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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-10-04

the left side; also the bridegroom. In
addition. he has a white linen cap,
somewhat on the style of that worn by
the busting girl in a clearinghouse.
Previous 70 the ceremonial there is n
representation of the scene of the fail
of innocence in the garden of Paradise.
One of the twelve apostles, 1t Is stated.
enacts the role of Satan, and takes an
apple from the tree with which he
tempts Eve (Or the bride. a. she walks
into the garden. She then hands the
apple to Adam (the brideTrooUcN. and
then Satan laughs at the fall Of man
kind, and disappears through Il side
door, supposedly 10 his dominions.
II is easy to understand what lasting
effect this strange ceremonial has upon
the untutOred and superstitiOus mind.
The priesthood teach that as our first
parents We're married in this manner,
it is the only binding ceremonial: that
they. only, are empowered to perform
marriages. and that only those who
are married in the faith can he saved
in the life everlasting. This is WHY
women sink their jealousy and woman
hood and become slaves in body and in
mind And this sacrilegiOus doctrine
is preached at every conference
J NJ SCANTAED
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-10-04
POOR NoRMON FAMILY.

/ diligence. There is no limit to the
number of wives man may have. He
regulates that by the uses he can put
| them to; but, in order to get a new
! wife. the president of the church must
! first have vision" commanding him
| to do so, and these visions are reru-
] lated by the mans usefulness to the
church, or direct contribution-just as
] political forms are granted. When 4
Mormon IN the rural districts brings
home a new wife he adds room to his
log house and the house. five or six
rooms long, tells the story.
But that is not legal evidence, and
/ the reason that the anti-polyCamy aw
has not, and cannot, suppress polygamy
/ is that the marriages are performed in
/ secret, and that both the men and the
women, living in polygamy, will swear
| that they are not so living. They
/ know that they are safe from pros
! ecution, because no record of the mar
riage exists, and they ease their con-
| sciences with the belief that n Gentle
court has no authority to administer
an oath to a Latter Lay Saint, on the
same principle that a Chinese does not
consider an oath as binding unIess ac-
companied by the ceremonial of cut
ting off a ROSTERS head and then dip
| ping his hands in the blood.
When prosecutions first began under
the anti-polygamy law of 1sS2. the OFF,
/ GERS searched in vain for the records of
the marriages of those known TO be liv-
ing in polygamy. 1 am told By apostate
| Mormons that the reason was that in
marrying each person was given Bib
hcaI name, such as Jonah and Rebecca,
for instance, and that these only were
written in the church book.
So. if the book were produced in
court it would not prove that John
Smith was Jonah, or that SALLY Jones
was Rebecca, or tnat she was the
seventh wife of Jonah, which she in
reality was John Smith may be liv-
ing in a seven-compartment house,
but it is difficult, almost impos-
sible, 20 get evidence that he IS living
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-10-04
OUR WOOL PRODUCT.
An Important Industry Crippled by the
Democratic Tariff.

An Important Industry Crippled by the
Democratic Tariff.
When the Wilson tariff bill was
adopted, and wool was put on the free
list, it was claimed by the free trade
advocates of that measure that what
the people of the United States might
lose directly they would gain indirect
II: that is, that free wool would make
wooden fabrics of all kinds so much
cheaper that the people of the United
States, as a whole, would be the
gamer by the change.
Has this result followed the Wilson
tariff bill? The best authorities put
the American wool product for 1898.
washed and unwashed, at 294, 2O6, 80
pounds, as against 81, ,21C,7 pounds in
1894, with an average weight of fleece
put at 6.47 pounds, as against 6.39
pounds for last year. showing that the
rich mans sheep, the fine quality of
wool-producer, can survive, while the
poor mans sheep is driven out OF ex-
istence by Australian and South Ameri-
can wool.
No one will undertake TO assert that
the falling off in the product of domes-
tic wool, which, reduced to terms of
secured wool, was nearly 1000. 900
pounds between 1898 and 1894, the fig
ures being 3O3, l53, 900 pounds in the
fiscal year 1898 as against 2OS, 600, 900
pounds in 1894, has been compensated
for by reduction in the price of such
wooden goods as the farmer and his
family require. The western farmer
who could formerly afford to raise and
clip a few sheep, the rancher who
could devote large tracts TO sheep
raising, and the sheep-Owner, pure and
simple, whose sheep ranged over the
unoccupied lands of the United States
and of the several states, have found
themselves confronted with cheap for
eign wool, and in return have received
what? Literally nothing. Clothing is
not cheaper to-day than it was when
there was an import duty on wool, and
the people of the United States have
thrown away the substance to run
after the shadow. The gentleman
farmer can raise sheep, just as he can
raise fine horses and cattle and hogs,
but the man of limited means, to
whom band of sheep was formerly a
source of income, has been driven out
of the business, and gets nothing in
return for his sacrifee.-Iowa State
Register.
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POINTS AND OPINIONS.

- President Cleveland's admins
tration evidently is running the coun-
try on the theory that whatever mis-
takes it makes will be rectifed by the
succeeding republican administration.
N. y. Press.
- Times and conditions change. II
repu bhcans had been in power the Nc
| Kinley law would have been amended.
But the great principles of protection
would have remained intact and there
would have been no deficit and no sale
to English gold bugs.-Chicago Inter
| Ocean.
Is Five years ago democrats said
America could not manufacture tin
plate. But the Mckinley law demon
I strated tnat America can make her
own tin, So complete was the demon
stration that not even the German
| Wilson bill dared to make the duty ON
| tin unprotective. Iowa State Register.
IS Speaking of the deple ton of the
gold reserve, IL is well to bear the fact
in mind that the increased purchases
of American merchandise in Europe
call for large shipments of gold to paw
for the goods thus coming here under
the present tariff law TO displace the
products of American labor.-St- Louis
Globe-Democrat.
The Ohio Wool Growers assOcia.
tion has recently adopted resolution
to the effect that free wool is causing
heavy loss to the farmers, and urg-
ing all wool growers, farmers and
! others interested in wool production to
petition the next congress to adopt
legislation favorable TO such interests
This is not partisan matter 1t is
cry for help from great American
industry which feels that it has been
treated unjustly and sees ruin and ex-
tiuction staring it in the face.-San
Francisco Chronicle
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IN polygamous state, yet 1t Is known
to be the case as well as common re-
port and circumstantial evidence can
prove anything.
Put these women on the witness
stand, and each of them will swear,
with her hand upon the Bible, that
she is not married to the accused, John
Smith. | have heard such testimony in
court, and, in one instance, when a
pOlygamous wife was asked who was
the father Of the baby she then held in
her lap, she unblushingly replied: ~
don't know
There have been very few convic-
ticns for polygamy under the Ed
munds act of 1882, and comparatively
few have been disfranchised. They
still hold the balance of political
power.
Mormon apostates are authority for
the statement that marriages. are cele-
brated in a room in the temple, dark
ened and made to appear as the garden
of Eden is represented. The elders,
scribes and apostles are seated around
the altar, at which the groom and bride
and his first wife llneel. The first wife
always gives away the bride, which she
does by hneeling at her side and placing
her right hand in that of her own hus-
band, saying: SISTER -, give thee
to my husband to be his wife. in this
life and in the life to come-" She re-
peats a similar formula TO her hus-
band. The bridal couple wear an EN-
dowment suit" made into a continuous
garment, like a small boys pantaloons.
Over this is temple robe" a long
flowing garment, usually of white
linen. Symbolic figures are worked in
red over the breast, upon which each
places the right hand swearing loyalty
to the hierarchy, eternal enmity to the
murderers of the Prophet Joseph Smith
and the Gentle world. and fOrfcitinE
their lives if they reveal what there
takes place. Thus it may be under
stood why convicting evidence is SO
difficult to get.
The bride wears white linen band,
extending from the right shoulder TO
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-10-04
yery Had for Democrats.

The administration is greatly wor-
ried over the gold Withdrawals, not
only because of the treasury's condi-
tion, but because it is hurting their
stock argument-that prosperity and
confidence are being restored on ac-
count of the settlement of the tariff
question by the passage of the sugar
trust bill. Orders were issued soma
time ago to cuckoo" papers to claim
that return of prosperity was due To
the democratic tariff, but the falling
of the gold reserve below the hun.
dred million mark demonstrates only
too forcibly the lack of confidence that
still exists all over the country, espe-
cially in business circles, as to the
ability of the new tariff to supply sut1
fcient revenue 20 run the government
Peoria Transcript
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ing .heir cooking by the wayside. About
a week before the conference meets the
roads are crowded with wagons loaded
wiki women and children. and camp,
ing equipage, with long lines of men
and boys following IL the rear, like
pioneers emigrating from civilization
into the wilderness. These lines are
picturesque in their primitiveness, not
so much now as in the early days be-
fore the trauscontinental road let civ
ilizatioR in- but they present a re-
marka bic picture of the early Mormon,
whose ignorance and fanaticism have
not been removed by surrounding civ
iization.
Railroads extend through some por-
tons of Utah, but there are some por-
tons where civilization mas not pene-
tTated-the baclSwoods districts as in
some of the states-and where igno-
rance and superstition are as rank,
and hatred TO the Gentle world is as
bitter as when they were driven from
Nauvoo, Ill, more than half century
ago.
This type of M0rmons. and their de-
scendants, prefer the primitive style Of
life. and visit the conferences in the
primitive manner; while others on rail-
road lines will not go by rail because
they are Gentle institutions"
On arriving. they camp in the su-
burbs until the conference is over.
usually n week. At the conference the
marriages that have been Matching for
the past six months arc celebrated in
the temple. There are as many mar
riagcs now as before the anti-polygamy
law WAS passed; in fact, more. because
their numbers are increasing. mainly
from converts from the most benighted
districts of Europe. These people ever
remain aliens, few of them learning
our language. They regard the Nor
mon hierarchy as the only government
they owe allegiance to.
Marriages, to be binding in the next
world as well as in this. must be cele-
brated in the temple. Hence the rush
to the semi-annual conferences. A
jealous Mormon usually brings in three
or four brides, and in order to save
time he is married to all of them at
once. He may not bring in any more
at the next conference unless he has
found that some of his wives possess
the evil spirit of disobedience," in
which case he gets permission from the
president of the church to put her
aside"-by the payment of fee. regu-
lated by his ability to purchase the in
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MORMON CONFERENCE.
Held Twice a Year in Salt Lake
City, Utah.
Among the Ignorant Followers of the
Polygamous Church the Gentiles Are
Hated Much Eyer-ED-
dowment House Scenes.
Special Salt Lake CITY Utah, Letter

The great Mormon conference meets
In semi-annual session on October 8, at
Salt Lake City-the modern Zion, where
the Millennium will begin, according to
the teachings of the Latter Day Saint
Formerly the conference met only an
nually, on April 8, that being the ami
versary OF the founding of the church
by Joseph Smith, the so-called prophet.
At each conference the faithful come
TO Zion from the remotest quarters of
the territory, on horseback, by buggies,
wagons, carts, Old-fashioned and inn
provised vehicles, camping out, and do
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-10-04
Harh tn XIII.

The following story of n scorpion
getting into boot is told at the ex-
pense of an officer Who was stationed
with his regiment at AIlahabad. He
was putting on his boots one morning
and was just about to stamp the heel
down when he felt 4 sharp prick. Sew
eral scorpions had been seen about the
barracks for the past few weeks, so
that he naturally concluded that it vas
one of these pests that had stung him.
We'll, the harms done now" he NUT
tered. with mental benediction upon
the head % his servant for being SO
careless. but, anyhow, may as well
kill the brute. It'll get away if l take
the boot of" Accordingly, he began
stamping violently on the floor, with
view to crushing the life out of the
scorpion Every time he stamped il
gave him the greatest agony, but he
stuck bravely to it until at last he
thought that the Objectionable tenant
must be dead. When he took off his
boot, however, he felt both relieved
and veXed but was glad that he had
not summoned assistance. 1t was
years before he could tell the real story
OF his scorpion, for during half an hour
he had been stamping upon and trying
to kin n backing brush which his serv-
ant had accidentally left in the bottom
of his boOt.-Pe3rSon Weekly.
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This showing is unanswerabIe. In
1892 and 1898 imports reached high
water mark undea the Mckinley tariff.
If sugar can be deducted, the imports
of the dutiable manufactures were in
the aggregate larger in these two
/ fiscal years than ever before in our his
tory. The total imports of dutiable
articles were greater IN the fiscal years
of 1890 and lsg2; but sugar paid duty
in those years and was free under the
Mckinley tariff. The mere aggregate
of dutiable imports in the first six
month of lS92 was S2O3, ,OOO.O 1928,
S211 200. 900; and in 1885. deducting
sugar. SI6O. 900. 900. The total of duti-
able manufactured articles coming in
was therefore about three-quarters of
what it was in 1892 and 1898, when
prices were higher, demand greater,
and the tariff was nowhere cut SO as
to flood any one manufacture. If, how
ever, wool and other articles which
were free in the last six months, and
which were dutiable under the Nc
kinley tariff has been about the same
in value within 10 per cent. as this ag-
gregate was in the first half of 1892
and 1898. Prices were, it must be re-
membered, higher then. however; SO
that the volume or quantity of goods is
larger, although the value is about the
same.
But how was it with the wooden
manufactures? Look at the compari-
son above. In quantity, the past six
l.. ha1 .
as much wooden and vorsted cloths
imported as in the first half of 1892 and
1898, and in value twice as much. The
value per pound was 50 "a cents in 1892
and SLIGO cents in 1895, against 6J.62
in 1S95-a significant proof that cheaper
goods are being imported now. In
dress goods the Importation for the six
months have been 80 per cent. larger
than in 1898, % per cent. larger than
in 1892 and 81 per cent. larger than in
1891.
In this period, also, American manu-
facturers have imported 100, 62S, PSF
pounds of foreign wool, against A., 49,
46l pounds in 1898, ~, O62, ,21l pounds i'll
1892 and 80, 494, ,59l pounds in 1891.
Taking the computation of domestic
wool and the weekly sales of wool and
the American manufacturers have
made a larger output of goods in the
past six months than III 1892 and 1898,
but they have made it under a stronger
than that of any other
Cotton goods are we'll
protected, although imports have been
Iron and steel mdnufac-
lures. outside of tin plate, have scarce
ly felt foreign competition. Owing to
low prices in other manufac-
lures, the effect of low duties has not
yet been felt in imports But on wool
has fallen with crushing
severity. Competitive imports in the
most important lines of woClen goods
have been increased two and one-haf
fold. Prices have been cut. Wages
have not advanced as in other manu-
iactures. August, also, has seen a
sudden sharp falling off in the demand
for WOODEN goods. Unless there is a
revival in the market for wUolens in
the fall the consequences of this com
petition will be most serious--Phila-
lelphia Press
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-10-04

Mrs. Upsoa Downes-I should like to
discharge the servant girl, but l cam
not pay her her wages and don't think
] ever can.
Mr.. Upson Downes - That's easily
managed, then. Tell her so.-Bay City
Chat
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-10-04
THE eoRmAN-wILsoN TARIFF.
A Showing which Is Very DiscreditaDis
To the Democrats.

.
to the Democrats.
The Textile Manufacturers Journal
has done useful service by collating
the imports of wooden and worsted
cloth during the first six months of
each year for five years past Earlier
in the present year. when comparl-
son had been made between imports
now and in 1894, the New York Times
and other defenders of the Wilson tar
if had retorted that the only fair COM
parison was with 1892. The Journal
makes the comparison with 1892, and
neither the Times nor any other free
trade advocate is likely to take up the
issue.
For woolens the Wilson tariff came
into force January l, 1s95. In the first
six months of this year, as compared
with like months of the previous four
years, the imports of woOlens and
worsted cloths have been rs follows:
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-10-04
No Pcssibie Danger of 1t.

Straggles-Missus, won't ger give a
starvin' man ten cents?
Kind Lady-And you won't take this
ten cents and get drunk on it if l give
it 20 you?
Straggles-Lord bless you, mum, 1
couldn't git drunk on less'n a dollar'n
alt,-ChicarO Record.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-10-04
An r1cited Conversa,ion.

First Bys.ander - Horrors. Those
two are trying TO scratch each others
eyes ont.
Second Bystander-No, they are not.
It's a deaf and dumb man and his wife,
quarrelinC.-N. L. Weekly.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-10-04
Good Place for Pie.

Mother-Didn't tell you to put the
mince pie away this morning?
Jack-Ges. mamma. You did; bu
you didn't say where to put it, so
stored it away in my stomach.-Har
pers Round Table.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-10-04
Very Ininua.

Lady Novelist-Id like to have my
heroine edosomething absolutely unique.
Friend-Yes? Why don't you make
her faint when there is no one looking1
ILLUSTRATED Bits.
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Women, said he. oracularly, to her.
ARE rarely good listeners.
And the prospective mother-in-lav
in the hallway only applied her ear {
little closer to the keyhole and smiled
grimlv.- v.-Indianapolis Journal.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-10-04

Mr.. Sauers Cangrily)-Why don't you
be like that woman? Just look how
bright and happy she is.
Mrs. Sauers l~:theringlyl-Yes; that
is Mrs. Golightly-a '0id0lci Puck.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-10-04
A Bad Investment.

Il have loved and lost"
Did you get back your engagement
ring?"
No: that's what troubles me-
Truth.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-10-04

Edward, the Saxon king of En-.
gland. was designated the Confessor
on account of his personal piety. At
ter his death he was canonized and his
shrine in Westminster Abbey is still an
object of reverence. Once a year, on
the feast day of this saint. the cardinal
and Roman Catholic prelates and
clergy of England are permitted to
enter Westminster Abbey in process
sion, and before the shrine of st. Ed
ward to hold a service of silent prayer.
When a man is shot through the
brain the proper treatment, according
to Mr.. Victor Horsley, is artificial res
piration. as in cases of drowning.
Death is not due to failure of the
hearts action, but to want of breath
occasioned by the explosive effect of the
bullet passing through the wet brain
substance, and consequent injury to
the base of the brain. The heart con-
tinues beating and is even stimulated,
but respiration stops.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-04
MARIE WAS A BAD GIRL.
In Father FIaherty,s Favor
at Today,s Hearing.

GENESEO, N. Y, Oct. 4. 1ss5.-The
first witness called in the Flafherty trial
this morning was Mrs. Ellen Donovan.
mother of the priest. She gave testi-
mony as to her attendance at the Ryan
wake. Mrs. Donovan said she was
about to start for the wake when She
met Mrs. Noonan on the street and
asked her to accompany her, which she
did, and as there was not room for
Flaherty to ride he said he would walk.
They remained at the wake half an
hour, and on their way back nent Flah-
erty on his way to the wake. She said
it was seven o'clock when she started.
This is similar to the statement made
by Marie. Mrs. Donovan said that Mrs.
Noonan had told her that Marie was d
bad girl. and that she caught her acting
in an fmmodest manner with the boys.
She said Mrs. Noonan often whipped
Marie. She had heard Marie ask Tom"
Mccormick to come to her house. She
related a time when she saw Durkin,
Meyer and Sawyer tumbling over the
fence between the Noonan and Flaherty
premises. At that time she thought
they were playing chi spy" but thought
different now.
Mrs. Noonan said she never believed
that Marie gave birth to a child, and
that she believed there was a conspir-
acy against her son.
Patrick Durkin, saloonkeeper, of Mt.
Morris, and father of Alvin Durkin, was
called. He told of some triing matters
which had occurred between his son and
Marie, and related conversations he had
heard between them IN June, 1892.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-04
BEAUTIFUL MANA TO LEAVE US.

70 ri 2 12 Oils ~ III - EF-NE
The last opportunities to view that grand
masterpiece, Mama will be afforded the
people of Jersey City today and tomorrow.
On Monday the beautiful painting will be
taken to- Boston to be studied by the culture
of the great bean-eating centre. Few pict-
ures possess the power of this masterpiece of
the great Russian painter. The more you
gaze upon it the more you become fascinated
with its wonderful realism. You almost ex-
pect to see the smiling lips move -and hear
the music which can only come from such
divine lips. MANA is certainly a wonder
fully realistic picture. Anything more life
like in a painting would be impossible to
conceive. 1t is therefore little wonder that
so many have visited it during the past
weeks it has been on exhibition at No. 70
Montgomery street, the average attendance
being close upon 700 daily, ladies forming
the greater portion of the visitors. Every
one should avail themselves of these last op
portunities of seeing the marvellous picture
before it departs.