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The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-09-25

Sh nase you heard the news from Maines
Bn, nne ea. gone Republican-again! -''A'"e
40 "nen she went for Governor Kent.
rine Tree State you've ceased to he
cynosure from sea to sea ~ oe
You're sin nfri. 1s since, voting day,
we out, Pine Tree, to tie breeze,
p. wave orr for Trusts monopolies
rrotection-to the tariff lord
AA lot the poor mans bed aud board
s6 Rs6o,a Jat, Fine Tree, from thy height,
IDenoid lonely Plumed knight
All moirnfully surveys the scene
Aho ponders on what might have been
j. p B. in " Y: World
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-09-25
New Jersey Politics.

TRUE INwARDNEss OF THE JurE MILL. SHIFT
DOWN.
PATTERSON, N. 1.-THE shutting down of the
great jute mills here which are owned princi-
pally by the Barbours, is not due to any alarm
over the Mills bill or tariff agitation, as has
been stated by Republican campaigners but is
the result Of an order issued by the Executive
Committee of the Jute Trust. How long this
is to continue is not stated but those protesting
to know say that work will be resumed about
the first of November.
In the meantime hundreds Of operatives nM lie
idle while the manufacturers will be credited
with 81 600 month by the Trust
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-09-25

Makes the lives of many people miserable, and
often leads TO self-destruction. We know of no
remedy for dyspepsia more successful than
Hoods Sarsaparla 1t acts gently, yet snrely
and efficiently tones the stomach and other or
gans, removes the faint feeling, creates a good
appetite, cures headache, and retreshes the bur.
dened mind. Give Hoods Sarsaparilla a fair
trial. II viii do you good.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-09-25
CAMPAIGN TEXT BOOK
OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF THE UNITED
STATES. FOR THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF
1899
Prepared By Direction Of the National Democratic
C0mmittes

Prepared By Direction of the National Democratic
Committee.
The first time in the history Of American pol
itics the Campaign text book issued under the
authority ui the National Democratic Commit
tee, will this year be placed on sale IN every
book store, and upon all the news stands and
railroad trains over The county Heretofore il
has been impossible for persons not directly
nccted with politics 10 secure this book but this
year the demand has been large for some
thing authoritative on the question at issue that
the Committee have thought it desirable TO make
the new departure.
The book itself is much more comprehensive
in every respect than anything of the kind THAI
has ever been issued 1t con tains full history
of the administration of President Cleveland by
departments showing the methods which have
been followed with such success.
Ii is naturally very complete ON questions re-
latng 10 the tariff. Everything that the Presi-
dent has ever said upon the question from his
entrance into public life is included in the book
Besides, one chapter is devoted to Republican
opinions on the tariff, being a collation. of ex-
tracts OF the prominent men who have figured
IN the party since the early days of its history.
The opinions ot Presidents from the days OF
W Washington are given, and extracts from the
reports of recent Democratic Secretaries of the
Treasury, including that of Robert J. Walker
10 defence OF the tariff Of 1846. Other chapters
devoted TO the question are made from careful
editing OF the speeches OF the members of the
Ways and Means Committee, and those made
by other members of Congress in the general de-
bate as well as that on the schedules
ln addition TO this nearly fifty pages are given
up TO the collection OF speeches and letters of
Grover Cleveland on all questions of interest
whether political, religious, personal, agricultu
raj, commercial or general
This is the only authorized book issued by the
Committee, and will be in great demand every
where. 1t is with the purpose of meeting this
demand that the Committee have made its new
departure, which will, no doubt, be welcomed
by thousands of people in every part of the coun-
try who have not heretofore had an opportunity
TO familiarize themselves with the elements of
political literature.
The book will also be on sale by the National
Democratic Committee, which will supply all or
ders already received at It's headquarters, 10 West
29th street, New York city, at the rate of 81 for
a single copy or 80 cents each to numbers OF 10
over.
But the Messrs. Brentano of No. 5 Union
square New York, will as soon as q sufficient
supply is received, put the book ON sale al all
book stores or on stands and upon all railways
at the rate of 81 90 per single copy and supply
them to clubs or other party org yaniz ,tious at
the rate OF 80 cents per copy in orders of 10 aud
over.
The following table OF contents will give
mDlete idea OF the scODe of the hOok
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-09-25

The State Methodist College at Lees
burg will hereafter be under the Presi-
dency of Professor w. w. Seals, of
Thomaston, Ga.
1t is rumored that the steamer Spring
Garden is being held in reserve for the
purpose of depopulating St. Augustine
should it become necessary. This city
has escaped thus far, but they are pretty
close to danger.
-Palatka and Putnam county have
quarantined against the earth, admitting
nothing but mails. Commencing to-mor-
row the Jacksonville, Tampa and Kew
West Railroad will run nothing but an
engine and mail car. The Board of
Health have ordered quarantine officers to
recognize no health certificates The
health of the city is excellent. There is
not a case of sickness in town.
st. Augustine Ne,cs: Marshal Will
liams expects to go back to Yallaha to-
morrow to remain the balance Of the sea-
son in charge of the preserving factory
which himself and Messrs. Cook and
Libby have established there. Yalaha is
situated in the midst of large groves Of
guavas, which are very plentiful this year,
and are now at the height of the season.
The company has already 1900 pounds
of guava jelly and marmalade put in jars
and boxes, after the Cuban method, and
intend to continue for the balance of the
season at the rate of 600 pounds per diem.
Six men are employed, and the kettles
used here in preserving figs were shipped
to the Yalaha factory to-day.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-09-25
TWO SECRETS OF mAPplNEss.

There are people who seem constitu-
tionally happy and whose mere presence
dltfuse JOY. There are others against
whom nothing can be said, except that
they appear to be destitute of the power
either to enjoy or create enjoyment.
There are many causes of this diversity,
but the most common one, we believe, to
be this: The joyous and joy-giving per
son was happy in his childhood, while the
individual whose spirits never rise to
overfowng, had childhood of gloom,
constralnt and contradiction. The happy
man was received into the world with a
aoetconae. His coming was TO his parents
a delight and pride. The tendercst love
hovered round his cradle and nurtured
his expanding heart. He was always
loving and always beloved Not cruelty
INDUCED in every boyish caprice, but
gently and wisely trained to do his duty,
and supplied with rational means of en-
joyment. 1t is hardly possible to over
state the blessings of happy childhood.
1t is worth while to make any proper sac
rlhce In order to store the memory of
children with happy days. The merry
Christmas, the family picnic, the excur-
sion, the children's party, the occasional
gift, are delights that do not cease when
the little tired head sinks on the pillow
at night; they live again in the charac-
ter Of the joy-inspiring man; they shine
III the pleasant countenance of the merry
old grandfather. SO much for parental
duties in regard to this important mat
ter.
On the other hand, no young person
should consider it an advantage to get
rid OF parental supervision and care.
There is no other institution like the hap
py family; there is no other friendshi p
like the friendship of father and of
mother. There are no persons who will
tell you the truth so faithfully; there are
no persons that know your faults so we'll;
there are none SO disirterestedly consid-
crate for your wel-being, as your father
and your loving, patient mother.
The world is all too sad for tears
| would not weep, not |,
But smile along my lifes short road,
Until |, smiling, die.
9 The little flowers bre ,the sweetness out
Through all the dewy night;
Shall more churlish be than they,
And plan for constant light
Not so, not so; no old of woe
Need bring de-pairing frown
For while We bear it can bear
Past that We lay it down"
Wonan's Hork
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-09-25

The RevOluafOn MIR. blaine Mean
From the Philadelphia Times.
When Mr. Blaine announced the resuI, of the
election in Maine as almost a revolution" he
probably meant that but for the extraordinary
efforts of the Republicans the State would have
gone Democratic. Blaine managed TO pull them
through, but not without losses.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-09-25

From the Nashville Democrat (Dem.)
Governor Robert L. Taylor, in his joint de
bate with Mr. Hawkins at Jonesboro, gave an
apt and forcible, if a homely illustration of the
sophistries of the protectonist argument that
high tariff taxes imposed upon the people add to
their prosperity. If q miller should say, the
more toll take the more meal you get IL would
be just as reasonable" said the Governor
u One Who Rnewa
Fort Worth Gazette.)
who owns the West?" asks Chicago news
paper. There is some doubt as to the proprie-
torship right now, but unless the tariff is speed
lily reduced the manufacturing barons Of the
East will soon be the undisputed owners
Too StiA.Necaed.
From the Denver News (Dem.)
Harrison will not carry Indiana. He has
nothing in common with the masses OF the peo-
pie.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-09-25

"nat Is The matter with Chauncey VI. Depew
Has he had a falling out with the uncrowned
king! Since his return from Europe he has
been talking in a way that helps Cleveland and
hurts Harrison and Chauncey is too clever a
politician to do that unintentionally
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-09-25
A YEARLY GIFT FROM THE FARM

which the farmers pay, not for goods, fsat
for the privilege of buying goods from
monopolies and tariff lords How many
farms, houses, barns; how many new la
Dor saving contrivances could be pur-
chased for this S32, ,o50,0OO But this is
only trif1e of the entire tribute. Well,
the Mills bill proposes to reduce the
amount considerably.
1t is not in salt that the farmer finds
the worst discrimination against him.
Supposlng that New York or a Western
farmer wants 800 yards of bagging for
corn sacks, and Southern planter wants
800 yards of the same material to wrap
around his cotton In both cases the ma
terlal Is to be used to get the produce of
the land to market, yet one is taxed forty
per cent. while the other is taxed about
fifty per cent. for the goods Last year
bags and bagging were made here amount
ing to nearly sl8,o00,o 900. The entire
duty collected by the Treasury was less
than 100000, showing that the importa-
tions were a mere bagatelle, yet the far
mer must keep on paving the extra
S5,250,000 in the shape of tax, for which
he gets no return whatever. He is taxed
because of the tariff on
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-09-25
THESE ARE 0OT PROTECTED
A List of the Occupations of People
Unprotected by the Present Tariff

All employees Of railroad companies,
artists, auctioneers, bakers, BARRIERS and
hairdressers, boarding house keepers,
bookkeepers in stores, black smiths, brick
and stone masons, bridge builders, butch
ers, carmakers, carpenters and joiners,
civil engineers, cleryymen, clerks and
copyists, clerks in express offices, clerks
in hotels, clerks in railroad off ces, clerks
in stores, commercial travellers, coopers,
dealers in books and stationery, dealers
i'll boots and shoes, dealers in dry goods,
dealers in groceries, dealers in hides,
dealers in iron, tin and hardware, dealers
in jewelry, watches and clocks, dealers in
lumber and marble, dealers in newspa-
pers, dealers in paints and oils, dealers in
paper, dealers in provisions, dealers in
real estate, dealers in tobacco, dealers in
wood and coal, domestic servants, draw
men and teamsters, druggists, employees
of hotels, engineers and tiremen, farmers,
hostlers, hotel keepers, housebuilders, in
surance agents, journalists, laborers,
laundresses, lawyers, livery stable keep
ers, machine shop and round house men,
milkmen, millers, musicians, painters, pa
perhangers, photographers, physicians
and surgeons, plasterers, porters anI la
borers, printers, quarrymen, restaurant
keepers, statesmen and saleswomen, sec
ton men on railroads, sections, stave-
makers, stock rasers, teachers, telegraph
employees, traders, undertakers, veterinary
surgeons, weighers, whitewashers, wood
choppers
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-09-25

OF course, the Herald has taken the
lowest possible average of robbery. But
every farmer can secure a copy of the
tariff giving the tax on the articles he and
his family buy, and can then work out
just about how much he is individually
plundered. With the result of this figur-
ing in his vest pocket he can make things
very interesting for the republican stump
orator when he comes into the ''deestrict"
to howl for Blaine's G. o. p. and his par
ticular friends, the tariff barons
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-09-25

are prepared to print statement. ~, =, .
u good style and cheap. A '"0''
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-09-25

III he bonght IS worth of salt in bags
ne received s3.o5 in salt and sl.95 in pro-
lection. If he asked why, in heavens
name, there was such difference between
the protection of the "bulk" and the
bag " nobody could tell him because
nobody knew-and nobody knows now.
In all probability the bag" had to be
protected. In this way the farmers pay
to our needy (sic)"':government and our
needy barons a tax of nearly 81, 100000 a
year on salt. What does he get in return
Well, Uncle Sans flag floats over him as
1t does over the rest Of us-,hat's about
all
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-09-25

80 cents a fleece. Given the official aver
age of nine sheep per farmer We see that
while he steals from him SIS he only pro-
tects him to the amount Of 1910. Thus:
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-09-25
!, safehln & 4loriOian

~ SHED EVERY TUESDAY.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-09-25

Less than 100000 of the farmers
five and a quarter millions goes to labor,
the balance the manufacturer sticks in his
pocket as his perquisite for giving the
farmer the privilege of buying from
"baron."
Taking the whole list through, scan
ming every article which the farmer or his
family must buy, and there you find the
baron, with his open hand and his tariff
pistol, calling upon the consumer to stand
and deliver. And farmers submit to the
robbery to the extent of at least SOC, ,OoO,
600 a year
And this is very low estimate. On
clothing, bedding, implements, harness,
cordage, bagging and little dressing up
of wife and daughters every farmer in the
4,oos, ,907 farms spends at lest $75 year.
OF this amount $l5 represents lordly
protection". Put it, then, this way
Farmers purchases $75 per year. 5000, ,66S O25
Protection $15 per farm. 6o,l33605
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-09-25

11IFOf PO01' ''F'' 70" 'V'/4
These are Chicago quotations and show
that American wheat is twenty-five per
per cent. andAmerican corn forty per cent.
higher in England than in America. This,
after the farmers have paid in twenty-five
years $500, 100000 to secure home
market and protect the barons!
What else have the extreme tariffites
given the farmer? They "protect" the
wool on his sheep to the extent of about
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-09-25
.$240,534 400

Real value received only f2fU, ,0oi i~U
A New England farm paper says most
farmers in New England and New York
State spend very much more than the
above specified amount-viz., that the
average is $40 to 1920 year. Take the
first figure, $40, and make the tariff av-
erage as low as 35 per cent-much lower
than it really is-and you find every New
England and New York farmer contribut-
ing $495O a year to the barons, at which
rate New England and New York alone
is paying annually over $65, 600, 900 of
"tribute.' OF course so high an average
would not hold good throughout the coun-
try, or the tribute would be nearer six
hundred than sixty millions.
WHAT THE FARMER GETS BACK.
And for all this what do the barons give
the farmer in return?
Why, they put duty on wheat to pro-
tect him, which, instead of protecting
him. protects the fellow across the ocean.
as Americans are exporters and not im-
porters of wheat, flour and corn. The
barons failed to find the farmer "home
Market" so he has to look for one for his
surplus over the seas. If the home mark
ct had been made these prices of corn and
wheat would have been in favor of the
American, instead of in favor of the Eng
lishman:
Coru LE1so,
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-09-25

Now, the Mills bill will change this
Immediately, for here is the schedule as
the measure passed the House of Repre-
sentatives and went TO the United States
Senate.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-09-25

lnc iucdSuTe pdSStu Ine house OF REPRE-
sentatlves and went TO the United States
Senate:
Present Tariff. Nils Biz.
fiaX, hackled ed...........-.....<40 $40 ton SO ton
Flax, hemp jute yarrs 35,per ct. IS per ct =,
Brown and bleached ducks,
canvass, ,Nc................ 30 per ct. IS per ct.
tiunny cloth &c and &c. Id. IS per CT.
Bags and bagging, for cotton 1i4c. ID. Hc. lbo.
Cables and rope, tarred 50 per Ct IS per CT.
Cables and rope, untarrcd... 33 per ct IS per ct
Other manufactures of hemp
and manila. a.-.............. 80 per ct. IS per ct.
Reducing the duty $40 a tonl on the
" hacked or " dressed line" will make
an immense difference to the purchasers
of bags for grain especially and will GER
tasnly save many millions to@faruiers
within ten years if the act goes into opera
tion.
Mr.. Blaine's grand old party declines
to accord even this much benefit to the
agricultural toilers; what are the said
toiers going to do abouti it?
If the farmer fears to injure labor BY
voting for the moderate Mills reform
measure, let him see what part of the
protection" " he is paying $3.50, 900 for
ton account OF this bagging Industry
goes to American wage earners. Here
are the people employed and their wages,
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-09-25

These are large figures and convey an
idea of the enormous extent of agricul-
tura interests. 1t would seem, therefore,
that whenever national legislation of ina-
portance is contemplated the American
farmer is necessarily involved in it. Let
us see how he was treated when the tariff
of 1888 was framed.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-09-25
FARMERS ROBBED.

New York Herald
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1888-04-05
The Great Enterprises,

There is nothing in the recent his.
tory OF the world that is more re-
markable than the formidable and
costly works that have been under
taken in our age to annihilate
space and time and promote ease and
economy OF transport. Every modern
nation has contributed its quota to
this movement. Great Britain has
been the pioneer OF the railway sys-
tenn, and has, besides, constructed a
system OF canals, some 1000 miles in
extent, and involving an expenditure
OF ego, 900, OOOto e7O, 900, 900, which,
though far from being as useful as it
might be made, and greatly over shad-
owed by the omnipotent and omnipres-
ent iron way, is still found ofgreat ad.
vantage i'll the transport of heavy
commodities. In France canal navi-
cation is much more valued and
utilized than in England, and the wa
terways are especially looked aft
er by the government, which
has recently undertaken a large
expenditure for their further
development. Germany, like France,
has canal system Of considerable
extent, and has in hand at the pres.
ent time two important links in the
chain OF such Communications ca.
nal 1853 miles long. from Dortmund to
Emden harbor, which is to cost &C.,.
233, 900, and the improvement of the
navigation from the Oder at Furs-
tenbnrg to the Upper Spree at Berlin,
a DISTANCE OF 81 miles, at an estimat.
ed cost OF 100000. Further east,
the Isthmus Of Corinth has almost
been pierced by q canal which con.
meets the Mediterranean and the
Adriatic with the Archipelago and the
Black Sea, thus shortening the dis
tance between the Pir@eus and Mar
settles by II per cent, while Genoa
is brought nearer by IL, Venice and
Trieste by Is, and Brindisi by 80 per
cent. The length of this canal is, how.
ever, only 4 miles. the greatest depth
OF cutting being 295 feet, and the to.
tai amount Of excavation being es-
timated at 100000 cubic yards.
Russia, again, has recently completed
a maritime canal between Cronstadt
and st. Petersburg Is miles in length
and % miles III depth, over a floor
276 feet in width. This, canal, howev-
err, was a comparatively easy under
taking. 1t was cut through the SUBJ
merged Delta OF the Neva. in a depth
OF water varying from feet near st.
Petersburg to 20 feet near Cron.
stadt.-The Fortnightly Review.