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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-12-22
WEST SIDE EVENTS.
Hyde Park Lodge, F. aud A. NJ, Elects
Officers...Wiliiam Parsons WOr.
shlpiul Master.

Hyde Park lodge, No. 339, Free and
Accepted MasOns, met last evening in
Masonic hall and elected the following
as officers: William Parsons. worship
full master; George f. Eynon, senior
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"A Perfect
LOvc.''

Every true woman who looks
at any one OF the beautiful and stylish
creations we offer for fall wear, make
that exclamation. We have here a hat
that will please and become every woman
and girl IN Scranton. The best thing abodt
our millinery Is that indescriba BILE air CT
elegance which makes the perfect lady.
Youll not find il In all hats--its a knacI--
and We have the knack.
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DR.. c. w. COlbOrn, Dentist.
Rooms IA North Main avenue. -

West Side Business Directory.
flowers and funeral designs speciality:
l04 South Main avenue; two doors from
Jackson street.
SECOND HAND FURNITURE.-cashf for
anything you have to sell. Furniture.
Stoves. Tools. etc. Call and see the
stock Of J. c. King. 7ol to TO West Lack.
awanna avenue.
MORGAN'S PHARMACY-l0l NORTH
avenue Warranted pure drugs and
chemicals. Prescriptions carefully pre-
pared. Fine stationery and blank books.
A large stock suitable for Christmas
presents. Teachers Bibles cheaper than
ever. Call and examine them. Wood
stains. paints. window glass, etc. Clerk
at store all hours Of night.
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the KELLEY cure

Why let your home and business be destroy.
ed through strong drink or morphine when
you can be cured in four weeks at tho Keelsy
Institute. 72S Madison avenue Scranton. Pa.
The Cure Will Bear Investigation.
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DANIEL Ii. JAMES.

DANIEL ii. JAMES,
Past Worshipful Master OF Hyde Park
Lodge. No. $780, F. and A. NJ.
warden: Nj. G. Dimmick, junior war
den; Charles +. Lanning, secretary:
William K. Williams. treasurer; Chas.
X. Pitcher, Thomas B. Carey, James
NJ. Eaton. trustees.
Retiring WOrshipful Master Daniel
H. James was elected representative
to the grand lodge.
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DIED AT PHILADELPHIA.

Mrs. Michael Bolton died yesterday
morning in Philadelphia hospital,
where she has been confined as a pa
tient for the past five months. The
family home is on Sixteenth street.
Mrs. Bolton was an old resident of
this side. She, with her husband, have
lived here for over twenty-five years
Mr.. Bolton and a family of eight chill
dren, James, Michael, John. Martin,
Sabina, Margaret, Mary and Sarah,
survive. The funeral arrangements
were not made last night. The re-
mains arrived here from Philadelphia
on the midnight train.
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TO Cure a Cold in One Day.

Take laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
All druggists refund the money II 1t
fails to cure. 25 cents.
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NlINOOKA.

The Greenwood Keg Funds meets
tonight.
All that is mortal of the late Mrs.
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II had sore hands for a long time
and suffered a great deal. saw an
advertisement of Hoods Sarsaparilla
and began taking 1t. My hands soon
began to get better and have not had
any trouble with them since" Mrs.
Eva Moore, 3O46 E. St., Philadelphia,
Pa.
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NEWS NOTES AND PERSONALS

3NEN I'D AND PFRSUNALS.
Mrs. Henry Phillips. of South Lin
coin avenue, Is recovering from an ILL
ness.
Talieson Phillips Is home from the
University Of Pennsylvania.
Mrs. L. H. Gibbs and Miss Margaret
Gibbs. Of South Main avenue, returned
yesterday from New York city.
Charles f. Daniels, formerly West
Side correspondent of the Truth, ar
rived here yesterday morning from
Dickinson Law School to spend the
holiday season with his parents. Mr..
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ONE WEEK MORE.

SO successful has been the two weeks
Indoor camp meetings of the Salvation
army that Ensign De Garis has decid-
ed to continue the novel service for
one week longer. Rev. J. l.. Race, of
the South Side Methodist Episcopal
church, will preach this evening.
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The King Of Pills l. Beecham'a.
BEECHAM9.
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Burgess Toy Store
PROVIDENCE.

Everything new in toys, S12 Cedar
ava
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Hoods Pills are purely vegetable
25c. ~
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-08
Went Cunning for whale.

How Fish Commissioner Emeric went
a-fishing is told entertainfngly by the saunterer
in this weeks Town Talk, which has other
good stories in its various departments this
week well worth your while TO read. On the
front cover appears portrait of the brilliant
young attorney and politician, Samuel M.
Shortridge. In the musical department. will
be found an account of the entertainment at
Belvedere and other topics of interest to peo-
pie who are melodiously inclined. There is
a a.so sonis'n.ns oi cnatIy nature ABOUT tne
week are criticized. Look out for next week s
Town Talk. special anniversary number OF
forty pages. handsomely printed and Illus
trated, and filled with interesting matter A
half-tone supplement will also be issued,
and the entire number, of which ten thousand
extra copies are to be printed, will be a model
of Typographical beauty. Do not fail to read
next weeks Town Talk.
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-08

spinning-wEeels, her people have not
clothes; though she is black with the dig
ging of fuel they die of cold, and, though
she has sold her soul for grain. they die OF
hunger"
This is one picture of the condition OF
the masses in the rich manufacturing re-
gions-in the very heart of the iron indus
try of the British isle. Lest the critic OBJ
ject to one mans evidence, let that OF
another be submitted before it is shown
by the testimony of iron-men what is
meant when it is stated that free trade
would reduce American workmen to the
British level. Bennett Burleigh says:
"There is no gainsaying the existence,
rich and potent as the British empire Is,
of widespread privation among the work
ing classes of Great Britain. This distress
has now become a constant, an agra
yated quantity. Men, women and chill
dren, by hundreds of thousands miserably
half-clad, have to face the chill English
winter, alternating as best they can in
dark, frowzy abodes, from which they
emerge but to plead for bread
That is a picture of the condition of
workmen in free trade England. 1t is the
contention of Republicans and particu-
Iarly of Mckinley that the free-trade
panacea polsons the patient, that it ruins
industry and impoverishes the working
man. There are signal illustrations OF
this in the steel and iron business of the
country.
During the free-trade regime of 1860
the wages of iron and steel workers aver
aged $355 year, but under the protection
of 1880 they went to $500, while the cost OF
necessaries decreased so greatly as to
make still greater saving 10 the working
man. According to Edward Atkinson, the
well-known statistician, the wages OF
American workingmen increased from
$46S to $720 per year between 1860 and
1880. These figures are enough to make
the thoughtful voter hesitate before in
dorsing even a mild form of Organism.
The iron industry of the United States
is already great, but under the influence
of judicious protective tariff it might be
made far more important in every branch.
There are hundreds of ramlfications of the
trades and enterprises that depend for
their success on the production of iron un-
der favorable conditions. 1t enters into
nearly every phase of industrial and do
mestic life, from the great steel bridges to
the cambria needle, from the scissors OF
the housewife to the sword of the soldier,
and wherever free trade destroys the en-
terprises dependent on this universal ore
it reduces the workmen to penury.
1t was recently shown by the manager OF
the Los Angeles Rolling Mills that few
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-08
Placed the Weapons Muzzle in
His Mouth and Pulled
the Trigger
NO CAUSE FOR THE DEED
His Parents Are at Loss to Under.
stand the Reasons Prompting
the Rash Act.

Chester d. Kenison, Is years of age,
son of Asa H. Kenison, we'll to-do milk
dealer, committed suicide in most re-
voting manner in his home. 1852 Twenty
fifth street, last evening at o'clock. The
young man was mployed as an apprentice
at the Union Iron Works. He always ap-
peared to be contented and satisfied with
his position.
Yesterday was payday at the iron works,
and, after drawing his salary, Kenison
went home and turned his money over to
his parents. During the afternoon he
| complained OF toothache and declined
to eat any supper. His mother tried to
cheer her son and to ease the pain in his
tooth, but the boy refused to be COM
| forted.
AT o'clock the suicides parents made
| preparations to retire, and advised their
son to do the same; but he refused, say
ing that he could not sleep and would
remain up short time.
Ine parents finally retired for the night,
| however, and were doing when they were
awakened by muff1ed report. Thinking
tnat the noise was that of slamming
| door, they did not get up and investigate.
Louis Calm, who resides just across the
street from the Kenison dwelling, also
heard the report and concluded that some
one mad been shot. He went across the
street and reused Mr.. Kenison, and to-
gether they visited the boys apartments.
There on the floor he lay dead.
| IL was fearful scene. The boys head
was blown to atoms. Nothing remained
OF It but portion of the lower jaw and
right side of the head.
Inc upper jaw, skull and brains were
scattered over the bed and floor.
shotgun of large gauge was lying be-
SIDE the body-silent evidence, but telling
only too truly the manner in which the
deed was committed. A string tied to the
muzzie OF the weapon and from there to
the boys foot dispelled any possible idea
OF accident and told the story of suicide.
note reading "Good-by. mamma
dear" was found on the bed. This was
all Not q word that would tend to dis
close the cause of suicide could be found
and in all probability it will never be
known.
Asa Kenison, the boys father, is heart
broken at his sons action.
| He is at loss to understand why he
should have taken his life.
II wonder what caused my poor boy to
Kill himself" said Mr.. Kenison last even
ing, as he looked with streaming eyes on
the mangled remains of his son.
HE was never scolded, and always ap-
peared to be happy. He had no love af-
fairs that know Of, and nothing in the
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in their protests against the negligence Oh
the Supervisors and the Board of Health,
in not taking the action which they claim
is an absolute necessity to preserve the
public health from the menace hanging
over the district. President ]. D. Horan
and L. ]. Dwyer of the Potrero-avenue
Club are taking the lead in the movement
against the swamp.
I'VE shall bring it before the Board OF
HEALTH" said Mr.. Dwyer, land demand
that something be done in the premises as
a sanitary measure. Our plan is to have
Potrero avenue extended to Army street,
as by that means proper sewerage sys-
tenn would be secured. After that our
clubs will fight for a continuance of the
large brick sewer in Army street out to the
water. II this be not done in the course
of year, at least, there is no telling what
pes,ilence may arise from the place.
Meanwhile, this water-cress business, l
think, should be stopped"
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-08
A Protective Tariff Is Shown to Be the American
Ironworkers' Safeguard Against
Paupersm.

simple things might make California q
great iron and steel producing center
probably the headquarters for many thriv'
ing manufacturing enterprises. The fac
tors he reckoned were protection, cheap
coke and cheap transportation.
With a railroad leading to the great
coking coal regions of Southwest Utah
with iron mountains in Southern Cal1for-
MIA, and a tariff to Keep out the pauper-
made goods of Europe and Canada even,
there is scarcely any limit to the pros
perity that might coma to California as
an iron and steel manufacturing center.
But under the policy of Bryanism there
would be no future for such enterprises IN
California, and nothing but decay ano
ruin for those already established IN
Pennsylvania and the populous iron re-
gions of the East and South.
The Cambria Iron Company OF Johns,
town, Pa, made a reply to the Tariff
Commissioners of 1894, wherein it put
forth the following clear statement OF the
tariff problem as it affects iron:
1--WE wish to enter q protest for our
selves, and on behalf of the manufactur-
ing industries of the country, against
the theory that the present depression oi
industry is caused by delay in passing the
Wilson bill. The bill itself is the cause,
and we prefer that the delay shall last
tolerable than would be our condition un.
der the Wilson bill as law. We don't
propose to jump into the river to get out
of the rain. The present bill is the product
of an obsolete system of political economy:
Its laws, once esteemed to be universal
and eternal, are now everywhere discred.
tied, ana are most particularly and
definitlvely disputed and denied by the
younger school of English scientists. The
alleged natural and divine laws by which
the dominant party is endeavoring to reg
ulate the industries and finances OF the
United States are as completely obsolete
to-day as the Ptolemaic system of astron-
omy. No civilized country has adopted
free trade. The whole tendency of legis-
lation on the continent of Europe and IN
the English colonies is in the way oi
strengthe ming tariff defenses. Generally
the affairs of nations have been managed
by men of affairs, and no country other
than the United States has ever given con
troll of its fiscal legislation to theorists"
But to hand the iron industry over te
William Jennings Bryan would be surren
dering every principle of business acumen
and giving the reins of government to q
dreamer pure and simple.
Another testimonial in point, showing
how the reduction of business to free
trade level works disasters, is seen in the
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-08

thin and gray. He was formerly and for
many years engaged in the wholesale
grocery business in Truckee, Sacramento
and this City. He resides on Oak street.
He was arrested some months ago on
the charge of altering and changing trans
fer checks of the Post-street line, pasting
over the punched marks and changing the
date and presenting them for passage.
When arrested considerable numb ber OF
old punched checks were found on his
person.
J. w. Dubois, the conductor ON the car,
who took up the altered check, brought
the charge, and was, of course, the chief
witness. He testified that Mr.. Bell had
upon several occasions offered him SINH
| larly altered checks. J. j. Coleman tes-
titled that he was on the car at the time
and the conductor called his attention to
the man and the check. That was all the
evidence against Bell.
For his own part Bell testified in a
| flank manner that he knew nothing
about the alterations; that he got the
check from a newsboy as he was in the
habit of doing every evening with his
| newspaper. He explained his having the
other checks by saying that his son at
school had requested him to save them
| for MIN as chum of his was making q
collection of them. A feature OF the hear
| ing was the calling of Black Ryan, tax
agent of the Southern Pacific Company, to
| testify to the good character of the de-
| fendant. He did so unroservedly; say
! ing that previous to this case he had
never heard breath of evil against him.
| Stephen Gage was also to be summoned in
the same interest. Ryan said that Gage
would testify as he (Ryan) had done, he
was sure, as they had talked the matter
over. They had both known Bell for the
past thirty years. The prosecution con-
sented to accept the evidence without
summoning the witness,
George w. Condee, Isaac M. Baker, ]. D..
Dufogle and other well-known citizens
testified as to the mans previous good
character. The jury was out but few
moments and returned with verdict of
not guilty.
| There is another case against the old
man, growing out of similar circumstan-
ces. 1t may or may not be tried.
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evidence of G. d. Lucas & Co. OF Green
vile, Ohio, manufacturers OF small engines
and boilers. They say:
If the rate OF duty is reduced one-third
the cost of production Will have to be re-
duced nearly as much. AS l understand
the present tariff on our goods, the foreign
prices and ours are very nearly the same
means reduction in the selling price oi
our goods, and which cannot be fully made
mp by free raw material"
Yet the policy of Mr.. Bryan is to make
all these things absolutely free. That
policy would absolutely enslave every
man engaged in working for another in
the iron industry.
Here is another opinion, this time from
the sunny South, home of the late free
trade chimera. The Bristol Iron and Steel
Company of Bristol, Tenn, says:
I'VE think the passage of the proposed
Wilson bill will be disastrous to the man.
ufacturing interests of this country, par
tlcularly to those near the seaboard. A
duty of 22L per cent will permit foreign
pig iron to be imported and 1T wilt not be
possible to reduce wages enough in this
country to Keep our works in operation.
duty of only 10 per cent on scrap iron
will permit large quantities of it to come
In, taking the place of domestic iron, and
also open the way to frauds in CHASING
iron as scrap thas is only broken up for
that purpose"
How well this company foresaw the
coming of disaster is seen in the present
depressed condition of the country, with
millions of workmen idle and a large per-
centage of the factories of the country
closed.
The Lehigh Steel and Iron Company oi
Allentown, Pa, manufacturers of pig iron,
show how the beneficent influences of pro-
lection are necessary to prevent the ruin
OF Americans. They say:
English pig iron is worth 35 to 36 shill-
ings per ton, I. o. b. vessel equal to about
$o per ton in our money. Add 81 20 to
81 90 per ton for ocean freight, and this
foreign iron will cost in New York and all
our other Eastern seaport and tidewater
towns SO to SO 30 per ton, while the cost
delivered in these Eastern markets from
the furnaces of Alabama. Georgia, North
Carolina. Tennessee, Virginia Mary
land, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York
and New Jersey will average from
$l2 to $13 per ton. There should
be added to this 81 25 to 81 sc
per ton for interest on the capital in.
vested in the plant. These figures are
based on conditions which yield no profit
| to the miner. quarryman or furnaceman
"When all business enterprise shall
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-08

1t has been shown in series of articles
in The CALL that the Democratic free
trade policy, so volubly championed by
William Jennings Bryan, has brought ruin
wherever it has touched, particularly IN
the wool, lun Der and sugar industries. IL
is now proposed to show In brlef ana
general way how protection aids ana now
free trade harms the various branches OF
the iron and steel industrles-the heaVl-
est in the United States.
1t should be borne in mind at the outset
that it may always be assumed as a gen.
eral proposition that iron is the basis of
all manufacturing, and whatever hurts
the iron business hurts the entire coun-
try.
If the cheap iron and steel manufac-
tories of pauper labor countries are al
lowed to come into America free of duty
the result is to destroy the iron and steel
industries of the country, or-almost as
bad-to reduce the wages of American
workingmen to mere living basis, as
hard and cruel as the iron law of wages
announced by Ricardo, where men work
by compulsion at the lowest sum that will
enable them to subsist.
Before submitting any evidence from
business, it is well TO bear in mind the
important fact that in nearly every form
of iron product the element of human
labor constitutes nearly 80 per cent of the
value; hence it is not difficult to see that
cheap iron, free from foreign countries, is
q direct blow at American workingmen.
The policy of William Jennings Bryan,
Us conclusively shown in his most i'm
2ortant Congressional speeches, is one
tavoring free trade in raw materials, as
we'll as in the manufactured articles of
commerce. 1t requires but q superficial
study of the question to show that such a
policy is directly in favor of the doctrines
of the Golden Club-one. of the rankest
free-traders from the earliest years of the
contest between protection and free trade
in America-the one a symbol of pros
peritY, the other symbol of ruin.
1t cannot be denied that England and
Germany are great iron and steel produc-
ing countries. They furnish great pro-
portion of the worlds finished steel prod
ucts in machinery and: cutlery Every
dollars worth of such goods imported into
America is a direct blow at American in
dustry and a peril to American labor.
Why? Chiefly because the American
manufacturer cannot compete with the
worlds markets if he pays the standard of
wages obtaining in the United States.
English wages are more than go per
cent lower Inan bnOSe IN America, Inen
how can American workmen make iron
products to compete with those of England
unless they accept the wages down TO the
English scale? What that scale would be
under Bryan's free-t trade ideas may be
seen to best advantage by a glance at the
condition of the wage-earners in the great
manufacturing centers of England. Here
are few pictures of those conditions that
Bryan's free-trade ideas would bring to
America John Ruskiu saws.
Though England is deafened with