Decatur Democrat, Volume 34, Number 26, Decatur, Adams County, 19 September 1890 — Page 6

TOPICS OF THE TIMES. A CHOICE SELECTION OF INTERESTING ITEMS. Comments and CriUelsma Based Upon the Happenings of the ©ay—Historical •nd News Notes. German workman are the worst paid laborers in O> this world’s population it is estimated that 250,000,000 go entirely naked. \ June* 1 P. Smith, of Fort Worth, Is worth ft,000,000. Once he walked from Kentucky to Texas because he did not have money enough to pay bis fare. The use of India rubber for erasing pencil marks was first suggested in or just prior to 1752 by an academician named Magellan* a descendent of the great navigator. • The Vatican library at Rome contains 50,000 printed books and 25,000 manuscripts. The manuscript form one of the most valuable collections in the world, being mostly Greek, Latin, and Oriental. The San Francisco JEjwimtner says that the fashion of wearing wooden shoes is growing into favor in this country as well as in England. By the aid of machinery a really neat and comfortable wooden shoe can be made so stylish that no young woman need be ashamed to wear it on the street The world’s stock of diamonds has increased enormously in the last fifteen years. In 1876 the output of the African mines was about 1,500,000 carats, last year it was over 4,000,000, and the great "trust” which controls all the principal mines assert that they have 16,000, XX) carats "in sight” at the present time. A New Yohs newspaper correspondent is the authority for the statement that the erstwhile conspicuous Nellie Bly has been retained by a New York publisher to write serials. The alleged salary would give a United States Supreme Court justice more pocket money than any one of them is probably ' laying ty from his present stipend. Creosote has been successfully applied as a rojnedy for the potato disease in Scotland. Every eye of the seed potato is touched with creosote by means of a small camel’s hair brush. The product of potatoes so treated is almost totally free from disease. Where the creosote is not applied to all the eyes of the seedling the result is partial disease. If too much is used the seed will not germinate. Oun country has been invaded by a group of sixteen Frenchmen, members of the Alpine Club, of Paris, who propose to ascend all the mountain ranges of America. They will first tackle Canada. Those gentlepqe". while they may look a little store-made and queer in their typical English tourist’s garb, are in reality men of science, and their LOciety has biWtwhea In the of Europe. AaJI j The meanest man on record discovered again. lie lives in Arkansas’ City, Kan. lie brought suit against his wife for alimony, alleging that she is a strong and healthy woman, and asked that she be compelled to sup-

port him. The courts have just de- • cided the case adverse to hitn. In its decision the Supreme Court says there is no case in the law-hooks authorizing such a suit; that the domestic relations would have to be readjusted and an obligation cast upon the wife to support the husband before such an action could be maintained. There is a negro living in Scriven County, Ga., whose home is a huge log. log is twenty feet long and five i feet in diameter. It is divided into three apartments, one of which is occupied by the proprietor’s three hogs. The negro occupies another, and the third is fllled'with hunting and fishing apparatus. The negro makes his livelihood by hunting and fishing. His clothes are of skins of wild beasts and he lives alone by himself. His two dogs are the fiercest to be found anywhere. He procures his ammunition by bartering game with the employes aboard the Savanah River boats, and the passengers. The fight at Fredericksburg on Dea ■ 13, 1862, was a bloody one. It lasted all day long, and at night 27,000 dead and wounded men lay upon the battlefield, 7,000 of them being Confederate soldiers. The morning after the battle 11. B. Treadwell, now a resident of Brunswick, and who was a member of the Tenth Georgia Battalion, commanded by Major Emeory Rylander, of Americus, went out on the battle-field. Near two federal soldiers, who appeared to be father and son, he found a razor, a razor strap, a shaving brush, and a small piece of soap: These he took, and, having used up the other portion of the outfit, still uses the razor when he wants to shave. Kino Kalakaua, the King of the Sandwich Islands, has made an immense amount of money by borrowing from other people. This is an easy way to make money, but the business is apt to run down on a man’s hands as he grows old. . Kalakaua finds it harder to borrow than he formerly did, for he has never been known to pay a bill,— he says he doesn’t have the money. To he sure, he borrows of one man to pay another; but he unfortunately spends the money before he gets to the other man. Kalakaua has had all his real authority taken away from him, and is now only nominally king, and possesses no real sovereign power. Kapiolani, his wife and queen, is more of a man than he is, and most of the praiseworthy * deeds of his reign can safely be attributed to_her. A DECideely practical feature of the pension business is the frequency of the marriages between old soldiers and

yt>ung women. An enterprising gid from the poorer classes of Appomattox* or one of the adjoining counties, sends her photograph to the Soldiers’ Home at Hampton, Va., a veteran responds, and the knot is tied. No less than twenty such marriages are reported within a radius of five miles of Hampton. There would be an element of romance in this surrender of the old soldiers to the charms of beauty, if it were not for the purely business nature of the transaction. A soldier with a pension is a gold mine, and his death, which must take place soon in the course of nature, leaves the young widow in the enjoyment of his pension ter the remaining years of her life. Large numbers of people emigrate from the Government of Kovno to Brazil. Circulars are being promulgated stating that the Brazilian Government offers great inducements to immigrant laborers whose age is not above 45 years, and especially to married men. Handicraftsmen will find there factories to work at their respective trades at very liberal salaries. Farmers will get land free and the necessary implements and means to start work at once upon arriving. The numerous emigration from Kovno of laborers who are allured by these circulars is due to the fact that the factories of that district have greatly deteriorated of late, and farming has become less profitable for want of middlemen to bring produce into market. A daily paper of Moscow, reporting these facts, timidly asks: "Is this wholesale desertion of a |»opujpuß and prosperous Government due to the stringent application of the laws against the Jews?”

An excellent feature of German mail service is its package delivery. The German mail recently brought me ten pounds of cherries from Hanover and ten pounds of writing material from Berlin—all fortwenty-four cents, twelve cents on each package, write a correspondent. And another service which I want to see more generally done by Uncle Sam in America is the daily rural mail service such as Germany has. Though I am seven miles from a railway a German official brings my mail twice daily, English and German daily papers, and so on. When our American country people, farmers and so on, can have free mail delivery daily at their own doer, they will read the daily papers, keep abreast of the prices current and the news, and the young people will be more contented because better informed. Then extend the package post to the country districts and see how easy it would be to have reading from circulating libraries and other conveniences from the city for a few pence. Nothing is more needed by American farmers than better mail facilities. "A visit to Mount Vernon is accompanied by some curious experiences those days,” said a gentleman who was recently in Washington and went down to Mount Vfer ion. ' “The place has be relieved of a ever y - v,iu * > rti have n restaurant m w, or dinner in one wing of the Washington mansion, the meal being cooked in the old kitchen. But the funniest thing to me was a photographer, who must have been a good judge of human nature. You know when there is a crowd anywhere, any one man who steps out and assumes leadership and directs what shall be done is generally obeyed. This photographer would order everybody to go up on the poreh, would pose them in front of his camera, take their negatives and then demand a quarter apiece for pictures to be sent to each one by mail. The crowd obeyed him and paid their quarters, but I told him I lived in Washington, so he couldn’t play no such game on me, and he touched his hat, begged my pardon, but kept on.”

De Foe’s Famous Story. Everybody has read his “Bobinson Crusoe,” but how many are acquainted with the narrative which suggested the wonderfully interesting tale to De Foe? De Foe’s story was published in 1719. Seven years previously there had been, published in the journal of a cruising voyage around the world in the 'Ships Duke and Dutchess, written by Capt. Woodes Rogers, the commander of the expedition, a man of uncommon tact, resource, pluck, and executive ability; a thorough seaman and a writer of quaint and vigorous English. This journal contained the record of the findrag of Alexander Selkirk on the island of Juan Fernandez, and supplied De Foe with the idea and with some of the details of- his world-famous story. The Duke and the Dutchess were Bristol privateers; though at the present day Capt. Rogers and his motley crew of adventures would be classed as a gang of pious pirates. The frigates were well manned and well armed, and gave chase to every Spanish galleon that was sighted, making many prizes in the Pacific, of one of which Selkirk was made the commander. Nor did the expedition confine itself to operations on the sea, the valiant Rogers venturing ashore with his men for the purpose of sacking the town of Guayaquil.— Book Buyer. He Hart * Wife at Home. “I have a little. Bible nt home’” said the bad man, “that in 1863 I wrestled from a Sunday-school class of nineteen. I haven’t opened it since, and it is as new and clean as the day I got it.” “Bring it down some day; I’d like to see it,” said his friend carelessly. The next day the bad man came into his friend’s office, and throwing.a little half worn out book on the desk, said: ’’ There she is, old man, but I was a little wrong about its condition.” “I should say so,” said the other.. “How does it happen that this little book is so badly worn, when you thought it was clean and all right at home ?” “Well,” said the bad man, and his voice was a bit husky, “the truth of the matter it, I’ve got a little wife up at the house and a couple of young ones. They sometimes rummage through my things.”—Chicago Herald. A revolver is no large weapon, but it can be made to cover a very large mao.— BL Jo. News.

SPRINGER TO FARMERS. HE TELLS WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH THE FARMERS. Ute Groat Depression that He Found la Now York State and Bia Explanation of It—Why the Hom, Market Vails to Make the IFai mor Prosperous. I have been talking to the fanners this week in regard to the effect that the tariff has upon them, and I will endeavor to point out some things which came under my observation. I found they were very attentive to their Business, and I have been greatly surprised to find so much agricultural depression in . the rural districts. The values of the farms have depreciated within the last five, ten, or fifteen years one-half on the average, sometimes much more. Numerous in Rances were pointed out to me showing that farms sold under mortgage brought only one-third and even one-fourth of their value some years ago. Farms are heavily mortgaged as a rule, and 1 was Informed by a gentleman in Broome County, N. Y., that of the farm mortgages foreclosed there were not five per cent of them that sold for enough to pay the debt, in other words, the mortgagee had to take the farm for less than the amount of the mortgage. It is very important that the farmers should understand the cause of this depression. The leading Republicans are trying to discover some plausible reason outside of the effect of the protective tariff. Senator Warner Miller said a few days ago in a speech at Oswego that overproduction was the cause of agricultural depression. Nothing could be further from the truth or more absurd, and every farmer knows that there is no overproduction of his product. The reason is simply this: The farmers of the United States can produce more of the products of the farms than can be consumed in this country. The surplus must be sold abroad. The price at which the surplus is sold abroad fixes the price of the home product. When a farmer sells his products, whether he sells to his nextdoor neighbor, to the elevator man, to the commission merchant, or whether he ships it to New York, he sells at the price fixed in New York, less the cost of carrying it there and commission, and the New York market is fixed by the Liverpool market, which is the cheapest free trade market in the There the products of the farmers of this country Come in direct competition with the frpducts of Russia, Germany,l France, tally, India, and all the countries of the, world, and in competition with all the patiper labor of the wbrld. How is it when he comes to bny what he needs to support his family and keep his farm going? He must buy in this home market, this protective market, the dearest market in the world. If he should take his goods abroad in person, and should sell them in England, or France, or Germany and invest the proceeds in such articles as he needs on his farm and in his household affairs, when he reached New York he would be required to pay, on an average. 850 tariff on every 8100 worth of goods he bought abroad. This, then, reduces the purchasing power of the products of his farm one-half.

If he does not buy abroad and approaches the American manufacturer of goods, the manufacture of which is protected by a tariff, he finds this American manufacturer charging him the foreign price with the tariff added. So that in every event, whether he uses the home product or the foreign product, in buying them he finds the purchasing power of his own products only one-half what It would otherwise be were it not for the tariff. Now. this process will not destroy in a does ndt come upon the farmer like a cyclone, and wipe him outof existence In a few minutes; but it is like the dropping of water upon a stone —it is gradually wearing him out all the time. Notwithstanding the great fertility of his land, the application of improved r 'hinery and the use of fertilizers, . withstanding his extraordinary industry and frugality, every day he is confronted with the inexorable fact that the products, which he has to sell are lessened one-half in purchasing power by reason of the tariff. This gradual depletion has had its inevitable effect. After twenty-five years of protective tariff, maintained principally by the votes of farmers, he finds that his situation is getting more fiesperate, his toil less remunerative, his {arm depreciating continually in value, ils indebtedness becoming greater. What consolation is it to him to reflect that a few favored individuals have become Some of them have accumulated fortunes of twenty, thirty, forty and“flfty million dollars in one lifetime. None of this is for him; he is. getting poorer every year. 'lf protection insures the prosperity oP ttye farmer, why is it that agriculture is languishing and groaning under the burden of tariff taxes? Surely the tariff is nothing to the benefit of the farmers of country. Why should they, therefore, cling to the delusion longer? Why should they support the party that maintains this robbery, that fosters these grdat monopolies and trusts, that makes millionaires of the few and paupers of the toiling millions? What farmers need in this country is to be permitted to purchase in the same market in which they are compelled to sell. 'When this privilege is accorded them, and the purchasing power of their produce is increased fifty per cent., they will begin to emerge from the depression which ;is now bearing so heavily upon them. If they will turn at once from the error of their ways something may be saved from the wreck, of their fortunes, but if they persist In their partisan bliiidness, if they continue to vote for thelG. O. P., which keeps up this spoliation of agriculture, they must prepare for the inevitable result. Their farms will soon pass into the hands of capitalists and be consolidated Into great baronial estates; private parks and huntinggrounds will be constructed; and the present occupants, gathering up the debris which they may find scattered about, must seek new homes in the far West, or move to the cities and seek employment in factories, or roam the streets. The alternative is inevitable. Will they choose this fall between a policy which oppresses them and one which will deliver them? William M. Springer. The Boom In New York. It is reported that there is a great boom in the dry goods trade in New York. .Many of the most prominent firms unite in saying that, there has not been such an outlook for the Immediate future in years. / Do they explain this as being caused by the prospective passage of the McKinley tariff bill? No, indeed! Out of a large number of leading merchants that have been talked with on the subject only one was found who would venture the opinion that the prospect of McKinley’s towering duties was the cause of this boom. Most of these merchants, indeed, agree that it is caused by the fact that the expectation of McKinley’s high duties caused merchants to buy enormous quantities of wools in Europe and to hurry them into the country before the McKinley bill was passed, in order to avoid paying those Increased duties. In this way immense quantities of goods have been thrown upon the market, and hence the boom. Everybody wants to stock up well with goods

beforeMcKinley lays his chining Lands on trade. The same view is confirmed by a market report from Chicago, which says: “Until recently jobbers appeared to feel confident that the McKinkly tariff bill would either be defeated in the Senate or shelved until December. They now think the bill will become a law ere the close of the present Congress. They have taken advantage of the condition of the market caused by the enO. mous Importations, and made heavy pathoses of all descriptions of foreign goo is, including large lines for the spring :rade. Ordinarily such purchases would not have been made until the close of the year, but the opportunity to sav’d 35 to 40 per cent, by immediate purchases was too great to be neglected. ” All this shows that no man likes tariff taxes when he has to pay them that everybody wants to pay as little of them as possible; also, that the man wl d buys under the jower tariff is sure that he can undersell the man who buys under the higher tariff, for the tariff is a tax, talk as you will. TARIFF LETTERS TO FARMER BROWN. NO. 1. . / Tlie Meaning of Some Tariff Words. Dear Farmer Brown: Your letter asking me to tell you all I can about the tariff Is at hand. I need not tell you I am glad to know that you are int irested in that subject, and that your son Joe, too, wants to know the meaning of “all this talk about the tariff, anyway.” One thing, though, at the star:. We shall have to talk politics; or, rather, there shall be a division of the labor. I will do all the talking and you all the listening. Yes; we shall have o talk politics. We cannot do as a Fanners’ Alliance in a Western State did. They met together, not long ago to tty to find out what is the matter with the farmer; but, assome of these farmers were,Republicans and some Democrats, they agreed beforehand that there should be no talk about politics. When they ruled out politics of course they ruled out the tariff, too; foi-, although the tariff is not at bottom a political question at all, it has unfortunately become such by the action of the two political parries, and you and I shall have to accept things as they are. Well, these farmers alked a long time about their depressed condition; one thought this was to blame and another thought that was at fault —all agreeing unanimously on one point—that there was a very big screw loose somewhere. These good farmers thought it was better to have harmony than to let anybody talk tariff in the meeting. Well, they’ got their harmony—all they bargained for—but after a fruitless discussion they prudently passed a resolution to the effect that they did not know what was the matter with them, and they went home. I do not claim that the tariff is the only screw loose in the farmers’ machinery, but I do know that the tariff screw is loose, and as you have asked me to tell you all I know about th tariff, I shall confine myself to that particular screw. This letter I intend mainly for Joe as a sort of tariff ABC. We shall start right down at the stump; and as there are many other Joes in your county, I shall send a copy of this letter, and of all my letters?, to the county papers, in order that these other Joes and the daddies of these Joes may read them, too. Now* then, after all this preliminary rubbish, we will teach Joe the tariff A BC. By this I mean the simplest terms that he hears in “all this talk about the tariff anyway”—such as per cent., ad valorem, duties, specific duties, and compound duties. Other expressions will be explained hereafter when we coma to them.— — The first thing for me to make plain is the expression per cent. The full form of it is per centum, which is a Latin expression meaning, “By the hundred. ” If you put it into dollars and cents it means the same as tlie expression wo hear so often, “so much on the dollar.” A man fails and settles with his creditors, we “at so much on the dollar,” or we sometimes say he pays a certain per cent, of Ms debts—and the two things are precisely the same in meaning. Now let us apply this to the tariff. When the law says that a duty shall be so much per cent, the meaning is that the tax to be added to the first cost will be so much on the dollar. For example, the new tariff bill taxes common spectacles such as yours and old Auntie Brown’s at 60 per cent This means that when the New York merchant brings these spectacles into the country he has to pay the Government 60 cents on every dollar's worth of them. If, for example, he brings in 8100 worth of spectacles he Will have to pay the Government 860, making the total cost to him 8160. Let us go a little further with these spectacles and see how the New York merchant will sell them. In calculating the money which he intended to make, he counts it by per cent also. We will suppose that he set out to make 20 per cent., that is to say, 20 cents on the dollar. Twenty cents on the dollar on this 8100 worth of spectacles would be 820, and if there were no duty he would sell the spectacles for 8120. But we have already seen that the Government has made him pay 8160 for the spectacles, so he will have to count his profits on this basis. Twenty cents on the dollar, then, or twenty per cent of 8160, will be 832, and lie will have to sell his 8100 worth of spectacles for’ 8192. In this way each pair of spectacles will cost about three prices by the time they reach you. Those duties which are counted at so much on the dollar are called® “ad valorem” duties. “Ad valorem" is Latin, again, and means “according to Value," just like “so much on the dollar." But most of the duties are not counted in this way; by far the larger part are what are called specific duties, that is to say, a certain fixed sum on each pound, bushel, gallon or yard. A duty of this kind looks simpler than an ad valorem duty; but if you do not know the first price of any article by the pound, bushel, gallon or yard you are all at sea; you cannot tell v hether the I duty is higher low. For example, the new tariff Bill puts a duty of 82.75 a pound on leaf tobacco, if th. stems have been removed. Now, if this tobacco costs 85 a pound, 82.75 would not be a very high duty under our present high tariff. But get the average price of this tobacco, and you have smooth sailing. The Average price, as stated by the Senate committee, is 57 cents a pound. Now change this specific duty into an ad valorem duty, and we find that for every dollar’s Worth of this tobacco the buyer will have to pay a duty of 84.81—0 r a total of $5.81 —instead of 81. the first cost of the pound of tobacco. For SIOO worth, therefore, we would pay $5Bl. Besides these two kinds of duties, there Is a third called “compound duties," and this Is a very wicked kind. It means that both kinds are put upon the same article; after the buyer has paid so much by the bushel, pound, or yard he has to pay so much on every dollar’s worth; in other words, the duty is both specific and ad valorem, a cross-fire from two directions. As an exampls let us take the new duty on the cloth from which women and children’s dresses are made. This duty is 12 cents a yard and 50 per cent, ad valorem. Now, the average first cost of goods of this kind, as stated by the Sen-

ate committee, is ahenrt M cents a yard. Fifty per cent, of this would be 10 cents, then adding the 12 cents a yard we get 22 cents, and the yard costing 20 cents is made by the tariff to cost 42 cents. On every dollar’s worth, therefore, the duty is slightly more than 110 per cent. In other words, when a merchant buys SIOO worth of such goods the total cost will be 8210.33. Os course he is compelled to charge this increased price up to his customers, and it goes on along the line till it reaches the women and children who wear the cloth, and there the head of the family pays the whole bill finally. No more shifting down the line then. That will do for the present. Watch for next Yours truly, Richard Knox Blaine’s Brilliant Foreign Policy. Mizner, the United States Minister to Guatemala, is a Jim Blaine sort of a diplomat. He evidently took the Secretary of State at his word, and made up his mind to give the United States a spirited foreign policy, so far as Central America was concerned. He has been involved in scandal ever since he reached his post, and he is now in danger of losing his life. Mr. Blaine has a paternalistic and adventurous policy as to Central and South Ajnerica which takes no thought of the independence or the pride of the republics to the south of us. He would marshal them into line and make them our satellites. He would quarter his friends upon them, and when they got their arms into the spoils upto their elbows he would send such choice diplomatic messages as that which Minister Hurlbut in Peru received from him in 1881, viz.: “Go it, Steve!” He would boss the continent, and, if war cAme, he and his contractor friends would profit by it as they did from 1861 to 1865. —— Mr. Mizner went-to Guatemala thoroughly impressed with Mr. Blaine’s brilliant foreign policy and has sought to carry it out. He has forced this country to make one humble apology already and now he has managed to get a man killed on an American ship where he had sought refuge, and probably we will be compelled to pay a big indemnity for that. Heretofore Mr. Blaine's dazzling foreign policy has been largely in your eye, but Mr. Mizner has given us an ocular demonstration of its real nature.— Chicago Herald.

Why Ho Left the G. O. P. Mr. W. F. Neat, of Kentucky, a Republican ex-State Senator, has deserted the G. O. P. He is proud of having been “a Republican, who voted for Abraham Lincoln for President, and for every other Republican candidate since his election,” but now Mr. Neat finds McKinleyism too heavy a burden to be borne, and so he shakes off the tariff dust from the soles of his shoes forever. He says: “I am opposed to fostering and building up monopolies. I am opposed to the McKinley tariff bill, gotten up, as the report of the hearings before the WayS and Means Committee clearly shows, in the interest of the capitalists and against the common people. I am opposed to legislation under the guise of protection so fraught with evil to the country that Secretary Blaine, a protectionist, becomes alarmed. McKinley Not a Hero, but a Dupe. McKinley is the creature and tool of a gigantic conspiracy against the United States. He is not a hero. He is a dupe. He is not even the author of the conglomeration of selfishness and plunder that is known by his name. It bears the finger-marks of all the monopolists in the country. It was cooked up by them in the room of the Committee on Ways and Means, where no man appeared for the people and where there was no pretense that the measure was other than spoils and plunder. The Ohio Democrats who gerrymandered him into a Democratic district dignified a weak sister by giving him an opportunity to raise the Cry of persecution. That is all there is in McKinley.—Chicago Herald. Who Favored? Some years ago the salt makers in Western New York State asked for protection and it was given to them. This protection enabled them to make such handsome profits in the home market that they could afford to sell their salt at lower prices in Canada than in the United States. For some years Canadian farmers bought New York salt at lower prices than New York farmers living a mile from the salt works. The same thing is still true of many of our protected manufactures, especially of our farm implements. It is proved beyond all doubt that our plows, harrows, horse-rakes, in fact, all farm machinery, is sold at much lower prices abroad than at home. This fact is admitted by manufacturers themselves. The Trust. It is one of the well-known Republican doctrines that the tariff has nothing to do with buildfßg up trusts. But we are making progress; fifteen Senators from the Northwest voted with the Democrats to put binding twine on the free list. This was done in order to break up the iniquitous binding-twine trust and to give the farmers cheaper twine. Evidently these fifteen Republican Senators understand that the tariff tax makes the wall behind which the trusts take shelter. These Senators, however, are not the majority of their party, Still we must be thankful for small favors. That there should be even fifteen in protection’s Sodom who admit that the tariff builds up trusts is a startling event. - “Straws Which Show,” Etc. They (the farmers) are for tariff reform, for one thing. They have lost sympathy with the high protective tariff notion. They do not like the McKinley bill, because they know it can’t do them any good. They are beginning to> see that they want relief from the other end of the string—a reduction of tariffs on articles they consume rather than the imposition of duties on articles they produce. It is pretty certain there will have to be a change of front on that question.— Hon. John M. Pearson {Rep.), Illinois Live Stock Commissioner. The Salt Duty. The “operation of the tariff laws,” according to Mr. Blair, has reduced the price of salt by twenty-four twenty-fifths in the last fifty years, and yet the salt manufacturers regularly demand its retention and increase. Does it ever occur to a high taxer that there is nothing in the Constitution of the United States that requires a man to believe everything that monopolists and their agents tell him? If the tariff reduced the price of salt, would the salt monopoly permit Quay to fry the fat out of it every year on a promise that his party will give it more and more tariff ? — Chicago Herald. “Proof of th* Pudding.” The binding-twine trust declare that the action of the Senate in admitting twine duty free will destroy their Industry, whereas it had so flourished under protection as to make $35,000,000 for the monopoly in a few years. Now, is this fact proof or not that protection fosters a trust while free trade kills it?— Chicago Globe. If anybody doubts whether the tariff is a tax, let him reflect upon the meaning of this fact: In Franee there is a duty on coffee of slightly Tess than 14 cents a pound; and the very same coffee that retails with us for 30 cents a pound is retailed, at 44 cents in France. And yet there are so-called Republican states* men who try to make people believe that the tariff is not a tax!

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