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THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY, JANUARY 17,1888.-TWELYE PAGES.
THE TELEGRAPH.
An Impracticable Scheme.
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roBMSHKD every day is* tub ybar and weekly , of it» energies to a campaign against the
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Macon. Ga.
Tub will of the late Judge Bapallo, of
the New York Court of Appeals, contains
only seventy-six words. He wanted to
give the least room possible for lawyers
who should attempt to break it.
The wicked Chicago Herald says: “The
infant King of Spain draws a salary of
$1 ,000,000 a year. A well paid infant cer
tainly, lint not a ‘marker’ to tile iron in
fant of Pennsylvania.’’
-hie pali
Knglnnt] come out of the tux-ridden labor of the
Western farmers.—Chicago Tribune.
Where do the marble palaces of the West eome
from? Whose money has built up Chicago—3!o-
bile Register.
Chicago was built by the men who live
in tho marble palaces of Now England,
and the interest on the money invested en
ables them to live in a style suited to their
houses.
Tub Nashville American tells of a man
who killed 1!)0 ducks in one day, but is
careful to state that the feat was performed
in Georgia and to give a Georgian as au
thority for the count. In tills the Ameri
can displays a thorough knowledge of the
situation. It recognized the fact that the
talc of the ducks was a little large and
tiiat if Tennessee authority were given for
it the wicked might jeer and disbelieve.
Mb. Lowcu. wants copyright. Ho Is tho sort
of Free Trader who wants to buy other men's
-Costs at bottom prices, and wants other men to
bay his goods at tho highest prcmlnm rates.
This is a familiar type of the free trade dogmat
ist.—New York Tribune.
And yours is a fair specimen of the mis-
>representation in whicli you habitually
indulge. Men who wish an international
copyright law passed do not ask for protec
tion from the competition of other workers
but protection from thieves, who
are now enabled, by the lack of a proper
•law, to seize upon the product of an
author’s labors and appropriate it to their
own use, without paying him anything
whatever.
Wlmt Hu the Chicago I'lntform?
There is a great deal of loose talk about
tho meaning of the platform that was
adopted by the last National Democratic
Convention. There is no reason why the
platform may not be understood by any
fair minded man. It is as plain as Ian
guago prepared for and by a multitude can
snake it. We sometimes hear it said that
internal revenue taxation should lx> re
pealed at once, because the platform dc
dare* that sufficient revenue could be ob
tained through a simpler revenue tariff.
Tiiat is not tho platform at ail. It is p
- radical distortion of its spirit and meaning.
Tho Chicago platform in brief is this:
A plain ami simplified revenue tariil “on
fewer imported articles, bearing heaviest
-on articles of luxury, and bearing lightly on
articles of necessity,’’ would suffice. No
-one denies this except liepuhlieans ami
•monopolists. It is a declaration in favor
of a just tariff for revenue only, and is
•Democratic doctrine through and through.
Hut everybody knew in 1884, and now
Ttnows, that its full realization is a matter
•f the future, chiefly, then as well os now,
-on account of the Kandallites in the House
-and of the Republican control in the Sen
ate. The convention therefore proceeded
to declare that until such a tariff can lie
laid, internal revenue taxation should be
“sscrcdly devoted” to the relief of the peo
ple from the remaining burdens of the war.
Any other construction of the platform
is, in truth, out of all reason. Any other
-r^nstmetinn wnnlil lead to bankruptcy
and flnancial disasters, as a glance at the
figures for the past fiscal year will
allow. The receipts from customs were
$217,000,000; the expenditures were $3W,-
000,000. To take away the internal revenue
before the tariff is put on s revenue basis
would be to leave the government, with
less income than outgo. Business, either
public or private, is not successfully con
ducted on such a plan.
In other words.we are asked to strike down
internal revenue,regardless of consequences.
The Chicago platform aays: I’ut the tariff
sin a Democratic constitutional revenue
basis, and then, by inference alone, it may
be held to say that internal revenue can he
npared os fast as it is actually demonstrated
that sufficient revenue will flow in from
customs.
Let it be remembered that Mr. Morrison
was chairman of the committee on resolh
tious, that Mr. Watterson was an active
member of it—probably with pen in hand
internal revenue laws. In its last issue a
double-leaded editorial is devoted to de
nunciation of a system which it says has
brought about “a more horrible state of
affairs than the cruelties of the Siberian
laws of Russia." If this he true,
a gkeat deal of sympathy lias been wasted
on subjects of the Czar, who ought to be
happy and content if they have nothing
more than a whisky tax to complain of.
It also speaks of the hundreds of Georgians
“sent mercilessly to the grave,” and the
many others who have been immured
within the “cold walls of a prison cell.”
Prison walls are probably of about the
same temperature as those of other houses,
and the instances in which a man may be
mercifully sent to the grave are rare, hut
the Constitution, in its effort to arouse
sympathy for the illicit distiller, finds it
necessary to say some very silly things.
The remedy which the Constitution
proposes for the worse than Rus
sian cruelties which afflict our peo
ple is to turn over the collection
of the revenue from the Federal to the
State governments, for the use of the lat
ter. It expatiates on the blessings such a
change would bring about in lessening the
tax on other property. It is possible also,
though the Constitution does not lay stress
on this point, that convicts under the law
would lie much better uiid happier in dig
ging coal in the Dade coal mines than in
making shoes in the Albany penitentiary.
Gratitude to Senator Brown for saving
them from the rigors of a Northern cli
mate would make them cheerful and profit
able laborers.
There are a few objections, however, to
the Constitution’s plan—or whoover’s plan
it is—which the Telegraph will point
out.
First, if, as we understand the Constitu
tion to suggest, the tax be laid directly upon
the product, as is done now, Georgia
would got a very small part of the revenue,
for tlic reason that though Georgians prob
ably drink their full proportion they man
ufacture only a small part of the whisky
made. The internal revenue collected in
this State last year was $337,000, and not
$1,000,000, as stated by the Constitution,
Illinois, on the other hand, paid $23,000,-
000, but, of course, consumed only a small
part ofeher immense product. The conse
quence, therefore, of the adoption of the
proposed plan would he that the Georgia
consumer of Illinois whisky would pay the
tax on his toddy into the treasury of the
latter State and not into that
of his own. Under this plan it would be
to the interest of every Stnto to encourage
tho manufacture of lie ^greatest amount of
whisky possible, licCause every gallon sent
beyond the State lines would bring tribute
from tlie purchaser to its support. No
system of high taxation could stand the
strain of such a temptation, and in a short
time tho States would he bidding against
each other for the establishment of dis
tilleries by lowering the rate. Soon it
would be merely nominal, and whisky
would bo practically free. There can he
no tariff harrier between the States, be
hind wiiich each of them could tax as
highly as it pleased.
It seems plain that no
high rate of taxation on
whisky can be maintained by the States,
acting separately, and the Constitution’s
argument that the proposed change would
lighten the burdens on other property falls
through. *■
It is to abolish tho “army of spies and
informers” and the worse than Russian
cruelties of the present system, however,
that tlie Constitution most desire*. Would
its plan abolish them? The execution of
tlie revenue laws is now in the hands of
Georgians, as it would lie then. The ne
cessity of vigilance in preventing illicit
distilling would be as great, and the same
machinery would be necessary. Collisions
between officers and lawbreakers would oc
cur just as now, and |ierliap* as many men
would be sent to jail. If any features of
tlie present law are harsher than neces
sary, let them be changed.
Only two other plans occur to us by
which thef-tate could receive directly the
benefit of the tax—one, Mr. Blaine’s, of
collection through the present agencies
and distribution from the Federal treas
ury; the other, through a license tax on
dealers. Tlie first it is useless to discuss,
as the worse than Ilnssian cruelties would
continue. The Constitution wilt agree
with us, without regard to othcrolijections,
that Mr. Blaine's idea is not a good one.
Tons it is equally plain that the present
revenue cannot lie collected through a
license tax. There are no statistic* to
show what amount is collected on intoxi
cants consumed in Georgia,
hut assuming that tlie rate of
consumption is the same as in other Sfates,
it ean not be much less than $2^00,000,
It is impossible to collect so large a sum
through a business tax. In threc-fonrths
of Georgia the sate of whisky is prohibited
and the tax would not yield a cent. In tlie
remaining one-fourth of the State, a tax
on dealers high enough to make up *2,
600,400, in addition to the amount al
ready assessed, could not be borne, nor
would public sentiment allow it to lie im
posed. The result would lie that the im
mense revenue necessary to pay the ex-
| too clear headed to be deceived by riumsy j
sophistries, and too well poised to be moved
to their own undoing by maudlin senti
ment. They see plainly that tlie real
question is, shall we have cheaper whisky
or cheaper necessaries of life, and that tlie
men who suffer in tlie “cold walls of a
prison cell” deserve only that general sym
pathy wiiich is accorded all erring human
beings.'
A Question Answered,
The Birmingham Age devotes half acolumn
to walloping Its protection ally, the New York
Press, for its lnoendiarv utterances. Tlie Age
will discover after awhile that protection and
the bloody shirt arc twin Issues, both born of
the war.—Macon Telegraph.
We want to ask you a candid question, and
shall expect you to nnswer in the sam-J spirit.
Have you ever studied the history of political
iwrties In this country prior to 1801, and If so,
did you discover that any of the leaders of the
party favored so adjusting tariff duties as to
afford protection to American Industries and
American labor?—Birmingham Age.
We understand tlie Age to be n thick and
thin protection organ, of tlie order to
which the New York Press belongs. We
do not keep a file of tlie Age, and this be
lief is founded on a recollection of its gen
eral course rather than particular utter
ances. If we are right, then it believes in
tariff taxes for tho sake of “protection,”
and its question iB misleading. Tlie issue
between the parties now is not whether We
shall have free trade or protection, but
whether tariff taxes shall be laid | > raise
a revenue to support the government or to
support private manufacturing establish
ments. I
Georgia lias another daily newspaper.) THE INTERNAL REVENUE. | ready to receive this flool l T*
Thomasvllleia its fortunate possessor The 8enator MorenIl jS^Ttho Argument fur ' ‘, he the Ml^'l
Times, which Mr. John Triplett has con-} IU Repeal. » bnl " Jur their protection. If the L
ducted so well as a weekly, has developed From the Senator’s Boston speech. | t^ ieTO ftre swept awajr f they vrflij
into a daily, and a good one. Mr. Triplett j “Who oppose this work of national inAI^^I^Sij". 11 * 16111 ^ thsf
is its editor and Mr. S. B. Burr, late of the j safety? Tlie treasury raiders, who lpok ‘ o/m.iove the'evU.^ UntFfthe & lla 1
Rep'
l-ort \ alley Mirror, is business manager.
The paper rtnrta with good patronage and
its success seems to be assured.
I to that source for support, are, of course, ] l >ut up their guards, I wp 1
Some newspapers are calling Speaker
Carlisle hard names because he put no rep
resentative from the great manufacturing
States on the ways and means committee.
Perhaps he was actuated by a belief that
consumers should have a voice in fixing
tho amount which they BhnII be taxed.
New York stock exchange scats have
fallen in value from $33,000 to $17,000. Is
this an indication that stock gambling is
only half as profitable as it used to be?
Perhaps the lambs have grown into rams,
and arc not so easily sheared.
The Hawkinsviile NewB says: “The
only salvation for tlie Georgia farmer is
tlie intensive system of farming.” One
other is necessary to his prosperity, and
that is a thorough reform of our unjust
tariff.
Mb. Randall announces that he will
not vote with the Republicans to abolish
tlie duty on sugar, for tlie Democratic rea
son that it is almost purely a revenue tax.
Mr. Randall is a hard man to understand.
If tlie Age means to ask whether any
Democratic leader before ISfil fiivnred
tariff tax solely for the sake of protection,
we answer, unhesitatingly, not one. If the
Age means to ask if Democratic leaders
have been willing that domestic manufac
turers should hare the benefit of any ad
vantage arising from tlie “protection" af
forded incidentally by a revenue tariff, we
answer that most of them have been so. If
tho last is what tlie Age means, and its
question indicates its own position, then
there is small difference between it and
tho rest of the Democratic party, and it
has allowed itself to he identified with a
school of politics to which ‘it does rot nat
urally belong.
The Telegram was quite justified in
saying thnt “protection,” as now urged by
its extreme advocates, was an outgo-wth of
the war. More than one of the journals
which represent Republicanism nnl pro
tection argue that the proper way tecut oil’
tho present excessive revenues of the gov
ernment is to raise the rate of duties until
it is more or less prohibitory. The effect
of such an expedient would be, if the reve
nues were entirely cut off, not to
lessen taxation, hut to put
all the money raised in tlie packets if pri
vate parties, instead pf tlie larger part of
it only,’as now. The higher the dsty the
less the proportion of the total tax which
goes into the treasury. In this Extreme
sense, “protection” is, with tlie Moody
shirt, a twin issnes born of the way.
Docs the Age believe there is warrant in
the constitution, in tlie platforms of tlie
Democratic party, or the utterances of any
of its leaders for the laying of a tarifi tax
for the sake of “protection” only, and pro
hibition, if neecssnry to protect?
There lias been a sudden revival in tlie
British shipping trade, all tonnage in ex
istence is employed and shipbuilders
crowded with orders for new vessels. No
one seems to understand the cause.
The Detroit Tribune argues that the big
mortgages on Western farms arc evidences
the farmers’ prosperity. The Tribune
also believes the way to make a nation rich
to tax it heavily.
He (at a very late hour, with deep tenderness)
IIow ean I leave thee? She—Really, Mr. Stay-
. I can’t tell you. I wish to heaven I could.—
Woshiugton critic.
When a woman is first married she desires to
he called ’’Madam.” home yearn later'she feels
tremendously -complimented by being called
Merchant Traveler.
The Vanderbilts have passed from a scow in
North river to a yacht in the Mcdlteranean. It
a great thing for a family when Its founder is
maa who can "paddle.hiaown canoe.”—Louis
ville Courier-Journal.
Old bachelor (looking at new baby)—”Er—
rather small and puny, Jim.” I’roud father
Ye-es, rather.” Old bachelor (encouragingly)—
Still, Jim, if I were In your place I would try
and raise it."—New York Sou.
A young man won found froxen to death in a
Michigan forest a few days ago. Leap year Is
getting in its work promptly. Stand to the
rack young men. Only a dunce would take to
the woods in mid-winter.—Birmingham Re
publican.
Contributor—"Here is a little article which I
wish to submit to the editorial—” Editor (with
graceful wave of the hand)—"Very sorry; w
are all full Just new.” Contributor—“Very
.-II; 1 will call again when some of you arc
sober.”—London Punch.
—that Mr. Carlisle was an aspirant on the P cnw * <** F«l«a! government, its pen-
platform, anil that Mr. Cleveland was ac-
sioners and war debts, would be raised from
tually nominated ami elected on it. These on " <w * ari *» of life - lM *« d of .
eminent leader* of the Democratic party i * n * ar 8 ,: l’ a,I » U I’ J » the one article which
Bar* never been accused of political in- * U . men ***** * ,,01,u f bear the heaviest
The Medical Taxes.
It is noticeable that some of tlie organ
of protection grow eloquent in the advo
cacy of the removal of the tax on everys
thing except the necessaries of life. One
of the latest fact of these organs is the
“outrageous tnriff” on alcohol.
Recently one of the organs has put Dr
Walter A. Taylor, of Atlanta, on the
stand. Evidently statistics are not the
Doctor’s “strong bolt” lie says the tax
used in mcdicinea amounts to $10,000,000
year. Tlie firm that handles a large
pro|>ortion of tlie alcohol consumed in this
country and Col. Switzler, chief
of the governmental burcan of
statistics, agree in saying that tlie amount
of alcohol consumed in the arts and man
ufactures docs not exceed 10 per cent oi
the total production.
Tlie Commissioner of Internal Revenue
puts it at 7 j per cent But, accepting the
larger estimate, we find Dr. Taylor’s $30,-
000,000 shrunken to $0,000,000 on the basis
of the entire tax on spirits. The best
judges of the question place the tax on al
cohol used in the arts and sciences nt $3,-
000,000. 8o that the figures of the protec.
tectionist organ are all right after all-
barring one cipher.
lint it is argued with an almost pathetic
intensity that this tax should be taken oil
because it increase* the price of family
medicines, and is therefore “cruel."
What, then, is the matter with castor oil ?
The tax is $1 a gallon. Is not that rather
more of a household necessity than any
patent medicine. What of.magnesia? It
is taxed fifty cents a pound. Of calomel?
It is taxed thirty per cent ad valorem. Of
chloroform? It is taxed $1 s pound. An-
after about one hundred other drug manu
factoring syndicates are specially provided
for, there is this fine section
relating to raw materials: “Drugs
medicinal, crude, not otherwise
provided for,twenty per cent ad valorem.
And yet there has not been a wail against
these onerous and unnecessary taxes in the
columns of our esteemed but reckless con
temporaries.
They should change their sights before
they go gunning again against taxes that
are burdensome to people when engaged
“bnving medicine for their children.”
There are a great many thing* on tlie tariff
list that would be apt to startle our friends
upon s close reading of that remarkable
summary of jobs and iniquities.
"flow is this, my son; you write and tcllnic
that you're up amt dressed every morning In
time to see the sun rise, while the president of
your college Informs mo that you lie in bed tilt
o'clock and after?” “Well, you see, father, the
tun rises till noon in Cambridge."—Harper':
Bazar.
insistency orof a lack of convictions.
The Chicago platform was dictated by
eight,
John Ruticix issaid by a Ismdon letter
writer to now like Americans, though for-
not only because
HHPH luxury liecause the
men who stood then, and stand now, ex- 1 weH , *‘ D * • ociet T demands that its use ' merly he had a poor opinion of them. The
actly in line with President Cleveland on »hoold he discouraged. 1 same letter states that Mr. Buskin’s mind
efae tariff. 1 We believe the people of Georgia are is rapidly failing.
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
Chicago lady (wildly):- "Give mo a pistol
quick.” Dealer: "Cortatniy, madame,
keep all sizes: here Is one warranted to kill an
elephant at forty paces, self-acting, ccatrc-fire
never falls.” "That'll do. Give It to me.’
is empty yet: walla moment and I will load it
for you. There you are, 115, please." ”|Icre’
the money." "Thanks; you will find your hus
band in thnt drug store across the street, lfels
taking some chocolate with a very handsome
young laity. Good morning. Call again when
you remarry.”—Omaha World.
PERSONAL.
Sheridan's memoirs will appear la the spring
in two volumes of COO pages each.
“'Tii said Miss Rose Elisabeth Cleveland Is
about to marry a young clergyman.
Henry Irving's profits from has present tour
In this country will reach 1150,000.
Joseph Chamberlain saya that hla duties will
detain him in Washington for at least a month
longer.
A fine granite monument Is being erected at
Dover, X H, in memory of the late EH Durell
Culled Slates judge In Loulslanaduring the war
and reconstruction period.
There are lace curtains in the parlors of Rob
ert Garrett's mtUlon-dollar Baltimore mansion
which cost uuo a yard. Home of the carpets on
the floors are actually worth their weight la
gold.
Mrs I/ditto Bovc. who died at Lake City, Minn,
the other day, was loved by James Buchanan in
her younger days, but she discouraged hla at
tentions, and it to said that he became a con
firmed bachelor on this account
James A Trotter, the Massachusetts gentleman
of color who is now recorder for the District of
Columbia, to making a small fortune in Wash
fngtoa. He receives 51.b) for every deed he
records and has sometime* takqn In $125 la one
•toy. It is not strange that be should wear
silk hat and terra-cotta gloves.
The New Year's reception at the White
llousu wag a great physical strain on 1‘resblent
Cleveland. The fatigue he fell did not. how
ver, affect his arm. He recently said to a friend
that all the weariness seemed to settle In bis
legs. The pain In bis legs became so great after
a time that be was almost obliged to leave the
Editor Moore's N'ew Year's Soliloquy.
From the Augusta News.
I/t the good resolutions be formed and
begin life with tlie new year. What does
it matter if they are broken? Humanity
is proverbially'weak, but it is only by im
perfect beginnings that we ever reach
end of the course. We must confesr _
liking the man who is ever resolving to do
good, or to do better. Such a man will
win at last, although he faints and falls
hundred times by the wayside. Such J
man has within him the stuff of which
martyrs are made. The road may lie
opposed to reduction of the spoils they J
seek to capture. So the men are opposed
to any reduction who rejoice to find at any
time any surplus money in the Treasury, to
which resort may be had for their purposes
of public improvement, more reform, uni
versal education by the government, benev
olence to people in distress, and a general
pragmatical interference in the affairs of
other people. Other classes agree to a re
duction of the surplus revenue in the treas
ury, but they differ ax to tlie method of re
duction^ Those who concur witli tiic pres
ent administration insist that the redaction
of revenue should he accomplished by a re
duction and reform of tariff duties. ’Those
who oppose the resolution insist that the
repeal of the tax on whisky and tobacco,
or liberal appropriations from the
Treasury, shall he adopted as the methods
of effecting the reduction of the revenue.
Our government is liberal to the degree of
extravagance and of injustice to the tax-
paying classes in its salaries, pension list,
scientific bureaus, public buildings and
other various expenditures. Congress,
when it comes to spend money, Becms ut
terly oblivious of what it has cost a poor
man to earn each dollar of the millions
theyvote to objects that are of little or no
service Jo the country. A worse or more
corrupting policy could not be adopted
than to accumulate vast sums of surplus
money by taxation, to further stimulate
tlie inventive powers of men to find new
objects on which to bestow it. The wicked
injustice and tyranny of taxation for
such purposes are enough to condemn it:
“vCOKCo «r$»i^iiiiiuaui, ill view
of the dangers of an assault
upon the virtue of the people, whom
their representatives in Congress would be
tempted to debauch with bribes for their
votes, to be paid out of this surplus. When
we accumulate by taxation a surplus in
theTreasury merely to gain the political
or personal influence whicli its expendi
ture will give us, wo may be justly accused
of having corrujitlv destroyed tlie fairest
heritage of liberty that everdescendcd from
sires to sons. Taxes should only lie levied
for tlie support of the government, and
fealty to tins declaration is included in
the oath of every man who swears to sup
port the constitution. Taxes levied to
enable Congress to apply the money ex
torted from the people to other purposes,
of privato benefit, are the mere spoils of
robbery. Tlie other expedient for shelter
ing the tarifi 1 from any reform, and from
nil consideration or question, is the repeal
of the tax on whisky. This expedient has
a curious medley of advocates. The al
leged Democratic apothegm, that “an in
ternal tax is an infernal tax,” is quoted
lustily by high protectionists of the
Republican faith as the climax of
wit and wisdom. If that is true, what shall
we say of the tax on the national hanks?
What shall wc say of all taxation by tlie
States? For that is all internal taxation.
What denunciation shall wo cast upon
Illinois, who must tax her people to pay
for a vindication of justice that is of more
vulue to tho United States, in a single act,
than tlie services of our standing army of
25,000 men would lie in five years. Apo
thegms are remarkable sayings, hut they
are often remarkably false. Some of the
higher thinkers among the Prohibitionists
have discovered an immorality in the fact
that the government recognizes property in
whisky by taxing it. If ire could destroy
whisky,.or the pro|>erty in it, by removing
taxation from it, the argument might lie
logical; hut wc must know that tlie quan
tity of whisky-mnde ami consumed will be
greatly increased by the rejieal of the taxes
upon it.
Others say that the States will extermi
nate whisky by prohibiting its manufac
ture under tlie recent authority of tlie
Kansas case if the United States will
withdraw all connection with it. If the
States have the power to prohibit the pro
duction of whisky, the United States ean
not prevent them. What rests witli them
to do, to avoid all interference bv the
United States, is merely to decree that no
whisky shall be produced. Then there
will be no whisky to tax, except foreign
made whisky, ami as to that there is not
tlie least suggestion of immorality. “ Tlie
tariff on whisky is innocent, the’ internal
tax on whisky is criminal,” would lie
another good apothegm for those
who substitute them for reasoning.
If there is anything more deserv
ing of taxation than whisky, I am quite
convinced that it is not salt, or sugar, or
coal, or woollens, or shoes, or hats or medi
cines. In these inclement nights there
may be, here in Boston, some women and
children, poorly clad and not over fed, or
sick, who could have a better fire if coal
were free; hut, if the wretched and over
worked father could get free whisky, mav-
be his sorrows would seek to drown them
selves }n tlie oblivious cup. I will not in
dulge in the unkind snppos tion that tiu-
protected monopolist of the heat treasured
in the mines of coal, which God intended
should be ns free from taxation as air or
water, wouldprefer to furnish that fatbe
with free whisky to Grown his woes rathe
than give up his tariff tax of 75 cents i
ton on coal. But I do not care to
nr you with a disquisition upon
the difference it would malic in tlie com
fort of a poor family to retain the tax on
whisky, and reduce it on plain woollen
ware for women and children and work
ingmen, nnd on salt, sugar, hats and shoes,
or even “bristles.” That is all plain enough
to be understood of all men. It dues seem
fatuous that any statesman should ask the
abolition of the tax on whisky, and of the
laws that regulate the pnsiuction of
whisky, before the States have made full
preparation to meet this change in the law-
oi the United State-. I do not know of any
State that lias laws to regulate distilleries,
as to their taxation, location or numlier.
Without such laws the business of dUtill
ing would be os free in all respects os that
of growing grain.
The church, tho school-house and the
■till-house would frequently become near
neighbors even in the older States, where
! sent that this’
never
. lul * shall be'
— th< -' lr , unprotected neon/
cause must lie sadly in need of ,L
port of justice, morally and ,1
Iounflntmn« in ration *t._. 1 _
can £ri|
foundations in reason, 'that
better rapport than is claimed ton} "
cut tariil in the suggestion that lu.
sive extortions can be spent in (til
sional jobbery, or can lie allowed m i
in the place of the tax on wl i!wl
.arty driven to such straight, f„ r .V'
miningof a vicious system cannot?
maintain tlie confidence of the count/
A GREAT CAST.
Proposed to Have I
Played.
Correspondent in New York Herald
I see in your admirable and carefl
e.lit.-.l dramatic column this morniiJl
at tlie Wallack benefit “Hamlet'' Jal
ilayed, with Booth as Hamlet; Bari
'-aeries, and Jefferson as tlie First i
Digger. This is a step toward what I -L
t" -Cl- before 1 (lie a t-rcat i,| , , 1
fine actor in each pari. Hamlit ill
tirst of our tragedies, and every
creation. Why should all interest 1
dramatic cast centre around Hamlet’
is not as much of a force os Laertes 1
the best roan in the play i, Horaffl
loyal, level-headed gentleman, Polonl
generally played as n fool
wise, selfish old statesman,
to have been drawn from Lord R a uJ
I might goon to show how even the sins j
character in “Hamlet" gives scope!
marked individual acting. Henry J J
cans who siuiplv walked across the -J
with a prayer hook in her hand dnJ
for church. She was so exquisite ami 3
ural that her acting was a reuemhn]
If I were an actor I would, I think, rati
declaim the First Player’s speech in ''ill
let” than any lines in the play, and v|
finer bit of comedy than Osr’ick? $T
why not, since Booth, Jefferson and Barr
nre already in hand, complete the ca-t a
;ivc the incomparable Iz-stor Wallack |
ncomparable "Hamlet” for his benefit?!
Incomparable “Hamlet” for Itis benefit?!
Let me projiose an available cast:
l’olonlus John mill
yMM Charles Oozhl
j- lr>t I'lnyer Herbert Kell
Ri -- enratz John ml
uuildenstern K 1
i nfer King .Charles Fill
Flam Queen Mrs. Gill]
First Grave r>to»er.,,, m Joseph Jeff--!1
Second Grave Digger Ed lUnlJ
gphelta .Acfa fob]
The O*
• Queen..........— Agnes I
1 am probably, for I write as a laymj
and with reserve, wounding, i
urn- ittin. 1
many susceptibilities, for actors, like ctkl
people, have their own appreciation 1
what they can do. As assigning such!
day would be awkward, why do not tl
•dies and gentlemen, and others as giftl
nnd worthy that I have not named lx-caul
I have not tlie space, submit their scrviil
to Mr. Palmer or Mr. Daly, or go out-iJ
to the Herald, and agree to take any nil
assigned without question and doth.]
best with it?
“Hamlet," so performed, would be I,
worth seeing, and I am not quite sure thj
II m-iiM I-- :my i-.iit- pla v.--l !-
those of tlie Second Grave Digger and t!
’’layer King.
Regulation Chestnut.
From the Dahlonegu Signal.
There are semi-authentic rumors nficl
that Justice, the Towns connty murdcrtl
who was hanged at Hiwa**ce last Novum
her, is alive and well, and it is reportJ
that he lias been seen, and the only cift-J
the hanging bad npon hint was to draw kf
head and neck to one side, and caused r
shortening of one leg. A gentleman froJ
here who was present at the hanging toll
us op his return that he noticed a beavinl
motion in the breast of Justice after I]
was cut down and put in the coffin, Mi'
there is n po-sihilitv that ho was imuu-!|
ately taken to ids home by relatives, i
with tlie aid of a physician was rc-u-il
cited. There arc a few instances of sia|
things, ami this case may add another i
the mysteries of the sheriff's rone. Tl
gentleman wiio informed us said that Ja
lice is certainly alive, snd the gallows wsj
cheated of its victim.
Like a Mnl.l nt Easter.
From the Macon Sunday Timas.
The Macon TeleqrafH is out in an*
tlrely new dress snd looks as spruce s> I
pretty maiden at Easter time. In its coof
rratulations npon the event, the liimj
heartily includes the citizens of Macon f' j
whom the Telkurath i- doing some P :
work, and of whom it is a line represec
tative. Editor Richardson is putting l»|
best efforts into the paper nnd is ably«'
suited in its conduct by Messrs. A. A. 1
len, M. M. Folsom, Sevier, nnd the«
reliable Bridges Smith. Together
make a pretty square fight for tlie Centnl
City ana Middle Georgia. The fact f-ij
the finies differs from its sister on sevi-r-l
economic jioints is not going to divide t“
family nor lessen our admiration.
He Whs Accuuimocnte.l.
From the ilawklnsvilteNews. ..
It comes to ns that an editor lesia
about twenty-six miles southwest of H*’ |
kinsville pot to “spilin’ br a fight” a f<
days ago, and tackled a countryman to i
commodate him. Tlie countryman, ii
said, at first begged to be excused, but
editor still insisting on a fight, was aco
modated; and they say that the way
countryman maujgd that editor was a c*”-
lion Dr lx-11igy ren t« in JjgU tJig.V
editor was whipped in about a )-ay of s
Olid-. \y. learn that Dr. I.ai-ib-r, of II
ton, acted as referee.
public opinion is said to be a controlling
force in the suppression of vice. In the
rocky and the ascents steep, but his heart
js_strung. He rises every time. He keeps
nis eyes fixed on the stars, and at last
rescues the goal to lie crowned and pro
claimed a her...
In Csootl Jland*.
From the Fairburn New*.
Our doll baby received from the Christ-
mas tree is doing well. The dear little
thing has been placed in the
tenderer hands than ours. “lib
heart.”
newer communities, and among the negroes
of the South, no more potent agency for
the promotion of disorder and crime could
be devised than the free distillation of
whisky. Whoever it was, in the time of
onr sectional hatred and retaliation, that
desired a plan for “organizing hell in the
South,” was nien-ifiillv blinded, when ho
failed to sec the “infernal revenue” that
his Satauic majesty would gather in that
section by means of free distilleries.. Ti
turn hiosc this flood of evil upon the Stab
at this time, when they are not prepared ...
control it, l>y removing the restraints of the
national laws npon the distillation of whin-
keeping of ky, would lead to results that involve
m its little the existence of whole communities in the
’ South. The States must act first, and be
A Timely ntoatratisn.
From the Tallapoosa Journal.
A rather comical interruption in
sermon took place at the M -11 - !
last Sunday morning. Just as ilit* j-res-'l-'’
was alluding to the propriety of douC
everything well, tlie stove-jiqx-, aliout
teen or eighteen feet long, very coollv a i c ' 1
deliberately drojiped down on Frof.WriP”'
Mr. Reynolds, seeing that no one was lino-
made a very appropriate application total
question under discussion, a little to tW
discomfiture of those who put up said l"P'
To Matt Jskyl
From tie- Brunswick Breeze.
A gentleman who is in
know whereof h*
it tin
a is-
Sclent iaily
. ..ekyl Island Club
an invitation to j"" 1 '
leycjand to visit -W-
-nltaiitiesof the club
o-oii for Ix'lieving tbst*^
in New Y’ork, ap|" and
Mad in the Rescript
given him of Jekyi Island and what
clnbproposed doing.
forms uat
aLqut u yxn
dent and )
there is «V
invitation
dent, wher
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