Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-12-15
ARTFUL REFORmERs.

olies at the expense of other industries, we're
l not the men for the occasion. And the re-
! port of the commission has verified the cor
rectness Of this prediction. 1t is cunning,
artful, and intended 10 delude and cheat the
people. 1t is sugar-coated with many things
to make it palatable. The result OF
the recent elections, and the universal
clsmor of the public, induced the COM
mission TO recommend greater reforms
/ than were expected from the known
predictions of the majority composing
| it, But the reforms are not such as
the country demand. The Tariff Com
| mission announce in their report that they
propose to add largely TO the free list,
and the following are the articles which
they recommend be free of duty: Spices,
barley, fish skins, lemon juice, assafetids,
bed feathers, newspapers, parchment, paper
pulp, drugs in a crude state, and vellum.
This is large-sized tub thrown to the
whale. All of these articles together are
said 10 pay an aggregate duty of 81, l13, 871,
of which spices pay $1,O95,131. A tat-rid-
den people can now afford to pamper manu-
featuring capitalists, since these articles are
to be placed on the list free of duty. Kindle
the bonfres on the hills; let the
loud huzza reverberate along the
mountains and through the valleys
in rejoicing over the glad tidings that cloves
are TO be free of duty! There is to be no
duty on garlicI The American people can
now satiate themselves with puRgent aro-
= f. e. Il
are to be free of duty. The hungry are
to be fed and the naked clothed with
cloves. Assafetids is 10 be put on the free
list. The children have long been cry
ing for assafetida; hysterical women have
yearned for an abundance of the fetid in
spissated sap which perfumes the air of
Persia and the East Indies, and they are now
happy, for assafetIda is TO be placed on the
free lisii Every we'll regulated family can
supfal itself with this oongrets juice 1t
will no doubt take the place of per-
fumery, and when fashionable lady enters
a church ediice she will make the aisle
redolent with the ravishing fragrance OF
assafedits. And ye gods and little fshesl
feathers, yea bed feathers, are no longer to |
pay dutyl The geese who recommended this |
exemption must have done SO in respect to !!
that ch arming bird, the goose, whose timely |
cackling once saved city from destruction. |
For years the American people have been
told that sleeping on feathers was not condp.
Give to health, and they have been supplyia:
themselves with shuck mattresses, therefore
the Tariff Commission should have placed |
shucks on the free list. Why this discrimina-
ton and grossinsult to shucks? Great injustice
has been done to shucks, and in this fight be-
tween feathers and shucks all eur sympa-
Ihies are with the corn pod. Now that feath-
srs are to be free and the market glutted,
is called upon to solve the diff
RS were in demand when the Southern peo-
Die used to tar and feather incendiary out
avs, but now that law has supplanted law
essness, and there is peace all along the Po-
omac, our people care nothing about free
lnty of either tar or feathers. 1t is relief
o know that there is a decline in the
rice of feathers. The duty is to be free,
nd the people Of Europe have already COM
1enced picking their geese and the whole
sathery tribe. The burdens of the tarpay-
re- will be greatly lightened by free bed
gathers. II there is anything the American
eople love to excess it is lemonade, and !
CIV that lemon juice is to be placed on the I
Zee list they are unspeakably happy. The
eople in public meetings, through the press
nd in the halls of Congress, have pleaded f
" free lemon juice and they are 10 {
ave it. Thanks to the Tariff Commission.
hey have proved themselves equal to a =,
reat emergency, and we are to get the G
lice without the rind, which causes so /
uch sliding on the streets. Foreign news
apers are to be free, tool American iou r
ais are devoid of news, and the people have A
ng been clamoring for the newspapers Of
urope. The APPEAL enters into COMPETE
On with the London Times, but our cotem- i
'rary has one advantage. We have 10 pay f
,stsge, while the Tariff Commission gives c
ee circulation TO the Times. Parchment | !
I'd yellnm are 10 be free of dutyi This n
'ws viii afford glad tiding of great Joy 10 Il
imefous households suffering for the want n
parchment and vellum. The barefooted !,
.
on his ragged shirt, said he c
uld do without shoes, but he couldn't 4
We without a "buzzim" breaslpin, and y
seems the Tariff Commission is impressed sr
tn the belief that the people can live with al
lax on the luxuries OF life, but that they c;
ust have free parchment and vellum--the :.
in OF goat dressed and prepared fit for X
EN- TO write on. Hereafter love letters will h
written on parchment. The paper mills q
II all be stopped, because parchment is 10 4
free from duty. The recommendation of te
e Tariff Commission that these articles be pl
aced on the free list is done to save a re- Of
al OF the present iniquitious protective =,
riff The repeal Of the internal revenue al
r is urged for The came purpose. But III
ither the Democratic party nor the conn pa
will be deluded into = support of the 10
of the Tariff Commission. W,
itch hopes by making assafetids, parch- &c
mi and feathers free TO still pamper the nc
h manufacturing monopoIies at the ex- ~
nse of all other industries a