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Newspaper Page TextCuthbert Enterprise and Appeal. BY JAS. W. STANFORD. ‘Independent in All Things—Neutral in Nothing.’' TERMS $(.00 IN ADVANCE; VOL. VIII. L p :. E .'I:A : ' ,ab ! i . >! ' rd I2S-!- co.v«,L» ATSD 1S91. CrTMBEKT Extkxpkixe. 1SSI. ) CUTHBERT, GA.. THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1888. NO. 22 GREAT REDUCTIONS! BARGAINS! GREAT REDUCTIONS! n popuia ! Our entire Stock of Spring and Summer Goods at actual cost. Dress Goods and White Goods of every description, Embroideries, Embroidered Flouneings, Kid Gloves and Silk Trimmings, such as Moires and Surah Silks, to make room for our Mammoth Stock of Fall Goods. Owing to the stringency of money, many large manufacturers had to close within the last week, and Harris’ Dry Goons House will be represented thero to tako advantage of the many bargains bought strictlv for cash. You know what that means without a word from us. Such a reduction never was known in Cuthbert as will be made on all Goods in our line. Such an opportunity never was offered to cash purchasers. An honest slaughter of honest Goods, reduced only to enable us to get more cash on hand to be able to take advantage of the many bargains offered in the East for the fall trade. Dry Goods at almost half their former price. Harris’ Dry Goods House’s reputation for correct statements has been made too long to be talked of or questioned. Come at once and take advantage of these sides while our Stock is still complete. HARRIS’S POPULAR DOT GOODS HOUSE. Enterprise & Appeal. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE •bo copy one year .... $1.00 “ Six months . . . . oO “ Three months ... -» Kail Koud *«-lic«*Mle. DAT rASKEJCCiEU. UO!X«* WEST. Arrive 3:10 r. m. GOIMO EAST. Arrive 12 .m. ri.OP.11tA A WESTERS rASSKJiwun. hdl.NU WEST. Arrfve 3:00 v. >«. GOING EAST. Arrive M * Stops at Union Springs. Eutawla. Cuthbert, Dawson, between Montgom ery and Smithville. Pert Gaines train makes close con nection with tho Montgomery A, Macon Pa*ssengvrat Cuthbert. • I). PHELPS. Agent.! \ B bunswic & WESTEE;N IR,.A_ ILE O-A-IO. TY Tf M©3JT1!. K On and after Sunday. May 19th. 1388, passenger trains will run as follows; CENTRAL STANDARD TIME. FOR THE WEST, NORTH A SOUTH. Citiciu’ti Mail. Brunswick lv 6:55 a in Pyles’ M ali * t7 :15 a ni Jamaica lv 7:37 am Waynesvillc lv 5:07 am Hoboken lv 9:02 a m SchlaU’vllle lv9:13a m W ay cross art) :42 a in Savannah ar 12:23 pm Charleston, ar 4:20 p m Callahan ar 11:20am Kx press A :00 p in f5 :2o p in 5:42 p ni 6: lip ni 7:07 pm 7:1 s l* m 7 :47 p m (I -.ilO a n» 11 :00 a m 7:10a m 8 :00 a ni SAVED FROM SUICIDE. PROSTRATED MIND AND BODY- A Life Saved in Savannah. “When I began the use of your French Wine of Coca I was prostrated and bro ken down mentally and physically by execs.Nrs and over exertion, i had been compelled to give up it lucrative business and had become iit.lr better ihgti an im becile. glwomy desjHindent. continually browfling over inv miserable eomlition, ami at tinio really contemplated suicide. Six bottles of your French Wine of Coca have restored me to perfect health and vigor, ami am able ti» atteml to a large commercial business. 1 uin happy, cheerful and O. K. ' (Signed.] J. L. WOOD. ; A Noble 21m Gooil Woman Farsi! From tbe | Gj we Wbo Han CespaireA of Liring. “I have been a great sufferer for many j years, and had given up hope of being Pfcstnrcd to liealth inrain. and expected to die at any time. Pemberton’s Wine of j Coen was recommended to me after all other remedies had failed, and I can truthfully say that it has not only kept me alive, hut strengthened and raised me up so that 1 again rnjjov the blessings j of health. I suffered with great nerve ! exhaustion, an organic heart disease. • with cold sinking spells, with little pow er of reaction, and Peinherton’s Wine •( Coca is the only article that would bring on a quick reaction.” Signed. 1 Mm, TAM A RINK CARTER. SUFFERING MANKIND, Go to the Drugstore and buva hotttleof PEMBERTON’S FRENCH WINE COCA. 'fiiuiunsviile nr 1:20 d in l*en*ncol* . ar 10:10 i»ni Mobile .. .nr 3:20 h m N«v Orleans nr 7:55 a in Jacksonville lv 7 :30 a m 5 :10 p in Gallahnn ... lv fl:05 a m 5:50 p tn Charleston . lv 3:0o a m «:20 n m Savannah... lv 7a m 12:35 p in V^avcross... lv o p 3 » 05 p in Pearnon. . lv 11:10 a m D :04 p m Alapalia— lv 12:07 p m 10:IW a ni Tj 1 r lv 1:3* p m Stunner. ... lv 1 Ml p m Willingham lv 2:22 p in Davis Iv 2:36 i» in Albany ... ar 3 :UQ p ni 12:10 a ni Montgomery .. nr 6:30 a ni New Orleans... nr 7:20pm Birmingham .. .ar ... 11 :U0 a m Decatur. Nashville . Louisville . Cincinnati Columbus. Macon Atlanta ... Marietta — 2:35 p in . 7:20 p m . .2:12 a in . 6 :3a a iu 2:55 p ui V :U0 a m 1 ;1» p m 2:23 p m 6:43 p m HO .lESSEjfejKifliji^u LoHisr.ille - . . .ar 6 :Q5 »in Cincinnati .nr 6:40 ;i nt FROM THE WEST, NORTH i fc SOUTH. Y loritla Mail. Expre-o. Cincinnati — ..lv 8:00 p m . lv S:05 p in Chattanooga.. ..lv 8:05 a m Marietta ..lv 12:53 p in Atlanta ..Iv 2 :20 p ni Bacon ..lv 6 :.»0 p in Columbus ..lv 12:15 p iu Cincinnati . .lv 11 :U0 p ni Louisville .. . . lv 6:15 a ni Decatur .. lv 3:55 p m Birmingham. .lv 6:55 p m Bew Orleans. . lv 7 :.*5 a in Montgomery . lv 10:05 pm Albany . lv 5:00 a m 11:10 p m Davis . lv 5:23 a m Willingham.. .. lv 5:38 a in Sumner . .lv 6:0.> ii iu Ty Tv .. lv G:2n a ni Alapalia . .lv 7:35 a m 1:42 a m Pearson . .lv N :30 a m 2:47 a tn Wayeross. ... . ar 9:36 a m 3:45 a m Savannah . ar 12:23 p m 12:23 p in Charleston •• .. ar 4:20 p in 4:20 p m Callahan . ..ar 11:26 a in 7:10 a m Jacksonville . ar 12:00 m 8:0rt a in New Orleans . . Iv 4 :tK") p in Mobile ..lv 8:40 p m Pensacola ... . lv 4:00 a m Thomasville . ..lv 12:55 p n> Jacksonville.. . .4v 7:30 a nt 6:40 p m Callahan. ..lv 8:05 a m 7:15 p m Charleston - . Iv 3:00 n m 2:15 p m Savannah . .. lv 7:06 n m 8:15 p in Wavcross -lv 10:00 a m 3 :f>7 a in BchlattVe . Iv 10:20 a ni 4:27 a m Hoboken lv 10:4! a ni 4 : M a ni ISA LINIMENT PERFECTLY ] HARMLESS.AND SHOULD BE USED A j FEM MONTHS. BEFORE CONFINEMENT. ' SEND FOR BOOK TO MOTHERS . i BradfieidTIegulator Co. I i, ATLANTA.GA. J I Sold by Druggists and Dealers. feblO-1 v DR. WESTMORELAND, BE.VHST, Offers his services to tlie public in all the branches of Dentistry.— Work warranted. Office over the Postoffice. Rooms formerly oceu- picct by Dr. Worsham. mar31 ct W. R. THORNTON, DENTIST. CUTHBERT, GA- O FFICE West side Public Square, over L. K. Key’s store. feb17-ly Waynesv'e ... Iv 11:37 a m 5:32 a m Jamaica lv 12:5 pm 6:03 am Fi’ M’sii lvM2:2s p in f6:25 a in Brunswick. .. nr 12:50 p ru 0:45 a in fNton on signal. Purchase tickets at the station, and gave extra fare collected upon the train. The mail train stops at all B & W sta tions. Connections made at Wuyeross to ami from all points on Savannah, Florida«k Western Kailway. Pullman- Palace Sleeping and Mann Boudoir Gars. B. S. HAINES, GEO. W. HA INK 4 *, Gen-1 Manager. Superintendent. C. D; OWENS, J. A. McDUFFlE, Traffic Manager. Gen’l Pass. Agent. F.W. ANGIER. Ass t Gen’l Pass. Agf. s. s. s. OnIjr$L-75. at J.. W. Stanford’s. nwua wwiimni^too *i9Boo jofi »MOJL«5QMIS>S,331HlVd l * !K5!=5 * V3nV7 apsq puotasBsiqpdi: HD «t naj j ■nHJMuS jtnrpBxafv B&sn\ WVS1VS »IVH ©jjgsaavd apr!2-lv Jno. D. Gann, UNDERTAKER, Cuthbert, Georgia. Your attention is called to the fact that l am prepared to furnish, day or night, any style or size Coffin, Burial Case or Casket desired. I keep always in stock full assortments In Styles and Sixes. Awl ran furnish tullins as tastily trim- mr(l. nn»l at Prices us low as can be fsniplit in the state. Will send Hearse to any part of the county hy contract. When you need me, rinm- to sec me. MF Can l«e found, at night, at rest •fence. n|>)H>site Methodist Church, on lumipkiu street. febi-ct An Able Presentation of the Tariff Question, Hj Our Immediate Representative la Congress, Hon. H. 8. Tarner. Mr. Chairman, if there is any thing new under the sun, I have hoi been able to find it in tliegcll eral subject of the tariff. I bad Imped flint our able colleagues on ihe committee who differ with us would have tendered us some measure of relief for the people and :hc abatement of public bur- d -ns, in order that we might have some choice between two new schemes of taxation. Whatever expectation may have existed as to tbe purpose of the Republican minority to propose such a measure suited to our pres ent conditions, that expectation has been disappointed. We have had nothing on the other side but an effort to attaint the pending bill and some of its authors, and to defend the general policy ot protection. It is therefore, Mr. Chairman, a question between the bill under consideration and our present system of taxation. The concerted movement made to cast odium and contempt upon the origin of the bill must be in tended to divert attention from the history ol the present law.— That law was never framed nor considered by any committee of the House, was never submitted to the Committee of the Whole House, and was passed without being read in the House, hy a rev olutiun in its lime honored rules of procedure. Mr. Chairman, the origination of this bill may be very briefly sta ted. Certain Democratic Repre sentatives, actuated by a sense of responsibility to the country and to their party, and not pretending to be a committee of the House, conferred together for the purpose of reconciling their ow» differen ccs and agreeing upon a consist ent plan for the reduction of tax ation. Republican gentlemen complain that they were not ad mitted to these private conferen ces. They might just as well take offense because they were not in vited to a conference of our paity last night. This complaint is not worthy of the self respect of the gentlemen who make it, and I shall not dig nify it with further notice. After the bill had been prepared in this way it was submitted to the Com milteconWay8 and Means, and became an official proceeding.— Then the Republican members of the committee had a right to be consulted in regard to it, and not before. Let it also be borne In mind that Republican leaders have very gen erally insisted that the tariff should be revised only by its friends, and the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Kelley] is re ported in the public press to have said that it was no part of the duty of tbe minority of tbe committee to prepare any bill on this subject These statements sufficiently show that our Repub lican colleagues have not favored a policy consistent with our du ties and obligations. But, sir, we hare been arraigned because we said that we would not aa a committee hear oral state ments ami arguments from gen- Mr. Turner. I presume this doctrine of protection to which the ! gentleman Irora Maine has deai tlemen not members of the com miltce, and to that complaint some reply may be proper. There are many thousands of'caled his life finds in him as able people and corporations in this i a champion and as accomplished country besides importers and j a representative as it would have consumers interested in the policy ; in any gentleman who is engaged of protection. To have heard a full and adequate discussion by representatives of all these inter ests would not have been possible during a session of Congress, anil to have given audience to some in terests and not to others asking the same privilege would bare given just cause of offense. But it is due to us to say that as individual members of thccem- mittee we never refused to hear any persons who chose to apply to us for that purpose. We also ex amined the petitions and memori als referred to the committee rela ting to the various details with which we were charged in connec tion with the tariff and iuternal- revenue laws, and we were accessi hie at all times to written and printed communications through the mails; and, finally, we had on the c-ommilte some of the ablest advocates which protection has in this country. Mr. Reed. That is, they have affairs, but it measures the extent allowed private hearings, but re-« been denounced because some of i to whieli the Government has con | traded the currency, to the immi I nent peril of every private interest- | The people need more money than ! they have hitherto hail; and to I take from them this immense sum fused public ones. Mr. Turner, of Georgia. I did not hear the gentleman from Maine. Mr. Reed. The observation 1 made was that you say you allow ed private hearings but refused public ones. Mr. Turner, of Georgia. Mr. Chairman, the gentleman from Maine [Mr. Reed] may have re fused to hear gentlemen who ap plied to him, to examine the me morials referred to the Committee on Ways and Means by the House, and to read the arguments tbaf came to the members of that cam mittee through the mails, and, in that event, perhaps, we ought to have sat as a committee for his accommodation in this regard; but lack of lime prevented. Mr. Reed. Will the gentleman allow me to make an interruption? Mr. Turner, of Georgia. I will. Air. Reed. The observation which I made and which the gen tleman requested me to repeal was not intended as an interruption to him, but I desire to say now, with his permission, that the objection which we make to what 1 call pri vate hearings as compared with public hearings is that a public hearing gives an opportunity for examination and cross-examina tion, while a private hearing does not. The gentleman is too thor- ongb a lawyer not to understand that tbe truthfulness of statements unsubjected to cross cxaminnlious is not something to he relied upon, and therefore the private bearings of which the gentleman has spo ken do not seem to us to be a sat isfactory method of eliciting the troth. Mr. Turner. These private hearings were given to the advo cates of protection in tbe room of the committee and at other con venient places about tbe Capitol and at our private rooms. And these gentlemen, perhaps, under went cross examinations. Mr. Reed. I do not think the Honse will bare any difficulty in understanding what both of us mean after the explanation the gentleman lias given. in the actual business of manu facturing It is said that we resisted all motions of its enemies to amend the bill when it was submitted to the committee. These proposi tions were to strangle the bill in its infancy, to rend it limb from limb—la short, to “out Herod Herod” in regard to it. And as usual, persecution endeared it to its friends. A principle can not be crucified. And now the bill i\in the Committee of the Whole House, where every citizen aud every interest is represented, with the fullest liberty of discussion, aud where every statement made can be subjected to examination and cross examination. And it is in that other grand committee of the whole country, where its provisions are undergoing the scrutiny of all the assemblies and all the conventions of all the peo pie. But, Mr. Chairman, the bill has ' contrary to good morals and sub- ! verts the Constitution. Against this exaction, known under the : specious name of protection, 1 ■ protest to day. I impeach pro {lection of high crimes and misde meanors. Let it answer befoie j the bar of justice, i When war was flagrant and the annuity is the interest on a sum greater than the cost of the war! And the moderation of this esli mate of protection no man will de- ny. The enormous taxation which I hare endeavored to outline is so contrived as to hear lightly on the rich and prosperous aud heavily To ! Treasury was empty, and the pop-1 on the poor and unfortunate, ulallnn of the entire country, in (those who,lo not eluding the Southern ( hut little more than need, it is a Slates, was largess and benefaction; to those i..... ....... 31,000.000. ^ States and their people that are J the tariff then framed to meet the ; cramped by narrow and scant most extraordinary emergency i means, it is a hindrance and op that ever arose on this continent, j pressiun. To the latter it is a imposed during the first year of j deduction front the comforts and its operation an average rale ol! necessaries of life, from the edu 30 per cent. After twenty-three i cation of their children; a burden years of profound peace, with a' upon the ofliees of religion and Treasury full to repletion, Strug | charity, a tax on school, on giing with an accumulated sur plus over the largest wants of the Government of $ 150,000,000, with a population of over 60,000,000, the tariff now levies aa average rate of 47 per cent. This surplus has arisen notwithstanding an immense increase iu our acnual expenditures, and is itself a con staul temptation to wasteful ex travagance. And it is not only church, and on home. When 1 heard the other day the splendid inventory of New Eng land’s wealth presented with so much pride by I lie gentleman from New Hampshire [Mr. Gallinger], aud reflected on the System under winch that wealth has been drawn from other sections, and on the beggarly reductions of taxation j which ont bill propnses, I fj|]t like a mischievous influence in public j exclaiming, like Lord Clive before its authors represent districts in which slaves until recently were held as property. Slavery was an institution of greater antiquity than one generation. It may have been bad; but those who bought the negroes and paid for them and fitted them for the high estate of freedom and American citizen ship, certainly deserve no greater obloquy than those who brought them to our shores beneath the decks of their ships and sold them on the wharf like bales of mcr ehandise. If we deserve reproach, Mr. Chairman, those who sold us the negroes ought not to throw the first stone. But, sir, I have no disposition to indulge in recrimination. The limes have changed. Those who brought slaves here through the horrors of the “middle passage” have changed their opioions, and so have we. But if we are unfit on account of our relation to slave ry to consider public measures proposing to reduce the burdens of the people, might I not with equal propriety say that those who enslaved the African can not be trusted with the task of revis ing the privileges of freemen. [Ap plause.] Let U9 deal charitably with each other. Let us suppose that tbe African slave trade was a great missionary movement, and that pious people, actuated by that spirit of broad benevolence which characterizes a certain section of the Union, by means of this traffic, undertook to bring the heathen to Christianity. [Laughter and ap plause.] Mr. Chairman, against taxation to provide for the general welfare under the Constitution, so levied as to help rather than to injure American industries, no Democrat will complain. But taxation so devised as In prevent revenue to the Government and to yield rev enue to individuals, or so extend ed as to produce more revenue than the Government needs and maintained for the benefit of a class or section at the expense of all other classes and sections, is a committee of Parliament: “By God, Mr. Chairman, I am aslon isbed at my own moderation!’ The tariff, sir, is s tax on con sumption. It is not laid on the lax-payer according to what be has, but it is levied oo his wants, winch the Government does not | |t is apportioned among men, not need, and which is so indispensa hie to the business of the coun try, is indefensible extortion. Heavy taxation of a people having an adequate currency is bad enough; but unnecessary taxation of sucli a people is a dime. Our aggregate circulation of These figures seem to demon strate that the increase of protec lion is not accompanied with an increase in wages. The chief argument for protcc tion is founded on the assumption that wages are higher la this country than in Europe. Seven teen and a half per cent, of the value of our manufactures covers the entire cost of wages paid for their production. We levy 47 per cent, to pay for the difference be tween this cost of our labor and llic cost of labor on the other side! If labor in Europe cost nothing at ait, we could put our raamifac lures on the same footing ns to labor with a tariff rate of seven teen and a half per cent! Mr. Chairman, I propose to show that Democratic policy has fostered wages and protected labor in this country. That policy be gan first when Virginia gave to the Union her great northwestern territory, and Georgia added that splendid domain which stretches from the Chattahoochee to the Mississippi River. Louisiana aud Florida were purchased, Texas was acquired by annexation, and magnificent areas of land were ob tained by treaty with Mexico. By these Democratic additions to our territory, acquired in spite of uni form opposition from New Eng land, we established our border on the Gulf, and extended our heritage of freedom to the Pacific Ocean. In 1S2C, when John Quincy Adams was President, his ticcre tary of the Treasury (Mr. Rush), in his annual report, took the po sition that a diffusion of popula tion hindered the accumulation ot wealth. In 1832 Mr. Foote, of Connecticut, introduced in the Senate a resolution to suspend the surveys aud sales of the public lands, od which took place the fa- according to their means, but ac cording to their necessities. It is an income lax. graduated not ac cording to what men make, but according to wliat they buy. It is therefore hardest on those whfg have to spend all that they make. But, Mr. Chairman, inequality gold, silver, aud paper money, in- j is the foundation ot the system of eluding thelunds in the Treasury, is estimated to amount to about $1,500,000,000. The people paid to the Government in tariff taxes $217,000,000 and in excise duties one hundred and seventeen mil lions, making a total taxation ot $335,000,000 last year. This itn mense tribute is over 22 per cent, of all the money in the country. We have only $25 in cash for each man, woman, and child in the country, and on each man, woman, and child la levied an average tax of over $5.50, or $27.50 on each family of five persons. Now let us consider the inci dental taxation which is collected under the tariff hy the manufact urers. The total value of all the manufactured products of the United States returned according to the last census amounted to ■ more tliaiTfour times the income j pression. In Italy and other of the Government frern the tariff. | countries of Europe the land is all But it is said that protection ad- j occupied; and there the landless vances wages. If this is not mere ! have no alternative hut to accept by arbitrary exactions; but pro tection has not furnished a dollar to our exports. These are con tributed by the unprotected class es. Last year we sent abroad $204,000,000 in cotton, $30,000,- 000 in tobacco $02,000,000 in pro visions, and $165,000,000in wheat and breadstuff's. The products of agriculture constituted threc- fuurtlis of our exports and the rest was supplied by manufactures which can compete abroad ttpotl the basis of free trade. That bal ance of trade, therefore, so far as it is a triumph of energy and pro gress, is due to free trade. This policy of restricted impor tations ami free exports has pro'- voked defenses against it by those from whom the balance comes. Our beef anil pork products have encountered restraints and re strictions. Our great silver re sources are shut out of the com mercial countries of Europe by demonetization; and England is trying to grow her cotton and wheat in her own provinces. The balance of trade in our favor in 1S85 was $164,000,000; in 1886 it had fallen to $44,600,000, and last year it fell to $23,000,000. Trade cannot long endure without reci procity, und this shrinkage in our trade balance means a shrinkage in tbe value of our agricultural products, caused by the defenses abroad to which I have referred. I lie gentleman from Michigan* [Mr. Burrows], iu endeavoring to illustrate the effectiveness of pro tection,compared it to the dike sys tem, by which he averred the peo ple of Holland keep out the ocean. He evidently meant to say that this wise end is accomplished by means of a dam. It i9 a pecnliar license of fine rhetoric not to call things by their right names. [ Laughter.] But, sir, that barri er erected by the noblest exom- mous debate between Mr. Webster; plars of freedom was built not so’ and Air. Hayne. j much to keep out the ocean aa We sent out the surveyor with | that they might get near to the protection, and the only induce menl for its preservation. If a scheme of protection could be dc vised by which each citizen could tax his neighbor just as much as his neighbor could tax him it I his chain and compass to mark j ocean and receive its mighty co- out these lands for the homes of freemen. [Applause.] And then when a man in New England as pi red to be a freeholder rather than to accept unsatisfactory would be equality, but it would meet with scant favor. The pres ent system is worse, because it is brigandage without reciprocity. Let us expose some of the profits of protection according to its owa wa S es ' I ,e joined in that mighty movement which has expanded thirteen little Stales into thirty eight great commonwealths. [Ap plause.] What a magnificent field for labor and independence! The returns made during the last cen sus year. The capital invested in manufactures then amounted to $2,790 272,606; materials used cost $3,396,823,549; wages, $941,- 953.795; total product, $5,309,- 579.191. It can be easily seen from these figures that manufac turers made enormous gains, amounting in clear net profits to lr Y its only defense against op . t W «- , « . ■ • 1 ivrooe « M If* II nit* u n J Al l.n. operation. It was the ocean tbat these people plowed and cultivated and planted; and it brought back* to them on every tide and on eve ry breeze the richest harvests tbat any people had ever enjoyed since the world began. And by that same system the}' secured a means* by which, when the occasion arose,' they could let in the ocean and overwhelm oppression within, free homestead, abundant and j If the gentleman desires a joat cheap lands, and tbe marvelous and instructive illustration of tha development of the great West have furnished labor in this coun- $5,369,667,700. Our dutiable im ports last year amounted ts $450,- 000,000 in round numbers, on w hich we collected over $217,000,- 00*. As our duties are laid con fessedly for protection, it is very probable that on the immense ag gregate of our domestic manu factures, in competition with which onr taxed imports are sold, an addition of value is placed equal to many time* the income of the tariff to the Government. But taking $217,000,000 as the measure of the bounties paid last year to our manufacturers, let U9 commute protection into an an nuity, computed at the Govern ment rate ot 3} per cent.; the principal of that annuity would amount to $6,200,000,000. That pretension, then wages ought to keep pace with protection. Let us see. In I860 the average tariff rate on the dutiable list was 19 per cant., which has been fre quently denounced as free trade. And yet during tbatyear labor re ceived over 20 per cent, of the to tal product of oar manufactures. In 1870, when the average tariff rate was two and a half times as high as in 1860, amounting to 47 per cent., labor received less than in 1860, or a little OTer 18 par cenL of tbe total product of onr manufactures. And in 1880 labor received 171 per cent of ila entire products. dependence and any wages offered. In this country we hare emanci paled labor by a free offering of a home and the opportunity for ev ery citizen to work for himself. [Applause.] Aly honorable colleague on the committee [Air. Burrows] the oth er day seemed to insist that pro tection has established the bal ance «(trade in onr favor. This is a curious instance of an effort to make tbe facts do duty on the wrong side ot tbe argumenL This balance of trade consists in the excess of our exports over our imports. Protection has un doubtedly restricted our imports policy of protection he can find it in that long-tried system of nar* row exclusion and restriction which has brought down on tha Chinese the contempt and execra tion of all mankind. [Applaned on the Democratic side.] If has been* claimed in this de bate that protection saved the Un* ion. The money with which the soldiers were paid, with which the great armies and navies were pro vided and maintained, was paid/ not by protection, but by those who are its victims. The only of fice of protection in this business' was to tax for its own benefit those who did save the Union. It charged two prices for tbe cloth- thmg the soldiers wore, for the shoes in which they marched, for' the blankets under which they slept, for the comforts and aecea- aaries required by their wives and* children, for the .powder and lead' (Concluded oh fottrlh Vatjc.)/

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Cuthbert enterprise and appeal. (Cuthbert, Ga.) 18??-1888, June 21, 1888, Image 1