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VOLUME LVIII. [soDTHEnNUK(?ORDE t R hl ‘ 1,8h0i t,1 ‘ lSlth [CONSOLIDATED 1872. Milledgeville, Ga., October 11. 1887.
Number 14.
B ATiI) W IN COUNT Y.
BALDWIN SHERIFF S SALE.
W ILL be sold before the Court
House door, in the City of Mil
ledgeville, during legal sale hours, on
the first. Tuesday in Nov., 1887, the
following described property, to-wit:
One house and lot In the city of
Milledgeville, nnd known in the plan
of said city as being the home place
of Henry Temples, deceased, contain
ing one acre, more or less, and being
the South-west corner of lot on Mont
gomery and Clark streets. Levied on
as the property of J. T. Temples, to
satisfy one Co. Court fifa in favor of
Tho*. Johnson vs. J. T. Temples.
Levy made and Defendant notified in
person, this Oct. the 3rd, 1887.
Also at the same time and place:
One house and lot in the city of Mill
edgeville, and known in the plan of
said city as being in square No. 30,
and part of lot No. 3, fronting on
Wayne street 09 feet and 2$ inches.
Levied on as the property of Mrs.
Dixie Haygood to satisfy a Superior
Court fi fa in favor of E. H. Wall.
Levy made August 8th, 1887.
C. W. ENNIS, Sheriff.
Oct. 5th, 1887. 13 tds
Petition For Letters of Dismission.
GEORGIA, Baldwin County,
Court of Ordinary, Oct. Term, 1887.
W HEREAS, L. Carrington, Execu
tor upon the estate of Emmie
DeLaunay Nisbet, deceased, has filed
his petition in said court for letters of
dismission from his trust as such Exec
utor.
These are therefore to cite and ad
monish all persons interested, heirs or
creditors, to show cause on or by the
January term next of said court, to
be held on the first Monday in Jan
uary, 1888, why letters of dismission
from said trust should not be granted
to said petitioner as prayed for.
Witness my hand and official signa
ture this October the 3rd, 1887.
DANIEL B. SANFORD,
13 3m.] Ordinary.
Petition for Letters of Adminis
tration.
GEORGIA, Baldwin County.
Court of Ordinary, Oct. Term, 1887.
r HERE AS, Walter Paine, Clerk
of the Superior Court for said
county, has filed his petition in said
Court, for letters of administration
upon the "estateaof Joe. Reeves, c.,
deceased.
These are therefore to cite and ad
monish all persons interested, heirs
or creditors, to show cause on or by
the November Term next, of said
court, to be held on the first Monday
in November, 1887, why letters of ad
ministration upon the estate of said
deceased should not be granted to
said petitioner as prayed for.
Witness my hand and official sig
nature this the 3d October, 1887.
DANIEL B. SANFORD,
13 lrn.] Ordinary.
Petition for Leave to Sell.
GEORGIA, Baldwin County.
Court of Ordinary, Oct. Term, 1887.
HEREAS, C. W. Ennis, Adminis
trator upon the estate of W.
T. Ethridge, deceased, has filed his
petition in said Court for leave to sell
the real and personal property belong
ing to said deceased.
These are therefore to cite and ad
monish all persons interested, heirs
or creditors, to show cause on or by.
the November term, next, of said
court to be held on the first Monday
in November, 1887, why leave to sell
said real and personal property,
should not be granted to said peti
tioner as prayed for.
Witness my hand and official signa
ture this the 3rd October, 1887.
DANIEL B. SANFORD,
13 Inn] Ordinary
Year's Support.
GEORGIA, Baldwin County.
Court of Ordinary October Term. 188".
W HEREAS the commission*rH appoint
ed to Bet apart a year's support
for Mrs. M. E. Whitaker, widow ofS, E. Whita
ker, deceased, have tiled their report lu said
court.
These are therefore to cite and admonish all
persons interested, heirs or creditors, to show
cause on or by tlie November Term, next of said
Court to be held on the first Monday In Novem
ber, 1887, why tlie report of the said commis
sioners should not be approved, made the jiidp-
ntent of said Court and he recorded.
Witness my hand and ottlelal signature, tills
the 3rd October, 1887.
DANIEL U. SANFORD,
13 lm. Ordinary.
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It acts with extraordinary efficacy on the
tiver, Kidneys,
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Dyapepaia, Sick Headache,
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Mental Depression, Colic.
BEST FAMILY MEDICINE
Mo Household Should be Without It,
and, by being kept ready for IminCdlute u«e,
will save many an hour of suffering and
many a dollar in time and doctors' bill*.
THERE IS BUT ONE
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S.« that you g«< <h* genu in. with red "2”
on front of Wrapper. Prepared only by
J. H. ZEILIN A CO., Sole Proprietors,
Philadelphia, Pa. VKICK, 81.00.
Mareh}29, 1887. 28 cw ly
Valuable Property
FOR SALE.
F OUR well improved, valuable lots,
three on East Green Street, oppo
site the Methodist church, the other
on East Hancock Street adjoining the
Baptist Parsonage. This property is
without, doubt the most desirable,
for sale in the city, being central
ly located, convenient to business,
churches and college. Buildings all
new and of modern design. Property
sold subject to present lease. I will
at any time, take pleasure in showing
tlie property to any who may desire
to purchase." For terms, &c., apply to
S. BARRETT.
Milledgeville, Ga., Aug. 29, ’87. 8 tf
FOR SALE.
T HE residence of Mr. O. H. Fox on
North Wayne Street. Large lot.
House and out houses in good repair.
Terms $1,700. Apply to
O. H. FOX.
Milledgeville, Ga., Sep. 27, 1887. 12 tf.
Notice to Debtors And Creditors.
GEORGIA, Baldwin County.
i hi, PURHONSIndebted to the entato of Sam-
j\_ ttel E. Whitaker, late of Baldwin county,
deceased, are requested to make payment, and
all persons having demands against said estate
are requested to present them to me In terms
of the law. 11. D. ALLEN,
Sept. 27, 1887. 12 Ot. Adm’r.
The Constitution must feel exceed
ingly lonesome in its position of an
tagonism to Senator Colquitt’s re-elec
tion, and its reasons therefor. It
seems to have drooped the whole sub
ject with as much suddenness as it
sprung up.
The treasurer of the Hamilton powder,
company defaulted a fewdays ago. As
he already lived in Canada, there was
nowhere to run away to and he had no
resource except suicide. This shows
that Canada isa very poor place tolive
in, when a man slips there there is no
place of refuge for him.
Miss Josie Walton, a charming
young lady of Augusta, left yester
day for Athens, where she will spend
the winter season as tui assistant
teactier in tho Lucy Cobb Institute.
We congutulate the officers of the
Lucy Cobb in securing the services of
so accomplished a lady and teacher.
The Telegraph's Editor.
Mr. Henry Richardson, the well
known VVnsiiington correspondent of
the Atlanta Constitution, has been
chosen and has accepted editorial
charge of the Macon Telegraph. This
is a recognition of true merit, and the
old Telegraph will now be more
’nteresting than ever. ■
Praise We Are Proud Of. •
The Southern Cultivator and Dix
ie Farmer for October, is the best of
all its good numbers: In that num
ber we find tli* following compliment
to our able contributor Mr. S. A.
Cook, and ourselves:
Our old contributor, Mr. S. A. Cook,
is writing an interesting series of
articles on “Humus,” for tlie Union
and Recorder, of Milledgeville, Ga.,
which will prove valuable to the
farmer readers of that sterling 61d
journal.
A good conscience is the finest opi
ate.—John Knox.
What is woman? Only one of na
ture’s agreeable blunders.—Cowley.
You cannot dream yourself into a
character; you must hammer and
forge yourself one.
There is never an end; it is always a
going on; nnd God’s mercy is beyond,
always.—Mrs. Whitney.
Every man is in some sort a failure
to himself. No one ever reaches the
heights to which he aspires.—Long
fellow.
Things are unbearable just until we
have them to bear. The possibility
comeS with them; for we are not tlie
roots of our own being.
Cutting teeth is one of the hardest
pieces of work the baby does: why
not then help it out by allowing it oc
casional doses of Dr. Bull’s Baby Syr
up.
Petition for Letters of Adminis
tration.
GEORGIA, Baldwin County,
Court of Ordinary, Oct. Term, 1887.,
W HEREAS, M. W. Hall has filed
his Petition in said Court for let
ter of administration upon tlie estate
of Mollie S. Hall, deceased.
These are therefore to cite and ad
monish all persons interested, heirs or
creditors, to show cause on or by the
November Term, next, of said court, to
be held on the first Monday in Novem
her, 1887, why letters of administration
upon the estate of said deceased should
not be granted to said petitioner as
prayed for.
Witness my hand and official signa
ture this the 3rd day of Oct., 1887.
?L B. SANFORD.
13 lm.J
DANIEJ
Tax Notice.
M Y BOOKS are now open for the
collection of the State and Coun
ty Tax for tlie year 1887. The books
will be closed 20th December next, as
the law directs. Office at the Court
House. Office hours from 9 a. m., to
4 p. in.
T. W. TURK,
Tax Collector Baldwin County.
Sept. 20tli. 1887. 11 3m.
N oticc.
P ARTIES owing me for stock sold
them by E. K. Champion, agent,
dec’d., and "myself, will please call at
tlie store of P. M. Compton & Son in
Milledgeville und pay theigr notes.—
This business must be closed and an
early settlement will save cost and
trouble. Respectfully,
THOMAS JOHNSON.
Sept. 12, 1887.10 4t
Administrator’s Sale.
In all meanness there is a deficit of
intellect as well as of heart, and even
the cleverness of avarice is but the
cunning of imbecility.—Bulwer-Lyt
ton.
We endorse all tlie proprietors have
said relative to tlie merits of Salva
tion Oil. It is tlie greatest cure on
earth for pain. Price only 25 cents.
A man never gets over tlie influence
of an early Christian home. It holds
him in an enternal grip. Though his
parents may have been gone forty
years, tlie tears of penitence and glad
ness that were wept at the family
altar still glitter in his memory.—Tal-
mage.
Yarborough House, Raleigh, N. C.
I have used Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup
for my childreu; it is tlie golden rem
edy.—Mrs. Dr. Blackwell.
Tlie situation that has not. its duty,
its ideal, was never yet occupieu by
man. Yes, here in this poor, miser
able, hampered, despicable Actual,
wherein thou even now standest
GEORGIA, Baldwin County.
VIRTUE of an order granted by here or nowhere is thy Ideal; work it
out therefrom; and working believe,
live, be free.—Carlyle.
Bl
_ tlie Court of Ordinary of said coun
ty, will be sold before the Court House I
door, in the city of Milledgeville, on !
the first Tuesday in November, 1887, i
between the legal hours of sale, the
A misanthropical kind of a fellow
was lie wiio sat in tlie chimney corner
following real property belonging to hugging to his bosom a starless kind
the estate of Mrs. Martha F. Robin-1 of disbelief in all things good until a
son, late of said county, deceased, to- j friend brought him a bottle of Tab
AH that tract of land situate, lying
and being in the 115th Dist., G. M., of
said State and county, bounded on tlie
north by lands of C. E. Prosser, east
by I). H. Wilkinson, south by Sam
Walker, and west by Mrs. J. Butler,
containing eighty acres, more or less,
known as the Martha Robinson place.
Sold for the purpose of paying debts
and division. Terms cash.
W. H. STEMBRIDGE,
Oct. 4. 13 lm. Administrator.
EXCURSION RATES
—TO-
ler's Buckeye Pile Ointment which
curing him of Piles transformed him
into a happy mortal. TablerTs Buck
eye Pile Ointment is the best remedy
ever prepared for Piles.
It was Chesterfield who said: I am
more upon my guurd as to my behav
ior to my servants and to others who
are called my inferiors, than I am
towards my equals, for fear of being
suspected of that mean and ungener
ous sentiment of desiring to make
others feel that difference which
fortune lias, perhaps too undeservedly,
To Rent.
Ordinary.
RESIDENCE on Jefferson street,
\ formerly occupied by T. J. Barks-
ale. For terms, apply to
P. J. CLINE.
[illedgeville, Ga., Aug. Oth, ’87. 0 tf
THE PIEDMONT FAIR. 1 made between us.”
Commencing OcU 8th, and continu-1 , J°«l> Billings says, “Brevity and si-
ing to Oct. 20tli. I will sell excursion lance are the two great cards, and
tickets to Atlanta, for Piedmont Fair, next to saying nothing saying ft lit;
at $3.35 for round trip, which includes i He is the strength of the game,
admission to the grounds Therefore we say briefly that White s
admission to the grounds^ , Cream Vermifuge is preferred by all
Milledgeville, Ga., Oct. 4. ’ 13 at. I as a remedy.for worms, for the sim
ple reason that it is tho only pure
For sale at this office : Envelopes at j preparation that brings the worms
$1.09 per thousand. surely and speedily.
Against Senator Colquitt.
There is a movement being made in
Atlanta, to get up an opposition to
Senator Colquitt's re-election to the
U. S. Senate, and it is intimated that
tho Hon. Henry R. Jackson will be
the opposing candidate. The specific
objections to Senator Colquitt, as set
forth in the Constitution, is his op
position to tlie repeal of tlie Internal
Revenue law. It it true allusion is
made to the tax on currency, but we
doubt not the main objection is the
Senator’s views on tlie question of
the repeal of the Internal Revenue.
Ab our readers are well aware there
is an annual receipt by the Govern
ment of one hundred millions of dol
lars, in excess of tlie amount necessa
ry to meet the expenses of an econom
ical administration of tlie Govern
ment. Tlie repeal of the Internal
Revenue bill would remove that ex
cess, but it would leave the Constitu
tion’s darling protective tariff in
force, which, uuiiecessarily taxes the
people one tliousum] millions of dol
lars nnd more, annually, to go into
the coffers—the pockets—of the man
ufacturers. We have often shown
the iniquity, the gross unconstitution-
ality of a protective tariff, and need
not, now, for the purpose in view, en
ter Into a detailed exhibition of the
figures at hand to prove it.
Senator Colquitt is the representa
tive in his high station of the people
of the state of Georgia. He believes
they ure unconstitutionally and cru
elly taxed, annually, many millions of
dollars for the special benefit of the
manufacturers. We believe that the
taxation, of the people of Georgia
amounts, annually, to a sum not less
than fifteen millions of dollars. Not
a dollai is provided for them by that
tariff except for those who are engag
ed in the business of manufacturing,
and it oppresses, heavily, the opera-
tives in the factories. We have often
asked tlie advocates of tho protective
tariff to show how the farmers of
Georgia were benefitted to the amount
of a dollar by tlie protective tariff.
The protectionists say it gives the
farmer a* home market for tlie pro
ducts of his farm, for his chickens,
eggs, pigs, blackberries and other
small matters, but how ridiculous is
this argument. If there is any merit
in it only a few could enjoy it. Tlie
price of wheat, cotton and corn, is
fixed at Liverpool and not at the fac
tories. If tlie farmer can sell, at a
few Blftces, where factories are estab
lished, a few eggs, chickens, <fcc., the
advantage amounts to nothing when
he hus to pay the enhanced prices for
factory goods caused by the high tar
iff. This pig, chicken and egg argu
ment is the poorest invention that the
devil, who drawB the protectionists
lias ever put into their heads, but 'in
using it, they never tell the chicken-
men how lie is used up by tlie ad
vance in tiie cloth lie wants to make
a coat or u shirt for his child.
Senator Colquitt is patriotically
right. He wants tlie reduction in tlie
governmeut^ceipts.made in reducing
tlie price of clothing, of all tlie im
plements of husbandry, of medicines,
the prices of which bear so heavily
upon the poor, upon liats, shoes and
blankets, upon iron, steel, paints and
colors, molasses, sugar and suit, and a
thousand other articles of common
and necessary use, and in reducing
the tariff, he wants tlie discrimina
tions made in favor of tlie ricli and
against tlie poor, swept forever from
the statute books of the United States.
Tlie Constitution may indulge it
self as much as it pleases on its high
tariff fiddle, but. it will never excite
a chord of responsive sentiment
among tlie great masses of the people,
in its assaults upon the people’s stern
and unflinching friend, Senator Af-
freil H. Colquitt. We have seen that
the Macon Telegraph, of long stand
ing and ably edited, was so shocked
and discomfited by its advocacy of
the protective tariff as to make it
necessary or prudent to abandon tlie
field of its action.
It was sold and is now an advocate
of a moderate anil constitutional rev
enue measure. This has occurred un
der the constant and fulsome declara
tion, that tlie doctrine of protection
was rapidly supplanting t lie old demo
cratic doctrine of a tariff for revenue
only. There is nothing, in mental
force or political frenzy, that can in
duce tiie democratic party in Georgia
to disregard the halo thrown around
tlie democratic banner on this subject
in the glorious past. It stood firm
when begirt with former foes, nnd
stands as firmly, now, a colossus of
power as it did in the days of Craw
ford, Forsyth, Lumpkin, McDonald,
and otliets, in earlier days. Indeed,
all parties, in Georgia, however they
may have differed on other questions,
moved in giant unanimity, in those
times, against the robbing tariff, and,
at this time, all Democrats and Whigs
united in one great party, throw up a
banner, floating in our blue skies un
der a southern sun, upon which is in
scribed: “Freedom, equal rights and
a revenue tariff.” The same mines,
of thought; the same noble principles
of liberty and justice that prevailed
then are maintained now, under a
revolutionary change, with unabated
fortitude cemented with the blood of
heroes. It is well to remember that
there are times to banish frauds and
heal with justice as far as possible tlie
wounds of Fate. 3, '
* * * * Organic weakness or loss of
power in either sex, however induced,
and permanently cured. En-
Fnr tin* I'nlim Heconlrr.
Pencillings from my Perch.
By Mr. 1’icklk.
RICH IlKMir
NKGRO MINSTKKLS
I8CKNCK.
No. 7.
The first negro minstiels of the sen-
son are now doing the principal cities
of Georgia, and have attracted, (as
that class of caterers for the public
amusement at tlie South ever lias
done, and ever will do, as long as the
negro has a local habitation and a
name,) largo audiences, anil that re
minds me of tho first appearance in
Milledgeville of the first negro min
strel company ever organized in the
United States, and though it has had
hundreds of successors and imitators
since, it has never had an equal in
this country as true delineators of the
negro character and their songs and
music. Luke West was the “Bones”
at one end, and Frank Germon the
tamboriuist at tlie other. As the Leg
islature was in session the old wooden
theatre, located on tlie bill opposite
Mr. W. J. Brake’s residence, was
crowded from the lloor to the shin
gles. I don’t think there was a negro
in tho house outside of attendants be-
hiud the scenes. It was in November,
1841 or ’42, if my memory serves me
correctly. Tlie company stayed here
four or five nights, and every night the
theatre was full to suffocation. The
company had no printed programmes,
so no one present knew or had any in
timation of what would besungorsuiil
at any of tlie performances. In this
community, and present at tlie first
night’s exhibition, lived a man high
in social circles, tlie owner of hun
dreds of negroes, and withal gener
ous, jovial anil as fond of fun as a boy
ten years old. His name was Daniel
R. Tucker, but known then and to
hundreds now alive here, and else
where, as Old Dan Tucker. Scarcely
any one outside of liis near neighbors
at the show knew 'that Mr. Tucker
was in tlie house. I was there and
sat near him. About the third
fourth song tlie minstrels struck up
that famous negro song, “Old Dan
Tucker,” tlie first time it hud ever
been heard in Milledgeville, and was
new to every one in tlie audience. At
tlie end of tlie first chorus there was
such a scene as was never enacted at
a public show. Nearly tlie whole
“house” rose as one man, shouted,
clupped their hands, hollered, so to
speak, threw up their hats, beat tlie
floor, laughed in a reckless roar, and
completely silenced the performers for
at least five minutes. The minstrels
were utterly dumbfounded; they
couldn’t imagine tlie cause of the up
roar. When quiet was at last re
stored, n prominent citizen arose and
briefly explained to tlie manager the
cause of tlie great, hilarity. Then
there was another shout: “go on, go
on; give us more,” etc., heard from a
hundred voices. The song was finish
ed and all was happy and serene, Mr.
Tucker the happiest of all, who was
heard to say “lie wouldn’t have missed
that show for tlie best nigger on his
plantation,”
Tiie next day tlie miiiHtrels and
“Old Dan Tucker” were tlie talk of
the town, and Mr. Tucker was joked
and teased as no man ever was before
about a song. Prominent among
those wiio took greatest pleasure in
running Mr. Tucker about the song
was a leading citizen by the name of
John Brown, who loved a good tiling
when somebody other than himself
was tlie butt of the joke. He was
present tlie first night and loudest
of alt tlie claquers, and went again
the next night, expecting to hear
“Old Dun Tucker” repeated. Tlie
lioiise'was jammed to the walls and
ceiling. After one or two songs, tlie
minstrels struck up another entirely
new song to tlie audience; it ran thus
in tlie chorus:
‘'It'll iiHiilter ilo to glh It up 60,
It’ll nehoi-r ilo to gib It up so,
PI I nebber do to gib I tup so, John Brown,
It’ll nebber do to gib it up so."
Then there was a repetition of tlie
scene tiie night previous, only intensi
fied, and minutes passed before tlie
minstrels could go on, or understand
what tiie fuss was about. Again tlie
cause of tlie great hubbub whh ex
plained to tlie minstrels and it was
their time to laugh. Hardly a man in
the quarter circle of twelve could keep
his face in a shape to “succeed to de
performance” for u long time. No
man enjoyed tlie fun more tliun Dan
iel Tucker, und no one less than Col.
Johri Brown, who, next day, could
not be found, after a most vigorous
search.
Botli these good citizens have given
their last smiles to friends this side of
the grave many years ago, but the
scenes I have tried to draw truthfully
are as fresh to memory’s eye as on the
days they filled me with joy when I
was hut a little boy.
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The Georgia Senatorship-
Courier-Journal (Editorial.)
The intelligence comes from Geor
gia that tlie syndicates which, by
ways that are dark and tricks that
are vain, have, at the expense of the
farmer, been laying up wealth, are
determined, if possible, to defeat Sen
ator Colquitt when lie stands for re-
election. Tlie only objection made
to Senator Colquitt, is, as we under
stand, that lie is an enemy of the in
famous war tariff which is crushing
the life out of tlie farmer.
There has been growing in Georgia
for some years a feeling of antago
nism to the true spirit of Democracy,
and this opposition is especially
strong in dealing with tlie tariff. Its
bounties have only been one form, in
which peculiar benefits have come to
privileged classes, but these bounties
iiave been taken from that class ir*
the community which can least afford
to meet the expense.
If tiie farmers of Georgia are true
to themselves they will make certain
the return of Senator Colquitt, and
the decision is with the farmers. His
speech before tiie Farmers’ Conven
tion at Atlanta a few weeks ago was
an admirable presentation of the case
of the farmers against the Govern
ment, and taking this speech uslii*
platform, Senator Colquitt can lekve
his case with the people.
The Courier-Journal knows m'uch
of the corrupt methods which have
become common in Georgia politics of
late years; it kpows something of the
power of money and of organization', >
but all these ringN and cliques with
their money anil their organizers are
helpless when the people are aroused.
Senator Colquitt cannot be used by
these monopolists; he refuses to be
their tool or to partake of their spoils.
In his address he said he asked no
special privileges for the farmer, but
he did ask equal and exact justice.
Continuing, he said:
“But while the farmer bears his
own burdens we have a right to de
nounce ail attempts to handicap him
by weights lie should not carry. The
natural riskji of the farmers" calling
are always grave enough, and emerg
ing from these, no mairlias the right
to say that he must assume burdens
and pay a tribute to help out tiie
profits of other business ventures.
What would he tiie verdict on your •
conduct if as cotton producers you
were to demand of the Government a
cash bounty paid at tlie counter of
tlie National Treasury to make good
your losses oil crops sold for eight
cents that cost you nine? After an
infinite deal of circumlocution and
brazen argument, tlie protection giv
en to others and denied to you
amounts to about this. All, it is said
you would have this bounty if it were
possible to give it to you. Why not
possible? If no man’s corn, wheat or
cotton can be brought here to cut
your profits, und under our system of
revenue we can’t save you from loss,
why not try the bounty? Cotton
must be had as well as iron uud cloth,
and by what right do these wiio use
cotton say .that we must produce it
at a loss? Mr. Sherman cut this knot
in his celebrated sop offered to the
sugar producer, und while men stand
astouuded at a proposition so mon
strous. his plan proves that the wit
of man hus conceived a scheme by
the agriculturist, ufay be indemnilied
against loss while feeding and cloth
ing tlie world. I am pr ml to know
.that if you cannot have protection
from tlie government, you would not
have if you could. You are no in
fants, nor ilo you follow an infant in
dustry, nor do you proclaim to the
world that you cannot make a living
for yourselves without cutting slices
from that of other people.”
This is the voice of tlie self-reliant,
the independent farmer, who lias no
favors to usk, and, in politics, when
the creatures of monopoly attempt to
mislead him, this same "farmer Hays,
too, we have no favors togive. Sena
tor Colquitt pleads not for free whis- -
key, but for lower taxes on salt, cloth
ing, iron, steel and tlie essentials of
life. He said:
“A general average tax of 46,07 per
cent, now raising one hundred milions
annually more tnan we have any call
for, is a bitter reproach to our wisdom
and our justice. Though the farmers
in perhaps tlie whole South make 75
per cent of tlie Union raise eighty one-
hundredths (80-100) of tlie exports of
the country, not one nickel of the
hundreds of millions that protection
puts into tlie pockets of tlie manufac
turers is passed to the farmers, if you
except tlie pittance give to rice and
sugar. Hard pressed as you are, fall
ing in nrreaVs as so many are, who
follow tillage, how would your hearts
leap with joy to know that 35£ per
cent of your taxes were taken off?
Shall this burden be kept on salt, on
clothing, on iron and steel, on more
than 1(W0 essentials, of life, that we
may tell our families, our sons and
brothers and fathers, that at last we
give them free wiskey? I have no
earthly doubt that the Govrnment of
the United States this day would be
really better off by lifting eighty or
more millions of tax which enters into
every earthly thing that goes to the
support of a family. The canker of
tliis enormous pile of treasure, to
which your drops of sweat have kept
tally, is eating its way into the very
soul of tlie Government.”
The farmers of Georgia should re
member tiiat it is for these words that
Senator Colquitt is called to account
by the Money Devils, who are seeking
to bind the State of Georgia with fet
ters whieh cannot be broke.