Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 3, 1892, Page 5

BEE: WEDNESDAY, A UGUST 3, 1892. WKINLEY \_\_’ELCOM_ET)'. [GONTINUBD PROM PIRST PAGE .| uots does nothing but produce enuo. It encourages no domestio en- rpriso bocause there is none in this country making the product upon which they put tha tariff, A low tariff upon a foreign produoct ‘Which com with a home proauel, would, 0 a small dogree, favor the domestic indus: trg, but, when it doss that, it censes to be a tarifl for revenue only, because it gives some slight protection to the domestic producer, and 1s at once condemned by the tariff re- Jormer. It 18 suitable, I shou!d say in passing, that & tariff levied upon 8 noncompeting foreign product 1s always paid by the importing country. And why! Because there is no production at home to compete with the for- eign urticle imported which might influence 118 price to the consumer. The foreign pro- ducer controls the warket, and the price to the consumer on such noncompeting article s the foreien price with the tariff added. But tho other principle, and the one to which the republican party adheres, is exactly the posito of the one 1 have just described. It rmits all foreign products, except luxuries, come into our markets free, but imposes s tariffs upon those foreign products which ‘we produce at home or propose to produce at tome, which tariff, while raising rovenue, is a discrimination in favor of the domestic pro- ducer and againsy the forelgn producer. That is, wo say bring what you have got to us thut we can not grow or make, without burden or restriction, without tarlff or condi- tion, but if you want'to bring here what we do produce ana can produce to compete with our producers and share this market with Shem, theu such product must bear the bur. don of a tarrfl. Is not that right? The True American P 1 we were Just beginning anew as a gov- eroment and had never had a tariff law, ‘would not that be the correct principle! The things we can not make for ourselves or pro- auce for ourselves we must buy elsowhere, and, therefore, we want no tax upon them, but the things we can produce among our- selves and for ourselves, 1t is oconomy for oui people to ouy from each other, and if the foreign produver wants to enjoy any part of this market, ho wust be subject to the terms we shall fix in the intorest of our own countrymen. That is the principle of pro- toction. That 1s the dootrine of patriotism. ‘That is the principle of our country first and our countrymen first, 'hat1s the princinie of bome and family. That is the doctrine of true Americanism, The republican party has never hesitated to impose duties upon moncompeting foreign products whenever the revenue necessities of the government ra- quired it, bu believe in it only as a puolic Decessity, We have free trade among ourselves throuchout our forty-four states and the ter- ritories, This is because we are one fumily ore country, We have one standard of cit: zenship, one flag, one constitution, one na- tion, one destiny. That is why we have frec trade umong ourselves. Our rolations with the nations outside are necessarily different from cur relations among ourselves. They are a separate organism—a distinct and inde- wendent political society organized to work out their own desuny, They are our commer- cial rivals, We deny to these forcign n tlons trado with us upon tho same terms we enjoy among ourselves. The foreign pro- ducer is not entitled to equality with us 1n this market. He pays no taxes; he is not amenable to our laws; he performs no civil or military duties; he'is exempt from state, county and municipul taxes; be contributes notning primarily to the support of the gov- ernment or its progress or prosperitv. Upon what principle, 1 pray vou, should he enjoy equal privi.eges snd profits in our markets with our producers, our laborers, our taxpayers! We have no ‘way of reaching him except through the cus- tomhouse. He is unknown to our tax col- 1ector who visits us anuually—but this official can not visit bim. The arm of the stateis o0 short and the power of the federal gov- ernment too limited to touch anything he has or possosses, And so we say, to him, when you want to bring your products here to compete withiours, this being our home, our patural market, *‘those produots must have attached to them a condition, and that con- aition shall be the iuymnnt of duties which shall go into the public treasury to relieve in {Ifl the tax; lxan of the United States from he burdeus Which rest upon them.” 1, Wree Trade Revolutionizes Values. Free trade gives tothe foreign producer equal privileges with us, Upon what prin- ciple of fair play should he have them! It fnvites the products of his cheaper labor to this market to destroy the domestic product representing the bigher aud better paia labor of ours. _It destroys our factories or reduces our labor to the level of theirs. It increases foreign production but diminishes home pro- duction. It will kinale fires in the furoaces of England and extinguish the fires 1n our own. It will close theiron mines of tho great northwest and leave unteannted the coal and coke regions of the east. 1t will do all this with unerring certaioty unless the vdard of American labor shall be pulled down to the plane and condition of foreign labor -one or the other is inevitable. In any even: it destroys the dignity and indepen- denco of American labor, diminishes their l)uy and employment, decreases their capac ity to buy the products of the farm aund the ocommodities of the merchant. We cannot bave free trade in this country without hay- ing free trade conditions. The democratic platform demands it upon these conditions &nd 1s bound to have 1t at any cost. The world knows what these conditions are. The farmers of England know wbat they are. The workingman of Eugland understand these conditions. Thousands of men who have .worked on both sides of the ocean and under both systems know these conaitions. To introduce them here will be ® costly experiment. It will bring wide- spread discontent. It will revolutionize wvalues. It will take away more thun one-half of the earning capacity of brain and brawn. ‘Worso than all that, it will take away from the people of this' country who work for o living—and the majority of them live by tho sweat of their faces—it will take from them heart and hope and homa. It will be self- destruction, Free irade results in giving our money, our mavufactures and our mar- kets to other nations. Frotection keeps money, markets aud manufactures at home. But tLey say protection is a burdeu upon the people. Mr. Cleveland joins the choir of calamity. He sald in bis speech the otber day at Madison Square Garden, accepting the nomination for the presidency: " “Turning our eyes to the plain veople of the 1and, wo seo then burdencd as consumers with a tarlll systom thus unjustly und reientlessly deminds from them, in the” purchase of the comforts and necessarles ol” life, an amount sourocly met by the wiies of hard and steady toll, ‘We seo the fu tening to n deiu- sive story that il with visions of viatave, while his pocket 18 robbed by the ulthy nand of high protection.” Clovelaud und Calamity. Mr. Cloveland, markets since 1 znlllll prices t wrevalling and ses ave ieen unadvised of what has oceurred since. Mr Cleveland had uov then rond the g*mn of ‘the senite commitieo appointel by iple, s to int resolution of that body to Investigate e uifeot of the now Larlff lnw upon the con- sumer and producer and upon the wages of libor. I commend the careful resding of that docunient to the distinsuished gentle- miwn with the hob ‘thiust hu iy correct te error in whieh he has fallon, and with that Fuxked houosty which s frlends nworib to hini pubilely broe,alin the wrong he bus doue to trith and the fuise impression he hus made of the logislution of his own country. The value of the report, the resding of which I commiend to the gentiemun, will be seen when I state tnat It was mude by tho followlng aators: Aldrich. Ailison, Hiscock, Jones, Tarrls and Curlisls, and thit the report s o UBARIIOUS One. ‘Thiw roport his ascortulued and stated the cost of food, clothos and olothiug, fuel und lighting, house furnishing foods. druys wnd chemioals, metals and Implements, lumber and bubiding material for each month, cam - menoinz the st duy of June. 185, and ending Boptomber 1, 1801, Tho result of the Investi- gntlon, whice has been wost careful and serutinlzlug und ubsoiuteiy nonpartisin, wa the decline In the retali price of 14 so- lootedd articles—articlos of comfort und neces- Bity -0 bo 61 of 1 per cent less, by one method of ‘computation. wnd 1§ per cont loss by an- othor in Beptenber, 180, than during the nontlis preceding und covered by the investis he committee, in wdditlon to tho nvestiza- on for the twenty-olzhit months noted, usked comwisslonor of labor Lo uscortain the ro- L DF 6o fu three clties, namely: Fal 1River, 8. Ohleago, 11 und Dubuque, Ta, of the s reforred 10, 1ho result of his lo- Veatlntion shows o further Soat of v 1 My, 1002 A combired "with Bepte fvn:. Of i por ceut, wnd us o une, July und August, 188, of &4 In;vl-r! p;u"lmol It a rleds of 1ecos- This wo ldl l;‘::l 's assortion 18 1eport also sho constant !finflmwy 10 lo) of iife. 10 itipons SR Bhéval o the tarlff has fncrensed prices to tho con- sumer. and leaves his statement devold of ossontial element of streogth-truth, 0 FEPOTL A180 shows that whie the cost of llving has decrensed here it has, during the same period, in Engiand increased 1.9 per cent. Wages Are Higher, Now, turning to wazes. It appears from the report of the statistiolan that in the fiftoen genoral oocupations selected by the commit- tee wages were three-fourths of | per cent higher in September, 1501, than the three months selectod as @ busls In 1830, and that the waves in specinl Industries soieotod w 81 of 1 per cent hicher than at the beginni of the perlod In June, 1850, and that wages in the same ocoupations in the United States averaged 77 per cont groater than in Great Britain. which Is under a demooratic free trade revenne tarlff. Then as to the farmers, to whom Mr. Oleve- lund 80 plaintively refers, this report says tont the nverage prices of all the agricultural products, except flax seed. when put a® thelr proper relative Importance, were 18067 per yenthigher in Soptember, J&1, thun In Jurio, May I not In the lizht of this report and the facts everywhere obsérvable remind Mr. Cloveland that in the year of 1812 we are con- fronted by u condition'and not. a thoory, Tiio truth fs that the protootive warit has cheapened every manufactured product, nov by cheapening lubor, but by 1ts high rewards, socuting from labor its highest effl cienoy. Manufuctured goods nre eheuper today thin ihoy were under the revenue tarlff poliey in- augurated forty-six years ugo, and which continued down to 1861, Thn{ are for the most part cheapor than betore the passaze of the tarift Taw of 1800. A day's lnbor wiil buy moro toduy than it ever bought before. The products of the farm will buy more ot the overyday necessities of life. more cloth und cotton, more Iron_and steel, more glass and potlary, more suzar and salt than the samo quantity would ever buy before. Sub- tuntinlly, everything which protection di- rectly nifects has been reduced in price, ex- cept inbor, Tt alone hns been able, amid' the [nost zeneral reduction of priovs, to muintain mie. rad ward Atkinson, a freo trader and o Crevelund democrat, sald in the May Forum: “There hus never been a period in the his- tory of this or any other country whoen general rate of wages was ns high as it is now or the prives of xoods relutively to the wages a8 [ow s thoy ure today. nor a perlod when the workmian, in the striot sense of tho word, has 8o fully secured to his own use and enjos Mant stioh n stexdily wnd progressively in- creasinz proportion of a consvantly Incroasing product. The same gentleman In the Boston Herald siuys: “Since 1880 there has been a marked fucrense in tho rate of wages or enrnlngs of ull ocoupled of every kind above the grade of cominon inborers. 8o far us the writer hus been able o olLtain the duta, this advance in rates of wages may be estimated av from 10 to 30 per cent i s compared with the rates of 83, the proportionate aavance in eich oaso being in ratlo to the relative skiil required in the work. The wa.esof the commou laborer have not advanced very much, but hehas boen ren- dered able to buy' more for his wizes on ac- count of the reductiou in prices. The skltled Inborer hus secured the highest rate of wages ever known in_this or any other country, and cun also buy moro foreich aoilar. The advo- cate of frec trade wao denies thls advance makes a mistake," The Forelgner Pays the Tax. It Is suid that the tariff law of 1500 is a grievous wrong upon the consumer. [ have botor ma the Beruda Golanist, n paper pub- tished tn Hamilton, Bermuda, dated April 23, 1892, cuntainin: tho procee lings of tho colon- lui parllament, which bad under consldera- tion at that date the American tarilf and how its burdens were to lie removeld from the In- habitants of that isiand. You will observe that the producers of Borniuda beileve thoy pay the Increased tarilf under the new law, notwithstanding the tarlft reformer's ciaim Is otlierwise. And they have appointed a com- mission to omo to the Uni! States to se cure u reduction of the tariff upon their pro- ducts, This Is the lunjuage of the message to the govern 3 “*We are dirocted by the House of Assembly to bring to the notlceof your excellency the serious loss thut the I)ul)pl of Bermudun have suffered, and which they are 1i.ely in the fu- ture to sustain by the high rate of tarilf that, b{ the present laws of the Un ted States, Is oliarged on Bernitdu products shipped to that country, and to especially roquest that your excollenoy will b ponssd to tuko Intoconsii- eration tho following statement which is sub- mitted with a view of endeavoring to obtain— with the sunction of the imperlal government and the : overnment at Washington—u roduc- tion in the twriff above referred to. The amount of Bermuds products shipped to the lod States from Junuary o June in- in 189, amounted in” value to $560,- n this amount, under the old tariff the dutles amounted to not less than £ 08, In 1801 the quantity of produce shipped to the United States from January to June amounted to $331, 11: On this amount, undor tho new. o MeKinioy:'tarit dutiot were puld amounting o not less thun #$134, 28 ‘Thus, while the value of products shipped tothe United States in the year 1801 was $18400 less in value than in 180), the amount pald as dutles was $79,642.20 In excess of duties paid in the former year, makinz a direct loss to the growers in” each case of & large percentaze of the amount, a8 the mur- ket va ue of our products in the Un ted States will not allow of uny advance in price com- mensurate with so heavy u tarifr.' ‘I hat being 50, who pays the tax? They ns- sert they cannot add the tariff to the price to the American consumer, so he gets it at the old _price, . notwithstanding tho increased Lari! that ts. the consumer puys o more for Bermuda products than he did previous to the new law; the Bermuda producer zets less AR the AmGFiuan LRASURY MOFS oNoY, Who contributes thut money to the treusury, the foratzn producer or vhe American consumer? ‘This will indicate to you bow tho foreign countries regard this tariff. They hold it to be burdensome upon them—a tux upon them which they must yleld up to our treasury if they want to enter this market. Simfiardis- cussions are g‘nhm on in Canuaday, in Fran In Eogland und ln other countries. Cleveland and the Cousumers. We Increased the tarlff in the now law upon & number of foreizn products which compote with bome proucts; but iuno stugle instunce. except possibly in the case of pearl buttons, has there been a y advance in prices to the tual consumer.” Yot Mr. Claveiund, In his recent speech in Kuode Island, said: “The consumer has found life harder since the Dissazo of the new tarilf law thun before.” Thut I8 not true. The consumer hus not fonnd life barder. for the commodities which enter Into bis dully Life are, in a great majority of cases, lower than they were before the new turlff luw weat intoeffect. He has had cheuper suxar, cheaper clothlng, cheaper boots and shoesand cheaper nails than bofore. A care- ful investigation of the prices of wooleu and cotton goods mude in the city of New York, und embracing ove U quotations of articles for & comparative p.riod under the aew an old tarlrs, und this made by an expert who has reported prices for forty yeurs, shows thint in a Large porcent of all Thess quotn- tions und articles there has been an uctunl decrease in price since the new tariff went into elfect as compared with the same prices ot yoous under the o.d tarill. Furthermore, old Industries have been stimuluted and vory many new industrios sturted, which are now esclwnted o have given emp.oyment to from 0,000 10 250.00) employes, and il Is o fact well established by reports from all countries that at this time. whiie depression and anxiety exist in their Industries, there Is prosperity In the United States alone. When the tariff Lus been increased upon a foroign article, nnd it doos not Increuss the price to the American consumer, how does the Awerlcan consumer suffor? He guts the com=~ modity at s low a prive s he got It under the Old Luriff, notwithstan ilng the incroase, so he loses nothing but labor fn America gains overything. ‘Lake Lhe case of curpets—onn of the wost maurked Incresses under the W luw. We udvanced tho tariff on_wool, which lies st 1ho foundation of the sarpet ndustry, 10 protect the woulgrowers of ths oountry. wu udvanced the tariff on oarpets, the finished product, to compensate the manus fucturer for the increased duty on wool, and yeu toduy the pricvs are no higher than they were betore the enactmont of the new Iuw. LU 1S true prices went up on vurpots im. moedlutely after the passugo of the law, b these prices were speoulutive rather than real. Buutoday there ls no line of carpets that you oun not buy us cheap.y as you could priorto October 6, 180): and us €0 Ingrain and other lower grades of carpots, they are even ohiouper now than then. 5o that the incrensed protection that we give to the woolgrower, wnd which he required as o defense ugainst | fuinous compouiilon from abroud, has cost tho American consumer nothing und to the wuulamvlur und farmor has besn & positive benefit. . The Forelgn Market. say thut @ protoctive turiff shuts us a forelgn market. Lhuve before moe w statoment from tne Troasury departiiont, correctou July 14, 1802, showlng our forelxi commerce. The totul vaiue of imports and exports of worchandise attalned 15 highost aulnl, wmounting o 3,740,900 1o the lust The, out o your, us aguinss 8,720,007,006 during the fisval Your 1801, un increase of $135,38:,904, and un increase of B3A 104855 over 1880, The ex- cess In value of exports over during the Iast fiscal your was The value of our {mports of imer the last fiseal yoar amonnted (o £~ s against §144,016,19 in 1501, o decroaso There was an fncreass in coffee, unmunufactured and the decronse W tin pintes, manufactured silk, manufactures of tobaoeo, manufactures of wool, vegetables, fruits and textiie grasses. Notwithstanding the ory that undern pro- tootive tarill we cannot sell sbroad it we do not buy sbroad, during tho last fisonl yoeur wo soid_abroad noarly 84,000,000 more than we bought abrond: $3)5,001,0.0 was the 0xoess in our favor which the foraigners paid to us, und which we have at home circulating AMONE Our OWn people. Dutiable morchandise has aecreased under the overation of now luw, us shown by the report of the scoretary of the treasury, ~Tho vulue of merchandise imported upon which duty was_pald for the yeur ending June 30, 1802, was %5 0.400,L, while for the preceding yoar it was 178,674,344, showing n_dooreaso in ;3:0“'1'1!‘5“““ of merchandlise paying duty of It will also be observad that under the oporation of the new law the free list has beon Increased while the dutinble decreused. The value of fren imports for the lust year oxceedod the vaiue of dutixbie Importa by 6,000,000 Durinz the last flsoal year the value of imported merchandise freo of duty was over 815,010,000 an_Increnso over the pro- ceding yenr of 81,750,708, The average ad- v, orem rato per cent of duty on the negre- futo of imports bus gendually decrensed sinco ho pussaxo of the now turll law. The aver- a6 Falo por ent for the year onding Maroh 1, 1802, ot free and dutluble goods was .65 porceuti in 1801, 28 percent: 1N, 28.02 por cent, and in 188, 20.80 per eont. The nverage rato toduy Is lss than it hus been for thirty yeurs, Moro than one-halt of the yalue of all our lports 18 avsolutely free. Tn (880 the per- contuge of frae £00ds was #42 por cent. and in 1802, 55.8% per cont. We collsored during tho lust fiscal yoar 5,810,070 of dutles less than the auties collected auring the preceding year. 8o, If the tarlff s a tax, 85 our ady surlos asdort, wo should at lénst o crodite with having wived out 365,810,610 of burden- during the fiscal yenr 1802 was $1,040.515,0.0. Tho value of our oXports in 1801 was $984.180,« 01, an increase of #145,854,810.—a wonderful and marvelous jucreaso of our foreigu trade under a tarlil [aw which wus to close the for- elgn market to our products. Our exports never renched that polnt In u given year in all our history. The story Is told #0 often that many 2ood Deople have come to believe 1t that protection hus destroyed our foreign trade. Tie custon: house figuros conclusively rofute this, and | wish thoy might bo studled by every voter. In 1870 wo were under protection. Wa exported that your products of the value of §70,610.47. This year wo exported moro than a bilil dollars’ worth of Amerioan products. In 18 wa lnported products of tho varue of BHK.05,~ 403, and this year f738L28k Our exports have trebled in twonty-two yours and our mporte have doubled, una il the whileunder protection. Our 6Xport trude under the tarlt law of 1801 Increased 15% per cent and the exports of Great Britain i tho same period under a democratic freo trade tarifl decroased Y% por cent. A Revenue Tarifr, What protection will do and has done, what a democratic revenue tariff will do and hns done is not_left to speoulation. Our own his- tory records the story of both. From 1847 to 1861 under o free-trado revenue tarlll the balance of trade agalnst us was more than $131,000,000. and there were but two years of the fifteon when the balance of tradd was in our fuvor, while from 1876 to 181, »_period of fifteen yoars, there were just two yeurs when tho balance of trade wasugalnst us. We wore thon under protection thirteen years when tho bulnnce of trade wusin our favor and h it Dulunce nggrogated 81,040.415,246. Which period was the more profitible to the Ameri- oun people? 1t Is maintained by the democrntic londers, but rosts wholly In assumption, that the furmer wonld be benefited by a revonuo tariff; that his ’rorl trade in agricultural pro- ducts would be Increased. Lot us refer again to our own history. From 18i6to 1861, dur- ing tho entire rovenue turiff perlod, we ox- ported 63,440,173 busnels of wheat. We ex- ported in u single year under protection, thut Of 1878, 72,000,000 0f Whent, or 6,030,000 more than the agzregate of the entire fiftcen yoars unJer a revenuo tariff, and in 183, 181, 1882, 185, 1687 und 1801 we oxportod. more wheat in onch of these sevoral yeurs than we sold abroad in allof theyesrs from 1845 to 1861 undor the Whalker free trade tariff of 1816 We export now in u single year more whoat than wis ex- ported from 1700 to 1861, a period of soventy- one years. More wheut in a sinzlo yoar than than Inall of the years from Washington to Lincoln. Oan the farmer justly compiain of this showing, und does the turif¥ reformer ex- tract any comfort from 1t? Whether you consult the question of domes- tlo trade or foreien trade, protection in our own country has glven us the best results, it has given us the largest activity at home nad the lurgest sale of our products abrond. Fro toction not only directly benefits the great industries of the country by muking It possi- blo to estublish them—and thus furnishin nt to labor—but 1t mukes u demun W materials of every kind and char- which but forour manutacturing entor- prise at home wou.d be practically useless and without value. ¥armers and Protection. Protection is a positive benefit to the farmers of this country. Thoro 1s no class of our fellow citizens more cortainly advantaged by the protective tariff than the farmer of the United States. It mak home demand for his products, and home consumers are ul- ways better than forelgn consumers becuuse they are neurer the field of production. They euable the farmer to dispose of perishable products at a profit, which it wouid be im. practieable to ship abroad. It therefore in- creases to that extent the demand for tho products of aericulture and wideus the uses of the furm. Millions of dollurs annuuslly of tho products of the farm are sold in our indus- trial towns which would not be ralsed at all but for the demund -which they muke. What tho farmer wants Is consumers, and the more consumers and fewer competitors he hus the better wiil bo his profits, and he wants these consumers steady and rezulur and at all times relixble. e has such in the 65,000,000 consumers In this country, who are the best and most profitable consumers to be found anywhere on the globe. Il‘) is sure of them, while his foreign market isfitful, far removed less cortain and dependent upon agrivultural conditions in the foreizn countries. whether there Is a short crop or 4 lonz crop, There he has competition: here he his pructically the fleld. with littie or no competition excepnt with his own fel.ow citizens. As illustrating the difference In value be- tween the domestic consumer and the foreign consumer, I have but to state that the work- ingman in the American shop consumes more than#0 worth of agricultural products un- nually of the American farmer, whi'e the for- cign workingmun consumes less than # of Amerlcan agricuitural products annually. The American consumer s, therefore, worth eightesn or ninetosn times more—Is elghtean or nineteen times n better customer of the farmer hero than Is the forelzn workingman, The democratio leader of today seems to think there 1s some peculiar sanctity ubout the for- elgn consumer that does not atiu to the domestic. [don't; I prefer the domestic con- sumer, bacauso 06 is the best; he consumes more und has more money to pay for his liv- ing than any other consumer in the wida, wide world. More American Consumers, Thoe agriculturists of this country do not wany more farmers, They want more peoplo who do 1ot raise their own fcod and whowm they cun supply. Every farmer would ruther have a fuctory for his nelghbor than another farmer. Evory fuctory that is built up in- creases the farmers’ custowers, tho value of his product and the value of his land. Every factory that is broken down diminishes the furmers’ customers, the value of his proauce and the value of his land, and Increases bis competitors. 1f the workin:men of this coun- try oannot got omploymont fn the factorles thioy mustseck It elsewhere. They cannot find ivinother mechunical pursuits, 80 thoy muss 0 to the land. There every man can g0 when fi6 nnnot find worlc ut his AcoUSLOMOU oou: pation, and when he goes there Lie takes out of iho ground a living sud he 18 no longer the consumer of your products but produces for himself und becomes o competitor of yours in- steud of 4 costumor of yours, ns he Iy today. Every uew Industry increnses the farmer's houwé murkes and furnishes L what he most wiants, profitable customers. 1t 15 no faulv of the new tariff law if the farmers of the United States do not supply evory agricuitural want of our entire popu- lation. We framed that Liw to give them this riket, And we frumo | that law not only to flvo, thom tho exolusive controi of this mar- t, but to encourage industries which would incroase the cousumers by Increasing the fuctorles and the dsmand for labor therein. Every product of the furm I8 protected by the new inw directly, and by the malatenunce of our thousands of groat enterprises, indireotly, securing for the turmer the bust murket in the world for his prolucts. How do agricuiturists fare In free trade England? Lot Mr. Giadstono snswer: “We huve ln wany parts of the country not Highest of all in Leavening Power.~Latest U, S. Gov't Report, Roel Baking P?’zv“der ABSOWTELY THE OMAHA DAILY | the process wh 3 only stationary llll}?\,q decroasing rural popuintion. There aro AU just snorifices that onight not to be enegountersd in order to ston lenvesthe rural Iaborer in peomiition where b oup hardly hopo to, keep his wife and elilidren evih with an insufclent supply of the neqessarias of iite. " Cardinal Manning wrote A voar and a halt ago that Innd was golng 64t of cultivation in Darts of Bngland, 2 Falr Piay, «n Eagilsh §db toation, aives the Lo of wazos pald to agcaltural Liborors at Borwlok. Cariisie, Whitby and Thirsh, the four ricipat agrieultdFal centors of Bng- and. 3y The wazes paid to youhg men ran from #15 to $1750 a_year: 0 nith, ordinary Inborers, from $1) to §55 . vear; far managors of farms, from 80 to 8130 & yer: plowmen, 830 to #0) & voar. For girls, 825 10 80 alyoar; female mans agers of farm houses aud, daleics, 0 1o $100 & onr. Y5Were i nothing In theisdnaition of ageles ture in Engiand under froe traao to Induce our farmers to exchunge what they have for what It offers, and there Is no market abrond 80 valuablo 10 them as the one thoy have at home. It should be the aim and purpose of every farmer to retaln It The Home Market. Hornoe Greoley presents the valueof a home market in o way which Lam sure wlll be im- ive, Hesiys: 1t seems to me selt-ovident that proteotion tends to shorten the distance between the tarmer and tho artisan and manutaoturor, honco to dininish the cost of exchuneing thelr respective products, and thus to seours to the farmer not only surer und steadier markets for his produce. but an ampler ro ompense for his Iabors. ‘Buch are the conolu- slons that long ago made mo protection!st. Distant markets are all but_inevitably {noo stant, uncertnin markets. Europn has del olent hiurvests one yoar and buys grain of us quite freely, but next yer her harvests are Dounteous iud _she requires very little moro food than sho produges, no matter how frecly wo miy be buying of her fubrics. Hoence our whot now sells very far Golow the price which ruled here when Europe had a_meager harvest. A ramoto market virtually rostriots the farmer 10 two OF threo wreat staples, ilo noar markets enablo him to di the productive cupacity of This statemont (8 a8 truo as [t was twenty- two yours az0 whon It Was penned by 118 grout Aor und has never beon successtully an- orod. It comes with peculiar foroe now. We constituto less than o per cont of the world's population, and yot wo consuie 20 per cent of the sugar of tne world, 3) per cent of the coffee of the world, 31 per cent of the fron of the world, 3} per cent of the steol of the world, #) por cent of the copper, i per_cent of the | por cont of the cotton, 33 per cent of the wool, 4) por cen of the coal ‘ind 50 per cent of tho tin of theworld. Yot there are those who would adopt an economio polioy that would give to tho other nations this un- mutched markot. Wo would presorve it as far us possible, for ourseives, and thut is what protecuion means. Why should we surrender t 10 tlio outside world when wo cun, for the niost part, supply it and thus employ our Inbor and eur capital and furnish a profitablo market at home to our agriculturul pro- ducers? The enemies of vrotection talk uncensingly about its burdens, but.do not partioularizo. If there is anything that the free trader shrinks from it Is faots and conditions. They cnnnot designate the character of the fnjury which they so persistently allege follows tho protectivo tariff. 3 d them contradiccs their th ness, wuges and pric ™ atl unite in destroying F 4o they propuse any y rellot. The Triumph of Provection. If protection is a real Injury to the Ameri- can people some evidence of it should be at hand—something whioh we might seo and feel and know. The individual eltizen should know it from personul realization; ho should know it from inoreased prices of tho necessirios of life, from scanty _employment -und stlll scantier wages. But whutover knowledge comes to him frum his own actual experience glves him no realizing sense that protection is a burden, but, on the coptrary, a blessing and a benofit, If it {s not a blirden upon the citizens, is it a burden upon the goveriiment itself 'or the states, or any of our munjeipal organizations? Under 1t the nation has marched to a prosper- ity unrivaled in_the world’s history. Under it, in part, the United States was enabled to furnish the money with which 0 prosecuto a mighty war, and has beeu ablo in the lust twenty years to reducethe national dobt so that today it Is less by swo-thirds thun it was st tho oclose of the war. ks orodit has stoadily improved llnce% otection was made the nationul polloy in ‘6K and at this hour it has a eredit unequaled by any other com- merelal nation and unggualed ever before fn its own history. Thestates and the municl- ulitios huve o ten years made & substan- ial reduction of thelr public indebtedness. While all this was golng on the great mnsses of the peoblo have prospered and their earn- inzs, us represented ju the savings banks of the country, are grenter by far |.11Am the surn- m“uo‘ any other peoplo on thé fuce of the earth. Thirty years of protection has brought us to the first fank In agricalture, in mlnln&( and In munufacturing development. Weload all na- tlons in theso three great depurtments of in- dustry. We have outstripped even the United Kingdom, which bad centurles the start of us. Ier fiscal polfey for fitty years has boen the free trade revenue tarlft polioy of the demo- orats. ours the protective tarlif policy of the repub leans. Tried by any test, measured by any stand- ard. wo lead all the rest of the world. Protec- tion has vindicated itself. It cannot be helped by eulogy or hurt by defamution. It Dbas worked out its own demonstration, ‘and presonts in the sight of the wholo world Its matchless trophles. It cannot be cried down by fulse numes or Injured by offensive epi- thets, nor can it uny lonzer suffor from false- hood or the forebodings of the false prophet. Ithas triumphed over all 1ts traducers at home and ubroad. It has made the livesof the masses of our countrymen sweeter and Dbrighter, and has enterod the homes of Amor- icu, carryinz comfort und cheer and courage. Itglves "w premlum to human energy and uwikens the noblest aspirations In the bronsts of men. Our.own experiones shows that it is best for our cltizonship and our elvilization, and opens up a higher wnd better destiny for our pecple. The duy of repentance will come when we have made a chunge. Coming to Omaha, Neb.,, Aug. 2.-—|Special Tele- gram to Tne Bee. |—Governor McKinley will speak at Omaha on Friday at 2 o’clock p. m. Make all arrangements. . Nugget! Nugget! Nugget! Buy Big Nugget bakiug powder. 32 oz 25 cents. BEATRICE, e Drank Herself to Death. Flora Clayton, @ fragile creature of 24, whoso earthly abode has been at 212 North Ninth street for some time past, succumbed Monday night to the effacts of a burdensome load of booze and laid down and died as the best way ont of it. Coroner Maul said that there was no ques- tion but that the woman drank herself to death, aund docided that an inguest was unnecASSAry. EXCELSIOR SPRINGS .t 15 25 miles N.-E. of Kansas City, + M. & St. P. Railway, THE ELMS I8 the most charming all:year-round resort hoiel in Ameriga. CAPACITY, 500 GUE! SITUATED IN THE MISST OF A PICTURESQUE WODDED ESTATE OF 1,000 ACR i SPLENDID MUSIC, DANCING, BOWLING AND BILLIARDS, PERFECT TENNIS COUAT! PICTURESQUE WALKS, BRIDLE PATHS AND DRIVES. SUPERB BATHS. AN IMMENSE 0§ SALT-SULPHUR SWIMMING POOL. MARVELOUS TONIC 'WATER! ABSOLUTELY NO MALARIA, NO MOBQUITOS. Write for Ilustrated Pamphlet. Addre; EXCELSIOR SPRINGS CO,, ExcelsiorSprings,Mo. 0o ecdo00ec R icbardson Lrug Co:, Agls, Omaha. Neb “%UNKENNESS s s b Kubn & Co,, 15¢) Cuining Sta. | wad Richarason i, Blakoe, Brage & Co rug Uo.,Omaba, Neb, Eloquent Ohampion of Amerioan Industries Will Be Here on Friday Afternoon, GREAT OPENING FOR THE CAMPAIGN Earnest Efforts to Secure the Defender of Workingmon's Wages and Amerloan lustitutions to Address Omaha Citizons Are Successtul, Governor MeKiniey Is coming to Omahs. Ever since the annovncoment was made that the great protection advocato was going t0 speak at the Beatrice Chautauqua the cities of Nobraska have been having a merry time in their efforts to secure the governor for an adavess. Sirce Major McKinley touched Nebraska soil Monday morning on his way to Beatrios the telegraph wiras have been kopt warin with iivitations to him to addréss the people of various oities of tho state Omaha ropublicans have the fever and have been successful in: their efforts to in- duce the maiur to visit this city and deliver an address to the republicans on the great issue of the present campaign. As tho result of a caucus of prominent re- publicans, Judge C. R. Scott and Hon, E. M Bartiett went to Beatrioe yesterany morning to sec Major McKinley personally. The suc- cess of their efforts was announced in the following teiexram to Mr. Rosewater, re- ceived last night: BrATricr, Neb., Aug, 2—E. Rosewater, Omuha: McKinley will speak at Omaha on Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Engage the Coliseum and adyertise the meeting. Ex- cursion trains shoula be arranged for and a Dbig meeting hold to ratify the state nomina- tlons, Q. R. ScoTT,} E. M. BARTLETT. The speech of Governor MoKinley at Heatrice yesterday, a report of which ap- pears in Tur Bre this morning, will give Nebraska republicans ap idea of the kind of doctrine the great protection leaaer teaches and will matte them more anxious than ever to hear him speak. The republican county and city central committees will probably take the matter in haod today and arrange the detais for the biggest rally the republicans have ever held. A L A B1G NOISE EXPLAINED, It Will Mean # Good Deal a Month from Now. People who passed the corner o 18th and Harney streots yesterday hoard a well dovel- oned racket and wondered what was going on. A reporter, on investigation, learnbd that the sounds were created by a foroe of carpenters at work Jn Branch & Co.’s whole- sals house. Mr. Branch was inclined to gratify the reporter’s curiosity andexplained that be haa been compelled to increase his office force and was enlarging bis office and adding facilities that would be of assistance in hanaling his rapidly growing tra de. “But this is not the most important work that we nave in hand,” said Mr, Branch as ;zu led the way to another part of the build- ng. Investigation proved that Branch & Co. are preparing to put in a large ice box and cooling and packing rooms for handling oysters on a much larger scale than ever at- tempred before. The oyster season will open in Septomber, the first month contain- ing an “r,” though people who prouounce August “Orgist” might insist that it opened a month earler. Experience Lias shown Branch & Co. that tho oyster business, with thenr, is a growine business and they are making arrangements that will enable them to handle even more oysters than last year aud in a way that will be to the best advantage of their customoers. In faot, they will make oysters their specialty, and the people of Omata and the surrounding country will be enabled to ob- tain a constaut supply of the popular bivalve, Without doubt their **Horsesnoe’” brand will be even more popular the coming season than it was last year. B Everybody Will Go. Most of the delegates to the ropublican state convention wiil go to Lincoln this morn- lavoring xtracts NATURAL FRUIT FLAVORS. Of perfect purity. Of great strength, Economy In thelr use Flavor as dellcately and dellciously as the frosh fruit. In Paint the best is cheapest— Strictly Pure White Lead is best; properly agplied it will not scale, chip, chalk, or rub off; it firmly adheres to the wood and forms a permanent . base for repaintlni. Paints which peel or scale have to be removed by scraping or burn- ing before satisfactory re- painting can be done. In buying white lead it is im- portant to obtain that which is genuine, strictly pure, and properly made. ime has roven that white lead made y the “Old Dutch” process of slow corrosion possesses qualities that cannot be ob- tained by any other method of manufacture. This process consumes four to six months time, and produces the brands that have given White Lead its character as the standard paint. “SOUTHERN” “COLLIER" “RED SEAL” are standard brands of strictly Bure Lead made by the “Old utch” process. Vou get the best in buying them. by all first class dealers in Paints, @ going to paint, it will pay you to 0ok containing information that may you many a dollar; it will only cost you a postal card to do so. NATIONAL LEAD CO,, St. Louis Branch, Clark Avenue and Tenth Street, St. Louis, Mo, WRINLEY COMING T0 OMARA | ing 80 that they oan hear Governor McKin- ley this evaning. ‘\r. John T. Clake, chalrman of the trans- portation committes, at room 219 Board of Trade bullding, 1 providing transportation for the delogates. ‘The Douglas county delegation will have headquarters at the Linooln hotel. <mmaacifesn FATALLY CRUSHED. Max Lentz Caught by an Elevator Whi Trylng to Oporate It Max Lentz, a shoe dealor oa Tenth, near Harnoy, sustaned fatal injuries about 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon in Kirk- endall, Jones & Co.’s wholesale boot and shoe ostablishment at Twelfth and Harney streets. He ontered the clevator to go to an upper floor, and as none of the employe| wore present, started the appar- atus himsolf. He was unable to control it, not knowlng just how to handle it, and in at- tempting to stop at the third floor threw the lever tho wrong way, and the elevator started upward at inoroased speed. Lentz tried to jump from the oage, but was caught between the floor of the cage and the 1ron screen work of the acorway and was badly orushed. Ho was severely injured internally, besides the severo bruises that he rooelved about the faco and body He was removed in the patrol wagon to the Methodist hospital. The doctor stated that he would probably dle. Lentz 18 a married man, and lived with his wife ana child in the bullding that is partly ocoupied by his shoe store. About an hour after the removal of Lentz to the hospital he died and was removed to the morgue. A jury was at once empaneled and viewed the body. The funeral will take place at 9 o'olock this morning and the inquest will be held at 40 m LA Paving Contractors' Bonds, The Board of Public Works mot yesterday afternoon and approved the bond of Wick- bam Bros., the contractors who will pave with Colorado sandston at $2.08 por square vard the alleys in block 8, Hanscom place, blooks 13, 18 and 461, city, and the alley from Tienty-socond to Twenty-fourth streots in Paulson’s addition. There was talk of forfeiting tho 8500 check put_up by Andrew Jaicks, which accom- panied his bid to pave St. Mary's avenue from Twenty-fifthto Twenty-sixth streots, with sheet asphaltum, but as the dato for filing his bond had not expired no action was taken. THE FACT That AYER'S Sarsaparilla cunes ornkrs of Scrofulous Diseases, uptions, Boils, Eczema, Liver and Kidney Diseases, Dyspoepsia, Rheu. matism, and Catarrh should be con. vincing that the same course of treatment wiLt cure you. All that has been said of theé wonderful cures effected by the use of AYER’S Sarsaparilla during the past 50 years, truthfully applies to-day. Itis, in every sense, The Superior Medicine, Its cura- tive properties, strength, effect, and flavor are always the same ; and for whatever blood diseases AYER'S Sarsaparilla is taken, they yield to this treatment. When you ask for AYER'S Sarsaparilla don’t be induced to purchase any of the worthless substitutes, which are mostly mixtures of the cheapest in- gredients, contain no sarsaparilla, have no uniform standard of ap- pearance, flavor, or effect, are blood- purifiers in name only, and are of- fered to you because there is more profit in selling them. Take AYER'S Sarsaparilla Prepared by Dr.J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass, Bold by all Druggists; Price $1; six botties, $5. Cures others, will cure you ‘Which would you rath- er have, if you could have your choice, transparent skin or perfect features? All the world would choose one way; and you can have it measurably. If you use Pears’ Soap and live wholesomely otherwise, you will have the best complexion Na- ture has for you. All sorts of stores sell it, especially druggists; all sorts of people use it. NEBRASKA National Bank, U, ¢ DEFOSITORY - - OMAHA, NEB +....$400,000 $63,000 presideny, C. 8. g, v ohn 3, Collins J, N, H. oed Casbicr. THE TRON BANK. The gloriovsdny_of open doors —all outside 15 smilling welcome— here’s health and joy all uncon- fined—The cycler sées everything free ns froadom—from the heights of exhilacated happiness he cannot fali—from his Columbian Safety. All aboutColumbins free on application to any Columbla agont, or sont by for twotwo-cont stamps. Popo M. [ Columbus Ave., Boston. NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT OF DAM- AGES FOR CHANGE OF GRADE, To the owners of all lots and parts of lots and renl estate aloug 40th street from Burt to Californla street. You uro hereby notified that the under- signed, three disinterested freeholders of the clty of Omuhn, have been duly uppointed by the mayor, with the upproval of the oity councllof snid clty. to assess the dumngo'to tho ownors resuactivoly of the property uf- fected by changing the zrade of suld street, declared necessary by ordinance numbor 186, pussed July 21st, 1892 npproved July Zird, 1802, You are further notified, thut having we- copted suid appointment, und duly qualifiod s required by law we will, on the Iith day of August, A. D., 1802, 3t tho hour of 10 o'clocl in the torenoon, at the offico of Shriver & 0'Donahoe, 1403 Farnam street, within the corporate limits of said eity. meot for the pur- pose of considering and Waking tho nssuss- ment of dumago Lo the owners respoctively of suid property, wtected by wald ohunge of grade, taking into consideration spocial bene- fits. if uny. You are notified to be present ut the time and pince aforesald and make any obje to or statements conceraing sald Of dumnages us you miy consldor 11 T8 M K. B. GIBBON, . Commlittee of Appralsors. Omaha, July 30th. | 10 NOTICE OF ASS DAMAGES FOR GRADING. To the owners of all lots and parts of lots and roal estute wloug B4th streot frow Far- nam stroet to Dodze stret: You are heroby notified that the under- sicued. threo disinterosted froeholders of the ity of Omabs. huve been duly wpplonted by the wayor, with the approval of the eity coun- cil of sald oity, to ussoss tho d* mage o the owners respoctively of the proj sty affectod by radiug $ith stroot from Farawm stroct to Dodgo stroet declured ¢ scossary by ordinanco 8,178, pussed July 21st, 1 92 approved July Zird, You ‘are further notitied, that baving uc- copted aald, nppolutmont nd duly quallded us roquired by law, we will, on the 1ith duy of August, A, D (802 at the hour of 10 o'elock in the forénoon, at the office of T. 1. MeOulloch, roomw 842 New York Life bullding, within thi GOPPOFALo lmits of said city, meot OF Lhe pur- pose of considering and muking the assess- ment of damage o tho owners respoetivoly of sald property, sffectod by suld grading, taklng 1n%o consideration spocial benefits, If wny. You ure uotifled to be presont at tho tme and place aforesaid, und muke any objoctions W OF statements concorning sald assessuont of damuges as you may consider proper. 17 B, MCOU LLOOH, R W. GIBSON, JOUN ¥, FLACK, Omuha, July 20th, 1602 duaios ANMUSEMENTS, BOYD’S Now Thealre. “ovmne’ FRIDAY and SATURDAY, AUGUST 5 and € SEASON, The footlight sensation of the age. A play for the ninoteonth century play go era. Introducing a bieyclo race hero with all tho realivy of an outdoor event. Presented by the atronges! musical comedy organization in Amerion. Something New for Eyes and Ear . Nothing Broad but the Smiles. Nothing Loud but the Laugh: DON'T MISS THE THEATRIDAL NOVELTY. Box sheets open Thursday orning nt usual prices FARNAM STREET THEATER, 4—nights—é Commencing Sunday matinee, Come and laugh at LITTLE TIPPET T. Harrison & Bell's comedlans, WEDNESDAY MATINEER ulys1 PERMANENT SIDEWALK RESOLU TION. COUNCIL CHAMBER, OMAHA, Neb., July 21 1802 ~Bo It_resolved by the' city council of the city of Omaha, the mayor dneurring: That permancnt sidewulks be constructed in the city of Omaha as destznated betow, within five days after the publication of th resolution, or the personal service thercof, as by ordinance is authorized and required; sich sidewalks to be la d to the permanent grade 2 estabiished on the paved streets specifivd herein und 1o be constructed of stone, artifi- ¢ al stone, according to_specitications on fiie in the offico of the Board of Public Works, and under 1ts supervision, tw-wit: outh side of Cuming street, lot 4, blook ity, 16 feet wide. North side of Wobater streot, lots 5 and 7, block 61, eity, 6 foet wide. North s'de of larney street, lots 5 and 6, city, 10 feet wide ae of Webster streot, lots, 6.7 and 8, block 351, ciiy, 8 feet wide. X side of Burt street, lots 2, 8 and 4, block 31, city. 8 feot wide. Enst siile of Sevontoenth street. lots 4 and 5, block 4, ¢ity, 8 feet wide, East sido of Soventoenth street, lot 4, blook 80, city. 8 feet wide, West side of Thirteenth street. lot 1, blook 23, elty, 10 foet wide. West alde of Eleventh street. lot 1, block 175, city, 8 feet wide, North side of Davenport street, lots 7 and 8, Dlock 56, eity, 8 feet wide. North side of Chicago street, lot 5, blook 44 2lty. 8 feet wide. South side of Cass street, lots 1, 2, 3 and 4, t wide. . Dblock 43, eity, 8 1 North side of Oass stroot, lots 7, 6, and el ot lov 5, bloc! § foet wide. Jalifornia street, lots 3 and 4 South side of street, lots 5, 6, 7, and black 23, city, § feot wide. South sideot Onlifornl 8,blook 10, city, 8 BT wid And, be it further resolved: ‘That the Board of Public Works be. and is hereby uuthorized and directed to cause copy of this resolution to be publishod in tha olcial paper of th oity for One wesk, or Do served on the owners of suld lots, and thatun- less such owners shall within five days after the publication or service of such copy cons struct said sidewalks ns hereln required, thit the Board of Public Works causo tho same to bo done, thocost of constracting suid sides walks respectively to bo asscssod against the real estate, 10c or part of lot in front of und abutting such sidown|ks. Pussea July 21st, 1502 Attost: E. P. DAVIS, JORN GROVES, President of thie Councll, City Cierk. Approved: GEo, P. By, Mavor. NOTICE T0 CONSTRUCT SIDEWALKS. To the owners of tho lots, parts of lots and roal estate aescribed In the above resolutiont You and euch of you are hereby nowflod to consvruct permunsnt sldowalks “ns requ'red by a resolution of the city cou and mayor of the olty of Omuha, of which the above is » copy. P, W. BIRKAAUSER, Ohairman Board of Public Works. OMAHA, Neb., July 23, 1502, Jy284T0 PROPOSALS FOR PAVING. Beuled propounis will bo reculved by the un- dersigned until 1530 o'clock p. m., Anzust 17th, 182, for shoev asphaltum from' tho asphals tuke in the isiand of Prinidad. For paving part of the following streets and avenues In the city of Omaha, comprised In stroet Lmvrovemsnt dlstrists Nos. 4% 40 ind 350 and more puarticus larly dosc. 18 foll0ws: No. 427—L1throp streot from Shermun aye- nue to 15uh street. No. 441-—0uh stroet from Farnam strest to the north iine of Daveaport street. No. #2—Divenport street from ith street to 40th atroot. No. $l0—Sherman avenuo from south line of Grand avenue to Fort street, and No. 50 - Park ar 2)th avenuc from Loavens worth stroot to iLickory strapt. Fueh bid to specily i price pur square yard for the paving complete in the sireets and avenues. Work {0 be done in accordance with and specifications on e o the ofice of bourd of putiic works, proposisl to he made on printed binnks turn shed by the board and Lo be avsompan o4 by u cortified chook in the sum of &), pay- ablo to the eity of Omaba. us an evidonce of good falth. ‘The Lourd resorves the right 1o rejoct uny or all bids and to walve defucts, P, W, BIRKHAUSER, Chalrman Board of Pabile Works. Omabu, Neb., August ist. 130 wdeieide10 lans the PROPOSALS FOR GRADING, Bealod proposals will be recelved by the undersigned untll 1:30 o'clock b. m. Augist 1, 182, for grading 22nd stroet from Poppletoa Avenue to the south line of the U, 5. Quair- termuster's Depot, In the city of ‘Ouinli, in accordunce with plans and specifio iwions on file In the offico of the bourd of public Works. Bids will be made on printed binnks fur- nished by the bourd, and 10 bo wooompsain | By s cortltiod chook fn the s of B0, Dy sbla 0 tho oity of Omuhia as an ovidenco of goud with. ‘Tho board reserves the right to reject an, or wll bids und to walve defocts. i PoW. BIKKHAUER Obalrman Bourd of Publle Works. Ouwaba, July 26th, 150 JyA-NALS