Star-Gazette from Elmira, New York • 1

TWO CENTS. ft 1 VOL.IiXTlII-NO.tiii8. EliMIRA, N. TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 27, 1892. THIRD EDITION CENTS.

jll MR. PECK'S CASE. THE CHOLERA AGAIN. GEORGE F. COMSTOCK THE LETTER amount of public money paid to those actually disabled or made dependent by reason of army services.

But our pension roll should be a roll of honor, uncontaminated by ill desert and unvitiated by demagogic use. This is due to those whose worthy names adorn the roll, and to all our people who delight to honor the brave and the true. It is also duo to those who in years to come should be allowed to hear, reverently and lovingly, the story of American patriotism and fortitude, illustrated by our pension roll. The preferences accorded to veteran soldiers in public employment should be secured to them honestly, and without evasion, and when capable and worthy, their claim to the helpful regard and gratitude of their countrymen should bo ungrudgingly acknowledged. The assurance to the people of the utmost individual liberty consistent with peace and good order is a cardinal principle of our government.

This gives no sanction to vexatious sumptuary laws which unnecessarily interfere with such habits and customs of our people as are not offensive to a just sense and are not inconsistent with good citizenship and public welfare. The same principle requires that the line between the subjects which are properly within governmental control and those which are more fittingly left to parental regulation should be carefully kept in view. An enforced education, wisely deemed a proper preparation for citizenship, should not involve the impairment of wholesome parental authority, nor do violence to the household conscience. Paternalism in government finds no approval in the creed of Democracy. It is a symptom of misrule whether it is manifested in unauthorized gifts or by an unwarranted control of personal and family affairs.

Our people, still cherish the feeling of human fellowship which belonged to our beginning as a nation, require their government to express for them their sympathy with all those who are oppressed under any rule less free than ours. A generous hospitality, which is one of the most prominent of our national characteristics, prompts us to welcome the worthy and industrious of all lands to home and citizenship among us. This hospitable sentiment is not violated, however, by careful and reasonable regulations for the protection of the public health, nor does it justify the protection of immigrants, who have no appreciation of our institutions and whose presence among us is a menace to peace and good order. NICARAUGUA SHIP CANAL. The importance of the construction of the Nicaraugua ship canal as a means of promoting commerce between our states and with foreign countries and also as a contribution by Americans to the enterprises which advance the interests of the world of civilization, should commend the project to governmental approval and endorsement.

THE COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. Our countrymen not only expect from those who represent them in public places a sedulous care for the things which are directly and palpably related to their material interests, but they also fully appreciate the value of cultivating our national pride and maintaining our national honor. Both their material interests and their national pride and honor are involved in the success of the Columbian exposition and they will not be inclined to condone any neglect of effort on the part of their government to insure in the grandeur of this event a fitting exhibit of American growth and greatness, and a splendid demonstration of American patriotism. In an imperfect and incomplete manner I have thus endeavored to state some of the things which accord with the creed and intentions of the party to which I have given my lifelong allegiance. My attempt has not been to instruct my countrymen nor my party, but to remind both that Democratic doctrine lies near the principles of our government and tends to promote the people's good.

I am willing to be accused of addressing my countrymen upon trite topics and in homely fashion for I believe that important truths are found upon the surface of thought and that they should be stated in direct and simple terms. Though much is left unwritten, my record as a public servant leaves no excuse for misunderstanding my belief and position on the questions which are now presented the people for their decision. GRATEFUL APPRECIATION, SOLEMN SENSE. Called for the third time to represent the party of my choice in a conto for supremacy of Democratic principles, my grateful appreciation of their confidence, less than ever, effaces the solemn sense of my responsibility. If the action of the convention you represent shall be endorsed by the suffrages of my countrymen, I will assume the great nflice for which I have been nominated, knowing full well its labors and perplexities and with humble reliance upon the Divine Being, infinite in power to aid, and constant in watchful care over our favored nation.

Yours very truly, Grover Cleveland. GroYer Clevelaiifl AcceBls tie Democratic Nomination. a clearIxposition Democratic Principles Sounded. By the Ex-President. THE TARIFF IS A TAX A Tariff For Revenue Sound Money Basis Honest Civil Service Operations Free and Independent Ballot Laws Just Pensions to Soldiers and Sailors -The Great Columbian exposition and Its Relation to National Pride and National Interest Dwelt Upon in His Acceptance.

New York, Sept. 27. The following letter of Grover Cleveland accepting the nomination as the Democratic candidate for President of the United States is given to the public; Gray Gables, Sept. 2S, 1892. To Hon.

William L. Wilson and others, Committee, etc. Gentlemen In responding to your formal notification of my nomination to the Presidency by the national Democracy, I hope I may be permitted to say at the outset, that continued reflection and observation have confirmed me in my adherence to the opinions, which I have heretofore ly and publicly declared, touching the questions involved in the canvass. This is a time, above all others, when these questions should be considered in the light afforded by a sober apprehension of the principles upon which our government is based, and clear understanding of the relation it bears to the people for whose benefit it was created. We shall thus be supplied with a test by which the value of any proposition relating to the maintenance and administration of our Government can be ascertained, and by which the justice and honesty of every political question can be judged.

If doctrines or theories are presented which do not satisfy this test, loyal Americanism must pronounce them false and mischievous. The protection of the people in the exclusive use and enjoyment of their erty and earnings, concedediy constitutes the special purpose and mission of our free government. This design is so interwoven with the structure of our plan of rule, that failure to protect the citizen in such use and enjoyment, or through unjustifiable diminution by the government a betrayal of the peoule's trust. We have, however, undertaken to build a great nation upon a plan especially our own. To maintain it and to furnish through its agency the means for the accomplisment of rational objects, the American people are willing through federal taxation to surrender a part of their earnings and income.

THE A KIEF A TAX. Tariff legislation presents a familiar form of federal taxation. Such legislation results as surely in a tax upon the daily life of our people as the tribute paid directly into the hand of the tax gatherer. AVe feel the burden of these taxes too palpably to be persuaded by any sophistry that they do not exist, or are paid by foreigners. Such taxes, representing a diminution of the property rights of the people, are only justifiable when laid and collected for the purpose of maintaining our government and furnishing the means for the accomplishment of its purposes and functions.

This is taxation under the operation of a tariff for revenue. It accords with the professions of American free institutions and its justice and honesty answer the test supplied by a correct appreciation of the principles upon which, these institutions rest. This theory of tariff legislation manifestly enjoins strict economy in public expenditures and their limitation to legitimate public uses, inasmuch as it exhibits as absolute extortion any extra drain by way of taxation from the substance of the people, beyond the necessities of a careful and proper administration of government. Opposed to this theory the dogma is now boldly presented that tariff taxation is justifiable for the express purpose of promoting especial mcn and farmers can the least of all our people defend themselves against the harder home life which such tariff taxation decrees, the workingmen, suffering from the importation and employment of pauper labor instigated by his professed friends and seeking a security for his interests in organized combinations, still waits for a division of the advantages secured to his employer under cover of a generous solicitudefor his wages, while the farmer is learning that the prices of products are fixed in foreign markets where he suffers from competition invited and built up by the system he is asked to support The struggle for unearned advantage at the deors of the government tramples on the rights of those who patiently rely upon assurances of American equality. Every government by concession to clamorous favorites invites corruption in political affairs by encouraging the expenditure of money to debauch suffrage in support cf a polices directly favorable to selfish and private gain.

This in the end must strangle patriotism and weaken popular confidence in rectitude of Republican institutions. MARKETS AND MORALS. Though the subject of tariff legislation involves a question of markets, it also involves a question of morals. We cannot with impunity permit injustice to taint the spirit of right and equity, which is the life of our republic and we should fail to reach our national destiny if greed and selfishness lead the way. Recognizing truths, the national Democracy will seek by the application of just and sound principles to equalize to our people the blessings due them from the government they suppoit, to promote among our countrj'men a closer community of interest cemented by patriotism and national pride, and to point out a fair field where prosperous and diversified American enterprise, may grow and thrive in tiie wholesome atmosphere of American industry, ingenuity and intelligence.

TARIFF REFORM STILL OCR PURPOSE. Tariffreform is still our purpose. There we oppose the theory that tariff laws may be passed having for their object the granting of descriminating and unfair govern-mental aid to private venturjes. We wage no exterminating war against any American interests. We believe a readjustment can be accomplished in accordance with the principles we protess, without disaster or demolition.

We believe that the advantages of freer raw material should be accorded to our manufacturers, and we contemplate a fair and careful distribution of necessary tariff burdens, rather than the precipitation of free trade. We anticipate with calmness the misrepresentation of our motives and purposes, instigated by a selfishness which seeks to hold in unrelenting grasp its unfair advantage under present tariff laws. We will rely upon the intelligence of our fellow countrymen to reject the charge that a party comprising a majority of our people is planning the destruction or injury of American interests, and we know they cannot be frightened by the spectre of impossible free trade. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND THE STATES. The administration and management of our government depend upon popular will.

Federal power is the instrument of that will not its master. Therefore the attempt of the opponents of Democracy to interfere with and control the suffrage of the states through federal agencies develops a design.which no explanation can mitigate, to reverse the fundamental and safe relations between the people and their government. Such an attempt cannot fail to be regarded by thoughtful men as proof of a bold determination to secure the ascendancy of a discredited party in reckless disregard of a free expression of the popular will. To resist such a scheme is an impulse of Democracy. At all times and in all places we trust the people.

As against a disposition to force the way to federal power, we present to them as our claim to their confidence and support a steady championship of their rights. ON THE MONET QUESTION. The people are entitled to sou nd and honest money, abundantly sufficient in volume to supply their business needs. But, whatever, may be the form of the people's currency, national or state whether gold, silver, or paper it should be regu-leted and guarded by governmental action, or by wise and careful laws, that no one can be deluded as to the certainty and stability of its value. Every dollar put into the hands of the people should be of the same intrinsic value or purchasing power.

With this condition absolutely guaranteed, both gold and silver can be safely utilized, upon equal terms, in the adjustment of our currency. In dealing with this subject no selfish scheme should be allowed to intervene and no doubtful experiment should be attempted. The wants of our people, arising from the deficiency or imperfect distribution of money circulation, ought to be fully and honestly recognized and efliciently remedied. It should, however, be constantly remembered that the inconvenience or loss that might arise from such a situation, can be much easier borne than the universal distress which follow a discredited currency. CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.

Public officials aro the agents of the people. It is therefore their duty to secure for the people, whom they represent, the best and most efficient performance of pub lie life. This plainly can be accomplished by regarding ascertained fitness in the selection of the Government employes. These considerations alone are sufficient justification for an honest adherence to the letter and spirit of civil service reform. There are, however, other features of this plan which abundantly commend it.

Through its operation worthy merit in every station and condition is recognized in the distribution of public employment while its application tends to raise the standard of political activity from the spoils hunting and unthinking party affiliation to the advocacy of party principles by reason and argument The American people are generous and grateful; and they have impressed these characteristics upon their Government. Therefore, all patriotic and just citizens must commend liberal consideration for our worthy veteran soldiers and for the families of those who have died. TENSIONS AND WAR VETERANS. The Affidavits to be Heard in Supreme Court Next Month. Albany, N.

Sept. 27. In the Supreme Court to-day before Judge May ham, who was substituted for Judge Fursman, the case of the people ex. rel. E.

Ellery Anderson vs. Charles F. Peck, Commissioner of Statics of Labor, came up on an order for Commissioner Peck to show cause why he should not allow the relator to examine the tariff circulars received from New York city manufacturers on which the Commissioner based his report of the effect of the tariff on labor and wages. Ex-Senator Norton Chase appeared for the relator and E. J.

Meegan for the Labor Commissioner. Mr. Chase wished to have the case go but Judge Mayham said he was satisfied it would be a troublesome one and in view of its importance and his work in the general term, he thought he would refer tho ease lo Judge Edwards, who granted the original order in the case. Mr. Chase said this was a case of great public, and he thought a speedy determination should be had.

He therefore asked that the case be referred to Judge Fursman at special term to be held at Troy next Monday. Mr. Meegan moved that the case be referred to Judge Edwards at special term on Oct 10. Judge Mayham then remarked that he did not want it to appear that he wished to shirk a public duty. He thought it would be well for the case to go before Judge Edwards, as he was undoubtedly already acquainted with the question i ndispute, and he therefore sent the case over to October sefore Judge Edwards at Hudson.

When Mr. Peck, who was present in court, was leaving the room he remarked "Well, I've got first blood." Two Hundred Thousand Deaths. London, Sept. 27. An Odessa correspondent says according to official accounts the aggregate number of cholera deaths in Russia prior to September is 174,000, but the actual total is alleged to exceed 200,000.

Failure of Appreciation. London, Sept. 27. The Shanghai correspondent of the Standard says I have just had a long talk with Viceroy Li Hung Chang. The tone of his remarks shows that Chinese statesmen totally fail to appreciate the importance of the Russian movements in the Pamirs, and that unless something occurs to enlighten them they will confine their attitude to passive observation.

Anyway, on this matter China would prove a vacillating and untrustworthy ally. Significant Protest Marseilles, Sept 27. At the workmen's congress yesterday M. Guesdo announced that it was possible Herr Liebnocht would be expelled from France. The congress thereupon elected Liebnocht president as a protest against such action on the part of the Government Practical Joke That Was Fatal.

Kansas City, Sept. 27. T. R. Vincent, an employe in the implement house here, was killed last Saturday by what was supposed to be accidental contact with an electric wire in the house where he was employed.

The coroner held an inquest yesterday and found that two other employes attempted to play a practical joke upon the unfortunate man by attaching the electric light wire to a piece of machinery which Vincent handled, when he placed his hand upon the machinery he fell dead from the shock. The Telegraphers Gaining Strength. Ckdar Rapids, Sept 27. The telegraphers continue firm, with the company as 6trongly opposed to recognizing the order as ever. Last night a committee of trainmen held a conference with Supt.

Williams, complaining of the risk they are compelled to run. What the result of the conference was no one will say, The company is running trains strictly on schedule time. Chief Telegrapher Ramsey still declares that the strike is gaining strength, but he refuses to say in what way. And Down Went the Cook. Watertowx.

N. Sent 27. The three masted schooner John Burt, laden with 23,000 bushels of corn, bound tor Uswego, was wrecked at 11 o'clock vesterdav morn ing near the mouth of Bio: Sandv Creek on 1 Lake Ontario. One of the crew and tho female cook, whose names have not been learned were drowned. The vessel it is be lieved will be a total loss.

The eale on tne lake last night was the fiercest in years, and the waves are still running very high. Insurance Company Past Usefulness. New York, Sept. 27. Justice Beach, of the Supreme Court, has appointed Wright Holcomb referee in proceedings to dissolve the Knickerbocker Fire Insurance company, a corporation which organized in 1809.

The reasons for dissolution are that the business has depreciated by the increase of insurance companies, and that competition made the business no longer profitable. All outstanding assets have been collected and policies reinsured. No Fear For the Alaska's Safety. New York, Sept. 27.

It was said at the office of the Guion line here to-day that no fear3 are entertained for tho safety of the steamer Alaska, reported overdue at Liverpool, The officers said they did not expect tho steamer to arrive out before to-day. Her machinery became disarranged on her last trip here, and had not been repaired before leaving port She carried sixty-five cabin passengers. Cashier Cossett Arrested. New Orleans, Sept. 27.

While writing a bogus check in the office of Atwood, Violet W. R. Cossett, the embezzling cashier of the People Bank at Hope, was arrested yesterday. Cossett robbed the bank and made off with the funds of the county school board, of which he was treasurer. Pain from isdigestion, and too hearty eating, is relieved at once by taking one of Carter's Little Liver Pills im- mediately after dinner.

Don't forget this. New Cases Reported Down the Bay To-Day. i'HE BOHEMIA BEARS PLAGUE. The Sick Passengers Removed To Swinburne Island Under the Care and Direc-. tion of Dr.

Byron General Cholera News. Quarantine, Sept. 27. Cholera has again broken out down the bay. Two new cases are reported on the Bohemia this morning, the first in seven days.

The Bohemia still has her steerage passengers on board, though her cabin passengers are all out Dr. Jenkins says if yesterday had not been so stormy the passengers would all have been out of the Bohemia. Reports From St. Petersburg. St.

Petersburg, Sept. 27. Twenty new cases of cholera and two deaths were reported here yesterday. Slek Passengers Detained. Camp Low, N.

Sept. 27. All the detained passengers bere except seven, who are sick, left here this morning. The New Cases. Quarantine, Sept.

27. At 11:50 a. m. Dr. Byron telegraphed that he had removed three more cholera patients to Swinburne Island from the Bohemia.

The first cabin passengers of the Scandia and Cohemia arrived at Quarantine at 11:55 on the tuc Evarts, of the Hamburg-American line, en-route for the company's dock in Hoboken. There are twenty -eight from the Scandia and ten from the Bohemia. Case of Cholera Reported. Vancouver, B. It is reported the steamer Empress of India, which left Yokahoma September 19th for this port has a case of cholera on board.

The information is said to have come by a private dispatch. 310ST SOLEMN SCENE. The Wife of the President of Mexico Prays For Protection Against Cholera. City of Mexico, Sept. 27.

Mrs. Diaz, wife of the President of Mexico, made another religious pilgrimage yesterday to the shrine of Our Lady of Guadaloupe for the purpose of invoking the aid of the Patron Saint of Mexico against the threatened invasion of cholera. She was accompanied by about 100 of the. most prominent ladies of the city, and the procession to the ville De Guadaloupe was very impressive. The services at the Collegiate ehurch affected Mrs.

Diaz to tears as the prayers for protection ascended to the Virgin. The Apportionment Cases. Albany, N. Sept. 27.

Attorney General Rosendale has served a notice on the attorneys for appellant in the Oneida case that he would on October 3d, when the Court of Appeals convenes, make a motion that the apportiomant cases be put at the head of the calendar and heard that day. The Attorney General has also addressed a letter to C. D. Kiehel of Rochester, who argued for the constitutionality of the apportionment law in Monroe county cases, in which he says he will co-operate with him in case Mr. Kiehel desires to have the Monroe county apportionment cases argued at the same time.

Our Relations Are Not Strained. Washington, Sept. 27. There is no reason to believe that Minister Scruggs is not as free as air, nor are there any signs of strained relations between the United States ond Venezula, said Secretary Foster to-day. There was no news in the state department respecting the arrival of the steamer Caracas at La Guayra last week, and the reported action of Commander White in placing a guard from the United States steamer Concord on the merchant steamer.

Something of a Terror Reign. Charleston, Sept. 27. A dispatch from Pocahontas states that Thomas Young and his wife were shot and killed last Saturday by miners who were on a strike. Young was working some non-union men in the mines in the place of the strikers.

On the same day a farmer, who came to town to sell produce, was taken from his horse and shot to death by Italians. There appears to be a reign of terror in the viuinitv of Pocahontas. Sot iflcation or Judge Werts. Jersey City, N. Sept.

27. The committee appointed to notify Judge Werts of his nomination as Governor of New Jersey to-day proceeded to his residence and performed their duty. Judge Werts, in accepting the nomination said that while he had not sought the office, he would respond to the party call. Cut His Wife's Throat. Albany, N.

Sept. 27. William Scaniin, of Onconta, cut his wife's throat this morning in a fit of jealousy. Another man in the house was the cause of the trouble. Mrs.

Scaniin will die. Scaniin was arrested. Canadian Paper Goes Up. Montreal, Sept 27. Tho Canadian paper makers have been in session in this city several days and have decided to advance the price of paper all along this line.

The prohibition of rags is responsible for this. Henry In Trouble. New York, Sept 27. Henry DeCosta, who claims to be a bookkeeper at the Twenty-third street branch of the Y. M.

C. has been arrested for forgery. International JIaritime War. Genoa, Sept 27. The international congress on Maritime law was opened yesterday with 250 delegates present, representing the civil and naval authorities of the various countries.

The Noted Jurist of Syracuse Dies This Morning. AN HONORABLE CAREER. Judge of the Court of Appeals and Interested in Many Important Lawsuits of State and National Prominence. Syracuse, Sept 27. Ex-Judge Georg F.

Comstock died here this morning. Hon. Georee Franklin Comstock was born at Williamstown, Oswego county, August 24, 1811. His father, Serajah Comstock served through the Revolutionary war. Mr.

Comstock graduated with high honor at Union College in 1834, and then took up the study of law, and was admitted to the bar in 1837. He was long a member of tho law firm of Noxon, Leavenworth Comstock. He was appointed reporter of Court of Appeals in 1847 and issued four volumes of New York reports and President Fillmore appointed him Solicitor of the Treasury. He was elected Judge of the Court of Appeals in 1855. lis a member of the constitutional convention of 1898, Mr.

Comstock drafted th jndidiary article of the Eew York constitu tionHis'professional attainment brought him large retainers, notably in the Vanderbilfr will case and the Cornell University suit over Jennie McGraw's bequest to that in- stitution. He was prominent in many local enterprises, and active in the manage-; -r, i mem oi local iiisuiuuuijs. iuuge v-wui-stock married a daughter of the late B. Davis Noxon, who survives with a son and daughter. Fire at Albany.

Albany, Sept 27. Early this mornino; fire broke out in the large four-story buf ing 529 and 531 Broadway, occupied by B. Musbaum, wholesale dealer in millinery. The fire is thought to have occurred from spontaneous combustion in the hat bleach-ery, in which department it originated. The two upper stories were entirely destroyed and the two lower floors were badly damaged by water.

The bleaching department contained benzine and other oils of an inflammable nature. The total loss is about 20,000, fully i insured. During the fire, Policeman Franklin entered the adimninw huildin-r and takintr a missten 0 i fell down an elevator shaft, a distance of twenty-feet His injuries will not however, prove serious. A Jeweler With Expensive Ideas. New York, Sept.

27. M. J. Dobbella, a jeweler, has fled from the city with $10,000 which bo secured, it is said, by pawning jewelry left with him to be repaired. It is rumored he was joined by the daughter of a Poughkeepsie minister.

Dobella married a widow a few years ago worth $100,000, who got a divorce from him after he, it i3 -alleged, had squandered her fortune. Attempted to Get Out of the Way. Utica, N. Sept. 27.

John Rierdan, a man over 60 years of age, while picking- coal on the West Shore tracks in the eastern part of the city this morning was struck and instantly killed by a passenger train. He was crossing a long trestle near the Masonic Home at the time and made an attempt to get out of the way. The accident was in no manner the fault of the railroad company or its employees, Drown Was the Better Lafayette, Sept. 27. The tea round, four ounce glove tight between Ed.

Corey, of Crawfordsville, and "Doc brown, of Memphis, was settled east of here yesterday in the presence of fifty spectators. Corey weighed 105 and Brown lii pounds. Brown won the fight, staying in the ring ten rounds Corey was unable to land a blow with sufficient force to knock his opponent-out. The winner took all tho money, amounting to several hundred dollars. She Was Smuggling Finery.

New York, Sept 27. Customs officers yesteiday seized a trunkful of silk dresses, and other costly finery from a lady cabin passenger on the steamer La Touraine, whose name is said to be liurns. lne sup-nosed smuggler is said to be in theempiovee of a fashionable New York dressmaker. On the steamer Augusta Victoria tho officers found concealed on the person of a cabin passenger, whose name they refuse to ted, a large quantity of jems and costly jewelry. A Triple Alliance.

Sviwin (. Sent. 27. ITenrv Von. Rarcrfin suicided last nisrbt bv dnnkinz an ounce of carbolic acid in a glass of soda water, dying in live minutes.

IjOSS or po sition, retusal of marriage and drunkeness were the causes. Cardinal Gibbons Will Participate. Baltimore, Sept 27. Cardinal Gibbons yesterday assured a committee of citizens of Italian birth that he would take part in the unveiling of a statue of Columbus Druid Hill Park, on Oct 12, and that he would make an address. A Military Funeral For Cot CUmore.

New York, Sept. 27. The body of tho late Patrick S. Gil more arrived here this morning from St Louis. The remains were taken to the family residence.

Mrs. Gilmore has given her consent to a military funeral, which will take place to-morrow. Phenomenal Time by a Pigeon. New York, Sept 27. A fiTe-months-old homing pigeon, liberated in this city, covered the distance to Cambridge, Washington county, (165 miles) in the phenomenal time of seven hours.

Louisville Base Call Park Injured. Louisville, Sept 27. The mam stand cottage at tho Louisville base ball park wa.s burned early, this irornjrjg, interests and enterprises. Such a proposition is so clearly contrary to the spirit of our Constitution, and so directly encourages the disturbance by selfishness and greed of patriotic sentiment that its statement would rudely shock our people if they had not already been insidiously allured from the 6afe landmarks of principle. Never have honest desire for national growth, patriotic devotion to country and sincere regard for those who toil, been so betrayed to the support of a pernicious doctrine.

In its behalf the plea that our infant industries should be fostered, did service until discredited by our stalwart growth then followed the exigencies fcf a terrible war which made our people heedless of the opportunities for ulterior schemes afforded by their, willing and patriotic payment of unprecedented tribute and now, after a long period of peace, when our overburdened countrymen ask or relief and a restoration to a fuller enjoyment of their incomes and earning, they are met by the claim that tariff taxation for the sake of protection is an American system the continuance of which is necessary in order that high wages may be paid to our workingmen and a home market be provided for our farm products. These pretences should no longer deceive. The truth is that such a system is directly antagonized by every senlimont of justice and fairness of" which Americans are preeminently proud. WORKINGMEN AND FARMERS. i It is also true that while curworkiqg- Ran into an Electric Storm.

New York, Sept. 27. The steamship El. Sol arrived from New Orleans yesterday. Capt.

Quick reported that off TortugaS he encountered a severe eiecliical storm, accompanied by heavy rain. Lightning struck the pilot house of the vessel, throwing the steering and bridge compass out of adjustment. Mrs. Harrison Improving. Washington, Sept.

27. Mrs. Harrison was more comfortable to-day after passing a night during which she slept most of the time. Her appetite is a little better. The cool bracing weather which prevailed during the day has had a beneficial effect upon the invalid and is helping her.

Better Late Than Xever. Brooklyn, N. Sept 27. Frederick Muller, 7G years old, has been sued for breach of promise by Mrs. Babette Egler, a widow 60 years of age.

Killed by an Electric Car. Brooklyn, Sept. 27. William Gibney, 35 years old, a conductor on Gen. Slocum's trody road, was run over by a car' and killed last night.

No complaint should be made of the.