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CHAPTER VL CONTlSCED.
To the captain's utter amazement
twenty other passengers shouted:
""Ave, aye, shut off your steam."
Even then some horrible suspicion of
the truth must have flashed upon the
wretched officer's nd as he looked
down upon this group. He caught the
rail a moment ivith both hands, then
wheeled round and, folding his arms,
said to his companion on the bridge:
"Stop her!"
As if in anticipation of this, the San
Pedro had slackened speed and was
now blowing a white cloud of steam.
For ten minutes evcrj-body on the
'Corinthian watched the vessels ap
proach each other and, when they
-were less than a thousand feet apart,
every one could see the line of heads
along the smaller vessel's taffrail.
The sea was unusually calm and
glassy, and presently a boat manned
bj six men put off from the San Pedro.
When the young man who repre
sented the pirate had reached the deck
-of the Corinthian he found himself
facing a crowd of men and women in
every condition of alarm and anxiety.
He was dressed in a blue shirt and
common duck trousers and glazed cap;
in his belt he carried a regulation navy
revolver. He saluted the captain po
litely and said, in a pleasant voice:
"I am instructed, sir, to ask you to
order your people below. We will
come alongside and remove your spe
cie. No harm will be done and no in
dignity offered to your crew or passen
gers." "Damn your impudence, sir!" re
torted Capt. Jamison. "I've a great
mind to chuck you into the sea myself.
Go back and tell your buccaneer that
a British captain sinks with his ship
and cargo. He doesn't hand them over
to the first cowardly rascal he meets."
"As you please, sir."' the young man
replied. "It would be a cruel necessity
to send this vessel and its people to
the bottom."'
He turned to go to his boat after
making another salute and one of Ihe
passengers again interfered.
"We object to the arrangement," he
said, "and are not going to be mur
dered on the high seas to save your
gold."
Whereupon twenty other passengers
armed with revolvers stepped out and
repeated: "Aye, aye. Take the gold,
"but vte want to reach our destination."
The upshot was that the captain and
his officers were locked in the cabin,
the passengers ordered below and the
San Pedro lashed alongside. It took
seventy-five men two hours and a half
to transfer the gold from one vessel to
another, and a sharp lookout was kept
for approaching steamships. When
the task was accomplished, the en
gineers were ordered on deck and
three of the Pedro's crew went below
and effectually disabled the ma
chinery of the Corinthian. This took
another hour.
The last thing the pirates saw was
the white hair of Capt. Jamison blow
ing in the wind that had sprung up
from the northeast, as he shook his
fist at them. And the last words they
heard were: "I'll hang every dog of
you before I die."
CHAPTER VJX
No one knew so well as nendricks,
who at in the cabin of the San Pedro,
that all this was child's play to
what was to come. He had sixteen
hundred miles to run. ne was loaded
heavily with coal and the gold had
"weighted his vessel too seriously to
think of getting anything like the
speed out of her that he desired. She
was schooner-rigged and there was a
stiff wind blowing from the northeast.
'That was in his favor. But he calcu
lated that if one of the westward-bound
ocean greyhounds spoke the Corinthian
and got her story, the news would
reach New VTork and set the telegraph
in operation much too soon for his
"safety. He had informed himself of
the position of all the government ves
sels and he knew that there was at
last accounts a fast cruiser in Mobile
bay. He, therefore, calculated as close
ly as he could the chances of the Cor
inthian being intercepted; for, dis--abled
as she was, it would be her cap
tain's plan to put her in the route of a
-westward-bound steamship.
He betrayed his anxiety to the cap
tain, but that personage filled himself
with Medford rum and insisted that the
-worst part of the job was done.
The first thing that nendricks did
was to throw his guns overboard to
gether with all his superfluous shot
and ammunition. He then got up steam
and stood off in a southeasterly direc
tion until the Corinthian was hull
-down, when he shifted his course and
went directly west
There was another source of anxiety
in his crew, but here his matchless
-cunning and self-reliance stood him
well in hand. He knew what he could
-do with them if he got within American
waters, and they were equally anxious
with himself to get off the high seas.
It blew a stiff gale all the first night
and his vessel labored badly. Finally
he took his captain's advice, which was
to save his coal till he wanted to show
his heels to something and take it easy
-under sail. The consequence was that
it was nearly six days before he struck
the Gulf stream and he had not seen a
puff of black smoke on the horizon.
He had provided himself with four
boats and managed to land thirty of
liis men with a thousand dollars of
American gold eagles in each man's
pocket, at San Augustine in the night.
"They were as anxious as he to part
-company, and with a thousand dollars
every man of them felt as rich as his
leader. The moment he had reduced
liia crew, he clapped on steam, went
-3own the coast and rounded Cape Fear
-weU to the south. He is known to have
landed a few more men somewhere on
"Ihe ccist of southern Georgia, similarly
paid off in gold. He thrn sailed south
-and laid eff and on for six hours, and
finaUy met two stoutly built fishing
pirogues into which with his crew he
"transferred his plunder and then sank
"the San Pedro, taking pains to arrange
it that much of her recognizable ma
terial would float.
The specie being carefully concealed
"in the holds of these fishing vessels and
covered with sea gras, they set out
aiorth in pleasant weather, and arrived
off the coast of Alabama on or about
"the 15th, and proceeded leisurely
3n the ordinary manner of fishing
vessels at that season, the crew catch
ing a large quantity of fish which they
packed in over the cargo. At Bayou
Lafouchc Hendricks got rid of twenty
more men who had directions to sep
arate and rendezvous a month later at
a point on the Georgia coast where he
had taken on his ammunition, it being
understood that he was going to make
for Panama with his pirogues and
cargo.
Instead of doing this, ho went
straight to New Orleans and hauled
both vessels up at Algiers where his
remaining crew were kept aboard, and
for two days disposed of their fish.
These men were evidently picked and
retained for their reliability and were
thoroughly cognizant of the whole
scheme.
Hendricks managed to arrive in New
Orleans as if by rail, and registered at
the St. Charles as Archibald Hendricks,
of Tennessee. As he was already
known by that name at the hotel and
was known to be interested in some
land improvement scheme, his subse
quent operations attracted no suspi
cion. His captain and all but four of
the men had been sent north in differ
ent directions to meet at the Laran
portal and the two badly smelling
pirogues that had slipped into Al
giers lay among a lot of old craft in an
out of the way place, securely guarded
by the four men.
The moment Hendricks got to the ho
tel, he was able to learn all the facts
of the search. The Corinthian had
been two days and a half at sea under
sail before she spoke a westward bound
steamship, the Anglo-Saxon, and com
municated the news. It was three
days and a half before the Anglo
Saxon reached New York and the news
of the robbery preceded her from Eng
land by cable just six hours. Twelve
hours elapsed after the reception of
the news before the navies of England
and America were looking for the San
Pedro. Hendricks smiled as he saw
how narrow a margin he had sailed on.
Before the search was well under waj
he had been in the gulf and the
wreckage of the San Fedro, which he
was sure would come to light was, he
thought, a fairly good chance of per- I
plexity and delay on the one hand to
THE SHOT STRUCK TUE COIUXTUIAS' JU&T ABAFT THE BRIDGE.
the pursuers and a safe location of the
plunder up to the moment of transfer
on tho nthnr. The betraval of that
transfer depended on the twenty-five
men whom ne naci sun in nis service
and upon whom he believed he could
depend.
Hendricks was too shrewd a man not
to see that his scheme hot ever CUn
ninrr would nnlv hold for a time. He
knew perfectly well that the sailors
whom he had got rid of, would proceed
in-impdiatolv to fret drunk and in their
recklessness expose the plot up to a
certain point, liut ne oenevea tneir
stories under whatever promise of
pardon or compulsion of punishment
couiq get no iariner man ine state
ment that the San Pedro had sailed for
Panama or Venezuela. The knowledge
of the transfer to the pirDgucs was
locked up in nis own immediate con
fsilnratiit This iao.t h reasoned
would not prevent the ultimate discov
ery of the real truth, but it would de
lay it sufficiently for him to get safely
to his subterranean retreat with his
plunder. Common piracy was not an
idea that anybody would entertain.
No steam vessel could keep afloat and
coaled up over a week without run
ning across a cruiser. The special
conspiracy and the abandonment of
the San Pedro were therefore inevit
able deductions. The purchase of the
use of the San Pedro, the shipment of
the men at New Orleans, the landing
of the men on the southern coast must
all sooner or later focus the search at
New Orleans. But by that time he
would be out of sight.
Two facts were of special import:
The officer and boat's crew that had
boarded the Corinthian had been pho
tographed by one of the passengers on
the steamship, but while this fact had
been communicated to New York, the
photographs had been carried to Eng
land. The other fact was that the
passengers all had the impression that
the vessel and crew were Spanish and
had gone eastward.
Two days had not elapsed before the
two pirogues with their masts cut off
were taken in tow by a small side
wheeler and pulled up the river. They
were loaded with derricks and heavy
timber. Hendricks had inserted an
advertisement in the papers and it was
known he was purchasing material for
his improvements somewhere on the
Mississippi.
On the morning that the little side
wheeler went slowly up the river in
plain view of New Orleans, the Tnited
States cruiser Dakota picked up and
identified some of the upper works of
the San Pedro in the gulf, and a sensa
tional story appeared in a New York
paper which stated that the conspiracy
to rob the English steamship had been
hatched in the United States treasury
department, and that the San Pedro
had transferred her cargo in the bay
of Campeachy and the treasure wa?
now hiding at or near the Bancas di
Sisal, off Yucatan.
Everything now depended on tho
pirogues reaching the Wash bayou be
fore the true clew led to New Orleans.
It was a seven-hundred-mile journey,
and the vessels crawled along at a pace
of only eight miles an hour. Hen
dricks himself went direct to Memphis
by rail, and after several days of intol
eraVe anxiety and constant expecta
tion of meeting with the news that tho
plnnder had been tracked to the river,
he had the satisfaction of see
ing his cargo from the hotel win
dow slowly and laboriously crawling
np the stream undisturbed.
He got aboard the steamboat about
ten miles above Memphis, and, finding
Capt. Bllnn aboard, he baring been
similarly picked np, they congratu
lated each other.
The vessels were run safely into the
Wash bayou at night unobserved, and
the whole energy of Hendricks and his
confederates was then directed to the
transportation of the specie to the
western end of the Laran cave.
In frpite of the urgent need of haste,
this was done deliberately and method
ically, and the wild, deserted coun
try favored the task. Mule teams
wore provided; the two journeys were
made at night under guard, and in
three daysafterthe landing there were
two million nine hundred thousand
dollars in the Laran cave.
Hendricks plans for the immediate
use of some of the money are in part
known. Three months before the rob
bery of the steamship, he had, by some
scheme, managed to borrow six thou
sand dollars, which he converted into
gold and deposited in the First na
tional bank of Memphis to be drawn
against- He now went to the Second
national bank of Louisville, Ky., with
the certificate of deposit and expressed
a desire to change the specie from one
bank to the other as a matter of con
venience. It was an ordinary business
transaction and created no suspicion.
He then instead of drawing the six
thousand from Memphis, made a fresh
deposit of six thousand in Louisville.
This gave him a bank capital sufficient
for ordinary and immediate use in cur
rency, and the fact that he bad not
withdrawn the money from one bank
to put it in the other either escaped
notice at the time or was not regarded
as of any significance.
His next move was the formation of
a supposititious syndicate to purchase
the land in Tennessee for a national
sanitarium. This project was exploit
ed in the Kentucky papers with great
cunning. A corporation of medical
men had surveyed the land and were
about to purchase it and erect a mag
nificent hotel, and they had made Mr.
Hendricks a handsome offer for it.
While all this was maturing the woman
whom Laport had met as Miss Frank
lin was making purchases in New York,
Boston and Philadelphia and shipping
goods to Memphis and Frankfort, ner
plan was to make small purchases at
widely separated stores, giving gold in
payment and getting currency in
change. She must have sent to Hen
dricks during a month of operations
several thousand dollars in bills.
CHAPTER VIIL
During that month he remained at
Laran, as he called the place, superin
tending the improvements that he had
projected. He had purchased the land
and fenced it with an impregnable
steel fence for several acres around
each entrance to the cave.
During his absence, Laport had gone
over the entire place with a subordi
nate who appeared to be familiar with
every part of it. They had set out with
lanterns, ladders and other appliances
which were loaded upon a couple of
Rocky mountain burros that Laport
found in the place.
Through the alley or corridor that
led from the rugged space at the en
trance, Laport noticed that the coal
measures showed themselves on both
sides. 'The passage opened into a vast
room almost circular and t ith a vault
ed roof. Its superficial area was at
least three acres and Laport could not
"I AM INSTRUCTED, SIR. TO ASK YOU TO
ORDER TOUR TEOrLE BELOW."
resist the impression that it had been
at one time an incandescent bubble
that had cooled without breaking. He
stood in the center and threw the light
into the space above. A few stalactites
gleamed faintly like stars. Noth
ing else in the cave so impressed him
as this magnificent natural rotunda.
Indeed the rest of the subterranean
passages and openings were such as
are seen in all the underground tracts
of Kentucky and Tennessee. Vast ac
cumulations of limestone debris;
choked and narrow alleyways; bottom
less holes; enormous stalactites and
mounds of their fragments where they
had fallen. Here and there streams of
j water flowed sluggishly across their
' path and once they encountered a pond
I or lake about a mile in extent and at
one point half a mile in width.
, The exploration mainly impressed
Laport with the prodigious expense
and the comparative futility of con
structing a narrow-guage road on the
varying and stony levels. But he saw
that it could be built on iron benches
against one of the walls with only two
breaks that needed bridging.
When Hendricks returned and had
closeted himself with Laport in what
he called the laboratory, he did not
find his engineer very enthusiastic.
"It will cost an enormous sum to put a
track down," he said, "and it is for
you to iay that the end will warrant
the extraordinary expense."
!Q HZ COXTCrCTO.
WOMAN AND HOME.
ENGLAND'S BABY PRINCE.
His Pretty Uttle Ancestral Cradle and
Dainty Iayettc.
The royal baby whose recent coming
has created such a pleasurable stir in
England finds his small hands filled
with the accumulated burdens of his
august inheritance. Fortunately the
tiny brain does not have to reason it
all out. but his young mother must
wish sometimes that fewer cares of
Btate intruded upon her delighted en
joyment of this, her first-born.
All his environment is ancestral and
inclose touch with his distinguished
THE LITTLE ENGLISH PRINCE IN HIS COT.
lineage. Even the swinging cradle in
which the wee boy takes his long baby
sleeps has held the infant forms of
many of his royal grand uncles and
aunts. It is the one the queen had in
the royal nursery for her own children,
and it is deemed proper and suitable
that this important successor in the
line should have a resting place digni
fied with heredity.
The cradle swings from a graceful
frame of rich old mahogany inlaid with
gold. Draperies of handsome brocade
of a delicate pearl tint are attached
and used to shut off intrusive draughts.
The sheets for this downy nest arc of
fine Irish lawn, lace trimmed: the
blankets are softest embroidered Pyre
ncan wool, and the coverlid matches
the pearl brocade. The crown and
three feathers which surmount the
framework are further typical of the
royale estate of the small occupant,
whose baby eyes look out on many
such suggestive emblems.
The layette of the little prince is
peculiarly delicate and dainty. Irish"
linen and Spitalficlds silk were used
whenever it was possible, and some of
the lace comes from Northampton. The
work is exquisitely fine, the robes
given by the queen being peculiarly
lovely. One robe is of rich Irish lawn,
hand-embroidered, and as fine in text
ure as the famous "woven wind" of
India, and the other a rich cloak and
hood of pure white zibcllinc, a beauti
ful silken material. The tiny hood is
ndorned with the Prince of Wales
feathers in pure white ostrich tips.
FOOD FOR INVALIDS.
How to Cook Things So nn to Tempt the
Delicate Appetite.
Eggs for the sick should be coddled
instead of boiled. Boiled renders the
white of the egg tough and indigesti
ble, even in those which are termed
"soft boiled.' To coddle an egg, put
it in a quart cup nnd fill nearly to the
brim with boiling water. Let it stand
on the back part of the stove (where it
cannot even simmer) for five minutes.
The white will be found a delicate
jelly, and the whole perfectly whole
some and delicious.
Milk is now given in all forms of ill
ness, and especially those in which
solid food is prohibited. The old fal
lacy that it raises the temperature, and
thus proves injurious in inflammatory
dircasc, has long been dissipated. Hot
milk isa valuable stimulant, and proves
a most excellent tonic. It should not
be permitted to boil, but simply raised
to a temperature as hot as proves com
fortable in drinking; it should be drank
from a spoon, as this slow method in
sures better digestion. When pure
milk disagrees with the patient, a ta
blespoonf ul of lime water added to a
glassful, or half a pint, overcomes this
objection.
A potato baked with the skin un
broken is rich in nutrition, and agree
able to the palate. The addition of a
little salt and a tablcspoonful of rich
sweet cream, renders it truly delicious.
Ingalls' Home Magazine.
How to Prepare Frozen Coffee.
Measure four heaping tablespoonful9
of pulverized coffee. Put into a farina
boiler and pour over it one quart of
fresh boiled water, cover the boiler and
stand it over the fire for ten minutes.
Then strain through two thicknesses of
cheese cloth, add half a pound of sugar,
itir i.ntil the sugar is dissolved, and
when cold "drop in the white of one
egg unbeaten, half a pint of cream and
turn it at once into the freezer. Freeze
as you would a sherbet, stirring care
fully but continuously. Serve in glasses
as quickly as frozen. Household News.
French Salad Drcjn;j.
One tablcspoonful of vinegar, one
half teaspoonful of salt, cue-fourth
teaspoonful of black pepper. A
dash of cayenne, three tablcspoonfuls
of olive oil. Put the salt and pepper in
a bowl and add gradually the oil. Mix
in slowly the vinegar, stirring rapidly
all the while. As soon as you have a
perfect emulsion, that is, the dressing
is well blended (the oil and vine
gar), it is ready to use, and should be
used at once.
Sensational lteadlns and Nerves.
The doctor who was conducting a
class in physiology lately took occasion
to plead with her girl hearers to leave
the sensations of the press severely
alone: "Nothing is so bad for the
nerves" she said, "as to read of mur
ders and of other cruelties. I beg of
you not to do it."
Comracal as a Cosmetic.
Cornmcal, the yellow Indian meal of
our pantries, is said to be one of the best
of cosmetics. A jar cf it should be kept
on the toilet stand, and after the face
has been washed in rcallji hot water
with a pure, unscented soap, the meal
6hould be rubbed aU over it. well and
gently. Then it should be dusted out
of the hair and eyebrows, the fa;o
wiped lightly over with a bit of soft
old linen, and tho result nromised bv
those who liavc trial it is a delightful-
iy smooth and satiny skin. I
NEAT PIAZZA TABLE.
Directions for Making This Indispensable
Article at Home.
Where the piazza is used as a sum
mer sitting-room, a table is necessary,
as in a dining-room. A shelf hinged to
the house and so arranged that it can
be raised and lowered is quite service
able, but it is not exactly an ornament
to the house, and the difficulty of ex
actly matching the paint makes it even
less so. Our illustrations show one
that can be quite readily made by any
one who can drive a nail or fasten a
screw.
The top is of pine wood, three-quarters
of an inch in thickness and twenty
four inches across. As it is difficult to
find a board of sufficient width, two
pieces will have to be glued together
and secured with dowel pins. There
must be two of them, driven into the
edge of each piece two and one-half
inches, after the edges have been care
fully squared and straightened by
planing. The holes must be bored with
a quarter-inch bit, and an equal dis
tance apart. Make the pegs of oak to
fit the holes, and after dipping them
into hot liquid glue, drive them into
one piece; then glue the edges, and be
fore it has time to cool, insert the pegs
in the opposite piece and drive them
tight together.
The lower round or shelf of tho table
will probably have to be made in the
same way. It measures twenty inches
across. Set them away to dry till next
day; meantime select three hardwood,
straight-grained broomsticks of equal
thickness, and saw them twenty-seven
inches long. Prepare them by scrap
ing off the paint and varnish and sand
paper them down smooth. The follow
ing day tho work may be continued.
Smoothly plane both sides of the
boards. If you have not a large pair of
compasses the circles may be described
with pencil, string and tack in the way
that every schoolboy knows. Saw
along the lino carefully with a com
pass saw, holding it vertically. Through
HOllE-MADE TABLE.
tho smaller circle bore three holes
through which the legs may pass, each
one inch from the edge, equi-distant
from each other.
Lay the shelf on the under side of the
top. and mark the places for the upper
ends of the legs. Tho broomsticks
should lit tightly in the holes, and the
shelf secured in place, thirteen Inches
from the floor, with one and one-half
inch finish nails. The upper ends of
the legs must be placed on the marky
nv-wl tlin Arr c asii rarl itV -nrt finrl -t-ii'
half inch screws, the ends of which are
sunken in the wood and the holes filled
with putty. After it has been smooth
ly finished with sandpaper it may be
stained or painted and finished with
lambrequin or fringe put on with brass
headed nails.
Another way to finish it is to cover it
smoothly with denim, or any preferred
material, tacked on with an embroid
ered valance. The legs should be
stained cherry or oak, and finished
with brass claw-foot sockets.
A Hevr Dress Bfaterlal.
A new dress fa brio made of "peat
fiber1 is in contemplation, and the pos
sibility of using aluminium for making
drapery goods is thought to be very
practical, since it can be drawn into
wires finer than a hair, and yet so fine
and -supple that they can be woven
with silk. It has already been used fo
silk bows.
She Swore.
"Do you love me?" he whispered, in
the pale, arm moonlight,
She collapsed upon his manly neck
and, burying her head in the foliage,
murmured her acquiesence.
"Swear!" he exclaimed, deeply agi
tated. "Oh, nenry, I can't, she murmured.
"Swear!" he exclaimed, remorseless
ly, removing her cold form from its
resting-place and holding her out at
arms' length, "swear, or
She shuddered violently and then,
clasping his hand in an ccstacy of con
fidence, she whispered:
"Dam!"
They are one. Minneapolis JournaL
Still of tho Same 3Ilnd.
Mrs. Longwed I don't care: onco
was the time when you thought the
world of me. I remember when you
used to say that nothing could improve
me.
Mr. Longwed Well, I still say that
nothing could improve you. You are
incorrigible. Boston Transcript.
Clearing Cp.
Bagman Any old bottles to sell?
Janitor Ring the third bell and tell
Mr. Gayboy I sent you. I heard his
wife was coming home from the coun
try to-morrow. Truth.
MIsht Hurt Business.
Stranger Why don't your city of
ficials supply you with better water?
Resident (apologetically Well, you
see most of them seU beeiv Life.
The Economical Way.
Don't throw rice after the bride and
bridegroom. Wait till they get settled
and send it to them. Demorest's Mag
azine. Ills rirst Offlnse.
She Did you ever ask anyone else to
be your wife?
He No, this is my maiden effort.
Texas Siitinsrs.
Quito Awhile.
Bridget I'm going mum!
Mrs. Hiram Daly Why, Bridget,
isn't this sudden?
Bridget I don't know, mum; I've
bin t'inkin' about it all ther xnarnin'.
Puck.
A 3Iodern Application.
Teacher The race is not always to
the swift. Do you understand the in
ner meaning of that?
Bright Boy Sometimes the head fel
ler's tire gets punctured. Good News.
PERFIDY AND DISHONOR.
Democratic Principles and the Hew Tariff
I111L
Before the tariff bill was passed Mr.
Cleveland said of it that if put through
in the form in which it w'ent to the
conference committee it "meant party
perfidy and party dishonor." He said
further that "no tariff measure can
accord with democratic principles or
promises or bear a genuine democratic
badge that does not provide for free
raw materials." As coal and iron ore
have not been put on the free list the
new law does not accord with genuine
democratic principles according to the
president's idea of them.
But the democrats outside of the
white house, even those who but a
few days ago were commending Mr.
Cleveland for his heroic stand in sup
port of the sound doctrine, are of the
opinion now that the new law is not
so undemocratic af teralL Even Larry
Keal, the author of the radical plank
in the national platform which calls
for the destruction of all protection as
unconstitutional and a robbery, says:
"I am well satisfied wlfrh the termination of
the contest The hill just passed is a wonder
ful improvement on tho AIcKlnley law and
makes a lonz step In the right direction. The
reductions are substantial and will proTe very
teneflclal to the country."
The Indiana democrats in their plat
form say:
"We approve the efforts of President Cleve
land and his administration, and of the demo
cratic house of representatives, and of a
large majority of the democratic senators, and
particularly our distinguished senators from
Indiana, D. "W. Voorhees and David Turpie.
and our entire democratic- delegation in con
gress to redeem the pledges made to the coun
try by tho last democratic convention and to
execute tho will of the American people as ex
pressed at the ballot box in 1B92."
Owing to the exertions of Senator
Gorman and a few others those "ef
forts" were a failure and the demo
cratic congress was far irom carrying
out the pledges made in the platform
of 1892. Nevertheless the convention
congratulated congress that " a sub
stantial measure of reform had been
effected." What Mr. Cleveland called
"party perfidy and party dishonor" it
called a "substantial measure of re
form." Nor did Gov. Matthews in his
speech to the convention talk of the
new tariff measure in the language
used by Mr. Cleveland. Said he:
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GROVER "SEE THAT THIS GRAVE IS KEPT GREEN." "N. Y. Commetv
cial Advertiser.
"We may not in the present measure and the
present congress secure all that may be de
sired, but It is just as sure as night will follow
the day that all legislation that may give re
lief In the direction of true tariff reform is to
remain upon the statutes fixed and secure. It
may be added to and advanced, but it will
neTermore be taken from or moved backward."
Not one of these democrats has a
word to say about the sugar trust pro
visions of their new law. Not one of
them condemns the few concessions
made to special industries to win the
votes of one or two democratic sen
ators. They are all going to accept
the measure as "a step in the right di
rection," and promise more steps in
the same direction when they get a
chance.
Mr. Cleveland said in his letter to
Chairman Wilson: "You know how
much I deprecated the introduction in
the bill of the income tax feature."
The Indiana democrats say that is "a
wise and equitable measure." By the
terms of the law that tax will run for
only five years. If the democratic
party is in power four years hence the
Indiana members of that organization
will insist on a continuance of the in
come tax on a larger scale. They will
demand a graduated tax then.
The policy of the democrats for this
fall's campaign is outlined clearly.
They will say nothing about Cleve
land's letter to Wilson, and nothing
about the sugar trust. They will
stand up for their new law, because it
is a step in the direction of free trade,
and wiil promise more steps at the
first opportunity the people may be
foolish enough to give them. Chicago
Tribune.
How Wages Will Be Affected.
How will the lower tariff affect
wages? Here is where another demo
cratic fallacy will be shown up. The
party has maintained 'that the tariff
has nothing to do with wages. The
people will find that it has. Foreign
imports can be sold cheaper because
the duty is lower. To meet these
cheaper prices American-made goods
must come down. To enable manufac
turers to do this they must cheapen
production, and this will involve lower
wages. A part of the inevitable re
duction has already been made; more
is to follow how much only time can
telL Again, the increased volume of
imports will reduce the volume of
American manufactures, and furnish
less employment. There will probably
be a large permanent contingent of
idle men, formerly employed in manu
facturing plants, who will be com
pelled to find work wherever they can;
and this will have the effect of reduc
ing wages in all industries, whether
directly dependent upon the tariff or
not. Toledo Blade.
OTA reduction in the size of post
age stamps is the only retrenchment
so far accomplished by the democrats
which doesn't rob union veterans of
their pensions. Kansas City Journal.
THE SUGAR TRUST'S VICTORY,
Foreclosure of the Mortgage Made '
the Democracy Went In. ,
The sugar trust has won.
Its victory in congress Ib complete.
The administration also recognized
its supremacy.
The Gevelands and Wilsons, not
less than the Gormans and Brices, ars
its subservient supporters.
A tariff bill has finally been passed!
which is not only acceptable to both
branches of congress and President!
Cleveland, but also has the approval
of the American Sugar Refineries com4
pany, the incorporated title of thei
sugar trust
The "stumbling block" which baa
been in the pathway of ''tariff reform'
ever since the house refused to accept!
the senate's amendments to the Wil
son bill, the senate refused to recede,!
the president wrote to Representative
Wilson and Senator Gorman replied to
the president's letter, was placed therej
by the sugar trust In a word, the
trust "held up" both the congress and
the president and refused to allow tha
procession to proceed until its high-
wayman demands had, been conceded
The concession was made evidently as
the result of the three-cornered con-
sultation at the white house between!
Grover Cleveland, Arthur P. Gorman
and William L. Wilson.
The revised tariff bill which haa
been passed by congress is not a com
promise bill, in the sense that the sen
ate and house have made mutual con
cessions in order to harmonize conflict
ing elements. The concessions are aU
on one side and have been made by
the house and the president to tha
senate and the sugar trust. They
were the indispensable condition on
which the trust would remove its op
position and permit a tariff bill to
pass; and the Wilsons and Cleveland
have bowed their heads and submitted
to the very yoke which the Gormans
and Brices have worn and for which
they have been unmercifully criticised
by the American people regardless ol
party.
The democracy has paid an extor
tionate price for its tariff bill; has paid
the penalty of accepting a half million
dollars from the sugar trust in 1893
and promising favors in return. It is
a question who occupy the more cred
i table position the Gormans and the
Brices, who have from the beginning
of the tariff controversy recognizedi
the democracy's obligations to ths
sugar trust and sought to satisfy them,
or the Wilsons and Clevelands, who
have hypocritically sought to gaira
popular applause by repudiating thr
obligations and eventually been com
pelled to meet them.
Be that as it may, the national de
mocracy is in disgrace. The sugar
trust's mortgage made in 1892 has been,
foreclosed; and the party has been de
prived both of its character and its po
litical capital, Albany JournaL
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
CSTThe cuckoo is no longer the fa
vorite bird of the administration. The
crow has taken its place. N. Y. Trib
une. i5It is the workingman who pays,,
in reduced wages, the cost of demo
cratic tariff reform. Minneapolis
Tribune.
!2""The tariff bill has been passed;
by the democratic house. The demo
cratic house will be passed next No
vember. N. Y. Recorder.
E3T1nstead of resorting to popguns
the democrats in the house should
have provided themselves with boom
erangs. President Cleveland could ha var
told them how to make them. Cleve
land Leader.
GPProtection, when a trust needs
protection, as on sugar, and free trada
when a big syndicate needs that, as oza
coal, is the democratic plan. It is ib
little hard on democratic principle and,
platform; bat it suits the trust exactly.
Philadelphia Press.
fSyOf all the blunders which tha
democrats in congress have committed!
the Wilson-Gorman tariff-income-taxi
biU is the worst, and they will pay aft
every poll in November next the pen
alfy of their blundering, of their reck
less disregard of the welfare of tho
people. Philadelphia Public Ledger.
tSTThis nation was not launched on,
its mighty career to die in a hole. The)
American ideals of freedom, equality
and justice are imperishable, and they
will be realized. The Gormans, and!
Brices, and Smiths will have their lit
tle day, and the whole corrupt and;
ignoble brood of law-buyers and law
sellers may do their work, but the peo
ple will triumph. Indianapolis News.
5TThe fact that 5225,000,000 less
value in crude materials was im
ported during the fiscal year whichi
ended June 30, 1S94, than during tha
previous year, indicates that the for
eigners are holding them back for tha
democratic tariff so as to send them as
finished goods, and that the Americas
producer dare not purchase because ha
fears revenue tariff competition.-dp.-f
dianaoolis Journal.
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