Decorah public opinion., October 18, 1895, Image 4

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i<LI) PARTY.
- PROTECTIVE TARIFF ALONE
CAN SAVE US.
Gold Will Not Leav« th« C'oi:nlrv When
We Boy All Our Gooil* »t Home —The
Kre»ent i’ro-Hritinli Policy Un.*; He
Terminated.
Tariff Keforin Tricks.
The time has come when the Reform
Club’s sound currency committee
<Hon. Charles S. Fairchild, chairman)
has to ask for more funds to carry on
its work.—Evening Post, N. Y.
In making this demand for more
money Mr. Free Trade Editor Godkin
states that “the committee has expen
ded up to the present time $46,000,” of
which $16,000 was levied from Boston,
and that $25,000 more is needed to carry
on the English currency branch of the
Tariff Reform Club “ to the end of the
present year.” This will tide them
over the fall elections of 1806 in endeav
oring to divert attention from the issue
of Protection vs. Free Trade.
The Tariff Reform Club is composed
**f enemies to American labor and in
dustry. Among its members are Chas.
S. Fairchild, John De Witt Warner, and
Tariff Juggler Godkin of the Evening
Post, and the truth is not in him.
Knowing how thoroughly the free
trade idea was denounced by the people
at the elections of 18D4. the tariff for
England clique has decided that no pos
sible chance of the restoration of demo
cratic supremacy in politics can exist
by the immediate advocacy of “tariff
reform" in the direction of further
free trade. It was deemed advisable
to foist a new scheme upon the people
and the Tariff Reform Free-Trade Club
mooted the currency question as a mys-
CAPTURING THE MARKETS OF THE WORLD
tifler. Of course, this “organized hy
pocrisy" has the support of President
Cleveland.
Some protectionist papers fell quickly
into the trap. The circulation of a
inass of eily gammon, and its use by
protectionist papers, are the stepping
stones to lead to an end—an end to
protection to American labor and in
dustry. By playing the panel game,
the Free-Trade Tariff Reform Club Is
trying to dodge the issue of Protection
vs. Free-Trade, to bamboozle the peo
ple and entangle editors. The friends
of protection have already done far
too much to help the Tariff Reform
Club’s free-trade scheme. Stop it.
Another Karin Crop Injured.
Jute culture, which was becoming a
valuable agricultural industry, though
♦o its complete success there were ob
stacles, has also been struck at by the
tariff act of 1894. Jute, like hemp and
flax, was placed cn the free list at the
wrong time. The cost of labor in pro
ducing it successfully against foreign
competition i 3 a material factor, just as
the difference in labor enters into the
production of any other of the products
of the farm or factory. Jute is chief
ly used in baling cotton, which may ac
count for placing it on the free list to
lessen its cost to the cotton planter,
but are not the agriculturists engaged
in the yet expensive production of
jute as much entitled to protection as
cotton was. and as various other agri
cultural products are, such as rice, to
bacco and sugar? The report of the
titier bureau of the department of agri
culture tells us that there is:
No doubt as to the practicability of
growing jute as a crop in the gulf states.
Whether the fiber can be produced
profitably in competition with the India
product is a matter for experiment to
determine. the question of its economi
cal extraction entering largely into the
problem. It had already been demon
strated that fine crops of jute could
be grown in Texas and Louisiana,
but we can only approximate
vaguely the cost of a crop
to the grower, and the precise
cost of preparation was equally a mat
ter of doubt. These questions settled
satisfactorily, there is no doubt as to
the success of the industry, as there is
already a large demand for the fiber,
our importations of India jute alone
reaching the value of $3,000,000 in a
single year. Some beautiful specimens
of American jute fiber, grown by the
Felix Fremery Decorticator Company,
near Galveston, Texas, were shown in
the department exhibit at Chicago. The
fiber was of good color and strength,
one specimen, extra cleaned, being of
fine quality, that doubtless would com
mand a much higher price in the mar
ket than imported material.
What has been done In other direc
tions can be done in the jute industry.
The trouble seems to be that we fail to
realize how suddenly we sometimes
obtain success in any given product,
and we too often lose sight of the rapid
strides we have been making in the la
bor saving cost of production in agri
cultural occupations as well as in man
ufacturing enterprises. The secreta
ry of agriculture, speaking of jute and
ramie, has said:
The interest in ramie continues, and
the cultivation of jute is attracting a
great deal of attention. The possibility
of die production of these fibers in cer
tain sections has been demonstrated,
but further experiment is needed to
settle the question of cost of production
and machinery for cleaning.
In order to continue such “further ex
periment," Protection is necessary and
should he assured.
Grover Will 'la* Growler*.
Mr. Cleveland has considered several
means for augmenting the financial re
turns, among which is the beer tax. The
natural way for the recovery of the re
ceipts is a tariff that will produce suffi
cient sums to replenish the treasury.
That tariff cannot be too soon re-estab
lished. The treasury is paying the
price of the loss of protection. Protec
tion to American industries is, from
experience, likewise protection to the
nation's finances. A reasonable tariff
is the only solution of the disastrous
problem brought on by the obstinate
enforcement of Mr. Cleveland’s theo
ries. Protection is an issue that cannot
be dodged. Its suspension has demon
strated its necessity to the government
as well as to enterprise and to the peo
ple.—Daily Saratogian.
Coniul* Can Ho lUefttl.
A good word has been said for our
American consuls by Englishmen. At
a recent meeting of the Bradford
Chamber of Commerce, which had been
asked for suggestions whereby the
British consular service would be im
proved in the interest of commerce, it
was stated that “American consuls did
a great deal more in this direction
than our own (English) did.” It is
gratifying to know there has recently
been an improvement in tlie commer
cial value of our consular reports.—
This is the time when Americans want
to know what their foreign competitors
are doing.
If in pora ril v Forgot ten.
“The prices of nails have doubled in
the past sixty days,” chuckles a free
trade organ. And in this way tariff
reform is cheapening the necessaries of
life to the consumer! Are not cheap
prices synonymous with prosperity?
Where are all those fine low tariff ser
mons that were preached so persistently
in 1892? —Journal, Kansas City, Mo„
July 17, 1895.
According to dispatches from Wash
ington, Secretary Olney and the presi
dent had made plans to seize and hold
Havana till the Mora claim was paid,
in case Spain hud shown further dispo
sition to postpone matters. Imitation
of England seems still to be the highest
ambition of this administration.— Buf
falo Express.
Beiwiu-r.itlc- Theories Not Kralltod.
Comparing the 1895 year’s imports,
during which the Gorman tariff was in
force for ten months, with the full
twelve months’ imports of 1892 and
1892, it is seen that the Gorman tariff
imports are in some cases larger than
those for 1892 and in other in
stances larger than the im
ports for 1892. and sometimes
greater than the figures given for both
of these two McKinley protection years.
When considering the effect of the
present lower tariff, it should be re
membered that in 1892 and early in
1892 the bulk of the people were far
more prosperous than they are to-day
and consequently were better able to
pay for the luxury of foreign goods.
Now the lower tariff permits the larger
quantities of imports at such low prices
as enable keen competition with our
own manufacturers and interference
with their business in our home mar
ket, the people not being able to afford
to purchase so many articles of volun
tary use and luxury as they did in 1892
and 1892.
This fact is very evident from a com
parison of such imports as follows:
Imports of Articles of Voluntary Use,
Luxuries, Etc.
Value.
UW2 $104,764,252
1892 125,855,541
1895 93,255.730
During the year just ended, to June
30, 1895, we bought over $11,500,000
worth less of articles of voluntary use,
luxuries, etc., than in 1892, and $32,-
600,000 less than in 1893.
Turning next to our imports of arti-
I cles manufactured and ready for con
sumption, articles that enter directly
into competition with the products of
our own factories, we find that wo
bought $5,300,000 worth more in 1895
than in 1893, an increase of 2.32 per
cent, of all imports, while the increase
was 2.97 per cent over the 1892 figures.
If we look at those imports of arti
cles in a crude condition, or which were
wholly or partly manufactured for use
in our mechanic arts, we find that in
both cases they were less in 1895 than
in 1893 and 1892, the exact figures be
ing:
Imports of articles in crude condition.
1892 $204,093,996
!893 226,711.989
1895 191,119,810
Imports of articles for use in mechan
ic arts,
18y2 $ 83,206,471
!892 98,753,902
In 1895 we imported nearly $13,000,-
000 worth less of arlicles in a crude con
dition than we did in 1892 and $35,000.-
000 worth less than in 1893. Of articles
for use in the mechanic arts we import
ed to the extent of $9,550,000 less in 1895
than in 1892, and over $25,000,000 less
than in 1893. These values show that
the Gorman tariff has been a hindrance
to our manufacturers in supplying
them with an abundance of cheap, raw
or partly finished material, and it has
the demands of the home market be
cause our imports of articles, manufac
tured and ready for consumption, have
been of greater value even than they
were in 1892, when our ability to pur
chase them was so much greater.
Senator Culloin'a View*.
When the republican party gets con
trol again, as it will next year, with
some republican for president such as
Reed or McKinley or some other man,
we will take up that tariff yet and go
over it item by item and make such
amendments to it as will give reason
able protection to American labor and
American industries as against foreign
labor and foreign industries. The peo
ple of this country never knew they
wanted that sort of protection—they
were never certain of it—until the dem
ocrats by mistake got possession of
this country two years ago.—Senator
Cullom.
Cheating a H'Bittern I'rotluet.J
The latest case of undervaluation
under the ad valorem tariff system has
been in imports of olives, which ap
pear to have been invoiced at just one
half of their true value. As the sup
ply of olives of California growth forms
an important factor in supplying our
domestic market, the importers of
foreign olives naturally feel the com
petition and evidently are prepared to
hold our market by any means.
I‘atronixe the American Sea in*t re**.
Name the flight Men.
In the coming state campaigns vot
ers should see that the candidates are
sound for nrotection to home Industry.
The candidate for office who Is not
loyal, outspoken and earnest In sup
port of this principle when he Is seek
ing a nomination will be lukewarm or
openly hostile when he is elected.
lloiHt the banner of protection. It Is
the sign and promise of approaching
victory. The righteous cause of pro
tection to home industries has always
won when it was presented clearly and
intelligently to the American people.
THE KINDLY LIGHT.
RELIGION AND REFORM THE
WORLD OVER.
Gentler anti Nobler Studying the Hible
A New, Complete Heart The l.tfe
Which Kollo tvt —Glad Tidings from
Many Lands.
Of* )h! HOLD him great
(ej who for love's
sake.
tra| Can give with
generous ear
. ■*. nest will;
hi Yet he who takes
’ for lov e’ s
sweet sake
I think 1 hold
> more gener
ous still.
I bow before the noble mind
That freely some great wrong for
gives;
Yet nobler is the one forgiven
Who bears that burden well, and
lives.
It may be hard to gain, and still
To keep a lowly, steadfast heart;
Yet he who loses has to fill
A harder and a truer part.
Glorious it is to wear the crown
Of a deserved and pure success;
He who knows how to fail has won
A crown whose luster is not less.
Great may be he who can command
And rule with just and tender sway:
Yet is diviner wisdom taught
Better by him who can obey.
Blessed are they who die for God.
And earn the martyr’s crown of light;
Yet he who lives for God may be
A greater conqueror in his sight.
—Adelaide Proctor.
“A New. Complete llenrt."
“It is nothing less than character,
nothing less than a new, complete
heart, a fulfilled manhood, that Christ
is trying to give us. Therefore, we may
be patient, and be sure that the perfec
tion of His gift cannot be all at once.
He who enters into Christ enters into a
region of life and growth which stretch
es far away before him. He stops
across the threshold, and his feet are
glad with the very touching of the
blessed soil. Christ is so One that all
which He is ever to be to the soul He is
in some sense already. But none the
less there is much which He cannot be
until the soul is more, and so can take
more of the life to live by. The world
cannot give you blessings which will
be complete to you at once. It is able
and glad to set forth for you at the be
ginning of the feast the best wine it
has. But Christ will take you. if you
let Him, Into His calm, strong power,
and lead you on to ever richer capacity
and ever richer blessing, till at last only
at the end of eternity shall your soul bo
satisfied and be sure that it lias touched
the height and depth of His grace, and
say: “Now I know thy goodness wholly.
Thou ha3t kept the good wine until
now.” Oh, at the end of our eternity
may those words be ours! —Phillips
Brooks.
Studying the Jtihle.
“Now, wholly apart from its religious
or from its ethical value, the Bihlg is
the one book that no intelligent person
who wishes to come into contact with
the world of thought and to share the
ideas of the great minds of the Chris
tian era can afford to be ignorant of.
All modern literature and all art are
permeated with it. There is scarcely a
great work in the language that can be
fully understood and enjoyed without
this knowledge, so full is it of allusion.*
and illustrations from the Bible. This
is true of fiction, of poetry, or economic
and of philosophio works, and also of
the scientific and even agnostic treat
ises. It is net at all a question of re
ligion or theology, or of dogma; it is a
question of geneial intelligence.” —C. D.
Warner.
The l.ifc Which Follow*.
“Nature teaches that the life which
follows the resurrection will be higher
and nobler, and more abundant than
the present. You take up a grain of corn
to examine it. but its smallness is such
that it slips through your fingers; but.
small as it is. it has within it the germ
of a larger life. Bury it in the ground,
and from that one grain there come sev
eral stalks, and upon each stalk several
grains, reaching sometimes more than
the standard of a hundred fold. And
revelation clearly affirms that the cor
ruption, dishonor, weakness and natur
alness of the present life will be re
placed by the incorruption, glory,
power and spirituality of the resurrec
tion life.” Rev. I. Lloyd.
Derelict*.
“These are the wrecks of abandoned
vessels turned loose to be carried hith
er and thither by winds and tide. They
form one of the serious dangers to
ocean navigation. In spite of all efforts
to rid the sea of them, many of these
unguided prowlers still drift and toss
up and down the deep, threatening
every passing ship with wreck. May
wo not find in this a parable? Derelicts
—social, moral, religious are the chief
danger to safe sailing on the ocean of
life. And such are found drifting ev
erywhere. Your son and daughter and
yourself would be safer if it were not
for these wrecks of humanity lost to
conscience and morality and to Clod.
Every ruined sou! threatens others with
ruin. One misguided or neglected youth
may, in the course of a lifetime of
drifting and sinning, wreck a hundred
others. It is a peril, as well as a cry
ing cln.to let any boy or girl be turned
i adrift without moral restraint or guid
ance, or to allow those already lost to
i continue drifting while we put forth
no effort to arrest or save them. Pre
vention is better than cure. Parents
should see that the hearts of the chil
dren are so anchored to Christ, and
their lives so trained for Him and ruled
by His love, that no derelicts shall go
• forth from their homes."—Cumberland
Presbyterian.
Moral l itiM's* and Endeavor.
j "There is no book, no church, no in
ward monitor, no testimony within.
! without, that can make us to know the
truth without moral fitness and en
deavor on our part. There must he
truth in the inward parts in order to
our finding truth anywhere. But, with
this, there is truth for you and me, to
believe, to know, to live by and to die
by. The book, the conscience, the ex
perience of humanity, through all and
above all. the life and testimony of
Jesus Christ, these are fountains
through which the living stream wells
forth. What prophets nave seen, sages
thought, and saints lived is true. What
Jesus believed, knew and taught is
true. You shall sooner convince me
that yon sun emits darkness than make
me believe other than this. Yea. you
and I have seen human lives that we
know were based on truth.
‘ So the truth which shall judge us at
last marshals us to right or to left to
day.
“ ‘Heard are the voices,
Heard are the sages.
The Worlds and the Ages'.
Choose well, your choice Is
Brief and yet endless.' "
Rev. J. Westly Earnshaw.
Brevity In Prayer.
"Thi late William Arnot tells us in
his diary that, as he grew .older, he j
grew more brief and simple in his ■
closet devotions. He tersely says: ;
‘1 suppose there are two kinds of brev- |
ity in prayer—one, because you are far !
off, and one because you are far in.’ !
This is pithily put. and con
tains a profound truth. No one |
can judge of another as to j
just how much time that other needs j
to spend on his knees. We canno* ;
safely take the example of anybody else j
as an absolute guide in our own case. I
Many things need to be considered — j
our household duties, our business en
gagements, our special perplexities, our
mastery of perpetual prayer. We must
not, of course, let prayer be crowded '
out or crushed down through mere sel- ;
fishness or worldly absorptions; but j
neither need we feel it always incum- !
bent on us to spend just so much time !
in the exercise, or write ouselves down j
delinquent if we cannot pass whole j
hours in special supplication like some j
one we have read about. It is better
certainly to be far in than far off. but j
the former must not despise the latter, j
nor the latter Judge the fofrner. i
Strength in prayer Is better than '
length in prayer.”—Zion’s Herald.
Truth.
“Truth, like food, is valuable to men
as they are prepared to digest and ap
propriate it. Only as they were able to
bear it, did Christ reveal the truth to
His disciples.and He distinctly declared
that, ‘He had iiiany things to say to
them, but they could not bear them
now.’ To the inner circle to whom it
was given to know the mysteries of the
kingdom, He uttered plainly what He
could utter to others only in parables.
He withheld His disciples from speak
ing of the truth which they were pre
pared to confess —namely, that tie was
the Christ of God—because therp would
come the puzzling and seemingly con
tradictory fact that He must be denied,
betrayed and crucified. Till the crown
ing proofs of His divinity by the res
urrection were in, the people were not
ready to accept the truth which the dis
ciples saw. Truth may as surely be
damagingly misused as food may.”--
Christian Intelligencer (Baptist).
K.rc Vou Oimnrr, l.onk Within.
i Should you feel inclined to censure
j Faults you may in others view.
Ask your own heart, ’ere you venture,
If that has not failings too.
j Let no friendly vows be broken.
Rather strive a friend to gain;
Many a word in anger spoken,
Finds its passage home again.
Do not. then, in idle pleasure,
i Tritie with a brother’s fame;
Guard it as valued treasure.
Sacred as your own good name.
I
i Do not form opinions blindly;
Hastiness to trouble tends;
Those of witom we thought unkindly;
Oft become our warmest friends.
The I'ejce of (iml.
True peace is not stupidity of mind.
Ir exists in conjunction with the ut
most mental activity. It is not a state
of insensibility like that of a rock, but
i one, in which the feelings are refined
I and quick as the apple of the eye. Nor
' yet does it consist in the absence of
conscience, as in the ox or eagle.
True peace Is tin* harmony of the
heart with God, the assurance that
questions relating to the spiritual na
ture and life have been rightfully and
eternally settled, and, above all, the
abiding conviction that “all things
work together for good to them that
love God.” Peace Hows from a loving
trust, in God. as water from an over
tiowing fountain.
lieu tiro of Creeil*.
Creeds are the exact metes of our
knowledge and measures of our ignor
ance, and 1 cannot too earnestly waru
every sincere soul to beware of them
unless lie prefers intellectual stagna
tion to spiritual development. One
learns nothing whatever from any po#
sible affiliations of ignorance. I should
as soon expect to have my hunger sat
isfied and my body nourished by a din
ner somebody else had eaten as to derive
any advantage front hearsay evidence,
in matters of faith. Each one of us must
and can only be nourished by such de
gree and kind of truth as he is capable
of making his own by digestion and as
similation.- Elliott Cones.
Sh«» Kept ||,** Bucket C'leilli.
A writer in an English paper says
ihe following is a true story that ac
tually happened;
A man from the new house near by
canto in at the alley gate and to the
kitchen where a mother was working
for the comfort of her family. He
asked for a bucket. The men work
ing on the brick wall were thirsty,
and lie would take them a drink. The
bucket was brought. The lady remark
ing on the discomfort of working in
the hot sun that midsummer day, of
fered to till the bucket at her well.
The water was so cool men from of
fices and stores near by often came or
sent for water from the well.
Reaching out for the bucket the man
declined the water, saying in a friend
ly tone that the men would like beer
better than water —he only wanted a
bucket to carry it in. Steadily the
bucket was held back as the lady said:
"I am sorry. 1 cannot loan a bucket of
mine for beer. Why. [ dare not! I have
three boys, and what would they think
if I let beer be carried in anything
from my kitchen. I am sorry you want
ed it for that. Should my boys drink
liquor when they are grown they must
not say that they ever saw beer in any
thing belonging to their mother —not
with her consent. Good dav.” “Good
day.”
I’lflily iif Knur Tiling*.
The late David M. Stone, eminent
Christian worker and jornmalist, when
once asked the secret of his successful
and happy life gave the following an
swer:
"I lake plenty of exercise, plenty of
hard work, plenty of sleep, plenty of
belief in God and the future, and, with
an easy conscience, I find that what Is
the sundown of life with most men is
to me as pleasant as the June days of
m.v youth. 1 have not been absent from
my office for one whole day in twenty
nine years.”
On another oceasion be* said: “No
one can understand the toll I have done
and the burdens i have borne. It is
sweet now to sit down anil rest, to read
the scores of letters that the mail
brings me from men- who assure me
that they have been led to better?
and to religion by I reading
torials,” i
Inalt«*nt‘«ii.
Listlessness, inattention and preoc
cupation are the common faults of some
Christian people when in the service of
the church. They do not .ear the ser
mon. When not othewise occupied tne;.
look up for a moment, with a flush oi
interest, but it subsides in a moment
and then they stare into vacuity, tos
the head from one Mae to the othe
shift their position, turn the leaves
the hymn hook, or show some o'
evidence of the listless spirit that
sesses them. When they leave
church they criticise the preachei
not interesting them, ouch condu
not much of a compliment to
preacher nor to the gospel tha
preaches, but it is a smaller comp)
to themselves, because it is ev
of bad breeding, as well as a
mind.
Work.
Lie down and sleep.
Leave it with God to keej
This sorrow which is pai
Now of the heart.
When thou dost wake.
If still ’tis there to take
Utter no wild complaint
Work waits thine hand)
If thou shouldst faint.
—(From Katrina Trask's “Son
Lyrics.”)
l’ro*|»rrltjr and l’rldr.
“Prosperity and pride are not inf
quent associates. The rich man di‘
gards the ladder by which he clin
the heights he has attained, and is
to be inflated with self-importance
declare, as Moses foretold, ‘My p
and the strength of my hand hav
ten me this wealth.’ The plctur
accurate one, and the resembl
seem striking to many a one,
by no means flattering.”—J<
ponent.
Not Gift*, but tirai'n
"God respects not the :
; of our prayers, how- many the
i the rhetoric of our prayers
they are; nor the music of <
' bow melodious they are; n<
of our prayers, how’ metht
are, but the divinity of o
how heart-sprung they nre
but graces, prevail in pra;
by ter lan.
\
New York At
According to the rec*
Battens’ . Directory, New
the list of states in the n
leligious publications,
being 102; Pennsylvania
with 147, and Illinois th
Idaho is the only section
that is not credited with a
territory of Oklahoma has
papers.
Forget.
“Put a seal upon your
what you have done. .
been kind, after lovo 1
into the world and doi
work, go back into the i
say nothing about it.
from Itself." —Professot