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mocracy on a conservative platform anC
! under safe and popular leader, and tn,
! story Of 1892 might easily be repeated
/ The influence of congress is very likely t.
operate in that direction.
White Slavery In Michigan.
Those philanthropists who have beer
agonizing so much about a newly es
tablished species Of African slavery in
Alabama would do well to devote al
least a portion of their energies tc
breaking up a newly established spe-
cies of white slavery in Michigan, as
| the following dispatch will prove:
Kalamazoo, Mich, Sept 12.-Anthony
/ Demers, proprietor of a shoe shining
stand, confessed that he paid SIS for Mich
| olas Demoggeor, a Greek boy thirteen
years old. who ran away from him Thurs
day. Demers was "sweated' by the sher-
| if, and his revelation of a system OF
| child peonage followed.
| Every year boys are being picked up In
| the streets of Greek cities and sold into
slavery in this country. The purchasers
| pay from $50 to SIS for a five or six year
| old boy for the first year. The second
| year the price is advanced SIS. Each sue
ceeding year a small advance is made in
| the amount paid until the boy Is of age.
| Then the purchaser must take his chances
with his purchase
Anthony Demers and brother, Alex,
| are at the head of a shoe shining organ
| ization which operates shoe polishing par
lors in Kalamazoo Battle Creek, Jackson,
South Bend, st. Joseph. Benton Harbor.
Detroit and Chicago
Democratic Chairman.
1t seems to be generally taken and
accepted that Hon. James K. Jones of
Arkansas, ex-senator of the United
| States, will not be candidate to sue
coed himself as chairman of the ma
tional Democratic committee. Conse-
quently Democrats are looking around
for fitting person to occupy that high
and influential position. At present
the name most frequently printed in
that connection is that of Hon. Thomas
Taggart of indianapolis, ex-mayor of
that city.
A Disrupted Cabinet.
Joe didn't know that it was loaded.
He dragged England into as unholy a
war as has ever been waged on earth
and crushed the brave little South At
rican republics at a fearful and I'M
expected cost Of life and treasure. He
is responsible for thousands of widows
and orphans on two continents. Hun
dreds Of blackened chimneys consti=
tute his monuments in the Transvaal
and in the Orange Free State. He
wrought this red ruin because gold in
large quantities had been discovered
in the bailiwicks of Paul Kruger and
President Stein. At the close Of the
war which he had precipitated he was
the foremost Englishman of his day
and concluded that anything was pos
sible for him. So, to show his power,
to exploit his greatness. to pose as tie
master OF the r9- 80 "A !. 81 !
undo the beneficent work Of Richard
Golden, John Bright and Sir Robert
Peel and to once more fasten the high
protective tariff system on the English
people 1t is as true today as when
Shakespeare first wrote it that vault
ing ambition sometimes o'erleaps it
self" SO it was with Joseph Cham
berIain. He has come down" outside
the breastworks," to borrow famous
phrase from President Benjamin Har-
rison in his celebrated message of con-
dolence to Warner Miller. His effort
to build a new Chinese wall about his
country has ended most disastrously
for him and has disrupted the cabinet,
he and two of his friends retiring there
from. He, a renegade Liberal. has per-
haps unwittingly prepared the way for
the return of the Liberals to power,
which will fill his cup of sorrow to
overlooking, for it is part of the nature
Of a renegade to hate those whom he
has deserted. Joe miscalculated. He
imagined, and vainly, that because the
Britishers permitted him to plunge
them into disgraceful and inhuman
war for which they had no desire they
would stand anything. but when he
touched their stomachs by advocat-
ing law which would put up the
price of victuals he committed polit-
ical suicide. 1t is we'll Let him go.
No generous man anywhere will grieve
for Joe's catastrophe.
Not For Joseph.
For the last FIVE or six months the
st. Louis Democrat and other
advocates of stake and rider tariff
have been insisting that under the
lead Of lingo Joe Chamberlain Eng
land is about to return to the doctrine
Of high protection. OF course nobody
that has any sense and is at all ia
miliar with the history of that country
for the last hundred years ever be-
lieved any such STUFF. Now comes the
Z Chicago Tribune, high class Repub-
lican paper, which states the truth as
follows:
First blood for free trade in England.
At a byelection held in Argyllshire on
Wednesday the Liberal candidate, ]. S.
Ainsworth, was elected by majority of
1855 over Charles Stewart, the Unionist.
Stewart made his campaign on the pro-
tectionist issue, while Ainsworth stood up
solidly for free trade. At the last cleo
ton the Unionists carried the seat by 600.
From the present state of public opinion
in England, Chamberlain's proposal will
be rejected at the next general election,
and England will abide for awhile longer,
at least. by the dogmas of Golden.
The failure OF Chamberlain's pet scheme
viii disappoint the great English speak
ing, self governing colonies of the empire.
Their expressed disappointment may later
react on the British electors and cause
them to reconsider. But if they do not
later reconsider it will be the psychology
ical moment for this country to step in
and make good trade arrangements with
Canada just after she has been turned
down. by the mother country.
The Because Of It.
It is an old saying worthy of pro-
foundest consideration that much de-
ponds on whose OK Is gored. Mr.. Bah
cock is not the only tariff reformer in
the Republican party. Since Governor
Cummins Of Iowa and his Ger,
hauled in their horns as tarissg,H,, -
ers most people think thai ~
the last rose Of summer, IS
Ing alona Not so, how