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| Nelson Dingley, Jr. |
CHEAP PRODUCTS FROM JAPAN.
House
Ways and Means Committee Reports Its Findings.
WASHINGTON, Juno 10.—Chairman Dingley of the
house ways and means committee has made a report on the menace to American
manufacturers by the threatened invasion of the cheap products of Oriental
labor and upon the effect of the difference of exchange between gold standard
and silver standard countries upon United States manufactures and agriculture,
these questions having been investigated by the committee.
The report says the sudden awakening of
Japan from the Oriental slumber of centuries is being followed by an equally
rapid westernizing of her methods of industry; that while the Japanese do not have
the inventive faculty of Americans, or even of Europeans, their imitative
faculties are wonderful.
Their standard of living would be regarded as
practical starvation by the workmen of the United States and their hours of
labor average 12 a day. Such skilled workmen as blacksmiths, carpenters, masons,
compositors, tailors and plasterers receive in Japanese cities only from 26 to
33 cents and factory operatives 6 to 20 cents per day in our money and nearly
double those sums in Japanese silver money, while farm hands receive $1.44 per
month.
"While your committee have not found that
any articles of importance made by factory methods in Japan, outside of cheap
silks, handkerchiefs, mattings, rugs, etc., have as yet invaded the markets of
the United States, it is probable that the rapid introduction of machinery into
Japan will within a few years make Japanese factory products, especially fine
cottons, silks and other articles in which the labor cost here is an important
element in production, a more serious competitor in our markets than products
of Great Britain, France and Germany have been, simply for the reason that
Japanese wages are lower than European wages and Japanese labor likely soon to
become as effective with machinery as European labor is."
The committee reports that it knows no remedy
outside of the absolute prohibition enforced against convict labor goods, except
the imposition of duties on competing goods equivalent to the difference in
cost and distribution.
Agreement
on Sectarian Schools.
WASHINGTON, June 10.—In the conference
report on the Indian appropriation bill, which has been agreed upon, a change
was made in the declaration of policy concerning schools. The word
"Indians" was omitted, so that the declaration was broadened. It now
reads: "It is hereby declared to be the settled policy of the government
to hereafter make no appropriation whatever for education in any sectarian
school." The provision extending the school appropriations to June 30, 1897,
was amended by a provision that the amount shall be apportioned as nearly as
may be among schools of various denominations.
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| 1896 Republican Convention. |
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
The St.
Louis Convention.
The Albany Journal gives an interesting review
of the men who will sit in the National Republican convention at St. Louis next
Tuesday which shows that the convention will consist of men who have been prominent
in the councils of their party and who have accomplished a great deal for
Republicanism in their respective states and in the nation at large. The
character of the delegates does not suffer in comparison with the personnel of
former conventions of the party.
Arkansas sends Powell Clayton, a man well known
for his aggressive party work in his state for years. He presided over the
convention that nominated Blaine. California's
delegation contains a son of General Grant and a son also of Claus Spreckles,
the sugar king. Connecticut sends "Sam" Fessenden, an old-time politician
and ex-Governor Bulkeley. In Delaware's contesting delegations are Edward J.
Addicks, the gas king, and Anthony Higgins, ex-United States senator from that
state. With the Illinois delegates come ex-Governors Oglesby and Fifer and
Indiana sends Richard W. Thompson, ex-secretary of the navy, and Gen. Lew
Wallace, the friend of General Harrison, and the famous author of "Ben
Hur." From Iowa are United States Senator Gear, Congressman Henderson and
that well-known politician James S. Clarkson, ex-assistant postmaster-general.
Ex-United States Senator Kellogg, at one
time a well-known national and state leader, heads the Louisianan delegation and
among the Maine delegates is Harold Sewell, for many years a Democrat and the
recent consul-general at Samoa. United States Senator-elect Wellington and
Felix Agnus, the capable editor of the Baltimore American are among the Maryland
delegates. United States Senator Lodge is among the Massachusetts delegates and
Charles A. Pillsbury of flour-making fame, is one of the Minnesota contingent.
Ex-Congressman Lynch of Mississippi, one of the ablest of the colored
Republicans of the South is a delegate from his state. General Russell A. Alger
is a delegate-at-large from Michigan and Chauncey I. Filley, the well-known
trans-Mississippi politician, will sit as chairman of the Missourian
delegation. United States Senators Lee Mantell and Thomas H. Carter, the latter
chairman of the national committee, are among the Montanan representatives.
United States Senator John M. Thurston of Nebraska will be found with his state's
delegation and New Jersey will be well represented by Garrett A. Hobart, a
candidate for vice-president, United States Senator Sewell and John Kean and
Franklin Murphy, both party lenders.
Besides the big four, Messrs. Platt, Miller,
Depew and Lauterbach, New York's delegation will consist of such well-known
Republicans as Mayor Wurster of Brooklyn, Congressmen Quigg, Odell, Black,
Payne, State Senator Raines, State Treasurer Colvin, ex-United States Senator
Hiscock, George W. Aldridge, state superintendent of public works and other
representative Republicans.
Ohio's delegation will contain United Stated
Senator-elect Foraker, Governor Bushnell, Congressman Grosvenor and the now
famous Mark A. Hanna, McKinley's warm friend and supporter. United States
Senator Quay, himself a candidate for president; Governor Hastings, David
Martin, the Philadelphia politician; Christopher L. Magee, the Pittsburg politician,
and ex-Mayor Stuart of Philadelphia
will sit with the Pennsylvanian delegation. Henry Clay Evans, who was counted
out of his election as governor of Tennessee, and himself a candidate for
vice-president, and United States Senators Cannon and Brown of Utah will be
among the delegates from their respective states. Vermont sends United States
Senator and ex-Secretary of War Redfield Proctor. South Dakota, Senator Pettigrew
and Wisconsin delegates ex-United States Senator Philetus Sawyer.
It will be seen that nearly each state has
a prominent Republican among its delegates. For oratory the convention will not
be deficient, for with Depew, Thurston, Foraker, Hastings and Lodge, the fame
of former conventions for oratorical effort doubtless will be maintained.
On the whole the Republican National
convention of 1896 will go on record as the equal of any of its predecessors.
◘
Harper's Weekly having asserted
that President Cleveland "came to the rescue of the country's
credit," the New York Tribune replies that "in less than four years
Cleveland has rescued the credit of the country to such a remarkable decree
that it now owes over $500,000,000 more than it did when he came to the rescue,
and the deficit is climbing higher every day. The exhilarating effect of the
rescue upon his own party has been such that no one can be found to take its
nomination for president, while its effect upon the country has been such that
it waits impatiently for the opportunity to rise up and say: "Don't, don't
undertake to rescue it again." The Rochester Post Express mildly suggests
to the Weekly that the least it has to say about Cleveland as a rescuer of the country's
credit the better it will be for its own reputation for intelligence.
Color Line Causes Continued
Trouble.
ST. LOUIS, June 10.—Mark Hanna and his
lieutenants have arrived in this city and the preliminaries of the Republican National
convention have been begun in earnest. The question of accommodation of the
negro delegates in hotels remains unsettled. There is some talk of having the
national committee look into it. The waiters at one hotel wouldn't serve the negroes.
There is one report that if the negroes cannot get accommodations a resolution
will be offered in the committee to take the convention to another city.
Commencement at
Elmira.
ELMIRA, N. Y., June 10.—The forty-first commencement
exercises of Elmira college, the oldest women's college in the world, occurred
this morning. Rev. Wm. R. Richards delivered the commencement oration on
"The Aristocracy of Learning."' The graduates numbered seventeen.
Has an Eye for
Roses.
Mr. Frank Donegan of 18 Hubbard-st., [Cortland],
takes great delight in his roses, and they seem to grow for him as for few
others. He has many varieties and they are now coming into full bloom. Mr.
Donegan does not raise them for sale, but simply for the love of them, and his
friends frequently get the benefit of his generous gifts.
Slight Shock of
Paralysis.
Deputy Postmaster Frank E. Plumb, who has
been in ill health for a number of months and who has been obliged to give up
his work at the postoffice for the past few weeks, went to Glen Haven yesterday
for treatment. About 9 o'clock last evening he suffered from what appears to
have been a partial shock of paralysis. Word received from the Glen to-day
announces that he is getting along as well as could be expected and that no
serious results from the shock are anticipated.
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| Steamer St. Lawrence. |
The local branch of the Ancient Order of
Hibernians have secured the lowest rate for their excursion to the Thousand
Islands Saturday, July 25, that has ever been secured for an excursion to that
point from Cortland. Round trip tickets will be sold for $2.75, children $1.40 and the privilege of a stopover
of five days may be obtained by the payment of an additional charge of $1.50.
The train will leave Cortland over the D., L.
& W. at 7 o'clock A. M., with through coaches to Clayton, arriving there at
11 A. M., where boats will be taken for a ramble among the islands with
frequent stops. In the evening a trip will be taken on a searchlight steamer.
The train will leave Clayton on the return at 10 o'clock, arriving at Cortland
at 2 o'clock the next
morning.
Elegant Soda Fountain.
Druggist Fred I. Graham has just placed in
his pharmacy on Main-st. an elegant new soda fountain manufactured by John
Matthews & Co. of New York. The body is Namur marble, the base mouldings
and frieze are of Genoa green marble while the label moulding is of gyrotte
marble. It has sixteen syrup tanks and is divided in the center by a partition
and is really two separate pieces of apparatus side by side. The mountings are
of silver. The whole is surmounted by an elegant cherry top richly carved
having a large French plate beveled edge mirror. It is needless to say that the
soda drawn from it is as cool as the coolest.
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| Standard block. |
EVENING CLASSES.
What the Y. M. C.
A. is Doing for the Cause of Education.
That the evening education classes of the
Young Men's Christian association are appreciated the following statistics will
show: Five years ago there were less than two thousand students enrolled in
these classes. The year that closed in April showed 36,000 students enrolled on
the evening class record. Supposing the same increase for the next five years the
students in these evening classes will outnumber all the students in all the colleges
and seminaries throughout the land. An advance step will be taken by the
associations in this department of their work during the coming year.
From the beneficial results of the recent international
examinations, the experience of the best systems abroad, as well as from the
best consensus of opinion of association lenders, the international committee
are taking the following preparatory steps for the improvement and unification
of the educational class work of American associations:
1. Under their direction, and from the suggestions
of teachers of experience in Association classes
as well as others of eminent authority in individual subjects, there are being
prepared outline courses of study covering the foundation topics or principles
of each subject, arranged for both elementary and advanced grades of one and
two years respectively. This work is now in preparation for ten of the most
important and widely used subjects in our classes—arithmetic, bookkeeping, civil
and municipal government, freehand drawing, mechanical or machine drawing,
construction or architectural drawing, English, physiology and first aid,
electricity and carpentry.
2. International examinations in April, 1897,
will be given in these subjects. In the majority of
them, both elementary and advanced examinations, corresponding to the
elementary and advanced grades of one and two years respectively, will be
offered.
3. Certificates will be given individual
students by the international committee., who successfully complete the course
in either grade in any subject.
The benefits to be derived from these classes
are as follows:
1st. They give every young man an opportunity
of acquiring a good education who has never been able to attend school or
college because of his pecuniary circumstances.
2nd. This education can be obtained by
devoting one hour each evening to systematic study, thus he will be earning his
own livelihood during the day and his evenings will be profitably spent.
3rd. He is thus being better equipped for
life's duties and is of more value to himself and also to his employer.
4th. He is better qualified for a true citizen.
The Cortland Y. M. C. A. carries on evening
education classes during the fall and winter months and invites all laboring
young men to come and join these classes. Classes will be started in any study
when five signify their desires for that subject. The fee is so small that no
young man can make that a reasonable excuse for not joining these classes.
Classes will be started about the 1st of
October, but the managements must be made before that so the committee having
this work in charge can have time to secure proper instructors and have the
work well mapped out at the very beginning of the term.
Young men, hand in your names now to the
association that is trying to make young men better for themselves and for
their friends. Remember that the Young Men's Christian
association is the only organization in town that even aims or aspires to help
you so that you may be a man fully rounded out in every line and direction.
[Classes were held on the second floor of
the Standard building—CC editor.]
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