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®fo| gsrald and JfJrertesq. Newnan, Ga., Friday, September 21,1888. GOOD TARIFF TALK. Hon. W. C. P- Breckinridge on Home Markets--Some Strong Points. From Mr. W. C. P. Breckinridge’s Labor Speech at Newark, N. J. “The Republican party would con fine you to a market of 60,000,000 of peo ple. The Democratic: party proposes to give you *a market of 1,000,000,000 of people. [Applause.] “All you want to enable you to com pete with and beat the English man ufacturer wherever goods are bought and sol'd is to get your raw materials as cheap as he does. Have I not heard you boast, my friends, that American machinery was the best in the world? Have I not heard you boast that Amer ican merchants and manufacturers were the shrewdest and most energetic on the face of the earth? Have I not heard you affirm again and again that American workmen were the most in telligent and most productive work men under the sun? [Applause and cries of ‘That is a fact.’] “Well, if all that is true, why should the American manufacturer, the Amer ican merchant and the American work man be’compelled to confine his ener gies to supplying the wants of the Uni ted States alone when a thousand mil lions of other people stand ready to buy your products. What stands in the way ? It is our absurd tariff on raw materials. No community in America knows this more thoroughly than the people of Newark. You make here, every year, millions of dollars’ worth of leather goods. Well, in 1872 we put hides on the free list. Our Republi can friends went into hysterics. They yelled, ‘There won’t be a beef animal in five years.’ They now howl. ‘If you put wool on the free list the bleat of lamb will no longer be heard in the land.’ Well, what was the result of putting hides on the free list? It is this. Between 1872 and 1S80 the amount of capital invested in the manufacture of leather and leathern goods increased by 823,000,000, while the production of these goods was 876,000,000 > more than in 1872. Not only did we supply our own market, but in 1880 we exported $10,- 000,000 worth of leather and leather goods. Not only did free hides en able the American manufacturer to control the home market, but it ena bled him to export largely, thus giving employment to hundreds—yes, thous ands—more men. [Applause, and ‘that’s gospel.’] Yes, I know it is gospel, and if any party should propose to restore the duty on hides it would kill itself forever, as far as New Jersey is con cerned. Is not that gospel, too? [Ap plause, and shouts from all parts of the room, ‘Yes, that is a cold fact.] “Now, my friends, you see that free hides did not destroy the beef industry in tills country. On the contrary, there was never so rapid a growth of the business of raising cattle as has beeu since 1872 to the present time. But my friend, Maj. Butterworth, says: Take the tariff off of the wool-growing business of the country.’ Can our Re publican friend learn nothing from ex perience? I’ll wager that there is not a pair of foreign made shoes worn here to-day. Why does not the American woolen manufacturer shut out his for eign competitor as thoroughly as does the leather manufacturer? It is be cause he has to pay an unnaturally high price for his raw material. Why is that ? It is because the American man ufacturer gets his leather as cheap as the foreign manufacturer. > There are, however, hundreds of suits of clothes here to-day madeirom foreign cloths. Give him free wool, and instead of im porting $44,000,000 worth of woolen cloth we will make it here. This would give‘employment to 80,000 more people and, counting five persons to a family, this would mean that our woolen man ufacturing industry would feed 400,000 more mouths than it now does. I tell you, my friends, the Republican party is taking bread out of the mouth of the poor. [Great and prolonged applause.] ■ “We gave you free raw silk, and in a few years the silk manufacturing busi ness of your State has grown from nothing to about $40,000,000 a year. My friend from Ohio would tax that raw silk-and let Lyons make the silks I see worn in profusion by the ladies who have done Maj. Butterworth and my self the honor to come here to-day. Has not free raw silk benefited the city of Newark ? [A voice from the audience: ‘Yes, indeed!] “Well, it seems to me that the re sult of free hides and free silks should encourage us to carry the theory of free raw materials a little further; don’t it to you? It is not a question between free trade and protection. I come be fore you, my friends, pledged to my own honor to speak the' truth and nothing but the truth, and I assure you that the Mills bill will in reality give more and better and more stable protection to the manufacturers and workmen of this country than they now have. “What is the result of the prosperity built up under the Republican system of tariffs and trusts and monopolies? Do you all get your fair dividends? Do you think a system righteous that al- He will ride around a week looking for a two dollar hog. He will complain of hard times, then tear his pants climbing over a fence where a gate ought to be. He will pay three dollars for a new bridle, and then let the calf chew it to pieces before Sunday. He will get all his neighbors to help in getting a cow out of the bog, then let her die from want of attention. Stock will get in and destroy his crop at a place in his fence that he has been putting off fixing for six months. He will sprain his back lifting some thing to show how strong he is. He will talk all day Sunday on what he knows of farming, then ride around the neighborhood Monday hunting seed potatoes. He will go in his shirt sleeves on a cold day to show how much he can stand, and then return home at night and occupy two-thirds of the fireplace till bed-time. He will ridicule the mechanism of a corn planter, and then go out and smash his thumb nailing a board on the fence. He will go to town on Saturday and come back with fifty cents’ worth of coffee, a paper of pins and a dollar’s worth of chewing tobacco. He is economical; economy is his forte; he saves ten cents worth of axle grease and ruins the spindle of a $70 wagon. He won’t subscribe for a newspaper, but will borrow from his friend and for get to return it. thinks he is. Yet he says to you: ‘Trusts,. I admit, are bad things, and they are fostered by the tariff, but you must endure the trusts rather than touch in any way that sacred Republi can creation, the war tariff. The Chinese government has rejected the treaty that aimed to exclude Chinese labor. I am told that they did it be cause they were assured that Harrison would be elected, and that they could drive a better bargain with him than they were able to with Cleveland. “My friends and fellow-workmen, for we are all laborers together on Uncle Sam’s great farm, let me give you two pictures of the labor question. First look at Andrew Carnegie living like a prince in Cluny Castle, and tak ing the great head of the Republican party, Mr. Blaine, on a royal progress through England and Scotland. Mr. Carnegie is a man who got more, far more, than his just dividend out of the great corporation to which we all be long. Look at the other picture—Car negie’s men at Pittsburg on a strike be cause they did not get their, fair divi dend, and Carnegie’s works policed by protection detectives to whom he paid $8 a day each. Would he pay his men the little advance they wanted? Oh, no! He wanted money to entertain his Republican friend, Blaine, in England, and he preferred to pay hired detec tives $8 a day each to force his men, who had served him faithfully year in and year out, to work for whatever wages he was willing to grant. There is Republican protection to labor. Are you not sick of it?” [Tremendous cheer ing.] Love vs. Glory. Robt. Ingersoll. A little while ago I stood by the grave of the old Napoleon—a magnificent tomb of gilt and gold, fit almost for a dead deity—and gazed upon the sar cophagus of black Egyptian marble where rest the ashes of the restless man. I leaned on the balustrade and thought about the career of the great est soldier of the modern world. I saw him walking upon the banks of the Seine, contemplating suicide—I saw him at Toulon—I saw him putting down the mob at Paris—I saw him at the head of the army of Italy—I saw him crossing the bridge at Lodi, with the tri-color in his hand—I saw him in Egypt in the shad ow of the pyramids—I saw him con quer the Alps and mingle the eagles of France with the eagles of the craigs. I saw him at Marengo—at Ulm and Austerlitz. I saw him in Russia, where the infantry of the snow and the cav alry of the wild blast scattered his le gions like winter’s withered leaves. I saw him at Leipsic in defeat and disas ter—driven by a million boyonets back upon Paris—clutched like a wild beast —banished to Elba—I saw him escape and retake an empire by the force of his genius. I saw him upon the fright ful field of Waterloo, where chance and fate combined to wreck the for tunes of their former king. And I saw him at St. Helena, with his hands cross ed behind him, gazing out upon the sad and solemn sea. I thought of the widows and orphans he had • made—of the tears that had been shed for his glory, and for the only woman that had loved him, pushed from his heart by the cold hand of ambition. And I said I would rather have been a French peas ant and worn wooden shoes. I would rather have lived in a hut with a vine growing over the door, and the grapes growing purple in the kisses of the au tumn sun. I would have rather been that peasant with my loving wife by my side, knitting as the day died out of the sky—with my children upon my knees and their arms about me. I would rather have been that man and gone down to the tongueless silence of dream less dust, than to have been that impe rial impersonation of force and murder known as Napoleon the Great. And so I would, ten thousand times. I tell you I would rather make somebody hap py; I would rather go to the forest, far away, and build me a little cabino-build it myself and daub it with mud, and live there with my wife and children ; I would rather go there and live by myself —our little family—and have a little path that led to the spring, where the water bubbled Out night and day like a little poem from the heart of the earth; a little hut with some hollyhocks at the corner with their bannered blossoms open to the sun, and with the trill of the thrush in the air like a Song of joy in the morning; I would rather live there and have lattice work across the window, so that the sun light would fall checkered on the baby in the cra dle; I would rather live there and have my soul erect and free than to live in a palace of gold and wear the crown of imperial power and know that my soul was slimy with hypocrisy. It is not necessary to be rich and great and powerful in order to be hap py. If you will treat your wife like a splendid lover, she will fill your life with perfume and joy. I believe in the re publicanism of home; in the equality of husband and wife. The One-Horse Farmer. The editor of the Navasoto (Texas) | Tahiti loaded his shooting iron not j long ago and went gunning out on the 'prairie. Having bagged a one-horse party i n its platform declares; or would ! farmer he holds him up to view as fol- : lows: Beware of the Lottery. Burdette. Do you see that man across the street? Mark him well my son. Three years ago he drew a prize of $150 in a South ern lottery. He was a happy, industri ous man before he drew that prize. It ruined him. He has sunk every dollar he could borrow or beg or earn since that luckless day in that same lotterj-. Look at him now. Note that hungry look in his eye. He has only one object in life. He wants to draw the capital prize. He is a lottery maniac. If you ever feel any symptoms of his disease coming over you, my boy, get down on your knees and pray for deliverance, and then hunt this man up and take another good look at him. And if I ever see you exhibiting any indications of this lottery mania, I shall get you a six months job in the deepest coal mine in North America. You may run and play now, my son. Sleep After a Meal. Westminster Review. There is a widespread superstition, cherished by a great majority of the people, that to sleep immediately after they have taken food is to endanger health, to favor the onset of apoplexy, etc., a superstition based upon the as sumption that during sleep the brain is partially congested. There is, no doubt, such a thing as congestive sleep, but during normal sleep the brain is anaemic. When a person has taken a fairly abun dant lunch or dinner the stomach de mands a special influx of blood where with to accomplish its work of diges tion; no organ can more easily comply with that demand than the brain, which, when in full activity, is suffused with a maximum amount of the vital fluid. But a derivation of blood from the brain to the stomach can only take place, except in exceptionally full- blooded and vigorous persons, on con dition that the cerebral functions be meanwhile partially or wholly suspend ed. Hence many people after taking dinner feel indisposed for mental action and not a few long for sleep. The al ready partially amemic brain would fain yield up to the stomach a still fur ther supply of blood and yield itself up to refreshing sleep. Doing so, it gains new strength; meanwhile digestion proceeds energetically, and soon body and blind are again equipped to con tinue in full force the battle of life. But superstition, the child of ignorance, in tervenes; declares that sleep during in digestion is dangerous, admonishes the would be sleepers to struggle against their perilous inclination, and, though telling them that after dinner they may sit awhile, assures them of the adage, “After supper, walk a mile.” T£e millions of the victims continue therefore, the strife to which it con demns them and ignore the suggestions offered to them by the lower animals, who have always practiced the lessons of sound physiology by sleeping after feeding whenever they are allowed to do so. Hence the human brain and hu man stomach of such victims contend with each other during the digestive process. The brain, impelled by super stition, strives to work and demands blood to work with, while the stomach, stimulated by its contents, strives to carry on its marvelous chemistry and demands an ample supply of blood for the purpose. The result of the strug gle is that neither is able to do its work well. The brain is enfeebled by being denied its natural rest during the. di gestive process, and the healthy func tion of the stomach degenerates into dyspepsia. Wool and Whiskey. New York Commercial Advertiser. When the merchant, lawyer, doctor, clerk, railroad man, mechanic or laborer buys a winter’s outfit of woolen clothes for his family, more than sixty-nine cents in every dollar that he pays out is a tax, over and above the actual val ue of the goods, Part of this tax is paid to the govern ment and part of it to the members of a favored -class. But why should so high a tax be imposed on so necessary an article of universal use? J^ow that the government has more revenue than it needs, why should not the tax of nearly 70 per cent, be reduced, as is proposed by the Mills bill? Is it fair thus to make every man, woman and child in the country pay a dollar for each thirty cents’ worth of woolen goods bought in order that a few peo pie who are enriched out of the pro ceeds of the tax shall continue to grow richer? Are the people made better off by such a tax? Would it be wise or just to abolish the taxes on whisky and to bacco and retain this enormous tax on wool and woolens, as the Republican Is Consumption Incurable. Read the following: Mr. C. H. Morris, Newark, Ark.,-says; “Was down with Abscess of Lungs, and friends and phy sicians pronounced me an incurable consumptive. Began taking Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consumption; am now on my third bottle, and able to oversee the work on my farm. It is the finest medicine ever made.” Jesse Middlewart, Decatur, Ohio, says; “Had it not been for Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consumption I would have died of Lung Troubles. Was given up- by doctors. Am now in best of health.” Try it. Sample bot tles free at A. J. 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Entire satisfaction guaranteed, or money refunded.—Price 50 cts. and .00 per bottle at A. J. Lyndon’s Drug Store. For sale, also, by J. L. Askew, Pal metto; G. W. Glower, Grantville. lows one man to roll up a fortune of j The one-horse farmer has a life long >100,000,000 in twenty years? Do you j ambition to gain a reputation for wear- agree with Mr. Blaine that trusts are j j^g a dirty shirt. private affairs and have no place in a j n e w jn alarm the neighborhood by Presidential campaign ? My friend, j getting up two hours before day and Mr. Butterworth pronounces himself j then sit around and not go to work un- the foe of trusts. I believe that he j til after sun up. 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 Pills from your druggist (price 25c.) and mail us tne 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. It Saved my Child's Life. "When my child was born, the doctor ordered one of the other Foods. She ate that un til she nearly died. I had three doctors, who said the trouble was Indigestion, and ordered ti ; food changed to Lactated Food. It saved my child’s life, and I owe yon many thanks for it I regard your Food as invaluable, and superior to all other artificial food for babies. Mus a. j. Beketold, Boston, Mass, 16 Indiana Place. FOR INFANTS and INVALIDS THE PHYSICIAN’S FAVORITE. BABIES CBY FOB IT. INVALIDS RELISH IT. Perfectly Nourishes a Baby with or without the addition of miiK. Three Sizes. 25c. 50c. 81.00. A valuable pamphlet on “ THB Nutrition of Infants and Invalids, free. ; It Has No Equal. «*We are using in onr aery (containing forty infs£ your Lactated Food, and ft It far superior to another^ which has been used the past ten years thaf I b» been visiting physician- Sisters of Charity, who 1 charge of the institution, it has no equal.” W. E. De Coubct, M. St Joseph’s Foundling Asyj Cincinnati, Ohio of infants aim imumu, —— . WELLS. RICHARDSON & CO.. BURLINGTON; XJ\ THOMPSON BROi NEW NAN, GA. FINE AND CHEAP FURNITU - AT PRICES— THAT CANNOT BE BEAT IN THE STATE. #4 Big stock of C!bambei suits in Walnut, Antique Oak,-j Cherry, and Imitation suires. French Dresser Suites (ten pieces), from $22.60 to ^ 125j 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] day ' THOMPSON BROS.,J, NEWNAN, A| T. E. FELL & O FARMERS’ SUPPLY STORE! J. I. & G. 0. SCR0GGIN Have removed their stock to the store-room on Greenville street formerly occupied by W. P. Broom, and with new and attractive additions there to are better prepared than ever to serve their customers with anything that may be needed in the Dry Goods or Grocery line, and at the lowest living prices. Their groceries and other staple goods were mostly bought before the re cent rise in prices, and they propose to give their custo mers the full benefit of this advantage. They have the nicest and prettiest line of fall and winter Clothing in town, and respectfully invite an in spection of the same. They are also headquarters for fine Boots and Shoes, and can of- - - , . . , - fer inducements that will make it not be wiser and juster to letam the j , . ,, whisky and tobacco taxes for revenue, it to your interest to see them as the President proposes, and cut off before buying. nearly nineteen millions of dollars of Give them a trial. They the taxes on wool and woolen goods, as take oleasure ill showing is proposed by the Mills bill ? 1 . . \ , ? 1 1 : — . , J their uoods, whether vou wish Agriculture makes the true riches or - ^ or nQt a nation. . I HOUSE FURNISHING HARDWARE, Cooking Stoves and Tinware.. o COTTON GINS, CARRIAGE MATERIAL, BELTING. NAILS, IRON AND STEi CUTLERY,), AGRICULTURAL IMPLEME& /I All kinds of Job Work in Tin done on short notice. . Newnan, Ga. • MICKELBERRY & McCLENDON, WHOLESALE GROCERS, * PRODUCE AND COMMISSION MERCHANT NO. 15 SOUTH BROAD ST., ATLANTA, GA. Hay, Oats, Corn, Meal, Bran, Stock Feed, Onions, Feathers, Cabbage, Irish Potr . Dressed and Live Poultry, Meat, Flour, Lard, N. O. Syrup, Dried Beef, C \ FRUITS AND ALL KINDS OF PROVISIONS AND COUNTRY PRO! /> Concernments solicited. Quick sales and prompt remittances. Good, dry, rat-pr age. Excellent facilities for the care of perishable goods. Judge Tolleson Kirby, Traveling Salesman. y; References: Gate City National Bank, and merchants and bankers 01 & generally. E. S. BUCHANA DRY GOODS, AND MERCHANT TAILORING.