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The Carolina Watchman. 171 " 1 ' 11 "' "' 8j jj "' " t 1 1 j ii i 't M SSSSSSSSSPSSSSSssssssaaM.,.. THIRD SERIES SALISBURY. N. C, APRIL 3, 1884. HO 25 Bonded Extension Bill. SPEECH OP BYRON M. CUTCHEON. OF MICHIGAN, ! the House of Representatives, Saturday, March 22, 1884. Kintr in Committee of the Whole on rf .he l'uIod, and having under considera txsu hiii fH a 6285) to extend the time (or the lKment of tle ux oa 01811116(1 8011:118 nw ! u CUTCHEON said : Hr. Chairman : I shall ask the Mention or i uiuiiiuu vm i I ! . 1 I 4 a,. . - -v A , , , 1 . mooients oniy, wime j. ,m.h mh-u ,jeW8 as I have upon this question tod my reasons for opposing the bill, nil manifest to us that the questiou not onlj a complex one, uui il is is a tn- tnule has been brought about de- it thrives upon it." With the great signed ly for the purpose of controlling , American eagle above it and the Su preme Court standi tie behind it to the market. In other words, it is used lor the purpose of establishing a monopoly in order that this great re servo of whiskey may be held in hand to be thrown upon the market when needed to control it, or to be withheld from the market when that is necessary to keep up the price. In other words, it is a monopoly as com plete and much less reputable than the great Western Union Telegraph Company in its line or the Standard Oil Company in its line. If these men are exposed to risks and losses they have exposed themselves to those risks and losses by their owu act. I come now to speak for a moment of the geueral public. It is said that the failure to pass this bill will affect business generally, that there will be a falling off, as was said by the gen tleman from Kentucky Mr. Willis the other day, in the consumption of corn for instance. And he warned my brethren from Kansas and Iowa that they would be burning their corn for fuel again before long, be cause the consumption of corn for this purpose would be so greatly re duced. He named 10,000,000 bush els per vear as the amount of this falling off. - Now the gentleman from Kentucky knows that that is a phantom with out a body, shadow without any sub stance. In 1880 the production of com in the United States was over 1,754,000,000 bushels. The gentle man tells us that last year the con sumption of corn in the manufacture of whisky was reduced by, 1 0,000,000 bushels, about oue eighth of 1 per cent, ot the entire production ot corn a in the country and less than 3 per cent, of production of Illinois alone. And the reduction in the consump tion of corn for the manufacture of whiskey to the amount ofoie-eighth of 1 per cent, is to brins a business panic upon the country, if we may believe the gentleman from Kentucky. lo state the proposition is all that is needed to answer it. As to the banks, when we compare the small amount invested in this bonded whisky, as compared with the vast volume of our banking capi tal, the prospect ot a business panic from this source is equally absurd. 1 here is no demand from the gen eral public lor the extension of this one. a not vv i . nomnlicated one. It lltu r- DguUir question with three aspects. In the first place we have the busi ng aspect f the case. In the sec ond place we have its revenue aspect. And in the third place, to a great nany of us, it has a moral aspect. First, iu regard to me uusine-s upect of the case, thenT are four classes that are very greatly concern ed in the result of the action of . this body in regard to this bill. First ire the producers the distillers; lecondly, the middlemen the hold am and hankers who have loaned upon this security ; in the third place there are the retail ueaiers anu con sumers ; and iu the fourth place the general public. Now, firsty as to the distillers the producers. When1 they went into this business to produce this over- ... . itock of whiskey wnicn it is now asked that the Government shall as list them in carrying, they did so with their eyes wide open, with a full tud coin pi el e -understanding ot all the risks they were assuming, of the danger of overproduction, and with a full understanding of the tax which (lie Government Trad against it, and probabilities of the extension or non extension of the bonded period. Now hiving gone, as a speculation, into this business, into the manufacture ot this product which they well knew, and we all well know, requires time for its aging and perfection, and where the holding of it would be for their pecuniary advantage, they come lo us now with a very poor grace to uaL' na Im I km I i a r I n i it nil t tC I tlA Oltl Kl f raiments of their business specula- bmu,ed period. in my ooyiioou days 1 was accus LI II! I . - turned tion. For toy part I do not believe to the full extent iu this cry of distress. They have overproduced. There is no doubt about that. They knew they were overproducing when th-y did it. There is no doubt about that either. They knew all the risks they were taking iu their overproduction, and it conies, as I before said, with poor ;race from the producers uow to come to this Congress and ask that weJhall become partners with them in their speculation, help them out of their dilhculty, and take 4 per cent. interest on our money as our share of the profit, bo much lor the produ cers. la the second place, we have the Holders, the to see what we called scare crows set up in the corn fields. But the gentleman from Kentucky Mr, Willis has s up an exceedingly shabby and ey thin scare-crow in the corn fields of the gentle men from the great Northwest, but it will not scare them to any serious extent. For if this corn is not used for making whisky, it will be used for bread. But it would seem that the gentlemen think it a pity to waste so much coru on bread when it could be made into good old Bourbon whis ky, especially if the Government will only hold it while it gets its age ! What is the proposition now before us this business proposition, as it is called ? It is that the tax now over- t i a j 1 1 1 In rti a r r 1 1 f 1 1 A uiiuwiviuwili U1JU I 11 . i Unb. ti ..... . aue ana aooui to oecorae due, in veu r i a. a a ii tsw iv iiibiii i m 1 1 i i l i -- - duct have taken it. I main, and xlmnut on -pameeof the intern! rivrfn,,. tax fl,e Government to the whisky ring uuc auu auuu u iu vcw.uc uur. in a hold tins pro- . , - 0 j r.i other words, a part of the reveuueof 1 assume, in the . , . ,, . . , . .1 the Government, shall be reloaued by iiirely, since tne . . .. . i . the Government to the whisky ring I fe- " is unci inn icvc.iu ia.j . . . , . - law .n,i u ... .. iii. in order to assist them in their specu sw, and the previous bonded exten- . . .. ..... . . v oii laws lations and rn their attempt to coutro The bankers who have loaned money upon this stock of whiskey also did Ji with their eyes wide open, k uow tag fully all the circumstances, know ng the fact of overproduction, kuow- ing the period of extension, and know ing the measure of tax and every ther element that Hitrd into the question of financial speculation hich they undertook wbeu they either purchased this whiskey er took t u security-fur loaus. They discoun ted all this -when they invested, I y, therefore, that these middlemen Md bankers come here with an ex ceptionally poor plea when they ask ns to step in and take a share of the peculation, to assume a part of the fisk, and te take 4 per cent, of the anioiint ofthe tax as our share of the proits. I come next to the third class in vested in this matter, the consumers d retail dealers. I undertake to say Jhat the consumers and retail dealers "ave no interest at all in favor of the passage of this bill, but are interested tttber iu the retention of the present aud the preseut bonded period. V,r interest certainly is to have c"eap whiskey, aud they are therefore not interested in the passage of this ma It may not make whiskey more arce or more dear, but I trust that 1 may break the compact power "at aangerous ring which more than onco hag corrupted the administration of ik. r 1 7 "c government, at times too near center of power and influ- the ence. Befi cetore coming to the next and last c,ass, the geueral public, I wish just IS Doint in aiv that tlia funt nf r . w uc V i m w i. mm w great overproduction aud aocu- of stock in the whiskey at th this Nation rol the market. I had expected when this proposi tion was considered that some gen tleman would rise in his place upon this floor aud denounce it as uncon stitutional ; would denounce as un constitutional the proposition that me uovernmeiib tnjuia engage in a speculation i n whisky. W hen we proposed to improve the Mis- sissippi rfciver, to go control and curb the great "Father of Waters" that from its fountains to the sea it should roll peacefully, beneficently, and not as a terror to those who dwell upon its banks, we were told that there was no warrant in the Con stitution for that. And alittle later, when it was proposed to pass a law to stay the ravages of pleuro-pneumonia among the herds of our agriculturists in the East and in the West, we were again told that such a measure was unconstitutional. And when we proposed, a short time later, to make an appropriation to save the sufferers from the overflow in the Ohio Valley, we were gravely informed that there were serious doubts about the constitutionality of sue a measure of relief. But when it is proposed to loan anywhere from forty-five to seventy million of dollars for two years, at4 0f I per cent, interest, to the whisky ring, 1 have heard no one raise a voice nere to say that it was unconstitutional. It is unconstitutional to try to save men from being drowned with water, but it is strictly constitutional to save them from being drowned in whisky ! For my own part I am not anxious about the Constitution. As Macau ley once said about the English constitu- support it, and 54,000,000 of loyal hearts ready to fight for it, I am not anxious about the constitution. Adapt ing itself to our growing power, our increasing wants, and our advancing civilisation, it is destined to survive in transcendent vigor our fears and anxieties, and to exceed our most san guine hopes. Again, I am one of those who be lieve that the whisky trade is not one to be fostered or favored by our 4eg islation. It is the great national waste and origin of our greatest national want. This traffic aud its resultant evils constitute the great poisonous cesspool of American civilization. The eminent gentleman from Illi nois, Mr. Morrison, who sits before me, in advocating this bill described this business as "a great industry," "avaluable industry." Mr. Chair man, it is a great industry ; but it is the devil's own industry 1 The men who grow the corn, the men who dis till the grain, the men who handle and carry it, as well as the men who vend and consume the product, are simply contributing to this great na tional cesspool. It is "au industry" worse than wasted. Into this cess pool are cast the life, health, fortune, reputation aud homes of hundreds of thousands of our people. There are mingled murder, debauchery, drunk enness beastliness, and every crime. And the whisky ring fosters and pre serves this cesspool for the sake of a market. But we are told that it "brings us revenue. That is true, and this reve nue belongs to this Government now. If it is collected now, it is secure for the benefit of the whole people. If it is not collected now, it will never reachyour Treasury; it will never clink in your coffers. Mr. Willis. Why does my friend want to take revenue from such a dis reputable source? Mr. Hutcheou. I have not time to answer that questiou. Hire a hall and give me half a day and I will tell you. Laughter. There are "millions in it." There is too much involved to make it safe to delay or tamper with it. A cor ruption fund of $50,000,000 is some thing that no honest government can afford to have lying around loose. "Repeal" is already the cry coming up from different directions first from those who want cheap whisky; and second, from those who want re duced interual revenue. This cry will increase until the corruption fund will triumph and whisky is free. But we are told our treasury is already over flowing. It is true, and we need it to be full. If this Congress has the courage and manliness In do it, we will soon put this revenue in circula tion to good purpose. 1. Let us attack the vast amount of illiteracy and ignorance aud con sequent vice in the land by the en couragement of national education. 2. Commence an American worthy of this Republic. 3. Improve, restrain, and control the Mississippi River until it shall cease lo be a terror to those w ho dwell along its banks, aud until it shall be come by art, as it is by nature, the great vital artery of the Republic and the great curb ou overgrown monopolies. 4. As this nation is, we hope, to be perpetual, let us begin now a system of adequate public buildings until this Government can conduct its own bus iness under its own roof in every town of 10,000 populatiou in the hnd. 5. If there be still a surplus, then the coast defense and some fostering care ot our merchant marine may claim a share. And last, but uot least, provide more liberal pensions for the widows of those who fell in defending the na tion s life, and the maimed and crip pled heroes who still linger, incapable of competing in the strenuous race of life. In the language of the gentlemen from Colorado, "unlock the lreasu ry," put its surplus wealth in circu lation, to bless our country, through ueeded and legitimate expenditures, and fill the channels of business. But no man aud no party can gain either honor or success on the cry of "Iree whisky." Let us have the courage which belongs to this hour and place, and staud up against this gigantic monopoly, this monstrous temptation to corruption. In the language of the distinguished Sena tor-elect from Kentuky, Mr. Black burn, "He wife dallies is a dastard and he who doubts," or dodges, "is damned. Laughter and aplause.J IThis is the whisky extension bil referred te in our last paper. It has since been killed by a very decided vote. Watchman. navy MONEY Think just a moment! It may be greatly to your profit To Buy Your KAINIT, ACID, PHOSPHATE AND GUANOS from one to whom you can sell your cotton, &c. I have now ready and am selling every day for cash, or on time to suit my customers, ROYSTER'S Hi HUE WHITE, which is the best acid sold in the State beyond doubt. Also, the ASHEPOO ACID PHOSPHATE, which stands so high in Georgia and South Carolina that they pay f 1 per ton more for it than for other brands. But I will sell at a small profit to meet prices of other brands. Also, I have the best GERMAN KAINIT ON SALE IN THE COUNTRY. These Goods for Composting, &c, are the very best that can be got anywhere. There s none better. Call at once, tret prices and put in jour orders. J. D. GASKILL. If eve; you had a showing for fine prices, it is in the crop of Tobacco to be planted this year. The Rev. J. S. Heilig, says the Cou cord Register, has accepted a call to the pastorate of the Lutheran church at Har per's terry, Va., aud regrets the loss of so able and faithful a minister of tli tion, "it has been ruined so many times that it has become used to it ; Gospel and so pleasant a family. North Carolina Inventions. Lincoln Press, Mi. E. W. Stubbs, of the well known firm of Stubbs & Sons, of this place, has just been granted letters patent on his Turbine Wheel. Mr. Stubbs has been engaged in manufac turing turbine wheels for the last twelve years and about fom- ago he invented the wheel years upon which he has just been granted a oat ent. 1 he principle points in favor of the Stubbs Turbine wheel over others is its particular adaptibilily to furnishing power from small streams, and its cheapness, the cost of its man ufacture being about one half that of other wheels. Both corn and wheat mills are being run night and day with inches of water, that as much water as will pass through an opening 2 inches square. One of the most useful inventions that we have ever seen is the Davis quilting frame now being exhibited at Capt Speck's store by the patentee Mr. H. T. Davis, and the general agent, Mr. T. II. Cox. It is a ma chiue which can in a moment be at tached to any sewing machine and by means of which a quilt can be quilted in two or three hours. J.KHODKS BROWNE, Ps.. W. C. COAB.T, Sic. Total Assets, $710,745.12. A Home Company, Seeking Home Patronage. STBONfJ, PBOMPT, RELIABLE, Term Policies written on Dwellings. Premium payable One half cash and bab ance in twelve months. J. ALLEN BBOWH Agt., 23:6m- Salisbury, N. C. flfswHT s Indian Vegetable Pills KOK TH K LIVER And all Dilious Complaints eaie m take, bomc purely TOBACCO! We keep a store, and strive to liave in that store everything a farmer would like to buy, both for himself and his family. We want our customer to be a cheerful man, and if he has money in his purse he will he cheerful; but he can't be if, when he comes to sell his crop, it brings him little or nothing. Everybody knows that on the fertilizer le uses, allowing the season to be at all favorable, depends the result of his crop, and this being the case, he has no right to risk that crop on anything that has not been tried and proved. The following will show what has been "tried and proved," in the fertilizer way, on fine tobacco, and Major Raoland, of Halifax county, Va., the great tobacco authority, and grower of pedigree tobacco seed, is the man who tells about it. If anybody knota what tobacco is he certainly does: "There arc several brands of fertilizer manufactured specially for tobacco, differing in composition, price, and merit; and after repeated experiments with most, it not all the best, the author gives it as his decided opinion, that for fine, bright, silky tobaccc 4 OTHINO EQUALS the ANCHOBwBRAND' Tobacco Fertilizer, prepared by the Southern Fertilizing Company, Richmond, Na And this opinion is based upon seventeen years' trial", and often in competition with the bestTrf other brands on the market. It is a tried arid proved fertilizer, which the plant er can use without the risk of getting something unsuited to his crop; and therefore I can recommcd it with confidence." Messrs. Mathews & Williamson, of lVidsville. N. C. wrote the following to the Company, and state that they have seen nothing since to change their judgment. "From our own petsonal experience, and it covers a long time, in watching the re sults from the use of various brands of commercial fertilizers handled in this section, it is our mature judgment that tho 'ANCHOR BRAND' stands at the head of all for the production of fine, silky, yellow tobacco. The plant seems to receive more fitting nourishment from the use of this article than from any other, and we are of opinion that if our farmers made it their stand-by, we would hear less of light chaffy tobacco, having some color but no body, and that the farmer would realize the result he ought to enjoy from his labor; for low-grade tobacco will not bring big money." Now we want you to have '-big money" for your crop; because we not only desire you to make good bills with us, but pay for them when they are made ; hence we han dle the 'Anchor Brand,' and will supply you, m quantities to suit, direct from the factory. We don't want people to abuse us about their fertilizer ; we, therefore, sell only what time has shown to be the best. So, make no arrangements in this line, unti you see or confer with us. You certainly can't afford to take any risk this year. J. D. GASKILL. COTTO 3r I will have this Season in larger quantity than ever before, the old relia ble SEA FOWL GUANO FOR COTTON. It is a pleasure to sell this brand because it pleases. And one fact worthy of notice is, that it has increased in sales the last two years, which no other brand has done in this market. Also, I will have HYMANS & DANCY'S PREMIUM GUAJMO, which is one of the favorites of Cabarrus farmers. No other brand stands any higher with them, and we all know that they are good and successful farmers, and especially raise fine large crops of Cotton. Hf-And to accommodate my friends and customers, I will keep on hand a fullstock of 5Flour, Corn, Meal, Oats, cotton seed Meal. Bran, Ship Staff, Bacon, Molasses, Salt: &c, &c, that I will sell for cash or barter very low. Also, will sell on time. HF"Have a small lot of prime CLOVER SEED. J D GASKILL. I saall soon have completed the most convenient Guano Warehouse to town near Holmes' Tap Yard. mmmW mmA HHHlHlMfcj Hft' This Space Reserved FOR SHEPPARD, SWINK & MONROE, PROPRIETORS KLQTTZ'S WAREHOUSE For the Sale of LEAF TOBACCO, Salisbury, N. C. mm 'M PILLS will completely ch&uge the blood In tho entire system in three months. Anr person who will take 1 Pill each night from 1 to IS weeks, may bo restored to sound health, If such a thine ho possible. For Female Complaints these Pills hare no equal. Physicians use them for the care of LIVKB and KIDNEY diseases. Sold everywhere, or seat by mall for S5c in stamps. Circulars free. I. 8. JOHNSON a CO.. Boston, Mass. DIPiiTIElil Croup, Asthma, Bronchitis, Neural gia, llheuiuatism. JOHNSON S ANO DYNE LINIMENT (for Internal avl External Vie) will iiixtaiitutieouslr relieve these terrlUle disease. auJ will posiuvetr cor nine rsnc-s oat of ten. lnturmaUon thai will save many lives sent f me r mail. Don't deiav a moiucui. I .eveiiuun is better than cure. JOHNSON'S ANODYNE UNDENT rtTRES Infloena, Bldlne; at the Lunjn Hoarse ns, Hscalnf C'ousb, Whoopimc ('"U!h, cnrotnc i. Diseases of the Spins. Sold everywhere. LMarrhcea. Dvsenterv. Cholera Morten, Kidney 1 roubles, sag Circulars free. I. S. JOHNSON A CO., Boston, Mass. It Is s well-known fact that most of the Boras and Cattle Powder sold In this conn try Is worthless: that Sheridan's Condition Powder is sbsolu te'v pare and vervvsl liable. Coining on Earth will make hens 7 like Sheridan' Condition Pow Ja. rjoaa. one teaanoonful to each Dint of food. It win also positively prevent an 4 core I Hr Cholera, Ac SoMereTrwhere.oTseTit byinaaiforc.ta CHICKEN CHOLERA, liiWai Dec. to, 1883. 10:ly B LAY OFFER SPECIAL BARGAINS! CHEAP $15.00. 40.00 $10 to $1 $10 to $1 $12 arid to $o.m ; $12:00 do 1 Elias Howe Leather Machine, 2 18-inch arm for heavy leather, (good as new,) Original cost $12o.OO. 4 New Family Singer Machines, 3 American No. 1, 2 Wheeler fc Wilson, -2 Home Shuttles, - - 1 Weed, Thp nhnve have been used some but warranted work. We also sell the ISTew Davis, American and Royal St. J ohn at bottom prices warranted for 5 years and guarranteed to SATISFACTION. go