The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, August 25, 1891, Image 1

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aureus Atmtmtt LAU RENS, S. C, TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1891. NO DONT INVITK SORROW. SUFFICIENT UNTO THE DAY IS THE 4 EVIL THtREOF. l>r. ThIiiihk? l'r?Hclif ? u Powerful Her^iou on tin Iu.uiilly ol llnrrowlng Ti on I ? l <> ? It H i? \Vr< ? In ii MMIiyHl.il??'Ilm Lord Will Look Out lor You. Brooklyn, Aug. 1(5.?Dr. Talniage has returned from Ida western tour rein vigornted in health and cheered by the hearty nud enthusiastic greetings he bus received lu tho numerous cities he has visited. Thousands of persons who rend his sermons in (heir local newspapers have struggled to get within sound ot his voice wherever be has spoken. Ills sermon this week in on the very common nud foolibb habit of borrowiug trouble, aud bis text is Matthew vl, 31, "Sufll elent unto the day is the ovll thereof." The life of every mun. woman and child is as closely under the divine care us though such person were the only man, woman or child. There are no ac cidents. As there is a law of storms in the nutiirnl world, so there Is a law of trouble, a law of disaster, a law ol mis fortune; but the runJoiUy of the troubles ol life arc Imaginary, and tho moat of those anticipated never come. At nny rule, there is no cuuse of complaint ngalust God. Sec Low much he bath done to make thee tapp); his sunshine tilling the earth with glory, making rain bow for the storm und halo for the mountain, greenness for the moss, saf fron fur the cloud and crystal tor the bil low, and procession of bannered (lame through the opening gates of tho morn ing, conftihehes to sing, rivers to glitter, seas to chant, nud springs to blossom, and overpowering all other sounds with Us si ng, and overarching nil other splen dor with its triumph, covering up all other beauty with its garlands, aud out' Hashing all other thrones with its dom inion??deliverance for a lost world through the Great Redeemer. I discourse of the sin of borrowing trouole. First, such a habit of mind nud heart is wrong, because it puts one iuto a des pondency that ill Hts him lor duty. I plant! d two rose bushes in my garden. The one thrived beautifully, the other perished. I found tho dead one on the shady side of tho house. Our disposi tions, like our plants need sunshine. Expectancy of repulse Is the cause of many secular and religious failures. Fear of baukiuptev has upsornmanya line business and suit the mnu dodging among the note shavers. Fear, slander and abuse bus often invited all the long beaked vultures of scorn and backbiting. Many of the misfortunes of life, lika hyenas, llee if .you courageously meet them. FORCE HAPPINESS to COME. How poorly prepared for religious duty is a man who sits down under the gloom of expected misfortune! If bo pray, be sa\s, "I do not thmk I shall be unswercd." if he give, ho says, "I ex pect they w ill slcnl the money." tlelcn Chalmers told me that her fnther, Thomas Chalmers, in the darkest hour of the history of the Free Church ot Scotland, und when the woes of tho land seemed to weigh upon bis heart, said to the children, "Come, let us go out and piny ball or lly kite," and tho only dif ficulty in the play was that tuo children could not keep up with their father. The McCbeyncB and the Sumraerllelds of tho church who did tho most good, cultivat ed sunlight. Away with the horrors! they distill poison; they dig graves, and if they could climb so high, they would drown tho rejoicings of heaven with sobs and wailing. You will have nothing but misfortune in the future If you sedulously wntch for it. How shall a man catch the right kind of fish if lie arranges his line and hook and bait to catch li/.ards and water serpents? Hunt for bats and hawks and hats und hnwks >ou will find. Hunt for robin redbreasts aud you will llnd robin redbreasts. One night nn engle and an owl got into fierce battle; tho eagle un used to the night was no match for an owl, which is most at home in the dark ness, and the king of the air fell helpless; but the morning rose, and with it rose the engle; and the owls and tho night l.nwks and the bate came a secoud time to the combat; now, the engle, in the sunlight, with a stroke of his tnlous and a great cry, cleared the air, and his enemies, with torn leathers and splashed with blood, tumbled into the thickets. Ye nro the children of light. In the night of despondency you will have no chance against j our enemies that (lock up from beneath, but, trusting in (Jod and standing in tho sunshine of the prom ises, 3011 shall "renew your voulh like the engle." THERE are BLESSINGS A-PLENTY. Again, the bnbit of borrowing trouble is wrong because it has a tendency to make us overlook present blessing. To slake man's thirst, the rock is cleft, and cool waters leap into his brimming cup. To feed Ins hunger the fields bow down with bending wheat, and the. entile come down with full udders from tho clover pastures to give him milk, and the oichnrds follow and ripen, ensting their juicy fruits into his lap. Alas! that nmid such exuberance of Messing man ah uld growl ns though hs were a soldier 011 half rations, or a sailor on short nllownuce, that a man should stand neck deep in harvests looking forward to famine; that one should feel the strong pulses ol health marching with regular tread ihre ugh all the avenues of life and yet tremblo at the expected assault ol sickness; that a man should sit in his plcHsent home, leurfuljtbat ruthless want will some d ly rattle the broken window sash with tempest, and sweep the coals from tho hcurih, nud pour htingei into tho bread tray; that a man fed by him who owns.all tho harvests should expect to starve; that ono whom God Iovch and surrounds with benediction, aud attends with angelic escort, and hovers over with more than motherly fondncsBs should bo looking for a heritngo of tears! Has Clod been bard with thee that thou shouldst bo foreboding? Has ho stinted thy bonrd? Has he covered thee with rags? Has be spread traps tor thy feet, and galled thy cup, and rasped thy soul, and wrecked theo with storm, and thundered upon theo with a life lull ot calamity;' It your lather or brothei come into jour bank were gold and sil ver are lying about yni (Ij not watch them, for you know they are honest; but Ifau entire strunger come by tho safe jou keep your eye on him, lor you do not know his designs. So some nen treat God; not ns a father, but a stran ger, ami act suspiciously toward him, as though 1 in- y a ere ufraid he would steal ^ something. THANK GOD FOB WHAT YOU HAVE. It Is high 1 iine you began to thank God for your present blessing. Thank him for your children, happy, buoyrnt and bounding, I'rnlsohlm for your home. willi its fountain ot song ami lau r. Adoro Iiiin for i.mi' la:la and evetl lug shadow. Praise him for fresh, cool ?-Itter bubbliog from the rock, leaping in the cascade, soariug in the mist, falling in the shower, dashing agalns, the rock and clapping its bauds In die tempest. IjOVu him for the grass that cushions tho earth, and the Clouds that curtain tho sky, and the foliage that waves in the forest. Thank him for a Bible to read, nnd a cross to gaze upon, aud a Saviour to deliyet. Again, tho habit of borrowing trouble is wrong because the preseut is sutll ciently taxed with trial. God sees that we all need a certain nraount of trouble, and so he apportions it tor all the days' and years of our life. Alas for t'ic pol icy of gathering it all up for one day or yearl Cruel thing to put upon the back ot oue caniol all tho cargo intended for the entire caravan. 1 never look ul my memorandum book to see what engage ments aud duties are far ahead. Let every week beur its own burdens. WHY BRING NEW SORROWS? The shadows of today are thick euough, why implore the prc/ence of other Bhndows? The cup is ulr Ady dis taste! i), why halloo to disasters far dis tant to como und wring out more gall into the bitterness? Are we such cham pions that, having won the belt in form er encou iters, wc can go forth to chal lenge all tho future? Hero are business men just able to mauag" allairs as they now are. They cau pay their reut, and meet their notes, and mauage affairs as they now are, but what if there should come a panic? Go tomorrow and write on your daybook, on your ledger, on jour money safe. "Sullicient unto tho day is the evil thereof." Do not worry about notes that aro far lrom due. Do not pile up on your counting desk the tiunncial anx ieties of tho next twenty years. Tho Cod who has taken care of your worldly occupation, guarding your store from the torch of the incendiary and the key of the burglar, will bo as faithful iu 1801 as in 1881. God's band is mightier than tho machinal ions of stock gnmb.ers, or the plots of political demagogues, or the red right arm of revolution, aud the dark ness will lly and the storm fall dead at his feet. . So there are persons iu feeble health, and they are worried about tho future. They mako out very well now, but they are bothering themselves about future pleurisies and rheumatisms aud ueural gius and fevers. Their ey-esight is fee ble, and they aro worried lest they en tirely lose it. Their hearing is indis tinct, aud they are alarmed lest they be come entirely deaf. They felt chilly to day, and are expectiug an attack of ty phoid. They have been troubled for weeks with some pcrplexiug malady, aud dread becoming lifelong invalids. Take care of your health now and trust God for the future. lie uot guilty of the blasphemy of ask ing him to tako care of you while you sleep with your windows tight down, or cat chicken salad at 11 o'clock at night, or sit down on a cake of ice to cool oil*. 13c prudent aud then be confident. Some of the sickest people have been the most U8e(ul. It was so with Payson, who died deaths daily, aud Robert Hall, who used to stop in the midst of his sermon nnd lie. down ou the pulpit sofa to rest, nnd then go on Again, Theodore Pre lingbuysen had a groat horror of dying till tho time came, nnd then went peace fully. Take care of the preseut and lot the luluro look out for itself. "Sullieieut uuto the day is the evil thereof." KOhS US OP WHAT STRENGTH WE H AVK. Agnin, the habit of borrowing misfor tune is wrong becnuse it unfits us for it when it actually docs come. Wo can not alw.iys have smooth sailing. Life's path will sometimes tumble among de clivities and mount a steep and be thorn pierced. Judas will kiss our cheek nnd 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 sepulchcr creak and grind as it shuts in our kindred, lint we cannot get ready for these things by forebodings. They who fight imaginary woes will come, out of breulh, into con flict with the armed disasters ol tho lu I ture. Their ammunition will have been wasted long before they come uudor the guus of real misfortune. Hoys in at tempting to jump a wail sometimes go so far back in order to get impetus that wheii they como up they are exhausted; and these long races in order to get spring enough to vault trouble bring lift up ut lust to tho dreadful reality with our strength gone. Finally, the habit of borrowing trou blo is wrong because it is unbelief. God has promised to take care of us. Tho Hiblo blooms with assurances. Your hunger will bo fed; your sickness will be alleviated; your sorrows will be healed. God will sandal your feet and smooth your path, aud along by frowning crag and opening gravo sound the voices of victory and good cheer. Tho summer clouds that scorn thunder charged really carry in their bosom harvests of wheat, antl shocks ol corn, and vineyards pur pling for the wino press. Tho wrathlul wave will kiss the lectof the great storm wulkcr. Our great Joshua will com mand, and above your soul the sun of prosperity will stand still. Bleak and wnvo struck Patmos shall novo apo calyptic vision, and you shall bear the cry of the elders, and the sweep of wings, nud trumpots of salvation, and the voice of Hallelujah unto God for ever. PLACE YOUIt TRUST IN OOl). Y'our way may wind along dangerous bridle paths nnd am'd wolf's howl and tho scream of die vulture, but tho way a* ill winds upward til angels guard it, and trees of life overarch it, and thrones line it, and crystalline fountains leap on it, and the pathway ends at gates that are pearl, and Streets that arc gold, and temples that are always open, and hills Mint quake with perpetual song, and a city mingling lorever Sabbath and jubi !e< and triumph and coronation. l.et pleasure chant her siren song, 'Tis not tho song for me; ? To weeping It will turn e'er long, For this Is heaven's decreo. Rut thoio's a song tho ransomed sing, To Jesus, their exalted king, With joyful heart nnd tongue, Oh, that's tho song for met Courage, my brother] The father does not gite to his son atschool enough money to last him several years, but. as the bills tor tuition and board and clothing nnd books come iu, pavs them. So God will not give you grace all at once for the future, but will moot all your exigencies as they come. Through earnest prayer, trust him. Put ovory thing in Cod's hand, and leave it there. Largo interest money to pay will soon eat up a hum. a storo, au estate, and the interest on borrowed troubles will swamp anybody. '-Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." ALLIANCE BATTLE CRY. VIRGINIA FARMERS WANT MORE MON EY FOR THE PEOPLE. The A niiiia 1 Bleating- of I no stain Alli ance at ltlcuujond? President Pago's Addreas, In whleh he States the Orlav MD'?? of the Farmers. Richmond, Va., August 18.?Tho fourlh annual session of the Farmers' Alliance met here to-day at noon, und was called to order by President Manu Page, of Prince Gt orge County, .aft- r which the doors were closed. There wtro ninety odd delegates present. President Page delivered his annual address, In wtd'ch he says: ?'While we are a stanch advocate of Individual liberty wo have been forced to baud uiirsi'lveB together as an organ* ization of offence against combines and trusts, which, under the sanction of luw have sprung up in the last twenty-live yeais, forcibly absorbing individual en terprises uud depriving tho producing classes of a mnrket tor the sale of their produce except at prices below the coit of production. "We are told, when we complain of prices being under the cost of produc tion,that the cause is over-production, yet ICx-Senator Ingalls, who, by the chastening hand of the Kansas Alli ance now poses as u 'statesman with out a job.' and who, for many years, as sisted in the enactment of laws which now oppresses us,says that from 18(10 to 1890 wealth has been accumulated to the amount of $100,000,000,000. Yet there are 10,000,000 of people who never have enough to eat from one year's end to the other. "1 pause to ask why it is that, with this accumulation of bdll ms of wealth and with an Increase of thlrty-etgbt 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 theso banks, an Act demonetizing silver was so adroitly passed that Senators and Rep resentatives have since declared that they were ignorant of the provisions of this Act, and President Grant was not aware of it when he signed the bill." He then cited Chief Justice Chase as having acknowledged when Secretary of the Treasury that he made a mis take in advocating the national bank ing law and President Lincoln as fore shadowing tho evils that are al legGTi to confront tho farmers to-day. He next alluded to the sub-treasury plan submitted at St. Louis, which received no consideration by the last Congress, but at the instigation of Wall street has culled forth a storm of abuse, lidlcule and misrepresentation. "If tho Incoming Congress will not graut liuaucial relief let us see that thtir places bo Idled in 1802 by those who will enact laws for tho protection ot the agricultural producer and labor er. 1 i;gain appeal to you to stand shoulder to shoulder in sustaining the demands of the Supremo Council as adopted at Ocala. If wo are to win this light for our rights as free and equal citizens it must be accomplished by closer ranks and a determination that, with the help of God, wo will do and endure until ?o can again make this a Government of the people, by the people and for the people. "To the question now asked with seeming anxiety by the politicians and the press as to what party the Farm ers' Alliance belongs, I answer we are not a political party. We have a plat form of principles to which we invite the aid and co-operation of all, and the time h is arrived when our interoste de mand that we should do our best to in duce the political parties of which we are members to assist us. Yet we ought not to subordinate- the obligations we have assumed to the dictates of those who prefer party to principle. "I now invite your attention to the elections soon to bo held in this State for members of the Legislature. To leave the selection of candidates to our party bosses and wire-pullers would prove unsafe. Wo should attend the local meetings of our part its and son that the delegates to all nominating conventions aro instructed to rtquiie of candidates a pledge to aid and assist in creating a railroad commission to act in conjunction with the Inter-State I commerce commission and clothed j with the full power of the State to pro tect her citizens from unjust discrimi nations in freight and passenger rates on the pint of the railroads and other lines of transportation, including the steamboat lines of our rivers and bays "Railroad corporations have lor years controlled legislation until the "Acts passed through the influence of their representatives have robbed the State ot millions of stock, thereby depriving her of her voice In the board of dlrec tois of railroad companies charteret! by her, with the result that the offices of these roads are removed beyond the con tines of the Statu, thus depriving her of thousands td dollars which would otherwise be expended among our people. 1 would recommend that inquiry be made into the report that at the late meeting between representative? of the State and of foreign bondholders there was only a difference of $60.000 pre venting a final settlement ot the Mate debt, tor if it can be shown mat tho finances of this Stut) will justify tho acceptance of this difference without increasing taxation or interfering with the appropriation necessary to adminis ter our state Government and provide for our asylums, scuoils aud colleges, 1 hcli&ue we would bo benelited by the et-taolishment of her ciedlt ami the State would be saved thousands of dol lars annually now expended in the pay ment of attorneys' fees and costs in Oe dt fending coupon stilts." He suggests that the State Secretary be located in Richmond, rt fers to the expense ol the present lecture system, cpmpliments the Alliance priBS and closes with an admonition for the Alli ance to ;itand together. At the conclusion of the president's address, whleh was heartily applauded, the various committees were appointed. Col. Polk was present and delivered a brief address, after which the Conven tion adjourned until to-morrow. To-night a public Alliance meeting was hold at the Mozart Academy, which was Addressed bv Col. Polk, pres ident of the National' Alliance. The meeting, though small in numbers, was most enthusiastic. Major Mann Page presented and introduced Mayor J. Taylor Edison, who gracefully wel comed President Polk to the city. Major Page (hen presented Mr. Polk to the :uHhence as "one of tliemost abused as w ?dl as one of most beloved men in the United States.'' Polk commenced by returning thanks for the cordial greeting and expresstd gratification at the opportunity of addressing the audi ence. Continuing he said: "We are not here to discuss party politics, but prin ciples. We have had taffy enough. There is a great misapprehension of the true aim and objeots of our Order." He then proceeded to briefly read the prlnoipb'B of the Order. "Morchants," said he, "you aro In the boat with us. It iB manned by farmers and if it sinks yon go down with us." In discussing the tiuaneial policy of the Unitea States he chargod that un do- tho banking system money wus loaned to rich corporations at 1 percent, while they were allowed to charge the farmers 8 per cent. That is John Sh> r man's statesmanship, said tho speaker, but the Alliance do net want any of it in theirs. He argued that "unlets the people aiose in their might and wiped ou the existing monetary system ot the Gov ernment, their will come a liuanclal crash such us this eoumry has never witmssed." Further ho said, "We do not propose to keep up this sectional issue In the South und bo scared by the negro. Wo are not lieggtng for support ot charity, but justice, and by tho help of God we will have it. He declared that the Alliauee win tight iug for tho principles of governmental exemplified by Washington and Jefferson. lie urged the members of to. Alli ance not to bo misled by the politician's cry of tho sub-treasury bill. That bill had t een killed by the list Congress, but, biiid he, there will ne another one. if any man can tell of one Act passed by the last Congress for the benefit of the people let hi in hold up his hand. Mono went up. "Discard the lawyers, and send men to Congress with brains at. one end and boots at the other." He graphically pictured Gen. Grant looking for a Weak place in Gen. Lee's Hues during the war, finding it at the crater, and Grant's forces being en gulfed there. Thus he cjiuparo I the rate of the two parties who wero now attempting to find a weak place in the Alliance lines Continuing, he said: "If it be abso lutely necessary to wipe out both polit ical parlies In order that wo may obtain relief I would do so." He disclaimed, however, any intention in the Alliance forming a Third l'urty, aud argued that If it were done the Democratic or Republican party would bo responsible for it. He closed with the words, "What we need is a higher type of moral manhood in high places." Col. Folk spoke about two hours and at times held the audience spell-bound. He was applauded throughout his speech. OUR GREAT WE ALT IH. Farm 1'roilucln luc.rc.ttHo One Itllllun Dol lar? In Viilu*. New York, Aug. 10.?The hum products will bo $1,000,(100,000 more Ibis year in the United Stales than they have been during the recent years ol depression. At least tins is the estimate put forward by The American Agricul turist in its annual review of harvests, to be published in the forthcoming issue of that magazine, On the basis of the present prospects this authority estimates the corn crop of 1801 at 2,000,000,000 bushels, wheat 500,000,000 and oats 022.000,000 bush els, against 1,500,000,000, 400,000,000 and 521,000.000 bushels respectively in 1891, and 1,700,000.000, 445,000,000 aud 578,000,000 bushels as the average for tliG preceding eleven years. This makes the total prospective crop of corn, wheat and oats 3,122,000,000 bushels, or 28.8 per cent, greater than last year and 14.7 per cent, over the average of the preceding eleven years. The American Agriculturist believes that unless unexpected inlluonccs whol ly change the current of events the val ue of corn on the farm will average in December fully GO cents per budicl, wheat $1 per bushel, and oais at least 40 cents. On this basis the value of the corn crop to the 'armeIS will be $1, 000,000,000, wheat $500,000,000, and oats $250,000.000, or a tolul of $1,750, 000,000. This is $450,000,000 more than the value of tho crops in 1800, and $025, 000.000 more than the value of tho aver age of these crop? from 1880 to 1800 In clusive. Cotton und rye will command better prices than lust season. Cattle are worth one-third more than eighteen month ago, with other llvo slock in proportion. Tobacco is advanc ing hiavily lor cigar leaf, contracts being made for the crop In the held at an ad vance of 15.50 per cent, over last year. Hops are lirm at good prices. Winter Iruit will command largo values, and all vegetables are yielding I'r.irlv, with every indication of o remunerative market. The paper, continuing, says: "The export outlook was never better; im mensely increased sums will be sent to us lor our produce. Ulterior inlluenccs may, of course, interfere with this bril linut prospect, but we confess wo are beginning lo share more fully the hopes ot certain well informed but conserva tive agriculturists, who predict better profits for the farmers of ihc United States during the next five .>ears thnu ever bet?re." Tho American Agricul turist says I here will be no return to "war prices," but tho money received nbovo expenses will go further and en able tho farmer to get more value out of his profits than at r.u> previous per iod. Nu Moiiov In Melons The Aikon Journal and Review, of last week, says: "The melon growers have come out at the little end of tho horn this year, receiving, In a manner, nothing for their melons. Whether the failure in price is due to over produc tion or a combination ou the part of commission men North to swindle them we know not. One fact is pa i nt, there has been no money made on the melon crop this year. A number of curs have been shipped from this point, from which nothing has been heard. Some have shipped and the commission men have brought the shipper out in debt for a balance due on freight, while others have received returns allowing only u few dollars over and above ex penses. Mr. Andrew llurckhalter ship fcu a car load of magnificent melons? 170 in number that weighed 37,000 pounds. He refused 885 00 cash at tho depot. He received tho return of sales Friday enclosing a eheck for #1 00 as the nei proceeds alter paying all ex penses. Mr. Duncan, the Auditor of tho Cumberland Gap lload, shipped a car loud of melons on his own account recently from which be has heard noth ing, lie is reported to be extremely anxious for fear be will not get back the car. A Terrible Tumble. CniOAoo. Aug. 18.?A Globe special from San Francisco says: A train con sisting of an engine and twenty-two cars on tho G-eenwood Railroad, in Mendocino County, jumped the track ou a tiliiit and disappeared in the Pacif? 1c Ocean. The crew escaped by jump ing and swimming ashoro. At the point where the train went over, tho road runs along the side of a el111. from which there is a sheer de scent of about fitty feet into tho water. The track is perfectly secure and the trains run over it at good speed at all times. Tho ill-fated one which yester day was lost is not heavier than those which daily make the trip, nor was it running at a greater rate of speed. The cars wero loadorl and sank rapidly, in ing completely .? wallowed up. DIBBLE ON THE TARIFF. A PLAIN, PRACTICAL TALK TO THE FARMERS AT ORANGEBURG. The Right of tho Government to Impose Taxe* Krgmatrd <>v the Constitution? Open Markets and Free Competition the Salvation of the Countrr. At the recent summer meeting of the State Agricultural and Mechanical Society at Orangeburg, ISx-Congress man Dibble made the following inter esting aud instructive address on the tariff: Mr. President and Gentlemen of the State Agricultural and Mechanical Society: I appear before you as a sub stltut? for oue who would bnvo enter tained you more than I can, he being a man or gifted speech and a close stu dent of this great economic question, and I conless that in the short time I havo had to consider this subject under the circumstances in which I appear before you it is ditlicult to embrace in the limited closing hour of this meeting the subject to such an extent as to be of ary very practical benefit to up. It is a subject, that is so broad and has consumed so much In its discussion, has so many ramillcations entering Into all the avocations of life und affecting every consumer, and incidentally every producer, that it is very hard without a great deal of time and care In prepara tion to condense In a few remarks what is to be said on this subject even as it affects the interest of the South Caro lina planter. In the 50th Congress such of the de bates as 1 was able to collect in the? Senate nud House on the Mills bill were compiled in three volumes, oach tho size of this which I hold in my hand. Of course all this subject ot taxation interests us, and TUB TARIFF IS A TAX, and under our system of government the matter ol Federal and State taxes has been distributed under the Consti tution in such a way that the power of tariff taxation has been exclusively vested in the Federal Government. That being so, it is necessary to have a tariff for the support of tho Govern ment, because, in a measure, at least, the other fields of taxation should bo reserved to the State, and the Federal Government should not go into all the fields of taxation. The State should take some and the Federal Government others. Under the Constitution the customs duties are especially relegated to the sphere of Federal Influence. The operation of the tariff, considered In Us relations ns an economic question, should be adjusted In such a manner that the interests of every section of the country and of every class of its populatlon'should bo as nearly us pos sible equally conserved; that is to say, that in tho proper adjustment of this burden It should be arranged in such a way as to give an equal chance to the producer sind to the consumer as far as possible THE MARKETS SHOULD BE Ol'EN. Now theie is no possible harm to come to any class of consumers In any part of the country wheie a tariff tax is to be levied on the Importation of goods where the consumer has the privilege, which every freeman ought to have lu a free country like ours, of the competition of those who have that merchandise to sell. The Constitution of the Unittd States says that every thing that is not expressly granted to the General Government is reserved to the States, and further, reserved to the peolpe, and the individual right of every man to purchaso the goods where he can purchase them to the most ad vantage is one of the dearest rights of it freeman In the protection of his pro perty, and unless there is somothlrig in the Constitution which deprives one of that right then it is one of the reserved rights under tho Constitution, and every individual American citizen is entitled to its exercise. Therefore, in the first place,any tariff duty which is prohibitory and excludes any citizen in any part of the country from tho privilege of buying foreign goods in place of American goods If he chooses to do so, is in my judgment a violation of the Constitution in its let ter nnd in its spirit. Again, on the other hand, PURE TRADE WOULD NOT SUIT our section of this country, to say noth ing of jther portions. If we had no custom house at all then that source of revenue to the Government would be taken away entirely. In the first place, we would have the objection that it would interfere very materially with tho burdens which the State has im posed for the support of its Govern ment, by doubling the taxes in some of those fields, and if direct taxation were lOiorted to then, under t he Constitution and under tho principle for which our forefathers fought in tho American Revolution, taxation and representa tion must g* hand In hand, both of them based upon population, and in tho same manner that South Carolina, has in the Federal councils about one liftieth of the representation she should have to bear under the Constitution one fiftieth of the direct tax burden ol the Government. Therefore, if direct, taxes were levied ns State taxes are levied tho quota of South Carolina would be, with an expenditure of .??35O,O00,000 a year, about &7,000,CXH) or 81,000,000 for each Representative in Congress. That would bo burdensome and destructive to us, so that tree trade with direct taxation would not suit us. HOW THE COTTON PLANTER is SQUEEZED. It seems to me that tho interest which we represent hero to day is one that is entitled at least to fair conside ration from the one fact that in inter national exchange we furnish the larg est valuo annually exported from the United States to the markets of the world. The cotton crop of this coun try pays a larger part of the money lor the goods imported into this country than any other, the breaelstuffs coming next, the provision crop next and pe troleum and kerosene and things of that sort, and next to that coming tobacco. We furnish very nearly one-third of the entire export value in tho article of cotton alouu. and exceed breaelstuffs by a very considerable amount. Now we are certainly entitled when we send our cotton crop for foreign consump tion to have u fair chance if we desire to make purchaser of fore'gu articles in exchange. Asthe trriff is to-day it af fects us Injuriously on this account, in the first place, we will take what I conceive to be a fair basis for tho ad justment of this question between the producers abroad, and the consumers hero and the producers at home, and I can perhaps best state that In a short form by reading a few paragraphs which 1 havo used on another occasion iu another place iu expressing my views on this subject: ''An American consumer elesires an article which the foreign seller can with reasonable prollt place in the port of New York on this side of the custom house for $5, but the home producer cannor sell the same article and make a fair profit for less than 90. In tbis case a duty of $1 puts the American and foreign sollers in fair com petition, prevents monopoly, give* the A me J>-an consumer the advantage of cboic? or sources of supply, thus insur ing low prices, enables the American capitalist to make a fair probt on bis investment and pay proper wages to the American laborer, and the foreign seller possess some American product for his return cargo, thus stimulating some other American iadustry and in creasing our commerce. After awhile the American industry under the stlin I ulus of competition invents improved machiuery or utilizes improved meth ods of transportation or exchange, and is enabled to put his article on the mar ket at a lessened value, and the for eigner, in order not to lose a foothold In the American market, is compelled to do so likewise to the benefit of the consumer." Whenever the tariff is so adjusted that the true difference of cost in pro duction abroad and the production at home is represented by the duty the consumer has no right to complain, be cause he has tho competition uetveen the two in a fair market. When I make that observation I mske it with this qualification: I mean ou things that are produced normally in this country. 1 don't think that tin comes under that clause at all, or articles of that kind which we cannot produce with any facility, but I mean those articles which we may in the ordinary operation of manufacture produce in this country. It is to the advantage of us as consum ers in the long run to have the duty fun, ou that basis. To illustrate that ot me read further, aud here Is my idea of what is called a tariff for protection aud the way in which it operates: THE SIN OF IMtOTECTION. "Suppose in tho instance whero tho foreign seller can offer an article at $5 and the duty, and the American pro ducer cannot profitably sell it for less than 90, that tho duty were placed at 82, there you see the article brought ordinarily at a fair profit into the port of New York at 85, with the duty of 82 would cost 87. Tho American pro ducer can produce it prolltably at 80. The American consumer is no longer able to buy from the foreign producer, and tho American producer, instead of being content with the 80, which gives him a fairproiit charges 80 50, making an excessive profit and enjoying a mon opoly.sineo the duty excludes theforeign product at 85 and 82 duty, which would make 87, and as the foreign producer does not send his goods here there is no return cargo of American product sent abroad. For a short period the Ameri can monopolist makes excessive protits but this attracts capital to the same field, then follows over production, and home competition reduces the price to 80, and below 80 perhaps, but as soon as prices go down from the surfeit of the market the capitalist begins to eall on wage workers for a corresponding re duction in wages, for capital tloes not part with excessive profits if it can shift the loss to the laborer. The result is the formation of combinations or trusts to keep up prices at the expense of the consumers and the crushing out of competitors who decline to enter tho combine." THE TARIFF THE PARENT OF TRUSTS. This is the second stage in which tho tariff presents itself In the workings of our tariff system. We have seen in this country that industries excessively protected produces such enormous re turns that they become over stocked. Then comes the trust in order to com bine these industries and keep up prices, and the protective tariff is roab ly the parent of this system of trusts. "On the other hand, another feature, suppose that the article which the tor eigner can ship to our shores for 85 is admitted free, and drives out the home product, which cannot tie prolitably made for less than 80, the result is that the home labor quits all ovor the Held and capital is taken away from those industries and laborers sent somewhere else; either this or starvation wages. The consumer after the struggle gets lower prices, but after the conflict ends becomes dependent on English produ cers, who take advantage of the dis tance and monopoly to corner prices. There is opportunity for return cargoes of American products where there is a stimulus of commerce, which is not the case in such a tariff, lioth the pro tective and the free trade tariff fall short of advantages afforded by a tariff for revenuo."' THE FOREIGN AND HOME MARKETS. As you see with the teeming produc tion of European factories, wherever the English and the continental manu facturer linds a fair Held for his wares he is going to carry them, and when ever tho tariff dots not overstep the true difference of cost of production of standard articles and articles of neces sity here and abroad, then foreign arti cles are coming in and wo as consum ers of these wares have the full advan tage of tho foreign market and of the homo market. The foreigner brings his goods here and the home man can make them and meet him on equal terms, havine always the advantage of proximity, whieli is a great advintage, not sullicient, however, to exclude the foreigner; and that tariff under the rev enue principle will necessarily bring the best revenue to the country. When you go above that and make it unprofi table so that tho foreigner will desist from coming at all, the purpose of the the. Constitution is destroyed and the revenue is diminished. When, on the other hand, you invite a Hood of for eigu products, manufactured cheaper th.in we can possibly manufacture them here, and shut our home mills, while lorn beason the goods maybe cheap, yet whenever the home compe tition is utterly destroyed we are at the mercy of the loi eigner, and the tenden cy la to raise an < xc< 88 of revenue anden courage extravagance and expenditure of public moneys. Tu*refute, We can well observe that the best system la thats>stciu whtch will give us the ad vantage of foreign and home competi tion on as nearly equal terms as possi ble. That is the doctrine which has been advanced and suppmted, which is really on analysis the doctrine of PRESIDENT CLEVELAND'S CELEBRATED TARIFF 51 ESS AGE. Republicans go into a different posi tion. They take tho position that there must bo a protection to home industries which will give great advantages to our manufacturers so that they can make a larger profit than the foreigner possibly can make in sending bis goods to our Shores. That was tho principle of tho McKinley bill, the other the prln ciplo of the Mills bill. The Mills bill reduced in a very slight degree that tariff existing previously thereto, the tariff of 18811. The McKinley bill passed by the last Congress, the party in power being com mil ted to that idea, ami Mc Kinley being one of Its ablest and most foremost advocates, they went to an extreme which is unprecedented in American history in any time of pence. Tne result of it hu< been that in the month of July of this year, as 1 remem ber, tho foreign products have boen kept away from our ports so that the duty tins been 88.000.000 less than it was for the month of July last year, and under the present system of expend itures tho Government will have to re sort to other burdens upon the people in order to make up tho deHcieucy which is bound to occur in the course of a few years If matters go on in that way. The consumer has higher prices and the benefit is derived by the pro tected industries. NO AMERICAN INDUSTRY NEEDS CRUTCIIKS. " So far as tho principlo is concernod there is no reason iu the world why any industry iu thlB country should ba pro tected into existence. On what princi ple has the Governuient the right to say to a man who goes iuto an industry which is unprofitable here, "We will give you a monopoly of the markets of this country until you can establish your industry, in the hope that in the future you will be able to manufacture and get such a foothold and simplify your processes that you will be able to sell cheaper at some distant day iu the future, und therefore the consumer will ultimately get tho ndvantage?" The dlffejpnce between the Government of this country and of despotic countries is that we are under a Constitution which gives every citizeu perfect, equal ity, that forbids the Government to do just that very thing, and if this thing is to be done under the influence of largo bodies of capital and of legislator? operating in sympathy with these large bodies of capital, the inevitable result Is the oppression of the poorer but more numerous cluse of the community, aud one might as well be under a despot as absolute as the Shah of 1'ersia, who dis penses his favor to one at the expense of another, as to bo under that system actuated by the majority of a legisla tive body, because there Is no tyranny anywhere more despotic than the ty ranny of a legislative majority in a pop ular body whou they ate unrestrained by any constitutional restrictions. I never have subscribed to the doctrine that a majority cau do no wrong. It Is falsified in the experience of our country and of every other country. Constitutions aro made to pr feet the rights of minorities because majorities are liable todo wrong, aud in tho divid ed responsibility ot a largo body they are much more apt to do wiong t han is a single tyrant. Tho true criterion un der u popular government is that a leg islative body should do what is right, aud tho test of right Is tho true test in regard to all these matters, an I lh<' mi nority is entitled to as much protection as the larger mass of the community, and the popular government is not founded on the doctrine carried with out limitation of the greatest good to the greatest number. It is the greatest good to the greatest number that can bo ?id mini stored without doing injus tice to a single individual citi/.eu. HOW THE TARIFF HURTS THE SOUTH. Under the operation of the tariff we havo suffered great disadvantages In the development of this section, impov erished by the war. In the purchase of machinery, in procuring the various fabrics and other articles of consu intion we have been conlined entirely to do mestic markets. Articles which would answer our purposes better from abroad we cannot got. Why? Uecattse the duty is prohibitory upon them and we havo to go to home markets. Unfor tunately, like everything else in the. economy of society, this evil becomes ameliorated in a measure alter awhile by so many parties rushing into that particular Hue of business as to pro duce competition. Manufactories springing up in various parts of the country ameliorate this evil, but the evil is there and it ought not to exist. When we come down to individual in stances wo can lind that all around us, and the operation of it, has, I suppose, retarded us in our material advance ment more than any other cause since tho war. 1 regard this question ol the tariff as nioie important to us as an agr cultural population, a population which exports and trades abroad, than questions of circulation and currency, important as they are. It is tho econ omic question of the hour with us. A CASE IN l'OINT. "Suppose the city of Orangeburg should say to any one. of her citi/.ous, ?You can take any article from hereto the town of Hamberg and soli it there, but when you come back you cannot buy anything in Hamberg, because those things are sold in Orungeburg and you cannot bring them back unless you "pay a duty as you cross tho city boundary,' and that duty was put at such a figure as to make it practically [T&vbibitory. That was the commer cial system of the dark ages. That was the system under which the towns of Europe were buried in tho days when political economy was not understood, and every town had its own tariff. The enlightened views on political econo my, which have been advanced by the close observation of international ex changes and by tho study of political economy on its true principles have dis sipated that absurdity, but yet it is on ly reproduced in another form when you make that tariff lor protection sim ply the basis of tho tariff which tho Constitution says has boon committed to the General Government solely lor the purpose of raising revenue. While in form the Congress of the United States has the right to do it, yet iu prin ciple they say 'under a power given us lor the purpose of raising revenue wo will prevent ourselves from raising revenue on such and such thing be cause Mr. So and So makes those tilings, and has capital invested in them and would not make as much money if we were to put him in C< in pe tition with foreign dealers.'" I will read a short section and (dose my remarks, for it is my object simply to give you a few general ideas: SPECIAL PRIVILEGES TO NONE. "There are three parties interested in the rate of duty to be imposed on any article Imported, whose interests are es pecially under the care of our legisla tive bodies in this country. There are three iuterests and those three interests, being tho interests of American citizens, should be entitled to equal care on tho part of our legislative bodies. They are the home capitalist, the homo work man and the home consumer. Tho cap italist should have a fair return for his investment, the workman should havo good wages for his lubor and the con sumer should have protection from overcharges by means of speculative combinations and corners, or by reason of such discrimination as shuts oil'all foreign competition aud where it is impossible to get more than tho differ ence of eost here and abroad; then all of that excess is solely in the interest of the homo capitalist at the expense of both tho workman and the consumer, for tho capitalist docs not sharo his ex tra proliLs with his workmen. There fore, when duties exist they should be reduced to some such figures as will cover the difference of cost of produc tion here and abroad, and that is the rule which President Cleveland set forth In Ids message In words that were unmistakable, and It always will pro duce a steady and suro revenue, and producing sure and steady revenue it will keep the General Government, if It were property administered and eco nomically carried on, out of the fields which tho State should havo for taxes and will enable our States to utilize the various kinds of taxation to ease the burdens which we aro under. THE FEDERAL SYST KM IN STATE TAX ATION. Take for instance tho State of South Carolina with tho 80.000.tXJO debt It is trying to refund. With tho exception of tho phosphate royalty tho money to pay the Interest on that debt and carry on the Government In Its current expen ses has to be raised by taxing you and mo, and all of us, according to our prop erty. The federal Government has re sorted to income taxes, and resorts at tlie present time to internal revenue taxes. If we, in South Carolina, could substitute in the Stato tho power of collecting just tho taxes that aro now collected by the General Governmeut on the article of tobacco alone within tho borders of South 'Jarollna, or on whiskey, our lucome would bo so assur ed and tho burdens of Our people so much lightened that wo would have comparatively no financial trouble at all, and with tho revenue tariff proper ly adjusted there never would be any danger that the Government in timo of peace would have to resort to any of theso extraordinary and irregu lar methods of taxation which wero In tended by the Constitution to bo oxer cised only in times of war and other emergeeies of a public nature, and we would all be in a much better condition. Therefore, that doctrine which has beeu announced and m lintaiued by one class of statesmen from the days ot Jeffer sou down, that tho tariff lor revenuo should be levied in such a manner as to furnish tho resources of tho Govern ment economically conducted, is In the direction of low trade rather than high trade, because, as has been demonstrat ed by the operation of tho McKinley bill, a high tariff cuts off revenue, and by a low tariff the revenuo would bo In creased, and therofore, bo ample.for all the demands ot tho Government. In the. same manner that an excursion train in the railroad will reali/.o a larg er amount at low rates than they would at a high rate because of the greater inducement to travel which tho low rales affords, so the reduction of duties cheapens products, increases their im portation and the amount of revenue raised therefrom, and gives to the States a held where they can resume somewhat tho old importance of States in this Union, or at least of having tho power of raising revenues untrammelled by the General Government entering into what is peculiarly their sphere of taxa a'ion. I Applause.I CLEANED UP A COUNCIL. Forcible Protcvt of Tax Payer* ol Kmiihui Ollv. Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 11.-The mayor and city council of Kansas City barely escaped vengeance last night hi the hands of a crowd of about 800 tax payers The excitement rose over a proposition of the city council to pur chase the plant of the consolidated electric light and power company for 8340,000, There was much public Indig nation over tho proposition, it being believed by many that improper in ducements had beeu offered to the mem bers of council to pass the ordinance authorizing the purchase. Tho indig nation culminated last night when a mass meeting of tax payers was held to protest against the proposed purchase. The meeting was in charge of Hon. John II. Scroggs, the head of the Kau nas City bar. Several intemperate speeches were made and finally Mr. Scroggs addressed a crowd from the court house steps. He denounced in bilter language the proposed act ion of tho council. Finally a committee of fifteen was appointed to call at the coun cil chamber aud present a protest be fore the ordinance could be passed. The crowd, by its own motion, joined tin committee and the march to the city hall was taken up. As the, inarch pro ceeded tho excitement grew until the mutterings of the crowd became more loud and bitter and dually culminated in shouts of "Lynch them" and "Hang them." The. crowd had worked itself up to a high pitch of indignation when the city hall was reached. In the mean time the council had been informell of the progress of the mob and a hasty ad journment was taken. The last alder man had barely beat a rapid retreat when the advance guard of the mob rushed into the chamber to be disap pointed at Unding it empty. The crowd resolved itself Into a mass meeting again, and more speeches were made, the mayor and council being denomin ated as cowards and thieves. Finally the mob dispersed without doing any damage. BABIES ARE CHEAP When Tll?V Ar? Sohl at Fifty Cell tri - Apiece. Al.llANY, (la., Aug. 10.?-A remark able tale comes from Worth county of the depravity of a young mother oil one hand and the kindness Of a mm und wife on the other. For twelve years Wanse AI ford has been happily married, he and his wife living most of the time in Fast Dough erty, where they worked on a farm. This year, however, Alford and his wife moved to Acroe, where they set up on a small farm for themselves. They are industrious negroes, and enjoy the re spect and contidence Ot all who know them. But the union of this couple has never been blessed by issue, and they have always felt a loneliness that they could not describe on that ac count. A1 ford's wile though now has two children on whom to lavish her af fection and to whose training she may devote her life, She learned recently that a negro girl living near Isabella, had given birth to twins, but to this she attached very little importance until she heard that the young mother cared nothing for her offspring and wished to dispose of them. At once AI ford's wife repain t! to Isabella, aud going to the home of the joung girl at once began a negotia tion for the babies. A trade was soon made, and the mother demanded 50 cents apiece for the children, the price was quickly paid, and tho adopted mother marched oil triumphantly with her new charges. \s i mi no: i \> the fJoonAw Cn?e. GnuKNVir.LK,S. O., Aug. 18.? II. A. M. Smith, of Charleston, and Attorney General L'ope today presented to Judge SI tn on ton, for signature, the li rial order in the Coosaw eise. The order, except a few minor points, had been ag- ?cd upon by counsel for the Slate and the Coosaw Company, and no representa tive of the Coosaw Company was pres ent. The order will be sent first to Chief Justice Fuller to sign, and wil then be signed by Judge Simon ton. It forever "restrains and enjoins the Coo saw Company from, in any way, claim ing or attempting to claim, any right title, interest or grant in or to the phos phate rock or phosphate deposits,10 the Coosaw Ilivor," or from mining or re moving the rock without, having ob tained a license to do so. U. 11. llrooks is discharged as receiver and compensa tion fixed for his services. State. IliK Ailvanco In Flour. ItOOIIESTKK, N. Y., Aug. 10. In con sequence of tho recent advance in Wheat, local millers have put up the price of Hour about 75 cents. The pro prietors of most of the largo mills de pend upon Western wheat and are buy ing as little as possible, claiming that the advance will not be permanent. Tho price paid for local wheat last woek was 81. Thero is very little wheat be ing held by the farmers. ^ Tin: death of James Jtussell Lottell J^nst week removes a famous author, editor, poet and publicist. He was born in Cambridge, Mass.. ui 1H10. He Is said to have been a hereditary representa tive of tho heart and brains Of V w England.