The Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 5, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 27, 1888 Page: 1 of 8
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MINEOLA. TEXAS, SATURDAY. OCTOBER 27, 1888.
NO. 5
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
HORACE M. CATE,
Attorney - at - Law,
Minkola, Texas.
Extracts from Senator Rea-
gan's Sqicech Oct. 1-. 1M88
Offers his professional services to the
eople of Wood and surrounding coun-
ies. Will practice in all the courts of
(he State and the Federal court at
yler.
M. GILES E. M. HICKS.
GILES & HICKS,
Attorneys and Counsellors at-Law
— AND —
Real Estate Office,
MINEOLA, TEXAS.
4 b. n. HAUT. .JNO. T. OliADDOCK*
HART ct CRADDOCK,
Attorneys - at - Law,
Minkola, Tkxas.
Practice in the District and inferior
yjourts of the State and the Supremo
jkV Federal courts lit Tyler.
D. W. CROW, •
Attorney ■ at - Law,
ANl).
NOTARY PUBLIC,
MINEOLA, - - TEXAS.
Office in the Denson building.
R. N. STAFFORD,
Attorney - at - Law,
AND
Real Estate Agent,
Mineola, Texas.
Will practice in all the courts of the
Seventh Judicial District. Special at-
tention given to collections of all kinds.
Remittances promptly made. Will also
buy and sell and rent real estate and in-
vestigate land titles; render and pay
taxes on same.
HOME MARKETS.
Tho Republicans assume that a
protective tariff is justified because
it furnishes a home market for ag-
ricultural products; and to sustain
this view they refer to the much
larger amount of farm products
which arc consumed in this coun-
try than arc exported to foreign
countries. The mode of present-
ing that question is both illogical
and misleading. The true crite-
rion is not how much of agricul-
tural products our people consume
at home, but how much, after sup-
plying the home market, we ex-
| port. During the last fiscal year,
| alter supplying all our home mar-
kets required, our people sent to
| foreign markets $528,078,7S>8 worth j
j of agricultural products. There i
was that vast amount more than ;
our home markets required, which |
but for our international exchange (
of commodities would have been,
io:• v to tile i.umcrs oi the country,
audits loss would have bankrupt- j
ed the whole country.
The Republicans tell us their!
policy for raducing the surplus of
revenue in the treasury is to re-
duce the tax on tobacco and on
other articles not produced in this
country, and to so increase the
duty 011 such imports as compete
with American products as to re-
duce tho imports and thereby re-
duce the current revenues. This
policy of restricting trade, of com-
mercial non-intercourse with other
countries, is against the enlighten-
ed spirit of the age, is a, reactiona-
ry policy which would destroy our
foreign commerce and ruin all clas-
ses of business men and people.
A suspension of our trade with for-
eign countries for one year would
bankrupt all, whether farmers,
merchants, or manufacturers. We
can not sell abroad if we refuse to
buy. A partial suspension of our
foreign trade would be injurious to
all exactly to the extent to which
it might be carried.
, . ,, , Even without foreign trade, if
Situated in the centcr of the busi- , ... ,. e , .
ness portion of Winsboro. Firstjtho Republican policy ol making
class accommodations, and reason-1'dl we need at home were carried j
able prices. j out, we can not Increase our home |
W. F. WILLIAMS, | markets by increasing manufaclur- j
vll-n40-tf Proprietor.
ing establishments, for the reason
i'that by tho .stimulus of high protoc-,
; lion our people have money invest-:
u.ing and more
. d in that busi-
J.'H. WILLIAMSON & SON,
Surgeon Dentists,
Minkola, Tkxas.
All work wrrranted and satisfaction
uaranteed. Plate work a specialty,
►ffice over Co-Operative store.
WILLIAMS HOTEL
Winsboro, Texas.
-:-o-:-
-Ullman,Lewis Co
Wholesale Grocers,
AND
IMPORTERS,
Galveston, Texas.
Represented by
J. LEOPOLD.
country; and
ligh ]trice of
iii this country,
protective tariil,
eu in maim
machinery (
ness than a: . ry to suppb
the needs of our
on oeeount of th
living and m
create u uy a i
our manufactured fabrics cost so
much that we can not sell them in
foreign markets, and so have no
inducement to build more manu-
factories to increase the home mar-
ket.
[ One of the results of the exccs-
| sive investment in manufactories
| is that tin; mills can not be run on
; full time, and laborers are often
j thrown out of employment by
1 shutting down these establish-
■ incuts, and they and their families
are made gr^at ; ullerers because
j glutted markets require the . ui-pcn-
j sion of manufacturing.
„ T • mi It can not truthfully be said that
Stagner & LaForce, at their mill •
Winsboro and Hawkins road the rate of wages depends on the
nine miles from Hawkins, cut the rate of tariff duties.
finest quality of Heart and Sap • so, and a given rat-
Pine Shingles. Thev keep also a inil,orts would . e< a;
v&rd at Hawkins and one at Lake ,
y ru ni< => ufacturer a net profit m jd per eein.
Fork. Address, . 1 . 1
STAGNER & LAFOECE, "!"ch «"■* " ' > ,'•*
Pine Mill., Wood Co. Tex. "F'T'l " „ ,"i ""
^m—...^——. ' should change the rates of duties
are more laborers seeking employ-
ment than are required by the fac-
tories, their wages will be low,
whether tho duties on imports bo
high or low. If the amount of la-
bor is not sufficient to supply the
demands of the factories the price
of labor will be higher and the
rates of duties will not in either
event affect the wages of labor.
All men know this to be incontro-
vertibly true.
If times are dull, wages will be
lower. If times are prosperous,
wages will be. higher, without ref-
erence to the rates of duty on im-
ports. If money is scarce, wages
will bo lower; if plentiful, they
will be higher, and the tariff will
not in either case affect them.
Wages, like every other marketa-
ble commodity, are to a greater or
less extent governed by the law of
suply and demand. The every-
day experience and observation of
the operatives in the manufactur-
ing establishments demonstrates
to them the fact that the employers
demand t'. :ir ; •. rvices at the low-
est terms they can be had for with-
out reference to the tariff. Of late
years they often strike for higher
wages, or to prevent the reduction
of their wages, and in many cases
it has happened that the employ-
ers, who have so much love for
them and so much care for their
interest just now when their vote
is needed, have turned them adrift
and employed cheaper labor, im-
ported under contract form the
oppressed and starving populations
of Europe.
The pretense that the advocates
of a higher tariff are advocating an
American and that the advocates
of a revenue tariff are advocating
an English policy is an insult to
revenue reformers and an outrage
upon truth and decency. It is the
merest clap-trap, based on fraud
and dcccit.
The policy of the Republican
party on this question is in har-
mony with its history as a party.
It boldly affirms the doctrine of
protection for the sake of protec-
tion, and treats the collection of
revenue for the support of the gov-
ernment as an incident to the as-
sumed constitutional power to pro-
tect domestic manufacturers, by
taxing the people nearly one-half
the value of the articles they are
obliged to buy, and thus impov-
erishing them, in order to exclude
foreign manufactures from our
; i..'Is, and to make millionaires
of a limited number of men and
corporations.
The policy of that party, from
the time it came into power, has
been to stimulate and foster class
interests and monopolies of every
FACTS FOB FAUMEltS.
Bcn<l, Digest and Pass On to
Your Republican Neighbor.
A tariff is a tax levied upon for-
eign products imported into the
United States. The Republican
party advocates a tariff for protec-
tion, or a high tariff. The Demo-
cratic party advocates a tariff for
revenue, or a low tariff. Tariff
legislation in the United States
since 1S24 has been
viz. :
and monopolies, and that we will
here no more from them about
popular rights and the rights of
labor until the coming of another
popular election.
I have on former days of this
session pointed out the class legis-
lation and monopolies built up
and sustained by Republican pol-
icy, and . will not restate them
now.
Their bold advocacy of protec-
tion for protection's sake is in
plain, palpable violation of the
Constitution. But they have
never allowed this instrument to be
in the way of their policy of cen-
tralization. of promoting class in-
terests and plundering the masses
of the people for the benefit of the
few. The Constitution provides
that—
Congress shall have power to
lay and collect taxes, duties, im-
ports, and excises.
And the purposes for which they
may be collected are specified, and
according to the Constitution they
can be collected for no other pur-
pose, are specified in the same
clause and in the same sentence of
the Constitution, and are—
To pay the debts and provide
for the common defense and gen-
eral welfare of the United States.
The words "general welfare of
the United States" are held by the
ablest and best expounders of the
meaning of the Constitution to be
not a seperate grant of power, but
rather a limitation upon the specific
grants of power. If this interpre-
tation of the Constitution is correct
as I believe it to be, where are we
to find the power to pass laws for
the protection of domestic manu-
factures? Certainly not in the
power "to pay tho debts" or "to
provide for the common defense."
But independently of the ques
tion as to the absence of the con-
stitutional warrant for such legis-
lation, no principle is better set-
tled in the State and Federal Con-
stitutions and in the general policy
of the country than that every
citizen shall be protected in the
ownership and enjoyment of his
private property; and that he
shall not be deprived of it except
for public uses, and not then with-
out just compensation. This right, | states in 1JSSO were dovided as fol-
with the necessary exception as to | i()WHi
tho taxes which must bo contribu- j Seven million, six hundred and
ted lor public uso, is hedged around i 8eVcnty thousand were engaged in
and guarded and protected by agriculture, 1,075,000 in profes-
Ed. MURRIE,
The leader in Quality of Groceries
and low Prices. Highest prices
paid for country produce.
In 1880, after twenty years of
protective tariff, tho total wealth
had increased, to £48,<>00,000,000,
but tho farmer's share was only
$1 '2,000,OOO'OOO, or a little over
one fourth.
This shows an equal degree of
prosperity for the farmer from
1850 to 1800 under a revenue tar-
iff, but it is a damaging showing
for tho agricultural interest from
18(H) to 1880 during twenty years
as follows I of n protective tariff; an increase
' j of #.1,000,000,000 for the half of
182-1 to 1882 a Protective tariff,; people engaged in agricultural pur-
1882 to 1812 a Revenue tariff, | *uitf4 lind $28,000,000,000, for the
•1842 to 1846 a Protective tariff, other halT du>\ng i wenT.v years of
18411 to 1800 a Revenue tariff,
18(H) to 1888 a Protective tariff,
The average price of American
farm products in tho New York
market under the different systems
is as follows: Average price of
wheat for five years—
1825-1829, protective tariff $1.11;
1834-1838, revenue tariff, $1.51;
1842-1846 protective tariff, $1.05;
1850-1860, revenue tariff, $1.58;
1870-1880, protective tariff, $1.38
in 1888, protective tariff,, 89
cents.
Average price of corn for five
years—1825-1829. protective tariff,
61 ecnts; 1834-1838, revenue tar-
iff, 89 cents ; 1842-1846, protective
tariff, 59 cents ; 1850-1860 revenue
tariff, 72 cents; 1870-1880, protec-
tive tariff, 59 cents; 1880-1886,
protective tariff, 49 cents.
Average price of oats for five
years—1825-1829, protective tariff,
89 cents; 1834-1838, revenue'tariff,
49 cents; 1842-1846, protective tar-
iff, 36 cents; 1850-1860 revenue
tariff, 54 cents ; 1870-1880, protec-
tive tariff, 43 ccnts ; in 1886, pro-
tective tariff, 34 ccnts-
The 17,392,000 people engaged
in gainful pursuits in the United
does this
provisions,
many constitutional
State and Federal.
A tax for protection is not to pay
the debts of the United States, is
not for the support of the govern-
ment, is not for the common de-
fense, it is for no purpose for
which we can impose a tax; but it
sional and personal services 8,887,-
000 manufactures, mechanics and
mining; 1,810,000 in trade and
transportation.
About one million of the above
are engaged in what is termed our
protective industries ; the remain-
ing 16,000,000 are unprotected.
the benefit of tno lew
at all times been faithful and
,'B plainly and solely a tax to j The theory of protective tariff
kind, and to plunder the many for transfer the property of some pri- i(J to ](!Vy t!„, Government duties
And it has j vat0 citizens _ to other private citi- j |lH t() benofit tho American manu-
1111 zens arbitrarily and without com- facturer in the American
to that policy, except when a fetate pensation. It is to impoverish a
and national political eonvention j part ()f tho people by means of a
meets, or in speeches, not in jftW of Congress in order to enrich
action, in a session oi Congress iiiiofhev i > * 11* I <>( ihe iteonle bv the . it • , « ,
> aiiouiei p.n i oi int. pcojiie uy mi | cannot buy abroad, and must
preceding a 1 residential election, ^iiue i:iw If is unwarranted ar- r
i hiime nu>. it is uinv.ii 1.11111 .u, .ii (Yoia our own manu
in the American mar-
ket.
This is done by placing the
duties on imports so high that we
buy
aeuros.
That this system is of great boil-
On those occasions it is profuse bitrary, unreasonable, and unjust.
in resolutions and speeches in favor ji creates monopolies on the one j oftt U) "(.(,nfarH an "immense
oi the interests of the people, and Hjj0 ftn,i destitution and opprcs-, advantage upon the American
on
If this were
of dutios on
to the in;'.n-
. .....antage uj
a lonng peop i. Hion on the other. And its necos- manufacturer none will deny ; but
, ' lb.\'(in1 * H sary outcome, if persisted in, will it u well known fact that a law
uTeutest In end and special chain-iy p fo rlnatrov our nroRont svsteni • * i /• i i
n i no ui unHiroy jiixm.m, whieli confers advantages on one
pi on <n popular rights, so far as J of government and build up priv-1 ^
resolutions and speeches can make (ii0gCCi clasHus and an aristosracy "
it their champion. But what 10f wealth.
measure of policy, what act of1 ♦ "
Congress, can they point to' us as, A CuitB fob Diarrhoea.—Mr.
their work, which is not for class! J. A. Burnison, of Colburg, Mont-
espeenwiy of the
oi the country.
" ALLEGER ORGANS." so as to enable him to realize a net
i sill dieect to tavii.ie3, income of 80 per cent., he should
thus avoiding mrentfl and deal- J
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hnm Vforc T<m Imy Jt, and If i
thua avoiding n«entai and
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cuw,iPatent thing ever happciieu or ever wil
am *. ..|.1« and Bom coud- n 1 1
Treble and bom
1^^215fw happen. The employer will pay his
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market require him to pay. No
o^at more and no le.sn, wliatever the du-
fc ' | ties on imports may be. If there
interests and against the interests : goinery Co., Ia., has found out how
of the people at large, and cspcc- he can cure any case of Diarrhoea.
ially against the interests of work-! Two of his children had Diarrhoea;
ingmen and women? And not- for about six weeks he tried four
withstanding all their late preten-1 different kinds of Patent Medicines
sions to interest in the welfare of I with out benefit, but he finally
the people and of labor, I make j f* ! °J? "f a bottle of Chamber-
1 V .. . „ V, . x Iain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea
the prediction, and call their at-. jjeme(jyt which he says completely
tention to it now, that when the i cured them, and is confident that
approaching election is over they jit will cure any case when the
will direct their efforts as usual to j plainly printed directions are fol-
tlie building up of class interests j lowed.—flold by R. M. Armstrong.
iss necessarily does it at the ex-
jiense of others.
The following facts show how
this system lias effected the great
interest in which nearly one-half
the American people are engaged,
agriculture.
In 1850 the total wealth of the
United States was in round num-
bers, 87,000,0<X>,000. The farmer's
share of this wealth was 84,000,-
(XK),000, or over one-half:
In 1860, after ten years of rev-
enue tariff, the total wealth had
increased to $16,000,000,000. The
farmers share was $8,000,000,000
still one half.
other half durin;.
protection. What
show ?
Our manufacturing industries
have prospered at the expense of
the agricultural interests. ,
The farmer has paid the bill and
the mortgage on bis farm is his re-
ceipt for the money !
It is a significant fact that tho
raising of wheat, corn and oats has
always proved a profitable persuit
in the absence of discriminating tar-
iff laws.
It is also true that our manufac-
turers did a thriving and prosper-
ous business, without tho aid of a
protective tariff, during tho four-
teen years between 1846 and
1860.
We consumed 98 per cent, of
thoir products, and they exported
the remaining 2 per cent, of the
amount necessary to satisfy our
wants, and wo imported only the
remaining 10 per cent.
Our factories were not protected
in those days, only to the extent
that a tariff for revenue necessarily
protects thcin—nor do they need
to be today.-
Nor was the present high tariff
levied for the purpose of protect-
ing them.
It was levied for flu1 purpose of
raising the no-esvary euuou to
carry on the war.
Jt was a temporary live, not
intended to br p'Tlir ji.• i!, was
stated by its author, Morrill,, of
Vermont in hi sp< re' 1 . .eating .
its adoption.
Once in force, ! bv ad-
vantages wi .'c , '. nly ;v •' ' h'-
ted by our home manufacturer,
that he has, during the twenty-
four years of peace that have fol-
lowed the war, successfully resist-
ed all efforts to remove it.
An important question presents
itself: IIow much longer can the
American farmer stand this sys-
tem.
The Democrats are trying to
reduce the tariff to a revenue ba-
sis.
The li< publieans derlnre in their
national p!al.l'>'in that they are
"oppti->'d to the surrender of any
part of our protective system."—I
Page (Va.) News.
Lumber for Corn.
I will exchange lumber for good
corn of the present year's crop ill
any desired quantity. Will want
during the season as much as 1000
bushels. Lumber in Mincola.
Those who desire to make such an
exchange will please call or write
me as early as convenient.
Respectfully,
49:tf L. It. GrAHAM.
The ladies of Mijieola and sur-
rounding country are especially in-
vited to call and examine Caspary'#*'
stock and prices before purchasing.
goods elsewhere.
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