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THE M(MOE AD <5 K cr c t? ERTISEE.
VOL. XUI. NO. 21.
BRIMFULI J
Our srore is filled to overflowing
Every nook and corner is packed
with new goods. for spring trade
from the best mills in the land.
We use the utmost care in the
selection of our goods, quality the
best, skilled workmanship and the
latest styles are considered. . .
WE HAVE... Just Over Plaids opened and a beautiful Imported line Worst¬ of
eds of high art make. We can
sell you an all wool Suit for $7 5c
that you paid $10 00 for last se£
son. Our $10.00, $12.50 and $15
lines are standard, and far below
the market value; we want your
trade the reason.......
Trunks, Valises and We make have the a specialty largest and of Trunks finest
stock shown in this city in five
years. Our second floor is de
voted to this department.
GENTS’ IFTTE^bTISEEIINra-S
Our stock in this line is complete.
An immense line of Negligee
Shirts, Hosiery and Umbrellas.
!Er^A i _'YX 7 "S HATS Guaranteed. We ‘carry t’ne
largest hat stock in Middle Georgia.
BENSON & TODD,
Up to Date Clothiers. 408 Third St,
Macon, Ga.
SUMMER Gr 00DS,
REFRIGERATORS,
“Wisconsin Peerless’’ the only one ssientificaally constructed.
Keeps everything without contamination and uses less ice than
any other.
ICE CREAM FREEZERS
“Shepard’s Lightning” the best made, “The Blizzard” also a good
one but a little lower in price.
OIL AND GAS STOVES
“ihe Brooklyn’ blue flame oil stoves. “The Brooklyn” gas stoves
and ranges, also wickless blue flame oil stoves, the latest.
BABY CARRIAGES
“The Hey wood" has a national reputation. We have a big assort¬
ment, all prices. Cushion tires the latest novelty.
HAMMOCKS
Something entirely new. Stretches head and foot. They can be
converted into a reclining chair or a chradle for the baby.
BICYCLES
Be a “Monte Cristo" and say “The Wofld” i-i* mine. Johnnie
Johnson, America’s champion, rides it Tbe “America” with
Truss frame is the strongest bicycle built. Baby Bliss weighs 502
pounds and rides a 24-pound America. The “Oriole” at $47.50 is
the best wheel ever offered for the money.
GARDEN, “The Furniture
Man.’’
1 73 Cotton Ave., Macon, Ga.
ESTABLISHED, 1848.
D. A ALTICK’S SON,
Manufacturer of High Grade Buggies, Surries,
Phaetons, &c.
We claim to «.** ^ v* -A -A -A
build, not the 7 All we ask is,
CHEAPEST, a TRIAL
but the BEST (M /X y\ / / ORDER.
for the money.
Send for catalogue, and by mentioning this paper we will allow
you an EXTRA DISCOUNT.
I). A. Altick’s Son,
LANCASTER, PENN.
FORSYTH. (iA„ FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1897.
HEROIC.
An ppideinic prevailed in Plymouth,
Pa., and was so violent that the town
; was almost decimated—every one tied
| that could get away, excepting those
who heroically determined that duty
required their presence to nurse their
families and combat the disease.
Heroes who fight battles and destroy
armies, desolate homes and crash na¬
tions are lauded to the skies, but there
is another heroism that should never he
forgotten, that which stands at the bed¬
side defying danger and death, soothing
the sufferer. Sucli devotion was shown
in Plymouth, and the fell destroyer was
soon driven back, and health smiled
upon the doomed town once more.
bers Having of in our official capacity Committee as mem¬
the Plymouth Hospital
been asked to test and prove the effective¬
ness of many different articles to be used
as disinfectants in sickrooms and as pre¬
ventives of infectious fevers, report that
oughly Darbys Prophylactic during Fluid has been thor
tested the recent Typhoic
epidemic in this place. It proved most effi
cacious F. H. Armstrong, in staying the spread JVI of the fever
S. Davenport
J. Thos. A. Opp, O. M. Lance,
Kerr, James Lee, Jr.
Several of the leading merchants of Ply
mouth, who had cases of the fever in thei
families, who are personally known to me
used Darbys Prophylactic Fluid, to their
entire satisfaction and have given the best
of testimonials to that effect. It is a most
effective preparation It should be used
in every bouse I as a preventive from Ty
infectant phoid Fever, is heeded. or in any 1 would case where recommend a dis
it to e veryone, having had a good oppor
tunitv to know its excellent (nudities
G. H. P kindle. Hospital Steward.
WILSON VS. DINGLEY.
FORMER TARIFF MAKER EXPOSES AB¬
SURDITIES OF THE DINGLEY BILL.
Says It Is “the Most Fltra Protective Tariff
Ever Proposed”—Will Encourage Trusts
and Discourage American Labor—Makes
S(yne Serious Ileilections Upon tlie Mc¬
Kinley Bill as a Revenue Producer.
Ex-Postmaster General William L.
Wilson is credited with the authorship
of the tariff bill now in force. His
bauds were tied so that he could not
make the bill nearly as good as he de¬
sired to make it, and the bill as finally
passed was rot nearly as good as when
it first passed the house. It was, how¬
ever, a great improvement upon the Mc¬
Kinley bill and is a model as compared
with the Dingley monstrosity. We
quote the following from Mr. Wilson’s
criticism of the McKinley and Dingley
bills in a recent number of the New
York Herald:
These bills are eo nearly identical in
general structure and particular items,
excepting as to the sugar schedule, that
it may be well to consider the effect of
the first bill on the revenue of the coun¬
try. Both bills are vast and voluminous
schemes of class taxation, tlie production
of public revenue being an incident and
entirely subordinate to thp purpose of
taxing all the American people for the
benefit of a small part of the people.
The protectionist has but one remedy,
which he applies whether the revenue
be redundant or deficient. If times are
prosperous and mere money than is
needed pours into the treasury, he in¬
creases taxes by a scheme that turns
the larger pert of their avails into pri¬
vate pockets, and this reduces public
revenue. If times are depressed aud less
money than is needed pours into the
treasury, he seizes the pretext of in¬
creasing public revenues by adding
pnormously to the amount of private ex
action.
The act tf 189U, whatever its other
effects, did reduce revenue. From a
large surplus it swept us headlong to a
deficiency, although it weighted the
people with heavier taxes and although
another law, passed iu July, 1890,
turned into the treasury as a part of the
general assets to be used for paying ex¬
penditures a trust fund of more than
$54,000,000 which belonged to the na¬
tional banks and had always been held
for the redemption of their notes.
Even before the Harrison administra¬
tion ended we should have been con¬
fronted with a large deficiency but for
the use of this trust fund and the fur
ther fact that Secretary Foster, by a
change of bookkeeping, added to the
treasury balance $20,000,000 of token
and subsidiary coin not before treated
as a treasury asset. With these extraor¬
dinary additions, even, we wound np the
fiscal year June 80, 1898, with a sur¬
plus of only $2,341,674 as against a
surplus for the fiscal year June 30,
1880, of over $85,000,000 before the
above trust fund and subsidiary coin
were touched. And durin" the fiscal
year ended June 30, 1894, through all
of which the McKinley bill was in force,
j expenditures exceeded the revenues notwith¬ to
the amount of $69,803,260,
standing the fact that the expenditures
i of tbe government were $15,952,674
I less than in the preceding year.
This statement shows how absurd and
groundless is the claim constantly made
; by the protectionists that recent deficits
in revenue are due .o the substitution
of the existing tariff for the McKinley
bill. Nothing is more certain than that
if the bill had been in force_during the
By SAME OLD CHESTNUT8. I
making the foreigners contribute from $150,000,000 to $200,000,000 an- '
nually to get into onr market we enable our oint people to run their business at a
profit.—American Economist, Organ of Protective Tariff League, March 26, 1897.
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Uncle Sam: “Say, Dingley, you might as well come down. You’re not
getting any chestnuts, and you’re uot fooling voters. McKinley had some ex
perience up that tree—it’s a horse chestnut—in 1890. He pretended that he
was making the foreigner pay the tax, but he soon found out what the peo¬
ple thought of him and his bill. The bulk of Americans are both honest
and intelligent. The intelligent voter knows that you can’t make the foreigner
pay his taxes, and the honest voter prefers to pay his own taxes. You can never
make your bill popular by such tomfoolery.”
last three years the annual deficit would
have been immensely swollen, while the
people in a season of depression and
hard times would have staggered under
much heavier burdens of taxation. Even
in this disastrous period, customs duties
under the existing law have increased
from less than §182,000,0<j0 iu 1894,
the last year of the McKinley bill, to
ev$n §152,000,000 iu 1895 and to over
$160,000,000 in 1896.
In the sugar schedule alone the bal¬
ance in favor of the existing law is
about $55,000,000. The customs reve¬
nue reached nearly $40,000,000, scarce¬
ly any of which would have been re¬
ceivable under the McKinley Ifll.
That, the Dingley bill, present condi
tfems considered, is the most ultra pro¬
tective tariff ever proposed to be enact¬
ed in this country plainly appears from
Chairman Dingley's statement that if
levied cu the importations of the last
fiscal year it would have increased the
revenue $112,000,000—that is to say, it
would have gathered from an importa¬
tion of $775,724,264 of imported mer¬
chandise the enormous sum of $272,
000,000, which is nearly $50,000,000
more than any customs revenue ever
collected in one year in this country in
the past. And to say that its rates will
probably check dutiable imports to the
extent of reducing the estimate to $70, -
000,000 is only another way of saying
that to that extent such rates are pro¬
hibitory.
American consumers are shut in the
homo market to be preyed upon by com¬
binations and trusts without possibili¬
ty of relief from outside competition.
Such combinations, by joining to keep
up prices and to curtail production,
wage more merciless war against the
employment, the opportunities and the
compensation of American labor than
any possible competition from abroad
could do.
The falling off of importations under
the present law dispels the illusion
that the American laborer is anywhere
deprived of employment hy the impor¬
tation of foreign products. The gratify¬
ing increase in our exports of manufac¬
ture? is eon ally strong proof that those
laws arc helping us to enter and com¬
mand new markets, which means not
only larger employment for our arti¬
sans, but more home consumers for Cur
farmers.
Blaine Opposed a Duty on Hides.
The following letter from Secretary
of State James G. Blaine in 1890 is
supposed to have had great weight with
tie Ways and means committee:
Washington, April 10, 1800.
_ Dear Mr. McKinley— It preat mistake
is a
to take hides from the free list, where they
have been for so many years. It is a slap in
the face to the South Americans, with whom
the price of his children's shoes. It will yield
a profit to the butcher only, the last man thal
needs it. The movement is injudicious from
ments as this for protection will protect the
Republican party into a speedy retirement
Means.
Where is the Blaine this year who
can head off tire westerners who want
their share cf protection . and foolishly
imagine that they can get it by a dut\
on hides? It is perfectly consistent w itb
the protection system to tax hides, es
Children Cry for
Pitcher’s Castoria c
SANDERS & EVANS. Pubs.
pecially as the "bulk of the tax would
probably go to a few monopoly butch¬
ers and ranchmen. But observe some of
the effects upon our industries:
The importations of untaxed hides
and skins last year were valued at $20,-
216,528. The goatskius were valued at
$10,803,359. The former were mostly
converted into sole leather, beltings
and such like heavy material, for which
our native hides are not thick enough.
The goatskins are not produced in this
country.
From this raw material wo not only
manufacture boots, slices and leather
goods for our own people cheaper and
better than they are made elsewhere in
the world, but we exported finished
products of the value of $20,242,756.
Without free and cheap raw material
this export trade would have been i:v
possible, and onr own people, as Mr
Blaine pointed out, would bo compel!'
to pay more for their footwear. 7
wages paid to our workers in leaf!
last year amounted to $25,542,166.
Protecting the Few (Voolgrowers.
Suppose the Dingley duties on w
would give the woolgrowers all
protection claimed and that the p
of wool would actually go up the
amount of the duty, which, of or/
is absurd. What would bo the eft c*
on the country at large?
Mr. Edward Atkinson, statistician,
estimates the annual wool product at
$55,000,000 out of a total of $13,200,
000,000 produced by all the workers of
the country and the persons dependent
on the wool industry at 300,000 out of
a total population of 73,000,000. The
wool duty then means that out of every
240 persons 289 are to be ‘‘held up” for
the benefit of the other one. This is a
sample of what protection does. Of
course more than 300,000 persons may
sometimes raise a few sheep, but the
interests of these others are more those
of the consumer than of the sheep raiser,
and they would lose more because of i’
creased cost of woolens than they wo’
gain by the increased price of wool.
The protective tariff system is r ; 1 ..
when considered in connection ' th v
farmer the workingman. ' they
or .
ever fully appreciate it?
An Odious Tar
The tin plate makers vislitoboom
their business by increasing thfe duty
on imported tin plate, to the injury of
the canning industry and other indus
tries that flourish by reason of cheap
tinplate. Another blow is struck at
I business by abolishing the rebate on ex
ported tin cans. Now canned goods ex
ported in cans made of imported .t tin are
flowed , a drawback . , , of . the duty , , paid, . ,
and thus an export business has boon
built up in canned fruits, oysters, vege
tin cans are sent abroad ,«**,<,«*»*• annually, con
taining oil which competes with that of
Russia. When Russia can buy tin plate
at f2.70 a box, while we have to pay
$3.50 for it, it is evident that our com
petition will be rendered difficult. Mr.
Peter to pay PaaL-Balti
more faun.
Why We Shiver.
It is true that woolen clothing, un
derwear and blankets will be out of the
reach of people of moderate means when !
Dingley has his way, but just think
how sweet it is to suffer for one s coun
try and to shiver in order that the rob
her barons may continue to wax fat j
and contribute to the “legitimate” ex
penses of the g. o. p!—Louisville Post. J
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POWDER
Absolutely Pure.
tVlebraLnl for its F vent leavening si ivngf.H
mid limit hfulness. Assn res t he food against
alum and alt forms of aduItertition eommou
to cheap up brands.
Rov At, liAKINU l’OWDKK CO., N’KW YOHK
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Great Intel ad. I':. 1 k c: cr'v'od in as
tronoinici 1 cilvies 1 • '< t a . ( 0 .results
reached Ly pro.I f.? t -• "o Newcomb
in his more m:i nt rat inns. One
of these is that a: u< i" is have beeir
overestimating the <'.i a:u • a of tlie stars
and the other mat • t r.: • v se has, aft
er all, a fairly wt limit. The
first of these c, .,c vf ssor New
comb bases on ; ■ • 1 .mt the stars
which arc called t. i llor cues be
cause they are let 1 !.: i;,T may not be
large stars ; r a v;: • a i distance, but
perhaps sr.t iKr cr li ta .' cat nearer
at hand The o..; i< s f. miliar to all
—namfiV, that ...i tit, s', •s arc of the
same briglitness .. t ...t the fainter
ones are at a vi ry 1 T eater distance
from us tlu.n the iu ones. This the¬
ory, however, Li IK i weakened by
later discoveries, > '1 for example.
that Sirius has accuipaaion wl;c:-;o light,
if equal surfaces Le considered,. is hut a
fraction of that of its principal,, and as
tronomers have come to recognize dim
stars, or even dark ones, like the com¬
panions of Algol, about which so much
has lately been written, to be quite n<>
common perhaps in the TUiiyer^c us
the bright ones. Professor Newcomb’s
proposition as to the limits of Hie uni¬
verse is regarded us cv; n more novel and
striking, suggesting, us it docs, <ho pos¬
sibility that some day all the stars will
be seen.—New York Pan
.
Tlie Spectrum of u Star.
A late, circular issued from the Har
vard college observatory includes in its
account of the most important recent
discoveries the spectrum of a stai
known as Zeta Puppis, its remarkable
character being unlike that of any other
yet obtained, the continuous spectrum
containing three systems of lines—first,
the dark hydrogen lines, snch as art
found in stars of the first type; second,
two bright bands or lines, which may
he identical with the adjacent lines in
spectra of the fifth type, and, third, a
series of very faint lines. But the most
important feature of this spectrum is a
new clement not found on the earth or
in any other stars, an element which,
though similar to hydrogen, is yet dis¬
tinctly different from it. Just what it
is or by what name to call it astronomers
are undecided, the marked peculiarity
being noted that it produces a vibration
systematic rather than accidental of
three-ten-millionths of a millimeter and
the action of which can be traced only
on a specially prepared photographic
plate. Another extraordinary discovery
noted is a new variable star in the con¬
stellation Crux, with a period of about
a year.
Why Increase the Coal I>nty? ■
Under the existing tariff bituminous
coal pays 40 cents a ton. The Dingley
bill proposes to make this 75 cents. Iu
1895-6 the imports of bituminous coal
into the United States were 1,243,835.
tons. The exports were 2,246,284. Tbe
figures for Canada were: Imported from
Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, et<x,,
123,404 tons; from Quebec, Ontario,
etc., 39,987; from British Columbia,
627,257; exports to these three divisions
respectively, 413 tons, 1,671,30^ and
8,094. Canada now proposes in case the
Dingley rate is imposed to retaliate by
a high duty on our coal, which will
certainly not stimulate -exports. Ifere
is an export business worth twice Mi.
much as the corresponding import busi¬
ness, and it is proposed to run the risk
of ruining the former for the sake of
screwing $350,000 taxes out of the lat
ter> and thig Qn tho p j ea of rev i T j rj g
American industry. Can any sane man
fail to gee that> even a6fiumiu{ , that
imports do EOt fall off it ia p ardl £
worth whilo for the fiake of a lfcr
$350,000 to tempt Canada into ruining
^ established business nearly twice as
large as that which is to ield the tax?
y et this ig the way in which " the old
thing works.”