The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, December 15, 1887, Image 1
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ESTABLISHED I\' 1865. 1rEWBERRY, S. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBR1,I87IRIE]5OAYA
EXTRACTS FROM PRESIDENT
CLEVELAND'S ANNUAL
MESSAGE.
A Tariff for Revenue, With Incidental
Protection.
To the Congress of the. U nited States:
You are confronted t.t the threshold
of your legislative duties with a con
dition of the National finances, which
imperatively demands immediate and
careful consideration. The amount
of money annually exacted through
the operation of the present laws
from the industries and necessities.
of the people, largely exceeds the
sum necessary to meet the expenses
of the Government. When we con
sider that the theory of our own in
stitutions guarantee to every citizen
the full enjoyment of all the fruit of
his industry and enterprise, with
only such deductions as may be his
share towards the careful and eco
nomical maintenance of the Govern
ment which protects him, it is plain
that the exaction of more than this
is indefencible extortion and a cul
pahle betrayal of American fairness
and justice. This wrong inflicted
upon those who bear the burden of
national taxation, like other wrongs,
multiplies a brook of evil conse
qnences. The public treasury
which should only exist as a conduit
conveying the poople's tribute to its
legitimate object -of expenditure
becomes a hoarding place for money
needlessly-withdrawn from trade and
the people's use, thus crippling our
national energies, suspending our
country's development, preventing
investment in productive enterprises.
threatening financial disturbance and
inviting schemes of-public plunder.
This condition of our treasury is not
altogether new, and it. has more .than
once of late been submitted -to the
peoples Representatives in Congress
who alone can apply a remedy, and
yet the situation still continues with
aggravated incidents more than ever,
presaging financial convulsion and
widespread disaster. It will not do
to neglect this situation. because its
dangers are not now palpably im
minent and apparent. They exist
none the less certainly, and await
the unforeseen and unexpected oc
casion when suddenly they will be
precipitated upon us.
GIVING TIIE FIGURES.
On the 30th day of June, 1885, the
excess of revenues over public ex
penditures after complying with the
annual requirement of' the sinking
land eess was $17,859,735.84.
during the year ended June 80, 1886,
such excess amounted to $49,455,
545.20,- and during the year ended
June 30, 1887, it reached the sum of
$55,567,849.54.
The annual contributions to the
sinking funds during the three years
above specified, amounting in the
aggregate to $138,058,320.94 and
deduceed from the surplus as stated,
were made .by calling in for that
purpose outst:anding three per . cent
bonda~ of the Government. During
the six .mnontbs prior to June 30;
1887, the surplus revenue had grown
so large by repeated accumulations
that it was feared the.:withdrawal o
this great sum of money needed by
.the people would so effect the busi
ness of the country that th~e som of
[79,864400 of such surplus was ap
plied to the payment of the principal
and interest of the three per cent
bonds still outstanding, and which
were then pay-able at the option of~
Government. ThIe precarious con
dition of gnaggia1 affairs aglong the
people still needing relief immedi
ately after the 30th day of . June,
1887, the remainder of-the three per
cent bonds then outstanding, amount
ing with principal and interest, to the
sum of 81&,977,500 were called in
and applied to the sinking fund cons
tribution for the curient fiscal year.
Notwithstanding these operations of
the Treasury Department, the repre
sentations of distress in business
circles not only continued, but in
creased, and absolute peril seemed at
hand. In these circumstances the
contribution to the sinking fu*nd for
the eqrrent fisca,l year was at once
pgmrpleted by the expenditure. of
$27,584,283 55 in the purchase of
Government bonds, not yet due,
bearing four and fogr and a half per
gent interest, the premingi paid
thereon averaging about 24 per cent
for the former and $ per cent~ for the
n in addition tQ this the interest ac
cruing during the cqrrent year upon
* the outstanding bonded indebtedness
of' the goyernnaent was to some ex
tent anticipated and banks selected
as depositories of public money were
permitted to somewhat increase their
deposits.
While tbc expedients thus em
ployed to release to the people the
money lying idle in the treasury
served to avert immediate dangers,
our surplus revenues have continued
to accumulate, thie excess for- the
present year amounting on the 1st
day of December to $55,257.70L19
and estimated to reach the sum of
$113,000,000 on the 30th of June
next, at which date it is expected
that this sum. added to prior accu
mulations, will swell the surplus in
the Trreasury to $140,000,004. There
seem~s to be no asagrance that, witla
such a withdrawal from qse of the
people's circulating medium, our
business community may not in ..ie
near future be subjected to the same
djistress whion was quite lately pro.
duced from tbe same cause; and
while the fluctuations of our national
treasury should be few and simpie,
and while its best condition would be
reached, I believe, by its entire dis
connection wit.h private business in
terests, yet when it idly holds money
nels of trade, there seems to be reason
for the claim that some legitimate
means should he devised by the
Government to restore in an emer
gency without waste or extravagance
such money to its place among the
people.
THE TARIFF.
Our scheme of taxation, by the
means of which this needless surplus
is taken from the people and put into
the public treasury, consists of a
tariff or duty levied upon importa
tions from abroad and internal reve
nue taxes levied upon the consumma
tion of tobacco and spirituous and
malt liquors.
It must be conceded 'that none of
the things subjected to internal rev.
enue taxation are, strictly speaking,
necessaries. There appears to be no
just complaint of this taxation by
the consumers of these articles and
there seems to be nothing so well
able to bear the burden without
hardship to any portion of the peo
ple.
But our present tariff laws-the
vicious, inequitable and illogical
source of unnecessary taxation
ought to be at once revised and
amended. These laws have the
primary and plain effect of raising
the price to consumers of all articles
imported and subject to duty by
precisely the sum paid for such
duties. Thus the amount of the duty
measures the tax paid by those
who purchase for use these imported
articles.
Many of these things, however, are
raised or manufactured in our own
country, and the duties now levied
upon foreign goods and products are
called protection to these home man
ufacturers, because they render it
possible for those of our people who
are manufacturers to make these
taxed articles and sell them for a
price equal to that demanded for the
imported goods that have paid cus
toms duty. So it happens that while,
comparatively, a few use the imported
articles, millions of our people who
never use and never saw any of the
foreign products, purchase and use
things of the same kind made in this
country and pay therefor nearly or
quite the same enhanced price which
the duty adds to the imported ar
ticles. Those who' buy imports pay
the duty charged thereon into the
public treasury, but the grand major.
ity of our citizens who buy domestic
articles of the some class pay a sum
at least approximately equal to this
duty to the home manufacturer.
This reference to the operation of
our tariff laws is not made by way of
instructions, but in order that we may
be constantly reminded of the man
ner in which they impose a burden
upon those who consume domestic
products as well as those who con
sume imported articles, and thus
create a tax upon all our people.
It is not proposed to entirely re
lieve the country of this taxation. It
must be extensively continued as the
source. of the Government's iracome,
and in a readjustment of our tariff
the interest of American labor en
gaged in manufacture should be
carefully considered, as well as the
preservation of our manufactures. It
may be called protection, or by any
other name, but relief from tbe hard
ships and -dangers of our present
tariff laws should be devised, with
special precaution, imperilling the
existence of our manufacturing inter
ests. But this existence should not
mean ~a condition which, without
regard to the public welfare or a
national-exigency, must always in
sure the realization of immense
profits instead of [moderately profit
able returns.
As the volume and diversity of our
national activities increase new
recruits are adde' ' o these who de
sire a continuatioL. J the advantag~es
which they conceive the present
system^ of tariff taxation directly
affords them.
So stubbornly have all efforts to
reform the present condition been
resisted by those of our fellow-citizens
thus engaged that they can hardly
complain of the suspicion entertained
to a certaln extent that there exists
an organized combination all along
the line to maintain their advantage.
Is PRtOTECION NEEDED ?
WVe are in the midst of centennial
celebratinos, and with becoming
pride we rejoice in American skill
and ingenuity, in American energy
and enterprise, and in the wonderful
natural adyantages and resources
developed by a century's National
growth. Yet when an attempt is
made to justify a scheme which per
mits a tax to be laid iapon every con
summer in the land for the benefit of
our manufacturers, quite beyond a
reasonable demand for governmental
regard, it suits the purposes of ad
vocacy to call our manufactories in.
fant industries, and -ask a greater de
gree of favor and fortering care than
can be wrung from Federal legisla
tion.
It is also said that the increase in
Line price of domestic manfacturers,
resulting from the present tariff, is
necessary in order that higher wages
may be paid to our workingmen em
ployed in ma&ufactories than as paid
for what is called the pauper labor
of Europe,
Ali will acknowledge the force of
an argument which involves the wel
fare and liberal compensation of our
laboring people. Our labor is hon
orable in the eyes of every American
citizen, and as it lies at the founda
tion of our development and pro
gress, it is entitled, without affecta
tion or hypocrisy, to the utmost re
'gard.
The standard of our laborer should
1not be measured by that of any
other country less favored, and they
are entitled to their full share of nll
our advantas.
By the last census it is made to
a, pear that of the 17,392,099 of our
population engaged in all kinds of
industries, 7,670,493 are employed in
agriculture, 4,074,::38 in professional
and personal service (2,934.876 of
whom are domestic servants and la
borers), while 1,810,256, are employed
in manufacturing and mining.
For present purposes, however,
the last number given should be con
siderably reduced. Without attempt
ing to enumerate all, it will be con
ceded that there should be deducted
from those which it includes 375,145
carpenters and joiners, 285,756 milli
ners, dress makers and seamstresses,
172,726 blacksmiths, 133,756 tailors
and tailoresses. 102,473 masons, 76,.
241 butchers, 41,309 bakers, 22,083
plasterers and 4,891 engaged in man
ufacturing agricultural implements,
aggregating 1,214,023, leaving 2,623,
089 persons employed in such manu
facturing industries as are claimed
to benefited by a high tariff.
To these the appeal is made to
save their employment and maintain
their wages by resisting a change.
Where should be no disposition to
answer such suggestions by the alle
gation that they are in a minority
among those who labor and therefore
should forego an advantage in the
interest of low prices for the majori
ty. Their compensation as it may
be affecled by the operation of the
tariff laws should at all times be
scrupulously kept in view and yet
with slight reflection they will not
overlook the fact that they are con
sumers with the rest;'that they too,
have their own wants and those of
their families to supply from their
earnings, and that the prices of the
necessaries of life, as well as the
amount of their wages, will regulate
the measure of their welfare and com
fort; but the reduction of taxation
demanded should be so measured as
not to necessitate or justify either
the loss of employment by the work
ingman nor the lessenig of his wages,
and the profits still remaining to the
manufacturer, after a necessary read
justment, should furnish no excuse
for the sacrifice of the interests of
his employes, either in their oppor
tunity to work or in the diminution
of their compensation. Nor can the
workers in manufactorieg fail to un
derstand that while a high tariff is
claimed to be neecssary to allow the
payment of remunerative wages, it
certainly results in a very large in
crease in the price of nearly all sorts
of manufactures, which in almost
countless forms. he needs for the
use of himself and his family. He
receives at the desk of his employer
his wages, and perhaps before he
reaches his home is obliged, in a
purchase for family use of au article
which- embraces his own labor, to re
tarn, in the payment of the increase
in price which the ; ariff permits, the
hard earned compensation of many
days of toil.
-The Three O's Railroad
Special to the News and Courier.
AIGUJsTA, GA., December 7.-Col.
Johnson, general manager of the
Three C's Road, and Major Hart,
attorney for the same, have been in
the city since last night. They came
for the purpose of completing the
cornsolidation of the Georgia and
Carolina -Midland Road with the
Three C's. They have been in con
sultation with President Mitchell and
Attorney Gary, of the Georgia and
Carolina Midland. all day, and the
consolidation wiltprobably be closed
to-morrow. The agreement of con
solidation was made on June 1 last,
at a meeting in Columbia, provided
the Three C's paid all the debts of
the Georgia and Carolina within
sixty days. These debts, to the
amount of $76,000, have not yet been
paid, and President Mitchell called
a meeting of the Georgia and Caro
olia Midland at Hamburg for the
next Tuesday. That is what brought
tbc officials of the Three C's here.
President Mitchell .stated to your
correspondent to night that there was
no complication on the part of the
Georgia and Carolina Midland, and
that the only complication was the
failure of the Three C's to pay the
$I6,000. He further said that the
matter would be settled to morrow,
and that the road would be rapidly
constructed; that is, the line to
Augusta would bc completed in
twelve months. The entire line ex
tends to Ashland, Ky., a distance of
800 miles. Tne line to Augusta is
only from Newberry via Edgefleld
here. T1'he entire road wil be rushed
to completion.
Anu Augusta Negro Charged with In.
cndiarismn in Two Plaes.
Augjusta Chronicle, 10th.
The general store and bar of M1r.
B. H air, at Elko, S, C., was burned
yesterday morning before day. The
tire was the work of an incendiary,
having tneen kindled at two corners
of the wooden store building which
was the prop)erty of Mr. C. II.
Mathews. The loss is about $2500,
with $400 insurance on the building
and $1000 one the stoclk of goods.
Shortly after the Are a negro man,
haiIing from Augusta, was arrested
at Williston, six miles from Elko. on
suspicion, and it was found that he
wore an oveFcoat, the property of a
Mr Hendeson of Aiken, aiso a pistol
that had been missed since the de
struction of the latter's store, which
was burned in the big fire of a week
ago. The impression generally ob
tains that the man is the incendiary
who fired Mr. Hair's store and that
the Aiken fire can be traced to him.
If this is so he will have a strong
case against him, as circumstances
are being accumulated that point to
k DANIEL COME TO JUDGMENT. Is
fi
1Iississippi's Experience With Her "Pet lI
Humbug."
Chickasau- (Miss.) Xeseenyer. b
South Carolina is now being agi R
bated from mountains to the sea.
ver the proposition to' establish an
Agricultural and Mechanital College,
:opied after our own pet humbug.
The farmers of the State are told
'hat the institution is for their ben- er
fit and their sons will be taught m
scientific agriculture, whereby they d
>an outstrip their fathers in the
?reservation or reclamation of their P
Lands in the production of crops, and ^
heir -class prejudices are being 0
iroused to secure their active sup C
Dort of the scheme, which, if adopted,
will redound to the interest of the k
Drofessional classes, the swell plant.
srs and tl.e educated gentry, who a
secure employment at the college. a
Mississippi has traveled the road t
south Carolina is now importuned to
;ry, and it is a pity our Palmetto w
brethren do not seem sutliciently fr
Dosted to profit by our experience. o
Almost daily we receive letters from
ifferent portions of the State asking
.or information concerning the work-'s
ngs of our Agricultural and Mechan
cal College, and we have, when we n
ould, furnished our correspondents d
with a short biography of the Mis- d
-issipi "Tombstone Industry," which i
n six years' operations and after
!xpending $335,000. .turns out two
icientific farmers having faith enough h
.n their theoretical education to
ttempt to put it in practical utility. w
Our school has now entered its h
ighth year; has supported in ele- S
;ance, luxury and ease since its b
)pening, a small army of well dressed i
mnd highly cultured people (most of
whom never tried farming as a a
>usiness, and none of whom ever e
nade a success as a farmer) has ex- s
)ended of the people's money about P
400,000, and we defy its officers to
ame ten of its graduates who are n
o-day engaged in practical agricul
;ure. rh
Ten rich counties in the State a
urnish more than half the .attend- st
ince; twenty-one counties have no s
epresentative at all at the colleg_, in
tnd the assessment rolls of Oktib- p
eha County shows that the property
valuation as a whole has not in- A
reased in the imniediate vicinity of
be Agricultural and Mechanical as it a
as in other -portions of the State. d
We assert, and defy successful con.
radiction, that the tax rolls show er
bat the land of 'a member of the e
Board of Trustees, lying adjacent to
,he collegs farm, has depreciated
.n value 25 per cent. since the es
;ablishmentof the college in sight of '
2s home. -
We have had some rich experience, i
ilso, with our munificently paid h
aculty, who devote a good portion h
>f their time traveling, around over t
~he State, holding farmers' insti
utes (?) and keeping the people im- i
ressed with the wonderful work they ~
tre doing and the great necessity for -
~urther and bigger appropriations,
nd this, too, while their places are rE
illed with subs, generally under-d
~raduates of the colleges, who are it
ilso paid out of the State Treasury.
To illustrate : Our Professor of K
A.griculture, whose last report shows 0
2e expends $12,000 in ' farm opera- A
,ions and gets back $7,000 worth of0
jroducts, straddles the hobby: "Our 0
vorn out lands and how to reclaim
them," and he gravely.- tells our
~armers to "sow cow peas and turnb
;hem under in the fall. Continue
,his process, rotate and diversify '
~rops, and our lands," lie says, "will
loomu and blossom as the rose."
And for this kind of advice our
producers are expected to pay himp
32,000 per annum and furnish him a a:
uice house to live in, and at the same g
ime pay his assistants $600 or $800 ci
o attend to the duties (of his depart- y
nent in the lecture room and on the r<
~ollege farm. Bali! l
The advice and experience of one h
iuch farmer as Dixon, of Georgia, is a
f more value to agriculture than allp
~he college faculties in America, un- a
Less others are endowed with morep
practibility than ours have ever dis
played. Ours are wonderful theorists, a
but practical in nothing except in e
lobbying big appropriations out of
t.he treasury
It is amusing to us to observe in b
the discussion of the question in ,
South Carolina, that the friends of i,
the college insist that they can es
tablish one and run it without ad- b
ditional taxation. We thought so, tl
too, at the outset, and we, with other
members of the original Board of
Trustees, argued with our legislators
that if they would appropriate $100,
000 to purchase the lands and erect t
the necessary buildings, and then
give us the insignificant sum ofc
$20,000 per annum for three years.
we would make the institution self
sustaining thereafter. But was it so?
Let the $500,000 in State bonds is
sued two years ago to defray the I
expenses of our too numerous Statea
institutions; the additional~ levy of
one mill ad v(dorem tax and the
enormou~s increase in privilege taxes
answer.
We want to say to our South Car
olina friends another thing in this
connection and we are done. Should
they determuine to burden themselves
with an Agricultural and Mechanical
College they will find it will only he
a beginning, and 'ere five years roll V
around, there will be a demand for ~
another State institution or two. The
elephant, must have a mate, Hie can
forage more successfully, it is a
great deal easier to secure satisfactory t
appropriations when there is a num- a
her of pampered institutions to make r
common cause, than when one is y
compelled to go it alone. t
- Snoh has heen Mississippi's f
xnentable experience, from the dirE
Il effects of which our next Legi:
ture will, we trust, make a manl:
fort to extricate the toiling, ovei
irdened taxpayers.
esignation of Comptroller Genera
Stoney.
Regi. ter, 9th.
It became known more or less gen
ally about the city yesterdal
orning that Captain Wm. E. Stoney
omptroller General since 1882, hat
termined to resign his office an<
epared his letter of resignation
orhaps the rarity of a resignatio1
a lucrative public office was thl
Lase of the rapid speading of thi
ws, but certain it is by noon it wa
oown to most people about town
as the chief topic of conversation
id the names of possible candidate
id their chances of securing an elec
on were freely canvassed.
A representative of the Registe
aited upon Captain Stoney an<
om him obtained full confirmatioi
. the report, with the additional in
rmation that he should present hi
tter of his resignation to Governo
ichardson to-day, ai.d that h
iould make the date when his resi2
tion to Governor Richardson'to
xy, and that he should make th,
ite when his resignation shoul
ke effect either Decomber 22nd of
3d, at any rate belore the adjourn
ent of the Legislature. He said hi
d proposed to have it take effec
nuary 1st, as that was the tim
hen he was to assume the duties o
,s new position as Auditor of thi
Duth Carolina Railway Company
it as it was a question if the Leg
lature could legally fill a vacanc:
at would not exist until after thei
journment, he had decided on ai
Lrlier date that the choice of hi
iccessor might be made by the pec
e's representatives.
When asked his reasons for resig
tion, Captain Stoney frankli
ated that for some time he had full;
termined to leave public eervici
d get into private business, if i
iitable opportunity offered. O
>me accounts he should feel regre
severing the associations of hi
,esent office, but on others thouah
was doing what was most wisi
id to his advantage and happiness
Captain Stoney's first appearanci
official life was when, on the firs
y of May, 1877, he entered thi
lice of the then Comptroller Gen
al, Captain Leaphart, as bookeep
After five years' faithful servici
that capacity he was in 188:
ected Comptroller General, anc
Le best evidence of the satisfactor
anner in which he filled the offic
found in his successive re-election
1884 and 1886, and whoever i
ected to fill the vacancy made by
s resignition will serve out tha
rm.
While the names of a number o
mntlemen have been already name<
connection with election to the
lce to be made vacant, yet so far at
known few if any of them havy
'ally announced themselves as can
dates, or indeed given any author
y for the use of their names.
Among those most prominentlj
entioned are James S. Verner, Esq.
Oconee, Hon. J. WV. Daniels, o
nderson, Colonel John P. Thomas
Columbia, General St. J. Sinkler
Berkeley, Hon. WV. C. Coker, o
arlington, J. Knox Livingstone, o
[arlboro, and Colonel Johin TF. Sloar
r., Clerk of the House.
at the Kind but the Number of Then
Greenville Kews.
While Judge Hudson, and a goo<
>rtion of the lawyers, legislator
id journalists of the State are en
aged in a laudable attempt to re
>nstruct the. criminal law, Judgo
orton is turning his attention t<
constructing the wardrobes of the
gal fraternity. . He insists tha
wyers discard the ephemeral pomn'
ad display of tho ready made
~pper and salt business suit an<
pear be(ore him in severe and sin:
e black.
It is a revival or rather re-enforce
ent of an old rule, whose use, ifi
rer had any, has long since disap
eared. There are much more rea
uses to which attention needs t<
a directed. The lawyers can ver:
ell be trusted to clothe themnselve
order.
After all, lawyers are not judge<
y the kind of suits they have bu
ie number of them.
Cowhided by a Girl.
ST. Lours, Mo., Dec. 6, 1887.-I
ie late school election Archibali
raham was one of the successfu
Indidates on a citizens' tickel
ledged to reform the sehool systen1
'his morning he went home druni
atered the room of a saleswomani
is bakery and at empted a crimine
ssault.
The girl foiled him escaped froi
2e house. Secnring a cowhide she r4
2rned and thrashed him soundly
lien she had him arrested and h
'as released on bail.
The affair causes a great sensatior
Most Almost in the Penitentiary.
NEW ToRK, Dec. 8 -Herr Moi
'as this morning denied a new tria
nd was sentenced to one year's in
riscn'nent withiost a fine.
Most Released on Bail.
NEW YoRK, Dec. 9.-Johann MIos
be Anarchist, who was yesterda
entenced to one year's imprisor
2ent and who was granted a stayc
roceedings, was released on $5,00
all to-day, Mrs. Ida Hoffman, h'
rmer bondsman, oing his aseurit1
PROTECTIONISTS PROTEST
y Against the Tariff Sentiments of th
-- President.
WIAIsIrTo\, Dec. 7-The con
- ference of wool growers and dealer
called by the President of the Ns
tional Association of Wool Growers
now in session here, adopted to-da;
the following:
The wool dealers and wool grow
ers of the United States, represent
I ing a capital of over $50(,000,00
I and a constituency of 1,000,00
. wool growers and wool dealers, as
sembled in conference in the city o
3 Washington, the 6th day of Decem
a ber, 1u87, having read the annus
s message of the President to the Fil
tieth Congress, declare that the sen
timents of the message are a direc
s attack upon their industry-one o
the most important of the country
and in positive violation of the Ns
r tional Democratic platform of 1884
i as inter.preted by party leaders ani
2 accepted by the rank and file. of tn
party; that the argument made b:
s the enemies of. oar industrial prc
r gress, and . effectively answered i1
e nearly every school district of ou
industrial progress, and effectivel:
answered in nearly every school dis
e trict of our land, and so thoroughl:
I disproved by the logic of facts ani
history as to need no answer fron
us. We acknowledge thatour"smal
e holdings," our scattered and unol
t ganized condition, make us an eas;
e prey of the free traders, but we ha;
f the right to expect something diffei
e ent from the Chief Executive of
, nation at once the most happy, pros
perous and contented of any of th
r world, made so by a policy of pre
r tection and development which h
now seeks to destroy. We had th
s right to expect that our Presiden
would favor the wool growers of th
United States, and confess ou
, deep disappointment that instead h
r favored the interests ot our foreigi
r competitors.
3 Justly alarmed at his position. w
i make an appeal from his recommen
i dations to all the people-to sevei
t and ti ree-fourths millions of ou
s fellow-citizens engaged in agricul
t ture; to the millions engaged in man
ufacturing; to the army of wage earn
.s, whose - wages are maintained bi
the protective system; to the trades
t man and the merchant, whose pros
a perity depends upon ours-confiden
that their judgment and decision wil
be based upon justice and patriotism
e and therefore for the maintenance o
the American policy of protection
I to which the country is indebted fo
its unexampled development an<
a prosperity.
3 To demonstrte the injustice of th<
President's policy and the fallaci
of the remedy he proposes for thi
t reduction of the surplus, we point t<
the fact that if the whole amount o
f revenue derived from wool wsa
I abolished, it would reduce the sur
a plus about five millions, or less thai
3 ten cents per capita of the popula
a tion, which is paid by foreigners
-while the old war taxes he recom
-mends to be retained yield aver oni
hundred and nineteen millions, an<
r is a direct tax per capita of two dol
,lars each, and is what makes up the
f great bulk of the surplus of one bun
,dred and forty millions, and whici
, fosters a most dangerous monopoly
f We wo'uld further add the follow
f ing statistics in regard to the woo
,industry. The annual revenue de
rived from imparts of wool under th
tariff 1867 was less than. $1,700.000
.under tho reduced tariff of 188& th
revenue last year was over $5,000
000. The number of sheep in th
countr y in 1884 was 50,625,626, is
11887, 44,759,314-a decrease of near
a ly 6,000,000 and a diminution of the
'annual wool product of aver 2,5,000,
~ 000; thus showing that reducing the
a tariff by the Act of 1883 has in
' creased the revenue from lmporte<
"wools and diminished the number o
t sheep in the United States about 12
per cen't. and the annual productloi
in the same proportion.
The President's policy woul<
-bring about the detruction~ of this ir
dustry, and the same policy of reduc
tion or abolition of the tariff woul<
t end in disaster to all the othe
industrial productive euterprises o
Ithe country.
F FOREIGN LANDS AND LOAN COM
5 PANIES.
I Anx Important Decision by the Geor
t giaSupremne court
Auigusts. Chronicle.
The Supreme Court of Georgia ha
just decided an important case
arising out of the mortgage loans b
land companies, now so common
1 One Merck borrowed some mane:
from an English money-lending con
pany, and gave notes therefor, car
taining the usual stipulation that,i
collected by legal process, he woul<
1pay ten per cent. on the amount ri
covered to the lender's attorney a
his fee. It was further a part of th
agreement whereby Merck obtaine,
the money that he was to pay th
ecommissioos of the agent who n<
gotiated teloan.
Merck made default in paymen
and was sued. He plead that th
contract was usurious, or, in othe
.words, that the agreement to pa
commissionrs to the lender's agen
for negotiating the loan and to pa
the lender's attorney his fees for co
Slection were mere shifts and device
for obtaining a greater rate for th
use of the money than that allowei
t, by law. Judge Welborn, who trie
y the case in Hall Superior Court, rule,
i- that the transaction was not usurion
if and the Supreme Court sustains hi
0 view. We think the decision correc1
s Usuryis iwhere the man who lend
r . the mney gets moe fre its use tha
the rate prescribed by law. In
Merck's case it was not complained
e. that the London company itself re- I
ceived more than the legal rate, but
it was claimed that the agent's com
missions and the attorney's fees
were a part of the general agreement r
. by which the money was loaned, and 1
that these amounts much exceeded I
the legal rate, and made the whole t
transaction illegal. As the court
looks at it, the London company only f
bargained for the legal rate of inter- J
p est, which represented the value of 1
p the money it loaned. The agent c
only bargained for the value of his I
, services to the borrower in getting s
him the money, on which services the x
i law sets no fixed price, leaving par- I
. ties to make their own contracts, and
the stipulation as to attorney's fees i
t is only that the borrower should bear E
f the cost of his failure to fulfil his 3
. contract ins of throwing it on 2
. the lender
The Corii Crop.
e
According to the government crop
report for November, the corn crop of t
the whole country will average a I
r little less that twenty bushels an I
acre for 75,000,000 acres. The 1
whole crop amounts to 1,453,000,000
bushels. This is 186,000,000 bush
els below the yield of last year. Es
timating this loss at forty cents a ;
bushel, it is a loss or $74,400,000.
The government report says that I c
the country has raised but one good ;
corn crop since 1880, and that was a
the one of 1885, which amounted to 1
a 1,936,000,000 bushels. The crop of ;
the present year, according to the
eI figures of the department, is the
smallest of this decade, except that
e of 1881. During the past eight years
e the yield has been as follows:
Year. Bushels.
1........................1..1,000,
r 1883..................................... .... 1, ,00,000
1... ...........................
S1883................................ .....
18.... ........................ 000,000
13 X85......................................
1887................................................. , 0
The corn crop is the most impor- ]
. tant of kl our crops. It is more val- I
uable than the wheat crop, or the cot- I
r ton crop, or the hay crop. All the t
. corn we raise is-consumed at hcme, I
. and there are some thousands of f
bushels imported from Canada. I
The St. Louis Republican, which t
has analyzed the figures, says that ;
some partsof the South the cor. crop
t is the best raispd for years, an.. .I
1 is very fortxinate, indeed, 1or Ae 1
south has heretofore been buying h-e
f corn from the West. Let us hope .e
that this section will improve the E
r record in this respect.
Lamar as a Jouranat.C
Pkiludelphia New.
e It may be Lamar's admiration for
2 newspapers arises from the fact that
f the only failure of his life was with
s newspaper work. He-tells the story
in a very laughable way. Shortly
2 after the war closed Sam Thompson,
.the editor of the Oxford Falcont, went
, to Lamar and asked him to furnish a
-a leading editorial for his paper once
e a week. Lamar thought the news
i paper his sphere and agreed. He had
.great ideas of reforming the press;
e that the press was a power, and evi
.dently thought that the Lamar edi
a torial would turn the Mississippi
.upside down, and that in its new
position, it would be nothing else
1 but true, beautiful ana good.
.He then commenced to grind
B out his editorials by the yard, and he
, says:
B "At fiist Victor came himself after
;my manuscript. The second week or
a so he sent a boy, and the third orI
a fourth week I had to send my man
-uscript down by messenger. In the
B meantime it had been advertised all
.over the country that the note d L. Q
B C. Lamar would write editorials for f
. the Oxford Falcon, and I watched the <
I exchanges to see them copied. The 1
f papers did not seem to care for my
2 editorials, and they would take up
1 nasty little "squibs," which seemed ~
to me then to be insignificant, written
1 by Victor Thompson, and pass by i
.my serious thoughts. I concluded
.after a time that I was not fitted for I
an editorial writer, and I rather think s
r that Victor thought so too."f
CHIGAGO SELECTED
-As the Place of Meeting of the Republ1
can National Convention.
WASHINGTON, December 8.-The
Republican National Committee have
selected Chicago as the place and
s June 19 as the date of the Republican
, National Convention. Only two
ballots were taken. Chicago came
within two of a majority on the first
ballot. The second ballot decided it.
A Demand for Nerve Tonic.
f -
Chicago Nems.
- In prohibition Atlanta you calli
s for "nerve tonic" when you want
e whisky.
d A gentleman who recently returned<
e from that city tells us of a conver
- sation he had with one of the lead-i
ing physicians of that city a few.
t days ago.
e "Doctor," said he, "what seems to
r you to be the noticeable result of the
y enforcement of the prohibition law
t here ?"
y "Well, from what I have been able
I- to observe," replied the doctor, "I
s should say it had a terrible effect on
e the nerves of the people."
In the State House.
d Our represeniatives under the heat of
s discussion, on going out catches cold,
Scont-acts a cough, boarseness and pain,
in the chest and throat follow. Taylor's
*Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum and
s Mullein, cures coughs, colds and con
n upin
A KENTUCKY VENDEITA.
!hree Murders In One Week-Arrests
by a Posse Resisted.
Louisviu December 6.-A third
nrder in the same series within a
reek was committed 'to-day in the
srush Creek neighborhood, fifteen
iielss from Mount Vernon, Ky.
Last Friday Wallace Laswell
rom ambush shot and killed Granvil -
dams. Adams was at ,the time -
ralking with Laswell's wife and two
Eaughters of James Townsend. He
ad previously worked for Laswell
,s a farm band, and, as charged,
oaintained improper relations with
aswelrs wife. Laswell escaped.
On Sunday Robert Sammons,
rhile returning from Adams' funeral,
aw his wife standing in a neighbor's
ard talking to Garrett Hampton.
ammons was one of the posse
earching for Laswell, and was
eavily armed.W
hot Hampton dead. Adams and
Iinpton were both unmarried.
Yesterday James Townsend and
wo friends-Lansworth and Har.
ow-arrested for complicity with
.answell in the assassination of
Ldams, were tried and acquitted.
ts Harlow rode home he was met by
crowd of a dozen friends of Adams
Sid riddled with bullets. He will
Sheriff White and possee went
lown to Brush Creek this morning.
t is reported a strong force of
Ldam's men drove them back, but_
Vhite will return with a stronger
osse and make wholesale arrests.
LNOTHER MURDER IN EDGE
FIELD.
acob Burta, an Old Negro, Kilied by
His Wife and His Body Buried In a
Potato Patch.
TRENrON, Dec. 9.-Jacob Burts,
,n industrious and hard-working old-.
egro, living with his wife, on P. B.
)ay's place, about a mile and a half -
rom town, has been missing since
fonday last. A search was institn- =
ed, and this afternoon his body was
ound buried in a potato patch about
fteen yards from his cabin, and not
ore than an inch undergroud. The
odyj bears marks of violence and is
artially decayed.
It is believed that the old man
ras murdered Monday night by his
rife, who left Tuesday morning for
arts unknown. Before leaving she
aithat her-hosband lad gone of In
earch of a home for the coming year.:
Ln inquest will be. held to-morrow
acrning. The murder has created
onsiderahie excitement among the.'
egroes.
A NWA1;'.LiE MURDER TRIAL.
om W001fork Before the CoUrt 'an
Maeon, Ga., en the Chrge of
Kifling Rine Persons.
MACoN, December 7.-Totr1 Wool
olk who is charged with the murder '
~f his -father and eight -other inem
iers of his family, is now on trial
ere. . Over one hundred witnesses
rave been subpxenaed:and four have
estified. The crime was committed
ast August, and created a sensation
iecause nine persons were killed,
6nd all with one axe. The witnesses
re those with whom Woolfork con
'ersed before the crime, and those
rho found the bodies next morning.
tII the evidence is circumstantial
and no damaging testimony has been
elicited so far. The prisoner is rep
esented by John C. Rutherford, of
dacon, and Frank Walker, of At
anta.
Some Famous Kisses.
Two kisses that bid fair to be
amours in their resuits are the talk
if the newspapers. One of them
Lelped the democrats to lose Ohio.
The Chicago Tribune says of it:
General Gordon's osculatory ex
loit in Ohio was as pathetic as an
~lla Wheeler poem. It was an un
issed kiss."
The unkissed kiss is not, however,
altf as sad as the kiss kissed in the
rrong place. Of this, the- second
amous kiss the Boston Giobe says:
Mrs. Langtry threatens to discharge
er leading man because he kissed
er shoe. The Lily should not be so
articular. He couldn't hurt the
hoe that way."~
It seems, indeed, that no man can
e too particular what and how he
isses.
The conscientious kisser knows
hat
"There's many a slip
'Twixt the cup and the lip,"
And many a kiss
Has-been printed amiss.
The Judas kiss is famous, but it is
i chesnut. Because men don't kiss
bach other nowadays. And it would
e impracticable in New York to at
empt to introduce the practice.
The Duchess of -Devonshire gave
cisses for votes. Miss Nelly Cook,
f Wayne county, has given her
and to the man who worked bard,
f unsuccesfully, to elect her to office.
and a kiss, too, no donbt, to seal the
muptial bargain.
It Is Not LeprosY
The report that one S. H. Cohen, a
lative of Hampton county, and a
iood chopper #,n the Georgia side of
he river, has the leprosy has been
:ontradicted by a Savannah doctor,
vho after examining the sick -man
>ronounced his disease as a bad case
if blood poison.
Goldin Our OM -
Considering health be -
L'hen must we consdraylor*Ohere -
:ee Remedy of Sweet Gum andZlWa
etter than gold, fo t wl'6iagh
olds and eroup. - - .