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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-29
The Tariff Not Sidetracked.

Because the Republican press has
lately devoted much attention to the
free coinage fallacy 1t Is not to be in
ferred that 1t has forgotten the tariff
issue. In due time that will resume
its proper place as the leading issue
between the parties, and the country
which in 1892 rejected Protection by
overwhelming pluralities will in 1896
re-adopt it by pluralties still more
striking. 1t will do this because it will
side its bread is buttered. A brief re-
view of some interesting statistical
facts based in the main upon official
reports will serve to put this matter
in clearer light.
Since the election of Cleveland in 1892
on an anti-PrOtection platform the ag-
gregate business of our clearing houses
has sustained total shrinkage of from
$40, 900, 900, 900 to $4,000 600, 900; our for
eign commerce has diminished by
nearly $1,000 100000; our agricultural
products have suffered a depreciation
in value of over 81, 900 OOO, 600, to which
must be added also nearly 1000, ,OO0, 900
depreciation in the value of our live
stock, $60,OO0,0O0 in the value of our
sheep and more than $4,000, 900 in the
value Of the wool crop. The number
Of new railroads being built has been
reduced about two-thirds; the number
of passengers carried has decreased al
most S2.000,0 900 in three years; there has
been a decrease of over $3l, ,OOO, 900 in the
net earnings, s5O,OOO,OOO in the net re-
ceipts, $31 ,0O0, 900 in the receipts from
passengers and $12,0OOOOO in the div
idends. There has been a decrease of
4,O79, 1888 in the number of messages sent
by telegraph, and an increase of one
cent in the cost per message. Our eX-
ports of agricultural products have de-
creased $3.50, 100000. Unfortunately, we
have not the statistics to show how
disastrous has been the effect upon our
manufacturing industries: we know,
however. that in many Industries the
production and prices have decreased
almost one-half.
Undoubtedly the business depression
of the past three years has been mater
tally aggravated by the doubt which
the free silver agitation has cast upon
the future soundness of our currency:
but it is to be remembered that this
agitation did not take on proportions
of seriousness until the revolutionary
tariff policy of the Cleveland admin
istration had shaken public confidence.
brought on general panic and afforded
u fertile field for the propagation Of
new heresies. Had Protection not been
assailed we question whether Bryan
would ever have got the chance to
roam about the country preaching the
gospel Of class antagonisms and striv-
ing to set labor and capital at each
others thrOats. The time Is coming
when the American people will see these
things.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-29
Court Costs.

The work of the last grand jury was
to saddle the county with costs in ig-
nOred assault and battery bills. OF the
i4S bills which this grand jury threw
out of court more than 30 per cent. rep
resented simply petty spites and the
jury properly declined to make the
county partner In the expense of air.
ing private ill-will.
But what can be said of the commit
ting magistrates who send before the
grand jury at each quarter session such
Il raft of trivial litigation? How is
their acquiescence 10 be excused? To
be sure. it is money in their pocket
and under our beautiful petty magis-
terial system a premium seems to be
put on the manufacture of law suits
with view to the festive fee. Accord
ing to this view the public itself may
be the final claimants to the blame;
nut until it can realize its own deln-
Guency in tacitly acquiescing in such
an obsolete and inefficient system, there
is some measure of satisfaction in vent
ing ones disgust on the petty magis-
trates themselves.
Biennially, just about election time,
we are accustomed to hear from am
bilious legislators. who take pains to
inform the community of their inten-
tiOn of framing legislation for the re-
duction of excessive court costs. This
year this customary declaration Of in
tentions is missing. Has the task been
given up as an impossbiity?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-29

supersede consent? Does the man who
works for living want the law to put
into his employers hands fifty cents
dollar in wages? Is not it the right
plan in a government of freemen To
have money so good that everybody will
be glad to take it at what its stamp
says II Is worth?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-29

not many orderly and reputable people
among the Hungarans, Poles, Russians
and Italians in these coal regions. We
are well aware that there are many such,
but as we have said. the nationalities
named contribute entirely too large a pro-
portion to the lawlessness and to the GRIM
inal business that comes before our courts.
A halt must be called in some way, and
the sooner this Is done the better for the
fair fame of this section of the state.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-29

Republican newspapers will not
make much capital trying to spread
the idea that Bryan has been discount
eous to the clergy. When a clergy
man goes into politics he must ex-
pect to receive blows as we'll as to
give them. No clergyman when outside
the pulpit ought to interpose his cloth
as shield against a reasonable criti-
cism of his controversial utterances on
tnnicc
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-29

publicly opinions which are freely ex-
pressed in private on all hands.
We do not imagine that 1t makes any
particular difference SO far as the peo-
pie of the United States are concerned
what the manufacturers of Bradford,
Eng, think of American politics so
long as they keep hands off of our cam
paigns. But the foregoing expressions
are certainly interesting as Indicative
Of rapid change in English opinion
on the tariff question. When Joseph
Chamberlain made that recent speech
Of his declaring with surprising frank
ness that Great Britain might yet have
to return to Protective tariff II she
would preserve her Industries, he evil
IDENTIFY spoke by the card.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-29
This Years Lake Traffic.

Some facts in relation to this years
lake traffic have been collated which
will interest all persons who take pride
in the development of inland COM
merce, and especially those who have
made the voyage by water from Buffa-
10 to Duluth. A careful estimate COM
putes the lake tonnage of 1896 at 3,OOO,-
900 tons in excess of last years ship
ments, which were in that year far In
excess of the average. Lake Superior's
share alone of this immense traffic,
from the opening of navigation to Sept.
was lO,67s,s59 tons. 1000, 900 tons larger
than for the similar period last year
and 100000 tons larger than on Sept.
|. 1894 The footings for the other
lakes are not yet given, but II seems fair
to assume that the ratio of increase was
general.
More vessels pass through the st.
Clair ship canal during the eight
months of lake navigation than float on
the Thames at London during the
twelve months of the year. An aver
day and night, is the record at this
arterial point in the chain of lakes. The
new American lock at the 500" which
cost s., OOO. 900, is 500 feet long by 60 wide,
and which lifts or lowers the largest
vessels from one lake level to the 9TH
er in twelve minutes, was thrown open
to traffic in August and is expected to
be mighty developing force in the di-
recton of augmented tonnage. \
The government Is wisely eXpending
liberal sums of money in deepening the
channels of the st. Mary's and st. Clair
rivers and in widening the approaches
to important docks But the need of
redoubled energy along this line Is
made apparent to every traveller by
boat through the shallow places be-
tween the main parts of the great lakes.
1t perhaps is significant in this con-
nection that most of the freighters now
ailoat between Buffalo and Duluth fly
can crews: for under Republican ad-
ministrations the federal revenues are
not in the habit of sinking so low as to
necessitate the abandonment of i'm
portant dredging operations and the
postponement of other channel improve
ments that the character of lake navi-
cation imperatively demands.
the New York SIM gjypS currency
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-29

1t Is announced that If Bryan at
tempts tn make n speaking tour Of In
diana General Harrison will follow him.
Bryan had better take warning in time.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-29

One year ago Rensselaer, county. New
York, had s250.OOO surplus money in its
treasury. Today it has only 5000. The
loss of the difference is explained by the
fact that the county treasurer. George
II. Morrison. one of Troy's foremost
citizens, is in Jail on a charge of EN-
bezzlement. Morrison had been in Of
flee only one year. In completeness his
crime pales even that of John Bardsley.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-29
COUNTY.

congressman at Large-GALuSHA A
GROW. SAMUEL \. DAVENPORT.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-29

Congress-WlLLIAMC CONNELL.
commissioners. W. ROBERTS, GILES
ROBERTS
Auditors-A. T.. K1EFER, FRED l..
WARD
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-29
LEGISLATIVE.

Senate, 2lst Distrct-COL. w. J. SCOTT:
Representative, lst District-JOHN X.
FARR; "a District-A. Il. CONNEl.l.;
Sd Distrct-DR. y. e. MACkEi; ith
District-JOHN l.. REYNOLDS.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-29

To be sure, Thacher got a lot of ad-
vertislng out of it, but it cannot be
called free, for it was purchased at the
cost Of his reputation.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-29

The report that there will be no fu
ture lowering Of the price of standard
the marines
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-29

heres to the gold standard should have the
impudence to tell the people of the United
States that they ought to go 1t alone
in adopting the silver standard.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-29
GOLDSM|TA'S o
BAZAAR.
Of Interest to Every Lady
IN LAckAWANNA COUNTY, AND
To DressmakerS Especially

We offering publication of
fashions in advance of thes
The modelers
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the and September &h for This always pludd
possibility
e have always iouy guarded consequently
had to depend almost entirely guesswork
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to be brief, this the result
The applied pages
known, and the book speaks for ITSELF
The contributors almost all and each illustration
is authenticated by the which
securing
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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-29

the New York Sun gives currency
to a story that Bryan is mentally dis
eased. This is carrying opposition too
far. We can differ from the other fell
lows without necessarily reaching the
conclusion that they are crazy.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-29
THE REPUBLICAN TICKET.
NATIONAL.
STATE.

Presdent-WILLIAM Mk1Nl.Ef:
President-GARRET A. HOBART.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-10-10
WV. DIMOND,S

Keeping constantly at it, in
bringing fresh goods out to
the sunlight, is what dIaws
the crowds of buyers to our
store. We always have some
thing new and serviceable to
show them, and they generally
buy,
We have ANOTHER supply Of
the celebrated Premier. Egg
Cups, in which eggs are cook
ed and served at table. The
annoyance of scorched fingers
in opening eggs is avoided,
and the unpleasantness Of get
ting aged and odorous eggs in
your glass is reduced to NIL.
q ntlemen dislike trousers
baggy.at the knees as much as
lady abhors a last years hat.
The way to avoid having
baggy trousers is to use a
Trousers Stretcher. Hang up
the garments in the stretcher
at night and they are perfect
in the morning.
Any old thing will kill
reaches, but the best article is
the Patent Roach Trap we
sell. You've been waiting for
them.
Another convenient article
is the Combination Kitchen
Fork, on the end of which is a
hood for removing the pot lids.
Twenty cents takes one.
We have Cups and Saucers
at a dollar a dozen. We have
genuine English Decorated
Coalport Ware, Cups and
Saucers, for after dinner coffee,
tea or chocolate, from rs cents
to $3.50 each. They are
beauties.
The Silver White Flame
Oil Range is a marvel and sells
for 81. We would like you to
examine this.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-10-10
IN SPAIN.

A public man who formerly lived
much in Spain, who knows the Ian
guauge like native, and who has a
large acquaintance among Spanish
from five weeks holiday, spent
chiefly in Madrid and Malaga. He re-
ports that the condition of that coun-
try is one of indescribable pathos. The
people are broken hearted over the
tragedy which they see in the
shipping of their young sons by tens
of thousands to death in Cuba, but
with them all it is a matter of savage
and implacable pride to go on and
send still more. Crowds assemble
everywhere along the routes to Cadiz,
and as they witness the departure of
the troops they weep and groan and
pray, but the patriotic feeling is still
so bitter than any one who raised a
public objection to the sacrifice would
be in imminent danger of lynching.
The same spirit prevails in the Cortez.
Probably a majority of its members
are entirely convinced that Gen. Wey-
ler's task i'm Cuba is a hopeless one,
but the politician who should say so
publicly would be knitted before he
could get home. knowledge of this is
what restrained Martinez Campos
from telling the truth in the Cortez,
as he had announced he would do,
and it is what absolutely prohibits
free speech on the subject anywhere
in Spain. 1t is admitted in private
talk, though, that the rich and influ-
entail classes of Cubans have finally
turned solidly against Spain, and the
gloomy impression prevails that the
insurgents will be in Havana by New
Years. What will be done then no
one is willing to think. meanwhile,
ferocious efforts will me made to
stamp out the revolt in the PHILIPPINES
by using a superior force at the start,
even if every man on the islands who
can read and write is exterminated.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-10-10
LIFE PHILOSOPHY.

(E. Scott O'Connor in the Century.)
81 love to look in the mirror" re-
marked Vanity. Yes, but you never
see yourself" said Truth.
"Why do you limp" asked maid
en-, as Love walked slowly on a pleas
ant path. 81 always stumble when the
road is smooth" he answered.
Misery sought an abode. She chose
an empty heart.
Where" asked one woman of an
other, sis the best place to keep a
mans hearth" "Away from his head"
she replied.
A bird sang a beautiful song, which
was echoed again and again. II would
have had to listen to shrieks," said the
bird, "had l first uttered them"
A woman battled with man. He
disarmed her. 81 am now at your
mercy" said the man.
"Why can't l break the chains you
weave?" asked Love of clever wo-
man. Because l make them so light,
she answered
''What helped you over the great
obstacles of life?" they asked sue
cessful man. "The other Obstacles ~
he answered.
''Do you not regret the follies of the
past?" asked a monk of an aged sin
ner. "Yes-that they are of the past
he answered.
"Why are you not more glad to see
me?" asked Pleasure of one of her
favorites. Because you call so often y
answered the spoiled girl.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-10-10

The women of the world can scarce
resist the appeal of Frances E. Will
lard on behalf of the unfortunate wo-
men of Armenia. The call is eloquent
and urgent. Miss Willard realizes
fully the frightful gravity of the sit
uation and the necessity for prompt
action. Her bugle blast is reinforced
by the statement of Clara Barton that
unless relief is immediate thousands
of men, women and children of the
Armenian race will perish during the
approaching winter. Work must be
done on the ground awaiting a clear
ance of the political storm impending
and the plans for Armenian emigra-
ton. Women are very prominent in
this work. One titled lady of Eng
land has offered the Government of
the United States bonds guaranteeing
the behavior of the prosecuted peo-
pie as colonists on American soil.
Everything possible that humane in
stincts can suggest will be done in
the Great Republic under the impetus
of women. But the United States
would scarcely resort to arms except
ing direct and immediate preteXt
was presented. Her foreign policy is
too fixed and conservative for that.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-10-10

The sophomore blunderer situate
as the figure head of the Advertiser
fiatters himself when he assumes that
ne in his vealy person has been
charged with anything at all. 1t is the
swell-headed paper that has been ar
raigned. y parrot cannot be indict-
ed. But it will take the Advertiser a
long time to live down it's infamy,
even if an apology for the vulgar in
suit to the United States Minister,
President and People has been forced
from the arrogant sheet. And this
was not the morning papers first of
Tense. In seeking to pander to a taste
that it very enormously imagines to
exist in this community, it often over
steps the bounds of decency. Con-
victiOn and reprimand have been fire.
quent and steady responsibility is no
longer looked for any more than is
fairness or the unshaded truth.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-10-10

One of San Franciscos notorious
petty boodlers has been sent to the
penitentiary. 1t has been common
talk for years that "Dick" Williams,
q port official, has been eXtorting
money from Chinese. ''Dick" was safe
till the federal authorities struck his
enee or sentiment that brought the
rascal to book. Some of the most
prominent citizens of the place stuck
to his defense to the last.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-10-10
HONOLULU, July Goth, 1895.

HONOLULU, July Goth, 1895.
MEssRs. w. G. IRWIN & Co., LTD.
GENTLEMEN:-In reply to your in
quiry as to how the Ideal Roof Paint
you sold me lasted; would say that /
painted the roof of my house 10 months
ago with your Red Ideal Roof Paint,
and I find it is as fresh and bright in ap-
pearance today as when first applied;
looking as we'll as others lately painted
with other paints. am more than
satisfied.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-10-10
J. &. ROCKWELL.

Have you a leaky gutter? If you
have. make it perfectly clean and dry,
apply a good coat of No. 8 P. and b.
Paint over the leaky spots; then take
piece of stout Manila paper, or piece
of common cotton cloth, paint it well on
both sides; lay it over the first coat, CIV
ing the whole final coat, and there
will be no more leak there. Or if the
whole gutter is bad, make it clean and
dry, and apply paste of P. &lB. Paint
and Portland Cement
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-10-10

1t is not generally known, says a
magazine, that the late Dowager EN-
al in persuading the Emperor to send
Lii Hung Chang on his trip around the
world. The Empress maintained that
il was necessary to study and examine
into the institutions of civilized ma
lions in order to open up China to the
outside world.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-10-10

The Star considers itself fortunate,
as worker for the common good to
be able to present the views of Rev.
John H. Lewis on the city missionary
work instituted by Mr.. and Mrs. 2. c..
Jones. This branch of Christian eff
fort has the sympathy to the full of
the layman. Now that it is properly
presented it will not lack for support.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-10-10
Ripans
TabuleS

Mr.. L. A. Rocher is a farmer re-
siding about three miles out of
Colon, N. G. His home is some
what in the back woods. In an
interview with Mr.. S. T. Godfrey,
correspondent of the Telegram
and Sunday Times, Mr.. Rocher
on the 18th of June, 1895, said:
II am 81 years of age, and until
/ was nigh onto fifty years old,
I was always well and peart,
then for long while and until
last February, suffered with
indigestion and could not eat
anything hardly at all. My
daughter, who lives in the city,
sent me some of Ripans Tabules,
told me how to take them, and
and they have completely cured
me. My wife is now troubled
with the same complaint, and
has written daughter to send
some more of Mr.. Ripan's med
icine. I want you to tell every
body how got cured, for it is
blessing to humanity.
(Signed) L. A. ROCHER.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-10-10
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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-10-10

fences of penal servitude, lectures on
scientific and interesting subjects shall
be periodically given, and arrange
ments are in progress for giving early
effect to this innovation.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-10-10
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1896.

Andrew Carnegie is trifle hazy
within himself in diagnosing the case
of the discontinued American farmer.
He does not seem to appreciate the
plain frankness of his statement given
in a dispatch.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-10-10
ENGLISH PRISON REFORM.

In order to still further carry out
certain recommendation of the recert
committee on prisons, the directors o.
English convict prisons have decided
that, with view to raise the moral
tone and relieve the monotony of the
life of convicts undergoing long SEN
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-10-10

Everyone is student of American
politics today. In this issue of The
Star is presented a graphic lesson.
The picture, together with the accom-
panying matter, is worthy the closest
scrutiny. 1t is, as labeled, an object
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-10-10

Funniman-We were in the heart of
the mine when the lights went out,
and not match in the party.
Sillicus-How did you get out?
Funniman-Well, had taken the
precaution to bring light lunch with
me.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-10-10

Little Benny-Mamma, please let me
hold the baby for minute.
Mother-I am afraid, Benny, you
might let her fall.
Little Benny-Well, if she does fall,
she can't fall very far.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-10-10
STRAW HATS

a special line of straw hats for
both ladies and gents is displayed at
Iwakami's, on Hotel street. The
prices range anywhere from 25c to
$500.