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OUR HOME MAKKET BEST.
PRESIDENT HARRISON TELLS THE
PEOPLE WHY.
Diversity of Pursuits Hrlng* Wealth—Th»
United States Not Intended Solely
for Agriculture—Reciprocity and the
American Ship.
The following speech was made by the
president on hia trip through New Eng
land:
MY FELLOW CITIZENS—I greatly ap
preciate the value and importufoce of
these manufacturing centers, which are
now. fortunately for ns, not character
istic of New England alone, but are
found west of the Ohio and the Missis
sippi and of the Missouri. I am one of
those who believe that in a diversifica
tion of pursuits we make most rapid in
crease in wealth und attain the best
social relations and development. I am
one of those who believe that Providence
did not set apart the United States to be
purely agricultural region, furnishing
its surplus to supply the lack of other
people of the world, while they do all
the manufacturing for us.
We shall raise our own food, and a
manufacturing class, withdrawn from
agriculture and other pursuits, shall fur
nish the farmer a market for his surplus.
Sear to his fields and gardens, which he
Exchanges for the product of the shop
and loom. I would not introduce poli
tics. 1 do not intend to cross any lines of
division, but 1 think we shall agree,
though we may differ as to the means by
which it is to le done, that the nearer
together the producer and consumer can
be brought the less waste there is in
transportation and the greater gain in
wealth.
It is known to yon all that our 65.000,
XX) people furnish, per capita, a larger
market than any like number of people.
This grows out of the fact that our ca
pacity for purchasing is larger than Is
found in those countries where poverty
holds a larger sway. The workman buys
more and has more to buy with than in
any other land in the world.
1 mentioned the other day at St Albans
that this was the era for the battle for n
market The whole world is engaged in
it. The thought was suggested tome by
a sentence in the address of President
Bartlett at the observance of the battle
of Bennington in 1877. He said "trading
Manchester furnished two regiments to
Burgoyne to conquer a market." The
foreign policy of the United States has
never been selfish. There has always
been, if you will trace it through the
struggle of Greece and of our South
American neighbors for independence
and a free government, a brave, generous
tone of sympathy with struggling people
the world round in our diplomatic policy,
i think we may well challenge the com
parison with the foreign policj* of any
other great government in the world in
this regard. It has never been our policy
to push our trade forward at the point
of the bayonet We have always be
lieved that commerce should have peace
ful, natural progress. We have always
believed that it should be urged upon tie
ground of mutual advantage and qpm
this ground alone are we now endeavor
ing by every means in our power to opea
the markets of oar sister republics in
Ofcntral and South America to the prod
ucts of American shops and farms. We
'do not covet their territory. The day of
filibustering aggression has gone by Hi
the United States. We covet their good
wilL We wish for them settled institu
tions of government, and we desire those
exchanges that are mutually pnSftabW.
We have found that #*were receiving
from some of thoce countries enormous
annual imports of sugar, coffee and
hides, and we have BOW placed these ar
ticles upon the fraeJMflt upon the condi
tion that they give to the products of the
United States fair reciprocity.
If our laws or any aggi sasite no?»
tneut we are making for a larger Shc«c
in the commerce of the worn should c#».
dte the commercial jealousy and rivalry
other countries, we shall not J-"
if those rivalries find only proper
pression. We have come to a
our development ae a nation when be
lieve that interest on money Is low tnmgh
for us to turn some of our
capital from the railways into
transportation on the sea that the time
has cotne when we Khali recover a flail
jNurticipattoa in the carrying trade of the
world when onder the American flag
steamships shall carry onr products to
neighboring markets and bring back
their exchangee to oar harbor* Larger
foceign markets for the products of oor
farms and of our factories, and a
share in the carrying trade of the vo44
peaceful relations with all mankind. tfMi
naval awl coast defenses that will steV
ly make an argument on the side of
peace, are the policies that 1 woqld |P»
Wky Ae a fislwiliwlifc
In my judgment the purpose in raMtag
revenue should be first to promote pro
duction. from which springs a national
wealth and power Consumption will
follow.
In home production the wfcoteeoal cf
the commodity is kept hereto boy tofr
terisls and to pay wages.
With agriculture and
developed by stable Protection a
*411 be produced to seek external
by ships made by Amwiiwi
chanic* from oor native products,
Bntne marksts are best for oor mm
producers, and their development It
condition of a foreign trade large Mi
Varied eoeagb to endure and
Hon. Ellis H. Roberta. Assistant United
States Treasurer.
Foreigners must pay for the privilege
of
selling,
A
and never should the United
States treat a foreigner upon equal terms
until the conditions of labor in Europe
are elevated to the American standard.
We never will degrade our labor to the
•level of Europe. England buys our sur
plus product only when she cannot help
fit, and never buys a dollar's worth if she
can get it anywhere else.—William Mc
Kinley, Jr.
EUROPE'S SHORT CROPS.
THE RUSSIAN RYE UKASE AND GER
MAN GRAIN DUTIES.
Free-trade Opportunity*—ftnt Chan
cellor von Cuprlvl Is Too Good
a
Pro­
tectionist—The UrltUh Example Will
Not lie Followed.
In consequence of the short grain crop
In Russia and the consequent fear of a
famine, the export of rye from that
country is prohibited. Russia is yet de
pendent on agriculture, consequently it
is a poor country and subject to famines,
as England was when its manufacturing
was done for it in the "low countries,"
as Ireland was until famine and emigra
tion reduced its population after the
"union" destroyed its manufactures.
Germany also is to a gr eat extent de
pendent on agriculture, although under
the influence of Bismarck's policy of Pro
tection manufacturing has made great
advance during the past ten years, par
ticularly in the northwestern part of that
country. Just now, partly in conse
quence of the Free-tTadc boom in the
Argentines, which culminated, as Free
trade booms do, in heavy failures and
widespread financial distress, and partly
through restriction placed on her market
for manufactured goods, there is more
or less want, approximating to distress,
among the Cerman workpeople. It is
urged that the duty on grain should be
abolished.
All Free-traders will immediately see
the advantage of such a method. Chan
cellor von Caprivi does not see it in that
light. Germany's greatest drawback has
been its low wages wages so loW ns to
limit the expenditures of the masses to
the bare necessities of life. This Impairs
the value of the home market, both for
agricultural produce and for finished
goods. The present high priee of grain
will undoubtedly cause a hardship to
mill hands, who find their resources cut
down just at this time, but as far as the
duty on grain raises it3 price, the money
both for the grain used and such sub
stitutes for grain as potatoes, etc., will
stay in Germany and be distributed
among the fanners—paying debts, mak
ing improvements, buying new farm
utensils, with articles of comfort and
luxury.
Nearly every cent of the increased
price the operatives pay for grain and
other farm produce that is grown in
Germany will come back to them for the
goods which they manufacture. Whereas
payments for grain that is bought from
foreigners will deplete Germany of
money and give wealth to the farmers,
railroaders, manufacturers and store
keepers of other countridfc This Is
against the Free-trade doctrine gt the
exchange of commodities. But the fact
that when we were exporting $70,000,000
In gold we had just about 170,000,000
worth of cotton which We were
to sell, much of which we still hold, la
also against the Manchester doctrine.
This same problem was pwesnted to
Ingiand forty odd years ago, and par
liament repealed the "corn laws" oq the
asserted theory that any advantage from
keeping the money expended for grain In
(he United Kingdom qpuld result In
profit to the landlords but in reality, to
Insure lower wages, cheaper wheat, and
as cheap wheat means more wheal for
jNnufactured goods, the British manu
facturers were to have Increased pcedta,
result of breaking down the farmers
United Kingdom Is that agrietsl
laborers are said to be (locking to
and the larger towns at the rate
of *00,000 per annum. Another rasult
Is that during the ten years ending with
1600 the United Kingdom has ssnt
directly 1,403,089 immigrants, bepftdas
which have come to as thftwgh
Thla 1.500,000 of people, staying hi
Bhgland. would have traded these to
the value of between $3,000,000 and |St
worth now they are our eue
for some f800.000.000 worths#
each year. As a method of tm
the English market,
worked very well
Protection. Germany haa an
ity to seriously deplete its dock
turner and, without relieving the dis
•e of its urban population, to prevent
i fhwners from having a
m. Caprivi haa apparently
fallow the British ciampia
'la your wife
w-
her dress reform moreaeatf
Immense. 9km I
—Cloak Review.
Wm*.
"YwsaAwwfcr the Medlta
Me­
•Mm Ufa.
lice
To Tin Plate Workers.
Mr. Wilkins Frick, formerly secretary
of the Wales Tin Plate Makers' associa
tion, of Swansea, gives the rates of wages
paid to labor in tin plate making
Wales
l0W8:
Roller
and catcher
Why Am n Protectionist.
I am a Protectionist because thrift fol
lows the enactment of wise laws.
Decuuse I love my own country better
than 1 do foreign countries.
Because Protection builds up our towns
Into cities and enhances the value of our
houses and lands.
Because every dollar sent abroad to
purchase goods that we can produce tit
home makes us a dollar the poorer.
Because Protection in this country
gives labor better wages than Free-trade.
Because it is better for this country to
feed, clothe and house our own labor in
this country than to support foreign labor
in other countries with our money.
Because it is true, as Peter Cooper well
said. "No goods purchased abroad are
cheap that take the place of our own
labor and our own raw material."—H.
K. Thurber.
HIS DREAM CAME TBUE.
A STORY GT STONE RIVER
TL£F!ELD.
It*
and in the United States, as fol-
English
rates.
U.S.
rates.
$8 (ft
3 tC
8 5(1
1 75
(combined).
per day {J
Doublers, per day
Furnace men. per day
Opener, per day "IV*
Shearer and assistants (jviiil for
product of four mills in both
couutriesl. total earning per
day »JJ
Ore men, per week ~u
Buys, rolling, per day.. W
Catching, per day.... ....*•»
Greasing, per day
Foreman and roll turner,per week 14 40
Mason, brick lay or, per day 1 44
Blacksmith, per (lay 1®
Millwright, for repairs 1 *4
83 no
£.- (K)
12tr
1 10
3 (IU
a o-j
BAT-
A farm llojr Dreamed of TTsr In Peace
ful Times and the Incidents Seen In
Ills Vision Were Afterward Realized
on the Field.
A rammer's midday.
The warm southern broezo gently
smoothes the bearded cheek of the un
dulating wheat and rustles among the
whispering leaves of corn.
An old sorrel farm horse indolently
crops the tall timothy in the fenco cor
ner. He is attached to an old fashioned
•hovel plow. But the plow is lying idly
on its sideamon? the potato vines that
hedge the corn tield round about, and the
looeene^bridle rein dangles against the
sorrel's ears.
Now and then a vigorous stamping of
a hoof or swaying at the head attests the
animal's disgust as to certain pestiferous
yellow flies that alternately attack his
legs ami throat. Otherwise the swish,
swi^h of the bitten grass and the rythmic
ftSAying of the corn are the only sounds
distinguishable upon the summer air.
The myriad floating flecks of thistle
down noiselessly join the golden spray
from the nodding tas*?ls and soar aloft
with a million intangible atoms to fall
in lanes and farrows, while as many dis
tinct and yet commingling perfumes, the
daity delietbus output of grass and rain,
assail the. ssp*ea of all animate tilings.
In a franly turned furrow between
the corn fo*s near at hand lies a youth
at full length. The dirty brown feet and
leg* protaode ostentatiously from the
short and Simple blue overalls the shock
head cf neutral, sunburned hnir raits
npon an aqm. while the disengaged hand
burrows is the soft, warm earth. The
•oiled ootton shirt la fhiug open at the
throat, the cheap etiip k^t has rolled
•way. It is the figum of a boy of twelve
yet the free Is that of budding manhood.
Atnrlovtmonad of earth lain front
of him—» miniature fort, with trench,
traveras. parapet, redoubt upon redoubt,
cmbtasuns above embrasure. Rudely
constructed of the reoantly turned loam.
It has already begun to crumble away
!& the 4r* atmosphere of midday,
while the yoking engineer lies uoooa»
scions badde his work- He dreams. And
he dmaaM the mannish look comes
Into his jroqng face, his tfjoare jaws ore
act and bfs hands now and then ate
clinched. Be mutters in his sleep, and
once crtoc aloud, so that the old sorrel
pauses in the procee of mwtication for
moment and turned his white face to
ward the com.
In this virion the youth .had grown to
manhood. The old. dull, hated farm life
had faded to to the forgetUn part. He
was a aoldier. He t*d always longed
and hoped to be a soldier. He had read
the lives of the great military heroes,
pcrwl over the romanti# adventures of
the soldier of fction and oltea sighed
when he thought of the peaceful era and
oatniiitary country in which he lived.
Kow. here atlaet he won a uniform,
•jept in »t*nt and cooked at a campflre.
There we«c thousands of other soldiers
•round him everywhere. Tfcapugh Us
jwrUh drwa.tad Urn, BcuTlL
substantial shadow of touches and
4rlMs and battles, the glistening steel of
bayonets, the clang of arms, the roll of
drums and the rumble of artillery. Now
biktwtl*
fwrfor fear it was only another dream.
V**- glorious life! How little
•*•oW schoolmates and plavfeUowa
mliw hi, fatnr*! a. wmildcan.
hto«"
la.m, jWlqh'ap. dmTta how. H. wm not
mu*. BUU «.
He found himself inarching. It was a
vast moving army. They marched and
marched and marched. He was tired
almost to death, but there was no halt.
He was terribly thirsty, but there was
no water. He thought ho would die of
thirst, and he remembered his mother's
well and the jug nf cool water in the
shade of the fence corners at home.
Suddenly he was lying in the same
kind of a"fence corner on the edge of a
cornfield, his gun poked through be
tween the rail*. The war of battle was
around him, the enemy was in front of
him. The latter camo steadily on, rain
ing lead and iron as they advanced. In
vain he and his comrades struggled in
vain the hurtled suot and shrieking
shell. The foe came on and on. The
cries of the wounded and groans of the
dving rose high and soul piercing above
the din of battle. The enemy were now
coming on in a run, close, nearer and
nearer. Just then he felt a sharp pain
in his side. He fell in one of the corn
furrows, a ballet through his body,
while the foe with one wild yell and
crash of musketry plunged through the
line battle and trampled him into un
consciousness.
In the excess of his terror the boy
awakes with the cold perspiration start
ing from every pore. The old sorrel, sa
tiated with fence corner diet, has turned
about into the corn, and after smashing
down a half dozen hills finally stumbles
over the somnolent youth.
e e
Do you believe in dreams?
If you do not, then stop right here.
For this is no fancy sketch. 1 was
that boyish dreamer.
Now, there are dreams and dreams
those which leave not a wreck behind
and thosa which leave an impression
which time cannot easily efface. It was
many a long day of tweutv-four hours be
fore 1 forgot that dream 1 have here
briefly set down. Not that 1 supposed
for an instant that it was to be in any
way associated with my future life. 1
was but a farmer's lad. The great re
bellion which followed six years later
had probably not been even dreamed of
by my elders. The idea that 1 would
ever be a soldier had never crossed my
youthful imagination. 1 was gorged
with military and naval stories, but that
I would ever bear musket and bayonet
in battle no more occurred to me than it
had occurred to me that 1 would wear
steel corselet acd breast plate and wield
a battle ax.
Nevertheless, it so happened that war
and all its horrors finally came to this
land, and that 1. in common with a
million or so of others, bore arms in the
field. My service was that of hundreds
of thousands, ifbrth and south, that of a
private soldier, inconspicuous. My ex
perience was like theirs, not worth indi
vidual record. We simply marched and
camped and occasionally fought, know
ing not wheie we were going, why we
camped, or whom we were fighting.
There was no romance about it. Noth
ing but plain, hard, faithful work work
in which dreams had no part. 1 had, as
I remarked, long forgotten those of boy*
hood.
One crisp December morning, after
several days of desultory fighting under
General Rosecrans, my command
marched into the memorable battle of
Stone River. We were on the extreme
right in the first day's engagement, and
were part and parcel of that unfortunate
wing of the great army that was hurled
back upon the center in disastrous con
fasion. We were reserves, brought for
ward to strengthen an attenuated and
long drawn out line of battle already
outflanked by the Confederate hordes.
Marching across open ground by the
right flauk to our position nnder a gall
ing fire which we could not return, it
required all the nerve and discipline of
tried soldiers to preserve formation but
We managed to do so. and were quickiv
advancing in line of battle across the
••Ids, over fences and dead and wounded,
to the support of our oomrades already
engaged. The last field we crossed to
tcnch them was a cornfield, the stalks
•Wl standing, and we joined them at the
rdl fence on the farther sido and tmn
soon hotly at work.
TPo say that the enemy made It warm
wrua is stating it mildly. A perfect
flood of splinters arose from that line of
J®**' Th® range was point blank. Our
batteries to the right and left and di
tcttiy in the rear of us replied effective
ly with grape and canister so krw
Mme of our own men were killed by
loose discharges. We were ordered to
lie down, but some of the boys would
gel excited and reckless. We hadnt
been there two minutes before half a
«o*»men in my company were killed
eeCngnt and two dosen were wounded.
*ne Wood and slaughter and shrieks and
y* w of musketry and artillery
Were awful! The terrible ring of thnoo
£«i *h.°?ed
hnm
Ufcr
w£S
pkeea behind ns
""J »™d in my wOTtomy
dy|ng
Ilwaa a living, breathing belli
flcljcnt foe came steadily
hurt?' It was our
furrow. He itched
laid his. knud tenderly titmn
"Giv«'in h—H" lit
With (juick repetition
sought and found nhne
pressure brou^.t up
of homo and i liter.
"Ammumti
nition!"
The.
on In
We could
"•the buttons on their coats. Their
cmLws rode backward and forward be
iween the lines, waving swords on high.
One of them was mounted on asuow
wldtc charger, a conspicuous mark for
our vifles. He seemed to bear a charmed
In common with many others,
tried for him, without
Hwaamy last shot. A rific ball struck
ft side and hurled ine sev
eral feet backward, stunned and bleed
»g.io a furrow of the cornfield.
4»y
poor boyr said a kindly voice at
my aide, "where is it* Are you badly
rose
"Mv bov
lfm*theiT|
Jny 'ku, jor—my
roused in a moment to tin.
mderrtoodauafumbiea,^^,
"Have you a knife?"
Reachinmy1K,cktt."Ifeew1,.
He did so. It waa n com,,
knife with a largv, keen blade*!
at my belt. Thoshurpst^'
leather, overcoat.
jack^
and skin. No matter. 1
but it seemed painless and unim,
The major flung the ,Si
belt and allinto the n^t
doing so he never r^oved /L
hand from inine-the bnlv!„i
His loud voice of command wag Jf"
Urinous cheer of enc
urir,'Umeiu
upon my ear, between tl»e terrible«
ing sound of the brasses behmd „S4
the demouiacal scream of the fi
frames of our grape and canister
canister,
I saw my comrades
cartridge bos like so ui
Iounce
ffil
U 1
e i e s n n
a rat, shaking aud tearing itto ni/
Then I saw no more.
I was lying in the corn fnrrowc
old farm. Tho sorrel horse wascr^nw
grass in the fence corner,
stretched my boyish limbs te
warm earth. The tall stalks nodd#.
above me, and the rustling of
leaves soothed my senses. The ydlaj
germs fell from the swaying tassels
i
my face. Here and there the virgins
camo forth like golden curb to ru
ripening imagination. I was teni^
thirsty, and tho well was acroa i
meadow and over the hill, lcoaldi
my dirty face and spiky hair ia i
liquid depths. The brown wcwciiagl
to the curbing was soothing to tbesj
My thirst grew ujon me, and yet,&^|
1 knew that well was only over
(hired not go home at such an ear
for fear of parental displeasure.
a funny dream tliat was! To tainktaij
1 would ever be a soldier! WdinSi
Confound that old horse! He iiii-l
ging down tho corn! He is—
will trample on me! And I'm asl«jcl|
cannot wake up! Tliis is horrible!
A wild, mad rush, a trembling of
earth, a deafening «ir, like tlu!ikd|
accompanies the deadly cyclone.
The fence is swef/t down by the s
man blast as if it were bailt ot
picks.
Those of oar command wbo can
have fled before ik
"Goodby! trod help you, oy
boyr It was the last pressure of
major's hand.
Then the gray colnta»ewept m'
and 1 lay beaten Into the cora
by a thousand rushing feet.
Tbcodore Murray in raladfelphftJ
Kcllcc of Tai
To J. A. McGoveks and J°mK
You mtc h« reb) iiotiflnMhtt"# i
of November, A. D. lrW#, l*« followiDg etn'jf
i v t- o e w i
1
ofA Mct.ovoru mid situated ni lb*^11
UrniiI,
Stnt« of
M«iuth l)»kot*, •_
«ix, (U.) It lock three, (3.) to
flmoks. wm« for t«x«*a ®i
lor the year 1988. at tax
nrt'f or
1
KHi«l Count)'. A H.
now
tho Inwfol holder of thf
cerl1*^'
chnw. Thnt emd t»x»* »t.rn due
tunounlt'd to *5 1« and «h»t .1"^
the amount of ha»f bfen P*1?:™
cut, |x'iia!ty *ud coits iiccruta,^'- "^Jja
total smonnt necessary to 'e
HfldltloD thereto, the t«*t uf m« IB?
tire, together with
Mich
midfeet
.j
after this ilfte, niiiat be paid, wo
of redemption will expire Lg
linirt he tmide within eilt*
pk-iod a«rvi#« of thia none®. hii^f
HOWiPOmifASSi
When yon want a «rtsin srticKJJJ]
the bast make of that article, doof*^
But how to determin* ®,M
it what puxsles jon. *,n v im
And when the poals
by authority which csnnot b® 1
you are ploased, aren't 7°®*
And you would like txbesr «^j
i e a a s e e n s o v e
the whole world, wooldn yocT
Well, we will tell you
puzzle, and its solution. igf i
VM the UDiT^
Paris, France, the best seeing
the world, including those ofAn*"^
in ^mn^Uinn Tk«V WCNI
Ptf
Tiki
experts, two of wh«ni""
•swing machine n«»ahct»!!I,.2ii
Tbfi
and tesia,
Wilson machines were the
maeoine wa»»^--r
jury, after e*hao«tire
its, adjudged •JfJ ofiD."
machines
Th
and tests.
J-1
awarded that ootni
fered, the OBAKb-wj^^
oompanies only gcM, siiw
medals.

The Frsnch
,ition of wpwiorit^deew^^
Nathaniel Wl^lcVTw,7w!L u#*]
That i» how fth*
machine in the worl
Wilson machines.
The No. 9, for frmily
for manufacturing usss.
chine, if you do^tlot get toeW
your own fault. WJ?
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