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---- fifil Pledged but to Truth, to Liberty and Law; No Favors Win u» fend no r««f Shall Awe." I n^rlC ' j VOL. \h M'HENRY, ILLINOIS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1892 NO. <2 "'ill piaii2«al0r. POBUIUD KTHT VIOWUOAT BT -JT . v AN 8LYK if KDITOK AKD PBOPBIJETOB. Office III Bishop's B1 -OTFOSIT* Paaar * Own* tmnm ow sxTBacBiPTioH. One Tear (hs MTIBM) .... If Not Paid within Three Months...... ' Subscriptions received for tkm months in the 6*rae proportion. !^;.v ... . .. *.00 or six KafegsSAdvsitigiag. Ws .v.ir>su;.oc liberal r&tss for lining n the PLA.iirDBAK.BB, and endeavor to state hem so plainly that they will be readily on. erstooi!. They are *a follewf; 1 Inch one year s. s. coins & sol, Crainera Paper Hangers, ;> Kalsominers. Decorators. - McHENRYs ILLINOIS. All work promptly done and satisfaction guaranteed. Country work a speolaltr. Call on or address f O. 8. Curtis A Son MeBENB Y. 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The PLAiwDKAxaB will be liberal in giving editorial notloes, but, as a business rnle, it will require a suitable fee from everybody seeking the use of Its columns for pecuniary gain. Pa? Sale at Living Price* the under- signed. Call on or address FRANK COLE, SPRING OKOVB. IIL Spring Grove, XI}, Nov. 12. 1890. BUSINESS CARDS. o F.O. COLBY, D. D. 8, FFICJE In Hoy's Block, over Eckert A Young's store, Woodstock, III. O J. HOWARD, It. 1>. rY^IOIAN AND 8URGEO . McHenry. 111. Office at residence, one door west of J. A. Story's Drug Store. a H. FBGERS, M, D- PHYSICIAN 4.ND" SURGEON, HeHenry Ills. Office at Keeldance. WM. 03B0RNB. M. jp. PHYSIOIAN AND SURGEOX. Office at Residenoe, West Mo Henry, I1L Calls promptly attended to day and night. Liverv Stable. HE. WIGHTMAN, Proprietor. First • class rigs with or without drivers furnished at reasonable rates. Teaming of all kinds done oa atuttt notice. I V. BHEPABD. F. L. SBBPABO , SHEPARD 4t 8HEPARD, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. suite m, North­ern office Building, M L>aSalle Street Chieago, III. . 45 ly. KNIGHT A BROWN, ATTORNEYS AT, LAW. U. S. EXPRESS co.'s Building, 87 and 89 Washington St. " CHICAGO, ILL. ' vw'r'"; :-- * " JOSLYN * CASEYS ? ATttSlftttSTS AT LAW. Woodstock 111. All business wiH receive prompt atten­ tion. C. P. BARNES, v ATTORNEY, solicitor, and! Ooaaaeior. Collections a specialty. ^ : WOODSTOCK, lunoo. V. S. LUMLEY. ATTORNEY AT LAW, and soUcitor in Chanoery, WOODSTOCK, ILL. Office in Park House, first floor. MI8S MYRTLE BRILL. Teacher ot Plan o ana Organ. Visits {McHenry every week, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, and is prepared to take scholars at any time. Terms reasonable a_c! gstisfactioh guaranteed Can be seen at the Parker Houso on any of above earned day * A. ML CHURCH, Watchmaker and Jowoler NO. One HflndreilTwenty-Flve State Rt Chi­cago, 111. Special attention given to re­ tiring Fine watcnes and Chronometers. . IOTA Full Assortment of Goods in his line Attention Horsemen! MOHBITRY, III., April 1st* 1838, I would respectfully invite the Public to call and examine m; stock of Horses before making arrangements elsewhere. No busi­ ness done on Sunday. N. 8. COLBY H'HiaBI JU. JOHN P. 8MITH, Watchmaker JSc Jeweler McHENRY. ILLINOIS, A FINE stock of Clocks, Watches and Jew. elry always on band. Special attention gives to Mtffttrlaf AM watohes. Give ms a calL ' JOHN P. SMITH. WM. STOFFKL. ^^4gtaU for-- FIRE, - LIGHTNING, And Aooidental Insurance. Also Iowa. Minnesota, Nebraska, Alabama, and California Lands. Call on or address WM. STOFFEL, McHenry, 111: Quintette Orches McHENRY; ILL. Are preparedi to furnish First Class Musi® to the Danolng Public at Reasonable Bates. */. Smith, 1st Violin. Roht. Madden, Clarionet, C. OnrUa, Cornet, L, o^»d. Trombone, B, Ingalls, Basso and Prompter, Address all commuaications to Jerry SBltt, McHenry. '•'•r- • « ... - y--r. v- r * a- "" uaiieo Siaies War Claim Apij . «_OF WM; ii. XJOWLIN, Woedsteck ;» » •u{RG;8a ProHemttflB ail ni(»BB"»» »»i(i hinds" of e!s;ra~ against the United States for ex-Soldiers, their Widows, Dependent Relatives or Heirs. A specialty is made in prosecuting old and rejected claims. All communications promptly answered If Postage Stamps are enoiosed for reply. WM, H. COW LIU Office at Residenoe, Madison St., Woodstocx, Illinois. SHORT HOR BULLS 9 American Slaver Blossom Co. 391 N. Clark St. CHIGACO, ILL. The Crest Blood Purifier. Cares all Blocd Diseases that arise from the * fleet of Bad Blood. A sure cure for Cancer, Catsrrah, Piie6, Sink Headache, iiys. pep«ia, Whooping Oough, [Rheumatism, Con stipation, etc. r. J luttu. 1 l.kDlu BARSIAN BROS. If Whole»*lo and B«taU DBALBBS IK FINS CIGARS. MtHENRY ILLINOIS, Having leased the brick building one door South ot the post office, we have opened a retail store, where, at all timei can be found fine cigars of our own manufacture, together with amok lug and ohewing tobaeeo of the br-si bi Pipes a Specialty. Wo bave a very large assortment and *wry tosiisoiM mttfm. ' CALL AND SIK US, _ aAUiiiV'Mmi NeHtMf?, Ktll k, W SIMON STOFFEL, --AQSNT FOR Fhaaiz, of Btooklys, V, Y, Capital, 6,008,315. Rockford, of Rockford, III Capital, 802,448, . Nattal, of Hartiord, Corn en AAA ni « vapiimi Insurance carefully nnd safely placed on all clast>ei of proporty against fire, lightning, and tornado, either tor cash or on long time, without interest Fire policies on live stock cover same in bullying or on farm igainst loss or damnge by lire or lightning an<i against lightning anywhere. Hay, straw, stalks and fodder ars covered by one policy, in building or stacks on farm. Grain, seeds and mill feed are covered nn<ier o- e sum -n building or on farm Insurance transferred to other locali- tios frae ofcarge. Gasoline orol' stove and steam threshei permiis granted In policies free of charge Household goods of every description, including coal, wood and provl- si in* a»l coveied under one item Complete records kept of »1! policies,condition*, as^ign- mentn and transfers made. Oall for list of over 700 poliey holders in above companies. Simon StofieU BLOSSOMS, per pound FLUID EXTBAOT, per botittt; SOLID EXTRACT, por pound • •0.50 - 1.00 . 8.50 Bot h the Solid and Fin id Extracts are made from the same stock of Blossoms, and are equally as good and efficacious as the Blos­ soms. rfVLIAA. STORY, Affent. TT*" MoHenrv» Illinois. I, NEAR THE DEPOT. «TE8T MoHENRY, ILL Keeps open for the Moommodntloa of tne Public a First-Class Saloon and Restaurant, Where he will at all times keep the best brands of Wines, Liquors and Cigars Cto be foui.u iu the market. Also, Agent For FHANZ FALK'S IClwaakM Lags; Btu. Beer in Large or Small Kegs or Bottles al­ ways on hand, eheaper than any other, quali­ ty considered. Orders by .mail promptly attended to. GOOD STABLING'JPOS HORSFB WCall and^see us. Robert 8ohiessle. West McHenry. Ili A. St&gle&'s SALOON AND RESTAURANT. ' McHENRY, ILLINOIS. Fine Kentucky. Liquors, , French Bitters, McHenry Lager Beer, -AND- J. Scklitz MHee Bottle Beer, In any quantity from a Snits Glass to ICO barrels. A.T WHOLESALE OR RETAIL Beer in bottles, kegs or case as cheap as the cheapest. . We buy none but'theand sell at Seasonable Prices. all and see me and I will use fon well. ANTOKY ENGLBH; VcjB tpiyf JU.j ^ PENSIONS! The Diaabllity Bill is a law. Soldiers Disabled Sinoe the War are Entitled* Dependent widows and par«*ts n?w d* pendent wbofcc sons died from the effects o* srmv fefvices nre inc'uded If vou wish your claim speedily and successfully proso- ented, address JAMES TANNER. WASHINGf^p. 0. Lato Commissioner ot Pensions. • - ? *AAA SALARY and Commission to VwUU' AxenU, Men nn'l Women, T »ach era ani nierg men to introduce a nsw and popular Jfcmdara bnok, MARVELS of the NEW WEST 'A new Agtmt snf<f 70 in one week. Agr*ts profits, fl36 90. Over 35'I original engravings 1ft 4OO onM V.vr 1 no|y|t territory' Endorsed bv the greatest men of ocr country, Apply to THEHRNRY BILL PUB. CO., AorwfcA, Corm OR NO A 4S- page book tree. Address ^ W. T. VITZ UBKALD, Attorney at Law, or a.th and F Sts., Washington, U.O WANTFTI! Salesmenfasotl our ., " cnoico nursery Stock all gaol guaranteed to be first class «i)ood taterrecand cxpcr.c;'2, &rs cAmmlSsion paid. No experience necessary. Write tor terms giving age, and secure yoer choice of territory. G. L. KNIG h T 4 00., ; ^ MQ Park Avenue, Bxjjtheser H. T 1 -- ATTENTION 1 Farmers and Dairymen. It will pay those looking for * CHOICE COWf Freeh milkers or springers, to call at BT premises before purchasing. I can furnish •noli by the oar load or single eow. roaxaa H. WOLFHUM, Caniiuaa. Farm about four miles northwest of Harvard, Illinois. 0AK LAWH iCADIMY Will open !»s year on W«J nreday, 8ept. 16, 1891, nod will oflnr special prtvllpjrps to the right fits* of students. The Irig'itatioo will be coo- ducted as & Home School for Boys Where ihey will receive the^enefitgof a thorough pre pat at ion in all of the common branches of Btudy. GERMAN AND MUSIC\ We claim for our ech^o! a pleas ant and beal hr situation ard tbe past year bears us out in the assertion. TEEMS AHD DESCRIPTIVE C2&CULAB Sent to any address on arpl'catlon. The school is situated at Ring*-ood, McHenrv Co.. 111., on the C. * N. W. R. R,. 59 Miles from Chicane. 16 miles from Lake Geneva, and 6 miles from Fox Lake. No saloon, billiard hall, or other touting place in town. Address Oak Lawn Academy, 8ir RIKGWOOD, 111. McHENRY H. Miller . & Son, --DEALERS IN- MARBLE k QRANITE, Monumente, He a ftni« Tablets, Eto. Cemetery Wd^k of every de­ scription neally executed at the Lowest Prices. Satii&cUon GatraaUtd. Shop? at McHenry and Johnfi- burgh, III, Vhere at all times can be tound a good assortment of finished work. Respectfully, • Henry Miller & Hon. mi sr%. Ai nnd recewe free me a 91 ̂OO Solid Lentber Ad- us table Bogey Wmahem. the best and cheap, est, or6uceni« (or 100: IS cents for zo. SAUNDERS, fe'" v % Waili ngton. Ohh». W0RTHIN6T0N COiPANY ^ 747 Broadway, N> Y., AvaOtinoe foa immediate publication as " No. 12 in their HOSE LIBRARY SOU CHILDREN OF ADAM. BY R. At. MANLKY. A vrell.developed st^ry. easily winning and retaining the readers attention the eno It is a vital contribbtion to the social • udy of New York society, for it presents a picture of Amerioan life that is most captivating to the thoughtful reader. There i* sued in atmos­ phere <>l t-e realty over the uncommon hap. p£nings of the novel, the mtrrative chows tmch careful gtndy and shrewd obser-ntlon of metropolitan life, ttiat tho«o who will notice li{6 tppea, distinct and interesting in their <t>ers- nality, wil at once recognize th* verac­ ity of the representation, for ihis reason it will produce a profound impression wherever .•New York Influence is predoiiiinrnt Tliou^- an'ls, however, who wish to read the book with the expectation to be entevta.ned only will be fascinated by the magnetism of the ctory, the charm of itb language, its intricate plot, it* tolling incidents, Itn strsnge coinci­ dences and its viioioiiR anil at times thrilling ncti us. revealina the inner life, pleasures, Intellectual pursuits, as well as the frivoll. ties of the wealthier ctassscsof New York. Price, Cloth (illustrated), $1.00. Pqber, 50 cents. 80LDBBS' DlFASfKHT. Cdltetf by WM. H. COWLIN, WOODSTOCK, ILL. "7b oars for him who hot * bom* the battle, and far Ms 't. vL Widow and Orphans." • -- Lnroouf. "fUendthip, Charity, hoy. attv-- Worthy torn of Patriot Fbthert" C. A. R, Directory. •/ K'HBintT POST KO. 848. " kfeets the First and Third Thur-dajf lags of eacn month. H. C MUD, Can WOODSTOCK ro«T. wo MS. *e«ts first and third Monday evonlags of eooh Bontku IS; "hcBtsM, Coaa. "WO WD A *0®T. MOW. Meets the second and fourth Tuesday evenings of eaon nonth W*, K. St. CLatn, COB. UBT1ID POST. HO 985. Moots the seoond and tourtb Monday even lngs ot each "month. J, D. CLAHK, Oom. MAUVOO POST. NA in, Meets every Becnd and Fourth Friday evenings of each month. E. R. MoKmts, COM, w ACCORD A POST. WO 3t>&, Post meets every seeond and fourth Satur­ day evening In Q. A. &. Hall, Uain St. A. L. Pnicn. Com. "It is very amtistng," said a clerk in the United States Pension ottice, "to look over the list of names of old soldiers on the pension books. I am more than ever convinced that there isn't anything in a name, for here we have, in name, nearly every great man who has ever lived. Here at one point is Daniel Webster, at another, George Washington, and further down the list, I find Oliver Cromwell, Julius Caesar, John Wesley, Henry Clay, and even Jeff Davis is on our list. Then there are the old names, such as Ham, Coon, Rats, Sugarfoot, and others. One hardly knows what a variety of names there is in the world until he begins to deal with them by the thousand." Wauconda Anti-Morse Thief Association. OFFICERS. ARTHUR COOK, Pres. EDGAR GBKBW. Sec'y. JAB. JSURBAY, V. *• E. K. GILBERT, Treas DIRECTORS. J P Honey. Edgar Green. Frana Thomts, KIDKBS. Henry Werden, HP Hughes, Morris For \ A J Raymond, Frank Thomas. MSN MRS. A Cook. ..... .. Mirttc Morse .... A C Bangs..............Plutarch Hoaghton . .. EE Gilbert .....Geo Dai-roll ... It O Hill K T Harris II P Hughes S H Harris J K Ronev Krtnk Thomas Edgar Green .. A J ttaymond .. Geo Pratt MOBC» Beach. .. JaineR Murray. J D McOabe.... Henry Werden. J E (.-Jlynch .... Ire Smith Delos Amos .... Geo Jones ...:. T Uacoa R Paddock . .. M C Smith Mot Ford ......Edwin Cook Seth Turner. .....W M Cloiigh .. ..... Stebbins Ford P A Niinekey ......K F JohtiRion Warren Poweis ... Geo Bates Jas Moi.aghan, Jr , Robert HaT'Son . ... John Spencer. ...O W Dunklee Charles Iiavlln .. Mlchacl Siavea ... ......Gus Staxou ......Golding Bros ... ..T V Siocum MAKES HENS LAY AND KEEPS THEM bMALTHY Try It. FOR SALE BT JOHN EVAN^ON 4 00. West IfcHenry, 111. CRA^. KUBNERT. Jfohnsborgh, 111. J W. CRISTT A SON, King wood. III. FRANK ROWE, , Hebron, 111. LIKE GENEVA cur FL0WEBS, FUNERAL W0BK. PARTY DECORATIONS. ••for* You Order BEDDING PLANTS For tfae Sprioy, send tor our Illustrated f!ataloguc. LAKE G^EV^v /W SB* A short time ago quite a little excite­ ment was raised in the usually.quiet town of Watertown, S. D. L. E. Moody, better known in that community as Jack Moody, is an old veteran, who served hi^country gallantly in Co. C, Berdan's 1st U. S. Sharpshooters. He keeps a little work­ shop in Watertown, and is known as one of its quietest citizens. But it don't do to arouse his ire. On the occasion re­ ferred to a countrymau who happened to be in his shop used an opprobrious epi­ thet in connection with the name of the the martyred President Lincoln. This was too much for the blood of the old sharpshooter to stand and he reached for and found something and dealt the tra- ducer of Lincoln's name a blow in the face. As the "something" he had in bis hand happened to be a hatchet the man was pretty severely injured, and had to be taken away for repairs, there beingf a frightful gash in his cheek. As both of Moody's hands are crippled from his war experience it explains why be used the hatchet instejd of his fiBts. Little sym­ pathy was expressed in Watertown for the injured man, and everybody thought be got what he deserved. It will teach him to refrain from connecting Lincoln's name with vile epithets when old soldiers are present. ** The Bureau of Pensions holds that in the absence of the strongest medical or lay evidence to dispute tbe justice and sufficiency of the ratings made by the authorized surgeons and boards of medi­ cal examinators when approved by the medical referee, it is and must be the practice of the department to accept such reports as indicating fairly the ratable degree of the pensionable disability. Also a soldier is hot necessary outside the military lines on a pass, the question de­ pending upon the purpose for which the pass was given. [2] Whereas, a soldier is given by his superior officer a written leave to attend religious services a few hours, outside the military lines, in the absence of a chaplain or of religious ser­ vices inside the lines, said soldier will be held as in the line of duty while acting in conformity to the pass, and an injury in­ curred in so doing, if without carelessness or fault, or contributory negligence on his own part, may be pensionable. And that section 4719, B. S , prohibiting the payment of any money on account of pensions to any person, or to the widow or heirs, of any deceased person, who in any manner, engaged in, or aided or abetted the late rebellion against the United States, shall not be construed to apply to such persons as afterward vol­ untarily enlisted in the army of the United States. A Distinguished Confederate. Mobile special to New York Timm: Thomas L. Harrison, the hero on the Confederate side in the battle of Mobile bay, died to-night, aged 51 yeans. He graduated from Annapolis, and at the i gft of 20, entered the Confederate naval service. He wets ordered to Mobile in 1862 and appointed executive officer of the gunboat Morgan, In the battle in the Spring of 1865, when Farragut forced an entrance into Mobile Bay, the little vessel wafl soon driven under the shelter of the guns of Fort Morgan, the ram Tenessee and the Gunboat Selma, having been captured and the Gunboat Gaines burned, The captain of the Morgan gave orders to abandon ship and set heron fire. Lieutenant Harrison, however, reminding the crew that this was the only free vessel in the bay, and would bsiof incal­ culable value to the Confederacy if saved, asked the men to volunteer to run the boat up to Mobile. Every man stepped to the starboard. Thereupon Harrison requested the captain to step below. The captain declared the act one of mutiny, but Harrison said they^would talk about that later. It was then night and the Morgan, under full steam, ran through the Fed­ eral fleet, the vessels opening fire upon her on either side. The Metacomet and the Lackawana put put in pursuit and a fighting raco of twenty-three miles fol­ lowed. At the upper forts the Confed­ erates, not trusting the signals from the advancing vessel, opened Are upon her and had the gate through the obsrtuctions closed. Under the double fire, the lieu­ tenant put out ID a small boat, hailed the nearest luri and got his friends to turn the full force of their guns upon the pursuing vessels, thus keeping them at bay. Before daylight the gate was lifted and the Morgan passed into Mobile River in safety. Tha vesssel served a few weeks later at the land and naval battle at Blakely, Harrison, however, having in the mean­ time been given command of the gunboat Nashville. After the war, he engaged in business, and later filled the post of United States Commissioner. POiiiTioAL PARAGRAPHS. Ilcii ia soutle tesluuoiry to lue hon­ esty of the free trade wails "of the poor oppressed farmer." A Maine farmer writes as follows to the Oxford (Me.) Democrat: "I have looked over my 'Bill McKinley' act and find I have saved $15 on my sugar bill, got 315 more for wool sold, and can't find where I have paid over $8 or by reason of tariff, although I have ex]>ended $600 to $800 in various purchases affected by legislation. Have been in active life, laboring in the field anc\ otherwhere forty-five or more years, and the cal­ amity party's predictions never came true, unless they got the reins of gov­ ernment." During the twelve months ending September 30, 1891, the average rate of duty on dutiable imports was forty- seven per cent., and on total imports it was only twenty-three per cett. Demo­ cratic free-trade newspapers and de- claimers still quote from their effusions of former catapaigr? and declare that tite people are taxed an average of *ix- ty per cent, on all imported goods. If they cared to be truthful they would change their figures, and if they cared to be entirely fair they would add the t further fact that the foreign manufac­ turers and the importers paid a consid­ erable portion of this tax. The "carpet tax" liar has been sing­ ing small lately. Every time he shows his head a fact like this hits it. An Eighth avenue firm sells Axminster and Moquette carpet at 79 cents per yard. That is less than the duty, which is 60 cents a square yard and 40 per cent, ad valorem. Carpet is generally a little more than a yard wide; but, letting it go at that, the duty on these goods is at least 91 cents a yard. And yet the Millses and other free-trade cranks are getting ready to shout in the year 1893< "The tariff is a tax."--N. Y. Press. If the plans of democrats who favor a tariff for revenue only were carried out the tariff would be a direct tax upon our people. Under the republican plan of a tariff for protection as well as for revenue the direct tax falls largely upon the importers and the manu­ facturers who are in some other coun­ try, and who, while combining with every other foreign manufacturer to extort the highest possible price from Americans for their goods, are op­ pressing their employes by giving them only starvation wages. The. McKinley law is the farmer's tariff as well as the mechanic's tariff. In his annual report the Secretary of Agriculture shows that while the im­ ports of foreign tobacco for ten months under the old tariff were $17,000,000, in the corresponding period under the Mc­ Kinley law they were only $8,000,000 This means that the present tariff has put millions of dollars into the pookets of American tobacco growers within one year from its enactment. --N. Y. Press. Figures show that during the year ending September 80, 1891, the average rate of duty on our total imports was less than at any time since 1861, not­ withstanding the assertions of tbe oppo­ sition that the McKinley law raised the tariff schedule. West Point Cadetahip Notice Is hereby given that a competi­ tive examination for the selection of a Cadet to West Point, from the Fifth Con' gressional District, will be held at the Court House at Geneva, Kane county, on Wednesday, the fifteenth day of June, 1892, commencing at ten o'clock, A. M. Candidates must not be less than 17 nor more than 22 years of age; actual residents of the district, unmarried, and of sound physical condition, to be tested by a strict surgical examination. Tbey must be thoroughly proficient in reading, writing, orthography, arithme­ tic, English grammar, descriptive geog­ raphy, and especially the geography ot our own country; and history, particu­ larly that of the United States. In arith­ metic they must "possess such a complete knowledge as to enable them to take up the higher branches of mathematics with­ out the further study of it. ALBERT J. HOPKINS* Member of Congress, Fifth District. rowign uomnerce iw ism. If anything* could bring confusion to the false prophets who pose as spotoee* men for the democratic party, it would seem that a perusal of official statistics covering the period since the enactment of the existing tariff law would have that effect. Pesuisg uistusaiuu ot Lira McKinley bill, and long after the meas­ ure became law, the doom of doirestio industries was predicted, and the knell of. foreign commerce was sounded by shotiters still hoarse from lauding the virtues of the notorious Mills bill, and the yet more radical ctn-nmitnients ia behalf of free foreign trade for which a democratic president made himself re­ sponsible. But how have the practices of these democratic workers been rewarded-- the prophecies of their aeers been ful- uacu i Try a sack of Good Nuff flour 95c. Honest Abe, 1.10, Rival, 1.10, Ciscoette, 1.10, New Process, 1.20, Geneva, 1.30, Pillsbury's Best, 1.45, buckwheat, corn meal and graham at lowest prices. 22 pounds granulated sugar, 1.00. Good roasted coffee, 18c. 8 pounds good tea 'dost, 1.00. 12 cans choice fruit, 1.00. Yours truly, SIMON STOFEKL. . v . f l i 8Si^8i "if i'f The ensuing period of unprecedented prosperity for all our industries ' has contributed to swell the aggregate of domestio production to proportions never before attained. Demand for the products of farms and factories, mines and forests, has fully kept pace with the enormous available supply; and at the end of the first year under the oper* ations of the new tariff domestic pros* perity impresses upon the pages of our country's history a record at once the pride of every patriotic citizen and the envy of foreign rivals. But it is in the showing of the year's fnn>|OT irfijo that the existing policy of protection for home industries finds its amplest vindication, and the inca* pacity and insincerity of democratic or­ acles becomes most evident. Never haa the volume of commerce with foreign countries been so large as in 1891, when it reached the imperial sum of one thousand and eight hundred million dollars. This was not only largely in excess of the business of any previous single year, but ninety million dollara greater than the average of five pre­ ceding years. Such increase applied to both imports and exports--the latter being so heavy as to leave to credit of the United States from the year's trans­ actions the sum of one hundred, and thirteen million dollars. Of the hand­ some balance in our favor agricultural products are to be credited with fully ninety per cent.--demonstrating that the farmer has certainly not been in­ jured by the present tariff. Nor can the prophets of disaster find any more consolation in a study, of the details of official reports for lite calen­ dar year just closed and Comparison with the foreign trade of 1890. On the other hand nearly every schedule fur­ nishes overwhelming vindication of the wisdom that inspired the existing tariff law. To illustrate; • Great Britain--whence emanates the principal opposition to our policy of protecting home industries--and tat whose behalf were made the loudest threats of retaliation by refusal to boy our products--still beads the list as our best customer, even purchasing more than before. She actually bought more than half our exports of corn, 48 per cent, of wheat and flour, 60 per cent, of copper, and largely advanced upon for* mer purchases of cotton, fruits, beef, seeds, iron manufactures and other im­ portant items. So much for those "British cousins," who, notwithstand­ ing their frequent threats of retaliar tion and fulsome promises of reciprocal exchange, never yet bought a dollar's worth from this country that could have been obtained for ninety-nine cents in any other country. It is further disclosed that while we bought abroad $3,314,470 more value of wools than in 1890, we paid $1,177,000 less for foreign shoddy and wastes, and about $20,000,000 less for foreign made woolen goods. Showing that the effort to make wool-growers believe that they have been injured by the slightly in­ creased importation of foreign wools ia an attempt at deception; because, in reality, when guaged by the manufac­ tured product, in which condition they must be placed either here or abroad, the country has actually consumed few­ er foreign wools than in 1890. Some equally suggestive facts are di»> closed in the cotton trade for 1891. We not only sold raw cotton for $22,760,000 more than was obtained in 1890, but we increased the foreign sales of our cot] ton manufactures 26 per cent., while our purchases of foreign made cotton goods were diminished by 18 per cent. Of iron and steel manufactures our sales to foreigners in 1891 amounted to $30,736,319--an increase of 14 per cent, over shipments for the previous year; while our purchases from abroad were but $41,545,281, a decrease of 6 per cent, from those for lnQO. Exports of leal her for 1891 amounted to $12,026,556, an increase over the pre­ vious year of 10 per cent., while during the same time there was a falling off in our importation of hides and skins. And soon through a long list of minor items entering into our foreign com­ merce, demonstrating beyond possibili­ ty of successful contradiction that a wisely adjusted protective tariff does not in any wise impede foreign ex­ changes; but on the contrary by ia* spiring confidence in domestic enter­ prise and adding to the purchasing ability of the people^ thereby enables them to buy more liberally from out* siders of such articles as are not pro* duced at home. * Those democratic oracles who have waited for a year under hope that the nation's foreign trade would furnish some confirmation of their prophecies^ supply some additional excuse for ad* vocating "tariff reform" under a British trade mark, can now betake them­ selves to the inventions of new scam* crows for influencing the timid, the pro* mulgation of new promises for capti­ vating the gullible. The increase in commerce with the outside world, with a resulting profit of more than $3,000,000 per week for the first year of the exist* ing law, presents an argument in sup­ port of the republican policy of prop* erly adjusted protection that is not likely to be ignored -by intelligent voters. Such a result is evidently not just what1 the democratic heads messes have been praying for. ^^^71 Figure* the present tariff to the lowest ever provided for, but the average democrat refuses to read ^ > , x'zh at .$>$• '•:siP5sS. 1 i :n '• ;"r%' &