National Republican., 1883-12-12
THE Man on ruE AyENUN.
small Tolh About Men and Measure,

in his limo boen so dull. He had fondly hoped
that tho convention of congress would held
trade, but If anything IL had grown worse.
Why" said he, "you have no idea Of how
men who used to take all tho way from ono
to dozen nips day have sworn off COM
pletely, and we never SEQ their faces at oil
any more. And they are sticking to it, too,
with no sueaking in for quiet cocktail"
"Who are those new additions TO the tenn
perance movement
"All sorts of people. Senators, members,
merchants, clerks, and newspaper mon. Why,
would you believe it, even some of the cum
nols,' judges and 'majahs' are Off their liquor,
and are giving their interiors q series Of sur
prise parties" rg,
what will be the result f this goes on2'
"Run, sir We'll all bo on our uppers. l
tell you, if tho Christmas holidays don't
make a lot of 'cm fall through, we'll have to
pass the January dividend"
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There is q bald-headed man, with mutton
chop whiskers, who at present holds com
Portable position in the senate wing of the
capitol, who has lately become q most enthu-
siastic advocate of civil service reform. Last
evening he was descanting in eloquent terms
upon the probability of certain eastern re-
publican senators taking high groundsin this
direction with regard to the changes In the
force of subordinates under the senate officers
A meek looking republican, who has just been
bounced by tho new house officials, inter
rupted his high-hown speech and said ::
"Thats most commendable frame of mind
for you to crawl into, my son, but don't you
bank on it. Pm on the war path myself, and
have spent the day in working up my appli-
cation for your place. After / get 1t, call on
me and you'll find me full of civil service re-
form from boots to skull
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"The big combination which proposes to
control this congress- said the eastern states
man, is made of Claus Spreckles, the Mormon
church, the men who want ten millions for
improving the Mississippi river, and the
whisky men who want the bonded period ox-
tended. No one of them is strong enough
alone to carry point, but If they are united
and that's what they propose to be--they
are likely to win everything, They had a good
deal to do with making John G. Carlisle
speaker of the house, and they have had
much to do with some other things which
people couldn't account for. Claus Spreckles
has got plenty of money, and he don't intend
to have the source of it shut off. People
know about tho Mormons, the men who are
putting good United States money into
Mississippi river sand, and tho men who
mako whisky and want to make more money
out of it but they don't know so much about
Spreckles's business. You had better look up
his profits"
"The reciprocity treaty" he went on to
say, "by which products of tho Hawaiian
islands and tho United States are inter
changed free of duty, went into effect eight
years ago. There were 17,S8S,00O pounds OF
sugar, worth S939O0O, sont from tho Ha.
waiian islands to the United States tho year
before that treaty went into effect. : Last
year the imports increased to ia, ,133,00C
pounds, valued at $7,340,000. Spreckles
raises and owns all the sugar on the Ha.
waiian islands. He has imported, free Of
duty, during tho last seven years 458, .00C
pounds, worth $3O,214,000. He has had "a
monopoly Of the trade, and has made, in tit
saving of duties alone, not less than $1,000,
OuU ~ ychi. Mo uoOo hop tOphCoUhs ~.
actual profits because he has made tho
price of sugar higher in San Francisco thai
it is in New York. This he has done bJ
driving out all competition. With the cboaI
labor of the Sandwich islands, and the free
dom from duty, he can undersell everybody
and did so until every competitor was forced
| to quit tho business. 1t is also stated that h,
pays the Pacific railroads yearly subsid,
upon condition that they fix the freigh
rates on sugar at such figures that tho,
are prohibitory upon all importation
from the east. The San Francisco BMletil
noted few days ago that Hawaiian suga
was . cents pound higher in San Francisc
than in Denver, although the sugar sold IL
tho latter city had to pass through San Fran
cisco to get to Denver. The treaty unde
which Spreckles enjoys his monopoly exist
now simply from sufferancc. 1t can be abro
gated by notice from either of the govern
ments interested. An effort was made b.
eastern sugar tefners and Louisiana planter
to induce the last congress to give this nc
tice, but it was unsuccessful"
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Last summer Gen. James II. LongstreC
made speech at country fair in Illinoi
and after speaking for short timo brok
down, apparently overcome by emotion, an
was unable to proceed for several minute
The newspapers in which the speech was II
ported, and especially tho Chicago Trtb,nl
contained pathetic and fearful accounts
the "grand old hero's emotion" and path
and sentiment, in commenting upon it, wei
spread thick upon the editorial pag
Gen. Longstreet was asked about IL
% speech and his overpowering EN-
tion yesterday, and smiled broad
when he told of his amusement at readir
these reports. "You know" said he, poin
ing at his throat, that / have n bull
lodged in here, and it always troubles me
public speaking. am snre to break dow
after short effort. That's all the emotio
there was about that speech"
The general acquired that bullet in ii
throat at the battle of the Wilderness.
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Mr.. O. o. Stealy, correspondent of b
Louisville Couricr-Journal beside winning
pot of money on Carlisle's election also won
very smooth and black and glossy silk, h
which Mr.. MacBride, of the Cincinnati Z
quirei, was forced to buy for him according
the terms of a wager. Mr.. Stealy's appea
ance in under the proceeds of the wager W
the cause for the following effusion, viii
was posted conspicuously on his desk whi
he was temporarily absent: ~
J Then catch him ifyou can,
He's happy, go lucky young mani