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Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-05-17
Cleveland's Income Tax Policy.

The income tax party, the Populists,
were beaten out of sight at the last cleo
tion. To establish their platform at this
day would be to apply the choke-grip in
direct defiance Of the national verdict
We have long known that in Grover
Cleveland, n platform unto himself and
a crank at that. was the seed of political
incoherency and disorder. His fate has
made him for the moment Populist. But
we deny the right of responsible Demo
cracy to turn somersaults after an eccen-
trio and irresponsible executive and to
make itself doubly anarchist by adopting
The wealth-plundering principle of an
archy without the popular sanction of a
national election. While the mugwump
has already hurt US more than he knew,
the passage of an income tax after the
country has just repudiated the Populists
and elected the Democrats instead, would
be damage beyond the power of any
American statesman to measure.
1t doesn't require a formal tearing up
of the constitution to shake our political
order and stability York Sun.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-05-17

Whether or not the charges of corruption
against certain senators in connection with
the sugar trust scandal be proven or not, sew
eral pertinent facts are admitted. The action
of the Senate has affected the price of sugar
"a points; several of the senators are spec
ulators in Wall street; the trust was a lib
eral contributor to the Democratic campaign
fund. With these facts in mind can any
rational person doubt that certain senators
have been strongly Influenced by other mo-
tives than patriotism?
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-05-17
DISTRICT
CONVENTION.

The Third District Re publican Convention viii
be held in CITY HALL, WATERF1LLE. WEI
NESDAY. June 9th, ts9'. ~ II ocl OK A. Tor
the purpose OF nominating candidate for Repre-
sentative TO the 5ftb Congre.s OF the United states
and to select a District Committee, and TO trans
act any other business that may properly come
before IL.
REPRESENTATIONS.
Zach ci y, town and plantation, will be entitled
10 one delegate and for each 70 votes cast for the
Republican Candidate for Governor in le12, an ad'
ditionsi delegate; and for frsc ion OF more than
one. half OF seyenty-fse 10 ex ess OF seventy hve
votes an additional delegate Only voters 10 Inc
County where the vac incy exists are eng pc 20
mi vacancies In the cegaiion Of any city, town or
plantation In order TO be eligi lie 70 participate
In the business of this c,nvention. dele gates must
be chosen sub, ,equent to the date OF t. Is call The
District Committee will be In session at ity Hal
at 10 clock on the morning OF the Convention for
the purpose Of receiving the credentials OF dele
gates. Wy y,,.u f,o,r
NhrHL MEADkR, Chairman.
j. W. BLACK,
A. w. CUsHMAS.
FRANK W. HovEY,
District Committee.
PittsAeld, Me May lst. 1894.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-05-17

Cod. Henry Watterson, the veteran edi-
tor of the Democratic Louisville Courier
Journal, has the follow ing just and graphic
description of the so called Wilson bill at
the present stage of its evolution:
"A mongrel piebAld of patches and pu-
$ llanimity. grotesque hodgepodge of pre-
tence and pettifoaging. a non1escript
abortion of incompetency, selishness, CO.
wardice and treachery"
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-05-17
MIR. Cleveland's Own,

The Democratic party, under the leader
ship and by the direction of that distin-
guished convert to Populism, Hon. Grover
Cleveland, seems ready to confiscate
1-50th of the income of certain corporate
investments Here once more is the list of
the corporations and companies which
the new Populist Moses is to strike for a
tax of 2 per cent:
IA tax of per cent per annum on the
net profits or income above ordinary
working or operating expenses of all
banks, banking institutions, trust com
panies, saving institutions, fire, marine,
life and other insurance companies, rail
road, canal, turnpike, navigation, slack
water, telephone. telegraph, express cleo
trio light, g. water and street railway
companies, and all other corporations,
companies or associations doing business
for profit in the United States"
In his message of last December Mr.
Cleveland declared with his usual posi-
tiveness of irrefragible supersapience that
''these new assessments are absolutely
just and easily borne" There are several
millions of people in this part of the
country who will not accept the assertion
of Mr.. Cleveland or anybody else that
these assessmen is are absolutely OF rela-
lively just. On the contrary, they regard
them as absolutely unjust and unneces-
sary OF the ease with which these taxes
will be borne, Mr. Cleveland will have
full opportunity to judge next fall, if the
Democrats in congr ess don't have an in
terval of reason and kill the income
taxes.
These absolutely just and easily borne
assessments. this special Cleveland tax,
will make Republican voters in almost
every household. This Cleveland tax
touches somebody in nearly every home
New York Sun.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-05-17
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Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-05-17

The Cleveland administration in its bur-
lesques affords rich fed for the writer's
of farces and comic operas. Cox yism is
but an Incident in the opera boufe pro-
gramme of the polite 81 clowns and acrobats
who now, unfortunately, rattle about in the
high places of the national government.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-05-17
in the arms of the senate.-fKeene Sent,-

Senator VOORHEES,. by reason Of ill
health, has been compelled to hand over
the management of the tariff bill in the
senate to ii substitute Very naturally he
selected the aged Isham G. Harris. at one
time Conf derate governor of the state OF
Tennessee. As the measure is purely one
OF the SOU hern Confederacy, old Harris
Is the mar to handle it.-[Nsw York Com
mercial Advertiser
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-05-17

The truthful remark of Hon. Thomas b..
Reed that any one of the more than 400 r. =
cent amendments to the tariff bill smacks
either of past ignorance or present barter,
10 causing considerable uneasiness in Dem
s,crafic circ1ea
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-05-17

There promises to be hot race for the
Populist nomination for the presi iency be-
tween Gener,ls Coxey, Weaver and Kel-
ley. Any one of them is crank enough to
All the bill.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-05-17
Humping Themselves in Palestine.
{ Boston Evening Transcript. J

NoostoH Evening Irauscrlpt.J
There is a regular boom on in Palestine.
Suburbs of Jerusalem are being cut up into
streets and avenues; there is talk of q line
OF towboats on the Dead Sea to bring the
products of the land of Moab directly to
the city and eave the long haul around the
shores; and csmels have to hump them
selves to compete with the Jaffa- Jerusale m
railroad.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-05-17

The spectacle Of Roswell z. Flower in-
Weighing against partisansbip is suggestive
of the Devil rebuking Sin. Any man who
wears the collar of Tammany hall is not in
position to speak upon any subjsct from a
disinterested standp ,int.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-05-17

Its little rough on the Puritan fathers
to blame them because their virtues as well
a. sins are visited on their descendants.
Yet this accusation is made by those who
wish Boston might have handicap racing as
does Brooklyn
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-05-17

No one who has followed political events
at Washington the past few months can
we'll doubt that the sugar, the whiskey and
the standard oil trusts have united their
influence to shape l.gislation.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-05-17

Congressman Breckenridge is fading It
exceedingly hard work to conviuc lis con-
stituents that he is ind .ed the reform ID and
penitent man he pretends to be. Conver-
isions like his smack Of the ol | coupl I
when the devil was sick The d~vil a ssiut would
be,
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-05-17

Attorney General Olney has demonstra-
ted his ability to make a legal technicali'y
invalidate the common sense of any law he
iaterprets
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-05-17
MAINE GOSSIP.

Bang " has forgiven its base ball nine.
This is right. The Queen city has good
team, and one that will not fail to make
ereditable showing before the close of the
season.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-05-17

1t can at least be said of Ex-Boss Croker
of Tammany hall, that he has set an exam
pie which Attorney General Olney will do
we'll to emulate.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-05-17

Senator Vest has coined Q new phrase,
"invisible logic 1t viii prove very useful
in describing the course of the Democratic
party upon the tariff question.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-05-17

The irony of the word "industrials' as
applied to the bummers tramping to Wash
ington is now generally appreciated.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-05-17

1t 10 difficult for Portugal 10 realize that
bfsxil, her child, is past the spanking age.
It must have been with mild astonishment
that abe found herself snutbed publicly by
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-05-17

A little less booze and more brains would
do much to raise the Cleveland administra-
ton in the estimation of the masses.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-05-17

Mrs. Stephen Coombs, Rockport lady
SO years of age is to be congratulated on
getting her share of the good things of this
earth. That she enjoys good health goes
without the saying and she possesses
whole some desire and capacity for work go
that last winter she was able to spin 60
ske ms of yarn and card fleece of wool.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-05-17

Columbus Buswell, the proprietor of the
Buswell House at Camden is the man who
not only made fortune for the capitalists
by inventing the spring -toothed harrow but
conferred great favor on the farmers.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-05-17

The number of Chinese in Tacoma is
two-a distinction which Tacoma alone
enjoys Of ali the cities on the Pacific
coast.
1t is stated that United States Engineer
Skunk. who Conducted the survey for the
International railway through Mexico
and South Am -rica. regards the scheme
as entirely feasible. The estimated cost
for building roadbeds and bridges Is
81, ,000, 600, ami it would require 10 years
work to complete the road.
An English religious paper recently
contained the following advertisement:
Church Preferment.-A valuable living
for sale in the suburbs of London. Sale
urgent. Prospect of early possession
Net income 800 pounds. Light work
The best society. Practically no poor
Beautiful modern church.
1t is seldom nowadays that the demand
for laborers exceeds the supply. but that
is said to be the case among the teachers
of the public schools in Providence at
present. II. S. Tarbell. superintendent Of
public schools there, in a recent address
before the young women who are soon to
be graduated from the high school, urged
his hearers TO become teachers. Every
high school graduate was wanted. he
said, and more besides; so new teachers
We're needed each year. and the school
committee. according to the present out
\ 4 E
instead of waiting for applications. The
young women who are educated in Provi
dence are given the preference. Those
from outside have to pass a special exam
nation.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-05-17
or tenements at Vinalhsven and none

or tenements at Vinalhaven and none
are to be found. This indicates pros
perity. The paving industry helps it
wonderfully, and as nothing has yet been
found to take the place of the granite
paving block, and as the best stone in the
country for that purpose is to be found
here, there is no fear of the business ever
being on the decline, but rather on the in
crease.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-05-17

The sugar trust now appears to have full
control of the so-cal.ed Wilson Tariff
bill"
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-05-17
PRESS COMMENTS.
Trying 10 Cover EN- Up.
New York World.)

Judgiog by the footprints he is making
il the tariff sands, Grover Cleveland weighs
less now than at any time within the last 10
years.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-05-17

Is this government of the trusts, for thu
trusts, and by tn, tru'ts?
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-05-17

The Bay state legislator takes no water
in his stock.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-05-17

B. zil forioterfering in behalf of Di Cana
TIE decrepit old parent las deseivedly lost
the respect of her vigorous child.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-05-17

The Hon. William L. Wilson of Wesi
Virginia has been i'll nigh unto death, bu,
his child, the notorious Wilson bill, is in
an even more dangerous condition. II
has been wounded and beaten and mauled
and MANNED and then patched up again
until the father will hardly know his OWE
offspring when be comes To gage upon i
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-05-17

In connection with the fad for vertical
handwriting the Reporter Journal says a
well known Gardiner lawyer uses that kind
and his handwriting is as plain as print-in
the dark
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-05-17
WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING.

The woman suffragists have received a
setback that may serve rs drop curtain
against all future hope. Ward McAllister
has spoken.-l Cleveland Plaindealer.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-05-17

Senator Hoars epigrammatic speech on
the tariff is receiving great commenda-
tion. IL was as keen MS a razor No won
der it gave the Democrats "spasm.
lowell Courier.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-05-17

About so familie, are looking for houses
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-05-17

Populist senators and governors are nt
longer playing to the gods of the galleries
but to the knights of the road. to train
marauders engaged in civil war, and &c
pestilence breeders in tramp camps in
Washington.-[New York Tribune.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-05-17

They've got mad man in Brewer and
his neighbors sympathize with him to the
point Of Citing indignant. Someone
poured pail of hot water on his valuable
setter pup badly scslding him. If that
"purp" is liceneed we hope the owner will
get satisfactiorof the miscreant who scalded
his dog
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-05-17
ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING.

The number Of Chinese in Tacoma is
two-a distinction which Tacoma alone
enjoys of ali the cities on the Paciii,
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-05-17

Taxes that might have been collected but
are now practically uncollectable, are q
legacy which the Portland city government
gets from its predecessor, to say nothing OF
ATTACHMENTS that at least are debatable.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-05-17

A North Cutler lady has flock of wild
hens. They refuse corn and domestic It'd
bits but regularly every morning 90 to the
shore for sea fleas and gravel stones and
each lays an egg daily. If this report be
true the owner will find her breed famous
and in great demand
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-05-17

When botanizing, don't pull the flower
up by the roots, for that is the reason as
cribed by some for the disappearance o
varieties in some localities.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-05-17

The Maine fishermen report the mackerel
very shy and altogether sup to snuff" They
say the mackerel will dive under the seines
which have depth of l25 feet and make
their escape with bewildering suddenness
Mackerel have been in the Legislature so
long they are onto the tricks evidently.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-05-17

Rain for the thirsty earth, rain for the
forest fires, rain for the log drives, rain is
in demand.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-05-17

The Rockland High School should have
among its text books copy of Milton 8
Areopagtica, lecture on charity and a
recipe for bumtiousness. A school boy put
something in the school paper which offend
ed the principal. The offender was ex.
PEELED, the graduating class sided with the
boy. the school committee with the teacher
and the parents with the students. The
public in preston j. that all are in the
wrong and that as a result there will be no
graduating exercises
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-05-10
THAT ROYAL ROMANCE.

The Ear ON Rescued the Princess From HeI
Prison, and Now They Are Wed.
The love story of the Princess Eliza
beth of Bavaria turns out to be even
more romantic, according to its latest
version, than at first reported. The first
account declared that the princess, hav-
ing known Baron o Seifried for many
years, married him with the reluctantly
granted consent of her parents and of her
uncle, Emperor Francis Joseph of Aus
tria. The ceremony was said to have
taken place at Genoa.
1t now appears that the royal parents
of the princess opposed with right royal
sternness the miscarriage OF their
daughter. She was borne away, like
some lovelorn damsel of old, TO q Sc
questered castle in the Tyrol. Here she
was left to repent and reflect upon the
folly OF misplaced affection. Baron Won
Seifried was meanwhile ~garTisoned al
Metz, in Lorraine.
But the fair prisoner found means e
inform her trusty knight and trne Of
her whereabouts, and he FASTENED to hel
relief by the first railway train. TheJ
met at Bautzen, where all trace 0f them
was lost. But President Won CRAFTSMEN
OF the Bavarian ministerial council ha'
Just received word that the couple wer'
married In d little parish chuch neal
Geneva, In Switzerland.-New Yori
Mail and Express.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-05-10
TURN IN THE TIDE.
Representative AcGann Says Immi-
grafton to the United States
Will Soon Stop,
And When 1t Does the Labor Ques-
tiOn in This Country Will Be
Practically Solved.
Inducements Being Offered by Europe
to Keep Labor at Home MIST
Have an Effect.

WASHINGTON, May 10. -Representa-
tive McGann, chairman OF the labor
committee, predicts that . turn In the
tide of immigration is not far or, and
that when IL comes it will offer the So
luton to the depressed condition of
American labor now existing. H.
''The tide of immigration has been
steadily toward the United States for
years." said Mr.. McGann. until the
labor market of Europe is being so
drained that the commercial classes are
awake to the necessity of
Keeping Their Labor at Home.
Furthermore, the leading men Of
Germany. France and Great Britain
place the labor question foremost among
the great national questions, while
in this country, the public
man who seeks II advance the
cause of labor is set down as O dema-
gogue. Bismarck and King William
are urging reforms to ameliorate the
condition of labor. In France labor is
recognized by the government TO the
extent of establishing public bureaus Of
labor, similar to our intelligence Offices,
where employers can secure men, and
men can cur work.
Says England Ii Ahead or III.
In England they are 20 years ahead of
MS in lending government assistance to
labor. There are two half holidays each
week, Wednesday and Saturday after
moons, during which it ia illegal to keep
men at work. Public halls are pro-
vided for the meetings Of workingmen.
Public parks are designated where they
may spend their half holidays. Premier
Roseberry is following Gladstone in
aiding toward the better condition of
labor. And while European countries
are thus bending every energy toward
helping labor, the United States is
standing still. We are already far be-
nind our foreign neighbors and they are
going ahead, we are going backward.
This cannot but be recognized by labor
before long, and it will surely result in
turning the tide of immigration away
from the United States"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-05-10

Entering d Chinese lottery den, one
sees on the walls a large representation
of a lottery ticket beautifully e~ngrossed,
and also large slips of paper, each slip
containing one of the so lottery charac-
tiers. When the drawing is to take
place, these slips are taken down, rolled
into pellets SO as to conceal the writing
and then thrown into a pan. They are
there we'll mixed up and again taken
out and placed in four wooden bowls
marked /, 2, 5, 4, 90 of these charac-
tiers being distributed equally among
the four bowls.
One of these four bowls contains the
winning characters OF the drawing.
Which is it to be? Again four pieces
of paper, each printed with a number,
/, 2, 3 or 4, corresponding with the
numbers marked on the bowl, are rolled
mp, thrown into a box and shaken. A
disinterested person, sometimes a little
child, is called in to draw out n of
these numbers. For this service he re-
ceives 8 cents for good luck. The paper
bearing the given number is straight
ened out, the number read and the
bowl selected which corresponds with
the number. This, of course, contains
the winning 90 characters, and all the
other so characters in the three other
bowls are destroyed. The bowl chosen
is taken up, and n by one the charac-
tiers are unfolded. An assistant is sta
toned near the large lottery ticket hang
ing up, and as each character in the
bowl is read off the corresponding char
acter on the wall is marked. As soon
as the 90 lucky characters are called
out they are pasted on a piece of paper
and hung up where every one can SEE
the drawing for that day.-San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-05-10
Earope's SUFFERING Poor.

The suffering among the London poor
this winter is not so great as was ex-
pected, says a correspondent. 1t has
been about an average winter for the
unemployed. There has been only about
d week of severe weather, which fact
has greatly mitigated suffering. London
10 now rejoicing in pleasant skies and
spEinglike air, influences under which
the grass has been always green, and
shrubs are now putting ont their leaves.
apd tlees are beginning to bad.
A very different story comes from
eastern Europe. In districts in Russia
the winter ID SO severe that wolves ere
unusually fierce. The other day ii
Saratoff d peasant woman walking neaG
the village was surrounded and de
svoured by d pack of nine wolves. An.
other peasant going to market was SCI
upon by d pack of wolves and torn t
shreds. Nothing was left Of man ant
horse bnf d few bones and tufts of hair
$500 Zk
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-05-10
BesERvEp VICTORIA Cross.
A Brave Aat witch Contains . Lesson For
Those who Hare Go Fighs.

A Brave Act which ContaIns . xess0n For
Those Who Hare 60 Figh<.
The Gazette announces that the queen
has conferred the Victoria cross upon
Surgeon Major Lloyd of the army med
ical staff for bis g~allantry during the
operations against the Kachins last year.
During the attack on the Sima tort
by the Kachins on Jan. 8, 1898, the
commanding officer, Captain Morton.
while visiting a picket about so yards
distant, was wounded. Surgeon Major
Lloyd, accompanied by q native officer,
at once ran out to help him, under q
heavy fire. When. however, the wound
ed man was reached, 1t was found nee
essary to send back for more help, and
Surgeon Major Lloyd had thus to re-
main with Captain Morton for some
minutes. The enemy, who were within
10 or 15 PAGES, were all the time keep
ing up a heavy FIRE and killed four men,
one OF them being a bugler who, was
helping to carry Captain Morton. The
Victoria cross was probably never
earned more calamity.
0u1S0on MAUI A1Oyu WUuA0 h1sONC
lighted Frederick the Great - n OF
the men who show no violent wish to
Live forever" His example Is also use
full to the soldier in showing that there
are practically no war risks through
whichit is impossible to come ont with
safety. This is o very important lesson
for those who have to fight. Soldiers
will run almost any amount of risk, but
the certainty of death IL apt to appall.
It lie sad to record that the man to save
whom Surgeon Major Lloyd risked his
life SO bravely died almost directly he
was taken into the ort.-London Spec
tator.