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The Globe-republican., 1899-12-21
THoRNs ON THE BROW or
LABOR.

eA0OHs
Mr. Bryan's Yaneus rie~rs Of e,..en
Rendered Riaieole1s By Prosperity.
The army Of the unemployed is at
work. The soldier who marched under
the command of Gen. Coxey or Carl
Brown has q job II he wants it.
Evidences of the fact that these are
laboring mems times loom up before
one by the time he can get q block
from the depot There is more work
than workers. The toiler is in de-
mand: he has it his way; there is
competition for his services: wages
are advancing. That is what makes
times good. The country cannot have
hard times when the wage Garner has
steady employment at good pay. and
when the farmer has a good price for
his produce
1t seems that all these good times
had been brought about as though by
magic. 1t was not magic. Before he
was elected president, Mr.. Mckinley
told us what was needed When he
said it seemed to him that it would be
better to open our mills to the labor
of America than our minis to the sill
yer of the world. his words were good.
hard-headed protective sense.
But Bryan in smooth metaphor told
the Republicans that they must not
press the crown of thorns on the brow
of labor; that they must not cruelty
mankind on cross of gold.
Mckinley opened the mills by put
ting a protective tariff duty on foreign
goods. These times of steady work
and advancing wages are what Mr..
Mckinley said would come, and what
MIR. Bryan said would not come
The states of the west are beginning
to call on each other for help in these
times of long demand and short supply
OF labor.
Here are few sample thOrns that
are pressing down on the brow of
labor right here in Kansas City. l
plucked them of an advertising board
on Union avenue:
Laborers wanted daily for Memphis;
transportation free.
We want coal miners for Colorado
and New Mexico. The Colorado Fuel
and Iron Co.
100 rock men wanted.
We want carpenters at 271a cents an
hour.
Wanted. men for a fence gang at
$1.75 day.
Laborers wanted daily for Wyom-
ing; no Office fee charged, and railroad
fare furnished Free
These few little piercing "thorns"
tell of wreath of prosperity that
reaches from Tennessee to the Pacific
coast.
The 1899 army of the unemployed
that was to march across the continent
under the leadership of Carl Brown
started at Wichita and ended at Wichi-
ia. Signs like these in Kansas City
stand out like picket posts of prosper
lty to intercept him. 1t is impossible
to march through the lines of jobs
awaiting workers; impossible to dodge
employment. These are protection
times again. The free silver cry
proved false alarm, and the laborers
will not be fooled by the same man
lying antitrust, anti-expansion colors.
E. e. Pipp, in American Economist.
The Globe-republican., 1899-12-21
Tn. Ca. Gould DO No Worse.

The Youngstown (Ohio) Vindicatoi
quotes approvingly from the Kansas
City Star, which it designates as "a
leading Republican organ Of the west"
an article which begins by saying that
1.-The most demoralizing factor in the
life of this nation has .een the protect
i've tariff" One of the first things for
the Youngstown Vindicator 20 do is
to vindicate itself from the aspersiOn
of being either foolish or untruthful.
An editor who does not know that the
Kansas City Star is and always has
been one of the most rabid and uncom-
promising Democratic free trade news
papers in the country ought to abdi-
cate the shears and paste-pOt and turn
them over to the office cat.
The Globe-republican., 1899-12-21

1t will be remembered that in 1890
the first year covered by the diagram
there was no tin plate production in
the United States. Starting at $475
per box, the price of foreign plate
dropped to about $4.37A, and from
that point the price rose rapidly until
in 1893 it had reached $3.50. the top
figure. BY this time American tin
plate production, called into active ex-
istence by the Mckinley protective
tariff of 1890, began to be heard from,
and with the result invariably attend
industry under the stimulus of pro-
tectiOn-namely, a swift decline in the
price of the imported plate. Welsh
plate fell from $3.50 box in 1893 to
$3.75 box at the close of 1895.
At this point domestic tin plate be-
came the controlling factor, and our
diagram, beginning with 1896, shows
the prices of the domestic article. Did
the price rise when the domestic pro-
ducers, guarded by protective tariff,
the contrary, prices of American tin
plate steadily declined until the latter
part of 1898, when the low point, $2.75
per box, was reached. At this time,
mark you, American consumers, under
protection, were paying precisely one
half what they had paid for Welsh tin
plate in the absence of protection.
Beginning with 1899, in response to
the largely increased cost Of materials
and wages, tin plate prices took an
upward turn, reaching $4.75 per box
early in the fall of this year. The
present price is $4.65. But it will be
observed that the rise of the current
year has not carried prices back to the
free trade level of 1891 to 1894. The
home consumer of tin plate is today
paying IS cents per box less than he
paid in 1891, when the foreign pro-
Queer was master of the situation and
American competition had not We:
come to the front as result of the
protective tariff.
One more fact remains to be consid-
cred. A-glance at the high range Of
prices for tin plate paid by American
prior to the establishment
of the industry in our own country
an impressive contrast with
the low range of prices that have pre-
vailed since the time when American
tin plate producers were able to con-
troll the situation. Taken as a whole,
and counting in the present advanced
price, resulting, as before stated. from
heavy advances in costs Of materials
and heavy advances in the wages Of
tin-plate workers, it is found mat
many millions of dollars have been |
saved through protection to the con-
,umers of tin plate from 1891 to date, !
to say nothing of the many millions
Of dollars kept at home and paid out |
10 American labor in the shape Of |
wages. Precisely such diagram as
hat for which We stand indebted to |
he Iron Age was needed in order to |
make the tin-plate question as clear
IS daylight.
The Globe-republican., 1899-12-21

The tariff is not now an issue. but
nobody can tell what the Democrats
will do before next election. There are
at presen. strong indications Of an at
tempt to force the tariff to the front
BY taking down the trust issue on the
lines laid down by Bryan. and II that
IA done, the testimony Of Mr.. Grace a.
to the beneficial effects of protection
VIII be MISUNDERSTANDING (Ohio)
JeHefoonlan.
The Globe-republican., 1899-12-21

Santiago Cor. Chicago Record: To
Bee the aristocracy of Santiago at tn
best one must attend the opera. which
is given four nights each week during
the winter season by an Italian COM
pany brought from Milan. Italy, ana
its performances are as perfect here
as there. The opera house. which -
one OF the finest In the world, sur
passing everything In London, and
equal to anything We have in the
United States. is owned BY the NUM-
cipality, and equipped with costumes,
properties and scenery for all the
standard operas and everything new.
that Is successful In Paris or Other
European musical centers. The house
Is furnished free of cost and the city
government gives the manager q sub
sidy of $4,000 year in cash. The
seats and boxes are sold by subscrip-
lions for a season of sixty nights, -
In New York, and are paid for In a.
vance. There is usually a guaranty
fund also to protect the manager from
financial loss. Those who lease boxe4
and seats for the season often sub
them to strangers, and 1t is not COLI
sidered an improperly. so that people
who are spending only a few days In
the city can go to the box ONCE and
obtain seats by paying the regular
rates. The same company appears
thirty nights during the season a.
Valparaiso under similar conditions
and with a smaller subsidy. Tho
singers in the chorus as well as the
orchestra are all Italians, and thu
principal ballet dancers also come
from Milan. The soloists are first
class. The people will not tolerate
anything else, and the audiences are
quite as interesting as the performers.
for the dressing and the display OF
jewels is equal to that seen at the
COvent Garden in London, the Grand
Opera House in Paris or the Metro
politan in New York. 1t surpasses tho
displays at Berlin and other cities or
Germany, where the people go to hear
the music and not to show their
clothes. There is a large foyer In
which the people promenade between
the acts, refreshment rooms where
ices, wines, sandwiches and other
light refreshments are served, q
gentlemans cafe, a smoking room and
other cOnveniences. The president OF
the republic has a large box on one
side of the stage and the mayor OF
the city has one on the other side.
which are ex-OfficiO, and a novelty
have never seen before is mourning
boxes. protected by screens, in which
people who are not wearing cOlors or
going into society can see without be-
Ing seen, and enjoy the music in re-
tirement. Above the fOotlights upon
the stage is long row of tunnels
which communicate the music by tele-
phone to different residences of the
city.
The Globe-republican., 1899-12-21

The job hunts the man now. not
the man the job; and where this con-
dition exists labor is always better re-
warded," said President Mckinley.
This is the condition. The Democratic
theory r. that labor is being ground
down By the octopus. and needs relief
BY the free coinage of silver.-Tacoma
(Wash.) Ledger.
The Globe-republican., 1899-12-21
TIN PLATE PRICES.

AlWoyo Lower Under Protection Than
Under Free Trade.
The following diagram reproduced
from a recent issue of the Iron Age.
q standard American authority on met.
ais. will be found useful in tracing tin
plate prices from 1890 to the present
time:
The Globe-republican., 1899-12-21
THE OPERA in chilli
THERE SOCIETY - SEEN AT
IT'S BEST.

fhe Hlneot Opsga H0aso In he Wo!34
These 81 London and Evsa Parts -
ExeepteA-The 0ovssnDeat 0unran1oQo
the Company Expenses.
The Globe-republican., 1899-12-21

in the United States Of the below mea-
toned items given as follows:
Perfumery ................ $514.eeo
Coal tar colors and dyes. 49,. 3.7s9. 353
Glue NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 479, $50
Paints and colors. dutiable.. 1907. 40
Glycerine ...............1 ,024,131
Soda products, dutiable (about)
:. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1,000. 900
Bottles ..................... 81, 1874
The Globe-republican., 1899-12-21
AS TO RECIPROCITY.
NEW FRENCH TREATY CAUSING
UNEASlNESS.

American Producers Want InfoFmat1o0
A. 70 the Manner In which Their
Interests Arc Affected b. the De-
creased Duties.
The Globe-republican., 1899-12-21

re- Tfado and the Soath.
A 500-pound bale of cotton il worth
80 more today than 1t was a year ago.
II the south sticks to free trade much
longer We miss o1r guess.-Des Noines
QoWa) Register.
The Globe-republican., 1899-12-21

He that - Of . merry heart ha1h .,
oootinnal toaGG-Dibla.
The Globe-republican., 1899-12-21

According to her story of It, there
was one woman survivor aboard the
wrecked Scotsman who retained her
presence of mind throughout the dread.
full ordeal. She was one of thirteen
women who was let down by ropes into
one of the lifeboats, and before she
was let down she had the thoughtful
ness to go to her stateroom and put .
Task of whisky into her satchel. which
she fastened to her life preserver. The
sea was high, and the four sailors In
charge of the life boat became ex-.
hausted by their herculean task Of
the boat and baling out the
waves which threatened to swamp
them. 1t was at this critical juncture
that the whisky was brought into
so that everybody In the
boat was finally rescued. It IL their
that It was the contents Of
the flask that saved them.-Kansas
City Journal.
The Globe-republican., 1899-12-21

wherein does the man differ from
the lower animals?" asked the profee-
sor. And the youth answered without
hesitation: He can ride . bicycla"-
Warrington Star.
The Globe-republican., 1899-12-21

favored nation clause, and in addition
the following reduction in duties: Per-
fumery, manufactured with or without
alcohol, 10 per cent; coal tar colors,
70 per cent; glue, 10 per cent; glycer-
inc. 10 per cent; olive oil, Is per cent;
paints and varnishes, 10 per cent;
potash, 10 per cent; medicinal prep
arations, 10 per cent; soaps, 10 per
cent; soda and products of soda, 10
per cent; glazed, enameled, decorated
tiles and roofing tiles, 10 per cent; &C.
ment, 10 per cent; bottles, Is per cent;
glass vessels, per cent; window and
other glass, 10 per cent; plants and
seeds 20 per cent; fruits. preserved
with sugar or alcohol. 10 per cent;
roasted and ground chicory, per cent:
cordials. 10 per cent; mineral waters.
10 per cent.
The extent to which the industries
Of the United States would be affected
by the sweeping reductions con-
templated in the reciprocity treaty IL
q matter which should receive the most
careful consideration and most thor
ough Investigation. Congress would
fail In performing its duties should Il
fail to obtain full information on this
point.
The question Of government reve-
nues II seriously involved in the reci-
procity treaty. From statistical r.
ports In the monthly summary oe con-
for the fiscal year ending June -, 1ooo.
He End the total sums of impogtat5oaD
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1899-08-18
NOTICE.
Change of Market Site.

The city council has provided a CON-
modious market site on First street, opposite
Richard Bros, and provided sheds for the
tree use of the public. All who have pro-.
ducts to market are invited to display them
at the above described market site.
The city ordinances prohibit the OBJ
struction Of the streets, and as all ordinance
es are enforced, the new market site is pro-
vided for the accomm odarion Of the people of
the surrounding country, who have produce
stock, wood, etc., to dispose Of in the city.
MARKET PLACE..
First Street--opposite Richard Bros.
LITTLE FALLS, MINI.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1899-08-18

Horace White, pro ninent
writer of New York, predicts
that the present industrial and
commercial activity in the United
States will continue several years,
if no unfavorable legislation takes
place. We believe Mr.. White is
correct. Many people believed
four and five years ago that the
United States would never again
witness as good times for laborers
as 1t had in the early eos and pre-.
vious periods. It was believed by
some that the days of extensive
construction Of buildings, rail-
roads and public impro 'ements
had passed, and the increased
population had permanently over
stocked the labor market. Yet
this year the laboring men of tn
country are fully employed and at
exceptionally high wages. This
increased earning power creates a
better market for all products,
and if there are no foolish polit.
ical blunders by the country
there should be several years of
great activity and development.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1899-08-18
Darling Items.

Harvest is in full blast and crops
look fine on high land.
F. Freedman has gone to the Da-
kOta harvest fields to work.
The Northern Pacific gravel train
is still here taking gravel for filing
on it's line.
August Blomquist intends to go to
Wheaton, Mimi. to work during
harvest. Reports say 50. a day are
paid there for harvest laborers.
Ed. Rosnagle and daughter Katie,
went to Little Falls Saturday.
Hans Lindstrom made a business
trip to the county seat Saturday.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1899-08-18

Minneapolis Journal: Mr..
Bryan, at Des Moines last night,
accused the Republican party OF
putting the dollars above the man.
It is not so for above him as it was
during the summer of idleness
and distress when it seemed as if
Mr.. Bryan might be elected. It
was so far above him that he
couldn't reach it, but now he can
reach more dollars with day s
work than at any time in the his.
tory of the country-and that s
no lie-
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1899-08-18
PERSONALS.

A. Tanner is in st. Paul on bust
ness.
Miss George Johnson is visiting in
Duluth.
Miss Nellie O'Shea went to Linco DIN
Thursday.
Fred Hoffman was at Brainerd
Wednesday.
Miss Mary Kennedy has returned
to Minneapolis.
I. Meyer has returned from an ex-
tended eastern trip.
G. B. Buchanan was a Twin City
passenger Wednesday,.
Chas. Matteson has returned from
McDonald's Lake, Mont.
Mrs. Pendergast, OF Grey Eagle,
was in the city Tuesday.
Miss Annie Denis has returned
from a visit at St. Cloud.
s. N. Thompson, OF Grey Eagle,
was in the city Thursday.
Mrs. H. B. Schenck has retur ned
from a visit at Minneapolis.
Mrs. Phoebe Boynton went to
Jamestown, N. D., Wednesday.
Mrs. b. w. Brannen, of Royalton,
is visiting relatives in the city.
Rev. A. Lamothe returned from
st. Matthias Thursday morning.
Val Kasparek has returned from a
business trip to the Twin Cities.
H. A. Rider has returned from a
business trip to the Twin Cities.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. NJ. Williams went
to st. Paul Wednesday afternoon.
H. landau went to the Twin
Cities on business Wednesday noon.
Thos. Monohan and daughter
have returned from the Twin Cities.
Mrs. F. A. Holcomb has returned
from an extended visit at Saltwater.
Miss Emma Stiles, of Sank Centre.
is visiting at the home OF r. w.
Mann.
Miss Sophia Oh ristman has re-
turned to St. Cloud after a visit in
the city.
Mrs. D. Finch, of St. Paul, is the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. c. A. Weyer-
haeuser.
Mrs. A. III. Bahr has returned to
st. Cloud after a visit with relatives
in the city.
Miss Marguerite Guernon has re-
turned from a three weeks visit at
Fergus Falls.
Almond Raymond, of Berlin Wis,
is visiting his brother, Anthony Ray
mond, of this city.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. Wales have re
turned to Minneapolis after visiting
a week in Little Falls.
Miss Angelina Mosher has returned
to Managha after week visit at the
home of p. H. Neuman.
M. P. Ferguson, who has been in
Minneapolis on business, returned
home Thursday morning.
Geo. LaFond and children have re-
turned from St. Paul. Mrs. LaFond
will remain in st. Paul for the pres
emit.
Miss Blood has returned to
Downes, Wis. She has been visiting
with her sister, Mrs. C. II. Stoodard,
on First street north.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1899-08-18

DR.. VIM. Mcdaniel returned from
Swanville on the Little Falls & Da-
kota train Thursday. He said that a
number of horses were affected with
pneumonia and couple of other
non-contagious diseases and that
several OF them had died. One man
lost eight and another three in a few
days. DR.. Mcdaniel said that the
owners Of horses had nothing to fear
for their there was no danger of con-
tagion in regard to any of the all
ments.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1899-08-18

Chas Huff, of this city, a graduate
of the University at Minneapolis,
has been elected principal OF the pub
lie schools at Clear Lake. The
board has secured worthy young
man to fill that position and is to be
congratulated upon their success in
securing him.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1899-08-18
The scare. news comes that an

The scare news comes that an
anti.expanslon Republican ticket
will be put in the field for next
years presidential campaign.
That is too bad. All the oppo-
nents Of Mckinley shou Id unite
on Bryan, and take their licking
together. The men who wish for
the defeat of the American ar
mics should unite in their oppo-
sition to the present.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1899-08-18

Percy Donovan, who went with
the class from the school of mining
of the state university to Colorado,
in June, for a months practice work
in the mines, did not return with his
class. He has secured a position in
that state at $65 per month, and
will remain Indefinitely.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1899-08-18

The Young Ladies' Bible class Of
the Baptist church will give a social
on Friday evening, August 10, at the
home of Mrs. Laird on Second street.
A fine program is promised; refresh
ments will be served a pleasant time
is assured to all.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1899-08-18

j. A. McGregor was initiated as a
member of the K. P. lodge at their
meeting Wednesday evening. Mac
looks none the worse for the wear
and tear he received. He says he
pitied the goat.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1899-08-18

Frank Jarboe came down from
northern Minnesota Thursday. He is
cruising in that part of the state for
the St. Paul & Duluth railroad COM
pany.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1899-08-18

The war spirit is SAID to be
high in England, and cheering
crowds assemble at the departure
of troops for South Africs. Men
and guns are being rapidly for
warded from England, as we'll as
from India.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1899-08-18

The railroad company is placing in
a long culvert to drain the low
place where the cooper shops are
situated west of the canal. 1t will
require a drain pipe several hundred
feet in length to reach the river be-
low the paper mill.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1899-08-18

the Hennepin Paper company has
a crew of men at work grading for a
crossing over the railroad track near
the mill. The grade at this place is
several feet high so that long ap-
breaches are necessary.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1899-08-18

The Pine Tree Lumber company is
having sales house built in their
East side lumber yard. This will
make it much more convenient for
local buyers as well as the company
for people desiring to buy lumber
will know exactly where to find the
statesmen.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1899-08-18

Phil. Germaine has purchased the
old New house and the lot on which
tits situated, at the corner of Eighth
street and Third avenue, southeast.
The condition of the building re-
quires considerable repairing, which
he will have done. He expects to
occupy it by Sept. I.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1899-08-18
Don't forget the Street Fair,
Sept. ID, IS and Is. 1t will be
the best thing Little Falls has
ever had,

Brainerd Dispatch; The report
that Mike Kobe, awaiting trial for
an assault on Joe Bissiar, had been
admitted to bail is untrue. AS was
stated in this paper last week, Judge
Holland refused the application.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1899-08-18

Fred Gravel's ankle has healed so
that he will be able to play ball with
the rest of the nine Sunday. ST..
Cloud wants to come well prepared
because our boys won't do a thing
to them" on the diamond.