The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1886-01-27
"Can the Reader Tell How it is
Done 2"

The monopolizing companies and
combinations of this country, in Their
haste to be rich have gone on, and
or, indulging their grasping propen,
sites, expressing the agricultural
and laboring interests until they are
now about to overreach themselves.
The high tariff for which they have
so persistently contended and which
by some means or other, they have
succeeded in having maintained, is
now working out it's legitimate re-
suits abroad as well as at home.
France and Germany have already
established retaliatory tariffs on our
exports of pork, lard, etc., and
England talks seriously of put.
ting tariff on our beef and bread.
stufs generally. England believes
in free trade, but does not believe it
should all be on one side, and thinks
relative measures perfectly justiiable
and proposes to act on that principle.
The constantly increasing supplies of.
meats received from Australia, and
Of wheat from India, make England
more and more independent and of
course better prepared to adopt such
measures as proposed. Then she at
tached upper Burmah to her domin-
ions. Tie resources are varied and
abundant and it is well known that
one leading reason for desiring that
country was the abundance Of its
timber and the apparently exhaust
less supply of oil it could afford. A
railway is being constructed by which
this oil may readily and quickly find
its way to the coast and thence to
any desired port. This oil will be
landed on the Pacific coast Of this
country and compete with the Ameri-
can productions there, and thence by
means Of the Canadian Pacific be
able to supply all the Province of
Canada. Because Of the monopolies
of the mines and the railroads,
English coal can be, and if reports
be true is now being delivered on the
wharves of New York and Philadel-
phia, at price less than that deliv-
cred from the Pennsylvania mines.
Facts like that ought to open the
eyes of the people.
If retaliatory measures should be
adopted by England, in regard to ex-
ports of beef and breadstuffs, it will
work great hardship the wheat
growers and cattle raisers of the West,
a class Of people, who, whatever hap
pens, find no tariff for their protec-
ton. yet many of them in their parti-
san zeal will persist in electing men
to Congress who are pledged to sus-
tain the very tariff that oppresses
them. '.They lick the hand that
strikes the blow" a free people
who thus indirectly support the op-
preston which they suffer, deserve
no better fate, nor do they deserve
pity. The power is in their own
hands, let them use it, and free them
selves--else cease their eomplainings.
One or the other they should do, for
the sake of consistency, if for no.
thing else. In the language of Mr..
Story in his Ode of Salem, let them:
"Cleanse the Augean stable of politics,
OF its foul muck OF crafts, and wiles and
tricks.
Break the base rings, where commerce
reeks and rots,
Purge speculation Of its canker spots,"
and all will be well. How is it that
Congressman can live expensiyely.
in costly houses with costly furniture,
and costly living every way, on S5,-
600 year, and yet accumulate large
fortunes ? Or State Legislators ac-
cumulate considerable sums above
expenses on per diem offour or five
dollars, and that only when the Leg
islatures are in session? Or City
council-men, with no other business,
support their families in style on
salary of $500 year? Can til"
reader tell how it is done? IF not
let him guess, while we pass on.-S.
Louis AdUocate.