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FREE TRADE AND TAEIFF REFORM THE STAR-EYED GODDESS OP REFORM IN A GREAT KAOE. Henry Wattcraon, Editor and Pol it i olan, Fires into the Wilson Tariff mil?Ho Then Accepts this Result or the Tariff Aalt at Ion a? the liest 'I'll i n v. IO Do \ ..w. Onu of tho most vemarkablo politi cal speoehes which has bceu delivered In this country for a long while was mado by Henry Wattoraon, editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, at the celebration of Jackson's birthday by tho Watterson Club In Loulsvillo. It had been given out that Mr. Watter son would deul with the political situa tion und the expectations of thoso who wont to hear him wore not disappoint ed. His speech was received with great BUl'prl&O, aud yot with tremend ous enthusiasm by tho vast audionco. Tho following extracts are givon to show tho trend of tho speech which is already exciting much attontion : I mean no disrespect to persons in authority when I declare that this sooms to mo an era of very small things aud very small men. Yet tho stroam of lifo goes on, bearing its awful cargo of good aud ovil, hone and fear, and hold ing to tho least of tho generations the relation it hold to the groatest. And, surely, never in tho history of mankind wero deeper problems sot to statesmen and philosophers than aro hidden in tho dark closets of contemporary expe rience, arising out of tho unlixod laws that aro to determine and tho undo lined boundaries that aro at once to Separate and inclose the accretions and tho rights of property and tho oppor tunities and the liberties of people. It is now, as ever, tho old battle between tho many and the few, for the bless ings of froo-labor and free-thought, which, under our systom, are supposed to bo the birthrights of all. I say " supposed-to-bo." But aro thoy bo? Then why these gigantic fortunes piled up iu a quarter of a cen tury devoted to the simplo arts of avar ico and peaco and not swollon by tho spoils of war, with captives chained to chariot-wheels, and ransacked treas uries and sequestered estates, and all that uitido tho wealth and glory of Roman conquest and British valor? Why this cry of want in tho midst of plenty, which arises from ono end of the land to tho other ? Why V PORTENT OP THE SITUATION. Wo aro told by tho Republican par tisans that it is because the Democrats have; come into power. Wo aro told by Democratic partisans that it is be cause of twenty years of bad Republi can legislation. The real causo lies deeper ; and noithor of tho two great party organizations can claim exemp tion from its share of responsibility. Tho Republicans have Binned in ox cess ; tho Democrats in omission. To noithor do tho masses of tho people plight their uuroserved troth. A little more than a year ago tho Democrats swept tho country. A lit tle year later the Republicans swept the country. Thoro must have been some reason for so sudden a change. There was; und if ono was to seek to i .explore and find it, he will find it in a \ ?certain want of confidence on tho part of tho peoplo in uny ono sot of politi cians and for this want of confidence uthe politicians aro themselves in tho main responsible. In November, 1892, tho poonlo voted a change of parties upon what they supposed a plain, specific political pro gram, n perfectly legible bill of faro. In November, 1893, thoy voted the 'Other way because they had gotton it into their heads that tho men they had i ?elected were not as much in oarnest as thoy had seemed to bo, but wero tak- j Ing* their ease in thoir offices, instead I of bestirring themselves to carry out their promises. 1 allow for tho resent- i ments among tho disaffected place Hookers. 1 allow for tho wide-spread pressuro of hard times, for which tho party in power is genorally held to ac-1 ?count. 1 allow for some internal dis- j sensions about financial matters. But back of these forces lay tho recumbent ?teure of dist. ust. Tho party spirit' which bad fought and won tho battle , of '92 was allowed to go to sleep in '93. ] Tho watch fires wero not kept burning, I ?oven on tho inner lines. There was some dissonance of counsels about head quarters. Too doors of tho citadel loft ajar and many of tho outposts aban doned, it was easy for tho tnemy, who bad been driven olT almost dispersed, to get togother again and to retrieve a part of the disaster that had befallen them. ] Tho political conditions are thus ex actly reversed. It is tho victorious Democrats who aro disheartened, the vanquished Republicans who aro en couraged. And tho question for you? the veritable, the untorrifiud, tho orig inal boys in tho trenches?the question Jor you to consider is, whether you aro going to sit down and sulk under it, or wako to tho danger and make yourselves heard and felt in those seats of power, which exist by your will and hroatho tho breath of life out of your nostrils. THE TRUTH OP HISTORY. In tho National Democratic Conven tion of 1S92, the platform coinrnitteo appeared with a tariff plank, which, to niiy tho best that could be said for it, was open to double construction. My own opinion is that it embodied excel lent Republican doctrine. Tho conven tion would not have it. In its place it substituted a resolution, repeating tho declarations of 18K>, 1880 and 1888, which demanded "a tariff for revenue only." This resolution was so plain in its terms that no ono could misread it. So tho COVert enemies of tarilf reform, who masquerade as Democrats, tho hotter to serve tho devil of protection, straightway set about to havo Mr. 'Clovoland repudiate it in his letter of (acceptance, Ho did no such thing, ?ither in that letter, or any other ut terance Thon thoy trumped up the plea that tho resolution was a trick of tho Anti-Clevoland men in tho conven tion to embarrass tho Cleveland men, and, if possible, to delay a vote, and in that way defeat tho nomination of Mr. ?Clovoland ; that the Cleveland men ?saw tho device and conceiving that Mr. 'Cleveland would bo his own platform, refused to fall into the snare, but lot tho resolution pass; und that, thus, tho Tfeal substitute carried no moral forco with it, not even representing tho opin ion of tho convention. To clinch this viow, the whole affair was described as tho midnight swirl of a turbulont mob. If history wero fiction, and politics a mo of blind man's buff, poets would statesmen, and only childron would vote* There was never a more de liberative act done by a deliberative body than the substitutlonof the Neal plank for the Vilas plank by the Na I tlonal Damocratio Convention of 1892. It was tho logical culmination of a 4, campaign of Education covering ten *^ years. It was on *<it of the people Hot ting aside a subterfygo of thp poli ticians. It was not done a* thto dead FREE TRADE AND TAEIFF REFORM THE STAR-EYED GODDESS OP REFORM IN A GREAT KAOE. Henry Wattcraon, Editor and Pol it i olan, Fires into the Wilson Tariff mil?Ho Then Accepts this Result or the Tariff Aalt at Ion a? the liest 'I'll i n v. IO Do \ ..w. Onu of tho most vemarkablo politi cal speoehes which has bceu delivered In this country for a long while was mado by Henry Wattoraon, editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, at the celebration of Jackson's birthday by tho Watterson Club In Loulsvillo. It had been given out that Mr. Watter son would deul with the political situa tion und the expectations of thoso who wont to hear him wore not disappoint ed. His speech was received with great BUl'prl&O, aud yot with tremend ous enthusiasm by tho vast audionco. Tho following extracts are givon to show tho trend of tho speech which is already exciting much attontion : I mean no disrespect to persons in authority when I declare that this sooms to mo an era of very small things aud very small men. Yet tho stroam of lifo goes on, bearing its awful cargo of good aud ovil, hone and fear, and hold ing to tho least of tho generations the relation it hold to the groatest. And, surely, never in tho history of mankind wero deeper problems sot to statesmen and philosophers than aro hidden in tho dark closets of contemporary expe rience, arising out of tho unlixod laws that aro to determine and tho undo lined boundaries that aro at once to Separate and inclose the accretions and tho rights of property and tho oppor tunities and the liberties of people. It is now, as ever, tho old battle between tho many and the few, for the bless ings of froo-labor and free-thought, which, under our systom, are supposed to bo the birthrights of all. I say " supposed-to-bo." But aro thoy bo? Then why these gigantic fortunes piled up iu a quarter of a cen tury devoted to the simplo arts of avar ico and peaco and not swollon by tho spoils of war, with captives chained to chariot-wheels, and ransacked treas uries and sequestered estates, and all that uitido tho wealth and glory of Roman conquest and British valor? Why this cry of want in tho midst of plenty, which arises from ono end of the land to tho other ? Why V PORTENT OP THE SITUATION. Wo aro told by tho Republican par tisans that it is because the Democrats have; come into power. Wo aro told by Democratic partisans that it is be cause of twenty years of bad Republi can legislation. The real causo lies deeper ; and noithor of tho two great party organizations can claim exemp tion from its share of responsibility. Tho Republicans have Binned in ox cess ; tho Democrats in omission. To noithor do tho masses of tho people plight their uuroserved troth. A little more than a year ago tho Democrats swept tho country. A lit tle year later the Republicans swept the country. Thoro must have been some reason for so sudden a change. There was; und if ono was to seek to i .explore and find it, he will find it in a \ ?certain want of confidence on tho part of tho peoplo in uny ono sot of politi cians and for this want of confidence uthe politicians aro themselves in tho main responsible. In November, 1892, tho poonlo voted a change of parties upon what they supposed a plain, specific political pro gram, n perfectly legible bill of faro. In November, 1893, thoy voted the 'Other way because they had gotton it into their heads that tho men they had i ?elected were not as much in oarnest as thoy had seemed to bo, but wero tak- j Ing* their ease in thoir offices, instead I of bestirring themselves to carry out their promises. 1 allow for tho resent- i ments among tho disaffected place Hookers. 1 allow for tho wide-spread pressuro of hard times, for which tho party in power is genorally held to ac-1 ?count. 1 allow for some internal dis- j sensions about financial matters. But back of these forces lay tho recumbent ?teure of dist. ust. Tho party spirit' which bad fought and won tho battle , of '92 was allowed to go to sleep in '93. ] Tho watch fires wero not kept burning, I ?oven on tho inner lines. There was some dissonance of counsels about head quarters. Too doors of tho citadel loft ajar and many of tho outposts aban doned, it was easy for tho tnemy, who bad been driven olT almost dispersed, to get togother again and to retrieve a part of the disaster that had befallen them. ] Tho political conditions are thus ex actly reversed. It is tho victorious Democrats who aro disheartened, the vanquished Republicans who aro en couraged. And tho question for you? the veritable, the untorrifiud, tho orig inal boys in tho trenches?the question Jor you to consider is, whether you aro going to sit down and sulk under it, or wako to tho danger and make yourselves heard and felt in those seats of power, which exist by your will and hroatho tho breath of life out of your nostrils. THE TRUTH OP HISTORY. In tho National Democratic Conven tion of 1S92, the platform coinrnitteo appeared with a tariff plank, which, to niiy tho best that could be said for it, was open to double construction. My own opinion is that it embodied excel lent Republican doctrine. Tho conven tion would not have it. In its place it substituted a resolution, repeating tho declarations of 18K>, 1880 and 1888, which demanded "a tariff for revenue only." This resolution was so plain in its terms that no ono could misread it. So tho COVert enemies of tarilf reform, who masquerade as Democrats, tho hotter to serve tho devil of protection, straightway set about to havo Mr. 'Clovoland repudiate it in his letter of (acceptance, Ho did no such thing, ?ither in that letter, or any other ut terance Thon thoy trumped up the plea that tho resolution was a trick of tho Anti-Clevoland men in tho conven tion to embarrass tho Cleveland men, and, if possible, to delay a vote, and in that way defeat tho nomination of Mr. ?Clovoland ; that the Cleveland men ?saw tho device and conceiving that Mr. 'Cleveland would bo his own platform, refused to fall into the snare, but lot tho resolution pass; und that, thus, tho Tfeal substitute carried no moral forco with it, not even representing tho opin ion of tho convention. To clinch this viow, the whole affair was described as tho midnight swirl of a turbulont mob. If history wero fiction, and politics a mo of blind man's buff, poets would statesmen, and only childron would vote* There was never a more de liberative act done by a deliberative body than the substitutlonof the Neal plank for the Vilas plank by the Na I tlonal Damocratio Convention of 1892. It was tho logical culmination of a 4, campaign of Education covering ten *^ years. It was on *<it of the people Hot ting aside a subterfygo of thp poli ticians. It was not done a* thto dead in tho evening, ffhon the Convention was wide awake, and know perfectly what it was about. It was not planned to obstruct the nomination of Mr. Cleveland; though, if tho convention had suspected that Mr. Cleveland hud any hand in tho original tauiff plunk which it struck out ho would not have received one-third of ltd votes. Both Mr. Vilas und Mr. Whitney were as sured by myself und others thut no ob struction wus meditated ; and it is wel" known that, nversu us I was to the nomination of Mr. Clovelund, I re garded it a forcgouo conclusion before tho convention met, and hud ceased to disturb anybody or bo disturbed, on that account. In short, in the most decisive, and, us fur us unything in American politics cun be solemn, in tho most solemn?nt leust In the most Serious wuy?tho convention onded, us I hoped finally and -forever, tho long struggle between the forces of light und darkness in tho Democratic party, by stamping out a double-tongued as sertion of its tarifT policy, and inserting a dcclurution which no human being could misunderstand, or misroport. Randal ism wan deud?Carlisloism wus rampant. And with Cleveland for Moses?Clevelaud und his message of '87?Clevolaud as the Democrats' ideal of tariff roform?wo went to tho coun try. We met tho onset of Republicans full in front. They mude their fight directly on our tariff plank. They do scribed it as a slip out of tho Confeder ate Constitution. They denounced it as a Cnlhounlsm, redivlvus. Thoro wus nothing that could be suid of it, or of us, thut they did not suy. All tho worn out pious of protection, all ?ho explodod shells of sectionulism, wore thrown into tho brouch we hud mude in the wull of tho robber castlo. But they did not sufllco to save it. In spito of all. without* tariff-for-revenuo-only Hug flying and our down-with-protection drums beating, wo drove the robber barons out of thei:* earth-works across their mouts und dikes, into their lair, und out again, remaining, for tho first timo sinco 1857, complete musters of the situation?every department of tho government in our possession. I ask you. not merely as Democrats, but as sensible men. wus all this uc couiplished, ufter years of discussion, merely to condone und couservo Repub lican policies, or was its purpose to re* vorso these policies, and to set up in room of them Democratic policies equally us dear and clear to the men who had fought and won the battle? THE MORAL OF THE VICTORY. Either wo were right or wo wero wrong. The veto of 1890, following tho passage of the McKinley act, seemed to indicate that tho people thought we were right. But tho vote of 18112 electing a Democratic Presi dent and u Democratic Houso and Senate, was conclusive on this point. If it was not so, then somebody was most egregiously deceived. Who was it? An eminent member of the present government said to mo just after tho elections of last November, "it scorns impossible now-n-duys for tho party loadors to mako sure of their voters I" ITo spoke in a tone of general despond ency. "How can you expect anything else," I replied, " when you are always i deceiving und disappointing them? The voters are all right. They know what they want and.whut they moan. It is that as soon as one of these little great men gets into what ho thinks a big and a snug place that ho casts about to sco how he may keep it, and straightway ho sets up for a little tin Jupiter, who knows more than anybody olse. Then the people finding him too great a man to bo good for anything, turn a hi ait und turn him out, often in sheer perversity. Men of real genius, of reul courage, of real conviction, of real inspiration, of real worth do their duty first and count tho costs after ward. As u consequence the voters believo in them and follow them, even as they followed Clay through forty years of sun and shower ; even as they followed Jaekuon through thirty years I of storm and battlo ; even as they will | follow you, if you dare to bo as brave and honest as Jackson and Clay !" THE TWO REPORTS. I huvo lead with exceeding care and deep concern the reports accompanying the newly introduced measure of tariff revision. Tho Democratic report be gins by a masterly declaration of tariff for-revenuo-only logic, to end in an actual exposition of protectionist prac tice. Tho Republican report seizes tho weak point effectively, and, both in its sarcasm and its effrontery, shows us how impossible it is to plucuto the implacable. For tho chairman of the ways and means committee I cntortain the' very greatest respect. Ho is an , able, conscientious, patriotic Demo i erat. Ho has encountered difficulties ' and mado sacrifices and endured dis appointments which should earn him the sympathy rather than the criticism of his party associates. But, with sub mission, 1 think he has been forced by pressure, and not by his own consent, to bring in a measure that strikes a blow at tho cause of genuine tarifT re form, and may set the policy of ro I venue only back for many years to como. j I hold that protection is robbery. I j hold the protective theory tobe equally I unconstitutional and unjust. Boliev I ing this, 1 would extirpate its root and : branch, and when, after a debate of j ten years, beginning with the election of Mr. Carlisle to tho Bpeakershlp, we carried u resolution to that effect ttirough a National Democratic Con vention, and, on that resolution, swept the country, I littlo thought that forces would he arrayed strong enough to set tho verdict aside. But such is the irony of politics in a land Where tho many are.too busy minding their own private business to look sharply after tho f? w, who are sent to Washington : to mind the public business. I I rend, with more amusement than amazement, tho ingenious report of the Republican minority. It is a very smooth document. If I woro not familiar with the pleadings, and with tho fictions upon which it is bas ed, I should tremble for my country. I might bolievo tho report the work of , Col. Robert C. Ingcrsoll?since there is no Cod in it?if I did not huvo an im !>resslon that the Hon. Thomas B. Seed is as great a humorist and skep tic as the witty pagan himself. Mr. Reed gives thanks for everything to tho painted harlot of protection, none to tho Creator of the Universe. No where is there tho least recognition of the divino hand, unless tho hand of I McKinley bo divino; everywhere tho ' assertion that, but for high tarifT wo should bo at tho morcyof Canada Novu Scotia, Mexico und the Sandwich Is lands. All tho confidence and courago which inspire t lie e heroos when they wrap tho bloody shirt about them and . march down to the footlights to de stroy imaginary robels and traitors, seem to ooze out at the palms of their hands, when they encounter?even in fancy?a foreign competitor. But all this Is perfectly logical, The protec tionist lias said In his heart " there is no God !" ? It is only protection that " doeth all things well.'' It is protec tion that increases the profits of capi tal und tho wugos of labor. It is pro is protection and protection ulono that not only defends us aguinst the pauper labor of Europe, hut Insures us against strikes, converting every manufactur ing establishment into an eleemosynary institution, and giving to every opera tive, along with his weeks earnings, never cut und always paid, a ehromo, bearing on ono side a pieturo of tho mill at Homostcad. and tho othor the head of William McKinloy in a halo ! free trade versus protection. I do no not claim nearly so much for free trade. I claim that it will make more work by creating wider markets. I claim that it will decrease tho cost of liviug in groator measure than it will reduoo earnings. The question of wuges is a question of supply and de maud, puro und simple. In tho crowd ed cities, where men must work or starve, thoy tako what they can get, and wages aro low. In new und less crowded communities, where oppor tunities aro open to all and good men aro at a promium wages aro high. As our wuste places aro filling up, tho problem is bow shall all, who want to work, bo kept in steady employment? Relatively, wages are bound to go down us population increases and labor-saving machinery take tho placo of handwork, and this problem is. how shall we decrease, in fair proportion, tho cost of living ? My answer to the first problem is, by breaking down the barriers that shut us out from free commorclal intercourse with tho rest of tho world, which wants as much of us us wo want of it. And to tho second, by a fairer distribution of tho fruits of labor between the employer and tho employed. But. I am asked, can these two things bo done without ruin to the American manufacturer? My answer is that they can bo done and have been dono to the eminent good fortuno of American manufactures and com merce, and can bo dono again with tho same result; that wo have had good and bad seasons under all tariffs, high and low ; but the low tariff offers ad vantages to many by curtailing sub sidy jmd limiting monopoly, while a higliTOriff pours wealth into tho lap of the fow by the opportunities it oilers to combinations and trusts. For proof I point to tho operation of thirtv years of protection : enormous wea Ith in a few hands; a universal struggle to live among tho many : deeper, darker contrasts of life, and discontent every where. prom the few to the many. I appeal from tho selfishness and timidity of tho politicans to the com mon honesty and common sense ol the American people. I appeal from the rapacity 01 tho American aristocrat, rolling in luxury and wealth, to tho simple and homely genius of that Americanism which won tho revolu tionary battlo for liborty. and made the constitution. I do not confuse the issue. I am not tho slave of a single idoa. T know that theory is one thing and practico is another thing, and that statesmanship is a practical science. But ho is no statesman who does not hitch the steeds of action to tho haek ney-coaeh of theory, and even then? us ho stands with tho reins in his hands?he must look far before, seeing not only with tho eyes in his head, but out of those eyes of the mind that reach much further, *??. 1 believe in'tho integrity and courage, of Grover Cleveland. I believe in ihe patriotism and genius of John G. Cur lisle. If we could put the two into one, Jackson would live again. I am giv ing tho administration the most earnest and disinterested support, be cause I believo it is trying to do right, and because, in the main, my judg ment approves the fruits of its inten tion. My judgment does not approve the Wilson bill, either in method or in detail, but if it is tho best that can be got out of Congress, so be it.. I shall say nothing, do nothing, to make its transit harder. It is, at least, some degree better than the McKinley bill, since it proceeds upon the lower and not on tho higher scale, and faces in tho right direction. But it is far. very far, from a meas ure that can be truthfully described us embodying tho idea of a " turitT-for rovenue-only." It is merely better than tho McKinley bill in degree, not in kind, and if protectionism is ever to be dislodged I doubt tho Trojan-horse strategy to which it seems to incline. Wo live in the age of tho Carnegies and the Goulds, not in that of Priam and /Kneas. The robber barons know their busi ness. They never go to sleep. They relinquish nothing. Their rapacity is insatiable. It was the history the old slavo power that the more it got the more it demanded. It might have bad emancipation,and its gradual and peace ful elimination from the body-corpo rate. It refused this, to end in blood and flame, carrying with them vast losses and cruel hardships. Yet, in spite of tho tenacity with which the Southern people clung to slavery, go ing to war to defend and maintain it, tho South would not have i* back to day on any terms. Mr. Wilson's moderate dose, of revonuo powders in protectionist capsules is rejected by the protec tionists as vigorously as tho slave owners rejected Mr. Clay's suggestion of emancipation. Like the slavehold ers, the robber barons ylold nothing. They will not reform them. The work must, therefore, bo done from without. It will never proceed from within. And when it is done, if it bo done by statesmen and not by the sword, tho Amor loan roanufao'uror will rise liko one who has been in chains, amazed, as the slavo owner was, to find that tho theory ho cherished was a curse, an I not a blessing. The Chin- so wall re moved, tho world will be at his foot. Does national character count for noth ing? Does a land teeming with origi nal resources count for nothing? Are tho creative energies and inventive genius of a people who have reversed tho feudal policies of the Old World to build a fabric in the new whose corner Stone is competition, and whose watch word is " freedom," to ,bo accounted nothing ? the whys and WHEREFORES. Tho cry of the poor goes up to God for work ! But there is no work. Why? Because there is over produc tion. Why ? Because we can produce in nine months more than we Can con sumo in twolvo. The remedy ? More consumers ; wider markets : freedom of trade with all mankind. Let us out of tho black-hole of protectionism, whore, with banks bursting with money and millionaires multiplying by hundreds, men aro starving by thous ands. Let us out, out to tho world, and with plants established, processes perfected and cheapened, trade marks and patents carrying all the protection that honesty ought to desire, and wo can moot and beat all our commercial rivals?yea, England?In cvory neutral market, recovering those markets that goographioally belong to uh, but whlcb navo been stolen from us by our sense less policy of restriction. There will not bo such oxcessivo and unequal profits to the manufacturer. There will not bo so many great fortunes accumulated by the spoiled children of monopoly. The trust Wll' bo harder to form and maintain, and huuec. fewer in miuibor. But there wTft.bo a tfohr* goV<rrVl (ftffnJlWn ?f ffhV? \ ? ?' real wealth of the country. Thero will bo more work, und steadier work, and a greater demand for labor. The living of the poor will be cheuponed. The living of all will bo bettered. Socialism will bo shorn of its potent argument, and one tlrobrand ut least will bo extracted from the bruin, one bullet from tho weupon of the Anar chist. L do not predict the ralllonnium. No uct of Congress, but Cod's will alone, can husteu thut. But free trade may and I beliovo it will, witness tho reali zation of tho dream of thut grout statesman who braved tho execrations of the rieh, and luid down power, with the hope thut ho might " leuvo u name sometimes remembered with expres sions of good will in tho abodes of thoso whoso lot is to labor, ' und to earn their duily bread with tho sweat of their brow, when they shall recruit their exhausted strength with abun dant and uutaxed food, tho sweeter be cause it is no longer leavened with n senso of injustice." Follow Democrats, it is of the first importance for us to know, and to know as speedily as possible, whether we have a Democratic party, homo geneous and strong, as in the day of tho sage and hero whose memory we celebrate this night?a party whose lines are laid in fixed principles - honest money, home rule und free trado?with power to compel discipline every where?or whether wo uro umere agglomeration of factions, thrown together by tho upheaval of the times. My own effort is. and always shall bo, for straight politics and square issues. I want to know a spado when I see it. and to call it a spado. I don't want to deceive, to mislead anybody. I love no neighbor less because ho does not agree with me. Ho may bo right and I may be wrong. But, let us. at leust. be honest. Let us say what wo meun, and mean what we say. That is the read to good government. It is also the road to universal patriotism, which, founded in freo thought und free speech, and supported by the virtue and intelligence of tho people, is to precede that period of peace on earth, good will to men, to which the Christian world looks as confidently us to tho coming of its Redeemer. I do not despair of its realization. I do not despair of tho Democratic party. The immediate outlook may not be all that wo would have it; but the future is al ways ours. Lot us cling to it. Let us light for the best that it has to givo. KEDWINE PliEADS GUILTY. The Trial of the Atlanta Hank Cashier Ends in a Sensation. ATLANTA. Ga., Jan. 11.?Lewis Red wine's trial for embezzling SIO.'J.OOO from the Gate City National Bank, came to a sudden and unexpected end this afternoon. After government an nounced that it had closed its direct evidence tho counsel for Redwine hold a half hour's consultation. Then Col. Nat Hammond, for tho defense, usked Judge Pardee to rule on the demurrer to the Tom Cobb Jackson $?,OUO draft indictment. " Well, I sustain the demurrer in referouco to this indictment." said Judge PArdee, giving his reasons. Ho said tpo indictment was insufficient because it did not charge that Red wino was benefited by it. " If your honor pleuse." suid Col. Hammond, "thero are three indict ments left. One covering the total amount of 8103.178 and tho others covering $15,1)01) und $10,(X)0 each." Ho said that the evidence had proven u clear caso against tho de fendant, and although he; "as willing to do everything on earth for his client he would enter a plea of guilty on the indictment charging tho em bezzlement of $103,000. This announce ment created a sensation in the court room. Col. Hammond went on to say that having heard the government's evidence ho was satisfied that the defense could not rebut it, and there fore entered the plea of guilty. The lawyers were called to the Judge's stand and consulted a few minutes. The Judge instructed the jury to lind the defendant " guilty " on t ho three romanlning indictments. This was done after tho consultation. The pleas were entered and road simply, '?Wo, tho jury, find tho defendant guilty." After tho reading Judge Pardee stated ho would sentence tho defen dant tomorrow morning tit 10 o'clock. During the morning session of Court the government put up witness after witness and made its case stronger and stronger. Atlanta, Ga.. Jan. 12.?Judge Par dee this morning sentenced Louis Redwino, the defaulting assistant cashier of the Gate City National bank, for a term of six years in tho Columbus. Ohio, penitentiary, he hav ing pleaded guilty yesterday of cm bozzlement while, assistant cashier fo $103.000. The Hon. N.J. Hammond, leading attorney for the defence, pre sented a physician's certificate con corning Redwino's health showing that he was not physically in strong condition, and begged the judge that his sentence be such its to admit some freedom. Captain Harry Jackson, who is tho leading prosecuting attor ney, and who is tho father of Tom Cobb Jackson, who comniittoed sul oido, as Is generally supposed, on nc j count of complications relating to the I embezzlement, quickly arose and de manded justice, and said: "1 want I tho long arm of the law to reach out anil take in whom it may. The way ? to the ruin of the Onto City national bank is paved with graves." TlLLMAN VS. SlMONTON AGAIN.? Tin? decision of Judge Simonton in the Cantlnl case, in Charleston, which was against tho constables, has aroused Governor Tlllman, und when asked what he intended to do about furnishing bonds for the constables, whom the Federal Judge had decided must give bonds, he said that he thought ho would allow them to go to jail. " 1 will let Judge Simonton go on," he said, " until he becomes so odious to tho peo ple that they will want to mob him. lie is acting under a law that was re pealed before tho alleged crimes were committed and before ho issued tho order of arrest. Ho is trying to in timidate and paralyze the constables in tht) performance of what is their duty." The Governor says that a time will come when all this violation of laws supposed to be sacred must stop. ?Columbia Register. ? Rov. G. F. B. Howard, of claim agency famo. is still in tho county jail at Jackson. Tonn. Hfl has freedom of tho corridors, and his wife spends tho days with him. Ho has plenty of opportunity to converse with his wit nesses who are confined in iail awnit ing tho special term of tue federal court in February. The government is getting Its ov'.donco ready by that tltn-n. Howard seoms cheerful, and hums the ponular airs of the day as he walks up and down tho jail corridor. A great many visitors app y for ad mission, but the sheriff only admits .member! of his family. It \n wiid ! HWww-djtfft wr?W? a bWdV on hfs fife. HAWAII AND THK TARIFF. Congress Is Now Charged Wit h tho | the Settlement or Hawaiian Allan s ?Tho Deb?t? on Tnrff Relorm ami 'l't <> .}n < i of the IneouteTax, "peolal tolbe Ul ?ta CotiBtltutlO". Washington, January U.?The res olution introduced by Senator Turpio yesterday in rogard to Hawaii means much. It declares that "it is unwise, inexpedient and not in accordance with tho character and dignity of tho United Stutes to consider further, at this time, either the treaty or project of annexation of the Hawaiian terri tory to this country ; that tho pro visional government therein hav ng been duly recognized, tho highest in ternational interest require that it shall pursuo its own Uno of policy and that foreign intervention in tho politi cal affairs of tho islands will bo regard ed as au act unfriendly to the govern ment of tho United States." This resolution is said to have boon drawn up at the State department and Mr. Turpio introduced it at tho re quest of tho President himself. Tho President is sorely tired of this Hawaiian matter and he wants to got out of it just iuj quickly as possible. His policy will now bo to " hands off " Hawaii, lie takes the position now that when Minister Willis asked tho provisional government to step down and out, and mako way for the queen's retui n to tho throne, and tho pro visional government declined to do so. t hat the United Stutes did all necessary under the circumstances. Ho thinks Minister Willis's efforts have shown that this government did all that was possible through peaceful means and that the condition of affairs is such on tho island that it is neither possible or desirable to make a further move to wards tho restoration of the queen and that the only danger to bo feared is from foreign iutorfereuce. It is known that the President will have Minister Willis instructed to do nothing further in the matter. Of course, tho Democratic Congressmen will uphold tho President's act, but they criticise him rather severely. They think that he made a mistake in asking tho provisional government to step down und out. If he was going to do that at all he should havo placed himself in a position to havo forced the provisional government out and re placed the queen. But every Ameri can is opposed to tho restoration of tho queen and all aro glad that Presi dent Dolo refused to step down. Tho whole thing leaves the administration in an unenviable position, but Mr. Cleveland and his cabinet think they havo done the correct thing, and tho matter will probably rest just where it is. The invostigation which is being carried on by tho Senate committee will probably amount to but little. It will simply develop the facts in tho case which have already been fully published. It is not probable that Congress will do anything except, perhaps, to pass tho resolution of Senator Turpio. That is the only way out of tho dilliculty for tho Democratic party. It must uphold the acts of the administration as far as possible. The majority of tho Democratic Senators and members, however, wish it to be understood that tho Hawaiian matter was managed entirely by tho Congressional leaders, and that Mr. Cleveland, personally, moro than the party, is responsible. In the debate which will come up over tho resolution Mr. Cleveland will bo defended by Democrats to tho best of their ability. While they do not endorse his policy still, as a Democrut und the chief officer of tho government, they will uphold him. The Republicans will endeavor to make much political capital out of the affair. They may make some, but fortunately Mr. Cleveland has not gone so far that he cannot get out of it. Nobody censures Minister Willis for his acts. He was simply acting under instructions. Mr. Blount, who arrived hero yesterday, will appear before the Senate committee investigating tho Hawaiian matter on Friday. Mr. Hiount has declined to discuss the Hawaiian situation with any of tho newspaper correspondents. He will toll the committee all he knows about it on Friday, but will probably havo very little to tell in addition to what he has already said in his report. Tho debate on the, tariff bill con tinued to-day. Mr. Wilson concluded his speech this morning. It was a gootl speech, but tho tariff dobate is not attracting as much general atten tion nor is there so much interest in it as there was in the discussion over the Mills bill or tho McKinley bill in pre vious Congresses. Mr. Wilson do liovered a very strong and well pre pared speech. It will read remarkably well. Mr. Wilson is not an orator. Ho is a scholarly talker, but is not magnetic in his delivery. Mr. Bur rows, of Michigan, followed Mr. Wilson ami opened tho debate for the Republicans in opposition to the bill. Mr. Burrows is ono of the orators of the Bouse. His delivery is decidedly attractive, but bis speech was not as well prepared as some of his previous efforts on the tariff question. From a Republican Standpoint it was a fairly gootl argument aud Mr. Bur rows has a very attractive way of talk ing, llo was listened to with much interest. Mr. Black, of Illinois, fol lowed Mr. Burrows and Mr. Hopkins, of Illinois, closed tho debate for tho day session. Noithor Mr. Black nor Mr. Hopkins aro great orators by any means, and as themeinhers and specta tors had become somewhat wearied, they wero not given that attention their remarks deserved. Bourke Coekran ami Tom Reed will attract more attention that any other men who will speak during the general debate. The interest in tho tariff dis cussion will he when the debate under tho five-minute rule opens. Tuen every man will havo an opportunity to speak and there will be a lively and interesting debate. That will not be until next week. Though Senator Voorhees, after having for years been a free coinage man, led the light in favor of the re peal of the Sherman law, he, will tight for his old-time convictions in favor ( of an individual income tax. Twenty years ago in tho llouso ho voted against tho repeal of this tax which was then in force. Ho declares now emphatically that ho will never lend his inlluence to increasing the tax on beer anil tobacco, for tho reason t hat these aro tho only luxuries of the working man. Ho favors a tax on cigarettes, but less for the purposo of raising revenue than for sanitary oon sidorat'ons. But above all theso he is in favor of an income tax and will mako a gallant tight for tho samo in tho Senato. A story has gono out over tho coun try to tho offect that fiftoon Demo cratic Senators aro opposed to. and will voto against, an Incomo tax. These Senators aro said to bo Messrs. Brloo. Camdon, Faulkner, Gibson, Gorman, Gray. Hill. Lindsay. McPhor son, Vtlas, Murphy, Wnite of Cali fornia, Smith and White of Louisiana. While tho majority of these Senators aro undoubtedly, opposed to an incomo tax suvorA ol them may not voto Ugafnrft j^^t fs rrb^jrgfcfn by1 ay^ means that either Senator Hill or Senator Murphy will vote against an income, tax. Nor is it certain that Senators Faulkner o Lindsay will. Indeuu, if it is made a party measure thero may not bo more than three or four bolting Democratic Senator. I have talked with several Senators, who are advocates of an income tax and they believe that tho tax stands a much bettor chance of going through tnu Senate than is generally believed. Indeed, many of the Southern Senators believe that tho Senate will pass an in come tax bill. Representative Springer, of Illinois, says he knows from personal ex perience that an individual income tax is not unconstitutional. When this form of tax was in vogue in this country more than twenty years ago Mr. Springer had quite an income. He made a test of its constitutionality in the Illinois courts by refusing to pay it, on tho ground that it was a direct tax and could only bo levied by tho State. Tho ease was appealed and the Supremo Court sustained tho constitu tionality of the act at Mr. Springer's expense. Mr. Springer had not only to pay tho tax but several hundred dollars cost fees. SPEAKER CRISP'S POSITION. A Better Tariff Reform Democrat than His Former Critics, Tho Washington Post has an edito rial under tho caption of "Some Changes in Politics," which throws a very clear light upon tho situation in Congress just now, and shows Speaker Crisp's true position. It is compli mentary to the Speaker and it is cor rect. The editorial reads : "In view of the position occupied by Speaker Crisp at the present time, some of the allegations made during the speakership light of two years ago, sound rather strange. It will be readily recalled that the opponents of Judge Crisp's candidacy urged in tho most vigorous manner that tho Geor gian was not sound on the tariff ques tion. By tho declarations of these gen.lernen the present Speaker of the House of Representatives was pictured as an individual who would betray the party into tho bands of the high tariff ltes should ho bo chosen to presido over tho deliberations of tho House. Tho gentleman from Ceorgia, they de clared, would prove but a second edi tion of the late Samuel J. Randall and block all tariff reform legislation. " After a very exciting contest on theso lines, after every otTort had been made to enlist all of the tariff reform Domocrats in tho ranks of tho anti Crisp candidates, the Georgian was olected to tho high and honorable posi tion he has filled with such ability. But the light on Speaker Crisp didn't cease there. The Now York Reform Club undertook tho contract of pre venting his re-election, and with this end in view the Speaker was invited to the annual dinner of that organization and publicly insulted. This was done in order that tho country might bo made to understand that tho Reform Club didn't approve of Speaker Crip, but notwithstanding this extraordinary effort tho Speaker was accorded a re oloction. "But perhaps the most extraordi nary feature of this war on tho Geor gian is the present situation. With the various clashing interests at war on tho tariff question there is one cen tral figure in the light. Upon his shoulders falls the brunt of the battle. He is out in the open and exposed to a lire from both the front and the rear. Some of the shots fired from the last named direction are from weapons in the bands of Democrats who didn't think Crisp a good tariff reformer when he was a candidate for Speaker. The head and front of the fight for tariff reform is Hon. Charles Frederick Crisp, of Georgia, and if tho Wilson hill finally passes the House it will he. largely due to the vigor and courage displayed by the Speaker of that body. " Til is but goes to show that the pre dictions and declarations of the poli ticians cannot always be relied upon. There is abundance of evidence to show that somebody misrepresented things in the memorable Speakership can vass of 1801." BREAKING THE RECORD. A Philadelphia Cashier Stole the Hank's Funds for Twenty Years. Philadelphia, Jan. 10.?After twonty-ycttl's of service Theodore F. linker, paying teller tif the Girard National B ink, this afternoon stood before United States Commissioner Craig, a prisoner, charged with em bezzling 947,000 from the hank and with falsifying the bank's books. Baker attempted no defense and said his stealings had extended over a period of lid years. In default of $15. 00U ball he was committed to prison to answer the eini ges before the United States District Court. Baker first went to the bank in tho capacity of a runner. His attention and apparent faithfulness brought its reward and he, has been gradually pro moted until in 1801 ho wus made pay ing teller. a short t me ago a book keeper named Van Cusen discovered that his books had been falsified and ho found a shortage of $.'10,000. The discovery anil probable suspicion that might fall on him so worried him that he fell ill and while sick ho confided the matter to his physician and at tho samo time protested his innocence. Tho physician called at tho bank yes terday aiid told Van Dusen's story to the officers. President James .1. Watson called a meeting of the board of directors and they met this morning. Baker was called in and at once confessed he was tho guilty man. He said bo bad been stealing in small amounts for 20 years and that the total of his defalcation was about $17,000. His method of stealing was to alter and erase the amounts in the individual ledger while the bookkeeper was at dinner and then abstract cash from the money he had for the day's business. He had always boon able to make his hooks balance when the bank examiner came around. Baker said that he had never gambled or speculated, and the money he took all went towards supporting his fam ily, His salary as paying tidier was $1,800 a year. -^eayf. ? # ? 0M ? -? Thomas Payne Kh g, who dropped dead on the street at Wichita. Kan., a few days since, is said to have been one of the immortal 000 who rode at Balaklava. Ln his youth he hold a com mission in the British army, ln 1801 he resignod and enlisted in the United States army. Ho was a person of superior education, and since tho war had succeodod in amas.ing a consider able fortune, estimated at somo $70, 000. He owned property in Chicago, Kansas City, Wichita ami other places, and drew a pension both from Groat Britain and tho United States, but it is said that bo nover spent a cent, living in pqualor. dressing in rags and eating refuse bogged at the doors of restaurant and hotel kitchens. It does not yet appear who gets the pro perty which he failed to enjoy, but it is dAllars to doughnuts that somebody 1 wfn\fe*fd ft faOt atoo-u-g-h rfdw. FOR A MARCH CONVENTION. The Organ of the Farmers* Alliance SI ron^ly Opposes Delay ill Nomina tion-.. The Cotton Plaut, which is the of ficial organ of the state Farmers1 Alli uuce, announces its opposition to the plan suggested by the Laurens County Alliance for a nominating convention in July, and expresses itself as follows: '?With the very beginning of this year we are confronted with the fact that this is a campaign year and that we are soon to meet our opponents in a battlo for tho people's rights and the development of our State in business prosperity' and tho happiness of its citizens. Such being tho case wo at onoe realize tho great importance of at once getting our forces together and coining to an agreement on the policy to be pursued so that there can be no misunderstanding, and the success of our cause assured. " The politicians must be made to tako a back seat and lot tho people themselves set tho pace. To do that tho people should meet in their neigh borhood clubs and send delegates to a State convention, which will adopt a platform and nominate a candidate for Governor to represent our people on that platform. A Lieutenant Governor should also bo put up, but tho remain* der of the State officers can bo nomi nated by the delegates to tho Septem ber convention. "The Stato convention for this pur pose should bo held not later than tho month of March?before tho farmers get too busy in their crops to attend to it. and beforo bad blood rises between the friends of tho aspirants for the Governorship on the Reform side. " The Alliance cannot take part in partisan politics, and therefore has only the right to point, out the neces sity of culling the peoplo together and leaving it to some one olso to do the work. We bolieve that the last presi- I dent and executive committee of tho Farmers' Association of this Stato are the proper ones to issuo stich a call, and we are confident that the people would resuond promptly and unani mously to a call issued by them. This is a movement of the peoplo to reform and improve our government, and nota j movement to place any man or set of men in olliee merely. Wo must keep on the high ground of pure patriotism, and seek out the men for service who will be most capable of carrying out our wishes. Measures and not men must be made prominent. "It will be noticed that wo do not agree with some points in the resolu tions passed on last Friday by our Laurens brethren and published else where in this issue; but after mature consideration we feel satisfied that our position is tho correct one. We hope that our readers will use our columns in a discussion of the matter, and in that way reach tho most satisfactory conclusion, Wo have briefly outlined our views, with reasons therefor, and we shall use our best endeavor to main tain the rights and privileges of our people and promote harmony in the work. " Tho convention should be called in March to adopt a platform and nomi nate a candidate for Governor on that platform, and it should be called by men who can be depended on to carry it with perfect justice and fairness to all concerned." Commenting upon tho political situa tion as revealed by the differences ex isting between the leaders of tho Re form faction, the Columbia State makes the following observations, which are given for what they are worth : " When the announcement was made in December that the campaign this year would open early in .January, a great many had doubts about it. Few outside the 'oharmed circle' then knew that the political pol within tho ranks of the Reform party was boiling over, and that there was a fight within the ranks of the heretofore solid phalanxes of Reform, imminent. Hut such was the ease. It has boon brew ing for a long time, and now there is a crisis. * >? There are to be two factions in the Reform party in the coming campaign. That fact is now no longer denied by the leaders of the more powerful fac tion. The indications are that Sena tor Irby, tho present State chairman, I vill lead the faction which represents the minority, and that he _wi11 have but little to do with the real manipula tion of the coming campaign as tar as the Reform element is concerned. He and several followers some months ago cut loose almost entirely from the main wing of the Reformers, and they are all likely to fall by the wayside, fighting as they fall. ??Congressman Shell, it is positively announced, was approaehod while in the city a few days ago by the leaders of the Alliance or farming element of the Reform party, and he has consented to bo at the head of the committee that will manage the campaign for this faction. He WSS the former pre sident of the Farmer's Association in this Stato. "It will be noticed that the Alliance is to be kept in the background as far as being a political machine is Con corned, but a groat deal of good solid work has been done by the loaders among tho Alliancenien all over tho State, and they will bo as a unit against the opposing find ion. "A representative of The State had unite a long talk with one or two of the ieatlei's of the Alliance side. They say that the haulers of the other side will bo lrby, Stanyarne Wilson, Larry Gannt and .lohn (buy Evans. They seem to think that a combination was forinetl nearly a year ago by Irby and his followers to run things to suit themselves anil make a slate of the Offices for tho Coming term, which Would be presented to t he voters ami would be swallowed by them. They say that the effort to crush out every loading Tillmnn man the attacks up on Tindal, McLaurln ami others was the direct result of this combination ongineored by Irby. They consider Irby dead as far as State polities are concerned. In regard to those Alli ance resolutions adopted in Laurens a few days, one of these men said that they woro gotten up under Irby's influ ence, and represented nobody's views but his own. He was a good manipu lator and got the County Alliance to adopt them. He did not think that another Alliance in the Statt; would havo done so. "The leaders say that inasmuch as this will not affect Governor Tillman's fight for tho Senate. In; will be hands oft in the fight. They say that Irby has been spreading tho idea that ho ami Tillman havo been working to gether. They know that Govornor Tillman's vlows in regard to a conven tion aro not those that wero expressed in tho Laurens resolutions. They think, too, that Governor Tillman wants a farmor for Govornor." ?Fifty-four Democrats, thirty-five Republicans ami four Populists havo asked for time forjuartiolpatlon in tho dehnte on the tin %blll. It is not suro STATIC MOWS IN BRII Interesting Notes from Vario ?It will pay to raise more o price is high compared with wheat. ?Col. W. P. Butler, one 6i\ est citizens of Edgefiold County cousin of Senator Butler, droppi January 8. ?Constables Caillard, Pepper, and McDonald have given bond . quired by tho United States Cou tbe Cantlni caso. ?Tho oflico of Master hos b abolished in Anderson County, to ta effect next winter. Tho duties of I office will devolve upon tho Prob* Judge. -John Smith, tho negro who Molvina Adams in Columbia, on \ day night, was captured by tho pi of Winnsboro. He confesses to shooting and says his accomplice tin can bo arrested by telograp Charlotte. ?Tho largest shipment of | ever made to one man from Char over the South Carolina and Hi' and Danville Railroads, was r at New berry last week by M Lane. The shipment consist*., solid train of 2" cars boadei Wando Fertilizer ?Mrs. Harriet loved wife of Dr. in Atlanta on th? enty-six years, of lor's maiden name was a native of Pc C. She was marrh Cassville, Ca., in IS, ?Mai. C. S. Gudst. ed president of the N road, viee A. F. Ka Maj. Gadsdon will a>s<, ent position as super?. Charleston and S&vai with which ho has been since its construction. ?Representative Yelt hold County, has beer/ , Covcrnor Tillman as ' . the State board* of eont speelal inspector an _.o ,,. t?l the various dispi ^ ., ies in ii\ and keep them up to a desired ard of excellence and accuracy. ?Judge Izlar has filed an ordei tho clerk of court iu Charleston di ing tha*. a receiver shall bo uppc in the now famous Royal Fort Company's caso. The receiver hu yet been named. Tho case is 01 great interest to Charlestonians ai much importance to fertiliser into in the State. ? In tho United States Cout\ Charleston on tho 12th inst., Cibbos Whttley made a motion bo! Judge Simonton for a dismissal of order in the Can*tini ca*Bo on 1 grounds. The judge issued a doc refusing to dismiss the case. It is i derstood tho Attorney General h othor stops to take. ?It has boon reported that Socretai of State Tindal had appointed Repre entativo E. R. Lesence of Williamsbui County to the position of genori traveling agent of tho Sinking Fe Commission to fill the vacanc* by tho death of S. C. Cartledgo asked about the report Socret. dal said that he had not yet 1 assignment, but has decided to a| several agents of the Commissi work iu different portions of tin ? Mr. Lesosno will bo bne of- ,-?jo ag^ ?Governor Tillman has appoin Mr. Legriel A. Wittkowsky as Mast for Kershaw County. Mr. Wittkowsk is a young man and graduated fron the South Carolina College in 1889. Ho has been practicing law inCamden. The olllce of Master for Kershaw County was created at the recent ses sion of the Legislature. The appoint ment was made at the recommendation of the members from that county and the bar of Camdon. ?York County will have two latest infproved roller mills, with a combined capacity of eight barrels of Hour a day, in operation by the time the growing wheat crop is harvested. One of these mills has been in operation since last July, and produces as fine quality c' Hour as is made anywhere, and it > kept busy all the time. Tho other w' bo at Hickory Gl'OVO, and it is probai that one or two more will bo creetc I during the present year. ?A Yorkvillo merchant, who has I been engaged In furnishing plantation supplies on time to farmers in that county for more than twenty years, said a day or two ago that never In his experience had his customers paid their accounts so promptly, fully and freely, and that he had not been plac ed under the necessity of invoking the "strong arm " of the law in collecting a single account. He takes a great many liens and chattel mortgages to secure accounts. This is a remarkable statemeid at a time when the wail of hard times and short crops is going up all over the land. a Surprising Verdict.?A most surprising verdict was given in tho United States court last week at Knox-, ville. Tonn., when Clco Berry, one of the most famous criminals in Hawkins county, failed of conviction. Berry is past fifty years of age, and was Indict* Od for counterfeiting. The neighbor hood in which he lived was Hooded with bogus half dollars and dollars, the manufacture of them was traced to him and utensils necessary to their manufacture were found in his house. It was proven plainly that he had passed countless counterfeits, but he played the innocent racket on their manufacture and failed of conviction through a jury's verdict that was any thing but proper. Berry has long posed as a Dunkard preacher, In fact lias pulled the wool over tho eyes of tho unsuspecting mountaineers with the greatest regularity. United P' '<e Marshal Condon says Berry is g' every crime in the calendar, not excepted, for on a high r. peak, near Mooresburg, then. ??. stands a lone gravestone on whfch i the Inscription "Murdered by Cleo Merry." Who this victim is no one knows, but il i known that this stone marks the last resting place of hut one of the Dunkard preacher's victims. --The advocates of the Income tax and of the internal revenue featuro of the tariff bill suffered an unexpected reverse at the meeting on Friday last Ol the Democratic members of the ways and means committee. Instead of en dorsing the bill as drawn by tho sub committee it was voted by 0 to .*> to reconsider the entire matter. Mr. Bynum, of Indiana, mudo tho motion to reconsider nnd it was his vote which was deeisivo in securing the eiian ? Tnrs'vy followed with a moti refer the entire subject to the l oratio caucus of the house. This also oarried by a vote o to 5, ?Collectors of customs at O Christi, El POSO and Laredo low instructed to keep a OlOHC Wt*1 tbe border .to prevent China I conin,' into tho United ' i Meu*so.