Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-05-19
THE COTTON.GROWER
And the Existing System of Protection
What He Pays to Keep il Up.

How is it with the on-grower? asks
Senator Vance, in his recent speech on the
tariff. In the first place, he pays all the
taxes, State and national, that all other citi-
zens are required to pay. When he starts
out in the spring TO pitch his crop, on his
plow he pays 80 per cent. aa raiorsm;. on his
trace-chains to pull the pillow, q cents per
pound; on his wagon, harrow and other irons,
90 per cent; on his jack-knife, 80 per cent;
on the square by which he measures his work,
6 cents per pound and so per cent. I'D ualOrenl;
on his files and rasps, 10 cents per pound
and 80 per cent; on his saw, 81 cents and
80 per cent; for his ak, 40 per cent; for
the iron hoops which inclose his bale
of cotton when made, II cents per pound;
for his hammer, q cents per pound;
his wrought nails, % cents per pound; his
cut nails, ] cents per pound; his horseshoe
nails, 5 cents per pound; his tacks and sprigs,
p cents per thousand; for wood screws from
s 10 II cents per pound; for cast-iron hinges
for his door, p cents per pound; on his wife's
sad-iron, i cents per pound; On his cross
cut saw, 10 cents per foot. All this, aver
aging nearly 100 per cent, he pays to the
Pennsylvania iron and steel manufacturers,
not to the government. On the bsgging for
his cotton bales he pays cents per yard; on
his cotton shirt, cents per yard and 10 per
cent; on his wife's calico dress, 81 cents per
yard and 20 per cent; on her spool thread,
! cent each and so per cent; on the common
stoneware of his table, % per cent; on his
schoolboy's slate-penci', 40 per cent; on his
glass tumblers, 40 per cent; on his sugar
and molasses, 40 per cent; on his coarse
blankets, about 95 per cent; on his wool
hat and flannel shirt, about the same; on
his wife's shawl, so cents per pound and So
per cent. lover 100 per cent; on his borax,
10 cents per pound; his clock, 35 per cent;
his wife's camPhor, 8 cents per pound; her
gloves, so per cent; hair-pins, 80 per cent;
on his glue, 20 per cent; his grindstone,
cent per pound; powder, g cents per pound
and 20 per cent; suspenders, 35 per cent:
rubber boots for bad weather, 80 per cent.
his leather, 25 per cent; his kerosene oil,
40 cents per gallon. In sickness his morphia
ID taxed 81 per ounce; castor oil, 81 per gal
lon, and his opium 81 per pound. Even on
his fruit.trees and his garden and his agri-
cultural seeds he is taxed 20 per cent. ad
vdiorenl. Nearly all this goes into the pockets
of the manufacturers, who claim that the
planters prosperity Is increased by this
searching taxation. Nothing is free to him.
Nothing escapes, said Mr.. Vance, this all
pervading, inevitable protective tarif-cer-
tain as death, hungry the grave, unsatis-
fable as the sea.
Worth n Dozen Dead Mem.
RICHMOND. Va, May 20, 1881.
My physician, after exhausting me fnan-
ciaIly, cody informed me that my case was hope
less, that no remedy would reach my case ana il
entirely useless for to continue taking med
icine. was told that one lung was gone, that my
bowels and kidneys were all decayed. / suffered
overwhelmingly from the horrors of dyspepsia and
painful urination, ana my breath came short and
quick, while my heart at times ceased to beat en-
tirely, while again it would thump most vehe-
mently. A sister of mine, Mrs. Khorer, in Balti-
more, wrote TO father advising him to get me
Browns Iron Bitters. From the very first dose
felt change; now all pain is gone, my digestion
Is good, my urine is free from sediment, and my
lFeFF lfarrE
fectiy restored. and go about and do as much work
as ever did and do not feel the least fatigued.
DANIEL z. MCKENZIE.
senator Logan at st. Louis.