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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28
The .rarin and shoddy.

Says the Inter-Ocean: ''Under opera
ton Of the Wilson-Gorman tariff the
imports of shoddy have increased 147
fold. This means that there are lat
times more shoddy clothing worn in the
United States than when the Mckinley
law levied a duty of 80 cents per POUND
on the vile stuff
Breathes there a Republican with
head so thick as to take that in? If it
were true that the imports of shoddy
had increased as stated under the law
it would not follow by any means that
our people were wearing LAT times more
shoddy clothing than they were before.
We have plenty of shoddy mills of our
own and their number and output have
increased enormously under Repub-
lican protection of the noble shoddy in
dustry.
We are importing about eight times
as much clothing wool as we imported
under the Mckinley law. Reasoning
Inter-Ocean fashion, our people are
wearing eight times as much all-wool
clothing as they wore when the McKin-
ley law was in force. They are wearing
a good deal more, but not quite eight
times as much. Nor are they wearing
I4( LILIES DIS uuuCn SuOuUy OF Twice DIS
much. OF wooden rags and all kinds of
waste" including shoddy. we are i'm
porting about eighteen times as much
as we did under the old law, but it does
not follow that single pound more is
put into the clothing of the people The
total import of shoddy and all wastes
and rags is comparatively small. It is
only one pound to more than twenty
three pounds Of wool imported.
Shoddy has it's legitimate uses, as in
making felts, and for such uses the i'm
ports no doubt have increased. The
great increase in the importation of
clothing wool tells the story as to the
clothing of the people. If the Repub-
licans do not believe it, if they think
the people are longing for the restora-
ton of Mckinley duties and prices for
wooden goods, let them pass the Nc
Kinley wool schedule during the COM
ing session of congress and see where
they will land year from now.-Chi-
cago Chronicle.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28
The Negro. North and South.

Washington Post: What does the
north do for the negro that the south
does not? Occasionally some law, like
that idiotic statute enacted by the New
York legislature at its last session,
makes a false pretense of wholesale
recognition; but where in any northern
community does the individual negro
lind that personal sympathy and kind
ness which is his without the asking
everywhere beyond the Potomac? We
have known of instances where a New
Jersey seashore hotel was depopulated
in single day at the very height of
the season, because the negro servants
dared, during the interval of rest, to
promenade on the same sands and
plank walks and breathe the same air
as the white guests
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

Major Quinn, United States engineer
in charge of the lighthouses in the New
Orleans district, says that the lower del
ia and the sea marshes along the Gulf
of Mexico are slowly sinking. For
more than year experiments with the
gauges have been in progress at the
mouth Of the Mississippi river, and, as
a result, Major Quinn has reached the
conclusion that the level of the gulf
has been raised one foot since 1877.
This the major attributed to a gradual
though irregular subsistence of the land
along the coast, and, he believes,
throughout the Mississippi delta and
the southern portion of Louisiana.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28
Only One side to the Bargain.

New York World: However much ii
is to be condemned by everyone who
believes in fair trade. the action OF
the leather trust is logical. In shutting
down hundred tanneries and locking
out $4,000 men for a month it seeks to
SO restrain trade as to force up prices
This is the ultimate object of all mo-
nopoIy combinations. Their talk of
combination as ''a means of cheapening
the cost of product" is specious hum
bug. When they combine it is in the
nope OF coercing the public and sus-
pending the first law of fair trade-the
law that it takes two to make a bar
gain. Every trust intends that there
shall be only one side to a bargain
the trust side
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

The tenth anniversary OF the intro
duction of the modern bicycle was cele-
brated in London last week, when J.
X. Starley entertained a number of per-
sons prominent in the cycling world. In
1885 the Rover safety was introduced
by Messrs. Starley and Sutton, and in
that year S. Colder created worlds
record by riding fifty miles on the road
in hours 5 minutes and As seconds.
Ten years later-last SEPTEMBER.
Plat Belts rode fifty miles on the path
on a Rover in hour 48 minutes and
80 2-5 seconds. e. r. Shipton Incl
dentally stated that the first bicycle
was invented by Scot in 1916, and Mr..
Starley said the cycling trade was now
ten times larger than in 1885.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28
Too Much Even for ..Ineo Editors.

100 Much Even for lingo Editors.
In their frantic efforts to assail the
foreign policy of President Cleveland,
which has adhered with firmness and
dignity at all points to the old Ameri-
can lines laid down by Washington and
JEFFERSON, the ultra-jingo statesmen
are oVerreaching themselves. The re-
cent hysterical manifestoes of Chandler
and Lodge have had but few indorsing
echoes even in the lingo press. Even
the average lingo editor has enough ap-
probation of the common sense Of the
average American citizen to refrain
from approving the mad and immoral
proposal to provoke a great war with
the one foreign nation with which, if
Tor no other than commercial reasons,
1t is desirable that we should maintain
an honorable peace
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

In a report to the Department of
State Consul Meeker Of Bradford says
that the United States consular serv-
ice is at present being held up to public
view in England as model after which
the English government should copy.
This compliment comes not from mere
tyros or theorists but is bestowed by
a very eminent authority in the United
Kingdom-the executive Council of the
Association c9 Chambers of Commerce.
The attention of the executive council
was called to the action of the govern
ment of the United States in supplying
its traders and business men with in
formation up to date, by means of con-
sular reports, with regard to openings
for business in foreign countries, and
that body has requested the govern
ment to provide for consular reports
such as are made by the consular serv-
ice of the United States. Mr.. Meeker
says it may be of interest to the public
to know that the work of our consular
officers is, as a general rule, very high
ly spoken of by British merchants and
tourists. Our coRsuls are given credit
for zeal, intelligence and great activity,
and their willingness to oblige traders
and travellers with useful information
is often referred to. The English news
papers constantly publish extracts from
consular reports issued by the Depart
ment OF State and the information Civ
en- is not infrequently made use of by
the exporters. investors and engineers
OF the United Kingdom.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

AS the result of fever Richard
Mansfield has forgotten the lines Of all
his plays. In Mr.. Mansfield's case this
is a misfortune, but we could mention
some cases in which it would be a god
send to the public.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28
The New Tarin indicated.

Springfield Register: The increase
in the amount of exports under the
democratic tariff is becoming one OF the
most prominent factors in the business
situation. An increase of exports is
always regarded as healthy business
sign, and the gain already shown under
the new democratic tariff furnishes
another vindication OF its wisdom.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28
Growth of the Pension List.

New York World: The past fiscal
year is. marked by one of the most in
teresting events in the history of the
country. The pension roll passed the
million mark. The country has now
the distinction of providing for a larger
number of military. pensioners than
were ever carried on the rolls of any
government.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

That earthquake shock is now be-
lieved to have been nothing more seri-
GUS than an ultimatum on it's way from
England to some South American re-
public on the Pacific coast
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

From the number OF long dispatches
that the United States and Great Brit
ain are sending each other, it would
seem that they had adopted the prize
ring method of fighting.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

A Cincinnati policeman has been
fined 800 for kissing woman while
on duty. For self-protection our own
pretty boys in blue should adopt muz-
Zles without a moments delay.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

A woman accidentally dropped into
her husbands Office yesterday and dis
covered him using one Of her biscuits az
a paper weight. The neighbors say the
suspense is dreadful.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28
Not as BAD . wreck.

Lawrence Gazette: Mckinley was in
a railroad accident recently, but it was
no such wreck as he and his fellow
brigands caused in order that they
might plumber the people.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

The Indiana Suspender Company has
assigned. There is nothing very re-
markable in that: it was it's regular
business to suspend. But it should
brace up now
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

in Massachusetts, but they don't count
politically.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

Turkey has had change Of cabinet,
but its real need is a change of popula-
ton.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

The icemen have already begun to
talk about poor crop of ice. They
should not be so easily discouraged.
There may be several chilly days yet
before spring opens.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

With good flour 1925 per barrel, ap-
pies 81 per barrel and potatoes 20 cents
a bushel nobody ought to go hungry
this winter.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28
WEIGH BROS.

Men with one idea are often worse
Than those with none.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

Queen Victoria's silverware at Wind
sor castle is valued at So, 500, 900.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-01-30
The Nebraska Sufferers.

By request of ''The Young Mems
Business League" of Charleston,
we give space to the fol owing and
earnestly commend the matter to
the attention and prompt action of
the benevolent of the county:
"Fellow citizens of South Caro-
lima:
in consequence of the complete
failure of the provision crops of
Nebraska hundreds of families are
suffering the pangs of starvation.
Additional horror is given to their
forlorn and unfortunate condition
by the fact that the unfortunates
are exposed to the seventies of a
winter unusually arduous even for
that section.
"These destitute farmers have
appealed to their fellow citizens of
the Southern States for aid. Neigh
boring States have heard their cry
of distress and their citizens are
opening their hearts to them III
this their hour of terrible need.
"The Young Mems Business
League of Charleston has under
taken to collect and forward any
supplies that the charitable people
of South Carolina can spare for
this deserving purpose. The con-
tributions which are asked are
corn, meal, meat, clothing and
money. The farmers of this State
have been especially blessed by
Providence with asuperabupdarce
of corn, and it is believed that
they will be glad of an opportuni-
ty to contribute to the relief OF
their fellow farmers Of Nebraska
The railroads have generously con-
sented to forward any supplies for
this purpose to the headquar ers
of the League in this city, from
which point they will be forwarded
in bulk TO their final destination,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-01-30
Big Prizes for Big Pigs.

The News and Courier will pay
500 in gold to the two farmers OF
other persons who shall raise the
two heaviest hogs in South Caro-
lima during the year 1895. This
amount will be divided into two
prizes. The prize for the biggest
hog will be eighty dollars in gold
and for the second biggest hog
twenty dollars in gold. A third
prize for the hog showing the larg.
est gain at the lowest cost, will be
a complete set of the Americandiz,
ed Cyclopedia Britannica, bound
in morocco and consisting of ten
volumes.
The only condition of the con,
test is that every contestant must
be a yearly subscriber to The
Weekly News and Courier. The
contest will close on December %
1895, and the prizes will be award.
ed as soon thereafter as it is posi-
BILE to compare the returns and as,
certain who have raised the wiz.
ming hogs. Contestants will be
required to send to The News and
Courier not later than January !
1896, certificate signed by three
witnesses, and sworn to before the
nearest Trial Justice, giving the
age, gross weight and net weight
of their hogs, and stating as near
ly as possible the methods employ
ed in raising and fattening the
hogs, the cost of raising them and
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-01-30
What Cotton Factories Will Do.

The concurrent judgment of
prominent business men in the
Southern towns which have cotton
mills is that they are not only di-
rec; y and largely profitable to
their owners but that they fortlfy
in many ways the communities in
which they located. They bring
increased population, and hence
increased trade; they stimulate
building; they enhance the value
of all property; they inspire their
towns with new enterprise and
make them richer; they enlarge
the market for country produce
and raise. the price of cotton thus
beneftting both the planter and
his town hacker. If we'll planned
and managed they rarely fail to
pay handsome dividends. All this
should soak into the minds of our
people. And they should assimi-
late besides the fact that most of
th2 capital which built the mills in
these towns was home capital. The
profits were not drained away to
the North-they remained to in
crease the wealth of home people.
State.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-01-30
mittee.
The long parliamentary struggle

The long parliamentary struggle
over the Nicaraguan canal bill
came to a close on last Friday, so
far as the United States Senate is
concerned, but it has yet to run
the gauntlet of the House on the
Presidential scrutiny.
The bill passed provides that
the capital stock of the Maritime
Canal Company Of Nicaragua
shall consist of a million shares of
500 each. It authorizes the COM
pany to issue three per cent. bonds
to the amount of $70,000,00O, which
shall be endorsed and guaranteed
by the Treasury of the United
States and shall be secured by a
FIRST mortgage on all the property
of the company.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-01-30
III fact I have not heard of a man
ln this section who will us. the

i'll fact I have not heard of man
in this section who will usH the
despicable stuff.
All the Cufes have changed their
residences-a regular swap all
round. Many of the white citi-
zens have. also, sought better
homes.
regret to state that Mr.. J. L.
Wilson and wife together with his
Incompatible sister and mother
have left us aud taken up their
abode.i Sumnerville Ga. With
many more such losses 'Choty will
not he worth her room on terra
frma.
The Konstytusional Konvension
is discussed very meagrely amongst
us inasmuch as we don't know the
meaning of the two big words. All
we ask for is that J. VIM. Thur
mund, "Semphronicus" and afew
more such level heads, frame US a
white mans reformed democratic
constitution-one that will put
cotton up and
Meat in the smoke house
Butter on the board
Dollars in the big bag
And nickles in the gourd.
RIP V. WINKLE, Esq.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-01-30
A Letter From Falfa.

Despite iron clad case hardened
adamantine adversely, Choty's yeo,
many are not afflicted with hy-
pochondia. "Step high, fast and
often, over all difficulties and ca,
lamitics, pay as we 60 or don't CO.
is their motto. They are renowned
for their non-aridity, hence their
affiliations for independ e n e
"crap" or no crap" 4 cents cot
ton or 10 cents cotton. The wood.
mans axe is heard on every hand
and foot, indicative of new grounds
corn, peas, and bushes. Our small
grain twineth no more and unless
we SOW again we shall reap not.
Mr.. J. N. Grif1is is the heaviest
loser as he has sown oats from
Maine to Mexico in addition to the
five farms he runs "in the land
where the gloriied ever shall
roam" Mr.. Griffis has hitherto
been a liberal user OF guano but
will not use pound this season,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-01-30
Senator Butler has laid be.

Senator Butler has laid before
The United States Senate the peti-
ton of DR.. Sampson Pope, late
candidate for Governor of South
Carolina, asking for the appoint
ment of committee to examine
into the numerous frauds perpe-
trated in the late election in this
State, charging that the frauds
were committed under the direc-
tions of B. R. Tillman, then Gov
ernor, and J. L. NJ. Irby, Chair
man of the State executive COM
mittee.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-01-30
the hraad of each

the breed of each.
The contest will he open to eve
W man, woman and child in the
State who is a yearly subscriber to
The Weekly News and Courier,
and who can own and cultivate a
pig. The purpose of the News and
Courier in offering the prizes is to
encourage the people of the State
to raise their own meat and to
show that South Carolina leads in
the production of hog and hominy,
as it leads in the manufacture of
cotton goods.
The News and Courier will pay
one hundred dollars in gold to the
two men, women or children who
shall. grow the two biggest hogs
this year. Every farmer IN the
State should enter for the contest !;
every town in the State should try
conclusions with its country neigh
bors.-News and Courier, Jan. "a
1895.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-01-30
APPEAL TO WHITE MEN.
Lay Aside Prejudice and Look to
Your Race.
To the Democracy of South Carroll

To The Democracy of South Carroll
ma:
AS an Executive Committee, au-
thorized by those who put forth
the recent address, in which they
urged upon you to consider the
question of securing non-parti-
san constitutional convention, we
again call your attention to that
subject. and summon you to action.
Dissensions in your ranks threat
en- disaster. The purity of gov
ernment, the very safety of the
State, depend upon white unity.
To preserve these warrants your
utmost endeavor and the burial of
prejudice. Those in both factions
who would avert the catastrophe
Of an appeal to the negro for con-
troll of the convention, must come
shoulder to shoulder at once. Let
white men, from the mountains to
the sea, combine to make our con-
yention and new Constitution a
bond and seal of reunion between
the white men of South Carolina.
This may be done by having the
convention represent truly all ele-
ments of our Democracy, nota fac
tion merely. 1t will be supreme
body. limited by it's own Will only
and the Federal C Constitution. Its
composition will be O. the highest
Importance to the welfare of the
State.
Therefore, in behalf of the ear
nest men who have already spo-
ken, we call upon any and all
white Democrats in accord with
these views, to meet at their sever
al county seats on Saturday, the
2d day OF March, next, to select
three representative men from each
county, who will attend general
conference which will assemble in
Columbia at 5 p. M, Of the follow
ing Wednesday, March 6, 1895, to
consult how best to effectuate the
purposes herein expressed, subject
to the regular Democratic organi-
zation.
In order that full notice may be
given we also request citizens in
each county, who agree with US, to
repeat the call for their respective
county meetings to be held Oh the
I'd of March.
". II. ZIMMERMAN,
D. K. NORRIS,
J. TONNES ROBERTSON,
JOHN r. HARRISON,
J. Z. PETIGREw,
D. E. FINLEY,
JOHN w. LYLEs,
THOMAS J. KIRKLAND,
GODFREY B. FOWLER,
Z. J. E. ELLERBE,
w. HENRY THOMAS,
D. MACL. THERRELL,
JOSHUA w. ASHLEY.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-01-30

The Fdgefeld ADVERTISER says
there is a general desire.amorg the
Edgefeld Reformers to send ex-
Governor Sheppard to the consti-
tutional convention. Such a de-
sire is very creditable to the Re.
formers, and no man in Edgefield
County will honor the selection
more highly than Governor Shep-
pard, who is as finely equipped fo1
good work in the convention as any
man in the State--Greenville
Mountainer.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-01-30
filled out. /
2r5 FiI1 ont vo1,r ,,u

filled out. ,
3rd, Fill. out your pa, ants
properly, giving the ,endmbpr Of
your School District =or Township
4th, Keep correct record of the
scholars so that you will have nc
trouble in making a correct report
of thu pHmber of scholars at the
end of the school term.
All scholars from 6 to 81 are en-
titled 10 the public fund. Trans
fer scholars must be paid for by
the School District or Township
from which they 60, unless said
District has rated a special tax, in
such cases the Board of Trustees
can use their discretion in the
matter.
The Post Office of the chairman
of each board is respectfully So
licited. I will be at my office
each first Monday and second Sat.
urday. Address me at Johnston,
S. C.
IN. LOTT,
School Commissioner E. G.
Jan. 26, '95.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-01-30

The News and Courier prints a
story to the effect that the Sea-
board Air line will buy the P. r.
& W. R. r. and remove its shops
from AbbeYille to Greenwood,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-01-30

President Faure of France is a
Protestant, the first Protestant to
rule over that country since Hen
ry of Navarro, who was really a
Protestant although norminally ..
Catholic.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-01-30

: Congressman w. J. Talbert
seems to have ratified the radicals
and the "skinners" considerably
in his great speech delivered in
the House of Representatives on
Friday January 4th, Of which
much favorable mention has been
made.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-01-30
The South Carolina

The South Carolina railroad
commission has issued a circular
establishing joint freight rates
over all the roads in the State of
20 per cent less than the sum OF
the local rates. This is the first
time this State has ever had a
Joint rate.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-01-30

Rev. G. G. Brown, of Sumter, has
prepared a Baptist map of this
State, and it is now in the hands
of the printers. Some valuable
information is given also. There
are $50 churches and about ST.
ST members and only Al parson-
ages.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-01-30

Mexico and Guatemala are about
to get into a war. Mexico has s.
600 men on the frontier ready for
invasion.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-01-30

He who gives quickly gives well.
The need Of the sufferers. is ur-
gent"
All donations should be marked
"Y. NJ. B. League, Charleston. S.
C. For Nebraska Sufferers. Rail
roads will transport free of charge.