The South western news., 1888-04-18

!
stantial reduction in the duties. A
co 'to0 mill that now costs 81, 900, :
600 could be built tor about $780,
O00s A friend Of mine, who is part
owner Of a cotton mill near this
place, told me not hong ago that he
feared that the business would he
oyerdone hy the large increase il
the lumber Of new NILS if there
was reduction in the duties OF
material and machinery. He is a
sagacious man of large experience
and extensive information, as I
said before, is deeply interested in
the question"
"You think, then, that the pres
ent tariff is particularly oppressive
upon the syuth?"
Il know it. Take cotton ties
for example. My impression is that
there are less than a dozen men, or
companies. in the United States
who manutacture them. Every
farmer in the south pays directly
into the pockets OF these manufac-
turers of ties heavy duty. | think
it is about IS per cent adj valorem.
In the twenty-five crops Of cotton
that have been made since the war,
more than twenty millions of dol
lars have been taken out of the
pockets Of the cotton growers hv
I this little tax alone. You see, we
have produced in the south since
the war considerably over hundred
million bales Of cotton, every bale OF
which was wrapped with these ties,
and every tie had this duty on it.
This money has gone into the pock-
lets of abouta dozen manufacturers.
. Is it any wonder that tie southern
farmer growss poorer an these
manufacturers growrichpr?? Ttisnnt
s. pristine, when you think of this, to
see the monorolists riding through
the south on their vav 30 thei, aa :
nual winter trolic in Florida. roll
ing in wealth and hooking ont Of
tho wia2ows Of tie palace ears
upon the impoverished fe!ls q the
men the government is helping
then. to plupder. Such a law Il
an lnfan'y. and for NY part viii
vote for no man who defends it. "
"What do you think of President
CIeveland's MESSAGE"
81 endorse every word Of it. If
| ha1 tie power l would adopt it as
it stan',s, pure and simple, for the
national democratic platform "
care you in favor of the repeal
Of the internal revenue on whisky
and tohacco?"
"There will be plenty Of time to
cross that hranch when we come to
it. Let us first eheapen She neces-
sari2s, such as clothing and food,
and attend to the stinnl1ants and
narcotics afterward. When YOU
have relieved the people at large,
men, women and children, by re-
ducing the cost of cotton and wool
en- goods, blankets, shoes. rice, SUI,
gar and other. necessaries, it will
! chen he-sojn enough to mitigate the
sutferings Of the dram-drinkcrs and
tobaccOosmokers. know of no two
things which can be II ore appro-
priateIy taxed than whisky and to,
bacco. l use both and can afford
to advocate this doctrine This tax
is paid voluntarily by the consum-
er and not by the producer. OF
course there are many obnoxious
features in the laws regulating the
collection, and no doubt there
could be improvement in this res
pect, which l would be glad to see
made.
GLOW do you think a majority
Of the people stand on these ques-
tions?"
81 am not in politics and have
not sought to find out how anybody
stood, hut 7 think there eau be no
doubt that large majority of the
people in this part OF Georgia great
ly prefer a reduction of the taxes
on the .necessares of life to re-
peal of the internal revenue on
whisky and tobacco. They are for
Cleveland, and are, in my opinion,
in favor Of his denomination upon
a platform embodying the princi-
pies Of his message"
Daniel Sayre, for over thirty
years grand secretary of Masonic
grand bodies of Alabama, died in
Montgomery Saturday night, aged