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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-10-02
Loss Without Conversation

A thought eloquently brought out by
General Harrison at indianapolis the
other day deserves to be kept before
the mind. Said he; "Only two years
ago this country was not only the most
prosperous country in the world-for
that it had been before-but it stood
upon the highest pinnacle of prosper
ity that it had ever attained. This is
not the verdict of politicians; it is the
verdict of the commercial reporter; it
is the expressed opinion of those men
who make profession of studying
business conditions. The last two
years have been years Of distress and
disaster. The losses of them defy the
skill of the calculator. 1t has been
said, 1 think, not without reason, that
they exceed the cost of the great Civil
war. These losses have not been
class losses. They have been distrib-
uted. The holder of stocks and bonds
has found his wealth shrinking, and SO
has the farmer, and the workingman
has found his wages shrinking. There
has been general participation in
the 'calamities of the last two years as
there was a general participation in
the prosperity of the preceding years.
The great national debts, like those of
the civil war, have sometimes their
adequate compensation. Great as was
the cost of the war for the Union, we
feel that it was adequately compen-
sated In the added glory that was
given to the flag and in the added Sc
curity that was given to our civil in
stitutions and the unity of the nation.
But the losses of these last two years
have no such compensating thought.
There is no good to be gotten out of
them, except for guidance. They
seem to be of retributive nature like
the swamps into which the traveller
has unwarily driven, that have no
ameliorating circumstances, except as
they teach him to keep on the foot
hill and to follow the road that is on
the hill tops"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-10-02
WILSON'S FREE LUNCH.
General Hastings at Touan da.

1t Is entirely appropriate that Great
Britain should invite Professor Wilson to
banquet given by the London Chamber
OF Commerce. can imagine the lord
mayor, at the professors right hand, ris-
ing after the roast beef and wine, shak-
ing hands with the professor, and saying
You have proved to be the best friend
that Great Britain has ever had-better
than Gladstone, Disraeli or any other
statesman Of the century. You have
thrown open the gates Of North America
and surrendered to Great Britain the best
market in all the world. You have strick-
en- down the great wool industry for our
benefit. You have thrown down the barriers
to Canadian lumber and destroyed your
own lumber industry" But meanwhile be-
lieve the people in Professor Wilson's in.
dustrial district will say to him: "You
can go to London and live there il you
want to, but you can't represent our dis
trict in congress any longer"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-10-02
The Free Trade Bunco Game.

''S adO oduSO
"Already the highest products of in
dustrial skill are issuing from Ameri-
can workshops and driving English,
German and Belgian competition out
Of the open field. With the expansion
of the list of free raw materials in the
new tariff the export trade in manu-
features of this country will receive a
fresh impetus, and constant employ
ment at remunerative wages will
be given to increasing millions
of American workingmen. Such
was the message borne by Chair
man Wilson to the merchants
of London. The outcries against Chair
man Wilson are the mere squeaks of
partisanship and provinclalism," Thus
does the Philadelphia Record, whose
proprietor is running for governor on
the Democratic ticket, seek to defend
Mr.. Wilson's guileless garrulity at the
London banquet where he was so en-
Enthusiastically applauded.
If Mr.. Singerly's party had been
honest in its desire to "impart fresh
impetus" to the "export trade in man
ufactures in this country" it could
have done so without incurring a single
risk. Under the operation of the Nc
Kinley tariff law, reinforced by reci-
procity, the export trade of the United
States reached absolutely the highest
point in the history of the government.
The net increase in one year, 1891, was
5000, ,207,7 1853 and for 1892 it was even
larger. There is no foreign market
which free raw material can give us
now, that we did not have an equal
chance to capture then, with our raw
materials protected. And the reciproc-
ity clause gave US leverage then
wholly absent from the so.called Will
son taflH law OF t0uay.
The suggestion of Doctrinaires Will
son and Singerly that we give up our
home market to the commercial ene-
my and go cunning for the distant
markets of the world is scarcely sensi-
BILE enough even to be plausible. The
husbandman in Esop's fable, who
killed the goose that laid the golden
egg, thinking to strike mine of gold
in an out-of-the-way-place; or the man
who traded bird in the hand for two
in the bush might be caught by this
transparent tariff reform sophistry;
but not the intelligent American elec-
torate which has recently seen one in
stance of misplaced political confidence
and doesn't, this year, want to see an
other.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-10-02


inson, Irving Price Wanger, Marriott
Brosius, Joseph A. Scranton, Myron
b. Wright and Albert c. Hopkins
"voted to kill an established industry
in which millions Of dollars have been
invested, and also to cripple the great
dependent shipbuilding industries
struggling to the front on the shores of
the Delaware and the Chesapeake"
We assume that the Record does not
allude to the John Roach shipbuilding
industry for that was killed some
years ago by one Whitney, secretary
of the navy under one President Cleve-
land. But to what established indus
try" does the Record refer? One in
Cuba or Great Britain?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-10-02
SCRANTON RANKS FIFTH.

Philadelphia stands first among the cit
les and boroughs gof Pennsylvania in the
value of school properties, with $500, s55.
Then comes Pittsburg, ..Sl, 500, 600; Alle-
gheny, ST. 3l7, ,663; Erie, S592, 900; Scranton,
S5sS, 900; Allentown, $3.50, ,s4s. Figures for
some OF the other cities are as follows:
Easton, 1851 200; Bethlehem, 1892 9OS. SS:
South Bethlehem, 1914, 524; Wilkes. Barre
$500, 900; PottsvilIe, 1906, 600; York, S24S, =
237; Harrisburg, s531 997. so; Reading, $5l5,
600; Hazleton, $l2OOOO; Chester, with a
population of 10000, $50, 500; Altoona,
Si42248; Lancaster, $685. 600; Johnstown,
$50, 90; Norristown. sl9O, 900.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-10-02

IT is AN adage of war that the hos
pital witnesses more havoc than the
bullet or the bomb; and it derives new
significance from the typhoid fever re-
turns traceable to the recent Gettys-
burg encampment. Whatever Gettys-
burg may have been in the past, it is
evident that Gettysburg has lost her
military future.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-10-02
Bogus Pretensions.

protection to American industries
be what the last national Democratic
convention said it was, that is to say
ifit be fraudulent" and 'unconstitu-
tional," an honest citizen cannot at
one time be both o Democrat and
protectionist. The deliberate and en-
phatic action of the Chicago conven-
ton in branding protection as contrary
to the spirit of the highest law in our
politics, the supreme law laid down in
our federal constitution, makes of ev-
cry man who honestly believes in pro.
lection something else than a Demo-
crat. He may call himself Demo-
crat; but his pretension, according to
the highest Democratic authority, be-
comes false and fraudulent. If he
train with Democrats, he does so as an
interloper or renegade. He cannot
do so as fellow partisan in full stand
ing, because the highest party law has
declared otherwise.
The last national Democratic plat
form, by the Endorsement of the Dem.
ocracy of Pennsylvania, becomes, also,
its law and its gospel. No Pennsyl-
vanian can, under this dispensation, be
protectionist and yet remain q thor.
ough Democrat. His own declaration
on this point is not sufficient. Men
can call themselves anything. The
question is not what they claim, but
what the party claims. Coming even
nearer, we have the same condition in
Lackawanna county. The last Demo.
cratic convention in this county, in re.
affirming its allegiance to the last ma.
tional and state Democratic platforms,
indorsed every plank in those two
platforms just as certainly and just as
unreservedly as If each plank had been
repeated word for word. The Demo-
crat of Lackawanna county who now
says that he is a protectionist, says a
thing which, if true, puts him directly
at variance with the one supreme and
fundamental tenet of his party; and
which, if false, brands him as a pre-.
varicator and trickster.
But look at the absurdity of such n
claim from another standpoint. If
Mr.. Merrifield, for example, be gen.
uihe protectionist as he says he is, why
is he trying to fall into line with the
anti protection Democracy? If the
tariff question be subtracted from the
situation, what is there left In the
Democratic party to make it fit for a
protectionist's support? In what par
ticular, the tariff question wholly
apart, does it present an improvement
upon the Republican party? Along
what lines does it offer better govern.
ment? The protectionist, if he be a
genuine one, must believe, above any.
thing and all things else, in the super
iority of an economic condition In
which home industries are protected.
Before he passes to any other problem,
he must first believe In solving the
problem Of the unemployed, in anne
llorating the condition of the Ameri-
can wage Garner, and in affording con-
fidence and hope to American capital.
If the Democratic party, being for free
trade, offends his notion as to how this
problem is to be solved, what is there
in Its other beliefs. sufficiently admir-
able to overbalance his protectionist
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-10-02

"Our prote ctionists hare been building
defenSes 10 keep you and other nations from
competing ,Oith as in our home markets.
The tariff reformers are breaking do,Un
these defenses. ."-William l.. Wilson, author
of the Wilson tariff bill, to the London
chamber Of commerce.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-10-02

THAT WAS telling pointin General
Harrison's address at indianapolis last
week, when, in introducing Governor
Mckinley, he said: 1--WE were told in
the old times that the rich were getting
richer and the poor poorer; but to cure
that imaginary ill our political oppo-
nents have brought on time when
everybody is getting poorer" Democ-
racy usually does things that way.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-10-02

ARRANGEMENTS for tonight's big
mass meeting in the rockingham
theater insure an evening of unalloyed
enthusiasm. There is no better orator
in the state than Hon. George B. Or
lady. His address will be a noteworthy
event, both politically and rhetoric
ally. No less pleasing will be the
speeches of Representative Galusha A.
Grow and Linn Hartranft, esq. With
this rally the campaign in this county
will open auspiciously and continue
merrily. Let every Republican and
every protectionist attend.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-10-02
SCRANTON TO THE FRONT.
Philddelphid Times,

Practical experiments at Scranton prove
that electricity can be generated at the
culm banks and sold for use at distant
points ut prices per horse power even be-
low the cost at the Niagara plant. If this
is true it is only question Of time when
culm banks throughout the great anthra-
cite regions will supplant even the cheap
est water power, which, as all experience
proves is occasionally If not frequently in
terrupted by freshets and drouths.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-10-02

to be divided between the CT unity aud
towns as the grand jury may decide. Tie
money is to be raised by special tax. An
annuil state appropriation is provided for
on the basis Of the length Of the roads
built the previous year and no money shall
be paid by the state until at least one mile
has been built by the town making appli-
cation for state aid. Certain roads as post
roads. for instance are declared public
thoroughfares, and all roads not 80 de-
clared are exempt from the act.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-10-02

THE CITY council of Baltimore has
just passed an ordinance requiring
street railway companies to put tenders
on their cars within three months, un-
der penalty of S. fine per day per car
for all violations. The city council of
Baltimore evidently believes that fen
ders are not only possibilities but
facts.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-10-02

proclivities and to cause him to fall into
line with the men he should be fight
ing?
The Philadelphia Record itself has
said that "the Democratic protection
ist is fraud" The Democratic plat
form, national, state and county, says
the same thing. And the voters of the
Eleventh congressional district, will,
we believe, re-echo the sentiment when
they come to pass upon the gauzy pre-
tensions of Edward Merrifield.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-10-02

THE PASTORS Of the United Brethren
conference of Lebanon, Pa, have voted
unanimously to abolish Santa Claus;
and considering these Democratic
times, there is no famine of argument
on their side.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-10-02

THE SAD case of Sadie Bell, the
handsome young woman of Riverton,
N. j., who died last Friday of con-
sumption, after faith cure friend had
for months kept from the patient
needed medicines, will excite compass
sion but nothing else. The state Of
mind which sacrifices life to hallucina-
tion is not amenable to argument; and
is only aggravated by prosecution or
abuse,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-10-02
MOVE FOR GOOD ROADS.
,W,lh.s-Bayre r.rephone.

A. B. Dunning, Jr., Of Scran ton, is pre-.
pairing bill which he will present to the
next legislature providing for better hig h.
waya. The bill provides that by petition
to the grand juries from the different
counties mile Of road shall be built under
the direction OF the county surveyors,
having first been let BY contract by the
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-10-02

In UNANIMOUSLY voting to abolish
hazing, the undergraduates of Prince
ton college have shown how it is possi-
BILE for them to be both scholars and
gentlemen. Let the contagion spread.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-10-02

DAVID B. HILL is not accustomed to
rnnning away under fire, least of all
mugwump fire. He will stick; the
mugwumps will bolt and Morton will
be elected by $4,000 plurality.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-10-02
REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET.

For Governor:
DANIEL H. HASTINGA
OF CENTER.
For Lieatendnt Governor:
WALTER LYON,
OF oFALLEGHENY.
For auditor General:
AMOS H. MYLIN,
OF LANCASTER.
For Secretary of Herndl Affairs
JAMES W. LATTA
OF PHILADELPHIA
For ConDressmen-dt-Ldrge:
GALUSHA A. GROW,
OF sUsQUEuANNA.
GEORGE f. HUFF,
OF wESTMoRELANn
Election Time, Nov. G
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-10-02
RepUBL1cAN COUNTY TICKET

Tor CONGRESS:
JOSEPH A. SCRANTON.
For Lair Judge:
ROBERT W. ARCHIBALD.
Tor Sheriff:
FRANK H. CLEMoNS.
For County Treasurer:
THOMAS d. DAVIES.
For Clerk of Me Courts.
JOHN H. THOMAS,
For Proihonotdry:
CLARENCE L. PRYOR.
For Dhtrict Attorney:
JOHN L. JONES.
For Recorder:
CHARLES HUESTER.
For Register If wis:
WILLIAM S. HOPKINS.
For Jury Commissioner:
TsJ. MATTHEWS.
Election Time, Nov G.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-10-02

The PHILADELPHIA Record says
that In voting against free iron ore
Galusha A. Grow, Henry H. Bingham,
Robert Adams, Jr., John Edgar Rey-
burn, Alfred @. Harmer, John b. Rob-
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-10-02

For Representatives.
First district, JOHN K. FARR, of Scranton.
Second district, ALEX. T. CONNELL, Of
Scranton.
Third district. FRANK j. GROVER, Of Moo
sic.
Fourth districti CHARLES P. o'MALLEY, of
Olyphant
Election Time, Nov. O.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-10-02
REPUBLICAN LEGISLATIVE TICKET.

For Senator, Ttrentieh District.
JAMES G. VAUGHAN, of Scranton.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-05-21
to succeed Senator stockbridge, de-
American News.


The coal strikers on tile coal mine
throughout the country are still out
and in several places in Pennsylvania
have resorted 10 bioodshed AMI yio-
Ience TO prevent the operation of
mines by men who aid not desire to
strike. La many instances these un-
fOrtunates who were working to keep
their families from starving were
beaten into iusensibiiity by the strik-
ers and so badly used up that they
cannot continue work.
The latest strike is that of the Pull
man employs at Pullman, Illinois,
numbering 1000. They demand re-
storation of the wages of 1893, which
were cut 335 per cent. Pullman the
Palace Car King, says he cannot pay
such wages and declares that he is
now losing money ON contracts he
took to keep his men at work. The
latter decline to believe this story and
the strike may be long one. In
Chicago, there are about 10000 men
on strike Or locked out.
The jury that tried General -
Coxey, the commonweal leader, found
him guilty as charged. The charge
was carrying a flag upon the capitol
grounds and walking on the grass.
Carl Browne was acquitted. Coxey
will be fined.
A committee of the House is con-
sidering the bills proposed by Coxey,
which provides for employing the idle
men of the country in making good
roads, and also for non-interest bear
inc honda
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-05-21
Very Like n Whale.

The excavation of the ruins of Carthage
promises to yield valuable results. The
explorers of the Mound Of st. Louis have
come upon a wall composed entirely of
large amphorss bedded in earth, the num-
bers OF which run vaguely into thou
sands.
A sinking of the soil has not left many
intact, but the most interesting portions,
the stamp of inscription which showed
the name of the maker and the date Of
the wine, can generally be recovered in
perfect preservation.
The most curious find, however, re-
corded SO far is that of large fragments
of a whales skeleton among the ruins Of
what is supposed to be the capitol. Al
though completely buried in the earth,
this was not marine deposit, nor even
a relic of the primitive days when Pro
teus, as the poet says, '.Pecus egit altos
visere monies"
The mystery is cleared up in letter
of st. Augustine to his friend Deogra-
tias. written in 40S A. D., wherein he
makes mention of bellua marina, now
on exhibition" at Carthage, to prove that
Jonah could have found comfortable ac-
commodation for three days sojourn IN
the belly Of a whale.-Cosmos.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-05-21
Earthworms Not Blind.

James Weir, Jr., in a curious little
study in evolution, shows that all the
five senses Of man are found in the low
er forms of animal life. Darwin, while
admitting that earthworms are sensible
to light, maintains that they are blind.
Weir, in The North American Review,
maintains the contrary. He says that
the circumscribed spots on the dorsa1
surface of the worm are primitive eyes.
The microscope reveals in these spots
transparent membrane, an accumula-
ton of pigmentary matter, special
nerve spread out in this matter and ex-
tending to the central nerve structure.
The membrane is the cornea, the pig
mentary matter a retina and the special
nerve an optic nerve. AS there is no
lens, the worm can distinguish only
light and darkness. The arrangements
for the sense of touch are not materially
different from those in man. The sense
which they are without is that of hear
ing, but sound waves are conveyed to
the sensorium through the sense of
touch. That worms have taste and
smell can be proved by experiments
with food. AS to smell, put musk near
them, and it is amusing to see them
hunting their holes to escape it. 1.-The
nerves OF taste and smell are blended to-
gether and can readily be made out
with the microscope in the lips, SO to
speak, of the oral pouch. ''-Pittsburg
Times
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-05-21
An Apache Sea Cook.

Since the days of William Kidd, the
talented but unfortunate buccaneer of
the Spanish main, there has been halo
of romance over the head of sea cooks.
Not one, however, is himself more
unique specimen than the cook of the
British ship John Cooke. The vessel is
now lying at the Santa Fe wharf after a
long and dangerous voyage from Cardiff.
The cook is full blooded Apache In
dian, born in the White mountains of
Arizona. His people. the terrible White
mountain and Tonic Apaches, have caus-
ed no end of trouble to the troops and
ed Tumashancy Silver River and was
taken when still a child to Mexico, where
he was raised. He has followed the sea
for the greater part of his life and has
visited every part of the globe, learning
several languages, including English, and
becoming some years ago member of
the Masonic fraternity.
In civilization he is known as John
Levin. He is quite dark, with the Indi-
an physiognomy, and although 60 years
of age appears hardly in middle life. He
has Mexican wife and family living on
the peninsula of Lower California and
says that this is his last voyage. He was
picked up in Liverpool by Captain Lillia
of the John Cooke. Levin, or Silver
River, is an intelligent fellow and a good
sea cook and does not seem to be half as
bloodthirsty as many other cooks with a
far different pedigree.-San Diego (Cal.)
Union
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Foreign News.

Gladstone is reported to be rapidly
falling, an some steps are being TAX
en- to keep mis- mind actively employ
ed. He has been in active life so long
that it is feared the change may re-
suit in his death.
The London Spectator is authority
for the statement that grave unrest
prevails in India and that another
outbreak similar to that of 1857 may
be feared.
Fighting continues near Santa Ana,
San Salvador, between the govern
ment troops under Ezeta and the rev.
olutic nists. The result is not definite
1y known, though EZeta claims decis-
i've victory.
On the 9TH inst. in the House of
Lords, Baron Hood of Avalon, Rear
Admiral and formerly a Lord of the
Admiralty, called attention to the
large increase in foreign navies and
asked whether the proposed increase
in the British navy provided for by
British estimates was sufficient to III
sure to Great Britain the command
of the seas. The First Lord of the
Admiralty, Lord Spencer, said the
Government was determined to main
tain the navy and render Great Brit
ain paramount upon the sea.
Important news from Captain Wat
son of the United States cruiser San
Francisco, now lying at Bluefields,
Nicaragua, has been received at the
United States Navy Department in
two dispatches brought to New Or
leans by separate steamers and sent
thence by telegraph to the depart
ment. Captain Watson says that he
has insisted that Arguello, who was
charged with killing the American,
Wilson, shall he promptly tried. He
also notified the Nicaraguan authori-
ties that, in his opinion, American
citizens are not being adequately pro-
tected and that therefore he proposes
to give them the necessary protection.
He is acting with that end in view.
Another Nihilistic conspiracy has
beea unearthed in Russia, and over
one hundred persons have been ar
ersted in ST. Petersburg and Moscow.