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Communicated.
For the Observer; —The ed'tora’
com meat on my communication, giv
ing reasons why I thought Harrison
and Morton would be elected, oontains
the following substance:
“The democrats do not favor free
trade, but an economical administra
tion of the government, and a reduc
tion of the dangerous surplus. M
Now, both the president’s message
and the Mills Bill declare for absolute
free trade in lumber, which We pro
duce to the value of three hundred
millions of dollars worth annually;free
trade in salt, of which we produce
nearly forty millions of bushels annu
ally; free trade in manilla, flax, jute
and other fibers, the importation of
which already supplant American pro
duct to the valne of thirty-five millions
of dollars annually; free trade in ce
ment, potash, lime and brick; free
trade in meats, game and poultry; free
trade in vegetables, peas and beans;
tree trade in marble and stone; free
trade in more than one hundred other
articles produced in this country, that
are now subject to duty. The London
Globe says: “The capital issue of the
contest in the United States, lies be
tween the maintenance of the present
fissal system intact, and its modifica
tion in the direction of tree trade, and
on that broad question Mr. Cleveland’s
candidacy natnrally and necessarily
carries English sympathy.”
On the same subject, the London
Spectator, a leading English journal
says, “Giover C'eveland has done
more to advance the cause of free trade
than any prune minister of England
has ever done ”
As regards the “dangerous surplus,”
a repeal of the t*x ou obacco. and of
aloohol used in the are, will lesen
the “dangerous surplus” * x'y mil
lions of dollars yearly. A repeal ot
the entire internal revenue eys'eui,
which is eo particularly obnox
ious to many of our Georgia citizens,
will red ace it one hundred and eigb
teen millions of dollars annually, and
would very soon produce a deficit
The dmy on imported sugar is fifty
eevea millions of dollars. We raise
one eleventh of the amount imported.
The republican party proposed to take
the duty of? an average of two cents
per pound from sugar, and pay the pro
ducer at home the two cents per pound,
thereby saving the consumers fifty-five
million ot dollars annually, but the
democratic party wouldn’t hear to
that. They are perfectly willing to
sacrifice the great wool growing indus
try of the republican North on the al
tar of free trade by the total abolition
of the doty on foreign fleeces, but will
stand bj the few dexnoeratio sugar
planters in the South to the last. It
looks as though Cleveland was taking
good eare of his democratic constitu
ents. There are four thousand men
employed in Syracuse, if. X., in thp
talt industry. As soon ai the tariff is
taken off the wages of these men will
be redaced to the grade paid in Ches
hire, England. Well, would it be
wise for these men to Tote for Cleve
land? What would you think of any
man who raises wool to sell, voting
for Cleveland? Nine tenths of the
capital invested in the iron indnstries,
the cotton factories and the develop
ment of mining enterprises in tho
South, is north enr. It has been induc
ed to come here by favorable legisla
tion. It is now giving employment to
thousands of laborers, who are taken
fiom the plow, and no longer swell
the over prcd-iotion of cotton, bat be
come purchasers of what we have to
sell. No wonder that thousands ol
prominent democrats are oomißg oit
for Hinison, but I notice occasional
ly that one or two, who are a Uttie
weak in the upper atory, are also com
iug out for Cleveland.
Thos. Haydbu.
The Kiohest Man in the World.
Clans Sprecklee is the richest man
in the world. He resides in San Fran
cisco. Thirty years ago he was woik
ing tor fifty a month. He is now worth
two hundred million, which gives him
one hundred and seventy fire million
in excess of Jay Gonld, and one hun
dred and fifty million in excess of v an
derbilt. His three sons are worth
fifty million; total for the whole fami
ly three hundred and fifty thousand.
Spreckles has single banded, built up
the Hawaiian Island sugar trade un
der the reciprocity treaty. W r ithin ten
years the production there has inoreas
ed from 20,000 tons a year to 120,000
tons tor the present year. As the
island progressed so did the Spreckles
family. They raised sugar, then refiu
ed it, making large profits out of each
transaction. They bnilt a large Beet
of.railing vessels 'oi trading to and
from Honolulu, finally building, at
Cramp’s shipyards in Philadelphia
two of the ta eM aul best equipped
Amerieau steamers afloat They hnv*
since added two more steamers to 'heir
f-er, #acti .f which is 3 500 tons bo
<teu (exclusive of coal,) and have ex
tended ibeir trade to Aus'ralia, now
boloiQ' a coo taei with the Colonial
governments tor cari*vii g toe mails be
twcßa san Frarcisco and siduey.
Capt. Linden of Pinkerton’s deti*
tire loroe, has arrested Express Agent
Huber of Sunbury, Pa., for stealing
$29 600 from the Adams Express
Company, August iO, 1886. The
money was shipped from Philadelphia
to Shamokin, to pay the employes ot
the Mineral Mining Company; $6,000
was in gold and the remainder in notes
done np in packages of SI,OOO each.
The money was found recently in Hu
ber’s house behind the parlor mant< 1:
Eleven thousand was missing, and
what was left had not been taken from
the original package.
C. P. Lindley of Bridgeport, Coan ,
is probably the oldest commercial trar
eler in this country. He claims to
have been the first one who ever sold
by sample. He started from Meriden,
Conn., May 6, 1836, with a pair of
horses, and he has been on the road
praotioally sinae, fifty years.
The Digest of Habersham coua y
has been reeeived at the comptroller’s
office: 1,128,046 is tha amount of tax
able property retarned. Ai increase of
60,166 dollars ever last year.
FREE TO ALL.
Call at the Store of General Mer
chandise & Plantation Supplies,
Dry Goods, Notions,
Flour and Meat, Sugar and Coflee, for Cash, or Country Produce
Taken in Exchange at Highest Market Price.
W. C. J. GARRISON, Homer, Georgia.
Cheap Cash Store.
CPC' -
General Merchandise & Plantation
SUPPLIES, DRY GOODS& NOTIONS.
Keep on hand a full stock of Groceries, Flour, Meal, Meat, Sugars,
Coffees, Teas, Molases, Tobacco and Cigars. Country Produce Take*
in Exchange at Highest Market Price. When in town call in.
Notions and Groceries,
J. E. STEPHENS, HOMER, GA.
A Nice Line of Confectioneries,
3©^>
Country Produce Taken in Exchange at Higheet Market priewe.
