THE TARIFF IN THE PULPIT

Rev. David Swing.

Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, December 16, 1893.

PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.

The Tariff in the Pulpit.

 

◘ In his sermon last Sunday Professor David Swing of Chicago, spoke of the industrial situation and the effect the action of congress would likely have upon the condition of labor. The following sentence is worth quoting: When a million persons have been inducted by a tariff into the trades that fall under the head of brass, glass, zinc, tin, nickel, copper, lead, wool, leather, paper cotton and wool, it is gross injustice for the government to come along and ask them all to quit their shops and teach school or go to farming.
   Professor Swing is known as one of the most profound and original thinkers in the pulpit. While never radical in his opinions, he is always ready to discuss public questions openly and to look at them from the practical side. And when he says that it is a gross injustice for the government to demand that millions of persons shall suddenly change their calling he treats the tariff question from a point of view from which not many revenue reformers have been accustomed to look at it.
   There is no higher end of government than the happiness of the many, and even the most bigoted free-trader will not claim that the people of this country did not reach a higher plane of happiness and comfort under the policy of protection than they ever enjoyed before or than any other people enjoyed of whom history speaks. To suddenly change those conditions and plunge a people from plenty to want and misery, with all the attendant crimes, is a matter that concerns morals as well as politics, and every unprejudiced mind will agree with the Philadelphia Press in saying that Professor Swing only does his duty as a Christian teacher in calling attention to it.

◘ Professor Young, astronomer at Princeton university, calculates that the sun's heat has lasted in the present shape of that orb 15,000,000 to 20,000,000 years. But it has already reached a stage much nearer the end than the beginning of its career. Its bulk is shrinking by cooling at the rate of 250 feet a year. It is, however, 850,000 miles in diameter, so that the cooling off process will be slow. The sun and its system of planets will still last from 5,000,000 to 10,000,000 years longer. Where shall we be then?

◘ Both Republicans and Democrats will agree with President Cleveland that the Nicaragua canal should be finished and operated under American auspices and American control. If the president had added that he thought it ought to be finished at once the people of the country would have been with him too. The United States government ought now to take the matter in hand actively. What Gibraltar is to England that Nicaragua canal will be to the United States.

Turned Over to the State.

   Maj. Alexander Barrie, Jr., of the ordinance department, S. N. Y., last evening gave Lieut. F. L. McDowell a receipt for nearly all the state property which the [Cortland] Forty-fifth Separate Co. had been using. The count was remarkably close and the few things missing were hardly worth mentioning. A few things had increased in number, one of them being canteens. The government among the other things furnished just one hundred canteens. This did not appear to be enough for the boys as 106 were found while the property was being counted.

   Lieut. McDowell requests that all people having state property in their possession leave it with him at G. W. Bradford's drug store as it is not yet too late to get credit for it.

Emily C. Ormsby.

THE FAMILY ALBUM.

All the Relatives of the Dows Shown to Their Friends.

   There was a pleasant gathering at the Presbyterian chapel last evening to see the family album of Mrs. Jerusby Dow, and it proved to be very interesting. The entertainment was novel in conception and execution, and it was carried out in fine style. At the south end of the room surrounded by curtains was the huge album with leaves perhaps three to four feet square. As the cover swung open a photograph was disclosed with a strong light thrown upon it. The cover was swung together again and when it was reopened there was another photograph. Thirty-five photographs altogether were shown, representing thirty-one different characters, a few of them being shown at different ages and in different positions.

   The cover of the album was manipulated by Aunt Jerusby herself, in the person of Miss Cornelia A. White, who was becomingly attired in ancient costume and who told the story of the different relatives in a very pleasing and very attractive manner. Some of the pictures were greeted with rapturous applause as they were recognized, particularly that of Miss Emily C. Ormsby, as Mary Ann Sophia, who was instantly recognized [sic] by her school children, Mr. E. H. Brewer, as Parson Briggs, and Mr. S. M. Ballard, as Sam, our only brother.

   The album began with a silhouette of "our great grandmother," which was taken before the days of photographs and which was represented by Mrs. E. H. Brewer. The other pictures were Mother, Mrs. W. R. Cole; Father, Mr. B. L. Webb; Aunt Paulina, who had a wart on her nose, Miss M. W. Bishop; Uncle John, Mr. C. H. White; My good John, Mr. W. H. Clark; Darkey Joe, Walter Stock well; Our grandchild, Tom Clark; Little Annie, Nettie Clark; Jerusby Ann Eliza Drake, Mabel Brewer; Our oldest gal Sal, aged seventeen, Mrs. A. F. Aird; Jane, our youngest, Mrs. H. M. Lane; The twins, you can't tell one from t'other and t'other from one, Misses Mary E. Trow and Clara J. Robinson; Giggling Ann, our second girl, Mrs. W. H. Clark; Uncle Jake, Prof. D. L. Bardwell; Our great grandson, Johnnie, Rob Brewer; Our granddaughter, Rose Mary, Bessie Benedict; Parson Briggs, Mr. E. H. Brewer; Sam, our older brother who plays a horn and wears a fine uniform, Mr. S. M. Ballard; Peggie Lee, Miss Annie Keator; Nancy Gray, Mrs. W. C. Crombie; the bride and groom, Miss Clara Keator, Mr. W. H. Clark; the teacher, Mr. H. T. Lovell; Cousin Mary Jane, the typical old maid, Mrs. D. L. Bardwell; John's third cousin's wife, Mrs. S. M. Ballard; Cousin Timothy Flint, Mr. W. A. Stockwell; Mary Ann Sophia, Miss Emily C. Ormsby; Old Deacon Brown, Mr. Fitz Boynton; The deacon's wife, Mrs. W. A. Stockwell; Baby Ned, in cap and long clothes, Mr. Fred I. Graham.

   The costumes of the characters were all of old style and were all unique. At the close of the examination of the album two tableaux showing all the relatives were exhibited and then the characters came out into the company and mingled freely with their friends. Coffee and doughnuts were served and the remainder of the evening was pleasantly spent in a social way. A nice little sum was netted from the proceeds by the Ladies' Aid society.

HOMER DEPARTMENT.

Gleanings of News From Our Twin Village.

   The Ella Fontainebleau Co. played "East Lynne" last night to a fair-sized audience. The parts were very well taken. The star took the part of Lady Isabel and played it with a great deal of feeling. Sir Francis Levison was played by Mr. Warren. He is particularly adapted to this part and made a very polished villain. The hit of the evening was made by Miss Salisbury in the part of Miss Corney. The play to-night [at Keator Opera House] will be "Her Fidelity." A matinee was given this afternoon for ladies and children.

   Officer Jones last night gathered in Geo. Lent for drunkenness. He was discharged this morning.

   A novel sight was witnessed on Main-st. this morning. Quite a good-sized two-story building was drawn through the street at a very rapid rate by eight horses. The building rested on two long logs which slipped along the snow as easily as a light cutter.

   We are in receipt of an interesting communication in regard to religious work at the county house and shall hope to publish it within a few days.

   Mrs. I. P. Brown and daughter Lulu have returned from a visit with her sister in Cortland.

   A. R. Bean of Binghamton is visiting at his father's, Wm. A. Bean, and brother's, H. P. Bean, Cayuga-st.

   Miss Dorothy Webster is recovering from an attack of the grip.

   Mrs. Brooks of Greene is visiting her sister, Mrs. S. W. Button.

   The infant is son of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Richardson, who has been seriously ill with the grip, recovering.

   John Goodwin was arrested last night by Officer Jones for public intoxication and was discharged this morning.

   Carl Dillenbeck has the agency for the Sunday World and Tribune.

   The boys should remember that it is against the laws of the town to throw snowballs or catch upon bobs.

   Mrs. Minnie Oaks and son of Virgil are visiting friends in town.

   Mrs. Thomas Darby of South Main-st. left yesterday morning for Moravia, where she will spend the winter with her daughter.

   There were three ladies and two gentlemen who fell on Main-st. yesterday in the same place. A large crowd of boys stood near the spot to watch the fun at the expense of the fallen.

   The Ladies guild of Calvary parish will meet Tuesday evening at the residence of Miss Mary Wood.

BREVITIES.

   —City Band minstrels at the Opera House to-night at popular prices.

   —The Normal Banjo club give a public recital to-night at 8 o'clock at Normal hall.

   —Rev. G. H. Brigham will preach at the Memorial chapel on Tompkins-st. to-morrow afternoon at 4 o'clock.

   —The afterpiece entitled "The Manager" to be performed at the City band minstrels this evening is arranged and produced under the sole direction and management of Prof. W. B. Leonard.

   —Emperor William has just issued an order to the band of the cuirassier guards, which plays before Potsdam palace, that henceforth only old-fashioned instruments shall be used; and the first performance with the seven-foot trumpets which have been out of use since Frederick the Great's time quite delighted him. The musicians are not so pleased but they daren't say it.

   —On Saturday, December 30, the local sports as well as those living all the way between Elmira and Canastota, are going to be given a genuine treat here in Cortland. Mr. M. H. Ray of the Arlington hotel near the E., C. & N. R. R. depot has made arrangements for a fox chase on a large scale. Several other sports are down on the program and a general good time is guaranteed in advance.

LOST HIS MONEY.

Claims that Some One Relieved Him of About Eighty Dollars.

   Tom McGowan was out for a little fun last night and says that he had in his possession between eighty and one hundred dollars. He was playing billiards or pool in Burns Linderman's saloon above the Cortland House till about 11 o'clock, when he went to Hugh Corcoran's saloon on Railroad-st., where he claims that some one stole his money.

   "Tubby" Garrity and Clarence Supple, who were in the saloon at the time came into police court about 2:30 o'clock this afternoon and the former made the following statement to Justice Bull, Chief Sager, Officer Monroe and a STANDARD reporter:

   "I went from the Cortland House to Burns Linderman's, where I saw McGowan playing pool. He told me that he would give me a quarter to take him home and I agreed to do so. We then went down to Corcoran's, where he kept throwing four twenty dollar bills on the bar." Garrity here mentioned the names of several people who were in the saloon at the time besides himself. "Billie Dermody and I told him several times to put his money in his pocket. I was called out of the saloon and while I was gone I understood that there was a general scuffle for the money."

   Supple, who was present, claims that he stood by the stove with his back to the crowd and did not see the scuffle, He knew nothing about it till McGowan rushed out of the saloon. He soon returned and said to the crowd, "Give me my money."

   Officers Monroe and Parker then came around, but McGowan's tongue was so thick that he was unable to give a very clear description of the robbery. He turned over a gold open-face watch to Officer Parker and Garrity started home with him. McGowan said that he lived at 32 Clinton-ave. Garrity got him as far toward home as Charles-st. and the intoxicated man refused to go farther and Garrity left him.

   McGowan came up in police court this morning, but had not sobered up enough to give a very clear account of the fracas. He took his watch, which had been left with Justice Bull, and cleared out. At 3 o'clock this afternoon McGowan swore out a warrant for the arrest of Ike Farrel, who he claims was in the saloon at the time his money disappeared.

   [Left unsaid in this news report: Cortlandville and Cortland were under "no-license" authority. The sale of alcohol in saloons was illegal. Also left unsaid was whether or not these men were served—CC editor.]

 

JUSTICE FOR McKANE AND STOWELL'S BARGAIN HOUSE

John McKane.

Cortland Evening Standard, Friday, December 15, 1893.

PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.

Justice for McKane.

  

◘ Democratic Boss McKane of Gravesend, the czar of that locality of desolate name and bad reputation, the director of fraudulent registration and defier of courts, is to have thirty days to think on his bad ways in prison. After he has served his time and paid the fine of $250 imposed by Judge Barnard for contempt of court, he will be turned loose for a time, a sadder and, it is to be hoped, a wiser man, with his swelled head considerably shrunken and his appreciation of the power, if not his respect for the authority of court greatly increased. Police Justice Newton and three inspectors of election will study Judge Barnard's object lesson at the same time and under the same impressive circumstances with McKane.

   When the boss was served with certain papers designed to check his lawless proceedings along early in November, he was reported as saying, "Injunction don't go here," and as remarking further "Damn the Supreme court." It the injunctions did not "go" then, the court has "gone" since, and instead of being "damned," as McKane cheerfully demanded, has visited condemnation on the damner himself.

   The end of McKane and his gang is not yet. Other indictments hang over them and will undoubtedly be heard from in due time. May the good work go merrily on, and may the day soon come when every man who attempts an election fraud will do it with the certainty before him of punishment swift, sure and crushing.

  

◘ The Philadelphia Medical News criticizes severely the great modern game of football, which the editor calls slugging instead of athletics, and says it would have made an ancient Greek shudder. Says the News: "The quilted, bepadded, disheveled, long haired, begrimed, scarred football hero, after a savage scrimmage in the mud, is anything but a heroic or inspiring figure."

 

A SHORT TALK TO WORKINGMEN.

The Free Trade Features of the Mills Bill Discussed.

   There is only one country in Europe in which the wages of labor are within a half of what they are in this country. That is Great Britain. Wages in Germany, France, Belgium and Switzerland are not one-third of what they are here. Those of Italy are not one-quarter. Last year cheap foreign labor was imported into the United States in the shape of manufactured goods to the value of $692,319,768. This was a great wrong to American labor. In the immense amount of imports permitted by our insufficient and defective tariff, the labor of women employed in the Manchester cotton mills, whose wages do not average $60 a year, came into competition with the higher priced labor of our southern and northern cotton spinners.

   Munich is a gallery and center of art. German women, with as many as six children, saw wood in its streets for 15 cents a day. May a merciful God sink the United States 10,000 feet under the sea before this hideous spectacle shall become an incident of our civilization!

   Nearly $700,000,000 worth of the starvation labor of Europe in the form of manufactured goods imported into this country last year! That which came from Belgium in bales and boxes represented the wages of 22 cents a day for women and 48 cents for men. And the highest priced labor in loose cargoes of Belgium steel and iron represented wages of less than 80 cents a day.

   Italian labor in Italian merchandise was imported into this country last year, in competition with American labor, at prices that should fill sensitive souls with horror and alarm the thoughtful for the future of the human race. The pay in the cotton factories of Naples is 50 cents a day; of the Neapolitan marble and granite cutters, from 40 to 50 cents a day, according to skill; of coachmen, 30 cents; of women in lace factories, 10 cents, and girls, 7 cents; of soldiers in the army, $2 a month. Of all the workmen in the glass works of Italy, only the skilled blowers receive as high as $1 a day, and laborers on farms, hoeing or making hay, from 15 to 18 cents a day, working from sun to sun. God save America from such wages!—New York Sun.

STOWELL'S BARGAIN HOUSE.

It is Literally Packed With Holiday Goods.

   Stowell's Bargain House has a larger stock of Holiday goods this season than ever. The store is packed with goods from top to bottom and anything almost that a person wants can be found there. In the south window is a Christmas tree neatly decorated with toys. An unusually large stock of jewelry, crockery, cuspidors, jardenieres, dinner and tea sets vases, wine sets, hanging lamps, hand lamps, and piano lamps is shown. All kinds of baskets from the smallest to the largest are shown and a counter is devoted to books, another to all kinds of doll's furniture and a third to doll's china ware.

   Owing to the large stock this season and in order to facilitate the handling and display of goods in both the jobbing and retail departments a loom has been added to the rear and the rooms on the second floor have also had to be connected by a stairway and used for a show and store rooms. The entrance to the rear room is surrounded with evergreens and everything, except the tin and agate ware, is displayed that will delight the hearts of the children. Toys of every description, horses attached to every known vehicle, miniature ships, drums, tool chests, magic lanterns, games and everything from a coal jimmey to a vestibule train can be found.

   In this department are displayed every kind of cooking utensils in tin and agate. The firm make a specialty of this ware and purchase it in such large quantities that the prices are much lower than is usual.

   Handkerchief, glove, collar and cuff boxes, toilet cases for ladies and gentlemen and innumerable other beautiful things in plush, silver, wood and celluloid are displayed in the northern side of the store.

   Mr. Stowell's stock of glassware, albums, silver ware, traveling bags, chairs and furniture, framed pictures, dinner and tea sets, toys, games and in fact every conceivable article kept in a first-class bargain house is one of the largest in the county and enough clerks are employed in each department so that customers do not have to wait long before their wants are supplied. The firm invite all to call and look over their large stock before purchasing Holiday goods. (Adv.)

BABY RUTH MIXED UP.

Mrs. Lamont Kept Her Promise, But Rockwood is Puzzled.

   Mrs. Lamont plotted and successfully carried out a very clever scheme whereby she kept a promise she had made and at the same time went clear of an annoyance to the President and Mrs. Cleveland. Soon after Baby Ruth was born Rockwood got Mrs. Lamont to promise him that she would let him photograph the child, whose pictures would be such a source of profit. The Clevelands decided that, while they wanted pictures of the child for themselves and their friends, they did not wish her picture to be scattered broadcast and perhaps used as an advertisement for baby food, sterilized milk and the like.

   The other day the photographer asked Mrs. Lamont to redeem her promise, "Why, you have photographed the baby," said she, "only you did not know it." It seems that Mrs. Lamont, true to her promise, sent Baby Ruth to the gallery, but did not let the photographer know that he was looking at the president's daughter from under the black cloth.

   "Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland are pleased with the pictures," added Mrs. Lamont. And now the photographer is wondering which of the multitude of infants is Baby Ruth. So far he has been unable to fix the identity and her negative, and it is not likely that he ever will fix it. Mrs. Lamont took good care of that.

Benton Bushnell Jones.

Illness of Editor Benton B. Jones.

   Our entire community will be pained to learn of the serious illness of Editor Benton B. Jones of The Democrat. Mr. Jones had been confined to the house since early last week with an attack of the prevailing epidemic of grip, but was not regarded as at all dangerously ill till in the afternoon of last Thursday, when congestion of the lungs set in, which is complicated with a heart trouble to which he has been subject.

   Last evening considerable anxiety was felt concerning him. He passed a fairly comfortable night, but all that his physicians, Drs. Jewett and Dana, would say this morning was that he was no worse. At 3 o'clock this afternoon he was reported as about the same and his physicians do not anticipate any marked change in the next two days. He is very weak indeed. Dr. Webb of Homer was called in council this morning and agreed fully with the decision and with the treatment of the attending physicians.

   There is not a person in Cortland who will not most sincerely hope for his speedy and complete recovery. His son Seymour, who has also been quite ill, is improving. His foreman, Mr. F. E, Plumb, is still confined to the house with grip.

BREVITIES.

   —The total registration of Cornell Law school is 219.

   —"Jerusha Dow's Album" at the Presbyterian lecture room this evening.

   —Interesting local matter [Mr. Frost] will to-day be found on our sixth page. Let no one miss it.

   —Long distance metallic circuit telephones have just been put in by the Cortland Wagon Co. and the Cortland House.

   —The country roads at one point between this place and Cortland have so drifted that the wayfarer has taken to the lots.— Moravia Valley Register.

   —The annual season of sleighride parties is here, when matrimonial contracts are made under cover of robes, when the frosty air compels young people to sit close together.—Auburn Advertiser.

   —It is said to be a bad practice to put salt on the sidewalks to get rid of the snow and ice. Physicians have warned the people that it breeds disease, and that it has a tendency to promote pneumonia.

   —One hundred and fifty-three head of cattle have been killed at the Oneonta fertilizer works this year, all of which were infected with tuberculosis, and slaughtered at the command of the state inspector.

   —Canada sends forty-eight students to Cornell university, Japan four, Porto Rico [sic] four, Mexico and Russia three each, England two, and Asia Minor, Australia, Barbadoes, Brazil, Germany, Honduras, Ireland, Natal, Scotland and Venezuela one each.—Ithaca Democrat.

   —The Hitchcock Mfg. Co. is doing a splendid business in cutters this year. They are now 1,200 cutters behind their orders. They say they are this year receiving orders from parties to whom they never sold a cutter in previous years. They account for this demand for sleighs partly because of the fact that this snow is so general and widespread and not local, and partly because so many factories are shut down and they are now getting the orders that have in other years gone elsewhere. Their natural modesty probably causes them to overlook the popularity of their fine line of cutters and sleighs as an inducement for orders.

Calla lily.

A Peculiar Calla.

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   Mr. Adolph Frost has left at The STANDARD office the most peculiar calla lily that it has ever been our fortune to see, and Mr. Frost himself says that in all his experience in lilies he has never observed anything like it. The plant is a strong and flourishing one and has one beautiful blossom now nearing its maturity. Within the center of the lily and growing out of it is a smaller one perfectly formed, but with its point turned in the opposite direction from that of the larger one which encloses it, making a double calla. It can be nothing but a freak, but it is a very peculiar one, and, though this same calla has blossomed before, this is the first blossom of this kind that it has borne. The lily is on exhibition at this office and we should be glad to have any one who is interested call and take a look at it. [The home and greenhouses of Mr. Frost were located at 101 Tompkins Street, Cortland, near the Cortland Rural Cemetery—CC editor.]