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Half! & Newbouer
Buocassors to Mcllhonny Company,
is
Notions, Boots, Siioes and Hata,
Houston Tnxas.
iXVT From correspondence now
VU JL X \9£* "•"before ii3 from our custom-
ers we feci Justified ia saying th\t those who
would L*e pleased to give us their shipment*
vill rctelvo prompt sales and natlsfactovy re-
turns, v. OAUGILL, Manager.
TREMONT OPERi HOUSE.
FAtlNEE TO-DAY.
MONIE CRISTO
TQ-3ST IG-H IF.
The Anniversary Entertainment
OF THE
PROTESTANT ORPHANS' HOME
WILL BE HELD AT THE
Home, Cor. Center and M 1*2,
ON
wednesday evening, dec. 7,
At 1 O'clock.
KW Tlie public is invited to attend.
MUSICAL ENTERTAlNllENT
AND SUPPER.
DECEMBER 6 AND 7,
At freebyterian Parlors, Above the Chapel,
Nineteenth and Caurch Streets.
Entrance, free; Sapper, 50e. Door open
Tuesday from 12 "'clock m to 11 o'clock p. m.
SUGAR-MAKING
In Full Blast
At Cunningham's Plantation.
This is one of the finest sugar
estates in the south, and its
products rank first-class. Car-
load after carload of both
Sugar and Molasses are now
coming in and selling rapidly.
Please correspond with us before
placing your orders elsewhere,
and you will strve your inter-
ests thereby.
We are prepared to fill large
orders from jobbers as well as
ordinary orders from retail-
ers, and all will be pleased
vrith the transaction.
Ill Cleveland &Co.,
HOUSTON.
TOYS
Our stock of Toys-, and Holiday Goods Is now
complete, Wo solicit the orders of the trade.
J. 1SII1 k CO,,
lis and 117 Strand-.
DEALERS IN WOOL.
■A llec-tirg of Growers snd Dealers Consider
Measures to Revive the Industry
of ihe Country.
KSWHM* .1* THK ?C=KC-3TTO» Lx i> ,7*3*03 A3 HUOON IMF-ASS MATTES.
Office or romjoa'jicwi Nob. 18* akd o Bixaes. Galyisio**
VOL, XLYI NO 225
GALVESTON. IVXA& WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 7 u*
ESTABLISHED 1812.
Washington, December 6.—A number of
^gentlemen representing the wool growers
«td woo! dealers met st the E'obltt house
3as>t night for the purpose of considering
-vhat should be doce to revive the wool ic-
<3uatr} of the country. Hoa. Colcttobas De-
lano of Ohio, president of the National
Wool growers'association, presided. Tiere
vrero also present wool growers from Itfew
"York. Texas, Ohio and other states. H. r.
Tfconpson ana others represented Chicago
iffiercbacts, and there were dealers present
Jroni oilier cities. The object is to secure
fcautory among different branchos of the
•wool industry, and to fix a basts of duty npou
sjrbirh dealers, growers aad manufacturers
can mile. It was not thought advisable to
ask congress to Increase the duty, belt it
was iba belief that congressional action
might be secured on a bill which would
more nearly equalize the burdens of the
jpreeeiit tariff.
Mr. Greene of Philadelphia, in a ptper
read at tbe meeting, stated that in the last
thiee tears tbe revenue from wool and
voojeis bad increased $11,000,000, while the
number of sheep in this country had de-
creased from 50.0CC,000 to 44,000,000. There
■ liad also been an annual decrease of $28.-
«00,tl0 in the wool crop. A committee was
appointed to formulate the views and wishes
of tbe convention with respect to tariff in so
for it affects the wool industry, and to de-
vise seme plan of action upon which the
growers, dealers and manufacturers may
Elite for the common good. The following
named delegates were appointed as such
ccmmltt e on behalf of the dealers: Henry
T. Thompson, Chicago; J. Sherman Hill,
Chicago; Edward Mellon, Philadelphia;
Edward Green, Philadelphia; Isidore
ISelier, 8 . Louis. On behalf of the grow-
ers: C. Delano, Ohio; G. L. Converse,
•Ohio; J. McDowell, Pennsylvania; G. H.
Wallace, Missouri; A. E. Shepard, Texas;
David Cassat, New York; C. P. Crane,
Vermont. The call for the present confer-
■ence expressed the objects sought to be at-
tained as follows: To take into considera-
tion that peril which hangs over oar Indus-
tiy slid to consider the best means of cor-
Tf-ciiEgthe existing erroneous rulings ot
the tieaf ury department in regard to im-
fiortatSoLS of wool and manufactures
Stereof.
Movements o! Ocean Steamers.
Antwerp, December G.~Sailed: Pari?,
for New Orleans.
NewOrleans, La., Decembsi 6.—Arrived:
Steamers Caribbean and Catalan, from
Liverpool.
Philadelphia. Pa, December G — \r
Vtd steamer Lord Uougb, from Liverpool.
Commercial
TRAVELERS,
ATTENTION!
We have now tor sale an Accural*
Railway Map
OF THE STATE,
Complied and Completed to Date.
Every mile of Railway In operation
la shown; all Railway towns upon
each line appear, ana distances are
given with accuracy. A Table Is also
given, showing the towns In Texas
Uavlog a population ot 1000 and over.
Price lOo. By Mall, 12o.
A. H. BELO & CO.
PUBLISHERS,
GALVESTON OR PALLAS, TEXAS.
A GOOD
Ask cur salesman to show
ytu a sample of our FLYER
CIGAR if you wish a
"Road Cart "Free
Heifleieier & Co.
JUST RECEIVED:
1000 Barrels Louisiana SUGAR.
500 Barrels Louisiana MOLASSES.
GUST HEYE & CO.,
WloMe Grocers aii CottoaFactors,
Wish to draw the attention of the trad a to
their large stock of
WINES AND LIQUORS,
suitable for the Holidays.
Fine Old COONACi a Specialty.
large assortment of Canned Goods, Dried
Fiults, Nuts and Candles In every variety.
Sole A cents for ROSEBUD WHISKY
THE SCIENTIFIC
GRINDING MILL,
with patenteddouble breakers. grinds
ear corn with or without silHv«3 011;
shelled cbrn.oets, cntcon seed, etc. etc.
1 he best Mill ou earth for Stockmen and
Farmers
SIMPSON & HAflTWELL,
10 and 12 Commerce St, nlouscon, Tex.
RIDICULES l'HH REFOHT.
General Secretary of the Knights of Labor
Ridicules tho Report that the Order is
About to Collapse.
Philadelphia, Pa , December 6.—Gener-
al Waster Workman Powderly wa3 not at
the Kniglitsof Labor headquarters to-da7
General [Secretary Lichmau said, however,
in retard to the circular of the provisional
(ommiitef/'Lat it was unsigned, and that
nobody would pay any attention to such a
document. He added: "If the men who
are at the head of this movement were del-
egates to the general assembly they know
that the general executive board was in no
way lesponsible for the large expenditure
of money laet year. The payment o! over
iSCO.OOO for settlir g bad strikes was ordered
by tie fjeieral assembly, and the general
executive board was not consulted in the
matter. Notosly was the fund set apart
for such purposes thus expended, but $150,-
0C0 of the general fund went in the
came direction." Mr. Lichmau character-
ized the repoits that the order was going
to pieces as ridiculous and untrue. "We
aie getting hundreds of letters daily from
all tectiona of the country assuriag us that
tbe movement against the administration
is gettitg no foothold in other districts of
Chicago and Philadelphia, which are the
circles in which the movement is strongest,
ard if the order was to go all to pieces in
these two places the Knights of Labor
would scarcely feel it. It is but a drop in
the bucke t." He then produced the records
up to July 1, showing that on that date
there were 500,982 members in good stand-
ing in the order. The number is now esti-
mated at not less than 550,000 in round fig-
ures. Since July 6S3 new local assemblies
have been organized. Even elapsed locals
have been reorganized, and over 1000 have
been reinstated.
THE WEATH8K.
Meteorological reports received at Galveston,
December 6, 1887, at 2 p.m. Observations
taken at the same moment ot time at all
stations:
Rain)
LOCALiir. Bar. Ther Wind, last Wea'her
'8 hrsi
Galveston .... 3n,i-5
Brcwnsvihe. .'29 96
F. Gian. City.. 30 02
San Antonio . 29.V 8
Corpus Christ! S0.< 0
Palestine 30.C6
J>i w Oiltans. 50.12
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.04 oloudv.
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Full Text ot the Document on
the State of the Union.
THE REDUCTION OF REVENUES
Exactions from the People Largely Exceed ths
Amount Necessary to Meet the Ex-
penses of Government.
SENATEAND L0WERH0USE0FC0NGRESS
Dwelling Upon the Theories of Protection and
Free Trade Savors Too Much of
Bandying Fpithets.
OPINIONS OF THE TtXAS DELEGATION.
Annual Reports of the Attorney General and
Secretary of War—Discussing the Door-
keeper Election—General Notes. •
Washington, December 6.— [3pecialJ —
As stated in these dispatches, the presi
dent's message,which was read to oongress
to-day, treated exclusively on the subject of
tariff. Its brevity and strict adherence to
the one question was perhaps as great a
surprise as congress was ever treated to,
and there were few who had the least idea
that it would ba other than the ordinary
stereotyped kind of a message. Whatever
fault may have been found with the
president in the failure to Commit
himself strongly upon the tariff
issue was completely parried to-day,
It is regarded here by the most promi
nent men of the party as a bold, courageous
and manly act, and one unprecedented in
the history of the republic, where but one
single subject was the topic for a message
on the assembling of a new congress. There
1 *, with the exception of a few members of
tbe Handall faction, but one opinion as to
the message. It is doubtful if there was
ever a document presented to congress that
has caused more comment from the lead
ers of the party than the message of to-day
The representatives from the wool grow-
ing districts of Ohio are about the only per-
sons who seem incline! to find fault. Mr.
Lanham and Mr. Bayers of the Texas dele
gation, who represent two of the wool dis-
tricts of that state, are exceedingly ioud In
their praise of tbe bold stand the president
has taken, notwithstanding the possibility
of placing wool upon the free list, or upon
a greatly reduced schedule. The leaders of
tl e party lock upon the message as a square
ana flim dedarat'.on of principle=,whicn ta
to be ihe main question settled by congress
a ad the paramount issue in the next cam
paign.
Mr. Mills, already a recognized leader to
the tariff reform wing of the party, said of
a Nkws correspondent that the message
would have the effect, he believed, to cause
the passage of r bill, notwithstanding the
opposition of Mr. liandall and his follow-
ers> „ ^
Judge Stewart said it was one of the
greatest documents ever sent to coagrcs3
where such vital interests were concerned.
Mr. Crain said It ia elegant, aad the
whole of the party at the south will sustain
him with the exception, possibly, of the lit
tie sugar contingent in Louisiau».
Judge Culoertson was so pleas- d with It
that hia broad, good natnred face fairly
beamed with smiles.
Mr. Martin expressed himself as well
pleased.
Mr. KiJgote was especially delighted,
and expressed himself, warmly command-
ing the president.
Mr. Haie was reading the message the
second time. When asked about it, he said
be believed the president understood the
wants of the people far more than it was
supposed he did.
Mr. Kandall was called upon by # N«wa
correspondent to-Eight and asked for ills
opinion. Tho great protectionist was lu
his usual sullen mood and had nothing
whatever to say. It is quite generally bo
lleved that Mr. Kandall fuilv realizes the
position he Is In, and sees that unless he
joins the majority he mu3t soon break wit1!
the president and be cast out from the rant
and file of the party.
The Louisiana delegation are alarraod.
Mr. Gay gives it as his opinion that It the
president's recommendations are carried
out by congress his state will become repub
lican in less than three months.
There is hardly a doubt now In the minds
of any of the members of b^th parties bu'
what a tariff revision bill will be passed,
and at last something ia this direction ac-
complished, which has been a bone of con-
tention for a great many years.
THE MESSAGE.
ijdications for to-dav.
Washington, Dercmbur 7, 1 1. m. — iTor
eastern Texas: I.tgbt rains, followed by cool-
er ard f'ilr weather ar-d liiht to (res'j variable
* lnfis.
tariff and ukven'ue !
To the Congress of the United States: You
ate confronted at the threshold of your legls
Iatlve duties with a condition of the national
finfcnces which imperatively demands i.11 me-
diate and caieful consideration. The amount
of money annually exacted through the oper-
ations cf tho present laws from the Indus
tri6s and necessities of the reople largely ex-
ceeds the sum necessary to meet the expenses
of the government. When ute consider that
the theory of our Institutions guirantees to
eveiy citizen the lull enjoyments of all the
fiults of his industry and enterprise,with only
such deduction as may be his share toward
the careful and economical maintenance of
the government which protects Lioi, it 14
plain that the exaction ot more than this Is
indefensible extortion and aculpablebetrayal
of American fairness and justice. This wrong
inflicted upon those who beat' th8 burden of
natio&al taxation, like other wrongs, mnltl
plies a brood of evil consequences. The public
treasuiy, which should only exist a-- a con
duit conveying the peopled tributes to Its Ie
gltimate objects ol expenditure, beco.nes a
hoarding place for money needlessly with
drawn from trade and the people's use, thus
crippling our national energies, suspending
cm countrys c'.e\ etopment, preventing In
vestn ent in productive enterprise, threaten
in« financial disturbance and Inviting schemes
(f
public plunder.
This condition of onr treasury Is n -jt alto
r< ihex I'tf-w: and it has more thin once of lata
been submitted to the peopl.'-i represeati-
uveb in tl)« coDgiess »h > atone can apply a
r-niedj. And -\et tue situatl-m stiu continues
w'th epginvated Incidents, more than ever
pre BginK financial convulsion and wide-
st 1 f«d disaster.
It will r.ot co to negl< ct thl) situation bn-
C:ne its danger? aie not now palpably im
mice-ntand apparent, They exist none th8
less certainly and await tha unforseenanl un-
expected occasion when suddenly they will
! 1 precipitated up"n us.
On the 3tth day of June, 1885, the excess "
revenues over public expenditures, after c vu-
pl\ing villi the annual requirements ol tia
suiting fund act, was $17,850,735 81; during tha
year endt d June 30,1680, such excess amount
< 11 to $41!,405 645 20, and during the year endul
June 30,18S7, it reached the sum of $55,567,849 54.
THB ANNUAL CONTEIRUTIONS
to the sinking fund during the three years
above specified, amounting In the aggregate
to $188,058,830 04, and dodueted from the sur-
plus as stated, were made by calling In fo.'
the purpose outstanding 3 per cent bonds of
the government.
liurlng the tlx months prior to June 30, 1887,
the surplus levenue had grown so large by re-
peated accumulations, it *->as feared tho
v. ithdrawal of this great sum of money needed
by the people wouJd so effect tlie business ot
tl.e country that the sum of $70,881,100 of such
surplus was applied to tho payment of tlie
principal ana interest of the 3 per cent bonds
1-till outstanding, and which wore then pay-
able at the option of tlie government.
The precarious condition of tho financial
affairs among the people still needing relief,
1 immediately after the 30th day of Jnne, ls<7,
ihe remainder of the 3 per cent bonds than
outstanding, amounting, with principal auu
inteiest, to the sum of $!8,877,5C0, were called
ill and applied to the sinking fund contributed
for
thk CURRENT FI8CAL YBAil.
Notwithstanding these operations of the
tiessury department, representations of dls-
tn s» in business circles not only continued
tut increased, and absolute peril seemed at
hand. In iliese circumstances the eoutdbu
tion jo the slnkiDg fund for the current fiscal
>ear Wbs at ODCe completed by tho expeudi-
tin c of $27,(84 263 55 In iliiFpurctiase of govern-
n.eit bonos uot yet due, bearing! and 4!i
mi i-ei.t interest, tiie premium paid tneraou
uvei aping about 24 per cent for the former and
s 1W r cent foi the latter. In addition to this
U,u inteiest accruing during the current year
upon tl e outstanding bonded indebtedness of
tl.e government was to some extent antlel-
1 at< o, and the banks selected as depositories
i-t 1 utile money ivere permitted to somewhat
iiii/rase their deposits. While expedients
w (•] v t h 11s 1 mploj ed to 1 elease to the people the
lnoiiev ljlng idle in the troa ury reserved to
aveit lmm< d ate danger our surplus revenues
Mbve continued to accumulate, tlie excess
for the pr» scut year amounting on 1st day o;
Ijectmber to $55,258,701 10. and is estimated to
leach tlie sum of $li8,OCO,iOO on the 30th day of
■ Itii e next, r.t which date It ise^ji'icted that
liiia sum, aoded to prior accumulations, will
SWELL the SURPLUS
in the trcasuiy to $140,(00,000. There seems to
be 110 assurance that with such a withdrawal
from use of the people's circulating medium,
our business community may not in the near
future be subjected to the same distress which
was quite lately produced from the same
cause, and wl.ile the inactions of onr national
treasury should bo few and simple, and while
Its best condition would bo reached, I believe
lp> its entile disconnection with pilvate busl
1 ess interests, yet when by a perversion of Its
pujposes it Idly holds money uselessly sub-
tiactcd from the channels of trade, there
seems to be reason for the claim that some
legitimate moans should ha devised by the
government to restore In an emergency, with-
out waste or extravagance, such money to Its
place among the people. If such an emer-
gency anses there now exists 110 clear and
uuuoubttd
EXECUTIVE POWER OF RELIEF.
Ileietofore the redemption of tho j er cent
bonds which were payable at the option of tho
government has al'foided a means for the dis-
tursement of tbe excess of our revenues, but
these bonds have all been retired and there
are no bonds outstanding the payment of
which we have the right to insist upon.
The contribution to the sinking fund which
furnishes the occasion for expenditure in the
purchase of bonds has been already made for
ihe current year, so that there is no outlet in
tl-at dliectlon. In the present state of legls
latiou the only pretense of any existing ex-
ecutive power to restore at tills time uuy part
01 our surplus levenue to the people by Its
expenditure consists In tlie supposition that
ihe secretarv of the treasury may enter tho
market and purchase the bonds of the govern-
ment 110't yet due at a rate of premium to ba
tigieed upon. The only
PROVISION OF WW
from which such a power could be derived. Is
fc mid in an appropriation bill passed aiiumber
ni jeers ago, and it is subject to tho suspicion
that it was intended as temporary and limited
in its application instead of conferring a con-
tu utug discretion and authority. No con-
dition ought to exist which would justify the
Brant of power to a single official upon his
judgment oi its necosalty [o withhold from cr
release tn tlie business of the people in an un-
usual manner money held In the treasury, and
thus affect athlswlll the financial situation
of the country, and if it Is deemed wise to
lodge in the secretary of tlie treasury the au-
thority lu the present juncture to purchase
bends, it should be plainly vested and pro-
vided as far as possible with such checks and
limitations as will citline this oili .nal's rlgnt
and discretion and at the same time relieve
him from undueresp mslBliity.
In consloeilng the question of purchasing
be nds as a means of restoring to circulation
the surplus money
accumulation lu the t:easury, it should to
borne lu mind that premiums mutt of Course
be paid upcm sneli ft purchase that there may
be a large part of tliese bonds held as invest-
ments which can not be purchased at any
piice, and that combinations among holders
v.ho aio willing to sell may unreasonably en-
hance the cost of such bonds to the govern
n ent.
It has been suggested that the present
bonded debt might ba refunded at a loss rato
of inteiest and the difference between the old
and new security paid In cash, thus finding
use for the surplus in the treasury. The suc-
cess of this plan, it Is apparent, must depend
upon the volition of the holders of the present
bonds; and it Is not entirely certain that the
inducement which must be offered them would
retult in more financial benefit to the govern
ment than the purchase of bonds, while the
uoter proposition would rednco the principal
cf the debt by actual payment instead of ex
tending it.
The proposition to deposit the money held
bv the government I11 banks throughout till
country for use by tho peopie is, It seoms to
me, exceedingly
exceedingly objectionable in principle,
establishing too close relationship between
the operations of tha government treasury
and the business ol' tho co lu'ry and too ex
teusive a commingling cf their money, thus
foster ir g an unnatural reliance in private bus-
iness upon public luuds. If tills scheme should
be adopted it should only bo dono as a tenipo-
lT.rv expedient to meet an urgsnt necessity.
Legislative aud executive off rt should gener-
ally be In the opposite direction and should
have a tendency to divorce as m nch as can
i afeiy be done the treasury department from
pi ivate enti rpriso. Of course It is not eipoctcd
tl at uj neeestarv and extravagant appropria
firms will be made for the pupuse of avoiding
the accumulation of an excets of levcnuo.
Such expenditure, beside the demoralization
t-lal' just conceptions of public dutv which it
entails, stlmu'ates a habit of reckless Im-
providence not I11 the least consistent with
tl.e mission of cur people or tho high and
beneficent purposes of our government I
have
deemed it my duty
to thus biing to the knowledge of my country-
men, as well as to tt-e attention of their re.
pie-.entatlves charged with the responsibility
of legislative relief, the gravity of our finan-
cial s ituatlcn. The failure of tlie congress
heretofore to provide against the dangers
which it was quite evident from the very na-
ture of the difficulty must necessarily have
produced 01 caused a cjndltion c-f financial
clisti ess and apprehension since your last ad-
journment, which taxed to the utmost all the
'authority ard expedients within executive
control, and these apjeir now to be exhaust
eo. If disaster results from the continued in-
sctlvity of congress the responsibility must
rest wbeie It belongs.
Thoiuh the situation thus far considered is
fraught with danger which rhould be fully
realized, aud though it presents features of
wrong to tho people as well 83 peril to the
co'intiy It Is but a result growing out of a
perfectly palpable and apparent cause, coi-
itantly 'reproducing tha same alarming cir-
cumstances—a congested national treasury
and depleted monetary condition in the
business OF THE country.
It need hardly be stated that while the pres-
ent situation demands a remedy, we can only
be saved from n like predicament lu the fu-
ture by a removal ef Its cause. Our scheme
of taxation, by means of which this surplus Is
taken Ire 111 the people and put in the public
tiessi.1T, ecr si-ts of a tariff or duty levied
upon importations from aOroad, and internal
revenue taxts| levied upon the consumption
i f tobacco and spirituous aud malt liquors,
it must lie crnceded that none of the things
su'jectcd to mterrai revenue taxation a.e,
ptrictlv speaking, necessities Tlon-e appear >
to l e no just complaint ot taxation by con
WEIS BROS..
Wholesale Dealers in
Cry Goods. Uotions. Booti'
Elioeis, Hata. Xraaka, StoM
Galveston, Texas,
Invite inspection of their complete Knot
new and desh able goods. Have ttUI on hata/
Ahont iSO.IJOO Worth of
Bepsoiiable Olothirsgr,
which we will close out rears
solicit shipment*.
1
eiiiiscf these articles, and there ie-mis to
> 1 f thing so well able to bear ilie nun en
|tl:c>i.i hardship to anv portion of the puopia.
I'.vr (.1,1- present tariff laws—tho vicims, 111
nitons and illogical sourceof untie.-essr.ry
xatior— ought to be at once revissci and
aim l.did, Tnese laws, as their prinnry and
pltin ef.cct, ralso tho price to consume;s of
ALL ARTICLES IMPORTED
iir d subject to duty by precisely tlie sum paid
for such duties. Thus the amount of tho duty
measures the tax paid by those who purchase
I use these Imported articles. Manyofthosa
thir es, however, are raised or manufactured
in our own countrj and the duties now levied
uj.011 foreign goods and products are called
piotec-tton to these home 'Manufactures, bo
cause they render it possible for theseof our
people viho are nianufactuiers to mako these
isxed articles and sell them for a pi Ico equal
to that demanded for tlie lrnported goods that
have raid customs duties. So It happens that
while comparatively a few use the Imported
u) tides, millions of onr peopie who never uss
and never saw tho foreign products purchase
and use tilings of tlie same kind made tn tills
countrj , and pay therefor ncarlyjor quite tlie
san.e ennanced price which tlie duty adds to
the Imported articles. I'h03e who buy imports
vuiy the duty charged thereon into tho public
tr. usury, but the great majoritj of our citizens
who buy
DOMSSTIC ARTICLES
of the fame class pay a sum at least approxl
n ateiy equal to this duty to the home manu-
facturer.
This reference to the operation of our ta iff
laws is not made by way of Instruction, but in
c rdor that we may be constantly l-e nliided of
tbe manner 111 which they impose a buidea
upon 1 hose who consume domestic products
a. well as those who consume imported art!
e.'es and thus create a tax upon all our people
It is not pioposed to entirely relieve the conn
try of this taxation. It most be extensively
contained as the source cf tha government's
Incomes, and in a readjustment of o 11' tariff
the interests of American labor eng mod l i
manufacture should be carefully considered,
Bswe:lasthe preservation of our lnanufac
turer. It may be called protection, or bv any
other name, but relief for the hardships aid
dangers cf our present tulif laws should be
devi ed with especial precaution against l u
pcrtilDg the) existence of our mauuf icturlnz
Interests. Hut this existence should not in un
a condition which, without regard to
the public welfare
or a nntional exigency must always insure the
leailzi-tloii ol immense profits Instead of mod
eiato y profitable retu-ns. As the volume and
diversities of om nati .nal activities increase
new recruits lue added to those wr.o desire a
conthirutlou of the advantages which they
cone nve the present system of tar.ff taxation
affords them. So stubbornly have ail efforts
to refoim the present condition been resisted
by these of our fellow citizens thus engaged
that they can hardly complain of tlio suspl-
cien onteitalneil ti, a certain extent that there
existed an orgar I zed combination all along
1 be line to maintain their alvsntage, VVe, in
the midst of centennial celebrations, nnd with
becoming piido, rejoice in American skill and
ingenuity, American energy and enterprise,
and in the woudeiful natural advantages and
resources developed by a century's national
growth; jet when an attempt is made to jus-
tify a scbeme wliicn permits a tax to be Ial I
upon every consumer, and for the
BENEFIT OK OUR MANUFACTURERS
quite beyond a 1 easonabledemand (or govern'
mental regard, it suits the purpose of advo-
cacy to call our manufactures infant Indus-
tiles still needing the highest and greatest de-
gree rf favor and fostering care that can be
wiungf/om federal legislation.
It Is alto said that tho Increase I11 tho price
of domestic manufactures resulting from the
present tariff is necessary in order that higher
wages may be paid to our workingmon em
ployed In manufactures than are paid for what
Is c alled the pauper labor of Europe. All will
acknowledge the force of a government which
Involves the wolfare and liberal compensa-
tion el our labor Is honorable In the oj'esof
every American citizen, and as It lies at tho
icuudalion c f r 111 development and progress
It Is entitled, without affectation or hypocrisy,
to the utmost iegard. The standard of our
laborer's Mfo should not be measured bv that
of any other country less fovored, and ttiey
are entitled to their full share of
ALL OUR ADVANTAGES.
By the last census It Is made to appoar that
of the 17,392,099 of our population engaged lu
all kinds of industiirs 7,070,493 are employed
i> agilculture, -1,074,238 in professional and per-
sonal srivice (2,034 876 of whom are domestic
servants and laborers), while 1,810,258 are era-
nlr.jed in trade and ti asportation, and 3 S57,-
112 ore classed as employed I11 manufacturing
nnd mining. For jaesent purposes, however,
the last number glfen should be considerably
reduced. Without attempting to onnmeraie
nil, It w ill be cc needed tlmt there should bo de
ducted from thoae which It Includes 375,145
carpenters and joiners, 5sr>,101 milliner?, dress-
rraners and seamstresses, 172,726 blacksmiths,
11-3,7£(i tailors find talloresses, 102,473 masons,
7t;,s4l butchers, 41,819 bakers, 22,083 plasterers,
and <»'•! engaged In manufacturing agricul-
tural implements, amounting in the a™g-.'agate
to 1,214,023, leaving 2,623,18.1 persons employed
in such manufacturing industries as are
ci.lmcd to be benefited bv a high tart It To
tin se the appeal Is made to save tt olreinploj-
mcntsncl m untaintheir wages by
RESISTING A CHANGS'.
There ihould bo no disposition ti answer
stu b suggestions by the allegation that they
a- 'i In u 11 lnoiity among those who labor and
therefore should forego an advantage In the
ti verefcts c f low prices for tho majoiicy; their
compensation, as It may be affected by the op
eratiun of tariff laws, should at all times be
sciupuloufly kept in view, and yot with slight
reflection they will not overlook the fact that
they aie consumers with the rest; that they,
too, have their own warts aud those of their
(amines to supply from their earnings, and
that the price of the necessaries of lite, as
well cs the amount of their wages, will rogu
late the measure ot their welfare and com-
for t. Hut the reduction of taxation denund
ed should be so measnied as not to necessl
ttfe or justify either the loss of employment
b\ tlie workingman nor the lessening of Ills
w nf.es, and the profits still remaining to tho
manufacturer after a necessary readjustment
sin uld furnish 110 exouse for the
SACRIFICE OF THE INTERESTS
of Ills employes, either In their opportunity
to ivoik or In the diminution of their compen-
sation. Nor can the worker lu manufactures
(nil to understand that whilo a high tariff Is
clsined to be necessary to allow the payment
of lctunnerative wuges, it certainly results lu
a very large Increase in the price of near.y all
sorts of manufactures, which tn almost count
less forms lie needs for the use of himself and
flis famllv. lie receives at the. desk of tits em-
ployer ills wages, and perhaps before ho
reaches his home is obliged, in a purchase for
family use of an article wnieli embraces his
own labor, to return In the payment of the In
en ase in price which the tariff permits the
haid earned c impensatlou or many days of
toil. The farmer and agriculturist who m.mu
iaettue nothing, but wbo pay the increased
piice which the tariff imposts 11110netuy
Bgiiiulturat imp'e nent, upon ail lie wears,
and upon all he uses and owns, except the in-
ci ease 01 h's
FLCCKS AND HERDS
and such things as his husbandry produces
from tl e soil, Is Invited to aid in maintaining
the presi nt situation; and he Is told that a
hlulwlutv on imported wool Is necessary for
the benefit of those who have sheep to shear,
ia order that the p. ice of their wool maybe
incr eased. 'I bey, of course, are. not reminded
that the fainter who has no sheep Is by this
scheme obliged in liig prrchases of clothing
and wcolen goods to payatributa to his fellow
farmer, as well as to the manufacturer and
tier chant, nor Is any mention made of the fact
that the slieepowners and their households
must wear clothing and use other articles
manufactured from the wool they sell at tariff
prices, and thus as consumers must return
their share of this increased mice to the
tradesman. I think It may be fairly assumed
that a large proportion of the sheep owned by
the farmers throughout the.country are found
in snail flocks, numbering from twenty live to
"'fee duty 011 the giale of imported wool
which
THESE 8IIBKP YIELD
Is 10 cents each pound, If of tha valuo of 30
cents or less, and 12 cents if ot tho value 01
more than 30 cents. If Ihe estimate ot six
r.i unds bo allowed for each tieece tile duty
thereon would be to or 72 cents, and this may
be taken as the utmost enhancement of Its
voice to tbe farmer, by the reason of tills
duty $i8 would thus represent tlie increased
11 lie 01 wool from twenty-live sheep, and $S6
that from ti e wool r.t titty sheep, and at pies
t-i t values thl3 addition would amount to
about Clio third of its price n oon Its sale. The
'araier receives this or a less t irltf p ,-otlt; ttio
wool leaves Hollands charged with precisely
that sum, which, in all I's changes, will a l-
lure to it i nttl It reaches the consumer, w hen
11,111 ufactuied into cloth aud otlisr gor ds an 1
material t< 1 use. Its cost Is notonlv lucrmsid
to the extent of the farmer's tariff profit £ijr
the benefit of the manufacturer aud the opera-
tic n of other tariff laws.
in the r. f an time the day arrives when tha
!aimer finds It
necessary to purchase
w-oolen good-' to clotue himself and family for
ihe winter. When no faces the tradesman for
that purpose he discovers that lie is obilgel
not only to return in the way of Increased
tarlfl profit on the. wool be sold and which
then perhaps lies before him In manufactured
foim, but lie must add a considerable sum
therefor to meet further i icrease in coat
enured by a tariff dutv on the manufacture.
Thus in tlie end he Is aroused to the fact that
he bus paid upon a moderate purchase as a
result of the tariff scheme which, when ho sold
his wcol, seemed so profitable an increase ia
pr ice more than sufficient to sweep away all
the tatlff profit he received uoou the wool
lie piodueed and sold. When the number of
fatmers engaged in wool raising Is compared
with all the farmers in tho country a id the
small proportion ttiey boar to onr population
Is corsldered ; when it is made apparent th»t
in the uise of a large part of those who own
sheep the benefit of the present tiv iff 011 wool
Is illusory, nnd above all when It must bo con-
ceded that tlie Increase of
THE COST of living
cf.ueed by such tariffs becomes a bur leu upon
those with moderate means, audthe poor, tha
employed and unemployed, the sick and welt,
and the young and old; anil that it constitutes
a tax which, with relentless grasu, Is fastened
upon the clothing of every man worn»u and
child in tho land reasons are suggeste I why
the removal or reduotlon of tills duty should
be Included in a lev Islon of our tariff la vu.
111 speaking of tho increase il cost to the con-
sumer of onr home manufacture resulting
from a duty laid upon Imported articles olthe
same description, the fact Is not overlooked
that competition among our domestic pro-
ducers sometimes has the effect of keeping the
price of their products btlow tlie h'gdast
limit allowed bysuchduty. But It is not orioua
tlmt this competition is too often strangled t>7
conitliintious cjiite previlentat this tlrna au<!
iiequeutly called trusts, wnlch have for their
objects tho regulation of tlie
SUPPLY AND PRICE
of commodities made and sold by momhe-a ot
ihe combination. Tho people can hardly
hope for any consideration in the operation
of tin so selfish schemes. If, however, lu tile
Kbtence of such combination a healthy aud
fiec couipc tition reduce the price of any p»r
licular dutiable aitirle of home production
below the limit which Itrruhc other wiie cinch
under our tar It! laws, and il with such reduced
piice fluMn snufaiil mccon t In lie ? t.i thrive, It U
e ntiiely evident that one thtug has been dU-
<overtd wl lch should be carefully scruti-
nized In an eftorc to reduce taxation,
tlie necessity of combination t.i main-
tain the 1 rice of any commodlt;-. The
tarlfl furnishes proof that some one Is wllliog
to accept lower prices tm such commodity,
and that tuc-ii prices are remunerative, and
lewerprlces producod by competition prove
the same tiling, Thus, where either of these
cot dltlons exist a case would s»»m to be pre-
si nted tor an easy redaction of taxation.
THE CONSIDERATIONS
which have been presented touching onr
tailff laws arc Intended only to enforce an
earnest recommendation that the surplus rev-
cnues ol lire government be preventod by tha
reduction of our customs duties, aud at tha
1 nine time to emphasize a suggestion tnat In
acci inpllshlng this purpose wo may dls-
1 liargo » double duty to our people by grant-
ing to them a measuso of relief from tarlll
mi at Ion In quarters where it Is most needed
and from sources where it can be most fairly
mill justly accorded. Nor can the presentation
made of such consideration, with any clegrea
of fairness, bo regm-ded as evidence of un-
iriendllnoss toward our uiannfaet urlng inter-
ests, or of anv lack of appreciation ot thatr
value and Importance. Those Interests con-
stitute a leading and most substantial element
of our national greatness, and furnish the
proud proof of our country's progress. l!ut If
lu the emergency that presses upon us our
manufacturers are asked to surrender some-
thing for the public good and
AVERT DISASTER,
their patriotism as well as a grateful recog-
nition of the advantages already afforded
should load them to willing co operation N.o
deir and Is made that tlioy shall forego atl tho
benefits of governmental regard, but they
demand Is made that they shall forego atl tha
can not fall to be admonished of their duty
as well as their enlightened self Interest and
saletv. When ttev are reminded of the fact
that financial nanlc and collap^e'to which the
present condition tends afforded no greater
slicJtii or protection to our manufactures
than to our other important enterprises, op-
poi trinity for safe, careful and dellOorata re-
form is now afforded, and none of us should
be unmindful of a time wheu an abused and
Imitated people, heedless of those who have
resisted timely and reasonable rc'.lot, may In-
sist upon n radical and sweeping rectification
of their wrongs.
The difficulty attending a wlso and fair re-
vision of our taiifl laws Is not under estl
mated, it will require on tho part of congress
GREAT LAllOR AND CARS
nnd especially a broad and national nonte n-
l.lutlon of tlie subject, and a patriotic dtsra-
Hind of such loca- and selfish cmlios as urn uu-
1 eesonable and r> < klcss ct the welfare o! tiro
entile country. Under our present laws mora
il;un 1U0 aitfcles aio suoject to duty Maay
oi these do r.ot In any way compete without
own iunnufactiiro=, and many are hardly worth
attention us subjects of revenue. A consider-
able reduction can be irale tn the aggregate
bv sdcllng them to the free llJt The taxation
of liucuiies pres'-nts no features of liaidsultt
nut ihe necessaries ot life used and consumed
by ail the people, tho duty upon which adds
to the cost of living In every home, should be
ei,.fitly cheapened* The radical reduction ot
tbe duties imposed upon raw material used In
manufacture or i s free importation Is, of
course, an important factor in any effort to
uco tho price 01 these necessaries, it would
riot only relieve them from the Increased coat
caused by the tariff
011 such material, but the manufactured prod-
uct being thus cheapened that part of lha tariff
now lakl upon such product as aconipansa-
tion to our manufacturers for the present
price ot raw material, could bo accordingly
modified. Such rod uctlon, or free Importation,
would serve heside to largely reduce the rev-
enue. , ,
It is not apparent how such a change can
have anv Injurious effect upon our ir,anufac-
to er ; on tl.e contrary It would appear to
give them a bettor chance In the foreign mar-
kett wlili the manufacturers of other coun-
tries, who cheapen tliiir waiesbylree mate-
rial. Thus our people ml;lit have the oppor-
tunity of extending tin lr sales boyond the
lln/ta ol home consumption, saving them from
depiession, Interruption In business aud loss
caused by a glutti d domestic market, and af-
fording their tmpojes more certain ant
-ready labor witn its result, quiet and con-
t •! tmenf.
The question thus imperatively presented
for solution should he approached in a spirit
higher than partisanship
end considered in the light of that regard for
psitili.tic di ty which should characterize tho
action ot those intrusted with tbe weal of iv
con tilling ptoplc, but tl e c-b gation to a do
claied partv polli-v aid 01 Ini-iple Is not want-
ing to urge prompt and effective action. Both
t lie great political pat ties now represented in
the govemmei t by repeated and authoritative
declarations condemned tho condition of our
laws which permit the collection from the peo-
ple of unnecessary revenue, ani have tn tha
most solemn manner promised Its correction,
end neither as citizens or partisans are our
countrymen In a mood to condone the delib-
erate violation of thes: pledges. Our progress
t'»w iirel ft wise conclusion will not bo Improved
by Cwell'ng upon the theories of protection
and tree tiade, This savors too much of ban-
dy ing epithets. It is a condition which con"
fronts us, not a theory. Ueiief from this conj
ilitlon may involve a slight reduction of tha
advantages which we award our home produc-
tions. But
the entire withdrawal
of such advantages should not be contem-
plated. Tho question ot tree trade is abso-
lutely Irrelevant, and the persistent claim
made In some quarters that ail efforts to re-
lieve tlie people from ui just and unnecessary
ta*atiou are sccemes of so called freetraders
ii mischievous and far removed from any con-
sideration for the public good. The sitnpta
and plain duty which we owe the people is to
reduce taxation to the necessary expenses of
»n economical operation of the government,
and to restore ti. the business of the country
the money which we hold lu the treasury
through the perversion of governmental
powers. These thlDgscan aad should bedone
wiih safety to all our Industries, without dan-
-er to tlie opportunity 101 remunerative lab it
liicli our woikingmeu need,and with bsnatlt
to them and all our people bv cheapening
; lu lu means of subsistence aud Increasing tha
measure of tbeli com'orts.
the CONSTITUTION PROVIDES
that tho president shall from time to time
ktve to the congress Information of the «t i*»
Vi the unloiii it has been the custom 0. trs^
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