tie'sumim.
THE VERY BEST
ADVERTISING MEDIUM.
TERMS :
ONE YEAR, CASH IS ADVANCE,
SIX MONTHS,
$1.25.
.75
LOW PRICES.
-:0:
THE FALL TRADE
A ill soon open, and H. A. BROWN, as usual, is fully pre
pared !( sell every thing in the line of
Dry Goods, Groceries,
AND
General Merchandise
AT
EOCK BOTTOM PEICES
:0:
He is now receiving a Full Stock of Fall and Winter Goods
Mit'h as the people need and will have. He will not be under
sold, and takes for his motto LOW PRICES. His line of Dry
floods. Hats, Boots and Shoes are no Shoddv Articles or sec
ond hand purchases, but
the
JACKET in the Market.
of the very best quality for every customer.
UTUd'S of
FLOUR A SPECIALTY,
and always in Stock. Be sure to call on him if yon want
Bargains'. Country Produce of all kinds taken in exchange
for goods, at Cash Prices. Do not sell before you see him.
And now thanking you for the very liberal patronage so freely
bestowed heretofore, and asking a continuance of the same.
1 am Very Respectfully,
:r a bbowist.
The "Weekly
News-Observer.
The Weekly News and Observer is
h kii ways the best paper ever pub
lished iu North Carolina. It is a
.credit to the people and to the State
The people should take a pride in it.
It shou.d be in every family It is
an tisht page paper, chock full of
Ihe best sort of reading matter,
news, market reports, and all that.
You cannot afford to be without it.
Trice SI, 25 a year. We will furnish
the Weekly News nnd Observer
i.u'il January 1 st. 1 fi. for SI. scud
for sample copy. Ad I -ess.
News axd O. tERViR Co,
Reig 1, N. C.
In order to elos out my stock of
Hats. Bonnets, Ribbons. Flowers.
I will offer great inducements
to purchasers until the tame is dis
posed o.f. Call and see me. I mean
just what I say.
Hits. J. M. CESS.
ZLSTOTICIEr
The undersigned having taken out
letters of administration on the es
tate of Aaron Ritchie, dee'd, all per
sons who are indebted to said estate
tne hereby notified to come forwar.1
and settle, and all pernors holding
claims against the said estate will
present them for payment within
twelve months of this notice, or the
same w ill be pleaded in bar of their
recovery.
S. M. Ritchie and
LCTHEK RlTClllF,
Adnn 's of Aaron Ritchie, dee'd.
Aug. 21, 18SS.
A. H. PR0PST,
Mkt and Contractor.
l'laua and specifications of build
in f i4 made in any style. All con
tracts for buildings faithfully car
ried out. Office in C: ton's building,
up stairs. 13
1). D. JOHNSON,
DRUGGIST,
('ONCOKD,
X. C.
HAS
OX HAND
A JTI.L LINK
OF
Vine, Fresh and ltejkibje
rUU(iS, MEDICINES, PAIXT
AJTD OIL
AV Inch he will sell to yen n
the lowest cash price.
CCJIE, SEE A'D 1JUV.
GREAT BARGAINS! Bu,ial Casaskris, &e.
VOLUME I.
Price will raise a regular
The verv best
FUNITURE
CHEAP FOR CASH AT
M. E. CASTOR'S
Room Suites, 'In
HOlADECOFFINS,ALL KINDS
A SPECIALTY.
T it toll fii giut Kill fitf i cm-ill
profit, tome and examine my line of
gends.
Old furniture lepairfd.
12 M. E. CASTOR.
Sale of Land.
By authority vested in me as
Commissions r, by a decrpe to sell
land for partition, filed in the office
of the Clerk of the Superior Court
of Cabarrus county, on the 16th clay
of August, 1888, in a Special Pio
ceeding, wherein Paul Barnhardt
and othf rs are Plaintiffs and Paul
Barnhardt, Guar Han, P. Y. Un,
Guardian, and others are Defend
ants, I will sell, by public auction,
at Ihe Court House door in Concord,
N. C, on Monday, Ihe 1st day of
October, 1888, a tract of land, known
as the home piace of Daniel Baro
hardt, deceased, iu No. 9 township.
Cabarrus county, containing 200
acres; the description and bounda
ries whereof are fully set orth in a
deed, for said tract of land, from
Daniel Barnhardt to Eveline Barn
bardt, recorded ir. Book No. 28 page
39'J. in the office of the Register of
Deeds for Ca;:arrus county.
Tevms of Sale: One fourth of the
purch as money in cash, balance
pa3able twelve months after date of
sale, secured by uote, at eight per
cent interest, with good sureties and
title reserved till purchase money is
paid in full.
Title to this land is perfect.
GEORGE L. PATxERSON.
Ciumissioner
August 16tb., 1888.
CHAMPION
MOWKRxREPAIRS
) (
I still keep on hand a stock of
Champion Mower Repairs. My
old customers will find me at the old
stand, Allison's corner.
nl-U C. R. "WHITE.
For Sale Cheap,
A E OND HAND
OMNIBUS
ith n capacity for twe ve pisiet grrs.
in imd running order. Call at this
iffite.
FBI TIE T
nn
E
TAXES!
Please read the following Law i
carefully and remember I am com
pelled to obey the same, and every
man iu the county will have to con
form to this law:
Laws of 1887, Chapter 137, Sec
38: The Sheriff or his deputy shall
attend at his effice, during the
months of September and November
for the purpose of receiving taxes;
he shall also in like manner attend
at lei st oue day during the mouth
cf October at some one or more
places ia each township, of which
tifteeu day's notice shall b given by
advertisement at one or more places,
aud in a newspaper if one be pub
lislied in the county.
Sec. 39. Whenever the taxes
shall be due and unpaid, the Sheriff
shall immediately proceed to collect
them, etc.
Sec. 55. On the first Monday in
Febiuary in each year, the Sheriff
is directed to offer at public sale at
the court house all lands on which
the taxes levied for the previous
year still remain unpaid on the first
Monday in January preceeding.
I shall endeavor to follow strictly
the above laws, theiefore, all parties
are earnestly rt quested to ome for
ward aud settle their taxes. I will
be iu niy office duiiug October, or
ju will hud a deputy there for the
nuri)0:e of collecting taxes.
I will visit the places below for
the same purpose ou ti edays stated
duriug the mouth of Octol-er, viz:
No. 11 township, Firday October,
12, at Fair Ground.
No. 1 township, Saturday, Oct. 13.
4 " Monday, Oct. 15
" 5 " Tuesday, Oct. 16.
4 2 " Wednesday, Oct. 17.
" 3 " Thursday, Oct. 18.
- 6 ' Fiiday, Oct. 19.
" 7 " Saturday, Oct. 20.
8 " Moiiday, Oct. 22.
9 " Tuesday, Oct. 23.
" 10 Wednesday, Oct. 24
" 12 " Thursday. Oct. 25.
The Candidates will Le present
aud address the people.
The taxes must be wound up by
the 31st of next Deeembei.
lUspectfidlv,
Wm. propst,
Sheriff of Cabarrus county, N. C.
nnCFS Tiff SPEECH.
TIIK XORT1I CAKOMSA REXATOK'
(iREAT nFEKCII IX TIIK SESATE
Ilittorr of rrotrrtion for the I.aat
ttirtcr or m Ovtnry lt4ubllrn
anil Iemorratlr IH1U Compared.
From the Congressional Itocord.
C0XCI.riEi FKO.M LAST WEKK.
l'erhans, how-ver, tliere is no
greater error connee'ed with this
subject or one more persistently
urged than that concerning the ad
vauiages of the home marker. I is
very true tha' if a man could sell
readily at home for remunerative
nrin.j nil ihnt lu eniil.1 nrmlnpp. !.
would be w hannv and rrosuerous
------ii. i i
ally and without a viola ion of the
estab'ished laws of cco:iciny ; in
other words, if the home market in
vites him by offering the best prices.
But when he desires to go some-
where else to sell his products and
'buy his supplies he does so because
j that other place iuvites him by
joking te best market
His
i interest prompts him to accept it.
Then when the law steps in and
forbids him to follow the dictates
of his interest and tells him that he
shall buy and sell in the home mar
ket, that law is in violation of all
jrood economy and of the hishest
and dearest rights of the p?ople.
And when it is found that all these
praises of the home market emenate
s a'e of things. Especially would j depopulated and impoverished their ! -V0!l" 11,111 "" "S'"o 11'
this be so if it could be done natur-1 Northern neighbors. And not only I u,:ltion of Vermont at this rate
from the- home producer whose 01 -Maseaeiinsctrs, tne rich-, iunu in me .vpru m,.uoe. ut nu
wares are for sale, and that the law i est and most populous of those j American Magazine, and is entiled
which forbids a man from seeking! States is "udergoing this process of j "The decay of rural New England."
i;i, zonular concrestion this rushing of ' I he article is both entertaining and
LUC MlSt UlLlI IVlTb 19 lllOblL(V4
wise by the home producer, then
both the praises and the law become
the proper objects of suspicion to
pvei-y honest mind. The farmers of
every honest minu. i ne iarmcrs oi
this country are the victims of sel
fish and logical policy, more per
haps than any other class of the
community. If protected tariffs
operated to raise the price of his
products as it does of the manufac
turer, then the restraint upon his
rights would not be any worse than
upon other people
i;ni- ...,f..i.f.....,fui fm. lum ,. l,;i..f
llllb UlllUi tlUIUlCM 1VI 1111.1, .! UOb
the price of all his" supplies is in-
frensed by tariffs, the nrice of all his
productions is lowered by the free- 356,000. or 29,000 more than the j setts, formerly covered with fruitful
trade markets of the world. For State at large. In other words, that meadows and grain fields, arc now
him the great maxim of political the poplation of the country had "unprofitaoly gay"' with tenacious
economy that men should be per-! diminished fo that extent, besides j sumac and odorous fern. The once
mitted to sell in the highest market ! having been stripped of its natural j cultivated laud is occupied by brush
and buy in the cheapest is prcciie-
ly reversed, and he is compelled to
Mn ;.. ni,Mt nvrL-.t ,i imr
OCII 111 kllVl UV ...... T I
tho ilin..h. Th not-. trn
alone of his surplus products, but of!
all; for the price which he obtains j
in the home market is fixed by the i
price of his surplus which he" sells 1
in
.,l.rr,....t Tho m.-umfptiirPl- hLkPsI'1- Ul. ",c '-'V il'"'""'
,i nt tujj. fm.pflJ tlw. farmer
. . i .. ... i
to pay mm prorecr u puces or n s
Cloth, blankets, anu an implements;
of husbandry, and then buys the!
.
farmer's flour, meat, and cotton atl
frPP tr-.de nrice? A Southern far- &,,JUU los-iuer wuu wuat lucj mew nios, casual observer mus be 1m- . cea i.y tjuacKs, ui.c.w ineicuun.,
1. Lr,A:! r Thpif-om no, Ehne Md;preMed l)y the numberof empy;and compounders of cosmetics, hair
mer makes cotton ror saie. j.ue
price which he obtains for it is that
for which jt would sell n Liverpool,
CONCORD, N. C, NOVEMBER 2, 1888.
minus freight, insurance, and com-
missions.
That Liverpool price is cheapened I
by the competition of the cotton
Srow every quarter of the globe.
Reing compelled then to take that
price, common fairness should per
mit him to buy his supplies in a !
market cheapened likewise by the t
prices of the world,
or London he could
In Liverpool 1
thus buy the
bagging and the iron ties to en
velop his new -crop, but protection
says no you can not do that unless
you pay 50 per cent on your bagging
and, 35 per cent ou your ties the
House bill proposes to make these
ties free aud reduce the bagging tc
15 per cent. But this protection
substitute does worse than even the
present law, for whilst it does reduce
the duty on the baggiug to 25 per
cent, it increases the duty 011 the
cotton ties to la or 1U0 per cent. ;
And the history of the Southern
farmer's wheat.
The reasonable amount of pros -
perity which the country has en -
jojeu since me war nas not ucen ;
t . 11. ...... 1 . . 1 ..
participated in by the agricultural
classes, and little wonder when we
eonsiuer now iney are neeceu ou mi
sides for the benefit of the others.
The records of mortgages, of de-
dining prices, amply testify to this.
Nowhere has the decay of agricul-
11 1 (i 1 ill
tr. been more marked and lament-
a' than in several of the New
' iand States where manufactures
most abound. The statistics of I
these states completely refute the
the idea that the manufacturers
furnish a home market which en
riches the farmer. An intelligent
and painstaking gentleman of this
citv has carefully collaborated the
figures which illustrate this subject, i .. f ,)ft(.,n , i ,0
, , , J ' I therefore was 20,649. 1 his was less
and show bevond all question that;., , en
1 than the aggregate increase of the
...i .:i .t .1.- .. i i --
w miM me cities aim towns or -Aewi
England hae grown and become
wealthy by the protective policy, i, ! thc that tiollottf
has been at the e.xpen,e and decay . a favor of the citks
of the country at large. Here are I' i
. . . . , . " erniont in 1870 had a popula-
his figures nnd conclusions: ' . , ,
'The protective policy has uuiit lion of 320,ool. ami 1,1 lNM) ,l wa3
up a nun.bct of considoiabb towns i ag' ':J: inhabitants
in Massachusetts Connecticut and ! The tovr,,s ,nul t it,cs of Wlont
lihode Island; and these towns have : Increased in that pe.iod frrm 50,504
doubtless given encouragement toioM,H4. The gams of thc towns
gardening in their immedbtevieir.i. wu3 tlu'rcforc-2,637, or 900 more
t;. nt ; ...... ,;r.of it..,f tt... ;.. , than the State, and shows that the
lll-Oi I'lll lb 13 I Mill i 1 1 V'. I llltii. IIK: IU"
cidcutal good has not reached be
yond th?ir immediate neighbor
hoods. It h:is been shown that the
system, while enrichimr the canital -
ists and buildin- the towns in these
favored States, has at the same time,
-
are Maine, New Hampshire, and
Vermont injured by the artiticial
stimulant given by protection to
manuiactxiring in tne three more
Southern Xew England States, but
: it appears from the census returns
I that it
... .1
serves to roo tne country
-
in the favored States themselves of
population, and thus inin agricul-
ture, which foster the best citizen -
ship, for the purpose of enriching
the town. "
" I he tendency of population in
all our Northern country to rush to
th ritiM is ont of thn soehd evils c;f
........ .
' fie times, which legislation should
nothing to check- This tendency in
New England is particularly no -
A i CJ j
1 blood to the: bend nt
galloping rate. The population of
! that State in 1870 was 1,457,331,
! in 1880 it had risen to 1,783,085.
The increase was, therefore, 320,734.
A table of the census report of 1880
shows the population of cities and
towns in the United States of 4,000
inhabitants and upwards. From
this table it appears that in 1870
the towns and cities of Massnchu -
setts, of this description, conta.ned
1,004,000, or not far from three -
' fnnrt.hs of the rionuhition of the
I 1
State, and that in 1880 the towns
ami cities of the fctatehud gamed
incroase.
"The population of Connecticut
18? wa3 537,454, and m 1880 it
was
'Ihe increase was.
therefore, 85,247. During the same
vears the population of the towns
and cities of Connecticut rose from
from 289 801 to 370,057. The in -
- therefore 80,255, or only 5,000 less
.! thsMi the cram of the whole orate.
;
'
u l,,c " -
1 nMinfrv niniil.irimi. pvoenr. the
- V i ? - ---r- " "
fiom Maine, New Hampshire and
Vermont, and other sources.
"Rhode Island iu 1870 contaiiifd
TANDARD.
217,353 inhabitants, and in 1880 1
the population was 26,531. The j
increase was, therefore, 59,178. The j
city population of Rhode Island in
creased between those years from
150,900 to 237,200, or 70,300. The
cities therefore gained 27,000 more
than the State, or, in other words,
the fields and farms lost population
to that extent. Instead of fostering
agricultuie and increasing the mint-
her of independent yeomanry, the
effect of the protective .system is to
convert independent yeomanry into
dependent factory operatives, liable
to be 'locked out' at any moment
from the factories and rejected from
the tenements occupied by them.
"Tha depleting effect of protec
tion upon the factory hand 'breeding
States is capable of further illus
tration. Thus the population of
Maine in 1870 was 626,915, and in
18S0 it was 648,936. The increase
j w&s therefore 22,021. The city and
i town pogulation of Maine in 1870
was 15Of3G0, and iu 1880 it was
1171 The incmig0 WJIB therc.
f ,o 000 T1,M fifflirog tho.
that the aggregate gain of the State
was a trifle greater than that of the
; eiti l)llt the proportionate gain was
; thirfv foM iu f;lV0. of the citiw
j In,ioe(i, if we deduct the increase of
;f.Uv population from that of the
j St.;t(f at la the i)a.inoe iu favor
of the country will be only 3,153.
'The natural increase of the coun
try alone would be sonic-thing like
100,000. Ihe population of .New
Hampshire in 1870 was 318,300,
and in 1880 it was 346,1)91. Thej
increase therefore was 28,691.
i Daring the same period the towns
: and cities of New Hampshire in
i pre-weil from 83.367. The jr.iiu
State. But it must be remembered
tlmt. the 8.000 renrosenta the ruin of
agricultural interests had been rob
bed by the protective policy of that
number of citizens over and above
! thc? natuml rea.e.
The natiira
! "crease of population in America is
the r.tte of 23 per cent, in ten
... , 1. 1 .. .
would turn out 80,000 new born
(I recti Mountaineers in that time."
It thus appears that while pro
tection does protect, and make
MW,W ol Tne capiiiiM engagwi in
manufacturing, it
is uestructive ot
ifrriniiHn iv. mil that nf typ lifrmli'
fa"" 1 1
: ... 1. . i. iL.
m "'I'l'"" 1""-
j tective Hicv. the last to give it aid
! sho"1J ,,e tl,e 's-that is to say,
ninety-iiiiic in a hundred of the
p?ople in New England and es-
' pecially the agricultural population,
I These statistical statements, taken
: from the dry reports of the census,
i . i r m.
; aim tne nuerences necessarily ueun -
! ted in a lively, descriptive magazine
; article cf recent da'e. It is t) be
i instructive as well, although the
I light which it throws upon the
effects of tariff legislation was doubt
less never seen or thought of by the
writer:
He begins as follow:
The cultivation of thesoil, we have
been taught to believe, is the true
foundatien of national prosperity.
j If this theory is correct; the fact is
jto say the least, startling that the
i population of the hill towns of New
1 England is steadily declining, and
h'ljfirmimr bind. 4 iii-ft trraduallv be-
-j- j -
coming unkempt wildernesses. V;lt
' areas in Connecticut and Alassachu -
and brake, and the woodman plies his
axe where seventv-five vears ago were
heard the rinof the sevthe and the ' thoma3 bel,' Speml Iavonles ft j btates laws snail oe reiurnawe oe j0f the Heme Iml-waica could be
. V, I the gods, who have stamped them J fore some judicial officer residing in j come a law in twenty four hours if
For instance, there is a rural town
U1 Connec icir, not 00 miles from
, New York by rail, and barely 12 from
. ,he busv si t40f industry that dotthe
I COaSr line Ot the fcOUlHl. JM-Olll tlieincsui iiR-iiMjun. .m.c v.i.j k,..
; willdovvs of tm 0u farm house ,herew
.. t,,.
; - " '
mu nun' Wm - iL -
. ,
.uun mm
lores', tue rye aim cioer neius ot a
e
The
j loime. gene.a ,0... c
j pressed by the numberof emp y
! houses alon? the wav. Count them.!
1 Que on the corner where the road
leaves the highway, ano'her benea h !
he big elm on the hill, a third under j
'he hill, a fourth on the next slope, j
four houses in five minutes' walk, j
and only one is inhabited. Upposi e
the occupied house is a deser ed eel-1
larwith crumbling walls, and in he
rear are rows of scrawny current
bushes and beds of tansy and pepper
mint, defining what once was a gar
den plat. Oc'ogenarians tell that in
their day a little brown homes-end
was here, under whose roof Farmer
Morgan and his wifo reared a brood of
ten children on the produce of the
farm that stre'ehed back yonder in'o
what is now a waste. Walking fur
ther we count three similar ruins in
adjoining fields, aud across the brook
a fun nh, four vanished homes in a
distance of a quarter of a mile
Its leaders openly proclaim that 1
they intend to reserve the home
market for their own people if they j
have to build a Chinese wall around
the United States to exclude all for
eign products. They have very
nearly done so. The tariff reformers
say that we must so modify our laws
as to enable our producers to sell
their surplus products in the mar
kets of the world, and this can oulv
lie done by cheapening as much as
possible all the material of produc
tion and by lowering the duties upon
foreign products to a point that will
reasonably permit foreigners to sell
them in our markets. For one
thing is certain, absolutely certain,
we can m.t sell to them unless th.v
can sell to us. Foreign trade is
simply exchange. The idea that
wu can rigidly shut out the maun -
fact u red products of all the world ; with all the manifold and expensive
and expect all the world to buy our j red-tape of the law or let his fruit
surplus products is utterly absurd, j rot upon the ground, which it most
Being out of our jurisdiction our ly does to his loss and that of the
laws cannot force them to do it. j Government. The same section
Heretofore our vast area of puolic j provides that the Secretary of the
lands have brought to us annually a
great concourse of immigrants con
stantly swelling our population and
thereby enlarging the market for
our productions. This to a great
extent 'accounts for our past, pros
perity, but it is nearly at an end
Our public lands are rapidly pass
ing into prhatc hands nearly all
of the most desirable of them have
been occupied. Naturally this vast
swarm of immigrants will diminish,
while the powers of production, con
stantly increasing, will make the
stir dus, day by day, far greater than
the home demand. It is largely
ahead of it now.
The South raises 7,000,000 bales
of cotton per annum, 5,000,000 of
which is surplus. What would she
do with it in the home market ? The
surplus wheat of the West is rarely
less than 150,000,000 bushels. Must
it rot in the home market alongside
of her vast surplus of meat and
corn.
Then what will be done with it?
Practically the manufacturers are
answering the question every day.
Whenever they find themselves with
more on their hands than they can
sell in the home market they shut
down their works aud turn their
laborers in to the streets. Thev
! chn nrnd netinn. To en;il l. them
, r i -
en
gaged in the manufacture of the
same article enter into combinations
which they call "trusts," by which
each oue agrees under penalties to
obey the orders of the "trust," to
stop production altogether, as may
decreed.
Meantime the consumer, finding
priees at home put up on him, is not
permitted to buy abroad by the tar
iff, must pay whatever prices are de
manded of him for his supplies, and
'must sell his own productions in
j glutted markets at home. Thus is
j the American farmer situated by the
beauties of this home market theory
which he is invited to support, lie
fore him stands that high Chii:e?e
wall which excludes 'him from the
outer world; behind him stands the
rusts armed with corporate powers
i , i .. "
erous member who shall offer to sell
him anything below the regulation
price! The fact that any of them
still hold the title deeds to their
farms, still have decent clothing for
j uieu " BUU,Llc" '""I"-
j ments for tneir business,, designate
A?e tukaWe marks ot
mortality.
j In the matter of redaction of tax
! upon distilled spirits the tei.der mer-
akened, as usual, for the "benefit
,...., in,.t,,.t ,,,1
: in the art, as it i; eu.hone.usly ex-
I Ol Hie lliau'.iiuciuii-ia. aimiwi uwu
t . . ,. , - i
all tax.!
, ,
i These "arts 'are
principally prac-
, - - - ' ; ' -
dyes,
tinctures, and what are known
e world, especially undvrtaker,
' to the
NUMBER 43.
as patent medicines. The door for
the entrance of fraud which is here
opened is as much wider than that
which they claim is opened by ad-1
valorem Unties ou imports as is the
Gulf at St. Lawrence than the Out
of Canso.
But it makes all the difference in
the world who benefits by the fraud
and who loses. - Advalorem frauds
were supposed to benefit t..e import
er to the loss of the home n.anv.fa
turer, but when these were changed
to compound duties and multiform
classifications, by which the fraud
was shifted and inured to the profit
of the home manufacturer, the situ
ation is pronounced satisfactory. So,
in this case, the possibility of fraud
is admitted, but inasmuch as it in
sures to the benefit of those "inter-
ested parties" who are waiting now
to judge of our amendments, it was
thought wise to remove the tax and
risk the consequences. As to the
provisions of the House bill which
were intended to mitigate in some
degree the harsh features of our in
ternal revenue las, which are so
muchVoinplained of by the small
operators in distillation in many
parts of our country, the stern re
gard of the majority for - the rights j
of the Treasury has proven incor
ruptible. Section 36 of the House bill pro-
vided that the Secretary of the j that the House bill does not reduce
Treasury might permit every farmer ul)0n articles of Northern produc
to distill" his apples, peaches, and ; tionH tionately. The very
111 w , r verse would be the fact, and is the
lire iiuiu an i iiu icuiaiiuiia j .
I and exactions of the law except sim-
j ply the payment of the tax. The
, substitute says no, let him comply
Treasury and the Commissioner of
Internal Re-en tie, may in their dis
cretion permit all small distillers of
grain, consuming less than 25 bush
els per day, to operate free from all
restrictions except the payment of
the tax which shall be assessed on
the capacity of their distilleries.
The substitute refuses to allow
this ou the ground that it opens the
door to fraud. Between the lincsdt
is not intended for the benefit of
manufacturers. Section 37 of the
House bill provides that fruit bran
dy may be placed in warehouses, and
the tax paid thereon when taken out
for removal just the same as other
spirits. Why not? But the sub
stitute says no the fanner who dis
tills his fruit shall pay the tax as
the brandy comes from tl e wi in.
The professional distillers alone
shall have the privilege of a govern
ment warehouse. Section 38 of
House bill provides that when the
distillery apparatus of a small dis
tiller is sei:.ed for any violation of
law, shall not be destroyed, but shall
be sold as provided by existing law.
The substitute says no ! The prop
erty shall be destroyed whenever
seized, though there may have been
no legal adjudication of the guilt of
its owner.
Section 39 of House bill provides
that whenever it shall be made to
appear to the satisfaction of the
judge having jurisdiction that the
health or life of any offense against
these laws is endangered by such
close confinement, the judge may
release him upon a bail or make any
order necessary for his comfort and
well-being. The substitute says
No, let him suffer or die.
In section 29, 30, and 31 of House
bill, is is humanely provided, re
spectively, that the minimum of
punishments provided by statute for
offenses shall he repealed, leaving it
to the discretion of the judge who
acquaints himself with all the cir
cumstance., to say what punishment
shall be inflicted; and that no ar
rants'of arrest shall be issued upon
affidavit of charges upon mere in
formation and belief except by she
regular officers of the land, and fur-
ther provide th.it no fees shall be J the umnufactnrers of tliia country
paid except where the defendant is J were inferf sted. I chaP.engo aeon
convicted or the prosecution shall j traduction of this. The result of
have been approved bv the district j eveiy step or movement toward a
attorney of the United States. And , n'-e ifl thf .edules has been an
- -
for offenses against the I n.ted
the country of arrest, or if there be
nr.h in th ronntv of arrest, or
if there bo none such in that county,
then in the county nearest the P'
of arrest. And lastly it is provided
by section 33 (House bill) that the
1 ftmnnssioner ot internal iieeiiue
-
and the Secretary and Treasury may
compromise cases ana reuurc
l i
remit any fines, penalties, forfeit-
! nr,s. or assessments under internal
. -l- 1 ,ur
, revenue laws. All of which node t.
: ate anu reasonao.e pro. ...
' half of the small distillers aud fur-
be-
THE STANDARD.
Rates or Advertising :
One square, one insai tiou, $1 00
One square, one month, I 50
One square, two mouths, 2 no
One square, three months, 2 50
One square, six months, 5 00.
One square, one year, 9 00
mers of the country, the majority
indignantly reject They are too
small and humble to secure the at-
tcntion of those intellects who have
been so long struggling to secure the
proper relation between the rates
imposed upon the nnmereus articles
produced in our related interdepend
ent industries.
But as they had no time to give
to the poor and the humbie in the
solving of this great problem in cus
toms duties, of course they had none
to bestow upon the farmer who dis
tills 100 bushels apples, ortoconsnlt
the in crest of any of the small fry
w ho are affected by internal revenue
laws. It is a pity ; but let tts hope
there is still justice abroad in the
land which will some day be felt
The attempt to characteiiza the
House bill as sectional in its chanc
ier because more articles of North
ern productiou are effected by its
reductions than of Southern pro
duction, is to say the least, ridicu
ojs. A table is furnished by the
committee to show this. Of course
ui.ne tenths of the manufactured
products of the United States being
raide in the nortlurn portion, the
duties on which are complained of,
necessarily the reductions affected
the North more than the South.
How 'jou'd it be otherwise? If it
were possible to reduce tariff duties
with an) show of justice or proprie
ty sectional'y, it could still be shown
f.ict. Lai grtly over on hilf of thenrc-
posed reduction by the substitute
h made upon suar which is a pure
iy Southern product; and rice, also .
sjiown in the South, and tobacco,
which is muinlya Southern product.
A'tditwill not be rretended for a
moment that of the productions
which are subjects of Federal taxa
tion the South makes anything like
near one half.
I have an abiding hope and belief
that our country men will not be d
ceived by any of these proceedings
with reference to red ucinar taxes. For
the last ten 3 ears the Democratic
party has made an honest and pers
sistent effort to reduce them to tho
necessities of the Goverment, at
every step of which they have been
thwarted by the Republican party.
They have never at any time had the
power to reduce these taxes, for they
have not had the possession at any
one time of both branches of the leg
islature and the Executive.
The committee acknowledge in
their report the imperious necessity
of this reductior. but blame first the
President of the United States for
the existence of the surplus. They
sny h5 could have spent it in paying
premiums of $30 on the hundred to
their friends, the bondholders. It a
veiy truf h - could, and so he could
have squandered it ' as countless
millions have been t puandered un
der the administration of his prede
cessor;;, but he did not. They say in
the secoud place that the responsi
bility rests upon thc party in con
trol of theHouse of Representatives,
aud that this ie the first bill which
the House has sent them for reduc
ing revenue in five years.
Nobody will bo deceived by this.
I", is as well known to the country
as it is to those Senators who inako
this assertion, that almost the entire
body of the Republican minority in
the House have resisted every bill
which the Democrats have tried to
pass within that period, and that
they were able by the help of a hand
full of Democrats to defeat every
bill for reducing taxes, and they
know further that these few Demo
crats who aid 3d them to defeat
tariff reduction were applauded to
the skies by them and made brevet
patiiots and moial heroes. They
know further.and so does the coun
try, that for ten years past m Ri
pub'.iean in the Houpe of Rep
resentatives, certainly no consider
able number of them, has so much as
proposed a bill to reduce tariff taxes.
Many of them have indeed. there as
well as here, adm'tted the liHcessity
of re luctijn; there is no complaint
of the liberality of thsir admissions
in this respect, but during the time
which I have been a member of this
bodv I can safely say that no Re
publican in either House, eo far as
my recollection gojs, has made a
L TM . ihtt Tnn;nfn:nnr. nf ..,;,.,,
i e,j it WRg hy MCUonl or oversight,
No,Vf t;ie inoderate proposition.,
j this Senate would agree to it are
I "et oy a eoumer preposition wmcu,
it is admitted, cannot become a law
at this session of Congress, which is
j inteuJed for delay, and which, if
'Wed. would leave most of the
taxes which complained of in full
torce uuu iuvicmu utnuj ui iu.iu.
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The House bdl, on the contrary, i
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i tinmen uoi u i r in reiine ilia
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j t!lUtubstitllte ia vamed BO
"'V ,.;
eiieve the -Treasury and tn-
hrf burdens of the people.
That is the dulerencj between the
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two.