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f/v I"0ES OP PROTECTION ^mULMD AND HIS PART* FKSSKD FKKE-TBADEB8. M. quite toDtamptaoii fashion of "noh an «n- tlquaUd Mid medieval davioe m a protective Thai hire spoken some of tbt lights of the ©0U. President's p»rty, of whom soma are greater anil some lesser lights; somsmn'mtUUrud some tw® regulars; bat they were *11 in the nine bat­ tle on the tame aide. Jt Is worth while now to eee bow some of the field marshals ana officer* of high rank stand, as also i he commander-in-chief and the seeond in rank, who wti selected because he had soon Rome and was about to die. The leader selected for tbe operations of the President s party In the House of Representa­ tives was Mr. Mills, of Texas. He was selected with his antecedents fully known and after much an.l painful deliberation. The country staggered under the surplus for many weeks while it awaited the choice of Mr. Mills. We are, therefore, justified in regarding Mr. Mills as the exponent of the President's party. So uni­ versal is tho sentiment that he represents the party that Mr. Henry Oeorgo, n boid and out­ spoken free-trader, an 1 consequently a bold and outspoken supporter of the President and his measures, seems to have como to Washington on purjiose to e xamine with his own eyes and other organs ot sense the leader in the House <>l his party. After full and fair examination, Mr, George returned to New York and over his own signiture pronounced Mr. Mills a "free-trader from base. But fortunately Mr. Mills' position does not rest ui*»n the opinion of even so com­ petent an observt r as Mr. George. Four years ago Mr. Mills, having perhaps at that time more freedom of lit:era-:.-e tnau tie has now, made a si>ecch. ra the loth day of April, 1834, which can lie found in the Recent, which itself defined his position then: -\W uiu?t remove, both by legislation and diplomacy, every hind r.n,' canse which pre- veats ttse e&i'hsug.' of the products of our labor lit aU tlw markets of the worlds We^nust uaJvStec *vvry arm »ud let every muscle strike fw thi highvs:: rwai-ati^ration for its toil. We „ , . . msts; VC wtalth. the creation of lalor, grow up tJxsnoaghiy aroused to the nature of the j homes of our people. Than every in itsfraiuers and supporters foana that thsre ; ,$a$sr*- wii] spring forward at a bound, ant •©_ strong a feeling in favor of pro:«^.-*.:v>a j prosperity. »nd power will bless the lane ^Cancln«lre Proof of Democratic Hostility America's Protective System--litter- ' ance* or Prominent Democrat* In Con­ gress That Fnlly Commit the Party to the KnglUh Doctrine of Free Trade. It Is astonishing how diffic lit it is in this to get things called by their right names, nt the names are no'- the essential things szospt as atlor.ling hlrirt and concise te ms Widen enable you to designate the object with- Oat «iroamlocu* ion. Thehr»rs.> has a different naaae in every laujuaje, and yet is the same an- #B**lto everv eve. Tlie difficulty of gottlng the fittie names a: t-sched to-thin;« is much enhanced When the truo> name reveals sinister designs. Mo criminal, for instance, likes to have his ac­ tion described in legal terms. It is much easier to get the photograph of an honest man than yi« countenance of one who is to adorn a gallery OOMecratcd to study by detectives. Th« sitter te the last case j;o s in to contortions which at once spoil his beauty and render his identifica­ tion <5iff.cult. Nevertheless, whether the face is la repose or in motion, the same man is in front the camera. So w.th ideas and principles, the «sseatiai tiling is to get at the verity, under Whatever name they may be called. In this campaign the purpose of the Presi­ dent's par; y friends is to break dowu protec.ion slow decrees ; no slower, however, than is ab- •Ctiut«ly necessary for the success of the plan. Ill order to do this they commenced operations at the beginning of this session of Congress l>y tarrnatiiu; tne formation of a bill to reduce the tariff to* committer, at the head of which was 3tr. Hills, of Texas. As so^n as the country ; HARRISON S ELOQUENCE •MRICnS DKMVKRKB TO V*EWC8 vrarriNu DKLKV AXIOM* V . ;V A Trlhnte to the Manhood of Sew KngUnd --Protection Defended -- Wag-e-Workers Osnld Not Exist on free-Trade Kara- My MiohUran, Ohio, and Indiana Wends, ttwae cordial manifestations of your personal regard move me deeply; but 1 do not at all appropriate to myseU the groat expressions of popular inter- »st of which this meeting fs only one. I under- itand that my relation to these public questions maw the people is a represent stirs one--thnt t h e I n t e r e s t w h i c h t h u s e x p r e s s e s i t s e l f t s i n principles of government rather than in men. I am one of the oldest Republicans -my first Presidential vote was given to the firs' Kepub- lican candidate for that office, an<jl it has always been a sonroe of profound gratification 11 me that, in peace and in war, a high spirit of patri­ otism and devotion to our country has always pervaded and dominated the party. When, during the civil war, the clouds hung low. dis­ asters thiokened, and the future was crowded with uncanny fears, never did any Republican sonvention assonilile without declaring its faith in the ultimate triumph of our cause. And now, with a broad patriotism that embraces and re­ gards the interests of all the States, it advocates policies that will develop and unite all our com­ munities in the friendly and profitable inter­ change of commerce, as well as in a lastins po­ litical union. These great Westwn Stales will not respond to the attempt to e.vcit 3 prejudice against New England. We advocate measures that are as broad as our national domain, that are calculated to distill their equal blessings up­ on all the laud. The people of the Great West recognise and Mayiiipi ta And fjafrti Ihe pMBoenrtto party vitt ttb pernicious teopoaition _ ^ M <nm uwt party slways that tha propositi--i to abandon our protective policv andV> subetttttte a reTehue tariff KM coma. I had plMsdtiay heads yesterday a oopy of the LoadoaJTsiMs *5r S*pt li Theediux says, in substaaosy that, iudgingthe purposes of the liemoontn party by tbeKxeeutive message of last DNOlkwi the KagUsh people were Justifie i inbelisvinAthatpstrtyroeant firea trade.bat if they were to aooept taa moat rtioeat utterances of its leader, protest na that that was not their purpose, tba« the editor, thus states the issue presented by the Democratic party. I will read but a sin|le sentence: "It is, at any rate, a con­ test between protection tnd something that is not. protection." It Is not Of tbe smallest inter- en to you to know what that other thing is. It is enough to know that it is not protection. Those who defend the present Pemooratio policy declare that oar people not only pay the tariff duty upon all imported goods, but that a oarrespon inn amount is adied to the price of every domestic competing article; that for every dollar that Is paid into the Treasury in the forin at a customs duty the people pay sev­ eral dollars mora in the enhanced cost of the domestlo Oompeting article. Thoje who honest­ ly hold auoh doctrines can not stop short of the absolute destruction ot our protective system. The man who teaches such doctrines and de­ nies that ha is on tbe road to free trade is like the man who takes passage on a train sched­ uled from here to Cincinnati without a atop; and. when the train is speeding on its way at the rate of forty miles an hour, denies that he is going to Cincinnati. The impulse of sucji lo*ic draws toward free trade tee surely and swiftly as that engine pnlls the train to the ap- iminted destination. It inevitably brings us to the ".nglish rule of levying duties on such articles as we do not produce at home, such as tea and BLAINE AT ADRIAN. »n A Powerful and Convincing Argument In Favor of Protection to American Indus­ tries--Cleveland nnd His Free Trade Idols Shattered. Following is tha text of Mr. Blaine's speech at Adrian, Mich. There is a contest going on In 1898 which must be decided one way or the other for a generation, because if tbe protective tarts is lost in this election let none of you who are careless as to your votes flatter yourselves that it may be caught up next year or th i year after. You will not have an opportunity for year upon year, and the Democrats who are assaulting it know equal­ ly well that if they lose this year and tbe canse of nroteotion triumphs they are beaten finally for this generation. It is a joining of Issues for a final combat such as has not occurrel in this country on that question since' 1833, and every voter within hearing of my voice will take my word for it that whichever party triumphs this year triumphs for all the time in which he will b ) a political actor on the stage. So that your vote does not only count for this year or next year, but it perhaps couhts for all tlio time that yon will bs an actor on the political stage. Now, this question comes to this: Great Brit­ ain is a manufacturing country of immense power. She supplies fabrics to the largest num­ ber of people on the globe. She has '200,' 00,000 subjects in In tia; she supplies the whole of them. She has ths colonies of Australia and South Africa and other colonies scattered over the whole globe and she has a practical rnoaop- olv in them ; but there is one market which she knows is larger and batter and grander than all canse every pnrsait, every es^lug In w enfacee, eomes in for a share of tbe neaelant influence which ptnteetion i Nattest situated as tbe United "tilts is • So that when they talk to as about free trade: tell them in England that as compared with us they know nothing about It. We fcave got abso­ lute firee trade among 66,uoo,Mo at our own pie, and we have protection against l00,000 of people that live outside of ns. the 1, !3£ !'.!> V ' ' Sr'? __out the country and within their own that thev have latterly taken upon tiseuv •Siresthe task, not only of denying the tesden- cleaaf their bill, but of denying their own is- tret/iocs. When the meeting of rat float ion ta Mew Xork took place, the feeling was so suvuvg Chat large job lots of Congressmen wer# sent Otw to that city to asseverate ths contrary of What. amid the'great applause of their tellow- asembers, they had declared oa the floor of the Bouse. The "notable instance of Mr. Mills will be tonched upon later In detail. • All them seemed to be anxious not to be aallod free-traders. They seemed after the launching of their craft to" have the same drsa I last it should be christenei "the Free-Trader." •a did Grover Cleveland wnen he wrote tha one- tapic message which proposed the plans and ted the keeL It becomes, therefore, highly im- pstrtant to find out what these gentUmsn say in What, under our American newspaper system of reporting tn» doings of Con^res^, is the" pro­ found and confidential secrecy of the House de­ bates. We must put the camera upon them at moments when they did not expect to be put Into the gallery to be examined by all good citi­ zens. The faces will be more natural than when they are contorted for tha stump, after tbe discovery that the people do not want "free trade,' under whatever name the odor may be given forth. Of course no one will expect that these gen- will wear their hearts on their sleeves I boldly announce in precisely the langna e which will be most dangerous to" them and their party the views they really possess and mean M put into action. It is only in their incidental talk that they use the phrases which reveal ttie sUtimate goai of their designs. Out of some of the very speech s which ar j carefully prefaced with denials of free trade tendencies crop the Indications which show what is below. These things pervade evjry speech delivered by those •who belong to the dominant wing of the party and control th? pirty action. Not once, but many times curing the debates have these men "been invit d to deny their allegiance to -free trade, and never once, when surrounded Mr their associates, have they dared so to do. In cach case thoy have had to put the dis­ tance from Washington to New York between fglem and the faces of those who know their real sentiments. Some detached sentencss will Aow how they feel. It is perfectly true that many 'sentences which I shall quots 'are incon­ sistent with olher sentences in the sirue speech, but in no case inconsistent with the whole speech, its purpoie and intent. For instance, Mr. McKinney of Mew Hampshire, who has joined himself very cordially to the dominant Wing of his party, but who has too many flour­ ishing industries in his district not to deiiy that he is a free-trader, forgets "in thi heat of debate" all about his exordium, and in the ecstasy of his peroration bursts f^rth into this invocation, Which eytn Frank Hurd might envy: "Give us af ree and open market w.th the world; break down the barriers which a falSd system has built around us." Mr. McDonald, of Minnesota, also, who had heretofore been c u-eiul to put the word "high" before the -word "tariff," and to say "we are no Owe-traders." bursts the barriers before he ge.s through, and declares in so many words that "American manufacturing industries do not need protection any longer," and speaks of the "legalized robbery called a protective tariff" in •ly those words. No wonder he says, "I [ to say this bill does not meet my un­ qualified approval. I am not fully satisfied with It, because it does not go far enough." These last expressions were so common in the debate, sanctioned as they werJ at the outset bv the declaration o: Mr. Mills that "the bill we propose Is not all we could have asked." that it is a marvel that any attempt should be made to dis- guise the tendency of the present action, and to tain away from the future action which its intend to take, should tbe present i be successful. ) declarations against protection as a sys- a were not coulinel to any section if c juntry sny class or condition of members. They were 1 confined to the South nor to the West. They re as widespread as the President's party, They were uttered as well by members wha have not yet ma le for themselves a national reputa­ tion as by the members of the ma ority of tae Committee on Ways and Mems, that secret tri­ bunal which not only framed the bill in darkness but afterward i arm ad out amendments to tha •Merving faithful. "The protection system has violated the letter Mid spirit of the Constitution." said Mr. Shaw, Of Maryland, in his speech of April 25. "Sir," aaid Mr. O'i-'erral, of Virginia, o i tho first day is! May, himsa f in favor of the iron-ore "tax" be­ cause iron ore is pioduced in his native vil age, "sir, I believe commerce between nations should be relieved so far as possible from all fetters and all restraints," and himself at last, bursting all fetters and restraints, denounces "the blood­ sucking protectionist." " Sir,' said Mr. Dockery, -Missouri, though anxious lest nnv outsider •should call him a "free-trader," "sir. the present System is fundamentally wrong in its operation and fundamentally ridiculous in the pleas set V for its continuance." Mr. Landes, of Illinois, a littleholder, declares that "a tariff for protec­ tion is indeed a piece of finesse to persuade men Into slaver}," From the State of Henry Clay comes Mr. Ca- tnth, who tells a prosperous and successful pao- 'gtfe that "this tariff is a most insidious enemy," that "it is really s ea'in? our substance and de­ ploying our lives." Breaking into metaphor, he <fptuaims: "It is not a highwayman who boldly #ulops upon the public road and boldly de­ mands your money or your life, but tho sneak thief who in an unconscious moment tsicJ filches ' purse." His colleague, Gov. McCreary, L the same State, follows up the attack bv talking of "the robbery which protection brings _Hatch, of Missouri, who throws into his oppo­ sition to protection the whole force of a strong mind and a vigorous body, pu s his f elings into • single s an ten e when he declares that'the 'Whole system was conceived in greed and f rarice, and it has been maintained from that ly to this by misrepresentation and fraud " ot only bom bad, you see, this demon of pro-, taction, but has held its own with nude via tine #tokednes8. 6 ^Major Martin, fresher even tban Mr. Mills Himself from the plains of Texas, and whose lump of caution has not yet been enlarged by tbe blows coming from a protectionist world, de- W™8 ina set phrase which that luture emi­ nence likely to happen to any Texas statesman Way hereafter cause him to repudiate in New *or'"I ftm "Pl-osed to the prot-ctive policv of «ur Government," which declaration, liable to be so troublesome to his future fame, he supple- -jnents with a prophesy that the day of protec­ tion is fast drawing to a close." Mr. Lane of Illinois signalized his first year in Congress'bv jP e"*y from which I cull a few samples, which mow that he has not yet learned, like some of '•is more experienced brethren, to look one way Wld row another. "The protective system is un- American aiid is a perversion of the laws of J ?, ,ai mam" "This barbaric policy • Shall and will have to go." So well does he like jte phrase "Protection is a delusion and a snare* -TOM he repeats it like a refrain, with just that little variation which the genius of the English language seems to require, "Protection is for- "aver a cheat and delusion." Not to be behind his colleague, Major Martin, a the display of tbe prophetic instinct, Mr dl®cioa°a at once his ignorance f ,ure and hla knowledge of the senti- iLu®n„t h purposes of his party when he an- th! a protective tariff must go down "Jyith the monopolies it has crtated " Mr ^ownshend of Illinois, Chairman of the Coin- «lectioa°Hhmvstia-"y "hose constant re-ejection shows him to represent his people and Mews ofnhun™1?d u?lla«8inS utterances of the .^Mhts k.mt-u?£y hlR devotion thereto J?*™® ledge of its purposes, asseverated ly,"re'May li!' that among the "prin- and doc.nnes w;.ich have been advocated tJfthfs d^°.Ur'fciC.P^lny it# '^datton .ggrlg * 18 opposition to protective Bat it is hardly worth while to linger >„„„ on what one of the members of thn mn tto Ways ond Means called the "nuUtia ol tbU The regulars, the line-of-battle ships ,-thaauthorizea exponents of the faith, have not been behindhand m the use of ungWdldex prasskms which reveal their reai intenti^r and power will bless the land to tree men, free labor, and t!ta! T ST'.V TKAI>*:: Th* are not mine, but those of Henry who m»k<M the quotation with due em- so that thj faithful may wink incredu- ih>usly oiw unto the other when an inaccurate newspaper mtikes Mr. Mills deny the faith. in order that he mig .t have room to declare his r>>pentunoe. if he had repented, the passage was read to him in op.m House on the <>th day of Jtme. 18-^S, and he made no reply. In order that Mr. Mills might not fail to remember that he once knew wha: free trade is when he saw It, Mr. Burrows, oi Michigan, read to him an ex­ tract from another si>eech of his, as follows : "Our policy should be to take the smallest amount oi taxes we can by customs, and we should gradually decrease the amount until our customs taxes cjme alone from non-competing articles entering our custom-houses." To this he al o made no reply except to de­ mand a vote. Keally that was tho only reply he could make. He was looking then and there into the eyes of too many men who knew what his real sentiments were. Yet only a few days before this unrepentant silence Mr. Mills had been to New York, and, according to the report of the New York Time$, said: "No Democrat desires free trade." Of course no one believes that he said it. It only shows how newspapers misrepresent public men. But why should we spend so much time upon* details as to individuals, when one scene in the House liguts up the entire group? Mr. McComas, t he able young member from Maryland, on the 2d of May put to the President's friends the point-blank question: " Why in this debate has every friend of the Mills bill lauded the English free-trade tariff system, which only levies duties upon articles not produced at home? "Has any friend of this bill in this debate ut­ tered one sentence in favor of the American tariff system, which discriminates in favor of the home producer and laborer ? "I will pause and yield a half minute to any memlxr on the Democratic side to name the sentence or the member's name who uttered it." This challenge, broad as it was. could be an- swertd in only one way. ani accordingly Mr. Hooker (Dem.) of Mississippi, responded with a frankne s and fullness which some of his shiv­ ering Northern colleagues must have envied: "No, there was no one; and you won't hear any Democrat utter one." A curious little letter from the gentleman on the President's ticket, whose Komau firmness the proposed next adminis ration is expected to- need--.n all things perhaps except civil-service reform--reveals tbe sentiments of the one who is to be second in command. It seems that Mr. Thurman, habituated as ha was to the customs of tho Boman republic, had a scruple which the President, himself a man of scruples, did not share, against "assisting" even by BO much as a letter at a meeting called to ratify his own nomination. The Tammany braves, not understanding the customs of an­ cient Rjme, and fully sympathizing with those of modern Buffalo, were" an^i y because Thurman did not write a letter. Thereupon tbe noble Roman wrote a lettor to Mr. Cox to explain his feelings. Now, Mr. Cox had made a speech fuller of free trade than an egg is of meat. Mr. Cox is a believer in Bastiat.jand would no mors think of denying free trade in New York than Mr. Mills would think of denying free trade in the House of Representatives. If you want to know what the country would have to expect of Mr. Thurman. if ever promoted, listen to the enthusiasm over Mr. Cox's speech: "1 bave not thanked you," wrote be under date of July 21, "for your magnificent speech on the tariff, which ongbt to immortalize you." Surely this is a rec­ ognition of free trade cordial enough to satisfy the stanchest friend of Great Britain. As to the views of the President himself, we must have recourse to the great fact that the substance is what sensible people are after, not the name. If his views are utterly, ab-olutely and demonstrably free-trade, does it make any difference if he denies the title? The close of his message--the one-topic message--reminds me of the caricature which Carlyle describes in his "French Revolution." The cook went out into the barnyard and said to the fowls : "How would you like to be cooked?" and they all replied: "We don't want to tie cooked at all." Said the cook Beverelv: "You are dodging the question; it is a condition which confronts you; not a theory. Free trade is entirely irrelevant." After a whole message, not one "sentence of which sounds in protection, it always did B 'em to me that the dt clara. ion that fro a iradj was not in­ volved in the discussion was an exhibition of monumental nerve. It is as if Wen­ dell Phillips had closed one of his wonderful attacks upon slavery with a declara­ tion that the questi'.n of the abolition of slavery was entirely irrelevant, or as if Robert Inger- soll bad finished one of his assaults on the Bible by declaring that Chiistianitv had not been al­ luded to. What is the essence of free trade? It is the belief that, all the import duties are added to the price at which imports could be bought if no tariff law existed, and that all pro­ tected domestic productions are enhanced in price by the amount of the dutv on like im­ ported articles. But the President states this fundamental belief more stronglv than even the Free-trade Club would dare to btate it. Who­ ever belies that statement is either in favor of abolishing the duties or in favor of perpetuating a visible wrong; is either a free-trader or pal­ ters with his conscience ; and tbe horns of the dilemma are so close together ti at there is no no room for a grown man between them. Why should all the English newspapers, who have no motive to conceal their real opinions, recognize with one voice their new-found friends? Why do all the free-trade clubs pnsh themselves to the front, unlesB they know that they are welcome and at home ? When Mr. Garrison, of Massachusetts, ad­ dresses himself to a Democratic audience at Hyannis, on July 21, what more fitting Vords could he use than to say : "I am myself a thorough believer in absolute free trade. I look forward to the day when cus­ tom-houses will be regarded as an emblem of barbarism--an anomaly ami an anachronism in a true republic. At the sam • time I am aware that the Democratic partv makes no olaim to be a free-trade party. Shall I therefore decline to recognize its steps in tbe direction of progress? On the contrarv, I hail it with joy and hope." : While the English manufacturers and the lEnglish newspapers. H' nry Georgo and bis free- trade clubs, Mr. Garrison and his co-believers, hail the first outset of the President's party with joy and hope, can those who believe in the other doctrinos shut their eyes to a truth so clearly displayed, to a picture all the details of which are as plainly visible as the black clouds of a rising storm ? THOMAS B. BEED. WASHINGTON, D. G. L THE BULL IN THE CHINA SHOP, 4*a I on the last day of the five-minute d,.h«tT,„ •howthat this bili was really protectionist R1 lowedhiinself to say in the earlier da?s of the *ntdebate: "To show bow American labor hu IMMB pillaged and plundered by this ma8kSd 'iwbbH^of protection I have obtum^"™^^ " Mr. Breckinridge, of Arkansas, who twice ra- Ttussd invitations and opportunities in the five xatamtedebate to declare himself against "free trade," asseverated in his speech in the general debate: "This is the kind of protection we have to-day. * * * This, Mr. Chairman is not Only a foolish but it is a wicked policy of protection that it behooves a people to prevent 'flcesosM fifon." Mi. Wilson, of West Virginia, another mem- r of the Ways and Means, roundly talks in THE BECORD OF PROTECTION. Worklngmen's Wages Advanced from S240 to S330 in Thirty Years. [From the Philadelphia Inquirer.] From Jiij) to 188) this country--with short lapses of free trade, which always produced disaster and panics--has enjoyed tho benefits of protection. Under this policy, while population increased 110 per cent, and the farm acreage 7a per cent., the net value of the products of man­ ufacture has increased over 300 per cent., the gross value showing a gain of 427 per cent. But as the value increased, although the prices of products have lowered, the wages of the workers huve gone up. Although tbe prices of manufactured articles are lower, wage* have advancsd in the meantime, because tne tariff has enabled us to make so many articles having command of a large home market that the re­ turns have been large. In 1850 about l.ttxi.t O") factory laborers earned nearly S23/,( 0J,000--about £1210 apiece. In 188J there were not quite 2,.50,(*>j laborer 4 in manu­ factures, and they were paid in wages nearly ?'->•) ,00'J,000, or about sf3i0 apiece. This remark­ able fact of the wages and tbe output increasing together, while the prices of the products of fac­ tories were decreasing, is worth Thinking about. Without a turiff, and a pretty high tariff, new industries certainly could not have been Btarted; and without the securing of the homo market by a continuance of tbat tariff, ceriainly our manu­ facturers could not have afforded to raise the wages of their employes instead of lowering' them to the European standard. IF Cleveland shall be elected, within fotlr years a Democratic United States Sunreme Court will be holding terms in Washington and making de­ cisions on the constitutional amendments. The Democratic Convention of lbtiH, in which Chief. Justice Fuller was a delo^ate, declared that th« reconstruction act, including tbe amendments, were "unconstitutional, revolutionary and void," and Justice Lamar has said but recently that he regarded the amendments as "irregularly" adopted. ' 1 i > Vj.- Measure 209 feet on «ach side and you will have a square acra Itithiaaik iptk, Li; "J - value the great contribution which those Qom- monwealths about Plymouth Rock have made to the civilization, material growth, and manhood of our Western States. We are not envious of the prosperity of New England ; we rejoice in it. We believe that, the protective policy developed her great manufacturing institutions and made her rich, and we do not doubt that a continuance of that policy will produce the same results in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana. We are not con­ tent to remain wholly agricultural States in our relations to either New England or Old England. We believe that in all these great Western States there are minerals in the soil and energy and skill in the brains and arms of our people that will yet so multiply and develop our manu­ facturing industries as to give us a nearer home market for much of ths products our soil, and for that great surplus which now, and always perhaps, we shall not consume at home, we think a New England market better than a for­ eign market. The issue upon this great industrial question is drawn as nnarply as the lines were ever drawu between contending armies. Men are real just­ ing their party relations upon this great ques­ tion. The appeal that is now made for the de­ fense of our American system is finding its re­ sponse ; and many of those who are opposed to us on other questions are committing such ques­ tions to tbe future for settleinen , while they help us to settle now and for an indeHnite future the great question of the preservation of our commercial independence. The Democratic party has challenged our protected industries to a figbt"0f extermination. The wngo-naruers of our country have accepted the cha)ltn'{e. The issue cf the contest will settle for many years our tariff policy. Tho eloquent description to which we have listened of the material wealth of the gnat State of Michigan has been full of interest to us as citizens of Indians. We oaunot doubt that tbe people of a State having such gorgeous invi­ tations to the development of a great home wealth in manufacturing and mining nar uiti will understand the issue that is presented and will cast their influence in favor of that policy which will make that development rapid and sure; and, more than all, and better than all. will maintain in her communities a well-paid class of wage-eaniers. Wage-workers vote: they are American citizens ; and it is essential that they be kept free from the slavery of want and the discontents bred of injustice. Address to a Dele;ntion from Chicago. Comrades aud friends, it is a rare sight and it is one very full of intt-res^ to us as citi­ zens of Indiana, to see this great hall filled with the people of another State, come to evidence their interest in the great principles of govern­ ment. I welcome to-night for myself and for our people this magnificent delegation from Chicago and Hyde Park. We have not before, in the procession of these great delegations, seen its equal in numbers, enthusiasm, aud cordiali­ ty. I thank you profoundly for whatever of personal respect there is in this demonstration, but, above all, as an Atnerlcrn citizen I rejo ce In this convincing proof tbat our people realize the gravity and urgency of the issues Involved in this campaign. 1 am glad to know that this intere t pervades all classe ; of our people. This delegation, composed of the business men of Chicago, aud of men who wield the hammer In tho shops, shows a common interest in the right decision of these great questions. Our govern­ ment i3 not a government by clossea or for classes of our fellow citizens. It is a govern­ ment of tho people and by the people. Its wise legislation distills its equal b"e:>mngs upon the homes of the rich ona the poor. I ain ospecially glad that those skillel. lntdligen: workmen, coming out of your great worshops, have mani­ fested. by their coming to their fellow workmen in Indiana and throughout the couniry, their appreciation of what is involved for them in this ! campaign. May the Gol, who has so lon«r j blessed us as a Nation, long defer ttiat evil day I when j>enury shall l>e a constant guest in the I homes of our working people, and long preserve , to us that intell gent, thrifty, and cheerful i body of workmen that was our strength in war, and is our guaranty of social order in times of peace. I Comrades of tlic civil war, it was true of the groat i Union army, as it is said to be of the kingdom of I heaven--not many were t+ch. It was out of the homes of our working people the groat army came. It was tho strong arm, inured to labor on the farm or in the st-op, that lwre up the flag in the shock of battle, cnrrled it througli storms of shell and shot and lifted it again in honor over our national Capitol. Notwithstanding so many historical illustrations of the »vil effects of abandoning til; policy of protection for that of a r e v e n u e t a r i f f , w e u r e e g a i n c o n f r o n t e d b y t h s suggestion that the principle of protection shall be eliminated from our tariff legislation. Have i we not'had enough of such experiments? Does : not the history Of our tariff legislation tell us tariff bos beuti coffee. That Is a purely revenue tariff, and is practical free trade. Against this the Republi­ can party proposes tha\ our tariff duties shall, for an Intelligent purpose, be levied chiefly upon competing articles ; that our American workmen shall have the benefit of discriminating duties, upon the products of their labor. The Demo­ cratic policy increases importation ; and by BO much diminishes the work to be done in Amer­ ica. It transfers work from tho Bhops of South Chicago to Birmingham. For if a certain amount of any manufactured article is necessary for a year's supply to our peo­ ple, ana we increase the amount that is brought from abroad, by just so much we di­ minish the amount t at is made at home, and in just that proportion we throw out of employ­ ment the men that are working here. Ana not only so, but when this equal competition is once established between our shops and the for­ eign shops, there is not a man here who does not know that the only condition under which the American shoo can run at all is that it shall re- duoe the wages of its employos to the level of the wages paid by the competing shops abroad. This is briefly the whole st >ry. I believe that we should look after and protect our American workingmen, therefore I ana a Republican. Secretary Endicott'g Order Against Women and Children. ORDXANCK OFFICK, WAR DKPARTMENT, I WASHINGTON, Jan. 4,18*. F To the Commanding Officers of the National Ar­ mories at Springtield and Hock Island, and of the United States Ar- enals at New York, West Troy, Philadelphia, Boston and Benicia: While arsenals and armories are not intended to be convert d into political machines, two po­ litical parties in this country are recognized. It is therefore ordered that hereafter in tmploylng or discharging employes of any m l all grades, other things being equal and qualilt nations satis­ factory, Demccra's will be favored, the object being to divide the force in the different grades gradually between Democrats and Republicans. This rule will apply to women and children as well as to men, and will be strictly enforced, S. V. 13 ENi-T, Brigadier General, Chief of Ordnance, U. 8. A. Wages in America and in England. Joseph D. WeekB, of Pittsburg, Secretary of the Western Iron Association, and a recognized authority on labor matters, hai issued a special number of his paper, the American People, in which he illustrates "Why the Gates of Castle Garden Do Not Turn Outward." He gives the wages of the different leading mechanics in tSls country and England, as follows, United states. England. Carpenter, per week *15.00 Ccoper, per week 13.85 Bricklayer, par week 21.00 Butcher, per week 12.00 Farm hand, per week... 7.5Q Laborer, per week 8.00 Printer, per week 15.00 Painter, per week 18.0V tilass-blower, per week.. Plumber, per week 18.0)' Shoemaker, per week 12.00 Coal-miner, per week 12.00 Puddler, par ton 5.53 •7.50 6.03 8.00 6.00 3.00 4.10 - 6,t>5 7.50 20.00 8.00 0.00 5.28 1.57 The Redaction of the Mills Bill. The duties collected from foreign importations for the year ending June 30, 188?, statistical abstract, 1887, page 10, was *212,082,423.90 Additional aud discriminating duty 2,183,8j5.75 Making a total of Duty equal to unpaid internal rev. enue tax on domestic spirits aid tobacco brought back, but in­ cluded in "additional," etc 3211,222,309.65 1,996,523.49 Leaving entire duties from foreign importations $219,295,781.16 Mills' estimated reduction by his bill, according to the Official statement of the Ways and Means Committee 78,178,054.22 Average reduction, 36 8-10 per cent. ^ The Nnb of It If you want to keep up the system under which tbe highest wages in the world are paid to labor in this country--vote for Harrison. If you want to ry an experiment with your dally bread and see if you can't better the best conditions for labor the world has ever Seen vote for Cleveland. Tbb is all there is of it. You are askrd to ex­ change a certainty lor a possibility; a fact for theory. And all when tne great rivals of our trade and manufacturers are asking this step to l&t.4nh. &•. . V' A#, .<..i those colonial markets put together. She knows of one market In which #5,000,000 of the most in­ telligent people on the globs are purchasers and consumers--the United .States of America--and she knows that if she can get into that market it means a revival of her trade such as has not been known for a century and such as could not be known before the United States had attained to the great power and the great wealth we now bave. England seeks an entrance into this market, ana the Democratic party following the lead of President Cleveland is doing everything it can to destroy our home market and give a large share of it to nations beyond the sea. They say, to begin with: "Let us have no duty on wool. Why should we give protection to wool? Why not say to Australia: "Bring your wool here and you have just as good a market in this country as au American citizen has for his wool.'" They say to Canada: "Everything you can raise for your vegetable product, your grains, your dairies, shall come in here and bave just as good a chance under the American flag as our own people who pay taxes here and support our own Government." They say to all the people throughout the globe: "You who produce salt, come here and •ou shall have just as good a chance in our mar-. ket as the State of Michigan or the State of New York, which supply the United States with salt. And so on throughout the whole list, each State In the Union is struck in one great staple, or two great staples, or three groat staples by the declaration that they shall not be allowed to furnish an article which so many American citi­ zens are laboring to produce unless they do so in direct competition with importations from nations that do nothing to support the United States, who pay no taxes to the Government of the United States, aud who are not in any way interested in the Government of the United S t a t e s . N o w , d o y o u t h i n k t h a t i s f a i r p l a y V i s that fair play that you. the great State of Michi­ gan, with over 2,000,000 of people contributing your share to the support of the State Govern­ ment and of the National Government, should have no more right and no more favor under the flag of your country than the men who live in a foreign country beyond tbe sea? Is that ordinary fair play between man and man? Well, now, speaking of free trade, there ate advantages in free trade, aud I will tell you one Of them. We are 05,0JO,000 of people ; we have thirty-oight States and eight Territories; we have 3,5uO,COO square inilo-t of territory; we have 17.0C0 miles of ocean front, and over that vast area--nearly as large as the continent of Europe, wltu a much greater water-front on the ocean--we Americans, among ourselves, around the hearthstone and by the fireside, have abso­ lute tree tra le. We do not erect a barrier on the border of any State against another State. If you have a particular article you can comu to Maine, to New York, to New England, or you can go to California or Oregon, and you will not be met on the whole way by custom-houses or tax- collectors of any kind. So that, as a matter of fact- and I have brought it to the attention of people beyond the sea--there is not, nor has there ever bero, so great a number of millions of peo­ ple In the world who have had the greatest and highest blessings that free trade can give them as the people of the United States. But we know nlso that is free trade among ourselves. That is tho intercourse between the great family of the American paople, who do not tax each other, and every State in which is guar­ anteed a home to any man that chooses to settle in it. anu every man has the same right in one State that he can have in any other State. Hut when you come to the question whether the for­ eign peoples, who pay no taxes, who are not of our family, who live alien to us, who live far be­ yond the ocean, shall enter into this great home market, that opens another question. There comen in the great doctr.ne of protection. More tlian that, let me say here that the principle of protection is not always in every country alike Srofltable. The principle of protec ion cannot e applied in every country with tho same Value and the same profit, and I will tell you why, and I will tell you why it has become of lasting profit to tho United States. It is be- sause the United States is a world within it­ self. Now, if we were a little narrow country that only had one or two products, probably if we sought to protect those products wo would only raise tbe price upon ourselves; but we have a country that extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the Gulf to the Lakes, lrom lati­ tude 23 degrees on the borders of the Tropic of Cancer to latitude 49 degrees, away off on the borders of British Columbia. We have the semi- tropical products in Southern California, and in the northern latitudes we have the cereals ; we have the fruits, we have the cotton, we have wool, we have hemp--we have a world within our­ selves. And so laras does this principle of pro­ tection become ana io varied is its application » | tbat no man can say that this man or that man Now, I understand my duty to be to look out for these 65,009,000 of peoplj at home. The old saying used to be that the city of Prague was the cleanest city in Europe, and the reason was that every man brushed his own doorstep. Now these philanthropic statesmen, like President Cleveland--If I may say so--who want to took oat tor trade beyond tbe sea aud to benefit man­ kind beyond our keeping, I think have sot a larger Job on hand than than they will accom­ plish ; and 1 know that the nation which most and best looks out for itself is acting not only according to tho law of intelligent selfishness but according to the best law of brotherly lova and philanthropic regard for man; for the richer we grow the m ire we impress ourselves upon the entire world as an exhibition and a proof of what intelligent men can do nnder self-govemmmt without the aid of a noble or a king. That iswbatthls country has done. We framed our Government without tbe protection of kings and in spite of them. We grew up without the favor of the great in Europe and in spite of them. We grew up without the patronage of nations in Kurope > nd in spite of them; and to-day we have grown so large that the little nation of 3,01)0,000 in the struggle of 1776 has become so great aud grand and so powerful that it overshadows them all. The example of this Nation is worth more to struggling national­ ities and to suf ering humanity throughout tills world than anything that it was in the power of the American people to produce. Th) policy which has done that is the policy of protection, which has built up every indnstrv at home, which has caused our wide interchange of do­ mestic products, and which has surrounded our interests by a great power against injurious in­ trusion from abroad and with perfect safety at UNDER WHICH POLICY! The Senate BUI Protects, the Mills BUI Destroys, American Industry. The majority report of the Senate Finance Committee emphasizes but does not alter the great issue before the people. It remains as it ,was, an issue not between schedules but be­ tween principles ; to be discussed not by citing maxims but by quoting markets ; to be decided not by comparing percentages b'lt by proving tho purpose and tendency of opposing acts. The Mills bill is to be opposed uot for its reduc­ tion of rates but for its effect on the system it attacks, and the donate bill deserves support not for its rates alone but for its harmony with the policy of protection, which the American people have maintained for a generation and do not propose to surrender at the demand of a sec­ tion which seeks to destroy what it once sought to disrupt. When the Mills bill proposes to empty the sheepfold and unroof the wool factory, the Sen­ ate bill enlarges the protection enjoyed by the former and extends the market of the manufac­ turer. The Houso bill cut off cheap goods from the poor and closed to American capital the profit of manufacturing the costly fabrics whose duty it lowered, whether of cotton or of wool. The Senate bill, by judicious and symmetrical changes, excludes the heavier foreign imports in ootton and woolen goods and adds to the cost of no article in general and universal consumption. Where the Mills bill touches agricultural prod­ ucts it makes their import easier; where tbe Senate bill affects the farm it enlarges the home mari ot for its products and excludes foreign competition along tbe northern border. The Mills bill singles special products to create dan­ gerous and misleading inequalities in tho present tariff; the Senate bill rectifies rales so as to re­ move the inequalities which now exist. Through every line of both bills a like differ­ ence in purpose, in policy, and performance ap­ pears. Tho Mills bill destroys, the Senate bill protects; the one endangers our prosperity as it Is, the other seeks to improve the conditions to which it is due; the one makes two-third of its reductions at the expense of protective duties, the other reduces on internal revenue taxation and non-protective tariff rates; one is Demo­ cratic and the other ltepublican; one looks to free trade and the other stands by the protection of twenty-eight years. On this issue, thus emphasized, lit publican success Is certain.-- Philadelphia Press. DUTIES REDUCED BT REPUBLICANS. Articles Not Produced In America Put on the Free List. pFrom the Boston Journal.] One of the Democratic party's favoritetno9es Of attempting to impose upon uninformed voters is to assert that our present tariff is a "war" tariff, and that the Kepublicaus have never consented and never will const nt to chance it. How false such assertions are tho Nashua (N. H.) Tele• graph very neatly shows in this compact state­ ment of some of the tariff changes for which the Republican p>trty is responsible: The Bepublican party reduced the duty on steel rails from .^28 to $17. The Republican party abolished the duty on coffee. The Bepublican party abolished the duty on tea. The Bepublican party abolished the duty on hides. The Bepublican party abolished the duty on camphor. The Republican party abolished the duty on Indigo. . The Bepublican party abolished the duty on macaroni. The Bepublican party abolished the duty on nutmegs. The Bepublican party abolished the duty oa bleaching powders. The Republican party put sago on the free list. The Bepublican party put shellao on the free list. The Bepublican party put raw silk on the free list. The Bepublican party put tin bars on the free list. The Bepublican party abolished the duty on anthracite coal and reduced the duty on bitu­ minous from fl.Ai to 75 cents per ton. These are soms of the things which, the Bourbon shriekers about the "war tariff" never xetotto. Parties and Pensions. "It is hotter to trust those who are tried Una those who pretend," said Gen. Logan in one of his speeches. The Democratic party pretends to be the soldier's friend, tbe Bepublican party has been and is. Every pension law on the stat­ ute books to-day is the work of the Republican party. The following tabulated statement ot votes on pension bills sh< ws who passed the pension laws and where the opposition to them oame from: NAKB OF BOX. Repeal of arrears limitation, Forty-sixth Congress Mexican pension bill, with Senate amendments, Forty- eighth Congress, first ses­ sion Mexican pension bill, with Senate amendments. Forty- eighth Congress, second ses­ sion Widows' increase, Forty-ninth Congress ji 'Senate bill 1880," Forty-ninth Congress (never reported back in the House) Dependent pension bill, Forty- imli Congrese peiii" Dependent pension bill. Forty ninth Congress (to pass over President's veto) On all the bills (aggregate). 33t 510(572 48 33 S| <r AO 5*" Cleveland on a Second Term. " When wo consider! "Pay to the order of the patronage of thisi W. J. Canda, Treasurer great office, the allure- of the Democratic No- ments of power, the;tional Committee the temptation to retainisum of TEN THOU- public place once gain-iSAND DOLLARS --[to ed, and, more than all,;help re-elect me to a tho availability a partvisecond termj. finds in an incumbenfOaovKB CLEVSZANS.* whom a horde of office-j holders, with a zeal born! of benefits received nnd: fostered by the hope of- favors yet to come,; stand ready to aid with: money and trained po-l litical service, wo recog-i nize in the eligibility of the President for re-! ele tion a most serious: danger to that calm,1 deliberate and intelli­ gent action which must! characterize govern-: inent by the people."--j From lJre rulcnt CI v?A la nd's letter of accept-i ancs, Aug. 18, im. j "My frionds, you will'DEM. NATIONAL TICKiT. never have any genuine: reform in the civil serv-, ice until you adopt the: one-torm principle in: reference to the Presi-: dency. So long as the: incumbent can hope for a second term he willj use the immense pat­ ronage of the Govern­ ment to procure his ro- nomination and secure his re-election."--From a speech by Htm. Allen 6. Thurman, Columbus, Ohio, ism. For President, (Second Term) OROVEK CUSVELUh), of New York. For Vice President, JkLUBt O. THOBKAH, of Ohio. PROTECTION seems to work better than free trade in eet ing a nation out of debt. Free-trade Great Britain had a public debt in 1878 of 99,- 875,UW,(wO. It is now s#3,t>8j,000,oo), a decrease in ten years of «195,uQ0,00;i. The United States, in 18.8, had a debt of i{i'2,25C,00'J,000. IttSSOW FACTS AND FANCIES. A WHITE salutation- Puck. -a milk shake.-- A BOLLINO-PIN gathers no dough."-- Harper's Bazar. THE shoemaker often squanders U( last dollar.--"Duluth Paragrapher. HENPECKED HI*8BAND (after refusing his wife money)--W}iy do you blow me tip? Wife--So youl* come down. PEOPLE who poke their noses into others' affairs ought to get a leather meddle.--Rochester Post-Express. WASHINGTON'has ,a "summer home for cats." It is said to be surrounded by a caterwaul.--Norristoton Herald. IF we could all see ourselves as others sae us most of us would hardly see our­ selves at all. --Jon ma I of Ed uaation. NEW CLERK--These apples seem to be small. Proprietor (irritably)--Well* J what do you expect when you open the wrong end of the barrel ?--Boston Beacon. "I SAY* Dumley," said Brown, "can you lend me $40?" "Forty dollars!" exclaimed Dumley, with a gasp. " Wlivj- my dear friend," if I had $10 to lend 1 wouldn't be sober enough to count it." , --Neio York Sun. "ISN'T this rain-water nice to wash in?" asked little Elsie. "Do you like it?" answered her mother. "Yes, I just do," cried the little one, "it is so soft, and smooth that my face slips up in it !* •--Chicago Tribune. '"MY DEAR," remarked a husband, af he struggled to pull off his boots, "1 (hie) really think I've lost my mind." "Well, John," responded* his wife,' anxiously, "why don't you have a micro- • scopical examination made and find ou( for sure?"--The Epoch. „ FIRST PITTSBUOHER--My best girl'a father and I came very near together oa the subject of marriage last night. SecondPittsburgher--Hownear? First Pittsburgher--There was ofdy a foot be* tweenus--the old man's loot.--Pitts­ burgh Chronicle-Telegraph. A KNOWLEDGE of Human Nature.-- "And so your nice clergyman is going-. to be married, Mrs. Marigold! I hopa you'll like his wife as well as you lika him." "Well, ma'am I'm sure I hope' so-- but we generally find that when , the gentleman is haffable, the lady'# 'aughty."--London Punch. NEW YOBKEB--I suppose a horse can be kept very cheaply in Texas? Texan --That all depends on circumstances, Btranger. A neighbor of mine had to pay pretty high for keepin' a hoss. "How so?" "It cost him his life, and he didn't keep the hoss long, either. It was my hoss he was tryin' to keep.--- Texas Sifting#. "STRANGER, I heard you say that you had just retured from a tour of the State?" "Yes, sir." "How is the corn crop?" "Immense." " How many bushels do you think it will average to ths* acre?" '"I scarcely understand you. I am a chiropodist, and bushels have nothing to do with my business."--Ne­ braska State Journal. A GENTLEMAN of Americus--who, by. the way, had a fad or two--was walking • down town the other day with a witty lady, the intimate friend and guest of his wife, when he began to revile facetiously the gait and carriage of her sex. "Even you," said he, "walk with a very mechanical step." "Yes," she instantly answered, "I am goi^g with a crank." -* MRS. W. (ecstatically)--Oh, h&w ' superbly and grandly beautiful Men­ delssohn's Wedding March is. I could listen to it for hours. Mrs. S.--And so . could I. I never tire of it. Do you go directly home at th^ close? Mrs. W.--No, I am to stop at my lawyer's; • he writes there are some new develop­ ments in my pending divorce suit.--• New York Sun, "So YOU'VE gone under in business," said a New York merchant to bis son. "Yes, sir; I've failed completely." "How much did you turn over yonr wife?" "Nothing." "Do you mean that you haven't put a cent away?" "Not a cent. I told you I had failed completely." "Yes, but I hadn't any - idea that you had made s«ch an utter humiliating failure as all that."--Mer­ chant Traveler. , JINKS--Say, Winks, you're a queer duck. Here you have been raving over Clara De Stage, the stir of the "Love and Die" company, and yet last night I sat behind you at the play and heard you remark to the lady in the next seat that Clara De Stage was disgustingly brazen and the worst dressed woman you ever saw in a theater. Winks (quietly)--The lady next to me was my wife.--Philadelphia Record. 'TIS WHISPERED. Tis whispered on the mountain high, 'Tis whispered on the shore, * r '/•" "Tis whispered where the shadows lie V Beside the cottage door. j 'Tis whispered when the lowing trains ; Have reached the pasture bars, 'Tis whispered in the scented lane Beneath the silent stars. When night descends on grove and glade, And flowers are gemmed with dew, * Tis whispered in the orchard shade < And on piazzas too. . ,Fnll often at the garden gate. Where lovers bill and coo, 'Tis whispered when the hour is late ; And when 'tis early too. 'Tis whispered on tho flowery leas Where wanton zephyrs play, 1 The simple sentence, "Henry, please, , , Do take your arm away!" --Boston Courier. . The Game of Cobwebs. A new parlor game, originated in the Southwest, has already attained consid­ erable celebrity, It is called cobwebs, and my be played by any number of boys and girls. The players all join hands in a circle, with a blindfolded boy in the center. He selects a girl, who enters the ring and flutters about just out of his reach, while he attempts to catch her, saying, "Fly, fly, where art thou?" The girl replies, "Here am I," and at the same time she changes her position and endeavors to elude the spider, as the boy is called. In her efforts to do so, she must not leave the ring. An artificial spider is suspended from the ceiling by means of a pulley and a string, and it. is tbe duty of the boy still blindfolded to drop this spider on the girl's head. When he succeeds in accomplishing his purpose, both he and the girl are debarred from entering the game again. A girl next enters the ring, and, blindfolded, pursues in the same way the one she chooses. The spider who catches his elusive fly in the shortest H time is called the winner of the evening and is presented with a.wreath of small spiders. Ths girl who is longest in being caught receives a wreath of but­ terflies, which crowns her the "queen flj." MRS. JOHN SHERWOOD said that "the first sin of society is to treed cer­ tain evils, and thWi to punish the sin­ ners for the evils which society has helped to'create." BETTER is little, provided it is ypur * own. than an abendanoe of hormyad, • Si . A x. ' 'Jkt* ^ r _ . ,