The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, August 26, 1891, Image 1

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VOL. VII. M1ANM- NG,- S. C-4 WE1)N"ESDAY, AUGUST 28 81 O 6 DOINT INVITE SORROW. SUFFICfEN UN-O THE DAY ISTHE EVit TH EREOF. i. Ta luz.4e ie.vh.c A Po a1wertul Sermon ou ibje Insanoit3 ..: l1)rrouing Trouble - It Ias Wro c'.# 4 Ma:,) x Litc---i he Lord Will Look Ou;t i(r You. UnooKI LYN. A u. 16.-Dr. Talmage has returned w iw s western tour rein viL:orated in heaXIt and cheered by the hearty and ettLusiastic greetings he has received iu the numerous cities he has visited. Thousands of persons who read his sermons in their local newspapers have struggled to get within sound ot his voice wherever he has spoken. His sermon this week is on the very common and ibolisLh habit of borrowingi trouble, and his text i-s Matthew vi, 34, "Suffi cit ut unto the dlay is the evil thereof." The life of every man. womin and child is as cloely under the divine care as though such person were the only man, woman or child. There are no ac cidents. As there is a law of storms in the natural world, so there is a law of troubie, a law of disaster, a law of mis forfuue; but tLe majoiLy of the troutles o1 life a -e imauar', and the niost of tl(;se antcipmted uever conie. AL any rate, there is no cause of complaint gaivst God. See how mach he hath doe to make thee iapp3; his sunshine tiilling ihe earth with glory, making rain bow ior the storm and halo for the mountain. greenness for - the moss, saf tru f.r the cloud and crystal ior the bil low, aud procession of bannered flame throu-h the openiug gates of the morn ing. cihaftiuches to sing, rivers to glitter, seas to chant, and springs to blossom, atd overpowering all other sounds with its s. nti, and overarching all other splen dor wih its triumph, covering up all olht r beauty v. ith its garlands, and out tiashig all other thrones with its dom inon--dehverance for a lost world througi the Great Redeemer. I a(iscourse of the sin of borrowing tivutle. Fh'Ist, such a habit of mind and heart is w6 rougii. because it puts one into a des poudeDy that ill fits lim for duty. I planted two rose bushes in my garden. The one thrived beautifully, the other perished. I ound the dead one on the shady side of the house. Our disposi tions, like our plants need sunshine. Expectancy of repulse is the cause of many ce ular and religious failures. Fear of banktuptcy has upsorn many a line business and sent the man dodging amois the note shavers. Fear, slander and abuse has often mvited all the long beaked vultures of scorn and backbiting. Many of the midIorLunes of life, like hyenas, Ilee if you courageously meet thew. FORCE HAPPINESS TO COME. How poorly prepared for religious duty is a man who sits down under the gio(m of expected misfortune! If lie pray, he saN s. -I do not think I shall be anwered." If he give. he says, -I ex pcet they will steal the money." Hlelen Chalmers told me that her, father, Thomas Chalmers, in the darkest hour of the history of the Free Church ot Scotland, and when the woes of the land seemed to weigh upon his heart, said to the children. -Come, let us go out and play ball or dv kite," and the only dif riculty in the play was that the children could not keep up with their father. The McChievnes and the Summerfields of the church who did the most good, cultivat <d sunlight.. Away with the horrors! they distill poison; they dig graves, and if they could climb so high, they would drown the rejoicings of heaven with sobs cnd w~ailing. You will have nothmng but misfortune in the future if you sedulously watch for it. IHow shall a man catch the right kind of fish if he arranges his line and hook and bait to catch lizards and water serpents? Hlunt for bats and hawks and tiats and hawks a wdui M. Hunt for robin redbreasu and y ou will 2nd robin redbreasts. One night an eagle and an owl got into Iisrce battle; the eagle un used to the ni&:ht was ren match for an owl, which is most ra hon.e in the (lark ness, and the king o'f the a'r fell helpless; but the moring rose, an~d with it rose the eagle; andi the on'is and the night l.awks and the bL.a came a second time to the combat; now, the eagle, in the sunlight, with a stroke of his talons and a great cry, cleared the air, and his enemies, with torn feathers and sp'ashed with blood, tumbled into the thickets. Ye are the children of light, lu the night of despondency 30 ou ill have no chance against ' our enemies that d~ck up from beneath, but, trusting in God and standinii in the sunshine of the prom ises, y ou shall "renew your youth like the eagle." - THERE A RE BLESSINGS A-PLENTY. Again, the habit of borrowing trouble is w rong b'ecause it has a tendency to make us ov erlook present blessing. To slake man's thirst, the rock is cleft, and cool wats leap into his brimming cup. Tro feed lus hunger the fields bow down with bendin wC heat, and the cattle come down with ful udders from the clover pastures to give him milk, and the oi chards yelw and ripen, casuing their juicy frints into his lap. Alas! that amid sucht exuberance of blessiu wan sh uhi arowl as though he were a soldier on haltf rations, or a sailor on short allowance, that aman should stand neck deep in l'arvests looking forward to famine; that one should feel the strong pulses of health marching with regular treah thre ugh all the avenues of life and set tremble at the expected assault of sickness; that a muan should sit in his phleasent home. tearfulithat ruthless want will some d ty rattle the broken window sash with tempest, and sweep the coals from the hearth, and pour hunget into the bread trady; that a man ft d by him who owns all die harvests should expect to starve; that one whom God loves and surrounds with benediction, and attends with angelic escort, and hovers over w ith more than niothierly fondnesss should be looking for a heritage of tears! Has Grod been hard with thee that thou. shouldst~berforebodmng? Has he stinted1 thy board? Has he covered thee with rags? I's hale spread traps for thy feet, aund galled Lcup, anud rasped thy soul, and wrecked tt.a with storm. and ihundered upo~n thee with a life full of calamnity? It 'our lIathier or brothet come into your bank were gold and sil~ ver are lying about you d,> not watch them, for you know they are honest; but i an entire stranger comec by the safe y eu keep your eye on him, for you do not know his designs. So some -neu treat G;od; not as a father, but a stran ner, and act suspiciously toward him, as though they a' ere afraid lie would steal someth~ing. 'ViHANIC( GUD FOR WHAT YOU HAVE. It is high~ time you began to thank God for your present blessing. Thank hiim for your children, happy, buoyant and unding Praise him for your home, with its fountain ot song and laughter, ..Adore him for mornmE bhtli and even i shadow. Praise im or fre1,h. cotl .ater bubbiiug from the rock, leaping in It ie cascade, soaring in the mint. tali n in the shower, dashing ag-aius. the rock a-id elapping its hiands in the tempest. Love him for the grass that cushivus the earth, and the clouds that curtain the sky, and the fhliage that waves in the forest. Thank 1im for a Bible to read, and a cross to gaze upon, and a Saviour to delivet. Again, the habit of borrowing trouble is wrong because the present is suili ciently taxed with trial. God sees that we all need a certain amount of trouble, and so he apportions it lor all the da)s and years of our life. Alas for te pl icy of gathering it all up for one day or )ear! Cruel thing to put upon the back of one camel all the cargo intended for the entire caravan. I never look at my memorandum took to see what engmie ments nd duties are far ahead. Let every week bear its own burdens. WHY BRING NEW SORROWS? The shadows of today are thick enough. why implore the presence of other shadows? The cup is already dis tastet 0, why halloo to disasters far dis tant to come and wringr out more gah into the bitternesr? Are we such cham pious that, having won the belt !a form er encou.ters, we can go forth to chal lenize all the future? lere are business men just able to manage affairs as they now are. They can pay their rent, and meet their notes, and manage affairs as they now are, but what if there should come a panier Go tomorrow and write on your day book, on your ledger, on your money safe. "Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." Do not worry about notes that are far from due. Do not pile up on your counting desk the financial anx ieties of the next twenty years. The God who has taken care of your worldly occupation, guarding your store from the torch of the incendiary and the key of the burglar, will be as faithful in 1691 as in 1881. God's hand is miahtier than the machmations of stock gamb.ers, or the plots of political demagogues, or the red right arm of revolutio- i, and the dark ness will fly and the storm fall aead at his feet. So there are persons in feeble health, and they are worried about the future. They make out very well now, but they are bothering themselves about future pleurisies and rheumatisms and neural gias and fevers. Their eyesight is fee ble, and they are worried lest they en tirelv lose it. Their hearing is indis tinct, and they are alarmed lest they be come entirely deaf. They felt chilly to day, and are expecting an attack of ty phoid. They have been troubled for weeks with some perplexing malady, and dread becoming lifelong invalids. Take care of your health now and trust God for the future. Be not guilty of the blasphemy of ask img him to take care of you while you sleep with your windows tight down, or eat chicken salad at 11 o'clock at night, or sit down on a cake of ice to cool off. Be prudent and then be confident. Some of the sickest people have been the most useful. It was so with Payson, who died deaths daily, and Robert Hall, who used to stop in the midst of his sermon and lie down on the pulpit sofa to rest, and then go on again. Theodore Fre linghaysen had a great horror of dying till the time came, and then went peace fully. Take care of the present and let the future look out for itself. "Suflicient unto the day is the evil thereof." ROBS US OF WHAT STRtENGTH~ WE HAVE. Agamn, the habit of borrowing misfor tune is wrong because it un~ts us for it when it actually does come. We can not alw.iys have smooth sailing. Life's path will sorhietimes tumble among de clivities and mount a steep and be thorn perced. Judas will kiss our cheek and then sell us for thirty pieces of silver. Human scorn wIll try to crucify us be tween two thieves. We will hear the iron gate of the sepulcher creak and rind as it shuts in our kindred. But ie cannot get ready for these thiogs by foreboding~. They who fight imaginary woes will come, out ofI breath, into con flict with the armed disasters oi the Iu ture. Tiheir ammnunitron will have been wasted long before they come under the guns of real misfortune. Boys in at tempting to jump a wail sometimes gZo so fiar back in order to get impetus that when they come up they are exhausted; and these long races in order to get spring enongh to vault trouble bring us up) at last to the dreadful reality with our strength godie. Finally, the habit of borrowing trou ble is w rong because it is unbelief. God has promised to take care of us. The Bible blooms with assurances. Your hunger will be fed; your sickness will be alleviated; your sorrows will be healed. God will sandal your feet and smooth your path, and along by frowning crag and opening grave sound the vo:ces or victory and good cheer. The summer clouds that seem thunder chiarged really carry in their bosom harvests of wheat, and shocks of corn. and vineyards pur ping for the wine press. The wrathiul wave will kiss the feeto01 the great storm walker. Our great Joshua will com mand, and above your soul the sun ot prosperity will stand still. Bleak and wave struck 1Patmos shall nave apo calyptic vision, and you shall hear the cry of' the elders, and the sweep of wings, and trumpets of salvation, and the voIce ofI 11allelujah unto God for ever. PLACE YOUR TRUST IN GOD. Your way nmay wind along dangerous bridle paths and am d 'wolF's howl antd the scream of the vulture, but the way sifl wiuds upward ti 1 angels guard it, and trees of life everarch it, and thrones line it. and cry stallinev rountains leap on It, andl the pathway ends at gates that are pearl, and strc ets that are gold, and temples that are al xais openi, and lills that quake with perpetual song, and a city mingling torever Sabbath and jubi lee and triumph and coronation. Let pleasure chant her siren song, 'Tis not the song for me; To weeping it will turn e'er long, For this is heaven's decree. But there's a song the ransomed sing, T1o Jesus, tiheir exalted king, With joyful heart and tongue, Oh, that's the song for nme! Courage, my brother! The father does not gin e to his son at school enough money to last him several years, but. as the bills for tuition and board and lothing andh books come iU, pays them. So God will not give you grace all at once for the lature, but will meet all your exigencies as they come. Through earnest prayer, trust him. Put every thng in Giod's hiand, and leave it there. Large interest money to pay will soon eat up a farm, a store, an estate. and the interest on borrowed troubles will swamp anybody. - Sutlicient unto the ay is the eil thereof."' ALLI NcE BATTLE CIY. VIRGINIA FARMERS WANT MORE MON EY FOR THE PEOPLE. The Annual MeetiZUg Of tihe Statle Ali I:tnce at Richmueond-PJre~sIdent l'age's Address, in w .ch he Stat-s the Grie ano- of the Farmcrs. R IoIMoND, VA., August 18.-TueI fourth annual session of the Farmers' Alliance met here to-day at noon, and was called to ordtr by President M-nn Page, of Prince (Iorge County, alte-r which the toors we-re closed. There were ninety oda delegates pr-sent. President Page delivered his annual address, in which he says: "White w e are a stanch advocate of individual liberty we have be-en forced to band ourselves together as an organ izationl of olfence against combines aid trustt, which, under the sanction o! law have sprung up in i be last twenty-ive yeais, forcibly abso bing individual -n terpries and depriving the prodtuem:!g claisses of a nariet for the salt- of tue.r produce except at pricts below the cost of production. "We are told, wlien we complain of prices being under the cost of produc tion, that the cause is over-production, yet Ex-Senator Ingalls, who, by the chastening hand of the Kansas Alli ance now poses as a 'statesman with out a job,' and who, for many Nears, as sisted in the enactmeut of laws which now oppreses u. sa3s that from 1860U to 1890 wealth has been accumulated to the amount of S100,o0,000Co00. Y t there are 10,000.000 of people who never have euough to eat from one year's end to the other. "1 pause to ask why it is that, with this accumulation of b~lli ms of wealth and with an increase of thirty-eight millions of people, there should now be $502,000,000 less money in circulation. The chief cause, in my opinion, is at tributable to an Act passed by Congress establishing national banks, for through the influence of these Lanks, an Act demonetizing silver was so adroitly passed that Senators and Rep resentatives have since declared that they were ignorant of the provisious of this Act, and President Grant was not aware of it when he signed the bill." iHe then cited Chief Justice Chase as having acknowlelged when Secretary of the Treasury that he made a mis take in advocating the national bank ing law and President Lincoln as fore shadowing the evils that are al leged to confront the farmers to-day. Ile next alluded to the sub-treasury plan submitted at St. Louis, whicn received no consideration by the last Congress, but at the instigation of Wall street has called forth a storm of abuse, ridicule and misrepresentation. "It the incoming Congress will not grant financial relief let us see that 1,hir places be filled in 1892 by those who will enact laws for the protection ot the agricultural producer and labor er. I :,gain appeal to you to stand shoulder to shoulder in sustaining the demands of the Supreme Council as adopted at Oca!a. If we are to win this lighit tor our rights as free- and equal ciiit imst be accomplished by closer ranks and a determn)tion that, with the help of Gud, we wili do and entture until we can again make this a Government of the people, by the people and fur the people. "1o the question now asked nith seewing anxiety by the politicians and the press as to what party the Farm er' Alliance belongs, I answer we are not a pohtical party. We have a plat form of principles to which we invite the aid and co-operation of all, and the time h as arrived when our intereste de imand that we should do our best to in dluce the political parties of which we are members to assist us. Yet we ought not to subordinate the obligations we have assumed to the dlictates of those who prefer party to principle. "1 now invite your attention to the elections soon to be held in this State for members of tihe Legislature. To leave the selection of candidates to our par:.y bosses and wire-putllers would prove uusate. We should atte-nd the local meetings of our partius and se that the delegates to all nominating conventions arc instructed to reqiuie of candidates a pledge to aid and assist in creating a rilroad commission to act in conjunction with the Inter-State commerce commission and clothed with the ioul power of the State to pro teet ber citizens froii unjust discrimri nations in freight and passenger rates on the pait o1 the railroids and other lhues of transportation, including the steamboat lines of our rivers and bays "Railroad corporations have for years controlled legislation until the Acts passed through the iniluence of their representatives have robbed the State oi millions of stock, thereby dlepriving her of her voice in the board of diree tots of railroad comnpanies chartered by her, n itn the result that the oflices of these roads are removed beyond the conilnes of the State, tious dleprivmng her of thousands or dollars which would otherwise ne expended among our people. I would recommend that inqluiry re made into the re-port that at the late meeting between representatives of the State and of foreign nondholders there was only a difference of $t60AMU pre ventiug a jinal settlemennt of tue -,tate d0bt, for if it can~ be shown that the tinances ot this Stat will justify the acceptance of this diff-erce withouit increasinrg taxation or interfering with the appropriation necessary t o aumnusri ter our' State Government and provide for our asylums, scho sls aud colleges, I believe we would b~e benenited by the estaolishmennt of her credit anid 1 he State would be saved thousands of dol lars annually no w expended in the pay ment of attorneys' ltees and costs in Cie (efending coupon suits." lie suggests that the State Secreta ry be locatedl in Richbmond, refers to the expense oh the present ilectutre system, compliments tne Alliance press rid closes with an admonition for thre Alli aiice to stand together. At the conclusion of the president's address, which was heartily applauded, the various committees were appoinited. Col. Polk was present and deliveredl a brief addiess, after which the Conveni tion adjourned until to-miorrow. fo-night a public Alliance mneeting was held at the 31ezart Acuademyr, w hieh w 'as addressed by~ Col. Polk, pres ident of the National .Alliance. The meteting, though small in numbers, was most enthusiastic. Mlajor Mlann P'a'e presented and introduced MIayor .J. Taylor Edison, who gracefully ve 1 - comned President Polk to the city. Mlajor Page thien presented M1r. IPolk t o the atidieuce ats -one of thbe most abusEtid ais well as one of most beloved men in the United States." Polk commenced by returning thanks for the cordi-i greetirg and expressed gratillicaition at trne opportunity of addressing the audi Continuing he said: '"We are not here to discuss party politics, but prin ciples. We have rnd taify enough. There is a great misapprehension of the true aim and objects of our Order." IIe then proceeded to brieily read the principles of the Order. '-Merchants," s~a h en -yuare in toe hoat with us. It is manned by farmers and 1i it Sinks You go down with ts.'" la discusslg ihe 1-nancal l 'ey of tihe UInte.1 Staies he chaI ged i hat un (r the banking systei mor:ey was loant d to rich corporations a? 1 per ent, while they w ere a-low d to chaige the farn-rs S per cent. That is John Sher iian statesmanship, said the speaker, but the A!ianct do not w:ant anzy of it in theirs. lie argued th-at 'rtiess the people a . se in their might and wiped oil the ex\itit.g monetary system of the Go v. ermnieznt. there will come a financial crash such as this coumtry has never witnesed." Further he said, "We do not propose to keep up this sectional issue in the Soutli and be scared by the negro. We are not begging for support i of charity, but justice, and by the help t of God we will have it. Ile declared that the Alliance was ighting for the principles of governnent as exeinplified by Washington and Jefferson. Ile urged the iieuibers of th Alli arice not to b:- misled by the politician's cry of the sub-treasury biil. That till had teen killed by the laht Cnress but, said he, there n ill be another oae. If any naan can tell of one Act passed by the last Congress for the benelit of the people let him hold up his hand. None went up. "Discard the lawyers. and send men to Congress with brains at one end and boots at the other." Ile graphically pictured Gen. Grant looking for a weak place in Gen. Lee's lines during the war, finding it at the crater, and Grant's forces being en gulfed there. Thus he carparei the late of the two parties who were now attempting to find a weak place in the 9 Alliance lines - t Continuing, he said: "If it be ab!.o utely necessary to wipe out both polit ical parties in order that we may obtain relief I would do so." le disclaimed, however, any intention in the Aliance forming a Third Party, and argued that if it were done the Democratic or Republican party would be respoasible for it. le closed with the words. -What we need is a higher type of moral manhood in high places." Col. Polk spoke about two hours and t times held the audience spell-bound. t Ie v-as applauded throughout his t speech' OUR GREAT WEALTH. t Farm 1'roducts Increase One Elelilion Dol lars in Value. r NEWi Yonx,-z Au,-. 19.-The farm( products will be 1,000,000,000 more lis year in the United States than they 1 ave been during the rccent years of c epressiou. At least this is the estimate t put forward by The American Azricul- r turist in its annual review of harve:ts, to be published in the forthcoming issue I f that ma-zazine. t On the basis of the present prospects I this authority estimates the corn crop . of 1891 at 2,000,000,000 bushels, wheat 500,000,001 and oats 622.00,000 bush- U els, against 1,500,000.000, 4U0,000,000 v and 524,000.000 bushels respectively in 801, and 1.700,000,00, 445,000,000 p d 578,000,000 bushels as the average lor the preceding eleven years. This c makes the total prospective crop of corn, xheat and oats 3,122,000,000 bushels. , :r 28.8 per cent. greater than last year g aud 14.7 per cent. over the average of I the preceding eleven years. t 9i The American Agriculturist believes t. hat uuless unexpected influences whol lv change the current of events the val e of corn on the farm will average in December fully 50 cents per bushel, wheat 81 per bushel, and oats at least 41 cents. On this basis the value of ~ C the corn cr0op to the 'armers will be $1,- hi 00,000,000', wheat $500,000,000, and v ats 8250,000.(00, or a total of $1,750i,- a 00.000. p This is $450,000i,000J more than the t value of the crops in 1890, and 8G25.- t LI00,000 more than the value of the aver- r nge of these cropls from 1880 !.o 1890 in- e lusive. Cotton and cae will command C better prices than last season. Cattle are wo'rth one-third more than eighteen month ago. with other live r stock in proportiou. Tobacco is advane inhavly for cigur leaf, contracts being c made ihr the crop in the field at au ad- v cance of 15.50 per cenut. over last year. t [lops are lirm at good prices. Winter mrui ill command large values, and all vetables are yielding :airly, with every C inadjeation of a remunerative market. 1 The paper. couuinlg, says: "The ~ e~xport outlook was never better; ima-r mnselv increasedl sums will be sent to as fr our prod uce. Ulterior influences may, of course, interfere with this bril-, !iant lorospect, but w e confess we are bainning to share more fully the hopes at crtain well informed but conserva live aeri ulturists. who predict better proits~ lor the famers of the Uniteda Staes during the next live sears than f ever belore."'' he American Agricul- I turist 5ays there wiii be no return to t war pict s." but the money received t above expenses will go further and eu aule the larmer to get msore value out 01 bis prolits than at an' previous per TIhe Aiken .iournald and lievie~w, of last week, says: "Thie melon growveis have comei out at the little ena of the hirn this year, receiving, in a mauter. n~titg fur their melons. Whether the failre in price is due to cver p'rodue tioni or a comiuiationi on the part of cumnlSion men North to s windle them we knowv not. One fact is pa ient, there has been no nuoney made .zn the melon crop this year. A noumber of cars have been shipped from this point, ro which not hung has been heard. :Some have shippo and the comnmission mena have brought the shipper out in debt for a balance due on freight., wvhile others hiave received ret urns allowing only a few dollars over and above ex peses. .Mr. Andrew Burckiialter ship leu a car load of miagniilleent mielons 1170 in niumber that weighed :37,000 ponds. lIe refused 5..0 cash at the I depot. lle received the retun of sales Friday eniclosing a check for 81.90 as the e- proceeds aiter pay ing all ex-t enses. 3Mr. Duncan, the Auditor of the Cumberland Gap Road, shipped a car load of mielonis on his own account recently from w hich he has heard not h ing. lIe is reported to tbe extremielyv anxious for fear he will not get back the car. A Terrible Tumtibl,. fI CtcAo., Aug. 18.-A Globe special 1 from ani Francisco says: A traim con- el sisting ot an engine and twenty-two .U ears on the G eenv. eod Itailroad, In p lendociuo County, jumped the track h on a bluff and disappieared in the Pacif- ec i Ocean. 'The crew escaped by jump- ft ig and swimming ashore.. At the point whlere the train went ii v~er, the road runs along the side of a v: cliff. from which there 1s a sheer de scent of about litty feet into the water. al The track is perfectly secure and the rt trains run over it at good speed at ali I imes. The ill-fated one wnich yesterjh lay waus lost is not heavier than those e: which daily make the trip, nor was it a running at'a greater rate of speed. Tho c; cars were loaded and sank rapidly, Ia. ha la cmp1lel swa llorwrd nn. DIBBLE ON THE TARIFF. PLAIN, PRACTICAL TALK TO THE FARMERS AT ORANGEBURG. rhe Right of the Government to I:npose Taxce- Rgusattd by the Conmistution Open 3iarkets aid Free Ccrpetitlom the Salvat ion of the Country. At the recent summer meeting of the itate Agricultural and Mechanical ociety at Orangtburg, Ex-Congress ian Dibble made the following inter sting and instructive address on the aiff: Mr. President and Gentlemen of the tate Agricultural and Mechanical iocietv: I appear before you as a sub titute for one who would have enter ained you more than I can, he being a tan of gifted speech and a close stu eut of this great economic question, nd I confess that in the short time I ave had to consider this subject under he circumstances in which I appear efore you it is diflicult to embrace in tie limited closing hour of this meeting he subject to such an extent as to be f ary very practical benefit to us. It ; a subject that is so broad and has onsumed so much in its discussion, as so many ramitications entering into 11 ttie avocations of life and affecting very consumer, and incidentally every roducer, that it is very hard without a reat deal of time and care in prepara ion to condense in a few remarks what to be said on this subject even as it ffects the interest of the South Caro na plant er. In the 50th Congress such of the de ates as I was able to collect in the (-nate and House on the Mills bill ere compiled in three volumes, each he size of this which I hold in my and. Of course all this subject of xation interests us, and THE TARIFF IS A TAX, rd under our system of government e matter ot Federal and State taxes as been distributed under the Consti ution in such a way that the power of riff taxation has been exclusively ested in the Federal Government. hat eing so. it is necessary to have a ariff for the support of the Govern ,ent, because, in a measure, at least. he other fields of taxation should be eserved to the State, and the Federal rovernmnent should not go into all the elds of taxation. The State should .ke some and the Federal Government thers. Under the Constitution the ustons duties are especially relegated o the sphere of Federal influence. The peration of the tariff, considered in its eations as an economic question, hould be adjuzted in such a manner hat the interests of every section of Le country and of every class of its sopulation should be as nearly as pos ible equally ccnserved; that is to say, at in the proper adjustment of this urden it should be arranged in such a ay as to give an equal chance to the roducer and to the consumer as far as sible THE 31ARKETS S11OULD BE OPEN. Now there is no possible harm to me to any class of consumers in any art of the counirv whei e a tariff tax ; to be levied on'the importation of oods where the consumer has the rivilege, which every freeman ought > have in a free country like ours, of le competition of those who have that lerchandise to sell. The Constitution f the Unitt ( :tates says that every bing that is not expressly granted to e General Government is reserved to ie States, and further, reserved to the olpe, andi the individual right of ery man to purchase the goods where e can purchase them to the most ad antage is one of the dearest rights of freeman in the protection of his pro erty, and unless there is something in ie Constitutio:3 -which deprives one of bat right then it is one of the reserved ghts under the Constitution, and very individual American citizen is titled to its exercise. Theref ore, in the first place, any tariff uty whiich is prohibitory and excludes ny citizen in any part of the c-ountry rom the privilege of .buying foreign ods in piace of American goods if he ooses to do so, is in my judlgment a iolation of the Constitution in its let er and in its spirit. Again, on the other hand, FREE TnADE WOULD NOT sUIT ur section or this country, to say noth ig of other portions. If we bad no ustom house at all then that source of evenue to the Government would be ken away e atirely. In the first place, e would have the objection that it ould interfere very materially with be burdens which the State has un-. sed for the support of its Govern ent, by doubling the taxes in so:ne of hose lields, and if direct taxation were eorted to then, under the Constitution ud under the principle for which our orefathers fought in the American tevolution, taxation and representa ion must go hand in hand, both of hem ased u pon population, and in the tune manner that South Carolina has 1 the Federal councils about one ftieth of the representationi she should ave to bear tinder the Constutution e fiftieth of the direct tax burden of he Government. Therefore, if dlirec-t uxes were levied as State taxes are~ vied the quota of South Carolina gould be, with an e-xpendiiture of 35,00 000 a y ear, about $7,000.90 ori 1~,0,0 for each Re~presenttive in ongress. That would lie burden-some nd destructive to us, so that tree tran -itli direct taxation would not suit us. no0w THlE COTTON P'LANTEn is Si UEEZED. It seems to me that the interest ien w e represent here to day is one t is entitled at least to fair conside .itio-n fimm the. one fact that in inter ationai exc-hange we furnish the larg t value annually exported froi the ited States to the markets o:f the ord. Thle cotton crop of this coun ry pays a larger part of the mioney tor Ic goods imported into this country ian any other, the breadstuifs cornung xt, tre provision crop next un-ll pe lemn and kerosene and things of that rt, anid next to that comning tobaceo. e furnish very nearly one-th-rd of ae entire export value in the article r cotton alone. and exceed bre-adstuffs y a very considerable amount. Now e are ce rtainly entitled when we send ur cotton erop for foreign consunmp .n~ to have a fair chance if we desire make purchases of foregn articlts in ctauge. As the trriff is to-day it af sts us injuriously on this account. u the irst place, we will take what I nceive to be a fair basis for the ad istment. of tils question bet ween the coducers abrond, aiid the consumers re and the producers at home, and i i perhaps best state that in a shrt rm by reading a few paragraphs hich I -iave used on another occasion tanother place in expressing amy lews on this subject' "At American consumer desires an -ticle which the foreign seller cau with asonabe prolit place in the port of ew York on this side of the custom use for $5, but the borne producer umnot .ell the satme article anti make fair profit for less than SG. In this tse a dutty of 61 puts the American id foreign sellers in fair com atiion prevents monopoly, gives the 1American consumer the advantage of choic- of sources of supply, thus insur ing low )rices, enables the A merican capitalist to make a fair profut on his investment and p:iy proper wages to the American laborer, and the foreign t seller possess some American product - for his return cargo, thus stimulating 1 i some other American iodustry and in creasing our commerce. After awhile the American industrv under the stim ulus of competition invents improved machinery or utilizes improved ineth ods of transportation or exchange, and is enabled to put 'nis article on the mar ket at a lessened value, and the for eigne-r, in order not to lose a foothold in the American market, 's compelled to do so likewise to the benefit of the consumer." Whenever the tariff Is so adjusted 1 that the true difference of cost in pro- t duction abroad and the production at i home is represented by the duty the consumer has no right to complain, be cause he has the competition lietween the two in a fair market. When I make that observation I make it with this ; qualification: I mean on things that are produced normally in this country. 1 don't think that tin comes under that clause at all, or articles of "bat kind which we cannot produce with any facility, but I mean those articles which a we may in the ordinary operation of manufacture produce in this country. It is to the advantage of us as consum- a ers in the long run to have the duty t put on that basis. To illustrate that a let me read further, and here is my idea r of what is called a t;ariff for protection and the way in which i. operates: THE SIN OF PROTECTION. I "Suppose in the instance where the t foreign seller can offer an article at $5 and the duty, and the American pro Jucer cannot profitably sell it for ltss ( than $6, that the duty were placed at $2, there you see the article brought a ordinarily at a fair profit into the port e of New York at $5, with the duty of a $2 would cost $7. The American pro ducer can produce it profitably at $6. d The American consumer is no longer i able to buy from the foreign producer. and the American producer, instead of r being content with the S6, which gives i him a fair profit charges $6 50, making a an excessive profit and enjoying a mon- a opoly,since the duty excludes theforeign f product at $5 and $2 duty, which would 0 make $7, and as the foreign producer t does not send his goods here there is no 9 return cargo of American product sent C abroad. For a short period the Ameri can monopolist makes excessive profits but this attracts capital to the same field, then foil >ws over production, and home comp'tition reduces the price to t $6, and below 86 perhaps, but as soon e as pt ices go down from the surfeit of n the market the capitalist begins to call on wage workers for a corresponding re- 1 duction in wages, for capital does not n part with excessive profits if it can shift the loss to the laborer. The result is the formation of combinations or d trusts to keep up prices at the expense of the consumers and the crushing out t of competitors who decline to enter the C comb;ne." THE TARIFF THE PARENT OF TRUSTS. P This is the second stage in which the d tariff presents itself in the workings of 8] our tariff system. We have seen i'l c this country that industries excessively e protected produc-s such enormous re- N turns that they become cver-stocked. S1 Then comes the trust in order to com- a bine these industries ar.d keep up ri prices, and the protective tariff is real- n ly the parent of this systen of trusts. tl "On the other hand, another feature, t, suppose that the article which the lor- a eigner can ship to our shores for $5 is m admitted free, and drives out the home 0 product, which cannot be profitably il made for less than $6, the result is T hat o the home labor quits all over the field and capital is taken away from those industries and laborers sent somewhere s else; either this or starvation wages. . The~ consumer after the struggle gets gj lower prices, but after the conflict ends becomes dependent on English produ- ~ cers, who take advantage of the dis- t tance and monopoly t-: corner prices, a There is opportunity for return cargoes of American products where there is ~ t a stimulus of commerce, which is not the case in such a tariff. Both the pro tective and the free trade tariff fall shoit of advautages afforded by a tariff tc for revenue." THlE FORtEIGN AND hOM3E 3IARKETs. As you see with the teeming produc- a tion of European factories, wherever e: the English and the continental nmantu- r facturerlfinds a lair field for his wares e he is going to carry them, and when- C ever the tariff doe-s niot overstep the e true dilference of cost of production of s: standard articles and articles of neces- 1I sity' here and abroad, then foreign arti- y cdes are coming in and we as consum p tage of the foreign market and of the ti hoir.e market. The foreigner brings t! his goods here and the home man cain I make them and meet hio on etlual S terms, havin; always the advantage of c proximity, which is a great adv intage, f not suflicient, however, to exclude the % foreigner; and that tariff unde'r the rev- ri enue priniciple will necessarily irinig c; the tbeat revenue to the c-orntry. When ti you go above that and umke it uniproti- tl table so that the foreigner will desist u f rom comiing at all, the purpose of tne t the Coinstitut:on is destroyed and the re-ve nue is diminished. When, on the r Other hand. 3on invite a ilood of for t t-igu products, manutaetu rtd cheaper than we can~ possibly mianufacture them here, and ahut our houme mill:<, tl while fot a sa aon the go.'di may be a: cheap, yet whenever tne home compe- p titi on is ut rerly destroy ed we are at tne t :leerey of tihe hoacignier, and the tenden- t1 e y is to raise an xce ss of revenue anden- i coutrage extravagance arnd expenditure si of public mon-ys. The-refore, we can p; well observe that the lest system is a: that system which wiil give us the ad- a vantage of foreign and home competi- -it ion on as nearly equal terms asi possi- iit ble. That is the aoctrine which has g, been advanced anid supported, which is si really ou anal) sis the doctrine Of 0 PRESIDENT CLEVELAND's CELEBRIATED C 0 lRepublicans go into a different p si tion. They take the position that there er muust be a protection to home industries which wiul give great advantages to our manufacturers so that the'y canb make a larger proft than the foreigner possibly can make in senidiog his goods to our shores. That was the principle fc of the McKinley bill, thie other the prmn- re ciple of the Mills bill. The Mills bill c reduced in a very slight degree that ti, tariff existing previously thereto, the r tariff of 1883. The McKinley bill passed y( by the last Congress. the party iu power a being cownmitted to that idea, and Me- d Kinley heing one of its ablest and most p foremost advocates, they went to an p extreme which is unprecedented iii it American history in any time of peace. y Tne result of it hxas bee-n that in thew month of .July of this year. as I remem- ai ber, the foreign products have been kept away from our ports so that the b duty nlas been $8.000O.000 less than it was for the month of July last year, T arid under the present system of expend itures the Government will have to re sort to other burdens tupon the people C; in order to make up the deficiency tr which is bound to occur in the course of of a few years it matters go on in that pa way The consumer has higher pries Il md the benefit is derivcd by the pro- s ected industries. P o AMI:I:ICAN INDUSTInY NEEsos e CRUTCHES. So far as the principle is concerned t here is no reason in, the % orld why any t, ndustry in this country should be pro- c ected into existence. On what princi- e )le has the Govern ment the right to say 0 o a man who goes into an industry t yhich is unprofitable here, "We witI ,ive you a monopoly of the markets of his country until you can establish our industry, in the hope that in the c uture you will be able to manufacture a md get such a foothold and simplify n our processes that you will be able to a ell cheaper at some distant day in the ti uture, and therefore the consumer will* ltimately get the advantage?" The ifference between the Government of his country and of despotic countries ci s that we are under a Constitution vhich gives every citizen perfect equal ty, that forbids the Government to do ust that very thing. and if this thing a 3 to be done under the influen!e of0 arge bodies of capital and of legislators s perating in sympathy with these large sl ,dies of capital, the inevitable result tC s the oppression of the poorer but more umerous clase of the community, and di ne might as well be under a despot as tZ bsolute as the Shah of Persia, who dis- e( enses his favor to one at the expense b f another, as to be unt'er that system b ctuated by the majority of a legisla- c: ive body, because there is no tyranny t' nywhere more despotic than the tv- t anny of a legislative majority in a pop- tt Jar body when they :ue t:'restrained ei 'y any constitutional restricti3ns. I .l ever have subscribed to the doctrine it hat a majority can do no wrong. It ri i falsitieu in the experience of our cl ountry and of every other country. ,, onstitutions are made to prctect the rf ights of minorities because majorities a re liable todo wrong, and in the divid d responsibility of a large body they U re much more apt to do wrong than is single tyrant. The true criterion un- t er a popular government is that a leg dative body should do what is right, al ud the test of right is the true test in egard to all these matters, and the mi ority is entitled to as much protection s the larger mass of the community, r nd. the popular government is not munded on the doctrine carried with ut limitation of the greatest good to Ae greatest number. It is the greatest ood to the greatest number that can e administered without doing injus- b, ce to a single individual citizen. t HtOW TIIE TARIFF IIURTS THE sOUTiI. Pi Under the operation of the tariff we pi ave suffered great disadvantages in CI ae development of this section, impov- el rished by the war. In the purchase of $ iachinery, in procuring the various ni ibrics and other articles of consumtion b( e have been confined entirely to do- di iestic markets. Articles which would b( nswer ourpurposes better from'abroad at e cannot get. Why ? Because the n, uty is probibitory upon them and we w ave to go to home markets. Unfor- p1 inately, like everything else in the T ,onomy of society, this evil becomes J( meliorated in a measure after awhile .4a y so many parties rushing into that SE articular line of business as to pro- SC lice competition. Manuifactories cc ringing up in various parts of the bi untry ameliorate this evil, but the t1' vil is there and it ought not to exist. fii hen we come down to individual in- cl ances we can find that all around us, fc nd the operation of it, has. I suppose, er tarded us in our material advance- cc ient more than any other cause since NE ie war. I regard this question of the ce iriff as moze important to us as an m gr-cultural population, a population 10 hich exports and trades abroad, than in uestions of circulation and currency, tb nportant as they are. It is the econ-. mic question of the hour with us. hi A CASE IN POINT. "Suppose the city of Orangeburg tl sould say to any one of her citizens. 'on can take any article from here to J e town of Banmberg and sell it there,m ut when you come back you cannot ny anything in Br.mberg, because iose things are sold in Orangeburg PC nd you cannot bring them back unless re ou ~pay a duty as you cross the city a2 oundary,' and that duty was put at at och a figure as to make it practically to robibitory. That was the commer-d' ial system of the dark ages. That was e system under which the towns of urope were buried in the days when olitical economy was not understood, w nd every to wn had its own tariff. T be nlightened views on political econo my, which have been advanced by the lose observation of internationai ex- at hanges and by the study of political th conomy on its true principles have dis-h ipat'ed that absurdity, but yet it is on Sreproduced in another forni when W otu make that tariff for protection sirm ly the basis of the tariff which theb onstitution says has been committedI' > the General teovernment solely b r er d purpose of raising revenue. While T~ i form the Cougress of the United m tates has the right to do it, yet in prin- a iple they say 'under a power given us i >r the purpose of raising revenue we :ill prevent ourselves from raising t evenue on suich and such thing be- h use Mr. So and So makes those th ings, and has capital invested in tb te and would not make as much cC oney if we were to put him in cc mnpe ition with foreign dealers.'" I will read a short section and close dE iy remarks, for it is moy object simply l agive you a few general ideas: sPECIAL PI'IiLEGEs TO NONE. li "There are three parties interested in L me rate of duty to be imposed on any hE rticle imported, whose mnterests are es- t ecial!.v under the care of our legisla- t se bodies itn this country. There are t .ree interesi s and those three interests,. eing the interests of America~n citizens, t iould be entitled to equal care on the if art of our legislative bodies. They ce re the home capitalist, the home work- ' an and the home consumer. The cap-m alist should have a fair return for his l ivestment, the work man should have 00(d wages for his labor and the con ime-r shlould have protection from M verc'arges by means of speculative Gi >mbinations and corners, or by reason Si Ssuch discrimination as shuts off all in ireign competition and where it is .a: possible to get more than the dilfer- umi ~ce of cost here and abroad; then all Cc that excess is solely in the interest tia the home capitalist at the expense of en th the workman and the consumer, Ci r the capitalist does not share his ex- th 'a profits with his workmen. There- fo re, when duties exist th!ey should be sa .duced to some such figures as will in >ver the ditfference of cost of prodrtic- tit on here and abroad, and that is tilep il which President Cleveland set Cc >rth in his message in words that were mi amistakable, and it always will pro- ta ice a steady and sure revenue, and is -oducing sure and steady revenue it tic ill keep the General Government, if -ere property administered and eco >mically carried on, out of the fields ich the State should have for taxes d id will enable our States to tiitze the Cc rious kinds of taxation to ease the oif irdens which we are tuder. E FEDFAAL sYSTEM IN sTATE TAX ATION. Take for instance the State of South la~ rolina with the 86.000%J0 debt it is ed: ving to refund. With the exception in the phosphate royalty the money to to y the interest on that debt and carry tiv the GoCvernment in its cnurrent expen- En s has to be raised by taxing you and e, and all of us, according to our prop ty. The federal Government has re )rted to income taxes, and resorts at ie present time to intcrnal revenue Lxes. If we, in South Carohina, could ibstitute in the State the power of )llecting just the taxes that are now )llected by the General Government a the article of tobacco alone within ie borders of South carolina, or on hiskey, our income would be so assur I and the burdens of our people so uch Jightened that we would have )mparatively no financial trouble at 1, and with the revenue tariff proper adjusted there never would be y danger that the Government in me of peace would have to resort to iy of these extraordinary and irregu ,r methods of taxation which were in nded by the Constitution to be exer sed only in times of war and other nergecies of a public nature, and we ould ah be in a much better condition. herefore, that doctrine which has been nounced and m tintained by one class statesmen from the days of Jeffer on down, that the tariff for revenue iould be levied in such a manner as furnish the resources of the Govern ent economically conducted, is in the-. rection of low trade rather than high ade, because, as has been demonstrat I by the operation of the McKinley 11, a high tariff cuts off revenue, and a low tariff the revenue would be in eased, and therefore, be ample for all e demands of the Government. In Le same manner that an excursion ain on the railroad will realize a larg amounc at low rates than they would a high rate because of the greater ducement to travel which the low tes affords, so the reduction of duties Leapens products. increases their im )tation and the amount of revenue ised therefrom, and gives to the States ield where they can resume somewhat e old importance of States in this nion, or at least of having the power raising revenues untrammelled by General Government entering into hat is peculiarly their sphere of taxa ion. fApplause.1 CLEANED UP A COUNCIL. relbie Protest of Tax Payers of Kansas City. KANSAs CITY, Mo., Aug. 1.-The ayor and city council of Kansas City Lrely escaped vengeance last night at e hands of a crowd of about 800 tax yers. The excitement rose over a oposition of the city council tZ. kr ase the plant of the consolidated nctric light and power company for 40,000. There was much public indig Ltion over the proposition, it being lieved by many that improper in icements had been offered to the. mem rs of council to pass the ordinance thorizing the purchase. The indig tion culminated last night when a ass meeting of tax payers was held to otest against the proposed purchase. ie meeting was in charge of Hom. hn B. Scroggs, the head of the Xan s City bar. Several intemperate eeches were made and finally Mr. roggs addressed a crowd from the urt house steps. He denounced in tter language the proposed action of e councii. Finally a committee of teen was appointed to call at the coun chamber and present a protest be re the ordinance could be passed. The >wd, vy its own motion, joined th3 mmittee and the march to the city 11 was taken up. As the march pro eded the excitement grew until the utterings of the crowd became more ud and bitter and finally culminated shouts of "Lynch them" and "Hang em." The crowd had worked itself up to a gh pitch of indignation when the city .11 'was reached. I2n the mean time e council had been Informed of the ogress of the mob and a hasty ad urnment was taken. The last alder an had barely beat a rapid retreat ien the advance guard of the mo~b shed into the chamber to be disap inted at finding it empty. The crowd solved itself into a mass meeting 'an, and more speeches were made, emayor and council being denomin ed as cowards and thieves. Finally e mob dispersed without doing any mage. BABIES ARE CH EAP hen They Are sold at Fifty Cents Apiece. ALBANY, Ga., Aug. 19.-A remark le tale comes from Worth county of e depravity of a young mother on one ,nd and the kindness of a man and fe on the other. For twelve years Ranse Alford has en happily married, he and his wife ing usost of the time in East IDough vy, where they worked on a farm. is year, however, Alford and his wife ~ved to Acree, where they set up on small farm for themselves. They are dustrious negroes, and enjoy the re ect and contidence of all who know em. But the union of this couple Snever been blessed by issue, and ey have always felt a loneliness that ey could not describe on that ac unt. Alford's wite though now has 'o childre~n on whom to lavish her af ~tion and to whose training she may vote her life. She learned recently that a negro girl 'ing near Isabella. had given birth to 'ins, but to this she attached very tle importance until sihe heard that eyoung mother cared nothing for roffspring and wished to dispose of em. At once Alford's wife repaired Laabella, and going to the home of eyoung girl at once began a negotia in for the babies. A trade was soon ide, and the mother demanded 50 uts apiece for the children, the price is quickly paid, and the adopted ther marchevd off triumphantly with rnew charges. Winding Up the Coosaw Case. LuREENvILLE. S. C., Aug. 18.-U. A. Smith, of Charleston, and Attorney 'neral Pope today presented to Judge nonton, for signature, the !inal order the Coosaw case. The order, except ew minor points, had been agreed on by counsel for the State and the osaw Company, and no representa 'e of the Coosaw Company was pres ,. The order will be sent first to .ief Justice Fuller to sign, and wil :n be signed by JTudge Simonton. It ~ever "restrains and enjoins the Coo iv Company from, in any way, claim ;or attempting to claim, any right le, interest or grant in or to the phos ate rock or phosphate deposits in the osaw Rliver," or from mining or re )ving the rock without having ob ned a license t o do so. U. R. Brooks fischargu-d as receiver and com pensa n Fixed for his services.-State. Called Ofr. MATESBURG, S. C., August 10.-The .ate between Senator Butler and ugressmnan Watson has been called for the present. lt is now said it II take place between the 1st and hof September. HEi death of James Russell Lowell tweek removes a famous author, tor, poet and publicist, lie was born Cam uridge, Mass., in 1819. He is said 1ave been a hereditary re-presenta : of the heart and brains of New gland.