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What HeJ| About. 0XK8DAY. AUG. 39. May be found on P A P E R « « o > • An of)8n tetter from Mr. E. P. Allis to the men in his employ,--Benefit* of Protection put in a way that he who runs may read.--Foreign Pauper Labor, the alleged Treasury Surplus aud Importations touched upon. A OO.'S Newspaper Advertising iJSpruce Street), whero ftflv'vrtieinK reS NEW YORK- Republican National Ticket FOR PRESIDENT, GENERAL BEN HARRISON OF INDIANA. V *OR VICE-PRESIDENT, MON LEVI P. MORTON, OF -NEW YORK. REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET. Ftr Governor, JOSEPH F. FJFER, of McLean County. :, Wr Lieutenant Governor, v LYMAN B. RAY, of Grundy County. Fbr Secretary of State, WUAC IT. PEARSON, of McDonouffh Onmty. i;-', tbr Auditor, W. PA FEY, ofJeffeermm ON**. • <x"?\ ' tbr Treasurer, i ̂ QHARLES BECKER, of StClair County. P>'"> _ For Attorney General, GEORGE BUNT, of Edgar County, iter CONGRESSIONAL TICKET. p Jrtw Member of Congreu--bth District, i?\ , ALBERT J. HOPKINS, tf Aurora, J.: . g Ar Member of the Stale Board of Equalisation ̂ P , . nth Ditriet, k H, & WILLIAMS, of Harvard. SENATORIAL. Jbr State Senator--8lh Dtitrlot, C&ARLES E FULLER, of Borne. REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET For Circuit Clerk. W. P. MORSK, of Nunda. Pbr^SUttet'Attorney, ADALBERT B. COON, JR., ef Marenffa. • For County Surveyor,' CHARLES H. TRYON, of Hebrvn. For Cornier, ' 'CHARLES E. COOK, ef Huntley.' 10~The wife of Ex-Congressman, John C. Sherwln, died in Colorado the 18th. Her remains were brought to Aurora for Interment. fgTAsk any Intelligent German as to free trade in Germany and he will tell yon that England inundated her with goods, at the same time exclud­ ed her grain and timber, until Ger­ many established her ^Zoll-Vereln," a measure of careful and stringent pro- lection under which manufactures bare grown up and flourished through *11 her many States. Germany still adheres firmly to her protective policy. 1ST The man who votes for Cleve land now. on the false pretence that the Republican party is for "free whisky.,1 is of the same class as those disguised free traders In 1884. who voted for him on,the equally false pretense that he was a champion of "civil service reform.** Let them be Democrats if they will, and If sincere tbey are entitled to respect; but let tliem not add to bad and mistaken politics the mean and unmanly vice Of hypocrlcy and false pretest# m CHEAPKB JCKJf AMD WOMB*. Readers of the disclosures made be­ fore the congressional committee In New York, of the methods pursued by oontraators to beat down wages, says tbe Utica Herald, will understand -fxaotly what General Harrison meant When belaid last March: I am one of those uninstructed polit­ ical economists that have an impres­ sion that some things may be too Ahespt and I can not find myself in full Sympathy with this demand for cheap er coats, which seems to me necessari If to Involve a cheaper man and women under the coat. I believe it Is true to-day that we have many things. In this oountry that are too che ap, be­ cause wherever It is' proved that the man or woman #ho produoes any ftrtisfc can not get a decent living out Of it, then it Is too cheap. AdTfoates of the free trade program Of Cleveland, Mills & Co. seek to pre Judice their readers and hearers by quotingJtatese word# only from the : "1 can no! find myself y with this demand for to," and attach General Harrison's nin^e. The word we have placed in Italics is usually omitted by the mutilators, and often the senti­ ment is given in this form: **I am not in sympathy with cheaper ooats," Cheaper coats, cheaper trouserst cheaper shirts mean **a cheaper man end woman under them;" that is. grinding prooesses of manufacture toofa as pauper labor, abroad or here, only can produce. Read again of woman shirt makers' wages forced down from |6 and #8 per week to 95 #4 and #2.75 per week by oheap labor, brought in from Poland and Russia. ^Whenever It is proved that the man or woman who produoes any article can sot get a decent living out of it thmit it too cheap." That condition has been proved again and again by the evidenoe taken In New York, and teoeotly U has been established by enterprise In Chicago, erlcaa citizen who finds him- wlth cheap cloth- produced oj the process deecrlb- "nMiirtHy flies the free trade jganaa* And, perhaps as .naturally, _ Meks to deceive the masses by rep- iKSa« himself «thetr beetfrk»d. foregoii full sym] cheaper gt^ln -sympathy wi produced bj the mi Of Interest to Worklngmen* The Republican State Central Com­ mittee of Wisconsin has been furnish­ ed a campaign document which, 11 they will use it, will have more weight in the presentation of the protcctlou issue than anything they are likely to get. Mr. E. P. Alils, the head of the* large machinery-manufacturing estab­ lishment, which employs nearly 2,000 men, last evening distributed to his men as they left their work an open letter, or address, of which the sub­ joined is a copy. Mr. Allis has been twice the candidate of the Greenback* Labor party for Governor of his State, and lew employers stand as high in the estimation of their workmen, and of the laboring classes generally, as Mr. Allis. During all the labor troubles in this city the Allis works has beeo able to keep its men going when others hid to shutdown. There are very few manufacturing establishments in this country where, among so many em­ ployes, a spirit of loyalty to employers is maintained as it is in the Allis Works. And this esprit du corps has been developed by the persistent eflorts of Mr. Allis, through his many years1 experience as an employer, to keep in view the welfare of his men as well as his own interests. Mr. Allis has never since the war come out as flat-footed fur the Republican ticket as he has now done. . MR. ALMS'S LETTER. MILWAUKEE, Wis., Aug. My Employes: I have been asked by many of you for my opinion upon the present political situation, and in view of the great importance of the ques tion itself, whether my opinion is »f value or otherwise, it seems best to reply In an open letter to you all. As you know, I am a believer in the financial and industrial views of that emiuent American thinker and writer upon industrial subjects, Heary C. Carr, and have been a sincere worker in the "Greenback" and "Greenback Labor" parties, which more nearly than any other embodied has princi­ ples, and if my vote and influence could establish those principles at this time, it would be so given. The underlying sentiment of those principles is that American labor is the foundation stone of our National life and future greatness, and that to encourage and aid the working and producing classes, whether on the farm, in the workshop, or in the office, should be the first duty of government and that our legislation should be for our own people and country, and not for or governed by other nations. TWO LEADING FEATURES of this belief are, first, that the gov­ ernment alone should furnish the currency of the country, whether metallic or paper, and that It should also establish and regulate its volume In the interests of the whole people, beyond the reach of responsible or irresponsible causes, arising from in­ dividual or corporate control, or from the exportation or variation in the supply of the precious metals; and, second, that the good raw material of our own country should be utilized by and for our own people without dam­ aging competition froaa the people of dlfierent governments and diverse goclal and economic conditions. Of those two great principles, the labor party alone at the present time advo­ cates the first, but the sucoess of that party in the approaching election Is an impossibility, and its success even, with the loss of the second of these principles, which it does not endorse, would, I fear, be a fruitless victory. The two dominant political parties, one of which must succeed in this election, while alike ignoring the first of these questions, take distinct issue upon the second and it is made the pivotal question of the day and in the triumph of one or the other of these two parties rests the settlement of this question for many years to come, and the consequent good or ill for a long time to our beloved Republic. The working men of America have many difficulties to contend with, but under present conditions they are gradually acquiring the power to more successfully cope with them, and though the process may be thought slow, It is nevertheless certain that they are constantly bettering their condition, while their brethren across the sea are a vast multitude so steeped in poverty and weakness as to almost abandon hope of a better future. This fact is beyond successful dispute, that whatever ills the American workman has to contend against, his rate of wages is twice to three times that of his European brother and It is this point ol vantage that it Is his vital and lasting Interest to maintain. It is also of vital interest to the country it­ self, that it should be maintained, for if American workmen must be reduced to the low rate of wages paid abroad and to the want and misery that naturally follows that LOW EBB OP PAYMENT, as evidenced not only by foreign re ports, but by the destitute hordes of emigrants now landing upon our shores, then our government of and for the people is a failure and a fraud. The only possible way that this difler- ence of wages between our own and foreign lands is and can be maintained is by the continuation of the policy that made the diflerence exist, viz.: the exclusion, to a greater or less ex­ tent, of the products of that foreign, cheap labor from our shores. The policy which does tbls Is the policy of protection to home indostries, and it s this policy which is now being threatened by the present National administration and which Is to be passed upon in the approaching elec­ tion. For the time being, this ques­ tion dwarfs all others and every other issue sinks into Insignificance beside It The removal of this protection which he now enjoys, would place the Ameri­ can workman upon the same plane as his less fortunate foreign brother, and take from his hands the great weapon of better wages which he now holds and is using successfully to contend with the giant and grasping spirit of the age. It Is quite probable that the rate of wages paid, even in America, Is not as high as it should be, and J fully believe that the distribution of the products of labor is faulty and that the producer does not get bis pro­ per share, but I am equally sure that the road to a better distribution does not lie in reducing the share he now gets. That the EFFECT OF FOREIGN COMPETITION would be to reduce bis wages, It Is only neoessary to apply it to our own ease, right here at borne. Our city Is divided by rivers into three Important sections, viz.: the Cast, West, and Sooth sides. In the latter of which our works are located. Here we are 1500 strong, fully occu­ pied at as high a rate of wages ss prevails In the United States in simi­ lar establishments, and, whether as high as it ought to be or not, it Is twice to three times as high as la paid abroad. Now, suppose a similar establishment should be started upon the East or West Side, and, for some reason, that establishment could ob­ tain its workmen at materially less wages than we pay on the South Side. Since labor represents far the largest per cent of the cost of our products, you can readily see that ic would only be a matter of short time wlirn our establishment would JWcofepellcd to do one of three thli)gf*;»ei^er close its doors, move over to toe other side or reduce its wages to the rate paid on the other side. This result would be inevitable, and there is no escape from it. If our river was broadened to a lake, and the lake extended to an ocean, it would make no diflerence in the inevitable necessity ol change In location, lower wages or failure, and. as ohange of location would be impos* sible, and closing or failure would be no remedy, the Inevitable outcome would be lower wages. It is true that thn matter of transportation between two distant points enter into|calcula- tion, but communication by water and steam is so close, that the cost of transpertation is of minor importance. The great fact remains, that the nations of the world are our competi­ tors, and we must adopt .their scale of wages or go out of business in our own country, if we permit their wares to come free ameng us. They may claim we are exclusive in this, but philan­ thropy begins at home, and America is large enough and good enough for us. and we are legislating for America and Ameficans and not for Europe Europeans. One great claim that is urged for the removal of duties on Imports, in the interest of workmen, Is,, that under a protective policy, he has to pay a higher price for what he consumes; but admitting this to be true, we must also consider the other truth, that if be pays more, he has far more to pay it with. The true measure of the cost of living to the working- man is not in dollars and cents, but in days and hours of labor, and there is no country on earth where the labor of the workingman will buy more than one-third to one-half of the necessa­ ries, comforts, and luxuries of life, that it does in our own favored land, under the present sjstem of protec­ tion. ••w- 5 y r!--:: ,* Dear Sisters and Bretberen "•'ffiifc i>assin<* K>ttnd of the Hat will close this meeting to­ day. As winter is coming J hope to find more grold dollars and ievver brass pant buttons in Brother Jackson's hat. But before you <ro let me give you some grood truthful advice, which is ottered from a stand­ point of actual experience. Buy your - -v s FALL & WITHOUT FAIL. Their assortment is large, goods all new, bought for casht and as their expenses are merely nothing you can obtain unheard, unseen, unread of Bargains. Take them m. Don't go to the other eteres and get fleeced on high prices, go right there for Such as Meu's Shoes, Slippers, Goods, Undsmu, THE TREASURY SURPLUS. Another claim is, that more Is paid into the treasury than we need, but Is it so? Have we more Income than we can profitably use? Which of you having a debt of $1,000 upon his home­ stead, and a saving of #100 over and above his living expenses, would con­ sider that amount laid away to pay en the debt, a bad condition of things? and yet this is precisely a parallel case. Our government has a debt (in jound numbers) of a thousand millions, drawing interest and secured by a mortgage on the homes and property of us all, and has an accumulation of a hundred millions toward paying it, to' which has been given the alarming title, of a "dangerous surplus." It Is a "dangerous surplus" to one and only one interest among us and that Is to the holders of our National debt, but they cannot justly complain at its be­ ing paid. To the people at large the surplus and the maans of continuing it Is a blessing unparalleled, and while we have a dollar of unpaid debt, there is no such thing as "a aurplus" possi­ ble, and there is no safety In reduc­ ing the means of rapidly extinguishing the debt. Neither would the Income we receive necessarily be a burden if there was GO debt to be paid, for there are thousands of uses, beneficial to all the people, to which the money could be put. But if our debt were paid and we were in a position to reduce this Income, there is a method to do it ten thousand times better than to open our ports to the products of the starvation labor of Europe. IMPORTATIONS. Last year there was brought into this country, In spite of the present tariff, $700,000,000 of foreign manufac­ tures, representing the labor of women at $60 per year and of men at perhaps not over double that sum, All of this starvation labor was brought into di­ rect competition with our mechanics, artisans and laborers and had just that depressing ell6ct upon their wages and occupation. With that $700,000,000 kept out, there would have been at least that much more paid out In America for good American material and labor and as much more as the greater consumption of the people due to their greater prosperity, would en­ gender. If we are gettiug too muoh revenue, or if what we get is costing too much in its getting, let us legislate to keep out entirely that $700,000,000 of pauper made imports, fro.-n which the revenue is derived. I can only add that 1 think our pres­ ent labor representative in Congress, Henry Smith--with whom I have for raerly been in sympathy--in voting for the "Mills" bill has betrayed the cause of labor, which he was elected to represent, and that I deem it ay duty at the present time, temporarily sink­ ing all other questions--to be revived at a more auspicious time--to do my utmost in this election to strengthen the Republican party, which broadlv and openly espouses the cause of pro­ tection to American Industries, and trust that every one of you that loves his family, his home aod his country will do the same. When we have suc­ ceeded in rendering permanent our position of vantage, then we can look forward and strive for other benefits and advances, but If we loose what we now have, our condition w01 be help leu indeed. EWD. P. ALLIS. er, Kinds. Cloaks, Fall Overcoats Latest Styles, Their Fall and Winter stock of above goods is now on tlnir shelves ready for your inspection aud comparison. Look over their Phelan & Yorkev Ladies' Fine Shoe, the very best in the land, made at Rochester, N. Y. Try a sack of the Honest Abe Flour $1.10, or the Ciscoette at $1.00; both warranted Never fail to read their advertisement and local* every week as they are movable and changed every week. Remember to call on BONSLETT & STOFFEL. Are squeezed Out of Shape On many Things; There is many different lines of goods in our store just now when prices have been squeezed out «>i shape. It's always so when we get toward the thin edge of summer. Count on saving half or thirc or quarter or a majority of the things that will soon bo behind the season. t9"The free-trade agitation Is al­ ready producing its legitimate results. The North Cbloago Rolling Mill Com­ pany has closed its works indefinitely. The Manager attributes the closing to "the present state of politics" which leads railroads to Withhold their or­ ders, and hopes It will be only tempo­ rary. But. for the time being, 1 ,S00 men are idle. Simultaneously comes a report of the Bhutting down of very large woelen mills in Pennsylvania for a similar reason--the uncertain conditions leading their customers to decline making purchases a* present and even to cancel existing orders whenever they can find the sllgbest pretext for doing so. It the election in November shall show the doubtful States ranging themselves. on the side o f A m e r l o a n I n t e r e s t s a n d A m e r t c a n Industries, it will end this sort of thing. But a Democratic success would multiply these evils a thousand fold. -M--a------ Bargains in Ladies Hose from 5 cents to $1.25 per pair at John Evan* son * • We need We have odds and ends «»1: Shoes, mayte three hundred pair What would be more economy than to save 50 per cent, if you need any. Your We can't help having some thing about prices. Customers will talk. Nowhere else in the county so good for so little, or such a varied assortment is the everyday word. New arrivals o£ Ladies' ant Gent's Neckwoai every week. For The NERVOUS The DSBIX4TAT£Ps The AGEQ. ; • v-':- NEME TGm. I ^ » Celery and Coca, the, pmmlnent tu> ET^lients, tie the best and safest Jverve Ionics. It streftRthona anrlifes' I'lieta the nervous system, curium tservoufl Weakness, Hysteria, Sleep-; * " lessnecs, &c. UN ALTERATIVE. ^ It dri ves out toe poteooooe humors of the blood purifying and enriching it,: and so overcoming those discasej C resulting from impure or impover- p > ished blood. LAXATIVE. Actingmildlj-bntsurelyonthebowc!| it cures habitual constipation, aud promotes a regular habit. ItstrcngtU •' ens the stomach, and aids digestion. DIURETIC. In its composition the best and most 7^'i: active diureticsof the M ateria Medic a are combined scientifically with other - effective remedies for diseases of tlio v ' •" kidneys. It can be relied on to giyj ' quirk relief and speedy cure. ^Biiudredaoftofitimr'nialF! have been reeeirod ? IjWm perwzi:) v. ho have ufind til's ron»«dy witii fWUH-kdiil,' bouetit. Saatl for circulars,giving nUl particulars. PrfcoAl.OO. Cold by Druggist*. WELLS, RICHARDSON & CO. Prop's LSURLKTGTOJI. VT. Now have a full and complete lino of y^adies^ Children's Shoes, Baby's FAT BABY'S SHOES* And in fact the finest, newest and most Ctitnpleto line W jjear tliat money can buy. In , K , I foot- ^ Wo carry a large line of Jamestown Cashmere, Worsteds, Sateen,. Ginghams, Prints, and overything pertaining, to Dress Goods de­ partment. CLOTHING, CLOTHING, We seU by sample Thus we are enabled to sell from a wholesale stuck and we can show a larger line and sell cheaper, for we havi* no mony invested and yet a much larger stock to sell from than all the houses in town combjned. Our stock of GROCERIES, Always complete and prices the lowest. Give ns a call. STOFFEL & BLAKE. • s There HhAkKIE Our it! I T R M O N E Y C A N B E S A V E D B Y B U Y I N G O F Q U & J 9 » D Y SALESMEN THE JKTSOME GOODS WE A9TDL1&. A BIG DRIVE IN LADIES' tSF*KERCHIEFS. . NOfl IT DOWN. SOME IS WHO 8@TSOME DOES." "SEEING IS BELIEVING.* YOU WILL FIND ON AT THEIR STORE READY TO TO YOUR ENTIRE SATISFACTION, McHenry, 111., Aug, 1, 1888. DLE YOR PURCHASE CLARKE'S Patented June I6thf 1885* 4a ArtiftU Bequired in Erery family Trade i <*: •M- See our $2.50 Ladies' Fine Shoes. Not much jjrofit on them but they are winning trade for us. .y:4 v ;v* ; Jofm"EvtfrirtA & Co. Useful and Economical, Self Cleaning, Labor Saving) Durable, Expeditious, Cheap. Prooi against Rats, Mice, Boaehes, Ant^i, Worms, Biijffs, Diiinpnoiss, l>irt and other PfuimancQs. Town and County Rights for Bale by W. H. FORD, Woodstock, III. v C A AGENTS KFLECTIIG SAFETY IiMP double their mone Belling our BRA SODA Best in the Wo rli KKDUC1MO TUB SURPLUS. The disposition of the Surplus In tbe U. S. Treasury engages the atten* tion of our Statesmso, but a moral vital question has our attention, ana that ia the reduction of tbe Surplus Consumptives. Since the discover* and introduction of Dr. King's Ne«r Discovery for Consumption, there b» been a marked decrease in the mortal^ ity frotu this dreaded disease, and It it possible to still further reduce th® n u m b e r o f C o n s u m p t i v e s . H o w ? B y . keeping constantly at band a bottle of Dr. King's New Discovery and using according to directions, upon the ap* pearance of the first symptoms, such a Cough, a Cold, a Sore Throat a Chestk or Side Pain. Taken thus early a cuiijfc'*. Is guaranteed. Trial bottles free at C|#:" W. Besley's Drug Store. Farmers Attention. 80 to 82 cents per bushel will be pall' for good Milling Wheat at Waucond* Mi IK J. SPENCKB. * New styles of Bag Patterans, Rufc Mb bjXN,!. 1 . , V y , ' i • • I; •-