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St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-04-03
FAvoRlTlsM OF REPUBLICANS.
Projection Makes the Rich Richer
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Projection Makes the Rich Richer
and the Poor Poorer.
The incoming administration is as
poor in political wisdom as it is in pa
triotism. Posing as the advance agent
Of prosperity, the republicans are doing
all they can to earn the reputation of
continuers of adversely. The present
tinkering of the tariff will do much to
injure the party in the coming cam
paign. There is nothing more busi-
ness-destroying than the uncertainty
which always accompanies tariff re-
vision, and in this instance it will be
all the more distastefua to the people
because it is well known that the legis-
lation of the extra session is largely,
If not entirely, for the purpose of fa-
voring industries already favored too
much, and of protecting monopolies
that are already sufficiently unpopu-
lar.
But Mckinley and tariff protection
are ever TO be linked together, it would
seem. It is quite fair to presume that
the coming bill will be as unpopular
and unjust as was its detested prede-
cessor. Besides, the republican party
is pledged to the plutocratic interests,
and Hanna, the friend OF capital and
the uncompromising foe of labor, will
dictate policy that will steadily con-
tinue to make the rich richer and the
poor poorer Tammany Times.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-04-03
A LITTLE PLAIN SPEECH.
Mckinley Promises Are Not being
Fulfilled.

Mckinley Promises Are Not Being
Fulfilled.
The chickens of Mckinley promise
are coming home to roost. They are
now next door to Mckinley himself,
in demands for him and Hanna to
make good their promises. The press
dispatches carry the following from
Cleveland, uttered by a prominent re-
publican leader, a relative of Matt Quay,
of Pennsylvania. He said:
'sIf Maj. Mckinley and M. A. Hanna
will not redeem some of the promises
that they made to the Workingmen OF
this country before the election, am.
in favor of the republican party, as o.
party, taking up the matter.
''The entire campaign, which was
managed by Hanna, was based on an
appeal to the workingmen of this coun-
try. They were promised that the mills
would open as soon as Mckinley was.
elected. They were promised work.
To-day the times are harder than they
were before election. One-third more.
men are out Of employment to-day than
before Mckinley was elected
This is doubtless well meaning ana
an honest man, who made the mistake
so many made, of taking any stock in
prediction promises. He says that
Hanna and Mckinley have not kept one
promise they made; say it is an out
rage to call Millionaire Sherman to the
cabinet ard put Millionaire Hanna in
his place in the senate. He demands
that Ohio's governor, Bushnell, will do
something that will show that Hanna
and Mckinley are to blame, and not
the G. o. 2. The simplicity of this
mans faith is astonishing. It is child
like and bland And yet he represents
a class s-a large class kittens they are
in republican politics, but they will get
their eyes openin time. Minneapolis.
Penny Press.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-04-03
AGlTATING TIE TARIFF.
The Protective Game Is Up with th'
Farmers.

: &
The Protective Game Is Up with the
Farmers.
1t is to be observed that the repub-
lican organs manifest very little cor
diality in such support as they are Civ
ing the republican tariff programme.
Many of them do not touch upon the
subject at all. During the past four
years numbers OF republican papers
have protested against the unreason-
ably high rates that are demanded by
those who are in q position to ask for
and insist upon receiving the benefits
that accrue from republican protection.
Those benefits do not apply widely, and
tits to be observed that outside that COM
paratively small circle where protection
is helpful there is very little support
given to the proposed tariff, and such
support as there is is not of the
heartiest.
AS for the farners-well the protee-
ton game may be said to be up in the
agricultural districts. 1t has beeen
played so often during a long period
that it is sadly the worse for the wear
and tear to which it has been subjected.
The republicans must shortly realize.
IL they do not realize already, that the
farmer thoroughly understands them
and he will not permit himself to be
victimized by any of their old and welI-
worn tricks, at any rate. He may be
caught by something new, but he is
through with walking into the protec-
ton trap. At least this is the way the
signs point, as witness a resolution
adopted by the Pennsylvania State
Grange couple of months ago, when it
declared:
"That we cannot deceive ourselves with
the idea that any measure of protection to
our industries offered by a tariff on imports
can avail in the slightest degree to benefit
the grower of these crops of which he pro-
duces surplus for export and whose
prices are necessarily made In the worlds
market where they are and must continue
to be disposed of. That while protection
countries which are Importers of agricui-
tural products mayin q measure remedy the
evil Of low prices by increasing the duties
an agricultural imports, 1t Is nlanifestly
impossible for those which produce @ sur
plus for export to give the least particle Of
relief to the interest of the farmers by a
high tariff on these products"
Protection is doubtless still good for
generous campaign contributions, and
the most must be made Of such fruit
of it, for it is clearly good for nothing
else. When the great agricultural ele-
ment admits seeing the folly and flu
tility of it, its promoters may well re-
gard it as having had its day. It's q
poor thing to cffer as an excuse for
wholesale and violent disturbance OF
business at a, time when business is SO
much in need of a rest.-Binghamton
On. Y.) Leader.
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cHicAao's HEAVY copPERs.

Mig officers on Guard st the Street
Crossings.
The arithmeties of the future will
perhaps contain proposition like this
for the youth to puzzle over:
"f crossing policeman weighs 24o
pounds and his belt is So inches in diam
eter, how far ahead of him will thief
keep who has a start of 90 rods, IL feet
slnd 3 inches?
The answer will be varied, accord
ing to the experience of the student.
If he knows a lot of things about the
Chicago crossing coppers he will say
about q mile. When the civil service
commission is examining man for
police force material for the days that
are to be, it would do well, perhaps,
to pick out few who can do 100 yards
under three minutes. They are not
on the force now. 1t may be that it
takes q man weighing over 200 pounds
to hold down job ON the detail, but
whatever the reason it is evident to the
observer that the squad runs more to
obesity than anything else. It seldom
runs at all, for that matter, since vio-
lent exercise is not part of the duties
of crossing cop.
The Broadway squad in New York
city is composed of the pick of the po-
lice force, selected for intelligence, neat
ness, polish and general appearance
not for height and ayoirdupois solely.
The officers are the finest-loolSing body
CT police in the world without doubt.
The Chestnut street squad of Phila-
delphia is composed of tall men, but
they are all finely built and an orna-
ment to the force. In Chicago the
man on the corner seems to be strong
on girth and little else.
To be sure, the crossing copper does
not have to travel a beat and his duties
are largely confined to waving a club
at obstinate drivers and helping ladies
to cross the street. But should thief
be seen rushing through the street with
a tray full of rings or a piekpocxet
jump from street car and run, how
many crossing copers in Chicago could
do anything except throw a club at him
Not one in dozen. It is a grieVous fact
that the only claim to eminence Chi
cago can make for its downtown police
is that they outweigh any equal number
of officers in the world.-Chiearo Chron.
icJe
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-04-03
From an Enemy Of Tomatoes.

The chicken heart in human beings
is not unknown, bat the tomato heart"
seems new. A western Pennsylvania
sayant informs the world that toma-
toes, whether raw or cooked, are unfit
for human consumption, and that near
ly everybody who cats tomatoes suf-
fers from lycopersicum cardiopathia,
or tomato heart. Their effect no
says, t.even npon the most robust ID
Invariably injurious The first synp-
tom is difficult breathing. which evi-
dences "an arrest of vital activity"
It seems that the secret OF the baneful
effects of eating tomatoes was revealed
to the professor in the discovery of
the fact that the inmates of The Pitts
burgh a1nshouse, who partake largely
of canned tomatoes, are also afflicted
with general depression.o
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-04-03
a wide Open weather Ers.

You will please take notice that ains
rich, anG maybe / aint smart nor very
goodlookin, but will bet the best pair
of mules in the settlement that never
will git turned out in the cold world
for the want of soft settin down place.
will have a little nest of my own to
start with, and if in case that slides out
from under me have already got three
or four places picked out, where / can
go and flop down and rest when git old
and tired.
There is James Saunders scruggins,
which didn't have no ma when he
turned up at our house, and never did
have any pa SO fur anybody knows of.
But toted fair with him and give him
a white boys chance. lie has got
good house now, and plenty to go on,
and [ am as welcome at his table as his
own dear daddy, if not more so.
And then there is Will Tom Pickens.
He wouldn't have pretty home and
a good, smart wife and four promisin
children to-day if hadn't 9xed un
little scheme and worked it out so ne
could marry Mamie Lou Galloway. /
was for Will Tom and Mamie Lou,
right or wrong, when their own hona
folks was tryin their level durndest to
bust up the match, and consequentially
there is warm place in their house for
me whenever | may call and need it.
I got letter from Will Tom the other
day, and this is the way it reads:
To Hon. R. Sanders, Rocky Creek.
You dear delightful old Dickunce:
You would come to see us Christmas or
New Year, but we have still got plenty OF
somethin good to eat and drink savin up
agin you can git off and come down. I
have got four more hogs to kill, whilst
Mamie Lou left the biggest turkey and put
away basket of eggs and also large
bottle Of vegetable matter to go with them.
Come as soon as you can and stay as long
as you golnation please. We will look till
we see you ccnin,
Yours through thick and thin,
WILL TOM PICKENs.
Moreover, also, Misses Josephine Crit.
tenden-little 10 Runnels as she use
to be-she is married now, 1iyin down in
the Flat Woods and doin well. She
always did think a great pile of NE,
and If it ever comes to pass that /
mought run out of soft settin down
places I know she will have pleasant
corner somewhere around the house
where she can tuck me in and keep me
warm.
II amt much probable that 1 will
ever git big rich or run for congress,
but you can bet your Sunday boots and
your side whiskers that if I ever git old
and broke down and genrally in the
way, will manage to find me soft
place, where can flop down and curl
up and go to sleep as neat and snug as
a meader mouse under fodder stack.
RUFUS SANDERS.
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but long before 1t come he was out
and gone the common way of all flesh.
He was only q little turned 30 when he
died, and the doctors give it out that
there want anything the matter with
him in particular-jest u general givin
awayand All all around kerhummux. He
was too Internal clost and stingy to
git married, and consequentially his
money went by long division to the law
gers and his poor relations.
Little Jim pitched his tune too blame
high, and naturally of course it didn't
take him very long to sing the song
out.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-04-03

can't make no tremendous big mistake
by keepin your weather eye open on the
future time to come. And then, if you
don'ttdie young, old age is comm swift
and certain by and by, and some of
these days you will find your rusty self
in need Of d soft settin down place TO
rest.
Some men get old whilst yet they are
young, and some remain over and tarry
around and stay young when they are
old. But they will all have to come up
te a stoppin place somewheres down
tho line. When the days work is done
and the race is roundin to finish
when the gold of evenin meets the dusk
of night-and them tired feelins are
crawlin up and down and all around,
you viii feel like floPpin yourself down
somewheres to rest. Then if you can
manage SO as to have good soft place
ready and waitin, you can bless your
glars, and laugh at the world, and shake
your fist at fate, and say Rufe Sanders
was plum right as usual.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-04-03
PRESS COMMENTS.

Some folks are apparently ami
mated by desire to make this gov
ernment by the trusts, of the trusts and
for the trusts.Gleveland Leader.
1T looks as if the American farmer
had olltgrown that stage where he could
be convinced that a high tariff on agri-
cultural products not imported into this
country constituted protection.-3ing g
iamton (N. ~ Leader.
When the republican thinks his
vote is not needed, the colored citizen
is plain "nigger," il the result is
doubtful, he is a negro" and il success
depends upon his vote, he becomes "a
colored gentleman. - Tammany Times.
American steel rails are selling
way below English prices and our maIa-
ufacturers have even been invading
England, but that Is no reason for the
removal of duties in the new republican
tariff bill. The trust will waEt to reor-
ganize in a few weeks. Then the duty
will be necessary to keep up exorbitantf
prices to the home consumer Kansas
City Times.
-Americans can manufacture iron,
more cheaply than Englishmen, while
paying much higher wages to labor.
but it has been conclusiyely demon
strated that the best paid labor il the
cheapest. England pays better wages
than are paid on the continent Of E'u-
rope, but IN spite of that she has been
able to maintain her supremacy, be-
cause she gets more service for given
amount Of money. The same is true OF
labor in the United States. 1t is better
paid than that Of England, but IN re-
turn it renders better service and e
more Efficient. T'ittsburgh firnef.
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OPELOUsAs, LOUISIANA SATURDAY !,
The rhyme should be as n..taral as The

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sentiment.
All of our best hymns have been
handed down to us from famous Eng
lish authors. With but few exceptions
there have been noue written within
the century. Did these old authors eS-
haust the field or has the spirit OF
sacred poetry departed? Who writes
hymn now? But even some of these
old popular English hymns are quite
faulty or unfortunate in expression.
When was boy used to hear Come.
thou Fountof every blessing" sung very
often in our church and l got tbs ;dea
into my head that angels tongues were
made of fire, for the hymn says: Sung
by flaming tongues above" | did not
like that nor do like ityet. That kind
of music is little too hot for mortals
to appreciate and adds nothing to the
attractiveness Of Heaven.
reckon am hypercritical about
such things, but can't help it. When
the SMILES in verse are unnatural they
distress me. Asmuch as admire Long,
fellow have never been reconciled TO
the lines:
As a feather is waited downward
from an eagle In his flight
There is nothing like the falling Of
darkness in that to me. It is strain Of
thought; might as well have said:
sFrom buzzard in his fight" and that
would have been horrid. The coming
of darkness is big thing and shrouds
the earth from horizon to horizon, but
the falling of a stray feather from a
bird is very little thirg-too little for
a comparison. But reckon it is mean
to find fault with a poet who wrote SO
many beautiful poems. / was only
ruminating. Sometimes change of ex
preston brings us down suddenly from
the sublime to the ridiculous. Web
ster's last words were whispered: II
still live," but young man knew un-
dertools to repeat them and said:
'sBoys, I'm not dead yet" aud all the
solemnity disappeared.-Bill Arp, in
Atlanta Constitution.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-04-03
Employment of Wet Nurse.

It is said that if mother is com
PEELED to allow another TO nurse her
child, if the nurse does not remain be-
yond the first year and the mother is
closely associated with and devoted
to the child, its love is not appreciably
affected. But If the nurse is allowed to
practically take the mothers place, it
will reflect her manners. ideas and in
di7fduality, and may even become indif-
ferent to the mother. Mental and ply
steal ailments may be asquired from
a nurse, hence she should be selected
with great care. She should be healthy
and near the same age and com plexion
as the mother and be fed literally
with food best suited to her needs and
the development Of the child. THE
strength of nation is in the care of
its children"
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she Didn't sec It tint way.

Mother-Why, Johnnie, what on
earth have you been doing3
Johnnie-Fight'n'! And you owe nye
SO cents on it. You know that tooth
you was going to pay dentist to drawf
eyes"
''Nell, Billy Rifer knaeksd It outt. -.
Odds ana Ends.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-04-03

man ought TO
manage so as
to save up a
stake and feather
o nest for him
8 g i t agin a
rainy day. 1t
mought be that
the rainy day
never will come,
and then maybe ii
will. But you
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-04-03
A Tariff for MonopoIisfs.

"It is a great piece Of nonsense to at
tempt to bring about prosperity by en-
acting a monopoly tariff. Our country
does not suffer from flood of foreign
goods nor from competition with for
eign manufacturers, Our ruin and
bankruptcy are owing to the imposer-
ish1nent of the agriculturists, brought
about by discarding silver as money
and putting gold at a premium, and thus
piling bounties on our competitors
abroad and benefting the gold oligarchy
at home. Our own people have been inn
roverished and sacrificed and made un-
able to buy. Hence our manufacturers
lost our home market, their great
market, and lost prosperity. We must
restore silver, abolish monopoly, light
EN-, not increase, burdens, and SO re-
lieve the people and bring back pros
perity."--canton (0.) Democrat.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-04-03

Tt is gratifying to learn from re-
publican sources that the tariff that
will be proposed at the coming extra
session will be conservative and will not
IN q single instance favor trusts or mo-
nopolies. But the wise man will not
take ali this for Gospel We have all
heard such statements made before.
The inevitable effect OF protection is to
build vi. Il usts and rnonopo polies Peoria
Herald
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-04-03
THE WHITE HOUSE.
Arrangements OF the Official Guar
tors OF the Executive.

Arrangements Of the Official Guar
tcrs OF the Executive.
At ten o'clock a hardly discernible
sign against the glass of the barrier an
nounces to the citizen who has arrived
under the grand portal that the execu-
tive mansion is "open" to visitors; at
two o'clock the sign is changed. to
"closed.a The doorkeepers swing the
doors open to everybody. Within the
large yestibule nothing is seen which
indicates the arrangement and purposes
of the different parts Of the mansion.
It was not always so, for originally the
now concealed corridor, or middle hall.
with the staircase on the right, was a
part of the entrance hall; now the
spaces between the middle columns are
closed with colored-giass partitions, and
the vestibule is simply large square
room pleasant to get out of. No way
appears to open to the state apartments
in the center, or to the west wing, which
is devoted to the private apartments;
yet glass doors are there, though as
imperceptiblato the strangeras aswing-
ing panel. To the left there is q door
which is always open. 1t admits to a
small hall across which a similar door
is the side entrance to the great east
room. About this splendid room, COM
prising the whole east end of the man
sion, the visitor may wander at will be-
fore the portraits, or enjoy from the
windows the beauty of the treasury
building to the east or the impressive
landscape to the south, including the
towering shaft of the Washington
monument, and, beyond, the ever
charming Potomac spreading with en-
largiEg curves toward Mount Vernon;
and in the private garden under the
windows he may chance to see merry
band of little ones, two of them the
presidents older daughters, with a few
playmates belonging to q kindergarten
class.
From the small hall between the YES
tibule and the east room a stairway as
cends toward the medal line of the
building to wide middle hall, on each
side of which are the Offices of the
president. The arrangement is simple,
and in the foor-plan covers the space
occupied below by the east room and
the green room, the latter being the
counterpart of the small hall with the
public stairway, just mentioned. At
the head of these stairs, over the green
room, is the cabinet room, which is the
first apartment in the south side of the
hall; q jog Of two steps, at the private
door into the presidents room, mark
ing the raised ceiling of the east room
below. The president reaches his Of
fee through the cabinet room, entering
the latter from the library, which corre-
spends on the second floor with the
blue room of the states apartments. Pres
ident Arthur, indeed, used the library
as his Office and the cabinet chamber
for an anteroom, while his private sec
retary was domieiled in the traditional
Office of the president. During his first
term Mr.. Cleveland preserved the same
arrangement; but Gen. Harrison went
back to the office hallowed by Lincoln's
occupancy, and Mr.. Cleveland, on bis re-
turn, found the arrangement so salts
factory that lie continued it.-Century.
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OLD ROCKY.
Eeep q Weather Eye on tlaa t'k5oSt
Sottin-Down Places"
Ono MAN Who Ran the savin-Ur-for-
n-Rniny-Day Business Into the
Gr0und-Takin Out Time
a-ConinE.

Life at the very best is vain
md short and feetin, but every
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The Good Average way.

But nowhere was old man Jerry
Scroggins, which took the good average
way and kept it to the end. He want
to say very speedy, but he helt his own
and kept his feet under him and stood
the T3ce through a long heat. He
started out poor and never got rich, but
at 40 he was right tolerable well fixed,
and every time he took a step forwards
hewould drivedown peg SO heeouldn't
slip back. He was slow but steady.
Gradually by degrees he bought good
farm and stocked it, and built nice
home, and planted out fine orchard
and raised a big family. He took his
own time and went a good, safe gait,
savin his strength as Well as his money,
and was fresh and sprightly and active
as a cat at go. He never got in any tre-
mendius big hurry, but he hit a reglar,
steady lick seein how it would take him
through by and by. He took things as
they conle-easy and natural-and
made home happy and life pleasant. He
lived long enough to zee all of his grand
children grown up and married off and
settled down, and then when he got old
and poor and weary with the storms of
life he had him a warm, soft settin
down place to rest.
But old man Jerry made one break in
his old age which you never would Of
counted on from safe and prudent
man like him. He let his foot slip
oncst, and if he hadn't caught the step
mighty quick he would Of lost his nest
and went forth into the cold world
alone. You ought to have nest, and
hit we'll feathered, when you get old
and feeble, and then you ought to stay
with it and stick to 1t till the sun goes
down and the cows come home and
the eyenin stars sing together.
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10 Joy In Ills Cup.

Wyld-The paper says Easter will DO
pleasant.
Maels-Not for me. Irefused to buy
my wife a new bonnet. Day City CHIT