nywiiiy "-y/.irniiT"' s^^T T r ,wpr -v "V- i PITH The year of 1819 was one of universal LEARNING TO SWIM. WHO IS PROTECTED? PARALYZED INDUSTRIES. jgELF-EVtPENT TRUTHS. disaster. The country moved ^-While walking in the sunshine figures Showtatf That Frotectlou Dees Discouraging Aquatic Kxperlenoes of slowly and laboriously. In 1824 more don't forget that the shadow is only The Terrible Effects of the Mill* II a Mot Protect Labor. fflftat the Maintenance of High Tariff a New York Humorist. American Busluesa Intereats. tariff was put on, and there was no improvements Charles Newburgh, whose address across the streetPhiladelphia Call. Costa American Farmers. Once upon A time, when I was young We hear on good authority, that The Massachusetts Tariff League are In 1828 a still higher tariff is 64 Defrees street, Washington, D. Some men look upon waltzing as and full of unlimited confidence in the Signor and Signora Tomatocanno, the sirculating the following tract, which tax was put on, and times grew a C, and who is evidently interested in waisting time, but they manage to future, I made up my mind that I would well-known garbage inspectors of should be la the hands of every farmer little harder. In 1832 the country the tariff question, in a letter in which learn to swim. Every one told me I squeeze some enjoyment out of it. Newark, N. J., have signified their intention in America: changed doctors, and*a part of the he comments on the arguments advanced ought to learn the noble art of how to Yonkers Statesman. of giving up business, in consequence 'Areyou aware that the average tariff tax was wiped out What followed? by Messrs. E. P. Allis and keep your head above water, and I became To rejoico in another's prospovity of the prevailing uncertainty price of all cereals is the same at Liverpool John Jarrott in support of high tariff, filled with a sort of enthusiastic is to give content to your own lot to concerning the tariff. Any reduction and JSTew York with the slight Oo on and tell me. asks: "Will those gentlemen not longing to go and float on my back, 1 mitigate unother's grief is to alleviate of the duty on foreign rags, the Signor freight?1 difference of Business immediately revived. In merely assert but prove to us that a out into the mystic East, where the or dispel your own. save, will "hurta very mucha" that That youexport $52J,O00,OOO worth 1833 the tax was lowered again, and protective tariff protects the working- crested seas play leap-frog through the Flattery is the worst of insults, particular branchof American industry of grain and other agricultural product, prosperity increased. By the year men?" He holds that protection does never-dying years. but there are mighty few people in this to which the Signo*ad himself have which is the surplus product of 1837 the United States Treasury was not protect labor and he draws his I inquired what was the best way to so assiduously devoted their time and world who are keen enough to know .four farms, and get just as much for it overflowing, and the surplus was divided conclusions in this matter from facts learn to swim. I received 1,171 different their talents. Sgr. Tomatocanno's bag when any body is. insulting them.Somerville per bushel as you do for that sold in around among the States. An and figures presented by the census reports replies. It was just a trifle confusing. and poker will be idle but it is useless Journal. die United StatesP era of wild speculation followed the compiled carefully by the Government I was not quite sura which to hope that even this wi!7 have any Probably thero is nothing in the If you don't believe this, look in any distribution the land bubble was was the best way, so I concluded to effect on the free-trade politicians, who world that a man resents so quickly trade journal, or ask your grocer, if blown up so large that it burst, and Be presents the following table begin at the beginning of the list and seem bent at all hazards on destroying and so deeply as to find you awfully he is informed on this point Don't a p&nio ensued, the effects of which which shows that notwithstanding the work my way through to victory or a our industry, for the sole benefit of busy when he is perfectly at leisure. stoptill you have the truth about this. watery grave. European capitalists. It will prove to be worth millions to Shoe and Leather Reporter. The first method recommended to me The American Doll-Stay-and-Boot- THE DEFENDER OF TRUSTS. the farmers to have it settled right It is a part of prudence to face was to strip and boldly plunge into the Lace Manufactory, which for two years You get only foreign prices for what every claimant and pay every just de water where it was over my head1 has carried on business in a back room you sell. mand on your time, your talents, or animal,1 "The natural instinct of the on the seventh floor of the McRookery Tou have to pay an average duty of your heart. Always pay, for, first or said my adviser, "is to swim. You flat, shut down yesterday, owing to the 17 per cent upon every protected last, you must pay your entire debt. need nothing but the firm resolve, and agitation of the Mills bill, and the disturbing irticleyou buy. Emerson. you will find it exceedingly easy. of such a measure on the commerce You have to pay this tax on the Other things grow stale and old Jump right in and strike out, and you of the country. The wages paid l**L Douse you live in and all its furniture and lose their early charm, but somehow will get there." in Europe are very much lower than all the clothing of your family and even to the most jaded man there The more I thought about it, the those paid by the American Doll-Stayand-Boot-Lace jvery farm tool you possess on all is a perennial freshness and attractive more this seemed to me to be good Company, so that the jmur cooking utensils, and even on the look about a twenty-dollar billJournal advice. So one day, when I was crossing latter feel no encouragement to go on -s. 7ery salt with which you salt your of Education. the North river on a ferry-boat, I with the business, and consequently cattle, which you are afterward forced just shut my eyes and jumped overboard. A man is not to be known by how their staff of employes, consisting of co ell at prices determined in the marnets I struck out boldly: and as mv much money he has, but by what that two old women and a boy, will be of Europe. adviser had predicted, I got there. I money is worth to him. You must put thrown out of employment So much Are you willing to pay a tax of 47 got right to the bottom. As soon as indignation has been aroused in the your hand into a man's heart to find percent, for a "home market" which possible I got back araiii to the surface, neighborhood over the causes which out how much he is worth, not into his oays you no more than the foreign and was just about to strike out have led to the abandonment of this pocketRural Ncio Yorker. market? boldly once more, when a miserable important industry, that the residents Sorrow is not an accident occurring Do you wonder that the farm in the pirate jammed a boat-hook under my of the McRookery flat have organized now and then it is the -very woof Eastern States has not been profitable collar, and yanked me out of the water themselves into a Harrison and Morton which is woven into the warp of life, since the late war and its taxes? Do with an exceeding great yank. Club. They will be heard from in and he who has not discerned the divine you wonder that the mortgage has November. I was arrested and taken to police sacreduess of sorrow and the fallen on almost every farm in New court I explained to the police justice The United States Wooden Toothpick profound meaning which is concealed England? that I had jumped overboard to Manufacturing Association at in pain, has yet to learn what life is. Do you think it fair to tax the farm- earn to swim but he sent me up, just Mosquitoville, Wayback County, will The cross, manifested as the necessity 3r to make other pursuits profitable? the same. close their establishment to-morrow. of the higher life, alone interprets it. Are you making so much out of your When my term was at an end, I The trade has been in a depressed condition The Advance. farm that you can afford this? thought I would try the plan of the since the President's message. The farmers sent 72 per cent, of the Rudeness is justly considered as a second adviser. This was to practice Mosquitoville is a village of twenty soldiers of the Union army, and they returned social crime. The ill-bred person has the stroke in shallow water until I inhabitants, and seven of these at least to find their farms mortgaged no place in the social fabric, and he knew how to use my hands and feet, are employed by the United States to pay the cost of the war and enhance should be as much excluded from and then to venture into water deep Wooden Toothpick Association. It the wealth of the manufacturers, who polite life as should the criminal from anough to swim. will not surprise any one to learn that had in the meantime grown ruL at the business transactions of honest there is a very strong protectionist I went down to the river one evenng their expense. men. Beautiful manners are the fine feeling among the people of this important where some boys were in swimming, Think of these things. inflorescence of all forms of art. Noble community, which will add and said: They will pay you one-thousandfold sculpture, beautiful paintings, the tremendously to the wave of popular "How deep is the water here?" for earnest consideration. haymony of music, the charms of intellectual indignation when it sweeps the country "Only two feet and a half." said one Don1! mind what a party calls itself. J. G. B."This is only a little private matter, officer, with which you gifts, all find their highest next November. if the boys, who was paddling about. Vote with those who mean to relieve have nothing to do." and most potent expression in manner. That suited me, so in I went. I The rat-catching industry of Catnip ou of unnecessary taxation. vir oracticed away at the stroke, and was The chief difference between the Creek Valley, which was carried oa by loing beautifully, when it occurred to savage and the civilized man is in the lasted nearly two years. Then things old Mike Sloan and his two dogs, has fact that the laboring men and women NOTES AND COMMENTS. me that the sand on the bottom was power and the habit of self-control. started to move off smoothly until 1842, been abandoned in consequence of impending employed in the manufacture of woolen The workman's value in Candidate scratching my breast. So I said: The savage may be master over other when the protection doctors again got changes in the tariff. It will clothes are protected by an average JBarrison's estimate is one dollar "isn't there any deeper water than savages, but his own feelings he never hold of the country, and the famous be evident that no self-respec v\g tariff of 66 per cent, there hasbeen per day. A corporation attorney is this around here?" masters, and their utterance he neither tariff of that year was enacted. Can American rat-catcher will consent to a constant falling off in the number of worth $1,000 per week.Denver News. "Right over there," said a boy points subdues nor regulates. Civilization, you tell me what happened? put his labor in competition with the woolen mills and the amount of capital If trusts are "private affairs," ng. I went "right over there," and however, and experience teach men pauper labor of Europe, and this I was always in favor of the tariff of invested in this industry: with which it is improper for the authorities at once disappeared from view. When that both should be cultivated. Some would certainly be the case if foreign '42. It built up the country. 2070. isso. to interfere, why wouldn't it *r* I came to the surface I was going to of the emotions need development, rat-skins were admitted duty free. Mr. Establishments 2,891 1,990 History doesn't say so. On the contrary, Capital invested 198,834.531 396,005,564 be well to put pocket picking in the jwim splendidly but two boys jumped some restraint all need training. They Sloan has therefore retired from the in 1843 the depression was Hands 80,053 86.504 same category? We can't have too in and towed me ashore. Once more Spindles. 1845,490 1,756,740 profession in disgust The rat-catching are not all fit for utterance, nor of greater than -what followed the panic of Wages 386.777.67 185,836,392 muchof a good thing.N. Y. Herald. I had been rescued. industry of Catnip Creek Valley i3 those that are is it wise to give all unreservedly 1837, and from which the country had Material. 396,482,601 3100,815,611 Product. 1155.405,358 3180,603,721 The rejection of the fisheries therefore paralyzedthe rat-catcher Then I tried another plan. This recovered. Prices of farm products to the world. The figures presented, and they are treaty by the Republican Senators is a himself, very oftena most deplorable was to take a lot of corks and put them fell off one-half and commerce was cut authentic, prove that during the ten tame and feeble mode of attacking state of things, and the natural result under my arms, and swim that way in two in the middle. Then for the ABUSE OF BASE-BALL. years between 1870 and 1880 nine hundred Canada compared with the vigorous of the disastrous policy pursued by until I had the stroke down fine then first time in the Nation's history the of the former factory owners Why Professional Ball- Playing Is Harmful scheme propounded by the Democratic the present FresrTrade Administration. to cast away the corks and go it alone. protected few began to get rich at the have been crowded out of the ranks of tr the Cauae of Physical Training. PresidentLondon (Bng.) Standard, Puck. Well, 1 procured my corks, and startad expense of the overtaxed many, especially Every true friend of athletics must the self-employed into the ranks of out through the surf at Coney at the expense of the farming 'Certain great North American regret the use that is being made of wage-workers, or hirelings, and the THE FARMER'S TRIBUTE. Island. It was really very pleasant, interests. In 1846 the tariff of 1842 trusts can not help shedding tears this game in the professional field. It employed capital has decreased by iding the breakers and feeling as it was reduced about one-half, and what when they read Mr. Blaine's ingenious is, of course, a misnomer to apply the How the Agricultural Claaa Is Robbed by two and three-quarter millions of dollars. )ne were suspended in the air. When followed? defense of them. They are like the the Existing- Tariff. term athletic exercise, in its ordinary During this same period the Some time ago Senator James K. beyond the ropes I found I was swimning thief who never realized what a deeply-wronged Ruin and disaster. sense, to a professional base-ball game. population of the country increased 25 Jones asked Hon. C. R. Breckinridge, beautifully, so I threw off my man he was until he heard The men who manage these games, per cent, while the number of hands of the House Ways and Means Committee, 2orks and struck out boldly. Of course, TWO POLICIES CONTRASTED. his lawyer's arguments before a jury. and those wlw engage in them, do so employed only increased 8 per cent to prepare for Hon. W. L. the first shock of throwing away the Chicago News. What he Democrats Favor, a nd What without any idea of the physical The number of spindles have decreased Terry, of Little Rock, a statement of corks sent me downward, and it was he Xpb'lcana Want. The presence of the Chinese in benefits that may be derived from by more than one million and the the amount of tariff on a bill of goods Democrats: We favor cheaper Bibles. 30 deep that I was a long-time coming our eountry, although it might be advantageous wages have decreased $38 per year them. The benefits sought after are bought by a representative farmer. In up. When I did come up, I was just Bepublicans: We favor free whisky. as furnishing a set of per person employed. financial and not physical the development reply, Mr, Breckinridge furnished an ?oin to swim away in great style, Democrats: (iive us free wool. cheap and efficient laborers, carries of the pocket-book and not of the In 1870|26,877,675 were paidin wages exhibit based on actual transactions when a man came up in a boat, grabbed Republicans: Give us free whisky. with such disadvantages that they muscle. The character and aims of to 80,053 operatives but in 1880, just between Mr. R. M. Knox, merchant of me by the neck, and dragged me Democrats: We favor free raw material. more than countervail all the benefits the professional ball clubs are very ten years later, 86,504 operatives were Pine Bluff, Ark., and Mr. D.W. Branch, "n. I tried to explain my design to we could derive from their presence. much the same as that of the theatrical obliged to be content with but $25,836,- a farmer, who bought the goods. Mr. him but he intimated that he thought Republicans: We favor free whisky. Alia* Q. Thurman, in Senate, 1879. troupes traveling around the country. 392 in wagesmore than one million Breckinridge explains that "this is me a crank. Democrats: Give the builders free It is remarkable that Mr. Harrison, It is the gate-money in the one case dollars less, while the number of .^oper- calculated upon the basis of copy from laths and free shingles. And so it has been. Every time I who has lived so long in Indiana, atives had been increased .by more and the box-office receipts in the other the books of Mr. Knox, and upon tho Republicans: Give the builders free nave tried to learn to swim, some one never^says "quinine" in any of than 6,000and at the same time the that constitutes the chief end of existence rate of taxes actually paid upon com* whisky. has come along and rescued me. I his tariff remarks. A thoughtful value of this product had increased in the view of the management. peting articles at* the jsorts-aa W subjoin the Democrats: We favor free salt 1 don't want to be rescued. I want to consideration of quinine would do one million dollars. That is to say, Both enterprises are conducted on law.1 provided by Republicans: We favor free whisky. swim. But they will not let me. They great good among those deluded Indiana while the manufacturers received as a a purely mercenary basis. It is, therefore, bill as appearing on Mr. Knox's Republicans: We favor the entire repeal always say: "My dear sir, in two Bepublicans who believe that a result of the tariff one million dollars just as far short of the truth to of the internal revenue laws rather books: minutes more you would have been reformed tariff would ruin the country.-Louisville more tor the product of their mills, speak of a professional game of ball as than surrender any part of our protective Tartg o* irowned." So I have given up all Courier-Journal. the operatives of the looms and spindlers having any real connection with system. hope of ever learning to swim, and am J97. each Of the twenty leading trusts in have had their wages reduced physical training as it is to speak of a Democrats: We favor reducing the purch i$. ?oing to wade slowly through the rest this eountry all but three deal in and more than a million dollars in the aggregate, Jan. *STo csMlmere auit clothes ill oo #4 09 professional theatrical performance price on tinware by admitting tin free. f a sorrowful existence.Puck. pr. brogana fl.09 3 00 7' seek to control articles protected by or about $38 per head. Who having any connection with the training Feb. 61 Bell collar ISO 75 Democrats: We propose to take off & the tariff. But for the high duties foreign in this case is protected by the tariff? gpr. plow I nes 70 of mind and morals. Contests COLORS FOfT AUTUMN. the tax of 25 per cent on curled hair lpr. boy'a brogana 1 25 89 competitors could supply our people Milwaukee Labor Review. where physical strength and skill are 171 box axle grease 10 (lit for mattresses. when the trust puts the price up Ml Avery plow 3 50 lot (few Shades of Green, Red and Gray Most the nnly elements set off against each Democrats: We favor reducing the gbuck boards. 50, lbs. Favored by Fashion. to an exorbitant figure, as the jutebagging nails, 6c. 55c 105 ts other, where the struggle is fair and A LOOK BACKWARD. tariff on sugar 20 per cent, and thus Green, red and gray are the trio ol 1 bo. tali 75,1 pr. misses trust has done. The tariff honest, with no particular end in view hoes, tl.5 3 03 GS break up the trust that is robbing the absolute colors most favored by fashiot ffhs Clous Intimacy Between High Taxes promotes and protects six-sevenths of Mar. slpr. shoes, 11.75, pr. except that of success, are very different k* people. for autumn, but it is not so easy to and Hard Times. hinges 8 00 50 all the trusts, and yet Mr. Blaine says Let us turn over a few pages in this lyard waterproof. 75 0 from contests carried on by affairs1' Democrats: We propose to revise state which shade or even which of the they are "largely private SS pr. brogans 160 37 book and see. In 1808 tariff duties salaried professionals in a professional the tariff, reduce the profits of trusts combinations will achieve most popularity. 9 yds. calico, lue SO OS having no place in a National campaign." water bucket 28c., 1 were made prohibitory and commerce way and with only a professional end and make wool, salt and lumber free. Every shade of green flourishes, apool thread, 5c 80 08 The voters will see about it with the world was shut off, just as in view. Whatever good, in short, April 11 lbs. naUs, 6c 65 14 Democrats: We propose to icduce from the vivid, rich emeraudea deep N. T. World. S3it hats, 65c, M.80, 5 yds. the Chicago platform contemplates. may come from professional ballplaying, the tax on steel rails from $17 to $11 emerald greento .W*7, or Nile green, lawn, 50c 1 90 51 There was a financial and commercial SOyda. stripes, 12tfc. 50 1 it can hardly be in the way per ton, and thus reduce the profits of a light water-color. Scarabee is A Matter of Cash. 14 yds. calico, 10c 140 tt collapse there were ruin and disaster of physical good. We doubt very the trust. dark yellowish green, and couroucou 3yds. Jeans, 5oc 150 70 Where no necessity for taxation exists Hdoc thread 40 everywhere. In 1809 the prohibitory much whether any good of any kind and peuplier are lighter shades of the Republicans: We favor the entire 15 yds. ticking, sac 8 00 125 and taxes are imposed, there is a tariff was repealed, and a tariff about comes from it The relation which same color. 1 set cups and saucers.. 75 repeal of the internal revenue tax rather wrong done to the people taxed. May 3 1 knife 75 one-fifth as high as we have at present the professional game assumes to bear than surrender any part of the protective The brighter reds are coQuelicot, or June 8pr. men'a shoes, 18.00 4 0) 47 A taxed imposed for a financial was enacted. What followed? 1 pr. suspenders 75 20 to real athletic sports is a false system. poppy-red, cardinal and Boulanger, a St10 yds. blch. domestic, emergency and maintained after that You may tell me. relation, and it can not be Democrats: We propose to guard the bright, vivid blood-red and the eye ISKc 1 25 54 emergency is passed is a wrong done July SB3 ants clothes, 37.50,19.00 16 50 5 Tit The Nation again moved off on a less than harmful to the farmers' interests against fraud by has become so accustomed to these S yds. oil-Cloth, 40c 8) 13 to the people taxed. career of prosperity. In 1812 the tariff higher cause of physical education. lOyds-ginghnm, 10c 1 01 Jtt maintaining the internal revenue tax glowing colors in the stylish costumes A tax imposed without the authority 1 curry-comb and brush. 53 16 of 1809 was doubled and the war cut on oleomargarine As a game like that of ball descends worn at the sea-side and other summei Aug. 3S33 yds. bagging. 9c. 3 15 lii of the constitution by which the off importations and exportations wo 1 ML ties, 31.50, 12 lbs. resorts, that the combination must be more and more to the level of a business, Democrats: Wo propose to reduce as Is. 8c. 60c 3 10 59 Government imposing the tax is governed had "a home market," as in 1808. startling, indeed, that will dazzle. the tax on a dollar's worth of starch it becomes less and less a means Sept. a14 lbs. naiw. 5c W 41 is illegal. 1 box A grease, 10 lbs. What was the result? from 82 to 41 ents and reduce the of recreation. We say as it "de- Bouton d*or, or buttercup yellow, ol soda, 10c so oa These three propositions are incontrovertible. tA I never read that part of history. profits of the starch trust. It-eft yds. bagging, Jf lb., 8c 80 9", scends," for we regard the game ol the beautiful golden tint of those well* 1 battles 1 5J SS Hard times prevailed, banks suspended Democrats: Wo propose to compel ball in itself as a noble, manly and known field-flowers, and maize color 10 yds. Osnaburgs. 11a lit 35 With over one hundred millions in and there was distress everywhere. Oct. 341 suit leans clothes 7 the pottery trust to reduce the price on healthful sport, and to bring it to th are exquisite in soft silken fabrics, and sit S wool bats, i and fl.io. i & 07 i the Treasury above current expenses, In 1816 the protection doctors p. $10 worth of pottory $1.80 by reducing level of the traveling circus and the will very likely be combined with 1 boy's wool hat 7i SS the United States Government has no 10yds. worsted, 3. 00 s7 took a hand and undertook to cure the the tariff from #5.0 to $4. variety show is. In our opinion, a decided white, black, or deep browns for rioh 13yds. worsted, 17o SO necessity for extraordinary taxation, patient by framing the first protective 1 set plates 6 ','4 Democrats: We propose to furnish evening toilets in silk materials. degradation. The parallel between such as forty-seven per cent on the last goblets as 21 tariff," raising the taxes somewhat carpenters and blacksmiths with cheaper the professional ball club and th The new shades of brown are alczan lest Knives and forks... S 7J articles used in daily life. higher than in 1812. What do dishes, 40c and OOo. 10) tools and made in America, by reducing traveling circus might be carriec a dark reddish brown, and pactole, a 35 yds. bagging 8c S KJ *s There being no war, no demand for you suppose followed? the tax on hammers from 16 to further than the mere business feat lbuLUcs 3 at light, golden brown and between thest 4ft Inanclal surplus, to raise and mainftftln Better times. 10 per cent, on news from 40 to 30 per ure. The surroundings and concoml. is a symphony of shades in every oonoeivable Tstal. IHI :& a surplus is unjust They grew worse: there was still Arkansas Otuetk. cent, and on anvils from 84 to 26 per jr tants. But we shall content ourselvet tint that could by Any stretcfc The constitution never having authorised greater depression of trade. In 1812 cent of Imagination be called brown. for the present with pointing out thi the war tariff, it is illegsL With 3A unalterable aired of the doctors gave tho patient another Republicans: We favor the entire abuse which has been put upon th In blues, ocean-blue and Indole, thi These seven propositions are what all soeh schemes (trusts) we count the dose of protection," increased the repeal of the internal revenue law National game by making it a men latter a shade between gendarme am a theDattocratlcpartygoos tothepeo* eheekdag of their baleful openaiims tariff tax all around, and what then? rather than surrender any part of the catch-penny show. 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