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P CBB BEXEFICENTJ ?;»; ;<;i Wmomctm Wl*at»*t%fc Tariff Ha* Done for tho Ci«*t Martfewcst--Interest In* and Instructive KAlMM «ttd fJinrcj-Voters, Read Them , «4kA.J^HMl0r Them. ^ jSjp^otoolMp. Bl»Jne at IndlanapMiii.1 ttnltie Studied and persistent effort Of the DMKKmtfc party in thia Presidential campaign •Jttdlce the West against the East on the tof the tariff, maintaining that the EaSt- M get the oeneftt of production and the i States get its burden. Now, if the tariff Hk protection so operates that one section gets die f.<« and the other gets the loss, then the Whole system of protection ought to be abol- lUhed; and if the auvo-ates of a protective tariff SIBBot prove that it is of as great advantage to the West as it is to the Hast., as great advantage to the booth as it is to the North, and that it is * national an l not a sectional policy--if, I say, they cannot establish those points, then the |KWB)r Ought to lie abandoned. But I maintain BH-1 intbe few minutes I shall occupy your at­ tention I shall endeavor to prove by figures and facts--that the West, the great, growing, tnwnlng. prosperous West, has gained more out of the protective tariff than any section of the whole Union. Gentlemen, I know that involves questions of (BCts and not questions of fancy; and I call yonr attention to the census of 18 iO, and if there •re any X>emocrats present t.hey will not wish to dispute the correctness of that census, far it was token uudor the administration of Mr. Bu­ chanan. 1 quo e the figures of that census as to f i« wealth 01 eleven Western States--Ohio, In­ diana, Illinois. Michigan. Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nel jiiska and Colorado. •The last two were Territories when Mr. Lincoln came into power, but were long since made States. According to the census of I8ts0 the ag­ gregate wealth of those eleven Western States Was something under 84,000,000,000, andinl?8J, twenty years afterward, bv the national census, the wealth Xtl of those btatea was #16,5 K),000,000, i increased and gr wn four-fold in twenty ymn, and in the last eight years enough has Men added to cany «p the wealth of these «tsren States tar beyond 3f20,000,0ii0.000,-or a vast <d«al larger sum than the whole wealth of the Unite J States the day Unjoin was inaugurated. You can tee; this question in another way. In 1860 these eleven States had 10.000 miles of rail- mad. or scarcely that; and to-day, twenty-eight years afterward, they have nearly 80,tO) miles of railroad. Mind yon, these eleven Western States have almost "three times as much rail­ way within toeir borders as the whole Union bad before the civil war. Something or other has enablsd yon Western people to get along pretty rapidly; for these Mates have prospered in a degree far beyona that of the old Eastern £tates. in a ratio far greater than the Eastern States have maintained. As anot her proof of that progress I have here a singular table from the official census of 18ti0. in which the princi­ pal towns and cities in the United States are Wren. 1 will quote those of the eleven West- Man States and giva you their popula­ tion at that time: Cleveland was 43,00 >, Toledo was not large enough to be ineluaed in the statement at all. Iieiroit was 45.000. Grand Bap ids. that now has 80/J0U, was not msntioned. Chicago--what do you say the population of Chi­ cago was in i860?--lu0,0&3. Its growth does not •eon to have been much impeded by the protec­ tive tariff, for it is now three-quarters of a mill­ ion at least. Milwaukee was 45,000. St. Paul afcd Minneapolis had not grown io enough conse­ quence in lfyk) to be mentioned in this table a: all. Together thsy now contain nearly 400,0 )0 people. Columbus, O.. had 18,0-4). now some 75,<M); Cincinnati had 160,00 ); Louisville, 68,000; 8t. Louis. 16J.000; Kansas City--the census did «K»t know there was such a place; Denver--it bad never been heard of in the census ; Indianapolis --how much do you suppose it was in I860? Un- Oar 16.000. Pes Moines, something over 3,000. Omaha? Well, Omaha had no mention at all. The aggregate of these cities was 670,0J0 in 196®. and is to-day three and a half million. This is the way. Mr. Chairman, the protective tariff tNM been retarding the growth and development of the West. This is the great hardship the Wast has suffered by reason of the protective tariff. When yon drive the free-traders from every other ground they tell yon that the protect!-we tariff has st ifled the export trade of the United 8tates, that it has buil up a lot of factories and railways, but that the foreign commerce of the country has all gone to pieces, i again quote firom the census and show you that from the time the Declaration of Independence was made <fc>wn to the time that Lincoln was elected President--I will go further back. From the time America was discovered by Columbus down to the election of Abraham Lincoln, the aggre­ gate shipment of all those years, of all thos ' centuries, from the United States amounted to #8,000,000,(XX; in value. Now, mark yon, that covered the entire hiaforv of the Government down to I860; and from I860 to 1883 the aggregate amount has been 317,5 JO.000,000--almost double as much in the twenty-eight years of the present protective tariff ae it was daring the whole pre­ vious history of the American C ntinent. That la the way, gentlemen, in which protection has occasion, in speaking on this tame sub- East, when contrasting what protec- ~ for the laboring man of America With the laboring man of Europe, t the laboring men of New England .vings banks as compared with those of _ and, and I saw in more than one West- Democratic paper the remark : "O, yes, you all the money in the East; it is well for yon to uphold protection." But, gentlemen, you mnst remember the different condftfona. The wealth of the West has been hi growing towns, in settled farms, in great lines of railway, in vast agricultural develop- manVall of which goes forward more rapidly in •he West. Those investments in the West take the piaoe of the cash deposits which the labor- teg mot of the East have placed in the savings banks; hut the ratio of increase of prosperity wader the. protective tariff for the last twenty- £®veB years has been largely in favor of the West aa against the East, so that the policy of protection feas not proved a sectional policy. _ Why, gentlemen, there is no longer the old •stoction between manufacturing States and agricultural States. Do you reckon vour- in Ind ana an agricultural fetato ply? Your manufactures this year in the of Indiana have a larger cash value than your total agricultural product. Manufactures am no longer concentrated on the eastern side W the Alleghenies. The city of Chicago is the Mraest center of steel manufacture in America It has run ahead of Pittsburgh, and, under the tuaence of this tariff, the manufacturing in­ teract has spread each year farther and farther westward, bringing the home market nearer and seavsr the souroe of food supply, and proving all f^.jrnile to every intelligent voter in the coun- j*J that the nearer yon bring the food consumers to the food producers the more certain is the prosperity of both. I had occasion to show the other day in Mich­ igan fromindisputable statistics that the l^tle xvgaon of New England--with not so much pop- nlattan aa Illinois and Indiana, with scarcely so "J®™ area as Illinois alone--I had occasion to ahow that that little area with six small States tutea more from these Western States than is ahipped to Old England, and that those little states take from the other States of this Union every year in food and raw material for manu- ncture the enormous aggregate of over #400,- WD.W0 in money. Add to that the amount New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey take from toe South, the Southwest, and the great West have an aggregate of more than 81.0J0.- 0)0,003of material; and this country will have raaUced the great objective point of the tariff ays tern when every agricultural State shall have itsmarket near to the producers. . farmers of the West, you have been com­ plaining of the price of wheat and erroneously charging the fall upon the protective tariff? Wny has wheat fallen during the last ten years'? Because you have to meet in the markets of Europe the wheat of Kussia that is raised in that vast country with labor that is not more tnati 8 to 12 cents a day; and, beyond that you 2 meeting vast imports of wheat from India, wnere England has been t xpending hundreds of millions of dollars to cheapen and expedite waasportation to Europe. Neglect your home market and the larger amount you will find un­ salable and the harder will be your competition With those hard-worked wheat producers on the other side. Suppose you turn half the manu­ facturers and mechanics under the basis of metrade--supnose you turn half of them into wneat producers and farmers, isn't the market „,0 farmer cut off just that much and tne aorplusof his product increased? Suppose vou wWanother 150,000,000 bushels to the pfoduct of we West, where will you market it? Where WiUyou find the men who are able to pay for It Who want to eat? Remember, gentlemen. It is home market of the United States that day is affor ling more and more to the agriculturists of this country their best market sad the home market of the United States is the ScUve tariff indisputably, of the pro- , SENSIBLE AND CAREFUL. If Mm Better Measure Has a Chance ©r Pass- ^ I • th© C'oiigre&s. /•, the St. Louia Olobe-Deinocrat l *®duction in the Government 's annaal in- t^ff bm^rshollde,CaU8ed b>" tbeTenatos Ko ver |7:U ^!o aCTI^ ̂ 0^fl* sfe M0 aiTrnr°^ cl>^geB,in other Srt8n. lrom the entire abolition of duties <moertain raw materials. A boat •at the out in the internal taxeB wontV^ ;, - tobacco, and $7.000,from"^^! u°£d u^ZJtJS Qttn develop la ' Wood,lSm- of 4am< s list, as thaXiUsbiU. important domes tie arodnct wl adequately developed or WfaJUt reduoed below the proteolita jx ber, salt and other leading artlotos ot domestic industry, which Mr. Mills and his trtaato put on the free list, are either untouched by the Re­ publican measure or touched bat slightly. The articles from which the Senate strikes off all duties are generally those not prodttcad fib thi,i country at all, or produced in very small quan­ tities. The reduction in the OaratunMrt'l rev­ enue which the bill would bring about is about $3,0 0,0)0 greater than that provided by the House bill. That measure takes $50,000,000 from the customs schedules--W0 000,00(i by lowering duties and $20.0.0,00J by removing duties alto­ gether--and $-.0,0.0,000 from the internal-tax list. No more carefully drawn or sensible rev­ enue-revision bill than that just reported in the Senate stands any chance of passage in the present Congress. CCLL0M ON THE TARIFF 9J1KOIS SENATOR iUUUIOKS THE DEMOCRACY. Views of Texas Statesman of the Mills Stripe Not Broad Enough for This Nation--- The South Now, as Xtafore the War, Seeks to Control the Country, [WASHINGTON COKITESPONDKNCX.]^ Senator Cn lorn made a speech on the tariff on Friday in which he forced the Democrats to seek their hi.iing-placea. His sharp attacks upon tho free-trade policy of the Democracy had the effect to bring Mr. Vest, of Missouri, to bis feet, who is smarting under the fact that a letter of his has gained currency, in which he states that the fight of the administration against protection is a fight to the death. Vest tried to explain away this letter, but his ad­ missions as to what he really intended are quite as bad as the text of the original letter, and differ from it very little. The issue, he ac­ knowledged, is a war to the death against pro­ tection. The speech of Mr. Cullom was a general re­ view of the tariff question, special reference ba- ing had to the effect of the protective system in building up the prosperity of the great West. These are some of his points : lie sketched the history of the Democratic party in its relations to free trade; he quotea from a long aeries of Democratic platforms to show the rapid and continuing growth of the free-trade sentiment. He quite agreed with Henry Watterson that the Democratic party is a free-trade party if it is anything, and has b en for fifty years. The South, Mr. Cullom found, has always been seek­ ing a foreign market and always believed that cotton is king. The policy of the Democratic party has been to seek foreign markets, ignor­ ing the fact that the prosperity of the country depended upon its heme market. And although for sixteen years the Democratic party has had control of the House of Representatives, never until now has it sent a tariff bill to the Senate, and that is a free trade bill. The existence of the surplus is wholly due to the policy of the Democratic party. "I chirge," said Senator Cullom, "that the ~ Democratic party is wholly responsible for the unnecessary flow of money into the Treasury. That part y has not desired to stop this except by the adoption of a policy which would close the mills of the country and stop the manufacturing industries." The solid South seek* to control the policy of the entire government as it controls the organi­ zation of the House. The Representatives of the section which struggled to destroy the Union have control of the House of Representatives which passed this Mills bill. Texas statesman­ ship is not broad enough for this country. If the policy of the Mills bill should prevail it would result in the destruction of the business inte*-^ ests of the country. The Texas freo-trade fever would be to the prosperity of the country what the Texas fever is among cattle. It would re­ sult in ruin. No Democrat has been heard to utter one word in favor of the protective Bystem; and Hooker, in the House, said that none would be heard to do so. Mr. Cullom took np a long series of articles in common use to show that the price of them hwd been greatly reduced as the result of the protect­ ive system. Among them were soda-ash, axes, nails, blankets, salt. Thirty years ago a watch was a rare thing in an agricultural community; now every one, thanks to a protective tariff, can have one. Salt has been so greatly reduced in price by protection that it is now about as cheap as dirt, sir Charles Tupper was right when he said that if the Mills bill should pass the people of Canada would be relieved of the payment of Sl,800,000 annually paid on articles sent to the United States. He understood that Canada, and not the United States, pays the dnties. The hypocrisy of the free traders was shown in the fact that they had not ventured to put wheat on the free list. Mr. Cullom was especially forcible in his argument to show that the farmers should be the strongest protectionists in the country. He found that they are themselves protected as to most of the articles they produce and that their own prosperity depends upon the industries which are supported by protection, and which furnish the home market. The State of Illinois, in its history from the time that Cullom was first Governor to this day, well illustrates the growth of the home market and its value to the farmer. Then a very considerable part of the price of all agricultural Implements was expend­ ed in transportation to find a market; now the markets have been brought by the development of manufactures in the Prairie State to the farmers' doors. Now more than 90 per cent, of the agricultural products of this country are consumed in the United States. The diversifica­ tion of industries alone gives the farmers a home market and good prices, and saves cost of transportation. The value of farm lands increases with the diversification of the indus­ tries and the growth of manufactures. The ex­ perience of Illinois proves this in a striking way. Mr. Cullom intimated that he personally would be glad to put sugar on the free list, and not stop with the reduction of one-half, and he showed how the free-traders have played into the hands of the sugar trust, and framed their bill so that it puts S6,0CO,OOO in their pockets. aviest reduction in rateB which the bill for is m sugar. On the average, Ukkig es together, the cut on BUTM il per cent. Th- changes in thfw ' the>" are in- THE FREE TRADE BIU* « Free-Traders Won'd Ilfeve Done • If They Dared. [New York Mail and Express.] The argument that tha Democratic party Is for free trade cannot be too often insisted upon. The Democrats assert that the Mills bill, as it passed the House, is not a free-trade measure. We have answered that, but we want to point out now the fact that if the authors of the bill had their way it would have been a much longer step than it is in the direction of free trade. Here are some of the important changes which the House made in the bill. In the first col­ umn of figures will ba found the proposal of the bill, and in the second the duty fixed by the House; Proposed Fixed by by tolls. House. Glue.. Free 20 per cant. Gelatine I ree so per cent. Fish glue Free S5 per cent. Essential oils Free £5 per cent. Barks, berries, etc... Free Unchanged. China, porcelain, etc. 45 per cent. CO per cent Earthen and stone- 40 P®r cent. 60 per cent. Flint and lined glass „ ^"les • • • 30 per cent. «Xper cent. Polished cylinder and crown glass, 21x30, not exceBding 24x30 15c Sq. ft. 90c sq. ft. Tabletaus, mulls and crinolines 25 per cent. 40 per cent. Flax.bleached, known as dressel line Free gio ton. Bagging for cotton... Free 1!^ & 2c pd. Card clothing 13c s ]. ft. 30c sq. ft. Gloves 40 per cent. CO per cent. .Linen Free 10 per cent. India rubber fabrics. 15 per cent. 25 & 3J p c Penknives, etc. 85 per ceht. 60 per cent. Marble Free 40c c. ft. There are a few of the articles in the tariff list which are placed at higher rates of duty by the House of Representatives than thev were bv the authors of the Mills bill. It will be seen from an examination of the table that the free- tra iers would have made a more damaging at­ tack on the protective system if they dared. BEV. ROBERT M. HATFIELD, D. D., one of tba leading Methodist preachers in the country, gives a number of reasons in a long letter in the October StaUtnwn, telling why he is a Repub­ lican. As a life-long advocate of temperance he does not propose to throw away his vote or cast it where it will aid or comfort the Democratic party. As between the two leading parties, he is against Democracy because their candidate is of unsavory reputation; because they are wrong on the tariff; because they are putting forward tho men who once tried to destroy the Govern­ ment, and who are to-day disfranchising hun­ dreds of thousands of voters in the South. He is a Republican because that party protects American labor against the pauper labor of Europe ; because of its glorious history in fight­ ing for justice to humanity ; because it'recog­ nizes the rights of the colored citizen, is dis­ posed to treat them fairly, and, finally, because General Harrison's private character "«»'« for no vindication or apologies. Mr. Roger Q. Hills' Dictum. If Grover Cleveland is re-elected President Of 'the United States -as he will be [a voice: "Ha will that"]; if another Democratic House is chosen, and if we can get our Republican friends out of the other end of tho Capitol and get Dem­ ocrats in place of them, then we will pass a tariff bill that puts raw materials on the free list, and then we will put our own intelligent and skillful and productive labor in this country allgbtt 22«Sate>i a"dy" Others'they Bauie is tiue of woolen manu- duties on ready-made clothing whan altered at all, are increased, while thnio qaearthen^ stone, «6ckery and glassware ^ •adueed. Ttoere ai» »ome changes in classified tionmadein the Iron and steel schedules^ <%> jnqdiflcattoo in rates which the measure •Sects is generally toward a lower ranee of duties. Meal rails, upon which the present im- tl7 a ten, would come in for about a ! this bill thould become a law. Thedutv > Mills bill U $11 a ton. The reduction of tarsal tax on tobacco permits a reduction •ftfei HIM* In tlM duty on that article without upon a plane of equality with the laborers of aU countries.--HoflCT- Q. UW ' ~ Louis,III., Sept. 25, im. UW ftch at Sat St. EXPOSE OF MHO. E C ' H T P O C R 1 S 1 T / V . . tu<5ky, i W O* tariff. The a fiaaftnWly and no. tain*. Istatenotb- and its political oed Speaker of itatlves, wasdrfven from ®t* "Asm That the Sugar, Salt, if tilsky', Standard OH, and Other Trusts Ar© Fos» aad Controlled by Bourbon Influ- eaees--A Scathing Arraignment ofCleva* Ian4 and Sis Fre« Trade Fallacies. [Speech delivered at Goshen, Ind.] Ohrtrman and fellow-citizens of Irdiana, "Stop thia r is a ory not entirely confined to the criminal classes. The counterpart of the trick . , •• known in political circles, and is especially j reporter wOnld Interview " in the present COUTH J of the Duno- mends oh that subject, a : John O. Carlisle, of Ken- oessor by a Democratic can ens oontr - under the dall's alleged <3f in suspending ih» tax laws and postponing the payment of the tax on whisky in bond when it seemed the interests of the trust to secure a «*tic party respecting trusts. In President Cleveland's famous frtx> trade message of last December he warned the country of the dangers of trusts, aad argued that they A ere the olfsprin« and result of the protective system established by the Republican party; at the same time, while assailing in the wide sweap of his accusa­ tion almost every industrial interest in the North, the BreBident was particularly careful to ting the enormous tariff on sugars Out of •818,000.000 collected on importations of •very kind last year over sf58,00j,ooj came from •agar alone, whloh is equivalent to more than one-fourth of the customs revenue for the year. When Mr. Cleveland pennel his message he knew that one ot the largest trusts ever organ­ ised Jn the World--the sugar trust--was in full operation, and that if a protective tariff was helpful t^that trust he was giving it all the aid, both official and personal, in his power. If the words of his message are true he is him­ self responsible for levying these countless mill­ ions upon the pockets of all the consumers of this country for an article of universal use the families of the land. Nor was Mr. postponement. Mr, Randall did not believe that the laws of the United States should be admin­ istered in suoh a way as to promote a huge spec­ ulation in whisky; and I wish some inquisitive * -- • * Mr. Randall's political and then ask also how much money the whisky trust is contributing to the Democratic canvass this year--and at the s«me time he might extend the inquiry into the amount contributed by th J sugar trust; and also by the salt trust, including its fellow-trust in tho business beyond the sea. . Nor have I exhausted the list of trusts in which the,Democratic party has a large interest. Unless every newspaper is at fault the Demo­ cratic party has received large contributions from stockholders in the Standard Oil Trust at every critical election within the last five years, and is noif relying upon the gracious continu­ ance of that aid in the pending national crisis. So notOribuV Was this interposition that the Ohio Legislature memorialized the Senate of the United States to cause an inquiry to lie made into alleged corruption in the election of the last Democratic Senator from that State. I do not undertake to say that there was corruption, for I know nothing personally cf it; but I do say that the memorial of the State Legislature was presented by Senator Sherman, and a rightful, a legal, and proper opportunity was given to search through and through for the A CkHMMd Assault en th< ̂Indus triad ffya* tarn of tha Country. , |Trom the fit Louis (Hobe-Demoerat. ] I" the -«peeeb which Sir. Mills delivered in East St. Louis last week tha following passage occurs: "If Grover Cleveland la re-elected President Of the United States--as ha *111 be; if another Dem- oeratlo House of Representatives is chosen, aad if we can ge; our Republican friends out of tha other end of tha Capitol and get Democrats In place ot them, then we will pass a tariff bill that puts raw materials all on tha free list, and then we will put our own intelligent and skillful productive laborer in thia country upon a plana of equality with the laborers ot all other coun­ tries ; ana he is not on equal terms now, but In. ferior terms." This utterance is bighlv significant. If the Democrats Bucceed in electing Cleveland and in getting a majority in both branches of Congress --that Is to say, it they are abl * to gain control of th i executive and legislative departments or the Government--they "will pass a tariff bill that puts raw materials ill on the free lUt" and reduce the laborer of this country to a "plana of equality with the laborers of all other countries. This term, raw materials, in the language of the free-traders, iB very elastic and comprehensive, and embraces many articles on which a large amount of labor haa been expended. Pig-ft-on, for examx>le, is often classed by them among the raw materials, al­ though it is the finished product of the mill in which it is made. Of course if the Democrats should secure the power which they seek, pig- iron would get no more protection than iron ore, nor wonld any of the textile manufactures in their preliminary or primary forms receive any more protection than raw wool or cotton. All wouldgo on tho free list. And with "raw ma­ terials made free it would be illogical and at>- •ord to| attempt to give any protection to manu- 1 S-TStJ* TOE DEMOCRATS OX THE BUNi Cleveland's silence the only boon which the Sugar Trust received. When the Mills bill was Tinder consideration the President of the Sugar Trust (Mr. Havemeyer), a well-Known active Democrat of New York, appeared before the Ways and Means Committee, and, according to the statement made in open Senate by Mr. Alli­ son of Iowa, obtained such an arrangement of duty as was equivalent to $5,000,000 in the pock­ ets of the trust. If, therefore, the price of sugar has been unduly advanced to the consumer, the responsible parties, according to the President's doctrine, are the President himself and the Ways and Means Committee, who concocted the Mills bill in the interest of that trust. I think, moreover, that whenever you find one of the necessities of life cornered and coutrolled by an association of men for the purpose of reaping undue profit you will find the supporters of Mr. Cleveland at the head of the movement. Sugar may, indeed, be accounted a luxury, for we can exist without it; but salt is one of the primal necessities of life. We all know that a •alt trust exists in this country, and the man who is now at the heal of it, openly and avow­ edly conducting its affairs, is Wellington R. Burt, the present Democratic candidate for Governor of Michigan. Mr. Burt is earnestly advocating the removal of all duties on salt. This would seem another form of contradiction Of the President's theory that • protection is the first cause of all trusts; and it likewise fully Justifies the ground taken during the canvass: In that trusts exist more freely free-trade country than in a protective country; more freely in England than in the United States. I am fortunately able to give you a piece of in­ formation that has a strong bearing, I think, on Mr. Wellington R. Burt's salt trust. I hold in my hand a copy of the London Times of Sept. 5, from which 1 learn that they are forming "a salt trust" in England. The statement in the Times, quoted from two English papers locally interested, is this: "The efforts to form the great salt trust have succeeded beyond the most sanguine expecta­ tions. * * * All the Cheshire salt-works have been provisionally acquired by a Loudon syndi­ cate represented by Messrs. Fowler & Co., so­ licitors, Westminster, and negotiations are pro­ ceeding favorably to purchase all the less exten­ sive works in Worcestershire and Durham. The capital required is fixed at £3,000,000 sterling, and has been subscribed in advance many times over. In consequence of the monopoly thus created it is expected that the price of common •alt, now sold at 2s t>d a ton, will rise to 10s." I >Let me ask von now if unv man in Indiana believes that Mr. Wellington B. Burt's salt trust in tha United States and this great salt trust in England are likely to prove rivals to each other? Do you think they will cut down prices and de­ prive each other of their respective profits when the English trust points out tho way to increase the price of salt fourfold at a single jump? Do you think Wellington B. Burt is the modest man to say no to a proposition to unite the two trusts, all stockholders on the ground floor, and both united in an agreement to advance salt 300 per cent, to the consumer in Great Britain and the United States. Thus you see the danger, apparently without a remedy, that will follow an international trust organized on tha basis of free trade. Alexander Hamilton laid it down in the greatest financial paper submitted by him to Congress that behind a protective tariff domestic competition would always insure reasonable prices to the consum­ er. And I ask you if Our experience doeB not justify the wisdom of our first and greatest Secretary of the Treasury in all the years that have elapsed since he wrote these significant i. But if * ' words. ! we should reach the basis of free \ Sr'M-StU.' ill AT the last meeting ot the Women's Club, of Stockton, Kan., some of tba strongest Prohibi­ tion ladies ad vocated the election of Harrison and Morton, and counseled aU temperance wom­ en to prevent votes being cast for the Prohibi­ tion ticket. "Get your husbands and sons to yote the Republican ticket." said they, "and thus aid the temperance cause." Government emoloyes in Kan Franolsoo are being taxed a month's salary for political Syse.. They have been notified to Stand and trade, tha President's great goal of prosperity, and the manufacturers and holders of anv do­ mestic article and the manufacturers and hold­ ers of an article of the same kind in any foreign country unite, where is your relief--where is your defense? Well, gentlemen, these are not the only two Democratic trusts. We have now spoken of one necessary luxury and one absolute necessity, but there is another trust wielding more politi­ cal influence perhaps than both of them. I re­ fer to the Whisky trust, which lias absolutely changed the politic* and policy of the Demo­ cratic party. For years after the war closed the one demand Of the Democracy, especially in the . South, waa for the destruction of the internal- revenae systemr and, first and last, the out­ rageous taxes on Whisky and tobacco. They de­ nounced them as war taxes, to which no free people should submit in time of peace. Well gentlemen, the free-traders, both North and soon saw that if the internal-revenue •ystam were abolished the country would neces­ sarily rely for its revenue upon fn*toms, a» it had done for more than a generation preceding tha war, and that, if that were the case it would ba difficult if not impossible to destroy the doctrine of protection; and so, under Mr. Cleveland, they have completely changed their ground, and are for keeping up the in •aial---inii MVltorn »Tlrfl • • truth and for a thorough examination into one of the largest trusts in the whole world. Then waa tho tim? for Democratic Sen­ ators to make an examination into trusts. One of the largest of them was before the Senate, and before it legitimately ; and yet you know how precipitately the Democratic Senators fldd from the task. You could not lead a Democratic Senator up to that investigation any more than you could induce a breachy colt to face a whist­ ling locomotive. Nor was rumor quiet as to the interposition of the national administration to suppress an investigation. If President Cleve­ land had been- as eager to examine into a great trust as he was to denounce them all in his message, his opportunity was there ; but unless all rumor be at fault, the social blandishments of the administration were lavished on Repub­ lican Senators to secure enough of them to join the Democrats to take off the curse of a unani­ mous Democratic resistance to the investiga­ tion of a trust. In addition to these trusts 1 have named comes the Cotton-Seed Oil Trust, which is in the hands of Southern Democrats, and its power used to aid the Democratic campaign. They do not apply their money in aid of the Southern Democratic party, for the Southern Democrats are too "high toned" to use money in elections. They have found a more excellent way in the South, and they reserve the pecuni iry contribu­ tions wholly for the Northern field. Fellow-citizens, I have named five trusts in which all the evil (hat can come from trusts and all the various shades of the evils that might come from trusts are conspicuously prominent. I pause now, and if there be a Democrat in this assemblage I ask him to tell me one great trust in this country controlled by Republicans with any political connection or able to exert any power of the kind I have named. [No reply came from the great throng, and Mr. Blaine proceeded.] Some ono may, perhaps, say "The Street Kail Trust." Well, if there be a steel rail trust it must be privately known to the Demo­ crats who make the accusation, for it has cer­ tainly never been known to the public, and, as a matter of fact, I believe, only exists in Demo­ cratic imagination, or, more probably still, in Democratic invention. But I avail myself of the opportunity that the mention of steel rails gives ma to clinch an argument that was made in reference to tne salt trust. Steel rails in this country, under tho influence of a high protective tariff, have dropped in twenty years from $115 down to 831 or ®32, and have in fact sold as low as 327.50 per ton. Ail this result has come about, of course, by way of illustrating the President's doctrine tnat a tariff duty is invariably added to the cost of the article. This fall in price has been steady and contin­ uous, and if there is a Steel Rail Trust it cer­ tainly has been one that worked, not to keep up prices, but to steadily lower them. But the Democrats are clamoring for free trade in ateel rails, or for such a low duty as will permit free importations of rails from England. Well, su pose they should attain it. The men engaged the steel rail business have just ae sbu; j> eyes to their interests as Wellington R. Burt has to the salt Interest in Michigan. What would happen? Would it not be the easiest thing in the world for the fourteen steel rail manufactur­ ing establishments in this country to unite with about the same number that exist in Great Britain and thus make the price of rails what­ ever they choose, selling them all the time at the highest price that the purchaser could bear, thus Hlu-itratins? anew and afresh that it is free trade and not protection that gives the wide, the limitless field of operation through the system of trusts? For, 1 repeat, as intimated before, that international trusts on the basis of free trade cannot be dealt with and controlled as domestic trusts that may grow up pnder the protective system. Finally, gentlemen, on the subject "of trusts let me aay that with all Mr. Cleveland's denun­ ciation of them, and all the support hi a party gives them, he failed; and utterly failed, to strike the point of objection to them. You will find that described in language as clear as amber in the letter of acceptance of Benjamin Harrison, our candidate for President, in which he neither withholds nor exaggerates, nor sets down aught in malice, but vindicates with peculiar power and peculiar directness the position which the Republican f party has uniformly held on the whole subject; and I commend you, as I close, to a new reading of the two documents--to Mr. Cleveland's free-trade message and to Gen. Har­ rison's letter of acceptance. THE work of the Fi»k and Brooks national campaign managers is almost entirely confined to the doubtful States in tba North, and in an earnest attempt to cat down tha normal Repub­ lican majorities in three or four of the most im­ portant States in the We«.--Philadelphia Tele­ graph. IT is claimed that Cleveland's 910,000 check and all the Cabinet contributions were put factuers, and none wonld be given. Mr. Mills' language is admirably clear, direct, and specific. Senator Vest announces that Mr Cleveland, in his message, has "challenged the protected industries of the country to a fight of extermination." The words of the Texas states­ man are of similar animus and purport while the position which he fills and the relation which he sustains to the administration give his ut­ terance great weight. Ho is tho leader of the Democratic party in Congress and is in­ trusted with the task of framing and formu­ lating the party's policy. The report that the Democrats, if they securo control of the Government by the eleciion five weeks hence will make a general assault on tha industrial system of the country is now confirmed by t.lie proclamation of the very man whom the party has selected to lead the attacking column. The fight is to the death™ If the American people do not elect Harrison as well as a Re­ publican majority in the House of Representa­ tives, and thus defeat the schemes of the Dem­ ocratic conspirators, they will show that they lack the intelligence, public spirit and patriot­ ism which they displayed so magnificently in 1775 and 1661. • £ A PLANE OF EQUALITY. Tha Discouraging Picture Which Mr. Holds Up to Labor. fSVom the Brooklyn Standard-Union.] American workmen who do not know any­ thing of the dog's life that is led by working people abroad may be cheered by the prospeot set before them by Mills, of Texas, at St. Louis on Sept. 25, when he said that if the Democrats win the coming election they "will pass a tariff bill that puts raw materials all on the free list, and put our own intellig nt labor upon a plane of equality with the laborers of other coun­ tries ;" but most American workmen know too well what that means to feel any way encour­ aged by it. To be put "on a plane of equality with the la­ borers" of Great Britain tne wages of American workmen would nead to be reduced to less than half of what they average here, and father, mother, and children would hava to live in one room as the pigs huddle in a sty in this country and as human beings huddle in the miserable homes of English and Scotch work people. To bring them down to a plane of equality with the work people of Belgium our iron and steel workers would get but 6') cents a aay in­ stead of *2, and laborers would be reduced to 43 cents a day for men and cents for women; to put them on a plane of equality with labor and 1 in Italy the pay of cotton hands would have to be reduced to 59 cents a day, of marble and stone cutters to 50 centB, of lace-workers (women) to 10 cents. And this is the prospect and the promise held outlay the spokesman of tne Democracy to the workmen ot America if thoy will only vote to keep the Democracy in places of honor, tmst. and profit for another four years' term. Democratic Consistencies. The following are a few of tha lnconslst«nciea found in the arguments advanced by our Demo­ cratic friends: -, Our manufacturers are monopolists and thieves; they make all the money and rob tha farmer and wage-earner. Our manufacturers cannot compete with foreigners, because tboy must pay too muoh for raw materials {farm productsi and wages. Our poor workingmen are living in hovels and starving to death because the robber manu­ facturer does not pay them enough wages. Our workingmen are too independent in this country i ecause the high wages make them so; thoy Btrike, whenever they have an advantage, for more wages. The war was a failure; Linooln and Grant were butcherB. Tho war was a success; Unonin ud Grant are the greatest and best men that ever liyed. Of course our Democratic friends do not use all those assertions at one time or one place, but are discrest enough to use them in a manner that is calculated to make votes.--Santa Bar­ bara (Cal.) Press. * " BCN. W. J. W. COWDKN, of Wheeling, W. Va., in addition to being Chairman of the Republican State Committee, is a Sunday-school superin­ tendent. His lesson helps and supplies for the Sunday-school were allowed to a 'cumulate, and were not delivered for more than one month, because the postmaster thought they were P*TTI- paign documents. THK Democratic papers have a great deal to say about manufacturers coercing employes to vote the Republican ticket What have they to say about Democratic campaign committees coercing Government employes to pay assess- Wfala and diwyhaortagtoam tf tfctarillijfttfw} w, MAX O'RBLL is wring to I« Ore** Britain on " Jtaericra^*" .. >twTfc»atrfrafi. The etrlj part of geptember \iad b«en fixed for the thea&Scals. Annie refused to have anything to do with them, and the preparations remained altogether with Brandreth. "The min­ uet," he said to her one afternoon, when he had come to report to her as a co-ordinate authority, "is going to be something exquisite, I' assure you. A good many of the ladies studied it in the Continental times, you know, when we had all those Martha Washington parties--or, I forgot you were out of the country--and it will be done perfectly. We're going to have the ball-room scene on the tennis-court just in front of the evergreens, don't you know, and then the balcony scene in the same place. We have to cut some of the business between Borneo and Juliet be­ cause it's too long, you know, and some of it's too--too passionate; we couldn't do it properly, and we've decided to leave it out. But we sketch along through the play, and we have Friar Laurence coming with Juliet out of his cell into the tennis-court and meeting Borneo; so that tells the story of the marriage. You can't imagine what a Mercutio Mr. Putney makes; he throws himself into it heart and soul, especially where he fights with Tybalt and gets killed. I give him lines there out oi other scenes too; the tennis-court sets that part admirably; they come out of a street at the side. I think the scenery will surprise you, Miss Killburn. Well, and then we have the Nurse and Juliet, and tho poison scene--we put it into the garden, on the tennis-court, and we condense the different acts so as to give an idea of all that's happened, with Bo­ rneo banished, and all that. Then he comes back from Mantua, and we have the tomb scene set at one side of the tennis-court just opposite the street scene; and he fights with Paris; and then we have Juliet come to the door oi the tomb--it's a liberty, of course; but we couldn't arrange the light inside-- and she stabs herself 'and falls on Bo­ rneo's body, and that ends the play. You see, it gives a notion of the whole action, and tells the story well. I think you'll be pleased." "I've no doubt I shall," said Annie. "Did you make the adaptation yourself, Mr. Brandreth?" "Well, yes, I did," Mr. Brandreth modestly admitted. "It's been a good deal of work, but it's been a pleasure, too. You know how that is, Miss Kil- burn, in your charitiesi" "Don't speak of my charities, Mr. Brandreth. I'm not a charitable per­ son." _ "You won't get many people to be­ lieve that" said Mr. Brandreth. "Ev­ erybody knows how much good you do. But, as I was saying, my idea was to give a notion of the whole play in a series of passages or tableaux. Some of my friends think I've succeeded so well in telling the story, don't you know, without a change of scene, that they're urging me to publish my arrangement for the use of out-of-door theatricals.", "I should think it would be a very good idea," said Annie. "I suppose Mr. Chapley would do it?" "Well, I don't know--I don't know," Mr. Brandreth answered, with a note of trouble in his voice. "I'm afraid not." he added, sadly. "Miss Kilburn, I've been put in a very unfair position by Miss NortlrwicYs changing her mind alout Juliet, after the part had been of­ fered to Miss Chapley. I've been made the means of a seeming sb'ght to Miss Chapley, when, if it hadn't been for the cnuse, I'd rather have thrown up the whole affair. She gave up the part in­ stantly when she heard that Miss North- wick wished to change her mind, but all the same I know----" He stopped, and Annie said encour­ agingly : "Yes, I see. But perhaps she doesn't really care." "That's what she said," returned Mr. Brandreth, ruefully. "But I don't know. I have never spoken of it with her since I went to tell her about it, after I got Miss North wick's note." "Well, Mr. Brandreth, I think you've roally been victimized; and I don't be­ lieve the Social Union will ever be worth what it's costing." "I was sure you would appreciate-- would understand;" and Mr. Brandreth pressed her hand gratefully' in leave- taking.--Harper's Hagazine. Real Arctic Snow. Frederick Schwatka writes of snow in the Arctic region as follows: When the snow block is cut out from the trench it is about the size of a large pillow, but of course rectangular on any section. Bunning a knife over a side it will crum­ ble off in a sandy mass, like scraping a lump of white sugar, and not in a thin, plastic slice like the snow in our zone when treated in the same way. This soft plastic character of the siiow is, I think, practically unknown in the Arc­ tic country, it being there of such a firm, solid character that when a snow block is held clear of the ground and struck with a knife it will give forth for some seconds a clear, metallic, musi­ cal ring, nearly as pronounced as strik­ ing a suspended bar of tempered steel. Leaving out glass and the metals, I re­ call now nothing more resonant than the compacted snow of the Arctic. The snow, too, is as porous as a lump of white sugar, and while it is hardly right to say that it freely admits the air, yet when the snow house ift closed by putting up the block of snow ^ which forms the door there is enough .air per­ meating its porous walls to give ample ventilation to the people inside. I have seen a lighted candle held to a snow house wall on the inside have its flame visibly deflected by the incoming air, a strong wind blowing on the outside at the time. In fact, the solid snowblock, from six inches to a foot 'in thickness, is seldom considered sufficient protection in the intense cold of the Arctic winter, and all properly constructed snow- houses have an extra foot of loose snow thrown over the blockwork to keep oat the cold. - . Let Us Hare a Little Fun. Fun ? Why of course, let us have all there is within reach. Life is as dry as dust to many people--getting up early, working hard all day, earning just enough to show how little a fellow can comfortable starve on--and if they can once in a while take the family to the circus, laugh in front of the monkey's cage, shiver when the lion roars, get out of the old routine of drudgery and tum­ ble about in a lot of new sensations as a boy rollics over a stack of fresh hay, it will help to make the humdrum endur­ able. The truth is, we take things to seriously, are to glum, downhearted, rheumatic and crotchety, and need to be stirred up and refreshed by a sail down the bay, a visit to the theater, a good look at a game of base-ball, a picnio in the woods once in a while.--New York Herald. . ' A FOOTS OF MJPOK. NEBUCHADNEZZAR was the first grass- widower. ' y il, THK first boy-cot--Gain's little 1M&--~ New York Journal. EVERY dude has a head light.--* Duluth Paragrapher. AN Irish philosopher says the best pumpkin pie is made out of squash.-- THE Bagging Trust---A dude's faith that his trousers will not bulge at the knees. IT makes a man hopping mad to step on a hot stove-lid. -- Washington Critic. "AND how is your little brother George, Flossie?" "He's dead, thawlr you."--Harper's Bazar. THERE is considerable difference be­ tween a foot-ball and the ball of one's foot.--Rochester Post-Express. . THE left bower--the man who isn't recognized by the lady to whom he lifts his hat.--Burlington Free Press. A PUBLIC office has a private snap when there is a Yale lock on the door. --Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. IT is said that a mine in Colorado is called "The Pot," because it was opened by two Jacks .--Pittsburgh Chronicle- Telegraph. CAIN was the first base man. Abel was the first man struck out, after he had just made a sacrifice hit.--Terre Haute Express. THE man whose head is not evenly balanced is most particular about part­ ing his hair in the middle.--New Or­ leans Picayune. IN St. Louis, (after the wedding.) He--And now tell me, darling, why did you weep, when we approached the holy alter ? She--Love, I lost my chewing- gum as we walked up the aisle.--Town Topics. SCHULTZ--What was going on over at your house last night? lit sounded like an earthquake. Miller--O, nothing at all; it was a mere trifle, in fact. Bty wife asked why I came home so late.-- Texas Siftings. THE Boston Transcript has an ac­ count of "A Black Bain." Such a thing may be a novelty in this country, but in Africa, where there are negro kings, black reigns are numerous.--Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. "HELLO, Skimpy! I haven't seen yon for three or four months." "No; I've been spending the season at Newport." "Bather extravagant! How could you afford to do it ?" "Easy enough. I was a gaiter."--Saturday Gazette. "1 JUST paid $2 for a rare cent," re­ marked a coiu collector to the snake editor. "That's nothing," was the re­ ply. "I had a perfume bottle filled for my wife yesterday and it cost $3.75. That scent cost more than yours."-- Pittsburgh Dispatch. A VAIN man's motto is, "Win gold and wear it;" a generous man's, "Win gold and share it;" a miser's, "Win gold and spare it;" a broker's, "Win gold and lend it;" a fool's, "Win gold and. end it;" a gambler's ifWin gold and lose it," and a wise mai^, " Win gold and use it." FIRST TRAMPV-Well, Jerry, how are they comin'? Second Tramp--Purty rocky, Bill, purty rocky. But I was worth $20,000 for about six hours last week. First Tramp--How was that, Jerry? Second Tramp--Couple of jay constables thought I wa3 Tascott.-- Terre Haute Express. PERISH the Thought. Mrs. Pelting- lar--I only repeat, Mr. Blande, what she said; and, of course, I know one must not give entire credence to every­ thing she says. Mr. Blande--Oh, my dear madam, I felt quite sure you did not believe a word of the scandalous story--all the time you were telling it. --Fun. A MAN who dwells on failure with discontent condemns himself of little­ ness. We cannot be masters of our­ selves till our sovereignty has been challenged and proved. The salutary shock comes on this side and that, and the courageous sufferer is taught the wealth of his resources. SUNDAY-SCHOOL TEACHER--NOW, chil­ dren, that the lesson is ended, you may ask any questions you like, and I will try to answer them. Is there anything you want to know, Willie? "Yes, ma'am." "What is it?" "Which club do yer think winned der game at der park terday ?"--Lincoln Journal. COOK--Please, mum, the boarders complain that breakfast is so late an' supper so early that the meals come too close together, and they don't have no appetite. Mrs. Slimdiet--Well, Jane, I'm willing to do anything to please my guests, except change the hours of meals. Them is the rules of the house. But there's no use makin' folks sick seein' things they don't want. Just cook a little less. -- Philadelphia Record. A LOVE RACE. We ran a race up Duncan's hill, The wager was a kias; She ran her best, 1 did the same. For fear that I should miss I I reached the top wi' soople stride Afore Meg got half way, Bnt what think ye o' woman's wiles-- The jade she wadna pay. Ae nicht just three weeks after that, I tauld her o' the debt; Quo' I, "My lass, ye'd better pay, For fear yo should forget. At was ae kiss at first, ye hen; Interest makes it twa.* Quo' she, "Gin that's the way ya coont, Ye'd better take them a'.* I taen her at her word, of course, Bae tae the kirk we gaed. It' was na long, or hard tae dae, Twa hearts in one were made. Ain syne, I aft hac en d tae mind That day tho race was run, An', lash! ye maunna tell her o't-- I wish I hadna won I --Home Journal. The Parent of Culture. "Science is most catholic in her 're­ gards," declares Mr. Theodore 031, "and none,are denied entrance to her temple who submit to her laws. Con­ ditions are imposed, it is true, but all those who give obedience to the few conditions are admissible. One of the conditions is that common sense inten­ sified shall be applied to all questions. If it is the historian, he must learn to doubt and to weigh the statements handed down from posterity; if the Greek or Latin scholar, he is refused, not because of his Greek and Latin as taught in the schools, but because only so knowing, he knows too little and too imperfectly; when he has gained in­ creased knowledge and breadth of view so that he knows his language as a har­ monious part of a great whole, he, too, is eligible. Science takes cognizance of all nature and all the outcome of na­ ture. ̂ How, then, can there be amy anJ tagonism between science and culture when true culture is only an esteemed and devoted offspring of science?" * BOSTON Sehool-Teacher--Now, chil­ dren, can you tell me the name of the English nobleman who did great serv­ ice to humanity and whom we all ought to remember here in Boston ? Children --Marquis of Queensbury!--Sa ri Fratk~ w&m. u . s r <