Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-03-10
THE QUESTION OF TARIFF REFORM.

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THE QUESTION OF TARIFF REFORM.
A late Washington letter gives the fol-
lowing information relative to an organi-
zation recently formed among a number of
Congressman for the purpose of securing re-
duction Of the tariff to a strictly revenue
basis and correcting abuses in that branch
of the Government:
At dinner given by Mr.. Frank Hurd, of
Ohio, to twenty or twenty-five members of
Congress to talk over the future Of the ques-
tion of tariff reform, it was determined to
form "Free Trade Congressional Alliance"
to act together in the next Congress and in
the country at large for the furtherance of
reduction of The tariff to strictly revenue
basis Most if not all the gentlemen present
are members not only Of the present but of
the next House of Representatives. The
question of action on the tariff; and of inform
INK and influencing public opinion in favor
of a revenue tariff was freely discussed, and
it was determined to form the Congressional
Alliance as permanent and active body.
Mr.. S. S. Cox was made president of the
Alliance, Messrs. w. R. Morrison, Of Illinois;
J. G.. Carlisle, of Kentucky R. G. Mills, of
Texas; J. Randolph Tucker, of Virginia, and
Proctor Knott, of Kentucky, agreed to act as
vice presidents, and Messrs N. j. Hammond
of Georgia; John F. House, of Tennessee;
E. S. Bragg, of Wisconsin Benjamin LeFe-
vre, of Ohio;J. G. s. Blackburn, OF Ken
tucky, and Richard W. Townsend, Of Illi.
nois, agreed to act as directors All thess
are members of the next Congress. The OBJ.
jects of this organization are~to spread infor.
nation on tariff abuses among the people by
correspondence and by the circulation of
documents and to act in concert in Congress
to promote the reform of the tariff and its re-
duction to strictly revenue basis The in
tention is expressed to make the Alliance an
active and aggressive body, and the gentle.
men composing the organization believe that
with proper labor they can sufficiently attract
attention to the question to make it COLI
spicuous issue among the people.
How A WOMAN READS A NEWSPAPER
According to Mrs. Gertrude Garrison this is
how she does it: She takes it up hurriedly
and begins to scan it over rapidly, as though
she was hunting some particular thing, but
she is not. She is merely taking in the OBJ.
scure paragraphs, which, she believes, were
put in the out-of the-way places for the sake
of keeping her from seeing them. As she
finishes each one of them her countenance
brightens with the comfortable reflection that
she has outwitted the editor and the whole
race of men, for she cherishes vague belief
that newspapers are the enemies of her sex,
and editors her chief oppressors. She never
reads the headlines, and the huge telegraph
heads she never sees. She is greedy for local
news, and devours it with the keenest relish.
Marriages and deaths are always interesting
reading to her, and advertisements are very
exciting and stimulating. She cares but lit
tie for printed jokes unless they reflect ridi'
Guile upon the men, and then she delights in
them and never forgets them. She pays par.
ticular attention to anything enclosed in quo.
tasion marks, and considers it rather better
authority than anything first handed. Tho
columns in which the editor airs his opinions,
in loaded hifalutin, she rarely reads. Views
are of no Importance in her estimation, but
facts are everything. She generally reads
the poetry. She doesn't always care for it,
but makes practice of reading it, because
she thinks she ought to. She reads stories,
and sketches, and paragraphs indiscrirninate-
ly, and believes every one Of them. Finally,
after she has read all she intends to, she lays
the paper down with an air of disappoint-
ment, and a half comtemptuous gesture,
which says very plainly that she thinks all
newspapers miserable failures, but it is GER
tain that if she had chance she could make
the only perfect newspaper the world had
ever seen.
"Is FATHER HERE|-A young msn came
into city station house yesterday afternoon,
and inquired: "Is father heref'-"I do not
know-what is his name?" said the Lieuten-
ant on duty. The name was given, and the
record exhibited, with "drunk and disorder
ly" attached as the charge.
"Can see him a moment-he is my IA
ther?' Yes, was the response, and the young
man was conducted to the iron cage where
the father had been confined since morning,
now sobered in his right mind. "Fatber,"
said the young visitor, "Jane Is dead r.
And the young man choked at the sentence,
while the strong nerved father vented his
grief In tears and loud expressions of sorrow.
While the sister and daughter lay upon
her dying bed, the father had INDUCED in
liquid potatons that dethroned reason, and
had been arrested and confined in the station
house. The son asked for his release, and
the kind.bearted officer opened his prison
door, and with a word Of comfort and warn
ing set him free. Such are some Of the daily
scenes "local" meets with, in bis daily
rounds Cincinnati Gazette.
LETTER OF CREDIT.-There is one great
evil in this country which we think the pulpit
and the press ought to denounce more fire.
quently than they do-that is, the habit of
getting into debt and making no effort to pay.
Can man be consistent Christian and not
strive to pay all his debts? Can man be a
Christian and not be honest? Is han who