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Our Typical American.

Mr.. Cleveland has once more dis
played his strong understanding and
patriotic spirit. The course of the
administration through the strike
period left nothing for cavil. The
President obeyed the mandate of
the law in promptly ordering the
forces at the disposal of the Execu-
tive to be used in protecting the
mail service which the Government is
charged to provide for the people.
He obeyed the law in combining
those forces strictly to the line of
Federal duty and leaving the local
authorities to deal with local trouble.
While meeting threatened and
actual violence with a vigor in con =.
trast with the temporizing of shall
lower politicians, he was equally
quick to use his legal opportunity
of showing respect and friendship
for the laboring class of our citi-
zens. His action in deciding to ap-
point a board of investigation I'M
der the O'Neil law relieved pain
full situation and quoted discomfort
by assuring labor that the Govern
ment is impartially determined to
protect the rights of all the people
as far as its powers extend.
The dignity of property and the
dignity of labor have had equal
consideration from the President of
the United States.
There are few fair-minded Ameri-
cans to-day who are not glad that
Grover Cleveland is the President.
We are not sure that in history his
treatment Of the strike troubles
will not be the brightest part of his
career.-Inter Ocean.
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The Potters and the Tariff.

Voluntary arbitration has scored
a point in the settlement of the diff
ficulty at the Trenton, N. j. pottery
works, says the Saginaw News.
The Trenton potters in January re-
duced wages from 25 to 40 per cent,
and this reduced scale was adopted
by manufacturers in Baltimore,
West Virginia and Ohio. The men
struck to the number Of Il 900, and
since then have lost in wages over
100000. Senator Smith of New
Jersey was called upon to arbitrate,
and his efforts have met with sue
cess. Under the terms of the agree
ment the strikers accept a reduction
of l2B per cent, which is something
of victory for them in view of
the original reductions made.
But there is lesson to be drawn
from this besides the evidence of the
efficiency of voluntary arbitration.
The settlement of this trouble
should have been made weeks ago,
and would have been had not the
pottery manufacturers been run
ming trust, which gave average
profits of 22a per cent, for the three
years prior to 1891, and since then
profits of 29a per cent. In 800
worth of pottery the labor cost is
$45.96 and the tariff is $50. The
Wilson bill, imposing duties of 35
and 40 per cent, the rate Mckinley
defended in the Wood bill of 1878,
is not what the manufacturers
wanted They were permitted to
make their own schedule in the Nc
Kinley bill, and there has never been
any pretense at a tariff equal to the
difference Of wages between this
country and abroad. And they
wanted the same subsidy advan-
tages in the present revision. But
the fact is notorious that while pro-
fits have gone up the potters' wages
have gone down by reduction.
1t is no wonder that the pottery
workers are beginning to insist that
they should have fraction of the
tariff protection.
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possible way. When one family
uses the old stove, with the cracked
lids, and pastes paper over the brok-
EN- pane of glass, and does not re-
new any of the furniture or crock
cry; when they wear last years
clothes and 60 from food which
might be luxurious to food which
simply supports life, the economics
are demonstrated which follow
a total or partial loss of income.
Precisely that process has been go
ing on for two-thirds of year
among 80 per cent of our popula-
ton. IL has made clear the fact
that the American people, who are
charged, and probably justly, with
being the most extravagant people
in the world, can live as closely as
anybody when it becomes necessary.
But the effect upon merchants, mid
dlemen and carriers in the volume
of their business and their profits
is disastrous beyond any process
which has ever effected the business
of the country."-C hauncy M. De,
pew, i'm New York Tribune.
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Capital and Confidence.

Everybody who has money is
tired of getting / per cent or no
per cent for it. Every business
man who has been lying on his oars
is crazy to do something or engage
in something he understands.
Every enterprise which has been
dormant is feeling its way for capt.
tai and confidence. Labor is every
where eager for work, and employers
still more eager to open their works.
Il only requires the normal ma
chinery of the country to move in a
normal way, for consumption to
again make demands upon produce
ton.
When the history of this panic
comes to be written and the tpsubles
incident to it, one of its remarkable
features will be the effect upon rail-
way traffic and upon all business of
100000 people, of those who
had to, and those who had no need
to economize, but did so in every
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Correct.

The following, from the Saginaw
News, speaking of the speech of
senator Hill, in the senate last Fri
day, comes too near the mark to be
relished by some of the representa-
tives of the people, at Washington,
who glory in disappearing the
wishes of the people:
Taking David b. Hills speech as
delivered in the senate as a sincere
effort for the cause of tariff reform,
it becomes evident that the gifted
New York senator is trying to get
hold of that slogan 81 am Demo.
crat," once more. For from first
to last the speech Senator Hill made
is one of the most earnest, patriotic
and Democratic speeches that the
senate has heard in years. 1t has a
true ring of Democracy, the genu-
inc tone of tariff reform. That he
stands so unqualifiedly by President
Cleveland is surprise. though none
the less gratifying, and if the other
senators have the good of the party
and the welfare of the country al
heart they will divorce themselves
from entangling alliances and unite
in an effort to accomplish honest
tariff revision.
The course of some of the sena-
tors who are piqued at the presi,
dents letter is simply contemplate
They effect to believe that it is an
infringement on their dignity to
be scored so numerically, but the
presidents castigation is nothing
like what the people will give the
recalcitrants the first opportunity
that is presented. No! 1t is not
their dignity that is ruffied. They
have no conception of their duty
They have hobnodded with protect
ed interests until they have become
McKinleyized.
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1894-07-25
One Woman's Experience.

A womanly woman will DO womanly
everywhere and under all circumstances,
and her influence is sure to DO felt bene-
ficially. One woman's most unique ex-
perlence c. life for a year In Michigan
iumber-camp is most charmingly told In
the exceedingly interesting article Gin
and About Lumber Camp" published In
the August number OF Demorest's Fami-
ly Magazine; and after reading her vivid
descriptions OF the life Of the lumbermen
and the modus operandi OF logging"
illustrated with superb half-tone pictures,
one feels thoroughly posted about this
picturesque though laborlous industry,
But not every lumber camp Is blessed
with the ministrations Of q trained nurse.
Under the apt title "0olden Silence" a
pathetic story OF deaf mute is told and
incidentally one may learn the method by
which these unfortunates communicate
with their fellow-beings. Chaunoey De-
pew, Marshall Wilder Beatrice Harraden,
and several other famous people tell some
OF the funniest stories they have heard.
"How to Read and Write In Cipher" will
furnish entertainment for many a sum-
mer or winter evening; and "a Summer
Girl shows up a new specimen OF the
genus. "Thc Flower Garden In August"
furnishes many excellent suggestions for
the care Of flowers In midsummer; and
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Tried to PLAY Sharp.

The schooner Danforth has frequently
loaded at this port the present season,
and her captain thought he had got cor
ner on Uncle Sam. Now, the Danforth
needed towing, and q Canadian tug,
the Erin, wanted the job, but there
seemed to be an obstacle in tho shape
OF law which provides that Canadian
steamer cannot tow an American vessel
between American ports. After study
ing the question from all points Of the
compass, the captains OF the Erin and
Danforth arranged plan which they be.
lieved would pull the wool over Uncle
Sans eyes. The Erin would tow the
Danforth up Lake Huron until opposite
Alpena, and then leave her on the Cana
dian side Of the lake, to sail to this port.
When loaded the Danforth would again
sail to what was supposed to be Canadian
waters, and then Erin would pick her up
and tow her to Chicago. Uncle Sam was
not asleep, but watched the little scheme,
and when he thought It had gone on long
enough to show the vessels meant to play
a sharp game, he had a Chicago custom
officer seize the schooner and levy fine
OF $330.50. The claim made is, that Lake
Huron, except that part which is within
three miles OF each shore, is high sea,
and that the Danforth did not clear from
foreign port, but from an American
port. The steamer Erlr is liable to fine
of so cents per ton for every trip she has
towed tho Danforth in the manner de-
scribed.
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Let Labor Stop and Reason.

A new gospel has suddenly found
hordes of disciples in this land of
freedom and enlightenment, says the
Free Press. Its tenets set at
naught many principles that have
withstood the test of ages and made
possible the way to the worlds pres
ent advanced stage of civilization.
While it professedly rests on a deep.
broad basis of human sympathy, its
practical workings tend to increase
the suffering and retard the general
prosperity of the race. Though
springing from a soil consecrated to
liberty it centralizes power in a de-
gree unparalleled outside the do
main of an absolute monarchy. 1t
vests in a single man the authority
to stay the hands of thousands upon
thousands of those who live by the
sweat of the brow, and consign
them to a helpless period Of en-
forced idleness.
This remarkable creed says that
if a bricklayer employed in New
York takes umbrage at his employ
er and induces his fellow-bricklay-
ers to join him in stopping work,
then the man who holds the desti-
MES of hundreds of thousands Of
honest toilers in the hollow of his
hand may say to the contented
blacksmiths in Seattle, the prosper
Gus musicians at Newport, the CT
garmakers at New Orleans, the
struggling miners in West Virginia,
and the railroad men all over the
country, that they must for an in
definite period forfeit the incomes
upon which they and those dear to
them are dependent. They must
forego the aggregated millions they
are making, disgracefully desert
kind and considerate employers,
violate their contracts and sit with
folded hands in the grim shadows
of poverty until the bricklayers of
Gotham reach some kind of settle
ment of their difficulty.
It is an old-fashioned idea that
unremitting toll finds the way to
prosperity and success, but this
latter-day doctrine seeks the end
kept in view by its followers in a
way entirely different. Even in a
time when depression is universal,
when the business of thousands of
employers is tottering upon the
verge Of ruin, when manufacturers
are running at loss either through
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1894-07-25
Noteworthy Forthcoming Discussions

In the forthcoming (August) number Of
the Forum, there will be three striking
articles treating of the three recent start
ling manifestations OF crime--the Great
Railroad strike and It's causes; the Assas-
sination of Carnot; and the Police Reve-
lations In New York. Discussions Of
these subjects are grouped under the
general title, "The Sentimental Dealing
with Crime and It's Increase;" and follow
ing these is very startling review OF the
worldwide increase of crime, by Mr.
Henry Charles Lea, of Philadelphia
These make one OF the most noteworthy
groups OF strong and timely articles that
have ever appeared I'm our periodical liter
ature.
Another subject that will be treated in
the August Forum by two writer's is
Laboratory Mind-Study: the Beginnings
OF New Science" President G.. Stanley
Hall explains why the new psychology,
or mind-study, Is the necessary and en-
tirely revolutionary basis of the educa-
tlon OF the future; and Professor L. w.
Scripture, OF Yale, sets forth In detail the
methods OF experiment and training fol-
lowed In his own laboratory for mind
study.
In the August number Of the Forum
will appear an article showing SHOW the
Bills Of Socialism will be PAID" by Mr..
Sylvester Baxter, In reply to the article
In recent number OF the Forum on
WHO will Pay the Bills of Socialism,"
THE Pay of Preachers" of all the diff
ferent sects, and In every section OF the
country is the subject of an article in the
Forthcoming (August) number OF the
Forum, by III X. Carroll, the superin-
tendent Of the collection of church Stats.
tics for the last census-an article that
shows the income of different grades oil
preachers as compared with men of other
callings.
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1894-07-25

consideration for labor or with a
hope of better times near at hand,
when millions are Offering labor for
which there is no market, when rail-
roads which pay at all are not pay
ing more than 2 per cent, when pro-
ducts are as cheap as they have been
at any time during the century,
when a dollar earned will go four
times as far as it would in the days
of artificial prosperity that followed
the war, the imperial head Of a
labor combine orders a strike and
millions are deducted from the
earnings of those who find it so
difficult to lay by for the proverbial
rainy day if they fail to put in full
time at their employment.
Time and time again has labor
thus Slapped the strength which it's
leaders profess to be developing.
If the workmen of this country are
serfs and slaves, as the walking
delegate assures them they are, they
are voluntary serfs and slaves who
bow to the CALLING yoke imposed by
this new gospel. As blind adher-
ents to an autocracy that has no
proper place in our modern history,
they are demanding broader liber-
ty. Proud of their individual SOW
ereignty as American citizens, they
transfer their individuality to the
custody of one man, whose man
date is as irrevocable as that of des-
tiny. They seek to gain wealth by
sacrificing it. Their sympathy does
not extend to suffering workmen
who do not endorse their peculiar
creed, for these commit an offenst
if they seek the employment that
men of the combination desert. II
is passing strange at this age of the
world that each of million Ameri.
can citizens will surrender the ex.
ercise of his will to one untried ant
extremely uncertain man.
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1894-07-25
Real Estate Sales.

Tho following Is a list OF real estate
sales recorded during the last week,
furnished at the abstract Office of O'Brien
& Sleator.
Monroe Klock to Andrew II. Gaffney,
$500, Of II Of 80, 80, 6, Long Rapids.
John Monaghan to Andrew Fl. Gaffney,
81, Of n Of SO, SO, Q, Long Rapids.
John Donovan to Andrew III. Gaffney,
1000, II W Of n and ! of II of 80, 80,
6, Long Rapids.
Nellie Nj. Wilson to Jacob Gohl, $3.50,
n of Of II, 80, Z, Maple Ridge.
State OF Michigan to Robert H. Ray
burn, $50, W of 8 of0, 80, 6, Ossineke.
O'Brien & Sleator to A. NJ. Marshall,
81, lot 8, block As, city, River street.
Mary Ann Ash to Geo. Thwaites, $40O,
lot l, block 3, Williams addition, and lot 2,
block 10, Tuttle's addition, Ninth street.
Geo. Thwaites to Wesley Mitchell,
$40, same as next above.
County Treasurer to d. ID. Hanover
$9.SS, taxes OF 1878, Of s W Of 81,
80, 8, Alpena.
ID. ID. Hanover to JOS. Byron, $31.77,
same as next above.
Auditor General to o. L. Partridge,
$3O.27, tax Of 1890, lot Z, block 8, Pot.
ter's addition, Mlrre street.
Isaac Brebner to o. Partridge, 81 $50,
same as next above.
Geo. N. Fletcher to Ludwig Prefix, 800,
S Of Q Of 9, 20, Z, Osslneke.
Henry Beebe to Lena Potter, 800, lot
0, block 5, Beebe's addition, Albert street.
August Lau, to John BorOwski, $225,
lot s, block o, Beebe's addition, Dawson
street.
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An Easy Income Tax Lesson.

William Waldorf Astor owns a
thousand or more houses in this
city. The navy of the United
States is maintained to protect this
city and Mr. Astor's thousand
houses from bombardment. There
are at least one thousand reasons
why Mr.. Astor should contribute
more to the support of general
government than the ordinarily
prosperous man with one house.
But Mr.. Astor lives in England
and spends his three or four mil
lions a year there. He does not
even contribute to the income of
this government by staying here,
importing his coats from London
or smoking American cigars. He
contributes less to keep up the navy
that protects his thousand houses,
to uphold the laws which enable
him to own thousand houses, than
the poorest of the thousand families
that pay his rents,
Is it socialism" or justice to ask
that Mr.. Astor contribute some
thing to the support of the govern
ment of the United States?-N Y.
World.
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Spirits.

On the coming Of Anna Eva Fay to the
Opera House for single night Sunday
next, there Is more of interest and more
OF fascination than attends the ordinary
attraction OF this kind, both because Of
her recent and prodigiously successful
tour Of the old country, where she was re-
ceived with the most marked signs of ia
vor by both the Emperor of all the Rus
ians and by the servants Of England g
metropolis.
OF Miss Fays power and ability there
is no room for doubt; no opportunity for
question. Things that she does under
the full glare OF the light are but little,
II any, short Of miraculous, and the feats
that she performs calls to mind, but far
excelling those famous feats OF Daven-
port and his followers. There Is, and
perhaps always will be vast amount Of
Idle curiosity anent tho subject Of spirit
ualism, and manifestations OF the workers
in this field are always Of the deepest in
terest to those who desire their curiosity
to be aroused and who like TO be mysti-
fled. Miss Fay Is gaining fresh laurels
every day and as this will be the last time
she will ever visit Michigan those who de-
light to delve In the supernatural should
not miss this last opportunity Of seeing
one Of tho most noted women Of her time.
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The Cincinnati Times-Star { Rep

The Cincinnati Times-Star { Rep
having made the fippant remark
that Buffalo, mother Of Presidents
has much to answer for" (the ref
erence to Fillmore and Cleveland },
the Buffalo Commercial (Rep. }
says, after defending the memory
of Fillmore: Buffalo may well
feel proud of having given the ma
ton President of whom as little
evil can Justly be spoken of as Grow
yer Cleveland. They (his honest
townsmen) are too intelligent and
too honest to assert or to acquiesce
in the fool-talk that Mr.. Cleveland S
advocacy of tariff revision caused
the industrial and financial panic of
1893 That is 'hap-doodle' of the
rank and ancient partisan kind that
ought not to be INDUCED in any
longer by newspapers of the rank
of the Times-Star."
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HIGH rariff Failure, and STRIKES.

If the constant stimulation of
higher tariff rates could, as their
advocates claimed, have given bust
ness larger profits and labor larger
pay, the last twenty years must
have witnessed steady decline in
the number alike of the business
failures and labor strikes. Instead
of that, both have gone on increas-
ing together. From 1878 to 1882,
inclusive, ten years, 74,07S failures
are recorded in this country. That
was unprecedented. But in the
eight years from 1888 to 1892 the
more appalling total of $4,000 fail
ures were registered.
Their number rose to very nearly
IL 900 in 1890, the year of McKin-
ley's climax tariff. The next yeal
protection having touched the high
est mark of all our history, the list
of insolvents touched high-watei
mark, too, and 1928 failures were
the melancholy product of the last
and greatest effort to tax the coun.
try into prosperity. And this tale
of disaster was overstepped again
in 1893, after two full years of the
highest tariff ever enacted, by &
grand total Of 1880 failures, rep
resenting liabilities of 1892, 100000
Baltimore Sun.
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Twenty-Second Mich, Flags.

A Washington dispatch of the
Goth says:
Gov. Rich recently telegraphed
Senator Mcmillan authority to re-
ceive for him on behalf the state Of
Michigan the two battlehags of the
Twenty-second Michigan Infantry
recently restored to that regiment
by vote of the congress of the
United States. In response to this
order the war department to-day
delivered to Senator Mcmillan these
two relics Of glory. The flags are
two in number. One is blue silk
flag with an eagle and thirty-four
stars. 1t was originally a very beau
tiful flag, but is now only a pa
thetic one. 1t is spattered with
blood, and great hole through the
middle of it tells Of the many fields
upon which it has been carried and
the deeds Of valor performed by
those who bore it. The other is o
handsome silk United States flag,
bordered and fringed with gold, and
still in good condition, although
perforated by eight or ten bullet
holes, and two Of it's white stripes
are Redeemed with blood. These
are the flags that this famous regi-
ment carried during it's heroic ca
reer in the war. Among the fields
upon which these flags were carried
were Chickamauga and Missionary
Ridge, They were shipped direct
to Gov. Rich on the evening train.
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Clearances-

The following vessels cleared from this
port during last week, with cargoes OF
lumber and other forest products:
Barge Lathrop, $4,000 lumber and 5000 cedar
posts, Cleveland.
Schooner Egin, $4,000 lumber, Chicago.
Propeller Houghting, $50. 900 lumber, Detroit.
Barge Light Guard, 10000 lumber, Cleveland.
Propeller Garden City, 10000 lumber, 100000
shingles and 1900 cedar posts Cleveland.
Barge Russian, 500. 1000 lumber. Cleveland.
Barge Magnet, 100000 lumber. Toledo.
Schooner Hunter Savidge, 2l4,000 lumber. Huron.
scow Onward, 10000 lumber Detroit.
Propeller Sachem, $4,000 cedar posts and II 200
railway ties, Chicago.
The total amount of lumber, shingles,
lath, cedar posts, railway ties, etc.,
shipped from this port since the opening
of navigation, in 1894, by vessels that re-
ported at the Alpena custom house, Is:
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President Cleveland can be I'M
plicitly trusted to maintain the
ground he has already assumed.
He has conducted this whole affair
with exceeding good judgment thus
far, with no more malice or ill-will
to the strikers than President Lin
coin bore to the rebels. Yet he has
sworn to perform a certain duty as
president of the United States, and
nothing will swerve him from the
faithful performance of the consti.
tutional obligations resting upon
him. The dignity of the govern
ment never will be impaired while
it is in his hands.-Boston Tran.
script.