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VOLUME XXII.
WILSON, WILSON COUNTY, N. C, MARCH 31st, 1892.
NUMBER
1 1.
The
Advance
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A Drive in Hats !
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Thatches for the dome of
thought at prices that
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and popularize
our hats.
We are selling Fur Crush
hats at 50c,, worth 75c,
and the $1.25 quality
we sell for 94c.
We have a Settled Man's
Black Fur at $1.08, sold
elsewhere at $2.00.
Oh ! noi We don't work for
glory, but we guarantee
our prices to be - the
lowest.
Underbuy and undersell . is
our motto.
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A M AN'S REPLY.
Last year we published those
strong lines, "A Woman's Question,"
followed by a man's, reply to it. Here
is another good enough to be cut out
and pasted away wit,h the first. Ed.
I stand at the bar of your pure woman's
soul,
Condemned m the cause that you
plead;
My only defense is the simple request
That you'll judge me by motive, not
deed.
For remember that man's but a child
in the dark.
Though formed by the hand from
above ;
He will fall many times, but shall walk
forth at last,
In the sunshine of infinite love.
So I'm bolderied to
answer your qnes-
tion so fair,
And give you "A Man's Reply ;"
That lor the prize of a woman's love
. I am ready to live or die.
You say that the man who gains your
love.
Must be brave,
I answer that she
Must be a type
and true, and good;
who wins my heart
of true womanhood.
You say that you look for a "man and a
king,"
A very prince of the race ;
I look for a kind and generous heart,
And not for a queenly face.
You require "all things that are good
and true,
vn mings mat a man snouia te ;
I ask for a woman, with all that im- j
plies, j
ft 1.1 rr-
mm mat is sumctent lor me.
You ask for a man without a fault,
To live with you on earth ;
I ask for a. woman, faults-ami all.
For by faults L may judge of worth.
I ask for a
woman made
le as of old,
A higher form of man ;
His comforter, helper,
friend;
As in-the original. plan.
ad
and
A woman who has. an aim in life,
W ho finds life worth the living ;'
Who makes the world better for being
here,
And for others her life is giving.
I will not require all that I have asked
In these lines so poor and few ;
I only pray that ou may be all
That God can make of you.
For your heart, and life, and love,
Are sacred things to me ;
And "I'll stake my life" that I'll
to you
Whatever I ought to be,
Cood Housekeeping
tie
SILENT LOVE.
"Now 'Love is mine;
boasted song ?
My heart is dull too
words ;
And vet methinks my
but where my
'full, ah me ! for
new found joy
haslent
Fresh rapture to the
voices ot the
"And I am dumb ; the world will never
hear
The music fitting all this life of mine,
O ! Love is too sublime a theme for me;
I can but kneelinj silence at Love's
shrine."
A Fair, Fran U ami (ant! il Statement
What M- Argus"- Believes.
There is
that David
no
H.
questioning
the fact
Hill has considerable
following
in 'North Carolina more
at tliis time than he will have later
on by far. Even here in Goldsboro
"there are a number of more-or less
Hill men. Some of them have even
taken The Argus to task for its
opposition to their at present favorite
candidate. The Argus concedes to
these gentlemen the right, full and
free, to choose their candidate and
champion his cause ; we claim the
same right. In the position which
The Argus has taken it is governed
not by preference for or opposition
to any special man, but solely by
principle. As the Richmond Times
says, The Argus does not oppose the
nomination of David B. Hill because
he is Mr. Hill, but simply because it
does not believe that the exalted
office of President of the United
States should be attained by the
machine methods employed in ordi
nary ward politics ; nor does it advo
cate the nomination of Mr. Cleveland
because he is Cleveland, but because
it believes him to be the most
available and leading exponent of
true Democratic principles in the
party. It is these principles which
it wishes to see triumph, and, it
would oppose the nomination of any
man who represents the school of
politics to which Hill belongs, while
it would advocate the nomination of
any man who belongs to the school
represented by Cleveland, and who
would be likely to achieve success.
Goldsboro Argus.
Here is another view, from an
equally honest and candid journalist
of ability :
"The Times has supported, and
will continue to support, that school
of Democratic thought represented
by Mr. Cleveland, whether he con
tinues the leader and exponent of that
school, or whether some other man
shall take his place, and the Times
will continue to resist and oppose the
school of thought represented by Mr.
Hill, whether it be some other man,
sjch as Senator -Gorman or Senator
Brice in the Democratic party, and
Mahone and Quay in the Republican
party." What unadulterated "rot"
that is, extracted from the Richmond
Times ! The rank and file of the
party are notjustnow trouDimg tnem
selves about any particular "school of
thought" (whatever that may mean) :
they propose to nominate for the
Presidency a Democrat, a man who
has the best chance of attaining victo
ry as a Democrat ; and if "machine"
politics means such management and
leadership as defeats Radicalism and
thrust it out of power why, let's run
the machinery a little, that's all.
Fayetteville Observer. .
A NEW CROP.
HERE IS ONE THAT PROMISES TO PAY
liETTER THAN COTTON.
A Gool Article on How to Cultivate and
Harvest Rice, AVith some Historical Facts
as Relating to Tins Cereal.
HISTORICAL AND COMMERCIAI
The earlist record of rice in his
tory is its introduction into China,
several centuries before the deluge,
m the year 15. C 2822. Where it
came from, or how the record
was preserved, is not stated.
itself
o
was described by Theophrastus, B.
C. 322, Pliny, the Elder, B. C. 72,
and by Dioscorides, B. C. 54.
The claim made by the Chinese, I
coming- to us from the mists which
surround the ancient history of the
race, serves to show the early date
in the age of the world when rice
was an esteemed article of food for .
mankind.
To insure improvement in charac-:
ter and productiveness, its culture in
China was 1 encouraged by royal favor,
and imperial edicts were issued in
j regard to the selection of seed. Its
j value as food caused a widely extend -j
ed culture, and to-day we find it
; used by the whole iworld, and by far!
! the larger proportion of the world's !
I population live on it almost exclu
' sively. In China, Japan, the East
i Indies and Islands adjacent, the sue-1
cess or taiiure ot tne rice crop means
plenty or famine to nearly 800,000,000 '
of people.
The quantity grown in these coun- J
tries is enormous, amounting in a sin- j
gle year to two hundred and fifty bil-
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1 irre " m aat rrr rrr sf nri inlc r
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about htteen hundred (1,500) times
j as much as has been raised up to the
I present time in our best seasons. This
immense quantity is mainly consum
ed in the countries where it is grown.
Large amounts are exported to Eu
rope, North and South America, yet
so great is the product, these exports
do not reach one per cent, of the total.
Looking at the map of the world,
Japan seems insignificant, yet in 1870
this apparently small territory had
8,000,000 acres planted in rice, pro
ducing an average of fifty bushels to
the acre, equal to 9,600,000,000
pounds. The government assess
ment, was on about half this amount.
lapan exported m iboi about one'
hundred and seventy-five million
(175,000,000) pounds, nearly four
times as much as the total product of
the United States the same year.
The crop of 1889-90 was 11,700,
000,000 pounds. The exports from
India, principally Burmah, in 1891
were over two billion (2,000,000,000)
pounds. From these figures we can
gain somewhat ot an idea of the enor
mous production of rice and the im
portant place it occupies in the food
products of the world.
USES OF RICE.
The use of rice is by no means
confined to feeding vast masses of
humanity ; preparations from it are
often prescribed by physicians as
being peculiarly adapted to cases
where cooling and at the same time
nutritious food is necessary. It enters
into manufactures, such as jewelry,
works of art, toys, cement, paper,
arrack (an intoxicating liquor), also
a light beer is made from it; it is
j offered by the heathen in worship to
i their idols, and it was recently the
I standard of value in Japan ; indeed,
its uses are so varied that it ceases to
be a wonder that it should be so
highly prized in the countries where
it is most largely produced.
CULTURE IN THE UNITEb STATES.
Turning attention nearer home,
we find many points of interest in its
culture in this country. We shall
not deal with such tremendous figures
ot production, yet the industry is an
important one to the United States,
and particularly to the South. In
1694 a vessel bound for Liverpool
from Madagascar, was blown out of
her course and put into the port of
Charleston, S. C, for repairs. Before
starting on his homeward voyage, the
captain gave to one of his friends,
Landgrave Thomas Smith, who was
at that time Governor of the Colony,
a small parcel of rough rice, which
was in his cook's- stores, suggesting
it might possibly grow and afford
them an additional article for food.
In a new country such a gift was
valuable. That it was so, subsequent
events proved, for the seed was
planted in Mr. Smith's garden (now
known as Longitude lane, in the city
of Charleston), and the product care
fully preserved among the colonists,
until from this small beginning was
developed the Carolina Rice, known
the world over for its superior style
and character. The culture was nec
essarily limited at first, but as the
planters learned its peculiar needs,
the products increased and during
ten years 1720 to 1729 inclusive
the exports were 44,081 tons. Dur
ing the next decade, 1730 to 1739,
99,905 tons !were exported to Europe
(Holland, Bremen and Hamburg tak
ing over three-quarters of this
amount.) Thirty years after over
14,000 were exported in a single
year (Great Britain taking about
12,000 tons). The next fifty years
found the culture extended into both
Carolinas and Georgia, and the pro
duct for the three States in 1816 was
41,851 tons, equal to 137,843 tierces
of 600 pounds. The product in
creased of course, varying with the
favorableness of the season.
THE TARIFF PROTECTION.
Prior to the war, no foreign rice was
imported and the tariff was byt nomi
nal, varying from fifteen to twenty
per cent, ad valorem, which on the
then current prices was one-half to
three-quarters cent per pound. Dur-
ing the war the tariff was advanced
from time to time, reaching its high
est, two and one-half cents per pound
on cleaned in 1864, and continued at
that until 18S3 except that received
from the Hawaiin Islands, which since
1876 has been admitted free of duty
j under the reciprocity treaty promul
! gated that year. Since then duty on
" cleaned rice has been reduced, in
! 1883 to two and one-quarter cents,
and in 1890 to two cents per pound.
The last Tariff bill, Oct. 1st, 1890,
1
P'aces duty on imports of Foreign
Kice per pound, as follows : Clean-
ea, 2 cents ; Uncieanecl, 1
1 T T 1 1
l : Paddv
or Rough, ?X ; Rice Flour, i ; Rice
1 '
ivieai, ; , jjiok.ch ixiee, .
Though the primary design of the
greatly enlarged tariff was for the
purposes ot revenue during the war
period, it was retained that through
the incidental protection derived
therefrom the planters might the
more speedily rehabilitate the" plan
tations and bring up the culture to its
former value as an industry. That
the incentive has been appreciated is
proven ; the culture had gotten fairly
underway by 1870 and in the first
decade had doubled and at the end
of the second trebled.
POSSIBILITIES OF CULTURE.
It is estimated that in eight South
ern States there are from 70,000,000
to 90,000,000 of acres suitable for
tt 1 1 . r 1 r:; T
nee culture and otherwise ol fittfe
value, called waste lands. Louisana
contains more acreage of lands par
ticularly suitable for the cultivation
of rice than any other State. At a
low average of yield in a lair season,
say 1,000 pounds clean rice per acre,
- r . 1 , , ,
if these waste lands were brought
tinder tillage, the United States could
rival the the East and produce from
70,000,000,000, to 90,000,000,000 ot
pounds yearly.
HINTS AS TO CULTURE.
As abroad, so in the United States,
the culture ot rice is both lowland
(wet) and upland (dry). The main
crop is lowland that is, upon lands
which are so situated as to be over
flowed or drained at the will of the
planter, according to .the season of
the year and condition of the crop.
It was probably, adopted first, as rice
was and is still by many regarded as
strictly a water plant ; second, large
tracts of land, mainly worthless, were
thereby brought into use ; third,
although expensive, has been ad
hered to, as the yield thereon is very
heavy and net results under favora
ble conditions most remunerative.
Cultivation on uplands has not
been so general, owing in part to
reasons above given and ignorance of
the fact that rice yields far beyond
other grains. At orfe time the quan
tity was insignificant, so small that
no notice was taken of it, but it is
receiving enlarging attention of late,
and any estimates of the rice crop of
the United States which ignore it are
certain to go wide of the mark. The
phrase "good as wheat" is scarcely
half descriptive of the rewards which
come fo the careful planter on uplands
in average seasons. We have heard
of remarkable yields on lands that
seemingly offered little inducement
for cultivation, many times, the value
being taken off at a single crop. The
general character of upland rice is
very handsome, being flinty and sus
ceptible of high polish.
PLANTING.
Rice may be planted as early as
February or as late as second week
of July, according to location. There
are many varieties of seed. We
mention Honduras seed, a large,
bold grain, very productive if season
is good and harvest favorable, com-
.mands good price in market ; White
Seed Carolina a white, flinty grain.
This is the kind which has given
Carolina rice a world-wide, reputa
tion. Gold Seed Carolina a large
plump grain, heavy yielder, but apt
to shatter and deteriorate. The best
seed, all things considered, is without
doubt the White Seed Carolina. It
is hardy, standing the vicissitudes of
unfavorable seasons better than the
Honduras or Gold Seed, and is a
standard grade in the market.
HARVESTING.
Harvesting is mainly done with
the sickle, although machines are
being offered which do most excel
lent work under favorable conditions
If the sickle is used, cut about two
feet and a half from the top and lay
the "hands" down on the stubble to
dry. This allows circulating of air
beneath and all around it. Twenty
four hours of good weather should
cure it sufficiently for binding, which
should never be done while the straw
is damp. Cut in the morning and
bind previous days, cuttiug in the
afternoons. This divides the labor
about right. Soon as dry, remove
the bundle to the barn-yard and stack
properly, so as not to suffer damage
frdm storms. Let the bottom of
stacks be raised from the ground a
foot, so as to have circulation of air
underneath. Rice should cure in the
stack for thirty days before threshing.
Run a stake from the side into the
center of the stack and examine it
every day or ; by noticing the tem
perature of the stick you can ascer
tain if the curing process is going on
properly.' If the stake gets hot, the
stack must be pulled down, straw
aired and restacked.
When cured the grain is separated
from the straw by flails or in large
quantities by threshing machines, of
which several very satisfactory ones
are now in the market. Rice should
be thoroughly fanned and screened,
so as to be free from straw, sticks,
foul seeds or any extraneous matter,
the presence of which materially af
fects the value of the Rough Rice, as
well as that of the cleaned product.
It will pay to have every bundle of
Rice examined before it goes to the
thresher, so as to pick out all weeds,
grass and fouls stuffs, the seed's of
which when threshed with the rice
reduce its value far more than
of labor of removing them at
cost
this
point. 1
MARKETING.
The rice can be sold In the Rough
or if full value is wanted, send it to
the largest milling centre practicable,
with instructions to your agent to
have it milled on toll and the cleaned
proceeds sold for your account.
The following are milling centres
and each have mills capable of doing
the finest work : New Orleans,
Charleston, Savannah, New York,
Wilmington.
It is needless to suggest that these
markets not only offer better milling
facilities, but by reason of being trade
centres, the cleaned product is fully
assured of ready sale at highest cur
rent prices.
In shipping, the rough should be
packed in strong double bags, about
170 to 180 pounds in each package.
Sew the bag ; do not" tie it.
UPLAND OR DRV CULTURE.
This kind of Rice is grown without
flooding ; is planted in hill or rows
wide enough apart to permit a horse
cultivator to be worked, and while it
does not produce as much per acre
as that grown in the water, will yield
in quantity beyond other grains and
under equal conditions give an out-
come of far higher monetary value.
It should be properly fertilized, for it,
like any other product, suffers from
underfed or starved soil. If neglect-
ed in this particular it may prove less
remunerative by breaking under the
milling process. Dry culture allows
more careful cultivation and removal
of foul grasses and weeds.
SIX POINTS REQUIRING CAREFUL AT
TENTION. 1st. Care in selecting or cleaning
land.
2d. Care in planting good seed.
3d. Care in cultivation.
4th. Care in harvesting, curing and
threshing.
5th. Care in sorting grades.
6th. Care in having rough proper
ly milled.
First:1 Clean your land before
putting seed into it ; enough weeds
will grow in spite of you, so start
free.
Second. Plant good seed "Like
produces like." It costs no more to
plough, plant, cultivate, harvest, mill
and sell good rice than poor, but the
money result is vastly different.
Third. Cultivate carefully. After
you have spent time, labor and seed,
don't grow weary in well-doing, but
follow it up until the time you expect
your reward
Fourth. Harvest at the right time,
don't linger if you have a good day.
Let your rice cure before you thresh.
"Haste makes wates" in this as other
things. Thresh and clean your rice
so it will give you a reputation wortli
ten cents a bushel more than your
slouchy neighbor.
Fifth. Sort your grades that is,
if you have a few bags of poor truck,
don't put them in, with your good
rice. It will spoil it all, and, what's
more, spoil your reputation. Pu tter
feed the trash to the chickens : they
will grow fat on it.
Sixth. -Get your rice milled where
they will do it the best : not where
they charge vou the least. Good
service in milling costs money, like
anything else, and milling can be "too
cheap to be good."
Tlie Poetry of the Paroii.
It is no advantage to live in a city
where poverty degrades and failure
brings despair. The fields are love
lier than paved streets, and the great
forests of oaks and elms are more
poetic than steeples and chimneys.
In the country is the idea of home.
There you see the rising and setting
sun ; you become acquainted with
the stars and clouds. The constella
tions are your friends. You hear
the rain on the roof and listen to the
rhythmic sighing of the winds. Vbu
are thrilled by the resurrection called
spring, touched and saddened by
autumn the grace and poetry of
death. Every field is a picture, a
landscape ; every landscape a poem ;
every flower a tender thought, and
every forest a fairy land. In the
country you preserve your identity
your personality. There you are an
aggregation of atoms, but in the city
you are only an atom of an aggre
gation. From an Oration by Col.
Ingersoll.
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Josiah Stancill, former Postmaster
at Selma, N. C, and who was con
victed December 8th, 1S90. of rob
bing the mails and sentened to two
years in Columbus, Ohio, penitentiary
has been granted a pardon by Presi
dent Harrison. When he actually
serves eighteen months of his sentence
he will then be released. Stancill is
a young man and has always stoutly
insisted that he was innocent.
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NEWS 0FA WEEK.
WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE WOULD
AROUND US.
A Condensed Report of the News From
Our Contemporaries Gleaned Here anil
There For Busy Readers.
Ex-Congressman George W. Web
ber, of Inonia, Mich., is 67 years old
and has been tottering around on a
: cane for ten years. He has $500,0100,
however, to leave his first and only
j son, who was borii last Thurs'day.
W. G. Harris and wife, of Chatham
I county celebrated their 64th anni
; versay of their marriage Feb. 28th,
and are now living in the house in
which they began housekeeping in
1838.
Mr. C. C. Harris has been removed
as Postmaster at Louisburg and
Irs.
L5. K
T T 1 l
riawkins has been, appointed
m ins place. Mr. Harris made an
excellent officer and being a Democrat
was
can.
succeeded by the wife a Repub'l
The suit against the
Free Lance,
Marion's bold jnd fearless news
purveyor, is off. The grand jury1
failed to find a true bill. And we con-
gratulate Jim Griffin most heartily, j
It seems that the people are for him.
j
John T. Davis aged 32, who went j
from Raleigh, N. C, to Richmond, !
Ya., about three years ago and who I
was book-keeper for the Southern !
1 Hour Company Rand & Barbee
j until about three weeks since when j
j he became book-keeper for Harvey,!
! Blair & Co., is missing from the city j
i and $300 of the money, of the firm
last named is gone also. Meantime
irregularities, running back for a long
period, have been fotlnd in the books
of Rand & Barbee.
A writer in the Raleigh Chronicle
says ex-Governor Holden's mind was
completely shattered for some mouths
before his death, had become almost
T 1 1 .1.1 -I,
a uianK, mat ne couici not utter an ;
intelligent sentence, recognize even
members of his own family, nor write
his own; name.. His mind was so en
tirely gone that he couldn't tell who
was president of the United States or
Governor of North Carolina. His
lights went out, and in the darkness
he went out from a world that he had
forgotten.
Kindness and consideration always
pays. Some eight years ago, Mr.
Geo. W. Palmer, of Boston. Mass.,
spent the winter at Kittrell, Granville
county. He wanted to hunt on the
land of Mr. Sears, which was posted.
He asked Mr. Sears' permission and
was refused outright. A son of Mr.
Sears, J. M. Sears, was standing by
and interceded in Palmer's behalf and
gained his father's consent. Palmer
and the young man became good
friends. Nothing was heard from it,
however, until last week when young
Sears was notified by the Superior
Court Clerk of Logan county, Ky.,
that Mr. 'Palmer was dead and had
bequeathed to him 2,000 acres otland
in that county. This shows what
kindness and accommodation will do,
says the Oxford Ledger, but it re
minds us of the story of C. W. I
riss' legacy of $25,000, which
proved to be a hoax.
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all AS COL. SKINNER TEI.LS IT.
The AHi&iMTO l'rosrriunmo is to Name tli
Slate Ticket, Frame the Platform and
Appoint Delegates.
Col. Harry Skinner, of North Caro
lina, talked unreservedly as to the poli
tical outlook in North Carolina. Col.
Skinner is a brotber ol ex-Congressman
Skinner, and brother-in-law of
ex-Congressman Latham and exr
Governor Jarvis, of North Carolina.
He is a successful lawyer and farmer,
and has seen something of public life
in Carolina. He is famed through
out the State as an orator, and is
accepted as a representative of the
young Democracy. It was Col.
Skinner who first suggested in the
public prints the application of the
sub-Treasury idea in this country as
a means of financial relief to the
agriculture interests. It was subse
quently adopted by the Alliance, and
applied to all agricultural products,
and is now the dominating issue of
that organization, Col. Skinner has
been on the stump in North Caro
lina lor some time, having made
addresses. He says :
"The Third party movement will
cut a small figure in North Carolina.
The Alliance vill control the State
convention, nominate a State ticket
and adopt a State platform with the
sub-Treasury plank as a prominent
feature, and name the delegates to
the national Democratic convention.
The Third party business would lose
us the State, make negro rule a
possibility and possibly result in the
election of a Republican President.
The delegates to - Chicago will be
uninstructed, but they will be repre
sentative Alliancemen for instance,
suchmen as Hon. S. B. Alexander,
now a member of Congress from the
Charlotte district. They will repre
sent and emphasize the anti-Cleveland
sentiment in the State, and I
mention that because it is the accept
ed opinion among the Alliance peo
ple that Mr. Cleveland cannot carry
the State. They will effect, if possi
ble, the nomination of a free silver
candidate for President. The Demo
cratic nominee must Stand squarely
on the question if'he expects to carry
the electoral vote of North Carolina.
I have only to add-that if the Demo
cratic leaders in North Carolina be
lieve as they talk the next State
convention will give them the biggest
surprise they have ever had."
Washington City Democrat.
WII At n1! V1.L I?E 111 K ISSUES
Tlit
Great Battle r 1893 Must Have l ive,
Vital Ones.
The North American Review for
M arch had a series of articles from
prominent Senators and Representa
tives in congress in answer to the
above query. Here are extracts from
hem :
Thus, the tariff as now presented
is a war for markets. A certain class
i ot our people clamor at the doors ot
Congress for a "home market." This I
class gained a complete victory in the J
enactment of the MeKinley tariff. The
tariff baron has secured to himself a i
; monopoly of the American market in
which both to sell arid to buy. The !
law that gives him a monopoly of the j
home market in which to sell his i
wares also shuts in the farmer and !
j other producers, compelling them also j
to buy and sell in the home market.
Tiie 1 inner in particular has now been I
forced into the arena of battle for ;
markets. lie is organized, well1
equipped, and freshly painted for the j
battle. R P. Bland," Rep.
As the time draws nigh for holding
conventions hv the two (rrtiit nnlitir.il
parties of tlie country, the question of
01 the political issues that are likely
to arise becomes a very prominent
one. It would seem at this distance as
though the Republican party must
stand by the two important questions
now under consideration, and already
assume:! in the past, as party princi
ples. It refer to the questions of free
coinage, and of the policy of protec
tion. I name them in this order, as
I look upon the financial question
as the more important issue at stake
lor -the next campaign. Wm. R.
Merriam, Rep,
The Republican party will take its
chances before the people upon the
doctrine of protection as opposed to
Free-Trade, or what is called revenue
reform ; but this doctrine, in 1892,
will be enlarged expanded and popula
rized by its new ally and handmaiden,
reciprocity, which, when protection
has built up the product of American
labor, furnishes a market abroad for
its overplus, without in the least en
dangering that product by the com
petition of foreigi underpaid labor.
The whole scheme of reciprocity,
mainly directed to trade with the
sister Republics of the American
continent, goes hand in hand with
protection. The Democrats prevert
its meaning, deride its uses, and yet
it is plain to see, are afraid of it.
Eugene Hale, Rep.
The representatives of the, Repub
lican and Democratic parties will
convene in May or June next and
adopt their platforms, and it is very
easy now to outline the resolutions of
each declaring their political faith.
The legislation of the Fifty-first Con
gress fixing tiie present customs
duties will afford the leading issue.
The Republican convention will ap
prove that legislation, and the Demo
cratic convention will denounce it
in both elaborate and ftbinted
rhetoric- but, in my judgment, the
actual contention upon this great
economic question will be made, not
by tiie resolutions of the two con
ventions, but by the House of Rep
resentatives of the Fifty-second Con
gress. The Democratic party is
largely in the majority there. The
constituencies of the Democratic
members will expect, the Republican
party will have a right to demand,
and the country
an expression, in
will exact of them,
the form of a bill
agreed upon
ind passed by them, of
the changes which they propose in
our present tariff. The law-making
power oi the Democratic party must,
therefore, make the issues of the next
national election upon this subject.
Frank Hisepck, Rep.
The tariff issue is at the front, and
will be the leading issue in the
elections ot this year. For a epiarter
of a century the people have strug
gled to relieve themselves from some
portion of the high taxes imposed to
carry on the most gigantic civil war
of modern .tames. They had seen
remitted the" income, legacy, and
other taxes which had been placed
on the wealth of the country. These
alone, ii kept to this day, would have
paid ail tiie public debt, improved
every river and harbor for which
estimates have yet been made, and
would have left the country out of
debt. They have seen the manu
facturer's tax repealed without the
repeal of the compensatng tax placed
on manufactured goods. The Tariff
Commission of 1883, composed of
protectionists, reported that the peo
ple were entitled to a reduction of 20
or 25 per cent., and had recommended
it. All the political platforms of the
parties had recognized the justness of
their demand for relief. Yet the
Tariff law of 1883 was in increase on
the rates therefore existing, and the
act passed by the last Congress is a
still greater increase on the bill of
1883. Verily, the people have
"asked for bread and been given a
stone. Benton McMrilin, Uem.
The administration of Mr. Cleve
land put an end for all time to any
serious discussion of the sectional
questions, or of the capacity of the
Democratic party to govern ; not
that it has put art end to the danger
ol force bills, to perpetuate the Repub
lican party m power, but to - the dis
cussion on the stump or around the
firesides of tlie olden charges that the
Democratic party was the friend of
treason, that the South could not be
trusted, and that the Democratic party
was incapable of governing. This
canvass, therefore, if it. does not
degenerate into a mere scramble for
office, where the contest is between
the two mach.ines, will be one of
great earnestness, and based on
sincere differences of opinion, and
j mostly, if not altogether, upon the
entire revision of the present system
of taxation, and the substitntion for
the MeKinley Bill of a bill which will
be satisfactory to those who believe in
the principles lad down in the
celebrated message of Mr. Cleve
land, and in the teachings of those
who are peculiarly known as the
tariff reformers'. W. C. P. Breckin.
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