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The Portland daily press., 1894-05-18
THE PRESS.
FRIDAY, MAY IS.
A REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION
WILL BE HELD IN
City Hall, Lewiston, Tuesday, June 5, 1894
AT 10 O'CLOCK A. M.

for the purpose of nominating candidate Tor
Governor, to be supported at the September
election; and transacting any other business
that may properly come before 1t.
The basis of representation will be as foi-
lows: Each City, Town and Plantation will be
entitled to one delegate, and for each rs votes
cast for the Republican candidate for Governor
In 1892, an additional delegate, and for frac-
ton of 40 votes in excess of rs, an additional
delegate.
Vacancies in the delegation of any City, Town
or Plantation can only be filled by residents OF
the County in which the vacancy exists.
The state committee will be in session in the
reception room of the hall at 9 o'clock on the
morning of the convention, for the purpose OF
receiving the credentials of delegates. Dele
gates, in order to participate in fhe convention,
must be elected subsequent to the date of the
call for this convention.
Confronted, as we are, by the attempt of the
Democratic party in Congress to destroy the
industries, to PROSTATE the agricultur al inter-
ests of the country and to degrade labor by pre-
venting the laborer receiving his Just reward,
we invite all electors OF Maine, without regard
to past political differences, who desire to pro-
test against this destructive policy of the Demo-
cratic party; who are in favor of maintaining
the protective tariff who belive in sound and
honest currency; in free popular education; in
securing political power to every citizen; in
promotion of the cause of temperance; in just
and equal taxation; in all measures for the en-
couragement and defence of American inter-
ests at home and abroad: and in an economi-
cal and efficient administration of state affairs,
to unite with the Republicans in the selection
of delegates to this convention.
Per order, Republican State Commute.
z. e. SoUTHARD, j. 81. MANLEY, -
Secretary. Chairman.
Augusta Me-. April g. 1894,
The Portland daily press., 1894-05-18

Mr.. William Lloyd Garrison threw a
GOODNESS over the dinner of the New
England Tariff Reform Club by aspers-
ing Mr.. Cleveland, for in the eyes of the
great majority of the tariff reformers
any criticism of Mr.. Cleveland is an as
persion, since in their opinion the Presi-
dent is clothed with sort of sanctity
which will permit him to do no wrong.
What, however, the majority of these re-
formers regard as aspersion, people whose
eyes are not blinded will look upon as
pretty close to the truth. Mr.. Garrison
charged the President with using the
offices to get votes for the repeal of the
Sherman silver act, and of generally
sacrificing principle to expediency.
The Portland daily press., 1894-05-18

CHARLES G. BEAMAN, Icc,
JOHN R.. DOS PASSOS, OIL counsel.
HERMANN KOBBE. Secretary,
New York, April ID, 1894.
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The Portland daily press., 1894-05-18

The New England Tariff Reform dinner
disclosed radical difference of opinion
on the part of the reformers as to what
should be done with the Commanded
tariff bill. Mr.. William L.Garrison said
that to pass the bill was to seat the Hills
and Germans and Brices more firmly in
power, and he was vehementy opposed
to its passage. But Mr.. II. W. Lamb,
while admitting that the bill was a bad
one from the reformers' point of view,
thought it would be safe to follow Sena-
tor Mills-that is administer to it lot
OF indignant kicks, but vote for it
finally.
The Portland daily press., 1894-05-18
REPUBLICAN, COUNTY CONVENTION.

The Republicans of Cumberland county
are hereby requested to send delegates to a
county convention to be held at Reception
hall, City building, Portland, Maine, on
Thursday, the twenty-drst day of June, A.
D. 1894, at TO o'clock in the forenoon, to
nominate candidates for the following
offices: four senators, county attorney,
sheriff, clerk of courts, register of deeds,
county treasure and one county commits
sioner, also to choose a county committee
for two years and to transact any other
business that may properly come before the
convention.
The basis of representation will be as fol-
lows Each city and town will be entitled to
one delegate, and for each rs votes cast for
the Republican candidate for Cover nor in
1892, an additional delegate, and for frac-
ton of 40 votes in excess of rs, an additional
delegate.
The delegates have been apportioned upon
The Portland daily press., 1894-05-18

There is more Catarrh in this section of
the country than all other diseases put to-
gether, and until the last few years was
supposed to be incurable. For a great
many years doctors pronounced it a local
disease, and prescribed local remedies. and
by constantly failing to cure with local
treatment, pronounced it incurahla
Science has proven catarrh to be a consfitn..
tional disease and therefore requires CON
manufactured by F. j. Cheney & 90
Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutions fI',s
On the market; It is taken internally in n
acts directly on the blood and mucon ui' 81 IL
face of the system. They, offer one hundhraard l
collars for any case it fails to cure. Send
for circulars and c fHfEStNmE9plsl 80 ADDRESS
~ Sold by Druggists, 75c. o' "
The Portland daily press., 1894-05-18
THE NORWEGIAN LIQUOR SYSTEM

THE NORWEGIAN LIQUOR SYSTEM.
By very large majority the Massachu-
setts House of Representatives has passed
the bill providing for trial of the Nor
wegian system of regulating the liquor
traffic to first reading, against the adj
verse report of the committee. This is a
very strong indication that the public
discussion that has been going on
pretty generally throughout the State
has helped the measure. Massachusetts
has penchant for making experiments
and it seems more than probable that if
will make this one.
The Norwegian system has been fire.
quently explained. It's Distinguishing
feature is the placing of the selling of in
toxicaCing liquor in the hands of corpor-
ations which are under State SUPERVISION
The company is allowed a small in
come, and the surplus profits go to the
community. In this arrangement con-
sists the chief merit of the plan mas
much as there is no inducements for tbe
company to increase it's sales. since
it can draw no more income by so
doing. On the other hand the tendency
The Portland daily press., 1894-05-18

OF course it may be true as alleged
that representative of some protected
interest has attempted to bride two
senators to vote against the tariff bill,
but it is altogether more probable that
the story is cooked up and fired off for
the purpose of making it more difficult
for Democrats who are opposed to the
bill to vote against it. When papers of
the tariff reform persuasion say the story
will "havs the desirable effect of
forcing all the multiplication element
of the Senate into line in support of the
bilP' it is pretty good indication that
that was the prime object of setting it
a1oat. If this really was its purpose the
men who are responsible for it are
guilty of very mean piece of business.
Morally it is nothing but blackmail,
which is no better than bribery. The
latter attempts to accomplish it's purpose
by holding out inducements, the former
by making threats. The briber says if
you vote against the bill you shall be
recompensed, the blackmailer says if you
vote against it you shall be punished
by being accused of taking brides. The
tariff reform organs are all awfully
shocked at the suggestion that anybody
has been wicked enough to atte mpt to
bride senator, but if there has been
no such attempt and the story is only a
blackmailing scheme, they approve OF
it because it will produce the desirable
effectn of forcing Senators to vote for the
bill. Yet the tariff reform organs have
always plumed themselves on their
superior morality.
The Portland daily press., 1894-05-18
the foregoing basis, as follows:

The county committee will be in session
at the hall at O'Clock in the forenoon on
the day of the convention to receive the
credentials of the delegates and attend to
such other business as may be necessary.
Per order, Republican County Committee.
G. FRED MURCH. Chairman.
CARROLL W. MORRILL,, Secretary.
Portland, May 14th,, 1884,
The Portland daily press., 1894-05-18
The tariff reformer must feel like tax
ing to the woods these days.

The newspapers must be gloomy read
ing nowadays for stockholders in fire
insurance companies. Within a week
losses.in New England are reported ag-
gregating pretty nearly S2,0O0,OO0. Hard
times and dry weather are a bad combi
nation for insurance companies.
The Portland daily press., 1894-05-18

One of the allegations of the recent
article in the New York Press in regard
to the connection of the Sugar Trust with
the amended tariff bill was that Senator
voorhees,. has in his possession memo
randum from Secretary Carlisle setting
forth concessions demanded by the
The Portland daily press., 1894-05-18
FINANCIAL.
OFFICE OF THE
General Reorganization Committee
OF THE
Afchlson, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Co.
Room 906 Mutual Life Building,
81 Liberty Street New York CITY

h'oheuiJ iVpsaa x oalilQ To ndiiIUdu Uus
Room 906 Mutual Life Building,
81 Liberty Street, New York City.
In consequence of the voluntary forma-
tion of several protective committees in
this city and Europe representing differ
emit classes of bonds of the company
and it's auxiliaries, to avoid adverse
and conflicting plans of reorganization
the undersigned, and such others as
may be associated with them, at the ex-
press request and with the direct CO.
operation of the directors and officers of
the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Rail-
road Company, have consented to act as
General Reorganization Committee in
the lnterestes of all the various sect1rity
holders, creditors and stockholders of
the Atchison system, for the purpose of
assisting in the preparation promulga-
plan of reorganization OF the financial
affairs of the Company and looking to
the restoration of the property to the
control of it's stockholders and directors
at the earliest practicable moment.
With the consent of the Railroad Com
pany, Mr.. Stephen Little has been en-
gagged to verify by an immediate ex-
animation of its accounts, all statements
submitted by the officers of the Company
and general plan for the restoration of
the Companyssto credit will be presented
to the parties interested at as. early a
date rs practicable.
Holders of bonds and creditors of the
Company are requested.to send their
names, addresses and amounts of hold
ings to the Secretary of the Committee,
in care of the New York Guaranty and
Indemnity Company, Mutual Life Build
ing, New York.
R.SOMERSAHAYES,
Chairman.
L.A.vON HOFFMAN,
EDWARD N. GIBBS,
f. p. OLCOTT,
LOUIS FITZGERALD,
GEORGE G. HAVEN,
ADRIAN ISELIN, JR.,
of New York.
WILLIAM ROTCH,
E. RODMAN WELD,
of Boston.
JOHN r. DOS PASSOS, OIL Counsel.
HERMANN KOBBE, Secretary.
New York, April IA, 1894
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Trust. Mr.. Voorhees, declares that it is
not true, and says the files of the finance
committee would be searched in vain for
any such memorandum. The fact re-
mains, however, that very valuable
concessions were made to the Trust.
Why they were made still remains un-
explained. Perhaps the Senate investi-
eating committee will find out.
The morning call., 1894-07-15
SHORT OF FUNDS.

There appears to be chronic financial
stringency in the Department Of Justice.
A year or more ago when the law required
the deportation of Chinese who had not
registered there was no money at the dis
posal of the Attorney General for that
purpose. During the intervening months
the Attorney General has got along pretty
well, but the commencement of suits
against the managers of the Pacific rail-
roads has developed another money famine.
The Acknowledgement wants an extra
$4,000 to conduct the business that will
grow out of these suits. There would be
nc especial objection to placing the amount
asked for at the disposal of the Attorney
General if any assurance could De given
that the suits would be prosecuted in good
faith. Public confidence in the intentions
OF Acknowledgement Oney to act In this
matter in the interests of the people is at
low ebb. His professional life has been
passed in the service Of corporations, and
his elevation TO the headship of the De-
partment of Justice does not seem to have
changed his views of questions which arise
between these corporations and the peO-
pie. The Pacific railroads in this case
seem TO have succeeded in getting their
attorneys in charge of both sides of the
paRn
The morning call., 1894-07-15

of Germany was in round numbers I'D 1871
100000, being an increase OF about %
per cent, while the census of 1890 in this
country showed population of O., 622. 600,
which was an increase of about GA per
cent. 1t thus appears that while the in
crease in Germany has been chiefly in the
cities the increase in this country is OBJ
servable both in the cities and in the
rural districts. We are apt to complain
that our cities are growing at the expense
of the country. and to assume that this is
an unfavorabe feature of our progress.
But the fault is more conspicuous in Ger.
many than here.
An explanation of the puzzle may pr0ba-
bly, be found in the poor reward of agrl-
culture in Germany and in the extension
Of manufactures and commerce. With
few exceptions the soil of Germany is IN
fertile and high farming is only practiced
in parts of Prussia. In the bulk of the
area occupied by the German Empire the
rural population find it difficult with the
most unremitting toll to make their land
yield them rye bread and beer They
form agarian leagues and seek legislation
to protect them from the competition of
the valley of the Danube and our great
West. As against This Germany by en-
couragiog technical schools devoted to the
improvement OF trade processes from the
standpoint of both utility and artistic de-
sign, by protective tariffs and by subsi-
dies and other means of promoting navi-
CATION has built up great manufacturing
and commercial interests. she is now
competing actively with England in for
eign markets where few years ago her
goods were almost unknown.
This, of course, sweIs the great urban
population. The great German cities
Berlin. Hamburg, Leipsic, Cologne. Mu-
mich, Frankfort Hanover, Chemnitz-all
seem to be booming. They are certainly
peasanter places to live in than they used
tn hp
The morning call., 1894-07-15
AT THE NORTH POLE.
General Greely's Opinion as to Land
Under the Ice.


There is no reasonable doubt that there exists
in the Arctic Ocean, somewhere In tie vicinity
of the North Pole, an ce-cOvered land of con-
siderable extent. This is evident from the char
acter OF the icebergs observed al various points
Wi hin the Arctic Ocean; for there are different
classes OF icebergs, as there are different kinds
Of coal. The difference between the 10eberg,
or palaeOcryst1c iceberg, and the ordinary ice
berg Of the North Atlantic is as great and as
easily distinguishable as is the difference be-
tween a block OF btuminOus coal and one of
anthracite. The fioebeTg is distinguished byiS
tabular form, great uniformity OF height, rectaD.
gnar shape, nearly fiat surface, perpendicular
sand especially from its amipated structure
Whenever a palaeOcrystic iceberg is seen in the
far north, before lis face shaS suffered much
from the melting action of tue sun, IA close OBJ
server notes That 1t presents along its front a
series OF faint blue lines, separated by inter
spaces OF Opaqne white. These lines show
stratlhcatIon due 10 arly accumulatlons OF
snow upon nearly level surface, which are
Transformed gradually into Ice, and each line
also represents the limit or the accumulation
OF single year. In a similar manner are
formed the glaciers OF The Alps and Greenland,
out tDeSe latter lce-sheets are torn, distorted
and reformed thousand times in their descent
down rapid slopes and through combining
valleys!of greater or less width.
FloeDeigs, then, are parts of great iCe-sheets
which, from successive snOwfalls over land
area OF no great elevation and very gentle
gradients, now downward from its highest
level In thu direction of least resistance.
The slope being gentle, the Ice moves grad
ually seward. with Its structure unchanged
ard Its stratlhcation unbroken, and passes
slowly INTO the ocean, whence eventually It's
DuOyancy causes II 10 rise and disrupt In a
vast mass from the main $. -et.-Geueral A.
W. Greedy.
The morning call., 1894-07-15
GROWTH OF GERMAN AND
AMERICAN CITIES.

Mr. Albert Shaw publishes in the latest
number of the Century Magazine some
curious statistics of population in Ger
many which go to show that fast as we
consider our cities to be growing many
German cities are growing still faster
Although Germany has lost in the past
twenty years nearly two and a half mil
lions of people to the United States nearly
every German city has gained more popu-
latiOn since the Franco-German war than
cities of corresponding size in this country.
Berlin is striking example. 1t is an
old city, dating from the thirte enth CEN
fury. But in the middle of the seven
tenth century it contained only 5000
people. A century later its population
numbered 10000. when New York had
only 10000 and Philadelphia $4,000 At
the time of the Franco-German war Ber-
lin contained about as many people as
New York. $4,000. Since then it has
forged ahead, the figures in 1890 being
1,576. 794, against 1,515, 301. 1t must be re-
mem bered that Berlin is built upon a
sand bank and marsh; that it is not
place Of industry, and that it is not well
situate for maritime trade. Yet somehow
it has drawn from the interior of Ger
many in twenty-five years about as many
people as New York has drawn from all
Europe and this country besides.
Hamburg has doubled in population
since 1875. Parallels to this growth are
found in such new cities as Denver. Kan
sas City, Chicago and St Paul, but among
the older cities of the United States no
example of such raDd growth is exhib-
tied. Baltimore. which was about as pop
ulous az Hamburg at the outbreak of the
French war, is now $4,000 behind the
German seaport Our own city compares
just as untavoraby. When the German
war broke out the population of San
Francisco, according to the city directory.
was about 10000. and acco ding to the
census 1494 73. Five years later the popu-
lation of LIE psic was given at $4,000. 1t
is now 800, 900, as against $4,000 in San
Francisco. The curious contrast runs
through the list. Almost without excep-
ton the German cities have gained more
people in the past twenty five years than
the cities of the United States.
The anomaly is quite curious. At the
time Of the French war the population of
Germany was 41,OO0 600 and that of the
United States IS, 55S. 600. The population
The morning call., 1894-07-15
COMING TO LIFE.

The Chinese treaty was lost sight of for
few days during the railroad excitement.
but Washington dispatch says it is now
arranged to bring it before the Senate on
Tuesday. Secretary Gresham is especially
active in the work of convincing Sen ators
that the United States is in need of
large increase in its labOring force. The
remark of Mr.. Huntington, reported some
days since. that if the railroads had been
manned by Chinese the recent strike
would not have occurred. seems to have
had a stimulating effect upon the friends
OF the treaty. In times past, when meas
ures to exclude Chinese from the United
States have come before the Senate Cali
fornia has been solid in support of them.
1t is now understood that Senator White
will vote to ratify the pending treaty.
Whether he bases his vote on the ground
that Chinese are needed in the country or
on an opinion that the proposed treaty
The morning call., 1894-07-15
THE TARIFF OUTLOOK.

A pretty fight is going on before the
conference committee on the Senate
amendments to the tariff bill. The amend
)nents which are most Objectionable to the
House are those placing sugar, iron and
coal on the dutiabe list. The Senate con-
ferrees stand on the statement made when
the House bill reached the Senate that 1t
could not pass that body. Senator Cor
man now tells the House members Of the
committee that they have to choose be-
tween the bill as amended by the commit
tee aud a continuance of the Mckinley
tariff. It is quite possible that in the
end, the Senate members will agree to free
coal and free iron on the condition that
the House allows the sugar schedule to
stand. The duties on coal and iron have
only local effect. In one locality do
nestle coal and iron can be produced at
less cost than the foreign articles; in
other localities the foreign articles are the
cheapest.
The weight and bulk of coal and iron
are so large in proportion to value that
transportation largely determines the price.
But the Senate sugar schedule gives the
home refner absolute control of the home
III al nut Nullo udurNuoICII piOloCtlnE iuO
American sugar-grOwer and tending to
raise the price to the consumer The
House bill makes sugar. both raw and re-
fined, free of duty, and exposes both grow
ers and refners 20 unlimited foreign COM
petition. 1t might keep sugar cheap In
The United States, but it would ruin a
most promising industry. The Senate bill
is better than the House measure, because
j; gives the homegrown some protection.
The Mckinley bill is better than either be-
cause it insures the gradual development
of our domestic sugar-gro wing industry to
the point Of filing the home demand, while
costing consumers nothing for protection
except what is actually earned in bounties
by our growers. OF course the retention
Of the Mckinley bill by Senate votes will
necessitate the obtaining of more revenue
from other sources, and may result in
more protection for our textile and other
industries