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SEhe Herald and ^drertisev.
Newnan, Ga., Friday, Jan. 13, 1888.
Mr. Bacon’s Tariff Views.
Savannah News.
Maj. O. A. Bacon, of Macon, who was
a candidate for the Democratic nomi
nation for Governor against Gen. Gor
don, has written a six-column paper,
giving his reasons why the internal rev-
The
Ami suppose Georgians do pay inter
nal taxes into the Federal Treasury,
what becomes of the money ? Is it not
used for meeting the legitimate expen
ses of the government? Doesn’t it
support G’ongresmen, build the navy,
improve rivers and harbors, etc.? And
what becomes of much of the money
which Georgians pay in the shape of
tariff taxes, for the reduction of which
Maj. Bacon’s paper was not written?
Does it not go into the pockets of the
nue laws should be repealed. J he , monopolists, which the high protective
tariff supports? Is it not better to be
taxed for the benefit of good govem-
paperwas written at the request of Mr.
Evan P. Howell and quite a number
■ .f other gentlemen. It will be publish
ed in some of the State papers to-day.
The want of space alone prevented the
Morning News from publishing it. As
it is an argument it would hardly be
just, to Maj. Bacon to publish short
extracts from it, because in that way
much of the force of what he says
would be lost.
It is not exactly clear what the pur
pose of requesting such a paper from
Maj. Bacon at this time is, or what
Maj. Bacon’s purpose is in writing it.
In view of the fact that Congress is
now in session, and that it is full of am
bitious men who think they know all
about the tariff and internal revenue
issue, and who are expected to make
the country tired with their talk on
that issue, it seems rather strange that
Maj. Bacon should be requested to
give bis views with regard to it, and
G ranger still that he should respond in
a paper that cannot be read inside of
an hour and a half. Is there a move
ment to put Maj. Bacon in another
race for the gubernatorial nomination,
or are the protectionists afraid of the
tariff reform speech which Speaker
Carlisle has promised to deliver this
month at. Atlanta, and hope to break
the force of it by scattering over the
State a paper in favor of repealing the
internal revenue taxes? The purpose,
whatever it Is, will doubtless be kept in
the background.
Maj. Bacon’s paper is an interesting
one, and he says about all there is to
be said on the side on which he argues.
If he is sincere, however, he will have
t o admit that the strongest part of it is
t hat in which is described the alleged
hardships of those who are known as
“moonshiners.”
Maj. Bacon says that he is not in fa
vor of a protective tariff, and yet he
wants all the internal revenue' taxes
abolished. He enjoys the distinction of
occupying a position that is different
from that occupied by either the pro
tectionists or the tariff reformers. Mr.
Randall, Mr. Sherman and about all
the other protectionists want the in
ternal revenue taxes repealed, because
they know that if they are repealed it
will be impossible to reduce the tariff.
The President, Mr. Carlisle and the tar
iff reformers oppose the repeal of the in
ternal revenue taxes because they
want the tariff taxes reduced, and they
haven’t a doubt that if the internal
revenue taxes are repealed there will
be no reduction of the tariff taxes.
Maj. Bacon, however, thinks that the
internal revenue taxes can be repealed
and tariff taxes reduced at the same
time. He supports his position by an
inference which he draws from a para
graph in the National Democratic plat
form. As neither the tariff reformers
nor the protectionists appear to see how
the inference upon which he relies
solves the tariff problem it is incumbent
upon him to explain, if he can, how it
does. It is certainly unfair to leave
the public in the dark upon the most
important, if not the only important,
part of the subject which he discusses.
Maj. Bacon objects to the internal
revenue laws because they ‘‘favor the
strong and oppress the weak,” and be
cause they are “enforced by criminal
proceedings against those charged with
violations” of them. It would be in
teresting to know in what way the in
ternal revenue laws more than other
laws favor the strong and oppress the
weak. The tariff laws certainly favor
the strong and oppress the weak as
much as the internal revenue laws do.
It is true that there are rich whisky dis
tillers, but are there not iron manufac
turers whose wealth rivals that of the?
Rothschilds, and does not their wealth
give them advantages ? The monopo
lies sustained by the tariff, which grind
the people, far outnumber those which
are sustained by the internal revenue
laws. And are not the tariff laws en
forced by criminal proceedings? Is'
not smuggling punished, and is there
not an army of spies, male and female,
who go through the baggage of returning
travelers in the most aggravating way?
One would think from reading Maj.
Bacon’s paper that only illicit distillers
;ire punished, and smugglers are not
molested.
But Maj. Bacon seems to be particu
larly disturbed because money is taken
out of tlie pockets of Georgians by-
means of the internal revenue law and
paid into the Federal Treasury'. In
deed, he makes a great point of this,
and shows how many millions of dol
lars Georgia has contributed to the na
tional revenues by means of internal
taxes. But, remarkable as it may
seem, he has not a word to say of the
ten times as many millions which Geor
gians have had taken out of their pock
ets bv means of the tariff laws. He
ment than for the benefit of monopo
lists ?
Maj. Bacon’s paper will be read with
interest, because whatever he has to
say he says well, but it is not improba
ble that the majority of its readers will
find it impossible to get rid of the im
pression that it is written for a pur
pose instead of being a statesmanlike
view of a great public question.
[Communicated 1
Our Present Protective Policy.
The protectionists wish to produce
everything in this country for which
the God of nature has given us the raw
material, or which is suited to our soil
and climate, so as to fully supply all
American wants and give employment
to American labor and capital, and
thereby secure just compensation for
labor. In order to show what progress
has been made in that direction under
the present protective policy, I will
call attention to the printed report
of Col. W. F. Switzler, chief of the
bureau of statistics on wool and the
manufacture of wool, issued October
26th, 1S37, and which is considered by
the bureau to be one of the most valu
able documents it has ever put forth.
It shows that the number of sheep in
the United States rose from 10,000,000
in 1840, (under the tariff compromise)
to 51,000,000 in 1884, (under protection).
The value of our woolen product in
1850, (under the Robert J. Walker
tariff) was $25,000,000 in round numbers,
and of our imports $19,000,000—both to
gether being about $1.95, per cairita, of
our population. In 1860, under the
same low tariff law', (R. J. Walker’s)
$39,000,000 i a value were produced and
$43,000,000 imported, together being
about $2.61, per capita. In 1870, (under
the present protective policy,) the pro
duct reached $110,000,000, and the im
portations $35,000,000, being $3.78, per
capita. In 1880, (under the same pro
tection) the product had grown to $164,-
000,000, and imports were valued at
$31,000,000, being $2.91, per capita, of
our population. Thus, w'hile our pro
ducts have increased since 1850 nearly
seven-fold, our imports have increased
only about 60 per cent., but the con
sumption per capita has doubled, w'hich,
the statistician says, indicates in a
striking manner the advancement in
the wealth and comfort in the style of
living among the people of this coun
try. Now, Mr. Editor, this report jus
tifies all that we protectionists have
ever claimed would result from our
great American sy'stem—that is, pro
duce more and import less, thereby
making us independent (commercially,
of foreign nations,) in everything that
it is possible for us to produce or man
ufacture, and supplying oureelves more
cheaply and plentifully than we could
under a low tariff and commercial de
pendence on foreign countries. And
this report show's conclusively that
our people are enabled to consume
double (under the protective policy)
what they did under the low tariff of
1846. And, Mr. Editor, it is almost im
possible to trace the beneficial resulis
of this protective policy. It places
the balance of trade in our favor,
thereby making specie more plentiful,
which serves as a basis for a sound na
tional currency ; and also furnishes
the means to build up a great net-work
of railways, which will serve as dis
tributors, both for our agricultural
products and manufactured goods, to
points and sections where they are
needed for consumption. Underalow
tariff, most all of our railroads were
built with European capital; now there
is enough American capital accumula
ted and accumulating to build all the
railroads and factories that may be
needed to develop this, the greatest
oountry on earth—and all the result of
protection. Mr. Editor, when I get on
this theme T hardly know where to
stop, but I am admonished that my
space in The Herald and Adver
tiser is about filled out and I will
desist. Benj. Leigh.
What It Cost.
“J.” In AnpxU Newt.
The prohibition and the anti-prohi
bition campaign in Atlanta cost con
siderable money. Tour correspondent
has obtained from reliable sources
something about the figures for the
prohibition campaign in Atlanta. The
anti-prohibitionist band expended
about $24,000; the prohibitionists about
$9,000. The largest contributor to the
prohibition side w'as Mr. J. W. Harle,
who gave five thousand dollars. The
largest to the anti side was Gov. Brown,
who gave $2,500. The leading subscri
bers to prohibition were M. C. Kiser,
$1,350; S. H. Inman, $1,400; Adair &
Bro., $1,000; P. & G. T. Dodd, $1,300;
Henry W. Grady, $940; W. A. Hemp
hill, $450; Hugh T. Inman, $400; W. T.
Inman, $500.
Among the leading contributors .to
the anti-piohibitionist side were E. P.
Howell, $750; Hoke Smith, $250; R. D.
Spalding, $600; Atlanta Brewery, $700;
John Silvey, $500; Kimball House Co.,
! $700. The antis received a considera
ble amount of money from outside of
Atlanta, wiiile the prohibition fund
was raised entirely in the city.
The cost of running a campaign in
Atlanta is very heavy. One of the first
things done is to employ from a hun
dred to two hundred “workers,” who
are in service for three or four weeks.
They visit the shops, stores and facto
ries, distribute circulars, enroll mem
bers into clubs, argue the cause, hold
meetings and do the whipping of the
campaign. These “workers” command
from two to four dollars a day. A hun
dred and fifty at these figures would
amount to about three thousand dol
lars a week. The printing bills would
amount to five thousand dollars. On
the day of the election hundreds of
carriages are hired at from eight to ten
dollars each, and a “worker” is hired
for each carriage. Then the rent of
halls is a considerable item. In the
last campaign each side had its central
headquarters and ward headquarters
in each ward. The prohibitionists paid
$425 for the warehouse and as much
more for ward headquarters. Music
is a considerable item. On the night
of the big procession of the prohibition
ists six bands were in line at an aver
age cost of $25. Another item is car
riages and workers for the country pre
cincts, to get the voters;to the polls and
distribute tickets. All this explains
partially hoiv more than $40,000 was
spent in the prohibition campaign.
For obvious reasons the explanation
cannot be made any fuller.
Whigs were jubilant over their great
crowd, and boasted of their tall flag-
bearer as a head higher than any man
in Georgia. Though but a boy, the
writer of these lines was a hot Polk ad
vocate, and saw the immense crowd at
Madison w ith fear and trembling.
Soon after this the Polk Democrats
called a mass meeting at Macon. It
was immense, ahead of the Madison
meeting and showed how Georgia was
going. At this meeting there was
present as a delegate from Meriwether
county John Gaston. He was several
inches over seven feet high, and an
inch or two tall r than big Bill Skin
ner, of Richmond. He was the pride
of the Polk boys, and was chosen stand-
ard-bearei. He bore a huge poke stalk
in the grand street procession.
Some years afterward he was elected
a member of the Legislature from
Meriwether, and when he came to Mil-
ledgeville he put up with Mrs. Isaac
Sewell as a boarder. Mrs. Sewell had
no bedstead long enough to accommo
date her long guest and had to have
one made for the special purpose.
Perhaps there would be more cotton'
mills in Alabama if the tariff upon the
machinery was not so heavy. In order
to get $500,000 worth of machinery
$250,000 more must be paid in the shape
of tariff duties. This is one reason why
England can transport cotton thou
sands of miles in the raw state, make it
into cloth and control the cotton cloth
trade of the world. American cotton
mills must be stocked with American
machinery, no matter how' inferior it
may be, because of the prohibitive tariff.
It would be a good thing for the cotton
States if such machinery could be im
ported free of duty. The most of the
cotton of the United States would be
manufactured near the cotton fields,
iias sympathy tor the distiller of wliis- j ant \ could be sold at such a rate as to
ky who Is required to pa\ a tax on his , ruil ou t all competition, here or any-
product, but he has none tor the cotton ^ w [ iere e ] #e j n t he world.—Montgomery
An Unsatisfactory Physician.
Dakota Bell.
Several years ago a young doctor
named Maybee came out from the East
and settled in a small Dakota town to
practice his profession. He had a di
ploma from one of the best medical
schools printed on sheepskin, which he
carried around with him in a heavy
block tin tube. He got but little to do.
Most of the practice was monopolized
by a man named Daggett, who had
been located at the place some time.
Daggett did not follow any regularly
recognized school of medicine, but
pinned his faith to a poultice made on
the “hide side of the skin of a black
cat killed in the dark of the moon.”
Maybee was at last himself taken sick.
He got quite low and finally called in
Dr. Daggett. One day after he had
recovered he was waited on by a com
mittee of the citizens, headed by the
Mayor, who broke the ice by remark
ing:
“Doc, we’uns have called on a little
p’int which we reckon will be middlin’
interestin’ to you.”
“All right—go ahead,” replied the
young physician.
“We noticed that when you got pret
ty sick you called in Doc Daggett to fix
you up.”
“Why, yes. he came to see me once
or twice.”
“Y-a-a-s, we seen he did ! Little bit
skeered of your own medicines, we
Tow?”
“No, sir, but I was too *ick to do
anything for myself. That’s all pro
fessional.”
“It may be profess’nal, but it wont
wash in the diggin’s, young man ! Here
you been tellin’ all the time that old
Doc Daggett wasn’t no good, an’
poking fun at hisblackskin pol’tices, an’
sayin’ that mebby he would do fer
cows and mules, but that he wasn’t
quite up to hosses an’ persons yet, an’
when yer sick yerself the first thing
yer do is to send for him ! Here you
been pourin’ yer liniment an’ condition
powders an’ one truck an’ ’nother down
us fer six months, but when you’re
sick yerself you’re mighty glad to go
back to the good old ’riginal catskin.
Millions o’ bottles of your stuff fer the
rest of us, but not a drop fer yerself.
That’s the kind of a doc you be ! We're
on to your plan, and as cheerman of a
committee of our leadin’ cit’zens I
want to warn you to move on ! Git-
right out o’ town ! A man what das’sn’t
take his own med’eines can’t dose the
rest on us, not in this place!”
Whiskey Arithmetic.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
“How many drinks of whiskey do you
average a day ?” said one gentleman to
another as they were enjoying a social
glass at .a well known resort on Vine
street yesterday afternoon.
“Oh, taking the year round, I pre
sume my average would be about ten
a day.”
“And how long has this been going
on ?” was asked.
“Straight along for twenty years, I
guess; but it never hurt me any, and I
can tend to my patients (he is a pro
fessional man) just as well as I ever
could.”
“But how much whiskey, taking
your own statement for it, do you sup
pose you have drank during that
time?”
“I’m sure I don’t know; I never
thought about that.”
“Well, let us take another nip and
then figure on it,” and they did, and
here is the result of their work:
“Ten drinks a day would be seventy
drinks a week, or over 3,640 drinks in a
year. In 20 years that would give the
enormous number of 72,S00 drinks.
Now, the average drink taken in this
country is said to be 60 to a gallon.
Then divide this 72,800 by 60, and you
will find that you'have consumed 1,213
and a fraction gallons. Now. there are
supposed to be, on an average, 36 gal
lons to a barrel. Divide 1,213 by 36 and
you find that you have drank just
about thirty-six barrels of the stuff.”
The old toper looked at the figures
and then at his friend, and then re
marked: “Well, let’s take one more
and then I think I’ll give my stomach
a rest for a day or two.”
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He Was a Whopper.
Milledgeville [Ga.) Union and Recorder.
The death of \N illiam Skinner, of The main thing is to find the right
Richmond county, said to be the tallest remedy, then recovery from all the
man in the State, recalls an interesting j many ailments that are the result of
incident in the Clay and Polk cam- kidney derangement is almost easily
paign of 1844. Tht* Whigs held a great! secured at home surrounded by home
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The invalid proprietress of a wealthy
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disc.
She went to Baden-Baden and tried
those celebrated waters, then to Carls
bad and tried its mineral springs. She
got worse instead of better, and in de
spair she said to a physician:
“What shall I do ?”
His reply was: “Medicine can do
nothing for you. You have one chance,
in the waters of Pit Kealtlily, Scot
land 1”
“Is it possible ?” she replied, “why,
those waters are on my own estate l”
Invalids go tramping over the world,
unsuccessfully seeking the relief that
often lies right at their own doors.
Change of climate and travel is no
doubt beneficial in some classes of dis
ease, but it is impossible to secure,
while traveling, the proper care and
nursing, the cheerful comforts of home,
which are often necessay adjuncts to
medicine in promoting recovery.
In many ailments arising, as so many
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ry organs, the kidneys and liver, with
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Major S. B. Abbott, of Springfield,
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