The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, January 18, 1894, Image 1
VOL. VIII.
TREE TRADE AND TARIFE REFORM
Till] ST\ U-EYKI) QODDI'XS OF
ItKIOlOl IN A till HAT IlAtiF..
Henry WnllorNou, Ftlitor and I'ollli
citui, Kil'ON Into I hi: Wilson Taril.
Kill?He Then Accepts l hits IIckii 11 i)l
I ho Til rill' Agitation us tin Kcst
1 hint; 10 Do Now.
One of tho most remarkable political
speeches which has been delivered
in this country for 11 long while was
made by Henry Wuttorson, editor of
the Louisville Courier-Journal, at the
celebration of Jackson's birthday by
the Watterson Club in Louisville. It
had boon given out that Mr. Watterson
would deal with the political situation
and tho expectations of those who
wont to hoar him were not disappointed.
His speech was received with
great surprise, and yet with tremendous
enthusiasm by tho vast audience.
Tho following ex tenets urn urivon lui
show the tretul of the speech which is
already exciting much attention :
I mean no disrespect to persons in
authority when I declare that this
Seems to mo an era of very small tilings
and very small men. Yet the stream
of life goes on. bearing its awful cargo of
good and evil, hope and fear, and holding
to the least of the generations the
relation it held to the greatest. And.
surely, never in the history of mankind
were deeper problems set to statesmen
and philosophers than are hidden in
the dark closets of contemporary experience,
arising out of the unlixed laws
that are to determine and the undo
lined boundaries that are at once to
separate and inclose the accret ions and
the rights of property and the opportunities
and the liberties of people. It
is now, as ever, the old hut tic between
the many and the few, for the bless- I
ings of free-labor and free-thought, |
which, under our system, are supposed ;
to be the birthrights of all.
I say "supposed-to-be." Hut are
they bo'/ Then why these gigantic
fortunes piled up in a quarter of a century
devoted to the simple arts of avarice
and peace and not swollen by the
spoils of war, with captives chained to
enariot wheels, and ransacked treasuries
and sequestered estates, and all
that made the wealth and glory of
Human conouost and British valor V
Why this cry of want in tho midst of
plenty, which arises from one end of
the land to the other? Why?
POUTHNT OF THE SITUATION.
We are told by tho Republican partisans
that it is because the Democrats
have come into power. We are told
by Democratic partisans that it is because
of twenty years of bad Republican
legislation. The real cause lies
deeper: and neither of tho two great
party organizations can claim exemption
from its share of responsibility
Tho Republicans have, sinned in excess:
the Democrats in omission. T?
neither do the masses of the pc.opn
plight their unreserved troth.
A little more than a year ugo tin
Democrats swept the country. A lit
tie year later the Republicans swept
the country. There must have bet n
some reason for so sudden a change.
There was : and if one was to set k t<
explore and llnd it. lie will find it in ;
certain want of confidence on the part
of the people in any one set of poiiti
elans and for this want of confidence
the politicians are themselves in tie
main responsible.
In November, 18912. the people voted
a change of parties upon wnat the\
supposed a plain, specific political program,
a perfectly legible bill of fare.
In November, 18921, they voted thi
other way because they bad gotten it
into their heads that the men they had
elected were not as much in earnest atthey
bad seemed to be, but were taking
their ease in their offices, instead
of bestirring themselves to carry out
their promises. 1 allow for the resentments
among the disaffected place
seekers. 1 allow for the wide-spread
prer.suro of hard times, for which the
party in power is generally held to aovi,j,count.
1 allow for some internal dissensions
about financial mutters. Hut
back of these forces lay the recumbent
figure of distrust. The party spirit
which had .'ought and won the buttle
of ''.::2 was allowed to go to sleep ix: '921.
The watchfo es wore not kept burning,
even on the innei lines. There was
some dissonance of counsels about headquarters.
The doors of the citadel left
ajar and many of the outposts abandoned,
it was easy for the enemy, who
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to get together again and to relriove a {
part of tho disaster tliut had befallen'
thorn.
The political conditions are thus < x-!
nctly reversed. It is the victorious :
Democrats who arc disheartened. t!.e
vanquished Republican*, who are encouraged.
And the question for you the
veritable, tin* untorrifled. the orig- |
inal !>oys in the trenches?tho question i
^ for you to consider is, whether you j
^ are going to sit down and sulk under
it. or wake to the danger and make
yourselves heard and felt in those seats
of power, which exist by your will and
breatho the breath of life out of your
nostrils.
THE TRUTH OP HISTORY.
In the National Democratic Convention
of 181)2, the platform committee
appeared with a tariff plank, which,
to say the best that could be said for it.
was open to doublo construction. My
own opinion is that it embodied excellent
Republican doctrine. The convention
would not havo it. In its place it
substituted a resolution, repeating the
declarations of 1870, 18H0 and 1888,
which demanded " a tariff for revenue
only." This resolution was so plain in
TL its terms that no one could misread it.
So the covert enemies of tariff reform,
who masquerade as Democrats, the
better to servo the devil of protection,
straightway set about to have Mr.
Cleveland repudiate it in his letter ol
acceptance, lie did no such thing
either in that letter, or any other utterance.
Then they trumped up the
plea that the resolution was a trick of
the Anti-Clovoland men in tho convention
to embarrass the Cleveland men
and, if possible, to delay a vote, and in
that way defeat the nomination of Mr.
Cleveland; that tho Cleveland nu-n
saw the devfeo and conceiving that Mr.
Cleveland would be his own platform
relused to fall into tho snaro, but let the
resolution pass; and that, thus, tho
Noal substitute carried no moral force
with it, not even representing the opin
rrr-i' ,.f>TU-,L v.'v-t
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ion of tho convention. To clinch this
view, the whole affair was descriijcd
as the midnight swirl of a turbulent
tnob.
II history were fiction, and politics a
game of blind man's butt, poets would
he statesmen, and only children would
vol . T 101*0 was never a more do*
liberativo act dono by a deliberative
body than tiiu siibstitutionof the Neal
plank for the Vilas plank by tho National
Democratic Convention of lspj.
II was the logical culmination of a
campaign of education covering ten
years, it was an act of tho people setling
aside a subterfuge of the politicians.
It was not done at the dead
of night, under whip and spur, but
between the hours of li anil i) o'clock,
in tho evening, .vhon tho convention
was wide awake, and knew perfectly
what it was about. It was not planned
to obstruct tho nomination of Mr.
Cleveland; though. if the convention
had suspected that Mr. Cleveland had
any hand in the original tariff plank
which it struck out ho would not have
received one-third of its votes. Both
Mr. Vilas and Mr. Whitney wore asserted
by myself and others that no oh
struction was meditated ; and it is wel
known that, averse? as I was to the
nomination of Mr. Cleveland, I regarded
it a foregone conclusion bo fore
the eonventii n met, and had ceased to
disturb anybody or be disturbed, on
that account. In short, in tho most
decisive, and, as far as anything in
American politics can bo solemn, in
tlie most solemn at least in tho most
serious a ay the convention ended, as
I Imped finally and forever, the long
stru rgh1 between the forces of light
and uarkio'.-s in t.ko Democratic party,
hy stamp ng out a double-tongued assi
i ti' n of its tariff policy, and inserting*
adre arnt on which no human being
nn mlo
. . ... i \'i i in i \;j r\ 11 u.
l.'iiitl.: i>;n was dead?Curlisloistn
whs rampant. And with Cleveland for
Mijsos (.'leveland and his message of
'H? Cleveland as tlie Democrats'ideal
of tariff roforni?we went to the country.
We met the onset of Republicans
full in front. They made their light
directly on our tariff plank. They described
it as a slip out of the Confederate
t'onstit ution. They denounced it
as a Calhounism, redivivua. There
was nothing that could bo said of it,
or of us, that they did not say. All the
worn out pleas of protection, ail 1 ho
exploded shells of sectionalism, were
thrown into the broach wo had made in
the wall of the robber cust !e. Hut they
did not so Mice to save it. In spite of
all. with our tarifT-for-revenue-only Hag
Hying and our down-with-protoction 1
drums beating, we drove the robber !
barons out of their earth-works across
their moats and dikes, into their lair,
and out again, remaining, for the first
time since IK",7, complete masters of (
the situation every department of the j
jov) rnnu lit in our possession.
I ask you. not merely as Democrats,
hut as sem-iblo men, was all tliis ?c
omplished. after years of discussion,
ti'MM !y to condone and conserve Republican
policies, or was its mirnose to re
i'lTsr the.-e policies, and to set up in j
room of them Democratic policies;
cqunlK . s dear and clear to tho men
1.0 a i fought and won tin* buttle?
TIIH M ?I< A I. (?L*' TIIK VICTORY.
Kit her wo were right or wo were
vron^r. Too vote of 1890. following i
the passage of tho McKinloy act, j
enncd to indicate that tho people j
ihougl t wo were right. Hat the vote 1
f IS92 electing a Democratic, l'resi-j
tent and a Democratic, House and
Senate wan conclusive on 111 is point, j
If it was not so, then Homebody was
most ogregiously deceived. Who was
It?
An eminent member of the present
government said to me just after the
elections of last November, "it seems
impossible now-a-days for tho partyoaders
to make sure of their voters !"
He spoke in a tone of general despondency.
' How can you expect anything
else." I replied, "when you are always ;
leeoiving and disappointing thorn?!
I'he voters are all right. They know !
what they want and what they mean. '
It. is that as soon as one of these little
great men gets into what he thinks a
big and a snug placo that ho easts
about to see how he may keep it, and
straightway he sets up for a little tin
Jupiter, who knows more than anybody
else Then the people finding him too |
great a man to be good for anything, j
turn about and turn hiin out. often in i
sheer perversity. Men of real genius,
of real courage, of real conviction, of
real inspiration, of real worth do their I
duty first and count the costs afterward.
As a consequence the voters
believe in them and follow them, even
as 1 hey followed Clay through forty
,i urs of run and shower; even as they
t I..wen .J K-kson through thirty years
if t >1*1;i and battle ; even as they will
follow you. if you dure to be as brave
and honest as Jackson and Ciay !"
TIIK TWO HKPORT8.
I have lead with exceeding euro and
deep concern the reports accompanying
t e newiy introduced tneasuro of tariff
revision. The Democratic report hegin
hy a masterly declaration of tariff
for-revenue-only logic, to end in an
actual exposition of protectionist practice.
The Republican report seizes
the weak point effectively, and, l>oth
in its sarcasm and its effrontery, shows
us how impossible it is to plucato the
implacable. For the chairman of the
ways and means committee I entertain
the very greatest respect. Ho is an
uble, conscientious, patriotic Democrat.
He lias encountered difficulties
and mado sacrifices and endured disappointments
which should earn him
the sympathy rather than the criticism
of bis party associates. Hut, with sul>mlssion,
I think be has been forced by
pressure, and not by bis own consent.
mi oring in a measure thai strikes a
blow at tho cause of genuino tariff reform,
and may sot the policy of revenue
only back for many yours to
come.
i hold tl.nt protection is roblicry. I
I hold the protective theory to 1)0 equally
i unccm-titut ional and unjust. Bollov:
ing tiiis, I would extirpate its root and
branch, and when, alter a debate of
; ton years, beginning with the election
of Mr. Carlislo to tho Speakership, we
; carried a resolution to that effect
through a National Democratic Con*
; vontien. and. on that resolution, swept
I the country, I little thought that forces
would be arrayed strong enough to set
the vordiet aside. But such is the
' io riv of polities in a land ivjioro tho
; i:ih?.\ are too busy minding tboir own
I private business to look sharply after
tho few, who are sent to Washington
1 to mind tho public businoss.
CONWAY, S C
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' 1 road, with more amusement than
, imuzoiiK'nt, the ingenious report of
! tho Republican njinority. It is
i a very smooth document. If I wore
: not familiar with the pleadings, aim
with the llotions upon which it is has
' od, I should tremble for my country,
i might believe the report the work ol
Col. Robert (1. Ingorsoll- since then
is no Cod in it if 1 did not have an im
pression that the Hon. Thomas H
Rood is as great a humorist and skeptic
as the witty pagan himself. Mr
' Rood gives thanks for everything t<
the painted harlot of protection, nom
to tho Creator of the Universe. No
' whero is tliero the least recognition oi
tho divine hand, unless the hand oi
MoKinley he divine: everywhere tin
; assertion that, but for high tarilT wt
[ should be at the morey of < -utiada Xovj
I Scotia, Mexico and the Sandwich Is
i lands. All the confidence and courage
which inspire those heroes when the\
| wrap the bloody shirt about them and
jmaieh down to the footliplijs. to destroy
imaginary rebels and traitors.
1 seem to ooze out at the palms of tlieii
hands, when they encounter?even it
fancy ?a foreign competitor. I bit al
this is perfectly topical. The protee
tionist has said in his heart "there i
i no (iod !" It is only protection that
! " doeth all things well." it is protee
| tion that increases the profits of capi
I tal and the wapes of labor. It is pro
! tee tion that raises the price to tie
! sol let* and lowers it to the buyer. It
is protection and protection alone tha
not only defends us against the paupei
! labor of Europe. t?ut. insures us upuin.-o
strikes, eonvertinp every manufactur
imr establishment into an e.leomosynar\
iii.sMuiuoi). aiui giving lo every opera
j live, along will) his weeks earnings
never cut and always paid. )i ehronio
bearing on one side a picture of tin
mill at. Homestead, and the other tlx
head of William McKinley in a halo
KREK TRADE VERSUS PROTECTION.
I do no not claim nearly so much foi
free trade. I claim thai it will muk<
more work by creating wider markets
I claim that it will decrease the cost oi
living in greater measure than it wil
reduce earnings. The question o
[ wages is a question of supply and do
I maud, pure and simple. In the crowd
I ed eities, where men must work 01
' starve, they take what they can got
and wages are low. In new and les.
crowded communities, where oppoi
tunities are open to all and good inei
are at a premium wages are high. A
our waste places are lilling up. tin
problem is how shall all, who want t?
work, be kept in sternly employment :
Relatively, wages are hound to g<
down as population increases am
labor-saving machinery take the plue<
of handwork, and this problem is, liov
shall we decrease, in fair proportion
the cost of living ? My answer to tin
first problem is, by breaking down tin
barriers that shut us out from fre?
commercial intercourse with tho rest
of tho world, which wants as much ot
us as wo want of it. Ami to tho second
by a fairer distribution of tho fruits oi
labor between the employer and tin
employed. Rut. I am n-du d. can the&<
two things be done without ruin to tin
American inanufaetiiror? My answto
is that they can be done and have beci
done to the eminent good fortune o
American manufactures and com
inerco, and can be done again with tin
same result; that ve have had gooi
and bad seasons under all tariffs. big*
and low; but the low tari IT otters advantages
to many by curtailing sub
sidy and limiting monopoly, while i
high tariIV pours wealth into t he lap oi
the few by the opportunities it offer
to combinations and trusts. For proo
I point to the operation of thirty yean
,.f
w. . IWIIll IllUlin WCllll/ll 111 1
few hands; a universal struggle t?
live umong the many : deeper, durkei
contrasts of life, and discoutent every
where.
PHOM TIIK PEW TO THE MANY.
I appeal from the selfishness am
timidity of the politicans to the com
men honesty and common sense of tin
American neoole. 1 appeal from tin
rapacity of the American aristocrat,
rolling in luxury and wealth, to th?
simple and homely genius of thai
Americanism which won the revolutionary
battle for liberty, and madi
the constitution. 1 do not confuse tin
issue. I am not the slave of a singh
idea. I know that theory is one thin),
and practice is another thing, and tliu>
statesmanship is a practical science
Hut ho is no statesman who does not
hitch the steeds of action to the hackney-coach
of theory, and even then
as he stands with the reins in hit
j hands ho must look far before, seeinp
not only with the eyes in his head, hut
out of those eyes of the mind that reach
much further.
i ouueve in rnc integrity and courng?
of Grover Cleveland. I believe in ih?
j patriotism and genius of .lohn (?. Carlisle.
If wo could put tho two into one.
.Juckson would live again. I am giving
the administration tho moat
earnest and disinterested support, because
I helievo it is trying to do right,
and because, in the main, my judgment
approves the fruits of its intention.
My judgment docs not approv?
tho Wilson hill, either in method or in
detail, hut if it is tho host that can he
got out of Congress, so he it. I shall
say nothing, do nothing, to make its
transit harder. It is, at least, some
degree better than the MeKinley bill,
i since it proceeds upon the lower and
I not on the higher scale, and faces in
tho right directic n.
lint it is far. very far. from a measure
that can he truthfully described as
ombodvinir the idea of a " tiii-ifT-for
rovenuo-only." It is merely bettor
than the McKinley bill in decree, not
in kind, and if protectionism is over to
tie dislodged I doubt tho Trojan-horse
strategy to which it seems to incline.
Wo live in the age of tho Carnegics
and the Goulds, not in that of Priam
and /Knoas.
Tho robber barons know their business.
They never go to sloop. They
relinquish nothing. Tnoir rapacity is
insatiable. It was the history tho old
slave power that tho more it got the
more it demanded. It might have had
emancipation.and its gradual and peaceful
elimination from tho body-corporate.
It refused this, to end in blood
and flame, carrying with them vast
hisses and cruel hardships. Yet. in
splto of the tenacity with which the
Southern people clung to slavery, gong
to war to defend and maintain it,
the South would not havo it back today
on any terms.
Mr. Wilson's moderate dose of
revenue powders in protectionist
capsules is rejected by the pro tec
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'ioni ts as vigorously a tho slavi
i?.vnt i s rejected Mr. Clay suj^e'stloi
??i ei: aneipation. Idku ti slavehold
ers, the robber baronsyi "Id nothing
rhey will not reform thee . Tho work
oust, thoroforo, bo done I oni without.
It will never proceed f \>in within.
\nd when it is (lone, if it be done by
statesmen and not by th> sword, the
Amor loan iminufac*uror < ill rise like
me who has boon in ebaii , amazed, as
tho slaveowner was, to ! ml that tho
theory ho cherished was v curse. and
not a blessing. Tho Chii oho wall ronoved,
tho world will be at his feet.
Does national character e< mt for nothnKr
? Does a land tocminj with original
re>Hources count for no hing? Are
l,l?e eeentivi* niioi'iriiw m <1 i
,renlus of a people who lutvo reversed
the feudal policies of t he < Id World to
huild a fabric in the now v hose cornerstone
is competition, and vhoso watch
word is " freedom," to h * accounted
nothing ?
TilK WHYS AN'l) WII Kit JFOKKS.
Tlio cry of the poor goi s up to God
for work ! Hut there i < no work.
vVhy ? I localise there is < vor prod union.
Why? Because wo can produce
n nine mont hs more than wo can connine
in twelve. The rone dv ? More
onsu tiers : wider markets : freedom of
Made with all mankind. Lotus out
f the black-hole of pi tcctionisni,
vhere, with hanks Imi-ting with
noncy and millionaires nu Itiplying by
Kindreds, men are starvii g hy thous*
itnls. Let us tint, out to the world,
iiid with plants established, processes
>orfe? ted and cheapened, 1 ratio marks
aid patents carrying all tl protection
unt honesty ought to dc- ire, and we
an meet and heat all our commercial
avals yea. Knglnud ? in c cry neutral
uurket. recovering those 1 utrkcts that
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, ... I,. II .. m.i V? mi ll
avu been sto.on from us b our senseess
p dioy of restriction.
Tin ro will not be such c ;eessivo and
uicquul profits to tho m .nufacturor.
fliere will not bo so nany grout
ortuncs accumulated bv the spoiled
diildren of monopoly. 'lvh trust wiP
>o harder to form and m; intain, and
lonce fewer in number. Hut there
vill bo a more general dil usion of the
eal wealth of the conn ry. There
vill bo more work, and st- adier work,
uul a greater demand for labor. The
iving of the poor will ho cheapened.
The living of all will I bettered.
Socialism will bo shorn < f its potent
irynment. and one llrobr ind at least
vill lie extracted from tho brain, one
aI let from the weapon < i the Anarchist.
I oo not predict tho mill* inium. No
ict of Congress, but Godwill alone,
an hasten that. Hut frc> trade may
tnd I boliovo it will, witno -? the realisation
of the dream of that great
talesman who braved the execrations
f tin- rich, and laid down lower, with
ue In-pc that lie might " I avo a name j
omeUmes remembered w th ex pros- j
ions of good will in tli > abodes of
fdioso whose let is to lal >r, and to )
arn I icir daily bread wit t he sweat
f tin r brow, when they mil recruit j
heir ovhjiii-iti'h wii'imni i> 1
ant i. nd untaxed food, the > woe tor be-|
nuso it is no longer leuvt led with a !
onso of injustice."
fellow Democrats, it is of the first
mportance for us to kn ?w, and to
inow as speedily as possib \ whotbor
v? have a Democratic pj rty, homogeneous
and' strong, as ii the day of
be sstge and hero \v! oso uomory we
clebiato this night?a ] irty whose
iaes are laid in fixed ?rineiples ?
lonost money, home rul > and free
rude -with power to eomp d discipline
jvcry where?or wliether w 5 are a more
iggiomeration of faetio :s, thrown
together by tiio upheaval < f the times.
.\ly own efi'ort is, and alwa's shall bo,
/or straight polities and si| jure issues.
I want to know a spade w len I see it.
md to call it a spade. I d m't want to
lecoivo, to mislead anyb. dy. I love
10 neighbor less because ic does not
igroe witli mo. Tie may hi right and
I may bo wrong, lint., let is, at least,
be honest. Let us say whs t wo mean,
tnd mean what we say. ' 'hat is the
road to good government It is also
the iou<i to universal patriotism.
.vlncli, founded in free t lought and
iroo speech, and suppor ed by the
virtue and intelligence of the people,
s to precede that period >f peace on
arth. good will to men, t> which the
Christian world looks as e< lfidently as
ro the coming of its Redo iner. ! do
not despair of its rcalizatw n. I do not
despair of the Democratic ?arty. The
mmediate outlook may no be all that
wo would have it: but the future is always
ours. Lot us cling t< it. Lot us
light for the best that it hi s to give.
?
Tim.man vs. Simonto ; Aoain.?
The < eeision of .fudge Sin inton in the
C'antini case, inCharlestoi , whicli was
iuain-t the constables, .as aroused
Oovei nor Tillman, and /hen asked
what 10 intended to do alar t furnishing
bonds for the constables whom the
Federal Judge had decide I must give
bonds, he said that be thought he
would allow them to go to ail. " 1 will
lot Judge Simon ton go < t," bo said.
unt I he becomes soodioi s to the people
that they will want o mob him.
He is acting under a law that was repealed
before the alleged crimes were
committed and before b? issued the
order of arrest. He is rying to intimidate
and paralyze tl constables
in the performance of w tat is their
duty." The Governor Hay that a time
will eomo when all this violation of
laws supposed to bo sacrc I must stop.
?Columbia Register.
?- - ?
? Rev. G. F. H. Howa d, of claim
agency famo. is still in th< county jail
at Juekson, Tenn. He ha freedom of
the corridors, and his wif spends the
days with him. He hi s olentv of
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opportunity to converso v ith his witnesscs
who are confined ii jail awaiting
ihn special term oi the federal
eourl in FVbruary. The g vernment is
getting its evidence rei ly by that
time. Howard seems el eerful, and
hums the ponular airs of i 10 day as ho
walk-i up and down the t til corridor.
A great many visitors a??ply for admission,
but the sheriff .>nfy admits
members of his family. It is said
Howard will write a hook >n his life.
?Tho Now York Wor i is doing a
gran I work in collecting nd distributing
free broad for tho p< r. Starting
with a subscription of 20 HX) loaves of
its own, it has already ra.sed a grand
total of 208,344 loaves.
ARY 18, 1894.
5 HAWAII AM) THIS TAHITI'.
t'onj?r?'kn In Xihv CliarKod Willi lli<>
tlio Solllcniciil ill' Hawaiian Afl'ulrs
?Tlio Debate mi TarlV HolVirm and
I'losprci til' | In* Income Tux,
special In Ilia All ? la Constitution.
WASHINGTON, January D.?Tho resolution
introduced by Senator Turpio
yesterday in remind to lluwuii means
much, it declares that "it. is unwise,
inexpedient and not in accordance
with tho character and dignity of the
United States to consider further, at
this time, either tho treaty or project
of annexation of the Hawaiian territory
to this country; that the provisional
government therein having
been duly recognized, tho highest international
interest require that it
shall pursue its own line of policy and
that foreign intervention in the political
atVairsof tho islands will be regarded
as an act unfriendly to the government
of the United States."
This resolution is stud to have boon
drawn up at the State department and
j Mr. Turpio introduced it at the ro|
quest of the Uresident himself. Tho
j i'resilient is sorely tirod of this
I Hawaiian matter and lie wants to yet
' out of it just as quickly as possible.
I His policy will now be to " bands oil "
i Hawaii. He takes tbe position now
I that when Minister Willis asked the
i provisional government to step down
! and out, and make way for tbe queen's
retui n to the throne, and the proi
visional government declined to do so,
that tbe United States did al I necessary
I under tbe circumstances. He thinks
| Minister Willis's efforts have shown
! that this government did all that was
possible through peaceful means and
that the condition of affairs is such 011
the island that it is neither possible or
desirable to make a further move towards
the restoration of the queon and
that tbe only danger to be feared is
1 from foreign interference.
It. is known that the I'resident, will
have Minister Willis instructed to do
| nothing further in tbe matter. Of
course, the Democratic Congressmen
w ill uphold the I'resident's act, but
1 they criticise liini rather severely.
They think that be made a mistake m
! asking the provisional government to
stop down and out. If ho was going to
do tliat at all ho should have placed
hiinsolf in a position to liavo forced the
provisional government out and rej
placed the queen. Hut every American
is opposed to the restoration of
the queen and all are glad that President
Dole refused to step down. The
whole thing leaves the administration
in an unenviable position, but Mr.
Cleveland and his cabinet think they
have done the correct tiling, and the
matter will probably rest just where
[ it is.
The investigation which is being
carried on by the Senate committee
will probably amount to but little. It
j will simply develop the facts in the
ease which have already been fully
published. It is not probable that
Congress will do anything except,
perhaps, to puss the resolution of
Senator Turpio. That is the only way
out of the ditlieulty for the Democratic
party. It must uphold the acts of the
administration as far as possible.
The majority of the Democratic
Senators and members, however, wish
it to be understood that the Hawaiian
matter was managed entirely by the
Congressional leaders, and that Mr.
Cleveland, personally, more than the
party, is responsible. In the debate
which will come up over the resolution
Mr. Cleveland will he defended by
Democrats to the best of their ability.
While they do not endorse his policy
still. as a Democrat and the chief
i ollleer c?f the government, they will
! uphold him.
The Republicans will endeavor to
| make much political capital out of the
j atfair. Tbov may make some, hut
fol'tunutelv Mr. Clevehiml hnu nut. ironn
%r ' M"""
mj fur ttiut ho cannot got out of it.
Nobody censures Minister Willis for
uis acts, lie was simply acting under
instructions. Mr. Blount, who arrived
uero yesterday, will appear before the
Senate committee investigating the
Hawaiian matter 011 Friday. Mr.
Blount has declined to discuss the
Hawaiian situation with any of tho
newspaper correspondents. Ho will
toll tne committee all ho knows about
it on Friday, but will probably have
very little to tell in addition to what
be lias already said in his report.
Tho debate on tho tariff bill continued
to-day. Mr. Wilson concluded
nis speech this morning. It was a
good speech, but tho tariff debate is
not attracting as much general attention
nor is there so much interest in it
as there was in tho discussion over the
Mills bill or tho McKinley bill in previous
Congresses. Mr. Wilson deliovored
a very strong and well prepared
speech. It will read remarkably
well. Mr. Wilson is not an orator,
lie is a scholarly talker, but is not
magnetic in bis delivery. Mr. Burrows,
of Michigan, followed Mr.
Wilson and opened the debate for the
Kepublicans in opposition to the bill.
Mr. Burrows is one of the orators of
the House. His delivery is decidedly
attractive, but bis speech was not as
well prepared as some of his previous
efforts on the tariff question. From
a Republican standpoint it was a
fairly good argument and Mr. Burrows
has a very attractive way of talking.
He was listened to with much
interest. Mr. Black, of Illinois, followed
Mr. Burrows and Mr. Hopkins,
of Illinois, closed the debate for the
day session. Neither Mr. Black nor
Mr. Hopkins are great orators by any
means, and as the members and spectators
had become somewhat wearied,
they were not given that attention
their remarks deserved.
ijimrm) v iicRniu unci i om i?;eu will j
attract more attention that any othor I
men who will speak during the general
debate. The interest in the tariIT discussion
will he when the debate under '
he five-minute rule opons. Then
overy man will have an opportunity j
to speak and there will he a lively and
interesting debate. That will not be j
until next week.
Though Senator Voorhoos, after
having for years been a freo coinage
man, led the tight in favor of the ronoal
of the Sherman law, ho will fight
for his old-time convictions in favor i
of an individual Income tax. Twenty
years ago in the House he voted
against the repeal of this tax which
was then in force. He declares now
emphatically that he will never lend
his Influence to increasing the tax on
boor and tobacco, for the reason that
theso are tho only luxuries of the
working man. He favors a tax cm
. r
clgurettos, but less for tho purpose ol
raising revenue than for sanitary con
sidcrathms. Hut ubovo all those he is
in favor of un income tax and will
make a gallant fight for the same in
I t lie Senate.
A story has gone out over tho counI
try to tne e fleet that fifteen Democrat
ie Senators are opposed to. and
will vote against, an income tax.
These Senators are said to be Messrs.
Hideo, ('.linden. Faulkner, Ctilison,
(ioruiau, (iray. Hill, Lindsay, Mel'hersou,
Vilas, Murphy, White e( California.
Smith and White of Louisiana.
While the majority of these Senators
are undoubtedly, opposed to an income
tax several of them may not vote
against it. It Is not certain by any
means t hat oitucr Senator 11 ill or
Senator M urphy will vote against an
niromr iax. Nor >s it, eertn n that
Senators Faulkner o Lindsay will.
Indeed, if it in iiiuuo a par i v uiOiimii
there may not he more than three 01
four holt i no Detnocrutic Senator,
nave talked with several Senator.vvho
are advocates of an income ta>
and they believe that tin tax stands 1
much hotter chance of Koino throng I
the Senate tlian is generally believed
Indeed, many of the Southern Senator
believe that the Senate will pass an in
come tax bill.
Representative Springer, of Illitioi
-ays he knows from personal ex
perience that an individual ineono
tax is not unconstitutional. Whet
this form of tax was in votfuo in thi
country more than twenty ycarg noMr.
Springer had quite an income
II.. in...).. .. Inol
.. ?-nt "i rMiMlUIUHIiaill}
in thi' 111 iuois courts by refusing to pa\
it, on tbo ground that it was a direo'
tax and could only bo levied by th?
State. The ease was appealed and tin
Supremo Court sustained the eonstitu
tionality of the act at Mr. Springer'
expense. Mr. Springer bad not onl\
to pay tho tax but several hundrec
dollars eost foes.
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SPKAItKIl CK1SI?\S POSITION'.
A Hot tcrTnrtfl'Itcfttrm Democrat than
11 is Cornier ('i mIcn.
The Washington Post has an editorial
under the caption of "Some
Changes in Politics, which throws a
very elCar light upon tho situation in
Congress just now, and shows Spcaket
Crisp's true position. It is complimentary
to the Speaker and it is correct.
Thoeditoiial reads:
" In view of thu position occupied by
Speaker Crisp at tho present time,
some of the allegations made during
tho speakership light of two years
ago. soun 1 rather strange. It will bo
readily recalled that the opponents of
Judgo Crisp's candidacy urged in the
most vigorous manner that tins Georgian
was not sound on the tariff question.
By the declarations of these
gen lemon the present Speaker of the
House of I IcprcKcntutives was pictured
as an individual who would betray the
iiiuw UK? mums 01 mo nign larillitos
should ho bo chosen to proside
over tho deliberations of the House.
The gentleman from Georgia, thoy declared,
would prove but a second edition
of tin; lute Samuel J. Randall and
block all tariff reform legislation.
"After a very exciting contest on
these lines, after ovory elTort had been
made to enlist all of tho tarill' reform
Democrats in the ranks of the antiCrisp
candidates, the Georgian was
elected to tho high and honorable position
he has tilled with such ability.
Rut the light on Speaker Crisp didn't
cease there. The New York Reform
Club undertook the contract of preventing
his re-election, and with this
end in view the Speaker was invited to
the annual dinner of that organization
and publicly insulted. This was done
in order that the country might be
made to understand that the Reform
Club didn't approve of Speaker Crip,
hut notwithstanding this extraordinary
effort the Speaker was accorded a reelection.
' Rut perhaps tho most extraordinary
feature of this war on tho Georgian
is the present situation. With
the various clashing interests at war
on the tariff question there is one central
liguro in the light. Upon his (
shoulders falls the brunt of the battle. |
He is out in the open and exposed to a
lire from both the front and the rear, j
Some of tho shots tired from the last
named direction are from weapons in
the hands of Democrats who didn't
think Crisp a good tariff reformer
when he was a candidate for Speaker.
Tho head and front of tho light for
tariff reform is Hon. Charles Frederick
Crisp, of Georgia, and if tho Wilson
hill finally passes tho House it will be
largely duo to tho vigor and courage
displayed by the Speaker of that laxly.
"This hut goes to show that tho predictions
and declarations of the politicians
cannot always be relied upon.
There is abundance of evidence toshow
that somebody misrepresented things
in the memorablo Speakership canvass
of ififll."
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?Thomas Puyno Kirg, who dropped
(load on tho street at Wichita. Kan., a
few days since, is said to havo been
one of the immortal 000 who rodo at
llalaklava. Inhisyouth ho hold a commission
in the British army. In 1H01
ho resigned and enlisted in the United
States army. Ho was a person of
superior education, and since the war
hud succeeded in amus.ing a considerable
fortuno, estimated at some $70,ooo.
He owned property in Chicago,
Kansas City, Wichita and other places,
and drew a pension both from Great
Britain and the United States, but it
is said that he never spent a cent,
living in squalor, dressing in rags and
eating refuse begged at tho doors of
restaurant and hotel kitchens. It
does not yet appear who gets the property
which he failed to enjoy, but it
is dollars to doughnuts that somebody
will spend it fast enough now.
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A New Remedy kok Rh kmatism.?
It was Christmas day as Uncle Henry
came limping by on his eano, much
lamer than l had seen him in weeks.
" Me'y Christmas, Ma's Cunnel," ho
said cheorily.
' The same to you, unclo. How's
your rheumatism ? It seems to be
I worse."
| M So hit am, sab ; so hit am."
" Don't you know some remedy that
j might help It, more than that liniment
I gave you last, undo?"
" Vas. sab," ho ohueklod, with that
, peculiar laugh of th?< real negro. " I
I six o a half dollah'd he'p hit sab,
I c'nsid'ble," and I handed over this new
mnedy for rhmimaifcUm).
NO 27.
p HTATK NKWH IN IIIUEF.
Interestlug Notes IVom Various Hour. 4cwt.
? It will pay to ruiHO more outs. The
prlco is iiik 11 compared with corn and
I wheat.
Col. W. I*. Butler, one of tho old*
| est eitlz *ns of Kdgefleld County, and a
! cousin of Senator Butler, dropped dead
i January H.
Constables Galllard, Copper, Swan
and McDonald have given bond as required
by tho United States Court in
the Cantinl case.
?The office of Master has been
alM)lished in Anderson County, to take
effect next winter. The duties of the
dlice will devolve upon the i'robate
| Judge.
John Smith, the negro who shot
Molvina Adams in Columbia, on Tin-slay
night, was captured by the police
>f Winnsboro. He confesses to tho
diooting and says his accomplice Martin
can be urrested by telegraph to
Charlotte.
The largest shipment of guano
ever made to one man from Charleston
>ver the South Carolina and Richmond
and Danville Railroads, was received
it Newberry last week by Mr. .J.
Lane. The shipment consisted of u
.olid train of 20 cars loaded with
Wundo Fertilizer.
Mrs. Harriet Perry Miller, the beloved
wife of Dr. II. V. M. Miller, died
in Atlanta 011 tho 8th inst., aged sov ntv-six
vears. of intln???iv.?i \l i. vi;i
icr's maiden nuino was Clark, and she
was a native (?f 1'endloton District, S.
C. She was married to Dr. Miliar at
Cassville, Ga., in lH.'UJ.
Mai. C. S. Gadsden lias been oleet d
president of t he Northeastern Kailroad,
vice A. F. Havonol, deceased.
Maj. Gadsden will also retain his nres nt
position as superintendent of the
Charleston and Savannah Railroad,
with which ho has heen connected ever
-inee its construction.
Representative Yoldoll of Kd#olield
County, has been appointed by
Governor Tillman as chairman of
the State board of control, to bo a
I -.pedal inspector and accountant to tfo
I to the various dispensaries in the State
mil keep them up to a desired standard
of excellence and ai-eni'iioi/
?Judge Izlur lias liled an order with
1 tho clerk of court in Charleston decree!
ing thut a receiver shall bo appointed
j m the now famous Koyal Fertilizer
Company's iui.se. Tho receiver has not
| yet been named. Tho case is one of
| /rout interest to Churlestonians and of
much importance to fertillizer interests
in tho State.
? in tho United States Court at
Charleston on the 12th inst., Mr.
Gihbcs Whaloy made a motion before
.1 udgo Siinonton for a dismissal of the
order in tho Cantini case on new
grounds. The judge issued a decree
refusing to dismiss the ease, it is understood
tho Attorney General has
other steps to take.
- It has been reported that Secretary
of State Tindal had appointed Ltepresontative
li. II. Lesencoof Williamsburg
County to tiio position of general
I traveling agent of tho Sinking Fund
Commission to lilt the vacancy caused
by tho deatii of S. C. Cartledgo. When
asked about tho report Secretary Tindal
said tliat he had not yet mude an
assignment, but has decided to appoint
several agents of the Commission to
work in dilToropt portions of tho State.
Mr. Lesosno will be one of the agents.
Governor Tillman has appointed
Mr. Legrlel A. Wittkowsky as Master
for Kershaw County. Mr. Wittkowsky
' is a young man and graduated from
the South Carolina College in 188b.
lie has boon practicing law in Camden.
TbA ..ill . / %? . *
?. iiu uiuuu m iYiusiur tor tvorahuw
County was created at the recent si ssion
of the Legislature. The upoointcnont
was made at the recommendation
of the members from thut county und
the bar of Camden.
? York County will have two latest
improved roller mills, with a combined
capacity of eight barrels of Hour a day,
in operation by the time the growiug
wheat crop is harvested. One of these
mills has been in operation sinco lust
July, and produces as tine quulity of
i Hour as is mude anywhere, und it is
kept busy all the time. The other will
bo at Hiekoiy Crovo, and it is probable
that one or two more will be erected
during the present year.
?A Yorkvillo merchant, who has
been engaged in furnishing pluntution
supplies on time to farmers in that
county for more than twenty years,
said a day or two ago that never in his
experience hud his customers pa d
their accounts so promptly, fully and
freely, and that he had not been olaced
under the necessity of invoking the
" strong arm " of the law in colle ding
a single account, lie takes a great
many lions and chattel mortgages to
secure accounts. This is a remarkable
stutomont at a time when the wail of
hard times and short crops is going up
all over the lund.
A Surprising Verdict.?A most
I surprising verdict wiim given in the
Unltod States court last week at Knoxville,
Tenn., when Cloo Berry, ono of
the most famous criminals in Hawkins
county, failed of conviction. Borry is
past tifty years of ago, and was indicted
for counterfeiting. The neighbori
hood in which ho lived was Hooded
with bogus half dollars and dollars, the
manufacture of them was traced to
him and utensils necessary to their
manufacture wore found in his house.
It was proven plainly that ho had
passed countless counterfeits, but ho
played the innocent racket on thoir
manufacture and failed of conviction
through a jury's verdict that was anything
but proper. Berry has long
uoseu us a uunKum preacher, in fact
lias pulled the wool over the eyes of
the unsuspecting mountaineers with
the greatest regularity. United States
Marshal Condon says Berry is guilty of
every crime in the calendar, murder
not exoopted, for on a high mountain
peak, near Mooresburg, there to-day
stands a lone gravestone on which is
tho inscription " Murdered by Cleo
Horry." Who this victim is no one
knows, but it is known that this stouo
marks the last resting place of but one
of the Dunkard preaohor's victims.
?Collectors of customs at Corpus
Christ!. El Paso and Laredo have been
instructed to keep a close watch along
tho iiordor to Drevont Chinamen from
coming Into toe United States from