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Rewnan, Ga., Friday, August 17, 1888.
FARMER PUTNAM
Shows the Inconsistencies of a Tariff
that Protects One Class by
Robbing Another.
The following extracts are taken from
Belford’s Magazine, showing the views
■>f an Ohio farmer, Sol Putnam, on the
tariff. After discoursing at some
length on this subject, Putnam says:
The most significant part of it is that
while the agricultural interest goes
down, the country is prosperous, and
all other interests go up in value. Here
is my county, for instance,.fairly shin
gled over with mortgages. In all the
heavy investments of the entire county
there is not a hundred dollars profit.
Mr. Carnegie clears a million on a less
investment every year. lie and others
like him, not farmers, have the coun
try’s prosperity in their breeches’
pocket. When one talks of the great
American boom he means Carnegie,
Vanderbilt, Jay Gould and boomers of
that sort. They hold their prosperity.
This condition of things put me to
looking around to see if I can find the
cause of the condition. I'made a dis
covery one day. I found that this pro
tective tariff that the Hon. Heather-
lungs was a whooping up was the vam
pire that was- sucking the life-blood
out of us. Under pretense of levying
a.tax to support the government, these
cunning devils had levied a tax to sup
port themselves. I was curious to
know how much of this levy for private
uockets I was paying. To this end 1
got the tariff and went to studying it.
It is no easy matter, but it can be
done by any farmer.
Now, to begin with, my house, a
frame one, may be valued at eight hun
dred dollars. This, if I were building,
would be the price; but when I deduc
ted the protective tariff on lumber,
glass, shingles, hardware, and paint, I
found the cost of my house to be only
live hundred dollars. Here is a dead
loss to me of three hundred dollars.
I had paid three hundred dollars to
t.he Carnegie set to keep up their pal
aces and tally-hos at home and in Scot
land. _
My stable, also a frame one, cost me
four hundred dollars. Calculating as
before, I found the same proportion
held good, aud I am skinned to keep
up the protectionists to the tune of one
hundred and fifty dollars—another loss
te me of that amount.
I have a pair of old work-horses. The
harness on these cost me forty dollars;
the unnecessary cost is fourteen dol
lars—surely a loss.
My three plows cost me thirty dol
lars. The tax on these is, in steel,
iron and lumber, the neat little sum of,
as near as I can calculate, twelve
dollars.
Four years ago I bought a binder, for
which I paid, in installments, $235.
An agent, who had quarrelled with his
manufacturing company, told me that
the binder cost fifty dollars. Twenty-
five dollars went to advertising, and
when the agent sold one he was allow
ed twenty-five dollars. Of the remain
ing hundred and twenty-five, seventy-
five went in as profit to the company
and fifty to the protectionists.
This is only a beginning. There is
nothing that a farmer purchases that
he does not pay toll to these protec
tionists. I take my two horses to the
blacksmith shop to be shod, for exam
ple. The blacksmith charges me for
all around shoeing, one dollar and
twenty cents. Of this, forty cents is
retained for protection. To have a new
roof on a shed leaves two dollars in the
hands of Mr.- Carnegie and such, to
keep up palaces in Scotland and at
home. Mr. Blaine says protection is a
Republican sentiment and must be re
tained. He was rolling along over
English pikes, behind four blooded
horses, and setting by Mr. Carnegie.
Probably if I were fixed that way, I
would see beauties in the system. But,
you see, I am on the side that sees on
ly the swindle.
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We are told of a home market. We
have heard of that home market for
twenty-five years, but have never seen
it. Small wonder! for of all the peo
ple taken, they tell us, from agricul
tural pursuits, there js not one who
eats more or less than he did before.
And as for lessening the number of
producers, the emigration from Europe
puts in three men for every man taken
out. It is an odd sort of protection
that protects labor against the pauper
in Europe, but not from the thousands
upon thousands pouring in upon our
shores every year.
The home market don't work. It
costs me, as it does any other fann
er in this locality, one dollar to
plant, grow, cut, thresh, and get in
to the granary one bushel of wheat.
The home market, as the tiling is call
ed, gave me last harvest sixty cents
a bushel. This coming harvest-1 ex
pect fifty cents—for this is the rate
of decline: and all my other products
suffer the same loss. This sort of thing
never occurred with the foreign mar
ket. This, however, is ail fudge.
There is no more home market to-day
than there was fifty years ago; and
there can’t be. *
Let our agriculturalists once compre
hend the true working of this protec
tive sytem and its reign will be short.
Let us look at it. I have a few hogs, it
bunch of sheep, some corn and more
wheat. ' How I liaye plowed, planted,
fattened and cared for these tells a
story of hard labor and exposure scarce
ly known to any other pursuit. Now,
why have I thus toiled through the
year? Certainly from no philanthropic
or patriotic motive. I have done so
simply to secure a market; no more, no
less. Does this paternal government
sympathize with me? Not much!
Congress is in session the larger part of
the year. Does Congress do anything
for the farmer ? Again, not much !
Sometimes a member makes a speech
in which he bespatters us with flattery.
And every year the President sends in
a message in which he speaks of farm
ing being the great underlying piosper-
ity of the land. Do any of them con
cern themselves about our markets?
I say not much ! *
Not let us see how r the infernal sys
tem works as to the farmer ? His mar
ket is a foreign one. . All the surplus
that is over the home demand goes to
Europe, where our Congress has no
jurisdiction, and where the price is
fixed, not only for what is sold there
but for what is sold at home. This is
free trade. He is free to sell, without
tax or charge, whenever he finds a de
mand; And in this market he comes
in contact with the lowest form of pau
per labor known to the world. How
is it when he comes to buy? It is
protection. Every article of clothing,
every material that goes to'give him a
shelter, all that is necessary to carry
on his work, is increased as to the
price to twice or thrice its value. He
then buys under protection and sells
under free trade.
Small wonder the poor mau stands
aghast in the midst of his overtilled
fields, and sees the very ground slip
ping from beneath him afe, year by
year, this fearful abuse goes on.
The Workingmen Speak.
The Indianapolis Journal and News,
the leading Harrison organs of Indiana,
called a meeting of workingmen to
wait upon ex-Gov. Porter and induce
him to accept the Republican nomina
tion for Governor of Indiana. The
workingmen responded with a rousing
meeting, and after a harmonious ses
sion unanimously passed the following
resolutions, which truthfully express
the very warm attachment the work
ingmen of Indianapolis have for their
fellow-townsman, the Republican can
didate for President—
“Under a call from the political
friends of Benjamin Harrison, pub
lished in the daily papers of Indianapo
lis, for the purpose of considering the
propriety of urging the Hon. A. G. Por
ter to become the candidate for Gover
nor of the Republican party of Indiana
and to give an honest expression of
their feelings upon that subject.
“Now, therefore, we, a popular gath
ering of workingmen, representing the
several industries of the city of Indian
apolis, irrespective of party, here as
sembled, do declare—
“1. We are unalterably opposed to
the election of Benjamin Harrison to
the Presidency of the United States be
cause his life and official record fully
demonstrates that he is blindly wedded
to the corporate powers of the country
and has no proper regard for the inter
ests of labor.
“2. That we are not to be longer de
ceived by a system of extortionate ‘war
taxation,’ although denominated ‘pro
tection,’ which demands tribute from
the millions of wageworkers for the
benefit of wealthy trusts and combines.
“3. That we demand cheaper neces
saries of life, a wider market for our
products, and that the American home
shall not be transformed into a grog
shop and people debauched by cheap
whiskey.
“That to become a candidate .on the
Republican State ticket is to adopt Ben
jamin Harrison’s record and the plat
form on which he stands, while we now
pledge our votes and infiuence in oppo
sition both to said candidate and plat
form, and likewise any person who shall
espouse them. Therefore, be it
“Resolved, That we sincerely advise
the Hon. Albert G. Porter, who has
heretofore evinced a spirit of friend
ship toward the workingmen of Indi
ana, that he shall not at this late day
in his life place himself in an attitude
of hostility to their interests, or lend
himself to his personal enemies, who
j would thus use him in an hour of dire
extremity for their own selfish purpo-
i ses and bring upon his own head final
| humiliation and defeat.”
The resolutions as adopted -were pre-
J seated to ex-Gov. Porter by the follow-
I ing committee, composed entirely of
' gentlemen who, until the present cam-
paign, have always affiliated with the
, Republican party. 'As a result, Gov.
1 Porter declined to be a candidate, and
i Congressman Ilovey, an almost un
known man, was nominated by the Re
publican State Convention last week.
death by being cut in two by a railroad
engine, whereby fee could ncte breathe,
hence he choked to death."
A coroner’s Jury in the backwoods of
Missouri heard all the evidence in the
case of a man killed by a runaway
team, and they brought in the follow
ing verdict:
• “The jury finds the dead deceased to
have come to his death at the hands of
a runaway team, the horses thereof
being blameless, they being frightened
by a dog.”
It is told of an old German that he
sat stolidly and stupidly on a coroner’s
jury and listened to all the evidence,
after which he walked over towards the
corpse with some degree of curiosity.
Lifting the cloth he started back, turn
ed to his fellow jurymen in amazement
and affright, and cried out:
“Mine Gott, shentlemen, dot man
ish dead!”
A jury in a Missouri rural communi
ty deliberated three days over the
corpse of a woman burned by the ex
plosion of a kerosene lamp. The fol
lowing verdict was then announced in
writing:
“Resolved, that the diszeased was
burnt t.o death. The joory.”
A man supposed to be a tramp was
found dead in the woods out West. A.
jury inquired into the cause of his
deatlrand reported as follows:
“The jury does not find that the
dead man has been foully dealt with,
and is of the opinion that he died sim
ply because his time had come, and
there was no getting out of it.”
A Pig Caused the War of 1812.
A pig caused the war of 1S12. The
narrative is an interesting one:
Two next-door neighbors of Provi
dence, R. I., had trouble over a fine
specimen of a pig. The garden of one
of them was daily uprooted by the ani
mal, and bad blood resulted between
the gentlemen. One fine morning the
owner of the garden awoke to find a
pet bed of tulips ruined. Enraged to
desperation, he impaled the offensive
hog on a pitchfork and hurled the car-
cassJnto its owner’s yard. Thereafter
it was war to the knife between the two
citizens.
The principal political parties of the
time were the Federalists and the
Democrats, and they were very evenly
divided in the Providence district. The
Federalists were friendly to Great
Britain, and contested every proposi
tion for the declaration of war, while
the Democrats were eager to vindicate
their honor, and establish the self-res
pect of the republic.
In 1811 the owner of the garden was a
candidate for the Legislature of Rhode
Island on the Federalist ticket. The
owner of the pig, who, up to that time,
had always championed the Federal
ists, opposed the slayer of his hog, and
supported the Democratic ticket. When
the ballots of the district were counted
it was found that the Democratic can
didate had been elected by a majority
of one vote. When the newly, elected
legislator took his seat his first duty
was to vote for a United States Sena
tor. He cast his vote for the candidate
of the Democrats, who was also elected
by a majority of one. When this Sena
tor took his seat in the United States
Senate he found the question of war
with Great Britain pending, and after
a long and bitter discussion it came to
a vote. The Democrats voted for war
and the Federalists against it. As a
result of the voting war was declared
—again by a majority of one vote.
It was a little girl who, going to the
Episcopal church, and happening to
turn around just at the moment when
the congregation bowed their adoration
in the creed, took it into her head that
they were bowing to her. And so, ’as
she was a polite little girl, and not in
clined to receive a salutation without
returning it, she bowed verj r respectful
ly and exclaimed: “Good morning,
people!”
Thq chances of life are thus set down:
Out of every 1,000 men twenty-five of
them die annually. One-lialf of those
who are born die before theyattain the
age of 7 years. The men able to bear
arms form a fourth of the inhabitants
of a country. More old men are found
in elevated situations than in valleys
and plains. The number of inhabitants
of a city or county is renewed every
thirty years. The proportion between
the deaths of women and those of men
is 100 to 108. The probable duration of
female lives is sixty years, but after
that period the calculation is more fa
vorable to them than to men.
Several Queer Verdicts.
The duties of those who serve on
I coroner’s juries do not ordinarily sug
gest anything very funny, and yet some
Ruigliable results come from their work,
particularly if they do not exactly un
derstand what is expected of them. An
amusing story is told of a verdict
brought in by a western jury impanelled
1 to inquire into the- cause of the death
of a man supposed to have committed
suicide. The verdict was brief and to
the point, the foreman simply saying:
“We. the jury, find the deceased
guilty as charged.”
Another jury examined a great many
witnesses in the case of a man who was
run over- by a railroad engine. 1 he
verdict was:
“We find him to have come to his
Sound Business Maxims.
Action is really the life of business.
Use every means to hold on to your
home trade.
Great bargains can only be secured
in any market by being on the spot.
Always keep your designs and busi
ness from the knowledge of others.
It is easy to sell goods if they are well
suited to your trade and bought right.
Be courageous; drop your best friend
if he shows lack of honesty or integ
rity.
Avoid litigation as much as possible,
for lawyers and costs eat up the princi
pal.
Have the courage to discharge a debt
while you have the money in your
pocket.-
The man who borrows money and
then borrows trouble is in shoel sure
enough.
Prefer small profits and certain re
turns to large profits and uncertain
sentiments.
Difficulties, like thieves, often disap
pear at a glance; therefore, always
face a difficulty.
Punctuality in money matters leads
to prosperity and fconfideriee and is the
basis of credit.
The man who minds his own busi-
J ness and constantly attends to it lias
j all his time employed.
; In buying, study carefully the wants
i of your trade, and buy with that end
1 always in view.
Adhere strictly to your business.
There may be difficulties for you to
overcome, but you will surmount them.
Thousands of merchants fail not from
the shrinkage of values, but fropi cred
iting unwisely and too much.
Be polite, prompt, decisive, civil and
obliging to all your customers, and see
that your clerks do likewise.
Have the courage to accept small
; profits, and be content; large ones in
volve more risk and less certainty of
continuing.
There are two sorts of people that
gaiu little by trade, such as buy what
i they do not want and such as sell only
i in necessity.
Bucklin’s Arnica Salve.
The best salve in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fe
ver Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands,
Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup
tions, and positively cures Piles, or no
pay required. - It is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction, or money refund
ed. Price 25 cents per box. For sale
by A. J. Lyndon.
For sale," also, by J. L. Askew, Pal
metto; G. W. Clower, Grantville.
“Wife, I wish you could make pies as
nice as my mother used to.” “Well,
you run out and bring in a pailful of
water and a hodful of coal and an arm
ful of wood, just as you used to do for
your mother, and maybe you will like
my pies as well.” He concluded the
pies would do just as they were.
A Sound Legal Opinion.
A. Bainbridge Munday Esq., County
Atty., Clay county, Texas, says, “Have
used Elecric Bitters with most happy
results. My brother was also very low
with Malarial Fever and Jaundice, but
was cured by timely use of this medi
cine. Am satisfied Electric Bitters
saved his life. Mr. D. I. Wilcoxson, of
Horse Cave, Ky., adds a like testimony,
saying: He positively believes he would
have died had it not been for Electric
Bitters. This great remedy will ward
off as well as cure all malarial diseases,
and for all Kidney, Liver and Stomach
Disorders, stands unequalled. Price
50c. and $1 at A. J. Lyndon’s drug
store.
For sale, also, by J. L. Askew, Pal
metto; G. W. Clower, Grantville.
Won’t somebody ask us: “Is it hot
enough for you ?” The new explosive
melanite is said to be ten times as pow
erful as dynamite, and we are anxious
to experiment with it.
The First Symptoms of Death.
Tired feeling, dull headache, pains in
various parts of the body, sinking at the
pit of the stomach, loss of appetite, fe
verishness, pimples or sores, are all
P ositive evidence of poisoned blood.
o matter how it became poisoned it
must be purified to avoid death. Ack
er’s English Blood Elixir has never fail
ed to remove scrofulous or syphilitic
poisons. Sold under positive guaran
tee. For sale by W. P. Broom, New-
nan, Ga.
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A writer in a scientific journal tells
“how to euchre wasps.” He will find
it can’t be done with a lone hand.
REWARD.
OneThousand($ i ,ooo) Dollars.
We, the undersigned, offer one thous
and dollars, cash, if we cannot send you
a picture of the next President of the
United States. If you desire to enter
this contest buy a box of the genuine
Dr. C. McLane’s Celebrated Liver
Piles from your druggist (price 25c.)
and mail us the outside wrapper and 4
cents in stamps with your address plain
ly written; we will then mail the pic
ture and an elegant package of cards.
Address,
Fleming Bros., Pittsburgh, Pa.
NEWNAN WAGON
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DEPOT ST., NEWNAN, GA.
We are now prepared to do
any kind of Wagon work, and
in the best and most workman
like manner. Nothing but se
lect material is usedin the con
struction of our wagons, and
every vehicle of oiir manufac
ture is sold upon an absolute
guarantee.
All kinds of WAGONS,
(double or single,) DRA\ S,
CARTS, etc., made to order,
with patent iron hub and axle
or otherwise, as purchaser may
desire.
Special attention given to
buggy, wagon and plantation
J repair work. Buggies over-
j hauled and repainted. Horse
shoeing a specialty.
All work done by skilled
workmen, under the supervis
ion of an experienced superin
tendent, and WARRANTED.
Get our prices and give us
an orderwe guarantee satis
faction.
D. J. FOLDS, Supt.
It Bared my Child's XJlh.
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THOMPSON BROS.
NEWNAN, GA.
FINE AND CHEAP FURNITURE
-AT PBICES—
THAT CANNOT BE BEAT IN THE STATE.
Big stock of Chambei 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.,
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NEWNAN, GA.
FURNITURE!
I buy and sell more FURNITURE than all the dealers 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 get
my prices before buying your Furniture. I have the finest as
well as the cheapest Furniture in Atlanta. Write for prices.
A. G. RHODES,
85 Whitehall St., Atlanta; Ga.
MICKELBERRY & McCLENDON,
WHOLESALE GROCERS,
PRODUCE AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
NO. 15 SOUTH BROAD ST., ATLANTA, GA.
Hay, Oats, Corn, Meal, Bran, Stock Feed,
Onions, Feathers, Cabbage, Irish Potatoes
Dressed and Live Poultry, Meat, Flour,
Lard. N. O. Syrup, Dried Beef, Cheese,
FRUITS AND ALL KINDS OF PROVISIONS AND COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Consignments solicited. Quick sales and prompt remittances. Good, dry rat-nrrw
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