The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-01-19
BILL NYE ON THE TARIFF.
Political Economy from the Standpoint
of Simple-Minded Friend Of Agri-
culture-A Point Against Chinese
Cheap Lectures.
Neu York World.

New York World.
While so many other men who
know as little as | do about it are
freely discussing the tariff it seems
almost cowardly in me to hang back.
| have resolved, therefore. to give
utterance to q few terse and ringing
sentences, not calculated to infame
the country, of course, for have al
ways tried to be temperate, especially
In my language, and sought to avoid
using my wonderful gifts as a word
painter and rhetorical thunderbolt-
Joker in way that would excite the
lower case nature of man to war or
tend to depress the stock market. 30
to any Wall street man Of prominence
to day and he will tell you, unless be
should happen to be prejudiced be-
cause may have pinched him in
some deal or other, that l have
never tuned my Tyre for the purpose
of melting the nation to civil war or
sought to unsettle values or to wreck
great financial enterprises. But l say
that at time when the less a man
knows about the tariff the more freely
he enters into a discussion Of 1t l
think it would be wrong for me long
er to restrain myself. Go where you
will in this country to-day and you
will find men talking about tariff and
the tax on raw material who havn't
had q mouthful Of raw material or
any other kind in the house for
weeks, except as their wives earned
it and brought it home to them. This
country is full Of men who have
thought so hard for the common veal
that the seats Of their trousers shine
like the dome Of the Massachusetts
State House.
And now there arises in the dis
tance large and growing surplus
which indicates that as soon as the
two parties get nearly balanced and
sit up nights to watch each other at
Washington there is g good deal
more money coming into tue Treas
ury than is needed to run the mighty
machinery of Government. Friend:
of the present methods say it is cas-
ier to handle surplus than to handle
a deficiency, for you can return 6
surplus to the people. That is true
You can take it from the pockets ol
those who unjustly paid it and then
return it to those who have no claim
upon it, meantime paying good sala
ries to those who collect it and tc
those who disburse it, allowing 6
good sized percentage for what may
be detected towards Canada.
Mr.. Blaine desires to reduce the
surplus by reducing the tax on TO-
bacco, thus making tobacco juice as
free as water and winningt the esteem
of several voters who would trade
what patriotism they have for al
election.day cigar with spina
column to it any time. AS a man
who has used low grade of high
test cigars for some years, and as
| man who has been in the habit o
supporting Mr.. Blaine year after yeal
until had almost become a slave te
the habit, I desire to state that the
style of craftsmanship which strives
to win my young and trusting heart
with the promise of seven good cigars
for a quarter is the kind that first es
tablished this Republic on a paying
basis.
Everybody recognizes the uttel
impossibility Of knocking out fnan
cial striugency by means of melodi
Gus resolutions or of paralyzing pov
erty with dark red preamble. You
cannot gather fresh train figs OF
board the Thistle or pacify old mar
Gastric with the empty promise o
cheaper chewing tobacco.
| Several gentlemen have invented
methods for the prevention Of ricl
men, schemes by which property
could be equalized and divided PEI
capita instead of per capital. Th'
result of this could be easily figured
out in advance. To-day Jay Goult
would be wealthy and Henry Georg'
hungry, we will say. Tomorrow Jay
Gould and Henry George would have
S65 apiece. Tuesday Henry Georg
would have $95 and a case of collie
Jay Gould would have $50 and be a
the head of Jamaica ginger trust
Wednesday Mr.. Gould would have
sl3O and an order on Henry George
agent for the proceeds Of his mex
lecture on antipoverty.
If infant industries here are to b.
fostered, and protected by the way
why is not the American lecture
protected from competition with for
eign lecturers ? Whether you regar(
an American lecture as a manufac
tured article or raw material it IS gen
orally essentially American, an'
ought it not to be protected ? Lee
turers build up town. They max
business for railroads, hotels, opera
houses, newspapers, laundrymen
tailors, &C., &C., and if successful
they go abroad. and their lectures be
come al export, bringing money int
this country. Just as soon as ou
lecturers here produce more lecture
than are absolutely required 70
home consumption we can send then
abroad, but as it Is now our strug
Cling lecturers here are forced II
compete with foreign lecturers lik
Wong Chin Foo, WHO can live muc
cheaper than our native-born lee
turers who have heen used to dried
apple pie three times day.
How is it with the American fal
mer? He has been driven up ful
tbar oo5 furfhor info cornor h1y th