VOL. XXXIV WESTFIELD, CHAUTAUQUA CO., N. Y., WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 13, 1889. NO. 15.

THE SOUTHERN PROBLEM.E X T R A C T S FROM A S P E E C H O F C O L .

J . H . H A N S O N , O F M A CON .

I n R e s p o n s e t o t h e T o a s t “ S o u t h e r n I n ­

d u s t r i a l G r o w t h t h e S t r o n g e s t B o n d

B e t w e e n U n i o n a n d P e a c e " - T h e P o ­

l i t i c a l S o u t h a n d t h e B u s i n e s s S o u t h .

On January 17th the American Pro­tective Tariff League held its annual dinner in New York City. There were present prominent protectiouists from all over the country. We quote below portions of the speech of Col. Hanson, of Macon, which treats of the Southern Problem in a fair and logical manner and tells us plainly what the results of a “ solid south” must necessarily be. Io response to the toast “ Southern indus­trial growth the strongest bood between union aud peace.” Col. Hanson said:

“ Tbere are two souths—oue is the old south, the political south, the solid south, the south of exclusive agricul­ture, of theory and failure. The other is the new south, the business south, tbe south of diversified industry, of practical methods, the south of progress. They were evolved from different con ditions, at different periods and inspired by different sentiments, hopes and pur poses. One lives in the memory of the past, and is guided by its dead tradi tions; the other iu the preseut aud fu­ture, learning wisdom from expensive experience. Each was designed for a mission—to fill a place in tbe histoiy of the country. For the good that was and is in both of them we love them, while not unmindful of their faults, their mistakes, perhaps their political sius.

“ If “ southern industrial growth,” is “ the strongest bond of union aud peace,” the union aud the peace of the union are pledges of this industrial growth. Because this is true, and for many other reasons, I appreciate this union as I never appreciated it be­fore; I love the union as I never loved it before, and, looking to the best interests of, my state, my section, my country,and of mankind, I trust that God iu His providence will stiengthen it with each succeeding year and make its blessings perpetual.

“ Whenever this union has l.eeu as sailed, and it has been in jeopardy more than once, the sentiment that opposed if, that sought to dissolve it, was cou ceived in the womb, nurtured at the breast, dandled upon the knee and rock­ed in the cradle of free trade. This statem ent is true, whether tested by the nuhficatioD act of South Carolina or the confederacy formed at Montgomery, Ala. I t is true, because the philosophy of free trade as taught at present, aud as always taught in this country, has been, and is, based upon segregation, upon conflict and antagonism between sections and states, c asses and inter­ests. This doctrine is contrary to the spirit of the union, which ceases to be a union in fact when it ceases to be a union cf interests.

“ The American policy has always promoted the spirit of union. I t rests upon community of interest promoted by the union. I t recognizes the fact that one section or interest cannot pros per without benefiting all other sec­tions aud interests, aDd that the decline of oue reacts upon and weakens all the rest. Whenever this law has been ob­served the union has grown strong in the tffections of a peaceful aud prosper­ous people. Whenever it has been vio lated the bonds of union Lave been weakened, and, through strife and bit­terness, our progress has been checked.”

“ Slavery, secession aud free trade were the trinity of errors incarnated in the lost cause. The two former were settled beyond recall or contention as results of the war. For the first time since the war the question of free trade, clean cut and well defined, was carried before the people of the coumry iu the late presidential campaign. Stripped of all partisan subterfuges that campaign involved the methods and purposes of federal taxation. So far as the people had the power to settle the question by the results of one election, they d e c i d e d

that in normal times the federal govern­ment should raise all its revenues from the custom houses, with duties so adjust­ed as to give ample protection to Ameri­can capital and labor. This campaign furnished the first instance in our polit­ical history, in which a great political party appealed to the people iu a national election to destroy protection by a reduction of duties, and to per­petuate a system of internal federal tax­ation.

“ If the results of th a t campaign, as they indicate public judgm ent,and public will, am ount to anything, the R epubli­can p a rty is under m andate from the p eo p le to c u t u p th e in te rn a l revenue

system by the roots and secure the p e r­manency of the American policy of pro­tection. These issues were made squarely, and the Republicans trium ph­ed upon them over the Democracy and Prohibitionists combined.

“ The majority of the people at the north, a large minority of the southern whites and nearly all of the southern blacks are in favor of protection, while a minority of the people of the north and a majority of the southern whites are in favor of free trade. If this is true, the question of continuing the protective policy of wiping out our entire internal revenue system becomes a simple qnes tion of submission to the will of the majority. Reduced to its last analysis this question assumes this shape now and for the future. Now, as always, the political south—the solid south—is relied upon to furnish the bulk of cou gressioual votes in opposition to protec­tion, and in support, iu these latter days (God held us), of the prop sitiou to make the present onerous, unjust aud infamous system of internal taxatiou permanent. Whatever may be the sen­timent of the southern people with ref­erence to the question of protection, they are overwhelmiugly opposed to in­ternal federal taxatiou, and will co-ope­rate iu any movement for its repeal. The political south, kuowu to you as the solid south, is uot the south of prog­ress. I t is not the south, nor the rep- reseutalives of the south, tliat builds our cotlou mills and iron furnaces. It is au injustice to the people of tlie whole country, as its efforts are felt in our federal legislation.

“ As the south is solid in support of free trade, and as the north is largely in lavor of protection, the power of the south thus acquired aud thus wielded is an injustice to the north. If we persist iu the effort to keep aud exercise it fo r this purpose there can be but oue logi­cal result. A solid south iu favor of free trade will provoke a solid north iu favor of protection, aud when the final conflict comes, free trade and the solid south, like secession and slavery, will perish.

“ I do uot believe in a solid south for tbe purpose of controlling federal fiscal policies in opposition to the majority seutiinent of the people of the noith I do not admit that such a purpose could I e fouuded upou necessity to the south or justice to the north. For this reason, however, I may vote hereafter in our 1 ical elections. I never intend to vote for any man to fill any federal position who does, uot represent what I believe to be sound federal politics, touching all questions attVctiug the prosperity, the power and tlie glory of the country.

“ The devotion ot the southern free traders to delusive theories and their inattention to facts have beeu shown during the recent discussion of the sen­ate tariff bill. From the utterances of s mtheru seuators, those who are un­acquainted with tbe situation would suppose that the south was iu a condi­tion of steady decline, and that, by rea sou of the tariff, every article of neces­sity consumed by southern farmers was enormously enhanced in price. Under protection the south has increased her cotton crops from 3,500,000 to 7,000,000 bales, and never iu the history of the country has the purchasing power of a bale of cotton equaled its present pur- ch isiug power. Does this deuote de­cline iu our agriculture? Does it indi­cate that the fainrer i6 robbed by this system, when it is continually increas- ing the purchasing power of his product ?

“ Whatever southern politicians may say with reference to this question, the business south does uot propose to sur­render the policy under w hich our sec­tion and the country have achieved these magnificent results. That tlie po litical south proposes Io destroy the protective system no man of candor and intelligence will deny. In view of this purpose the man or party who will save the political south from ittfelf, and save the country from the political sopth, will tes t promote the south and the country, protection fails iu this tail at the hands of the tbe white soutu loses cal affairs, it will be

OVER THE RIDGE.T H E N E W S O F T H E W E E K A T MAY­

V IL LE AND H A R T F IE L D .

interests of the If the cause of country, it will solid south. If

control of her lo- by reason of her

J a m e s t o w n ’s O p p o s i t i o n t o I m p r o v e ­

m e n t s i n C o u n t y B u i l d i n g s —O f f i c e r s o f

t h e H . L . C .— L a s t W e d n e s d a y s ’ B l i z ­

z a r d — F o x e s S c a r c e .

S p e c ia l C o r re s p o n d e n c e ' ’T h e R e p u b l ic a n .”

As usual the Jamestown press oppose a measure to provide accommodations for the increasing records at the County Clerks ofiice. For the past ten years or loDger they have fought all attempts to keep up the public buildings at May­ville hoping they might be removed to Jamestown. Thu strong opposition their attempt met a year or two ago ought to convince them that it cannot be done. Mayville is the only point al 1 can agree ou without dividing the county aud old Chautauqua dou’t want to be divided Why can’t Jamestown stop factions opposition to needed improve­ments ?

Meetings are now being held four evenings iu the week at the White Church, preaching by ltev. J H. Miller.

The Wooglen Club ice house is now filled. Hundreds a>e now employed at the immense ice houses at Mayville and woik is often continued until midnight.

The officers of lhe H. L. C. now’ are President, George LyoiqVice-President, John Deeriug; Secretary, Gustif J .bn- soD; Treasurer, Carrie Freddenburg. Some interesting essays are on the pro­gramme for Saturday eveuing.

Willis Leet has sold out his share in the Leet Bros, grocery and is going to Laona to ruu the White tannery.

Frank Raynor was so unfortunate as to break one of his legs ou the Morris road one dark night last week.

Last Wednesday we had the worst blizzard of the season in this vicinity. The last train up the lake on the C. L. R’y got siuek near Dewittville aud spent the night in the drifts. They succeeded m gettiug through iu lhe ruori ing back to Jamestown, but the up train also tin t with obstructions and was nearly all day getting through to M yville. The snow was packed so solid the snow plow made little impres­sion on it and reserve was had to shovels.

John Dill, who lives three miles southwest of Mayville, caught a flue red fox in a slump lately. Foxes are uot plenty this winter and our veteran hunter, Wm. Hines, though he has been out several times has not succeeded in bagaing one this winter.

Chuiles Zauns who lives on the Por­tage road two miles from Mayville was surprised l>v a parly of his friends on Wednesday evening last.

ti. W. Bout well, of Corrv, Pa., is picking up considerable hay iu this vicinity. Ho is now bailing at the bains of David Sherman Dear Hartfield where he gets some sixty tons. He pays $10 per tou.

J. T. Wilson now has about a dozen teams hauling logs to Chautauqua Lake preparatory to rafting down to James­town in the spring Several of the teams are from Westfield.

I t is said that E. Watterman near Dewittville has sold his farm to Charles Parker from Ohio, who takes possession March 1st,

The ladies of St. George’s Chapel have organized a sewiDg circle will) the following officers: President, Mrs.David Ellison; Vice President, Mrs. J . M. WTood; Secreiury, Mrs. Carl Wood; Treasurer, Mis. Ida Rnnnell. The first meeting was to have been held at the Guild room Thursday afternoon last but was postponed on account of the storm.

Scofield Bros, have their grape bas­ket factory in operation now, and have shipped some 25,000 in the fl it to Cran­dall’s Factory Westfield, already. They can manufacture 10,000 daily. The dies for cutting bottoms and covers work admirably turning them out at the rate of 1000 per hour.

B R O C T O N AND P O R T L A N D . VICINITY NOTES.

folly m using her abnormal political power for the purpose of checking Americ in progress through the destruc­tion of the American system. ”

Ask your grucer why he don’t keep Tulip soap, and if he is an honest man he will answer “ because I can buy a soap not as good as Tulip, for less money, and sell it a t the same price, thereby m aking a larger profit for m y­self, bu t of course my gain is my cus­tom ers’ loss, bu t what do I care for their interests ? I t ’s their money I want. ”

S u r r o g a t e C o u r t .

Estate of Mary Add Wratten late of Westfield deceased, Will admitted to probate and Letters Testamentary is­sued to William W ratten, sole Executor.

Estate of Morris Dick late of West- field deceased, Wiil admitted to pro­bate, no Executor appointed.

Estate of Conrad Nemover late of Wesffield deceased, Will admitted to probate and Letters Testamentary is­sued to S. W. Mason and Mary Ne- moyer, Executors.

Estate of Jor.as Harrington late of Westfield deceased, Letters of Admin­istration issued to Amelia Holt.

E state of M artha H u n t late of Chau­tauqua deceased, L etters of Adm inis­tration issued to Frank J . Irw in.

E sta te of Lydia Bush late of P o rt­land deceased, L etters of A dm inistra­tion issued to T. S. Moss.

A n I n t e r e s t i n g L e t t e r F r o m a L i v e l y

C o r r e s p o n d e n t .Special Correspondence ‘‘T h e Republican."

O ur people th a t can afford private ice houses are filling the same with ice for sum m er consumption.

An overcoat or a su it of clothes very cheap to close o u t stock at W. L. Sm ith’s <fc Co.

Lake E rie presents a solid frozen appearance for the first time this winter.

Haviug recently added a grist mill to our establishm ent we are prepared to do all custom work prom ptly. All kinds of feed kept constantly on hand Give us a trial. C r a n d a l l & S on .

A private letter to E. H. F ay reports the fru it buds of the L ake Michigan preach crop as seriously iujured.

All kinds of prin ting executed neatly and prom ptly at T he R epublican. O r­ders sent by mail will receive careful attention.

Seneca Hill has commenced the car­penter work on his new house.

Place your orders with W. L. Smith & Co. for your grape wire and all grape growers’ supplies. They sell a t bottom prices.

Miss E. Adkins, of N o rth . East, is spending a few days with her cousio, Mrs. P. Z. Ellis.

Undertaking promptly attended to by | A. 1'. Lowell. tf

A nephew and wife, of Mr. F. Bald- win, came over from C hautauqua to

i snend the Sabbath.A. P. Lowell sells grapegrowers sup

plies aud all kinds of hardware as low us | they can be afforded anywhere. Place

yonr orders with him. tfAlvah Mathews has his card ou t as

1 a,reut for E. F rank Coe’s celebrated brunch of fertilizers.

Smith X' Co. sell the famous Penin- I sula stoves, ranges aud heaters. Tbe

be-t stoves in the market.Mr. Fred Hipwell has rented the j

Favid C hurchill farm aDd moves ou the ! same in the spring.

The special meetings will continue } through this week, m uch good is being | done.

The adjourned annual m eeting of th e C G. S A. was held in Brocton as per announcem ent. F u llv two hundred were in ut endance from Portland. West- fi Id, Riplev, Pom fret and Sheridan. Hon. T. S. Moss was called to the chair. Tbe report of Directors was received w ithout a m urm ur of disapprobation. The report of assistant secretary, H. R Sm ith, was received giving fail details of the business of the season. The full am ount of money received by the Asso­ciation was som ething over oue lm udred aud sixty-six thousand dollars. The total rebate fund was over eight thou­sand dollars, after paying all expenses of doing the business, som ething like three thousand dollars are left for dis­tribution among the growers. As there is still some work to com plete the busi­ness, M anager Fay and H. R. Smith were retained to com plete the same. The report of the auditing com m ittee was to the eft’eet th a t the business and aud clerical work of the Association had been doue in a satisfactory manner, tbe report shows uo car to have beeu lost to the growers and not one dollar lost iu the way of collections. The report of committee ou By-Laws was full aud of fered some radical chauges to the ones now iu force. The most im portant of which were adopted by the Association, among which the following were noted’ The office of Treasurer is made e lec­tive; Three grades of grapes are to be made by the Inspector; Ouly No. 1 are are to bear the Association trade m ark; If the grower does uot make the dis tm ction at home and the Inspector is left to properly mark, a charge of one cent per basket is to be made after call­ing the growers attention to it the first time; For a m em ber to ship outside the Association lie not only forfeits rebate but his name is stricken from list of m embership. The officers elecled for the eDsumg year were: President, T.S. Moss; Vice P resident, A. A. Skiuuer; Secretary, Geo. M arsh; Treasurer, R.A. H all; D irectors, E rnest Buckner, Brocton; F rank G. Arnold, Portlaud; John A. Tennant, R pley; J . G. Harris, Westfield; P. M. M iutou, l’oinfret; H. S. M ortou, Sheridau. Iu order to com­plete By-Laws and atteud to o ther m at­ters, m eetiug adjourned to meet at sam e hour aud place Feb. 23d.

Those who have used it, say they are willing to pay 25 cents for f o u r bars of T u lip soap, as at th a t price it is cheaper than any other soap, bu t now tb a t our grocers are selling five bars for 25 ceDts, there should be uo question as to which is the best soap for the money. We say T ulip every time.

Ooly think of it—a bar of T u lip soap for 5 cents. I t ’s wonderful.

IN F O R M A T IO N G L E A N E D FROM H E R E T H E R E AND E V E R Y W H E R E .

A N O T H E R P IO N E E R S E T T L E R G O N E .

P e r s o n a l an cl S o c i a l G o s s i p I n t h e T o w n s

a n d V i l l a g e s o f N o r t h e r n C h a u t a u q u a —

I t e m s o f L o c a l I n t e r e s t G a t h e r e d F r o m

A l l A r o u n d U s .

Sinelairville is to have a new town ball.

T he great Buffalo fair will be held the first week in September.

A big gas well is reported s t Sandy Crei k, Oswego county, N. Y.

There will be an extention added to the Erie Court House next summer.

D unkirk is having au epidemic of fever. Ninty cases were reported last week.

The Chautauqua County Agricultural Society will receive $1180.40 from the Iv e s ’ pool bill fund.

Normau S. Thrasher, a son of Win field S Thrasher, of Dayton, N. Y., has been appointed Cadet at West Poiut.

A new brass band has been organized on ihe C attaraugus Reservation to be known as the Shaugo Independent Sen­eca Cornet Band.

Dew ittville and Cherry Creek granges, P. of H., protest vigorously, by resolu­tion, agaiust the proposed increase in the salary of the surrogate.

C hautauqua is to have a Cooking School. Mrs. Emma P. Ewing, of P ur due University, Indiana, Las beeu en­gaged to give a course of lessons and lectures.

Jamestown Typographical Uni >n, No. 205, has passed resolutions recommeud- ing Lewis Payne, of the New York P ress, to GeD. Harrison for the posi­tion of public printer.

Jam estown leads the world. Hinne- baugh B rothers on F iday, Feb 5th, shipped a large consignm ent of bed sprivgs aud wire m attresses to Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic, South America.

Mr. Sheldon Barker, of Ellington, committed suicide recently by hanging himself iu his barn. Finaucial trouble was supposed to be tbe cause of bis death. He was 00 years old and leaves a wife and three children.

The ‘23d annual m ee.ing of the Young M en’s Christian Association of the Sta e of New York will be held in Wuter- t urn, on February 21si— 24 h. The rapid growth of the Associations makes it probable this will be a large g a ln r -

I iuf?-Tbe carnival of tbe Women’s E duca­

tional and Industrial Union of Dunkirk promises to be a grand affair. I t will be held in tlie opera house in that city Feb. 22d. There will be several fancy dances, among them the Swedish wed­ding dance.

The losses by the Buffalo fire are esti­mated at over $2,000,000. The adjust rrs of that city sav that the insurance rates will be raised on account of the heavy losses during tho past year. That may mean another raise in the rates for C hautauqua county.

At a meeting of the corporation of the V illage of Mayville, on Thursday even­ing last, permission was grauted to a compauy of Syracuse geutlemeu, rep re­sented by Mr. A. S. Newell, to lay mains for natural gas iu the stree ts of the vil­lage. The compauy proposes to com­mence boring for gas in a few weeks.

The deep well, sunk by the Presque Isle Gas Co., of Erie, for the purpose of proving th e existence of gas in large quantities in the Trenton lime stone, has beeu abandoned. Tlie Trentou rock had beeu penetrated about 200 feet m aking the depth of the well 4450 feet, almost a mile from top to bottom. A well at St. Catharines, Canada, was sunk 700 feet into the Trenton and ob­tained a decided flow of gas, but not in large quantity . The E rie well showed uo gas at. the bottom aud but little on the way down, and the state geologist, before whom the facts were laid, said: “ I i Link you have small chance for gas.’ ’ As the boring tools with GOO feet of rope had been dropped iu the well, and the fishing tools, sent down after them , had aiso dropped, it had been voted to abandon the enterprise without to rpe­doing. T his leaves it probable that iu this vicinity gas can be found at a m od­erate depth or no t at all.

E re the bat hath flown its cloistered flight, hie ye to F . Eggleston’s for five bars of T ulip soap for 25 cents.“ Where are you going my pretty maid ? ”“ To Wilson’s kind sir,” she said.“ What will you get there, my pretty maid?”“ Ten bars of Tulip for 50 cents, sir,” she said.

T h e D e a t h o f M r . J o h n F e l l o w s a n O l d

R e s i d e n t o f P o r t l a n d .

W e have again to announce the death of auother of the early settlers of Chau­tauqua county, Mr. John Fellows, of Portland, whose death, Jan. 2 5 th , mnrk3 another step in the march of mortality. F or the past four years he has been a great sufferer, being confined to his house, a confirmed invalid, yet the tid­ings of his death, though not unex­pected, will be heard by all with that regret we can b u t feel when a good and kindly man departs from our midst.

Mr. Fellows was boru in Saratoga county March 20, 1805, the eldest of a family of eleven children. The death of his father while the son was a boy of fifteeD, left him to share with his widowed mother the burdens and cares of the large family.

His early life in this eastern home was thus one of D ecessary self denial, nor was it any less when in 1825 the family removed to Portland in this couuty and entered upon the tria ls of a pioneer life iu the wilderness of Chau­tauqua, settling npon a farm of which the estate of Lincoln Fa v now forms a part. The dwelling honse of Widow Fellows, his mother, stood near the spot now occupied by tbe Fay hom e­stead, where for several years she kep t a public house, until 1837 when she re ­moved to Westfield.

Mr. Fellows iu 1829 married Miss B arbara Correll with whom he lived several years. He afterward in 1839, m arried for his second wife Miss Olive Tiring, with whom he livid over 45 years, her death occurring some three years Biuce. Thus for to ore than sixty years Mr. Fellows has been a resident of our county and has participated iu the labors and sacrifices by which the c iv i­lization and home life of the present time has been evolved from the rude surroundings of a wilderness. S turdy toil, p&iient endurance and self denial has through long aud slow moving vears wrought out the results we in>w enjoy; aud iu this work of transform ation Mr. Fellows had his share.

H e was a mau of more than ordinary n’elligence and ch arac te r; a mau of

s 'roug and decided rt iigi ms convic­tions; in denominational pr> fen nee fa­voring the doctrines <f ihe Seventh Day Baptist church; yet in Christian fellowship with any efforts tending towards the advancement of religion and morality. His approval of w hat­ever lie believed to be right and true, was earnest and sincere. His kindly regard io his fellowmeu aud endorse­ment of righteousness in national life, was always m anifested in word aud deed; and liis calm, reliant trust in God was felt by all with whom lie came in contact. The sufferings of iiis later years were often intense, yet amid them all he showed forth the beauty of a Christian trust, und the patient waiting for the summons to depart, to him dying was bu t going home.

Your bauds will not become shriveled aud hard if you nse Tulip soap.

VOLUSIA AND LOMBARD.

Remember tha t we keep a full line of wrapping paper at T h e R e p u b l i c a n

office.

P e r s o n a l a n d L o c a l G o s s i p F r o m I

K il l S i d e .

Special Correspondence “ The Republican.”Tbe uext church social will be held

Mrs. Lancaster’s on Pigeou street, has been arranged to have a varied p gramme of music and recitations, very enjoyable tim e is anticipated a all are invited.

l h e social at F red S w a rtz ’ was i fu lly attended ou account of bed roi and storm y night.

The adveut of a new girl at the “ c lie’s” makes glad heart- for R. T ucker and wife.

W ebster defines wind as air ia i tion—it would be a better definition th is vicinity for the past week—to h. been snow in motion.

There is an effort being made to tablish a cream ery in this vicinity.

They are preparing to get out gn basket s tu ff at Ogdeus mill.

The winter term of school In - olri at Lom bard and Deans Corners.

We are rejoiced to know that M Geo. Tucker hiis nearly regained usual health.

Jam es Eggleston was exercising < of his horses la-t week and the ho kicked him, which was a narrow esci from breaking his leg, from the effe of which he is sick at preseut with pn monia. H is b ro ther E lm er from H mony is helping to take care of him.

There is to be a social dance at L H ubbells th is (W ednesday) evening.

T he roads at present are almost i passable, the snow is so deep.

George T icknor and wife were p sented with a boy Friday of last we