Mexico weekly ledger., 1888-07-19

nent's statement and expect to be
believed, except upon a very clear
demonstration, which doesn not seem
to me to have been made with suf-
ficient force to induce farmers to
produce less beef and continue to
pay an extra price on clothing with
the hope that the money will in
some roundabout way come back
to them. Surely a chance to trade
their beef where they can get more
of what they want comes nearer
to fitting the case.
AS to the tobacco factory, as one
of the subscribers to said fund, let
me say the proposition was for
such to go down into his own
pocket and give what he thought
profitable. Men who hoped to sell
groceries gave very small amounts;
those who had real estate to loan
gave largely, but all expected a di-
rect and profitable return from
their investment. A protective
scheme would have proposed some
plan to get the money out Of others,
levied tribute on the whole public.
Horace Greeley as a Democratic
candidate is q pretty hard hit, un-
doubtedly, but the old mans gen.
erous opposition to the recon-
struction measures his willingness
to forgive and his prompt recogni-
ton that the war over-made him an
available candidate, but the De-
moeracy from the days of Jefferson
until now have been too unaltera-
bly, opposed to absolute authority
to entertain any fears of what any
man might wish when he became
king of this country and, like sensi-
bic men, looked to the main issue
of that time-relief for territorial
rule over States that, Mr.. Greedy
claimed, had never been out of the
union, and we're entitled as States
to all of their rights whenever
armed revolt ceased.
After twenty years or more OF
peace and established union or re-
union, whichever theorists may
choose to call it, the main question
is certainly different and becomes a
commercial one. The Mills bill
seeks in a very moderate way to re-
duce the wal taxes and to first re-
lieve the necessaries CT life of war
burdens. Afterward, a bill might be
introduced to buy up all of the
sheep out of the saving to the peo-
pie who are now paying something
like one hundred millions yearly
to encourge some gentleman to con-
tinue in the wool business. It would
be cheaper and equally just, and
the sheep could be eaten up at a
series of grand barbacues held in
rejoicing over the National pros
perity in 1892 when a Democratic
successor to Mr.. Cleveland has
been inaugurated, and the princi-
pie OF the greatest good to the
greatest number has been estab-
llshed and all class legislation has
been done away with. The Mills
bill is about the beginning. -Four
more years will bring much greater
relief and blessings to an over-bur-
dened people; and protection-a
greater evil than slavery, will be
abolished. The twin contradic-
tons to the Declaration of hide
pendence passed away. American
skill and enterprise, with a world
for its field, will bring us such
power and honor as never has been
engaged by any nation known to
history.
Mr.. Hathaway says: "That af-
ter a quarter of century Of trial OF
protective tariff policy we find that
what the farmer sells is dearer, and
what he buys is cheaper than it
was during any period of free
trade" There never has been a
period of free trade we have had
lower tariff and that is all that the
Democratic party are asking for.
If Mr.. Hathaway means to assert
that farmers are the prosperous por-
ton of the community che is just a
little off,"
Opposing theoretical free trade is
Fighting windmills," but continu.
ance of a tariff which the author
apologized for as a necessity of wal
is quite another matter; and that is
just where the two political par
ties are at variance now. The
Democratic party does undoubtedly
ask farmers to forego the duty on
wool in exchange for a reduction in
price of what they consume. That
counterbalances not the duty on
wool, but the value of sheep, wool
and all. Are they buying so cheap
and selling sc dear as to refuse?
VIM. LLEwELLYN.
/ The Whiskey Tax.
From the Providence Journai-Ind Rep.
Despite the fact that the whiskey
tax has been such a potent factor