
undoubtedly the announcement, that
they intend making the tariff the main
feature of the campaign, verifying the
truth Of the ancient adage, That "the
sire to destroy" Considering, that this
tariff question was the stumbling
block which caused the stupendous
uClOhI VI IuO puhUyS ~ ioOho iuuccu llho
madness, to see them now boast that
they intend renewing the struggle on
that line. They should hs@e learned by
not the main issue before
Is he who does not wish to see.
The party does not dare to face the
consequence of their leaders crime,
a,,a xunnld tHa nntfino haitian fho4 60
be able to turn the peoples eyes away
from this damaging point, and to SUBJ
stitute another which has 30 long
which Is now seen In its true light.
The Repository boasts of the pros
perity which the tariff has produced
cere? Can 1t be really sincere? What
prosperity has the tariff brought to the
nation? Why are we now on the
we can count thousands of millionaires
the great mass of the people is poorer
today than i was thirty years ago. In
Pittsburg, the great iron centre, we
count over five hundred millionaires.
while the iron workers fight fer the
VA a pbuAO hesAdly llDCEdl
enough to keep them alive. The tariff
made Carnegie, on the one hand, and
ii maspH Homestead on the other.
am an old Republican, In fact, one of
the founders of the party which had its
cradle in my old home, Pittsburg, but
cannot tolerate the pretensiOns OF men
who cannot help seeing the breakers
ahead of US, but disregard them either
from obtuseness or, what is infinitely
worse, selishness and self-aggrandize-
ment.
trust, that the voters of the State
understand the situation. 1t Is a truly
desperate ono. While the Republican
leaders would befog them with dead
issue, we are drifting towards crisis
worse than ever threatened our pros
perity. If they suffer themselves to be
misled; II they ignore the perllous con
dition OF the nation, they are indeed
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-07-20

that the assistance which we have given
them has made them INDECENT, careless
and slovenly, SO that they can not exist
on the same government rations as
might have sufliced a few years ago.
Thus confessing that they lied to us
when asking for temporary help to
make them stronger.
The illogical structure of protection
is thus falling from its own weight,
just as the corn laws and the pauper
rate system of England fell. Industries,
like men and plants, are made strong
and hardy by being compelled to stand
OF fall unassisted and not by being al
lowed to lean upon government props.
They must face the cold winds of ad-
versity and not be hot house products
if they are to do credit to themselves
and their country.
Protective tariffs then not only re-
strict and disturb trade, tax and de-
press legitimate industry, and burden
the consumer, but they curse the indus
tries they were designed to encourage.
This is the lesson of protective tariffs.
The sooner we are done with them the
better for all.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-07-20

THE campaign in Ohio this fall will
be made upon the issue of protection
to American industry. All the Demo-
cratic editors and orators of the nation
cannot divert public attention from
this all absorbing question. The ut
most that the Democracy can do in
agitating State issues will be but a
tempest in teapot compared to the
feeling that is now growing on the tar
if northumberland Leader.
All that the Democratic editors and
orators want in this campaign is the
chance to compare their prophesies of
what would happen If the nation
passed under the yoke of a Mckinley
tariff, with what has actually happened
since it went into effect. Now let Nc
Kinley quit hedging on silver and the
bloody shirt and let the country have a
whack at the stuffed clown astride his
old cracked tariff hobby.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-07-20
is GOLD AN lNFALLlBLE STANDARD

ED. DEMooRAT:-I see much discussion
over the gold and silver questions; and 1t
is argued that silver is not money, only q
commodity, like ewheat, or corn or beef.
while gold is the only true measure of
value, because it's value never changes
/ would like to know how this is, II you
can tell me. Ifyou can, print II for the
benefit OF all your readers. S. Il. b.
SALEM, o., July 16.
Our correspondent asks pertinent
question that seems to have an impor-
tant bearing on the present general dis
cussion of the money question. We
have some views on this question and
we print them for what they are worth.
Neither gold nor silver is natural
money, in fact there is no such thing in
civilized governments as the money OF
nature. The natural value of gold and
silver is a question separate from Ia
value as money. Naturally gold anc
silver are commodities the same al
wheat and pork, and II is only wheI
stamped by government authority anc
fixed in value by law that either be-
comes money. nu +
Both gold and silver have iiuctuatet
largely within the memory of all oul
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-07-20

TEE leather trade in this country is
one of the most prosperous of our COM
mercial industries. Leather is not du-
table, and those who deal in it are
therefore free of tariff complications.
They certainly are not frightened by
any prospect of reduced taxation of
their material. From the interviews
published in yesterdays World, it ap-
pears that the leathar trade is going
through the same experiences that are
encountered by other trades. There is
a hopeful feeling. AS the secretary Of
the leather trusts purchasing commit
tee and other dealers put 1t, the leather
men "are inclined to look forward to q
good trade this fall."-New York
World 4"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-07-20
RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT

To the Memory of Jacob q. Miller,
Adopted by the Oakland Sabbath School
July 10, 1903.
RESOLVED: That In the death of Bro.
Miller we bow In humble submission to
the will OF our Heavenly Father, resting
assured that He knows and doeth all
things well.
RESOLVED, That In his deyotions and
affection as husband and father, his
kindness and sympathy toward his neigh
bors and friends, his love for Christ and
his zeal and Christian endeavor toward
the Sunday school and church; his life
has been one of beautiful Christian emu
lation, which 10 left to us a. bright ex-
ample for imitation.
RESOLVED, That our heartfelt sympa
thy 10 hereby extended to Sister Miller
and her children In their sore bereave,
ment, and We cordially commend them
In prayer to the comforting grace of our
Heavenly Father.
RESOLVED, That o copy OF these reso.
lutions be spread upon the minutes OF our
Sabbath school, a copy be sent to the be-
reaved family of the deceased and copy
furnished the county papers for publica
ton. G. W. EAsTERDAY,
S. L. GRIFFITH.
JAMES GRIFFITH,
Committee.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-07-20
MOVEMENT AGAINST SUBSeRvlENT
COURTS,


The East Liverpool Crisis, Salem
News, Youngstown Vindicator, Alli-.
ance Critic, and several other journals
in this section are discussing an amend
ment to the criminal jurisdiction of
the Probate Court.
The amendment to the law suggested
by the East Liverpool Crisis and the
Alliance Critic seems just, and might
result in public good, If adopted, but
after all the great need is just judges to
administer the laws. No laws, how
ever strict, can be made operative in
the hands of an unjust jsdge, or a Judge
who allows partizan considerations to
control his judicial decisions. The
East Liverpool Crisis after discussing
the recent action of Judge Young Of
Columbiana, in sentencing Editor
Deidrich to jail for a merely technical
offense, thus refers to the recent
action of Probate Judge Fawcstt
of Stark county. GAS, un-
der the present Interpretation
of the law, a great wrong may be COM
mitted against an accused person, so
also 1t may be used to defeat the ends
OF justice by imposing merely nomi-
nal punishment for a gross crime as
was the case in the farcial trial of J. J.
Clark in the Stark Probate, when the
Judge used his judicial powers to pro-
tect q personal and political friend.
There appears no valid reason whV anv
accused person should be forced to a
hurried trial In a Probate Court, where
he is convinced that he cannot secure
justice, nor should 1t be permitted that
the defense demand a hearing In a
Probate Court when it Is manifest that
the ends of justice will be defeated. To
obviate these difficulties and secure a
proper administration of justice, it is
proper that the law be so amended that
a hearing of criminal charge in the
Probate Court shall be only with the
consent alike Of the defense and the
prosecution"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-07-20

mature readers. Gold has undergone
very great changes. Q. j. Buell., in his
discussion of the money question In
the Arena for July, quotes from
Professor Jevons very high
authority proving that between
1889 and 1909 gold fell 40 per cent; an
enormous variation for only two de-
cades. Then from 1909 to 1S49, period
of forty years, gold rose 140 per cent.
Then gold was discovered in California,
and from 1S49 to 1872, according to
Prof. Jevons, a period of only % years,
gold fell 20 per cent.
AS high an authority as David A.
Wells gives his mature judgment, that
gold has advanced 9 per cent in value
each year since 1872, or an advance of
40 per cent in the 20 years up to 1892.
This is an enormous increase of the OBJ
legations of all the debtor classes in the
United States, and a correspondent
gain to the owners of money, or the
credit class.
Mr.. Buell. gives it as his opinion that
the demonetization Of silver in 1873,
and the increased demand for gold in
consequence thereof, had much to do
with the rapid rise in gold. Mr.. Buell.
illustrates the rapid fluctuations in gold
by the following apt simile:
"What wonderfully perfect stand
ard of value gold is, to be surel Think
of q yardstick, three feet long in 1889,
shrunk to nineteen and one-half inches
in 1909, stretched again to four feet in
1849, reducedin 1872 to thirty-eight and
one-half inches, and now four feet
three and nine-tenths inches long, and
growing longer every day Would not
that be a remarkably safe thing to
measure cloth withp And yet we are
today measuring our debts and credits
by a standard no more perfect. Selfish
creditors will strenuously insist
on maintaining the single gold
standard, for by that means they are
rapidly growing richer. Foolish debt
ors will clamor for free coinage, hoping
thereby to get cheaper money with
which to pay their debts" T .r
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-07-20
CRAZED BY LOVE.
A WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP MAN LOVES
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER

And When They Refuse to Talk With
Him He Cuts Many Queer ospers and
Finally Goes orasy--sent to Toledo.
Andrew j. Boss has been living with the
Bowman family In Washington township
for some years. Mrs. Bowman and her
husband did not find life agreeable to-
gether and they parted. A daughter, who
is now young, lstiy has been living At the
house and taking general care OF things.
Boss, wbo is quite an old man, developed
an ar1ent affection for Mrs. Bowman and
also for her daughter. Neither paid any
attention TO him but he continued TO nurse
his affection for the mother and daughter
until his love became an unquenchable
fire in his breast, and he became practi-
cally insane on the subject, When his
presence In the house became almost in~
tolerable, he hied himself to q grove near
by and there lived in q barrel. When any
one from the house appeared In the
vicinity he would cry out to them and beg
them to come to him. When the mother
or daughter would approach he would
immediately become quiet, but as soon as
they would 90 away again he would crawl
into the barrel and bewail his sad fate.
Two weeks ago the mother and
daughter went away on q visit. He re-
manned about the premises during their
absence, and when Mrs. Bowman re-
turned one day last week he again took
his position In the barrel and called to
her and begged her 10 come and talk to
him, recitinR again and again his love for
her. She would not leave the house and
he remained in the barrel In the grove
making horrible noises and crying all
night. A constable was secured and
Boss was brought before Judge Bawcett
yesterday. He told the judge he was all
right when Mrs. Bowman or her daughter
would talk to him but when they would
not be felt that he was going crazy.
"Ips love" he said 10 the court. " love
them and they wont talk to me-"
Judge Fawcett pronounced the man in>
sane and he was sent to Toledo today.
Love for the two women, unrequited,
drove him crazy.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-07-20

unworthy of the blessings of liberty,
and deserve the fate which will surely
overtake them. am old and blind; /
have no scheme to foster, no iron to
forge, and for this reason / claim to be
entitled to consideration when / cry to
the voters of this State: "Bewarel
Open your eyes and see; your mind and
reason Do not support party, whose
leaders have plunged us into the gulf
threatening to swallow usl 1 am no
Democrat, and II urge you to support
that party, 1t is as the smaller evil.
Moreover, that party may rise to the
occasion and redeem its character and
claim to the inheritance of a Jefferson
Let us give them trial fellow citizens,
and If they fall short of their promises
and our expectations, let us bury them
as deeply in '96 as we buried the Re-
publicans last November.
RUD LEoNHART.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-07-20

THE leading Mckinley organ of
Wood county has an elegant and highly
protected editorial on another leading
Mckinley organ, also of Wood county,
Here is portion of it showing what too
much protection will do for Republic
can newspapers: ....
Old Bulletin Board, Little Allen,
Skinny Brewer, Wheely Sam and inno-
cent White Mice are the journalistic
contributors to the Hulklet's columns,
Old Bulletin is the fighting editor
and shaves the hair off of Little Aliens
ideas, also sorts the bristles on the
beasts back at cut rates. Allen is chief
masher and boss liar assisted in the
mashing line by White Mice. Sammy
works for the drones and Skinny lies
in the shade of a clothes line, looks
wise and blinks like a toad tapping
lightning. Poker sharks call the COM
bination bob-tailed flush.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-07-20

THE East Liverpool, (O), Crisis, pub
lished in the pottery district and
conversant with the facts upon which
it comments has the following COM
parison of the effects of the protective
tariff on pottery and wool:
"The market for wool has during the
past twenty five years followed the mar
ket for labor in the pottery trade, each
advance in the tariff being followed by
proprotionate decrease In the selling
price. When the tariff of 1867 was i'm
posed upon wool the staple was selling
for fifty cents per pound. Now it is
worth but eighteen to twenty cents
under the heaviest tariff protection"
that was ever imposed. A child can
see that in this instance protection has
failed to protect the producer, yet the
Republican organs continue to repeat
the wearisome monotone of 'protec.
tion to the farmers"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-07-20
THE SYSTEM OF PROTECTION.
From American Industries.

Before our country got started In
business on its own account, several of
the Federal States initiating the policy
of the mother country, attempted to
introduce and foster certain industries
mostly manufacturing ones-by levy
ing duties on certain imports. Thus
Pennsylvania in 1875 passed an act
entitled "An act to encourage and pro-
tect manufacturers of this State by
laying additional duties on the impor-
tation of certain manufactures which
interfere with them"
This system of protection worked so
poorly, and was such nuisance to
trade between the States that all were
glad to abolish it with the adoption of
the Constitution In 1887. Immediately
thereafter the manufacturers began to
ask for national help for their strug-
Cling Industries. Some attention was
paid to their appeals and the first tariff
act gave slight protection to certain in.
dustries. Instead of making them self
reliant this charity only made them
clamorous for more assistance. Duties
became higher and higher as the indus,
tries grew older until the nonprotected
industries were forced to defend them
selves from the hungry and ungratefu
pauper industries.
The noisy infants were weaned and
were thriving on solid food when oul
civil war made 1t necessary to put then
on the bottle while they were being
bled to produce war revenue. Th'
bleeding process lasted but few year
and the bottle should have beer
discarded long ago, but th'
sucklings-now mostly centenarians-
not only refused to let go, but have de
4 manded and obtained bigger bottles
| Through their cries and screams the,
are informing us that they are incapa
BILE of existing on even the high tarii
of 20 or 30 per cent, and they lay clair
to permanent:support on the groun'
that we, having for 80 long fed ther
on pap and brought them TO thei
| present helpless state, must not mol
desert them.
| The wooden and glass manufacturer
actually have the aadaclty TO tell U
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-07-20
HIS NECK BROKEN.
Sudden Death of Miner at
the Standard Brick Works.

John Waltersdorf, q laborer, was
engaged at work at the Standard Brick
Company this morning when death sud-
IDENTITY overlook him. He was getting
out some clay and was working In the
pile Of shale fell upon him. The cnve-ip
was OF such proportions that the pile OF
shale covered the workman. When he
was gotten out from under the shale IL was
found that his neck was broken and that
death was instantaneous. Waltersdorf
was hard working man 81 years of age
resided near Howeustine. Coroner Conk-
lin held an inquest.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-07-20

The Somerset Press, Republican
organ of Perry county, speaks its mind
freely on the recently departed Ohio
legislature, The Press wants new men
nominated by the Republican party.
In discussing the last legislature here
is just what the Press says:
"Never In the history of Ohio has
there been more corrupt body of men
assembled in the Legislative halls. 1t
was a disgrace to the state, and will
go into history, noted only for its
bribery and blackmailing. We do not
say this from any party grievance, as
all who know US know we have labored
and voted against the Democratic can
didates."
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-07-20

NEW pensions to the number Of III
044 were allowed in the first three
months of the Democratic administra-
tion. This does not look as though the
worthy soldier classes were robbed Of
their rights. Judge Lochren, Commits
eioner of Pensions, challenges the pro-
duction of proof in any case where q
soldier has had his pension stopped
without just cause.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-07-20
STABBED TWICE.
The Result ofa Free For All Fight q
West Brookheld.

The Result of . Free For All Fight at
West Brookheld.
On Saturday evening last William G.
Ertle, Jacob Bosely, Geo. Krise, Daniel
Baster and Frank Holtzman of West
Brookheld, engaged in q general fight at
that place. In the early part of the even.
ing Ertle claimed to have been insulted
by Holtzmsn and remained at Ben
Prosser's saloon on the Wooster road
awaiting his victims to be avenged. Upon
Holtzman's arrival the other parties men.
were adjusted. The entire crowd then
started for home and on the way other
trouble arose and an all around battle en-
sued in which Ertle stabbed Krise twice,
once In the arm and about the shoulder.
There are no arrests az yet. Krise,s in
juries are not serious, though painful
Massillonian,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-07-20
How's This |!

We offer One Hundred Dollars reward for any
case OF oatarrh that cannot be cured BY Hairs
F.J. CHENEY & co., Toledo. o.
We. the undersigned, have known II. j. Cheney
for the last 10 years. and believe him perfectly
honorable In all business transactions and inan-
cially able to carry out any obligations made by
their Arm.
WEST a TRUAx, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, o.
wALDIEa. KIHNAN MARVIN, Wholesale Drug.
gIsts. Toledo, o.
Halrs Catarrh Cure is taken internally. acting
directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces OF the
system. Testimonials send free. Price 75e. pei
bottle. Sold by all Druggists.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-07-20
Tho Navarro Line.

In an interview at MasBillon, Mr.. W. A.
Lynch is reported to have said that In
consideration of the general financial
strinRency throughout the country II
would be impossible to do anything with
the Navarro line ut present, and for some
time to come. From the manner in which
Mr.. Lynch spoke one would infer that IL
would be quite period before the two
cities will be connected.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-07-20

THE st. Louis Globe Democrat prints
a forecast of the vote in the senate on
the repeal of the silver purchase clause
of the Sherman bill. The figures given
show 46 in favor of apd Al against such
repeal, or majority Of FIVE votes for
repeal of the clause. In the column of
yeas appears the names of Senators
Sherman and Brice.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-07-20

IT now transpires that when the
assets of ex-Secretary Foster were
placed before his creditors and they
refused to settle at Is cents on the
dollar, the receiver made no account of
Fosters real estate in Dakota and his
stock in one of the best silver mines In
the west. This is why the creditors
call for an Investigation.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-07-20

THE value of photography was never
better demonstrated than by the pho
tographic discovery that there are two
comets now dashing across the north.
ern horizon, instead of one as revealed
by the big Lick telescope of California.