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WILSON IN LONDON.
Gov. McKinley's Obser vations on the
American Senator's Tariff Views.


The speech of Congressman Wilson
1t the banquet given in his honor by
The London chamber of commerce and
his introduction by Sir Albert Kaye
Rollitt, who presided az that banquet.
are the frankest expressions that have
been given to the public in defense of
the new tariff law. Mr.. Wilson is the
leader of the democratic majority in
The house of Representatives of the
United States and he is well qualified
70 speak for the democratic party re-
yarding it's tariff legislation. Sir AL
tred X. Rollitt was put forward to
speak for the English manufacturers
and traders. Mr.. Wilson spoke for
The intent of the law and Mr.. Rollitt
testified to its benefits. Mr.. Wilson
declared that THE tariff reformers are
breaking down these defeuses" that
Kept England from competing with us
In our home market. Mr.. Rollitt tes-
titled to the impetus the law had
already given to English manufac-
lures
Gov. Mckinley, in his speech at Gal
iipolis a few VS. ago made most APP
when he inquired what industries had
been benefited and slim ulated by the
tariff act of 1894. and said:
Il End answer TO ms question in the news
paper dispatches OF to-day from London. fur
aishing particulars Of a banquet given by the
.haml er OF commerce of London TO Mr.. Will
son. member of congress from the state OF
West Virginia, whose rugged hillsides l see
Just over the river. Sir Albert Kaye Rollitt.
who presided at the banquet said that Mr.
Wilson'S name should become hOnored and ia
niliar in England. and that London in honor
ng him honored itself; that the new tariff law.
while IL might not have realized the aspira-
lions OF its promoters had already benefited
Eng and. Furnaces have been reopened In
Wall, and Yorkshire. and an impetus has been
given TO the textile industries.
This will be cheering news TO the people Of
she 1 nited States and win bring comfort to
she idle men who. for more than a year. have
been waiting for the Anne rican mills TO reopen
You have not heard OF OAy commercial body In
Ihe United states, through its spokesman. de-
starring that any industries in America have
been stimulated by this Jaw, whatever benefits
have gone TO other countries. While the ban
luet at London was proceeding the board OF
:rade OF Edinburgh sent its congrat Ilations
There was a singular absence of any American
dispatches.
Here is a word of encouragement which Mr..
Wilson himself gave to the gentlemen of Lon
Son. Ee said: our protectiOnists have been
building defenses TO keep you and other ma
lions from compet ting with us in our home mar
TETS. . ne tariff reformers are breaking down
these defenses'
THAT is what we object to II we do not de.
fend our home markets against the products
OF the cheaper labor of other nations, who
will? Is Il any wonder that the gentlemen Of
the chamber OF commerce of London applauded
Mr. wilson when he uttered such a senti-
nent?'
Gov. Mckinley, Congressman Wilson
; d Sir Alfred Kaye Rollitt all agree
on one point, that the protectionists of
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THE RAslp FREE TRADERS.
they VIII Push ON Their Work Of De-
struction "a soon as Congress Meets.

they VIII Push ON Their Work of De-
struction "a soon as Congress Meets.
1t must not be supposed, because il
took the democratic administration
eighteen months to perfect and pass
the German tariff bill, that it will take
as long to pass another and more radi-
cal measure. The leaders of the demo-
cratic party have announced repeatedly
that the German bill was but the first
step in the onward march to tariff re-
form, and, what it involves, the glori-
ication of trusts.
As soon as congress meets again in
December other tariff bills viii be in
Produced tending to the enactment of a
more rabid system of free trade. And
SO the war viii be waged continuously
TIL we have that perfect system OF
tariff reform" and glorifieation for
trusts upon which the democratic
theorists are mentally united. We dare
not predict whether any such perfec-
ton of legislation may be accomplished
during the present or during the next
century, but now that the active aid
of trusts and corporations has been
brought to the support of the demo-
cratic party we fear that their COM
bined arrogance and wealth may cause
a speedier contamination of demo-
cratic harmony than would otherwise
eventuate.
When the American national motto
is changed from I'm God We Trust" to
'Jn Sugar We Trust" and we know
that ''E Pluribus Unum" means tho
concentration of democrats and trusts,
one of those greedy, selfish and arro-
CANT nonopolies that we used to read
about, a very Communism of pelf," in
fact, we must, under such circum-
stances, be compelled to admit that
ambition is the minds immodesty,"
though we cannot danish the canlxer
of ambitious thoughts" that ingulfs
democracy and whose evil face is con-
tinuously leering at the people.
We must face this evil one and stand
prepared to root it out, hip and thigh.
Its periodical broil endangers the pub
lie peace and prosperity. 1t makes a
Donnybroolx fair of congress. Now
that it is openly allied with the power
and wealth of monopoly, it becomes
more bold and defiant, threatening the
homes of the people with more distress
in December. How long it would take,
whether this or the next century, for
the unhappy and undisturbed consum-
nation of the democraticmono polistic
plans we cannot predict. But it can
be checked during the present year OF
the present century by roofing out
every vestige of a democratic free
trader from the next congress. This
must be done on November next
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In SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES,
January IS, 1867
WHEREAS, The traffic in laborers transported
from China and other eastern countries known
as the coolie trade, is odious to the people OF
the United States as inhuman and immOral ans
WHEREAS It is abhorrent TO the spirit OF
modern international law and policy. which
have substantially extirpated the African slave
trade to permit the establishment in its place
former in little else than the employment Of
fraud instead OF force to make its victims cap
tive; therefore,
Be IL ResotCod. That it is the duty of this
government to give effect TO the moral senti-
ment of the nation through al its agencies for
the purpose Of preventing the further intro
duction OF coolies into this hemisphere or the
adjacent islands.
Ordered, That the secretary lay the foregoing
resolution before the president Of the United
States.
Attest: J. w. FORNEY, Secretary.
1t is equally 'the moral sentiment Of
the nation to-day" that the work done
by cheap labor is ''as inhuman and inn
moral" as cheap labor itself Those
members of congress who vote to re-
duce our existing protective tariff, and
thereby permit the importation of for
eign goods made by coolie and other
cheap labor to compete with goods made
by American labor-all members of
congress voting for such traffic" will
be "odious to the people OF the United
States" and will be "inhuman and inn
moral" according to a resolution passed
by the United States senate on January
10 1867
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Applyine Ashes to the Soil.

The quantity of ashes that should
be applied to the acre must depend on
the soil and crops cultivated. Potatoes,
turnips and all roots-cIover, lucern,
peas, beans and the grasses are great
exhausters of the salts. and they are
consequently much benefited b. ashes.
They are used with decided advantage
for the above crops in connection with
bone dust; and for clover peas aud
roots, their effects are much enhanced
when mixed with gypsum. Light soils
should have "a smaller, and rich lands
or clays a heavier, dressing. From Il
to IS bushels per acre for the former
and 80 for the latter is not too much;
or, if they are leached, the quantity
may be increased one-half, as they act
with less energy.
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some of the large lateral ribs. They
are also slightly hairy. The stem is
beset with numerous stout prickles.
Many of the related plants of this
genus are ANIMALS, but horse nettle is
a deep-rooted perennial, its roots often
extending three feet or more into the
soil. This fact makes it very tena-
cions weed, very difficult to exter-
inmate. For this reason the weed
grows in dense patches, which are
carefully avoided by stock in pastures.
i would advise blowing the land at
this time, allowing none OF the leaves
to appear. The plants should be kept
down the succeeding year. Plow the
ground again next summer. Sow
thickly with rye and keep watch of
the nettle, allowing none to grow.
Careful work for two seasons should
remove it.-Prof. l.. Ii. Pammel, Agri-
cultural College, Iowa.
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PEGGY.

BRIGHT as the sun among the trees.
Gliding the household with her smile
She's th0ughtlesss But remember, please,
shes only lived a little while
No power can tempt her words astray.
Stroug 10 the fearlesSness % youth
She says Just what she wants u say,
And his no motive but the truth
In bed last NIGHT when. as she dream mel.
She elaspe,i her dolly close and SMILED.
II e tears stood In my eyes she secmed
More like Al angel than child
She screams ~ time for grief or glce,
More loudly th1n most angels do;
And. wheu 81 9 chooses she cau be
A naughty little angel. too
Her fits o. rage. reproved in vain
Seem desperate till the Transports past.
Like the aid southern hurricane
They're short. hut dreadful while they last
And yet he truth anc love are such.
Her heart 50 large though she's 50 small,
I doubt II shes very much
Below real ANGELS. after all
Thank God N ugh re may have our all
OF grief or poverty or pain
We have the cLilIrea with Us stl
To make this old Orid young again
To make the winds Of Heaven more free.
The flowers more bright the sky more hue
Al Peggy. Pe.F-,y. may I be
A better man because Of you.
-Rotert 3 Hale. in y. Y Independent
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FOR EARLY FALL DECORATION.
Hints Concerning the Tasteful Arrange
ment of seasonable Trophies.

Hints Concerning the Tasteful Arrange
ment of seasonable Trophies.
In woodland hooks one can find ferns
that grow waist-high, whose green has
given place TO palest yellow. These
are very useful if not allowed TO re-
main in a warm or dry place after
gathering. Such an atmosphere soon
causes the fronds to curl. Ii you are
not ready for them when they are
brought in, store them in the cellar
till you want TO use them. The once
popular cat-tail will be found very use
full for the decoration of corners. But
do not make the mistake of using it in
combination with flowers. 1t harmon
ICES very well with branches of the
alder or seed-spilSes of the sumach.
IL is, however, most effective when
used with pampas grass. For early
fall decoration nothing is prettier
or more in harmony with the
season than goldenrod and aster.
These two flowers are sturdy old COM
-ades that do not like to be separted,
and to those OF us who have seen them
growing together in fence-corner and
pasture-land, year after year, happy
under all conditions, it seems an I'M
kind thing to use one without the 9TH
er. Those who have seen them grow
ing side by side know that the golden
rods beauty is never so fully appreci-
ated when seen alone. The pale laven-
ders ard purple blues of the aster are
just what is needed to bring ont the
glowing yellows of the coldenrod most
effectively. A large vase filed with
these flowers is a most pleasing orna-
ment for the corner of a room.
They should be cut with long
stalks and not enough of them should
be used to crowd Individuality out of
sight. The amateur decorator gener-
ally uses twice as much material as is
necessary. IN this way half his
material is not only wasted, but it
spoils the effect of the other half, or
rather the effect which might have
been produced with the other half had
it been used alone. II is not the guam
tity used so much as the way in which
il is used, that tells. The woman of
perfect taste uses limited amount of
material in such a manner that she
seems extremely well dressed, while
the woman whose taste is defective,
depends on an excessive use of orna-
ment to produce the effect she aims at,
and she always fails in her attempt.
1t is the same in the use of flowers, or
that witch takes the place of flowers in
schemes of decoration. Do not depend
on quantity, but rather on tasteful ar
rangement and harmonious combina-
tions.-Ladies' Home Journal
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America tried to keep the home mar
ket for Americans, that the tariff re-
formers are breaking down these de-
fenses and that Europe is the country
to profit by the change of policy in
America. Gov. Mckinley has for years
claimed that this would be the result
of free trade, and when the Mckinley
law was enacted he was the one Amer
lean most hated in England. because
ii made more difficult the efforts of
English manufacturers to secure the
American market for their goods. Mr..
Wilson now agrees with Gov. McKin-
ley, and admits that the tariff reform
ers intend to break down all the pro-
tective defenses around the American
market, confession which demo-
Gratis have not been willing to make at
home. Sir Alfred Kaye Rollitt also
testifies to the truth of Mckinley's
prophecies by admitting that the new
tariff law. while it might not have re-
allied the aspirations of its promoters,
has already benefited England"
Why should democrats at home
longer deny that their party is in IA
vor of free trade when their tariff
leader boasts of this to Englishmen,
and Englishmen testify to benefits
they have received from the demo
cratic legislation? As Gov. Mckinley
said at Findlay, the new tariff law is
not the end. it is only the beginning
of the democratic warfare on Amer
lean industries. The leaders of that
party intend to carry on the war un-
til all the defenses have disappeared
and American manufacturers and
American workmen stand on the same
footing with English manufacturers
and English workmen. England is
pleased, as she has ever been pleased
when Americans or any other people
submitted gracefully to English dicta-
tion. But how about Americans? Where
are the American factories and Amer
lean workmen who can boast with
these Englishmen that they have been
benefited and stimulated by the new
1.,..O naaan
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without any serious delay or contro-
versy, and tariff agitation will be
stopped for years to come. To some
this may seem improbable because the
president may resist. and perhaps the
senate also But the power of an edict
Of the people has not often been re-
sisted with success. The present SEN
ate en- braces a majority of members
who would have defeated the taS-
iff exactly as it stands if they
could have found a chance. The
changes to be made in March will
probably increase the number of it's
opponents in that body. If the people
take good care of the house, and of the
legislatures which have senators to
elect, the president will be confronted
very early with a measure repeating
the offensive act of "perfdy and dis
honor" which he refused to sign, and
il is not to be assumed that he would
in such a case defy the declared wishes
of the people.
That is the only way conceivable to
end tariff agitation for years to come
Business men who are childishly pratt
thing about suspending controversy
until the present law has been tried
are shutting their eyes to the fact that
all the republicans and nearly all the
democrats want some change without
delay and will make desperate effort
for 1t as soon as congress meets again.
They can no more avoid this than they
can prevent the rising of the sun to-
morrow. Absolutely the only thing
they can do is to decide whether they
will have the tariff of 1890 restored or
such a tariff as the democratic party,
strengthened by successful appeals to
the people, may see fit to enact as "a
further step in the progress toward
free trade. They can choose when they
vote, but they are unspeakably foolish
If they imagine that democratic vote
viii mean anything except further
progress toward free trade and trusts,
servitude To foreigners and servitude
to monopolies-N.Y Y. Tribune.
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Kneu Him Nv III. Liar.

A Philadelphiau who had travelled
extensively in Burmah was telling an
English girl, on a recent voyage across
the Atlantic. some of the remarkable
work which elephants are taught TO
10 in that country, and in order 70
create a good impression he drew
slightly on his imagination. lie told
ne truth as TO how the elephants toll
all day, piling mp teakwoOd at the
saw-mills. and even lay the logs on
the plane, and" he continued, there
was one old elephant. much wiser
than the others. who. after ne had
himself laid down the log. got down on
his knee and squinted TO see II it was
on straight" The girl smiled in a
bored sort of way. and said: Now l
am sure ron are an American
adelphia Record
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AGITATION THAT COSTS.
The Democratic Method OF Regulating
the Tariff

Probably every man in the United
States, whether he has business sense
or not. has been impressed with the
fact 50 strongly stated by President
Cleveland and Chairman Wilson. that
tariff agitation has only begun If the
democratic party has its way. There
is just one thing that can stop 1.-THE
complete and overwhelming defeat of
that party. These predictions of it's
future course were not reckless or
thoughtless, for they occurred in pub
lie statements of the grayest impor-
tance, nor were they in the least un-
natural. The whole world knows that
the democratic party solemnly pledged
itself in its national platform TO frame
and pass -ery different tariff from
that y Itch was enacted. Further,
everybody knows that the democratic
representatives with scarcely a dis
senting voice were earnestly in favor
of a radically different tariff, even
down TO the day when they accepted
the senate bill on the ground that no
other could possibly be passed. Even
then, as the public record proves, the
democratic representatives assented
10 the senate bill only on the definite
pledge, which was afterward found to
be fine article of piecrust, that the
supplemental or popgun bills, putting
iron and coal and sugar on the free
list, would also be passed in the senate.
This was the last and utmost that
the house was willing to do, and it was
tricked into the passage of the bill as
it stands without free trade amend
ments. But even with those amend
ments the bill fell far short of the de-
clared conviction and purpose of the
democrats in the house, and of the great
ma jority of democrats in the senate,
and in both houses it was publicly de-
clared that the fight would be opened
again at the next session, to obtain
further reductions or removals of duty.
1t is equally well known that demo-
Gratis throughout the country, in ire
sistible majority, have insisted upon
renewing the fight and pushing for
ward toward free trade. This is the
real issue which the elections this year
must meet The existing law, bad
and offensive as it is, will give way to
some other more destructive If the
democratic party gets enough popular
support
The fact is well known that a large
minority of democrats, in Maine fully
forty per cent, are opposed t. the ex-
listing tariff and to any further steps
in that direction, and prefer the act of
1890, whether improved or not. If these
democrats, OF only moderate proper
ton of them, agree with the repub-
licans in the election this fall, the act
of 1890 will be substantially restored
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Protection the Proper Policy.

Laboring men should unite in the use
Of the ballot to preserve the manufac-
turing establishments and other Amer
lean industries which give them en-
ployment. To this end the policy of
protection to home industries should
have the support of every labor organ
ization of whatever name in America.
For how is there to be any labor or any
reward for labor in this country if we
send abroad for the things we wear
and use?-Daily State Journal, Parkers-
h,,rcr w Va
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OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

SThe democratic party is now be
ing judged by its performance, not by
its promises.-Toledo Blade.
sB~Congressman Wilson should not
have been allowed to go to England
without a managing editor.-Chicagc
Tribune.
sy~The treasury gold fund is grow
ing in proportion to the increasing
assurances of republican success in the
fall elections-St. Louis Globe-D Demo.
crat
Is Mr.. Cleveland says he is out on
politics now. He seems to be right
the fall elections occur.-Indianapolis
Journal.
sE-Eight hundred sugar planters
and others, dissatisfied with the tariff
policy of the democratic party, met at
New Orleans and allied themselves
with the republicans.-Western Rural.
eE-An English statistician has ar
rived at.the conclusion our new tariff
will benefit the English trade seven
and three-quarter per cent. These
figures are entirely too modest.-Phil
adelphia Press.
sE-It takes longer T or a working.
man to earn a weeks supply OF sugar
than ii did under the Mckinley law
and many of them have less wages
than they then did. And that is another
reason the democratic party viii be
buried out of sight in November
ledo Blade.
- The issue is before every voter.
The German tariff is everywhere ad
mitted by democrats TO be a make
shift aud compromise, which is to be
set aside if the party be allowed to re-
main in power. Only a general mp
rising of American voters in defense
of their industries and their interests
can avert the reopening of the tariff
campaign o. more radical lines and
with more destructive effects. This Is
the challeege which must be met in
November by every American who has
capital invested in home industries
and by every breadwinner whose future
earnings are imperiled--N. Y. Trib-
une.
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FARM AND GARDEN.
The HORSE NETTlE.
A Troublesome Weed and Directions fer
Ertarnafuatfnp

A Troublesome Weed and Directions fer
DISCRIMINATING 1t.
The well-known horse nettle (Solan-
um Carolinensel is apparently spread
ing in the northern states, though not
as fast as some of the annual ones.
Horse nettle is a native, from Con-
neeticut south to Florida and west to
Texas. / have seen it very abundant
in central Illinois and in southern and
central Missouri, occurring not only
along roadsides, but in the streets of
cities. on vacant lots and too often in
cultivated fields, where it does great
injury to crops.
Its common name does not indicate
that this weed is closely related to the
cultivated potato, but the botanical
name of the genus shows close rela-
tionship An examination of its flowers
will show that they much resem BILE
those of the potato, being BLUSH or
whitish in color. The berry, common
ly called the 'seed," also resembles
that formed on the potato. The leaves
have large prickles on the midrib and
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I'd Mrs. Hen are the people to do the
work properly. We illustrate the
way this thing is done in England. A
little henhouse on wheels, large
enough for twenty-five hens, is hauled
about from one part of the field to an
other. Wherever it stops, the hens
clean up all the scattered wheat for
many rods in every direction. They
come back to the house to sleep and
lay. All the farmer has to do is TO
move the house and gather the eggs
the hens do the rest. There is prog
ress for you-a step in advance of
''hens by the acre" On many an
American wheat farm the hens could
make the waste wheat worth good
deal of money.-Rural New Yorker.