The Norman Transcript. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 29, 1903 Page: 3 of 8
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FAITH IS NOT LOST
PROTECTIONIST SENTIMENT IS
STRONG WITH THE PEOPLE.
Talk of Tariff Tinkering Originates
Not With the Rank and File, But
With Certain Leaders Who Have
Ends to Gain and Ambitions to
Serve.
Any tinkering with the tariff at the
present time can but jeopardize that
stability which our economic condi-
tions now enjoy and consequently
prove fatal to the continuance of that
prosperity, which for the past five
years, or since the enactment of the
Dingley tariff In 1897, has made
every other nation on the globe look
upon us with eyes of envy. Cin we
afford to let go an established cer-
tainty for a doubtful experiment? Is
it just? Is it wise? Is it statesman-
like to do so? Manifestly any such
course <s little short of folly, certain
political leaders to the cpntrary not-
withstanding.
We all recall to our sorrow the no-
torious Cleveland era preceding the
. election of McKinley in 1896. Business
was at a standstill, labor was un-
employed, and the nation was prac-
tically in the hands of Coxey's army
and bankruptcy. About this time
something happened. I was the elec-
tion 01 McKinley, the cessation of a
senseless currency agitation, and the
enactment of what is known as the
Dlngley protective tariff bill. We
know the result—abundant prosper-
ity.
The history of this nation furnishes
several examples of like prosperity
following the enactment of protective
tariff laws. The citation of one will
suffice. The seven years preceding
the year 1824 were years of hard
timos and business stagnation. But in
that year Congresfc passed a protec-
tive tariff law, business immediately
revived and until the year 1832 the
country enjoyed unprecedented pros-
perity. In the latter year a revision
of the tariff agitation began. Henry
Clay was the leader of the protection-
ists and fought with all the powers of
his masterly inteleet any measures
calculated to change the existing tar-
iff. It was at this time that he deliver-
ed his famous speech, in the United
States senate, known as "The Ameri-
can System." A portion of that speech
is in many respects applicable to the
present time and descriptive of pres-
ent conditions. After dwelling some-
what at length on the hard times pre-
ceding 18^4 and calling atteniton to
the enactment during that year of
the tariff law that brought on the
era of business revival he said: "I
have now to perform the more pleas-
ing task of exhibiting an imperfect
sketch of the existing state of the un-
paralleled prosperity of the country.
On a general survey we behold culti-
vation extended, the arts flourishing,
the face of the country Improved, our
people fully and profitably employed
and the public countenance exhibiting
tranquillity, contentment and happi-
ness." This pleasing state of affairs
he attributes to the wise tariff laws
and he counsels their retention.
A review of the conditions immedi-
ately preceding and following the en-
actment of the Dingley tariff bill
would show a state of affairs identical
with those described by Mr. Clay as
existing before and after the passing
of the tariff law in 1824. The princi-
ple of protection is the same now as
it has always been, and the fact that
great corporations have sprung up
does not change the fundamental
principles of this or any other gov-
ernment. Corporations are not the
creatures of the tariff system but have
sprung up independent of it, and the
fact that they reap a benefit from it
iu an attendant circumstance Incident
to the general application of that sys-
tem. If the system of protection in
some few instances makes, not inten-
tionally but incidentally, a few rich
men richer, is not that evil, if evil it
be. more than compensated by the
bringing of prosperity to the country
at large? The rich men are numeri-
cally a very insignificant part of the
population and why should a law that
they can reap a certain benefit from
be for that reason condemned when
it also brings to the common people,
of whom there are so many, an op-
portunity to exchange .their limited
products and labor for the necessities
and comforts of life? The logic of
some anti-tariff agitators is about like
this: Corporations are bad; tariff
laws help corporations, therefore tar-
iff laws are bad! As well say that
because the sun shines on corpora-
tions and corporation promoters it Is
bad.
This talk of revising the tariff Is
uncalled for and if persisted in by
men of prominence In the party, will,
by a tendency to unsettle present in-
dustrial stability, bring on business
depression. Let the tariff remain as
it is, for. as Senator Halo of Maine
said last month: "The Dingley act
has given the people of the United
States more revenue, more business,
more trade, and more prosperity than j
any bill ever enacted." He also says !
In speaking of revision: "Unless the |
Republican party has lost heart aud j
faith in its fundamental policies there
Will he no meddling with and no i
emasculation of the present tariff,
whether under the guise of reciproc-
ity or reform." But the Republican
party has not lost faith in Its funda-
mental principles. Tills talk of re-
vision has not originated with the
people; it Is the dream of certain
leaders, who, unless they heed the
writing on the wall, will soon receive
a rude awakening — Minnesota
(Minn.) Mascot
WOOL AND TARIFF.
Higher Prices and Increased Produc
tion Under the Dingley Law.
"The wool manufacturing industry
In the United States is in a highly
flourishing condition. This is the
situation as described in the annua.1
wool review of the National Associa
tion of Wool Manufacturers published
in the current quarterly bulletin ol
the association. We are now living
under the Dingley tariff act, which ac
corded special protective attention to
the wool growing and wool manufac
turing business, and credit must evi
dently be given to that tariff for the
present state of the manufacturing In
dustry."
The above concession from the
Springfield Republican is welcome
indeed, but still that paper is not
happy, for it continues:
"What of the business of wool grow-
ing under this tariff Jaw? First, it
is to be conceded that the grower en-
Joys higher prices for his product.
Ohio XX washed wool now rules at
twenty-eight and a half cents a pound
against twenty-six and a half cents in
1901, twenty-eight and a half cents
in 1900, thirty-one and a half cents In
1899 and twenty-nine and a half cents
in 1898, but against nineteen cents
during the three years in which the
Wilson tariff act (tree wool) was
operative. This rise in price should
have stimulated wool production
greatly, but it has done so only mod-
erately, and the domestic output of
wool still falls short of what it was
ten years ago under the McKinley tar-
iff act, and bids fair not again for
the present to reach those former fig-
ures. The product of the current year
is placed at 346,341,000 pounds,
against 259,153,251 in 1897, at the end
of the free wool period, but against
348,538,138 pounds in 1893, the maxi-
mum production recorded under the
McKinley act." .
An average of twenty-nine cents a
pound during the Dingley tariff, as
against nineteen cents a pound un-
der the Gorman-Wilson tariff, and a
production of 346,000,000 pounds,
against 259,000,000 pounds, would
seem to answer the Republican's
question: "What of the business of
wool growing under this tariff law?"
But still the editor is unsatisfied be-
cause we have not yet recovered all
that we lost. He forgets that it is
easier to tear down than to b-iild
up, and that It may still bo several
years before we fully recover from
that disastrous wool period. If in
certain sections wool growing has
been to an extent abandoned it is be
cause of more profitable products. Then
as Secretary North of the Wool Manu-
facturer's Association says, the high
price of meat, has offered the farmers
an inducement to kill both lamb and
mutton so that the supply has really
decreased per capita instead of In
creased. But we do not agree with
Secretary North that we are not going
to have a domestic supply equal tc
domesitc. requirements, conditions are
not yet normal. BuJ we are glad to
note that since the close of the in-
surrection in the Philippines the
Springfield Republican is studying
economic questions with no little in-
telligence.
Tried to Stop the Train
RROrecruti
PROSPERITY
The Result.
(The mark of the oross shows what hit
him.)
PROTECTION
I II
A Bad Arrangement.
When it is proposed to cut a duty
on hosiery, gloves, knit goods and
the like for France and Germany to a
figure where the cheap labor in those
countries engaged in these industries
can cause their importation in such
quantities as to interfere with home
production, while we get no real ad-
vantage in return, that is not reei-
ptocity: it is giving away a good
thing for nothing. We will get no
' markets of the world" by such an
arrangement with European countries.
— Indianapolis Journal.
HONOR CLAIMED FCR TWO
Dispute as to Who Was "Father of the
American Navy."
Those who claim for Commodore
John Barry the honor of having been
"the father of the American navy"
will have a controversy on their hands,
If they follow Archbishop Ireland's
suggestion and attempt to have erect,
ed as a memorial to that officer a
statue In Washington. The statue, of
course, would be above criticism, for
Barry performed excellent service on
the sea in the revolution. But it
would be another matter to engrave
on the statue the claim that the Irish
sailor was the father of the American
navy. The people of Rhode Island
claim the honor for Esek Hopkins,
who In 1775 was commissioned by the
continental congress as commodore
and "commander-in-chief" of the
navy. He put to sea early in 1770
with the first squadron sent out under
an American flag, and with it he took
the British forts in the Bahama isl-
ands, and later captured prizes on the
high seas.
Fi-ih Love Musle. """
Susan Devereux of Eldorado, Kan.,
recently proved to a score of hen
friends that the fish that live in fbej
Walnut river lore music. For weekst
this young woman has gone to the
banks of that stream and played thej
violin and sung songs for the amuse-/
oient of the fish. The other day, as:
she entertained her pets, people crj
the banks of the stream counted hun-'
ireda of fish.
In Winter Use Allen's Foot-Ease.
A powder. Your feet feel uncom-
fortable. nervous and often cold and
damp. If you have sweating. Bore feet
or tight shoes, try Allen's Foot-Ease.
Sold by all druggists and shoe stores,
25 cents. Sample sent free. Address
Allen S. Olmsted. Le Roy, N. Y.
Senator Pettus' Eyeglasses.
Senator Pettus of Alabama, who fs
in his 81st year, is wearing one of two
pairs of eyeglasses he bought in 1865.
He lost the other pair shortly after hs
received them, and has thus for thir-
ty-seven years been wearing the sautj
glasses. They have worn out several
gold frames, and, have, of course, been
lost a numbor of times. The senator
•says it is all "humbug" for people to
change their glasses so often. There
are few men In the Senate better read
.than Senator Pettus. Much of his
reading has been dona at night, and.
aa he says, he has abused his eyes,
•though evidently they are of a kind
which can stand abuse.
CAUGHT BY THE GRIP.
RELEASED BY PE-RU-NA.
Congressman Geo. H. White's Case.
A Noted Sculptress Cured.
Dr. Cuyler'a Sermons.
Dr. Theodore Cuyler, whose minis-
try has been exceptionally fruitful for
these many years, is said to have nev-
er yet nreacbed a sermon in defense
of the scriptures.
The world
of medicine
recognizes
Grip as epi-
demic ca-
tarrh.
Medical Talk.
♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
I A GRIPPE is epidemic cat tar rh. It
spares no class or nationality. The
—' cultured aud the ignorant, the aris-
tocrat and the pauper, the masses and the
classes are alike subject to la grippe. None
are exempt—all are liable.
Have you the grip ? Or, rather, has
the grip got you t Grip is well named.
rhe original French term, la grippe,
has been shortened by the busy Ameri-
can to read "grip." Without intending
to do so a new word has beeu coined that
exartly describes the case. As if some
hideous giant with awful GRIP had clutched
us in its fatal clasp. Men, women, child-
ren, whole towns and cities are caught in
the baneful grip of a terrible monster.
Pe-ru-na for Grip.
Mrs. Theophile Schmitt, wife of the
J£x-Secretary of the German Consulate,
writes the following letter from 3417
Wabash avenue, Chicago, 111.:
"I suffered this winter with a sever©
attack cf la grippe. After using three
bottles of Peruna I found the grip had dis-
appeared. "--Mrs. T. Schmitt.
Mrs. Celeste Covell writes from 219 N.
avenue, Aurora, 111.:
"Only those who have suffered with la-
grippe and been cured can appreciate how
grateful I feel that such a splendid medicina,
as Peruna has been placed at the door of
every suffering arson."—Mrs. C. CovelL
Noted Rculptrni Cared of Grip.
Mrs. M. C. Cooper, of the Royal Acad-j
emy of Arts, of London, England, noun
residing in Washington, D. C., is one of'
the greatest living sculptors and painters of|
the world. She says :
"I take pleasure in recommending Peruna'
for catarrh aud la grippe. I have suflered
for months, and after the use of one bottle
of Peruna I am entirely well."—Mrs. M. C.
Cooper.
D. L. Wallace, a charter member of the
International Harber s Union, writes from
15 Westein avenue, Minneapolis, Minn.:
"Following a severe attack of la grippe 1
seemed to be affected badly all over.
"One of my customers who was greatly
helped by Peruna advised me to try it, and
I procured a bottle the same day. Now my
head is clear, my nerves are steady, I enjoy
food and rest well. Peruna has been worth
a dollar a dose to me.'' D. L. Wallace.
Lieutenant Clarice Hunt, of the Salt Lake
City Barracks of the Salvation Array,
writes from Ogden, Utah :
"Two months ago I was snffering with so
severe a cold that I could hardly speak.
"Our captain advised me to try Peruna
and procured a bottle for me, and truly it
workeil wonders. Within two weeks I was
entirely well."—Clarice Hunt.
Congressman Wlilt*'* letter.
Tar born, N. C,
Gentlemen: -I am more than satis*
fled with Peruna and find It to he an
excellent remedy for the grip and ca-
tarrh. I have used It In my family
and they a I Jo?n me In recommend Inn
It as an excellent remedy. "—Qeorgo
/?'. White, Member of Congnsa.
Mrs. T. W. Collins, Treasurer Inde-
pendent Order of Good Templars, of
Everett, Wash., writes:
"After having a severe attack of la grippe
1 continued in a feeble condition even after
the doctors called me cured. My blood
seemed poisoned. Peruna cured me."—
Mrs. T. W. Collins.
If you do not derive prompt and satis-
factory results from the use of I'eruna, write
at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full state-
ment of your case and he will be pleased to
give you his valuable advice gratis.
Address Dr. Hartman, President of Thej
Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio. '
Ask your druggist for a free Pe=ru=na Almanac.
Doan's Trial 1 riumph
The Free Trial of Doan's Kidney Pills daily carries relief to thousands.
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Aching backs are rased. Ilin, back, and
loin pains overcome. Swelling of the
limbs and dropsy signs vanish.
They correct urine with brick dust sedi-
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Sidney Pills dissolve and remove calculi
find gravel. Relieve heart palpitation,
sleeplessness, headache, nervousness.
kidneys. T could not get myself straight
when I tried to stand, would have to
bend In a half stooping position. I got u
trial box of Doan's Kidney Pills and took
all of them. At the end of two days they
got me out of bed and I was able to go
about. I take a delight iu praising these
Pills."—Abe Gunn, Jr.
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[ received the trial package of Doan's
Kidney Pills I couM not get out of bed
without help. I had severe pains in the
small of my back. The Pills helped me
at once, and now after three weeks the
pain in my back is all gone and I am no
longer annoyed with having to get up
often during the niglit as formerly. I can
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ney Pills have done for me. I am now 57
years old, have tried a great many medi
cines, but nothing did the work until I
used Doan's Kidney Pills."—James R.
Arthur.
Cleveland, Ky., Dcc. 28, 1902.—"I
was laid up in bed with my back and
Use a Rood, penetrating liniment when there's a hurt,
bruise, pain iu your body or the body of your beast.
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LINIMENT
worms its way down through the swollen, fevered
muscles to the very heart of pain and drives it out.1
NO MONEY TILL CURED.
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Rcctum: also 100 piff 'Hub. treatise cn Diseases of Women Of the tliousanJs curad
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(Cutout ronpon on dottH IInet find mail t
Ko.usr-kilL.urn Co., Buffalo, n. y.)
I Diamonds a Good Investment.
A t'mladelphla woman Induced her
husband to buy her {10,000 worth of
diamonds in 1895 instead of a life In-
surance policy of equal worth. Sb«
has refused {17,500 for the gems.
Who !s Suffering?
Gov. Cummins ought to tell us who
in Iowa is suffering so greatly that a
tariff agitation has to be kept up per-
petually.—Cedar Rapids Republican,
Gebhard May Marry Again.
Mrs. Drlna de Wolfe, the beauty of
Mrs. Osborn's playhouse, is going to
become a bride again, and Bhe doesn t
deny her name is going to be Mrs.
Frederick Gebhard.
gOOWWKKKKKWlW awe OWKhKM
I ST. JACOBS=
OIL
POSITIVELY CURES
Rheumatism
Neuralgia
Backache
Headache
Feelache
All Bodily Aches
AND
CONQUERS
Chance for Young People.
A London pastor proposes holding
church services in the dark, bo that
women worshipers will not be tempt-
ed to make the occasion one for the
study of hats and gowns. For entire-
17 different but perfectly natural rea-
sons such services are likely to be
liberally attended by young people.
mxow CLOTHES ARE I'VSKHITT.V.
Keep tbetn white with Red CroM Hall Hlue.
All grocers sell large 2 oz. package, 5 cents.
A YANKEE'S BUSINESS METHODS.
English Shopkeeper Instructed In the
Art of Advertising.
An enterprising Yankee came over
to England and decided to open a snop
in Birmingham. He obtained premises
next door to a man who also kept a
shop of the same description, but was
not very pushing in his business meth-
ods, preferring to Jog along in the
same old conservative way.
The methods of the Yankee, how-
ever, caused the old trader to wake
up, and with the spirit of originality
strong upon him he affixed a notice
over his door with the words, "Estab-
lished fifty years," painted in large
letters. Next day tha Yankee replied
to this with a notice over his store to
the following effect: "Established yes-
terday; no old utock."—I. O. U.
WAS PUNISHED FOH SLANDER
How tho Laws Were Vindicated in
England in 1364.
In the year 1364 John de Hakford
wr.s convicted of bringing a falst
charge of conspiracy against ths
"chief men" of London. The sentence
of the court was that "the said John
shall remain In prison for one whole
year and a day. And the said John
within such year shall four times hav«
the punishment of the pillory—that ij
to say, one day in each quarter of the
~tar, and In this manner: The said
John shall come out of Newgate with
out hood or girdle, barefoot and un
shod, with a whetstone hung by a
chain from his neck, and lying on his
breast. It being marked with the
words, 'A false liar.' And there shall
be a pair of trumpets trumpeting be
fore him on his way to the pillory,
and there the cause of his punish-
ments shall .be solemnly proclaimed
And the Maid John Bhall remain on
the pillory for three hours of the day
and from thence shall be taken back
to Newgate In the same manner, there
to remain until his punishment shall
ie completed."
American Chamber of Commerce.
An American Chamber of Commerce
Is about to be established in the city
of Berlin. This is expected to In-
crease the trade relations between
the United States and Germany, aud
especially serve to foster the expor-
tation of American products to the
latter country.
Mrs. >Vln.!ow-. PcoCTilng Ftyrap
Por cht'.dren tei-thliiR, .nftfni, ihe Kinna. reduce* lis
Qituiui.ilun.all.yb p.lii. i-urca wiml cullt. LiSv. .ixAUe
Famous Frosts in England.
The-lowest temperature recorded In
London during the past forty yean
was in January, 18C7, when the ther
mometer fell to 6.7, or nearly 26 da
grees of frost, but this undesirabln
record was almost equaled" during th<)
tamous long frost of 1S95, when fo(
one whole day in February the mer
cury never rose above eight degrees.
The coldest December was in 1890
the coldest February in 1895, and the
coldest March in 1883. Thp warmest
December occurred In 1868, the warm
est January in 1884, the warmest Feb-
ruary in 1SG9 and the waimest March
in 1S59.
'jVo-
not that!\
mamma says she wants
Dr. Caldwell's
(Laxative)
Syrup Pepsin
'cause brother and I like it
— it's so good."
Mrx. C. Fltrey, rorj IV. Macon Strtei1
Decatur, ///., writes:
"Oentlomen: — My little girl. Mred
eight month#, had been troubled iinc«
birth with constipation, aud reading of
your valuable medicine I concluded to
try It: and I can recowmcud it highly
to mother* for Immediate relief. Only
two fifty-cent bottles cured my baby."
YOUR DRUGGIST SELLS 17.
Pepsin Syrup Company
Montic«llo Uliaoij
W. N. U.-OKLAHOMA CITY-HQ. 5 1903
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