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THE PEO PLSD JOAL. VOL.~~~~N 2.--O 2897 PINENS DOLA A. YEAR.Y JNEI THE NEW EVANG " The Equality, of Bu of Be TIL.LMAN'S Ti Delivered in the United Si June Mr. President; the discussion of the taritf bill which h,ts been proceedin hero, or progressing, in a one-sided way, for some ten days, presents a re markable condition of polit-ical f.!eling and a nebulous state of mind on the part of many men on both sides of the Chamber. The IR..publicans by com. mon consent, under stress of party orders, I suppose, given by the caucus, nit quietly by and vote. 'They say nothing. They seemaafraid to say any thing. The iniquities they are per petrating upon Oe A merican people are so outrageous that t.iey prefer not to discuss them even, but tney press relentlessly forward with the intention of carrying out their compact witn the trusts and monopolies; and every schedule prepared by the party caucus is voted for by them unanimously. Tne Democrats are in a condition of transition. They do not know exactly where they are. 'Tue older, more re nowned, more experienced leaders of the party stand up and proclaim their allegiance to the old doctrine, time honored, ancient. We had an exhibi tion yesterday of an impassioned speech based upon the Walker tariff, brought forward at this late day as true Dmocratic doctrine. Seu,sion, nullification, and other is,,ues which have been settled and have passed out of the minds of men as liv.ug qu-stions had just as well be brought in here. The tariff is not a principle unless it be that it rests on principle. It is merely a question of policy a: to how the Government shali derive its revenue. It has been talked about so much and so long and so abiy that I can not expect to present any new phase of it ; but I propose as one hum, ble representative of a State on this floor, to give some views that may be mine only, but which appear to me to be those which should obtain in gov erning men who comke ihra to fL--ue taritis. What Is the true doctrine of taritf taxation, the American dottr ini, the patriotic doctrine, the statesman's doctrine? I for one stand ready to confess and announce my faith ir the belief that it is t: the best interests of the American people as a whole that everything consumed by our people should be produced by our people, if it is possible. If that be Republican doctrine, then i am a [.epubliean. If it is not Democratic doctrine, it ought to be Democratic doctrine. It is not necessary for me to state, because it is known to all students of history, that those nations which con line all their labors to one product. or to agriculture only, are pauper nations. They do not progress ; they do not achieve any place in history that amounts to anything. They uo not gather wealth ; they do not produce cultu"e ; they have not advanced civi lization. Therefore, I announce as a hypothesis that we ought to diversify our industries as far as we can give emlohyment to as many men of as many oecup)ations as can get work at a prolitable figure. We do not want all farmers in this country. We want to have manu factures. And why do we not want any more farmers just now ? Because we are to-day producing more of the stall crops of exp)ort raised on the farm than we can get a living or decent price for ; and why in God's name should we undertake by a tam-ilffpolicy to drive from the factories and fr-om the cities to the farm more coimpletitor's to p)rod uce cotton and wheat to export at a loss ? We do not want any more farmers. What we want is a tarlilfso levied that the farm er- shall not be robbed foir the "enehit of the laborer in the cities and that he shall have an ujual chance In life to get that for his family and for his comn fort that the D)eclaration of Indepen dence decla'es is the inalienable right of every freeman. There Is a reciprocity of interests here. The farmer wants a mar-ket for that which he produces ; the manu facturer wants a mar-ket for that which he piroduces. There Is no conilict of interest between these two when their Interests are weIghed in an equal balance by honest legislators. It, Is only when you throw into the scale In favor of manufacturers your lawe which give them undue advantage, when you rob the p)rodlucing far-mcr for the benefit of the manufacturer, tbat any man has a right to complain. From the foundatIon of t,his Govern ment there have been those who con tended that the manufacturers should be0 protect,ed and a home lnterebt, buli up which would supply the Aniericar market with all the manufactured articles necessary. On the other hand, those engaged in agriculture have de clared that they were unjustly deall with and were forced to buy from thes< men at a hIgher price than they coult buy in Euhrope. The tai h discusson: has gone on along those lines from th< beginuing of the Government until to dlay. Now, for the first time In our his tory, when this p)rotetive policy ha1 borne its fruit and( the pauplerizhe( farmer stands hoe- with his skinny bony hands begging justice and equa lity, and the oppot,tunity Is given you by a bounty on his exports, to givi him some comp)ensation for the rob bory that he has undergone for a con tur-y, you sit in stony silence, yoi sneer, you elevate your eyehrows, yo! refuse to disc,uss the p)roposition as uti worthy of debate, and you exp)ect, t see this idIotic farmer not know tha you had the opportunity to give hir some moed of justice and you refuse It. But I pledge you my word and honom gentlemen, you are face to face wit EL OF DEMOCRACY. rdens and the Equality inefits." ARIFF SPEECH. ates Senate on the 10th of 1897. an issue that you can not shirk or dodge, and both parties will have to face it in the near future, because the 9,000,000 men in this country, who are engaged in agriculture and who are face to face with pauperism and bank ruptcy, whose farms are slipping from be-neath them and are being ab:orbed by loan and trust companies that loan them money, will settle with you at the t-Ollot box as to whether you shall continue to take from their pockets their hard-earned dollars to give t' the manufactaring industries and give them nothing in return. How has the tariff policy of protec tion, which has been the governing principle ever since the war, and even before the war to a limited degree, worked ? It was intended by domestic competition to reduce prices; but in stead it has been the means and in strument of building up domestic monopoly to raise prices, and the wealth that has poured into the coffers of a few thousand men, or 10,000, or 50,000, or 100,000 engaged in and who own manufactures, has been taken from the hard- earnings of the masses of the people, and you have got to settle with these farmers if you now refuse them redress. Trusts and monopolies could not exist if the products of those trusts were admitted free of duty ; but when you erect barriers between us and the foreign market and allow no oppor tunity for the Import of these things, you put it in the power of the domestic manufacturers, by forming combina tions among themselves, to lix the price that they choose to charge in the home market, and the farmers ruust pay a bounty to these men and can not help themselves. You Republicans proclaim the docrine a cardinal one of " America for the Americans." To that I say amen, for I am an American. But I want you to include in that charmed circle of Amnrica for Americans 'he farmer along with the rest, and give us an equal showing. As I am a farm er pure and simple, as I never had any other occupation and never had any other means of income but from the farm, 1 can stand he.e with more pio priety, possibly, than any other man and demand equality and justice. I can not hope to do more than supple ment the able, masterly, unanswerable argument presented yesterday by the Senator from Utah [Mr. Cannonj, but I am prepared to auvance some argu ments that will stagger some of you to I answer. The cry is, " Protect American labor against the pauper labor of Europe," It is your sole reliance in appealing to the voters to say, " We do not want the prices which we pay you for your work to sink to the level of your European competiLors." Who competes with the American farmer? Where are you driving him? Take the producer of wheat. V no are his competitors ? The people of India, Argentina, and Russia. Take the cot ton grower. Who competes with him ? Trhe people of Egypt and India. You are driving the producers of those stap)le crops, which are largely ex p)orted, to the level of the paupers who work in Egypt, In India, in Argentina, and in Russia. You can not deny the prop)osition. As long as we had a monetary system which gave us fair prices for our ex ports, we could stand the competition by reason of our rich virgin soil and our improved machiner-y and the superior industry and intelligence of the American farmer. But we have got to a point, since the repeal of the Sherman law and the final annihilia tion of silver as money, where we are face to face with a crisis In agricul tural affairs In this country ; and you gentlemen who are pressing madly on ward, imagining that you can hold your farmer- vote, that you can hold the wheat grower to your standard by pretending that he will be benefited indirectly while you can not give him a bounty and can not compensate him, will find when this question is present ed to him, as it will be p)resented in the next two years, that you must ex plain why you refuse to give the farm er equality and justice In this scheme of prot,ection. If you ,can hold his vote af ter he shall be made to clearly under stand the class favoritism involved In the rcfusal to vote this bounty then he will deserve his fate, and will be a fit "mudsill" to serve as a basis of the plutocracy which now controls In this cou ntry. I have too much resp)ect for the de scendlants of the New Englanders and citizens of the Middle States, who have moved 'to the West and who are to-day producing wheat at a loss, to helieve that you can hold them In your par'ty If you refuse to do them justice. A\nd as for my friends on this side who elevate their brows and sneer at the Idea of a bounty as not being Demo cratic, I will, before I get through, show to you that you are clinging to the letter and not the spir-it of Demo cracy, and that if you refuse to doI justice to your own fellow-citizens by| your votes here, they will hold you to a strict accountability. I said a moment ago that the Ameri can farmers furnishes the exports with which you pay your foreign exchanges. I give the exact figures. All the ex ports sent abroad by this country in - 189(1 amounted to $863,000,000. Of that isum, the farmers dug odtaof the ground i andl shipped, because the home market - wouldi would not take it, $593,000.000 . worth, or- nearly three-fourths. Y'ou t are not able to consume his sur-pius, and he Is forced to sell wherever he I can find a buyer. You force him to buy at home In a market the prices of , which have been raised from "20 per i cent ad valorem." which is the true un!oss'tl 18 bounty feature is incorpora te d in the bill ; and the S,nators from those other Western States will have an opportunit,y to explain why they will vote here against this proposition to give compnesation to the American producer on the farm when we hear so much aboutcompensatory duties for the woolen manufacturer by reason of the tax that is given in these schedules iere to the wool producer. Why are these inen to be left out in the cold? Why are they ignored in this scheme of tariff taxation? Why is no com p.nsation given to them? Why is there no euality, no equity, no jus tice to them. Gentlemen, when you meet your constituents and they ask you why, I hope you will have your an swers ready, because I tell you they are going to ask you. You may drag this juggernaut-car policy with its double team of protec tion and gold monometalism over the prostrate forms of the farmers, you may mash them deeper into the mire of pov"3rty than they are already, but a day Is comuing when they will turn and say, "Your party of lIepublicanism to day is a byword and a hissing. We in herited the princi pits of A brahamt I- An coin ; we fought for those principles during the war, and one of those prin eiples, which was dearer to us than i any other, was the cquality of men, t even the b!ack man with the white. We she d our blood to emaci- I pate the negroes of the South, and you I have in turn placed us in a condition of ilavery that is as hopeless as thiet of the slaves who we re held as chattels." We have it here boldly procl-timed t that there is an alliance between the e Eastern manufacturers and the wool- I growers of the West by means of which t alone this tariff bill can go through. e The two sections in alliance against the I balance of the country boldly march up t here through their representatives, t join forces, and say: "Give us wool du- I ties and take your compensation on the woolen manafactures." Then they join i in and give the sugar trust and every other trust all it asks for. Will there a be no day of reckoning? If the re be I none, then the spirit of liberty in < America is dead and the farmers of the t West are hopelessly enslaved already. Here is a quotation from Albert Gal- < latin, in a menorial to Congress in 1831, in which this very danger is I pointed out, and the danger which al- < ways confronts a legislative assembly I which c"mes here composed of men i who do not rise to the dignity of Amer- i lean Senators, whorcome here as the i representatives of States only. Mr. Gallatin said : The true problem to be solved in the United States is not whether the peo piecan'govern themselves, of which not the slightest doubt can be entertained, but whether that government can be successfully applied to an extensive territory embracing interests which must occasionally be in collision with each other; whether majorities formed by combinations of sectional int,erests will be so governed by it sense of justice and a spirit of conciliation as not to op press those parts of the country whose rights, though they may be in a minoi - ity, ought nevertheless to be respected. What is the wool clip of the United States worth ? Thirty million dollars; and yet there is a combination between the Senators representing the States largely int- rested In wool-growing, who make that acondition upon which their votes shall be given, with the States interested In manufacturing, while both through this tariff bill, which is higher in many respects than any we have had, utterly ignore the rights and interests of the great masses of people engaged in farming. Boldly you ally yourselves together, the extreme sec .onal West. and the 10ast. Dare you oppress theMildle States and the South engaged in the pro-d uction of agricul tural exports ? You aae offered an op port,unity to give them compensator-y (duties by a bounty. Will you do it ? Dare you refuse It ? There Is vea-y lit t,le you will not dare, but there is a day of reckoning foa- you .epublicane, as there has been for the D)emnocratic par ty when it was false to the p)eop)le and recognized not that there was a -day of judgment coming. Deamocrats here prioclaimn that "tarlf for revenue only" is alone true D)emo cratic doctrine. It has already been pocinted out- that this word "only" was stricken out In the last D)emocratic convention. I could give the history of it, but it is not necessaary, excep)t that we saw after the passage of the Wilson bill, which was a p)rotective tar-IIf, thatj any contention along those lines wasI simply a waste of time and wolmd put the party in a false p)osition. Mr'. President, it is not worth while for us to discuss here how the word "only" came to be left out of the ilat form, or why. I will say thuis, however-, that the reason It was btricken out, was because we wished to confIne the atten tion of the countr-y and light the battle on the money (question only. We did not care to have the tar-iff brought into it as an issue at all ; and after the paIs sage of the Wilson bill, those of us who were pecrhaps more advanced than the Senator faroam Missouri in our idleas on this question did not feel that we coul consistently contandl about the word "only' when the Wilson bill froem one end to the other had r-ecognizedl tihe protective p)rinciple, and1 that t,he partLy stood committed to the acknowledg ment that it was right andI proper -m expedient, if you choose-to piroteet Aamerlcan lad ustries. The tariff was not an issue an the last campaign, except as it was made such in those States where we did not light, where there was nlo contention by the followers of Mr. Hryan at all again:-t onslaught of the othber side. We tsur rendered the Northeastern section of the country as cominntted wholly andl irrevocably to the gold monomania, and we made our fight, In the WVest and South. It is not the Issue now, and it, can not be made the issue ; and the way we vote here will not affect the next election one way or tihe other, except that those of you who have fool ed your constit,uents by proclaiming that we must "open thae mills insteadl of opcening the mints" have got to show Sprosperity in the next eIghteen months I or you will stand conemned and the . thousands of workmen who votei your .ticket on that iledge will vote fr isomebody eise. You have got to show how you can give prosper-ity under the n gold standard by Increasing taxes, and y without any effort-or rather with only , a futile elfort-to i-ease the prIces to n the fa'.mer on export products; andi if you give him noneof this money which you proprose to wring from the pooplc by this tariff bill, he will settle with ou the sooner and the more effectual y. Somebody will ask, and all of youar< asking in your minds now, what righi have you to take money out of th< Treasury and pity a bounty to anybody what right have you to raise money by taxation and pay it out in bounties You R p'tblicans can answer that, whet you explain by what right you took money out of the Treasury and vaid it bounty to the sugar planters of Louisi. ana, not on exports, but on what they produced. But I want t: ask you wht dispute the right to take money out 01 the Treasury and pay it out in bounties, what right, have you to levy taxer which take money outof the pockets ol the peopl and pay bounties to the man ufacturer ? You may call it a tarilf, but it is a bounty on manufacturing, and the farmer. has to pay one-half o' it. What I mean is that the agricul turat population of this country being Etbout one-half of it, therefore, In pro portion to consumption, th ,y pay one iaif of the tariff duties of this country, td they get nothing in return. What. 'ight, if we come to the question of 'ight and wrong, have you to Ltkei noney from these peop e and pay it as t bounty to manufacturers ? I believe that it has been asst rtee iere by almost every Democrat who tas had anything to say about the in quities of this bill that it proposes a eme of robbery by which the people ire to be mulcted, robbed, not so much o put money Into the Treasury, but in lirectly by raising the price of all that i consumed in the country. I think ,he Senator from Texas IMr. Mill] cal :ulated yesterday that for one dollar )aid in revenue the bounty to the man ifactui ing industries would be some .hing like twelve hundred million dol ars. The figures were staggering. L'o take the most conservative esti nate, if the benelits to the protected ndustries by means of the tariff mount to $3 to the manufacturers and heir employees as compared to $1 re ,eived by the Government, it would itill be an enormous amount. Is it not robbery ? Will some )omo rat dare say that he does not think it a robbery? How many of you have ;tated that it is robbery ? Well, my olleagues, my follow-Senators, my )rethren of this party, who stand up ind proclaim the doctrine of equal -ig hts for all and special privileges to one as the cardinal principle of Den )cracy, if it be robbery in this bill to ake from the masses of the people ,hose hundreds of millions of uollars tnd pay it into the colfers of the manu acturers and into the coffers of the Government, how will you face yo ionst,ituents and vote against a provi sion i this same bill which will restore a minitum amount, a very small ro portion of the amount that they hav( been robbed of ? It is not a question of whether it I Democratic policy or not to pay bpun ties, because you are not responsible fo this' measure. You have got to take I whether you like it or not, and yoi have an opportunity by this amend ment, with the help of a few it epubli cans over hero who are not lost to al sense of shame and decency and pa triotism, to put the farmer on somte basis, however small, on an equality with the balance of the country ; and you can not be accused of having de sorted yo a' party policy or your tarty platform or anything else if you try t. %mend the bill so as to do justice to our own State, to your own constitu ants, and to the farmers throughout ,he country, without, regard to polities )r section. You can not get around the proposi ,ion that if i, is robbery to i,ake it away, t would be honest,y and patiotism and [Democracy to restore it. It is not ii :tuestion of par'ty policy, It is not ii :iuostion of whether you would favoa bounties per~ so as a p)arty policy If yet had the framing of the bill, but it ii simp)ly a question as to whether yet will endeavor to amend this bill in t way to do justice to your people. This may be "a r,ew Democracy, which seeks to lead some of us into t.hc iamp of the enemy," as the Senator rrom Texas twitted us with yesterday. I t may be "a new evangel of Democi'a ay" to ask you to amend this Iniquli,ous arilf measure or vote to amnond it so as ~o restore to youra peOople that whIch you aay they have beien rob)bedl of ; but to ny r.ind it is tbe essen*e of D)emocra ~y to p)roclaim eqlualit,y, tbe cardinal loctr'ino of our p)arty, rather than t.o >lrfe' youi' constituents the dIry husk tnd the Sodom aplesC of p)arty p)lat orerms for "revenue only." It is not a q1uestion of how you are going to get the money. TIhe money is t,here. T1hey p)roclalm that they expectat surp us; they arc proclaiming that they want t,o increase the gold reserve to e15,00,000,, so ats to absor b some of th is p)rosp)ective surlus. Tihey have pro-0 claimed a desire to retire the green b)acks by locking up this money in the Treasury. You have the opportunit,y t,o for'ce them to show their hands by voting to pay out $l0,000,000 to the far'mei's who make wheat and cotton who have been robbed in every sched ule of this bill, and you say, "'No ; I will not do it because it is not Democratic it is not, for revenue only." Great God. such Deimocracy 'They ask you fom b)readI and you oifer them a stonue ; they ask you for an adlherence to your- prin ciles and you p)ut, up) a mummy label ed "Tariff for' revenue only." Trh< (luestion is wit,h you gentlemen. N< doubt you will vote In accordance witi what you bulieve is your duty. I say this as a farmer who has fel the iron (unter' his soul hy reason of thi injust,ice andi inIquitIes practiced b: the prmotective tariff ; and in the nam of the cotton and the wheat growers, say here that if it Is not D)emocratic t vote for this, then I am noe Democral You have got the telescope with th big end close to your eye, the little on away off 'yonder, and at the other en you see, "Trarlff foi' revenue only. Tiurn it ar'ound.and you wi1 see "'Equa ity" as the cardinal dloctrine of Don ocmracy ; "I~q ual rights, for all, sp)ech privileges to none ;" "The greatet goodl to the greatest number." T1hee ai'e the fundamental principles of D)en ocracy as I understand the word, an Ii0ppos to stand by them. You wi not accep)t It, you wiil not support I you will not vote for it because you p1 party platforms above party principle and party policy above the purincipi of .Jefferson and of Json. Well e Democratic proposition I believe, to somewhere between 100 and 150 pel cent on many articles and an averag of over 50 per cent oni a1l. Then you turn around and in thih tariIf you (tTer him " all the protection possible" by giving him 25 cents a bushel on wheat, 15 cents a bushel on corn, 30 cents a bushel on barley, and so on through the agricultural schedule, and while the taxgatherer comes around yearly and while the mortgage eats and gnaws day and night upon his home, the one that this Government may have given him, feeling that it is slipping from beneath his feet by these unjust conditionr, you expect him te vote the Republican ticket because, forsooth, you have given him "protec tion " in this scheme by a tariff on these articles. It is an insult to his intelligence, and if the man who framed it-I do not know who did it-has an agricultural constituency that is worth a fillip, he would never see the lightof this Cham ber any more after they got a chance to vote upon it. You know sit is an in sult to proclaim that the farmer gets any benefit from these tariff duties. But, Mr. Presider.t, who and what are some of these men who are thus disciminated against ? L,t us con sider for a moment, if we please, two brothers born in Germany, who, fuel; ing that they could better their condi tion by _migrating to America, set out rrom there twenty years ago and came to our shores. One of them stopped romewhere eastward of here, in New York, or Massachusetts, or Pennsyl vania, or some one of those manufac turing States, and went into manu acturing. The other one moved west yard, pressing on beyond the Missis ,ippi into the virgin fields of Iowa, Kansas, or Nebraska. and by the bounty )f the Government was given 160 acres Af land, upon which he settled and be an to farm. Let us follow them on and see Low hey are treated. They both become American citizens, and they are both Amorican laborers, so to speak. They same to this "land of the free and 2some of the brave," its Government ounded upon the immortal declara don that " all men are born free and ;qual, and have an inalienable right o life, liber y, and the pursuit of hap iness." F'ron the day when the farm )r settled in Nebraska on his quarter rection he has been inulted and inched and some of his substance aken for the benefit of the brother who went to manufacturing under the )rotective tarifi. How many of the farmers are foreign 3rs ? They are as clever and as uood men as we have, many of them [ mean the intelligent portion of them. But to give you a little insight as to the situation, I will take the nine States of Maine, New Hampshire, Ver mont, Massachusetts, Rnode Island. Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. The total of foreign born citizens 10 years of age and upward engaged in gainful occupations there is 2,199.120. How many of these are engaged in farming ? Two hundred and forty-six thousand eight hundred and sevonty.tive. How many are en gaged in manufacturing ? E ght hun dred and ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and forty-six. That is all very well. It seems very well to have the 246,000 farmers mulct ud and taxed on what they buy for the benefit of 899,000 who went into manufacturing. But let us go further. Take the twelve wheat-growing States known is the Middle West-Ohio, Indiana, [Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Min iesota, Iowa, Missouri. North Dakota, 3outh Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas. l'he total number of foreign-born itizens engaged in gainful occupations Uas 2,13,603; the number engaged in igriculture was 837,357. The number angaged In manufacturing industries wa 524,831. You make the 837,000 rar'mer-s pay tribute to their brethren who are engaged in manufacturing In .lustries in their own States as well as in the Eastern States, and when they go to sell their p)roducts of wheat, bee, sheese, butter, and other things, after they have given to this country all it aan consume, they have to send the surp)lus abroad, where they comp)ete with their brethren in Europe on an eqluality, while the foreign-born Amer-ican manufacturer compietes with his brethren in Europe with the pro tective tarifY thrown around him, by which he is enabled to rob the same brother who came with him, and to rob the native-horn American who is fool enough to farm under these con ditions. Now we come to the Ishmaelite section, which has no rights, which never has had any rights since the war that anybody is bound to respect. I give the ten cotton States, North Carolina, Soutn Carolina, Georgia, F'iorida, Tennessee, Alabama, M issis slippi, Louisiana. Texas, and Arkansas. The total foreign population of those States in gainful occupations is 172, 503, of whom 58,142 are engaged in agriculture and 36,429 are engaged1 in manufacturing. It does not matter, of course, that the S.>uth to-day furnishes a larger p)roportion and possesses S large proportion of native-born Ameri cans, descendants of those who foughi the battles of the Revolution, than any other portion of the country. But though we are laboring under the barl of secession and the effort to disrupi the Government, and have paid out thousands of milllons for seceding, wc are still face to face with the demanc of the daughters of the horse-leech tc give, give, give. The cry is : Meet your comnpetitora InlIndia and Egypt and fight it out and if an effort is made here, througi a bounty on exports, to give those mer a scintilla of the amount taken frorr them by unjust tariff taxation, the re pr esentatives to those cotton Statei will stand here and vote against th< propiosition, no'doubt upon the grount that it is not Democratic cetrine. When interrupted, Mr. PresIdent, had just given the figures showing th4 immigration here and how unfairly th immigrant from Europe who had goni to the West and settled there as far me had been treated1 In comparison witl1 his brother who had settled in the East The Senator from Minnesota [Mr Nelson I whose State has upwardl c 100,000 of these foreign-born citizens nearly all of them farmere, ia ay explal to them when he gets home where the come in under these tariY schedulei and what good protection does the, Too ''hat is, we are too bu Low Prices keep us busy. Ihe Racket Store is t ways buy what you want c we mean what we sav. Uur competitors cah a acknowledge the'charge an of this county to say hett Store has been a benefit to Us goods as the best. Bought at Low Prices, and our customers rejoice Racket Store is doing for t Asking that one and al to " Underbuy and Undersi Yours in dev NEW YORK F i,asley, 5. t . P". S.---Still remember will get a nice carriage this plain it if you can when you come to faco your const,ituents. lFor my part, I believe in getting everything out of this tariff business that we can get, for if the policy of the Government is to be one of robhery or to be one of special classes and privi leges. while I know it is unpossible for the Southern States to get anything aike their share, then when I can put anything into the bill which wiiI give us only a smnall proportion of what is our due, I shall vote to put it there. A tariff tax on cotton will do us no good. There are very few planters oat of the millions who raise cotton who grow sea island or long-staple cotton or any thing of that kind. The tax on wheat, the tax on cortn, will do the Western farmers no good, and you know it. D you think we are idiots and fools, that you can cram that down our throatt and get us to vote with you on the pro position ? Do you not know that thla country can not absorb our surplus an( that we have got to export it? Do yoi r.ot know that the surplus is lowerei in price by reason of the destruction c one of the money metals of the world Do you not know the only way I which you can,raise the price of agr t, cultural exports is to restore silver an thereby increase the volume of th money of the world ? You do know It: and yet you aL "We can not relieve the America farner because we must h ve internu tional bimetallism." You erect a bar rir between us and I,urope, your tariff and traen you say, "We can not allo' l; ag;ish free traiers to dictato oua tariff policy ;" but we allow the 11nglis1: aaundholders to come in and buy out Governmanut and control our Senatc and dictate our policy in everything tc keep these men down as though they were untdur tihe astLrdiy heel of the Spanish batcher, Woyler. You do thubu tihings, and yet you btand herc a;aiiuting ,ai, you are 61he aposties o: Lincoln, when you are unworthy to un tie the shoe latchets of that great man if he were living ; and you, my Demo cratic friends, stand here and proclai thait you are the followers of .1 etfurson when you refuse to undo this iniquit so far- as you can, to restore to the peo pea small prop)ortio n that you nay thi bills robs thomn of. Feor any p)art, I take my stand fo "tuaality of benefit and equality o burden" as the highest and nobles princile1 of Democracy, and will figh for it here andl elsew hero as long as] have breath. I may be alone now, bul the time will come speedily when thai prninciple will triumph in this Govern mont, or libarty will cease to claimr America as her home. T11 WE I IATIE ICI AND) CROPs. Valuaablo in i'ormaationa to TIhose Inter este<(Il n Farmanaltg Operations. Th'le following is the weekly bulletir issuied b)y the weaither bur-eau In Co lutmbia ais to the condition of the cropa in tais State Thue temper-aturoe was about normal the mean for the week haiving been 7( while the normal is approximnately 77. Tihe fore pairt of the week was below~ normal while the last throce days wert very warm. The highest temporatura reportedl was 100 on the 12th at B3eau fort ; the lowest 57 on the 9th at Co lumbla. The weaithor was showery on Lhb 7th, 8th andl 9t,h, and showery condi Lions prevailed in p)laces on the 12th floavy washing rains occurrred durini first, of the week, with considerabi flooding of lowlands, and material in jury to cr'ops in spartanburg, Green viyleo, i"airfi bid, Clarendon, Newborry l':dgeliclid, Orangebur'g,Blarnwell. Laur ens, Greenwood, Anderson, York K(orshaw, Laincaster, aind Bamaberg IAt the close of the week it was stil too wet to plo0w hottoms, and in place 3 uplands, in Chester, Chesterfield [~ ierkeley, Spartanburg, Bamberg an > orry. ,.rho average of 50 aneasurements fe 3 the week was 2 07, and the normal I alpproximaitely 1.01. 7 p)laces reporte I less than I .00 of rain, 24 places from "' to 2 inches ; 19) ulaces over tw inches, aamong them were the fc lowing heavy rains: Bllackvil I3.619; Mount Clare, 41.18; Looper t 5.93 ; .Jetfferies Creek, 3.10 ; Pin C polls, 41.44; Barkedale, 4.10; Santu a- 3.1i. 'rhe correspondent at lmi dI S partanburg, reports nearly 15 incha II of rain in (1 hours on the 7th. It t, described as having been in the natu at of a cloud-burst. Streams in the vi s, . nity were higher than ever known a )s ja great deal of injury to crops, et Busy! sy to write very much. Our ie place where you can al heap When we say cheap, s by cheap names, and we d leave it to the good people ier the New York Racket them or not. Our goods are so let our competitors weep At the good the New York Eie people of this county. I remember that our motto is we are .d earnest, ACKET STORE, CLYIl)I & NAILI,Y, Proprietors. .he Surry offer. Some one fall FREE I Hail, doing material injoury to corn, cotton, fruit and tobacco, ocurrevd in - Edgelield, Fairfield, Anderson. Ma' u n Sumter, Chester, Pickens, Clare,,<ion, Florence, Hampton and 0 -ang--ou,-g. Hall also fell, but without doin- any material injury in Spartanburg, N. w berry, Barnwell, Lexingtou, Mich land, Chesterfield. Darlington and Saluda. Sunshine varied greatly in ditferent portions of the State, but averaged about normal with 63 per cent. of the possible. The adverse conditions of the past week were altogether physlcal and therefoee local, and consisted mainly of high water flooding bottom lands ; heavy rains washing slopns, and hail beating down corn, cotton and tobacco Couparatively Hp. aking, the damage was conlined to iinitod ar=as in the counties already uameud. Lron Ab bovillo and lower Barnwell reports I were received of crops sufering for rain, and from Spartanburg, Chester, I Lancaster and Chestertield of too I much rain for plowing and that crops . are getting to be foul. n Chinch bugs continue to destroy I- corn and other vegetation over Ches d ter and York ; cut, worms in D.)rohes a ter, Colleton, Hampton and Williams burg, but corn has generally made rapid growth and in many places Is a being laid by. The corn crop does not come up to an averago condition in - either size or stand, owing principally to broken stands on bottom lands caused by worms. Replanting still going on. Cotton made fair and altogether iatisfacto"y progress during the week. Grass threatens the crop in some lo calities, but the plant is of sufiicient size, and the prevailing hot, sunny weather will enable farmers to kill grass readily, and is also the weather best suited for the development of tcotton. Squares are reported plentiful where the plant is large enough, but cotton - s unseasonably small everywhere. 1 Blooms have bnen noted in Ba~trnwell, , ut are as yet scarce. Lice infest some fields, but are not general., - Tobacco has dove loped rapidly lately s and is now in excellent condition, ex cept that worms are numerous in SFlorence, while In Florence and Clar endon, and to a lesser extent In some 1. other counties in the tobacco district, hail has done material injury to the plant. Rice is growing nicely, but in Col leton young rice has been attacked by caterpillars with, however, but slight injury as yet. In the Georgetown and Hlorr'y dIsatricts rice is doing well. Peas are being sown on stubble land and in with corn. Seed scarce in Chuster and Georgetown, but re ported plentiful in Newberry county. Wheat harvest has made fair pro gress and the yield is generally rep)ort ed up to an average, and very satis factory. Oats harvest nearly completed for winter sown. The yield about up to an average. Spring sown has im p roved but will be a poor crop neverthe less. Some oats shocked on the fields were damaged slightly by the rains early in the week. Melons are doing better since the rains, but have a poor stand and in places are attacked by bugs. will be late. Trransplanting sweet p)otato draws continues. One locality reports draws scarce, but generally they are plenti ful. In the truck ing districts the condi tIons have improved very much and .late vegetables are doing well. - Pastures have revived and now af ford good grazing. Gardens in ox .cellent condition. Minor crops, such ,as sugar cane, sorghum, pinders, Irish .lpotatoes, and other food and forage Scrops arc fully up to or above average a condition. J. V. BAUER, Director. -R~ussia penal statistics show that r In the dominion of the czar thei women Scriminals outnumber the men by nearly Sfifty per cent., just as the contrary Sbeing the case in other countries. Most 0 of the women criminals are unmarried, - and the majority come from the labor 0 ing classes in the cities. a- -The extreme of luxury has per e, haps been reached by the sultan of in Morocco. He has a narrow gauge e, railway running through all the rooms is of his palace, and travels about on a re sort of sleigh propelled by a little motor. 31. The " line " ends at his bedyoom. nd --What is a man profited who gains c., a hundred dollars worth of property and loses $10,000 worth of nar.at.r1