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VOLUME XX.
WRIGHT & RECK,
Attorneys at Law.
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Dr. Sexton asserts there is very little
pain or discomfort involved in this opera
tion. The ear, of course, requires to be
kept under inspection for a longer or
shorter time; but healing is generally
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perceptible to the patient. In conclusion
the author avows his belief—‘‘that in the
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us a very potent means for the benefit
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JACKSON, GA.. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1892.
ISSUES OF THE DAY.
CANDIDATE STEVENSON’S ADDRESS At
BLOOMINGTON, ILL. —THE WAR
TARIFF AND THE FORCE BILL.
Vice-Presidential candidate, Adlal E.
Stevenson, spoke before a great gather
ing of Democrats at Bloomington, 111.
Mr. Stevenson’s speech, which was re
ceived with tremendous enthusiasm, in
substance was as follows:
“The responsibility of determining
■what line of public policy shall be pur
sued, and who shall be selected as Chief
Magistrate, is again upon us. Upon
the correct determination of these ques
tions through the peaceful methods pre
scribed by law, will depend the welfare
of the people. ,
“It will be my endeavor to suggest
some of the reason? why Mr. Cleveland
should be elected President and th
Democratic Party restored to power.
The four years’ administration of Presi
dent Cleveland was confessedly an
honest administration. Those who pre
dicted evil from Mr. Cleveland’s election
proved false prophets. The Democratic
administration ending March 4, 1889,
has gone into history as an economical
and able administration of the Govern
ment. No scandals attached to any of
its appointments to office.
“At the close of President Cleveland’s
Administration the surplus in the Treas
ury, exclusive of the gold reserve, was,
in round numbers, eighty-three millions
of dollars.
“What is the condition that now con
fronts us at the end of three and a half
years of Republican administration? On
the basis of revenues to the Government,
as estimated by the Secretary of the
Treasury, for the present fiscal year, and
of the liabilities of the Government on
account of the annual and permanent
appropriations for the same period, there
will be a deficit of fifty-two millions of
dollars. The bankruptcy which now
threatens the Treasury is the result, first,
of the enactment of the McKinley Tariff
law, and, secondly, of the lavish appro
priations of the Fifty-first Congress.
THE TARIFF.
“The tariff is the all important issue
of the campaign. The position of the
two leading political parties upon that
question cannot be misunderstood. The
Republican Party, as illustrated by its
recent enactment of the MoKinley law,
stands for a high protective—in other
words, a prohibitory tariff. The Dem
ocratic Party, as emphasized by its ut
terances and its acts, is the advocate of
tariff reform.
“The argument advanced by the early
advocates of a proteoidye -'System was the
necessity of protecting our “infant in
dustries.” Yet Mr. Clay, the author of
the famous tariff bill with which hi*
name is inseparably associated, declared
such protection to be only temporary,
and that so soon as such industries were
able to stand alone, tariff duties should
be reduced. The compromise tariff law
of 1833, of which Mr. Clay was the
author, provided that at the end of ten
years there should begin a rapid reduc
tion of duties, until the average rate
should not exceed twenty per cent. In
view of the fact that protection to the
“infant industries” has more than
trebled since the passage of the bill of
which Mr. Clay was the author, Clay
would himself, if living, be now de
nounced as a free trader by the protec
tionists.
“The average tariff tax at the begin
ning of the Civil War in 1861 was but
nineteen per cent. To purchase muni
tions of war, to arm and equip soldiers
and meet all of the expenses incident to
the great struggle, required large sums
of money. Tariff taxes were largely in
creased. Our Government was in the
throes of war, struggling for its exist
ence, and but little heed was given by
the people to the fact that duties under
the new tariff law were not only highly
protective to manufacturers but burden
some to the people. But this was not
all. By subsequent increase by succes
sive Republican Congresses the average
rate of duties reached four-seventh per
cent. This was the average rate of tariff
taxes when the McKinley bill became the
law.
“In the early days of the war anew
system of taxation was devised by Con
gress known as the Internal Revenue
system, by which enormous sums flowed
into the Treasury. With the war closed,
a Republican Congress relieved the
manufacturers from this taxation, and
added to their profits and to the burdens
of the people by increased duties. I
grant the necessity of repealing these in
ternal war taxes when the evidences of
war no longer demanded their con
tinuance. But why did not the Repub
lican Congress repeal the war taxes—
tariff taxes—which bore so heavily upon
the farmer, upon the mechanic, upon the
laborer, upon the great mass of our
people? Why was not the war tax re
duced upon the necessaries of life?
“Why remove from the manufacturer
the tax of less than five per cent, and
leave him the power to tax the consumer
forty-seven, sixty, eighty per cent, upon
hats, upon shoes, upon blankets, ypon
clothing?
“But this is not all. The protected
classes growing year by year stronger
and more powerful with the protection
afforded them, demanded of the Fifty
first Congress yet higher duties. In
1890 their demand was in substance for
a prohibitory tariff. The response to
tns dernant. was the passage by a Re
publican Congress of the McKinley bill.
Che avowed object of this bill was to
check importation. Its purpose so to
ocrease the rate of duties, as in many
□stances to exclude absolutely foreign
goods from our markets, and thus by
cutting off competition, enable the home
manufacturer without let or hindrance
:o fix the price of his wares. In a word,
he McKinley law, by its prohibitory
uures gave its beneficiaries a prac
il monopoly, and enabled them in
•: to levy an additional tax upon the
nier. to tbs extent that the duty
had been increased. Was this not class
legislation of the most odious character?
The American people unmistakably set
their seal of condemnation upon this
bill. Slowly but surely they have be
come convinced that ‘protection does
not protect’’ them.
“It is worse than idle to speak of its
benefits to the American farmer. It is
mockery to tell him he is protected
against the corn and wheat products of
the old world. While he is compelled
to sell in the open markets of the world
he should be allowed the poor privilege
of buying what his necessities require
without paying high tribute to the pro
tected classes of his own country. To
the raechauid and laborer no less than to
the farmer, protection has proved a de
lusion and a snare. In no instance has
it opened up to the farmer ‘additional
market for a pound of meat or a bushel
of grain.’ Has it in a single instauce
given to the mechanic or laborer in
creased wages? The present high tariff
adds largely to the cost of articles nec
essary to the comfort of the wage earner.
How has he been benefited? Has it in
creased hij wages? Ha 9it any manner
benefited his condition?
“Recent events connected with the
mo3t highly protected establishments of
this country sadly attest the fact that a
high protective tariff affords no protection
to those who earn their bread by daily
toil. It was never intended to benefit
them. If the claim of the protectionist
is well founded, why have not wages in
creased, as tariffs have increased? Why
constant reduction of wages in the most
highly protected establishments in the
land?
“To the toiler the McKiuley bill has
‘kept the word of promise to the ear,
but broken it to the hope.’
“My fellow-citizens. To you the
tariff is the all-important question. The
question is not how much of your earn
ings shall be given to the support of the
Government, but how much shall under
the forms of law be seized by the favored
—the “protected” classes. Are youi
interests safe in the hands of a party
controlled by the protected monopolists
of this country? This is the important
question for your determination at the
polls. The Democratic Party believes
that the burdens of taxation should be
equally distributed. We oppose all leg
islation that enriches the few by taxing
the many.
“Shall high tariff, continually increas
ing with the demands of the protected
classes, be the settled policy of our Gov
ernment, or shall there be relief to the
people from the burdens ol uujust tax
ation?
THE FORCE BILL.
“Another issue of great moment in
the pending contest is the Fores bill.
The magnitude of this issue cannot be
overstated. It may mean the control of
the election of Representatives in Con
gress by the bayonet.
“The Republican Party, by its acts in
the Fifty-first Congress, and by its
platform, in its late National Conven
tion, stands pledged to the passage of
the Force bill. That it will pass this
bill, when it has the power, no sane man
can doubt. To all of the people, all
who desire the peace and prosperity of
our common country, this question is
important. To the people of the South
ern States it is one of transcendent im
portance. Shall they still have peace
and the protection of the law, or shall
the horrors with which they are menace J
find their counterpart only in those of
the darkest hours of the reconstruction
period?”
The Tin Plate Infant.
According to the report of Special
Agent Ira Ayres for the fiscal year end
ing June 30th last, just published by
the Treasury Department, the number
of works in operation and the production
by quarters have'been as follows:
Production.
Works. Pounds.
First quarter 5 826,0 i'l
Second quarter ~. 1L 1,409,821
Third quarter 20 3,209,225
Fourth quarter 26 8,200,751
Total 13.616,715
Of these twenty-six works nine pro
duce their own black plates, while seven
teen do the tinning only. The nine
produced 5,197,028 pounds of tin and
terne plates during the last quarter,
and the seventeen produced 3,003,723
pounds.
Protectionists everywhere are crowing
loudly and think this the brightest in
fant yet born by the aid of protection;
and some are making almost as glowing
promises for its future as did McKinley
and Allison, who prophesied in 1890
that it would be born in six months,
and that in a year or two it would have
its growth and be producing all of our
tin plate. It is to be expected that the
Republicans will crow about something
during a Presidential campaign, but if
there is nothing better lor them to crow
over than this tin plate industry in its
present condition, the party is iudeed
lacking for campaign material.
Not only is the infant as yet very
small, but it is feeble. At present we
are manufacturing only about five per
cent, of our total consumption, and the
New York Daily Commercial Bulletiu,
which has made an analysis of the estabr
lishments making tin plate, come3 to
the conclusion that “as long as prices
remain high such works as do the tin
ning, merely buying the black p'.ares
ready for this process, they may get
along, but the industry can never be
firmly established here on this basis.
The large manufacturers of sheet iron
and steel whose works are well situated,
and who are in the best position to make
the tin plate industry a success, have not
yet ehown any inclination to take up the
new industry. The tin plate industry
can be established only when works
shall be established on a large scale,
which will make a specialty of tin plates
and carry on the production from the
steel and iron in the form of billets or
bars. As yet but few such works are in
operation or are projected.”
Grant that in a few years we shall be
makiLg all of our own tin and terne
platee, what then! The industry would
probably be more of a eurse than a bless
ing to us. Saying nothing about expect
ing or hoping to get back the $30,000,-
300 during the last three years, or th
tnore than $100,000,000 during the last
twenty years; which the attempt to as
tablisli this industry has cost us, thi
artificially supported industry 1 ,• like that
of the manufacture of rails, of refined
sugar, and of hundreds of others, would
continue in its old age to take dollars
from consumers that it might restore
cents to wage earners. If prices of tin
should remain about two cents per pound
above the foreign prices, as it undoubt
edly will j as long as the manufacturers
of steel sheets; of galvanized iron and
Heel and of tiu plate maintain their com
bine aud are protected by a duty of two
aud two-fifths cents per pouud, this ifl*
dustry will take $lO from the consumer,
not $5 of which will be paid to the wage
earners and not fifty cents of which will
represent a gain to wage earners over
what they could have earned in other
industries. By virtue of the duty, which
the American Economist says should be
retained “forever,” the tin plate trust
would continue to rob us of $12,000,000
or $15,000,000 a year that $6,000,000
or $7,000,000 might go as wages to
10,000 or 12,000 tmen, who could cam
almost as much iu a self-supporting in
dustry. This is on the supposition that
American laborers will get the benefit of
wages paid in this industry. Asa mat
ter of fact, a large proportion of the
workmen in this, as in most other indus
tries brought here by protection, arc
foreiefn born—brought here to reduce
wages by competing with American
workmen.
So long as this infant must have pio
tection pap to keep it alive here so long
will it be a curse to us—yes, aud if it
should ever become so hardy that it
could live without this pap and it should
not be weaned by radical frea traders, it
would still curse us as does th 4 fifty-year
old aud still unweaned industries of
making steel rails and sugar, which take
millions from us every year, though we
could make as many tons of steel rails
and pounds of sugar, aud pay just as
high wages, as if there were no duty at
alb
The CostliesJ President.
The Harrison administration is the
costliest the county has ever had. It
has cost the people of the country $7 a
head, or $35 a family, annually, as
against an average annual cost of only
$15.12 for Cleveland and $6.43 for the
Garfield-Arthur administration. Even
when compared with the Garfield-
Arthur administration, which was by
no means as economical as it might have
been, the cost of Harrison appears in its
true light as unprecedented. Here are
official figures giving the average annual
expenditure, including sinking fund
and postal service, aud the average ex
penditure per capita under two Re
publican administration^:
Per Canita. Per Year.
Garfield-Arthur $6.43 $349,611,000
Harrison 7.01 449,453,108
Here is an increase for Harrison over
the last preceding Republican adminis
tration amounting to fifty-eight cents
per capita per year, or a round SIOO,-
000,000 a year.
We give the figures of increase for
every head of population because some
Republicans endeavor to evade re
sponsibility for Harrison’s extravagance
by saying that “this is a growing
country.” The figures per capita show
that his expenditures have increased
much above the increase in population.
He has made an increase of nine per
cent. over the per capita
expenditures and of over thirty
per cent, over the total expend
tures of the Garfield-Arthur administra
tion. That is,he costs the people nine per
cent, a head more than Garfield and Ar
thur cost them, and in the total per year
this increase makes $100,000,000, or
nearly a third of the total sum expended
annually under Garfield and Arthnr.
We have made this comparison of two
Republican administrations that Repub
licans may the better understand how
costly are Harrison’s incompetency and
radicalism. Here is a similar compari
son for three administrations:
Per Capita. Per Year.
Garfield-Arthur $6.43 $349,611,000
Cleveland 6.12 363,634,000
Harrison 7.01 449,453,000
The reader will see here a great in.
crease in Harrison’s average annual ex
penditures over those of both the Cleve
land and the Garfield-Arthur adminis
tration. He will notice also that \shile
Arthur’s per capita expenditure is con
siderably above Cleveland’s, Harrison’s
is much higher than Arthur’s.
The plea that the increase of Har
rison’s total is due to increase of popula
tion being thus disposed of, no defense
remains for Harrison. He stands con
fessed on his record the costliest as well
as the smallest President the country
ever had.—St. Louis Republic.
Stockings.
Under the law .which was repealed by
the passage of the McKinley act the
tariff tax on ordinary stockings was 40
per cent. The McKinley act has made
the tax, according to value, 54.59 per
cent., 70.41 per cent., 69.57 per cent*
and 58.99 per cent.
In 1891 the people of this country
bought foreign stopkings that cost on
the other side $3,380,724. The tariff
tax on them was $2,349,196, so that for
$3,380,724 worth of stockings the im
porters paid $5,729,920, and !;hose who
wore the stockings paid this enhanced
price and the profits of the wholesaler
and retailer reckoned on the whole.
This is what the McKinley law has
done for the wearers of stockings.
SoifE very eminent physicians fioia
that cancer is caused by grief, anxiety
or disappointment. The disease i3 fre
quently linked with insanity. All this
goes to show that tbs mind very largely
controls the body. Whe* the nflna
suffers the bocly is affected. Napoleon’s
cancer of the stomach is supposed to
date from his disappointment at Moscow,
j when he realized that his campaign was
an utter failure—an irreparable disaster*
NUMBER 35.
what say the pinest
"What do ye say,
O sighing pines!
O hushing pines!
Ibis happy day?
i)o whispering breezes bring
Glad welcome to the spring
Upon her way?
Ah, sighing pines, who loveth her,
Alone can say t
What did ye say',
O sighing pines! '■*? f
O moaning pines!
That dreary day
When cold winds wildly blew
Your tossing branches through
And skies were gray?
Ah, sighlug piues, the sorrowing hear
Alone can say!
W hat will ye say,
O sighing pines! v
O dreamy pines I
In that sweet day
When summer woods are green,
And trouble that hath been
Is far away?
Ah, sighing pines, who bade thee speak
Alone can say!
—William P. Curtis, in Harper's Bazar.
riTU AND POINT?
It is when he is short that a man wears
a long face.—New York Press.
It is always well before beginning ao
attack on a man to map out your line of
retreat. —Atchison Globe.
The man who is the most awkward
at saying nice things is usually the most
sincere.—Atchison Globe. j
The lady aud the horsewhip form one
of the most striking combinations of the
times.—Baltimore American.
It isn’t the man who oftenest breaks
bis word who is the best authority on
parts of speech.—Boston Courier.
Little Minnie Appolis,
With care upon her brow,
Is rapidly becoming
.. A big girl now.
—Washington Star.
No, my son, you mustn’t expect to get
up in the world in a minute. Nobody
can walk half so fast up hill as coming
down.—Boston Transcript. ;
Aspiring Youth—“ Father, when do
you feel in the best mood for writing?”
Father—“ When somebody asks me to
receipt a bill.”—Washington Star. i
The peasantry in Russia are not re
markable for their cleanliness. Serf
bathing is evidently not so popular there
as in other lands.—Boston Transcript.
Psyche’s eyes are tender,
Psyche’s waist is slender;
And, ah me! what is far worse, i
So, alas 1 is Psyche’s purse.
—Brooklyn Life.
“1 met Midgely this morning by the
merest accident.” “Accident? Why,
I meet him every day.” “Yes, I know,
but you don’t owe him slo.”—Chicago
News-Record. 1
When a man is in love, he thinks his
girl’s name is the sweetest in the world,
bnt when they are married, he thinks it
is too old fashioned to give the children.
—Atchison Globe.
The ladies of Cambridge have formed
a club, under the name of “Cantabrigia.”
The men ol Oambridg® will find they
can’t abridge women’s rights a3 they
have done heretofore. —Lowell Courier.
He was a man of wonderfully quiet
manners, and when his miduight pil
grimage was painfully interrupted, sim
ply remarked, “I guess I’m on the
wrong tack.”—Washington Star.
Oliye Oil for the Skin.
The value of rubbing with olive oil a
young child who is delicate in health
and has a naturally dry skin is not gen
erally appreciated. If this is done
properly, every portion of the body be
ing annointed and the oil rubbed wej.l
into the skin by the hand, any excess
being wiped off with a soft cloth, it will
not soil the under clothing; and there is
no better way of giving such weak chil
dren necessary nourishment for the skin
through the pores.
The fact that the skin is dry shows
that it is not in a healthy condition.
Many grown women with naturally dry
skins use a little oil in this way after the
bath, and it proves efficacious and agree
able. The amount ot oil used should be
barely enough to lubricate the skin—the
amount used by the skillful masseuse in
her work, and to which her success is
often due. A little perfumed oil of sweet
almonds may be more grateful to some
persons than sweet oil. Certainly much
of the success of the cosmetics of oldea
time was due to the use of almond oil,
instead of the cheaper lard, which is s<
frequently substituted for it in our de
generate times.—New York Tribune.
A Scientific Ear for the Army.
Authorities in France have been try
ing the crytophone—devised about nine
years ago by Lieutenant Colonel Henry
—for military and naval purpose. Foi
military use, the apparatus consists of a
highly sensitive vibrator and a micro
phone suitably arranged in a pine box,
which is buried two or three feet undei
the road to be watched. Wires lead to
a bell or other signal at the observing
station. When an alarm is given the
observer connects a telephone, and is
able to hear the movement over the road
and even to determine its direction, the
apparatus being so sensitive as to indi
cate the presence of a half dozen men oi
a single cart. The instruments for naval
use are so modified as to be made water
tight. In the experiments made, the
thud of a vessel’s screw was plainly
heard a mile and a quarter away; aud it
is believed that four cryptophones would
effectually warn a warship of the ap
proach and course of a torpedo boat.
The instruments may also be used for
communicating between vessels, or for
guarding against collision during a fog.
Trenton (N. J.) American.
California beekeepers generally pas
ture their bees on Government land, and
their investment only includes bees,
hives, and fixtures.