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UNION & RECORDER. THE PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE. CONTINUED. We continue in this number of our paper what we would extract from and say of the President’s Message. LABOR’S INTERESTS CONSIDERED. Due regard should also be accorded in any proposed readjustment, to the interests of American labor, so far as they are involved. We congratulate ourselves that there is among us no laboring class fixed with unyielding bonds and doomed under all condi tions to the inexorable fate of daily toil. We recognize in labor a chief /actor in the wealth of the republic, and we treat those who have it in their keeping as citizens entitled to the most careful regard and thought ful attention. This regard and at tention should be awarded them not only because labor is the capital of the workingmen—justly entitled to its share of Government favor— but for the further and not less im portant reason that the laboring man, in his humble home, surrounded by his family, as a consumer is vitally interested in all that cheapens the cost of living and enables him to bring within his domestic circle addi tional comforts and advantages. This relation of the workingman to the revenue laws of the country and the manner in which it palpably influ ences the question of wages, should not be forgotten in the justifiable prominence given to the proper main tenance of the supply and protection of well paid labor, and these consid ^rations suggest such an arrangement of Government revenues as shall re duce the expense of living while it ■does not curtaii the opportunity for work nor reduce the compensation of American labor, and injuriously af fect its condition and the dignified place it holds in the estimation of our people. But our farmers and agricul- turists—those who from the soil pro duce the things consumed, are per haps more directly and plainly con cerned than any other of our citizens in a just and careful system of federal taxation. Those actually engaged in and more remotely connected with this kind of work number nearly one- half of our population. None labor harder or more continuously than they. No enactments limit their hours of toil and no interposition of the government enhances to any great extent the value of their pro ducts. And yet for many of the ne eessaries and comforts of life, which the most scrupulous economy ena bles them to bring into their homes, and for the implements of husbandry, they are obliged to pay a price large Iv increased by an unnatural profit which, by thq action of the Govern ment, is given to the more favdred manufacturer. I recommend that keeping in view all these considerations the increasing and unnecessary sur plus of national income annually ac cumulating be released to the people, by an amendment to our revenue laws, which shall cheapen the price ot the necessaries of life and give freer entrance to such imported ma- rerials as by American labor may be manufactured into marketable com modities. Nothing can be accomplish ed. however, in che direction of this much needed reform unless the sub ject is approached in a patriotic spirit of devotion to the interests of the en tire country, and with a willingness to yield something for the public good. From the above extract, in connec tion with that which we copied from the message last week, it will be seen that the President is sincerely and heartily opposed to the present high tariff. Hi« statement is patriotic, sympathetic, dignified and mild. There is no mistaking his allusions. He refers to the high tariff and to the injustice it does to th9 farmers. He tells us that the farming population number nearly one-half of our popula tion, and tells us, “yet for many of the necessaries and comforts of life, which the most scrupulous economy enables them to bring into their homes, and for the implements of husbandry, they are obliged to pay a price largely increased by an unnatu ral profit, which, by the action of the government, is given to the more fa vored manufacturers.” We ask our respected readers and and friends to read, again, and reflect upon the few preceding words. Your President tells you the high tariff' forces you “to pay a price largely increased by an unnatural profit, which by the action of the Government is given to the more favored manufacturers.” The high tariff men tell you that this tariff does not tax you for the benefit of the manufacturer. Your President tells you that it does. We have often told you the same thing, and it offended some to such a degree that they or dered us to stop their papers we were sending to them. In those cases we thought the parties were unkind, and we relieve them of that charge, be lieving they honestly thought that we were endeavoring to force an opin ion upon them, inconsistent with justice and truth. The high tariff dogmas, we believed, were accepted by them under the specious presen tations of their advocates. Of course we submitted with regret, not doubt ing the integrity of the parrties. It was a long time before the people of the earth, upon which we live, yield ed the opinion that it was round and not flat, and it is probable that, stim ulated by averice, it may take a thousand years to make some admit that high duties make high prices. With some people truth is a chimera, and political science is a dream, and many will continue in that kind of mental darkness, until they can no longer by the action of the Govern ment rob the farmer for the benefit of athe manufacturer. We now pass from this question of the tariff to a brief allusion to the treneral condition of public affairs. Up to the first of November 1886 ( the public debt, still outstanding \vas $1,118,433,113. Of this amount $86,848,700 was still represented by three per cent bonds. SILVER COINAGE. During the fiscal year ended June 30th 1886, there were coined under the Compulsory Silver Coinage Act of 1878, 29,838,905 silver dollars and the cost of the silver used in such coinage was $33,448,960. There had been coin ed up to the close of the previous fis cal year under the provision, of the law $203,882,554 silver dollars and on the first day of December 1886, the total amount of such coinage was $247,431,549. The directory of the mint reports that at the time of the passage of the law of 1878 directing this coinage, the intrinsic value of the dollars thus coined was ninety-four and one-fourth cents each, and that on the 31st day of July, 1886, the price of siver reached the lowest stage eyer known, so that the intrinsic or bullion price of our standard silver dollar at that date was less than 72 cents. The price of silver on the 30th day of No vember last, was such as to make these dollars intrinscically worth 78 cents each. These differences in val ue of the coins represent the fluctua tions in the price of silver, and they certainly do not indicate that compul sory coinage by the Government en hances the price of that commodity or secures uniformity in its value. Every fair and legal effort has been made by the Treasury Department to distribute this currency among the people. The withdrawal of United States Treasury notes of small denom inations and the issuing of small silver certificates have been resorted to in the endeavor to accomplish this result in obedience to the sentiments of the representatives of the people in Con gress. On the 27th day of November, 1880, the people held of these coins or certificates representing them, the nominal sum of $166,873,041, and we still had $79,464,345 in the Treasury. While the President has his views in opposition to the coinage of silver he has faithfully endeavored to give it the largest circulation possible. We pass over for the present, the Presidents remarks in reference to the Departments of War, the Navy, Public Lands, Patents and Civil Ser vice, upon which we may say some thing hereafter in connection with the Reports of the several Secretaries of the respective Bureaus which we pass over for the present. Liberal Unionists. Holiday - Presents! 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Goshen and ex-Attorney General James, and numerous noblemen. Let ters were read from Lord Tennyson, the Duke of Argyle, and John Bright. Mr. Bright wrote that he feared if present, he might say something that would give pain. He deplores and condemns a part of Mr. Gladstone’s action. His Irish allies are drawing matters to extremities and yet no word comes from Parnell or Mr. Glad stone to restrain them. Lord Hartington and Mr. Chamber- lain, also, opposed the fiew of -Mr. Gladstone. Mr. Gladstone, Sir Win. Vernon Harecourt and John Morley, based their speeches upon the granting to Ireland an executive government. Mr. Gladstone assumed that the gov ernment were competing with him in his scheme for Ireland, but that was denied. The removal of the present government, Jwould result in the elec tion of Mr. Gladstone who would set tle the Irish question in his own way. Mr. Gladstone, said Lord Hartington, may not control John Dillon, but he can speak one word which would dis solve the alliance between the agita tors of the Dillon class and the Lib eral party. It would appear from the reception given to the views of those who took part against Mr. Gladstone’s views, that his Irish policy met a stern opposition in this large meeting consisting mainly of the opponents of Home rule for the Irish. Wonderful Cures. W. D. Hoyt & Co., Wholesale and Retail Druggists of Rome. Ga., says: “Wo have been selling Hr. King’s New Discovery, Electric Bitters and Buciden’s Arnica Salve for two years. Have never handled remedies that sell as well, or give such universal satisfaction. There have been some wonderful cures affected by these medicines in this city. Several cases of pronounced Consumption have been en tirely cured by use of a few bottles of Dr. King’s Now Discovery taken in connection with Electric Bitters. We guarantee them always. Sold by John M. Clark. Jigricultural Implements! -I have a full stock of- Groceries and Provisions, Bagging and Ties, And am prepared to meet the demands of all who may favor me with their patronage for Plantation Supplies of all kinds, at prices that cannot be excelled in this section. I also have a choice stock of Groceries for the city trade. As the prosperity of every country depends upon the success o agriculture, and realizing the necessity of thet horough breaking o land and cultivation of the crop, I have supplied myself with f large lot of two and one horse Plows of the best makes, consisting o:: the Syracuse, Benton & Harber, White’s Clipper, Meikle’s Blue Pony and the Boss, and I also have a large lot of Steel Plows Haiman and Southern Plow Stocks, single and double, and farming implements generally. And to all who would like to have a Pump put in their wells, would recommend the Buckeye Force Pump, which myself many others have been using with perfect satisfaction for some time. 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