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A Sorry Sort of Support.
“We can fight for President Cleveland
and fight the internal revenue laws too.” .
remarks the Atlanta Constitution. It !•*«“«* on <l,e .antn^t week. We do not
possible that the intelligent compositor is won ler that Mr. Nelson’s Republican as-
Fanning Under Low TnriflTuncl Under HIrIx. J NOT BY ACCLAMATION.
Congressman Knute Nelson, of Minne- A Democratic Candidate Cannot bo Xomi-
sota, made some telling points in his ‘ noted JN Ithout i
r I From the Albany Times.
John McLean denies that he has pur-
tiie New York Star. We congratu
late New York.
The spring poet must now take a back
ursf The snake liar has opened np a new
^aA at tile did stand.
. Ir strikes us that Boulanger is a danger-
on* man. The people ought to repudiate
V.m as'the 'government has done.
lenmmvn to paragraphs in the local
f^ea the population of Atlanta is increas
ing at the rate of about 1,000 a day.
Beeore its fourth issue the Southern
Alliance, of West Point, had 3,000 sub-
Editor Huguley is a hummer.
G P. Hcnyinoton says he is now paying
attention to Southern railroads. It is time
far the stockholders to put a tight grip on
Chair pocket-books,
When a railroad disaster occurs in the
North the papers of that region call it
“fils" When a railroad disaster occurs
ha the South.they call it “carelessness.”
Ms. George I. Seney has resigned the
oSeeof trustee of Wesleyan University of
Madd>etown, Conn., because his friend, Dr.
Bench, wy removed from the presidency.
Skmx-weekly papers are becoming pop-
alar in Georgia. The Washington Chron-
isimmim uiuica uui iwiue a week, always
bright nod full of sound tariff reform Dem-
Tue New Orleans Tiines-Democrat in
forms the ocuntry of its discovery tlmt
Matthew Arnold is not the author of “The
Light of Asia.” Tho T-D is one of the
cutest of our exchanges.
Tim Louisiana Democracy are n tough
set. Tiio nasty campaign for the nomina
tion of a State ticket was hardly over be
fore the New Orleans Democrats split all
to pieces over the city offices.
Bourn; e Cockban threatens to attack
President Cleveland’s civil service polity.
If Gickran does not bchavo we will re-
epiewt Col. John R. Fellows to sit' on him
«s he did in the Chicago convention.
Postmaster-General Dickinson asks
•Congress for]$300,000 for extra clerk hire.
Me ought to have it. In no department
•of the government service are intelligence
xjkI honesty of more value. Postal em
ployes should be paid well.
The Wasliiugton correspondent of the
Angusta Chronicle announces that Judge
Schofield, of the Supreme Court of Illinois,
*vm offered the place which Justice Lamar
aov occupies, and declined it. Probably
(his statement will surprise Judge Schofield
more than any one else.
Mr. ltlnlne-s l-rospects.
When we published Mr. Blaine’s Flor
ence letter we expressed the opinion tlusl
fit did not remove him from the list of
probable Republican nominees for the
Presidency. This opinion has been
strengthened by subsequent developments.
The proceedings of the Vermont Republi
can convention, which met a few days ago,
clearly indicates that Mr. Blaine must
still be considered in the field. Everything
indicated that nobody there construed his
Florence letter as a sincere declination.
Hie convention ' passed no resolutions
of regret at his withdrawal, and whenever
&u name was mentioned the delegates
yelled themselves hoarse. Blaine waa the
.predominant idea from tho time the con
-volition was called to order until it ad
journed. This, too, in the State of George
F. Edmunds, who came very near bolting
IQainc’a nomination in 1884, and whose
HaII-fw.-irr. . 1 annnnrl »~~T
.-.han direct opposition. Everywhere the
brlief that Mr. Blaine will again be the
nominee of his party is gaining ground,
and for good reasons. No other Republican
leader has developed anything like general
-ejUhusiiMii in the party. Sherman will
have to depend on Ohio and what votes ho
can buy in the South. Allison is ,ot
talked of outside of his own State. Indi
ana Republicans are divided between Har
rison and Gresham. It is doubtful if
Chauncey Depew is the favorite of his own
State. It is probable tha; six or seven
candidates will be put in nomination at
aba National Republican convention. Not
one of them can have any reasonable hope
of securing a majority of the delegates.
JSvevybody will be thinking of
Rlaiue just as everybody was
chinking uf Mr. Tilden at the
Democratic convention of 18S0. If Mr.
Tild<o*.i name had been proposed then
nothing couiu have prevented iris nomina
tion. 1( Mr. Blaine's name shall be pro-
oo«r<) in the Chicago convention it will
fwee,, all the other candidates off the field j dation of the party and with the interests
responsible for the fourth word in the
above sentence, but assuming the proof
reader to have done his full duty, it may
be well to see how theConstitutiou is fight
ing for Mr. Cleveland.
The President should be renominated,
thinks the Constitution, because it is his
duty to dare disaster, even though so brave
a man as General Hancock hesitated when
he read the tariff for revenue only plat
form of 1880. Mr. Cleveland has substi
tuted for the nlatform on which he was
elected the views of a minority, which the
convention had repudiated. Having betray
ed his party in this way, forcing upon it is
sues which it had not sought, he would be
a coward to slink away from the battle he
has challenged. “Besides," says the Con
st itution, “on the line mapped out by the
President, who can lead the party?” Shall
it be Morrison, it suggests, already defeat
ed in his own district, Carlisle, who nar
rowly escaped that fate, or Mills, dis
trusted by a majority of the Democrats?
A majority of Democrats are also opposed
to Cleveland’s position on the whisky tax,
and to the civil service foolishness. In
short, the Constitution’s opinion of the
President’s administration is expressed in
a toast it proposes: “America—Sap-head
ed at home and weak-minded abroad.”
This is the way tho Constitution is fight
ing “for” Mr. Cleveland, and the wild,
rollicking enthusiasm of it is enough to
convince the most casual reader that its
whole heart is in its work. The foolish
Republican papers all over the North
which so eagerly republish its articles,
Written to strengthen the President and
the Democratic party, nre evidently unable
to understand the Constitution’s plan of
battle. They mistake for stabs what are
doubtless intended for mere fillips, expres
sive of affection.
The Constitution finds in the President’s
message, however, one thing which it ap
proves—his denunciation of trusts—and
suggests that the Telegraph join it in
urging Congress to adopt a plan to get rid
of them. The plan it outlines, too, is a
very good one—“let every article that is
included in any kind of a trust be put on
tiie free iisi. " The Telegraph is sure the
adoption of this plan would bless the peo
ple. Bill does it not propose more than is
possible? There is the whisky trust, the
Bessemer steel monopoly, the crucible
steel trust, the nail association, the coal
combination, the lumber trust, the sugar
trust, the Balt monopoly, the paper trust,
the glass combination, the barbed wire
ring, the lead trust, the copper
syndicate, the vine monopoly
the envelope trust, and dozens
of others, too numerous to give even space
to their names. It is utterly impossible
to get a bill through Congress dealing with
all these thieving agencies at the same
lime. The Mills bill touches only a few,
and those few lightly, yet see what mighty
chafiipious fly to their defense. Even our
esteemed contemporary flourishes its flail
in their behalf vigorously, even though
the clumsy instrument crack the crowns of
party friends and its own. When so en
thusiastic a Democratic tariff reform news
paper as the Constitution fights in this
cause, it becomes wise enemies of all trusts
and monopolists to act with prudence and
caution.
' Therefore the Telegraph, which hates
all trusts without distinction, is in favor
of killing off a few at a time, rather than let
all escape andcontinually grow in power. It
is of opinion, also, that in selecting trusts
for destruction, those which arc doing most
h&rm should be chosen first. Now, look
at the partial list given. The whisky
trust is put first, because it it an object of
peculiar horror to the Constitution, which
never tires of insinuating that the leaders
of the Democratic party and the tariff re
form press are in its pay or under its in'
fluence. This insinuation is, of course
wholly false, and dishonors the Democrat
who makes it.
But what does the whisky trust do to be
so hated? First, it increases the price of
whisky from fifteen cents to $1.05 a gallon.
Does that hurt the people? Second,it pays
into the treasury every year about $70,-
000,000. Does that injure taxpayers! On
the contrary, it lightens to that extent
the burden of taxation which rests
upon more innocent and useful
articles, and in this fact originates the hos
tility of the protectionists. The innumer
able trusts which prey upon the people
through the tariff taxes on the necessaries
of life, hate the internal revenue taxes,
not because of the method of their collec
tion or because they are direct levies, but
because they yield a large income to the
government. They wish that income to be
abolished in order that they may continue
to collect from the people four times
much for tlieir private use.
The whisky trust increases the price of
whisky; the other trusts increase the cost
of*comfortable living of every citizen. As
it is hopeless to attack all at once, the Tel
egraph is in favor of fighting the more
harmful first.
For these reasons the Telegraph must
decline the Constitution’s kind invitation
to join in its peculiar method of sup
porting the President and the Democratic
party. It prefen to follow the lead of the
men whom the Democrats have elected to
represent them, especially as the policy
declared by them Lt in thorough accord
with Democratic precedent from the foun-
i the jiffy. Look out for Blaine!
| and wishes of the people of Georgia.
sociates tried to howl him down. His de
parture from the usual Republican lino
on the tarili was calculated to make the
dry bones rattle, and it did.
One of the most interesting portions of
the speech waa that which referred to the
low tariff period from 18-10 to 1800. Mr.
Nelson referred to the well-known fact
that during the operation of the Walker
tariff the country enjoyed the greatest
general prosperity it lias ever known. No
class of our population realized more de
cided benefits from that tariff than the
farmers. Many of the readers of the Tele
graph are old enougli to remember
during the period referred to farming was
exceptionally profitable, in all parts of the
country. In those days the money of the
country was in the hands of farmers,
Strange at it may seem now, it was a com
mon tiling for merchants to borrow money
from their country customers. In 1840 the
price of negro farm hands was about $300.
In 1859 they were worth over $1,000. This
was an evidence of the profitableness of
farming in the South. The nverage yield
of cotton then was not inucli^over three
bales to the hand. How does the case
stand now ? We get negro labor at less
than it cost during slavery. The
average yield of cotton is at
least three times a» much to
the hand as it was before tho war. The
price of cotton is better on tho average than
it was then. And yet, wo now have pov
erty and mortgages among the farmers, in
stead of the prosperity and wealth which
they enjoyed in the low tariff period. This,
in spite of the fact that their labor now-
costs them less, that it is on an average
three times as productive as it was then.
What is true of the farmers of the Sontli
is true of those of the West. Both have
been reduced from independence to de-
pendence. Both have been con verted from
lenders into borrowers. The lands of both
are covered with mortgages for
debts bearing terrible rates of
interest. During the last twenty-five years
the farmers have been compelled to pay
bounties to manufacturers. The price of
almost everything they buy has been raised
by law and the price of everything they
sell has been reduced by increased produc
tion. This is the explanation of the sharp
contrast between the condition of the agri
cultural classes in 1888 and in 1859. This
is a practical illustration of the effects of
low tariff and high tariff upon the original
producers of oar wealth.
Indian Commissioner Atkin- iw/1, Kx-
Govemor Porter will be cnmli'iiSre- ag:fk*
United States Senator Isham G. Harris,■[
Tennessee. Mr. Harris is serving his sec
ond term in tho Senate, but thinks he can
stand another ono. He was first elected to
Congress in 1849, acd there is not a man
in either House now whose Congressional
career dales back so far. Mr. Harris will
not tell his age in the Congressional Di
rectory, but he is evidently no spring
chicken.
Georgia’s Greatest Fair*
It is now certain that the greatest fair
ever seen in Georgia will he held in Macon
next October.
President Nortlien has projected plans
for it which will make it beyond question
the largest and most comprehensive expo
sition of Georgia’s resources on record. He
lias secured the hearty co-operation of the
railroads. They will transport free both
ways all exhibits. The Central has agreed
to furnish a car, or cars, for the transporta
tion of specimen Georgia producta to any
part of the country. Mr. Nortben is ar-
rnnging a sort of triumphal tour for these
exhibits and they will probably he seen in
half a dozen of the Northweatern States.
One of the most interesting features of
the fair will be the competitive contests of
the counties. Usually four or five counties
have contended for such premiums, but we
would not be surprised to see thirty in the
lists at Macon next October. Besides the
$1,000 premium offered by the State Agri
cultural Society, there will bespccial pre
miums for various groups of counties,
some of which may be larger than the gen
eral prize.
Mr. Northen has induced the Farmers’
Club of McIntosh county to offer $500 in
premiums for crops raised in that section
of the State. McIntosh is a small county
and the liberality of ita farmers in this
matter will stimulate others to similar
efforts. It is almost certain that Chatham,
Glvnn and Liberty -illsc into ;U
with Mclntoah, and thus a handsome lot
of special premiums will bo offered. .Some
of the enthusiastic farmers of Glynn say
they will offer three dollars for every one
put up by McIntosh. The counties ot Cen
tral and Northern Georgia will not be out
done by the counties on the coast. Every
part of the State and the vast variety
of Georgia producta will be represented in
the competitive county displays. The
$1< ,000 offered in premiums by the State
Agricultural Society will he very largely
increased by tho amount* that will be of
fered by various counties. A county
which has confidence in its own resources
and thrift can afford to put up liberal
premiums in the faith that they will be
taken by iu own citizens. Mr. Nortlien
is constantly devising some new plan to
make the State fair more attractive and
more successful than it has ever been.
towns. A few days ago she made up her
mind that a cotton factory would be a
good thing to have and already $90,200 of
the proposed $100,000 capital has been sub
scribed.
1 find in a Democratic daily newspaper
of some standing and influence the follow
ing extraordinary prediction:
“President Cleveland will he renomi
nated at Su Louis by acclamation.”
This statement is extraordinary, for two
reasons:
1. Because nominations, in Democratic
Presidential conventions, must be agreed
to by a two-thirds vote of the delegates
from the States, which of course makes
necessary the call of the roll, and pre
cludes, as was intended to preclude, nomi
nations by acclamation. The tv.o-thirds
vote, on a call of the roll, is a fundamental
principle of the party’s organization.
Every convention of the Democratic
party of the United States that has ever
been called together to nominate a candi
date for President lias recognized anil ac
knowledged the rule. There is no excep
tion. It originated with the first conven
tion which was held in 1832, and it will he
adopted for the fifteenth time by the St.
Louis convention of 1888. It was as nec
essary and proper a precaution against
haste, excitement, the interference of Fed
eral office-holders and other outside influ
ences now as it was when Andrew Jackson
was selected to be our candidate fifty-six
years ago. If what I have above quoted
means that there will be an effort to dis
pense with the two-thirds rule at St. Louis
next June, I can only say that such an
effort, if made, will fail. Wire it possible
for it to succeed, it might be doubtful how
far a candidacy not in accordance with the
established usage would have a binding
authority.
2. The prediction is extraordinary, be
cause it wot Id be a violation of the estab
lished precedents of ths Democratic party
to nominate a candidate for the Presidency
for a second time. The party has never
done so upon any occasion since the disas
trous ovirthrow it encountered in 1840, in
conseqnence of the unfortunate second can
didacy of the then President Martin Van
Buren. For half a century, that is to say,
for twelve quadrennial periods the party
lias sagaciously selected a fresh leader for
every Presidential campaign. New issues
and new men have invariably compelled
a rearrangement of the lines of battle.
The most prominent considerations in
the campaign of 1872, for instance, ware
obsolete in 1876. The situation of 1876
had about gone out of sight in 1880. jn
1884, the positions which had been taken
on certain questions in 1880 were aband
oned. The last three Democratic Presi
dents, James K. Polk, Franklin Pierce
and James Buchanan, eacli held for but a
single term of office. And our other can
didates for the past forty years—Lewis
Crss, John Breckinridge, Stephen A.
Dougina, George B. McClellan, Horatio
Seymour, Samuel J. Tilden, and Winfield
S. Hancock—a long line ot beloved nnd
honored statesmen—were each permitted
to be a candidate once only. What the
Democratic party denied to such men, it is
not likely now to concede to any other
man. Gideon J. Tucker.
Cheap WhUUy, Dwir Ctothlnj.
From the New York World.
To the question “Does it seem right, in
vour opinion, to cheapen whisky and to-
liacco iu order, to keep up the taxes on
woollen goods?’, an old Whig organ, mas
querading as Democratic, replies in the
affirmative.
In other words, it regards any abate
ment of the war duty ot 07 per cent, on
manufactures of wool as “the abandon
ment of protection,” nnd rather than yield
a point on this it would abolish the inter
nal revenue taxes.
How captivating would be this campaign
cry to industrious and sober working peo
ple: “Free whisky nnd war-taxed cloth
ing I Free tobacco and wnr taxes on
sugar, salt, crockery, glass, lumber acd
iron 1”
Does it need to be said for the thou-
aandth time that the tax on whisky, felt
by usmaii proportion of the population, is
one which every man can abolish for him
self—by letting tho stuff alone—while the
taxes on clothing and other necessaries,
felt by everybody, can ho removed only by
Congress?
If there is any principle that is both
sound economy aud true Democracy it is
tlmt luxuries and vices should ha taxed
heavily and necessities tnxed lightly. In
so far as the Mills hill embodies this prin
ciple it deserves tho support of every man
who calls himself a Democrat.
Growth of the United States.
From the Globe Democrat.
The United Slates has a population of
at least 62,000,000 at this moment. This
makes it second in this particular among
the great civilized nations of the world.
Keeping in view tho ratio of growth of the
countries named between recent census
periods, there are to-day about 88,000,000
inhabitants in European Russia, 47,000,-
000 in Germany, 40,000,000 in Amtro-
Hungury, 38,000,000 in France, 87,000,000
in Great Britain and Ireland, 30,000,000
in Italy and 17,000,000 in Spain.
The population of none of the other
countries in Europe reacli 10,000,000—
Turkey’s inhabitants outside of Asia ag
gregating scarcely half that figure. Russia
alone of the great powers of Christendom
exceeds the United States in population.
Even Russia must soon be left far in the
rear. July 1, 1890, when the next national
enumeration takes place, the United States
will have 67,000,000 inhabitants. It will
have 96,000,000 in the year 1900 and 124,-
000,000 in 1910. This computation is
based on the average growth of the coun
ty during —C gL’.gy. Euugiuyiug a like
ha.-is for Russia, that nation . before 1910
will have dropped to second place, the
United States taking the first.
Forty years ago the United States stood
sixth in point of population umong the
civilized nations of the glebe and twenty
years ago it Btood fifth. Twenty years
hence it will stand first.
From Senator Zebulon Vance
on the Tariff.
PLAIN TALK
Behold the bles-ed effects ofT-u
treasury I long may it wave'
per thieves of Europe! 1 t!>< |
WHEN WERE WE MOST PROSPEROUS? The iFSl&FStirS-
These afford greater scope tothew'
in. ustry of our people than any 1
upon earth. With, a people who ‘ -I
tmlandspeculative instincts 0I 'I
others, in a country whose condSI
; I
of one race, the heavy restriction, oil
tection have been a down-drawm,- 1
Upon their energies from th*? *
of
ns tn Low Tariff lVrlotls—llcnl Cnuses
Prosperity—Practical Illi.stvn-
tions of Economic Truths—An
Interesting Article.
Senator Vance in Baltimore Sun
One of the most difficult things to do in
r energies from the mom 1
morals and physics is to attribute effects their application. But because (f
to their proper causes. This is the chosen only to retard and not to destroy » .
hiding place of politicians in all countries. I ■*
A demagogue has only to mount the stump hindrances are the cause of
and assert vociferously that hard times The weight of the cars and the forceo]
and scarcity of money were ail brought
about because such nnd such things were
done—generally things that lie hud op
posed—and . thousands will accept it as
true. Lacking the information, or the dis
position to apply it, vhieh would enable
them to investigate for themselves, they
adopt the first plausible theory which is .. „ , , ~. n
suggested. Very lew of even intelligent! tie , m a , s well as fur the farmers’
men will take the trouble to ascertain the | !UK I’ rlccs °' ponds and labor would
link.-- ntbtethe train, and not theeiwi
Tlira* IlillhjClubeep foreign comiJ
would long since have produced their 1
ural results but for the room and atil
tions of oitr great epontry. Bv the n „|
stimulation of the manufacturing ini.J
• "dn.oi- ove*-itipply of their pr S|
would have glutted the home mart.. 1
tliam no .enl 1 .... si.— t . I
the only way we can reach a wise judg
ment of the present or the future. The
most common, instance of this darkness of
council by words without wisdom is found
in the wholesale assertion of the high tariff
men tlmt the unexampled prosperity of
the country is due to protection. You
hear it every day: “We have flourished
under protection.” .Statistics arc read to
us until onr head aches to show how our
territories have been enlarged, how our
population has multiplied, how our wealth
has increased, with railroads, young cities,
quadrupling productions, arts, sciences,
“and all the time we have had a tarili for
protection.” That is plain and unmistak
able cause and effect! Protection did it,
because we flourished and had lii^h tariff-,
at the 6ame time! Ergo, the tariff caused
us to flourish. The reasoning of the negro
about his crazy old clock was equally ns
clear nnd satisfactory. Being twitted with
its jerking and spasmodic behavior, lie de
clared that he could tell thetime of day by
it as well as by any clock in the world.
“Ynreee, boss," said he, “when de bout
hands points to four, and de minit hand
to half-past eleven, and she strikes nine,
den I knows it’s adzac’iv one o’clock.”
Home such combination as' this may enable
an expert to find that our riches" arc the
result of shutting oft' foreign commerce
aud relyingsoiely oh high taxation. Be
cause tilings luuinMi te g-^n'.e
together, therefore the otic is the cause of
the other, however inadequate the one may
do to produce the oiher. Since the ear
liest recollection of limn, in recorded story
or tradition, it is an undoubted fact that
the chicken cocks l.iiVe trowed everyday
of the world just b. fore sunrise; therefore
tlyit is the cause fit snnrise.
Now, if protection is the cause of our
prosper!;,, it would op-rate equally at all
times under similar conditions, and tho
removal of tile cause would produce oppo
site effects. Yet we find as a fact that nti-
der tho low tarifl' from 1859 to 186 > there
was a decade of the greatest prosperity nnd
imwenso of wealth the country has ever
known. The official figures prove this
beyond dispute. The most highly pro
tective couutry of Europe is Russia, yet
there labor is least productive and least
rewarded. Her paper tuouev is wortli
only about fifty cents on the. dollar, and
she is unable to borrow money in any of
the markets of Europe. Her stnnding
among the nations is maintained by the
brute force of eighty millions of people,
subjected to the will of a single man. The
least “protected” country in Europe
and the nearest to ; free trade of
any in the world is Eng
land. Her foreign commerce excecus
that of any of the nations; her ships carry
57 per cent, of the world’s trade, the sun
never sots upon her empire, and the sub
jects of the Empress of India number
more than three hundred millions. .Some
years ago, when expecting a war with Rus-
sia, her prime minister instituted an in
quiry into her resources, and reported that
her people had, lying in banks and else
where idlv waiting investment, six hun
dred million pounds sterling, or three bill
ions of dollars, and there labor is more
productive and receive* higher pay tlmn
any other country in Europe. An exami
nation of the financial condition of Europe
will disclose the fact that those are most
pr. sperous which have the lowest tariffs;
that where protect! n is greatest wages are
least. Without giving the lie to all hu
man experience and the plain elements of
mathematic*, no sane man can deny that
taxation is a burthen, and the greater
the tax the greater the burthen, of course.
To sav, then, that this enormous weight of
taxation, not only fur the support of the
government, but for tho support of a stand
ing army of two milliiia of protected peo
ple also, which, at tho very least, is double
the legitimate public expenditure, is the
cause of our great and rapid increase in
waclth and prosperity, is simply to insult
common sense. You might just as well
say that the load under which a man stag
gers is the cause of his locomotion. He,
perhaps, make* out to travel tea miles per
day with it on his hack, and you exclaim,
f lloP.1 I lit. sltA ."l. .. . 1.1,1
Wealth Untolil.
Feck roar treasure, and you’ll find
It esuti but in the mind.
Wealth is but the power that hires
Bleasfnjn that the heart desires;
And if these are mind to hold
Independently of gold.
And the gift* It cun bestow,
I am richer than I know?
Ith-h am I If, when I mss
’Mid the dainiea on the grass,
Kyery daisy in my »dKht
Seems a Jewel of delight!
Rich am I if I caq rce
Trcasox# in the (lower and tree,
And can hear ’mid forest leaves
Music in the summer eves:
If the lurk that sings aloud
On the fringes ol the cloud,
Scatters melodies around
frreah as raindrop* on the ground;
And I bless the happy bird
For the ioy it has conferred;
If the tides upon the shore
! snu«B
llo STCI,
That life is fair and God Is good!
1 am rich if I no^ess
Such a fund ol hAppines«,
And can find where'er I stray
Humble blessings on the way.
And deserve ih-,a etc they're given
Uy my gratitude to heaven.
—Charles Mackay In Chambers's Journal,
# SAIIYI > till * AA-ltllllJj
."ree there I By the help of that load that
man lias marched ten miles in one dav! In
t~a Lc wiii niaice a Hundred, if some
enemy doesn’t remove a part of his load.
NVas ever such progress known be
fore?” That the pcojile of these
United States have made any prog
ress at all nnd carried tlieir load is tho
greate-t tribute which can tie paid to their
genin* and industry. How great that
progress would have been had they been
free nnd unshackled no man can say; it
exceeds imagination. The verdict of his
tory will lie that they flourished in spite
of pro:ective tariffs. This prosperity is no
more to be attributed to self-taxation than
it is to govern.ental plunder. We have
always had that. Jobs and rings and all
sort* of scheme* for robbing thc*trcasurv
have never ceasrtl among ns. Not only in
point of fact have thev exiited simulta
neously with tariffs, but the Btrong family
likeness between them is evidence of thefr
kinship. Their tuctjiods are the same
hut recognizing the principle of the di
vision of labor, one robs the people at largo
and the other robs the treasury. With
equal proof of cause and effect, whv not
claim that this peculiar plunder u the
source of onr prosperity? Nay, the
re-semblano- between this plunder-
*“8 , *ufi the operations 0 f
the tariff doesn't stop here. Many of the
successful thieves have done great things
with the stolen money and lands. Thev
have built railroads and opened whole re
gion* to settlement, laid out cities and
[, towns, established factories* given emnlov-
not equal the increase of production,
the proportion between supply and 4
is daily widening. Feeling' this
mills and factories rutt only halt
There is no help for it—there is noc»,
to relieve the jilethora by trading*ith
eign nations. The hands are locked «
Fortunately, they can turn to someth!
else in a country so broad and frnitfo!
ours, and we aro saved from bread rio
and tho unwisdom of protective tariffs
severed yet a little longer.
But another cause, and perhaps
greatest one of.our prosperity, is free tn|
between the States. Without this all
our advantages all of our energy sn
have utterly failed to produce so great,
suits. It docs not, jicrlmps, occur to tli
protectionists who use the words ‘
trader” oa a term of reproach that Ami
is the greatest free trade country in
civilized world, and that free trade is a
culiarly American idea. Long before Es
land ever conceived such a thingourl
thers established it between the Sulci
tills Union by a special provision in t,
fundamental law. Mr. Webster said inti
Senate that it was an American idea, u
that protect!) n was Enropenn. It «u
half oratory later than our connin
tionul establishment of it before Br
ish statesmanship adopted it. It
now ahsolttie in this country imo
sixty millions of p?«p!
thirty-eight States It operates in (ire
Britain only over about thirty millions
people, for her dependencies lerr th<
own tirifl' duties. So far from this alt
lute freedom of trade existing between t!
States being looked tipon as injurious i
sjioken of with opprobrium, the ini
greedy prulectionWt alive acknowledges
Ilian i ii.Ill 111. - ill'.'- ami v. miM _■ i i ! »_
before North Carolina and Georgia ihoai
he given the power to protect their infill
manufactures agalUat fh* “p»uper 1«!
of Massachusetts ami Penmylvanit.
protective tariff against the latte
would no doubt enable a few aift
the former States to get rid
just as it h»s done everywhere else: In
every one confesses it would be high!
detrimental to the public welfare. Nobod
desires it, and yei, if a State is forbiddt;
to buy where she can buy the cheapest,o
man could say it would be unjust in tha
State to forbid its citizens from buying '
those who thus restrain them. As si
restraint whatever upon interstate row
merge is readily admitted to ho ucdwirstk
aud injurious, so it is equally true that
restrictions upon international trade sn
harmful. It cannot fcc otherwise tusutrwe
in one case if it be true iu the other, for
the principle is precisely the same. That
principle lias long been established u
eternal trntli by the people of onr rice-
tlmtall laws are impolitic and injariooi
that forbid or hinder absolute freedom is
the alienation and transfer of property.
It_ took centuries of hitter strug
gling with ignorance and prejudice to
accent this great truth; nnd seeing hov
splendidly it has approved its own vent?
in the vnst internal trade of sixty million
people, the wonder is to me how any man
who is either w ise or patriotic can consent
to see hjs country’s commerce weighted
with a single dollar of taxation bcvondtbe
:i 1 >-.'lull- in-> i i— iti, - uf tlii-^g'.-. i i;i Mi
foreign Commerce is indeed not desirable;
if distant lands contain nothing that wt
want, and our ambition is to make oolhing
which thsy want, but only to supply onr'
selves, then the forbidding or hampering
of that trade may be right. But the merest
tyro in economy knows that peonle get
rich by their surplus products—not by sup
plying their own immediate wants—sad if
they cannot sell or exchange that surplus
they will not make it. Therefore free
trade between the States up to IH
point of the homo supply is ind|»-
ponsable, and therefore, again, for the dis
posal of the aggregate surplus, freedom "f
trade with foreign countries is equally in
dispensable to national prosperity._ H**
can it bo otherwise unless principle is fs«
to itself? How can it he true that it u
absolutely necessary to my individual
welfare and that I shall sell my surplus
products to my neighbor freely and with
out restraint, "and after my neighbor u
emptied and wants no more, It is not un«*
snry for my welfare or that of the public
that I should sell the remainder to a t" 11 !
across tho river who does not want it an t
offers me a good jirice? Ounmon sense
and common justice alike declare that »
should have tne utmost lilierty to sen to
both, subject only to such charges on tne
transaction ns tho government msy law
fully impose for its necessities, and not
those of Hiiy'one man or set of men upon
the earth. *
IftlnmWm in China.
From the Chinese Times.
Olejrvers notice how much the tveraff*
Chinaman i« improved where he adopts
faith of Mohammed. The man beconi®
more cleanly, manly, honest and hospit**
ble, and, an a rule, his fortunes improre f
too. ^ And, silently but surely, Islam u
miking’great way in soma parts of Chin*t
so that in a few years the followers of jM
prnphw will, in many region*, i.ntm-
the Buddhists and Cbnfucianists.
The Presidency of 3! ex loo*
From Frank Leslie's. . ^
The change in the Mexican constitution
by which a president may become hi* " wn
immediate sucreMor has been ratifi'd hy 1
sufficient number of state* to make it •
fixed fact, mid there no doubt that “ llie
politic* <>{ the country shall lemain in 1
normal condition, President Diox in wh'**
interest the < li.ume h.u» in.uh >, will be re*
deesed June.