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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1880.
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Will be paid to anybody who will produce the
proof, whether living in Indianapolis, io Marion
county, in the State of Indiana, or in any town,
city, township, county or State in the United
States or Territories, that General Harrison
ever laid that "one dollar a dy was enough for
any workingman."
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Will be paid to anybody, tinder the same condi
tions, who will produce the proof that General
Harrison ercr said of the railroad strikers, in
1877, that "if he Harrison was in power he
would put men to work at the point of the bay
net, and if that would not do, he would shoot
them down like docs."
The money i3 in Fletcher's Bank.
"The Chinaman's policy ie to live on next to
nothing. He. outflank the American by cheap
living. . The American laborer would
do well to study the policy of tbe Chinaman' in
his policy of economy, as well as of cheao labor."
INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL.
"Tub simple fact is, naay things are made
end eold now too cheap, for 1 hold it to be trne
that whenever the market price is so low that
the man or the woman who makes it cannot set
fair liriner out of the making of it, it is too
luw."-BENJAMIN HARRISON.
The signs of the times indicate a Demo
cratic Waterloo in November.
It takes Democratic enthusiasm a good
while to reach the point of spontaneity.
Mr. "Hamburg' Butler did not get any
advantage over Senator Blair yesterday.
Considering yesterday's remarks i,n the
Senate, Mr. Blair may consider that all is
forgiven.
For yesterday at least, Boone, Benton and
Wabash were the banner Republican counties
of the State".
Every railroad yardmaster in the city and
tvery freight and ticket agent, except two,
will vote for General Harrison.
Cou W. V. Dudley was yesterday elected
treasurer of the national executive committee.
The committee is now ready for work.
The old men and the young men join
hands in this campaign. The Harrison men
of 1840 and the new voters of 1SSS are likely
to be prominent factors.
Hurra Tl for Boone county, and for Benton,
and fcr Wabah. As guarantees of good faith
In November the size of yesterday's delega
tions was quit satisfactory.
The Democratic ratification meeting was
ret with a very slow fuse That accounts for
its being so long in going off. Cltveland
powder is a little damp, anyhow.
IT was a trifle warm in the Senate yester
dav, and Mr. Grover Cleveland's infamouslv
brutal vetoes of pension bills were character
ized by Republican Senators as they deserved.
44 We are uncompromisingly in favor of the
American system cf protection," says the Re
publican platform. Every workingman in
the United States can indorse that sentiment.
The Railroad Men's Club continues to grow,
and by the time it calls upon General Harri
son to-night the Democrats will come to the
conclusion that their lias and slanders have
not fructified.
Ir the dependent pension UU had become
a law it would have reduced, perhaps ab
eorbed, the treasury surplus, and thus re
moved a strong argument in favor of free
trade. Grover didn't want that.
It might be well for masters of transporta
tion to understand that there is no politics in
the railroad business. Despite Mr. Riley, the
Boone county excursion brought in 2, GOO
people.
Yesterday was a little pointer in the di
rection of how the State feels over the nomi
nation of General Harrison. Twenty-four
hundred people from one county is something
to set people to thinking.
THE Detroit Tribune has undertaken to
publish the names of all the Harrison voters
cf 1840 in the State of Michigan who intend
to vote for Gen. Ben Harrison in November,
and finds a column and a-half of space neces
sary each morning, and tbe list growing.
TllE railroad men of this city are not to be
fooled in regard to General Harrison course
in the strike of 1S77. Nobody knows better
than they, that his course was that of a good
citizen and a friend of workingmen, and they
axe testifying to the fact in luge numbers.
The Harmon Club of railroad men, which or
ganized Wednesday night, with a membership
cf over four hundred, recoived aumeiou ad
ditions yesterday. A large majority of the
bona fide railroad men, especially those who
own houses here, or are identified with the
community, will vote for General Harxison
because they know he is just the kind of a
man and citizen they wonid like their sons to
be, and no amount of lying can make them
believe he is not a trna friend of workingmen.
The railroad men's club will call on General
Harrison at his residence to-night, and will
probably do a little "hollering" on their own
account.
' He (the American laborer calls constantly
for higher waces, and does not see that his high
wares increase the cost of everything, lifting
verybodv higher and higher above ground, to
fall farther at the erash by and by." INDIAN
APOLIS SENTINEL.
'Tins simple fact Is, many things are made
and sold now too cheap, for I hold it to be true
that whenever the market price is so low that
the man or the woman who makes it cannot get
a fair livine out of the making of it, it is too
low." BENJAMIN HARRISON.
THE COMING A5D THE GOING.
The Sentinel says "the intelligence tnd
culture of the North are turning to the Demo
cratic party," and regards it as "one of the
most encouraging signs of the times." If it
were true, it would be one of the least en
couraging signs of the times. There is noth
ing encouraging in any class of citizens giving
their adhesion or support to a party with such
a record as the Democracy a record of dis
loyalty and treason in war, and of incapacity,
intolerance and fraud in peace. But it is not
true that the intelligence and culture of the
North is turning in any considerable degree
to ths Democratic party. The Sentinel's as
sertion is based on the fact that a few college
professors and free-trade doctrinaires, repre
senting the remains of the late mugwump
party, have united, or signified their intention
of uniting, with the Democracy. It mentions
President Eliot, of Harvard University, James
Russell Lowell, George William Curtis and
one or two others. Each of these gentlemen
has a vote and a right to stand up to be
counted, but they are no more representative
of the "intelligence and culture of the North"
on the tariff question than any other citizen
who can read, observe, think and form con
clusions. Intelligence and culture in the
United States are too generally and widely
diffused to be represented in any special sense
by a few learned men. The opinion of any
score or hundred of intelligent business men,
manufacturers or mechanics on the
practical operation and effect of protection
on American labor and wages, is entitled to
quite as much v if not more weight than that
of an equal number of college professors and
doctrinaires. It is a fact well known, for
several years past, that a number of our lead
ing colleges have been teaching free trade.
The theory has something attractive for the
professional mind, and besides "it is English,
you know." These free-trade colleges have
made a good many free traders. Yale College,
Connecticut, and Williams College, Massa
chusetts, both have Cobden medals, given -by
the Cobden Club, of England, to that member
of the junior class, each year, who excels in
political science, meaning, of course, in the
mastery and advocacy of free trade. The
student who takes tho medal becomes thereby
entitled to membership in the Cobden Club.
The medal at Williams College, this year,
was taken by a young man who lives near
Cincinnati, and the one at Yale College, last
year, was taken by a young man of Muncie,
Ind. In this way the Cobden Club, of Eng
land, composed mostly of British. . noblemen
and members of Parliament, contributes to
educating free traders in American colleges,
and some of our colleges and professors do all
they can to assist in the work. The whole
scheme is one of English ideas against Amer
icr.n ideas, and an effort to supplant a system
which has proved immensely beneficial to the
United States with one which England right
ly thinks would prove immensely beneficial
to her. And it is a lamentable fact that the
more thoroughly anti-American and of En
glish origin the free-trade doctrines can be
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shown to be, tbe more they wilcommand the
approval of a certain class of Atsricans.
These college professors and doctrinaires
represent the theory of free trade very ably in
their way, and demonstrate its beauties and
benefits on paper in the most satisfactory
manner. But they fail to take notice that all
the facta and the teachings of experience are
against them. Thus Mr. George William Cur
tis, mentioned by the Sentinel as one of the
cultured free-traders who is turning to the
Democracy, speaking of the recent progress
of the Southern States, said:
'Fitm the war-desolated wilderness cities
have suddenly sprung, humming with work
shops and a hundred trades; and startled
m, " . mm m m
rennsylvania hears ana wonders, wane Ala
bama and Georgia emtio in rivalry, and the
flaring furnaces of Tennessee challenge the
ancient fires of the Lehigh and the Alle-
ghenies. South Carolina nearly doubles her
manufactured product in seven years, and this
year they will nearly equal in value all the
crops of the State, including nee and cotton.
In seven years the assessed valuation of
property in tuo twelve old fcoutnern states
has advanced nearlv one-third, while the rate
of taxation is diminished. Thousands of new
industries, mining, manufacturing, commer
cial and agricultural, arise as in a newly dis
covered or lately settled land. To facilitate
every enterprise, railroads, thoroughly ap
pointed, penetrate the remotest valleys. The
water-courses are richly burdened with a
freight hitherto unknown, and with new in
dustries greater skill satisfies more various
demands, onens wider commercial connections
and more intimate social relations, and estab
lishes a higher and more opulent civilization."
This is indeed a glowing picture of Ameri
can enterprise and progress, and Mr. Curtis
mi"ht have added that it was only possible
under tho wise and beneficent policy of pro
tection. Would Mr. Curtis or any of the
e
'college professors who are engaged in teaching
and preaching the beauties of free trade dare
to sav that these results would or could have
lee n accomplished under that policy! They
are but a repetition, in a lesser degTee, of the
results that have been accomplished in the
North under the policy of protection to which
Mr. Curtis thu3 unconsciously paid tribute.
However, this is a free country, andL tho
baker's dozen or two of college professors and
surviving mugwumps who are turning to the
Democracy on the free-trade question are
welcome to go. Their places in the Repub
lican ranks will be filled a thousand to one by
the intelligent workingmen, sturdy mechanics
and patriotic Southerners who are joining the
party of protection to American industry.
On man'i vote U as good as another's, and in
this question of protection Tersns free trade
not only the vote but the opinion of the man
ufacturer and his workmen, of the employer
and his employes, of the factory hand, the
wage-worker, and all that class once derisively
termed "greasy mechanics," just as good as
that of the college professor. If the college
professor thinks he can find his highest hap
piness in supporting free trade and Grover
Cleveland, let him go at once, and not stand
npon the order of his going. The other classes
are coming by thousands to the support of
Harrison and Morton and protection.
"The idea of anything cheap is repudiated by
your American laborer. He looks at the stylo
and luxury of the rich and works himself into a
fary to live the same way. The
American laborer would do well to study the
policy of the Chinaman in his policy of economy,
as well as of cheap labor." INDIANAPOLIS
SENTINEL.
"The simple faet is, many things are made
and sold now too cheap, for I hold it to be trne
that whenever the market prise is so low that
the man or the woman who makes it eanoot get a
fair livine ont of the makiue of it, it is too low. 77
BENJAMIN HARRISON.
ISISH-AMEBI0AN3 AND FREE TBADE.
Mr. John Brennan, of Iowa, is a represent
ative Irish-American citizen, and an eloquent
speaker and forcible writer. He epoke at Hi
bernian Hall, in this city some three or four
years ago, and those who heard him will recall
hi3 vigorous and impressive oratory. Mr.
Brennan was formerly a Democrat, but he
never recognized the claim of the Democratic
party to own the Irish-American vote in fee-
simple, and he utterly repudiates the Demo
cratic dogma of free trade. We have received
a compilation containing extracts from some
of his speeches, and we give one or two to
show how an independent Irish-American
talks. Addressing himself to his country
men, he says:
"What is it that the Democratic party of
to-day invites us to support by our suffrages?
rtM . . . i ... 4 : is
xuey &3K us to iear aown me ivmencau poli
cy of protection and to uphold the free-trade
policy of England. YY e are a laboring people.
The free-trade laws of England, which de
stroyed our native industries, deprived our
heads and hands of the art and skill of manu
facturing and sent us adrift upon the world
as a race of unskilled laborers, the hewers of
wood and the drawers of water for a people
born under circumstances more benign, in
tellectual force and the trading instincts have
led a small proportion of us into professional
life; but the fact remains that DO per cent, of
us are wage-workers. Our every interest is
identified with the industrial prosperity of
this country. Our highest duty is to uphold
that American policy best calculated to insure
a full day's wages for a fair day's work; and
yet it is 6trange that the very men who can
be most safely relied on to uphold the policy
of England in America are children of the
Irish famine exiles, who, by that self-same
pohev, were driven from the home of their
fathers. Worse than famine or rack-rents,
worse than all save foreign rule, was the de
struction of Irish Industries by free-trade laws.
A country devoted to agriculture exclusively
is a country already doomed; but a nation
whose industxies are healthily diversified is
proof against famine and decay. Ireland, one
year with another, produces more food than
would fatten her population; but where there
is no diversity of industry there is no money
to purchase food.
' The clay banks of New Jersev, from a
e e a 1
single acre, yield a crop o: pottery ncner man
a hundred acres of the golden grain from the
choicest vale in Ireland. Ihe barren coast of
Rhode Island, where an acre in agriculture
would not sustain a crow, has built up thriv
ing towns and villages by manufactures stim
ulated by the fostering policy of protection;
and yet how strange that the man most solic
itous to tear down that American policy by
his vote, and to uphold the free-trade policy of
England, is the Irish peasant starved out by
English-made famine from Donegal and Con-
nemara.
Mr. Brennan is evidently an independent
man, who insists on doing his own thinking,
and a good deal of it. He declines to place
his political conscience in the keeping of a
party which advocates a policy that has im
poverished Ireland, and which would, tend as
plainly to impoverish America. In common
with many other intelligent Irish-Americans
Mr. Brennan contends that they should de
clare their independence of tho Democratic
party and follow wherever their convictions
may lead. In a letter to the Irish World - he
says:
"In the came of -reason isn't it time that
we should exercise the privilege, free from
stigma, of voting for those men and measures
that suit us best! I am not now arguing that
we are in duty bound to vote the Republican
ticket; but I am contending that we are not
necessarily bound to vote the Democratic
ticket against our own interests and feelings.
Our people are, and have been for a couple of
generations, the bone and smew of the Demo
cratic party of the North. Mainly we have
been right. We were right in our instinctive
attachment to that moral essence, that inde
structible something called Democratio prin
ciple: but if the indefinite Pomething called
the Democratic party will surrender that
principle, if it wnl rush into by-paths co
quetting with England and for English inter-
et, am I morally bound to follow it? Not L
or love of its principle, and its name, and
its traditions our people have followed it far
enough. We have permitted ourselves to be
bound to the slave power back to back. Too
many of us have aided by our votes to deny
the political rights of the black man, and
have blindly followed tbe name and the for
tunes of the Democratic party until its ma
jority, the people of the South, have
come to regard us as a reliable at
tachment, to be wagged at pleasure. By
this unthinking, unquestioning course we
have invited and received tbe displeasure of a
majority of the people of the North; and the
party in power, hcpeleas of ever overcoming
our prejudices, have paid little attention to
our demands as a people. Thus for twenty
years our million votes have been as powerless
in influencing the public policy of this Re
public as if they were annually flung in the
gutter. Is it not about time that we, if we
are to perpetually vote the Democratio ticket,
should have something to say as to what Dem
ocratic party policy should be" And if re
gardless of onr desires and our interests its
policy should be one calculated to advance
English interests in America, does the fact
that we are Irish stultify us and enslave us at
the Fame time and compel Ui to vote its
ticket!''
If any Irish Democrat can answer these ar
guments and questions the Journal would be
pleased to print the answer. This compila
tion from Mr. Brennan's speeches is in the
form of a little pamphlet, entitled "The
Irish-American Citizen." It is an excellent
document to circulate among Irish voters,
and can be had at low rates, in small or large
quantities, by addressing Mr. John Brennan,
Sioux City, Ia. A sample copy will be sent
on receipt of 6 cents in postage sUmps.
It take3 tie thrifty house ivife to break up
a trust with haste and accuracy. She does it
by the simple expedient of declining to pur
chase the staple upon which there is a "com
bine." The Indianapolis ice pool came to
grief, last season, becausa the housekeeper
measured the length of her purse and decided
that it would not permit indulgence in tho
commodity at the prices fixed. The decision
cauaed tome inconvenience to the would-be.
consumer, but more to the dealer, and as a
consequence there is no ice pool this year.
Philadelphia has been having a similar experi
ence with a "milk trust." The dealers in
milk recently raised the price of that fluid
from six cents to eight cents per quart The
house keepers of the city felt that this in
crease was an imposition, at this time of year,
and as one woman resisted it by purchasing
as small a quantity as possible. This econom
ical movement at once decreased the con
sumption of the article, and destroyed the
milkmen's dreams of profit. As a consequence,
the price was again reduced, the babies have
all the milk they want once more" and all is
serene.
"Yart cannot sell aov bnt the chair
hf. the snoerflne flour and the choicest infrm
to a miner or mechanic. The
American laborer would do well to study the
. A A. a 1- ff . w
policy oi we tninmn in nis poiiey or economy
a well as of cheap labor. "INDIANAPOLIS
SENTINEL.
"Thk simple faet is. many things ara made
and sold now too cheap, for I bold it to be trne
that whenever the market price Is so low that
the man or the woman who makes it eannot pet
a fair living out of the making of it.it Is too
low.'-BENJAMIN HARRISON.
The Democratio ratification meeting will
certainly take place to-morrow night, if noth
ing unforeseen happens to prevent . The
local managers have been hard at work for
two or three weeks, and if there is not a great
deal of spontaneous enthusiasm it will not be
their fault It has been nearly six weeks
since Cleveland's renomination, and it took
the Democrats half that time to decide"
whether to ratify or not, and the other half
to get up the meeting. There was ten times
as much enthusiasm in this city in the twenty-four
hoars after Harrison's nomination as
there has been in the whole State ever
since Cleveland was nominated, and it is
the same everywhere. It would be very
strange if the Democrats, after all the efforts
they have made, should not have a considera
ble turn out to-morrow night, but the "spon
taneous-enthusiasm" dodge will not work.
The test of a man's character is the judg
ment of his neighbors. In 1884 Grover Cleve
land was defeated in his own city and county,
Erie county giving a majority of 1,490 against
him and the city of Buffalo a majority of
L053. The former city auditor of Buffalo
says that city will give twice the majority
against him this year that it did four years
ago. Indianapolis, on the contrary, will give
General Harrison the largest majority in its
history. The home vote in tho next election
will show the difference between real worth
and false pretenses, between genuine, manly
character and a swaggering assumption of it.
Judge Tiiurman may be a very noble old
Roman from a Democratio stand-point, but
he was not a very patriotic one during the
war. The following is from a speech made by
him in 18C2:
"It would try the ethics of any man to de
ny that some of the Southern States have
cause for revolution. The South are a brave
people. The Southern States cannot be held
by force. Ihe blacks won t fight for the in
vaders." Tho fact is, Judge Thurman was a copper
head during the war, and being exempt from
the draft on account of age, he did not even
have to send a substitute like Cleveland.
The individuals who think there are any
votes for Grover Cleveland in the brutal,
sneering, flippant, insolent vetoes of soldiers'
pension bills, can keep right along praising
them. They much mistake the temper of the
people. The people do not care to save a few
hundreds or a few millions of dollars to an
overflowing treasury at the expense of insults
to the defenders of the Union, or of sending
old .soldiers to publio poor-houses. If there
are any such people, they will be found in the
Democratio party voting for Cleveland, or
among the "smart Alecks" who think a sneer
is mistaken for wisdom.
One argument against the nomi nation of
Governor Gray at St Louis was that the
Democratio party in Indiana demands such
an immense campaign fnnd when it has a
candidate on the ticket that other States
must be slighted. Under these circumstances
it must be supposed that the funds will not
pour in so freely as heretofore, a condition of
affairs which explains the wide-spread anxiety
to know how many two-dollar bills tlje Re
publicans will have to distribute. If your
professional Democrat can't strike a bar'l in
one direction, he looks for.it in another.
The Irish-American citizens, they're all
right; they want no English free-trade in their
platform. The railroad employes, they're all
right because Harrison is the friend of the
laboring man. The old soldiers, they're all
right, because the Republican candidate was
their comrade in war and danger, when his op
ponent was taking his ease at home. Busi
ness men, temperance men, the intelligent
men of the community, they are for Harrison,
too. But why extend the list? The majority
of voters will rally to his support in Novem
ber, and the majority is all his friends ask.
THE Philadelphia North American quotes
the following from a letter from a 1ife-long
Virginia Democrat:'
. "If all of Harrison's supporters will do as
much for hira as I have already done, Cleve
land won't get a vot in the United States,
for three Democrats have promised to vote for
him, and they will do it"
There is nothing grasping about Repub
licans, and when Democratic converts walk
into th ) fold singly and alone, they make them
welcome and ask no more. If they will insist
upon bringing their friends with them, how
ever, room will be made for all.
Rey. J. Hogarth Lozier, who was the
first third-party candidate for Governor in
Iowa, sends the Journal a copy of a letter he
has just published in the Des Moines Register.
Mr. Lozier says in a private note: "I was the
first third-party candidate of the Iowa Pro
hibitionists, and I show them where the pres
ent third party makes its mistake. I guess
I'll have to take the stump myself. My blood
is boiling hot for Ben Harrison."
Judge Fraxk T. Reid, Republican nomi
nee for Governor of Tennessee four yeara ago,
says he intends to support Mr. Cleveland in
this campaign. His reason Is . that he Hoes
not believe in a protective tariff, but holds to
the Henry. George theory that all public rev
enues should be raised by a single tax on land.
It is safe to say that if Judge Reid had pro
mulgated these views four years ago he would
not have received the nomination for Gov
ernor. This year he has been honest enough
to join his own kind.
The Journal must again say to its corre
spondents that it cannot possibly print long
letters. If communications are to be printed
they must be npon topics of general interest,
and they must be short The necessity for
this is now absolutely imperative. Long
communications are not even read; they go
into the waste-basket unnoticed. Three
hundred words reaches very near the limit of
possibilities.
Among the earliest of General Harrison's
caUers yesterday morning, at the Denison
Hotel, was an old man, who said to him aa
they shook hands: "This will be my first
Republican vote, but I want to vote for a
man that has the right to wear this," and he
tapped his own Grand Army button. The
old soldiers are for General Harrison and
against Cleveland.
It seems like cruelty to animals to exasper
ate the free-traders each morning by publish
ing even a partial list of Democrats who
announce their intention of supporting the
Harrison and protection ticket; but the tender-hearted
Republican editor is obliged to do
his duty. These new converts must be cared
for and welcomed, let free-traders make moan
as they will.
The Albany Express says the Republican
party in New York is more harmonious at
present than it has been for nearly twenty
years, and the campaign opens with the most
promising indications of success. It says the
Chicago ticket "commanded the instant and
universal approval of the party i j New York,"
and is growing in strength every day.
Belya Lockwood says the Equal Rights
party is not bothering much about the tariff,
but will leave that question for the Repub
lican and Democratic parties to settle. This
is right, Belva; don't worry yourself unneces
sarily. Better leave the tariff altogether in
Republican hands, however. They will fix it
TnE Governor of Missouri has granted Max
well a reprieve of four weeks, but declines to
commute the sentence. Granting the respite
was a concession that should not have been
made. The sentimentalists and enemies of
tho enforcement of law will continue their ef
forts with increased energy.
TnE Cleveland and Thurman ticket has
been in the field for six weeks, but the Indi
anapolis Democracy will not be ready to ratify
until Saturday night. The "spontaneous up
rising" and "irrepressible enthusiasm" could
not be arranged for any sooner.
TnousAKDS of old soldiers are suffering by
reason of the veto of the dependent pension
bilk Democrats say it was a brave and hon
est act on Mr. Cleveland' part, but old
6oldiersfail to seo where the bravery and
honesty come in.
If Sim Coy were only here now he could
assist materially in drumming up recruits for
the Democratic parade on Saturday night
Unfortunately for the party, however, that
noble worker has a previous engagement
It was wrong for Judge Thurman to givo
encouragement to the rebellion . while Grover
Cleveland was bravely trying to suppress it
with a substitute.
"TnE American laborer would do well to
study the policy of the Chinaman in his policy
of economy as well as of cheap labor. "INDI
ANAPOLIS SENTINEL.
"The simple faet is, many things are made
and sold now too cheap, for I hold it to be true
that whenever tbe market price is so low that
the man or tbe woman who makes it cannot get
a fair living out of the making of it, it is too
low." BENJAMIN HARRISON.
Free Trade io Wool.
Mary had a little lamb.
It's fleece was white as snow.
And every place that Mary went
The lamb was sure to go.
When lambkin grew to be a sheep,
His wool was yearly plucked
And Mary bartered it for pain;
It was her usufruct.
One springtime Mary wisLel her sheep
And sheared its woolly fleece,
And hied her to the market town.
The wool was free from grease.
Straightway nnto the mill she went.
Where she was wont to sell
Her little annual clip of wool;
The mill-man knew her well.
"I've brought you this year's wool," quoth she,
"It's clean and very nice.
And if I'm any jnde of wool
'Twill bring an extra price."
"Alas, poor girl," the mill-man eaid,
"Twill bring no price at all;
We buy no wool; the mill li stopped,
The key han?s cn tbe walL"
Toor Mary shtilcel and wouVl have pat.se!
Into a deadly swoon;
The mill-man caught her in his arms
And braced her np eftsoojf .
Jut then his wif. she came that way.
So Mary, she came tc;
"Ah, what," she a&ked, in trembling tones,
"Is this I hear from you!"
"Why is it that my well-washed wool
Will fetch no price at all !
Why hangs your head npon your breast.
And the key upon the wall?"
The mill man lifted np his head.
And presently his voice;
The mill has stopped," he slowly said,
"From force, and not from choice.
"Grover Cleveland is the cause of it.
The mischief he has played;
Democracy has stopped the mill
Dy giving us free trade."
Then Mary to her home returned,
And laid the fleers way.
Upon a clo.ct shelf, with tears,
Vor how cozld she be jray!
Her sLeop,ne'er washed aor sheared again.
Stand by tbe silent wood.
Himself the very picture of
Innocuous desuetude.
Th mill man, from a Democrat,
And plain, hard-working artisan,
II&s turned red hot Republican,
And most offensive partisan.
As the Cobden Club, of En eland, aided by tbe
Democratic party, is doinr all in its power to
disseminate free-trade ideas and literature in
this country, tho Republicans should exert
themselves to counteract these efforts. One of
the ways of dolog this U to disseminate pro
tective tariff literature, and to this end we
tnink every Republican paper could contribute
by inserting tae following one or more times:
The American Protective Tariff League is publish
ing a most vsbable series of tariff doenments. These
are prepared with a view not only to state the facts
and arguments for protection, but also to eonvinee
doubtful voters, whether they are farmers, laborers,
merchants or professional men. Each issue of the
series appeals to those engaged in separate industries.
and presents indisputable facts, comparisons of wages,
cost of living, and other arguments showLjg the bene
fits of protection. Recent issues include the follow
ing:
"The Farmer and the Tariff," Coh The mas
IL Dudley 1G pages
"The Wcol Interest," Judge WUliam Law
renee 24 pages
"Workingmen and the Tariff" 8 pages
"Reply to the President's Free-trade Mes
sage," R. P. Porter 8 pares
nejs Man," Georce Dripar 33 pares
Tariff Talks Among Workingmen," Isaae
t,. bmith SO pget
Fallacies of Free Trade." K. P. Miller 32 race 1
44Wages, Living and Tariff," E. A. Harts
horn 104 pages
"The Vital Question: Shall American Indus
tries be Abandoned and American Markets
Surrendered I" 8 pages
The Advantages of a Protective Tariff to .
the Labor and Industries of the United
States," Crawford D. llening. rirst prize
Essay 32 pages x
"Protection." Address by E. H. Ammidowu 4 pages
"What Is a Tariff?" From the Tariff Leagu
uuvwu.. ................................ I'AVS
The Tariff League Weekly Bulletin.
The entire list of twelve pamphlets, nearly three
hundred pages, will be sent post paid, to any one who
wiUeend 10 cents in pastage stamps, or a 2 -cent
tamp for any single document. Address, Joseph D.
Weeks, General Secretary, American Protective Tariff
League, 23 West Twenty-third street, N ew York.
To the Xdttor of the Indianapolis Journal
To settle a dispute, please answer throuah
your paper the following: What was the finan
cial eondition of the United States government
in 1SG0? How were tbe . nds raised for defray
ing the expenses of government It is claimed
that the revenue from exports and imports on
account of low tariff was not equal to the de
mands of the government expenses. How and
in what way was the deficiency raised? By is
suing bonds, or direct taxation against the peo
ple of tbe respective States!
Tipton. Ind., July 10.
In 1SC0 the total reveuues of the government
amounted to &G,034,00O. of which &3tlS7,500
was from customs duties. The expenditures
amounted to 63,200,875. About the end of Mr.
Buchanan's administration the government paid
at tbe rate of 12 per cent per annum for tempo
rary loans to meet the deficiency.
To the Ed' tor of the Indianapolis Journal:
Democrats claim here that Harrison ran be
hind his ticket when be ran for Governor against
Blue Jeans. Please give the exact vote polled
for both candidates, and Lieutenant-governor.
Democrats also claim that Tom Hendricks never
lost Indiana when ho was a candidate for any
office, but I say he did, but don't just know
when or against whom he ran. Please answer
the above questions.
Mentonk, July 7.
General Harrison received 208.0S0 votes for
Governor in 1876, nearly two thousand above
the average cast for the Republican State ticket
Governor Hendricks was defeated for Governor
by Henry ,S. Lane, in 18C0, and in 1SC3 Conrad
Baker defeated him for the same office.
To the Editor of the XndlanaiwHs Journal:
1.,What was apparently the cause of Governor
Gray leaving the Republican party? 2. Did
Ben Harrison call the Ureenbaekera idiottl
(1.) The failure to be nominated as a candi
date for office in 1872. (2. 1 He did not.
POLITICAL NOTE AND COMMENT.
The great combine The Mills bill and the
Sugar trust Philadelphia Inquirer.
It takes a good, strong, serviceable corkscrew
to open a Democratio campaign in good form.
Minneapolis Tribune.
The soldiers of the country ought to have an
easy choice between a pension vetoer and a
brave comrade. Garden City, Kan., Herald.
The Republican party in this campaign has a
superb group of champions and leaders. 'Whom
have the Democrats to meet them! Boston
Journal.
Is it not almost time for some Democratic pa
per to ccme up to the present time and explain
Mr. Cleveland's position in relation to the Chi
nese? Virginia, Nev.t Enterprise.
General Haebison's publio and private life
and utterances are above reproach. All that
his enemies can do is to lie. In that they are a
mate!i for Satan himself. Cleveland Leader.
Ax Oxford, Ma, correspondent ff tbe Lewis-
ton Journal finds fifteen Grand Army men in
tbat town who have hitherto voted the Demo
cratio ticket who declare their purpose of voting
for Harrison.
One of Detroit's Democratic aldermen has
come out for Harrison and Mocton. He stands
up for protection. Being an Irish-American, he
isn t at all in love with the lintisb policy.
Next! Detroit Tribune.
The Democratio hullabaloo over Harrison's
Chinese record will coon strangle itself, if it is
given plenty of rope. There is nothing in It,
and all it wants to commit suicide is to be let
alone. Oregon Statesman.
It is the same as settled that Indiana will go
Republican. This reduces the cumber of doubt
ful States to three Conn ectieut. New York and
New Jersey. If Cleveland loses either of them
he is defeated. Chicaeo Journal.
TiiEUtica (N. Y.) Daily Press, tbe organ of
the Oneida county workingmen, has come out
for General Harrison because it finds its readers
manifesting an inclination to vote that way.
Tbe Press supported Cleveland in 1SS4.
It is reported in New York from authentis
sources that Hon. Calvin S. Brice will refese to
serve upon the Democratio executive national
campaign committee, owing to certain complica
tions in Ohio politics with whicu he does not
eare to deal.
The chairman of the Massachusetts Repub
lican State committee is convinced that three
fourths of the independent vote of the country
will come back to the Republicans, and pre
dicts that Harrison and Morton will carry Mass
achusetts by over 40,000 pluralitj.
Western Pennsylvania Republicans and
Democrats are planning to hold big rallies at
Krie, Sept 10, the anniversary of Commodore
Perry's victory on Lake Erie. Similar rallies '
were held there Sept. 10. 1S40, by the Whigs
and Democrats. A joint debate on the tariS is
proposed.
It looks now as if it were to be a fair and
square fight between free trde acd protection,
with the free-trade wing of ths Democracy,
which is really not half so strong numerically as
it would fain to have people believe, as Mr.
Cleveland's only supporters, with a solid Repub
lican party and all protectionist Democrats
backing Harrison and Morton. There can be
no donbt of tho result. Pittsburg Chronicle.
Asbcrt Park has been selected as the place
for the first annual convention of the State Re
pubihan League of "New Jersey, which will ne
held on Aug. 15, to consider the manner in whieh
tbe interests of the Republican party can best
be promoted in the coming campaign. It is pro
posed to hold in connection with the convention
a monster ratification meeting to be addressed
by Republicans of national prominence. Among
those expected to speak is the Hon. Jamas O.
Blaine.
A Political Town.
Omaha World.
The Democrats talk of locating their national
headquarters at Indianapolis. That would be a
bold move such a move as Is sometime de
scribed as carrying the war into Africa VVell.
Indianapolis would be a good place for it. Tllr
is not much business there to be interfered with
bv the attention given to politics. As a matter
of fact the Uoosiers no more than get through
with one campaign than they have to begin to
prepare for the next one.
The JSlAody Shirt.
Omaha RepuMiran. , .
Let there be no m intake. There is no desire
on the part of tbe Union soldisr to wave the
bloody shirt. Tbe war is over; tbe heath bae
been subdued and Its soldiers been foreiven. It
is only when same fool down there tries to get
bask the raptured flaes and some lunatic- ut
here says they can have them or some such
Incident ooonrs that the veterans kick, and then
they kick so hard that the walls of Jerico trem
ble. Oue Sure Item vn the Free Lilt
rprinsneld Union.
We shall have fiee salt in November. It will
he distilled from Democratio tear.