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OF FREE WOOL. ^ELL - DIGESTED nfFORMA- FQB VOIKKS. B«mI Pwrtnftr T«T«d, llf* Vl«daeei> HvbaidlMd-Thi) Simple Kqai- tles or the Cut Clearly and Concisely fitetcd. [Da-rii H. Rice, ta tha Boston Journal.] It appears to ma that to;> lit.le attoniioa i» iflven to the fact that free tra le results in tM iMHttlofi of American pro motion#, while wid like foreign importations escape paying like film for the support of our Government. Take Wot, for instanee. from which tlie duty is re­ moved by the Alills bill, which proposes "free trade" in wool. Iyet us trace a bag of Americau- fmwn wool from th« farm in Kansas to the salos- nom in Iioston. What does that bag of wool •wpresent besides the mere fiber which it con­ tains? It represents in a concrete form human labor for one thins, and taxes which it haa paid to support the Government for anoiliar. The termer in Kansas who raised that bag of wool •pent a year's time and labor in Knowing it. During that year the farm from which his nheep •were fed was taxed, and the sheep on •which the wool grew were taxed. When gait:?•.%': n: he sola the wool he was obligrd to take a part of £v*" * < the money he received for it and pay those taxes. K-.' Therefore" the wool paid this first tax to the i '> Government, and it formed part of the cost of fj'1' that wool. When tne farmer sold that wool to - , the dealer in Kansas, the dealer had to pay a tax to the (io- --tjnent on his capital employed | H ill the wbol b... inesa. Accordingly-, the dealer g^, added a part o the amount of this tax to the , '• purchase price of tVuft bag of wool, and charged *9 bis selling price so much more for it. When AS.- he sold that wool he took part of the money re- Jfc .. " ceivcd for it to pay that tax. This was the sec- jSf r'r' rttid tax that, bay of wool) aid to the Government. Sfv'- The dealer in Kansas, however, had to ship that I/. „ bag of wool to the merchant in Boston, who fV- ' bought it of him. Kverv line of railroad L • over whieh that wool was transported to 5 ,j • Boston had to pav taxes to the Government. So fe • * it added a part of that tax to its freight charges g|, I on that bag of wool, and when it received its V- freight money it took part of it to pay that tax. ft-*;-. ' This was the third tax which that big of wool lA f "was made to pay, and wlii ;h. of course, was ' • added to its cost. But the Boston merchant has J " to pay a tax on his money invested in the wool ' . business, as well a9 upon the income derived • . •' from it. So he added a part of that tax to the cost of this bag of wool to make up his selling « price to the mill agent, and when the latter buys the wool the Boston merchant takes part of the ; . price he gets and pays that tax. This is the • V fourth tax which this bag of wool must pay to the Government before i: gets into the xnill where it is to be used. Thus we Re 3 that our bag of American wool has been made >• to contribute tax after tax to the support of j v T h o m e g o v e r n m e n t , a l l o f w . i c h h a s b e e n a d l e d to its cost rricfl to the consumer. These taxes «re levied by the Government to carry it on, so that this wool may be raised and )>ought and a old and shipped and reach the consumer in the I' , best market in the world--our American home market. The advantages to our Government are well wo.th the taxes this bag of wool has been made to contribute toward paying, even V when considered in a pecuniary way, and with- out these advantages no such valuable market for the sale of wool fould exist. Unless these Sj •, taxes were pa d. both the Government and its Bp -'V advantages would cease to exist together. jH§f: , • Next take the case of a bag of foriign wool im- IKA/ ported in a foreign vessel. When that bag of SB v wool is rolled into the Government warehouse. tM,' bus it been made to contribute anything toward p* *, this government or the valuable market of this p,. *- (Government, to whicix it is brought for sale to P;'. the consumer? gS>* " Manifestly not. It is only wl en the duty is p>' - J»i<l 011 it that it contributes its fair share of e that expense, and it- can be made to con­ s' , tribute to that in no other way. This is because "when the Union was formei the States delegated the General Government sole power to levy K" . taxes and duties on imi>ort8, and they delegated this power for the express purpose of havin 1 • duties levied on this foreign bag of wool, so ~ as to place i. on an equality, in the matter of contributing to government expense, with the mii 't.' bag of American grown wo*. 1. J !;•' But now a Dimo-ruth- 1 resident s'eps in and fee, declares that this American system of having KIV- ' foreim.wocl contribute to tlie exp nee of the |2<!' , Oove.nment, as well as domestic wool. *a a "vicious, inequitable and illogical |;- k , source of unnecessary taxation," and the $s.Democrat ic p.uty following this so-called "free trade"" doctr.'ne, presents to the coun- *"I try its Mills bill, whicti removeB the tariff from «• V/ foreign impt.rted wool so that it shall not be made to contribute anything to the support of Ills our Government. At the same time American - grown wool is to be left to pay taxes as before. CoultTanything b^ m ;ro vicious, inequitable jfjSl , - ttnd illogical than this scheme of I'.iscriniinating against Americbn wool and in favor of foreign pf V ' wool:' leaving the former to bear a taxation, «}v" which is not imposed upon the latter; charging ' the fomipr with t ixes necessary to uphold our valuable home market for wool, and throwing open that t-aine market to the latter, contribut- : iag nothing. If our Government and ita market is valuable s enough to warrant the imposition of taxes on domestic wool, as the only condition upon •which that wool can be raise 1 and sold in that market, as is now done, why is it not valunble enough to warrant the imposition of a tariff upon Toreign wool brough. into and sold in the same market '> Why should inch a premium over the Ameri- «aa producer be offered to the foreigner to bring his wool into that market? Whv should the «Mt of maintaining this American market, with «U its attractions and advantages in price, be levied in advance upon American products, and tbeea attractions and advantages be transforme 1 into gold by the foreign importer of anv foreiizn fvoanet competing with the American, without 1 of the late Secretary of the Interior Mid his *nb- sequent promotion to be a Justice of the 8u- I preme Court are a discredit to Mr. Cleveland." Mr. Conneaa differs essentially from the l'reai. dent on the tariff question, and closes an argu­ ment on this point with tbepe words: "l be­ lieve the home market is of 'more cdhsequenM to the American people and producers than the [ foreign market is." WANTS NO THIRD PABTF. Oidtap Newman's Advice to tks Temper* ence l'eoplo. [Springfield J III. 1 apeclaL ] Yesterday evening the officers of the Prohibi­ tion organisation in this county sent a letter to Bish >p J. P. Newman, inviting hi:n to discuss prohibition with the Rev. W. H. Boole of New Jersey, who will apeak at the court-house here to-morrow evening. Spe iking of the matter to­ day tl«e Bishop said: "I am here attending conference and have no time to devote t > such a discussion. The invi­ tation refers to a letter whieh I wrote to Gen. Cyrus Bussey, in which hi stated that persons in New Yoik were quoting me as a third party man. His letter and my reply have both been published. If I had time to spare from my con­ ference work I would gladly respond to the in­ vitation now sent me, aud show, first, that whatever has been accomplished in the way of temperance legislation in this country has been the work of the Hepublican part y; and, second, that in that party to-day is the hope of the tem­ perance people and the temperance legislation of tlie country. So far as I can observe in trav­ eling through the country, the people, with few j exceptions, are coming to this conclusion and j are standing firm for Harrison and Morton. It is likplv the work of this conference will not be ! concluded till late to-morrow night, aud then 1 have to go dii\jctly to the Southern Illinois Con­ ference at East St. Louis." GEy. BEN J. HARRISON. •IS ADDRESS TO THE CHICAGO TRAVELING MEN. • jaring for the privilege ? •%ri; ' Yet this is what the free-trade Democrat pro- poeee in his Mills bill with relation to wool, as k- '•*' ' well as any other articles imported among our •ft -American products. : MILLS' SURPLUS PUZZLE, 4- And Gen. Harrison's Simple and Easy So- lntion. TCongressman Mills' Brooklyn speech.] ^ . ̂ ow' *0 find .^Kn.OW.OOO of surplus revenue fes, TV f»<*ed up in the Treasury. This inonevmu-tbe , * restore! to the channels of business. "If it con- " Wanes to accumulate disaster and ruin will stalk P »,through ths land, [It is not accumulating much Sf;"' J®01®- The Democratic appropriations equal thi •'sh-l • this year within nineteen uuhioiia.-- 'f., 1 •***•] It will not be long before all the circulation *Oftbe whole country will be extracted from the channels of business and locked as safelv within ; • the walls of the Treasury as if buried in the earth. As money becomes scarce in circulation JV" fall and consumption is arrested and re- i? •*' - ' «nd when consumption is arrested pro- W:*' ' restricted also--and when production 'I: '• ***" otMJumptkm are restrioted transportation " W* restricted also. Then yoa will see your tner- wearing long faces. Money is as eese'n- qal an element in the prosperity of a country as -nuroads. steamboats and carriages. This money b®ck into tho cb&nneii of circu- Gen. Harrison s speech at Indianapolis.] _.A,td °°w* word about the surplus in the Chsr Democratic friends did not know Wtat elas to ao with it, and so they have depos- ^ ™ certain national b&ni^s. The Gov©rn- ,«a«itge^s DO interest upon it, but it is loanel by the banks to our citizens at interest. Our 4aeome is more than oar current expense; There is no authority for the Secretary of the . Treasury to lend the) money, and so only three °.f dealing with it presented themselves under the law. Virst, to lock it up in the Treas- ury vauL s ; second, to deposit in the banks with­ out interest; or third, to us« it in the purchase no' y®1 due. The objection to the method was that the withdrawal of 8 3 l«.re • a sum might result in a monetary striueencv • -the second obviated this objection" bv allowing the banks to jjpt the money in circulation ; bnt neither method resulted in any advani aee to the Government; as to it the money was dead • onlv the banks received interest for its use. By he •1 third method the money would be returned to th0thajine^H of trade and the Government would make the difTe.ence between the premium paid ^ the bond and the interest that the bonds d 1 r.aw left outstanding until they ma. » : tured. If a Go\ernment bond at the market l8ttt BO'xl iuvtatm-nt for a capitalist - - * K I6« u,80.hls money as he pleases, can itbe bad financiering for the Government hav- Mig money that it cannot usa in any other way * buy.ng up its bonds? It is St whether we shall purposely raise money tobnv thL T t' 'J Prd" ium -no one would advise that--but Bhall we ao uss a surplus that we have on hand and caunot lawfully pay out in any other way ? I)o our De.. ocratic friends propose to give the banks the tree use of ft until our bonds matuie, or do they propose to reduce ^La£nua U1.c?me below our annual expendi- ^r® ̂ or the until this surplus f used and then revise the tariff again to re «tare the equilibrium ? b 0 re HUftWUMPS FOB HARBISON. ••toted Letter Written by One of the 1884 Indenciulfiitn. (Boston (Mass.) special.] ComiesB, of Dorchester, one of the Tn-n pendents of l«Hi, has written a letter declarinc CteL?*n^0eB« °VaVOr the re"«1 ction of Grover ti!fn ft at reaa('n i8 that "everv objec- tion bv BepublU-ans to the candidate of irJHJ has been disposed of in ihe can.iida jv of Beniamin nu^riSe Tn ^ Uian he Ua8 speared in our public life. In at least one rospjet it (his lifei far exceeds that cf his opponent L War of the Hebe ion. wuTth^ne wsnV^ at home, not even burdened with civil cares th« -other put his life in issue that we m^ht'^f. tinue to be a Nation ; and, surely, there waTnn 'little merit in that." *' 0re was no 'The Laborer Is Worthy of His Hire." UNITED STATES. I ENGLAND. Labor's Protected HomeJ Labor's Fret Trade "In Philadelphia, Pa.,' Horns. a protection city, 170,- "Huts and hovels, OX) homes are owned by nakedness, pauperism, working people."--Hon.'and crime follow sadly Cbas. O'Neill. iafter the procession of "The laboring men cheap labor."--Hon. F, and women of the Bound. United States have on "In Leeds, England, a deposit in these savings free trade city, popula* banks a sufficient tion :f2X0C0. not one la- amount to have paid on boring manor mechanM March 1, 1888. the whole owns" his home."--KvJ- of our nati nal debt of dence Chief of Police. !?1.202,454,714. and still "The signs of unreal have thirty-three mil- in Europe, the vast lions surplus."--Sena-armaments, the misery tor Morrill. of the latx>ring poor, all "I am like th* boy warn us to stand by our who hired his sister to American policy of make his shires. Some home development, of on< said: 'You could protected industry, and have taken those shirts internal improve- to the factory and had ments."--Senator Sher- them made and saved man. §2.' 'Yes,' said the boy! "1 heard Mr. Brad- protectionist, -Si sterdaugh declare in a Sally got a pretty fair speech in Parliament price. She always pays Ithat agriculture waa me well for what I do,rained; that half of the for her. That two dol-jfarm laborers could get lar bill is still under no work; triat those em- the same r<x>f with me,iployed receive the pit- and if sickness or tance of a shilling or a trouble or hard luck'shilling and sixpence a comes to any of ourjday. lf^ I should d«-, family that money is 1 scribe the condition of there in the house.'"--|KrigTT5h-laborers in hia Hon. Wm. E. Mason. Iwords I should be "The wage-earnei s of charged with gross ex- this country own more aggera:ion."--Senatoi property than all thejFrye. other wage-earners of! the whole world put to - j gether. The wage-earn-I ers in Connecticut and| Rhode Island own more property than wage-) . earners of the whole' world outside of the United States."--Sena­ tor l':att. "The American work- ingman must be fed and clothed and able toj maintain his family as' becomes the diguity ofi an American citizen."--! Koger Evans, working-' man. Pretense vs. Practice. "We have entered upon no crusade of free trade. Tha reform we seek to inaugurate ia predicated npon the utmost care for estab­ lished industries."--CUveland. Letter of Accept­ ance. The Mills bill, to which Cleveland and his party are formally committed, specifically declares for absolute frea trad in lumiier. an established industry representing an annual product of nearly *"0 > 00 >,00 1 a year. It declare* for absolute frae trade in wool, an established industry oroducing over £20,000,000 a year. It provides for absolute free trads in salt, an established industry producing iiu,00j,000 a year. It calls for absolute free trade in brick, build­ ing and monumental stone a d granite, lime, potash, and cement, whose production gives em­ ployment to thousands of American workmen at American wages. It declares for i.b olute free trade in tin plates •nd cotton ties fcr Southern plant r , of which wo now import nearly twenty million dollara annualiy, which might l>e produced by our own labor if protected agaiust the unequal foreign competition. It would establish absolute free trade in hemp. jute, flax, and the other established in­ dustries, whi":h are ev. n now unable to compete with the foreign importat om which are thrown upon our n ar. eta fco the extent of $35,000,000 an­ nually, to the displacement of so much Ameri­ can labor. In short, it calls for absolute free trade in one- sixth of our entire datiabl- importations, and yet Cleveland has the audacity to affirm that it is not a crusade in ths direction of free trade. On all our established industries the Mills bill proposes sweeping reductions of the tariff with the exception of a few Southern industries, as sugar, rice, iron ore. marble, etc., such as would destroy the protective feature of our revenue system entirely; and yet we are told that the Cleveland policy which has been interpreted by the Mills bill is not a free-trade policy! Every free-trader in the country is enthusias­ tic in support of the Mills bill, and yet they gravely assure us it is not a free-tra le measure and does not indicate a Iree-tra ie policy. 'Ihe mere statement of these facts oi record convicts Cleveland and bis managers of attempt­ ing to secure votes under false pretenses, and brands tbem as unworthy of the support or confidence of the American people.-- New York Irish World. * i-* ^. Again says Mr. Conness: "The Demnmitio President, whom I h.-lpxl elect. mt-htdKfv the nation by a just and cotir^wuVwd in condemnation of fraud and force in t.h«, elections <«t the South, but no such word has bten spoken to every departjm nt of the Government Mr '^kneUmd has given preference to men of the ; Southern States, and not always judiciou Iv fie leading law office is filled by one who com laundod rebel forces in the field, and who, in his i office, has employed its powers to build eeta fer himself and his friends. There has 1 no mere flagrant action in the history of • Government than that taken by the A tor- r General in his relation to the litigation itnat the Bell telephone patents. It is a adal ef the first magnitude and stands un- waeed by the President. In this connection >-aad ua»on general principles the selection Mr. Coakling'8 Old Letter. A certain Mr. Crandall, who lives somewhere up the country, has published a letter which Mr. Conkling wrote against Mr. Blaine in IBM, twenty-three years ago. It is a verv angry and excited letter, and was written about the time of Blaine's violent speech ridiculing Conkling as a turkey cock. It says thing* which Mr. Conk- liog himself never repeated, and which were not brought out in 1884, when Blaine was running for President. It should not have been brought out now. It only does harm to the memory of Mr. Conkling. Mr. Blaine is not injured by it. The whole controvarsy out of which this let­ ter grew disappeared from memory long since. It was fierco and sharp while it lasted, but it was never of any serious importance. Mr. Conk­ ling had become involved in a dispute with Gen. Fry. the Provost Marshal General, over a local Provost Marshal in the town of Utica, who was a friend of Conkling's. and whom Fry did not ap­ prove. Blaine interfered as a friend of Fry's against Conkling, and thus the petty contro­ versy- was transferred to the floor of the House of Representatives. Finally the House ap­ pointed a committee, with Sir. Hbellabarger, of Ohio, as Chairman. The committee took a great deal of testimony, and its report was rather favorable to Mr. Conkling's side of the question but it was not sufficiently so to break down Fry; and, after the fig t was over, the parties stooa substantially as they stood before. The only difference was ain inappeasable hatred on the pj-rt of Conkling toward Blaine. This passion contributed a good deal to Blaine's de­ feat in 1634; but there is no sense in reviving it now and attempting to mix it into the politics of the proaept day. Let us have peace.--New York Sun. The Way Thejr Did It. Judge Thurman's claim that the Demooratlc party abolished Blavery is well-founded in one sense; but the Old Koman failed to Btate the wa.5- in which that party did it. It accomplished that result by getting up a war in favor of slavery, and thus forcing the nation to wine slavery out of existence in self-defense.--Pitt*- burg Diirpatch. "Sugar" for the Solid South. The Sugar Trust has voted for another in­ crease in the price of sugar; and the Democrats ff!,P rv^ht "/Sing an alleged anti-trust tariff bill which will leave that tariff-supported trust in the full enjoym ant ot its monopoly Pittsburg Ditpatch. THE Washington agricultural report for last month seems to warrant the expecta­ tion of about 4:i0,0(H),000 bushels of wheat 1,900,000,000 bushels of corn, and 785,000,- 000 bushels of oats for the crops of the Lnited States this year. In each of these grains there is a large increase. GBEAT care should be taken to raise an orchard. The soil should be thoroughly caltivated and fertilized and the young trees protected. Mr. Moore adds: "Unless the fruit-grower has time properly to take care of his orchard, it is useless to spend money for apple trees." < ' LOOK up and not do_. I*>ok forward and not Look out, and not in. Lend I <• Support of Dpmocratle fm- Scheme* Made Plain to (He VI«- ' Itorn -- Gen. Ha-iison's Views on the "'^Treasury Surplus. 'The Republican commercial men of Chicago, to tha number of 500. recently called on G?n. Harrison, and were most cordially received. Col. H. Kude, of Chic ago. delivered tno addross on behalf of his associates, and the General, in response, said: Sir, and gentlemen of the Commercial Trav­ elers' Association of Chicago. I bid you welcome to iny home. I give you hiy most hearty tlumks for this cordial evidonce of > our interest iu these g<"eat principles of government which ara advo­ cated by the lifspublican party, wnose candidate I am. I am hoc unfamiliar with th> value, efficiency, and intelligence of th> commercial travelers of our country. Thee ntribution you make to the success of the business communi­ ties with which you are identiiled is large end indispensable. I do not doubt that one of the strongest props of Chicago's commercial great­ ness would be destroyed if you were withdrawn i from tho commercial" forces of that great city, j The growth and development of Chicago has been one of the most miraculous incidents in the story of American progress. It is 1 gratifying to know that your interest is enlisted ! in this political cumpaigii. It is vary creditable I to you that in the rush of the busy industries | and rushing trade of your city you have not j forgotten that you are American citizens and that you owe service not to commerce only, but I to your country. The intelligence and energy ] which you give to your commercial pursuits will j be a most valuable contribution to our cause. ; The power of such a body of men is very groat, j I,want now to introduce "to you for a moment | another speaker--an Englishman. Within the j last year I have been reading, wholly without any view to politics, the story of our diplomatic lndudtaff somettJ young paop:o, spoUe as fol­ low*: Mt WjuiAaaCortrrY FIUKNIH and Mr LmiE Faltjraa »^*JpA>utK; I am glad to a>aet you here to-day. Mjr friend. wlio ba? spoken from Wabaah County, hat tru'.y said that tho rela­ tion K be tween me and ths Republicans of that county have always been exceedingly cordial. I remember whjm I first visited yo'ar county in MOO, almost 4 boy in years, alto^o har a boy in political experience. 1 was theii a candidate for Reporter of the Decisions of the Supreme Court of this state. You had in one of your own citi­ zens. afterward a distinguished soldier, a candi- datJ for thnt office in the conven'ion that nom­ inated me, but this did 11 jt interfere at all with the cordial welcome from your people when, as the nominee of y..ur party, I catrte into ycur | county. I think from that day to this mv name j has never be-n mention1 d 111 any convention for any office that I have not had almost the unani- mous support of the Hi-publican i of Wabash j County. This is new interesi which you niani- , fest to-day. The expressions of your contUlenca hive been numerous and nave been continued through nearly thirty years. There is one word 011 one subject that I want to say. Our Democratic friends tell us that there are about #IOO,(HK),OJO--thejr arithme­ ticians do not agree on the exact figures--in the public treasury for which the Government has no need. They have found only this method of using it; depositing it in the national banks of the country to l>e loaned out by them to our citizens at interest, the Government ge ting 110 interest whatever trom the banks. I suggested, and it was not an original suggestion with mo-- Seuator Sherman has advocated the same policy with great ability in tho Senate--that this money had better be used in buying Govern­ ment bonds, because the Government would make some m ney in applying it that way, and thero was no other way in which thev conld get any interest on it at all. But it in said if we usa it in this manner we pay a premium to the bondholders. But it is only the same premium that the bonds are bringing in the maiket. In other words, as I said the other day. capitalists who can use their money as they please--put it out on mortgage, at interest, or in any other way they wish-- think the Government bond at the current rata of premium is a good investment for them.. oat Aaertoan system npe« Then1 are nations across the ssa who are hun- pth ewr trade policy by the United States. The English manufacturer is porsuaded that an increased marko, tor Knglish goods in America <s good for him, but I think it will be impossible to pe;- euade the American producer or the American workman that it is good for them. I believe that social crder, that national prosperity, are bound up in the preservation of our existing p licy. I do not believe that a republic can live and prosi>er wiiose wage-earner do not receive enough to make life comfortable, who do not have some up >vard a venues of hope open before them. When the wage-earners of the land lose hope, when th-> star oes out, social order is im­ possible, and after that Anarchv or the Czar. I gratefully acknowledge the compliment of your call, and exceedingly ropret that the storm with­ out ma le it impossible for me to receive yon at m v house. 1 will now be glad to take each mem­ ber of your club by the hand. CONVERSE IS FOB HARRIS0& The Ohio Et-Congressman to Take the Stump Against Cleveland. rFindlay (Ohio) special to Chicago Tribune.] The Hon. George I«. Converse, who for many years represented the capital district of this State in Congress as a Demrcrat, and won so much of a reputation as a politician that he be­ came tho friend and confidant of tho late Kam- nel J. Tilden. has consented to address the Re­ publicans of this city on the pending questions of tho hour, on a date which will be ilxei dur­ ing the coining week. Converse has alwayB been a high protectionist, and during la it year's cam­ paign wus sent to this city by the Democratic Stafj Central Com'mitteo to make a speech, which was so full of abuse of Cleveland and hla tariff policy that the committee forthwith can­ celed all his dates, since which time the ex-Con­ gressman has lost no opportunity to express his disgust at the Democratic administration, and it is no surprise to his friends that he has at last come out on the sids of the Republicans, al> I " Copyright 1888, Mom Eng. Co, N. It. THOUGH YE ASK FOR BREAD, YKT WIIX I GIVE YOU A STONE. A MAN who has tried it says that wooden posts, treated as follows, at a cost of t«o cents apiece, will last So long that the party adopting it will not live to see his posts de- Take boiled linseed oil, and stir in pulverized charcoal to the consistency of paint, and put a coat over the timber. "SSI . relattrms with Engftaa during the civil war. The motive that most strongly influenced the English mind in its sympathy with tbe South, was the expectancy of free trade with the Con­ federacy, and among the most influential publi­ cations intended to urge English recog­ nition and aid to the Confederates was a book entitled "The American Union," by James Spence. It was published in 1862, and ran through several editions. Speaking of the South he said: "No part of the world can be found more admirably pla-ed for exchanging with this country the products of industry to mutual advantage than the Southern States of the Union. Producing in abundance the material we chiefly require, their climate and the habits of the people indispose them to manufactures and leave to be purchased precisely the commodities we have to sell. They have neither the means nor the desire to enter into rivalry with us. Commercially they offer more than tho capabilities of another India, within a fortnight's distance from our shores. The capacity of a Southern trade when freed from restrictions may be estimated most correctly by comparison. Tho condition of those States resembles that of Australia, both non-manufacturing countries, with the com­ mand of ainplo productions to offer in exchange for tbe import) they require." The au­ thor proceeds to show that at that time England's e* ports to our country were only 13 shillings per capita of our population, while her exports to Australia were A'10 sterling per capita. Let me now read you what he said 1 f the Nor. hern States : "The people of the North, whether manufacturers or ship-owners, regard us as rivals and competitors to be held back and cramped by all means. They possess the same elements as ourselves--coal, metals, ships, an aptitude fo machinery, energy, and industry, whilst tho early obstacles of deficient capital and scanty labor are rapidly disappearing. For m ny years they have com­ peted with us in some manufactures in foreign markets, and their peculiar skill in the contriv­ ance ot labor-saving machinery daily increases the number of articles they produce cheaper than ourselves. ThuB at one part of the world our ex)>orts are at the rate ot ten pounds ster­ ling per head, while those to the Union amount to but 13 shillings per bead. I have read the extracts because they seemed to me very suggestive and very instructive. The South offere 1 free trade to Europe in exchange for an expected recogui- tion of their independence by England and France. The offer was very attrnetivo and per­ suasive to tho ruling classos of England. They took Confederate bonds and sent out armed cruisers to prey ui>on our commerce. They dallied with Southern agents, fed them upon illusive hopes, an t thus encouraged the South to protract a hopeless struggle. They walked to the very edge of open war with the United States, forgetful of all the friendly ties that had bound us as nations, and all this to gratify a commercial greed. We may learn from this how high a price England has sat upon free trade with certain of the States. But now the Union has been saved and restored. Men ot both armies and of all tho States rejoice that England's hops of a commercial dependency on our Southern coast was disappointed. The South is under no stress to purchase foreign help by trade concessions. She will now open her hospitable doors to manufacturing capital and skilled labor. It is now not true that eithsr climate or habits of her people indispose them to manufactures. Of the Virginias, North Car­ olina, Kentucky. Tennessee, Alabama, and Mis­ souri, it may be now said, as Mr. Spence saiel of the more northern States : "They possess the same elements as ourselves (England)--coal, metal, ships, an aptitude for machinery, energy, and industry, while the early obstacles of de­ ficient capital and scanty labor aTe rapidly dis- apj>earing." I am sure there ia a "Now South," shackled as it is by traditions and prejudices, that is girding itself to take part in tho groat industrial rivalry with England which Mr, bpcnce so much deprecatcs. These great ht'itos will no longer a:low ci'.hor old England or New England to *piu and weave their cotton. but will build " mills in the ven- fleMs where the great staple is gathered. They will no longer leave Pennsylvania without on active rival in tho production of iron. Thev surely will not, if they are at all mindful of their great ne ;d and their great opportunity, unite in this tfrusade against our prouctod industries. Our interests no longer run upon BO 'tioual HRO.I, r.nd it cannot be good for any par, of our country that Mr. Spenc -'s vision of l'n llish trado with us should be realized. Commerce between the Slates is working mightily if silently to efface all linger­ ing estrangements between our people, an I the appeal for the perpetuation of the American system of protection will. I am sure, aoan tlnJ an answering response among the )>eople of all the States. 1 ttiank you again for this beautiful and cordial demonstration, aud will now be glad to meet you personally. Now tbe Government can buy these bonds at that premium and save a deal of interest. I will not undertake to give you figures ; one issue of these bonds will mature in 1907, and bears 4 percent, annual interest. Now, suppose this surplus money were to remain all that time in the banks without bringing any interest to the Government. Is there a man here so dumb that he cannot see the great loss that would result, to the people? I ljave another objection to this policy--the favoritism that is involved in it. We have heard--and from such high authority that I think that we must accept it as true--that the great patronage appjrtaining to the office of President of the United States involves a public peril. Now, suppose we add to that danger #10 .OOO.OJO that the Secretary of the Treasury can put in this community or that, in this bank or that, at his pleasure. Is not the power of the Executive perilously increased? Is it right that the use of this vast sum should be a matter of mere favorit srn? That the Secretary should be allowed to put ."$10,00),000 of this surplus in In­ dianapolis and none of it in Kansas City, or •Wi,0u0,000 in New York and none in Indianapo­ lis? If the money is used in buying bonds it finds its natural place--goes where it belongs. This is a most serious objection to the present method of dealing with the surplus. But if you still object to paying the market premium when we buy these bonds, see how it works the other wav. The banks deposit their bonds in tho Treasury to secure these deposits, get the Gov­ ernment money without interest, and still draw interest on their bonds. If any one of you had a note for SI,000 due in five years, bearing interest, and your credit was so good that tho note was wort 1 a premium, and you had Sl,'200 that you could not put out at interest so as to offset the interest on your note, would you n< t make money by using thi-t surplus to take up tho note at a fair premium? Would you think it wise finance to give the <?1,000 that' you had on hand to your creditor without interest and allow him to deposit your note with you as security, you paying interest on tho note until it was due and getting no interest on your deposit? I welcome my young friends from Parke County. Thero is nothing fuller of intorest than childhood. There is so much promise and hope in it. Eupectansy makes life rosy to them and interesting to us who have p.issod beyond tho turn of life. You are fortunate in these kind in­ structors who irom week to week instill into your minds the principles of r.digion and mor­ ality ; but do not forget that there is another vine that may be appropriately twiuel with those--the lovo of your country and her institu­ tions. I thank you again for this cordial evi­ dence of your regard. The skies are threaten­ ing. and as there is danger tba^ our meeting may be interrupted by rain, I will stop hero in order that I may meet each of you personally. though all his life ho has been a Democrat of the most partisan character. As this city was the only place iu which Converse made a speech last year, when he yet claimed to be a Democrat, and he has selected it as the point for his first public expressions of Republican sentiments, there will doubtless be a great gathering the day fixed for his meeting. This defection of Converse from the Democracy is the most notable of 1 he year in this State and will influence hundreds of his old followers. HARRISON ON THE SURPLUS. |ktOHiAdst* Hakoi a Speoch VafJing v the l'urcliaae of llonds. ' fita Harrfuon, in response to visiting ddega- aai v"ka WtfJT-' GENERAL HARRISON AND THE IRISH. His Reply to the Address of the Organ­ ized Iriali ot Chicago. We point below the address of Gen. Harrison to tbe Irish-American Club of Chicago, who re­ cently called upon tbe Republican candidate in a body: You were Irishmen, you are Americans, Irish- Amer .cans and though you have given the con­ secrated loyalty of your honest hearts to the starry flag and your adopted country, you have not and you ought not to f >rget to love aud ven­ erate the land of your nativity. If yon could forget Ireland, if you be unmoved by her min­ strelsy, untouched by the appeals of her splen­ did oratory, unsympathetic with her heroes and martyrs, I should fear that tho 1 Kinds of your new citizenship would have 110 power over hearts BO cold and consciences so dead. What if a green sprig was found upon the bloody jacket of a Union soldior who lay dead on Missionary Kidge ? The flag he diel for was his flag and the green was only a memory and en inspiration. Wo, native or Irish bom. join with the Republi­ can convention in the hopo that the causo of Irish Home ltulo, progressing under the leader- snip of G adstone and i'a nell upon peacoful and lawful lines, may yet se.uiro for Ireland that which as Amaric ns wa so much value--local Home Utile. I am sure that you who have in your own persons or in your worthv representa­ tives Riven such convincing evlden.-e of your de­ votion to the American onstitutlon > nd flag and to American institutions will not falter iu this grent civil contest which your spokesman has so fittingly described. Who if not Irish- Americans, versed in th < sad story of commer­ cial ru'in ot tho island thoy lovo, should be in­ structed in tho lienyficent influence of a protec­ tive tariff? Who, if not Irish-Americans, should bo able to appreciate tho friondly influenses of tho protective system upon tho individual and np«)U the home? Which of you has not realized that ml the lot of man only but the lot of wom­ an has been made softer and easier under its influence? Contrast the American mother and wife, burdened only with the cares of mother­ hood and of the household, with the condition of woman in mauy of tho countries of the 0,<1 World, where she is also loaded with the drudg­ ery of toil in tho fie d. I know that none more than Irishmen, who are so characterized by their deference for women and whose women have so fitly illustrated that which is pure in foinn.ln fhftyn/>tn» will rnltia fhii *.» a i' If, « * '* I * I Look at This Picture. If free trade is a good thing, how is it that 1,884,000 laborers of New York State have to thoir credit $33,623,000 more in the savings banks than 15,lwl,000 laborers of (jr.;at Britain? The laborers in this State have increased 40 per cent, since 1800, while in Great Britain the increase has been only 30 per cont. The amount of de­ posits in savings banks in this State is .5469,623,- 0X> against .$463,000,000 in Great Britain. The deposits in savings banks in the State of New York since 1800 have increased 800 per cent., whereas in Great Britain thi increase during that time has been only 118 per cent. Then take the average to each savings-bank depositor in this State. It is $380 against SSiO in Great Brit­ ain. Even in Great Britain complaints are be­ ing made against free trade, which Cobden was ao zealous in forcing upon the country, and there is a periodical agitation for what is not inap­ propriately termed "fair trade." The so little straws snow which way the wind blows. In Massachusetts, it is pointed out, tbe depositors in savings banks average two to each family, and Great Britain averages only one to thirty familias. How is this it free trade is a good thing? Iu 18'X), the total deposits in savings banks in this country were $25:1,'202,- 000; in 188) they were $2,627,348,000, or an in­ crease in two decades of $'/,373,:"4t>,0J0, being the enormous augmentation of 035 por cent. Plain­ ly, we havo not been growing poorer under pro­ tection, and it is manifestly unwise for the ene­ mies or that policy to go so far as to make such an assertion. In this State the gain in the deposits in sav­ ings banks within twenty-five years is remark­ able, and it will not do to attribute this solely to a merely natural increase of population. It is duo chiefly to an increase of trade, for the aver- ago deposit of each individual has increased from S2J0 in 18;>0 to 3:i80 in 188 >, bMng a gain in this respact of 8i per cent, duriiig that time. The ag- grogato deposits in this State increased from :*58,l i8,0 0 in 1860 to 84'.W,(,'2.'!,00) in 1886, or in­ crease of eight hundred per cent. But bring down the figures to New York and Brooklyn. The growth of manufactures ia New York es­ pecially during the last twenty-five years has bjen enormous. There are now approximately eleven thousand manufactories in Now York alone, the metropolis beln; far more of a manu­ facturing conter than is generally supposed, most persons considering it simply as a great exporting mart and a canter of finance. A glance at the statistics shows that the total deposits In savings banks in New York City and Kings County, Brooklyn, in I860, were $49,000,000, and in 1883, $291,000,000, or an lnorsase of six hun­ dred per cent. During that period the number of depositors increased from 227,000 to. 7 6,000, or a gain of 539,00J; the average deposit of each in­ dividual rose from $216 to $384, a gam of $168, or 78 per cent. These are plainly facts worth considering.-- New York Financier. That $21,000 Railroad Lie Exposed. The attention of F. W. Tracy, of this city, one of the Directors of the Ohio and Mississippi Itailroad, was called to-day t > the Democratic story alleging that the company had paid Gen. Harrison *21,00) for services in connection with the strike of 1877 on that road. He said: "Harrison, Hynes <V Miller wero counsol for the Receiver of the Ohio and Mississippi Road during the entiro time of his receivership, a per­ iod of nine years, 'i'hey hud almost innumerable case-i to attend to in th'j courts in Chicago, In­ dianapolis, Cincinnati and I.ouisvtile. The only pay tliey received for this entiro service was *.'1,000. It was f-mall pay -much less than 51,0J0 a year to eaoh member of the. firm, and neither tho firm nor any member of it had pay from the company for anything else. I know all about tliis matter, for I voted on it at the aettli mi nt on tho termination of the recoiver- sidp and have a distinct recollection of looking into the account. Tbe story is a poor, weakly boomerang, and mav just as well be put in its little coffin and laid in its grave at taice."-- Springfield (111.) special. Where He Got the Idea. President Cleveland says that "this campaign is one of information." He must have been reading Republican newspapers. A perusal of the Democratic organs would not induce one to entertain such an opinion.--Norristoum Herald. Pickwickian Denunciation*. On9 of the funniest features of politics this year is the solemnity with which the Demo­ crats denounce "trusts" while their pockets are bulged with the profits ot sugar and Standard UfAf.M•<»< TT_ *«*>•» ' " " ' - " j * : - Blind) Deaf and Duab. ^ On the first of March, 1887, Mis? Sullivan began her duties as teacher to the little pupil, who was destined, under her training, to become so great a won­ der that scientific men from Europe, as well%s of this country, would study hei as a real intellectual phenomenon. Miss Sullivan found her a bright well-grown girl of nearly seven years ot age, with a clear complexion, and pretty brown hair. She was quick and grace­ ful, with a merry laugh, and fond ol romping with other children. You won­ der, don't you, how qhe can run about and play? Well,> she will play "tag,," and have as great ^ frolic about it n# any child you ever saw. She feels the vibration of the ground by her feet, and so knows just which way to go, and what to avoid. Indeed her sense of move­ ment is very acute, and she tells often about going to church "to hear the or­ gan play." She knoftvs when it is being played in the same way that she can tell which wav to run in the game of "tag." The floor vibrates and that conveys to her the knowledge oi what is being done. It cannot be pos­ sible that she gets any real ideas oi sound in this way, although she must get the rhythmic flow of music. How much she is able to realize of its beauty and harmony we never will know; but there must be some charm about it, foi she is very fond of it. Would you think that without the ability to hear the music or to see the steps, that die could learn to dance 1 •It doesn't seem possible, does it? And yet she has learned; she was taught by one of her little companions who loves her dearly. She likes always to do what the other children do, and as they were dancing one day she wanted to join them. The little friend took her hand and tried to make her keep time with her in step. But she could not manage it. Suddenly, as swift as thought, for, witli this wonderful child, to think and to act are simultaneous, she slid to the floor, and motioning the little girl to gc on with her dancing, she felt the motior of her feet and the bending of her knee. In a moment she was on her feet again, dancing merrily; she had caught the very spirit of the motion through hei little fingers. And now dancing is a favorite diversion. It is doubtful whether any one in pos­ session of eyesight and hearing can ar­ rive at little Helen's acuteness of touch and sensitiveness to motion. We de­ pend on our eyes and ears and do not call our other senses into full activity, and these "other senses" will best bi studied in persons like this little Helen Keller. She can distinguish between the puppies of the same litter, and, now since she has been taught to spell, will spell the name of each one as soon as she touches him. Her sense of sitiell is so keen that she will recognize different roses by their fragrance, and by the same sense she can separate her own clothes from those which belong to others. She knows if any one near hex is sad. Seldom will physical pain make her cry, but she will discover quickly ii a friend is hurt or ill or grieved by hei conduct, and this knowledge will make her weep bitterly. Mr. Anagnos says that her wonderful faculties are matters beyond us. The ideas of death and burial had nevei been communicated to her; but taken into a cemetery on account of some beautiful flowers there, she grew j ale and grave, and put her little hand upon her teacher's eyes and her mother's and spelled out "cry, cry," and her own eyes filled with tears. Her teacher says that one day when her brother was coming toward them, as they were walking, Helen knew it, spelled his name repeat­ edly, and started in the light direction to meet him; and that she gives the names of people she meet3 walking oi riding as soon as their presence is rec ognized; and that often when she is about to make known some plan the child will anticipate her and spell out the very plan about to be unfolded. Whether this be the action of some sharpened sense already known to ue and named, or the awaking and work­ ing of some sense not recognized and named, is interesting matter for study. -- Wide Awake. Queer Dreams* They were relating queer and remark­ able dreams. One told how at night he had dreamed that he was threatened with an attack of small-pox,, and when he awoke in the miming he found he had gotten up in his sleep, proceeded to the office of a physician and been vacci­ nated. ' "That's almost as curious as a dream I had one night last summer," said Major Hatchyett. "I ate a dozen roail clams, and drank a pint of ale before retiring, and about 2 o'clock in the morning I had a frightful dream. 1 thought I fell from the top of a house, a distance of 100 feet, to the grouncj, and was instantly killed. I Raw tlie preparations made for my funeral, heard the sobs of weeping relatives around the coffin, beheld the funeral cortege wend­ ing its solemn way to the cemetery, heard the clods falling upon iny coffin, and then all was a blank." "And when you awoke ?" queried his listeners. "1 never awoke," gravely replied tlie ma­ jor. "The dream was true, and mybo'dj is still lying out in the cemetery. That's what makes the dream so re­ markable." Work Was Better than Prayer. The story the other duy about the pious little boy who tried to walk on the water in tlie bath-tub recalls an­ other of an equally pious little girl. She was 8 years old and lived in the country; she had started one day rather late for school with another little girl about her own age. On their way they caught a glimpse of a clock dial through an open door; it lacked five minutes of 9. "O, dear!" exclaimed the pious little girl, "it's five minutes to 9, and well be late to school." ' "I'm afraid we will." "Jennie," said the pious little girl, impressively, "I'll tell you what we must do; we'll kneel right down here and pray that we won't be late." "H'ni!" said the other, "I guess that we'd better skin right along and pray as we go!" They "skun," and got there.--Boston Transcript. Not Strong Enongli. "Did you write those verses, in to­ day's paper, intitled 'In a Dream?' " queried McFelterof Poeta Nascitur Non Fit. "Yes. What did you tliink of them ?*' "I didn't read them very closely, but I thought you missed it in "the title." "How?" "You should have called them 'In a Nightmare!' "--Detroit Free Press. % IRISH agriculture continues to decline. Last year tillage decreased by 18,000 acres, and grass lands increased by 50,- 000 acres. r. Jt.it iuv • -,&i ! 1 TOWJ300D OJTES. ' IK Texas a man rarely cuts an quaintance, "but a stranger from the East has to be might careful.--Harper's Ba­ zar. RICH ladies are supposed to weu their dresses short. At any rate they do not wear dresses long.--"Boston Cou­ rier. THE rapid passage of a steamer de­ pends not only on the working of its screw, but on the working of its crew.-- Ocean. SUNDAY-SCHOOL TEACHEE--Who «J§< Methuselah ? Bad Boy--I don't knoi#a but I guess he was a boy preacher.*-- Areola Record. ? THE story that Sarah Bernhardt usee herself for a book-mark when she gets tired reading is like Sarah herself--al­ together too thin. MISTRESS--Jane, Willie informs MT that my husband kissed you yesterday. Jane--Oh, that's all right, ma'am--I**# got used to it now. MB. VAN V.--All alone, I see, Misr Quilt. Miss Quilt--Yes. Mr. Van X---I bate my own company. Mist Quilt--So do L--Time. DON'T ridicule the poor man wjio suj}- ports ten or a dozen dogs. Perhaps tw is the only way he has to keep pup.--*« Terre Haute Express. A SHAKSPEBEAN student asserts that the Bard of Avon was no sluggard, but a man of action. A sort of "do Bill," as it were.--Harper's Bazar. HE--What would you say, dear, _ should say that you are a harp of a thou­ sand strings? "She--I should think, love, that you were a lyre. " AND now," said the East Side l>elle, sweetly, to her ardent admirer who was paying her a visit, "if you will excuse me for a time I will go and undress foi the party." THE worst case of selfishness on rec­ ord is that of a youth, who complained because his mother put a larger mustard plaster on his younger brother than she did on him. I SAW a fly walking around in as hour-glass the other day," said Mr. Caution. "He was making footprint? on the sands of time."--Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. "MATRIMONY," said a modern Bene­ dict, the other day, "produces remark­ able revolutions. Here am I, for in stance, in ten short months changed from a sighing lover to a loving sire." VISITOR--You have been unfortunate, my friend. Convict--Well, I dunnol I robbed a bank of $20,000 and only gol three years for it. That's more monej than you can make in three years,-- Time. A MAN in the upper end of the countj has twelve grown-up daughters. He has already crippled, two men whe called at the house soliciting subscrip tions to a fashion magazine.--Norrify town Herald. "BE mine," he cried, •with voice sur­ charged with anguish. "If you refuse me I shall die." That was forty years ago, and the heartless girl refused hiuu Yesterday he died. Girls, beware;--- Binghampton Republican. HENRY WARD BEECHER used to tell the story of the traveler who, finding himself and his dog in a wild countrj and destitute of provisions, cut, off his his dog's tail and boiled it for his owx supper, giving the dog the bone. JOHN R. BOLLERS, of New London, Conn., has nearly completed a poem en titled "The Gates of Hell Ajar," or which he has been at work for years, An impression prevailed that thos< gates always stood wide open.--2iforris- town Herald. "THERE is one thing I want you to b< careful about," said a laundry man fa his new cashier. "Yes, sir." "Alwayi require cash from a young man whe doesn't change the ends of liis cuffs. It's a sign of extravagance that can't b< mistaken.--Merchant Traveler. AGGIE--So your fiance shot you' Elsie--Yes; he fired twioe without ef­ fect. Aggie--You loathe him now' Elsie--No; "before firing he paid me I beautiful compliment. Aggie--A com­ pliment ? Elsie--He said: "Elsie, yot are too pretty to live." Aggie--O, th< sweet darling!--Time. "DOES your husband go to his club. Mrs. Gibberick?" "No; I broke up thai little game last winter." "Why, how ir the world did you do it?" "Whenevei he started for the club I went with hin as far as the skating rink, and told hin to call for me on his way home. It onlj took a few doses to cure him." DEACON--I saw you at our evening service last night, sir. Strangers ar* always welcome. Young Man--Thanks Deacon--I suppose you find church- going a great comfort? Young Man- Yes, sir. Did you notice the little gir whose prayer-book I helped to hold upi Deacon--Yes. Young Man--She's f great comfort, top.--Time. MESSENGER--Is this Mrs. Bouncer' Mrs. Bouncer--It is. M.--Mr. Bouncetft partner sent up by me to see why 2u isn't at the office. Mrs. B.--Mr. Bouncer is confined to his bed. M.-- Shall I say what is the matter with him' liis partner may ask. Mrs. B.--Yot can tell him that Mrs. B. caught Mr. B. kissing the hired girl last night.--Ex­ change. "MY young friend," said old Mr. Sur­ plus to young Mr. Giddyboy, "do yot not think that you were rash to ask mj daughter to marry you when you ar« not able to support her?" "Well/ said the young man, craftily, "perhaps ) was. I admit my fault and throw my­ self upon your generosity, sir." "Thafs right," declared the old gentleman. "You shall not lose by it, I assure you. There, sir, is a nickel to pay your cat fare home. No thanks, if yoti please* Good-day, Mr. Giddyboy. -- Chicago Tribune. "MY DART,TNG, I LOVE TOU." "My darling, I love yOUf" Oh, beautiful words, As tender and sweet As the warbling of birds! They lift up the heart Of the man or the maid, As dew lifts the blossom That brightens tbe glade. The eyer. may apeak volumes Unwritten, yet road. The soft, tender sigh. And the blush rosy red. But there's nothing so me After all, an to hear, "My darling, I love you!" From lips that are dear. The Pope Writing a Book* A correspondent at Rome informs me that the Pope has just finished a boob on the social condition of the working classes, on which he has been engaged for a year. His holiness enforces th socialistic doctrine that the State shoulo be the intermediary and arbiter between employer and employed, and calls upon Catholics in all countries to assist their respective governments in their efforts to improve the social conditions of the working classes.-- Vanity Fair. THE London police no»v carry theft dubs in a i ocket instead of y flffl belt.