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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 Does it not go into the pockets of the nue laws should be repealed.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.” THOMPSON BROS. NEWNAN, GA. FINE AND CHEAP FURNITURE - AT PRICES- THAT CANNOT BE BEAT IN THE STATE. Big stock of Chamber suits in Walnut, Antique Oak, and Cherry, and Imitation suites. French Dresser Suites (ten pieces), from $22.60 to $125.00. Plush Parlor Suits, $35.00 and upward. Bed Lounges, $9.00 and upward. Silk Plush Parlor Suits, $50.00. Good Cane-seat Chairs at $4.50 per set. Extension Tables, 75 cents per foot. Hat Racks from 25 cents to $25.00. Brass trimmed Curtain Poles at. 50 cents. Dado Window Shades, on spring fixtures, very low. * Picture Frames on hand and made to order. SPLENDID PARLOR ORGANS Low, for cash or on the installment plan. Metallic and Wooden Coffins ready at all times, night or day. THOMPSON BROS., NEWNAN, GA. FURNITURE! “I don’t know what to do with the hired girl,” said a young wife. “She’s absolutely useless, and yet I hate to discharge her.” “Why don’t you teach her to light the fire with kerosene?” inquired her husband. SHE WENT ASTRAY. at I buy and sell more FURNITURE than all the Sealers in Atlanta combined. I operate fifteen large establishments. I buy the entire output of factories; therefore I can sell you cheaper than small dealers. Read some of my prices: A Nice Plush Parlor Suit, $35.00. A Strong Hotel Suit, $15.00. A Good Bed Lounge, $10.00. A Good Single Lounge, $5.00. A Good Cotton-Top Mattress, $2.00. A Good Strong Bedstead, $1.50. A Nice Rattan Rocker, $2.50. A Nice Leather Rocker, $5.00. A Strong Walnut Hat Rack, $7.00. A Nice Wardrobe, $10.00. A Fine Glass Door. Wardrobe, $30.00. A Fine Book Case, $20.00. A Good Office Desk, $10.00. A Fine Silk Plush Parlor Suit, $50.00. A Fine Walnut 10-Piece Suit, $50.00. A Nice French Dresser Suit, $25.00. I respectfully invite everybody to examine my stock and gei my prices before buying your Furniture. I have the finest aj well as the cheapest Furniture in Atlanta. Write for prices. A. G. RHODES, 85 Whitehall St., Atlanta, Ga. HUNNICUTT & BELLINGRATH, 36 AND 38 PEACHTREE STREET, ATLANTA, GA. -DEALERS IN- planter who has to pay a tax on both the cloth amities which hold his cotton in marketable shape. Like Mr. Blaine, lie appears to think that a quid of to bacco is a great.t shoes, blanket5 ments. Advertiser. 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 mass meeting at Madison, Ga., the comforts. There are few diseases for Seeking Afar W Hat May Be Found One’s Own Fireside. The invalid proprietress of a wealthy estate in Scotland once visited the con tinent of Europe to get rid of her mala 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 do, from derangement of those prima ry organs, the kidneys and liver, with the proper remedy to use, recovery is much more rapid at one’s own fireside. Major S. B. Abbott, of Springfield, Mo., was attacked with serious trou bles and after a long course of medical treatment tried to find relief at Hardin Sulphur Springs in California, and visit ed a number of other noted health re sorts, but all to no purpose. At last he went home—he was induced to try War- ner’s safe cure for his kidney troubles and soon became a well man. Dr. Gustav Weber, a leading physi cian of Dessau, Germany, writes War ner’s safe cure Co.’s branch at Frank- years I have suffered fr< .mTlZ;.;PRODUCE AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS, t ion of the kidneys, and each year was _ obliged to visit Carlsbad for tempora-' .NO. 15 SOUTH BROAD ST., ATLANTA, GA. ry relief. I have finished my fifteenth i bottle of Warner’s safe cure and have j Hay, Oats, Corn, Meal, Bran, Stock Feed, completely recovered.” Stoves, Heating Stoves, Hall Stoves, Parlor Stoves, Office Stoves, Cooking Stoves for everybody, Ranges, Furnaces, Marbelized Iron and Slate Mantels, Mahogony, Walnut-, Cherry, Oak and Ash Mantels, Tile Hearth. Tile Facings and Vestibule Tile, Plain Grates, Enameled, Nickel and Brass Trim med Grates. 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