Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-03-20
Bill Nye on the Tariff.


90 the country, of course, for | have al
IS ways tried to be temperate, especial
IS ly in my language, and sought to
20 avoid using my word-painter and
10 rhetorical thunderbolt-jerker in a
80 way that would excite the lower-case
90 nature of man TO war or tend TO de-
% press the stock market. Go to any
10 Wall Street man of prominence to-
60 day and he will tell you, unless he
20 happens to be prejudiced because l
80 may have pinched him in some deal
81 or other, that have never tuned my
10 Tyre for the purpose Of melting the
90 nation TO civil war or sought 10 un-
% settle values or TO wreck great finan-
cial enterprises. But l say that at a
time when the less man knows
about the tariff the more freely he
enters into discussion of it | think
X it would be wrong for me longer TO
90 restrain myself. Go where You will
-, in this country to-day and you will
u find men talking about tariff and the
r tax on raw material or any other
a. kind in the house for weeks, except
Is as their wives earned il 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.
: lance large and growing surplus,
which indicates that, as soon as the
two parties get nearly balanced and
sit up nights TO watcn each other at
Washington, there is good deal |
more money coming in the treasury
than is needed TO run the mighty
machinery of government. Friends
Of the present methods say it is easier
to handle surplus than TO handle
deficiency, for you can return a
surplus to the people. That is true.
Nou can take it from the pockets of I
those who have no claim upon il, :
meantime paying good salaries to i
those who collect it and those who +
disburse it, allowing good sized
percentage for what may be detected n
towards Canada. n
Mr.. Blaine desires TO reduce the ~
surplus by reducing the tax on to. n
bacco, thus making tobacco. Juice as Fl
free as water, and winning the es- h
TEEN of several voters who would n,
trade what patriotism they have for re-
an election day cigar with a spinal m
to it at any time. As man h,
who has used low grade of high ~,
est cigars for some years, and as a on
nan who has been iu the habit of ~
Mr.; Blsi%S ,-e- IL, a1f ., do
,oA!. gn1I = mad become slave TO pei
nc habit | desire to state that the clio
vie of craftsmanship which strives iis
win my young and trusting heart for
nth the promise of seven good ci- IN,
airs for quarter, is not the kind tie,
lat first established this Republic COS
a a paying basis.
Everybody recognizes the utter ,
npossibility of knocking out fnan- J--
al stringency by means of molodi- Nls
US resolutions or of paralyzing pov- "" w.
rty with dark-rek preamble, You ,.s
annot gather fresh train figs on
GARD the Thistle, or pacify old man CIV,
lastric with the empty promise of iit
heaper chewing tobacco. J
Several gentlemen have invented hI
Methods for the prevention of rich sol
mems schemes, by which property fin
ould be equalized and divided per sill
apita instead of per capital. The no
esult of this could be easily figured 70
nut In advance. To-day, Jay Gould a
would be wealthy and Henry George IN
hungry, we will say. Tomorrow. ell
Jay Gould and Henry George would
have $65 90 apiece. Tuesday, Henry CT
George would have $500 and case co
Of collie. Jay Gould would have hi
$50 % and be at the head of Jamai- W
ca ginger trust. Wednesday, Mr.. 60
Gould would have Sl30 GO and an or va
der on Henry Georges agent for the de
proceeds of his next lecture on anti IN
poverty.
If infant industries are to be fos- ca
tered and protected by the way, why CT
Is not the American lecturer protect
ed from competition with foreign
lecturersI Whether you regard the
American lecturer as q manufactured
article or raw material, it is general
ly essentially American, and ought il
not be protected? Lecturers build ju
mp town. They make business for W
railroads, hotels, opera-houses, news II
papers, laundrymaU, tailors, etc and ia
II successful they go abroad, and III
their lectures become an export, OF
money into this country, III
Just as soon as our lecturers produce til
more lectures than are absolutely re- sa
luired for home consumption, we Iy
IAN send them abroad, but as it is tn
low, our struggling lecturers here &C
Ire compelled to compete with for fo
'ign lecturers like Wong Ching Foo, on
who can live much cheaper than our
native born lecturers, who have been
used to dried-apple pie three times
| day.
How is it with the American
lie has been driven up
further and further into the corner
by the legislation of the past twenty ST.
i've years, and yet, because he is
not actually starving to- .
leath, he is pointed to with of
pride. The American farmer in
contributed more TO the war than tn
most anybody else, both in blood and tel
money, and really got less in return.
lie got the priceless boon of liberty,
t is true the liberty to pay big war W.
prices for everything he wanted, and an
o sell MS crops forlcss and less year M
'fter year, competing with foreign at
rs abroad and foreigners who came ne
lere to compete with him; liberty to Sc
'ay big prices for machinery, help, da
lothing aud everything else he of
fought and then ride into town on st
December day, accompanied by the hu
old and still remains of an assassin We
ted hog, only to be told that the av
war had flattened out and or
hat pork had gone down to four err
ents. II is depressing to ride six
cen miles in the society of a hog that
as died by ones own hand, and ne
very time you look around to see en-
hat same frozen smile, with a chip tn,
a it, while his chest is thrown open tic
Il an ingenious way with hickory sty
q order to show that his leaf-lard is biz
II that has been represented. 1t is bel
of ChpprIul In rilo oil tbo fo,o,oo,, | -,