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Newspaper Page Textliabiwia j. FOR NB7TT Job-f Printing CKLL RT THE HERHllD OFFICE. CITY PRICES. -¥0L. XIII. WAYCROSS, GEORGIA. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1892. NO. 52 PROFESSIONAL CARDS. C. O. THOMAS, Attorney at Law, COURT HOUSE, WAYCROSS, GA. B. H. WILLIAMS, D. D. S, OrrKX: Up-stairs FOLKS BLOCK, WAYCROSS, GA. Tenders bis professional services to the W JAS. V. RIPPARD. Physician and Surgeon, Yatcsom, Ga. Special attention given to Gcnito Urina ry surgery. Con always be found in Wil ton Block, up stairs. April 14-tf. WALLACE MATHEWS, M. D., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. WAYCROSS, : : : : OEOROIA. jan23-ly OFFICERS OF WARE COUNTY. Warren Lott—Ordinary. W. M. Wilson—Clerk Superior Court. 8. P. Miller—Sheriff and Jailor. E. H. Crawley—Treasurer. Joe I). 8mith—School Commissioner. J. J. Wilkinson—Tax Receiver. T. T. Thigpen—Tax Collector. J. W. Booth—Coroner. County Commissioners—W. A. Cason. J. CITY OFFICERS, WAYCROSS, GA. Arthur M. Knight, Mayor. Aldermen. V. A. McNiel. W. W. Sharp, J. H. Gillor I. G. Justice, R. H. Murphy. W. 1>. Hamilton, Clerk of City Council. W* F. Paricer, City Assessor and Collector. Warren Lott, City Treasurer. 8. W. Hitch, City Attorney. John P. Cason, City Marehal. The Wayeross Herald, Official Organ. WHAT SHE SAID ABOUT IT. Jfbsolut«ty Pure A cream of tarter baking powder. Highest of all in leavening streugth.— I/tfext V. .S' Government Food Report. D R. F. C. FOLKS, Physician and Sur geon, Way* i, Ga. ftionally engaged. Jyt.ly DR. J. E. W. SMITH. Office Reed's Block. Special attention given diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose ond Throat. WAYCROSS, - GEORGIA. JjB. A. P. ENGLISH, Physician and Surgeon, WAYCROSS - ■ OEOROIA. WST All calls promptly attended. “ DR. RICHARD B. NEW. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office at Mitw Renndiart’s, WAYCROSS, : : GEORGIA. Jan ao-llm BOARD OP EDUCATION. n. W. Reed, President; J. M.’ Marshall, Secretary; W. J. Carswell, L. Johnson, S. ioq Wall Street. W. Hitch, H. P. Brewer. J. L. Walker. Board meets Second Saturday in month at 2:30 p. in., at High School building. Royal Baking Powder * - New York. Dr. J. P. PRESCOTT, Practicing Physician HOBOKEN, UEOUOIA. All calls promptly attended. jy2*6m | S. L. DRAWDY, ATTORNEY ATI.AW. HOMERVILLE, : : : OEOROIA. j DR. J.H. REDDING, W. A. Cason, W. II. Ifaniil Warren Lott, Ex. Officio Treasurer. II. W. Reed, Chief Engineer. P.; and A. M. Wayeross Lodge. No. 305 F. and A. M., meets- 2d and 4th Wednedays at „7:30 p. m. A. P. English, W. M.; E. II. %d, Secretary. BLACKSIIEAR CHAPTER NO. 9, U. A. Meets at Masonic Hall, Plant Avenue, 1st Friday in each month at 7:30 p. m. Ex. Comp. W. W. Sharpe, H. P.; Rt Ex. Comp. E. 1L Rued, Secretary. WAKEFIELD LODGE NO. 37, It. of P. Meets every Monday night at 7:30 o’clock. Fred Ficken, C. C.; Lowther, K. R, and S. BROTHERHOOD LOCOMOTIVE EJf- r; J. W. Lyon, First Assistant Engineer; . brotherhood hall, Reeil block. M., C. T. N. Syfan, Secretary. Meets 2d and 4th Saturdays each month at B. L. K. hail, 7:30, p. m. WAYCROSS RIFLES. Company —, 4th regiment Georgia Volun teers. Capt. J. McP. Farr; 1st Lieutenant, J. If. Gifton; 2d Lieutenant, T. O’Brien; Secretary, John Hogan; Treasurer. W. B. Folks. Regular monthly meeting 3d Thurs- J. A. Jones, N. G.; D. Williams, Secretary. AMONG THE CHURCHES. $500 will be (liven For any case of rheumatism which can not be cured by Dr. Drummond’s Light ning Remedy. The proprietors do not hide this offer, but print it in bold type on all their circulars, wrappers, printed matter and through the columas of news papers everywhere. It will work won ders—one bottle curing nearly every case. If the druggist has not got it, lie will order it, or it will be scut to any address by prepaid express on receipt of price, $5. Drummond Medicine Co. 48- GO Maiden Lane, New York. Agents wanted. COKGxsTzon; Pant. REVIVES Fauna ENERGY. RESTORES Normal Circulation, and Seaorita* distant as Spain, And damsels Just over the w*jl It is not that Pm Jealous, not that. Of either Dolores or Jane, Of some girl In an opposite flat. Or In one of bla castles In Spain, Bat it is that, salable prose Pot aside for this profitless strain, I sit the day darning his hose. And he sings of Dolores and Jane. Though the winged horse we know must he To “spurn tfor the pretty) the plain,** Should the team work fall wholly on uie While he soars with Dolores and Jane? 1 am neither Dolores nor Jane, But to lighten a little my life. Might the poet not spare me a strain— Although 1 am only bis wife? . —Charles U^Vg^hb i$Centnry. “Plots” Art Very Scarce. James Payn recently told this anec dote to illustrate the difficulty of secur ing good plots: “Trollope was at one time almost alone in not seeing the necessity of hav ing any ‘story’ in his books. Wilkie Collins once said to him, ‘Your fertility, my dear fellow, amazes me; where do you get—they are not much, hut still you have to find them—your plots from? ‘Well, my good sir, to tell youthetmth, from you. A very little bit of your plots—and, you see, you never miss it—does for me.’ “The fact is, a good plot is a difficult thing to get. A very clever acquaint ance of mine, a divine who had distin guished himself in literature, once con troverted this. He said he had himself quite a talent for plots, only, beiu; the theological line, they were of no to him. •Well,’ 1 said, a little irri!:: ‘you are always wanting money for * charn el (1 had never heard no. hi the >!h. Iwft *Hi plot ) 111 give yoi ten ponnds.’ After awhile—not the iscxi day. as he had led me to expect—he seui me a dozen. ‘I didn’t, find it quite s< easy us 1 thought.’ he admitted in hi: letter, -hut here they ate.* ••Six were as old ns the hills and tin other six not worth n farthing, i luivi had hundred* of plots—or the hint n ANEW MAINE SAILER. THE FOUR MASTER ROANOKE IS THE LAST OF HER TYPE. all A Sailing Teasel In New York Harbor That 17IU Try Conclusions with Recent Steel Made English Boat*—How She Is Rigged. Her Crew and Route. Any one strolling along the bulkhead of Erie basin, which is a vast hospital and haven for craft of all sorts, may no tice a great ship with sky sail poles, seemingly fragile as toothpicks, tower ing above the loftiest spars of the big gest vessels moored around her. She is a four master, and her aerial intricacies of rigging and halliards and ropes are a Chinese puzzle to the landsman, but a vision of delight to the shellback. She is the Roanoke, giantess of wooden sail ing vessels, and the last of her type that will ever be constructed in America. For that reason she is worth more than passing notice. She represents the van ishing era of wooden bottoms, discrimi nated against by the marine underwrit ers since the advent of steel ships. Long ago the wooden sailing craft ceased to be a carrier of any significance in the British trade. All of the big British clippers are of steel, and nearly all those of recent construction are four masters. The British skipper calls his four master a bark because she is schooner rigged on the fourth, which is known both as the spanker and jigger mast. The Yankee skipper thinks that any sailing vessel with three masts square rigged is a ship. The four masted British ships may be numbered by the score. The four masted American ships may be counted fingers of one hand. But the nautical optimists say this is to be changed, and that the change is at hand. The keel of the first American steel ship soon will be laid, and after she is launched others will follow her down the ways in rapid succession. The builders hope to do with the steel clippdts—which will be constructed on approved American rac ing models—what our builders did with wooden clippers before the war. They held the record then from every port, near or remote, and they made modest fortnnes for their hnilders and owners. The best of the steel British skips caq- tliH til- WE-CAN! OFFICE, FOLKS BLOCK, Near Hotel Phoenix. apno-iy HITCH & MYERS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Up Stairs Wilson's Block. WAYCROSS, GEORGIA. Services on every Sabbaths except the licit, at 11 o’clock a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Prayer meeting Thursday night at 7:30 o’clock. Sabbath school at 9:30 a. in. every Sunday. The Earnest Workers meet every Wednesday afternoon. ). WILLIAMS, Attorney at Law. WAYCROSS. - GEORGIA, j Services 11 a joiin i’. McDonald, Attorney and Counselor at j EifcaheUi Law, WAYCROSS, - - - GEORGIA. Orricx up ntairs in Wilson Block. BAPTIST CHURC1I. :, Rev. W. II. Scruggs, Pastoi „ . cry Sabbath 11 a. m. and 7 Sunday School every Sabbath Preaching Prayer Meet in; 'ery Thursday 7:30 p. r A. WILSON, SAVANNAH ADVERTISEMENTS. Attorney at Law, WAYCROSS. . CANNON, It. ‘ Attorney at Law, ■ WAYCROSS, - - - GEORGIA. Orricx up stairs in Wilson Block. Will practice in the Brunswick Circuit anc i elsewhere by special contra Nov lfi-’W-ly. GEORGIA ! EDWARD LOVELL’S SONS, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA. •IVE YOU IS NEAT Job Printing « BE KXECVTEB j. Xi.onAwx^Enr, ATTORNEY LAW. WAYCROS3, : : GEORGIA. Office in the Wilson Building. DR. T. A. jpAIL.KY~ DENTIST, Office over C. E. Cook’s, Plant Avenue, WAYCROSS, GEORGIA. •« .tj.ly WARREN LOTT, Fire, Life and Accident In surance Agent, WAYCROSS, • • . - GEORGIA. —Nothing bat first-class companies repre- Tiie Tried and Fire Tested Fire, Life and Accident Insurance Com panies, and HEAL ESTATE OFFICE. Hardware, Tinware, Plows, Turpentine Manufacturers’ .Supplies, Bar, Ban (Land Hoop IRON. Wheels, Axles and Wagon Material, Guns, Pistols and Ammunition. dlD-ly Lloyd & Adams. DEALERS IN Faints, Oils, Doors, Sash and Blinds, Terra Cotta and Sewer Pipes, BUILDERS HARDWARE, Lime, Planter and, Ifatr and Cement. Corner Congress and Whitaker Sts., Savannah, : : Georgia. Sole Agents for Adamant Plaster, best preparation in the world for plastering wafts anti ceilings. Write for circulars. / dec 19-lv HARDWARE FOR THE WORLD. PROGRESS HINDERED. In any-other city in Georgia, aiul at as low rates. Anything in the Printing Line VISITING CARD TO A POSTER A CUT OH BATES. W. A. WRIGHT, J. P„ And Agent For National Guarantee Co _Securities obtained on easy terms. Special of claims. Post Office Building. Wayeross, Ga. If you want the very best to eat and something to eat it out of, buy you gro- ceriea and crockery ware at reasonable prices from McNeil the grocer. From June to October! $1.50 PER DAY, i The Old Reliable HABNETT HOUSE, SAVANNAH, GA. Try The HERALD OFFICE Fine Job Printing. The phrase ••That l**ats~Ijulituil,” if not uiico’.mmm even now in many parte of the country, esp*:ri:illy in the south. Its origin is tmeeabh* to a race which occurred about 1840 or shortly before that year on the famous Fairfield .track on the Meclianicsville turnpike, near Richmond. In those days Bob Poin dexter lived in Richmond. He was a sporting man, wore tine clothes and owned a number of horses. Among his animals was one he named Pizarro, a plain bay gelding, with black mane and tail, the latter bobbed short. There was nothing extraordinary about the horse, and nobody looked upon him as a racer. But Poindexter took a no-, tion that he could run. He used to drive Pizarro about Richmond hitched to a buggy. On the day that he was ad vertised to appear on the track a great crowd was present and excitement ran high, for a good deal of money had been put on the other horses. To the aston ishment of everybody Pizarro beat every horse on the track, and the people went fairly wild. Bobtailed Pizarro never made much of a record. He won two or three races, and then went to pieces. For years afterward, when anything extraordinary happened in that section it was said of it, “That beats bobtail.”—Baltimore American. She Took Them All Back. They had quarreled, and the high spirited girl said as she handed him a package: “There, Mr. Ferguson, are the presents you have given me. Now that all is over between us, sir, there should no reminders of the foolish past.” Yon are right, Miss Keezer,” he said humbly, “and I suppose 1 must return the gifts you have presented to me; “I never gave you anything, sir, that I remember." “Indeed you did.” “Sir, I” “Miss Keezer—Katie!” he exclaimed, with aomething that sounded like a sob “I value them beyond everything else in the world! It would break my heart to return them; but there is nothing else left for me to do." “Will you kindly tell me, sir, what you are speaking of?” “I am speaking, Katie, of the kisses yon have given me! They are not mine now. It’s my duty to restore them. Forgive me, darling, bnt I cannot go away without” “Oh, George P When the clock struck eleven, about three hours later, George was still re turning them.—London Tit-Bits. ' Blood Bod Snow. At the head of Holy Cross creek near Leadville, Colo., and at another place * the almost inaccessible defiles of Mount Shasta, Cal., there are hundreds of square feet of ground continually cov ered with snow that is as red as blood. These two places are the only ones in the United States where red snow is known. The phenomenon is due to the presence of minute animalcules in the snow. How the little midgets manage to get into such high altitudes is hot known.—Boston Globe. not approach the wonderful perform ances of the great fleet of Yankeftfljert of forty years ago. The Northern Light is credited with making the voyage fro. i San Francisco to this port in seventy- two days. The Flying Dutchman, built by William H. Webb, of this city, J 1853, covered 4,620 knots in silteeu Con secutive Hays, an average of newly twelve knots an hour. The Dreadnought made the 2,800 knot run between New York and Queenstown in less than ten days. The Sovereign of the Seas made the passage from the Sandwich IslqMs to New York in eighty-two days, cqVSHpg on one day 375 knots, which isbettej than the best day’s ran of an eight daj steamship from Queenstown- The JIary Whiteredge ran from Baltimore toLiv. erpool in thirteen days and seven houifs. The Red Jacket made over 325 statute miles a day for one week. These ue some of the records the Roanoke wQ| try to equal. Veteran skippers do not believe she can do it, bnt her commander is hopefnl. The Roanoke is not the biggest Amer ican ship ever built. That distinction belonged to the Great Republic, which was even larger than the oolo&Bal steel five master France, the largest sailing vessel in the world. The Great Repub lic was built in East Boston by Donald McKay in 1853. Her master, Captain Joseph P. Hamilton, is the same Hamil ton who now commands and partly owns the Roanoke. The Great Republic was not so heavily sparred as the Roanoke. She carried 15,653 square yards of can vas, while the Roanoke spreads netfrly 20,000. From boom end to boom end— that is, from the tip of her bowsprit to the tip of her spanker boom—the Roan oke measures 370 feet. Her length on the keel is 311 feet, and her length over all is 331 feet. Her extreme beam is 49.3 feet, her depth 29.10 feet and hex draft 27 feet. The golden ball on the top of her main skysail pole is nearly 200 feet from the deck. Her main and mizzen lower masts are 92 feet high, and her fore lower mast is 91 feet high. Her lower spanker mast is 08 feet high. Her fore, main and mizzen topmasts are 56 feet high and her spanker topmast is 62 feet high. Each of her three top gallant masts is 28 feet high, her three royal masts 19 feet, her skysail masts 15 feet and her skysail poles 6 feet. Each of her three lower yards is 95 feet long, her lower topsail yards 88 feet long, her topgallant yards 66 feet long, her royal yards 55 feet long and her skysail yards 44 feet long. These are gigantic spars, and their size can be appreciated only by the sailorman who furls sail on them. On her maiden voyage from Bath to this port, with 1,400 tons of ice in her hold as ballast, the Roanoke had only light winds and conld not test her sail ing qualities. She will go into service on the triangular track from New York to San Francisco, to Liverpool (or Havre), and back to New York. Sfie will carry a crew of about forty men of mixed nationalities. She will also have what are rare in these days—six or seven ambitious American apprentices, mostly from the schoolship St. Mary’s. Her chief officers, who are American navi gators of much experience, are First Mate Frank E. Foss, of Lynn, and Sec ond Mate Ingalls, of Portland.—New York Sun. Practical Improvement. The practice of improving one’s self in some useful art without an intention to become a professional, so to speak, is much more widely followed than is real ized. The technical schools that are springing up everywhere are patronized by many amateurs who care for only enough skin to do for themselves. Many women are thus learning millinery and dressmaking, wood carving, and the like. In London it is possible to take a short coarse in floral decorations as a Costly Baw Material Does Not Prevent Our Sales Abroad. A prominent manufacturer of hard ware, after enumerating all the leading kinds and the different countries which supply with each kind because they are manufactured cheaper here than anywhere else, says that “in almost everything made in this country the ex port price is less than the home price. The export price must be sufficiently low to meet foreign competition in for eign countries. In competing with free trade England, having free trade ma terials, the export profit is often small to the American manufacturer, whose goods are made of high priced iron, steel, zinc, lead, etc. But with free trade in everything we could and should hold our home market, and immensely increase our foreign business. Protec tion is an infernal swindle on labor, but it helps producers of raw materials won derfully to get rich. “I suppose you will be surprised when I tell you that under conditions of ab solute free trade, and not a custom house or customs office in the United States, there is not an article in the long list that covers seven sheets that Connecti cut manufacturers could not sell all over England, Germany and France, and all Europe, unless prohibited by customs duties or other laws there. There is not a single article on the whole seven sheets the manufacture of which does not cost less in the United States than in any other country. The cost of the labor in the article is less, but the cost of the ma terials is more in this country. “As an illustration of the fact that our labor is the cheapest in the world, we select from a long list of articles men tioned by this manufacturer, what he has to say of three different classes of hardware, axes, handsaws and bolts. “Axes, hatchets and sledgehammers— Americau manufacturers knock all Europe higher than the moon on axes. No Australian woodcutter or lumber man will take a European ax as a gift when he can buy an American ax, and the same remark holds good almost as universally in the hatchets, fclame axes and hatchets in South America and Central America and West Indies. American manufacturers pay much higher for the iron and steel in axes and hatchets but they make or buy the han dles for less than the European manu facturers. On the whole, the European has the balance in his favor in the i terials of iron, steel and wood, but beat them ‘to death’ on the cost of labor in forging, grinding, polishing and handling the axes and hatchets, and be sides there never lived an Englishman in England nor a German in Germany who could or did fashion an ax so that it would ‘hang right.’ “Handsaws—The steel material is -5 per cent, more or less higher here than in England. Therefore we cannot ex port the lower grade of handsaws, be cause in the lower grades the steel is the chief element of the cost. But we do export the high grades in which the ‘finish’ forms a large part of the cost, because we get the labor at less cost for the same resnlt than the English cost. “Bolts, agricultural, carriage, etc.— The cost of the labor in the manufacture of bolts is lower in the United States* than anywhere else. The cost of labor is the same on a short bolt as ou a long bolt A 8-inch bolt has a head, a screw thread on the other end and a tapped screw nut. So that in the manufacture of short bolts, as three to six inches iu length, the labor is the same as on the longer bolts, as seven to eighteen inches. But the iron of which the bolts are made costs, say, one cent per pound more in the United States than in Eng land. Therefore, as you will see from the above, the English manufacturer has the advantage on raw material coat and the American manufacturer has the advantage on labor cost. “On bolts of six inches in length and larger than three-sixteenths of aa inch in diameter the advantages balance each other. In shorter holts than six inches the American’s labor vanquishes the English manufacturer. In longer bolts than six inches the English cheaper iron vanquishes the American manufacturer. The consequence is that the Ameri cans export bolts any length—of three- sixteenths of an inch in diameter and der, and any diameter of bolts that are under six inches long. The* English manufacturer exports all the bolts than three-sixteenths of an inch in diam eter and over six inches in length. The average demand favors the English. The American home price is governed by the combination and varies but little, except occasionally when there is a quarrel in the usually harmonious family. The price for export is to meet English goods on six inches and under. “A change in the tariff of 10 to cent, would not be noticed by the asso ciation. The price has formerly been very much under the present prices, but those times of low prices were when there was no association to control prices. “My observation has taught me that the greatest obstacle to American com petition in foreign markets—to nearly every class of goods—is the high price of our raw material. Takeoff the duty and we will send our goods everywhere.” NATURE’S HIGHWAYS BLOCKED AND COMMERCE RETARDED. The Monocle Is Harmful. No sensible person will ever wear a single eyeglass unless he is blind of one eye. Its use means that one eye is neither employed nor unemployed, but is engaged in ceaseless, though no doubt unconscious, efforts to see as much as its more favored fellow. This straining is as harmful as anything could well be, t _ ^ *********** and cannot fail to lead to the gravest means to satisfactory v : ndnlge one’s gar- »*- 1 dening propensities.—NewYorkTimes. results.—’Yankee Blade. A System of Slavery. What is free trade! It is the freedom to buy or sell where you can find the best market—that is, the market that will give you the largest profit. Do you know of any one who does not always look for such a market, no difference Whether he wants to buy or sell? When a man lacks that qualification he ought to be a protectionist, and call on grand ma to protect him. What a shame it is on an American citizen—what a disgrace it is for an intelligent American to ask congress or any law making body to pass a law that will compel other people to purchase of him or sell to him! He can, with the same honor, ask to have those people made his property, for in either case he will take the product of their labor without giving its full valne in return, and the* value based ou what some others would . giye.—St. Louis Courier. A High Protective Tariff, aa Crystallised the McKinley Bill, la Nat la Har- ny with Nature’s Laws and Inetitu- >w the»»* r.v.f more point to which !«'-{ »>■; » u* call the attention of this house, and which is never discussed connection with this question, and which, in my judgment, ought to arrest the attention of every thinking man. I want to inquire how near the policy of a high protective tariff, as championed by the Republican party and as crystal lized in the McKinley hill, is in harmony with the natural laws and institutions which surround and should govern us. 1 happen to be one of those peculiar in dividuals who believe in the everlasting efficacy of the laws of nature. I believe the nearer we approach to and obey those laws, whether in our capacity as individuals or in our collective capacity . as a nation, the nearer we will be right. Why do I say this? Simply because 1 know that nature has made fewer mis takes than men. Nature has committed fewer blunders than political parties, and when it comes to a contest between a well ascertained law of nature and a resolution in a political platform I un hesitatingly indorse the one and con demn the other. Now let us pursue this line of argu ment one or two steps farther. Look at this world in which we are living, with its vast oceans and continents, not sepa rated by impassable barriers, bnt each united with all the others. Without intending to he the least ir reverent, I want to say that when this earth was created the Creator thereof did not have the Republican platform to guide him or he would have made it altogether different. He should so have arranged it (with the guidance of the platform) that every country, whether large or small, could be perfectly inde pendent, self sustaining, and thus would we all have become rich. But we find the world modeled upon a different plan. A dependency one upon the other and au interdependency existing among all is the plan that was adopted. We find, for instance, that countries like a great er part of Russia, a large part of Can ada, Minnesota, Wisconsin and the Da kotas have received a soil and climate admirably suited for the raising of wheat, and a large surplus of this valu able cereal is the result of those natural conditions. When we-to with of this wheat belt into Kansas, Iowa, Illinois and Missouri we fifi?»Ste^oil and climate exactly suited to -'he those gr^es and grains which Enable ths to makecheap meat. A surplus of meat products is here the're sult ot natural conditions. But while we have meat in abundance and to the north of us they have wheat in super abundance, neither locality is able to raise a pound of cotton except under highly artificial conditions, which from an economic standpoint would bo nut of the question. To the eonth of ns, how ever, the people are enabled—primarily because of soil and climate—to raise a large part of the world’s supply of cotton. Still farther south the people, because of natural conditions, are enabled to raise rice, sugar cane, and all the semi- tropical fruits. Then when we leave the confines of our own country and look across thousands of miles of an expanse of ocean into the Flowery Kingdom, we find that the people of China, because of natural conditions, are enabled to enrich the world’s commerce with their tea and silks and other remarkable productions. When you go to Brazil the same holds true ot coffee, while still other parts of the earth yield up to the world’s com tnerce their spices, their fruits, their oils, their woods and their drugs, which can grow and mature only under the fierce rays of a tropical sun. Now when you have thus looked around about you and have taken a hasty and a very in complete inventory of all these ’ natural blessings, and when you may discern in the physical configuration of the globe how the oceans and the rivers are so ar ranged as to permit an easy exchange of all these various products and commodities, these natural blessings between different and distant conn- tries—then when, last of all, you take into consideration men’s ap petites, their wants and their necessi ties, wherever they may be located, whether north or sonth, or in interme diate regions—when yon have done all that, then let me tell you that for the philosophical mind, for the mind that is tree from party prejudice, for the mind that is determined to seek after the truth and willing to embrace it when discovered—for such a mind there is bnt cne conclusion to reach, and that is that when God Almighty created , this eartn be created it in such a way and fash ioned it in such a shape, and he made men’s conditions such as not only to permit bnt actually to compel men and nations to trade with one another. I believe that civilized man the world ever has now reached that point in the development of a superior civilization when the commercial policy of every country should be adjusted in harmony with and not An antagonism to the nat ural law—a law which if obeyed will make of every ocean an open public highway and of every river an unob structed thoroughfare, and eventually link together in a common bond all the aations of the earth and in an inde- itrnctible brotherhood all the races of men. Bnt the commercial policy fas tened upon our country by the Repub lican party makes fierce war upon all these noble ideas and lofty principles; It seeks to tear down all these natural conditions and institutions, and to ig nore all these natural laws, and to set up in their place a creed and a code pit iably narrow and contemptibly selfish— a code and a creed which, carried to their logical conclusion, would build around about us a wall through which no man could go and over which no being conld leap.—Congressman F. E. White.