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VOLUME XXXII: CHARLOTTE, N. C., SATURDAY JULY 19, 1884. PRICE FIVE CENTS. 1 & in 'U, mi LllJ. er. . nts 'ill tad - T. - t. t lan lith of to be lest of im- I every Ixtson fcrfect Icon ion a" till be and p., D. , latlon a it Elver fisher If the in, pvatod totxl Ball from lluslc." Iboats- INOY. EineHt isure it to and ' or I and ire .c. CHARLOTTE mMmi Desiring to 811 a long felt want In Charlotte, the undersigned have associated themselves as Dart ners In a GENERAL LAND AGESCY, For the purpose of buying, selling, leasing and renting real estate. Their operations will not be confined to the city of Charlotte, nor to the State of Hortli Carolina, but all property placed within our management will be rented or sold, upon such terms, commissions andpaj menta as may.be agreed WWe will undertake to -sell, lease or rent lands houses and lots, mines, Ac., make abstract of titles, collect rents, make returns and pay taxes, effect insurance, fec., kc., advertising all property placed under our management, - . . Free of Cost to the Seller, vnr n Rtinulation previously aereed upon. Particular attention will be paid to the selling or leiislng of mining property, which will be sold on i-nin mission only. We are In correspondence now with a number of parties at the North and West who are seeking homes in North Carolina, where the climate Is genial and the soil remunerative. Persons having houses and lots or plantations for sale will serve tneir own interests Dy placing tneir business witn us, The business win be under the management of &. js. COCtUtAJMis, Manager, Charlotte, N. C. The following described pieces of property are now offered for sale by the Charlotte Beal Estate Agency, a. K Cochrane, manager, omce Trade street front Central Hotel, Charlotte, N. C: (CITY.) i One dwelling house on 8 street, 7 rooms, closets 1 in each room, well 01 gooa water, 101 wxiuu leet, in eood neighborhood. Price. 12.000. 2 One dwelling on 5th street, adjoining residence of S. M. Howell, 4 rooms, well of water and stable, lot 80x198, convenient to business. . Price, $1,700. 3 One dwelling on South Tryon street, adjoining residence of Dr. Bratton. 8 rooms, closets and pantry, well of water, well located for a boarding noose, mce, js.uuu, i One dwelling on corner of Myers and 3rd streets, t7 rooms, 2 room kitchen, bath room and closets, well of water: 2 lots. 1 fronting Myers street. 99x 198, 1 fronting 3rd street, 99x198, well of good water and stable on tne latter, mce, 2,zdu. r One dwelling on corner of Graham and 10th 4streets, 6 rooms, kitchen, well of water, lot 120 feet on Graham street, 162 feet on 10th street, very aesirame property, race, si,duu. One lot on 8th street, square 96, smalt 3 room vnouse, gooa water, swxiaa. race, fioo. rj One vacant lot, 99x198, on B street, good loca- I uon. race, ji.uuu. . . o One dwelling on Poplar street, 10 rooms, lot 099x198 feet, brick kitchen, outhouses, stable, well of good water, sold on terms to suit purchaser. Price, $4,000. -t One Dwelling corner of Ninth and E streets. V one story, 5 rooms, closets; well of water In yard, race Jiuo. 10 One Dwelling corner of Ninth and E, one story. 4 rooms, closets: wen oi water in vara. Price $800. 11 One Dwelling on Ninth street between B and well of water In yard; lot 99x198. Price $2,000 12 One Dwelling on Sixth street, one story, 6 rooms, kitchen, well oi water: lot 50xi. race ji.iaaj. 13 One Dwelling on West Trade street, two stories. 7 rooms. 2 room kitchen, well of wa ter; two lots aa on Trade 99 on jrourin at very desirable property, race $4,750. I j One Hundred and Fifty Acres Land Ifa mile 1 tc of the city limits, adjoining the Fair Grounds . well located for a truck and dairy farm; i in timber, branch running through it, about 8 acres meaaow. nce you per acre, - 15 One unimproved lot 99x198 on Ninth street, between D and E streets. Price $350. Six Thousand Three Hundred Acres Land. 16 The owners of The Crowders Mountain Iron Works beg to call the attention of capitalists Iron manufacturers, stock and dairy men, and those who wish to settle colonies, to then property, which oners inducements 10 ine classes a Dove named. The property consists of Six Thousand Three - Hundred Acres of laud, located In the counties of Uaston and uieaveianu. in uie btate oi isortn car o;lua, at King's Mountain Depot, on the Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line railway, now owned by the . Richmond &u Danville railroad company. The . property has been used for hfty years past as an iron property, and has been worked at various points, but chiefly at the Bite of the celebrated Yellow Ridge Ore Bank, which has always yielded an ore noted ior its rienness in metallic iron, and Its softness and toughness. This vein of ore. which extends for two miles In length, has been worked to the depth of 147 feet, shewing at that depth-a vein of ore about 40 feet wide, and analyz ing as high as 66 per cent, of metallic Iron. This vein has not been worked for twenty years, but the facts set forth can be fully shown. . Various other veins have been worked, and within the past two years very large deposits of Iron ore have been dls '. " covered at other points. Within the past eighteen months, however, the owners have discovered de posits of ore In Crowder's Mountain, (five veins of Iron ore, are exposed), which were unknown be fore, ana wnicn wui iurmsn an amount-or. good ore, easily worked and above water, that must make It one of the most desirable Iron properties to be found. They have discovered on the pinnacle of this mountain, which Is iOuO feet above the level (and. 22U0 feet above the sea level, a vein of ore eight feet wide, which crops out at various points from the top to the bottom of the mountain, show ing in one place about 20 feet of solid vein. This vein can be traced over the top of the mountain for over a mile, and this deposit alone would afford an almost inexhaustible supply of ore. easily worked. and above the water line. In addition to this four other velna have been found on this mountain. The ore is a -mottled gray ore, showing on analysis from 49 to 66 per cent, of metallic Iron, with a small amount of titanic acid, and without any sul phur or phosphorus. The quantity of ore in this mountain is simply mexjoausubie and of good quality, Beside Crowder's Mountain the owners possess King's Mountain, fur about seven miles, whose pinnacle Is the highest point of land from Rich mond to Atlanta, except Mt. Airy, in Georgia, and they have reason to believe this mountain Is full of ore also. In addition to iron ore the property has - manganese, limestone clay for making fire-proof- Drick, gold and otner minerals, very pure ana ex cellent barytese has just been found In large quan tity. -As a stock and dairy farm ft offers fine opporla- . nitles to those who may wish to engage in such bus mess. It has from three to four thousand acres of level or only sUshtlr rolling land, which produces grass, grain and all kinds of farming products nneiy, and it is well supplied with water by uniau- ng springs and branches Tne : other 4.000 acres embraced in the mountain sides are productive of fine erass and herdaae, and afford excellent natural pasturage for sheep and cattle, The climate Is so mild that but little shel ' ter for stock is needed In the coldest winters, The whole six thousand acres are now covered with a flue erowth of timber of all kinds, sucn as pine. hickory, oak. walnut, cedar, etc. The Jand Is well suited to farming purposes, by those who wish to colonize. utton, corn, peas, oais, cioverana grass, and fruits of all kinds are nroduced beautifully .and . it is specially suited to grapes and small fruits. It could be divided into small farms that would give to each farm variety of soil, and level and hilly and. It is situated In the Piedmont belt, which Is noted for the salubrity of Its climate, and the healthiness of its atmosphere. It Is a region Tree from malaria and other unhealthy Influences. It : is located with great convenience to railroad-faclll- 1 'ties, belns situated at trora two to iour mues rrom King's Mountain Station, on a railway that has the most extensive connections with all parts of the country, and which offers great Inducements to those who are trylug to develop the country along its lines. The owners will sell this property to suit purchasers, as follows: The whole tract, including mineral interests,for Sixty three Thousand Dollars, or will make favorable terms, reserving tne min eral Interest, 'or will sell one-half the mineral In terest, payments to be one-third cash, balance in one or two rears. ' - A valuable water power, which has been used to run large rolling nulls, lies adjacent to this prop erty, and ean be bought cheaply. The property is also in close Droxhnitv to the famous All Healing Mineral Springs, and to the widely-known Cleve- iana opnngs. P- The town of King's Mountain Is also adjacent, where are eood hotels, a flourishing and excellent high school, and several new and handsome churches. The owners invite the attention of all Interested to this property, and ask an examination of It Any further Information regarding it will be promptly furnished by addressing R.K Cochrane, ifanjismr Charlotte Itaal Ritate Aeencv. - The Yellow Ridge Ore Bank has been recently sold to a PlttRhnnr. Pa., ivrninanv. and a German colonization company has recently bought 2,500 acres adjoining this property. nl4Gi& acres, a well Improved farm, one mile from Third Creek Statute, on the Western N. C. Railroad, good dwelling, 6 rooms, with all necessary outbuildings, good orchard welt adapted for grain and grass. Stock and farming Implements win oe aom witn tne place u aesireu. . xenns easy. rnce fin per acre. - . . - O Tract of Land, 150 acres, located to Lincoln a county, a. v.. adjoining lai.as oi tteoasuu Payne and others. 6 miles from Denver. 23 from Charlotte, and lu from Davidson Colleee. Has on it a good dwelling. 7 rooms, all necessary outbuild ings, good orchard,' good water, and well adapted for grains, grasses, corn, wheat, tobacco, cotton, etc.; 35 acres good bottom land. In fine state of cultivation. Price $250. , 1 Q Tract of Land, 8 miles south of Charlotte, 1 V b2 acres, known as Dart of the Samuel Tay lor tract, on which is an undeveloped cold mine. (known in the N. C. Reports as the Sam Taylor mine), three frame tenement houses, two rooms each, good barn, good well water and good spring on the premises. Sold without reserve for $1,760. on One Dwelling, 6 rooms, two-room kitchen. a v weu of water, lot x2i5 on west side oi My- era atrpftt nr Fonrth. Prtfte 1.600. 0 1 One unimproved lot, 85x219 feet on comer of L I Myers and Fourth streets. Price $350. On Dwelling, 4 rooms, on Fourth street, near id id Mver. lot VhxiUH. racesuou. - 2a Two unimproved lots 60x198, on north side of west t ilth street, .race $aju eacn. mayldAwtf. BOOK AKD NEWS - M 8 -Always kept on han and lor sale In convenient packages for print en u --nia ui-fiv. rw PRrvnrTtq ' win Mil eood seoond-hand ; X Flow Paper Cotter. Good as new except knlto taynu- Cost aa00. WUI be wldfOT iOO. Ca - - .. . : ...... THIS OWflOM JUST RECEIVED Some nice braided ..I RRREV .T A P.JTTCTR also Hoon Skirts. Bustles and Linen Ulsters. Now for Wo-ama. the best 1400 12c. Lawns at 8. itemnants in wnite ljawns at Job lot Gloves at 7c. per pair. Clearing out sale of .- ummnnnneo? A few Straw Hats from 5c. A 1 Ladies andChildren'sShoesaiidSiippers. very cheap: Mosquito Canopies and Netting for everybody. Job in Ruchings from-5c. per yard up. Look at our Mar seilles and Toilet (guilts. Summer Silks from 37c. tp 57c, worth 50c. to 90c. Come, we have bargains for you. saiirn building. Linen H. S. Kerchiefs at 10c. ARE THE BEST FOR Durability and Comfort. A NEW ARRIVAL JUST RECEIVED. WarnerVCoraline CORSET. " Model Molded " Flexible Hip Nursing " Abdominal il Misses, Another arrival of our 10 and lac WHITE LAWN 3, Nuns Veiling at 12&C. in the following colors: Red, Tan, Olive, Navy Blue and Black. ;-. Buy our DOLLAR SHIRT. It always gives satis faction. - :.!.' T. L. SEIGLE. fn TO BE SOLD AT PRICES Til AT -OF - OF IE . OF- , .. SUMMER GOODS i Men"s, Youths' Boys' and Children's i li CD T - AT W. KAUFMAN At CO.'S. .-. . . i . ... ....... , ...... fi.-n,fr.th f ras sMe wm m . J52$& Wiqu butfewprlbotglyeour assurance tnat piayeu, . r - MEN'S CLOTtTUSTGS- One Honored Cheek Creole Suits, $1.60. 500 Pair double the money. M m - iM SffSSSKu prenKS prirWand iu most.ca w . k aiUsitm: Aisr & co. CENTBAL nOTHL COKSEB. 1 T. R. (VI AG ILL, WHOLESALE GROCER AND COMMISSION MERCHANT -;: - College St,, CJsarlottf Orders so'icitod arjd promptly filled. Some remnants Lawns at 4c- fc. to lie. dob lot 50c, Dress Goods for 12ic CUDcDtlDnSnD up. Bis: lot of Lace Curtains each. Latest Style SILK HATS, SILK, MOHAIR and GINGHAM UMBRELLAS, Gents' hand-made and Machine Ladles', Misses' and Children's Shoes of best makes XIH JINKS. TRAVELING BAGS, -Trunk and Shawl Straps JUST RECEIVED. MUST ATTRACT ATTENTION. THE BOOTS I SHOtS, Pegram & DUCTION SI n H I J Li - ffll I M (R - .T.iiir TnU wank W3 will ojdf In every danartraen been made with the view oi maintaining W establishment profitable. tner represent ne cneapuess m. uie maujr u.- r . .- aU Wool Hen s PanU, $1.50, $1.75 and $2.00; worth : , in M m " Page, so we renew our lower than be fotind la mt other establishment WAK,UNDVL0PE0 PARTS nv ttttb TrrmiV nonT 'Enlareed. Developed. Strengthened, ete., Is an Interesting advertisement long run in our paper., in repiy wimiuura will say that there Is no evidence of humbugaboul . this Cin th. MntMFf .th ItilVimiifMrA ftTB highly indorsed. Interested persona may get sealea circulars giving all particulars by adcresslng rim Msdical CaTBooWn. N. Y Toledo Evening Bee. lanibeodAwiy .. . - 3Ch Iiftvlotie (Dbscvuctr. MK. B LA IN K'S ACCEP f AN C. TUE LON UDE FE11UE D DOCUMENT APPEARS AT JLAST. He Ventures-Upon Some Obserrations on the Questions Inrolred, Congratu lates the Convention Upon its Felict tons Presentation, of the Issues and Hangs Ills Hopes Mainly Upon the Tartfl Question. J : ' - " -. . Augusta, Me., July 15fch,"lS84. The Hon. John B. Henderson and others of the Committee etc., etc. i Gentlemen : In acxptine the nom ination for the Presidency tendered me by the Eepublicah National Cori vention, I beg to express a deep sense of the honor which is conferred and of the duty which is imposed. I venture to accompany the acceptance with some observations upon the questions involved in the contest questions whose settlement may affect the future of the Nation favor ably or unfavorably for a long series of years. 1 ' " . In enumerating the issues upon which the Republican party appeals for popular support, the convention has . been singularly explicit and felicitous. - It has properly given the leading position to the industrial interests of the country as affected by the tariff on imports. On that question the two political, parties are radically in conflict. Almost the first act of the Republicans, when they came into power in 1861, was the establishment of the principle of Protection to American labor and to American capital. This principle the Republican party has ever since steadily maintained, while on the other hand the Democratic party in Congress has for fifty years persist ently warred upon it. Twice within that period our opponents have des troyed tariffs arranged for Protection, and since the close of the civil war, whenever they have controlled the House of Representatives, hostile leg islation has been attempted-never more conspicuous than in their prin cipal measure at the late session of Congress. THE TARIFF QUESTION. Revenue laws are in their very na ture subject to frequent revision in order that they may be adapted to changes and modifications of trade. The Rupublican party is not contend ing for the permanency of any par ticular statute. The issue between the two parties does not have refer ence to a specific law. It is far broader and far deeper. It involves a principle of wide application and beneficent influence, against a theory which we believe to be unsound in conception and inevitably hurtful in practice. In the many tariff revis ions which have been necessary for the past twenty-three years, or which may hereafter become necessary. the Republican party has maintained and will maintain the policy of Pro tection to American industry, wnue our opponents insist upon revision, which practically destroys that poli cy. The issue is thus distinct, well defined and unavoidable. The pend ing election may determine the fate of Protection for a generation. The overthrow of the policy means a large and permanent reduction in the wages of the American laborer, be sides involving the loss of vast amounts of American capital invested in manufacturing enterprises. ; The value of the present revenue system to the people of the United States is not a matter of theory, and I shall submit no argument to sustain it. I only invite attention to certain facts of official record which seem to insti tute a demonstration. In the census of 1850 an effort was made, for the first in our history, to obtain a valuation of all the lands in the United States. The attempt was in a large degree successful. :" Partly from lack oi time, partly trom preju dice among mauy who thought the inquiries foreshadowed anew scheme for taxation, the returns were incom plete and unsatisfactory, ljittle more was done : tnan to consolidate ; tne local valuation used in the States for purposes of assessment, and that as everyone Knows, anjers wiaeiy xrom a nomnlete exhibit of all the nronertv. In the census of l8bu, nowever, tne c , . f work was done with great tnorougn- ness the distinction between ''asses sed" value and., "true" value ' being carefully observed. The grand result was that the "true value" of all tne property in the States and Territories,'' exciuaing siavee; itmouuteu nf xuur- teen . thousand millions of . dollars ($14,000,000,000.) This aggregate was the nec result as the labor and '-sav ings of all the people within the area of the United States from the time the first British colonist landed in 1607 down to the year 1860. It represent ed the fruit of the toil of two hundred and fifty years. i After i860 tne Business or. tne coun: trv was encouraged and developed by a protective tarm. At tne ena oi twenty years-the total property of tne United states, as returned py tne census of 1880. amounted to the enor mous aggregate of forty-four thou sand millions of dollars (44,000,000.- 000.) This great result was attained, notwithstanding the fact that count less millions had in the interval been wasted in the progress of a bloody war. It thus appears that while our population between I860 and 1880 in- ravased sixtv ner cent, the aggregate Eroperty of the country increased two I rapidly m prosperity uyu ine aggro undred and fourteen per cent J gate addition. to their yweidlh ; since showing a vastly enhanced wealth ver cavita among the people. Thirty thousand millions of dollars ($30,000,- 000,000) had been added during these twenty years . to ?r tne. permanent wealth of the nation. These results are regarded by the older nations ot tne woria-as pneuom enal. That our country should Sur mount the peril and the cost of a gi gantio war and for an entire period of twenty years make an average eain to its wealth of one hundred and twemy-nve mnuon aouars per iuoulu surpasses the experience of all other . r 1 1 J 1 1 iL nations, ancienti or mouera. jsveu the opponents of the present revenue system do not pretend that in the wnoie mawjry jl uiviiiu,biULi ;ttuv parallel can be found to the material progress of the United States, since the accession of the Republican party to power.' -" -' ':. "" '':":;'" ; The period between 1860 and today has not been'oneof material prosperi- of the United States ' has there been such progress in the moral and phil anthropic field. Religious and chari table institutions," schools, seminaries and colleges, have been founded ana endowed far more generously tnan at any previous time ; in - our history. Greater and more varied relief has been extended to human ! suffering and the entire progress of the country in wealth has been accompanied and dignified by a broadening ana leva t.inn of our national character, as a people. 1 Our opponents find fault that cur revenue system produces a surplus But they should not fonrefc that th law nas given a specific purpose to which all of the surplus is profitably and honorably applied the reduction of the public debt and the consequent renei ot tne ouraen or taxation. .... JNo dollar has been wasted, and the only. extravagance with 5 which the party. stands charged is ' the generous pen sioning of soldiers. Sailors and their families an extravagance which em bodies the highest form of justice in the recognition and payment of a sacred debtj When reduction of taxa tion is to be made, the Republican party can be trusted to accomplish it in such- form as will most effective ly aid the industries of the nation.. ' OUR FOREIGN COJIMKUCE. ..' . A frequent accusation, by our oppo nents is that the foreign commerce of the country has steadily ; decayed under the influence of the protective tariff. In this Way they seek to array the importing interest aeainst the Republican party. It is a common and yet radical error to confound the commerce of the country with - its carrying trade an error often com mitted ianocently and sometimes designedly but an error so gross that it does not distinguish between the ship and the cargo. Foreign commerce represents the exports and imports of a country regardless of the nationality of the vessel that may carry the commodities of exchange. X)ur carrying trade has from obvious causes suffered many discourage ments since 1860, but-" our; foreign commerce has in the same period steadily and prodigiously increased : increased indeed at a rate and to an amount which absolutely dwarf all previous developments of our trade beyond the sea. From I860 to the present time the foreign commerce of the United States, (divided with ap proximate equality between exports and imports,) reached the astounding aggregate of twenty-four thousand millions of dollars ($24,000,000,000.) The balance in this vast commerce inclined in our favor, but it would have been much larger if our ; trade with the countries of America, else where referred to, had been more i wisely adjusted. i It is difficult even to appreciate the magnitude of our export trade since 1860 and we can gain a correct con ception of it only by comparison with ! preceding results in the same field. The total exports from : the United States from the Declaration of Inde- Eendence in 1776 down to the day of lincoln's election in 1860, added to all that had previously been exported from tho American colonies from their original settlement, amounted to less than nine thousand millions of dollars ($9,000,000,000). On the other hand our exports from 1860 to the close of the last fiscal year ex ceeded twelve thousand millions of dollars (12,000,000,000 the whole of it being the product of American labor. Evidently a protective tariff has not injured our protective tariff when, under its influence, we export ed in twentyfour years forty per cent more than the total amount that had been exported in the entire previous history of American commerce. All the details, when analyzed, corres pond with this gigantic result. . The commercial cities of the Union never had such growth as they have enjoy ed since I860. Our chief emporium, with the city of New York, with its dependencies, has within that period doubled her population and increased her wealth five fold. During the same period the imports and exports which have entered and leit ner harbor are more than double in bulk and value the whole amount exported by her between the settlement of the first Dutch colony on the island of Manhattan and tne outbreaK of tne civil war in 1860. - ' AGRICULTURE AND THE TARIFF. The agricultural interest is by far the largest in the nation, and is enti tled in every adjustment of-revenue laws to the first consideration. Any policy hostile to the fullest ; develop ment of agriculture in the United States must be.abandoned. Realizing this fact the opponents of the present svstem of revenue have labored very earnestly to persuade tne larmers or the United States that they are rob bed by a protective tarilf, : and the effort is thus made to consolidate their vast influence in favor of free trade. But happily the farmers ; of America are intelligent and " cannot be misled by sophistry when conclu sive facts are Deiore tnem. xrrey see plainly, that during the past twenty- four years, wealth , has not jbeen acquired in one section or oyi one interest at the expense ofVatiother section or another interest. TheV eee that the ' agricultural States L have made even more rapid progress than the manufacturing states. --; The farmers see that in lbu .Massa chusetts and Illinois had about! the same wealth between eight and nine hundred million dollars each and that in 1880 -Massachusetts had; ad vanced to twenty-sis: hundred mil- lions, while Illinois had advanced to thirty-two hundred ; millions. : They see that Nevr Jersey and Iowajwere just equal m population in 186Cjand that in : twenty years- thej wealth of New Jersey: was increased - by the sntn of eight hundred and fiftyf&ul lions of dollars, while the'; wealth- of Iowa was increased oy tne sum pi fifteen hundred "millions. They; see that the nme leading agricultural States of the West have, grown so I860 is almost as great as j.ne weaitn of the entire' country in rthat year. They see that the ; S'!uthT which .is - . . . i i . i almost eiuiusivcijr - ui Hiuiuuiaij uo.i shared inthe general prosperity aud that having recovered from the 'loss and devastation of war,' has gained so rapidly that its total. wealth is. at least tne oouoie or- mat wmcn it possessed in 1860, exclusive of slaves.' In these - extraordinary develop ments the farmers see the - helpful impulse of a home market, and ithey I A A-iA Mnnmiirtl ' i -wn . "ttiitirimi rv see that the financial and revenue svstem. enacted since the Republican party came into power, has establish ed and constantly expanded tne nome market.1 They see that even in the case of "wheat, which is our. chief cereal export, they have sold, in the averaee of the years since the close of the war, three bushels at home to one they have sold abroad, and that in the case of corn, the only otner ce real which we export to any extent. one hundred bushels -have been used at home to three and a half bushels exported. . In some years the dispar-; rty haa been- so great that ior every neck of corn exported one hundred bushels ha ve " been ' consumed in the home market. : The farmers see that in the increasing competition from the errain fields of Russia and from the distant plains of India; the erowth of the home market becomes daily of greater concern to them and that its impairment would depreciate the value of every acre of tillable land in the Union. OTJR INTERlTAIi COMMERCE. Such facts as these touching the growtn and consumption of cereals at home give us some slight concep tion of the vastness of the internal commerce of the United States. Thev suggest also that,in addition to the advantages which the American peo ple enjoy from protection against foreign competition, tney enjoy the advantages of absolute free ; trade over a larger area and with a greater population man any . otner nation. JUie internal commerce of our thirty- eight States and nine Territories is carried on without let or hindrance. witnout tax, detention or govern mental interference of any kind what ever. .It spreads freely, over an area or-tnree and a naif million square miles almost equal in extent to the whole continent of Europe. Its profits are enjoyed today by hity -six. mil lions of American freemen, and from uiih enjoyment no monopoly is cre ated. According to Alexander Hamil ton,1 when he discussed the same sub ject in 1790, "the internal competition which - taKes place does ' away with everything like- monopoly, and by degrees reduces the prices of articles to the minimum of a reasonable profit on the capital employed " : : It is im possible to point to a single monopoly in the United States that has been created or fostered by the industrial system wmcn is upheld by the Re publican party. ' Compared with our foreicn com-- merce, these domestic exchanges-are inconceivably great in - amount re quiring merely as one instrumentality as large a mileage of railway as exists today in all the other nations of the world combined. These internal ex1-' changes are estimated by the statisti cal bureau of the Treasury Depart ment to be annually twenty times as great in amount of our foreign com merce. It is into this vast field of home trade at once the creation and the heritage of the American people that foreign nations are striving by every device to enter. It is into this field that the opponents of our. present revenue system would freely admit the countries of Europe-Countries into whose internal trade we could not reciprocally enter; countries to which we should be surrendering every advantage of trade ; from which we should be gaining nothing in return. EFFECT UPON THE MECHANIC AND. THE LABORER. ' A policy of this kind would be dis astrous to the mechanics and working: n tt . i d. . n : men oi me wmtea estates, wages are unjustly reduced when an industrious man is not able by his earnings to nve in comiort, educate his children. and lay by a sufficient amount for the necessities of age. The reduction of wages inevitably consequent upon throwing our home market open to the world would deprive them of the power w q.o mis. it wouia prove a great calamity to our country, it would produce a conflict between the poor and the rich, and in the sorrow- tul degradation of labor would plant the seeds of public danger. , The Republican party has steadily aimed to maintain just relations be tween labor and capital guarding with care the rights of each. A con flict between the two. lias always led in tne past ana win always lead in the future to the injury of both: Labor is indispensable to the creation and profitable use of capital, and capital increases the efficiency; and i value of labor. Whoever arrays the ' one against the other is an enemy of both. That policy is wisest and. best which harmonizes the two on the basis of absolute justice. The Repub lican party his protected the free labor of America so that its com pensation is larger than is realized in any other country. It has guarded our people against the unfair compe tition of contract labor from China aftd may be called upon to prohibit tne growtn of a similar evil trom Europe. It is obviously unfair to permit capitalists to make contracts for cheap- labor in foreign countries to tne hurt and disparagement of the labor of American citizens. Such a policy, (like that which would leave he time and other conditions of homo abor exclusively in the control., of ; the employer), is injurious td -.all parties not the least so the unhappy persons who are made the subjects of tne contract, xne institutions ot the United States rest upon' the. iutellii- gence and virtue of .all -the; pebple. Suffrage is made universal as ai just weapon ot , seu protection to .eivery citizen. . It is not to the' interest of the Republic that any .economic Isys- tern snoma oe adopted wnicn involves i the reduction or wasea to the "hard standard prevailing elsewhere; The Republican party aims to elevate and dignify 'labor juot, to degrade its.! f. ; " As a substitnto far' th ifiArtsltrial system w.hiah under "Republican! ad- ministration has developed such ex traordinary prosperity, our Opponents- jner a policy w men is put a series oi experiments upon our system Of reve nue a policy wnose ena., musti do h4rm td our manufactures and 'great er nam to our laopr. Uixperiment in the industrial and financial system is the country s r greatest areao. as stability is its greatest boon. f. $ven the uncertainty resulting from! the recent tariff" a citation in Congress has hurttully aaected tho business ot the entire country. " Who can measure the -harm -to our shops and) our holm 6,''to our' farms :and our' com merce, if the uncertainty f perpetual tariff agitation is to be inflicted upon tho couutry i We are m the midst of an abundant harvest; -w-e are on the ?ve of a revival of general prosperity. morning siamis m our- way- uni vue t . i t . - t . dC A. i system which has -wrought such wonj ders in the last twenty -years, i and which with the "power of increased capital will work still greater marvels of prosperity in the twenty years to come. - - - ' -: ' -1 .! '.- OUR FOREIGN POLICT.;' . - - Oar foreign relations," 'favori our domestic development. . -..Wc are at peace witn tne world ai peace upon a sound dosis wan no unsettled ques tions of sumciei it magnitude to em barrass or distract us.7 ntappHy removed by our geographical position from participation or interest in those questions " of dynasty 6r boundary which so freciuentlv disturb Hie peace of Europe wo are left tcy ciUtivate friendly . relations with all, ;and are free from : possible entanclemeiits in the quarrels of any; . The United States has no cause and no desire to eneage in conflict with any "power on .eanh, and we may rest in assured acpnfidenee that no power ..desires to attack the United States, o : I -? ri-With the Nations of the -Western Hemisphere we , should: cultivate closer relations and for our com mon prosperity and advancement we sbouldinvite them all to join withuB in an agreement that.' for the future, all International troubles in tfjorth or South America shall ri -adjusted; by impartial arbitration and not by arms. This m-oiect was part of the -fixed H OF THE GREAT SALE AT - i . ---- .- .... . ... Slt mnaots Oils ant No such bargains were ever before offered on this continent JEMIIANTS Silks, Satins, Velvets, Brocades. - ; . JEMNANTS Table Linens, Towellngs, Crashes, Shirtings and Sheetings. . . - ".. JEMNANTS Mourning Goods, Cashmeres, Henriettas, &c JEMNANTS Carpets, OU Cloths. Mattings, Lace Curtains, Nottingham and' Leicester Laces. JEMNANTS Casslmere Cloths, Cottonades, Jeans, &c '. . . : : During this week we desire to clean up all Remnents, Odd and Ends, rBrokea Lots, Goods slightly soiled, or In any way below our standard of stock keeping, will be cleared out without reserve. We will hold no ceremony as to prices for the prices we oSer them at will and must sell them this is the people's opportunity. We have no desire to carry goods from season to season. The world moves too fast nowadays, . and If "LOW PRICES ' will move ear im mense stock, we won't get left this season. : t ,. . : ,.. .. rpI,,,. - . ..; v .1 ' . . ' V" . . ... i' .. . ; j!. . . ' 1 . iT I LitVl i .; A ' I Don't let all the good things be picked out before you make us a visit. i WittkowskY & Baruch,; OHAREOTTF). N. C: - - im That lill -OF i- - A Striped Seersucker Suit, worth $3.00 In any house in this city, sold iy hs for , i A lne Check Creole Suit, worth In any house in this city $2.50, sold toy us for " u ' A Genuine iSeersuckdr .Suiti WOUTII ;; $5.09 AA'X Dont foreetour 7.50 Casslmere Salt worth SK) always, considered headquarters. ' . ; NOVELTIES IN N EU&WKAK. An iesini OUK small trifle ot 25 cents, So save your mouej by calling on us. . , very respecuuiiy, - i mm m Mi ff IS-X.B.-Goods sent by Express oa' apptbatton, .1 0isO 3;H- the (.UKMirui-: l 00004 m I k mm IT J.I " aiit 'vLri -J'lit::: OUR - $150 2.00 soli "'at-- .'I'-f'.T.IJIfl 'ki and $12. ila Gents FaruIaUlng Goads we are, as - i . r . , SCTXT, aula crCTjimoro ior vj wmo, wwm Oil) JiI ,10Tf(. L-03- on ffm' 3;ui7' J.:IiOi to toe Teturne4at:owxpenA r..x:l. rolen earFSnSrtaCanrf Tensed GeatA.1 V iu dn: !' -DE'A:IiSR,h-.e la J if, : 5 1 : : -SX
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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July 19, 1884, edition 1
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