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The Forrest City times., 1897-09-03
THE STAR OF EYiSM.
Prices on the Increase Under the New
 Tariff.


 Tarin.
 Consumers are thus early learning that under the Dingley bill they are confronted by a hard, tangible condi- tion and not a mystical, intangible theory.
 The prices of all the necessariss arv going up without the least promise of an increase in the income of the wage earners. New York grocers have ad- vanced the price of sugar six-tenths of a cent a pound. This is just starter. From this increase the sugar trust will reap reward of S25,000.000, as the Dingley bill intended it should. There has also been an advance of from ten to twenty-five per cent. on all wooden goods. The new law has caused an ad- vance in the price of hides, and an in- crease in the cost of boots and shoes from 30 to 50 cents a pair will follow. In brief. an advance soon of prices all along the line may be confidently looked for.
 The upholders of the Dingley bill cannot deny the facts of increasing prices, and they try to justify the meas ure and the party's action in imposing it upon an already overtaxed nation by contending that it will ultimately result in raising the wage scale by the bare force of the necessities of wage-earners, and also in multiplying the opportunities for employment. This is the. veriest rot. The Mckinley bill did not raise wages or increase la- bor's opportunities. On the contrary, the industrial history of that brief pe- riod shows that wages decreased under the Mckinley bill and that more trusts were formed than during any other corresponding time in the nations his tory.
 The sole and only business purpose of trusts is to control production by smothering competition. That propo- sition is too automatic to require ar gument or illustration. The rates of the Mckinley bill were on an average ten per cent. lower than the rates of the Dingley bill. The latter measure will be proportionately greater trust breeder. There is no sentiment in busi- ness. It will embrace it's opportunity to cheapen its operations and increase its profits. This means an era of higher prices during the life of the Dingley bill than were ever known in this country in time of peace and when all of the productive energies of the na- tion were vigorous and eager to be al- lowed full sway.
 Speaker Reed very correctly and sue cinctly summarized the causes of re- publican defeat under the Mckinley bill once by declaring that "it was the women shoppers who did it." When the American people again get whack at the republican party Mr. Reeds quick perception and ready wit will have another opportunity for display. l As he views the wreck the thought is bound to suggest itself to his mind that the greed and rapacity of trusts have caused it.-St. Louis Republic.
The Forrest City times., 1897-09-03
SUCCESS OF DEMOCRATS.
Favorable Signs in Several Impor
 tant States


 tant States.
 The prospects for democratic sue cess in Ohio and Iowa are growing brighter as the active opening of the campaign approaches.
 Republicans are frightened at the outlook. and are whistling to keep their courage up. The record of the repub- lican party since it went into power is such that its leaders fear to face the people. Their fostering of trusts, their gifts to combines and their subservi- ency to monopolies make a precarious platform on which to stand before the people.
 Add this record of corrupt legislation to that of the republican party on the money question and the burden will be too great to bear. In the words of the New York World: The republicans have sown broadcast the seeds of new discontent. Democracy has but to be true to itself to reap from this sowing an abundant harvest"
 Of course, the world is opposed to metallism, but it sees the downfall of the republican party in it's slavish obedience to the beheSts of the trusts and its disregard for the welfare of the people.
 Success in Ohio and Iowa for the democracy would be tremendous vic tory, because all the powers of corrup- tion would enlist themselves in behalf of republicanism. Defeat would not carry with it Encouragement to the democratic forces, for the real battle is before them in 1898. and victory then will mean a conquest in 1900, carrying with it freedom. happiness and prosper ity for the na ation.-Chicago Dispatch.
The Forrest City times., 1897-09-03
Proposed Railroads Incorporated.

Articles of incorporation of the Mis- souri X Arkansas Mineral Belt railway, capitalized at ss,ooo, 900, has been filed in the office of secretary of state. It is proposed to construct a complete belt line from the Arkansas and Missouri state line through the counties of Ben ton, Madison, Carroll, Boone, Marion, Searcy and Newton. The following are named as directors: o. l.. Cravens, NJ. w. Clay. D. T. Mason, Neosho, Mo; c. R. Clay, Pineville, Mo; James Nj. Bo- hart, Bentonville; J. A. c. Black kburn, ]. c. Walker, Rogers; John A. Bunch, Harrison, and A. s. Layton. Yellville.
 The Big Three Railway company also filed articles of incorporation. The directors are D. c. Willett, L. F. Willett and J. B. Bethel, of Morgansfield, Ky; D. Clark and l.. Franklin, Hot Springs. This is the proposed road to run from Lakeport, in Chicot county, to Texark- ana, in Miller county, a distance of 200 miles
The Forrest City times., 1897-09-03
Heavy Loss By Fire.

Fire at Russellville destroyed DOT ton of the business center of that city. The lossses> are as follows: C. P Hall, hardware, $2,0oo, insurance $500; Rus sell Bross,. two buildings, si.ooO, with no insurance; Ragsdale & Ferguson, on building, q 900, no insurance; I. T. Fowler, two buildings, q ,5O0, no insur- ance; ;:Winchester's restaurant, s2O0, no insurance. The brick buildings of w. H Hill and Roys X Co. were considera- ply damaged, as well as the building occupied by Kerr's drug store. on Jef- ferson avenue.
The Forrest City times., 1897-09-03
Pardons ana Remissions.

Gov Jones has granted the following pardons and remission of fines:
 J. D. Lea, convicted of Burglary in shs 0uachlta circuit court in 1896 and sentenced to three years in the peniten- tiary; also W. H. Williams, convicted in the same county April 26, 1896, of sodomy and sentenced to five years. Sam Madison, convicted in Pulaski circuit court of burglary and attempted rape, and sentenced to five years.
 John Turney, convicted in a Johnson county justice court last May of petit larceny and fined &l00; remitted
 Charles Skillern, convicted in Pu- laski county justice court of forgery and fined &l25; remitted.
The Forrest City times., 1897-09-03
PARAGRAPHiC POINTERS.

When prosperity returns it will not be through the custom house. but through the golden harvest fields."- Indianapolis News.
 The trouble with the farmers pockets these days is that no matter how much is poured into them as the result of the harvests it always runs out through the holes made by the tariff.-Chicago Chronicle.
 -Extravagance grows with what it feeds upon. It becomes a power in legislation that is almost irresistible. The new tariff bill will not supply rev. enue sufficient to meet such expendi- tures. It's promoters admit this. MT. Aldrich and MT. Dingley have finally agreed that the deficit for this year will be not less than $30, ,0O0, 900. The chances are that they have underesti- mated this deficit-Louisville Post.
 The Hanna system means that all responsible public offices shall be pur- chased by aggregated wealth for in- cumbents who will loyally serve their masters; that neither honor nor oaths nor the direct specifications of the law shall count for anything where the in. terests of aggregated wealth are con cerned; that even crime itself is to be treated with respect if committed by men who count their wealth by millions and whose conspiracies against need are for the qualification of preed.- N. Y. World.
The Forrest City times., 1897-09-03
THE STATE IN BRIEF.

Hazen has law and order league
 Mrs. Arminta Burrow, a resident of Hardy, is 1o2 years old.
 Forest fires did considerable damage to fences and timber near Prescott
 A well recently dug at Austin tastes so strong of salt that it is unfit for use
 The Cotton Belt shops at Pine Bluff are running on full time. Over 500 men are employed.
 Prof. J. H. Shinn's History of the United States will be used in the publi schools of Little Rock
 Auditor Sloan has forwarded to the various county clerks the tax books for next years tax records.
 Col N. B. Thweatt, one of the oldest settlers of Prairie county, locating there nearly 50 years ago, is dead
 Will Ford, young white man of Con- way, was accidentally killed by a freight train at Hartman.
 Burglars entered the residence of J. M. Blackwell, a Chickalah merchant, and got away with trunk and e750.
 The first bale of cotton received at AAAS AsAhh cAoukht llTa CCutS, ana Helena's first bale sold for 11A cents.
 Baker Springs, In Polk county, has been purchased by Texarkana capital ists, who will establish a health resort i,
 Harry W. Smith, of Green county. has been granted . patent on an djus- table collar and scraper for cotton cul- tivators.
 Doc Eastwood, IA years old, was hit over the head with baseb bat by T boy named Witt near Murfrees boro and instantly killed.
 Robt. Peel, . young farmer near Huntsville, hung himself on the limb of . tree with halter rein. He had been in ill health for some time.
 Enoch Bean, farmer near Mountain Home. was fatally wounded by the acci- dental discharge of his gun while crawl. ing through hole in his fence.
 Miss Nettie Powell, of Huntsville. beautiful 1s-year-old girl, committed suicide by shooting herself through the heart. A love affair was the cause.
 The canning factory at Rogers has been leased by northern company, and will be started up at once, giving em. ployment to large number of people.
The Forrest City times., 1897-09-03
SHARE OF wAGE-EARNERS.
Where the Working Man Comes Tn
 on the Dingley Tarfn.

Where the Working Man Comes Tn
 on the Dingley Tarin. If the wage-earner does not organize to protect his own interest who will do t for him?
 The republican party's reply to this question, asked by a reverend preacher, will be that organization on the part or he wage-earner is unnecessary for the protection of his own interests because those interests are entirely protected in tariff legislation.
 But assuming for a moment the po- fency of tariff legislation to provide higher wage for the American artisan, the particular manner in which the arti- san is to be protected and to gain his higher wage through the operation of the tariff law is faulty.
 The tariff duty on bituminous coal, not laid. the republicans will explain. for the benefit of the mine owner, but for the benefit of the mine operative. was increased in the Dingley bill by 27 cents ton, just as the glass schedule and all other schedules were increased to the Mckinley rates.
 But the tariff law leaves the interests of the laborer. for whose benefit, it is said. this tariff in its protective features is mainly laid. in the hands of the em- ployer. It does not compel the em- ployer to keep books and make sworn returns showing the amount gained to his business by the protective tariff nor the amount of such gain paid to em- ployes in the protected industries. It has resulted that the so-called prin- cipal beneficiary of protection, the la- boring man, has not had his due share of the profits of protection. These have been secured to him in part only by his own organization. He cannot trust those benefciaries of the tariff that the tariff maker trusts. The tariff maker says in effect to the captains of industry: We charge you to see that labor gets the bulk of the profit we give you in this bill, profit arising from our use of authority to legislate for the general welfare. We intrust the general welfare partly to you. We expect you to use it to the advantage of labor. which is our main concern"
 Then the tariff maker goes off and foolishly rejoices in the work he has done, never having taken adequate rteps to see that the captain of industry has performed his share of the com pact.
 So it is that even if the tariff for pro- lection is the true policy it is not self effective in the protection of labor. Ii leaves the interests of labor in the hands of the greedy persons who procured the legislation, the great captains of in- dustry who hog" as the expressive phrase is, all that is in it for themselves and leave labor to get what it can only through it's own organization.
 And it is to such organization that labor in the protected interests owes the fact that it has had any other than living wage. The captains of industry have not made fair divide of the profit of tariff taxation.-Chicago Chronicle.
The Forrest City times., 1897-09-03
THE REAL PROMOTER.
Education Alone Will Bring Pros
 perfty.


 It has always been admitted that the wages of skilled labor were higher in the United States than anywhere else in the world. The McKinleys and Ding leys have always insisted that they de- serve all the credit for this happy state of affairs. and that the attempt to credit 1t to the superior skill and intelligence of the American workman was both silly and unpatriotic.
 Now comes the nonpolitical Massa- chusetts bureau of statistics of labor with exhaustive and undoubtedly &C., curate tables of comparative wages that leave the McKinleys and Dingleys without leg to stand on. The Massa- chusetts bureau. after compiling the wages in 99 occupations, finds:
 1. That there are wider differences between the wages paid for the same kind of work in various parts of the United States than there are between the wages of the United States and of England or the continent.
 9. That in the United States the work men of Massachusetts receive the high est wages in every class of occupations in those that pay poor wages at best no less than in those that offer labor the largest returns.
 The first proposition shows that the chief cause for differences in wages can not be tariffs, which of course operate equally upon protected manufactures everywhere. The second proposition shows that whatever this chief cause is 1t helps the workmen of Massachusetts more than it helps those of any other state.
 What then is this chief cause?
 The statistics of education undoubt- edly furnish the clew to it. They show that Massachusetts gives each of her in- habitants seven years schooling of 200 days each, while the average for the United States is 3-10 years of 200 days each.
 Further. while the average wealth. producing power of each man, woman and child in the United States is 40 cents day, the average wealth-pro- ducing power of each man, woman and child in Massachusetts is 73 cents day-nearly double!
 Education ia the true advance arent of prosperity.-N. Y. World.
The Forrest City times., 1897-09-03

-Democrats need not look beyond the Fourth Indiana district for renewed courage and fresh hope. The unmistak- able evidence is there o6 democratic buoyancy and harmony which augur party unity and victory. The demo crats of the Fourth Indiana district have demonstrated that the party's old time fighting spirit has returned. Now let democrats everywhere catch step and march resolutely on to the glories of victory that await them this year. next year and In 1se0.-St. Louis Re public.
The Forrest City times., 1897-09-03
Store and Postoffice Burned.

The postoffice and general merchan disc store of Joe Allen, at Lochinvar, near New Lewisville, was destroyed by fire. It is thought the building was fired by parties recently convicted of assault and battery before Allen, who is justice of the peace, as they had threatened to be reyenped
The Forrest City times., 1897-09-03
Worked the Pension Racket.

An interruptions negro defrauded . number of his race at Walnut Ridge and vicinity with the ex-slave pension racket. He would promise his victims, in consideration of small fee, to have their names enrolled on the regular pension list and on the list of those who worked for their former masters after emancipation, promising to secure them pay for such services.
The Forrest City times., 1897-09-03
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS.
STATE ASSESSMENT BOARD.

Valuation of Arkansas Railroads Shows
 Over s Million Dollars Increase.
 The following table shows the num- Der of miles of railroad of each com pany within the state, together with the assessed valuation thereof, as fixed by the state railway assessment board. The increase of el.o6e, ss1 over 1896 is due to an increased mileage of 1S7.3s, principally on account of the Kansas City, Pittsburg X Gulf railroad There was slight reduction made on the Iron Mountain main line. as compared with the assess ment of 1S96:
The Forrest City times., 1897-09-03
Claim to Have Struck Gold.

Citizens of Mount Ida and vicinity gre considerably agitated over the claim of two brothers named Denton that they had struck gold in paying quantities near that place, and all the neighbor- ing territory has been staked of into claims Specimens of the ore have been submitted, to experts for examination.
The Forrest City times., 1897-09-03
Will Save Freight.

A shelter with a capacity to work five tons of ore per day is being erected at Bear City, Montgomery county. It will control the output of the Silver City mines, which heretofore had to be shipped to smelters at St. Louis and Kansas City.
The Forrest City times., 1897-09-03
Promoted.

Thomas Enbauks, for 12 years fore maa of the car department on the Gen. traf division of the Iron Mountain, has been promoted to the position of gen. eral foreman of the car department of the Missouri Pacific system, with head quarters at St Louis.
The Forrest City times., 1897-09-03
Want to Lease Convicts.

The Fort Smith board of trade has requested the penitentiary board to lease 800 convicts to the contractors of the projected road from that city to Harrison at the actual cost of mainten- ance
The Forrest City times., 1897-09-03

As an evidence of how the tarifY bill affects values and that there is a dawn of prosperity. the republican pa- pers are printing tables to show that the trust stocks have increased in value over S20o, DOC, ,ooo.-Peoria Herald
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-08-10
FINANCIAL.

Money-Good demand at per cent.
Foreign Exchange-The market is
nominal. The following are net Savannah
quotations.: Commercial demand, $4.S6A ;
sixty days, A.851s; ninety days, A.S4& ;
francs, Paris and Havre, sixty days,
5.1sla; Swiss, sixty days, 5.1s%; marks,
sixty days, 49,
Domestic Exchange-Steady Banks are
buying a Is per cent. discount and selling
as follows Up to $25, 10c premium; S25 to
$50, 15c premium. $50 to $780, zoe premium;
$500 and upwards at par
Securities-Market inactive, but firm.
Stocks and Bonds-State Bonds-Georgia
49, per cent bonds of $780, 1929 bid, -
asked; Georgia 31a per cent, due 1915, 1922
bid, asked: Georgia AZ per cent
bonds, 1915, 1851 bid, 1852 asked; Georgia
4 per cent, due 1926, 11Oia bid 1l2 asked I;
South Carolina 4las 1Os bid, lO9 asked.
City Bonds-Atlanta Z per cent, 104 bid,
los asked; Augusta 4ias. 1926 103iA bid, 104h
asked; Augusta z per cent, 112 bid, l13
asked; Augusta per cent, III bid. 112
asked; Columbus per cent, 1884 bid, 1914
asked; Macon 6 per cent, 114ta bid, ZIG
asked; Macon 4lss, 1926, 1881 bid. 10 asked /;
Savannah per cent, quarterly October
coupons, 1O924 bid, 40 asked Savannah
per cent. quarterly November coupons
1898 bid. 40 asked; Charleston IS, 81 bid,
IS asked
Railroad Bonds-Savannah, Florida and
Western railroad general mortgage bonds,
per cent interest coupons, 113 bid. ia
asked, Savannah, Florida and Western
first mortgage per cent. gold bonds,
due 1884, 1851 bid, 1O6 asked, and interest:
Central Railroad and Banking Company
collateral gold IS, "a bid. IS asked; Central
OF Georgia railway first mortgage SIS, 90
year gold bonds. 10 bid, lis asked: Cen
tral Of Georgia railway first consolidation
mortgage 5s, 93ia bid, 9liz asked: Central Of
Georgia railway hrst preferred incomes.
IS bid. 80 asked; Central OF Georgia
railway. second preferred Incomes. 1872
bid. 49, asked. Central Of Georgia railway
third preferred incomes.7ih bid.sih asked
Georgia railroad Gs. 1910. ~ bid. ia asked :
Charlotte. Columbia and Augusta first ST.
l0j bid. asked. Charlotte, Columbia and
Augusta second mortgage Is, ii3 bid. rs
asked, Georgia Southern and Florida, new
DE-. 96 bid "a asked. South Georgia and
Florida first mortgage a.. 1924 bid 103ik
asked. South Georgia and Florida second
mortgage a. l02 bid, l03 asked; Ocean
steamship per cent bonds, 1925. 1851
bid. 1919 asked; city ana subur-
ban railroad first mortgage 2
per cent bonds. 80 bld. Sc ask.
cd. Alabama Midland per cent indorsed.
81 bid. 9o asked. brunswick aud Western
o. 90 bid. 20 asked South Bound railroad
af $50. nia asked; southern railway
o. ~ bio. NJ askod. Georgia ana Ala.
bnma nrsi preferred iH. 1925 bid. iW ask
cd. ANA Interest," Georgia and Alabama
nrft consols. Is bid. 70 asked
Railroad Siocka-Augustt ANA sayan-
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-08-10
FINANCIAL.
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Active Advancing Markets.
FINANCIAL.

The stock and grain markets are gaining
new life, broadening, and going ahead. The
best outlook for every interest in this
country for years Everything favors
making money in stocks. Ten per cent
should be made in each one Of a large
NUMBER and 20 per cent. in some OF them
Inc present absorption of securities is SIM
ldr 70 the memorable campaign of 1873
81, which carried the price of ST. Paul to
l50' G., Is. and @, 1873; Rock Island. $50;
Northwest $50; Atchison, 149: Union Pa
enc, $780, Reading, "A; Jersey Central. 1f2:
Ere, %; Louisville and Nashville. IN. and
Pacific Mail g.
IL should be borne i'm mind that the cost
OF all production, and also the cost of op-
Grating railroads is lower at this time
than ever before in the history of the
country.
The condition of the money market could
not be stronger and is immeasurably SUI
perior TO that Of 1879 when high interest
rates were the rule and when railroad first
mortgages were put out at per cent The
financial question is being solved by the
continual dec inc in the price of silver Tolls
TACT Will bring Europe, where the money
rate is one-half of per cent per annum.
IN as buyer of our securities for the in
Vestment Of their ide funds and gold will
now to US, in payment of them and of
wheat in greater volume than ever before.
FROM every point of view the comparison
between the two periods is IN favor of the
present time and future prices will prove
the fact
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-08-10

ers in nearly all departments and a gen.
eral Improvement seems to be inevitable
At first hands to-day the same strong
conditions prevailed. The demand for
bleached and brown goods is still a feat
ure of trading. Advances are made as
rapidly as possible in all grades. Among
recently increased lines are q Gypsy
Queen, q Sunlight, q Florida, q Signal,
each advance 212 percent; 9O-inch Our
own. 30-inch Jack Horner, 3O-inch Bel
lardvale, and 3O-inch Security, 2l2 per
cent; A FaiTmont butter cloths, "A Clio
verdell butter cloths, each sc; A Clio
verwitch bleached cotton, A Japanese
bleached cottons, each 12c; "A Woodbury.
and "A Ballardville, each sc. Coarse col
ored cottous are firm and bare of sup
plies in some quarters. The demand con-
tinued brisk. Print cloths continue very
firm, with sales of odd goods on basis
of 2 9-l6 for extra. Sellers are firm at
the market,