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Organized Rosus Masonic Lodges.

NEW YORK, Jan. 6.-The district at
torney's office sent II dispatch to
Chicago to-day asking for the arrest
there of jacques Ochs, who is wanted
here for swindling. Ochs' plan was to
organize bogus Masonic lodges. The
proceeds of his operations, it is said,
will reach probably $50, 900. He has
organized lodges in nearly all the
lnrpcr cities.
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-01-10
A shoe Company QUITS tn, rcnitcn,iary

~JErrrRsoN CRY, Mo-, Jan. :. The
jefferson shoe company, which has
been doing business in the ~pcni,ent,ary
owned by C.. NJ. Henderson OF Chicago,
will move ali its machinery and plant
this week to Dixon, III, whe:c other
shoe factories owned bv Mr.. iIender.
son are located. The factory has cn-
ployed .l0 prisoners for which the
State has received ifty cents u day
each.
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Times Too Hard for a Grnna Jury.

ABILENE, Kan, Jan, G,-Judge
James Humphrey has issued an order
that no grand jury should he drawn
FOR this county for the coming term o.
court. owing TO the hard times-
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Five Killed In "a Wreck.

CHHIIcoTHE, Ohio, Jan, AT II
o'clock last night the east bound 'N'
press ran into an open switch ~
Schooley station and collided with !
freight on u side track. Both trai''
were badly wrecked and five Of t"'
TWO crews killed. Conductor OF tN'
freight vas responsible.
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nm aud whitney Out Of II.

P~oUGnHEEr>IE, n. ", Jan, 6.-Chair.
mar j. W. llinckley of the State Dem.
ocratic committee states that senator
Hill has not thought of permitting his
name To be used as n presidential can.
didate and that Mr.. Whitney will soon
e~ffectually remove himself from cou-
sideration as o candidate.
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Tennessce pelcgates for Reed.

WASHINGTON, Jan. Hon A. N'
Hughes returned from his hone J."
tennessee yesterday. He th,p"'
Speaker Reed will have u large follow
ing in the Republican delegation iron'
tennessee to the st. Louis cOpyentl's.
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Heading EnItOrN I,nrncI [.

PopLAE BLvFF,.Mo, Jan, 1.-The H..
Alfrey * Son heading factory. to-
gcthcr with machinery ana stock.
burned this morning ut II o'clock.
Loss, ei0. 00O: insurance q 5000.
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-Four Men Instantly Killed.

SHAMoKiN, Pa, Jan. 7.-Foar men.
were instantly killed this morning by
In accident in the Luke Fidlcr mine.
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Children Crcm,t.,,

DALLAS, Texas, Jan. ;-Tyo oh,,
uren OF Aoram Leonard were burned
10 death six miles south Of Dallas las,
night, Mr. ard iirs, Leonard were
at ehnrch n mile from their house
wn,e,' caught fire FROM some unbnown
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ArCn'soS, Kan, Jan. 3,-Tbo v At
I, A. Don here elored to-day, OWN,
to debts to the extent of $1,000 wb;cS
the associoiion las found Impossible
To pay An attempt will be inndo ~
ra'Se enough money by subscrintion
TO put the association on it's foo, '''n
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-10-21
Chapter on Money-Makin@

If a man takes a piece of steel worth
ID cents and makes Of it watch-springs
worth 500, that is skill.
If he takes piece of paper worth 2
cents and writes on it q poem that sells
for $50, that is genius.
If he takes a farm worth So an acre
and by his labor and knowledge puts it
in heart again and makes it worth $50
an acre, that is work.
If man takes a hammer worth go
cents and in a days use of it earns 81 .35.
that's hard work
If a man buys a yearling at a trotting
sale for $15. that in it's 3-year-old form
develops ability to make a mile at a
2:O614 gait, that is Judgment
If a man buys silver mine he has
never seen and it makes him a million
aire that's luck.
If man buys an article today for
S1.5O and sells it tomorrow for $3.50.
that's business.
But when a government takes So cents
worth of silver and coins it into a cart
wheel, and says legisiatively that it is
100 cents, or dollar, and pays it out
as such to its creditors that is not
finance, but highway robbery-From the
New York Sun.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-10-21
ENGLAND'S PROPOSALS.
Official Statement Concerning the
Message the British Minister
Brings.

London, Oct 19.-The following Off
cial statement regarding Venezuela was
issued this evening:
''There is, happily, a better feeling
manifested on both sides of the water
between the respective peoples and it
frequently happens that manifestations
of this kind help governments to an
amicable conclusion which would other
wise be impracticable
Regarding the allegation that Sir
Julian Pauncefote has returned to Ameri-
ca charged with Il mission having for its
object the settlement of the dispute, the
patent fact is that he all along has had
such mission. he has returned to Wash
ngton with certain instructions and ne
gotiations will be reopened Immediately
on his arrival. But it is too early 20 say
whether or not the proposals of the
British government are likely to be ac-
cd
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-10-21
Behold the Man.

In one of his harangues last Saturday
the Boy Orator was asked to say some
thing about the tariff and replied: Our
opponents tell US that the tariff is the
great issue. Until they put prohibitory
tariff on foreign financial policies they
cannot talk tariff to me- And yet only
four years ago the tariff was the only
thing that Bryan did talk about He
was sweeping in his statements He said
that a tariff of 10 per cent. was just as
indefensible as a tariff of 100 per cent
He did not then attribute low prices to
the "crime of 1873" He said: ''You
must attribute it to the inventive genius
that has multiplied a thousand times,
in many instances the strength of a
SINCE arm, and enables us to do today
with one man what fifty men could not
do fifty years ago. That is what has
brought down prices in this country and
everywhere" These words of Mr.. Bry-
an were right then and they are right
now. But he hasn't the honesty to re-
peat them now. Rather than admit that
the medicine he induced the country to
take then was drastic in it's effect he
hobs up serenely with another nostrum
far wrose than the other He is a politi-
cal quack of the worst kind.-Cedar Rap
ids (Ia) Republican
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-10-21
KNOCK AT OUR DOORS.
Nearly 200 People Detained at
Ellis Island by immigration
Officers,

New York, Oct 19-One hunder(l
and SiXty-Seyen ArmemanS, VINO EN-
parked at Bologne, arrived on the steam
or OLDHAM today and were ut once trans
ferred to Ellis island, where they were
examined by the health authorities and
inspector of immigration. There was
one family of sixteen, including hus-
band, wife, children, uncle, aunt and
cousin
The Armenians, as a rule, were well
dressed, intelligent looking, and did not
appear to have suffered any privations.
The refugees were met at Ellis island
by representatives of the Salvation army
and ladies from the WOmen's Christian
Temperance union, a representative of
the Red Cross society and several char
itably disposed persons. Upon their ar
rival at Ellis island they were grouped
and photographed and interviewed by
representatives of the Christian Herald.
A protest from the residents and tax
payers Of Hohollus county, n. j., was
presented to DIR. Senner. commissioner
of immigration at Ellis island, signed by
committee consisting of Saul Il: Moi
fatt Fred Shilling and John Y. Dater.
This protest stated that ''fOr some time
past men and women dressed in the uni
form of the Salvation army have been
engaged in systematic begging for the
support and maintenance of hordes of
Armenians, the same being aliens and
paupers, and we protest against the said
aliens and paupers being sent to this
community"
Another letter was from Rev. ]. n.
Tr0mper, pastor of the Christian Reform
church at Ramseys, n. j., where it is
proposed to colonize the Armenian refu-
gees. Pastor Tromper says that he has
been requested by his congregation to
Il
congregation to the movement to cOlOnize
the refugees.
Gen Booth-Tucker is expected at the
island this afternoon to speak in behalf
of the refugees. At noon DR.. Senner
was not in a position to say whether
the 167 refugees would be admitted to
the country or sent back. He will re-
serve his decision until he had heard both
sides and NAV possibly refer the matter
to the secretary of the treasury.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-10-21
All for a Cent.

Some free silver fatists think they are
asking a poser when they ask: ''What
makes q cent worth a cent? They take
it for granted that the answer must be:
''The government makes a cent worth a
cent therefore it is the government
stamp that makes money worth what it
is stamped.
Which shows that a little learning is
really a dangerous thing sometimes. The
office of a cent is a very small one. It is
a minor coin created for convenience in
small transactions. But if our wise fiat
lists will inform themselves regarding its
function and its limitations, they will
learn that the cent is legal fender in
sums not to exceed % cents.
Do they appreciate the full significance
of that limitation? If they do they will
see how ridiculous they are when they
make the cent an argument i'll favor of
a full legal tender, irredeemable fat dol
lar-Whether all fiat or 80 per cent. fat.
The subsidiary silver coins are legal
tender in sums not exceeding $40, while
the standard silver dollar, held at par
with gold under the limitations of the eX-
listing gold standard, is Il full legal ten
der, without limit, unless otherwise
specified in the contract. Take away
these restrictions and change the stand
aru, and the silver dollar would simply
be worth its bullion value no more, no
leSS-DetrOit Journal.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-10-21
The Tarin IN Relation to Revenue

The basic fact to be remembered in
all discussions Of the tariff is that we
are now obliged 10 raise annually, in
round numbers, a half billion Of dollars
for the support of the government. Apart
from borrowing which of course nobody
favors, there are but two sources, from
which the great bulk of it can be derived
toWlt: from tariff duties and direct taxa
ton. The difference in these two meth
DDS is that the first is indirect and so
never perceptibly felt, and the second is
direct and always felt The Democratic
leaders regard both as a tax to be paid
by the consumer. The Republicans con-
tend that if the tariff is Il tax at all it is
one paid by the foreign producer and not
by the consumer
Hence they favor as high Il tariff on
the foreign product as it Will bear, be-
cause they deem it better to collect all
the revenue possible from the foreigner
who pays no other taxes, rather than
from our own people who must pay in
taxes whatever is needed over and above
the amount realized from tariff duties
and moreover, because the tariff affords
incidental protection to our manufacture
erS thus enabling them to compete with
the foreign manufacturer. and at the
same time furnishing employment to our
labOrlng men, and creating a home mark
ct Tor the farmers products far more val
liable TO him than any so-called market
of the world.
That the tariff duties are paid by the
foreign producer is so manifest that the
only wonder is that i should ever be
questioned The foreign producer pays
it as a license fee for entrance to our
market, but when he gets it here he
must sell it for the same price as the
American producer or he cannot sell it
at all. Hence it does not put up the
price to the consumer. The case has
never been more clearly stated than by
Sir John Macdonald, the premier of
Canada. who said in a speech in the
Canadian Parliament shortly after the
passage of the Mckinley tariff, "Sup-
pose man has 100 acres on the Cana
dian side of the line and 100 acres on
the American side of the line. Suppose
he grows 1000 bushels of barley on each
of his farms. He takes his 1000 Ameri-
can bushels to the American market and
gets 81 a bushel for it. He takes his
1000 bushels of Canadian barley to the
American market and gets but So cents
cents duty for taking it across the line
How can it. in this age, be said that the
consumer pays the duty? 1t comes out
of the pockets of the Canadian farmers
At large meeting held in Sheffield,
England. about the same time the lead
ing speaker, who was a manufacturer of
cutlery. according to Il report in the New
bered the time when the Americans sup
piled work for the entire city of Shelf
field. and that the Mckinley bill was a
bill TO raise American taxes out of the
pockets of the Sheffield exporters, and
that Sheffield was not going to pay
British taxes and American taxes. too"
Such statements from such sources
show that foreigners know who pay our
taxes if Democratic leaders do not
Chippewa Falls CWis.) Herald
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-10-21
Afraid TO Discuss 1t.

William Jennings Bryan is afraid to
discuss the tariff. In reply to question
recently concerning the tariff, he lOftily
said, ''Oh, we can change our tariff sys-
tenn at any time and to another inquiry
he replied, "You cannot force the tariff
question into this campaign"
Yet the tariff is made an issue by both
the Popocratic and Republican plat
forms. The former declares ''the Re-
publican threat 10 restore the Mckinley
law" is disturbing business. Moreover,
Gov. Mckinley has placed protection
side by side with sound money as the
issues of supreme Importance and the
masses of the Republican party agree
with him.
1t is not at all difficult to understand
why Mr.. Bryan ignores the tariff ques-
ton. He dare not undertake a defense
before the American people of the dsas-
trous policy for which he is in part re-
sponsible. -Four years ago Mr.. Bryan
denounced the policy of protection as
1.-The most vicious political principle that
has ever cursed this country" He then
ascribed all the ills experienced by the
American people wholly to protection.
He had nothing to say about the cur
rency. He had not then discovered
that the decentralization of silver" was
responsible for all the trouble. The
tariff alone was the source of every
wrong and every i'll suffered by our
people.
Two years later Mr.. Bryan found OPP
portunity to embody his views in legis-
lation and to command national atten-
ton as one of the most radical of the
foes of protection. He helped to put
wool on the free list with disastrous re-
suits to American sheep husbandry and
corresponding benefit to the Wool-groW-
ers OF Australia and other foreign coun-
tries. He voted against protection to
American sugar producers, to the serious
detriment of an important industry. He
supported by voice and vote tariff
changes which greatly stimulated the
wOrSted and wool manufactures of Eng
land and struck an almost fatal blow to
those of the United States He was a
foremost advocate of the policy which
has kept more than q million of the
American people in idleness or only par
TALLY employed for the past three years,
reducing the demand for the products
of the farm and the factory to the ex-
tent of hundreds of millions of dollars
annually
He IS in part responsible for tariff
legislation which has caused an enor-
nous deficiency in the revenues of the
government and compelled bond issues
to meet expenses. In short, Mr. Bryan
was Us instrumental as any man in Con-
gress in bringing about the unfortunate
industrial and business conditions from
fered unreasonable injury and by which
the progress of the nation has been great
ly retarded.
Now Mr.. Bryan is afraid to attempt
:, defense Of his record before the Amer
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-10-21
What it Amounts To.

The scheme for the unlimited coinage
of 5O-cent silver is wholly opposed to
mathematics. logic and morality.
1t is mathematically absurd to fry TO
have two standards for money. You
cannot have bushel that holds both
eight pecls and four peckS or a yard of
both thirty-siX inches and eighteen inches
long or pound containing sixteen ounces
and eight ounces. If By law You could
enforce such double-standard measures,
everybody would try to buy by the larger
and sell by the smaller. If YOU tried to
enforce the use OF the smaller for the
larger. the men of moderate means and
the working men and women who cannot
resist would get cheated. The only ones
who would make anything by such law
are the gamblers, who would lay wagers
on the rapid changes that would come
about, or the actual owner of the prod
ucts which the law tries to double in
price. In the case of the silver standard
the gamblers and mine owners alone
would gain.
The scheme is opposed to logic because
it is offered as help to the poor, who
would suffer most by it. 1t is offered as
a relief for debtors but no class has so
large a sum constantly owing to them as
the wage earners, who would be paid so
cents for a dollar. Even the farmers
who are in debt would suffer, for their
mortgages would be called in and could
1
at all. Every farmer who is clear of
debt would find his expenses increasing
faster than his income. while the adj
vance in prices so far as it took place,
would check exports and increase i'm.
ports.
1t is opposed to morality, for it would
give big profits to the. mine owners at the
cost Of the rest of the people. 1t would
rob the many to add to the riches of the
rich. 1t would rob most those who have
the least-the wage earners and the
multitude of widows and orphans with
small incomes from fixed Investments
AS with classes, so with sections. 1t
would cheat worst the poorer parts of
the country, and no part SO cruelty as the
South
These are facts that will become palmer
and more plain as the canvass goes on
In the end we are confident that Bryan
and Bunko, SeWall and Silver, will be
crushed by the votes of the workingmen
and the farmers.-New York Times.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-10-21
SPAIN WOULD YIELD.
If the Rebellion is Not Crushed Be-
fore March | the Island
will be Freed.

New York, Oct ia special to the
Herald from Cadiz, Spain, says: at is
an open secret that if Spain has not
put down the instruction in Cuba by
the LIST of next March it is the inten-
ton Of the government to give up the
struggle and let the island go.
ut is said that the policy is being
adopted of exaggerating the magnitude
of the trouble in the Philippine islands
with a view of letting Cuba co.
w. G. Foster, the manager of the
Eastern Telegraph company here, speak
ing of the situation, said: '"There is no
question that the government is trying
to use Philippine troubles to detract the
peoples attention from Cuba. There is
no doubt that Spain intends to do her ut
most to crush the Cuban instruction be-
tween now and March. Failing in that,
| am informed, she will give up the
struggle
'An important issue is the fact that
Cuba has debt of $500, 000,0 600 and that
if Spain puts down the insurrection
Cuba will have to pay that debt, whereas
if Cuba wins the payment of the debt
will fall on Spain, who contracted it on
behalf of Cuba
Naturally the planters who have been
driven from their half-ruined plantations,
however loyal they may appear to be to
Spain, really want to see the Cubans sue
taxed by Spain to pay the interest Of the
debt and then could start again under
more favorable auspices.
The Philippine islands comprise 115,-
600 square miles as against $4,000 for Gu
ba. In point of population the Philippines
have $4,000 as against a population of
2,276,OOo for Cuba and Porto Rico COM
hinpd -
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-10-21
COST OF THE POSTAL SERVICE.
The Expenditures Exceed the Receipts
by So. 1877, OSS.

by So: 129, OSS.
Washington, d. c.. Oct. 15.-The an
nual report of the third assistant post
master-general shows total expenditures
for the year, $90,626. 296; receipts, $50
1925 deficiency, $S,127. OSS or re-
duction Of $1,679,59S less than the pre-
ceding year. The expenditures do not
include the cost of carrying the mail over
the subsidized Pacific railroads, which
amounted to $1,55S. S9S.
The special-delivery service made an
increase of ID per cent. in business dur
ing the year, 4,1S4,3 27 letters being de-
livered. The average time required for
delivery was seventeen minutes. The
net profit Of the system was about $780,
O00
The number of postage stamps,
stamped envelopes and postal cards
issued was 4,195, 665, 523, an increase of
Z per cent. over the issues of the previ-
Gus year. The value of these issues was
49, 17S, 101, which is about $4,000
more than the sales.
The increase of second-class matter
mailed by publishers and news agents
was nearly y per cent. The total weight
of matter thus mailed, paid and free, was
about 349,000,000 pounds.
The business of registration was also
increased, the rate being about per
cent. The total number Of pieces of
mail matter registered was 1906, 1886.
The percentage of losses was reduced,
the ratio being about one in every "a
900 pieces mailed by the public. Recon-
mendation is again made for limited
indemnity to owners of registered matter
lost in the mails.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-10-21
Goods Bought on Conditions.

There is no doubt that the business
men of the country are counting on a
revival of business in the event of Mr..
McKinley's election. News from all Sec
tons of the Union is to the effect that
orders are being placed with manufac-
turers and jobbers, conditioned upon
the result of the election. If Mckinley
wins the goods are to be shipped; if
Bryan is successful the orders are to
be cOuntermanded or reduced
One of the largest furniture houses
in Chicago, Ford. johnson 4 Co., re-
ceived letter from a customer in Cali
fornia the other day, placing large
order for goods. The order was made
conditional in this way: If the election
goes for free silver we do not want the
goods; if against free silver we want
them shipped November 5-not later"
The California merchants say that
they are prompted by business prudence
alone to make the order conditional. be-
cause they fear the result of the tri-
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-10-21
DEATH OF DIR. CRAFT.
A Prominent Physician Who Once
Lived in Wisconsin Passes
Away at Cleveland.

Cleveland, o., Oct. 19.-[SpeciaL]-
One of the prominent physicians of the
city, DR.. Josephus Craft, died on Satur-
day night at his home, as the result of
injuries received from an accident while
driving. Paralysis was the immediate
cause of his death.
DR.. Craft was 80 years of age and was
born in Western Pennsylvania. His
father soon thereafter moved to Ohio
and he was raised in Ashland county.
About 1865 he began the study Of medi-
cine. After receiving his diploma he
moved to Wisconsin. where he soon
built up good practice. He then moved
to Worthington, Mimi, where he resided
moved TO Milwaukee and became afili-
ated with the medical fraternity Of that
city. A few years ago he returned to
Cleveland and has since lived here.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-10-21
HARPER's ACT BOUND THE BANK.
Important Decision Growing Out of the
Fidelity Failure.

Important Decision Growing Out of the
Fidelity Failure.
Cincinnati, O., Oct. 15.-In the United
Stairs court Judge Sage announced de-
cision which becomes a precedent of
great interest to bankers and other bust
ness men. E. l.. Harper of the Fidelity
National bank borrowed 100000 from
the Chemical National bank of New York
city March 2, 1887, to place in the bank
He made the loan on his own RESPONSE
bility and did not consult the bank trus-
tees.
When the bank failed the Chemical en-
tered suit against Receiver Armstrong to
recover the 100000 with interest. Arm
strong fought the suit because the trus-
tees had not authorized the loan.
The complainant alleged that they
were doing business with an accredited
officer OF the bank, and made the loan in
good faith, and had no means of knowing
his misdoings.
Judge Sage decreed for the complain
ants and gave judgment for the amount
with interest