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^EPUBLICAS TICKET. "jr* T " ' ' ' 'V 'L(•" *' '• v „ 4, »jf f!rt; * «r**' " r n ̂ <7T r T NATIONAL. in sympathy witli them in those bis-! torle days, and, therefore, they greeted him with enthusiasm. •»»'1 IT was announced the other day that Gov. Flower had contributed $50,000 to Cleveland's campaign. Since then it has been discovered thai his check was for only $1,000. When flower ran for Governor he put up $250,000. Gov. Flower is a thrift* Knickerbocker, and doesn't propose ] to throw good money to the birds. F&NJAMIN HARRISON V; ;• OF INDIANA. **r Viae PI-MMM* WHITELAW REIl|i OF NEW YORK. FIGURES don't lie, and the force of fleck's figures can't be gotten over by "partisan persecution. / F THE Colorado Senators are putting flarri son's lead in their State at 10,- 000 or 12,000. The Republicans •"•very where are in line tor the ticket. iVr- - - ' ===== , •A '» •/ THE increase in New York's man- ' ' Ofacturing industries in 1891 was, Imder "the odiousMcKinley law," ac- ' Cording to the statistics, $31,3X5,- _ -ig_. '.f j 130.69... , THE Clevelan'dites who are declar- \ Ing that "the Democratic conditions -fn New York are seriously compli- ; fated" are getting a firm grasp on the ' -y' Situation. ' "PUBLIC officials are the agents of " ; - the people," sagely remarks the Gray , - Uables letter. Correct; and the , Ikgents now engaged are entirely sat- J '^factory. •" ' THE difference between strikes in ^ > protection America and free trade ;V ' England is, here men strike for ~ liigher wages and - there they strike ^ , lor living wages. V\ ; IF the People's party in Ohio were •nly large enough to be tangible the ^ ji)emocrats would doubtless make Home effort to secure fusion With it. & : J$ut wind won't fuse. (,• s IN trying to put life into this force v hogy the Democrats are playing With fire. Any sectional issue which /inters the canvass will beat the I>emocrats overwhelmingl^and hope­ lessly. - - THE Democrats are surprised at Jihe high wages which workmen ob- "• %ain in Pennsylvania iron and steel lailh. On the labor question I)emo- t 'Jlratic talk flur outruns Democratic v j knowledge. BRICE seems to have relapsed into Aftall street completely this year. It iras not expected that he would be pjrery enthusiastic for Cleveland in . 1892, after being held responsible for democratic defeat in 1888. . , EVEN people who believe Cleve- Ipnd's solemn twaddle about civil Kervice reform can hardly be deceived |s to the real purpose of the Democ- ficy which has rewarded Headsman tevenson with the second place on „ Its ticket. THE political situation is not with­ out its amusing features. In Ala­ bama the Democrats are adorning the orators of the People's party with mud and rotten eggsu while in Colorado the Democrats, have coal­ esced with the Populists. SENATOR SHERMAN is old enough to know something about the Demo­ cratic party of Andrew Jackson, and jyhen he declares that if "Old Hick­ ory" were now alive he would not own the latter day Democracy he knows what he is talking about. IF the soldiers of the Mexican war were not more worthy of the recog­ nition ef the government than the Union soldiers, in the estimation of JJr. Cleveland, why did he approve the llexican bill, pensioning all of them, find the next week veto the disabil- bill, pensioning the needy sur­ vivors of the war to save the Union? INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL: If Har- ftson were to use the phrase "our worthy veteran soldiers," there would fee no doubt as to whom he meant by It, but coming from Grover Cleve­ land it is an obscure phrase. People who are familiar with his antecedents and who remember his record will feel instinctively that he meant M to ©over Confederates. THE Chicago Herald, Democratic, has a long Boston special, which frankly concedes that Massachusetts Is solidly in the Republican column, ft declares that no Massachusetts democrat **of political experience and wide information has the slight­ est notion that the Democratic na­ tional ticket can be pulled through 111 .the State." y'ptr-y ^ IF it were not for the horrid and jjlrer-pre^ent newspaper reporters Adlai Stevenson might have made a Hit down South by telling his hearers how.be did his little best during the war to hinder the Federal authorities to paake the Confederacy success- But the ex-rebels know he was IF any American workingman, tw*en in "protected Pennsylvania," thinks the British workingman is better off than himself, he should go over to the old country and try it. It is a strange fact that though the free traders claim that the tariff does not affect wages, workingmen are con­ tinually emigrating from free trade England to seek the higher compen­ sation of labor in protected America. IT is a curious thing that every prominent Eastern Democrat who has expressed himself publicly has tried to break the force of the free trade plank in the Chicago platform. But it cannot be done. It stands as the deliberate voice of the Demo­ cratic party's chosen representatives, and of their sober second thought-- for the original tariff plank, as re­ ported by the committee, was re­ jected, and the present unequivocal free trade utterance substituted for it. . CLEVELAND floundered miserably in the paragraph of his letter of ac­ ceptance referring to the suffrage. He was compelled by the stress ol party necessity, to say something about the "force bill" spook, and un­ truthfully declared that the Republi­ can party is seeking "to interfere with and control the suffrage of the State through Federal agencies." This is not true, and he knows it-- none better. ' Aside from this, he knows that the Republican party does not propose to pass a Federal election bill. ARRAHAM LINCOLN delivered his first political speech in 1832, when a candidate for the Legislature of Illi­ nois. It was as follows: "Gentlemen, Fellow-Citizens: I' presume you know who I am. I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have beeH solicited by many friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics can be briefly stated, I am in favor of the internal improvement system and a high protective tariff. These are my sentiments and political princi­ ples. If elected, I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same." The same issue confronts the American people to-day which confronted Lin­ coln in 1832. Is not the example of "humble Abraham Lincoln," patriot and martyr, a better one to follow than that of Calhoun, the slave-dri­ ver, or Jefferson Davis, the sionist? GLOBE-DEMOCRAT: The lesson of the Georgia election is so plain that the average voter can easily comprehend it. Tbere was supposed to be a for­ midable anti-Democratic vote in the State, but the returns show that it did not materialize. The People's party has been beaten by a majority that fully refutes the idea of a new departure in Georgia politics; and the explanation of this result is obvi­ ous at a glance. There is reason to believe that a large proportion ol the white citizens are dissatisfied with the present condition of things, but they are evidently unwilling to seek a remedy by repudiating the Democratic part}'. They affiliate with the Farmers' Alliance to the ex­ tent of talking loudly about the ne­ cessity of legislation for the benefit of agriculture, but when election day comes they march to the polls and vote as they have always voted. Their promises to the People's party do not count. In short, they are Democrats first and Alliance men af­ terward. They will not desert the party with which they have been heretofore identified or contribute in any way to its discomfiture. II the members of the People's party in the North who were formerly Re­ publicans have a proper sense of self- respect they will resent this decep­ tion by refusing to aid in the election of a Democratic President. If the Southern men who profess to bef in sympathy with the principles and purposes of the new party make it a point to go on voting in the old way, then certainly the Northern mr,n who aresupporting Weaver may justifiably abandon him and resume their formei political allegiance. That is the manifestly sensible and patriotic course for them to pursue. Eithei Harrison'or Cleveland will be elected; and surely no man who has ever been a Republican can honestly and con­ sistently prefer the latter to the former. It is not reasonable to sup­ pose that men who left the Republi­ can party in the interest of the re­ forms projected by the Alliance had any intention of joining the Demo­ cratic party; and yet th3 conditions place them in the attitude of practi­ cally taking that step. A vote fox Weaver in a Northern State is a vote for Cleveland, as the case now stands. Let the Republicans who have strayed into the Populist fold give setiouj, consideration to this fact. {f f CURRENCY AND TARIFF 'WILDCAT MONEY WORSE THAN • GREENBACKS. Tm OptalMt Of Btftt* B»*k rr'e«« of Farm Implement*-- AB Keha from Linrpitol--CI**«1«B4 HI tb« American WorksIICIUBB. rn VMrnmnitf the State BMk Car. • Nnef. 1 Every citizen of Wisconsin who desires to vote intelligently at the coming flection should road tlie admirable exposition of the eviis oi wiiucat money, by ii. H. Camp, of Uiis city, which appears elsewhere in this issue ol the Wisconsin. Mr. Camp is one ot the foremost autnorities iu the Northn west on Ihinnciai subjects. He is not a partisan, and at the rune this address was written -more than thirteen years ago-- there was no expectation that the revival of the old state bank currency would be­ come a political issue. His address was read before a convenrion of bankers, and is a careful statement by a ofissuiess man and financier to business men and linan- cters, ot the facts ie&arding tne workings of the old state bank currency system in this part of the country. From advance sheets ot an official report now in course of preparation by the comp­ troller of the currency, in response to a congressional request for information on the subject, the following, corroborating and supplementing Mr. Camp's r-view of the history of stats bantc current, in thii section, is extracted: On .Tune 30, the combined total bank note clrculntion ot the ststes ot Illinois and Wisconsin, all of which stood at a discount of # per cent., amounted to 'AuuO, *nd it was protected by a specie reserve of only Sl,lS5,Uuo. "l'heroliil discount on the entire circulation amounted to more than £<J00,mw at 'J per cent, and the discount had to be paid by note hold­ ers as often as they paid out s note ol either state. A Washington correspondent, after Studying this report, writes: In July, 1859, a convention of Wisconsin bankers held at Milwaukee flxed the discount on Illinois bauk uotes at 1 per cent, until Sep­ tember 2<J, and S per cent, thereafter--which was the rate imposed by Illinois banks on the notes of Wisconsin banks. This action il- lastrates another of the beauties of the "sys­ tem" to which the Democratic platform de­ clares the country mnst return. A like Il­ lustration is found in the action of the In­ diana banks, taken iu Aptil, 18-VJ, when they determined t.o throw out the notes of all Illinois and Wisconsin banks. At that time the estimated circulation of Illinois banks amounted to S7,i*W,0wt, and that of Wisconsin banks to So.OOu.uw. This action was justified on the trround that many of the banks were •ttuated at distant and inaccessible jwiat-, making the oost miu tiiiuciiHies ok redemption heavy, and that the Chicago banks discriminated apalnst the Indiana banks. Many people who do not remember the history which Mr. Camp and the comp­ troller of the currency so vividly set forth think that the loss of noteholders by the collapse of uusound banks will be all the evil that would result lroin the re-estab­ lishment of state banks as banks of issue. This is a mistake. Kven if the state banks were good, there would be a heavy tax upon tne business of the country repre­ sented by the cost of exchange. With a national currency, a man who makes a purchase in New iork or elsewhere out­ side of the state can use his money at its face value; but it state currency were in vogue, a Wisconsin; man making pur­ chases in New York would find his Wis­ consin money subject to a discount. It has been estimated that the loss by discounts which would be entailed upon the business of the county if state bank currency were revived would be *100.000,000 per annum. Tins is only a part of the utterly useless tax that the vicious Democratic linancial policy would inflict upon the people. Fre­ quent failures, periodical panics, tne suspersion of payments and the utter demoralization of business--these would be the natural and necessary outcome of the policy supported by tne "party of re­ trenchment and reform," represented by John L. Mitchell and Grover Cleveland.-- Evening Wisconsin. Stmtt Beaks W»n« Thnn limenbaeklnm. Business men will not fail to sec that the banking system now proposed to the coun try by the Chicago convention would, if adopted, prove a worse linancial affliction than the itoomng of the country with greenbacks, which so large a portion of that party recently favored. For of green­ backs it could be said that they would have the government back of them, but if the old system of siate banks should be re­ vived they would soon become, as they did before, a sluiceway for pouring over the country a flood of notes without proper security. All would not be so, but there would be millions of unprotected or only partially secured money in circulation. President Harrison, in his letter of ac­ ceptance, vividly recalled the condition of affairs when the old system of state banks was in its baleful prime. The postmaster- general. in a communication to the last Congress, presented some startling statis­ tics on the failures of private banks, which become of momentous interest since the Democrats have announced it to be their policy to remove all restrictions upon the circulation of state banks. The postmas­ ter-general says: "That private banking institutions do not afford adequate security to depositors is most clearly demonstrated by the stati s- tics at the command tof the government, showing the failure of private banking firms and contrasting these failures in their extent and effect with the losses incurred through the Insolvency of national banks. These statistics are comparatively limited, but, such as they are, the> constitute such strong proof of mismanagement and reck- lessuess of concerns free from adequate governmental or slate restraint as to fur­ nish the best evidence upon the point de­ sired in this discussion to be emphasized. '•From the beginning of the national banking system until 187!), a period of six­ teen years, only eighty-one national banks had become insolvent, -tiid the estimated losses all told were S-i,210,189. It is stated in the publications on the subject tnat iifty- five banks, operating under systems in vogue prior to the national banking sys­ tem, failed in the single year 1841. with an aggregate capita! oi over £(j7,000,000. And it is also recorded that iu nearly everv in­ stance the entire capital ot the banks which failed was lost. The losses inci­ dent to throe or four failures of private banking firms prior to 1879 were equal to the total losses which had up to that time occurred under the national oanking sys­ tem. During threo years ending January 1. 1879. the failures of state and savings banks and private banks in twenty-three states numbered 210, with losses amount­ ing to $32,616.tittl. "Use average annual losses to creditors by the insolvency of national banks dur­ ing sixteen years prior to 1.S79 was S'WO.012. while that occasioned by Ihc failure of banks other than national was for three years prior to 1879 not less than $10,872,200 per annum. Theieportof the comptroller of the currency for 1879 shows that in the states of Ohio and Illinois a'one the losses in three years through the failure of state savings and private banks and bankers ag­ gregated over 88.000,000, of which about $2,000,000 were In Ohio and about$6.000,000 in Illinois, the total losses in these two states being greater by 551.798.913 than the total losses to creditors by all the national bank failures which have ever occurred. "In eight years the losses to creditors through tire failures of national banks in the cities of New York and Brooklyn were 591,000. while the losses by savings banks in the same two cities for a corresponding period were nearly S4,500,000." In addi'ion to tlie above, it may be stated that according to a late report of the comptroller of the currency there were dur­ ing the year ending June 30, 1891, failures of 117 banks, brokers, trust companies and saving banks in this country, having an aggregate ot liabilities of over §38,000,- 000 and assets of but $20,000,000. These figures are not only of importance to financiers, but they are ot vital interest to every laboring man and small capitalist. The men of small means are deeply con­ cerned in liaving sound money. There is nothing which can more seriously threaten workingmen and those ot moderate means than a revival of wildcat banking. Every thoughtful reader will carefully consider the argument which the figures given above present I'ricfM <>f F«rm lmplein«nr*. After being thoroughly exposed and withdrawn from service by the Democrats in the cainpain of 1888 and 1890 the oM falsehood concerning the prices of farm implements in the United States and else­ where is being pressed into service again. In answer to numerous inquiries we repro­ duce th3 substance of the old controversy that is undergoing a renewal in certain of x . f i - -«..y " 'A ? 4 " • -^7,^ •* * , iV&.-'P. m WAITING i fcc? Sask. ;.fJL the less generally circulated Democratic newspapers. The retail price of farm implements is lower in the United States than in any oth­ er country. That is to say the American fanner can buy a hay tedder, a mower, a reaper, a cultivator, a roller, a threshing machine, or any like implement at a low­ er price than the farmer of any other coun­ try. The figures dishonestly circulated bv the Democratic press represent the retail price --the price forone implement in the United States--and the wholesale price--the price for very many such implements to foreign dealeis. But even these figures are false in amount, as well as dishonest in their ap­ plication. The country press frequently has given instances of lower prices in vil­ lage stores than are quoted in the Demo­ cratic list, and a farmer at Bridgeport, N. V., wrote to the New York World, in which newspaper the wonderful Willson first pjjhlisbod lit* ohniw thni be had bought a hay tedder in the local store at less price than Willson quoted as whole­ sale rate. Tli.? World was honest enough to print the letter. S. L. Allen & Co., of Philadelphia, also wrote the World in con­ tradiction ot Willson'8 figures. They said, among other things: We deny altogether that our prices to the domestic trade for the same quality ot goods are higher than to the export trade. It is the practice of many makers to pre­ pare an inferior, and therefore lower priced, class of goods for the foreign trade, but for the same quality of goods there is no reduction. Furthermore Allen & Co. said: Wo deny that our Firefly hand plow U ever quoted at the price you give. We deny that we are advertising to sell abroad at retail cheaper, or M cheap, as we sell at wholesale at home. The MeCormick Reaper Company, the Studebaker Wagon Company, the Oliver chilled Flow Company, the Ames Shovel Company and several other eminent lirms made explicit denial through tlie columns of the Inter-Ocean of any knowledge of lower prices to foreign than to domestic customers. This put an end to the wicked system of falsehoods in 189u. Please notice that during the two years in which there was no political excitement the Democrats have not dared to repeat these false charges. They are reissued now on the eve and in the excitement of a general election, and are confined to the country press--evidently in hope that they will escape the notice of the larger and better-informed newspapers. Except where sales are made in very larye lots, and for cash on delivery on board ship, no standard American imple­ ment is sold lower to the foreign than to the domestic trade. Interior goods, made purposely for export trade, of course, sell lower than standard goods made for the home market. Reverting to our first assertion that the American farmer pays less for his imple­ ments than the farmer of an> other coun­ try, we reproduce somo figures, first pub­ lished u.v an American country newspaper -the Anamosa (Iowa l Eureka--in proof thereof. It is about four years since they were published, and no tree-trade writer or speaker has dared to call them in ques­ tion. The British prices are prices at the factoiy. the American pricts are prices at a store in Anamosa. which is a little town of 2,0o0 souls. Note the difference: Bristol. Enjrl'd, Price.l Iowa Price. Four-wheel IBeat Star wag- wagon -...$l6.V«62fi5| on Light cart 83, Light wagon... Stowmarkot, Grain-grinding mills... Horse-harrows...... Horse-rakes Land-rollers El's:.. I'rioft," ..... l-'e '20 ...» .W® 6(R .. S4@l02 (60(9 65 60® 75 Iowa fcrice- ' $30<3U0 4®20 2L'«25 10(ai2J Hon. Thomas Dudley, when acting as American consul in France, made a care­ ful examination as to comparative prices of farm implements in America and Eu­ rope, and found that they were, on an av­ erage, 30 per cent, cheaper in price and 50 per ccni. better in quality here than abroad. Cleveland'* U«mlM ti»e Ouljr Hope for British Minufinturrri, The outlook for British trade is dccid- cdly not encouraging just at present The effect of the "stone wall" of tariff which our cousins in the United States--"a little more than kin and less than kind"--have erected around their territory avowedly to keep out British manufactures is every day BECOMING MOKE DISASTROUS­ LY APPARENT IN THIS COUNTRY. Already saltaire, that once proud model of an English industrial eomiiiiuutv, is us good as gone. THE WELsll "TIN PLATE IN DUSTRY IS 111 IN ED, and the plush trade of Huddersiield is about to be transferred bodily across the Atlan­ tic to a point within the tariff wall. The cotton trade of Lancashire is so depressed that no one knows what may come next, and consequently all brisk enterprise is strangled, and a general feeling of appre­ hension prevails as regards what the mor­ row may bring forth. The latest evidence ot the injury done to British trade by the McKinley tariff--which, while not enrich­ ing the United States population, hut only the interested manufacturers, makes us on this side poor indeed-is afforded by the oaiance-sheet of the Steel Company ot' Scotland, which shows a balance on the wrong side of no less fian £13.00i). Two questions which will soon force themselves upon the minds of the working people, • to whom the continued mainte­ nance and prosperity of our industries is the very bread of lite, are: How long is this to last, and how may it b« remedied ? It is extremely doubtful whether the peo­ ple of the United States will have cither the foresight or the courage to abrogate within any reasonable period a law wnicli they are told by oiany of their most trusted leaders is the necessary basis of their eventual industrial supremacy; and fur­ ther. for some reason which on this side of the Atlantic it is difficult to comprehend, the operation of "twisting the British lion's tail" appears to be attended with supreme delight to the thoroughbred Yan­ kee, ani hardly less so to the hvbrid ag­ glomeration of taces which forms so large a portion of the population of the republic. UNDOUBTEDLY, FAILING THE SUCCESS AT THE PRESIDENTIAL POLLING OF MR. CLEVELAND, WHO HAS PLEDGED HIS PARTY TO A REVEN UE TARIFF. THE FUTURE OF BRI TISH MANUF VCTURES AND OF ALL THE SUBSIDIARY INDUSTRIES DEPENDING UPON THEM IS DARK INDEED. No doubt the old country will pull through somehow, as she has" done before, but it is to be feared that if the McKinley tariff is to be indefinitely main­ tained it will be at a cost in suffering and poverty which is at present impossible to estimate, and it may further involve a per­ manent lowering of the greatly improved standard of comfort which has been at­ tained by the working classes of this country during the present century.-- Liverpool, Ech o. The Record »f Clenlaat mm te Labor. In the Democratic platform, adopted at Chicago, occuis the following: We denounce the McKinley tariff law. en­ acted by the Fifty-ttrct Congress • • • nmj we promise Its repeat as one of the beneficent results that will fellow the action of the peo­ ple in entrusting power to the Deiuocratic party. The fifty-first section of the present, Re­ publican tariff, known as the McKlnly law, provides as follows: Seotion 51. That all goods, wares, articles of merchandise, manufactured whollv or in part In any foreign country by convict labor shall not. be entitled to entry at any of the ports of the United States, and the importation there­ of is hereby prohibited, and the secretary of the treasury Is authorized to prescribe such reguls! ions :i.", may b; necessary for the ea- iorcement of this provision. Under the direction of this statute, no article is admitted into this country with­ out a sworn statement from the shipper and the importer that it is not the product of convict labor. This is a part of the law which the Democratic platform i'eclares will be repealed in case power is entrusted to the Democratic party. If it is argued that ihe Democratic attack u»>ou the MeKinie^ iuw is not aimed at this particular section, the answer is that Mr. Cleveland, as President of the United States, has already committed himself to tJie pjliey ot employing convicts m gov­ ernment works, and of deriving govern­ ment revenue from their labor in direct competition wit a free labor. Not only would Mr. Cleveland admit the product of foreign convict labor, but he would employ all the convicts in federal prisons in industrial pursuits, and would nave the government make money out of their work. In his annual message, dated December 6, ISSti, Mr. Cleveland, referring to the construction of penitentiaries for the con­ finement of all prisoners convicted and sentenced in the United States courts, says: Upon consideration ot this subject It might be wise to erect more than ope of these insti­ tutions located at such places as wonld best subserve the purposes of business and econ­ omy in transportation. The considerable cost ot niainiaittini; these convicts, as at preaent in state institutions, would be saved bv the adoption of the plan proposed, and by employ­ ing them in the manufacture of such articles as were needed for use by the government, quite a larire pecuniary benefit would be real­ ized in ptrtlal return for our out lav. Not only by this ugly recommendation, but by actually twice preventing the full enactment of anti-convict labor laws lias Mr. Cleveland demonstrated his desire to utiliz.' prison labor in competition with the labor of freemen. In IhStS. and again in lf-88, he killed by "pocket vetoes," acts of Congress, forbidding the use, by the government of the product of convict la­ bor. This law became operative only when Cleveland wis defeated, and Gen. Harrison became President Then it was promptly signed. The following is an itemized record of Cleveland's acts in opposition to labor re­ forms: While governor of New York: ' He vetoed the bill establishing a department of labor and making the secretary of said de­ partment a cabinet otticer. He vetoed the mechanics' lien law bill, mak­ ing the wages of workingmen engaged in the construction of buildings a tirst mortgage on the property. He vetoed the life and limb bill, making em­ ployers responsible for accidents happening from imperfect machinery or inferior con­ struction ot buildings. He vetoed the tenement house cigar bill, for­ bidding tbe manufacture of cigars in tene­ ment houses. He vetoed the bill compelling the elevated roads of New Yoric City to clfarge only 5 cents fare. Ho vetoed the printers' bill, requiring all state printing to be done by union working- men. Ho vetoed the bill making ten hours a legal day's wurk for all street car employes. He vetoed the bill abolishing convict labor in prisons, although this proposition when submitted to the popular will of the people was carried by a majority of 00,000. He vetoed the child-labor law providing for the inspection of factories where children were employed, and prohibiting the employ­ ment of children under 11 years of age. He signed the bill compelling the stationary engineers of New York City to pay a tax of per year to the polici pension fund or be' de-, barred from following their vocation. He signed the bill reducing the fees of the New York harbor pilots, which bill berteflted onlv the foreign steamship monopolies. Whiie President of the United States: , He killed by a "pocket veto" the arbitration bill, compelling the reference to impartial ar­ biters of labor controversies in certain con­ tingencies. He killed by a "pocket veto" the antt-con- virt labor bill of 1S80, and also that of 1SSS. for­ bidding the use by government officials of any mereliandis s the product of convict labor. And. in his message of 1SS»>, he recommendod the employment of all federal convicts in manufacturing pursuits in federal prisons and the use by the government of the product of their labor. Tliey Whwt Tliejr tajr. Being very murli alarmed about the po­ litical effect of the free trade plank in tbe Deiuocratic platform, the Boston Herald undertakes to make out that it does not express the purpose of the party, and says it "was pot in there partly m thought­ lessness and partly in mischief." This is quite a serious reflection on the Massachusetts delegates, who voted for it 2K to 4. It is also a confession of trifling with the gravest interests of the people, which forfeits all coniidence in the party. But, as usual, the Herald is falsifying. The plank was deliberately • substituted for a protection plank which had been re­ ported by the committee. It was adopted after a full and earnest debate, and by the large majority of 'Sit. Ex-CongresHnioit Frank llurd. of Ohio, one of the leading Democrats in the coun­ try. says it is "a step forward in the ultir mate march to free trade," and that "those who do not want to look toword free trade as the final policy of the United States, and who are in the Democratic party, are there oy mistake." Thousands of Demo­ crats are taking him at his word and leav­ ing the party and that's what's the matter with the Herald. It favors tree trade, advocates it every day. says Mr. Cleveland stands for it, but when a big rent begins to appear in the party it shouts to tiio voters, "Oh, we didn't mean it; we were only in fun, in­ dulging in a little innocent mischief, don't-t lier-know, and if you'll only remain in the party and help us win, we will not cut oil' your heads at one blow, but will mercifully begin at your feet and take off only on inch at a time." Th« Democratic P»rtr «n Kru* Mncsr. The St. Paul Globe, the leading Demo­ cratic paper in Minnesota, makes this statement as to the sugar question: What shall be said of a newspaper • • • which points to the low price of sugar as a proof of the virtue of protectionism? Sugar is lower priced than it used to be, not because the duty on it has been in­ creased. but because the duty on it Las been removed. It is an insult to the intelligence of the American people to assume that, after years of public discussion of the tariff question ny the greatest and most promi­ nent men in the laud, they do not under­ stand the difference between revenue duty on an imported article the like ot which we do not produce, and a protective duty levied on competing imports tor the pio- tcetion of American labor and tlie sup- port of American industry. We do not propose, therefore, again to enter into the discussion of u subject which has been ex­ plained hundreds of times m these col­ umns before, and it is only in order to sat­ isfy our curiosity that we ask the Globe how in the name of common sense the free trade pai>crs can have the impudence to point to the benefits of free sugar as a justification of their own position on the tariff question, when every Democratic congressman and senator from South, North, East and West voted against the removal of the sugar duties ? Moreover, we have the assurance of the Louisville Courier-Journal, a free trade advocate if ever there was one, to the effect that: Just as soon as the Democrats get the power they will wipe out the atrocious Republican sugar-bounty system and restore the sngar duties. Instead of paying millions of bounty out of the treasury to sugar planters, we will re-establish the revenue tariff on sugar, yield­ ing annually about $50,000.000 to the'treasury. Strange, isn't it, that the free traders wj«i> to wstoro the very duties the effects of tlie abolition of which they claim as a triumph of free trade? But, then, what kind of consistency or honesty can be expected from a party that, ever belittles the achievements of American citizens, despises American products, and is light­ ing under a foreign tlag to-day. just as truly as it was thirty years ago, when free trade, slaveiy and treason supported each other and fell together before the arms of true American citizens lighting then as they are fighting now .in the cause ot the Union and protection ?--American Econ­ omist. Tim Snliller Vote and Mr. Clrvclsnrt. In his memorable speech at the Chicago convention Mr. Bourke Cockran assured his fellow delegates that the soldiers of New York State would not support Mr. Cleveland. Everybody remembers also that Gen. Daniel E. Stickles emphat­ ically repeated Mr. Cockran's assertion, declaring that the soldier vote would ••never, never" be cast for Grover Cleve­ land. In an interview, priutcd in the New .York Sun, Gen. Sickles returns to this subject, and in a few words explains why it is that the Democratic candi­ date tor tne presidency is not in favor with the boys in blue. Mr. Cleveland is not one of them--in that respect differing from Benjamin Harrison, whom they hail as a comrade in arms. When opportunity was afforded Mr. Cleveland to demonstrate practical regard for the soldiers, to prove that he appreciated their ser­ vices to the country and be­ lieved in giving them generous recog­ nition--what then ? Well, it is the gener­ al opinion of the soldiers that as President of the United States he failed them. Ac­ cordingly, having taken knowledge of him for four years, a very large majority of them decided when he came up for re-elec­ tion in 1888 to oppose him. Gen. Sickles testifies that on his stumping tour for Cleveland four years ago his fellow-veter­ ans frankly said to him: "We are glad to see you. General, but you mustn't ask us to vote for Cleveland." Gen. Sickles is not asking them to vote for Cleveland this time--ho Is not asking himself. He Knows it is no use. Their opinion of Cleveland and of Harrison is fixed and cannot be altered. Tbe former they look upon as indifferent, not to say unfriendly, to their interests; the latter, who was a brave soldier during the war, they have found to be a faithful and effi­ cient friend in time of peace. Tbe Democrats tr« for Wildcat Money. The plank in the Democratit platform favoring the repeal of the 10 per cent, tax on state bank circulation was not, as many suppose, original with the Chicago con­ vention, nor tbe work of soaie crank who stoic it through the committee on resolu- tlj|U> without attracting attention. The iffHPmsftioii jia,| heen heard of before that in Congress, a bill covering it having been introduced in the House and pressed to a vote, it was known as House Bill No. 80502. and was presented by Mr. Richard­ son, of Tennessee, at the lirst session of the present Congress, and read as follows: Beit enactcd that Section 3.412 of the Re­ vised Statutes of the United States, which im­ poses a tax of 10 per cent, on the circulation of state banks or state banking associations, and which imposes a tax on all banks and banking associations which receive or pay out the notes for circulation of state banks and state banking associations, be and the same is here­ by'repealed. June 0.1892. it came up for considera­ tion, and, being put upon its passage, the vote was as follows: Ayes, 84, ail Demo­ crats: nays, 116; not voting, 129. So, it will be seen that the measure received the support of a majority of the Democratic members voting: which, taken in connec­ tion with the action of the convention in Chicago, and Cleveland's letter acqui­ escing. the Democratic party stands fully committed to the policy of wiidcat bank­ ing and sliinplaster currency such as al- fiicted the country in ante-bellum times. Do the people want thisIf thev do, they should vote the Democratic ticket every time. ^Thejr Catoli and Devour Microbe*. Any physician with the least smatter­ ing of microscopic knowledge will tell you that hundreds, thousands or even millions of deadly microbes enter the human body every day bv way of tbe the respiratory organs and the esopha­ gus. "But why," you ask, "are these deadly midges comparatively innox­ ious?" Because they are caught, killed and devoured by minute guardians placed at every vulnerable point throughout the system. In one sense of the word these watchful guardians are simply blood cells, but they are called phagocytes and seem to be en­ dowed with an extraordinary amount of reason. They have independent power of motion and not only wander inside the veins, but olten make their way outside the tissues and pursue, de­ vour and digest any bacilli, whether poisonous or otherwise, with which they come in contact, bo long as these phagocytes remain on guard the body is safe from an attack; out, should they relax their vigilance, millions of invad­ ing parasites would pass into the blood and destroy life, either by numerous mechanical lesions or the poisons which they secrete. The discovery of the uses of the phagocytes, which only dates back to January, 1891, is one of the most marvelous revelations of modern sci­ ence. Drink:. Only at Night. There is a peculiar class of drinkers of intoxicating beverages that tbe gen­ eral public knows but little of--I mean tlie night drinkers. They can be num­ bered bv the score, and are men who never take a drink in the daytime, but begin to "bowl up" after they get through their day's work. They "show up" all right next morning, transact their business as usual, and a majority of their acquaintances would be willing to swear that they were teetotaler*, when, in fact, tbey are drunkards. SOBER OR STARTLING, FULLY RECORDED. Fat Htonk Show Indrflirit^r *•< One Qaincy Murderar SmtaHMI Death and Another to Life meat--.Medical Men at Jacksonrlllf. MM from far an<i Nw. I. JF. ITIDT, postmaster of West York, while watching a torchlight procession dropped dead. Cause, heart failure. FOR stealing a $30 cow from Daniel Twouig, of Chicago, fleui(je Cuupei woi given two years in the penitentiary by a jury in Judge Baker's court. Sixox JOHNSON, colored, was found guilty of murder at Quincy and sen­ tenced to life imprisonment. Johnson went home drunk and shot his wife. TWELVE horses in a stable in the rear of Nos. 74 to 78 Thirty-first street, Chi­ cago, were burned to death. The horses and the itable were owned by John Downey, and he estimates his losa at $2,500. It is not known how the fire originated. THE Governor pardoned John Bonrke. sentenced in 1882 to twenty-one years in Joliet Penitentiary for robbery, and Maurice, sentenced in 1890 to three years for larceny. Both men are from Cook County and both in the last stages of consumption. AT Jacksonville a wedding in &ig& life took place Friday evening, tbe con­ tracting parties being A. L. French, cashier of the State Bank of Chapin. and Miss Buth Joy, daughter of a wealthy stock owner in the neighbor­ hood of Jacksonville. AT Quincy. III., William J. Jamison alias Smith (colored) was sentenced to be hanged for the murder last April of ex-Supervisor Charles Aaron. Jamison was a bogus Indian doctor, and kilted Aaron because the latter refused to pay for services rendered his mother for cancer. AT Mount Vernon, burglars effacted an entrance into William Milton's gro­ cery store and blew ODen the safe, bot secured no money. They took the caalt register to an adjoining alley and de­ molished it, getting $1.30 for their trouble. Milton had taken his money to his bedroom. The work was done by experts, as the doors of the sa e wer« blown off and no noise made. A horse and buggy is missing from the farm of John Thompson, and it is thought the thieves took them. THE State Board of Agriculture, at Its meeting at Chicago, faced the issue of the scarcity of structural iron neces­ sary to complete the building at t Union Stock Yards, in which it was d« Signed to hold the fat stock show. 1 was shown that th» Carnegie strike had not only increased the price of iron t® 2$ cents but had made it practically im­ possible to secure on any terms the ma­ terial necessary for the structure. In view of this a resolution was adopted declaring the holding of the fat stoek show indefinitely postponed, and ex- v; tending the thanks of the board to for- - - |̂ mer exhibitors, friends, and patrons of the show, through whose efforts a meaa- ure of usefulness has been attained * whioh has placed this annual event in the front rank of American economic enterprises. THE twenty-second annual meetitag ̂ of the Northwestern branch of the :% Woman's Foreign Missionary Society oonvered at Springfield. The branch includes the four States of Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan and Indiana. Mrs. | Fifer gave a reception to the delegates at the Executive mansion. She was assisted in receiving by Mrs. Hitt and Mrs. Crandon, President and Secretary ~ of the branch. Between 400 and SOO ladies attended the meeting as dole- gates. The interesting features of the opening session were an address on "Equipment for the Work, by Mrt>. Mary C. Pind, of Detroit, and the reception accorded to sur- ̂ vivors of the Seventy-third Illinois volunteer infantry, who chanced to be ,. | holding a reunion in the city and who - • visited the society room in a body. In ̂ the afternoon the conference secretaries reported and an hour was devoted to , memorial exercises. Mrs. Kate L. , Haynes presided. Then came what was ,4 to many the interesting feature of the "yi day--a missionary symposium, con- ducted by Miss Franc Baker. Eleven missionaries, or candidates for assign- ment to work in foreign fields, were 'yi" called to the stage and introduced te - ̂ the society. Some of these briefly re- ' '* ported as to the work that was being done in India, South America, Bulgaria, 4 Mexico and China. Charles Henry and Miss Lida Smith, two of the young so- -|f| ciety leaders at , Jacksonville, were ~; made man and wife at the home of the Kj bride'sparents. ! JACKSONVILLE was viaited by a large number of the medical fraternity, mem- J,J bers of the Capital City Medical Society, who met to discuss matters pertaining to their profession. Among the topics ^ under consideration were sanitation % in small eitiee, typhoid fever and fraa- tured limbs. a As THE Chicago limited rolled into the Pittsbnrg (Pa.) Union station Wednesday morning a young girl .".lighted, accompanied by a young mas. In the meantime a gray-bearded, ven­ erable-looking man stepped from the Chicago express and rushed up to a station official. "Did you see a suspi­ cious-looking young couple here this morning?" h« asked excitedly. "My daughter eloped yesterday and passed through here this morning." The offi­ cial described her. The old man rushed out, but only reached the gatekeeper as the gate closed. He protested Mid begged and howled to get out, but It was of no avail. The train was already at the end of the shed. He left five minutes later. The young couple eloped from the vicinity of Pullman, this Slate. They left home Sunday evening, riding to Chicago on horseback. The lather discovered his daughter's absence an hour later, surmised what had 1 ecome of her, and then gave chase. He was too late for the limited. THE Remington Company has offered $10,000 for the first Wor.d's Fair sou­ venir half-dollar minted. The company will not state its purpose, but says the coin will not be used for advertising purposes. FBIDAY was the closing day of the Illinois Synod of the Cumberland Pres­ byterian Church, at Petersburg. Con­ siderable business of a miscellaneous character was disposed of and trustees of Lincoln University were elected as follows: J. E. Miller, H. E. Starkey, and Frank Hoblit, all of Lincoln. Tbp$ next synod will b« held at Dan villein October, 1893. AT Chicago, Mrs. Fred Smith nar» rowly escaped death by fire. She acci­ dentally thre>v a lighted mat>h in a can of gasoline. There was att explosion, and the burning oil covered Mrs. Smith's face and body and ignited the carpet and lace curtains. She will re. over. Now THAT the water iu the lake has become too cold for the street gamins to bathe comfort ably, the ladies or Chicsgtf who piovided the free public laths have arranged to heat the water in the bath, houses. About 200 boys patronize tlM place daily. A plan is cn toot to mates the bath-house weather proof, put • stove in it, and keep it at such a te*» pe rat ure that the boye sen hath* tfcsvt all winter, v kk£m