The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-09-12

Other towns tailed to protect themselves.
All Cairo asks is that due share of the
money appropriated by congress tor the
improvement of navigation be expended on
the rivers in this vicinity where it is more
needed than at many other points where
liberal sums have been, and are still being,
expended.
Sells Bros show yesterday were about
as large and good generally as any that
has ever been here. 1t had larger
single spread of canvass and much longer
street show than Coupe. The perform
ances in the main tent was given in two
rings and was good throughout. There
were an unusually large number of per-
formers The riding was particularly good
and so were some Of the rope and wire
performances. The tumblers and athletes
generally, though there was larger mum
Der of them than Coupe had, were not so
good neither were the trained horses.
But there were several new features which
deserve special mention. For one the per
Torrance on loose horizontal rope and
the exhibition Of wild animals in the ring.
The performance was longer than usual
but less varied and less smooth. The tent
was crowded with people, nearly taxed to
its greatest capacity, and were all well
pleased with the show. Sells Brothers did
well by the people and the people did well
by them Both have reason to be satisfied
with their exchange Of money and enter
| tanment
Notwithstanding the dolefu fore.
holdings of few weeks ago, the crop this
years. going 20 be enormously greater than
any preceding one. The state of Illinois
alone will produce $4,000, 900 of bushels of
wheat or about one quarter Of what would
have been considered fair crop for the
whole country few years ago The total
crop is estimated at 6O0,OOJ,0OO bushels by
some good authorities and by none at less
than 00000000. 1t will be safe to rest
half way between these figures Crops Of
oats, barley fruit and roots Of all sorts are
also greater than usual, and it looks as if
We should have such a quantity of food to
export as would feed the whole earth and
tax our railroads ana lake shipping beyond
their capacity. General prosperity Will pre-
vail, and the republican party and the tariff
monopolis's will claim the whole credit of
it; but nothing could more clearly prove
that it is not the protected manufacturer,
but the unprotected farmer, that makes our
country smile with abundance, While the
farmer who produces all this wealth will be
! compelled TO compete in the markets of the
world against the pauper labor of Russia, Of
India, of Egypt, of France, of Germany, OF
Italy, Of Great Britain and of Ireland-for
his wheat will meet rival wheat from all
these countries when tgets to market-he
will have to pay tribute to the steel maker
OF Plttsburg and Chicago in increased
| freight over protected rails; he will have to
| pay tribute to the iron monopolies in every
! tool used in his work, on every nail in bis
buildings; the cotton monopollsts will
squeeze him on his blankets, and the lum.
Der maker will have a share out of him for
every piece Of worked wood on his farm.
These are all protected by the tariff at his
cost. He is not protected at anybody's but
his own, and if the soil were not 80 rich and
so cheap, enabling him to pay all these ex.
actions, he would be poor indeed.
Replying to The BULLETINS intima.
ton that Mr.. Daniel Hogan, the Republi.
can nominee for the Fftieth district, was
not giving Mr. Harris, the coIored nomi-
nee for County Clerk of Pulaski county,
his hearty support, the Pulaski Patriot
says; "THE BULLETIN is up to some more
of its Democratic antics. IKE BULLETIN
knows, if it knows anything about Dan |
Hogan, that he is "simon pure" republi. |
can, and that he endorses the action of his
party and its nominees. The BULLETIN
knows that no doubt exists among the col
ored voters as TO what Dan Hogan will do
or what he thinks about Mr., Harris."-
Aud then the Patriot runs of into a ram
bling comment upon The Bulletin
what it did, and was, and is and intends to
be, c'c,,-al Of which is not to the point
Whether "TnE BULLETIN is up 20 some
Democratic trick or not is not the ques-
ton, Whether Dan Hogan has ever, dur.
ing these several months that Mr. Harris
has been before the Republicans of Pulaski
county, advocated that young mans claims
for the position he is secking-that is the
question THE BULLETIN knows
that doubt DOES exist among colored PEG.
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