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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1897-09-10
TOWN TOPICS.
Collector Mansur.

The HERALD DOTS its hat aud makes
its best bow TO Collector Mansur. Mr..
Mansur has been appointed b. the presi-
dent TO the position OF Collector Tor the
new customs district OF Memphremagog,
a position that all conoede ne will all
with honor aud credit alike to the gov
rrnment and himself. The citizens gener-
ally throughout Essex County, regardless
OF party, extend hearty congratulations
to the Colonel on his appointment. He
will assume his new duties October /,
with headquarters at Newport.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1897-09-10

Last Sunday Geographic dispatch
was received by Mrs. ]. E. Tracy an
nouncing the death OF her sister Kate
Connary at st. Louis Saturday evening.
Mr.. Tracy at once went to Detroit and
met the remains, arriving here Wednes-
day, where he was Joined by his wife and
family and all proceeded to Lancaster to
attend the funeral, which occurs today,
Thursday,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1897-09-10
Methodist Episcopal.

At11 a. M. Sunday, Sermon. Subject,
" The Prodigal's Brother"
1915 p. m. Bible School.
No evening service on account of the
union service in the Coug'l Church.
7.3O p. m. Tuesday, devotional meeting
of Epworth League.
100 p. m. Friday, Class Meeting.
To these services all are welcome.
REV. 4 Z. ATwATER, Pastor.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1897-09-10

Thomas Paquette went to Montreal
last week for hospital treatment. We
sincerely hope the fondest expectations
OF his friends may be fully realized.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1897-09-10

DIR. and Mrs. Ellie and their two chill
dren start today, Thursday, for weeks
vacation visiting friends in Montreal
aud other Canadian points.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1897-09-10

Mrs. Allan Moyle and children Of Lam
caster, n. H., former residents of Island
Pond have been welcome visitors here the
past week.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1897-09-10

Wool Carding. Barton Wooden Mills,
carding and greasing Sc. Wool lett at
Geo. Brackets store. West Charleston,
carded and returned at same price.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1897-09-10

Miss Nellie Clarke and Willie Hogan OF
Island Pond have entered the shorthand
department OF the Shaw Business Col
lege at Portland, Me.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1897-09-10
CHURCH SERVICES.
Congregational.

At the congregational Church next
Sunday morning at IL the pastor will
preach upon the subject. "The More
Abundant Life" At Up. m. union SER
vice with sermon by Rev. A. Z. Atwater.
Subject. Some Questions Submitted to
Christ and the Answers" All are most
cordially invited to attend these services.
[. o. GRIEsHABER. Pastor.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1897-09-10
NOTICE

All persons indebted to the late firm of
Clarke, Pomeroy & Clarke, also G. E.
Clarke, are requested to call at our office,
over the post office, and settle by cash or
note. g. Z. & II. G. CLARKE,
Brighton, VT, Sept. s, 1897.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1897-09-10

David =. Mackenzie has built the
first piece of concrete walk laid in town.
We hope Others will follow his example.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1897-09-10

Miss Grace Davis returned to Boston
last Monday to again take up her musi-
cal studies in the Conservatory OF Music.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1897-09-10

Guy Brothers this year have % people,
almost all OF whom are new to Island
Pond, and the company is bigger and
better than ever.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1897-09-10

Guy Davis has closed his engagement
with II. ". Marsh OF Norton and is at
home.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1897-09-10
Fruit jars at vaIlee Brothers.

Reserved seats at Thurston's drug
store for Guy Brothers September Is.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1897-09-10

Miss Ella Mackenzie left town last
Saturday Tor Chelsea. Mass. to resume
her studies in the high school there.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1897-09-10

Miss Rose Hodgkins OF Portland, Me,
has been visiting in town, the guest OF
Miss Blanche Davis.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1897-09-10

Guy Brothers September Is, 1897.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1897-09-10

Fruit Jars at yallee Brothers.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1897-09-10

Fruit Jars at Vallee Brothers.
The Yale expositor., 1897-11-05
CAN'T MAKE TIN, CAN'T WEI
Old Free Trade Argument Knocked
Into a Cooked Hat.

Everybody remembers how the free
traders scoffed at the idea of making tin
plate in this country, and how long they
denied that 1t was being made at all. Now
we are making tin plate enough to supply
our own markets and ship some abroad,
and we are making it better and cheaper
than the Welshmen did. London Hard
ware Of Sept. 16 says, referring to the
Welsh makers: 1T is not their fault IL the
American works, brand new in all their
appointments, turn out plates little
cheaper than the Welsh mills. Besides,
the Americans get their tin bars cheaper.
or course the loss Of the Ameri-
can trade is a great disaster, but it came
in the natural order OF things, and must
be accepted patiently" There never was
a greater triumph for the protection prin-
ciple, or Il plane. demonstration Of It,
effectiveness, than the establishment Of
the tin plate industry in this country, and
appreciation Of that fact was one reason
why the free traders fought it so malig-
lignanuy.-Louisville Commercial.
The Yale expositor., 1897-11-05
Political Bird Shot.

Reports from the farming regions show
that the corn is shocked. SO are the free
silver advocates who note its advance in
value.
Those dark clouds that hang over every
manufacturing town nowadays are not OF
n dangerous character, except to the ca
lamity howlers.
The Bank of England is becoming
alarmed at the outflow of gold from its
Golfers to this country, and various meas
ures are being attempted to stop it, But
it still continues to come.
The democratic newspapers are bewail-
ing the fact that the deficit Of the second
month Of the Dingley law was over three
million dollars ($3,00O,000). They prob
ably did not notice that the deficit Of the
second month of the Wilson law was over
$13,000,000.
"Mr. Hanna is the owner of a mine in
Michigan. 1t is the only one in Michigan
where the miners own their own homes.
In this mine they are getting better pay
than at any other mine in the State
Statement by A. w. Wright, ex-Member
Board knights OF Labor.
The Philadelphia Record says that the
Dingley law comes laundering down the
line in the second month OF it's operation
with q deficit of three and half million
dollars. What a noise there must have
been in the second month of the Wilson
law, when the deficit was thirteen and
half millioni
The Yale expositor., 1897-11-05

facture tin plate successfully in America?
Treasury officials now have no doubt
that the Dingley law will produce ample
revenues after it gets fairly at work. The
earnings Of its second month exceeded
those Of the second month of the Wilson
law, and are steadily growing.
Secretary Wilson says the beet sugar
manufactures in the United States will
be quadrupled in number in the next
year. Is this due to famine abroad?
or course the Dingley law must not be
credited with it,
Prof. Wilson is so busy with his new
duties that he hasn't had time to explain
why farm products and prices Of labor in
creased as soon as the Dingley law went
into operation.
The Democratic New York Journal says
that gold is on its way to New York and
the tide Of domestic manufacturing inter
ests rises higher each day. The railroads
are blocked up with the crush of business
all along the line"
1t will be noticed that the total loss on
the value Of the farm animals of the Unit
cd States during the years 1893, 1894,
1895 and 1896 reached the enormous ag-
gregate of $2,500, 422, 0GS! That is the
loss in the value Of farm animals alone
during the past four years.
These are vitality important facts to the
farmers Of the nation, and they are only
another link in the chain Of official proofs
prepared by free trade ofiicials-that the
farmers Of the United States lost over
five billions of dollars by the decreased
consumption and decreased values Of their
crops during the four years Of free trade
government and free silver agitation. The
readers should constantly remember that
the statistics given here are not Register
lies" but are taken from the official re-
ports of the free trade Secretary Of the
Treasury and the free trade Secretary of
Agriculture OF President Cleveland's last
administration.-Des Moines Register.
The Yale expositor., 1897-11-05
FACTS AND FIGURES.
WHAT TIE FARMERS LOST BY
FREE Trade.
Enormous Decrease in the VaIue of
Agricultural Products in Conse-
quence of a Free Trade Administra-
tion and Free Coinage Agitation.
Official Records Show 1t.

1t is shown by official reports, prepared
by the officials of President Cleveland's
last administration, that the decreased
consumption of wheat was 311,SS6,l06
bushels. and the decreased consumption
OF corn, 2,945. 529, $40 bushels-a total de-
creased consumption Of 3,257 ,41G,072
bushels Of wheat and corn in the United
States during those four years. In this
article is given the total production Of
wheat and corn in the United States each
year for five years, the total value of
each years crop, and the decreased farm
value of each years crop compared with
1S92-when the wheat crop Of the United
States was larger than in any of the other
years named and the worlds wheat crop
as large as the average of the years since
1S92-as proved by the following figures
taken from page 293 Of the Statistical
Abstract Of the United States, 1896"
which was prepared under the direction Of
Secretary Carlisle, as proved by the let
ter therein submitting the report to the
House of Representatives-exce the fig
ures on wheat and corn crops OF 1896
which have been obtained from page 500
of the Year Book of the u. S. Depart
ment Of Agriculture" which was pre-
pared by Secretary ]. Sterling Morton,
who is one of the most extreme free trad
ers in the nation:
The Yale expositor., 1897-11-05

in that State. German is candidate for
reelection to the Senate, and the Legis-
lature chosen this year will elect his sue
cessor. A few weeks ago German an
nOunced that he was not seeking another
term. That was the first confession of
weakness on the part Of the Maryland
Democratic managers, for Germans can
didacy, as both Democrats and Republi-
cans well know, will take away thousands
OF votes from the Democratic State and
legislative tickets. Germans conditional
offer now to abandon the leadership Of
his party and cut loose his official connec-
ton with it means that he and the other
managers believe that the party's chances
in the campaign are hopeless.-St. Louis
Globe-DemOcrat.
The Yale expositor., 1897-11-05
Mckinley and c5.Cent Wheat,

The free silverites last year made sun
dry bold statements about n contracted
currency; that there was not enough mon
ey in the country with which to do bust
ness, and that the only way out Of it was
by the adoption Of the free and unlimited
coinage scheme. This would fix things up
all right, but unless adopted, many terri
bic things would happen wheat would
drop to % cents bushel, mortgages
would be foreclosed, men could find no
employment, and a general gloom would
settle over the country, such as had never
been seen before. 1t will be remembered,
however, that the free coinage proposition
was not adopted by the voters of the coun-
try, and yet in spite of this fact the circu-
lation Of the country within year has
increased nearly $100,000,000, wheat has
gone up to the dollar mark, mortgages are
being rapidly paid off, men are employed
everywhere, and the only gloom observa-
bic in the country comes from the fac
tory smoke.
The Yale expositor., 1897-11-05
Populist, Dr. piping IL.

The Populist party is rapidly abandon
ing the free silver proposition. The To
peka, Kan, Advocate, a recognized Off
cial organ of the Populist party in re
cent editorial, says: THE principal differ
ence between the orthodox Populist and
the Republicans and Democrats on the
money question consists in the fact that
he believes paper money of the right sort
is as good as gold or silver, and does not
need to be redeemed in either metal.
He knows that the fat or the law written
on the coin tone dollar is its commission
and gives it it's legal value, and he cares
nothing about the value of bullion.
There is no more room in the bimetallic
theory for the fiat idea than there is in
the mOnometallc theory"
The Yale expositor., 1897-11-05
Our Farmers VIII Profit.

Estimates made by the Government sta
tisticians of the United States and Aus
tra-Hungary place the deficiency in the
worlds wheat supply for this year at 202,-
100000 bushels. The total crop Of last
year fell 130,000,000 bushels short Of the
average, so the net deficiency Of the two
years aggregates $50, 100000, or more
than one-sixth Of a normal years supply.
This is sufficient to account for the adj
vance in prices, when taken in connection
with the fact that the consuming popula-
ton is constantly increasing. Reports
from the wheat exporting countries of
the Southern Hemisphere promise a good
average yield from the next harvest, but
the outlook for next years American win
ter wheat is bad enough to more than bal
ance the good promise of Australia and
Argentina. On the whole, the outlook is
for no better supply next year than this,
including Misunderstanding Dispatch.
The Yale expositor., 1897-11-05
PrnhnhIv am Overalcht.

About the only wild vagary that the
Chicago platform did not indorse and
adopt was the single land tax, and it looks
now as IL that might go In the next ma
tional Democratic platform. The truth
is. there is not much else left for the par
". The tariff question is settled for
many years to come, free silver will never
figure in another national election, "gov-
eminent by injunction" is too thin for n
national issue, so what is the poor old
Democracy to do? John G.. Shanklin,
Democratic national committeeman from
this State, has been pronounced advo-
cate OF the single land tax for years, and
n few days ago he said TO an interviewer:
"Were | in New York | should support
The Yale expositor., 1897-11-05
"Money PoMec :" Again.

Is it that terrible money power" that
is destroying the crops all over the world
for the purpose OF giving American farm
ers higher prices and thus showing them
the falsity of the wheat-and-silver theory?
There is just as much sense in assuming
that the money power could control the
wind and weather and grasshoppers and
other causes of foreign grain shortages
as it was to assume last fall that a hand
full Of fnancers lOcatedein some mysteri-
Gus secret chamber in London or else
where could control the legislation Of the
greatest and most intelligent nations of
the world in behalf Of the gold standard,
as was asserted from day to day and
week to week during the entire campaign
of 1896.
The Yale expositor., 1897-11-05
GEORGE MELVILLE.
What About Corn. Pork and woolq

How DO the free silver and free trade
theorists who are charging up the advance
in wheat to the shortage abroad account
for the advance in all other farm products,
corn, rye, beef, pork. wool, cattle. horses,
sheep, hops, tobacco and potatoes? The
fact is that il is due TO the increased con-
sumption at home. People who earn little
economic in eating; those whose earn
ings are increased spend far more for
food and get that of better quality.
When the working people of the United
States are employed at good wages they
buy more food and clothing than when I'M
employed or working for half pay 1t is
a protective tariff that does the business.
The Yale expositor., 1897-11-05
Compares the Two Laws.

The American Economist contains an
instructive comparison between the first
two months of the Wilson tariff and the
Dingley tariff. The figures show that dur
ing the first month of its operation, Sep
TENDER, 1894. the Wilson bill yielded a
revenue of SD, 621 800 and during the sec
ond month $19, l30, 240. The Dingley bill
produced $19,023,615 during the first
month Of its operation and sd, 1888 ,09S
during the second. The point OF contrast
is that while the Wilson bill showed a
large falling off in the second month the
Dingley bill shows large gain and ST.
793,S5S more than the total revenue re-
ceived during the second month of the
Wilson bill. From another point of view,
covering expenditures as well as receipts,
the deficit during the first month of the
Dingley bill was nearly $7,000,000 greater
than during the first month Of the Wilson
bill, while in the second month Of the
Dingley bill the deficit was over $4,000
600 less than in the second month Of the
Wilson bill. The Wilson bill deficit grew
as the bill got older and continued to in
crease, while the Dingley bill deficit was
81 100000 less in the second month than
in the first, showing the superiority Of
the Dingley bill as producer Of revenue,
while as a producer Of prosperity there is
no room for comparison. The Wilson bill
destroyed prosperity, while the Dingley
bill is restoring il.
The Yale expositor., 1897-11-05
Wilson
UaHNF
efficiency .s21 ,275.5 800 $4,000, $50
Undi,ly Exerci,cd.

Henry Watterson, the Louisville philos-
opher, has been viewing with alarm again.
He sees evidences that the French revolu-
ton is 20 be revived very soon on the
American stage with Alleged, Tillman and
Henry George cast as RobespieTe, Dan
ton and Marat respectively. AS a mat
ter of fact, there was never less danger
than now that we are near to n conflict
with the forces of disorganzation. The
American people are better fed, better
housed, better cSo:hed, better educated,
and more contented than any other people
in the world. aud if they should conclude
that any political or social changes are
necessary or promising they will make
them peaceaby through the ballot box.
Dir. Watterson should cheer up and re-
turn for season to those mild Swiss
wineS-EX
The Yale expositor., 1897-11-05
They Would Rnin u

1t is pity that this country should be
so completely at the mercy of the gold
power" of England Gold has been pour
ed into the United States. at San Fran
cisco, New York and all the great ports,
until our gold circulation is fifty million
more than it was a year ago, while the
total increase in circulation is nearly a
hundred million. There really seems to
be no way. to stop these schcmers in the
old countries from flooding us with their
gold and sweeping away the underpinning
of the Chicago and other free coinage
p'aq,lrc
The Yale expositor., 1897-11-05
Trade Revival Not Threatened.

The same sort of reaction which has
occurred in the stock market in the past
two weeks took place in tie latter part of
1879, the year Of gold resumption, and
many persons predicted then, as they do
now, that the boon has burst" The
very same influence which caused the re-
action then causes il now-wild specula-
ton. Prices went up too fast at the be-
ginning of the trade revival then, as they
have done in the past few months. Bust
ness expansion was not checked in the
slightest degree, however. by the tempo
rary drop in stocks in 1879, nor is 1t in
1S97.-St. Louis Globe Democrat.
The Yale expositor., 1897-11-05
Another Evidence.

An evidence Of the Improvement in bus
mess since the people of the country de-
cided in favor Of protection and sound
money is found in figures in the recent re-
port of the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion. They show that the freight tonnage
for the year just ended is the largest in
the history Of the railways Of the country,
and is TO less than seventy million tons
in excess Of the preceding year. The
gross earnings of the railroads of the
country for the year were nearly $75, 000,-
600 greater than those Of the preceding
year.
The Yale expositor., 1897-11-05

Henry George because he is the only ex
ponent among the candidates for Mayor
of the principles decided at the Chicago
convention, absolute loyalty to which is
the test of true Democracy" Henry
George cares more for the single land tax
than he does for the entire Chicago plat
form. Mr.. Shanklin knows this. and when
the time comes he and Henry George will
both be found working to get a single
land-tax plank in the Democratic plat
form.-IndianapOls Journal.
The Yale expositor., 1897-11-05
Dingley Law Doing Splendidly.

A good deal has been said in the Demo
cratic newspapers, and more particular
ly in the mugwump free trade papers,
about the failure of the Dingley bill to
produce sufficient revenue. They were
not willing to wait until the bill had been
fairly tried and until the stock of import
ed goods had been exhausted, but began
as soon as the bill went into effect to COM
plain that il was not a revenue getter.
They utterly ignored the fact that in an
ticipation Of ii the country had been flood
cd with imported goods and that conse-
quently importations fell off as soon as
the new law went into effect.
The Wilson law was declared on its
face to lee a revenue getter purely, and
its advocates asserted that it was tariff
for revenue only. 1t went into effect in
September, 1894. In its first month the
receipts were 500. G21 30. In October, the
second month, the receipts were 9,139,-
240. The total receipts for the first two
months were SAL, 760, Ago. The Dingley
bill was in operation two months on the
1st Of October. In August the receipts
were $19.023, G15, and in September S21,-
033, 096, the total for the first two months
of the new law being $i0,956,T13, or less
than n million below the receipts or the
first two months of the Wilson law.
Here is another way Of putting it. In
the first month of the Wilson law the de-
ficiency was $7,705, 100; in the second
month, $13,573,S 500; the total deficiency
in the first two months being $21 ,2T5,G90.
Under the Dingley bill in the first month
the deficiency was $14 sd 32 and in the
second month, September last, $3,435, rs;
the total for the two months being $751;
000,150 therefore the deficiency in the
first two months under the Wilson law
was over 100000 greater than in the
first two months Of the present law. Put
ting these results in tabular form we fur
nish the following statistics:
First two months:
Wilson Dngley
Bill. Bill.
Expenditures 1858 ,036,059 $5S,956,S6
Receipts ...... al, 7G0,4 AGO 40,956,T13
The Yale expositor., 1897-11-05
Wheat VIII Keen I'm.

European crop reports confirm the es-
timated shortages that have been made
from time to time and give assurance
that the foreign demand will keep the
prices Of American breadstuffs up to the
point about which they have huctuated
for the past few weeks. The property OF
the American farmer is not a myth in any
sense of the word.--Omaha Bee.
The Yale expositor., 1897-11-05
Another SIump.

Another fall in silver is recorded from
the financial centers in this country and
Europe. During the closing week in Sep
tember the price Of silver bars dropped
from 57h cents per ounce to 81 cents, in
New York. A money metal which would
nuctuate 31a per cent in value in a single
week can scarcely commend itself to the
average voter as safe one for adoption
by single nation with. at least the CO.
operation of other countries to sustain its
yalue