The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-02-04
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE,
The National Agricultural Convention,


New YORK, February 3.--At the session
OF the National Agricultural convention
Yesterday, Professor A. L. Perry, of Will
Aams college, in his address on free trade
proceeded to state how agriculture is in,
iured by the tariff in the case of cotton ties
and steel rails. He said "In a crop of g..
OVoOOO bales of cotton, tariff duty of 80 pei
cent raises the price ofties l2c per bale and
this is conceded to the PENNSYLVANIA
IRON market. Thus the extra cost of balinc
on n crop is 10000, and therefore the ex-
ira cost Off per cent duty. which is now
sought to be imposed by the Mckinley bill,
'pending in congress. will be $4,000 on the
crop of6 100000 bales of cotton.
In the case of steel rails and tariff the pro.
lessor showed it cost about 81 extra for
each rail OF heavy pattern, or 5000 per
mile extra for single track roa q laid OF
steel rails, Farmers and planter pay
This extra cost, while they TRANSPORT
Their produce and cotton from the prairies
Of the west and fields of the south to the
place OF export. Every one helps to pay il
VINO sends pound of freight or travels n
mile of steel rails.
klMBALLs TALK.
non. Mr.. kimball, director general of
Natonal Cotton exposition, ut Atlanta,
iead paper on the results of the great ex-
nloltion In his most sanguine moments,
ne said, he had not dreamed of such
a grand, composite display of every
southern industry, and the resource
o. minerals and woods which in their au-
uaciiy the directors of the building, wiser
than they knew, had accumulated In this
great exhibition. II was such an exposition Of
purely American industry us had never be-
pre been seen. Fifteen years had elapsed
TThce Thce the old labor system had been killed.
anen the former master had neither money
nor credit, and the former slaves were in
iiV,Ncated with the first draught Of liberty.
~ was the old story of the
DOW that had been bowed so
ppng as to lose its elasticity"
nut III the essential requirements of true
manhood during these four years of strife
ana snd bloodshed, the Southern people had
IIlly demonstrated their capacity. [Cries
Kah Rah !" and applause There still
Unnamed to be gathered up the broken
SS,eauS SauS OF her former prosperity. The
souln had weven them into the complete
ea ea,nehts which she had so lately spread
0ub at Atlanta. Applause.
o,u ne said he was born IN Maine, republi.
nn, ana prohibttionist, but feeling
S"a. Snn the South was the natural
,haue uvuae OF enterprise, he had built
here. He had lived there through
~ stages and had never suffered the
shngntest ostracsm, and he knew that here.
s,'ef sectional strife was done. Referring
.ne benefits accruing to the north
,ba ,bough the exposition. he said
luz sale OF the northern implements and
sssuor,Saying ss contrivances among the south
u planters Is amazing. The sale Of
ss,nannnure-spreaders snn amounted to over
NlowV Fifteen hundred cotton
nSn,ets, 200 new pattern carriages,
c,iyarloads of engines and plows. harrows,
dda.uVators and other machinery have up TO
cu case been sold since the exhibition. In
s~Oanslusion, he said, 1--WE want men aud
wo.nh ohneh OF brain, who are not afraid to
,"a., ,vrk. We have discarded sentiment and
,bi,ed IbIned all our energies toward practical
m'hgs There Is room for ALA hearty
"''come Tor all, and fortune for all who viii