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Banks County Gazette.
VOL 2.—NO. 3.
Reciprocity and Protection.
The free trade mugwump and
democratic papers, many of them,
compare “the task assumed by Mr.
Blaine of promoting reciprocity while
adhering to the non-intercourse policy
of the republican tariff,’' to riding two
horses when the animals are going iu
opposite directions. No one but the
wilfully blind can discern any incon
sistency in the operation of protec
tion and reciprocity under one gov
ernment.
Reciprocity says to Brazil: “If
you will admit our flour, bacon, agri
cultural implements, and some oilier
articles fiee of duty, we will admit
your sugar, coffee, hides, ruboer, and
other articles free of duty.” These
are non-con.peting articles and reci
procity places them on the fr< e li t.
At the same time protection im
poses a duty upon competing articles
that can be produced in other conn
tries so cheaply as to undersell our
own products.
For many years there was a pro
tective tariff on sugar, hut it failed to
stimulate the domestic production in
quantities sufficient to reduce the
price or to supply our people. The
last congress removed this tariff, but
it informed the sugar producing
countries that they, iu consideration
of the free access to our superior
markets, must repeal the tariff on
certain products of this country.
What in this is inconsistent with pro
tect.on?
It would appear rather that reci
procity is the natural accompaniment
of protection. While one secures to
us our home market for our own
products, the other gives to us such
foreign products as do not enter into
competition with our own, and opens
to us a foreign market otherwise hai
red against us.
Whilw reciprocity practically estab
lishes free trade in a few specified
articles it iR at the same time essen
tially protection. If the country with
which we reciprocate raises the price
of the articles we import,by imposing
an export tax, reciprocity at once
ceases and the old duly is re-imposed
in regard to that country. That is
the protective side of reciprocity.
Again, if the nation with which we
reciprocate imposes a duty upon the
articles w-e wish to soli, then our
government would immediately im
pose a duty upon our imports from
that country, w*hile the same articles
would b"e received free of duty from
other nations. That is also the pro
tective side of reciprocity.
If Cuba should refuse to remove
the duty from American flour, we
would continue a heavy duty on
Cuban'sugar, while sugar from Brazil
would enter oiir ports free of duty.
If Germany should contin e to* im
pose prohibitory duties on American
pork, we would levy a duty on Ger
man beet sugar, and deprive that
country of trade amounting to over
$1*2,000,000 annually. That would
be practical protection and reciproci
ty. Reciprocity does not conflict with
protection, because it never removes
protective duties. This will be now
readily understood wtien it is borne in
mind that there are two kinds of
tariffs. A revenue and a protective
tariff. The first is levied for the sole
purpose of obtaining money to sup
port the government. It is levied
upon articles of which we produce
but small quantities, or which we do
not produce at all, such as ten, coffee,
sugar, and hides. A protective tariff
aims to obtain revenue to conduct, the
government, and at the same time to
protect’ and build up home industries.
It is levied upon such articles as we
are capable of producing in quantities
sufficient to supply the home demand.
It is made high enough to compensate
for the difference between the wages
of this country and Europe, and to
prevent our markets from being
flooded with foreign products. A
revenue tariff has no aim but to get
money. It must always be paid by
the foreign producer. If we should
impose a tariff upon tea ami coffee it
would raise the price of those articles
to the American consumer, who would
have to pay the tariff.
The Sheffield cutlery manufactures,
to avoid paying the tariff imposed
by the McKinley hill, are putting up
plants iu this country. Many Ger
man and English capitalists have
broken ground for plauts in this
country, or are preparing to do so, in
order to avoid the payment of our
protective duties. They know “who
pays the tax.” They know that do
mestic competition will soon prove
this country able to supply our home
demand and that they can only enter
our market by coming here and pay
ing taxes to help sustain the govern
ment whose benefits they wish to
enjoy. But the producers of tea,
coffee, sugar, and such commodities
as are affected by free trade tariff will
never try to produce those articles in
this country, no matter how high the
tax. They calculate that they can
enjoy our markets any way; that they
can even impose a discriminating ex
port tax, and thus unduly enhance
the price of all we purchase of them;
or that while enjoying free entry to
our ports they can impose a prohibi
tory duty upon our flour, meats and
other articles.
But here reciprocity steps in. It
demands a fair equivolent for the
favor it gives. It surrenders nothing
in the nature of protection. It docs
not offer to throw open the home
market for any articles which we can
produce in sufficient quantities to
supply the demand to cheapou their
price. It aims to exchange our sur
plus with the surplus of another na
tion, confining the deal to non-com
peting articles or products. While
protectioirpreserves our market for
home manufacturers from outside,
competition, reciprocity secures u
something in exchange for the market
we give to those articles with which
we cannot compete. Free trade would
give away our market, the best mar
ket in the world, for nothing.
Reciprocity gets something for all
that it gives and all tli.it reciprocity
does not exchange advantageously, is
reserved by protection for our own
people. To the unprejudiced level
headed American citizen there can
he no conflict bet ween reciprocity and
protection. The two hordes are not
going in different directions, and Mr.
Blaine will have no difficulty in riding
them both at the same time, provided
he sceins inclined t > assume the task.
Thob. Hayden - .
Pryor ville.
J’rvqrville is on a boom.
The plum and blackberry crop
look promising.
Pryorville can boast of having tile
best whistler ?n the county, iu the
person of Larke Frank*.
.Mrs. T. B. Bruce lias the finest
crop of chickens we ever saw, but
you must not tell the preachers.
Miss Kate Wright is one of the
best and smartest girls of this com
inanity.
Mr. Ilenry Segers has a fiine crop
of pigeon weeds, grass and maypop
vines.
Is it a conspiracy ? If not, why
should none the o’d party papers
comment on the report of the Census
Bureau regarding the mortgage in
debtedness ? What power is it that
opens and closes the columns of
these journals at will! Why is it, or
what is it, that dictates to both dein
ooratic and republican papers alike
upon all matters touching finance!
There must be some directing agent,
or this concert < f action could not
exist. Ilad this report shown a dif
ferent condition of affairs, no doubt
this same power would have filled
their columns to overflowing. Such
a force is dangerous to the liberties
of the people. —National Economist.
Never Too Busy to Pray.
Jesus appears to have devoted him
self specially to prayer at times when
his life was unusually full of work and
excitement. His was a very busy
life; there were nearly always “many
coming and going” about him. Some
times, however, there was such a
congestion of thronging objects that
he had scarcely time to cat. But
even then he had time to pray.
HOMER, BANKS COUNTY, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1891.
Indeed, t.'.ese seemed to have been
with him seasons of more prolonged
prayer than usual-. Thus we read:
“So much the more went there a
fame abroad of him, and great mul
titudes come together to hear, and to
lie healed by him of their infirmities.
And he withdrew himself - into the
wilderness, and prayed.”
Many in our day know what this
congestiou of occupation is. They
are swept off t hiir 'feet with their
engagements, and can scarcely find
time to eat We make this a reason
for not praying; Jesus made it a
reason for praying. Is there any
doubt which is the better course ?
Many of the wisest have in this
respect done as Jesus did When
Luther had a specially busy and ex
citing day, he allowed himself longer
time than usual for prayer before
hand. A wise man once said that he
was too busy to he in a hurry. He
meant that it he allowed himself to
become Hurried he could not do all
that he had to do. There is nothing
like prayer for producing this calm
self possession. AVhen the dust of
business so fills your room that it
threatens to choke you, sprinkle it
w ith the water of prayer, and then
yog. can cleanse it out with comfort
and expedition.—lmago Christi.
It is no simple matter to state in
terms at all precise what forces are
directly connected with the produc
tion of hale and happy old age.
More certainly is involved in the
process than mere strength of consti
tuti>n. Healthy surroundings, con
-tent incut, and active, temperate, and
regular habits are most valuable aids.
Hard work, so long at least as it is
not carried beyond the limit necessary
to permit of the timely repair of
worn tissues, is not only a harmless
but a conducive circumstance, It - is,
m fact, by living as far as possible a
life in accordance with natural law
that we may expect to reap the ap
propriate result in its prolonga^on.—
Nashville Christian Advocate.
Remember now and always that
life is no idle dream, but a solemn
reality based on and encompassed by
eternity. Find out your task; stand
to it. Tho night coineth when no
man can work.—Carlyle.
Breaking Down in Old Age.
Voting men of every generation
are lectured with endless repetition.
Both by preachers of sermons and by
writers of books they are often and
solemnly .assured that they are pass
ing through the mast critical period
of their existence, and are warned to
be earnestly and diligently on their
guard. All this is proper and right.
Young men are exposed to many pe
culiar dangers, and ought certainly
to be cautioned against them in ad
vance. The devil has the odds in
his favor when waging war against
inexperienced and untried souls.
But is it true, as it is often explic
itly stated, and still ofteuer intimated,
that when men have passed, say, the
third decade, and are fairly settled
down to their life work; they have
also passed all the gravest moral
perils,- and are practically beyond the
line of probationary struggle? Alas,
it is not true! There is no point in
our earthly career in which we can
safely take it for granted that our
worst foes are conquered, or lay aside
our habits of watchfulness. Charac
ter is, in fact, frequently subjected to
the most tremendous strains long
after the years of physical and intel
lectcal maturity have been reached.
The story is told of an old saint
who when he lay upon his death-bed
was asked by a friend if he felt that
he was perfectly safe, and answered;
“Not yet; but if I can hold out a few
hours longer, I think I shall be.”
This is an extreme case. Asa usual
thing, when a good man approaches
the hour of dissolution, he not only is
safe, but knows the fact and rejoices
in it. But this does not begin to
justify the folly which allows one in
middle life to say: “My character is
fixed, and I may, therefore, .tolerate
to myself a certain amount of negii
gence which would have been full of
peril to me in my eatlier years.”
Who ever heard of a special ser
mon to men of forty-five or fifty?
Why not? There is no class that
more needs to be buttressed and sup
ported by the power of Christian truth.
For the lack of spiritual re-enforce
ment at this grave juncture, many
persons who have given promise of
better things fall away and are lost.
We have known believers after that
age to become infidels, sober men to
become drunkards, truthful men to
become liars, honest men to become
thieves, pure men to becume debau
chees. Nav, we have known men
who, after walking decently and up
rightly for threescore years, have, by
some inexplicable freak of wicked
ness, thrown away all the restraints
of morality and religion and indulged
themselves in the most vicious ex-
cesses.
That the facts are as we have
stated them, no careful observer will
be bold enough to deny. Nor do
we think that the explanation of
t hese facts is far to seek. Young
men have a certain unexhausted ca
pacity for being moved by generous
and magnanimous impulses. They
have not yet learned in the bitter
school of experience that the highest
and best aspirations frequently come
to naught. They believe in the pos
sibility of goodness, and in the glory
of it. They hold thetnse ves bound
by the highest ideals; and they are
ready to admit themselves in the
wrong when they fail tc measure up
to the demands and requirements of
the noblest conceptions of duty. An
appeal to their better instincts, though
it may not wholly control their con
duct, rarely fails to have some decid
ed effect upon them. Even when
they go astray and do wrong, they
are likely to he overwhelmed with
remorse and self-reproach. But as
they advance along the road, a great
change often comes over them. They
loose faith in ideals; they surrender
the thought and hope of moral and
spiritual eminence; they accept the
commonplace and the ordinary as the
only things possible of attainment.
In tlie course of time, they acquire
the habit of looking from a purely
personal stand point, and of meas
uring every thing by its capacity to
yield them some gratification. After
tins, they sink down—sometimes
slowly, sometimes more rapidly—into
the depths of sensuality and sin.—
Christian Advocate.
Banks ville.
Wo notice that Banksville lias two
correspondents, of whom we are
proud, but we, too, wish finger in
the pie.
Farmers are about done tlnnning
cotton.
Miss Josie Bolinger has been very
low with fever, but we are glad to
note that she is better.
Mr. P. F. I.oftis made a flying trip
to the mountains last week.
Mr. P. H. Wright, the mayor o[
our town and his good lady, visited
the city of Athens last week.
We wish to inform Mr. Tom Hill
that it is hardly necessary- for-him to
build the bridge at Wright’s lower
mill, as tve are expecting Mr. Tom
Bruce to complete the job in the
near future. He has two planks al
ready there, and will get some more
after awhile.
Mr. C. A. Franks is in trouble
about his cotton. Someone has
turned the pasture in on him.
If you Homer people don’t quii
catching the minnows our town peo
ple will be obliged to suffer. The
river is somewhat exhausted now.
We were made glad the other day
by enough rain to muddy our streets
again.
There was a singing at Mrs. Smith’s
Sunday evening.
Mr. Henry Segers has purchased
anew buggy.
It is thought that Miss Elizabeth
Fagans and Mr. John Minish will
get married soon.
Air. Ben Ramply and family were
in town Sunday.
When The I>ay Is Over.
Conon Kingsley, in the following
lines, tells how to derive a blessing
from a few moments at the close of
day: “It is wise at night to read—
but for a few minutes—some books
which will compose and soo he the
mind; which will bring us face to
face with the true facts of life, death,
and eternity; which will make us re
member that man doth not live by
bread alone; which will give us before
we sleep a few thoughts worth}' of a
Christian man with an immortal soul
in him. And, thank God, no one
need go far to find such, books. Ido
not mean merely r ligious books,
excellent ns they are in these days; 1
mean any books which help to make
us better and wiser, and soberer and
more charitable persons; any books
which will teach us to despise what
is vulgar and mean, toul and cruel,
and to love what is noble and high
minded, pure and just. In our own
English language-we may read by
hundreds books which will tell of all
virtue and of all praise; the stories
of good men and women; ot gallant
and heroic actions, of deeds wiiieh
we ourselves should be proud of
doing; of persons whom we feel to
be better, wiser, nobler, than we our
selves.—Anonymous.
Be not much discounted in the
t-ight of what is yet to be done as
comforted in His good wilf toward
thee. ’Tis true He hath chastened
thee with rods and sore afflictions;
but did Ho ever take away His lov
ing-kindness from tliee ? or did His
faithfulness ever fail in the sorest,
blackest, thickest, darkest night that
ever befell thee?—l. Pennington.
O God, thou that providest meat
for the fowls of the air wilt make the
fowls of the air provide meat for man
rather than his dependence on thee
shall be disappointed. O let not
our faith he wanting to thee; thy care
can never be wanting to us.—Bishop
Hall.
How much easier it often is to
fight than to be patient! Buf this in
itself indicates the duty of forbear
ance. If the flesh said fight, then
we would better fight—-the flesh.—
United Presbyterian.
lie who has learned' on solid
grounds to put some value on himself
seems to have renounced the right of
undervaluing others. And what are
the best of us that we should lift our
selves proudly above our brethren ?
Goethe, •
To be always intending to lead a
new life, but never to find time to set
about it, is as if a man should put off
eating and drinking, from one day
to another, till he is starved and
destroyed.—Tillotson.
The God who is better to you than
all your fears —yea, better than your
hopes—perhaps intends the affliction
to remain with you until it lifts the
latch of heaven for you and lets you
into your eternal rjst.—Rev. Charles
Spurgeon.
You may assuredly find perfect
peace if you do that which your
Lord' has plainly required, and be
content thafhehas required no 'more
of yon than to do justice, to love
mercy, and to walk humbly with him.
—Ruskin.
Ait Anecdote of Genius.
Au anecdote of Leigh Hunt, once re
lated by “Orion” Iforoe, lately ap
peared in print for the first time.
Horne on a bitterly cold day in winter
went, to see Hunt, and found him in a
large room with a wide, old fashioned
fireplace. He had dragged liis piano
on to the hearth, close to a large fire,
leaving only room for himself and his
chair, and was playing with the great
est enjoyment. “My dear fellow,”
cried Horne, “ore you aware that you
are ruining your piano forever and
ever in that beat?” “1 know—l know,”
murmured Hunt, “but it is delicious.
Feline Preserve*.
“Mamma,” asked Benny Bloobump
er, “why do you preserve cats?”
“What on earth do you mean?”
“I heard you tell Mrs. Garlic’-, about
i putting catsup in bottles.” —West Shore.
SINGLE COPY TYREE CENTS,
DISCOVERY Or COLD.
The Disputed Date 1 * Kovr Esfrvlilislircl
by Docninrntnry KviUence.
The various societies of CVdifornia
pioneers are accustomed to celebrate
the 19th of January as tho date of the
discovery of gold by J. W. Marshall at
Colonm, but that it is an error is shown
Mr. John S. ITittell iu The Century aa
follows (a fac siufllo of the* entry in
Bigler’s diary b< in * printed in the mag
azine as ocular ev:;!-".! kj):
Tho first record of Jlie and! eovory, and
the only one made cn the day of its oc
currence, was in the diary of Ilenry W.
Bigler, one of the Mormon laborers nt,
the mill. He was an American by
birth, then a young man, and mow a
respected citizen of fit. George, Utah,
lie was in tho habit of J -ping'a regu
lar record of Ids notable observations
and experiences, selecting to;. Icm for re
mark with creditable judgment. Ilia
journal, kept during his service in the
Mormon battalion and hi.; subsequent
stay in California, is one of the valuable
historical documents ol tlie state. On
the 2it'i of January*, i:i the evening,
Bigler wrote in his diary, “This day
some kind of mettle was found in the
tale race that looks like goald.”
Nothing was said in public; about tho
date of the discovery until 185(>, eight
yea re after tlie event, when Marshall
published a letter in which lie said that
ho found gold at Oolotna “about the
liltji" of January, ISIS. Neither then,
nor at any subsequent time, did lie
claim that his recollection of the day
was aided by a written memorandum.
In 1857 he pnldi.-hod a statement 'that
tho discovery wen made on- tho 18th,
19th or 20th. Ilia biography, prepared
under his direction, ami printed in
1870, fixed the 19ili ns the precise day.
As years elapsed lie became more exact
perhaps under the influence of ptiblie
opinion, which from i .9 to tSBu ao
cepted the liltli e--. the day.
On the 9th of S( ph mi r, I'>s, at. tho
annual celebration of' the duiissicm. of
the state into the I delivered an
address on tho g; I 1 discovery to tho
Pioneer society of S.m Francisco, and
sent a copy of it in print to Mr. Bigler,
of whom I hud heard an one of the sur
vivors of the Ooloum party, arid re
quested him to correct : v errors, if lie
found any. Ho.replied that according
to his diary the jmU wan found on the
21th. At my solicitation he copied thjs
entries of his book from that day to Rio
middle of May; and then I began ou
investigation which made me familiar
with the diaries of Azarin, h Smith, a
survivor of the Mormon battalion and
one of the mill builders at Uoloma, and
with the diary of Sui tor.
These three diaries agreed substan
tially with one an 'her, and with Mar
sliall’s statement, that four days after
the discovery hwtook spceimeiin of the
gold to Butter’s Cert. R oilh made his
entries on Bund ay as a rule, and on tho
flOth of January he w- do I bat on the
preceding week gold .. id been found ut
the mill, and flint Marshall bad gone
to New Helvetia to haw it tested. This
was probably written in the morning,
for Bigler’s entry made on the same
day mentions that the t- t: was success
ful, implying that ’ uvh it had re
turned.
Sutter’s diary ru.:'- t! t on the
28th of January Mr c '. hi ar, iv and at the
fort “on important burirv •." without
mentioning the gold. The agreement
of the three dhrios v.vh Marshall’s
statementst.’iat he went to New Hel
vetia four days after the discovery, the
superior value of documentary evt
donee as compare 1 wish vague recol
lections, dimmed by years of interven
ing events, and the uncertainty of
, Marshal! in reference to flic date, left
no room for dortbt that the .2!til was
the true day, whit h 1 gave to the pub
lic for the first time in .iai uary, lbbO.
15ib1o Pu'/zltrs I'. vji’iincfl.
A “day’s journey” undid ! ", "miles.
A “Sabbath day’s journey" was about
1 English statute mile.
A “cubit”,is 22 inches, almost.
A “hand's breadth” was 3 5-8 inches.
A “finger’s breadth” was about l
inch.
Ezekiel’s rood was 11 feet long.
A “sheekei of sliver” was about 5!)
cents of our money.
A “sheekei of gold” was $3. DO.
A “talent of silver” was §51d.32.
A “talent of gold” was sl3. both
A “piece of silver” was about 13
cents.
A “penny” was the same as the
“piece.”
A “farthing” wa -3 cents.
A “mile” was about 1 1-2 cents.
A “gergam” was equal to about l
cent.
A “homer” was a measure that would
bold 75 gallons and 5 pints.
An “omar” was 0 pints,
A “iiin” was 1 gal ion and 2 pints.—
St. Louis Republic.
Landlady -Let's see, Mr. ImpecunO
owes me for three weeks’ board. You
needn't mind dusting Mr. lmpecune's
/p-foui this morning, Jane I
Jane—No mum, the gintlemuu’s done
it hissblf!
Landlady Bono what?
r— - i\ A. !u> Oi-rutftl!.