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CoflR'aHT
Talk is Cheap j
but not in the language
that our clothing speaks for us.
Each suit that we sell a man is
strongest sort of argument in its
favor, and those who wear our
clothes are hacking up these
arguments every day. That’s the
kind of talk that’s never cheap.
We have an immense stock of
Spring Clothing, custom made, to
select from. Our stock of
CICILIANS, SERGES, ALPACAS,
LINEN and DUCK SUITS,
cannot be excelled in quality and
price in middle Georgia.
BENSON & TODD )
408 Third St. Macon, Ga.
SUMMER GOODS
REFRIGERATORS,
“Wisconsin Peerless” the only one scicntificaally constructed.
Keeps everything without contamination and uses less ice than
any other.
ICE CREAM FREEZERS
“Shepard’s Lightning” the best made. “The Blizzard” also agood
one but a little lower in price.
OIL AND GAS STOVES
“The Brooklyn” blue flame oil stoves. “The Brooklyn” gas stoves
and ranges, also wickless blue dame 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 World” is mine. Johnnie
Johnson, America’s champion, rides it. The “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.’’
173 Cotton Ave., Macon, Ga.
ESTABLISHED, 1848.
D. A- ALTICK’S SON,
Manufacturer of High Grade Buggies, Surries,
Phaetons, &c.
„ We claim to S S >4 ,4
not the Ngftx m All ask
•cheapest, 'Mmtsm N/ we is,
u a TRIAL
but the BEST /7r ORDER.
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for the money.
Send for catalogue, and by mentioning this paper we will allow
you an EXTRA DISCOUNT.
I 3 >• A. Altick’s Sox,
L LANCASTER, PENN.
FORSYTH. GA.. FRIDAY, ,IF.\K 4. IMI7.
tr-noic.
An epidemic prevailed in Plymouth,
r.T., and v. « so violt nt that the town
\va almost ueenuated— every one fled
that coahl get away, excepting those
who heroically determined that duty
reituired their presence to nurse their
families and combat the disease.
Heroes who light battles and destroy
armies, desolate homes and crush na¬
tions are lauded to the skies, but there
is another heroism that should never be
forgotten, that which stands at the bed
iile defying danger and death, soothing
the sufferer. Such devotion was shown
in Plymouth, and the fell destroyer was
soon driven back, and health smiled
upon the doomed town once more.
bers Having in our official capacity as mem¬
of the Plymouth Hospital Committee
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 Fluid has been thor¬
epidemic tested during the recent Typhoid effi¬
in this place. It proved most
cacious F. H. Armstrong, in staying the spread of the fever.
S. M. Davenport,
y 1'hos. A. Opp, Kerr, 0. James M. Lance, Lee, Jr.
Several of the leading merchants of Ply¬
mouth, who had cases of the fever in their
families who are personally known tome,
used Darbys Prophylactic ,?d Fluid, the to their best
entire satisfaction ana have nave give given
of testimonials to that effect. It is a a most
effective preparation. It should be used
in every house as a preventive from Ty¬
phoid Fever, or in any case where a dis¬
infectant ks needed. 1 would recom mend
it to eve ryone, having had a good oppor
turntv to know its excellent dualities
G. K. Prikdli . Hos pital Steward
A GREAT CURSE.
PROTECTION PAMPERS AND ENEFG
VATES INDUSTRIES AND DE¬
BAUCHES POLITICS.
riie Whole System Severely Arraigned by
Franklin Pierce—With Free Raw Ma¬
terials Our Machine Made Goods Would
Soon Capture the World—Increasing Cost
of Government — Mad Protection Kiet
Will Soon Be Over.
The principal speaker at the annual
dinner of the New England Free Trad?
league, held on May 8, was Mr. Frank,
lin Pierce of New York. He handled
his subject without gloves. He said in
part as follows:
“Not only are the farmers beginning
to appreciate the truth that protection
robs them and their families, but our
manufacturers, as the products of their
looms exceed the demand of the homo
market, are understanding that a pro
tective tariff, especially upon their raw
material, is against their interests.
“The present population of the world
is about 1,400,000,000, and only 400,
000,000 use machinery at all. The rest
do their work by rude tools guided by
the hands, and W’e, tho Yankee nation,
who have revolutionized the world by
our inventions, who use machinery to a
greater extent than any other people,
we refuse to allow the raw material
which these 1,000,000,000 of nonma¬
chine using people create, to enter our
ports in exchange for machine made
products, except upon the payment of
excessive duties, while the more intelli¬
gent of our manufacturers are clamor¬
ing for free raw material aud saying,
‘Give us free raw material, and we
will conquer the markets of the world. ’
“Instead of seeking the markets of
the world, employing millions of men
now lying idle, making the margin of
profits less but the output several times
greater than at present, getting thereby
a steady market and continued service
for our laboring classes, our trusts and
combinations are hiring their competi¬
tors to close their factories and throw
tens of thousands of laboring men out
of employment.
“We have only to get freedom of
trade and we can capture the markets
of the world in many lines. What the
Englishman is to the German the
American is to the Englishman, and
just as the German is crying out against
competition w'ith the machine made
goods and high priced labor of England,
just so would England cry out against
competition with the machine made
goods and the high priced labor of
America, were duties upon all raw ma
terials removed.
"We Americans walk faster, talk
faster, work faster, do everything fast¬
er than any other people on the face
of the earth. A people of the greatest
natural vigor and the greatest enter¬
prise in the world, we have pampered
onr life and emasculated our strength
and largely impaired the virility of our
national life by a protective. tariff.
Manliness asserts its mastery in the
same way in manufacturing as it does
in every walk of life. The men in pro¬
fessions wire ask no favors, but get out
upon the dusty arena and fight for a
lead, are the men who gain strength by
every effort. Give us 10 years cf free
trade, and we would capture from EDg
land one-fourth of her vast trade. Give
□s 20 years of free trade, and we will
lead the world as exporters.
“The protective system has debauch¬
ed public men and corrupted public
life. Give any body of men, however
THAT “FREE BREAKFAST TABLE.”
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pure, the power to* take $100,000,000
from the pockets of tho millions and
transfer it to the pockets of a few men
through an act of legislation, and yon
have created a corrupting power which
will destroy the virtue aud the patriot¬
ism of that body of meu.
“We shall never get rid of the eviB
which I have described until every dol¬
lar raised by taxation is paid into the
national treasury; until we stop entire¬
ly this practice of allowing the right of
government to tax property to be used
for tho purpose of allowing the mami
facturer to prohibit importations, form
trusts and rob our people of hundreds
of millions of dollars eacli year.
“ The remedy is in direct taxation.
Every man has a right to know exactly
what he pays toward the expenses of
government, and direct taxation is the
only means of stopping the lavish ex
penditure of public money.
“For a period of ten years between
1791 and 1800 inclusive, with a tariif
of per cent upon foreign imports,
and at the very time when we were go¬
ing to the great expense of establishing
our government, the cost of government
was only $18.08 per capita for the ten
years. From 1851 to 1860 inclusive, uu
der a tariff for xevenue only, the cost of
government was only $21.88 per capita
for the ten years. From 1871 to 1880
inclusive the actual running expenses of
government had risen to $130.41 pet
capita, more than six times the amount
required under a tariff for revenue only,
aud during the last ten years the cost
of government has been increasing.
“As a nation we can stand this lavish
expenditure of the people’s money,"but
we can never stand the luxuries, the
iniquities, the lack of patriotism which
great wealth, quickly acquired, is sure
to bring.
“We can be robbed by a protective
tariff and still live, but when the rob¬
ber takes the money and buys special
legislation and turns it over to cam¬
paign committees to buy votes with,
the very life of free government is as¬
sailed. Nations do not go down to death
fn the momentous sweep of battle. They
rather die from the poison which the
lobbyist and the vote buyer infuse into
the body politic.
“The mad riot of protection will soon
t>e over. The evidences of the revolution
which 6ball destroy it are upon every
hand. Its growth has been an evidence
of what self interest and audacity and
effroutery can accomplish as against the
people not united by any bonds save
those of the, public welfare. ”
“Sugar Trust Exists No Longer.”
We are assured by The Sugar Trade
Jourual of May 13—organ of the Sugax
trust—that “if ever a monopoly existed
in the sugar refining business it exists
no longer, and it is not likely that it
will ever be renewed.” This is delight¬
ful news. The Jourual was discussing
an amendment to the senate bill to have
refined sugars pay the same duties as
raw sugars in cases where the manufac¬
ture is controlled by a monopoly. If this
“visionary proposal” should pass the
senate, it would jeopardize the tariff
till aud the Sugar trust’s tens ol
millions of surplus profits, which are sc
near at hand that the mouths of Have
meyer and Searles are watering for them.
The Sugar trust trembles at the prospect
and tries to keep up its courage by hav
ing its organ inform the world that “A
lot of such visionary proposals will, nc
doubt, be introduced while the bill is
under discussion, but in the end the
sound judgment men will control aud e
tariff bill be passed without; very much
change from the senate schedule.”
The trust may be right. It usually is,
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Eigsavne vrajjer.
SANDERS & EVANS, Pubs.
knows what demands will bo made by
its agents and tools in the senate, and
it also knows the power of those who
make demands to enforce them. It puts
$70,000,000 against the interests of 70,
000,000 people, and it knows from ex¬
perience which has most weight in the
senate, where two or th.reo hold the bal¬
ance of power.
No, there is no sugar trust and never
was one.
“When the devil was sick, the devil a
saint would be. ”
SwappiDg Free Hides For Dutiable Sugar.
“The senate tariff bill as a whole, ”
says ex Congressman John De Witt
Warner, “is a notice to eastern manu¬
facturers of what they may hereafter
exjiect. Hitherto they have considered
protection as a sort of providential Enabled ar¬
rangement by which they were
to feed cn the rest of the country. Now,
like Polonins in ‘Hamlet,’ they are in¬
vited by ‘a certain convocation of politic
worms’ to a supper‘not where they eat,
but where they are e ten ’ The manu¬
facturers of New England, New York
and Pennsylvania are to take their tun:
at being mulcted for the benefit of oth¬
ers who now control legislation. Thb
applies especially to the hide: schedule. ”
“Cannot the New England senators
secure favorable changes in that sched¬
ule?”
“I think not. The hill as it stands is
satisfactory to the Sugar trust and prob¬
ably cannot be kept so except by the
votes controlled by the Cattle trust ct
the west. Were the New England sena¬
tors willing to risk offending the Sugar
trust, they could doubtless defeat the
duty on hides, hut tlie fact is that Ecs
ton and Providence, in proportion tr
their size, are far mere thoroughly sat¬
urated with Sugar trust influences than
is any other part of the country, aud,
however much Senators Aldrich, Wet
more, Hoar and Lodge may bewail the
fate of their boot and shoe manufac¬
turers, there is no prospect whatever
that they will sacrifice the Sugar trust
interests to help them.”
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Senator Hoar—That (free) hide has
been in the family 25 years, aud it al¬
most breaks my heart to part with it.
Senator Allison—You needn’t snivel.
Keep your old hide if you want to. feat
you don’t get auy sucar (profits). See'
The New Sugar Scandal.
Is the country to be afflicted with a
second sugar scandal? Are the “senators
from Havemeyer” ex-officio members of
the finance committee, and are they to
be permitted to dictate the important
sugar schedule?—Chicago Evening Post
(Ind. Rep.).
The senate committee’s bill, whether
designed to do so or not, will give the
trust a great advantage should it be¬
come law. For that reason the country
is bitterly opposed to the senate sugar
schedule, and if the senate will heed
the voice cf the people that schedule
will not be embraced in the new tariff.
—Indianapolis Journal (Rep.).
The storm over the sugar schedule is
steadily increasing. All the examina
tions which have been made since its
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CVlel) irated for its gn uil leu\ cuing st rcngt li
mid he ulthfulncss. A: ssurcs t lie foot I ngniiist
alum and all forms of nduItciTit ion common
to HoyA cheap brands.
b llAKiNt; Powdkk Co., Nkw York.
report, instead of clearing it np, only
make it look the blacker. It has appar
ently been made of a very complicated
character to baffle analysts and to dis¬
guise it job, but, intricate a ; it is, it
does not conceal the fact that it em
braces a very large differential for tho
benefit of the trust Thi conviction is
universal, and it is aggravated by tho
stories of personal jnofit in connection
with it.—Philadelphia P)ess (Rep.).
Tho specific ch- rge by a responsible
newspaper in Chicago that three mem
bers of the senate speculated in the se¬
crets of the committee room after the
sugar schedule on the senate tariff bill
had been framed, and profited $30,000
by the transaction, is nl together too seri¬
ous to he treated F; the senate with
contempt or indifference.
Tho peculiar influence which tire
magnates of the Sugar trust have exerted
in tho framing of the new sugar sched¬
ule has already created suspicions as to
tho integrity of the fivnicrs of tho bill.
If the charge against the alleged specu¬
lators shall not be investigated, it will
serve to strengthen, if not confirm,
this suspicion.—Philadelphia Bulletin
(Rep.).
Revising the Siigitr Schedule.
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This cartoon is from the New York
Press, one of tho most partisan of Re¬
publican newspapers, which always ad¬
vocates protection to any and every in¬
dustry. Like hundreds of other Repub¬
lican papers, its disgust at the action of
Aldrich in writing the sugar schedule
at the dictation of the trust is so great
that it is daily denouncing the sugar
schedule and the senate committee’s
method of doing business.
Why Dingley Kate* Are So High.
Afraid to open your chops about the
McKinley bill before the election, hav¬
ing won, you are out-Heroding Herod,
out-McKinleyiug McKinley, because
the men who furnished the money tc
carry the election are relentless task¬
masters, clamorous for their remunera¬
tion. They have such ravenous appe¬
tites that you have been compelled t<
make the rates higher than in the Mr,
Kinley bill. Let this not be forgotten,
inscribe it on the tablets of your mem
ory. Bo it known that the average tarifi
tax under the McKinley bill was 49.
per cent ad valorem; under the Wilson
Gorman bill, 39.94 per cent, and undei
the Dingley bill, 57.03 pier cent. Hence
the average rate of taxation on some
thing like 4,000 articles of everyday
consumption is 8 per cent higher undei
the Dingley bill than under McKinley’»
law, and 17 per cent higher than undei
the Wilson-Gorman bill.—Hon. Chamj
Clark in Congress.
Prices Going Up.
Prices of sugar, lumber, tea and oth
er articles have already risen since du
ties have been increased or new one;
imposed. The foreigner appears to bi
somewhat backward in coming forwaic
to pay these tariff duties, but perhapi
he was taken by surprise by tho Ben
ate’s action and will yet pay all dutiei
assessed against him by Republicans.
“If under the reformed Dingley bil
the consumer shouldn’t and the for¬
eigner wouldn’t pay the tax, when
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