The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-07-03

sar as for Rome they come to speak.
They are simpyg patriots whose
hearts swell. with sad emotions at
the dread prospect Of falling off of
public revenues Western agrlcul-
turists, $outlfern planters and Ia
boring classes are to be permitted TO
buy 4 trace chain, wooden hator.
shirt, or pouad-of salt outside of an
American factory. Despite the as
surance of Holy Writ, the early rain
and kindly sunshine, the earth will
refuse to yield her Increase, and
seedtirne and harvest will come no
more if salt be free and Knowledge
untaxed. ~
Who constiuted~ these men the
mouth piece or guardian Of sgficul-.
ture and laborf Who has right
on this floor to say that high tariff is
wise or beneficent. when the people
have not been permitted to test the
freedom of the seas or the policy of
unrestricted exchange of domestic
products for foreign commoditiesf
Will not public sentimentever again
arouse itself in this country, as did
Sampson of old, and tear away the
pillars of the impious temple and
Stay some Phiiistlnes
Why has not the newspaper press
ere-this.beatsthe long1roll koff battie
along IFS line from ocesn to oceanltih
now? Have the nerves of patriot
ism no deeper root than the bottom
ofIeditor's pdckets? What the press
to day smarts under has for twenty
years ground into dust millions of
our people engaged in various in
ductries. 1t might prove in the end
public blessing to Prolong the
wrong of which the press complains.
let the tourniquet be frightened, if
it but swell the cutlery against the
whole, protective iniquity, Yes
make their lives, as did the Egyp-
tians the children of Israel, ''bitter
with hard bondage in mortar and in
brick, and in all manner of service, ;"
if it raise some Moses who will
STAY an Egyptian. What is pulp"
compared with the fifteen hundred
other dutiable articles in our tariff
list, which has built up in a demo
cratic republic shoddy aristocracy,
a vast army-the spawn of executive
patronage; which makes hired spies
a necessity, smuggling respectable,
perjury common, and is filling the
land with a plentecus harvest of
pious prostitution and reverend ras
calitys The duty on paper, unsized,
used exclusively for printing books
and newspapers, is 20 per cent ad
Oalorem, while the average rate Of
duties on all imports is 40 per cent.
If, as has been said, a nations
consumption of paper be the meas
ure of its civilization, ours is replete
enough for there are one thousand
paper mills in it, with a capacity for
producing two thousatid tons of
paper per day. They certainly feed
no additional Legislative stimulus.
Let our ports of entry be opened
as free as our alleys to the ragman,
and for wood pulp, alum, coustics,
soda, &c, for the newspaper men
and let us have some consideration
for the tt1illions of consumers who
pay 20 per cent, on bfeadstufis; 4o
to 81 on. sugar; 43 on fish; AZ on
salt; 80 on clothing, 43 on hats, caps,
shirts, drawers; Sion trace chains;
s. on pillow lines, plows saws, tools,
axes, horse shoe nails, needles, and |
knitting needles; and worse duties
on leather, buttorss medicines,
combs, corsets, crionline, hubs,
wheels, fannels, blankets, pen
knives, and Jack knives, &C., articles
that enter into the necessaries of
every poor man daily life and con
sumo his wages.
Everywhere and anywhere in this
broad, fat land of ours, it requires no
eye of fancy to see the picture of the |
novel where the spectre
of squalid misery sits day and night. |
like the devil bag in the window of
Alloway Kirk, pointing the long,
bony finger of derisive despair at the
weary laborer returned from his |
days tod, sitting supperless before
his spent fire, with hungry children
before him, and the half clad mother
with skeleton babe pressed TO her |
desert bosom, because on the very
tumble salt, the iron spoons, knives, |
and forks, the salt seller,I the table |
cloth, IF he have one, the bread, the |
rustic table, the cook stove, skillet |
and oven, hooks, shovel, and tongs,
and the matches that light the fire,
and even the medicines that save life, |
is protective tariff tax, }iAnd yet
because the tax has beer taken off
tea and coffee, we hear of a "free
break fast table" 80
In looking over the listsof' dutia- I
bic articles one is struck almost with |
admiration at the devilish ingenuity
of its minute to catch everything.
Craftsmanship in our National Leg
stature seems to have exhausted it |
self almost in the study how to
gather taxes and foster tariff. 1t
has been truly said: /.
We are taxed for our clothing, our meat,
and our bread;
On our carpets and dishes, our table and bed,
On our sugar and our bowl, our fuel and /
lights, T sstt..s a..s..s-f
And we are taxed so severely that we can't
sleep O. nights; - sfsta sa
And the Star Spangled Banner in MOURN
ing Goth wave
Der the wealth of the nation turned into
the grave.
We are taxed on our houses, our stores,