Boone County Recorder . ay big men all they owe them, but , smart to cheat a colored boy. These . customers have been paying for their shaves, their hair cuts, and their wet shampoos, but have been exercising ~i&olr*re3U when it came to the SKines. i start time sgo, the boy read of a New York tailor who competed insolvent custoaaer* to pay. ap by displajiiug their old. blTli in his window. Ho Boots took tickets and wrot^upou each of them the name of a delinonent. For each shine unpaid he pnndhed one hole fu the ticket When the ticket came to look like a porous piaster he nailed it np on aboard
Boone County Recorder . ay big men all they owe them, but , smart to cheat a colored boy. These . customers have been paying for their shaves, their hair cuts, and their wet shampoos, but have been exercising ~i&olr*re3U when it came to the SKines. i start time sgo, the boy read of a New York tailor who competed insolvent custoaaer* to pay. ap by displajiiug their old. blTli in his window. Ho Boots took tickets and wrot^upou each of them the name of a delinonent. For each shine unpaid he pnndhed one hole fu the ticket When the ticket came to look like a porous piaster he nailed it np on aboard right in, front Of the rhlner 1hc first customer lookcc over it got f rigWeiled, then mad, then very peb mortified. There were tfrenty i Around his name. • down that ticket of mlnn, he k the boy [ want that down boss?»lytyoua dollar to take it *wn,astute tiehegembiagr. Therefor it. The delinquent had»am» left He had noto robbing the hoy, but hest people to watch him at it^n* dollarMr scheme work? asked one boy. which to expend the wages which theyearn in competition with the labor ofthe world The claim that protection is for thebenefit of American labor has nothingto rest on except the difference ofwages here and abroad. That differ-ence existed before the revolution,when the American colonies were apart, of Great Britain. The price oflabor is regulated by its productivenessand the law of supply and demand. Itis the operation of this law and the su-perior productiveness of American la-bor that have made it higher here, andnot protection. The advocates of theprotective system, while prating of lovefor the American doing allthey can to neutralize the advantageshe enjoys, partly by increasing the sup-ply of labor and partly by giving hima dear market in which to expend hisearnings. — Louisville Courier-Journal. BLAINES GREAT ACTT^ Kntliualaam of the Pennsylvania Repnb-llean Mill republicans of Pennsylvania inconvention assembled warmly thankthe Fifty
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