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Ottawa, III., July l, IHH7.
Current Events.
The testimonial of American admirers
of Gladstone was presented to the " great
commoner " on Siturdny. I lie presenta
tion speech wus nude by the editor of the
N. V. World In reply 'Mr. Gladstone said
the conservative and unionist opixmitmn
had offered no oli action when money had
been snt to the Irish' tenants with which
to buv food and iwv tlieir rents hut had
protested with much show of indignation
the momeut Americans contributed money
to aid the people of Ireland In furthering
agitation in favor of a constitutional g'iv
eminent for Ireland, lirriorlti tlie fact that
England had Interfered everywhere
throughout tlie world.
He reiterated his objections to the pro
visions of the Coercion bill, which, lie said,
Americans would never tolerate, ami ex
pensed regret that American visitors to
England should witness such a spectacle km
I'arllaiuer.t forcing the bill through in
spite of old traditions, and the fact that tlie
recent elections showed a change In the
feeling of the electors emialim; 13 per
centum. If the revulsion indicated by
those elections were general the position
of the conservative and liberal parties
would be exactly reversed.
The debate on Irish afTilrs has contin
ued through the week in the Parliament.
On the lvflh the l itter Orangemen cele
brated ; anil there were the usual rows in
various places.
The anticipated revolution In the Hawai
ian Islands has actually n:curred, accord
ing to advices brought to tlie States by
steamers from Australia, which touched
there. The old ministry has been deposed
by force, and a new one established. All
demands made upon the King, for reforms
and a new constitution, have been granted
by him. It Is probable the King will be
allowed to remain on his throne; but his
late ministry will be forever drawn from
politics, and Gibson, the head of the cabi
net, has been arrested, and may yet lose
his held. The bottom of the trouble would
seem to have been " Ixx idlerlsm," which
could he cured in no other way.
On Monday the (iiuen arrived In New
York from England, where she succeeded
in floating a loan of $2,000,000. She pro
fesses not to believe much in the revolu
tion. She is now on her way to the l.sl
amis. Ohio ha begun to make her appearance
In politics again, to which state public at
tention Is ;rawn by the ellort of Sherman
to procure a unanimous endorsement for
hU candlitacy at the Toledo convention, to
beheld July 127th. The struggle will be
between the Blaine and Sherman wings of
the republican party ; and the former de
clare that If the Sherman men offer a reso
lution of endorsement they wi'l opxse it
to the last, so that at best It will have the
unanimous euiloreinent of the state party,
If Indeed the Blaiue men do not holt in a
body.
'I here has been, t.H), considerable tain of
nominating Thurman for governor by the
democrats; but the Judge says he positive
ly will not be a candidate, nor aliuw his
name to go before the convention.
Attorney Urlnnell created a sensation In
the boodle trials at Chicago on Thursday
week, by making a motion to exclude three
of the jurymen accepted by both the (State
and the defense on the ground of corrup
tlon. Facts were procured, and on Friday
they were bounced. Up to last Thursday
night, after three weeks' work, enly eight
jurymen had been secured.
The auuual encampment of Illinois mil
itia has been begun at Camp Lincoln at
Springfield. The encampments this year
will be by regiments, and not by brigades,
as formerly, if the temperature be an in
Uication of unseen facts, the modern sheol
has been located at Springfield this week.
St. Louis men semi u second deputation
to Washington to Invite the President to
that city in October.
Oscar J. Harney, of the 1'. 8. treasury
department, has leen detected In a new
scheme of fraud, by which he has thus far
robbed the treasury of about $11,000. He
was clerk of the horse claims department
and got his money by presenting false
claims for animals and forging the signa
tures of the various auditors through whose
the Tou;hers pass. He has been arrested.
On Saturday night a terrible lire occurred
Bt Hurley, Wis., In the iron region. It
broke out in the Alcazar variety theater,
and within an hour tlie entire business part
of the town was In a bla.e. Eleven ier
sons, niobtly women, were burned in the
theater. The loss Is placed at half a mil
lion dollars. The Alcazar was a vile den,
the destruction of which, had there been
do loss of life, would have been looked up
on as a blessing, as wiping out a sore, the
particulars ol wiioae iniquities are too vile
to be even thought of.
On Saturday night the sloop Mystery,
loaded with excursionists, was capsized
near New York by a squall, and between
20 and 30 merry makers were drowned.
, The expected excommunication of Itev.
Dr. McOlvnn has been published. It ex.
communicates him from the communion
of the church, iti sacraments and its pray.
urd . anil uhnul if he nersist la his course.
the right of christian burial will also b
taken away.
OTTAWA AND THE CABAL BOARD.
Something fur tbt City Coo noli aid ta PoopU to
toniider.
Never did a spring open with brighter
promise of nuslness prosperity to the whole
country than the spring of 17. Aloney
was so plenty at the East that It went beg
glng for Investment at low Interest, sod as a
cousequence all over the west and loutu
new enterprises were springing up at a
rate tlie country never befoi bad wit-
nehM-d
The spirit reached Ottawa and our peo
ple said, with one accord, "Let Ottawa also
have b boom!" An Important Industry in
the form of an Organ factory offered to lr
cate among us If adequate Inducements
were held out, and our people with entbu
slastlc and generous promitness gave a
l aus of J0,(MMI and live acres of ground
and secured the prize. .Soon after a local
company was organized and a Pottery was
erected that promises to be another luipor
taut addition to our Industries. Meantime
lmKrtant additions were made to our var
lous glass works, tile works and other ex
Isting industries, the erection of a large and
lmKirtant new business block was com
menced, and handsome new private Tesl
dences as well as less pretentious cottages
beg in to spring up all over the city.
Over these apparently bright skies for
Ottawa a threatening cloud has gathered.
Ottawa has i mi i fined herself in possession
of a valuable water siwer, upon which
Plow Factory, Furniture Factory, two
planing mills, two large flouring mills, and
the lurce and lmsirtant works of the Pio
neer Fire Proofing Construction Co., have
been erected. These are Industries cer
tul nly second In Importance to no others In
the city. I i nt through the criminal mis
management and bid faith of the state au
thoritles having charge of the Illinois and
Michigan canal these Industries are not
only In danger of being badly crippled,
but ultimately destroyed.
The history of our water power, In a
word, is this: When the canal was con
structed, in order to secure water to feed It
from Marseilles to La Salle, a feeder was
constructed from the Fox river at Dayton
to Ottawa. It happened, however, that
John Oreen owned the riparian rights and
water of the west half of the river, Abra
ham Trumbo owning the opposite half.
Mr. Oreen agreed in consideration that
the state would erect a permanent dam and
construct a navigable feeder to Ottawa, to
cede half his water to the state, that half
or one fourth of the river oeing deemed
at the time suflicient, not only for all needs
of the canal, but also to furnish a water
power at Ottawa, for tlie utilization of
which the side-cut ami hydraulic basin
were constructed by the State.
Later on in 1 H.1 tbo surplus water
from Duyton not being regarded, In view
of Mr. Ti umbo's right to half the river, as
suflicient to make a reliable water power at
Ottawa, a joint stock company was formed,
consisting ol teore v,. walker, W. 11. VV.
Cushman, L. Lelaud, J, V. A. Hoes and
Geo. S. Fisher, w ho having permanently
leased whatever water power the state had
at Ottawa, at an expense of f 18,000 bought
ut the right of Mr. Trumbo to the east
half of the river at Dayton, and also satis
fied, at an expense of 0,000, the claim of
A. H, How land for damages for diverting
the waters of Fox river from his rapids at
what Is known as Lyman's mound. Thus
the whole river, except what was reserved
by Mr. Green, belonged to the Ottawa Hy-
lraulic Company, and In consideration that
said Company would allow the state to use
a portion of its water to help feed the canal
In times of drought, as well as In fulfil
ment of its engagement to supply the side-
cut and bit' In at Ottawa, the state agreed to
keep the Dayton Feeder permanently in
gisxl condition and repair.
Now. how has the state, through its pres
ent canal board, kept this solemn contract
and agreement? A weea ago Mr. Robert
Wilson, a well kuown thoroughly compe
tent engineer, was sent to Dayton by per
sons Interested in our industries dependant
on this water power, and made a close ex
amination. He reports that although no
water passes over the dam at Dayton, gm-h-
eiyhth of the water is taken or wastes out
of tlie feeder, anil that one eiijhth reaches
Ottawa to feed the canal and supply our
hydraulic basin. Why? Ilecause of sheer
ueglect of the canal authorities to pay the
least attention to the waste of water at and
below Dayton, and to keep the feeder clear
of bars and weeds so as to enable the water
to pass.
From 18.")!) to 1802 the same Individual
who is uow General Superintendent of the
canal had charge of that work at and
around Ottawa, and during that time the
same luelllcleucy and stupidity in the man
agement of the water power was displayed
that shows itself now, and that valuable
property became worthless. In ISti'i the
management of the canal passed into the
hands of W tu. Thomas, and from that time
on until 1885, such a thing as a deficiency
of water under a first class lease waa un
known at Ottawa, except occasionally on
accouut of very thick Ice In extreme cold
weather.
With the return of Mr. Lelghton to
power the same lack of common sense or
common honesty comes back In the man
ageuteut of the water power at Ottawa.
Our factories, our planing mills and our
flouring mills stand Idle for want of water,
and the great Tile Works stand ready to
curse the day they put $150,000 In their
plant here, depend lug on water power they
now tind a delusion and a fraud.
What alls M r. (superintendent Lelghton ?
I be a knave or a fool? Or Is the Board
behind him couijHjsed of anaves or fools?
That they are not men of common pease
or common honesty Is shown by their
movement In other direc tions. They have
decided, on account of a few thousand do),
lars' expense Involved In putting that valu
able work In repair, to abandon the Kanka
kee Feeder, Intending to feed the long
level between Channahan and Marseilles
by doubling the supply of sewer swash
and filth from Chicago; or when remon
strated w ith against that outrage, have said
they would feed the canal from the Dupage
river; while every man of sense who has
lately crossed the bridge ou the Hock Is
land road east of Mlnonk knows that all the
water now In the Dupage would run
through a six inch stove pl( e!
Shall the eople of Ottawa tamely sub
mlt to these virorgsand outraged? Sh ill
(he people along the w hole line i f the canal
submit to the proponed ollutlon of the
waters of that structure and Its ultimate
destruction by tlie neglect and abandon
men! of Its absolutely needed feeders? The
matter Is of such grave Importance as to
demand the Immediate attention of our
city authorities and ought to be taken in
hand, at once, through public meetings
and other jsipular demonstrations, Wy the
people of the cities of the canal and river
region.
WHY THEY DO NOT WANT HIM.
The It' jiiihlirun says the reason the G.
A. It. objects to President Cleveland's
presence In 8t. Louis at the time of the (J
A. It. encampment, Is the "evident lnten
tion of tlie senders of the Invitation to make
political capital for hlin and party."
It is a noteworthy fact that no such ob.
lection was made by democrats or republi
cans to the presence of Gen. John A. Logan
at the encampment at Minneapolis, after
he had been nominated for vice president,
which encampment was but little more
than a great campaign gathering In the
interest of Rlalne and Logsn. The rule
ought to work both ways. No objection
was made by democratic members of the
G. A. It. at that time to the confessed
"worklng"of that encuinpinent by Logan in
his political interest; but immediately a
denuH-ratie. President, not a nominated
candida'e, Is Invited to be in a city at the
same time the G. A. It meets, behold! the
republican members discover the magni
tude of the offense of allowing a ".politician
room in the same city with them! it de-
sjnds, It seems, In the eyes of the leaders,
on whose ox is gored, to make up a case of
"politics" at G. A. It meetings.
15Qt what right lias the Rt'inihUmn to say
that the Invitation was sent for political
purposes? None whatever. The invitation
rame Irom about 110,000 St. Louisiana Ir
respective of party, and from the Mer
chants' Exchange, also anon political organ
ization of business men.
No. The objection Is made by the
bigots of the order I ecause Air. Cleveland
happens to be a democratic president and
solely because he is a democrat. Every
demiK-rat.veteran or clvllian.ought to thank
God that of all the mean things democrats
have been accused of.it has never been pos
sible for republicans to charge them with
so coiitemptable or so small a meanness
as theexhlbition made by Tuttle, Fairchild
and tlie others who have compelled the
President to withdraw his acceptance of
that invitation. Only a republican of the
Tuttle, Fairchild stamp has been found
capable of so disgusting an exhibition us
to threaten Insult to a President of the
United States!
TARIFF REFORM.
ElUTon FllKK UADKIt:
There was manufactured In the United
States f21, 151,371 worth of glass in 18X0.
Of this the St tteof Illinois manufactured
!)01,;M:l, and tlie County or La Salle $.TJ:J,
:M!J worth, the S ate being tlie sixth, and
the county the eleventh glass producing
county In the United States. There were
employed In the county :J:17 men and 50
children, receiving a total of $lf)3,509 In
wages or $ 505 1!) each for the year, which
was the highest wages paid iu the glass In
dustry, by any county in America. Now
If it lie true that the Industry in the higher
wage paying locality, will be crushed out
by the lower, how Is it possible to maun
facture glass here in La Salle County,
whe.e wages are from 20 Xo 100 per cent
higher than In the other states around
about us? The difference In wages be
tween the sutes is as great as between the
wages of European and American glass
workers, and it the low wage receiving la
bor here in America cannot crush out the
high, how is It possible for the low wage
receiving labor of Europe to crush it out,
handicapped and clogg-d as it Is by freight
rates?. Pennsylvania manufactures 41.23
per ceut of all our glass. La Salle county
paid In 1880 20 per cent, and Is now paying
over 38 per cent higher wjges than Penn
sylvania. Now with perfect freedom of
trade between these states, how Is It posl
ble to manufacture any glass at all In La
Salle county, if wages are tlie test of com
peting power.
If tlie law, that the higher wages Is the
cheaper labor, however, Is ot uuiversal ap
plication, the problem Is already solved.
We should expect to find glass produced
with less lalsr cost in La Salle county where
wages In glass are highest, and such is the
I fact, as shown by the census. The aver
age labor cort In the ten counties of the
United States producing more glass than
La Salle, is 41 per cent of their product.
In the next ten highest, each producing
less than La Salle county, the labor cost is
40 per ceut of their product, while the la
bor cost in La Salle county Is but !17 per
cent. The lower wage paying states can
not crush out our La Salle county glass In
dustries for the obvious reasocfihat com
petition Is not in the labor market, hut in
the glass market, and each flOO worth of
glass In the common market, ours, bears a
Jlv dollars less labor cost than theirs. J tt
htuher tM aitofM the rheantr the labor. Is a
law of universal application. It Is true as
between the states It Is pre-eminently so
as applied to Kurr pean and An erlcan la
bor. 1 draw a comparison with our coun
ty of La Salle, because It occupies the proud
ponltlon of being the highest wage paying
locality. In the glass Industry, of any spot
ujKin the Inhabitable globe and Its labor Is
therefore above and superior to the ou
etltlon of mm productive, profitless, pau
pe(' labor, either foreign or domestic.
Mr. Trimble truly says, that the cost of
the raw material of clsss is about the same
In Europe as in Amefy the difference
is but from one to twofer cent, varying
with the different localities, ami sometimes
favoring the one, and then the other; aud
he assumes therefore that the difference In
cost between European and American glass
Is "the difference In the scale of European
and American wages." But this Is evident
ly erroneous, as we have seen ; neither Is
the difference In cost, the difference In la
bor cost, but simply of Uirif cost.
There was manufactured In the United
States $5,047,313 worth of window glass In
18X0, tor w hich there wa9pald to labor $2,.
130,530 making the average American la
bor cost of window glass 42.4 per cent of
Its product, of which Illinois produced
::73,;M3 worth, at a labor cost of 30 per
cent. Laborers In window glass making
are almost exclusively men, and wages ran-
ged all the way from 411 per annum la
New Jersey to $055 per annum In Illinois;
and here, again, the law that the higher
wage is the cheaper labor, holds goxl in
the w indow glass, as in the other Indus
tries. Now, keeping In mind the wages paid in
window glass manufacturing, and also the
amount manufactured In 18X0, It will throw
a flood of light upon the subject to know
that in 18X0 we imported 27,1)27,414 lbs. of
window glass and in 18x0 we imported 51,-
570,255 lbs., psylng a duty of $1,174,311,
which duty ranged from 61.03 per cent to
100 83 per" cent according to sizes, and av
eraging over SO per cent- The duty paid
ou wiiid w gl iss but year, evidently, was
more than half the entire amount paid In
wages to all our lalsirers in the window glass
industry, as it is much more than the half
paid them In 18x0, when we imported less,
and therefore probably made more than in
lxxij. In 18X0 the imported window glass
paid a duty of (iD per ceut. In 18xt( there
wastw'ceas much Imported, paying a du
ty ol 80 per ceut. If a tariff prevents ln-va-lon
of our market, why does increasing
the duty double the importation? Reduc
ing the duty would as certainly reduce im
portation aud before it was entirely wiped
out we should be exporting instead of im
porting glass.
Mr. Trimble says the present tariff is
the result of the ripe experience and meas-
urless wisdom of the tariff commission of
1882. He describes the fountains upon
w hich it drew lor inspiration to guide judg
ments already matured in statemanshlp,
and declares, in substance, that to touch
tlie perfected product of that unselfish in
vestigation for many years would be noth
ing short of sacrilege. Pollock's Apotheo
sis of tlie power and genius ol Byron
standing upon the Alps and the Appenln
es, pales before Mr. Trimble's description
of the wisdom, the learning, the justice of
that commission, and the tariff of 1883,
the work of its hands. But Pollock says,
after all Byron weut to II sheol, and I
say likewise, the tariff of 1S83 should go
to keep him company. That commission
in its report declared that '"excessive du
ties are positively injurious to the Indus
tries they are- supposed to foster," recom
mended a general reduction of frcm 20 to
4 per cent, and formulated a tariff bill to
secure that result. Now if they were hon
est, w hat must be said of their wisdom ?
and if wise, what must be said of their
Integrity, in view of the mess they made
of it?
They advised a large reduction of the
tariff This satisfied the disconted tariff re
formers. They engineered a bill through
Congress, that the Initiated well under
stood would, in its practical operation,
result In still more Intense protection:
like the man in the boat, who looks In
one directi m while rowing in the other.
The committee filled full to the brim the
purpose of its projectors; it satisfied the
discontented elements, and consolidated the
party for the campaign of 1884. Upon its
face, the bill reduced the tariff from 42.34
per cent to 40.87 or by neaily two per cent,
luMead of from 20 to 25 as recommended by
the committee, and this reduction was in
tended to be apparent merely, not real.
Upon those things that were not and could
not be imported, the law made large paper
reductions. Upon those that could be, and
were imported, the act generally Increas
ed the duty. Like all protective tariffs, It
was a mere make-pretense, juggle, and
deception. Thus the first six months of its
operation In 1883, increased the duty over
the corresponding period of 1882, as shown
by the report of the ways and means com
mittee, upon manufacturers of wool 2.19
per cent; upon earthern and china ware 4.
79 per ceat-. upon glass, 98; upon spirits
w Ines Ax ; 19 08 per cent ; upon malt liquors,
3.67 per ceut ; upon iron aud steel and manu
factures thereof, 3.12 percent. Upon the
face ot the act the tariff was apparently
reduced, yet by means of specific duties,
which increase the rate, as goods decliae
In price, the general average is much
higher iow than it was In 1882. The jug
gllng act of 18X3, heralded as a reduction,
is steadily Increasing the tariff. Upon du
liable importations of 18X3 the actual rate
paid was 42 34 percent; in 1880 It wa9 46.3
per cent, and of the above named articles
the eseclal favorites of protection, the ac
tual duties paid have been increased as
follows, from 1882 to 1880: On woolens
from 00.71 to 67.29 per cent; on earthen
and china ware from 42.88 to 56.08 per
cent ; on Iron and steel and manufactures
thereof, from 30 13 to 37 89 per cent; and
on window glass, the proposed subject of
this Investigation, we find the average duty
paid upon It In 1883 was 6H ner cent, In
1883(19 per cent, in 1881 73 pr cent, in
1885 70 per ceut, and In 1880 80 per cent.
This constantly increasing duty Is secur
ed under a, cheapening product, by the
mere trick of substituting specific, for Ad-
rnlorum duties; and this Is the "reduction"
given us by the much vaunted tariff com
mission ot 183. "By their fruits ye shill
kwow them," and judged by Its fruits, I
submit, that If the commission was hon
est, It was ignorant, and if competent, it
was fraudulent.
And I will here remark, In passing, that
the Hon. Samuel J. Itandall, the acknowl
edged champion of protection In the bouse
of repreienutlves, also declared In sub.
stance, that the tariff of 1883 Isire thv Im
presslon of the accumlated wisdom of the
nation, and he deprecated any disturuance
or change of It for at letst twenty years.
Yet within a twelve-month thereafter, he
himself Introduced a bill for "tariff re
form," a single item of which illustrates
the object of protection It Its very height
and depth. It raised the duty upon tin
from one to two and one-half cents
per pound. The Inquiry at once arose, why
take tin from tbe "perfect" tariff of 1883,
and raise its duty 150 per cent? The rid
dle did not remain long remain unread.
The true inwardness of the proceeding
waa soon discovered in the publication
that mammoth deposits cf tin had beendls
covered in Dakota, that these deposits
cropped out over a range of about 68,000
acres, much of which is bo pure that it re.
mains uncorroded by the exposure of the
ages, and that this vast tract was tak en up
Vy syndicates formed and forming, in both
Europe and America. It was then appar
ent that this proposed increase of tariff
upon tin waa a wise, timely, and
patriotic precaution to prevent the
pauperization of labor American that might
beengagedln the future development of
that infant industry. Of course, without
this extra 150 per cent of protection the
American laborer would decend to the level
of the Europeon pauper engaged in the
like industry, who receives but a trifle
higher wages than the highly protected
America iron worker.
The God of nature beBtowed this vast de
posit, a rich and priceless blessing up m
tue American people; but so far a9 legis
lation can render It bo, protection, would
make its discovery a positive cuise. Be
cause of its comparative cheapness tin en
ters largely into many of the industries,
and is of universal use in domestic life, it
is the culinary and kitchen ware of the
common people. But nature having yield
ed up this vast and free deposit, the
blighting mildew of protection at once
overshadows It, and because it is a free
gift, hereafter we must have dear tin. The
outrage of copper protection, must be re
peated in tin. We had free and cheap cop
per, until meisureless deposits of the
pure material were unfortunately discover
ed upon the shores of Lake Superior. Then
came protection, and its correlative curse,
costly copper to the people. We bad free
and cheap copper before we found and
mined it. Then came six cents per pound
protection. It Instantly wlpeu out our prot
Itable commerce with Chili; destroyed our
carrying trade, wrecked the large smelting
works in Baltimore, Boston and other sea
port cities discouraged ship building,
hastened the destruction of our mercantile
marine by multiplying the cost of Bheath
Ing, rivets, bolts and other copper ship sup
plies, and drove more men out of the car
rying trade then it has furnished employ,
ment In tlie mines; and what has it given
in return? Forty or fifty millionaires, a
few poorly paid laborers In the copper
mines, aud the most expensive copper to
a?y people of earth, instead of furnishing
labor protection, by increasing the price,
lessened the demand, clogged and retarded
the output, and thus deprived American
labor of the natural and full emplopment
in its production, and today less labor is
employed In the mines, than lands at Cas
tle Garden trom Europe of an afternoon.
It made millionaires, by legalizing suih
monstrous extortion that the copper mines
of Michigan, as found by the commissioner
of mineral statistics, have divided greater
dividends than have been declared by all
the gold mines of California tlnce tlie dis
covery of gold in 1849. These dividends
were wrung from sweating millions, that
monopoly might fatten on the tribute, thus
destroying tue commonwealth, by giving
wealth to few and misery to the multitude ;
and so we might make the full round of
the Industries and show that protection
renders every natural advantage, so far as
legislation can make it so, a positive curse
to the country ; but these two illustrations
must suffice for the present. They are
specimen bricks in the edifice of protection,
and to the shame ot the structure it may
truthfully be said, that the entire pile is
faithfully represented by the samples.
But to return from this digression to the
glass industry. Mr. Trimble declares that
without a tariff equal to the difference in
the scale of foreign and domestic wages,
our glass manufactures "humbly ac
knowledge that they cannot proceed to
business," etc. etc, I reply, that with a
protective tariff equal not only to the dif
ference, but equal to the entire laber costdT
the European and American product com
bined, they do not proceed to business, but
upon the contrary, manufacture a much
smaller per cent of our window glass than
ibey did thirty years age under a horizon
tal duty ot but 15 per cent. How is It that
now under a duty equivalent to a horizontal
80 per cent, the foreigner Is enabled to In
vade our market with balf as much window
glass as we ourselves manufacture, while
In I860 nnder a horizontal duty of but 15
per cent we Imported but 1 1 per cent of It ?
I ara curious to know how It Is, that now,
under a tariff on window gltss, from COO to
800 per cant higher than It was thirty years
ago, we Import 500 per cent more of
our glass now, than we did then ;and further
how It was possible, whn under absolute
free trade, we were large exp irters of glass,
that now under a tariff of 80 per cent we
import half as much as we manufacture.
The tariff does not prevent, but permits tbe
Invasion. Under absolute f ee trade we
would not otily manufacture our own glass,
hut would again become exporters Instead
of importers of It.
Mr. Trimble, like other protectionists, al
leges that "protection cheapens product
ion ;" savs to prove it, one has only " but to
look around him," to see everything
cheaper than It was under the low tariff of
I860; says that glass rules 20 per cent lower
than it did "40 years a;o under the opera
tion of the democratic low tariff of 1843,"
etc. It Is unfortunate for Mr. Trimble,
that he Is somewhat "off In his facts." The
tariff ot 1813 was not a " democratic low
tariff," and this fact comes back to plague
him. It is a refutation of the theory he
seeks t establish by It, to wit: That "pro
tectlon cheapens product." The tariff of
1843 was an Intensely protective one, the
result of the whig victory of 1840. It was
passed to raise the price of goods, and re
duce the wages of labor, and It accomplish
ed its purpose. Pending Its pusage, Silas
Wright sad of It, "Strip this bill of Its
hypocritical captUn, protection to Ameri
can industry," and call it what it really Is.
"An act to rob the industrious laborer for
the benefit of capital, and no American
laborer will be found to vote for It." The
bill passed, however, but did not change the
duty on glass, and therefore did not affect
wages and prices In that industry, except
in sympithy with other Industries. Since
February 11th, 1825 the duty on window
glass had been a specific, high protective
one, and It remained unchanged until July
30th, 18 10. It was about the same for that
whole periixl as it la today, and if protect
ian cheapens glass, why should Mr. Trim
ble complain of the high price of glass In
1843, after It had rece.ved enormous and
steady protection for 20 years? Prices
may decline under protection ; wages may
advance under It; but if so, both decline in
prices, and advance in wages are in spit e,
not because of protection. The glass In
dustry has twice received steady and enor
mous protection for over 20 years. First,,
from 1821-5 to 1840; second, from 18(11-5 to
1887 and during both periods, the price of
glass materially increased, as we shall see,
under protection. Bystander.
The Union Pacific Hail Road investiga
tion when finished will show the j ib to have
been one of the most stupendous frauds of
tha age. From facts already learned the
Chicago Tribune says:
The road was actually built from two
thirds of the proceeds of the government
subsidy and first mortgage bonds, the other
third lining divided among tbe rubbers.
The $36,000,000 of stm k represents noth
ing aud is still unpaid for, as shown by the
books of tbe company. So also $20,000,000
of fraudulent dividends, and the $10,000 a
mile mortagege on the vast land grant was
jobbed, and so the $10,000 a mile of in
come bonds come under the head of pure
plunder. In all over $100,000,000 over and
above a fair profit was scooped In Suck
gigantic robbery was never heard of before
or since the foundation of tbe American
goverumeat.
Yet when an I nvestigation of the affairs
of the company was asked, the senate, at
the last session of Congress, objected to It,
and but for the Intense pressure of public
opinion the appointment of the committee
never would have been cons ented to by
that body! Wonder if many of them are
uneasy now It is being made?
w. c. t. r.
We have received the following notice.
which we take pleasure in publishing:
V.ni nnrl vnnr friends are cordial v invited
to attend the Eighth District W. C. T. U.
camp meeting, to be held in Marseilles, 111.,
Thursday and Friday, July 21st and 22d.
TIip l i crloh liintrict comDries (hecttunties
of Du Page, Kendall, Will, Grundy and La
Salle.
We trust that every loval W. C. T. l.
n-niTinn will feel it. her dutv and privilege to
help make this meeting a representative one
of the temperance sentiment in these coun
ties. All lemrjerance sooieties are invited to
come and enjoy the meetings with us.
Will the churches ana maiviauais ainuiy
extend this notice.
The meeting will open Thursday a 2 p. m.,
and continue during Friday and Friday ev-
euing.
A full programme is being prepared.
Among those who will be present are
Miss Helen L. Hood, of Chicago ; Rev. J. W.
Conlev. Joliet; Miss Helen Walker, State
Superintendent of Signal Work ; Mrs. Lum .
ry, President of the District, and a goodly
number of other speakers.
Miss Cora Johnson will conduct the I.oyai
Legion and Band of Hope exercises.
The Marseilles W. C. T. I . will entertain
the members of the W. C. T. U. from a dis-
eance.
Mrs. Caroline B. Buell, National Secretary
of N. W. C. T. U., will address the meeting
Thursday evening.
Wonderful Cure.
D. Lorriaux. Retail Druwist of Ottawa,
111., says: We have been selling Dr. King's
New Discovery. Electric Bitters and UucK-
len's Arnica Salve for six years. Have
never handled remedies that sell as wen. or
give such universal satisfaction. There have
been some wonderful cures effected by these
medicines in the city. Several cases of pro
nounced Consumption nave been entirely
cureJ hy the use of a few bottles of Dr.
King's New Discovery, laken in conneciiuu
ith Klectric Bitters. We zuarantee them
always. Sold by D. Lorriaux.
Tl members of the Patriarchal Circle left
Tuesday morning for Milwaukee, to attend
their annual cona'aa at tlat p ace.