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IJOOXFJ, WATAUGA COUNTY. K. C THURSDAY, MAY, 22. 1810.
no. 4r.
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Democrat.
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WASHINGTON LETT EH.
From enr Kegnl&r Coneipocdcnt
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For the Democrat:
The two main topics of
Major McKmley snthespeedi
before tlie House in which he
opened the tariff debate ivus,
firnt tlie great und benefi
cient scheme of extending
and libertilizing the draw
sections of the law. The bill
provides that tho druw backs
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I th manufacturers of export-
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icent ot tne uuties .that ex
porters an; obliged to pay
foreign Custom-houses. Un
der the present, law 90 per
cent is paid. The result of
this law is that tho manu
facttires we are taxed to sup
port sell their goods, to, for
eigners at a price less the du
ty, that he charges American
citizens. No sophistry con
misconstrue this measure in
to anything but . a direct
bounty paid manufactures
for selling goods in foreign
markets.
Secondly: That the time
had come when the Ameri
can agricultrual must sell his
products in the markets of
the world in competition
with the low-priced labor of
foreign countries. The only
remedy or advice he offered
the farmers, was to take
great care ot, nnu preserve
the home market, for they
would certainly be driven
from the foreign ones.
He was followed by Mr
Mills who said that this was
thefirsttariff bill that had
ever come before the peopl
with its mask torn off. like
a highwayman demanding
their purses. To check im
portation was to check ex
portation. No man could
show how he could buy if we
could not sell. When we re
fused the product ot nations
that refusal was an interdic
tion against our exports.
Protection boiled down
means more work nnd less re
suit. What did the bill do
for agriculture? It put su
gar on the free list. Why
wasn't sugar dealt with in
the same way as was woolen,
cotton and iron goods?
Why not put a prohibitive
tariff on coffee and develop
the coffee industry? or on
tea and develop the sassa
fras industry? Why did not
the committee put a prohib
itory duty on raw silk in
stead of dodging it and giv
ingn bounty? On farmers
products the tariff was laid
to deceive. The bill increas
ed the tariff on wheat 50 per
cent. 90,000.000 bushels a
year were exported, and last
year there were imported
1946 bushels. The., tariff
was raised on corn and rye.
Last year 2338 bushels 'of
corn and 16 bushels of rye
were imported. The repub
licans had to do more than
this to deceive the farmers.
They needed markets for
their products. They were
told that home market was
best. But they knew that
both, home and foreign mar
kets were best.
Senator John F. Wilson,
of Iowa, who is regarded as
one of the bent lawyers in the'
N.vn :( It fi ia t voti 1 7''T.) rn1
lication a long nilhle con
cerning the recent "liquor
package de toon" of tho Su
preme Court, and the effect
of that decision on theliquor
truffle in the prohibition
states. He says that the
pil ire powers of a state per
mit it to prohibit or regu
late the wdo, within its bor
ders of intoxicating liquors
in original packages was a
violation of interstate com
merce law the License sys
tem would also fail. The sa
loons in New York City would
have liquors sent from Jer
sey City in packages, con
taining from a drink
gallon, and a voids paying
any license. He' does not
approve a common suggest
ion that congress give, the
states permission to make
laws prohibiting and regu
lating the liquoivtiaffic.ashe
thinks that right-shouldn't
be qnestioned, but suggests
that a bill entitled "a bill to
protect the states in tho ex-
LEE'S MONUMENT.
ercise of their police pow ers,'.'
already W the calendar of
the Senate, will grant the
permission suggested by the
Supreme Court to the States
for the affective enfoi cement
of their liquor laws.
A Special law recently en
acted prohibits the arrest of
any deserter fro'r, the army
within two years of tor the
time of ,his enlistment would
have expired. Senator
Plumb has been endeavoring
to have amnesty extended to
all deserters through a Pres
idential proclamation. lie
faild m this but through his
efforts an amendment has
been made to the army ap
propriation bill prohibiting
tiie use of ally portion of the
annual allowance for the
capture of any man who de
serted prior to January 1st
'1883.
Senator Gorman hasintro
duccd an amendment to the
interstate commerce law pro
viding thatit shall be unlaw
ful for any railroad company
operating a line extending
into an adjourning country.
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to transport eitner passen
gers or treiglit between the
two countries without a li
cense granted by the Inter
state Commerce Commission.
The Commission to have ju
risdiction to investigate any
violation of the, interstate
commerce law by such Com
pany as if it operated wholly
within the United, States
and to have power to sus-
I tend the company's li
cense.
Mr. Hill has introduced a
bill in the House granting a
pension pi $ou 'per month
to the mother of ('has. S.
Parnell. He explained that
the pension was asked, not
for the reason that she was
the mother of Mr. Parnell,
but as the daughter of Ad
miral Stewart
The bill classifying worsted
goods as woolen cloths has
passed lxth Houses of Con
gress. If 'ashington, May 12
1890.
Frequently accidents occur in
the household which cause burns
cuts, sprains and bruises , for use
in such cases Dr. J. H. Mclean's
Volcanic Oil Liniment has for ma
nv years brvn the ci'tiFt ov.t favor
Sunday after-noon thestat
ue of Lee arrived here from
New York.
Two flat cars were covered
with the four great boxes ?on-
taininp, the horse nnd rider,
nnd were side-tracked on
Proud street near Graham.
That after-noon and all of
yesterday they were the ob
jects of attraction for thou
sands. The head is about the size
of a half barrel. Tho bronze
is as dark as that of Wash
ington's statue on Capitol
Square, which, however, was
as bright as cent just from
the mint when it reached
here and was raised upon the
pedestel.
Mercie had his work cast in
darker metal.
Peering through the open
ing in the case which con
tains that portion of the ri
der from the saddle up, you
wonder if Mercie has made a
likeness of Lee. You see be
fore you a Titanic head. You
would have to look at it
through the big end of a tel
escope to get the normal size.
That done, doubtless you
would be well satisfied, for in
the sculpture of this charac
ter you must not insist upon
photographic exactness.
The face will be sixty feet a-
bove the level of the ground
in Lee circle. At that dis
tance from you you will see
Mereie's work the dignified,
calm and courageous com"
manderof the Army of North
ern Virginia.
It is the General, not col
lege president, that Mercie
has made. The lines the
masterful tracings which
snow our nero in ins prime,
not as he was at Appomat
tox; not as he was in his last
days in Lexington.
He was handsome as a
youth; he was bettter look
ing still when he was in the
old army; but the perfection
of his manly beauty was
reached in the Confederate
service. ' Then he w:as at the
apex of his mental and physi
cal power.
So Mercie has endeavored
to picture him.
"in a collossal head like this
you do not expect to see an
expression like that in a fine
oil painting; Uut you rightly
demand the well recognized
lineaments the large shape
ly head, the broad and high
forehead, the prominent nosei
nnd the mouth and chin, in
dicative of character. The
head is bare of hat, but true
to life, covered with abun
dant locks of hair. Theshoul
ders are square and shapely,
the breast well developed,
and the ; General wears the
regulation coat of his rank,
one lapel of which is just a
little awry (intentionally so)
to break the stiffness and
painful preciseness of the
lines..
In truth the bust seems to
be Lee as the Army of
Northern Virginia knew
him; Lee as he was when
le took, command of the
army heiore Kichmond,
as he was when the si -ldiers
pulled him to the rear when
he would ha ve lead them in
the charge in the Wilderness;
vr'Ar v rvv.jitts.'r- t. bat
tie of Gettysburg, he took
all the blame upon himself;
as he was when at Cold Har
bor, h dealt Grant a fearful
blow; as he was even in Ap
ril, 180."), when he rode out
of the linen nnd met Grant
nnd signed the terms of ca
pitulation liee an erect, fig
ure, moral, mental and. phys
ical; a model soldier and man,
a hero whose fame will forev
er gild our history pages.
"Th J sword of Lee" hangs
in the email box with his
body and his eyes seemed to
rest upon it.
It is a prodigious weapon.
Not even such a giant as the
Revolutionary patriot, Peter"
Francisco, would Le able to
wield it even if he could with
draw it from the scabbard,
w hir-h he couldn't.
No, sword and scabbard
are one piece of bronze.
The rings with which it will
be affixed to the General's
belt are, however, not ca.it
but wrought.
In another box the box of
boxes for size is the horse's
(legless nnd tailless) body.
Lee's legs are a part of this
piece. In another is the plinth
or monze piattorm upon
which the horse will stand.
In the fourth box are the
legs of the horse.
When Mr. Rurgwyn comes
to ioin these several parts
the plynth will first be put
in place; upon this the hors
e's legs will be fastened; upon
the legs the body will go; to
'the body the tail will be join
ed, and then the body of Lee
will be riveted in the saddle.
This done it will butremain
for the sword to be attached
to the belt, and we will have
Lee as reprji: Mited in Mercie's
sculpture.
The work of unloading the
statue was begun yesterday.
The chief labor is to get the
bigbox (horse's body) from
the flat car to the immense
wagon that has been drawn
up alongside it.
J he tires on this wagon s
wheels are six inches wide and
much over an inch thick and
the spokes, hubs, a"xles "and
frame-work correspond in
massiveness.
Tha next most difficult to
handle is the box in which is
the great bronze platform to
cover the top of the monu
ment.
The other wo boxes will
be easily managed. Rich
mond Dispatch.
VTIll need tlie "Cnssing" Members.
Postmaster General Wan
a maker has detea ted the as
pirations of a republican in
Pennsylvania hecuiise he
"cusses." The Postmaster
general ought to bear in
mind that this national ad
ministration has done more
for the cause of "cussing"
than any in our history, and
he should be indulgent. Mr.
Harrison w ill be in sore need
of the "cussing" members of
his party abont two years
from now, and would do well
to cultivate them a. little.
Xortli State (Hop.)
If your kidnevs are inactive.
you will feel and look wretched.
even in 'the most cheerful society.
meloncholv on the . jolliest occa
sions ur. J. llclican s Liver and
Kidney Rnlm will set you right
airivn. 1.00 per bottle
Xorthen Capital Will Suffer.
Judge Cothran, Congress
man from the third ttouth
Carolina district, has written
an able letter for the benefit
of his constituents nnd the
country in general, in tms
he warns the people of the
South that they must be pre
pared to fight the proposed
Federal election law intro
dueed by Senator Hoar, the
object of wliich is to put the
election machinery at th
South in the hands of the re
publican party. He says
that if that bill becomes a
law the contest of 187G will
have to be fought over again
and that the white people of
the South will need to present
an undivided front in order
t o t h wa r 1 1 he sche mes of t hei r
adversaries.
This puts the situation in
a nutshell. Congressman
Cothran might have added
that the North will suffer this
time as it did not suffer in
those terrible reconstruction
days of Radical orgie3 and
wholesale theft. Then the
North lost nothing monetar
ily. Now the North has over
five hundred million dollars
invested in the South, and.
doubtless, one billion dollars
is nearer the mark. These
investments are being added
to daily. At the time recon
stvution iii the South was at
its worst and most successful,
property m Memphis, Miss
valued at f 40.000, and which
to-da.v is worth $ 18,000, sold
for $2,700. Property in
Georgia worth $19,000, and
which to-day. cannot be
bought for $27,000 sold for
$1,070. So it is a fact, too,
that in the present invest
ment in Southern values the
money of many w idows and
orphans of Federal soldiers
has been placed. This must
be lost in the reign of deviltry
which will ensue if the plans
of Reed and Harrison, Quay,
Dudley and Clarkson are ful
ly carried out. rtthe North
be warned in time. Let
Northern Congressmen think
before they vote at the behest
of men who are tampering
with the vital interests of the
entire country. Richmond
State.
The State Librarian asks
us to call the attention of
the press to the fact that the
Roll of II oner of North Caro
lina soldiers, in which is in
scribed the names of all the
Confederate soldiers from
this State, is deposited in the
State library, and there is a
blank space opposite each
name for the insertion of the
date of death.
If the newspapers in noting
the death of any old soldier
will mention the company
and regiment of which he w as
a member, Mr. TJirdsong, the
Librarian, will note the date
of death in the proper place,
and thus the record will be
kept as perfect as possible.
The press of the State will
kindly bear this in mind.
News and Observer.
Tetrlflpd Utbuli PJcrt.
While breaking new ground
for a farm on the left, bank
of the Vrkansas, half a mile
from Hooiiviiie, the laborers
exhumed on the 0th, the pet
rified body of a man, clothed
in tlie habit of a Roman
Catholic priest. The dress
shoes and hose had also be
com stone, nnd the figure
might have passed for a cun
ning handiwork or some
great master of sculpture.
The two hands were clasped
about in ivory crucifix, which
hung from a rosnry suspend
ed ubout the neck, while the
head of on nrrow still pro
truding from the breast told
the story of how the worthy
father met his death, and the
body, so plain to be seen,
that the body was hastily
buried without coffin, nnd
grave unmarked by the
smallest token nhowed tha.
he and his brethren or some
faithful friend were fleeing
from the Indians when , he
was killed. .
The petrified body was re
moved to the Church of the
Annunciation, where it is
now being visited by crowds
from all over the country
and whence it will shortly be
pll' N VIM IOIICIH UU1IUI lllHJll-
secrated grounds by the
priest here. The face is that
ofayoun man of refined
and intellectual features, and
the hands and feet ore of elv
gant proportions. Those
who profess to know, declare
that his shoes are of a fash-'
ion worn in the latter part
of the seventeenth century,
at which time, as is well
known, devoted Spanish
missionaries visited this
country for the purpose of
converting the. Indians.
Philadelphia Times.
A Mccfctenbn;ff Lady Stleken Stond
Blind in a Moment.
Old people suffer much from
disorders of the urinary orirans,
and are always gratified at the
wonderful ffeects of Dr. J. H. Mc
Lean's Liver and kidney balm in
banishing their troubles. $1 per
boltle.
Mrs. Margaret Miller, an
estimable lady of Steel Creek
township, this county, was
sadly and peculiarly afflicted
few days ago. She was
stricken stone blind without
a moment's warning. Mrs.
Miller was sitting in her room
sewing when t here was a sud
den change in her sight. It
was as if shehad quickly clos
ed one eye. She realized that
he had gone blind in one eye
md throwing her sewing
down, jumped to her feetand
started for the loom door,
but she had not taken more
than three steps before the
other eye was stricken blind
Her blindness was total and
she stood still in her steps
and called for help. Mem
bers of her household led her
to a seat into which she drop
ped with the first feelings of
utter despair, realizing her
terrible condition. So com
plete is her blindness that she
can be led from a darkened
room into the brightest sun
shine and never know thedif
ference. She realized not. the
slightest touch of pain when
her eyesight went out. This
sudden loss of her sight is be
lieved to have been due to
paralysis of the optic nerves.
Instances of this kind are on
i-ecord .Charlotte Newa.
If you spit up phlegm, and are
troubled with a. hacking -cough,
use Dr. J. 11. McLean's Tar W'iue
I muz Palm. - ;