The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-13


From the NetU 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
% hang back | have resolved, therefore,
IN give utterance to few terse and ringing
sentences, not calculated to infame the
country. of course, for have always tried
70 he temperate, especially in my language,
and sought to avoid using my wonderful
Gifts as a word painter and rhetorical thun-
derbolt-ierzer in way that would excite
the lower-case nature of man to war or
+and TO depress the stock market. Go to
any Wall street man of prominence to-day
and he will tell you, unless he should
happen to be prejudiced because |
nav have pinched him in some deal
ar other, that | have never tuned my
lvre for the purpose of melting the nation
10 civil war or sought to unsettle values or
N wreck great financial enterprises But l
cav that at a time when the less a man
lnows about the tariff the more freely he
enters into the discussion of it, | think it
would be wrong for ME to Longer restrain
myself Go where you will in this country
today and YOU will find men talking about
tariff and the tax on raw material, who
haven't had mouthful of raw material or
cent as their wives earned it and brought 1T
home to them This country is full of men
whohave thought so hard for the common
veal that the seats of their trousers shine
Ike the dome of the Massachusetts, State
House
And now there arises in the distance
large and growing surplus which indicates
that as soon as the two parties get nearly
balanced and sit up nights to watch each
at.N aShInUtOn tlaTA a
more money coming into the Treasury than
* 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 re-
turn surplus to the people. That is true.
You can take from the pockets of those
who have unjustly paid it and then return
If to those who nave no claim upon it,
meantime paying good salaries to those who
collect it and to those who dlsburse it, al
lowing a good-sized per centage for what
may be DETECTED toward Canada.
Mr. Blaine desires to reduce the surplus
bv reducing the tax on tobacco, thus max
ing tobacco juice as free as water, and win
ming the esteem of several voters who
would trade what patriotism they have for
an
ELECTIoN-DAY CIGAR
with spinal column to it any time. AS a
man who has used low grade of highest
cigars for some years, and as a man who
has been in the habit of supporting Mr.
Blaine year after year until had almost
become a slave to the habit, desire to state
shat the style of craftsmanship which strives
to win my young and trusting heart with the
promise of seven good cigars for 25c. is not
the kind that first established this republic
on paying basis
Every body recognizes the utter impoSsi-
blity of knocking out financial strlngency
BY means of melOdiOus resolutions or of
paralvzng poverty with dark red pream-
BILE. You cannot gather fresh train figs on
board the Thistle, or pacify old man Gastric
with the empty promise of cheaper chewing
tobacco.
Several gentlemen have invented methods
for the prevention of rich men-schemes by
which property could be equalized and di-
Tided per capita instead of per capital. The
result of tai could be easily figured out in
advance. To-day JAY Gould would be
wealthy and Henry George hungry, we will
say. Tomorrow Jay Gould and Henry
George would have SOS apiece. Tuesday
Henry George would have S35 and a case of
bad collie Jay Gould would have $50 and
he at the head of a Jamaica ginger trust
Wednesday Mr.. Gould would have S130 and
an order on Henry Georges agent for the
proceeds of his next lecture on anti-poverty.
If infant industries here are to be fos-
tered, and protected by the way, why is not
the American lecturer protected from com
petitlcn with foreign lecturers' Whether
You regard an American lecturer man
ufactured article OF raw material it is gen
orally essentially American, and ought it
not be protected? Lecturers build up a
town. They make business for railroads.
hotels, opera hOuata, newspapers, laundry
men, tallOrs. etc, etc and if successful they
go abroad, ana their lectures become export
bringing money into this country. Just as
soon as our lecturers here produce more
lectures than are absolutely required for
home consumption we can send them abroad,
but as tits now our struggling lecturers here
are forced to compete with foreign lecturers
like Wong Chin Foo, 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 farmerl
He has been driven up further and further
into corner by the legislation of the past
twenty-five years, and yet, because he is
not actually starving to death. he is pointed
TO with pride The American farmer con-
trlbuted more to the war than most any
body else, both in blood and money, and
really got less in return He got the price
les boon of liberty, it is true, the liberty to
pay big war pric * for everything he wanted
and TO sell his crops for less and less year
AFTER year, competing with foreigners
abroad and foreigners who come here to
compete with him, liberty to pay big prices
for machinery, help, clothingsand every
thing else he bought, and then ride into
town on December day, accompanied by
the cold and still remains of assassinated
hog, only to be told that the threatened for
eign war had fiattened out, and that pork
mad gone down to 4c! 1t is depressing to
ride sixteen miles
IN THE SOCIETY OF HOG
mat has died by ones own hand, and every
ZINE you look around to see that same
frozen smile, with a chip i'll it, while lis
cheSt Is thrown open in an ingenious way
oy means of a hickory stick in order to
snow that his leaf lard is all that it has been
represented. 1t is not cheerful to ride all
the forenoon with no one near you but this
cold and pulseless clay, with no eye upon
you but the leaden eye of the dead. Let the
reader who never tried it ride sixteen miles
when the shades of evening begin to lower,
rae over lonely road over bare ground
with pair of low -browed bobs, a green
cameo comforter over your knees and the
clammy features of dead and decollete hog
IN your lap. Then if you want to feel your
spirits sink out of sight ascertain, after you
nave laid out all the money in your mind
On basis of SC. per pound, that 3(d4 are the
quotations on an animal that you have
oved in his infancy. hid down cellar so you
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