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The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1894-02-09

Ralph Clarkson of New York, writes
from Rome as to the condition of the
laboring classes in France, Switzerland
and italy, where he has travelled the
past eighteen months. What he has
seen on the Continent leads him to "hOpe
that our working man may never be in a
position to be compared with those.
Forced to work from an early age. be-
cause it is only bv the combined efforts
Of the entire family that they can exist.
the laborer here grows up in a depth of
ignorance that is blight 10 civilization
All his surroundings are bad, because he
is paid little, and, therefore, can afford
no better. His wife and family are
beasts uf burden, whose loads are oft
times heavier than those of the brutes
themselves. A little instance will
serve to illustrate the general condition
of this class. While at LncarnO, on Lake
Maggie e, l had occasion to use bicycle,
and, 10 my surprise, [ found that the
pr prie' O. of the hop where had been
sent, Ii en- resident of the United
States for fifteen years, Sickness in his
family had forced him to return to his
old home, and various other events had
combined to make him stay there. Since
OiOh hO iltlh IlhN W lGhGCO Ou JuO
condition of his own cOuntrymen and
compare it with that of his old cOmpan-
ions in America. He seemed to take a
lively interest in the recent labor agita-
tions, and had little patience with the
revolt of the dissatisfied. What fools
they are he said, they don't know
when they are well off. But he added,
q was as bad as any of them. and when
l earned S. a day, 1 kicked because it
was not So. Oh, for such time as that
again | asked him how much he made
in Locarno, and if he could not live
enough cheaper to make up the differ
ence. BY hard work, he replied. Il can
earn 81 day, but food is much dearer.
For instance, butter costs sixty cents per
pound, sugar twelve cents, etc. l re-
marked that the peasants seemed to live
on little, and he said, But on what?'
scornfully adding, 'on what they feed the
pigs in America-cOrn meal, never TAX
ing meat, unless one one of their cattle
is killed on the mountains, and so they
are forced to eat it," And this testi-
mony is not dated last year, nor in 1857,
but January Goth, 1894. The Wilson bill
will duplicate this situation in the United
States if passed, and time enough given
it to work out its logical sequence.
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out of wages. The 100000 operatives in
the woolen mills, earning 1854 per an
mum each. must be content with earnings
of only S2l3 every year or else with no
earnings at all. 1t is highly probable
that the latter may be the case, because
it will be very difficult for our manufac-
turers to sell any goods then in competi-
ton with the product of the numberless
shoddy mills in England, where the
manufacture of shoddy has been reduced
to such a science that shoddy goods are
made to SO closely initiate woolens that
they are sold as such to very large de-
gree.
The prospects, then, for our wooden
trade may be summed up as either re-
duction of 40 per cent in wages, with our
woolen goods in keen competition with
English shoddy goods, or closed facto-
ries, 240,OOO people idle, SS5.000, 900 less
wage earnings in circulation, $500, 600, 600
of capital IDLE in closed factories and
rusting machin cry, besides the destruc-
ton of the large wooden producing in
dustry. This comes from the Democracy.
Commercial Advertiser.
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Under the fostering protection of the
Mckinley tariff this great business had
increased fully 20 per cent. Even with
an increase of only 10 per cent. we would
have the product of our wooden mills
worth fully S370, 100000 the number of
hands employed would be 100000, and
their annual earnings would be nearly
SS5, 100000, an average of 1854 earned
each year by every ,man, woman and
child working in the mills.
We do not for moment imagine that
Professor Wilson or any other member
of the majority of the Ways and Means
Committee understands the terrible
havoc they propose to make in this great
business. 1t is true that they propose
to abolish the duty on raw wool, which
is about 30 per cent. of its value I'M
washed, but which is only about 10 per
cent. of its value when washed and
turned into manufactured goods.
But in return for this concession of 10
per cent, which has not been asked for
and which is of no benefit in regard to
our export trade of woole2 goods, since
manufacturers can nav secure rebate
OF 80 per cent. of the duty they paw on
foreign woods when re-exported in the
shape of manufactures-in return for
this 10 per cent. apparent concession,
but actual concession of only per cent,
they find heavy reductions made in the
duties hitherto imposed upon foreign
woolen goods that were imported
These changes are very varied, involv-
ing. both ad valorem and specific rates
of duty, but in very few instances is the
proposed reduction below 25 per cent,
ond In some instances it exceeds 100 per
cent, while low average for the reduc-
tion on all wooleD goods would be 80
per cent. Given to the manufacturer
concession of per cent. in order to Sc
cure the trade of the markets of the
world, he Will have TO reduce his ex-
penses at least 40 per cent, taking an
average of so per cent. less for all wool
en- duties and deducting possible bene-
fit of 10 per cent. for the price of free
wool for the home market, in order to
be able to sell any of his products at
home.
This 40 per cent reduction must come
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CORRESPONDENCE.
THE SOUTH IN WINTER.-II.

The close of our first letter found us at
Pasadena, Pasco county, three miles
south of Dade City, the county seat, one
and One-half miles from Pasadena sta
tion. Thirty-five miles north of Tampa
on the Florida Central and Peninsula
railroad. We were met by Rev. A. E.
Drew, a gentleman well calculated for
the position he holds-that of general
manager and agent for the Pasadena
Land and improvement Company. The
hotel, three stories high, accommodates
125, is just completed, overlooks a lake
some nine miles in circuit, and surround
ed by orange groves,
We promised to give your readers
something about oranges, but find one
must inquire, study, sift. Seldom does
one find two growers VINO agree on all
points. To begin with. one buys virgin
land covered with pines, averaging from
40 to 30 trees to the acre, these are. cut
down, drawn in piles and burned, as
their room is better than their company.
1t looks hard to see nice trees which will
some day be needed. destroyed. Next
the land is plowed (there is little under
growth), and fenced. Young trees are
then set out, varying from twenty to
thirty feet apart, some claiming twenty
to be enough. These require some fer
tilizer and here again comes in the
varying opinions spoken of (these
opinions vary all the way from the young
sprig to the marketable oranges). As a
rule, owing to lack of funds, little or
none is used, and one can detect the lack
at once. Formerly seedlings were
planted, now all who desire best frult
and consequent prices, bud the young
seedlings. We were shown to day sprouts
"a inches long from July budding, while
Is is very common. The budding trees
will produce a paying number of or
anges in three to four years, and then
can be depended on to produce yearly,
without fail, unlike our apple trees. 1t
is wonderful the weight these trees will
bear. There is branch now at the ho-
tel with eleven large oranges on, weigh
ing seven and three-fourths pounds, and
the branch where cut, is very little
larger than common lead pencil.
Some are so full as to present an almost
unbroken golden front; the fruit, as a
rule, growing at outside of tree. One
seldom sees less than one acre in bear
ing, while two and one-half, five, ten and
twenty are the rule, An orange grove
of twenty acres in full bearing, as seen
at distance of thirty rods, presents a
sight worth going miles to see.
The full grown trees are about the size
of the average apple tree, but at eight or
ten years are small and fruit hangs to
the ground. The KING and Naval or
anges bring the better price, but we pre-
fer the Tangerine variety, skid glove"
as we term it. While not as large fruit
as an orange, they are fine favored, and
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The future historian of these times
will have to record four curious financial
achievements of the Democratic party
within the first year after its return to
powe"; the first, the deliberate throwing
away of SIS, 100000 of revenue, which
had been largely paid by foreigners;
next, the revival of the most odious of
the war taxes, tax on incomes; thirdly,
the borrowing of S50,000,000 on a ten
year per cent. loan, for current expen.
ses, in flat violation of law, and, tourthly,
the creation of $50, ,0O0.0 600 of fiat money,
with nothing more substantial behind or
under it than the Northeast winds.
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Hon. Roscoe Conkling.
ITICA N Y NJ

UTICA, N. Y, Nov. 2Oth, 1873.
My Dear Mr.. President-YOur letter of
the Sth, inst postlnarked the 18th, came
here during my absence. On the 18th
General Babcock mailed copy, which
reached me at New York on the 18th, and
the space since then you will not, trust,
think too long for due reflection.
You offer me the Chief Justiceship,
and this confidence outweighs all the
honors of the place.
My transfer now from the Senate to
the bench involves consideration not
only beyond my own interests and wishes,
but | think even beyond those before
you, and after much thought am con-
vinced that in view of the whole case you
would agree with me that another ap-
pointment should be made.
| will not detain you with reasons nor
with expressions of the profound sense
of obligation to you which will abide
with me always; but instead ask you to
let your choice fall on another, who how
ever else qualified, believes as man and
lawyer, as | believe, in the measures you
have upheld in war and in peace. Your
friend and servant.
Roscoe CoNKLING.
His Excellency President Grant.
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THE WOOLEN INDUSTRY.

Probably the greatest revolution that
will be wrought by the Wilson tariff is
in the wooden manufacturing industry,
a revolution the extent of which will lie
increased by the free wool gratuity that
has been asked for by neither producer
nor manufacturer. Perhaps the extent
of this industry may have made it the
object of special attack III order to in
volve the greater amount of ruin to the
country. Omitting the great farming
interests of wool growing we fiud that
the manufacturing interest was repre-
sented in 1890 as follows:
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1t is said the Pope will shortly pub

1t is said the Pope will shortly publish
an encyclical on the union of the Western
and Eastern churches. In the encyclical
the Pope will trace the attempts that
have been made to effect union of the
churches since the schism, and show the
endeavorers of the Papacy to bring about
a union. The Pope will declare he is
strongly in favor of keeping intact the
rites, prerogatives, autonomy and disni.
pline of the Eastern church, for the
Papacy. though universal, is not Latir.
1t is expected the encyclical will be pub
lished on March I'd.
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THE BANNER.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY o. 1894.

Entered at the Bennington .O.s- SECOND GLASS
matter by c. A. PIERCE & CO., Publsher.l
Terms. S1.50 per year, strictly in advance
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PRESIDENT GRANTS WAY.

Chief Justice Salmon p. Chase died
May 7th, 1873, and Roscoe Conkling was
suggested by eminen5 men as his proper
successor Therefore Pres. u. S. Grant
offered the orator the place, not before,
however, he had made sure the nomina-
tion was acceptable to the Senate Roscoe
Conkling's nephew, Hon. Alfred r.
COnkling, has the Presidents letter and
the reply in his possession. Mr.. Cleve-
land may find some valuable hints con-
corning nominations in the first letter:
EXECUTIVE MANSION.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Nov. Sth, 1873.
My Dear Senator-When the Chief
Justiceship became vacant | naturally
looked with anxiety to some one whose
appointment would be recognized as en-
tirely fitting and acceptable to the country
at large. My own preferences went to
you at once. But l determined and an
nOunced that the appointment would not
be made until the meeting of Congress-
that | thoughG Chief Justice should
never be subjected TO the modification
OF rejection. The possibility of your
rejection, OF course, was not dreamed of.
But think the conclusion of waiting for
confirmation was right in principle.
now wish to state to you that my first
Jnvictions on the subject of who should
be Judge Chase's successor have not re-
ceived confirmation by time, and [ ten
der the nomination to you, to be made
on the meeting of Congress, in the hope
that you will accept and in the full be.
lief that no more acceptable appointment
cou'd be made. Very truly yours,
U. s. GRANT.
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UNPRECEDENTED !!

Te sale Of the Long Fall Back Coat introduced by us has been
Simply marvellous Day after day the sizes have been broken
and although we have added new lots constantly it has been
impossible supply the demand This morning for the first
tiIne in month"; we will be able to show complete line or
sizes at all prices.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-08-06

Uncle Horace Boies, Of Iowa, ia a
Democrat Of the Democrats; but in his
recent speech at the Iowa Democratic
convention he introduced a novelty
which, from a Democrat, is quite sur
prising. He actually spoke words of
truth to labor and omitted to play the
demogogue. Referring TO the unpre-
cedented troubles IN labor circles dur
ing the past four months, he depre7
Gated the violation Of law and said.
am still more amazed to know that
within the circles Of these unions are mon
VINO yet condemn the authorities. both
state and national, for iuterposiup the
military arm Of each to put en- end TO con-
ditious that had reached o completed staae
Of anarchy and oyerthTOwn in some louali-
ties every semblanCs Of law aud order. II
these men are not bereft of reason thew
must by this time realize that "the strlkeh
as conducted IN many places IN the recent
past, is revolution, is anarchy, is the in
Gipisnt stage Of civil war, IL is yRit. 20
assert that the soeuos OF riot, incendnrlsm
and Dloodsbed we have Witnessed are
uub ttlN Wui "a VI lueupBT5 OL any Oh
the unions, but, instead, are that OK
the lRwless elements Of the cities in
which they have occurred. IL this Is liter
ally true, it cannot relieve the unions In
question Of the responsibility for condi-
tiOpB that their own acts made possible
and which, without such acts, would never
have existed. There is another phase Of
this question OF immeasurRble Importance
to individuals, 1t is the question of the
inherent right or wrong OF what some
labor leaders term 'sympathetic strike"
and 1t was forcibly presented IN thepullman
strike. Ihe sympathetic strike" must 20
or the unions that engage in 1t will he des-
troyed and with IL must 20 forever the
scenes OF riot and carnage that have char
acterized 30 many recent strikes or tho
organizations responsible for them win DO
ground into dust under tho iron heel Of an
awakened public sentiment.
The idea embodied In this deliver
ance is not especially unique, since 1t
is the idea held by all thoughtful men
who have given sincere attention to
the developments Of the past few years
in the industrial world. That which
characterizes 1t as worthy of reference
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II is DISTINCTLY to the credit Of
Burgess Maloney, Of Pittston, that he
would have nothing 10 do with the
junkot Of alleged reformers which Is
bringing Pittston into disrepute abroad.
Burgess Maloney Is an honest official
and gentleman, particulars IN which
he differs to some extent from certain
Pittstonians with whom he Is com
PEELED 10 associate, at times, in m otli-
cial relation.
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FOR DELEGATE ELECTIONS.
Apportionment Of Republican Reprsssn
tattop AmonO tha various Dlat.i lots,


tation Among tho various Dlstiots.
Pursuant TO meeting Of the Rspubli-
can County committee held on July 14th,
1894 the County Convention will be
held on Tuesday, September 4th, 1891, at l0
o'clock a. m, in the court house at Scran-
ton, for the purpose Of placing In nomina-
tlon candidates for the following named
Offices, to ba voted for at the next general
election to DO held November 9th, lS94i
Congress, Eleventh district; Judge, Forty
fifth Judicial district; sheriff, treasurer,
clerk OF courts, prothonotary, district at
torney, recorder OF deeds, register OF Wills,
and jury commissioner.
vigilance committees will hold delegate
elections on Saturday, September lst, ie9i,
between the hOurs Of and p. IN, They
will elso give at least two days public
notice Of the time and place for holding
said elections.
Each election district should elect at the
said delegate elections, two qualified per-
sons to serve AZ vigilance committee for Que
year and have their names certified to- on
the credentials Of delegates to the County
Convention
lhe representation OF delegates to the
County Convention IL based upon the vote
cast last fall for Fell, candidate for Judge
Of supreme court, no being the highest
officer voted Tor III said Stase election.
Under this rule the several election districts
are entitled TO representation as follows
vi
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The Jan as 4 Citizen.

Representative Everett, Of Massa-
chusetts, has introduced a bill in con.
gross amending the revised statutes Of
the United states SO as to permit the
naturalization of aliens of Japanese
descent The adoption Of the bill is
dictated by many considerations OF
justice and oNpedienCy. There ere
resident in nearly all our large Ameri-
can cities, Scranton not excepted, edu-
Gated japanese who are the peers OF
any Caucaslans in those qualities that
determine good citizenship. They are
industrious, temperate, honest and
law-ablding; they have great keen
ness ofperception, are staunch and
loyal in their friendships, and, above
all, they possess the sovereign virtue
Ofknowing enough to attend to their
own business.
The ignorant Jap is q rarity in this
country, for the reason that however
ignorant one may be when he gets
here, he refuses to remain ignorant.
His alertness of mind and eXtraOrdi-
nary nimbleness Of wit quickly educate
him in the waysof our occidental civil
i2ation He is, also, loyalto his new
ties If in the course of years he
should become converted to Christian
ity the chances are several to one
that the conversion is q genuine one,
and not one dictated by self-interest,
In these respects the Jap Is decidedly
superior to John Chinaman, who in
the last analysis IS made up very
largely of ignorance, sensuality and
cunning. The percentage Of China
men in this country who evolve into
really respectable citizens, worthy of
being trusted with q white mans
money or honor, is small; that of
japanese large.
| These comparisons have special in-
terest in view Of the fierce war now
raging between China and Japan.
Our knowledge Of the two races is linn
tied to observation Of them in our own
country; but In the foregoing opinions
we are confirmed by men who have
travelled far and studied much. AL
|
though outnumbering the japanese
soldiery six to one, the war forces OF
China have thus far been beaten in al
most every engagement; and it is our
prediction that they will continue to
get beaten SO long as the war shall last.
OF all the eastern nations, the japanese
are the one who impress ethnologists
as possessing the most substantial
recommendations. Compare the aver
age immigrant from Japan Gs he is
known in this country with the aver
age Slovak or Lithuanian as he is
known here; and it will no longer APP
pear singular that Representative
Everett should think the former as
well entitled to the privileges Of nat
uralization as Is the latter.
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tive McCreary is In obedience to fur
ther purposes of stupid executive in.
terterenoe, the sooner congress shows
Mr. Cleveland hls proper functions
and points out to him the constitu-
tional limitations Of his office, the bet
ter viii Ii be for congress- self-respect,
always assuming that 1t has any left.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-08-06

IN MAY not be beyond the executive
and diplomatic end Of this Democratic
administration to plot with renounced
barbarian queen for the over throw OF
new born republic; but 1t is far be-
yond the American masses, Dusky
Lil's little stratagem we suspect will
not work.
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is It's unusual frankness. For once,
we have the remarkable spectacle of
a Democratic campaign orator really
telling the truth. We feel that we
should be derelict to an urgent moral
duty did we not give to this extraordi'
nary coincidence the prominence that
1t clearly deserves.
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COLONEL MCCLURE's Times calls
Colonel Smiths Press several polite
kinds Of a liar in reference to that
sugar deal; but this is merely the Nc
Clure method Of attesting the Press
veracity.
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For COysfnOT
DANIEL II. HASTIN03
OF CENTER.
For Lieutea0nt G0uCrnOr:
WALTER LYON,
OFALLEGNENY.
Tor auditor General
AMOS 4. NYLIE,
or LANCASTER.
for Secretary Of HerRGl AGcirs;
JAMES w. LATTA
OF PalLADELPHIA
For ConGTeSsmea.ai.LarQe:
GALUSHA A. GROW.
OF susQUEHAENA,
GEORGE r. HUFF,
OF WysTNoRBIAND.
Election Time, Nov G
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cAsr'HG sBEgP's eYEs.
PhNadeIplia Recorl.

Philadelphia Record.
That Giddv young girl Miss Populist, is
casting suspicious sleeps eyes at hones
old Mr. Democrat IN Indiana. She would
probably like to get $40 per capita out OF
bis purse ss silly Mr. Republican, Of Penn,
sylvania, has promised TO give ber In re
turn for her hand in November. Mr.
Democrat, Of Indiana should fight shy
however, of any such lamentabla mesalil
Ouco
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-08-06

The WHITEWAsHING Of those sugar
senators would no doubt have been u
more artistic job if the whitewash
brush hadn't inadvertently laid Oare
such q big deal of truth.
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TIE INDUSTRIOUS potentate Of the
Celestial empire will need to arise early
in the mornings iRit be bis desire to
get ahead of the Japs.
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WE ARE confirmed In our suspicion
that the Eastern league might prove
inhospitable.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-08-06

Mr. GLADsTONE's ailing eyes would
begladdened atsight Ofmany things on
exhibition In America; but so long as
Spruce street has wooden block pave
ment, the grand old man doubtless
does well to stay quietly on the other
side.
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VIII Need to Dsvlate Widely.
Minneapolis Tines

Tho strike commission will accomplish
great deal II Its methods and results are
entirely different from those OF any other
commission known 10 American history,
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oEFiNlTIvE.


Brooklyn Eagle.
A journalist is man who talks about
being on newspaper, but Is not A news-
paper man Is ono who is on a newRna r,ey
and makes no fuss about It. A farmer Is a
man who works the soil and an agricuI.
turist is man who works the farmer