Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1884 — Page 8

TAEIFF.

[Concluded.] under protective encouragement and with a home market ” If there is any person who can find in all tne absurdities of logic a conclusion more preposterous, he Should apply for copyright “Although the price was flowered under a protective influence the breeds were improved.” If under a lower price the breeds were improved, what would have been the consequences if the price had not been lowered? Such sophistiry, however, the protectionists are driven to, but they can not long escape the righteous indignation of a tax ridden people. The reduction in rthe price of wool, under a high tariff, is one of natural consequences, and wool growers ought to have discovered this fact long ago. Mr. Brooks, in a speech in Congress on March 3, 1870, said: “In <iur high protective or prohibitory tariff on this article we look only to the surface of things, forgetful of the great fact that the manufacturers of cloth need wool from all parts of the earth—from Germany, from Australia, from South Africa, as well as Buenos Ayres and Montevklo, ana that when they are limited to the one producing market of wool, there can 'be lhtle or no variety in these manufactures, and, consequently, less of production and less of demand even for our own American wool The European nas open to him wool ot every fiber or texture: the Americau, only

his own. Hence, we hwe overstocked the market with our own lines of production’but left it free for such a demand a finer, or more varied or, in some cases, a cheaper article than our own- We have nearly lost our commerce with South Africa, Auetralia and La Plate, and Prance and England have taken it, * * The Argentine Republic, which- in [Sf4, sent us 21,11 ,408 pounds of wool, sent us but 8,173 660 pound in 1367. Under the vain expectation that so high a tax as fourteen cents a pound on woo! coding abroad but four een cents ("100 pei cent), would raise sheep to, we have seen wool fall in price here and sianghN ered here as never Defore. * * While the price of Ohis woo! before the high tarifFof 1867 was fifty-four to fi/ty«.riye cents a pound, it is now down" from forty-three to forty-five cent*. And why is this? It is because oue woo’,» raisers of the world have been unnaturally driven from oar market to J 2 gland, France, Belgium, Germany, ami have there glutted those markets wish the millions of pounds we once brought, here in our ships, a®d there using and mixing the test adapted of the raw materials to the textures they would work, the softer and finer the Buenos A vies and German with the coarser and rougher wools of the world, they have commanded the markets elsewhere, and, in some degree, our own. What our farmers were supposed to gain by a heavy prohibitory tariff upon their wools, they have lost in the reduced price of wool la Kuropo—a price so reduced there as to underbid even tne prohibitive protection we gave in 186 7 to our woolen manufacturers.” A better statement of the causes that have lea to a reduction in the price of wool under a high taiiff could not be made. Similar causes have led to the depres sion ot every other industry. Instead of exchanging our manufactured products freely with every nation for raw materials, we have driven them all ’O England, to supply her mauu factories ana workmen with a superabundance at the very lowest prices li is to the interest of <Ur wool-growers, considering only the price of wool, to favor tree trade in -ool; but. when we take into consideration the benefits they would derive by a reduction of the tariff to a revenue basiß, they ought, at a glance, to see upon which side of the question their true interests lie. A PROTKCTIVK TARIFF, IT IS CLAIMED Reduces prices.

We are told that the tariff has reduced prices- and that it must be retained at present rates or Eusland manufacturers will flood our 'ountry with their pro. duets, break down and destroy our industries, and then put up prices MrStebbins approvingly quotes the following from the Minneapolis Wood and Iron Journal: “The mechanic trader, fanner or manufacturer who desiiesa removal of the protective tariff mav be compared to an inhabitant and low lyiDg land bardering on the Mississippi river who advocates cutting the levey whieb protects him and his possessions from the angry flood without-” If cutting the levy would flood the farmer’s land with cotton, corn and cane cheaper than lie could raise them bewould not be likely to objects to the work being done. Iu all orobility he could be induced to assist in the j b. But suppose the leyy is high enough to protect his land from overflow and yet affords him easv access to the riyer, where he can load his produce upin a barge and receive his supplies in exchange, and a government officer come 3 along and proposes to tax him to build the' levy so high that he can not get over it, and thereby destroy his maket, what would the farmer say? If he believed in a;‘protective policy he would say, “Build it higher, and I will eat what I raise and raise only what 1 eat; make what I wear and wear only what I make.” We are told that, under a high tariff, prices have been reducer; that cotton goods are cheaper, that woolen goods are cheaper; that iror is cheap er, and. in tact, eveiythmg cheaper than 1860 under a low tariff. True, the price of manufactured a: tide sis lower, tint the tariff has not been the author of this reduction. To hear protections talk, one would suppose that the tariff had organized every new invention made from the foundation of our Government. Mr, StebMne says: “Before axes were made in this county, except' by country blaekamiti s, English axes cost our tanners and others from two to four dollars each. By the tariff of 1828 a protective duty of 98 per cent, was levied upon imported axes. Under this pros lection the Collins Company, of Hartford, introduced labor-saving machinery, much of wnich .was invented, patened and constructed bv ourselves-” This oondu ion almost equals the one drawn

by Mr. Btebbins. that the tarifiLbad caused the sheep’s fleece to double in quantity. Was it the tariff or was it t a demand for a better and cheaper axe that put the patentees to thinking? No doubt Mr. Stebbina could prove that the tariff on lumber ana iron, and not the demand of the great grain growing sections for better machinery- caused Me t'ormick to invent the selfbinder. Upon this question of a reduction of prices Mr. Powers says: “Mr Swank tells us we ought to be profound kytgraieful to the protective tariff for reduoing the price of steel rails from tllO io iSM) per ten, and then showing that English steel rails are sold at $27.37, and that not a cent can be taksn off of our duty of S2B per ton. It appears, then that instead of reducing the price ot rails the tariff raised their price from $27.37 to $45.1:0.” And again he says: Mr. Swank, Secretary of the irou and steel Association, states tnat the close of 1877 we had 444 furnaces out ot blast and 270 in blast. We certainly can’t export the product, of these furnaces, for Mr. Swank shows that English pig iron can be laid down in New York at $9,4&i and i11;62J per ton, while the price of American pig iron ranges from sl6 to $18.6C. We have orotected ourselves wbh a duty of $7 per ton, and Mr. SwaDk says he can’t spare a cent of .that. * * But while we can’t export pig iron and steel rails, because without tariff we can’t even hold our home market, yet in spit of Engli-h competion we can export the finer manufacturers of iron and steel, handicapped as we are by the high prices of raw materials. Last year we exported machinery worth ss,Und,ooo- - worth $2.000600, edge-tools worth $1,000,000, and sewing machines worth $ l ,660.000, This indicates where our strong point lies. If we could get cheap iron and steel we can put the prices of our manufacturers down so low as to drive England out of the markets of the world ”

Within the last tew years, however, furnaces have been erected in many.of he Souther States. principally in Alabama Georgia and l'ennessess, wire re pig iron is made much cheaper thau ,in Pennsylvania. This is what we need. We ceitainly can make iron as cheaply as England, and when our manufactur ers can get cheap iron they will supply the world with all the finer manufactures of ihe same. Give us cheap iron to work and there will be . demand for labor in our machines such as was never known before in our history. Instead of (he tariff being the e,*use of inventions it has directly the opposite effect. It is an old but trite saying that ‘'necessity is th 6 mother of invention,” and le his tact more than tujy other are we i □debted for ous j r igi ess. It was not { the tariff that caused the invention of 1 the cotton-gin, DUt the absolute necessity for such a machine. We aie not indebted to the tariff for our agriculur | machinery. Our great pr«ries and fertive yalley imperatively required thut we should have better Implements srd machinery for their cultivation. r Jhe necessity for invention am improvement is less where competition is least, and, therefore, ihe conclusion is i*evitable that a Drotective tariff ret ids rather than promotes, industry. I • position of those who favor a high i riff is wholly inconsistent. While th claim that a prot ctive tariff is the so . au.se of a reduct on in pricesonemon :. in .the next breath they demand tin.i -* tariff sh ill not be reduced because F irade Egland will deluge us wii„ her cheap good-. i.ai Im-enabled E urlivti .on,, f ictnreis, under tie- trade reduce iln-in j Uutil weliavebiien forced to raise ouixanlf duty on many articles to 100 ner cent while in the early history of our Govern ent 8 per cent was sufficient. The reducth n in the price of steele rails was owing >u the discover/ of Henry Bessemer, an Englishman, by which steele could be made as cheaply as iron. After Mr. Bessemer’s discovery had proven a success, eleven men pun based, at a low price, the exclucive control of the p;.t nt in the United States. As so<>n as ttay obtain d this aud w re able to make steele rails at re luced prices, they induced Congress to impose a duty of ion per cent, on bessemer steel and steel end steel rails, and thereby shut out importations. They refuse to allow any other person the use ot the patent except upon payment of an exorbitant royally, and the people of the United States. < n amount of the tariff duty, were compel - en to pay to these eleven men over thr y millions a year And vet. they boast of having reduced the "price of steele! rails and say they could not have ;

done so without protection. Every new d scoveiy abroad, by which the price of aD article is cheapened, is a signal for gi eater protection. E very discovery of a new deposit at home is followed ly a demand for protection. We have never found any tin in this co ntry, an., u u to be hoped that, while iirestn policy obtains we may not be so unfortunate as to make a discovery, because th li.f.mt would have to be prob- te,{. uowiUistanding it would c"St toe people la 1lions to do it.

The Value of Cashiers.

An Ohio merchant who kept three clerks, each one of whom made his own change and had free access to the mon-ey-drawers, was the other day asked by a commercial traveler why he did not keep a cashier to receive all moneys. “Cost too much,” was the reply. “But are your clerks honest?” “Perfectly honest. ” “Have you any objection to my trying them?” “Certainly not; go ahead in any way you wish. ” The traveler went away, but in about three hours he returned and said in a loud voice so that all might hear: “When I was here this forenoon I paid you a bogus quarter by mistake. In case you find it in counting up tonight, lay it aside and I’ll redeem it.” Then the traveler, accompanied hy the merchant, took position where the back door and the alh v cock! he kept in view, and in less than ten minutes out came the head clerk a handful of silver on the heart of a barrel and pawed it over. The bogus quarter was not there. He returned to the store and out came the second clerk and went through the same programme. He was followed by the third, and after he disappeared the merchant calmly observed: “I’ve been waiting thirteen years for trade to pick up, and I rather think I’ll try the cashier system. ”

Thxbb is one factory in the State of Connecticut which toms out daily 20,000. pounds of oleomargarine.

AGRICULTURAL.

.To bimove warts on horses, take a piece of concentrated lye as large as a walnut, put it into a bottle with rain water enough to dissolve it and apply with a feather. An Illinois correspondent states that experience has taught him that cattle will thrive better on good, bright flax straw than on oat or wheat straw, and he never knew cattle to be injured from eating it. In selecting potato seed two things should be kept in mind; flrst, plant only snch seed as may be expected to produce smooth, fair-sized potatoes; second, plant only when the seed is in full vigor.— A. W. Cheever. Basswood trees are urged for planting by the roadside, as they serve the double purpose of attractive shade and abundant forage for bees. They also make excellent timber whenever it becomes desirable to fell them. One of the best disinfectants, says the Poultry Bulletin, is Condy’s fluid, which is made by putting one ounce of potass, permanganate in a pint of cold water. For use, one ounce of this fluid should be added to half a pint of water. The cause of club-root in cabbage is claimed by a German experimenter, Woronin, to be a parasitic vegetable, which lives and feeds, on the healthy tissue of different cruciferous plants. All weeds of that order {producing pods, like turnips, mustard, radish, etc.) should He eradicated while land is being rested preparatory to a renewal of cabbage-growing. The Indiana Fanner says the Ben Davis apple is «o poorly flavored that even the coddling moth generally passes it by for some better variety, and the consequence is that but few of these apples are wormy, and, being of high color and handsome shape, they are a very popular apple at the city fruit stands, where they outsell other kinds about two to one on the average.

Trefoil is said to be extensively used in England for alternate husbandry, but it is reported not suitable for permanent pasture mixtures, except in very small quantities. A w riter states that this plant is well deserving *®f cultivation on light, dry and high, elevated inferior soils, and on sttch will yield a greater bulk of herbage than any of the cultivated clovers. It is highly nutritious, and eaten with avidity by cattle. From the great depths to which its ■•roots penetrate, it is not liable to be injured by drought,and is thereby enabled to retain its verdure after the grasses and other plants are burnt up, a fact ■worthy of notice by Western farmers. Farmers who burn green wood are probably not aware of the waste of heat. The sap uses up—that is, carries off in a latent state —a very large portion of the heat produced by" its carbon, or its dry material. As much man and team power is required to haul three or four cords of green wood as for six or eight cords of dry wood. The lesson is: cut the fuel and split it as finely as it is to be used, in the grove; haul it home when well dried, and keep it in a dry place for use. It will be worth far more for heating purposes than if burned green, «i wet, or damp even. The only exception to th s. advice is, when by reason rtf easier hauling on snow, and on account of the leisure of men and teams in winter, it may he expedient to haul home the green wood then; but in all cases let it be well dried before it is used. To stop a colt from pulling back on his halter in the stall, take a sufficiently long piece of half-inch rope. Put the center of it under the tail like a crupper, cross the rope on the back, and tie the two ei.ds together in front of the breast, snugly, so there is no s ack, otherwise it would drop down on the tail. Put an ordinary halter on (a good one), and run the halter strap, or rope, through a ring in the manger or front of the stall, and tie it fast in the rope on the front of the breast; then slap his face and let him fly back. He will not choke or need telling to stop pulling back. Let him wear this awhile, and twice or thrice daily scare him back as suddenly and forcibly as possible. After one or two trials,he cannot be induced to pull back.— Chicago Evening Journal. In England bay is considered so necessary that notwithstanding the difficulty of curing it there it constitutes an important food for stock. In the A Vest, with our hot, dry harvests, the curing of hay is comparatively simple, As a rule the hay may be cut down in the morning and raked the same afternoon. If allowed to lie in the heaps until sweating has fairly commenced, it may then be removed to the stack, and it will come out bright, sweet and comparatively free from dust. When clover constitutes a considerable part of the hay more care is necessary. The leaves form the important part of the value. It is raked into windrows as soon as it is fairly wilted (say when it is half dry), and then put into high, narrow heaps; it will usually cure sufficiently by the next day, or at most the second day, and may then be removed safely to the stack. A mistake with the most of farmers is in supposing that hay may be stacked greener than when it is put in a barn. Such, however, is not the case. In a tight barn it, is less exposed to the action of the air than in the stack. If too green, it will heat in either case, but more destructively in the stack than in the barn, for the oxygen of the air promotes violent fermentations. (The perfect exclusion of the air is the sum of value in pres, rving perfectly green fodder in silos.) Now, the comparative exclusion of the air is the interger of value in the saving of partially dry fodder in the stack. We do not believe in putting up hay so green that it will more than undergo a kindly sweat either in the stack or barn, and for this reason we counsel that hay be fairly air dried. If brittle, it is too dry; if limp and clinging, it is too green. ' The haymaker soon learns to distinguish when hay is just right. One thing must be carefully observed—hay must never bo stocked moist from rain or dew. The moisture of the sap contained is an entirely different thing from that of rain or dew in the economy of preserving

nay; Bence, in naming wnen uamp rrom | dev, the tops of the cock* should be laid on the outside of the stack or next i the sides in the barn. —Breeder ’* Ga- ! mite.

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HOUSEKEEPER'S HELPS.

A handsome tidy is made of lineo seine, with the ends fringed, or with i drawn work at each end, or it may have tins work and the fringe at the bottom only. Then with black etching silk work some pretty fignre in the center. A vine-like border is a great addition. A very nice way to make a cornstarch pudding is to put half a peach in the bottom of a cup and then pour corn-starch blanc mange over it. Wheo ready to serve, turn from the cup into a saucer. Slices or quarters of orahget may be used in place of the peach. A thin custard for sauce is recommended to go with the pudding. If you have cold chicken left from dinner, and do not know what to do with it, as there is not enough for • • meal, try this way of disposing of it; Mince it quite fine, adding some minced ham and bread-crumbs, moisten with cream, season with pepper and salt, put it in a pudding dish, and spread a thiq coating of butter over the top; set it in the oven and let it bake until it is nearly browned on the top. This is a good dish for ten. Salmon, either fresh or canned, may be made a delicious dish; if fresh, boil the fish in salted water until it is tender, then put a layer of bread or cracker crumbs in the bottom of a pudding dish, then a layer of fish; season with pepper and salt; fill the dish with alternate layers of fish and crumbs; wet the bread-crumbs with milk, or, if this is too rich to suit your taste, use hot water. Bake for a long hour and have the top well browned. This is a dish especially designed for supper. Red-raspberry pudding is made in this way: To two ounces of butter allow three ounces each of sugar and flour; beat two eggs very light and mix with the sugar; then add the flour and the butter, which you have warmed so that it will mix readily; a little salt and grated nutmeg may then be stirred in. Butter some coffee cups, and in the bottom of each one put a tablespoonful—a large one—of jam,or two tablespoonfuls of fresh berries; then pour the pudding mixture over them. Leave a space at the top so that the pudding may r'se a little. Bake for half an hour, aud serve with cream and sugar. Veal Loaf. —Three pounds of lean, raw veal, and one - half pound of salt pork, chopped fine. If you have an accommodating butcher he will chop it free of charge, but it is best to select the meat yourself and see it weighed, for it should not contain any gristle or string}’ pieces. It must be chopped very fine, tiieu mix thoroughly with it six small crackers rolled, two eggs, a piece of butter nearly the size of an egg, a teaspoon of pepper, one small tablespoon of salt, a little sage or any other herb you may prefer to use for flavor. Pack tightly in a deep, square tin, cover with hits of butter, sprinkle cracker crumbs on the top and bake slowly for two hours. When cold slice it thinly. It is very nice for lunch or supper.

George 111. Makes llis Own Bishop. When Archbishop Moore died, Manners Sutton was Bishop of Norwich, and also Dean of Windsor. lie was at that moment residing at hi.; deanery, and was entertaining a party of friends at dinner. In the middle of dinner the butler came up to him with an excited face. “Beg pardon, my Lord, a gentleman wishes to see your Lordship directly, but he won’t give his name.” “Nonsense,” said the Bishop; “I can’t come n'pw, of course.” “The gentleman says it is very important—very important, indeed, my Lord, or he wouldn’t disturb you.” ’’Well,” said the Bishop, some' what crossly, “ask him to wait a few minutes till I have finished my dinner. ” “Beg pardon, my Lord,” said the butler, persistently, and with some confidence, “but you had better see the gentleman directly.” The Bishop, amazed at his man’s coolness, made an apology to his guests and went into the next room, where he was still more amazed to find King George 111., who, as usual, wag breathless and rapid. “How d’ye do, my Lord? how d’ye do? eh—eli?" Just came to tell you Archbishop of Canter-, bury is dead—died this morning—want you to be new Archbishop—you know, new Archbishop. What d’jesay—eh—eh ?” The Bishop stood dumbfounded, and the King broke in again, “Well, dy’e accept—d’ye accept—eh, eh?” The Bishop had by this time recovered himself sufficiently to bow gratefully and murmur his thankful acceptance. “All right,” said liis Majesty; “go hack, got a party, I know; very glad you accept. Good-night, good-night, goodnight.” And with that he bustled away. The fact was that he anticipated exactly what happened. Mr. Pitt came down to his Majesty next morning to inform him that the Archbishop was dead, and to recommend to his Majesty Bishop Pretyman (Tomline) for the vacant primacy. The King, who had rather too much of Bishop Pretyman at Mr. Pitt’s hands, resolved to be first in the field, and was now able to tell his Prime Minister that he had already appointed the Bishop of Norwich.—Macmillan’s Magazine.

Had to Say Amen.

[ The late learned and eloquent Dr. Rice excelled in the fervor and unction of his public prayers. In his congregation was an aged negro, very pious and also very excitable, who would always shout “Amen!” when any petition was put up that touched his feelings. The doctor told him that his shouts disturbed the congregation. The good negro faithfully promised silence in future: but it happened the very next Sunday that the doctor was unusually earnest in his supplications to the throne of grace. In the gallery sat Ctesar, writhing sympathetically with the emotion which he could not suppress and would not utter. More and more feverent waxed the prayer, deeper and deeper grew Caesar’s emotions, more and more violent his struggles to avoid giving vocal utterance to them. Nature could at last hold out on longer. “Amen!” shouted Caesar. “Massa Rice, I had to say it or bust.”— Chicago Advocate.